Thursday, February 24
Dolores Love
The Peninsula’s best eatery street improves and Dann Dunn gets drunk.
There’s something different about Carmel’s newest tasting room, Caraccioli Cellars (622-7722). It must be the lively-but-loungy, hip-but-old-world feel generated by architect Si Teller’s eye, the riddling wall in the back, the floating shelves and varying ...
By The Numbers 02.24.11
Real Estate
$3,000,000 Recent Sale 3124 Spruance Road, Pebble Beach Built: 1988 Size: 6,000 square feet Features: 5 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, 3-car garage Amenities: Ocean view, fireplace, guest apartment, expansive deck, greenhouse, wet bar Seller: Michael and ...
Brezsny's Astrology Feb 24 - March 3 , 2011
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): “Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization,” said George Bernard Shaw more than six decades ago – and it’s still true. It’s very ...
Heated Delivery
Fire-balling Olympic pitcher and Salinas native Monica Abbott helps celebrate Steinbeck.
Driving up Highway 101 north at 65mph, Monica Abbott figured her car must be smoking and ready to explode. Why else would the woman driving alongside her be frantically waving and screaming? “[The woman] yells, ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 02.24.11
Dear Mexican: The perception of Mexico having a defective culture has come up in your column several times. The U.S. was invaded by settlers who came to live here permanently. Mexico was conquered by gold-seeking ...
Street Talk 02.24.11 (Asked on Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove.)
What do you lose most frequently?
Follow-up: Of the things you’ve lost, what do you miss the most? TALIN TERSAKYAN | Mum’s Cottage Owner | Monterey A: I am a very organized person, but I guess I do lose my keys ...
Petals and Pastries
Adorably Edible: Pastries and Petals’ sensual from-scratch treats make a cute home in Carmel.
In the heart of tourist town U.S.A., it was the locals Jeanne Johnston was after, people who would come back to P&P over and over again and spend as much time there as they’d like. ...
Methyl Battered
Department of Pesticide Regulation’s own scientist decries fumigant registration.
Science was “subverted” in the state Department of Pesticide Regulation’s approval of the strawberry fumigant methyl iodide, and its use is likely going to have a negative impact on public health. Those strong words came ...
Looking Glass
Philip Glass expected to introduce an eponymous festival in Carmel.
This Friday, Philip Glass will come to Hidden Valley Music Theater to make an announcement of such import that it compels Philip Glass to come to Hidden Valley Music Theater this Friday to make it. ...
Wired In
The Bare Wires’ free show represents another coup for Carbone’s in Monterey.
Tobin Peregrina has been booking shows in Monterey for almost four years now, most prominently at Jose’s Underground Lounge and then the Blue Fin, but it’s his latest partnership with Carbone’s that has been drawing ...
It’s a Lang Thang
Guitar prodigy Jonny Lang and the Dani Paige Duo sell out Sunset Center.
Not only was Jonny Lang invited to play Eric Clapton’s daylong Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago on a bill with Jeff Beck, B.B. King, Steve Winwood, Buddy Guy and dozens of other legendary musicians – ...
Mr. Alejo Goes to Sacramento
Armed with a handful of university degrees and driven by his family’s farmworker past, Luis Alejo went from the Watsonville council to the state Assembly in under three years.
Bobby Kennedy gives a thumbs-up from behind the open door of Assemblyman Luis Alejo’s new office in the State Capitol annex. Assuming the photo could see, it would catch a glimpse of each lobbyist popping ...
The Axe Man Cometh
A nonpartisan report warns that a cuts-only state budget could increase university tuition 10 percent.
Some 162 people, many in wheelchairs, spoke out against the proposed $750 million in cuts to disability services at an Assembly budget committee hearing last week. Some wore breathing apparatuses and couldn’t speak – or ...
Drive Angry
Hell on Earth:Drive Angry takes cinematic violence and sex to Hades and back again.
I cannot help but recall the excellent advice of Groundhog Day’s Phil Connors: “Don’t drive angry.” Yes, he passes these words of wisdom on to a groundhog, which would be likely to do no driving ...
Monning floats a beverage tax as diabetes rates soar.
The “Sweet Surprise” website features a photo series of impish, multi-cultural children. There’s the adorable Asian girl, sitting in front of a short stack of pancakes drizzled with syrup and dotted with berries. The freckle-faced ...
