Thieves in Santa Cruz have found a new target—the catalytic converters under cars that limit their exhaust output.
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Santa Cruz Remembers the Homeless Dead
Santa Cruz City Council members joined the homeless community and the staff at the Homeless Services Center to remember the 47 homeless people who died this year.
A Bamboost From Santa Cruz
Ibrahim Nyampong is a 32-year-old entrepreneur who lives in Accra, the capital city of Ghana on Africa’s west coast, where the average annual per capita income is $600. About two years ago, nationally renowned bicycle designer and Santa Cruz County native Craig Calfee taught him how to build bicycle frames from locally grown bamboo. Today, Nyampong earns about $150 for every frame he builds, shipping the completed frames—some a milky caramel color, others a deep mocha—to Calfee’s La Selva Beach manufacturing shop. (includes slide show)
A Revisionist History of 2009
It was one for the record books, this 2009. Oh, sure, there were bright points: the inauguration, some entertaining scandals, the inauguration, Giants slugger Pablo “Kung-Fu Panda” Sandoval, the inauguration. But for the most part, when we look back at 2009 we prefer to contemplate what might have happened rather than what actually did.
Cabrillo Stage’s ‘Scrooge’ A Nostalgic Treat
From the first bars of the Christmas medley that opens Scrooge, the audience understands that it’s in for one plum pudding of a theatrical experience. The chorus members, swathed in bonnets and frock coats straight out of a Dickens storybook, set about the cheerful business of caroling, converging in picturesque groups on the generous stage of the plush new Crocker Theater. Leslie Bricusse’s score hews closely to the traditional melodies, at least here, and director Andrew Ceglio, a master of the witty grace note, trains his comic impulses toward wholesomeness in the opening pantomimes. This adaptation of A Christmas Carol, we are given to understand, will not be sly or ironic but warm-hearted and nostalgic.
Holiday Slide Show
A slide show of holiday scenes in Santa Cruz.
Goy To The World
A buxom aspiring female Santa Claus in a quilted down jacket swaggers out of room C1 in the Civic Center where I’m next in line for my “Rent-A-Santa” interview.
“Ho ho ho,” she says over her shoulder, giving me an unnerving sidelong glance, a sort of knowing sneer tinged with Christmas spirit. She’s warring with me for the job of Santa Claus.
Good News for Local Businesses
Santa Cruz downtown buisness owners say that holiday sales are off to a good start.
Santa Cruz, Watsonville Shutting Down Services for the Holiday
Still suffering from a growing deficit, the city of Santa Cruz will be cutting back on services and modifying its schedules in an effort to save money.
A Santa Cruz Holiday on The Hoof
Greta gives Josh a disapproving glance and sticks her nose in the air. Josh ignores her and stomps down the street. “They’ve been together a long time,” says Randy Clayton. The couple can’t get very far from one another, of course, as they are hitched together to a large white carriage rolling down the cracked pavement on Cedar Street in downtown Santa Cruz.
