The Bard’s “Twelfth Night” and “The Tempest” are on the schedule for 2022, as well as a world premiere from Santa Cruz-based playwright Kathryn Chetkovich. And in 2023, artistic director Mike Ryan will step down to focus on acting, to be replaced by actor/director Charles Pasternak.
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From ‘The Voice’ to finding his own: Anthony Arya talks musical journey
Santa Cruz folk-rocker Anthony Arya burst onto the scene in 2018 on NBC’s talent competition, and since then has put out a pair of albums and enrolled at Stanford. He talks to Lookout about his influences, what goes into his songwriting and when we should expect his next record.
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From mountain time to island time: Boulder Creek couple’s home spared but they started over elsewhere anyway
While Allen and Jill Clapp of the Bay Area indie band the Orange Peels had longterm plans to move to the U.S. Virgin Islands, it wasn’t until they were displaced from their Boulder Creek home/studio, assuming it was gone, that they mentally moved on. The event caused them to move up their plans. “I think we felt that in order to move forward with our lives, we were going to have to do something transformative,” Allen said.
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Coming together ‘when tragedy strikes’: SLVers gather at Brookdale Lodge to measure the loss, face the future
THE HERE & NOW: Besides the latest in music and movies, columnist Wallace Baine catches up with the Santa Cruz Mountains…
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Foodie firsts: Mentone, Alderwood garner Michelin recognition for Santa Cruz County
Santa Cruz will be represented for the first time ever with September’s release of the Michelin Guide to California. Meanwhile, Soquel’s Discretion Brewing has gotten another honor, this time as Small Business of the Year in Assemblymember Mark Stone’s district.
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BOLO Best Bets: All aboard the BOLO bus for SV Art, Wine & Beer Fest, comedy & Shakespeare outdoors
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When this was ‘The Murder Capital of the World’: Local author explores Santa Cruz’s nightmarish moment
A new book by San Lorenzo Valley author Emerson Murray, ‘The Murder Capital of the World,’ is largely the story of three local but otherwise unrelated men — John Linley Frazier, Herbert Mullin, and Edmund Kemper — each lost in his own depraved psychological pathology. The book is a thorough, unflinching, and deeply frightening oral-history-style account of the times and its crimes.
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‘Hero of the neighborhood’: How a Bonny Doon neighbor’s resolve helped save a Santa Cruz musical treasure
The name Boomeria comes not from the dramatic churchy sounds that emanate from the pipe-organ, but from the man, Preston Boomer, who built not only the organ but the bizarro playland that surrounds it. It was the 90-year-old’s neighbor Alexis “Lexi” Seath who took it upon herself to save “the Chapel” she grew up next to.
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When laughter comes to the rescue: Santa Cruz Comedy Festival set to relieve late-summer anxiety
Kicking off Saturday outdoors at Laurel Park, the festival is the brainchild of comedian DNA of DNA’s Comedy Lab and the latest iteration of the “evolve or perish” approach he’s been riding since even before the COVID-19 pandemic threw a giant wrench into everything.
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The man who laughed through loss, wasted no time & found himself in literature: A eulogy for Fred Reiss
Last week, Fred Reiss ran out of time. The long-time Santa Cruz-based writer, comedian, and radio personality finally died of cancer, with which he was involved in a ferocious years-long battle. Cancer took his life at the age of 66. Wallace Baine shares his fond memories of Fred.