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The new novel authored by Nina Simon, longtime director of the Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz — “Mother-Daughter...

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Wallace reports and writes not only across his familiar areas of deep interest — including arts, entertainment and culture — but also is chronicling for Lookout the challenges the people of Santa Cruz...