August 20, 2025

Cushion Revolution

Santa Cruz has a new meditation and mindfulness center, located near the Tannery Arts Center. The Sit. Feel. Heal. Meditation Center.

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August 12, 2025

Civic Slide or Civic Rise?

For over 30 years, the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium hasn’t broken even, yet it holds generations of Santa Cruz memories. An investigation into the numbers, the missed opportunities, and the fight to bring it back from the brink.
August 6, 2025

Summer Buzzin’

We set out to responsibly taste test the trendiest new crop of canned, boxed, balled and otherwise contained cocktails. These are the results of our experiences.
July 30, 2025

Rebuilding After CZU

Nonprofit organizations are helping community-led recovery and rebuilding efforts, working alongside county officials and partner groups.
July 30, 2025

Cabrillo Festival Brings It

Time again for the mighty Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music to fill the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium and its surrounding landscape with unexpected, unpredictable and unrepeatable sights and sounds.
July 30, 2025

Ode to Joy

A blazing-hot composer of radical multi-genre music, Missy Mazzoli brings her Violin Concerto (Procession) to this season’s Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.
July 23, 2025

Vinyl Destination

Since 1997, there has been a Streetlight Records in Santa Cruz. However, the history of the Streetlight chain goes back much further.
July 22, 2025

Golden Years

Streetlight is bigger than any of us and a staple in the heart of Santa Cruz and Santa Cruzans.
July 16, 2025

First to Surf

The story of the three Hawaiian princes surfing here in the 1880s is woven into local lore. A plaque honoring the trio has been erected at Lighthouse Point
July 9, 2025

The Summer of Sondheim

Two of the biggest Broadway hits of all time are playing right here in Santa Cruz this summer. And they’ve got something in common: both were penned by Stephen Sondheim
July 2, 2025

50 and Counting

We got curious about how many other Santa Cruz County businesses had endured longer than half a century. Turns out the answer is…a lot.
July 2, 2025

Shop Talk

Commerce is not simply the exchange of currency for goods. It’s not only about the money. It’s about who we are. For better or for worse.
July 2, 2025

Appetite for Change

Once upon a time an astute cement tycoon named Henry Cowell acquired 2,000 acres of meadowlands and redwood forests overlooking the Monterey Bay. Through...
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