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Wilson on the World

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Dr. E.O. Wilson writes the foreword for

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Dr. E.O. Wilson is the preeminent sociobiologist in the world and a huge influence on Rebecca D. Costa and her book. He also writes its foreword, which is excerpted below: In ...

Our Doom Deferred

A Carmel visionary’s debut book maps out how we can save our society from collapse.

Rebecca D. Costa’s been busy. In the six years since she sold her celebrated advertising firm Dazai and moved from Silicon Valley to Monterey County, she’s built a soaring five-bedroom Carmel Highlands palace overlooking the ...

Issues / 2010 / Nov 11

Algae Pioneer Passes

"Izzie" Abbott, Hopkins' seaweed science trailblazer, dies at 91.

Monterey's famous Seaweed Lady has passed on. Dr. Isabella "Izzie" Abbott, a trailblazing algae taxonomist who left an indelible mark on Monterey Bay's marine science community, died on Oct. 28 at the age of 91. ...

Fast Pace for Peace

Monterey anti-war rally draws hundreds.

The Big Sur Half Marathon drew thousands of runners to Monterey's Window-on-the-Bay Park last weekend. But several hundred more people gathered in the park for a very different reason. From about 10am-noon on Saturday, Nov. ...

Light of Day

Scientists release report from hush-hush Asilomar geoengineering conference.

When the Asilomar Conference on Climate Engineering Technologies came to Pacific Grove last March, information coming out of the event was closely guarded under the "Chatham House Rule": Media were forbidden from filing news stories, ...

Ms. Chief

Seaside names a new police chief - and it's a she.

Seaside Police Department has a new chief. That's Madam Chief to you. Vicki L.H. Myers will begin leading the SSPD Dec. 13, according to city officials. She has more than 23 years' law enforcement experience, ...

Seaside Homicide

Former Seaside councilman's nephew killed in Yosemite Street shootout.

Bullets flew on the 1500 block of Seaside's Yosemite Street on the night of Wednesday, Nov. 10. When police arrived around 9:20pm, they found 26-year-old Dwayne Choates, Jr., suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, according to ...

Breaking the Banks

Regulators and grassroots groups put the squeeze on shady mortgage practices.

Did the big banks lose your mortgage? A nationwide labor-community coalition poses that question via wheresthenote.org, a new website that allows distressed borrowers to send form letters demanding that U.S. lenders produce proof of who ...

Common Cause Nets a Fishing Solution

New federal catch-share program aims to cut groundfish bycatch.

The floating bodies of rock cod stretch into the sea like a red pier—some 90,000 pounds of bycatch, by trawler John Pennisi’s estimate. The fisherman shakes his head as he looks at the photograph, part ...

Brezsny's Astrology

Free Will Astrology

Aries (March 21-April 19): Where I live, 35 percent of all high school students confess (or brag) that they have engaged in binge drinking, which is defined as imbibing five or more alcoholic drinks in ...

Unstoppable

Run Away From This Train: Unstoppable wastes its strong leads and exhilarating ending.

Once Unstoppable does the obvious and actually, you know, involves its main characters in its story, it’s a solid action thriller. The problem is it takes an hour for this to happen, and by then ...

Spirited Away

Charles Neville takes an atypical music duo to Big Sur Spirit Garden.

For 72 years – which have included bouts with heroin addiction, stints in prison and racism – music always has remained the one constant lifeline for Charles Neville. “It’s one of the main things that ...

The Buzz

The best of our web exclusives.

Seaside Stall…At latest count, mayoral challenger Felix Bachofner was still ahead of three-term incumbent Ralph Rubio, but Bachofner isn’t claiming victory until all the remaining ballots are counted. As of Nov. 5, Bachofner held a ...

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Public Citizen

THURSDAY 11|11 TRANSPORTATION AND SUSTAINABILITY | MONTEREY – MIIS’ Sustainability Speakers’ Series continues, featuring the USDA’s Jacqueline Gaskill on California’s alternative and renewable fuels and transportation tech. 6pm, MIIS, 460 Pierce St., Monterey. 647-4123, www.miis.edu ...

What is the most highly evolved thing about you?

Asked at Nifty 50’s Cafe in Seaside.

Follow-up: What animal quality do you think humans should evolve? ANGELA RIBUFFO | Financial Advisor | Seaside A: Reading people and figuring out their emotions. I read my husband the best. Blind Justice: Chameleon blending ...

Voodoo Mojo

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy swings into Carmel’s Sunset Center.

What does long-time swing jazz band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy have in common with Star Wars actor Mark Hamill and actors Gary Coleman and David Cross? All of these showmen starred in the same animated ...

Urban Excellence

SOMOS Media sharpens Salinas’ cultural edge with a parade of uncommon exhibitions.

Last week’s First Friday Art Walk in Oldtown Salinas fragmented into little universes of activity along South Main Street. The action meteored from local cartoonist Bridget Spicer’s colorful studio to Salinas Valley Art Association’s reliable ...

Black-Tie Ops

Sold-out Panetta Institute event honors news vets.

Tom Brokaw, Cokie Roberts and David Brooks reported from Pebble Beach last weekend. Their speeches, delivered in the ballroom of the Inn at Spanish Bay, were funny, reflective and topical. The Panetta Institute for Public ...

Side Job: Insane Speed

Monterey’s Tim Cuhna aims at world records when he’s not teaching.

Tsim Cuhna drives really really fast. But as incredible as the Monterey resident’s 200 mph-plus speeds can be, how he reaches them is even more impressive. For one, it’s not his job; he’s a full-time ...

Squid Fry for Nov 11, 2010

DEMENTED AND SAD, BUT SOCIAL… Squid belongs to a number of clubs. There’s the “Cephalopods for Peace” group. There’s the “Viva El Pulpo Paul” organization, honoring the late, great, prognosticating German octopus that correctly predicted ...

Fetal Positions

Officials stumped by preserved human fetus found in P.G. museum’s basement.

It’s been floating in fluid for much longer than the nine months usually afforded to unborn humans. But staff at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History can’t say much more about the age or ...

Art Listing for Nov 11, 2010

HAPPENING THIS WEEK ALTERNATIVE CAFÉ Beautiful Dreamers: Right on schedule, the Alt Cafe throws up their next show, displaying three artists who work in that underground culture idiom. What that means is that Paul Torres, ...

Letters to the Editor for Nov 11, 2010

TEA PARTY CALL FOR CALM The Tea Party is here. Lots of their folks have been voted into the House. So there are some religious nuts in the Tea Party, and we even have them ...