- If you think of Tobias Wolff as the award-winning author of books like The Barracks Thiefand the memoir This Boy’s Life (made into a film starring Robert DeNiro, Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Barkin), who in 2015 received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama, and who’s taught creative writing at Syracuse and Stanford, well, you’re right. But did you know that he was also Army Special Forces and an adviser in the Vietnam War who learned Vietnamese? There are layers to this guy. Which he may reveal at his speaking engagement at the Carmel Woman’s Club 7pm Thursday, Oct. 4, as part of the National Steinbeck Center’s NEA Big Read. $10 suggested donation goes to the Carmel Public Library. 624-2811, carmelpubliclibraryfoundation.org.
- David Gordon may have retired from the Carmel Bach Festival, but he has not retired from music. Or social justice and protest, apparently. He’s doing a one-man concert of singing and guitar, marshaling artists like Stephen Foster, Woody Guthrie, Yip Harburg, Si Kahn, Tom Waits, Anais Mitchell and more, in 18 songs covering slavery, poverty, lying politicians (take your pick), refugees and Mexican farmworkers. Don’t worry, he promises laughter and levity, too. It’s 3:30pm Sunday, Oct. 7, at Unitarian Universalist Church in Carmel. $25-$30. 800-838-3006, spiritsound.com.
- It’s been six months since the last art show at LALLAgrill at Del Monte Shopping Center, so that means it’s time for a new one. And that belongs to Cachagua artist Emily Underwood. She employees her background in science and art to depict the flora of California, and has been artist-in-residence for the National Park Service as well as Elkhorn Slough Foundation. The opening reception is 4-6pm Wednesday, Oct. 10. underwoodillustration.com.
- The Monterey Museum of Art’s The New Domestics exhibition (see story, left) is center stage now, but there are two other art shows there that deserve attention too. One is a show of six local photographers dubbed Salon Jane; one of them is Martha Casanave, who collected her tears with a portable dropper, transferred them into slides, and turned them into abstract pressings of her past emotions. Hmm. Over in the cleverly named Currents + FLUX gallery you’ll find a solo show by Amanda Salm of Pacific Grove, who filled the neutral white spaces with subtle and arresting 3D art that look like nests made from moss, sea creatures, and giant floating ice cubes. It’s soothing and futuristic stuff. montereyart.org.
LALLAgrill at Del Monte Shopping Center presents a solo art show by Emily Underwood, opening 4-6pm Wednesday, Oct. 10.
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