Let’s be honest: it’s hard to find good food on the cheap without either camping at the dining hall salad bar or fighting for the kitchen stove with the roommate who makes the Soup Nazi look like Mohandas Gandhi. Here’s our guide to tasty eats that won’t do any damage to your wallet—or to your large intestine.
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Santa Cruz Guide: Empty Beaches
Beaches are great. Crowds, not so much. Our correspondent has identified five stretches of coastline where one can practice one’s dance moves, tuba or naked headstands without causing a scene.
STREETSIGNS: Early Girls
Early girls taste even that much sweeter at the dawn of autumn, this time when the sun’s warmth is felt for what feels like the last time and the cool nights naturally foreshadow the coming cold.
Santa Cruz Guide: Broken Hearts Club
Waiting until Thanksgiving to evaluate whether or not the LDR has run its course is unnecessary. The obvious and not-so-obvious signs are right under your nose.
Coastal Cleanup Day Yields Loads of Trash
Stretching from the quiet creeks of Waddell Beach to the jagged coastline of Big Sur, 4,584 volunteers swarmed beaches and rivers around Monterey Bay to pick up garbage and recyclables last Saturday, Sept 17, as part of International Coastal Cleanup Day. Save Our Shores crews working at 81 cleanup locations in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties removed more than 17,000 pounds of trash, about 3,200 pounds of it recyclable. “It’s amazing how many people come out,” says Colleen Bednarz, communications director for Save Our Shores.
Santa Cruz’s Big Fat Greek Fundraiser
Greece was in the news this weekend, not only because bankers around the world were watching to see if the country defaults, but also because Californians from across the Bay Area gathered in the Santa Cruz agora for the 31st Annual Greek Festival. Here was a chance to get a taste of Greece, and as anyone who’s ever been to Greece or even seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding knows, there’s no such thing as a little taste of Greece.
Cop Dragged with Stolen Truck
The SCPD is searching for Ryan Mang, 37, and Shivhan Armstrong, 25, after they assaulted a police officer and dragged him along the road for over 30 feet with a stolen truck. The officer suffered moderate injuries. Both Mang and Armstrong are well known to the SCPD. Each has a long criminal record in the city.
Hunt Acquitted of Murder, Sentenced for Robbery
Adam Hunt, 31, who was charged for his involvement in the murder of Elias Sorokin, was sentenced to five years in prison. He was convicted of robbing Sorokin, but unlike his codefendant Kenneth Clamp, he was not convicted of felony murder. Nevertheless, Judge Paul Marigonda determined that Hunt poses a danger to society and sentenced him to the maximum five years. Based on time served, Hunt will be out of prison in two years and three months.
Top Ten Cult Films, Then And Now
It’s starting to seem like just about anything can be called a cult film these days. The Breakfast Club? Ghostbusters? Saw? Sound of Freaking Music? Are you kidding me? Those movies were all monster hits when they came out, and never stopped being loved by legions of fans around the world. They are and probably always will be as mainstream as it gets.
Santa Cruz County Bags on Bags
On Tuesday, the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve a ban on single-use plastic bags in all unincorporated areas of the county. “The plastic bag problem is a statewide issue, but because the state legislature failed to get it done, we had to move forward locally to make this happen,” said Supervisor Mark Stone, who spearheaded the effort in conjunction with Save Our Shores.
