Thursday, April 29
Letters
The Weekly is Clearly Pursuing an Anti-Christian Agenda On Tuesday 23 March 2004, I sent you an e-mail reply to the letter from Aaron Eden of Carmel which you printed in your edition of Thursday ...
Every Picture Tells A Story
CPA offers rare look at the work of W. Eugene Smith.
Writing about his work for an exhibition catalogue in 1954, famed documentary photographer and photo-essayist W. Eugene Smith described the creative dynamic that propelled his work beyond photojournalism into the realm of art. “It is ...
Jazz Vocal Spirit
Jackie Ryan keeps the fire burning at J&B Co.
It’s no coincidence that musicians closely associated with Sarah Vaughan keep turning up around Jackie Ryan. Her full, lustrous voice and relentless sense of swing would have made comparisons to Vaughn inevitable, but the connection ...
Web of Lies
How a Marina man played the Nigerian e-mail con and won—for now.
‘Don’t make me look like a shmo.” When Ben Klein said this, he gave me a hapless shrug. “Well, you probably aren’t going to come off looking like a saint,” I said. Or like a ...
Cities Talk Secession
Monterey to hold town hall meeting about troubled school district.
The complexities of the Monterey Peninsula school system’s troubles are getting more complex. On April 21, a group of about 30 Monterey residents gathered at the Casanova Oak Knolls park center to discuss excising their ...
Spam Is Sublime
There are all kinds of good reasons to oppose the federal antispam bill known familiarly as CAN-SPAM (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act). The bill, which President George W. Bush signed late ...
Like Father, Unlike Son
Suspenseful new Russian film explores father/son relationships.
Expect the unexpected in this rookie feature from Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev. It builds like a thriller in the accumulation of psychological suspense and its increasingly sinister atmosphere. But Zvyagintsev aims for a deeper emotional ...
Street Talk
Dumbing Down Our Schools?: Asked in Del Rey Oaks
Q: What should be done to improve our public schools?Follow-up: How much money a year would you give to your local school district? Karly Edwards Student | MarinaA: It would really help if there were ...
Feast
Dreaming of Mazatlan: El Camaron’s seafood buffet is a marvel to behold.
There certainly isn’t a Mexican food drought going on in the state. In fact, it may well be one of the most freely flowing cuisines there is here. But quantity is no testament to quality. ...
The Laws of Attraction tries to rekindle the romantic cat-and-mouse game, alá Hepburn-and-Tracy’s-classic Adam’s Rib.
Pitched as a homage to George Cukor’s 1949 classic romantic comedy Adam’s Rib (with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy), Laws of Attraction is greatly separated from that film’s exceptional timing and sincere comic exploration of ...
Squidfry
FISH OUT OF WATER… Squid never gets invited to these things. Luckily, Squid has friends—Republican friends, even—who do, and when they can’t make it to such-and-such swanky event, they allow Squid to attend in their ...
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Gracious Yesteryears
Mary Moiso has spent the last four years pouring her heart and time into a charming Victorian in Salinas. One of three Queen Anne homes near historic Oldtown, this cottage shares a similar design to ...
News Briefs
Big Box Ban Discussed As soon as May 4, Salinas city officials will receive a staff report on a possible ban on big-box grocery chains. The issue had been slated for discussion at the April ...
Art Listings
Art Listings
Art Openings | Events Carmel Foundation Charlie Thompson’s Painting Studio , works by Studio students. Opens 5/3. Hall Gallery, Lincoln at 8th, Carmel. 624-1588. Ends 5/28. Center for Photographic Art W. Eugene Smith , an ...
Foodchain
On Thursday, April 29th… Are you on your way to opening night of The Monterey Wine Festival ? If not, you really need to ask yourself why not. But do not fear, you’ve got the ...
Theater Listings
Theater Listings
Now Playing 3 Stories Tall Fri-Sat 8pm, closes Sun 3pm. Hollister native Kirk Ward presents his one-man show about dropping out, running away to LA, and coming face-to-face with a killer on the run in ...
