Sope It Forward

dining el-palomarRediscovering El Palomar downtown, plus growing organically with the Homeless Garden Project

Pants on Fire

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Arts-2 The-LiarSmart, sexy and hilarious, Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s The Liar is a triumph

Zizzo’s

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Harmed’s Way

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Close ‘Encounters’

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ArtsleadLocal artist Andrew Purchin and Pakistan’s controversial Mohsin Shafi open cross-cultural conversation at the Radius Gallery

Creative Healing

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Randall Grahm Reloaded

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Humanity in a Time of Crisis

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In Leo, we are on the Burning Grounds, given tests, standing in the fire. The crisis builds the fire of knowledge in our minds. Our God is a fire, Agni. In these sacrifices occurring in our families, towns, cities and world, a critical question arises: what is our response? When experiencing shocks, loss, devastation, exhaustion, and inexorable grief, we are in danger of losing our hearts. We don’t know how to respond. Leo is the heart of all that matters, calling us to maintain connection with our hearts, thus poised within the heart of all that matters, and to call forth our spiritual will of goodness. When we stand in spiritual will, we help the forces of light “seal the door where evil dwells.”

Here is a Mantra of Oneness; the Mantram of Unification. We recite it each day, together and from now on: The daughters and sons of men (humanity) are one. And I am one with them. I seek to love, not hate. I seek to serve and not exact due service.
 I seek to heal, not hurt. Let pain bring due reward of light and love.
 Let the Soul control the outer form, And life and all events.
 And bring to light the love that underlies the happenings of the time.

Let vision come and insight.
 Let the future stand revealed.
 Let inner union demonstrate and outer cleavages be gone.
 Let love prevail. Let us all love more.

From The Editor

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Be Our Guest: Hotel Paradox Pool Party

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Sope It Forward

Rediscovering El Palomar downtown, plus growing organically with the Homeless Garden Project What a pleasure to revisit one of my old haunts, El Palomar, in the historic old Palomar Hotel (designed by architect William Weeks, who also built Santa Cruz High and the Darling House) downtown. During a spontaneous lunch with a singing buddy it was...

Pants on Fire

Smart, sexy and hilarious, Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s The Liar is a triumph Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s nimble new production of The Liar is the sort of searing live comedy that blows all things digital right off the map. Every single actor in this splendid production is remarkable. That needs repeating. Each and every actor adds, and nothing...

Zizzo’s

Unusual Capitola spot is coffee shop by day, wine bar by night You don’t normally see a restaurant that specializes in coffee and wine. But that’s exactly what Zizzo’s has been doing ever since 2010, when husband and wife Christine Shelton and Aaron Anderson took over the business. It’s even got an authentic piano bar (perhaps...

Harmed’s Way

Portland roots-rockers seek their Wilco nirvana In 2009, when alt-country band the Harmed Brothers left North Carolina to go on tour, they were headed for big changes. At a stop in Portland, Oregon, several members told singer-songwriter Ray Vietti that they wanted to cut the tour short and head home. Vietti wasn’t ready to go home,...

Close ‘Encounters’

Local artist Andrew Purchin and Pakistan’s controversial Mohsin Shafi open cross-cultural conversation at the Radius Gallery Mohsin Shafi arrived in the United States for the first time a little over two weeks ago, but it took a six-hour interrogation by four Homeland Security agents before he was allowed to leave the San Francisco airport. Shafi was...

Creative Healing

The Tannery grieves for Madyson Middleton The scent of flowers, burning sage and melting candles fill the Tannery Art Center’s courtyard—the smell of a memorial. It’s just after 8:30 p.m. on Friday, July 31, and dozens of people huddle around a shrine dedicated to Madyson “Maddy” Middleton, the 8-year-old girl who was slain on Sunday, July...

Randall Grahm Reloaded

The Bonny Doon Vineyards iconoclast dives into uncharted waters again, fueled by an epic new vision of American soil and a search for the grape less planted When a tall young Beverly Hills oenophile transplanted himself to Bonny Doon in the early 1980s, he wanted to produce nothing less than the great American Pinot Noir. A...

Humanity in a Time of Crisis

In Leo, we are on the Burning Grounds, given tests, standing in the fire. The crisis builds the fire of knowledge in our minds. Our God is a fire, Agni. In these sacrifices occurring in our families, towns, cities and world, a critical question arises: what is our response? When experiencing shocks, loss, devastation, exhaustion, and inexorable grief,...

From The Editor

Plus Letters To the Editor Before the arrival of the Warriors, Santa Cruz didn’t have sports teams to get behind (other than the Derby Girls, of course). Our civic pride instead went into a rooting interest in only-in-Santa-Cruz phenomena that seemed like everybody everywhere should embrace. Spoiler alert: usually, they did not. That’s why it seemed...

Be Our Guest: Hotel Paradox Pool Party

Win a pair of passes to Hotel Paradox Pool Party on SantaCruz.com Every Sunday this summer, Hotel Paradox, the local boutique, retreat-style hotel on Ocean Street, throws a giant pool party. Complete with an outdoor bar, large swimming pool, lounge recliner chairs, rentable private cabanas, a fire pit, jacuzzi, and a poolside fitness center, it's stuff...
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