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Shakey Bones Brings the Ruckus to Freak Radio Santa Cruz

They were kicked out of the Santa Cruz Farmer’s Market on Wednesday, but on Thursday the ruckus music of Shakey Bones was welcomed on Freak Radio, our renowned community pirate radio station. Shakey Bones formed in January of 2006 in Walnut Creek, a “boring suburban town in the east bay.” Read more and view photos

Shakey Bones plays, “RUCKUS MUSIC. New tunes, old tunes, rewritten tunes and all kinds of other madness. We make all our own cds, and send them out ourselves. Up the punx. Fuck the naysayers. Bash the fash. Eat the cake. Save the world.”

Audio: Shakey Bones Live on FRSC (1 hour 10 minutes)

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Counting Lives Lost, Making Tangible an Abstract Measure of Grief

While traveling through Watsonville on June 1st, I came across a grid of four inch figures representing “every person who has died in Iraq since we invaded.” The exhibition is at Sierra Azul Nursery and Gardens and is part of the Pajaro Valley Arts Council exhibit, Sculpture IS, which is showing June 2nd through July 30th. Thirty-nine regional artists are showing over seventy pieces of work ranging from installation and performance art to a variety of sculptures that are kinetic, functional, traditional and collaborative.

“Counting Lives Lost, Making Tangible an Abstract Measure of Grief” was installed by a volunteer group of artists over Memorial Day weekend. Two tons (four thousands pounds!) of clay were reportedly used so far to make the figures and I believe there are plans to continue adding new figures as more Americans and Iraqis continue to die in the Iraqi War. Only American and Iraqi deaths are being represented, but installation artist Kathleen Crocetti is well aware that people from other parts of the world are also dying in the Iraqi War. Read more and view photos

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Heads Spin at Youth and Power 2006

On April 17th, 2006, the Watsonville Brown Berets held the 6th annual Youth and Power. The theme was “Brown and Black Pride” and the event, held on a Monday night, brought together more than thousand people from ‘Los Atzlan’ to the Bay Area.

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