Thursday, April 26
Total Recall
How one family nearly lost their dog after he ate tainted pet food.
The night my dog Bear laid listless on a rug next to his untouched food bowl last week, I thought I’d killed him. He wouldn’t open his eyes. His breathing looked labored. I pushed and ...
Clove Trees and Chicken Sandwiches
Kurt Vonnegut was as curious as a child until the day he died.
It was the second week of February, a sub-zero day in Manhattan. As I walked up the front steps to Kurt’s brownstone, the noise of the salt crunching under my boots was louder than the ...
Kurt’s War on War
Vonnegut waged a funny crusade against violence.
>>THELOCALSPIN"Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children’s Crusade, a Duty Dance With Death, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., a Fourth Generation German-American Now Living in Easy Circumstances on Cape Cod (and Smoking Too Much), Who as an American ...
Letters to the Editor for Apr 26, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Apr 26, 2007
PARTY WITH PRINCIPLESThe Weekly chose CSUMB’s Earth Day music fest as a Hot Pick [A&E Calendar, April 19-25]. It was a music fest. It was (most disappointingly) not Earth Day. There were tables from various ...
Second Wind
A piano prodigy carries on a Big Sur International Marathon tradition.
The jagged topographical map of the Big Sur International Marathon provides the outline of this story: A gentle downward sweep for five miles, a gradual incline followed by a short dramatic descent for another five, ...
Plastic Plague
Surfrider launches a local campaign to reduce non-biodegradable marine debris.
Floating translucent, shape-shifting with the currents, a plastic bag can look a lot like a jellyfish to a hungry turtle. And a bottle cap can seem like a snack to an adult albatross, likely to ...
Don’t Call Them ‘Green Teens’
Young activists gather in Marina.
Some teens spend their free time hanging out at coffeehouses, texting friends and obsessing about their latest crush. Others, like 16-year-old Sabrina Russo (when she’s not in choir practice, or writing her novel, or volunteering ...
Hope’s Voice
Maureen McGovern at the Sunset.
Disaster is a word few artists want associated with their careers, but for Maureen McGovern calamity was the ticket to success. The singer with the “Stradivarius voice” gained enduring fame with her first chart-topping hit ...
Casablancan Groove
Mo’Rockin Project and Alvin Batiste at CSUMB’s heritage festival.
It’s a long, long way from Chicago to Casablanca, but Southside-raised trumpeter Khalil Shaheed and Moroccan-born multi-instrumentalist Yassir Chadly have created the perfect vehicle to bring their musical worlds together. While Chadly grew up playing ...
ArtListings for Apr 26, 2007
ArtListings for Apr 26, 2007
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 ...
Puppy Love
Saturday Night Live alumnus Molly Shannon plays an extreme canine lover in Year of the Dog.
Every comic performance holds a little nugget of heartbreak inside. But few performances have revealed the tragedy wrapped inside a candy shell of comedy as assuredly as the one Molly Shannon delivers in Year of ...
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BLONDE REDHEAD | 23 | 4AD/Beggars BanquetBlonde Redhead, the trio of twin brothers Amedeo and Simone Pace and Kazu Makino, once traded in the sonic dissonance inspired by New York’s early ‘90s no-wave scene. Now, ...
Kurt Vonnegut: The Exit Interview
This interview with Kurt Vonnegut took place a couple of months ago. About an hour after we finished our conversation, he called me back.“I thought that was a good interview,” he said.I agreed.“And I think ...
Hoping For Resurrection
San Carlos Cathedral restoration begins.
Even the Blessed Mother of God needs a little work done after some 200 years. Her face, atop the San Carlos Cathedral, still tilts toward heaven, but it has fallen slightly over the centuries as ...
Caught in the Net
A bold culinary experiment with online eats and Doorbell Dining.
Behold the mighty Internet—the powerful portal that has transformed the world economy, convinced millions of MySpacers that they matter, and brought poker and porn to the masses. Seems this Internet can do anything. But right ...
Happy to Be Here
Happy to Be Here
UCHAINED… I heard the other day that rainfall is something like 11 inches less than usual this year. That’s not good, especially when looking ahead to the really hot and dry weather in the coming ...
