Sunday, April 7th, 2013
Monday, March 11th, 2013
{ THROUGH APRIL 14, Pajaro Valley Arts Council Gallery, 37 Sudden St., Watsonville. Free. Details: www.pajarovalleyartscouncil.org. } By WALLACE BAINE For the next five weeks or so, the Pajaro Valley Gallery in Watsonville will serve as a...
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
It’s 2 PM on a September afternoon, the waters are getting choppy 500 yards off Pillar Point, North of Half Moon Bay. A Rescue Yamaha Jet Ski heads to the beach to move back paddlers trying to...
Wednesday, January 30th, 2013
OPENING FRIDAY Through March 31; Public reception Friday 6 to 9 p.m., artist reception Feb. 16, 6 to 8 p.m.; Santa Cruz Institute of Contemporary Art at the Tannery Arts Center, Santa Cruz; Free; www.scica.org By WALLACE...
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
It’s 1:30 on Monday and members of the Pajaro Valley Arts Council Gallery Committee grab coffee at Peet’s in downtown Santa Cruz. I meet them at Java Junction where I grab a coffee to go. Traffic on...
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
NEXT WEEK GAIL RICH AWARDS Call it Santa Cruz’s version of the Lincoln Center Awards. From the among the vast numbers of artists, performers and writers making their home in Santa Cruz, six individuals are chosen...
Friday, January 11th, 2013
1997 Rick Walker, musician Peter, Diana, Marina and Lyle Troxell, family of artists Holt Murray, sculptor Bob Lowery, blues musician Laura Ellen Hopper, radio pioneer Sara Wilbourne, dancer Eric Schoeck, talk-show host Joe Ferrara, comic-book merchant Philip...
Saturday, January 5th, 2013
Santa Cruz County is that place where the guy behind the café counter is a singer/songwriter, the woman showing you a house for sale is a landscape painter and your next-door neighbor is writing her third novel....
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
The first time I saw a glimpse of his work, I was wowed. A neon artist — what was his story? How did he execute such vibrant, spectacular pieces of art by working with and shaping neon...
Sunday, November 25th, 2012
There are faint patterns of Victorian wallpaper stained in tea, white markings of pictures recently removed from their lifelong wall hanging, chairs with upholstery ripped and then mended with thread, an embroidered gown hanging from a lone...