Surface Tension
After three years of indecision, a new ag runoff rule takes effect. Both enviros and farmers say it’s not good enough.
Step too far out onto the banks of Tembladero Slough at low tide, and you’ll find yourself knee-deep in brown muck. Most visitors to this experimental site – which is designed to filter problematic pollutants ...
Issues / 2012 / June 21
Immortal Poetry
Immortal Poetry
Robinson Jeffers died in 1962. But he lives in Carmel, by way of words, life and spirit resurrected every Friday and Saturday during docent-led tours of his Tor House and Hawk Tower. When Jeffers and ...
Brezsny's Astrology June 21-27, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Swans, geese, and ducks molt all their flight feathers at once, which means they may be unable to fly for several weeks afterwards. We humans don’t do anything like that in ...
By The Numbers 6-21-12
Real Estate
$1,340,000 Recent Sale 3820 Via Mar Monte, Carmel Built: 2004 Size: 3,380 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Two fireplaces, skylights, ocean views, landscaped yard, hardwood floors Seller: Pacific Commerce Bank ...
1833 and 1
Restaurant 1833 hits a magic number and CRBC celebrates with spins and sliders.
Something quiet is coming. This week Restaurant 1833 (643-1833) celebrates one year, and while it’s been a big, brisk, loud year of unprecedented epicurea – love from our readers for best new restaurant, best late-night ...
Eaten Alive
Opening an understanding of the way Morro Bay Oyster Company works.
There are reasons the Pacific oysters from Morro Bay Oyster Company are tasty enough to earn the affections of an ABC of top Monterey County culinary outposts: Andre’s Bouchee, Bernardus and C Restaurant, among a ...
Films, Unspooled
Cherry Center’s Backstory studies Robert Altman’s later successes.
Malcom Weintraub loves seeing, studying, reading and talking about film. For the next four weeks, he will indulge in showing them for the latest round of the Carl Cherry’s Backstory series, this one focused on ...
Letters To The Editor 6.21.12
LOSS IS MORE Your post (“A daughter struggles with her mother’s imminent passing,” June 14-20) was both poignant and personal, bringing back many memories of my own mother’s struggle with brain cancer and her final ...
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Bloody Brilliant: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter draws blood in surprisingly effective ways.
So many things about Abraham Lincoln they did not tell us in school! His mother was killed by a vampire when he was a child, and then he dedicated his life to bringing vengeance down ...
Safety Not Guarenteed
Eye Opener: Safety Not Guaranteed rides two breakout stars to greatness.
It’s easy, I suppose, to sing the praises of Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation; the web series Troopers). Here, as Darius, an intern working for a glossy, trendy Seattle magazine, she’s droll, melancholy and transcendent ...
How We Blue
New faces and old friends gather for another three days of magic at the Monterey Bay Blues Festival.
“I been in the blues all my life,” Muddy Waters once said. “I’m still delivering ‘cause I got a long memory.” In other words, once the blues gets in your bloodstream, you’re stuck with it ...
Nice Kush
Recent Pacific Grove High grads Mozzo Kush deliver talent way beyond their years.
On a late Wednesday afternoon, Mozzo Kush, one of the more exciting bands in the homegrown music scene in recent years, gathers for rehearsal at drummer Taylor Jones’s house in Pacific Grove. The two-car garage-turned-practice-space ...
Hard Facts
Softeners are harming our water supply, but local agencies can’t ban them.
They make bathtubs cleaner, dishes shinier and hair silkier. But water softening systems could be bad news for the limited water supply in Monterey County. And a state bill originally intended to green-light municipal bans ...
Race to the Wells
Marina Coast and Cal Am tussle over industrial Cemex property.
Downsizing may be all the rage, but Marina Coast Water District is looking to expand. The district board voted 4-1 on June 12 to begin annexing 368 acres of coastal land owned by Cemex, a ...
Locals’ Discount
As redevelopment dissolves, Sand City cuts off big-box tax-sharing deal with Seaside.
City leaders across California were shell-shocked when the California Supreme Court eliminated local redevelopment agencies last December. Now they’re mapping out what’s next, which is mostly a whole lot of debt. Sand City, population 350, ...
Brighter Learning
Carmel-based startup envisions greener portable classrooms.
Toxic dust, stale indoor air, mold and formaldehyde. The California Air Resources Board found all of them in the least desirable place: California’s K-12 classrooms. A team of local design professionals have targeted portable classrooms, ...
The final painful days bring more than suffering.
Here’s what I realized in the past week (and I swear, this will be my last dying-mother story in these pages): If Oliver, my smelly little Jack Russell mix, is suffering so badly that recovery ...
The NBA’s Red State Hoops Strategy means you may be rooting for different teams than you realize.
The Oklahoma City Thunder are a stolen franchise, having been torn from Seattle in 2008. A mere four years later, they are in the NBA Finals. They are also being relentlessly promoted by the NBA ...
Get Involved
Public Citizen 6.21.12
FRIDAY 6 | 22 PLASTIC-FREE LIVING | CARMEL – Artist Jerry Takigawa and Monterey Bay Aquarium climate change specialist Sarah-Mae Nelson present on daily decisions for reducing plastic consumption. Takigawa’s new solo exhibition features plastic ...
Speak Out, Squid
DOLLAR DOWN… Squid could never quite decide if redevelopment agencies were a Ponzi scheme or a real solution to blight. But considering how many decrepit buildings are still festering on the ol’ Fort Ord, Squid ...
Street Talk 06.21.12 (@ Parker Lusseau in Monterey.)
What would you leave for future generations?
Follow-up: What do you want on your tombstone? DEBBIE PAIK | Server | Santa Cruz A: More public libraries. They’re a space to share ideas, and free knowledge. Everything else you have to pay for. ...
Getting Back Up
A climber survives a massive fall in the Andes to bike from Monterey to New York.
A fall from a 1,300 foot ice face temporarily took Isabel Suppé’s mobility. It permanently took her climbing partner and friend. But it didn’t take her life – and it gave her the resolve to ...
San Clemente Dam removal cost inflames local water wars.
(UPDATE 6/21, 12:45pm—This morning the Public Utilities Commission approved the San Clemente Dam removal project, sanctioning the Sandoval alternative by a 4-1 vote. Cal Am's revision puts the heaviest share of the costs on its ...
