“Made in Santa Cruz: Why Art Matters” is a video series, published every other Sunday, exploring the artists who shape Santa Cruz County’s creative landscape. Each episode offers a peek into an artist’s practice, the places and experiences that inform their work, and the ways creativity helps us see our community differently. Today’s makers are crab rope artists Stephanie Michelet and Jason Rimmer of Sea Creature Designs.
Arts & Entertainment
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New Capitola Village public art brings Monterey Bay wildlife to Monterey Avenue railing
Capitola artist Bruce Harman has spent months painting 50 aluminum panels along a 625-foot stretch of railing on Monterey Avenue, turning it into a mural of jellyfish, otters, seahorses and other Monterey Bay sea life. The panels go on public display this weekend when the street closes to cars for the Capitola Art & Wine Festival.
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Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s ‘Private Lives’ is deliciously funny — and gloriously toxic
Santa Cruz Shakespeare opens its fall season in delicious style with Noël Coward’s “Private Lives.” Charles Pasternak and Paige Lindsey White are marvelous as the spectacularly combustible couple who can’t seem to stay together or apart, bringing sparkling chemistry and impeccable comic timing to Laura Gordon’s stylish, laugh-out-loud production.
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Weekender: Art, wine, opera and Ironman
Your cheat sheet for eating well and going out this weekend in Santa Cruz County.
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Best of Santa Cruz County entertainment, arts & food events this weekend, Sept. 10-13
With the weekend nearly here, check out things to do around Santa Cruz County, with a recommendation from Lily Belli and a specially curated list from Lookout’s BOLO events calendar.
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Four anniversaries, one night: Santa Cruz music fixture Rick Walker marks 60 years onstage
Local drumming legend and live-looping pioneer Rick Walker is celebrating four career milestones — 60 years as a percussionist, 50 as a pro musician, 30 as a live looper and 25 running the Y2K International Live Looping Festival — with a genre-hopping solo show at the Cayuga Stage this Saturday.
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Puccini, poker and profanity: ‘The Girl of the Golden West’ takes an unexpectedly funny ride
Puccini heads to the California Gold Rush in “The Girl of the Golden West,” where a contemporary English translation adds profanity, camp and plenty of unexpected laughs. The emotional depth sometimes gets lost along the way, but three terrific lead voices, particularly Jordan Best’s Minnie, make the production.
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Psychedelic Furthur bus rolls back into San Francisco for new Grateful Dead exhibit
Ken Kesey’s psychedelic bus, Furthur, is the centerpiece of an exhibition celebrating the legacy of the Grateful Dead that opens Saturday in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
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Weekender: Final beach party, Puccini opera and all-star eats
Your cheat sheet for eating well and going out this long weekend around Santa Cruz County.
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Best of Santa Cruz County entertainment, arts & food events this weekend, Sept. 3-6
With the long weekend nearly here, check out things to do around Santa Cruz County, with a recommendation from Lily Belli and a specially curated list from Lookout’s BOLO events calendar.
