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Sunday Reads Archive
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Sunday Reads: A local caving legend and a new take on a game-show fave
SUNDAY READS Sept. 8, 2024 Conversation with an accidental caving legend — the guy who drew the map of Santa Cruz’s notorious ‘Hell Hole’ Lookout Community Voices contributor Daniel DeLong manages to score an interview with the elusive Binky the Wonderdog, known for having made the hand-drawn map used by hundreds to navigate the depths […]
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Sunday Reads: Readers’ festival ideas; Claudia Sternbach’s milestone trip
SUNDAY READS Sept. 1, 2024 Festival fantasies: Readers kick around ideas about the ultimate Santa Cruz event Readers responded to the proposal of a new annual Santa Cruz arts festival with a number of creative ideas that touch on art, technology, social innovation, psychedelics, athletics and even dogs. Here’s what Wallace Baine heard. 10 hot […]
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Sunday Reads: Thinking big on a signature Santa Cruz festival; Claudia Sternbach on finding her way
SUNDAY READS Aug. 18, 2024 The quintessential Santa Cruz festival: What would that look like? Santa Cruz arts and business leaders are dreaming up concepts for a major festival — think South by Southwest, Comic Con or Coachella — that might draw national attention to the county, possibly a monthlong event next April. Wallace Baine […]
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Sunday Reads: Behind the scenes at Santa Cruz Shakespeare; a call for more pesticide transparency
Specially curated stories from Lookout correspondents and opinion from contributors.
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Sunday Reads: Extended families navigating housing market; Claudia Sternbach’s journey
Specially curated stories from Lookout Santa Cruz correspondents and opinion from contributors.
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Sunday Reads: Silver Spur’s old-school appeal; examining county supervisors’ balancing act
Specially curated stories from Lookout Santa Cruz correspondents and opinion from contributors.
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Sunday Reads: Democracy’s choppy local waters, court weighs release of Madyson Middleton’s killer, Claudia Sternbach’s lessons from Katie Couric
Specially curated stories from Lookout Santa Cruz correspondents and opinion from contributors.
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Sunday Reads: Giving voice to threat from AI; UCSC student’s worries over Taiwan
SUNDAY READS July 14, 2024 Losing his voice? Voice-over master Dean Compoginis sounds an alarm about AI Aptos resident Dean Compoginis has made a handsome living as a voice-over narration artist. But, he says, with its increasingly realistic mimicking of the human voice, artificial intelligence now poses an existential threat to people in his field. Wallace […]
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Sunday Reads: Cabrillo Stage’s generational pivot; Claudia Sternbach on life and loss
SUNDAY READS June 2, 2024 Hip-hop comes to Cabrillo Stage: Local musical theater makes a generational pivot By Wallace Baine Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights,” which opens July 12 at the Crocker Theater at Cabrillo College, marks a transition at Cabrillo Stage, perhaps even the beginning of a significant new era. In her second season, […]