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After a pandemic-related hiatus, the Santa Cruz Fungus Fair will return to the London Nelson Community Center and will once again transform the space into a recreated woodland habitat, which will be filled with hundreds of local mushrooms, from the red and white fly agaric to golden chantarelles, black trumpets and everything in between.
Weekender, our newsletter from correspondent Wallace Baine, delivers news from the Santa Cruz County arts community and the major (and not-so-major) events and shows to be on the lookout for this weekend.
Staff of Life Natural Foods is partnering with Smart Chicken to support Watsonville’s Second Harvest Food Bank. Throughout November, for every 10 pounds of Smart Chicken purchased at Staff of Life in Santa Cruz and Watsonville, Staff of Life and Smart Chicken will donate one pound of chicken to Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County.
"I’ll soon be reporting on the brighter future opening up for us here in California, and the legislative roadmap that will help stabilize communities like ours. But we need to put old myths and superstitions to bed first, because we can’t solve problems with the tools that created them," writes Mark Primack. "That was brought home at a housing conference held at London Nelson recently. It was more of a reunion concert than a conference, more golden oldies than fresh tunes. But it made the point."