Penultimate Party: Stylish planning commission gives the nod to conservation-friendly General Plan.
The end is finally in sight—and not a minute too soon for the girl reporter. At a five-hour meeting on April 21, Monterey County planning commissioners nearly finalized their proposals to the General Plan. They ...
Track Record
In A Year at the Races, acclaimed novelist Jane Smiley shows why she’ll be rooting for a long-shot at the Kentucky Derby this Saturday.
Jane Smiley says she has no real expertise when it comes to horses, but anyone who watched the Kentucky Derby in 2001 and reads the New Yorker is not going to believe her. That was ...
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MARQUES WYATT Horizons OM Records From the first moments of the mix, a seductive spoken word leading us into the feathery, sensual beat of “You Gotta Believe,” Marques Wyatt takes us on a masterful, artistic ...
Outside
Wind and Wheels: Traction kiting takes off in Seaside.
In the spring around these parts, howling onshore winds can ruin a perfectly splendid afternoon. For surfers, onshore winds can flatten a nice swell faster than a baker smoothing out icing on a cake. For ...
Thursday, April 22
I’m Polluting the Atmosphere
An Earth Day confession.
An article about the Steinbeck Center, in the Travel section of last Sunday’s New York Times, referred to the “tailpipe haze” in the Salinas Valley. Reading these words, I felt stung. When describing Monterey County ...
Art Listings
Art Listings
Art Openings | Events Alvarado Gallery Nanao-Monterey Friendship Association: Photography Exchange. The Monterey Museum of Art sponsors an exhibition of photographs of Nanao, Japan, held in conjunction with an exhibition of Monterey Bay photography now ...
MPUSD Teachers Eye Strike
Parents organize to prevent school closures.
Francine Stewart graduated from Monterey High School in 1989 after attending Monte Vista elementary and Colton Middle schools. She’s a part of the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District (MPUSD), so much so, in fact, that ...
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JOHN FRUSCIANTE Shadows Collide With People Warner Brothers Records Even though Shadows Collide With People is the fourth solo album by The Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante, don’t expect any rapping or bass ...
Against The Stream
Country musicians Kieran Kane and Kevin Welch play against Nashville type.
Country songwriters/musicians Kieran Kane and Kevin Welch don’t need to play together. Each is a stand-alone talent with a wealth of legendary connections. Welch has written songs for Garth Brooks, Waylon Jennings, and The Highwaymen, ...
Smart Teen Melodrama
Can you spot the motive in this edgy murder drama, co-starring Kevin Spacey and Ryan Gosling?
Produced by Kevin Spacey’s Trigger Street Productions from a script by first-time writer/director Matthew Ryan Hoge, The United States of Leland is like The OC ’s smarter, older brother: an intellectual melodrama that sports all ...
Mulliga-Towny
Pubs are for burgers, well drinks and watching the game.
Mulligan’s is just a few months old, the reincarnation of the former Bully III, a long-time Carmel institution. Once inside that massive set of wooden doors adorned with just-as-enormous utensils posing as handles, it’s hard ...
Crash Course
The Shape of Things examines how far a person will go to please his lover.
How far can, or should, a lover with a conscience go to encourage their sweetheart to change? Regardless of motives, if the change results in better health and a boost in self-confidence, is this a ...
Off The Grid
New technologies take alternative energy mainstream.
Trey Kropp, a friendly man of 25, sits behind the wheel of a sturdy Toyota 4X4 as it claws its way up a rutted dirt road to Clear Ridge, a high, sun-drenched perch above the ...
For the Love of God
Agnes of God is a riveting, brilliant production.
What if a nun immaculately conceived the child of God only to strangle it to death? What would this say about the nature of God, miracles and free will? Magic Circle Center’s riveting production of ...
Street Talk
Avoiding Extinction: Asked at the Farmer’s Market at MPC
Q: Have we taken better care of the environment since Earth Day began in 1970?Follow-up: What is your favorite aspect of nature? Sandy Smith Volunteer | MontereyA: A lot of people are trying to make ...
