Can a river qualify as a person? Nina Schuyler’s novel Open the Floodgates explores the rights of nature through an environmental fable published by Santa Cruz’s Reverberations Books.
From Pacific Avenue busking to the Catalyst stage, Empire Grade has been building momentum. The Santa Cruz quartet celebrates a debut EP blending hard rock, funk and blues at Moe’s Alley.
A remarkable piano meets Alexander Kobrin’s artistry, Ensemble Monterey opens an ambitious season, and local chamber ensembles offer more reasons to listen.
Ten years of workshops, literary friendships and creative discovery come together in the Círculo de poetas & Writers Anthology. Roz Spafford explores the poets, ancestral voices and community behind the collection.
Inside the restless musical mind of Todd Rundgren: an exclusive conversation about songs, creative surprises and collaboration ahead of his Oct. 22 Rio Theatre show.
Rival Sons frontman Jay Buchanan brings his powerful voice and desert-born solo album Weapons of Beauty to Felton Music Hall on Oct. 14. James Durbin explores the songs’ vulnerability and soulful pull.
San Lorenzo Valley’s teenage art-rock band Coyote Theater takes its adventurous songwriting, odd time signatures and theatrical performances to the Joshua Tree Music Festival.
An afternoon under the spell of a world-traveled voice, with a collection of songs newly gathered and refined during a breathtaking personal odyssey. All...
