Thursday, November 25
The Blind Boys of Alabama bring a dose of true religion to Carmel.
Gospel music legends the Blind Boys of Alabama are really clued in to the true meaning of the Christmas season. They don’t care if you come away from the show saved. They just want you ...
Gov. Schwarzenegger’s ties with the performance-enhancing supplement industry may be affecting his voting record.
In late September—in what appears to be a conflict of interest—Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill that could have affected his personal finances. The legislation proposed that public high school athletes agree not to use ...
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HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL White PeopleElektra Records It seems like everyone’s eager to go through the Handsome Boy Modeling School these days—a glance at the tracklist reveals a diverse who’s who of the hip and ...
Michael Mancini is the funniest cop in the country.
In January, Santa Cruz comedian Michael Mancini will be traveling to Jacksonville, Florida to defend his title. More specifically, the Santa Cruz Deputy Harbormaster is going to attempt to bring home the title of the ...
How a Washington state lawmaker won by appealing to working-class voters.
After the Democrats went down in flames on Nov. 2, liberals gave themselves over to a bout of gnashing of teeth and clenching of fists or simply to wailing out plaintive keens of profound despair. ...
Local Friends of Jung group looks to awaken the subconscious.
Carl Jung, one of the premier intellectuals in the field of psychology, told the world in the early 20th Century that the key to understanding the self lay in the subconscious mind. Thus, while scientists ...
Squidfry
SQUID CARES A LOT…Squid got all warm and fuzzy last week, thinking about the 12th Annual Peace Summit, hosted by Salinas-based Partners for Peace, Mayor Anna Caballero’s nonprofit group. This year’s theme was “Building Foundations ...
Foodchain: Wake Up and Live
GIVE A LITTLE—A LOT…The world is getting real lumpy man. There is so much pain and suffering on this planet, yet most people, unless their own soft, weak little asses are directly affected right now, ...
Exhibit celebrating the seminal Beatnik scientist offers only a glimpse.
With the gradual inevitability of a tidal change, Edward F. Ricketts is finally getting his due. Once a mere footnote to John Steinbeck’s legacy, Ricketts’ own unique genius is being celebrated with a slew of ...
Kinsey details the scientist’s findings on bedroom behavior, but it’s like an overstuffed quickie.
Bill Condon is an old hand on Hollywood’s eccentric-sex beat. He earned a screenplay Oscar for Gods and Monsters, the brilliant biopic about director James Whale, who gave Frankenstein a queer-eye-for-the-undead-guy movie makeover. Now he ...
ArtListings
Links to galley websites: | Carmel Art Association | Chapman Gallery | Hawthorne Gallery | The Lewis Gallery | National Steinbeck Center | PG Museum | Park Gallery | PK Fine Artifacts | Robert Lewis ...
A Bird’s Eye View in Seaside
Jeff and Kim DiBenedetto live on a hill in Seaside that begins at the dunes on the coast and rises steadily from there. Driving up to the house, a clear view of the Monterey Bay ...
Union ups threat at Fremont Street Travelodge.
Tears pour down Juana Enriquez’s cheeks as she pleads her case for health insurance. Speaking through a megaphone on a sidewalk on Monterey’s North Fremont Street, in front of the Travelodge motel near the Monterey ...
Community Fund
Dear Reader, Even if you haven’t stepped foot into a public school in years, just close your eyes and listen for the noon-time bell. Excited kids stream out of the classrooms and charge for the ...
Contributions and grants given to Monterey County-based nonprofits by category in 2002.
The figures represent varying portions of total revenue. Only the top 10 are included here. Category… Amount… Percentage of total revenue Education… $45,696,743… 40 Health… $35,061,441… 7 Animal-related… $34,431,386… 51 Community Improvement… $21,993,312… 79 Human ...
Grapesteak, née Summer House, impresses with attentive service and a well-rounded menu.
The festive looking tables with blue umbrellas on the terrace of Grapesteak, the former Summer House in Carmel Valley Village, are what originally attracted my husband Laurent and me to this restaurant. However, we chose ...
Suzy’s Neighbor plays alternarock nuggets and originals at Jose’s.
New local alternative rock group Suzy’s Neighbor is doing something right. Having formed only four months ago, the quartet played last weekend to a crowded, enthusiastic audience in Jose’s, a new venue under the Cannery ...
Jeff Arthur leaves a legacy of environmental protection throughout California.
Jeffrey David Arthur, former Carmel resident, died last Friday of a heart attack at age 58. While his name will not be immediately familiar to most, his quiet and extensive work on the state’s environmental ...
