Here they are, nine necessary know-abouts for the week ahead. It’s the post-debate B9:

  1. The MAH’s CommonGround festival brings an awe-inspiring style of life amid the dead at the Evergreen Cemetery.
  2. Two questions: Why did this Dogstar show sell out so quickly? And doesn’t that bass player look a heckuva lot like Keanu?
  3. Ever shared the room with a Nobel Prize winner? Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz gives you the chance as he talks about the morality of economics at London Nelson.
  4. Love, laughter and loose lips at the “Newlywed Game”-style improv game show “Lovers Know Best” at The 418 Project. 
  5. Santa Cruz Shakespeare opens its fall (that’s not a typo) season with a new spin on the Tennessee Williams American classic “The Glass Menagerie.”
  6. One of the great living masters of the contemporary jazz guitar, Russell Malone, will walk among us next week.
  7. Capitola does its best Capitola-ing at its annual Art & Wine Festival, with an embarrassing bounty of both. 
  8. Jim and Brighton Denevan’s geometric beach art is stunning from a distance. This weekend, you can see it up close.
  9. It can’t all be fun and games, folks. The future of the San Lorenzo Valley and the mountain communities of North County is on the docket at Lookout’s District 5 candidates forum.

Wallace reports and writes not only across his familiar areas of deep interest — including arts, entertainment and culture — but also is chronicling for Lookout the challenges the people of Santa Cruz...