- Janice Blaze Rocke and Nicole Henares (who worked at the Weekly many years ago) are co-hosting a special feminist edition of the monthly Curated Words literary readings at Juice and Java in Pacific Grove. It’s to star a bevy of Bay Area writers, and goes down 6:45pm Thursday, Dec. 28. 373-8652.
- Harrison Memorial Library has been awarded Star Library status by the Library Journal, one of only 13 California libraries to be so designated. Just try not to imagine the library literally getting a little yellow star sticker for it. 624-2811, carmelpubliclibraryfoundation.org.
- Lisa G. Littlebird leads the Wholehearted Community Chorus in song 5:30-7pm Mondays at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Monterey Peninsula, and 5:30-7pm Wednesdays atBig Sur Grange Hall. The weekly drop-in classes are $10-$20, suggested. 275-2442.
- The city of Monterey has produced a video holiday greeting card that cleverly shows off the range of services, infrastructure, facilities and real estate that make up the city. You can find it on YouTube by searching “City of Monterey Holiday Greeting Card 2017.” 646-3799.
- In this time of reflection, I recall that my first Artifacts column was in April 2013. It existed years before under someone else’s byline, before then-editor Mary Duan revived it and gave it to me. Among the directives – short, helpful, colorful capsules of occurances and observations – was to give it a headline for the online version, accompanied by a photo. An early one was “Roger Ebert’s prodigious life is lovingly reviewed,” next to his photo. He had just died. A more redundant one that year read “The award-winning Hartnell College Speech Team” next to a picture of… the award-winning Hartnell College Speech Team. A more ambitious one was “The voice of the artist is like an echo from the future,” next to a picture of two artists. They were like famous quotes, without the famous part. And they weren’t so much quotes as my own musings. For years now, per a style directive, the formula has been three teasers for actual stuff in the column. “Fun doing business, Vietnam revisited, the Lokel art show.” “Minarets among us, poetry in abundance, a virtual art gallery.” This is all to entice the reader to click and read. Because the stuff in the column, though small, can allude to major events in local arts and culture. Or to important or silly stuff that can change an outlook or mood. Or to stuff that a person can get involved in. And that makes all the anonymous work and attention to detail worth it.
The Shake brothers, of Old Fisherman’s Grotto and The Fish Hopper fame, sponsored the Monterey Peninsula Gospel Community Choir to sing a free concert at Fisherman’s Wharf during the holidays.
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