Monterey County Weekly back issues from October 2007:
Burning Desire
Oct 04, 2007; ... The MPC Fire Academy tests just how much its students want to serve. S and flies as a mob of young firefighter apprentices barrel up the hill at Carmel Beach. In the muggy parking lot at the top of the hill, they line up in military-like formation. Overhead lights cast a dull, orange ...
STReeT TaLK
Oct 04, 2007; ... Asked at Jamba Juice in Del Rey Oaks. Q: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE UNCONVENTIONAL FOOD COMBINATION? Follow-up: What one food and drink item would you take into space? HEATHER BENNETT Educator | Seaside A: Nacho cheese with popcorn and butter. I also ...
Fertile Ground
Oct 04, 2007; ... Local ag operations migrate to Mexico for cheap and legal workers. This winter, when agriculture giant Tanimura & Antle shifts to the Arizona and southern California deserts to harvest lettuce, broccoli and other veggies, it will also plant seeds south of the border. Chief Executive ...
LAIRD TO STATE: SHOW ME THE SCIENCE
Oct 04, 2007; ... Assemblyman wants more studies on moth pheromone spray. Head-patting may work in some situations. But when scores of his constituents in both Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties are contacting him with questions involving their health, Assemblyman John Laird wants the facts. In a ...
Building Shelter
Oct 04, 2007; ... Salinas leaders craft a 10-year plan to end homelessness. Drug addicts need more recovery programs. Poor people need cheaper housing. The mentally ill need better treatment. And all three groups could use jobs. The city of Saunas will face these unyielding realities as it develops a ...
Baghdad Burning
Oct 04, 2007; ... Watching Iraq's slow death, four years into the war. "Call at night," Isam tells me. "The reception for the phones here is not very good since they built the wall." Isam lives in Adhamiya, a Sunni enclave in Baghdad that the US military has recently treated to its most-used ...
Beyond the Label
Oct 04, 2007; ... THE LOCAL SPIN Ethical consumerism can give a false sense of comfort. When you buy consumer goods, do you look to buy those that proclaim "Made in the USA" and promise "sweat-free" products? The US awareness of ethical consumerism would have us believe that we can have a ...
SQUID FRY
Oct 04, 2007; ... AIR SPRAY ...Something's been in the air lately, and Squid can't put a tentacle on it. Squid's mood is shot Oh, oh, now Squid remembers. There are pheromones in the air, courtesy of the State, to rid the county of the nasty little light brown apple moth. So Squid isn't feeling like Squid's ...
Ken Burns' War
Oct 04, 2007; ... FORUM A nostalgic series on PBS fails to focus closely on the cruelty, degradation and moral failure of combat. It seems a bit strange to think of it now, but just less than a decade ago, before Everything Changed, America went through a strange, sentimental obsession with World ...
You Don't Know Jack
Oct 04, 2007; ... The local story behind the country's proudest cheese is hard to slice. The story of Monterey Jack has all the trappings of a great Steinbeck novel: migrant families, a rich land baron, tensions between ranchers and workers, struggle, injury and loss, all set against the natural ...
Slice of Heaven
Oct 04, 2007; ... Carmel's Cheese Shop ferments a happy insanity. R. Kent Torrey stands molded into one of the nooks that shape the rear end of his homage to fromage, fine wine and gourmet foods, surrounded by prizes drawn from a globe-trotting grand gastronomy of "fermentation science," as he likes to ...
Driven to Bliss
Oct 04, 2007; ... Monterey's new Wine Trolley is as fun as it sounds. The latest addition to the local swirl-and-sip scene runs on biodiesel and wouldn't be around if it wasn't for local ghosts and a pony-tailed man with $25,000. I found myself on its small back porch just the other day, sipping Ventana ...
Star Wines
Oct 04, 2007; ... Star Market's resident sage reveals some of his favorite inexpensive bottles. Victor Kong knows what his customers want-whether it's a serious bottle of a "Pisoni Vineyard" Pinot Noir or a package of Nathan's hot dogs-and he knows their names. It's almost scary. As a woman in the ...
