Thursday, January 30
WHERE'S WALDO?
Help has arrived for locals who would like to be able to point out some of spots where more than 190 Hollywood films have been shot hereabouts-from the Frank Lloyd Wright home on Carmel Beach ...
A Place in History By Sabrina Speidel
Photo: Look Back In Time: The Carmel Mission sits in the foreground of the view from 2970 Franciscan Way. Mission Realized Located on the appropriately named Franciscan Way, Allston and Pepper James'' home is a ...
The organic ag industry struts and flexes at the national Eco-Farm Conference.
Photo by Ellen Hanson Vandana Shiva, who works on issues involving biodiversity, indigenous people and native seeds in India, spoke at the eco-ag confab. The mood at the three-day Ecological Farming Association conference last weekend ...
Squid Fry for Jan 30, 2003
GO CLIMB A TREE What is cruelty to animals? In the contemplative interludes, Squid wonders if, for example, we're complicit in cruelty to swine for gnawing on bacon and ham. How ''bout birds in cages ...
The Paper Wing Theater hopes to work a little Broadway magic in Old Town Salinas.
Photo by Randy Tunnell For years, Salinas'' Fox Theater has languished unused, or underused, and fallen into disrepair. Though well-intentioned individuals and committees have worked to save and refurbish the fading grande dame of Main ...
Local and national experts question the need for mass smallpox vaccinations.
Photos By Public Health Image Library: Until the early 1970s. most Americans received the topical smallpox vaccination, which was applied with a bifurcated needle dipped in vaccine. By 1967, the disease was essentially eradicated in ...
A 73-year-old cloistered nun creates vividly-colored abstract art within the walls of Carmel's monastery.
Photo: Sue Fishkoff Anne Neville Blakemore decided to become a nun the first time she set eyes on the Carmelite monastery of Our Lady and St. Therese. It was 1958, and the 29-year-old San Francisco-based ...
Kronos Quartet brings new music to life in a new multi-media piece.
For 30 years, Kronos Quartet has been messing with the idea that a string quartet is four guys in tuxedos playing "serious" classical music. In that time, Kronos has been teaching the music world to ...
Best Of The Rest
thursday 1|30 Book Circle Discussion 7pm. Discussion of The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, with facilitators Stuart and Paula Walzer. Monterey Public Library, 625 Pacific St., Monterey. 646-3477. How Children Learn 8pm. Dr. Mel Levine, nationally-known ...
Former KAZU DJs move variety show down the dial.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: JT Mason and Robin Roberts at their old gig. JT Mason and Robin Roberts, popular hosts of KAZU''s long-running talk-music program "The Roadside Cafe," have taken their show over to public ...
Farr says Bush should pay attention to his own back yard.
On Tuesday night, President Bush offered billions in aid to AIDS-ridden Africa, pledges to provide affordable prescription medicine for the elderly, tax reductions, a job for everyone who wants one, millions in help for drug ...
Old clocks never die, they come to Leon for fixing.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Like Father, Like Son-in-Law: Leon Hittner (left) shows Sal Flores the ropes. Leon Hittner is mesmerized by antiques. In his Lighthouse Avenue shop in Pacific Grove, a bright yellow 1882 Victorian, ...
Free Money for Good Ideas
Hoping to give communities a leg-up with a little cash and a lot of support, the Neighborhood Grants Program, a part of the Community Foundation for Monterey County, is inviting groups to come to pre-application ...
By Raymond Napolitano
GAY PAREE...I''m writing this on the day before Sweet Thing and I leave for a week in PARIS. If I decide to become an expatriate and stay there, or make my way to Italy or ...
Hotpicks
thursday 1|30 Life And Death Offshore SECRET KILLERS OF MONTEREY BAY We look out over the Monterey Bay and see, depending on the weather, very little but nature's beauty. Of course there's more happening than ...
Rancho San Juan rises from the ashes of controversy-bigger and buffed to a New Urban sheen.
