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Courtly Cousins: Munson and Takayo SCS launches season with lively rustic comedy As You Like It Art imitated life in Santa Cruz this weeken...

Whenever anyone is fool enough to ask me for writing advice, I'm sure my responses are vague or cryptic at best. But h...

Graduation Day, 1974 In celebration of the (ack!) 50th anniversary of my graduation from UCSC, here's what I cobbled together for the on...

Hey, folks, check out The Colour Room , now streaming on Amazon Prime. It's a drama about the early career of the wonderful Clarice Clif...

 SCS stages smart, witty story of the actors who saved Shakespeare You couldn't imagine a better production to capture the spirit of thi...

Complicity, not compliance, highlights spirited SCS offering There's a telling moment near the end of Santa Cruz Shakespeare's curr...

Shakespeare season is now in full swing in Santa Cruz, with the premiere of King Lear last week joining The Taming of the Shrew and The Boo...

I was clearing out James' toy cabinet when, just like a box of Crackerjacks, I found a surprise inside. Tucked away behind the monster m...

Hold the pepperoni! Pizza may be no more than snack food (or, worse, junk food) to you. But to the six extraordinary craftpersons featured i...

 On Turning 70 Just like Halley's Comet, tearing up the sky every 75 years. Or Cicadas, emerging every 17 years to blanket the Midwe...

Wall-E : Upweirdly mobile  Late in life, when the great Katharine Hepburn was   asked if she ever watched her old movies...

 "Come out here." It was never a command, only an invitation, delivered in a subtle tone of voice that seemed to promise something...