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Earth Day Lite- inSanity Cruz! Editorial
The City sponsored Earth-Day Celebrations were pretty lame.
In a parking lot!
BUT, there's some great celebrations coming up- in our Central Park.
In a parking lot!
BUT, there's some great celebrations coming up- in our Central Park.
OK, OK, I know its "Keep Santa Cruz Weird" but why does the City of Santa Cruz officially celebrate Earth Day (Sunday 4/27) on an asphalt (ass-fault) parking lot??? When I first saw the ads I wanted to bring my jack-hammer to join in the celebrations. The end to the automobile! Autogedon!! Well... maybe a sledge hammer. OK, my hoe, a few seeds and a watering can- to try and scrape beneath this sadly superficial celebration. Joni Mitchell said/sang it best in the 70's "Don't it always seem to go... you take paradise and put up a parking lot." How true.
San Lorenzo Park (our beautiful, if under-used, Central Park) on the other hand, was virtually empty on Sunday. More empty than I'd like. In fact, the City Parks Supervisor recently cut down a number of beautiful old trees by the duck island stage in order to better see/expose the homeless "problem" and reduce unsightly leaf litter. Go figure! Keep SC Weirder? I had to scoot to the edge of the grassy knoll last Saturday to find much needed shade while watching live music at the weekly Saturday Market in the Park. Folks with Free Skool Santa Cruz got it rite (http://www.santacruz.freeskool.org). On Earth Day they had croquet, punk soccer, Earth-day Birthday cake and a rollicking good time... in the park!
You can join in some great spring celebrations in the park: Today (May 3) is the Annual SC Bluegrass Fest 12-4, May 17 & 18 is The River Arts Festival a great 2 day community arts fest in San Lorenzo Park (now, with less trees!).
I hear that if you want to contest the cutting of an old growth tree in the city of Santa Cruz it now costs a concerned citizen $500 to appeal the chainsaws cry (until a few months ago it cost $50 to fight the ax).
Are we going backwards? More Hummers humming? I think it's time to start... running!
To the return of the Lorax
and the main reason we live here- in the first place.
Grrr- ant
San Lorenzo Park (our beautiful, if under-used, Central Park) on the other hand, was virtually empty on Sunday. More empty than I'd like. In fact, the City Parks Supervisor recently cut down a number of beautiful old trees by the duck island stage in order to better see/expose the homeless "problem" and reduce unsightly leaf litter. Go figure! Keep SC Weirder? I had to scoot to the edge of the grassy knoll last Saturday to find much needed shade while watching live music at the weekly Saturday Market in the Park. Folks with Free Skool Santa Cruz got it rite (http://www.santacruz.freeskool.org). On Earth Day they had croquet, punk soccer, Earth-day Birthday cake and a rollicking good time... in the park!
You can join in some great spring celebrations in the park: Today (May 3) is the Annual SC Bluegrass Fest 12-4, May 17 & 18 is The River Arts Festival a great 2 day community arts fest in San Lorenzo Park (now, with less trees!).
I hear that if you want to contest the cutting of an old growth tree in the city of Santa Cruz it now costs a concerned citizen $500 to appeal the chainsaws cry (until a few months ago it cost $50 to fight the ax).
Are we going backwards? More Hummers humming? I think it's time to start... running!
To the return of the Lorax
and the main reason we live here- in the first place.
Grrr- ant
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Right on Grant!
It was pretty lame and I hate to say it...
I thought that at least, the music would be acoustic...I mean, what's the purpose of using electricy on an earth day event??
The event seemed very "introduction and family oriented".
Which is great but...? Any ukulele or drums or wire less instruments would have brought joy to everyone... I would have prefer to see some artists like Brxnt and Wireless for instance or anyone...but anyway...
You talk about hot asphalt!!! Yes, it was hot and a strange setting.
I actually decided to go there barefoot and I'm not a Contessa but my feet were suffering, still, because I really wanted to do this I managed to get "used to it"...
I'm glad La vie was there, I had their amazing $3.50 London raw salad, it was really good and healthy.
I'm not sure what the KCBA FOX 35 guy was doing there...alone in his booth??
There were some good booths though but too many selling ones...to my taste...
See you at the River Arts Fest!
Barefoot Contessa.
It was pretty lame and I hate to say it...
I thought that at least, the music would be acoustic...I mean, what's the purpose of using electricy on an earth day event??
The event seemed very "introduction and family oriented".
Which is great but...? Any ukulele or drums or wire less instruments would have brought joy to everyone... I would have prefer to see some artists like Brxnt and Wireless for instance or anyone...but anyway...
You talk about hot asphalt!!! Yes, it was hot and a strange setting.
I actually decided to go there barefoot and I'm not a Contessa but my feet were suffering, still, because I really wanted to do this I managed to get "used to it"...
I'm glad La vie was there, I had their amazing $3.50 London raw salad, it was really good and healthy.
I'm not sure what the KCBA FOX 35 guy was doing there...alone in his booth??
There were some good booths though but too many selling ones...to my taste...
See you at the River Arts Fest!
Barefoot Contessa.
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