Thursday, July 29
Art Listings
Art Listings
| art openings | events | Mantis Metalworks The unveiling of “Big Red,” the newest sculpture by Jonathan Christopher Roberts of Giant Pacific Octopus in copper (five years in the making). Reception: 8/1, 7-9pm. Lighthouse ...
Roaring at the Toothless Tiger
Public vents frustration with FCC at public hearing in Monterey.
Scant minutes into the FCC hearing on broadcast media service to local communities, held in Monterey on Wednesday, July 21, someone from the raucous, capacity crowd in the Steinbeck Forum calls out the question on ...
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Pacific Star
Richard and Shelley Risko are the kind of people who appear to be gifted in ways that assure anything they do can surpass anything they’ve done before. Their accomplishments include starting several successful Carmel stores, ...
Hitting the High Notes
Carmel Bach Festival features young opera stars this week.
The sound of a man singing falsetto fills seats—just ask the multitudes who fork over serious cash to ogle Prince in concert. No question about it—today’s androgynous pop stars are revered for their vocal gymnastics ...
Man of Mystery
Former assassin Jason Bourne is still on the run from the Russians and the CIA.
If amnesia victim/former CIA killing machine Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) were a demonstrative man, then some Corleone-style grandstanding—“just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in”—would have been well within his rights. ...
It’s The Cheese
Lugano Swiss Bistro in the Barnyard is a dairy lover’s dream-come-true.
When my husband Laurent and I yearned for some Old World charm on our recent anniversary, we headed out to Lugano Swiss Bistro in the Barnyard. We used to sit on the German side of ...
Outlaw County
Board of Supervisors paves the way for a different kind of Monterey County.
The Monterey County Board of Supervisors has approved every major development project to come before it since January. These decisions will mean the county will look a little different in the near future. Two reservoirs ...
FoodChain
HOMEBOY TOURIST… There are so many great benefits to living around here. When Sweet Thing and I are hanging around, not sure of what to do, many times we’ll get in the car and drive ...
The New Guy
R&B veteran brings vocal stylings to Red Beans & Rice.
“This guy has held the band together for 10 years,” Bishop Mayfield says while looking at his new bandmate Gil Rubio. “I wasn’t married that long.” Sitting in the lobby of the Monterey Beach Hotel, ...
Strings In the Forest
California Summer Music brings young students to play the strings.
Eleven-year-old Kevin Chen listens intently to a bespectacled instructor, while clutching his violin and trying to grasp the concept of an “intentional slide.” Chen stands while his teacher, Zaven Melikian, sits nearby, describing the bowing ...
The Outlaws (and the Lone Green Ranger)
Over the past six months or so, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors has (mostly) ignored state and federal law to allow some mighty big developments.
Big Ag’s New Friend District 1 Supervisor | Fernando Armenta In 1980, Fernando Armenta was a United Farm Workers union organizer, volunteering at car washes to raise money to elect East Salinas Latinos to the ...
Twin Solos on Stage
Susannah York’s Shakespeare’s Women and Gregg Stebben’s Richard Feynman both come to Carmel.
These are dark days for regional theater in Monterey County. Unprecedented budget cuts have forced local drama companies to either creatively fundraise or offer abbreviated seasons. Since staging a full-scale theatrical production is a tremendously ...
All Over the Map
District 4 race kicks off at Chapala (again); County faces lawsuit (again); and GP team goes public (again).
It’s time to hit the campaign trail, thinks the girl reporter. After all, the Democratic National Convention recently kicked off, fall is little more than the a month away, and all of this means campaign ...
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The King Of Vox Pop: Monday night in Boston, Bill Clinton showed that he’s still the best communicator in politics.
For all of Bill Clinton’s prancing and preening Monday night about his own eight years in the White House, what really made his speech extraordinary were the touches of self-deprecation. Listening to him talk of ...
Immigrant Songs
The Greencards bring bluegrass from across two seas.
Carol Young and Kym Warner, of the Austin-based bluegrass band The Greencards, grew up in the South. More specifically, the two hail from the southeast. Southeastern Australia, that is. During a phone interview on a ...
