- Jesse Banda started the Salinas Valley Comic Con in 2017, then left and launched the Central Coast Pop Expo in 2017, also a broad tent for comics, movies, novels, video games and cosplay. It inhabits Cocoanut Grove at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk 10am-5pm Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 20-21, with Monterey County comics creators like Alex Schumacher, Ray Zepeda Jr. and Ace Continuado. Tickets at ccpopexpo.com.
- Dance Kids of Monterey County will, for the fifth year, perform Cascanueces: A Folklorico Nutcracker, arranged by Jalisco harpist William Faulkner, and directed and choreographed byMaria Luisa Comenarez and Rudy Garcia (who both consulted on Disney’s Coco). It’s performed 7:30pm Saturday and 5:30pm Sunday, Oct. 20-21, at Outdoor Forest Theater in Carmel. ($30/general, $10/child). 620-2048, sunsetcenter.org.
- 2pm, Saturday, Oct. 20, the Monterey Peace and Justice Center is showing Kimberly Reed’s harrowing new documentary examining “one of the greatest present threats to American democracy.” Take a moment, try to guess what it’s about… I’ll wait… You were thinking Trump, weren’t you? The film’s called Dark Money and it’s about untraceable money in politics – so in a way, you’re right. This is a vital story. 915-7257, pbs.org/pov.
- Members of the Salon Jane photography collective talk about their group exhibit The Ethereal Zone – now showing at Monterey Museum of Art-Pacific – 1-2pm Sunday, Oct. 21. Take note: the talk is at the museum’s La Mirada location. It’s free with admission. montereyart.org.
- Newberry winner Matt de la Pena and Caldecott winner Christian Robinson, creators of children’s book Last Stop on Market Street, are releasing their newest book, Carmen Full of Wishes, 3:30pm Sunday, Oct. 21, at Watsonville Veterans Memorial Building, with a signing at 5pm and free dinner at 6:15pm. bookshopevents@gmail.com.
- Want some free advice? Then go to this free writing workshop 6:30pm Tuesday, Oct. 23, atOld Capitol Books, conducted by Patrick Whitehurst, author of the Monterey Noir series, andDietrich Kalteis, author of six novels and more than 50 short stories. 333-0383.
- Historian, preservation consultant and author Kathryn Smith has written four books aboutFrank Lloyd Wright, and lectures on the latest at Carpenter Hall 7pm Wednesday, Oct. 24, at aCarmel Library fundraiser ($10 suggested). The book is Wright on Exhibit, in which she tracks the rise and fall and rise again of the brilliant architect. 624-2811.
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