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06/11/2024

Governor Newsom Must Protect Meals for Seniors

06/11/2024

Brad Kava | Good Times Editor

06/11/2024

THURSDAY

06/10/2024

Enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to As You Like It by Santa Cruz Shakespeare at The Grove on Friday, August 30, 8:00pm or Sunday, September 1, 7:00pm. One winner for each date!

06/10/2024

Enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to The Importance of Being Earnest by Santa Cruz Shakespeare at The Grove on Friday, September 6, 8:00pm or Saturday, September 7, 2:00pm. One winner for each date!

06/10/2024

Enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to The Glass Menagerie by Santa Cruz Shakespeare at The Grove on Thursday, September 26, 7:00pm or Friday, September 27, 8:00pm. One winner for each date!

06/09/2024

Enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to Hamlet by Santa Cruz Shakespeare at The Grove on Sunday, August 11, 7:00pm or Sunday, August 18, 2:00pm. One winner for each date!

06/07/2024

An Orange County Superior Court judge ruled in favor of the University of California and ordered a temporary stop to all striking activities by the United Auto Workers (UAW) through June 27.

06/06/2024

Laurence Bedford tells me that for his hiking buddy Sven Davis, “Minimalism gets to be a religion.” Laurence grins and explains that Sven cut the handle off his toothbrush to save the weight. And that as Sven reads his books, …

06/05/2024

It’s no secret that since the pandemic the Santa Cruz music scene has been going  through a major revival. Along with the reopening of the Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Building—aka Vets Hall, one of the only all-ages venues left in …

06/05/2024

The Santa Cruz City Council unanimously approved a 48-unit housing project at the current site of the Food Bin and Herb Room on May 28 after the developer submitted plans for 59 units on the site.

06/05/2024

Elaine Johnson was 15 before she realized that the “aunt” who lived with her grandmother was actually her grandmother’s partner of four decades.

06/04/2024

THURSDAY

06/04/2024

Twenty years ago, when Kirby Scudder and Chip (yes, one name only) created First Friday, they were not thinking outside the box, they didn’t have a box. They built the whole thing out of sand, held together by dreams.

06/04/2024

ARIES March 21-April 19

06/04/2024

Film-goers of all ages can easily hum the opening bars of half a dozen movie scores written by legendary composer John Williams, a man whose flair for the cinematic has created memorable soundtracks for more than five decades. A few …

06/04/2024

When punk took off in and around London, three bands were in the vanguard of what came to be known as the “punk class of ’77.” Sex Pistols and the Clash would be the highest profile acts who broke through …

06/04/2024

“Even if you don’t need it, you might just have to have it. And we’ve probably got it!”

06/04/2024

A funny thing happened down in Paso Robles this past weekend: Santa Cruz kept surfacing.

06/04/2024

One of the first customers to try the cuisine at the newly opened Rustico Italian Street Food was Thomas DeSurra, who was so wowed that he asked to work there and started the next day as a manager. In the …