Stories for March 2005

Thursday, March 31

Growing Strength

Líderes Campesinas teaches female farmworkers to handle their own problems.

A half dozen women, all farmworkers, sit in an East Salinas living room. A couple husbands came to the meeting, but because of the delicate subject matter, they’re temporarily kicked out, banished to the backyard ...

FORUM: There Is No Tomorrow

Unless we act, the future is in the hands of religious zealots who view the Apocalypse as a good thing.

One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval ...

Street Talk

Q: Is it acceptable to tell a lie if you don’t get caught?Follow-up: What’s a specific situation where it’s all right to lie?Germain HatcherManager | Pacific GroveA: Overall I would say no. All of us ...

Words on the Street

Stars will be out day and night for Salinas Library ‘Read-In.’

To help save Salinas libraries, dozens of authors, actors and activists will be staging a 24-hour “Read-In” outside the Cesar Chavez Public Library, 615 Williams Rd., Salinas. The 24-hour read-a-thon starts at 1pm on Saturday, ...

NewsBriefs

HOTEL TAX IN VOTERS’ HANDS On April 5, Carmel-by-the-Sea voters will get another shot at milking the tourist dollar to maintain city services. Measure A proposes a two percent hike in the Transient Occupancy Tax ...

DiscSpace

MF DOOMLive From Planet X | Nature Sounds Even before Madvillain or Venomous Villain, MF Doom was still the baddest masked dude on the scene. Here’s proof: this whirlwind set was recorded live at San ...

Pirates With Croquet Mallets Are Cool

Rock ‘n’ Roll Croquet hits Monterey.

Croquet. It is a game that brings to mind proper gentleman and ladies in starched white dress on perfectly manicured lawns drinking Earl Grey tea. But, on a partly overcast Saturday afternoon at Monterey Bay ...

LIT: No Mystery

Second book by longtime local writers group shows organic growth.

In her introduction to Monterey Shorts 2, the award-winning mystery writer Joyce Krieg jokes that the word “FWOMP” is the sound a large, doomed manuscript makes when it hits the floor of a New York ...

Girliemen Unite

The Nancy Boys bring smart hard rock to OT.

Under a neon sign promoting Corona Beer, in front of a dart board used during Wednesday night’s Dart League, three fairly clean cut men dressed in jackets and white shirts take the stage at Ray ...

Good, Bad and…Yes…Ugly!

FoodChain

NO FOOLIN’… First of all, let’s get the reminders out of the way…March 31st through April 1st, Roy Yamaguchi at (guess) Roy’s in Spanish Bay, 647-7500, action with the man…April 2nd from 3-6pm, Bella Bocce ...

TheaterListings

| theater opening | Say It With Music Opens Fri 7pm; continues Sat 7pm; Sun 2pm and 5pm. John Harris and Tom Parks present an evening of songs from the golden age of Broadway. $25/general. ...

One in a Million

Danny Boyle, the director behind

At first, it seems inconceivable that Danny Boyle could be the director behind Millions, a family film about an adorable youngster who finds a load of money and aches to give it all away to ...

Back on the Market

Church plans to sell downtown Monterey’s Marsh Building.

The fate of the Marsh Building—the Moorish and Asian influenced structure that sits at the corner of Fremont Street and Camino El Estero at the gateway to downtown Monterey—is in God’s hands. The 77-year-old building, ...

Character Study

Two actors bring a whole town to life in the funny and moving

There is a moment in Stones in His Pockets, the tour de force two-man play running at the Circle Theater, that conjures unsettling reminders of Jeff Weise, the 16-year-old shooter in the recent Red Lake ...

SquidFry

CALL HIM CRAZY… But he was right, dammit. Back in November 2003, PG filmmaker Bob Pacelli lost his bid to sit on the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Board of Directors. Some said he was ...

New Old School

The Covey’s renovation and superstar chefs keep it hot.

Sheltered by the sloping Santa Lucia Mountains and a famed warm, dry climate, The Covey at Quail Lodge has geography on its side, making it seem much further away than just 15 minutes from Monterey. ...

ArtListings

Remember September Ranch

Activist and lawyer say top County planners are doing developers’ bidding—again.

