Thursday, December 27
It Might Get Loud
The Mystery Lights and newcomers The Tomb Weavers highlight a night of '60s garage rock.
Last spring, the Mystery Lights played for nearly 20,000 people at the Strawberry Music Festival in Beijing. Looking out into an infinite sea of faces was a far cry from playing to 50 at Jose’s ...
Bitter Grapes
Disagreement on how to rep county wines leads a founding member of the growers association to quit.
Monterey County Vintners and Growers Association planted its first vines of life in the fertile soils of Salinas Valley almost 40 years ago. Several of the area’s biggest and mightiest vineyards—J. Lohr, Paraiso and Wente—were ...
The Last Typesetter
After more than 50 years on the job, one printer exited his outsourced position with poetry.
Here are some things they don’t teach much anymore: the use of pica poles and slugs, the meaning of words like hot type and ligatures. And here are some things that were true in 1960, ...
Middle-Age Malaise
This is 40 melds emotionally stunted humor and dull drama in the married-with-kids life.
Sometime after the hilarious Knocked Up (2007), writer/director Judd Apatow inexplicably decided to become a serious filmmaker. It was as if, similar to Seth Rogen’s character in that film, Apatow felt he needed to stop ...
Hunting Freedom
Quentin Tarantino’s slavery revenge flick Django Unchained marks his best work since Pulp Fiction.
Quentin Tarantino is at his best when he gets out of his own way. Specifically, his tendency to overwrite dialogue scenes—and then not cut them down when editing—is often his worst quality. But when he’s ...
Sour Milk
Former teacher alleges school district didn’t provide breast-pumping privacy.
A local woman’s lawsuit against the Carmel Unified School District is getting national attention as it explores working mothers’ rights. Sarah Boyle sued the district on Oct. 30, alleging administrators didn’t provide the accommodations she ...
Best Ahead
The musical year 2013 welcomes a host of new material from bands that have been in hibernation.
“Long overdue” seems like an appropriate mantra for the music industry come 2013. Artists including Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Cher, Pearl Jam and even LL Cool J are all reportedly releasing new records in ...
Shouldn’t the last act of murderous outrage in our nation have been enough of a wake-up call?
Fact: Eighty-eight people in this country have died in mass shootings this year alone, joining the 30,000 others who were murdered or killed themselves with guns. Guns make us stupid. This truth was on display ...
Squid Speaks
COP WATCH… Squid has a way of behaving that sometimes makes people uncomfortable: sidelong glances one minute, chatty and forward the next. Mostly it’s Squid’s habit of sliding into public meetings and eavesdropping in courthouse ...
Letters To The Editor 12.27.12
Second Breakfast In reference to Dan Hudak’s review (“Peter Jackson plays it out with unexpectedly long journey in latest installment of The Hobbit,” Dec. 13-19), I saw the new film in its non-3D and non-Imax ...
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the sci-fi film trilogy The Matrix, the heroes are able to instantaneously acquire certain complex skills via software that’s downloaded directly into their brains. In this way, the female hacker ...
Health Lockdown
Medical costs for prisoners higher in California than anywhere in the country.
A psychiatrist working in the Salinas Valley State Prison raked in more than $800,000 last year, bringing national attention to California public employees’ high salaries and benefits. But there’s another cost the issue brings to ...
Street Talk 12.27.12 (Asked at Maya Cinemas in Salinas.)
Tell the short story of your life in a sentence.
Follow-up: What breakthrough do you want to see in 2013? YOLANDE WHITLOCK | Retired | Salinas A: Upward mobility is still possible in the United States, and I’m a bootstrap example of success. Call to ...
Nader Nah-gua
P.G. developer nails eight-figure payout for stake in desal proposal, commercial park.
At the Dec. 19 P.G. City Council meeting, Don Lew announced his private-equity investment firm, Concord-based JDL Development, is taking immediate control of Agha’s desalination plant proposal and other assets at Agha’s Moss Landing Commercial ...
