Thursday, Oct. 16 LATIN BEAT Join the party at the Carmel Farmers Market, where you can enjoy live music with Flaco el Jandro and start warming up your Spanish for the Super Bowl with Chicano rock that comes with sprinkles of various genres including bolero, cumbia and regional Mexicano. This performance is part of a monthly party at the market, and this is the last of 2025. Grab food or a drink from a market vendor while enjoying some live music al fresco. [CJ] 4pm Thursday, Oct. 16. Devendorf Park, Mission and Ocean, Carmel. Free. (831) 620-2048, sunsetcenter.org. Thursday-Sunday, Oct. 16-19 DARK HUMOR A lot of stage plays are about big themes and catharsis. But sometimes what you want is a farce that prompts laughter—and then more laughter. Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer is just such a play. The story follows struggling sculptor Brindsley Miller, whose work has caught the attention of millionaire art collector Georg Bamberger. Thinking this could be his big break, Brindsley hosts a party hoping to impress. Just moments before the guests arrive, a fuse blows and the apartment goes dark. As they feel their way around mistaken identities, hilarity ensues, but only the audiences can see what is truly going on. [SR] 7pm Thursday-Saturdays, 2pm Sundays, Oct. 16-26. MPC Studio Theatre, 980 Fremont St., Monterey. $22; $12/students, seniors, theater industry, military. (831) 645-1360, mpc.edu/shows. Friday, Oct. 17 BIG NAME Music industry executives tried to get Art Garfunkel to change his name. They succeeded for a brief time with John Mellencamp. A person rises to the executive level because of such wisdom. No one, after all, is going to buy an album from a guy named Garfunkel. OK—so the executives were buffoons. But in the case of Adelmo Fornaciari Cavaliere di Gran Croce, well, his name wouldn’t even fit on an album cover. He decided on Zucchero. It’s not the name but the music that catapulted him to success. Zucchero is the father of Italian 30 MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY OCTOBER 16-22, 2025 www.montereycountynow.com RICHARD TETTE Works by landscape artist Richard Tette of Carmel Valley are part of three new shows for October at the Carmel Art Association. Above is Tette’s acrylic titled “Field Workers Abode, Castroville.” The piece exemplifies Tette’s subject matter across his body of work: a barn stationed in a tranquil landscape, often with rolling fields and moody lighting. A veteran of the U.S. Air Force, Tette has had a successful career as an artist, receiving many awards and showing in exhibits across the country. He has been a member of the Carmel Art Association since 2007, and is described as one of its top-selling artists. The exhibit Rural Reflections runs through Nov. 3 at the Carmel Art Association, Dolores Street between 5th and 6th in Carmel. The gallery is open daily from 10am-5pm. [EC] 16-22 OCTOBER HOT PICKS To see more local events, and add your own, visit montereycountynow.com/events RICHARD TETTE SAGE SOHIER VISUALS SAGE SOHIER In the late 1970s into the ’80s, Sage Sohier, with camera in hand, explored the neighborhoods of Boston and witnessed what she described as a “kind of theater of the streets.” She spent time with families, gaining their permission and trust to photograph them in their home environments on hot summer days. The project to “create a portrait of contemporary America,” she wrote in an artist statement, resulted in a series of monographs over the years. To celebrate her new book, Easy Days, set to be published in the fall, the Center for Photographic Art is hosting a solo exhibit of Sohier’s works from Oct. 18 to Nov. 30 at the Sunset Center’s Carpenter Hall (at 9th and San Carlos) in Carmel. Sohier will give a talk during an opening reception that runs from 4-6pm on Saturday, Oct. 18. [EC] Monterey Bay FC is still in the playoff hunt, mathematically. Defender Miles Lyons and his Union teammates try to secure a crucial three points on Saturday, Oct. 18. MONTEREY BAY FC Saxophonist Timothy McAllister will perform at the Monterey Symphony season opening on Saturday, Oct. 18 and Sunday, Oct. 19 at Sunset Center in Carmel.
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