Of Photographers and Spies
PERFECT PICTURES: You’ve read about it before here, but now the Monterey Museum of Art is officially announcing what will almost certainly be its most ...
From Monterey Pop to the Mexican Revolution
SCENES ALONG THE ROAD: The great documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock, who died last week, was the camera operator, along with Albert (“Gimme Shelter’’) Maysles, of ...
Britney, Gaga and Carmel-by-the-Sea Revisited
BACH ROCKS: Gentlemen (and women), start your harpsichords. Tickets for the Carmel Bach Festival’s inaugural season under the aegis of new music director and conductor ...
Barry Bonds and Steroids, Babe Ruth and the “Hot Dog” Connection
OPENING DAZE: Baseball season is approaching, and all the tell-tale signs are in place. Giants closer Brian Wilson strained his “left oblique” muscle, so his ...
Tough navigation for Carmel-by-the-Sea, more rocky waters at Maritime History and Art Museum.
SUNSET CLAUSE: Well, it was all for an excellent cause—a fundraiser for the Monterey Bay Film Society, which will in turn benefit student filmmakers. And ...
Pay walls, Arianna Huffington, “American Idol’’ and Marshall McCluhan
UNDERSTANDING MEDIA: There’s too much going on on this lonely planet these days for this poor mind to get around. Japan. Libya. The Middle East. ...
Swinging Southwesterners, Carmel Star Power and the Death of a Jazzman.
TEXAS TWOSTEPS: So Michael Nesmith’s VideoRanch3D cybercast from South by Southwest went off well, despite the inevitable technical glitches, personally tweaked by Nesmith to his ...
Disaster Movies, Real-Life Disasters and Virtual Rock and Roll
POWER STRUGGLES: As we watch the scenes of destruction, from Japan to Santa Cruz harbor, it serves as another reminder not only that life imitates ...
Chaz Bono, "bad lesbians" and open-minded Republicans
There wasn’t a Bible-thumping picketer—or a commercial television camera—in sight, as Chaz Bono gave a talk about “Transition” about his journey as a transgender celebrity ...
TED Talks in a F****d Up World
TED TALK: How can you miss it if it won’t go away? It’s a pity that the TED Conference is no longer in Monterey, but ...
Tech talk, Punk Poetry and the Portman-Huckabee Face-Off
BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: While Sacramento politicians are slicing and dicing the state and community college, and schoolteachers, inexplicably, have become the demons du jour ...
The Charlie Sheen Saga and Second City at CSUMB
Hate Speech: The story du jour, of course, is the many ways in which Charlie Sheen is making (even more of) an imbecile of himself ...
