Give Credit Re: “Big Empty” (<a href="https://www.santacruz.com/articles/what_happened_to_the_e-c-_rittenhouse_building.html): Regarding your recent cover and article on the Rittenhouse Building, I would like to add some details that I feel were barely discussed in your article. First, Louis Rittenhouse has been extraordinarily generous to many, many nonprofit organizations and artists. I feel he has been extremely generous in…
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Should E-Cigarettes Be Banned?
“Secondhand smoke kills.” We’ve all heard it, and it’s been used as justification for <a href="https://www.santacruz.com/articles/smoking_ban_enacted_in_santa_cruz.html great and small—in bars, on campuses and throughout cities. At this point, most can agree that it is not fair for nonsmokers to have to suffer the negative health effects caused by cigarette smoke. But new rounds of smoking…
McCoy Tyler Band Shakes Up Local Scene
The McCoy Tyler Band has dressed up to play the Freedom Rotary Club’s 30th anniversary party. Drummer Clinton Brown threw on a dress shirt, and upright bassist Chad Bowen, the trio’s self-described “recovering jam band fanatic,” put his long hair in a ponytail with a rubber band he borrowed from the raffle table. The Santa…
Letters to the Editor, March 19-25
‘Nobody Made This Up’ Re: “Deep Web” (Currents, March 12): I am writing because I believe I am one of the few people who knows the truth about all this. I have been aware of the facebook profiles Tim created since December of 2012. I was concerned about them because after he created the, he…
A Holistic Approach to Breast Cancer
In a crowded Aptos bistro, I am a nervous ball of energy by the time I locate Christina Grant, Ph.D., holistic healer and author of the recent book The Holistic Approach to Breast Cancer: Every Woman’s Guide to Health, Vitality & Wellbeing. In truth, the topic we are about to confront horrifies me. I don’t…
Do Santa Cruz Planning Laws Need Another Look?
You could call Joe Collins’ home on Manor Avenue of the Westside of Santa Cruz “quaint.” The neighborhood used to be home to the town’s Italian fishing community, and neighbors have told Collins, a non-fiction author, they once saw Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio eat in the dining room decades before he bought it. The…
Fur for First Readers at Santa Cruz Libraries
On a big oval rug in the children’s section of the Capitola library sits a scruffy little dog with sandy brown hair and friendly eyes. A boy in a little league uniform is sitting next the dog, reading aloud. Not far away, a giant black Newfoundland named Bitsy is lying on her side listening to…
Tim Goncharoff Cancels Campaign Kickoff
Santa Cruz City Council candidate Tim Goncharoff has called off his official kickoff event, which had been set to take place this Sunday.
Letters to the Editor, Mar. 12 – 18
Goncharoff Responds Re: “Puppet Show” (Briefs, March 5): I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that there are people who want to tarnish my character and reputation. After all, when you enter a campaign for public office, you have to expect such things. But it’s hard to express my disappointment that the Santa Cruz Weekly would…
Soquel Artist Mary Blair Finally Gets Her Due
More than a half-century following her greatest triumphs as an artist, Mary Blair, whose genius placed her personal stamp on many of Walt Disney’s most celebrated films and amusement-park attractions, is finally getting the global recognition that was denied her during a lifetime of personal tragedy and despair. Posterity has a way of evening things…
