The Beautiful Struggle
As the Monterey county branch of the NAACP enters its 80th year, the activists who helped build Seaside into a center of black power look back on the fight for equality.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday commemoration compels the nation to revisit the life and work of the civil rights leader, while Black History Month shines a light on major black figures of the past like ...
Issues / 2012 / Jan 26
Bacon Sprouts
Bringing out the best of Brussels sprouts and love for bacon vinaigrette.
Brussels sprouts with bacon is hardly a new idea, but the combination has taken off lately. The pair has become a menu meme, a darling of online recipe searches and food TV. Given the recent ...
Spearfishing Meditation
Local freedivers hunt both seafood and serenity.
Bryan Mabrey slides off the side of a red, 16-foot Tarpon kayak. He’s a half mile from shore, 24-inch plastic fins strapped to his feet. Armed with his favorite spear gun, he’s hoping an olive ...
Mighty Whispers
Transcendental Vision inspires ambiguity, contemplation and quiet.
There’s a certain kind of salesmanship, promoted by the city council and developers and residents, that pushes the concept of Sand City as an arts enclave. But Sand City is stubbornly Sand City, a place ...
Brezsny's Astrology Jan 26-Feb 1, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The coming week is likely to be abnormally free of worries and frustrations. I’m afraid that means you’re not going to have as much right to complain as you usually do. ...
By The Numbers 1-26-12
Real Estate
$820,500 Recent Sale 629 Jewell Ave., Pacific Grove Built: 1920 Size: 1,500 square feet Features: 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Bay window with bay view, wood-burning fireplace, patio, fenced yard Seller: Michele Harrah ...
Going Fish
New Schooners Coastal Kitchen gives Monterey County what looks like a landmark seafood restaurant.
This weekend a big fish gets bigger. And fresher. Schooners Bistro on the Bay (372-2628) has long charmed visitors and locals alike with a combination of sturdy sustainable snacks, lively cocktails and on-top-of-the-ocean views of ...
Letters To The Editor 1.26.12
Off With Their Heads A common fallacy made by those who do not understand money is an argument based on equality. Money is not inherently equitable nor does it convey uniformity in quantity or status. ...
The Grey
Lost in The Grey: Men battle their innermost demons while battling nature in the bleak Alaskan wilderness.
A strand of Moby Dick runs through director/co-writer Joe Carnahan’s wild and wooly tale of survival in the Alaskan wilderness. Like Moby Dick, this amorphous story is an anti-narrative made up of dark encounters with ...
Albert Nobbs
Gender Benders: The quiet heroines of Albert Nobbs take a fine and sorrowful turn at playing the opposite sex.
There’s a priceless moment in this odd film wherein a bearded, bearish Brendan Gleeson, as an alcoholic physician, turns to his hotel’s servant, the titular Albert Nobbs, and utters the classic male complaint: “Women.” The ...
Country Road
Five musicians of all different walks of life come together in the name of bluegrass.
“Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world,” bluegrass legend Bill Monroe said. “You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.” Monroe’s words certainly ...
Magic Chance
Jaqui Hope parlays hitchhiking into standout live music.
About a year ago, Jaqui Hope hiked alone up into the mountains of Palo Colorado in Big Sur on what she calls a “vision quest.” For more than 30 hours, Hope meditated in the wilderness ...
Strung Together
The Israeli Chamber Project believes music can rise above borders.
Clarinetist Tibi Cziger, founder and artistic director of the Israeli Chamber Project, says his touring ensemble is completely apolitical. But sometimes, the mere presence of his chamber group in certain areas makes politics unavoidable. “Recently, ...
Techno Beat
New county I.T. director plans big advances, leaves behind controversial legacy.
With shades drawn, the 911 dispatch center in Salinas is a dimly lit room save for the glow of computer monitors mapping as many as 3,000 calls a day. With a $12 million upgrade to ...
Freeze Tag
Seaside stalls in the wake of redevelopment ruling.
One of Ray Corpuz’s final acts as Seaside city manager was to issue an immediate spending freeze, impacting all vacant full-time positions – except, apparently, his own. Corpuz, who was out of the office as ...
Salinas landfills consider rate hikes; Calcagno threatens to pull service
Conservationists are familiar with the perverse economics that drive consumption: Water utilities make money selling more water, and landfills collect fees for dumping trash. Successful trash diversion efforts at Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority “have ...
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Local activists head to D.C. to push for Fort Ord National Monument.
With more than 60 public agencies and a dozen-plus citizens’ groups claiming a stake in the former Fort Ord, consensus on how to manage it is as rare as the black legless lizard. So the ...
A community waits to see where Salinas Valley Memorial money is going.
In April 2011, healthcare industry hired gun Lowell Johnson was brought in by the board of the Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System to do a very specific job: Get the board out of the mess ...
NAACP President Ben Jealous decries national addiction to incarceration over education.
MCWeekly: Who are some of your local heroes in the Civil Rights struggle? And why? Ben Jealous: It was a whole family of people active in the NAACP. They had faith in me, got me ...
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Public Citizen 1.26.12
ONGOING LANGUAGE SKILLS | SEASIDE – Practice your English at these two-hour ESL classes through May 5. 6pm Tue and Thur; 3:30 and 6:15pm Wed; 10am Fri; 1pm Sat. Peace Resource Center, 1364 Fremont Blvd. ...
Squid Speaks
DARWIN AWARD… Squid’s done some stupid things. Like stick both slimy tentacles on a frosty telephone pole. And go on that two-day nitrous binge (Phish Tour ‘98!). But Fort Ord Reuse Authority attorney Jerry Bowden ...
Street Talk 01.26.12 (asked @ Peter B’s in Monterey.)
What is something you’re always on the hunt for?
Follow-up: Besides romance, when do you like to be hunted? JEFF BARETT | Teacher | Monterey A: Quiet time. In this hyper-connected, media-driven world there’s just not enough time to sit and be offline. Tools ...
Movement Moves On
Occupy Monterey leaves Veterans Park; Saturday meetings to continue.
It was a quiet exit, though organizers say Occupy Monterey is from over. At 5pm on Jan. 23, there were still a few tents set up at Veterans Memorial Park in Monterey. A solo police ...
