A day before the new school year started, with more than 16,000 students returning to class throughout Pajaro Valley Unified School District, Pajaro Middle School celebrated the reopening of the campus following major flood repairs.
Mighty Mike Schermer returns to town, playing Aug. 22 at Kuumbwa with guitarist Kid Andersen and vocalist Lisa “Little Baby” Andersen. All three are dropping new albums that night, and Schermer’s is a solid departure from the blues.
The coolest question that I could get asked is to describe the change that happens to the music when certain perches get ascended to,” says Rushadicus, aka the Cello Goblin.
Bernard Lumpkin and his husband, Carmine Boccuzzi, have been collecting art since 2010, primarily young and emerging artists of African descent, in addition to established names like Mark Bradford, Henry Taylor and Kara Walker, the painter and printmaker famous for …
Forthcoming Pete’s Fish House—debuting this Thursday, Aug. 22, per its website—has a lot going for it beyond Hog Island oysters, soft-shell crab sandwiches and a collection of crudo dishes.
According to a recent article in USA Today, the wicked combination of post-pandemic residue, social-media-induced loneliness and an overall state of uncertainty have seeded an online therapy boom. Therapists say they have never been busier.
This article was originally published on CaliforniaLocal.com. Eric Johnson is the editorial director of this news and civic engagement site, which is active in 10 counties—including Santa Cruz County.
WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN STORY
The 23-year-old man killed early Saturday morning in a head-on crash in Aptos has been identified as Luke Salem, a Harbor High School graduate who played football for Cabrillo College.
Local rock icon, deejay and novelist Greg Kihn died Tuesday, Aug. 16 at the age of 75, according to an announcement on his web site.
Get ready to rock out to old-school vibes and guitar-driven originals as San Diego–based Electric Mud makes their Santa Cruz debut. Named Best Rock Band in the San Diego Music Awards, Electric Mud has played the legendary Whiskey a Go …
Santa Cruz humorist Sven Davis is driving our clown car this morning, the other clowns being Laurence Bedford, Sleepy John Sandidge and me. We stop at the entrance kiosk to the world-famous Henry Cowell Old Redwood Grove Park in Felton …
Walk up to a total stranger on the street and ask them any question on a topic that sparks your curiosity. What would it be?
Since long before states started legalizing weed about a dozen years ago, the default assumption has been that cannabis use among young people, specifically teenagers, would surely increase.
Independent station KCPR, known as Pirate Cat Radio, is back in Santa Cruz for the first time in more than a year, when the station moved to Los Gatos. Pirate Cat recently added KMRP 101.9 FM to its list of …
Santa Cruz schools are on a mission to change the way your kids think about vegetables.
The ’60s left a lasting mark on our city, sparking a love-hate relationship that still sizzles. Today Santa Cruz remains a hotspot for those chasing an altered state, with edibles, smokables and sippables galore.
ARIES March 21-April 19
HOMELESS PROBLEM
"New oil rigs loom just over our horizons, and we can stop it. The companies would have us believe that the technology is safer now. The fact is that no oil rig in the world is impervious to a bad …