NewsBriefs
Theater Group Hopeful With Sale News that the historic State Theater on Alvarado Street in Monterey has been sold left some wondering what will become of the neglected gem. Warren Dewey, who runs a post-production ...
Your Inner Head-Banger
The rock stars of Metallica go through intense music and therapy in this documentary.
Do head-banging heavy metal and personal growth therapy mix? Can the world’s angriest metal band produce a comeback CD while in the middle of group therapy to iron out their aggressions? These are the questions ...
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| theater opening | The Loves of Shakespeare’s Women Opens Fri 7:30pm, continues Fri-Sat 7:30pm and Sun 2pm. Susannah York brings her acclaimed one-woman show to Carmel where she examines love and the female characters ...
Squidfry
Squidfry
DA MONTEREY CODE…City codes were made to be broken, right? Like those silly laws banning ice cream and high heels and closed curtains. Oh, and that ridiculous one from the city of Monterey about conflict ...
Letters
Airwave Defense Needed Thank you for the excellent feature “The Big Picture,” by Andrew Scutro [July 22-28] and a belated “Hats Off” to this same writer for the outstanding pieces some months ago chronicling his ...
Streettalk
Let it Grow: Asked at Edgewater Center
Q: Should we allow Monterey County to become San Jose south, or LA North? Follow-up: What does this county really need in the way of development? Edmund BralyHotel Desk Clerk | Sand CityA: You can’t ...
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JACK ROSERaag Manifestos | VHF Records The title of Jack Rose’s new album, Raag Manifestos, is a hybrid scramble of “rag”—as in “ragtime”—and the Indian word, “raga.” Where ragtime music is a distinct idiom of ...
Thursday, July 22
FoodChain
MATCHLESS PAIR… Just got the latest newsletter from George Edwards. He’s the local wine guru who owns and operates WineMarket (formerly WineStyles) in the Country Club Gate Center on David and Forest in PG. By ...
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Hand-Built Comfort in Prunedale
When Tim and Christy Reece say they built a house, they mean it literally. By their own labors they have built a unique, practical and brilliantly livable home within the gated Country Meadows community in ...
Forty-eight Nobel laureates condemn Bush administration in Report on Scientific Integrity in Policymaking.
From The Executive Summary The US government runs on information—vast amounts of it. Researchers at the National Weather Service gather and analyze meteorological data to know when to issue severe-weather advisories. Specialists at the Federal ...
Squidfry
Squidfry
RAP THE VOTE…Squid’s always been a fan of the underdog, the little guy, the long shot, the dark horse or the (insert your cliché of choice here). And in the race for the 17th Congressional ...
Streettalk
Easily Distracted: Asked at Starbucks in Del Rey Oaks
Q: Where is Osama Bin Laden right now?Follow-up: Where’s Waldo?Ewa PruskaStudent | MontereyA: With such a messed up media it’s very hard to tell. I think he is just one guy whose mentality conflicts with ...
Democrat John Laird and Republican Bruce McPherson, and most of their peers, still oppose governor’s budget.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has finally hit the wall. Nobody in the legislature is happy about it, but they’re not surprised either. Schwarzenegger went to Sacramento vowing to do what governors before him could not do: ...
Trail Blaser
Kirsten Blase brings early music to the big world.
Make no mistake about it, the church music of the 18th century is inspiring stuff—even if the lyrics are indecipherable. At the ongoing Carmel Bach Festival, many performances provide English subtitles but, in some cases, ...
Bush’s Wacky World of Science
I write today as a physician. The Bush administration has declared war on science. In the Orwellian world of 21st century America, two plus two no longer equals four where public policy is concerned, and ...
CAMP Ramps Up
Big King City pot bust could be the beginning of another banner year.
Somewhere deep in the substructure of the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office, crammed in a warehouse evidence locker, sits a half million dollars worth of quality marijuana plants. Acting on a tip from a hunter, the ...
Newsbriefs
Arquilla to Speak at 9/11 Forum Radio listeners can catch Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) professor and author John Arquilla live on KAZU 90.3FM at a Monterey County Weekly-sponsored forum on Iraq following a screening of ...
