With the start of a new year comes the start of new opportunities to celebrate our local community. This is exactly what the Santa Cruz Symphony hopes to bring as they kick off their 2023 Concert Season with Translations, a special show featuring guest pianist, Hakan Ali Toker. Translations will feature an expansive variety of […]
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Santa Cruz County 2023: Inside Wallace Baine’s crystal ball of predictions and prophecies
With a new year upon us, Wallace turns to his favorite drag-queen psychic, the Fabulous Ms. Claire Voyant, to peer into the unknown … and goodness, did Ms. Claire have some visions about name-change fervor across the county, the new downtown library, fashion plate Fred Keeley and plenty more.
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Remembrance 2022: Santa Cruz County looks back at those we lost
In the final chapter of his series remembering prominent members of the Santa Cruz County community who died in 2022, Wallace Baine spotlights a barber-author, artists, activists, an academic and more.
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Weekender: New Year’s Eve, Santa Cruz style; a fond happy trails to Good Times chief
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Loudon Wainwright III: ‘This Year’
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Remembrance 2022: Guitar maker Rick Turner’s deep and continually unfolding influence
Known as “the father of boutique guitars” whose path intertwined with the Grateful Dead and Fleetwood Mac, among many others, Rick Turner rocked the world from his Westside Santa Cruz shop. Turner died at 78 in April after a stroke.
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Remembrance 2022: Gwen Marcum and the art of bookselling
A life path that took her from Iowa to West Africa to the halls of Congress to the civil rights-era Deep South to UC Santa Cruz informed Gwen Marcum as she built a community centered around the Capitola Book Café. Marcum died in April at age 86.
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Weekender: Flynn Creek’s astonishing circus, a Foo Fighter at Moe’s and a very domestic B9
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Loudon Wainright III: ‘Lullaby’
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The second life of Rosemary Chalmers: A local media personality looks beyond KSCO
After KSCO announced that it was laying off its staff and ending live local programming, Rosemary Chalmers, one of the Santa Cruz radio station’s most high-profile on-air hosts took a deep breath and decided to branch off into a new media entity.
