You may have seen a traveling party of cheerful bicyclists around downtown Santa Cruz, complete with music, lights and sounds of revelry, including an occasional yell: “Bike Parrrrrtyyyy!” If this occurred on the second Friday of the month, then you were a witness to our local Bike Party, started by Steve Schnaar and Tawn Kennedy…
Articles by Lily Stoicheff
Food Tours Reveal the Secrets of Santa Cruz Restaurants
“The story of this town is the story of a jailbreak,” says Brion Sprinsock, the owner of Santa Cruz Food Tours, which just celebrated its 200th event. Sprinsock is sitting in the breakfast nook of the Hinds Victorian Guest House, which he owns, pointing out the window to the railroad tracks that run along Chestnut…
Weeknights Live: Monday to Friday Nightlife in Santa Cruz
It’s easy to find great live music, DJs and comedy on any given Santa Cruz weekend, and clubs like the Catalyst and Moe’s Alley get big touring acts every week. But Santa Cruz’s thriving nightlife doesn’t end there. If you’re looking for live music, dancing or laughs on a weeknight, here are some regular events…
Hiding Out at Hidden Peak Teahouse
Every time I visit Hidden Peak Teahouse in downtown Santa Cruz, an amazing thing happens. Inside the digital-free space, the vague separation anxiety that occurs when my phone is anywhere but in my right hand soon gives way to a palpable relief. With my phone powered down, the texts, emails, emoticons, tweets, Facebook notifications—the entire…
Open Studios Art Tour 2016 Magazine
A co-production of Arts Council Santa Cruz County and Good Times. Open Studios Art Tour is your opportunity to explore creativity in Santa Cruz County. For 31 years, our goal has been simple: connect artists with people who love art. For the first three weekends in October, artists from the redwoods to the bay open…
Review: ‘Escaping Queens’
Escaping Queens isn’t showy or glamorous. It’s intimate and charismatic, at times hilarious and often heartbreaking.
Review: Cabrillo Stage’s ‘Oklahoma!’
Cabrillo Stage’s production of Oklahoma! is a testament to the theatre company’s ability to reach the heights of a fully-integrated musical masterpiece.
Preview: Cabrillo Stage’s ‘Escaping Queens’
The musical Escaping Queens, inspired by true events from Joe Ortiz’s childhood in 1950s New York, comes back to Cabrillo Stage
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.
Review: ‘The Lover’/‘One for the Road’
The deceptively mundane setting of a domestic living room is a springboard into a search for individual and marital identity in The Lover, one of two Harold Pinter plays produced jointly by Jewel Theatre Company and Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and running through May 19 at the Center Stage in Santa Cruz.
