The Price of Aging
Budget cuts slash senior services just when aging baby boomers need them.
For Jo Anne Curtis, 61, of Salinas, the Alliance on Aging’s group peer counseling is what’s keeping her aging parents alive and independent. Her 88-year-old father is blind, hard of hearing and suffering from arthritis ...
Issues / 2011 / Sept 01
Type Cast
Salinas’ Jerry Wallace taps out a fascinating—although endangered—existence as a typewriter repairman.
O nce a high-speed business tool, the typewriter has become a decorative bookend, a quaint relic. Some crafty folks see the machines as nothing more than art project fodder, shopping for cheap typewriters just to ...
Recipes For Life
A surprising Cindy Walter session, tomato talk and a bunch of bites.
A beautiful thing blossomed on the industrial streets of Sand City last weekend with the 10th annual West End Celebration. This page lacks the acreage to acknowledge all the collaborators who made the swirl of ...
Tomato Secrets
’Tis the season for a local farmer to reflect on one of her favorite things, its top types and a righteous recipe.
The best part of the summertime Caprese salad was once considered deadly. In an age gone by, the most vegetable-y fruit was actually seen as an aphrodisiac. And, at one time, they worked as a ...
Front Burner
Burning Man strives for relevance beyond the desert playa.
When Burning Man sold out July 25 (a record 51,454 tickets at up to $360), a friend posted on Facebook: “You could pay $800 for a BM ticket, or come over, I’ll throw glitter at ...
Wrong Battle
The Debt owes its audience a little more cohesion to match the entertainment factor.
In director John Madden’s remake of a 2007 Israeli film by the same title, what starts out as a gripping Cold War-era espionage thriller devolves into utter fantasy. Told mainly in flashback sequences, the story ...
Bloody Aliens
England’s Attack the Block moves the extraterrestrial attack flick to a fresh and clever new ’hood: the projects.
Smart, quick, funny, and economical, Attack the Block is an alien-invasion movie that is a breed apart. Set largely within a London housing project, the film turns on the idea that its young hoodlum protagonists ...
Big Fair Flair
Blue Öyster Cult, WAR bring trove of longtime fan favorites to the Monterey County Fair for a couple of free shows.
The chances are high that everyone knows at least one tune by each of the two classic rock outfits playing free-with-darn-affordable admission shows at this year’s Monterey County Fair. Blue Öyster Cult (Thursday 8pm) was ...
Billboard Battle
Woman leading Greenfield recall alleges the city is blocking justice for her murdered son.
A cross the street from Greenfield’s new city hall on El Camino Real towers a billboard offering $50,000 for information on the 2004 murder of Ricky Torres. The reward money is from a state grant; ...
A Labor Day tribute to the area’s relentless bands and the grooves they demand.
The sexy festivals come once a year. The hotshot headliners—of late, the Trace Adkins, the Moonalices and Blue Öyster Cults of the world—perform and then never return. All the while, week after week, Monterey County’s ...
Eroded Faith
Scramble to repair Salinas Valley’s rubber dam raises serious structural concerns.
A fter only its second summer in operation, the Salinas River’s rubber dam needs emergency repairs due to erosion of the river bottom. The $14 million project promised to solve the seawater intrusion problem threatening ...
Letters To The Editor 09.01.11
Geographic Logic Your redux of real estate pricing was only mostly correct (“Salinas housing prices are about to plummet,” Aug. 25-31). “Salinas” in federal government number crunching means the whole of the Salinas metropolitan area; ...
Staying Afloat
Museum of Monterey hires director; money woes persist
I t’s tempting to call new Museum of Monterey Director Lisa Coscino “captain”: She’s just taken the wheel of the former History and Maritime Museum anchoring Monterey’s Custom House Plaza. “We use ship metaphors all ...
Lessons, and a lawsuit, in Salinas’ great green hunt.
Dennis Donohue, Jim Pia, Jeff Weir and Vanessa Vallarta seem unlikely hunting partners, but this week, they threw on their cammies, grabbed their metaphorical rifles and announced they were going on a Moose hunt. Almost ...
Squid Fry 09-01-11
Squid Fry 09-01-11
THANK YOU FOR CHOKING… A sketch of actor Aaron Eckhart’s chin, taped to Squid’s computer monitor, is a constant reminder of what industry lobbyists are trained to do. In Thank You for Smoking, Eckhart plays ...
The Kochs are at it again, this time promoting ultra-restrictive voter identification laws.
V oter fraud is virtually nonexistent in America, but this imaginary crime still serves to justify a wave of new voter registration laws—often requiring a state-issued photo ID—that Republican legislators have rapidly spread across the ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 09.01.11
Dear Mexican: I see a lot of vatos around wearing the clam digger pants with the knee-high white socks and white sneakers. While this is nothing new, I’ve noticed recently that the shoes and socks ...
Brezsny's Astrology 9.1.11
Free Will Astrology By Rob Brezny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Strange but true: To pave the way for your next liberation, you will have to impose some creative limitation on yourself. In other words, there’s some trivial extravagance or unproductive excess ...
By the Numbers 9.1.11
By the Numbers 9.1.11
$420,000 | Recent Sale | 315 Prescott Lane, Pacific Grove Built: 1949 Size: 1,200 square feet Features: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2-car garage Amenities: Patio, fenced yard, workshop, double pane windows Seller: Timothy Ronsse and ...
Asked at Best Buy in Marina: What obsolete technology do you prefer to newer gadgets?
Asked at Best Buy in Marina: What obsolete technology do you prefer to newer gadgets?
Linnea McWhirter | Student | MIIS A: I prefer catapults to artillery because you can launch anything. Like peasants or diseased cows. Not a Peep: Twitter. Because celebrities are the worst people in the world ...
Villas de No Agua
State water board says Carmel condo project might violate cease-and-desist order.
The state’s squeeze on Carmel River pumping just won’t leave Monterey County alone. In the latest hiccup for planners, the state water board suggests the proposed Villas de Carmelo project may not have the water ...
