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

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 ...

Laurie R. King has a flair for public speaking, which is rather unusual in a writer. After all, writing is a lonely task, an occupation where more time is spent in revision than in the original ...

For many artists all over the United States, the passion of creation is not what pays the bills. And in some ways Santa Cruz's reputation as an artistic community stands in stark contrast to its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barely five minutes had passed before the first young grommet ran by, sun-blond hair to his shoulders and barefoot, scampering through the busy Portola intersection. He was, as expected, heading for ...

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 ...

Halloween was barely over before the holiday decorations started appearing in most stores--in fact, in many places, plastic pumpkins and fake Christmas trees were side-by-side on the shelves. What's a ...

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 ...

Thirty years ago it would have been amazing to think that people might sit around the dinner table and discuss the possibility of two men getting married. So that's a sign of progress, if nothing else ...