Thursday, January 27
Dems Fight Back
Budget bosses Laird and Perata go public with battle against governor’s axe.
Shortly after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled out his spending plan for the state, Democratic leaders have launched an all-out assault on the governor’s proposal to cut billions of dollars from seniors, students and the poor. ...
History’s Voice
Taelen Thomas brings artists of the past to life.
From time to time Taelen Thomas does this thing, “the hoot.” It’s part-animal call, part-song, and all joy. When he did it in Chautauqua Hall during the Monterey Bay Poetry Festival last year, it lasted ...
Character Assassination
Sean Penn is compelling as a misfit madman in the otherwise unspectacular
Over the past couple of years, Sean Penn has been acing the roles of anguished men—from a college professor dying of heart failure in 21 Grams, to an angry, grieving father who has just lost ...
Cover Boys
The Lovedogs have been putting their spin on the hits for 20 years.
‘We started out of high school,” says Tom Mullin about his band The Lovedogs, which formed in Santa Cruz in 1982. “It was purely out of boredom and circumstance.” The event that caused the young ...
Supes to Feds: Bring It On
Rancho San Carlos expansion approved despite threat of Endangered Species Act lawsuit.
Despite at least one potential lawsuits from a federal wildlife agency, county supervisors on Tuesday gave Rancho San Carlos officials the okay to sell the final 29 lots in the luxury Carmel Valley subdivision. “The ...
Truth To Power
Dr. Lani Guinier, scourge to right-wing ideologues in the 1990s, says universities need to open their doors to the poor.
Lani Guinier is not one to shy away from controversy. A Harvard professor and expert in the area of voting rights, Guinier became a household name in 1993 when then-President Bill Clinton nominated her to ...
What Winter Doldrums?
GOOD PEOPLE DOING STUFF… As I’ve mentioned here before (actually, written, although the techies at the Weekly are working on an audio version of my column), I really don’t get out much, and you all ...
Middle-Aged Splendor
Annette Bening plays a diva of the stage in Being Julia.
There are so few really great film roles written for middle-aged women that when one comes along and it’s delivered forth in such spectacular fashion by the near-perfect Annette Bening, it’s disappointing to have to ...
StreetTalk: (Mis)Fortune Tellers?
Asked at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey
Q: Civil war? Peace and prosperity? What do you think will come out of the Iraqi elections? Follow-up: What words come to mind when you hear “Iraq War?” Wael Makki | Student | Monterey A: ...
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ROY ORBISONLove Songs | Monument/Legacy Roy Orbison, the iconic early ‘60s crooner, wasn’t merely the great enunciator of heartbreak; his voice was heartbreak. The arching, unbelievable range, the unstoppable octave swoops, Orbison was a miracle ...
Diamond in the Rough
Eddie’s bar is an unexpected pleasure.
From the outside, the building at 2200 North Fremont in Monterey doesn’t look like much. There’s an old blue-and-white sign informing motorists that this is Eddie’s. Behind the sign and a large parking lot is ...
Gypsy Junior
The John Jorgenson Quintet rekindles the spirit of Django Reinhardt’s Hot Club.
John Jorgenson has lived the rock and roll life, touring as Elton John’s lead guitarist for six years, leading the Desert Rose Band, and sharing front line duties in the Hellecasters. But when it comes ...
Winds of Faith
Imani bring a fresh mix of cultures and sounds.
In the classical music world, a group not made up entirely of old white guys is no longer a news flash. Combine that thrust with the long-forgotten concept of a woodwind quintet, however, and you’ll ...
Full-Flavored Vietnamese
Seaside’s Pho King delivers fresh, inexpensive entrees.
Diners at Tam Nguyen’s Pho King will immediately notice that the use of fresh herbs and dipping sauces distinguishes this Vietnamese cuisine. Both characteristics appeared in the appetizers that my husband Laurent and I ordered: ...
Howard Dean makes a play for his party’s leadership.
Can Howard Dean be stopped in his bid to become the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee? That’s the question the party’s establishment has been asking since Dean—who’d said he’d run only if he ...
Letters
The Kennedys and the Clintons Are Full of It I am 74, and I can’t tell you how I view all this environmental stuff. Some of it is pure crap, and if you don’t believe ...
Big City Greens
Why New York is the most eco-friendly city in the US.
