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December 23, 2025
Holiday Gifts: Last-Minute and Local
Santa Cruz County is blessed with retail stores that offer creative options for gift-giving, from small to large.
December 23, 2025
Santa Cruz County Moves Closer to Cannabis Consumption Lounges
Santa Cruz County’s years-long effort to allow cannabis consumption lounges advanced this week, as the Board of Supervisors revised liability rules.
December 23, 2025
Holiday Gifts: Last-Minute and Local
Santa Cruz County is blessed with retail stores that offer creative options for gift-giving, from small to large.
December 23, 2025
Santa Cruz County Moves Closer to Cannabis Consumption Lounges
Santa Cruz County’s years-long effort to allow cannabis consumption lounges advanced this week, as the Board of Supervisors revised liability rules.
December 23, 2025
Things to do in Santa Cruz
The Bay Area outfit Fleetwood Macramé may win the award for cleverest name that evokes the era of Fleetwood Mac’s biggest successes. At Felton Music Hall 8pm Saturday 12/27
December 23, 2025
Franchise Player
The Breakfast Club at Midtown, a buzz-worthy hit since its line-out-the-door debut in San Jose, is coming to Santa Cruz Downtown in 2026.
December 23, 2025
Sunflower Soul
The mobile pop-up Girasol Pizza is bringing authentic Chicago tavern-style thin-crust pizzas and Italian beef sandwiches to Santa Cruz.
December 23, 2025
Franchise Player
The Breakfast Club at Midtown, a buzz-worthy hit since its line-out-the-door debut in San Jose, is coming to Santa Cruz Downtown in 2026.
December 23, 2025
Sunflower Soul
The mobile pop-up Girasol Pizza is bringing authentic Chicago tavern-style thin-crust pizzas and Italian beef sandwiches to Santa Cruz.
December 24, 2025
Crafting Magic
On his new album Wake the Dead, Chuck Prophet finds creative renewal through cumbia rhythms, collaboration with Salinas band ¿Qiensave?, and hard-earned perspective shaped by illness and recovery. 8pm on Dec. 28 at Moe’s Alley
December 23, 2025
The Editor’s Desk
Editor Brad Kava reflects on Tokyo’s Golden Gai bar culture, local rum expertise on the Santa Cruz Wharf, and how small businesses can become centers of learning and connection.
December 23, 2025
Letters
Readers write in on a Community Kwanzaa celebration at the MAH, e-bike safety and etiquette, and the impact of poetry programs in schools and county jails.
December 23, 2025
The Editor’s Desk
Editor Brad Kava reflects on Tokyo’s Golden Gai bar culture, local rum expertise on the Santa Cruz Wharf, and how small businesses can become centers of learning and connection.
December 23, 2025
Letters
Readers write in on a Community Kwanzaa celebration at the MAH, e-bike safety and etiquette, and the impact of poetry programs in schools and county jails.
