EDITORS’ PICKS BEST NIGHTTIME COMMUTE COMPANION Alice Cooper The Hippo 104.3 FM 80 Garden Court, Suite 102, Monterey (831) 658-5200, thehippo.com Radio DJs are kinda quaint in the age of custom playlists from the phone, but if you like the occasional off-color story, rock ‘n’ roll gossip and the best banter in the business, tune in to Alice’s Attic with Alice Cooper weeknights from 7pm to midnight. In case you weren’t paying attention, remember that in the early 1970s Alice Cooper owned the rock charts. His hard rock hits “I’m Eighteen” and “School’s Out” were certified platinum, and then in 1973 he released Billion Dollar Babies, which went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts. When he tells the audience stories about his best friends, feuds in the business and what the songs mean, it’s basically a rock ‘n’ roll history lesson set to classic rock on your drive home. BEST PUBLIC RECORDS DISCLOSURE Monterey City Attorney Releasing Pete Hegseth’s Alleged Rape Police Report (831) 646-3915, monterey.gov Before President Donald Trump was sworn in to his second term, before Pete Hegseth was appointed as the Secretary of Defense, before that title was changed to Secretary of War, before the seemingly hourly list of indignities from Washington began to bombard us constantly, there was a time when it seemed like public awareness could change things for the better. That time goes back to November 2024, when Monterey City Attorney Christine Davi found herself suddenly in the center of national media coverage. Then-presumptivenominee Hegseth had been investigated in 2017 by the Monterey Police Department for alleged sexual assault. No charges were ever filed, but the police report revealed major concerns about Hegseth’s character. Davi, without ever weighing in on politics, weighed in on transparency by releasing the report (redacted but still quite detailed). It didn’t change any outcomes, but it did solidify the City of Monterey’s leadership in favoring disclosure, to the benefit of the public. BEST OPPORTUNITY TO SEE A STORYTELLING SONGWRITER SPIN YARNS ON STAGE Charlie Crockett Henry Miller Memorial Library 48603 Highway 1, Big Sur (831) 667-2574, henrymiller.org On a cool June evening in Big Sur (two June evenings, to be precise), Charlie Crockett took to the stage of the Henry Miller Library to share some songs he’d written as an itinerant musician. Crockett regaled the audience with stories of the characters he met while hitchhiking back and forth across the country, and even his alleged descent from frontiersman Davy Crockett. While Crockett often appears with a full band, thanks to concert promoter FolkYeah, in Big Sur in June he was alone on the stage and commanded two nights of full audiences with song and story. 130 BEST OF MONTEREY COUNTY® 2025 montereycountynow.com/bestof THE LOCALS RADIO STATION
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