Thursday, September 27
Armed with high ideals, Joseph Pawlick enforces a mandate for change at Salinas High--whether teachers, students and parents want it or not.
The Nerve of Minerva: When Minerva Herrera (L), now a freshman at Hartnell College, took issue with Pawlick''s censorship of the yearbook, she joined the staff of the student-run newspaper, the Flashlight. To Sir, Without ...
Flying Fish Grill offers such a wide-ranging blend of cuisines that there may be too much of a good thing.
A few weeks back I voraciously devoured a juicy mystery novel penned by a friend about an angler/journalist and a mushroom hunter in Petaluma. Images of ties and flies and sundry other fishing accouterments are ...
A local art therapist takes her curative skills to the Balkans.
831 -- Tales from the Area Code Rowan Wolnick''s travel scrapbooks are little works of art. Bound in silk, the books have detailed notes in a neat hand narrating her adventures, photographs pasted next to ...
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Maria Ripoll's heartwarming Tortilla Soup is a movie about food--and much, much more.
His Three Daughters: Tortilla Soup celebrates the trials and tribulations of family and food."This is a movie about communication: how we use food to communicate, how food brings us together and pulls us apart, how ...
The plan to widen Highway 1 has bred strange bedfellows.
While Monterey County races to pave the way for an additional lane on Highway 1 before the rains come, two citizens groups--whose members at one time faced off over a similar transportation issue--have joined forces ...
By Squid (squid@coastweekly.com)
What Next?What's that saying about the company you keep? Squid's brain, although highly developed for an invertebrate's, is a little squishy sometimes. But never squishy enough to let an anti-growth meeting at development-happy Nick Lombardo's ...
Your Letters
Bad Squid!Am I the only reader who found Squid's multiple cheap shots at our President's speech from Barksdale AFB on the day of the attack ("Only a Mistake," Sept. 20) both distasteful, unpatriotic and inappropriate? ...
Begs to Differ... What You're Watching... Just a coincidence?...
BEGS TO DIFFER... On Sept. 19, The New York Times printed a report that Clear Channel Communications, the media giant that owns nearly 1,200 radio stations around the country, had "circulated a list of 150 ...
Streetalk.
People do the most horrible things to themselves, sometimes with the full knowledge of what a cigarette or a entire chocolate cake at 3am can do to their bodies. People just love to indulge themselves ...
Terminally ill patients and those who will recover coexist in the Hospice House.
Comfort in a Crowd: Rehabilitation patients like Pat Del Piero now outnumber terminally ill patients in the Hospice House, which was originally built to house people being eased out of life.Tucked into the woods east ...
by Raymond Napolitano (ray@coastweekly.com)
HELP IF YOU CAN... As the world carries on, people everywhere are facing tremendous hardships in the rebuilding and recovery process. As a member of the restaurant community, I would like to encourage concerned folks ...
Linda Butler's photographs capture the human essence that lingers in Italy's ancient hidden places.
Any time a photographer transcends the medium''s mechanical process to produce emotional images it gives one pause. When a photographer working in the "straight" photography vein, an area rife with the pitfalls of cliché and ...
Local Middle East and military experts consider the strange war to come.
Caught By Surprise: Amin Tarzi of MIIS points out the disparity between American military readiness and terrorist tactics. "We were preparing for weapons of mass destruction and they use our own airplanes," he says. "How ...
Popular yearbook teacher fired and re-hired amid charges of administration censorship.
It''s one of those rare warm and sunny afternoons in Monterey, and Cynthia Hess is sitting on the patio at the Culinary Center. She''s holding a manila file folder stuffed with what she says is ...
Thursday, September 20
The MPC Players' Brutality of Fact follows a family's close call with oblivion.
If home is the place where they have to take you in, then family are the people who have to open the door for you. Whether that''s a good thing depends on the family and ...
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Jane Monheit, the hottest female singer in jazz these days, lures fans with her sweet voice and glamorous personality.
