Shots of Love
Keep hope alive – but remember that addiction to the candidate of your dreams can be dangerous.
Things could get ugly. We’re sinking deeper into a recession, losing our jobs, our savings and our homes. This means we’re losing our looks too, because personal stylists, trainers and grooming appointments don’t come cheap. ...
Wailing for Barack
From reggae to bluegrass and rap, musicians are sounding off for the Obama cause.
While Wailers guitarist Al Anderson insists that the legendary reggae outfit he plays in is an “anti-political band,” he clearly has opinions about the candidates for president. The Wailers– who will be making a rare ...
Issues / 2008 / Oct 30
Election Talk in Monterey County
Asked at the Sunset Center, Carmel.
Judie Higgins | Realtor | Carmel 1.) Who did you vote for president? Why? McCain. He has a lot of experience and served many years in the senate on both aisles. I am impressed of ...
Delgado leads in Marina, Haferman and Downey in Monterey, Kampe, Lindsay and Garcia in PG, Lutes in Salinas; Hood appears to be next superior judge
With only about 50% of the vote counted, the local elections are showing some surprising early results. http://montereycountyelections.us/Election_Result.htm
Kenya Declares Public Holiday Thursday to Celebrate Obama's Win
Celebrations broke out spontaneously — worldwide — following the news of Obama's victory. In his father's homeland of Kenya, the president declared Thursday a national holiday. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7710394.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/us_elections_2008/7710003.stm
Californians Reject Parent Notification and Eliminate Same-Sex Marriage, Approve High-Speed Train
http://vote.sos.ca.gov/Returns/props/59.htm
Barack Obama Elected President — First African-American to hold Highest Office in U.S.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/president/
Election Talk in Monterey County
Asked at Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, Monterey
Marianna Griffin | Housewife | Los Angeles 1.) For president: Who? Why? Obama, because he is actually for the people. 2.) What issue most motivated you to vote? Prop 8, because I don’t believe in ...
Homicide caps weekend in Salinas
A 22-year-old Salinas man was fatally shot at his front door Sunday night, according to the Salinas Police Department. An unknown gunman knocked on Jose Alonzo's door about 10 p.m. and shot him multiple times ...
BaRock and Roll
The Monterey Fairgrounds hosted a gathering of Obama supporters in music and poetry form in hopes of a final push towards victory.
After a whole afternoon of inclement weather, a steady downpour of rain caused a premature end to the BaRock the Peninsula concert at the Monterey Fairgrounds. A little after 8pm, Christine Sandin, the producer of ...
Letters to the Editor for Oct 30, 2008
DESTRUCTION, REBIRTH… I am no economist, but I keep having this recurring image: that the current economic meltdown is to Capitalism what the crumbling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was to Communism. Maybe it ...
Drawing the wrong conclusions about the economic meltdown.
On Naomi Klein’s schizophrenic indictment of economist Milton Friedman, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, it is argued that in times of great social and economic upheaval, sinister free market advocates push their ...
Sunshine Lies
MATTHEW SWEET
Ever since his power-pop masterpiece, Girlfriend, in 1991, rocker Matthew Sweet has suffered– perhaps unjustly– from perennial comparisons to that landmark album. On the other hand, many of us who love the melodic melancholy of ...
Roll Playing
Adjusting habits with the Aquarium’s new sushi guide in mind.
Unless you’ve been sharing a shell with a hermit crab, you’ve probably come across the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch Sustainable Seafood Guide. Last week the Aquarium, together with the Blue Ocean Institute and the ...
True Skit
The Rat Pack is Back smokes the Golden State.
In 1960, the coolest cats in the entertainment biz gathered at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas to make the original Ocean’s Eleven. Big leaguers Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and ...
Saving a rebellious writer’s hometown library.
O n Sunday, Oct. 19, a miracle occurred in Salinas. All three branches of the Salinas Public Library stayed open on a Sunday, for the first time in more than 30 years. And they will ...
Foodchain
In Costume
HALLO AT ME… I’m sitting here writing this for the Halloween issue dressed up like a politician running for president of the United States. I am wearing a navy blue suit, white shirt and conservative ...
What bugs you the most about the recent wildfires?
Asked near Cape San Martin in Big Sur.
Follow-up: If you could only grab one thing from home, what would it be? BEBE WEHMEIER | Bookstore manager | Big Sur A: All day, every day you are living off adrenaline, anxiety and fear, ...
Macro Passion
Microtonic Harmonic plays bluegrass with an unmistakable enthusiasm.
On a Wednesday night in an apartment above Holman Jewelers in Pacific Grove, newly renamed bluegrass band Microtonic Harmonic spends more than an hour perfecting a few closing notes of Django Reinhardt’s “Minor Swing.” The ...
Above Board
A high-flying look at the world’s fastest growing water sport.
When I was 12, a friend received a two-line stunt kite from some weird uncle. The thing came with a handlebar and a bunch of tangled lines and was shaped like a bat wing. In ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Oct 30, 2008
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I know you’ve been asked variations of this before but I’m going to ask you again anyway. I’m a gay white guy and I’ve had three relationships with Mexican men in the last ...
Off the Block
$8.68 billion Countrywide settlement may allow some locals to stay in their homes.
Countrywide Financial Corporation will offer hundreds of Monterey County homeowners facing foreclosure a chance to stay in their houses, thanks to a settlement between the notorious lender and the California Attorney General’s Office. Countrywide has ...
