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Remaking the local fishing industry with a seafood CSA
Day in the Sun
For Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers, it’s been a strange, viral-video road to the Santa Cruz Mountain Sol Festival
Two Dollars a Day
Can a Santa Cruz author’s 2×2 Pledge stimulate the local economy and revolutionize our food system?
The Only Way is Up
Upcycling makes art out of trash
Let Isolation Be the Rule
The entire week builds toward the new moon of Cancer (23.14 degrees) on Wednesday, July 15. Mercury has entered Cancer. We speak in ways that allow others to feel emotional security. Our words offer sustained nourishment. We are resourceful, bringing people and ideas together. We care for and “mother” all environments.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday are under the Taurus moon. We seek the art of living truthfully and sustainably. Sunday, Gemini moon, the Cancer Sun squares Uranus (all things new) in Aries. Squares challenge us into new directions, leading to the future, and working with a new identity (Aries) under the new Aquarian Laws and Principles (new rhythms/archetypes).
Monday, Mercury in Cancer trines Neptune in Pisces. Trines are harmonious. They lead us to heaven through mystical, spiritual insights and perceptions. Monday night and Tuesday, Venus squares Saturn. We consider the state of our finances and resources, and the world’s finances in difficulty.
Wednesday is Cancer new moon. At new moon times we recognize, stand with, support and “uplift the hands, arms and endeavors of the New Group of World Servers and women and men of Goodwill everywhere.” The Cancer keynote when building the personality is “Let isolation be the rule, yet the crowd exists.”
After lifetimes spent building the personality (physical body, emotions, lower mind), unaware of the soul’s presence, we eventually become isolated, disconnected and lonely. This deep isolation creates in us a call for help. The soul, always listening, replies, directing its light, love, intelligence and will-to-good for the first time into the personality. A relationship begins between the personality and the soul. Isolation and loneliness cease. Realization of oneness, connectivity and unity are felt. The soul “builds a lighted house (in the personality) and from then on dwells within it.” Our life changes.
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Once Upon a Timeline
Wallace Baine puts his own spin on American history in new short-story collection If you’re a creative person in this town, there’s a strong chance that you’ve had a conversation with Wallace Baine. For more than 20 years, he’s championed the cultural scene in Santa Cruz as editor, reporter, and columnist for the Santa Cruz Sentinel....
Ocean2Table
Remaking the local fishing industry with a seafood CSA Captains Charlie Lambert and Ian Cole have spent the past two years fishing in the Monterey Bay from their 17-foot Boston Whaler, and accumulating enviable contacts on sea and land while building their business Ocean2Table, a Community Supported Fishery (CSF). A relatively new concept in sustainable dining,...
Day in the Sun
For Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers, it’s been a strange, viral-video road to the Santa Cruz Mountain Sol Festival One band. One van. One iPhone. Millions of hits. If their series of “Van Sessions” videos hadn’t become the surprise YouTube sensation of 2012, maybe alt-country-folk-rockers Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers wouldn’t have ended up near the...
Two Dollars a Day
Can a Santa Cruz author’s 2x2 Pledge stimulate the local economy and revolutionize our food system? With the world population expected to top 9 billion in 2050, after decades of record growth (2.5 billion people shared the earth in the 1950s), the need to nurture a sustainable food system and preserve our natural resources has never...
The Only Way is Up
Upcycling makes art out of trash Ever wondered where toilet seats go when they die? If they’re lucky, they go to Robbie Schoen. Schoen, the director of the Felix Kulpa Gallery on Elm Street in Santa Cruz, is also an artist who makes most of his work from upcycled materials. He has turned everything from toilet...
Let Isolation Be the Rule
The entire week builds toward the new moon of Cancer (23.14 degrees) on Wednesday, July 15. Mercury has entered Cancer. We speak in ways that allow others to feel emotional security. Our words offer sustained nourishment. We are resourceful, bringing people and ideas together. We care for and “mother” all environments. Thursday, Friday and Saturday are under the...
From The Editor
Plus Letters To the Editor Is green good enough? Certainly this is a community that has long been ahead of the curve when it comes to eco-consciousness, and let’s all raise a wheatgrass shot to that. But does our past success lead to a certain amount of complacency—a feeling that, not to worry, Santa Cruz is...
Green Healing
SH/OP turns donated organic produce into a community mission It’s a warm Saturday afternoon and 30 or so people are standing under the shade of a giant tree in front of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Santa Cruz. As they exchange greetings, the vibe is friendly and familiar, and laughter floats through the air. Nearby, tables packed...
REBUILD THE ART, BANKS FOR NOTHING
REBUILD THE ART There was sad news on the eve of what should have been a blissful new festival on June 4. One of the central sculptures for the city’s Ebb and Flow celebration along the San Lorenzo River was vandalized before the night even began. Now, artist Geoffrey Nelson wants to recreate the sculpture of...
Film, Times & Events: Week of July 3
Films this WeekCheck out the movies playing locallyReviews Movie Times Santa Cruz area movie theaters > New This Week MAGIC MIKE XXL Oh, the very, very thinly veiled layer of sexual innuendo that oozes—no, explodes—from this “dance comedy.” But, hey, who can argue with abs, abs, abs? Channing Tatum (who really...