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California is like a big present for the motor-minded, but residents of the 831 enjoy the state at its best – the local tarmac is a flowing black ribbon that ties together miles of world-class scenery, and topping it off is a tight Laguna Seca bow.

HOLIDAY Motor Invasion

Cars, Motorcycles, Racing, and More.

by Jonathan Lopez

Any flavor of voluptuous mobile metal can be found here – from lines lovingly hand-crafted over half a century ago, to the trim engineering achievements of the modern motorsport competitor. It is a nexus of new and old, oozing both style and the cutting-edge, drawing in every tribe of gear head in existence.

Moving north on Highway 1 from Big Sur, the California coast abruptly disappears as travelers enter Carmel.

August brings the Concours on the Avenue, where supercars and classics sprinkle the main drag between Highway 1 and the beach. A 1955 Mercedes 300 SL sits next to its modern AMG equivalent, gullwing doors spread wide for gawkers on the sidewalk. The bonnet of a parked Jaguar E-Type Roadster graces the curb, while a Porsche Carrera GT burns bits of its race clutch against gravity as it climbs Ocean Ave, reminding us, yes, manual transmissions still exist (thank God).

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Just a few days after the competition on the avenue, behind the multi-million dollar homes of Pebble Beach, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is where the big kids come to play. It was originally created as a complement to the Pebble Beach Road Race, which ran in the 50’s on twisty bits of 17-Mile Drive. Now, however, the event transcends the term “car show.” The absolute finest flock here, bringing heroes and legends head-to-head in the eyes of some of the most discerning auto aficionados around.

Walk through the mist and you’ll bump into a 1939 Horch Phaeton that looks as new as the day it was made in Germany. Turn around and you’ll see a line of Ferrari 250 GTOs. Across the fairway is an original Ford GT40, the V8 still sounding as good as it did when it was leading Le Mans five decades ago. Somehow, winners and losers are separated, first by judges of vehicle authenticity, and then, more importantly, by judges of style.

Then there’s the jet set at the McCall Motorworks Revival gala. Extravagance is taken to a higher plane for this one-nightonly event in an exclusive hanger at the Monterey airport. Rub elbows with VIPs and sample fine cuisine as you walk amongst the landing gear of private airplanes. When it comes to travel, you could certainly do worse than the machinery on display here; perched underneath the wings is a Koenigsegg CCXR and a Bugatti Veyron. The only question is how high off the ground you want to fly.

However, like a twelve-course meal, indulgence in the finest motoring delicacies in the world can come in more modest portions than four wheels. The Quail Motorcycle Gathering starts with a ride through the countryside and ends up back in Pebble Beach for a show and shine that hosts an eclectic blend of European chic, classic American iron, and one-off perfection.

It should be remembered, however, that these subjective contests were born from an extreme expression of objectivity - motor racing. Here, finishing first is not a matter of style. It’s a matter of speed. And for disciples of the Church of the Checkered Flag, the Mecca of the west lies just off Highway 68.

Laguna Seca is a two-and-a-quarter mile beacon of internal combustion, as treacherous as a knife’s edge and as iconic as James Dean’s 550 Porsche Spyder. Housed in the eleven turns of glory are countless tales of victory and defeat, with names like Andretti and Rahal adorning the curves (or the name Zanardi hanging above the rumble strips).

In celebration of the elder warriors of velocity (and the machines that they piloted), the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion brings track champions together for an all-star race that can instantly transport you to any era on the racing timeline.

This year, tribute will be paid to Carrol Shelby and the legacy he left, embodied by the track-swallowing features of the Cobra Roadster. Carburetors dump fuel, while drum brakes and archaic suspension design keeps things appropriately unpredictable.

Pushing the limit into the unknown is part of what racing is all about. This is evident when the sun falls behind the western hills during the American Le Mans Series, as headlights blaze a path between the follower and the leader’s fire-breathing exhaust tip. Brake rotors glow red as they shed speed. Several classes take to the track at once, with the quicker prototypes slaloming between the GT cars as though they are moving traffic cones.

And without fail, the greatest motorcycle race in the US, also known as MotoGP, brings with it a two-wheeled legion that swarms the streets with buzzing rocket ships of barely-contained torque and power. For the final weekend of July, 100,000 leatherclad travelers ride into town on a carousel of bright vinyl, singing a high-strung four-stroke serenade and assuming control of Highway 1, local watering holes, and the trickier mountain switchbacks leading east. When night falls, this occupying army besieges downtown Monterey and Cannery Row as the party hits top gear. Flybys roar through the tunnel between Monterey and Pacific Grove with an impromptu backfire choir.

831 residents are witness to a variety of migrations: the skies flit with butterflies in the fall, while gray whales breach the blue waters of the Pacific in the spring. But when summer arrives, prepare for a different animal. It feeds on fuel and raw emotion, relishing in the act of movement, embodying that old American ideal of freedom and self-expression. So when you see it coming, give way.

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Holiday - Cars, Events, Motos, and Racing Summer days in 831 CPR : Coastal Political Resuscitation Dangerous Curves Ahead Fashion Spread - Spain shares its Techno Colors Hair, There, & Everywhere Drink Globally, Act Locally Scott Eastwood Steven Whyte / Nick Leonoff Fashion Spread - With Love from Milan - Man Child Tree Top Trio Levy Mezick Robert Talbott New Growth - Kim Cole John wolf Fashion Spread - Re Sanjog The List - Our Favorite Local Spots Monterey Bay Derby Dames Cover STORY Learning to Love Scott Eastwood Wahine Project Yes to the Mess - Book Review Final Final - Taylor Catherwood Making Choices & Acting on Them

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On the Cover Scott Eastwood Photo: Reg Regalado For the past year, some of you have been asking where in the 831 the magazine went. Here’s your answer: we put the mag into cyber-induced hibernation, as we worked around the clock to bring you something much bigger, better, and bolder than anything you’ve seen before. This issue’s pages are bursting with cutting-edge fashion, stories about local up-and-coming designers and artists, and other young local people who, like our readers, are working hard on coastal resuscitation.

We’ve added new sections (see page 56 for our list of hot spots) and caught up with some of our favorite area celebrities (see page 34 for this issue’s cover story on Scott Eastwood). We’re bringing you this season’s hottest catwalk looks from Italy and beyond. We bribed Levi Mezick, the Executive Chef at 1833 for his favorite summer recipes (and consequently, we’re in the market for new accessories; anyone out there designing a belt for food comas?). And in an effort to atone for our culinary slip-ups, we visited Salinas for the latest in gym fitness.

We’re all a little worse for wear; for proof, read the last few months’ worth of our (often nonsensical) Facebook posts and tweets, or flip to page 51 to read the crazy article inspired by our online experiences. Late night caffeine-fueled renditions of “Call Me Maybe” have not been out of the question in the 831 office (we’re looking at YOU, Ryan Zen Lama). Hunting down the most interesting stories, designing creative fashion spreads, and bringing you what only 831 Magazine can, we all felt like we were going a little nutty.

Editor In Chief Ryan Zen Lama Managing Editors Lindsey Douros, Blaise Douros Copy Editors David Almanzar, Francesca Palomo Contributors Lisa Watson, Ashley Smallman, Adrea Peters, Jonathan Lopez, Frank Barrett, Lillie Lemon, David Almanzar, Frank Barrett, Viktor Klinger, Michael Troutman, Mike Steelman, Rachel Zwolenkiewicz Operations Karma Lama Creative / Design Ryan Zen lama Fashion Alli Wood Photography Reg Regalado

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counter shouts “Miss Manners!”. “But I’ve told all of my friends ‘do not assume I’m too busy for you.’ That’s not who I am. Friendships and relationships are paramount to me. I will always make time for my friends.

Always.”

Like Craig, Burnett has also had to make some difficult adjustments to his personal and political life, since being elected as Mayor of Carmel. As one of the youngest Mayors of small city by the sea, Burnett is bringing a new and youthful perspective view to office.

“The hardest [adjustment] is the expectation that people have with being ‘The Mayor.’” Burnett says, while sitting in the comfort of his study at his newly remodeled, Lead Certified, home in Carmel. “There’s one Mayor and there’s four City Councilmen. So, if I’m not at an event where someone wanted me to be there, my presence is missed. I can’t be everywhere. There’s only so many hours in a day.”

It’s not always easy living on the Central Coast—especially as a young professional, under the age of 40. Fortunately, young, educated, and passionate people like Jason Burnett and Kimbley Craig are meeting this challenge headon, in more than one way. Two years ago, when 831 Magazine caught up with Craig and Burnett, they were two youthful City Council people trying to make change in local government. Flashforward to 2012—Craig has successfully completed the first two years of her four-year term as a Councilwoman for North Salinas, and Burnett was recently elected Mayor of Carmel.

“I’ve found that [City Council] is my calling and I love it. If I could give 60-70 hours a week to it I would,” Craig says, sitting outside a local Salinas Starbucks.

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But while she lives for local politics, she’s not naïve about the challenges of balancing everyday life with her political passion.

Craig’s track record speaks for itself. Since she’s been in office, Craig has helped establish relationships, which have ultimately brought restaurant chains like BJ’s Brewery, Famous Dave’s and 5 Guys Burgers and Fries to Salinas.

“The average age in the city of Salinas is 26,” Craig says. “People on City Council have been historically much older. It’s been fun to breathe some new life into City Council and have a younger perspective.”

In addition to running her business and holding a position on the Salinas City Council, Craig also is an avid roller derby player—you can see her in action as “Miss Manners” on the roller derby ring (she has quite the following among the employees at the Salinas Starbucks where she met us).