Squid Speaks
HERTS SO GOOD… Squid sometimes has free time on the old tentacles, and was thinking of making a foray into public service. But it looks like the open position might already be filled. That’s right, ...
Get Involved
THURSDAY 2|24 HEALTH STRATEGIES | SEASIDE – The health department and Natividad Medical Center want community input on access to care, nutrition, exercise, safety and youth health. 5pm. Martin Luther King Elementary, 1713 Broadway. www.mtyhd.org. ...
A single dominant industry no longer carries the economy, and the time to think small has arrived.
Earlier this month, as Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa held a hearing on “job-killing” government regulations, and President Barack Obama ventured over to the anti-worker U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a different kind of ...
Monterey pledges to examine leasing losses on Fisherman’s Wharf.
The city of Monterey will hold public hearings this spring on concerns it loses millions of dollars a year by leasing Fisherman’s Wharf property at far below market rates. Last December, City Planning Commissioner Bill ...
Winging It
Feds release funds to stop European grapevine moth’s spread in California.
There’s a new moth in town. It’s the European grapevine moth, and according to some growers, it makes the light brown apple moth look (almost) like a fruit fly. To date, only one has been ...
Congestion Headache
Residents challenge county over Carmel Valley Road traffic counting.
Only in Carmel Valley could traffic analysis become a topic hotter than Clint Eastwood’s latest movie project. At issue is a new metric for assessing traffic on Carmel Valley Road under the county’s recently approved ...
Cedar Rapids
Small Town, Big Laughs, Bigger Heart: Cedar Rapids treads tricky directorial territory to hilarious and affecting results.
Although the ads pitch it as being somewhere between The Office and The Hangover, Cedar Rapids is actually a semisweet charmer of a movie that fluxes between edgy comedy and palpable pathos. Its depiction of ...
The Public Voice
o(rly)? I am Orly Taitz, who was named by the media “The leader of the birther moveent (sic).” (“Squid Fry,” Feb. 17-23.) Recent polls show that 60 percent of Americans and as much as 72 ...
Thursday, February 17
I Am Number Four
They Bore Among Us: I Am Number Four can’t be counted on for much compelling content.
High school is hard. High school is even harder when you’re a secret alien from another planet in hiding from big scary guys with enormous feet and weird tattoos on their bald heads who are ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 02.17.11
Dear Mexican: I’m a white, rural, ninth-generation Texan who left the farm and is now a lawyer for a large corporation. Maybe a quarter of the clients they assign me speak Spanish, so the company’s ...
Budget Fatalities
Cuts to home care worker hours could mean life or death for some disabled.
Lexie Cabrera wears her hair in pigtails and makes eye contact, but it’s impossible to tell whether she can detect her father’s anger about proposed budget cuts to help balance California’s $25 billion deficit. Lexie, ...
Squid Fry 02-17-11
Bernie Madoff: They had to know.
COMEDY OF ERRORS… It’s tax season, and Squid’s in a foul mood because Squid’s accountant doesn’t agree that whiskey is a business expense. It is. If it weren’t for whiskey, this column wouldn’t be written ...
Waves of Change
Upstart Wahine Project gives little local girls big confidence.
Setting aside my inclination for self-preservation, I turn my back on crashing waves, and paddle my way toward shore. The surfboard lifts, moving much faster than I expected. I now know my fear of death-by-surfing ...
Brezsny's Astrology Feb 17-23, 2011
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls,” said comedian George Carlin. “There are mornings when your dreams are more real and important than your waking ...
By The Numbers 02-17-11
Real Estate
$732,500 Recent Sale 5 Marquard Rd., Carmel Valley Built: 1957 Size: 1,347 square feet Features: 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Amenities: Wood-burning fireplace, office, built-in bookcases, fenced yard, gazebo Seller: Terry and Elsbeth Stratton Buyer: Juan ...
1833 and Ticking
An update on the Coastal Luxury lifestyle and soup for you.
The geoduck clams Courtside Cafe’s David Frappeia was cooking at the last week’s Clambake for a Cure in Pebble Beach were as big as a teenager’s arm. The risotto he produced with it – not ...
Divine Swine
Butch Francis rides Cowboy Sausage to powerhouse farmers market popularity.
