Thursday, June 29
A Teacher of Values
Alicia Garcia-Gozbekian empowered a group of Salinas students at just the right time.
>>LOCALHEROS It was a spring morning at Harden Middle School in Salinas and Alicia Garcia-Gozbekian, a fifth-year teacher at the school, heard the voice of the vice principal over the intercom. “‘We understand there’s a ...
Politics Beats Policy
The president’s friends abandon him on immigration.
>>THELOCALSPIN Immigration reform is dead, for now, although it will be months before it is laid to rest. There will be hearings throughout the country later in the summer, where politicians will continue to “debate” ...
The Pool Man
A local coach commits to pulling water polo out of obscurity.
When Ken Esaki returned from the armed forces to Monterey County in 1975 he recognized a void in the area’s endless activities and sports: there was no water polo. Over 30 years, thousands of players, ...
PublicCitizen
ONGOING COMMISSIONERS NEEDED | SALINAS—Monterey County District 1, which encompasses most of Salinas, has vacancies in the Agricultural Advisory Committee, Community Action Committee, Community Restorative Justice Commission, Domestic Violence Coordinating Council and more. Interested? Call ...
9th Circuit decision on Padilla could rekindle local land use fight.
At the tail end of an oral argument in the federal courthouse in San Francisco on Thursday, Judge Harry Pregerson asked attorney Frederic Woocher: “What’s the big deal?” The 13-judge panel of the 9th Circuit ...
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 ...
A Different Kind of Warrior
Dan Millman’s classic new age work, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, comes to the big screen.
Yoda, of course, said it best: “Adventure? Excitement? A Jedi craves not these things.” And yet they’re the same psychological impediments that keep hotshot UC Berkeley gymnast and stridently cocksure Olympic hopeful Dan Millman (Scott ...
A House of Movement
A House of Movement
We humans love the concept of flow, a feeling that can be pesky keeping once found. We cherish the flow in moments, conversations and in relationships. Chinese ancients taught about the flow of energy through ...
An Explosive Drama
Talking To Terrorists exposes the people behind the masks.
Four paramilitaries in fatigues aim AK-47s with laser-scopes over the heads of the audience as a child screams. The opening image of PacRep’s powerful new piece of documentary theater, Talking To Terrorists, is just the ...
A Modern Boy’s Hero
Lara Croft is not just a sex symbol for teenaged males. She’s a role model.
>>OPINION In the video game Tomb Raider, Lara Croft is a blend of Indiana Jones and Victoria’s Secret. As she runs through the catacombs, her spectacular chest heaves and her behind wiggles. In quiet moments ...
Oceans 18 reinvents mini golf.
Under black lighting that makes everyone’s teeth look like they just went through an extreme whitening process, I get the first hint of the day that I might be a bit undergunned. “I used to ...
The Ambulatory Activist
Helen Tolerson is everywhere—from the AIDS center to the Blues Fest.
>>LOCALHEROS Helen Tolerson is happy to be alive. She says as much frequently, but she shows it much more effectively. She thumps her chest when she talks about helping local minorities cope with AIDS. She ...
Future big box drainage fixed as Marina rediscovers vernal ponds.
Seven years of idleness has created a number of problems at the soon-to-be-opened Wal-Mart location in Marina. While some of these decays, like a leaky roof and broken tiles, are limited to the actual site, ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT | Brightblack Morning Light | Matador Before he performed at Big Sur’s Fernwood this past January, I interviewed Nabob Shineywater, Brightblack Morning Light’s cannabis-fueled leader, about his band’s debut for indie rock ...
The Jobs Educator
Jose Luis Fernandez teaches people how to work.
>>LOCALHEROS Underneath the dark three-piece suit and slick fedora hat, Jose Luis Fernandez is a humble man. “I am no hero in what I do,” he says quietly. “I’m only able to do what I ...
