Thursday, September 26
Letters
Renters Could Afford to Buy "Fort Affordable" [Sept. 12-18] was right on target. I have said all along that $300,000 is not affordable. Most people probably assume that affordable housing means a full-fledged home with ...
Annual studio tour offers a glimpse into the inner worlds of local artists.
Photo by Randy Tunnell. Photo: Look Out--Pamela Takigawa''s Carmel Valley studio offers vistas into a world of objects she has created. The meeting of two worlds takes place this weekend, as art aficionados visit the ...
Asked at Feed Trough Feed Store, Salinas
QUESTION: To what extent are you or your family involved in the agriculture in Salinas? FOLLOW UP: What is your favorite salad dressing? Mike & Liz Morgan Business Owners/Salinas A: We''ve lived here all our ...
Discspace
Linda Ronstadt The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt/ Elektra/Rhino In the mid ''70s, this dulcet-toned thrush completely ruled the lite-rock charts. But unlike the Cali softies that followed in her wake (such as the gents ...
Foodchain
I''M MAD AS HELL...How come the FOOD CHANNEL isn''t on basic cable? For that matter, how come it isn''t automatically piped in to every television set in America. I''m not sure it''s even available on ...
Pacific Repertory's Henry V shows promise.
Photo: Boyz II Men-John Farmanesh-Bocca plays the grown-up Prince Hal in Pacific Repertory Theatre''s Henry V. The opening night production of Henry V seemed curiously disjointed. Although there were many fine performances and thoroughly enjoyable ...
Two commanders face off in Sheriff's race.
Both of the two men vying for the title of top cop within the Monterey County Sheriff''s department say they want to put more deputies on the streets. Commanders Mike Kanalakis and Lonnie Heffington both ...
The gift of Salinas Valley soil.
Photo by Randy Tunnell. Photo: Fog Bank--Robert Kennedy says proximity to the ocean makes the Salinas Valley perfect. Their names skitter off the lips and tongue or stick in the throat as if the sound ...
Hotpicks
friday 9|27 Dwight Boy Blues SHANE DWIGHT Since showing up on the local scene just a couple of years ago, the recent winner the Monterey Bay Blues Festival competition has become one of the hottest ...
The new Carmel Bistro is one of the best values in town.
Photo by Randy Tunnell. Photo: Bistro Fair--a bright room, relaxed staff and good food and wine make Carmel Bistro work. The restaurant-owner fantasy is rampant--not only among the experienced, but also among home cooks, creatively ...
Young actors try to prove their mettle in the predictable yet convoluted The Four Feathers.
Photo: Save The Last Sudance For Me--Kate Hudson and Heath Ledger are good, upright Brits caught in a morally and romantically wrenching dilemma--and a desert war--in The Four Feathers. You can''t help but root for ...
The would-be beneficiaries of George W. Bush's 'regime change' in Iraq are a bunch of thugs.
Corrupt, feckless and downright dangerous. Some say the contenders for Saddam Hussein''s throne make the Butcher of Baghdad himself look good. Ever since the September 11 attacks, "regime change" has been the catchphrase coming out ...
Squidfry
WHO YOU CALLING AN ELEPHANT... Squid''s not sleeping well these days. Squid''s haunted by visions of George W''s holy war against Iraq and the economy slipping deeper into a black hole. And elephants in the ...
Best Of The Rest
Photo: Grape Expectations--Chateau Julien presents wines from the Lockwood Region at a tasting on Friday. thursday 9|26 WINE TASTING 6pm. LeTip of Monterey, a group of entrepreneurs, hosts a free wine-tasting mixer. Hors d''oeuvres and ...
Itsyville brings a wood sculptor's fantasies to life.
Photo by Randy Tunnell. Photo: Wood Have Been--Steve Ballard, the chainsaw-wielding creator of Itsyville, carves to reveal tree spirits. If you thought you were looking at playful tree houses when you drove past the Toro ...
Ten years after the creation of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, things are getting worse.
