28 Days With a Camera
A Canadian documents Monterey County day by day.
He says it with the kickback cadence of a too-cool college kid, speaking at a clip that’s the polar opposite of the standard shutter speed on his $2,500 Canon. For… sure. Its easy rhythm resonates ...
Issues / 2008 / Apr 10
Real Estate
By The Numbers
505 Total new listings in Monterey County for February 2008. 102 Total closed sales in Monterey County for February 2008. $1,025,891 Average sale price for homes in Monterey County for February 2008. Source: Monterey County ...
The Big Shot
Local photographers among nominees for the world’s best XXL Biggest Wave photo of the year.
When Sand City photographer and surfer Wayne Kelly arrived at Ghost Tree just after dawn on Dec. 4, he wasn’t impressed. “The buoys indicated there was the potential for XXL-sized waves, but I was kind ...
Butterfly Reborn
Monterey County, developer and opponents reach agreement on controversial subdivision.
After 20 years of legal battles and ballot-box fighting, county officials, land-use watchdogs and developer Moe Nobari have reached an agreement about the planned Butterfly Village subdivision. As part of a settlement, announced Tuesday, April ...
Squid Fry for Apr 10, 2008
Squid Fry for Apr 10, 2008
Outta Here… After five years at the Monterey County Herald, Executive Editor Carolina Garcia is departing our shores for the overpopulated, smog-choked, landlocked San Fernando Valley. On Monday she was named executive editor of the ...
New column powers down racism by busting stereotypes.
It began as a one-time, satirical column in OC Weekly, featuring the most outlandish questions and answers staff writer Gustavo Arellano could devise. A big reader response was anticipated to the column, “Ask a Mexican,” ...
Rockers to Roll
Say No More holds a benefit for a bus.
Afew weeks ago, the members of pop rock band Say No More were barreling across the flat-as-a-board Texas countryside in their 1973 Dodge Tioga, a big van they had nicknamed “Gumby” for its stagnant-green paint ...
Strange Course
Flash in the Pan fields more often-bizarre questions from readers.
Q: Dear Flash, I hear that you’re not supposed to use olive oil for frying. But I’m vegan, so my oil options are limited, and olive oil is my favorite! – Frazzled Frybaby A: The ...
CSUMB Professor Awarded Fulbright Scholarship
Prestigious award will send service-learning director to South Africa.
After 11 years of shaping CSUMB’s Service Learning Institute into a national model, Seth Pollack will help confront an international epidemic. As a Fulbright Scholar, Pollack will work with South African academics using a service ...
Post offices may be closing. What government service do people take for granted?
Asked at the Giant Artichoke in Castroville
Follow-up: What would you put on a stamp? CAITLIN KILTY | Teacher | Prunedale A: Probably law enforcement. We are always on the defense [about them] until we need them. They really do a lot ...
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 ...
JOSEPH ARTHUR
Could We Survive
Joseph Arthur belts out six folky ballads on Could We Survive that will leave nobody surprised that Peter Gabriel was the first to bring him into the spotlight. The graphic lamentations of war Arthur provides ...
Art Listing for Apr 10, 2008
Art Listing for Apr 10, 2008
OPENING THIS WEEK Big Sur river inn restaurant Oil landscape paintings by Tyson Curtis. Highway 1, Big Sur. 667-2700, bigsurriverinn.com. blackstone gallery Kanchi: collaborative, underwater ocean photography exhibit by Ryuijie and Camille Lenore, artist reception ...
Public Citizen
ONGOING SANCTUARY ADVISORY COUNCIL | COUNTYWIDE – NOAA’s Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary seeks applicants for two alternate positions representing research and tourism on its advisory council. The council meets every two months in daytime ...
Free Will Astrology | April 10-16, 2008
Aries (March 21-April 19): High-definition TV makes everything look more vivid than standard broadcast technology. Images are so high-quality they almost appear 3-D. While this is enjoyable to viewers, some performers are uncomfortable with the ...
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: What is it about the word “illegal” that Mexicans don’t understand? – Mondo Minuteman Dear Gabacho: Take your pick, Mondo. Mexicans don’t understand the word “illegal” because: (A) when paying their gardeners, nannies, ...
