Here they are, nine necessary know-abouts for the week ahead. It’s the already-August B9:
- Summer is made for events like the Locomotion Festival at Roaring Camp, with live music and mellow vibes all weekend long.
- If it were not already taken, there’s a compelling argument that Watsonville should change its name to “Strawberry.” At least this weekend, the name fits.
- “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.” What’s that from?
- Grateful Dead lore has it that Jerry Garcia lost his finger in an ax accident somewhere in the Santa Cruz Mountains, not far from where Jerry’s Middle Finger plays back-to-back shows this weekend.
- The most lively street corner in the whole county? Right now, it’s on stage at the Crocker Theater at Cabrillo Stage’s “In the Heights.”
- On your First Friday tour, don’t forget the Museum of Natural History which features an artistic assessment of the rebirth of Big Basin, from artist Donna Thomas.
- Singer/songwriter Pokey LaFarge was born in 1983, but his music suggests he’d be every bit as relevant if he’d been born in 1883.
- Psst. Pass it on — Santa Cruz Shakespeare is telling English literature’s most compelling ghost story.
- It’s one of the most cutting-edge orchestral music festivals in the whole USA, and it opens Friday at the Civic — with an optional dinner and pre-concert talk.