Be the first to know about the latest in entertainment, arts and culture news. Sign up to get story alerts from Wallace delivered straight to your phone. And check out previous Weekenders here. Hi friends, And now comes the Halloween hangover. Memo to those guys dressed as Cheech & Chong whom I met on Halloween […]
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Soquel Union Elementary School District candidates on teacher pay, mental health, declining enrollment and pandemic learning loss
Sixteen candidates are running for nine seats in five school districts across the county. Lookout sent questionnaires to all of them asking about the most pressing issues facing their schools. Here, we take a look at Soquel Union Elementary School District.
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Pajaro Valley Unified School District candidates on diversity, pandemic learning loss and teacher housing
Sixteen candidates are running for nine seats in five school districts across Santa Cruz County. Lookout sent questionnaires to all of them asking about the most pressing issues facing their schools. Here, we take a look at the Pajaro Valley Unified School District.
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Eight lots: Debating the parking lots that Measure O would mandate for housing
The battle over Measure O is many things to many people, but at its base, it is an attempt by residents to push through their own vision for urban planning, one that contrasts against that of city staff. Sharing the stage in this struggle are a well-known library mixed-use project proposal and a broad outline of affordable housing on eight city-owned parking lots. Where are these lots? How large are they? What do they look like? Could housing realistically be placed on these sites as the measure promises? Lookout examines what we know.
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New Library vs. Renovated Library: What would Santa Cruz get?
Let’s do a side-by-side comparison. The new downtown branch library will make a statement, and for a long time, about downtown Santa Cruz. Whether built new on a current parking lot or renovated where it’s sat since 1969, it’ll cost more than $40 million for the best possible of each. Wallace Baine talks with architect Abraham Jayson, giving us a virtual tour of what each would be like.
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Weekender: Spooky szn is upon us, poets in motion and a Beethoven birthday bash
Be the first to know about the latest in entertainment, arts and culture news. Sign up to get story alerts from Wallace delivered straight to your phone. And check out previous Weekenders here. Hi friends, The most social, buzzy place to be this weekend? How ’bout the aisles of your friendly neighborhood Halloween store — […]
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Weekender: Radius Gallery’s ‘all Korean’ focus, Boardwalk cooks up a favorite and Halloween approaches
Be the first to know about the latest in entertainment, arts and culture news. Sign up to get story alerts from Wallace delivered straight to your phone. And check out previous Weekenders here. Hi friends, Beginning with “Bikini Werewolf Massacre” this weekend, Santa Cruz is about to get weird, in what we hope is a […]
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Weekender: KSQD flexing its tentacles, Mary McCaslin celebration is on and a ukulele road trip
Be the first to know about the latest in entertainment, arts and culture news. Sign up to get story alerts from Wallace delivered straight to your phone. And check out previous Weekenders here. Hi friends, Here it is, already mid-October, and I’ve yet to have my first pumpkin-spiced food item. How should I break the […]
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A lot of disagreement: Measure O galvanizes competing visions of downtown Santa Cruz
Lot 4 could become one of the most significant downtown Santa Cruz construction projects since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, with a new main branch public library, 120 units of affordable housing and a three-level parking garage. But if Measure O proponents win at the polls, the current library will be renovated and plans will begin for a new parklike space. No matter which way the vote falls, it’s nearly certain that downtown Santa Cruz will get a new library and that the farmers market will continue to operate. The big questions are when and where.
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Weekender: Film fest, Open Studios, First Friday and bidding Mary McCaslin goodbye
Be the first to know about the latest in entertainment, arts and culture news. Sign up to get story alerts from Wallace delivered straight to your phone. And check out previous Weekenders here. Hi friends, First Friday and Open Studios are coming at us. It’s a great time to discover Santa Cruz’s artistic enclaves, if […]