The Here & Now Archives

A person forms their hands to look like a heart as the sun sets in the background

City Life

BOLO Best Bets: Show some love for Beethoven, iconic art and sweet treats

by Lookout Santa Cruz Team BOLO February 10, 2022October 22, 2023

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City Life

Attention Tomboys: Popular music video series makes a big return

by Wallace Baine February 4, 2022

Another local standby is shaking off the pandemic mothballs as Midtown vintage store Tomboy is once again the scene for live performances headed for YouTube. Wallace Baine has the details on that, plus an Indexical-Kuumbwa cross-pollination and more.

A lone UC Santa Cruz student walks on the vast lawn overlooking the Monterey Bay

City Life

BOLO Best Bets: First Friday, a Prankster and tunes to disperse the Omicron mists

by Lookout Santa Cruz Team BOLO February 3, 2022October 22, 2023

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The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

City Life

BOLO Best Bets: Get all jazzed up as the calendar heads to February

by Lookout Santa Cruz Team BOLO January 27, 2022

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Ken Babbs with a trombone and furry friend with the Merry Prankster bus "Furthur."

City Life

Pranksters, LSD and the Dead: Ken Babbs was there at Santa Cruz County’s most famous (or infamous) party

by Wallace Baine January 27, 2022April 19, 2024

Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady and the crew immortalized in “The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test,” not to mention the band that became the Grateful Dead, got the party started at Ken Babbs’ Soquel digs. And it’s all in Babbs’ new book, which he’ll discuss in an upcoming Bookshop Santa Cruz event.

Coast Life

Wallace Baine: Drop the remote — the cure for our latest viral malaise awaits us right outside the door

by Wallace Baine January 23, 2022

Whether it’s the quality of the air on a hike in the redwoods, the high clouds and low angles giving the season’s light a unique character or a different tone in the ocean’s roar, getting out into our life-affirming Monterey Bay winter is a balm we’re lucky to have.

City Life

Meat Loaf, thunderous ‘Bat Out of Hell’ singer, dies at 74

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine January 21, 2022

Singer and actor Meat Loaf, whose “Bat Out of Hell” album became a classic-rock staple topped only by his unlikely 1993 comeback, died on Friday at 74.

Painter Kajahl Benes-Trapp has recently been named a Rydell Fellow for 2022-23.

City Life

BOLO Best Bets: Big art happenings, a new theater production and music to your ears

by Lookout Santa Cruz Team BOLO January 20, 2022

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A scene from "Befana: A Christmas Fable."

City Life

‘Befana’ makes a defiant comeback, Rydell legacy continues to grow, all hail Karen Yamashita

by Wallace Baine January 20, 2022

At Cabrillo, it will be Christmas in February for an Omicron-delayed opera. Downtown, four fellowship artists get their own MAH exhibit. Online, a newly crowned literary titan talks about her craft and more — and Wallace Baine gives us a sneak peek at all of it.