Venture Gallery presents award-winning painter Edi Matsumoto , our featured local artist for November. In her joyful new exhibit and book titled Otter Therapy, sea otters take center stage in reimagined masterpieces by da Vinci and Van Gogh as well as in playful scenes inspired by film and celebrity culture.

Venture Gallery is open daily, 10am-6pm, at 260 Alvarado Street.

The Feral Market has new embroidered Monterey sweatshirts in the shop featuring some of the area's iconic wildlife and landscapes. Available in a variety of colors, these make great gifts or keepsakes! Visit us at 261 Alvarado Street. Family owned and operated.

The Rose Books and Obscurities now has a wide variety of works on architecture available at our shop at 136 Bonifacio Place and online .

This past summer, we acquired a remarkable private collection devoted to architecture featuring a wide range of work spanning modernism, theory, and the avant-garde. Most copies are in Near Fine to Fine condition. Come and see!

The New Monterey Business Association congratulates the 12 Lighthouse District businesses and organizations that won Monterey County Weekly's Best of Monterey County 2025 . Thank you to all who voted!

View our list here with links to all the write-ups by the Weekly.

The Old Monterey Business Association congratulates the 29 Old Monterey businesses and organizations that won Monterey County Weekly's Best of Monterey County 2025 . Thank you to all who voted! View our list here with links to all the write-ups by the Weekly.

Need a new sofa? Mattress Nation at 296 Lighthouse Avenue has a special floor model clearance sofa in the showroom that needs to find a new home. It's now listed at half-off the already reduced sticker price.

This sofa is stain-resistant, incredibly comfortable, soft to the touch, made from wood and memory foam (no particle board!), with a pull-out bed and all of the pillows included. We're open 10am-6pm daily.

Rosebuds Kids Co., located at 535 Foam Street, has wonderful, gently used children's Halloween costumes in stock! Stop by the shop and catch a great deal. We're open Tue-Fri, 9am-4pm, and Sat, 10am-4pm.

Local ceramist Casey Starks's annual owl, ghost, and skeleton collections have landed at her studio. All of them are handmade by Casey and are a lot of fun.

You'll find seasonal trinket dishes in a variety of sizes available both on Casey's website and at the studio at 550 Lighthouse Avenue, Suite A.