Thursday, July 31
Good Out
Church network pushes for county reentry facility.
Charlie Russell knows the revolving door of California prisons well. Russell, who grew up in Los Angeles, has served time on four different occasions for everything from stealing cars to dealing crack cocaine. Whenever he ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jul 31, 2008
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: What’s with calling yourselves “La Raza?” Being Mexicans, Chicanos or whatever isn’t enough– now you’re THE race? Sounds pretty racist to me. –The Race Is On Dear Gabacho: Few things annoy the Mexican ...
Second Life
Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History metamorphoses into a private-public partnership.
Consider it a small-town crisis averted, or an eco-arts revival. However you slice it, the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History’s comeback is all the more dramatic considering the 125-year-old landmark was on life support ...
Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
COLDPLAY
From 2000’s piano-based, virgin-mopefest debut, Parachutes, to 2005’s X&Y, Coldplay morphed into a bombastic, synth-heavy arena-rock group, like U2. For Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, Coldplay enlisted Brian Eno, a frequent ...
Brezsny's Astrology
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): Work can be hazardous for the actors who portray cartoon and fairy tale characters at Disney theme parks. The U.S. Health and Safety Administration reports that one-third of them have suffered ...
Squid Fry for Jul 31, 2008
Squid Fry for Jul 31, 2008
HOT BREAKFAST… Nothing wakes up Squid for the weekend like a little friction, so readers can imagine Squid’s disappointment when it appeared that Saturday morning’s NAACP Youth Summit was going to be all happy politicians, ...
Home Page
Pacific Grove cottage’s facade gives way to another world inside.
Scott Hunter and Doree Hyland are life/business partners, who for many years have pulled rundown houses from the grip of neglect and rebuilt them. If the couple’s current home is any indication, the seemingly effortless ...
Divinely Equine
There’s a wealth of action to soak up at the Pebble Beach Equestrian Classic– for more than just horse lovers.
Everything is moving quickly. Every muscle on the horse seems to bulge beneath his thin brown fur as his powerful hooves kick dirt into the air. Everything’s rider, Duncan McFarlan, makes a clucking noise with ...
Tell No One
Tell Everyone: Rousing French thriller Tell No One barrels along at a thrilling pace.
Tell No One, French director Guillaume Canet‘s excellent adaptation of Harlan Coben’s best-selling novel, has everything a great personal-paranoia/persecution movie needs: a citizen-hero who refuses to capitulate to unseen and malevolent powers that are, for ...
Letters to the Editor for Jul 31, 2008
WRONG MAN, WRONG TIME John McCain thinks that by the year 2030 the Unites States should build 45 new nuclear-powered terrorist targets. The United States already has over 100 nuclear-powered terrorist targets, and not one ...
Real Deals
Three good values and a tale of two bakeries.
The chef is smiling. That’s not terribly surprising, because he’s talking about food. Sous Chef Shean Suter stands tableside at California Market (622-5450), touching on everything from $300 cookbooks to his genetic tendency to sneak ...
Things We Lost in the Fire
Big Sur residents and businesses total their losses – and wait for more help from the feds.
Sula Nichols watched the fire destroy her Partington Ridge home. “I saw it burn from around the corner,” she says, standing in the dirt where her house used to be. “I saw the cloud of ...
Experts may beg to differ, but Americans know the truth.
There’s a debate in the media about the recession. On the right are those who say that the economy has never been better. Not so fast, says the official left: we’ve (just) started a recession. ...
Speaking In Numbers
The Weekly Tally: The Grateful Dead's legendary Laguna Seca show
20 Years, as of Tuesday, July 29, since the Grateful Dead performed their legendary Laguna Seca show, blowing through a set list that started with “Iko Iko,” “Walkin’ Blues” and “Candyman” and closed with “Gimme ...
Little Miracle
As it celebrates a 10-year anniversary, tiny Parsonage Winery closes in on cult status by way of big flavor.
Frank Melicia cultivates and crushes and barrels and bottles a small river of grapes every year. He can identify a Syrah vine’s sickness with a passing glance. When he’s not winemaking– or in the field ...
What lights your fire?
Asked at Salinas Rural Fire Department in Monterey.
Follow-up: What is your favorite food to barbecue? SCOTT ANDERSON | Firefighter | Salinas A: Woodworking. Making cabinets in particular is my getaway. Gardening and doing yard work with my wife really lights my fire ...
Shopping has become the new reading.
When was the last time you read a John Updike novel cover to cover in a single sitting? Or even a John Updike book jacket cover to cover in a single sitting? While dour eggheads ...
Sax For Stax
GERALD ALBRIGHT
Saxophonist Gerald Albright made a name for himself in 1991 with the release of an astoundingly first-rate live recording. His technical brilliance was perfectly matched by a soulful honesty that made him widely popular, not ...
Art Listings for Jul 31, 2008
Art Listings for Jul 31, 2008
OPENING THIS WEEK CARMEL FOUNDATION Abstract acrylics by artist of the month Karen Hunting. Outcalt Activity Building, Eighth and Lincoln, Carmel. 624-1588. carmel valley art association Fall Spectacular: new show by Leslie Hodgin, Stephen Schindler, ...
Mad Dope Mag
New local literary journal Cadillac Cicatrix quietly gathers quality content with plenty of edges.
When a new magazine appears on local news shelves, its cover typically features a sultry woman emerging from a pool or a picturesque sunset along the coast or, equally predicatable, a heavily shadowed lone cypress. ...
Blue Up
Curtis Salgado inspired The Blues Brothers, then survived terminal cancer.
By 1980, The Blues Brothers were a household name. What started out as a Saturday Night Live skit starring comedians John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd had developed into a real touring band with a double-platinum ...
At Mount Zoomer
WOLF PARADE
Three years later, Wolf Parade’s breathless debut Apologies to the Queen Mary is as exhilarating and, by Canadian indie-rock standards, charged as the day it came out. Follow up At Mount Zoomer doesn’t reach that ...
Seizing the Day
Marina Democrats are organizing for council, water board seats.
The nascent Marina Democratic Club hopes to seed the City Council and Marina Coast Water District board with progressive-minded party members. The group, which had its first meeting July 2, is busy developing a ticket ...