Adecade ago, hopeful developer Jim Morgens came up with a plan to build 100 luxury homes on September Ranch, a hilly, tree-lined 891-acre property off Carmel Valley Road. A go-go-growth Board of Supervisors approved the ...

Comic Relief

Finally, Sin City is a movie based on a comic book that does its source material justice.

There have been plenty of good comic book movies over the years—from Superman II to Spider-Man 2—and Road To Perdition had a fundamentally accurate visual sensibility. But no one has ever shown the commitment to ...

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Little House in the Sky

Pierre Wetle is a man with much to his credit. For the past 10 years he has been a single dad raising a daughter and two sons in their Seaside home, working full time and, ...

‘A’ Is For ‘Surreal’

Ninja-rocker-director invites crowd to play crowd in Abandoninja.

What do you get when you cross a ninja with a stick of butter, add two bands, a DJ and a guy in a chicken suit? If you’re Brennan Tiffany, you get a college diploma. ...

Letters

We’re All Part of One World I believe that Traci Hukill’s article on the current state of the United Nations in last week’s Monterey County Weekly was probably the best single article I have ever ...

Thursday, March 24

OUTSIDE: Ghost Tree Lives

One day on Pebble Beach’s legendary wave.

Picture a tiny-looking human being, his feet strapped to a surfboard barely any longer than he is. A jet ski tows him in a wide arc out in open ocean then guns the throttle in ...

Calling Cards

Career coach uses simple learning tools to help job-seekers find a true vocation.

Mary Jeanne Vincent seems like a cheerleader, in the best sense of the word. She doesn’t possess an overly chipper persona, but an attitude that says: “I’ve got your back and I’m going to see ...

NewsBriefs

PG Library Expansion Creeps On For now, this one’s by the book. Thanks to a 6-1 vote against forming a library expansion council subcommittee at the March 16 City Council meeting, the beleaguered Pacific Grove ...

Master Picker, Etc.

Leo Kottke brings his original voice and style to the Sunset.

Listening to a couple of Leo Kottke’s albums, 1997’s Standing In My Shoes and 2004’s Try and Stop Me, makes it extremely difficult to classify the immensely talented acoustic guitarist. Standing In My Shoes features ...

Geared Up for a Fight

Gubenatorial candidate Phil Angelides says he’s prepared to follow through on his tough talk.

State Treasurer Phil Angelides says a “Dump Nixon” poster on a Harvard bulletin board first inspired him to work on a political campaign. It’s no coincidence that at last summer’s Republican National Convention, Gov. Arnold ...

HomePage: Old Golf Course Way

Facing the seventh fairway of the Old Del Monte Golf Course, a gently secluded house is privately bursting with life. It surrenders to the protection of mature hedges and depths of tiered shrubbery so that ...

StreetTalk: A Little Too Pumped Up

Asked at Monterey Peninsula College

Q: Has the issue of steroids in professional sports been too hyped up by the government and the media? Follow-up: What’s your “steroid”? Ervin Douglas Student | Seaside A: If the government does nothing it’s ...

World Revolution

Kofi Annan’s radical plan to reform the UN comes under attack from the US.

In the history books of the future, the entry on the United Nations in 2005 won’t be about the oil-for-food scandal or lecherous UN peacekeepers. If recent events are any indication, the story will be ...

Funk Vets Converge

Players in the Masters of Old School cover their own former hits.

In 1973, Sly and the Family Stone released the funk masterpiece Fresh. Now, the bassist who played on that landmark album, Rusty Allen, is in a unique position where he plays with the Bay Area’s ...

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SquidFry

TELL THE TRUTH… There isn’t a cynical bone in Squid’s body (although there is cynical cartilage). Squid likes to take people—even politicians—at their word. But last week, Supervisor Jerry Smith strained Squid’s credulity when he ...

Failure and Obsession

Pac Rep’s M. Butterfly captures a hopeless love.

Sexual fantasy can be a powerful opiate. It can weave a silken cocoon around a man, completely snuffing the light of reality. And it can change him. If the delusion of wings is powerful enough, ...

DiscSpace

THIEVERY CORPORATIONThe Cosmic Game | ESL Music Apparently not banking on the star power of their own names, Rob Garza and Eric Hilton of Thievery Corporation have brought in some bigger guns for their fourth ...

