Baine’s Nine: Nine necessary know-abouts for the week ahead for the week ahead around Santa Cruz County.
Weekender
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New downtown Santa Cruz exhibition mashes up art and poetry
“Broadsides,” opening at the M.K. Contemporary Art gallery, presents the work of some of Santa Cruz County’s best-known poets alongside the work of visual artists — with artist Rose Sellery playing matchmaker.
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Weekender: Turning out for Tammi Brown, folklorico takes center stage and a local Oscar nominee
Hi friends, As someone who fights a sense of doom and ennui whenever the time changes in November, I’d like a word with whoever coined “Seasonal Affective Disorder,” just to create the acronym SAD. Sure, it’s clever. But you’re not helping anyone. I’d call that Brazenly Asinine Disrespect. Now, on with the show. This Just […]
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Weekender: Peggy Townsend’s new novel, Marcus poetry reading, Kafkaesque comedy at UCSC
Hi friends, Three things I loved in the ’90s: Cubavera cabbie shirts, Mazzy Star CDs, and Chandler Bing — Chandler (hanging up a phone call): “I got her machine.” Joey: “Her answering machine?” Chandler (incredulous smirk): “Uh, no, her leaf blower picked up.” Thanks for the laughs, Matthew Perry. We’ll never forget you. Now, on […]
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After a career as a high-profile journalist, Santa Cruz’s Peggy Townsend is living the novelist’s life
Since her retirement from journalism, longtime Sentinel writer Peggy Townsend has shifted her storytelling skills to the realm of fiction. In her latest novel, “The Beautiful and the Wild,” Townsend explores the depths of isolation and the power of secrets, drawing from her personal experiences as a journalist and a seven-week van trip across Alaska. She appears at Bookshop Santa Cruz on Tuesday.
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Weekender: Halloween, Día de Los Muertos and a curveball trivia question
One Halloween, when I was maybe 9 or 10, my mom found a beat-up old hat, put me in one of my dad’s ragged weekend shirts, rubbed charcoal on my face, and sent me out trick-or-treating as a “bum.” And, no, I’m not over it. I mean, what kind of message does that send? It’s […]
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Weekender: Capitola Village horror, strolling Pleasure Point, Westside poetry, local Ben Affleck connection
Hi friends, Dear Trader Joe’s, In regard to the sign at the Front Street entrance of your fine store in downtown Santa Cruz, closed since the pandemic — I don’t think you know what the word “temporary” means. Happy to lend you my dictionary. Just trying to be helpful, Sincerely, Just Some Guy. Now, on […]
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‘A Dark and Rising Tide’: Novelist’s supernatural twist on Capitola Village’s devastating winter storm
The latest novel from former KION-TV news director Debra Castaneda is directly inspired by Capitola’s experience with the Storm of ’23. “A Dark and Rising Tide” imagines a scary winter storm that actually brings forth some enormous and mysterious sea creature, and a couple trying to survive both the ocean’s fury and the monster it washed to shore.
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Halloween thrills, audio theater, Tom Stoppard: Santa Cruz County theater stages a fall comeback
Santa Cruz County theater companies are making a strong comeback this fall with a lineup that ranges from “The Thin Place,” a chilling play about life after death at the Actors’ Theatre, to Tom Stoppard’s “Rough Crossing,” which opens Jewel Theatre Co.’s farewell season.
