Stories
Streettalk
Q: If you could change one thing about Monterey in the summertime, what would it be?Follow Up: What is your favorite thing to do in Monterey in the summer? Ryan JusticeRace Car Driver/Student | Portland, ...
Squid Fry for Jun 19, 2003
SWEET SMELL OF METHANE... Forget about hairspray and cleaning products, the real global warming culprits are cows. Yes, docile Bessy may be killing you softly with her breath. And Squid always thought that stinky, ozone-depleting ...
8 Days
thursday 6|19 Marina Chamber of Commerce 11:45am. Luncheon at the English Ales Brewery for the Marina Chamber of Commerce. Lorin Hofman Lurz of the Monterey District Attorney's office speaks. $15/lunch. 223 Reindollar Ave., Marina. 384-9155. ...
Foodchain
SOUR GRAPES...This gig is starting to get to me. I'm starting to feel like my man Martin Mersault, the now-retired long-time local food writer>. I ran into him a couple of months ago and asked ...
Next month, Earthbound opens the nation's third certified organic kitchen.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Dishing It Out: Pam McKinstry (left) and Mark Marino get ready for The Organic Kitchen.The Earthbound Farm Stand on Carmel Valley Road has always been able to enhance a routine errand ...
Letters to the Editor for Jun 19, 2003
Coast Weekly is Promoting Red-BaitingIn response to Brian Burleson's invective denouncing presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich and me ["Letters," June 5-11], I am compelled to offer some clarifications and some cautions. The clear thrust of ...
Marvin Banks brings the sound of South Philly to Sly's.
While most boys were building forts or throwing sticks at each other, Marvin Banks was learning how to harmonize on the streets of South Philadelphia. It was a skill he brought to the West Coast ...
Hotpicks
thursday 6|19 Jesus and Romans GODSPELL AND FUNNY THING HAPPENED Summer's here, and the musicals are out in full force. Over at Monterey Peninsula College tonight they're opening Godspell, the upbeat 1971 hippie songfest that ...
Fire and Water.
Photo: Waterfall House: This Prunedale retreat-built with three fireplaces and an outdoor firepit-sits peacefully below a dramatic river-rock waterfall. Sarah and Ron Whitehead spent two years designing, and almost another two years building their 3800-square-foot ...
Discspace
Lucinda WilliamsWorld Without TearsLost Highway When Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on A Gravel Road burst onto the charts in 1998, the critics fell all over themselves discovering someone who had been making music for 20 ...
A gardening primer for the inveterate plant-killer.
Photos by Tom Birmingham, 2003: Calla lilies, daffodils and a century plant from Big Sur gardens. I do not have a green thumb. If it were up to the plants in my apartment, my thumb ...
Alisal High's hard-working students.
Part 3 in a seriesCensus Tract 7:A Special Report Photo by Brett Wilbur: Albert Tovar (with spiked hair), a senior headed to Chico State, hangs out with Jean Caliso, Manuel Andrade and Isabel Alcalá. The ...
Painters Pam Takigawa and Jan Wagstaff draw different sustenance from the world around them.
The Monterey Peninsula''s natural beauty has had a magnetic pull on artists since the late 19th century: rocky shores, majestic stands of trees, the silver light of the sea, the hearty flora imposing itself everywhere. ...
County's cuts will force closure of several clinics.
No one knows what is to be done with the patients who currently depend on the community clinics run by Natividad Medical Center. But their options for medical care are running dry. Beginning in a ...
Newsbriefs
New Plans for Sea RulesProposals for new rules to govern the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS) have been released for public review. The MBNMS--the nation's largest marine sanctuary--oversees activities on 5,322-square miles of ocean ...
Alex Kerekes, the Painting Policeman, finds inspiration in an ancient form.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Saintly visions: When Alex Kerekes isn''t protecting us from terrorists, he''s making art. There''s no law that says a fella can only do one thing. Still, it tickles the funny bone ...
Artifacts
CULTURAL ARTS FUNDING SAVED...After a two-day, drawn-out budget battle, county supes decided to maintain funding for arts programs at their current levels for 2003-2004. That's good news for the Cultural Council for Monterey County, which ...
The National Spelling Bee makes for a riveting film experience.
Photo: Mind Bender: Spelling geeks play themselves (above and below right) in this charming documentary. As good, old-fashioned dorkfests go, it doesn''t get much better than the National Spelling Bee, with its arcane words, bespectacled ...
Kids in Carmel and Pacific Grove shocked to learn that parents and teachers know how to be 'cool.'
Photo by Randy Tunnell: All Day and All Night: folowing their graduation ceremony, seniors at Carmel and Pacific Grove High Schools were invited to party ''til dawn. It is night in the village of Asta ...
