Winter 2012 Food and Wine - Carmel Valley Tasting Rooms
Carmel Valley’s rack of tasting rooms has doubled in five years – plus Gallante and Cima Collina are about to uncork their own rooms and Silvestri is seriously considering it. A couple notes, before a ...
Winter 2012 Food and Wine: Foodie A to Z in Carmel Valley
Plenty of places proclaim they’re The Next Napa. Those places miss the point. Yes, Napa’s beautiful. Stuffed to bulging with Masaharu Morimotos and Cindy Pawlcyns. Juiced to the gills with Stag’s Leap Cabs and Duckhorn ...
Smoke Alarmed
A real-deal local chimney sweep talks of smokestack stereotypes and fire prevention.
If the thought of chimney sweeps triggers a pretty motion picture of Dick Van Dyke singing “Chim Chim Cheree” in Mary Poppins, don’t mention it to Jerry Forbes. “That’s fantasy,” grunts Forbes, who owns Morrill ...
Brezsny's Astrology Feb 2-8, 2012
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Sad but true: A lot of people seem to be perpetually in a state of wanting what they don’t have and not wanting what they actually do have. I’m begging you ...
By The Numbers 2-02-12
Real Estate
$1,505,000 Recent Sale 11 Sleepy Hollow Dr., Carmel Valley Built: 1991 Size: 6,400 square feet Features: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, 3-car garage, 5 acres Amenities: 3 fireplaces, pool, hot tub, wet bar, wine cellar, workshop, ...
Winter 2012 Food and Wine - Boxing Wine
John Saunders’ backstory makes him a Carmel Valley icon – and this icon makes good wine.
John Saunders, 61, didn’t get the Stirrup Cup bartending gig at 21 because of his food-and-beverage degree. He was hired because the owner wanted a fighter, and Saunders happened to be a Vietnam-tested Marine and ...
Winter 2012 Food and Wine - Lokal Yokels
Brendan Jones recruits a partner from Prague to give the area an infusion of foodie energy.
At new Lokal in Carmel Valley Village, Chef Brendan Jones will use things like eggplant and asparagus, artichoke and avocado, quinoa and deer-tail lettuce grown in his mom’s backyard maybe a quarter of a mile ...
Out of the Valley
Beyond Carmel Valley, the bull is back and Happy Girl makes people… happy.
All the juicy Carmel Valley flavor dripping over this week’s Wine & Food issue borders on overwhelming. It can also feel a little unnerving, like something’s missing, à la El Mariachi Restaurante in Monterey (324-4953), ...
Athena’s Cafe
Freak for Greek: Athena’s Cafe widens Nimri brothers’ family of welcoming restaurants.
Greek is good. Not only has Greece given us the first working version of civilization, pillared architecture and modern democracy, but grub with historic impact. One can thank Alexander the Great for this cuisine’s originality: ...
Letters To The Editor 2.02.12
Monumental Movement It is about time that Fort Ord be saved from greedy developers who bulldoze the landscape then go broke and leave, or other developers that build obnoxious big box stores and malls (“Local ...
Chronicle
Birthing a Hero: Chronicle takes a stylized, seductive page from comic book stories of yore.
Teenage boy with a drunken, abusive dad and a sick mom. Lovelorn and lonely. Bullied and picked on at school. Bit of a loner. Full of rage and feeling very ineffectual. And now he’s got ...
Pariah
Coming Out On Top: Pariah refuses to conform in its telling of a closeted lesbian’s trials of self-discovery.
Pariah encompasses the personal and the universal with its emotionally engaging story about a Brooklyn teenager who struggles to find a place to fit in and thrive. The film is fresh yet familiar, raw but ...
Piercing the Heart
Four bands rally for a local piercer lost to lymphoma.
Body piercer Paul Van Noy was diagnosed last September with Stage Four lymphoma. A month ago, an MRI revealed something even worse: Van Noy had cancer in his spinal column. For three years, Van Noy ...
Jazz Preservatives
The renowned Preservation Hall Jazz Band keeps New Orleans jazz alive at Sunset.
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band is more than a group of seven world-class musicians. They’re an embodiment of New Orleans jazz dedicated to spreading their art form all over the world, including Carmel, where they ...
Methyl Rules
Litigation could alter future of California pesticide; county stakeholders seek consensus.
At points the controversy over methyl iodide has moved into the macabre as activists talk fetal rabbit deaths and stage mock fumigations on the state Capitol steps. Now it has taken a turn for the ...
Mr. Right for Marina?
Conservative Steve Emerson takes on Delgado for mayor.
The election for Marina mayor is nine months away. But the race is full term for Steve Emerson, a financial consultant and president of The Marina Foundation, who kicked off his campaign Jan. 28. By ...
Gene Pool
Citizens’ campaign to label GMOs in food comes to Pacific Grove’s EcoFarm Conference.
A display of processed foods – canned Prego sauce, Kashi cereal, Miss Vickie’s potato chips – is a matte contrast to the colorful vegetables and flowers at the Monterey Peninsula College farmers market. Yet it ...
Greener Pastures
The Ecological Farming Association’s annual EcoFarm conference in Pacific Grove is looking to the future, but stakes a claim to history as the oldest, biggest eco-ag gathering in the West. A wide range of events ...
Caught in the Middle
Seafood startup hopes to forge a truce between Aquarium and local fishermen.
In a nation where shrimp, salmon and tuna account for more than half the seafood eaten, Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch cards encourage people to expand their palates to more sustainable choices. And in Monterey ...
Tenacious D
Public Enemy energizer Chuck D visits CSU Monterey Bay, remains vigilant.
Chuck D’s rap group Public Enemy, celebrating its 25th year with a new album and world tour, was once feared – and vilified – for its angry political messages and sonic assault. They’ve since been ...
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