Thursday, April 28, 2011

SCFF: TAKE TEN

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Ten years in the making! Believe it or not, the Santa Cruz Film Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, May 5 - May...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

BEWITCHERY

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The hits just keep coming at the Aptos Cinema Weekend Classics series. This weekend (just in time for May E...
Monday, April 25, 2011

ANIMAL MAGNETISM

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Okay, I admit it: I'm one of the few people alive who did not read Sara Gruen's mega-bestselling novel about passion an...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

NOW THEY ARE SIX

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Needless to say, James Durbin did not spend a single uneasy nanosecond in the penalty box on Thursday night's elimina...
Friday, April 22, 2011

YOWZA

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The James Durbin show just keeps rockin' along on American Idol . Last week he was the closer, and brought down the house...
Monday, April 18, 2011

RIP-ROARING

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'Zounds, this Friday is William Shakespeare's birthday, and I didn't even send a card. But never mind; there'll...
Friday, April 15, 2011

ROCK ON

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Justice was served on American Idol last night. James Durbin survives to sing another day after his raucous performance of ...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

KISS & TELL

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A funny thing happened to former Santa Cruz Sentinel columnist Claudia Sternbach when she was making the dreary rounds of agen...

CAT TALES II

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Remember the new Catalyst movie I blogged about a while back? It's now set to have its World Premiere at (where else?) the...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

RETURN OF THE MIGHTY

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Accept no substitutes! KING KONG is back, and the Aptos Cinema's Weekend Classics series has got him. The mighty giant ape...

TRASH INTO TREASURE

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What's a reality show, an art competition, and a lesson in green ecology all rolled into one? The answer is "Junk Art Sc...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

THE KING JAMES VERSION

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Okay, I admit it. For years, American Idol has been my go-to scapegoat for everything that's wrong with American culture. As ...
Friday, April 1, 2011

FRESH EYRE

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Rising filmmaker (and UCSC grad) Cary Joji Fukunaga wants to keep you guessing. His impressive first feature, Sin Nombre , was ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

CALLING ALL READERS!

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Meet my pal, Gary Shapiro, proprietor of the best weekly radio program on books and authors that you've never heard—unless yo...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

WHAT'S IN A POT? (BIG CREEK POTTERY II)

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Despite drenching rains (geez, what next, a plague of locusts?), the Big Creek Pottery show went on at the MAH over the weekend. ...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

INCANDESCENT MOMENTS

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New MAH exhibit celebrates the alchemy of fire, clay, and imagination that was the Big Creek Pottery School Bruce and Ma...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

TEMPESTUOUS

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A dream cast, a marvelously rugged locale in the Hawaiian Islands, one of the most durable and enticing works in all of Shakespear...