Finding Sanctuary
Hopkins director’s new book dives into the reasons Monterey Bay is among the rarest of water bodies: a healthy one.
Marine ecologist Stephen Palumbi strides through red-tinged iceplant toward the tidelands at Hopkins Marine Station, where he has a good view of the characters in his new book, The Death and Life of Monterey Bay. ...
Issues / 2010 / Oct 21
Race for Cash
Kanalakis outspends Miller two to one.
The latest financial disclosures filed by County Sheriff Mike Kanalakis and challenger Scott Miller show Kanalakis with expenditures of $326,099 and Miller with less than half that amount at nearly $140,000. Kanalakis had raised $276,832 ...
More cash pours into Salinas city election.
The latest campaign finance report by the pro-business Salinas Valley Leadership group shows a fresh infusion of cash from SVLG into the Salinas mayoral and council races. All told, the group has donated $23,500 to ...
Decade-Delayed Plan Passes
Supes finally approve the fifth go-round of a Monterey County General Plan.
Well, you can't accuse the county of being hasty. This afternoon, Oct. 26, the Monterey County supervisors finally approved a general plan update that has been through five haggled-over drafts over the course of more ...
Monterey City Commissions seek new members.
The city of Monterey has a total of 12 openings for city commissioners who make recommendations to the City Council in their areas of expertise. The Colton Hall Museum Cultural Arts Commission has four vacancies, ...
Feds award Boys and Girls Club big bucks to fight gangs.
The Boys and Girls Club of Monterey County is one of ten groups nationwide chosen by the federal Department of Justice to receive a $325,000 grant aimed at steering troubled kids away from gangs and ...
Water Which Way?
State issues proposed decision - and an alternative - on Regional Desal Project.
The California Public Utilities Commission is one step closer to approving the Regional Water Project aimed at creating a new water supply for the Monterey Peninsula. On Oct. 21, PUC Administrative Law Judge Angela Minkin ...
Global Tuner Grand Prix
A wet weekend of racing and time trails at Laguna Seca.
Cloudy skies and rain didn't stop a weekend of racing as orange ponchos bearing the Mazda Raceway logo were handed out on Saturday and Sunday. The Global Tuner Grand Prix consisted of three classes of ...
Ellen Tellin'
Ellen Show sends breast cancer survivor to Carmel for a shopping spree and then some.
The Monterey Peninsula will host a most special guest this weekend. She’s not a celebrity, rock star, or political figure. But in her own way, she is more important than figures more famous or influential. ...
Hotel Lobby
Workers push to keep their jobs and union contracts when Carmel’s La Playa sells.
Betty White pops in for lunch. So does the local Rotary Club. Robert Redford once sat on the back patio, drew a caricature of himself on a napkin, signed it and left the employees to ...
Feline Dreamtime
Cat Power claws down the coast to Henry Miller.
Chan Marshall, better known as Cat Power, exhibits the quintessential tortured soul of a musical genius – you know, one of the ones that usually die young. She suffers from depression, and she is a ...
Squid Fry for Oct 21, 2010
Squid Fry for Oct 21, 2010
CONNECT THE DOTS… When Squid learned the feds are charging MoneyDots radio host Barbra Alexander with allegedly running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded local investors, Squid couldn’t help being reminded of one of Alexander’s old ...
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Ed Wars…A mini-battle is on between Gov. Schwarzenegger’s education secretary, Bonnie Reiss, and ed superindentent Jack O’Connell over the guv’s veto of $6.8 million for a controversial data system. Reiss’ supporters call it a boondoggle, ...
Sheep Shape
An icon lives, fresh and healthy delivers and Big Sur rocks.
Not long ago, Clint Eastwood knelt low over “No. 36” – one of Mission Ranch’s iconic sheep. When my colleague asked me if I heard what happened next to the sheep with the shattered leg, ...
Cactus King
Monterey County’s dean of succulents takes top prize in San Francisco show.
Robin Stockwell has some specific passions. The 63-year-old La Selva Beach resident loves diving into frigid waters in places like the Solomon Islands, he finds inspiration in trailer parks, and is really, really into succulents. ...
Real Estate
By The Numbers
$1,150,000 Recent Sale 2477 San Antonio Ave., Carmel Built: 1938 Size: 1,277 square feet Features: 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1-car garage Amenities: Fireplace, vaulted beamed ceilings, gated arbor, stone walkways Seller: Robert Callahan, Charles and ...
Letters to the Editor for Oct 21, 2010
ESPRESSO FOR BRAINS I was sitting in one of those Lighthouse Avenue coffee bars the other day while a group of 20-something espresso heads were chuckling over Christine O’Donell’s latest bizarro pronouncement and generally feeling ...