Public Citizen
7|31 THURS NON-BILLABLE HOURS | SALINAS– Hors d’oeuvres, pizza and wine at this mixer make networking carefree and tasty. Think of all the free legal advice disguised as party chit-chat you can soak up. (That’s ...
News Updates: Marina Dunes' easy money; Pacific Grove's Library; Condos by the highway; the green city of Salinas; Cort courts voters.
DUNES DAY… In January we detailed the city of Marina’s plan to pump an additional $70 million in redevelopment funds into The Dunes on Monterey Bay. The Fort Ord Reuse Authority however, wasn’t eager to ...
Brave New World
Cabrillo’s world premieres challenge listeners to embrace modern music.
But for Elliott Carter, who at 99 is very much alive and still accepting commissions, John Corigliano would qualify as an elder statesman among American composers. “I don’t feel 70,” protests Corigliano, as he prepares ...
By The Numbers
$720,000 Recent Sale 18463 Deertrack Place, Salinas Built: 1999 Size: 2,841 square feet, 1 acre Features: 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 floors, 3-car garage Amenities: Fireplace and 2-sided fireplace in master bedroom, 2-story living room, ...
Gonzo
American Iconoclast: Skilled documentarian Alex Gibney trains his lens on Hunter S. Thompson in Gonzo.
Hunter S. Thompson wasn’t just a great storyteller; he was a great story himself, partly because he became his stories. As inventor of the “gonzo” style of journalism– with its rampant passion for drug-fueled, first-person ...
A Senegalese drum group goes off with serious joy.
The rhythm at this drumming event may be off, but that’s not the point. When the area’s Senegalese drumming community converges at Park Avenue Studio on Sundays, it’s about the spirit. Senegal native Abdoulaye Diallo ...
Session With a Dog Psychic
A local sage plies the minds of two pure-bred pooches.
Over the course of the $40 half-hour, there are many things the dog psychic says about Baby B and Little G. For instance, Baby B really wants to be a vegetarian. Little G, meanwhile, is ...
Food Chain
Up and at ’Em
RISING THOUGHT… This morning was one of those mornings– awake too early to truly be called morning, later than what normal people would call night. So I sit here clicking away at this keyboard and ...
Monday, July 28
The Industrialized World
Chris Jordan's powerful images show how our stuff adds up in mesmerizing ways.
National Geographic photographer Chris Jordan is fascinated by the sheer magnitude of the stuff in our modern world, and the cumulative impact of some of these items: plastic cups and bottles, cigarettes, prisons, etc. In ...
Saturday, July 26
Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Pausch, who died Friday at the age of 47, was a tenured professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. Ten months ago, he was given three to six months to live, due to pancreatic ...
Thursday, July 24
News Updates: House arrest in Big Sur; breathing methyl bromide; dancing in the Pacific Grove streets; tax protest in Seaside.
CACHAGUA HOSTAGES FREED… We’ve reported on the Big Sur residents who felt like they were living under martial law during the Highway 1 mandatory evacuation order. Those who didn’t pack up and flee the fires ...
West Side Rider
Fort Ord’s less-trafficked half offers great scenery and a labyrinth of fun mountain bike trails.
Given the shiny red poison oak leaves at the entrance to Fort Ord Public Lands’ Blair Witch Trail– and the dense thicket of oaks and chaparral behind them– it seems an odd place to carve ...
Elkington By Any Other Name
Salinas Councilman wants to rename gang-affiliated streets.
Salinas City Councilman Sergio Sanchez wants the city to explore changing street names claimed by gangs. Gang-associated streets, Sanchez says, give neighborhoods a negative connotation, even though most residents who live there are not gang ...
Home Page
Integrity of 1910 Salinas home reflects the contractor’s high standards.
Adecade ago, Bill and Simin Grimm bought the 1910 house to refurbish and live in while they fixed it up. Then, they stayed. Impossible as it seems, during their house hunt they asked to see ...
Obama’s war timeline still leaves the door open for U.S. occupation.
\Barack Obama’s July 3 statement that he would “continue to refine” his policy on Iraq based on a “thorough assessment” of conditions on the ground and more information from military commanders prompted howls of protest ...
Public Citizen
7|24 THURS DEMOCRATIC WOMEN’S LUNCHEON | CARMEL– The July meeting of the Carmel Area Democratic Women’s Luncheon Club features Central Coast Assemblyman John Laird, who gives an update about “What’s Happening in Sacramento: The Budget, ...
Chemical Reaction
In the past two years, more than 1 million pounds of pesticides were applied in Monterey County – and that’s not counting crop chemicals or household bug spray.
Charts and Links * top pesticides chart * local governments pesticide usage chart * non-ag pesticides usage pie chart * Caveats: when interpreting the numbers. * Downloads: Pesticide Use 2006-2007 Think you can avoid pesticide ...
Mouthwatering Morsels
Culinary questions find delicious answers (and tasty recipes) with Flash in the Pan.
Q: Dear Flash, My boyfriend is a local-foods freak. When we go out to eat, he insists on interrogating the wait staff with questions about where the food comes from. For every menu item he ...
Letters to the Editor for Jul 24, 2008
CALL IT WHAT IT IS Unfortunately, you got the pronunciation of “rodéo” all wrong; it’s “tor·ture [tawr-cher],” [“Buckle Up,” July 17-23]. Let’s step into the 21st century, and stop finding the entertainment value in cruelty ...
Soledad Wal-Mart project should be reconsidered.
The massive Soledad Plaza project, which includes a 212,500-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter, suffers from two major flaws: It’s the wrong size, and in the wrong place. All of its negative impacts are scale-related. Whenever a project ...
Real Estate
By The Numbers
$705,000 Recent Sale 16 Carneros Ave., Aromas Built: 2005 Size: 2,727 square feet, 1 acre Features: 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 floors, 2-car garage Amenities: Fireplace, wood floors throughout, luxurious master bath with Roman tub, ...
Step Brothers
R-rested Development: The vulgar immaturity of Step Brothers’ main characters extends to the filmmaking.
Brennan Huff (Will Ferrell) and Dale Doback (John C. Reilly) are 40-year-old losers, unemployed and still living at home with their respective single parents (Mary Steenburgen and Richard Jenkins) when those parents meet and decide ...
