Bass Control
MJF headliner Esperanza Spalding raps with the Weekly about her groundbreaking Grammy Award, discovering the bass and cultivating creativity.
In a way, Esperanza Spalding’s “Little Fly” – a William Blake poem she remolded into a song accompanied by upright bass and an understated string section – is a metaphor for the jazz artist herself: ...
Non-Jazz Jazzsters
Just because it says “Jazz Festival” in the name, doesn’t mean jazz only.
“I don’t have a definition of jazz,” Thelonious Monk once said. “You’re just supposed to know it when you hear it.” Since its inception, the Monterey Jazz Festival has consciously and subconsciously taken Monk’s words ...
Moving Music
Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour booms across the continent.
The Monterey Jazz Festival is adding the 55th notch to its anniversary belt, making it the longest consecutively running jazz festival on the planet. And just as time flies, the Monterey Jazz Festival’s professional touring ...
Master List
A look at 10 top Tony Bennett collaborations.
On Saturday at 10:50pm in the Jimmy Lyons Arena, the silky-voiced 2006 NEA Jazz Master Tony Bennett – who last performed the Monterey Jazz Festival in 2005 – will close out day two with his ...
Issues / 2012 / Sept 20
Salsa Dance Experiment
Two left feet? Too bad. What happens when an editor demands a dance story.
Maybe I didn’t do enough trust falls in middle school phys ed classes, but the idea of leaning back against a stranger’s arm into a dip on the dance floor is terrifying. So when I ...
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): For every trillion dollars the U.S. government spends on the military, it creates about 11,000 jobs. That same expenditure, if directed toward education, creates 27,000 jobs. Personally, I’d rather have the ...
By The Numbers 9.20.12
Real Estate
$900,000 Recent Sale 657 Spazier Ave., Pacific Grove Built: 1972 Size: 1,761 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Fireplace, landscaped yard with sprinkler system, double-pane windows Seller: Hart and Pamela Sissingh ...
Righteous Ike’s
A taste earthquake shakes Salinas’ Harden Ranch Plaza.
Maybe it’s sandwiches like the one with roast beef, corned beef, pastrami, salami, turkey, bacon, ham, mozzarella sticks, stuffed jalapeño poppers, beer-battered onion rings, avocado, pesto and extra pepper jack – aka the Kryptonite ($19.91). ...
Not Dead Yet
Organic is dead, long live organic: A sober analysis of all the produce controversy generated by Stanford scientists.
The way headlines broke around a recent Stanford study comparing organic and conventionally grown foods, you’d think organic had been left for dead. The New York Times, for example, announced that “Stanford Scientists Cast Doubt ...
Making Waves
BLUE Ocean Film Festival’s featured flicks run to the horizon. Here are several to prioritize.
There are more than 100 films ready to be spooled up – or, actually, inserted in Blue Ray projectors – in the ocean-deep line-up of the BLUE Ocean Film Festival and Conservation Summit. They’ll be ...
Letters To The Editor 9.20.12
Setting Sail It is no secret that MoM is a historically troubled organization (“Lisa Coscino, credited with revitalizing Museum of Monterey, ousted from director spot,” Sept. 13-19). For it to succeed means a coordinated effort ...
Trouble With the Curve
Bunt Single: Trouble With the Curve makes a decent pitch, but nothing all-world.
This ode to old-school baseball scouting arrives almost as though in response to last year’s Moneyball. Trouble With the Curve, this autumn’s boys-of-summer movie, is a testament to the traditional methods of analyzing a player’s ...
The Master
I Will Follow: One powerful relationship – not an assault on Scientology – fuels the extraordinary The Master.
Is Paul Thomas Anderson’s hauntingly intimate epic The Master about Scientology? That’s been the focus of attention for many with only peripheral interest in the film itself, hoping perhaps for some kind of searing roman-a-clef ...
Heavy Lifting
Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard embarks on a journey into his own heart of darkness.
Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard collaborated with Son Volt’s Jay Farrar on the soundtrack for the documentary One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur, which received a special concert screening at ...
Half Full
The Soft White Sixties help celebrate the official grand opening of The Lobby at the Golden State Theatre.
After three years, a full-length album is still at the top of the Soft White Sixties to-do list. “We’ve been wanting to record for a while now but issues like money keep coming up,” says ...
Rare CSN Rock Lore
Five things you may not know about one of music’s most famous super-groups, Crosby, Stills & Nash.
Die hards have been appearing in large numbers nationwide throughout Crosby, Stills & Nash’s summer/fall tour – which wraps up in October with a four-night run at New York City’s renowned Beacon Theatre. From Seattle ...
Fortified Ord
Fort Ord Reuse Authority, facing more lawsuits, cracks down on trespassers.
Last Sunday morning, as bikers and hikers set out for romps on the former Fort Ord, four cop cars converged at the popular access point at 8th Avenue and Gigling Road in Marina. “The direction ...
Under Water and Under Fire
Another wave of homeowners sues Creekbridge, even though the company dissolved.
Lists of alleged construction defects leave no brick unturned. From faulty soil compaction to plumbing and electrical flaws to damaged stucco, a complaint against Creekbridge Homes maps out a blueprint of shoddy construction from the ...
Classes of Trash
Beach cleanups reveal litter is everywhere – but the stats tell only half the story.
At Elkhorn Slough, volunteers filled a 20-cubic-yard Dumpster with a dozen mattresses, a refrigerator, televisions, 27 tires and some dead chickens. At Carmel Beach, the litter was mostly cigarette butts and bags of dog poop. ...
Imperfect Union
After Sanchez fails to qualify for City Council race, two last-minute candidates could divide his backers.
It was sketchy paperwork that landed José Castañeda in court on felony charges last June, and another paperwork error – this time by Salinas City Councilman Sergio Sanchez – that led Castañeda to put his ...
Hey, wait a minute: Isn’t Mitt Romney a certified member of the 47 Percent?
Mitt Romney, a son of privilege who used family connections and family advantages to accumulate a “vulture capitalist” fortune, and who collects multi-million-dollar checks for doing absolutely nothing, claims to have identified 47 percent of ...
Rarified Air
The best in the business – and the hometown star of California International Airshow - takes the Weekly for a ride.
Lifting Off With a Legend montereycountyweekly --> Sean D. Tucker doesn’t gamble. But here he is, arguably the most accomplished stunt pilot in the sky, several thousand feet above the Salinas Valley floor, about to ...
Public Citizen 9.20.12
THURSDAY 9 | 20 PARKER FLATS REVEALED | MARINA – The Fort Ord Reuse Authority hosts an info session about munitions cleanup at Parker Flats. 6-7:30pm. Carpenters Union Hall, 910 2nd Ave. Free. 883-3506, www.fora-esca-rp.com. ...
How wannabe leaders are missing the point.
Two columns for the price of one, both on the subject of “no” and the possibility of “yes.” One: A lot has happened in the month or so since the Weekly reported on a radical ...
Squid Doth Speaketh
PERCENTAGE GAME… Squid is not above admitting making a mistake, and in the case of this week’s extra-helping of moi (available every Monday in your inbox by hitting up squid@mcweekly.com), Squid made one. It seems ...
Street Talk 09.13.12 (asked @ Gold Coast Tattoo in Monterey.)
What’s the strangest dance craze you’ve lived through?
Follow-up: What’s our most important cultural import? PERRY DOIG | Body Piercer | Stockton A: Synchronized boy band dancing. It’s terrible. Boy bands made it OK to be considered a musician without talent. Picture This: ...
