Oliver loves to visit downtown Carmel. He and his chauffeur enjoy great service at restaurants and freedom to run the town’s white sand beach untethered. Oliver also enjoys Los Gatos, with its water bowls on the sidewalk, welcoming stores and a main street full of other people and their dogs.
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Pedestrian Hit by Rock on Soquel Drive
The Santa Cruz Intifada had another victim on Monday when a 32-year-old male was brought to Dominican Hospital after being hit by a rock.
Peacecamp 2010 Protests Sleeping Ban
For the past three weeks Santa Cruz’s homeless population has been camped out on the steps of the county courthouse, protesting the city’s ban on sleeping on the streets. The courthouse grounds are safe, because they belong to the county, not the city, and the protesters, while they may be a nuisance, cannot be arrested easily there. But the protesters feel that they are not making headway, so on Tuesday they marched to City Hall to demand that the sleeping ban be repealed.
Tamagotchi: Man’s Best Trend
Akihiro Yokoi of WiZ Co. Ltd, is the original creator of Tamagotchi, which is arguably the most famous virtual pet device ever created, with more than 70 million units sold since it debuted in 1996 and multiple adaptations of the toys into films, television series and video games. Yokoi answered questions from Santa Cruz Weekly via email from his home in Chiba, Japan, about how he came up with the idea for Tamagotchi and what the differences are between virtual pets and real ones.
Unconditional Love 2.0: Cyberpets v. Real Thing
It has to be vomit. Nothing else could explain that wet, meaty stench wafting from the back seat. Pulling the car to a stop, I look back at my dazed 7-month-old golden retriever, Dublin, then down at what is indeed a small but pungent pile of partially digested kibble that the 90-minute trip from Santa Cruz to San Francisco has sent rocketing up from her motion-sensitive stomach and onto the car’s upholstery. With slideshow.
‘Cabaret’ Celebrates The Bawdy Beautiful
The audience never stood a chance. From the moment the lights came up on dynamo Roddy Kennedy in the impish, libidinous role of the Emcee, the cast of Cabaret was in charge. No provincial musical theater production this, with audience members tensed for blown high notes and lead-footed maneuvers by non-dancers. Cabrillo Stage’s latest offering brims with big-city talent—top-notch singing, powerful dancing and strong acting, all marshaled by director Trevor Little into a dark tale about decadence, innocence and escalating racism in 1930s Berlin.
Santa Cruz Pension Talks Move Forward
To call it a “breakthrough” might be premature. But there are now seven out of the city of Santa Cruz’s 762 benefited employees who say they’ll jump on the pension reform bandwagon. Four lieutenants, two deputy chiefs and a captain of the Santa Cruz Police Department agreed last week to temporarily increase the amount of money they pay into the California Public Employees’ Retirement System by 8 percent (all of which will come after they receive a 4 percent annual cost-of-living raise from the city). The city’s finance department estimates the move will save $101,000 next year.
Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s ‘Lion in Winter’ A Force of Nature
Sumptuously spare, full of sound and fury, the Shakespeare Santa Cruz season’s opening production of The Lion in Winter is replete with all that makes live theater worth its weight in aged cognac. Led by Marco Barricelli’s robust Henry, the outstanding cast powers its way through a bracing, violent and witty exercise in domestic politics.
Meth Smoker Busted for Stealing Frozen Food
Police have arrested Seth Justin Fusari, 31, of Santa Cruz, for stealing about $2,000 in frozen food from a local grocery. According to the SCPD, Fusari had burglarized the walk-in freezer at the Shopper’s Corner store at 622 Soquel Avenue.
Santa Cruz County Rodeo Gets Nixed
We spoke too soon and yeehawed just a little prematurely. A vote on holding the event in October has been rescinded as a result of legal concerns. Opponents of the rodeo have threatened to sue if the event went forward, and there was concern over who would bear the brunt of the legal responsibility.