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A Natural in Carmel
A few short blocks from the heart of Carmel is a well-hidden treasure. At first glance, the gateway to the “Owl House” feels like the threshold to the Secret Garden. Blanketed with Cecile-Bruner roses that ...
Squidfry
GREEN AROUND THE GILLS… Green Party candidate Brook Madsen says he’s out of the race for state Senate. But he’s not leaving quietly. He’s going down shooting, guns a blazin’ and all those other out-with-a-bang ...
Salinas alternaband Righteous Anger whips out rock tunes in the spirit of Pearl Jam.
The Salinas alternative rock group Righteous Anger used to play everywhere. They have performed at long-gone venues like Monterey’s Whitey’s Place and The Long Bar. They have played Viva’s, Blue Fin and the Lava Lounge ...
Artifacts
RICE IS HARDEST… Weekly food writer Ruth Pennington Paget has just come out with her second book, Eating Soup With Chopsticks: Sweet Sixteen in Japan. As the title suggests, it’s a chronicle of her high-school ...
New PG initiative to limit elaborate golf club expansion could have repercussions.
A new citizens’ initiative designed to limit the size of a proposed $3.5 million expansion to Pacific Grove’s golf clubhouse will have consequences far beyond the golf course, city officials say. The first initiative got ...
Foodchain
NEW CLASSICS… Sweet Thing and I were up in Berkeley last week and passed a movie theater playing The Sound of Music on the big screen…that’s cool. Too bad we had to be somewhere or ...
Woman On Deck
Lt. Deborah Darminio commands Monterey’s Coast Guard station.
Lieutenant Deborah Darminio is the kind of person you would hope to be seated next to on a flight across the Atlantic or a drawn-out dinner party. While other strangers would probably talk about their ...
Theater Listings
Theater Openings 3 Stories Tall Opens Thurs 8pm, continues Fri 8pm, Sat 2pm and 8pm, Sun 3pm. Hollister native Kirk Ward presents his one-man show about dropping out, running away to LA, and coming face-to-face ...
A Homecoming
Sgt. Nathan Lyons rejoins his family after 14 months of military service.
My brother’s home. Sgt. Nathan Lyons, along with 400 other Oregon National Guard soldiers, returned to Salem on April 8 after fighting in the Iraq war. He had been deployed for 14 months. Nine charter ...
Letters
Jail is Fitting Memorial Supervisor Armenta misses the point; even tho’ saving the old jail in Salinas will honor Cesar, it is Chavez who in a way has honored us [“Criminal History,” April 8-14]. What ...
Thursday, April 15
Second annual PG poetry festival brings the bay together.
This Sunday, more than 50 poets from Santa Cruz and Monterey counties will converge on Pacific Grove for the second annual Monterey Bay Poetry Festival. Along with a handful of featured poets, dozens of others ...
Newsbriefs
Walk And Roll Calling all kind hearts and energetic legs—it’s time for the MS Walk, raising funds for some 2,500 local residents living with multiple sclerosis. The annual event takes place on Sunday, April 18, ...
Conspiracy Theory: Asked in downtown Pacific Grove
Q: Did the US government contribute to the Sept. 11 attacks?Follow-up: Did Lee Harvey Oswald kill JFK on his own? Dan Cucinotta Retired | DavisA: I think it was an information error, a lack of ...
Letters
Spoof Seemed Like A Spoof Your April 1 cover story [“Disney Buys Del Rey Oaks”] was so riddled with errors I would almost think you made it up. For example, the city’s police department has ...
Lenny Bruce lashes out at fake morality in Carmel.
In Unicorn Theater’s excellent new two-man show Mr. Bruce, Do You Swear?, doomed ‘60s-era comedian Lenny Bruce gets one last chance to comment on the society that destroyed him while slinging a few arrows at ...
La Tortuga Torteria offers authentic flavors of Mexico
My love for Mexican torta sandwiches lured me into La Tortuga Torteria, located at the busy corner of Fremont and Harcourt in Seaside. Owner Luis Vasquez opened the restaurant in 2000 and moved it to ...
