The Olympic sport of curling involves two teams of players carefully sliding large stones down an icy lane while “sweepers” use brooms to polish the rocks’ gradual paths toward a target.
There will be no curling shown at the Banff Mountain Film Festival.
Articles by elgeorge
Replacing Santa Cruz City Manager Dick Wilson
In a city where constant change is the only guarantee, Santa Cruzans have been able to count on one thing for the last 28 years: that City Manager Dick Wilson would show up to work every day, a steady hand at the tiller keeping the city on course. During his tenure, the tall, soft-spoken Wilson answered to more than a dozen city councils, steering city staff through an earthquake, an expanding university and more budget crises than just the most recent one. When Wilson retires in July, he’ll be leaving the Santa Cruz City Council with what Mayor Mike Rotkin calls “the most important decision the council will make in its tenure.
Through The Cellar Door
The New York Times Magazine traced the origins of the words “cellar door,” which, it turns out, is considered an exceedingly beautiful pair of words. Local poet Stephen Kessler, however, isn’t convinced.
Mammoth Waves Test Pro Surfers At Mavericks
South African Chris Bertish won first place in the Mavericks Surf Contest after conquering huge 40-foot waves that many surfers said were the biggest ever for the contest. With slideshow.
$16.5 Million Grant Awarded to Solar Financing Program
The wait is over. The California Energy Commission announced Thursday that a $16.5 million grant would be awarded to the 14-county alternative energy financing program CaliforniaFIRST.
The Cheetah’s Spot
WHEN IT COMES to the business of cheating, Noel Biderman is boss. His website AshleyMadison.com—named, he says, after the two most popular monikers for baby girls—functions like any other dating site, with profiles, searches, messages and photos. But at Biderman’s site, the dating pool comes with baggage: namely girlfriends, boyfriends, wives and husbands.
AMGEN Stage To End At Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
This year, stage three of the AMGEN Tour of California is set for Tuesday, May 18, and ends a few blocks south of our previously prime location – on Beach Street, in front of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
Skunk Rescue in Aptos
In an email to Santa Cruz Weekly, group founder Rebecca Dmytryk says she responded to a private Aptos residence around 1pm on Monday where the skunk had been trapped for about five hours. With video.
Walk the Talk on Tolerance
It is disappointing that Rabbi Abraham Cooper, representing the Wiesenthal Center for Tolerance in Los Angeles and a speaker at Temple Beth El last week, is a chief advocate for building a new “Museum of Tolerance” on top of a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem. This hardly seems consistent with the Wiesenthal Center’s declared purpose of “worldwide promotion of tolerance education.”
Anna Deavere Smith to Speak at UCSC MLK Convocation
Anna Deavere Smith, a celebrated actress, author and playwright known for using documentary approaches to art, will deliver the keynote address at Santa Cruz’s 26th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation on Feb. 11.
