Subject: Santa Cruz

• Independent film with local music = go see it

  May 23, 2007

• Emily Jane White tonight

  May 25, 2007

• Tramp Stamps, Sex Pistols and Rummy: SFTopNews Tuesday, September 18

  September 18, 2007

• Simply Paradise: SoonHo Song Art Exhibit Opens Saturday

  November 3, 2007

• (((folkYEAH!))) brings Cluster up the coast

  April 3, 2008

• Plan Your Culinary Rocktober

  October 1, 2008

• Brightblack Morning Light in Santa Cruz on Saturday

  October 16, 2008

• Streetlight Records to Close Noe Valley Store

  Thirty-two years after opening shop in Noe Valley, Streetlight Records is closing its flagship store. The 24th St. music outlet is shuttering due to a combination of poor CD sales and rising rents. General manager Jeffrey Moss send out a statement today saying the remaining Streetlight stores in San Francisco (2350 Market Street ) as well as the ones in San Jose and Santa Cruz will remain open, so all isn't lost in the world of independent music retailers. It is a bummer, though, to hear about

  November 17, 2008

• Drink of the Week: Odwalla's Super Protein Pumpkin

  The ever-reliable Odwalla, which was started in Santa Cruz and has its headquarters up the coast in Half Moon Bay, offers this Super Protein Pumpkin soy milk drink every winter; it's one of their only seasonal flavors. That's a shame because, with our mild weather year-round, when is it a bad time to enjoy a beverage that tastes like liquid pumpkin pie? --Tamara Palmer

  December 12, 2008

• Penzeys Now in Bay Area

  Some of Penzeys' spices are sufficiently superior that they're worth the extra trouble.

  February 4, 2009

• 28th Annual Santa Cruz Clam Chowder Cook-Off This Saturday

  With separate divisions for amateur chefs, restaurants and corporations, the 28th Annual Santa Cruz Clam Chowder Cook-Off & Festival offers a unique cooking competition for all levels. The event, which has its own silly theme song, takes place on Saturday, February 21 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (400 Beach St., Santa Cruz). Admission is free and chowder tasting kits are $8, with proceeds to benefit the city's Parks and Recreation Department.

  February 18, 2009

• Slap Shots

  August 2, 1995

• Sleepy Sun rises in the local psych scene

  February 25, 2009

• The recession is hurting A.C.T. and others

  December 31, 2008

• Tube Time

  June 25, 2008

• Half in the Bag in Half Moon Bay

  June 25, 2008

• Ride 'Em In

  September 19, 2007

• Treasure Island Booty

  A Guide to Getting Shipwrecked This Weekend

  September 12, 2007

• Baseball season! San Francisco's musical farm team down south

  May 30, 2007

• Skate Night

  Sporty, spicy girls

  October 19, 2005

• Blown Away

  A murderous cabal unspools onstage

  December 15, 2004

• Artbeat

  May 12, 2004

• Dance Dance Revolution

  Whole lotta shakin' goin' on

  April 21, 2004

• Art of Fact

  "Beautiful Ugly Violence"'s open wounds

  March 3, 2004

• Uke Till Ya Puke

  A festival devoted entirely to the tiny Hawaiian guitar

  February 11, 2004

• Ferociously Stoned

  Remember when psych rock thrived in S.F.? Of course you don't. You were high. But Comets on Fire will jar more than your memory.

  December 31, 2003

• Walk It Off

  Feet don't fail me now

  October 1, 2003

• As Seen On

  We like books and we like TV, so why don't we like book TV?

  May 28, 2003

• Hear This

  The apocalyptic acid-rock attack of Comets on Fire

  December 18, 2002

• A Fling in the Forest

  Into the woods with the players of the Professional Disc Golf Association

  August 28, 2002

• Sports/Outdoors/Races

  June 19, 2002

• Pop Philosophy

  Channeling stupidity, and exploding nicely

  September 26, 2001

• Pop Philosophy

  Rock Out S.F.; Bart Davenport; Santa Cruz Lo-Fi Indie Music Festival

  September 27, 2000

• Hippie Chic

  Foxgluv's emergence on the rave scene has been a series of happy accidents and absurd coincidences

  March 15, 2000

• REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

  January 20, 1999

• Riff Raff

  December 16, 1998

• The Selling of a Wave

  Three sports clothing companies are sponsoring contests that encourage surfers to ride the 60-foot waves at Maverick's Point. Someone may be encouraged to death.

