Steve Coulter, UC Santa Cruz creative writing continuing lecturer, spoke with Lookout about what it’s like being a lecturer, busking in Europe and what the future holds for writing with the advent of ChatGPT.
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Is there anybody out there? Frank Drake and Santa Cruz County’s crucial link to the search for intelligent life in the universe
Frank Drake, the namesake of the famous Drake Equation and a giant in the field of the search for extraterrestrial life, died last year in Aptos. On April 17 at the Rio Theatre, daughter Nadia Drake — a graduate of Aptos High and UC Santa Cruz who’s an accomplished science journalist — will host “Whispers From Other Worlds,” an event sure to be bursting with the spirit of her father’s life’s work.
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Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream
Four falcon eggs atop a bell tower at UC Berkeley are about to join a storied lineage at the university when they hatch Tuesday.
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Student Lookout: Baseball season, Narcan kits and is the hype surrounding ‘Skinamarink’ real?
With the reopening of Stagnaro Brothers and Firefish Grill, a Humble Sea pop-up, Makai’s island grog and a summer…
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Free money for post-COVID job training programs — for yourself or someone you help
California is offering cash to students and community groups to spread the word about a $2,500 grant for students who lost jobs because of COVID-19.
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Chronicling a ‘miracle’: The quest to remember fading 1960s counterculture and its influence in Santa Cruz
The Hip Santa Cruz History Project is the brainchild of longtime UCSC professor Ralph Abraham and Cabrillo College teacher T. Mike Walker. They recently released Volume 6 in their “Hip Santa Cruz” series — essays, poems and more about the hippie era and its long aftermath in Santa Cruz, largely written by people who lived through it, to be released April 8 with a gathering at the Santa Cruz Art League.
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Student Lookout: Pizza and trivia, Pajaro flooding and March to End Homelessness
Road closures and power outages have been a near-constant fact of life in the San Lorenzo Valley since the parade of…
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‘Super disappointed’: Lawmakers want UC to enroll more Californians sooner
Enrollment is down at the University of California and the Cal State, which has frustrated lawmakers who gave both systems more money to increase their number of students.
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Lookout Update: Cabrillo College name selection task force to hold first meeting next month
With a list of about 400 suggested new names for Cabrillo College, a trustee-led group of community members will convene in April for the first of a series of meetings, aiming to whittle those suggestions to a shortlist of three to five.
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Student Lookout: Local bagels, a 2000s throwback party and a timely film rec
A Santa Cruz County farmers market favorite, Laundromat Bagels (formerly Holey Roller Bagels) has officially opened its…