Flanders Flounders
When Peterson Conway was a teen, he got to know Flanders Mansion’s steep roof and narrow windows while his brother was shooting a horror film there. Now, Conway wants to lease the 1924 English Tudor-style ...
No world-ending event means one final column for 2012.
Iwas half-hoping the Mayans were right, because if they had been, it would have meant I didn’t have to write a column this week. It also would mean the Weekly could cease a holiday schedule ...
By The Numbers 12.27.12
Real Estate
$1,155,000 Recent Sale 45 W. Garzas Road, Carmel Valley Built: 1965 Size: 4,000 square feet Features: 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 1-car garage Amenities: 3 fireplaces, vaulted ceilings, workshop, fenced horse property, deck, Roman soaking tub ...
Crema Espresso and Wine Bar
Room for Crema: Crema Espresso and Wine Bar serves coffee, food and drinks in a place unlike any P.G. has seen.
From a pair of brand-new plush leather chairs overlooking Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove, you can nestle in and watch cars roll by at the easy pace of waves flopping on the beach. I’m sitting ...
Cannery Row Repeat?
Regulators consider forage-fish catch limits; enviros warn of sardine collapse.
Kathy Fosmark isn’t old enough to remember the collapse of Cannery Row in the 1940s. But after more than 25 years in the fishing industry, she’s sure there are plenty of fish in the sea. ...
Unpredictably Genius
The annual 101 Word Short Story Contest rumbles through realms of humanity and dog deaths.
Each year they emerge mysteriously, with a life all their own, like zombies from the mist: Strangely consistent themes cropping up amid scores and scores of short-story entries. Most of the pieces will still spool ...
First and Foremost
The last and best party of the year, First Night Monterey, celebrates 20 years with a bang.
First Night Monterey is the biggest New Year’s Eve party in the county. Last year it attracted about 22,000 people into its one-day universe of musicians, artists, food vendors, magicians and dancers. This year, its ...
State of Mind
NAMI Monterey County offers support to mental-health clients and loved ones.
Monterey County Behavioral Health and the nonprofit group Interim spend almost $40,000 a year on Monterey-Salinas Transit passes for their mental-health clients. Without the bus tickets, many wouldn’t have rides to doctors’ appointments, meetings, school, ...
Thursday, December 20
Hostel Environment
The planned Fort Ord hostel brings eco-design, adventure travelers to the old military base.
The Monterey Hostel counts some 10,000 overnight stays each of the last two years and is on track to break 11,000 this year, says Peter Kambas, president of the Central California Council of Hosteling International. ...
Jack Reacher
Reacher Feature: Tom Cruise swings hard at this action-detective flick, but it’s better suited for basic cable.
The trailer makes Tom Cruise’s latest foray into action look like Jason Bourne channeling Martin Riggs, but it’s more like a midseason episode of a television detective show. Sure, the finale is a standard shootout ...
Les Misérables
Sing Misery: Star-studded cast shows off powerful voices in remake of Hugo classic Les Misérables.
Les Misérables is a big, lavish Hollywood production of an equally extravagant Broadway musical. It looks and sounds phenomenal, and the sweeping story resonates on screen nearly as well as it does when viewed live. ...
Takeoff Delayed
The Monterey airport is poised to approve a runway plan – and face another lawsuit.
The weather isn’t to blame for this delay. Wrangling over a proposed road at the Monterey Peninsula Airport is. The airport’s runway safety project was ready for takeoff, with a construction crew about to break ...
Seriously, I’m Santa
Pagrovian carpenter visits Monterey Bay Christmas events by way of the North Pole.
At a certain age, many men dye their gray hair a younger-looking color. But Vern Brischke does the opposite: He dyes his reddish-brown hair gray and silver. For the last four years, Brischke has added ...
