The Colligan Theater opens at the Tannery Arts Center under circumstances no one could have imagined when it was first conceived. That it even survived a long and complicated road to completion is a testament to sheer willpower
Penny Framstad lights the way for aspiring musicians
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Simplicity Preparing for Thanksgiving
When we study and apply astrology in our daily lives, we are anchoring new Aquarian thinking. Study, application and use of astrology, understanding its language, builds the new world, the new culture and civilization. Astrologers are able to plan right timing and right action. Next week is Thanksgiving (Thursday, Nov. 26). It’s good to understand the energies influencing us in the days leading up to Thanksgiving. When we know these things we are able to make Right Choices, have Right Action. We link heaven and Earth, our minds with the starry energies that influence us. Let us consider the following influences.
The North Node (point in space where sun and moon meet, representing humanity’s present/future pathway) has just entered Virgo. Virgo is about food, purity, cleanliness, service, detail, order and organization. What can we learn from this? Because these energies are available to us we, too, can have intentions and a rhythm of order and organization, purity and cleanliness.
Sunday, the sun enters Sag, joining Mercury (we have high ideals, many goals). Tuesday, Mercury/Saturn (structured disciplined thinking) squares Neptune (thoughts, ideas, goals dissolve away). Wednesday is 3 degree Sagittarius solar festival (full moon).
Sag’s keynote is, “We see a goal, we achieve that goal, and then we see another.” We might have many plans and goals for Thanksgiving. However, on Thanksgiving those goals may be dashed. Saturn (structure) squares Neptune. All structures and plans dissolve and fall away. What is our response to this? We simplify all that we do. We plan on everything changing. We don’t fret. We adapt instead. Adaptation is the behavior of the Disciple. Sagittarius is the sign of the Disciple.
SECRETARY’S SON
One could assume Bill Monning—the California senator whose district stretches from Santa Cruz to San Luis Obispo—to be the heir apparent for Sam Farr’s seat in Congress. Others may think of Luis Alejo, one of California’s most successful lawmakers, representing Watsonville and parts of Monterey County. Neither has officially announced his candidacy.
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If you won the lottery, what would be the first three things you did?
Build a restaurant, buy a house for my mom and donate a quarter of the money to the Boys and Girls Club.
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When Kai Killion recorded his solo album Mermaid Legs & Getaway Dogs, he played all the instruments on it himself. Last year, he wanted to perform the tunes in a live setting properly, with a band, and had to come up with a group name.
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Setting the Stage
The Colligan Theater opens at the Tannery Arts Center under circumstances no one could have imagined when it was first conceived. That it even survived a long and complicated road to completion is a testament to sheer willpower It’s just hours before the first performance ever at the Tannery Arts Center’s Colligan Theater, and Julie James...
Pop Start
Penny Framstad lights the way for aspiring musicians “Don’t date your guitar player,” says Penny Framstad. “Ever. Ever.” It’s just one snippet of hard-won advice the local singer/songwriter and artist development coach at Penny’s Pop Academy shares with me as we sit outside Lulu’s on a warm late-summer day. “I mean, how hard is that, to...
From The Editor
Plus Letters To the Editor I noticed something very interesting while researching my cover story this week on the opening of the new Colligan Theater at the Tannery: the people that are being celebrated the most for making this new performing arts center happen are not doing all that much celebrating themselves. Julie James, roundly anticipated...
Simplicity Preparing for Thanksgiving
When we study and apply astrology in our daily lives, we are anchoring new Aquarian thinking. Study, application and use of astrology, understanding its language, builds the new world, the new culture and civilization. Astrologers are able to plan right timing and right action. Next week is Thanksgiving (Thursday, Nov. 26). It’s good to understand the energies influencing...
SECRETARY’S SON
One could assume Bill Monning—the California senator whose district stretches from Santa Cruz to San Luis Obispo—to be the heir apparent for Sam Farr’s seat in Congress. Others may think of Luis Alejo, one of California’s most successful lawmakers, representing Watsonville and parts of Monterey County. Neither has officially announced his candidacy. The real front-runner, now...
Film, Times & Events: Week of November 13
Films this WeekCheck out the movies playing locallyReviews Movie Times Santa Cruz area movie theaters > New This Week BY THE SEA It’s the Hollywood royal couple on the screen together as a couple, it’s cinema mirroring life! No, not Jay Z and Beyonce, the other royal couple—Angelina Jolie and Brad...
If you won the lottery, what would be the first three things you did?
Build a restaurant, buy a house for my mom and donate a quarter of the money to the Boys and Girls Club. Jevon Martin, Santa Cruz, Chef Take half of it and put it away for my kids, buy myself a new car and put the rest in my bank...
Be Ou Guest: Gesaffelstein
Win tickets to see Gesaffelstein at The Catalyst on SantaCruz.com You may know Gesaffelstein, aka Paris-based DJ/producer Mike Levy, from his collaborations with Kanye West on the rapper’s 2013 album Yeezus. Or maybe you know him for connecting hard techno to its industrial roots in bands such as Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb. But did you...
GETAWAY DOGS
When Kai Killion recorded his solo album Mermaid Legs & Getaway Dogs, he played all the instruments on it himself. Last year, he wanted to perform the tunes in a live setting properly, with a band, and had to come up with a group name. “At the last minute, we realized we didn’t have a name....
Food Trucks a Go Go
Finally, an easy way to find food trucks locally Santa Cruz has been on the cutting edge of certain food trends, like pop-ups, but where are all the food trucks? Rest assured, they’ve been hard to find, but they are here. And now, thanks to Food Trucks a Go Go, they are much easier to locate....