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Tags: Summer Guide 2012 ]]> http://www.santacruz.com/ae/articles/2012/05/22/summer_movie_preview#comments_top Arts Film 2012-05-22T23:03+00:00 May 22, 2012 Dan Pulcrano http://www.santacruz.com/ae/articles/2012/05/22/doobie_brother_guitarist_recalls_santa_cruz_days http://www.santacruz.com/ae/articles/2012/05/22/doobie_brother_guitarist_recalls_santa_cruz_days The selection of the Doobie Brothers as this year’s Santa Cruz Blues Festival headliner is an inspired choice, both because of the band’s deep connections to Santa Cruz and because they’re in their fifth decade of commercializing a sound that’s rooted in the blues and American roots music. Ahead of his appearance on the BluesFest stage, guitarist Pat Simmons reminisces about surfing, playing music with Tom Scribner on Pacific Avenue and living on Vine Hill Road.

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Tags: Santa Cruz Blues Festival 2012 ]]> http://www.santacruz.com/ae/articles/2012/05/22/doobie_brother_guitarist_recalls_santa_cruz_days#comments_top Music 2012-05-22T22:32+00:00 May 22, 2012 Garrett McAuliffe http://www.santacruz.com/news/2012/05/22/first_time_surfer_would_rather_float http://www.santacruz.com/news/2012/05/22/first_time_surfer_would_rather_float My two most vivid memories of the ocean: being bashed in the surf at 7, an intimate introduction as sand scraped half the flesh from my left shoulder. Six years later an undertow dragged me out. Kicking and screaming for my life, I eventually dragged myself back in.

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Tags: Summer Guide 2012, surfing ]]> http://www.santacruz.com/news/2012/05/22/first_time_surfer_would_rather_float#comments_top Sports 2012-05-22T19:05+00:00 May 22, 2012 Scott MacClelland http://www.santacruz.com/ae/articles/2012/05/22/cadenza_to_play_in_san_francisco http://www.santacruz.com/ae/articles/2012/05/22/cadenza_to_play_in_san_francisco Some local classical music presenters, both traditional and new, seem to struggle for audiences and financial support. Yet, others flourish. Imagine a formula that would impart equal success to all such worthies. Likewise, imagine a formula that would deliver the promised “unlimited” energy of controlled nuclear fusion.

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Tags: Cadenza ]]> http://www.santacruz.com/ae/articles/2012/05/22/cadenza_to_play_in_san_francisco#comments_top Music 2012-05-22T18:52+00:00 May 22, 2012 Guest Writers http://www.santacruz.com/news/2012/05/22/letters_to_the_editor_may_23_29 http://www.santacruz.com/news/2012/05/22/letters_to_the_editor_may_23_29 One reader asks if the shocking murder of Shannon Collins was actually ‘random’ or really just ‘patriarchal’ instead.

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Tags: Letters to the Editor, Thrive ]]> http://www.santacruz.com/news/2012/05/22/letters_to_the_editor_may_23_29#comments_top Opinion 2012-05-22T17:43+00:00 May 15, 2012 Lily Stoicheff http://www.santacruz.com/ae/articles/2012/05/15/bluesfest_20_trivia http://www.santacruz.com/ae/articles/2012/05/15/bluesfest_20_trivia See if you can’t build a beer game around these Santa Cruz Blues Festival fun facts.

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Tags: Santa Cruz Blues Festival 2012 ]]> http://www.santacruz.com/ae/articles/2012/05/15/bluesfest_20_trivia#comments_top Music 2012-05-15T23:14+00:00 May 15, 2012 Steve Palopoli http://www.santacruz.com/ae/articles/2012/05/15/the_making_of_a_blues_festival http://www.santacruz.com/ae/articles/2012/05/15/the_making_of_a_blues_festival For the festival’s co-founder Bill Welch, putting together the line-up each year is part alchemy and part music science. He’s always loved booking acts at the festival who have some kind of history together, whether the audience is aware of it or not. “We try to book a headliner, and then complement it with some stuff that works well, and then some things that are going to make it really interesting. That’s kind of a wacky theme I’ve had over the years,” he says.

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Tags: Santa Cruz Blues Festival 2012 ]]> http://www.santacruz.com/ae/articles/2012/05/15/the_making_of_a_blues_festival#comments_top Music 2012-05-15T22:54+00:00 May 15, 2012 Steve Palopoli http://www.santacruz.com/ae/articles/2012/05/15/the_santa_cruz_blues_festivals_top_20_moments http://www.santacruz.com/ae/articles/2012/05/15/the_santa_cruz_blues_festivals_top_20_moments I’ll never forget what it felt like to be backstage just before Ray Charles took the stage at the Santa Cruz Blues Festival in 2003. There was a crackling electricity in the air as the man himself stood waiting to be called up to play just a few feet from me. He was bobbing to the music and smiling his famous broad smile, but even so he couldn’t hide his intensity. His chin was slightly raised and his head cocked a little to one side—he was listening. Surveying.  No matter how…

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Tags: Santa Cruz Blues Festival 2012 ]]> http://www.santacruz.com/ae/articles/2012/05/15/the_santa_cruz_blues_festivals_top_20_moments#comments_top Music 2012-05-15T22:42+00:00 May 15, 2012 Juan Guzman http://www.santacruz.com/ae/articles/2012/05/15/conductor_brings_surprising_string_sounds_to_eager_ears http://www.santacruz.com/ae/articles/2012/05/15/conductor_brings_surprising_string_sounds_to_eager_ears The post rock & roll generation needs little convincing that the guitar is an instrument worth its weight in gold. It contains worlds unto itself, but the buzzsaws and the walls-of-sound, the trippy feedback loops and shoegazey swirls which no longer ring false to the modern ear can seem worlds away from the staid conservatism many associate with the world of classical music.

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