The site of the Salz Tannery, the commercial leather manufacturer that made the luggage used by President Harry S. Truman, is getting ready for its next wave of changes. At the Tannery Arts Center, which rests on the 8.2-acre former factory grounds, the former Tanyard Building and Beamhouse building will be called the Digital Media and Creative Arts Center.
Articles by Tessa Stuart
Heart of Glass
Over the course of an exceptionally prolific career he has written symphonies, operas, musicals and film scores and collaborated with everyone from artist Richard Serra and choreographer Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, David Bowie and even Stephen Colbert, so it’s no surprise that Philip Glass’s inaugural Days and Nights Festival spans genres, mediums, time periods and audience demographics.
Santa Cruz Preservation Society
Exploding jars, secret vendors and simple tricks: three Santa Cruz County Fair blue-ribbon canners talk turkey.
In-Home Service Workers Getting Squeezed
Fourteen years ago Michael Lucas took a fall from the Aptos Bridge. It left him paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on a ventilator to breathe. Since then, Lucas has been cared for by his mother, Sylvia. In exchange for caring for a citizen who cannot care for himself, she earns $11.50 an hour from the government through In Home Supportive Services of Santa Cruz County. That hourly wage, along with that of nearly 2,000 other in-home care workers in the county, is set to be cut by 10 percent by the county Board of Supervisors.
Disc Golf Gets Its Closeup
In 2006 an Emmy-winning sports producer got the disc golf bug on a Santa Cruz course. The result premieres this Tuesday at the Rio, just in time for the Professional Disc Golf Association World Championships right here on the Monterey Bay.
Cabrillo’s ‘Hairspray’ Has Super Hold
It’s 1962 and her indispensable can of Aquanet is just the first of a long list of things Tracy Turnblad is ready to shake up. The overweight teen dreams of dancing on the local television station’s Corny Collins Show, a dream she sets about turning into reality while navigating racial conflict, raging hormones and generational tension as easily as she dodges the flashers and rats on the streets of her native Baltimore.
Strange FEMA Rule Sinks County’s Hopes
“I regret that we could not respond favorably to your request. Sincerely, W. Craig Fugate, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency,” read the rejection letter, sent in June. It was a pleasant enough way of saying, “Sorry about that $38 million—but good luck with your budget!”
Growing Up Potter
Every generation has its defining moments. The way folks of a certain age remember exactly where they were when J.F.K. was shot or when they watched Princess Diana walk down the aisle, I remember where I was at 10 minutes to 8am on July 21, 2007: the parking lot of a Target off I-5 somewhere in the Central Valley.
Ukin’ Do It!
The press release warned there would be a bouncer at the door. “If you’re not on that list, you’re not getting in!” it said. For an open mic night—a ukulele-only open mic night with a $10 cover—it sounded like wishful thinking.
Star-Spangled ‘Stravaganzas
Where to go this weekend to celebrate the fact that our nation’s leader is a super hot former pothead with game and not an 85-year-old British matron.
