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  Banff Mountain Film Festival Comes to Rio Theatre

  This year’s Banff Mountain Film Festival entries find new and ever-crazier ways to inspire

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  The Artist Behind the Exploration Center’s Whale Installation

  Robert Seals on working with metal and celebrating the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary

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  The Legacy of 500 Grateful Dead Shows

  Local comic DNA reflects on his years spent following the Dead

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  Christopher Titus Brings ‘Amerigeddon’ to Santa Cruz

  In politically troubled times, comedian finds new confidence and weird optimism

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  Preview: Greg Loiacono to Play Crepe Place

  Mother Hips frontman Greg Loiacono brings his solo project to the Crepe Place.

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  The Alien Con Game

  A writer’s search for truth, community and a fast cup of coffee in an unlikely place

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  Preview: Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay to play Don Quixote

  Celebrated Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay returns to her roots as she performs with Shady Groove in Felton

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  Preview: Comedy Power Couple Honeymoons in Santa Cruz

  Comedy Central’s funniest couple, Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher, come to Vets Hall

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  Preview: Comedian Kathleen Madigan at the Rio

  For comedian Kathleen Madigan, no amount of podcasting can replace the thrill of live stand-up

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  Behind the Masks

  Is it performance art? Or just crazy? Indie wrestlers reveal all about a growing Santa Cruz sensation

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  Hot Topics

  The Banana Slug String Band celebrates 30 years with shows and a video for ‘Too Hot’

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  Holding Down the Groove

  Will Lee comes to the Monterey Jazz Festival to honor a friend

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  I Was a Teenage Deadhead

  Memories of life on tour, plus the truth about that legendary Santa Cruz Acid Test

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  Shredding His Skin

  From the Crepe Place’s Tuesday funk night to national touring, guitarist Danny Mayer has made his name

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  Walking on Sunshine

  Davina and The Vagabonds return to the 57th annual Monterey Jazz Festival

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  The Comedy Renaissance

  The czar of local underground comedy explains why anyone—and lately, everyone—would do it

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  Laugh Riot

  Colin Quinn holds nothing back in his one-man show In his new one-man show, Unconstitutional—which comes to The Rio Friday—Colin Quinn is...

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  A Thousand Shall Fall

  When asked how he and his bandmates settled on the name A Thousand Shall Fall, lead guitarist Dan Johnston explains that the...

• Love Your Local Band

  Jack Bowers

  Jack Bowers has had an impressive career so far. The local musician first entered the scene in the 1970s with electric folk-rock...

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  The Red Light District

  The Red Light District isn’t your grandmother’s band—unless, of course, your grandmother happened to see The Doors perform at the Whisky A...

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  The Joint Chiefs

  During the Persian Gulf War in 1990, local guitarist Don Caruth was working a construction job in San Jose when his best...

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  Organic Red, White and Blues

  Rock legend (and vintner) Boz Scaggs returns to Santa Cruz After an explosive set by Tower of Power at the 2011 Aptos...

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  Wasted Noise

  Wasted Noise, a progressive reggae/hip-hop band from Salinas, is bringing together the young and the old with its activism, socially conscious lyricism...

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  Mother Dearest

  Stand-up comic Margaret Cho’s new one-woman show hits Santa Cruz Actress, podcaster, Grammy nominee and internationally acclaimed stand-up comic Margaret Cho’s award-winning...

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  United by Jazz

  With the Monterey Jazz Festival around the corner, one of its many stars, Charlie Hunter, opens up about the community fostered by...

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  Finding Freedom in Prison

  From despair to hope. An inside look at the local men whose sea-changing efforts offer prisoners a voice and an opportunity to...

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  The Inciters

  Betsy Jane Kniffen may have performed the national anthem at the opening Santa Cruz Derby Girls bout in March, but the lead...

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  Wingin’ It

  Antsy McClain and his Flamingoheads get national attention with PBS concert series

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  Eliquate

  When Elliot Wright was attending UC Santa Cruz in 2006, he would show up at parties, plug his iPod into a sound...

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  Home Is Where The Art Is

  Sacred steel whiz Robert Randolph reconnects with roots, finds inspiration