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FOOD & DRINK
Hijinx at Event Santa Cruz Midtown Fridays Summer Block Party
Hijinx headlined last weeks Event Santa Cruz Midtown Fridays Summer Block Party and it was such a blast. Here are a few of the cover songs they did. Can’t wait to have them back next year!. To see the full lineup for the summer click here.
Photo story: County celebrates the Fourth
Thousands of people lined the main streets of Watsonville and Aptos Thursday to watch the parades that have become a tradition stretching back decades. The Spirit of Watsonville parade kicked off at noon, two hours after the Worlds Shortest Parade, which takes place in Aptos on Soquel Avenue in Mid-County.
Dos Pescados Debuts (Softly) in Aptos Tomorrow
Dos Pescados opens quietly Wednesday, July 3, with a partial menu that represents an explosion of flavorful plates—snapper ceviche with aji amarillo, leche de tigre kampachi and smoked beef enchiladas among them. Tacos—of Mexican heritage with a coastal Californian zing—will also star. Options include mahi mahi tacos with chipotle...
Lily Belli on Food: New statewide service fee rules, Live Earth’s fall feast, and an orchard update
Welcome to Lily Belli on Food, a weekly food-focused newsletter from Lookout’s food and drink correspondent, Lily Belli. Keep reading for the latest local food news for Santa Cruz County – plus a few fun odds and ends from my own life and around the web. Stay in...
Repair cafe at Saratoga Library helps divert trash from landfills
For Saratoga residents with broken toasters, bicycles, blenders and other household items, a new panacea awaits: the Saratoga Library’s repair cafe. At the June 30 event, residents were invited to bring their broken household items to the library’s community room, where volunteers not only helped them repair the items for free but could teach them to fix it themselves in the future. The event offered repair and maintenance for clothes, bikes, certain electronics and small electronic appliances.
Local Muralist Creates Visual History of Los Gatos at NUMU
When San Jose-based artist Tomas Wisper Talamantes learned that New Museum (NUMU) wanted him to paint a mural about Los Gatos inside the museum, he had a lot of questions. The first one was where, exactly, this museum was. “It’s not small, but it’s hidden,” Talamantes says. “And they have...
Kim Nalley Trio in Los Gatos
Perhaps since birth, music writing has been in the cards for musician and vocalist Kim Nalley. Born into a musical family, Nalley took piano lessons from her grandmother before receiving a formal music education at the ACES Educational Center for the Arts in Connecticut. Later, she moved to the Bay Area, where Michael Tilson Thomas hired her to sing a program of George Gershwin tunes for the SF Symphony. Immersed in all things jazz, Nalley owned and operated Jazz at Pearl’s, a North Beach nightclub in the mid-aughts. Working with an impressive three-and-a-half vocal octave range, Nalley explores jazz roots with a masterly hold on the music.
Plain Talk About Food | Then and Now
Living just off Highway 9 in Ben Lomond, I am often caught up in lines of traffic going “nowhere” for minutes at a time. So much so, that I keep a notepad and pen in the console next to my seat, jotting down random thoughts. Earlier this month,...
Strictly Business | The Ultimate Trio: Fashion, Fun & Feel-Good Finds
Nestled in the heart of downtown Felton, SCM Clothing Glass & A$$ is redefining the shopping experience. It is located conveniently across from RiteAid on Highway 9. This unique store combines an extraordinary mix of themed T-shirts, custom hats, adult pleasure toys and premium smoking glass pipes. SCM Clothing Glass...
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