Thursday, August 31
Don’t believe the hype that the Shiite militia won anything.
Hezbollah beat Israel in the latest war in Lebanon, and if you have any doubts, listen to what a certified expert on defeat, Syria’s President Bashar Assad, had to say: “We tell [Israel] that after ...
Blues Chanteuse
Teresa James at Live.
Los Angeles vocalist Teresa James can count female blues woman Bonnie Raitt and Levon Helm of The Band among her fans. When listening to her latest CD, The Bottom Line, it becomes apparent why such ...
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8|31 THURSDAY Hotel Workers Rising MONTEREY—Join the 1,200 hotel workers on the Monterey Peninsula who face an uncertain future over expiring labor contracts. Marchers get a free t-shirt. 4:30pm/rally; 5pm/march. Corner of Fairgrounds and Garden ...
The Insider’s Crash Course
Tips from four experienced students on negotiating the turf around local campuses.
Cal State University Monterey Bay As a member of the popular rock band Slices of Home, and as the public relations director for the Associated Students organization, Mason Rothschild maintains a high profile on the ...
Bold Licks
Sam Bush takes his mandolin in a newer direction.
On New Year’s Eve of 1989, the groundbreaking acoustic music band New Grass Revival ended with a bang its influential 18-year history of mixing traditional music with rock, jazz and reggae. That evening, the band, ...
Squid Fry
Squid Fry
OUTTA MY WAY…Ah, politics. The power. The parties. The fluff money. Oh, wait. That last one, fluff money, only applies to the District 5 Salinas City Council race. It’s a sordid political tale, almost unbelievable, ...
Communication Breakdown
Hartnell president refutes faculty data
Hartnell College faculty members complain that the school’s average professor salary ranks last in California, and demand more money. College administrators respond that the statistic is simply wrong, and say there isn’t any money to ...
Health care benefits take center stage in Monterey hospitality labor impasse.
Hospitality workers threatening to strike at two Hyatt hotels on the Monterey Peninsula explain their dispute in terms of the current high cost of living and the level of their pay compared to hospitality workers ...
Street Talk
Asked at Monterey Sports Center.
Q: What’s the best-kept local secret college students should know? Follow-up: What college 101 course would you teach? Anna Napoli | Sports Center Clerk | Monterey A: I’d tell them to escape stress from school ...
Salad Days
Local students try out a wellness blueprint for the county.
The Tater Tot is in trouble. In the ongoing battle against the obesity epidemic in Monterey County, a local partnership of nonprofits is taking a step forward in fostering healthier lifestyle habits for local students—and ...
Expiring Hunger
One woman helps fuel college students with throwaway food.
One by one, half-asleep college students, some still wearing their pink pajamas and cow-licked hair, walk like drones towards a street corner on an early Sunday morning. Their hands carry brown grocery bags. The empty ...
Sleight of Hand
The Illusionist is magical mainly due to a strong script.
The Illusionist is the kind of film M. Night Shyamalan wishes he could still make. Written and directed by Neil Burger (based on a short story by Steven Millhauser), the movie is a period piece ...
Study Break
Study Break
College students in Monterey County are obviously extremely intelligent: they picked a world-class vacation spot to go to school. In the following pages, an opinionated guide to enjoying the time away from studies. Compiled and ...
Movie Times
Century Cinemas Del Monte Center 373-8080 1700 Del Monte Center, Monterey Crank 11:40am, 1:45, 3:50, 5:55, 8:05, 10:10 Crossover 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:25, 9:45 The Quiet 11:50am, 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 The Wicker Man 12:45, ...
Boys Behaving Badly
Sometimes it’s hard to trust Trust the Man.
Men these days don’t seem to want to be men. Or at least not the kind of men their fathers or grandfathers were. The lad culture of NASCAR, fart jokes, video games, Jackass and Maxim ...
The Fun Continues
The Fun Continues
TOO MUCH FUN…I’m sitting here with a mildly annoying hangover after a week’s worth of parties, events, after-parties and after-events connected to or inspired by CAR WEEK. Unlike the majestic, cooling fog that rolls over ...
