Special Judgment
Three legends show the kids how it’s done
The 15 judges who will evaluate the 50-plus student bands that will travel here to compete would make a pretty insane group themselves—Ron Westray, George Stone, Lauren Sevian, Jon Nordgren, Mike Galisatus, Lynne Fiddmont, Matt ...
Serious Pluck
Christian McBride leads a stacked Next Generation Festival lineup.
Don’t let the name fool you. While the Monterey Jazz Festival’s Next Generation Festival showcases talented high school and college musicians, the event also offers plenty of opportunities to catch some of the reigning generation ...
Issues / 2008 / Apr 03
What movie should everyone see before they die?
Asked at Blockbuster Video in Marina.
Follow-up: What movie should never have been made? What is a funny movie you’ve seen? JO ANN MCCLAIN | Accountant | Castroville A: No Country For Old Men was an excellent story and was suspenseful. ...
All About the Grind
Local skate standout Zarosh Eggleston conjures his most inspired move yet.
His passion is evident everywhere. The walls of his home are lined with more than 350 skateboards. His mailbox is made of skate decks. In his living room, hundreds of skate magazines pile up like ...
Leatherheads
Director George Clooney is not afraid to poke fun at himself in the football farce Leatherheads.
George Clooney’s 1920s football comedy Leatherheads – his third film as a director – sums up the modern-day matinee idol’s attitude toward his own fame. Clooney plays Dodge Connelly, the aging captain of the Duluth ...
Art Listing for Apr 03, 2008
Art Listing for Apr 03, 2008
OPENING THIS WEEK ANTON GALLERY Yosemite: Gabriel Goldreim photographic works. 1095 Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove. 373-4429. bay photo lab Female pin-up exhibit by Glen McDowell, reception 6-8pm, 4/4. 202 Monterey St., Salinas. 596-3143. carl cherry ...
Letters to the Editor for Apr 03, 2008
Calling Pony Express The Aromas Post Office is a large part of our identity. It was established in 1894 and there was a population of 40. Now there is a population of several thousand and ...
Food Chain
A Legend is Born
In The Beginning… I had been anticipating opening day at the first ever Pebble Beach Food & Wine for a while. I remember sitting on the patio at Spanish Bay on a magnificent afternoon about ...
Squid Fry for Apr 03, 2008
Squid Fry for Apr 03, 2008
AIN’T NOBODY HUMPIN’ AROUND… Squid gives Carmel-by-the-Sea props for its brand-spankin’-new city website – featuring meeting agendas, hot events and (soon) videos of City Council meetings. Squid looks forward to sprawling on Squid’s computer chair, ...
Ballot counting changes, but Carmel voters stick to the tried and true.
For nearly four hours late Tuesday, April 8, it was a waiting game in Carmel-by-the-Sea. Conversations piddled around grandkids, travels and recent surgeries but inevitably returned to a central question: “When will the results be ...
Snow Angels
Lovely storytelling gives way to terminal despair in Snow Angels.
Near the beginning and the end of writer/director David Gordon Green’s Snow Angels, he features an identical montage of small-town Northeastern everyday life – provided “everyday” takes place in the middle of a bone-chilling winter. ...
Freedom Fighter
Iraqi author and activist visits Monterey.
The Ba’ath regime jailed and tortured Haifa Zangana while she was a pharmacy student at Baghdad University in 1972. She and three friends, all Iraqi Communist Party members and in armed struggle against the Ba’ath ...
Public Citizen
4|3 THURS WATERSHED TALK | SALINAS—Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board’s Chris Rose gives a presentation on the Gabilan Watershed, which encompasses the city of Salinas. 2pm. City Hall Rotunda, 200 Lincoln Ave., Salinas. ...
Catching On
Mouth of the Valley finds its groove.
Sean Michael White sits at a desk in an octagonal shaped room that doubles as his living room and recording studio. In front of him, lines of music scroll across a computer screen like the ...
Real Rocker
Poison frontman-reality star Bret Michaels aims to set Salinas on fire.
