Santa Cruz County Art, Culture & Media Digest

An introduction to Laura Henkel and Ginger Shulick Porcella, the two candidates under consideration to lead the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.

A look at UCSC student led radio station KZSC as it enters its 50th year.

Watsonville celebrates the completion of the five years in the making of the massive Watsonville Brillante public art project.

Once home to the Jewel Theatre, the Bud Colligan Theater in the Tannery is now hosting performance by All About Theater.

Proposals are being sought for a mural up to seven stories high for a new building in downtown Santa Cruz.

Writers of Color Santa Cruz County are holding a reading of the poetry of 17 local poets at the Museum of Art and History on October 10.

Volunteers came together to build a site-specific art work under the direction of a father and son team of artists on Cowell Beach.

Pajaro Valley Arts has a new executive director and is ready to embark on fundraising to renovate and upgrade the site of its new headquarters in downtown Watsonville.

A look at a local National Night Out celebration in Scotts Valley on August 6 and an explanation of the annual nationwide event.

Public comment is being solicited on mural designs for the Ramsay Park Nature Center in Watsonville.

Originally held in 1961 to celebrate the defeat of a planned cement plant in Aptos, the parade was moved to July 4 and this year featured a marching band, politicians and sports teams and ... Darth Vader?

Season 11 will be the biggest yet, with two plays by William Shakespeare and two by other authors.

Watsonville is seeking proposals from qualified consultants by June 14 as it begins drafting its first Public Art Master Plan.

The board of the Museum of Art and History is beginning the search for a new executive director as current director Robb Woulfe announced his departure.

While it might be reopening in August, Capitola is still in the process of developing a long-term vision for the iconic wharf.

Lookout Santa Cruz has won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for their coverage of the January 2023 floods.

More than half of the U.S. House supports a bill to extend the funds, but it can’t get out of committee.

The Capitola Mall will host the Surf City Comic Con at the former Sears location on Saturday, April 20.

I thought my journalism and others’ could change policy, perhaps even inspire a New Deal-style response equal to the challenge. Such was my naiveté.

A new exhibit opening April 12 at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History tells the story of Filipino migration and labor in Watsonville and the greater Pajaro Valley from the 1930s to the present.

It quickly became clear that Elon Musk’s SpaceX was responsible for the show. The lights were a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 new Starlink satellites into orbit. The rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 7:30 p.m., and it’s trail was visible from Los Angeles to Joshua Tree National Park.

In a celebration of the old and the new the theme of the upcoming Santa Cruz County Fair September 11-14 will be "Pioneer Days and Modern Ways."

The March 11 edition of the Los Angeles Times print edition will be its last at the Los Angeles Times Olympic printing plant in Los Angeles.

Journalism and democracy are undeniably intertwined. As the late media critic James Carey put it, “No journalism, no democracy; but, equally, no democracy, no journalism.”

UC Merced will be highlighted on an Amazon Prime show that showcases universities around the world.

"Art and Life: The Story of Jim Phillips," directed by John Edward Makens, tells the story of Jim Phillips, a graphic artist who has left his imprint throughout Santa Cruz and beyond.

The Grateful Dead have broken the record for the most Top 40 albums to chart on the Billboard 200.

She toured the world wowing audiences, and she captured the public’s imagination for decades. No, not Taylor Swift; Ellen Beach Yaw, also known as Lark Ellen.

James Dean’s last stop before he died in a car crash was at Blackwell’s Corner, a gas station in rural Kern County. His memory isn’t the draw it once was.

A shrink-wrapped Endeavour was hoisted and then carefully placed in its final location at the still-under-construction Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center.

The proposal aims to help working artists become arts teachers in elementary schools.

A combination of tax credits, revenue sharing and coupons could bring stability, writes Steven Waldman, president of Rebuild Local News.