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April 24, 2024
Santa Cruz Symphony Tackles the Epic B Minor Mass
Conductor Daniel Stewart, choral director Cheryl Anderson and soloist Christian Pursell talk Bach.
April 24, 2024
Up From Underground: The IUMA Story
Founded in Santa Cruz, the Internet Underground Music Archive was the first source not only for indie bands but for online music anywhere.
April 17, 2024
Skunk Strain
The pungent Skunk strain of cannabis is the legendary genetic building block of thousands of strains produced today. What most folks—even locals—don’t know is...
April 10, 2024
Take a Hike with Richard Stockton
The French supercentenarian Jeanne Louise Calment was not just alive at 122, she thrived.
“I’ve only got one wrinkle and I’m sitting on it,” she...
April 3, 2024
A New Recipe For Housing
We’re number one. The California per capita homeless population is the largest in the country and last June a grand jury report found that...
March 27, 2024
Kaleidoscopic Music
the inaugural Kaleidoscope Music Festival aims to shine a light on Santa Cruz and its homegrown music scene. The festival happens Saturday, March 30
March 20, 2024
Don’t Get Stuck In The Muck
"Love says I am everything. Wisdom says I am nothing. Somewhere in between the two, my life flows." - Nisargadatta Maharaj
March 13, 2024
Meat or Meatless? That is the question
My grandmother always said not to diet, what good could come of a word where the first three letters are d i e?
The “die”...
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...