Newsbriefs
Budget Millions Headed to AreaCall them federal “earmarks” or call it pork: millions of dollars are coming to the Central Coast courtesy of Sam Farr. On November 20, the US Senate voted to approve the ...
TheaterListings
| theater opening | The Nutcracker Sat 2pm and 7:30pm; Sun 2pm. Accompanied by Tchaikovsky’s thrilling music, Salinas Performing Arts presents this Christmas classic about a girl who helps a wooden nutcracker man defeat a ...
Letters
Democrat Loser for Reagan I want to make it clear from the start that I am a registered Democrat. Eric Johnson’s post-mortem of Election 2004 “Our Blue Heaven” (Nov. 11-17) pretty much summed up my ...
Oops, Now What?: Asked at Starbucks in Del Rey Oaks
Q: What do we owe Native Americans for mistreating them in the past?Follow-up: What about Monterey County are you most thankful for? Bobby BellRetired | MontereyA: I’m a Native American. Nobody owes me anything. People ...
Ed-Heads Converge
Everyone involved with the little Ed Ricketts wing temporarily installed at the National Steinbeck Center is blown away by a recently discovered hand-written journal on display as part of the show. Among the photographs, biological ...
Philanthropy is one of the driving forces of the local and national economy.
When Michael O’Neill talks about the nonprofit sector, as he frequently does, being a professor of nonprofit management at the University of San Francisco, he likes to throw around the numbers. They’re impressive numbers, back-breaking ...
Cheeky 30-something Brit returns for more unrequited love and packs of cigs.
One hundred thirty pounds (bloaty, ovulation?), husband 1, shags 0, calories (not sure, no nutritional information on Big John’s Cookie from Whole Foods), cigarettes 3 (plus nicotine-replacement gum). Seen new Bridget Jones movie. Four screenwriters, ...
Thursday, November 18
Squidfry
Squidfry
SCARY MOVIE…Do tumbleweeds form along the coast, in the Salinas Valley maybe? Squid’s doing research for a horror flick Squid’s penning. The working title’s catchy: Goblins and Ghost Towns: The Emaciation of Salinas. But can ...
Finding Love in Electoral Politics
The Democratic Party lost the election last week by failing to stand for something—again.
We have to face facts: We got our clocks cleaned up and down the ballot...If, as the DLC has long argued, the test for Democrats is to convince voters that they will defend their country, ...
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MAROONSAmbush EP | Quannum Projects Possibly the most talented all-star hip-hop team you’ve never heard of—the Maroons—consists of Lateef (the Truthspeaker)—arguably the best rapper of the Quannum Crew—and the Chief (DJ Chief Xcel) of Blackalicious. ...
A Wall at the Beach
Seawall will cut off access and increase erosion.
Even when the early winter tide recedes hours after high tide, waves lap the beach only 20 paces from the outermost defenses of the Ocean Harbor House on Del Monte Beach in Monterey. That’s on ...
Art Listings
Art Listings
| art openings | events | Alvarado Gallery ImageMakers: A Celebration of Western Life and Cowboy Culture. Reception: 11/19, 5:30-7pm. Monterey Conference Center, 1 Portola Plaza, Monterey. 646-3949. Christopher Bell Gallery New ownership. Reception: 11/19, ...
Newsbriefs
Shooting Case Set for Trial A Carmel Valley attempted murder case has been set for trial on Feb. 7 in Salinas by Superior Court Judge Lydia Villarreal. The District Attorney’s Office has charged Ilona Leidig ...
West End Theatrics
Being Julia’s leading lady controls the stage—and life—from all sides.
There are so few really great film roles written for middle-aged women that when one comes along and it’s delivered in such spectacular fashion by the near-perfect Annette Bening, it’s disappointing to have to note ...
The Pepper Picker Upper
Cheese mixed with blindingly spicy peppers make for good food fun.
My friend Tshewang is from Bhutan. The people of his tiny Buddhist nation in the Himalayas are generally low key, polite and soft-spoken; they enjoy praying for universal harmony and the happiness of all beings. ...
Beautiful Noise
The Larks are not just another pretty string quartet.
The Lark Quartet may be easy on the eyes, but don’t let their good looks fool you—the foursome also happens to be composed of very serious musicians unafraid to play music that’s decidedly not pretty. ...
The Neocon Coup
Team Bush prepares to get meaner for a second term by getting rid of dissenters.
