Weekender with Wallace Baine Newsletter

The Weekender, brought to you weekly by staff writer Wallace Baine, brings together news from the Santa Cruz County arts community and the major (and not-so-major) events and shows to be on the lookout for this weekend.

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Weekender: Pride weekend, First Friday, our own Tom Brady & beer and ‘La Bohème’

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Weekender: Pride weekend, First Friday, our own Tom Brady & beer and ‘La Bohème’

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Weekender: Artist’s take on downtown development, bringing Cabrillo Fest home & free music outdoors

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Weekender: Artist’s take on downtown development, bringing Cabrillo Fest home & free music outdoors

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Weekender: Tay Lion roars again, playwrights honing their chops and Blissed-out art

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Weekender: Tay Lion roars again, playwrights honing their chops and Blissed-out art

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Weekender: Celebrate Mom with music, a festival for us nerds and facing antisemitism on the waves

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Weekender: Celebrate Mom with music, a festival for us nerds and facing antisemitism on the waves

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Weekender: An overflowing First Friday, NorCal sound at the Rio and paging Andy Samberg

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Weekender: An overflowing First Friday, NorCal sound at the Rio and paging Andy Samberg

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Weekender: A novel mother-daughter experience, a brilliant B9 and Dance Week delivers

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Weekender: A novel mother-daughter experience, a brilliant B9 and Dance Week delivers

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Weekender: Boardwalk’s summer slate, dancing in the streets and trouble at Oregon Shakespeare

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Weekender: Boardwalk’s summer slate, dancing in the streets and trouble at Oregon Shakespeare

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Weekender: Exploring home and homelessness through art, Gaither’s latest and limber up for Dance Week

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Weekender: Exploring home and homelessness through art, Gaither’s latest and limber up for Dance Week

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Weekender: Cabrillo Fest’s new season, First Friday in high gear and Vets Hall rocking again

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Weekender: Cabrillo Fest’s new season, First Friday in high gear and Vets Hall rocking again

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Weekender: Back to ‘Junior High,’ men and violence, a new theater collective & celebrating Emmylou

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Weekender: Back to ‘Junior High,’ men and violence, a new theater collective & celebrating Emmylou

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Weekender: Coffis Brothers’ brewhaha, Indexical’s full slate and getting hip to local history

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Weekender: Coffis Brothers’ brewhaha, Indexical’s full slate and getting hip to local history

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Weekender: Circus returns for a good cause, get literary at Gabriella Cafe and a song for spring

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Weekender: Circus returns for a good cause, get literary at Gabriella Cafe and a song for spring

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Weekender with Wallace Baine Newsletter

California lawmakers introduced bills this year to strengthen rules against high rents and evictions. Landlords and...

State Sen. John Laird said he’s “very optimistic” that the state will put $111 million toward a 624-bed student housing...

Former Dodgers and Padres star Steve Garvey’s celebrity could upend California’s 2024 U.S. Senate race, if he decides to...

From a drag story time Friday to the 48th annual parade Sunday on Pacific Avenue, the celebration of Santa Cruz’s LGBTQ+...

Scientists are using a UC Santa Cruz greenhouse to recreate the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. They want...

A new opioid overdose-reversing drug called Opvee is expected to be available over the counter later this year. Santa...

Dr. Gail Newel is officially making her four-year stint as Santa Cruz County health officer the final chapter of her...

A sudden cluster of new cases of the virus formerly known as monkeypox is leading health officials to call for renewed...

Central Valley flooding has raised a new potential threat to migrating birds: massive die-offs from...

Goats have become a sustainable way to reduce wildfire fuel in California. But new labor requirements for herders might...

State officials and the nonprofit Monterey Bay Salmon and Trout Project are set to release 160,000 juvenile chinook...

More than six years after President Barack Obama included the Cotoni-Coast Dairies area on Santa Cruz County’s northern...

H&H Fresh Fish started off as a way for Hans Haveman to sell his salmon catch. Now, it mostly gets its catch from other...

Nita Gizdich has been making her famous pies for 57 years. Yes, you can buy them in shops around Santa Cruz County, but...

D. Riley Nicholson is set to become the next CEO of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, effective Oct. 1. He...

There’s much to explore around Santa Cruz County this June First Friday, including a retrospective of work by painter...