It was 1971 in Mexico, and Brant Secunda, an 18-year-old kid from New Jersey, lay unconscious on a patch of dusty, clay-like ground. A wanderer who ventured below the border to learn how to make pottery, he wound up stumbling upon an ancient civilization. That may not seem so surprising—Mexico has an abundance of ancient ruins. But this ancient civilization was alive and well.
Articles by Georgia Perry
Scenes From Election Night in Santa Cruz
Election night in Santa Cruz County this year was nothing like the scene in 2008—no celebrations in the streets, no climbing on cars, and a foggy stillness had set into downtown Santa Cruz by the time newly re-elected President Barack Obama gave his acceptance speech. But Democrats and Republicans did gather last night around the county to watch the results,
UCSC’s Delta Lambda Psi Sued By Gay Fraternity
Whoever came up with the phrase “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” it apparently wasn’t the Greeks. Last month, national gay men’s fraternity Delta Lambda Phi filed a trademark infringement and unlawful trade suit against Delta Lambda Psi, a gender neutral “frarority” founded at UCSC in 2005.
CeCe Pinheiro’s Top Council Race Moments
Every election needs its comic relief, and over the last few months, we’ve come to trust CeCe Pinheiro to deliver it. The sheer delight of watching her campaign in what was often a downright snoozer of a City Council race came from the thrill of never knowing, at any given forum, when she’d say something majestically ridiculous. Let us now take a moment to honor her relentless weirdness in the race for Santa Cruz City Council.
Eric Hammer Admits Falsifying Credentials
On an application to the County of Santa Cruz Treasury Oversight Commission from 2011, current Fifth District Supervisor candidate Eric Hammer listed a Bachelor’s of Science degree from San Francisco State in 2000 as one of his credentials. The only problem? He doesn’t have one.
Local Witch Embraces Pagan New Year
“Traditionally it’s the season of death. It’s the dark half of the year starting,” says Birch, owner of the Sacred Grove witchcraft shop in Seabright. Sahmain is their New Years Eve, as it marks the beginning of winter and the end of summer. Witches believe that the veil between our world and the spirit world is thinnest around Sahmain, making it easier to contact spirits and ancestors who have died.
Santa Cruz Young Writers to Host Benefit Event
An arm of the nonprofit Santa Cruz Writes, the Young Writers Program brings trained volunteers into classrooms to help kids with their writing through one-on-one attention. Each classroom’s writing project is on a topic of the individual teacher’s choosing.
Interview: Macklemore Reps Rap’s Sensitive Side
Seattle rapper Macklemore’s style is unabashedly sincere and sensitive, and he rejects the expected rapper persona of a swaggering, tough-talking gangster, choosing instead to just be himself.
Hammer Campaign Pledges to Keep Clean
The supervisor’s race isn’t just getting personal. This time, it’s…hypothetical. The Weekly received a press release from the Eric Hammer for 5th District Supervisor campaign that reads, “Both my opponent and I signed the Code of Fair Campaign Practices pledging to run a clean campaign and I am sticking by my pledge. I challenge him to do the same and to denounce any negative campaign activities.”
Q & A: Davy Rothbart
Davy Rothbart, creator of FOUND Magazine, has made a career for the last decade of collecting submissions of found notes, letters and photographs and publishing them in FOUND’s annual issue. With the release of his first memoir essay collection, My Heart is an Idiot, the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based writer reveals in tale after madcap tale that is own life is actually quite a lot like an issue of FOUND.