On an average Monday afternoon, you can find Butch Francis up to his arms in boneless pork shoulder. The 67-year-old former truck driver uses Catering Magik’s Marina kitchen to chop, season, double-grind and stuff the ...
The Public Voice
PARKS AND WRECKS It is disheartening that some of our beloved State Parks are on the chopping block to save money. (“California will close state parks to save $11 million,” Feb. 10-16). At the same ...
Unknown
Identity spy thriller stays afloat in homage to the Bourne flicks.
How Liam Neeson went from being that rare thespian animal of a leading-man-character-actor to a full-on action star while still keeping his artistic integrity is a mystery. It’s certainly more than Nicolas Cage could do. ...
Damn the Dam Permit
The feds say Monterey County isn’t complying with conditions of its permit.
The county’s in hot water following a warning letter about rubber dams and endangered fish from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Monterey County Water Resource Agency isn’t fulfilling the conditions of its Salinas ...
Ocean Outtake
Moss Landing power plant prepares for new rules on water use.
Coastal power plants that rely on seawater to cool their systems must cut their water intake by 93 percent over the next several years to comply with new state rules issued by the state Water ...
No jobs a-boomin’ in environmental sector, but losses in traditional areas abound.
In his State of the Union speech last month, President Barack Obama planned to “win the future” by, among many other things, having the federal government invest in “clean energy technology – an investment that ...
Public Citizen 02-17-11
Man is free at the instant he wants to be. - Voltaire
ONGOING BUSINESS PLANS | COUNTYWIDE – The Monterey Bay Regional Business Plan Competition is accepting applications for start-ups that show how they will create jobs. The competition hopes to attract investors to the region and ...
Street Talk 02-17-11 (Asked @ the Crossroads Shopping Center in Carmel)
Who or what would you like to be reincarnated as?
Follow-up: What is one thing you’d like to do before you die? DAN LEE | Wine Grower | Salinas A: I don’t want to sound egotistical, but I’d like to be reincarnated as myself because ...
It Takes a Community
Network of caregivers shuttles children and families through the complex world of critical and life-ending illness.
Cynthia Guzman was diagnosed with sulfite oxidase deficiency, a rare metabolic disorder, when she was only 6 days old. Doctors predicted she would die within a few months. “We cried a lot,” says her father, ...
A Catholic priest scandal in Salinas opens old wounds.
I grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a neighborhood so Catholic that I don’t recall knowing anyone who wasn’t until I was well into my teens. My neighbors were Polish-Catholic, Irish-Catholic, Lithuanian-Catholic, ...
Musical Nature
Mark Growden pulls soulful inspiration from diverse landscapes.
Mark Growden grew up on the edge of a forest near the Sierra Nevada/Cascade Divide in Pinetown, Calif. The small logging town of less than 100 isn’t a cultural epicenter regularly churning out musicians, but ...
New Life
John Magnie and Barry “The Fish” Melton rock the Death Penalty Benefit Bash.
Social commentary’s relationship with rock and roll spans back to the days when Joan Baez played to protestors on the green quads of the U.C. Berkeley campus and beyond. At nonprofit Death Penalty Focus’ Annual ...
Priest Accused
Alleged victim sues Diocese as Salinas police examine molestation reports.
The beloved pastor of the Old Mission San Juan Bautista church has been removed from his post as Salinas police investigate allegations that he repeatedly molested a teenage boy while head pastor at Madonna del ...
Thursday, February 10
A Fracking Ordeal
Community group seeks answers to regulatory loopholes.
Officials are scrambling to learn about a practice widely used by the oil industry, hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” even as a letter sent to the EPA by ranking U.S. House committee members found some fracking ...
Old Men and No Sea
A group of weathered fishermen now share coffee and stories instead of the ocean.
The Sicilian fishermen of Monterey used to spend their morning hours scouring the bay in boats in search of the day’s catch. But now a core group of the men sit at a large wooden ...
Brezsny's Astrology Feb 10-16, 2011
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): “Before I loved you, nothing was my own,” wrote Pablo Neruda to his lover in one of his sonnets. “It all belonged to someone else – to no one.” Have you ...
By The Numbers 02-10-11
Real Estate
$625,000 Recent Sale 1231 Surf Ave., Pacific Grove Built: 1950 Size: 1,204 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1-car garage Amenities: Near ocean, fenced-in backyard, patio area, half bath in garage Seller: Aurora Loan ...
