Humans having made such a mess of things, it’s natural to suspect animals know something we don’t about almost everything. So in honor of the cosmic alignment that has the Year of the Tiger beginning on Valentine’s Day, we turned to the animal kingdom to see what wisdom we might glean from the swimming- flapping-prowling set on the subject of love.
Mammoth Waves Test Pro Surfers At Mavericks
South African Chris Bertish won first place in the Mavericks Surf Contest after conquering huge 40-foot waves that many surfers said were the biggest ever for the contest. With slideshow.
Ten Questions for Reyna Ruiz
What do you do for a living?
I am the program director of the Beach Flats Community Center, where I
have the distinct honor of working to improve the living and social conditions of families living in the Beach Flats neighborhood.
Fancy Cars Santa Cruz-Bound
Car lovers, hang on to your driving caps: this Labor Day weekend, Surf City will play host to the first Santa Cruz Concours d’Elegance at Chaminade, drawing gorgeous luxury automobiles and muscle cars from all over the Bay Area like a giant magnet of cool and giving Pebble Beach one less thing to lord over everyone else.
$16.5 Million Grant Awarded to Solar Financing Program
The wait is over. The California Energy Commission announced Thursday that a $16.5 million grant would be awarded to the 14-county alternative energy financing program CaliforniaFIRST.
Commission Suggests Dinner Train to Run from Davenport to Santa Cruz
If the new plan succeeds in expediting stalled state funding to buy the Union Pacific rail line from Davenport to Pajaro, the recreational use of the line could be operational in two years.
United Way to Spearhead 211 Drive
Santa Cruz County has been unable to raise enough money for the 211 service, which connects callers to health and human service assistance.
Merchants Offer Ideas to Revitalize Downtown
Fed up with panhandlers and loiterers, downtown merchants are suggesting their own kind of vigilante justice.
Is the Lindbergh Baby Living in Santa Cruz?
Paul Husted doesn’t go by his old name anymore. He’s had it legally changed to Charles Lindbergh, Jr. The homeless former insurance salesman, who now lives with his wife Adua in an Ocean Street motel room, claims that he is the long lost son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
The Year of Loving Dangerously
This year, Valentine’s Day happens to fall on the same day as the Chinese Lunar New Year, so while Westerners are holed up in dim restaurants or sobbing softly into their pillows at home alone, the Chinese will be out blowing shit up and ringing in the Year of the Tiger. Naturally, we had to wonder what year 4707—according to the Chinese calendar—has in store for love.
