Miller’s Genuine Draft
Sheriff challenger is more heart than hardass.
On a Saturday morning in September, members of the North County chapter of the Latino civil rights group, League of United Latin American Citizens, gathered around a seminar table in the Castroville library. They were ...
Issues / 2010 / Sep 30
Kanalakis maintains funding lead in sheriff race.
Sheriff Mike Kanalakis raised more than $62,000 for his re-election effort since July 1 compared to the $53,000 challenger Scott Miller compiled during the same period, according to campaign disclosure reports released on Oct. 5. ...
Smoky Skies
Fort Ord burns to resume Thursday and Friday.
If conditions are right, the Fort will be on fire again Thursday and Friday, Oct. 7-8, as the Army conducts more controlled burns as part of an effort to remove unexploded ordnances from the former ...
Prop. 23 opponents rake in more cash than proponents.
Oil companies might be some of the wealthiest enterprises on the planet, but environmentalists' fundraising is adding up to even more in the Proposition 23 campaign. The proposition would freeze AB 32, the landmark 2006 ...
Arcade Fire Scorches in the Redwoods
Canadian rock outfit plays stadium-sized music at the intimate Henry Miller Library.
"It's beautiful here; I feel like a kid," frontman Win Butler told me after the show. "Our first show was intimate like this." Arcade Fire was in its element on Tuesday night in Big Sur. ...
Please describe a few new ideas or issues you plan to bring to the City Council.
BRUCE DELGADO 1. Use some of existing National Park Service funds available to the Marina Equestrian Center to improve its condition and services for horseback riding in Marina and generate new income and fun recreation ...
Four-year Formula
Gov touts new law to ease transfers to CSU.
For community college students seeking to transfer to a four-year college, seemingly minor course requirements can become a major inconvenience. "A lot of times a student had to re-track and retake courses they thought would ...
Salinas suffered 3 murders in one week.
Three men between the ages of 15 and 20 were gunned down in three separate incidents between Tuesday and Friday in Salinas last week. A fourth gunshot victim is receiving medical care at a Bay ...
Marina PD: Watch out for car burglars.
More than a dozen Marina car owners woke up last week to find their car window smashed and valuables missing from the vehicle. Between Sept. 27 and Sept. 30, 16 car break-ins were reported, according ...
The two Pebble Beach men who claimed to be victims of a massive art heist sue the County.
Angelo Amadio and Dr. Ralph Kennaugh are back in the public eye. Last fall, the two men reported what would have been the second largest art heist in the US from their Pebble Beach home, ...
Gov. Schwarzenegger vetoes Fort Ord redevelopment bill.
Assemblyman Bill Monning (D-Carmel) hoped his Fort Ord re-use bill would have spurred housing and job development at the former Fort Ord military base by making an exception to a law that provides for redevelopment ...
2010 California International Airshow Salinas
High-flying planes and stunt pilots fill the Salinas sky.
An early cloud cover brought about possible fears of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds not being able to fly to close out the airshow, but a bright sun halted that as the Thunderbirds took formation ...
Seaside wins textbook grant from Native American tribe.
Seaside High is one of a number of schools to receive a $5,000 grant for text and library books from the Barona Band of Mission Indians of Southern California. The tribe has given more than ...
Calmer Seas
Maritime museum turns its ship around, but still faces funding shortfall.
Officials of Monterey’s shuttered Maritime and History Museum were in an optimistic mood as they unveiled a set of ambitious plans for the museum’s reopening at a Sept. 25 annual membership gathering. “I think we ...
Plane Awesome
The 30th California International Airshow climbs even higher in Salinas.
There’s a question that comes when an up-and-coming pilot tries to secure a big-time sponsorship: “Have you flown Salinas?” That is according to Sean D. Tucker, Salinas’ own resident National Aviation Hall of Famer and ...
Trippy Team
Conor Oberst and The Felice Brothers keep an amazing season going in Big Sur.
Conor Oberst is known for singing devastating, soul-baring lyrics in a quivering voice on songs like Bright Eyes’ “Lua.” Meanwhile, The Felice Brothers whoop and holler on drunken sing-a-longs including their “Frankie’s Gun!” and “Whiskey ...
Real Estate
By The Numbers
$214,900 Recent Sale 226 Tawny Port Way, Greenfield Built: 2005 Size: 2,679 square feet Features: 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Fireplace, large fenced yard, open floorplan, breakfast bar Seller: Aurora Loan Services Buyer: ...
The best of our web exclusives.
Stony Silence…The seemingly interminable evaluation of embattled Carmel City Administrator Rich Guillen, accused of sexual harassment, is on hold once again. In its fifth closed session on the matter Sept. 23, the City Council once ...
The Lost Outlaw
Sharing the story of Monterey’s original shooting-and-stealing Bandido, Tiburcio Vasquez.
In history-conscious Monterey, locals know that the California constitution was signed at Colton Hall or that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote poems and stories in a downtown adobe. But they don’t know about Monterey native Tiburcio ...