Randy Tunnell: Old Countryism: At the site of the "Red Pony Barn,'' Monterey County planners envision a regional park surrounded by 4,000 homes, 15,000 people, five schools, a 150-room hotel, an 18-hole golf course and ...
Widower's Houses tries hard, but doesn't measure up to Shaw's, or the Staff Players', best.
Not Quite Love: Jody Gilmore and Tracy Brown make a fitful stab at romance in Widower''s Houses. Even the best of George Bernard Shaw''s plays are notoriously verbose with a pace that runs somewhere between ...
The Hours is a brilliantly realized film of women on the verge.
A La Cyrano: Nicole Kidman took home the Golden Globe for best actress for her sensitive portrayal of Virginia Woolf. There''s a mesmerizing, almost hypnotic rhythm to The Hours, the exquisite adaptation of Michael Cunningham''s ...
Letters to the Editor for Jan 30, 2003
It is interesting listening to the ongoing debate about the Peninsula''s water problems [Letters, Jan. 23-29]. It comes as no surprise that various organizations have different views on how to solve this problem. What I ...
The real news has become so weird, it's almost impossible to commit satire.
Bush Administration Demands that Iraq Prove Absence of Weapons The Bush Administration continues to insist that even though UN weapons inspectors have not found a "smoking gun," war can only be prevented if Saddam Hussein ...
Terror Contest: Asked at Denny's in Seaside
Q: Which do you think are more dangerous: bioterrorists with weaponized smallpox or George Bush with the American war machine? FOLLOW UP: How old were you when you had the chicken pox-or have you had ...
The Sandbar and Grill has a new chef, and that same great view.
Photo by:Randy Tunnell. Dock Of The Bay: Sunday brunch with a Bloody Mary is a classic at the Sandbar. Driving out onto Wharf Two and walking down into the Sandbar and Grill on a cool ...
Faith No More
This Is It--The Best of Faith No More | Slash, Reprise, Rhino Generally speaking, since the ''60s, the Bay Area''s "mirror" bands to their LA counterparts (that is, bands doing a similar act or fronting ...
Thursday, January 23
A short list of some of the biggest football bashes in the County.
It''s been over two decades since the Oakland Raiders have stormed a Superbowl, and this Sunday, the odds are in their favor as they face off against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Stepping out from under ...
This New York-based classical quintet mixes it up in Monterey.
The members of Windscape, the wind quintet playing in Monterey on Wednesday, Jan. 29, aren''t so very different from the average Joe standing in an art gallery: They don''t know much about art, but they ...
Hotpicks
saturday 1|25 Flying People MORTON MARCUS POETRY READING Prolific author of a novel and nine volumes of poetry, including When People Could Fly, Morton Marcus, 1999 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year, presents The ...
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Love SongsPaul Young | Columbia Legacy Golden-voiced golden boy and perhaps the only "genuine" singer to come out of the Brit-pop movement, this great interpreter was chart king back in the middle ''80s. Covering what ...
Newsbriefs
Marina Heights Shift Reacting to public outcry, the developers behind Marina Heights have offered to increase the percentage of affordable housing in the massive building plan on Fort Ord from 8 percent to 20 percent. ...
Kalisa Moore and her La Ida Cafe are one of the few authentic things left on Cannery Row.
Photo by Randy Tunnell A tourist hunkers down and aims her camera through the window. Dissatisfied with the view she moves to her left and clicks. She moves nearer to the window and clicks again, ...
Foodchain
GO FORTH AND SIN NO MORE... Lately, things are so slow around the Monterey Peninsula...(how slow are they, you ask?)...things are so slow around the Monterey Peninsula that I went to the Aquarium the other ...
Belly dancing, tango and yoga are great ways to stay in shape, for the rest of your life.
Photos by Randy Tunnell It''s January, the month when gyms and health clubs fill up with new members fueled by well-intentioned New Year''s resolutions. Determined that this is the year the pounds will come off, ...
