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Dance Dance Evolution
Want to ride bikes to the ecstatic dance while listening to free downloaded world music? Or we can just watch a movie. Outside.
• The Bike Safety Event and Ride at Laguna Grande Park in Seaside is the antithesis of every bike stunt you’ve seen on Jackass. Organized by the city of Seaside and the Monterey County Health ...
War Cry
One man channels a modern telling of an old tale of glory, tragedy and war at Circle Theatre.
After a Sunday afternoon matinee of Pacific Repertory Theatre’s opening season play, An Iliad, one of the PacRep people entreated audience members to tell others about the production, an extremely abridged one-man recounting of Homer’s ...
ARTIFACTS 05.09.13 – Lifelong Learning
The guy who sang “The more I know/ The less I understand” wasn’t paying attention.
• This Sunday, 4-7pm, the public is invited to the memorial celebration of one Barbara Murphy of Portofino Presents at the Pacific Grove Art Center (568 Lighthouse Ave., P.G., 375-2208). Former PGAC executive director Joan ...
Before his appearance at this weekend’s Steinbeck Festival, Gavin Cologne-Brookes, Professor of American Literature at Bath Spa University, expounded on Steinbeck.
In your presentation, Home is Where the Heart Is, what will you highlight/extract about the relationship between Steinbeck and Salinas? I’ll be talking about Steinbeck’s simultaneous ambivalence toward his hometown and celebration of it and ...
WINE & FOOD 2013: Give Us Mercy
With abiding bravery against the elements – and a brand new tasting room – upstart Mercy Vineyards solidifies Arroyo Seco’s rep.
Michael Griva wants to take us on a motorcar tour of parts of his Griva Vineyard – west of Greenfield, in Arroyo Seco – in a red, convertible, windowless (and seatbelt-less) 1916 six-cylinder Buick. It’s ...
ARTIFACTS: Work and Play
When your 9 to 5 is a pleasure, it doesn’t feel like work.
• Paper Wing Theatre is deft at atypical film-to-stage musicals. Friday and Saturday through May 11, they give a big shout-out to the working woman with a musical homage to ’80s male-chauvinist-boss revenge movie comedy ...
Home Word
A more streamlined festival still offers plenty of entry into the work and life of John Steinbeck.
The opening night barbecue of the Steinbeck Festival will occupy a stunning setting at the Big Sur Land Trust property Mark’s Ranch. It will include food from Oldtown Deli’s Gordon Chin and live music by ...
Golden Child
One of the authors of Saturday’s Local Authors Forum in Salinas circles back to his hometown.
Poet and Salinas native James B. Golden is the author of three poetry books – Sweet Potato Pie Underneath The Sun’s Broiler, Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain, and The Inside Of An Orange. In 2012 ...
Booked Up
John Steinbeck Library hosts a panel of eight local authors talking about the writing life.
WEB SPECIAL: Full interview with James B. Golden Monterey County is teeming with published authors and poets. They convene in writers’ clubs like the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium and the Central Coast Writers Club. They ...
ARTIFACTS: Bird Song
Spring is here, bringing with it peace, jazz and flowers.
First it was Takacs Quartet, who played the third quartet by renowned English composer (and committed pacifist) Benjamin Britten last month. This Friday, Chamber Music Monterey Bay presents Enso String Quartet, who perform Britten’s “String ...
