HEALTH & FITNESS 2013 - The Treadmill Less Traveled
Rare but revolutionary ways to better well-being, from turkey-foot broth to beer jogs.
It turns out the boss at the Jump N Around bounce house emporium on Del Monte Boulevard in North Monterey won’t let adults use the assemblage of slides, castles and other inflated shapes as an ...
HEALTH & FITNESS 2013 - Taking Recovery to National Dance Fame
How J.R. Martinez beat crippling injury, slimmed down and won Dancing With the Stars.
A funny thing happened to J.R. Martinez on the way home from the burn unit. “I got heavy,” Martinez says. “When you’re a burn patient, your metabolism gets thrown out of whack. You’re in recovery ...
HEALTH & FITNESS 2013 - Going with the Gut
Local naturopath promotes a GAPS diet based on fermented vegetables, homemade yogurt and gobs of animal fat.
The severed turkey feet, with their thick toenails and mud-caked pads, are the stuff of an amateur horror flick – especially for a recovering vegetarian. But I’m determined to make my first homemade foot broth ...
HEALTH & FITNESS 2013 – Hospital Food Trays Gourmet
Monterey County’s medical centers reinterpret the lesson that food is medicine.
It’s almost embarrassing to admit how good the shrimp scampi at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital is, considering it’s, well, hospital food. But this is flavored with garlic and lemon, sautéed in a mild wine-based sauce ...
HEALTH & FITNESS 2013 – Fish As Drugs
Genetically modified super salmon tries to swim through a hole in the regulatory net.
If you want to bury an unsavory news story, the afternoon before Christmas vacation is a good time to break it. The FDA chose Dec. 21 to release its long awaited Environmental Assessment (EA) of ...
HEALTH & FITNESS 2013 – A Six-Pack in Just Six Miles
An underground running group builds in creative motivators, like beer.
They’ve been called “drinkers with a running problem” – and when you build beer stops into a six-mile run, it may be an apt characterization. The Hash House Harriers are an international social club of ...
Issues / 2013 / Jan 17
Rust and Bone
Body and Soul: Jacques Audiard tells another beautiful story about pain in Rust and Bone.
After waking to find both of his legs had been amputated, Ronald Reagan screamed, “Where’s the rest of me!” It was the centerpiece of the 1942 film King’s Row. A couple of decades later, Reagan ...
Folk Squared
Two folk musicians of different generations unite for an intimate indoor show at Henry Miller in Big Sur.
Michael Hurley hasn’t done a damn thing for the past 45-plus years other than craft stomped-on packages of bluesy folk – with slightly out-of-key vocals – that are primitive, unpolished and usually involve sometimes-funny tales ...
Solo Home Run
Tim Presley pumps out music at an extraordinary rate with his neo-psych solo act White Fence.
Tim Presley’s creative juices flow like the Colorado River after a storm. Which can be both a blessing and a curse. “My social life and relationships have suffered but [making music] is all I do,” ...
Busting Out
Anticipating inmate surge, county considers regional approach to housing them.
When Sheriff Scott Miller went on a field trip in December to tour a shuttered juvenile correctional facility near Paso Robles in San Luis Obispo County, he was mostly struck by how big the place ...
Repair-a-Cop
How one retiree helps the Salinas Police – and learns about people’s reactions to the law.
Salinas retiree John Viarengo, 74, isn’t a police officer, but he was driving an officer’s vehicle through his city a few weeks ago when a woman made an unprotected left turn across his lane. When ...
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it,” wrote 19th-century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. “Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of the Earth.” This is ...
By The Numbers 01.13.13
Real Estate
$565,000 Recent Sale 4381 Shoreline Court, Seaside Built: 2004 Size: 2,465 square feet Features: 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Fireplace, chef’s kitchen, soaking tub, walk-in closet, patio, landscaped yard Seller: Eric and Erin ...
Casanova
Fancy Affordable: Parsing Casanova’s menu for $100 with help from new chef Johnny De Vivo.
An unrestrained meal at many a fine restaurant can easily command hundreds of dollars, especially at a place like Casanova in Carmel-by-the-Sea. Entrees average $32, the selection of antipasto and hor d’oeuvres are nearly impossible ...
