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Veterinarian's Animal Skull Collection Highlights Odd Museum Exhibit

The last time you cleaned out your dryer's lint trap did it fill you with aspirations of artistic grandeur? If so, you probably should have headed down to Santa Cruz.Santa Cruz Collects, a new collection going on display at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) is about, well, collections. ... More >>

Pablo Sandoval Accused of Sexual Assault, in Case You Hadn't Heard

The early stages of these sexual assault investigations involving public figures are always difficult for us on the outside to navigate.For at least the next few days, probably for the next few weeks, when you Google "Pablo Sandoval," the words "sexual assault" will pop up near the top of the screen ... More >>

San Francisco Man Arrested in "Savage" Santa Cruz Murder

A San Francisco man with "extensive history with police" was booked into Santa Cruz jail last night after police found him hiding bloody clothes shortly after a woman was stabbed to death in broad daylight.Police arrested the 44-year-old man, who has not yet been identified, and charged him with bru ... More >>

Verve Coffee's Colby Barr on How to Help People Discover Richer Coffee

​​In an effort to chart the ever-expanding specialty coffee scene in the Bay Area, we've been engaging a selection of local coffee personalities to pick their brains about why coffee and why now. Today we talk to Colby Barr of Santa Cruz's Verve Coffee. Can you tell me a little bit about h ... More >>

S.F. Pot Clubs Threatened by Government Crackdown Won't Sue

On defense​It was only a matter of time before the state's medical marijuana collectives went to the courts -- and the time was nigh Monday for Lynette Shaw of the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana to announce at a downtown San Francisco law firm that she's suing the feds. Her deadline to close ... More >>

Santa Cruz Collective to Stage a "Milk-In" for Raw Milk Rights

Santa Cruz area raw-milk proponents are tired of the government getting up in their dairy. In response to "cease and desist" letters from the Santa Clara County DA's office sent to small, herd-share businesses that contract out milk from a goat or cow, the Santa Cruz Food Rights Coalition formed an ... More >>

Kamala Harris Touts Use of Familial DNA Testing in Santa Cruz Sex Crime Arrest

​A controversial form of DNA testing is back in the limelight as law-enforcement officials praise its use in the investigation into an attack on a barista in Santa Cruz.Elvis Garcia, 21, was arrested Friday on charges of sexual assault, robbery, and false imprisonment. He is being held on $1 milli ... More >>

Dueling Dubs

Beer Truck Overturns, Ruins Morning Commute

When beer trucks lose their load during commute hours, we all lose​Tragedy has enveloped both beer-drinkers and commuters today in the Bay Area. A truck carrying a purported 43,000 pounds of beer has hit an embankment and overturned on Highway 17. Its precious, precious payload is now leaking alon ... More >>

Saturn Cafe to Ring Up Its First Sale, Flying Ninja Appears Out of Nowhere

​The past 24 hours in S.F. restaurant gossip, puffery, and cold, hard facts.At Vegansaurus, Megan D! announces that Saturn Cafe, a Santa Cruz vegetarian diner, is opening a second location in Berkeley tomorrow (2175 Allston, 510-845-8505, www.saturncafe.com). The pitch: comfort food like nachos, ... More >>

Phlebotomy on Wheels

Driver Accused of Playing Human Frogger -- on Meth. With 'No Kidding' Mug Shot.

Pedestrians, beware​A Santa Cruz man accused of driving while high on meth didn't do himself any favors by posing for this mug shot. Abraham Kelly, 40, was arrested by Santa Cruz police following a "low-speed pursuit" through the west of Santa Cruz. Cops had been flagged down by several people rep ... More >>

Nazi-Saluting Santa Cruz Gadfly Gets His Day in S.F. Court. Again.

Santa Cruz city council meetings sound like a real thrill​Last year, seemingly ending a case that had dragged on longer than World War II, San Francisco's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the City of Santa Cruz was within its rights to twice eject a gadfly from government meetings after he ... More >>

Coast Down to Santa Cruz for Saturday's Clam Chowder Cook-Off

beachboardwalk.com​The 29th Annual Santa Cruz Clam Chowder Cook-Off & Festival, a benefit for the city's Parks and Rec Department, is set to steam up the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk on Saturday. It should provide excellent cover for adults looking for an excuse to ride the Sea Swings. Parks and ... More >>

Morning, noon, and night, Ironside wants to be the SOMA spot

Court Ruling: Man Officially a Dick For Giving Nazi Salute at City Council Meeting

Welcome to Santa Cruz...​A legal case lasting longer than America's involvement in World War II has ostensibly culminated with the following conclusion: A man who felt the need to give the Nazi salute during government meetings deserved the Stalingrad treatment he got.A Santa Cruz man named Robert ... More >>

Video of the Day: Sleepy Sun's New Age

San Francisco psych-popsters Sleepy Sun get extra cosmic on their new video, "New Age," a red- and droopy-eyed ballad that opens up into some seriously stony guitar solos. We would expect nothing less from a band that got its original musical and spiritual guidance down in Santa Cruz. 

