What’s the allure of urban backpacking? Only that it’s saving the Earth, inspiring art and making hikers look at their local environment in a completely new light. Here’s how one reporter took the first step.
Letters to the Editor: May 8 – May 14
Readers write in about mental health, saltwater intrusion and other readers.
Local Author Takes on Cancer Fight
I haven’t even known Fred Reiss for a full minute, and I’m running my hands through his hair. To my surprise, it really is “baby soft.” And with a mind of its own, like dandelion fluff drifting atop his six-foot frame. If it wasn’t attached, it would surely float away.
Foodie File: Caitlin Parker
Caitlin Parker opened Firefly Café in 2006, moving it to its current location a year later. But she says it never gets old when somebody calls one her bagels their favorite ever.
Review: ‘The Lover’/‘One for the Road’
The deceptively mundane setting of a domestic living room is a springboard into a search for individual and marital identity in The Lover, one of two Harold Pinter plays produced jointly by Jewel Theatre Company and Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and running through May 19 at the Center Stage in Santa Cruz.
The Life and Legacy of Bob Brozman
By the time he died on April 23, Brozman had said and taught so much, both as a guitarist and an ethnomusicologist. With his sharp wit, his trademark National steel sound, his global sonic vision and an approach to his instruments that balanced wild-man blues with methodical logic, he transformed so many people’s thinking about music, just as he did mine.
Warriors Fall in Finals
After a four-game undefeated playoff run, the Santa Cruz Warriors wrapped up their monumentally successful season over the weekend by letting it fall apart in the championship with they problems that had plagued them for weeks— easy missed shots and turnovers.
Does Santa Cruz Have a West End?
Le Cigare Volant space to become taproom; UCSC’s Sprint Plant Sale on.
Good Start for DIO Fest
“It’s great, now that it’s in full-swing,” Tony Mills of the band Big Baby Guru says Saturday afternoon, gripping a red Solo cup of lager. “We’re on a fast learning curve.”
Letters to the Editor: May 1-May 7
Permaculture, the Santa Cruz Warriors and Micah Posner’s shelter sleepover strike a chord with readers.