Photo by Randy Tunnell. Photo: Leon Panetta, Julie Packard and Jean-Michel Cousteau addressed a conference on the tenth anniversary of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Whenever a certain point was made, or for that ...
Thursday, September 19
Nancy Wilson, Rene Marie and Lizz Wright find their own ways to give voice to jazz.
Photos: Ladies Sing: (clockwise from upper left) Lizz Wright, Nancy Wilson and Rene Marie Women jazz and blues singers are present in abundance at Monterey Jazz Festival of 2002, a year in which the experience ...
Is media hysteria about stranger abductions making kids and parents paranoid?
Photo by Randy Tunnell. Elizabeth Smart. Danielle Van Dam. Jacqueline Marris. Tamara Brooks. Samantha Runnion. Just the names of these recent victims of child abductions are enough to send shivers down any parent''s spine. Even ...
Newsbriefs
CHOMP Nurses Mobilize Nurses employed by Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP) met in Seaside on Tuesday with a representative of the California Nurses Association (CNA) to discuss unionizing. Two meetings closed to public and ...
Three players at MJF 2002 take the music in different directions.
Photos: Cory Wells Brown (Don Byron), Andy Nozaka (Roy Hargrove). When Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver and Louis Armstrong and a bunch of other black musicians in New Orleans invented jazz, they were playing ...
Letters
Fish Rap We envy the neighbor of the woman with eighty birds [Squid, Sept. 12-18]. The laws of Monterey in their majesty allow only four birds per household but apparently unlimited numbers of dead fish. ...
Sun and Fog: A PG Jewel and a CV Star
Photos: A 1909 Pacific Grove cottage has been "opened up" with windows, mirrors and French doors that open onto a perfect little garden (far left) and a tiny, functional patio (left). A four-year-old hilltop retreat ...
Hot Italian singer Roberta Gambarini plays Carmel this Thursday.
Photo: New American--Roberta Gambarini''s career has taken off since she moved to New York. It''s a truism that American jazz musicians receive far more respect (and money) in Europe than on their home turf. But ...
Hard to say what's more suspect: the case for intervention or the timing of the debate.
Maybe it''s just me, but I seem to have missed the case for going to war with Iraq. Normally, the case for going to war--this kind of war--begins with the discovery of evidence. That was ...
Mostly Martha ladles on the love in the mouth-watering manner of all the greatest food films.
Photo: You Have to Love the Food Like A Woman--Sergio Castellitto delivers a passionate discourse on flavors while Martina Gedeck listens in Mostly Martha. When it comes to cooking for the masses, the jaunty theme ...
Farr's affordable housing plan gets a mixed reaction from FORA.
It was not a warm reception that greeted Rep. Sam Farr and members of the Housing Authority following their PowerPoint presentation to the Fort Ord Reuse Authority (FORA) board last Friday, but it was an ...
My short happy friendship with Dizzy Gillespie.
Photos by Will Wallace Photo: Cheese, Diz--Dizzy Gillespie plays his last gig at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1992 (left), and at one of the many MJF shows he played over the years. Longtime fans ...
Stalking the wild Julia Child, and the fruit that bears her name.
Photo: A Fruitful Life--the Julia Child heirloon tomato variety was introduced at this year''s TomatoFest, where the real Ms. Child was to have been honored. This space was going to carry a very special interview ...
Art that's always there rarely gets the respect it deserves.
Photo: One Sheet to the Wind--Davis Ligare''s "Serifos (Thrown Drapery)" is on permanent display at the Conference Center in downtown Monterey. We tend to think of places we have lived in terms of the relationships ...
Asked in Carmel-by-the-Sea
QUESTION: What was your first-ever form of transportation? FOLLOW UP: What is your dream form of transportation? Don Brzezinski Retired/Greendale, Wisconsin A: Probably a buggy. I''m sure my mom had one, she had two of ...
Army prepares to burn a field in Fort Ord, and offers to relocate downwind neighbors.
A toll-free information line, set up to provide up-to-the-minute news flashes about the Army''s plans to burn brush at Fort Ord, is way behind the times: "There are no prescribed burns scheduled for the year ...