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Isaac Newton is regarded as one of the most influential scientists in history. But the time he spent as a member of the English Parliament was undistinguished. The only public comment ...
By The Numbers 12.20.12
Real Estate
$1,225,000 Recent Sale 1123 Alta Mesa Road, Monterey Built: 1969 Size: 3,389 square feet Features: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, 2-car port Amenities: Fireplace, deck, wine cellar, guest quarters, skylights, vaulted ceilings, sauna Seller: Kent Marshall ...
A Boy’s Life
In the chapter titled “Yellow Brick Road,” a grandson’s questions about the world beyond his experience lead to the start of a great journey.
After supper Ned walked Granddaddy Ike to his one-room cottage next door and helped him get settled in his chair. “Read me a chapter, will you?” said Granddaddy, sitting back with his pipe. “You’ll fall ...
Local authors of children’s, middle grades and young adult books worth checking out.
Beverly Cleary. The 96-year-old was born on a small farm in Oregon but now calls Carmel Valley home. Her book series, like Ramona, Henry Huggins, Ralph the Mouse and Beezus, have earned her accolades including ...
Raising the Mar
Sierra Mar deserves love for making the most delicious advances of 2012.
For years I’ve dreamed of doing the original locavore diet – you know, choking down crushed acorns, gnawing on grass seeds and swallowing suspect wild berries and potentially fatal fungus in an amateur attempt to ...
Sticks
High on the Hog:: Todd Fisher’s Sticks in Spanish Bay quietly ranks as one of the best sports grills in the area – and the most beautiful.
Here’s the schtick at Sticks: You can pay for tasty, inventive eats amid plush surroundings and enough flat-screen TVs to fill an electronics showroom, but to fully enjoy emerging celeb-chef Todd Fisher’s take on classic ...
Letters To The Editor 12.20.12
Steinbeck Blowback Dear Arvin Temkar, Steinbeck readers, dog lovers of the world and Weekly readers: If you were mildly amused or even somewhat disturbed by the “revelations” in the article (“Journalist paints Travels With Charley ...
The Giving Trees
Stanford scientist and her photographer friend publish an arboreal meditation.
As astronomer Carl Sagan famously observed in the 1980 PBS series Cosmos: “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made ...
School district under fire for naming new school, but scholars advise a closer look.
Tiburcio Vasquez: Robin Hood, or robbin’ hoodlum? Battle lines over the Californio, who was executed for murder in 1875, have been drawn over the naming of a Salinas elementary school. Earlier this month, the Alisal ...
How the American Legislative Executive Counsel thwarts honest debate about gun violence.
The first response of any country to violence of the sort seen in Connecticut must be one of horror. And sorrow. President Obama showed that sorrow when he wiped away the tears so many Americans ...
Public Citizen 12.20.12
ONGOING TO THE CAPITOL | COUNTYWIDE – Local legislators encourage recent college graduates to apply for fellowships in the Capitol Fellows Program through the Center for California Studies, which assigns fellows to the Assembly, Senate, ...
If we don’t heed the warnings, we’ll doom ourselves.
Of all of the terribly sad, chilling news since Friday, when a deranged man barely out of his teens took weapons owned by his mother and – after shooting her four times in the face ...
Street Talk 11.08.12 (asked @ Michael’s in Marina.)
Street Talk 11.08.12 (asked @ Michael’s in Marina.)
Follow-up: What would be the first thing you’d ask a psychic? SANDRA CRACCHIOLO | Student | Marina A: I would run to my favorite restaurant and order everything on the menu because I know in ...
Jingle Hell
Tiny Stardust Playhouse does David Sedaris’ infamous take on Christmas.
For their holiday theater offering, Stardust Playhouse was going to do a play by Steve Tesich called The Speed of Darkness, which Stardust director and co-founder Kirstin Clapp describes as a family drama of a ...
Button Down World
Monterey author Anne Ylvisaker crafts a writer’s life – and a book series – from the imagined world of the Button Family.
