Ariel Marshall, a senior official from the U.S. Department of Energy visited Santa Cruz city leaders on Wednesday to learn about progress made on all-electric housing and other developments. Marshall’s message was loud and clear: there’s federal money for more of the city’s climate-friendly projects.
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Plenty to do on Fourth of July in Santa Cruz County — even without fireworks
Scotts Valley, Watsonville and Aptos are all holding their traditional observances of Independence Day with parades and festivities, despite many jurisdictions holding the line against illegal fireworks
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The trivia boomlet: Post-pandemic, trivia events throughout Santa Cruz County bring in the crowds
In the wake of pandemic lockdowns, trivia nights occupy a comfortable middle space between an intimate dinner and a musical or theatrical performance, a way to engage with friends and strangers and still be home before vampire hours. There’s a wide variety of them across Santa Cruz County, including one starting up Tuesday hosted by Lookout and Wallace Baine.
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‘I will do everything I can to make things right’: BLM mural vandals apologize; mural repainted as civic leaders declare Abi Mustapha Day
Nearly two years after Brandon Bochat and Hagan Warner vandalized the Black Lives Matter mural in front of Santa Cruz City Hall, the men joined more than 50 community members to help repaint the mural and give a public apology. Santa Cruz City Councilmember Sonja Brunner and 3rd District County Supervisor Justin Cummings declared June 24 Abi Mustapha Day in honor of the local artist and SC Equity Collab co-founder.
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A very Villela summer breezes into Kuumbwa
Brazil native turned longtime Santa Cruz County resident Claudia Villela has a new album, “Cartas Ao Vento (Letters to the Wind),” and she brings it the stage Monday at Kuumbwa Jazz.
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Make plans now for an essential pilgrimage to Boomeria
The Santa Cruz Baroque Festival is slated for July 8, and while it features master musicians aplenty, the real star is Preston Boomer’s hand-made organ, the beating heart of his Bonny Doon estate.
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City of Santa Cruz extends call for food businesses to operate kiosks, Tannery cafe
The kiosk outside downtown Santa Cruz’s Del Mar Theatre is empty following the demise of Cafe Campesino and another could open up this year, the city’s economic development manager says. And expanding the reach of the Tannery’s food outpost is the goal as the city looks for a new partner for the arts campus.
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With strength in numbers, Made Fresh Crew gets original art out of the studios and into the streets
“The hardest part about being an artist is getting seen and distribution,” says Taylor Reinhold. “You can be the best artist in the world but if you’re sitting in your studio and you never leave and you don’t talk to anybody, you’re just not gonna make it in this world.” His Made Fresh Crew aims to help with that platform.
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Remembering George Winston and Santa Cruz’s connection to a musical tradition
George Winston, who died June 4, is best known for his piano oeuvre, but Dancing Cat Records, his Santa Cruz-based recording label, helped keep Hawaiian slack-key guitar alive and gave many of its practitioners a boost.
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Go along for the ride as latest Catamaran sets sail
The author himself will be among the writers, poets and artists on hand Tuesday at Bookshop Santa Cruz for the launch of the Summer 2023 edition of the Catamaran Literary Reader.