Shaken foundation
County foreclosures are expected to almost double this year; bargain hunters are in the driver’s seat.
Her son killed himself over a house. At least that’s what Maria Alonzo believes. Abel Cardona Jr. and his wife, Maria Solis, bought the north Salinas home in May 2006. “It was the home of ...
Lending a Hand
Options to help avoid foreclosure.
Socorro Bernal has heard plenty of sad stories as the lone foreclosure counselor for the Monterey County Housing Alliance, a Salinas-based nonprofit that helps residents in danger of losing their homes. “We have adult men ...
Issues / 2008 / Apr 17
Citronelle, Carmel Valley
Flavor Savior
Chef Michel Richard is our culinary community’s man of the hour. I’ve been anxiously enduring a fair grace period for his new restaurant, Citronelle, to find its rhythm in its new home at Carmel Valley ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Apr 17, 2008
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: Why don’t Mexicans have enough gratitude for America to learn to speak English? Are they too stupid? Too lazy? What – they can’t learn two or three words a day? Is this asking ...
Lightning Up
The 4/20 Reggae Festival rastafies an easy Sunday afternoon in Salinas.
Though his band is headlining the 4/20 Reggae Festival at the Fox Theater this weekend, Ralston Grant of the longtime reggae group the Twinkle Brothers has no idea what 4/20 means. “I don’t even know ...
Free Will Astrology | April 17-23, 2008
Aries (March 21-April 19): A reader from Fiji is encouraging me to pay a visit. “Fiji is heaven on earth,” she says. “You’ll be ecstatic here.” While I have no doubt that’s true, it’s hard ...
Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?
Morgan Spurlock takes a wild swing at the War on Terror.
The same personal, quippy filmmaking that made Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me such a breezy delight all but dooms his second feature-length effort, Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? It’s one thing to ...
Political Déjà Vu
Simón Salinas may return to state politics; Butch Lindley considers county supe post.
The June 3 ballot will ask voters two questions. First: “Shall Jeff Denham be recalled (removed) from the office of state Senate District 12?” The next item on the ballot asks voters to choose a ...
Food Chain
Death, Taxes, My Synapses
Money Man… Well, the taxman hath come and gone, bless his heart. Hopefully you all found a way to recoup a good amount of the tithing you all so patriotically committed to the many important ...
Play Like Girls
Eccentric rockers Agent Ribbons arrive at Live.
The release of Agent Ribbons’ 2006 album On Time Travel and Romance was a ploy to lure a comic book artist to the band’s hometown: The quirky duo’s vocalist/lead guitarist Natalie Gordon admits she fabricated ...
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Forgetting Sarah Marshall plays its protagonist’s exposed emotions for laughs.
How do you forget someone you can’t escape? You can’t. But Forgetting Sarah Marshall, for all its tortured breakup hardships and indecent exposures, makes us laugh long and hard enough to forget we’re watching a ...
DA says elder care company put attendants with criminal records in seniors’ homes.
The Monterey County District Attorney recently settled a civil suit that accuses a Pacific Grove elderly care company of false advertising led to placing personal attendants with criminal records in the homes of seniors. Central ...
The First Course
A taste of the flavors that will spice up the Weekly’s newest element of epicurean fare.
There’s a lot on Monterey County’s plate – ours is a complex epicurean atmosphere. So, starting this week, the Weekly offers something appropriately complex to complement our existing food coverage: A versatile column that offers ...
Home Page
Well-preserved Monterey mansion beckons with warmth, grandeur.
A property that’s designated historical by the state of California must be of a certain age and have undergone such specific attention to its needs as to be rendered not renovated or remodeled, but preserved ...
Real Estate
By The Numbers
RECENT SALE $1,650,000 Guadalupe 3 N.W. of Sixth, Carmel Only seven years old, this home is one of Carmel’s newer architectural feats. The best feature is the ocean view from the master bedroom and living ...
New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War)
ERYKAH BADU
Erykah Badu never has been an artist whose music you get upon the first listen. Her first three releases unearthed a deeper level of appreciation with each spin. Such is the case with her latest, ...
Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box
MICKEY HART
“Silence spread thin like the skin of a drum, first there was rhythm then there was none.” “The Last Song” on Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box, written by longtime Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, reminds us ...
