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...

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...

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...

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....

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....

A new Intreccio to splurge on over the holidays In early June, I was invited by the owners and winemakers of Soquel Vineyards, Peter and Paul Bargetto and Jon Morgan, to watch a bottling session. It’s an amazing sight to see the smooth choreography of hundreds of bottles whizzing by to get filled with wine, then...

Women fight for the vote in illuminating ‘Suffragette’ The campaign of women to win the right to vote has had a long and volatile history. Once exclusively the privilege of the male ruling class—no slaves, servants, women, or other unreliables allowed—voting rights extended to women was considered a dangerously radical idea in the 1880s, when it...

In its fourth year, the California Banjo Extravaganza brings a spectrum of masters to the Rio Bill Evans is one of the foremost bluegrass banjo players on the West Coast, and he’s determined to carve out as much space as possible for his plucky, often overlooked instrument. His fourth Annual California Banjo Extravaganza, which kicks off...

Telluride’s 17 films in 120 Minutes put some juice into the documentary format Before Michael Moore was a household name, before An Inconvenient Truth, before documentaries were mainstream entertainment, there was Telluride Mountainfilm. Founded in 1979, Mountainfilm has always had a knack for finding and curating a slate of films with zing and zest, and this...

Gavin Newsom’s Santa Cruz address shows he’s all in for the 2018 governor’s race “What world are we living in?” That was a gregarious Gavin Newsom’s repeated question for Monterey Bay leaders last week. Guests at a summit on the economy and other issues were treated to a fascinating look into the possible future of California—with...