Trula Hickman of Sentinel Printers on running a green, custom print shop in an evolving industry A petite blonde with astonishing eyes, Trula Hickman presides over a domain that has one foot in historic craft and the other in digital detail. The domain is the 150-year-old Sentinel Printers, where Hickman and her husband Neil Hickman keep...

Cabrillo Stage musical ‘Schoolhouse Rock Live!’ maximizes the fun of cult TV touchstone If you grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons in the ’70s or early ’80s, you’ll love Schoolhouse Rock Live!, the first production in Cabrillo Stage’s summer musical series. The source material was not a cartoon series in the traditional sense (like, say, Rocky...

Win a pair of tickets to Sticky Fingers at The Catalyst Club on SantaCruz.com Sticky Fingers, a reggae fusion indie-rock group out of Australia, is playing the Catalyst next week. With two top-40 albums under their belts (Caress Your Soul and Land of Pleasure), the Sticky Fingers have become an international sensation, with musical influences including...

Big Stone Soup is a brand new band, but its members go way back together. Keyboardist Steve Sofranko met guitarist Jerry Brown back in 1988 at a Grateful Dead concert in Maine. Both of them had been following the Dead around and hit it off, and drove back to the Bay Area together. Once there, Brown...

Why aren’t locals collecting the food assistance for which they’re eligible? Despite the area’s reputation as a place people migrate to for handouts, far fewer people in Santa Cruz County are receiving CalFresh benefits, or food stamps, than are eligible for them. The city and county governments, in partnership with community organizers, are ramping up efforts...

Health beneficial olive oil could be the state’s next best drought-resistant crop A table-top staple as ubiquitous in Italy as ketchup, mustard and butter in the United States, Italians love their olive oil so much that some use it in their babies’ first bath. But olive oil is also extremely healthy when used in the more...

New Scotts Valley spot has a unique take on Greek Adbeen Karam has experience with Greek food. Not only did he grow up eating it at home, but his family owned a couple of restaurants in Palo Alto and Santa Clara. So when he opened Café Hanna a month and a half ago, he wanted to...

U.S. troops brought rock music to Cambodia; Dengue Fever is bringing it back Rock bands often combine musical ingredients to create new sounds and styles, but Dengue Fever is probably the first to popularize a melting pot of American and Southeast Asian rock ’n’ roll. Now 10 years old, the Los Angeles-based six-member band is currently...

Rod Serling’s vision gets new life in two stage adaptations in Santa Cruz Over the next month, DNA’s Pop Up Comedy Club will elicit plenty of giggles and guffaws, but for its debut presentation, director Miguel Reyna went with something a little more disquieting.  The Twilight Zone Live On Stage, opening July 24, will feature adaptations...

The city has invested $25K in a program that will test a 24-hour bathroom downtown When City Councilwoman Pamela Comstock saw a man by the shopping area at River Street and Highway 1 drop his pants and defecate in public, she knew she wasn’t going to be able to forget it—and that she didn’t want anyone...