Public for Private
Seaside pays retirement benefits to contract attorney.
Disgruntled taxpayers may gripe, but there’s a theory behind offering cush benefits to public employees. Employees who take jobs with local or state agencies often pass up opportunities to earn more money in the private ...
Guitar Hero
The original rock goddess visits Salinas.
For kids who grew up with plastic bangles, spandex and Nintendo, Pat Benatar will always be remembered as the defiant, youthful figure holding her own against the world in the video “Love is a Battlefield.” ...
Squid Fry for Jul 24, 2008
Squid Fry for Jul 24, 2008
GEARED UP FOR NOTHING… Squid’s got nothing against bikers. Grizzly beards, leather chaps and snake tattoos all make for fine, albeit ripe, company in Squid’s book. Squid does confess that clean-shaven, weekend-only riders get on ...
Art Listings for Jul 24, 2008
Art Listings for Jul 24, 2008
OPENING THIS WEEK Daniel’s at garden bistro New landscapes exhibit. 6 Pilot Road, Carmel Valley. 659-5020. dawson cole fine arT Turning Heads: Portraiture by various artists, reception 5-7pm, 7/26. San Carlos and Fifth, Carmel. 624-8200. ...
Rebuilding Big Sur
Supervisors approve fee waivers and other guidelines to expedite recovery.
A day before Federal Emergency Management Agency officials came to town to survey buildings burned out in the Basin Complex Fire, Monterey County supervisors took initial steps to help rebuild structures and infrastructure that were ...
Speaking In Numbers
The Weekly Tally
67.2 million The total costs as of weekly press time to fight The Basin Complex fire in south Monterey County. The fire, which has burned about 138,220 acres since it started in late June, was ...
Great Dame
Pacific Grove product Fred Dame rose from local busboy to president of the Court of Master Sommeliers.
Witnessing him blind taste is mind-boggling– his sniffer is the stuff of legend. Chris Caul, owner of Christopher’s Restaurant in Carmel, has witnessed Fred Dame’s skills in person. “The first time I met him was ...
At Home Alone
Leroy Thrash likes keeping the city clean when no one is up.
It’s 11pm in Monterey and all is quiet. The summer crowds have gone home for the evening, and the only lights that remain on come from the trees that line the streets of downtown. Then ...
Food chain
South Rising
FROM THE ASHES… Hit the south coast last week– bloodies at River Inn, lunch at Big Sur Bakery. It was uplifting to see business going on in Big Sur, folks picking up where Mother Nature ...
Going Global
Ian Dogole and Hemispheres weld together a world of improvised music.
As a university student in the early 1980s, Ian Dogole was fascinated by the ancient world. But by the time he enrolled at Stanford in a graduate program focused on Greek archeology, music had become ...
Bureaucratic maze
Local governments can get sloppy with outsourced pesticide application records.
Short of changing the law, there’s not much citizens can do to stop private licensed applicators from using pesticides. But they should be able to hold government officials accountable for the chemicals applied in public ...
Q: What is the biggest pest in your life?
Asked at Mid Valley Shopping Center in Carmel Valley.
Follow-up: If bugs could talk, which insect would have the best stories? SUE PECCIANTI | UPS Store Owner | Carmel Valley A: Fleas. My little shitzu is allergic to them. It’s a major problem because ...
Hip Hop Hooray:
Ready for ‘90s nostalgia? The Wackness is ill to the core.
The makers of The Wackness would like us to visualize its setting inside a concise set of coordinates: New York City in the early ‘90s, the era of Rudy Giuliani (remember him?), when the streets ...
WITH A GRAIN OF RODENT BAIT
Some things to bear in mind when interpreting these numbers.
These data are raw and are supplied by applicators. The Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office does not review the figures for accuracy, leaving that to the state. These data include pesticide use for non-production agricultural ...
Innovation proves effective in performance of Mass in B Minor.
This weekend offers Baroque enthusiasts a second opportunity to savor some of the greatest works of music ever composed, while experiencing further innovations and developments at the 71st Carmel Bach Festival. Music director Bruno Weil ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jul 24, 2008
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Readers: Gracias, merci, obrigado for the many submissions in our contest asking readers to argue in 25 words why corn tortillas are superior to flour, or vice versa. Below are the winners for some ...
Moving In
Boys and Girls Clubs, Silver Star Resource Center vie for new youth facility in Salinas.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Monterey County is close to lining up an East Salinas facility to provide after-school activities and meals for the neighborhood’s burgeoning youth population. A city committee has recommended that ...
Brezsny's Astrology
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): Anna Renalda Hyatt, a reader from Colorado, bragged to me about her prowess. “My capacity for expressing love far surpasses that of anyone I have ever met,” she wrote. “I am ...
Pesticide Use Within Monterey County, 2006-2007
Our cover story on non-agricultural pesticide use within Monterey County includes charts detailing the top pesticides applied, applications by local governments, and the things the pesticides are used for. Here are additional data on two ...
Tuesday, July 22
Fields of Plenty
Agriculture farm land for row crops and vineyards shows increased values in Monterey County
As former Weekly contributor Kate Campbell reports in a story for the California Farm Bureau, the trend for Monterey County row crop land values is either stable to increasing over the past five years. But ...
Sunday, July 20
Hanging by a Thin Line
To protect turtles, state legislators pass a resolution to ban long-line fishing. The federal fisheries council may not care.
A modern-day battle of state versus federal rights is underway and the outcome may determine the fate of a frequent visitor to the Monterey Bay. Right now, the feds have the power, and a bystander ...
Out of sight, but not out of mind
Oil in the sunken tanker Montebello could threaten the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
In 1941, a Japanese submarine sunk the oil tanker Montebello off the coast of Cambria with a single torpedo. While the hull of the 1923 ship remains relatively stable on the sea floor, the oil ...
Saturday, July 19
State parks in Big Sur push to reopen
http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/big-sur-bounces-back-2285/
Friday, July 18
Tassajara Road Reopens to residents
Cachagua and Jamesburg residents permitted to return —Road passes to be issued to locals by Cachagua Fire or CHP
On Thursday July 18th the U.S. Forest Service announced that the mandatory evacuation order has been lifted for Tassajara Road, as of 7:30pm. The lower Cachagua area was downgraded from a mandatory to voluntary evacuation ...
