The next three weekends bring a longed-for chance for artists across Santa Cruz County to reconnect with the community and fellow artists — or, for many of the younger, first-time participants, to make real-life connections with folks they’ve seen only virtually during the past year and a half.
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Goodbye to a legend: Why we’ll never see a character like Lee Quarnstrom again
Lee Quarnstrom, Merry Prankster, former Hustler magazine executive and longtime newspaper columnist who chronicled the beauty and weirdness of Santa Cruz, has died. He was 81.
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BOLO Best Bets: Open Studios and Jonathan Franzen are back, plus First Friday
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BOLO Best Bets: Sea Dubs fan fest, Boardwalk campout and Jake Shimabukuro ring in changing seasons
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The pandemic in metal: Pajaro Valley Arts exhibits ‘memories of a time like no other’
In the ongoing “Reflections” exhibition at the Watsonville gallery, members of the Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild answered the call for works about their journey through COVID-19 and other upheavals of recent years.
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Say it ain’t so: Could they go and remake ‘The Lost Boys’ without Santa Cruz?
The 1987 movie “The Lost Boys” might be Santa Cruz’s finest moment in cinema, but there’s no indication Hollywood is aiming to return to shoot its reboot of the vampire classic. A remake shot in some other place called Santa Carla would forever de-couple the film from Santa Cruz. And that’s worth mourning.
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Are we now officially among the top mural towns in America? We just might be.
Sea Walls is an international public-arts program sponsored by the PangeaSeed Foundation, which has already created more than 400 murals in cities around the world. After this week’s transformation, Santa Cruz became an even more prolific location to spy urban art.
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Find your bandwidth: MAH’s ‘Frequency’ brings nighttime adventure to last weekend of summer
Running through Sunday at the MAH (though with a key installation staying on longer), “Frequency” exists in a realm that invites you to set aside your customary relationships with art and ponder your own place in a world more and more mediated by technology.
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With the return of the county fair comes a return to some normalcy in this world of ours gone mad
It’s too easy to dismiss the fair as corny or cheesy, Wallace Baine writes in welcoming it back from its pandemic layoff. Sure enough, there’s plenty of corn and cheese, literal and figurative, to be found here. But that’s not a bug. That’s a feature.
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BOLO Best Bets: From murals to corn dogs and a MAH light show, Santa Cruz is hopping
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