Films This WeekCheck out the movies playing around town.With: Reviews Movie Times click here.Santa Cruz area movie theaters > ....... New This Week ENTOURAGE Once upon a time there was an HBO series that everyone agreed was good, but not quite as good as The Sopranos. But it did have Jeremy Piven as agent Ari Gold,...

Success is happiness, and it comes from within. Jules Weisser, Santa Cruz, Harmony Facilitator                   Following your dreams and passion. Abby Ramstad, San Francisco, Hairdresser             Contentment. Mark McGinn, Pescadero, Greenhouse Builder             Being freely able to do...

Fresh produce at UCSC Market Cart, small plates at Motiv, and brand-new tasting room for Venus Spirits Just started up this week is the always tempting Market Cart at the foot of the UCSC campus. Open for the summer—noon to 6 p.m., every Tuesday and Friday—the outdoor mini-market features freshly harvested, organic produce and gorgeous flowers...

Local martial arts master empowers students with Parkinson’s disease to recover the brain-body connection Barefoot and jumping up and down on the hardwood floor of Sensei Sithan Pat’s dojo, which he built next to his Santa Cruz home several years ago, I feel like an 8-year-old at recess. After 45 seconds, my calves begin to say...

Pianist Benny Green has grown up with the Kuumbwa, but even after 35 years of shows here, he’s still a revelation When Kuumbwa Jazz Center celebrated its 40th anniversary in April with an all-star “Dream Band” featuring some of jazz’s biggest names, the evening’s revelation was pianist Benny Green, who was also the musician with the...

Win tickets to Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge at Kuumbwa Jazz on SantaCruz.com What do you get when you take a guitar-slinging Punch Brother and co-founder of the Infamous Stringdusters, and pair him up with a standout jazz guitarist of the Bay Area? An extraordinary duo comprising Chris Eldridge and Julian Lage that the New Yorker...

A decade ago, when locals Flor De Caña were just getting started, there were several traditional Latin bands. Nowadays, most Latin bands are fusing in other elements like ska, reggae, electronic and hip-hop. Flor De Caña, however, stays true to the sounds of authentic Cuban son and cumbia. “We’re holding the torch,” says Cuban tres player...

From the Crepe Place’s Tuesday funk night to national touring, guitarist Danny Mayer has made his name Tuesday funk night at the Crepe Place is one of those underground Santa Cruz secrets that is awesomely off the grid. UCSC students and locals mash it up on the small dance floor, grooving to the funk of bands...

Annual Pride celebration gets new management, route and an environmental cause Would people treat the Earth better if they thought of it as a lover and not a mother?  Would the environmental movement be more enticing if it were presented with more of a passion from down under? Those are two of the questions asked by...

Foodlab cooking program combines kitchen skills, healthy eating and science in Davenport Six fifth-grade boys—most of whom are 10, but are quick to say that they are almost 11—crowd around Emilia Miguel, the food service director at Pacific Elementary in Davenport, in the school’s small kitchen. All the boys wash their hands and put on aprons....