On West Side of Highway One
Six National Forest picnic areas on Big Sur coast to reopen July 18.
http://www.co.monterey.ca.us/PR_OES/MRD_fireclosure_reduced_july1608.pdf
Thursday, July 17
Brezsny's Astrology
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): After studying your astrological omens for the upcoming weeks, I got really excited. There was so much I wanted to tell you. I popped a chunk of organic, fair-trade, cruelty-free, espresso-tinctured ...
Rastafari Out
Eek-A-Mouse and Don Carlos top an impressive bill at Fox benefit show.
The title track of Eek-A-Mouse’s 1996 album Black Cowboy begins with a military drumroll followed by a cacophony of gun shots being fired, horses braying and cowboys yelling “Yee haw.” Then the revered reggae artist ...
The Dark Knight
Unbalanced Ledger: The Dark Knight delivers more than a menacing farewell performance.
Here is the ugly truth nobody at Warner Bros. can possibly utter aloud: The death of Heath Ledger will be good for The Dark Knight’s bottom line. Make no mistake, the movie was going to ...
Wowza Is Right
A surprising fitness pioneer calls Monterey County home.
In the crowded health and fitness industry, Carmel Valley’s Elisa Lodge stands out– in large part because she has created a cohesive new system that exercises the emotions as well as the body. But there ...
Phat Burger
Totally Stacked: Seaside’s Phat Burger puts together a great thing with good beef and glorious condiments.
The Weekly policy is to wait at least three months to review a new restaurant. The philosophy is simple: Starting up a restaurant is damn hard, and it’s only fair that we give owners of ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jul 17, 2008
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: Why are there Mexicans in the Border Patrol? What a hypocritical thing to do to our people. –Carne Asada Carlos Dear Wab: Not only are Mexicans in the Border Patrol, but la migra’s ...
Upstream Battle
Steelhead enthusiasts rescue fish from the drying Garzas Creek.
It’s a balmy Wednesday night in Carmel Valley, and five locals can think of nothing better to do than to wade into a mosquito-infested creek and stun little fish. Strapped up in hip-waders, the volunteers ...
Getting Tossed
A reporter goes toe-to-hoof with a half-ton bull.
It’s the Running of the Bulls, only backwards, and in Salinas, not Spain: I’m sprinting straight at a bull. He watches me, unmoving, 1,000 bovine pounds of potential energy and anger, thick saliva dangling from ...
Letters to the Editor for Jul 17, 2008
HERE’S HOW IT WORKS Since I’m a volunteer and director of the Carmel Red Cross response efforts to the Basin Complex Fire, Squid’s comments [July 10-16] caught my eye. Yes, the Red Cross is bound ...
No Bologna
Two chefs help The Garlic Festival roar into its 30th year with more flavor than ever.
As Magic 63 radio hosts Mike Cleary and Kevin Kahl cluck their way through a live broadcast, Miss Gilroy Garlic Festival Ariele Combs looks on, her smile a string of pearls, her head a tall ...
News Updates: The not so public East Salinas police substation; Rubio's unfettered ambitions; Mehia's resignation.
MEET THE NEW NEIGHBORS… Last May, we reported how the Salinas Police Department was lagging on opening an East Salinas substation– even though the department was renting the 31 S. Sanborn Road office for $1 ...
Squid Fry for Jul 17, 2008
Squid Fry for Jul 17, 2008
I HEART WAL-MART… Bring in the cheerleaders and the tickertape parade: A Wal-Mart Supercenter is coming to Soledad. Yay! Everyone is thrilled! So says Wal-Mart, with a little help from Armanasco Public Relations (the PR ...
Hoofin’ It
A local barrel racer prepares for her big chance at California Rodeo Salinas.
With dirt flying from under the hooves of her horse and her teeth gritted, Shannon Shade looks as if she might topple over with Saty, her 11-year-old, dark-brown quarter horse. Together, they go almost full-circle ...
Oldtown Secession
Café owner leads a revolt against the Oldtown Salinas Association.
Jim Sang, co-owner of Sang’s Café in Salinas, recently led a one-man petition drive to stop downtown businesses from having to shell out assessment fees to the Oldtown Salinas Association. After a month and a ...
Local Control
Big Sur volunteer firefighters break ranks to save “indefensible” home.
Fire officials told Kate Healey her house was indefensible. Monterey County sheriff’s deputies told Healey she’d be arrested if she didn’t leave. So on June 22, Healey reluctantly left the upper Partington Ridge home and ...
Art Listings for Jul 17, 2008
Art Listings for Jul 17, 2008
OPENING THIS WEEK gallery i fine art Contemporary paintings, sculpture and art glass. SW corner of Mission and Ocean, Carmel. 626-1617. george stern fine arts New works by Jesse Powell; opening reception 5-8pm, 7/19. 2 ...
Food Chain
Still Cookin’
FIGHTING BACK… As the wildfires and blistering heat scorch the world around us, we here in idyllic Never-Never Land by the Sea remain seemingly oblivious to the plight of others less fortunate in their choice ...
Encounters At the End of the World
Bottom’s Up: Werner Herzog’s latest doc brings Antartica to the fore.
I have an idea for a terrific new board game– for kids of all ages! It’s called Where in the World Is Werner Herzog? Players will roll spherical dice (I’m thinking of making them the ...
Around the Horns
How a steer wrestler flies from his high-speed horse to collar cattle.
Charles Harris is practicing the art of visualization. In the next 10 seconds, he must wrestle a steer three times his weight to the ground while moving at a speed of roughly 30 mph. Sitting ...
Who would you like to see ride a bucking bull?
Asked at Coffee Mia in Marina.
Follow-up: What public figure would would you make a rodeo clown? LARRY KINGSLAND | Web Designer | Marina A: I would love to see Dick Cheney thrown off of his high horse. It would be ...
Too many horses, not enough adopters
SPCA of Monterey County sees record horse intakes.
“Horses are not 1,000-pound dogs,” says Gary Tiscornia, executive director of the SPCA for Monterey County. Apparently this comes as a shock to some local horse owners. Horse abuse and neglect complaints– and instances of ...
