Arty Party
Dozens of diverse artisans and local resident artists keep West End’s creative heartbeat thumping.
Artists have worked in Sand City for decades, but at the beginning, many were living illegally in empty warehouses. When Sand City changed the West End zoning from heavy industrial to mixed-use, artists came crawling ...
Leading the Flock
The work of street artist and accidental celebrity Shepard Fairey highlights West End Celebration.
Less than two weeks ago, much of the bottom floor of The Independent (formerly The Design Center) was a dusty space dominated by cement and emptiness. Today it’s a Valhalla of intricate portraits crafted by ...
Sand City looks to the future with a new perspective on its annual community festival.
Earlier this month, vibrant green paint covered a formerly homely patch of wall in central Sand City thanks to a team of artists who conjured a West End mural in the space of a half ...
The Regional Desal Project for Dummies
If you don’t follow the Peninsula’s wonky water saga, think of it as our own ridiculous reality show.
The devoted fans who followed Arrested Development through its three twisting seasons know why it won six Emmy Awards. But drop-in viewers had a hard time decoding its tangled subplots and nuanced dialogue – a ...
Moon Music
Jam band vets Moonalice lead a big-name, two-day lineup of free music.
Last year’s West End Celebration featured internationally renowned Mexi-Cali outfit Los Lobos. This year, the names – which include Southern rockers Truth & Salvage Co. (Saturday at 2:30pm), folkster Jackie Greene (Saturday at 4pm) and ...
Issues / 2011 / Aug 25
Crazy for Life
For Pebble Beach’s Primo Waldsmith, scribbling his strange stories of pro boxing, murder and Moscow is mandatory.
What would your life look like if you put it on paper? How would you tell the stories that haunt, tickle and heal you? If you’re Robert “Primo” Waldsmith, you pour the contents of your ...
Brezsny's Astrology August 25-31, 2011
Brezsny's Astrology August 25-31, 2011
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I predict that in the coming weeks, you will be able to extract an unexpected perk or benefit from one of your less glamorous responsibilities. I also predict that you will ...
Buckle Up, Baby
Chewing through Car Week and a salumeria to swear by.
There was a Dos Equis ex-racer deathtrap that dubbed itself The Most Interesting Car in the World and a truck wrapped entirely in tin foil called The Baked Potato. At Quail Motorsports Gathering, Chef Julio ...
Mundos Café
A pair of brothers seduces the Peninsula one sandwich at a time.
The guy that recently won the Food Network’s “Next Food Network Star” competition came up with a universally relatable concept for a new show: “The Sandwich King.” The theme behind the show Jeff Mauro will ...
Short Film Complex
Big Sur Short Film Series building to a climactic gala finish.
When it comes to Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series, even the popcorn is special. The organic kernels are popped fresh on a stove top with help from a combination of canola and extra ...
Veteran combat doc turned author finds death isn’t the only measure of risk on the battlefield.
The human costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are high – and hidden, due to advances in combat medicine, and this masks the ferocity of these conflicts. In Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds: A ...
Letters To The Editor 08.24.11
Open for Questioning I wish to thank you for your ongoing coverage of the Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority’s (SVSWA) evaluation of our innovative, non-incineration plasma gasification technology as an alternative to landfilling (“Proposed trash-zapping ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 08.24.11
Dear Mexican: Lately, we have been trying to lighten the mood around the office with delicate bits of international confections. Just the other day at my birthday celebration, I quite insisted on a lilac-toned bomb ...
One Day
Time Warped: One Day struggles to fully capitalize on a clever concept – or does it?
Following the same template as the ingratiating source novel by David Nicholls (who also wrote the screenplay), One Day charts 20 years of a relationship’s ups and downs in one-day blips. Touching down on the ...
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
Shadow Games: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark wins with spooky gloom and solid acting.
The haunted house thriller can sometimes feel like a lost art, especially with advances in visual effects making it easy to conjure spirits out of nowhere. But like Insidious earlier this year, Don’t Be Afraid ...
Stunner Summer
The iconic Henry Miller Library inches closer to the end of a historic season with The Dodos.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, MGMT and John Waters represent a sliver of the goodness that took pay cuts to perform at the revered Henry Miller Library in just the last few months. With the ...
Westie’s Besties
Top regional bands complement national names for a West End Celebration that will be the best free music festival all year.
Local fave musical flavors like the cello-fueled ADHD punk rock of Tornado Rider (performing Saturday at 1pm) and the expert, timeless blues of Mike Beck & the Bohemian Saints (Sunday at 1pm) have made their ...
Fast Learners
CSUMB focuses on cross-school collaboration to boost student success.
It takes an energetic presence to keep a classroom crammed with 90 remedial math students engaged. Fortunately Hongde Hu, chair of CSU-Monterey Bay’s Department of Math and Statistics, has the energy of 10 teenagers. On ...
Happy Trailers
Marina council mulls rent control for mobile home parks; property managers resist.
A multi-year saga pitting Marina mobile home residents against their property managers may finally be approaching resolution, as the City Council prepares for a September vote to finalize an ordinance keeping rents flat at all ...
Good Walls Make Good Neighbors
Vinyl barrier brokers truce between enviros, homeowners on the Carmel Lagoon.
Walls have been notoriously divisive in Germany and Israel, but a vinyl flood wall in the Carmel Lagoon might finally forge peace between the area’s feuding homeowners and steelhead advocates. At least that’s the hope ...
Street Talk 08-25-11 asked in front of Book Haven in Monterey.
What is the story of your life?
Follow-up: What are you crazy about? JIM HENNING | Canvasser | Santa Cruz A: I took a roundabout way of discovering music in order to go to composition school. I look up to people like ...
Squid Speaks.
WATER RUNS CLEAR… And in the spirit of that liquid transparency, ever-earnest activist Margie Kay of Castroville wants an itemized list of exactly what the Monterey County Water Resources Agency paid consultants RMC a half ...
Salinas housing prices are about to plummet again.
If you noticed the word Salinas popping up in the national news about a week and a half ago, you undoubtedly noticed it was more bad news for the nation’s lettuce capital. An outfit called ...
By The Numbers 08-25-11
Real Estate
$1,517,000 Recent Sale 24702 Upper Trail Rd., Carmel Built: 1949 Size: 2,674 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, 1-car garage Amenities: Fireplace, deck, barbecue area, breakfast bar, tub with jets, 2 dishwashers and ovens ...
Monster Group
Scary Larry and friends lay down some big Louisiana blues at Sly’s.
To see Scary Larry and the Monsters perform is to wonder what exactly is so damn scary. It can’t be his fluid picking on electric guitar, which comes as he leans way back and closes ...
Community forum on Regional Project leaves most questions unanswered.
The message was tightly controlled at an Aug. 23 community involvement forum on the Regional Desalination Project. The event at Monterey Plaza Hotel was sponsored by project partners California American Water, Marina Coast Water District ...
Keeping the Faith
Leon Panetta talks to NPS and DLI about budget cuts, terrorism and cyberwar.
Leon Panetta struck a personal note during his first hometown visit as Secretary of Defense. In an Aug. 23 talk at the Naval Postgraduate School, Panetta recalled memories of washing dishing in his father’s Monterey ...
Get Involved
Public Citizen 08.25.11
THURSDAY 8 | 25 TURTLE CONSERVATION | WATSONVILLE – The Elkhorn Slough Coastal Training Program presents a workshop for regulators and biological consultants on western pond turtles, with training on the biology and conservation. 9am-5pm. ...