MJF brings all-time jazz great and his hot new band to the Sunset.
For much of the 1990s it seemed that saxophonist Wayne Shorter, arguably the most influential jazz composer of the past four decades, had decided to fade away from the world of jazz. After the breakup ...
Art Listings
art openings | events African-American Painting Lecture Carmel artist and art historian Tory Raggett presents a lecture and slide show on 200 years of African-American painting, Wed. 4/21 at 7pm. $5/donation requested. Seaside County Library, ...
Keith DeFiebre, who helps build the race course at the Sea Otter Classic, keeps his wheels rolling.
Sitting at a table across from me in Morgan’s Coffee and Tea on a Saturday afternoon, Keith DeFiebre definitely sticks out. While pierced coffee drinkers dressed in various shades of black stand in line for ...
National Forest frees up some Monterey County public lands.
Hikers, backpackers and other fans of the outdoors will no longer be required to pay a fee to set foot on their own public lands in the Monterey district of the Los Padres National Forest. ...
The facts about date rape drugs are difficult to find.
Last year, ten women phoned the Women’s Crisis Center in Salinas and shared a similar story. The women—mostly teens and a few in their early twenties—said they had been at a party or a bar ...
Imitation may be sincere flattery, but makes uninteresting art.
As is the tradition at the Pacific Grove Art Center, the four new exhibitions opening Friday offer something for everybody. Just Let Go, a selection of mixed media abstract paintings by Pebble Beach resident Peter ...
Foodchain
JUST BETWEEN US…I got a phone call from Claudia Smith the other day. For those of you who don’t know who Claudia Smith is, she’s the…actually, I’m not sure exactly how she fits into the ...
Artifacts
ELLROY WUZ HERE…Adding to the county’s celeb-gliteratti list is New York Times bestselling author James Ellroy, who recently moved to Carmel with his wife, writer Helen Knode. Ellroy is best known for L.A. Confidential, which ...
Sea Otter Classic Highlights
Back in 1991, Rick Sutton and Frank Yohannan decided to create a major event for the Central Coast cycling community called the Laguna Seca Challenge. With a mountain bike cross-country race, a road race and ...
Squidfry
WRONG NUMBER…Apparently Monterey County-ites weren’t the only ones who fell for the Weekly’s April Fool’s, Disney-Buys-Del-Rey-Oaks story. The state of Florida called earlier this week—no joke, a woman called and said “This is the state ...
Carmel Hideway
John and Sandy Bonifas’ Carmel cottage is under 1000 square feet, but is filled with such luxurious details that the petite size hardly matters. A faux painted dutch door leads into the home, antique light ...
A blind medieval rabbi inspired Friday’s Sunset Center concert.
Combine one part klezmer dance music, one part Latin influence and one part classical training and the result might be Osvaldo Golijov, recipient of a recent MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant and one of today’s hottest ...
Theater Listings
theater openings Agnes of God Opens Fri 7:30pm, continues Sat 7:30pm, Sun 2pm. Dawn Flood stars as a young nun accused of murdering her baby, Suzanne Sturn is the Mother Superior bent on protecting the ...
Funny, edgy Intermission glimpses life and love in modern Dublin.
An often funny, always surprising ensemble piece with a bit of a nasty streak, Intermission might not be to everyone’s taste. It has a large cast of contemporary Dubliners to keep track of, none of ...
A Saturday morning ride through the park with the Velo Club. Or not.
I had a great time on the weekly Saturday morning ride with members of the Velo Club of Monterey and other area cyclists. Unfortunately, my ride with the group only lasted about three minutes. One ...
McCloud’s opponents say newly reelected mayor misrepresented Flanders deal.
The debates surrounding Carmel’s April 13 municipal election have stirred up the dust in an ongoing fight over the city-owned Flanders Mansion, a circa-1924 building on the National Historic Registry that’s located in the city’s ...