On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Bush Administration is joining the abortion battle.
Thirty years after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion, Planned Parenthood of Salinas last week became the first public health clinic in Monterey County to prescribe RU-486, the controversial abortion pil Simultaneously, the White House ...
Artifacts
FLIPPER LIVES...Maybe you've seen pictures of the "cow parades" in New York or Chicago, where dozens of cow statues, painted by famous artists, were displayed for months around town before being auctioned off as municipal ...
A last-minute decision can lead to a big change in perspective.
Photo by Helen Rose: Members of the Peace Coalition of Monterey County joined marchers in San Francisco last Saturday. As I pondered whether to go to the peace rally last weekend, I considered all of ...
Margaret Weston's gorgeous collection of early photographs goes on public view.
Photo: Carlton E. Watkins, "The Garrison, Columbia River Series,'' 1867. Albumen print. An exhibition of historic photographs from the collection of Carmel collector/dealer Maggi Weston opens this weekend at the Monterey Museum of Art''s downtown ...
Old Bones and Brand New Skin.
Photo: Perspective of History: This Monterey home has looked out over the bay since 1894. There aren''t too many 109-year-old homes that manage to transform themselves to suit the needs of modern-day lifestyles. But Dennis ...
25th Hour marks Spike Lee as New York City's filmmaker laureate.
Photo: Dealer''s Decision: Edward Norton ponders whether to go to jail, or live life on the run. As Woody Allen slides perilously close to irrelevance, Spike Lee has emerged as the quintessential New York filmmaker, ...
Monterey County's child-advocates program is suffering from a lack of volunteers.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Aejaie Sellers, executive director of Monterey County CASA, says staffers are covering for the program's shortage of volunteers. In 1996, Monterey County launched a program designed for kids from seriously troubled ...
Margaret Weston's gorgeous collection of early photographs goes on public view.
Photo: Carlton E. Watkins, "The Garrison, Columbia River Series,'' 1867. Albumen print. An exhibition of historic photographs from the collection of Carmel collector/dealer Maggi Weston opens this weekend at the Monterey Museum of Art''s downtown ...
Squid Fry for Jan 23, 2003
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE NEKKED Clint must be so proud. But first, a disclaimer: Squid considers Squidself a moral mollusk. Squid's the kind of cephalopod who buys gentlemen's magazines for the interviews and ...
Tri-county conference posed economic challenges.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Intelligence Quotient: Lora Lee Martin of UC-MBEST believes the "Monterey Bay crescent" should capitalize on its science and technology centers. After almost an entire morning of optimistic talk about the bright ...
Letters to the Editor for Jan 23, 2003
Weekly: We Love Our Hometown Your article "The Upside of Living in Paradise" [Jan. 16-22] states "These up-and-coming towns (Seaside-Marina-Sand City) may lack the refinement of their Peninsula neighbors, but they are in the process ...
The Highlands Inn is the perfect setting for a perfectly good meal.
Two first-rate restaurants, a lounge overlooking Point Lobos, and a fine art gallery provide four good reasons for locals who already have a bed for the night to visit the Highlands Inn. Any one of ...
Dancing the night away in Carmel.
Photo by Randy Tunnell Not far from the winter glow of Carmel''s Ocean Avenue, where the lights of expensive restaurants beam onto damp sidewalks, and lit store windows showcase the fine wares within, an unexpected ...
Yoga can be a hard way to figure out the simplest things. But it works.
Photo by Randy Tunnel: Torso Twist: Marvin demonstrates poses at the Yoga Center. I''ve been practicing yoga for about five months now, and I think I am learning how to stand. To stand correctly, so ...
Best Of The Rest
thursday 1|23 Kosher-Style Lunch 9am-6pm. Enjoy this annual feast of East Coast Jewish deli food. Lunch includes a hot pastrami or corned beef sandwich, dill pickle, salad and dessert. $8.50 benefits Temple Beth El and ...
