A Blueprint for Recovery
>The feds won’t do it, and neither will the banking industry. So why is a plan that could help local homeowners and reset the economy ticking off so many people?
It’s an idea so crazy it just might work. It was born with a bunch of rich liberals with consciences who were demoralized at the state of the nation and of what they generally describe ...
The Human Factor
A couple who the Mortgage Resolution Partners plan could have helped fought for their property all the way to jail.
On March 13, 2011, the same day that a massive tsunami struck the coast of Japan, Robert and Carrie Butler – he’s a cement contractor, she’s a massage therapist/stay-at-home mom – were being handcuffed and ...
Issues / 2012 / Aug 23
Ray of Sunshine
Ray Charles Tribute and The African Showboyz lead loaded lineup for free and charity-driven West End Celebration in Sand City.
No need to fret if you didn’t score tickets to the sold-out Gentlemen of the Road Stopover with Mumford & Sons this Saturday, Aug. 25, at the Fairgrounds. Across town, the West End Celebration is ...
One-Man Jam
James Findlay enlists Granted Earth to help bring his solo instrumental project Concave to life at Jose’s.
James Findlay is the David Blaine of music. Put him in a recording studio alone – with drums, guitars, bass, keyboards and a vibraphone – and he will escape with an album that sounds like ...
Lost in Time – Really
Searching for a lost Carmel time capsule reveals other memories of 1962.
In 1962, Ann Ostenso was figuring out how to sit down in front of a second-grade classroom while wearing a mini-skirt. “Pantyhose had just come in,” she said. “We were wearing skirts 5 inches above ...
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you know what a controlled burn is? Firefighters start small, manageable fires on purpose so as to eradicate brush that has accumulated too close to wooded areas. With less fuel ...
By The Numbers 8-23-12
Real Estate
$275,000 Recent Sale 1217 Luzern St., Seaside Built: 1958 Size: 784 square feet Features: 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1-car garage Amenities: Wood-burning fireplace, patio, partial basement, hardwood floors, fenced yard Seller: Federal National Mortgage Association ...
Cab to Heaven
Rombi Vineyard lands in Carmel Valley Village with a world-class Cabernet Sauvignon.
It’s everything you want: balance, body, mouth feel, complexity, finish. Wine made from a single, local vineyard by a winemaker who spends as much time in the vines as anywhere else on the planet. Only ...
Bahn Mi Bar
It’s the Banh: Noodle Bar’s sibling Banh Mi Bar brings the best fresh sandwich value in town.
What is it about the restaurants in Marina? Have they all somehow locked in 1985 food prices from their distributors? Is the city cutting them some sweetheart tax breaks? Or is that Marina itself is ...
Life is Shorts
Hundreds of short films boil down to the Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series grand prize Sunday night at the Henry Miller Library.
For me, the Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series didn’t begin with the first public screening on June 6. It started April 4 with an email from Magnus Toren, Henry Miller Library’s director and ...
Letters To The Editor 8.23.12
Counting the Cost Thank you for bringing this to the public’s attention (“Former warden says California can’t afford the death penalty,” Aug. 9-15). It really hit my hot button. I am shocked at the amount ...
The Imposter
Scary Switcheroo: The Imposter chronicles a real-life child disappearance, and the con-man who took the boy’s place.
Truth is stranger than fiction, and sometimes vice versa. But when the elements of a mystery become so impossibly obscured by the sheer emotional drama of a crime – a crime that actually might not ...
Hit & Run
Spinning Wheels: Dax Shepard’s charm highlights an otherwise lackluster chase flick in Hit & Run.
Dax Shepard’s sophomore directorial feature – following the awkwardly staged show-biz parody Brother’s Justice – is a bizarre mélange of earnest and romantic road movie, high-octane chase picture reminiscent of everything the mustachioed version of ...
Take Coverage
County lags in implementing bridge plan for low-income residents under Obamacare.
Democrats deployed simple arithmetic to maneuver healthcare reform through Washington: More preventive care up front equals lower total healthcare costs down the road. But as Monterey County officials crunch the numbers, they’re looking at big ...
Esalen Escalation
Lawyer letter deepens the tension at Big Sur sanctuary.
It should be party time at the Esalen Institute: The retreat center, a place of inspiring beauty on the Big Sur coast, is in its 50th year. But in the midst of anniversary-themed celebrations – ...
Peninsula activists envision a community time bank.
With more than 30 years experience in information technology, Seaside resident Catherine Crockett could charge upwards of $75 an hour for her services. But the computer wiz would gladly fix a neighbor’s laptop in exchange ...
Mommy Made Me
Pulitzer-nominated Now That’s She’s Gone brings Ellen Snortland to Cherry Center.
Ellen Snortland describes her one-woman show as less Mommy Dearest than “Dear Mommy.” It’s a fair evaluation. Her 2008 Pulitzer Prize-nominated play Now That She’s Gone is a memoir that doubles as a chronicle of ...
Todd Akin has secured the rapist vote, but who else’s?
It would be easier to believe the story happened this way: The national media, as it is sometimes wont to do, confused a piece from humor site The Onion with actual news, then reported it ...
The Republicans’ best bet, a win by voter suppression, will be greeted with a national shrug.
Everybody, even the Republicans, is talking about how choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate has made winning the election just that much harder for Mitt Romney. But maybe the choice makes it just a ...
Public Citizen 8.23.12
ONGOING WOMEN IN BUSINESS | SALINAS – Rise Leadership Forum launches a training program for women executives and entrepreneurs. Group meets 11am-5:30pm the second Friday of the month for a year, beginning Sept. 14, at ...
Squid Speaks
OM AMEN… Every night before beddiebye, Squid folds all 10 appendages and gives thanks to Poseidon. Thanks for the many fish in the sea, thanks for election-season entertainment, and thanks for that handy little thing ...
On the Tracks
Businesses and nonprofits duke it out over proposals for old train depot in Monterey.
When Ellen Martin, executive director of First Night Monterey, spent a week sick in bed a little over a year ago, she started daydreaming about how to get more eyes on the art hundreds of ...
Street Talk 08.23.12 (asked @London Bridge Pub in Monterey.)
What would you put in a time capsule?
Follow-up: What will people remember about us a century from now? JESSICA ONKEN | Server | Monterey A: An iPhone or and iPod. Some of the books that are popular right now like Twilight or ...