Delicious Science
Oct 04, 2007; ... Enlightened ways to bring wine and cheese into greater harmony. Wine, of course, contains alcohol-but if buzz is all you seek, there are cheaper options. We make such a fuss about wine because, properly chosen, it becomes as much a part of the meal as the plate, the cook, or the ...
Top Flight
Oct 04, 2007; ... DEVELOPING NEWS ...So I'm flying in a little four-seat Cirrus SR22 on my way back from the Napa Valley with a few friends one afternoon (just another typical lazy afternoon) and as would be expected, from the reasonable height we were descending to on the approach into Monterey, I was picking out ...
Enchanted Evening
Oct 04, 2007; ... Enchanted Evening PacRep delivers a magical Midsummer Night's Dream. A giant moon glimmered at the elbow of a towering Monterey pine above the stage of the Outdoor Forest Theater on preview night of Pac Rep's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Oh, it was not a real moon but a splendid ...
Looking Back
Oct 04, 2007; ... Monterey Symphony season opens with "Movies, Music and Memories." The first featured instruments of the new Monterey Symphony season will be the voices of musical theater singers Susan Egan and Michael Maguire. In "Movies, Music and Memories," they, the orchestra, and conductor Arthur ...
Live from Tel Aviv
Oct 04, 2007; ... Israeli band Rockfour channels '60s rock. Earlier this year, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour started a contest on MySpace to honor the passing of Sid Barrett, the founding member of the psychedelic rock group. All contestants were asked to send in their takes of Pink Floyd's first single ...
Love Songs
Oct 04, 2007; ... Wade Love Band honeys the R&B. Back in high school, Wade Love used his velvety voice to try and seduce girls. He would call up his female classmates and sing a song he wrote titled "Time It Moves So Fast" over the phone. And, he had a doo-wop group called Clockwise that serenaded ...
Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970
Oct 04, 2007; ... VARIOUS ARTISTS Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 Rhino The Summer of Love still casts its patchouli-scented shadow on the Bay Area 40 years later, a legend blessed and cursed by old hippies and academics who weren't even alive at the time. One ...
Playground
Oct 04, 2007; ... MANU KATCHE Playground ECM Records Playground, French drummer Manu Katche's third jazz release as a leader, finds him surrounded by perceptive and sensitive European musicians. The piano-bass team of Marcin Wasilewski and Slawomir Kurkiewicz, long of Polish trumpeter ...
The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams
Oct 04, 2007; ... ME'SHELL NDEGEOCELLO The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams Emarcy Unlike, say, Erykah Badu, Me'shell NdegéOcello is not weighed down by unrealistic expectations to resurrect some long-lost soul movement. NdegéOcello's fans expect her to go far out, and she ...
Natural Actor
Oct 04, 2007; ... The Weekly site down with Emile Hirsch, star of Into the Wild. The 1996 non-fiction bestseller Into the Wild chronicled the final two years of Christopher McCandless, an idealistic college graduate who gave his savings to charity and then set off for America's wildest regions. His dead ...
On the Road Again
Oct 04, 2007; ... On the Road Again Sean Penn brings Into the Wild to the big screen. In 1996, Outside Magazine writer Jon Krakauer released his first book titled Into the Wild. Built up from a piece he did for Outside, Krakauer's nonfiction work detailed the life of Christopher McCandless, an ...
Well-Read
Oct 04, 2007; ... Well-Read Surprise-The Jane Austen Book Cub isn't as bad as it sounds. Romantic comedies love to set lingering scenes in bookstores. Bookstores have class. Those multicolored rectangular shapes stacked in the background provide an arresting visual contrast to the actors. But few ...
Designer Views
Oct 04, 2007; ... "A waterfront view is not a matter of life and death. It's much more important than that." So reads a wooden plaque that Paul Porch, Laura Vonier and Paul's dad, Steve, have on their tremendous (1500 square feet: as wide as a one-lane road) wrap-around redwood deck (in a beautiful chevron ...
Biodiesel Dancer
Oct 11, 2007; ... From Big Sur to Paris, a local woman's fire dancing burns green. Her name is Byrne-Rosalia Moon Byrne. Her body bends and weaves, gliding between fiery beams of yellow, orange, and red. As her farreaching braids whip through the air and white French-fry-scented smoke streams through the ...
