“Originally relating to a story of suffering, this word now commonly refers to strong emotion of any kind”: That’s the clue that tripped up Sam Meehan of Santa Cruz on popular game show “Jeopardy!”
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Tim Jackson stepping down at Monterey Jazz
After three decades at the influential Monterey Jazz Festival, Tim Jackson is calling it quits, though he says he’ll remain with the venue he co-founded in his hometown of Santa Cruz, the Kuumbwa Jazz Center.
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‘Bay of Life’ enlarges the vision of what we all call ‘home’
“Bay of Life,” a project from Bonny Doon photographer Frans Lanting and writer Chris Eckstrom, is on display at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History with an idea of providing a comprehensive profile of the Monterey Bay.
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‘8 Tens’ review: Beloved Santa Cruz 10-minute play festival returns to Actors’ Theatre
After going dark in 2021 and ’22, a local touchstone returns with the “8 Tens @ 8,” two separate programs of eight short plays that present the finest of Santa Cruz’s theater community.
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Add to your Pizza My Heart T-shirt collection for a good cause
Are you really from Santa Cruz County if you don’t have at least one Pizza My Heart tee? The chain’s latest is part of the effort to raise funds to help rebuild Capitola Village businesses battered amid January’s storms.
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‘I like to think I’ve bottled that feeling’: Windser set for Santa Cruz return with Catalyst gig
Jordan Topf returns to his hometown Friday under his stage name, Windser, and on the strength of his EP “Where the Redwoods Meet the Sea,” inspired by his childhood in Seabright.
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Community reads program gives novel ‘Mary Coin’ the full 360 treatment
Each February, Friends of the Aptos Library puts a single book under the microscope, centering a series of events around that title. This year’s “Our Community Reads” novel imagines the backstory to Dorothea Lange’s famous Depression-era “Migrant Mother” photo.
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Rosemary Chalmers’ next act looks primed for February launch
Former KSCO-AM morning host Rosemary Chalmers hinted recently that her livestreaming/podcasting venture, Santa Cruz Voice, is just about ready for our ears, and it promises to bring along some other familiar names.
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Santa Cruz County 2023: Inside Wallace Baine’s crystal ball of predictions and prophecies
With a new year upon us, Wallace turns to his favorite drag-queen psychic, the Fabulous Ms. Claire Voyant, to peer into the unknown … and goodness, did Ms. Claire have some visions about name-change fervor across the county, the new downtown library, fashion plate Fred Keeley and plenty more.
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Whither West Cliff? Recent collapse of path along ‘Santa Cruz’s front porch’ suggests troubling future
The West Cliff Drive we know today — Santa Cruz’s “front porch,” a surfing mecca and the site for a procession of multimillion-dollar homes/objects of envy that represent the Sunset magazine ideal of the California Good Life — is a shockingly recent development. Coastline erosion has been an ongoing constant, consistent over decades and centuries — but now we humans are adding a new wrinkle: climate change.