Columns

Letters

Readers weigh in on battery energy storage, controversial trail maintenance at DeLaveaga Park and the difficulty of finding doctors who accept Medicare.

Free Will Astrology

This week’s horoscopes explore creative abundance, meaningful alliances, emotional courage and the strange beauty of imperfect success.

Chasing Heat

A reluctant hot-yoga convert explores the potential benefits of saunas, steam rooms and other forms of therapeutic heat available around Santa Cruz County.

Street Talk

What are your coolest picks for a Santa Cruz summer?

Free Will Astrology

This week’s horoscopes explore enduring love, productive uncertainty, imaginative renewal, abundant creativity, deeper relationships and the courage to choose possibility over fear.

LETTERS

Readers weigh in on excessive amplified music at Santa Cruz beaches and praise recent reporting on the health and safety risks of cannabis vape pens.

The Editor’s Desk

Editor Brad Kava celebrates the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, previews this week’s coverage and makes the case for embracing Santa Cruz’s adventurous side.

Psychedelics Grow Up

The Santa Cruz Psychedelic Society relaunches with author Abbie Rosner and a discussion of how psychedelics may help older adults reconsider aging, purpose and mortality.

Street Talk

What is your favorite, most memorable tree?

Finding the Groove

Percussionist Jim Greiner’s Santa Cruz drum circles use shared rhythm to reduce stress, build connection and help participants find what he calls “the groove.”

Free Will Astrology

This week’s horoscopes invite each sign to follow its guiding instincts, recover forgotten truths, embrace restorative pleasures and prepare for meaningful change.

The Editor’s Desk

Brad Kava reflects on Shakespeare’s enduring warnings about power and madness, celebrates Santa Cruz Shakespeare and highlights community efforts in Seabright.