Letters

We’re All Happy Here There seems to be an effort afoot in Pacific Grove to characterize the new Council in a very fractious, negative light. I say this is mostly a case of the political ...

ArtListings

Fighting to Die

In the Oscar winning

Among the obvious list of things that make moviegoers feel good— bunnies, puppies, and children with slight lisps all spring to mind—euthanasia typically would not make the cut. But that is indeed the sleight of ...

Home Alone

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film sets him further apart.

Some critics have united the disparate directors of the “New Japanese New Wave”—Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure), and Takeshi Kitano (Zatoichi)—according to their irreverence: their pervasive interest in genre-busting, their indulgent attitude ...

FoodChiain: Something To Do Here

NOT-SO-SILENT-MOVIES… I’ve got to tell you, I experienced one of the coolest things of my life last week in downtown Monterey at the newly refurbished Golden State Theater. Sarita Mein Sweeta, my lovely daughter, had ...

Just Like Family

Old Monterey Café keeps a regular crowd going with great food and home-style customer service.

For almost two decades, the Old Monterey Café has been pleasing regulars and tourists alike in its well-positioned locale on Alvarado Street in Monterey. Ray Rodriguez, who bought the restaurant three years ago, has presided ...

Oldtown ‘Pipe Dream’ Going Up In Smoke?

The prospects look grim for Salinas hotel-condo project.

Developer Gerry Kehoe, speaking from his home in Florida, sounds far removed from the jovial, upbeat visionary of last year. He sounds tired, and speaks with a shaky voice. In previous interviews, Kehoe promised that ...

Thursday, March 17

School Of Life

Alisal High School students learn real-world skills inside the classroom.

Azucena Yzquierdo listens intently as Mayra Llamas fires off tough interview questions. Llamas, a psychiatrist, is looking to hire an intern for her practice. Yzquierdo wants the job. Yzquierdo’s neatly-folded hands don’t flinch as Llamas ...

Best Of: Shopping & Services

Results of the 2005 Best Of Monterey County ™ Readers Poll.

Best Wine Market TRADER JOE'S 1170 Forest Ave, Pacific Grove 656-0180 It’s a beautiful thing when supply and demand conspire and the outcome actually proves beneficial to the consumer. Trader Joe’s buys excess product in ...

ArtListings

| openings | events | Artist Loft Gallery New works by Laura Stucky, Daniel Van Gerpen, Carlaine Willis, and Central Coast Art Association members. Also a joint opening of all the galleries on “Gallery Row.” ...

Newsbriefs

PG Hotel Once More? On May 20, 1887, El Carmelo Hotel, later known as the Pacific Grove Hotel, opened for business on the site of the present Holman Building in downtown Pacific Grove. A short-lived ...

TheaterListings

| theater openings | Stones In His Pockets Opens Thu 7:30pm. An international comedy sensation, this play has won over critics and audiences worldwide. All hell breaks loose when a Hollywood film crew descends on ...

Li’l Bit of Old School

Flavor Flav, Public Enemy’s mad genius, promises mad beats at Planet Gemini.

It took a lot of hard work to get to the point in my life where I am talking on the telephone to Flavor Flav. I put up with bullies in grade school, read lots ...

Best Of: Restaurants

Results of the 2005 Best Of Monterey County ™ Readers Poll.

Best Restaurant North CountyTHE WHOLE ENCHILADA Highway 1 and Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing, 633-3038 The Whole Enchilada specializes in unforgettable seafood from the Monterey Bay. Situated near the mouth of the Elkhorn Slough in ...

Squidfry

ROBOASSEMBLYMEMBER…The hits just keep on comin’—from Squid’s local Assemblyman John Laird, that is. The Governator’s no match for the Budget committee chairman’s quit wit. Indeed, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s theatrics of late seem so cheesy by ...

Carmel Caribbean

Sugar Reef warms up and aims for the big leagues.

I have baseball on my mind. Sure, the Giants have barely completed their first set of hamstring stretches at spring training and there are three weeks until the season home opener. Perhaps it’s because a ...

The Rap Ballad of Superfly

He’s a fly on the wall. He sees all! He’s got 50 eyeballs in each eyeball!He’s a secret agent. He’s a spy! No he’s not! He’s Superfly!He’s a soupa! Hero! Look! Up in the sky! ...