“It was an adjustment that first year, figuring out how to balance City Council responsibilities, my business, and oh, by the way, have a social life too,” Craig says as the barista at the

In addition to managing expectations as a local government figure, Burnett is also juggling the responsibilities as a husband and new father.

But despite his many duties, Burnett still manages to show the people of Carmel why they elected him in a landslide victory.

“I’m coming up on my 3rd Council meeting,” says Burnett, his son babbling happily in the background.

“So far, we’ve passed a budget, we’ve agreed to form a Hospitality Improvement District, and we’ve agreed to put a sales tax measure on the ballet. It’s something we’ve been talking about for a couple of years and the Council was unanimous in the direction we wanted to go.”

In addition to these small conquests, Burnett is also leading the way for a ban on plastic bags, an open-air market, and constructing recreational trails.

“Carmel has an incredible set of restaurants and [the open-air market] would be a great opportunity for them to showcase,” Burnett says. “We’re also working on providing some better bike and walking trails around Carmel, particularly for students. We’re working towards solutions on big issues, which will effect future generations.”

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By Lillie Lemon

You can feel it under your feet as you approach the fence: that low rumble building to a thunder as the cars speed around the Rainey Curve, the engine roar whining up to a great cacophony of noise. You try to catch the car numbers as they flash before your eyes in a blaze of color.

You clutch the fence as the deafening racket envelops you. All that speed, strength, and sound makes your heart pound with excitement – and you’re not the only one; around 80,000 other fans are watching at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Millions more watch from home. The excitement is palpable and rich, and fills you with a pleasure unlike any other.

Craving that power, aching to see it so close, is only human – and it is not just for men anymore.

Men and cars. This idea is not a new one; as the stereotype goes, men crave the power of a V8 engine. They want the smell of the burning petrol and grease. They want to feel the steel shivering with contained might beneath them, completely under their rule.

But these cravings are not maleexclusive anymore, as witnessed by thousands of female fans flocking to the Mazda Raceway. There are mothers with their young boys wandering about the paddock, checking out engine designs and vying for Mazda Raceway merchandise. There are throngs of young women dressed as if they were spending a day at the mall, short skirts and high-heels caked with the dust of the dry lakebed below their feet. There are women who would otherwise be at their desks at the office; women that might have easily spent the weekend backpacking in Big Sur; women who might have shared mimosas at their homes in Carmel.

Instead they are all here, all enjoying the world of racing.

It is true that the car tends to take on a relatively masculine form, and the faster the car, the more masculine it becomes. From the low flat face of a Mazda V8 to the sharp, tight edges of the Ferrari F1, these cars ooze testosterone. The act of driving itself was once quite physically demanding, and so women of the past shied away from the grit and the engine noise.

Women, after all, had their place, and for the longest time, it was not behind the wheel.

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in the last century, and with good reason. With gender equality came a female force to contend with; a feminine desire for power and control over her own fate. What better way to express such things than through the 4,000 plus pounds of power behind a chrome and iron machine?

However, women in racing are still the exception rather than the rule. There is little talk out there about Danica Patrick (who has placed but has yet to win outright), and even less talk about others. The feeling at the moment for many is that female racers are a passing craze. It would seem that the sad fate of the female driver is not fame but oblivion. But this doesn’t have to be the case. If these female drivers had more female fans rooting for them, not because they make fine sex objects but because they’re decent racers, perhaps their place in these races would expand.

Even if the adrenaline rush of watching the races doesn’t get you fueled up, there’s a lot more that Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca has to offer the fairer sex. Mazda Raceway’s surrounding hills host ample campgrounds, making it an easy stop for a retreat with the family. Tickets are usually cheaper than a weekend at Disneyland and give you great access to track views, the paddock, and other events that take place while the cars warm up for their laps.

The Mazda Raceway itself is rich with history. The employees are full of stories and love nothing more than the track itself. Interested parties can even volunteer for the track, taking care of various tasks to keep the raceway running smoothly on off days. And the off days themselves are rarely boring. BMW drivers take their V6 and V8 babies out for test drives around the Corkscrew regularly. Hobbyists can get passes to ride the track in whatever vehicle they choose, making any given day a smorgasbord of vehicles on the raceway.

There’s also the world-renowned Volkswagen Sea Otter Classic, a fourday bicycle enthusiast extravaganza with recreational rides, races, bike swaps, and more. These events are all quite family friendly, many offering activities exclusively for kids. Larger races have even more options – including arcade-style race games for the kid who can’t break away from his PS3.

Swallow your fears, ladies. Soak up the scent of hot oil and the sound of those explosive pistons. Get your high heels a little dusty at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and give in to your need for speed. The excitement of racing is potent, universal, and not just for men anymore.

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PROFILE | Style Fashion

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Brian Bode - Hair, There, & Everywhere

BY: LINDSEY A. DOUROS

Instagram, Pinterest, Tumbler, and fashion blogs everywhere are quickly changing the face of the fashion world.

They’re moving fashion’s focus from the runways to the individuals sitting in the audience.

While many designers seem to be intimated by this shift, Brian Bode is embracing the movement. He welcomes the change because in it he finds nothing but new inspiration.

“The hair world is always changing so I think more than anything, I’m someone in the industry who is always trying to create the change and create trends,” Bode says, looking out into the fog from Oya, his Lighthouse Avenue salon. “The best trend right now is individualism. When you go to New York Fashion Week, it’s not necessarily what’s on the runways that’s really cool, it’s the bloggers in the audience. It’s how the people put style together and make it their own that’s interesting. Anyone can do that. That’s what makes it.”

Coming from a family of hairdressing royalty (Bode’s aunt founded the popular international hair product company Sebastian International), Bode was immersed in the art of hair design from an early age.

“I’ve been cutting hair behind a chair since I was 18,” Bode muses. “I have pictures of me as a freshman in high school with people lining up down my driveway to get a haircut.

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It’s really exciting to make people happy with the way they look. You can change someone’s day in a second,” he says with an excited snap of his fingers.

“They can come in here feeling really down and out and I can make them feel great. It’s a really cool thing to do.”

Growing-up, it would have been easy for Bode to ride on the coattails of his family’s fame. Instead, he found himself searching for something more—searching for his own individuality and cutting a name for himself in the wild world of hair. Earning a degree in Art Direction and Communication Arts from the Art Center in Pasadena, Bode began sharpening the tools he needed to break out on his own.

“Going to design school made me open my eyes and see that you can take the lines of architecture and apply them to haircutting,” Bode says.

“The color we use in a painting is the same way you’d color hair. It’s all shape, contrast and design. [Hair] is creative, it’s different every time. Because I’m working with a different person, different hair texture, different expectations, I look at hair as a medium. It’s a medium just like clay. I can change it. I can form it. I can color it. I can cut it. I can do with it whatever I want essentially, while I’m working with it. The thing that never changes is that everyone’s head is round,” Bode laughs.

Bode says he finds inspiration in everything. But his ultimate passion seems to be his quest to celebrate people’s individuality—their culture, race, ethnicity, and ultimately their unique sense of style, which inspires others to create their own image. And no look is ever complete without the perfect coiffure. Enter Bode and his revolutionary new haircutting system.

“It’s called the IQ Haircutting System and it’s more about teaching hairdressers how to use many different techniques to create one individual haircut,” Bode says, his eyes dancing with excitement. “I think in the past, hairdressers have been trying so hard to create haircuts that they get frustrated because not everyone looks good in that haircut.”

By utilizing multiple haircutting techniques and styles, Bode is able to customize a haircut for each individual, versus having a cookie cutter approach.

He treats each client differently, evaluating his or her hair type, face shape, and overall style.

For the past 17 years, Bode has been building a talent base in his salon, Oya, educating hairstylists across the peninsula on his unique techniques.

Unlike many, Bode isn’t afraid to share secrets of the trade, which has earned him and his salon a reputation as one of the best institutions for instruction.

However, now that he has built a clientele and successful business, Bode is shifting his focus to the future and his ultimate goal of placing products on the market and building a global brand.

“It’s amazing,” Bode says, running a hand through his thick salt and pepper curls. “You try your whole life to get to certain goals. We all have our goals and we all have our dreams and we have this great vision of where we want to be. I don’t know if it’s shampoos and conditioners but I want to put something out on the market. I took my time in design school to learn other industries. I created a brand. I created everything I needed to start a company. It’s still sitting there on the back burner. But I had to take a step back so that I could get my name out

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“For the Love of Hops”

By Blaise Douros Kevin Clark loves beer. Yes, we know YOU love beer too, but Clark has an edge; he’s the brewmaster at Peter B’s brewpub, and his influence in the brewery is responsible in large part for its revitalization as a locals’ spot.

On TV, the folks who make beer are either big bearded men in plaid flannel and overalls, or bespectacled hipsters in plaid flannel and skinny jeans. Clark is dressed in his work clothes when we arrive at the pub for our interview; rubber galoshes, denim pants, and a comfortable Prana fleece. No plaid in sight. We sit at one of the tables in the empty pub, the copper tanks gleaming in the fog-diffused light of the afternoon.

Clark has called the Monterey Peninsula home since he graduated from CSUMB. After some world travel, he returned to the area and began working at Pacific Grove’s Passionfish, well known for its extensive wine list.

“That was a huge eye-opener,” Clark says, “in that I could learn so much about wine and learn to sell it like a sommelier.

Understanding the soils of different regions and how that affects the flavor profiles of the wine. That was something that really

intrigued me. Meanwhile I still loved beer, and I had started making homebrew beer in my garage.”

That perspective of diverse flavor led Clark to experiment with new beers in his garage, where his hobby began to overflow into his real life. Literally.

