“Broadsides,” opening at the M.K. Contemporary Art gallery, presents the work of some of Santa Cruz County’s best-known…
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Santa Cruz Health & Wellness Leader of The Year: Campesina Womb Justice
Santa Cruz is a terrific place to be in the black-and-orange season, from the beautiful and family-oriented cultural…
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Into ‘The Candy House’: Jennifer Egan on her timely new novel, ChatGPT and the demise of fiction
Jennifer Egan comes to UC Santa Cruz’s Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on Wednesday riding the wave of “The Candy House,” which revisits the same universe her acclaimed “A Visit From the Goon Squad” inhabited, but this time with Big Tech in the bull’s-eye.
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Santa Cruz Community Builder of the Year: Isabel Contreras, founder of Mi Gente CA
Santa Cruz is a terrific place to be in the black-and-orange season, from the beautiful and family-oriented cultural…
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“Hero’s Journey” symphony performance captivates Santa Cruz with powerful music and storytelling
All are invited to experience the “Hero’s Journey” with the Santa Cruz Symphony – a performance unlike any other April 1-2, 2023. “Hero’s Journey” looks at the juxtaposition of Ghandi and Beethoven’s life. Diving into their evolution as legendary heroes. Both proving to triumph and combat free will versus fate. The performance includes the West […]
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Surf City Lights: Bad Animal’s grand ambitions to become the world’s next great bookstore
Blessed by Beat poet and San Francisco bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti, downtown’s Bad Animal — a high-end Thai-inspired restaurant and wine bar living inside a deeply thought-out bookstore that’s the brainchild of Andrew Sivak — deserves its own attention as an emerging Santa Cruz cultural touchstone on par with Bookshop Santa Cruz and its now-defunct predecessors Logos and The Literary Guillotine.
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Sockshop donates $30,000 worth of shoes to Santa Cruz Women’s Center
When Santa Cruz was rattled by those January storms, Sockshop & Shoe Co. lept into action, donating over 240 pairs of shoes to the Walnut Avenue Family & Women’s Center. The Women’s Center, which has been dedicated to improving the quality of life for women, children, and families in Santa Cruz County since 1988, offers […]
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Sockshop donates $30,000 worth of shoes to Santa Cruz Women’s Center
When Santa Cruz was rattled by those January storms, Sockshop & Shoe Co. lept into action, donating over 240 pairs of shoes to the Walnut Avenue Family & Women’s Center. The Women’s Center, which has been dedicated to improving the quality of life for women, children, and families in Santa Cruz County since 1988, offers […]
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What goes into clearing a landslide? On Highway 9, it’s a lot of hours, people and uncertainty
For nearly two months, dozens of Caltrans crew members have tirelessly worked in the Santa Cruz Mountains to reopen even one lane of Highway 9, which fell victim to a major landslide on New Year’s Eve. Recent rains caused more debris to crumble from the hillside, leaving much to do ahead of a hopeful March 4 reopening.
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Hitch craft: New Scotts Valley festival celebrates local connections to the great Alfred Hitchcock
Many in Santa Cruz County know that legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock had a retreat in Scotts Valley, and with the city’s new performing arts center providing a worthy setting, locals aim to burnish that connection March 10-11 with a celebration including film screenings, historical presentations and a costume contest.