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The new Santa Cruz Institute for Contemporary Art is looking to shake up the...
The Santa Cruz Institute of Contemporary Arts is a new thing. But it’s also a not-so-new thing. Technically, the SCICA has existed for nine years — though, it was more a concept than an actual place....
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Kirby Scudder: Scott Cervine’s ‘Movies from the Heart’
In 1985, a young man dressed in a signature grey suit and red bow tie walked onto a stage in Madrid, Spain and grabbed two steel linking rings off of a black stand. He passed them over each other and...
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‘Chasing Mavericks’ puts Santa Cruz on Hollywood’s radar
EDITOR’S NOTE: During the final two weeks of 2012, the Sentinel is taking a look back at the most newsworthy stories and newsmakers of the year. The series will be published in ascending order, ending...
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2013 Gail Rich Award Winners
Santa Cruz County is that place where the guy behind the café counter is a singer/songwriter, the woman showing you a house for sale is a landscape painter and your next-door neighbor is writing her...
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Tarantino, Disney and the elephant in the room
What I did last week was, you might say, the cinematic equivalent of what the Scandinavians supposedly love to do – sit in a sauna until their thighs are boiled hams and their eyeballs are poached...
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Hell is yellow
Santa Cruz filmmaker Sasha Friedlander shows the world the life of Indonesian sulfur miners in ‘Where Heaven Meets Hell’ { SATURDAY 2 p.m. The Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $10 at the...
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coolpicks: GAIL RICH AWARDS
NEXT WEEK GAIL RICH AWARDS Call it Santa Cruz’s version of the Lincoln Center Awards. From the among the vast numbers of artists, performers and writers making their home in Santa Cruz, six...
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GAIL RICH – Skip Epperson
As a visual artists go, Skip Epperson must be the envy of many. After all, people typically encounter his work by sitting in a comfortable seat and gazing at it for an hour or two. Skip’s art is...
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‘Quartet’
By A. O. SCOTT The New York Times In a charming, only somewhat condescending scene in “Quartet,”Reginald Paget (Tom Courtenay), a retired opera singer, lectures a room full of hip-hop-loving teenagers...
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Kirby Scudder: How the San Francisco Film Commission attracts Hollywood
It’s 7:45 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 10, 2012. Woody Allen, Cate Blanchett, and Alec Baldwin walk out of Shreve and Co. jewelers on the corner of Post Street and Grant Avenue in San Francisco. They discuss a...
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Evidence points to Oscar regret as Affleck and Bigelow snubs loom over...
{ FEB. .24, 4 p.m. ABC, Details: oscar.go.com. } By ADAM SANDEL Despite occasionally idiosyncratic choices, the Oscar nominations typically follow a pattern of fairly reasonable logic. The most...
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The newly released DVD of ‘Chasing Mavericks’ finally delivers to Santa Cruz...
By WALLACE BAINE For those who look upon the 2012 film “Chasing Mavericks” as a high-profile artifact of what it’s like to live in Santa Cruz, the theatrical release of the film last October was all...
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The son and daughter of Beat literary icon and star of ‘On The Road’ Neal...
{ MARCH 22, Q&A session with Jami Cassady Ratto and John Allen Cassady, following the 7 p.m. screening of ‘On the Road,’ (approximately 9 p.m.), Del Mar, 1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. Details:...
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Santa Cruz’s Adam Scott is not on the A-list yet, but he’s moving in that...
Artist and illustrator Vicky Trochez has re-fashioned the entire cast of “Parks and Recreation” as superheroes, including Adam Scott, who plays Ben on the show, as the Green Lantern. It’s a fun gallery...
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Twenty years after its release, it’s time to declare the comedy ‘Groundhog...
By WALLACE BAINE To all those of the Christian faith, here’s to a happy and meaningful Easter Sunday. And to Jews everywhere, may all be well in the continuing celebration of Passover. But to those not...
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Remembering the late Roger Ebert
Film critic Roger Ebert died on Thursday in Chicago. He was 70. Mr. Thumbs Up has always deserved two thumbs up. By WALLACE BAINE Originally published September 5, 2010 We newspaper drones don’t have...
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The MUSE gets a new look this Tuesday, April 16th.
This coming week The MUSE will be changing it’s look to accommodate more stories, news, multi-media and contributions from the community. After 6 months the response has been overwhelming to the launch...
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Christian Marclay’s ‘The Clock’ is a hypnotic 24-hour marathon that will...
{ THROUGH JUNE 2 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third St., San Francisco. 24-hour weekend screenings beginning in May. Space is limited. Follow @TheClockSFMOMA on Twitter for estimated wait...
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The new documentary ‘Room 237′ teases out meanings in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980...
By WALLACE BAINE I think we can all agree that Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 classic “The Shining” is a disturbing film. But “Room 237,” the new documentary about that film? Much more disturbing. Kubrick’s...
View ArticleTerrence Malick’s ‘To the Wonder’ will turn off many, but in its elliptical...
{ Directed by Terrence Malick. Starring Olga Kurylenko, Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem, Rachel McAdams. Rated R for some sexuality/nudity. 1 hour, 52 minutes. The Nickelodeon. } By WALLACE BAINE Odds were...
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