Thursday, June 28
Squid Fry for Jun 28, 2007
Squid Fry for Jun 28, 2007
CURSE OF MEASURE A… Squid knew the minute activists began collecting signatures to place MEASURE A, the GENERAL PLAN INITIATIVE, on the ballot, that the vote wouldn’t end the battle over growth. How did Squid ...
Local Heros: Pat Dowd
Carmel Valley Fire Protection District
ΞLOCALHEROSΞ For the past 18 years, Pat Dowd has come home from one of his two paying jobs— working as a counselor at Seaside High School and as a marriage and family counselor in private ...
Letters to the Editor for Jun 28, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Jun 28, 2007
SQUID MUST’VE BEEN DREAMINGAfraid we have a case of mistaken identity [“Small Town Romance,” SquidFry, June 7-13]. I missed the mayor’s Town Hall Meeting because I was vacationing in the Southeast with the family. Sounds ...
Summer Lovin’
Summer Lovin’
POPPIN’ OFF...I am awash in Monterey Pop Festival history after last week’s great night at Golden State Theatre with DA PENNEBAKER and his epic documentary, Monterey Pop. Our local music man, MAC MCDONALD, editor of ...
The Complete Package
Carmel’s da Giovanni dazzles on multiple fronts.
It’s hard to find the right words to describe da Giovanni restaurant in Carmel. To say it’s charming doesn’t differentiate it from 90 percent of restaurants in the area. To mention it’s family-run evokes a ...
While the rest of the world relaxes, Americans are working more than ever.
>>FORUMLast year Mary Lou Eckart took her first vacation in five years, a trip from her home in Decatur, Ill., to see her grandchildren in Florida. But the Illinois state government, which pays her to ...
Badgers Among Us
Fort Ord redevelopment largely ignores the declining species.
The funniest thing about badgers, says UC Davis doctoral student Jessie Quinn, is their body shape. The neckless animals are shaped like pillows, their skin draped over a muscle core, making it tricky for researchers ...
What would your superhero name be?
What’s the most heroic thing you have ever done?
MARIANO DUARTE | Student | CastrovilleA: I saved a man from falling and hurting himself. He was watering plants outside of my house and tripped over the pavement. I stopped him from hitting the ground ...
Natural Charmer
Natural Charmer
>>REAL ESTATE Barbara Higuera has lived in her house over 16 years. It’s a house that was great when built in 1953 and, instead of being resistant to time, has been complicit with it, today ...
Young Americans
The novelists to watch are ambitious—and irresistible.
\|/ LITERATUREThe British literary journal Granta has been prescient in picking the finest writers of a generation, beginning in 1983 when the editors fingered Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro and Martin Amis in their ...
PublicCitizen
ONGOINGCOMMITTEE VACANCIES | MARINA — District 4 Supervisor Jerry Smith seeks applicants to fill various Monterey County Commissions and Committees including: Community Action Commission, Housing Advisory Committee, In-Home Support Services Advisory Committee and Integrated Waste ...
Taken for a Loop
Inside a stirring stunt-plane ride with Monterey Bay Aviation.
The world has never looked like this. It rushes up toward me, spinning like a spectacularly green-and-blue record. Meanwhile, the needle in front of me spins around the altimeter— three thousand feet, two thousand. The ...
Local Heros: Kim Birdsong
Monterey Rape Crisis Center
ΞLOCALHEROSΞ Kim Birdsong had seen the fliers. The Monterey Rape Crisis Center needed volunteer advocates. It seemed straightforward enough: Become a certified sexual assault counselor through the center’s intensive 40-plus-hour course, commit to a weekly ...
Freedom Takes a Hit
The Supreme Court batters the First Amendment.
THELOCALSPINHere’s the scene: The Olympic torch is being carried through town on its way to the winter games. The city has arranged an event to celebrate the occasion— a parade, which happens to pass in ...
Strong Medicine
Michael Moore’s Sicko takes aim at America’s ailing health care system.
Irreverent and often sophomoric, Michael Moore’s documentaries are like a Mad Magazine for grown-ups, dedicated to revealing the delusions and hypocrisies under which we live. His latest, Sicko, takes on his biggest target yet. And ...
Citizens question city’s administrative raises.
As the city of Seaside negotiates its next contract with unionized employees, administrators scramble to rectify top-heavy spending that has thrown the biannual budget out of whack. Non-union managers have gotten hefty raises this year, ...
