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ALLEN STRONG: I consider a restaurant’s first six months a grand opening, so we are still in the middle of that and have gotten a good response from locals. Our crew is small and we really have the ...

An old favorite Broadway play has gotten a facelift. Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean: A New Musical is being produced by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, with its world premiere on June ...

Santa Cruzans give their answers to our Question of the Week, often fun, sometimes serious. This time, What does your "No Kings Day" sign say?

I couldn't sit still!" Lorraine Kinnamon recalls of the first time she saw the dazzling moves and pounding drums of Tahitian dance. She had just moved from Canada to Hawaii, and at 10 years old, she ...

Photograph by George Sakkestad Breast in Show: The Big Giant BraBall attracted a lot of attention--and took up two parking spaces--on a recent stopover in downtown Santa Cruz. The Giant BraBall Brawl ...

For the last thirty years, Suga Free has been killing it, from rocking house parties and clubs to earning guest spots with A-listers Xzibit and Snoop Dogg, as well as working with Bay Area legends ...

In the 2000 film Songcatcher, the title character is a turn-of-the-century musicologist who collects folk songs.In a way, Valerie June is a modern-day version of that. But rather than curate ...

A helpful thing happened this week in the heart of some of the most productive farmland in the state. On June 9, various reps from the Pajaro Valley Collaborative—a partnership of 26 nonprofit ...

Turn to Rob Brezsny and Free Will Astrology, every week in Good Times, for Astrologically themed wisdom and direction from the great minds.