SCW Issue: Jul 4–Jul 10, 2013

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In 1967 Billy Craddock wrote a coming-of-age novel for the psychedelic generation. Eight years after his death, cyberpunk novelist Rudy Rucker has rescued his masterpiece from obscurity and revived interest in an unforgettable era.
By Dan Pulcrano

Currents

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The Biggest Problem

Project 180/180 is Santa Cruz's piece of a nationwide effort to house the neediest of the homeless population by 2014. Can it succeed in saving tax dollars, as advocates hope it will, even as it eases the misery index? By Georgia Perry

Features

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Excerpt from Be Not Content

Chapter Four of Billy Craddock's best-known work, in which riveting characters and marvelous epiphanies await the narrator in a Boulder Creek cabin. By William J. Craddock

The Death of Hippie Hope

Cyberpunk novelist Rudy Rucker on what compelled him to reissue Billy Craddock's classic account of Bay Area and Santa Cruz psychedelic culture. By Rudy Rucker

The Iron Plan

Crabby and tired? You might have anemia. By Maria Grusauskas

Arts & Entertainment

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What To Do on the Fourth of July

Where to go and what to do when it's time to celebrate the defeat of the redcoats. By Traci Hukill and Jacob Pierce

Plated

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Miracle on Pacific Avenue

A gluten-free cookie that isn't dry, crumbly and tasteless? Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, Pacific Cookie Company and Red House Bakery! By Christina Waters