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Photographer Nancy Sevier speaks about her work and curating 2025 PhotoCarmel.
Arts & Culture

Photographer Nancy Sevier speaks about her work and curating 2025 PhotoCarmel.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Apr 4, 2025

It’s the 2025 PhotoCarmel month and Salinas-based photographer Nancy Sevier—a member of the Center for Photographic Art’s board—is the one who…

Salinas Valley Comic Con: an expanding universe of imagination, fantasy.
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Salinas Valley Comic Con: an expanding universe of imagination, fantasy.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Dec 15, 2016

Comic books are a physical manifestation of a lot of people’s imaginations. They have embodied our fears (evil tyrants, mutations) and our hop…

Pacific Grove gets an infusion of mural paintings by Jo Mora.
Arts & Culture

Pacific Grove gets an infusion of mural paintings by Jo Mora.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Aug 18, 2016

Joseph “Jo” Jacinto Mora, a rugged artist of the American West, was born to intellectual parents in Uruguay. In 1880 the family moved to New Y…

We are the 2016 Champions of the Arts, my friend.
Arts & Culture

We are the 2016 Champions of the Arts, my friend.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Jan 14, 2016

Each January, for 10 Januaries nigh, the Arts Council for Monterey County has begun the new year by looking back and honoring fresh rounds of …

A year in Monterey County arts coverage.
Arts & Culture

A year in Monterey County arts coverage.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Dec 31, 2015

What’s not to like about year-end reviews? Revisiting significant stories with the perspective of time and distance; circling back on stuff th…

ARTIFACTS: Teen defensive driving school, the "new Middle East cold war" (oh great), carnie rides, and art…yours.
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ARTIFACTS: Teen defensive driving school, the "new Middle East cold war" (oh great), carnie rides, and art…yours.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Aug 13, 2015

• In addition to showing Michael Alan Ross’ photographs of rock stars and their cars at the Monterey County Weekly’s Press Club in Seaside (se…

Woodsist Festival brings another strong lineup to Big Sur.
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Woodsist Festival brings another strong lineup to Big Sur.

  • Adam Joseph
  • Updated Feb 24, 2015

The annual Woodsist Festival, co-presented by indie label Woodsist Records and boutique music and events curator/presenter (((folkYEAH!))), is…

This Saturday is a good time to see the Monterey Museum of Art's more engaging persona.
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This Saturday is a good time to see the Monterey Museum of Art's more engaging persona.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Feb 20, 2015

I don't know if you've noticed, but there have been some recent and dramatic changes, on the walls and in the philosophy, at the Monterey Muse…

Colleen Bailey talks about her leaving the National Steinbeck Center for the Monterey Jazz Festival.
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Colleen Bailey talks about her leaving the National Steinbeck Center for the Monterey Jazz Festival.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Jan 9, 2015

It was announced yesterday, by the leak of a confidential email, that Colleen Bailey, after six years on the job, will be stepping down as exe…

A look at what’s coming our way in Monterey County arts and culture.
Arts & Culture

A look at what’s coming our way in Monterey County arts and culture.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Jan 1, 2015

Take a moment to catch your breath and reflect on all you’ve seen and done in the last year, the shows, plays, films and performances, the bea…

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