Letters to Editor
Letters to Editor
READ THE BOOK Thank you for your article on “Big Box Religion” [Aug. 17-23]. I was interested to see someone dealing with the issues relating to modern worship trends. I understand that megachurches do attract ...
County ordered to hand over September Ranch Documents.
September Ranch opponents won a court victory late last week when a judge ruled that Monterey County must turn over about 2,000 pages of documents by Thursday, Aug. 31. “We have served notice on the ...
How a people tracks the travel of one man.
Since March 15, 2002, George has been spotted in a Kentucky fast food restaurant, a Tennessee country store, a Texas strip joint known as the Penthouse Key Club and the Flying M Restaurant, a Utah ...
Family Style
Dustin and Jill Bell had lived in their house for two-and-a-half years when they learned they were pregnant with triplets, and realized an addition had to be built. They decided a 13-by-27-foot room plus second ...
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PARA LA GENTE | Hurricane America EP When forming three years ago, Para La Gente headed down the same path as Rage Against the Machine with political lyrics rapped over metal/punk riffs. Their new release, ...
Bad Cooperation
Salinas and the County are finally moving together—in the wrong direction.
Forget about the legalistic details: Yes—the agreement struck this week between the Monterey County Board of Supervisors and the city of Salinas was made behind closed doors and in secret, as critics are saying. Yes, ...
Home Cooking
Dinners Ready lets you get your gourmet on.
Tonight, I could cook freshly prepared Roquefort-Crusted Flank Steak with Provence Potatoes in the comfort of my own kitchen. For that matter, I could pull a Rosemary Pork Tenderloin with Apple Demi and Mediterranean Vegetables ...
Manager says multiplex killed ticket sales in the Pacific Grove landmark.
Lighthouse Cinemas will show its final movie on Sept. 7. And then, after nearly two decades in Pacific Grove, the curtains at the old theater will close for good. “Business has deteriorated to the point ...
Thursday, August 24
Photographing Phantasms
Show at Carmel’s Center for Photographic Art explores creatures real and imagined.
All manner of glossy postcards and thick press packets flow through the Weekly every day. For the most part, this river of artwork and reception announcements just rushes through our in-boxes, pours across our desks ...
The Wake of the Storm
One year later, the nation has forgotten Katrina.
>>LOCALSPIN Of the 180,000 or so Lebanese refugees displaced by last month’s war, at least 130,000 have returned to their homes, perhaps thousands more. With help from their government, the Hezbollah party, and some international ...
Making the Best of It
Making the Best of It
BAD STUFF HAPPENS… Nature is beautiful and terrifying at the same time. You look at a pretty little bird chirping away, dipping its wings in a small puddle, seemingly just a frolicking bit of background ...
Development Done Right
Among former Fort Ord developments, East Garrison stands alone.
Exactly a dozen years after Fort Ord shut down amidst a sea of hand-wringing and uncertainty, long-promised housing projects are now starting to displace the decrepit ghost town left in the wake of the military ...
Letters
Letters
TELL SOME GOOD NEWS It is obvious that Barbara Evans and Nancy Peden do not have all the facts associated with Monterey’s stormwater efforts [Letters, August 10-16]. Here are the facts that were overlooked in ...
Script Tease
Idlewild’s stunning set pieces often clash with its clichéd story.
Old-time photographs, Hong Kong action, moonshine running and Bankhead booty-shaking make Idlewild a visual pureé of history and hep to match the postmodern mash-ups of Baz Luhrmann. A film whose ATL roots include a Clark ...
Magical Unrealism
Shakespeare overshoots Hollywood and lands at the Western Stage.
The schtick is thick in Salinas this weekend, as the Western Stage Company continues its production of a rollicking Shakespeare in Hollywood in the Studio Theater at Hartnell College. The company commits itself deeply to ...
A lifetime Republican on the need for a Democratic majority in the US House of Representatives.
>>OPINION I have found it difficult in the past several weeks to reach a conclusion as to what a citizen should do with respect to this fall’s forthcoming congressional elections. I am a Republican, intend ...
