Addie Mahmassani

A countywide poetry initiative is giving Santa Cruz teens the tools—and the permission—to tell their stories, discovering healing, confidence and power through the written word.

Frozen Sea is published online quarterly, and features the work of a diverse group of early-career poets and visual artists

Spontaneity is Key By DAN EMERSON Calling Cecile McLorin Salvant a jazz singer is kind of like calling Donald Trump a realtor. It's a woefully incomplete...

Thousands of years ago, fishing was relatively simple: a few hunters, a village to feed, a nearby body of water, a spear, a fire, a meal. In the globalized economy, however, one fish often passes through countless hands over thousands of miles from the moment of catch to the grocery store shelf. The human and environmental tolls along the way are about as unfathomable as the ocean itself...

Local musicians Bonny June and Ken Kraft answered my phone call in the voices of their alter-egos, Countess June and Count Kraftula. Vampire-vaudeville is not a genre currently on any Billboard charts, but as they told me about the creepy, hilarious songs they’re working on lately, I started to think it could be.

Breakdown, San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Summer Musical, Arrives in Santa Cruz Shortly before my interview with Alicia M.P. Nelson, a member of the storied San...

Santa Cruz businesses are on the cutting edge of new environmental products This past winter 5,000 tons of rock eroded from the Santa Cruz coastline...