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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.
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Maya Cinemas Salinas’ reopening postponed amid planning challenges.
Maya Cinemas Salinas, a beloved community entertainment hub since 2005, was eagerly anticipated to reopen on Friday, Oct. 9, following a temporary closure announced on Wednesday, Sept. 9. The theater, located at 153 Main St., known for its commitment to serving the Latino-dominant community, had left local moviegoers hoping for a swift return after their reopening announcement on Monday, Sept. 14.
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A Century of Shake, Rattle & Roll in Santa Cruz
Did you know one of America’s oldest wooden roller coasters is doing exactly what it did just over one hundred years ago?. The Giant Dipper opened at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in 1924. Built by Arthur Loeff in just 47 days. The cost was $50,000. (Just under $1,000,000...