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Fall Arts Calendar 2026

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Arts & Culture

Hot Picks 01.01.26

  • Jan 1, 2026

David Ligare’s new art exhibit calls for a cultural shift toward knowledge.
Arts & Culture

David Ligare’s new art exhibit calls for a cultural shift toward knowledge.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Nov 27, 2025

There’s little that is more reassuring than looking at David Ligare’s paintings, all of them metaphorical shrines devoted to clarity, proporti…

Cannery Row Days offers a portal to a very different Monterey through a series of events.
Arts & Culture

Cannery Row Days offers a portal to a very different Monterey through a series of events.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Nov 6, 2025

For the fifth year, Monterey Public Library and the City of Monterey present Cannery Row Days, a series of events devoted to Monterey County’s…

How a sleepy office park came to be on prime real estate in Monterey.
Opinion

How a sleepy office park came to be on prime real estate in Monterey.

  • David Schmalz
  • Nov 2, 2025

David Schmalz here. This week’s cover story is about a place right in the middle of it all, yet it somehow seems invisible.

The story of a failed shopping mall on Monterey’s waterfront held promise in the past, and holds potential in the future.
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The story of a failed shopping mall on Monterey’s waterfront held promise in the past, and holds potential in the future.

  • David Schmalz
  • Oct 30, 2025

HERITAGE HARBOR WAS THE TALK OF THE TOWN WHEN IT WAS BEING BUILT IN 1978, the last remaining puzzle piece of the City of Monterey’s redevelopm…

Hot Picks 10.30.25
Arts & Culture

Hot Picks 10.30.25

  • Oct 30, 2025

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It took a while for chicken and waffles to become a craze, but now it is featured on many menus.
Eat + Drink

It took a while for chicken and waffles to become a craze, but now it is featured on many menus.

  • Dave Faries
  • Sep 25, 2025

A story about the origin of chicken and waffles circulated for years – long enough to gain credence. It told how jazz musicians, tired from a …

The story of how land baron David Jacks came to control much of 19th-century Monterey County.
Opinion

The story of how land baron David Jacks came to control much of 19th-century Monterey County.

  • David Schmalz
  • Jun 8, 2025

David Schmalz here, excited to share my latest cover story, a historical deep dive into the legacy of David Jacks, the 19th-century land shark…

Cheers to Pacific Grove as it celebrates 150 years.
Opinion

Cheers to Pacific Grove as it celebrates 150 years.

  • Pam Marino
  • May 30, 2025

Maybe like me, Pam Marino, the first time you understood what a sesquicentennial was came watching the brilliantly funny Christopher Guest moc…

Documenting Black Seaside – past and present – has become a passion for one photographer.
Arts & Culture

Documenting Black Seaside – past and present – has become a passion for one photographer.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Feb 20, 2025

Robert Daniels Jr. dresses immaculately. When meeting him in front of his photo exhibit at the Avery Art Gallery in Seaside City Hall he wears…

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