An old vet and a young gun, a sentimental favorite and an AT&T champ among them.
Phil Mickelson Two months ago, Mickelson secured the greatest victory of his career – and not because he learned to gear back on his aggressiveness, but because he stuck with it. Shaking off his caddy’s ...
Knock On Woods
No one has ever dominated Pebble like Tiger, but this time out, he has unique obstacles to approaching the same degree of excellence.
Tiger’s neck is wrecked. His driver and his wife have left him – and at least one absence looks lasting. He’s been on the receiving end of so many jokes both the International Association of ...
Astounding 18
A full round of historic moments from the U.S. Open’s regular visits to Pebble Beach.
Awe was inspired. Jaws were dropped. Chokes were induced. Much has happened across the four U.S. Opens Pebble Beach Golf Links has hosted to date, between the 1972 victory that earned Jack Nicklaus $30,000 and ...
Issues / 2010 / Jun 17
No Upsets in Local Elections
Final election tally confirms early outcomes.
The county's final numbers for the June 8 election are in. And it looks like they haven't changed any local results. According to an update posted by the Monterey County Elections Department around 8pm Friday ...
Budget axe falls on the city of Monterey.
Monterey reports that citizens will soon feel the pain of recent budget cuts, made to cover a $5 million municipal deficit. In August, the Monterey Public Library will close one day a week, and on ...
Tom Pollacci sentenced to at least eight years for rape.
Pebble Beach man Thomas Pollacci, 50, was given eight years in prison after he was convicted of raping a woman in April 2008. According to a District Attorney's Office press release: "The victim in the ...
U.S. Open
A different perspective on the 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.
Surviving the conditions on the course is one thing. Surviving the crowded conditions in the galleries is another. Check out the Weekly's Staff Blog for a photo-rich look at life outside the ropes.
Smoke Signals
Army to begin this year's prescribed burns on Fort Ord.
It's almost smoke season on the former Fort Ord, as the Army prepares to burn two parts of the military training-turned-development area. Once the vegetation is cleared, munitions-removal experts will sweep the areas to remove ...
Carmel City Council unanimously approves tight budget.
Carmel is in better shape than most cities, but next year's $14 million budget still draws a half million dollars from reserves, says city council newcomer Jason Burnett. "The end result might have been roughly ...
Open Floods
The crowds come, a brew company opens (sorta) and a roof rocks.
The Sardine Factory’s storied cellar is stacked. Cantinetta Luca’s (625-6500) ready to roll dough for days. Passionfish has its sustainable catches and wondrous wine values amassed – and Mundaka (624-7400) has its DJs and Serrano ...
On Deck
The still-new City of Marina/On the Beach Skate Team dominates state circuit.
In the back room of Marina’s City Teen Center, members of the City of Marina/On the Beach Skate Team reveal the reason they are currently in first place in the California Amateur Skateboard League’s Norcal ...
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): Istanbul is the world’s only mega-city that spans two continents. Many Turkish commuters take the 15-minute ferry ride across the Bosphorus Strait, traveling from their suburban homes in Asia to the ...
Letters to the Editor for Jun 17, 2010
OPEN WOUND My name is Jennifer Skeen and my family resides in Pacific Grove. I’m writing regarding the U.S. Open shuttle service offered by the Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce this week. For many years, ...
Squid Fry for Jun 17, 2010
Squid Fry for Jun 17, 2010
HOLE IN THE HEAD… Squid has grown accustomed to the rantings of former Marina mayor Gary Wilmot, but even Squid was blown away, as it were, by Wilmot’s remarks at the June 8 council meeting. ...
Heated Dispute
Both camps appeal to party faithful, but independents could decide the race.
T he June 22 State Senate contest could be the highest stakes election you’ve never heard of. Called just six weeks ago to fill the seat vacated by now-Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado, the race is ...
Gathering Of Forces
Seaside parents, MPUSD find common ground as proposals to shut programs are postponed - at least for the moment.
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District Superintendent Marilyn Shepherd thought she was headed to a routine meeting with Seaside parents at Martin Luther King Middle School to sell the district’s $100 million bond issue last Monday ...
Real Estate
By The Numbers
$3,575,000 Recent Sale 2932 Cuesta Way, Carmel Highlands Built: 2007 Size: 3,958 square feet Features: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: 3 wood-burning fireplaces, ocean view, courtyard, wine cellar Sellers: Ronal Borgman and Linda ...
Shot of a Lifetime
Esalen founder Michael Murphy’s Golf in the Kingdom is finally made into a movie.
Something extraordinary happened in 1972. As the wind whipped Jack Nicklaus’ golden hair – and the field’s nerves – into a tangle, he calmly crushed an audacious one-iron from the second-to-last tee of Pebble’s Beach ...
Tight Times at City Hall
Group criticizes Seaside leadership as officials crunch dismal budget numbers.