An Irish Wit
Seamus Kennedy brings lighthearted Celtic fare to London Bridge.
Don’t expect a performance of straight Irish ballads from Seamus Kennedy. Sure, the longtime performer does sentimental Irish fare including “Let the Music Take You Home” and Pete St. John’s “Dublin In the Rare Old ...
Historic Hit
A Carmel man composes theme music for baseball’s tribute to Jackie Robinson.
Baseball was a given for Carmel’s Nathan Trosky—it was in his blood. The love affair between the Trosky family and America’s pastime dates back to his grandfather, Hal Trosky, whose face landed on a box ...
Asked at Wal-Mart in Marina.
Street Talk
Q: WHAT’S YOUR GREATEST FEAR?Follow-up: Who’s the scariest movie villain of all time?ANTHONY DAVIS | Student | SeascapeA: My greatest fear would be falling off a cliff. Whenever driving along mountainsides by the coast I ...
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ONGOINGCRISIS CENTER ADVOCATES | COUNTYWIDE—The Monterey County Women’s Crisis Center seeks volunteers. Training begins May 15. 757-1002 or nalcaraz@mcwcc.net.CSUMB SCHOLARSHIP | COUNTYWIDE—CHISPA awards scholarships for CSUMB students with financial need who live in CHISPA housing. ...
Drawn to Art
An artist scratches out an existence on the Wharf.
Dressed in a velvet jacket and a polka dot tie, with a scarf wrapped around his neck, a man waits at the far end of Fisherman’s Wharf. Charcoal-covered fingers and an easel reveal why he ...
Ladies’ Man
Ladies’ Man
Despite a title that makes this movie sound as though it might be the latest madcap offering from Pedro Almodóvar, In the Land of Women is a much more conventional affair—a tame yet appealing melodrama ...
Old Songs—New Voice
Singer adds depth to Road Hogs’ dance-friendly covers.
Road Hogs bassist and vocalist Toby Gray reports that he and his bandmates don’t ride motorcycles. “We drive very large vehicles, like Humvees and that sort of thing,” he says.But the Santa Cruz-based R&B and ...
A Place in Pebble
A Place in Pebble
>>REALESTATEMany adventures and much satisfaction occur when visiting Joe and Karen Machock’s property in Pebble Beach. It begins simply enough when one stands above the house next to three towering pines standing trunk-to-trunk with needles ...
Thursday, April 19
ArtListings for Apr 19, 2007
ArtListings for Apr 19, 2007
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 ...
Indian Uprising
Ambrosia is an impressive addition to the Peninsula’s international scene.
Tuesday night at a new restaurant isn’t usually the happiest place to be in space and time. Add in the off-season effect in a tourist town chock-block with competition, and you have the makings of ...
Evangelical brings “creation care” doctrine to Peninsula.
As an ER director and hospital chief of staff, Dr. J. Matthew Sleeth says he felt like he was “straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.” He saw the increasing amount of patients struck with environmental ...
The great novelist was also a political voice of reason and outrage.
>>FORUMThe world has lost Kurt Vonnegut, a man who kept his moral compass always pointed in the right—excuse me, left—direction.Kurt never ceased to be outraged by man’s inhumanity to man. And while he could always ...
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BRIGHT EYES | Cassadaga | Saddle CreekDubbed “wunderkind” by some soon after he began making records at age 13, the backlash against Conor Oberst’s Bright Eyes has been equally hyperbolic. Pretentious, goes the chorus, often ...
Street Scene
PG’s Good Old Days celebrates 50 years of fun.
>>GOODOLDDAYSBelieve it or not, Pacific Grove can get loose. It just takes a nine-block-long, 240-vendor, music-soaked festival like Good Old Days to do it. Moe Ammar, president of the PG Chamber of Commerce and event ...
Cooling Trend
The UNA’s Earth Day film fest focuses on slowing the rate of climate change.
>>FILMFESTI left the theater after seeing An Inconvenient Truth depressed about the planet’s prospects and irritated by the chirpy here’s-what-you-can-do-to-help note on which the film ended. How could $15 compact fluorescent light bulbs possibly make ...
