From Rock Star to Winemaker

Maynard James Keenan and Eric Glomski, formerly of David Bruce, think Caduceus is dandy.

Growing up in Northern Arizona I heard all the rumors.
“Maynard James Keenan!” they’d say. “Singer of Tool, you know?” Of course I knew. “He bought a house in Jerome and does all kinds of crazy shit up there!”
What I didn’t know at the time was that, no, my friends weren’t completely bullshitting me. The tall and mysterious frontman of Tool, A Perfect Circle and, more recently, Puscifer, did in fact buy property in the impossibly small mountainside former ghost town of Jerome 60 miles southwest of my of birthplace, Flagstaff.

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Homeless Flock to Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium for Services

Paul Husser gets his photo taken for a stae ID card. Photo by Curtis Cartier.

For a young homeless person struggling to make ends meet, Project Homeless Connect—the all-day service bonanza at the Civic Auditorium on Tuesday—is an easy way to tick off the lingering items on his or her basic needs to-do-list. For the 275 volunteers who offer their time and expertise to cut hair, clean teeth, exchange needles and sign people up for local, state and federal aid programs, it’s a way to serve the neediest people in the community with the most essential necessities—and a few niceties as well. With slideshow.

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Pyrotechnics by Santa Cruz Symphony

Kentucky-born Tessa Lark treated audiences to a bluegrass encore after her masterful concerto.

Just 20, violinist Tessa Lark strode onto the stage at Watsonville’s Mello Center Sunday afternoon in a strapless gown of something between emerald, teal and aquamarine. The 2008 Klein International String Competition winner’s glamorous entrance matched her performance of Tchaikovsky’s flamboyant Violin Concerto in D. John Larry Granger’s Santa Cruz Symphony provided a snappy and responsive accompaniment.

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