Best Of: Around Town

Results of the 2005 Best Of Monterey County ™ Readers Poll.

Best Place to Watch the Sunset ASILOMAR Facing due west into open ocean, Asilomar’s sweeping sunsets range from the ‘classic Californian’ on clear evenings to phantasmagoric canvases of purples, reds and golds when the sun ...

Collective Soul

Jazz all-stars, behind Hutcherson and Redman, meld timeless Coltrane standards with new stuff.

After two decades of running SFJAZZ, the nonprofit organization that produces the San Francisco Jazz Festival and its increasingly ambitious counterpart, the Spring Season concert series, Randall Kline has presented just about every living jazz ...

Streettalk

Green Is The Color Of… Asked in downtown Monterey

Q: What’s your favorite St. Patrick’s Day ritual?Follow-up: What’s the best thing that comes in green?Val VoskrensenskyInstaller | SeasideA: Waking up on the 18th knowing what I did on the 17th.Short and Sweet: Pretty Leprechaunettes.Jeff ...

Best Of: Arts, Entertainment, and Nightlife

Results of the 2005 Best Of Monterey County ™ Readers Poll.

Best Pub CROWN AND ANCHOR 150 W Franklin St, Monterey 649-6496 What makes the English authenticity of the Crown and Anchor irrefutable? There’s more to it than the intricate model ships, the 30-some beers (20 ...

Shiny Happy People

Fractious PG Councilmembers learn to play nice.

Pacific Grove City Council Members Dan Cort and Ron Schenk draw a large, unhappy face on butcher paper and top it off with a jagged shock of hair. “The hair symbolizes how frazzled we are,” ...

Breaking Ground

Diana Solis makes history as the first Section 8 homeowner in the County.

The gray suede couches are new—Diana Solis says she bought them a week ago. So is the dining set: a round table with a marble top and iron legs. Solis says the blue, country-style curtain ...

FoodChain: Spring Is in the Air

FIRST THINGS FIRST… It’s crab season, so stop acting crabby and go get some. Stillwater Bar & Grill, a far-too-underutilized (by locals) natural resource, is offering a mouth-watering selection of appetizer-sized dishes featuring the curmudgeonly ...

OnStage: Ritual Feeding

Women and Food makes metaphoric and literal sense.

‘It taps into so many metaphors,” says Jennifer Lagier through bites of sushi. “You’re talking about things like appetite, nourishment, hunger, emotion.” We are sitting at the Shogun Restaurant on Main St. in Salinas with ...

Best Of: Specialty Foods

Results of the 2005 Best Of Monterey County ™ Readers Poll.

Best Local Red Wine BERNARDUS WINERY 5 West Carmel Valley Rd, Carmel Valley 659-1900 Bernardus Marinus Pon, better known as Ben, decided that Carmel Valley was the perfect place to make classic Bordeaux style wines. ...

Letters

The Sharks Are Out of the Water The Last Hometown is becoming “Clowntown.” Although some are laughing at the soap opera at the Pacific Grove City Council, even the Great White Shark at the Aquarium ...

HomePage: Artist’s Valley Getaway

Fredrick Gregory is a sculptor of renown in California, Brazil and Japan. For over 35 years, he has honored his recognition of the poetry of granite and the profundity of wind and water by creating ...

Best Of: Shopping&Services

Results of the 2005 Best Of Monterey County ™ Readers Poll.

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Here’s a little film trivia question for you: what is the most profitable motion picture of all time? Is it Star Wars: The Phantom Menace? No, despite raking in boatloads of money, there was a ...

The Adventures of Superfly

The Adventures of Superfly was written by E-licious J. Rockafella with help from Silky B. Doubleyou, based on a concept hatched by K-Rock Jewell, Pretty Killa Petro and K-Dazzle Loutzenheiser. The Best of Monterey County ...

Thursday, March 10

Letters

Drop it, Dave The recent maneuver for a rehearing on the Sunridge project in North County [“Overdraft Resistance,” Feb. 17-23] on the part of Coastal Commissioner Dave Potter was disappointing to many of us who ...

Die Hardest

In Hostage, Bruce Willis plays a cop who saves the day—sound familiar?

In Hostage, Bruce Willis returns to popcorn action movie fare as a former LAPD negotiator turned small town police chief who gets caught in a web of violence involving the kidnapping of his own family ...

