‘Nuanced, rich, beautiful’: The story of the Kuumbwa Jazz Center – told through its pianos
The Kuumbwa Jazz Center, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, has had three pianos since its beginning. The latest, a Steinway Model B purchased in 2020, represents the club at its highest point in national and regional prominence. Read more from Wallace Baine.
OPINION: The rail trail can’t advance transit at the expense of equity in Watsonville
The vision of better transit is worth pursuing, but not if it deepens inequities in South County, writes Tony Nuñez, a longtime Watsonville activist, journalist and board president of the Pajaro Valley Health Care District. True progress means tapping into Watsonville’s potential so our city can finally shape its own future, he writes in a Community Voices op-ed. He supports the rail trail, but says the tax should be lower for those with fewer means. Read it here.
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