PublicCitizen
ONGOINGDISASTER PREPAREDNESS | MONTEREY—Register now for the Monterey Fire Department’s disaster-preparedness training. Classes will meet at 6:30pm on Mondays, beginning April 30, at City Hall. Pre-registration is required and space is limited. 646-3900 or sammon@ci.monterey.ca.us. ...
Letters to the Editor for Apr 19, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Apr 19, 2007
HEAR THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLEI am Lorraine Escobar, whom Zach Stahl erroneously describes in his article about Esselen Nation [“Culture Wars,” April 12-18]. I was not kicked off the council. I resigned. But that ...
Squid Fry for Apr 19, 2007
Squid Fry for Apr 19, 2007
NOT IN CARMEL’S BACKYARD… Squid could barely keep Squid’s eyes open through the nearly three hours of redundant public testimony at Carmel-by-the-Sea’s overflowing April 11 PLANNING COMMISSION meeting—and Squid doesn’t even have eyelids. The good ...
Sounds of the Sphere
Earth Day Celebration fills the day at Henry Miller Library.
Earth has no theme music. Metalheads might lobby that their genre’s hearty riffs and lyrics about pagans would be the best soundtrack for the planet. Meanwhile, country music artists could argue that their lyrics about ...
Eco Chic
Local Cities and the County imagine greener communities.
Hundreds of 9-month-old seedlings sit in neat rows outside the Pebble Beach Co. greenhouse, their roots packed into inverted cone-shaped containers. “These guys’re antsy,” says company gardener Julie Wong. “They want to get out of ...
Cop Killer
With Hot Fuzz, the folks behind the brilliant Shaun of the Dead poke fun at action buddy flicks.
In the action-comedy Hot Fuzz, Sgt. Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is a cop on the edge. Out for justice as London’s most efficient police officer, he’s shocked by the sudden impact of his unexpected transfer ...
The Littlest Condor
An incredible journey from a cliff-top cave in backcountry Big Sur to the Los Angeles Zoo—and back.
In a remote canyon in the Big Sur backcountry, Sayre Flannagan stared at the face of a 300-foot cliff a third of a mile away. As her handheld radio-tracker blipped like a radar detector, Flannagan, ...
One Big Night
One Big Night
FEELING LUCKY… As I write this, it’s Friday the 13th, SWEET THING’S favorite day, and I’m riding her coattails (watch yourself). I’m filing a day late so my editor is pissed at me—he’s been sending ...
Bidding War
Presidio of Monterey gets new, private security guards for less money.
Out goes one Alaska indigenous corporation and in comes another at the Presidio of Monterey. Doyon Security Services recently routed Chenega Security & Protection Services for the contract at the Presidio and six other Pacific ...
Long Live Amadeus
Mozart Society bows out.
Clifton Hart used to spend months in Germany every year, attending performances at the Salzburg Festival and the Bayreuth Festival. In 1988, he convinced several European ensembles to come perform in Carmel. Thus was the ...
Frozen Assets
BioBanc USA opens the first place for ‘immune system storage’ in the country.
In the corner of a chilly lab in BioBanc USA’s sparkling new Ryan Ranch headquarters squats a specialized freezer worth a quarter of a million dollars. It’s an expensive bit of futuristic technology, but the ...
Big For Its Size
Big For Its Size
>>REALESTATEOne of the more compelling ways to recognize that a house is a good home before even touring it is by the immediate sense of rapport with its family. Although one’s ability to feel that ...
Big Small Steps
We can’t fix China, but we can do something.
>>THELOCALSPINThe smoggiest city in the world is a place few Americans have ever heard of. According to an informal poll—conducted over the past five minutes here in the offices of the Weekly—seven out of eight ...
He Done It
In Fracture, we know who committed the murder, but we don’t know if he’ll be convicted of the crime.
It’s never a mystery whether or not Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) shoots his wife. He does. We see him do it. He even confesses to it: “I shot her in the head. I knew it ...
Height of Hope
Local women scale Mt. Shasta to help prevent cancer.
On July 10, 40 women will begin a trek up Mount Shasta, a physical and a spiritual journey to “Climb Against the Odds” in an effort to prevent breast cancer and beat the disease. They ...
