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
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, Wait … what? 2022 is done? How can that be? I’m a sucker for the sense of reflection and hope […]
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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
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, We have an abbreviated version of our stalwart weekly newsletter for you this week, largely because we’re approaching that period […]
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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.
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The Santa Cruz angle to Mike White’s HBO hit ‘The White Lotus’
Mike White, the mind behind HBO hit “The White Lotus,” has a local connection: His dad, Mel White, grew up in Santa Cruz in the 1950s and ‘60s, and his grandfather Carl White was the city’s mayor.