The bloodletting has begun. I’m not referring to the latest attempt to reconquer Iraq, but rather the wholesale political revenge campaign being waged by the hard-liners in the Bush administration against anybody and everybody inside ...
Force of Nature
Peter Hiers brings steel to life.
Peter Hiers likes to talk about sculpture in abstract terms. He talks about things like “theology of form.” But he is careful to make a distinction between the tangible pieces of steel and wood he ...
Holiday Train Leaves The Station
Bizarre animation skews the heart-warming Christmas tale of The Polar Express.
Chris Van Allsburg’s magical tale of the Christmas Eve re-education of a Santa-doubting adolescent teetering on the brink of disbelief gets a multimillion-dollar makeover via CGI and a revolutionary new filming process that allows Tom ...
<b>Feast:</b> The Pepper Picker Upper
Cheese mixed with blindingly spicy peppers make for good food fun.
My friend Tshewang is from Bhutan. The people of his tiny Buddhist nation in the Himalayas are generally low key, polite and soft-spoken; they enjoy praying for universal harmony and the happiness of all beings. ...
Blues Warriors
California’s finest compete in the annual Battle of the Blues Bands.
California’s incredible diversity includes both the lush, green woodlands of the Northern California coast and the arid wasteland of Death Valley. In addition, the Golden State is home to a wide-ranging variety of folks—from the ...
Help us help our kids
MCW Farm to School Partnership
Burgers, pizza, chips, and soda; too often that’s the typical school lunch menu for kids in Monterey County. Despite the efforts of a handful of forward thinking food service directors, fresh local vegetables are virtually ...
<b>Forum:</b> Finding Love in Electoral Politics
The Democratic Party lost the election last week by failing to stand for something—again.
We have to face facts: We got our clocks cleaned up and down the ballot...If, as the DLC has long argued, the test for Democrats is to convince voters that they will defend their country, ...
Streettalk
We Can Dream, Can’t We?: Asked at the Monterey Institute of International Studies
Q: What would be the necessary elements for your own utopia?Follow-up: What’s the perfect name for your society? Alex RibeiroComputer Programmer | MontereyA: Nothing involving money. The basic problem in all societies is money. People ...
Theater Listings
Theater Listings
| theater opening | Stage Mother Fri-Sat 8 pm; Sun 2pm. Just as you have life managed, peaceful and relatively joyous, Mom shows up and announces she’s moving in! Mom happens to be a famous ...
Soul Food
‘Tis the season of social and spiritual nourishment.
BE KIND TO EACH OTHER… Hello everyone. Hope life is going well and getting weller for all of you, or in the vernacular of the current social climate, y’all. I’m glad I was fortunate to ...
Sex and the County
Heavy Lifting: Planning Commission slated to consider three BIG proposals.
This week, county officials scheduled back-to-back hearings on three major development proposals. On Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 15 and 16, Planning Commissioners considered the huge Rancho San Juan proposal, for the mini-city planned to be ...
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Sweet Revival in PG
Damon, Kirsten and Aubriana Musha live in a house transformed, a home with a past and present of storybook extremes. For years a solitary gentleman owned the home, allowing grasses to overtake the yard, and ...
Street-Wizened Vision
The young painter Mike “Dabo” Lopez finds inspiration in graffiti and life.
It is impossible to simply saunter past a work by local artist Mike “Dabo” Lopez. Take his painting “Happy Hour.” The frame is made of a series of metal squares that almost look like they ...
<b>Forum:</b> The Neocon Coup
Team Bush prepares to get meaner for a second term by getting rid of dissenters.
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Water Colors
The Monterey Bay Aquarium shows us the ocean through the eyes of young Latino painters.
For visitors wandering through the main floor of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the warm green glow of the kelp forest tank is calling out like a giant anglerfish bulb. Upon approach, it appears a splotch ...
Letters
We’re Grateful to be Burning Eric Johnson’s editorial “Our Blue Heaven” in the Nov. 11-17 issue of the Monterey County Weekly was the perfect message for us very blue, blue voters! Thank you for endorsing ...
Thursday, November 11
The Great Escape
The Great Escape
Desperate Housewives is hotter than Wife Swap. Lost is superior to Survivor. Life As We Know It is much better than The Osbournes. Give us a choice this fall, and we pick the non-Reality TV ...
Parker concedes with provisional ballots still outstanding.
After a very tight race for 4th District Supervisor seat that was too close to call, and was not finally decided until a week after Election Day, Seaside Mayor Jerry Smith finally won by 210 ...
