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.
When some friends invited me and my husband to a dinner of “gourmet food,” and mentioned that they had just brought back some foie gras from France, I decided to take along an earthy Chesebro 2011 Pinot Noir ($23) to pair with the special treat.
Owner Roger Barnes goes all-American in Live Oak
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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
Sherlock in Love
Laurie King on writing romances for one of the most famous literary characters of all time
Love Litmus
Relationship role models share tools for fostering a healthy, vibrant relationship
From The Editor
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Avatars, Presidents, Valentines, Ashes, Lent and a New Moon
This is our last week of Aquarius (world server). Next week (Wednesday) the sun enters Pisces (world savior). Note the different esoteric tasks. Although it’s being denied, past structures of reality continue breaking down and dissolving. As this occurs, new revelatory (Uranus) alternatives will slowly be revealed (Aquarius). The breakdown is Ray 6 (Piscean Age, beliefs) withdrawing. New information/archetypes for the Aquarian Age (Ray 7) and new technologies (Ray 5, Venus) streaming in provide understanding, hope and beauty to the breakdown.
Thursday, Feb. 12, is Abraham Lincoln’s 206th birthday. Lincoln was an avatar (esoteric definition). The word avatar means “from far away.” An avatar’s appearance signifies new principles, laws, energies released to our world. Avatars, through their actions, “strike a note,” and offer new teachings that express future cycles of development that bring forth a new age and civilization. Avatars embody great truths toward which the masses must work (to fulfill). Buddha and Christ were avatars.
The presence of avatars are called into being from the very heart of humanity. When great needs occur, the heart of humanity yearns (prays) for that need to be filled. Lincoln represented humanity’s need for freedom. And freedom, yet unrealized, still constitutes an objective in our world.
Saturday is Valentine’s Day. What to give? Something alive (rose bush), organic/fair trade (chocolate). Things self-made … chocolate, caramel sauce, ice cream, cards. Monday commemorates Lincoln and Washington’s birthdays.
Tuesday, is Mardi Gras. Wednesday is the Aquarius new moon. The sun entering Pisces (sacrifice), Ash Wednesday (first day of Lent). With ashes placed on our foreheads we hear the words, “From dust thou (the personality) are, and unto dust thou shalt return.” Lent … forty days and nights of fasting, purifying and preparing for the Three Spring Festivals Fasting is good. After forty days and nights, habits disappear.
Joint Effort
Santa Cruz County officials and medical cannabis advocates struggle to find a middle ground in the county’s cannabis cultivation laws
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...
Chesebro
When some friends invited me and my husband to a dinner of “gourmet food,” and mentioned that they had just brought back some foie gras from France, I decided to take along an earthy Chesebro 2011 Pinot Noir ($23) to pair with the special treat. Six of us made short work of this Pinot, and the...
U.S. Meal
Owner Roger Barnes goes all-American in Live Oak Roger Barnes has worked at a handful of Santa Cruz County restaurants, and owned Bocci’s Cellar for more than a decade. In fall of 2013, he opened U.S. Meal, a no-frills, “fast-casual” burger joint. Its logo is a postage stamp with a burger and fries. Why did you...
Sherlock in Love
Laurie King on writing romances for one of the most famous literary characters of all time Laurie King is the kind of writer whose output makes other writers hang their heads in shame, at least those of us who wrestle with motivation, execution and follow-through. She has published 23 books, a number of e-books, and co-edited...
Love Litmus
Relationship role models share tools for fostering a healthy, vibrant relationship Like many, my parents met at a young age, possibly fell in love, and made us kids. They are two of my favorite people on this planet, and I am grateful for everything they taught me, but how to stay married wasn’t one of those...
From The Editor
Plus Letters To the Editor Many great contemporary minds have waxed poetic on the strangeness of love: James Thurber, Bo Diddley, Cheech and Chong. Our Valentine’s Day issue this week is all about that. First, there’s the cover story by Geoffrey Dunn, which is partly about the fiery, obsessive love affair between Frank Sinatra and Ava...
Avatars, Presidents, Valentines, Ashes, Lent and a New Moon
This is our last week of Aquarius (world server). Next week (Wednesday) the sun enters Pisces (world savior). Note the different esoteric tasks. Although it’s being denied, past structures of reality continue breaking down and dissolving. As this occurs, new revelatory (Uranus) alternatives will slowly be revealed (Aquarius). The breakdown is Ray 6 (Piscean Age, beliefs) withdrawing. New...
Joint Effort
Santa Cruz County officials and medical cannabis advocates struggle to find a middle ground in the county’s cannabis cultivation laws There are unpermitted water diversions, poisons and pesticides, and forests being plowed over by the acre. Add to that health and building code violations, and it starts to become clear why rural county residents are reaching...