Coastal Watershed Council
Our weekly news roundup includes the most recent count of people experiencing homelessness in Monterey County, pushback on data center development, and the relaunch of the River Stewards program.
KAZU Green Room
Chas Crowder
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The Atrium
An interview with Chas Crowder, a local music promoter, who is bringing concerts back to the Atrium stage inside the famous Catalyst night club, even as the venue faces an uncertain future.
- After federal cuts to SNAP, Santa Cruz food bank CEO says "we can't lose sight of hope"
- Santa Cruz musician Keshav Batish brings "Sonic Kinship" to Kuumbwa Jazz
- The Carmel Bach Festival's 89th season explores the nature of sound
- New Canon Theatre reimagines "Romeo and Juliet" in the turbulent 1960s
- Watsonville musician George Kahumoku, Jr. brings Hawaiian music and culture to Santa Cruz.
The Latest From NPR
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Margo Howard had a lot of life experience and used it to offer advice for years as "Dear Prudence" for Slate. She died this week at the age of 86. -
Under a new federal plan out today to manage the Colorado river, Arizona, California and Nevada would share steep water cuts over the next decade. The plan by will deeply impact communities and farms across those states.
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A dramatic rescue by a young lifeguard in California went viral on social media. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Pono Barnes of the L.A. County Fire Department about the dangers lifeguards face.
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It's a bold new experiment and it's already won a prize. Residents in a jam-packed slum, many of them living in one-room tin shacks, help design their apartments in a brand new building. -
The FDA is poised to render a decision on Moderna's mRNA-based flu shot, which could be the first of its kind to market. The decision is expected to reverberate throughout the biotech industry. -
Residents of the ancient town of Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon have endured wars in the past, but the latest conflict with Israel is testing the limits of their endurance. -
Thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children are set to lose legal representation. The federal contract that pays for legal access expired Friday. -
The death toll in Spain's Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67. They included some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier. -
Public health nurses have been pulled from other duties in Washtenaw County, MI, to call hundreds of people sick with cyclosporiasis, and try to help them remember everything they ate in recent days. -
Staff Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad is one of a handful of service members who've recently died in the conflict with Iran. Her family says she knew from a young age she wanted to serve in the military.
