Looking for some blood-red wine for your Halloween party? Then I have a recommendation for a new brew.
Monterey Bay scientists are working to crack the mysteries of—and dispel the myths about—great whites. But in the highly contentious world of shark experts, there’s a fin line between love and hate
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Alberti Vineyards
Composing Himself
Chris Pratorius on the art, community and addictive quality of writing music
Turning Point
New revolving restaurant on the wharf, plus Cafe Ivéta and the last great Jack cheese
Coma Chameleon
String band the Brothers Comatose play Woodstock rockers for Halloween
Thriller Nights
Family fun or fright-worthy, GT has got your Halloween covered
Across the Board
GT’s guide to this year’s local candidates and measures
Altars of Remembrance, Forgiveness & Rapprochement
We’re in Scorpio now—things mysterious, ageless, hidden, sometimes scary. Friday is Halloween; Saturday, All Saints Day; Sunday, All Soul’s Day. Sunday morning at 2 a.m. (after midnight), Daylight Savings Time ends. Clocks are turned back. Tuesday is the General Election. Our vote is our voice. Each vote matters. Applying freedom of choice—Libra’s teachings. It’s time to build Halloween, All Saints and All Souls altars—with marigolds, pumpkins, sugar skeletons, copal (incense), pomegranates, persimmons, candy corn and cookies, orange and black. It’s so Saturn (now in Scorpio). Saturn is the dweller on the threshold (like St. Peter at the gates of heaven). Saturn can look like a Halloween creature—a gargoyle—a fantastic dragon-like creature protecting sacred sites. The dweller (Saturn) stands at the door or threshold of sacred mysteries, wisdom temples, inner sanctums of churches, offering protection, scaring evil away.
The last day of October and first two days of November, when veils between worlds thin and spirits roam about, are times of remembrance, forgiveness, reconciliation and rapprochement. These actions liberate us. At death, when reviewing our lives and the consequences of our actions if we have forgiven, then we are free, less encumbered with grief and sadness. We place forgiveness on our altars.
Happy Halloween, everyone! It’s good to dress up as what we’re afraid of. Or whom we would mentor. Then we become one with them. Note to readers: by Thanksgiving I will need a place to live (with purpose). Please contact me if you know of a place where I can rest for awhile. Teach and build community. ri**********@***il.com. I will be leaving my mother’s home for the last time.
Light Humor
College comedy questions a post-racial America in ‘Dear White People’
Alberti Vineyards
Looking for some blood-red wine for your Halloween party? Then I have a recommendation for a new brew. Jim and Peggy Alberti, who have been involved in local wine for many years, are now growing grapes on the old Jarvis estate in the Santa Cruz Mountains and very recently started making wine from the fruitful harvest....
Not Cool
Even Bill Murray’s hipster cred can’t elevate ‘St. Vincent’ If the irreverent Army volunteer Bill Murray played in Stripes a few decades ago grew up to be a boozy, defeated, grumpy old man, he might be the character Murray plays in St. Vincent. Writer-director Theodore Melfi is certainly counting on Murray’s aging hipster persona to do...
Composing Himself
Chris Pratorius on the art, community and addictive quality of writing music “Composing is addictive,” admits the man at the keyboard. It can start with a poem, or a melodic idea. From there to keyboard, to written score, to computer editing, and finally a print-out of the musical score. Move over Beethoven—this is the new era...
Jawing
Monterey Bay scientists are working to crack the mysteries of—and dispel the myths about—great whites. But in the highly contentious world of shark experts, there’s a fin line between love and hate It was was a foggy morning like any other on Aug. 29 when 15-year-old Kristopher Morales and a friend launched their kayaks off the...
Turning Point
New revolving restaurant on the wharf, plus Cafe Ivéta and the last great Jack cheese Three years ago Germaine Akin—owner of Red Restaurant and Bar, 515 Kitchen & Cocktails, Swan/Heavenly Goose—and her closest companions decided to make a splash in the oft-clichéd world of waterfront dining. Having taken over Carniglia’s for about a year before shutting...
Coma Chameleon
String band the Brothers Comatose play Woodstock rockers for Halloween San Francisco string band the Brothers Comatose have ambitious plans for their Halloween night show at the Catalyst. Maybe a little too ambitious? That’s what the five-piece began to wonder after diving into the preparation for their tribute to Woodstock Friday, at which they’ll cover the...
Thriller Nights
Family fun or fright-worthy, GT has got your Halloween covered Halloween is a night that allows us all to live as someone else entirely, and it’s the one time a year you’re officially allowed to eat as much candy as humanly possible. The trick (or treat) is to straddle the fine line between fright and fun,...
Across the Board
GT’s guide to this year’s local candidates and measures District 4 County Supervisor Greg Caput Among many South County residents, Greg Caput has earned the reputation of being a working person’s candidate. He’s donated $65,000 of his salary over the past four years to charity. He tried unsuccessfully to cut supervisor pay, and unsuccessfully again to...
Altars of Remembrance, Forgiveness & Rapprochement
We’re in Scorpio now—things mysterious, ageless, hidden, sometimes scary. Friday is Halloween; Saturday, All Saints Day; Sunday, All Soul’s Day. Sunday morning at 2 a.m. (after midnight), Daylight Savings Time ends. Clocks are turned back. Tuesday is the General Election. Our vote is our voice. Each vote matters. Applying freedom of choice—Libra’s teachings. It’s time to build Halloween,...
Light Humor
College comedy questions a post-racial America in ‘Dear White People’ It’s a very good thing Justin Simien’s Dear White People was made—it gets in there where the dirt is. It’s been compared to Do the Right Thing, even though Simien doesn’t have much of the visual flamboyance and heat that characterizes Spike Lee. Dear White People...