Thursday, April 12
Rock ‘n’ Roll Hero
Johnny Rivers created a lot more than ‘Secret Agent Man.’
In 1955, when Johnny Rivers was a junior at Baton Rouge High School, Elvis Presley played a gig in the gym. “It was a country music revue,” Rivers says, “and Elvis played two songs—‘That’s All ...
Battle Stars
Two Salinas women get set to rock the ultimate fighting world.
The anguished roar of System of a Down pounds the concrete walls and high rafter ceiling of the studio. The music’s intensity is matched by two rows of combatants—six men and two women—facing each other. ...
Action Heros
The Sea Otter’s first adventure race features two remarkable athletes.
Rebecca Rusch was deep in the insect-infested jungles of Borneo when the cockroaches began to crawl all over her. Or so she thought. Four days spent biking, running, kayaking and climbing—on two hours of sleep ...
Battery Disposal
CAR BATTERY DISPOSALGonzales: Johnson Canyon Landfill, 31400 Johnson Canyon Rd., Gonzales. 675-2165. 7am-4pm, Mon-Fri; 8am-4pm, Sat-Sun. Limit 2 car batteries per person per trip. Accepts car batteries year-round.King City: Jolon Road Transfer Station, 52654 Jolon ...
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RY COODER | My Name Is Buddy | NonesuchAn album of newly penned Depression-era narratives done in audio shades of Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly would seem, at best, anachronistic, and at worst a calculated cash-in ...
Multi-Course Feast
An insider’s guide to the Sea Otter Classic.
The bicycle has been called one of humankind’s top 10 inventions. And just as the bicycle has improved over its lifespan, the four-day Sea Otter Classic keeps getting better. The 17th installment of this Monterey ...
Raw Beauty
Three artists gathered at Anton Gallery reveal an unusual aesthetic.
Three ceramic vessels of moderate proportions stand exalted on three tall pedestals in Monterey’s Anton Gallery. The vessels are not sleek. Their surfaces are slip-glazed in a rough grey-white that has crept away from a ...
It’s All Good
It’s All Good
OUT AND ABOUT…I’ve got writer’s block today. Had it yesterday and the day before (yeah, and every other day too, right Martha?). Things were easier when I was angry all the time. I am losing ...
Securing the Borders—and Employers
AB 735 would put an additional tax on undocumented workers’ salaries in the interest of “employer security.”
Assemblyman Rick Keene says his own frustration over migrant workers crossing the border illegally—and the federal government’s inability to enact immigration policy—pushed him to author the “Employer Security and Accountability Act” late last month. The ...
Southwest Noir
Southwest Noir
Usually the sins and crimes of film noir are committed in cities by night. The colossal shadows of tenements and office buildings conceal humans behaving badly, while blinking neon signs and lone figures in streetlights ...
Paradise Abandoned
The closing of Fort Ord created a land of opportunity—for a lucky few.
>>THELOCALSPIN Among the thousands of bicycle enthusiasts here for the Sea Otter Classic this weekend, there will be hundreds of mountain-bikers swarming the hills around Laguna Seca, riding a course that wanders through what used ...
Letters to the Editor for Apr 12, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Apr 12, 2007
ARTICLE MISREPRESENTED THE TRUTHMy name is Bobby Jaurigue and I am the Program Director of Genesis House in Seaside. I read the article called “Meth: A Life Sentence” [Cover, March 22-28] and I have to ...
Dead Cells
Toxic battery waste generates a surge of recycling efforts.
Spring is the prime season for all things bunny. Not only is it mating season for the notoriously fertile critters, but it’s also the Easter Bunny’s moment of glory. Less visible is the Energizer Bunny, ...
ArtListings for Apr 12, 2007
ArtListings for Apr 12, 2007
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 ...
Asked at The Cherry Bean Coffee House in Salinas.
Street Talk
Q: WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST ADVENTURE THAT YOU’VE EXPERIENCED?Follow-up: What’s the best adventure movie of all time?ADRIANA MORALES | Retail | SalinasA: About a year ago I was driving at night and it was just pouring ...
MST’s new line quietly brings San Jose closer.
San Jose isn’t often described as a destination. But just within five minutes walking distance of the HP Pavilion—a big-time entertainment hub that supplements its Sharks season with events like Madonna concerts and Monster Truck ...
