Absorbing story, great music in Wilson biopic ‘Love & Mercy’
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Strife Of Brian
Surf City Sandwich
Paul Figliomeni on craft sandwiches, craft beer, and something called beer barnacles
Santa Cruz Squared
The first phase of the huge Abbott Square renovation project will be unveiled this week. Will it be the answer to Santa Cruz’s public-space problems?
Bridging Troubled Water
The Ebb & Flow River Arts Project brings attention to the San Lorenzo River with two days of art celebrations
Radiating the Will-to-Good; Becoming Goodwill in Humanity
The first three days (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) after the Gemini Festival of Goodwill, the New Group of World Servers (NGWS) and women and men of goodwill radiate the will-to-good to Earth and humanity. This, along with the forces of reconstruction, uplifts, transforms and gives humanity hope that there is a great and better life ahead. These also inform humanity that it is humanity itself that must gather the commitment, courage and sense of community to build a new world in the Aquarian Age, under new rules. To create, in fact, the new sharing society based entirely upon goodwill. Therefore, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, we radiate the will-to-good to humanity. When humanity receives and senses this will-to-good, it becomes goodwill within humanity. The NGWS stands between humanity and the hierarchy (inner spiritual government) with many intermediary and mediating tasks to do. We can only do them together as a group.
Friday, with Venus guarding and guiding the day, is very complex with multiple interactions between all planets circling the Sun. Sun/Pluto means a very demanding day, filled with questions and mysteries. Mars/Jupiter creates an expansion of desire, aspiration and arrows flying toward the light. Venus trine Saturn brings structures forth that provide beauty, unity and synthesis. Venus enters Leo, and love, from the heart of everyone, is everywhere. This love, a creative activity hidden then revealed, is the result of “making contact.” Next month Venus retrogrades in Leo, with Venus in Leo through Oct. 9. This is our last week of Mercury retrograde before entering its shadow.
Battering Ramifications
BATTERING RAMIFICATIONS
Lucia Highlands
Dinner at Bittersweet Bistro is always a delightful experience. Food, service and ambiance all come together superbly in this well-established restaurant. And expert chef Thomas Vinolus and his wife Elizabeth, co-owners of Bittersweet, work hard to make sure that every customer’s visit is a memorable one.
Home & Garden Magazine 2015
Did you know a Santa Cruz man has a vision for completely revolutionizing how we grow our food—and a multimillion-dollar tech company has bought in? Did you know modern homesteaders have found a hub for everything they need to live off the land in Ben Lomond? Did you know there are both pros and cons to growing succulents?
Bombs Away
‘Good Kill’ is Andrew Niccol’s didactic, sometimes wishy-washy liberal movie about the drone strikes
Strife Of Brian
Absorbing story, great music in Wilson biopic ‘Love & Mercy’ The problem with so many rock ’n’ roll biographical movies is the sin of admission. There’s so much material that the filmmakers don’t know how to be selective, and so they try to cram in everything. The first dream of fame, the long slog to stardom...
Surf City Sandwich
Paul Figliomeni on craft sandwiches, craft beer, and something called beer barnacles Everyone has heard of craft beer at this point. But what about craft sandwiches? Paul Figliomeni, longtime executive chef at De Anza College in Cupertino, wanted to change that. He’d been working on the concept for a craft sandwich spot that also has craft...
Santa Cruz Squared
The first phase of the huge Abbott Square renovation project will be unveiled this week. Will it be the answer to Santa Cruz’s public-space problems? Several times a week, I eat lunch on a curb on Lincoln Street. It’s a high curb, but I’m pretty sure it still qualifies as a curb. It’s not that I...
Bridging Troubled Water
The Ebb & Flow River Arts Project brings attention to the San Lorenzo River with two days of art celebrations When Coho salmon die, their bodies decompose and release nutrients back into the water, supplying the algae that feed insects—which in turn, circle back into the stomachs of newborn Coho as their primary food source. “It’s...
Radiating the Will-to-Good; Becoming Goodwill in Humanity
The first three days (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) after the Gemini Festival of Goodwill, the New Group of World Servers (NGWS) and women and men of goodwill radiate the will-to-good to Earth and humanity. This, along with the forces of reconstruction, uplifts, transforms and gives humanity hope that there is a great and better life ahead. These also...
Battering Ramifications
BATTERING RAMIFICATIONS Just two months after a highly contentious City Council meeting about police policies for using a BearCat armored truck, President Barack Obama on May 18 announced new federal prohibitions on the transfer or purchase of “military-style” and “militarized” gear to police departments. Though the restrictions highlight certain weapons and “tracked armored vehicles,” they did not...
Lucia Highlands
Dinner at Bittersweet Bistro is always a delightful experience. Food, service and ambiance all come together superbly in this well-established restaurant. And expert chef Thomas Vinolus and his wife Elizabeth, co-owners of Bittersweet, work hard to make sure that every customer’s visit is a memorable one. Although I love dining on Bittersweet’s pretty outdoor patio,...
Home & Garden Magazine 2015
Did you know a Santa Cruz man has a vision for completely revolutionizing how we grow our food—and a multimillion-dollar tech company has bought in? Did you know modern homesteaders have found a hub for everything they need to live off the land in Ben Lomond? Did you know there are both pros and cons to growing succulents? ...
Bombs Away
‘Good Kill’ is Andrew Niccol’s didactic, sometimes wishy-washy liberal movie about the drone strikes Made with an important purpose, Good Kill is, at worst, just another exhibit in some future film retrospective, regarding how American feature films tried to cope with the War on Terror and ended up with scripts that were figuratively doubled over like...