STReeT TaLK
Oct 11, 2007; ... Asked at Dollar Tree on North Main Street in Salinas. Q: WHAT IS THE BEST THING YOU CAN BUY FOR ONE DOLLAR? Follow-up: What is the best thing you can get for free? VIENAY FUENTEZ Dancer | Salinas A: Candy is a pretty good dollar buy-Hershey's with almonds ....
FUNNY FEELING
Oct 11, 2007; ... The San Francisco Comedy Tour left the Golden State rolling. Nobody's laughing now. Five of the competing comedians on the San Francisco Comedy Competition stand hunched over a laptop, staring incredulously at a spreadsheet where the scores from their just-completed showdown ...
Price of Paradise
Oct 11, 2007; ... Despite pricey homes and soaring foreclosure rates, there's hope for first-time buyers. Financial pundits agree that the Irrational Real Estate Extravaganza of the past few years is kaput. The blazing housing market may have filled some pockets with a surfeit of shekels, but it also left ...
LIKE MOTHS TO FLAME
Oct 11, 2007; ... Despite safety assurances, controversy swirls around pheromone spray. Who knew that a hungry little moth could cause so much drama? The latest chapter in the debate over the state's plan to control the pest involves the health of the marine sanctuary, the safety of little-known ...
Granny Units
Oct 11, 2007; ... CHISPA wants affordable senior homes in Marina. The City wants market-rate renters. CHISPA wants to build affordable apartments for seniors next to the new bus station in Marina-but the City and Monterey-Saunas Transit want more than just poor grandparents living there. The City ...
True Crime Stories
Oct 11, 2007; ... THE LOCAL SPIN A historical look at myth and crime in Seaside. Perceptions count. Seaside earned a reputation as a center for drugs and violent crime in the decades of the 1980s and 1990s that persists today. It was called a "war zone" in media accounts, and considered "scary" ...
SQUID FRY
Oct 11, 2007; ... WON'T BACK DOWN ...Not having one squidself, Squid never really set much store in the whole concept of backbones-you know, spines. Until last week, that is, upon witnessing the landlubbers on the Pacific Grove City Council. On the Oct. 3 agenda was the wholesale re-org of city staff ...
'Did I Mention 9/11?'
Oct 11, 2007; ... FORUM A guide to Rudy Giuliani's positions on the issues. As the heroic former mayor of New York City, presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani is being accused of relying too much on his 9/11 reputation. To counteract that perception, his advisers have reportedly drafted the ...
Downtown Ghost Town
Oct 11, 2007; ... Seaside's much-needed redevelopment project has planners dreaming big. Reggie Jackson doesn't have time to chat-he's off to chase the Yankees through the postseason. Besides, he says, he doesn't want to be the public face of his planned hotel in downtown Seaside. He's got a team stacked ...
Earth Force
Oct 11, 2007; ... Earth Force An extraordinary exhibition of ceramics by Toshiko Takaezu closes in one week. Echoes of the Earth: Ceramics by Toshiko Tazaezu continues at Hartnell College Gallery, 156 Homestead Ave., Salinas through Oct. 18. Gallery hours are Mon-Thu, 10am-1pm, and Mon-Wed, 6-9pm ....
Blue Arrival
Oct 11, 2007; ... Blue Arrival At 78, Ed Reed is soaring in a new career as singer. Ed Reed performs on Saturday, 7:30pm at The Jazz & Blues Company, The Eastwood Building, San Carlos and Fifth Street, Carmel. $35.624-6432, thejazzandbluescompany.com. "This is a dream come true," said ...
Love Is Simple
Oct 11, 2007; ... AKRON/FAMILY Love Is Simple Young God Records The next time someone tells you that rock music will never be as adventurous as it was in the glory days of the '60s, pop in Love Is Simple, the new record from New York's Akron/Family, and watch their head ...
Italia
Oct 11, 2007; ... CHRIS BOTTI Italia Sony Better known to most as the co-host on the old Caroline Rhea Show, Grammy award-winner Chris Botti has created a string of well deserved certified gold selling albums. One of the few artists to transfer over from jazz to the pop charts, his ...
