Scout’s Honor
Disputed paternity test for former Salinas PD youth adviser led to reduced charges.
When Jane Doe’s baby bump started showing, the hallway rumors about her secret relationship starting growing too. Scott Callan, a former adviser in the Salinas Police Department’s Explorer Program, admitted to having sex with the ...
Under Water
Former vice principal Raul Ramirez gets strong backing despite sex case conviction.
Jane Doe did everything she could to keep her relationship with former El Sausal Middle School and Alisal High School Vice Principal Raul Ramirez a secret. When the cops started asking questions, Ramirez told her ...
Gilbert’s Kids
The story of Popular Salinas High counselor Gilbert Olivares was already a stunning one. Now, new investigative discoveries deepen the drama – and the disbelief.
This wasn’t normal. The boy usually guarded his iPod touch closely, never leaving it laying around, never letting his mother or sister look at it. But it was there, sitting out. Her brother had been ...
Issues / 2012 / May 24
Police Log Ride
A review of Seaside’s police reports from 2012 charts part of a community’s character.
The city of Seaside keeps a journal, and it’s called “The Monday Report.” The extended memo from the city manager to the mayor and City Council includes everything from local house-sale trends to updates on ...
Brezsny's Astrology May 24-30, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “My soul is a fire that suffers if it doesn’t burn,” said Jean Prevost, a writer and hero of the French Resistance during World War II. “I need three or four ...
By The Numbers 5-24-12
Real Estate
$1,200,000 Recent Sale 534 Crocker Ave., Pacific Grove Built: 1961 Size: 3,092 square feet Features: 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: 2 fireplaces, deck, fenced yard, tub with jets, vaulted ceilings, guest quarters Seller: ...
Yaki Maki
Plus-Size Sushi: Yaki Maki provides Marina with large-scale Japanese fare.
The prospect of going to a strip mall that has a tire store in it to eat sushi seems, at first thought, like a bad idea. Yaki Maki, Marina’s three-month-old sushi restaurant, has moved into ...
Double Feature
A new Share a Movie with MoM plus the classic Films in the Forest spool superb films.
Two local film series launch within days of each other, and though they seem like similar animals, they have different stripes. Armed with a new projector and stereo sound in their 90-seat theater, the Museum ...
Letters To The Editor 5.24.12
Strange Bedfellows My Republican absentee ballot just arrived in the mail. When confronted with an intellectual challenge, you begin your search for an answer. Maybe IBM’s Watson supercomputer can help. Well, lucky me, the Monterey ...
Men In Black III
Back in Black: Men in Black III offers a funny and fun look at aliens among us, and the cops who love them.
That old canard is right: comedy is not easy. Science fiction comedy is even less easy. Which is why there are so few examples merely of attempts, and, of course, far fewer actual successes. In ...
A Dog of a Story: Darling Companion takes the boring travails of rich people to the dullest of lows.
Dogs and spouses: Both make fine companions until they misbehave or run away. Lawrence Kasdan, the filmmaker who so well encapsulated generational preoccupations in The Big Chill and Grand Canyon, tries to do the same ...
Underground Epic
Live from the BASSment’s open mic sessions ignite enthusiasm in the local music scene.
In a dimly lit, low-ceilinged space below hip gastropub Cannery Row Brewing Company, an expertly executed cover of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” takes a wonderfully unexpected turn into The Doors’ “Riders on the Storm.” Following ...
A City Divided
Three Greenfield City Council members face recalls in fallout from police merger.
Stroll down Greenfield’s El Camino Real, and you might mistake the main drag for a quiet Mexican downtown. It’s not just the Spanish-language signage, but cultural cues – men leaning against walls with lowered hats ...
Painful Cuts
Healthcare advocates call governor’s budget revision a “body blow.”
It was bad enough when California was looking at a $9.2 billion budget deficit. But a recent update upped that estimate to almost $15.7 billion, and now Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing even deeper cuts. ...
Downtown Up
Monterey nightlife may be safer, but bar owners struggle with early closing times.
Come July, nightlife fans can experience Monterey as it was in 1930. Jason Coniglio is using his local family history to re-open his grandfather’s bar – My Attic – inside the adobe at 414 Alvarado, ...
On the Rise
Nonprofit helps pull women and kids out of Third-World poverty with home-based sales.
Call them Tupperware-style parties with a charitable bent, or Avon-flavored sales with a goal of helping women in developing countries. Rising International, which bills itself as the only nonprofit to target the direct-sales market, is ...
Why does mainstream media claim the U.S. protects human rights?
Try as they may to make the news as boring as possible, U.S. media outlets keep churning out hilarious “news” stories. Hardly a day passes without the release of some piece whose content is so ...
Chowder Heading
Chris Shake, Calamari Fest and Cooking for Solutions take a savvy and savory tact: smart seafood.
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Deepening Roots
The third annual, two-day California Roots Music & Arts Festival brings its biggest names yet to the Fairgrounds.
Three years ago, when the Weekly spoke with Jeff Monser prior to his inaugural California Roots Music & Arts Festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds, he didn’t really know what to expect of his one-day ...
Get Involved
Public Citizen 5.24.12
ONGOING REVISING FORT ORD | VARIOUS LOCATIONS – Fort Ord Reuse Authority is reassessing the 1997 Base Reuse Plan, and the public is invited to participate. 6:30-9pm Tues. May 29, Monterey Conference Center, 1 Portola ...
Bad advice drives Byrl Smith’s campaign to cynical places.
On Monday morning, Rick Taylor, the Los Angeles-based operative managing Byrl Smith’s campaign in the 4th District County Supervisor’s race, called to say he understood Smith – whom the Weekly categorically did not endorse – ...
il calamaro parla
FIT-FOR-FAT… Squid’s all for transparency in government, but when it comes to elections, some personal things are best kept private. Wouldn’t we be better off not knowing the details of John Edwards and Rielle Hunter ...
Street Talk 01.26.12 (asked @ Old Monterey Marketplace.)
What was your initial reaction to the Salinas High scandal?
Follow-up: How do you feel about the coverage it’s getting? BAILEY JONES | Cashier | Salinas A: I graduated from Salinas High last year – I didn’t believe it at first because he worked with ...
