Here they are, nine necessary know-abouts for the week ahead. It’s the Republican National Convention-hangover B9:
- If you love trees — no, I mean really love trees — writer Amy Stewart might have insights in her new book on “arboreal obsession” you can relate to.
- O’Neill’s on 41st is the site for the Save The Waves Film Festival with a collection of adventure films, all to raise money to preserve surf ecosystems.
- If Santa Cruz Shakespeare ever wanted to transform into Santa Cruz Oscar Wilde, I think I might be down with that.
- How ’bout a mellow Sunday afternoon, chilling at Moe’s with the fine singer-songwriter and guitar lifer Carolyn Wonderland?
- Can it happen here? Maybe it already has happened here. A political event in Santa Cruz measures how closely history is repeating itself.
- If you’ve ever fantasized about sailing solo across the open sea, novelist Richard J. King is speaking your language.
- Two of the sweetest words in English are “love” and “free,” and Christians might add “God” as well. All are part of the True Love Christian Music & Art Festival.
- Cabrillo Stage’s rollicking performance of “In the Heights” is poppin’. Don’t get left out.
- The “King of California” meets a voice that could have only sprouted in Texas: Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore together, at Moe’s.