Dear Chefs: Save Us.
Dear Chefs: Save Us.
Food stamps. Lawsuits. Stage plays. These are not the typical kitchen tools. Then again, the chefs deploying those devices aren’t your typical tastemakers. They are some of the best and most progressive chefs in the ...
Issues / 2012 / May 17
Revving the Engine
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Terry Sylvester highlights this year’s Rock & Rod Festival.
Terry Sylvester’s 2010 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Hollies isn’t one of his fondest memories. “I enjoyed it but it was kind of ruined for me by Mr. Graham ...
Armchair Politics
Three Salinas electeds joust for supervisor seat, one from a living-room campaign HQ.
County Supervisor Fernando Armenta makes no bones about his dislike for Salinas City Councilman Sergio Sanchez. Before Sanchez entered the District 1 race against Armenta, he helped get the three-term incumbent elected. But reflecting last ...
Battleship
Bored Game: Despite its classic board game inspiration, Battleship founders.
It’s pathetic enough that Battleship is pretty much the dullest alien invasion movie ever, featuring an uninteresting incursion by nondescript aliens doing boring things and not even blowing shit up in exciting new ways. But ...
A Thin Line
America the Beautiful 2 and a new eating disorder center reveal how we slip into dieting dilemmas.
Last weekend, The Avengers raked in $100 million from 4,349 movie screens, for a total two-week gross of more than $373 million. Its budget: $220 million. Big numbers. But big deal. Last Friday evening, Monterey ...
Homeless, Harmonious
Shelter Outreach Plus and San Jose Symphonic Choir collaborate on a concert in Monterey to benefit outreach.
There are plenty of obstacles Shelter Outreach Plus confronts as one of the oldest homeless services providers on the Monterey Peninsula – hunger, fear, stigmatization, stereotyping and insensitivity among them. So it shouldn’t be a ...
Brezsny's Astrology May 17-23, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Is there a difference in sound quality between relatively inexpensive modern violins and the multi-million-dollar violins created by master craftsmen in the 1700s? In research done at the Eighth International Violin ...
By The Numbers 5-17-12
Real Estate
$545,000 Recent Sale 668 Pine St., Monterey Built: 1956 Size: 1,080 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms, 1-car garage Amenities: Ocean view, hardwood floors, patio, full basement Seller: Nancy Napoli Buyer: Noris Orsi Broker: ...
Spicy Thoughts
Lokal plates buzz-worthy grub worth waiting around for, plus so much more.
You never see it on menus, but you feel it when you look at the right ones. You can’t buy it at the flyest farmers markets, but it’s an ingredient in all the best dishes. ...
Vote Sanchez, Parker and Potter
With District 5 the most contentious, the Weekly announces its endorsements.
District 1 County Supervisor Sergio Sanchez District 1 pits veteran supe Fernando Armenta against two veteran Salinas City Councilmen, Sergio Sanchez and Tony Barrera. While other supervisors’ races may seem more fractious on the outside ...
Ale Tales
Carmel Valley ‘Beer Geek’ publishes Teachings From the Tap: Life Lessons From Our Year in Beer.
The Geeks had it good. Carmel Valley’s Merideth Canham-Nelson and Chris Nelson had mastered the complicated equation of finances, travel tables, buzz management and day jobs – as a clinical social worker and beer-tender/web designer, ...
Letters To The Editor 5.17.12
Instituting Change The “blame the victim” stance Wheeler takes re: Jim is nauseating; I was there, I know what Jim experienced, that the people in power there abandoned him when he needed real support and ...
The Dwight Stuff
Shane Dwight leads a crop of musical entertainment at the Castroville Artichoke Festival.
Sometimes agony breeds brilliance. Seasoned bluesman Shane Dwight – performing with his band at the Artichoke Festival on Saturday at 3:30pm – recently delivered his most poignant and lyrically-driven album in the wake of a ...
Turning Paige
The Dani Paige Band hopes Grateful Dead vibes direct their new album toward mainstream success.
A lawyer can be a band’s best friend, especially if they used to represent the Grateful Dead. Last February, the Dani Paige Band’s entertainment council scored an opportunity for the outfit to shoot a video ...
Brick by Brick
Local groups bring Mexican-style public square to Salinas’ Closter Park.
One of the most notorious East Salinas neighborhoods is getting a makeover, courtesy of a diverse group of Rotarians bent on making its park a safer gathering place. Five Salinas Rotary Clubs are pairing with ...
Jumping the Gun
Salinas to test tech that points cops to crime scenes – before crimes are committed.
If police could predict the aftershocks of a shooting – where and when retaliatory bullets would fly – they could arrive on the scene in advance, in hopes of intercepting a crime instead of chalking ...
Updated list of public-employee salaries reveals some fat local paychecks.
Curious how much taxpayer money your local public servant is pulling in? The answer’s as close as a few clicks. State Controller John Chiang has updated the online list of public-employee salaries and benefits in ...
Two Words: Plastic Bags
Carmel Planning Commission says boo to a ban, but Mayor Burnett isn’t dropping it.
A quotable scene in The Graduate includes the advice, “There’s a great future in plastics.” But that was 1967. Forty-five years later the material is ubiquitous, and activists are working to conscript it to history. ...
Get Involved
Public Citizen 5.17.12
THURSDAY 5 | 17 PROTECTING PROPERTY | CARMEL – Realtor Heather Gass speaks on reducing land-use controls and municipal advisory councils. Sponsored by the G16 Coalition (formerly Carmel-Carmel Valley Coalition). Noon lunch, 12:30pm program. Quail ...
Squid Speaks
BAG-ASSWARD… The Carmel Planning Commission’s hearing on a proposed plastic bag ban got scrappy May 9, when environmentalists supporting the ban were evenly matched by business owners opposing it. Some of the naysayers had the ...
Street Talk 01.26.12 (asked near El Palomar in Monterey.)
What have you tried to cut out of your diet?
JAMES REAL | Cashier | Manchester, England A: Food in general. Sometimes I just feel fat. Men can be anorexic too, you know. I usually can last four days before I cave in and have ...
