You don’t have to go to the Santa Cruz farmers markets if you don’t have time. Now the farmers markets can come to you.

Every once in a while a weekend rolls around that is so crammed with goodness we have to tell you about all of it. This is one of those weekends—so good luck deciding how to spend it!

John Robbins has joined nine other progressive leaders in denouncing the movie ‘Thrive, in which they all appear, and which was made by Robbins’ old friends Foster and Kimberly Carter Gamble.

In this year’s Summit, which began Saturday, April 28, and runs through May 6, John and Ocean Robbins are hosting interviews with an impressive array of food experts on topics including health, corporate agriculture, food policy, local food, climate change, raw food, sustainable animal products, food justice and more.

It was in his early twenties, just as he was learning guitar, that actor John C. Reilly first felt the tug of the blues. He even started a band, but it just didn’t take. “Somehow, in the back of my mind, I didn’t feel like I was totally suited to blues music even though I love it,” he says.

National Dance Week kicks off (pardon the pun) in Santa Cruz Thursday, April 19, at 5:30pm right outside Santa Cruz Weekly’s doors—lucky us!—with performances in front of the Civic, City Hall and the Church Street Library. And what do the organizational wizards at Dance Week Santa Cruz have in store for the dance fans of Santa Cruz?

The spring calendar’s filling up with gardening classes, sales and workshops galore. Don’t be the sad people with no tomatoes this year!

T.S. ELIOT’s The Waste Land opens with this: “April is the cruelest month, breeding/  Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring rain.”  Had the great modernist complained of September, National Poetry Month might have been lost amid county fairs and the first weeks of school.

It’s an annual tradition: We tip our hats to the best of what Santa Cruz has to offer. The fashionable cocktail lounge, the venerable date-night institution, the yoga studio everybody loves, the cutting-edge graphic that’s given downtown a fresh edge—they all get props here.