Arts & Culture Blog
MPC and Hartnell Theater Departments Rally Supporters Against a Restrictive Proposal
Theater administrations at Monterey Peninsula College and Hartnell College join forces to repel a proposal by the California Community Colleges Board that would restrict people repeating performing arts classes.
Philip Glass, Joanna Newsom Show Moves to San Francisco
Philip Glass, Joanna Newsom and Tim Fain benefit concert for the Henry Miller Library moves from Monterey's Golden State Theatre to San Francisco's Warfield Theatre.
Daedalus Quartet soared high with Joan Tower's new composition at Sunset Center
Daedalus Quartet played Haydn and Dvorak and world premiered a new work by Joan Tower on Saturday at Sunset Center.
The Harlem Gospel Choir Gives Praise in Carmel
As the Harlem Gospel Choir took the stage, the audience’s whispers evaporated, replaced with silent anticipation. The lights dimmed, the backdrop shifted from creamy white ...
Actors Collective Plays Head Games in Pinter's Old Times
If you're looking for a weekend night out that leaves you uncertain of whether you're coming or going—not in a drunken, hazy kind of way, ...
Chuck D Dropped Knowledge (and Got Driving Directions) at CSUMB on Tuesday
Chuck D of Public Enemy spoke at CSUMB on Tuesday to kick off the university's Black History Month.
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 ...
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