32 MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY September 21-27, 2023 www.montereycountyweekly.com Seaside’s population is nearly 50-percent Latino, and many of those residents have roots in Oaxaca, which is why there are Oaxacan stores and restaurants throughout the city—La Tortuga, one of the city’s best restaurants, is among them—and this is another chance to celebrate that facet of Seaside’s culture and soak up the good vibes. [DS] Noon-5pm Saturday, Sept. 23. Seaside City Hall, 440 Harcourt Ave., Seaside. Free. 8996700, ci.seaside.ca.us. See the future Untamed Fire, a “quaint local crystal and metaphysical shop” with locations in Sand City and Salinas, invites the future-curious to attend a ROTA Psychic Fair. This female-owned business is all about “all the witchy things,” as its motto says. The story of the ROTA Psychic Fair begins in the early 1980s. At that time, a free university used to hold a small psychic fair at the Monterey Peninsula College campus. When the sponsoring university closed its doors in 1983, seven tarot enthusiasts came together to fill the void and produced the first ROTA festival on the summer solstice. ROTA stands for Road Of Transformation Arts, and is also an anagram for the word “tarot.” This time they are meeting in Sand City. Bring your witchy curiosity. [AP] 10am-5pm Saturday, Sept. 23. Untamed Fire, 490 Orange Ave., Unit D, Sand City. Free to attend; readings start at $30. 582-1724, untamedfire.net. Sunday, Sept. 24 The Last Laugh Rodney Dangerfield quipped, “I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.” Well, what if you went to a cutthroat, last-person-standing competition and comedy broke out? Not LOL humor, either, but downright ROFLMAO gut busting (and ass-losing) humor. That’s the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition, and once again the finals take place in the otherwise serene setting of the Folktale Winery. The five comedians who survive preliminary rounds now compete for the winner’s chunk of the $20,000 purse—as well as to join the ranks of previous winners, like Ellen Degeneres, Dana Carvey, Robin Williams, Louis CK and other top comics. To get the win, these guys are prepared not only to knock out the competition, but also to slay the audience. Yes, that’s figuratively. The real winners are those in the audience…if they can catch their breath after the punchline pummeling. [DF] Noon Sunday, Sept. 24. Folktale Winery, 8940 Carmel Valley Road, Carmel Valley. $25-$50. 293-7500, folktalewinery.com. Tuesday, Sept. 26 Talking Murder El Gabilan Library in Salinas invites the public for a local author’s talk. The guest is Nina Simon, the author of a murder mystery titled Mother Daughter Murder Night, which takes place in Elkhorn Slough. The novel tells a story of three women—a grandmother, her adult daughter and her teenage granddaughter—who, upon discovering a dead body, get involved in solving a murder. The book also includes local morsels such as a tip on where to get the best spicy burritos in Salinas. (Read more about the book in the Sept. 14 issue of the Weekly.) [AP] 5-6pm Tuesday, Sept. 26. El Gabilan Library, 1400 N Main St., Salinas. 758-7302, salinaspubliclibrary.org/about/el-gabilan-library Hot Picks by Tajha Chappellet-Lanier, Dave Faries, Celia Jiménez, Pam Marino, Rey Mashayekhi, Agata Pop˛eda, Sara Rubin and David Schmalz. Send ideas to calendar@mcweekly.com HOT PICKS Rainbow Colors The Babe Rainbow (incredible band name) is a psychedelic rock band from Byron Bay, Australia. But this weekend, band-mates Angus Dowling, Jack “Cool-Breeze” Crowther, Elliot “Dr. Love Wisdom” O’Reilly and Miles Myjavec are over 7,000 miles from home for Rainbow Rock, a Big Sur music festival in partnership with FolkYeah events. Joining Babe Rainbow on the stage at Fernwood Resort will be mndsgn (no idea what Ringgo Ancheta has against vowels), Pearl & The Oysters, Levitation Room, Tess Parks, Marina Allen and many more friends. You can join in on Friday or Saturday, or camp out and enjoy the whole weekend. One note of warning: Listening to 1960s style music among the redwoods may almost make you feel like you’ve traveled back in time... [TCL] 7pm Friday, Sept. 22 and Saturday, Sept. 23. Fernwood Tavern, 47200 Highway 1, Big Sur. $75/Friday, $85/Saturday. folkyeah.com. Friday, Sept. 22-Sunday, Sept. 24 Think On It Sure, there are highly produced TED Talks for international audiences. But there is also the local Pebble Beach Authors & Ideas Festival, which brings together a number of visiting and local thinkers to share their ideas and creativity. Speakers from the 831 include best-selling novelist Alka Joshi; Dr. Susan Swick, executive director of Montage’s youth mental health center, Ohana; and Deneen Guss, Monterey County superintendent of schools. Those speakers alone span a lot of subject matter, and attendees can hit breakout sessions on many more. You’ll hear from the creators of the hit show Cheers, Glen and Les Charles. Stanford economist John B. Taylor argues that central banks around the world need to follow a uniform policy. Jeremi Suri, a professor of global affairs at the University of Texas, speaks about why democracy is in crisis and what to do about it. The price to attend and soak up all of these ideas is steep at $1,000 per festival pass, but it comes with a chance to rub elbows with the bigwigs. [SR] 3:30-6:30pm Friday, Sept. 22, 9am-5pm Saturday Sept. 23, 9am-12:15pm Sunday, Sept. 24. Stevenson School, 3152 Forest Lake Road, Pebble Beach. $1,000. 626-6243, pbaif.com. Saturday Sept. 23 Sister Celebration In 2022, the City of Seaside inked a sister city relationship with Oaxaca, one of world’s great cities, which was commemorated at the Oaxaca by the Sea celebration at Laguna Grande Park and on the lawn behind Seaside City Hall. This Saturday marks the third-ever iteration of this event, featuring live music, craft vendors and, of course, Oaxacan cuisine—tlayudas, tortas, tacos and more. And on Sunday at Seaside’s Oldemeyer Center, from 1pm-5pm, a Oaxaca Business Expo features the region’s Oaxacan-themed businesses. Australian psychedelic rock band Babe Rainbow brings the sounds of the 1960s to the redwood forest at Fernwood for this weekend’s Rainbow Rock music festival. babe rainbow What do the rockstar songwriter Bob Dylan and the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas have in common? Local talents Steve Mortensen, Dixie Dixon, Laura Burian and Taelen Thomas (above, from left to right) answer the question in a tribute at The Carl Cherry Center.
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