Big Blue Yonder
The BLUE Ocean Film Festival and Conservation Summit will breach at the end of September.
It was, without hyperbole, a whale of a show. In 2010, the BLUE Ocean Film Festival and Conservation Summit doused the Peninsula in waves of events, washing up treasure upon treasure of ocean culture and ...
Maybe The Best Autumn Ever
This fall, The volume will be cranked up to 12 in Monterey County with 14 megawatt music events.
Monterey was one of only seven cities around the world – four of those in the U.S. – chosen by Mumford & Sons to hold its Gentlemen of the Road stopover this summer. Just a ...
Fall For The Arts
A guide of what to see, hear and experience in the months ahead, with notes on particularly intriguing events.
Sept. 7-23 Pacrep’s Julius Caesar 7:30pm Fri-Sat; 2pm Sun. Golden Bough Theater, Carmel. 622-0700, www.pacrep.org Sept. 15 An Evening with Bob Newhart 8pm. Sunset Center, Carmel. 620-2048. www.sunsetcenter.org Sept. 16 Mariachi Festival 4-10pm. Sherwood Hall, ...
Issues / 2012 / Sept 13
Footbath of the Future
A skeptical novice tries out an ionic tootsie detox.
I embark on my first foot detox with a friend visiting from New York. Her aunt, a Carmel Highlands local, swears she gets the best sleep of her life after ionic footbaths. We’re sold: As ...
History Unfurled
Restored Monterey mural goes on exhibit for first time in 40 years, along with other historic works.
To describe the vast Sacramento storage rooms that contain troves of artifacts, Kris Quist, the Monterey district museum curator for State Parks, invokes the most famous of archaeological heroes. “It’s this Indiana Jones warehouse with ...
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will never be able to actually gaze upon your own face. You may of course see a reasonable likeness of it in mirrors, photos, and videos. But the real thing ...
By The Numbers 9.13.12
Real Estate
$2,425,000 Recent Sale Casanova, NW corner of Tenth, Carmel Built: 1923 Size: 2,923 square feet Features: 4 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, 1-car garage Amenities: Ocean view, 3 fireplaces, tub with jets, patio, fenced yard, security system ...
Culinary Kung Fu
Three familiar-but-pioneering agents brighten the local flavorscape.
This was a celebrity chef pop-up concept, only flipped like an over-easy farm egg – or maybe scrambled. Local celebrity photographer Kim Weston, heir to the storied tradition of his grandfather, father and uncle, was ...
Stammtisch
Braut Back: Stammtisch Restaurant is Seaside’s secret hybrid of German meat and American Dream.
Let’s cut to the schnitzel: Stammtisch is not so much a place to eat as it is an experience, one driven by the thoroughly Austrian and amiable co-owner-waiter-ambassador Erwin Moritz and reinforced by the invitingly ...
Letters To The Editor 9.13.12
Whether, Luis? Thanks for letting us know where Assemblyman Alejo’s allegiance lies (“State styrofoam ban fails; Alejo ducks vote,” posted Sept. 6). Alejo’s accepting a contribution from a styrofoam producer, then abstaining from voting on ...
Arbitrage
Hedging the Bet: Richard Gere embraces a handful of deadly sins as a soulless Wall Streeter in Arbitrage.
Some not-so-fancy narrative mechanics set Richard Gere up as a one-percenter antihero in a movie that deplorably attempts to mitigate the evil that wealthy corruption loves to wield at every level of social injustice. With ...
Sleepwalk With Me
Eyes Wide Open: Comic’s real-life tale of danger in the night comes to life in Sleepwalk With Me.
One of the stories that stands out in the vast This American Life canon is comedian Mike Birbiglia’s account of a dangerous sleepwalking incident at a La Quinta Inn, which is featured on the episode ...
Two Step
Duo Burnt Palms headlines the soft grand reopening of The Lobby at the Golden State Theatre.
Drummer Clara Nieto and singer/guitarist Christina Riley never intended to form a band when they met last February, but lightening in a bottle can’t be capped forever. “The goal wasn’t to be in a band, ...
Beer Blast
The Internationals provide Monterey Bay Oktoberfest’s two-day soundtrack.
Someone once said, “Some people march to a different drummer – and some people polka.” The Internationals have been polka-ing for so long, according to their website, that when they started out, “The accordion was ...
Root Down
San Francisco’s Tiny Television brings tasty Americana roots to Big Sur.
Just This Side of Everything is more than just the tentative title of Tiny Television’s forthcoming album. It’s frontman Jeremy D’Antonio’s way of life. D’Antonio recently left the hustle and bustle of San Francisco for ...
Route to Reroute
Cachagua residents object to construction traffic for San Clemente Dam removal.
Cachagua Road follows a narrow, curvy slope through the forested folds of deep Carmel Valley, opening at the summit to panoramic views of the valley and Los Padres National Forest. Now, Cachagua residents are raising ...
Sailing Ship
Lisa Coscino, credited with revitalizing Museum of Monterey, ousted from director spot.
Change remains a constant at Monterey History and Art Association’s Museum of Monterey, 14 months after its grand reopening. The woman credited with the museum’s creative revitalization, Executive Director Lisa Coscino, is out; her staff ...
Under the Rug
MPUSD parents say special-ed kids aren’t getting attention they need.
At 15 months, Tony Cutino acts like a lot of toddlers, with his propensity to shake keys. But the sound of jingling is brand new to him. Like his 3-year-old sister Bella, Tony was born ...
Fortune’s Fate
Bad timing and very bad health brings lottery winner and wife to foreclosure.
At the home where Brandie and Edwin Hannon once lived, a rotating shift of security guards stands by 24 hours a day to keep the couple from moving back in. Now staying with family, the ...
46 million Gen Xers have little or no savings, but they do have voter registration cards.
The electorate seems to be hungering for presidents in the mold of TR, FDR and LBJ – old-school leaders who painted ambitious visions of where America could go and why it should, who anticipated crises ...
Soldiering On
Two roommates deal with catastrophic injuries through endurance events like the Triathlon at Pacific Grove.
First-time triathlete Joseph “Danny” Kennedy swam, walked, biked and ran through five-plus hours of sea, sweat and sunshine last weekend. But he didn’t experience the Olympic distance event at the Triathlon at Pacific Grove the ...
Public Citizen 9.13.12
THURSDAY 9 | 13 HONORING VETERANS | SEASIDE – Learn from leading VA officials about community resources including end-of-life care, fraud prevention and benefits for veterans. 8:15am-4:15pm. CSUMB University Center, 100 Campus Center. Free/veterans and ...
We can’t get an answer on SB 568.
Dart Container Corp. is a massive, multinational, multibillion-dollar corporation based in Michigan and run by a pair of brothers who in the early ’90s disavowed their U.S. citizenship and beat feet for the tax-friendly Cayman ...
Squid Speaks
ON THE EDGE… Every time Squid nestles in for a good heist flick, Squid can’t help but think extra appendages would make Squid a good addition to any criminal posse. Too bad Gregory and Jennifer ...
Street Talk 09.13.12 (asked on Canyon Del Rey Boulevard in Monterey.)
What is your favorite healthy recipe?
Follow-up: If you could banish one health issue, what would it be? DANTE TINDAL | Self-Employed | Seaside A: I get some asparagus and cauliflower, season it with some garlic powder, pepper, and onion if ...
