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...
View ArticleLOCAL 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...
View ArticleART | 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....
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticleBRAINWORK: 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleFACES 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...
View ArticleCity 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleSports 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,...
View ArticleLOCAL 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...
View ArticleBig 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,...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleREMEMBER 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...
View ArticleBEHIND 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...
View ArticleSeaweed 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...
View ArticleFree 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...
View ArticleCruise 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...
View ArticleTofino 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...
View ArticleThe 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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