Jane Monheit's voice pours smoothly out of the telephone. Jazz music''s newest singing star had performed the night before in Oklahoma City and she speaks excitedly about a tornado that had temporarily knocked the power ...
Local Moslems report that threats against them have been few, but police agencies are on varying degrees of alert.
Mo Mohsin immigrated to the United States from Yemen with his family when he was just 12 years old. An American citizen since 1978, Mohsin owns and operates several small businesses throughout the region. "I ...
Streetalk.
At one time there was an expansive amount of land to explore and build a home on. Pioneers plunged into the wilds with dreams of freedom and a patch of earth to call their very ...
The themes of S.C. Yuan's paintings were ubiquitous throughout the Carmel art scene, but the style was his alone.
White House (24" x 36", oil on canvas) and Three Oranges and Pears (16" x 20", oil on wood), by S.C. YuanThe 28 paintings by S.C. Yuan at the Hartnell College Gallery provide 28 opportunities ...
Flesh Eaters charms as well as it shocks.
The local production of Flesh Eaters that premieres on Saturday at the Osio Cinema isn't likely to win any awards for filmmaking. On the other hand, it's quite likely to win a cult following among ...
Inside a nondescript Seaside shop, the curved silhouettes of custom-made automobiles slowly materialize.
831 -- Tales from the Area Code As he walks around his shop, Bruce Terry grips a three-foot bronze rod and uses it as a metal extension of his arm. It''s really like a section ...
Your Letters
LOCK THE DOOR I've been saying it for over 10 years: We have got to have "vault-like" doors to the pilots. Once that door closes, no one, not even an airline attendant, can open the ...
Cliff jumpers find a daredevil's paradise in Monterey County's swimming holes.
OutsideTwo deep breaths. A three-count. And I step into oblivion. When you''re falling, even from 45 feet up, there''s not much time to think. My thought pattern goes something like this: first I get an ...
Will's Fargo restaurant is one of those honest-to-God, meat-and-potato places that never go out of style.
Chef Steven Bracisco delivers hearty, fulfilling meals amidst rustic elegance at Will''s Fargo. The front door to Carmel Valley''s legendary Will''s Fargo restaurant opens into the lounge. On the right is a small bar where, ...
Local historian will discuss the 1920s Ku Klux Klan infiltratration of the Monterey Bay Area.
Cabrillo College history professor Sandy Lydon has been planning his lecture on local Klu Klux Klan activities in the 1920s for months. But the resurgent racism he has seen arise since last Tuesday led him ...
As Fred Keeley's 'colleagues' cut him (and us) out of a big deal, Bruce McPherson votes his party.
Earlier this month, Sen. Bruce McPherson (D-Santa Cruz) put his name on a full-page ad that cried "Save the Central Coast," joining Assemblyman Fred Keeley (D-Boulder Creek) and former Central Coast congressman Leon Panetta in ...
By Squid
ONLY A MISTAKE... To say that Squid felt distressed last Tuesday morning is to grossly understate the situation. Starting the moment a neighbor flung open Squid's door and hollered, "Did you hear?" the day commenced ...
Monterey Jazz Festival showcases Wynton and Branford Marsalis and their disparate musical visions.
Tradition versus innovation. That is the essential dynamic that makes jazz such a vital American art form. It is also the essential dilemma that underscores the experience for audiences, musicians and officials at the Monterey ...
Monterey Jazz Fest Schedule
As of press time, all arena seating is sold out. Grounds passes: $80 for all three days; $25/Friday, $35/Saturday or Sunday. Tickets purchased after the festival opens are an additional $5. 925-275-9255.Friday NightJIMMY LYONS STAGE ...
Food Chain
SOUL FOOD... As a person who has spent most of my life in the service business I have gotten to know and understand humans in all their forms. The cynical, hard-edged, intellectual part of my ...
Thursday, September 13
Mark of the Beast... And Speaking of Humanity...
