Man for the Ages
Key speaker at BIL has a plan to beat aging – and it actually makes sense.
In Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, the protagonists take on the Grim Reaper in a series of challenges that include Battleship and Clue. Aubrey de Grey, a former TED speaker and this year’s most anticipated ...
BIL offers its own excellent adventure for roughly $6,000 less than TED.
BIL stands for a lot of things. The tag words at the top of its wiki website offer a glimpse. The title changes come with every refreshing click of the mouse – offering a fun-if-not-informative ...
Connecting the Dots
Tracing tangible results of TED-inspired ideas.
The questions being asked at this week’s TED conference sound like the sort only to be debated late at night, and after several bottles of wine. But they are being discussed here in broad daylight, ...
Divine Deliverance
TED prizewinner Karen Armstrong fights to unify religions.
Although author Karen Armstrong has diligently studied and written about the world’s religions, she’s as stumped as anyone about one of life’s – and TED’s – biggest questions: “What is our place in the universe?” ...
The Really Big Question
Will the TED conference elite yield something concrete for the rest of us?
One of the world’s largest gatherings of thinkers and achievers takes place this week in Monterey. Most of us are not invited. The best we can do is figuratively press our noses to the glass ...
Bang! Bang!
TED winner Neil Turok shakes up astro-physics with his version of the universe’s birth.
Neil Turok is a thug. A spectacled, sweatered, antenna-eared thug, but a thug nonetheless for taking on the baddest mo’ fo’ in cosmology. That’s right: The Cambridge University chair of mathematical physics has challenged fellow ...
Dave Eggers maintains a furious pace of creativity.
In 2000, Dave Eggers burst onto the national literary scene with the publication of his creative memoir . The book balanced the emotional journey of Eggers raising his brother Toph after their parents succumbed to ...
Issues / 2008 / Feb 28
Under Fire for Hires
Opponents critique PG city manager for hiring former county co-workers.
Competence or cronyism? Depends on your point of view. In the minds of some Pacific Grove residents, City Manager Jim Colangelo has acted unfairly by hiring his former co-workers while laying off long-term PG employees. ...
Home Page
Modern interior suits this classic Pacific Grove home.
What a nifty cottage. It’s sophisticated, handsomely remodeled (tankless hot water heater, dual-pane windows, crown molding, newer electrical, plumbing and sewer connection, etc.) and attentively cared for. It was built on a corner lot in ...
KoKoRo Sushi
Salinas’ KoKoRo Sushi wins with its specialty rolls, magnetic hosts and homemade sauces.
Mr. Pinch loves sushi. Mr. Pinch also loves sauces. Mr. Pinch would love this new place called KoKoRo Sushi in Salinas – and the seriously saucy signature sushi rolls that stand out there. Mr. Pinch, ...
Capstone Cops
Salinas hopes to squash street violence through a new community-policing initiative.
Carlos Castro walks his knee-high son along a trail in Salinas’ Cesar Chavez Park. Castro has lived in the blue row homes overlooking the East Salinas park for three years. “My neighbors are good,” Castro ...
Art Listing for Feb 28, 2008
Art Listing for Feb 28, 2008
OPENING THIS WEEK homescapes carmel New exhibit of giclees by Tom O’Neal. SE Corner of Seventh and Dolores, Carmel. 624-6499. ledbetter art studio Open house, with artist Emy Ledbetter in attendance, 3/1, noon-5pm. Third and ...
Sounds Crazy
Locally sown Gnome Life Records takes an eclectic triple bill to P.G. Art Center.
For his senior art project at UC Santa Cruz, Fletcher Tucker constructed a raft out of garbage and discarded materials, including a set of 80-gallon plastic drums from a local gummy bear factory. While most ...
Harvest Boon
P.G. Council picks a farmers market organizer.
Pacific Grove has taken another step toward becoming the sustainable city that leaders envision. On Feb. 20 the City Council selected Iris Peppard to manage P.G.’s planned farmers’ market, which is expected to open in ...
Letters to the Editor for Feb 28, 2008
Merger Is Bad News If you oppose media consolidation, you ought to oppose the merger of KAZU and KUSP [“Urge to Merge,” Feb. 21-27]. Having two public radio stations gives us listeners excellent choices, but ...
Free Will Astrology | Feb. 28 - March 5, 2008
Aries (March 21-April 19): What’s the opposite of a freak out? Let’s call it a freak in. I suspect you’re about to enter into this state. That means you will have at your disposal all ...
Cannery Row Condos go to Coastal Commission; ‘no’ vote recommended.
The Ocean View Plaza project refuses to die. The notorious condo-and-retail development, planned for Cannery Row, has taken several seemingly fatal blows over the past dozen years, but, like a slasher-flick monster, it always comes ...
