Despite this, crossing the finish line on June 7 will have bittersweet significance for the riders, since the event is ending its 31-year run this year. Tyler TerMeer, San Francisco AIDS Foundation ...

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES March 21-April 19 You have had resemblances to cactuses in recent days. It hasn’t always been pleasant and cheerful, but you have become pretty skilled at surviving, even ...

Monterey Bay remains synonymous with great seafood. But that reality grows more fragile. When the local salmon season was cancelled for the third year in a row this spring, this is how I put it for a ...

A thoroughly French café with undertones of California vibes, Emilie and the Frenchies was opened recently by Mary Jane Dean and her childhood friend and business partner, Céline. They originally met ...

When the British ska movement launched in the late ’70s, great ska/rock-steady acts like the Skatalites, Prince Buster and Desmond Dekker were founding influences. Inspired by the rebellious nature of ...

Before he was Rini, or perhaps it’d be more accurate to say along the path to becoming Rini, Justerini Sandoval busked for tips on the busy streets of Melbourne. When the singer and guitarist started ...

PIERCING ACIDITY Winemaker Matt Dees says the Santa Rita Hills Chardonnay is ‘precise and full of energy.’PHOTO: The Hilt Estate Sharing a bottle of wine over some excellent pizza at Shadowbrook ...

GEOFFREY HARGRAVE: I was initially attracted to the raw and visceral nature of a kitchen after having fallen in love with cooking as a child. As a diner throughout my life, I was intrigued by the ...

GIVING PRIDE Students across Santa Cruz County worked with MAH to create the Queer Liberation Quilt. PHOTO: Contributed Screening throughout the course of the show will be Never the Last Love Letter, ...

Levitating with clever ideas, Opera Project won us over in April with a cabaret version of Bach’s saucy Coffee Cantata, performed by three singers and a trio of instrumentalists in the intimate (i.e., ...

Body art is so ubiquitous it’s hard to believe tattooing was illegal in Santa Cruz until 1986. Our cover story takes a look at some of the latest trends in tattoo art, artists and clients as the body ...

Then tragedy struck with a mass shooting in 2019, touching off a series of events that put GGF on pause. I originally planned to report on 1) how the community-minded volunteers around what is, at its ...