La Union del Pueblo Entero
ΞLOCALHEROSΞ About two years ago, Xochitl Pasaye was sent to Gonzales with a formidable task: organize a committee of farmworkers to address their countless social needs. Pasaye, a half-Mexican, half-Argentinean immigrant, had picked strawberries in ...
Money for Gang Prevention
Will billions of dollars combat street violence?
Salinas could score some much-needed gang prevention and intervention cash from a myriad of new state and federal initiatives.When legislators finalize the state’s budget this week, it will likely include $9.5 million designed to keep ...
Local Heros: Lady
Search and Rescue Volunteers of Monterey County
ΞLOCALHEROSΞ Lady has not become a hero by the power of her profound selflessness. She is not into search and rescue for the glory. And no, she doesn’t track down people like the Salinas man ...
Ask the Chef
The Weekly’s kitchen correspondent speaks to the people.
Q: Dear Chef Boy Ari,I have a dilemma. I want pineapple, and I’m already sweating the fact that the fruit I want needs to be shipped from far away, releasing greenhouse gases into the environment ...
ArtListings for Jun 28, 2007
ArtListings for Jun 28, 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 ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
JENNIFER GENTLE | The Midnight Room | Sub PopThe Midnight Room is an aptly named place to find the latest batch of fun-house mirror songs from Jennifer Gentle, an Italian group whose mission statement goes ...
Local Heros: Atlas Ayers
Bikers Against Child Abuse
ΞLOCALHEROSΞBilly "Atlas Ayers" and his band of biker brothers are called to court quite a bit. And they don’t mind at all. In fact, they love it.“We’re there to empower victims of child abuse,” says ...
Love In It
Tuck and Patti anchor the Esalen International Arts Festival.
A Tuck and Patti concert isn’t so much a musical experience as a new age revival meeting celebrating the infinite power of love. Which is to say that the scintillating husband and wife team of ...
Attorney says Salinas' planned ban is illegal.
The issue has made it into the New York Times and upset food bloggers on Chowhound. And now a nearly two-year battle over the future of Salinas’ taco trucks may end up in court.City officials ...
Serious Fun
Baktun 12 leads a lineup of diverse polit-performances at Monterey Live.
Underground culture is a trip. It rails against the mainstream, but is partly defined by it. It is insular, but prides itself on being diverse. It abounds with conflict. It also sees, explores, and speaks ...
Back to the Future
Live Free or Die Harder injects a popular action franchise with more rip-roaring special effects.
Reluctant hero John McClane is back for a fourth time in Live Free or Die Hard, and once again he’s escaping from impossible situations with the help of jaw-dropping visual effects. This time, though, there’s ...
Thursday, June 21
Tina Brown’s love letter to Princess Di.
>>LITPerhaps the most impressive thing about Tina Brown’s new biography of her longtime girl crush, the doomed Princess of Wales, is that one doesn’t feel totally embarrassed reading it.To some extent this is a feat ...
Online shopping excites the basic human instinct to spend.
>>FORUMIn Rome, they called it calor licitantis, or “bidder’s heat.” If you got swept up in the passion of an auction and paid way too much for something, you could plead a form of temporary ...
It’s a Party
How a blue-eyed Big Sur surfer learned to love the blues.
My friend Trey doesn’t know too much about the blues. He doesn’t have any Muddy Waters CDs or Buddy Guy albums. He couldn’t tell you the difference between Chicago blues and Delta blues. But Trey ...
Warmth and Kindness
Warmth and Kindness
HEAD CASE OF WHINE… I don’t know what’s wrong with me lately (lately?). It might be a by-product of getting older, but it has become increasingly more difficult for me to do stuff I really ...
Downtown Developer Expands Plan
Foothill will build another retail center near Trader Joe’s.
Foothill Partners, the developer building a new Trader Joe’s in downtown Monterey, plans to build a small retail or bank building across the street from the new grocery store and shopping center.Honest Engines, an auto ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
SINEAD O’CONNOR | Theology | Koch RecordsForget the televised papal provocations and getting booed from the stage at Madison Square Garden. Forget the press boycotts and wolf cries about retirement. For there is no stronger ...
Follow-up: What summer project are you working on?
What summer home improvement tip would you share?