MARK OF THE BEAST... As I sit here trying to drum out clever things to say about wet T-shirt contests and packed nightclub floors, I cannot find words for these things. There is too much ...
Three thousand miles from the mayhem, Salinas residents reel from the shock and do what they can to help.
On the Street: Above, Erin Finley and Mark Boothe struggle to make sense of Tuesday''s events. At right (from left to right), Rickey Valentine, Robert Pletcher, Ricky Rotenberg and Jim Pletcher at the Salinas skate ...
A Brooklynite reacts to what the attack means to his community.
They were boxy, they were ugly, and they were out of scale even within lower Manhattan''s riot of skyscrapers. They were smug. Yet, as all of us in Brooklyn hold vigils on roofs for the ...
Local flyboy comes home to star in the skies above Salinas.
831 -- Tales from the Area Code Long-time Salinas resident Sean D. Tucker and his Team Oracle will come off the road midway through the national air-show season to perform with other headliners at the ...
Foreign policy experts at MIIS talk about the United States, the Middle East and the evolving craft of terrorism.
On Tuesday, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Amin Tarzi hung up a poster of New York City in his office window. Like many other researchers ...
The Monterey World Music Festival was built around an idea that is needed now more than ever.
Urna''s soaring vocal improvisations will give traditional Mongolian songs a contemporary feel during the World Music Festival on Saturday.Some of the bands scheduled to appear at this weekend''s Monterey World Music Festival might not make ...
By Raymond Napolitano (ray@coastweekly.com)
The traditionalists won out. The powers that be, combined with the power of public opinion, have derailed my career as a restaurant reviewer. Good riddance. But the editors like my style (or so they tell ...
Life on the Peninsula goes on while New York and Washington burn.
So many people tried to give blood, nurses had to turn them away. Some donors said it made them feelless helpless than just watching the carnage on TV. The line outside the Blood Center overflows ...
Despite its location on a major thoroughfare, many people drive right by the goodness inside Patty's Caf& %s;.
Tom´:s Gonzales, owner of Patty''s Café, serves house-made meals that rely on fresh ingredients. If Patty''s, a family-owned Mexican café, were on Cannery Row, Fisherman''s Wharf, or even in downtown Pacific Grove, it would undoubtedly ...
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Every night at 10, the plaintive notes of "Taps" are broadcast through speakers around the Presidio of Monterey. Sitting at the kitchen table last Monday night in my apartment, two blocks from the base, I ...
For the first time ever, the Artists Studio Tour will include a group of teen artists. They just might steal the show.
Smells Like Teen Spirit: Youth Arts Collective participants Jenny Hugo (above left), Phil Bekker (in white T-shirt), Fletcher Tucker and Valerie Leadingham (pictured below with Meg Biddle) bring a new dimension to the Artists Studio ...
Watching the screen go dark at the end of The Musketeer might be the best part of the entire film.
Immediately after sitting through Peter Hyams'' resourcefully awful "reimagining" of Alexandre Dumas'' classic tale of King Louis, Cardinal Richelieu, and the little problems of state that make them whine, I felt compelled to revisit Richard ...
Two one-acts examine intimacy--from a distance.
Watching the two one-act plays by John Patrick Shanley that comprise Missing/ Kissing, one gets the feeling that something is indeed missing. And it might have to do with kissing. This production, a joint venture ...
The Presidio of Monterey has been on guard for a week. But how much does it matter?
Don''t let the sign trick you, things are no longer "normal." After the bombings, a Green Beret studying Arabic said he expects his world to change fast. We''ve been warned that the question was not ...
After six decades, it's hard to remember that Dave Brubeck's jazz was once revolutionary.
Dave Brubeck first appeared around these parts when he played at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1962. In a performance that helped put the festival on the world''s jazz map, he performed The Real Ambassadors, ...
Thursday, September 6
Your Letters
Real Hot Issue I am writing in response to Andrew Allison's accusation (Letters, Aug. 30) that global warming is an issue created by "publicity-seeking politicians and so-called scientists, and a calculated effort on the part ...
