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Julianne Moore is good in ‘Still Alice,’ but she’s been so much better
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Film, Times & Events: Week of February 13
Would you support a federal law that mandates vaccinations for children?
Yes, because in doing so you’re protecting the community as a whole.
Devonne Johnson, Santa Cruz, Ontological Coach
Green Piece
Fred Keeley says Coast Dairies faces threat from Alaska
Failure to Launch
Over-amped, underwritten ‘Jupiter Ascending’ never gets off the ground
Nature Reclaimed
‘Broken Halos’ explores a post-apocalyptic future, with an eye to the past
Discreet Eats
Discretion Brewery’s menu offers inventive fair in an Old World pub atmosphere
Be Our Guest: BANFF Mountain Film Festival
Now in its 39th year, the Banff Mountain Film Festival has a rich history of taking audiences to some of the most remote and beautiful places on earth.
Sharkanoid
Let’s start with the most obvious question about Dan Potthast’s new band, Sharkanoid: why are there no sharks on the cover of their debut LP, Have a Great Summer? Instead, there’s a cartoon drawing of a torn-out high school yearbook page.
Music From Nowhere
Over the Rhine find their greatest musical adventure right in their backyard
Film, Times & Events: Week of February 13
Films This WeekCheck out the movies playing around town.With: Reviews, Movie Times click here.Santa Cruz area movie theaters > ....... New This Week FIFTY SHADES OF GREY You may not have read the E.L. James book, but you’ve definitely heard of the steamy bestseller about an innocent young secretary and the hunky but troubled new boss...
Would you support a federal law that mandates vaccinations for children?
Yes, because in doing so you’re protecting the community as a whole. Devonne Johnson, Santa Cruz, Ontological Coach No, because I don’t believe our government should have the ability to make laws about what we do with our health. Jan Downey, Santa Cruz, Caregiver ...
Green Piece
Fred Keeley says Coast Dairies faces threat from Alaska The campaign to designate a 5,800-acre swath of tumbling hills and towering redwoods north of Wilder Ranch as a national monument open to the public is gaining momentum, but time may be of the essence for organizers. That’s because a fight is brewing between a century-old bill...
Failure to Launch
Over-amped, underwritten 'Jupiter Ascending' never gets off the ground So, Ned Stark and Stephen Hawking walk into an exploding spaceship ... OK, not exactly, but doesn’t a sci-fi action adventure with featured performances by Sean Bean and Eddie Redmayne sound like fun? Especially when it’s put together by dynamic duo Lana and Andy Wachowski, the filmmaking...
Brave
Julianne Moore is good in ‘Still Alice,’ but she’s been so much better Julianne Moore seems vouchsafed for the Oscar at last after four losses. This petite, lucid actress, of great plasticity and even greater bravery, is one of the five or 10 reasons that the movies are worth attending. It’s about time she was going...
Nature Reclaimed
‘Broken Halos’ explores a post-apocalyptic future, with an eye to the past It’s 2305 and the earth has been sucked dry. No oil, no ice caps, no West Coast, no ozone layer. That’s the kind of landscape Bridget Henry and her collaborator Jared Roth imagined when creating the large-scale tree installation in Felix Kulpa’s “Broken Halos”...
Discreet Eats
Discretion Brewery’s menu offers inventive fair in an Old World pub atmosphere When I realized that chef Santos Majano had once taken a turn in the kitchen at Artisan in Paso Robles, many things came into focus. Artisan is the top restaurant in its region, savvy about innovatively spiced, assertively combined ingredients. Well, Majano brought some...
Be Our Guest: BANFF Mountain Film Festival
Now in its 39th year, the Banff Mountain Film Festival has a rich history of taking audiences to some of the most remote and beautiful places on earth. Through an expertly curated collection of more than two dozen films, we get to experience high-adrenaline sports and the magnificence of the natural world from the comforts of...
Sharkanoid
Let’s start with the most obvious question about Dan Potthast’s new band, Sharkanoid: why are there no sharks on the cover of their debut LP, Have a Great Summer? Instead, there’s a cartoon drawing of a torn-out high school yearbook page. But actually, the yearbook image is apt, because it relates to the concept that inspired...
Music From Nowhere
Over the Rhine find their greatest musical adventure right in their backyard For Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist, Over the Rhine isn’t just a band name, it’s a claim staked on their homeland. Most people assume it’s a reference to the Rhine River in Germany, but in fact the husband-and-wife folk duo adopted the name of...