Night owls may be genetically predisposed, but changing our body clock is not impossible
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Post Street Rhythm Peddlers
The Post Street Rhythm Peddlers come armed with a banjo, trumpet, washboard, clarinet, and everything else a prohibition-era jazz band needs. The nine members are all full of grins, a ton of fun to watch, and aware that, to a lot of modern audiences, the music may unfairly seem just like novelty.
Super Sonic
The Santa Cruz Music Festival is back and bigger than ever
Screamer Lane
Santa Cruz Comedy Festival returns with surf spoof and other new twists
Santa Cruz is in the Art
Artist of the Year event at MAH celebrates local writer and filmmaker Geoffrey Dunn
Lion’s Share
Danjuma Adamu, who helped popularize Afrobeat on the West Coast, passes away
Plot Thickens
With vandalism and a shrinking garden, Beach Flats residents feel neglected
Down the Pipe
The Water Supply Advisory Committee (WSAC), which aimed to finalize its recommendations by 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 2, wrapped up with four minutes to spare. The recommendations aren’t what any single committee member would call ideal, according to WSAC member Mike Rotkin, but after 18 months, it was as close as anyone was going to get.
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Snooze Blues
Night owls may be genetically predisposed, but changing our body clock is not impossible I love sleeping. There, I said it. Especially in the warm cocoon of the morning. And I enjoy staying up well into the stillness of night. This is how it’s always been. On most mornings, I hit the snooze button until shame...
Be Our Guest: Hard Core Cider Tour
Win tickets to The Hard Core Cider Tour on SantaCruz.com The Hard Core Cider Tour is a traveling celebration of craft and artisanal hard cider making. Featuring 30 of the world’s top hard cider makers, over 75 craft ciders, food trucks, live music and more, the tour promises to bring out the cider-loving, craft-appreciating masses for...
Post Street Rhythm Peddlers
The Post Street Rhythm Peddlers come armed with a banjo, trumpet, washboard, clarinet, and everything else a prohibition-era jazz band needs. The nine members are all full of grins, a ton of fun to watch, and aware that, to a lot of modern audiences, the music may unfairly seem just like novelty. “From an outside perspective,...
Super Sonic
The Santa Cruz Music Festival is back and bigger than ever It’s just six days away from the 2015 Santa Cruz Music Festival (SCMF) on Saturday, Oct. 10—a day-long event featuring more than 130 artists on 14 stages in 10 venues along Pacific Avenue in downtown Santa Cruz—and chaos reigns at the festival’s headquarters, which is...
Screamer Lane
Santa Cruz Comedy Festival returns with surf spoof and other new twists Everyone from local surf shop owners to big-wave surfer Ken “Skindog” Collins has been telling comedy promoter DNA how much they like his idea for a wacky surf competition. And to a hard-working artist, that means a lot. “I’m not a surfer. I’m a...
Santa Cruz is in the Art
Artist of the Year event at MAH celebrates local writer and filmmaker Geoffrey Dunn By his own recent count, Geoffrey Dunn has written half a million words in the last couple of years alone. And over his four-decade career as a writer, he’s published millions more—articles for newspapers in Santa Cruz (including this one, regularly) and...
Lion’s Share
Danjuma Adamu, who helped popularize Afrobeat on the West Coast, passes away The memorial for Danjuma Adamu at Pacific Garden Chapel in Santa Cruz was packed with world beat musicians, some in floor-length white dashikis, others in traditional two-piece African dresses in colorful patterns with matching hats. The Nigerian-born multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and bandleader, a blazing star...
Plot Thickens
With vandalism and a shrinking garden, Beach Flats residents feel neglected A parade of community members donning green T-shirts inscribed with “Save the Garden”/”Guarde el Jardín” crowded a community room for a meeting to discuss the fate of the Beach Flats Community Garden. Available chairs accommodated about half of the community members present, while the rest...
Down the Pipe
The Water Supply Advisory Committee (WSAC), which aimed to finalize its recommendations by 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 2, wrapped up with four minutes to spare. The recommendations aren’t what any single committee member would call ideal, according to WSAC member Mike Rotkin, but after 18 months, it was as close as anyone was going to get. ...
From The Editor
Plus Letters To the Editor There’s so much going on in Santa Cruz this week it seems crazy to try to cover it all. But we’ve given it our best shot in this issue. First, the GLOW festival returns to the Museum of Art & History, and Jessica Pasko explains how the digital and fire festival...