Summer returns, and we’ve got a preview of the don’t-miss events. But there are questions, as the landscape is changing. Is there an artistic renaissance just around the corner? Or are we losing our edge? Whatever happens, the summer of ’22 could be the first step toward a different future.
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Posted inCity Life
BOLO Best Bets: A spring bounty of classical music, plus new theater and a burlesque brunch
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Posted inEducation
A plan for 300 on-campus beds for Cabrillo College students? Here’s how that is taking shape
Cabrillo — and UC Santa Cruz — tried to tap a new $2 billion state fund to build on-campus housing. While it was shut out for the first year of a three-year program, Cabrillo moves ahead with its planning for its first on-campus units.
Posted inFood & Drink
EATERS DIGEST: Restaurant Malik Williams opens in Aptos; Scotts Valley’s Pizza Series expands to Stanford
The newest chef on Santa Cruz County’s fine-dining scene is also its youngest in 21-year-old Malik Williams, and Lily Belli gives you an introduction to his eponymous Aptos establishment along with other bits, bites and sips in her latest Eaters Digest.
Posted inCity Life
BOLO Best Bets: Erotic performance, a ukulele bash and fantasy fare
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Posted inHousing & Development
Book a stay at a Santa Cruz ‘super-rental’: It’s only $1,000 a night
Rents are soaring across California and the country. Here in Santa Cruz County, even the top end of the market is becoming ridiculous.
Posted inCity Life
BOLO Best Bets: Uke it up, take the plunge and journey to the Jurassic
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Posted inCoast Life
Ask Lookout: What’s up with the old SeaBreeze Tavern in Rio Del Mar?
Editor’s Note: This is the debut of Ask Lookout. It’s your place to ask us anything you want about life in Santa Cruz County. Stymied by a bureaucratic nightmare, wondering about that fave restaurant that still hasn’t opened or intrigued by in-process construction you see going up, ask. Our Lookout staff will pick the best questions and do our best to answer them. We’ve kicked off the new feature with one of our own favorite questions: What’s up with the SeaBreeze Tavern? Write news@lookoutlocal.com, and put Ask Lookout in the subject line.
Posted inCity Life
BOLO Best Bets: Big-name authors, ambitious music and art … and Boba Fett
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Posted inCoast Life
Unhoused Santa Cruz: A ‘proper place’ for the homeless? Push to spread the burden stirs NIMBY backlash
Neighborhoods are receiving little advance information about newly streamlined projects, as the state of California and the county of Santa Cruz move to rapidly build new housing. As Project Homekey-funded projects pop up around the county, we see pushback in Soquel, and maybe more widely. Lookout takes a closer look at the community whiplash and the likely growing pains ahead.
