A resurgence of stand-up comedy brings loads of laughs to Santa Cruz
Whether they’ve been at it for nine weeks or nine years, local stand-up comedians will tell you, trying to draw laughs from a Santa Cruz audience is no walk in the park.
“If you can’t deal with rejection in a way that doesn’t permanently crush your spirit, then you shouldn’t get into stand-up,” warns DNA, local comedian, Good Times contributor, and longtime host of The Blue Lagoon’s Thursday Comedy Night. “I’ve seen comedians come off the stage crying—it’s brutal. You’re going to get eaten up and spit out.”
Santa Cruz-based organization brings psychedelic harm-reduction to Burning Man
Santa Cruz mountain bikers fulfill their needs
Is a verbal agreement and laminated card enough to guarantee clean homeless campsites?
Pitch-perfect cast serves ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ very well
Films This Week
What does the arrival of the former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security at the helm of the UC mean for higher education in California?
Local chef Wendy Brodie encourages us to play with our food
There’s nothing like killing two birds with one stone. I had been meaning to write about Rexford Winery for some time, and the opportunity arose after a tasting at Kuumbwa Jazz one evening.
Thursday evening the Sun enters the disciplined Virgo, sign of gestating new states of consciousness. And always in time for Burning Man (Aug. 26 to Sept. 2), the radical arts community/temporary metropolis, in the playas of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Burning Man, with its ethos (spirit) of freedom and culture, organically begun in 1986 in San Francisco, is a field of survival (it’s 107 degrees) amidst creation—together building the new world. It’s irrational, primal, celebratory procession of humanity, days and nights of gritty dust under the Sun and stars, individually in communion. Its build, burn, dismantle—leave no trace. It’s shared community with rules, laws, ordinances, precepts and Principles. 
