Weekly Free Will Astrology by Rob Brezsny: insights and guidance for all zodiac signs for the week of November 20, 2025 ...

Coconut Thai brings authentic northeastern Thai cuisine to Capitola, featuring traditional curries, garlic pork jerky, coconut shrimp, and vibrant papaya salads in a warm, modern space.

From butterflies in Thailand to a Farrah Fawcett poster in 1975, locals recall their first encounters with beauty. Read this week’s Street Talk column by John Koenig in Good Times Santa Cruz.

Discover your horoscope for the week of November 13, 2025, from astrologer Rob Brezsny. Insightful guidance for all zodiac signs—Aries through Pisces—in the Good Times Santa Cruz edition of Free Will ...

A strange mood hangs over Logos Books and Records—somber, nostalgic. “Can I sell some books?” a middle school kid asks the man working behind the counter on Saturday morning, July 15. “We’re not ...

How did US Canta Cruz get its annual First Rain Run? The story goes that the infamous streaking tradition started with a game of Simon Says.

Zinfandel from a solar-powered estate winery, plus a local brew to save wildlife Put a glass of Zinfandel in front of my husband, and he’s a very happy man. We both enjoyed Shale Canyon’s 2013 ...

Motley Crew BLAST FROM THE PAST in honor of our 35th anniversary, we put a request out to readers to identify some of the GT crew from the late-’70s. Former staffer Stacey Naman Grant correctly ...

The art in this community that we have, [like] Tom Scribner’s statue, is a gathering place—as is a lot of the fine sculpture. I think it’s a part of the community that brings us all together, and I ...

Kim Arzate was a Spanish teacher who always wanted to be a country singer. In early 2015, she decided to follow this passion and form a band. At first, their style was too varied—country, pop, rock, ...

I find this reflective mode more suitable to the spirit of the Yuletide season than the frenzy of buying, eating, and dashing through the snow to the next event. For the benefit of future historians, ...

It’s hard for the old-guard left in Santa Cruz and local students to agree on many things, but the local bus agency certainly brought them together this year. A 30 percent cut in bus service ...