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Holiday on Ice
Community Dec 20, 2011, by Samantha Larson 3 Comments
“This does not feel like Christmas,” I thought between forced gulps of hot chocolate. I looked over at my teammate Doug, hunkered next to me in our kitchenette dug out of the snow, nursing his frostbitten hands. My dad and the other climbers in our group, Wim and our guide Victor, huddled in our shelter trying to warm themselves.
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Is Occupy Finished?
NewsLocalCommunity Dec 13, 2011, by Samantha Larson 5 Comments
Questions loom large after the eviction of the Occupy Santa Cruz camp: Is this the end of the protest? Will there be further action advancing the movement’s ideals? Have they even figured out, specifically, what those ideals are yet?
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Ten Questions for Vince Tuzzi
Community Dec 13, 2011, by Guest Writers 6 Comments
Vince “Santa Claus” Tuzzi has some advice for anyone dressing up as Saint Nick for the first time—plus a few words for any careless drivers running stop signs. The beach cruising man in red is even reading up about vintage items on his own wishlist.
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Shutting Down Santa Claus Hotel in Santa Cruz
NewsLocalCommunity Dec 06, 2011, by Kate Jacobson 6 Comments
“Somebody complained that I put up the shed with no permit,” says Eugenia Wood, a small straw-haired woman in leopard print leggings and fuzzy red sweater. “How does she know I put up shed with no permit? And I say, ‘Well, it’s nothing to sleep in there, rent it or get money out of it. It’s only Santa Claus Hotel!’”
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Three Sisters: All in the Family
Community Nov 09, 2011, by C. Kevin Smith 1 Comments
When Anton Chekhov opens his play Three Sisters the Prozorov family’s youngest daughter, is celebrating her Saint’s Day with family members and townspeople. She is young, fresh-faced and beautiful. The house and garden are garlanded with pink and white flowers, and almost everything about the occasion speaks to youth and renewal. But there’s a twist.
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Glitz and Nostalgia in Kander & Ebb Tribute
Community Nov 09, 2011, by Samantha Larson
One warm summer night last August, I found myself in Greenwich Village in a group crowded around an old upright piano while dozens of glistening Broadway enthusiasts sang “Maybe this Time,” the flamboyant tune from the musical Cabaret. Moving my lips just enough to feign that I actually knew the words, I looked around and realized that few of these people fit into any sort of stereotype I might have had about who would enjoy such things; sure, there was the token bald gay guy with his plastic square-rimmed glasses, but there was also the big black lady in the corner managing a reasonable harmony and the burly man with a leather jacket keeping down the bass line. And so I realized the beauty of show tunes: with just a little opening up to them, they have the power to make anyone want to burst into song.
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PLATED: Drink up!
Community Nov 08, 2011, by Christina Waters 3 Comments
After the opera last week, we headed for Oswald for something cold and wet. Behind the bar was owner Keet Beck-Brattin with just what the doctor ordered (in this case, the doctor was me). It was something called “the Cooler” involving Sapphire Bombay gin, muddled fresh cucumber and a generous squeeze of lime. A tiny bit of sugar took the highest edge off the lime and a slice of cucumber completed the bracing picture. A thoroughly adult, i.e., not sweet, cocktail, it was soothing and refreshing—especially after four hours of Handel and the drive up and back from the City.
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Jackel Enterprises Salvages Trees Headed for the Landfill
EnvironmentCommunity Nov 02, 2011, by Samantha Larson 2 Comments
Steve Jackel moseys about the premises of Jackel Enterprises, occasionally interrupting his monologue to point out an irregular slab of Monterey cypress—wood with umber lines that swirl into a speckling of eyes—or a bisected redwood log with burnt bark, evidence of the fire it didn’t survive. Jackel acquired these pieces of lumber because his business involves “urban, suburban and rural forestry.” He salvages trees that would probably otherwise be taken to the landfill after falling on a road during a storm or being cut down to make room for new landscaping.
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Credit Unions See Boost from Bank Transfer Day
CommunityPolitics Nov 02, 2011, by Traci Hukill
As we steam toward Bank Transfer Day this Saturday, Nov. 5, local credit unions are staffing up and making extra copies of their application forms. Indeed, it seems that L.A. art gallery owner Kristen Christian’s initiative—to dump your lyin’, cheatin’, extra-fee-chargin’, bailout-hoardin’, refi-refusin’ corporate bank and cast your lot and your shekels with a locally owned bank or credit union—is already yielding some results locally.
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Weird Al: King of Strange
Community Nov 02, 2011, by Jacob Pierce 1 Comments
The singing satirist, who comes to the Civic Auditorium this Friday, Nov. 4, talked to Santa Cruz Weekly last month about his career, the radio DJ who made him famous and the art of poking fun.
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