Stephen Alvarez

This is a huge weekend for music fans of all stripes. Of course saying this weekend is huge is like saying the ocean is wet or that Eric Clapton can play the guitar some.   READ MORE

COURTESY OF JAMES MINCHIN

The last time Derek Trucks played the Santa Cruz Blues Festival his band, Tedeschi Trucks Band, was just getting off the ground. "It was one of the first shows we did with this band. We were still piecing it together then.   READ MORE

BUCKY JACKSON/Magic Circle Theatre

New York Heiress Florence Foster Jenkins didn't let the haters, or the fact she could not sing well at all, get her down. In response to her critics, the wanna-be operatic diva said "People may say I can't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing.   READ MORE

SKY A. RAPPOPORT/MPC Theatre Co.

OPENING · MAY 23-JUNE 16 Forest Theater Guild presents Jessie Braham White's adaptation of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Preview at 8p.m. Friday, May 23, opening 2p.m. Saturday, May 24, continuing 8p.m. Fridays, 2p.m. and 8p.m. Saturdays and 2p.m.   READ MORE

For more than a century, local thespians associated with the Outdoor Forest Theatre in Carmel have been aiming for the stars. This year will be no different.   READ MORE

The Monterey Symphony's glorious 2012-2013 "Season of the Piano" came to a sensational conclusion Sunday afternoon at Sunset Center with a program featuring the extraordinary Slovenian keyboard virtuoso Dubravka Tomsic.   READ MORE