Streettalk
Electronic Scapegoat: Asked Outside Circuit City in Sand City
Q: Should television be blamed for problems in our society? Follow-up: Would you rather have a plasma screen TV or an XM satellite radio?Mark SchlatterNurse | MontereyA: When kids watch too much TV it’s poor ...
Foodchain
Foodchain
MY BAD…Got an interesting e-mail from my friend (I hope she’s still my friend), Jane Piper, owner of Piper Environmental. It alerted me to something that I guess we’re all capable of doing—unconsciously, even unintentionally: ...
My Fantasy Island
Lost presents a more attractive band of survivors.
My stranded-on-a-desert-island survival kit contains sunscreen, toothpaste, mascara, my hair dryer and a lifetime subscription to Vogue. And tequila and a bottle of margarita mix. And George Clooney’s stranded on the island with me. And ...
Our Blue Heaven
Progressives must refuse to buy into destructive theories about last Tuesday’s defeat.
The re-election of George W. Bush has inspired a week of soul-searching and finger-pointing among progressive voters trying to comprehend what went wrong. While this process of self-criticism is inevitable and potentially healthy, it is ...
Squidfry
Squidfry
POST-ELECTION STRESS DISORDER…It has been a rough week for Squid. And Squid’s got a feeling it’s going to be an even rougher next four years. Luckily, some entrepreneurial liberal found a way to make a ...
An Ohio editor explains how his state was tipped for Bush.
So what happened in Ohio? Why did a 50-50 state that political experts predicted would trip John Kerry’s way swing right and decide the election for George W. Bush? Hindsight and all that, but from ...
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THE GOURDS Blood of the Ram | Eleven Thirty Records At first, listening to The Gourds’ Blood of the Ram is a little like panning for gold in a swamp. Though this twisted Austin, Texas-based ...
A Grownup’s Teen Show
The angst and sex in Life As We Know It bring back the hot old days.
The flu can do savage things to a girl, like render her incapable of reaching for the remote when she’s home from work sick. That’s what happened to me a few weeks back when Kelly ...
Desperately Seeking Sanity
Truer than life, Desperate Housewives gives motherhood its crazy-making due.
It isn’t the 1950s, but you wouldn’t know it from the baby gold rush in Manhattan these days. Everyone I know is either pregnant or has just given birth, is fighting for a place in ...
Schwarzenegger stalls State Parks acquisitions.
The Schwarzenegger administration has stopped acquiring land for State Parks because, the governor says, the state can’t afford new rangers, fences or other maintenance, according to a recent report in the San Jose Mercury News. ...
Girl Grass
There are two types of bluegrass groups these days: slick professionals like Ricky Skaggs, and rough-edged, energetic young ‘uns like The Black Crow Medicine Show and the Hackensaw Boys. San Francisco’s five-piece group The Stairwell ...
In its first four years, the Bush Administration iced the media and operated largely in secret. An excerpt from NPR’s
BOB GARFIELD: Over the past four years, we have received mail from many listeners impugning our objectivity—mostly charging that we were biased against the president. After reviewing our four-year record, we readily admit that we ...
Pinot Road Trip
College roommates take a wine-soaked, pre-wedding romp in
Sideways is a smart and delightful romantic comedy, yet in the course of creating his new charmer, Alexander Payne has sheared off some of the rambunctious edges that made his previous films, About Schmidt, Election, ...
NewsBriefs
Rancho San Juan Hearings Set The public can tell planning commissioners what they think about the largest development proposal in Monterey County’s history, at a hearing, beginning Monday, Nov. 15 at noon, and continuing to ...
Aloha Spirit in Monterey
Hula’s wows with great food and a kicky atmosphere.
Hula’s Island Grill and Tiki Room is the kind of restaurant that makes me smile the minute I walk in—especially at dinner time when flickering candles in red glass holders cast a hypnotic glow on ...
TheaterListings
TheaterListings
| theater opening | Emma Fri-Sat, Tues-Wed 8pm; Sun 2pm. The story of Emma Goldman, an anarchist in the early years of the 20th century, comes to life when students in the Teledramatic Arts and ...
Legionnaire’s Unease
Monterey post under fire.
First thing Monday morning, before 8am, Mike Rhodes sits with some visitors at a small table in the dim basement bar of the American Legion Post 41 in Monterey, drinking cranberry juice from a small ...
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Spiritually Aligned in Monterey
Mr. and Mrs. Woo bought their now forty-year-old Monterey house in 1981 because they loved its location for their two children and their own careers.“Our kids walked to Bay View School and they were very ...
