Subject: Santa Cruz

• Smart Kids, Not So Smart Adults, and DNA for Dinner

  The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, "School-age children from Spanish-speaking households in San Diego County and throughout California are gaining English fluency at record rates". While this is excellent news, the news for adults is a little dimmer. Meanwhile, English fluency among adult Spanish speakers dropped from 50 percent in 1990 and 2000 to 48 percent in 2005. The census reports a more precipitous decline for those 65 and older.

  August 15, 2006

• The U.S. Open of Surfing & RVCA Team Signings

  The U.S. Open of Surfing might bring obnoxious swarms of people to Huntington Beach every summer, but it also brings the world's best surfers, BMXers, skaters and motocross riders to town. The event spans over nine days which includes surf competitions for men, women, juniors and long boarders. The Open has a couple of boasting points which help secure that "Surf City USA" title Huntington snatched from Santa Cruz not too long ago: it's the only six-star Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP

  July 25, 2008

• The Year in Girl

  January 2, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  April 3, 2003

• Hang Tension

  July 1, 2004

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: The Wild Bunch

  December 20, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: The 400 Blows

  January 3, 2008

• Surf Wax America

  December 6, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: New Year Baby

  January 17, 2008

• [Summer Guide] Elliott Almond Brings an OC Native's Eye to His How-to Book About Surfing

  June 4, 2009

• Elliott Almond on the Breaks of OC, Life and Journalism

  Photo by Tim Harvey You might have seen Elliott Almond on his board in Newport Beach, Huntington Beach or San Onofre. Here he sits on a mini-mal at Ocean Beach, San Francisco.Today's OC Weekly Summer Guide features a Q&A with Elliott Almond, who spent several years covering surfing and other sports for the Los Angeles Times before relocating to the Bay Area, where he writes for the San Jose Mercury News. Almond's passion for surfing comes out in his new book Surfing: Mastering Waves F

  June 4, 2009

• The Flying Karamozov Bros.

  January 8, 2009

• Getting Wet With Monica Palacios Before Her 'Greetings From a Queer Señorita' Runs at Breath of Fire

  July 10, 2008

• [Special Screenings] Coming Up Aces

  Movie of the Week: Ace in the Hole

  January 31, 2008

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: Shane

  January 24, 2008

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: The Power of Nightmares

  January 10, 2008

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the week: The Sophisticated Misfit
  

  November 1, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the week: Sahara

  October 4, 2007

• A CLOCKWORK NARANJA

  August 11, 2005

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the week: The Killers
  

  September 6, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the week: Baraka

  August 30, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the week: Lost in La Mancha

  June 28, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: The Graduate
  

  June 14, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: Who Killed the Electric Car?

  June 7, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: The Big Sleep

  May 31, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: China-Beyond the Clouds

  May 24, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the week: Kiss of Death

  May 17, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: The Searchers

  April 19, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: Bullitt

  April 12, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: Crossing Arizona

  March 29, 2007

• Sticking It to Those Uppity Bike Mechanics

  Public Bike Repair

  November 23, 2006

• Ask Santa for a Script

  Greetings is unseasonably bad

  November 16, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  Sept. 20 - Sept. 26

  September 28, 2006

• CD Review

  June 29, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  November 3, 2005

• Huntington Beach

  October 20, 2005

• Wiped Out

  September 15, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  August 4, 2005

• Bass-Guitar Anti-Defamation League

  January 27, 2005

• Mild In the Streets

  December 2, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  Diary of a Mad County

  April 8, 2004

• Letters

  August 28, 2003

• Vampire Can Mating Oven

  May 15, 2003

• Letters

  January 9, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  October 3, 2002

• Cocaine Decision

  July 26, 2001

• Bye-Bye, butt floss

  April 22, 1999

• It's No Red Bull: Harbor High Seeks National Surf Crown

  Newport Harbor High School's surf team has a chance to be crowned the national champion as it competes in the Red Bull Riders Cup National Championship this weekend at Upper Trestles at San Onofre State Beach south of San Clemente. Harbor High's Sailors, who were the Orange County Regional Champion, are scheduled to compete in the second heat of the day against Satellite High School, the Central Florida Regional Champ, at 1 p.m. Saturday. Opening up the competition at 10 a.m.

  June 5, 2009

• Irvine Spared in Professor's Plan to Close UC Campuses

  UCI.orgAll's quiet in the center of campus at "second-tier" UC Irvine.​Capitol Weekly reports about a radical proposal to spare the UC system major financial pain amid massive budget cuts: close three campuses.Don't worry: UC Irvine makes the cut. Barely.

  August 5, 2009

• Wax On, Wax Off: A Growing Connection Between Surfing and Golf?

  by Jonah Probell Half Moon BayOk, so I almost never use the first person to write about surfing in Wax On, Wax Off. But I also never show up for a round of golf at Half Moon Bay to find that big wave legend Jeff Clark is teeing off right behind me. Jeff is the guy who essentially discovered Maverick's as a surf spot--the heavy, gnarly monster of a wave that once famously and tragically took the life of Mark Foo.  

  October 2, 2009