Monterey County Weekly

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

A’s With Adderall

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

A’s With Adderall
By Josh Marcus
Carmel Unified School District Health Specialist Susan Pierzalowski was familiar with the effects of Adderall before she started at CUSD. At another school, she encountered a female student who was feverish, dizzy, confused and sweating. She had high blood pressure and hadn’t slept in a day.

Street Talk

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Street Talk
Jesse Fernandez Student | Salinas A: If the side effects aren’t too severe I would consider it but I think people should try to find motivation within first. Other Options: We are called Cal State Marijuana and Beer so I’m pretty sure it’s everywhere..

Fishy Finances

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Fishy Finances
By Kera Abraham
Lucas, who’s been commercially fishing Monterey Bay for almost three decades, isn’t complaining too much. Weather and ocean conditions that change by the day make patience a virtue of his industry. The great news, for him, is the $8 per pound he’s been getting off the dock from his buyers.

A Plant of its Own

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

A Plant of its Own
By Kera Abraham
Santa Cruz is facing many of the same water problems as the Monterey Peninsula: seawater intrusion, the need for a drought-proof water supply and state-mandated cutbacks on river pumping. Officials from both regions say desalination is part of the solution.

Forward March

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Forward March
By Sara Rubin
The concern protesters were chatting about on Facebook was that someone might come along and rearrange their seaweed into a birthday message before Saturday, when about 100 activists are planning a march at 11am at Monterey’s Colton Hall with messages for the St.

Koch Block

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

By Sara Rubin
Most of the information on corporate structure has been input by users, according to L.A.-based app builder Ivan Pardo. “There was a good deal of data before the app began to get some buzz, but users have proven to be very willing to contribute data,” he writes by email.

Booze Control

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Booze Control
By Arvin Temkar
Booze is a social stimulant— could it be an economic one as well? It’s a debate that’s poised to hit the Salinas City Council soon. But while some Salinas policymakers think making alcohol regulations less onerous will help attract business to the struggling city, some say dropping restrictions on liquor licensing will fuel crime and recklessness.

Public Citizen

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

STAYING MENTALLY HEALTHY SEASIDE—Join the county Health Department, law enforcement officers and community members in celebrating efforts to advance mental health services. 5:30pm art show and sale; 6:30 dinner and keynote. Embassy Suites, 1441 Canyon Del Rey.

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Letters • Comments

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

zombies attack, Big Sur survivalist Tyson Curtis will be ready,” May 9-15). People in countries with real struggles don’t get to play “homeless.” God forbid we need to start a draft again in America. We’d be in big trouble, unless we’re at war with zombies and video game villains.

Homeless in Paradise

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

By Mary Duan
It doesn’t take much for a life in modern-day America to become destabilized. A job loss or an unexpected medical bill or a car that breaks down. Some random situation that keeps you from going to work—or work that doesn’t pay a living wage to begin with.

SQUID FRY

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

City officials say code enforcement has been working with the retail giant, nearby stores, and the lot owner to keep the litter problem contained. But Squid finds it shameful that a group of Girl Scouts had to clean up after the world’s largest retailer.

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Hackademic Implosion

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

By Jon Wiener
He’s probably the first person ever to lose his job because of his Harvard Ph.D. dissertation: Jason Richwine, let go by the Heritage Foundation earlier this month. The problem: He co-authored their position paper opposing immigration reform; and then somebody discovered that his Ph.

Where’s the Trust?

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Where’s the Trust?
By Mary Duan
Constance Laub is having a colossally bad day, a disheveled, woman-onthe-verge-of-losing-it-all kind of day. She stands on the sidewalk just down the block from her Constance Wine Bar in Carmel, her long brown hair uncombed, her shirt on inside out and backwards.

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

CALENDAR

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

CALENDAR
Shifting Mosaics at Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery New York-area artist Jill Parisi transforms her background in zoology and botany into niches of sculpted paper flowers and whimsical shapes—building up handmade fiber paper before selectively chiseling and burning away to create tissue-weight pieces.

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Roughin’ It

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Roughin’ It
By Arvin Temkar
Charley Parkhurst was a bonafide badass: a hard-drinking, roughand-tumble stagecoach driver who could crack a whip like a bolt of lightning and a skull like a driedup peanut shell. If you couldn’t find Parkhurst on the road, you might check a saloon..

Artifacts

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The Monterey High Theater company put on most of their season at the Bruce Ariss Wharf Theatre, but return home for their last show, a one-nighter. The name of the play? They don’t know. It’s going to be a so-called play-in-a-day.

Deepest Roots

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Deepest Roots
By Adam Joseph
Four years ago, after the sparsely attended, half-day inaugural California Roots Music and Arts Festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds, it was difficult to fathom that it would even happen again. But it did, and by year three, it had successfully expanded to two sold out days headlined by Pepper and Soldiers of Jah Army.

Out of Sight

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Out of Sight
By Adam Joseph
The judges loved him. After making it through another round of auditions, Parris moved onto the “blind audition,” the televised round in which Cee Lo, Blake Shelton, Adam Levine and Christina Aguilera face the audience and select or dismiss each contestant without seeing them.

Gluten Computin’

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Gluten Computin’
By Shiho Fukushima
6. Everytime I think about the wharf I want to cry because I cannot skip around enjoying a sourdough bowl of clam chowder so instead I hit up Sand Bar and Grill.

Winds of Taste

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Winds of Taste
By Mark C. Anderson
Everywhere standard-sized sampling booths distributing carrot soups, exotic teas and falafel chips sat alongside blockbuster showcase kitchens stocked with special furniture, two-story lounges, mobile smokers that hold 500 pounds of pig butt, state-of-the-art grease traps, Vitamixes.

Quick Bites

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Henry Morris loved to fix washers and to eat breakfast at Loulou’s Griddle in the Middle on Wharf 2 (372-0568). He did both just about every single day since…1948. Now he’s passed, at 87, but not before affecting a lot of good people at Loulou’s. Hear his story on the blog.

Parallel Lives

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Parallel Lives
By MaryAnn Johanson
Though I am by nature a man inclined to reserve judgments, I found myself instantly moved to astonishment by the gaudy spectacle of this tale. It is a colossal affair swollen with the hubris and arrogance of men who swagger across the planet trailing the foul dust of mayhem and death in their wake.

MOVIES

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

MOVIES
EPIC * * (Not reviewed this issue.) A teenage girl (Amanda Seyfried) is shrunk down and thrust in the middle of a battle between those who wish to protect the forest and those who want to destroy it. The story follows a rag-tag group of animated pals who team up to fight the forces of evil.

Movie Times

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Movie Times
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Bombay Bound

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Bombay Bound
By Mary Albert
It’s the stroke of midnight on Aug. 15, 1947. As India throws off more than two centuries of British rule, a baby boy of complex parentage tumbles into the world and lands in an upperclass Bombay family, swapped at the hospital with another boy who is plunged into a life of poverty.

Freewill Astrology

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

By Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I’m still learning,” said Michelangelo when he was 87 years old. For now, he’s your patron saint. With his unflagging curiosity as your inspiration, maybe your hunger for new teachings will bloom.