Lucio Fanni has owned restaurants in the San Francisco and Santa Cruz areas for 27 years. For the past seven, he has owned Caffe Lucio on Soquel Avenue, where he works with partner Mirjam Kuusik—with whom he has two kids and a yellow Labrador Retriever that frequents the restaurant. The restaurant has a flavor all…
Articles by Jake Pierce
35 Reasons to Love Fall
Any local knows the only things that set alongside the summer sun are the crowds and the vague sense of guilt for choosing to stay inside on a nice day. In order to celebrate the best time of year in our neck of the (red)woods, we’ve compiled a list of 35 can’t-miss fall arts and culture events.
Council Greenlights Fish Protection Plan
All city council members, water officials and public commenters for once looked to be on the same page at Tuesday night’s city council meeting—at least in the beginning. City leaders and environmentalists agree the city must stop pulling so much drinking water from creeks and rivers that are home to endangered species.
Last Chapter for Gateways
Borders, which has begun closing its Santa Cruz store along with 200 others nationwide, isn’t the only local bookselling casualty of this foot-dragging recession. Gateways Books closed its doors on Saturday, March 26, ending a 32-year run for the nonprofit spiritual bookstore. In the 5,000-square-foot emporium’s final days, its vast book collection dwindled to a few small volumes on mostly empty shelves.
Desalination Survey In
Just over half of Santa Cruz city residents support the much talked-about desalination plant proposal, according to a phone survey sponsored by the desal task force. A reported 54 percent of respondents called the plan to build a desalination plant a “good” or “excellent idea,” while 30 percent called it a “poor” or “not too good idea.”
Taste of Paradise
Local surfer Pat Farley’s surfing knowledge landed him a spot in Last Paradise, a New Zealand film about the sport’s evolution since the 1960s. A shortened version will screen at the Banff Mountain Film Festival on Saturday night.