A local Mensa man gets a presidential nod.
Earlier this summer, Francis Cartier of Pacific Grove received this year’s President’s Call to Service Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to individuals who have given a minimum of 4,000 volunteer service hours. He was one of ...
Twin Tone
In
From its earliest days, cinema has attempted to show viewers things that aren’t really there. Often, though, movies that withhold visual information are more powerful than those that reveal it all. And as Brothers of ...
Class of ’95 Clown
Seaside’s Jason Downs brings the laughs home.
Jason Downs drinks a Budweiser and downs a shot of Jameson. Then, he says a quick prayer and steps onstage at San Francisco’s The Punch Line, where he is opening for probably the biggest comic ...
PublicCitizen
8|24 THURS AERIAL PHOTO WORKSHOP | MONTEREY—Learn how to obtain and use aerial photography of the Central Coast for free. The Central Coast Joint Data Committee and the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments host ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
SUBCONSCIOUS POLITICS… Squid knows slips of the tongue are a common thing, especially among those who have a hard time shutting up. But slips of the keyboard? Those gems aren’t nearly as common. That’s why ...
A Band of Ninjas mixes it up.
For an acoustic rock group, A Band of Ninjas is known to bust out some unexpected songs onstage. In addition to Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive” and the Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash,” the act, ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
Links to galleries within this section: Artistas Unidos | Back Porch Fabrics | Breakthrough | Carmel Art Association | Carmel Foundation | Center for Photographic Art | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Concepts Carmel ...
Street Talk
Asked near Carmel Plaza in Carmel.
Q: school’s in. what’s one thing you wish you were taught in school that was never covered? Follow-up: What’s the stupidest subject kids are being taught? RON GRAY | Santa Clarita | Farmer A: More ...
Chapalatics
Salinas mayoral candidate Dennis Donohue inherits the political center.
At Chapala Restaurant in Oldtown Salinas, the campaign party looked like many others that have been held there. The place is the Salinas Mecca for Mayor Anna Caballero and other electeds and community leaders. The ...
Stories in Ink
Gold Coast Tattoo celebrates 30 years in Monterey.
Tattoos tell stories. Steve Hendricks, owner of Gold Coast Tattoos in Monterey, has a lot of tattoos—so many interwoven on his arms and back, in fact, that he can’t be bothered to count them. He’s ...
The Flood Again
Hurricane Katrina was a harbinger of things to come.
Katrina’s winds shredded through the Gulf South like a giant scythe, but it was the flood in New Orleans that jolted the national psyche, leaving the deepest memory. The flood turned the Big Easy into ...
New Location Celebration
New Location Celebration
Crowds of chatting, laughing people pack the house, spilling onto the front porch, streaming up and down the stairs from the street, motioning greetings and calling out to one another. No directions needed since the ...
Fresh on Fremont
Former Aquarium chef team brings sustainable taste to Point Joe’s.
Now this is my kinda tuna sandwich: Two picture-perfect-pink slices of spice-rubbed ahi with panzu sauce, drizzly wasabi mayo and cabbage coleslaw. The nicely seared ahi is the tender melt-in-the-mouth type of just right; the ...
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M. WARD | Post-War | Merge M. Ward’s songs may sound like transmissions from bygone eras, but they’re far too spirited to resemble musty Smithsonian artifacts. Like his highly acclaimed 2004 release, Transistor Radio, Ward’s ...
Who wins when citizens quit playing?
Lately, only a handful of hardcore land-use enthusiasts (or paid attorneys and consultants) attend Monterey County General Plan meetings. Less than 10 people attended the Aug. 16 Planning Commission hearing to give public comment about ...
Thursday, August 17
Big Box Religion
Big Box Religion
IN AN IMMENSE EVENT TENT set up in a parking lot off Highway 68, a spirited bass line quakes through the assembled crowd. Tall aluminum poles run 40 feet up to the highest points of ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
A Taste of Monterey Landscape paintings by Salinas artist Rick Deragon. Oldtown Salinas, 127 Main St., Salinas. 751-1980. Alison’s discoveries art gallery Photography by Stan Friedman and Derrick Brown; watercolors by Gabrielle Moroe-Gordon. 19 E. ...