BILLY SALES JR.| Lumberyard assistant foreman | SeasideA: I’ve noticed many people with water problems, costing them a lot of money. Flushing out your sewage pipes is like going to the dentist, it needs to ...
Young riders pass through county on their way south.
Sometime this week, likely somewhere on Highway 1 between Carmel and San Simeon, two bikes will pass each other heading south. One such bike belongs to Erin Lizzo. On May 23, the 26-year-old Boulder, Colorado ...
Big Sur Land Trust Buys Marks Ranch
Extension of Toro Park public trails and fields planned.
The Honda CR-V’s frame rattles as it bottoms out in a pothole. “Sorry,” says Joanna Devers of the Big Sur Land Trust. Devers, the Land Trust’s conservation program manager, grins from underneath a ball cap ...
Art Balk
City drama threatens PG’s gallery-showcasing event.
Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce President Moe Ammar e-mailed local gallery owners on June 12 to announce that the Art Walk would be canceled for the rest of the year, primarily due to a lack ...
Barnyard's Newest Restaurant
Big colorful Hola! does little things well.
It would easy to judge Hola! merely on its huge selection of offerings or its brightly colored atmosphere, but it’s attention to the little stuff that offers the best evidence that this place has a ...
Soul Brothers
The 4 Kings of R&B once ruled the charts, and still rule the stage.
The 4 Kings of R&B didn’t earn their crowns by sitting around and waiting for the phone to ring. Give these blues survivors half a chance, and they’ll not only have the run of the ...
Solo Thriller
John Cusack brings Stephen King’s
Adapted from a short story by Stephen King, Swedish director Mikael Hafstrom (Derailed) skillfully helms this twisting one-man showcase in terror. Horror novelist Mike Enslin (John Cusack) is a debunker of paranormal myths. He tackles ...
Disaster of Biblical Proportions
Disaster of Biblical Proportions
Well, we can now put aside those vicious rumors about Evan Almighty being, infamously, the most expensive comedy ever made. Because whether it cost $130 million, $160 million, $175 million, or more—reports vary but range ...
Politics of Humility
Learning from Jesus’ favorite sinner.
•THELOCALSPINAccording to the Catholic liturgical calendar, last Sunday, Father’s Day, was the day set aside to honor Saint Mary Magdalene. I know this only because I was visiting my mother in San Jose and we ...
Letters to the Editor for Jun 21, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Jun 21, 2007
NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATIONI want to thank the Weekly for its coverage of the Global Majority conference in Amman, Jordan. I write from Amman as we enter this weekend’s International Conference with representatives from throughout the region. ...
Veteran Rookies
The newest faces at the Monterey Bay Blues Festival followed long roads to newfound stardom.
The blues is inherently a conservative style, which makes perfect sense when you consider that the music is built upon a cold-eyed assessment of the essential, unchanging human condition. We live, we love, we despair ...
Squid Fry for Jun 21, 2007
Squid Fry for Jun 21, 2007
CRASH TEST DUMMIES… A couple of weeks ago, the Squidmobile was parked in the lot across from the Maya, minding its own business, when some knucklehead smashed right into it. Squid wouldn’t have been too ...
Blues Heals
Kenny Neal returns to the music after being sidelined by a series of tragedies.
After touring every year since 1976, swamp blues player and W.C. Handy Award winner Kenny Neal was forced off the road after being diagnosed with Hepatitis C. It was the last event in a long ...
General Plan, Take 5?
Supervisors talk compromise in future growth debate.
In the nasty debate over land-use politics in Monterey County, anti-sprawl and pro-growth activists do seem to agree on one thing: If supervisors move forward with the development-friendly growth document, dubbed GPU 4, the county ...
Experts announce ovarian cancer symptoms
By the time Janis Prange was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, she was already in Stage IIIC. Cancer had spread to her abdomen and lymph nodes. Only Stage IV is worse. Within days of her diagnosis, ...
Damage-Control E-mail
Ten ways to evade certain termination.
>>TECH"The e-mail era has made necessary a special type of apology: the kind you have to make when you are the bonehead who fired off a ridiculously intemperate e-mail or who accidentally sent an e-mail ...
Almost Heaven
Almost Heaven
>>REALESTATEIt may be possible that Adam and Eve actually came upon Paradise in the Carmel Valley, on Lilac Lane, possibly on Carolyn and Richard Gold’s post-adobe property. There, even without countless apple trees, the flora ...