Art Listing for Oct 21, 2010
Art Listing for Oct 21, 2010
HAPPENING THIS WEEK AVERY GALLERY Typical cures for ailments include pills, injections, and therapy sessions, but these treatments only help the body and mind. This exhibit helps the public see how art can be used ...
Aggro Action
Monterey Coastkeeper sues County Water Resources Agency over farming pollution.
The local agency whose mission includes protecting Monterey County’s water quality is allegedly polluting the Central Coast, according to a lawsuit expected to be filed Thursday, Oct. 21. Monterey Coastkeeper, represented by Stanford’s Environmental Law ...
Pain in the Annex
East Campus incorporation is a sore subject in Marina elections.
George Ball lives at a Marina address, shops in Marina and volunteers to help Marina seniors. But on Nov. 2, his ballot won’t let him vote on city officials or measures. Ball, a CSU-Monterey Bay ...
Steps Up
Capitol Steps bring bipartisan belly laughs to Sunset Center.
Think Beach Blanket Babylon, but trade ginormous intricate hats for some good wholesome political skewering and voilà: Capitol Steps. For newcomers, this keyboard-backed five-member cast tours the country sharing their brand of political satire. They ...
A New View for Bay View
Proposed charter school could replace shuttered elementary.
Bay View Elementary School will close next year, but a new K-5 charter school, Bay View Academy, could open in its place – if a group of New Monterey parents have their way. The school’s ...
Triple Threat
The Insect Surfers, The Luxury Sweets and The Cronies pile into East Village.
Longtime local musician Keigan Skydecker (Serpico, The Infrareds) recently redirected his passion to the world of concert promotion. So far, he has shows lined up at East Village on the second Saturday of each month ...
Howl
James Franco’s performance as Allen Ginsberg grounds a film about the Beat poem “Howl.”
A hallucinatory three part epic poem haunted by images of “angelheaded hipsters” and graphic homosexual acts, Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” broke some of poetry’s established conventions when it was published in 1956. Inspired by the poem, ...
Succulents survive on very little, what do you need to survive?
Asked at the Post Office in Pacific Grove.
Follow-up: How can you live more like a succulent? GUITAR BOB | Musician | Pacific Grove A: Two-Buck-Chuck; a bargain at twice the price! Trim to Win: Cut back some more. Tighten the belt another ...
Polished Halos
Up-and-coming Halos bring their tight rock back to Monterey County.
Halos’ front man Dan Lyman has no delusions about what it takes to succeed. “It’s easy for a lot of musicians, to say they have crappy jobs and that it’s tough starting out,” he says, ...
Hereafter
Not Quite Dead: Hereafter neglects to address the big question at its core.
What is amazing about Hereafter is that in 129 minutes, nothing happens. Three separate storylines, location shooting in London, Paris and San Francisco, and nothing. For a movie that aspires to explore what happens after ...
Brezsny's Astrology
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): “There’s one ultimate goal during sex,” says Cosmopolitan magazine, a renowned source of erotic guidance for women. That is “to be as sensually stimulated as possible.” I don’t quite agree with ...
Pacific Grove Public Library needs the proposed parcel tax.
Measure Q, a parcel tax on the Nov. 2 ballot, had its beginnings in the Library Summit of February 2010, when more than 100 citizens came out to share ideas for the funding and improvement ...
The Next Best for MBEST
UC research and development park deemed a failure.
When the federal government gave more than 1,000 acres of Fort Ord land to the University of California Regents in the mid-1990s, the expectation was that the university would create a humming research and development ...
The NFL’s breast cancer blitz shows it is as fragile as Brett Favre’s reputation.
You may have noticed an abundance of pink in the National Football League this month. Between the pink sneakers, pink mouth guards, and pink wristbands, one would be excused for wondering how the machismo-drenched league ...
A wet weekend of racing and time trails at Laguna Seca.
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High Frying
Flanagan’s Irish-American pub brings a much needed watering hole - and excellent fries - to the Barnyard.
In this age of foodie-mania – where pig heart, foie gras and soft-boiled quail eggs reign – we tend to forget about the simple foods we will always love. Like good old French fries. I’m ...
Opinion: One man’s take on his culture’s stereotypes
¡Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: When my friend’s mom posted jokes on Facebook about Mexicans, I just had to say something. She responded with “My best friend is a Mexican,” and “I know lots of Mexicans and I ...
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FRIDAY 10|22 LAND AND WATER | MARINA – Elected officials, educators and industry professionals discuss “Our Shared Legacy: Water and Land.” 1pm, University Center, CSUMB, Marina. 582-3653, www.csumb.edu. SATURDAY 10|23 MAKE A DIFFERENCE | SALINAS ...
Special Edible
Three fresh and local harvest-farm events to make Saturday great.
'Tis the season to get outdoors and pluck some of the organic, earthy plunder that our soils and climates make possible—and learn something in the process. Earthbound Farm, Cole Family Farm and ALBA are all ...