My wife and I got married right out of college, in 1978. We were young and naïve and unashamedly idealistic, and we decided to make our first home in a utopian environmentalist community in New ...
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Former Fixer-Upper
Roger and Lynn Short’s house in Toro Park is their third remodel in six months, two having already sold. These were the Shorts’ first such projects, and they’re aiming for many more. Lynn says she ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
SEND IN THE CLOWNS… No popcorn. No cotton candy. No clown cars. Squid’s been eagerly anticipating the circus coming to town. Wait—Squid’s bad. What Squid intended to say, errr, ink, was the Local Agency Formation ...
NewsBriefs
Experts Confront Obesity at CSUMB Reacting to the growing crisis of obesity in America, Monterey County business leaders and concerned organizations launched HELP (Healthy Eating Lifestyle Principals) in 2004. This Thursday, HELP, which is devoted ...
ArtListings
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Links to galleries within this section: | Back Porch Fabrics | Carmel Art Association | Center for Photographic Art | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Galeria Tonantzin | Hawthorne Gallery | JKLM Studios | ...
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Links to theater and stage organizations within this section: Children's Experimental Theatre & Indoor Forest Theater | Pacfic Rep Theatre | Unicorn Theatre | theater openings | John Steinbeck Fri-Sat 8pm; Sun 2:30pm. The Staff ...
Thursday, January 20
Recall Proceeds in Marina
Bad feelings following a close election spur effort.
As far as local politics go, Marina has been one of the most openly contentious venues in recent years. Fueled by big, crucial land use decisions stemming from the redevelopment of neighboring Fort Ord, the ...
"He’s Not Our President"
Protesters here and nationwide will try to overcome media blackout on Inauguration Day.
On Thursday, Jan. 20—the day President Bush’s supporters will rally at the Capitol to celebrate his inauguration for a second term as president—protestors from Salinas to Santa Fe will participate in rallies and marches, and ...
Start Making Sense
Poets convene to celebrate the power of the word.
Ryan Masters says he hopes to create an event that will allow for such spontaneous occurrences as a ninety-year-old woman reading a poem about pigs. Masters, arts writer for the Weekly and the former poet-in-residence ...
Newsbriefs
Monterey Institute Gets Terror Money The Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies has been brought into a program funded by the Department of Homeland Security to study how terrorist groups ...
Carla Blackwell goes all the way off the hook.
Since she was 14 years old, San Jose native Carla Blackwell has been performing music in public. The vocalist sang R&B and pop numbers with the early ‘90s group Attraction, and currently, Blackwell sings for ...
Streettalk
...And I Feel Fine: Asked in Oldtown Salinas
Q: Tsunamis. Mudslides. Genocide. Bush’s re-election. Is it the end of the world as we know it? F: What’s a sign of the apocalypse you’ve noticed?Robert BalianSelf-Employed | SalinasA: It’s the end of the world ...
Health & Fitness: All In Her Head
Anorexia—the most deadly mental illness—is definitely not just about looking thin.
She didn’t choose anorexia. I know that now, but that doesn’t make it any easier to watch her starve herself, and fade away into nothing. It’s like a nightmare where you see the boogeyman and ...
Health & Fitness: We Are Not Barbie
Talking about positive body image is good…really believing it is hard.
When I was nine years old, and recuperating from a concussion after being thrown off a horse, I lay in bed and dreamed of Barbie. Pretty in Pink Barbie—I’d seen the commercials for weeks during ...
Health & Fitness: Born to Run
Human evolution made us into a species of runners. But it’s up to each of us to get up and do it.
I used to work with a guy who was a real serious runner. He was one of those former nerds who found a sport where he could dominate, where he could get revenge over the ...
TheatreListings
TheatreListings
| theater openings | Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune Sat 8pm; Sun 3pm. Johnny’s a hopeless romantic. Frankie’s no optimist about love. With the radio as their soundtrack, the short-order cook and ...
Satanic Majesty
Murnau’s Faust meets Italian quartet in gothic masterpiece.
There’s no older story than the one about the person who makes a deal with the devil, and no better version outside the Book of Genesis than Faust. So when legendary German filmmaker F.W. Murnau ...
Shape Shifter
Tracey Adams’ canvases morph naturally.
Two exhibitions of encaustic paintings by Tracey Adams, one at the Monterey Museum of Art, the other at the Chris Winfield Gallery in Carmel, feature the newest developments in the artist’s work. In the past, ...
