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March 6, 2024
Low and Slow Show
Bold representation of an underrepresented culture and lowriders are among the themes of this year’s 12th Annual Watsonville Film Festival.
February 28, 2024
Soulful Kendra Morris
With vulnerability in her writing, humor and creative vocal textures, Kendra Morris deserves a listen.
February 21, 2024
Cheeseburgers in Paradise
​​This is gonna get personal. It’s also going to get messy and massive, specific and saucy, creative and crave-making, euphoric and caloric.
February 14, 2024
Murder for a Smile
Sarina Simon, Nina’s mother, is sitting in the treatment center, receiving a chemotherapy infusion for her Stage 4 lung cancer. She has an inspiration...
February 7, 2024
Good Times with Shameless Sex
This Valentine’s Day, local podcasters, sexpert-preneurs and now authors April Lampert (left) and Amy Baldwin (the team behind the Pure Pleasure Shop and the Shameless Sex podcast) have some advice for those of you trying to get to the pleasure point.
January 31, 2024
The Future of Theater and Music
The sheer magic of the moment vs. the time and money to make it happen—live performance is a delicate balance, and never more so...
January 24, 2024
The Health and Fitness Issue
As we dive headfirst into 2024 brimming with new resolutions, with all of the breakthroughs in the field of health and wellness, it’s a...
January 17, 2024
Winter Music Collection
Spontaneity is Key
By DAN EMERSON
Calling Cecile McLorin Salvant a jazz singer is kind of like calling Donald Trump a realtor. It's a woefully incomplete...
January 10, 2024
Trick My Ride
There’s gold to be found in the car culture of the Central Coast. It offers a wealth of stories and histories, told by endearing people, generous with their time—in addition to being a feast for the eyes, with a myriad of lovingly restored treasures on wheels.
January 2, 2024
Go Fish: Monterey Bay’s First Pioneers
The original inhabitants of Monterey Bay were many things: artists and engineers, hunters and foragers, healers and collaborators, spiritual seekers and problem solvers, herbalists...
December 27, 2023
The Best of Times or the Worst of Times?
When all else fails go with the animal stories. That’s been an age-old fall back for journalists and for YouTube too. Try sliding around there without getting sucked into videos about...
December 19, 2023
Dark Sky Santa Cruz Wants to Help Us See More Stars
There is a growing Dark Sky movement that contends excessive light is dangerous to our ecosystem and to our own safety and health.