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Be Our Guest: Floozies
Blurring the boundary between electronic production and live music, the Floozies have a big, dense sound centered around Matt Hill’s laptop-and-gadget-wizardry and guitar work, and his brother Mark Hill’s drumming.
CROOKED ROAD CÉILÃ
Anyone that thinks traditional Irish music is an archaic, boring experience needs to go to a Crooked Road Céilí show. It’s a lively affair filled with wild abandonment.
Leave Like a Lady
Armistead Maupin delivers his final book in the beloved ‘Tales of the City’ series.
Beauty Mark
Local company She.Is.Beautiful works to empower women with races and Self Transformation Day.
Groove is in the Harp
Covers of Sufjan Stevens and Elliot Smith have exposed the world to Mikaela Davis’ unique harp style
Jeffrey’s Restaurant
Why quick and friendly service matters at a local diner.
Job Insecurity
Woman fights for her job in thoughtful, life-sized ‘Two Days One Night’
Elementary Watson
After leaving Old Crow Medicine Show, Willie Watson gets back to a rawer, simplified sound on his solo debut.
Clos LaChance Wines
Pinot Noir 2012
If you didn’t live in Santa Cruz, where would you be living?
I would live in Kauai because the water is warmer, and I just love it there. Maureen Niehaus, Santa Cruz, Dental Assistant I would live in Italy because it’s the only other place I’ve ever been where I lived on bread and pasta and I lost nine pounds in...
Be Our Guest: Floozies
Blurring the boundary between electronic production and live music, the Floozies have a big, dense sound centered around Matt Hill’s laptop-and-gadget-wizardry and guitar work, and his brother Mark Hill’s drumming. One part dance party, one part festival-style hipster indie-rock (and I say that without judgement), the Floozies are a welcome and lively changeup from the norm....
CROOKED ROAD CÉILÃ
Anyone that thinks traditional Irish music is an archaic, boring experience needs to go to a Crooked Road Céilí show. It’s a lively affair filled with wild abandonment. “When you get the dancers meshing with the vibe of what the band is doing, you got the pulse going, and the room goes electric. It’s just fabulous....
Leave Like a Lady
Armistead Maupin delivers his final book in the beloved ‘Tales of the City’ series. Before there was Sex and the City, there was Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin’s raucous celebration of life in San Francisco, where everything is worth a try, and Carrie Bradshaw’s addiction to five-inch heels translates best among drag queens. For almost...
Beauty Mark
Local company She.Is.Beautiful works to empower women with races and Self Transformation Day. The most surreal part of my weekend occurred around 2 p.m. last Saturday, when I found myself in a room with some 75 women, dancing to the song “Walking on Sunshine.” “See what happens when we do that?” shouts Dana Damara when the...
Groove is in the Harp
Covers of Sufjan Stevens and Elliot Smith have exposed the world to Mikaela Davis’ unique harp style When an 8-year-old Mikaela Davis and her schoolmates in Rochester, New York, were invited to choose from an array of musical instruments, Davis was initially tempted to pick up a viola or cello. But the instant they brought out...
Jeffrey’s Restaurant
Why quick and friendly service matters at a local diner. After a dozen years at Jeffrey’s, Carol Nation is still something of the new girl—many of her fellow servers have been there a couple of decades longer. The diner on Soquel Avenue is closed only six hours every week, from midnight on Sunday until 6 a.m....
Job Insecurity
Woman fights for her job in thoughtful, life-sized ‘Two Days One Night’ It’s a good thing Marion Cotillard has such an interesting face. We are invited to gaze at her, often in extreme close-up, for just about every frame of the Belgian drama Two Days One Night. Cotillard stars as a young blue-collar wife and mother...
Elementary Watson
After leaving Old Crow Medicine Show, Willie Watson gets back to a rawer, simplified sound on his solo debut. Part of the appeal of upstate New York string ensemble Old Crow Medicine Show was that not only were they young musicians playing old timey folk-bluegrass-Americana, but also that they did it with genuine enthusiasm, fresh energy...
Clos LaChance Wines
Pinot Noir 2012 A visit to Clos LaChance, a small, family-owned operation in San Martin, is always a pleasure, especially when the weather is nice. Set in beautiful grounds and gardens, it makes an ideal picnic spot in the spring and summer, and visitors are free to do so with a purchase of their wine. There’s...