Feel Good Now
Feel Good Now
WINE VS. WINE… It’s a good time of year…sure, the coast road washed out again after the recent explosions of water from the sky…sure, business is pretty slow…sure, the world situation seems crazier than ever…sure, ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
| openings | events | Carl Cherry Center for the Arts Tim Rice: Selected Works. Reception: 1/21, 5-7pm. Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel. 624-7491. Ends 2/18. Harrison Memorial Library Hannah Is My Name. Carmel resident, Belle ...
Squidfry
DOWNHILL, FAST…Squid spent the long Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday up in the Sierras. Squid’s got the whole lodge scene down pat: Smile, and the hot toddies just keep on comin’. What Squid doesn’t have ...
Letters
Note to Parker: Guns Shoot People The reasons that former Monterey County sheriff’s deputy and SWAT team member Louis Parker should not get his job back are that his carelessness hurt innocent people, and cost ...
Health&Fitness: All In Her Head
Anorexia—the most deadly mental illness—is definitely not just about looking thin.
She didn’t choose anorexia. I know that now, but that doesn’t make it any easier to watch her starve herself, and fade away into nothing. It’s like a nightmare where you see the boogeyman and ...
Think of England
Carmel’s Sherlock Holmes Pub mixes British and American Classics.
Cold, damp weather always makes me want to eat hearty British food. This thought propelled me, my husband Laurent and our daughter Florence, to the doors of the Sherlock Holmes Pub in the Barnyard during ...
Jon Stewart slays Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala.
Last week, CNN’s new chief, Jonathan Klein, axed Crossfire—the weekly “debate” show in which politics is reduced to shouted soundbites. In spiking the program, Klein made reference to Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s The ...
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A Place for Kinship
Bob O’Neil’s and Anita Nasuto’s house contains more stories than can possibly be recounted on any one day. Some tales are of multiple synchronicities that brought the home to where it is; others are about ...
Health&Fitness: We Are Not Barbie
Talking about positive body image is good…really believing it is hard.
When I was nine years old, and recuperating from a concussion after being thrown off a horse, I lay in bed and dreamed of Barbie. Pretty in Pink Barbie—I’d seen the commercials for weeks during ...
Health&Fitness: Born to Run
Human evolution made us into a species of runners. But it’s up to each of us to get up and do it.
I used to work with a guy who was a real serious runner. He was one of those former nerds who found a sport where he could dominate, where he could get revenge over the ...
Deep Royal Blood
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, aka Will Oldham, brings his strange folk genius to Fernwood.
Since releasing the single “Ohio River Boat Song” in 1992, Will Oldham has been one of the most interesting and enigmatic artists in contemporary music. For the past 13 years, Oldham has been releasing beautiful ...
The Singer’s Studio
Opera singer’s singer brings friends together for a public chat.
If you think of opera singers as an elite group who dress up and sing arcane songs in Italian and German, you’re not alone. Carmel singing coach extraordinaire David Gordon is doing everything in his ...
Looking Ahead
PastForward salutes Aperture’s local roots with edgy revelations.
Just three weeks into January, it is hard to imagine seeing a better or more interesting photography show this year than PastForward, Aperture at 50, opening Saturday at the Monterey Museum of Art. The traveling ...
Painting the Town Absurd
Cartoonist Snick Farkas parodies Pacific Grove to a mixed response.
Snick Farkas is a town fool. In this day and age, that’s not an easy task. There’s more to being an effective town fool than a harlequin cap and well-timed tumbling. It takes creativity. In ...
Shelter From the Storm
Actor Don Cheadle hits a career high with his portrayal of a sympathetic hotel manager during Rwanda’s ethnic conflict a decade ago.
One of the most amazing things about Hotel Rwanda, a film with no shortage of revelations, is that it’s actually playing in theatres, as opposed to the pay cable channels that too often play host ...
Thursday, January 13
The Public Eye
Group seeks to organize an army of citizen-watchdogs.
Terry Francke wants you to pay attention to your government. The former general counsel of the California First Amendment Coalition, Francke splintered from that group more than a year ago to form Californians Aware (CalAware), ...
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Links to galleries within this section: | Back Porch Fabrics | Carmel Art Association | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Galeria Tonantzin | Hawthorne Gallery | JKLM Studios | Karthia Studios | The Lewis ...