A Partial Solution
Dying oceans get a small reprieve from a state decision.
>>THELOCALSPIN The fight over Marine Protected Areas isn’t over, but conservationists won a small victory Tuesday night. When the state Fish and Game Commission put 200 square miles of water off the Central California coast ...
Joy Ride
A cruise through a car weekend like no other.
Merriam-Webster must not be familiar with car week in Monterey County. “Car:” it reads. “1. A vehicle moving on wheels.” Poor, cloistered Webster—a car—the car!—is so much more. It is art and engineering, emotion and ...
Pour It On
Pour It On
This would be where my journalistic credibility takes the short bus out of town. No, not that truth-obsessed, syntax-possessed kind of journalistic credibility—the credibility where I tell people that journalism is a life committed to ...
Country rockers polish their chops with the other Elvis.
The members of country rock group Jackshit have one simple rule: no original songs. Drummer and vocalist Pet Thomas, an original member of Elvis Costello’s backing band The Attractions and a current member of the ...
Last Ditch
Union workers at Hyatt hotels say strike likely after difficult negotiations.
The last time hundreds of hotel workers held a labor strike in Monterey was in 1982. It may happen again, as soon as the end of the month, during hotels’ busy summer travel season. In ...
Down Home
Poco and Pure Prairie League bring back the ‘70s at Sunset.
Back in the late ’60s, popular rock groups started to add elements of country music to their songs. The Byrds, previously known for folk rock hits like “Turn, Turn, Turn,” led the charge with the ...
Letters
Letters
GOOD CLEAN COPY Ryan Masters did an excellent job informing the community about the serious problem of storm-drain run-off pollution of our bay in his two part series on the issue. I was even more ...
Full-Time Job
Supes give Planning Commission a lot of work, and leave out an important tool.
The insanity starts on Thursday. At 1pm, Aug. 16, the Monterey County Planning Commission will hold its first meeting on the latest draft of the General Plan. At this workshop, they’ll discuss important sections of ...
Squid Fry
Squid Fry
BURNING MONEY… Squid doesn’t often swim far south of Salinas (swimming up the Salinas River is not easy, even in a wet year), but Squid would have made an exception to attend the “neighborhood afternoon ...
Public Citizen for Aug 17, 2006
ONGOING DONATE OLD PHONES | SEASIDE—Get rid of that old cell phone and help domestic violence victims in one simple step: Donate old cell phones to the YWCA. The phones are then reused by those ...
Street Talk
Asked at Star Plaza in Salinas.
Q: Where do you go to tap into your spiritual side? Follow-up: What is the least spiritual place you know? MICHAEL KNOTT | Mover | Chualar A: My ranch, where there is open land and ...
Live Feed
Salinas Valley Memorial builds a breakthrough breastfeeding program.
The mom-to-be is adamant as she goes into labor. “I am not going to breastfeed—I refuse,” she said some 18 months ago at Salinas Valley Memorial. Later, once offered literature on the benefits of breastfeeding, ...
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VARIOUS ARTISTS | Classic Labor Songs | Smithsonian Folkways Classic Labor Songs is released at a time when the movement it documents is in recess. The AFL-CIO recently broke apart because of a debate over ...
Environmental Groups Support Storm Water Plan
Carmel and Pebble Beach Company won’t sign on.
The Natural Resources Defense Council and Friends of the Sea Otters have lent their support to the Monterey Region’s Storm Water Management Plan. The plan, five years in the making, is intended to monitor and ...
Done Fishing
State names Marine Protected Areas.
With armed Fish and Game wardens lining the Beach Resort Monterey conference room and allegations of physical threats casting a pall over the proceedings, the Fish and Game Commission slowly drew a patchwork net of ...
A Sweet Ride
A Sweet Ride
ROLL OUT… There’s a lot going on this time of year. As I’m writing this, car nuts from around the world are transporting their dreams to our tiny Oz. In the war against Henry Ford’s ...
Yesterday’s People
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont sheds light on the inevitable.
