Dozens of veterans packed Tuesday’s meeting of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors to protest the firing of Veterans Services Officer Xavier Bianchi, a Purple Heart recipient praised for his dedicated, hands-on approach to helping fellow veterans.
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Love stack: Pancake-obsessed Santa Cruz musician tackles different kind of record
Santa Cruz musician Andy Fairley – aka Andy Pankakes – attempted to seize the Guinness World Records title for tallest pancake stack Saturday at 11th Hour Coffee’s roastery on Santa Cruz’s Westside. The 12-hour effort doubled as a music festival with five local bands.
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Addicted to the sounds: Darkwave trio Urban Heat returns to Santa Cruz on eve of new album
Following up a viral TikTok hit with upcoming album “The Tower,” out Aug. 16, Urban Heat hit Moe’s Alley on Wednesday. “There are people who need a song,” says frontman Jonathan Horstmann, “and it’s my job to get it to them.”
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Sanctuary in sadness: Little Rock metal band Pallbearer plays Santa Cruz debut
Funeral doom takes the sludgy, slowed-down tempo of doom metal and blends it with melodic funeral dirges – an otherworldly, dreamlike atmosphere that takes the listener into a sonic journey through what psychoanalysis godfather Carl Jung called the “shadow self.” Get an earful Friday when Pallbearer plays the Catalyst Atrium.
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Court weighs release of Madyson Middleton’s killer, Adrian Gonzalez
Convicted in 2021 of the kidnapping, rape and murder of 8-year-old Madyson Middleton, Adrian Gonzalez returns to a Santa Cruz court this week for a hearing to help determine whether he remains a danger to society or if he can be released from prison later this year. The hearing continues Monday.
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Santa Cruz stays course on homelessness approach, but Supreme Court decision casts shadow
The U.S. Supreme Court said local jurisdictions can criminalize people sleeping and camping on public land. But does that mean communities in Santa Cruz County will?
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Midtown Friday Block Parties becomes a Santa Cruz trifecta
Great things come in threes. The original Star Wars trilogy. The pyramids of Giza. The number of peanut butter cups in a Canadian Reese’s package (yet another thing Americans are getting ripped off on). And now, Santa Cruz’s favorite Midtown Friday Summer Block Parties. Yes, the block parties are returning for their third year in […]
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Son of the San Lorenzo: Rising country music star Jesse Daniel returns to Catalyst on Friday
Ben Lomond native turned Texan transplant Jesse Daniel plays a homecoming show Friday in support of his new live album, “My Kind of Country Live At the Catalyst,” recorded at the downtown Santa Cruz music venue last year. The album has drawn praise from Rolling Stone and Billboard. It’s an amazing trajectory for Daniel, whose career almost never happened because of an opioid addiction.
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Lookout PM: Coral Street homeless hub, new vision for the Santa Cruz wharf, and the latest news quiz
Community centers, open gardens, pallet homes and possible parking options are all being explored as part of the City of…
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Santa Cruz officials lay out vision for Coral Street homeless services hub
Community centers, open gardens, pallet homes and possible parking options are all being explored as part of the City of Santa Cruz’s current draft of a report on its long-term vision to transform the Coral Street neighborhood into a center for housing and support services for the unhoused. Several business owners and representatives from the Coral Street area raised concerns about the vision during a planning commission meeting Thursday night.