  October 14, 1998

• REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

  April 16, 1997

• Unspun

  September 4, 1996

• Chicken Little Visits San Francisco Backyards

  If only we could look this mod in our garden....When Jennifer Siebel squatted down last year in the Civic Center Plaza garden in her Jackie O. shades and trench coat to get her delicate hands dirty, it was official: urban gardening is glam. And with folks having fewer bucks than ever to burn on pricey organic products, it's also practical. But rumor has it that a small but growing number of food-conscious city slickers have decided its time to take this "Gre

  April 28, 2009

• The Devil Makes Three

  April 29, 2009

• Funk Man at the Fillmore Tonight

  Funk Man: Del Del tha Funky Homosapien has done his part to help in these challenging economic times with a 'funk stimulus package': a free digital album entitled Funk Man. If you were thinking of giving up food for funk, download the album for free instead. Thanks, Del! The Hieroglyphics co-founder and legendary word-slanger appears live in concert tonight, at the Fillmore, and Saturday, at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz. Ticket info for the SF show is here.

  June 5, 2009

• Drink of the Week: Kombucha Botanica's Ginger Tulsi Kombucha

  This is a great way to get some culture in ya. Kombucha Botanica, based in Santa Cruz, adds ginger and tulsi (the Southeast Asian herb colloquially known as "holy basil") to the tastiest of its kombucha beverages for something alternately smooth and spicy.The fermentation, thankfully and for once, is not the top note of this drink. Drinking a zoological mat is not usually so easy, but the S.C.O.B.Y. (the symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast that gives kombucha its purported health properties)

  July 3, 2009

• Chronic City: Marijuana Moratorium -- How To Ignore The Voters And The Law

  Dispensary moratorium: Latest political fad?​One by one, across California, the lights are winking out.In city after city, town after town, patients who had dared hope they would at last have safe access to the medicine recommended by their physicians are having those hopes dashed  by political cowardice, inertia, and the status quo.In case you haven't noticed, medical marijuana is yet another front in the culture wars. Conservative hamlets which aren't yet ready for the 21st Century noti

  August 4, 2009

• The Barb

  August 5, 2009

• Drink of the Week: Taylor's Tonics' Chai Cola

  ​Taylor's Tonics of Santa Cruz offers a simple yet unique idea with its Redwood forest-brewed Chai Cola. A bubbly concoction featuring main ingredients of yerba mate, ginger, and black chai tea, this cola is sweetened with evaporated cane juice and tastes like a supercharged hybrid of ginger ale and root beer.The chai's pronounced notes of cardamom and clove make this an original flavor in the cola landscape. These spices also give the beverage an adult air -- this ain't your kid's Coke.

  August 7, 2009

• Fire Engulfs 'Haunted' Music Venue Brookdale Inn

  ​For many years, the Brookdale Inn has played host to music acts ranging from Dick Dale to Om. The legendary "haunted" old hotel in the Santa Cruz mountains has been used as a venue most recently for artists working with (((FolkYeah!))), which books everything from metal to folk to indie in the lodge's colorful, cozy environment. Last night, parts of the hotel caught fire, dislocating 60 people and concerning fans of the kitschy, old school venue. From the Santa Cruz Sentinel's report, it soun

  August 19, 2009

• Oom-Pah-Pah in Oakland Tomorrow at Oaktoberfest

  ​Oaktown is the site of tomorrow's appropriately named Oaktoberfest in the Dimond District (Ground Zero: MacArthur and Fruitvale), 11 a.m.-6 p.m. It's continuing a longstanding tradition: In the early 1900s, the area was full of beer gardens and German-owned vacation spots for S.F. families. Expect fresh brews from Lagunitas, Trumer Pils, Linden Street Brewery, Santa Cruz Ale Works, Thirsty Bear, and others, in a giant covered beer hall. Sip away in the biergarten while the kids enjoy th

  October 9, 2009

• Video of the Day: Sleepy Sun's New Age

  San Francisco psych-popsters Sleepy Sun get extra cosmic on their new video, "New Age," a red- and droopy-eyed ballad that opens up into some seriously stony guitar solos. We would expect nothing less from a band that got its original musical and spiritual guidance down in Santa Cruz. 

  November 2, 2009

• Court Ruling: Man Officially a Dick For Giving Nazi Salute at City Council Meeting

  Welcome to Santa Cruz...​A legal case lasting longer than America's involvement in World War II has ostensibly culminated with the following conclusion: A man who felt the need to give the Nazi salute during government meetings deserved the Stalingrad treatment he got.A Santa Cruz man named Robert Norse twice gave the Sieg Heil to members of that city's government, in 2002 and 2004. Following his '04 ejection, he sued the city for abrogating his First Amendment rights. That case made it all th

  November 6, 2009