Here they are, nine necessary know-abouts for the week ahead. It’s the spring-in-my-step B9:
- Gotta love the verve and swing of L.A. jazz guitarist Molly Miller, who brings her amazingly tight trio to Kuumbwa next week.
- Pianist Brianna Conrey is on a quest to bring overlooked and underrated female composers to your attention with her tribute show Saturday at the Kuumbwa.
- There’s still time to catch Spike Wong’s richly textured family drama “White Sky, Falling Dragon,” a classic American tale set in Watsonville in the years following WWII.
- The Santa Cruz Jewish Film Festival kicks off next week with the first of four public screenings examining the historical context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Comedian Shane Mauss is on a mission to bring some levity and irony to the emerging psychedelic revolution.
- The Muse deserves celebrating, and Santa Cruz’s women poets have been doing it for more than 40 years (see below).
- Straight outta Corralitos comes the saucy and rude musical revue “Karen With a K,” one show only at Kuumbwa on Sunday.
- Last call for the splashy and costume-y “Marie Antoinette” at Cabrillo — aren’t you up for a little eat-the-rich drama?
- Is there such a thing as too much bluegrass joy and goodness? The great Brothers Comatose play one night at Moe’s, then they play another.