It’s a promising Saturday afternoon in December, and children’s book author Anne Ylvisaker looks like she is right where she wants to be: standing in front of an audience of a dozen people, in the ...
Squid speaks on water wars.
HOT WATER… When Squid wants to get away from it all, particularly after an action-packed Salinas City Council meeting, Squid detours down into the deep, where the water is cold and still and pretty much ...
Variety Acts
The Golden State Theatre features back-to-back nights of music very different from each other.
Garrett Riley’s voice is unlike any you’ve heard, an almost theatrical vibrato that sounds like an old-time blues singer having a seizure. Once word spreads about his unique pipes, Hungry Skinny will make waves within ...
Concert Town
Monterey County’s top 10 concerts of 2012 compete with those of many major cities. Really.
While Henry Miller Memorial Library and the Monterey Jazz Festival continued to pull in stunning shows across 2012, Golden State Theatre’s triumphant return from church to concert venue – bringing along the likes of punk ...
Patient Patients
As SVMH mulls the future of health care, business leaders ponder how to stay afloat.
Patients are already starting to take advantage of the new benefits provided under President Obama’s signature law, the Affordable Care Act. But the health care industry is looking a little bit like a deer caught ...
Chubby Numbers
Monterey County kids are among the plumpest in California.
Childhood obesity rates have fallen in several places across the nation, including California, according to a recent report. But Monterey County, despite a small drop, still has the state’s fourth-highest rate of overweight and obese ...
Coast Control
Seaside finally takes charge of its own near-shore development.
Seaside’s coastal zone is pretty spindly, as they come, and without many parcels that can be developed. But city officials are proud to finally be wrapping up a modernized blueprint of how that land will ...
Monday, December 17
Extra Helping of Squid 12.17.12
The twelve months of Squid-mas.
On the first day of Squidmas, Squid sent to thee…some snarking in a pear tree. One the second day of Squidmas, Squid sent to thee…ah hell. It’s hard, what with all the last minute shopping, ...
¡Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: Many of my friends think I'm loco for playing with my dad the way I do. See, mi padre is now retired and living in Mexico, and is very worried that I am ...
Thursday, December 13
Street Talk 11.08.12 (asked @ Beverly’s Fabrics & Crafts.)
What Advice Would You Give to people making presents?
Follow-up: If you had to craft your gifts, what would you make? LENORE PEREZ | Self-employed | Monterey A: Go online and look for patterns for everything. It is a great asset – especially when ...
Buyback Blowup
Whole Foods shuts down Del Monte Center recycling station; city cries foul.
The recycling buyback station behind the Whole Foods in Monterey’s Del Monte Center is gone, to the delight of mall execs and dismay of city staff. Before the closure, people could weigh their recyclables at ...
Top Tier
Bob Weir, Jackie Greene, The Growlers and The Cosmonauts close out 2012 at the Golden State Theatre.
The Weather Girls once sang “It’s Raining Men.” Next week it will rain music at the Golden State Theatre. The downpour kicks off Sunday with Bob Weir’s first solo acoustic tour in 46 years as ...
Salinas council slows plan for underwater homeowners.
I’m told that buried in the footnotes of a recent report from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is this little factoid: Sixty percent of all mortgages backed by private-label securities are going to default. There ...
Brazil Goes Boom
A torrential food-and-music tour through the biggest city in its whole hemisphere, São Paolo.
By Mark C. Anderson What with all the skin and soccer, beaches and Amazonia, rabid dancing and throbbing carnival, it’s understandable Brazil isn’t known for its food. Similarly, Brazil isn’t known for its largest city, ...
Sewer Brats
City of Salinas bets on sewage as part of the Peninsula’s water-supply future.
One city’s sewage may be another’s savior. At least, that’s one way of looking at the math behind toilet and bathtub drainage in Salinas, where wastewater could total as much as 4,000 acre-feet of water ...