One woman's journey to the belly of seduction.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Wiggle Woman: Janette Brenner shakes her way to fitness. A few too many vodka drinks inspired my first attempt at belly dancing. I was at a bachelorette party at a Greek ...
Wanna Dance?
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Step Lively: Pat Nash teaches line dancing in Monterey. Here's some local places where you can learn to dance, and regular dance clubs where you can put those lessons to use: ...
Shape Up or Ship Out: Asked at the GNC Store in Northridge Mall.
Q: When was the last time you broke a sweat? What were you doing? Follow Up: What is your favorite type of dancing? Rudy Luquin Student/Laurel Heights A: Today, when I was cleaning at work. ...
Thursday, January 16
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thursday 1|16 Three Days, Twenty Wines WINE AND FOOD FESTIVAL Wear loose pants and take a cab. For the 5th annual Valley of the World Wine & Food Festival, (notice wine is listed first), you ...
Congressman gets nowhere with board--again.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Shine On: Marina Mayor Ila Mettee-McCutchon and Mayor Prp Tem Michael Morrison, left, represent Marina on the Fort Ord Reuse Authority board. At right areFORA Director Michael Houlemard and Seaside Mayor ...
Squid Fry for Jan 16, 2003
HADDAD V. CALIFORNIA...Squid's finally figured out what it takes to become a professional gadfly. Rule One: Whether you're a small army or an army of one, call yourself a group. Rule Two: Make up a ...
Martin Luther King probably would have broken the law to protest the impending war with Iraq.
Next week, the nation will celebrate (or merely acknowledge) the birthday of the most popular and prophetic protester of 20th-century America--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And while the commercialized image of Dr. King (let''s all ...
By Brett Wilbur
Mike Robles is certifiably funny, and he''s getting noticed for it. He hosts and produces English-language television shows, performs a stand-up act, and now, is preparing to broaden his cultural appeal by hosting Loco Comedy ...
Monterery County doesn't come cheap; but you get what you pay for.
It is a cold, hard fact that Monterey County is the least affordable place to live in the United States. It''s also true that well-paying jobs are scarce, home prices are steep, and dinner (though ...
Foodchain
BEST INTENTIONS...Hi everyone. Hope the year is starting off well for you all (or y'all, which is the better expression). My NEW YEAR'S not-quite-a-resolution but more like an inclination to lose some weight and get ...
Letters to the Editor for Jan 16, 2003
Nurses: Way to Go ProPraises to Sally Robbins, RN, and Angel Look, RN, nurses at CHOMP, for their professional work on behalf of nurses at their hospital [Labor Pains, Jan. 9-15]. A professional nurse promotes ...
Streettalk 1/16/2003
Q: If your life was a TV sitcom, which would it be and why? FOLLOW UP: Who is your favorite cartoon character? Craig RiceStudent/Marina A: I would be Joe Millionaire because I have nothing to ...
What makes a woman's sacred rage so special? Let the Circle teach you.
The women are mostly middle-aged, although the youngest tonight is 21, and the oldest is 89. They form a rough circle; most sit on the floor on yoga mats, but those with back problems sit ...
Wills Fargo is rustling up the beef again, but needs to unwind its lariat.
Photo By Randy Tunnell: Hold On, Pardner: Prime Rib is the way to go at Wills Fargo. Wills Fargo has been a Carmel Valley steakhouse tradition since 1959. It''s in a wonderful old building done ...
Old and New Victorians in Pacific Grove
Photo: The trademarked warmth of P.G. is adundant in a new (left) and a well-preserved older home. Historical Building It''s pouring this dreary Saturday afternoon in Pacific Grove--sheets of rain are whipping horizontally across downed ...
Nat Stone rowed 6,000 miles through America, and is coming to town to talk about it.
