Given his start, it’s remarkable that John Fahey, the rebellious acoustic guitarist whose 1959 Blind Joe Death debut album took more than three years to sell 100 copies, would go on to influence ...

On the outskirts of a village in Ghana, a healer gathers plants only when the moon says yes. She speaks the names of each leaf aloud, as if to ask permission, and never picks more than needed. She ...

San Marcos Charquito in Capitola serves authentic Mexican street-style favorites with handmade tortillas and house-made salsas and aqua frescas.

The bridge leading to the protest at San Lorenzo Park ...

You don’t have to be a slimy yellow hermaphroditic mollusk to take advantage of one of the finest features of UCSC—its natural beauty. UCSC’s campus covers a whopping 2,000 acres of hilly terrain, and ...

It is the place with 1,000 names—the Court of Mysteries, the Yogi Temple, the Brick Castle, the Red Castle, the Gate of Prophecy, the Kitchen Property, the St. Elias Orthodox Chapel, the Unorthodox ...

Amanda Sloan took down a poster from her cell late at night, revealing a pipe in the wall. She then took out a piece of gauze, wrapped it around the pipe, hanged herself and died at the Santa Cruz ...

515 515 Cedar St., Santa Cruz 425-5051, 515santacruz.com For Restaurant Week, 515 is taking the local ingredients they already use and making entirely new menu items. Sous chef Jessica Carlson ...

Joe Jordan: The Renewable Glue As we drive to Last Chance, Jordan fills my ears with non-stop information that includes a crash course on how electricity is generated by wires and magnetism through ...

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 ...

Tofu may be the most misunderstood food in America. Maybe its useful but creepy ability to be anything and everything is what has made this anemic-looking block of curdled and pressed soy milk a ...

“It started fomenting, and it’s been going ever since,” says Chandler. One of the most important moments in the history of the local scene, though, came in 1985 when Barbara Zollinger, Abbey Goss and ...