Reality television hit a new level of ridiculousness when the VH1 reality show “Rock of Love” debuted in 2007. The program, now in its second season, features a parade of frequently soused female strippers and ...
Local pot-busting team loses funding
Volunteers prepare to clean up busted grow sites.
The 15-year-old County of Monterey Marijuana Eradication Team soon may be jonesing for more green. COMMET, which was granted $177,000 in the 2007-08 fiscal year, recently received notice from the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services ...
Real Estate
By The Numbers
$298,000 Price, down from $786,000, for a 6-bedroom, 5-bath foreclosed house on Merritt Street, King City. $259,000 Price, down from $386,000, for a 4-bedroom, 2-bath foreclosed house on Larkspur Street, Soledad. $559,000 Price, down from ...
Home Page
Carmel cottage’s allure comes from subtle and unusual touches.
Norma Prince lives in an enchanting house. Her pleasing decor happens to bring to mind a cottage-like adjective, but not to exclusivity. It’s also elegant with a simple layout and inherent magnetism. It’s small – ...
Another Reason to Love Salespeople
As part of our annual tribute to National Humor Month, The Carmel Institute of Humor conducted an in depth survey from members on the current status of the American Sense of Humor. The Institute's membership ...
Tally
The Weekly Tally, 04.03.08
14.5 The length, in feet, of a burmese python involved in a south county animal hoarding case announced last week by the spca. The case, which led to a guilty plea, included 230 other snakes, ...
Olympic Food Fight
Fast Food Nation vs. the People’s Republic of Mystery Meat
Athletes testing positive for steroids, however, isn’t the only scenario the USOC hopes to avoid by packing its own lunch. There are safety concerns based on recent news about tainted Chinese food – dumplings laced ...
Last Call
Juilliard String Quartet showcases major works for CMMB’s last concert of the season.
The last time the Juilliard String Quartet played at Sunset Theatre was before total renovation of the place. A passing blackbird attracted to the aphoristic “complete” string quartets by Anton Webern entered the back of ...
Inconvenient Al makes his party wait.
History may record that there were three distinct windows of opportunity for Al Gore to play a decisive role in this year’s Democratic primary contest. The first was in the days leading up to Super ...
Land War
ALBA farmers clash with staff over leases, treatment and produce prices.
Irene Zamudio touches the soft green leaves of her organic fava beans. Raspberry plants sprout a row over as traffic buzzes past on Hall Road in Las Lomas. In about a month, the berries will ...
Dems come-from-ahead campaign has a familiar look to it.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve wrestled with the feeling that history will repeat itself and the Democrats once again will blow their chance to take back the White House in November. I’ve had visions ...
The Real Dirt
Planned Del Rey Oaks resort would sit on top of major munitions area.
A posh golf course resort that would double the size of tiny Del Rey Oaks will go before the city’s Planning Commission on Wednesday, April 9. The commission will study changes in city code that ...
Green with Envy
Carmel-by-the-Sea resident wants to install a fake lawn..
Carmel-by-the-Sea resident Sidney Widrow stoked controversy when he applied for a permit to install synthetic turf on roughly 140 square feet of his front lawn. The application has prompted debate among city officials, residents and ...
Rancho Cañada Developer Rejects EIR.
Al Williams, one of the developers behind the proposed Rancho Cañada Village, says he will reject the environmental impact report prepared by Bay Area consultant ICF Jones & Stokes. “I’m not gonna accept it. It’s ...
Never-Ending Story
State order to stop overpumping the Carmel River elicits boos, cheers from Peninsula residents.
If the state orders California American Water to reduce the water it pumps from the Carmel River by 50 percent over the next seven years, Peninsula hotels will shutter their doors and world-class golf greens ...
The Big Joke
April Fools marks the start of a local comedian’s National Humor Month.
With April Fools Day unacceptably brief and tax time seriously grim, Carmel’s Larry Wilde established April as National Humor Month in 1976. Wilde also gave the little town that has everything the ultimate luxury item: ...