As little old ladies go, Joan Plowright is a pip. With her regal manner, powerhouse pearls and an irrepressible dignity, she remains as captivating in old age as she was many decades ago when she ...
An enduring community effort keeps swim center afloat.
A toddler flails his legs at Mommy’s command as she glides him through the water. In an adjacent lane, a conditioned triathloner flip-turns and pumps three dolphin kicks before breaking the surface with a slow, ...
Snakes on the Brain
Here’s the lowdown on the most anticipated film of the year.
Let’s get one thing straight: this is not a review of Snakes on a Plane. You won’t read many reviews of Samuel L. Jackson’s new action-flick-cum-Internet-wunderkind before it opens, because it hasn’t been screened for ...
Thursday, August 10
Did He Quit or Was He Fired?
Natividad former-chief Chad Chadwick’s disappearing e-mail.
In a late afternoon press release on Friday, Aug. 4, Chad Chadwick, Natividad Medical Center’s chief executive officer, announced that he would move out of the hospital’s top post and into an advisory role. But ...
Street Talk
Asked at Del Monte Shopping Center in Monterey.
Q: COMPROMISE CAN SEEM IMPOSSIBLE IN TODAY’S POLITICS. WHAT ARE YOU UNWILLING TO COMPROMISE ON? Follow-up: Describe your ideal neighbor. SAM LOBUE | San Jose | District Manager A: Even with high gas prices I’m ...
Wild and Beautiful
The Avett Brothers bring new bluegrass punk-rock energy to Monterey.
Just three years ago, The Avett Brothers were driving up to New York City regularly to play East Village coffeeshops for a hat-full of tips. Now, in a relatively short period of time, the North ...
Commission on Judicial Performance wants Monterey judge to resign.
Since 1960, only 21 judges have been removed from office by the California Supreme Court or—since empowered to do so in 1995 by Proposition 190—the Commission on Judicial Performance (CJP). A handful of others have ...
The Best and Worst
The Best and Worst
STARF*#%ERS… Folks, I don’t know about you, but I’m getting a little overwhelmed with the madness that our society has taken on when it comes to celebrity. Along the continuum of human evolution, today might ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
Links to galleries within this section: Artistas Unidos | Back Porch Fabrics | Breakthrough | Carmel Art Association | Carmel Foundation | Center for Photographic Art | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Concepts Carmel ...
PublicCitizen
8|10 THURS PUBLIC PARKS MEETING | SALINAS—The Parks Commission, which meets today, advises the Board of Supervisors and the County Director of Parks in promoting a public parks program and developing recreation areas and facilities. ...
Oliver’s Twist
With
For 20 years, filmmaker Oliver Stone built a career out of pumping his films with visual steroids. Willem Dafoe’s death scene in Platoon was operatic slow-mo Christ imagery before The Passion of the Christ was ...
Hitch a Ride
With a terrific ensemble, the dysfunctional family roadtrip movie
According to the “Refuse to Lose” nine-step program unveiled in Little Miss Sunshine, there are two kinds of people in this world: winners and losers. Unfortunately for the Hoover clan, they’re made up almost entirely ...
Politics and Pollution II
Politics and Pollution II
The Participants: US REP. SAM FARR The Monterey Bay area congressman and former Monterey County supervisor is the author of the Oceans Act, which established the US Oceans Commission and produced the devastating report on ...
Shakespeare Summer
Pac Rep launches its annual Festival, and Western Stage brings the Bard to Hollywood.
Every year the Bard casts a long shadow across the Monterey Peninsula. It’s a landscape he (or whoever wrote his plays) may have been familiar with. It’s believed that England’s greatest privateer, Sir Francis Drake, ...
Letters
Letters
WHAT THE AMBASSADOR DIDN’T SAY On Sunday evening July 30, I was privileged to provide an opening “blessing for peace” at the meeting held at the Monterey Institute for International Studies (sponsored by the Monterey ...
Fairness and Accuracy
The story about University Villages may not have been bulletproof, but it was on the mark.