From the Corner to the Block
Oct 11, 2007; ... GALACTIC From the Corner to the Block Anti Galactic makes up for lost time-four years, in fact, since its last CD-by collaborating with some of the hippest hip-hop artists around. The result is a work that deftly transcends its novelty with room to spare. Much ...
American Credo
Oct 11, 2007; ... American Credo Miró String Quartet opens Chamber Music Monterey Bay season with premiere of new quartet by Kevin Puts. Miró String Qtiartet performs at 8pm Friday, Oct. 12, at the Sunset Center, San Carlos and Ninth, Carmel. S27-S41.625-2212 or ...
Still Yanking the Chain
Oct 11, 2007; ... Still Yanking the Chain Grammy-winning "Weird Al" Yankovic stops in Monterey to lampoon pop music. "Weird Al" Yankovic plays 8pm this Friday. Oct. 12, at the Golden State Theatre, 417 Alvarado St., Monterey. $45-195.372-3800. The pop music scene of the '80s was ripe for ...
The Raw Truth
Oct 11, 2007; ... Why humans are the only animal that cooks their food-and should consider reconsidering. The brain of an adult human uses 25 percent of the body's total energy expenditure. That's a lot of resources devoted to brainpower, but it seems to have paid off. Apes, who only allocate 8 percent of ...
Lean and Mean
Oct 11, 2007; ... BUGGING OUT ...I'm a little worried about Sweet Thing. Normally she is a loving, caring, non-aggressive individual who spends reflective time trying to improve herself as a human and stay close to the tenets set forth by folks like the Dalai Lama. A few months ago she repotted one of her ...
Waters' Edge
Oct 11, 2007; ... Waters' Edge The Weekly interviews cult filmmaker John Waters on the eve of his talk at Golden State. An Evening with John Waters starts at 8pm, Thursday, Oct. 11, at the Golden State Theatre, 417 Alvarado St., Monterey. $20-$49.372-4555,372-3800 ...
Uncivil Action
Oct 11, 2007; ... Uncivil Action George Clooney plays a morally bankrupt employee at a law firm in Michael Clayton. MICHAEL CLAYTON *** Directed by Tony Gilroy * Starring George Clooney, Tilda Swinton and Tom Wilkinson * R, 119 min * At the Century Cinemas Del Monte Center, Maya Cinemas, ...
All Aboard
Oct 11, 2007; ... All Aboard The Darjeeling Limited follows a trio of brothers on a train ride through India. THE DARJEELING LIMITED ***1/2 Directed by Wes Anderson * Starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Anjelica Huston * R, 91 min * At the Osio Cinemas. With The ...
Hacienda Legacy
Oct 11, 2007; ... Evelyn MacLean represents the third generation of her family to own this two-bedroom, two-bath condo in Carmel's Hacienda. In 1967 her grandparents bought it hew. "I was four when they moved in," says MacLean. "I grew up being here all the time to 'play with grandma and grandpa.' This was the ...
Greasy Green
Oct 18, 2007; ... Local auto shops lead the eco-certification movement. Instead of starlet posters and dog-eared Car ft Driver magazines, the waiting room is stocked with Ansel Adams prints and a John Lennon photo book. Instead of kitty litter covering patches of oil, a powder absorbent made from a rice ...
STReeT TaLK
Oct 18, 2007; ... Asked at Old Monterey Marketplace. Q: WHAT'S THE BEST THING ABOUT FARMERS MARKETS? Follow-up: Is there such a thing as tod many? LANCE ERICKSON Engineer | Pacific Grave A: I love the fresh produce, but I also love the inexpensive flowers. My wife ...
BUILDING HISTORY
Oct 18, 2007; ... Seaside honors the mastermind behind city hall. The US Embassy building in New Delhi, the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington DC and the Seaside City Hall would seem to have little in common. But each were designed by modernist architect Edward Durrell Stone. In the ...
Heated Debate
Oct 18, 2007; ... California pledged to reduce carbon emissions with AB 32, but the devil is in the details. A year after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, into law, some Californians believe the drive for strict measures to counteract global warming is on ...