Photo courtesy of the author: Row, Row, Row Your Boat: Nat Stone had never set foot in the boat before he set out on his 6,000-mile journey. Nat Stone is calling from a pay phone ...
Artifacts
HOMELESS ACTORS...The TROUPERS OF THE GOLD COAST, an acting company that has been putting on 19th- and early 20th-century melodramas at CALIFORNIA'S FIRST THEATER for the past 63 years, is just about to be kicked ...
Dr. Faye Girsh says people should be able to decide how they will leave this life.
Photo: Dr. Faye Girsh speaks in Carmel on Wednesday.A terminally ill patient, her body riddled with sores, is rapidly deteriorating. But she is still able to make decisions, and she can still swallow. She has ...
Best Of The Rest
thursday 1|16 Tourism Seminar 11:30am. The Women's Council of Realtors will discuss what effect tourism has on our economy at this lunch meeting. $25. Hyatt Regency Grove Room, 1 Old Golf Course Rd., Monterey. Tammy, ...
It's raising hackles in Mexico, but this tale of a sexually active priest loses its punch up North.
Photo: Sweet Sixteen: The young Father Amaro (Gael Garcia Bernal) is momentarily entranced by Amelia (Ana Claudia Talancon), but his loyalty to the Church-or is it his pride?-proves stronger. The latest Mexican movie to win ...
Discspace
Rewind 2Various Artists | Ubiquity Records After the overwhelming success of the groundbreaking Rewind concept compilation series, released in Spring 2002, Ubiquity Records here releases another bunch of re-worked rare musical gems of the past, ...
Dizzy Burnett and Grover Coe take vocal jazz to the limit.
Dizzy Burnett is a tiny woman with big hair. Her speaking voice sounds more like a child''s than that of a seasoned jazz singer. But when she''s performing, she makes these things work for her. ...
Michel Medinger's photographic constructions are a worthy opening to the Center for Photographic Art's 2003 season.
Photo: Dada Descendant: Michel Medinger''s juxtapositions, like in the untitled photograph at left, often lend a touch of whimsy to his work. The Center For Photographic Art kicks off its 2003 exhibition season this weekend ...
He's big, he's bad, he's a weird kind of hero.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Blood Brothers: Donaldo Prescod''s (above) newest take on blaxploitation films opens Saturday; Daniel Prescod (right), aka Black Thunder, shows off his moves. He''s rude--hell, he''s downright nasty. Black Thunder is an ...
Environmentalist Anna Lappe takes on world hunger Wednesday in P.G.
Photo by Sarah Putnam: Anna Lappe, whose mother, Frances Moore Lappe, helped start the healthy-food movement, is continuing the family tradition. Thirty years ago, Frances Moore Lappe''s Diet for a Small Planet revolutionized the way ...
Thursday, January 9
Jack Nicholson finally acts his age, and it works out well for everyone.
Hitting The Highway: The word is that Jack Nicholson may garner a 12th Oscar nomination for About Schmidt. At the age of 66, Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) is a man unprepared to face life''s ambiguities. ...
A journalist remembers Jerry Fry's benevolent reign at Monterey City Hall.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: You''ve Come A Long Way, Jerry: Former Monterey mayor Jerry Fry doesn''t bound up the stairs any longer, but he still gets to harrass local reporters. Watching Mayor Jerry Fry at ...
Best Of The Rest Listings
friday 1|10 Music Together 10am. "Joyful Noise: A Born to Read Program" is designed for babies, parents, siblings and expectant parents to encourage storytelling and literacy in the young. Free, reservations encouraged. Monterey Public Library, ...
With a pricey expansion underway, CHOMP battles a nurses union.
Rubbing her temples to soothe a splitting migraine, an off-duty nurse sits alone in the lobby of the Oldemeyer Center in Seaside on a September afternoon as dozens of her co-workers file into a nearby ...
Squid Fry for Jan 09, 2003
Why, it was just last weekend that Squid parked on a bench near Cannery Row with a pound of chocolate from the Candy Factory to watch joggers and cyclists meander down the rec trail. Squid ...