Garcia’s Got It
Low-drama race means P.G. mayor and incumbent council are likely to stay put.
Carmelita Garcia faced some tough criticism when she was upgraded from Pacific Grove councilwoman to mayor on a coin toss last fall – a promotion some in the community would have preferred to go to ...
Get Involved
Public Citizen
THURSDAY 9|30 EELECTION MIXER | MARINA—Marina candidates in the November election, Marina Chamber members and the general public are invited to a special meet-and-mingle mixer. $10. 5:30-7:30pm. Holiday Inn Express, 189 Seaside Circle, Marina. MARINA ...
If you were an outlaw, what would you do for the people?
Asked at Valley Hills Shopping Center in Carmel.
Follow-up: What would your costume or nickname be? VERONIQUE TORNE | Social Worker | Gonzales A: In Gonzales there are all these fresh produce trucks on the side of the road. A lot of that ...
Quince Quotient
Simply Quince by P.G.’s Barbara Ghazarian is a pioneering book for a pioneering fruit.
Quince may well be the most under-appreciated fruit in this country, which is surprising since the Pilgrims considered it essential enough to cultivate less than a decade after settling in Massachusetts. By 1720, quince was ...
On the Tracks
Little Black Train chugs through dark Americana.
There’s plenty of people out there playing guitar and singing about their feelings,” Stuart Mason says. “I keep revisiting the same themes: a lot of death. Train wrecks. Murder ballads. And hangings.” The old-time Americana ...
Goat For It
Chili from God, Harvest party from heaven, Aquarium chef from Mustards.
It started with potluck, turned a corner with an insomniac e-mail from an intern, and ended in tastebud heaven. Weekly intern Daniel DeCamp brought along his chili to a potluck at my place. It was ...
What is your favorite way to spend a Sunday afternoon out in Marina?
BRUCE DELGADO Definitely meeting familiar and new faces at the Marina Farmers Market from 10am to 2pm year round at 215 Reservation Road and special afternoon dance performances at Spector Dance and eating the best ...
Brezsny's Astrology
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): Nine-year-old Fatima Santos told the San Francisco Chronicle her opinions about the movie Toy Story: “If I had to make a movie like this, I would make it funnier. I would ...
Squid Fry for Sep 30, 2010
Squid Fry for Sep 30, 2010
PITY THE FOOLS… Squid’s morning ritual with the daily newspaper is probably not that different from those few landlubbers who still subscribe to the paper. You know, a solid 80 or 90 seconds to digest ...
Playing Catchy
The Dreamer and the Sleeper ride rising popularity to Black Box Cabaret.
Monterey natives Nick Pappageorgas and Easton Broome – the duo who founded The Dreamer and the Sleeper – have no shame in admitting their love for kitschy music. For their The Holiday EP, the band ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Sep 30, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
SPECIAL DREAM EDICIÓN Dear Mexican: Why is it so hard to find an educated Mexican – or hell – even a Latino man who isn’t a pretentious hijo de papi, or thinks he is a ...
Letters to the Editor for Sep 30, 2010
DON’T ASK THE MEXICAN I’ll cut to the chase: There simply isn’t anything funny or entertaining about “Ask a Mexican.” My mother – a self-respectingMexican who used to pick the crops in Morgan Hill as ...
Jack Goes Boating
Philip Seymour Hoffman stays afloat for his directorial debut.
Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut, Jack Goes Boating, is adapted from a play by Bob Glaudini, who also penned the screenplay. Despite a quartet of interesting, if overly familiar, New York characters, Hoffman’s ...
Peninsula city managers make the case for a fire merger.
The proposed Monterey Peninsula Regional Fire Consolidation needs to be supported and approved. It is a sound proposal and compares favorably with all of the other alternatives that have been suggested. Here’s how it would ...
Art Listing for Sep 30, 2010
Art Listing for Sep 30, 2010
HAPPENING THIS WEEK ARTS HABITAT Call for Art: The nonprofit art organization that, among other things, provides a creative outlet for at-risk youth, and also have their heart set on breaking ground on an ambitious ...
Junk to Juice
Salinas Valley looks to replace its landfill with America’s first garbage-to-fuel plant.
Gonzales, population 8,725, could one day be home to a first-in-the-nation ultra-high-tech plant that would zap garbage into fuel, rendering the Johnson Canyon dump largely irrelevant. “A landfill is a big hole in the ground,” ...
Repo Dividends
Paper Wing’s adaptation of a cult musical film yields gory, campy fun.
The story goes that a friend’s bankruptcy repossession ordeal in the mid-’90s inspired Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich to write the dark and twisted musical Repo! The Genetic Opera, adapted into a 2008 cult film ...
Kitchen Confidence
New culinary school sharpens youth chops.
On a recent Thursday evening, Alisal Rotary Club members gather around tables set with white linens. In the kitchen behind them, chefs in crisp white hats and smocks slice pork ribs fresh from the grill, ...
