Richard Stockton explains the ecology, wildlife, and dangers of the notorious Highway 17, and plans to protect wildlife from ...

GETTING THEIR STEPS IN There are only 50 or 60 adult breeding mountain lions in the Santa Cruz Mountains and if they can’t ...

'People are stuck in the Stone Age," says Kevin James Stover, creator, promoter and organizer of Santa Cruz's first-ever Christian hardcore music festival. "I'm not being rude by saying that, I'm just ...

In 1997, Santa Cruz resident Carolyn Burke saw Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy-- her intricately researched biography of the once internationally notorious writer of shocking free verse, who ...

Aural Fixation: Pipa and the Shapeshifters' Pipa Piñon and Daniel Lewis provide a trancey dose of surrealism in the musical form at Kuumbwa on May 6 with Dresden. The Buck Stops Here: Local venue puts ...

Willy Tea Taylor’s voice is so rich and full of character that listening to him softly sing as he picks his guitar evokes heartbreak, defiance, sweetness and joy ...

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A 27-year-old Santa Cruz man died on Highway 1 early Wednesday morning in a single-vehicle crash. California Highway Patrol officer Israel Murillo said the man, who has not been named, was driving ...

FOR THE NORTH COAST, Five Mile Beach is unusual. Protected from the wind by ochre cliffs where swifts build their mud nests, it's pristine and wild, like some forgotten Shangri-La. Also called Piggy ...

IT COMES as no surprise that Santa Cruz has hosted countless peace protests, support groups following Jerry Garcia's death and drum circles for sensitive New Age guys. But who could have imagined ...

IN JULY 1954, a part-time big-band pianist and full-time milkshake-machine salesman named Ray Kroc called on a client in the California desert town of San Bernardino. As Kroc noted in his memoir, ...

Dengue Fever's oft-told creation story goes something like this: Musically inclined guy from Southern California backpacks through Southeast Asia for a few months. On his way to Angkor Wat, he hears a ...