An array of campaign literature and plastic U.S. flags greet visitors at the 1-month-old Seaside Voter Education Center at 1676 Fremont Blvd. The 1,000-square-foot space is an upgrade from its former closet-sized office in University ...
Art Listing for Jun 17, 2010
Art Listing for Jun 17, 2010
HAPPENING THIS WEEK ARTISTIC HANGUPS Local photographer Pat Thomas is the featured artist for June at the Salinas art gallery, showing her pictures taken in Europe, Washington D.C., Chicago and Omaha. Meet her, over refreshments, ...
Fleck Lives
The baddest banjo man on the planet, Bela Fleck, lights up Sunset.
Béla Fleck has recorded and appeared on more than 75 albums, consistently toured from Ithaca, N.Y. to Uganda for 30 years and utilizes every inch of his instrument. In a single performance, Fleck can make ...
Toy Story 3
We Are Family: Toy Story 3 soars on the wonderful heartbreak of intimate connection, a compelling account of the joys, and difficulties, of letting go.
“You’ve got a friend in me,” go the lyrics to the Randy Newman tune that has been crooned in all of Pixar’s magical Toy Story films, including the brand-new Toy Story 3. It’s a catchy ...
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Artful Dodger: Exit Through the Gift Shop celebrates the antics, and the message, of the street art movement.
The documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop displays the tag “A Banksy film,” marking it a production of the enigmatic British street artist and political provocateur. The film shows Banksy and his accomplices steal a ...
Lust for Life
PacRep rolls up its sleeves in Sarah Ruhl’s romantic (and philosophical) comedy The Clean House.
Sarah Ruhl’s Pulitzer-nominated 2006 comedy The Clean House opens with monologues from its first three women – Brazilian transplant and newly arrived housemaid Matilde, her employer and successful doctor, Lane, and Lane’s kooky sister Virginia ...
Base in Space
fine art base embeds whimsical installations in the hillsides and redwood branches surrounding Henry Miller Library.
Just inside the gate of the Henry Miller Library, a cloud of miniature worlds dangles from the branches of a massive pair of redwood gatekeepers. Looking from afar like a pleasant throng of native insects, ...
If you could change a rule in golf, what would it be?
Asked at the Pebble Beach Lodge in Pebble Beach.
Follow-up: What underappreciated items should you always pack in your golf bag? HARVEY HICKS | Nurse | Fresno A: Clean, lift, and play – they should have these rules in effect all the time. Family ...
Birthday Gift
Montrio Bistro celebrates 15 years by getting better.
The mocktails send a message, one that’s stowed by the salt pig, sizzling in the bacon-and-egg salad and wildly alive in the oxtail risotto. It’s even in the water. The message: Montrio, long one of ...
Corporate greed should be punished, not rewarded, by our legal and political system.
“Ithink it’s part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it’s always got to be somebody’s fault instead of the fact that maybe sometimes accidents happen.” – Rand Paul, on Good Morning ...
Clampett On
Katelyn Clampett flows from American Idol to Carmel Music Live.
Between the shimmering lips blending into her creamy complexion and the blonde locks cascading over a slick leather jacket, Katelyn Clampett looks as smooth as she moves: The 22-year-old Southern girl knows how to hold ...
The best of our web exclusives.
Park Funding…On June 10, the Secretary of State certified a November ballot measure that would establish an $18 vehicle license fee to fund state parks and provide free park admission to vehicles whose owners have ...
Eco-Casual
At the Sustainable Brands conference, marketers buff up their green assets.
T urning boxes into mushrooms, recycling Starbucks cups and slinging eco-underpants were among the hot topics during the Sustainable Brands Conference at Monterey Conference Center June 7-10. Local entrepreneur Linda Lannon absorbed the energy like ...
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THURSDAY 6/17 SEASIDE POLITICS | Special meeting to review and approve city finances. 4pm, Seaside City Hall, 440 Harcourt Ave., Seaside. 899-6700. www.ci.seaside.ca.us DUMP THE PUMP | Monterey Salinas Transit asks you to join the ...
Hop To It
Living Legend Scarub highlights a great night of hip-hop on Cannery Row.
There are few hip-hop ensembles with members achieving equally successful solo careers: There was the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA, GZA, Method Man, Old Dirty, Raekwon and Ghostface Killah, N.W.A.’s Eazy-E, Dr. Dre and Ice Cube and ...
John Laird is the Weekly’s pick for State Senate seat.
Voters have a rare opportunity to cast a particularly meaningful ballot in the special June 22 election for the 15th District State Senate seat. It is rare because this is a special election, with just ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jun 17, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I’m a civil rights lawyer. I sue the San Diego Minutemen.Whenever the Minutemen are accused of being racist they always say something like, “I’m part-Hispanic,” or they’ll note that some of their members ...