Culture Wars
Esselen Nation battles the government for land and a cultural center and itself for tribal power.
For a decade the Ohlone/Costanoan Esselen Nation envisioned a cultural and spiritual center on Fort Ord. The tribe lost a bid for about 12 acres in Seaside but, say tribe leaders, was promised 45 acres ...
Squid Fry for Apr 12, 2007
Squid Fry for Apr 12, 2007
GAMBLING FOR CAMPAIGN DOLLARS… Even mollusks have feelings. And Squid’s are hurt. Deeply. See, the DONOHUE FOR MAYOR COMMITTEE recently sent out a whole boatload of invitations to a “Great City Poker Tournament.” But did ...
America’s Madman
New Yorkers know that the Rudy Giuliani myth is a myth.
>>FORUMNEW YORK—Every presidential candidate has a past as a local party-machine hack. During every presidential campaign the hometown journalists and local politicians who best know their ex-local pols weigh in.Arkansas Democrat editorial page editor Paul ...
Rear Ended
Disturbia is a contemporary take on Hitchcock’s Rear Window.
Memo to the estate of Alfred Hitchcock: if the producers of Disturbia haven’t already agreed to share the proceeds of their flick, then by all means approach them for royalties. Disturbia is Hitchcock’s Rear Window ...
Highlands Lookout
Highlands Lookout
To understand the significance of the Korn property, one must understand the various topographies of Carmel Highlands. One house may offer views over the foothills halfway to Big Sur, while its neighbor may face whitewater. ...
A Half-Fast Ride
The Sea Otter mountain bike course is fun, as long as you’re not in any hurry.
My front tire buckles on the hard-packed sand as I tightly round a bank. One second I am ducking under branches on the shady trail, the next second the canopy opens to blue sky. Tall ...
His Own Island
Fiji brings unique sound to Monterey County for the first time.
No ukuleles here, howlies. Fiji, the plus-sized Polynesian singer with the oversized following, hasn’t become arguably Hawaii’s most popular artist through traditional island sounds, but with reggae-esque riffs.Not that Fiji completely abandons the great legacy ...
PublicCitizen
ONGOINGVOLUNTEERS NEEDED | COUNTYWIDE— CASA of Monterey County (Court Appointed Special Advocates) provides training to adults willing to become a volunteer advocate for abused and neglected children. Training begins on April 17; screening and pre-training ...
Highway Heaven
Moss Landing’s roadside Marketplace does a lot of things well.
Even with the skills to do it all, it’s nice to have a specialty. Like all truly great roadstops, the new Whole Enchilada Marketplace seems to have everything nice people might need—pre-sail, post-surf or in ...
A brilliant banjo-player becomes a brilliant singer-songwriter.
The portentious title of Tony Furtado’s new album, Thirteen, hints at his preoccupation with the role of chance in determining one’s life course. Good and bad luck are interesting themes for Furtado, considering that he’s ...
Thursday, April 5
Leidig’s Bid
Carmel developer wants to annex, rezone old hospital site.
Bob Leidig strolls the downtown blocks of Carmel-by-the-Sea and identifies properties that his family owns. There’s the Village Corner, where he sipped his morning cappuccino; the Sharper Image shop, which used to be the Leidig ...
Language Barrier
California is refusing to let students take tests in their native language. That could cause big trouble for three local school districts.
Alejandra Franco, an 11-year-old girl who moved with her parents from Mexico to Salinas about two years ago, is remarkably expressive and outgoing, even though she is still learning a new language. With her camouflage-print ...
Asked at Office Depot in Sand City.
Street Talk
Q: What would you change about our local school system?Follow-up: What’s the wackiest thing that was served on your lunch menu when you were a kid?LYNN JOHNSON | Nurse | SeasideA: The state needs to ...
More Scrutiny for Alco
State poised to order another investigation of water company.
Alisal Water Corporation (Alco) will likely become the subject—once again—of a probe into its water quality. This time the Salinas company will meet the scrutiny of a state arbiter, instead of a federal judge.The California ...