Help us help our kids
MCW Farm to School Partnership
Burgers, pizza, chips, and soda; too often that’s the typical school lunch menu for kids in Monterey County. Despite the efforts of a handful of forward thinking food service directors, fresh local vegetables are virtually ...
Letters
Morality Bites To my mind, moral is as moral does. To watch our administration under the direction of the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz/Rice “leadership team,” and the Chiefs of Staff attack the town of Fallujah makes me wonder ...
Blue Chanteuse
Maria Muldaur has gone south since her ‘70s hits—to listeners’ delight.
You wouldn’t guess it to look at Maria Muldaur, but the chanteuse’s career touches on almost the entire span of 20th century American music. While she’s still best known for her 1970s FM radio hits ...
Ballots for city races in Monterey, Seaside and Marina still unconfirmed.
As of Tuesday this week, city clerks were waiting for the county elections office to make election results final. Actual certification of the votes is expected to take several weeks, although final results have been ...
Beyond Pretzels and Beer Nuts
Local watering holes offer a kinder, gentler side of bar food.
It’s Monday night at Seaside’s Cuz’s Sportsman’s Club, and people are getting fired up. Under Budweiser Beer and NASCAR posters that plaster the bar’s ceiling, bartender Rudy Lopez, who is wearing a Harley Davidson hat ...
Chicago Two-Step
Roy Davis, Jr.’s soulful house re-mix.
After releasing the soulful and popular 1998 house single “Gabriel,” DJ and musician Roy Davis, Jr. started to field some strange offers from fans of the tune. “A lot of people were asking me to ...
The Invasion resurrects circa-’60s Brit pop.
In the early 1960s, the British Empire decided it was time to take back their rogue colony, the sprawling United States. Instead of sending battalions of redcoats to retake the wayward land, the British came ...
Cyborg Animé
Highly literate, Japanese science fiction Ghost sequel dazzles with look and story.
Post-apocalyptic neo-noir gets a ferocious upgrade in this loquacious albeit visually stunning sequel to the cult 1995 animé. Set in Tokyo in 2032, Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence has all of the trappings of ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
| art openings | events | Artist Loft Co-op November Show. Central Coast Art Association members share space at the gallery, exhibiting their work by a lottery draw held each month. Reception: 11/13, 4-6pm. 700 ...
The Art of Remembering
Howard Ikemoto teaches artists how to be young again.
There’s a Howard Ikemoto story that has proliferated across the Internet like only a good story on the Internet can. It reads, “When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day ...
Thursday, November 4
Sweet and Earthy
Fall recipes mix roots with chocolate.
In his offbeat classic, Jitterbug Perfume, author Tom Robbins heaps lavish praise upon the beet. It is, he says, “the most intense of vegetables…deadly serious…the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet ...
Bewitching Beauty
Gender-switching theatrics deserve an ovation in Shakespearean Stage Beauty.
Life imitates art imitating life in Richard Eyre’s wonderful Stage Beauty. Eyre, longtime director of the National Theatre in London, and scriptwriter Jeffrey Hatcher, adapting his own play Compleat Female Stage Beauty, are men for ...
TheaterListings
| theater opening | Beauty and the Beast Fri-Sat 8pm; Sun 2pm. Ramie Wikdahl directs the famous fairy tale in which beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder. This imaginative adaptation closely follows ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
| art openings | events | The Butterfly and Lantern Arts and Crafts Holiday Festival. Featuring watercolor and oil paintings by Julie Reader. Also showing acrylic paintings by Christine Colón, Josie Cameron, Ami Magill. Ceramics ...
Letters
LandWatch: Not Racist Policies It disturbs me that anyone would consider LandWatch “racist” for attempting to limit the unbridled development that is done in the guise of “smart growth” and affordable housing. Their anger should ...
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DE LA SOULThe Grind Date | Sanctuary Records Taking a break from their 2/3-completed AOI trilogy, De La Soul gets back to basics with The Grind Date. Self-described as “just a hip-hop record,” Grind is ...
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A Real Natural in Salinas
Mr. and Mrs. Z have lived in and continually rebuilt their prized Salinas home for 38 years. As a result of what they call ‘Type A minus’ personalities and obsessive-compulsive natures, a marvel of design ...
A golden Tuesday followed by a black Wednesday.
A friend called from Big Sur early Tuesday morning. When he asked how I was doing I said something like: “Worried. Hopeful. Scared.” He sounded cheerful: “I’m predicting a Kerry landslide.” It was the start ...
