Santa Cruz wellness expert releases app to improve workplace well-being
How a Santa Cruz designer created one of the most unlikely hits in video game history
Meet the players behind the multi-faceted push to reshape Watsonville’s downtown
Santa Cruz Skateboards’ parent company NHS is part of a growing solar trend
Can a Santa Cruz author’s 2×2 Pledge stimulate the local economy and revolutionize our food system?
Upcycling makes art out of trash
SH/OP turns donated organic produce into a community mission
More than a century after a famed trio of Hawaiian princes first surfed in Santa Cruz, their redwood olo surfboards are returning...
Memories of life on tour, plus the truth about that legendary Santa Cruz Acid Test
As they prep the 20th anniversary edition of their punk history ‘Please Kill Me,’ Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain look back at...
Multiple-murder suspect Robert Durst, the focus of HBO’s ‘The Jinx,’ called Northern California home in the 1990s and early 2000s. Did he...
The first phase of the huge Abbott Square renovation project will be unveiled this week. Will it be the answer to Santa...
Sailing the high seas from Santa Cruz to French Polynesia, Sally-Christine Rodgers documents the trials, tribulations and joys of exploring the world...
Up-and-coming artists like Ryan Bingham are a great reason to show up early to the Santa Cruz American Music Festival
Santa Cruz American Music Festival debuts this weekend with blues, country and everything in between
The annual salute to Santa Cruz’s entrepreneurial spirit expands, honoring locals with a range of goals and crusades
For Andrea Mollenauer every night is a party—but not everyone would think so.
Everywhere Paul De Worken goes, he sees blank walls.
You get your first job, and then realize you have no idea how to file your taxes. You blow a tire on...
There’s a video on YouTube from about 15 years ago of a band called the Real Jimmies, four young guys who used...
To most Santa Cruz residents, a pile of old wood on the side of the road is just trash. To Martijn Stiphout,...
The first time Courtney Laschkewitsch recalls wanting to be an entrepreneur, she was 4. By 6 years old, she’d gotten into the...
How DIY culture—and the way we document it—is evolving
[Editor’s Note: The following is from “One Sex Worker’s Experience” by Anonymous, as collected in “Speak Out” and reprinted by permission.]
Women in Santa Cruz use underground zine as a medium for a raw look at gendered violence
When Cora Evans died in Boulder Creek in 1957, her thousands of pages of religious writings hadn’t yet been published. More than...
The inside story of how Jay Shore’s weekly divided and conquered Santa Cruz 40 years ago
When I came on board as the publisher of Good Times a year ago, the lease was up at the office where...
A look back at the fiercely competitive world of Santa Cruz weeklies
A reflection of Santa Cruz in the 1970s
