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December 10, 2025

For the Holidays, Give Friends a Truly Local Experience

Ditch material gifts in favor of memories—the kind that come with laughter, fresh air, music, candlelight, creativity, and even inner peace.
December 10, 2025

Holiday Entertaining: Keep It Cozy, Keep It Local

Holiday entertaining doesn’t have to mean immaculate tablescapes or elaborate menus. In Santa Cruz, we do things a little differently.
December 3, 2025

Solstice Groove

Winter with its myriad rituals and parties comes around each year. Chanukah, Christmas—they all bring pleasure, memories and special gifts.
November 26, 2025

Quite a Pickle

Asian Man Records, the South Bay DIY record label that is turning 30 next year, is run by Mike Park, a former member of...
November 26, 2025

Get the Concept?

I was committed to 100% firsthand research, and that meant only covering albums for which I could talk to an album’s creator or a key participant.
November 19, 2025

The Giving Season

November 19-December 31  |  Donate @ SantaCruzGives.org Santa Cruz Gives is funded by the generosity of Good Times, Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County, Community...
November 12, 2025

Healing the Canvas

Every painting that enters a restoration studio comes with its own scars. Some are predictable—but others tell stranger stories...
November 5, 2025

To Cover or Not to Cover?

Bob Dylan’s first album had nine covers, and the Beatles recorded 25 cover songs before Rubber Soul. Many of Mozart’s melodies were lifted from French folk songs, and isn’t our amazing Santa Cruz Symphony basically a cover band?
October 29, 2025

Blazing Forward: Santa Cruzans Look 50 Years Ahead

To celebrate Good Times’ anniversary, we asked cultural and political leaders what they foresee for Santa Cruz in the next 50 years.
October 22, 2025

Santa Cruz Restaurant Week Returns

Santa Cruz restaurateurs share details about their plans for Restaurant Week, with fixed-price, three-course menus through Oct. 29.
October 15, 2025

Clucking Around

For those of us who are new to the Troma world, it was a bloody, gore-filled, offensive dream come true. Even if it meant flying out halfway across the country.
October 15, 2025

The Monsters Are Coming

Growing up in Santa Cruz County, Cole Lemke was a natural-born artist who had alien worlds pouring out of his brain, down to his ink-stained fingers and out through his Micron pen.
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