Public Citizen
ONGOING BIG SUR JOBS | BIG SUR– Because of the Basin Complex fire and resulting mandatory evacuation, hundreds of Big Sur residents and employees need short-term employment. Post short-term employment opportunities at www.surfire2008.org/joboffers.php on the ...
Real Estate
By The Numbers
$1,350,000 Recent Sale 4021 El Bosque Drive, Pebble Beach Built: 1952 Size: 2,331 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, ranch style Amenities: Master bedroom has fireplace and sliding glass doors leading to a landscaped ...
Speed, Freaks
Both the MotoGP and its fans (including the author) are something to behold.
It was 5am on a tiny little island, and we were still up. The latest MotoGP race at Assen in Holland was about to begin. The sheets were soaked, and I was sweatily stumbling about ...
Even if unfinished, the process could bring the country together.
According to a top aide, John McCain recently endorsed President Bush’s right to wiretap American citizens without court approval, despite the clear requirements of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Clearly, McCain has learned nothing ...
Bull-whacked
Once in the chute, the mellow bull becomes true to his nature.
With red-rimmed eyes, Rotten Nanners stands in a small enclosure at King City’s Salinas Valley Fairgrounds, lazily munching on alfalfa beside a dark bull named Black Twister. A 5-year-old, 1,500-pound bull, Rotten Nanners has a ...
Speaking In Numbers
The Weekly Tally
5 Million The estimated amount of extremely eco-friendly 2,000-square-foot homes that could be built with the straw that is incinerated each year in the U.S. This weekend, Chartwell School in Seaside hosted a straw bale ...
It’s time for anger to replace whining over the economy.
Phil Gramm, the senator-banker who until recently advised John McCain’s campaign, got it right about a “nation of whiners,” but he misidentified the faint-hearted. It’s not the people or even the politicians. It is Wall ...
Home Page
New Monterey house and lot have potential for the right buyers.
This house holds the history of one devoted family that now wishes to relinquish it to its future owners. The most likely scenario suggests it will be torn down to be reincarnated as a dwelling ...
A Star Is Reborn
Carmel Bach Festival spotlights Baroque music pioneer.
In 1618, a series of declared and undeclared religious and political wars broke out in central Europe. Before the “Thirty Years War” ended with the Peace of Westphalia, in 1648, it had engaged the powerful ...
Wednesday, July 16
Big Sur Basin Complex Fire Report
The fires of 2008 — A collection of Monterey County Weekly's stories and links.
A collection of Monterey County Weekly's stories and links.
Tuesday, July 15
The Big Sur Basin Complex fire may spur insurance companies to proactively fight fire, by hiring private firefighters. The U.S. Forest Service may not like that one bit.
Insurance companies may be surprised how loyal the locals are to their fire brigades, particularly in Big Sur and Cachagua. Even the efforts of the U.S. Forest Service seem to be well appreciated in fighting ...
Local woman to compete in China
U.S. Olympic team announced — Blake Russell of Pacific Grove will compete as a marathoner.
The University of North Carolina graduate now calls Pacific Grove home. And next month, she’ll be running a marathon in Beijing —26.2 miles worth — as part of the U.S. Olympic team. Russell made her ...
Hotels in Big Sur reopen for summer visitors — outlook positive.
Highway 1 is open and so, too, are most of the restaurants in the Big Sur Valley in the aftermath of the county's largest ever wildfire, still burning in the eastern and northeastern edges of ...
Bullet Train to L.A.
Route approved for $10 billion California high speed train that voters will decide in November —closest station would be in Gilroy.
The High Speed Rail Authority approved a final route to send to voters for approval. The 220 mile per hour train would run from Sacramento or San Francisco to San Diego, in about 2-1/2 hours. ...
Sunday, July 13
Sheriff loses at least one vote from Big Sur in aftermath of fire evacuations
It's refreshing that a former long-time police office would take on the sheriff, so Ken Wright's attack of Sheriff Kanalakis's handing of the Big Sur evacuation is worth reading. Wright was the CHP officer responsible ...
Big Sur reopens for business.
The Basin Complex fire, which started on June 21, took its toll on Big Sur residents and business owners. Nepenthe estimates it lost $800,000 in gross sales. Even though the community remains smoky, the locals ...
Friday, July 11
The Smoke From the Los Padres Fire Has Kept Us Cooler Than Forecast
The National Weather Service had forecast record temperatures to hit much of Monterey County this week, even posting the recorded highs for several cities. For July 10, King City was expected to break its all ...
Thursday, July 10
Tricked Out
Reed McClintock is the brightest of the Stars of Magic.
Reed McClintock does some dizzying, cringe-inducing magic tricks. One of his signature moves involves putting razor blades in his mouth. Then he adds a cocktail napkin that he cuts into a snowflake with the razor ...
Monterey adopts green building code.
As local cities and the county race to go green, Monterey wins the sprint to the green-building finish line. The Monterey City Council unanimously approved a green building ordinance July 1. While other jurisdictions, including ...
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Big Picture: Will high-tech film formats like Journey to the Center of the Earth rekindle the love for movies?
Every generation or two, the pitched rivalry between cinema and video erupts into full-fledged war. At times wary allies, the movie house and the home entertainment system engage in a tug of war for the ...
Cachagua prepares for fire as it moves north from Big Sur
Crews wait for the Basin fire to approach.
The sky is blue to the northeast and smoky to the southwest in Carmel Valley. The haze gets darker in gradients, staining the July 2 horizon a nicotine brown. A heli-base has materialized on the ...
Smile
BORIS
Japanese metal trio Boris have spent the past five years subjecting their music to the same kind of violent experimentation and abuse that members of Megadeth generally reserved for their frontal lobes. They’ve made albums ...
Public Citizen
ONGOING FIRE INFORMATION | For regular updates on fires, roads and trails conditions, weather and other emergency information, log on to www.fs.fed.us/r5/lospadres/conditions. 7|10 THURS CLEAN TECHNOLOGY PANEL | MARINA—The Marina Technology Cluster hosts an eco-friendly ...
Seven Day Update: Mills Family Farms' Financial Difficulties, Jim Colangelo's Resignation, the Future of Carmel Valley and Ferrante in Salinas
SHUT DOWN… Last month we broke the story about Mills Family Farms’ financial difficulties: Creditors filed lawsuits; Roger and Basil Mills fell behind on loan payments to a city of Salinas employee retirement fund with ...