Permeating Borders
Son de la Frontera embodies flamenco’s deepest roots and broadest fusion at Sunset Center
First, there are family lineages as consequential as any David begat in the Holy Bible, bloodlines as minutely codified as any Godolphin Arabian’s running through Man O’ War. It’s thick and heavy, the scrutiny that ...
Semi Pro
Will Ferrell whiffs with the basketball comedy Semi-Pro.
Will Ferrell fans, take note: the master buffoon has let us down in Semi-Pro, but it’s not for a lack of trying. Just the opposite, actually. We’re used to him doing absurd things for a ...
He needs to woo progressives who might vote Green or independent.
Ralph Nader is running again for president. After four previous bids, mounted in varying forums and with varying goals, Nader is used to the slings and arrows that will be tossed his way. He is ...
Food Chain
No Whining
Quit Yo’ Bitchin’… The Weekly’s Best Of issue is almost here. Each year – this is either my eighth or ninth one – the community inevitably gets all in a snit about the selections. Stop ...
Squid Fry for Feb 28, 2008
Squid Fry for Feb 28, 2008
Who Do You Trust… Chemtrails and UFOs in the sky. Fluoridated water. Elvis listening in. Ah, yes, Squid can talk conspiracy theory with the best of ‘em. But lately, Squid’s favorite conspiracy theory hits a ...
Democrats are risking a brokered nomination.
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in his classic 19th-century treatise Democracy in America. “But from time to time one can see the old ...
Voice Coach to the Stars
Robert Edwards taught Hollywood how to sing; now he instructs locals.
Local teacher Robert Edwards believes everyone starts singing shortly after they are born. Unfortunately, the singing he is referring to is not music to everyone’s ears. Edwards – who has worked with big-name vocalists including ...
PG may revive tax measures voters rebuffed in November.
Second time’s the charm? Although Pacific Grove voters rejected a package of three tax measures last November, the City Council may put two very similar measures back on the June ballot. One would double the ...
By The Numbers
192 Average number of days houses have been on the market in Aromas; average price as of Feb. 17: $741,036. 12 Average number of days houses have been on the market in Big Sur; average ...
Just a Little Lovin’
SHELBY LYNNE
One must wonder just how many people buying music today remember Dusty Springfield. One of pop’s best loved divas in the ‘60s, she had a series of hits penned by Burt Bacharach and others that ...
What celebrity would you like to punk? And how?
Asked at Whole Enchilada Marketplace in Moss Landing.
Follow-up: Worst celebrity arrest photo? Dream celebrity couple? MATT LEVEY | Geoscientist | Moss Landing A: Russell Crowe – because he always gets in fights. I’d punk him by getting a girl scout to try ...
Web Exclusive
Mettee-McCutchon appointed to Monterey County Board of Supervisors
So much for letting the voters decide. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Marina Mayor Ila Mettee-McCutchon to the Monterey County Board of Supervisor, representing District 4. “Ila’s experience in local government and involvement in her ...
Old Growth
DEAD MEADOW
Dark psychedelic garage rock continues to be all the rage, as if veteran bands like Brian Jonestown Massacre and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club hadn’t already exhausted the idea. Sure, Dead Meadow has been around since ...
Roots and Grooves
MACEO PARKER
James Brown’s saxophonist Maceo Parker is the current artist to get star treatment by today’s best big band, WDR. Just as in previous releases with Joe Zawinul and the Brecker Brothers, the band works with ...
Taxi To The Dark Side
The winner of the 2008 Oscar for Best Documentary uses the story of a cab driver to illustrate how the war on terror has corrupted our nation’s values.
On Dec. 5, 2002, a young Afghani taxi driver named Dilawar, from a rural valley near Yakubi, picked up three passengers. Soon after, all four men, including Dilawar, were detained by U.S. forces and sent ...
Public Citizen
ONGOING MISS CALIFORNIA RODEO | COUNTYWIDE—The California Rodeo Salinas accepts applications for the 2008 Miss California Rodeo Salinas. The July pageant includes horsemanship, personality, appearance, and scholarship. Winner takes home a $2,500 college scholarship and ...
Tally
The Weekly Tally 02.28.08
The number of strategies deployed by Aubrey de Grey, who visits the Peninsula to speak at the BIL Conference (see story, cover section), to repair and reverse aging on the cellular and molecular level. Source: ...
Burning Up
A fiery Big Read will warmup county residents to great literature.
Libraries across the county are stocking up on copies in anticipation of a spike in interest. Borders has a few dozen backordered. Salinas firefighters and Mayor Dennis Donohue have their copies already. It’s safe to ...
