Real Property
Salinas plans to buy tax-burdened Chinatown building for homeless services.
During a 2008 property auction, Monterey County offered a dirt-cheap price for a Salinas building. But there were no takers. A property in Chinatown, a haven for the homeless and drug dealers, can be a ...
Study of P.G.’s CalPERS initiative returns to the council this week.
Pacific Grove officials are hoping for a legal escape hatch from a citizens’ ballot initiative they fear could cost the city millions. The initiative seeks to void a 2002 City Council decision approving “3-percent-at-50” pension ...
Huffing and Puffing
Steam injection oil wells raise enviro eyebrows; group appeals project near Pinnacles.
Forget about fracking for a minute. That’s the controversial practice oil and gas operators use to create small fissures in rock formations, freeing up the reserves they contain and, for some, introducing legitimate concerns about ...
The economy grinds to a halt as government-driven austerity takes hold.
The U.S. economy is suffering from a very nasty case of austerity. Only 165,000 new jobs were created in April – far fewer than are needed to address existing unemployment and to create positions for ...
Get Involved
Public Citizen 05.09.13
ONGOING GUIDING GROWTH | VARIOUS LOCATIONS – The Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments invites members of the public to weigh in on transportation priorities in the tri-county region and share their visions for 2035. ...
Fort Ord’s mother of all signature-gathering battles.
How many of you were approached over the weekend of May 4 by someone bearing a clipboard and asking for your signature to support Fort Ord? How many of you signed? More importantly, did you ...
$7,030.16: amount of non-city money that has sat in the city of Seaside’s treasury for more than three years.
HUMMUS RUCKUS… Squid was chagrined when, after oozing over to Carmel for a little mid-week baba ghanouj, Squid found Squid’s favorite Middle Eastern joint had been closed. As in, do-not-enter-under-threat-of-court-order closed. Dametra Cafe found itself ...
STREET TALK: 05.09.13 (Asked @ Laguna Plaza Shopping Center in Seaside.)
If you were a zombie, how would you hunt humans?
Follow-up: What would you use against brain-munching hordes? JORDAN DEGOOYER | Assistant Manager | Marina A: I would go to hospitals, places where I knew people would be weak. It would be easy brains. Swinging ...
War Cry
One man channels a modern telling of an old tale of glory, tragedy and war at Circle Theatre.
After a Sunday afternoon matinee of Pacific Repertory Theatre’s opening season play, An Iliad, one of the PacRep people entreated audience members to tell others about the production, an extremely abridged one-man recounting of Homer’s ...
ARTIFACTS 05.09.13 – Lifelong Learning
The guy who sang “The more I know/ The less I understand” wasn’t paying attention.
• This Sunday, 4-7pm, the public is invited to the memorial celebration of one Barbara Murphy of Portofino Presents at the Pacific Grove Art Center (568 Lighthouse Ave., P.G., 375-2208). Former PGAC executive director Joan ...
Flower Power
The 31st annual Wildflower Triathlon reasserts itself as a one-of-a-kind accomplishment.
Photo by Kaori Funahashi First and Third: Jesse Thomas of Bend, Ore., claimed his third straight long course win in his signature aviators. Last Saturday a champion stormed through the dusty Lake San Antonio heat ...
Extra Helping of Squid 5-6-13
Pacific Grove harbor seal pups are cute and controversial
Seal Wars…It’s getting hot on the beaches of Pacific Grove. And Squid’s not talking about the summery weather last weekend, but the whiskered menace at Lovers Point Beach: a dreaded mama harbor seal and her ...
¡Ask a Mexican! — 5-6-13
Uppity immigrants and naturalization problems
Dear Mexican: Why is it that people from Chihuahua and Monterrey are such jackasses? They come from pinches ranchitos and talk about their haciendas, They cross the border and act as if their cagada does ...
Before his appearance at this weekend’s Steinbeck Festival, Gavin Cologne-Brookes, Professor of American Literature at Bath Spa University, expounded on Steinbeck.
In your presentation, Home is Where the Heart Is, what will you highlight/extract about the relationship between Steinbeck and Salinas? I’ll be talking about Steinbeck’s simultaneous ambivalence toward his hometown and celebration of it and ...
STREET TALK: 05.02.13 (asked @ On The Beach in Monterey.)
What incident changed your perspective on life?
Follow-up: What do you like most about yourself? SCOTT LUNDY | Retail Manager | Seaside A: Losing my job put me in a different comfort zone. I realized that life is full of surprises and ...
ANTON & MICHEL
Storied Carmel institution Anton & Michel daringly switches gears, with mixed results.
The bar is beautiful. Carmel stone, cut thin, runs floor to ceiling. Large format bottles of local wines occupy small shelves. The polished wood bar gleams. Specialty cocktails like the Mad Martini ($9.50) and Planter’s ...
Geek and Peat
How some of the best peated whiskey in the world came to be made in rural Salinas.
It’s hard not to root for Bryan Davis – and his partner in life and liquor, Joanne Haruta – and not just because Davis makes incredible 100-proof, single-cask whiskey from a homemade still on the ...
WINE & FOOD 2013: Give Us Mercy
With abiding bravery against the elements – and a brand new tasting room – upstart Mercy Vineyards solidifies Arroyo Seco’s rep.
Michael Griva wants to take us on a motorcar tour of parts of his Griva Vineyard – west of Greenfield, in Arroyo Seco – in a red, convertible, windowless (and seatbelt-less) 1916 six-cylinder Buick. It’s ...
WINE & FOOD 2013: Tube Meat Takeover
Butch Francis expands his Cowboy Sausage empire in inspired and crazy ways – including a pitch for national TV.
The Sausage King is in his element. There are women to flirt with and politicians to shmooze. There are old customers who didn’t realize he was again selling at the Oldtown Salinas Farmers Market after ...
REAL ESTATE: By The Numbers 05.02.13
Real Estate
$6,100,000 Recent Sale 3340 Ondulado Rd., Pebble Beach Built: 2001 Size: 7,900 square feet Features: 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3-car garage, 1.5 acres Amenities: 2 fireplaces, ocean view, fenced landscaped yard, library, art studio, chef’s ...
