Stories
Military personnel resist ‘back-door draft.’
Michael Hoffman was three days away from leaving the Marine Corps when the order came down: he was being sent to Iraq. There was no advance notice, no extra money and, of course, no guarantee ...
Street Talk
Spinning Like A Top -- Asked at Del Monte Center in Monterey
Q: Is it bad that John Kerry is a “flip-flopper”? Follow-up: When is a particularly bad time to change your mind? Gayle Cureton Chef | Carmel Valley A: Changing one’s mind is a sign of ...
Strange Officemates
Left and right unite to fight Farr from a new five-party headquarters.
Mark Risley calls the grand opening of his new campaign headquarters “historic.” On Aug. 21, the Pacific Grove Republican businessman joined forces with Libertarian investment advisor Joel Smolen, Peace & Freedom bookseller Joe Williams, and ...
The Final Stage
Magic Circle will close after one last outstanding production.
Close The Drawer and turn out the lights. That will be the story next month, as the Magic Circle Center calls it quits after this season’s final production, The Drawer Boy, which opens Friday. After ...
Letters
Portrait of Armenta Was Unfair In your July 29 issue of the Weekly you ran a photo of my district supervisor, Fernando Armenta, which was embellished with a sombrero and a bag of money. The ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
| art openings | events | The Carmel Foundation Woodcarvers. Broad range of works, intricately carved by hand. Reception: 9/1, 1pm. SE corner of 8th & Lincoln, Diment Hall. 624-1588. Eric’s Showroom & Gallery Fascination: ...
Swordplay Ballet
Swordplay Ballet
Will Zhang Yimou’s dazzling swordplay ballet Hero be his Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, a magic catapult from the art house to the global metroplex? History won’t simply repeat itself, since moviedom has long since assimilated ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
SHOW ME THE MONEY… According to Squid’s calendar, it’s a little bit early in the local political season for television ads. Squid thought the no-television-commercials-until-after-Labor-Day rule was almost as strict as the no-white-before-and-no-linen-after rule. But ...
Farewell, Julia, Part II
Attempting to properly eulogize someone like Julia Child—actually there is no such thing as someone like Julia Child, there is only Julia Child—is simultaneously frustrating and gratifying. Frustrating because there is too much life lived ...
We’re Here for the Beer
Monterey Coast Brewing offers good food to go with great beer.
Food, sailboats, and small airplanes—sometimes they have a lot in common. For example, in all three, if you want to get from Point A to Point B, you rarely steer a straight course. If you ...
On The Couch
French woman mistakenly spills her problems to a tax attorney in an edgy romance.
This modest French-language film follows the time-honored cinematic tradition of plot as spearheaded by a simple twist of fate. Case in point: Had Anna (Sandrine Bonnaire) gone six doors down to the left, as instructed, ...
Seaside Swing
Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums headline dance party at Laguna Grande Park.
The neo-swing craze may have come and gone, but Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums continue to lay down a fat groove for dancers around the Bay Area, mining that rich seam of funk where ...
Local Dems Host Film Series
Cheap dates with plenty to talk about are being offered by Monterey Democrats every Saturday night at 7pm for the next two months. Starting Aug. 28, and running until the November election, films meant to ...
As the FBI goes knocking prior to the Republican National Convention, the ACLU fights back.
Sarah Bardwell did not get the names of the four FBI agents and two police officers who questioned her and her roommates late on the afternoon of July 22 on the front porch of their ...
Power Shift
Tumult brings new race to Laguna Seca.
Now that he no longer promotes motorcycle racing at Laguna Seca, Dan Murphy plans to relax and spend some time in the very near future “counting Ben Franklins on a beach in Mexico.” Murphy’s company, ...
A Far Cry
Long Distance brings intimate country and rock gems to Plaza Linda.
It was bound to happen sometime. The invisible wall between band and audience had been assaulted all evening, and the barrier was finally demolished as members of the audience joined local country/rock band Long Distance ...
Theater Listings
Theater Listings
| theater opening | The Drawer Boy Opens Fri 7:30pm, continues Sat 7:30pm, Sun 2pm. An urban actor turns up on a farm in Ontario, hoping to gather ideas for a theater project. Morgan and ...
Appeals Court considers complaint against County.
A group of local residents determined to save the old Monterey County Jail from the wrecking ball got their day in court—again—this week. At a hearing on Tuesday, Aug. 24, in the state Court of ...
A Fool’s Errand
Mike Miele, beloved local purveyor of hot dogs and cigars, is about to become a publisher.
Recycled ideas: that is how Mike Miele, a man who moved from White Plains, NY, to California in 1980, and on to Monterey in 1999, describes his career choices and life’s work. “I found Monterey ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
VARIOUS ARTISTSThe Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage of the Carter Family | Dualtone Records The Unbroken Circle is a top-notch tribute to the Carter Family, a Virginia trio that basically started country music and recorded ...
Bush team is used to winning ugly.
In response to the intensifying controversy over the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attack on John Kerry, spokespeople for the Bush campaign and the White House have denied any connection between the Bush campaign ...
Home Page
A View From Above
Ben Goldman is a man of worldly experience, ideas and a studied point of view on just about any topic. Goldman pulls no punches, which includes talking about anything to do with the condition of ...
Deep South
A casual, fantastic journey into a strange nearby land.
Ninety-seven miles from the City of Monterey—past rows of produce that braid hillsides, past miles and miles of barbed-wire fence where plastic bags hang like tattered ghosts, past vineyards adorned with mylar strips that glint ...
