Santa Cruz

Talde's John Bush Talks Barrel-Aged Manhattans and Tequila Bloody Marys

That John Bush's name is stamped on cocktail menus around the city--his credits include Vig Bar and Mario Batali's Otto--is a testament to the time he's put in behind the bar here: After bar-backing and photographing bands all over the globe, Bush landed in this scene 20 years ago, and he spent 12 o ... More >>

Momofuku's Jordan Salcito: "The Key to Selling Any Kind of Wine is Conviction and Enthusiasm"

Some of the best sommeliers in NYC are female, and these ladies not only know their wine, they effusively share their knowledge with customers and friends without any of the pretension often (rightly or wrongly) associated with that, ahem, other species of somm. I caught up with six of these women t ... More >>

Tom Finkel Named as Editor of the Village Voice

Voice Media Group announced today that veteran editor Tom Finkel will take the reins of the Village Voice later this summer.

Michelle Shocked Tapes Her Mouth Shut To Make A Statement

Singer Michelle Shocked said some controversial things in concert recently, which caused the cancellation of other concerts. So she staged a sit-in at one of those sites--in Santa Cruz--making a statement by covering herself in medical bandages and putting duct tape on her mouth, while sporting a v ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: February 27 through March 5, 2013

Six Months' Worth of Coffee Beans

Bag numbers 19 (left) and 18 (right) were, respectively, Blue Bottle's Guatemala Maya Ixil, roasted in Brooklyn, and Four Barrel's Guatemala Antigua Santa Cruz, roasted in San Francisco. I drink a lot of coffee at home, ground from beans right before being deposited in a French press. I saved the ... More >>

Chasing Mavericks

Free Will Astrology: July 18-24, 2012

Free Will Astrology: November 16-22, 2011

'Miracle' Cat Survives Being Shot in the Head With an Arrow

A cat less tough than Max.​Adorable animals in trouble! A 3-year-old cat named Max who lives in Live Oak, near Santa Cruz, California, has somehow survived being shot in the head with an arrow. (Remember New York's own Sticky the goose? R.I.P., Sticky.) Anyway, the good news is that Max is oka ... More >>

Japan Quake Death Toll Could Rise to 1300; Nuclear Plant Explosion Causes Radiation Leak, Fear of Meltdown

Reuters via NYT​The death toll from yesterday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan could rise to more than 1300, government officials told Japanese news media. CNN is reporting that the number of deaths is 900 and is expected to rise. Half the population of one town, Minamisanr ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: February 2 through 8, 2011

Free Will Astrology: December 22 through 28

Free Will Astrology: September 8 through 14

Harvey Milk's Birthday: Chatting with Cleve Jones

Tomorrow is Harvey Milk's birthday. It's an official holiday in California for the first time (signed into law last year by the Terminator), and will be marked here in the city by a march beginning at the GLBT Center at noon. Runnin' Scared spoke to the real-life Cleve Jones on the phone (portr ... More >>

Chatting With Beth Ann Simpkins About Pulino's Pizza, Bi-Coastal Pizza Obsession, and Her 100 Percent Carbohydrate Diet

Beth Ann Simpkins (left) and Ruth Kaplan are at the helm of Pulino's pizza program.​When Pulino's opens next Monday, it will doubtless draw a stampede of pizza obsessives intent on making their own pronouncements on the pies that emerge from the restaurant's vast ovens. But while plenty of peo ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: February 3 through 9, 2010

Yes in My Backyard: Download a Mixtape of 2009's Best Local Music, Starring Black Dice, Sleigh Bells, Antipop Consortium, and More

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. This is a compilation of 2009's best local music, lovingly curated by YIMBY columnist Christopher R. Weingarten Your curator this evening, lost in the Death By Audio maze. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​Ne ... More >>

Yes In My Backyard: Download Star Fucking Hipsters' "3000 Miles Away"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Banned in NYC. Photo by Alyssa Tanchajja​>New York's Star Fucking Hipsters are a joyous, double-middle-fingers-ablaze coup on political punk rock--pretty much inventing "bubblegum crust" in one grung ... More >>

Booze News--A New Beefeater Gin & Mezcal's Cult Following

A new study suggests that patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma who drink wine before their diagnosis have a reduced risk of relapse or death. The five-year survival rate was 70 percent for wine drinkers and 65 percent for non-wine drinkers. [US News via Alcademics] Randall Grahm, the winemaker at Bon ... More >>

Undertaker Gets Cremated

A Newark funeral director has lost his license after being caught in a scheme to harvest the body parts of his clients and sell them to organ tissue banks. Stephen K. Finley, who owns Berardinelli Forest Hill Memorial Home, Cremation at a Low Cost, and Funeraria Santa Cruz, all located in Newark, ha ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: August 13 to 19

Free Will Astrology: July 2 through 8

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

CMJ Day Four: Fuckups and Miracles

Mr. Happy

In a law professor's debut novel, Homo academicus meets pseudologia fantastica

Horoscope

Chapels of Love

Eager young bands kneel down to altar, re-create history of psychedelic rock in own image

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Bougainvillea, Part Two

Bougainvillea

Music

Horoscope

Vanishing Liberties

Where's the Press?

Illness as Metaphor

Labor Groups Consider Calling in Sick to Protest War With Iraq

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Rocket Reducer No. 6200

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Letters

Porn, Chicken, and Boy Toys

Good Guys

Hot Young Talent at ABT

'We Couldn't Move Quickly Enough'

Witnesses Say Cops Shot People in the Back; ACLU to Sue

Passing for Normal at Santa Cruz

Red-Letter Day for a Counterculture Experiment

NY Mirror

I, Mitnick

After a Year in Solitary Confinement, the World’s Greatest Hacker Has a Lot to Say

Letters

Raising Cain