Films this WeekCheck out the movies playing locallyReviews Movie Times Santa Cruz area movie theaters > New This Week BROOKLYN From far across the cavernous pond, Eilis is an Irish immigrant who lands in 1950s Brooklyn, New York, only to face crippling homesickness, glaring cultural differences, prejudice, and hardship. When Eilis...

Jewel Theatre Company’s spirited ‘Guys and Dolls’ is a crowd-pleasing sure-pick to inaugurate new Tannery space The second production in Jewel Theatre Company’s 11th season is more than just an evening of theatre. It’s an invitation to come check out the company’s spanking new performance space, the Colligan Theater, at the Tannery Arts Center, next to...

Blanc De Blanc Sparkling Wine is best shared with the one you love Equinox has moved to a different location—they’re now in the middle of the action of Surf City Vintners on Ingalls Street, opposite Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing on the Westside. My husband and I had a splendid time last month celebrating with winery owners...

President Obama, so I could change a lot of laws that pertain to people in jail for drug possession and other minor crimes. Raouf Ben Farhat, Petaluma, Self-Employed             Margaret Mead. She’s basically the most famous anthropologist and she had a really crazy interesting life. Olivia Arstein, Santa Cruz, Student/Baker/Singer  ...

Win tickets to see The Expendables at The Catalyst on SantaCruz.com Surfing, skating, smoking weed, playing music—just a normal day in Santa Cruz. But local darlings of the indie-bro scene the Expendables have taken things to the next level, becoming musical ambassadors for the lifestyle. From the band’s early days playing local parties to their current...

Don’t call local ensemble the Beggar Kings a Rolling Stones tribute band; they do something completely different. Rather than recreate the Rolling Stones on stage, they bring to life two of the group’s best albums: Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street, both from the early ’70s—a fertile time for the band. “It’s just musicians doing...

Kelly’s offers killer sliders and pumpkin pie, plus dining pet peeves and wine of the week It wasn’t my week. I loved the rain, but it was wreaking havoc on my dinner plans—courtyard wet—and lunch plans—power outage. But then there was Kelly’s French Bakery, reliably open, welcoming, and full of wet-weather revelers. A hot lunch was...

Baby Gramps gives new meaning to ‘old, weird America’ Baby Gramps won’t tell me his age, or his birth name, or who he was before he was, as his friends call him, “Gramps.” He’ll only say that he was born in Miami, but has lived in Seattle for the last 50 years, and that his first...

Is ‘Spectre’ really the ‘worst Bond in 30 years?’ Don’t believe the anti-hype And once again, the Englishman saves the world. Spectre has the second biggest opening of any of the 24 canonical EON Productions James Bond films. To inflame the Bond fever, some 15 earlier 007 films are now streaming on Hulu Plus, including the...

In her new book, Lisa Randall explores the scientific mysteries of dark matter, dinosaur extinction and more Lisa Randall builds models—not of ships or airplanes, but of the world. As a theoretical physicist, she assembles theories that attempt to explain the nature of matter and space, and some of them are doozies. Take this one: Dark...