Dr. Bob Melton finds hope in the Tellus/D& %s;ganos report's disturbing numbers.
Bob Melton claims he is not an optimist. But when he talks about the Monterey County Children and Youth Report released Thursday, Sept. 6 by Tellus/Díganos, a nonprofit organization he helped found, he refuses to ...
Youth crime numbers are down, according to the Tellus/D& %s;ganos report. But some kids are still in trouble.
Manuel Real, director of the Monterey County Probation Department''s juvenile division, has officers assigned to almost every high school in the county. One of these, a female officer working in Salinas, was watching a kid ...
Streetk
Every family has a weird one. That family member who just doesn't seem right, maybe an uncle who shows up on holidays with cigars and whiskey for the kids. The structure of any family would ...
Two cab companies battle it out over the streets of Monterey
Carmel Taxi owner Duane Gida remembers vividly the day he broke the law. It was a hot and dusty summer afternoon last June, before the U.S. Open in Pebble Beach. Gida''s 26-car fleet was busy ...
Victor Salva's Jeepers Creepers pays homage to a whole history of schlock-shockers.
Jeepers Creepers may not be the most technically accomplished horror film I''ve seen--some of the night sequences, of which there are many, have a serious film-grain problem--but what it lacks in studio-level finesse, it more ...
Sista Monica sings the blues--when she's ready.
Last time I spoke with Sista Monica was last year, about the time she was releasing her People Love the Blues CD. At the time, she was going through one of those relationship breakups that ...
Foodchain
CARNIVALE COMING TO CANNERY ROW Jeffrey Mora is opening Carnivale, an Argentine-inspired restaurant and nightclub going into the warehouse building on Wave and Prescott across from the Sardine Factory on Cannery Row where O'Kanes used ...
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By Catherine Fallis
A Taste of Monterey Voted by Weekly readers in 1999 as Monterey''s best wine- tasting room, A Taste of Monterey Wine Visitor Center is more like an interactive wine amusement park. Walk upstairs and leave ...
Lauri Hofer celebrates CD release following Iron Angels bike rally.
Lauri Hofer and her band Lorelei and the RoadKings, featuring Terry Hiatt and other local heroes, will play at Ocean Thunder Saturday night. It''s the Sunday morning of this year''s AT&T Pro-Am weekend, and the ...
by Chuck Thurmanchuck@coastweekly.com
BRAVE NEW WORLD... Ah! The glories --and pitfalls--of the communication age! Just ask the Monterey County Convention and Visitors Bureau or Pacific Repertory Theatre. Every year, the MCCVB prints an annual calendar of events that ...
Soldier-students want more security
Confusion is the password at the Presidio''s Franklin Street gate on Saturday evening. "Oh, it''s happening now?" a man driving a white Chevy Blazer asks two camouflaged soldiers wearing orange vests marked "SECURITY FORCES." The ...
If you thought roller skating died the day Linda Ronstadt put away her satin shorts, you're in for a big surprise.
Rise and Shine: Student Patrick Reed takes a few pointers from Del Monte Gardens skating instructor Brad Burchell. 831 -- Tales from the Area Code My eyes dart toward the door. I could make it. ...
Del Monte Express has fed so many people so many burgers for so long that it has become an institution.
I believe that humans need familiarity. The regular repetition of familiar activities somehow comforts the restlessness and insecurity that bubbles just below the surface in most people. Because of this, certain things become institutions: baseball, ...
A spectacular Big Sur hike yields views of purple mountains' majesty.
playing around.On sunny weekends, everything changes on the Rocky Ridge Trail. Quiet and hushed during the week, come Saturday morning it becomes something of a superhighway to the sky for a procession of urban refugees ...
Tellus/D& %s;ganos delivers startling news about Monterey County's next generation.
Brenda Sanchez, 23, just passed her GED. It''s been a long road for this daughter of migrant farm workers, who was born in California and spent her formative years traveling back and forth to Mexico ...