Toro Fighting
Public comments on Highway 68’s proposed Ferrini Ranch get feisty.
The grazing cattle that help make Highway 68 a scenic corridor would still range along the eastern half of the road, even if a proposed 250-acre development goes through. That assurance from developer Mark Kelton ...
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Slogging to Erebor: Peter Jackson plays it out with unexpectedly long journey in latest installment of The Hobbit.
Peter Jackson sure has nerve. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, a prequel to Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, begins with dwarves sitting around a dinner table saying, “Hey, we need to get to Erebor ...
Supreme Court will finally take up two watershed marriage cases, including California’s Prop. 8.
It’s no shocker that the Supreme Court of the United States decided last week to hear United States v. Windsor, which questions the constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). By ...
Harmonic Matrimony
A folk duo, new to the area, has the opportunity to connect with students at Carmel High.
Anne and Pete Sibley sold their home of 12 years in Jackson Hole, Wyo., early last spring. What happened next reads like a Jim Jarmusch screenplay: The married folk duo packed up the family car, ...
All About Artisan
Brand-new craft boutique Lilify delivers design and whimsy to New Monterey.
For Hanni Liliedahl and Jesse Silacci, artisan isn’t just a technique, it’s a way of life. The most recent result is newborn Lilify, a Lighthouse Avenue boutique in Monterey that unleashes a flood of vintage, ...
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Can you manage to be both highly alert and deeply relaxed? Could you be wildly curious and yet also serenely reflective? Can you imagine yourself being extra hungry to crack life’s ...
By The Numbers 12.13.12
Real Estate
$1,225,000 Recent Sale 1123 Alta Mesa Road, Monterey Built: 1969 Size: 3,389 square feet Features: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, 2-car port Amenities: Fireplace, deck, wine cellar, guest quarters, skylights, vaulted ceilings, sauna Seller: Kent Marshall ...
Holy Food
Hanukkah revolves around miraculous oil, so we eat lots of it – some in donuts – to celebrate.
For proof that food is central to Judaism, look no further than the fact that its most famous holiday revolves around the deep fryer. There are other holidays on which food becomes part of the ...
Letters To The Editor 12.13.12
A Giving Story A few weeks ago, I came across a Carmel Middle School student who said he was going to bring $100 on Monday to donate to the MEarth campaign through Monterey County Gives! ...
Hitchcock
Hitch in the Story: Hitchcock portrays famed director as more conflicted and less perverse than history reveals.
Alfred Hitchcock, the undisputed master of movie suspense, is given fairly fanciful treatment in this movie, which is theoretically based on Stephen Rebello’s book, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. Yet, as written by ...
Helping Hands
The Rice Plus Project feeds thousands every month with an all-volunteer crew.
Dozens of rain-gear clad volunteers stood outside in the storm and passed wet, slippery bags of rice off to the next pair of hands in the human chain they formed, from the street, down a ...
Public Citizen 12.13.12
ONGOING WARMER WINTERS | MONTEREY – The Girl Scouts of Monterey are collecting gently used coats for local families in need. 11am-3pm Saturdays through Dec. 29. Deliver coats to Del Monte Shopping Center, Soledad and ...
On The Beat
New Salinas police strategy aims to build relationships, not rap sheets. But has it helped cut crime?
Salinas Police Officer Richard Lopez watches as a tall teenage boy with a baseball cap pulled low over his eyes slinks toward the street, taking drags from a cigarette. The teen, halfway across the neighborhood ...
A Gift of Wow
The Weekly’s list of easy-but-amazing local gifts – yes, you can give Father Time, or the entire ocean – makes economic stimulation fun.
As this paper hits the streets, it’s Dec. 13. And if you follow the tradition of giving the people you like gifts for Hanukkah, Christmas or Kwanzaa – or, hell, just because everyone else is ...
Seeking Steinbeck
Journalist paints Travels with Charley as a work of fiction; Steinbeck fans yawn.