Artistic Liftoff
Trash to Treasures gives Monterey Peninsula Airport two significant shows.
The art gallery at the Monterey Peninsula Airport is an out-in-the-open secret. It sits above the bustle of the ground floor of the small terminal, waiting for people to find it. Eventually they do, says ...
On Course
Some of the story lines to track heading into 2011’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Like many visitors before him, two-time defending AT&T Pro-Am champ Dustin Johnson has taken a liking to the Peninsula. Two consecutive AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am titles can do that to an individual. One reason he’s ...
A Tale of Two Celebrations
A look at what pushes soccer legend Brandi Chastain to keep playing.
Before San Jose’s Brandi Chastain made the most famous goal in women’s soccer history, she was unceremoniously cut from the team. Before she made the team the first time, she tore two of the last ...
Squid Speaks
SWIMMING WITH SHARKS… Squid was backstroking through the pristine waters of Carmel City Beach just days after an explosive Feb. 1 Carmel City Council meeting where, once again, the council tried and failed to discuss ...
The Public Voice
SEX AND THE CITY During Sue McCloud’s last run for re-election, she told voters that neither she nor Carmel’s other two female council members would tolerate any sexual harassment in Carmel City Hall. Mayor McCloud ...
Special envoy speaks at MIIS, lessons may fit the county.
James Dobbins has been sent by U.S. presidents to some of the most dangerous places in the world. Under Bill Clinton, Dobbins was special envoy for Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo. Under George Bush, and ...
The tiny house movement still comes with a sizeable pricetag.
In the same way that America’s fast food purveyors pack their menus with cheap, empty calories, America’s home builders pack their houses with cheap, empty space. On a cost per square foot basis, the typical ...
Consumer marketing makes little girls older much faster.
In November, the U.S. Senate, by a vote of 58 to 41, rejected the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill that would have remedied pay disparities between men and women. What better time to examine the ...
Carmel Flares Over Meaning of ‘Final’
Embattled council debates semantics as city administrator remains on the job.
Sparks flew in Carmel at its Feb. 1 council meeting as a debate over the city’s compliance with California’s open meetings law continues to rage. On the morning of the meeting, City Councilman Jason Burnett ...
Parks and Wreck
California will close state parks to save $11 million.
State parks will close, says Resources Agency Secretary John Laird, as part of a painful process to fill California’s $25 billion budget gap. This may include any number of Monterey County’s 17 state parks and ...
MMHA hit by wave of disputes over new mural, another resignation pending.
The financially troubled Monterey History and Maritime Museum hit more rocky waters this week, with controversies brewing over the board’s unilateral decision to hire Los Angeles artist Andre Miripolsky to create a “historama’’ depicting local ...
Public Citizen 02-10-11
Get Involved
THURSDAY 2|10 CLEANER WATERS | MARINA –Monterey Coastkeeper Executive Director Steve Shimek presents data on agricultural runoff and the Salinas River, source and responsibility, and a lawsuit to designate accountability. Hosted by the Green Party ...
Orient Express
Seoul Survivor: Post fire, Orient Express reasserts its Korean credibility with bubbling clay pots and blockbuster banchan.
Orient Express has stuck around Seaside since the Fort Ord days, when it was a gathering spot for GIs, Korean spouses, their kids and extended family. Current owners Jong Yool Yun and Ran Yun have ...
Holy Moses
A baffling beer breakthrough, Wolfman barbecue and Chinese movement.
In my experience, seeing someone’s mind get blown has always been pretty cool – you know, watching a niece going on her first roller coaster, or a friend taking a virgin voyage to Cachagua General ...
Tiny Furniture
Writer, director and actress Lena Dunham emerges as a filmmaker-to-watch with her award-winning Tiny Furniture.
Made for an estimated $45,000 and shot mostly at her family’s Tribeca loft, Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture is a small film making big waves in the entertainment industry. Will Ferrell has praised the movie as ...
Feeling the Love
John Tesh and his big band swing into the Sunset Center.
Twenty years ago John Tesh rented the now departed Spadaro’s on Cannery Row for a dinner with his girlfriend. He had a string quartet deliver a song he composed specifically for his sweetie, and arranged ...
One Off
Blank Tapes one-man juggernaut Matt Adams adds a full band for acoustic/electric series.
