Crash Burn
Picking up the legal pieces after the accident hasn’t been pretty.
No one can restore what has been lost, but the legal battle over the tragic accident involving Rachael Short last Halloween continues. A calendar hearing for the attorneys handling the case is scheduled for March ...
Vision Quest
Rachael Short’s crushing accident reminds us that the star photographer sees things in her own unique way.
Rachael Short decided to ditch school about 12 years ago. It wasn’t to smoke a joint or mess around with a boyfriend. It was to chase clouds. Short would have struggled to pay attention that ...
Issues / 2011 / Mar 24
Killer Ladies
Relentlessly creative combo Trusting Lucy visits London Bridge Pub.
Initially, it was hard for Trusting Lucy’s Linda Arceo and Lisa Long to imagine joining forces to play music together. They came from two different musical worlds, after all: Arcero is a self-taught guitarist who ...
Obama’s security troika runs headfirst into another conflict.
So Obama’s women wanted war against Libya. We’d like to think that women in power would somehow be less pro-war, but in the Obama administration it appears that the bellicosity is worst among Hillary Clinton, ...
Haley Storm
A Big Sur photographer releases an acclaimed new book full of gripping decay.
If Bruce Haley’s been there, chances are you haven’t. In his 23 years as a professional photographer, the Big Sur resident has sought out the hinterlands of the globe, traversing such regions as the rebel-held ...
Brezsny's Astrology March 24-30 , 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Were you under the impression that the sky is completely mapped? It’s not. Advances in technology are unveiling a nonstop flow of new mysteries. In a recent lecture, astronomer Joshua Bloom ...
By The Numbers 03.24.11
By The Numbers 03.24.11
$6,500,000 Recent Sale 3105 17 Mile Dr., Pebble Beach Built: 2006 Size: 4,940 square feet Features: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathroom, 3-car garage Amenities: Ocean views throughout, three fireplaces, sauna, elevator, courtyard, limestone floors Seller: Murray ...
The Public Voice
Planet Organic U.C. Berkeley’s molecular biologist Kathleen Collins said she’d move if she lived near a field where methyl iodide was applied (“The controversial fumigant methyl iodide may soon be applied to local fields,” March ...
Sucker Punch
Cheat Shot: Sucker Punch swings and misses on plot, but the visuals kick ass.
“You control this world,” psychiatrist Dr. Gorski (Carla Cugino) tells the women in a mental institution in Sucker Punch, and within those four words lies the film’s greatest virtues and biggest flaws. The virtues are ...
Paul
Alien Approach: Paul is refreshingly nerdy, otherworldly, sweet, fantasy fun.
What if you and your most superbly geeky bestest friend met an alien? I mean an honest-to-Carl Sagan extry terrestrial. What if? You would plotz. You would. Like Nick Frost’s Clive does here, you would ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 03.24.11
Dear Mexican: I often pick up the Albuquerque Alibi to read your babosadas. Now, let me get this straight: You appear to be a bright guy who claims to have the Mexican people all figured ...
Amazing Race
A different sort of education documentary schools Carmel, then Monterey.
Documentary films on America’s flawed education system aren’t rare, but the recent momentum behind Bay-Area produced Race to Nowhere certainly is. Despite the fact that marketing for the film is purely online and word-of-mouth, the ...
Julia's
Vexing Veggie: Julia’s in Pacific Grove gives vegetarians and vegans hope, or at least a little.
Though vegetarianism has been embraced by an ever-increasing number of our populace, one thing remains sadly the same: Herbivores face a dining-out dilemma. Sure, the rabbits among us can focus on a few things at ...
Educating the Spectrum
Students, schools reaping the benefits of new autism education model.
About six years ago, Katie (not her real name), who is autistic, couldn’t read “Don’t Walk.” Her mom worried she’d never develop basic comprehension to keep her safe while crossing the street. “She was using ...
Log Jammed
Planning Commish blocks MST expansion plan in defense of the trees.
It’s cliché to name subdivisions after the habitats they pave over. But in the case of Whispering Oaks, a proposed 58-acre business park on the former Fort Ord, the name’s irony didn’t go unnoticed. On ...
Coastal Meltdown
Blakeslee goes nuclear on PG&E, says Diablo Canyon plant puts people at risk.
Two weeks after an earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastern Japan and emergency workers struggled to keep the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from melting down, California lawmakers convened the state’s own nuclear plant operators to ...
Naughty By Nature
The Phenomenauts use talent and subterfuge to get top gigs.
The best way to understand the crazy, talented and esoteric Phenomenauts is to revisit the 2003 Warped Tour. The quintet wasn’t part of the tour, but that didn’t stop them from showing up unsolicited and ...
Cat’s Game
Eldridge “Big Cat” Tolefree and the Hipnotics light up Sly’s.
Eldridge “Big Cat” Tolefree and the Hipnotics have a case of the blues that’s on scale with their stage presence. Tolefree cites his East Bay hometown Russell City, which is “just across the tracks” from ...
Public Citizen 03.24.11
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FRIDAY 3 | 27 FIGHTING CANCER | MONTEREY – Cancer survivors will model in a fashion show at the American Cancer Society’s annual Celebration of Life, in honor of the D’Arrigo family’s $1 million contribution ...
Street Talk 03.24.11 (Asked @ Kula Ranch Island Steakhouse)
What would be the hardest part of being paralyzed?
Follow-up: Where is your favorite place to take photos? RALPH JIMENEZ | Plumber | Prunedale A: I would miss the closeness and intimacy of making love to my wife. Cliff Note: Lovers Point is always ...
Squid Speaks
COCK BLOCK… Squid normally sleeps the sleep of the just. Yet Squid often finds a good snooze elusive when visiting cephalopod relatives in North County. That’s because the NoCo has a rooster problem, and a ...
Yay for Beer
New hope for a craft-beer outlet, surprising chef migrations and roses.
As the Brewers Association reports an 11 percent growth for U.S. craft brewers in 2010 and a brewery count that climbed to its highest level since 1900 – and there’s a new iPhone case (called ...
Cal Am wants to go back on desal ratepayer agreement.
At a time when Cal Am ratepayers deserve clarity, they’re getting a glassful of silt, and it seems they’re being asked to gulp it down all at once. Last week the Weekly reported Wedbush Securities, ...
Highway 1 through Big Sur slide area now closed to all – foot power included.
The California Department of Transportation closed a severely damaged section of Highway 1 near Rocky Point to pedestrians and cyclists Monday, despite Big Sur residents’ requests to allow for grocery and pharmaceutical relays. Big Sur ...
Science Returns to EPA
Years after approving the strawberry fumigant methyl iodide, EPA may reconsider.
Methyl iodide will face renewed scrutiny from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The agency is asking for public comment on a nearly year-old petition filed by farmworker and environmental advocacy groups that calls on the ...
