Former India Joze pastry chef and California Culinary Academy graduate Tabitha Stroup of Friend in Cheeses Jam Co. took a minute to talk about how a childhood favorite became cool again.
O’mei Combines Great Taste, Quiet Atmosphere
As other restaurants become louder, O’mei becomes even more precious. Handsome, intimate and cozy, the dining rooms of O’mei provide true culinary—and conversational—oases, where the food has never been better and you can actually converse in words of more than one shouted syllable.
Letters to the Editor: Nov 28-Dec 5
A student offers a firsthand perspective on the difference between bullying and teasing. Another reader, meanwhile, talks medicare and healthcare reform.
Local Health Expert Publishes Cookbook
In Ayurveda, every human being is a unique composition of three vital bio-energies called doshas—Vata, Pitta and Kapha. The cookbook includes a chart to help you discern your dominant dosha, as well as a key above each recipe explaining how it balances, pacifies and decreases each dosha.
Pit Bulls’ Bad Rap Affects Adoption Rates
Due to high rates of reported human fatalities from pit bull bites in the last few decades, numerous cities and counties across the country have passed restrictions on the breed. Pit bulls’ bad rap has also caused an influx of the breed in shelters nationwide.
Santa Cruz’s Strangest Holiday Music
The Guide Dog Glee Club has seven members—Ellie, Reina, L’Orange, Hardy, Hugh, Admiral and Omalia—and they’re the only performers on ‘We Woof You a Merry Christmas,’ produced by Santa Cruz’s Veronica Elsea.
Theater Review: ‘Honk!’ at UCSC’s Mainstage Theater
This joint production from UCSC’s Theater Arts Department and Shakespeare Santa Cruz is professional all the way through, though the cast is a mixture of seasoned actors and students. And with the song and dance and positive messages of individuality and a mother’s love, ‘Honk!’ calls to mind the days of classic Disney.
A Santa Cruz Dance Church Primer
Every Sunday morning for the past 10 years, the back room of the 418 Project has been home to a welcoming space for ecstatic dancing, and the community that keeps its energy afloat. Dance Church is where the DJ is the minister, the music is the sermon, and the dancers are the congregation.
The Groggs Move Away From Garage Sound
Two years ago, Santa Cruz band the Groggs got rave reviews from garage-rock revival magazines and punk zines all over the world for their ‘3D’ EP. But as they’ve spent the past few years working on their full length debut, they’ve decided to move away from the retro vibe and instead play bare-bones rock and roll.
Santa Cruz Gift Guide 2012
For our 2012 holiday gift guide, we’ve included a broad range of gift picks—from the artistic to the practical, from toys to clothing to jewelry to crafts to books and more—and where to find them in Santa Cruz.