Carving Out an Existence
Ex-doctor-now-sculptor Paul Wilson faces death, keeps creating.
Every one of Paul Wilson’s wood sculptures begins and ends with what nature gives him. “God in Paul,” is the phrase Bill Mack, a longtime collector of Paul Wilson’s wood sculptors, uses to define the ...
‘A Basic Human Right’
Event promotes literacy in Monterey County and worldwide.
One quarter of Monterey County’s residents read below the fourth-grade level, according to a Community Foundation for Monterey County report. This same study found 11 percent of county residents aren’t literate in any language. “People ...
Letters to the Editor for Apr 17, 2008
Shock – Then Awe – in P.G. I was shocked when I first heard that the mayor was planning to permanently close off parts of downtown to traffic and make it a pedestrian-only area [“P.G. ...
Attack&Release
THE BLACK KEYS
Attack&Release features an unexpected pairing: Danger Mouse of the hugely successful soul/hip hop outfit Gnarls Barkley with the blues-rock duo The Black Keys. On past releases, The Black Keys had recorded their primal blues-rock sludge ...
Art Listing for Apr 17, 2008
Art Listing for Apr 17, 2008
OPENING THIS WEEK american art Gallery Betsy Podlack opening reception 3-6pm, 4/17. Dolores between Ocean and Seventh, Carmel. 625-4030. aromas pottery open house Works by Jane Rekedal, 10am-4pm, 4/19-4/20. 1560 Cannon Rd., Aromas. 726-2349. @ ...
Squid Fry for Apr 17, 2008
Squid Fry for Apr 17, 2008
BOW WOW WOW… Squid hearts Doggystyle, the debut album from Snoop Dogg that takes Squid back to happier days: sitting on Squid’s front porch sipping, well, gin and juice, of course. (Truth be told: Squid ...
Attack & Release
THE BLACK KEYS
Attack & Release features an unexpected pairing: Danger Mouse of the hugely successful soul/hip hop outfit Gnarls Barkley with the blues-rock duo The Black Keys. On past releases, The Black Keys had recorded their primal ...
Monochrome Magic
Michael Kenna’s photographs reveal the rewards of patience.
Very still, this square: night stillness, with a halo of light emanating from behind an erect trio of cigarillo-slender smokestacks. Two bristling tangles of pipes and lights, and then at dead center, that familiar monumental ...
Public Citizen | April 17-23, 2008
4|17 THURs MORTGAGE WORKSHOP | CARMEL – Keller Williams hosts a workshop for homeowners, answering questions about loan modification, short sales and foreclosures. 6-7:30pm. Keller Williams Realty, 26200 Carmel Rancho Blvd., Carmel. Free. 899-1000. 4|18 ...
Long-contentious Butterfly Village project shows some hope.
Last week, Monterey County and the HYH Corp. agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by HYH against the county, in which HYH claimed that the county had treated it unfairly with respect to its proposed ...
Iron Laden
Local scientists are cautious about dumping iron in the ocean to curb global warming
The rapid pace of global warming is driving worldwide efforts to shore up the primary culprit, carbon dioxide. One particular technology, pioneered by scientists at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, may be the closest we’ve come ...
What’s a creative way to help afford your mortgage?
Asked at Devendorf Park in Carmel
Follow-up: If you could own any real estate, where would it be? JESUS AGUILAR | Maintenance | Marina A: Try to get another job. Go back to school to learn another skill. Talk to the ...
The rationale behind staying in Iraq is less valid with each passing day.
Any discussion of the congressional testimony by Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker must begin with this stipulation: It was an exercise in PR, not policy-making. Whatever the two witnesses had to offer, they ...
Ripple Effect
Monterey’s Sea Studios focuses its latest episodes on how simple choices affect more than the world’s oceans.
Sea Studios Foundation, headquartered on Cannery Row, is churning out ocean-focused nature shows almost as fast as the restaurants on Fisherman’s Wharf churn out clam chowder. Their urgency is understandable: The planet’s future is at ...
Tally
The Weekly Tally, 04.17.08
1/3 The proportion of greenhouse gases produced to satisfy current human eating habits worldwide. On Earth Day (Tuesday, April 22), the Aquarium’s Portola Restaurant will host a Low Carbon Diet lunch event featuring a smorgasbord ...
