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,...
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.
The Cotoni lived here. The Cotoni people were here for over ten thousand years—they really had it made. Then it ended with the arrival of the Spanish. And here we are.