Public Citizen
ONGOING SALINAS | Alisal High School seniors, who have been holding weekly car washes and food sales, need help raising money for their trip to watch the presidential inauguration in January. Make checks payable to ...
changeling
Lady Vengeance: Angelina Jolie is mother on a mission in Clint Eastwood’s latest.
Behold the power of Spike Lee to get under people’s skin! By some unaccountable phenomena, Clint Eastwood’s Changeling resembles a Spike Lee movie. It starts with a simple premise: Single mother Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) ...
Art Listing for Oct 30, 2008
Art Listing for Oct 30, 2008
OPENING THIS WEEK alternative café Hallows: New group show, opening reception party 6-9pm, 10/31. 1230 Fremont Blvd., Seaside. 583-0913. carl cherry center Topographies: New site-specific installation by Christel Dillbohner, opening reception 3-5pm, 11/1. Fourth and ...
Real Estate
By The Numbers
$600,000 Recent Sale 1312 Shafter Ave., Pacific Grove Built: 2005 Size: 1,396 sqaure feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, single level, 2-car garage Amenities: Near Pebble Beach walking trails, oversized windows throughout, fireplace, recessed lighting ...
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Motley Crude: Kevin Smith’s arrested adolescence continues in Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
If you’re Kevin Smith, you’ve got to be looking at Judd Apatow’s movie comedy empire and thinking, “Dude, what the f***k?” It must seem kind of unfair. After all, Smith paved the way 14 years ...
Brezsny's Astrology
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): What perplexing defeat was inflicted on you once upon a time– a defeat that you still can’t figure out how to rise above? What painful memory continues to lurk at the ...
Squid Fry for Oct 30, 2008
Squid Fry for Oct 30, 2008
GOD IS NOT A REPUBLICAN… Squid is worried about 17th Congressional District Republicans. It’s not so much that Republican-turned-decline-to-state candidate Jeff Taylor entered the race on a message from God or that the same voice(s) ...
Updates
Plumbing Problems… Basil and Roger Mills, the agribusinessmen who head Monterra Ranch Properties, have pissed off the wrong plumber. Damari Stratford, vice president of Seaside-based JND Plumbing Inc. is stirring up a load of negative ...
Bringing Back the Bath House
P.G. Planning Commission approves Lovers Point project permit.
The 60-year-old Bath House perches on some of Pacific Grove’s best oceanside real estate– but the building has been vacant since 2005, when the previous tenant folded under financial troubles. On Oct. 23, the P.G. ...
Better Late
Monterey finally gets a late night pizza joint— and it’s family owned and upper-crust quality.
Pizza the way Nana made it. New York Italian meats– capicolla, pepperoni, salami, Italian sausage– sliced on the premises by Sean Croce, his wife Michelle and their small crew; crust shipped from Brooklyn, layered with ...
2 Grover, With Love
JASON MILES
While this follow up to keyboardist and producer Miles’ 2001 recording honoring Grover Washington Jr., To Grover With Love, has less compelling music, it is a more sincere tribute. Whether due to the live-in-the-studio recording ...
Asked at various locations in Salinas.
Asked at Salinas Fire Station #5, Salinas Sheila Green | Salinas 1) For president: Who? Why? McCain, he has experience and he has served our country. 2) What issue most motivated you to vote? Presidential. ...
So Many Treats
A range of local galleries throw open their doors to share standout work over Halloween weekend.
Cutesy monsters, art made from fire, an entire venue transformed into a work of art itself and large-scale oils that evoke Barbarella, only better. With so many powerful draws materializing at local art shows this ...
Speaking In Numbers
The Weekly Tally
$585 Thousand The approximate total amount of economic stimulus checks returned from the Central Coast area. Taxpayers due a check must update their addresses with The Internal Revenue Service by Nov. 28. All checks, which ...
Home Page
Handsome Carmel remodel has a natural grandstand.
The breathtaking sight of whales passing our shores during their elegant and primordial migration between the Bering Sea and Baja’s warm waters is visible to fewer homes than might be imagined. Even properties with ocean ...
The Unknown
ANIMAL FARM
The Oregon-based, backpack-rap quartet Animal Farm’s first album, The Unknown, is a collage of philosophy, politics and humor, soaked in classic soul and R&B samples. It’s like Del the Funky Homosapien meets Blackalicious, with a ...
Trust Betrayed
Salinas teacher sentenced to nearly 11 years in prison for child molestation.
John Walter Hawthorne was, in the eyes of many, a dedicated teacher who helped migrant farmworkers’ children learn English and transition into Salinas schools. But Hawthorne, a Soquel resident, harbored a deep and twisted obsession ...
The Thrill of Gill
Country legend crosses genres to charm fans.
Vince Gill isn’t cool because he’s a country music star; he’s just cool. In his 20-year career, Gill hasn’t conformed to the stereotypes of the country genre; never once did he pick up a Southern ...
La Vida Leatherback
Monterey Bay researchers discover the endangered turtles’ habits.
Wizened reptiles, some weighing more than half a ton, have swum across the Pacific Ocean just to dine in Monterey Bay. As leatherback turtles gulp down jellyfish, local researchers take advantage of this chance to ...
Night Stalkers
Searching for the spirits in the dark that haunt Stokes Restaurant and Bar.
uring business hours, Monterey’s Stokes Restaurant and Bar gives off a warm glow, due in part to its amiable staff, delectable locally sown food and inviting atmosphere. But once the restaurant’s diners and bar patrons ...
