Christina Morgan Cree

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Where the Locals Eat in Santa Cruz

2012 Articles, Christina Morgan Cree, Food Fun, Travel

by Christina Morgan Cree

Sunny, mild weather and ocean breezes; a love of the environment and local art and a laid back feeling of “what’s the hurry”--people in Santa Cruz take time to enjoy their surroundings. Downtown, you’re likely to run into a variety of characters on Pacific Garden Mall, the outdoor shopping area that runs mainly on Pacific Ave, which has adopted the motto of “Keep Santa Cruz Weird” (t-shirts are available at Bookshop Santa Cruz). On any given day you will run into students, professionals, hippies who never made the transition to yuppie, surfers of all ages, intellectuals and pseudo-intellectuals and street performers.

Hercule Poirot from Page to Person: Agatha Christie’s Most Famous Detective Brought to Life by David Suchet

2012 Articles, Christina Morgan Cree, Movies, Mysteryrat's Maze, TV

by Christina Morgan Cree

One of Agatha Christie’s best loved characters is the fussy Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Though I’ve known many people to give me that blank-eyed “I have no idea what you’re talking about and I’ve already lost all interest in what you’re saying” look when I bring up the name of Hercule Poirot, he actually has, and has had, quite a following. He’s the only fictional character to ever get an obituary in the New York Times, and of Agatha Christie’s more than 80 novels and short story collections, he appears in 33 novels and 51 short stories.