THE HERE & NOW: The upcoming ‘Love You Madly’ benefit virtual event connects back to a landmark benefit concert during another time of crisis in Santa Cruz County.
Wallace Baine
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Honoring 10 Santa Cruzans who have risen to the challenge for others in 2020
Santa Cruz Works hosts an online event to express gratitude to those who’ve gone above and beyond to help the community survive 2020
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We are a place where a bookstore is the soul of the community
THE HERE & NOW: The distressing headlines about many of the world’s great indie bookstores should remind Santa Cruzans that even beloved institutions like Bookshop Santa Cruz are not immune to the scary math of pandemic economics.
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Who is Manu? Winner of 2020’s most-watched local political race prepares to step in
For the record, it’s MAH-noo, not MAN-noo. However it’s pronounced, Manu Koenig’s name now has a new currency in Santa Cruz County politics, one shaped in part by a cyclist-architect grandfather, a Massachusetts boarding school and a background in tech.
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Santa Cruz saxophonist Remy Le Boeuf nominated for two Grammys
New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…
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Famed Los Gatos bohemians focus of Bookshop Santa Cruz virtual interview
THE HERE & NOW: Historian Sherry L. Smith will discuss her new book Bohemians West: Free Love, Family, and Radicals in Twentieth-Century America, a story of West Coast free-love pioneers a century ago at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
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Raitt, Scaggs, Hagar headline ‘Love You Madly’ show for fire relief
THE HERE & NOW: Santa Cruz County gets some much-needed love from an impressive lineup of musical talent on Dec. 5. Benefit fire relief efforts have already distributed more than $600,000.
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21 for ’21: MariaElena De La Garza isn’t interested in going backward
Her mother used to tell her, Cada quien pone su granito de arena — “Everyone puts in their grain of sand.” As MariaElena De La Garza remembers it, that was her mother’s way to evoke collective action, to illustrate the individual’s responsibility to her community. After nearly 30 years in the non-profit sector helping others […]
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A new era for our nation, for Santa Cruz — and for local journalism
THE HERE & NOW: All that mental real estate devoted to the recent outrages on the national stage is now ready for reclaiming. What better time to refocus on our neighborhoods, towns, regions, and communities with quality journalism?