We are almost completely f%#&ed
Al Gore rallies citizen deputies to break through climate-change denial while there’s still (a little) hope.
Climate Change: Read More We are almost completely f%#&ed Are You Kidding? Climate Change Then There’s This If Al Gore’s environmental truth was inconvenient before, now it’s outright uncomfortable. Last year was the earth’s hottest ...
Are You Kidding?
Enough with the B.S. already, say national and local experts.
Climate Change: Read More We are almost completely f%#&ed Are You Kidding? Climate Change Then There’s This Al Gore’s not alone. Many scientists are fatigued by those who try to reframe climate change as a ...
Then There’s This
Permafrost further complicates a hot-and-sticky climate situation.
Climate Change: Read More We are almost completely f%#&ed Are You Kidding? Climate Change Then There’s This As the earth gets warmer, the upper circle of the planet has slowly started bubbling, unleashing gases that ...
Climate Change
Gory Truth
Climate Change: Read More We are almost completely f%#&ed Are You Kidding? Climate Change Then There’s This In 2006’s An Inconvenient Truth, Gore offered a dozen simple things you can do to combat global warming. ...
Issues / 2012 / Sept 27
Hard Pressed
A young entrepreneur and an old printer make a statement that looks and feels timeless.
With a loud, rhythmic, mechanical kathunk!, Alissa Bell’s nearly century-old printing press chugs into action. The rich and sweet smell of fresh black ink fills her studio, which occupies part of a metal hangar-type building ...
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Here’s the curious message I derived from the current astrological configurations: It’s one of those rare times when a wall may actually help bring people together. How? Why? The omens don’t ...
By The Numbers 9.27.12
Real Estate
$565,000 Recent Sale 4455 Ocean Heights Ct., Seaside Built: 2005 Size: 2,593 square feet Features: 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Fireplace, landscaped yard with sprinkler system, Seller: George and Debra Brinsmead Buyer: Rong ...
Plated Politics
Kids teach local pols – and us – something worth salivating over.
There were fuzzy kittens and vineyard views, a German wire-haired pointer pup who survived a bullet, a wacky organic winemaker drinking beer and a catering staffer with two earrings, a Marine sniper past and a ...
Sierra Mar
Edging Out: John Cox nudges landmark (and cliffside) Sierra Mar to new places, like lunch and eight-course dinners.
There’s a specific sort of fish egg that’s indigenous to our coast but has a Japanese name because those few, often-Native-American foragers who collect it ship almost every bit of it immediately to Japan. It’s ...
Straight Up Rock
Climbing royalty Alex Honnold’s film highlights Reel Rock tour’s trip to Big Sur.
The video hit the Internet on June 11 and quickly went viral: Rock climber Alex Honnold, who has achieved widespread fame both inside and outside the climbing world for his fearless “free solo” ascents – ...
Letters To The Editor 9.27.12
The R-Word This article is great! (“MPUSD parents say special-ed kids aren’t getting the attention they need,” Sept. 13-19). I understand exactly what it’s like to deal with these retards! My daughter has cochlear implants ...
Looper
Infinite Loop: Time-traveling bad guys face clunky story and direction in Looper.
As time-travel suspense thrillers go, Looper is only a pinch better than mediocre. The make-up that Joseph Gordon-Levitt wears to make him look like a young Bruce Willis is such a distraction that it alienates ...
Pitch Perfect
Life’s a Pitch: An adult version of Glee, Pitch Perfect stays slyly, wryly in tune.
Take Glee, lose the preaching, add college naughtiness, and you have Pitch Perfect, a toe-tappin’ good time that keeps the energy and laughs consistently high throughout. Set in the surprisingly cutthroat world of collegiate a ...
Double Love
The “Summer of Love” celebrates 45 years at one of the most famous venues of the era.
The Monterey Pop Festival, 45 years later, has grown into a mythological-like beast with Day-Glo wings, LSD-soaked teeth and a burning Fender Stratocaster nose. Five years back, the event’s 40th anniversary was commemorated with a ...
Duke of Earle
Songwriting marvel Steve Earle visits the Henry Miller Library for a rare solo-acoustic performance.
In 1987, singer-songwriter Steve Earle was nominated for Best Country Male Vocalist and Best Country Song (he’s received 14 Grammys nods and won three). On the awards stage he and his band played his “Guitar ...
Ricketty History
The city of Monterey explores a new phase for Pacific Biological Laboratories.
Most tourists probably pay little attention to the ramshackle two-story building sandwiched between The Clement Monterey and Sea Studios on Cannery Row. But interpretive panels along the street and a freshly re-created sign on the ...
Under the Bus
MST files claim against the county for Whispering Oaks plans; feds waver on loan.
Monterey-Salinas Transit is mapping alternate routes in its quest to build a bus maintenance yard anywhere besides the former Fort Ord. And they’re hoping to hang on to every dollar that went into a proposed ...
Powering Up
County considers Next Gen communication towers, faces appeal threat.
Fake tree limbs might be all that are standing in the way as the county scrambles to meet a federal deadline for reducing the amount of bandwidth used by its emergency communications. The county has ...
Outspoken critic of Israeli occupation Nadia Hijab speaks in Monterey.
Protests surging in the Middle East don’t surprise Nadia Hijab, who views Arab antipathy toward the U.S. as something the West has earned by supporting dictators in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. “Despite the U.S.’s ...
The Carbon Trade
The Offset Project enters its fifth year with a new focus on ways to trade environmental credits.
As Monterey Bay businesses work to reduce their carbon footprints, the idea of buying renewable energy credits can feel a little ephemeral. “Oftentimes, people have concerns about renewable energy credits because it just seems as ...
Does he really want to be king, or does he just want to be wanted by the GOP?
Does Mitt Romney even want to be president? That’s not a rhetorical question: In Mitt Romney’s heart of hearts, maybe all he really wanted was the Republican nomination. Every time Romney gets an opportunity to ...
Public Citizen 9.27.12
THURSDAY 9 | 27 NAACP ON CAMPUS | SEASIDE – Founding members of the newly formed CSUMB chapter present to the Monterey branch of the NAACP. 7pm. Oldemeyer Center, 986 Hilby Ave. Free. 394-3727. SATURDAY ...
Surprise: Some Silicon Valley rich guys oppose Prop. 30.
Here is what will happen on Nov. 7, the day after the election, if voters haven’t passed Prop. 30, the constitutional amendment backed by Gov. Jerry Brown and better known as the Schools and Local ...
Squid Speaks
BRIGHT AS NEON… Squid is the exception to the rule when it comes to big, brutish ocean predators. Many, like the sperm whale, white shark and orca, are mysterious. Scientists hustle to tag and track ...
Street Talk 09.13.12 (asked @ In-Shape Fitness in Monterey.)
What do you think is the most old-school thing about you?
Follow-up: What do you think will be old-school in 20 years? AARON ALIOTTI | Account Manager | Marina A: Religion. It shouldn’t be [old-school], but it is. My work ethic, accountability, responsibility all stem from ...
Uneven Steps
September Shoes and its wimpy character development trip up Western Stage.
Playwright Jose Cruz Gonzalez seems like a good fit for Salinas, for Hartnell College and for Western Stage. He is a prolific Latino playwright who focuses especially on the lives of Mexicans in America, with ...
Amazing Grace
Folk legend Joan Baez returns to Big Sur for Esalen’s 50th Anniversary Celebration.
In video footage of Joan Baez performing “A Song For David” in 1969 at Esalen’s Celebration at Big Sur, her voice plays with the sound of the crashing ocean as if the two were old ...