John Steinbeck’s last major work, a golden-years account of his cross-country adventure with his French poodle Charley, is the kind of book that can set a flame under the boot of a too-rested vagrant; it’s ...
Monday, December 10
Squid raps on ex parte communications and the impending Peninsula water crisis.
Parte Party…Well-trained at conducting interviews from the deep, Squid’s a pretty good listener, sometimes vigorously taking notes for hours at a time while crazy people spout off about whatever’s bugging them, which usually means the ...
The Mexican's annual Christmas gift guide
Dear Readers: Behold your favorite Mexican's annual Christmas gift guide, where I give shout-outs to some of my favorite books that deserve your money this holiday season! And for once, I won't recommend my books—¡Ask ...
Thursday, December 6
Surf’s Uppity
Ventana tourist package pisses off Big Sur waveriders.
In Big Sur’s surfing culture, respect is earned by time on the water. So one hotel’s effort to attract surfing tourism has the tight-knit community snapping. Ventana Inn & Spa in Big Sur has partnered ...
Playing for Keeps
Losing Game: No one wins in Playing For Keeps.
Of all the great mysteries of Hollywood, Gerard Butler’s appeal is chief among them. He’s confident, has an accent, can sing and had nice painted-on abs in 300, granted, but none of that forgives the ...
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Searching for Bilbo: Anticipation builds as The Hobbit nears, and it’s a good reminder to channel your inner hero.
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit… ” is what Oxford professor J.R.R. Tolkien once absentmindedly scribbled on an exam book. When that line led him into his first book, The Hobbit, ...
Sweet Spot
At brand-new Room for Dessert, every cookie, cake pop and cup of tea comes with the lost art of… love.
You’d be forgiven for not knowing about Tammy Huniker’s first Room for Dessert restaurant. While independent, it’s tucked on Notre Dame High School’s campus, giving the all-girls Catholic student body breakfast, lunch and game-night grub. ...
Don’t Be a Tool
With gift-giving season here, the best gift for a cook might be food, not elaborate gadgets.
Based on the variety of ice cream scoops on the market – 1,529 from Amazon alone – one might conclude the world faces a crisis of improperly or inconveniently excavated ice cream. I think it’s ...
Street Talk 12.06.12 (asked in downtown Monterey.)
What’s taken for granted about the ocean?
Follow-up: What is the best part about living close to the ocean? KAYT GREEN | Author | Pacific Grove A: The otters and wildlife. People make choices that threaten the natural habitat. This area is ...
Musically Gifted
Seven thoroughly original holiday gifts for music lovers that won’t break the bank.
The Beatles 180g Remastered Vinyl (Siren Trading Co., 527 Ramona Ave., Monterey; 920-2801; $22.95) Since 1995, Siren Trading Co. has been peddling vinyl via the Internet. A couple months back, they set up a physical ...
Great State
A pair of Americana Music Award winners from two different eras comes to the Golden State Theatre.
It was “sheer blind luck” that film critic Roger Ebert stumbled upon John Prine one evening back in 1970. Prine – a mailman by day and underground folk hero by night – was reluctantly performing ...
Lighthouse Presents
The independent movie house screens a winter’s harvest of holiday films and much, much more.
Holiday films have long earned a place in December’s occurrences of chorales and carols, Nutcracker dances and Christmas plays, traditional meals and shopping deals. In the rush to harness the tide, Century Cinemas has got ...
The People V. Eva Ruiz-Gomez
A Family-court battle turns ugly as a mom faces felony charges of interfering with the rights of her son’s father. the teen at the heart of it wonders why the courts won’t listen to him.
Eva Ruiz-Gomez steps through the double doors of Courtroom 13 at the Monterey County Superior Courthouse, her long, dark hair pulled back from her face, and asks for a phone. “I need a phone. I ...
Read All Over
Even as national book chains sputter, local booksellers see a bright future.