PublicCitizen
ONGOINGSUMMER READING PROGRAM | SALINAS —Kids of all ages are invited to participate in Salinas Public Library’s summer reading program. Prizes include books and pizza. Register now through Aug. 25 at any of the three ...
ArtListings for Jun 21, 2007
ArtListings for Jun 21, 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 ...
Pegi Young Debuts in Big Sur
Neil's wife finally takes the lead.
A band oozes into a languid two-step country blues, lilted by a harmonica and the resonant twang of a guitar played slack-key style. The singer joins on the upbeat, her voice girlish but smoky, lazy ...
Thursday, June 14
Shock and Awe
PG’s new signs warn of tsunami risk.
Pacific Grove’s Rec Trail between Hopkins Marine Station and Lovers Point is a particularly peaceful stretch of coast. Showcasing wildlife and waves, the trail draws a steady flow of tourists and locals seeking seaside Zen. ...
Old-time Innovation
Del McCoury Band brings edgy traditional bluegrass to Sunset.
When Del McCoury finally decided the time was right to record an album of gospel favorites, he had plenty of reasons to offer up thanks. After decades of intermittent success and obscurity, the 68-year-old guitarist ...
Letters to the Editor for Jun 14, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Jun 14, 2007
PARTY TO IRONY While Tuesday’s election results were ambiguous, one thing is certain: John Steinbeck must have been rolling in his grave as Realtors, developers, agribusiness and construction company heads were celebrating their No on ...
People, Places and Cool Things
People, Places and Cool Things
SELF PRESERVATION… Today I feel like an old blues song. Seems I overindulged a bit last night, now I’m paying the tariff. I’m glad I’ve cut back considerably. Increased liver function is a good thing. ...
Remembering Boris Yeltsin’s historic accomplishment.
>>FORUMYeltsin died of grief,” declared the headline of an obituary on a liberal Russian website. The former president of Russia, wrote columnist Andrei Ryklin, simply could not bear to watch the destruction of the freedom ...
ArtListings for Jun 14, 2007
ArtListings for Jun 14, 2007
alvarado gallery Monterey Golden Blues and Monterey County Scenes. Monterey Conference Center, 1 Portola Plaza, Monterey. 646-5648. anton gallery Breaking Form: works by Rob Barnard, Mary Annella Frank and Reid McIntyre. Hawthorne Mansion, 701 Hawthorne ...
Glitter in the Gutter
La Vie en Rose shows us why singer Edith Piaf matters.
La Vie en Rose is a seductive musical biographical film with a transcendent performance by Marion Cotillard as the legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf. But before we get to that, let’s tackle a pair of ...
Developer plans an earth-friendly apartment complex in Salinas.
Salinas’ first green roof will likely cover affordable apartments. First Community Housing Inc. plans to build a 100 percent affordable, mixed-use development at the corner of Lincoln Avenue and West Market Street. In order to ...
Back for More
Bouchée’s remake keeps the legend alive.
Since opening five years ago, Bouchée has inspired foodies of national stature to issue sweeping declarations and pen purple prose. “The best thing to happen to Carmel since Clint,” wrote the usually wary Zagat. “Unparalleled, ...
Follow-up: What’s your favorite plastic product?
If Plastic Surgery Were Free, What Would You Get Done?
JOANN HARRIS | Drug and Alcohol Counselor | SeasideA: I feel that dental care is important, so I would have cosmetic surgery to make over my teeth and whole mouth. I would do it for ...
The Never-Ending Tragedy
Tony Soprano lives--for now.
>>THELOCALSPINThere’s this guy I know— a long-time local, a business acquaintance I know and trust. Let’s call him Sal. (I can’t give you his real name because he swore me to secrecy.) Sal is certain ...
Drowning in Plastic
Every bit of plastic ever made is still with us—and it’s wreaking havoc on the ocean.
LIFE ON EARTH depends on little specks floating in the ocean. Tiny plankton convert sunlight to energy to form the base of the marine food chain, sustaining all seafaring creatures, from anchovies to whales and ...
Reds and Green
Vintner wants to build solar-powered winery.
Steve McIntyre has been growing wine grapes in a manner he calls “sustainable” since before that word became popular, mostly for other winemakers. Now he’s focusing on making his own wine—in the county’s first green ...
A local standout tees it up at the California Amateur.
