Yes, Cat's Meow is your destination for Pokemon Go! We dare you to overpower our Gym Leader! Walk into our doors and get $10 off any battle wear you choose.
The New Monterey Business Association welcomes Tricycle Pizza to the Lighthouse District! The new restaurant is located at 899 Lighthouse Avenue at the corner of Lighthouse and David. Hours are currently Wednesday-Friday, 3pm-9pm (or until out of dough) and Saturday, 12pm-9pm (or until out of dough). The restaurant will be closed on Saturday, July 30.
Does the name Tricycle Pizza sound familiar? In 2012, owner Danica Alvarado's passion for cooking and entertaining developed into an idea to create a novel catering experience using pizza, one of her favorite dishes, as the focal point. After launching in 2012, Tricycle Pizza has quickly developed a strong reputation as some of the finest pizza in California. Danica and her team at Tricycle Pizza put their heart and soul into making sure their wood-smoked pizza is something they can be proud to serve and you'll love to eat.
Monterey Seibukan Academy invites you to come check out our back to school specials! We offer classes in Seibukan Jujutsu for children ages 5 and up, and for adults. The first class is free! Please contact us for more information, 831-375-6797.
Seibukan Jujutsu is modern-day martial art based on ancient Japanese practices intended for self-defense and self-development. It encourages the use of verbal de-escalation, ideally preventing the use of physical force. You will gain a higher understanding of how the body moves, or doesn't move, using strikes, throws, pins, joint manipulation, weapon disarms, and multiple-attacker scenarios. The philosophical aspect of the art improves your relationship with yourself, others, and the global community. The practice of the martial way cultivates the internal connection between the mind, the body, and the spirit. The overall goal is to create balance in your life.
Crafted now carries feather earrings! If you're attending the Feast of Lanterns in Pacific Grove this year, these lantern-inspired earrings will make a great accessory. Visit us at 800 Lighthouse Avenue, Suite B; all our items are handmade in California.
If you'd like to receive up-to-date information on the construction work taking place for the Holman Highway 68 Roundabout, we encourage you to sign up for the weekly e-newsletter published by the Transportation Agency for Monterey County every Friday. This weekly "look ahead" contains information about construction, road closures, detours, traffic conditions, and travel options.
For more information, please contact Ariana Green at the Transportation Agency for Monterey County, 831-775-4403.
Monterey Bay Aquarium invites you to join us for Evenings by the Bay, Saturday and Sunday evenings July - September 4, 2016, featuring extended summer hours until 8pm. You'll see the Aquarium in a whole new light!
At Evenings by the Bay, stroll the Aquarium galleries with fewer people as you enjoy a glass of wine and listen to a variety of live musical performances. You can also meet people who will share ideas and products that can help you live a sustainable lifestyle that's also ocean-friendly. In addition you can enjoy delicious, sustainable food featuring the freshest ingredients sourced from Monterey Bay and the Central Valley.
Just in time for Independence Day, On The Beach Surf Shop is now offering t-shirts featuring this great American flag image complete with surf boards. Stop by and pick up yours!
These beautiful, new Monterey Seibukan Academy t-shirts are now available! To order, please phone 831-375-6797.
Good news, Lighthouse District fans and New Monterey residents! There’s a free trolley line that will take you from the Lighthouse District and/or Monterey Bay Aquarium to Old Monterey and it runs seven days a week!
The trolley is free, it’s fun, and it runs every 10-15 minutes. There are trolley stops at Reeside and Foam, Drake and Foam, Hoffman and Wave, Prescott and Cannery Row, and at Monterey Bay Aquarium.
In Old Monterey the trolley stops at First Theatre, Fisherman’s Wharf, Pacific and Del Monte, Alvarado and Franklin, the Downtown Parking Garage, and the Monterey Transit Plaza.
Hours and a trolley map can be found here.
It’s perfect for a run to the Old Monterey Farmers’ Market, a trip to the Monterey Transit Plaza to catch a bus, or meeting friends for lunch at one of the Lighthouse District’s amazing restaurants.
The Scholze Park Community Center is pleased to announce that the play! Monterey Travel Program Newsletter, listing information on all our day trips now through January 2017, is available for download here as an Adobe PDF file.
Our travel program offers a variety of tours for adults of all ages with prices to fit within everyone’s budget. For more information on the play! Monterey Travel Program, please phone 831-646-3878.
Lilify is pleased to announce that we now carry our new line of waxed linen bags (including the wrap clutch pictured) handmade in Monterey. Come in to the shop and check them out.
Attention California Playwrights! Paper Wing Theatre has spots open for its third annual Summer Play Reading Exhibition, taking place Sundays at 2pm July 10 through August 14, 2016. Submit your play and you can have your work read aloud by Paper Wing actors in front of a live audience at Paper Wing Theatre in the Lighthouse District.
After each reading, the audience is invited to participate by offering their feedback. Plays may then be chosen by the company to be produced at Paper Wing Theatre during the 2017-2018 season. This is an excellent way to workshop your play and hear constructive opinions from an avid audience! There is no charge to submit your work. Please send submissions to [email protected]. Deadline to submit work is July 1, 2016.
