The county’s CERT office said that the fires and the pandemic brought about a spike in interest in neighborhood self-reliance in emergency preparedness. While that interest has begun to sag in many areas, one group of neighbors on Santa Cruz’s Westside is helping to set a standard for what such planning should look like.
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An exploration of heritage: Author links Santa Cruz, Japan through art, catastrophe in new novel
Local writer Andrew Kumasaka is a third-generation Japanese American who used the events of the 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan, which even affected Santa Cruz, as a key part of his plot line in “All Gone Awry.”
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BOLO Best Bets: Dance through the raindrops to the SC Symphony, chili cook-off and Pivot
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The Joe behind Joze: New ‘Foodie’ doc pays tribute to a Santa Cruz culinary legend
“Foodie for the People,” showing the next two Wednesdays at the Del Mar, is a portrait of Jozseph Schultz and the community he helped create in Santa Cruz both inside his India Joze restaurant and among those less fortunate.
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Man behind the murals: County names Yermo Aranda Artist of the Year
“You’re giving people the tools to create something that is monumental,” Yermo Aranda says of enlisting community members — often schoolchildren — in creating culturally significant murals in and around his adopted hometown of Watsonville. He’ll be honored Saturday in a virtual event that also features the dance troupe he co-founded.
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BOLO Best Bets: Open Studios’ final weekend; local music and writing talent in the spotlight
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Pivot’s latest pivot: Uniquely Santa Cruz fashion event lands at the Tannery
Pivot: The Art of Fashion has found homes at the Rio, the Wrigley Building and, last year, on a screen, and this year the high-profile Santa Cruz fashion show and performance-art showcase moves outdoors at the Tannery and adds other live elements.
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BOLO Best Bets: Last call for ‘Heisenberg,’ plus Grazing on the Green and more Open Studios
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Review: Is Jonathan Franzen too big to fail?
Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, “Crossroads,” is extraordinary, immersive, even fun. (And the Santa Cruz resident is celebrating Tuesday’s release with a Bookshop Santa Cruz event.) But it makes you wonder what Franzen might accomplish if more were at stake.
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Living the dream: Santa Cruz filmmaking duo makes the break for Hollywood
Before heading south to take their shot at Hollywood glory of one kind or another, Drew Crocker and Erik Gandolfi will show all of their comic shorts in one program on an outdoor screen at the Tannery.