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03/27/2024

What is your favorite place to hear live music in Santa Cruz?

03/27/2024

Walking up Madrone Street by the Sash Mill, you can hear a faint bass rumble. It’s late afternoon on a chilly Sunday in March, and Woodhouse Brewery is holding a daytime artist’s showcase. On a small stage, a performer pumps …

03/27/2024

The Watsonville City Council on Tuesday voted to close the crosswind runway at the airport, a move city officials say will open up more of the city for development of housing and commercial space.

03/26/2024

ARIES March 21-April 19In the coming days, your hunger will be so inexhaustible that you may feel driven to devour extravagant amounts of food and drink. It’s possible you will gain ten pounds in a very short time. Who knows? …

03/26/2024

It was a mission appointed with celestial redwoods and misty coastline, small-batch Pinots and big-value seafood, river canoeing, beach bluff hiking and quirky art hunting too.

03/26/2024

An Instagram page turned pop-up turned restaurant, The Pizza Series in Scotts Valley specializes in Detroit-style and New York-style pizzas. Founder Matt Driscoll opened the spot over a year ago with his fiancée Maddy, the culmination of a longtime dream.

03/26/2024

HEALTH MATTERS  So many healthy things to launch the season. Photo Talia BorelliSpring Renewal

03/26/2024

Brad Kava | Good Times Editor

03/26/2024

PAJARO DENIED

03/26/2024

Modern-day kings of instrumental surf music Los Straitjackets are touring to celebrate their 30th anniversary. The masked quartet comes to Moe’s Alley March 29.

03/26/2024

Omar Sosa is dedicated to making music that promotes worldwide peace. Born in 1965 in Cuba’s third largest city Camagüey – Sosa studied percussion and marimba, later adding piano. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1995 and …

03/26/2024

THURSDAY 3/28

03/26/2024

California has a long tradition of music festivals. From Monterey Pop to Coachella, music fans have had many opportunities to enjoy the best that popular music has to offer, all in a festival setting. While its scale is more modest …

03/25/2024

The string-tapping method employed by adventurous musicians isn’t new, and it wasn’t devised by Eddie Van Halen. Some 200 years ago, composer Niccolò Paganini used the technique on his violin. Jazz guitarist Barney Kessel used one- and two-hand tapping techniques …

03/20/2024

Jerry Castro has lived in the same house on Jonathan Street in Pajaro all his life. His parents owned it before him, he then bought it off of them. His children and their children were also raised there. Now, more …

03/19/2024

As you think of Springtime returning, what comes to mind that makes you happy?

03/19/2024

ARIES March 21-April 19

03/19/2024

The exciting March program begins with the Matsuri Overture. Named for the Japanese word for festival the Matsuri Overture was composed in 2017 by Spain's José González Granero. Now based in the Bay Area, Granero has been principal clarinet for …

03/19/2024

“I don’t feel like we’re working smarter,” laughs Lorna Heptinstall.

03/19/2024

THURSDAY 3/21

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