A Musical Feast
A Musical Feast
ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?… Sometimes, while expectorating this weekly slop-sink-full of fluff (don’t remember having ever seen a double-hyphenated doozie like that before), I’ll engage the radio option on my trusty Dell and let ...
Surface Feature
Director Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns fails to find what motivates a superhero.
Director Bryan Singer doesn’t waste any time letting you know that he’s going retro for his franchise re-boot Superman Returns. The block-letter opening credits swoop and whoosh just the way they did in Richard Donner’s ...
The Royal Treatment
A Monterey tradition lives on at Municipal Wharf II.
The Royal Seafood sensory experience begins long before the garlic and petrale sole hit the pan. It starts with the trip down Wharf Two toward the corrugated tin building that houses Royal Seafood’s wholesale market: ...
The Book Lover
Jan Neal hustles to reestablish Salinas libraries.
>>LOCALHEROS When acting Library Director Jan Neal asked one of her employees recently how far he’d gotten in inventorying the vast stacks in the John Steinbeck Library, he replied, “Well, I discovered Europe, but I ...
Street Talk
Asked at the Salinas Relay for Life at Hartnell College.
Q: What local hero do you draw inspiration from? Follow-up What superpower would you like to call your own? KELSEY STUMPF | Student | Salinas A: My soccer coach. He pushes me to be my ...
Wild Animal Rescuer
Linda Gonzalez feeds birds and Bambi at the SPCA shelter.
>>LOCALHEROS It’s loud and smelly in the SPCA’s Wildlife Center. Baby birds squeak and timers beep constantly, signaling that it’s time to feed a hungry beak. Birdcages sit on tables and shelves that line the ...
Fisherman’s Friend
Chet McAndrews helps disabled vets get out on the water.
>>LOCALHEROS The vet was only three months removed from a devastating combat injury. Confined to his wheelchair, he was scared to death of leaving the hospital, let alone getting lifted onto the deck of a ...
Time and Money
The state brings in a budget on schedule for the first time in years.
California lawmakers approved a $131 billion budget for the state late Tuesday night. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to sign the budget soon, before the end of the fiscal year, meaning the state’s spending plan ...
Letters
Letters
POOR PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER Bravo to Jeremy Seabrook for is brilliant deconstruction of the term “development” [“Development Destroys,” June 22-28]. Reading it, I was reminded of a quote by Satish Kumar, a Jain monk ...
Bluesman Honored
John “Broadway” Tucker wins Mobay Award.
On the Monterey Bay Blues Festival’s Main Stage, local blues legend John “Broadway” Tucker lets loose on his last number, a spirited version of Louis Jordan’s “Caldonia.” The 62-year-old jogs in place and pumps the ...
Scavenger Hunt
Scientists catch and test the condors that ate squirrels shot with lead-based bullets.
Monterey County condors made national news last week when 11 of the 13 condors from Pinnacles National Monument were observed feeding on dead squirrels. Biologists feared that the squirrels had been shot with lead-based ammunition ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
GET OFF YER ASSES… How many college students does it take to turn the country around? More than voted in the last presidential election. According to a new, nationwide survey conducted by the PANETTA INSTITUTE ...
Thursday, June 22
Letters
PG MEETING: SPECIAL, BUT NOT SECRET I wanted to correct the information attributed to me in an article about the retirement of Mayor Jim Costello [“Mayorless in PG,” June 15-21]. First let me say we ...
Wise Fools Parade
William Saroyan is rediscovered in Salinas.
The Western Stage’s production of William Saroyan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Time of Your Life is so relaxed and intoxicating it feels like a three-beer buzz. Among the dim light and the fog of alcohol, ...
The Wide World of Blues
Eric Bibb mines a rich tradition that embraces a vast spectrum of styles and sounds.
Like the wandering troubadours who spread the blues from the Mississippi Delta through the South and Southwest in the first decades of the past century, singer/songwriter Eric Bibb is a lone man with a guitar ...
How people help steelhead make an impossible trip downstream.