Glad Tea Party
Carmel’s Cypress Inn continues an elegant tradition
I loved to play tea party with my daughter Florence when she was a toddler. Now that she is a teen, we can really dress up and visit one of Carmel’s coziest places for tea—the ...
Monterey adopts 20-year growth document with little trouble.
Unlike Monterey County, whose general plan update has been a tragicomic soap opera without finale, the city of Monterey adopted its own general plan with little fanfare at a regular meeting on January 4. The ...
Making the Best of It
Making the Best of It
OUR LITTLE WORLD… Don’t forget the new release party for Talbott Vineyards’ 2001 Sleepy Hollow Chardonnay at its tasting room on Carmel Valley Road. It’s tomorrow, Friday the 14th, from 6pm to 8pm, and features ...
Eastwood’s Million-Dollar Movie
In his latest film, director Clint Eastwood delivers a knockout in the final round.
Among American directors working today, Clint Eastwood is one of the few who create worlds as definite, abstract, and self-contained as those limned (often on hundred-thousand-dollar budgets) by such million-dollar directors as Raoul Walsh and ...
Squidfry
CITY OF THE PAST…Monterey gets all the love. Squid’s been hanging out in the waters near Marina lately, but Squid’s about to swim south to Monterey, just for the bragging rights alone. And to laugh ...
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ARCHITECTSKeys To The Building | Anodyne Don’t let the 4AD-ish cover art fool you. This Kansas City group is about as removed from the Pixies, Throwing Muses or Cocteau Twins as humanly possible. The three ...
Head West, Young Women
The adventurous artistic path of a forgotten Monterey artist will be recreated this year.
On a foggy day in March 1926, two intrepid women set out by freighter from San Francisco bound for the South Pacific. Their objective—to paint portraits of the indigenous peoples of the Solomon Islands and ...
Letters
Housing Authority Ignores Citizens In case you haven’t noticed, without regard for the community, the churches, businesses, civic groups, HUD, the army corps of engineers, local contractors, doctors, lawyers, and citizens, Sam Farr and Jim ...
Newsbriefs
MLK Day Event Planned Seaside will host its annual celebration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, Jan. 17. The day begins with a parade at 11am, starting in front of ...
The Present Tense
Is is its own brand of jam band
While listening to the 15 minute, 25-second jam “If You’re Having Trouble” by the Santa Cruz-based band, Is, you get the feeling that something Phishy is happening. It’s probably because the quartet’s keyboard-driven jam tune ...
Dialed In
Monterey area gets its own Craig’s List.
Craig Newmark, 52, wears pajamas when he works. No joke. There are pictures. A native of Morristown, New Jersey, he now lives in Cole Valley, a pleasant, somewhat leafy San Francisco neighborhood tucked below a ...
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Peace in The Valley
Mike and Elaine Marfleet bought their retirement home in a splendid setting in Carmel Valley’s hills, but for the next five years lived in Venezuela and Houston. They returned to the Valley so the house ...
Streettalk
Streettalk
Q: What factors have caused California to rank 47th in the nation in quality of education? Follow-up: What is one luxury every school should have?Mike PippyNon-Profit Administrator | Carmel ValleyA: Funding cuts. The government has ...
Electronic Texans
Former Dallas DJs JT Donaldson and Lance DeSardi at Mint.
When JT Donaldson worked at Bill’s Records & Tapes in Dallas during the mid 1990s, he had a specific nickname for Lance DeSardi and his group of friends. Donaldson called the high schoolers “the homework ...
Chinese director creates fast-paced love story/swashbuckler.
Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou’s second martial arts epic in two years, House of Flying Daggers, doesn’t have the grave import, the awesome stoicism of Hero, but I think that makes for a more entertaining picture. ...
Rancho San Juan’s opponents submit petitions to County.
Opponents of the Rancho San Juan development say they’ve collected some 13,000 signatures—more than enough necessary to put the massive plan before Monterey County voters. On Jan. 12, a group that braved rain, wind and ...
Once and Future King
In his 24th film since Play Misty for Me, Clint Eastwood is still working on Hollywood’s longest second act.
There are things on the Warner Bros. lot older than Clint Eastwood. The earliest sound stages, for example, date back to 1926, when First National Pictures broke ground on some former alfalfa fields the studio ...
