You Should Be Dancing Yeah! Early Thursday evening I was walking downtown and I noticed how oddly quiet the north part of Pacific Avenue was. As I continued to walk, I could see a street barrier and crowds of people blocking Pacific Avenue from traffic. Curious, I walked into a street full of dancers! Little …
Stabbing Outside Catalyst Sends Man to Hospital Last Saturday night around 8PM, Santa Cruz police responded to the Catalyst on Pacific Avenue after getting a call about a reported stabbing in front of the club. Apparently a man was waiting in line for a hip-hop concert. Multiple people approached the victim in line and asked …
Snow Blankets Bonny Doon and the Santa Cruz Mountains No that’s not an April Fools joke. This week, a freak late winter storm moved through the area with cold temperatures and a mix of rain with some snow in the higher elevations above 2000 feet. It’s probably melted off by the time you read this, …
Expanding is the Opposite of Reducing This Tuesday, the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors discussed an expansion of funding to support a year-round shelter bed system in the county. As voters approved Measure K, the Board will consider a model that will use additional County general fund dollars to sustain a planned expansion of …
Comerica Bank Robbed in Downtown Santa Cruz Wednesday afternoon around 5PM, the Comerica bank in downtown Santa Cruz was robbed. When SCPD arrived, they determined that a middle aged Hispanic male handed the teller a note saying he was armed and needed money. The teller complied and gave him an unknown amount of money. The …
Is “Progressive” a Losing Proposition in Santa Cruz? It’s starting to feel that way. The current Santa Cruz city council is basically 6 moderate Democrats and one hard core progressive Democrat. What a 180 change from just a few years ago, when Chris Krohn, Drew Glover, Sandy Brown, and Justin Cummings (on occasion) held a …
Tuesday’s Gone “Super Tuesday” came and went without a whole lot of fanfare. Results are mostly in from this past Tuesday’s primary and votes on various state and local measures. On the local side of things, in the races to fill 3 seats on the Santa Cruz Board of Supervisors, Manu is beating Lani by …
Remembering Our Local Heroes It was 11 years ago this week that Santa Cruz suffered the loss of 2 of our finest heroes, in what was one of the darkest and saddest days in our city’s history. Sgt. Butch Baker and Det. Elizabeth Butler were ambushed and killed in the line of duty while trying …
The Downtown Renaissance is Coming There’s just so much new housing being built downtown right now, more than I’ve ever seen in all the 20+ years I’ve lived here combined. We’ve got the new “Anton Pacific”, taking up the gateway block between Pacific and Front streets on Laurel. It will feature 205 units, with a …
Car Plunges 200 Feet Down Felton Empire Grade Road Wednesday night around 7:30PM, CalFire responded to an accident on Felton Empire Grade Road near Kiln Road involving a single vehicle that went off the road and down a 200 foot embankment. First responders initially had difficulty locating the victim due to rain and complete darkness …
Breaking the Sabbatical Hello! Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anybody home? I know it’s been a couple of years since anyone last heard from me. I hope everyone out there who remembers me is doing well. If you’re still out there anyways. I haven’t really gone …
Happy Holidays!
I’m sure some of you have been wondering where I’ve been. The short answer is here! I’m right here. Haven’t gone anywhere. I wasn’t planning on it, but I was late the past few weeks, seemingly late every week lately, and just getting burned out.
Time for some vibrantly honest news and view about Santa Cruz. It’s the Weekly Dump! This week, we’ve got gangs, guns, and cocaine. And that’s just one story. We’ve also got another gift from county probation (tis the season!), Sunday in the park with junkies, a little Looking Glass, some Eagles, the getaway car fail of the week, wifebeater hides like a coward in the bathroom, a little Skynyrd, a little Elton John, a history of coddling, woman falls off a cliff and survives, hit and run fatality in Watsonville, and the return of the Weekly Seen.
Time for the “latest” Weekly Dump! I’ve been later but no excuses. Let’s sling some vibrant honesty. This week, we’ve got apathy from SCPD, you take my meth away, Fentanyl for breakfast, the gift that keeps on giving, Fresno tourists, Grandpa is safe but pissed, oh thank heaven, stealing shitty wine, bum hit and run, our predictably next mayor, and the city council overreaches and blinks.
It’s time for last week’s long lost Weekly Dump! In slightly stale and moldy (this is Santa Cruz after all) fashion, we’re talking about the COVID outbreak in the county jail, the local judge who fails the community, an early morning stabbing on Pacific Avenue, a woman gets punched in the head on Riverside, lucky he wasn’t shot, picking up Santa Clara’s trash, where the stolen cars live, here we go around in circles, brawling behind the Catalyst, busting down doors for tchotchkes, ax men, and more.
