The Car, Reconsidered
An event-by-event look at the futuristic designs that changed automotives – and will appear across Monterey County for Car Week.
The question hangs in the air like a poof of exhaust from a 1923 Duesenberg over the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance: With a culture steering toward greater gas efficiency, electricity and more mass transportation, what ...
More Funk in the Trunk
There’s plenty more during Car Week to buckle into, and parts of it are free.
The Car Week lineup event is almost as long as the Tour D’Elegance parade – and growing annually. Here appears a list of increasingly-popular-but-less-publicized events, including those earlier in the week, so car lovers can ...
Issues / 2012 / Aug 16
Cross Purposes
Fitness freaks brace for impact as popular CrossFit empire fights off a possible buyout.
A nasty divorce and ownership battle are putting Santa Cruz-based CrossFit through a grueling workout. Part fitness phenomenon, part way of life, CrossFit is a strength and conditioning program that Greg Glassman, a former gymnast, ...
Painting Patience
A third-generation thangka master adds color to Pacific Grove.
In the business district of downtown P.G., there’s a shop the size of a moderately wealthy woman’s closet. It’s adorned with vibrant Tibetan peace flags and exudes the scent of burning sage. A single step ...
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): These days you have a knack for reclamation and redemption, Aries. If anyone can put fun into what’s dysfunctional, it’s you. You may even be able to infuse neurotic cluelessness with ...
By The Numbers 8-16-12
Real Estate
$837,500 Recent Sale 1003 Egan Ave., Pacific Grove Built: 1941 Size: 1,584 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Ocean/golf course view, fireplace, large yard, remodeled kitchen with granite countertops Seller: Matt ...
Bikinis and Caviar
From L.A. Food & Wine 2 to Curly’s Barbecue, tastebuds are buzzing.
At one afterparty, Christina Aguilera stood directly in front of Seaside-based DJ Hanif Wondir’s turntables and threw her arm up and down while her dancer pals danced on his subwoofers. On the same dance floor, ...
Letters To The Editor 8.16.12
Stale and Uneasy All cities should sit up and take notice (“Fresh & Easy Abandons Peninsula Sites,” Fresh Squid newsletter, Aug. 13). These corporations are not motivated by caring about the residents of cities or ...
Song Birds
Tumbleweed Wanderers’ infectious harmonies quickly gain widespread attention.
For some bands, finding the right producer can be an endless trek. Not the Tumbleweed Wanderers. After visiting touring indie rocker John Vanderslice’s Tiny Telephone studio in San Francisco, their search was over. “We could ...
Lokal
Crisp Character: Lokal Restaurant slathers unique personality on Carmel Valley’s plate.
Little about Monterey County’s new foodie outpost, Lokal, is business as usual. The rustic DIY aesthetic, servers swooning over the dishes and the cuisine itself all trickle down organically from its unorthodox founder/chef Brendan Jones ...
Killer Joe
A Killer Epic: Famed director William Friedkin riffs on film, philosophy and life as his Killer Joe opens at the Osio.
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can be made,” says director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection), channeling the philosopher Immanuel Kant. Friedkin was in San Francisco recently for a ...
The Expendables 2
The Art of Bore: The worst thing about The Expendables 2 is the chance for The Expendables 3
If you could drop a bomb on The Expendables 2, that would be like totally awesome, man! Er, sure, but I was thinking you could wipe out ’80s action heroes, and that would be a ...
Foul Folk
St. Vincent Folk brings dark-humored music to Big Sur’s renovated Maiden Pub.
Sometimes you have to ask: “Is that you who farted under the covers?” Or maybe that’s just Vincent Bernardy. He poses that very question in “Drug Lovers” on his most recent St. Vincent Folk album, ...
Livin’ Easy
The California Roots Summer Mix-Up brings nine bands to the Monterey County Fairgrounds.
Back in May, the third annual California Roots Music & Arts Festival brought nearly 20,000 people to the Fairgrounds for a two-day event headlined by Pepper and SOJA. Saturday’s California Roots Summer Mix-Up – a ...
One-Horse Town
Seaside moves to annex Monterey Downs project; activist lawsuit alleges conflict.
The city of Seaside wants Monterey Downs, possibly the swankiest development ever to trot through City Hall, all to itself. But first it’s getting the full headache associated with the contentious proposal, which would plop ...
Job Closeout
Economic Development Department braces for calamity with looming Capital One, Fresh Express layoffs.
As two major Salinas employers prepare to slash staff, bare-bones county employment services are hoping a $1 million grant can help almost 950 workers get back on their feet. The last 13 of 75 Fresh ...
Losing My Religion
A worldly revival is poised to hit Monterey’s Golden State Theatre.
That hot little fire that combusted from cleaning products in a closet of the Golden State Theatre on March 17 might have been the spark for a music and culture revival in downtown Monterey. It ...
County D.A. joins suit after local Walgreens stores are found violating waste laws.
The nationwide drugstore chain Walgreens is under scrutiny for its waste disposal practices in light of a civil suit filed in Alameda County on June 18. Allegations made by 35 California district attorney’s offices include ...
The wealthy aren’t just steering politics, they’re conscripting it from the will of the people.
Are you sick of hearing about the 1 percent yet? Well, don’t be. There’s a big reason everyone is talking about the ones on top: They’re more powerful and rich now than they have ever ...
Cranky Cat
Comedian and car lover Adam Carolla brings his sarcastic shtick to Carmel’s Sunset Center.
Adam “Ace” Carolla is a funny man who comes from a family that didn’t seem like it would produce a funny person. “There was nothing going on around the house,” he says in his laconic, ...
Alarming Salinas dog deaths distract from the real danger.
Here’s how Sunday nights work at my house: We eat dinner around 7:30pm. Our idiot dogs – a dyspeptic Jack Russell named Oliver and an exuberant Corgi mix named Lola – stand in the window ...
Public Citizen 8.16.12
THURSDAY 8 | 16 CITY SPORTS | SEASIDE – City Council hears a report on athletic fields and decides whether to grant a fee waiver to Seaside Youth Football for the 2012 season. Council also ...
Street Talk 08.16.12 (asked @ East Village Coffee Lounge Rubber Chicken Poetry Slam.)
Street Talk 08.16.12 (asked @ East Village Coffee Lounge Rubber Chicken Poetry Slam.)
Follow-up: Who is the master of that art? ANDRE CARDOSO | Student | Pacific Grove A: Parkour. It’s creates an interesting visual. It’s a sport and an art at the same time. And it takes ...
Best Hell Ever
A family comes together and falls apart in Tracy Letts’ unmissable hit August: Osage County at Paper Wing.
Forget what you know about Paper Wing Theatre: their dark, gothic tendencies, their guerilla tactics, their sweet tooth for pop culture. With their production of Tracy Letts’ 2007 play August: Osage County, which won the ...
Squid Speak Spoken Here
TIDY UP… Squid was of a mind to straighten out the lair last weekend and maybe even do a little cooking. But when Squid oozed over to the local home improvement store for supplies, the ...
