With fewer people moving to the Golden State and more than ever leaving, Wallace Baine writes, it’s clear that the higher the cost to get in the gate, and the more technology is devoted to keeping you out, the harder it gets to fake your way in.
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BOLO Best Bets: No supply-chain woes with the gift of local music
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Unsung Santa Cruz: Singing for those passing into the great beyond has become Marti Mariette’s calling
The mission of the Threshold Choir is not only to bring solace to the loved one, but to his or her family as well, to restore a sense of the sacred to the experience of dying. The organization discourages the terms “performance” or “rehearsal,” because they want their singing to transcend the performer-audience dynamic.
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WALLACE BAINE: Forget about keeping Santa Cruz weird; have we lost our once-notorious edge entirely?
When “The Lost Boys” came out in 1987, it put on display the edge Santa Cruz had become known for. Nearly a quarter-century later, it’s worth reevaluating whether those same eccentric ideals are still part of this place.
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BOLO Best Bets: Look sharp and hit the town for jazz and more, plus ‘Christmas Story’ under the redwoods
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In ‘Dear Goldie Hawn, Dear Leonard Cohen,’ Claudia Sternbach reveals herself through faux correspondence
The Aptos writer and former Sentinel columnist tells absorbing, often painfully honest stories about the pains and joys of her life, set in the form of never-postmarked letters to famous people.
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Watsonville writer Jaime Cortez brings the focus to the fields in his semi-autobiographical new book, ‘Gordo’
“Gordo” zeroes in on the conditions migrant farmworkers faced in the 1970s from the point of view of a chubby kid with a taste for Mexican wrestling masks, uncertain of his own sexuality and what is expected of him from the demands of manhood. Cortez will discuss the book Thursday in a virtual conversation with Bookshop Santa Cruz.
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WALLACE BAINE: Ready or not, ‘We’re the Elders Now’ brings a sense of inevitable reality
The new song from Watsonville’s Michael Gaither, perfect for that autumnal post-Thanksgiving vibe, faces head-on that bewildering moment when you realize that you’re part of the supposedly wise-old-owl generation that you’ve been taught to respect if not revere all your life.
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BOLO Best Bets: Warming up to Christmas music, First Friday, Coltrane and holiday lights
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A gift in their name: A lasting legacy at local libraries
The Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries are close to reaching their goal for their 2021 Realizing the Promise Campaign, thanks in part to donations dedicated to honor loved ones.