An Evening Walk on the Westside The view of the moon on the Westside can be almost as nice as the view of the sunsets. Sometimes we just forget to look up and notice it in the middle of the…
Almost all of the work I’ve done in the past year has been online. I’ve designed websites, worked as an online journalist and marketer, managed social media accounts, given lectures on new media and started this blog. I even made…
There is often a contentious, unspoken relationship between upstairs and downstairs neighbors. Our other neighbors were loud and obnoxious at early morning and afternoon hours, but were mostly reasonable when we voiced our displeasure. But not our upstairs neighbors. They…
A friend of mine started posting on facebook while he was in line at The Trappist restaurant in Oakland, waiting for several hours to taste the “World’s Best Beer.” This is his account as he waited (and drank) in line. Guest blogger, Ryan…
Guest blogger Dashiell Dunkell lays out the importance of the upcoming Cold Water Classic. Thanks for the article and photo! The O’Neill Cold Water Classic is always the biggest surf contest of the year in Santa Cruz, but this time around it promises to be…
I was thrilled to discover recently that Santa Cruz has a public art program. In fact, there is an Arts Master Plan for the City of Santa Cruz. Its stated vision is to foster a community that “embraces a the…
This is an account of a run-in (not literally, but almost) that I had with a visiting tourist on the road in downtown Santa Cruz. It’s not a secret that Santa Cruz presents same tricky driving situations for tourists. Transplants…
As KC’s Sports Bar and Lounge is set to take over the former residence of the Avenue, I thought it would be appropriate to share one of my favorite memories of the place. I have to preface this by saying…
The “Sports Grill” or the “Santa Cruz Hotel Sports Grill” once sat above the Red Room in the space now occupied by The Red. It was a sports bar in Santa Cruz that nobody knew about and nobody went there. It had…
The Inside Out Project You may have noticed the black and white photos of faces outside the downtown branch of the Santa Cruz Public Library. Some of them are hard to ignore. The faces are those of library patrons and…
