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For the Weekend of November 27-29, 2009.

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Holiday Tree Walk at Roaring Camp. Ring in the holiday season at Roaring Camp’s Holiday Tree Walk. Passengers riding the steam train will delight in the tree-lined walk of festive [...]

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For the Week of November 23-26, 2009.
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Willie K at Kuumbwa. Uber-Hawaiian guitarist Willie K returns to Santa Cruz. This time, he’s joined by the band Alma Desnuda. 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320-2 [...]

Before Mark Morris’ The Hard Nut, before Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker!, choreographer Tandy Beal revamped Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker with a modern twist. Her latest version, Mixed Nutz, is a colorful confection of circus performers, acrobats and dancers set to an a capella score by the Bay Area group SoVoSo. Mixed Nutz plays UC Santa Cruz’s Mainstage Theater weekends through December 6.

“This is really a bon bon of visual delights for the audience,” said Beal, who was named a Dance Icon of the West by the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum in 2005….

Organic. That’s how Ann Cavanaugh, director for arts education and culture at the Corralitos Cultural Center, describes the way the Corralitos Artists Collective came into being. Artists who met during the Cultural Center’s first spaghetti dinner and art show in August clicked and decided to meet again and the Collective was born.

“There are a lot of artists in Corralitos,” Cavanaugh said of the small town located between Aptos and Watsonville, “a whole lot of people in these trees. You’d never know.”

At least 30 of those artists will be gathering November 14 and 15 for the Collective’s first-ever Harvest Festival, to be held at the Cultural Center….

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For the Weekend of November 6-8, 2009.

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EDITOR’S PICK: First Friday in Santa Cruz. It’s First Friday time again and that means artistic goings-on in Downtown Santa Cruz. A full listing can be seen here, however here [...]

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For the Week of November 2-5, 2009.
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Trio 3 at Kuumbwa. With the mission statement that “music is the leader”, Trio 3 enlists well over a century of collective experience in the service of genuinely [...]

Most first-time directors would start small. Perhaps with a one-act performed one-night only in a venue that seats 20. Not Alan Fox. By day a successful executive recruiter for non-profits including the national Red Cross, Fox chose John C. Picardi’s full-length World War II-era tragicomedy The Sweepers for his directorial debut.

It wasn’t enough to simply rent out 62-seat Broadway Theatre for six performances November 6 through 15. Instead, Fox decided there should be more entertainment for the crowd. He convinced local Italian restaurants to do a sampling of hors d’oeuvres during intermission and plans to have costumed/in-character actors show audience members to their seats while music by Frank Sinatra, Perry Como and Duke Ellington plays….

Unexpected relationships define Pulitzer Prize-winner Lanford Wilson’s duo of one acts, The Great Nebula in Orion and A Bethrothal. And in some ways, it was another unexpected relationship that brought the two plays, in chamber musical form, to Jewel Theatre artistic director Julie James.

James, last seen on stage as the title character in the company’s production of Sylvia, took time from her busy schedule directing the two musicals (which open November 5) to answer questions via email for Weekend Santa Cruz…

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For the weekend of October 30 – November 1, 2009.

PICK OF THE WEEKEND: Santa Cruz gets spooky for All Hallow’s Eve. For a listing of trick-or-treating locations, Halloween-themed parties and more, click here.
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Halloween Party at Vino [...]

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For the Week of October 26-29, 2009.
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Marcus Roberts Trio at Kuumbwa. Marcus Roberts‘s tight-knit trio has 14 years of experience under their belts, two brand new records, and a dedication to improvisation in which [...]