Another Kind of Duo
Guitar looper Yuji and his two-man big band play Viva Monterey.
Two musicians are playing in Viva’s on a Wednesday night. You might imagine a couple of folkies sitting in chairs, strumming acoustic guitars and harmonizing before a crowd of seated patrons sipping beer and whispering ...
May-December Love
May-December Love
Sirk and Fassbinder, most famously, tackled the social stigma of a middle-aged woman reigniting her sex life with a younger man, but director Roger Michell (Notting Hill) and writer Hanif Kureishi (My Beautiful Laundrette) raise ...
Wandering Diva
Mezzo soprano Elise Rotchford follows her musical muse to some wild places.
Elise Rotchford’s neighbors on 18th Street in Pacific Grove have come to relish the sound of her haunting voice as it soars and plummets over their rooftops like something with wings. But her neighbors haven’t ...
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BAD RELIGIONEmpire Strikes First | Epitaph Like the mini-malls that dot their Los Angeles-area homebase, Bad Religion can be incredibly unvarying on every release. Each CD, like each mall, is composed of the identical components—in ...
Anything Goes
The big screen life of Jazz Age songwriter Cole Porter dances along, with little drama.
Irwin Winkler’s kid-gloves adaptation of the lives of Cole Porter and his wife Linda, De-Lovely, begins with Porter (Kevin Kline) at the piano, dying or possibly already dead, interrupted by a ghost/Broadway producer (Jonathan Pryce), ...
Big Little Restaurant
There’s nothing small about the plates at Taquitos.
Located in the strip mall across from Sherwood Hall in Salinas, Taquitos reigns as my family’s “let’s eat one meal today” restaurant. Affixing “-ito” to the end of a Spanish word usually makes the word ...
Letters
A Liberal Defense Joe Vargo defines a liberal as “Someone who will not fight back when attacked” [Letters, July 15-21]. Funny—I couldn’t find any such definition of “liberal” in the dictionary. A person who will ...
Latinos Face Health Risks
Methyl bromide is just one threat that the Bush administration is ignoring, Sierra Club reports.
A Bad Week for Fieldworkers Two news events last week—one in Washington, DC, and one in Geneva, Switzerland—point to a serious local problem. On Tuesday, the Sierra Club released news of a study that showed ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
| art openings | events | Pacific Grove Art Center Three Shows. Boyer Gallery: Tiny Treasures, a Summer Miniatures Show Fundraiser. This year’s benefit includes work from over 80 local artists in acrylics, collage, oil, ...
TheaterList
TheaterList
| theater opening | Corpse! Opens Thurs at 8pm, continues Thurs-Sat 8pm and Sun 2pm. Take an out-of-work actor in 1930s London, add a filthy rich twin brother. Throw in a kooky landlady, a bewildered ...
SLO Jam
Shambhala brings jazz-funk-rock groove north to Fernwood.
Because Fernwood happens to be located on Highway 1 between Monterey and San Luis Obispo, it is able to draw on the best acts from the two small cities. One case in point is San ...
Truck Farming
A local family of organic growers finds ways to bring their fruit to market.
The sun had just set last Saturday when Rosario Rodriguez pulled into the driveway of his Castroville home. With heavy lids and a warm smile, he climbed down from his pickup truck. “I’m sorry I’m ...
Hooked on Methyl
The good news is US farmers are using less methyl bromide than ever before. The bad news is they just can’t quite kick the habit.
Last week, a US delegation traveled to Geneva, Switzerland for routine talks on an international environment treaty bearing an audacious request from the Bush administration. They asked that American farmers, who had vowed in the ...
Beatle’s Lines
Artwork of John Lennon on display at Portola Plaza.
Older, losing his hair, and still indicating precisely what he meant to say, John Lennon would have been sixty-four this year. This weekend, to celebrate this milestone, Yoko Ono once again brings an exhibit of ...
Thursday, July 15
Jammin’ with Bach
67th Annual Bach Fest looks to jazz cats for inspiration.
