Here are nine things you need to know for the week ahead. It's spring B9 on my feet:
- Are Earth Day and April 20th the same day? Do you think it was an accident? Downtown Santa Cruz celebrates both.
- Santa Cruz has some very talented and promising young people, many of whom will be showcasing their work at FashionTEENS Santa Cruz in Rio on Friday.
- Santa Cruz's most adventurous performing artists come together for Dance of the Living Composers.
- Big, bold and soulful. New Mastersounds is celebrating their 25th anniversary with a tour that includes a stop at Moe's Alley.
- Hold on to your socks. Because Santa Cruz Ballet Theater is partnering with Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center, and our dancers are looking to blow their socks off.
- He's much more than Dwight – Rainn Wilson is changing the world with his new book, Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution.
- Today is Record Store Day! Today is Record Store Day! It's Record Store Day.
- It hits a lot of buttons, including a Polynesian festival, Hawaiian food, a screening of “Chasing Mavericks,” and an appearance by Frosty Hesson, and it's free. What's not to love?
- She has been on stage since childhood. Shemekia, the daughter of blues legend Johnny Copeland, is now a blues star in her own right.