Classical: stage is set for a lively and varied year in music to suit all tastes.
The larger half of the current classical season plays out between January and June. For the Monterey Symphony, that includes five orchestral programs, four conducted by music director Max Bragado, and one with podium guest ...
Delectable Bites
In the visual and theater arts, something for everyone to get excited about.
In numerology, 2008 is a “1” year, meaning beginnings, creation, invention. It will be a propitious year for the arts in Monterey County. The juggler balancing on a spinning ball lives by his art. One ...
More, Better - Pt. 1
Pop, Rock, Jazz: stage is set for a lively and varied year in music to suit all tastes.
School nights aren’t supposed to feel like this. But nevertheless, Monterey Live was nearly at capacity on an otherwise quiet recent Wednesday night, as local music lovers rallied to see a pair of up-and-coming acts. ...
Driving for Solutions
Looking at the environment from all angles.
Our tireless ocean continues to absorb human excess: agriculture and urban runoff, overfishing, oil spills, industrial dumping, littering, and the monster wave of global warming. It’ll take a sea change in attitudes, heaps of data ...
GPU5, county races, health-care reform and the presidential election dominate 2008.
The girl reporter always has high hope for New Year’s Eve – the parties, the gowns, the midnight kiss. But reality never lives up to the hype and, more often than not, she ends up ...
Money Pulse
Salinas and Marina hope to revive their economies, while big ag looks for answers on E. coli.
The city of Salinas will take an economic leap of faith this new year. If the city doesn’t expand its tax base within three years, it will face a deficit and have to cut services ...
Leap Year, Leap of Faith
The key people, issues and events that will shape Monterey County in 2008.
Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is assassinated, sparking riots and delaying parliamentary elections for weeks. War rages on in Iraq, costing thousands of lives and burning up hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars a day. ...
Issues / 2008 / Jan 03
Food Chain
Power Outing
Better Late… I just got home. The clock in the downtown right-hand side of the screen says 2:50am. That’s absurd. You can’t go out around here and get home at 2:50am. The night – actually, ...
A Real Stinker
Salinas politicians struggle with where to put the city's trash.
Salinas politicians want to trade in smelly trash for redevelopment cash. Mayor Dennis Donohue, Councilwoman Gloria De La Rosa and County Supervisor Fernando Armenta recently called for the relocation of the Sun Street Transfer Station ...
Letters to the Editor for Jan 03, 2008
Renewed Faith Hallelujah!! My faith is restored! Last week I sent off a letter-to-the-editor bemoaning the neglect of public libraries, the trend of texting, the abysmal reading records of adults and children. I asked are ...
Art Listings for Jan 03, 2008
Art Listings for Jan 03, 2008
OPENING THIS WEEK AVERY GALLERY Amgen Bike Art competition winners exhibition. Seaside City Hall, 440 Harcourt St., Seaside. 899-6811 or 794-2334. Carmel Art association Wall of Opportunity and Moods Expressed as Art exhibits. Dolores between ...
Iowa is just the start to finding the Democratic Party's new standard-bearer.
Something remarkable, almost magical in its resilience, will take place on Jan. 3. Thousands will gather in schools, churches and public libraries across Iowa to caucus. It’s an imperfect, curious system. Nonetheless, during the evening ...
Cuts to P.G. Museum of Natural History would accomplish little.
A lot of feet have walked around (and on top of) Sandy, a life-size sculpture of a gray whale, on their way into the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History. But this experience, like the ...
Words of Wobegon
Garrison Keillor and his adored fictional town return to Golden State Theatre.
The Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon was founded by New England Unitarian missionaries who came to the region to convert the area’s Native American population through interpretive dance. Eventually, the settlement took the name Lake ...
Time To Move On
With their four kids gone from the nest, a Seaside couple needs less room to roam.
This Seaside neighborhood is one whose past, present and future are clear from house to house and street to street. The reincarnations are identifiable up through the decades, something like an archaeological presentation. Several solid ...
Web Update
A first-hand report from Garrison Keillor's Monterey performance.
