Home&Garden: Ten That Make The Cut
Good natives to plant.
DOUGLAS IRIS (Iris douglasiana) This perennial herb bursts with flowers that range in color from cream to purple. The plant can handle full sun on the coast but needs afternoon shade inland. ALUM ROOT (Heuchera ...
Home & Garden: Modern Light
Architect’s legacy lives in Monterey County and the world.
It is said that shortly after the Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula officially opened its doors in 1962, a group of healthy Pebble Beach women, thinking it was a spa, wanted to check in for ...
Home & Garden: Gardening Tight
Even the laziest gardeners can grow food in small spaces.
I could list my gardening limitations to the soundtrack of a slow violin. My yard is a thin strip of lava rocks that I, as a renter, don’t have the liberty to disturb. And even ...
Home&Garden: Gardening Tight
Even the laziest gardeners can grow food in small spaces.
I could list my gardening limitations to the soundtrack of a slow violin. My yard is a thin strip of lava rocks that I, as a renter, don’t have the liberty to disturb. And even ...
Home & Garden: Ten That Make The Cut
Good natives to plant.
DOUGLAS IRIS (Iris douglasiana) This perennial herb bursts with flowers that range in color from cream to purple. The plant can handle full sun on the coast but needs afternoon shade inland. ALUM ROOT (Heuchera ...
Home & Garden: Flora Plan
Finding the right plants to thrive on low maintenance, little water.
Instead of grass, Carol LeNeve’s front yard is mostly covered in ankle-high Carmel creeper, a shrub with dark-green, oval leaves. LeNeve, dressed in a purple turtleneck and jeans, walks down her stone path toward Camino ...
Issues / 2008 / Feb 21
Foam Wars
Plastics lobby tries to roll back wave to ban polystyrene.
It’s energy-efficient, cheap and more environmentally friendly than most people realize. Heck, you might even call it sustainable. Contrary to popular belief, it is recyclable – and the claims that it poses a human health ...
Be Kind Rewind
Be Kind Rewind extols the virtues of community creations.
If you’re reading this paper, you probably feel a fundamental sympathy for the idea that “local and independent” means something in an era of corporate homogeneity. You may be sitting in your favorite non-Starbucks coffee ...
Leaving Iraq will be painful, but necessary.
Except for a hardy band of neo-con optimists and the official apologists of the Bush regime, almost everyone is agreed that the United States has gotten itself into a nasty, self-wounding mess in Iraq where ...
Real Estate
By The Numbers
11 Percent of the average home price gain in 2007 over 2006. 3.5 Percent drop in new listings in 2007 compared with 2006. 33.6 Percent drop in home sales in 2007 compared with 2006 Source: ...
Food Chain
Bring the Heat
HOT AND BOTHERED… I was hanging around annoying the guys in the kitchen at Bernardus Lodge the other day, interfering with Chef de Cuisine Christophe “Hurricane” Grosjean while he was preparing for the pending evening ...
In Bruges
Two hitmen take a trip to a historic European city in the black comedy In Bruges.
It wasn’t so long ago that Colin Farrell was poised to be a box-office king. But the Irish actor wasn’t so well-suited to paycheck movies like S.W.A.T., Daredevil and Alexander, which made him more of ...
Squid Fry for Feb 21, 2008
On The Bench… Squid’s the first to admit that judicial elections aren’t normally wrought with mudslinging, scandalous sex and whistleblowers. This June would be no exception, except this is Monterey County’s bench, where the bar’s ...
Presidential candidates must have the courage to say no to the Pentagon.
Americans are worried about the impending recession and the Wall Street crisis, as well as the exhilarating and unpredictable presidential contest. But another threatening force is bearing down on the nation: our out-of-control military machine. ...
State Says Salinas Water Company Overcharged Customers
The state Division of Ratepayer Advocates (DRA) has issued a scathing report lambasting Salinas-based Alisal Water Corporation for overcharging customers, not properly responding to complaints and withholding financial data. The report, which was finalized late ...
Radio Heads
An enthusiastic tribe of amateur radio hams descends upon Del Rey Oaks.
The chatter resonating throughout the faux wood-paneled walls of the Monterey Moose Lodge in Del Rey Oaks this Friday and Saturday will be full of phrases such as “off-frequency operation,” “spurious emissions,” and “non-iodizing radiation.” ...
Youth Interrupted
Seaside’s Youth Diversion Program loses funding.
