First Alarm security personnel will patrol downtown Santa Cruz until 8pm every night during the holidays, starting Nov. 26.
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Social Service Funds Under Scrutiny
With the recession and the annual deficit, Santa Cruz has been forced to cut social service funding by 50 percent from what it was a decade ago. Still, the city offers about $1 million every year to a variety of programs that assist the needy. Few people contest that the programs are necessary, but some contest the lack of oversight in the distribution of funds. According to some City Council members, Santa Cruz has become a “magnet” for homeless people and others seeking aid.
Homing Pigeons Looking For A Home
Fifteen homing pigeons were found abandoned outside Paradise Park Masonic Lodge off Highway 9 on Monday. Now Animal Services is looking for the person who left them there. According to reports, the birds, which were likely pets, were starving and infested with parasites. Had they not been found, they would have probably died of exposure or been eaten by other animals. According to animal rescue services, the animals did not know how to forage for themselves.
The Exhibitionist: Fragile Strength
The expressions are inscrutable. Wide-set eyes cast down or to the side; lids lowered like shades against intrusion; lips relaxed, sometimes slightly open: the ashen clay figures of Charlene Doiron Reinhart look inward and take the viewer with them. Like the white-painted characters in Butoh theatre, their expressions are communicated by the whole highly stylized form and given power by eloquent naturalistic details.
Interview: Stacie Willoughby
A conversation with the Santa Cruz poster artist whose work has become synonymous with (((folkYEAH))) and other Bay Area shows.
Stacie Willoughby’s Fresh Prints
If you’ve been in or around the Bay Area psych/rock/neo-folk/noise music scene anytime in the last decade, you have almost certainly encountered Stacie Willoughby’s work. In a time of minimal, computer-generated fliers, her posters stand apart as hand-drawn, wildly detailed and imaginative treasures.
Santa Cruz Poets, Santa Cruz Inspiration: David Sullivan
Poems from the Cabrillo College teacher and Porter Gulch Review editor.
Decoding The 2010 Election
While the GOP won the House and key state posts in the rest of the union last Tuesday, California saw its own Tea Party takeover of sorts—albeit one with a Left Coast bent.
Downtown Business Picking Up
There’s good news for Santa Cruz small business owners. Business seems to be picking up, as evidenced by the number of small shops that have recently opened up. Real figures, needed to determine whether the evidence is reliable or anecdotal, are scheduled to be released tomorrow, but Chip-of-one-name, who heads the Downtown Association, says, “We’re starting to see people with bags in their hands.”
Second Assault in Santa Cruz
Yesterday SantaCruz.com reported that a teenage girl was assaulted in Ocean View Park on Saturday. A second attack occurred in Arana Gulch Sunday evening. The victim, an 18-year-old girl, was walking in the area at about 6:30pm when a man approached her from behind with a knife and attempted to attack her. She said that something startled him and he fled into an adjacent wooded area.