>>THELOCALSPIN Here’s the deal: $114,000 for an acre of land in Marina. That’s about what Marina Community Partners paid for the property that they are about to turn into University Villages in Marina. Sounds cheap, ...
Opponents say bill would kill community media.
California legislators returned from a five-week summer vacation Monday to address hundreds of bills requiring final votes, including AB 2987, the controversial bill designed to help telephone companies get into the cable TV business. The ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
SHOOTOUT WITH THE SHERIFF?… Squid’s not usually a braggart. It’s such a lame practice, really, boasting one’s self up all over the place. True, Squid’s smart, talented and hot. More to the point, Squid learned ...
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NEW YORK DOLLS | One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This | Roadrunner The Dolls’ first two discs are among the absolute greatest rock and roll records ever made. Every track on ...
Potential and Then Some
Potential and Then Some
There’s so much potential in this great property located in the best neighborhood in Seaside that it’s easy to forget one could move right in as it is. Just a couple of upgrades in the ...
Secret Garden
Big Sur freak-folk fest commences at 4:20pm Friday.
Nabob Shineywater has an impressive way of discovering bands that will later be featured in ultra-hip places like Arthur magazines or Pitchfork.com. At his Quiet Quiet festivals, which originated in Bolinas and moved to Big ...
Clean Water Solution
One thing is missing from the Peninsula’s plan to take toxics out of its runoff: Money.
A hard rain pours off the steep, Victorian roofs of Pacific Grove. It rushes into and over the gutters and down the drainpipes. It pools in the gardens and floods down the stairways. It rushes ...
Meandering Miles
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott follows his musical trail to where it goes.
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott came by his name because of his knack for stringing songs and stories together in an endless meandering river of native genius, or because he travels a lot. Take your pick; either ...
Red’s Blues
Louisiana Red is a genuine original.
Louisiana Red has recorded under a half-dozen names, but no matter what he’s called, there’s no mistaking the expressive power of his guitar, or the soulful wail of his blues-drenched vocals. The potent blues guitarist ...
A local scooter tribe maxes out their good-times mileage.
Traditionally, the face that best fit the alien-oval rearview mirrors on the Vespa scooter belonged to the debonair, designer-suit sophisticate that would cruise down to Brighton beach on a bank holiday armed with flick knive. ...
In the Zone
The Actors Collective builds on a brief but spectacular tradition.
You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension—a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, ...
Double the Money
University Villages deal may allow developers to keep biggest profits.
Understanding that the University Villages developer could make windfall profits from the sale of homes and retail spaces, the city of Marina installed a financial safeguard into their agreement with the developer. The safeguard is ...
Beyond Fondue
Swiss chocolate. Swiss cheese. Swiss Miss. Swiss barbecue?
I’m at Altes Tramdepot restaurant in Berne, Switzerland, where carved nicknames of local drinking club members speak from the surface of rickety wooden tables and frothy house-brewed blonde beer stirs the appetite. Spying a combo ...
Thursday, August 3
ArtListings
ArtListings
Links to galleries within this section: Artistas Unidos | Back Porch Fabrics | Breakthrough | Carmel Art Association | Carmel Foundation | Center for Photographic Art | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Concepts Carmel ...
Public Citizen for Aug 03, 2006
8|5SAT CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS SALE | MARINA—Today’s sale benefits Monterey County Habitat for Humanity. For a list of like-new items, visit habitatmonterey.org. 8:30am-3pm. 231 Palm Ave., Marina. Free. 917-2685. 8|6SUN REMEMBRANCE DAY | PACIFIC GROVE—Each August, ...
Two Tasty
Mexcal lines up stylish eats from a pair of places.
Mexcal’s flavor fusion had me paralyzed with indecision—Mex or Cal? On chef-owner Alejandro Corres’ menu, split down the middle between the “California Dinner Menu” and the “Mex Dinner Menu,” the starters on both sides stand ...
Projecting Power
The Golden State Theatre celebrates a colorful history with its former staff. When people needed to discuss politics with the mayor of Monterey back in 1959, they headed down to the projectionist booth at the ...
