Smooth as (Philip) Glass
The famed composer brings a smaller (but faithful) festival back to the Monterey Peninsula.
The innovative 1982 feature film Koyaanisqatsi, the first of the “Qatsi trilogy,” uses the popular medium of movies for a work of meditative, spiritual, environmental and apocalyptic art. Some may admit, without regret, that they ...
Issues / 2012 / Aug 30
Pundits are turning Paul Ryan from a right-wing ideologue into a bold intellectual – and framing the election in the process.
One reads of people obsessed with finding Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster. These folks may be annoying, but for most of us, they are not really a problem. The same can’t be said of ...
Public Citizen 8.30.12
ONGOING PARK STEWARDSHIP | VARIOUS LOCATIONS – Join the Monterey Peninsula Regional Parks District and Big Sur Land Trust in volunteering to maintain and protect local parks. 8:30-11:30am every third Saturday and Wednesday at Carmel ...
KSBW’s reasons for censoring Western Stage make no sense.
In the 13 or so years that The Marketing Department (TMD) has been in operation, the Salinas-based agency has produced hundreds of commercials and purchased – in the estimation of founder and president Nick Pasculli ...
Squid Speak, Spoken Here
DINING IN… Squid admits to peeking at the tabloids in the grocery check-out line. Squid might even buy one, if only the skinny celebrities didn’t make Squid feel like such a glutton. So, in the ...
Street Talk 08.23.12 (asked @ Lake El Estero in Monterey.)
If you could re-do one thing in your life, what would it be?
Follow-up: What is one thing you did right? KATHY ROBINSON | Homemaker | Aliso Viejo Q: I would have gotten married at an earlier age so I could have children. I got married at 37 ...
Hot Air
Plasco puts trash gasification plant on hold after state declines to redefine renewables.
The 30 million tons of garbage Californians cart of to landfills every year will keep piling up for a while. Ottawa-based Plasco Energy Group is halting plans to build a gasification plant in Gonzales, shifting ...
A Student’s Split Identity
As civil war buffets her childhood home, a local explores her sense of self.
The signs of her struggle are subtle. She’s quiet and calm about the loud and unnerving things taking place in her childhood home of Damascus, Syria – even as her family’s house is rendered uninhabitable ...
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I’m afraid your vibes are slightly out of tune. Can you do something about that, please? Meanwhile, your invisible friend could really use a Tarot reading, and your houseplants would benefit ...
By The Numbers 8-30-12
Real Estate
$250,000 Recent Sale 1431 Hilby Ave., Seaside Built: 1955 Size: 1,080 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1-car garage Amenities: Large fenced yard, hardwood floors, patio, updated kitchen Seller: Cornelius and Amy Wigg Buyer: ...
Fashion a la Food
How an Oaklandish dinner hits on news back home – and how our transplants are scheming up north.
It’s a Monday night dinner to rival Cachagua General Store’s. In… Oakland. OK – downtown Oaktown Tamarindo’s upscale Mexican prawn tacos and queso fundido differ from CGS’s rustic bone marrow and salmon soup, and the ...
400° Gourmet Burgers and Fries
Taking Heat: As 400° Gourmet Burgers and Fries tries to merit the lofty price points, at least the shakes are unbelievable.
Local restaurateur David Fink’s newest eatery, the swank burger joint 400° in downtown Carmel, certainly makes a statement with its high ceilings, polished metal furnishings, funky light fixtures and crisp checkerboard tiling. But when a ...
Letters To The Editor 8.30.12
Bank On It Your article suggesting that cities use eminent domain to revalue mortgages for homeowners who have negative equity is legally possible but politically untenable (“The feds won’t do it, and neither will the ...
Lawless
In High Spirits: Prohibition-era Lawless soars with powerful storytelling, masterful acting.
If this wasn’t based on a true story, you’d scoff. Forrest Bondurant, Depression-era entrepreneur, is legendary in rural Virginia, rumored to be invincible because he survived a Great War military attack that killed all his ...
Celeste & Jesse Forever
Hot Pain: Best friends divorce in a Celeste & Jesse Forever story that finds charm wrapped in deep discomfort.
When women have meltdowns in the movies, the meltdowns rarely overstay their welcome. A box of tissues dispatched, a Ben & Jerry’s gorge, maybe a bottle of wine (but never more than one). “Keep it ...
Fan Fair
Foghat and The Chris Gardner Band highlight the music lineup at the Monterey County Fair.
After a day of fishing on Long Island’s North Shore, Roger Earl is pleased with his haul: Two blue fish that he plans to fillet, brine and smoke for dinner. Earl is also pleased with ...
Gypsy Kings
The Gaucho Gypsy Jazz Band Trio makes a good thing better, stops by Museum of Monterey for a special show.
Dave Ricketts remembers a time, not long ago, when the clerks at his local music store referred to gypsy jazz as “fag music.” Now he says those same guys hit him up for advice about ...
Water Wait and See
Cal Am and friends drop lawsuit challenging state’s water-supply smackdown.
The state water board’s local opponents have rolled over on a major lawsuit involving the future of the Monterey Peninsula’s water supply – for a few years, at least. In July a group of litigants ...
Bay to Bay
Morro Bay, Monterey land grant to bolster family-owned fishing operations.
The cities of Monterey and Morro Bay, 120 miles apart on the Central Coast, have both managed to hang on to their family-run fishing operations in spite of rising fuel costs, tighter regulations and foreign ...
Taking Council
Five candidates for two open seats have different priorities, visions for Monterey.
Alan Haffa has spent a lot of Saturday afternoons on the Colton Hall lawn this year, where he was active with Occupy Monterey. Now, the Monterey Peninsula College professor is looking for a seat at ...
Nifty Fifty
Classic arts powerhouse Hidden Valley Music Seminars – long standing but little known – starts to celebrate a half century with La Boheme.
Despite its long existence in a pastoral field off Carmel Valley Road, backdropped by the Santa Lucia foothills and surrounded by white oak trees, music training and performance center Hidden Valley Music Seminars, for many ...