Amidst the stodgy atmosphere that permeates many classical music performances, it’s easy to lose sight of what made composers like J. S. Bach popular in the first place: vibrancy and spontaneity. In the 18th century, ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
art openings | events Gallery North New oil paintings by Maria Aliotti-Ford and mixed media works by Pamela Takigawa featured. Artists’ reception on 7/17, from 6pm to 8pm. Dolores between 5th & 6th, Carmel. 620-1987. ...
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theater opening Soldado Razo Opens Thurs at 8pm, continues Thurs-Sat 8pm and Sun 3pm. Narrated by La Muerte (Death), Soldado Razo tells the story of Johnny Rodriguez, a young man spending his last days with ...
Letters
Give War a Chance You recently carried an article on a group espousing peace for the world, and educating young men on ways to avoid military service [“Study War No More,” July 1-7]. That should ...
Squidfry
Squidfry
DESIGNER TOOLS…Squid’s breathing easier these days, now that the Seaside Police Department has arrested four bad guys who were selling—gasp!—counterfeit power tools. It does make Squid a little nostalgic for the good ‘ole days of ...
Newsbriefs
Condor Study Delays Forest Plan Review The California condor could prevent future oil and natural gas exploration in the Los Padres National Forest because of its status as an endang ered species. An assessment of ...
Big Screen Waves
Big Screen Waves
In a Honolulu movie theater, Laird Hamilton, the best surfer to ever live, was struggling to find the right words. Dwarfed by the giant blank screen behind him, he floundered about for a way to ...
The Big Picture
FCC brings national roadshow to Monterey to ask: are the TV and radio giants serving the public?
The airwaves, through which radio and television signals travel unseen, are like the National Forests that cover vast expanses of the American West in blankets of pine and sagebrush. When you get to a place ...
An Affair Continued
Thoughtful and charming sequel gives depth to ‘one night stand.’
The all-in-one-night love story that unfolded in Before Sunrise really turned out to be an affair to remember. In that 1995 Richard Linklater movie, two strangers on a train meet, talk, disembark to spend the ...
Rock Community All-Stars
The Monterey Rock and Art Festival brings local musicians together.
Rock Community All-Stars The Monterey Rock and Art Festival brings local musicians together. By Stuart Thornton It was an interesting idea. But, then again, scores of interesting ideas have been utter failures. Look at Web ...
Urbane Cowgirl
Montana cowgirl Stephanie Davis headlines Salinas Cowboy Poetry Gathering of strong women.
One sure-fire way to distinguish oneself as an urban rube in a conversation is to casually ask a cowgirl, like fourth generation Montanan Stephanie Davis, how big her ranch is. “You’re never supposed to ask ...
Presidio May Go Semi-Public
Rent-a-guards will control access to the base, sealed since Sept 11, if city leagues are allowed in.
The public may once again have some access to the Presidio of Monterey. Last week the City of Monterey sent a letter to the Army with a proposed schedule and protocols to re-open the southern ...
Street Talk
Top or Bottom?: Asked in Downtown Salinas
Q: Would you rather be in the position of the bull or the bull-rider?Follow-up: What do you like most about the rodeo? Chris KimbrellRetired | SalinasA: The rider. It’s only right that the cowboy is ...
FoodChain
HAD A NICE DAY… Went to the fabulous press luncheon to hang out with Il Marchese Piero Antinori and a few friends at Peppoli, the Italian ristorante named for one of Antinori’s great wine estates ...
Drought spurs rate-hike, and could mean moratorium on hook-ups.
Water meetings make me thirsty. Or maybe it’s the hard candies on the table that I’m popping in my mouth. Whatever the reason, I’m thankful for the pitcher of ice water sitting in front of ...
Into the Woods
Marriage, crime, explored in masterful thriller The Clearing.
There’s a mystery at the heart of The Clearing, a remarkably assured and absorbing suspense drama from Pieter Jan Brugge. But it’s not necessarily the mystery the viewer expects. On paper, it looks like a ...
Forum
Murdoch’s Attack on American Journalism.
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, demonstrates in painful detail how one media empire, making full use of the public airwaves, can reject any semblance of fairness or perspective, and serve as the mouthpiece of ...
