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NorCal-SoCal
Kim Edmundson drums up bigtime L.A. session players for local fundraiser.
Hanging with friends, blowing up a storm, and raising money for a good cause – Kim Edmundson seems to have hit the trifecta with Saturday’s benefit concert at the Jazz & Blues Company. Since giving ...
A Moth’s Errand
Pheromone spraying aimed at wiping out the light brown apple moth may be fruitless.
In four separate lawsuits challenging the state’s plan to eradicate the invasive light brown apple moth, judges will likely avoid the central question of whether the pheromone products used to control the pest are safe ...
THE SADIES
THE SADIES | New Seasons |Yep Roc
The Sadies make it worth slogging through all the bands who got in touch with their inner cowboy thanks to The Byrds’ Sweetheart of the Rodeo.For some time, The Sadies have done right by their ...
Ask-ing For It
Growth, water top retired postmaster’s issues for District 5 supervisorial run.
Retired Carmel Valley Postmaster Don Ask will challenge incumbent Supervisor Dave Potter for the District 5 seat. Ask previously was elected to the post of California vice president for the National Association of Postal Supervisors, ...
Dead on the 4th of July
The maker of Donnie Darko goes funnily and frustratingly off the deep end.
You remember Donnie Darko. Six years ago, this debut by then-26-year-old writer-director Richard Kelly captivated audiences with its phantasmagoric style, unleashing an intriguing dark side of Jake Gyllenhaal that we haven’t seen since and showing ...
ELVIS COSTELLO
ELVIS COSTELLO | My Aim Is True (Deluxe Edition) | Hip-O
The endless repackaging of old music continues at a furious pace. Few figures from the punk era have benefited from the push to recycle as much as the prolific Elvis Costello, whose albums have been ...
Whatta Wiener
Riding in the Wienermobile rules.
“Please buckle your meat belts,” Caylen Goudie says as she turns the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile onto Seaside’s Fremont Street. As the 27-foot-long vehicle shaped like a hot dog on a bun cruises down the thoroughfare, ...
Web Exclusive: Moth Pheromone products’ health impacts are still uncertain.
Web Exclusive: Moth Pheromone products’ health impacts are still uncertain.
It’s not the synthetic sex scent that bugs residents opposed to the aerial spraying so much as its packaging – the so-called inert ingredients that encase the moth pheromones in pollen-sized time-release capsules. Biopesticide manufacturer ...
Incentives needed to help create ready eco workforce.
The American middle class – of which some 80 percent of Americans claim to be a part – is getting anxious. While there is no carved-in-stone edict about what it means to be middle class, ...
Squid Fry for Nov 15, 2007
Squid Fry for Nov 15, 2007
xml version='1.0' encoding='%SOUP-ENCODING%' DRY TIMES… Squid’s keen Spidey senses make Squid all-seeing, all-hearing and basically all-knowing – yet another reason why Cal Am president Kent Turner should start listening to Squid. Turner wants to build ...
Holiday Upgrade
Local chefs offer three unique recipes to enhance a turkey day spread.
Look no farther than the saffron-lime scented tomato broth in Passionfish’s fish stew to see that Ted Walter can do incredible and inventive. Unsurprisingly, then, when the Weekly asked Walter to furnish a formula for ...
By the Numbers
104 Number of open houses in Monterey County on the weekend of 11/3 and 11/4. $3,089,285 Current median home price in Big Sur, the highest this year. 12 Number of homes in Big Sur priced ...
Set Piece
The magic in
Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium is the ideal movie for children of the 21st century. After all, most of the movies that find box office success these days are visual effects spectacles that offer much more ...
Ripe For Change
Enhancing Salinas’ art scene is viewed as key component to future economic development.
In the fertile soil of Salinas Valley, a new crop is coming into season. Pushing up through the crust of years, Salinas, the city at the center of “the salad bowl of the world,” is ...
Change of Venue
More performance options emerge for Salinas music scene.