“About three or four years ago, my wife and I sat down and had a talk about our goals and where we wanted our lives to go, and in that conversation I said ‘I really want to brew beer for a living.’” Not long after, Clark took a position as assistant brewmaster at Peter B’s. A year later, the brewmaster left…and Clark got the chance he wanted. He took over the leadership of the glass-windowed brewing room, and things started to change.

What things, we asked. What’s different?

Clark starts ticking items on his fingers. “First of all, we’re just having fun,” he begins. “We’re trying new things. We changed yeast strains, and we’re doing barrel aging now.” They’ve brought in Chardonnay barrels, Jim Beam whiskey barrels, and just recently, a port wine barrel. “We’re also trying to be more energy efficient. This year we saved 40,000 gallons of water while still producing more beer than ever before.”

“Our spent grain gets fed to local cows,” he says. “We’re using hops grown at Rancho Cielo, paying market prices for those. You know Rancho Cielo? It’s a farm program in Salinas where at-risk youth can work. So that money goes right back to that program.”

Speaking of ingredients: does he have a favorite? What’s his signature ingredient?

Clark pauses, and looks away, slightly embarrassed. “I’d have to say passion. I know it sounds so cliché. But I just love walking into the brewery in the morning with my coffee and seeing the tanks, smelling the aromas.” OK, so what’s his favorite beer that he makes? “That’s hard to say. I don’t have kids but I feel like that’s the same thing as asking me to choose a favorite kid. I try to spend ‘quality time’ with whatever beer I’m brewing at the moment, so if I’m brewing stout, I’ll drink a stout. That kind of thing.”

Clark gets excited about his carbonated progeny, and he can rattle off their names and ingredients on command. His blue eyes light up as he goes through the list of house ales, naming them and commenting on them so fast that it’s hard to keep up. The Stout Resistance is the house stout, and has coffee and chocolate tastes to it. His IPA has pine and citrus notes because he uses Columbus hops “to dry-hop it to death.” The Belly-Up Blonde has a honeymalt sweetness that makes it perfect for a hot day on the deck.

“Beer,” Clark says, “is a social beverage.

It’s been bringing people together since the beginning of time.” And to Clark, the community making the beer is just as social as those drinking it. Once a month, he gets together with brewers from all over the coast (the Bay Brewers Guild) to compare notes, try each others’ latest experiments, and share ideas.

“There’s something different about the brewing community,” he muses. “The members don’t hide things from each other—it’s an open book. I really enjoy that about the brewing community.” Those meetings, started only a year and a half ago, have already been mutually beneficial; Clark has created several beers in collaboration with other members of the guild.

All of Clark’s hard work is paying off; Peter B’s just finished an expansion to their previously-small cellar that will allow Clark to store much more beer than he ever has before. What does that mean?

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“It means more capacity, which means we’ll have more beer to get out into the local pubs.” He gestures to the walls.

“We’ll have more styles on tap here.”

When asked what he wants to do in the future, Kevin Clark practically bounces up and down in the booth where we’re sitting. “I want to brew everything! I want to try making every kind of beer I can. Keep introducing this pub to new beers!”

And from the way things are shaping up for Kevin Clark, there will be plenty of people sitting down in Peter B’s to taste whatever he’ll serve up to them.

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We don’t have to know his name to recognize who he is. With that shock of honey brown hair, angular jaw line and steely eyes that can stare down a camera, we get where he got his looks. But there is more to actor Scott Eastwood than meets the eye.

Yet perhaps more interesting than who he is, is who he is not. He is not Clint. He respects his father, who he calls a “living legend” as much for giving him life as for all he has achieved in his career. At 26, the younger Eastwood has taken ownership of his iconic looks and his life, which play out on an international stage.

Eastwood is not a morning person. Yet once he gets going, his focus is a laser, burning through his agenda. And yet, he remains chill, relaxed, easy—his comments well considered and articulated with that same soft rasp that suggests he means what he says.

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“I became an actor,” he says. “Not because my father is an actor but after seeing the life he created and the contributions he has made. Growing-up, I always got to see firsthand what it’s like to be on movie sets, to travel the world. I have always been attracted to acting; it is a natural fit for me. It seemed like a great life, if I could do it—although a very tough, very competitive business. If you

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UPCOMING MOVIES

Of Men and Mavericks, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D, Epic, The Forger and Walk of Fame A walk on the beach is calming.

Romance is best left in the movies.

In-N-Out burger or fancy dinner.

In-N-Out Burger The most important part of relationship is honesty.

A deal breaker in a relationship is bad breath.

I’m not impressed by money.

I wish more women would offer to pick up the tab.

Being a strong woman means not afraid to be alone.

Girls who want to date actors should run.

My ideal date would be one where she doesn’t try too hard.

“My favorite part of a woman’s body: her eyes.”

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can make it happen, it’s a hell of a great life.”

Born at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Eastwood was raised in a childhood divided between his father’s Carmel compound, and his mother’s home in Hawaii. In both coastal enclaves, he learned the lifestyle and the sport of surfing, another passion which has carried him all over the world.

“I was much younger when I started surfing than I was when I started acting,” he says. “I think [I started surfing] when I could walk. I was in the ocean early. I feel like some people define themselves with a sport like surfing. For me, it’s a lifestyle, but it doesn’t define me. It’s just something I love to do, which will inspire and drive me the rest of my life.

Eastwood also developed his values by witnessing his father’s career, on location and on screen, which illustrated the life and the legacy he could create for himself through film.

“Through my father’s career, while I was growing up, and through my own career, I have learned the value of experience,” says Eastwood. “By the time I was 21, I had been all over the world, having the rich experiences most people only imagine.

I was about 17 when I became an actor, so it’s been almost 10 years now. It’s hard to say which was most memorable because,

in every role, I have learned something worthwhile.”

plays, his goal is to do something that affects people in a positive way.

Eastwood, “pulled the rip cord” on Los Angeles after six years in but has had a busy year traveling, and making films.

He recently finished: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Of Men of Mavericks (a true story about surfing legend Jay Moriarty).

He also acted in Trouble with the Curve, a sports drama about a retiring baseball scout whose daughter joins him on his last trip.

The all-star line-up includes: Amy Adams, John Goodman, Justin Timberlake, Matthew Lillard and Clint Eastwood.

“In acting,” he says, “we are telling a story to reach people in a way that could never occur in a conversation. We are dramatizing things the audience can relate to and understand. Whether consciously or subconsciously, we are evoking emotion. I don’t take it as seriously as some actors do, letting their whole lives be consumed by it and sacrificing normalcy. At the end of the day, it’s acting; it’s a job, an art. To make it every part of your existence is a little short sighted. My dad always used to say, ‘Don’t make it such a big production; don’t over dramatize it. Just tell the truth’.”

“To act alongside my dad,” says Eastwood, “is, in a word, intimidating. It becomes less and less so as I get older. But to work with him, first hand, there really are no words to describe it. I think it’s almost impossible not to have a conscious awareness that he’s my father. It’s so ingrained in my head that it’s hard to talk with him just as an actor.

“I definitely respect what he’s done in his career. He’s achieved a lot, done a lot of great things. My dad came from the Depression-era so being rich, not only in wealth but in life, was kind of a far, distant, impossible dream to achieve. But he’s done it.”

The words Eastwood finds to describe himself as an actor are “spontaneous,” “wild card,” “comedic.” Yet regardless of the role he

Eastwood can imagine some 50 roles in which he would love to “get real”. His vision is to act in great movies with great messages that really dig underneath the layers of humanity. This, he says, is what life is about.

“Gran Torino was a fantastic move to be in,” he says. “I was thrilled to be part of a movie that had a strong message like that.

It was a powerful movie. People loved it. I couldn’t care less that it didn’t get awards; that stuff is redundant. If it’s a great movie, it’s a great movie. I think my dad feels the same way. In fact, I know he does.”

In addition to acting and surfing, Eastwood is always open to other business ventures, such as the bar he opened five months ago in Solano Beach—the Saddle Bar, a rock and roll bar on the beach, which features live bands.

“It’s just a bar I opened with a couple of partners,” he says, “that plays all sorts of cool music. It’s fun; it’s a good time. I play the saxophone, but I’m not as dedicated as other people are in my family. My older brother, Kyle Eastwood, is a jazz musician who plays a little bit of everything, and travels and tours around the world. He’s a very talented guy. And my father has written most of the scores heard in his movies for the last 40 years. Not everyone knows that.”

As Scott Eastwood looks forward to his next adventure, he also looks back on a life that has played out on the choices he’s made and the lessons he’s learned.

“What I believe in this life,” he says, “is that man is defined not by material possession or how much money he has or what kind of car he drives. It’s about the choices we make in life and the way people will remember how we affected them.”

SCOTT EASTWOOD as Billy Clark and CLINT EASTWOOD as Gus in Warner Bros.

Pictures’ drama “Trouble with the Curve,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

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“I am primarily a sculptor of people. A historian, recording a likeness and creating characters of yesterday’s community and today’s society for tomorrow’s viewer. I manipulate clay to form into bronze for consideration by an audience in home, street and gallery.” StevenWhyte Each time sculptor Steven Whyte works with clay, his goal is to produce work with distinct personality, spirit and vitality.

Born in England, Whyte studied at the prestigious Sir Henry Doulton School of Sculpture, where his sensitivity and marked talent for detail served as a catalyst for a remarkable career in portrait sculpture. His subjects include: The Lord Bishop of Litchfield, The Earl of Stockton, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir John Harvey Jones and football legend John David Crowe. Considered a master of depicting nuances of expression, the artist’s portraits communicate character

Nick Leonoff, a seasoned stained glass artist from the Monterey Peninsula, who recently moved his studio to the Big Apple. Now in New York City, he’s on the verge of capturing a wider audience.

