Issue Archive
Big Sur resident and Weekly contributor Gabe Skvor moved through the valley Monday and Tuesday, getting a lay of the land and facts on the ground. Below are some of his notes and reflections, listed chronologically. More at www.mcweekly.com/bigsurfire.
Something unwelcome awoke Celia Sanborn just before …
Inside Llewyn Davis uses its music – and its characters – to explore grief and mourning.
Retired Judge John Phillips is no stranger to disagr…
As Miley’s slimy pink tongue crawled all over us in 2013, there was some real music going on. My Bloody Valentine triumphantly returned in all its shoegaze glory withm b v. Unknown Mortal Orchestra dropped an unexpected dark horse, seasoned in authentic old-school R&B, with II. Flaming L…
It’s more than a month after Typhoon Haiyan (known r…
Not many Monterey Peninsula businesses can claim the…
MONTEREY COUNTY GIVES 2013 - Communities for Sustainable Monterey County
Face-To-Face 12.19.13 – Fred Meurer
Saving Mr. Banks portrays the battle of wills between famed author and Walt Disney.
LOCAL SPIN 12.19.13 - Big Sur is tested once again, along with the resolve of one strong family.
The trouble with making “functional” government the …
It went down at a San Francisco bookstore about 10 years ago: Alan Lomax’s 500-page cultural odyssey of the blues serendipitously dropped to the floor next to Aireene Espiritu’s right heel.
It took a court order to oust long-time board member…
Follow-up: What’s the most meaningful present you’ve…
JINGLE THOSE BELLS… Squid donned a bright red suit with white fur trim, then duct-taped antlers to Roscoe P. Coltrane (Squid’s beloved English bulldog) and set out. That’s right, Squid-a-Claus is coming to town, loaded with gifts for all the politicians and public figures who desperately nee…
It all comes down to this. At the end of each semest…
• On Dec. 5, the Monterey Bay Chapter of the America…
Last Friday, Monterey Peninsula College Theater Depa…
Real, authentic, honest-to-Dios mole (MOH-leh) sauce often involves somewhere around 4,548 different dried peppers and a wonderland of other ingredients ranging from plantains to pine nuts to seedless grapes to cinnamon. It is a dynamic, family-honored, time-tested, layered and lavish thing.…
When a vine goes through stress, it struggles. When …
For her 23rd birthday in December, Marissa Rojas of …
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Life is best organized a…