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Small in Size, Not in Heart
Doyle and Lisa Hook were remodeling an older house in Pacific Grove when they became intrigued by the empty lot next door. The land had been owned by one family for a century and never ...
Who Owns Local Broadcast Media
There are 45 radio transmitters and 12 television transmitters with an array of ownership in the Monterey/ Salinas area. Below is a list of some of the bigger stations. Recent legislation like the Telecommunications Act ...
California Blend
The Tinnery takes its food cues from California culture.
With its wide windows opening out over Lovers Point and the ocean, Pacific Grove’s Tinnery restaurant pleases the eye as well as the palate. The appreciation of the out-of-town guests that I like to bring ...
Sex And The County
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
The girl reporter learned two important lessons this week. One: It is possible to be too fashionably late. And two: Some County Supes apparently spend less time making decisions about what Monterey County will look ...
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BAD RELIGIONEmpire Strikes First | Epitaph Like the mini-malls that dot their Los Angeles-area homebase, Bad Religion can be incredibly unvarying on every release. Each CD, like each mall, is composed of the identical components—in ...
Thursday, July 8
Texas Troubadour
Freddie ‘Steady’ Krc
Texas native Freddie “Steady” Krc (rhymes with birch) started early: He joined his first band, The Sound Kings, as a drummer at 10 years old. Since then, Krc has gotten a chance to perform with ...
Lit
Doc For Reals: Canadian author will discuss revealing new Ricketts bio at Thunderbird.
Ed Ricketts isn’t exactly a household name outside the Monterey Peninsula area. Hence the title of a strong new biography: Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist Who Inspired ...
Beach Cat Appears Doomed
PG residents express support for (and fear of) mountain lion.
“The lion has been deemed a public safety threat,” Pacific Grove Police Chief Carl Miller announced at a community meeting last week, called to discuss recent mountain lion sightings. The next step appears to be ...
Street Talk
Burning Bush: Asked at Osio Cinema in Monterey
Q: Does Michael Moore have any restraint in his politics or his films?Follow-up: Who would make a better president—Michael Moore or John Kerry? Brook Sebok Graphic Designer | Pacific Grove A: No, he has no ...
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A Bigger Jewel
At the end of a sunny cul-de-sac in Carmel sits a unique four-bedroom, three-bath home. The Villa Serena has the style of a classic Carmel cottage, but with an open feeling unlike most homes in ...
The Legless Beer Baroness
Guy Maddin‘s Saddest Music is the strangest film this side of the Coen Brothers.
Like several of today’s most exciting directors (including Pedro Almodóvar, Todd Haynes and, most influentially, David Lynch), Canadian director Guy Maddin is fascinated by melodrama—run-amok desire, soul-crunching love, the abattoir of family dysfunction. His enjoyably ...
Foodchain
Respect a Tomato…I don’t know about you, but there are few objects worthy of as much desire as vine-ripened, organically grown, lovingly cared-for tomatoes—locally grown Heirloom Tomatoes. I walked into Whole Foods the other day ...
Sibling Rivalry
Brother tiger cubs teach kids—and parents—about humans’ compassion potential.
For every parent who’s complained about vapid, cartoonish family films, consider this alternative: the tooth-and-nail survival story of two tiger cubs separated during infancy and cast to the winds of fate in French-occupied Indochina. Kids ...
Letters
Moore’s Mobilizing Lots has been written on Fahrenheit 9/11, some in praise and some in condemnation. In either case, one important point needs to be mentioned; Fahrenheit 9/11 raises very valid questions. The greatest merit ...
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The Safe Bet’s a Star: John Edwards, who aggressively campaigned for the vice presidency, brings some charisma to the Kerry campaign.
Never let it be said that John Kerry rushes to judgment. Four months after just about every other Democrat had decided a Kerry-Edwards ticket was the best bet for the party, the presumptive Democratic presidential ...
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XThe Best—Make the Music Go Bang Elektra/Rhino Another best-of collection, and this one in the wake of a boxed set released a few years back that was semi-definitive. Why then would one want it? For ...
