Radical Movement
A revolutionary exercise approach called Pouchet Training thinks big in Monterey.
One moment Troy Smith is strapped into a device best described as an adult-sized Johnny Jump-Up bolted to the ceiling of the former Monterey Mattress space, bounding in clockwise circles like a cricket on a ...
Specialists rush to develop ways to know our genes while patients wrestle with whether they want to know.
The disease would have been terrible enough for an adult, but in 3-year-old Nicholas Volker, it was almost fatal. The Wisconsin toddler had undergone more than 100 surgeries in an attempt to cure a progressive, ...
Informed Health, Electronic-Style
Electronic medical records are creating smarter patients, better relationships with docs.
No one adores repetitive and seemingly endless medical forms. But while most humans grumble and grab a pen, Carmel native Christine Kerner – after filling out what she estimates is hundreds of forms during a ...
Issues / 2011 / Jan 27
Put a Cork in It
The giving doesn’t stop with the incredible amount of cash the community raised.
T here’s a local who lives in Seaside who doesn’t have a lot of money. Thanks to an involved work schedule, he is also short on free time. But he’s rich with at least one ...
Pier Pressure
The food, if not the ’tude, inspires a visit to hidden Bay View Deli & BBQ.
Most people that arrive at the Coast Guard Pier in Monterey are either fishing, diving or lost. On a typical day, the vast, vacant parking lot feels more like the deck of an aircraft carrier ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 01.27.11
Dear Mexican: A few years ago, I moved to Tucson and noticed that there were little piles of stuff accumulated on the medians of the main roads. It looks like what was Dia de los ...
Squid Fry 01-27-11
Squid Speaks
SAD NEWS… Her friends recall her as “witty, wise and original,” and they shared the news that on Jan. 23, writer, peace activist and vintage KAZU “Wildebeest Woman” host Kedron Bryson died following a short ...
The Public Voice
FLASH AND BANG The newspapers that endorsed Scott Miller for sheriff did not throw the bomb that killed Rogelio Serrato (“Investigators try to determine what went wrong in death of misidentified man,” Jan. 13-19) but ...
Futurist imagines health care the way it was meant to be.
Ian Morrison speaks in a light Scottish brogue so charming that he can say just about anything and get away with it. And on Jan. 24, boy did he ever. An internationally known author, consultant ...
A Contemptuous Country
In the last 20 years there have been at least 14 mass shootings in the United States in which 134 people have been killed, an average of nearly 10 people for each shooting. In the ...
Downtown Blues
Business revitalization plans persist through the recession and a recent shooting.
Downtown Monterey merchants are accustomed to a post-holiday lull, routinely finding January to be a “doldrums area,” says Rick Johnson, Executive Director of Old Monterey Business Association. But this January is worse than usual for ...
Museum Chief Departs
City still waiting for detailed financial reports.
Embattled Monterey History and Art Museum Executive Director Pam Crowe-Weisberg stepped down last week, says Tom Hood, a local architect and newly elected chair of the Monterey History and Art Association board of directors, which ...
Slashing Ag Protection
Proposed cuts may eliminate longstanding farmland conservation incentive.
Included in the sweeping $12.5 billion proposed state budget cuts for the state is a $10 million appropriation for the California Land Conservation Act, known as the Williamson Act. Already reduced last year from $37.6 ...
Judge OK’s moratorium on new water connections on the Peninsula.
If you haven’t yet gotten a permit to add that extra bathroom to your Monterey Peninsula home – or open that new bakery in Seaside – don’t count on getting one soon. An administrative law ...
Public Citizen 01-27-11
Get Involved
FRIDAY 1/28 NUCLEAR SECURITY | MONTEREY—Dr. Igor Khripunov, Senior Research Associate at the Center for International Trade and Security in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Georgia, lectures on concept, implementation, and ...
Bay View Deli & BBQ
The food, if not the ’tude, inspires a visit to hidden Bay View Deli & BBQ.
Most people that arrive at the Coast Guard Pier in Monterey are either fishing, diving or lost. On a typical day, the vast, vacant parking lot feels more like the deck of an aircraft carrier ...
