Deconstruction - No. 1
Monterey Museum of Art executive director E. Michael Whittington talks about Joseph Kleitsch’s “Red and Green”
1. a. “This is a painting of a garden with a building in the background, a tree in the middle ground, and two humans in the foreground. b. “It’s two dimensional. c. “This painting is ...
People from the art community offer easy-to-access inroads for looking at art.
Do Art. “It’s important to understand art in depth to be able to interpret the visual world around us,” says artist David Ligare. The slogan of Youth Arts Collective is “Do Art, Be Kind.” Studies ...
Deconstruction - No. 2
China-born Brenda Louie, artist and professor of Studio Arts at Sacramento State University, talks about her own painting “Warring States Series II.”
1. a. From the artist statement: “The intent of this work is to protest the cruelty of the war and its aftermath…This painting is on display side by side with a documentary photograph from the ...
An Informed Vision
It’s easier than ever to join the art fray; just open your eyes and take it all in.
“I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.” – William Morris, artist, intellectual, socialist Steve Hauk, who for 23 years has owned and ...
Issues / 2012 / Mar 29
Squid Speaks
VIDEO VOYEURS… These days, secret sex tapes seem to be de rigueur conversation around Salinas, from whispers around the County Administration Building to astounded kids chattering in line at Maya Cinema’s midnight showing of Hunger ...
Fish Fight
City of Monterey, Oceana butt heads over the management of iconic sardines.
The Cannery Row era of Monterey’s sardine industry has passed. But Pacific sardines – along with their fellow wetfish, market squid and anchovies – continue to dominate fish landings at Monterey and Moss Landing harbors. ...
Read Me a Story
A delightful cocktail of live actors and great stories mix together for a night of literary fun.
The “Selected Shorts” crew pack up their knickerbockers, leaving their home in New York City for a quick West Coast tour. On Saturday, March 31, they stop in Carmel to perform at the Sunset Center. ...
Break Out Queen
Amanda Shires croons her unique brand of alt country at the Turf Club series.
Amanda Shires’ velvet-voiced melodies, swaddled in ambient strings, ring similar to not-so-country artists like Wilco (with the same ability to belt out a fierce lick), and her dark imagery has been likened to the gritty ...
The Drummond Culinary Academy
At-risk youth trade gang life for aprons at Rancho Cielo on the outskirts of Salinas.
The Drummond Culinary Academy is likeable long before you try the classic grilled New York steak. The concept, after all, is not only visionary, but downright effective: “training at-risk youth in the Salinas and Monterey ...
Letters To The Editor 3.29.12
Un-chain Melody I do want the economy to flourish for the city of Pacific Grove but am of the opinion that the ban on “formula fast food” remain (“Pacific Grove re-examines its fast-food ban; residents ...
Wrath of the Titans
Second installment Wrath of the Titans fails more miserably than its predecessor.
And now we learn the secret of that dreadful Clash of the Titans movie from a couple of years back. Its incoherence? Its soullessness? All by design. They meant to do that. We know this ...
Island Fever
Musicians from Oregon and Connecticut bond in a tropical paradise.
Guitarist Daniel Nickels and drummer Tom Miller lived on opposite coasts of the U.S., but an open mic night at a beach bar on the Carribbean island of St. Kitts brought them together in 2008. ...
Jazzy Fresh
The 42nd annual Next Generation Jazz Festival brings more than 1,000 of jazz’s up-and-coming elite to town.
After more than 20 years, it would be understandable if there was nothing left to blow Paul Contos’ mind. But the education director of the Monterey Jazz Festival, who described the student-based Next Generation Jazz ...
Strength in Numbers
Coalition of faith and community groups seeks 30,000 signatures for political agenda.
Juan Uranga remembers a dilapidated R.V. park in Watsonville that was slated for demolition, even though farm workers and their families lived there. “The units were in awful condition,” says Uranga, executive director of the ...
Produce Party
Ambitious new monthly market leverages Sand City’s potential as a center of cool.
“Market” isn’t the most precise word for what’s coming to The Independent, a mixed-use building in Sand City, the first Thursday of every month. But since “experimental convergence of local food, drink, art, music and ...
Up in Flames
Neighbors critical of highway project see giant piles of construction debris catch fire.
A heap of wood chips 30 feet tall might look suspiciously like kindling, but it’s even more of a severe fire hazard. “When you get a massive compost pile like that, it generates its own ...
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Public Citizen 3.29.12
MILITARY SPOUSE SCHOLARSHIPS | COUNTYWIDE – Monterey Bay Officer’s Spouse Club offers merit-based scholarships to dependents of active duty, retired or deceased members of the military; Monterey County residents or NPS grads eligible. Awards start ...
Anti-methyl iodide professor says it’s time for alternatives.
On the morning the public relations team at Arysta LifeSciences was polishing a release announcing the company was yanking the strawberry fumigant methyl iodide from the U.S. market (a statement most notable for the sheer ...
By The Numbers 3-29-12
Real Estate
$995,000 Recent Sale 6 Deer Forest Dr., Monterey Built: 1982 Size: 3,170 square feet Features: 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Fireplace, skylights, breakfast bar, vaulted ceilings, large yard Seller: Andrew Singer and Melanie ...
Trippin’ on Jellies
Monterey Bay Aquarium expands on the jelly obsession with its spectacular new exhibit.
Translucent, alien-like Aurelia labiata swarm in the water. Staring at the palm-sized blobs – some soft pink, others cloudy white – pulsing through the abyss is a psychedelic experience. This is one of six new ...
Brezsny's Astrology March 29-April 4, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): A few months after America invaded Iraq in 2003, soldier Brian Wheeler wrote the following to help us imagine what it was like over there: “Go to the worst crime-infested place ...
Street Talk 01.26.12 (asked @ Museum of Monterey.)
What should be considered an art form that’s not?
Follow-up: What “art” is most overrated ? DAN TONSETH | Fish and Game | Mammoth Lakes A: Food. Like pizza or some high-end eats. That stuff is art even though it gets eaten. Designs on ...
Spicy Living
Flavor bulletins from Puerto Rican places, plus Lokal love.
Forgive the coroner his surprise when he opens my chest cavity—where he expected to find an aortic organ, he discovers a small open-air roadside shack filled with Puerto Ricans instead. But that’s my heart. I ...