Cooper-Molera: A Bygone Garden
Listed together they sound like some kind of Old World code, and in a way, they are: Mme. de Tartas, Glendora, Ispahan, Marquise Bocella & La Reine, Rosa Roxburghii, Jeanne d’Arc, Souvenir d’un Ami, Gold ...
Supersized Wal-Mart grocery outlets, with their low prices and low wages, are unnamed targets.
Next week, Salinas may join cities across the United States in taking a step towards banning certain extra-large “big-box” stores. At the April 20 City Council meeting, city officials are slated to discuss a prohibition ...
Thursday, April 8
Pam Carroll’s intimate paintings describe a precise world.
When Pamela Carroll sets up a still life to paint on her small masonite panels, she embraces both the artistic tradition of trompe l’oeil and the intimate world of her relationships to her family, friends, ...
Foodchain
AROUND AND AROUND…Well, the first ever Around The World In 80 Wines is in the bag. It was a thrilling event punctuated by everyone’s genuine happiness and sense of fun throughout. The visual interest created ...
April Fools: Thanks to everyone who contributed (involuntarily) to last week’s hoax.
There are a couple of notorious pranks in the history of American journalism. The first was the so-called “Great Moon Hoax of 1835.” On August 25 of that year, the New York Sun ran a ...
Letters
I Don’t Get It Will you please explain the concept of the April Fool’s joke? In an area that takes two years and 25 public meetings to approve a crosswalk, it should be clear that ...
Laird’s plan would help offset Governator’s cuts.
Times are tough for community colleges in California. Previous years’ budget cuts have resulted in the cancellation of thousands of classes, and tens of thousands of students have lost the opportunity to attend college. And ...
There are no laughs to be heard in Bruce Willis’ Yards sequel.
On The Lam: Bruce Willis (left) heads for freedom in Mexico with his hit-woman wife, Amanda Peet. Proof that most sequels should be avoided, The Whole Ten Yards vaporizes the humor of its superior 1999 ...
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THE VON BONDIES Pawn Shoppe Heart Sire Records At a recent performance at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall, The Von Bondies provided ample evidence supporting recent media claims about their outstanding live shows. Unfortunately, ...
Squidfry
TINY MELONS…Normally, Squid isn’t into germs. But that’s all about to change now that lettuce giant Tanimura & Antle has teamed up with Sygenta, a Swiss techno-germ outfit that dabbles in fungi and seeds. It ...
The Remedy puts a new spin on classic rock’s off-hits.
Five years ago, Larry Randolph wandered into Rama P. Jama’s Open Mic Night at Juice N’ Java and was blown away by a young woman singing the 4 Non Blondes’ song “What’s Up” on the ...
Art Listings
art openings | events Carl Cherry Center for the Arts Artists’ Choices, 30 selections of work in media ranging from painting to sculptural work in fabricated wood, steel and aluminum, by Carol Chapman and Fred ...
New documentary showcases the repressive history of this tiny nation.
If its clunky title suggests a dispassionately factual account of the history of Tibet, don’t be fooled. Tibet is a clarion cri de coeur on behalf of the Tibetan people, who’ve suffered under a brutal ...
The old Monterey County Jail tells a bitter story.
Maria Teresa Rubio crossed over in 1969—35 years ago this month. She, along with her brothers and parents, went to work picking strawberries and lettuce in the Salinas Valley for almost nothing. “There was no ...
Ventana Wilderness Society’s new after-school program helps kids Zen out.
At 4pm on a sunny Monday afternoon, a blue van filled with exceptionally happy people pulls in front of Carmel’s Monastery Beach and unloads four adults and three kids. Sheila Foster, communications and development coordinator ...
Newsbriefs
Cubanismo Cancelled The LA Times called Cubanismo, a popular jazz band from Cuba, “stirring, powerful…an irresistible torrent of intricate rhythms.” But local jazz lovers won’t get to hear them next month in Carmel, because the ...
Two local writers are short-listed for national mystery award.
The recently released list of nominees for the Agatha Award for Best First Novel of 2003 contained some surprises. Usually numbering only five selections, this year’s list had to be expanded to seven authors because ...
