The Hindu holiday of Maha Shivaratri is dedicated to overcoming ignorance and darkness in celebrants’ own lives and in the world. This year it falls on February 26. Even if you’re not Hindu, I ...

Astrological advice and insights can be found in Good Times every week as Rob Brezsny offers forecasts and wisdom to ...

STANDING UP Thousands marked a Day Without Immigrants on Feb. 3, protesting the current administration’s assault on migrant rights. PHOTO: Tarmo Hannula Thousands of people filled the streets in ...

The world’s largest mirror isn’t an actual mirror. It’s Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni salt flat, a vast area that’s almost perfectly flat. After a rain, a thin layer of calm water transforms the surface ...

In medieval Europe, beekeepers made formal reports to their hives of significant events in the human world, like births, deaths, marriages and departures. They believed the bees needed to be ...

Italian-born Peppino D’Agostino captures a vibrant and pure tone as deep as the wood grains on his guitars. Thursday January 30 at Ugly Mug.

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UP UNTIL THIS SPRING, rent control was a topic that most Santa Cruz progressives dodged when talking about the housing crisis, at least in public. But then a progressive political consultant sent a ...

Teenagers, it would be fair to say, make for some of the toughest performance-art audiences in the world. But when those teens happen to be a bunch of at-risk youth watching a performance about ...

Surfing first landed on the continent at Santa Cruz. A trio of visiting Hawaiian princes, apparently missing their home break and willing to brave the comparatively frigid waters, procured suitable ...