Turning Tide
The political climate is right for sea solutions.
It’s easy to give in to the undertow of the status quo – especially when that current is strengthened by the flow of money. But there are moments when science’s overwhelming agreement forces an inconvenient ...
Sea Change
The Monterey Bay area has long been hospitable habitat for ocean research, politics and advocacy. Opening its doors this month, a new hybrid organization aims to heal the sea.
If California is the nation’s sea-state, the Monterey Bay area is the state’s sea capital – the historic fishing Mecca and modern-day headquarters of a host of marine enterprises. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute ...
Worth Their Salt
The Monterey Bay Area is home to a slew of academic institutions, government agencies and nonprofit organizations focused on the sea.
SCHOOLS Hopkins Marine Station (Stanford University) 120 Oceanview Blvd., Pacific Grove http://www.marine.stanford.edu Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (California State University) 8272 Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing http://www.mlml.calstate.edu California State University-Monterey Bay 100 Campus Center, Seaside http://www.csumb.edu ...
Issues / 2008 / Jan 10
Squid Fry for Jan 10, 2008
Nowhere To Hide… There’s a new sibling in town. Squid’s calling him, affectionately, Big Brother. It’s no secret that Salinas has had problems drawing shoppers into town. Nor is it a secret Oldtown’s got parking ...
Imagery Conscious
Roberto Salas’ display at PGAC rivets the viewer with its symbolism and thought.
The walls of the Gil Gallery at Pacific Grove Art Center rang with a Gershwin rag played by an accidental musician grooving on solitude and a grand piano on a quiet Sunday afternoon during The ...
Del Rey Oaks home loaded with unrealized potential.
There’s a great deal of creative and/or reconstructive potential in a Del Rey Oaks home built around 1940 that’s situated in the most desirable spot in town. Aside from its coveted flat hilltop location, there ...
Issues aside, “change” and “experience” are the Democrats’ mantras.
The election is almost a year away, and already it’s come down to branding. In Jan. 5’s Democratic debate, the candidates discussed in considerable detail nuclear terrorism, health care, carbon emissions and other substantive issues. ...
Chord Progressions
Major, promising changes are afoot for a number of local music venues.
For anyone who is an avid fan of Monterey’s rock bands, the scene in front of me would seem a bit strange. Decked out in all black, including a Nor Cal hoodie, and with a ...
The Parent Trap
Adults find nothing but trouble in The Orphanage’s creepy corridors.
Dead kids, dolls, and cavernous old houses in desperate need of WD-40 have become such clichés in horror movies that incorporating any of them now is the equivalent of the it-was-only-a-dream plot line. So logic ...
Public Citizen
1|10 Thurs Veterans Cemetery Meeting | MARINA – The Monterey County Veterans Cemetery Citizens’ Advisory Committee hears reports on the cemetery master development plan, funding agreement and efforts to get local jurisdictions to contribute money. ...
Grindin
Ahead In The Distance… It is a fascinating feeling, facing the future. With each change of our constraining calendaric device there is a sense of looking forward, of projecting our proposals upon an unsuspecting yet ...
IMMY SOMMERS
Sunset Collective
On the strength of saxophonist Jimmy Sommers’ 2003 remake of Boz Scaggs’ “Lowdown” the bluesman found new life on the airwaves. On Sunset Collective Sommers uses his ample talents as a producer to present a ...
VERS CUOMO
Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
Listening to Alone is sort of like looking at naked baby pictures of Rivers Cuomo in his bathtub. Or like coming across a box of embarrassingly strange pictures he drew as a teenager of made-up ...
Marina City Council dumps an additional $70 million into The Dunes.
Hoping to rescue Marina’s first major development from the real estate slump, the City Council this week agreed to pony up an additional $70 million in redevelopment funds for The Dunes project. While the council’s ...
The Weekly Tally
The Weekly Tally
The amount received last month by Ag Against Hunger from the AT&T National Pro-Am, hosted by the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, to purchase an electric double-forked forklift to support its cooler operations. To volunteer with AAH, ...
The state budget deficit looks bleak, but the governor promises no new taxes.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger deemed California “the modern equivalent of the ancient city states of Athens and Sparta,” in last year’s State of the State. “California has the ideas of Athens and the power of Sparta.” ...
Councilmembers recused from vote
When it comes to voting on the Fort Ord redevelopment plan, count two Seaside City Councilmembers out.
On the agenda at the Dec. 6 Seaside Redevelopment Agency meeting was a fairly simple item: Hold a public hearing on the Seaside-Fort Ord Redevelopment Project Implementation Plan for 2007-2012. The agency would vote on ...
What Is The Best $20 You Have Ever Spent?
Asked at the Dollar Tree in Seaside.
Follow-up: What is the worst investment you have ever made? JOSEPH FELICE | Studio Musician | San Benito A: A 1984 Flea video I bought in 1999. It had Chad Smith from the Red Hot ...
JONNY GREENWOOD
There Will Be Blood
Even if I hadn’t caught a film critics’ screening of P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, an epic adaptation of muckraking novelist Upton Sinclair’s Oil!, I’d tell you that Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood’s score is ...
From the Tapa
Estéban’s charm doesn’t stop at the small dish.
A “tapa” this is not. Tapas are for sharing, and I’m not about to share this – a big sandwich built on a big rustic roll that’s grilled and then layered with a yogurt dressing, ...
Single Servings
Two writers report from the Monterey Bay Singles Convention.
Editor’s Note: One of the two single men co-authoring this piece is blond, fair-skinned and cleanshaven, the other black-haired, swarthy and goateed. One’s in his 30s, the other in his 20s. The two agree that ...
Type Casting
Veteran actors basically play themselves in cliché ridden The Bucket List.
One of the oldest jokes in Hollywood describes the five stages of an acting career: 1. “Who’s John Smith?” 2. “Get me a John Smith type.” 3. “Get me John Smith.” 4. “Get me a ...
By The Numbers
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 ...
Letters to the Editor for Jan 10, 2008
Letters to the Editor for Jan 10, 2008
Quit Whining And Do Something Dan Linehan’s “Bird-Brained Idea” [Local Spin, Jan. 3-9] was quaint but provided no alternatives for us to help save the Pacific Grove museum and our town’s other public services. Our ...
Electing to Matter
Dismissing the chance to vote ignores our history.
The other day, I received my official guide for the Feb. 5 primary, and thought back to the first time I ever voted. I had turned 18 in time to participate in California’s presidential primary, ...
