Thursday, November 25
With Sleepy Hollow, director Tim Burton serves up another gothic visual treat.
You''ll notice Washington Irving''s name is absent from the title of Burton''s new film. That''s due in no small part to the fact that this version of the story owes less to Irving''s original tale ...
Your Letters
Flaming Indignation Finally, articles and information like "Money to Burn" (11/11) may make a difference in how wildland fire protection, education, and training may be conducted in the wildland and wildland/urban interface zones of Monterey ...
Holy Fire
Asmiling young woman handed me a program as I walked into the Seaside Assembly of God on a recent Sunday. I slipped into a pew near the back, hoping to watch unnoticed as people filed ...
Chef Profile
Duck into this diminutive deli cafe out of the fray of the Crossroads Boulevard, pick up a menu, and it quickly becomes clear that there's a whole lot more than meets the eye at La ...
It's time to think about what holiday traditions you'll adopt.
It was a Czechoslovakian Christmas blessing, but now all anybody can remember is that the first part sounded like "kuti, kuti." Once, in a very different life within this same lifetime, my then-father-in-law, Frank, would ...
Artifacts
Prodigal Dancer When Salinas Performing Arts, Inc. presents its Nutcracker ballet this weekend at Sherwood Hall in Salinas, it will be a kind of local-boy-makes-good fairy tale. The role of the Cavalier, more commonly known ...
The People Speak
How many times have you read Street Talk and thought, "Geez! I could think of better questions than that!" We gave folks on the street the chance to tell us what they''d ask if they ...
Thursday, November 18
David Lynch takes on America's heartland and brotherly love in The Straight Story.
The Straight Story is a piece of American poetry, an elegiac ode to a 73-year-old man''s defiant act of raging against the dying of the light. Its simplicity belies an emotional complexity that will linger ...
Kids' Art Contest Winner
Sometimes you have to be a parent to enjoy a children''s art show, but the Big Sur Land Trust''s "Walk on the Wild Side" competition, designed to strengthen local children''s connection to the beauty of ...
From The Editorial Desk
Fish and frogs, pines and plovers are just the beginning.The Central Coast is a haven for imperiled flora and fauna.
Monterey Peninsula Art Foundation show reveals a wealth of local talent.
There are two inescapable conclusions to be drawn after a visit to the Monterey Peninsula Art Foundation''s bi-annual members show, now on display at the Pacific Grove Art Center. The first is how many wonderfully ...
Kids' Art Contest Winner
Sometimes you have to be a parent to enjoy a children''s art show, but the Big Sur Land Trust''s "Walk on the Wild Side" competition, designed to strengthen local children''s connection to the beauty of ...
Not every endangered species story has a bad ending. A few good endings along the way have brought great cause for celebration.
For a while it looked bad for our familiar California (or eastern North Pacific) gray whale. Things are looking good now. Originally listed as endangered on June 2, 1970, with an estimated population of 12,567, ...
Your Letters
Enough Growth, Already Thank you for your editorial on Cal-Am's proposed Carmel River dam ("Dump the Dam, Once and For All," 11/11). Superb! Good to see someone cut through the rhetoric and tell it like ...
Kids' Art Contest Winner
Sometimes you have to be a parent to enjoy a children''s art show, but the Big Sur Land Trust''s "Walk on the Wild Side" competition, designed to strengthen local children''s connection to the beauty of ...
Chef Profile
Cozied up right next to the bay with one of the best locations on Cannery Row, the Chart House was ready for a new look, and got one. Part of a restaurant group that operates ...
Locally written play about a family ravaged by Alzheimer's makes a successful debut at Western Stage.
"Escuchame. Listen to me." This is a phrase repeated often in Looking for Words, a new work by Salinas playwright Michael Roddy currently playing at the Western Stage in Salinas. If you are willing to ...
Street Talk
California''s kids are surrounded by dollar signs, yet nearly a third live in poverty. To them, this might as well be the Great Depression. What are we doing wrong? How can we do better? Stephanie ...
Even after 40 years in the public eye, Joan Baez's career and life keep transforming.
Joan Baez has been many things. In the late ''50s she was a teenage singer, breathing new life into old folk songs. By the mid ''60s she had become an iconic figure on the New ...
Squid Fry
I Said Command-C, Not Command-X, You Idiot In what appears to be its crusade to erase the legacy of former City Manager Tim Brown, the Seaside City Council has lowered the axe on Information Systems ...
Art News in Brief
Saving the Slough On Oct. 14, the Weekly reported on a group of North County landscape artists who had begun staging weekly Thursday "paint-ins" at the Elkhorn Slough to protest a development project planned for ...
Thursday, November 11
Your Letters
Fort Art Many of you are too young to know that more came out of Fort Ord than toxic waste. Some very talented people started at Fort Ord. My father was stationed there in the ...
Street Talk
Congressional Republicans just rejected a treaty that would have banned most nuclear weapons testing. Meanwhile, U.S. political and military leaders continue to spend billions of dollars a year on a "Star Wars"-like defense system. What ...
