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Film, Times & Events: Week of August 8
Films This Week
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Summer Snacks
Top three snack bars, guilty pleasures at Soif, Santa Cruz Beer Week, and a Pop-Up breakfast
Regale Winery’s Zinfandel
On a visit to Regale Winery and Vineyards in Los Gatos with a group of friends, I tasted an outstanding Zinfandel 2006, Dry Creek Valley ($45). Now here’s a wine to make your heart beat faster. Balanced and elegant, this not-too-jammy Zin is total sensuality with its soft and spicy berry notes, crushed violets and light minerality. Earthy aromas of tobacco and coffee with touches of spice add to the warmth of this concentrated full-bodied wine. Pair it with red meat or enjoy it with appetizers and cheese.
Feels Good
Chadwick Boseman kills as James Brown in spotty but fun ‘Get On Up’
Jesse Autumn
Most musicians can’t wait to get their songs into the studio. Jesse Autumn tries to avoid it altogether.
Take a Breath
Mark Stephens wrote the book on yoga, literally
Is Burning Man a cult?
People who come back seem to have their own little in-jokes that no one else gets. I still don’t get it, and I don’t think it’s a cult.
Christian Gomes
Santa Cruz | Music Retail
Foodie File: The Buttery
It isn’t all about cake and cookies, they serve breakfast and lunch too
Sol Survivor
For his 3,000th show, local promoter Michael Horne debuts the two-day Santa Cruz Mountain Sol Festival
Say Uncle
Five types of kids, and how to be their best friend Personally, I’ve never aspired to be a parent. But I do believe that we all have an ongoing responsibility to positively impact the lives of future generations in whatever small or large ways we can. Sometimes it’s with a heart-to-heart about why it’s not nice...
Film, Times & Events: Week of August 8
Films This WeekCheck out the movies playing around town.With: Reviews, Movie Times click here.Santa Cruz area movie theaters > ....... New This WeekTHE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY Culinary worlds collide in this foodie comedy when a displaced East Indian family decides to open up a spicy Indian eatery across the street from a tony Michelin-starred French restaurant in...
Summer Snacks
Top three snack bars, guilty pleasures at Soif, Santa Cruz Beer Week, and a Pop-Up breakfast These three crunchy, chewy, fiber, nut and fruit-laced “bars” are blood-sugar-raising packages of goodness that are totally portable and hence terrific for summer snacking. In order of my preference, let’s start with the mighty Odwalla chewy nut bar. The flavor...
Regale Winery’s Zinfandel
On a visit to Regale Winery and Vineyards in Los Gatos with a group of friends, I tasted an outstanding Zinfandel 2006, Dry Creek Valley ($45). Now here’s a wine to make your heart beat faster. Balanced and elegant, this not-too-jammy Zin is total sensuality with its soft and spicy berry notes, crushed violets and light minerality. Earthy aromas...
Feels Good
Chadwick Boseman kills as James Brown in spotty but fun ‘Get On Up’ It’s hard to get a movie biography right. If the subject is in show business, the problem becomes how to cherry-pick key moments from an entire life, let alone career highs and lows, then shoehorn them into an easily digestible two-hour-ish format while...
Jesse Autumn
Most musicians can’t wait to get their songs into the studio. Jesse Autumn tries to avoid it altogether. In 2010, she released the Live EP, which featured live recordings of new material—including impassioned piano ballads like the Tori Amos-like “Welcome” and swelling pieces of piano pop, like “The Time-Jumper”—and her new album will also feature live...
Take a Breath
Mark Stephens wrote the book on yoga, literally On average, full-time employees in the United States work about 1,700 hours a year. It’s no wonder, then, that many—20.4 million in 2012, and growing, according to the Yoga in America report—seek respite from the daily grind in yoga. “We live in an incredibly stressful society and one...
Is Burning Man a cult?
People who come back seem to have their own little in-jokes that no one else gets. I still don’t get it, and I don’t think it’s a cult.Christian GomesSanta Cruz | Music Retail It’s a cult-ure. It’s not a cult because there are no prerequisites, you go and you burn the...
Foodie File: The Buttery
It isn’t all about cake and cookies, they serve breakfast and lunch too Jamie Connelly started cooking professionally when she was 13 years old at a doughnut shop. For the past 16 months, she’s been running the deli and breakfast side of The Buttery’s kitchen, which added savory items to the menu eight years ago. Connelly...
Sol Survivor
For his 3,000th show, local promoter Michael Horne debuts the two-day Santa Cruz Mountain Sol Festival When Michael Horne first got into music promotion in the 1980s, there was a saying in the business about what to expect any time you introduced a new act or event: the first time, you lose money. The second time,...