Fishy Wishes
Incredible sustainable sushi and more hopes for a healthier food system.
I ate the evidence. You would’ve too, if you like sushi – it was a beautiful maki roll packed with roasted garlic, daikon, tempura’d yam, togarashi spices, layered with rich marinated shiitake and soft avocado ...
Letters To The Editor 01.17.13
Trigger Fingers Gun clutchers who cloak themselves in the Second Amendment argue that gun regulations are ineffective because criminals never abide by them (“Local Spin,” Jan. 3-9). That’s a peculiar ration-ale. Let’s try applying it ...
Facing Fear
Jaimal Yogis’ The Fear Project takes a swim with our most primal emotions.
Jaimal Yogis sits in the line-up at Mavericks, the surf mecca in Half Moon Bay, waiting to ride waves large enough to swallow a house – highly skilled watermen have died here. The first action ...
Mama
Del Toro-backed horror flick Mama offers infantile frights.
Guillermo del Toro – the director of such minor masterpieces as The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth – weakens his sphere of influence by producing a sorely underdeveloped horror movie that manufactures scares from the ...
Picks of the Litter
Our absolutely brilliant picks help prepare viewers as Oscar night looms.
The Golden Globes are behind us, and the Oscars are just a few weeks away (Feb. 24). I’ve looked at the nominations announced last week and done my best to give you a crib sheet ...
As county braces for thousands of soon-to-be insured, illegal immigrants remain uncovered.
With about 55,000 low-to-moderate income Monterey County residents expected to qualify for expanded insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the safety net is stretching thin. If all of those who become eligible for coverage ...
Field to Teeth
Scientists find a new way to trace manganese contamination in Salinas Valley.
Public health researchers are looking in a surprising place for traces of banned fungicides: the baby teeth of farmworkers’ children. In July 2011, environmental toxicologist Don Smith of UC Santa Cruz stepped into a lettuce ...
For all his flaws, Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense might be a smart move.
The battle over Barack Obama’s nomination of Chuck Hagel to be U.S. secretary of defense has many of the elements of a typical episode of insider bloodletting. These happen routinely in every administration whenever powerful ...
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Public Citizen 01.17.13
ONGOING BREATHE EASIER | COUNTYWIDE – Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District awards grants to offset the costs of replacing old diesel engines with cleaner-burning technologies. Since 2006, $6.7 million has helped replace more ...
That would be one way to read Republican actions.
Lost in the morass of partisan bickering over the fiscal cliff – Will they or won’t they? They will! With three minutes left to the deadline! – an important little fact for women, or anyone ...
209 Mil: total cost of the Prunedale Improvement Project, which will eliminate left turns across 9 miles of Highway 101. The first interchange, an overpass to Prunedale’s Blackie and Reese roads, open
TEARS OF A CHOWN… Squid can’t believe it’s been almost a whole year since Pacific Grove rich guy Nader Agha launched his vanity paper, Monterey Bay News & Views. From what Squid has seen, Agha ...
Street Talk 11.08.12 (asked on Main Street in Salinas.)
Street Talk 11.08.12 (asked on Main Street in Salinas.)
Follow-up: What scares you the most about our society’s driving habits? BERNADETTE CONANT | Barista | Seaside A: Texting while driving. I’m self-centered. I’m not going to think about what I’m doing wrong, I’m thinking ...
The Laugh Factor
Lily Tomlin has obliterated obstacles at every turn in her famed career.
Lily Tomlin has been a iconoclastic performer without even really trying. She just went about her business – comedy, acting, producing and writing, since the late ’60s – as if there were no barriers to ...
California Dreamin’
Undocumented students band together to share information at CSUMB.
Like to party? Join a frat. Policy wonk? Check out a political organization. Undocumented student? Now, at CSU Monterey Bay, there’s a campus club for that, too. The Otter DREAM Association—TODA for short (toda means ...
Off Track
Salinas-to-San-Jose rail project gets stuck in red tape, pisses off property owners.
AMonterey County rail service could mean speedy transit for long-distance commuters, but the process to get the project rolling has been anything but quick. There’s been talk for more than a decade of creating a ...