Smokin’ Hot
Fighting fire with a fork, the sizzling Volcano Grill and more.
A bite of a thick brick of tasty Big Sur Bakery quiche did not make the fires stop on the smoky ridge above Big Sur Station. But for the local man taking hungry chomps from ...
Giving ’Em the Boot
John Pisto goes Italian with his latest project, Cannery Row’s Trattoria Paradiso.
The major player has changed his game. John Pisto, arguably the most famous chef in the county and undoubtedly one of its strongest personalities, recently downsized his dynasty. Last summer, the TV-show chef sold off ...
Weird Science
Marina Technology Cluster supports green-oriented entrepreneurs countywide.
Ray Kemp scampers around his Moss Landing backyard dressed in a blue, grease-stained lab coat. Kemp is the “mad scientist in charge” of KF3 BioDiesel Production. He meticulously generates between 60 to 70 gallons of ...
Squid Fry for Jul 10, 2008
Squid Fry for Jul 10, 2008
MAKE ME FAMOUS… Sharks get all the breaks. Sharks get caught accidentally by commercial fishermen and they’ve got a shot at becoming the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s next rock star of the Outer Bay exhibit. Squid ...
Post-War Intelligence
The NPS quietly uses old warcraft to complete unprecedented research.
Inside nondescript hangar 507 at Marina Muncipal Airport hides a scientific armada, Naval Postgraduate School’s answer to Starfleet. Mechanics prep Twin Otter, a dual engine plane, for its next cloud- and climate-sampling mission. Pelican, an ...
Letters to the Editor for Jul 10, 2008
SUPREME COURT BULL’S EYE It was refreshing to read in Tina May’s anti-gun/anti-self-defense rant [“Aim’s a Little Off,” July 3-9] that Salinas Police Chief Daniel Ortega supports allowing law-abiding citizens to own handguns. Frankly, it’s ...
Seraphic Light
SAXOPHONE SUMMIT
Saxophone Summit pairs the three most influential tenor saxophonists of our era—Michael Brecker, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano—with a rhythm section. Their previous release, Gathering Of Spirits, put new life into the “tenor battle” concept so ...
Blacklist Revisited
Carl Cherry Center celebrates its 60th anniversary with a theme dear to its roots.
If you can’t count on youth to make a fuss when a fuss is required, call up the old warriors– and stand back. Upon the occasion of its birthday, the Carl Cherry Center for the ...
Band of Bikers
The Fryed Bros rumble into Salinas.
Most bands prefer to travel to their gigs in cruise liner-sized tour buses with air conditioning and deli trays. But the five guys in Sacramento’s The Fryed Bros Band would rather be stretched out on ...
After 10 years, Thompson gives up poetry classic’s reins.
Poetry is thankless. It’s completely unmarketable. It’s the most punk of all art forms. It’s a world made up of almost no capital and 100 percent soul. Most people are never going to get paid ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jul 10, 2008
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: What’s the fascination Mexicans have with Elvis? --Good Roceando Tonight Dear Gabacho: Your question is spot-on, but it’s taken a while for Elvis to achieve icon status among Mexicans. As recounted in Eric ...
Seaside hits another home run with the latest Blues in the Park lineup.
Around 200 or so resident Canadian geese gracefully paddle across the lagoon in Laguna Grande Park as the morning fog lifts. A number leave the water to march up onto the cool grass in search ...
Back burn and wind changes create unexpected shift
Fire jumps Chews Ridge fire line near Mira Observatory on Saturday prompting mandatory evacuation order for Jamesburg residents in Carmel Valley.
"There are complicated fires and political fires and this one has been both." That remark was made by section 23 Branch commander, Jack Frogatt, as he surveyed a new fire that had jumped the fire ...
An inventive outreach program jumpstarts college careers.
No classes were officially in session at CSU Monterey Bay last month, but the halls of building 45 rang with student spirit. In a conference room, small groups discussed icons and what they stood for. ...
Describe your ideal hedonistic summer day.
Asked on Ocean Avenue in Carmel.
Follow-up: What do you want to be caught doing this summer besides working? DERRICK DICKSON | Sales manager | Marina A: I would sleep in till 10am and wake up to a ready-made breakfast. I’d ...
Match.com entrepreneur adds solar power to his next world to conquer.
Gary Kremen sat in his San Francisco office on a winter afternoon, shouting on his cell phone and taking frequent, inexplicable swigs from a bottle of lemon juice. Kremen is 44 and stout, with a ...
Feeling Swells
Different user-friendly snorkeling spots to hit up.
A finned torpedo swoops straight at the land mammal’s facemask, ducking away at the last moment. The diveby, which comes near enough that the whites of the lion’s eyes flash brilliantly against the deep greens ...
Fighting for Home
The inside story about what went down on Apple Pie Ridge during the Big Sur fire.
As flames from the growing Basin Complex Fire stole down canyons toward their 55-acre ranch on Big Sur’s Apple Pie Ridge, the Curtis family did what they had always done when a wildfire threatened their ...
Weezer
WEEZER
On Pinkerton, regarding the subject of committing to a relationship, Weezer once implored listeners, “Why Bother?” Now, as that cult album approaches its 12th birthday, listeners can return the favor with each new Weezer release. ...
Home Page
Well-thought-out amenities are part of Carmel home’s charm.
Many houses along Santa Lucia are relatively well seen from the street, with one outstanding exception that’s almost out of sight despite its size– about 5,500 square feet. It sits on two lots enjoying nearly ...
Child of a Dark Era
Barbara James of Carmel Valley recalls what her parents went through.
Excerpts from an interview of Barbara James by Maureen Davidson My parents, Dan and Lillith James, were blacklisted. Not, I think, because of their intrinsic value as targets, but because my father was assistant director ...
Real Estate
By The Numbers
$845,000 Recent Sale 25325 Hatton Road, Carmel Built: 1953 Size: 1,300 square feet Features: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, ranch style Amenities: Vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors, deck, breakfast room Sellers: Day Trust Buyer: J. and K. ...
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Father Hood: When Did You Last See Your Father? looks at a strained familial relationship.
