Doug McKnight
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Candidates for Santa Cruz Mayor on how they'd address housing development, UCSC student films highlight stories of wrongful convictions, invasive insects on fruit trees, and more in this week's local news roundup.
KAZU Green Room
Dylan Music
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KAZU
Grammy-winning slack-key guitarist and singer George Kahumoku, Jr. has been making music for years. He's also a sculptor, farmer, and preserver ofHawaiian culture and heritage. He's lived most of his life in Hawaii, but he moved to Watsonville about a year ago. Now, he'll be performing at a Hawaiian cultural event taking place at the Chaminade Resort & Spa in Santa Cruz this weekend.
- I Cantori di Carmel brings "Carmina Burana" to the Great Outdoors of the Central Coast
- Bedrooms frozen in time: Carmel filmmaker discusses Oscar-winning documentary
- WATCH: Local art students celebrate their work on display at Salinas Valley Health
- Japanese American women artists are at the heart of "Pictures of Belonging."
- The Watsonville Film Festival focuses on art as resistance
The Latest From NPR
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Public support for the LGBTQ+ community by corporations has become politically risky, public relations expert says. -
The humpback whale, nicknamed "Timmy" by German media, died following a controversial failed rescue effort. His carcass had been drifting near the Danish shore for two weeks. -
Pope Leo's first encyclical voices his concerns about technology and AI. The pope cautions about the illusions AI bots can create, and how important actual human relationships are. -
We have less need for paper than past generations, but paper ephemera is still very collectible. We meet some digital natives who collect old postcards and comics at a paper show in Pennsylvania.
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NPR's Scott Simon asks Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, about his recent criticism of America's approach to military conflict.
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The U.S. defense secretary said there is "rightful alarm" of China's military build up. But he also struck a more moderate tone on U.S.-China relations – and notably sidestepped bringing up Taiwan. -
Delhi's rickshaws are plying the roads with a new message: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA" emblazoned with Trump's face. Drivers were offered sweeteners to host the signs: tea bags, soda, and an empty plastic bottle.
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The National Transportation Safety Board temporarily pulled its docket system offline after digital images were used to reconstruct cockpit voice recordings of the pilots in a recent crash. -
Far from Colombia's tourist hubs, the Mavecure Mountains rise from the Amazon jungle. Once off-limits during conflict, they now draw adventurous visitors to rare wildlife, sacred sites and vast views. -
The tour comes as Myanmar's new government tries to consolidate its political position regionally, while continuing to wage a brutal civil war.