Leonoff, born in Santa Clara and raised in Carmel Valley since he was 5-years-old, is a Carmel High and Monterey Peninsula graduate.

He finished his undergraduate at Pepperdine University, majoring in Business Administration.

He began his career in

stained glass in 1998, during his first year attending MPC, when he began apprenticing for seasoned stained glass artist Alan Masaoka.

Upon returning to the Monterey Peninsula in 2004, after completing his undergraduate at Pepperdine University in 2002, Leonoff began learning how to blow glass from former instructor Masaoka.

“I have been intrigued with the process of glass blowing, and the intensity of working with a molten medium that can quickly take form to a solid state,” Leonoff said.

Leonoff furthered his knowledge of blowing glass when he enrolled in the Bay Area Glass Institute and later into Red Deer College for

a summer program in the art of glass blowing.

Furthering his knowledge, Leonoff studied Italian Cane and Murrini patterning techniques at the Pittsburgh Glass Center in Pennsylvania under artist Kait Rhoads.

“Many of my patterns resemble traditional textile as well as modern industrial designs,” Leonoff said.

In 2007, he went to the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington to study coldworking by Greg Dietrich. The following year, he attended the Corning Museum of Glass in New York and the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. Leonoff then studied under Davide Salvadore, a Murano

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Whyte’s accomplishments as a portrait sculptor have made him sought after for public memorials and installations, both in England and throughout the United States. His subjects range from local miners, to soldiers and fire fighters. He is credited with more than ten major monuments in Britain and the United States, including: The Silverdale Mining Memorial, The Lance Sergeant Jack Baskeyfield VC Tribute, The Spirit of 1948, Dr. John Roberts’ Monument, the sixteen figure-multi-million dollar National Military Tribute to Bob Hope for San Diego, two life-size monuments to Dr. Martin Luther King, and a twice life size portrait figure of 1957 Heisman Trophy Winner John David Crow for Texas A&M. In May 2011, the San Diego Police Department unveiled Whyte’s four-figure tribute to the fallen deputies of the police depart-

ment.

Whyte’s edition work features the drama and evocativeness of his monuments, combined with a personal point of view. Working exclusively with live models, his work boasts an anatomical accuracy that gives each piece depth and authenticity, without distracting from the sculpture’s distinct emotional character. He plays with texture and form, to produce work with a classical reference made modern and engaging.

Whyte works in an open studio gallery in the historic artist community of Carmel California. His work is featured in the studio’s adjoining gallery and at the Winter’s Gallery in Big Sur. Though classically trained in the traditional methodology of figurative sculpture, Steven Whyte’s work holds an expressive presence and inherent personality that reaches beyond the limits of technical mastery. His work represents more than finite physical images and instead exists as a catalyst for discussion and interpretation, challenging each viewer for introduction and analysis.

Maestro, back at Corning.

He later learned from Martin Janecky, who taught him how to do hot sculpting.

“I am drawn to the potential of a material that can vary from a translucent to an opaque medium in a brilliant range of colors and gradations,” Leonoff said.

A number of seasoned and renowned artists have worked with Leonoff including: Masaoka, Jonathan Schuck, Kathy Barrett, Treg Silkwood, Tyler Rock, Kait Rhoads, Greg Dietrich, Paul DeSomma, and Marsha Blaker. Last year in 2011, he decided to make the move to Brooklyn, NY where greater opportunities await.

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Our Favorite Local Spots to Catch Live Music: on the Monterey side of the Monterey Bay. Our Favorite Local Spots to Catch Live Music: Start your evening in Carmel, at Jack London’s Thursday- Saturdays, you can hear an eclectic mix of local and up and coming musical acts., Then walk over to Constance Wine Room, at the corner of Lincoln and Ocean. Sip a glass of vino and listen to live piano and more.

Shake up your work week and travel to Mundaka’s, a Tapas bar, on Thursdays for DJ spinning.

Head to Monterey for live Jazz and Blue Grass at Indian Summer on Wednesdays. Travel to the Alternative Café, in Seaside, for live music, art, or performances on any evening.

East Village Café, in Downtown Monterey, offers a wide variety of bands and their open mike nights have been a favorite of ours for some time.

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Grab a happy hour cocktail at the C restaurant + bar (located in The InterContinental The Clement Monterey) and listen to acoustic music, while watching the waves. Or hang out with David Conley, at the Sardine Factory and make a request for your favorite song. If you’re already on Cannery Row and it’s Tuesday (every other week), stop by the Cannery Row Brewing Company for a funky jam at “Live for the BASSment”.

LEFT TO RIGHT : Ben Herod, John Klein, Dave Holodiloff

Gypsy Jazz- A Musical Revival LINDSEY A. DOUROS

With so many musicians relying on programs like Autotune, it’s hard to find artists with real talent.

There are also fewer and fewer bands that are actually able to perform well live.

Fortunately for listeners in the 831, the Tree Top Trio seems to be the exception to the rule.

“I love so many things about playing music,” band founder David Holodiloff says. “It makes people feel good and I feel happy. It’s a win-win.”

Music runs in Holodiloff’s blood. His parents originally met at Monterey’s Bach Festival. From an early age, his life has been immersed in instruments and music notes.

“I’ve been playing mandolin and guitar for 5 years,” Holodiloff

Want bagpipes and a fire pit to cozy up to during the foggy months? Then head over to The Inn at Spanish Bay and watch the sunset. You can also partake in a unique experience, on the last Saturday of every month, when the famous restaurant 1833 offers something different after 10 p.m.

says, fidgeting with a stray suspender. “I casually picked up the guitar off and on for about years before that, and I started playing drums when I was 10 or 11-yearsold.”

It comes as no surprise that the young musician is involved in multiple musical projects, Tree Top Trio being only one of them.

Founded in 2011, Holodiloff and his band mates (John Klein on upright bass and Ben Herod on saxophone and flute) played together in different bands and combos for four years prior.

“We’d been playing in a bluegrass group but we wanted to add a saxophone,” Holodiloff says, setting up for a gig on the patio of Restaurant 1833. “Traditionally, saxophone isn’t involved in bluegrass so we’ve created a Gypsy Jazz ensemble.”

Gypsy Jazz (also known as Gypsy Swing or Hot Club Jazz) began in the 1930’s, and was started by Jean “Django” Reinhardt.

The musical style is known for its unique combination of dark, chro-

matic Gypsy flavor with the swing articulation of the period.

Listening to Tree Top Trio (on one of those rare, warm summer nights) you’re transported back in time, to Paris at the early part of the century. Their dynamic sound, along with Holodiloff’s high tenor voice, amplifies this small band’s tunes for miles. With the guitar plucking a rhythmic emphasis on the second and fourth beats, there’s no need for drums or percussions.

And it’s clear by how hard Holodiloff hits the rhythms that he lends more than just vocals and a pretty face to the band. His rhythmic instinct is what keeps the music moving and the people dancing. The night of our interview, a dapper older gentleman spontaneously joins them on stage, singing some of his favorite Sinatra songs. You’ll wish you’d thought to do the same.

If you’d like to catch this lively group in action, you can see them Wednesday nights, from 7-10 p.m. at Indian Summer. Be sure to stop by. This is one group that is breaking all the rules—they actually sound better live.

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Food & Drinks

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Not a real “foodie” but wouldn’t mind tasting and trying new things? Have a fancy five-course experience and eat what Christina Aguilera orders: The “1833 EXPERIENCE.” $65 Per Person *REQUIRES ENTIRE TABLE PARTICIPATION* Start with: WARM BACON CHEDDAR BISCUIT Maple Chili Butter / Sea Salt FIRST COURSE HAMACHI Avocado / Pickled Jalapeno / Orange ~Paired With: Barth / Sekt / Germany ~ SECOND COURSE Choice of: TOMATO SALAD Nicoise Olive / Cucumber /Ricotta Salata ~ OR ~ BEEF CARPACCIO Sriracha Foam / Cilantro / Masago ~Paired With: Schloss Gobelsburger / Grüner Veltliner / Austria 2010 ~ OR ~ Patrick Piuze, “Val de Mer”/ Chardonnay / Chablis 2010 ~ THIRD COURSE Choice of: CRISPY HEN EGG Prosciutto / Asparagus ~ OR ~ RICOTTA RAVIOLI Corn Butter / Pecorino / Artichokes ~ Paired With: Pisoni “Lucy” Pinot Noir Rosé / Santa Lucia Highlands 2011 ~OR~ Ramey / Chardonnay / Russian River Valley 2009 ~ FOURTH COURSE Choice of: NEW YORK STRIP Swiss Chard / Parmesan Polenta ~ OR ~ SALMON Leeks / Mussels / Yukon Potato ~ Paired With: Joyce / Cabernet Sauvignon / Carmel Valley 2009 ~OR ~ Field Fare / Pinot Noir / Monterey 2009 ~

Chef Mezick would describe the cuisine at Restaurant 1833 as American with a French accent. Inspired and enthusiastic, he collaborates with his team to create subtly sophisticated savory dishes. Invite the friends and family, these dishes area feast to be shared by the whole table.

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1358 G Ripe, Red, Seedless Watermelon 141 G Red Pepper, Washed and Seeded 1 G Thai Chili, Washed 226 G Euro Cucumber 340 G Ripe Cherry Tomatoes Puree in Blender until smooth.

Season gradually with: 31 G Salt 45 G Red wine vinegar Chill, then serve

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As dynamic as the menu, Chef Mezick’s resume is rife with experience. He has made culinary contributions at Daniel Boulud’s Cafe Boulud in New York, as Sous Chef at Daniel; and Chef de Partie at Thomas Keller’s Per Se. Along with his training at the New England Culinary Institute, he has also worked with Michel Richard. As a family man, Chef Mezick enjoys cooking in his own kitchen; he offers a good rule of thumb for those preparing meals at home, “If it grows together, it goes together.”

