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Foodie File: Beer Thirty
Cups runneth over at Soquel’s new beer garden
Back to Silicon Beach
With a new wave of startups, the future of Santa Cruz tech looks more promising than ever
Thanks Buddy
The first thing to note about Thanks Buddy is that they have an awesome name.
Briefs: New Baggage, Detox Rocks
New Baggage
Mass Appeal
Brendan Gleeson is superb as a pragmatic priest on a journey in ‘Calvary’
Locavores Only
Farm dinners at Route 1 Farms and the Homeless Garden Project expand the revolution
Clowning Around With Armitage Chardonnay
Four of us headed to Brandon Armitage’s new tasting room in Aptos Village recently to try his well-made wines.
Film, Times & Events: Week of August 22
Films This Week
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Entering Virgo
Friday night begins our time under Virgo, sign of the Madonna gestating a new state of awareness for humanity. Virgo is also Ceres, mother of Persephone descending underground when autumn begins. The mother weeps at the loss of her daughter (spring and summer). Reflecting her grief, the trees and plants drop their leaves.
Sun entering Virgo brings a sign and element change, from Leo’s fire to Virgo’s practical earth. Food, health, grains, service and small animals are in the news and on our minds. It’s one month till autumn. Pumpkins and persimmons are ripening. Venus is in Leo. We radiate warmth; we’re generous, playful and affectionate. Everyone shows off in an ardent, passionate, warm-hearted, romantic and over-dramatic way, reflecting Leo’s fiery nature. Think of life as Shakespeare wrote: life is a play, we are its actors on the same stage together.
From The Editor
Plus Letters To the Editor I worked at a Santa Cruz tech start-up way back in the days of Web 1.0, and while the fantastic people and a long run of new opportunities made it a great place to be, I think I can now safely say that in creating template websites for radio stations,...
Foodie File: Beer Thirty
Cups runneth over at Soquel’s new beer garden Beer Thirty, a family- and dog-friendly tap room, opened in March and has become a firm favorite among beer aficionados and those who appreciate the low-key vibe. Shawd DeWitt oversaw the renovations at Beer Thirty and is a Cicerone Certified Beer Server. He’s at Beer Thirty so much...
Back to Silicon Beach
With a new wave of startups, the future of Santa Cruz tech looks more promising than ever Atop downtown Santa Cruz’s ornate E.C. Rittenhouse building—with its frieze of wreaths and rams’ heads, and bronze gryphon guardians—the steel skeleton of what will be tomorrow’s tech fortress takes shape. Within the once vacant walls of the building’s fourth...
Thanks Buddy
The first thing to note about Thanks Buddy is that they have an awesome name. They definitely know it, too—when they released their debut EP last year, they titled it You’re Welcome. When they started a couple of years ago, they were a four-piece playing Replacements-style rock ‘n’ roll with a bit of punk rock energy,...
Briefs: New Baggage, Detox Rocks
New Baggage Most of us know by now not to put our recyclables in plastic trash bags, even when this means our recycling bins are perpetually sticky with juice and soda that dripped out of our old cans and bottles. This used to be the best-case scenario, aside from people throwing recycling into garbage bags, despite...
Mass Appeal
Brendan Gleeson is superb as a pragmatic priest on a journey in ‘Calvary’ What happens in the confessional stays in the confessional. According to Catholic law, any priest who violates the confidentiality of the booth will find himself excommunicated. So if a priest happens to hear something dire after Mass one Sunday—like a death threat, to...
Locavores Only
Farm dinners at Route 1 Farms and the Homeless Garden Project expand the revolution It just doesn’t get any more idyllic than the farm dinner I enjoyed at Route 1 Farms’ Rancho del Oso coastal eden on Waddell Creek. Stretched out overlooking the fields and redwoods, the white linen-covered table hosted more than 120 grateful diners,...
Clowning Around With Armitage Chardonnay
Four of us headed to Brandon Armitage’s new tasting room in Aptos Village recently to try his well-made wines. The décor had been bare bones the first time I went in, but now there are comfortable chairs and a coffee table, making for a nice cozy atmosphere. It’s a lovely place to hang out while trying...
Film, Times & Events: Week of August 22
Films This WeekCheck out the movies playing around town.With: Reviews, Movie Times click here.Santa Cruz area movie theaters > ....... New This WeekCALVARY Reviewed this issue. (R) 105 minutes. (***)—Lisa Jensen. Starts Friday. IF I STAY Based on Gayle Forman's bestselling YA novel, the story revolves around a teenage girl whose life literally passes before her...
Entering Virgo
Friday night begins our time under Virgo, sign of the Madonna gestating a new state of awareness for humanity. Virgo is also Ceres, mother of Persephone descending underground when autumn begins. The mother weeps at the loss of her daughter (spring and summer). Reflecting her grief, the trees and plants drop their leaves.Sun entering Virgo brings a sign and...