Recently added articles from Monterey County Weekly:
Keytar Hero
Mar 05, 2009; ... Kevin K's passion for his rare instrument is clear-and rather contagious. Kevin Kooyumjian beams like he has just won the lottery. Only the musician who goes by the stage name of Kevin K isn't psyched because a scratcher just won him millions, but because he is doing what he loves: ...
STReeT TaLK
Mar 05, 2009; ... Asked at REI in Marina Q: WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON THAT YOU'VE LEARNED IN LIFE? Follow-up: Any further words of wisdom? JUSTIN NEILL Carpenter | Monterey A: Not to convey too much about yourself. Golden State: I treat others how ...
NOW RECORDING
Mar 05, 2009; ... StoryCorps gathers real stories in Salinas. All too often the stories of the past are left there. StoryCorps- in collaboration with National Public Radio, the National September llth Memorial and Museum, the American Folk Life Center at the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian ...
Belt, Tightened
Mar 05, 2009; ... Monterey County struggles to fill a multi-million budget gap. Long gone are the days of (expensive) wine and roses in Monterey County. Instead, county employees can look ahead to furlough days and putting money into their own retirement plan- and, likely, layoffs. At the ...
RAGING VIOLENCE
Mar 05, 2009; ... Another deadly week in Salinas. Gang violence continued to besiege Salinas this past week with two teens and one man shot and killed, bringing the city's death toll to nine this year. During the evening of Feb. 26, Carlos Mejia, 17, and Francisco Alfaro Jr., 16, both Everett ...
Dammed If You Do
Mar 05, 2009; ... Cal Am's decision to strengthen the San Clemente Dam risks a bigger ratepayer burden. California American Water had planned to re-route the Carmel River, but it recently changed its own courseannouncing that it will strengthen the San Clemente Dam with steel-reinforced concrete, rather ...
UPDaTeS
Mar 05, 2009; ... WATER BOARD DAMPENS ECORESORT ...Developer Ed Ghandour's proposed hotel and conference center on Sand City's shoreline has taken another setback- and we don't mean its distance from the high tide line. On Feb. 26, the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District board voted 4-3 to require a new ...
Cost of Living
Mar 05, 2009; ... Marina City Council mulls mobile home rent-control ordinance. As the Marina City Council nears a long-awaited decision on whether to regulate mobile home rents, entrenched interests on both sides are gearing up for a fight. Park residents are circulating a petition to lower rents, while ...
Unlocking Creativity
Mar 05, 2009; ... THE LOCAL SPIN YAC's art projects have ripple effects for old and young alike. As concerned community members, parents and artists, and in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, we opened Youth Arts Collective nine years ago, in downtown Monterey. YAC, a 501c3 nonprofit ...
SQUID FRY
Mar 05, 2009; ... ADDITION BY SUBTRACTION ...Squid enjoyed Herald publisher Gary Omernick's first-ever byline on the opinion page on Sunday. The Herald is for sale, Omernick noted, you can buy a copy for a buck-fifty at 7-Eleven. Funny. Then, the man who has been head beancounter for the Herald for the ...
Home-Grown Fuel
Mar 05, 2009; ... FORUM The great American ethanol scam I've said it once, and I'll say it again here: corn-based ethanol is a loser, a subsidy for farm states and the politicians who represent them. According to David Pimentel, a Cornell University agricultural expert, it's a net energy loser ....
Photo Finish
Mar 05, 2009; ... THE RISE, FALL-AND REVIVAL-OF THE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ART. It was a rich old time by all accounts, when genius walked afoot on the Big Sur Coast, when the dining tables of Carmel Highlands homes were pounded during passionate speeches by talented inebriates of high understanding, and ...
Row Crop
Mar 05, 2009; ... Real Life on Cannery Row harvests information on the real folks that inspired Steinbeck's classic. Looking down the touristy thoroughfare of Monterey's Cannery Row, beneath a snowstorm of seagulls, it takes a mighty imagination to picture the area that inspired John Steinbeck to I write ...
Here and There
Mar 05, 2009; ... Bay Area alt-rockers bring eclectic sounds, impressive resume to Monterey. In less than a couple of years, the San Francisco alt-rock band Here Here have played enough big shows to make veteran rock groups jealous. After just one gig at a small venue, San Francisco's Edinburgh Castle ...
Two by Four
Mar 05, 2009; ... Take I uses an array of lead vocalists to craft far-ranging, flattering imitations. "We are almost like the modern day Rich Little's of singing," Chaz Ross says, comparing his Bay Area cover band, Take 2, to the famous impressionist. To mimic a wide variety of artists, Take 2 has ...
White on Black
Mar 05, 2009; ... Steve White raps about Obama's ethnicity and a hell of a lot more. Over a comedy career that's spanned 20-plus years, Steve White, formerly of Las Vegas and now settled in L.A., has appeared all over the comedy map- most recently in Japan. What was he doing there? "Telling ...
Nice Courses
Mar 05, 2009; ... Nice Courses Beguiling bargains appear in several places on Cannery Row. This luxury-for-less storyline soars with the famous soup, climaxes with the main course and closes with a tableside Caesar. But it starts with the heart. As part of the beautiful thing John Pisto's ...
Kids Play
Mar 05, 2009; ... Youth-boosting events headline a buffet of nourishing food news. Chewing on a partially lit cigar, George Lopez took a chomp out of Pacific Grove. Lopez, who has a home on the links in Pebble Beach, took to gnawing on P.G. after the AT&T Pro-Am's Charity Shootout when a knucklehead ...
Simply Super
Mar 05, 2009; ... Simply Super Watchmen heroically translates the heady graphic novel to the big screen. It was said of the 1987 superhero deconstruction graphic novel Watchmen that it was unfilmable. Originally released as a 12-issue comic book, its story was epic, marshalling science fiction, ...
THE CLASS
Mar 05, 2009; ... NEW RELEASES & REISSUES THE CLASS (Not reviewed this issue.) François is a high school teacher who tries to give his students a well-rounded experience. Discussions often get heavy and opinions mix on the current ...