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Seascape newcomer Dos Pescados joins rare local club: Ocean views and good food
Since it opened in June, Dos Pescados, a new Aptos restaurant from restaurateur Brandon Smittcamp and chef Trent Lidgey, has brought many changes to the former Palapas Restaurant y Cantina closed last spring, including new owners, a new menu and a new focus on seasonal ingredients and sustainable seafood. But one thing continues to be true: The restaurant that occupies the second story of one of the buildings in Seascape Village is still the place to grab a great plate of Mexican food, a brightly colored margarita and, if the bay is free of fog, a view of the ocean.
New owner opens CT Lights Lounge in former Firefly Tavern downtown
Last month, Firefly Tavern in downtown Santa Cruz winked out after just one year in business. In its place, CT Lights Lounge opened in mid-June, with Noel Cardona as the new owner. Cardona, a former commercial pilot, explains that the restaurant’s new name is a re-spelling of “city” lights, one...
Capitola City Council to discuss off leash options
CAPITOLA, CALIF. (KION-TV)- Capitola City council meeting on Thursday to decide on dog regulations across the city’s parks and beaches. Dog laws vary in the city of Capitola, Ozzi Dog Parks is the only Capitola city park that allows dogs off leash. “You never know what a dog‘s gonna...
Ask Lookout: What’s going on with that seemingly historic Victorian remodel in Capitola?
It is a major remodel that the remodelers say is building a house forward and backward at the same time. However, the story behind its nearly 140-year history is the real gem of this long-standing cliffside home. The historic structure and local time capsule at 106 Cliff Ave. above Capitola Village stretches back to one of the most famous early Santa Cruzans, or, rather, Capitolans: former Capitola postmaster and Baseball Hall of Famer Harry Hooper.
Los Gatos guitarist to rock San Jose as a Beach Boy this weekend
The Beach Boys came on the scene in 1961, straight outta Hawthorne, California. The group’s songs embodied the myth of a youthful and carefree Southern California existence, one filled with surfboards, cars and pretty girls. The core group—bassist and primary songwriter Brian Wilson, his brothers Carl (guitar) and Dennis...
FirstPersonSingular: Dominique Teixiera – Raggin’ On
Dominique Teixiera has a good reason for raggin’ on. Photo courtesy of Karolina Kaboompics. Mathilde Rand: December of 2008, I became part of the First Person Singular Team at KUSP (at that point we were five). During the last months of KUSP in 2016, I was the last hold-out. Now I am providing the same 2-minute program at KSQD, Community Radio, because I wholeheartedly believe in giving community members a voice. I am also the treasurer at KSQD. LAURIE CORN: I am attracted to the process of reducing a meaningful story or opinion to 90 seconds. I am a writer, so editing and honing a piece is a special love of mine. I have joined Mathilde Rand as co-producer of First Person Singular, and I encourage you to share your commentary on the air. This is community radio at its best.
Embracing Plastic Free July year-round at Café Delmarette
For its Plastic Free July campaign, the City of Santa Cruz is highlighting locally owned businesses that support and embody sustainability. As co-owners of Café Delmarette, we are proud to be highlighted for our environmentally conscious business practices and commitment to sustainability. As this campaign comes to a close, I was encouraged to share with our community some of the history and background behind our waste reduction practices and hopefully inspire others to join us in these efforts year-round.
Weekender: A rager of a granny, theater of all kinds, Keanu’s coming and whether TJ’s needs a new DJ
Welp, if you like your dark irony served piping hot, there’s this: Last Sunday broke the record for the single hottest day ever recorded across the globe in human history. And then, Monday broke that record. Meanwhile, the most popular movie of the summer is a movie about extreme weather that never mentions climate change. We’re all on the same bus here, people. But apparently, Thelma and Louise are driving it.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Saratoga
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are so ingrained in the culture that it’s simply the easiest way to describe a person with erratic mood shifts. But Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is deeper than a mild-mannered doctor whose experiments cause him to moonlight as a criminal. It’s an innately human story about the forces of good and evil that fight for dominance within everyone. In Silicon Valley Shakespeare’s production, Dr. Jekyll’s love for a woman motivates him to end his experiments. Is true love enough to inspire him to be good? A question many people ask themselves. The play runs till Aug. 30.
