Cancerian novelist Octavia Butler said her stories were fueled by two obsessions: “Where will we be going?” and “How will we get there?” One critic praised this approach, saying she paid “serious ...

JILL OF ALL TRADES Ginger Shulick Porcella, the MAH’s new director, is an author, curator, transformative arts leader and workaholic.PHOTO: JoAnne Sullivan. On the eve of its 30th anniversary, and a ...

CAMPAIGN REPORTS Felipe Hernandez (left), Tony Nuñez (center) and Elias Gonzales are heading to the South County June 2 primary. PHOTO: File One of the candidates for the hotly contested 4th District ...

After 30 years leading Soquel High’s celebrated band program, longtime director Jim Stewart prepares for his final ...

Santa Cruz horror punk band Dark Ride returns with Blade Manor, a 12-song full-length packed with B-movie themes, riffs, ...

On Friday evening, CEO and founder of the magazine Santa Cruz Waves Tyler Fox announced in an Instagram post that the magazine will pause indefinitely. The magazine, which has published six issues a ...

Carina Reid shares how fitness, recovery and community helped her rebuild her life and now shape the way she teaches movement ...

The third annual Pitch-In Santa Cruz cleanup invites residents across the county to help collect litter at sites from ...

I have traveled all over the Golden State, and there is still lots to explore. California offers so much. Modeled after a ...

The visible lightning bolt we see is actually the return stroke. It’s electricity racing back up from the ground to the cloud after an invisible leader stroke has created a path. So the spectacular ...

It will be more gentrified and expensive, like a mini-city with more high-rises. The homeless situation will be less welcoming, with police control over the homeless. I’d love rent control so people ...

I have traveled all over the Golden State, and there is still lots to explore. California offers so much. Modeled after a Danish village, Solvang ...