Sounds to Carry You Into the New Year
Let us officially wave goodbye to a year whose politics took a toll on our sanity, but whose tracks gave us wings to enter the new. Whether you want to bust out some dance moves making your way to class, pirouette along Panther Beach...
Illuminating Support for Immigrants
Threats of deportation are intensifying across the nation. Local organization Sanctuary Santa Cruz recognized increasing tension in undocumented communities with a candlelit vigil held at the downtown Santa Cruz Town Clock on Dec. 2. “It’s important for us as a community to share that we...
Film’s Systemic Failures
The chief creative officer of Pixar is one of the latest perpetrators of sexual assault in accusations that have been ripping through the entertainment industry since Harvey Weinstein was accused mid-October. This person is John Lasseter, director of “A Bug’s Life,” who is being accused...
Isaac Julien Brings Perspective to Rising Artists
For 12 hours, the Digital Arts Research Center played 11 of internationally acclaimed filmmaker Isaac Julien’s creations back to back on Nov. 27 and 28. A moving timeline of his 30-year exploring the global impacts of capitalism filled the dark room. Julien spoke with film...
Día de los Muertos: From Childhood to College
Lighting candles is a tradition that radiates on Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. Flames illuminate the path for spirits of the deceased to find their way to visit living loved ones. Día de los Muertos twists the darkness typically associated with...
No Place Like Home Unveils In-Depth Study on Santa Cruz Housing Crisis
Santa Cruz residents are sleeping in asbestos-riddled and mold-caked living rooms, leaking pool sheds, overpriced garages, laundry rooms and tents in what is, according to Demographia’s international housing survey, the fourth most unaffordable city in the world. No Place Like Home is a UC Santa...
What Does it Take to be on Haluan?
Dancers mirrored one another’s fluid torso twists or moved with eyes closed and headphones on, whipping out sharp movements at the Haluan Hip-Hop Dance Troupe auditions. When hip-hop music began blasting, students organized themselves into formations for the moment they had been practicing for. The...