Coastal Commission prepares to fight devastating court ruling.
''It''s like the ring race in the Lord of the Rings," says Peter Douglas, the executive director of the California Coastal Commission. "The opposition never sleeps. They want the ring of power." The opposition Douglas ...
Letters to the Editor for Jan 09, 2003
Ghandi: Not a Vegan Propagandist Annie Griffin in her Letter to the Editor [Letters, January 2-8] begins by misquoting Gandhi, to wit "you can judge the character of a nation by the way it treats ...
Hotpicks
thursday 1|9 Two On Five CHAMBER MUSIC IN COLTON HALL Katie Clare Mazzeo has played her harpsichord in concerts and recital halls across the U.S. and Europe, has given performances on the harpsichord and pianoforte ...
Watercolor artist and private eye Charlsie Kelly mixes and matches.
Some artists come to their trade as philosophers and thinkers who develop ideas with styles adapted from historical precedents. Some artists opt for the aesthetic life because it manifests their sensibilities; their cells are happy. ...
Cruise Turncoat to Speak
As if we haven''t spilled enough ink about cruise ships lately, here comes more. At 7pm Jan. 14 in the Irvine Auditorium at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, author Ross Klein will discuss his ...
Can I Be Your Hero?: Asked on Ocean Ave in Carmel
Q: Have you ever been a hero? FOLLOW UP: Who is your hero? Kasey Ventimiglia Retail Store Manager/Monterey A: I''m a hero for going into labor for 26 hours, then having a C-section. TRUE LOVE: ...
Marina's English Ales Brewery does local beer-drinkers proud.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Heads Up: Serving up a cold one at the English Ales Brewpub. Around 230 years ago, the American colonists decided that they had had enough of the British. King George was ...
Pablo Menendez brings Cuban flavors to California.
On The Road: Mezcla, Pablo Menendez''s California-based band, has a following in Havana and travels there to perform. Earlier this month, Pablo Menendez''s funky Yoruba, Afro-Cuban, salsa, bebop fusion septet Mezcla ("mixture") went island-hopping from ...
The Over-30 Top 10 of 2002
Johnny Cash, American IV: The Man Comes Around (American) At his absolute best, sounding like he''s saying goodbye. And there are no more where he came from. Bob Dylan 2002 tour When they didn''t kill ...
El Teatro's Zoot Suit portrays the rise of Chicano consciousness in brilliant style.
Photo: Strutting Their Stuff: Remarkable staging and exuberant dance numbers punctuate Zoot Suit. To put it simply, El Teatro Campesino''s current production of Zoot Suit might be the best show mounted in the tri-county area ...
Marina development questioned again.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Home on the Firing Range: Not-so-old abandoned housing in Abrams Park on Fort Ord will be torn down to make room for over 1,000 (mostly very expensive) homes at Marina Heights. ...
Artifacts
PALESTINIAN POET SPEAKS... Palestinian-American poet NAOMI SHIHAB NYE, who specializes in helping young poets find their voices, will read from her works FRIDAY AT 8PM at the SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL Performing Arts Center in Monterey. ...
NPS takes on domestic security.
The Terror War has gone academic. In the first program of its kind, Monterey''s Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) now offers a master''s degree in Homeland Defense, even though the definition of the term is nebulous ...
Foodchain
EVERY DAY CAN BE NEW YEAR''S... The difference between the restaurant business and war is in the restaurant business they kill you slowly, in war you get it right away. That''s one of the many ...
Two-of-a-Kind Wonders
Fun in the Forest On a quiet street near Bird Rock in Pebble Beach, a three-bedroom house with twin master suites blends nicely into the trees. Inside, the sense of space is almost startling, with ...
Thursday, January 2
It's fine to pine for cool-era Miles, but his late-career work is just as good.