Ex-Dead Kennedy exercises his right to free speech at CSUMB.
Ialmost didn''t get to interview Jello Biafra. "Is the tape player rolling?" he asks as soon as he jumps on the line. Taken aback by the assaultive conversational style of a man who, I freely ...
Chef Profile
Before it became pizza "his way," you might say Hamdey Altayyeb did his master''s thesis in pizza. He studied pizza the way an academic might pursue medicine or philosophy, only instead of book by book, ...
Squid Fry
I can''t tell you what a fit I threw while reading last week''s story about congressional candidate Larry Fenton, who aimed to further democracy by registering voters (and sharing his Reform Party ideas) at the ...
Editorial
"It is not riches, as some say, but honor that is the delight of men when they are old and useless."--Pericles In Classical Greece, you could lose much more than your honor by being too ...
From Wonder Bread to oysters, there's more than one way to stuff a bird.
Seventy loaves of Wonder Bread. She does it every year. My sister, Betty, fills up the back of the family wagon with 70 loaves of Wonder Bread and dutifully carts it into the Shelbyville United ...
Western Stage mounts a marvelous version of that old standard, Fiddler on the Roof.
Fiddler on the Roof, now at the Western Stage at Hartnell College, is powerfully performed, engaging, and compelling. From Tevye''s first entrance to his last backward glance at the turn-of-the-century Russian Jewish village he, his ...
Thursday, November 4
One of the more fanciful ideas for Fort Ord is a year-round medieval village.
From the street it looks like an average automotive repair shop in Salinas, or any other town. In fact, it looks that way at the front counter, too. There are a few repair parts (in ...
Is it nobler this holiday season to wrap your turkey in foil, soak it in brine or roast it slow?
November. The month that everybody stands around scratching their heads going "Ohmigod, the holidays. What happened to summer?" September was barely a blip on the radar screen, October was a sunny, disorienting tease and now ...
Your Letters
Who's Got a File? I''m alarmed that Cal-Am''s parent company, American Water Works, would "dig up dirt" on people in Chattanooga who stood between them and more profits ("Liquid Assets," 10/28). Can you please tell ...
A low-cost 'youth Asilomar' at Fort Ord? Marina officials ask 'Why not?'
When the Cold War came to an end, it hit the city of Marina harder than most towns in the Western world. At least that''s what Marina City Manager John Longley will tell you. In ...
East Garrison development defines the meaning of mixed use.
"Imagine," reads a flyer for a proposed artist community on the former Fort Ord, "a crea- tive community of artists: sketching, dan-cing, writing poetry, making music, designing stage sets, composing symphonies, creating sculpture, photographing nature ...
Whatever happened to the chickens who worked the tic-tac-toe game on Cannery Row?
Dr. Leghorn Einstein bears the weight of history on his tiny feathered shoulders. He--or, more precisely, the three chickens who rotated his role among themselves--was one of the last remaining tic-tac-toe-playing chickens in America when ...
Squid Fry
Somebody Over There is Whistling "Home, Home on the Range" I was a little concerned a few years back when my comrades over at the Herald decided to relocate their offices from downtown Monterey to ...
Folks planning a cohousing development on Fort Ord hope to sub-unite, not subdivide.
Following a draining day at work, Modern Man/ Woman picks up the kids from school/day care and trudges home to hide behind locked doors and gated entrances and six-foot privacy fences. A makeshift dinner is ...
Monterey Opera Association's La Traviata marks a new level of production values for the company.
"Up and down and back and around," is how noted soprano Nancy Williams describes the course of the Monterey Opera Association''s (MOA) development. She should know--she sang the role of Anina in the group''s first ...
Street Talk
To many, sports has become nothing short of a religion. Athletes are worshipped like so many gods. Sure, it''s fun to throw popcorn at the TV when the other team scores, but do we care ...
The Weekly takes a look at some creative ideas for taking Fort Ord from here to eternity.
Generally speaking, bureaucrats don''t make up slogans. They tend to leave catchy soundbites to politicians and their speech writers. But Michael Houlemard, executive director of the Fort Ord Reuse Authority, recently came up with a ...
Chef Profile
Every restaurant has a story to tell. When it comes to Taste Cafe and Bistro, you'd be hard pressed to find a more unique success story anywhere. Located in a small strip plaza at the ...
Being John Malkovich is a clever journey inside the actor's mind... or is it?
I''d been dreading Being John Malkovich because I was afraid the movie would ruin the actor for me. After seeing Looking for Richard, it was impossible for me to enjoy Al Pacino as I had ...
Monologue artist Josh Kornbluth gets up close and personal with Ben Franklin: Unplugged.
"The piece kept going off in these strange directions," says Bay Area actor Josh Kornbluth of his most recent monologue, Ben Franklin: Unplugged. "I wanted to make the piece this and it kept becoming something ...