Our 67th season will be dynamic and enthralling!
We’ll kick off our season on September 21/22 with Mason Bates’ electrifying Philharmonia Fantastique and Johannes Brahms' majestic Symphony no. 1, along with a new arrangement of a beloved work by local composer Martin Gaskell. On November 2/3, we’ll pair Antonín Dvořák’s thrilling Symphony no. 8 with the...
Art brings issues into focus at exhibit launch
If you haven’t been to a contemporary gallery opening lately, you just might be surprised at what today’s visual artists have to say. And the big opening for the latest exhibit at New Museum Los Gatos, Saturday, showed that creative voices are keeping the faith when it comes to exposing lies and standing behind their beliefs.
Check, Please! Bay Area reviews: Orchard City Kitchen, HiroNori Craft Ramen, Las Cazuelas
Check, Please! Bay Area, season 19, episode 8, airs Wednesday, July 25, at 7:30 pm, on KQED 9. See other television airtimes. Check, Please! Bay Area is scoring big with three guests from Bay FC, the region’s first ever National Women’s Soccer League team! Diners kickoff at Michelin-recognized Orchard City Kitchen in Campbell, where New American dishes with bold flavors are inspired by a blend of different cultures, like garlic noodles and Korean fried chicken. Next, our guests get the ball rolling at HiroNori Craft Ramen in Cupertino where they deliver Japanese craft ramen with elaborately-flavored broth and artisan-crafted noodles. Lastly, they visit Las Cazuelas in San Jose’s historic Alameda District, an old school favorite that’s been offering delicious, affordable Mexican dishes to the community since 1960. Finally, reporter Cecilia Phillips racks up wins for her taste buds as she heads to Paypal Park to try food truck fare that fans enjoy on Bay FC game days.
A coffee house dream reimagined
Carol Wang, the CEO and face of the entrepreneurial team behind Gardenia Los Gatos—a new café, bar and restaurant that will soon debut at the site that most recently was the Palms—long dreamed of having her own coffee house. “I love coffee house culture and the sense...
California Giant Berry Farms Academy Empowers Top Chefs to Champion Blueberries; Tom Smith and Sam Blackburn Comment
WATSONVILLE, CA - Blueberries were the star of the show during California Giant Berry Farms’ inaugural California Giant Chef Invitational Academy. The unique program was designed to empower and inspire the grower’s past Chef Invitational winners while elevating blueberries on menus. "We designed the Chef Invitational Academy to...
Premieres, New and Recent Works, Workshops, Composers in Residence at Cabrillo Festival
In Thursday’s (7/18) I Care If You Listen, Esteban Meneses writes, “The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, a new-music enthusiast’s dream destination in Santa Cruz, Calif., for 62 years has distinguished itself among summer festivals for its exclusive focus on living composers. [Bora] Yoon is returning to Cabrillo this year, which runs July 29 to August 11, as one of 15 composers in residence working with Cristian Măcelaru, the festival’s music director since 2017. Her new piece PARHELION, one of four world premieres, was commissioned for Cabrillo’s inaugural Creative Lab, an initiative designed to give creative independence to the composer…. Cabrillo 2024 also includes the world premiere of Casting the Dice by Iván Enrique Rodríguez … The August 3 program includes the world premiere of Nathaniel Heyder’s unbound: Phase 1, a short piece commissioned by Cabrillo…. The fourth Cabrillo world premiere, on the August 2 program, is Karim Al-Zand’s Al Hakawati, which consists of fragments from an opera still in progress … Between Heyder and Rodríguez comes the West Coast premiere of Lembit Beecher’s Tell Me Again, a cello concerto for his wife, Karen Ouzounian.” Other West Coast premieres include works by Helen Grime, Errollyn Wallen, Vivian Fung, Clarice Assad, Daniel Kellogg, Nina C. Young, and Wynton Marsalis, as well as recent works by Pierre Jalbert and Juan Pablo Contreras.
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