A thirty-something golfer gawks at the young man hitting balls at the Bayonet Black Horse driving range. “Not in my wildest dream,” the golfer says, clearly dumbfounded, “could I hit the ball that far and ...
Developing Film Stars
The Westons carry on their family’s analogue legacy through scholarships.
It feels surreal, and pretty damn cool, to stand inside famed photographer Edward Weston’s home on Wildcat Hill in the Carmel Highlands while looking at a black and white framed photograph of Edward and Ansel ...
The Tom Ayres Experience
Local guitar virtuoso pays tribute to Hendrix’s legendary Monterey Pop performance.
One morning when he was 8 years old, Tom Ayres woke up and saw people camping all over Monterey. Later, he and his older brother drove by the Fairgrounds, where they could hear The Animals ...
Unbelievable Truth
Remarkable characters tell an impossible tale at Carl Cherry Center.
The opening scene of Foreign Women offers, on the altar of Carl Cherry Center’s tiny theater, the tantalizing promise of characters we are prepared to care about. A few rows of folding chairs fill a ...
Squid Fry for Jun 14, 2007
Squid Fry for Jun 14, 2007
DAM TAASTY… Squid likes metaphors, especially when they sauce-up a dry cracker such as a resource management proposal. So Squid got droolly over the PLANNING AND CONSERVATION LEAGUE’s Insider newsletter for its “latest culinary masterpiece”— ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
THE AVETT BROTHERS | Emotionalism | Ramseur To concertgoers at huge music festivals like Coachella and YouTube scavengers, The Avett Brothers are that bluegrass band that head bang. But those folks who expect banjo riffage ...
PublicCitizen
6|14THURSFINANCING RENEWABLE ENERGY | MARINA— It’s easier thanks to federal and state initiatives. Blueline Power and Solar Power Partners talk about financing renewable energy for business and home. 5:30pm. Marina Technology Cluster, 3180 Imjin Rd., ...
Global Majority Goes Global
A Monterey-based peace organization takes the international stage.
It’s 8:30pm on June 12 in Amman, Jordan when Bill Monning answers the phone for an interview. Ten time zones away from home and several latitudinal degrees south, the evening is warm and dry. He’s ...
Thursday, June 7
A Simple Song
Winner of the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Once beautifully tells the tale of a musical collaboration.
We fall in love with certain movies at different times, and in different ways. Maybe you’re not sure until the credits roll, and a collective impact washes over you. Or maybe there’s a single, indelible ...
Road to Damascus
Learning to love America while traveling in Syria.
>>OURWORLD A MONTH AGO I had only impressions of Syria. In my media-influenced mind, I saw Syrians angry with the United States— for supporting Israel as it occupies the Golan Heights, for positioning military bases ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
MAROON 5 | It Won’t Be Soon Before Long | A&M/Sony BMGNo matter what anyone says, Maroon 5’s second record, It Won’t Be Soon Before Long, will be a chart-destroyer. It’s packed with even more ...
Al Gore’s Anger
The Assault on Reason delivers a long-awaited counter-attack.
>>FORUMOf anyone has the right to fulminate on the irrationality of American political debate, it’s Al Gore. During the 2000 Presidential campaign, the national media turned him into a hapless unofficial extra from Revenge of ...
A Trip to the Past
Western Stage’s
I had a little conversation with myself on my way to see the Western Stage production of William Inge’s Bus Stop on its opening night at Hartnell College on Friday. I’d already formed an opinion ...
Music and Lyrics
Bobbe Norris and Larry Dunlap bring a long history to Carmel.
Bobbe Norris knows exactly which songs fit her voice like a velvet glove. Her latest album Out of Nowhere features 14 tunes that lean heavily toward torchy ballads. With her husky contralto, Norris interprets the ...
The Party’s Over
Both sides of the land use battle agree that the special election didn’t resolve anything.
When the initial results came across the projector screen on election night at the National Steinbeck Center, the No on Measure A camp didn’t cheer. They stared at the screen, let the results sink in, ...
No. No. No. No.
Voters to leaders: Give us something better.
>>THELOCALSPINI got a phone call last month from a reader who wanted to talk to me about the general plan vote and a piece I’d written about it in this space. The column that inspired ...
Asked at Vinyl Revolution
Street Talk
Q: WHAT SONG BRINGS BACK THE MOST NOSTALGIC MEMORIES FOR YOU? Follow-up: What element in today’s music scene is overrated?SAL VATORE Bar Owner | Sand CityA: “When the Lights Go Down,” by Journey is a ...
