Street microdrama in Burt Levitsky’s oil-on-linen "5th Avenue Encounter.”
Urban Realist in the Far West
by Christina Waters CommunityBurt Levitsky’s oils capture the fleeting moments of city life.
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Forbes to UCSC: Hubba Hubba!
by Danny Wool NewsThe magazine for millionaires rates UCSC among the most beautiful college campuses in the world.
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Making Scenes Around Santa Cruz
by Jessica Lyons CommunityCustomers coming into Santa Cruz Stoves & Fireplaces sounded alarm bells. “There’s a kid outside the store with cans of paint,” they fretted to employees. “He looks like he’s going to spray the walls!” With slide show.
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Arana Gulch Path Back to Drawing Board
by Curtis Cartier NewsThe California Coastal Commission voted against the Arana Gulch Master Plan and its controversial bicycle path.
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Who Are the Tourists Who Come to Santa Cruz?
Mar 12, 2010, by Danny Wool Business
Santa Cruz is definitely a tourist city. But what do we know about the people who visit here? This was the subject of a study conducted by the Santa Cruz County Conference and Visitors Council with the goal of gaining insights into how to better market to tourists and increase visits to the area, especially in the off season.
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Sober Living House Manager Goes to Clink
Mar 11, 2010, by Staff NewsDonald Carl Peter got off easy. The former manager of a sober-living house in Santa Cruz already had 26 convictions against him dating back all the way to 1980.
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County Jobless Rate Sets New Record
Mar 11, 2010, by Danny Wool NewsThe unemployment figures for January are out, and they are startling. About 15 percent of the population of Santa Cruz—almost one in every six people—is jobless. By way of comparison, the jobless rate in all of California is 13.2 percent; nationwide, it is 10.6 percent. According to the Employment Development Department, the figure is significantly higher than the past record, 14.6, back in 1993.
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Tuesday evening, the Santa Cruz City Council voted to limit the number of medical marijuana dispensaries in the city to two, effectively putting a moratorium on any new pot clubs.
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Santa Cruz Hit by Spate of Vandalism
Mar 10, 2010, by Danny Wool NewsPolice throughout Santa Cruz County are on the lookout for a group of vandals that has been smashing home windows with rocks.
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UC-Santa Cruz Students Mull Future Prospects
Mar 10, 2010, by Curtis Cartier News
Matthew Moore didn’t carry a sign at last week’s student protest at UCSC. With a walking stick in one hand and his dog’s leash in the other, he stood in a grassy field near the university entrance at High and Bay streets and watched while hundreds of his fellow students demanded the university lower its fees and restaff its departments.
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Arana Gulch Defenders Speak Up
Mar 09, 2010, by Jean Brocklebank and Michael Lewis Opinion
Suppose someone came to your home, demanded you give up your dining room for an important project, and said your family would still be able to live in the home but would have to accept the intrusion and the loss and just, well, get on with your life? Suppose when you asked why, the answer was to fight global warming?
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Leary Student Comes to Capitola
Mar 09, 2010, by Gary Singh Community
Berkeley’s paratheatrical Real Astrologer-mystic, Antero Alli, originally discovered Timothy Leary’s eight-circuit brain model of intelligence increase while reading Robert Anton Wilson’s book Cosmic Trigger. Those three characters—Leary, Wilson and Alli—function as a trilateral commission providing a toolbox of modalities that, when applied, might actually help people increase their intellects in a number of ways. The re-definition of intelligence comes in a holy trinity of three words: absorb, integrate and transmit. That is, the ideas in this book must be absorbed, integrated and transmitted—not just absorbed—for the model to have any usefulness.
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San Jose to Host International Podcar Forum
Mar 09, 2010, by Danny Wool News
Most people don’t know it yet, but San Jose is widely acclaimed as a world leader in podcar development, with Mountain View coming in at a close second. That’s why the city has been chosen to host “Podcar City: San Jose, Innovating Sustainable Communities,” an international summit on electric podcars, organized by the International Institute of Sustainable Transportation. The event will take place at City Hall, October 27-29.
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Westside Coffee Shop Goes Unplugged
Mar 09, 2010, by Staff Business
Who can forget Eric Clapton’s stellar performance on MTV’s “Unplugged” series, or the doleful sounds of Kurt Cobain with only an acoustic guitar? Anger transformed into angst. As the late, great Elliot Smith once said, “If you play acoustic guitar you’re the depressed, sensitive guy.” And that could be just what the Abbey Coffee lounge on Mission needs.
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