Cozy spot has been a neighborhood fixture for decades Cliff Café is a cozy and quaint Pleasure Point neighborhood fixture located right at the corner of 41st Avenue and Portola Dr. Currently closed Wednesdays, they are open every other day from 8am until last seating at 12:45pm. Susan Edson has been owner and operator for…
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Things To Do in Santa Cruz: July 21-27
A weekly guide to what’s happening. ARTS AND MUSIC BACKYARD BIRDS Backyard Birds—Linda Baker, Jean Catino, June Coha, Larry Prather, Linc Russin and special guest drummer Tom Leitzke—perform their first show of 2021. The Birds perform a fresh blend of vocal harmonies in a wide variety of music, uncovering great, overlooked songs in genres ranging…
Volkswagen Presents Warren Miller’s Timeless
Year after year, ski and snowboard enthusiasts of all ages look forward to the coming of winter. This fall, Warren Miller Entertainment (WME) confirms that the joys of winter are eternal with its 70th full-length feature film, Timeless, presented by Volkswagen. Much of the world has changed since Warren Miller started making ski films in…
Where to find comedy in Santa Cruz
Most schools choose mascots that reek of misogyny, but in true Santa Cruz fashion, the Banana Slug is a hermaphrodite—and any university that has a Banana Slug as a mascot also has a sense of humor. Luckily for comedy fans of all ages, Santa Cruz has a thriving comedy scene active virtually every night of…
After The Fall: One Boomer’s Tale of Reckoning
One Boomer’s story about the day he stopped feeling invincible, and how he learned to deal with it
A Sleep Doctor’s Advice for Quality Shut-Eye
A Santa Cruz sleep doctor reveals how to beat our ever-worsening dreamtime deficit
By Richard Stockton
Secrets of a Serial Santa Cruz Movie Extra
My second career as a movie extra began entirely by chance. The saga of how I was lucky enough to work with Kiefer Sutherland, Tom Hanks and Michelle Pfeiffer—to name a few—began when I worked on the Santa Cruz County film board with local casting assistant Judy Bouley. When she opened her own company, Central…
Gay and Gray: 60Plus Program Supports LBGT+ seniors
The Santa Cruz Diversity Center’s 60Plus program seeks to support LBGT+ seniors
Could the Hangar Become Watsonville’s Abbott Square?
Watsonville’s newest business hub has found its home in a 8,640-square-foot, World War II-era naval building on Aviation Way. The space harkens back to when the Watsonville Municipal Airport was a military base surrounded by four 160-square foot shipping containers, fire pits and picnic tables. It’s now known as the Hangar. The idea behind the…
Spritzer Trend Comes to Santa Cruz
In Venice it’s a “spritz,” in Rome it’s a Campari and soda. By whatever name, the Spritzer—think orange bitters and soda—is enjoying a big moment right now. In Santa Cruz, variations on a spritzer, using some version of an amaro (Italian bitters) such as Aperol or Suze, are finding local appeal. The most accessible version…
