The year’s best dishes—La Posta’s roasted fennel and celery root, rye-laced country loaf from Companion Bakers, fresh corn ice cream, corn kernels, infant pea sprouts and sliced nectarine from Manresa—and more.
Santa Cruz’s Year in Scientific Discoveries
The farthest galaxy yet, fish using tools and other earth-shattering discoveries of 2011, courtesy of UCSC scientists.
Santa Cruz’s Year in Anniversaries
Santa Cruz institutions’ milestones in 2011.
Santa Cruz’s Year in Lists
A list of the lists Santa Cruz made in 2011.
Santa Cruz’s Year in Reality TV
A rundown of locals appearances on the small screen, from American Ninja Warrior to X Factor.
Santa Cruz’s Year of Notoriety
A month-by-month breakdown of all the Santa Cruz news that national media saw fit to print, televise and otherwise comment on.
No Idle Hands For The Devil Makes Three
When The Devil Makes Three got its start 10 years ago playing old-timey country folk with the intense live show energy and DIY philosophy of a punk band, it was ahead of its time. Since then, acoustic bands with a punk ethos have sprouted up all over Santa Cruz, giving banjos and tattoos common cause.
Letters to the Editor, Dec. 28, 2011-Jan 4, 2012
Readers sound off meter maids and “mandatory positive thinking.”
Midnight in Santa Cruz
Coming out of the Art Deco darkness of the Del Mar after the late show I note it is past midnight and Pacific Avenue looks oddly twisted, the street wiggled down to one lane curling snakelike among dense foliage like the old Garden Mall and, amazingly, it is.
Holiday on Ice
“This does not feel like Christmas,” I thought between forced gulps of hot chocolate. I looked over at my teammate Doug, hunkered next to me in our kitchenette dug out of the snow, nursing his frostbitten hands. My dad and the other climbers in our group, Wim and our guide Victor, huddled in our shelter trying to warm themselves.
