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Film, Times & Events: Week of August 7
What issue would you like to see get more media coverage?
Farmers’ and farmworkers’ rights, so that they can have support from their community for providing our food.
Meg Svensson, Santa Cruz, Massage Therapist
Sun Maiden
On Sun Maiden’s Facebook page, there’s a link to lead singer Johanna LeFever’s Soundcloud page, where she’s uploaded a handful of tunes. This is all that currently exists of Sun Maiden’s music. These are stark, melancholy folk tunes LeFever recorded in 2009, which she made just before hitting the road to go travel as much as she could—this travel bug is incidentally how she got her band name. A friend dubbed her Sun Maiden, as she was constantly chasing the sun in her travels.
Lethal Interjection
Why no one is executed in California, despite hundreds on death row
Mad Libbers
London trio Happyness didn’t mean to freak you out with their weird lyrics
Out On A Whim
Fanciful style trumps story in ‘T. S. Spivet’
Sope It Forward
Rediscovering El Palomar downtown, plus growing organically with the Homeless Garden Project
Pants on Fire
Smart, sexy and hilarious, Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s The Liar is a triumph
Harmed’s Way
Portland roots-rockers seek their Wilco nirvana
Film, Times & Events: Week of August 7
Films this WeekCheck out the movies playing locallyReviews Movie Times Santa Cruz area movie theaters > New This Week FANTASTIC FOUR While the film trailer for Fantastic Four leaves little in the way of actual plot summary, there is at least a lot of epic music with big special effects, crazy...
What issue would you like to see get more media coverage?
Farmers’ and farmworkers’ rights, so that they can have support from their community for providing our food. Meg Svensson, Santa Cruz, Massage Therapist The representation of the Santa Cruz Police Department, for the last couple of cases that they broke. We should honor them a little bit more. Tracy Cantu Santa...
Sun Maiden
On Sun Maiden’s Facebook page, there’s a link to lead singer Johanna LeFever’s Soundcloud page, where she’s uploaded a handful of tunes. This is all that currently exists of Sun Maiden’s music. These are stark, melancholy folk tunes LeFever recorded in 2009, which she made just before hitting the road to go travel as much as she could—this travel...
Lethal Interjection
Why no one is executed in California, despite hundreds on death row Robyn Barbour was for the death penalty before she was against it. The Sacramento-area teacher used to support capital punishment in California, she says, “because my dad was in favor of it.” Barbour had a change of heart when her grandmother was murdered in...
Mad Libbers
London trio Happyness didn’t mean to freak you out with their weird lyrics London’s indie trio Happyness is currently on their second U.S. tour. Like a lot of bands, they are on the slow train to building up an audience through constant touring and releasing albums. But to them, it felt really sudden. When they released...
Out On A Whim
Fanciful style trumps story in ‘T. S. Spivet’ The films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet are often more about style than story. Sometimes, the combination of the two is wildly felicitous, as in his beloved Amelie, or his mesmerizing A Very Long Engagement. And sometimes, the story doesn’t quite live up to Jeunet’s always unique and inventive composition,...
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,...