Santa Cruz Burger Week offers a banquet of burgers. Sharan Street lifts the buns to explain why each one's so delicious, with ...

The Hindu holiday of Maha Shivaratri is dedicated to overcoming ignorance and darkness in celebrants’ own lives and in the world. This year it falls on February 26. Even if you’re not Hindu, I ...

STANDING UP Thousands marked a Day Without Immigrants on Feb. 3, protesting the current administration’s assault on migrant rights. PHOTO: Tarmo Hannula Thousands of people filled the streets in ...

The world’s largest mirror isn’t an actual mirror. It’s Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni salt flat, a vast area that’s almost perfectly flat. After a rain, a thin layer of calm water transforms the surface ...

In medieval Europe, beekeepers made formal reports to their hives of significant events in the human world, like births, deaths, marriages and departures. They believed the bees needed to be ...

Astrological advice and insights can be found in Good Times every week as Rob Brezsny offers forecasts and wisdom to ...

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 ...

Dallas Dobro is a man of the people, a musical evangelist who's happiest when recruiting new converts to the gospel of roots music. But earlier this summer, the veteran DJ ended up separated from 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 ...

A cast of thousands--2000s, that is--takes to dozens of stages for the biggest New Year's Eve event in tow WEBWALL 2000 AND Lisa Dale Miller's Millennial Burn are only two of the dozens of events, ...

This is the last in our series of candidate profiles for the District 3 county supervisor race. Previous installments can be found here and here. Sitting in his second-story office of the bookstore he ...