In what could well be the culinary deal of the season, the inimitable Jozseph Schultz will finesse the annual India Joze Now Rooz Festival, Sunday March 23. To celebrate the Persian New Year, the master chef unleashes one-seating-only of dish after dish of flavors that launched a thousand and one nights. It starts at 5pm,…
Santa Cruz Author Events for Spring
A number of author appearances and book-related events are taking place this spring at Bookshop Santa Cruz. One of the more noteworthy is a stop by Mary Roach, who is skilled at making science both accessible and humorous. She’s dug into cadavers (in Stiff), the afterlife (Spook) and sex (Bonk). Her latest book, Gulp (now…
Spring Lit: Reviews
Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage By Susan Shillinglaw University of Nevada Press, cloth, $34.95 Seventy-five years on, John Steinbeck’s masterwork, The Grapes of Wrath, remains potent reading. The opening prose poem about the drought that drives the Joad family to the promised land of California—“The sun faced down on the growing corn…
A Holistic Approach to Breast Cancer
In a crowded Aptos bistro, I am a nervous ball of energy by the time I locate Christina Grant, Ph.D., holistic healer and author of the recent book The Holistic Approach to Breast Cancer: Every Woman’s Guide to Health, Vitality & Wellbeing. In truth, the topic we are about to confront horrifies me. I don’t…
Do Santa Cruz Planning Laws Need Another Look?
You could call Joe Collins’ home on Manor Avenue of the Westside of Santa Cruz “quaint.” The neighborhood used to be home to the town’s Italian fishing community, and neighbors have told Collins, a non-fiction author, they once saw Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio eat in the dining room decades before he bought it. The…
Fur for First Readers at Santa Cruz Libraries
On a big oval rug in the children’s section of the Capitola library sits a scruffy little dog with sandy brown hair and friendly eyes. A boy in a little league uniform is sitting next the dog, reading aloud. Not far away, a giant black Newfoundland named Bitsy is lying on her side listening to…
Tim Goncharoff Cancels Campaign Kickoff
Santa Cruz City Council candidate Tim Goncharoff has called off his official kickoff event, which had been set to take place this Sunday.
Review: ‘Particle Fever’
Director Mark Levinson followed a bunch of nerds for five years to create a documentary that is, dare I say, the most riveting story ever based around particle physics. In fact, it’s really set up like a mystery, with physicists flocking to the Large Hadron Collider, the biggest machine ever built by mankind. Will it…
Foodie File: Local Catch Monterey Bay
“Every fisherman you talk to would have a story that could easily be turned into a movie or book,” says Alan Lovewell, co-founder of Local Catch Monterey Bay. “They’ve all had their scary encounters. They’ve all had that huge fish get away. They’ve all lost friends at sea, and they’ve all struggled.” Lovewell, who grew…
Letters to the Editor, Mar. 12 – 18
Goncharoff Responds Re: “Puppet Show” (Briefs, March 5): I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that there are people who want to tarnish my character and reputation. After all, when you enter a campaign for public office, you have to expect such things. But it’s hard to express my disappointment that the Santa Cruz Weekly would…