Classically Vulgar
Western Stage’s Tartuffe is brutally true to the original.
The Western Stage’s Tartuffe is a cartoonish grotesquerie. True to its commedia dell’arte roots, the play is a fart honk, ass grab, leer fest that plays to the back row in over-exaggerated strokes of unseemly ...
Spun for All
Bar band searches for universal appeal.
On a weekend evening at the Britannia Arms, a quartet of musicians performs for a full house of revelers. They play Otis Redding’s “Dock of the Bay” and Neil Young’s “Cinnamon Girl.” They perform songs ...
The War at Home
The mood at Election Day parties ranged from anxious to resigned.
At 3pm on Election Day, it was too early to call just about any race, except one: The contest—if it could even be called a contest—between sitting Assemblyman John Laird, a Democrat, and his Republican ...
StreetTalk
Just Nod And Smile -- Asked at Del Monte Center in Monterey
Q: What’s the weirdest situation you’ve seen or experienced?Follow-up: What’s a freaky talent you have? Andy Hattori Nursery Worker | Carmel Valley A: I’ve always been a big skeptic about UFOs, but one night I ...
A Pint, A Party and the Polls
Ex-pats and British subjects pay close attention on Election Day.
Despite the fact that the results were far off—California polls would be open for another eight hours—more than 800 people jammed the halls of the Montague Bar, near Leicester Square in London, England, to watch ...
Another Color Grass
Bela Fleck creates a new kind of stringed music with the Flecktones.
When legendary banjo player Bela Fleck became interested in the stringed instrument, it was not after hearing a traditional number like “Man of Constant Sorrow.” Instead, the New York City-born Fleck was seduced by the ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
REMEMBER FLORIDA… Squid hopes that by the time Squid’s readers are enjoying their weekly helping of Squid Fry, Senator John Kerry has been elected president of the United States, and George W. Bush is packing ...
Musical Icon
Ray Charles lives on through Jamie Foxx’s rockin’ performance in
The music of Ray Charles is a national treasure, as is the artist’s legacy. The same can’t be said for Ray, the movie of his life, although the transcendent performance of Jamie Foxx as Ray ...
Back to Basics
Local author and occupational therapist explains why chairs and computers can make us sick.
Scientist/inventor Leonardo Da Vinci thought that pressure on the knee promoted religious thoughts. When he broke the law to cut open a dead body and perform the first recorded autopsy, he found a huge sciatic ...
UNA Film Festival Schedule
Friday, Nov. 5, 7pm Afghanistan Unveiled (52 min.) The first female videojournalists trained in Afghanistan venture beyond Kabul for the first time and discover the poverty, suffering and resilience of their countrywomen. I Promise Africa ...
It Ain’t Over ‘Til…It’s Over
It Ain’t Over ‘Til…It’s Over
The farther you got from the bar at Democratic Party headquarters in Monterey on Tuesday night, the gloomier the crowd grew. In the back, where volunteers poured wine and beer, and snacks lined several tables ...
Under Water Vision
Scott Campbell goes deep for his art.
Vew/Download story with more photos as PDF >> click here Before you begin reading this take a deep breath and hold it. Humans have lost their aquatic heritage. To most, the ocean is a distant ...
Pretty Smart
Lynne Arriale’s clever improvisation forms the basis for her trio’s sound.
According to Thomas Edison, the quintessential American inventor, “Genius is one percent inspiration and 99-percent perspiration.” Change the numbers a little bit and the formula works just as well as a description of the quintessential ...
Pushed to the Polls
Voters turn out big all around the Peninsula.
Dustin Faulk, 25, takes a bench in the sandpit outside the Marina community center and smokes a cigarette as he waits for his girlfriend to come back out into the autumn sun. It’s 2:40 in ...
The Other Real World
Cheaper than graduate school and more fun than reading the daily paper, the UN Association Film Festival shines a spotlight on issues of global importance—for free
Each time Nina was bought and sold, some fresh hell ensued. Prospective buyers would order her to undress so they could see if she had marks on her body. Sometimes they would tell her she ...
FoodChain
TWO SAINTLY BABES… Firstly, let’s give our congratulations to the Boston Red Sox. They finally won their World Series and lifted the Albatross from around the entire Northeast portion of the United States’ collective neck. ...
Heart and Soul
Tuck and Patti do the love-jazz duo.
After a quarter century together, Tuck and Patti are still a model of musical and connubial bliss. The husband and wife duo—Tuck Andress is a thrilling guitarist with a thick, ringing tone, and Patti Cathcart ...
