0617| Jun 17

What''s Up, Chuck?

Keelaghan & Russell--Two great singer/songwriters add to the weekend's musical excitement.

Country Flat Farm

Community Supported Agriculture offers food for the body and soul.

The Heartland. Deep inside the cornrows of the sticky hot Midwest, where I''ve been to church more times in the last week than in the whole last year. The Hoosier State, where even in fine restaurants, the waiter knows he''ll get a juicier tip if he keeps his customers posted on the latest basketball scores. Indiana, not the North and not the South, is intact with its own identity, flavored by its selfsame idiosyncrasies. Not the least of which are a dietary predilection for pork products and a quirky, consonant-flattening twang.

Chili Great Chili

The name may say chili, but there's way more than beans waiting to be discovered at the restaurant known as Chili Great Chili in downtown Pacific Grove. Last month marked the first anniversary under the proprietorship of Farris Nemri at the site where, for 17 years, fog-bound Peninsula dwellers have enjoyed a warming bowl of chili. Chili-heads will continue to find the same gratification, just as the name of the eatery has remained unchanged. "This has been a familiar place to lots of people all this time, since the building was first put here," is Nemri's attitude. "So why fix something that's not broken?"