Tandy Does Utah

Tandy Does Utah

Outside Blake's Window, directed by Tandy Beal, with music by Jon Scoville, opens April 12-15 in Salt Lake City on the elegant Repertory Dance Theatre at the new Jeanne Wagner Theatre. Original cast members from Santa Cruz, (Paula Bliss, singer, Rock Lerum, fire...

Easter Island

Easter Island

Here's what happened at our breakfast table this Easter weekend — an explosion of chicks hatched out of one of our soft boiled eggs! Egg-xactly.

Tapas @ Bistro Al Mar

Tapas @ Bistro Al Mar

Thank God! After years of waiting for something more like the Westside's old Aldo's Cafe (brainchild of the original Sestri chef), our waiting is over. Bistro Al Mar specializes in tapas so authentically Old World we thought we were in Madrid last week, sharing a...

Quickies

For those of you who've been emailing me, the answer is Woodstock's Pizza, Inc. That's what's going in to the old Erik's Deli space on Front Street. . . . And hold the April 22 date: Santa Cruz' own irrepressible, culinary performance artist Jozseph Schultz is wok'ing...

Lulu’s @ The Octagon, . . .

will be open by the time you read this! So rush out and take a look at the wrap-around banquettes, the central espresso hearth and the spiffy revival of Santa Cruz' original, old Hall of Records building, corner of Cooper & Front Streets. The new Lulu's will be the...

Inside the Flame

the rituals, discoveries, and treasured sensory memories that make our home in the world

A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.

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