When I was about four years old I had a play date at Meryl Streep’s house. It was just an informal kind of a thing where my dad, who built sculptures designed by Streep’s husband, Don Gummer, dumped me off at the front door and picked me up a few hours later. I remember very little: getting lost in a maze of hallways, losing my velcro-fastened shoes and hanging out with the Gummer girls in a large bathroom, where they seemed to do a lot of their hanging out.
Q&A: Orin Martin
What gets me up and into the garden daily is I am a creature of habit, creature of doses—doing the same thing in the same way day after day after day. I’m afraid I’m locked in to being a servant of the seasons and the morning’s early light. Actually it’s a privilege. I/we teach people to grow plants organically, the applications are many and varied. It’s powerful.
Letters to the Editor: Oct 17-23
Readers weigh in with some health skepticism. They discuss possible treatments for depression and the tricky games of the upcoming election.
Piedmont Celebrating 100th Anniversary
Santa Cruzans took notice when they heard a new hotel apartment building on High Street would be heated by steam. That’s because in 1912, most homes were heated by wooden flame. “The whole point of building was to adopt the most modern and efficient innovations at the time,” local historian Ross Eric Gibson says of the Piedmont Court building, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this weekend.
Hammer Campaign Pledges to Keep Clean
The supervisor’s race isn’t just getting personal. This time, it’s…hypothetical. The Weekly received a press release from the Eric Hammer for 5th District Supervisor campaign that reads, “Both my opponent and I signed the Code of Fair Campaign Practices pledging to run a clean campaign and I am sticking by my pledge. I challenge him to do the same and to denounce any negative campaign activities.”
Top 5 Things To Do This Weekend, Oct. 13-14
The return of the Monarchs, plus Open Studios, zombies at the Museum of Art and History and more.
Q & A: Davy Rothbart
Davy Rothbart, creator of FOUND Magazine, has made a career for the last decade of collecting submissions of found notes, letters and photographs and publishing them in FOUND’s annual issue. With the release of his first memoir essay collection, My Heart is an Idiot, the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based writer reveals in tale after madcap tale that is own life is actually quite a lot like an issue of FOUND.
5 Must-See Films at Pacific Rim Fest
In our article on this year’s Pacific Rim Film Festival, we looked at three documentaries by filmmakers with local roots. Here are five more films to love at this year’s festival, Oct. 19-24.
Zion I Face Their Own Demons
Zion I have long been a staple of the Bay Area hip-hop scene. Ever since the release of 2000’s critically acclaimed debut, ‘Mind Over Matter,’ the duo’s ever-adventurous sound has established the Bay as a region that’s never afraid of exploring new musical territory.
Tragedy and Triumph At Pacific Rim Film Festival
Only a handful of the selections in this year’s Pacific Rim Film Festival are by filmmakers with local roots, and perhaps it’s merely coincidence that they are among the best. But what’s uncanny is the synchronicity in play among three of them—Where Heaven Meets Hell, The Power of Two and Playing With Fire. In separate interviews, the people behind the films sometimes even echo each other when they speak about how they achieved these three very different and yet strangely connected, truly compelling portraits.
