Radius Gallery unveils a new look at everyday life in Santa Cruz
Plus Letters To the Editor
FOLLOW US
Livin’ It
Seeds of Change
A new method could be strawberry growers’ alternative to controversial fumigants
Mothership Connection
Why funk legend George Clinton is at Moe’s Alley this week
Mercury Enters Libra
It’s the week of Burning Man, the temporary, intentional, alternative, art-filled community on the playas of Nevada. Mercury, messenger of the Sun, enters Libra this week. Libra is the equalizer, a sign of balance and right human relations. Sometimes with Libra, we can be indecisive and confused while learning how to make balanced and right choices. Sometimes to keep the peace we communicate only what others want to hear. Eventually, we learn how to speak from the heart.
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’
Livin’ It
Radius Gallery unveils a new look at everyday life in Santa Cruz Art is meant to tell a story. Whether it’s a political statement, a tale of sorrow, or maybe just an absurd joke, it communicates the different ways in which we all experience this crazy “living” thing. Four artists at the Radius Gallery are sharing...
Seeds of Change
A new method could be strawberry growers’ alternative to controversial fumigants Last Tuesday, the Santa Cruz County UC Cooperative Extension in Watsonville was filled with growers, packers, shippers and scientists from the region’s strawberry and caneberry industry—all wanting to learn more about Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation (ASD), a biological alternative to chemical fumigation in the fight against...
Mothership Connection
Why funk legend George Clinton is at Moe’s Alley this week The news that George Clinton will be performing at Moe’s Alley this week is the biggest thing to hit Santa Cruz’s club scene in quite some time. On the face of it, it doesn’t add up. Funk’s most formidable living legend playing a 300-capacity nightclub...
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,...
Mercury Enters Libra
It’s the week of Burning Man, the temporary, intentional, alternative, art-filled community on the playas of Nevada. Mercury, messenger of the Sun, enters Libra this week. Libra is the equalizer, a sign of balance and right human relations. Sometimes with Libra, we can be indecisive and confused while learning how to make balanced and right choices. Sometimes to keep...
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...