In one small Carmel River pool, trout crowd together tightly, prevented from advancing downstream by the river’s constricted flow. Slowly and discreetly, a shiny metal pole dips into their pool, releasing an electrical current that ...
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. ...
Sports and Life
Sports and Life
STICKBALL RULES… I’ve always been a sports fan. Where I grew up (I know what you’re thinking), from the day we were old enough to see, we saw sports being played all around us. Many ...
500 Miles from Moab
Local outdoorsman prepares for punishing eco-race.
Advisory Council Coordinator Paul Chetirkin sits at a computer in his Monterey Bay Sanctuary office with a 30-pound pack full of sand on his back. “I’ve been wearing it full-time for the past month,” he ...
Economic growth in the underdeveloped world is not a universal good.
Whenever we hear the word “development” used by international economists, politicians and experts, we should immediately be on our guard. Development is supposed to represent what everyone in the world wants, and what the privileged ...
PublicCitizen
6|22 Thursday BUILD A BUDGET | MONTEREY—Money is the issue at the Monterey County Business Council’s Annual Economic Development Forum, which includes a demonstration of the game “California Budget Challenge,” where participants can formulate a ...
Blue, Proud and Happy
The Monterey Bay Blues Festival celebrates the truest American music.
Look up “blues” in the dictionary and you’ll find a definition that says something about a 12–bar musical form using minor intervals that expresses a mood of yearning and woe. Obviously Webster didn’t hang out ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
BACK TO THE FUTURE… Squid firmly believes that there’s always a tipping point at which it’s smarter and less painful to simply cut Squid’s losses and move on. Squid also firmly believe that when it ...
Marina Heights settlement money will help low-income residents buy a home.
Seven months after the developers of the Marina Heights project agreed to a $1.75 million settlement with a group of citizens that had sued them to halt the massive housing project, the money will finally ...
Hope Lives On
Bill Clinton still has a lot to say.
>>THELOCALSPIN “The best thing about not being president is I can say whatever the hell I want. The worst thing is that you don’t have to care what I say anymore.” Bill Clinton was speaking ...
Bringing Home the Blues
Sly McFly’s 8th Annual After Blues Festival Jam Session brings big-name talent to Cannery Row.
For the past seven years, Sly McFly’s Annual After Blues Festival Jam Session has been the place to go for folks who want just one more hearty helping of the blues after three days of ...
Of Dogs and Dollars
PG’s two SPCA benefit stores to close shop, move to Carmel.
The merging of Monterey County SPCA benefit stores will likely earn a greater profit for the humane society. But it leaves some Pacific Grove volunteers with nothing left to give their furry friends. Currently, the ...
Landmark case could change the shape of Monterey County—and California.
Late last year, the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that in Orange County, recall petitions must be printed in English and Spanish. At the time, no one paid much attention to the court’s ...
Deep Roots
Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir reach back to Africa.
on stage Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir look like a sextet, but when the group gets deep into a performance, drawing from the entire history of African-American music, the Choir sounds like multitudes. ...
Bloody Hell
The Proposition gives the Western a violent Aussie makeover.
The Western originated as an all-American genre, but the brutal new film The Proposition persuasively stakes a claim that it belongs Down Under. The pitiless, almost prehistoric Australian landscape perfectly suits the Western’s conflicting archetypes ...
Lord of the Ring
Jack Black plays an orphan turned Mexican wrestler in Nacho Libre.
Infinitely more entertaining than anything the WWE has done recently, this sophomore outing from Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess is full of cheesy goodness, but it’s Velveeta, compadre, and it slides around and around and ...
Past Perfect
Past Perfect
Carol Laughlin is as unique and faceted as her property. In 1987, she sold a massive place in Pebble Beach and bought a one-bedroom house on the Salinas River in what originally was a 1930s ...
Seaside Jockeying
Mayor Ralph Rubio comes under attack from Councilman Darryl Choates. Again.
