Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
It wasn’t until the very early part of the 20th century that the idea of the artist as an independent thinker took hold in the West. For almost 900 years before, each provenance maintained a dogma about the role an artist played in society. Sometimes the role was to support the canon of those in
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
By WALLACE BAINE Making the world a better place is often complicated. But sometimes it’s not. A sell-out crowd on May 31 for the benefit event “Laughing with the Dalai Lama” will pay for 20 girls in...
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
By WALLACE BAINE Time spent traveling is usually nothing but dead time for touring musicians. There might be a bit of songwriting, a bit of rehearsing on the tour bus, but mostly it’s sleeping, eating, goofing around...
Sunday, May 19th, 2013
Twenty-one years down the road, finally those unpleasant memories of a Memorial Day weekend without world-class live blues are beginning to fade for Santa Cruz County blues fans. The Santa Cruz Blues Festival has become such a...
Thursday, May 16th, 2013
By WALLACE BAINE There was a time in this fair land – long before fast food, before malls, before behemoth discount chains – when a durable-goods retailer sold you things created within a certain radius from the...
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
By KIRBY SCUDDER Manuel Santana passed away at the age of 81 in July 2008, leaving behind a legacy of community activism, through his work as a restaurateur, painter, husband, father and a transformative force in...
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
By WALLACE BAINE Despite what her luminous bestselling novels might suggest, Isabel Allende does indeed live in the contemporary world. The celebrated author of “The House of the Spirits,” “City of Beasts” and several other novels set...
Sunday, May 12th, 2013
By WALLACE BAINE Today, there are two of me. The process of packing for a vacation, which I’m doing right now, splits my usually unified self into a bickering pair of selves. When that vacation is halfway...
Friday, May 10th, 2013
By ANN PARKER Now that summer is fast approaching, I start to think about dining al fresco — and Kelly’s French Bakery on the Westside has one of the prettiest patios in town. When my friend Kerry...
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