Letters to the Editor for Jun 07, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Jun 07, 2007
GRASS-FED MEAT IS MURDERI read with sadness the article about grass-fed beef. I can’t imagine picking out my own future dinners. Having been raised on a farm, I too looked the animals in the eye ...
Watershed Decision
State and Cal Am hatch an innovative scheme to remove the San Clemente Dam.
The water company and government agencies appear close to solving a problem that has stumped officials—and stranded fish—for more than a decade. Cal Am executives, along with state and federal agencies, confirmed this week that ...
The Party Never Ends
The Party Never Ends
DAY TRIPPIN’… I’m off to see the wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz. I hear he is a wiz of a wiz if ever a wiz there was. I wish I was Dorothy standing there, ...
Simply Beautiful
Simply Beautiful
>>REALESTATEThe last block of Judson Street’s north end concludes at a grass-green, car-prohibited park punctuating a neighborly block where people of all ages walk a lot. Susan Bein (pronounced “bean”) lives at number 1754, a ...
We’ll Always Have Paris
With Paris, Je T’Aime, an international team of directors takes turns embracing the city of love.
Outside of maybe the Spahn Movie Ranch, Paris is probably the most popular movie location of all time. Everything from Louis Lumière’s Le Tsar Nicolas II à Paris (1896) to The Devil Wears Prada has ...
The Art of Summer
A look at the creative options for area kids this summer.
The research is clear: Consistent participation in any form of the creative arts helps children succeed both academically and socially. What a tragedy that class time for substantive arts programs in K-12 public education has ...
Squid Fry for Jun 07, 2007
Squid Fry for Jun 07, 2007
SMALL TOWN ROMANCE… With World’s Sexiest Predators well into summer reruns, Squid was a little bored last Wednesday night. So Squid slithered over to Salinas Mayor DENNIS DONOHUE’s Town Hall Meeting. Squid arrived just before ...
Student analogies further celebrate the power of the creative comparison.
Poets and presidents use them to move hearts and armies. SAT administrators use them to evaluate student intelligence. Functional interaction often can’t seem to advance without one of their more-tired examples—“I feel like crap”; “She ...
Water district says attorney is stalling Alco transfer to pad his pockets.
Joe Rosa, who manages the Pajaro/Sunny Mesa Community Service District, wants ownership of five small water systems in North Monterey County so that the public district can fix them up. The system in Prunedale has ...
One Surfer’s Big Break
Sunshine Surfabout contender Ron Triplett chose good waves over pro circuit.
Back in 1990, local surfer Ron Triplett considered going pro. He had the funding: Pearson Arrow Surfboards’ Bob Pearson offered to pay his way on the Association of Surfing Professionals World Tour. And he had ...
ArtListings for Jun 07, 2007
ArtListings for Jun 07, 2007
alvarado gallery Monterey Golden Blues and Monterey County Scenes. Monterey Conference Center, 1 Portola Plaza, Monterey. 646-5648. anton gallery Breaking Form: works by Rob Barnard, Mary Annella Frank and Reid McIntyre. Hawthorne Mansion, 701 Hawthorne ...
PublicCitizen
PublicCitizen
6|7THUFINANCIAL FORECAST | PACIFIC GROVE —Share your thoughts on PG’s finances. City staff present an update on the newly-balanced budget, the financial forecast and the future of city services. 6:30pm. Community Center, 515 Junipero Ave., ...
Beach Boy Forever
Brian Wilson came back from oblivion to keep the innocent spirit of ‘60s California alive.
Interviewing Brian Wilson, I felt like I was talking to a very simple man. He answered my questions with a directness that was not exactly blunt— he was friendly, just not very talkative. It was ...
Rock y Politics
Bolivar Vive! headlines socially conscious post-punk show.
In Monterey Live on a packed Friday night, the stage is crowded with the eight members of the local Latin ska punk band Bolivar Vive!. The music begins with a thick, plodding bass line and ...
Al Pastor Paradise
Mi Tierra opens a tasty taqueria in the back of its supermarket.
Apparently I was a Mexican shepherd in my past life. I know this because of my obsession with tacos, tortas and burritos al pastor (literally, “of the sheepherder”)—and my tendency to wake up sweating in ...
