Santa Cruz County Local News: Art, Culture & Media

The sheer magic of the moment vs. the time and money to make it happen—live performance is a delicate balance, and never more so than after the down-time of Covid, rising cost of productions, and erosion of reliable, passionate audiences.

How will fake news influence how people vote? How will it impact the views people hold? How can we deal with deep fakes? Those are a few questions tackled by Dr. Nolan Higdon, professor of media studies at UCSC.

Our Community Reads, in collaboration with Friends of the Aptos Library and many volunteers, has prepared an impressive month-long celebration of reading and coffee.

KSQD’s fifth birthday bash will includes music, food, beer and wine, and a silent auction.

As a scuba diver, Marc Shargel has seen ecological shifts since the 1970s, and recently used his camera to document stunning changes to California’s kelp forests.

How Monterey County and Santa Cruz County ‘Give Back’

SignAge & ArtWorks occupies a prime spot in the fashionable Westside Santa Cruz shopping, warehouse, and art gallery district.

Can anyone make a Mickey Mouse cartoon now? Yes, but it’s not that simple.

Collaborators Laura February Strange and Scott Kail give us an inspired album showing the many sides of that modern antihero, the Karen.

Local author yves. is blurring the line between fiction genres with their debut short story collection, “Something’s Not Right.” The author will read at Bookshop Santa Cruz on Jan. 4.