THURSDAY 10/24
Brian Chiala was a college baseball player in the 1990s when his dad founded Los Gatos Meats and asked him to help the family business and work there part-time. “Thirty years later, here I am,” says Brian, now the chef …
As far as an excuse to eat Gabriella’s famous Caesar, pistachio-crusted yellowtail and pumpkin panna cotta, this is a good one: During Santa Cruz Restaurant Week—happening Oct. 23–30—those three courses, which include market vegetables and polenta, run $45.
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Brad Kava | Good Times Editor
Santa Cruz is known for many things. Of course there’s NHS and Santa Cruz Skateboards, but we were once home to Netflix and Odwalla, and now Trick-Or-Treat Studios. But after Oct. 26 Santa Cruz might be known for another thing.
An inevitable force of nature. That’s the best way to describe Los Angeles–based four-piece garage psych band Frankie and the Witch Fingers, who play Moe’s Alley the night before Halloween. Formed in 2013, this band consciously breaks down all barriers, …
Halloween originated from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, the end of the harvest season. The Gaels believed that on Oct. 31 the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead becomes blurry.
In 2017, the Quarry Amphitheater on the UC Santa Cruz campus reopened after being shuttered for 13 years. Its first event was a soft opening, a concert for students, donors, basically anyone who was involved in fundraising for the restoration …
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) has opened a Community Resource Center for south Santa Cruz County residents affected by the public safety power shutoffs that began across the state today, according to a county press release.
Santa Cruz’s sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax measure is shaping up to be not only a battle over potentially higher soda prices, but also over a state law that bans cities from proposing measures like it at all.
The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved an ordinance that will, in a little more than two years, ban the sale of filtered cigarettes in unincorporated areas of the county.
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It was a dark and stormy night ... and according to the fertile imagination of Santa Cruz playwright John Chandler, all is not well in a certain isolated farmhouse. Chandler has conjured up one devil of a tasty and twisted …
This weekend local music promotion company PinUp Productions marks 20 years of booking shows—punk, hardcore, metal, hip hop and everything in between—in Santa Cruz and throughout the Bay Area and California.
ARIES March 21-April 19
Ireland’s Thomas Walsh makes original music that rivals the best work by two of his heroes: Electric Light Orchestra’s Jeff Lynne and Andy Partridge of XTC. Echoes of the Beatles and the Kinks’ Ray Davies crop up in his distinctive …
THURSDAY 10/17
One of the weirdest outcomes of cannabis legalization is that the cops, who for decades were intent on busting people for weed on behalf of the state and its laws, now bust people largely on behalf of the legal pot …
When necessity meets community spirit, innovation follows—and for the Teen Kitchen Project, it's a recipe for changing lives.
