Stories
50 Grand
Monterey Museum of Art is still youthful as it hits a half-century.
The Monterey Museum of Art at Pacific Street has been closed since January in preparation for the non-profit’s 50th anniversary. On the Friday morning of March 27, its barren walls and empty hallways don’t hint ...
Brezsny's Astrology
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): Your role model for the coming week is George Garratt, a British guy who legally changed his name to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash ...
Opinion: One man’s take on his culture’s stereotypes
¡Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: For as long as I can remember, Mexicans were known for doing three things: Drinking lots of cerveza, having lots of niños, and saying “¡Ay, caramba!” While I can vouch for the first ...
Public Citizen for Apr 09, 2009
Public Citizen
4|9 Thursday LGBT PANEL DISCUSSION | SALINAS – Triangle Speakers, a program of the Santa Cruz-based nonprofit Diversity Center, presents a panel to discuss their experiences, followed by a question-and-answer session at today’s PFLAG meeting ...
Bull Bearing
James Hurley found his career with the help of a Salinas rodeo accident.
After sifting through ample biographical data and conducting an in-depth interview, I’ve determined that there were two instances in James Hurley’s life that led him towards his career as a popular Los Angeles based singer/songwriter. ...
Clocking In
How a Monterey man spends time working on time.
The walls at About Time are filled with them – clocks of all sizes and sounds, from all over the world, with styles ranging from cuckoos to grandfathers. Their stuttered, constant ticking could drive you ...
Flying Frogs
Carmel artist/writer Belle Yang moves with ease from children’s books to graphic novels.
Carmel writer Belle Yang is an author and illustrator of lyrical books like Chili-Chili-Chin-Chin and Hannah Is My Name. But she also talks of reading economist John Kenneth Galbraith and The Decline and Fall of ...
Have you ever faked an appreciation for a work of art?
Asked in Parking Lot B at Monterey Peninsula College.
Follow-up: What’s the most creative thing you have done lately? RICHARD FREEMAN | Retired doctor | Pacific Grove A: I am now 75 years old. I can’t remember, but I am sure I did in ...
Beck’s Back
Mike Beck regularly returns to join the Bohemian Saints at P.G.’s Pelican.
These days, Mike Beck lives two lives. Most of his days and nights are spent in the tiny Montana town of Willow Creek (population: 200). There, he lends his guitar playing to a band called ...
12
Russian Maladies: A courtroom remake as contemporary as the headlines.
The film 12 is essentially a Russianized version of Sidney Lumet’s masterful 1957 courtroom drama 12 Angry Men, which was itself a remake of a live television production written by screenwriter Reginald Rose and directed ...
Carmel Valley’s historic tree row threatened again.
Alarge banner with the message, “Spare These Trees,” went up last week along a fence at the intersection of Boronda and Carmel Valley roads. The message reflects the sense of outrage many area residents feel ...
Observe and Report
Oaf Course: Seth Rogen takes a detour from what works in Observe and Report.
At some time in the career of every screen comedian, there comes a point where he has to make peace with The Character. Adam Sandler is The Man-Child Knucklehead. Vince Vaughn is The Tightly-Wound Motor-Mouth. ...
Squid Fry for Apr 09, 2009
Squid Fry for Apr 09, 2009
JUDGMENT CALLS… Squid was trying to unwind after an arduous day of dodging – er, doing – Squid’s taxes last weekend when KSBW’s evening news rammed its way into Squid’s over-worked brain. The anchor burst ...
Updates
COPS CHOPPED… After getting threatened with six officer layoffs, the Salinas Police Officers Association agreed to give up a 5 percent raise and pay 2.5 percent in health benefits to help offset the city’s budget ...
Green Governance
Eco-agreements are toothless, but local signatories are following through.
Big green buttons were in fashion at the April 2 Seaside City Council meeting. Nearly a dozen audience members sported the pins while Sustainable Seaside member Kay Cline asked the council to sign two symbolic ...
Home Page
A Monterey mansion that has been handsomely preserved.
Any property designated historical by the state must be of a certain age and have undergone precise attention that’s not a renovation or remodel, but a preservation as close to the original as possible. That’s ...
Go With the Glow
Little Mundaka makes a big splash, and other huge news.
I ’d wondered why the guy was glowing. But as he poured our group great glasses of wine from Beaujolais and Valdepeñas, in upscale paisano glasses, on a 1,600-pound slab of rescued Big Sur, for ...
Letters to the Editor for Apr 09, 2009
SQUID FRIED The Squid Fry in the March 26 issue contained inaccurate information about the Monterey Sports Center. The [item] claimed that Garden Health & Fitness Center has a total of 60 employees at a ...
Peace Runner
New police chief says Salinas will win the race against gangs.
T aking the podium after his April 6 swearing-in ceremony, Police Chief Louis Fetherolf described himself as a pair of fresh legs in a race against Salinas’ crime. “I see myself as a runner in ...
Sand City lofts on the auction block
Foreclosure, lawsuits and liens hit Design Center Monterey Peninsula.
The Design Center Monterey Peninsula was supposed to be Sand City’s mixed-use showcase for designer home products and high-end condos and lofts. Now, faced with foreclosure and mounting lawsuits, the Design Center is another example ...
Best Meal Ever
Arranging an only - possible - at - Pebble Beach Food & Wine culinary dream sequence.
It reads more like a hymnal or a fantasy novel than a menu, but this is no holy vision or mythic landscape. This is really happening. Right here. Saturday and Sunday, April 18-19, four dozen ...
Art Listings for Apr 09, 2009
Art Listings for Apr 09, 2009
OPENING THIS WEEK AVERY GALLERY Disappeared: A public showcase of structures that are no longer in existence or are abandoned, by watercolorist Ann Downs and photographers Nancy Raven and Steve Zmak. The opening reception is ...
50 Grand Pt. 2
Monterey Art History 101
1836 | The first legal reference to the adobe house that would later become La Mirada, names the owner as the widow of soldier Jose Antonio Castro. Sept. 9, 1850 California admitted to Union of ...
Real Estate
By The Numbers
$975,000 Recent Sale 1057 Morse Drive, Pacific Grove Built: 1951 Size: 2,127 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Game room with wet bar, large patio, spacious yard with fruit trees, private ...
The Paper of Record blows it once again, naming a token neo-con.
Liberal blogger men are thrilled with the New York Times’ appointment of 29-year-old Atlantic blogger Ross Douthat to replace William Kristol on the op-ed page. Douthat is best known for his conservative Catholicism and for ...
Big Boxers
Two-time heavyweight champ and former 49er top a rare boxing benefit.
They don’t make too many underdogs like this: Former NFL Defensive Player of the Year Dana Stubblefield is a world champion weighing more than 300 pounds. But Stubblefield, an All-Pro defensive tackle for the San ...