Based on the British poet Blake Morrison’s written memoir, the film When Did You Last See Your Father? is a very particular yet universal story about the eternal knot between fathers and sons. Told from ...
Wednesday, July 9
Going Head to Head With Mother Nature
Flames Seen From Carmel Valley Village Tuesday Night As The Fire Moves North — Highway One Now Open to Residents South of Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park
The Big Sur Basin Complex fire continues to remain intense and extreme in the north and northwest part of the fire, and late July 8 the fire reached Devil’s Peak, a critical battleground where firefighters ...
Monday, July 7
Big Sur Locals Get a Break
Highway 1 Reopens for Many Big Sur Residents — Reentry to Begin 10am Tuesday as Mandatory Evacuation Lifted
Mandatory evacuation for Big Sur residents was to be reduced to an advisory evacuation order at 10am Tuesday, July 8, allowing many local residents access to their properties, Monterey County Sheriff Mike Kanalakis announced Monday ...
The Curtis Brothers Started A Backfire to Save Their Homes on Apple Pie Ridge in Big Sur — The Fire May Have Worked, But it Landed Ross Curtis In Jail
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-backfire7-2008jul07,0,3314737.story
Sunday, July 6
CDF Calls In Air Support
DC-10 Air Tanker Joins Effort to Contain Big Sur Fire At Pico Blanco
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF) utilized major air support this weekend to combat the extreme conditions at the northwestern edge of the Basin Complex Fire, near Pico Blanco. CDF’s largest aircraft, ...
Saturday, July 5
Fire Information, Community Connections, Big Sur Relief Fund & Photos
Emergency Information for Big Sur Basin Complex Fire and Indians Fire: US FOREST SERVICE UPDATES For the latest updates posted by the US Forest Service, see the InciWeb reports: http://165.221.39.44/incident/1367/ Ongoing Fire Information from the ...
July 5: Fire Remains East of Highway — Old Redwoods at Julie Pfeiffer Burns State Park In Tact
Starting A Backfire, Holding the Line in Big Sur Basin Complex Fire
“Adding fire to fire is a risky thing,” Sam Wilbanks, division supervisor for the Basin Complex Fire, told the Weekly as he and branch director Don Forsyth surveyed conditions on Thursday afternoon. We stood east ...
Friday, July 4
Celebrating Democracy for Over 200 Years
Independence Day, 2008
On July 4, 1776, the 56 courageous signers of the Declaration of Independence committed an act of treason by registering their desire to overthrow the King of England, in favor of self-governance. The Declaration may ...
Thursday, July 3
Fire Remains Out of Control
Basin Complex Fire Update: Highway 1 Closed South of Palo Colorado — Fire 200 Yards from Ventana Inn
Fire Update: July 3, 6pm More than 10,000 acres burned today, with the size of the fire now at more than 64,000 acres. The evacuation in Big Sur has displaced 1,500 residents and is threatening ...
Bold Proposal
The Forest Theater Guild presents a brave portrayal of Evita.
Midway through the opening performance of the Forest Theater Guild's Evita, Michael Uribes has a breakthrough as Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara. During his first song, “Oh What a Circus,” he comes off a little stilted, ...
Free Money
Hundreds of thousands of dollars for veterans’ training will go away in two months.
Joseph Werner desperately wants to give away nearly $200,000– before the money disappears. About a year ago, the state awarded the Monterey County Workforce Investment Board $500,000 in federal money to pay for schooling and ...
Higher Plane
Local writer scores big with a debut about a revolutionary spacecraft.
Monterey scribe Dan Linehan’s name may not be familiar to many, even on a local level, but maybe it should. His just-released first book, SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History, is the only book published on the ...
power of healing
Two Seaside nurses help save lives in Nigeria.
Richard Anyanwu’s smile is radiant, even as he describes the water damage inflicted on his home by a broken pipe while he was out of town. The couches are still damp, the floor is warped ...
Blues in Color
A stage-builder whips up masterpieces in minutes at the Blues Festival.
Surrounded by a conglomeration of musicians, sound equipment, VIPs and catered barbecue, Carey Crockett’s eyes are glued to a small television monitor. He stands in front of an old easel, holding a tube of acrylic ...
Speaking In Numbers
The Weekly Tally
$200,000 Amount needed to complete the Leadership Salinas Valley-Train Trestle Project. Phase 1 of three, painting the train trestle and “Welcome to Oldtown” sign is scheduled to be completed by mid-July. Source: Madeleine Clark, Train ...
Letters to the Editor for Jul 03, 2008
HERE ARE THE TRUE FACTS Recent letters and comments erroneously characterize the nonprofit Institute for Canine Studies (ICS) as a “dog training facility.” It is actually much more than that. Our proposal includes bringing together ...
Saving Birds from Burning
Ventana Wildlife Society’s heroic effort to rescue Big Sur’s condors.
A single plume of smoke billowed up from Big Sur’s Basin Fire on June 22 like a blown volcano. As the wildfire carpeted more and more of the region’s steep coastal mountains, the biologists of ...
Body of Music
Crosspulse thumps and smacks its way through free shows at local libraries.
Terry and Laden bring their stripped-down duo version of the Crosspulse Ensemble to Monterey County for a series of free library performances, including shows today at the Buena Vista, Seaside and Carmel Valley branches; Wednesday, ...
If you could give someone a super power, who would it be and why?
Asked at Cafe Lumiere in Monterey.
Follow-up: Who has been falsely labeled a hero? KYLE BOURNE | Art Gallery Assistant | Monterey A: I would give Gordon Brown, prime minister of England, the power of super-human empathy so that he could ...
A Leafy Beef
Two top salad bars holster up for a showdown.
In the end, it’s not always wise to hit up all-you-can-eat buffets for lunch. Stocking up on steaming Indian food or greasy slabs of pizza can be transcendent in the moment, but the trouble comes ...
Totally Local
Yell or Trolley’s CD release leads a blockbuster hometown lineup at Live.
Singer and guitarist James Perry has a suggestion for the crowd: Revolt against the government. The local rock enthusiasts at the Lava Lounge gathered to see his band Yell or Trolley seem amenable to the ...
Home Page
Couple pulled out all the environmental stops for their Big Sur house.
