Slough of Change
Scientists and activists aim to save Elkhorn Slough from erosion and development before it's too late.
The tide is high at Elkhorn Slough, as it usually is this time of year. Harbor seals and sea otters take refuge in the sheltered waters, sunning, feeding on crabs and entertaining kayakers. By now, ...
Like the Back of His Hand
Professor dedicates himself to learning all he can about Elkhorn Slough.
Rikk Kvitek knows nearly every inch of Elkhorn Slough. For the past 25 years, Kvitek, a CSUMB science and environmental policy professor, has been studying environmental changes in the slough and surrounding wetlands. “The loss ...
Now She Gets It
The allure of Elkhorn Slough is clear from the vantage of a kayak.
In Monty Python’s Spamalot, there’s a song called “The Song That Goes Like This.” It’s too long, it changes key, and it parodies Broadway musical love songs. (Its opening lines: “Once in every show there ...
Issues / 2007 / Dec 13
U2
The Joshua Tree: 20th Anniversary Remastered
Long since resigned to the coffee tables of khaki families or wedged on shelves next to the Bible and The Da Vinci Code, it’s easy to forget the widescreen impact of U2’s 1987 world-altering breakout. ...
Word Up
Ol' Factory Cafe reminds us why we love spelling bees.
Americans are infatuated with spelling bees. It’s the reason the National Spelling Bee is broadcast nationally on ESPN every year. It helps explain why the intellectual competition is featured in the 2002 Oscar-nominated documentary Spellbound, ...
Department of da Fence
Bidder alleges Seaside unfairly treated his minority-owned business.
A fence-building company is sour at the city of Seaside for flip-flopping on its bid requirements for a local project. But the City says the company’s got its chain link all in a bunch over ...
ArtListings for Dec 13, 2007
ArtListings for Dec 13, 2007
OPENING THIS WEEK AVERY GALLERY Photography by Gerardo Perez. Artist reception 12/14, 7-8:30pm. Seaside City Hall, 440 Harcourt St., Seaside. 899-6811 or 794-2334. concepts gallery Trunk show of jewelry by Maggie Ferrari, 12/13, 4-7pm. Ocean ...
Public Citizen
12|13 THURS MONTEREY YEAR IN REVIEW | MONTEREY—City Council’s joint study session with board and commission chairs includes 2007 annual reports and a look ahead to 2008. Ferrante Room, Monterey Conference Center, 1 Portola Plaza, ...
Naan Starter
India Clay Oven likely to close Monterey location after 15 years.
The nose-twitching smell of stale grease occupies the kitchen air. A creepy, high-pitched whine stirs from an industrial fan tucked into a corner. Outside the kitchen, next to the iconic painted window that has greeted ...
THE CULT
Born Into This
Twenty years ago, producer Rick Rubin thrust an obscure British psychedelic alt-rock band by the name of The Cult into the mainstream with Electric, still the best AC/DC record that AC/DC never recorded. From there, ...
Fields of Science
Salinas Valley tech center could bring new ag innovation to salad bowl of the world.
Salinas Valley lettuce could become much more than a salad staple, according to Dr. Henry Daniell, professor and trustee chair at the University of Central Florida. Daniell has produced insulin from genetically-modified lettuce, and the ...
Freeze Frame
Carmel’s Robert Knight shares the icy photo that earned him international accolades.
By Susan Lukowski It was late afternoon in the storm-tossed Scotia Sea just off the frozen coast of Antarctica’s South Georgia Island. A small group took off in a Zodiac to explore the waters near ...
MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA
Live At Montreux 1974-1984
In the wake of Miles Davis’ jazz-rock explorations, fusion bands such as Weather Report and Return to Forever were born. Less easily accessible was the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Led by guitarist John McLaughlin, himself a Miles ...
Atonement
Atonement ponders the words that wound.
In Atonement, the wrong word seen by the wrong eyes – in this case, a bookish, sheltered 13-year-old girl – can have tragic repercussions. Director Joe Wright shows a masterful command of dramatic scale, at ...
