Santa Cruz Weekly presents our look at Santa Cruz’s year of the strange, cool and just plain ridiculous.
Posts Tagged: 2012
Santa Cruz Gift Guide 2012
For our 2012 holiday gift guide, we’ve included a broad range of gift picks—from the artistic to the practical, from toys to clothing to jewelry to crafts to books and more—and where to find them in Santa Cruz.
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.
2012 Bucket Lists
It seems like only yesterday the biggest thing we had to worry about was a Gingrich-Palin ticket. Now we’re staring down the barrel of a 50-week march to the end of the world on Dec. 21, 2012, when the Mayan calendar comes to the end of its 5,000-odd-year cycle. (Or so they say.) It’s kind of depressing when you think about it in a certain light.
The End of The World As We Know It
Inside the Herb Room on Mission Street, home to holistic remedies like Sweet Bee Magic Cream, a beaming man who calls himself Word Smith (and has the business cards to prove it) is working the cash register. Word Smith is taking a special interest in this new year. Not because he’s some crackpot who thinks the world is going to burst into flames on Dec. 21; he thinks anyone predicting the end of the world is missing the most important part of the picture. But those people who think this will be a normal year? They’re wrong too, he says.
