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Living the dream: Santa Cruz filmmaking duo makes the break for Hollywood
Before heading south to take their shot at Hollywood glory of one kind or another, Drew Crocker and Erik Gandolfi will show all of their comic shorts in one program on an outdoor screen at the Tannery.
Share Your Feedback: How was your Open Studios experience this year?
This month, Arts Council Santa Cruz County invited you to explore over 300 artist studios during the Open Studios Art Tour. Share your feedback as they continue to improve upon this beloved local tradition.
After a pandemic pause, Open Studios poised for a creative reset: ‘People are hungry for art’
The next three weekends bring a longed-for chance for artists across Santa Cruz County to reconnect with the community and fellow artists — or, for many of the younger, first-time participants, to make real-life connections with folks they’ve seen only virtually during the past year and a half.
Goodbye to a legend: Why we’ll never see a character like Lee Quarnstrom again
Lee Quarnstrom, Merry Prankster, former Hustler magazine executive and longtime newspaper columnist who chronicled the beauty and weirdness of Santa Cruz, has died. He was 81.
The Lost Boys (1987) Official Trailer – Jason Patric, Corey Haim Vampire Movie HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Iqy6m7U7c
Say it ain’t so: Could they go and remake ‘The Lost Boys’ without Santa Cruz?
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.
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.
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.
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.

