On a wooden fence surrounding a Live Oak neighborhood, residents tacked up hand-written posters: “Move the Target sign. It’s too bright!” and “You have neighbors!” Seventy residents signed an online petition calling for Target to turn off or dim its large bulls-eye sign, which faces a residential area.
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Board Takes No Action on Library Sleeping Ban
In addition to carrying on the noble legacy of the Dewey Decimal System, librarians are also the de facto stewards of everyone who uses the public library, whatever their purposes. The Santa Cruz Library Board periodically reviews its code of conduct to take into account whatever new issues are arising, whether they be hordes of boisterous teenagers swarming the Scotts Valley branch when schools let out, or local homeless sleeping for hours in the aisles of the downtown branch.
Letters to the Editor: Jan 10-15
Was ‘Les Miserables’ really that bad? One reader thinks not. People also chime in about racism and the role it plays in our society.
Post-Holiday Dining
Soif is closed until Jan. 11 for its annual refreshing, but the restaurant at Casablanca Inn & Bistro is closed for renovations prompted by what a spokesperson called “damage from a recent storm.” There’s no word on when the beachfront landmark will reopen. So meanwhile, there’s Michael’s on Main, continually reinventing itself, most recently by opening its kitchen up on Tuesdays to ambitious guest chefs.
How Fermented Foods Keep Us Healthy
Fermented foods have been part of the human diet since long before we discovered the microscopic bacteria responsible for their production. But just how crucial is incorporating fermented food into our diets?
The Best Santa Cruz Dining of 2012
There was much to remember in the way of delicious restaurant experiences in 2012.
Letters to the Editor, Dec. 26-Jan. 1
Readers sound off to make a small correction in a previous writer’s rant, theorize on the elite of Santa Cruz County, and assert that what happens in the Mideast affects the current fight over U.S. health care.
New Year’s Eve Dining News
‘A restaurant requires 200 percent of an owner’s time,’ admitted winemaker Randall Grahm, whose large-scale restaurant will close as of December 31. ‘Til then, fans of chef Ryan Shelton’s cooking—and his wife Oomi’s cosmic pastries—still have a few more days to stop by.
Going Gluten-Free
I’ve never been one to ignore the bread basket. On the contrary, I’m usually the first to dive, shamelessly, to uncover the warm and satisfying lumps swaddled inside. The height of irresistibility, for me, lies in the chewy, dark-crusted loaves of New York City’s East Village restaurants—sliced, steaming, into thick and spongey slabs to be dabbed with butter or pushed through a drizzle of olive oil.
2012: A Santa Cruz Weekly Year in Review
Santa Cruz Weekly presents our look at Santa Cruz’s year of the strange, cool and just plain ridiculous.
