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Chihuahuas Overtaking California
Community Dec 10, 2009, by Danny Wool
With the first annual Woofy Awards right around the corner, it’s time to take a look at the most common canine in dog-happy Santa Cruz, the fearless chihuahua. They’re “Tiny, but mighty,” as Chloe the Chihuahua described herself in the 2008 hit “Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” and they’re just about everywhere. California has more chihuahuas than it knows what to do with, and has even begun exporting some of them out of state. In Santa Cruz County alone, animal shelters in Watsonville and Live Oaks took in more than 400 abandoned chihuahuas in 2008.
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Bike Boulevard Would Raise Emissions
Community Dec 09, 2009, by Mike SpeviakFrequent Santa Cruz Weekly letters contributor Mike Speviak explains why he thinks a bike boulevard would be a mistake.
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Santa Cruz’s Sound and Fury
Community Dec 08, 2009, by Paul M. Davis
PUTTING a retrospective of the Santa Cruz music scene into print is probably asking for trouble. After accepting this assignment, I posted a one-line status update to Facebook: “writing a roundup of Santa Cruz’s most significant bands of the decade. Suggestions?” It didn’t take long for the responses to start coming in. “There have been significant Santa Cruz bands since Camper Van Beethoven?” wrote one local, illustrating the foolhardiness of trying to present a single overview of a decade of Santa Cruz music. For every resident who thinks the local music scene ended in the early ’80s when CVB signed to a major and left town, there’s a grubby teenager in a Soquel garage blasting through two-minute punk songs who has never heard of David Lowery. With slide show.
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Santa Cruz Derby Girl’s Injury Sparks New Site
Community Dec 08, 2009, by Jessica Lussenhop 1 Comments
Things were going pretty well for Santa Cruz Derby Girl Evie Smith (a.k.a. Raven Von Kaos) when she skated onto the Roller Palladium floor for practice on Aug. 13. She was recently engaged, serving on the team’s board and playing better than ever, primarily as a pivot. Then, during a scrimmage, that tidy world order changed very suddenly. “It was a freak accident,” she says.
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Santa Cruz Poets, Santa Cruz Inspiration: Stephen Kessler
Community Dec 06, 2009, by Stephen KesslerA common Santa Cruz sight jogs poet Stephen Kessler’s memory in this month’s installment of ‘Local Poets, Local Inspiration.’
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Ten Questions for Suna Lock
Community Dec 05, 2009, by Staff
Suna Lock, interior designer and owner of Stripe, shares what she would be doing if she wasn’t a store owner and why she can’t stand the wrapping on a new CD.
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Downtown Menorah Stirs Controversy
Community Dec 04, 2009, by StaffAmid protests by atheists and about security guards, menorah supporters ask why the same conflict does not apply to downtown Christmas tree.
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The Piano Mover
Community Nov 27, 2009, by Traci HukillRicky Maurice Howard, owner of Howard’s Piano Moving, moves pianos with a surprising amount of elegance.
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Santa Cruz’s Royal Connection to Surfing
Community Nov 26, 2009, by Staff
The royal family of Hawaii paid tribute to Santa Cruz by donating a bronze plaque honoring the three princes who first surfed here in 1885. According to the story, three Hawaiian princes visited the coast that year while on vacation from St. Matthew’s Hall military school in San Mateo. When they saw the waves, they ordered three 15-foot, 100-pound surfboards to be made for them from the local redwoods. They paddled them out of the San Lorenzo River, and surfing history was made.
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Ten Questions for Kristen Cederquist
Community Nov 26, 2009, by Staff
Kristen Cederquist, co-owner of Serendipity Saucy Spreads, shares what brought her to Santa Cruz and what she’s been up to since then.
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