A two-month solo tour across the country can do songwriting wonders. Or at least that’s what The Blank Tapes’ Matt Adams discovered as he composed his fifth and most recent album, Home Away from Home, ...
Street Talk 02-10-11 (asked @ Marina Donuts and Bagels.)
What are you fishing for in your life right now?
Follow-up: If your job industry dried up what would you do? SCOTT MAYFIELD | Sales Manager | Salinas A: Balance. I’ve had jobs where I’ve done hundreds of things. I want to spend more time ...
Gnomeo & Juliet
Gnome Run: Gnomeo & Juliet takes Shakespeare to kids (and only needs to be seen once).
Could this be it? Has Disney found a way to make Shakespeare appealing to kids? Gnomeo & Juliet may not be the most faithful retelling of Romeo & Juliet, but it is cute, clever and ...
The unprecedented, almighty, unauthorized Quiz
A Round of 18
At the very first hole of his 2010 AT&T – before the gallery had finished its first little lattes, the often imitated, never duplicated Bill Murray decided to interrupt his playing partners for the first ...
Liquid Gold
Monterey County spends millions on regional desalination project.
Water on the Central Coast ain’t cheap. Cal Am ratepayers are already in the hole for millions of dollars for the regional desalination project – and it has yet to be approved or even produce ...
Tuning Up
Fallen Riviera helps usher in new era at Jose’s.
When restaurant owner Ozzy Maldonado needed a new promoter for his popular basement-turned-rock-venue, Amy Gallego showed immediate interest. The job was hers within two days. Gallego works full time at Inigo, a Carmel clothing store ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 02.10.11
Dear Mexican: I’ve been watching you speak about your column; you keep reiterating that this is supposed to be a joke. I have a question for you: It would be okay for a Caucasian to ...
Thursday, February 3
Power Pair
Two female vocalists with Hollywood cred take to the stage with two shows.
A few years ago, Gina Rene was living couch to couch in Los Angeles with her daughter. Even though she had already started breaking into the music biz – and contributed to the Mean Girls ...
Let the Dawes Out
Hot L.A. outfit Dawes heats up Fernwood in Big Sur.
Laurel Canyon, once a coastal Los Angeles bohemian enclave for artists to gather, take drugs and create, was ground zero in the ’60s and ’70s for heavies like The Byrds and Neil Young to produce ...
Funny Money
State commission looking into reporting by local Republican committee
The Fair Political Practices Commission is cracking open the books of the Monterey County Republican Central Committee. An audit by the Franchise Tax Board found unreported contributions totaling more than a half-million dollars over separate ...
Farr Out Promises
Congressman tells the supes he’s ‘lobbyist’ for the county.
Congressman Sam Farr is looking for inventive collaboration as a response to the budget crisis facing local and state governments, rather than additional cuts – which he criticized House Republicans for proposing. Farr went before ...
Wild Thing
Calera Winery takes a riskier wild-yeast approach to tasty results.
The term “terroir” gets overused, but when it comes to Josh Jensen of Calera, it means something. It’s his sense-of-place—one that goes beyond his selection of a rare limestone-soil site on the border of San ...
Milking It
A nearly extinct breed – homesteading cheesers – redeems a hope for Locally cultivated curds.
“Every cow has personality,” says Beau Schoch, co-owner and cheesemaker of the Schoch Family Farmstead, “and my dad knows every cow, which ones milk fast or slow, which ones kick or lick.” That John Schoch ...
Wine Training
A Napa whirlwind, a new food blog home and CSA restaurants.
One could spend a rather hedonistic lifetime exploring the land called Napa. On a mission for a cover photo of Cindy Pawlcyn (see story, p. 16), a pal and I squished that lifetime into about ...
The Public Voice
HITTING THE BOOKS The California County Librarians Association (CCLA) applauds Gov. Jerry Brown’s efforts to balance the budget and align spending with revenues. However, while CCLA understands that all local jurisdictions have their own priorities, ...
Channeling Personality
Access Monterey Peninsula toasts 10 years of diverse public TV.
It’s maybe the most eclectic, relevant and radical channel you’ll see on television – and you own it. The mission of Monterey’s community TV station AMP (Access Monterey Peninsula) is to wedge a chunk of ...
