“Hip Santa Cruz, Vol. 6” is out now, and you can commune with the OG hipsters and immerse yourself in the local 1960s vibes with the writers at the Santa Cruz Art League on April 8.
City Life
Citing post-lockdown challenges, Jewel Theatre says it’s shutting down in 2024
With even some loyal subscribers not returning after the COVID pandemic shutdown and costs higher than ever, Santa Cruz’s Jewel Theatre Company announced that the 2023-24 season will be its last.
Santa Cruz Health & Wellness Leader of The Year: Campesina Womb Justice
“Broadsides,” opening at the M.K. Contemporary Art gallery, presents the work of some of Santa Cruz County’s best-known…
Santa Cruz Health & Wellness Leader of The Year: Campesina Womb Justice
Santa Cruz is a terrific place to be in the black-and-orange season, from the beautiful and family-oriented cultural…
Into ‘The Candy House’: Jennifer Egan on her timely new novel, ChatGPT and the demise of fiction
Jennifer Egan comes to UC Santa Cruz’s Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on Wednesday riding the wave of “The Candy House,” which revisits the same universe her acclaimed “A Visit From the Goon Squad” inhabited, but this time with Big Tech in the bull’s-eye.
Santa Cruz Community Builder of the Year: Isabel Contreras, founder of Mi Gente CA
Santa Cruz is a terrific place to be in the black-and-orange season, from the beautiful and family-oriented cultural…
“Hero’s Journey” symphony performance captivates Santa Cruz with powerful music and storytelling
All are invited to experience the “Hero’s Journey” with the Santa Cruz Symphony – a performance unlike any other April 1-2, 2023. “Hero’s Journey” looks at the juxtaposition of Ghandi and Beethoven’s life. Diving into their evolution as legendary heroes. Both proving to triumph and combat free will versus fate. The performance includes the West […]
Surf City Lights: Bad Animal’s grand ambitions to become the world’s next great bookstore
Blessed by Beat poet and San Francisco bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti, downtown’s Bad Animal — a high-end Thai-inspired restaurant and wine bar living inside a deeply thought-out bookstore that’s the brainchild of Andrew Sivak — deserves its own attention as an emerging Santa Cruz cultural touchstone on par with Bookshop Santa Cruz and its now-defunct predecessors Logos and The Literary Guillotine.