Hotpicks
thursday 9|19 Eat Your Veggies! TASTE OF THE VALLEY FOOD AND WINE SHOW Enjoy the foods that make the Salinas Valley such a significant source of the world''s produce. Award-winning wines and gourmet recipes will ...
Squidfry
SQUID IN 2004 Squid's found a new way to raise money to fund Squid's mayoral campaign: sue the city--and then sell your domain name for $5,000. Squid''s taking lessons from cyber gadfly BRIAN BAUGHN, who ...
Crimes of the Heart puts a charming Southern spin on the classic family drama.
Photo: The Gripes of the McGraths--left to right, Joyce Sherry, Anne Hoffman and Sherry Kefalas play the eccentric and passionate McGrath sisters in Crimes of the Heart. Beth Henley''s 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning play (and 1986 ...
Thursday, September 12
Foodchain
FROM DOWN UNDER If you happen to run into a couple wandering aimlessly around the area, agape at the wonders of our modern American society, chances are they might be CHARLES and JENNIE PREGENZER, newly ...
Green machines hit the road.
Photo by Brett Wilbur. Photo: Big Wheel-Peter Smith, president of CSUMB, says his test drive convinced him that hydrogen fuel cell cars are the way of the future. It''s an understandably risky move to hand ...
A Monterey production team's film of an inner-city debate team is set for national viewing on PBS.
Photo by Scott Herregstad. Photo: Candid Camera-documentary filmmakers Steve Rosen and Terri DeBono are about to hit national TV for the second time. Terri DeBono and Steve Rosen, the team behind Mac and Ava Motion ...
The sixth annual Monterey World Music Festival spans the continents to bring diverse sounds downtown.
The words "world" and "music" each convey big things and many meanings. In putting them together for the Monterey World Music Festival this weekend, organizers had the difficult but enjoyable task of editing down from ...
Activist and candidate to speak at CSUMB.
Dr. Massouda Jalal made history earlier this year at Afghanistan''s Loya Jirga when she challenged then-interim president Hamid Karzai to lead the state. Although she lost to Karzai, Jalal came in second in the tally. ...
Come Back, Little Sheba reveals the turbulence masked by Middle America's placid exterior.
Photo by Richard Green. Photo: Puppy Love-Michael Halton (left) ignores Donna Federico (right), his ditzy wife Lola. When William Inge penned Come Back, Little Sheba, the story of a 1940s, middle-class, small-town couple frustrated by ...
Squidfry
KING OF THE THRONE Fred Keeley's "commitment to the environment, social justice, public safety and the Central Coast" is certainly commendable. Sure, Squid enjoys a clean, oil-tanker-free Monterey Bay where vertebrates and invertebrates alike enjoy ...
Seastone combines unique artistic features and a rare setting.
Photo: Rock and Art-one-half block from Carmel Beach, Seastone occupies one of a relatively few big lots in Carmel-by-the-Sea. ''Do you want me to tell you about the ghost?" asks Chris Sedan, who with wife ...
The YWCA's most successful programs could fall to the budget axe.
Photo by Randy Tunnell. Photo: Alexis Barry, executive director of the local YWCA, says demand for services has gone up while funding has decreased. Sitting in her Seaside office, Alexis Barry, executive director of the ...
Letters
9/11/02: A Post-Traumatic Mess Your pieces capture the complexities and critical nature of decisions being made on plans for a U.S. invasion of Iraq [One Year later: A Nation in Crisis; Sept. 5-11]. The post-9/11 ...
A new study gives the lie to Monterey County's inflated housing costs.
Photo by Randy Tunnell. Photo: Grasping a Big Problem-Rep. Sam Farr says a new study by the Housing Authority proves that it is possible to build affordable housing in Monterey County. The biggest surprise is ...
Stripped of its political überplot, Hamlet becomes the story of one very dysfunctional Danish family.