Seaside Councilman Darryl Choates won’t say whether he’ll challenge Mayor Ralph Rubio for the city’s top post in the November election. Choates says he’ll announce his decision in July. But even if Choates doesn’t run, ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
SUSANA BACA | Traves’as | Luaka Bop Susana Baca, an Afro-Peruvian singer and ethnomusicologist, is committed to safeguarding the musical legacy of her slave ancestors. But despite her preservationist tendencies, she’s no purist. She prefers ...
Street Talk
Asked on Fremont Boulevard in Seaside.
Q: The blues fest is back in town. What really gives you the blues? Follow-up: How do you cope? JAIME NEWTON | American Legion Bartender Seaside A: Sick people, non-tippers, and sick non-tippers. Just kidding. ...
Creative Nonfiction
The Vermillion Lies story continues to unfold.
Playing to a packed crowd at Monterey Live before headlining act The Ditty Bops take the stage, Vermillion Lies attempts something most bands wouldn’t even think of: a rousing solo where Zoe Boekbinder plays a ...
Kinger’s Tees Off
Carmel sports bar fields a winning combination.
I’m staring at the one of the most famous—and most beautiful—tee shots on the planet: the par-three seventh hole at Pebble Beach. This little 106-yard legend in golf landscaping dives downhill and out onto its ...
Thursday, June 15
SquidFry
SquidFry
ONCE AGAIN, WITH FEELING… Squid’s heard it all before: Monterey County is the most expensive place to live in the US, the rich keep getting richer while the poor (and middle class) get poorer, blah, ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
Alison’s discoveries art gallery Photography by Stan Friedman and Derrick Brown; watercolors by Gabrielle Moroe-Gordon. 19 E. Carmel Valley Rd., Carmel. 659-4140. Alvarado Gallery Eclectic Monterey: works by Dale Lefler, Robert Hewitt, Mireille Barmann and ...
Not Out of the Woods
The Pebble Beach expansion plan is dead—for now.
>>THELOCALSPIN A decade of planning, years of controversy, a week of political machinations, and now this: the County Board of Supervisors suddenly withdraw the Pebble Beach Company’s expansion plan for the Del Monte Forest, 24 ...
Sunken Treasure
Sunken Treasure
There’s a good bit of romanticism attributed to houses on top of hills, given the propensity there for great views and maybe even status of being above it all, even just geographically. In Del Rey ...
Saucy Summer
Saucy Summer
FOOD AND DRINK… Firstly, I’d like to apologize to anyone whose stuff I didn’t get in last week. I was out of town and filing from a remote location and wasn’t able to coordinate all ...
Mayorless in PG
Jim Costello’s out—now who will lead Pacific Grove?
On his last day on the job as mayor of Pacific Grove, Jim Costello found himself playing lawyer. Costello, 62, announced his retirement May 23 after being diagnosed with a rare, chronic cancer called Waldenström’s ...
The Biggest Kick
World Cup fever hits Monterey.
A manic cheer rises and then rumbles through the door of Britannia Arms Pub in Monterey and into the street: Goal. The roar from the 100-plus people goes unheard—at 6:03am on a Saturday, the street ...
Kanalakis Told to Wait
Supes can’t find money for sheriff—yet.
Per usual, Sheriff Mike Kanalakis wants more money to put deputies on the streets and in the jail. He has asked the County Supervisors to tack on an extra $3.8 million to the $69 million ...
The law isn’t keeping illegal immigrants out, but they are not making it all the way into the US.
>>OPINION When the president gave his little immigration speech, he wanted his listeners to be clear on one point: Americans speak English, and if you don’t speak English, you aren’t an American. “I believe that ...
The Real Oaxaca
Yatzeche delivers authentic flavor.
At Yatzeche, authenticity involves more than flavor: it’s an atmosphere, a texture and an enthusiasm. It’s the guy working on a picture frame at a table and later getting rewarded with dessert. It’s the basic ...