PublicCitizen
4|5THURSTRANSPORTATION PROJECTS | SALINAS—The Transportation for Monterey County hosts an open house to discuss projects for Monterey County. 6pm. Salinas Community Center, Santa Lucia Room, 940 N. Main St., Salinas. Free. 775-0903.ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION | MONTEREY—Showcase ...
Ready to Run
Bill Monning will vie for Assembly seat—but only if Laird is forced out.
Bill Monning, a longtime political player who narrowly lost a 1993 race to represent the Central Coast in the US Congress, says he plans to run for a seat in the state Assembly—with one provision. ...
Two For One
Tarantino and Rodriguez get gross in Grindhouse.
In their double-bill homage to the cheap, grungy movie-houses of yore that featured an ever-changing orgy of back-to-back exploitation B-movies, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have created an unparalleled, irreverent pair of dueling films. Loving ...
James Kim cultivates tiny trees and a huge sales pitch.
In front of Moss Landing harbor, where sailboat masts stick up from the water like pins protruding from a pincushion, lies a miniature forest. Just a few feet from busy Highway 1, a tiny Japanese ...
Don’t Forget to Eat
Don’t Forget to Eat
JOURNEY TO THE PAST…Just got back from a quick weekend in Boston. Went to see my old pal JOHN BARMON, a guy I met back in ’84 while I was working at a busy restaurant ...
Harmony of Strings
Two master guitarists join forces at Sunset.
If the cello mimics the human voice and the saxophone voices human emotions, then the acoustic guitar is the instrument of human thoughts and dreams. Essentially gentle, it can also be energetic, bold and driving. ...
Con Artist
Director Lasse Hallström’s look at a fraudulent author is his best film in years.
Sometimes you have to search to find irony; sometimes it just reaches out and bites you. Take the career of Lasse Hallström, for example. In 1985, the Swedish director made his international name with the ...
From the Woods
From the Woods
>>REALESTATERich and Nancy Trissel want their own land in Big Sur. They decided some time ago that the best way to finance the purchase would be through real estate, and after three prior homes, came ...
ArtListings for Apr 05, 2007
ArtListings for Apr 05, 2007
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 ...
Tough Position
Former NFL nose tackle comes to CSUMB to talk about being gay in a very masculine sport.
It was January 31, 1999, Super Bowl XXXIII. The Denver Broncos were one play away from completing their 34-19 thumping of the Atlanta Falcons. John Elway was the ballcarrier on offense. Esera Tuaolo, Atlanta’s nose ...
Right-wing attack columnist’s April 1 death leaves behind a vicious legacy.
>>FORUMAnn Coulter, the outspoken conservative columnist and best-selling polemical author, was found dead this week in her Connecticut home.She was 63. Local authorities listed the cause of death as “self-inflicted wounds.” She is survived by ...
A Gathering of Tastes
Seven local winemakers create different tastes from the same Cedar Lane Vineyard in Arroyo Seco.
Winemaker dinners have become routine. One recent winemaker dinner at Kurt Grasing’s Carmel Chop House, however, was rather unusual—it could have been more accurately termed a vineyard dinner.The March event featured wine and food pairings, ...
Revolution, Inc.
Can big business help change the world?
>>THELOCALSPIN It was only half a lifetime ago that many young Americans hoped for something like a revolution. It was not impossible, back then, to imagine that a profound change could happen, that a myriad ...
Squid Fry for Apr 05, 2007
Squid Fry for Apr 05, 2007
RIDDLE ME A BALLOT MEASURE… Untangling isn’t a big deal to Squid. Knots happen, as every cephalopod knows. But the General Plan debacle? Now there’s a doozie for even a ten-legged critter. Measure A will ...
Letters to the Editor for Apr 05, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Apr 05, 2007
GALS VS. GOOD OLD BOYS Morrie Fisher was quoted in the Weekly: “They have a gal running the Public Works department now” [“Sour Gripes,” March 29-April 4]. What the heck kind of comment is that, ...
Think Local, Rock Global
Onetime King City boy’s Los Dryheavers open for Basque punks Des-Kontrol at Lava Lounge.
Spending his high school years in of King City was not easy for Felix Lozano. The guitarist, who moved to the Salinas Valley town from Texas when he was 13, was into punk rock music, ...