The sweaty conga player runs over to the drummer’s floor tom and bangs an up-tempo, samba-like beat. The crowd at the Fox Theater in Salinas instantly starts jumping and hollering as the Argentinean ska band ...
ArtListings for Nov 15, 2007
ArtListings for Nov 15, 2007
OPENING THIS WEEK Monterey Museum of Art/Pacific Street Miniatures 2007. Opens 5-7pm, 11/15. 559 Pacific St., Monterey. $5/general; $2.50/students, military. 372-5477 or montereyart.org. CONTINUING EXHIBITS alvarado gallery Monterey County Art also Discovered Objects. Monterey Conference ...
What would you paint a mural of in Salinas and why?
What would you paint a mural of in Salinas and why?
Folow-up: What is good and bad about the art scene in Salinas?TRICIA JOHNSTON | Border’s Bookseller | HollisterA: I would paint the landscape of farmworkers in the fields. I would do it with bright oils. ...
DR. DOG
DR. DOG | We All Belong | Park the Van
It’s difficult to listen to Dr. Dog’s We All Belong without holding the group to the highest of standards. Where 2005’s Easy Beat employed doo-wopping vocal harmonies, distorted keyboards and teeth-clenching psychedelic guitar all with ...
Window of Opportunity
Monterey council weighs options to complete coastal-access public park.
More than a half-century ago, the Monterey City Council came up with a vision to open up bay views and public access to the coast: the Window on the Bay.To this end, since the early ...
Now Serving
Now Serving
Going Birding… Well, Thanksgiving is next week. You know what that means: Time begins to accelerate with each passing minute until suddenly it’s New Year’s Day, you’re making a pitcher of Bloody Marys for yourself ...
PublicCitizen
11|16 FRIWAR ON WEEDS | SEASIDE – Audubon Canyon Ranch’s biologist Daniel Gluesenkamp gives the keynote at the ninth annual War on Weeds, an invasive weeds symposium. Register and view complete program online. 8:15am-5pm. CSUMB ...
Let’s Hear It
Fill out the
Maybe it’s this new aftershave I’ve been wearing. Lately I’ve been attracting all these know-it-alls who feel compelled to tell me how to run a newspaper. Last week I’m sitting in a restaurant and the ...
Letters to the Editor for Nov 15, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Nov 15, 2007
WINNING AT HOME In response to Danielle Wells [Letters, Nov. 8-14] about the closing of Bay Books, I say you don’t have to head to the big box store for that Heinlein book you want. ...
Heady Stuff
A higher kind of cabbage understanding.
My mom stood in front of my cutting board, dwarfed by a giant head of cabbage from the last farmers market. In her hand was a knife that was also disproportionately large.“Ever eat a cabbage ...
Green Queen
Eco-friendly Carmel home exemplifies grace.
The beloved syndicated cartoonist, Harry Shorten (who coincidentally passed away in old age today, as this column is being written), drew “There Oughta Be a Law,” just one square, depicting frustratingly irritating situations against which ...
Out of the Ashes
Hartnell students raise money for popular math teacher after his home burns down.
Three days after his house burned down, Mark Weber is back at Hartnell College doing what he does best: teaching math. Yellow chalk dust covers his right hand and smudges his shirt. He draws bell-shaped ...
Tough Love
The rough-neck Boozefighters show their softer side.
Saturday night sock hop doesn’t seem like the place one would normally find a hard-nosed motocycle club. But Marina’s Boozefighters are not your normal motorcycle club. Many of these guys are war veterans who share ...
Spinning a Universe
The Whirling Dervishes of Turkey tour for world understanding.
There is no counting. The people whirling around the floor aren’t dancing. They move in a simple, continuous motion. The left foot, planted solidly on the ground, pivots while the right propels the spinning movement ...
Blues School
John Mayall has initiated blues-rock’s greatest guitarists in four decades of Bluesbreakers.
Superstar guitarist “Slowhand” Eric Clapton once said, “John Mayall has actually run an incredibly great school for musicians.” Clapton should know, having spent a stint playing with Mayall’s groundbreaking British blues-rock band the Bluesbreakers during ...
