Recent Stories
Moore Better
Comic novelist Christopher Moore comes to Monterey to talk ‘writing and stuff.’
Christopher Moore turns Vincent Van Gogh’s death on its ear – by portraying it as a murder, not the suicide history tells us. The twist catalyzes his latest novel, Sacre Bleu, a fictional murder mystery ...
Hotel Tell-All
Jacob Tomsky hits the hotel lobby like Bourdain hit the kitchen: with sharp writing, humor and the occasional perversion.
Behind the painted smiles on the faces of hotel front desk agents lurks something powerful. Insult them, needlessly complain, or threaten the person and he or she has the power, with a few keystrokes, to ...
Life is Shorts
Hundreds of short films boil down to the Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series grand prize Sunday night at the Henry Miller Library.
For me, the Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series didn’t begin with the first public screening on June 6. It started April 4 with an email from Magnus Toren, Henry Miller Library’s director and ...
Read Me a Story
A delightful cocktail of live actors and great stories mix together for a night of literary fun.
The “Selected Shorts” crew pack up their knickerbockers, leaving their home in New York City for a quick West Coast tour. On Saturday, March 31, they stop in Carmel to perform at the Sunset Center. ...
Long and Short of It
The Banff Mountain Film Festival showcases 10 films about outdoor adventurers and how they use nature to make sense of it all.
Australian Tim Cope is three years into a journey that has taken him by horse from Mongolia to Hungary. Cope, who never rode a horse before this trip, set out to follow in the footsteps ...
Short Film Complex
Big Sur Short Film Series building to a climactic gala finish.
When it comes to Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series, even the popcorn is special. The organic kernels are popped fresh on a stove top with help from a combination of canola and extra ...
Stage Next
Big Sur’s children’s summer theater group again stands a beloved fairy tale on its head.
It’s the first of three consecutive Friday evening shows at the Big Sur Grange Hall and artistic director, Jaime Arze, to his own amazement, isn’t racing backstage and running up and down the stairs to ...
Green Gold
New (and booming) Eco Carmel proves sustainable can be profitable.
Kristi Reimers wasn’t like most 13-year-old girls. In her free time she would stand in front of Longs Drugstore – when most of her peers were poring over US Weekly and BOP Magazine – handing ...
Tree From Space
Forty years ago a Monterey resident orbited the moon with the Apollo 14 astronauts.
We all carry things: keys, cell phones, wallets. We carry our memories, goals and dreams. On vacations we carry toiletries and (hopefully) fresh underwear. So it stands to reason that astronauts are allowed to carry ...
Morning Do
Six different ways to start the day in Big Sur.
No fewer than six restaurants in the Big Sur Valley boast fun, hearty, sweet and innovative inspiration to set the alarm a bit earlier on the weekend, or find an excuse to call in sick ...
