Thicker Than Water
Monterey Bay Aquarium stands by its sister aquarium through the disaster.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium and its sister institution, Aquamarine Fukushima, both sit on the 37th parallel, at the smoldering edges of what geologists call the “Ring of Fire.” Active tectonic plates make both aquariums vulnerable ...
Shaky Feeling
How transplanted locals and a wounded country are coping with the worst quake in Japan’s history, and what we can learn from it here.
Nastassja Vidro knew something was awfully wrong when the March air turned yellow. It happened while the CSU Monterey Bay alum was outside on the playground with the eight English-language students she taught at Shiramizu ...
Issues / 2012 / Mar 08
Friends with Kids
Baby Boomers: Friends With Kids explores the changing nature of friendship when offspring enter the picture.
Jennifer Westfeldt, the writer, producer and actress best known for her 2001 indie hit Kissing Jessica Stein, makes her directorial debut with another engaging but uneven romantic comedy, Friends With Kids. It is the third ...
Squid Fry 3.08.12
OFF ROADING… Lucky for Squid, saltwater is one of those healthy elixirs that can cure most ills. That keeps Squid out of hospitals, which is good because Squid is squeamish around needles. Also because Squid’s ...
Letters To The Editor 3.08.12
Park It Here Thanks for this thoughtful article, Weekly! (“Four state parks in Monterey County are set to close in July. You’ll probably be able to play there anyway,” March 1-7). In addition to all ...
Heroes Real and Fictional
A magnetic Marina man defies cerebral palsy to conceive a novel and inspire others.
Spend enough time with Jonathan Schanz, and you see a telling transformation take place. The initial impression – of a thin 26-year-old man with halting speech, prominent cheekbones, curled tongue and arm muscles contracted tightly ...
Brezsny's Astrology March 8-14, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Controlled hysteria is what is required,” said playwright Arthur Miller in speaking about his creative process. “To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It’s agony. But everyone has agony. ...
By The Numbers 3-8-12
Real Estate
$910,000 Recent Sale 2 Fairway Dr., Seaside Built: 2011 Size: 2,802 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3-car garage Amenities: 2 fireplaces, vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors, ocean views, chef’s kitchen Seller: Clarum Cypress Grove ...
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Public Citizen 3.08.12
THURSDAY 3 | 8 GROWING THE ECONOMY | SEASIDE—Nobel Laureate economist James Heckman speaks on the fiscal responsibility of investing in early childhood development to gain a more productive and valuable workforce. County Supervisor Supervisor ...
Abject Terroir
Aubergine elevates the art of service, Pacific’s Edge delivers deliciously and a man cooks cats.
A while back I got a voicemail. Like the two that came right after it, it was anonymous. Like those two, it was over-stuffed with sharp opinions. And like the other two, it maxed out ...
Scrappy Tastes
Confessions of a Fearless Cook finds flavor in creativity, courage and humor.
Rookie cookbook author and one-time Weekly food columnist Terry Fisher calls herself “fearless.” It’s a pretty big claim to make, let alone to place in the title of her new-but-long-time-in-the-making cookbook. But the Gonzales nurse ...
We Need To Talk About Kevin
The Kid is Not Alright: Questions of innate evil and disastrous parenting collide in We Need to Talk About Kevin.
Nature, nurture or just plain evil? That’s the question at the heart of this savage and sorrowful portrait of a mother attempting to survive after her teenage son goes on a premeditated killing spree at ...
Different Spokes
Popular Seattle jammers True Spokes have changed up everything from their recording style to their name.
It’s hard enough to become an established band on the Seattle circuit, let alone remain one for a decade. Harder still: Keeping the mojo going after suddenly changing names. But that made sense for Flowmotion: ...
Old and New
After more than 100 performances at Sly McFly’s, Anthony Young returns with a slight makeover.
One of the best pieces of advice Bay Area R&B musician Anthony Young ever received came directly from the mouth of funk legend Roy Ayers. “All you need to do,” Ayers told him, “is keep ...
Shamrock Satisfaction
Danú brings its mix of new and traditional Irish folk – and a love of St. Patrick’s Day – to Carmel.
“This whole tour is a celebration of St. Patrick’s Day,” Danú accordionist Benny McCarthy says. “It’s great touring in the U.S. because we get to celebrate it for a month.” After more than 15 years ...
Corral Wrangling
Activists sue county, supervisors and developer over retail development.
If Mike Weaver wanted to live in an urban area, he says, he would have moved to Salinas or Monterey. As it is, the Highway 68 Coalition chair and lifelong Corral de Tierra resident plans ...
Target Practice
Occupy Monterey regroups after encampment for more focused protests.
About 150 students, faculty and community members carved figure-eights across CSU Monterey Bay’s campus on a drizzly afternoon as they chanted, “Banks got bailed out, we got sold out.” “CSU is being run more and ...
Hole in Won
Pebble compromise earns broad support, but poor people still can’t live there.
After four decades following Pebble Beach Company’s contentious Del Monte Forest local coastal plan, Joyce Stevens of Monterey Pine Forest Watch never thought she’d see this level of consensus. “They did what we asked them ...
Mudhen Madness
Feds poison 300 pesky waterfowl at Rancho Cañada Golf Club.
One customer calls them “rats with wings.” Other golfers have complained about the poo on the cart paths and the bald patches on the lawn. So Rancho Cañada had 300 American coots, aka “mudhens,” killed ...
Down on the River
Rubber dam repairs exceed $1.5 million; county prepares to sue, but who?
Where holes gaped on the floor of the Salinas River last summer, a cement block now makes the riverbed look like a cobblestone street. Just upstream, the Salinas River Diversion Facility, commonly know as the ...
Designed to Inspire
Western Stage’s SpringFEST sizzles with courageous historical content.
Last summer, Hartnell College’s Western Stage launched the innovative, young and awkwardly named 2x4BASH theater company and lined up a daring, fast and fun run of four plays aimed at a younger-than-usual demographic. Western Stage ...
Methyl iodide doesn’t make health sense, but it doesn’t make financial sense either.
The Board of Supervisors recently took a stand against the fumigant methyl iodide, in a vote that followed the kind of political calculating in service since Cicero first described it in 50 B.C. A supervisor ...
Public opinion, campaign season – we’re all really cranky.
Today’s dish: anger, two ways. One: I discovered a great way to tick people off, and for once, it’s got nothing to do with desal scandals, the Diocese of Monterey, controversial ag fumigants, or, hell, ...
Street Talk 01.26.12 (asked @ Cannery Row Brewing Company.)
How do people misjudge you?
Follow-up: What celebrity do you get compared to most frequently? NATHAN BURCH | Busser | New Monterey A: Ladies assume that I’m a player because I’m flirtatious, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth. ...