When Matt Sundt’s mother decided to clear out her cookbook collection – some 2,500 strong, including titles like Cooking with Love and Butter, a 1977 paperback, and Tennessee Favorites, including a page of instructions for ...
Late Bloomer
Peace of Mind Dog Rescue give senior dogs like Lily a second chance.
Lily’s future didn’t look so bright. The 6-year-old Hollister stray, a black-and-white Chihuahua-rat terrier mix, was headed to the shelter where she would join a lot of other Chihuahua mixes, many of them younger and ...
Squid Speaks
LABOR’S LOVE LOST… Squid figured it was a lock when ex-Coastal Commissioner Mark Stone recommended Monterey County Supe Jane Parker to his empty spot. But a funny thing happened to Parker on her way to ...
Analyzing the nastiest detail of a brutal Salinas beating.
He was walking away. That’s the thing people don’t yet realize because nobody has yet put it out there. So here it is, in all its grim and ugly reality: Police say the homeless man ...
Letters To The Editor 12.06.12
Air Ball Whoa. What timing. Don’t know where you were – or where last week’s cover story (“What About Bob,” Nov. 28-Dec. 5) was – when you heard that Andrew Bogut pulled the plug on ...
Payback Time
Obscure Seaside Watermaster board vote makes desal plant bigger
Monterey County already has enough water agencies to drown in. Each one is neck-deep in legal and technical issues few can understand, but many pay for. Last week, the most under-the-radar water agency of all ...
Tarnished Brass
NPS president and provost booted over violations; contract worker remains on staff.
Former Naval Postgraduate School President Dan Oliver allegedly decided one prospective employee was valuable enough to risk the rules. So he finagled federal hiring guidelines, arranging to get her on staff for higher pay through ...
California Scrapin’
U.S. Census ranks the state as the poorest in the nation.
Anew poverty measurement by the U.S. Census Bureau indicates nearly a quarter of Californians are poor, giving the state the highest poverty rate in the nation. The Supplemental Poverty Measure, first released last year and ...
Beaten Down
Business owners, homeless advocates aim for a fragile peace after brutal attack.
Last Thursday at Dorothy’s Place, a lively Salinas soup kitchen, a group of homeless men and women sat down to tell stories about their friend who was nearly beaten to death in October. That same ...
By The Numbers 12.06.12
Real Estate
$963,000 Recent Sale 103 Laurel Dr., Carmel Valley Built: 1978 Size: 3,718 square feet Features: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, 2-car garage, 2 acres Amenities: 2 fireplaces, granite and wood floors, deck, study, approved for horses ...
Your Brain on Water
An area scientist takes a psychological approach to advocate for the ocean.
Marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols is embarking on a new journey into the science of the sea. The path he’s taking: our brains. His Blue Mind project is an in-depth study of how the brain ...
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Spencer Silver was a co-inventor of Post-it notes, those small, colorful pieces of paper you can temporarily attach to things and then remove to use again and again. Speaking about the ...
Public Citizen 12.06.12
THURSDAY 12 | 6 CEREMONIOUS COUNCIL | SEASIDE – Mayor Ralph Rubio and council members Ian Oglesby and Dave Pacheco are sworn in and outgoing Mayor Felix Bachofner and councilman Steve Bloomer are honored. 7:30pm. ...
Monday, December 3
Extra Helping of Squid 12.3.12
If at first you don't win a lost-cause lawsuit: try, try again.
DEFRAUDING THE FRAUD…Squid knows what it feels like to hold a grudge, with recurring nightmares of two bigger squidlets who used to snatch Squid’s snacks back in the day. But Squid also knows how to ...
Is it ethical to haggle vendors in Mexico and can Mexicans date Asians without people making fun of them?
Dear Mexican: Why is it that many Mexican women hate on me for having an Asian (Korean to be exact) novia? I notice this in a lot of places. We go to the store and ...
