A Study in Resolve
Michelle Magdalena’s journey to tsunami-ravaged Japan led her to believe she is viewing a most patriotic time in the world’s history.
Pacific Grove-based photographer Michelle Magdalena Maddox stepped off a train in the Japanese coastal town of Ishinomaki, and took a giant leap of faith. She carried only an umbrella and her camera bag, loaded with ...
Issues / 2011 / Aug 04
Flying Home
The World Disc Golf Championships come to Monterey County, a hotbed for disc history.
The Monterey Bay Stinging Jellies Disc Golf Club caught a case of the Kevin Costners. If we build it, they reasoned, they will come. As with Field of Dreams, it worked, only with fewer ghosts ...
Brezsny's Astrology August 4-10, 2011
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Symbolically speaking, there is a Holy Grail hidden close to you, and you know it, but you haven’t been able to find it. The Grail is a golden chalice filled with ...
By The Numbers 08-04-11
Real Estate
$1,425,000 Recent Sale 24723 Dolores St., Carmel Built: 1972 Size: 2,000 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Ocean view, walnut floors, stone fireplace with bronze mantle, balcony Seller: The Coomer Family ...
Voodoo Love
How to heart New Orleans, a new P.G. eye catcher and quality Cuban.
The reason I fell so in love might’ve been the “bounce dancing,” when women – and, amazingly, some men – move like there’s a grease fire on their asses and Louisiana hot sauce in their ...
The Seedy Side
How the Ninth Ward is using gardens to sow unlikely hope in New Orleans.
In the syrupy charm of New Orleans’ garden district or the debauchery of the French Quarter, you might think the city has recovered from the trauma of Katrina. Streetcars are running, music is playing, and ...
Letters To The Editor 08.04.11
Saving the Raccoons Thank you for including the SPCA’s voice in last week’s article (“Cute or Evil: A quest for raccoon truth,” July 28-Aug. 3). Unfortunately, the article left many of your readers believing SPCA’s ...
Space Case
Local author Dan Linehan’s new book explores the galaxy of private space travel.
In the near future, people other than astronauts will travel regularly into space. Not long after that, some will live on settlements among the stars. And it looks like these developments won’t come from NASA ...
Opinion: One man’s take on his culture’s stereotypes
¡Ask a Mexican! 08.04.11
Dear Mexican: A few years back when I was in high school, my social studies teacher and the leader of our high school M.E.Ch.A. club had deep resentment toward the Spaniards/conquistadors that killed hundreds – ...
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Highly Evolved: Rise of the Planet of the Apes stuns with its effects, its empathy and its ethics.
You will believe apes will rise. What you may not believe is how much this unexpectedly lovely movie is more about tender emotion between ape and human, and between ape and ape, than it is ...
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
Hip-Hop History: Beats Rhymes & Life tracks the rise of Tribe Called Quest.
Actor turned first-time documentarian Michael Rapaport mostly keeps himself off camera in this admiring portrait of the seminal ’90s hip-hop outfit A Tribe Called Quest. But his voice – an upper-register whine that pitches even ...
Electronic Boom
Down the Rabbit Hole festival packs in electronic music lovers for a camp-out concert at Monterey Fairgrounds.
Electronic dance music and Ohlone ritual seem to make a strange pairing. For Anarchy Productions, the team behind the one-of-a-kind Rabbit Hole music and art festival this weekend, they go together like a caterpillar and ...
Rockin’ Rollers
The Dough Rollers play Alt Cafe in Seaside.
Jack Byrne, son of Gabriel Byrne and Ellen Barkin, and Malcolm Ford, Harrison’s son, met in a New York City club. Their chemistry was a product of hate and love. “We hated everybody there so ...
Rock Star Son
A father reflects on the worldwide success of his kid’s band, MGMT, which makes its Big Sur debut Wednesday.
Electro-pop psych-rockers MGMT gained mainstream attention and acclaim in the blink of an eye. Shortly after Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden signed with Columbia Records in 2006, the duo began to appear on top ten ...
Hazarding Guesses
Relicensing for Diablo Canyon nuclear plant is on hold, but seismic studies draw critics.
Months after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeast Japan, the full impact of a wrecked cooling system at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant likely won’t be known for years to come. Meanwhile in ...
Disaster Floats
Tsunami debris is slowly making its way from Japan to California.
Monterey Bay beachcombers, mark your calendars for next summer. That’s when the first of the debris from Japan’s March 11 earthquake and tsunami might begin washing up on our shores. Or not. Experts have different ...
Marina Coast’s Missing Money
Former Fort Ord Developers owe the district big bucks. So why aren’t they paying up?
Buried deep in the files of the Marina Coast Water District is a curious and unresolved story involving project developers on the former Fort Ord who defaulted on payments to the district to the tune ...
Going Places
From Hollywood to Egypt, the most-decorated Steinbeck Festival yet traverses diverse and verdant territory.
Take a big overriding theme, shoot it through the prism of John Steinbeck’s life and works, and refract it over several days in many different directions. That’s how the Steinbeck Festival goes down. It does ...
Time for Real Liberals to stand up and kick Team Dem to the curb.
The U.S. might as well have defaulted. Regardless of where you stand politically, the deal to raise the federal debt limit came too late for the U.S. to achieve its main objective, avoiding the downgrading ...
Get Involved
Public Citizen 08.04.11
ONGOING CARS FOR TECHNOLOGY | MONTEREY – The auto tech program at Monterey Peninsula College is seeking four-cylinder Japanese or hybrid engines for study. To donate, 655-5507 or MPCFoundationInfo@mpc.edu. MUSEUM VOLUNTEERS | MONTEREY – The ...
Give the Desal Hydra an inch. Just see what happens.
Starting in the 1990s, Laura Joffee Numeroff and Felicia Bond produced a series of adorable children’s books based on the premise that if you give a creature one treat, it will not only develop a ...
Squid Fry 08.04.11
Squid Fry 08.04.11
DO UNTO OTHERS… Squid’s been known to pick a fight every now and then, but Squid’s squabbling shenanigans don’t hold a candle to the antics of the board at Marina Coast Water District. After board ...
Street Talk 08.04.11 (asked @ Peter B’s in Monterey.
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What would you do without power for weeks?
Follow-up: How do you feel about nuclear energy? KIRBY DUNAWAY |Boat Wright | Monterey A: Well that’s kind of a f***ed up question because I live on a boat and I don’t have power so ...
Independent bookstore to fill Borders void, build community in Salinas.
The city of Salinas will finally get a bookstore, when a new branch of Morgan Hill-based BookSmart moves into the National Steinbeck Center. Colleen Finegan Bailey, the center’s executive director, says selecting the independent bookstore ...
