The attorney for one of the defendants, Stephen Lindsay, argued Wednesday that Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Office investigators…
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Tech billionaires’ secretive plan to build a California city from scratch
The billionaires behind Flannery Associates have bought up more than 140 parcels in Solano County with dreams of “a new city with tens of thousands of new homes.”
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The secret to aging in Santa Cruz: Wear that tiny bikini on the inside
Lookout columnist Claudia Sternbach is sometimes surprised at the gray wave sweeping Santa Cruz. On her regular beach walks, she sees “more and more older folks out catching some rays.” Census data confirms the trend; the county’s 65-84 age bracket grew by 81% between 2010 and 2020. Sternbach, in her 70s, shares her thoughts as she grapples with her own age-related ailments and “being transported to this other existence.”
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Nina Simon’s new path: A daughter’s story of love, told in the form of a murder mystery
Nina Simon, former director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, put her life and nonprofit leadership on pause in 2020 to care for her mother after a cancer diagnosis. What “started out completely like a fantasy or a distraction” evolved into “Mother-Daughter Murder Night,” a mystery novel she’ll discuss Tuesday at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
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Lookout PM: Weekender, opioid settlement funds, and Nina Simon’s latest endeavor
As Santa Cruz County awaits about $26 million in funds stemming from national lawsuits against pharmacies, drug…
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Judge in Tushar Atre murder case rejects defense effort to challenge surveillance-footage search warrant
The attorney for one of the defendants, Stephen Lindsay, argued Wednesday that Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Office investigators made misleading statements in a search warrant for surveillance footage from a Las Vegas gym. Prosecutors say that footage matches the appearances of Lindsay and another suspect with those of figures captured in surveillance footage from near Atre’s Pleasure Point residence around the time Atre was killed in October 2019.
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Santa Cruz County readies to spend millions from opioid settlement funds starting next year
As Santa Cruz County awaits about $26 million in funds stemming from national lawsuits against pharmacies, drug manufacturers and distributors, residents say they want to see that money go toward treatment facilities and supporting vulnerable groups as the dollars roll in over the next decade.
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Weekender: Striking somber notes, voices from Ukraine & listening parties at Streetlight
Hi friends, Sometimes it’s Labor Day and sometimes it’s a labor to get through the day. Here’s hoping for a wonderful and relaxing late-summer respite from all your worries. Now, on with the show. This Just In! The enduring indie rock band Built To Spill plays live at Moe’s Alley on Nov. 19. Canadian-born singer […]
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Whether your jam is Fleetwood Mac or Mitski, Streetlight is the place to listen in on new albums
Downtown Santa Cruz’s Streetlight Records is hosting a listening party for Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours Live” album on its release day next Friday, and you can hear Mitski’s latest, “The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We,” there, too, before it hits shelves.
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Amy Ettinger’s terminal cancer diagnosis is gut-wrenching news for Santa Cruz’s literary community
In a personal essay in the Washington Post, longtime Santa Cruz journalist and author Amy Ettinger, 49, revealed her terminal cancer diagnosis. It’s “one of the bravest and most forthright things I’ve ever read about the experience of facing death at a young age,” Wallace Baine writes.