Foodie File: Rebecca Campbell

Foodie File: Rebecca Campbell

Since moving to Santa Cruz in 1982, Rebecca Campbell has been famous for her muffins. After selling them at stores around town, she opened Rebecca’s Mighty Muffins on Front Street in 1986. After opening two more stores, she closed them all in 2006 and walked away from the business for a while. In 2008, she brought her muffins back to farmers’ markets, and this year she opened Rebecca’s at the Tannery.

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Q&A: Rebecca Campbell

Rebecca Campbell ain't bluffin' with her muffin. Photo by Chip Scheuer.

Since moving to Santa Cruz in 1982, Rebecca Campbell has been famous for her muffins. After selling them at stores around town, she opened Rebecca’s Mighty Muffins on Front Street in 1986. After opening two more stores, she closed them all in 2006 and walked away from the business for a while. In 2008, she brought her muffins back to farmers’ markets, and this year she opened Rebecca’s at the Tannery.

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Local Sculptor Fuses Tech and Industrial Elements

Michael Leeds debuts a new exhibit at First Friday Nov. 2. (Photo by Chip Scheuer)

With a hospital wheel, an industrial light and 19th century oiler in front of him, Michael Leeds is musing on his most recent Tim Burton-esque metal sculpture. “It’s like a spy bot,” he says of the art piece. This one has a bloodshot eyeball at the center of the bulb and a red antenna on top, like a cherry on a sundae. Leeds, a well-known local sculptor and glassmaker, is gearing up for his first motorcycle art show in 10 years.

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Turning Parks Into Art

RECOGNITION  Jeff Helmer has turned the Byrne-Milliron Forest on the outskirts
of Corralitos into one of the area’s strangest and most interesting parks. (Photo by Chip Scheuer)

The Byrne-Milliron Forest, which is nestled in the outskirts of Corralitos, is at first glance, a hiking destination like any other. But after a short hike, it’s clear that it’s so much more—a unique melding of park and an art museum. There are works of art—big and small—scattered throughout the trails.

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Local Witch Embraces Pagan New Year

Birch at the Sacred Grove Shop (Photo by Chip Scheuer)

“Traditionally it’s the season of death. It’s the dark half of the year starting,” says Birch, owner of the Sacred Grove witchcraft shop in Seabright. Sahmain is their New Years Eve, as it marks the beginning of winter and the end of summer. Witches believe that the veil between our world and the spirit world is thinnest around Sahmain, making it easier to contact spirits and ancestors who have died.

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