TThe June 2-3 music and crafts festival looks to be a barn-burner, with the Brothers Comatose, David Lindley and a rash of other great local and regional bands in Felton.
Articles by Traci Hukill
Bassnectar Show at Civic Cancelled
The sold-out Bassnectar show scheduled for Thursday, May 3 at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium has been cancelled over a disagreement between the artist and city over noise monitoring. The artist will play two nights at the Catalyst on May 6 and 7.
Guide to Santa Cruz CSAs
You don’t have to go to the Santa Cruz farmers markets if you don’t have time. Now the farmers markets can come to you.
Weekend Guide, May 3–6, 2012
Every once in a while a weekend rolls around that is so crammed with goodness we have to tell you about all of it. This is one of those weekends—so good luck deciding how to spend it!
John C. Reilly, Beverly Hillbilly
It was in his early twenties, just as he was learning guitar, that actor John C. Reilly first felt the tug of the blues. He even started a band, but it just didn’t take. “Somehow, in the back of my mind, I didn’t feel like I was totally suited to blues music even though I love it,” he says.
Dance Week in Santa Cruz
National Dance Week kicks off (pardon the pun) in Santa Cruz Thursday, April 19, at 5:30pm right outside Santa Cruz Weekly’s doors—lucky us!—with performances in front of the Civic, City Hall and the Church Street Library. And what do the organizational wizards at Dance Week Santa Cruz have in store for the dance fans of Santa Cruz?
Spring Gardening Calendar
The spring calendar’s filling up with gardening classes, sales and workshops galore. Don’t be the sad people with no tomatoes this year!
National Poetry Month Ramps Up
T.S. ELIOT’s The Waste Land opens with this: “April is the cruelest month, breeding/ Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring rain.” Had the great modernist complained of September, National Poetry Month might have been lost amid county fairs and the first weeks of school.
The 2012 Gold Awards Index
It’s an annual tradition: We tip our hats to the best of what Santa Cruz has to offer. The fashionable cocktail lounge, the venerable date-night institution, the yoga studio everybody loves, the cutting-edge graphic that’s given downtown a fresh edge—they all get props here.
Adrienne Rich, 1929–2012
She wasn’t the most visible poet in Santa Cruz by any means, but Adrienne Rich was certainly its greatest. The winner of a National Book Award, MacArthur “genius” grant, two Guggenheims and numerous other distinctions died in her Santa Cruz home on Tuesday, March 27 from complications related to rheumatoid arthritis.