Unique Local Recipes
Inventive Eats Five local chefs lay out unconventional holiday treats.
The holiday for monsters normally takes place at the tail end of October. No longer, says the fine-food-wielding man in L’Escargot’s Carmel kitchen: Chef Kerry Loutas would like to introduce “Monster Nog,” his chief celebratory ...
Look Again
The outside of this Carmel home belies the distinctive touches inside.
Anyone looking at this house from the outside will be amazed to discover the trove of revelations inside. The view of the house from the street isn’t the best: the facade is flat, straight up ...
Letters to the Editor for Dec 13, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Dec 13, 2007
Help Us Out, Weekly Mr. Anderson’s article [“Miles to Go Before I Eat,” Nov. 29-Dec. 5] illustrates the rewards and challenges of being a “localvore.” However, I think that he and the Weekly did the ...
Lars' Star Track
Already ambitious MC Lars further expands his sound.
Teenager Elisa Greubel immediately identified with MC Lars’ “Download This Song,” a plea for the record industry to change. At the time, the Recording Industry Association of America was suing Greubel and her family for ...
After the breakdown of state socialism, success as a market economy cannot be immediate.
The explosion of capitalism in China has many Westerners asking when political democracy – as the “natural” accompaniment of capitalism – will emerge. But a closer look quickly dispels any such hope. Modern-day China is ...
Sex abuse allegedly occurred under former Monterey vicar’s watch
Diocese of Orange County Bishop Tod D. Brown has tried mightily to position himself as a leader in the Catholic Church’s sex-abuse scandal. He’s settled multiple lawsuits, met with victims, and has urged his fellow ...
Food Chain
Grand Designs
Count It… This fine publication that so graciously allows me this weekly rant recently put out its 1,000th issue. That’s consecutive, friends, with nary a burp. That translates into 19 straight years of bringing you ...
Imagine That
Drew Harrison evokes Lennon in Monterey, then joins a Beatles tribute in Salinas.
Drew Harrison has a tradition that he has enacted every New Year’s Eve for the past 31 years. On the cusp of the new year, Harrison makes sure that he hears John Lennon’s “Imagine” no ...
By The Numbers
Condominiums 55 Total of new listings in October, Monterey County. 245 Total as inventory in October, Monterey County. 18 Closed sales in October, Monterey County. Source: Monterey County Association of Realtors
Squid Fry for Dec 13, 2007
Squid Fry for Dec 13, 2007
Nice Kitty… Oh, Darryl, when will you ever learn! Seaside voters ousted the long-time city councilman last year, perhaps because they were tired of Darryl Choates’ bluster and bullying antics – like threatening future pay ...
Margot at the Wedding
The Squid and the Whale director Noah Baumbach takes another look at family with Margot at the Wedding.
Like Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? for the Prozac set, Noah Baumbach’s gloriously dysfunctional Margot at the Wedding centers on two emotionally toxic sisters trapped in an old house filled with jealousy growing like a ...
The Audacity of Oprah
Her backing Obama could invigorate our political landscape.
This Christmas, the film The Great Debaters will come to theaters nationwide. Starring Denzel Washington and produced by Oprah Winfrey, it tells the story of an award-winning team of debaters from Wiley College, a small, ...
Serious Swell
Admiration for Peter Davi only grows with his dramatic death.
The first beach I went to in Monterey County was Asilomar. That day I noticed a guy who looked like the Incredible Hulk pushing a small, blond-haired, 10-year-old boy into the whitewash. I never knew ...
What Scares You Most About The Ocean?
Asked at Phil’s Fish Market in Moss Landing.
Follow-up: What ocean creature do you identify with the most? JOAN GARCIA | Board of Education Trustee | Hollister A: The pull of the tide. I’m from a place with a lot of lakes. Out ...
Hearty Winter Fare
PacRep’s The Full Monty satisfies theatergoers’ hunger for edgy, character-driven musical-comedy.
For years, a clipped-out BC Sunday comic was pinned to my office wall. In the drawing, one animal character slumps against a rock saying, “I’m going to turn this experience into a book about the ...
