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'The Sleeping Beauty' will be awakened by a kiss in Monterey with an international cast of performers.
Theater

'The Sleeping Beauty' will be awakened by a kiss in Monterey with an international cast of performers.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Nov 27, 2025

The earliest version of a story about a princess cursed at birth and put to sleep for 100 years can be traced back to the 14th century. Put on…

Best Dance Studio (2025)
Arts Entertainment Nightlife

Best Dance Studio (2025)

  • Oct 9, 2025

The Dance Center

A Monterey teenager danced her way into writing children’s literature.
Literature

A Monterey teenager danced her way into writing children’s literature.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Sep 11, 2025

A 2024 high school graduate from Monterey, Elowyn Ingler is not set on becoming a writer. Yet this dancer and now college political science an…

The Nutcracker returns to King City for its 65th year of celebrating the holiday season.
Theater

The Nutcracker returns to King City for its 65th year of celebrating the holiday season.

  • Sloan Campi
  • Dec 5, 2024

Part of San Francisco’s and New York City’s holiday spirit is fueled each year by the production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. These cities…

Hot Picks 05.26.22
Arts & Culture

Hot Picks 05.26.22

  • May 26, 2022

Ballet About Town

Hot Picks 12.02.21
Arts & Culture

Hot Picks 12.02.21

  • Dec 2, 2021

Provision Up

Visuals 10.14.21
Arts & Culture

Visuals 10.14.21

  • Oct 19, 2021

CHARLENE SAWE

A year-in-review of 2016’s arts and culture happenings in Monterey County.
Arts & Culture

A year-in-review of 2016’s arts and culture happenings in Monterey County.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Dec 22, 2016

Not all of it was pretty, but we made it through. Let’s look back at the year that was in Monterey County arts and culture coverage, to celebr…

A local ballet school carries its founder's spirit into the next generation.
831 (Tales from the Area Code)

A local ballet school carries its founder's spirit into the next generation.

  • Marielle Argueza
  • Dec 15, 2016

Clumsy but almost synchronized tip-toeing gently rattles the wooden floorboards on the second level of the Pacific Grove Art Center. Children,…

Russian ballet company’s Swan Lake swings by Salinas.
Arts & Culture

Russian ballet company’s Swan Lake swings by Salinas.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Oct 13, 2016

Ballet began as a Renaissance court dance in Italy. Then it was refined by Catherine de Medici in France. But it grew into the classical form …

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