Rafael Hernandez was doing his best to keep his son Zuri on a straight path. But as the Seaside High 10th-grader began hanging out with new friends, getting disciplined at school and closing himself off ...
One public radio station proposes a plan to buy the other, or to consolidate operations.
Santa Cruz-based public radio station KUSP recently announced a proposal to buy its Monterey County counterpart, KAZU. But CSUMB Foundation officials (the Foundation owns the station and its license) say KAZU is not for sale. ...
Absinthe Minded
Monterey Live reinvigorates the spirit of the legendary liquor with a special cabaret show.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was known for wandering around Paris with a hollow walking stick filled with it. Vincent Van Gogh drank it heavily—and a number of his works took on its mouthwash-green hue. Pablo Picasso, ...
Art Listing for Feb 21, 2008
Art Listing for Feb 21, 2008
OPENING THIS WEEK american tin cannerY Artist Fair: One-day fair of artists from area galleries, schools, museums, associations. 10am-5pm, 2/23. Free. 125 Ocean Blvd, Pacific Grove. 333-0930 or 641-0196. Pacific Grove Art Center Captured Views, ...
Oscars Wild
A look at how a rich and varied year in film should be reflected at the 80th Academy Awards.
With a muckraking tale of black gold, a psychopath armed with slaughterhouse air-gun, Tic-Tacs that lead to teenage pregnancy and a memoir written with blinks of an eye, 2007 was a wonderfully mixed year in ...
Politics
Denham Recall Moves Forward
Political insiders have tossed another name into the potential race for embattled Republican State Sen. Jeff Denham’s 12th District seat: soon-to-be-termed-out Assemblyman John Laird. The recall campaign against Denham turned in signatures on Feb. 8 ...
Home Page
Family-friendly Las Palmas Ranch home is ready for its next owners.
River Road exits south from Highway 68 east to 16,000 acres of beautiful land once belonging to the Las Palmas Ranch. The ranch is now divided into three communities called Las Palmas I, II and ...
Free Will Astrology | February 21-27, 2008
Aries (March 21-April 19): I’m 99 percent positive that in the coming week you will not wind up in a hand-to-hand battle on top of a speeding truck with a rogue agent of the secret ...
What Makes A House A Home?
Asked at Hayward Lumber in Pacific Grove.
Follow-up: What would make a creative name for a color? JOHN WOOD | Contractor | Pacific Grove A: All the unique objects inside [a house] that people collect make it a home. My wife is ...
Safe Inside the Day
BABY DEE
Rediscovered, in a sense, for the indie-rock scene by Antony and the Johnsons and Drag City all-stars Bonny “Prince” Billy and Matt Sweeney, Baby Dee is actually quite the musical veteran: She’s gone from being ...
Still Hangin’
Endless Summer principals reunite in Carmel.
It felt like a scene out of a surf movie. The clear blue skies, the swells that rose from beneath dark kelp to form perfect curls, the light on the water – it all seemed ...
A Morning In Paris
ATHIMA BEA BENJAMIN
This first recording of Abdullah Ibrahim’s (Dollar Brand) singer wife was completed in 1963, but the tapes were lost until 1997 when they surfaced in the hands of the session’s recording engineer. Benjamin was discovered ...
Tally
The Weekly Tally 2.21.08
12,246 The height, in feet, of White Mountain, the third highest peak in California. Bob Coomer climbed it – in a wheelchair – and presents a slide show illustrating his experience at Marina’s REI this ...
Letters to the Editor for Feb 21, 2008
The Reign Of Mccain In response to “The McCain I Know” in the Feb. 7-13 issue of the Weekly, I’d like to add what I think is a very important point about the upcoming presidential ...
VAMPIRE WEEKEND
One of the most hyped albums of the year, Vampire Weekend’s self-titled debut might not live up to every accolade bestowed on it by lonely internerds all across the superhighway, but it’s an impressive first ...
Sticky-ing to Tradition
As Tet celebrations draw to a close, a look at ways to keep the great food coming.
The Kitchen God knows your family secrets. According to Vietnamese customs, about one week before the first day of the Lunar New Year in February, that god, Ong Tao, flies to heaven to share his ...
Public Citizen
2|22 FRI DON’T MULTIPLY LIKE RABBITS |COUNTYWIDE—Win one of 10 spay or neuter surgeries for your animals by entering the Monterey County Animal Services’ drawing. Must be 18 or older, live in unincorporated Monterey County, ...