Garrison Keillor took the stage in front of a sold-out crowd at Monterey’s Golden State Theatre Jan. 8, after a chilly California winter day of cloudy skies and fairly consistent precipitation. But, according to Keillor, ...
Charlie Wilson's War
Director Mike Nichols and writer Aaron Sorkin grapple with pragmatism and idealism in Charlie Wilson's War.
The saddest thing about the funny political satire Charlie Wilson’s War is that it’s destined to inspire far more talk about Julia Roberts’ hair and makeup than America’s geopolitical actions and mistakes. Director Mike Nichols ...
Rye Situation
Lenny's Deli is (unhappily) left off the menu at Carmel Plaza.
The lapdog’s shrill shriek pierces the pleasant afternoon atmosphere on the ground floor of the Carmel Plaza. The schnauzer apparently isn’t into the feathery Lassie look-alikes it sees pass by the patio table where the ...
Mccoy Tyner
Afro Blue
Single artist record label retrospectives are only as strong as the original albums from which the collection is culled. The new compilation of pianist McCoy Tyner’s work on Telarc includes eight tracks from the five ...
Holy Growth
Salinas' FPC became the fastest- expanding church of its kind by appealing to Latinos and kids.
The perks at this place read like highlights from a profile on a “Best Employers” list: a positive, non-judgmental atmosphere, smart, creative people everywhere, free child care, free support groups, bilingual services, unlimited volunteer opportunities, ...
The Great Debaters
The Great Debaters falters by providing an unrealistic portrait of debate teams.
A blessed few are both glib and sincere, capable of convincing people of almost anything, yet never making an argument that isn’t authenticated by their own emotional truth. This unlikely rhetorical formula seldom works in ...
What New Year's resolution would you make for everybody around you?
Asked at Campagno's in Monterey.
Follow-up: What was your most doomed-to-fail New Year’s resolution?PATRICK REED | Customer Service at Spanish Bay Golf Course | Monterey A: To try and send something overseas that could benefit the soldiers. Anything. I have ...
Ocean View Plaza Heads to Coastal Commission
Monterey City Council approves letter of support.
It has weathered three lawsuits, one ballot initiative and a dozen years of solitude. And now, in the upcoming months, the California Coastal Commission will weigh in on Cannery Row’s notorious Ocean View Plaza project. ...
Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall
The world needs another loving re-creation of a famous Judy Garland concert like we all need holes in our heads. Regardless, Rufus Wainwright, the last of the classic singer/songwriters, (re) performs Garland’s 1961 recording to ...
Public Citizen
ONGOING RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | PACIFIC GROVE—PG accepts applications for its rental assistance program wait list thought Jan. 31. Limited funds available to subsidize rent for income eligible households that live or work in the ...
Frank Sinatra
A Voice in Time (1939-1952)
Old material in new packages – that has become one of the prevailing themes in the recording industry. Artists with long and complicated catalogs, spanning competing labels, are a special incentive to the producers of ...
By The Numbers
12 Number of condos for sale in Marina in October 2007; one closed sale. 10 Number of condos for sale on the Monterey-Salinas Highway in October 2007; zero closed sales. 13 Number of condos for ...
Squid Fry for Jan 03, 2008
Kill The Earth… Squid really wants a phone number for the genius who invented traveling billboards – the kind driven around local roadways by trucks that sure don’t look electric to Squid. (Squid can just ...
Don't Ask "Chef Boy"
The newly re-named "Flash in the Pan" weighs in on reader questions.
Q: Dear Chef, My family is trying really hard to do the local foods/seasonal-eating thing. The onions, squash, carrots, potatoes and garlic in our basement were all purchased at the farmers market. My daughter picked ...
Now and Later
Stephanie Nakasian bridges the best from the past with the jazz that will define the future.
American culture’s notoriously short-term memory quickly forgets creative landmarks while transforming fads and celebrity into fodder for nostalgia. So it’s always refreshing to come across an artist like Stephanie Nakasian, a jazz singer steeped in ...
