Good Times Articles

Brad Kava | Good Times Editor

Master gardener Delmar McComb’s first job out of college changed the course of his life forever. While working with a former apprentice of the legendary horticulturist Alan Chadwick, he learned the dirty secrets of conventional gardening.

Glitz and Glam are swapped with empty bottles and food wrappers in this upcoming Santa Cruz fashion show at The Rio on Friday. 

Gliding across the California redwood, a 10-inch slimy and bright yellow slug has weaved its way into the 2024 California legislative session with Assembly Bill 1850, which would make the banana slug the official state slug. 

New music, new moves, what better way to celebrate spring? NewMusicWorks and Tandy Beal & Company join together for an extraordinary coupling of music and movement featuring premiere scores by seven living composers, plus new choreographies by Tandy Beal—guaranteed to …

Shemekia Copeland isn’t sure what to make of the Blues Music Award for Instrumentalist Vocals that she received recently.

THURSDAY

Activist, poet and music manager John Sinclair died last week at 82. He was someone about whom everybody concerned about cannabis reform, of any age, should know.

“The chapter of Honey B Market is coming to an end,” owner-operator Katie Belanger writes in a social media post. “I have been feeling the full spectrum of emotions about it, but oddly, [I’m] mostly at peace.”

Two weeks before the first Covid shutdown, Jon Bates and his business partners Jason and Keike bought the iconic Seabright Brewery and rebranded it as Seabright Social. Buying a restaurant/bar just before a pandemic was hardly ideal timing, but the …

The rains bring us grace. Outside, the plants bounce and grow, with glistening raindrops on their petals, leaves and stems. Back in the inside world, no one is droning on fearfully about drought on radio or TV news. The water …

A woman walks toward me on Seabright Avenue in Santa Cruz. She is fastidiously buttoned up and well heeled, she carries a tiny dog, clearly from out of town.  She stops me: “Do you live here?”

Where do you find your peace?

The West Cliff 50-Year Community Vision is moving forward as the Santa Cruz City Council voted to adopt the document during a regular meeting last week. However, a city staff proposal to pursue a two-year pilot project to turn West …

Additional assistance for Pajaro flood victims is getting to those that are still in need more than a year later through Monterey County’s Pajaro Unmet Needs Disaster Assistance Program. Within the first week, hundreds of applications have been processed in …

Best Bar

A teacher once told me to be careful with the word best. Once you declare something is at the top of the heap, you’ve set the bar so high that nothing else can contend. What if you find something better? 

Best Acupuncturist/Acupuncture Clinic

Best Appetizers

Best Art Event
OPEN STUDIOS ART TOUR
Silver Medal
FIRST FRIDAY SANTA CRUZ
Bronze Medal
TANNERY SPRING ART MARKET
Best Art Gallery (Retail)
M.K. CONTEMPORARY ART
Silver Medal
LILLE ÆSKE ARTHOUSE
Bronze Medal
ARTISANS & AGENCY
Best Artist (Local)
YESHE …