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Preview: Thanks Buddy at Bocci’s Cellar
Whatever name a band chooses can affect people’s opinion of them, and that judgment, right or wrong, might stick permanently.
Young Composers Shake Up Cabrillo Festival
One of the hottest new music venues in the world, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music marks this year’s 51st offering with plenty of superstar excitement.
Review: ‘La Cage Aux Folles’
Cabrillo Stage’s production of La Cage Aux Folles, directed and choreographed by Janie Scott, is a grand and glitzy night of musical comedy.
Preview: The Coup at Santa Cruz Music Festival
Front man and lyricist for Oakland’s 20-year-old hip-hop group the Coup, Boots Riley is also the front man for political rock group Street Sweeper Social Club and a headlining performer in this week’s inaugural Santa Cruz Music Festival.
Foodie File: Zane Griffin
Santa Cruz Local Foods assembles food boxes, which can be ordered online, and recently introduced donation-based sliding scales for certain boxes to accommodate low-income customers.
Local Brewers Pick Top Summer Offerings
Beer—a drink whose season is, without question, summer. Summer without a cold beer is almost as bland as winter without a roaring fire, or autumn without a Frank Sinatra song.
Acai Bowl Craze Sweeps Santa Cruz
For such a small city, Santa Cruz has an unusually large number of options for finding a good acai bowl.
Foodie File: Pleasure Pizza
Derek Rupp, who owns both Pleasure Pizza’s Eastside Eatery, opened up in 2011 because wanted to make more than just pizza.
A Brief History of the Santa Cruz Music Festival
This all started as a joke: if Austin can have South By Southwest, why can’t we have West By West-West? They searched for the domain, which was taken. But santacruzmusicfestival.com was not. A few clicks on GoDaddy, and suddenly everything changed.