This is a story of perseverance, genius, fierce environmentalism and draconian adversity. It’s the tale of two people so far ahead of their time that Monterey County apparently couldn’t grasp what they wanted to do. ...
Updates
AIR QUALITY WORSENS… Last week we reported on surprisingly good local air quality, despite the wildfires raging through the region. That prognosis, unfortunately, dimmed as a funky weather pattern transported the smoke and ash into ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Jul 03, 2008
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: Whenever I have an immigration debate with my Chicano hermanos who support open borders and get angry at any type of immigration control, they don’t seem to understand the basic laws of economics, ...
Tails on Trails
Exploring the outdoors with the help of two local dog-hike experts.
I’ve seen this kind of wooly enthusiasm before– the tongue dangling grin, the happy prancing. And I’ve been seeing it more regularly of late– and not because I’m sneaking the creature more bacon beneath the ...
Paint It Blue
SLIDESHOW: 2008 Monterey Bay Blues Festival
Day two of the three-day 2008 Monterey Blues Festival was host to many ripping guitar licks, hip fashion and colorful spectators. Photos shot on Saturday June 28 at the Monterey Fairgrounds, by Nic Coury.
Line of Fire
Big Sur residents meet nightly for updates on the Basin Complex fires.
Mike Gilson drops two big stacks of hot pizzas on the wooden bench outside Big Sur Station on Thursday, June 26. Even though his rented home on Newell Ranch burnt down earlier this week, Gilson ...
Practicing What She Preaches
MIIS president measures success at her work by her personal yardstick.
In her office at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, MIIS president Dr. Clara Yu relates a story about Mahatma Gandhi. She says that the east Indian spiritual and political leader was once approached by ...
Camp: Fire
Next to a surreal disaster, a surreal city sprouts.
It’s June 25 in Big Sur’s Andrew Molera State Park. Hundreds of dome tents blister the ground like a mild rash. A blue tarp as large as a small pond sits beneath trailers brought in ...
Wanted
Firing Blanks: Wanted has a serious gun fetish.
If Maxim magazine ever decides to branch out into filmmaking, Wanted is just the kind of ear-throttling nonsense it’s bound to produce. Based on Mark Millar’s ultra-violent comic-book miniseries of the same name, Wanted isn’t ...
Food Chain
Feel the Freedom
INDEPENDENT THINKING… When in the Course of human Events it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, ...
The Supreme Court handgun ruling misses its mark.
I was angry, then dismayed, when I learned the U.S. Supreme Court had decided the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees the right of individuals to own guns. The high court on June 26 struck ...
Demand and Bush administration policies are largely to blame for high cost of oil.
As the pain induced by higher oil prices spreads to an ever-growing share of the American (and world) population, pundits and politicians have been quick to blame greedy oil companies, heartless commodity speculators and OPEC. ...
Hard Habit to Break
Jack Ellwanger picks his battles and gets things done.
They don’t appear on the front page: a nerdy guy who sends endless e-mails, an ex-gangster, a pair of Seaside seniors, a veteran academic, an immigrant couple from Africa. But these are our local heroes. ...
Hancock
Heroic Failure: Hancock does more damage than good.
The most awesome power of Will Smith’s comic-bookish dramedy Hancock is its ability to turn superhero clichés upside down. As John Hancock, Smith demonstrates talents comparable to Superman’s: incredible strength, flight, invulnerability, etc. Hancock has ...
The Ash Tax
A look at the ecological impacts of the Big Sur wildfires.
Big Sur enthusiasts may be horrified to see the Indians and Basin Complex wildfires turn postcard-quality forests into black moonscapes. But scientists remind us that fire is a critical ingredient in Big Sur’s fire-adapted beauty. ...
Brezsny's Astrology
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): Here’s the first rule of panning for gold: Go to a slow-moving stream where flecks of the precious metal have been found by others in the past. The second rule is ...
By The Numbers
$585,000 Recent Sale 6890 Valle Pacifico Rd., Salinas Built: 1965 Size: 1,498 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms/2 bathrooms, ranch style on .6 acres Amenities: View of Fremont Peak, horses permitted, fireplace, artist’s studio Sellers: L. ...
Death to Cheeseburgers
Coming to terms with a Fourth of July favorite.
If you’re concerned about the effect your food choices have on the environment, you should reconsider cheeseburgers. A recent study published in shows that beef and milk products are the world’s most polluting foods. Just ...
Squid Fry for Jul 03, 2008
Squid Fry for Jul 03, 2008
MONEY MATTERS… Squid’s an educated mollusk, but Squid sucks at math. And, OK, Squid once donated blood at a school blood drive in exchange for an A in trig. But Squid didn’t expect to grow ...
Daring Escape
Jackie Cruz left gang life behind and now helps others avoid her mistakes
Her transformation alone gives hope to teens trying to escape the trappings of gangs and poverty. Jackie Cruz, a daughter of farm workers, joined a Salinas gang at age 10. Cruz wound up in juvenile ...
Public Citizen
7|3 THURS CARMEL VALLEY INCORPORATION | SALINAS—The Local Agency Formation Commission discusses the Carmel Valley incorporation issue. 3pm. Supervisors’ Chambers, 168 W. Alisal St., Salinas. Free. 754-5838. HISTORIC RESOURCES REVIEW |SALINAS—The Monterey County Historic Resources ...
Giving from the Get-go
Elana Anderson and Walter Jones have always been driven to help the hungry
Forget second nature. To Walter Jones and Elana Anderson, sharing what you’ve got with those who have less is their first nature. Neither has ever known any differently. “I came from a family that was ...
Art Listings for Jul 03, 2008
Art Listings for Jul 03, 2008
OPENING THIS WEEK carmel art association Miguel Dominguez, Dick Crispo, gallery showcase, aritsts opening reception 6-8pm, 7/5. Dolores and Fifth, Carmel. 624-6176. Emily Brown STudio gallery Local Recognition: Urban Art for the Masses: Multi-artist reception ...
Wednesday, July 2
Basin Complex Fire Roars On
Big Sur Fire Takes Turn For The Worse — Residents Ordered to Evacuate
The dense coastal fog offered firefighters some reprieve earlier this week in the intensifying Basin Complex Fire in Big Sur. But Wednesday the fire jumped several key firebreaks to threaten more residences, forcing a mandatory ...
