Serious Business
Marina Technology Cluster Business Plan Contest sprouts some unique schemes.
Julienne, scallop, mince, dice, cube: There’s more than one way to skin (and slice) a potato. It’s an obscure tater cut, though, and one that happens away from the kitchen, that represents a potential revolution ...
Jarring Mason
Smoky songwriter Mason Reed rides West to East Village.
This Tuesday, Mason Reed steers his GMC Sierra pick-up towards East Village Coffee Lounge for the first West Coast date on a “never-ending tour” to promote his new album, You Can’t Come Back from Heaven. ...
DIY Diesel
Local visionaries design a mini fuel refinery with big possibilities.
Tucked away behind an unmarked door in a hangar behind the Marina Municipal Airport resides a grease-smeared contraption small enough fit on a forklift – a peculiar maze of coils, pipes and gauges – that ...
Human Trace
The United Nations Association Film Festival proffers powerful humanitarian portraits.
Twenty-four-hour news, Twitter and YouTube have made information instantaneous and ubiquitous, allowing users to connect across cultures, languages and continents. Unfortunately, quantity hasn’t translated to quality – the flood of information often drowns meaningful messages ...
Wildly Inspiring
Ken Burns’ much awaited National Parks series explores the toil behind the treasures.
When people think of national parks, they probably picture mammoth redwoods, snowcapped Tetons or the Colorado River lolling through the Grand Canyon. It’s unlikely they envision George Masa, a Japanese immigrant who meticulously recorded local ...
World Power
HI-Monterey Hostel celebrates a landmark anniversary – and readies for a second venue.
If the walls of the HI-Monterey Hostel could talk, they would recount – in an amalgamation of languages – quite a few tales. They’d speak of an impromptu fire pit concert by a French tourist ...
Buried Issues
Watchdog group digs up questions about the Fort Ord cleanup.
Asmall group of citizens is bringing up old grievances with the U.S. Army’s efforts to clean up the former Fort Ord. The Fort Ord Community Action Group, an advisory body to the California Environmental Protection ...
On a Mission
A historic Carmel Mission exhibition peeks at the artful architecture that defines its cousins to the south.
Carmel’s Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, headquarters of Father Junipero Serra’s Alta California efforts and the place where he is buried, has added another body of historic significance. This time, however, it’s a body ...
Student Guide 2009
Free Your Mind: All the education, none of the tuition.
With MIIS sending experts all over the globe, MPC assembling one of the finest community college faculty in the USA, CSUMB reinventing the concept of a state school and NPS feeding bright minds to the ...
Money’s All Gone
Central Coast VNA and Hospice’s Seaside adult day care center closes its doors.
Another casualty of the state buget cuts: The Central Coast Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice’s Seaside adult day care center will close in about a month. The local nonprofit provides healthcare, rehabilitation and socialization to ...
Fuzzy Feeling
Local alpaca ranchers cultivate an adoration for the curious camelids.
Nancy Baker awoke on a recent Saturday morning to a sight that made her breathe a sigh of relief. Galaxy, a then-yet-to-be-born cria – or baby alpaca – was about two weeks overdue, and Baker ...
A trek to the massive Pacific garbage patch hopes to net breakthrough understanding.
A group of marine biology students from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego left several days ago for the North Pacific Gyre, a swirling trash vortex about 1,000 miles off ...
Calling for Kelp
The effort at keeping invasive miso-soup kelp off the West Coast
In December 2007 the Weekly took a look at the invasive aquatic species bearing down on Moss Landing and Monterey Bay—and the verdict was mixed. Elkhorn Slough was a mess, but troublesome Undaria pinnatifida, after ...
Good Heavens
The Blue Angels spearhead a sky-high California International Airshow lineup.
Six spade-shaped /A-18 Hornets wheel through the Salinas sky in a perfect line, carving contrails that look like Zen garden patterns. A moment later the six Blue Angels are soaring straight up, before they break ...
Abs Work Out
Monterey Abalone Company gets some national attention.
This week's New York Times Magazine profiled Art Seavey and Trevor Fay, owners of the Monterey Abalone Company on Monterey's Municipal Wharf, describing the unique local flavor of the shellfish and the company, and exploring ...
Pretty City
Volunteers help plant Monterey’s first community garden.
As Monterey County communities gain momentum in their sustainability initiatives, one thing is clear – these initiatives require citizen action. Enter a group of volunteers partnering with the city of Monterey to plant a community ...
NYC Mayor Bloomberg honors Carmel Valley's Rana Creek.
Earlier this month, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg honored Carmel Valley green roof gurus Rana Creek for their work on North America’s largest continuous green roof. Perched atop the underground Croton Water Filtration Plant ...
Downtown Heats Up
Firefighters respond to Alvarado Street blaze that claims Jugem.
Shattered glass dangles like teeth from the gaping yaw of what was Jugem Restaurant, which caught fire at 2:45am this morning. A Monterey firefighter monitors the 411 Alvarado St. storefront, occasionally dousing plumes of smoke ...
Stunning Stanza
Seaside native scores unlikely collaboration with Wyclef Jean.
Thirty seconds was all it took to boost singer Alycia Nichole's singing career. The Seaside High 2001 grad won the opportunity to collaborate with Wyclef Jean after submitting a 30-second Twitter video audition as part ...
Charging Ahead
Local stakeholders plan (and pray) for electric vehicle influx.
California’s aggressive climate change legislation calls for a reduction of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by 2020. Hybrid and electric vehicles (EVs) have the potential to cut emissions from passenger vehicles, which make up about ...
Spiny shark sleepover
A very rare shark makes a very brief visit to the Aquarium.
Most don’t know that prickly sharks have spines on the scales of their upper bodies, that they live in deep, dark waters or that they are endangered. That’s because virtually no one ever lay eyes ...
