Now our events section is even easier to use, both for readers and people wanting to post their event! We've taken months of feedback from users and reprogrammed our calendar section from the ground up in order to make it the most complete and user-friendly Santa Cruz events stop on the web.

The program is still in beta, which means we'd love feedback on ways we can make it even better (just send an e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ). In the meantime, here are some of the highlights of what's improved:

The bane of any journalist. Still, I'd pay a quarter if someone on Pacific Avenue made this part of their routine. It's just an old man jumping on eggs.

An award-winning student short about the dreams of a little kiwi bird. I find that it's best not to think too much about what the ending implies, and focus on the "hard work pays off in the end" lesson, but then, I'm a wuss. Others may want to embrace the bleak.

Remixing Sesame Street clips is the new LOLcat meme, and nobody's done it better than this guy, who apparently has more Bert & Ernie footage lying around the Children's Television Workshop. "I was a bit bored last week," he says. Ah, people with time on their hands...