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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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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The Justice Department said it 'strongly disagrees' with the court's ruling that paused a $1.776 fund for victims of government "weaponization," but would still abide by it. -
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Ras Baraka, mayor of Newark, N.J., about the protests taking place outside the Delaney Hall Detention Facility, which have grown violent in recent days.
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The lawsuit accuses the company of failing to warn users that ChatGPT could be dangerous and instead marketing it as safe and reliable. -
The Anthropic IPO, and those of other AI-related firms like OpenAI, could be among the biggest in U.S. history. -
A tennis legend at 44, Serena Williams is returning to pro tennis this month, announcing plans to play in the HSBC Championships in London. Williams, a mother of two, retired nearly four years ago. -
Historian Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor spent years researching the racial slur, but never revealed that her father was the legendary comic who used it profusely. Her new book is Something We Said. -
Research from the New York Fed finds that younger college graduates have been sidelined by remote work in recent years, as companies may be reluctant to hire those needing more training and mentoring. -
A study finds that an mRNA vaccine is highly effective at preventing recurrence of this dangerous skin cancer, when used in combination with Keytruda, an immunotherapy drug. -
American aircraft fired on a number of Iranian sites over the weekend, including Qeeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz. And, Trump's anti-weaponization fund faces scrutiny in Congress and the courts. -
The outbreak remains focused in Congo's eastern Ituri province. Congo has reported over 1,000 suspected cases with the Bundibugyo virus, which has no approved treatment or vaccine.
