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Urban Realist in the Far West
Mar 12, 2010, by Christina Waters Community
Burt Levitsky left New York more than 30 years ago, but the streets of Manhattan still pulse to life in his realist oil paintings. Trained as an illustrator and Madison Avenue ad designer, Levitsky recalls working on ad layouts by day and coming home to paint all night. Studying with Frank Reilly and Max Ginsburg, Levitsky mastered contemporary realist imagery that was always haunted by the moods and hustle of urban life. There’s a lot of George Tooker’s ennui and Thomas Hart Benton’s vitality in his ambitious portrayals of people embedded in their metropolitan landscapes.
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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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Making Scenes Around Santa Cruz
Mar 11, 2010, by Jessica Lyons Community
Customers 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!” Spray the walls is exactly what Elijah Pfotenhauer was intending to do. It was late 2006, and Pfotenhauer had already established himself as a talented Santa Cruz muralist with two other projects, one depicting dancers on the former Motion Pacific building on Front Street and another at the former Santa Cruz Teen Center on Laurel. With slide show.
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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.
