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...over a place that celebrates Agricultural Science majors.If you were concerned, the Hallmark-contrived holiday was far from lost for our traveling trio–dreamy happenings filled the day. We walked through a beautiful campus, watched a great show from front row seats and ate at a quaint restaurant in the city.Just for the record, we’re still just friends; that’s all.Continuing the trend of Italian food, we stopped by a nominally less questionable pizzeria that actually had a real name several blocks away from Columbia. There would be no illicit cover-ups here...
...incapable of depicting American small-town life without populating it with walking stereotypes. Lucy's secretary, Blanche (played by the scene-stealing Siobhan Fallon), alternates among three topics: scrapbooking, Jesus and her tapioca recipe. The gruff but endearing plant foreman Stu (J.K. Simmons) would rather be ice fishing. Three quaint types (one played by Frances Conroy) are permanent fixtures at Blanche's kitchen table, where they brandish scrapbooking scissors while murmuring...
...acts to convince the village pastor to stop meddling with tradition. For anyone with Scroogelike tendencies, this show will be sure to dispel all negative thinking. “Revels” is bursting at the seams with Yuletide spirit, transporting the audience back to simpler times in the quaint English countryside. The balcony of Sanders Theatre is adorned with strings of evergreen to add to the festive air; children and hankie-wavers frolic upon the stage.Though not always exciting, “Revels” is consistently successful at crafting a homey, close-knit setting that conveys the feeling...
Oddly enough, what the surf museum represents - the desire to remain a charming surf town - might be part of what's causing the city's financial wipeout. "In Santa Cruz, we're built out. Our community enjoys the luxury of being a quaint little seaside town," Shoemaker explains, but that means there's "not much opportunity to generate revenue." Tourism is the biggest industry, but that's not paying the bills, she says, especially with sales-tax dollars sliding during the recession. Projects that would have brought in more revenue, such as big-box stores, conference centers and hotels, have...
...knows for sure whether Santa Cruz will be able to remain a quaint surf town and still pay the bills. But there is hope, thanks to its population of hearty and headstrong surfers like Young. "When it gets bigger," he explained, "we just paddle harder...