A proposed residential-commercial building by the clock tower downtown is 18 stories high.
Santa Cruz is bluer than ever.
Spring is a glorious time to visit Silver Mountain Vineyards. Vines are green and lush, and beautiful panoramic views over fields and mountains are breathtaking. Owner and winemaker Jerold O’Brien leads guests on a tasting of marvelous bottles. Bring a …
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After a late spring rain storm hit the area over the weekend, UC Santa Cruz students continued their protest of the Israel-Gaza war, occupying the University’s Quarry Plaza in an action meant to pressure the school into divesting from companies …
Aptos resident Laura Dover-Smith was walking on a trail in Watsonville’s sloughs on her lunch break one sunny Wednesday, an activity she tries to do daily.
Rayland Baxter maps melodies like a hopeful scout surveying an ever-expanding territory of sound. A legacy artist (his late father Bucky Baxter was a multi-faceted guitarist whose resume includes Steve Earle & The Dukes, Bob Dylan, and the Beastie Boys …
During my brief running phase, I ran in the Santa Cruz to Capitola Wharf to Wharf Race. I was dead last. The guy who was right in front of me, second to last, starts making fun of me.
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The Fancy Pants Grilled Cheese now feels more at home.
Born and raised in China, Lorry Chen immigrated to the United States three years ago and started working at the Poki Bowl in Midtown two months ago. Now on his third restaurant job, he previously was a server at two …
Sometimes life’s biggest chances come down to just a roll of the dice. Especially when that chance is on GAME Santa Cruz, the city’s first gaming cafe.
The chance to sing one of the great oratorios in the Western musical canon is a thrill. Choral singers live for these experiences. Singing with a large group of accomplished musicians, accompanied by orchestra, interwoven with solos—an oratorio is a …
Anyone in the word game, from writers to editors to publishers to professors of literature, knows that collectively we have one hell of a huge problem on our hands. The books we love, the books we view as a foundational …
View our online photo galleries from the Best of the Santa Cruz County 2024 Party, hosted by Cruz Kitchen & Taps.
Up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a couple dozen boxes towering over a corner of Atlantis Fantasy World!
There’s a cartoon in the 9/9/22 New Yorker that shows salmon jumping upstream over rocks with leopards, pelicans, crocodiles, raccoons, lions, alligators and wolves catching them in mid-air. In the foreground one bear says to another bear, “You just had …
All eyes are on Porter Wayne Hoover. He’s sitting in the bright conference room at Housing Matters on Coral Street, across the way from his residential unit at Casa Azul. Hoover sports a trucker cap and a denim jacket as …
