The proprietor of India Joze leads a culinary expedition to Istanbul, Shadowbrook’s chef in the spotlight and Chez Pim at Love Apple Farms.
Dan P and the Bricks Take Santa Cruz by Shock and Ska
Two members of the defunct St. Louis band MU330 join four ex–members of Santa Cruz’s Slow Gherkin (A.J. Marquez, Matt Porter, Brendan Thompson and Phil Boutelle) and local reggae drummer to an all-star ska dream team.
UCSC Profs Win Chopra Award
The message came last fall from a secretary at the Chopra Foundation in Carlsbad, Calif. Deepak Chopra wished to speak to them. Would it be all right if he called? UCSC lecturer Nancy Ellen Abrams and professor Joel Primack—she’s a philosopher, he’s an astrophysicist—aren’t your standard readers of Chopra, whose 60–odd published books include titles like Ageless Body, Timeless Mind and Manifesting Good Luck Cards: Growth and Enlightenment. Chopra, however, had become a reader of Abrams and Primack. Their books on cosmology, The View from the Center of the Universe and The New Universe and the Human Future , had made an impression on him, and he wanted to get the word out.
10 Questions: Andy Zenczak
The owner of Santa Cruz’s Gadgetbox Recording Studios talks about breakfast cereal, bawling at movies and listening to Bon Iver.
The Top 5 Cookies in Santa Cruz
That heavenly hand-held creation that starts with butter, sugar and flour is one of the greatest gifts to mankind, and Santa Cruz has some excellent examples of it.
Ten Questions for Lucy Martin
The Felton artist, whose work appears at this year’s Fungus Fair, speaks of mushrooms, leaf blowers and finding your true path later in life.
PLATED: Primo Buttercreamo
Mini cupcakes for you inner child and a pinot for lovers.
New Music Works Goes Mad for Mandolins
In a performance at Cabrillo College, guest composer Mark Kilstofte’s Ballistic Etude 3.1 will run riot across six members of the NMW Ensemble. The seven-minute piece, in the form of a “hunting” ritornello, paints a now-frantic, now-darkly-insinuating film noir image while its hero attempts to rescue his girl from evil clutches.
David Arora Demystified
The moon has just set behind a curtain of 100-foot redwood trees, and David Arora is on his first mushroom hunt of the new year. It didn’t take him long to get around to it. It’s 12:15am on Jan. 1, and the mycologist is craving a large basket of matsutakes to bring home, soak in a rich marinade and eat for dinner the next night. “I’m trying to find at least one matsutake,” says Arora, scanning the path in front of him. “They’re amazing.”
Streetsigns: Art Museum
A visit to MAH on the occasion of a Nutzle show, in which the author falls into a reverie.