FLYING RIGHT AT THE ISSUE
Oct 18, 2007; ... Disclosure of moth pheromone product's inert ingredients incite a legal battle. At odds over the question of trade secrets versus the public's right to know, a biopesticide manufacturer and the Monterey County Weekly have sued each other. A third case brought by environmentalists is ...
Ripe for the Pickin'
Oct 18, 2007; ... PG and Seaside consider farmers markets. Cars zip by on Reservation Road as a woman stands and greets a customer looking at her homemade jewelry. At a nearby booth, a man sells fresh tomatoes and giant avocados. It's a Sunday scene in Marina-locals strolling from table to table, picking ...
Urban Visions
Oct 18, 2007; ... Cities can build community if leaders dare to dream. No one strives for alienation and isolation. All of us (well, most of us) crave community and connection-the fabric of relationships that give life meaning and a sense of joy. You'd think we'd create places to live that nourish ...
SQUID FRY
Oct 18, 2007; ... FLAPPING ABOUT ...About two months ago, a mottled beige moth fluttered onto Squid's desk. By the next morning, it had poetically expired right there. The deceased's family has not shown up to identify its remains, but Squid suspects it was the loathed light brown apple moth being its usual ...
SUmmIT UP
Oct 18, 2007; ... THE FIRST EVER MONTEREY MUSIC TAKES ON SOME LOFTY GOALS WITH THE HELP OF A REMARKABLE ROSTER OF ARTISTS. Rock and roll can change the world-at least that's how Monterey Music Summit organizer Joe Fletcher sees it. The career promoter has long courted conscious artists, putting together ...
eXPLOSIVe eneRGY
Oct 18, 2007; ... MICHAEL FRANTI AND SPEARHEAD UNLEASH A STIRRING GHORUS OF CONSCIOUSNESS. The harder they hit us, the louder we become." -from Michael Franti and Spearhead's "Skin on the Drum" When the guitar riffs hit, the audience doesn't nod their heads or pass around joints. Instead, ...
LIVe anD [VeRY] DIReCT
Oct 18, 2007; ... ?UESTLOVE DESCRIBES THE URBAN INSPIRATION THAT KEEPS THE ROOTS TOURING CONSTANTLY. "America's lost somewhere inside Littleton. Eleven million children are on Ritalin." -from The Roots' "false Media' The Roots are truly in their element when on stage. There the ...
mOVInG mUSIC
Oct 18, 2007; ... ZAP MAMA CHANNELS HER TRAVELS INTO A POWERFUL PULSE OF AFRICANAFUNKREGGAESOUL. He didn't know where he was going, had to reach the border. The road was long, rocky and dusty. He got to the border, he didn't know what was wrong." -from Zap Mama'a "Go Boy" Marie Daulne's ...
nOW On
Oct 18, 2007; ... THIS MOMENT'S NEW MEDIUMS BRING NEW ARTISTS TO THE BIG TIME BY WAY OF MONTEREY. "I was way down for the revolution until I found out it was contingent upon some corporate responsorship." -from Me'shell Ndegeocello's "God. Fear. Money." While well-known acts like G. Love, ...
STILL ReSTLeSS
Oct 18, 2007; ... CAKE CONTINUES TO SHARPEN ALT-MUSIC'S EDGE. "They laugh, they make money. He's got a gold watch. She's got a silk dress and healthy breasts that bounce on his Italian leather sofa. -from Cake's "Italian Leather Sofa" "We're not half as ironic as everyone says we are," ...
Legend Music
Oct 18, 2007; ... Legend Music Singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson sings at Sunset; his tunes are international hits, and for the ages. By Stuart Thornton While attending Pomona College in the '50s, the young Kris Kristofferson seemed destined for greatness. He was an accomplished ...
Jazzmaster Magnet
Oct 18, 2007; ... Jazzmaster Magnet Loved by big name jazz artists, pianist Dick Whittington holds court at Cypress Inn. By Andrew Gilbert Jazz in Carmel is going to the dogs. And that's a good thing. Last weekend, the pooch-friendly Cypress Inn marked the second anniversary of a ...