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March 6, 2024
Low and Slow Show
Bold representation of an underrepresented culture and lowriders are among the themes of this year’s 12th Annual Watsonville Film Festival.
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February 28, 2024
Strum and Fret
R. Blitzer Gallery features “Attack of the Killer Guitars,” an art exhibit of electric guitars, painted and decorated by internationally renowned, impressionist painter Eric Hoffman
February 14, 2024
Murder for a Smile
Sarina Simon, Nina’s mother, is sitting in the treatment center, receiving a chemotherapy infusion for her Stage 4 lung cancer. She has an inspiration...
January 2, 2024
Karen with a K
Songwriter Laura February Strange and her music partner and arranger, Scott Kail, give us an inspired and gritty album of ten rock songs that are the soundtrack of the comedy rock opera Karen with a K. Karen is the meme for middle-aged white women who have become infamous...
December 19, 2023
Dark Sky Santa Cruz Wants to Help Us See More Stars
There is a growing Dark Sky movement that contends excessive light is dangerous to our ecosystem and to our own safety and health.
December 13, 2023
Airstream–the Cool, New ADU
We’ve exhausted our space for single family units and are turning to accessory dwelling units (ADUs), separate small dwellings next to single-family residences.
November 8, 2023
A Tale of Two Stations
This is a tale of two radio stations that were voices for the Santa Cruz community, burned to the ground by ambition and a changing media landscape, and how the charred bones of their community service were reborn to rise over Santa Cruz like two reborn Phoenixes.
November 1, 2023
The Loopers Are Coming! The Loopers Are Coming!
At Rick Walker’s Live Looping Festival this weekend, there will be 35 acts and that means 35 completely unique experiments with loop pedals; be it a funk groove, a wind scape, a wall of orgasms, ten part harmony, or white noise from hell. What would it feel like to hear 99 strips of bacon dropped into a pan of hot grease at the same time?