It’s warm and delicious inside Matteo’s.
Tony Soprano and his gang of thugs are eyeballing diners from a wall poster inside. The menu is spotted with dish names like the Mafiosa, the Soprano. But that’s about as close to a rough-and-tumble ...
The Devil Makes Three’s neo-country twist is a heady concoction.
During our collective history, humankind has discovered scores of inspired pairings. Whether it is milk with chocolate chip cookies, white wine with chicken, or Snoop Dogg with Dr. Dre, sometimes something great can become even ...
Artifacts
RECYCLED ART NEEDED…Nido furniture store and gallery, out in Moss Landing, is opening a recycled art show at the end of July, and they’re already looking for entries. Artworks must be constructed of used scrap ...
Pacific Grove Sophistication
Interior designers Jeffrey Botwin and Philip Howlett have remodeled their Pacific Grove home to such a degree of clean beauty that it’s difficult not to gush. The home, while classic PG beach house on the ...
Theater Listings
Mr. Bruce, Do You Swear? Opens Fri 8pm, continues Sat 8pm, Sun 2pm. Jody Gilmore plays the late, great comedian Lenny Bruce, hounded during his lifetime by the opponents of free expression, in an original ...
Paul Taylor’s dances are exquisitely crafted stories in motion.
Paul Taylor is arguably the greatest storyteller working today in contemporary dance. Yet for the most part his works don’t have narratives; there is no plot; they don’t even have characters. Yet his dances are ...
Marina’s University Villages slammed at semi-public hearing.
The talk of “synergy” and “integration” and “finely-grained neighborhoods” sounded appropriately smooth during a planning meeting last week, until various Marina city commissioners started dismantling the plan for the University Villages project on Fort Ord. ...
The Bunny or the Fat Man?: Asked at Del Monte Center in Monterey
Q: Which holiday mascot do you like more, Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny? Follow-up: What would you most like to find in your Easter basket? Eric Garcia Police Officer | Marina A: Santa Claus ...
Director Guillermo del Toro’s love of comic-book Hellboy makes the film a treat.
Mike Mignola’s cult comic book finally arrives as film director Guillermo del Toro’s pet project, and while the film ably thrusts longtime fans of Mignola’s highly stylized artwork and newcomers alike into the world of ...
Thursday, April 1
Foodchain
CHEF OF THE YEAR…Went to the American Culinary Federation, Monterey Bay Chapter, Chef of the Year Award and President’s Ball (whew). This is the annual event at which stout, lifetime professionals who have spent too ...
Patrice Vecchione’s newest anthology has a pointed theme.
Poet, teacher and anthologist Patrice Vecchione keeps herself very busy, especially during National Poetry Month, which begins today. In April alone, her newest poetry anthology, Revenge and Forgiveness, will be published; she opens an art ...
Disney Buys Del Rey Oaks: Tiny ‘city’ will be redeveloped as adult fantasy gated community.
In a surprise announcement that will be delivered Thursday at a press conference in Burbank, Walt Disney Company chairman Michael Eisner will disclose the purchase of the entire tiny city of Del Rey Oaks, the ...
City is ready to fight in court against sprawling Rancho San Juan subdivision.
Salinas city officials don’t want Monterey County to build the Rancho San Juan development, a sprawling proposed mini-city of 4,000 homes on 2,581 acres between Salinas and Prunedale. And to that end, they’re willing to ...
Theater Listings
theater openings Fatthumb of the Opry A pseudo-19th-century melocomedy starring Barbara Stripesand, Jane Fondle, Lois Lame and Clarke Kennt. $14/general, $13/seniors, $7/students, $5/military. Barbary Coast Theater, 320 Hoffman Ave., Monterey. 655-4992. Ends 6/30. theater now ...
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AMY FARRIS Anyway YepRoc This disc is roots country/Texas swing from an expert in the game. As Kelly Willis’ fiddler for six years, Farris has learned dynamics and pacing. As Dave Alvin’s protégé, she’s learned ...
