.Brad Kava

Rowland Rebele, a publisher and philanthropist who wanted to give away all of his money before he passed away, died Saturday at the age...

Reporter Josué Monroy set out to cover a pro-Israel march last week and fairly present the views of the participants. We’ve also covered three pro-Palestinian demonstrations...

Reporter Josué Monroy set out to cover a pro-Israel march last week and fairly present the views of the participants. We’ve also covered three...

Now’s the time to count our blessings in a world that sometimes feels like it’s tottering over the edge. One small thing I am grateful for are the little community libraries that have sprung up all over neighborhoods, giving away free books. At a time when everything seems transactional...

There’s plenty of reason to be down this holiday season. The world is on fire; religions of peace are fighting gruesome wars, authoritarians are...

We really do live in a bubble here in Santa Cruz and you know what? That’s a great thing. Often we set an example that the rest of the country should follow. Richard Stockton’s cover story on two great women at the top of local radio stations got me thinking...

I have seen the future of rock, as Jon Landau famously said, and it’s not a performer, but a venue—the Godzilla-sized golf ball of a hall in Las Vegas, named the Sphere. U2’s show there last weekend was unlike anything I’ve seen in my years of concert-going. The sound was perfect, the videos, which covered the whole of the dome, from floor to ceiling, were mind-blowing...

— I met our cover story subject, Chris Zephro, appropriately enough, at a downtown zombie walk more than a decade ago. He had gathered hundreds of bloody Halloween lovers to march and celebrate the scariest holiday.