Stories for February 2011
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Thursday, February 24
The Peninsula’s best eatery street improves and Dann Dunn gets drunk.
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Fire-balling Olympic pitcher and Salinas native Monica Abbott helps celebrate Steinbeck.
What do you lose most frequently?
Adorably Edible: Pastries and Petals’ sensual from-scratch treats make a cute home in Carmel.
Department of Pesticide Regulation’s own scientist decries fumigant registration.
Philip Glass expected to introduce an eponymous festival in Carmel.
The Bare Wires’ free show represents another coup for Carbone’s in Monterey.
Guitar prodigy Jonny Lang and the Dani Paige Duo sell out Sunset Center.
Armed with a handful of university degrees and driven by his family’s farmworker past, Luis Alejo went from the Watsonville council to the state Assembly in under three years.
A nonpartisan report warns that a cuts-only state budget could increase university tuition 10 percent.
Hell on Earth:<em>Drive Angry</em> takes cinematic violence and sex to Hades and back again.
Monning floats a beverage tax as diabetes rates soar.
A single dominant industry no longer carries the economy, and the time to think small has arrived.
Monterey pledges to examine leasing losses on Fisherman’s Wharf.
Feds release funds to stop European grapevine moth’s spread in California.
Residents challenge county over Carmel Valley Road traffic counting.
Small Town, Big Laughs, Bigger Heart: Cedar Rapids treads tricky directorial territory to hilarious and affecting results.
Thursday, February 17
They Bore Among Us: <i>I Am Number Four</i> can’t be counted on for much compelling content.
Cuts to home care worker hours could mean life or death for some disabled.
Bernie Madoff: They had to know.
Upstart Wahine Project gives little local girls big confidence.
Free Will Astrology
Real Estate
An update on the Coastal Luxury lifestyle and soup for you.
Butch Francis rides Cowboy Sausage to powerhouse farmers market popularity.
Identity spy thriller stays afloat in homage to the Bourne flicks.
The feds say Monterey County isn’t complying with conditions of its permit.
Moss Landing power plant prepares for new rules on water use.
No jobs a-boomin’ in environmental sector, but losses in traditional areas abound.
Man is free at the instant he wants to be. - Voltaire
Who or what would you like to be reincarnated as?
Network of caregivers shuttles children and families through the complex world of critical and life-ending illness.
A Catholic priest scandal in Salinas opens old wounds.
Mark Growden pulls soulful inspiration from diverse landscapes.
John Magnie and Barry “The Fish” Melton rock the Death Penalty Benefit Bash.
Alleged victim sues Diocese as Salinas police examine molestation reports.
Thursday, February 10
Community group seeks answers to regulatory loopholes.
A group of weathered fishermen now share coffee and stories instead of the ocean.
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Real Estate
<em>Trash to Treasures </em>gives Monterey Peninsula Airport two significant shows.
Some of the story lines to track heading into 2011’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
A look at what pushes soccer legend Brandi Chastain to keep playing.
Special envoy speaks at MIIS, lessons may fit the county.
The tiny house movement still comes with a sizeable pricetag.
Consumer marketing makes little girls older much faster.
Embattled council debates semantics as city administrator remains on the job.
California will close state parks to save $11 million.
MMHA hit by wave of disputes over new mural, another resignation pending.
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Seoul Survivor: Post fire, Orient Express reasserts its Korean credibility with bubbling clay pots and blockbuster <em>banchan</em>.
A baffling beer breakthrough, Wolfman barbecue and Chinese movement.
Writer, director and actress Lena Dunham emerges as a filmmaker-to-watch with her award-winning <em>Tiny Furniture</em>.
John Tesh and his big band swing into the Sunset Center.
Blank Tapes one-man juggernaut Matt Adams adds a full band for acoustic/electric series.
What are you fishing for in your life right now?
Gnome Run: <em>Gnomeo & Juliet</em> takes Shakespeare to kids (and only needs to be seen once).
A Round of 18
Monterey County spends millions on regional desalination project.
Fallen Riviera helps usher in new era at Jose’s.
Thursday, February 3
Two female vocalists with Hollywood cred take to the stage with two shows.
Hot L.A. outfit Dawes heats up Fernwood in Big Sur.
State commission looking into reporting by local Republican committee
Congressman tells the supes he’s ‘lobbyist’ for the county.
Calera Winery takes a riskier wild-yeast approach to tasty results.
A nearly extinct breed – homesteading cheesers – redeems a hope for Locally cultivated curds.
A Napa whirlwind, a new food blog home and CSA restaurants.
Access Monterey Peninsula toasts 10 years of diverse public TV.
Salinas concert-promoter seeks governor’s pardon for drug felonies.
Free Will Astrology
By The Numbers
Of Montreal members take new two-man Yip Deceiver pop project to Carbone’s.
<em>Another Year</em> inspires introspection through excellent writing and acting.
<em>Sanctum</em> is a bottom-dweller, but in a very good (and 3D) way.
The <em>Weekly</em>’s food freaks assemble a watch list for the eats ahead.
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Cities prepare battle plans as state plans to grab local bucks.
Voters want the country to innovate, president wants to get us there.
Medical users face persecution from local law enforcement.
Squid Speaks
Garden Variety Cheese is adorable and delicious.
Napa legend Cindy Pawlcyn and her down-home-but-hip cuisine look to take Aquarium cuisine big time.
¡Ask a Mexican! 02.03.11
If you are what you eat, what food what would you be?
Whaling Station Prime Steaks
Monterey