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Poetry has been a lifelong obsession for Patrice Vecchione, who will read from her new collection ‘The Knot Untied’ at Bookshop Santa Cruz on April 2.
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New Film of ‘On the Road’ Draws on Santa Cruz Connection
ArtsFilmLit Mar 26, 2013, by Richard von Busack 1 Comments
When I interviewed John Cassady last year in connection with the documentary ‘The Magic Bus,’ I was surprised at his enthusiasm. Now living in the Santa Cruz Mountains, John is the son of Beat legend Neal Cassady, known both for his own writings and as the model for the Dean Moriarty character in Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road.’
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This weekend it’s the annual, PaddleFest, the art of trees, underground hip-hop and more in our top picks.
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Morton Marcus Memorial Reading to Feature Arthur Sze
ArtsLit Nov 06, 2012, by Steve Palopoli
Arthur Sze never met Morton Marcus. And yet, as Santa Fe poet Sze travels to Santa Cruz this week to appear at the third annual Morton Marcus Memorial Reading at Cabrillo, he can’t help but feel he’s honoring a kindred spirit.
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The world’s biggest live looping festival, a homecoming for one of the area’s most popular bands, Bill Maher and the pizza Olympics are all going down in Santa Cruz.
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Q & A: Davy Rothbart
ArtsLit Oct 11, 2012, by Georgia Perry 1 Comments
Davy Rothbart, creator of FOUND Magazine, has made a career for the last decade of collecting submissions of found notes, letters and photographs and publishing them in FOUND’s annual issue. With the release of his first memoir essay collection, My Heart is an Idiot, the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based writer reveals in tale after madcap tale that is own life is actually quite a lot like an issue of FOUND.
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Author Has Advice For Zen Skeptics
ArtsLit Oct 02, 2012, by Steve Palopoli
When Rachel Neumann says “skeptic,” she means skeptic. “Reverence is difficult for me,” admits the author of ‘Not Quite Nirvana: A Skeptic’s Journey to Mindfulness,’ who will speak at Bookshop Santa Cruz Oct. 11.
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Why TED Is a Viral Sensation
ArtsLit Sep 12, 2012, by Lily Stoicheff
I met TED at a time in my life when everything felt at once possible and unattainable. It was my second year of college, and I was jaded. I had spent the year before immersed in my classes, and for the first time in my life, I felt like I had the power to make a mark. But with all the negativity in the news, and too much political spin in my volunteer experiences, I ended up feeling more powerless and ineffectual than ever. Like so many bright-eyed younguns, I wanted to make a change, but didn’t even know where to start—or if it would even matter in the end. I needed help believing in humanity again.
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Local Poets, Local Inspiration: Kelsey Forest
ArtsLit Aug 15, 2012, by Guest Writers
Santa Cruz writer Kelsey Forest inaugurates the return of ‘Local Poets, Local Inspiration.’
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Dickens Universe at UCSC
ArtsLit Jul 31, 2012, by Georgia Perry
The Dickens Universe brings together around 300 Dickens scholars and fans for one week of full-time Dickens immersion, focused on a different Dickens novel each year. Daily lectures and scholarly discussions are a staple of the event, as are tea parties, parties hosted by graduate students and even a Victorian dance party that, last year, featured three costumed Miss Havishams (the wealthy spinster in Great Expectations).
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