The airwaves of Free Radio Santa Cruz, which typically feature voices like local talk show host John Malkin and Amy Goodman of “Democracy Now,” have gone strangely quiet while the station looks for a new home. After officials from the Federal Communications Commission dropped off a noncompliance letter on Aug. 12, owners of the station’s home asked DJs to pull the plug on its antenna, which hung from a giant tree in their yard. The unlicensed pirate radio station has since suspended operations and been broadcasting online only.
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Keeping It Beal
Combining dance, humor, music by composer Jon Scoville and video from an on-site mobile studio recording audience members’ musings about what happens after we kick le bucket, HereAfterHere sold out in three days last year.
Cinema Paradiso at the Pacific Rim Festival
Notable not just for its affordability—the only admission price all week is for the benefit on the final night, and that’s but a modest fee—but for the care with which it’s juried and presented, the Pac Rim Film Fest offers a superb sampling of cinema from what is arguably, at this moment, the world’s most culturally dynamic region.
Fall Arts Outlook: Literature
Visiting authors and literary events in Santa Cruz this autumn
Fall Arts Outlook: Dance
Tandy Beal returns with HereAfterHere and Thriller dance classes are back this fall.
Fall Arts Outlook: Theater
The season’s theatrical offerings range from Chekhov to Sondheim.
Fall Arts Outlook: Jazz & Classical Music
The fall jazz and classical season starts with the 54th annual Monterey Jazz Festival and ends with the Messiah singalong at First Congregational. Between those two points is a busy autumn calendar filled with luminaries like Branford Marsalis, McCoy Tyner and violin virtuoso Sheryl Staples.
Fall Arts Outlook: Film
Cineastes, get out your iCals—Santa Cruz hosts a number of unique screenings this fall, from the week-long Pacific Rim Film Festival to the two-day screening of Metropolis with live accompaniment by New Music Works.
Fall Arts Outlook: Visual Arts
This is a golden time of the year for the arts, with the days growing shorter and people drifting back indoors, resigned to early nightfall but not quite ready to stop playing. One by one, arts venues around town turn their lights up a little brighter, inviting people in to linger a while. This fall in Santa Cruz brings the usual markers of the season—the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County’s Open Studios tour, for example—as well as relative newcomers to the calendar, like the Museum of Art and History’s new slate of interactive programs . And of course there’s the monthly explosion of arts appreciation, flaneur-style, known as First Friday. Read on and keep your calendar handy!
Making It at MAH
Wood shavings fly through the air and a fine film of sawdust settles on the cement floor of the Atrium. It’s just another Sunday at the Museum of Art and History (MAH), and the Makers at the MAH pilot program is in full swing.