Ugly Numbers
Local lawmakers criticize Schwarzenegger’s budget plan.
The $111.7 billion budget plan Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled out on Monday would close the estimated $9 billion shortfall next year without raising taxes, while it cuts money from all kinds of state services—including healthcare ...
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Links to theater and stage organizations within this section: | Children's Experimental Theatre & Indoor Forest Theater | Pacfic Rep Theatre | Unicorn Theatre | theater openings | Bus Stop Fri 8pm; continues Sat 8pm; ...
Thursday, January 6
Parisian Pockets
Crêpes A-Go-Go in Monterey makes simple, tasty, affordable meals.
‘You get to eat warm crêpes,” my daughter Florence told my husband Laurent on the way to Crêpes A-Go-Go on Cannery Row. Laurent grew up in Brittany, the birthplace of the French crêpe, and is ...
Fighting For a Legacy
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. brings passion to the battle against George Bush’s environmental policies.
At first glance, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s cluttered office at the Pace University Law School in White Plains, NY, seems an odd place for a member of one of the worlds most distinguished political families. ...
FoodChain
Out With the Bad, In With the Good
GOOD PEOPLE RULE… I am beginning this column with a notice of an upcoming event being put on by what I consider to be a wonderful company: Robert Talbott Vineyards. When I was a wine ...
Locals Funnel Disaster Relief via Red Cross, Others
With the death toll reaching 150,000 in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Southeast Asia, locals are digging deep to aid the relief effort. Tina Del Piero, financial development director for the Monterey ...
Movie Rewind
Top 10 Movies of 2004 and a Handful of Other Awards.
1. THE AVIATORAll right, already: Give Scorsese every award he’s due. In Howard Hughes he has found his great Kane, and who knows when he’ll strike oil again. 2. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND ...
Streettalk
Let’s Try This Again: Asked at Del Monte Center in Monterey
Q: What is your idealistic, probably unrealistic hope for 2005?Follow-up: What’s your more realistic hope? Barbara RothFull-Time Mom | Carmel ValleyA: Having children that obey every command. I also hope that I’ll be the ideal ...
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EMINEMEncore | Aftermath Records It’s no surprise that Encore is already sitting at number one on the charts—whatever Eminem has to say, it seems that a lot of people are always willing to listen. It’s ...
Terrorism and Tourism
Local numbers show recovery.
The local hospitality industry, already sagging from the collapse of profligate spending during the dot-com boom, was hit as if by a sledgehammer on Sept. 11, 2001. In Monterey County, where the economy depends on ...
Music in the Valley
Veteran ‘Phantoms’ headline big blues show.
When Dan Ackroyd and Jim Belushi tour the country doing corporate gigs as the reincarnated Blues Brothers, it isn’t all about the porkpie hats, mutton chops and tight black suits, because backing up the bro’s ...
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| call for submissions | Artists! Order your cat now and begin painting it for the April 1 showing at the Del Monte Center. Download agreement at gerrica.com today. For more info call Gerrica Connolly ...
Squidfry
Squidfry
FUNNY MONEY…Squid’s been known to be a little frivolous. Not that there’s anything wrong with buying a mink handbag—it’s practically a pet and a purse. Functional! Utilitarian, even! Or buying Uggs, in every color, for ...
Dressing the Part
Carmel resident James Jauregui shows his love for Celtic culture in colorful ways.
When I meet James Jauregui at Piatti’s Restaurant in Carmel on a winter afternoon, it is easy to tell that Jauregui, who has lived in Carmel for 31 of his 47 years, is really pumped ...
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Pacific Grove Wonderland
Robin and Corky Johnson live in a house on a hill above Monterey Bay, encompassed by an old stone wall, its thick spill of rosemary fulminating overhead. Looking up through the high wrought-iron gate, up ...
Meet the New Bosses
Supervisors mingle at swearing-in ceremony.
SEX and the COUNTY For political wonks and electeds, it’s the social event of the year—thus far, anyway. Winners and losers packed the standing-room-only Supervisors’ Chambers Tuesday morning, Jan. 4, to attend the swearing-in ceremony ...
Letters
Letters
Editor’s Note: An odd request, but Starr gets creativity points with his letter. Multiple Sclerosis Patients Can Hope In last week’s article on multiple sclerosis [“Home-aid,” Dec 30-Jan 5], the Weekly stated that the woman ...
