Love requires stability and steadiness to thrive. But it also needs unpredictability and imaginativeness. The same with friendship. Without creative touches and departures from routine, even strong ...

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 ...

Italian-born Peppino D’Agostino captures a vibrant and pure tone as deep as the wood grains on his guitars. Thursday January 30 at Ugly Mug.

High Step Society is here to satisfy anyone who likes a heavy dose of jazz in their electronic music or the synthetic thump of a drum machine in their swing.

'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 ...

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UP UNTIL THIS SPRING, rent control was a topic that most Santa Cruz progressives dodged when talking about the housing crisis, at least in public. But then a progressive political consultant sent a ...

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 ...

The bittersweet story of rock and roll icon, Buddy Holly, started in Lubbock, Texas, on Sept. 7, 1936, and ended near Clear Lake, Iowa, on Feb. 3, 1959--the day the music died. PacRep Theatre's ...