.John Malkin

UCSC Crisis Team offers non-police response to mental health crises

Chloe Xtina will be shooting a new short film in Santa Cruz in mid-May... “Santa Cruz has always been this dark, magical place to me,” Xtina says

Omar Sosa is dedicated to making music that promotes worldwide peace. Sosa studied percussion and marimba, later adding piano.

David Singleton is a composer, sound engineer, producer, author and...has “reluctantly managed” the innovative band King Crimson

It's a hard way to grow up, knowing that your family—your whole world—could just crumble at any moment. This feeling always follows you...

Anthony Michael Jefferson describes himself as a “returned citizen.” The actor, playwright and chef was incarcerated for 23 years in Soledad State Prison for first degree murder and was released in 2015. The Bumpy Road Less Traveled is Jefferson’s powerful one-person play...

DEVO, the band that brought the world “Whip It” and “Freedom of Choice” brings their farewell tour to the Santa Cruz Civic on November 2. John Malkin has an interview

Maria Gaspar uses jail bars, film and sculpture to challenge the prison industrial complex. Chicago-based artist Maria Gaspar grew up a few blocks from the...