Ryan Rittenhouse, founder of Santa Cruz Surf Apparel Co., held a press conference today, Jan. 5, to dispel the Santa Cruz Surfing Club Preservation Society’s current allegations against him...
The facilities run by the city of Watsonville will be closed completely until Jan. 5, 2009, as the city attempts to save money in a slumping economy. The move...
University police had a busy morning on Wednesday, Dec. 17, as they took stock of the previous night’s vandalisms on the campus. The crimes were scattered across the large...
Photographer and all-around awesome guy David Friedman set up a mini-studio on the Upper West Side of New York and took pictures of the kids doing the public trick-or-treat circuit there. Some enterprising local should definitely do the same on Pacific Avenue next year, particularly if they can get results this crisp.
Dschinghis Khan is a German disco outfit from the 1970s that formed to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest, where all crazy white music originates. This video has been a popular internet meme for years, but it's only with the following helpful translation that it truly comes to life. (Rated PG-13)
Captured from the recent Van Halen tour. The pre-recorded synthesizer part of "Jump" gets played back at the wrong speed, a quarter-tone off so that Eddie Van Halen can't even transpose on the fly to cover the mistake. The resulting train wreck is awful to watch if you're a performer, and great schadenfreude for Van Haters.
A video that purports to show U.S. soldiers doing jumping jacks with Iraqi recruits. Does anyone have insight on whether this is real? Regardless of its veracity, it's a funny shot that quickly becomes somber as one imagines the circumstances behind it.
Pluto Enters Capricorn I have read several predictions from astrologers about the return of Pluto to Capricorn, the natal position of American when she was born, and they all speak of love and the soul and the one-ness of m...
Town Hall with Sam Farr
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Written by Sam Farr
Monday, 05 January 2009
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LETTER TO PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA
Laval, Canada, January ...
What's different about California's budget? Look at how we got where we are, to see the solution. Any money the state gets they will use to raise tghe pay and benefits of state employees. They now retire on 70 to 90 percent of their pay, and a...
Say a Little Prayer Diane Wiscombe,
I unfortunately wrote my comment while you were posting yours, and oh how I wish I had seen it prior to my spouting off. I admit I was rather angered by the resoundingly critical resp...
Say a Little Prayer I've had many similar experiences as you growing up in a devoutly LDS family in the 90's, though I must admit that I was blessed growing up in the liberal San Francisco Bay Area. I think our wards wer...
