Sara Watkins grew up playing bluegrass. A gifted fiddler, singer and songwriter, she was just 8 years old when she first put bow to string. For the next 18 years, she played alongside her brother Sean Watkins and 2012 Genius Grant recipient Chris Thile in the Grammy Award-winning progressive bluegrass outfit, Nickel Creek.
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Remembering Adrienne Rich
Organized by Bookshop Santa Cruz and Poetry Santa Cruz, the first Adrienne Rich Memorial Reading is a free reading at Santa Cruz High School featuring poets and activists such as Robert Hass, Bettina Aptheker, Brenda Hillman, Doren Robbins, Linda Janakos and more.
O’mei Combines Great Taste, Quiet Atmosphere
As other restaurants become louder, O’mei becomes even more precious. Handsome, intimate and cozy, the dining rooms of O’mei provide true culinary—and conversational—oases, where the food has never been better and you can actually converse in words of more than one shouted syllable.
Santa Cruz’s Strangest Holiday Music
The Guide Dog Glee Club has seven members—Ellie, Reina, L’Orange, Hardy, Hugh, Admiral and Omalia—and they’re the only performers on ‘We Woof You a Merry Christmas,’ produced by Santa Cruz’s Veronica Elsea.
Theater Review: ‘Honk!’ at UCSC’s Mainstage Theater
This joint production from UCSC’s Theater Arts Department and Shakespeare Santa Cruz is professional all the way through, though the cast is a mixture of seasoned actors and students. And with the song and dance and positive messages of individuality and a mother’s love, ‘Honk!’ calls to mind the days of classic Disney.
A Santa Cruz Dance Church Primer
Every Sunday morning for the past 10 years, the back room of the 418 Project has been home to a welcoming space for ecstatic dancing, and the community that keeps its energy afloat. Dance Church is where the DJ is the minister, the music is the sermon, and the dancers are the congregation.
The Groggs Move Away From Garage Sound
Two years ago, Santa Cruz band the Groggs got rave reviews from garage-rock revival magazines and punk zines all over the world for their ‘3D’ EP. But as they’ve spent the past few years working on their full length debut, they’ve decided to move away from the retro vibe and instead play bare-bones rock and roll.
Santa Cruz Gift Guide 2012
For our 2012 holiday gift guide, we’ve included a broad range of gift picks—from the artistic to the practical, from toys to clothing to jewelry to crafts to books and more—and where to find them in Santa Cruz.
Q&A: Andre Beauregard
Emerging winemaker Andre Beauregard has just released a Syrah and a Rose of Syrah 2010 under his new West Cliff Wines label. Part of a prominent family of local winemakers, he made his name locally as wine buyer at Shopper’s Corner.
5 Things To Do In Santa Cruz This Weekend
From Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s new holiday show to radical crafts, comedy and music, our picks for events that shouldn’t be missed this weekend in Santa Cruz.
