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Sold for $195 million, Andy Warhol’s ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ sets new auction record
Andy Warhol’s iconic “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,” which sold for $195 million Monday night, is the most expensive 20th century artwork ever bought at auction.
Posted inOpinion from Community Voices
Live your biblical values: Support the Park Avenue housing project
The housing development slated for Park Avenue in Soquel offers Santa Cruz County residents a chance to live their values. Supporting the unhoused and needy is a biblical obligation. By embracing the project, Rabbi Paula Marcus argues, we fulfill our religious duties.
Posted inCity Life
Fresh as the war in Ukraine, ancient as Greece’s early storytelling
Jewel Theatre Company’s “An Iliad” updates the Homeric epic and confronts us with timeless truths in a production opening May 20.
Posted inEnvironment
How bad is water use in California? March is the worst so far, up 19%
Ignoring urgent pleas from water officials, Californians used substantially more water after a record-dry three months gripped the state.
Posted inCOVID Today
California COVID-19 deaths near 90,000, but the per capita rate is among lowest in U.S.
No state has suffered more pandemic-related deaths than California. However, on a per capita basis, California has the 11th-lowest COVID-19 death rate.
Posted inLatest News
Morning Lookout: Challenge to downtown library project; finding the original Ferrell’s
Good morning, Lookout friends! Today is Monday, May 9, and the forecast calls for a mostly sunny day around Santa Cruz County, with highs in the upper 50s and low 60s. Downtown Santa Cruz is the focus this morning, the mixed-use library project in particular. The long-planned development has been on track to start construction […]
Posted inEnvironment
It’s not even summer, and California’s two largest reservoirs are at ‘critically low’ levels
Shasta Lake is at less than half of normal levels. Lake Oroville, the largest reservoir in the State Water Project, is at 55% of total capacity.
Posted inCoast Life, Events
I accidentally married a parenting expert: What my special education-teacher husband taught me about being a mom
He was fun, silly, smart, musical and in possession of a particular expertise in children, and that has made all the difference in learning how to tame tantrums and go positive in correcting undesirable childhood behaviors.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
A new challenge to Santa Cruz’s downtown mixed-use library building
The downtown mixed-use library project has been in motion for development since 2016, with construction of the new library planned to begin as early as next summer. Opponents — forming the group Our Downtown, Our Future — now aim to put a ballot measure before city voters this fall to block it. Lookout tackles the questions voters will likely consider.