Girl In the Air
Carmel’s Brita Sigourney has been wearing skis since toddlerhood. Now she’s ready for her biggest event yet – the Winter 2013 X games.
Ask any skater grinding the curbs in your neighborhood parking lot, or any brand manager for an international sports apparel line, and they’ll tell you the same story: The X Games rule. Spawned by cable ...
Issues / 2013 / Jan 24
$216,000: Total funding for Monterey Skate Park repairs, $40,000 higher than the initial budget.
ROYAL SCOLDING… Over on Ragsdale Drive, Monterey County Herald Editor Royal Calkins wrote an editorial Jan. 17 in which he acknowledged non-journalist Mike Dove (who along with non-journalist Don Buraglio wrote the paper’s “The Running ...
Career Surrender
The battle over Edward Kennedy’s war-ending legacy continues with a new book and posthumous Pulitzer push.
It was the scoop of Edward Kennedy’s career. The one that cemented his place in journalism history. And the one that cost him his job at The Associated Press and his standing in the national ...
Quartet
Senior Groove: Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut Quartet sings the tale of elderly musicians at a retirement home.
What’s great about Quartet? It demonstrates a genuine love for the arts, and is quick to point out the importance the arts can have throughout a person’s life. To that end, it’s inspiring to see ...
Chronic Country
One of the country music scene’s biggest names visits the Sunset Center.
Clint Black busted his ass to achieve fame: Over a 10-year period, the Grammy Award-winning country star performed solo at any backwoods honky tonk, raunchy bar or grimey club that would have him. By day, ...
Saddling Up
Local music celeb Mike Beck celebrates another record and continues to show love for the cowboy life.
Sex, drugs and cars are some of the recurring themes found throughout many rock albums. In February, Mike Beck will make a record that takes on a very different motif: horses. Beck, whose renowned horsemanship ...
Fair Pay
Cities ask Monterey County for $2 million in overcharged property tax fees.
The accounting tricks used to calculate how property taxes are divvied up between state and local governments sound more like gymnastics moves, with the Triple Flip and the VLF Swap. After the California Supreme Court ...
Dogs’ Best Friend
Emergency vet saves Monterey’s furry four-pawed friends as the county sleeps.
Dr. Katja Herrmann thinks her life is normal. She rescues animals all night – from 5:30pm to 8:30am at the Monterey Peninsula Veterinary Emergency and Speciality Center in Ryan Ranch – then comes home to ...
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The German government sponsored a scientific study of dowsing, which is a form of magical divination used to locate underground sources of water. After 10 years, the chief researcher testified, “It ...
By The Numbers 01.24.13
Real Estate
$750,000 Recent Sale 741 Dry Creek Road, Monterey Built: 1968 Size: 3,137 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Fireplace, new travertine floors in kitchen, entry and bathrooms, 2 decks, bay view ...
Nak Won Korean BBQ
Number Won: Marina’s Nak Won Galbi – or whatever it’s named – unloads a world of must-try Korean flavor.
I’m not quite sure what to call my new favorite Korean restaurant. The title on the menu is . In Romanized script, that’s Nak Won Galbi, which translates to “Paradise Ribs.” But the name on ...
A city this grand deserves a lasting vision.
I can remember the first time I visited Monterey. It was 1976, and I was an undergraduate at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station. There was something about the city that immediately captured me – I ...
Letters To The Editor 01.24.13
Motorhomies I find it very difficult to trust or believe what we are being told by the city of Del Rey Oaks representatives (“Neighbor groups form to weigh in on future of Del Rey Oaks ...
Funding Fiasco
Failure to pass Violence Against Women Act could slam a key D.A. unit.
Congress’ inaction on a women’s protection law could result in less services for local victims of rape and domestic violence, advocates say. The Violence Against Women Act expired in late 2011, and a divided U.S. ...
GMO 2.0
Failed campaign to label GMOs regroups with EcoFarm Conference springboard.
On Election Day, Californians rejected a rule that would’ve required labeling genetically modified food. Now pro-labeling activists are at work on plan B. Locally, that likely means an effort to get a county resolution supporting ...
Winning Wager
Monterey Downs developer had a hand in approving new Salinas off-track betting bar.
Horse gamblers may soon have a new hang in Salinas. The Triple Crown OTB & Sports Bar – short for off-track betting – is poised to open in a former card room at the Bankers ...
Monterey County tallies homeless numbers as economy rebounds.
Scores of volunteers were set to hit the streets to count the county’s homeless population, a number that’s been on the rise. From 2007 to 2011, the number of Monterey County’s homeless grew from about ...
Street Talk 11.08.12 (asked @ PetSmart in Sand City.)
What’s the strangest Pet accident you’ve heard of?
Follow-up: Which of your pet’s qualities do you wish you had? MARIE VAUGHN | Retired | Monterey A: I have a toy poodle that ate a fingertip toothbrush; $1,400 and 15 staples later, we were ...
Get Involved
Public Citizen 01.24.13
THURSDAY 1 | 24 FINANCING CALIFORNIA | MONTEREY – State Board of Equalization board member Betty Yee speaks at the Democratic Women of Monterey County’s annual meeting. 11:30am new officer elections; noon lunch and program. ...
The Roberts Court has shifted away from ideas necessary to enact policies on guns and mental health.
As President Obama begins his second term, our hopes and expectations are shadowed by shooting tragedies whose nadir was reached with the deaths of so many children in Newtown. If these events have reinvigorated a ...
Getting Raw
Oysters rank among the upgrades at Jacks Restaurant, plus an avalanche of incredi-web stories.
At times Jacks Restaurant (649-2698) can evoke linebacker Manti Te’o – the guy who’s got all the game but just can’t find real love. The Portola Plaza location is strategic, the room grand, the eco ...
