What Occupy needs is organization and a counterinsurgency strategy, according to one reader.
Corny Fun and Good Harmony in ‘Plaid Tidings’
Not everything went well for Mom on this holiday trip out West. First there was the missed flight, and then there was the other missed flight, and then the fellow passenger who blabbed all the way to Chicago. But Saturday night at the Cabrillo Crocker Theater, things started to look up. That’s when the four stars of Plaid Tidings launched into “Strangers in Paradise,” followed closely by “Sh–Boom,” “Mambo Italiano” and a slew of jazzed-up holiday numbers as only a quartet of clean-cut fraternity brothers from 1950s middle America could perform them.
PLATED: Starz on Mission
Who knew that a gluten-free chocolate cupcake could taste so sinful? Obviously the entrepreneuses of Starz did, that’s who. Because those gluten-free babies are just part of the all-starz line-up now available in a second location. Just in time for the holidays comes this gift of edible joy to the entire west side of Santa Cruz. Yes, Starz has brought its sleigh full of cupcakes to reside inside the delightful Yogizmo emporium (where it is truly Christmas all year ‘round). And that means more decisions. Which cupcake to try today? After all, Starz offers 19 varieties daily from a from-scratch menu of 196 different recipes.
Letters to the Editor, Dec. 14-21, 2011
Readers write in with parking ticket blues, praise for Tessa Stuart’s bailout story and more.
Homeless of Occupy Look Ahead
On the lawn of San Lorenzo Park hours after police broke up the Occupy Santa Cruz camp, Devin Gonzales, 18 years old and homeless, is sitting on a picnic blanket with his legs crossed. Gonzales gazes across the park’s duck pond toward the collapsed tents of the Occupy camp he had been calling home. “This was finally a safe place to come,” says Gonzales, who had never felt safe sleeping on the San Lorenzo River levee or in the woods of Felton.
Santa Cruz’s Can’t Fail, Last-Minute Gift Guide
Did the holidays sneak up on you? From notecards and calendars to mermaid clothing and feather accessories, this assortment of carefully curated gift ideas from local Santa Cruz shops can help. Because a full-blown holiday shopping panic is even less fun than it looks.
Throw Mama From A Plane: Last-Minute Gift Guide
There’s a good reason so many chipper holidays fall in the height of winter: Spreading goodwill and cheer is the social antidote to the winter blues brought on by shorter days and colder temperatures. Luckily here in the Golden State, life’s just a little easier. There are plenty of places nearby that provide activities for the intrepid, from skydiving to ballroom dancing, so a gift certificate may be just the thing.
Santa Cruz Makes The Coworking Connection
Cruzioworks housed in a large light-filled atrium. There are desks, carrels, a reading nook, a couple of long tables and a white board bearing the scrawled, somewhat cryptic note “Bounce hour, Thursday, 10:30 on the blue couch.”
The Box Sets of 2011
Ah, Nevermind. Although the Pixies’ Trompe le Monde, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ BloodSugarSexMagik and A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory were all released on the same day in 1991 as Nirvana’s breakthrough album, only Nevermind received the 20th-anniversary box-set treatment this year.
Is Occupy Finished?
Questions loom large after the eviction of the Occupy Santa Cruz camp: Is this the end of the protest? Will there be further action advancing the movement’s ideals? Have they even figured out, specifically, what those ideals are yet?
