Linda Burman-Hall, founder of the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival and a professor emerita at UCSC, “was an intellectual voracious mind and lover of an astonishing range of musical traditions,” Wallace Baine writes.
Coast Life
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Uproar over ‘pickleball tax’: Players aren’t game for new app to reserve courts at Santa Cruz County parks
Santa Cruz County says that encouraging people to pay for and reserve time at pickleball courts through a new app will improve efficiency and access amid the sport’s booming popularity. Avid pickleballers aren’t convinced, saying that the old system worked fine.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Project Street Vet’s mobile veterinary office brings free care to pets of Santa Cruz’s unhoused
Although the Santa Cruz County branch of Project Street Vet has been operating for only about eight months, veterinarian Vanessa Padilla and her team of volunteers have provided care and essential medicine to nearly 80 pets of the unhoused community in the county.
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Cabrillo name controversy is only the beginning of California facing a reckoning with its past
In coming to terms with its colonial past, as Santa Cruz County is with the roiling Cabrillo College name-change process, California is approaching an accounting that is, in some ways, every bit as thorny as the Civil War/slavery history in the eastern half of the United States.
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A marine heat wave off California helped fuel Hurricane Hilary. What’ll it do next?
Off the California coast sits a marine heat wave that has persisted since 2014. Scientists aren’t sure whether it’s now permanent, or a decadeslong blip on the map.
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Capitola Wharf repairs to begin in September, with plans to reopen next summer
The Capitola Wharf has been inaccessible since the first week of the year, when raging swells from the winter storms damaged wharf infrastructure and split the deck. With a project to repair and strengthen the wharf set to begin next month, project leads hope to avoid further winter weather delays.
Posted inCity Life
Santa Cruz Shakespeare takes a bow for 2023 season; next stop, a big 2024
It’s the final weekend to see “The Taming of the Shrew,” “King Lear” and Lauren Gunderson’s “The Book of Will” in the Grove at DeLaveaga, but an expanded five-production season is in the works for Santa Cruz Shakespeare next year.
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It’s never too soon to start planning for Halloween in Santa Cruz County
The Boardwalk can get you in the mood with its “Fright Flicks” series happening throughout October, and there’s ALO’s “Haunted Halloweekend” happening at Felton Music Hall, a Zappa tribute downtown and other events on the calendar already, with more sure to follow.
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In the face of sea level rise, can we reimagine California’s vanishing coastline?
The human-built world keeps getting in the way of the rising sea. But this current story of our coast does not have to end in disaster.
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Fight night at Santa Cruz’s KP Arena: Four hours in, hometown hero Danny Compton enters the Octagon
Forget pro wrestling, the five-hour card — with 11 bouts — Friday night at the Santa Cruz Warriors’ arena is a first-of-its-kind event in town. Mixed martial arts incorporates kickboxing, wrestling, jiu-jitsu and any number of techniques of formalized hand-to-hand (or even foot-to-foot) combat. The contestants are quite a mix as well — strawweight, bantamweight, welterweight, including “The Cali Cowgirl,” one representing his home country of Kyrgyzstan. How bloody will this evening be, and how will the local guy perform in a make-or-break duel at the end of the evening?