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Mix one beautifully restored historical building and one seasoned chef and you’ll cook up a local sensation. In his inaugural menu, Restaurant 1833’s Executive Chef Levi Mezick marries acclaimed Carmel and Salinas Valley produce and fresh Monterey Bay seafood with a touch of sophistication to produce an enticing menu.

FIFTH COURSE Choice of: BOOKER’S BOURBON PUDDING Sugar Cookies / Sea Salt ~ OR ~ CHOCOLATE MOUSSE CAKE Hazelnuts / Chocolate Ice Cream ~ Paired With: Marenco Family / Brachetto d’ Acqui / Italy 2009 ~ OR ~ Domaine Fontanel / Ambre / France 1999

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How a Brother and Sister Team are Transforming a Landmark Local Business

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“No one in their right mind would move a manufacturing operation to Monterey”

They say you shouldn’t combine business with family; that blood and business don’t mix.

Shelby and Bobby Corliss didn’t pay attention, and together, they’re changing the face of the Robert Talbott brand.

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Employing over 150 full -time employees, with countless stores nationwide, the legendary brand was founded by Robert and Audrey Talbott in 1950. Its first store opened its doors in 1956, in Carmel. 56 years later, the brand now also boasts a successful winery in addition to its renowned clothing line.

With Bobby Corliss as the VP of Business Development and sister Shelby as the VP of Marketing, the duo has been dedicated to repositioning the brand’s presence and its target audience. They’re going back to the basics, moving the operation back to the U.S., more specifically—back to Monterey. The headquarters, located just off of Highway 68 near the Monterey Airport, provides not just a corporate office but also a full-fledged production and manufacturing house.

Everything is cut, sewn and assembled right here in the 831.

“No one in their right mind would move a manufacturing operation to Monterey,” says Bobby Corliss.

“But since half of the production of knitwear is already in Monterey, it made sense to move knitwear to Monterey as well and streamline the whole production.”

“‘There aren’t enough color choices, we need more,’ is what we hear the most from our customers,” the brother sister team says, practically in unison.

They’re aiming for a fresh look and feel, with emphasis that the clothes are made in “Monterey, California, USA, so people don’t get it confused with Monterrey, Mexico.”

The pair’s good taste extends past textiles and vintage grapes; their office is picturesque. Overlooking Monterey, Bobby likens the town to one of his favorite European cities. Spending childhoods split between London, Switzerland and Germany, the Corliss siblings are now content to share the East and West coasts between them. Shelby lives in New York City, where she runs her marketing team. Both frequently travel for shows, meetings, marketing and business development. But at the end of the day, no matter what exotic place they’ve traveled to or how many diverse people

they’ve met, they’re both happy to call Monterey Bay home.

Clad in Robert Talbott’s Spring 2013 Collection (the Spring 2012 women’s fashion is currently sold out), Shelby is excited to take on the responsibility of the women’s branding, giving it strength. She hopes in the coming years that the women’s lines of Talbott will have the same respect and visibility as the men’s lines in the fashion industry.

With a 62-year legacy to live up to, Bobby and Shelby are capitalizing on the famous luxury lifestyle image that the 831 offers. The latest “look book” is more like a storybook of a day in a life of Robert Talbott.

The images show models having breakfast at the Post Ranch Inn, driving by the Bixby Bridge, enjoying Garapatta on their way to the vineyard for some wine. They ride horses at Stonepine and head to Carmel for a day of shopping, and end with drinks and dinner at Restaurant 1833 in Monterey.

The Corliss siblings have refocused the Robert Talbott brand, with an eye towards sharing the places and lifestyle of the 831 with the next generation of customers. What’s next? Look around you. Their inspiration is right here.

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Young Urban Professionals Making a Difference in Monterey Peninsula

- Lisa Crawford Watson

The Monterey Peninsula has long sheltered a reputation for being dominated by senior citizens who have earned the opportunity to live in one of the most beautiful and expensive retirement communities in the world.

Yet at the dawning of this area, it was not the elderly who came over on the boat. It was the young and sturdy, whose wild and willful hearts sensed opportunity in the coastal waters and fertile soil and, over time, in developing the area to welcome those who would visit.

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As the Monterey Bay Area has matured, so have the citizens who raised her. Yet they also have spawned new generations, imbued with that same passion for protecting, preserving and progressing, as they rise up on the shoulders of those who laid the foundation for the work they will do today. Some, native to the area, were raised on the stories of spirit and sacrifice that have inspired a similar investment. Others have been drawn to the area by observation so keen they arrive with a sense of place.

Anyone who wonders “where the wild things are,” can visit the sports arenas on the weekends, where hundreds of young people gather to play soccer or softball, baseball or basketball. Or golf. You can sense the entrepreneurial spirit among a cadre of young men who have promoted fashion and fine dining,

and have established some of the most exceptional food and wine events in the world.

You can meet a handsome young mayor, who was put into office by more votes that the community invested in Clint Eastwood 26 years before. You can witness a new kind of nightlife among young restaurateurs committed to fresh, sustainable, local faire and lots of fun. Or you can ferret out those who are quietly working to make a difference in a community they call their own.

Kimberly Cole came to the Peninsula for love of her college sweetheart and a community that had captured her heart. The Principal Planner for the City of Monterey graduated from the Cal Poly Pomona Department of Urban & Regional Planning in 1991, and then went to work in private consulting in Carmel before accepting her current position in 1997.

“I went into this field,” says Cole, from her office in Monterey’s historic Colton Hall, “ because I love when an area has a sense of place, and I become passionate about doing what I can to develop and maintain that community. I came to the Monterey Peninsula because it is an area that understands and values sustainability, smart development and a balance of preservation and progress.”

Cole grew up in the high desert of Lancaster, a third-generation native of California.

She saw the setting of her childhood as a beautiful landscape devastated by development, as she watched the withering of native Joshua trees and acres of California poppies carpeting the land. It was on these concerns that she based much of her college research and writing.

Wolf, a former real-estate agent, decided to help people in a different way from helping them achieve their lifelong goal of owning a home. He switched professions to help people feel younger.

“I wanted to recreate the concept of being able to continually be able to better people’s lives, no matter how old they get,” said John Wolf, the founder of Wolf Fitness Systems in Salinas “and I think Wolf Fitness does this for those who go to our classes.”

“I have been educating myself since 2002 on fitness and I started training my friends in the garage of my house back in 2007,” said Wolf “the first person I helped back in 2007 is still going to Wolf Fitness today”.

Wolf also gives credit to his youth instructor at the Bojuka Dojo in Marina for the concept of cross-fit training at Wolf Fitness Systems.

“When I was younger my martial arts instructor assisted us in not only attaining our fitness goals while learning martial arts, but he wanted us to continually better our lives as we got older,” said Wolf.

So with his new found knowledge on fitness and memories of his old martial arts instructor preaching fitness, education, community, and friendship the concept of Wolf Fitness Systems was born.

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each person gets from their workout when they go to Wolf Fitness. The implementation of aesthetics and cross-fit training gives people a direction on where to take their body to regain their youthful mobility.

Wolf also implemented Tac-Fit, circular strength training for people more advanced in their fitness goals, he’s taught the training to the Italian special forces, as well as places in Europe like Cambridge, Milan, and Florence.

This concept was what Wolf felt would be the best approach to make the experience unique and fun for everyone.

“I want to help people reclaim their youthful mobility no matter how old they get so we concentrate on circular training, hoping to have who ever goes to our sessions experience a different type of workout than your normal gym,” said Wolf.

The core value and premise of circular training is performance and function as well as improving a person’s health and mobility along the way. All of which can remove the likelihood of injury according to Wolf. www.lead-the-pack-fitness .com

“I really like to work on sensitive development issues,” says Cole, “and I have come to love the urban landscape. I wanted to work in Monterey to get involved in the various infill projects; to participate in smart-growth planning and preservation.”

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Infill projects, says Cole, refer to vacant or underutilized lots, where the focus is on filling in the “missing teeth” in the smile of the street. Consider the stretch along Alvarado Street in Monterey where, in 2007, a fire took out Starbucks and its neighboring businesses, leaving a nearly five-year gap whose blight has been bandaged by a colorful mural painted by young local artist Khalid Hussein.

Today was the worst day ever. I don’t want to even talk about it.

I’m totally serious.

The plan, says Cole, is to replace that mural with a mixeduse project that includes both housing and commercial space in this urban core. She sees real possibilities there as developer Doug Wiele plans to build a $15 million, 13,525-square-foot, four-story Monterey Market Hall on the site, similar to the Oxbow Market in Napa and the Ferry Building Marketplace in San Francisco. The property will include three stories of apartments above the marketplace.

Ooh! A notification! Someone loves me! I knew that would work! I’m so glad that…oh. Someone posted a picture of a cat to the “We thinkz catz iz teh best!!1!” group. Lol...it’s funny because the cat is riding a bike that’s invisible.

“One of the biggest challenges,” Cole says, “has been the height limit in downtown Monterey, which is three stories. But we may be able to change the zoning codes within the next one or two months. There are always obstacles, but the satisfying part comes in working together with the community to overcome them.”

Perhaps Cole’s most prominent example of overcoming obstacles regards the New Year’s Eve 2011 shooting that took place outside The Mucky Duck, a British pub with a late-night bar scene and a reputation for, at times, an unruly crowd. After the shooting, the pub’s permit was pulled, and the bar eventually closed down.

