Capitola playwright Joe Ortiz’s latest work, Escaping Queens, is a heartbreaking yet ultimately uplifting operetta inspired by his troubled childhood in Queens, New York. This is Ortiz’s fourth musical collaboration with director Greg Frisch, and their seamless partnership is clear in his translation of the material into movement.
A Few Canning Rules
Keep everything clean when you’re composing the jars, but don’t worry about sanitizing. The tomatoes aren’t sanitized, after all. Everything is sanitized in the hot water bath.
Seacliff State Beach
Between Rio Del Mar and New Brighton is Seacliff Beach, so named because an ancient sea wall rises precipitously behind it.
Letters to the Editor: Aug. 15-21
California isn’t the only place trying to protect ducks from inhumane treatment. Readers also chime in about elder abuse and one of our recent cover girls.
New Brighton State Beach
New Brighton was once known as China Beach or China Cove, and was the site of a Chinese fishing village during the 1870s and 1880s.
Hot Tomatoes And Canning Class
It’s 11am and I’m chopping my way through the largest pile of organic dry farmed tomatoes I’ve ever seen outside of a farmers market with nine other burgeoning homesteaders at Live Earth Farm outside of Watsonville. Jordan Champagne, our ringleader and canning queen at the Happy Girl Kitchen Co., is teaching us how to can tomatoes with the confidence, patience and optimism of a sage.
Twin Lakes State Beach
Twin Lakes is beloved by both tourists and locals for its incredible beauty, diversity and proximity to the harbor and the popular Crow’s Nest.
Seabright State Beach
Choose your view: the Harbor mouth to the south crowned with an idyllic white lighthouse, or, to the north, the Santa Cruz wharf and Steamer Lane.
Natural Bridges State Beach
Named for its beautiful natural bridge (the last of three once visible), Natural Bridges is secluded, sheltered and ideal for observing sea life.
McPherson Wins Keeley Endorsement
District 5 County Supervisor candidate and former Secretary of State Bruce McPherson raised eyebrows from Boulder Creek to Zayante (and beyond; it was statewide news) when he dropped his affiliation with the Republican Party shortly after a tough primary against Democratic Party–backed Eric Hammer.
