In Good Times' cover stories about 50 years of Gay Pride, Rob Darrow leads with an overview of Santa Cruz progress, parades ...

THE VINTAGE photographs lining the walls tell a colorful saga of Santa Cruz' mighty Italian fishing community and the glory days of the early Boardwalk and Casino. Housed in a historic mid-wharf slot, ...

Top of the Morning: Tex Hintze, owner of Seabright's Linda's Seabreeze Cafe, fuels locals with early-morning breakfast eats. More than a breakfast joint, Linda's Seabreeze Cafe is a Seabright ...

'If local legislators are not willing to come out and protect the community members," says Santa Cruz Anti-Imperialist League member Amelia McDonald, "then the documented community needs to organize ...

People's attitudes toward lunch vary radically. For some, it's barely worth the bother, while others see it as the most important meal of the day (especially if they've managed to sleep through ...

California's corrections system could learn some lessons from the Kentucky dramatist, who's working on his 11th year bringing Shakespeare to the inmates, excuse me, actors of Luther Luckett ...

Some may question the lowered recidivism rates of participants in prison arts programs. Isn't it possible that such programs simply attract the most well-adjusted inmates? But that hasn't been Steve ...

It's a salute to the power of delusion--a power stronger than love or death. The feature at this week's Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In, Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea, is an incisive look at ...

On a brisk December morning, six women, including this reporter, are doing crunches on a frost-coated footbridge in the Pogonip's grass-filled lower meadow. "Six, seven, eight! Good jo-ob!" encourages ...

FROM HIS EARLIEST years up to his death last week, Bill Colvig remained a country boy at heart. Despite two world tours, numerous radio and TV interviews, and appearances with Lou Harrison (his ...

The Monterey Bay surfing community is described by many of its members as a family, and Brad Johnson is continuously evoked as the father. So, when Johnson, who in the mid-'70s and early-'80s used his ...

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 ...