Measure A advocates look ahead to 2008—and congested roads.
The Measure A train hit a brick wall on June 6. Debbie Hale, executive director of Transportation Agency of Monterey County (TAMC), is pretty sure she knows why. One week after the countywide, half-cent sales ...
Frontier Journey
El Teatro Campesino presents third installment of
It’s illegal to run over chickens in San Juan Bautista. They roam freely through the downtown, protected by law. It’s always a surprise to discover that one of America’s greatest living playwrights will premiere a ...
Global Power
Al Gore speaks with Bob Edwards about politics and the end of the world.
BOB EDWARDS: Al Gore probably needs no introduction but we have to do one in any case. He was the vice president of the United States under Bill Clinton and won the popular vote for ...
Lutes’ Last Demand
Defeated supervisor candidate calls on victor to keep his promises.
When Jyl Lutes conceded the District 2 supervisorial election to incumbent Lou Calcagno late last week, she didn’t bow out quietly. The race, one of the most heated in the June 6 election, ended with ...
Street Talk
Asked at Dennis the Menace Park in Monterey.
Q: WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST CONCERN ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT YOUR CHILD WILL INHERIT? Follow-up: What’s the weirdest thing your child does? MIKE WHILDEN | Attorney | Seaside A: Mostly the air and water, but also ...
Fahrenheit 2050
The man who would’ve been president warns of an imminent deep impact.
With ice caps melting, sea levels rising, and Poseidon sinking fast, this is no environment for any disaster movie, particularly a real one, to take our interest for granted. Thus An Inconvenient Truth, named for ...
A rule-breaking postman-puppy love story.
Cookie, a golden Labrador, comes trotting down her driveway to meet mailwoman Jane. Cookie finds the empty milk carton in her mouth a fair trade for a Milk-Bone dog biscuit Jane offers. “Cookie’s the balls!” ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
FEATHERS | Feathers | Gnomonsong Feathers, a large and mostly acoustic new-folk outfit, is unlikely to cause any meltdowns whatsoever. Singer/multi-instrumentalist Meara O’Reilly eschews any talk of Feathers’ forebears, saying instead that she and the ...
Splashy Jazz
Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers heat up Jazz Club at the Aquarium.
Let’s hope the Monterey Bay Aquarium is ready for an otter population boom, because when Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers take the stage, nature seems to take its course. The curvaceous jazz ...
Note for Note
The White Album Ensemble performs
After creating two of the most ambitious musical statements in rock music history with Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and The White Album, The Beatles decided to return to their roots in 1969. At ...
PublicCitizen
ONGOING PAWS TO RECYCLE DRIVE | MONTEREY—Through June 26, donate recyclable aluminum cans to the SPCA of Monterey County to pay for surgery for injured animals. 8am-5pm. SPCA, 1002 Highway 68, Monterey. Free. 373-2631. 6|15 ...
Litter Box
Litter Box
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. It was the age of computer-animated summer movies for children; it was the age of bland and perfunctory sequels with phoned-in voice work. ...
Letters
Letters
BUILD A TRAIN AND MORE TOURISTS WILL COME I wanted to respond to the letter which says that trying to use trains to bring people to the Peninsula will be a failure. Train service will ...
Thursday, June 8
SquidFry
SquidFry
SEALING THE DEAL… Apparently the County doesn’t feel it was doing enough to upset residents of Carmel Valley in recent months, even as the valley residents move closer toward a pending vote to declare independence ...
The Pathos of Shahbazi
Marina Shell gas crusader won’t back down.
Mehdi Shahbazi lost his Carmel home to creditors in May. His wife and youngest son left two weeks ago for Los Angeles to stay with relatives indefinitely. He and his eldest son are now sleeping ...
Close Call
Calcagno and Lutes wait out the vote on election night.
