The Santa Cruz Symphony kicks off a new year of shimmering music next week. And here’s why you should care. A lot.

Venture capitalists and tech execs made J.D. Vance Donald Trump’s choice for VP. Is what they have done to San Francisco what they also want for the nation?

Not only do people who take DMT encounter the same strange “alien” entities...but there are also healing properties in DMT

As Kamala Harris takes the stage in Chicago this week as the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, Santa Cruzans see a new kind of blue wave stretching from California to Washington.

There may be no clearer nightmare of losing our precious coastline, leaving our beaches and coastal animals covered with tar, than the Project 2025 proposal to open offshore drilling in the coastal waters south of Monterey Bay.

America, historically a destination for those seeking freedom from persecution and a better life, is closing its doors.

If you attend a music festival and have a fantastic, revelatory time, little thought goes into the mechanics behind the experience. Or the hundreds of hours of human power needed to make it happen.

“My goal is to bring this ethereal other space into existence through these pieces, through this software.” —Joshue Ott

Congressman Jimmy Panetta, Santa Cruz Mayor Fred Keeley and others will read aloud from the play Sinclair Lewis helped adapt from his own 1935 novel

I think the reason that this play still is not only valuable but necessary is that Oscar Wilde was a very smart besides being a very witty man. I think it’s an amazing piece of work.

In dark times, we all need a little pick-me-up now and then, and Mike Madrid is here to offer a full jolt of optimism, albeit long-term optimism.

Sound has a timeless connection to meditation and healing, deeply rooted in cultures around the world. Australian Aboriginal tribes have been using the didgeridoo for more than 40,000 years as a powerful tool...