Update - The Capitola Book Cafe, one of our favorite local businesses, closed its doors in early 2014. We were very sorry to see such a …
This Weekend in Santa Cruz: Derby Girls, Polynesian Festival, and More
Summer’s almost winding down, but that doesn’t mean there’s a lack of things to do in town. Here are some of our top picks for this …
Santa Cruz Restaurants Get Their 15 Minutes When The Food Network Comes to Town
For being a relatively small town, Santa Cruz ends up in the media a lot, whether it’s being featured in the New York Times as an ideal …
Santa Cruz: Four Decades Later and Still Never a Dull Moment
In 1974, Jeremy Lezin was living in Los Angeles, just out of film school and trying to figure out how to make films. When he made a trip …
Santa Cruz Beer Festival: Beer Week & California Beer Festival
August in Santa Cruz is made for drinking beer. The nights are long, the weather is perfect, and the amount of tourists still flooding the …
Small Museum About Big Waves: The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum
Sometimes it’s overwhelming how much history and culture surrounds you in this little sea pearl of a town. You’re ambling along on West …
Santa Cruz Wharf to Wharf Race 2013
Today, the Wharf to Wharf Race is known far and wide as a picturesque six-mile run from Santa Cruz to Capitola. What many people don’t …
Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In: Free Outdoor Movies Under the Stars
There are no formal drive-in movie theatres left in Santa Cruz County, but a few times a year you can follow a set of buried-treasure type …
Bookshop Santa Cruz: A Local Institution
Ancient Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero once said, “a room without books is like a body without a soul.” If that quote is to be …