SANTA CRUZ >> What Jim Cohen does not know about Hawaiian shirts fits on a clothing label. Cohen has been known to chat up strangers wearing well-made Hawaiian shirts, perhaps with coconut buttons ...

Santa Cruz shop owner Bruce Noland is ready to sell a slightly modified version of his “Surf City USA” T-shirts, a $17 novelty that brought the area native fame and a lawsuit from Southern ...

SANTA CRUZ — Enrique Ortiz Villegas calls himself a “colorist,” and it fits. From his glittering beadwork icons to the multihued flowerbeds that he maintains on the grounds of the Shrine of ...

The new Santa Cruz shirts, delivered to Noland’s wharf shop this afternoon, say “Surf City, Santa Cruz, Calif., USA, Original.” “We changed the T-shirt ever so slightly,” he said.