Letters
Letters
‘BIG AG’ DOESN’T CARE ABOUT WORKERS In your front page story “Robofarm” [July 27] I found it ironic that a large number of illegal permanent and seasonal farmworkers in the Central Coast will be displaced ...
Street Talk
Asked at Point Lobos State Reserve.
Q: WHAT IS THE NUMBER ONE BENEFIT OF PROTECTING OUR MARINE SANCTUARY? Follow-up: What is the most valued or memorable item you’ve lost to the ocean? FLECCIA WILSON |Park Aid | Seaside A: The future, ...
No-Fish Zones Get Another Hearing
A comprehensive plan for Marine Protected Areas on the Central Coast of California continues to work its way up the regulatory food chain. The state Fish and Game Commission heard a full day of testimony ...
Growers Steer Growth
Ag land conservancy has been protecting farmland for two decades
A Ford pickup truck heads south from Salinas to King City on Highway 101 with Brian Rianda and Sherwood Darington of the Monterey County Agricultural & Historical Land Conservancy (MCAHLC) onboard. They’re touring the farms ...
Marina Giveaway
Taxpayers will subsidize University Villages development costs
The consortium that is building the huge University Villages development in Marina got the land for cheap, partly because of the added costs of developing on the former Fort Ord. But documents obtained by the ...
War Without End
In a visit to Monterey, the Palestinian ambassador showed why the US must moderate its position.
>>LOCALSPIN Afif Safieh, who serves as ambassador to the United States for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, greeted an overwhelmingly sympathetic crowd in Monterey Sunday night with this joke: Arriving in heaven, a man asks God, ...
Dark Horse
Dark Horse
Part concert film and part biography, Lian Lunson’s Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man is a moving tribute to this legendary artist’s life and career. Moreover, the film salutes four decades of Cohen’s songwriting output, a ...
On a Mission
An archaeology professor explores secrets behind local historic churches.
It’s a dreary winter solstice morning. Suddenly, the fog blanket splits and sunlight shoots through. It travels through the window above the front door of a dimly lit Spanish colonial church, its beam of reddish ...
Toxic Runoff
The Peninsula’s cities are pumping poisons into Monterey Bay. And they can’t afford to stop.
IT STARTED WITH A RASH ON EASTER SUNDAY—A VIOLENT SPLASH OF ITCHY RED ACROSS MY HIPS AND BUTT. I applied some hydrocortisone, absentmindedly chalked it up to either holiday stress or a recent switch in ...
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LISA GERMANO | In the Maybe World | Young God In the annals of indie dysfunction, few singer/songwriters have plumbed the poetics of self-loathing as rigorously as Lisa Germano has. Since 1991, when the former ...
Carmel Art Redux
Carmel Art Redux
William Timmons is a Carmel artist renowned from days when the village was known for people here who created original art. They had their houses/studios “out of town” in many locations that, without moving a ...
Spreading the Love
Spreading the Love
A WARM-WEATHER COCKTAIL…The hot spell that gripped California the past few weeks once again reconfirmed just how lucky we are to hang out here in our air-cooled almost-an-island. Of course those of us inland along ...
Politics and Polllution
Politics and Polllution
Monterey’s city beach was closed last week for two days because the water was found to be dangerous to human health. On Aug. 15, the State Water Board will visit Monterey to address stormwater and ...
Ready for Liftoff
Local rockers The Suborbitals unleash their debut CD at a new regular gig.
Onstage at Monterey Live, four men dressed in black suits and Lone Ranger-style masks tell a dark story of drugs, violence and naked bodies. As a crowd dances in front of them, the original Monterey ...
Claustrophobic Quarters
Claustrophobic Quarters
There’s no shortage of horror movies these days. And it makes sense. From a business perspective, they’re pretty safe bets. They cost very little to make, have a built-in demographic (thanks, teens and tweens) and ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
DOUBLE SPEAK AND STANDARDS… Oh, that TONY LOMBARDO. With his dashing smile and shock of white hair, he’s so good at playing the unstoppable developer’s attorney. If Squid ever decides to build, say, a 400-high-end-home ...
