Geoffrey Dunn

Posts By Geoffrey Dunn

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  Coronavirus

  What Life Was Like in Santa Cruz During the Flu Pandemic of 1918

  What lessons can we learn from our pandemic past?

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  The Hidden Legacy of Santa Cruz’s Chinatown

  Uncovering the fate of one of historic Chinatown’s most famous residents reveals the harsh realities faced by his community

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  A&E

  How Nina Simon Reinvented Santa Cruz Art

  The outgoing director of the Museum of Art & History talks art elitism, forging new community ties and what’s next

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  A Prodigal Son of Santa Cruz Lit Returns

  Poet Robert Lundquist comes to Bookshop Santa Cruz on April 25

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  The Legacy of ‘On the Road’s Al Hinkle

  Beat movement muse passes away at age 92

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  How Bill Monning Modeled California’s Blue Wave

  Door knocking with the Central Coast’s unapologetically progressive State Senator

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  O’Neill Sea Odyssey That Turns Ocean into Classroom Celebrates 100,000th Student

  Jack O’Neill’s ocean stewardship legacy is going strong

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  The True Story of Mary Porter Sesnon and Pino Alto

  While Mary Porter Sesnon’s name is well-known throughout the region, very little until now has been known about her life.

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  The Story of Neil Young’s Short-lived Santa Cruz Band the Ducks

  In the summer of 1977 Neil Young moved to town to make legendary music

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  Santa Cruz’s Historical African-American Baseball Team

  Nearly erased from local history, the Santa Cruz Colored Giants challenged baseball’s racist rules in the Jim Crow era

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  A&E

  Preview: ‘Howard Ikemoto: The Last Show’ at Cabrillo College Gallery

  Benefit art show captures the quiet, powerful legacy of Howard Ikemoto

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  Why is the Grave of Antoinette Swan Unmarked?

  The historic Santa Cruz legacy and mana of Hawaiian-born Antoinette Swan

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  Preview: The Great Big Band’s Swan Song at Kuumbwa

  Ray Brown’s Great Big Band signs off with a final show at Kuumbwa

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  Celebrating Santa Cruz’s 150th Anniversary

  A look back at our city’s rough-and-tumble beginnings

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  The Story of Juneteenth

  Santa Cruz has been celebrating African American culture on the ‘Black Fourth’ for 25 years

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  Testing Ground: Remembering the First ‘Acid Test’

  Fifty years ago Santa Cruz hosted a landmark moment in counterculture history

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  What’s In Store

  New Leaf Community Markets celebrates its 30th anniversary with a block party this weekend. Co-founder and president Scott Roseman talks about how...

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  Aloha, Pac Rim

  Why we miss the Pacific Rim Film Festival

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  The Boards Are Back in Town

  More than a century after a famed trio of Hawaiian princes first surfed in Santa Cruz, their redwood olo surfboards are returning...

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  Place Painting

  Ed Penniman’s ‘Santa Cruz Sweet Spots’ exhibit highlights his love of his native city

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  Golden State Psycho

  Multiple-murder suspect Robert Durst, the focus of HBO’s ‘The Jinx,’ called Northern California home in the 1990s and early 2000s. Did he...

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  Mission Critical

  How reading Lisa Jensen’s reviews taught me to love film

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  Dazed, But Not Confused

  A reflection of Santa Cruz in the 1970s

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  Under Their Skin

  What makes two people right for each other? Two parallel relationships—and a brief intersection—between Frank and Ava and Frank and Lindy reveal...

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  Dancing In the Rain

  District Attorney Bob Lee’s death in October stunned the Santa Cruz community, but he had battled cancer fiercely—and privately—for more than a...

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  On the Waterfront

  As the wharf celebrates its centennial, a personal reflection on its essential place in Santa Cruz’s history

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  Nobody Beats Ralph

  Ralph Peduto (1942-2014) was a creative force on the Santa Cruz arts scene for 35 years

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  American Music

  Chris Isaak and Gregg Allman trace back the roots of their sound as they headline the Santa Cruz Blues Festival on Memorial...

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  Printer’s Devil

  Iconic editor Buz Bezore, who died last month at the age of 68, left a huge mark on Santa Cruz journalism  ...

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  George Ow’s Chinatown

  An excerpt from ‘Santa Cruz is in the Heart Vol. II’ In the spring when the willows and chickens grew fat again...