Photo: Old Friends-Benjamin R. Jones contemplates Yorrick''s skull and Time''s swift passing. In her program notes to the play she''s adapted and directed for the SRO theater at Monterey Peninsula College, Mickie A. Mosley asks ...
Hotpicks
friday 9|13 Worldly Music HYDEUS KIATTA WITH ALONG CAME BETTY The original compositions of the acclaimed, eclectic Bay Area singer-songwriter Hydeus Kiatta embrace jazz, R&B, folk and world music-sometimes at once. Along Came Betty-Biff Smith ...
Kissing summer good-bye in Big Sur.
Photo: Local Icons-Vera helped make the last summer party at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur memorable. The crowd isn''t big, but is really into the music. The bands aren''t flashy, but they''re playing ...
Thursday, September 5
Local activists mourn 9.11 and its aftermath.
Photo by Randy Tunnell. The fighting words from Washington don''t stop. But while our Commander-in-Chief uses Sept. 11 as his battle cry to invade Iraq, local activists have a different type of pep rally in ...
Squidfry
CAPTAIN OBVIOUS STRIKES AGAIN... Squid''s a skeptical mollusk, so it''s hard to believe, say, a proposal to axe $8 million off a city''s budget without cutting any jobs or programs and adding millions of dollars ...
What the war on civil liberties can do to the national psyche.
Heresy to say it, but the worst thing about the relentless assault on civil liberties since September 11 might not be the loss of the rights themselves. History has shown that those can be won ...
Salinas' new charter school puts teachers, parents and students in charge.
Photo by Michelle Caldwell. Photo: Max Gomez hones his tactile skills with a tube of Play Doh during Oasis Charter School''s first week in operation. Years from now when five-year-old twins Emily and Joshua Cunanan ...
Foodchain
LAZING ON A SUNNY AFTERNOON...The beginnings of everything display a blueprint of the whole if you know how to see it (huh?). Driving down Carmel Valley Road last Sunday, from out of the mysterious, dreamy ...
Chris Ranier carries through many of the same themes explored by his mentor, Ansel Adams.
Photo: Walking With God-"Nuns Exiting Shrine, Sarnath, India, 1990," by Chris Rainier, is at the Center for Photographic Art. Chris Ranier was Ansel Adam''s last full-time assistant, part of a unique and privileged group of ...
Newsbriefs
Put Up Your Dukes On Thursday, Sept. 5, a Superior Court judge will hear a lawsuit intended to force Duke Energy to change the cooling system at its recently expanded Moss Landing Power Plant. The ...
Cannery Row's venerable Sardine Factory needs to work harder to keep its stripes.
Photo by Randy Tunnell. Photo: Bay Watch-seafood and vegetables, eye-popping fresh and simply prepared, is what Sardine Factory does best. I tasted my first abalone at The Sardine Factory 25 years ago, and for that ...
The shameful legacy of 9.11.01
For a short time a year ago, it seemed possible that the events of September 11 might inspire some kind of national renewal. Beneath the fear and the anger, beyond the bewildered frustration and the ...
Music Review
Various Artists Fluid Ounce Presents Unmeasured Ubiquity Remember the days when dance floors were filled with perspiring jazz fiends vibrating to the experimental sounds of hard bop, acid jazz and straight up unfiltered funk? Well, ...
Indications of serious flaws in a 9.11 flop.
Last fall, after inventorying the rooms guests had fled on September 11 in a hotel directly across from the World Trade Center, a security guard reported finding a ground-to-air aviation radio locked in the safe ...
Best Of The Rest
thursday 9|5 HEALTHY EATING WORKSHOP 6pm. Naturopathic physician Olga McVay leads this seminar called "Healthy Eating at Work, Business/Social Functions, and Home." $12. Naturopathic Medical Center, 350 Reservation Rd., Marina. 277-9856. SEA SCRIBES CALLIGRAPHY GROUP ...
Letters
Down With Democracy Frank Garden''s letter [Aug. 8-14] and Harry J. Wagner''s [Aug. 15-21] were the most refreshing opinions published as of late in Coast Weekly. I will add to their analysis of the effort ...