There isn’t a visible drunk at Tuesday’s District 2 Supervisorial candidates’ victory parties. There isn’t a clear victory, either. When party-goers go home, late on June 6, incumbent County Supervisor Lou Calcagno leads the race ...
A Lot in Greenfield
A Lot in Greenfield
The town of Greenfield on 101 south of Soledad maintains much of the feeling from when its senior citizens were just kids, although modernized. The main street’s a boulevard out of 1930’s LA with wide ...
Public Citizen for Jun 08, 2006
6|9 Friday Dignitaries on the Issues | SALINAS—Assemblyman and Supervisor elect Simón Salinas and Salinas City Councilwoman Maria Giuriato talk about community issues at today’s luncheon of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals ...
The Long Goodbye
Garrison Keillor and Robert Altman team up for an elegiac backstage musical.
Like the Grand Ole Opry plopped into a fragrant barn at the county fair, Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion befits its roots in frosty Minnesota soil through its worldview, Buddhist by way of Scandinavia: ...
Get On Board
Great spots from which to lauch a sailing excursion.
Last week, a string of 50-plus sailboats came shooting down the coast from San Francisco to Monterey as part of the Spinnaker Cup, an annual race co-hosted by the Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club. Carmel Valley ...
Open Water
Open Water
The captain’s introduction sounds a little like a warning. “I’m Ward,” he says, standing in the SailTime offices next to Monterey’s Coast Guard Pier. “As in mental…to run a sailing school in Monterey.” Ward Latimer ...
This Year’s Model
John Lasseter’s Cars finds humor and heart in a sense of history.
John Lasseter—the guiding light at Pixar—has apparently grown weary of all the focus on his movies’ gee-whiz-ardry. Ever since Toy Story launched a revolution in animated movie-making, the conventional wisdom has been that viewers were ...
Fresh Blues
The Emancipators bring new energy to the classics.
Descending the stairs from Carmel’s Dolores Street, we leave the windblown street above and enter the Sugar Reef Restaurant, which explodes with bright colors like tropical coral. Inside, the bottoms of the walls are trimmed ...
Street Talk
Asked at the American Tin Cannery.
Q: SUMMER—AND TOURISTS—ARE HERE. WHAT IS THE TOUGHEST PART ABOUT LIVING IN A TOURIST HOTSPOT? Follow-up:What’s the best tourist repellent? GREG VON LORTZ | ShopOwner | Monterey A: The attitudes of the locals toward the ...
East Bay Ray
East Bay Ray
ROAD WORK… There’s a place in my heart where all of you live (stay with me here, I’m flying blind). Today, late on the deadline, I sit alone in a public room, trying to pound ...
Peace Worker Faces Jail
Salinas resident will be sentenced in Santa Barbara.
Peace activist MacGregor Eddy will be sentenced on June 15 for trespassing on Vandenberg Air Force Base, an act of civil disobedience she committed in October, 2005. She faces up to six months in jail. ...
All the music, culture, and sports a county could hope for.
JUNE 11>>Mission San Antonio Fiesta Barbecue, crafts and games celebrate this historic mission, founded in 1771 by Father Junipero Serra. Mass at 11am, barbecue at noon. Mission San Antonio, Jolon. 385-4478. 17>>Jazz at the Aquarium ...
Some Beach
It takes good equipment to make the most of a summer day.
A perfect Monterey County summer day is a day spent at a local beach. Whether it’s an afternoon on the flour-white sand of Carmel Beach or the rock-and-driftwood-strewn shoreline of Andrew Molera State Park, a ...
Full Scale Jazz
Classic iconoclast Roger Kellaway brings his genre-bending jazz explorations to Monterey and Marina with local guitar hero Bruce Forman.
Roger Kellaway doesn’t concern himself with categories. A widely revered jazz pianist for more than four decades, Kellaway has explored so many different musical avenues that he’s often outpaced even his most ardent fans. A ...
Secret Weapon of the Season
Sprouts: Not just for hippies anymore.