For ’Relle
Big Sur’s shroom fest boosts a family member, plus peanut-butter naan.
Rachael Short was recently asked what she looked forward to most about getting some of her range of motion back after a gruesome Halloween accident off Highway 1 rocked the Big Sur community and stole ...
Chief Curator Marcelle Polednik leaves a reinvigorated MMA as big new exhibits arrive.
The Monterey Museum of Art’s coming exhibition, The Art of California, 1880 to the Present, is an attempt to highlight part of the museum’s 14,000 piece permanent collection – in this case, early California paintings, ...
Little Bite of the Big Apple
Local playwright Allston James debuts a short play in NYC’s Times Square.
Local Monterey playwright Allston James’ drama Duet in Platinum opened Friday, Jan. 21, at the Shell Theater/Times Square Arts Center in New York City, where it is enjoying a two-week run in a short plays ...
The Mechanic
Bloody Mess: The Mechanic assassinates itself in style.
The auteur who gave us Con Air, The General’s Daughter and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is back, extending his cinema terrible of violent, unthinking nihilism and brutal, pointless action. Oh, and misogyny for fun. Hoorah! ...
The Rite
To Be Damned: The Rite should be exorcised from theaters (but not Anthony Hopkins).
The makers of The Rite have no right to ask people to pay money to see it. What a silly, derivative, easy movie this is, saved only marginally by Anthony Hopkins’ stellar-as-usual performance. Part of ...
Real Estate 01-27-11
By The Numbers
$721,000 Recent Sale 740 Dickman Ave., Monterey Built: 1956 Size: 1,987 square feet Features: 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Two fireplaces, ocean view, hardwood floors, vaulted ceilings Seller: Robert and Shirley Jensen Buyer: ...
Brezsny's Astrology Jan 27- Feb 2, 2011
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): What rewards do you deserve for all the good living and the hard work you’ve done since your last birthday? And what amends should you make for the mediocre living and ...
Big Bird
Birdhand swoops into CSUMB’s Black Box Cabaret.
The Black Box Cabaret is to Mason Rothschild what the Upstage Club in Asbury Park is to Bruce Springsteen: A humble venue that a musician can look back on as the place they took their ...
Making Mark
Twilight lures listeners to Carmel Valley with high-cred folk.
It seems there are more singer-songwriters running around California than there are pigeons in San Francisco. But few enjoy a resume and a range of abilities like Mark Lemaire, who got his start in S.F. ...
Cash Crunch
Green Vehicles waiting on promised grant as times get tighter.
Mike Ryan, co-founder of Salinas’s own fledgling electric carmaker, Green Vehicles, sounds a little frustrated. For more than a year, the start-up that moved into Salinas’s old Firestone plant, has waited for state funding to ...
More Moreno
Rita Moreno directs her iconic energy at Sunset Center in Carmel.
The year was 1977 and the multi-talented Rita Moreno had a guest spot on The Muppet Show. She sang the sultry and jazzy “Fever,” backed on the drums by Animal. After the fluffy red puppet ...
Good Thinking
Alisal Center for the Fine Arts earns first-ever Ingenuity Award for its “big idea.”
Major challenges to overcome? Check – gang violence and poverty certainly qualify in that category. An exciting and innovative approach to addressing these challenges? Yep, that’s a check. Last year alone the Alisal Center for ...
Green Gold
New (and booming) Eco Carmel proves sustainable can be profitable.
Kristi Reimers wasn’t like most 13-year-old girls. In her free time she would stand in front of Longs Drugstore – when most of her peers were poring over US Weekly and BOP Magazine – handing ...
A Gift for Giving
A glance back at the empowering and inspiring 2010 campaign.
Rescued dogs that would otherwise be put to sleep will get a second chance at life. Hungry families will receive fresh Salinas Valley produce and seniors will receive free legal services. Thousands of kids and ...
Street Talk 01-27-11 (asked @ Wal Mart in Marina.)
Street Talk 01-27-11 (asked @ Wal Mart in Marina.)
Follow-up: How do you manage your carbon footprint? BENJAMIN BRANDT | Laborer | Corral de Tierra A: Probably a financial company that would strictly help out those who need a break. I’m talking money loans ...