Dems Question Carmel Election Results.
Monterey County Democrats may challenge the results of the April 8 Carmel-by-the-Sea mayoral and City Council election. “We have a major concern here that this ballot design might have decided the election,” says MCD Central ...
On Your Feet
P.G. mayor envisions a “pedestrianized” downtown.
During his State of the City address in March, Pacific Grove Mayor Dan Cort proudly ticked off the City’s recent accomplishments. P.G. had balanced its budget, planted thousands of trees, joined the county tourist bureau, ...
Spot On
P.G.’s “Green Spot” makes its public debut at the Good Old Days.
On a sunny Tuesday afternoon in Pacific Grove, Applied Solar Energy’s Oliver Boekbinder, lanky and scruffy, chats with a visitor about solar batteries. His co-worker Nora Carlton, neat and compact with red-framed glasses, taps away ...
Foodchain
Back for More
Where The Legends Go… Although it has been two weeks, post-partum waves of euphoric joy, laughter, fond memories and flowering legends still ripple across the Monterey Peninsula and the rest of the food and wine ...
A Lot of Character
Chuck Thurman, 1954-2008: Former Weekly associate editor was known for his curiosity, zest for life.
Monterey County lost one of its good men last weekend in the passing of Chuck Thurman. James Charles Thurman was 53, and long-time readers of the Weekly will remember him in a variety of roles: ...
Home Page
P.G. mid-century-modern apartments offer bay views, bright interiors.
Pacific Grove has the newest Tenants in Common on the Peninsula. Beth Cort refurbished and redesigned the 1962, two-section building, constructed before architecture had changed dramatically from the 1950s into the 1960s. It’s called Oceans ...
Out of the Woods
Luckily for us, Arlo Guthrie, who visits Sunset on Sunday, never realized his dream: to be a ranger.
Arlo Guthrie never meant to have a musical career that has spanned almost five decades. Even though his dad, Woody, was one of the most influential American songwriters who ever lived, the younger Guthrie didn’t ...
CINDY BLACKMAN
Music For A New Millennium
With The Bridge Called My Back, Emcee Change of the local rap funk outfit Para La Gente strikes off on his own with a 13-song, 50-minute-long solo outing. Wisely mixing up the subject matter on ...
Stalling Pattern
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 ...
Letters to the Editor for Apr 10, 2008
War Is Not The Answer The Board of ALBA is concerned that the Weekly presented the complaints of two of ALBA’s 24 tenants in a hostile manner [“Land War,” April 3-9]. The facts in this ...
Walking Meditation
Robert Larson and the Marlboro Man.
Digital communication floods modern human existence so inescapably that its ubiquitous grid structure has become the normal page on which daily life is written and filmed, bulletined, messaged and photographed. Santa Cruz artist Robert Larson ...
EMCEE CHANGE
The Bridge Called My Back
With The Bridge Called My Back, Emcee Change of the local rap funk outfit Para La Gente strikes off on his own with a 13-song, 50-minute-long solo outing. Wisely mixing up the subject matter on ...
Love Fest in Salinas
County, Salinas officials agree on tax sharing, farmland preservation.
Monterey County Supervisors and Salinas Mayor Dennis Donohue practically had a group hug Tuesday, April 8, after announcing an agreement over tax sharing and farmland preservation. While Donohue didn’t cry on Supervisor Fernando Armenta’s shoulder, ...
The Counterfeiters
The recent winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year revisits the holocaust with fresh eyes.
Salomon “Sally” Sorowitsch bears little resemblance to the innocent, law-abiding victim in most Holocaust movies. Indeed, with his prominent jaw, compact but wiry frame, and furtive eyes, Sally looks more like someone to be picked ...
Smart People
Smart People’s great cast punctures the world of academia.
Intelligence runs in the Wetherhold family DNA. Smart People’s curmudgeonly protagonist, Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid), indifferently teaches literature at Carnegie Mellon University, where his bright son (Ashton Holmes) is a student. His daughter Vanessa (Juno’s ...
