From dance at UCSC to the Boardwalk’s famed chowder cook-off, the best bets for Santa Cruz events this weekend.
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Banff Mountain Film Festival Rides Again
Banff is a tiny mountain town in the Canadian Rockies. Like our own community, it’s a popular tourist destination, known to draw people who love outdoor activities of all stripes. But other than that, it’s way more South Park than Santa Cruz, surrounded by ski resorts and known for a gondola ride that actually goes somewhere other than across a theme park.
Q&A: Paula Poundstone
Poundstone rose out of the stand-up scene in Boston, and came to national attention with her TV appearances and award-winning HBO special in the late ’80s. These days, she is a frequent panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, an avowed asexual and an unapologetic crazy cat lady. We caught up her via a phone interview as she prepares to perform at the Rio on Friday, March 1, 2013.
Songwriter Contest Kicks Off Another Year
On evenings throughout February and March, dozens of fans will flood the pub, just as they do every year. They will erupt into raucous applause when their favorite player does well, and grumble and drink another beer when the score isn’t in their favor. Over the course of several weeks, they will witness wins, losses, and wild upsets. They will watch the pool of competitors narrow from damn near 100 down to 24, and then 16. And then the elite eight, the finalists who will battle it out for the win, the title…
5 Things to Do in Santa Cruz This Weekend, Feb. 8-10
Valentine’s Day prep, a benefit for a popular local surfer and filmmaker, and a hip-hop iconoclast are among our top picks for the weekend.
Club Kuumbwa Aims for Young Crowds
The Kuumbwa Jazz Center is the kind of space artists dream about playing. It’s classy and intimate, with top-notch sound and lighting. But if your band can’t draw 200 people at $25 a ticket, chances are pretty slim Kuumbwa has booked you. This is changing, however, with a new monthly series called “Club Kuumbwa” which aims to specifically bring in smaller local and indie bands.
5 Things to Do in Santa Cruz This Weekend, Feb. 2-3
From Jackson Browne to DIY winemaking to Super Bowl-related events, our top picks for this weekend’s happenings around Santa Cruz.
New Santa Cruz Art Exhibit Celebrates the Music of Tom Waits
The longer one talks to Bridget Henry about the subject, the more it becomes clear that what she’s really been building for the last 20 years is a Tom Waits obsession, one that will culminate this week with opening night of the ‘Cemetery Polka’ exhibit at the Felix Kulpa Gallery.
Hermit Convention Switches Sounds
The latest album by Craig Prentice’s one-man-band Hermit Convention, Cough Syrup Coffins, is his most experimental record to date—which is to say that it was recorded in an actual studio, with drums, guitar and backing vocals. For a guy whose previous low-fi recordings had him singing to bass guitar loops in his bedroom, this is wacky stuff.
5 Things to Do in Santa Cruz This Weekend
‘Cheetahs on the Run’ at the Rio (above), the Santa Cruz County Symphony, and a benefit for local Giants fan Brian Stow by a member of the team are among this weekend’s top events.
