Send ideas to calendar@montereycountynow.com 24 MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY MARCH 6-12, 2025 www.montereycountynow.com friendship and perseverance. The story is about Marlin, an overprotective dad who swims across the ocean to find his son Nemo, who was captured by humans. Along the way, he makes new friends, including Dory, a forgetful fish who helps him on his adventure. The entire cast is young actors ages 8-18. The colorful backdrops recreate life under the sea with corals, plants and rocks. “It’s accessible to all ages,” says Heather Kirk, ARIEL’s executive director. The play runs for two weeks. [CJ] 7pm Friday, March 7, 2pm and 7pm Saturday, March 8. ARIEL Theatrical, Karen Wilson Children’s Theatre, 320 Main St., Salinas. $14-$18. 775-0976, arieltheatrical.org. HERE COMES SEINFELD What a treat. Iconic comedian Jerry Seinfeld will give not one but two performances in Monterey’s Golden State Theatre. Both shows take place the same days and—weirdly—lots of tickets are still available as of press time. His new stand-up show doesn’t disappoint, according to reviews from the current tour. Get ready to laugh just as you did over nine seasons of one of the best comedy TV shows in history—Seinfeld, which aired on NBC from 1989 to 1998. Also worth mentioning is that the comedian has his own podcast: This Podcast is Making Me Thirsty (The Seinfeld Podcast). [AP] 7pm and 9:30pm Friday, March 7. Golden State Theatre, 417 Alvarado St., Monterey. $155-$537. 649-1070, goldenstatetheatre. com. POWER TRIP The Rolling Stones gathered moss. The Go-Gos kinda went. But The Transducers? Let’s look this one up: “an electronic device that converts one form of energy to another.” Yep, that’s probably the most apt name for the band. The Transducers—Taylor Safina, Sam Salerno, Lisa Rutta and Jesse DeCarlo—do just that, converting original songs as well as their own take on covers into lively, exciting shows. Prepare to be transducified. Singersongwriter Adria Castiano opens. [DF] 7pm Friday, March 7. Wave Street Studios, 774 Wave St., Monterey. $23/in advance; $28/door. 655-2010, wavestreetstudios.com. HAMLET AND THE BEASTS What would happen if Shakespeare characters encountered the dungeon beasts (no dragons this time)? Believe it or not, your curiosity can be satisfied. The traveling show, Dungeons and Shakespeare, is coming to Paper Wing Theatre. While the original game (a role-playing game where players work together to tell a fictional story) is located in a medieval fantasy world, Shakespeare characters are quintessentially Renaissance. What will come out from this collision of two epochs and radically different creatures? To go or not to go? We hope you know what’s the right answer. [AP] 7pm Friday, March 7. Paper Wing Theatre & Supper Club, 711 Cannery Row, Suite I (upstairs), Monterey. $15. 905-5684, paperwing.com. Saturday, March 8 ART MEETS ARCHITECTURE There is a particular kind of contrast between Central California’s organic coastline and the geometric architectural shapes that dominated certain enclaves in mid-century design. There is another pairing, architecture and photography, that generates its own kind of creative synergy, coupling soft natural light with those iconic edges. For more than 25 years, photographer Morley Baer forged relationships with leading architects like Julia Morgan and Frank Lloyd Wright as he trained his lens on modernist structures. That body of work is represented in the exhibit Morley Baer: Modernism in Northern California Architecture, on HOT PICKS chance to meet the artists and mingle with art lovers in a space dedicated to creativity. [AP] 5pm Friday, March 7. ArtWorks @ Salinas, 262 Main St., Salinas. Free. 622-9060, arts4mc.org. ART OF TRANSLATION Listen to a conversation between award-winning author Yu Miri and her translator Morgan Giles, discussing Miru’s novel, The End of August. Miri is a Korean author writing in Japanese; she received Japan’s most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, for describing diaspora and identity of Koreans in Japan. Giles will share the challenges and stories behind translating this work. Her translation of Miri’s Tokyo Ueno Station won the National Book Award for Translated Literature and the American Literary Translators Association’s first translation prize. Author and Translator Talks: The Power of Literature and Translation in an Age of Conflict events are available both in-person and virtually. [AP] 5:30pm Friday, March 7. Middlebury Institute of International Studies, McCone Irvine Auditorium, 499 Pierce St., Monterey. Free; registration recommended. 647-4123, hrussell@middlebury.edu, middlebury.edu. BEER CAN Would Andy Warhol drink straight from the Campbell’s Soup that he made famous? Honestly, we’re a little unsure. Other Brother Beer Co. feels that drinking suds is better, especially if you’re helping out local artists. They’ve teamed up with the Emerging Artist Alliance for its final showing of the works that are currently up around the pub. So if you’ve been eyeing one or two, now’s your chance to bring one home before it’s too late because they won’t be returning after this evening. To buy one, you can purchase raffle tickets at the bar along with a pint, where $1 from every beer sold will be donated to benefit Al & Friends. [SC] 6-9pm Friday, March 7. Other Brother Beer Co., 877 Broadway Ave., Seaside. 747-1106, otherbrotherbeer.com. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Monterey Bay is a deep, vast wilderness that teems with life and wonder, and sometimes that life comes up to say hello. Such is the theme of this Free Friday event at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, where the editors and storytellers of the book Wild Monterey Bay share their own wild tales of such encounters. The talk begins at 6:15pm and includes a Q&A. Attendees are encouraged to check out the museum before or after the talk, including the new exhibit From the Unreal to the Real. Books will be available for sale and signing. [DS] 6-8pm Friday, March 7. Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, 165 Forest Ave., Pacific Grove. Free. 648-5716, pgmuseum.org. UNDER THE SEA A beloved classic from Disney and Pixar is coming to town: Finding Nemo. ARIEL Theatrical, a nonprofit organization that offers a theater program for kids and teens, is producing the play in Salinas for the first time. It’s an inclusive story that talks about family, Photographer Morley Baer (1916-1995) was a legend in architectural photography. Above is his 1953 photograph of the Mark Mills House at Mission at 13th in Carmel. MORLEY BAER © 2025, THE MORLEY BAER PHOTOGRAPHY TRUST, SANTA FE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. USED BY PERMISSION. In case you missed Finding Nemo onstage at PacRep, here’s a second chance. Finding Nemo is now coming to ARIEL Theatrical in Salinas, this time with much younger actors. LAUREN WILKINS
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