What About Bob
The Golden State Warriors’ rookie general manager epitomizes the team’s surprising new brand of basketball.
It’s a brisk November night in Northern California when the Golden State Warriors zoom out to their most prolific quarter of the young 2012-13 season. They score 39 in the first period – with tall ...
South Rising
Santa Cruz Warriors will figure into Golden State’s success in surprising ways.
Though they have yet to touch their own floor for as much as a brief three-man weave, Santa Cruz Warriors enjoy a hometown edge over their NBA Developmental League competition. “Say you’re on [fellow D-League ...
Issues / 2012 / Nov 29
Drug Cartels for Dummies
At NPS, Rodrigo Nieto-Gómez teaches what corporations can learn from notorious gangs.
Discussions of Darwinism often revolve around jungle primates or Galápagos finches. For Rodrigo Nieto-Gómez, the fittest subject for study isn’t exotic fauna, but rather an elusive and rapidly evolving human population more lethal than any ...
Brezsny's Astrology Nov. 29-Dec. 5, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “They are trying to make me into a fixed star,” complained religious leader Martin Luther a few centuries ago. “I am an irregular planet.” I invite you to use that declaration ...
By The Numbers 11.29.12
Real Estate
$475,000 Recent Sale 705 Trinity Ave., Seaside Built: 2012 Size: 1,700 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1-car garage Amenities: Fireplace, landscaped yard, chef’s kitchen, tub with jets, hardwood floors Seller: Jonathan Lee Buyer: ...
I Need a Gyro
Rediscovering love for Lighthouse Avenue’s heroic international foodie action.
There are glass bottles of Lebanese rose water ($2.99), tubes of Alex’s Meat “baby bologna” ($6), containers of sesame tahini ($9.99) and herring both marinated in packs ($4.25-$8/pound) and waiting in a pail in the ...
La Tortuga Tortería
Glorious Tortoise: Tortuga Tortería is a staple for local foodies for a large family of reasons.
Given the ubiquity of restaurants serving Mexican food in the area, to stand out from the pack requires some serious sabor. It means a marriage of authenticity, vision and from-scratch love that, no matter where ...
Letters To The Editor 11.28.12
More Invisible Thanks so much for your moving article (“The Invisible Women,” Nov. 15-20). The perception that the Peninsula doesn’t have a problem with homelessness, drugs or hunger is just plain wrong and I am ...
For the Love of Literacy
Performances at Monterey County Free Libraries show there’s more to books than reading.
There’s no need to use library voices when a puppeteer, Bollywood dancer or magician is on stage – even when that stage is in the library. And performances like that are now part of regular ...
Anna Karenina
Anna in Absentia: Knightley dull in an otherwise visually stunning remake of classic Anna Karenina
You might expect the latest adaptation of the great Russian novel, Anna Karenina, to be a big-screen extravaganza, and it is, but not the kind you’re thinking of. This highly stylized and entertaining version of ...
Timeless Talent
After seven decades, The Blind Boys of Alabama continue to raise the roof.
The Blind Boys of Alabama have been bottling lightning for more than 70 years. Friday they uncork their energy at Sunset Center. It might be impossible to truly appreciate how transcendent that sort of staying ...
Alt Shift
Monks of Mellonwah bring multi-layered alt-rock from the land down under.
On their first night in Sin City, the Monks of Mellonwah were given Hugh Hefner’s 10,000-square-foot suite at The Palms Las Vegas, complete with an indoor-outdoor infinity pool, because there were no other available rooms. ...
Sharing the Road
TAMC pedals forward with Peninsula bike-sharing service; bike shops balk.
You may have heard of “carsharing”: a service like Zipcar that lets members pick up a vehicle from an automated station, use it for a few hours, then return it. It’s a short-term, self-service rental. ...
Yee-Haw Heaven
The 14th Annual Monterey Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival delivers the best of the West.
Real cowboys live by their own rules: Don’t squat with your spurs on. Never ask a barber if you need a haircut. Never slap a man who’s chewing tobacco. The horse always eats first. And ...
Booting Up Business
CSUMB’s Startup Weekend teaches mad skills to would-be entrepreneurs.
So you have an idea better than Velcro but don’t know how to make it stick. Maybe you need an entrepreneurial kick in the butt. That’s where Startup Weekend comes in. It’s an event where ...
Down and Housed
As Monterey faces its post-redevelopment future, affordable housing could disappear.
When Gov. Jerry Brown projected more than $3 billion in savings by dissolving the state’s redevelopment agencies – local vehicles for incentivizing development of blighted land – $685 million of that was slated to come ...
Doing Time
Realignment hasn’t led to massive jail overcrowding; crime impacts unclear.
The county jail has managed to avert serious overcrowding by allowing some low-level arrestees off without bail, sending some offenders to substance abuse programs, and implementing other population reduction measures. Last October, the statewide prison ...
Holy Hand Grenade
PacRep’s faithful take on Monty Python’s Spamalot musical is silly, clever and historical entertainment.
Monty Python is a comedy dynasty that seems destined to keep finding fresh converts to the team’s British, satirical, absurd and smart humor, beginning with their beloved and innovative BBC sketch comedy series Monty Python’s ...
Get Involved
Public Citizen 11.29.12
ONGOING TOY DRIVE | VARIOUS LOCATIONS – Donate unwrapped toys and gift cards to families in need through the Monterey Fireman’s Association by Dec. 20 to 600 Pacific St., Monterey; 582 Hawthorne St., Monterey; 401 ...
Street Talk 11.08.12 (asked @ the library at CSUMB.)
What is the biggest misconception about CSUMB students?
Follow-up: How would you change your school? DAVID NIXON | Student | Seaside A: That students at CSUMB are not political and don’t care. I believe that students don’t have the chance to express their ...
Reminder: There’s a lot left to do to conquer this disease.
In 1981, a new unknown illness started to sweep across the nation and no community was spared, including our own in Monterey County. From its first discovery until the mid-1990s, an HIV diagnosis carried with ...
Squid Fry 11.21.12
26 - The number of monitored nesting pairs of bald eagles in Central California, an all-time high thanks to intensive conservation efforts.
TAX MAN… Squid had just barely started recovering from this month’s election frenzy (the outsized Uncle Sam hat was wrapped gently in tissue paper and put back in storage, the piggy bank devoted to the ...
Overtaking the Cake
Parker-Lusseau yule logs are an indulgent holiday tradition.
Yann Lusseau plunges a lean forearm into a 40-quart stainless-steel bowl and whirls a thick pool of fresh custard, melted chocolate and whipped cream. The motion is as artistic as it is athletic: Decadent brown ...