“Monterey is a place known for its beautiful environment and wonderful, safe entertainment,” says Cole. “As soon as someone crosses the line with unsafe or inappropriate behavior, we need to do something about it. In one year, the police responded to 200 calls from the Mucky Duck. It was a hard year.

But, now that the establishment has been sold, and we were able to open up the permit, everyone has worked really hard, and there has been just one call to the police. That’s one more step toward making Monterey the historic destination people want to come visit.”

- Blaise Douros

Hey! Why is nobody commenting? No “luv u b4be” or “u r beautiful the way u r?” It’s like nobody recognized that this was actually me ASKING you all for affirmations. If nobody is going to pay attention to me, I’m…

Anyway! Back to more important things; ME. It’s been four minutes and NONE of my friends has commented on my status.

Don’t they know this is an important personal crisis going on right now? Wait: another notifica—ew, it’s totally time to unfriend THAT person. That comment is on a picture from like, two years ago.

Stalker.

Forget this! I’m heading over to Twitter. Maybe someone will pay attention to me there.

I’m so pissed. I had the #worstdayever. Wish @ashtonkutcher or @milakunis would #callmemaybe.

OMG! #callmemaybe is trending worldwide. I’m really influential, good thing I thought that one up.

Well, since my work on Twitter is complete, let’s head over to Pinterest. I really need to find a cupcake recipe that I can serve in DIY repurposed mason jars after I finish my inspired workout from all the fitness pics. What’s this!? One of my followers is getting a ton of attention on an owl-themed scarf that I TOTALLY PINNED FIRST! SHE REPINNED IT FROM MY BOARD! I was going to learn to knit and then make that scarf.

After six straight hours of pinning, I really feel like I’m getting a strong idea of what this cupcake project is going to look like. I also made a revenge board for ideas of what to do to my copycat follower. Hopefully no one from Homeland Security is on Pinterest…

Regardless of the late-night meetings, the challenges inherent in competing interests or moving forward, Cole loves her job; loves working on sensitive development and urban landscape projects, through which she meets interesting people dealing with interesting and important issues.

Let’s check the ol’ MySpace account. Nope, no activity for the past seven years.

When not working hard on the job, Cole plays hard with her husband and two sons, 9 and 12, by mountain biking, sailing on the bay, hiking, and watching a lot of kids’ sports, particularly baseball.

Back to Facebook; surely someone will have noticed my suffering by now. Ugh! I JUST unfriended you, creep, why did you send me another friend request? Blockblockblockblockblock.

Throughout the county, young people are growing up and rising up, as they learn the value of their community and develop their own sense of place and the importance of protecting it. In an era when reality TV presents a ruse on what life is really about, we can look to a lot of local young urban professionals who, like Kimberly Cole, John Wolfe, Jason Burnett, Bobbie Corliss, and others are pressing forward with creative vision and commitment to invest themselves in making a difference in their community.

Wait—someone just texted me; Instagram is down. OMG! Hang on, I need to call all my friends and describe my dinner to them, otherwise how will they know what my food looks like?

And someone commented on my status! My friend posted a picture of Ryan Gosling saying “Hey girl, I know you had a tough day so I took off my shirt and folded your underwear while growing you organic vegetables in our compost pile.” That is so thoughtful; Ryan is super dreamy.

Another comment: finally, more acknowledgement! “Hope you have a #betterday!” AARGH! Don’t they know that #these #don’t #work #on #Facebook!?

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From breakfast to late night drinks to local hideouts, here are some of our favorite places to go in the south side of the 831.

Our favorite places for Eggs Benedict: Trailside Café -Smoked Salmon Benedict. Red House Café - Made on Croissants. Katy’s Place - With 16 different kinds, there’s something for everyone. The C Restaurant at the Intercontinental wins as one of our favorite breakfast places.

Lunch

Drinks

Favorite Lunches: Mundos Cafe - ArgenWe LOVE Drinks! Yes We Do! Whole tinean Tri-Tip. Randy’s Sandwich Shop Enchilada--May be named the Whole - Local tradition. Crystal Fish - Bento Box: Enchilada but their margaritas are the total steal. Benihana by the wharf - Lunch bigger, and yes, they are better.

Boat: best deal for a quick lunch. Jack’s at Restaurant 1833 -Specializes in Portola Hotel -Awesome Salad Bar. unique and bizarre - explore with their large selection of absinth. We love the Penicillin #2, Pimms Cups and our Editor’s pick is the Milk Punch. Pierce Ranch Vineyards--Specializes in Spanish varietals.

Stop by at the new wine room Constance the Wine Room on the corner of Lincoln and Ocean in Carmel. For beer tasting with a convenient location, visit the Cannery Row Brewing Co.

Small Bites

Family Style

Dessert

Favorite Places for Food, Family and Friends: Il Vecchio - BEST Gnocchi.

Demetras Café - If you have a birthday the ENTIRE restaurant sings to you, make reservations in advance. Best Indian food Ambrosia on Abrego St. and best locals’ pub--Flanagan’s at The Barnyard in Carmel.

Dessert? Yes Please! Mrs. DeLish’s Cupcakes -So many to choose from, so little time. Lula’s Chocolates-Three words: Sea Salt Caramel. Montrio Bistro - BEST bread pudding. Cinnamon pull-apart from - Pastries and Petals in Carmel. Buttery almond and sugar croissants from Patisserie Bechler in Pacific Grove.

With a View

Late Nigth Hangouts

Happy Hour

Schooner’s Coastal Kitchen and Bar--Their patio doesn’t sit on the ocean, it hangs over it -The Inn at Spanish Bay--Enjoy watching the ocean, with the warmth of a fire pit, while making gourmet s’mores -Pacific’s Edge--Overlook the coast, while surrounded by the redwoods of Big Sur

In Monterey - Restaurant 1833. Live music at Jack London’s in Carmel is the newest spot to chill and the Gumbo there is our favorite. Stop by Vesuvio’s rooftop lounge. Mundakas for DJ on Thrusdays. Indian Summer with hookah by the fireplace, jazz and belly dancing.

Downtown Monterey’s Lalapalooza has “Lalla Time” or if you’re looking to lounge, head over to Restaurant 1833 and sit on their large, patio, day beds. If you’ve been shopping on Cannery Row all day, visit The C Restaurant + Bar for their halfoff appetizer menu. Coming back from Carmel Valley or Big Sur? Stop by the Rio Grill in the Carmel Crossroads for drinks and a quick bite.

Favorite Small Bites: The C Restaurant + Bar - Calamari. Restaurant 1833 - Bacon and Cheddar Biscuits are the best in town. Estéban Restaurant - Medjool Dates wrapped in bacon and stuffed with blue cheese.

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Here’s how we’d spend an active, tasty day in the 831: 7 a.m. - 10 a.m.: Get a healthy start to your day by doing a hike around the coastal trails of Garrapata State Park -if you’re feeling extra adventurous you can hike the Soberanes Canyon loop.

10 a.m.- 12 a.m.: Drive down the coast a little farther, and have a relaxing and healthy breakfast/brunch at The Big Sur Bakery--you deserve it.

12 a.m.-3 p.m.: Grab a blanket, a book and your camera and perch yourself on Pfeiffer Beach--you’ll probably want to take a nap.

3 p.m.-4 p.m.: Make your way back up the coast on Highway 1. Stop for a snack and another fantastic view at Nepenthe.

4 p.m.- 5 p.m.: Foot (and body) massage at Comfoot Spa or Happy Feet.

5 p.m.-7 p.m.: Go to Spanish Bay and watch the sunset to the sound of bagpipes.

7 p.m.-9 p.m.: Grab a bite to eat (look to the left for recommendations).

9 p.m.- 11 p.m.: Go to a late night showing of the newest indie film at the New Osio Cinema.

Now go crash. You’ve just spent 16 hours in the 831. Tomorrow, choose another path, grasshopper...

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Heels on Wheels BY: LINDSEY A. DOUROS

As the fog settles in and the sun takes its summer vacation, the options for outdoor activities on the Peninsula dwindle. But with this season’s roller derby heating-up, the action isn’t going to be on the beach, it’s on the flat-track rink at the Water City Sports Center in Marina.

“We have a boot camp a couple times a year,” says Isabella Guajardo (a.k.a LuchaCha Libre #3-Count). “We give women and men ages 18 and over the chance to get information so they know what it means to become a skater, nonskater, or referee with the league. There’s no maximum age limit.”

Guajardo, the Monterey Bay Derby Dames Public Relations Representative, began skating three years ago, after attending one of the sport’s infamous boot camps. During the brutal six-week course, Guajardo trained hard—focusing mainly on cross training in order to prevent injury. Her natural athleticism and training paid-off—she’s only experienced a sprained knee.

“I had never been on skates since I was 12 years old,” Guajardo remembers.

“Never before had I done a team sport like this. In that six weeks, something came out of me that I never knew I had.

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can get past the fear, everything else will come and your potential will soar beyond your wildest dreams.”

And soar Guajardo did. She was immediately recruited to the Oakland Outlaws, with whom she skated with for a year and a half, before moving to Monterey and joining the Monterey Derby Dames.

The Monterey Bay Derby Dames have three main teams: The Babes of Wrath, The Cannery Rollers and The Steinwreckers, and an all-star travel team called The Beasts of Eden. This summer will bring excitement when The Beasts of Eden challenge the nationally-ranked Richmond Wrecking Belles—the Bay Area Derby Girls’ all-star team and Guajardo’s former teammates. While the competition is exciting, what’s more important for Guajardo and many of her teammates is challenging themselves mentally and physically on a daily basis as a part of a larger community.

“It’s really exciting for people to be a part of an organization where we make the rules and we skate our hearts out.”

