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Housing costs spur spread of tiny homes
So Long, Louie’s
Louie’s Cajun Kitchen & Bourbon Bar closes, plus Back Porch pop-up, and 2015 Outstanding in the Field tour
More Than Movies
The Watsonville Film Festival expands into four days
Roads to Home
Former-GT-editor-turned-author Greg Archer has long looked for signs from the universe to point him in the right direction. When it came to his Polish family’s mysterious past, they arrived in abundance.
Crop Circles
How the confusion over GMOs is undermining the organic movement
Week of Festivals: Full Moon, Lantern Festival, Purim, Holi
It is a week of many different festivals along with a full moon, all occurring simultaneously. Thursday Chinese New Year celebrations end with the Lantern Festival (at full moon). Thursday is also the Pisces Solar festival (full moon), Purim (Jewish Festival) and Holi (Hindu New Year Festival). Sunday, March 8, Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. The festival of Purim celebrates the freedom of the Hebrew people from the cruel Haman (a magistrate) seeking to destroy them. Esther, the Queen of Persia, who was secretly Jewish, saved her people from death. The sweet cookie hamentaschen celebrates this festival.
Friday, March 6, is Holi, the Hindu Spring Festival celebrated after the March full moon. Bonfires are lit the night before, warding off evil. Holi, the Festival of Colors, is the most colorful festival in the world. It is also the Festival of Love—of Radha for Krishna (the blue-colored God). It is a spring festival with singing, dancing, carnivals, food and bhang, a drink made of cannabis leaves. Holi signifies good over evil, ridding oneself of past errors, ending conflicts through rapprochement (returning to each other). It is a day of forgiveness, including debts. Holi also marks the beginning of New Year.
At the Pisces Solar festival we recite the seed thought, “We leave the Father’s home and, turning back, we save.” Great Teachers remain on Earth until all of humanity is enlightened. The New Group of World Servers is called to this task and sacrifice. Sacrifice (from the heart) is the first Law of the Soul, the heart of which is Love. This sacrifice saves the world.
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MAC ATTACK
When the Golden State Warriors signed Santa Cruz power forward James Michael McAdoo last month, some of us wondered whether we’d seen the last of the 6-foot-9 power forward.
Woman on the Verge
JTC cast excels in new play ‘Harper Regan’ Now celebrating its 10th productive season in the heart of Santa Cruz, Jewel Theatre Company has established its reputation for innovative programming and creative professionalism. (Especially given the tiny size of its venue, Center Stage.) At JTC, vintage work by Shaw and Coward is presented alongside often complex...
Let’s Get Small
Housing costs spur spread of tiny homes In the Santa Cruz Mountains, tiny cottages—not all of them permitted—dot the forested landscape. One property houses a yurt, a circular dwelling held together by stilts, on a hillside. Another property owner, who’d rather just go by Bob, constructed a 244-square-foot cottage on a dusty plateau overlooking redwood forests...
So Long, Louie’s
Louie’s Cajun Kitchen & Bourbon Bar closes, plus Back Porch pop-up, and 2015 Outstanding in the Field tour Lou Caviglia of Seacloud, Clouds Downtown and most recently Louie’s Cajun Kitchen & Bourbon Bar confirmed last week that he would not be renewing his lease on the 20-year-old downtown watering hole. “The rents here have gotten insane,”...
More Than Movies
The Watsonville Film Festival expands into four days In 2011, Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Washington Post, outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in New York Times magazine. Brought to the United States as a 12-year-old boy by his grandparents, who had legally migrated to the country from the Philippines, Vargas’ story,...
Roads to Home
Former-GT-editor-turned-author Greg Archer has long looked for signs from the universe to point him in the right direction. When it came to his Polish family’s mysterious past, they arrived in abundance. One came in the form of a handshake—a Masai handshake to be precise—that his Uncle Stanley taught him. When Archer asked him where he learned...
Drone On
Santa Cruz hosts drone conference in May—will we be the center of robo-tech? In 20 years, you won’t be driving Highway 17 to work in Silicon Valley—you’ll be flying your personal drone over the mountains. At least that’s the vision of Philip McNamara, who is bringing an international drone conference to Santa Cruz in May with...
Crop Circles
How the confusion over GMOs is undermining the organic movement The push to eliminate genetically modified organisms from our food has finally broken the surface of mass consumer complacency. Occupying a slot of infamy once reserved for trans fats and nitrates, GMOs are today’s reigning symbol of the Evil Empire of Big Ag, and the latest...
Week of Festivals: Full Moon, Lantern Festival, Purim, Holi
It is a week of many different festivals along with a full moon, all occurring simultaneously. Thursday Chinese New Year celebrations end with the Lantern Festival (at full moon). Thursday is also the Pisces Solar festival (full moon), Purim (Jewish Festival) and Holi (Hindu New Year Festival). Sunday, March 8, Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. The...
From The Editor
Plus Letters To the Editor Support for Proposition 37, the 2012 initiative that would have required a special label for products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs), was huge in Santa Cruz. When it was defeated at the polls by a ridiculously narrow margin, supporters pointed to the huge scare campaign by Monsanto and other corporations, which...
MAC ATTACK
When the Golden State Warriors signed Santa Cruz power forward James Michael McAdoo last month, some of us wondered whether we’d seen the last of the 6-foot-9 power forward. After all, Golden State could have signed Santa Cruz Warrior McAdoo to a 10-day contract, as teams often do, or even just called him up to Oakland...