From Mexico, With Love

A spiffy new José’s keeps its homespun roots.

Growing up in Oaxaca, Mexico, three brothers—Greg, Marcos and Ozzie Maldanado—were so poor that they had to share the same bed. When the trio came to Seaside in 1986 and began honing their culinary talents ...

“Everybody Waits”

About 1,700 Monterey County kids can’t get into preschool.

Bay View Children’s Center in Seaside buzzes with activity weekdays around 7:30am, when the preschool welcomes around 230 kids each day. They’re the lucky ones. They’re the ones who, according to a recent report by ...

Newsbriefs

CSUMB Open House CSU Monterey Bay’s new Alumni and Visitor Center will open its doors to the public for the first time 3:30-5:30pm on March 11, at the corner of 3rd and 4th Streets in ...

TheaterListings

| theater openings | Ride the Red Mare Sat 1pm. Adapted from an Ursula K. Le Guin story, this Tears of Joy production is performed with bunraku style puppets and shadow puppets. Sophia’s little brother ...

Outside: Monster Surfers

Mavericks 2005 has become an event at sea.

While the sun rises like a fried egg over the green, lumpy mountains to the east, a crew of media prepare for a full day at sea. The writers and photogaphers are going out to ...

Big Bad DJ

International electronica star Bad Boy Bill drops in on Club Octane.

House DJ Bad Boy Bill has come a long way from listening to DJ mixes on Chicago radio station WBMX at the age of 13. With impressive credentials—like being named 2003’s number one DJ by ...

Red-Blooded Populist

Sacto Dems say Schwarzenegger is towing the Republican Party line.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger left the Capitol last week, and drove a military-style Humvee, dubbed “Reform 1,” to a near-by Applebee’s restaurant. Schwarzenegger wore a black leather bomber jacket and sunglasses. He looked the part of ...

Real Sea Monsters

The vicious giant Dosidicus gigas, the Humboldt squid, seems to be finding a new home right off our shores.

There is an alien intelligence residing deep within the Monterey Bay, a bizarre life form that appears to be proliferating by the thousands in cold black waters far below the surface. It resides within creatures ...

All Kindsa Blues

The Dave Workman Band brings a team of veterans together.

Following a stellar set by Southern California’s Michael John & the Bottom Line, the Dave Workman Band took the stage at the Monterey Bay Blues Festival’s Battle of the Blues Bands this past November. Right ...

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Grand, Not Grandiose

Thirty years ago, Arnold and Kathryn Papazian built a ranch house in which to raise their six children. Wonderful views of Steinbeck Country, a flat lot with an immense yard overlooking the 14th hole of ...

OnStage: Kickin’ It

STOMP brings everyday objects to rhythmic life.

There are few touring performance groups that go through items like 30 brooms, 15 pounds of sand, 200 liters of water and eight bananas every week. But, then again, there are few shows like STOMP. ...

Bleating Hearts

Albee’s

Since the days of Chaucer, great writers have understood that men having sex with farm animals is really bleating funny, even though in reality, fornication with a goat is a taboo that generally induces not ...

831: Animal Love

Monterey resident Paul Chetirkin just may be America’s sexiest vegetarian.

Sexiest Soy Boy. The title alone isn’t all that sexy. In fact, it conjures up images of a flirty little playboy who spends more time in a mirror primping, flossing and pouting his lips at ...

Street Talk

Final Judgment: Asked outside the Salinas Superior Courthouse

Q: Does any crime warrant the death penalty?Follow-up: What annoyance crime committed by teenagers is worthy of a death sentence?Tonie JohnsDeputy Tax Collector | SalinasA: My Christian belief is that no man has the right ...

Squidfry

POOR DEMS…Squid’s mate, Squidley, likes to tell a story from Squidley’s younger years. A mere elementary-school mollusk, Squidley decided to be a Republican when Squidley grew up. “Because Republicans are rich,” Squidley reasoned. (Unfortunately, Squidley ...

FoodChain: (No Such Thing as) Too Much Fun

FINE LINE ON WINE… Two weeks back I mentioned the great Meador Estate/Ventana Vineyards showing at this year’s San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. The Meador Estate 2001 Magnus won Gold, Best of Class in the ...