Whether you’re looking for something to brighten-up these foggy days or a way to get in some good cardio, roller derby may be just the thing you didn’t know you were looking for.

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- ASHLEY SMALLMAN

It’s summer time in the 831 and people are flocking to the beaches, state parks and recreation trails. Fitness enthusiasts and outdoor lovers alike are eager to feel the warmth of the sun and the ocean breeze, while increasing their heart rate and finding their way to a better and healthier self.

The Monterey Peninsula is teeming with gyms, group exercise classes, dance studios, fitness centers, and hundreds of miles of trails. There is no better place to discover and ignite a passion for health and fitness. Unfortunately, many consider working out a daunting task—something that plagues their day or is pushed aside with a litany of excuses. Wouldn’t it be amazing to find a workout you loved so much you

wouldn’t skip it but rather you were counting down the hours until you could do it? It’s out there. You just need to start looking!

We’ve all heard the saying, “find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life,” the same rings true for health and fitness.

In her book Push, fitness expert and celebrity trainer Chalene Johnson says, “If you don’t love exercise, it just means you haven’t met your soul-mate workout.

When you find your soulmate workout, you’ll have the key ingredient to creating a bangin’ body and the life you deserve.” You deserve to live a healthy and fulfilling life. You deserve to be strong inside and out.

Once you find a love for fitness it will be the best thing that happens to you, physically. Everyone has the

potential to fall in love with fitness; you just have to be open to finding love.

So, how do you find your “soul-mate” workout?

Start by thinking about what you enjoy doing.

What are you looking for in a workout? Do you like to be indoors or outdoors?

Do you thrive in a group setting or are you self motivated?

Get out there and try something you’ve never done. Take a class or participate in an activity that intimidates you. It might be exactly what you’re looking for! For the next few months set a goal of trying something new every week. There is so much to experience on the Central Coast—don’t let anything hold you back!

e 1. Pass by the elevator and take the stairs. You can burn between 7 and 10 calories per minute by walking upstairs.

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2. Just two minutes of stair-climbing each day can burn enough calories to eliminate the one-pound an average adult gains in a year.

3. There are over 30 public and private golf courses on the Central Coast. With over 600 holes, forget the cart, grab your bag and walk to burn some extra calories!

q 4. Consuming just 100 calories more than you need a day can equal a 10-pound weight gain in a year

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Healthy Drinks for Day & Night Daytime For glowing, healthy skin, increased energy and help with weight loss, or simply to ensure your body gets all the nutrients it needs to be healthy, I use Shakeology®. With over 70 nutrient rich, high quality ingredients including super foods, Shakeology® takes the guess work out of nutrition for me. Here’s my favorite recipe: Banana Nut Dream - 300 Calories 1 scoop of Chocolate Shakeology® 1/2 cup of Almond, Rice, Coconut, or Skim Milk 1/2 cup of water 1/2 medium banana 1 Tbsp. of natural peanut butter or almond butter Ice to taste *Blend until creamy

Nighttime If you’re headed out for a night on the town but want to keep your waist line in mind, try these low calorie drinks: Red wine: 115 calories per 6 oz Gin and Tonic: 120 -165 calories Champagne: 85 calories for a 4 oz glass Beer: Most domestic beers are around 150 calories. However, you’d be surprised to find that a Guinness Draught is only 126 calories, don’t let the dark color fool you.

The 100 Workout:

x New to the gym scene? Try these steps :

1. Take a group exercise class 2. Try spinning 3. Walk on the treadmill at a 3% incline with 5 pound weights 4. Squats on a Bosu ball with 5 pound weights in each hand 5. Rowing machine 6. Basic crunches on a medicine ball 7. Overhead tricep extensions 8. 30 minutes of cardio, switch machines every 10 minutes

Trails in the 831 | Carmel, Big Sur, Monterey, Fort Ord, Santa Cruz.

The Monterey Bay Coastal trail stretches over 29 miles from Castroville to Pebble Beach. Lands on the former Fort Ord boast 86 miles of trails.

In south Monterey County, you can explore over 30 miles of trails at the Pinnacles National Monument. In Santa Cruz, Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park features nearly 20 miles of trails ranging from 0.4 to 3.3 miles long. The options are endless, grab your bike or hiking shoes and hit the trail! *www.parks.ca.gov

1. livestrong.com. 2. nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr2008/pr033-08.shtml 3. mtycounty.com/pgs-golf/golf.html, visitsantacruzcounty.com 4. Chalene Johnson’s book Push,112.

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Things to do

Surfing

A WAVE OF PHILANTHROPY

BY: LINDSEY A. DOUROS

Not a surfer? Don’t despair.

There are plenty of other waterrelated activities in the 831.

- Go sailing with Bella on the Bay. Bring a group of friends and have a fancy wine and cheese party.

“I came to surfing later in life,” Ybarra says, while stirring her morning coffee. “I’m Mexican-American and when I was out surfing, I realized that there were very few woman or girls and definitely few Hispanics. So I thought, what can I do with the resources that have been given to me

provided. The Wahine Project team looked at barriers, which in the past have kept women from the sport, and found ways to provide affordable options—even to the most disadvantaged.

Ybarra grew up in the neighborhood of East Alisal in Salinas, an area known for high crime rates and few stories of success.

“I was scared of the water,” Ybarra says. “I was terrified and so it was much later that I did it on my own.

I finally learned how to do ocean swims in my 30’s.”

Ybarra has three boys, who grew up surfing. While she took them to their surf lessons and competitions, it wasn’t until after her divorce that she took to the sport.

“I watched [my sons] grow up surfing but very rarely did I ever see women involved in the sport,” says Ybarra, tucking a stray curl behind her ear. “I was always at the beach but I never saw any young girls.”

Initially, Ybarra was puzzled by the absence of estrogen in the waves of Monterey Bay, compared to the abundance she had seen in Santa Cruz.

Dionne Ybarra may appear to be your average soccer mom, doing the weekly shopping at Trader Joe’s. But to many disadvantaged girls from the Central Coast, this East Salinas native is a beacon of hope. She’s the role model they never had. The big sister or mom they need. She’s the surfing equivalent of Wonder 76

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to make the sport not only more accessible to girls like me and the area I came from, but all girls in general?”

Wahine (pronounced wa-HEEnee) means “young woman surfer” in Hawaiian. Spreading her message of girl empowerment, Ybarra invites girls from all over Monterey County to do an eight-month program. The program includes two surf clinics a month and all of the equipment is

“I realized that it’s because of conditions,” she says with a laugh.

“They’re harsh so girls can’t go out.

It’s not a part of our culture so families aren’t doing it. It’s so awesome because our girls don’t realize that they’re learning in some of the harshest conditions they could be learning in. The air is cold, the water is cold and the waves are pounding.”

Despite hazardous conditions, it doesn’t stop Ybarra and the Wahine Project from filling the coastline with young women looking to learn how

- Kayak in Elkhorn Slough.

Bring your camera for all the wildlife, but be sure to keep it dry.

- Scuba diver? Dive shops Seven Seas Scuba and Bamboo Reef provide gear rentals. The Silver Prince dive boat will take you to remote dive spots.

- Stand-up Paddleboarding with Adventures By The Sea; check out Cannery Row from the ocean side.

- Go whale watching with the Monterey Princess. See humpbacks, greys, blues, and plenty of dolphins.

- Feeling super cheesy?

Go rent a paddle boat on Lake El Estero.

to surf.

“My whole life, my mission has been advocacy for women,” Ybarra says. “I want to teach these girls. I hope that one day I’m out of a job because we’ve worked so hard with this generation of women that we’ve given them the strength they needed.”

In addition to surfing, girls are also given time to meet with Wahine instructors four times a month.

They’re given lessons on self-esteem, health and fitness, and ocean conservation. The project relies solely on donations, and only about half of the girls can afford the monthly fee.

The other half is on scholarship. This past year, Ybarra had around 100 girls enrolled in the program.

“Because these girls are in an eight-month program, I get to see

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Woman. She may be petite but what she lacks in size, she makes up for in her dedication to the Wahine Project.

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preview // Local Book / Yes to the mess

Duke Ellington and Miles Davis were leaders among jazz musicians because of their improvisation.

The world’s best leaders and teams are like great jazz musicians— they’ve learned to improvise. They invent novel responses and take calculated risks without a scripted plan or a safety net that guarantees specific outcomes. They negoti-

Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz Improvisation

ate with each other as they proceed, and they don’t dwell on mistakes or stifle each other’s ideas. In short, they say “yes to the mess” of today’s hurried, harried, yet enormously innovative and fertile world of work.

An improvisational “jazz mind-set” and the skills that go along with it are essential for effective leadership today. Yes to the Mess outlines how great leaders, like great jazz improvisers, adopt the following practices:

1. Master the Art of Unlearning: Jazz musicians guard against the seductive power of routines and habits. They challenge themselves to explore the very edge of their comfort level, to stretch their learning into new and different areas.

When organizations become locked in a dominant design, and people find themselves trapped in roles, dynamism is lost. Leaders need to do as jazz musicians do—deliberately disrupting routines as a way of “unlearning” so as to be more alive, alert, and open to a horizon of new possibilities.

Frank J. Barrett is a Professor of Management in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School. His book, Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz Improvisation is available on Amazon.com.

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2. Develop Affirmative Competence: Leaders frequently find themselves in the middle of messes and have to take action, even though the outcome is not guaranteed. Jazz players face the same issues but they are able to adjust and improvise because they’re unafraid of moving forward, even in the midst of uncertainty. Human beings are most creative, when they are open to the world, able

to notice what’s needed, and equipped with the skills to respond meaningfully in the moment. Improvisation grows out of receptivity to what the situation offers and thus, the first move is a “yes to the mess”; a state of radical receptivity is what all jazz musicians yearn for.

