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 ...

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 ...

There's something so pure and simple about breakfast. At no other time of day do you get to start with a clean slate. From that greasy pile of hangover-curing bacon, eggs and potatoes to one single ...

Surfing first landed on the continent at Santa Cruz. A trio of visiting Hawaiian princes, apparently missing their home break and willing to brave the comparatively frigid waters, procured suitable ...

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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.

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 ...

When you are ready to submit your life tribute to Good Times, we require the following information. Here is an example of the type of information you should include in your obituary. • Your name, ...

John Orlando invites you to a going-away party. His. The locally prominent concert pianist, college professor, concert promoter/producer and procurer of Steinways isn't actually going away. But, after ...