Readers respond to Michelle Shocked’s “story,” kids doing yoga and the MAH’s innovative staff.

Urban backpacking, “West End” skepticism and Scouts’ Honor get readers writing.

The team may have lost in the finals, but Country Treasurer Fred Keeley says this season is an unqualified success.

What’s the allure of urban backpacking? Only that it’s saving the Earth, inspiring art and making hikers look at their local environment in a completely new light. Here’s how one reporter took the first step.

Readers write in about mental health, saltwater intrusion and other readers.

I haven’t even known Fred Reiss for a full minute, and I’m running my hands through his hair. To my surprise, it really is “baby soft.” And with a mind of its own, like dandelion fluff drifting atop his six-foot frame. If it wasn’t attached, it would surely float away.

By the time he died on April 23, Brozman had said and taught so much, both as a guitarist and an ethnomusicologist. With his sharp wit, his trademark National steel sound, his global sonic vision and an approach to his instruments that balanced wild-man blues with methodical logic, he transformed so many people’s thinking about music, just as he did mine.

After a four-game undefeated playoff run, the Santa Cruz Warriors wrapped up their monumentally successful season over the weekend by letting it fall apart in the championship with they problems that had plagued them for weeks— easy missed shots and turnovers.

Permaculture, the Santa Cruz Warriors and Micah Posner’s shelter sleepover strike a chord with readers.