Whatever It Takes
For some of us, Sunday’s Super bowl is more than a game.
When I say that I became a Steelers fan the day I was born, that isn’t an exaggeration. In fact, it might have started earlier that season. I was born in Pittsburgh on a Sunday ...
Runaway
His new life was just getting good when Tyrone bolted and got lost,10 dangerous miles away from home.
In the late afternoon of Oct. 18, a large mixed-breed hound dog freed himself from his steel cable leash and jumped out of the back of a parked Ford Ranger pickup near Fremont Boulevard in ...
Community Fund
Dear Reader, Even if you haven’t stepped foot into a public school in years, just close your eyes and listen for the noon-time bell. Excited kids stream out of the classrooms and charge for the ...
A Pint, A Party and the Polls
Ex-pats and British subjects pay close attention on Election Day.
Despite the fact that the results were far off—California polls would be open for another eight hours—more than 800 people jammed the halls of the Montague Bar, near Leicester Square in London, England, to watch ...
The British Are Coming
And we’re either with ’em or against ’em
The front-page news in London last Wednesday was a story that the NY Times and LA Times both missed. President Bush’s special envoy to Iraq, James Baker (you may remember him most recently as W’s ...
The British Are Coming
And we’re either with ’em or against ’em
The front-page news in London last Wednesday was a story that the NY Times and LA Times both missed. President Bush’s special envoy to Iraq, James Baker (you may remember him most recently as W’s ...
Change Happens
As this community has evolved, so has the
Sixteen years ago I stepped into an ink-stained office in Carmel and took ownership of a tourist rag about to cease publication. I hoped to take that publication and turn it into something. The idea ...
What’s in a Name?: We’re still the Weekly, after 15 years.
My adventures with this newspaper began 805 issues ago, in a cramped office in Carmel. The carpets were stained and covered with wax—a result of the archaic process of newspaper layout, from the days of ...
Civic duty can be a nuisance. It can also be enlightening.
day one Photo by Bradley Zeve; Pictured are the Hon. Michael S. Fields, shown here on coffee break, and attorneys Dana Scruggs (left) and Jeffrey Oneal. We wait for word from the judge. Summoned for ...
Marina City Council betrays the public trust.
soapbox.A recent "special" meeting of the Marina City Council--where a 4-1 vote was taken against a citizen-approved initiative--makes one wonder whether a toxic cloud from the dump has drifted over city hall. First, a little ...
From There to Here
When you consider that today''s scientists are at the polar ice caps collecting data explaining 200,000 years of global climate history, the 10 years of local history covered by Coast Weekly seems pale in comparison. ...
Local media is a moving parade.
Remember Karen Wittmer? Chris Dix? Fred Hamilton? Stan Hall? Bill Brown? Oscar Perado? Reg Henry? Norm Spaulding? Lew Leader? I do. I remember them all because these were my peers, as editors, publishers and top ...
Web Feat--We proudly introduce www.coastweekly.com--a resource for life in the '90s.
It''s hard to imagine life before the printing press--life before commuting to work in a private car with Mick Jagger in concert sound--life before warming a frozen burrito in a microwave oven--life before the buzzing ...
Seventeen days, sixteen short stories.
Last summer, we spent 17 days traveling in a single-engine plane from Monterey to Montreal and back; a trip that yielded 16 take-offs, 16 landings and 16 short stories. We skimmed the country, it's true, ...
Coast Weekly's must-read books of the past few decades
If you're like us, you can sympathize with that T-shirt "So Many Books, So Little Time." With all the books coming off the presses every month, it's difficult to decide which ones to pick up ...
A look back over our first five years of bringing a new voice to MoCo.
"In the fall of 1988, in a small office on Carmel's Junipero Street, the staff of CW set out on an ambitious journey. Our goal was to create a new medium for Monterey County, one ...
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