AltWeeklies Wire
Video: Lifting Off With a Legendnew
Take to the skies with stunt flying legend Sean D. Tucker for a flight in advance of the California International Air Show. "We can't kill you before the air show. That would be bad P.R."
Monterey County Weekly |
Mark C. Anderson and Joel Ede |
09-25-2012 |
Recreation
The Fine Art of Homemade Hoochnew
The easy art of fermenting alcohol at home.
Monterey County Weekly |
Jamie Collins |
10-24-2011 |
Food+Drink
Mamet’s 'Speed-the-Plow' Hollows Out Hollywoodnew
David Mamet is all about dialogue – a dialogue of interruptions and unfinished sentences, repetition and leaps across loosely connected ideas. It’s tough-guy back-and-forth, bobbing and weaving with everything from intellectual razzle dazzle to low-blow punchlines.
Monterey County Weekly |
Walter Ryce |
03-04-2010 |
Theater
Tags: Cherry Center, David Mamet
Meet Kelly Slater: Golfer, Activist and a Decent Surfernew
On the board, Kelly Slater’s been the youngest and oldest champion his sport has known, claiming a record-crushing nine world titles and earning him comparisons to Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan.
Monterey County Weekly |
Mark C. Anderson |
02-11-2010 |
Sports
Dynasty Restaurant Pours Good Chinese on Pacific Grovenew
I eschew glow-in-the-dark sweet and sour pork and disdain the way-too-sweet General Tso’s chicken in many Chinese-American restaurants, so you can’t blame me for not rushing to try every Chinese restaurant on the Monterey Peninsula. But I wish I’d tried Pacific Grove’s Dynasty Restaurant sooner.
Monterey County Weekly |
Pat Tanumihardja |
01-21-2010 |
Food+Drink
Homeless Youth Look for -- and Find -- a Safe Place in Montereynew
Social workers call the homeless youth of Monterey Peninsula "invisible children," living along one of the most affluent coastlines in the world but fading into the scenery because they don't want to draw attention to themselves -- and we don't want to see them.
Monterey County Weekly |
Jessica Lyons |
04-16-2009 |
Culture
Entrepreneurs and Scientists Team Up to Produce a Prettier, Healthier Abalonenew
For the abalone, this is life. For the Monterey Abalone Company, this is business. And for Suskiewicz, this is science: His two-and-a-half-year experiment as a grad student at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories produced a farmed abalone with a pretty red color and rich flavor.
Monterey County Weekly |
Kera Abraham |
02-05-2009 |
Food+Drink
Greening the Greensnew
Environmentally friendlier golf courses are gaining recognition.
Monterey County Weekly |
Kera Abraham |
02-07-2008 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Sommelier Horror Storiesnew
And the strategies to avoid starring in them.
Monterey County Weekly |
Paul Wetterau |
01-31-2008 |
Food+Drink
Buzzworthy Napa Valley Bottlesnew
hese wines have several things in common. Like Chesebro’s Vermentino, they are just starting to get noticed. Two, they don’t need forever to mature.
Monterey County Weekly |
Paul Wetterau |
01-31-2008 |
Food+Drink
The Spectacular Pebble Beach Food and Winenew
"This all came about with The Masters leaving – and us wanting to continue the event," Rob Weakley says. "The biggest thing we all looked forward to at The Highlands every year was The Masters; we were wondering how we could continue giving something like that to our community."
Monterey County Weekly |
Raymond Napolitano |
01-31-2008 |
Food+Drink
Snubbing Wine Snobberynew
Ashamed of that cheap wine you're buying? Maybe that's because wine writers don't take either of you seriously. They should.
Monterey County Weekly |
Staff |
12-27-2007 |
Food+Drink
Jumping Through Hoops to Become a Locavorenew
The journey to consume local foods is fraught with fresh ingredients, inspiring insights and local stories.
Monterey County Weekly |
Mark C. Anderson |
11-29-2007 |
Food+Drink
Incentives Needed to Help Create Ready Eco Workforcenew
While the traditional economic outlook is bleak, the green economy is taking shape -- but what remains to be seen is if the career ladders appearing in every sector, from green building to organic farming, solar installation and sustainable marketing, are available to all or to a select few.
Monterey County Weekly |
Brita Belli |
11-15-2007 |
Commentary
Wine & Cattle Ranching Industries Coming Up Drynew
Consider what the lack of rainfall throughout the previous year has wrought on Monterey County's multimillion dollar wine grape growing and cattle ranching industries -- a big financial hit, the size of which won't be known until next year.
Monterey County Weekly |
Mary Duan |
10-26-2007 |
Food+Drink
