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New Capitola Eatery Offers Eceltic Options
Restaurateurs Daniel Voskoboynikov of the Harbor Cafe and Mike Pitt of Motiv and Castaways have melded their minds and aesthetics and opened Süda, the new Pleasure Point hot spot. Locals will hardly recognize the old Rock of the Sea, which has had a major face lift (and for once the procedure really has left her looking younger and healthier). The open, light-filled restaurant incorporates recovered wood, stone and living plants into the design. Picnic tables serve as outdoor seating where neighbors in the know can be seen lounging over a pitcher of beer with their two- and four-legged friends.
Graphic Designers Balance Creativity With Business
Graphic design specifically deals with visual form and presentation. It incorporates everything from traditional media like prints and photos to digital interfaces like mobile phones and websites, tying the way products and marketing materials work together with the way they look.
Letters to the Editor: Aug 29-Sep 4
One reader voices concerns about Project 180 and searches for creative ways to deal with local problems on the outskirts of town.
Top 5 Breakfast Spots
It’s the most important meal of the day! Don’t mess it up. Here are some of Santa Cruz Weekly readers’ favorite places to fill up the tank and get going.
County Treasurer Reacts to Interest Rate-Rigging
A massive bank-rigging scandal that sent shockwaves around the world is making for a little change in business n the Monterey Bay. Santa Cruz County Treasurer Fred Keeley announced today that he is severing the county government’s financial ties to Barclays, the British Bank that last week was featured front and center in a scathing report by Britain’s Treasury Select Committee regarding the massive interest rate fiasco.
Q&A: Bill Monning
Twenty-seventh District Assemblymember and current candidate for Senate Bill Monning recently visited the Weekly offices to discuss California’s budget crisis, what “partisan gridlock” really means, and why soda pop should be Public Enemy #1. Below is a 30-second condensed version of our conversation.
CBD-Rich Marijuana: The Straight Dope
Medical marijuana has gotten a bad rap in Northern California, and perhaps for good reason. Dispensary logos typically feature a red cross backlit by a neon pot leaf, with maybe the image of a wheelchair and the word “compassion” squeezed in somewhere; meanwhile, a “nudge-nudge, wink-wink” atmosphere pervades many a dispensary waiting area, filled as they are with a high number of male “patients” between the ages of 18 and 40 who are there to be treated for “back pain” and “insomnia,” their prescriptions written by doctors who advertise in the classifieds and on billboards. It’s not surprising that the boundary between recreational and medicinal cannabis can sometimes seem as hazy as the interior of a reggae dance hall.
Graniterock Strike Started in Aromas
Aug. 19 was a cloudless, sunny California Sunday in the hills nine miles east of Watsonville when members of Operating Engineers Local Union No. 3 showed up at 4pm to close the cement and asphalt plant at Graniterock’s A.R. Wilson Quarry. Vice President and Aggregate Division Manager Jack Leemaster looked none too happy when he drove up in a white pickup truck 45 minutes later.
Pop-Up Breakfast at Westside Market
If breakfast is so important, why isn’t it more exciting? Chef Kevin Koebel of Local FATT (Food Awareness Through Teaching) and Roland Konicke of Uncle Ro’s Pizza aim to fight weekend morning boredom this Saturday, Aug. 25.
