Do you have a favorite Taylor Swift song? Maybe I should just come clean right now and admit that I don’t—I’m not a Swift fan although I have …
Monterey County Supervisor Wendy Root Askew was sitting in a darkened movie theater on Friday, Oct. 3 watching Taylor Swift: The Official Rele…
Founded in 1971 as the California High School Jazz Competition and re-named the Next Generation Jazz Festival in 2004, this event has become o…
Decades ago, two San Francisco-based string quartets – first the Kronos Quartet in the mid-’70s, followed by 1985’s Turtle Island String Quart…
Far removed from the footlights of the concert stages he so often frequents, violinist Edwin Huizinga is driving along a narrow road in the hi…
In addition to his 20-plus records and mega-hits, including “Hello It’s Me,” “I Saw the Light” and “Bang the Drum All Day,” singer/songwriter …
First Night Monterey is the biggest sober and kid-friendly party in the county. That sounds like a contradiction, but it works – wonderfully –…
As expected, the 57th Grammy Awards was a big fat waste of time for the most part—British pop singer Sam Smith won big (four Grammys total).
Lauren Shera's one of those undeniable talents who seems to be perpetually on the cusp of breaking big.