This is a tough time of year for local-food snobs. The winter stash dwindles, and summer’s bounty isn’t here yet. My humble stash includes two chest freezers: one for meat, and one for fruits and ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
MATTHEW SWEET AND SUSANNA HOFFS | Under the Covers, Vol. 1 | Shout Factory When it comes to covers, there are two schools of thought. Adherents of the first try to re-create the original song ...
Slavery Happens
The State Department reports on human trafficking.
>>THELOCALSPIN We will never know whether the “Slavery in Pebble Beach” story was real. It plays like a made-for-TV movie: Two married Sri Lankans, in the US on travel visas, are lured to the Peninsula ...
Kanalakis Kills
Sheriff easily outguns opponents.
The election which had shaped up to be a showdown at the Monterey County corral turned out to be a massacre. Incumbent Mike Kanalakis was virtually guaranteed another four years as sheriff before his main ...
Horror Show
Francisco de Goya’s 18th century prints resonate with Steinbeck’s times, and ours.
Los Caprichos resides somewhere between the grotesque and the sublime. Originally published in 1799, this set of 80 etchings by Spanish artist Francisco de Goya is among the most influential series of graphic images in ...
Three Days of Summer comes to Big Sur.
It’s real hard to find Tim Bluhm. Right now, no one can seem to locate the singer and guitarist of the popular California band Mother Hips. Dan Prothero, producer of Bluhm’s solo CD titled California ...
Gore, Hillary go where Bush fears to tread.
>>OPINION Green isn’t what it used to be. It was once just the color of the trees and grass that the environmental movement tried to protect. But now it is also the color of the ...
Letters
Letters
DUNE SOME GOOD Thank you for presenting the recent eye-opening study and report on CEMEX [“Wasting Away,” May 25-31]. The most obvious response to this article should be that the City of Marina and the ...
Museum Quality
Esther Trosow continues to catalog Pacific Grove history and culture at the PG Museum of Natural History.
Archivist, museum exhibit creator, costume maker, Web designer, historic activist, wry observer of human oddities—Pacific Grove’s Esther Trosow has one expansive resume. She’s also probably done more to preserve and celebrate the history of “America’s ...
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 ...
Band Steps Up
RB Xpress brings familiar sound to Sly McFly’s.
If you have seen popular soul crooner Marvin Banks perform at Sly McFly’s or Cibo, then you have seen The RB Xpress Band onstage before. The Bay Area band, which is led by drummer/singer Dennis ...
Thursday, June 1
Letters
Letters
WE NEED MORE BUSES AND TRAINS Thank you Mark C. Anderson for pointing out what needs to be pointed out ad nauseum until we finally do something about it: Our lovely Monterey County has one ...
Body of Work
SpectorDance debuts a new Rock Ballet.
Live rock and classical ballet? At first the restrained grace and precise choreography of ballet set to the hard backbeat and loose boogie of rock ‘n’ roll seems like an odd combination. But it works. ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
AS GOES JAPAN… Squid was sitting on the train the other day, riding into work, sipping Squid’s tall, non-fat latte in a Venti cup with nutmeg sprinkles on top while reading the Times, looking out ...
Rap Star by 8
Third grader Lil’ Jordan reveals his gift for the microphone.
The bell rings, signaling the end of class at Los Arboles Middle School in Marina, and the beginning of a rap concert. DJ E-Z Cutt starts blaring an R&B pop song from a pair of ...
Saddle Sore
An imitation cowboy woos an underage filly Down in the Valley.
More spectacular than any Western sunset is a film with big stars and serious investors (actor Edward Norton is one of them) sinking just as dramatically into the Pacific. Down in the Valley is a ...
The Devil Inside
The Devil Inside
Like Syd Barrett, the mad mastermind behind Pink Floyd’s early works, and Brian Wilson, the creative force behind the Beach Boys who notoriously spent a whole year in bed, Daniel Johnston’s story is one of ...
