Brad Kava celebrates the Santa Cruz Symphony’s adventurous new season, from unexpected collaborations to Jaron Lanier’s music and the debate over AI art.
Bez Stone’s the Sauce brings consent-centered workshops, sober dancing and playful connection to a rotating lineup of Santa Cruz venues, beginning with the MAH.
What is your most vivid childhood Halloween memory?
Every year, our friends decorated their garage with spiderwebs and black lights for all the neighborhood kids....
Filling in for Brad Kava, DNA welcomes October’s creative bounty, from Open Studios to Porchfest, and invites readers to find connection through local art and music.
Readers question addiction terminology, celebrate Janus CEO Amber Williams and share a fatal DUI case update. Christina Waters responds to criticism of her music review.
ARIES March 21-April 19
Orchids may lure pollinating insects with ingenious illusions rather than nectar. Some mimic the look or fragrance of other flowers. Others...
ARIES March 21-April 19
In the practice of niwaki, Japanese gardeners shape trees so they look both natural and artfully composed. They prune and style...
From sumo wrestling and Duck Island Festival to Capitola Beach Festival, Fiesta en la Playa and Laurie Anderson, Brad Kava surveys an unusually packed Santa Cruz weekend.