Oom-Pah-Pah in Oakland Tomorrow at Oaktoberfest

​Oaktown is the site of tomorrow's appropriately named Oaktoberfest in the Dimond District (Ground Zero: MacArthur and Fruitvale), 11 a.m.-6 p.m. It's continuing a longstanding tradition: In the early 1900s, the area was full of beer gardens and German-owned vacation spots for S.F. families. ... More >>

Fire Engulfs 'Haunted' Music Venue Brookdale Inn

​For many years, the Brookdale Inn has played host to music acts ranging from Dick Dale to Om. The legendary "haunted" old hotel in the Santa Cruz mountains has been used as a venue most recently for artists working with (((FolkYeah!))), which books everything from metal to folk to indie in the lo ... More >>

Drink of the Week: Taylor's Tonics' Chai Cola

​Taylor's Tonics of Santa Cruz offers a simple yet unique idea with its Redwood forest-brewed Chai Cola. A bubbly concoction featuring main ingredients of yerba mate, ginger, and black chai tea, this cola is sweetened with evaporated cane juice and tastes like a supercharged hybrid of ginger ale a ... More >>

The Barb

Chronic City: Marijuana Moratorium -- How To Ignore The Voters And The Law

Dispensary moratorium: Latest political fad?​One by one, across California, the lights are winking out.In city after city, town after town, patients who had dared hope they would at last have safe access to the medicine recommended by their physicians are having those hopes dashed  by politic ... More >>

Drink of the Week: Kombucha Botanica's Ginger Tulsi Kombucha

This is a great way to get some culture in ya. Kombucha Botanica, based in Santa Cruz, adds ginger and tulsi (the Southeast Asian herb colloquially known as "holy basil") to the tastiest of its kombucha beverages for something alternately smooth and spicy.The fermentation, thankfully and for once, i ... More >>

Funk Man at the Fillmore Tonight

Funk Man: Del Del tha Funky Homosapien has done his part to help in these challenging economic times with a 'funk stimulus package': a free digital album entitled Funk Man. If you were thinking of giving up food for funk, download the album for free instead. Thanks, Del! The Hieroglyphics co-foun ... More >>

The Devil Makes Three

Sleepy Sun rises in the local psych scene

28th Annual Santa Cruz Clam Chowder Cook-Off This Saturday

With separate divisions for amateur chefs, restaurants and corporations, the 28th Annual Santa Cruz Clam Chowder Cook-Off & Festival offers a unique cooking competition for all levels. The event, which has its own silly theme song, takes place on Saturday, February 21 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the ... More >>

Penzeys Now in Bay Area

Some of Penzeys' spices are sufficiently superior that they're worth the extra trouble.

The recession is hurting A.C.T. and others

Drink of the Week: Odwalla's Super Protein Pumpkin

The ever-reliable Odwalla, which was started in Santa Cruz and has its headquarters up the coast in Half Moon Bay, offers this Super Protein Pumpkin soy milk drink every winter; it's one of their only seasonal flavors. That's a shame because, with our mild weather year-round, when is it a bad time ... More >>

Streetlight Records to Close Noe Valley Store

Thirty-two years after opening shop in Noe Valley, Streetlight Records is closing its flagship store. The 24th St. music outlet is shuttering due to a combination of poor CD sales and rising rents. General manager Jeffrey Moss send out a statement today saying the remaining Streetlight stores in S ... More >>

Brightblack Morning Light in Santa Cruz on Saturday

Tube Time

(((folkYEAH!))) brings Cluster up the coast

Ride 'Em In

Tramp Stamps, Sex Pistols and Rummy: SFTopNews Tuesday, September 18

Treasure Island Booty

A Guide to Getting Shipwrecked This Weekend

Baseball season! San Francisco's musical farm team down south

Emily Jane White tonight

Independent film with local music = go see it

Skate Night

Sporty, spicy girls

Artbeat

Art of Fact

"Beautiful Ugly Violence"'s open wounds

Ferociously Stoned

Remember when psych rock thrived in S.F.? Of course you don't. You were high. But Comets on Fire will jar more than your memory.

Sports/Outdoors/Races

Hippie Chic

Foxgluv's emergence on the rave scene has been a series of happy accidents and absurd coincidences

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

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