California Land and Water
Baird Collection and Chip Hooper present two very different views of landscapes and seascapes.
Richard Gadd has a heck of a storage problem in his basement. Gadd, executive director of the Monterey Museum of Art, has to decide what to do with 304 paintings that the museum received last ...
Farr’s Friendly Fire
Low turnout doesn’t derail Congressman’s Town Hall meeting.
After voting against the invasion of Iraq, Rep. Sam Farr walked out of Congress with his peers chasing behind him. They urged him to change his vote, saying that he could get away with it ...
Southwest Spice in PG
Michael’s makes Mexican food with flavor and a sense of humor.
‘If I was on Death Row, that would be my last meal.” I was browsing EB Games at Del Monte Center a few weeks ago when the store employee made that announcement to his friend. ...
Art Listings
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ART OPENINGS | EVENTS Carmel Art Association Annual Summer Celebration & Barbecue. On Tuesday, July 13 from 11am to 2pm, CAA hosts an open house and barbecue prepared by artist members. Features live radio, artist ...
El Corazón Azteca
Luis Valdez and El Teatro Campesino draw on a rich tradition.
“There were efforts to mechanize the harvest of grapes,” Luis Valdez says. “But it wasn’t possible, because it’s an organic fruit. You can’t really mechanize it. I saw them try and change the trellises for ...
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THEATER OPENING Panama Root Canal Opens Fri, 8pm, continues Fri-Sat 8pm. Join the Barbary Theater for “a history lesson gone bad.” It’s the days before the building of the Panama Canal when the infamous dictator, ...
The Fiftieth Beatle
The Jeff Hinkin Band resurrects late-’80s college rock and the Fab Four.
Before sitting down to talk at Morgan’s Coffee and Tea, Jeff Hinkin and I wait in line for a couple of hot, caffeinated beverages. In front of us, a man pays for his coffee and ...
Ballroom Boxing
Monterey’s Riot at the Hyatt brings bloody noses and KO punches to civilization.
The ballroom at the Monterey Hyatt Regency hotel is usually the picture of elegance, with accents like hanging chandeliers and elaborate designs on the carpets. But last Saturday night, the mood of the room was ...
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GENERAL PLAN WARS…Squid should have known it would come to this. First there was just the General Plan Update. Then there was GPU 2, and GPU 3—ditched by the Supes in May, when Edith Johnsen, ...
Thursday, July 1
Charming Camel
Mongolian folkways preserved in poetic Weeping Camel.
A movie doesn’t need green ogres or jet-propelled broomsticks to transport the audience to another world. Take The Story Of The Weeping Camel, a gentle-spirited tone poem about nomadic Mongolian livestock herders in the Gobi ...
FoodChain
Inside and Out… For those of you who happen to read this drivel on a semi-regular basis, you know how thrilled I am about having The Food Network available here on the Peninsula. It hasn’t ...
What’s Good? Whats’s Bad?; A Web Extra
Grow Up, America I grew up in a commune in Salinas. That’s right, a commune. Up until I was 13 I was raised with an extremely liberal family in a tight-knit setting where I was ...
Legalizing Work
AgJOBS bill would create path to legal status for immigrant farmworkers.
New federal legislation intended to secure agricultural labor in the Salinas Valley and the rest of the US, which may reach the US Senate floor this month, could help the ag industry as well as ...
Letters
Starbucks Isn’t All ThatAs a former (thankfully) management employee at Starbucks, I read with great interest your article praising the company for a variety of myths that plague Starbucks’ reputation [“Starbucks Deserves More Respect,” June ...
831: Sharp-Tipped Action
Fierce but friendly competition in the dart league.
Frankie Three Tons wears a blue bowler pulled down on his head like a helmet. Besides Three Tons, he also calls himself the King of Sting, but his real name is Franklin Lucido. He’s one ...
Rhythm Nation Builder
Legendary percussionist Airto Moreira appears at Esalen this week.
Before he agreed to lead this week’s “Samba for the Soul” workshop at Esalen Institute, Brazilian-percussionist Airto Moreira hesitated for a minute, leery about misplacing his late friend Babatundi Olatunji. But Airto knows the legendary ...
