Skin Deep
With 11 tattoos on her arms and legs, UC Santa Cruz student Cat Heavey has gone to great lengths to hide them in the past. She wore long-sleeved shirts beneath her t-shirts to adhere to the dress code of the restaurant where she worked —…
“Back to You, America”
Following the theme “Untold Stories,” a cast of ten students from “Poet’s Corner,” a facet of Rainbow Theater, addressed issues of identity and society through performance art. Students spoke out to hold institutions accountable for excluding underrepresented groups in America, presenting personal works with loud…
Starting Small
Matt Herron walked backwards for 15 miles, threw himself in ditches, created fake press passes and spoke in a southern accent to document the Selma to Montgomery marches, which led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. While walking with thousands over the course of…
Substandard Living, Full Price
In a state ranked the most impoverished in the nation, Santa Cruz is the least affordable small metro area in the country. The median rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Santa Cruz is nearly $2,900 a month. To afford rent alone the average person has…
Into the Void
As ripples of energy radiated from the collision of two black holes, a new one — 62 times the mass of our sun — was created. The collision and its waves stunned astrophysicists across the nation and sparked questions across the globe. The Mary Porter…
Bluegrass & Beyond
The fog cleared and the sun made a rare debut over Golden Gate Park on Saturday at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco. Over 750,000 people packed into less than two square miles of land for the free, three-day event from Friday through…
Reviving the Funk
After rapper and DJ Metro Boomin’ took the main stage of the Catalyst Club last Thursday night, hip-hop took a step away from the top 100s and backtracked a few decades. One day later, a handful of passionate hip-hop artists performed Friday from 9 p.m….
Looking Past the Screen
While I was in Paris, the city experienced flooding so extensive that boats couldn’t fit under bridges. The excess water halted the usual traffic of tourist cruises on the Seine River and museums were closed to save the artwork from water damage. On my way…
Building From the Bottom Up
Every year, millions of people attend music festivals around the world but are unaware of the logistics and labor that go into the production. Weeks and hours are spent setting up, and hundreds of volunteers devote time to cleaning up the mess when it’s all…
A Glimpse Into the Blind Spot
This year, graduating UC Santa Cruz Digital Arts and New Media Exhibition (DANM) MFA students will continue the tradition of putting experimental twist on conventional art forms, lifting the veil on what tends to go unnoticed. Last year, “New Alchemy” was DANM’s theme and drew…