Author: Scott Rappaport
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UCSC alum’s third CD offers haunting ‘optimistic melancholy’
Rolling Stone magazine has described Emily Jane White’s songs as “melancholy as a rainbow glimpsed through the bars of a prison window.”
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Spike Lee hires UCSC alum as designer for Mike Tyson solo Broadway show
Erik Pearson, a 2001 graduate of UC Santa Cruz in Film and Digital Media, has been chosen by director Spike Lee to design the media for “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth,” opening July 31 on Broadway
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz launches new season July 24
Shakespeare Santa Cruz (SSC) will kick off its 31st season on Tuesday, July 24. Nearly 60 UCSC students and alumni help make it happen.
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Mickey Hart talks about UCSC Archive in Sunday LA Times
The June 29 public opening of UCSC’s Grateful Dead Archive has generated widespread and extensive media coverage. As reporter Matt Stevens noted in a story published in the July 1 edition of the Sunday Los Angeles Times…
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UC Santa Cruz launches the Grateful Dead Archive Online
The UCSC Library announced today that the public can now access the Grateful Dead Archive Online through the GDAO website at www.gdao.org.
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Sunday SF Chronicle arts section features cover story on B. Ruby Rich
UC Santa Cruz professor of Film and Digital Media B. Ruby Rich was featured in June on the cover of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Sunday Datebook pullout arts section.
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Moonalice to help UC Santa Cruz open Grateful Dead Archive June 29
UC Santa Cruz will celebrate the public opening of the Grateful Dead Archive at the University Library on Friday, June 29, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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‘Chimichangas and Zoloft’: alumna earns raves for off Broadway debut
UCSC alumna Fernanda Coppel has been garnering rave reviews for her latest play Chimichangas and Zoloft, now at the Tony Award-winning Atlantic Theater in New York City.
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz announces new collaboration with local theater
In an effort to expand its programming and partnerships in the community, Shakespeare Santa Cruz will collaborate with Jewel Theater Company in spring 2013 to co-produce two one-act plays by Harold Pinter.
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Music Department’s Spring Opera ‘Little Women’ opens May 31
Each spring, the UCSC Music Department offers up a major opera production–the only fully staged, live opera presentation in Santa Cruz County. This year it presents composer Mark Adamo’s Little Women, based on the popular novel by Louisa May Alcott.