Forum: Ill Will Ambassador

Bush’s new man at the UN has made a career of ruthless attacks against the institution.

In a breathtaking victory for the far right, President George W. Bush has nominated a die-hard unilateralist to become his next ambassador to the United Nations. John Bolton is known as one of the most ...

Casa de Abel

State senator may move in to historic adobe.

Even senators must contend with the Monterey Peninsula’s housing crunch. After a prolonged search for suitable, affordable office space, state Senator Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, has set his sights on the 160-year-old Casa Gutierrez adobe ...

DiscSpace

VARIOUS ARTISTSThe Roots Present | Geffen Don’t get too excited; this is not really a Roots album. They did come up with the idea, though—hosting a private NYC concert last summer with friends, and this ...

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Heroes and Victims

Documentary film Gunner Palace shows what it is like to be an American soldier in Iraq.

Watching Gunner Palace, which makes sensational viewing even though its most compelling scenes involve not rocket-grenade launchers but chatty testimony from a chosen few of the 400 soldiers billeted at Uday Hussein’s baroque pad, I ...

Thursday, March 3

Five Heads Short

Coastal waters task force postpones big decisions until April.

Last Oct. 18, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stood on a cliff at Point Lobos and pledged to protect coastal waters. His decision to restart the California Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) process, which had been put ...

TheaterListings

| theater openings | Emily Dickinson Opens Fri 8pm; continues Sat 8pm; Sun 2:30pm. Over the past 15 years, Emily Dickinson has been “a driving force” in local actress Marie Avant’s life. “There is no ...

StreetTalk

Q: Ever walked into a situation thinking it was going to be a piece of cake, but it ended up turning into something much more difficult? Follow-up: Do you regret that experience? Christine HandelReal Estate ...

Home At Last

Following an extended stint in Iraq, a soldier adjusts to real life.

Sgt. José Guadalupe Fausto always knew he wanted to be a soldier. Even before he came to the US, back when he lived with his parents and seven siblings in Ameza, a small town in ...

Pac Rep’s Big Year

For its 23rd season, the company turns to Disney and Sinatra—but doesn’t ignore the edgy stuff.

This year PacRep dreams big, staging not only the biggest production of its 23-season existence, but new live musicals, more renowned Shakespeare, and a handful of the edgy, intimate ensemble pieces that have earned the ...

How Helen Got Her Groove Back

Like Stella a few years ago, this new movie tells the story of how yet another black woman, Helen McCarter (Kimberly Elise), jumps back in the game and gets her groove back. The characters’ journeys ...

Squidfry

GOLDEN TOUCH…Finally! It seems Squid’s back inside Clint Eastwood’s circle of friends. You like Squid! You really, really like Squid, don’t you, Clint? Ahhhh. Squid’s going to take a brief moment, and bask in the ...

Rocking Out in Big Hats

Country karaoke kicks in Monterey.

There are all types of ways that bars and clubs try to lure people inside their doors, from scantily clad alcohol peddlers giving away free trinkets—the Coors Light Girls—to an opportunity to sing your favorite ...

Letters

Exercise: Not Just for the Rich and Thin Thank you, Monterey County Weekly and Ryan Masters for spreading the word on the plight of the small, grassroots fitness and dance classes that meet at Pacific ...

NewsBriefs

How To Be A Chicana Role Model Adelante Mujer Hispana, which loosely translates to, “Go forward, Hispanic women,” is a little known local chapter of the larger California nonprofit organization. To mark its 17th anniversary ...

Book Money

Big Ag checks absent from campaign to save Salinas libraries.

The sun shone in spurts Sunday at the John Steinbeck Library in Salinas, where locals were holding a party to mark the author’s 103rd birthday. The celebration—complete with a sheet cake smothered in purple and ...

Thai Style Feasting

Marina’s My Thai stays true to the cuisine’s unique flavors.

‘Thai food is totally individual, befitting a country which has never been conquered, yet it has similarities to both Indian and Chinese food,” notes Charmaine Soloman in The Thai Cookbook: A Complete Guide to the ...

FoodChain

Too Much Fun

SOMEBODY’S GOTTA DO IT… I’m one tired puppy. I’m reminded—as I often am—of the conversation I had with Martin Meursault, former long-time restaurant reviewer for The Herald, when he spoke to me of having to ...

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