Trevor Little wants you to know this: anyone who thinks the Cabrillo Stage production of Cabaret is going to consist of a talented local hottie in fishnets impersonating Liza Minnelli has another thing coming.
Well, OK. The talented local hottie in fishnets part is right. Briana Michaud, who plays Sally Bowles, is a veteran of six Cabrillo Stage shows, always as a dancer in the ensemble. Now that she’s stepped into the limelight, director Little says she’s blowing even him away—and he’s the one who cast her.
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Carmel BachFest’s Populist Streak
David Gordon has the ultimate highfalutin’ job title. So highfalutin’ is his job title that it defies ordinary comprehension: Dramaturge for the Carmel Bach Festival. And yet Gordon has no patience for snobbery in the classical music concerts he helps organize. In fact, after talking to him for a few minutes you get the idea that he would be secretly thrilled if festival audiences cut loose, stomped their feet, maybe held up a lighter. Because Bach, Beethoven and the festival’s 20 other featured composers are, after all, the pop stars of their time.
Santa Cruz Summer Festival Season Revs Up
It’s common wisdom around these parts that the best time of year is September, after the fog and the tourists have left town and the ocean has become marginally less icy, making swimming an actual possibility. But thousands of arts lovers in town know otherwise. For them, the real fun starts in late July.
Council Debates Rental Inspections
City Council discussed a new measure that would require the owners of rental properties in the city to register their properties and eventually submit them for inspection.
Shark Sighting off Capitola Wharf Worries Authorities
Anyone who has seen Finding Nemo will remember the sharks chanting their pledge: “I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change myself. Fish are friends, not food.” Unfortunately, not all sharks have taken that pledge.
Six County Schools Make Underachievers List
There’s undoubtedly a problem in six county schools. The California Board of Education has rated Pajaro Valley High School, E.A. Hall Middle School, and Landmark, Hall District, Live Oak and Gault elementary schools as “low-performing schools” that could cause students serious harm. This means that each of these schools scored poorly on standardized tests administered by the state.
UCSC Grad Uncovers “Top Secret America”
UCSC grad Dana Priest and co-author William M. Arkin uncover the huge world of intelligence gathering in WaPo’s “Top Secret America.” The three part series took two years of research and is another feather for the cap of this celebrated journalist with local roots.
More Evidence that Violence Is on the Rise in Santa Cruz
Statistics confirm what people know in their gut. Violent crime is on the rise in Santa Cruz. The city usually averages 2.4 murders per year, but 2010 has already seen 5 homicides, or double the average—and there are still five and a half months to go.
Santa Cruz Celebrates “Day on the Beach”
At Cowell’s Beach this past Sunday it was the annual “Day on the Beach” for the disabled, their families, and their caregivers, and hundreds of people showed up to take advantage of a beautiful summer day.
Saturday Among the Sandcastles
At Seacliff Beach, a battleship rusts away at the end of the pier and a sandcastle training camp has sprouted on the shoreline. Instead of seagulls there are parents milling and clucking admiration. Children are the day laborers. They cluster in groups, fluttering around the beach with buckets and trowels: future contractors of America developing the most expensive real estate in the area, building for the posterity of the evening.
