Thursday, Sept. 21 Comedy Gold Brian Regan’s observational, expressive, mostly clean style of stand-up comedy has won him admirers including Jerry Seinfeld, who called Regan “one of my favorite, favorite stand-up comedians.” (Regan has appeared twice on Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee series, while Seinfeld also produced Regan’s Netflix sketch show, Stand Up and Away! With Brian Regan.) Having made his TV debut more than 30 years ago on The Tonight Show when Johnny Carson was still hosting, the stand-up veteran is still going strong and will grace the stage at Golden State Theatre this week. [RM] 8pm (doors open at 7pm) Thursday, Sept. 21. Golden State Theatre, 417 Alvarado St., Monterey. $52-$99. 649-1070, goldenstatetheatre.com. Friday, Sept. 22-Saturday, Sept. 23 Doubling Down There’s a story that a singer-songwriter named Robert Allen Zimmerman changed his name to Bob Dylan to honor the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. “That’s just a story,” Dylan told novelist Jules Siegel in 1966. “I’ve done more for Dylan Thomas than he’s ever done for me.” Not everyone buys it, and comparisons have been drawn between Thomas, the imaginative poet and performance artist who died in 1953, and Dylan, the soulful and enigmatic musician who began performing in the late 1950s and went on to become one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century. Both artists are considered passionate literary geniuses, and they come to life in “Dylan and Dylan,” thanks to Monterey Peninsula’s biographical dramatist Taelen Thomas, who weaves together the Dylans with the help of singer-songwriter Steve Morensen, violinist Laura Burian and singer and bass player Dixie Dixon. Will the performers go gently into the good night? Ain’t no use to sit and wonder why…don’t think twice, it’s alright. [PM] 7pm Friday, Sept. 22 and 3pm Saturday, Sept. 23. The Carl Cherry Center, 4th Avenue and Guadalupe Street, Carmel. $25; sold out. 624-7491, carlcherrycenter.org. 30 MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY September 21-27, 2023 www.montereycountyweekly.com Todd Gilens Forty-four drawings, photographs and prints by Richmond, California-based visual artist Todd Gilens are now on display at the Monterey Museum of Art. They were made during several years of embedded field work with stream ecologists. The intimate-scale artworks are made with ink, silver leaf, charcoal from forest burns, and other media. Some include writing which must be reassembled by viewers, much like a scientist interpreting data reassembles the landscape from which the data came. The exhibition also includes books and tools from the field, borrowed from the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Lab. The above piece is titled “Photosynthesis Bubbles” (2016; archival inkjet print). On display until Sunday, Oct. 1. [AP] 21-27 September HOT PICKS To see more local events, and add your own, visit calendar.montereycountyweekly.com Todd Giddens Courtesy of Gallery MAR Joseph Alleman VISUALS Joseph Alleman Working in oil and watercolor, Joseph Alleman’s paintings have become recognized and collected for their visionary portrayals of the contemporary American West. Now his works are on display— throughout September—at Gallery MAR in Carmel. “I’m visually compelled by various forms of shape, value, and pattern,” Alleman wrote in an artist statement. “Through the process of painting, I gain new and deeper insight into my subject and its surroundings as these elements combine and communicate.” His works are displayed next to Matthew Siever’s in a joint exhibit titled Luminous Horizons. [AP] The cities of Seaside and Oaxaca celebrate a formal sister city relationship, and informal community ties expressed through art and culture, with the third annual Oaxaca by the Sea festival of music, dance, food and crafts. courtesy city of seaside Comedian Brian Regan, who performs in Monterey this week, says his comedy inspirations include Johnny Carson, Steve Martin, David Letterman and more. Leavitt Wells / NETFLIX
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