The Holistic Hole
Local hospitals battle for the earthy birth market.
The eight women circled at Pacific Grove Adult School’s Parents’ Place, who have requested anonymity in this story, are familiar with the DONA International definition of doulas: trained professionals who provide “continuous physical, emotional and ...
Issues / 2012 / April 26
Academic Choice
CSUMB faculty vote on strike after contract negotiations grind to a halt.
CSU Monterey Bay faculty have been working under an expired contract since 2010. This week, they head to the polls to vote on whether to authorize a strike, a move that could push forward stalled ...
Brezsny's Astrology April 26-May 2, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “True life is lived when tiny changes occur,” said Leo Tolstoy. I agree. It’s rare for us to undergo rapid, dramatic transformations in short periods of time. That’s why it’s delusional ...
By The Numbers 4-26-12
Real Estate
$675,000 Recent Sale 115 Littlefield Road, Monterey Built: 1978 Size: 1,709 square feet Features: 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Fireplace, vaulted ceilings, deck, fenced yard, tub with jets, bonus room Seller: Laura Coor, ...
Mother of an Event
Holman Ranch evolves its game beyond weddings – with heart.
Max Elliot, 5, is good at hide-and-go-seek, except for one small strategic weakness. He likes to squeak with excitement while he’s “hiding.” That doesn’t fit into the list of All-Time Top Hide-and-Go-Seek Techniques, but it ...
China House
The spiciest broth one author’s ever embraced, plus other reasons to cheer for China House in Pacific Grove.
My friends and I are always coming up with absurd questions to pass the time, like, “Where would you go if you woke up this morning and realized you could fly?” Another popular question: “If ...
Letters To The Editor 4.26.12
Monumental for the People The Fort Ord National Monument is a great asset to this area (“It’s official: Fort Ord National Monument,” posted April 20). It will make the campus of CSUMB more desirable. The ...
The Raven
Midnight Dreary: The Raven comes nowhere close to living up to its Edgar Allen Poe-solving-mysteries potential.
Oh, I so wanted to love this flick. Two hot guys – John Cusack and Luke Evans – hunt down a killer in 1840s Baltimore. A killer inspired by the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. ...
Footnote
Talmud Tale: Father and son academics engage in rivalry of Biblical proportions in Footnote.
The usual strife between fathers and sons charts an uncommon course through academia in this laceratingly comic and award-winning Israeli film. The Shkolnik men – father Eliezer (Shlomo Bar Aba) and son Uriel (Loir Ashkenazi) ...
Costume Party
Feather boas, action figures and ’70s rock represent just a sampling of the Billy Martini Show’s charisma.
Custom-made Billy Martini dolls accompany CDs and Swarovski Crystal-studded tank tops on the merchandise page of Billy Martini’s website. The figurine, which looks like a cross between Kid Rock and Liberace, wears an ivory-feathered boa, ...
Blazing Away
Shady Nate’s record release show helps remind a local rapper/promoter how far he’s come.
John Blaze has always written rhymes and wanted to make his living doing something in the hip-hop world. But a few years back, he made some bad choices that ended up costing him his apartment ...
Getting Schooled
Two rockers-turned-teachers evoke Wilco with their sound.
Guitarists/singers Marc Stafford and Bryn Loosley’s college experience isn’t much different from the norm: The longtime friends attended Chico State while pursuing their dream to make it big with their alt-country band Buffalo Creek. “After ...
Physician Faction
Doctors’ group seeks leverage as SVMH considers a merger, plans to form a PAC.
Healthcare doesn’t come free, and neither does influence over healthcare decisions. The going rate for a doctor to gain political traction at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital: $600 a year. That’s the proposed membership fee for ...
Big Macs and Marathons
The astonishingly average record holder for most marathons laces up for Big Sur International.
Imagine waking up not long after the downtown bars make last call. Then imagine having to drive through darkness and foul weather for hours in order to make it to the starting line in time ...
Parents Cringe Over Vaccine Bill
Assemblyman Bill Monning says freedom is not the issue.
Assemblyman Bill Monning, D-Carmel, presided over a heated hearing April 17 for a bill opponents are casting as an attack on parental choice. AB 2109 would require a doctor’s permission to let parents opt out ...
As La Playa prepares to reopen, former employees push to get their old jobs back.
After stripping the guest rooms to the studs, contractors performing a $3.8 million remodel of La Playa are almost done. “We are effectively starting from scratch,” says Matt Crow, CEO of Classic Hotels & Resorts, ...
Jack Zipped Down
County Parks, opponents dig in over Jacks Peak zipline proposal.
A proposed zipline course at Jacks Peak Park is still on the negotiating table, but it’s recently lost the backing of several key players. County Parks Planning Manager David Lutes says the county is still ...
A Hub’s Hubbub
The Salinas Asian Festival gets at the dynamic identity of Chinatown.
Salinas’ Chinatown neighborhood is cordoned off by cyclone and iron fences, and train tracks. It can be tricky to get there, purposefully or by accident. Social service nonprofits like Dorothy’s Place, which feeds homeless and ...
Flick takes a pointed look at living in a Koch-driven economy, and the selling out of democracy.
With an unflinching look at the Koch Brothers’ money and power, Brave New Films has once again created a film full of rollicking and rigorous facts that informs and challenges corporate media with the truth. ...
Get Involved
Public Citizen 4.26.12
ENSURING EQUAL ACCESS | SEASIDE – The NAACP hosts a community forum on the Monterey County Plan for Equal Access to Employment and Contracting Opportunities. County officials present proposed revisions to the plan, which lays ...
Speak Squid, Speak
SIGNING OFF… Squid’s favorite part of campaign season, tentacles down, is the reality-TV-worthy drama that always crops up with the campaign signs. Note the 5th District county supes’ race. Incumbent Dave Potter’s team has been ...
The Fort Ord Reuse Authority sues its contractor, releases invoices to the public.
February 2012, page 6 of 8: $537,722.92. That’s the cost of non-specific “professional services” in the $1.1 million monthly bill sent to the Fort Ord Reuse Authority by Arcadis U.S., the lead contractor in the ...
Street Talk 04.26.12 (asked the Hyatt Regency Monterey.)
Street Talk 04.26.12 (asked the Hyatt Regency Monterey.)
Follow-up: If you could be born again, what would you want to be born as? ROBERT GOODMAN | Accountant | Phoenix, Ariz. A: Being there and understanding that you don’t have all the answers; the ...
