For Santa Cruz City Councilmember Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson, the ongoing uprising in Iran is personal. She and her…
Sunday Reads Archive
Sunday Reads: Scotts Valley leans into Hitchcock, conquering deportation fears & our weekly news quiz
After voters greenlighted the effort by approving Measures K and L last fall, Santa Cruz City Schools is moving ahead on…
Sunday Reads: Thomas Sage Pedersen and Santa Cruz’s Black renaissance; Pizza My Heart goes to Washington
Santa Cruz County was so worried about damaging floods harming the Old Mill Estates mobile home park that a 1990 master…
Sunday Reads: West Cliff ‘inflection point,’ worsening Highway 1 woes and riverfront dining
About 5,000 undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz are still missing at least one letter grade for fall quarter assignments…
Sunday Reads: Redefining our Monterey Bay ‘home’; pesticide use; PCS pay dispute; Tyre Nichols
Betty Noodles returns to downtown Santa Cruz after closing in 2019, with bowls of soup that are bigger and better than…
Sunday Reads: Biden’s tour of the Cement Ship, skimboarding’s far-flung family and a presidential week
Deb Perelman is a self-taught home cook who, over the past 17 years, has earned millions of devotees for her unfussy and…
Sunday Reads: Capitola Village love, helping bullying victims and a major disaster declaration for Santa Cruz
Chef Ty Pearce offers comforting breakfast classics at Busy Bees Café and Catering in Capitola, Happy Boy Farms launches…
Sunday Reads: Pineapple expresses, bomb cyclones, readers’ photos. Plus, more winter storm coverage
Several residents of Soquel Wharf Road told Lookout they had no warning from local officials that Soquel Creek would…
Sunday Reads: Predictions for 2023, storm cleanup, a mentorship match and more unsung heroes
Lookout’s favorite work from 2022
Sunday Reads: Unsung heroes in environmentalism and education, plus making holiday memories
Santa Cruz needs more water if it is going to comfortably grow as planned. A new policy aimed at future water-supply…

