Twenty-three years ago, Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry Be Happy” was at the top of the charts and George Herbert Walker Bush was about to sweep the presidential election on the strength of Willie Horton ads, a thousand points of light and America’s willingness to read his lips and find no new taxes there.
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Blue Lights Come to Santa Cruz
For a city whose violent crime history includes four serial killers during the ’70s and early ’80s and enough stabbings in recent years that one guy started a website to track them, it’s difficult to imagine combating violence without the police. But a few community-minded citizens in Santa Cruz are trying.
Lompico Rate Hike Set To Take Effect
It’s official. The Lompico Water District, which already has the highest water rates in the county, is about to see its rates rise again—about 25 percent, depending on the household’s usage. In order to stop the rate increase, more than half of Lompico’s 500-odd households would have had to write in or speak up at a hearing on the issue. Only about 30 did so at the hour-long meeting at the Zayante Firehouse on Sept. 29.
Lanting, Glass and the Science of ‘Life’
“Life,” the ambitious multimedia collaboration between Frans Lanting and Philip Glass that premiered at the Cabrillo Festival in 2006, is finally returning to the Bay Area after stops in New York, London, Italy, Mexico and elsewhere. Glass’ score will be performed Saturday, Oct. 16 at the Flint Center in Cupertino by Symphony Silicon Valley under the direction of conductor Carolyn Kuan for UCSC’s “Evolutionary/Revolutionary.”
Occupy Santa Cruz Learns The Ropes
While the number of active protesters has dwindled in the week since the first general meeting in Laurel Park on Tuesday, Oct. 4, there are unmistakable signs that the Occupy Santa Cruz movement is beginning to coalesce after a week of gestation.
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Although Geoffrey Dunn tried to cling to his Underwood typewriter, the Santa Cruz author eventually surrendered to Apple’s user-friendly technology. That wasn’t the only way Apple co-founder Steve Jobs changed his life.
Don’t Call Him Beat
‘Don’t call me a Beat—I never was a Beat poet,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti declares flatly in Ferlinghetti, filmmaker Christopher Felver’s 2009 documentary screening this Tuesday night, Oct. 18 at the Del Mar as the main event of Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day in Santa Cruz. Both Felver and his subject will be present as the city honors Ferlinghetti’s monumental contributions to American literary, cultural and political life.
Senior Discount
In some way you are diminished, and so these businesses—the moviehouse, the grocery, the Goodwill, the discount store that already slashes prices—knock a percentage off your purchases as a gesture of compassion for your shrunken condition. You don’t exactly feel old, unless you happen to notice your wizened visage in the mirror or the pain in your joints or the ancient habits you repeat as if in perpetuity, but you know you are.
Restaurant Week: Casablanca
Reopened last spring by Tyrolean Inn owners Whitney Belvin and Charles Cheatham, the Casablanca’s reinvention as an inn and bistro stresses a regional organic menu, thanks to chef Job Carder’s many personal contacts.
