Inside the classroom in the Louden Nelson Center, the Wednesday afternoon traffic is a distant hum. It’s not that Center Street has gone quiet, by any means—it’s just been absorbed into a great stream of concentration and a calmness that fills the room. Time itself appears to have slowed.
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Santa Cruz Submerged
A team of snorkelers, boogie boarders and life jacket-clad activists will wander Pacific Avenue for an ocean-themed, only-in-Santa Cruz parade this Tuesday, Jan. 24. And it’s all in the name of climate change education. If temperatures continue rising, experts say much of downtown Santa Cruz could one day be underwater. “All of this is very, very hard to imagine because it’s so scary,” says Transition Santa Cruz’s Michael Levy. “One way to think about it is by laughing.”
Tuskegee Airmen: The Men Behind The Movie
Behind the George Lucas film Red Tails is a group of black pilots who battled on two fronts—against the enemy overtaking Europe and the enemy undermining them at home.
Letters to the Editor, Jan. 18-24, 2012
Our readers sound off on the dog poop blues, modern astrology, and our future according to the Long Count Mayan calendar.
PLATED: Indiana Jozeph
The proprietor of India Joze leads a culinary expedition to Istanbul, Shadowbrook’s chef in the spotlight and Chez Pim at Love Apple Farms.
UCSC Profs Win Chopra Award
The message came last fall from a secretary at the Chopra Foundation in Carlsbad, Calif. Deepak Chopra wished to speak to them. Would it be all right if he called? UCSC lecturer Nancy Ellen Abrams and professor Joel Primack—she’s a philosopher, he’s an astrophysicist—aren’t your standard readers of Chopra, whose 60–odd published books include titles like Ageless Body, Timeless Mind and Manifesting Good Luck Cards: Growth and Enlightenment. Chopra, however, had become a reader of Abrams and Primack. Their books on cosmology, The View from the Center of the Universe and The New Universe and the Human Future , had made an impression on him, and he wanted to get the word out.
10 Questions: Andy Zenczak
The owner of Santa Cruz’s Gadgetbox Recording Studios talks about breakfast cereal, bawling at movies and listening to Bon Iver.
Ten Questions for Lucy Martin
The Felton artist, whose work appears at this year’s Fungus Fair, speaks of mushrooms, leaf blowers and finding your true path later in life.
David Arora Demystified
The moon has just set behind a curtain of 100-foot redwood trees, and David Arora is on his first mushroom hunt of the new year. It didn’t take him long to get around to it. It’s 12:15am on Jan. 1, and the mycologist is craving a large basket of matsutakes to bring home, soak in a rich marinade and eat for dinner the next night. “I’m trying to find at least one matsutake,” says Arora, scanning the path in front of him. “They’re amazing.”
Letters to the Editor, Jan. 11-17, 2012
Our readers share their thoughts on what we know about our brains, the so-called end of the world, and of course a new angle on meter maids and people’s parking woes.
