Recently added articles from Coast weekly:
No On Recall; Political hit on Calcagno was all talk, ag boss says.
Feb 11, 2004; ... Recall mania hit Monterey County late last month, when some South County farmers started to talk about ousting Supervisor Lou Calcagno. However, Calcagno says this effort by some agriculture industry leaders to recall him is going nowhere. "I think they've dropped the idea," ...
In The Swing Of Things; Pebble Beach Golf Pro Katherine Marren turns golf phobics into swingers.
Feb 11, 2004; ... The credentials on Katherine Marren's business card should say it all: PGA Teaching Professional Lead Instructor, Golf for Women Top 50 Teacher, member of the Golf For Women instruction panel. And Marren works for the Pebble Beach Company, one of the best golf resorts in the world. What ...
It's All About the Cake; Rosine's has been feeding local families for decades.
Feb 11, 2004; ... It was Open House at my kids' school last Sunday. It was a brilliant idea to do it on a weekend. Parents weren't rushed. Kids weren't on educational and social overload. We roamed classrooms leisurely, checked in with teachers, then browsed the science fair where I quickly declared my ...
Cinematic Art; Girl With a Pearl Earring is beautifully shot but has a slow plot.
Feb 11, 2004; ... Lord knows, Girl with a Pearl Earring is a bona fide art movie. It has the finest of pedigrees, being inspired by the famous Vermeer painting of the same title, which in turn inspired by Tracy Chevalier's popular book that offered speculation about the sources of Vermeer's creativity and the ...
Soul Train Keeps Runnin'; Touch N' Go have kept it tight over a 20-year career.
Feb 11, 2004; ... After being in the music business for more than 20 years, there is probably very little that can affect Larry Attanasio. But when the guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist for the Bay Area dance and R & B band Touch N' Go got a call the other day confirming his band's spot at the 2004 Monterey ...
DAROL ANGER AND THE AMERICAN FIDDLE ENSEMBLE; Republic of Strings; Compass Records
Feb 11, 2004; ... Over the course of his career, Darol Anger has become something of a polyglot. Anger's style expunges genre lines allowing him to freely perform a sweeping range of material that includes Stephane Grappelli, Amadeus Mozart, John Coltrane, Bill Monroe, Indonesian gamelan, and Cape Breton fiddle ...
Wolf Man Cometh; Will Shephard brings his one-man play about Jack London to Carmel's Indoor Forest Theater.
Feb 11, 2004; ... It was a simple suggestion, based more on looks than anything else, that started the haunting. That was back in 1975, when Will Shephard-now head of the Teledramatic Arts and Theater department at CSU Monterey Bay-was a struggling actor working in Southern California. His friend and co-actor ...
Déjà Vu on Del Monte; Road gets laid twice in two months. Andrew Scutro
Feb 11, 2004; ... Someone screwed up. The road repair project in front of the Naval Postgraduate School on Del Monte Avenue in Monterey, begun way back on Oct. 6, was supposed to be finished by Christmas. But there was a mistake-in either the design or the construction, depending on who's answering the questions ....
Culture Clash; Fired Cultural Council director says that he's the victim of a hostile takeover.
Feb 11, 2004; ... When describing his last 16 months as director of the Cultural Council for Monterey County, David Cloutier uses phrases like "hostile takeover" and "chaos" and "vehemence." Cloutier, who says in January he was told he was "dismissed with cause" after serving for 14 years as the ...
Master Bows; The "first family" of American chamber music plays in Carmel.
Feb 11, 2004; ... The Juilliard String Quartet is, in my opinion, the most famous ensemble of its kind this side of Budapest. But fame can be misleading. Second violinist Ron Copes remembers telling someone what he did, and the response was, "Oh, I know you guys-Arnold Steinhardt stayed in our house ...
Stream of Cowboy Consciousness; The Cowboy Satellites just kinda let it happen.
Feb 11, 2004; ... It was hard to make out everything Mike Beck said during a recent phone interview. Beck, who sounded like he was standing outside in an Alaskan blizzard, was actually driving to Elko, Nevada to perform at the National Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival. Though what sounded like gale force winds ...
THE DIRTBOMBS; Dangerous Magical Noise; In The Red Records
Feb 11, 2004; ... If nothing else, the release of The Dirtbombs' third album, Dangerous Magical Noise, proves that frontman Mick Collins is well on his way to learning how to play his guitar. As with Iggy and the Ashetons, the Dirtbombs' sound is defined by the members' technical limitations, and they, of course, ...
SAMBADA; Novas Raizes; Raizes do Brasil
Feb 11, 2004; ... The popular Santa Cruz band SambaDá is known to get the crowd dancing and the party jumping during their live performances, bringing together elements of rock, funk, hip-hop, salsa, and samba. Their new CD begins and ends with the foundations of samba: the rhythm. The percussion tracks ...
Eye of the Beholder; Carmel Art Association members show off their self-portraits.
Feb 11, 2004; ... Imagine a painter studying his or her face and recording what's there. Character, psychology and spirit inform the hand that renders eyes, the turn of the mouth, the wash of light across cheeks and chin and nose, the evocative depth of shadow, the figure and face in a setting. It's the most ...
culinary vision; PREDICTING FOOD FUTURES IS A FULL-TIME JOB.
Feb 11, 2004; ... Marc Halperin spends his days trying to figure out what you are going to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. As culinary director at the Center for Culinary Development in San Francisco, he works with food manufacturers like Kraft and Heinz, and clients like Burger King to develop new ...
a la mode; LOCAL CHEFS REVEAL WHAT'S COOKING IN FOOD FASHION.
Feb 11, 2004; ... Until recently, the frontier of cuisine was located on isolated geographical fronts that inched forward glacially. Today food is a global fashion industry, fueled by intrepid explorers intent on discovery, forceful agents bent on change, and hardly a menu that doesn't require some translation ....
don't worry, drink happy; RULE NO. 1: IF IT TASTES GOOD, DRINK IT.
Feb 11, 2004; ... This is a fascinating time to be a wine drinker (I know, the more wine you drink, the more fascinating it becomes). Never before in history have so many types, styles and colors of wine been available to winos (an endearing term used in the trade to define serious wine drinkers) of all financial ...
bring back the bing; ONE FAN'S MODEST PROPOSAL FOR HOW TO IMPROVE THE AT&T PEBBLE BEACH NATIONAL PRO-AM TOURNAMENT.
Feb 11, 2004; ... Everybody loves Raymond but me. I hate Raymond. Well, it's not that I hate Ray Romano, star of the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. I don't really hate anybody. But I sure do get tired of watching his lousy golf game on the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am (God that's a ...
a local duffer's dream comes true; YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A CELEBRITY (OR A GREAT GOLFER) TO PLAY PEBBLE BEACH. BUT IT HELPS IF YOU LIVE HERE.
Feb 11, 2004; ... When I moved to Monterey five years ago, one of my dreams was to play Pebble Beach Golf Links. For a golfer, Pebble Beach is what Mount Everest is to a mountain climber, or the America's Cup is to a sailor. All serious golfers appreciate the allure of Pebble Beach, and if they don't, well, they ...
Sunset Center's Future in Debate
Feb 04, 2004; ... The public is invited to attend a town hall meeting on Thurs., Jan. 29, to discuss the future management of Carmel's newly reopened and beautifully remodeled Sunset Community and Cultural Center. Fireworks are all but guaranteed. At a recent special city council meeting, some local ...