Wallace Baine takes us on a quick tour of three upcoming creative projects in Santa Cruz — focused, respectively, on music, art and poetry — designed to make you pause and think.
The Here & Now
Posted inCoast Life
Wallace Baine: Goodbye to India Joze, a restaurant that reflected Santa Cruz back to itself for 50 years
India Joze, Santa Cruz’s eclectic culinary cultural exchange, has closed its brick-and-mortar operation along Front Street, giving way to riverfront development. But there’s time for one last stroll through the colorful history of Jozseph Schultz’s local legacy.
Posted inCity Life
BOLO Best Bets: Creep through the Omicron fog for First Friday and more
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Posted inPandemic Life
The events word for 2022: Rescheduled. Omicron variant’s rise bringing cancellations galore
Whether it’s Al Franken at the Civic, a reception for the MAH’s latest exhibition, a world premiere opera at Cabrillo, musical performances at the Catalyst and Moe’s Alley or arts events at the Tannery and Actors’ Theatre, Omicron is having the final say at the moment.
Posted inCity Life
Safety concerns shut down the comeback of celebrated theater festival ‘8 Tens @ 8′
Santa Cruz’s Actors’ Theatre has again had to shelve its festival of 10-minute plays, this time amid the Omicron surge, but new artistic director Andrew Ceglio still has ambitious plans for 2022 and beyond.
Posted inCoast Life
Wallace Baine: I’ve got your surefire predictions for 2022 in Santa Cruz
Whether you get them right or not, it’s always fun to throw wild — sometimes silly — guesses at the wall and see if they stick. So what if most of them won’t delve anywhere near truthfulness, right? Right?
Posted inCoast Life
Wallace Baine: As we turn the page yet again, grief for the old year, hope for the new one
Usually this weighing of the changes that life inevitably brings is habitual, routine, even a bit ho hum. But there’s something about the passing of this specific year that feels different, as if we’re witnessing not just the changeover of years, but of eras, as if the real changes promised by the new millennium are arriving 20 years late.
Posted inCity Life
BOLO Best Bets: Ring in 2022 with music, art and king tides
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A taste of honey: California Honeydrops return to Santa Cruz for three-show run
At a loss on what to do as 2021 turns to 2022? Between the Honeydrops’ R&B-soul blend and the White Album Ensemble’s late-period Beatles, Wallace Baine has a few ideas to get you rockin’ into New Year’s.
Posted inCity Life
BOLO Best Bets: Christmas takes center stage as festivities beckon beyond
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