Yesterday news organizations reported that the recent health report for California counties noted that the prevalence of liquor stores per 10,000 people in Santa Cruz County is twice as high as in any of the neighboring counties.
Articles by Danny Wool
The Ukelele or the Grateful Dead
When you think about the Santa Cruz music scene, the first thing that should come to mind is probably the Grateful Dead. After all, UCSC is home to the most important Dead archive in the world. But a Canadian filmmaker found another musical phenomenon that makes Santa Cruz tower above the rest: the ukulele. Perhaps it indicates close ties with Hawaii. After all, another SC icon, surfing, is also associated with that state and Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz County Good ‘n’ Healthy
Santa Cruz County ranked 8th in a survey of the healthiest places to live in California.
Hooray! Santa Cruz Is One Of The Happiest Places In America
Santa Cruz is a pretty happy place. In fact, it’s happier than most major cities and towns in the U.S., ranking 14th overall. That was the finding of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, which was released yesterday.
One Big Happy Family
It turns out that Obama and Bush are cousins—umpteenth removed, but cousins nonetheless. And their extended family includes everyone from Bill Clinton to the Roosevelts to Lincoln to Jefferson to Washington, etc.
Fluoridation Could Be Coming to Watsonville
Back in 2002, Watsonville’s city council voted against the fluoridation of its local tap water.
Buddha Bags Sold
Santa Cruz-based Big Buddha, Inc., the maker of Buddha Bags, was sold to Steve Madden Ltd., it was announced last Friday. The eco-friendly bag company, founded by Jeremy Bassan, had a reported $13 million in sales last year. It was sold for $11 million. Read more at the Business Journal.
Is the Lindbergh Baby Living in Santa Cruz?
Paul Husted doesn’t go by his old name anymore. He’s had it legally changed to Charles Lindbergh, Jr. The homeless former insurance salesman, who now lives with his wife Adua in an Ocean Street motel room, claims that he is the long lost son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
“See How the Sacred Old Flamingoes Come…”
Mysterious, tagged flamingo appears in Elkhorn Slough.
UCSC Student Has Too Much Time on His Hands
UCSC student Sebastian Wolff says he’s bilingual, but he’s actually trilingual. In addition to English and German, Wolff also speaks Na’vi, the language spoken by the big blue Smurfs in the James Cameron epic Avatar. Not only does he speak it. He’s also helping to teach it at his website LearnNavi.org.
