The 2023 season of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music will run July 30-Aug. 12 at the Santa Cruz Civic, and will include a visit from The Kronos Quartet and a festival-commissioned piece paying tribute to longtime executive director Ellen Primack, who’s stepping down after 33 years.
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Posted inGuides
Bivalve bonanza: A guide to foraging for mussels in Santa Cruz County
Mussel foraging season runs from fall into spring in California. Here’s our guide to some of the more intricate details of our tasty coastal companions along with three great local beaches for foraging.
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Don’t let your plants drown in all this rain — you can save them if you try
Martin Quigley, director of the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden, offers tips and tricks to help save gardens inundated with water during these historic storms.
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City aims to pilot Santa Cruz wharf to calmer waters after stormy few years
“We’re investing in building momentum this summer,” the City of Santa Cruz’s development manager says of goings-on at the wharf, where the balance between tourists and locals, new challenges and old wooden pilings, development and a fragile ecosystem are all part of the equation.
Posted inFood & Drink
Bait the hook: Dining renaissance underway at the Santa Cruz wharf
With the reopening of Stagnaro Brothers and Firefish Grill, a Humble Sea pop-up, Makai’s island grog and a summer concert series, the wharf is aiming to tempt Santa Cruz locals into the mix at the popular tourist haunt.
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‘High Flyin’ news for Neil Young fans
Bootleg recordings of Santa Cruz gigs of 1970s supergroup the Ducks, featuring Neil Young, are coming out April 14 in a three-LP or two-CD set.
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Script-in-hand theater on the way
The 36 North collective kicks off a series of staged readings at Actors’ Theater Center Stage in May, featuring new plays by Santa Cruz playwrights.
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Justin Cummings appointed to California Coastal Commission
California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon appointed District 3 Santa Cruz County Supervisor Justin Cummings to represent the Central Coast on the California Coastal Commission. Cummings was left off the initial list of nominations for the powerful land-use body voted on by the county’s City Selection Committee, but pushed to be included after a Lookout investigation prompted the county to invalidate the committee’s original vote.
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New life for the NEXTies: Santa Cruz awards show gets new partner, new post-shutdown lease on life
Co-presented by Event Santa Cruz and Lookout Santa Cruz, the NEXTies return Friday at Woodhouse Brewing to honor Santa Cruz County difference-makers in community building, business, art, music and more.
Posted inOpinion from Community Voices
The California Coastal Commission: It’s critically important, but it increasingly overreaches
The California Coastal Commission keeps our beaches and scenic views accessible to all, and that is a good thing, writes Lookout political columnist Mike Rotkin, who fought to pass the 1976 Coastal Act that followed the commission’s establishment. But Rotkin does wonder why the commission is weighing in on so many recent issues in Santa Cruz — from hotels to oversized vehicle parking — and suggests commissioners might be setting rules in Santa Cruz that don’t apply to other communities, including Carmel and Monterey.
