Hi friends, Happy Pride weekend. Considering what’s happening in states like Texas, Tennessee and Florida, the struggles of LGBTQ+ — particularly trans — people to live in freedom and peace is the civil rights issue of our age. Is it time for another Freedom Ride of idealistic young allies to arrive in red states by […]
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Weekender: Artist’s take on downtown development, bringing Cabrillo Fest home & free music outdoors
Hi friends, Remember these names: Morgen Jacobs. Joey Spence. Victor Gonzalez. Andres Perez. Bernard P. Corpuz. Kylan Jones-Huffman. Jason Hendrix. They are among those from Santa Cruz County who lost their lives in combat serving their country in Iraq and Afghanistan. This Memorial Day, let’s honor them and their families not with grief or guilt, […]
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Newsom unveils sweeping plan to speed up California infrastructure projects
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s infrastructure plan could shorten construction of bridges, broadband, water projects and highway maintenance by three years and save the state millions of dollars. At the center of the plan is the polarizing California Environmental Quality Act.
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Weekender: Tay Lion roars again, playwrights honing their chops and Blissed-out art
Hi friends, If you have memories of the great Bay Area icon Vida Blue, who died last week, you and I should really get coffee sometime. I’ll be the one wearing the garish green-and-yellow Vida Blue jersey. RIP to one of my childhood superheroes.
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Weekender: Celebrate Mom with music, a festival for us nerds and facing antisemitism on the waves
Hi friends, Welp, it appears we’ve arrived at the day that many Gen Xers never believed would come: MTV News is no more. Of course, I had assumed it disappeared years ago. But back in the day when we all couldn’t get enough news about Fine Young Cannibals or Frankie Goes to Hollywood, I was […]
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Weekender: An overflowing First Friday, NorCal sound at the Rio and paging Andy Samberg
Hi friends, Why yes, I do know all the words to “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” doesn’t everyone? I was reminded of them, in fact, the last time (and I do mean the last time) my seasickness-prone keister went out on the Chardonnay pleasure boat in Monterey Bay: “Does anyone know where the love […]
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Weekender: A novel mother-daughter experience, a brilliant B9 and Dance Week delivers
Hi friends, Let’s see a show of hands. Who says May/June is the finest time of year? Yep, me too! Aren’t the mornings a bit more divine, the fruit a little sweeter this time of year? The summer is coming right at us, like a steaming beautiful plate coming out of the kitchen and headed […]
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Male leaders: We need you to help us imagine a world without sexual violence; join us Wednesday
Longtime activist and former “meat dress” wearer Ann J. Simonton wants to see attitudes about sexual violence change in her lifetime. A survivor of male sexual violence since the age of 14, she believes it’s possible. “In my lifetime, I’ve seen the unlikely turnaround of public action and opinion around the use of tobacco,” she writes, noting, “humans are obviously capable of dramatic social change.” She invites the community to a Wednesday discussion hosted by the City of Santa Cruz’s Commission for the Prevention of Violence Against Women.
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Weekender: Exploring home and homelessness through art, Gaither’s latest and limber up for Dance Week
Hi friends, I think we’ve finally turned a corner with the wild and exasperating 2023 weather. I’d be wary of tempting the gods with such talk, but I’ve learned the hard way the gods aren’t listening to anything I have to say.