Redemption Song
Salinas concert-promoter seeks governor’s pardon for drug felonies.
Cocaine, says Salinas native David Drew in a court document, “was the beginning of my downfall.” This was in 1984, and the now-successful businessman fell hard. He was convicted of eight felonies in the 1980s ...
Brezsny's Astrology Feb 3-9, 2011
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): Now and then, members of other astrological signs complain that I seem to favor you Aries above them. If that’s true, I’m certainly not aware of it. As far as I ...
Real Estate 02-03-11
By The Numbers
$600,000 Recent Sale 24700 Crestview Circle, Carmel Built: 1975 Size: 1,791 square feet Features: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Fireplaces, hardwood floors, mountain views, new tile roof Seller: Mojtaba Tavakolian and Nasimeh Mohamadpour ...
Case of the Yip
Of Montreal members take new two-man Yip Deceiver pop project to Carbone’s.
Davey Pierce and Nicolas Dobdratz are on a roll. Their more famous band, indie pop rockers Of Montreal, recently got air time on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Not too long ago, Of Montreal’s Skeletal ...
Another Year
Another Year inspires introspection through excellent writing and acting.
It’s simplistic to say a lot can happen in a year, but it’s true. Even if our own lives don’t change much, the lives of those around us can shift significantly, and tracking that evolution ...
Sanctum
Sanctum is a bottom-dweller, but in a very good (and 3D) way.
Here’s the deal: Sanctum is extreme people in extreme danger in an extreme place. In 3D! The good kind of 3D, the kind that immerses you in a place you’ve never been before, not the ...
Tasty Trends: 2011
The Weekly’s food freaks assemble a watch list for the eats ahead.
Even as some of the best and most inventive chefs in the world come to us every year for events like Cooking for Solutions and Pebble Beach Food & Wine, descending from major urban hubs ...
Public Citizen 02-03-11
Get Involved
ONGOING SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY | COUNTYWIDE – Public high school students in Monterey, Carmel, Pacific Grove, Seaside and Marina are eligible to apply for a $3,000 New Millennium Scholarship sponsored by Fishwife Seafood Restaurants and Turtle ...
Dash for Cash
Cities prepare battle plans as state plans to grab local bucks.
Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to eliminate redevelopment agencies as part of his effort to plug a $25 billion budget gap has cities – including at least nine in Monterey County that have such agencies – ...
Voters want the country to innovate, president wants to get us there.
As President Obama addressed the nation during his recent State of the Union speech, I was in a dark, crowded room peering through one-way glass at a group of voters from the real America – ...
Medical users face persecution from local law enforcement.
As an attorney who has been defending medical marijuana patients in Monterey County for 15 years, I was extremely surprised to read the article here two weeks ago describing local law enforcement as “thoughtful, forward ...
Squid Fry 02-03-11
Squid Speaks
SLICK LIKE OIL… Squid’s feelings are not easily hurt, but Squid still abides by basic party etiquette. That’s why Squid is tired of the slippery runaround Chevron is handing a Weekly colleague who was invited ...
Extra Cheese
Garden Variety Cheese is adorable and delicious.
Rebecca King’s 40-acre farmstead in bucolic Royal Oaks is like a scene right out of Babe: Her ewes roam placidly on the sloped green pasture, each one is named after a type of flower – ...
Getting Real
Napa legend Cindy Pawlcyn and her down-home-but-hip cuisine look to take Aquarium cuisine big time.
Suddenly, everybody’s getting fresh. Farm fresh this. Farm fresh that. Menus cite more sources than bibliographies. Heirloom everything is everywhere. The Food Channel named “Keeping it real” 2010’s top trend; even Wendy’s has slapped “real” ...
Opinion: One man’s take on his culture’s stereotypes
¡Ask a Mexican! 02.03.11
Dear Mexican: My gabacho friends look at me askance for being a gabacho who enjoys mariachi music. They, and even some of my Mexican friends, run and hide when I go a step further and ...
Street Talk 02-03-11 (Asked @Stone Creek Village in Seaside)
If you are what you eat, what food what would you be?
Follow-up: What is the strangest thing you’ve ever eaten? NICOLETTE CIOLINO | Cosmetology Student | Monterey A: Cheese, no joke. I’m sharp, edgy, bold, flavorful, and my favorite color is orange. Spray cheese is just ...
