What may appear to be slow or static is actually moving. The developing changes are imperceptible from day to day, but incrementally substantial. So please maintain your faith in the diligent, ...

THE VINTAGE photographs lining the walls tell a colorful saga of Santa Cruz' mighty Italian fishing community and the glory days of the early Boardwalk and Casino. Housed in a historic mid-wharf slot, ...

To create microgardens, you plant vegetables and herbs in small containers placed on your porch, balcony, window sills and kitchen counter. Lettuce, peas, spinach and basil might be among your small ...

HOW MUCH does it suck that KPIG has had to cut out most of its Internet streaming from the CyberSty? In case you didn't get the news, here's what piggies found on the website last week: "KPIG's owners ...

MAYBE IT WAS a bad idea to call them "robots." Coined by writer Josef Capek, the word's root is "robota," a Czech word meaning "drudgery" or "servitude." And thus far it seems an apt description of ...

You can’t see or hold the wind, though you can feel its force and observe its effects. It scatters some seeds far and wide, dispersing them to grow in unexpected places. When harnessed by turbines, ...

Top of the Morning: Tex Hintze, owner of Seabright's Linda's Seabreeze Cafe, fuels locals with early-morning breakfast eats. More than a breakfast joint, Linda's Seabreeze Cafe is a Seabright ...

'If local legislators are not willing to come out and protect the community members," says Santa Cruz Anti-Imperialist League member Amelia McDonald, "then the documented community needs to organize ...

People's attitudes toward lunch vary radically. For some, it's barely worth the bother, while others see it as the most important meal of the day (especially if they've managed to sleep through ...

California's corrections system could learn some lessons from the Kentucky dramatist, who's working on his 11th year bringing Shakespeare to the inmates, excuse me, actors of Luther Luckett ...

Some may question the lowered recidivism rates of participants in prison arts programs. Isn't it possible that such programs simply attract the most well-adjusted inmates? But that hasn't been Steve ...