Recent Stories
Gimme Mo’
Keb’ Mo’ tries out a new album on Carmel’s Sunset Center.
Keb’ Mo’ has never been a man who wants to become a victim of comfort. As proof, the three-time Grammy-winning bluesman left Epic Records to release his new album Live and Mo’ on his own ...
Grand Stanzas
Big Sur’s Carolyn Mary Kleefeld expands her churning catalog of poetry and art with Vagabond Dawns.
Big Sur poet and artist Carolyn Mary Kleefeld can often be found on the cliffs of Big Sur reading poetry to a resident condor. “Art is where I gamble,” she says. “It’s Taoistic and intuitive.” ...
‘Scoobie Doo on Acid’
Zombie Voodoo Scream Party takes over Golden State for a freaky week of Halloween theater.
Rider McDowell grew up watching his mother rehearse off-Broadway plays from the wings of various New York theaters – and was bored to death by most of what he saw. “I hate off-Broadway shows. Theater ...
Unprecedented Portraits
Monterey Symphony commissions Dave and Chris Brubeck’s Ansel Adams: America.
Ansel Adams once said, “The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.” Now Adams’ extraordinary black-and-white photographic “performances” have been set to music ...
Ghost Tree Eulogy
Pebble Beach’s rare-but-behemoth break rapidly went from secret to famous to, now, off-limits.
The end of the Ghost Tree era was as inevitable as the tide. When the draft plan for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary was generated back in 2006, the tow-surfing community knew it was ...
Wider Angle
The local United Nations Association chapter expands its flagship film festival.
Our world just got bigger. For the past eight years, Monterey Bay Chapter of the years United Nations Association president Larry Levine and his small crew of volunteers have hosted a traveling festival of international ...
Above Board
A high-flying look at the world’s fastest growing water sport.
When I was 12, a friend received a two-line stunt kite from some weird uncle. The thing came with a handlebar and a bunch of tangled lines and was shaped like a bat wing. In ...
20th Anniversary -- Artistic Drama – Literally
The last 20 years of local theater, dance, lit, jazz, classical and visual arts hit quickly. So does this analysis from a former P.G. poet-in-residence.
THEATER The Inspired • In September 1988, Stephen Moorer and the GroveMont Theatre Arts Center produced Early Girl, a decadent little play about a prostitute. An unsentimental and frequently hilarious look at the profit motive ...
Natural Cathedrals
Robinson Jeffers’ and John Steinbeck’s legacies are reconsidered at an upcoming celebration.
The landscape of Monterey County elicits a powerful reaction from us ordinary mortals. We’re confronted by the relationship between our own terrifying insignificance and the vast unknowable universe– or the wild comforts of God. Or ...
After 10 years, Thompson gives up poetry classic’s reins.
Poetry is thankless. It’s completely unmarketable. It’s the most punk of all art forms. It’s a world made up of almost no capital and 100 percent soul. Most people are never going to get paid ...
