A few months before the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s October 1984 opening, Mary Barrett registered for the facility’s volunteer orientation classes. She’d grown up sailing on Lake Michigan and, after moving to the Monterey Peninsula, wanted to learn about the Bay in her new backyard. As Aquarium co-founder Dr. Steve Webster presented concepts on an overhead projector, Barrett … [Read more...] about A Watershed Moment
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Free Spirit, Free Style
Anyone who believes that American men have the competitiveness market cornered has not yet met Bri Chmel. She’s just past 30, just over five feet tall, and just about as hard a charger as you’re likely to meet, male or female. And over the course of the past six years she’s come to dominate the sport of women’s wakesurfing. By the age of 14, Chmel (pronounced ka-MEL) was … [Read more...] about Free Spirit, Free Style
All’s Well That Ends Well
Comedian Ray Romano once admitted, “I have this mistress: show business.” As everyone who has trod the boards knows, she can be a harsh mistress. To wit: recent budget cuts have put Monterey Peninsula College’s Drama Department in danger and forced Shakespeare Santa Cruz to draw the curtain on its 32-year run. But Carmel’s Pacific Repertory Theatre (PacRep) is still going … [Read more...] about All’s Well That Ends Well
Monterey County’s Prolific Artist Unveiled
Carmel drivers pass the statue at Camino Del Monte and Alta daily, often without recognizing its connection to some of Monterey County’s most storied structures, sculptures and works of art. Joseph Jacinto “Jo” Mora created the oak shrine to Father Junipero Serra, who established nine California missions, at the request of Pebble Beach Company Founder Samuel F.B. Morse in 1922. … [Read more...] about Monterey County’s Prolific Artist Unveiled
The Dazzling Sights of Black Rock City
What began in 1986 on San Francisco’s Baker Beach with 20 people had by 2013 morphed into a temporary city of 68,000 in the high Nevada desert. To devotees, Burning Man is a not-to-be-missed annual spiritual, cultural and individual reawakening. To those who have never attended, it may appear to be a chaotic, dusty, anything goes week in the desert. To Monterey … [Read more...] about The Dazzling Sights of Black Rock City