Cabrillo Stage’s Anything Goes is explosively fun. Each character is as impressive individually as the cast is collectively. Cole Porter classic after impeccably executed Cole Porter classic reminds one how timeless his talent is, and director and choreographer Kikau Alvaro skillfully preserves and translates it for a contemporary audience.
Articles by Lily Stoicheff
A Fundraiser for Hicko
It’s 10am and Thomas Hickenbottom, one of the founding fathers of Santa Cruz surfing, is showcasing lattices of berries and fruit trees laden with the summer’s bounty in the Eden he has helped to create around his Westside home. Breathing deeply, he presses the stoma that has replaced the vocal chords he lost to cancer and whispers excitedly about the fundraiser being held in his honor on Saturday, July 21.
Boulder Creek Bluegrass Fest
If the multiplicity of venues and festivals from the Boardwalk to Boulder Creek are anything to go by, Santa Cruz loves it some music. So when a beloved festival like the Brookdale Bluegrass Festival needed a helping hand (read: a new venue) after the Brookdale Lodge became… let’s call it indisposed, the Boulder Creek community rushed to its aid. This year, the revitalized Boulder Creek Bluegrass and Old Timey Festival is a smorgasbord of fiery finger-pickin’ spread out over three days and multiple locations.
Center for Sustainable Change Wins Big Grant
What if you could change your life as quickly as you can change your mind? That idea is the driving force at the Center for Sustainable Change, a local nonprofit agency. Its work in low-income communities has caught the attention of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which recently awarded the organization a $100,000 grant.
‘A Chorus Line’ at Cabrillo Stage
In 1975, A Chorus Line shattered and rebuilt the world of musical theater. Within six months of its Broadway opening, before the world had had a chance to pick its jaw up off the ground, most of the cast went to London for the international tour. Finally, after six months of magazine covers, nine Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize, they returned to the United States. Janie Scott was 25 at the time and just starting her dancing career. When she saw A Chorus Line in San Francisco, it changed her life forever.
Top 5 Places for Bike Rides
Biking is a way of life in Santa Cruz. No small wonder, considering we’ve got trails for every skill and endurance level, whether your bike was made by Schwinn or Specialized.
At R. Blitzer, Two Approaches to Viewing Earth
Last fall, local artist Lisa Hochstein discovered that the U.S. Geological Survey’s Pacific Coast and Marine Science Center shared more with the R. Blitzer Gallery than an address at the former Wrigley Building—they shared a wall. Struck by the metaphor of this relationship between art and science, Hochstein began musing about their presumed separation. “The two have much in common: a curiosity about the world, an impulse to explore and probe deeply,” she explains. “Both search for aspects of truth. And both recognize that knowledge is elusive and always subject to challenge and refinement.”
Summertime Fun Calendar
From Civil War battle reenactments and Broadway musicals to festivals honoring mountain men and cactus, Santa Cruz looks forward to three months of nonstop entertainment.
Stand Up Paddle Paradise
Although I’ve lived in Santa Cruz for the last five years, unless it’s a fogless, 80-plus–degree day, it’s unlikely you’ll find me in the water. I’ll dive in on particularly hot summer days if the waves are looking friendly, but I’m not a strong swimmer. I’m the kind who watches the surfers out on Steamer Lane and marvels longingly at their athleticism, but surfing has always looked too physically (and mentally) challenging for me. So I content myself with being a sun-soaking landlubber.
BluesFest 20 Trivia
See if you can’t build a beer game around these Santa Cruz Blues Festival fun facts.