3. Perform and Experiment simultaneously: Leaders need to do what jazz musicians do – anticipate that when people are encouraged to try something new, the results will be unexpected. Innovative cultures maximize learning by nurturing a mindset of trial and error that allows managers to take advantage of errors and offer new insights. This involves creating a psychological comfort zone, one in which it is safe for people to talk about their successes, as well as failures. Failures are occasions for learning.

4. Minimal Structure and Maximal Autonomy: Balancing Freedom and Constraints: This principle fosters a flexible structure— an organizational design that has both sufficient constraints and just enough structure and coordination, to maximize diversity. Jazz bands and innovative organizations create conditions for guided autonomy. They create choice points to avoid getting weighted down with rules, while also maximizing diversity, inviting embellishment, and encouraging exploration and experimentation. To foster innovation, leaders hedge against the trap of “too much consensus”, giving people freedom to experiment and respond to hunches. The underlying assumption is that when people disagree, they’re both right. Thus, such organizations tolerate and encourage debate.

5. Jamming and Hanging Out: Learning by Doing and Talking: In jazz, learning and ideas for innovation take place in jam sessions, the creative equivalent of conversations in 19th -century coffeehouses. It is here that musicians get innovative ideas, and learn how and whether their playing is up to par. For rookies and semioutsiders, these sessions are where they learn what it takes to think and act like a jazz insider. Organizations need to create similar room

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for jam sessions, like Steve Jobs did for Apple. They need to deliberately design for serendipity, to encourage happy accidents and unexpected discoveries. The key to this in organizations is opportunistic conversations. Great insight occurs in the context of relationships and exchanges, as people share each other’s work and ask questions (often naïve questions).

6. Taking Turns Soloing and Supporting: Followership as a Noble Calling: We put so much emphasis on leadership that we forget the importance of “followership”, what jazz musicians call “comping” or accompanying.

In organizations, followership — supporting others to think out loud— should be an art more fully articulated, acknowledged, and rewarded. Leaders need to model and support the practice of taking turns as leaders and supporters, just as great jazz players do. Followership can be a noble calling, but organizations need to let it flourish.

7. Provocative Competence: Nurturing Double Vision: Provocative competence is a very special leadership skill that helps people break out of competency traps. Practicing provocative competence requires first, that leaders discipline their imaginations to see a person or group’s potential even if it is not being fulfilled in that moment. Leaders also can introduce an incremental disruption, which demands people leave their comfort zones and attempt new and unfamiliar actions. Duke Ellington and Miles Davis were masters of provocative competence; they understood it was an art form in itself.

8. Hitting a Groove: Jazz improvisation is an emergent and vital process.

When players interpret and anticipate each others’ contributions, they are more likely to experience a flow state. When organizational teams are able to hit a groove, the collaboration is more likely to lead to innovation.

Leaders today need to be expert improvisers. The principles of jazz thinking and jazz performance can help anyone who leads teams or works with them.

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While being Mayor to a small town with a large profile may seem daunting, it does have its perks— like getting a photo of the Vice President of the United States of America holding your child at an event.

“One of the things I find really inspiring about [Vice President Biden] is that he made a commitment to his family first.” Burnett says, pulling up the photo on his iPhone. “I talked with him about how to balance public life and how to have family. And he was very strong in saying family comes first and the public will understand and respect that.”

Along with upholding traditional family values, Burnett also hopes to restore hope in local government. And unlike many politicians, Burnett isn’t looking to pursue a career beyond local government.

“I don’t want to be that far away from my family,” Burnett says, watching his son toddle around the room from chair to chair. “I also feel that you can get more done at the local level than you can in Sacramento or in D.C. right now. If you want to be involved in local service to get something done, rather than just have a title, there’s a huge benefit to working locally.”

Like Burnett, Craig is also unusual for a politician. For her, politics is not about climbing the political ladder either. Rather, it’s about what she can get done; right now. And, she’s not afraid to ask the uncomfortable questions to get it done and do it well.

“For me, it’s important for me to establish a record of success and thrive,” Craig says. “I feel like I’ve really been an advocate for growth in Salinas. I’ve been called ‘feisty’ and a ‘sparkplug’. I think it’s good to push and challenge and ask some of the hard questions that people don’t want to answer. It’s important to do that while you’re on Council.”

While Craig is passionate about politics she’s more concerned with the welfare of the City of Salinas.

“I will be involved in local government as long as I’m effective,” Craig says adamantly. “I didn’t start this going ‘I want to be an Assemblywoman’. But if I could represent this area at the state level, so that we’re able to get better funding for the Monterey Peninsula, then I would consider it. For me it’s always been about finishing what is directly in front of me.”

Craig’s high morals and standards are what set her apart not only from her fellow peers but also fellow politicians.

“I said I would be a representative for North Salinas for four years, and that’s my current goal right now. And it’s why I chose not to run for Mayor because I’m not done with what I said I was going to do.”

Burnett and Craig may be some of the youngest in local politics but they are also some of the wisest. While we may not see either one of these influential politicos heading to Washington anytime soon, one thing can be said for them both—relationships and the citizens of Monterey County come first.

Everything else is secondary.

Brian Bode

there because in order to have a successful product, it’s important that I’ve established some sort of name and that I have some sort of recognition. Now that I have all of these things coming to me, it’s starting to appear again. At the end of the day, that’s where I hope to be.”

But Bode’s lofty dreams have come at a price.

Not only is he a successful businessman, the Lead Artistic Director for KMS’ North America Division, and a nationally recognized stylist and educator, he’s also a husband and father. Finding a balance between these many roles is difficult to say the least.

“Having my daughter asking me if I’m going to be gone when she wakes up is sad,” Bode says. “And I miss parts of their lives that I’ll never get back. But all in all, everything I do is for them. I have my own dreams and my own goals but at the end of the day I want to provide for them as much as possible so they can live the life they want to live. It inspires me to work hard and maintain balance.”

Between jetting off to New York for Fashion Week, flying to Macau and Marbella for the latest trends, and leaving for Denver Colorado to present his work to the CEO’s of KAO, Bode is left with little time on the ground, let alone in Monterey. But despite the chaos, one thing is always clearly guiding Bode—his passion for hair and his desire to share it with the world.

“Always be passionate about what you do,” Bode says. “Whether it’s in school or life, having passion will make you go further and having a strong work ethic will make people want you to work for them. That will create opportunities, which will drive you further and further in the industry.”

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them change,” Ybarra explains. “I get to see them from the first day they came to the beach, to two months later, to five months later, to six months, to a year later.

I get to watch [girls] overcome their fear of being in the water to catching their own waves. Or to see [a girl] closed down and shut off to everyone and not making eye contact, to coming up to me and hugging me.

You know, we bring them to the beach to surf but it’s just a stepping-stone to how they move in the rest of the world.”

However, the Wahine Project’s reach doesn’t stop in Monterey. Ybarra just got back from a trip down to Mexico, where she instructed a group of paraplegic surfers.

“I was like, ‘Hell YES! Are you kidding me?!’ Ybarra says, throwing her hands in the air. “It was amazing.

You can go to Madrid, and you can go to Spain and South Africa. But if you’re just going there on vacation, what does it mean for you? It’s about something bigger.”

For Ybarra and The Wahine Project, life is not about being complacent. It’s about riding the wave of life, no matter where it leads you.

“Surfing is key because it makes you uncomfortable and it’s important for you to sit in [discomfort] because that’s where you’re going to grow the most,” she says. “You have to learn how to just sit in it because it’s going to teach you something later.”

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Two Generations of Style - Noël Gray If you were a Barbie or teddy bear in Taylor Catherwood’s toy box there’s no doubt you were the best-dressed dolls in the neighborhood. At the early age of 4, Catherwood (now 21) began cutting up old clothes and bed sheets, creating miniature fashion forward duds.

“I always knew I wanted to be a fashion designer,” she recalls.

Catherwood grew up in the 831, amidst a close and supportive family. In high school, Catherwood sketched and stitched and produced the first of her dresses. She went on to study fashion design in San Francisco, until her grandmother fell ill and she left school to return to Carmel to support her family.

It was during this time that her grandfather, Richard Azevedo, approached her with the idea of starting her own fashion design company. Azevedo believes in pursuing one’s dreams. “Don’t be afraid to take a chance and see what happens,” he told Catherwood. She grasped the opportunity, and TC&G was born.

Catherwood has woven herself into every aspect of her company. All of her designs are hand sketched. Fabrics are individually selected. She’s even flown to Vietnam to shake the hands of the seamstresses that sew her clothes. Catherwood is also quick to acknowledge her family and friends.

“Without their amazing support, I couldn’t do this on my own,” she says, paying homage by naming her creations after those who’ve influenced her most -TC&G represents Taylor Catherwood and Grandpa. And each piece in her first line of dresses is named after one of her eight best friends.

Catherwood seeks to create clothing that best accentuates each woman. In her first line, the designs are sophisticated yet playful; she mixes classic black with open backs, lace, and leather. Her current ready to wear designs are transforming into brighter colors and longer hemlines. TC&G currently designs for women, but future lines will include accessories, as well as men and children’s wear.

Catherwood is determined to emphasize women’s beauty inside and out. Currently, a portion from every sale is contributed to an orphanage in Vietnam. As her company continues to develop, Catherwood will also pursue creating her own nonprofit organization to benefit young women. Her designs can be seen at: www.taylorcatherwood. com.

“You just have to go for it, you only live once, so why not have the craziest dream ever?”

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The beauty in Catherwood’s designs is inspired by her passion, gratitude, and determination.

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