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October 29, 2025

Blazing Forward: Santa Cruzans Look 50 Years Ahead

To celebrate Good Times’ anniversary, we asked cultural and political leaders what they foresee for Santa Cruz in the next 50 years.
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October 22, 2025

Santa Cruz Restaurant Week Returns

Santa Cruz restaurateurs share details about their plans for Restaurant Week, with fixed-price, three-course menus through Oct. 29.
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October 15, 2025

Clucking Around

For those of us who are new to the Troma world, it was a bloody, gore-filled, offensive dream come true. Even if it meant flying out halfway across the country.
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October 15, 2025

The Monsters Are Coming

Growing up in Santa Cruz County, Cole Lemke was a natural-born artist who had alien worlds pouring out of his brain, down to his ink-stained fingers and out through his Micron pen.
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October 15, 2025

Every Witch Way

Trudie Ransome conjured up the Sea Witch Paddle as an informal event in 2011. “Women just want to get their witch on,” Ransome says.
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October 15, 2025

Scare Tactics

International Academy of Dance in Santa Cruz presents a Halloween-themed reimagining of Clara’s dream with the fun, family-friendly Nightmare Before Nutcracker.
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October 8, 2025

Reel Passion

At the Santa Cruz Film Festival, 90-plus films will screen over five days at six venues. Filmmakers will participate in Q&A sessions with the audiences after many of the films.
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October 8, 2025

Full Circle

At 10 years old, Paul Kmiec knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up. But what’s even more interesting? He actually...
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October 8, 2025

Making Problems Sexy

Ecosexual means that one treats the Earth as a lover, to shift our environmental mindset to intimacy, desire, eroticism and pleasure
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October 1, 2025

The Most Ambitious Season

Set to open this weekend, Santa Cruz Symphony’s 2025-26 season offers temptation aplenty for music lovers of every stripe. From the smoldering Scheherazade Suite,...
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September 24, 2025

La Bahia: The Lost Years

When I got hired by the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in 2008, it was obvious La Bahia’s “best days” were behind it. And yet it was exactly that decomposition, with winding pathways through pungent blooming magnolias, that imbued the physical space with magical charm.
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September 17, 2025

Dives Still Divin’

In Santa Cruz, dive bars are the quiet heartbeats of local communities that preserve something authentic and rare.
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September 10, 2025

Air Bee & Bee

Reporter Sean Rusev explores the beauty and value of pollinator gardens in Good Times’ Fall Home and Garden issue.
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