A rundown of locals appearances on the small screen, from American Ninja Warrior to X Factor.
Articles by Tessa Stuart
Santa Cruz’s Year of Notoriety
A month-by-month breakdown of all the Santa Cruz news that national media saw fit to print, televise and otherwise comment on.
Santa Cruz Makes The Coworking Connection
Cruzioworks housed in a large light-filled atrium. There are desks, carrels, a reading nook, a couple of long tables and a white board bearing the scrawled, somewhat cryptic note “Bounce hour, Thursday, 10:30 on the blue couch.”
Santa Cruz Location Among Cafe Gratitude Closures
Santa Cruz devotees were crestfallen after an open letter posted on Café Gratitude’s website stated the company would be closing all Northern California locations. Conflicting news reports followed, giving hope the Santa Cruz café would remain open.
Reassessing the Bailout in Santa Cruz
Occupy Wall Street, like the right-wing Tea Party movement, focused a large share of its anger and energy railing against the bailout. There are pieces missing in the bailout narratives from both the left and right, though. Money loaned to big banks has been paid back, while many of the smaller banks and credit unions—the ones who give loans to the little guy—are still being kept afloat by bailout funds.
‘Tis The Season To Be Busy
Santa Cruz is a awash in holiday cheer with the Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre’s Nutcracker, the Lighted Boat Parade, Jingle Shells at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center and much more.
Big Tent Trouble at Occupy Santa Cruz
Occupy Santa Cruz originally chose San Lorenzo Park in part, as one participant who nominated the location put it, “in solidarity with our homeless brothers and sisters,” but tensions are growing between the movement and the homeless and transient community.
Murdersville, U.S.A.
In The Lost Boys, a young boy recently transplanted from Arizona asks if his family’s new hometown really is, as advertised, the murder capital of the world. His grandfather replies, “Well, now, let me put it this way: if all the corpses buried around here were to stand up all at once, we’d have one hell of a population problem.” Gramps is speaking, of course, of a fictionalized Santa Cruz called “Santa Carla,” and like the movie city, the real town’s grisly reputation is based on some unsettling facts.
Lanting, Glass and the Science of ‘Life’
“Life,” the ambitious multimedia collaboration between Frans Lanting and Philip Glass that premiered at the Cabrillo Festival in 2006, is finally returning to the Bay Area after stops in New York, London, Italy, Mexico and elsewhere. Glass’ score will be performed Saturday, Oct. 16 at the Flint Center in Cupertino by Symphony Silicon Valley under the direction of conductor Carolyn Kuan for UCSC’s “Evolutionary/Revolutionary.”
Occupy Santa Cruz Learns The Ropes
While the number of active protesters has dwindled in the week since the first general meeting in Laurel Park on Tuesday, Oct. 4, there are unmistakable signs that the Occupy Santa Cruz movement is beginning to coalesce after a week of gestation.
