Homemade Bolognese sauce from Gayle’s Bakery, plus a to-die-for Burrata dish and wine of the week A slow-cooked, labor-intensive, rich, meaty Bolognese sauce is one of the crowning appointments of any fine dish of pasta. And while I actually enjoy making it from scratch—except for all that dicing of carrots, onions and celery, and all that...

Sundara Clark on why cashews are perfect for vegan gelato Born in a teepee and raised in Santa Cruz, Sundara Clark grew up eating tofu and organics, so it’s little wonder that when she relocated to Garberville, Humboldt County, she continued her family tradition of eating clean. Now a mother of two, Clark makes homemade dairy-free...

New Steve Jobs documentary shows how ruthless the Apple co-founder could be Steve Jobs is still casting a shadow, four years after his death on Oct. 5, 2011. Upcoming is Aaron Sorkin’s biopic, Steve Jobs, featuring Michael Fassbinder as a prototypical, Sorkin-ian, magnificent-bastard type. Cooler and more urgent is this week’s stirring documentary, Steve Jobs: The...

Clos LaChance Viognier is right on the money Founded by Bill and Brenda Murphy in 1992, Clos LaChance Winery is a wonderful place to visit. With stunning grounds and property, it’s not surprising that the place is busy all the time. And that was the case when we went out recently to do a tasting of...

Blackalicious duo rewards patient fans with their first record in a decade It’s been 10 years since Sacramento alternative hip-hop duo Blackalicious released their last record. Their fourth album, Imani Vol. 1, which they’ve been working on for the last three years, will finally be released Sept. 18, and fans who have checked the duo out...

American malls are disappearing. Is Capitola’s part of the trend? The 21st Century is a bleak one for the nation’s malls. Once meccas of middle-class suburban affluence, these plazas are quickly becoming ghost towns. Some of the country’s largest and oldest malls, like Michigan’s Northland Center, are already gone, while shopping centers like Maryland’s Owings Mills...

Meet the local fighter who says he beat Chuck Norris’ record The ancient Japanese martial art kata is made up of choreographed movements with weapons—sometimes a pair of sickles, or a long staff. Todd Dunphy wants to be the best in the world. Well, actually, Dunphy, a 55-year-old Soquel High graduate, thinks he already is. In...

RAIN DANCE “Are you thirsty for a different message about water?” asks Heather Houston. The classically and jazz-trained Santa Cruz vocalist wants to offer one such message this Saturday at her album release party for Prayers for the Water at Kuumbwa. Houston says that so much of environmentalism “can be so dry.” She hopes her album...

Will Lee comes to the Monterey Jazz Festival to honor a friend Will Lee, longtime bass player in David Letterman’s CBS Orchestra, readily admits that a bass guitar is just “a piece of wood and four strings.” But he doesn’t consider it limiting. “In the right hands,” says Lee, “that could be a whole world.” When...

Santa Cruz nonagenarian Ed Larson illuminates lesser-known history of World War II in autobiography Before his 21st birthday, Santa Cruz artist and author Ed Larson had already co-piloted five round-trip missions “across the hump” of the Himalayas, from India to China, at the controls of supply-laden B-24s en route to soldiers fighting the Japanese. It was...