Bach In Action
music education in the schools still lacks. here’s how the Carmel Bach Festival plans to help – and keep its tradition fresh and relevant for years to come
The opening Saturday performance of last year’s Bach Festival, inside the acoustic chapel ribcage of the Sunset Center, served as introduction to the festival’s new music director and conductor, Paul Goodwin, and his concertmaster, Peter ...
Carmel Bach Festival 2012
Dramaturge in Action
David Gordon, who lives in Carmel Valley, is the Carmel Bach Festival dramaturge and lecturer. He’s been with the festival for 24 seasons – “which is sobering,” he jokes – singing tenor in 80 of ...
Issues / 2012 / July 12
Surprising Heights
A local doctor takes on Mount Everest during its second deadliest season ever.
On the way up Mount Everest, 29,029 feet into the remote reaches of human survivability, s*** happens. Life-and-death dramas ranging from avalanche to embolism become companions – and famously so in a year like 2012, ...
Brezsny's Astrology July 12-18, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): During an author tour a few years ago, I was a guest on San Francisco radio station KFOG. For a while, the host interviewed me about my book and astrology column. ...
By The Numbers 7-12-12
Real Estate
$735,000 Recent Sale 619 Hillcrest Ave., Pacific Grove Built: 1929 Size: 1,369 square feet Features: 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1-car garage Amenities: 2 fireplaces, skylights, vaulted ceilings, fenced yard, patio Seller: Philip and Mary Breuleux ...
Pinot Power
The ever-evolving Carmel Valley Wine Trail gets a new star in Cima Collina.
The two plotlines were already storybook enough on their own. Number one: A start-up wife-and-husband-run winery with a by-the-bootstraps backstory and powerhouse small-batch Pinots seeks a bigger tasting room closer to its idyllic Carmel Valley ...
Big Sur Coast Gallery & Cafe
Artistic Tastes: Big Sur Coast Gallery & Cafe provides vibrant and fresh flavors overlooking the Pacific.
About four minutes’ drive south of Nepenthe, Big Sur’s most talked-about eatery, a neighbor is developing its own destination identity and summoning the buzz that comes with it. Big Sur Coast Gallery’s Cafe inhabits a ...
Letters To The Editor 7.12.12
Fort Ordnance The EPA says it’s “paperwork” that keeps the Keep Out signs up (“Vets snub Fort Ord rules with new sign honoring soldiers,” July 5-11). I wonder how fast the paperwork will shuffle calling ...
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Peppy Puppy: Beasts of the Southern Wild merely manages to nail the meaning of life.
Not since Victor Erice’s 1973 film The Spirit of the Beehive has there been such a dreamily accurate depiction of what it must be like to be a child caught fast in events of tremendous ...
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Frozen in Time: Ice Age drips blandly and inoffensively with old shtick.
It’s movies like this one that make me despair. Because it is going to make a bazillion bucks at the box office around the world – the three previous flicks in the series have grossed ...
Lovin’ the Life
Caroline Aiken warms up Monterey County’s newest live music venue, Wow at the Windmill.
Caroline Aiken is a musician’s musician: In addition to touring for more than four decades, the Georgian constantly appears at songwriting workshops and clinics where she focuses on helping young artists realize they don’t have ...
Euro Chic
CSUMB alum Ryan Bisio returns from Denmark armed with a new album and fresh outlook.
For some, change means a new hairstyle or rearranging living room furniture. But for local singer-songwriter Ryan Bisio, it meant packing up, moving to Copenhagen, Denmark and taking a job coaching basketball. “I needed a ...
Heady Metal
Granted Earth builds on a ripping local thrash legacy at Jose’s Underground.Granted Earth builds on a ripping local thrash legacy at Jose’s Underground.
Black Flag utilized an abandoned Baptist house of worship dubbed “The Church” as a rehearsal space. Phish practices in a rustic Vermont spot they call “The Barn.” The Monterey trio Granted Earth – made up ...
Unjust Cuts
Monterey County’s courts brace for another year of budget reductions.
Delayed restraining orders, reduced public service hours, civil suits in limbo: These are some of the tolls of four straight years of cuts, totaling $693 million, to California’s judicial branch. The 2012-13 fiscal year doesn’t ...
Drilling Deeper
Seismic testing in Aromas could be a precursor to oil exploration and fracking.
When earth-shaking trucks pulled out of Aromas last week, it marked the end of a two-year exploration of potential oil and gas deposits. Watsonville-based Freedom Resources formed in February 2010 to research the geology of ...
Scuba Insecurity
Liability issue causes temporary closure of Pacific Grove’s hyperbaric chamber.
A narrow room in Pacific Grove’s Fire Station #4 contains what looks like a tiny orange submarine. This is the city’s hyperbaric chamber, which supplies pure oxygen at higher-than-atmospheric pressures. For divers with decompression sickness ...
Computer Love
Carmel Valley nonprofit incubates a tech-heavy dream for education reform.
It’s not uncommon to hear about a 2-year-old who can use an iPad before a toilet. But when she steps into a classroom, her precocious web proficiency might be suppressed in favor of textbooks and ...
How the Republican push for voter ID laws could profoundly change November’s elections.
It’s actually good, from a Republican point of view, that party powers like Rupert Murdoch, his Wall Street Journal and Bill Kristol are piling on Mitt Romney as a lousy candidate right now, in July. ...
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Public Citizen 7.12.12
ONGOING VETS HELPING VETS | COUNTYWIDE – Veterans who find themselves feeling down in the middle of the night can tune into a weekly video made by veterans who have hit bottom and rebounded. 2am ...
Facts won’t do what Joe Heston wants them to.
A few months ago, veteran Chicago Tribune reporter and sometimes-columnist Rex Huppke got a bit of well-deserved national recognition for an obituary he wrote titled “Facts, 360 B.C-A.D. 2012.” Huppke wrote that while Facts’ health ...
Street Talk 07.05.12 (asked @ Stone Creek Village in Monterey.)
What musician deserves more love?
MARY GODFREY | Retired | Monterey A: Earth, Wind and Fire were able reach all these different genres with their music and attract a wide audience. Give Me Shelter: The Rolling Stones. Some of their ...
Squid Doth Speaketh
RUNNING IN PLACE… Squid’s own ADHD tendencies make Squid a strong admirer of focus. So Squid’s beak drops open watching protestors at La Playa in Carmel. Of 113 workers who lost their jobs when former ...
