Two nights of adventure and environmental documentaries benefiting the UCSC Recreation Department.
Articles
In The Heart of Africa
Hendrik Coetzee was not a man easily dominated. After he led the first expedition from the source of the Nile in Uganda to the Mediterranean—a 4,100-mile trip he undertook in 2004 to show the humanitarian situation in that part of the world—some people griped that he hadn’t started at the true source of the storied river. The next year he traveled the extra 465 miles from Kagera to Lake Victoria to silence his critics.
Tar Sands vs. the Spirit Bear
One Sunday last November, while 10,000 people encircled the White House to protest the Keystone XL pipeline, judges at the Banff Mountain Film Festival were giving an award to a powerful documentary about a less well-known pipeline.
Song of The Colorado River
In a sense, photographer Pete McBride has been preparing to make Chasing Water all his life. Raised on a cattle ranch in central Colorado, he grew up working hay fields irrigated by the snowmelt that carved the Grand Canyon and slaked the thirst of the Southwest. “I often used to think about water,” he says in the film. “I wondered how much went into our fields and how much returned to the creek… I wondered how long it would take irrigation water to reach the sea.”
The Straightahead Jazz of Scott Hamilton
The Bay Area used to be a second home for Scott Hamilton. In the mid-’70s, the brawny-toned tenor saxophonist signed to Concord Records and helped revitalize acoustic jazz at a time when young lions like Wynton Marsalis and Terence Blanchard were still unknown cubs.
Red Baraat’s Sunny Jain Finds His Own Rhythm
Named a rising percussion star by Downbeat magazine in 2011, bandleader Sunny Jain is known as an innovator in the contemporary world fusion scene. On Friday he leads his high-energy crew of self-styled “party starters,” known collectively as Red Baraat, to Moe’s Alley. The Brooklyn nine-piece melds Indian Bhangra beats with big brass accompaniments to create a unique sound somewhere between go-go, Latin jazz and funk that’s been described as “New York meets New Delhi.”
Scott H. Biram: Still Raising Hell
Scott H.. Biram, the self-styled “dirty old one man band” who plays the Catalyst Atrium Tuesday, raises the sort of ruckus that many full bands can’t muster. But while that accurately characterizes much of Biram’s output, it misses the nuances and depth of his music.
A Paper Cutout World at Sesnon Gallery
Shining black deer hoofprints lead the visitor up the stairs of Porter College’s D building. Following this nature trail—subtly applied to cast concrete and playfully punctuated by pink blossoms—we are led into a transformation of bare walls into a vivacious forest of the imagination, a forest entirely created of hand-cut black paper.
Top Five Romantic Restaurants
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the top five date night restaurants in Santa Cruz, courtesy of the readers of Santa Cruz Weekly.
Santa Cruz In Verse
Poetry Festival Santa Cruz once boasted the biggest names in poetry on its marquee. Bukowski, Burroughs and Ken Kesey all made an appearance. This year festival returns to Santa Cruz after a 31 year hiatus.