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ENVIRONMENT | The Bottom Line

UC Santa Cruz professor Tim Duane outlines pathways to a clean-energy economy  By Aric Sleeper photo: Chip Scheuer   From scrubbing the White House website of climate change references to signing an...

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LOCAL EATS | The Honey Kid

The teen behind Carmel Honey Company creates a buzz at local restaurants  By Tara Fatemi Walker Carmel Honey Company beekeeper, founder and owner Jake Reisdorf is only 14 years old. Even more...

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ART | Painting to the Music

How the music festival world has inspired local painters to break free from mainstream conventions   By Joel Hersch A festivalgoer poses with a Taylor Reinhold creation at Reggae on the River in 2015....

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When the Ride Ends

Is pro surfing a dead-end career?  By Kyle Thiermann   Most of my friends are, or once were, professional surfers. I was born and raised in Santa Cruz and, given that I am a part of this tight-knit...

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BRAINWORK: ADAM REPLOGLE

The latest of the “Brainwork” series dives deep into the day to day rituals of Adam Replogle. Years after his days on the wct Adam describes surfing as “his religion” and is excited anytime he gets a...

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The Inventor

By TYLER FOX Photo: Howard “boots” McGhee From the time I was a little pre-pubescent pipsqueak, I’ve had a deep yearning to invent. Sometimes my inventions would come in the shapes of booby traps for...

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FACES OF SURF | Julie Cox

By Aloe Driscoll Photo: MYLES MCGUINNESS Julie Cox glides smoothly down the rocky staircase at Steamer Lane. It’s May 27, 2017, and she’s about to compete in the Santa Cruz Longboard Union Memorial Day...

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City Surf Project

Sharing the stoke of surfing with San Francisco students By Neal Kearney Photo: Cory Hansen San Francisco’s Johnny Irwin always hoped to make a positive impact on society. It wasn’t until he graduated...

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The Impersonator-In-Chief

Class clown Tyler Allen’s knack for creating Internet comedy gold  By Leslie Muirhead The first time I heard Tyler Allen’s voice, it came booming from across the room. My friend sat cross-legged in her...

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Sports Achievement | Lynden Gooch

Santa Cruz’s Lynden Gooch rises to soccer stardom By Neil Pearlberg   Santa Cruz has produced its share of high-profile professional athletes. Talented local football and baseball players, fighters,...

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LOCAL LEGEND | Doug Haut

Five decades of shaping surfing in Santa Cruz  By Brad Oates   photo: Partick Trefz   Thirty thousand. That’s the number Doug Haut throws at me when I ask him how many surfboards he’s shaped in his...

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Big Sur vs. Nature

After a recent string of natural disasters that isolated Big Sur’s residents and endangered its businesses, locals are hopeful that visitors can return by fall   By Joel Hersch Amid massive,...

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A Living Death

My encounter with the ancient ritual of ayahuasca ceremony  By Aloe Driscoll   Help, I say silently. Or maybe out loud. It’s hard to know for certain. And though I am in the middle of an ayahuasca...

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REMEMBER WHEN … Thirty years ago, Santa Cruz earned a place in Hollywood...

REMEMBER WHEN …   Thirty years ago, Santa Cruz earned a place in Hollywood vampire history?  By Melissa Duge Spiers     Vampire movies today may seem utterly yawn-worthy to the generations who have...

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BEHIND THE LENS | Chuck Davis

The underwater photographer dreams up a lifetime of adventure  By Dave de Give Chuck Davis’s Pacific Grove home is filled with all the accoutrements of an underwater photographer’s lair—black-and-white...

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Seaweed harvester Ian O’Halleran wants to make ocean vegetable mainstream

By Calvin Men, Santa Cruz Sentinel Madia Jamgochian holds a handful of seaweed harvested near Santa Cruz. She and Ian O’Halleran of Seaquoia Wild Seaweeds will lead a seaweed cooking class at New Leaf...

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Free Talk: Saving Our Shores, Creating Sanctuary

Dan Haifley will make a presentation entitled “Saving Our Shores, Creating Sanctuary”, which describes the story of the environmental community’s leadership in the creation of the Monterey Bay...

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Cruise Ships in the Monterey Bay (Bad Idea)

As the sunsets over Carmel Bay this Celebrity Cruise Ship leaves Monterey Bay and heads south past Point Lobos State Reserve . Did you know these ships burn raw crude oil? Photo: Chris Cleary...

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Tofino Or Bust

The 1,200 miles from Santa Cruz to Tofino, a small district on Vancouver Island, off Canada’s west coast. By Leslie Muirhead   A 1993 Ford Econoline Van named Goose sat happily parked on the street in...

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The Fragility of Life

LETTER FROM THE FOUNDER   The Fragility of Life Photo: Aaron Hershey When the Dalai Lama was asked what surprised him most about humanity, he answered, “Man, because he sacrifices his health in order...

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