Hi Cliff.
We need to add a few CSS rules to counter some of the styles set up by your theme. There are a couple of different ways you might do this, including adding some new rules to your theme’s stylesheet, however the best way is probably to set up a custom events.css file.
Please see:
The basic idea though is to copy events.css from the-events-calendar/resources/events.css and place your copy in an events directory within your theme:
wp-content/themes/YOUR-THEME/events/events.css
Then add some new rules to the bottom of that stylesheet. In the first instance you could try adding these rules. I hope that helps!