Last month, a screening of Stop Making Sense—Jonathan Demme’s 1984 Talking Heads concert film—lit up the UCSC Quarry. This weekend, Talking Heads keyboardist/guitarist Jerry Harrison joins up with guitarist Adrian Belew for the Remain in Light Summer Tour, hitting the …
In the literary world, contests, anthologies and competition for prizes make up a big part of how artists get recognized. But the members of Círculo de Poetas & Writers are focused on something else: amplifying multilingual, multicultural voices.
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In a word: riveting. The Santa Cruz Shakespeare production of Hamlet is everything one could hope it would be. Director Susan Dalian has updated the setting of this 425-year-old masterwork to the late 1960s, piping in vintage rock ’n’ roll …
The writer Franz Kafka famously said, “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” William Ward Butler and Jackson D. Moorman remember those words as they read hundreds of submissions for their poetry journal. They are …
It can be easy to take for granted how much has to happen for the Santa Cruz region to enjoy the glorious local produce it does.
A Santa Cruz area resident for more than 30 years, Jennifer Lawrence owned a coffee shop in Moss Landing for over a decade until it became one of the many pandemic casualties. But when that door shut, another one opened: …
After two people were critically wounded in a shooting that occurred Aug. 8 at the Crow’s Nest during its Thursday Beach BBQ event. The Santa Cruz Port District announced the cancellation of the remaining events for the summer.
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Two people were shot Thursday night in the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor, and police from several jurisdictions are looking for the suspects.
Days after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order directing jurisdictions throughout the state to address the homeless encampments within their borders—and about one month after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that laws banning sleeping in public do not constitute …
It was 17 years ago that a group of volunteers began to restore the Rancho San Andreas Castro Adobe, a structure whose endurance over its 176-year lifespan helps paint a picture of California history.
When thousands of Pajaro Valley Unified School District students return to school on Aug. 14, they will likely meet their teachers, pick up armloads of books and greet friends they haven’t seen in weeks.
My early years were spent in Hollywood, California. We lived under the Griffith Park Observatory. I was a joyous, sprite-like, hyperactive kid. In second grade, I was recognized as a budding artist who excelled at jigsaw puzzles. My teenage years …
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Less than six months ago, Marisa Abzug and her life/business partner, Josh Taylor, founded J and M Sourdough Bagels, a pickup-based micro-bakery with storefront aspirations.
You may not need a reminder just how astounding octopuses are. Just in case, here are three: their blue blood pumps through three hearts; they can change their skin’s texture, color and pattern instantaneously; and their arms have their own …
This month, in honor of August as National Breastfeeding Awareness Month, WIC hosts its 17th Annual Breastfeeding Health Fair and Walk on Aug. 9 at Watsonville Plaza. The event is sponsored by WIC (Women Infants and Children), a federally funded …
America, historically a destination for those seeking freedom from persecution and a better life, is closing its doors. This summer, the Biden administration issued an executive order heavily restricting the entry of asylum seekers at the southern border. Thousands fleeing …
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