My Own Private Online
Local techie ready to launch first privatized Internet.
Perhaps the simplest way to describe George Sidman’s most recent capital venture is with a comparison between two types of communities. One is a free-wheeling and untamed city, full of exciting opportunities and unseen dangers. ...
Street Talk
Asked at Earthbound Farm in Carmel Valley.
Q: it’s prom season. What does the word “prom” bring to mind for you? Follow-up: What would your dream prom theme be? SANDY ELLIS | Homemaker | Carmel Valley A: For my first prom, the ...
A Simple Meal
La Bicyclette is more than just Casanova’s cousin.
Simplicity is a virtue, but it can also be an aesthetic value. There is pleasure to be found in an escape from the complicated, the fancy. And in simplicity, sometimes we find perfection. I have ...
Tax and Spend
The best formula, and the man who would reform it.
>>THELOCALSPIN Here’s what the polls are saying: In the Democratic primary race for governor, Phil Angelides, who last week trailed Steve Westly by almost 10 points, has pulled ahead and now leads by three points, ...
Wireless Life
CSUMB’s tech center brings wireless imagination to Monterey.
The first step in harnessing the power of wireless technology, says Arlene Krebs of CSU Monterey Bay’s Wireless Education and Technology Center (WeTEC), is to grasp its possibilities—or as she says, “to understand what new ...
Lutes vs. Calcagno
District 2 will be the battleground of a fight for the future.
Lou Calcagno describes himself as a dairy farmer. He may also be the most powerful man in Monterey County. He’s served on the Board of Supervisors for eight years, and sat on the county planning ...
Feel So Good
Feel So Good
DON’T GET ME STARTED… The weather is grand, all the action is coming, my e-mail inbox is jammed and there’s no room for ranting this week (Hey Martha! We caught a break!) Ran into old ...
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 ...
Cali Cowboys
The Sons of the San Joaquin keep the Western tradition alive.
Back in the ‘30s and ‘40s, Western music spread across the United States faster than a Pony Express horse. Western music, which was a precursor to country and western, used folk ballads to tell the ...
Get the Lead Out
State tells University Villages developer to remove lead-contaminated soil.
It’s not just a ghost town anymore. It’s a lead-contaminated ghost town. About 290 acres on the former-Fort Ord have been identified as being laced with dangerously high levels of lead. The land is situated ...
A Proper Place
A Proper Place
Oh, will-of-the-weather that rains cats and dogs with vows of more on the morrow. (“Raining cats and dogs” comes from medieval English peasants whose dwellings had only thin thatched roofs. House animals were often kept ...
Oldtown Salinas adds a farmers market.
Even as Oldtown Salinas has transformed itself from overlooked to oasis, something has been missing. Oldtown Salinas Association Executive Director Jennifer Filice was reminded of it regularly. “Every time I would tell someone what I ...
Public Citizen for Jun 01, 2006
Saturday 6|3 Volunteer Training | MONTEREY—The Monterey Bay Sanctuary Citizen Watershed Monitoring Network needs a few good volunteers to monitor storm drain outfalls in Monterey, Pacific Grove and Capitola. It requires between four and eight ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
CASSANDRA WILSON | Thunderbird | Blue Note As an acclaimed jazz diva lauded for her eclecticism, Grammy winner Cassandra Wilson’s decision to forgo her acoustic sound on Thunderbird should come as no surprise. The 10-track ...
Clean Green
Campaign funding bill stalls in state Senate, but ballot proposition looms.
If the 2006 elections unfold similarly to the 2002 elections, then money will appear to be the determining factor in the majority of the races. An analysis of the state’s election four years ago shows ...
The
UNITED STATES House of Representatives-Democrat | Sam Farr STATE Governor | Steve Westly Lt. Governor | Liz Figueroa Sec. of State | Debra Bowen Controller |Joe Dunn Treasurer |Bill Lockyer Attorney General |Jerry Brown Insurance ...
