THE HERE & NOW: News photographers Shmuel Thaler and Kevin Painchaud’s images are the main attractions in ‘2020 Hindsight,’ a comprehensive look at how a community survived a traumatic year.
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Boulder Creek band releases album from the ashes of 2020, Watsonville Film Festival ready for its closeup
THE HERE & NOW: Besides the latest in music and movies, columnist Wallace Baine catches up with the Santa Cruz Mountains band Wolf Jett, winners of last year’s Clam Chowder Cook-Off, which went drive-up this weekend.
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Fred the Fighter: How comic spirit stays alive for this five-time cancer survivor from Santa Cruz
THE HERE & NOW: Beloved comedian and writer Fred Reiss has beaten back cancer five times, but he knows the real enemy is not illness or death, but despair. “You gotta let go of this idea that you don’t deserve this,” he says.
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What to make of the latest viral anti-mask video, this one at a Santa Cruz Trader Joe’s?
THE HERE & NOW: A year into the pandemic, we’re still seeing anti-maskers parade around in public spaces — like in a now-viral video at the Trader Joe’s in Downtown Santa Cruz. It’s yet another dangerous example of the division in our country, Lookout correspondent Wallace Baine opines in this column.
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The mad musical love that keeps on giving: Cello on a torched Bonny Doon hill latest ode to CZU fire victims
THE HERE & NOW: Love You Madly still raising funds and awareness on behalf of fire victims; Clam Chowder Cook-Off pushing through; UCSC’s African American Theater Troupe marks 30 years
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How the tragic CZU fire destruction inspired one firefighter to capture it in song
THE HERE & NOW: Firefighter and songwriter Wes Chiller turns his experiences in Santa Cruz last summer into songs; Tuck & Patti will not be denied; Felicia Rice, exiled by fire but committed to the arts life in Santa Cruz County
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More Dream Inn ‘vertical concerts’ coming up, new poet laureate and more
THE HERE & NOW: The Dream Inn looks to recapture the magic of a crazy Halloween experiment; the life and legacy of Jory Post to be celebrated; Cali Roots kicks the can down the road; the county has a new poet laureate; food trucks forever
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‘A lot we’re learning from this process’: Keith Greeninger celebrates new norm with livestream concert
THE HERE & NOW: For Santa Cruz County musician Keith Greeninger, online concerts aren’t merely a stopgap until things are normal again. They are, instead, a new kind of presentation for live music that will not be going away, even if COVID-19 does.
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MLK Day meets the inauguration . . . and another Reflection Season is upon us
New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…
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Last hurrah for the ‘head of democracy and love’: Gail Pellerin bids her adieu
THE HERE & NOW: Longtime Santa Cruz County Clerk Gail Pellerin exits stage left after 27 years of elections, marriages and chasing down signatures.