Charming film shows what happens when you miss the fall of the Wall.
Last time I checked, nostalgia for East German communism wasn’t a top priority among American moviegoers. So it’s anybody’s guess how Wolfgang Becker’s winning tragicomedy—huge hit all over Europe—will play this side of the Atlantic. ...
Nature Lover’s Dream in Prunedale
On a swell of lush green atop Crazy Horse Canyon, tucked far beyond a pair of ornate iron gates, the five acres of oaks and wildlife are enough to take anyone’s breath away. Add to ...
Monterey resident Butch Voris formed the nation’s most-loved aviation team.
In June 1946, Navy Captain Roy “Butch” Voris piloted a fighter plane in Jacksonville, Fla., at the inaugural performance of the Navy Flight Exhibition Team. For the group that was later to be known as ...
Newsbriefs
Cruise Pollution Goes Federal On April 1, federal legislation will be introduced simultaneously in the House and Senate to prohibit dumping of sewage and oily bilge water within 12 miles of the nation’s coastline. Spurred ...
Art Listings
art openings | events Galeria Tonantzin A Woman’s Journey Home: in Celebration of Soul, collages by Monterey artist Kim Birdsong. Reception: 4/3, 5-7pm. 115 Third St., San Juan Bautista. 726-3358 or www.galeriatonantzin.com. Ends 4/25. Lisa ...
NASA’s top administrator addresses hometown crowd at graduation ceremony.
Google the phrase “Joint Vision 2020” and you will come across a document published by the US Space Command called “Vision 2020,” which explains the mission of military dominance and control of outer space. For ...
Murder mystery can’t equal Unsworth’s “morality” novel.
In 1995, Booker Prize-winning novelist Barry Unsworth wrote a splendid little book called Morality Play. It’s about a young runaway priest in medieval Britain who has broken his vow of chastity, joins a troupe of ...
Squidfry
LUCK O’ THE CEPHALOPOD…Squid likes to get lucky. The more often the better. And to even be able to count on it from week to week, boy oh boy, that is just sweet for this ...
Mr P Chill & Trunk of Funk bring Sacto goove to Lava Lounge.
After just a few minutes of talking with Mr. P Chill, it becomes obvious why this white Sacramento resident is a hip-hop MC. During a phone interview conducted while he is driving home from his ...
Call them undiscovered, call them hidden gems, just don’t call ‘em dives.
They don’t land chef reviews or make Zagat surveys. There are no table linens, and the dress code is strictly come as you are. They’re at the heart of intros like “I know this great ...
Adrian Legg boats in to Viva’s.
On his 2003 release Guitar Bones, Adrian Legg’s acoustic fingerstyle guitar music is extremely complicated and incredibly refined. It sounds like the sort of music that deserves to be played in an old, ornate opera ...
Artifacts
POETRY IS FOR KIDS…April is National Poetry Month, and it’s a pleasure to see so many schoolchildren taking part in this newly-revived art form. This Friday, April 2, at 4:30pm, the Sally Griffin Senior Center ...
Three new exhibits explore the ritualization of violence.
Three exhibitions that have violence as a connecting theme open this Friday at the Lisa Coscino Gallery in Pacific Grove. Collectively named “Arenas,” the exhibitions address the sublimation of this urge that is apparently an ...
Moments of Blatant Stupidity: Asked in Downtown Monterey
Q: What is the most foolish thing you’ve ever done? Follow-up: Who is your April Fool? Mollie Smith Student | Monterey A: Once, when I was 14, I took the bus from my home in ...
Letters
Warmongers Deserve Blame Eric Johnson’s “The Fog of Post-War” [March 18-24] was as good a one-page summary of the Iraq War and its aftermath as I’ve seen. The only exception I have with it was ...
Mayoral candidate Dick Ely’s ideas to help Carmel raise much-needed revenue are either innovative or unrealistic.
It’s hard not to like both of Carmel’s mayoral candidates, who are now facing off for an April 13 municipal election. Both are quick to point out their love for the city and their deep ...
