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.
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With death of Linda Burman-Hall, Santa Cruz loses one of its great artistic souls
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.
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PG&E investigating outage in the Watsonville area
More than 1,600 customers in and around Watsonville were affected by a power outage as of noon on Wednesday. Pacific Gas & Electric was investigating the cause and aiming to restore power by 2:30 p.m., though a map indicated that it had come back on for many customers by 12:30.
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Lookout PM: Smokey skies in SC, Barbara Lee stops by Watsonville, and PVUSD’s student population decline
Cal Fire Battalion Chief Jed Wilson told Lookout the majority of the smoke that moved into Santa Cruz County overnight…
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Morning Lookout: Lee’s Watsonville bounce, PVUSD enrollment reversal & Redwood Records’ rise
A little more than a year after Metavinyl closed in downtown Santa Cruz, Redwood Records has taken its place as the…
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Smoke from Northern California fires makes its way to Santa Cruz County
Cal Fire Battalion Chief Jed Wilson told Lookout the majority of the smoke that moved into Santa Cruz County overnight into Wednesday is from the fires in the northern part of the state, in Humboldt and Trinity counties, while some might also be drifting northward from a vegetation fire that broke out Wednesday afternoon in Royal Oaks in Monterey County.
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Redwood Records emerges as a new touchstone of downtown Santa Cruz arts culture
A little more than a year after Metavinyl closed in downtown Santa Cruz, Redwood Records has taken its place as the pillar of the downtown records scene, thanks in large part to its participation in the growing First Friday arts event. This Friday, Redwood Records will bring in one of its most ambitious acts yet — San Francisco singer-songwriter Gilberto Rodriguez — to perform live in the store at Cedar and Maple.
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After revealing surprise enrollment jump, PVUSD says student population might have actually dropped by 675
Last week, Pajaro Valley Unified School District said total numbers for its schools appeared to show about 500 more students enrolled this year than expected. But upon closer look, officials say they accidentally included dependent charter schools in the district’s total enrollment figures. Interim Superintendent Murry Schekman said the realization the district’s enrollment was in fact continuing on a downward trend is frustrating and makes planning for the district difficult. Schekman sees cost of living as the primary driver for the trend.
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Rep. Barbara Lee energizes Watsonville during U.S. Senate campaign stop
Touting “a different perspective and lived experiences” from the Democratic candidates who had preceded her in visiting Santa Cruz County, Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee talked about the state’s housing crisis and homelessness and her ability to work across the aisle at an event at Jalisco Restaurant.