Thanks to the New Monterey Neighborhood Association for this information on free and discount parking in the City of Monterey for Monterey residents. This and more information are available in their monthly newsletter, available to all NMNA members - contact the organization to join.
As a resident of Monterey, you are eligible to enjoy benefits from the City of Monterey's parking programs:
2-hour Free Parking
Displaying the proper decal permit, residents can park two hours free, per parking stay, in the Downtown West Garage (corner of Franklin and Tyler); the Waterfront Attendant Lot (corner of Washington and Del Monte); and the Cannery Row Garage (corner of Foam and Prescott).
Half Price Parking
The Half Price decal entitles Monterey residents to a 50% discount on the hourly rate in the following public parking facilities: Downtown West Garage (at Franklin and Tyler), in the Waterfront Attendant lot (at Washington and Del Monte); and in the Cannery Row Garage (at Foam & Prescott).
How to Sign Up
A resident parking permit decal can be obtained at the Parking Division Office at 340 Tyler Street, Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm. To qualify, a person must reside in Monterey and provide written proof of residency (i.e., utility bill, rental agreement) and current DMV vehicle registration (registered to the resident) at the time of signing up. All active military personnel and their immediate family are also eligible for this program - bring military ID card and vehicle registration. There is an annual $10 administrative charge for each decal permit. The permit is valid for 12 months from the date of issue.
For more information on any parking program, call the Parking Division at 831-646-3953. Please note that these programs cannot be combined with any other special parking program offered by the Parking Division.
Check out this lovely breakfast served at the Bulldog British Pub! It's one amongst many other fabulous choices; we serve breakfast/brunch dishes seven days a week, 11:30am-4pm. Don't forget to add Brent Hill's World Famous Bloody Mary to the mix...or a delicious mimosa. (Yes, staff member Brent Hill is back every morning, Tuesday through Friday!)
The artists at Gold Coast Tattoo were bored the other day and decided the shop needed an upgrade. So owner Steve Hendricks provided the debit card and the artists are providing the blood, sweat, and talent to redecorate the shop. Stay tuned for a totally mind blowing new look, including new hand drawn flash and designs from Cody, Carson, Kristian, and Krista, as well as other new eye candy. Steve says, "This is the best crew Gold Coast has had in years! Thank you guys, you rock!!"
On The Beach Surf Shop just received a shipment of Kala Ukuleles! We invite you to come and look them over. Kala Brand Music Co., founded in Petaluma, California in 2005 designs, creates, handcrafts, manufactures, and distributes ukuleles into the hands of customers around the world. They make some beautiful instruments.
Sal Zammitti and Bamboo Reef are pleased to announce we have reached an agreement with Poseidon Adventures, Mark Stanley and Brian Stanley, to acquire Bamboo Reef. Bamboo Reef was founded in 1961 by Al Giddings and purchased by Sal Zammitti in 1971. Under Sal’s leadership we grew to become the preeminent dive retailer in California with locations in San Francisco and Monterey.
We are excited that Mark and Brian Stanley will continue to nurture and grow our legacy. Mark is an SSI instructor with 12 years of teaching experience and is the retired director of the microbiology lab at Kaiser Permanente. Brian is a graduate of Hall’s Diving and brings both retail and manufacturing experience. He is an SSI scuba instructor and SSI Freediving trainer who has been manager of Bamboo Reef and developed our freediving program.
Sal Zammitti thanks you for over 55 years of support and hope that you welcome Mark and Brian as they continue to grow Bamboo Reef, SCUBA, and Freediving in California. He will be working with Mark and Brian to help them in this transition.
Welcome to Lighthouse District in the News, an occasional post featuring recent news articles on Monterey's Lighthouse District. Please click the links below to read the articles.
The Perfect Crumb: Review
by Daniel DeCamp
Monterey County Weekly, 05/12/16
Kelly Sorensen: The Owner of On the Beach Surf Shop Celebrates 30 Years in Business
by Nic Coury
Monterey County Weekly, 05/19/16
Integrity Bookkeeping would like to offer many thanks to our clients, colleagues, family and friends as we celebrate the completion of our first year in business. We've built lasting business relationships and we're looking forward to strengthening them even further as we continue to work together. Thank you to everyone who has helped to make Integrity Bookkeeping successful!
Integrity Bookkeeping is located at 801 Lighthouse Ave, Suite #203 in New Monterey. Your can reach us by phone at (831) 884-5107.
Sunshine Freestyle wants to thank the small crew that helped set up this year's Surfabout scaffolding and tear it down: Drew Jensen, Robbie and Michael Newman, Zach Downing, Dave Eaton, Jim Wayman, Tom Richards, and the McKegney clan. We want to give a special shout-out, as we do every year, to James Frangella for his pre-dawn attack on the Monday tear down. We also want to thank Eric and Ryan Sanico and family for the Island feel with the palm trees.
We only wish we could have seen a few more able bodies down there to help - it's a lot of work. Please consider helping out next year!
