So many of us loved last season’s pop-up breakfasts at the Westside Farmers Market that—you guessed it—there will be more.
FOLLOW US
Pop-up Dining Pops Up Everywhere
Foodie File: Mission St. BBQ
Barbeque is the subject of much passion and debate. How does one best smoke meat? How long should it smoke? Mission St. BBQ is the latest barbeque joint in town, but the owners aren’t new to the game.
2010 Reserve Chardonnay
On a particularly warm late afternoon, a friend came over for a visit and I opened up a Clos LaChance Chardonnay, which is just the ticket to enjoy over a chat – along with some good cheese and crackers.
Gemini: A Line of Light Beams
We’re half way through 2014, which always occurs in Gemini, sign of duality and the two brothers, Castor and Pollux, (one dimming, one growing in light, signifying personality and Soul lights). Each of the 12signs provides humanity with a distinctly different light (message), revealing twelve personality-Soul interactions.
From The Editor
Plus Letters To the Editor
Santa Cruz has pride in its Pride. As organizers celebrate their 40th annual event this year, they’ve never let our local Pride celebration lose the grassroots, downright neighborly feel that connects it so tightly to the community. San Francisco’s event feels like going to a show. Santa Cruz’s feels like a family picnic.
Inside Out
A brief history of gay pride in Santa Cruz
Picnics & Politics
As the 40th annual Santa Cruz Pride approaches, a co-founder looks back on how one weekend turned into a local movement
Altered State
Santa Cruz’s Camper Van Beethoven take California fetish to BottleRock
Public Images
First Friday Santa Cruz celebrates its 10th anniversary
Capital Games
An A-to-Z guide to what our legislators have been up to in Sacramento
Pop-up Dining Pops Up Everywhere
So many of us loved last season’s pop-up breakfasts at the Westside Farmers Market that—you guessed it—there will be more. Starting May 31, Erin Lampel and company of Companion Bakeshop will kick off the Farmers Market Pop-up season on Saturday, May 31 at 10 a.m. The menu, created on the spot from market ingredients and serenaded...
Foodie File: Mission St. BBQ
Barbeque is the subject of much passion and debate. How does one best smoke meat? How long should it smoke? Mission St. BBQ is the latest barbeque joint in town, but the owners aren’t new to the game. They’ve been at it about a decade with their other establishments: Aptos Street BBQ, BBQ 152 in Gilroy,...
2010 Reserve Chardonnay
On a particularly warm late afternoon, a friend came over for a visit and I opened up a Clos LaChance Chardonnay, which is just the ticket to enjoy over a chat – along with some good cheese and crackers. An upbeat, refreshing wine, this Chardonnay is full of tropical fruit—pineapple, banana and pear—with a flinty mineral...
Gemini: A Line of Light Beams
We’re half way through 2014, which always occurs in Gemini, sign of duality and the two brothers, Castor and Pollux, (one dimming, one growing in light, signifying personality and Soul lights). Each of the 12signs provides humanity with a distinctly different light (message), revealing twelve personality-Soul interactions. Gemini, a line of light beams, has the task...
From The Editor
Plus Letters To the Editor Santa Cruz has pride in its Pride. As organizers celebrate their 40th annual event this year, they’ve never let our local Pride celebration lose the grassroots, downright neighborly feel that connects it so tightly to the community. San Francisco’s event feels like going to a show. Santa Cruz’s feels like a family picnic. ...
Inside Out
A brief history of gay pride in Santa Cruz As we prepare to celebrate the 40th annual Santa Cruz Pride this coming weekend, now the largest regular political gathering in Santa Cruz County, it’s hard to believe that those first marches in the 1970s required security to protect the gutsy few out Santa Cruzans and their...
Picnics & Politics
As the 40th annual Santa Cruz Pride approaches, a co-founder looks back on how one weekend turned into a local movement In 1975, a weekend that included a potluck, workshops, music, a picnic and a giant tug of war served as the first local Pride celebration, and marked a turning point for the LGBTQ community in...
Altered State
Santa Cruz’s Camper Van Beethoven take California fetish to BottleRock Could there be a better act to play the uniquely Northern California festival BottleRock than Santa Cruz’s own Camper Van Beethoven, with their conjoined twin band Cracker in tow? After all, Camper is the group that on their 2013 album La Costa Perdida delivered “Northern California...
Public Images
First Friday Santa Cruz celebrates its 10th anniversary A huge monthly party celebrating the local creative community, First Friday is now a cornerstone of Santa Cruz’s cultural scene. But 10 years ago, before it was a wildly popular event, it consisted of little more than galleries in empty storefronts, a tiny walking tour, and a bus...
Capital Games
An A-to-Z guide to what our legislators have been up to in Sacramento Abalone and other shellfish harvesting is a key California industry, and Assemblymember Wesley Chesbro, D-Santa Rosa, has introduced a joint resolution that aims to enhance state efforts at building a commercial aquaculture infrastructure. Chesbro offers support for a clean, healthy marine environment...