Street Talk
Patriot Act III : Asked at the Marina Post Office
Q: What would you consider a patriotic act?Follow-up: What would you like to see blow up? Jerry GreggRetired | MarinaA: Enjoying the day more. Traditionally that’s what it’s been all about.Clear Skies: The morning fog. ...
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| art openings | events | Concepts Gallery Carolyn Morris Bach, new jewelry depicting Bach’s “personal version of the connection between man and nature, dreams and reality.” Reception on Saturday, July 3 from 4pm to ...
Peace activists mobilize effort to end military recruiting at schools.
Carole Erickson, a public health nurse at Monterey Peninsula College, and a Quaker, stands in a history classroom on a Saturday morning, with maps of historic world conflicts rolled up on the wall. The previous ...
Coast-to-Coast Cruisers Arrive
The Great Race arrives in Monterey on Saturday.
Racers have braved thunder and lightning in Tallahassee, Florida, and waved to cheerleaders on the sun-streaked streets of Alexander, Alabama. They’ve received chair massages during a pit stop in Fort Scott, Kansas, and eaten fried ...
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TheaterListings
| theater opening | My Fair Lady Opens Fri, 8:30pm; continues Sat 8:30pm; Sun 3:30pm. When a cantankerous phonetician, Professor Henry Higgins, meets Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, he makes a bet that he ...
Same Game, New Rules
Sex and the County: Pro-General Plan coalition brings process back out into the open.
Forget models and movie stars, ex-politicians are the new sex symbols. For example: the constant gushing about Bill Clinton’s sleek, gorgeous new physique, and how he’s greeted like a rock star wherever he goes. The ...
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DING DONG… The witch is dead. Or rather, the McPherson bill to axe the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District. State Assembly members killed the bill in committee last week. And this time, Squid thinks, it’s ...
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Carmel Valley Space Case
In the quiet hills of Carmel Valley, a charming adobe sits atop Sky Ranch Road. With a Southwestern style this country getaway has a panoramic view and ten acres of space. There is even room ...
The Pink Power Cardigan
Hillary Clinton is just a remarkable person.
I filed down to my seat at the Embassy Suites in Seaside Monday night with my mother. We were there to hear Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton chat with Leon Panetta in the third installment of ...
NewsBriefs
Farr Opens Suggestion BoxCongressman Sam Farr will host a town hall meeting at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) this Thursday evening. The idea is not for Farr to enumerate what he is doing ...
Spidey Slings Back
Comic-inspired sequel tops the original.
Since the phenomenal $820 million international success of the first Spider-Man movie, the filmmakers have gone back to the drawing board to improve on their technical shortcomings and, more importantly, generate a top-notch script by ...
Scutro’s List
GOOD BAD summer afternoons and baseball overpaid athletes strawberry rhubarb crisp any cheap imitation girls who bake crisps and pies girls gone wild good roads traffic choices too many choices dedicated teachers irresponsible parents town ...
Barnyard Intellectuals
The Gourds’ alt-country weirdness contains a surreal beauty.
Members of Austin-based band The Gourds look like regular guys who talk football or cars over a few brewskis. They might be, but the music that this quintet plays is anything but ordinary. It’s how ...
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BEASTIE BOYSTo the 5 Boroughs | Capitol Records A six-year hiatus might be long enough to put some groups off the chart permanently, but six years is nothing to the Beastie Boys. After over 20 ...
About America
What’s Good? What’s Bad?
This week, to celebrate Independence Day, the Weekly turns its pages over to its readers. A few weeks ago, with the holiday approaching, the nation at war, and an election season heating up, we ran ...
Sandwich King
Bennett Compagno keeps the troops and Upper New Monterey neighbors well fed.
Fresh sandwiches, addictive chips (like avocado chips, and Louisiana’s seafood-flavored Crawtators), hard-to-find sodas (like Moxie and Brazil’s Bawls), fantasy cakes (like Oreo Black Forest) and beers from around the world have kept neighborhood regulars and ...
