Arts & Culture Blog
Local Theater Pillar Marcia Hovick Died Monday
Actress, director and playwright Marcia Hovick, who founded Children's Experimental Theatre and Staff Players Repertory Company, died Monday, Jan. 30.
Animator Don Hertzfeldt at CSUMB
Don Hertzfeldt says he’s a boring person, but fortunately for us, his short, cartoon films are far from that. The Academy Award-nominated animator spoke last ...
VIDEO: Brandon Boyd Walks and Talks Art at MOM
Brandon Boyd, lead singer for world-renowned rock band Incubus, made a stop in Monterey to check out the Flows to Bay exhibit at Museum of Monterey, where his art is on display.
Curtain Call: A Peek at the New Stardust Playhouse in Monterey
The Weekly focused lenses on Monterey County's newest playhouse and its debut performance, "Rabbit Hole" by David Lindsay-Abaire.
The Monterey Symphony and the American Ballet Shared the Stage in Salinas and Carmel
The Monterey Symphony and the American Ballet Theater teamed up in performances in Salinas and Carmel.
Science and Art on Stunning Display in SpectorDance's "Ocean"
SpectorDance's new work, *Ocean,* is a great success with a cohesive narrative about changing climate and oceans.
A Retrospective of the Carmel Art & Film Festival
The Carmel Art & Film Festival is days gone, and with it, that peculiarly L.A.-transplant vibration in the air—that mix of genuine film fan giddiness ...
A Talk with Carmel Art & Film Festival Opening Act Fred and Steve
Fred and Vinnie is one of those personal-project Hollywood films that, primarily, actors carry with them a long time. Vera Farmiga’s Higher Ground, about a ...
Pardis Parker's 'The Dance' is a Short Film with Wide Appeal
Pardis Parker is taking the short film genre by storm with his ten-minute romantic comedy, 'The Dance.'
The Carmel Art & Fest is Crazy for Matthew Modine
My editor confesses that Matthew Modine's 1985 Vision Quest, aka Crazy for You (after the Madonna hit song), in which he plays a promising 18-year-old ...
Before the Carmel Art & Film Festival, Tom Sizemore Spoke to the Weekly
Prior to the screening of his new film White Knight at the Carmel Art & Film Festival, Tom Sizemore spoke with the Weekly about movies, patriotism, drug addiction and second chances.
Shira Piven's Directorial Debut at Carmel Art and Film
Shira Piven's feature-length directorial film debut, Fully Loaded hits the screens of the Sunset Center at this year's Carmel Art and Film Festival.
SpectorDance Nets a Cool $20k With Ocean
After a heated online voting race between Galveston Tree Conservancy and the Spokane Reforesting Group, among others, SpectorDance came out on top scoring a $20,000 ...
Backtracking to the Monterey County Artists Studio Tour
The Monterey County Artists Studio Tour revealed the behind-the-scenes phases of the art process and the work environments of artists, in settings that ranged from ...
Kabuki Theater Performance Shines in its Subtlety
Kabuki and classical Japanese dance are arts that require a lot of patience to appreciate, especially on a brilliant Sunday afternoon. But when Nakamura Gankyo ...
Pagrovian-grown Jazz Genius Erik Telford Returns to the Festival That Fostered His Talent
On his first album, 2010’s Kinetic, Erik Telford’s trumpet playing can leisurely float above the music like passing clouds or honk frantically like a frustrated ...
The Monterey Underwater Shoot-out & Film Festival Awed Audiences
The Monterey Underwater Shoot-out & Film Festival found a big, appreciate audience and wowed them.
Spectordance Looks to Rally Voting Surge
With just under two weeks left of voting in the 50 States for Good competition sponsored by Tom’s of Maine, local phenom Spectordance’s highly praised ...
Days and Nights Festival's Beautiful Ruckus in the Woods
Philip Glass, poets, the Youth Orchestra of the Americas and about 150 audience members gathered in the Big Sur woods for incantations and other arty happenings of the Days and Nights Festival.
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