The 36 North collective kicks off a series of staged readings at Actors’ Theater Center Stage in May, featuring new plays by Santa Cruz playwrights.
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New life for the NEXTies: Santa Cruz awards show gets new partner, new post-shutdown lease on life
Co-presented by Event Santa Cruz and Lookout Santa Cruz, the NEXTies return Friday at Woodhouse Brewing to honor Santa Cruz County difference-makers in community building, business, art, music and more.
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‘Gay Guerilla,’ algorithm meets rave and deep listening at Fall Creek as Indexical springs forward
Avant-garde musical organization Indexical kicks off an ambitious stretch Friday, with a blend of classical music and art rock at the Tannery; Saturday brings an offsite with Santa Cruz Underground Music and an “algorave”; and Monday marks the start of a weekly series of improvisational workshops for musicians.
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Brew Cruz rides again with Coffis Brothers collab
Annie Pautsch and the Brew Cruz brewery tour haven’t been as frequent a sight as pre-pandemic, but she’s bringing the bus back this weekend as part of “Coffis Space,” hitting Woodhouse and Humble Sea on the way to Saturday night’s happening at Moe’s Alley.
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With nod to Quixote, Santa Cruz’s Elizabeth McKenzie takes readers on an adventure in new novel
“The Dog of the North” is Elizabeth McKenzie’s follow-up to her acclaimed 2016 novel “The Portable Veblen,” and she’ll talk about it in person at Bookshop Santa Cruz on Tuesday, the day it’s released.
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Cordyceps for sale? Far West Fungi embraces ‘shroom boom,’ including ‘The Last of Us’
You can find a species of Cordyceps, the fungus that ravaged the world in HBO Max’s “The Last of Us,” available for purchase at Santa Cruz’s own downtown mushroom store, Far West Fungi. Regional manager Naomi Wolf says the post-apocalyptic show is just the latest example of a flourishing mushroom renaissance. Get familiar ahead of Sunday’s season finale.
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Hitchcock rules the weekend in Scotts Valley
Screenings of “Shadow of a Doubt” and “Vertigo” are just the tip of the iceberg as Scotts Valley celebrates its famous former resident, iconic filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, with a two-day festival Friday and Saturday.
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Kitesurfing Californians found the perfect beach in Baja. Then they gentrified it
A quirk of geography has created a spot in southern Baja with nearly perfect winds for kitesurfing. In the past few years, Californians have built a thriving outpost there. Is the growth sustainable?
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From Harbor High to Hollywood A-list, Adam Scott knows how to ‘Party Down’
With his 50th birthday a month away, Santa Cruz native Adam Scott has cemented himself in the show-biz firmament as a contemporary everyman, from “Parks and Rec” to “Severance” to the current Starz reboot of “Party Down,” in which he first starred in 2009.