The 1987 movie “The Lost Boys” might be Santa Cruz’s finest moment in cinema, but there’s no indication Hollywood is aiming to return to shoot its reboot of the vampire classic. A remake shot in some other place called Santa Carla would forever de-couple the film from Santa Cruz. And that’s worth mourning.
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Find your bandwidth: MAH’s ‘Frequency’ brings nighttime adventure to last weekend of summer
Running through Sunday at the MAH (though with a key installation staying on longer), “Frequency” exists in a realm that invites you to set aside your customary relationships with art and ponder your own place in a world more and more mediated by technology.
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With the return of the county fair comes a return to some normalcy in this world of ours gone mad
It’s too easy to dismiss the fair as corny or cheesy, Wallace Baine writes in welcoming it back from its pandemic layoff. Sure enough, there’s plenty of corn and cheese, literal and figurative, to be found here. But that’s not a bug. That’s a feature.
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Welcome to ‘Frequency’: MAH debuts technological arts festival
Installations combining light, sound and digital culture — some featuring audience interaction, some leaning more toward performance art — come to the museum and its downtown Santa Cruz surroundings. “You absolutely need to be open for adventure,” the MAH’s director says.
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Ambitious Sea Walls Santa Cruz mural project ‘going to change the town forever’
Beginning Monday, artists from Santa Cruz and around the world will create a series of unique murals — each themed on the ocean, specifically the threats facing marine life from climate change — that stretches from the Westside to Capitola.
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‘Wonderful little reunion’: Jewel Theatre set to return with musicals, mysteries, romance and comedy
The COVID shutdown hit right as Santa Cruz’s Jewel Theatre was about to launch a production, and everyone will pick up more or less where they left off when a six-show season kicks off at the Colligan Theater on Sept. 15.
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Watsonville Film Fest celebrates Mexican music, honors farmworkers with free live show at the Plaza
The Watsonville Film Festival will hold a free concert in honor of local farmworkers later this month and the lineup includes North Bay headliners “Los Cenzontles,” who also have a special connection to a film being screened at the festival.
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‘As cathartic as possible’: Santa Cruz Symphony set to return with robust new season
Starting out with Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” and getting ever larger in scale, Daniel Stewart and the Santa Cruz Symphony are planning a splashy return after the longest layoff in the organization’s history.
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Big Basin before and after CZU, through one local filmmaker’s eyes
The stark, straightforward “Big Basin Will Never Be The Same” uses side-by-side film of Eric Parson’s favorite trail run in Big Basin, one side shot before the 2020 blaze and one after, to sound an alarm about what our forests are facing.
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Santa Cruz Shakespeare announces big new season, change in leadership
The Bard’s “Twelfth Night” and “The Tempest” are on the schedule for 2022, as well as a world premiere from Santa Cruz-based playwright Kathryn Chetkovich. And in 2023, artistic director Mike Ryan will step down to focus on acting, to be replaced by actor/director Charles Pasternak.