Recent Stories
Continental Shift
Two locals plan a way to change the lives of Africa’s young women.
O n July 4, 2007, Suad Ali met Robert Pacelli at a barbecue in Monterey, 15 years and continents away from the first time their paths crossed. Back then Ali, now a Monterey resident, was ...
Aboard the Steel Beach
A look at life aboard an aircraft carrier through the eyes of a local 20-year-old woman.
Prunedale’s Brandi Holland works in one of the most uniquely dangerous job environments in the world. High-speed winds caused by landing airplanes and the open Pacific Ocean whip her body and mind. Multimillion-dollar aircraft screech ...
Seventeen Monterey County doctors are reportedly on drug company payrolls.
Could your doctor be a salesperson in disguise? Seven major pharmaceutical companies recently revealed lists of independent doctors on their payrolls, primarily to give educational and promotional speeches about their products. Independent investigative news group ...
Rare Pair
Jon Manasse and Jon Nakamatsu share more than the same first name.
In 2004 a music manager suggested to his two clients that they play together. Clarinetist Jon Manasse and pianist Jon Nakamatsu took their manager’s advice and sat down to play Brahms’ Clarinet Sonata No. 1. ...
Shrinking Planet
The United Nations Association Film Festival makes the globe smaller in inspiring ways.
A documentary film crew flies over the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu in a small plane. As they look down into the variegated blues of the ocean, they see a thin strip of sand, at ...
Parting the Lettuce Curtain
Lideres Campesinas uses theater to get at some of farm work’s ugliest issues.
Though the Salinas sun beats down mercilessly, many female fieldworkers wear sweatshirts. which doesn’t make sense to most people. But there’s a very good – albeit haunting – reason that they do, and Lideres Campesinas, ...
Monterey event empowers action against sexual violence in the Congo.
In the space of just six nightmarish days, July 30-Aug. 4, a reported 500 women were raped in the Congo by Rwandan and Congolese rebels. Larry Levine of Monterey’s United Nations Association saw it as ...
What is your best kept cooking secret?
Asked at Crazy Horse Restaurant in Monterey.
HILDA VEITENHEIMER | Grocery Retail Management | Monterey A: Never overcook. Then you lose all the freshness, flavor, and nutrients. Tomato Head: Vine-ripe tomatoes and basil. I love them. JUAN SALAZAR | Chef | Monterey ...
If you were an outlaw, what would you do for the people?
Asked at Valley Hills Shopping Center in Carmel.
Follow-up: What would your costume or nickname be? VERONIQUE TORNE | Social Worker | Gonzales A: In Gonzales there are all these fresh produce trucks on the side of the road. A lot of that ...
What is the strangest side job you’ve had?
Asked at Starbucks in Del Rey Oaks.
Follow-up: If you could have anything delivered, what would it be? T.K. KIMBLE | Marina| Musician A: Being a musician’s a pretty strange side job. You meet crazy people with eclectic ideas. One night I ...
