while we can and should be envisioning something beyond the present Santa Cruz Night Out, the sad fact is that THIS IS THE BEST WE CAN GET AT THIS TIME. There ain't gonna be no Reclaim the Streets party anytime soon, unless something has drastically changed since the last one that lasted about 20 minutes and had about 100 folks in attendance. In the mean time, until we can hopefully get more closure of cars on the avenue, we should all be going out to check out the festivities, organizing around this issue, etc. Every minute we can get a non-commercial closure on Pacific Avenue is a battle and one to be celebrated and taken advantage of. There seems plenty of opportunity to create our own play outside of the pre-arranged ones at Santa Cruz Night Out, as well as the arranged ones. Chalking in the road and playing hopscotch was a good idea, but playing frisbee in a crowded street? That's the kind of stupidity that encourages people to not support street closures or a relaxing of the Downtown Ordinances. See ya in the streets.........