On Course
Some of the story lines to track heading into 2011’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Like many visitors before him, two-time defending AT&T Pro-Am champ Dustin Johnson has taken a liking to the Peninsula. Two consecutive AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am titles can do that to an individual. One reason he’s ...
A Tale of Two Celebrations
A look at what pushes soccer legend Brandi Chastain to keep playing.
Before San Jose’s Brandi Chastain made the most famous goal in women’s soccer history, she was unceremoniously cut from the team. Before she made the team the first time, she tore two of the last ...
The unprecedented, almighty, unauthorized Quiz
A Round of 18
At the very first hole of his 2010 AT&T – before the gallery had finished its first little lattes, the often imitated, never duplicated Bill Murray decided to interrupt his playing partners for the first ...
Issues / 2011 / Feb 10
Squid Speaks
SWIMMING WITH SHARKS… Squid was backstroking through the pristine waters of Carmel City Beach just days after an explosive Feb. 1 Carmel City Council meeting where, once again, the council tried and failed to discuss ...
The Public Voice
SEX AND THE CITY During Sue McCloud’s last run for re-election, she told voters that neither she nor Carmel’s other two female council members would tolerate any sexual harassment in Carmel City Hall. Mayor McCloud ...
Special envoy speaks at MIIS, lessons may fit the county.
James Dobbins has been sent by U.S. presidents to some of the most dangerous places in the world. Under Bill Clinton, Dobbins was special envoy for Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo. Under George Bush, and ...
The tiny house movement still comes with a sizeable pricetag.
In the same way that America’s fast food purveyors pack their menus with cheap, empty calories, America’s home builders pack their houses with cheap, empty space. On a cost per square foot basis, the typical ...
Consumer marketing makes little girls older much faster.
In November, the U.S. Senate, by a vote of 58 to 41, rejected the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill that would have remedied pay disparities between men and women. What better time to examine the ...
Old Men and No Sea
A group of weathered fishermen now share coffee and stories instead of the ocean.
The Sicilian fishermen of Monterey used to spend their morning hours scouring the bay in boats in search of the day’s catch. But now a core group of the men sit at a large wooden ...
Brezsny's Astrology Feb 10-16, 2011
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): “Before I loved you, nothing was my own,” wrote Pablo Neruda to his lover in one of his sonnets. “It all belonged to someone else – to no one.” Have you ...
By The Numbers 02-10-11
Real Estate
$625,000 Recent Sale 1231 Surf Ave., Pacific Grove Built: 1950 Size: 1,204 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1-car garage Amenities: Near ocean, fenced-in backyard, patio area, half bath in garage Seller: Aurora Loan ...
Artistic Liftoff
Trash to Treasures gives Monterey Peninsula Airport two significant shows.
The art gallery at the Monterey Peninsula Airport is an out-in-the-open secret. It sits above the bustle of the ground floor of the small terminal, waiting for people to find it. Eventually they do, says ...
Carmel Flares Over Meaning of ‘Final’
Embattled council debates semantics as city administrator remains on the job.
Sparks flew in Carmel at its Feb. 1 council meeting as a debate over the city’s compliance with California’s open meetings law continues to rage. On the morning of the meeting, City Councilman Jason Burnett ...
Parks and Wreck
California will close state parks to save $11 million.
State parks will close, says Resources Agency Secretary John Laird, as part of a painful process to fill California’s $25 billion budget gap. This may include any number of Monterey County’s 17 state parks and ...
MMHA hit by wave of disputes over new mural, another resignation pending.
The financially troubled Monterey History and Maritime Museum hit more rocky waters this week, with controversies brewing over the board’s unilateral decision to hire Los Angeles artist Andre Miripolsky to create a “historama’’ depicting local ...
Liquid Gold
Monterey County spends millions on regional desalination project.
Water on the Central Coast ain’t cheap. Cal Am ratepayers are already in the hole for millions of dollars for the regional desalination project – and it has yet to be approved or even produce ...
Public Citizen 02-10-11
Get Involved
THURSDAY 2|10 CLEANER WATERS | MARINA –Monterey Coastkeeper Executive Director Steve Shimek presents data on agricultural runoff and the Salinas River, source and responsibility, and a lawsuit to designate accountability. Hosted by the Green Party ...
Orient Express
Seoul Survivor: Post fire, Orient Express reasserts its Korean credibility with bubbling clay pots and blockbuster banchan.
Orient Express has stuck around Seaside since the Fort Ord days, when it was a gathering spot for GIs, Korean spouses, their kids and extended family. Current owners Jong Yool Yun and Ran Yun have ...
Holy Moses
A baffling beer breakthrough, Wolfman barbecue and Chinese movement.
In my experience, seeing someone’s mind get blown has always been pretty cool – you know, watching a niece going on her first roller coaster, or a friend taking a virgin voyage to Cachagua General ...
Tiny Furniture
Writer, director and actress Lena Dunham emerges as a filmmaker-to-watch with her award-winning Tiny Furniture.
Made for an estimated $45,000 and shot mostly at her family’s Tribeca loft, Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture is a small film making big waves in the entertainment industry. Will Ferrell has praised the movie as ...
Feeling the Love
John Tesh and his big band swing into the Sunset Center.
Twenty years ago John Tesh rented the now departed Spadaro’s on Cannery Row for a dinner with his girlfriend. He had a string quartet deliver a song he composed specifically for his sweetie, and arranged ...
One Off
Blank Tapes one-man juggernaut Matt Adams adds a full band for acoustic/electric series.
A two-month solo tour across the country can do songwriting wonders. Or at least that’s what The Blank Tapes’ Matt Adams discovered as he composed his fifth and most recent album, Home Away from Home, ...
Street Talk 02-10-11 (asked @ Marina Donuts and Bagels.)
What are you fishing for in your life right now?
Follow-up: If your job industry dried up what would you do? SCOTT MAYFIELD | Sales Manager | Salinas A: Balance. I’ve had jobs where I’ve done hundreds of things. I want to spend more time ...
Gnomeo & Juliet
Gnome Run: Gnomeo & Juliet takes Shakespeare to kids (and only needs to be seen once).
Could this be it? Has Disney found a way to make Shakespeare appealing to kids? Gnomeo & Juliet may not be the most faithful retelling of Romeo & Juliet, but it is cute, clever and ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 02.10.11
Dear Mexican: I’ve been watching you speak about your column; you keep reiterating that this is supposed to be a joke. I have a question for you: It would be okay for a Caucasian to ...
A Fracking Ordeal
Community group seeks answers to regulatory loopholes.
Officials are scrambling to learn about a practice widely used by the oil industry, hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” even as a letter sent to the EPA by ranking U.S. House committee members found some fracking ...
Tuning Up
Fallen Riviera helps usher in new era at Jose’s.
When restaurant owner Ozzy Maldonado needed a new promoter for his popular basement-turned-rock-venue, Amy Gallego showed immediate interest. The job was hers within two days. Gallego works full time at Inigo, a Carmel clothing store ...