PARIS: Binary time, the foundation of rock and roll, is a term that works better and is in more current usage, in French--binaire. Jazz is based on a more complex and fluid subdivided three feeling ...
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is sparking interest in Quenya, Tolkien's invented language of the elves.
Fewer than 100 people on Earth speak the language of the Chickasaw Indians, a tribe that now inhabits a swatch of Oklahoma. None is younger than 55. A century from now, nobody will speak it ...
2003 or Bust: Asked at Longs in Monterey.
QUESTION: Have you ever had a New Year''s resolution make it past February? FOLLOW-UP: What is your New Year''s resolution this year? Randy McKendry Pacific Grove/Carpenter A: Not that I can recall, not recently. I ...
By Brett Wilbur
Photo:The Red Pony Was Here: This house in Markham Ranch enjoys a prime Steinbeckian location. In Steinbeck''s Back Yard When Realtor Roger Powers, former president of the Steinbeck Center Foundation, speaks of his listings along ...
Local art folks pick their favorite masterpieces.
When one stroke of the clock ends the old year and begins the next, we celebrate and ruminate, marking the time with toasts of good cheer and an examination in a mirror of time''s lack ...
Photos by Randy Tunnell
Photos (clockwise, from top to bottom): [Top] Last Farmer Standing: Stan Corda doesn''t want to see mini-mansions and wine tasting rooms along River Road, where strawberries, lettuce and sugar beets now grow. [Right] Peace Is ...
Squid Fry for Jan 02, 2003
It happens every year around this time. As the Solstice passes and the holidays wrap up, Squid dives deep into a long winter''s sleep and dreams-imagining a county where civic leaders and others resolve to ...
Discspace 1/2/2003
Trojan X-Rated Box Set Various Artists | Sanctuary, Trojan "Race records," that is, discs by non-white acts deemed too salacious to get played on the radio or sold by "respectable" artists, were a staple of ...
The Wild Thornberrys is that rarest of animated features: a movie that both kids and their parents will enjoy.
Photo: Talking Pictures: The Wild Thornberrys stars a precocious 12-year-old girl who can talk to animals. Although I''m a huge fan of L.A.-based animation house Klasky Csupo, I went into their Thornberrys film without having ...
Best Of The Rest Listings
thursday 1|2 Stroller Strides 10am. Outdoor stroller fitness class for body sculpting, a unique way for Mom to exercise with baby. Pre-registration encouraged. Free. Natividad Creek Park, 1395 Nogal Dr., Salinas. 402-2673 or www.strollerstrides.com. Genealogy ...
Letters to the Editor for Jan 02, 2003
KAZU Silenced a Beloved Institution My mother started listening to the live Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinee broadcasts when they began in 1940, sponsored by Texaco and hosted by the venerable Milton Cross. I was raised ...
The wait is worth it at First Awakenings.
First Awakenings, Monterey County''s breakfast headquarters, gets me to thinking about the chasm between Great Britain and the European continent when it comes to the morning repast. Sail south across the English Channel and breakfast ...
By Raymond Napolitano
FORGING AHEAD...It''s the first days of the year two thousand and three. That date seems so far into the future yet it is here, now. At the beginning of each new year it is customary ...
Sax Legend Benny Golson 1/2/2003
Benny Golson grew up with John Coltrane and has played, over his 60-year career, with the likes of Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton and Art Blakey. During that time he composed songs that have ...
Hotpicks
thursday 1|2 Pachucos On Stage ZOOT SUIT Twenty-five years ago, writer and director Luis Valdez, founder of the El Teatro Campesino theater company in San Juan Bautista, penned Zoot Suit, a story about the Mexican-American ...
The first half of the 2003 theater season offers Euripides, Moliere, and The Rocky Horror Show.
Last year was a tough time for local theaters, with dwindling audiences and shrinking box office receipts. But next year''s schedule offers a rash of new and exciting plays, as well as some rarely-performed classics, ...
