Brad Kava | Good Times Editor
KAMALA HARRIS AND CANNABIS
For someone who knows nothing about Seattle sludgy doom metal band Year of the Cobra except for their recordings, it’s easy—and understandable—to assume they are a full quartet. Their songs are built with different tones, heavy riffs, solid rhythms and …
Some of the most interesting things come from the unlikeliest places. While Santa Cruz’s Broadway Playhouse isn’t where you might ordinarily think to go for your slice of summer horror, this August the Midsummer Ensemble—a local independent theater company—is closing …
The courtroom was packed as Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Denine Guy read her ruling concerning convicted murder Adrian Gonzalez. Silence filled the air as she declared the prosecution—Santa Cruz County Chief Deputy District Attorney Tara George—had proved reasonable …
Enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to Santa Cruz Mountain Sol Festival at Roaring Camp in Felton on Saturday, August 24.
Enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to to Grateful Dub with Roots of Creation at the Felton Music Hall in Felton on Wednesday, September 18, 8:00pm.
Enter for a chance to win a pair of general tickets to Music in the Park featuring Cuco on Friday, September 20, 5pm-10pm at Plaza de Cesar Chavez in San Jose.
Has the change of Democratic candidate changed your view of the 2024 election?
Confession: I’m not as good a cook as my better-looking half believes me to be. Which may be a long con to keep me feeding her. Or it may be that she doesn’t know I have two secret weapons.
Former Arizona residents Tad Moore and his wife, Erin, knew they wanted to move to Santa Cruz after falling in love with the area during their son’s college tour. Respectively a realtor and mortgage lender by trade, they also possess …
THURSDAY 8/1
ARIES March 21-April 19
By walking you are not going to meet yourself. By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history. —Friedrich Nietzsche
Cliff Lede not only makes wonderful wines, but they also have a gorgeous tasting room and outdoor patio area. It’s the ideal place for wine-tasting on a summer’s day.
Brad Kava | Good Times Editor
KAMALA HARRIS POT PROSECUTIONS
A frontier aesthetic powers Dion O'Reilly’s second book of poems, Sadness of the Apex Predator. (Her first, Ghost Dogs, was published in 2020.) In Apex we enter a wild west that exists in the poet’s showdown with a brutal past. …
At dawn, at Roaring Camp, up yonder in the mountains of Felton, the foggy mist swirls around the wooden railroad tracks and vintage trains. The fabricated Old West town arises like a ghost, catching glints of a new day, making …
Born into an aristocratic Irish family, flamboyant poet/playwright Oscar Wilde was a model of elegance and style. But that didn’t stop him from busting the vacuous veneer of Victorian society, where one had to have beauty or a guaranteed income. …
