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Good Stumps Make Good Neighbors: When Vikki Pachera and Allan Erbes found out that 100 acres next to their Santa Cruz Mountains home were slated for a major timber harvest, they got busy and contacted ...

Richard Stockton explains the ecology, wildlife, and dangers of the notorious Highway 17, and plans to protect wildlife from ...

'People are stuck in the Stone Age," says Kevin James Stover, creator, promoter and organizer of Santa Cruz's first-ever Christian hardcore music festival. "I'm not being rude by saying that, I'm just ...

The Softies embodied the minimalist sound of harmonizing vocals and guitar in a wave of folk resurgence before it was cool.

In 1997, Santa Cruz resident Carolyn Burke saw Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy-- her intricately researched biography of the once internationally notorious writer of shocking free verse, who ...

When you are ready to submit your life tribute to Good Times, we require the following information. Here is an example of the type of information you should include in your obituary. • Your name, ...

FOR THE NORTH COAST, Five Mile Beach is unusual. Protected from the wind by ochre cliffs where swifts build their mud nests, it's pristine and wild, like some forgotten Shangri-La. Also called Piggy ...

IT COMES as no surprise that Santa Cruz has hosted countless peace protests, support groups following Jerry Garcia's death and drum circles for sensitive New Age guys. But who could have imagined ...

IN JULY 1954, a part-time big-band pianist and full-time milkshake-machine salesman named Ray Kroc called on a client in the California desert town of San Bernardino. As Kroc noted in his memoir, ...

Dengue Fever's oft-told creation story goes something like this: Musically inclined guy from Southern California backpacks through Southeast Asia for a few months. On his way to Angkor Wat, he hears a ...

Imagine playing guitar as well as Leo Kottke, writing songs as thoughtfully as Nick Drake and charming an audience as thoroughly as Richard Thompson. Willy Porter routinely earns such comparisons, yet ...