- This week’s cover story is all about comics, including writer Greg Rucka and the Salinas Valley Comic Con at Hartnell College’s Student Center. But it doesn’t necessarily cover all things having to do with the comic con. For instance, Salinas comic strip creator Bridgett Spicer has led a new student art program wherein she showed teachers at six local elementary schools how to create mini comics with their kids. The resulting work is on display at the National Steinbeck Center through Dec. 30. 775-4729, www.Steinbeck.org.
- The Carl Cherry Center puts on Director’s Cut, a short-lived and free exhibit of artwork by members of their board of directors (hence the name) and friends of the center, including paintings, drawings, photos, collage and sculpture. It’s only up 5-7pm Friday, Dec. 16, but you can go online to a silent auction and bid on what’s there. You’ll find work by Dixie Dixon, Jan Wagstaff, Peter Hiller, Robin Winfield, Mary Hill, Richard Warren, Richard Cannon, Mary Liz Houseman, Elizabeth Schrey and more. 624-7491, www.CarlCherryCenter.org.
- Actor Lee Stetson has portrayed naturalist and environmentalist John Muir in Ken Burns’ National Parks – America’s Best Idea. See him reprise his role 5-6pm Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 17-18, at Asilomar State Beach and Conference Grounds as part of the Pacific Grove Public Library’s This Land is Our Land events. On Saturday, Stetson/Muir will tell stories for free at the firepit and, on Sunday, will recount a one-man show at Grace Dodge Chapel about his many adventures in nature, for a $20 donation. 646-6443, www.PacificGroveLibrary.org.
- Alison Henderson has authored an anthology called Small Town Christmas Tales: Ten Short Holiday Romances. Each holiday story, by turns funny or poignant, is set in a different fictional small town in the U.S. Henderson speaks at Pilgrim’s Way 1-3pm Saturday, Dec. 17. And while you’re there, you might inquire about the bookstore’s 2017 calendar, chock full of artwork by people like Jerry Takigawa, Lauren Banner and Lucinda McDermott. 624-4955, www.PilgrimsWay.com.
- La Virgen del Tepeyac is El Teatro Campesino’s biennial Christmas musical pageant tells the story of the collision of the Aztecs and Catholic Spaniards in the Americas of the 1500s. It’s a popular and powerful holiday treat that you can sample through a blog review written by Weekly contributor Ivan Garcia at www.mcweekly.com/culture. Or better yet, go see it now – it closes after this weekend.
An art exhibit from the Carl Cherry Center's board of directors and friends of the center opens 5-7pm Friday, Dec. 16.
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