It has been nearly five decades since Country Fair Cinnamon Rolls began selling their iconic pastries at the Santa Cruz County Fair. The stand has become a cornerstone of the fair’s multifarious food ...

Under the headline “The Strange Journey of La Bahia,” Good Times reported the Santa Cruz City Council had already approved the then-125-room hotel project two years prior, but a long road to ...

“The bar was the place to hang out,” says local historian Joan Gilbert Martin. The local resident of more than 50 years has many fond memories of the Cooper House. “There was always music, and always ...

Maryanne Porter was just a child when she saw her first ghost in her home in Aptos. It came almost nightly, she says, a terrifying dark figure that her parents chalked up to a vivid imagination. The ...

A strange mood hangs over Logos Books and Records—somber, nostalgic. “Can I sell some books?” a middle school kid asks the man working behind the counter on Saturday morning, July 15. “We’re not ...

As New Zealand alt-rock innovator Martin Phillipps brings his band the Chills to Santa Cruz, a look at 5 essential songs from the '80s, '90s and 2018 album.

Today is a “Dig Day,” in the parlance of the Mountain Bikers of Santa Cruz group, but there is no digging just yet. Just coffee, and pastries, and a curious assemblage of people that look a little ...

Websites like ucscfirstrain.com confirm many of the threads in Hedrickson’s story. And in the years since that fateful fall game, scores of mostly naked—some scantily clothed—UCSC students have come ...

“We’re Rumble Steelskin. We’re here to kick your ass!” exclaims guitar player and founding member Jimmy Cardarelli, with his hands in the symbolic metal horns pose. And he’s not lying. The first time ...

“He was an anarchist of his time, if you think about it,” explains Clements. “He went against everything [his culture] was saying. Like punk, he wasn’t believing the lies.” He renounced his material ...

In February of 2017, Robbie Schoen, one of the most tireless advocates for the Santa Cruz visual-arts community, experienced a massive stroke that left him paralyzed on his left side. Now, more than ...

Amanda Sloan took down a poster from her cell late at night, revealing a pipe in the wall. She then took out a piece of gauze, wrapped it around the pipe, hanged herself and died at the Santa Cruz ...