Posts By DNA
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A&EMelvin Seals Brings Jerry Garcia’s Legacy Full Circle
Highlights from Mountain Sol’s 2019 lineup
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A&EPreview: Ring In 2019 With the Mother Hips
California soul pioneers play Dec. 30 and 31 at Moe’s Alley
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A&ERadical Movement Factory Takes Westside to New Heights
‘Shine!’ brings aerial action to the Wrigley Building
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A&EPreview: Comedian Brian Regan Comes to the Rio
Even now that he’s on TV, Brian Regan still likes getting close with a stand-up crowd
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A&EBanff 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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A&EThe 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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Cover StoriesThe Legacy of 500 Grateful Dead Shows
Local comic DNA reflects on his years spent following the Dead
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A&EChristopher Titus Brings ‘Amerigeddon’ to Santa Cruz
In politically troubled times, comedian finds new confidence and weird optimism
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A&EPreview: Greg Loiacono to Play Crepe Place
Mother Hips frontman Greg Loiacono brings his solo project to the Crepe Place.
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Cover StoriesThe Alien Con Game
A writer’s search for truth, community and a fast cup of coffee in an unlikely place
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A&EPreview: 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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A&EPreview: 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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A&EPreview: 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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Cover StoriesBehind 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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Cover Stories
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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Love Your Local Band
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...
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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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Love Your Local Band
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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Love Your Local Band
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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Love Your Local Band
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...
