Cover Stories
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686Will Big Business Crush Cannabis Culture?
Wine industry icon Phil Coturri paints a bleak picture of pot’s corporate future
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10.6K11The Santa Cruz Restaurant Scene’s Labor Crisis
Why a shortage of service workers has left local restaurant managers scrambling
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1.4KNew Book From UCSC’s Gary Griggs Exposes Coastal Dangers
‘Coasts in Crisis’ is an urgent call to action, as climate change threatens to decimate our shores
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7.2K6The Story of Neil Young’s Short-lived Santa Cruz Band the Ducks
In the summer of 1977 Neil Young moved to town to make legendary music
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1.6K1The Truth Behind the Most Iconic Beatles Cover
As ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ turns 50, artist Jann Haworth reveals how it really got made
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2.0K1How Toadal Fitness Went from Indie Gym to Having Multiple Locations
After 20 years in the business, Toadal Fitness founder shares his perspectives on the evolving world of fitness
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6.2K4The Secrets of UCSC’s Trail System
Hiking in Santa Cruz just got better, and more weird
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1.8KCabrillo Festival Launches Under New Leadership
Music director and conductor Cristian Măcelaru takes over as the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music enters a new era
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4.3K3The Complete Guide to Santa Cruz Burger Week
Where to find the burger of your dreams as the first annual culinary event hits Santa Cruz County on July 19
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1.5KComplete Guide to Santa Cruz’s Booziest Summer Reading Events
Our summer lit guide is not so think as you drunk it is
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2.4KFour Local Characters at the Forefront of Alternative Energy
Local pioneers in the alternative-energy movement look back at how far we’ve come, and how much more there is yet to do
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3.1K6Santa Cruz’s Historical African-American Baseball Team
Nearly erased from local history, the Santa Cruz Colored Giants challenged baseball’s racist rules in the Jim Crow era
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1.3KNathan Hill’s ‘The Nix’ and the New Age of Novels
In an era of fake news and ‘alternative truth,’ fiction is striking a chord
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2.8K1Daniel Stewart Makes a Statement with ‘Yuja II’
The return of classical superstar Yuja Wang underscores how conductor Daniel Stewart has transformed and elevated the Santa Cruz Symphony
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6.1K1Santa Cruz Remembers Jack O’Neill
The legacy of a beloved surfing innovator, ocean enthusiast and storied character
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1.3KThird Annual Ebb and Flow Event Celebrates the San Lorenzo River
River arts celebration of the slow-but-steady revival of the San Lorenzo comes amid continued challenges to its sustainability
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5.6K2Santa Cruz’s Abbott Square to Reopen After Decades of Underuse
Why Abbott Square could be the public space breakthrough that Santa Cruz needs
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2.5KMelissa Etheridge’s Surprising Connection to Santa Cruz
The American Music Festival headliner talks about music, politics and her local ties
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8.4K15The Untold Story of Pete the Poet
Remembering the late local poet Peter McLaughlin
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11.0K2Why is the Grave of Antoinette Swan Unmarked?
The historic Santa Cruz legacy and mana of Hawaiian-born Antoinette Swan
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3.0KEliquate Resurfaces Solo with New Album
How Eliquate became the biggest rapper on the Santa Cruz scene, lost it all, and found himself again
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2.8K1UCSC Grads on the Cutting Edge of Social Justice Activism
Carmen Perez, national co-chair of the Women’s March on Washington, and Amelia McDonell-Parry, of the podcast ‘Undisclosed,’ speak to GT
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3.3K1How a Local Company is Shaping the Future of Virtual Reality
With its groundbreaking camera work, small Santa Cruz production studio Impact Creative is having a huge impact on virtual reality technology
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5.3K1Rising International Helps Women in 26 Countries Craft Their Futures
Local nonprofit works with women all over the world—and right here in Santa Cruz
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7.4K10How Mountain Bikers Beat Heroin Hill
Over the last 20 years, the Mountain Bikers of Santa Cruz group has revolutionized cycling advocacy
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3.9KSanta Cruz’s Warming Center Brings Deeper Look at Homelessness
As the Warming Center receives a NEXTies award for Nonprofit of the Year this week, the activist behind it searches for long-term...
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10.8K2Readers Picks: Best of Santa Cruz County 2017
GT readers voted on the best of everything Santa Cruz County, and here are the results
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5.2K3The Legacy of Doug Ross: Modern Renaissance Man
The late local fixture was an engineer, inventor, educator, volunteer animal rescuer, and friend to many
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3.1KBest of Santa Cruz County 2017: Editor’s Picks
Our annual salute to the quirky corners of Santa Cruz greatness and strangeness