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Mountainfilm on Tour Returns to Santa Cruz to Support Second Harvest Food Bank
Mountainfilm on Tour returns to the Rio Theatre on Saturday, November 14, with an evening of films connected to Mountainfilm’s mission of using film, art and ideas to inspire audiences to create a better world. Doors open at 6 PM and the show begins at 7 PM. This year’s...
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'Margaret and the Wampus Cat' makes its stage debut at MPC Theatre in Monterey.
These days even feared creatures appreciate the power of storytelling. When in the East Tennessee town of Sneedville a wampus cat (Tazannah Mahoney) kidnaps the wannabe wampus cat slayer – a high school dropout named Margaret (Raven Reichenbach) – all it wants is the right to tell three stories, which explain the creature’s identity. The thing is, after hearing the stories, Margaret is not so sure if she still wants to kill the wampus.
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Tracing 'East of Eden' back to its Salinas roots
As a new adaption of John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" draws fresh attention to the Nobel Prize-winning author, visitors to the National Steinbeck Center can trace the roots of his storytelling to the streets, landscapes and family history of his hometown of Salinas. "The National Steinbeck Center, with our permanent exhibit, gives an overview of the arc of Steinbeck's life and writing, and where those two intersect because they very much informed each other," said Lisa Josephs, the center's longtime archivist. "East of Eden" tells the sweeping story of two families, the Hamiltons and the Trasks, across generations in the Salinas Valley. Steinbeck wrote the novel during the early 1950s, after he had won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Grapes of Wrath," his famous novel adapted into a classic Hollywood film starring Henry Fonda. Whereas "The Grapes of Wrath" tells the story of the Joad family, migrant laborers making their way from the desperate dust bowl conditions of Oklahoma to the fertile valleys of California during the Great Depression, "East of Eden" is deeply rooted in the Salinas Valley, and was inspired by Steinbeck's own family history and hometown. Inside the National Steinbeck's Center's permanent exhibit, which is organized around
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Find spirited Halloween happenings for all ages at these Silicon Valley haunts
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Halloween in 2026 can be a frightful enough time without adding fear of missing out into the mix. And with the sheer number of events in Silicon Valley between now and Oct. 31, there’s no shortage of ways to celebrate. A witch paddle...
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‘My Name is Gitta’ tells the story of Santa Cruz woman coming to terms with Holocaust survival – 80 years later
The 26th annual Santa Cruz Film Festival concludes on Sunday, October 18, with a special screening at the Rio Theater of the documentary “My Name is Gitta.”. The film, which premiered at the Dances With Films festival in Los Angeles in June where it won an Audience Award for Documentary Feature, tells the story of 94-year-old Gitta Ryle of Santa Cruz. Born in Vienna, she and her older sister were sent to France during World War II, where organizations and total strangers helped hide them and thousands of other children from the Nazis.
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Tiger Woods Makes Rare Public Appearance at Pebble Beach
Tiger Woods made a rare public appearance at Pebble Beach on Sunday evening, October 11, when he attended an event connected to his foundation's junior golf tournament. The 15-time major champion was spotted in Monterey, California, where he participated in a question-and-answer session at the TGR Jr. Invitational presented by TaylorMade. Woods has kept a …
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7 Basque Dishes from the Boarding Hotel Tradition of Nevada, Idaho and California
I use AI to help draft these articles. Every recipe and every fact in them is checked before publishing. The Basque boarding hotels that opened in Elko, Winnemucca, Boise, and Bakersfield starting in the late 1800s were not restaurants in any conventional sense. Historian Jeronima Echeverria, in Home Away From Home, her 1999 history of Basque boardinghouses from the University of Nevada Press, describes them as the center of Basque immigrant life across the West. Sheepherders came off the range after months alone in the high desert and needed a place to sleep, eat, and speak their own language again, and the hotels gave them a bed, a bath, and a seat at a long pine table with whoever else showed up.
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Esperanza del Valle celebrates Mexican culture through folklórico attire in Watsonville
➤ Para leer el artículo en español, haga clic aquí. The intricate clothing of ballet folklórico will come alive Saturday at the Watsonville Center for the Arts, where renowned dance company Esperanza del Valle is displaying 15 traditional vestuarios for the first time in its 46-year history.