FANCY SHOPPING Anthropologie, a worldwide chain started in 1992 in Pennsylvania, features women’s clothes, accessories and home goods. PHOTO: Contributed It was a blue-sky, midweek, early afternoon, ...

Santa Cruz’s first Porchfest brings 53 bands to 14 porches Oct. 3 for free, all-ages music, followed by an Abbott Square ...

Los Freseros Paleteria brings Mexican-inspired desserts to Ben Lomond, with concha ice cream sandwiches, popsicles, crepes ...

Santa Cruz writers and artists explore resistance, grief and community in the new Winter in America anthology, with an Oct. 6 ...

Explore Santa Cruz dining, from Evil Wings’ late-night bites to standout local pizza, Monterey Bay food talk and the upcoming ...

Fall has always carried a back-to-school energy, no matter how old you are. Even decades after that last first day of school, ...

Explore Santa Cruz Open Studios 2026: more than 350 artists, three free October weekends, preview exhibits and wearable art ...

Adrian Belew talks King Crimson, Terry Bozzio and BEAT’s next chapter before the band opens its tour Oct. 9 at Santa Cruz’s ...

Moss Landing restaurant owners describe lost sales, missed emergency alerts and renewed fears after the Sept. 18 battery fire ...

I wake at four, twitching in the dark with pathological remorse over how I threw away my college education: in 1969 I dropped ...

Discover Santa Cruz County restaurants, chefs and memorable meals through dining reviews and food writing by Mark C. Anderson ...

HOME STYLE Kelly Langstaff aspires for the new Village Foods storefront to be like “a 1950s neighborhood shop filled with local goods that help get dinner on the table.” PHOTO: Courtesy of Village ...