From 1501 to 1504, the artist Michelangelo worked to create a 17-foot-tall marble sculpture of the Biblical king known as David. Today it stands in Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia and is one of the ...

Top of the Morning: Tex Hintze, owner of Seabright's Linda's Seabreeze Cafe, fuels locals with early-morning breakfast eats. More than a breakfast joint, Linda's Seabreeze Cafe is a Seabright ...

Have you ever been part of an innovation team? Its goal is not simply to develop as many new ideas and approaches as possible, but rather to generate good, truly useful new ideas and approaches. The ...

Life is asking you to be a source of generosity and strength for the people and animals in your sphere. I hope you will exude maximum amounts of your natural charisma as you bestow maximum blessings.

When you are ready to submit your life tribute to Good Times, we require the following information. Here is an example of the type of information you should include in your obituary. • Your name, ...

The Monterey Bay surfing community is described by many of its members as a family, and Brad Johnson is continuously evoked as the father. So, when Johnson, who in the mid-'70s and early-'80s used his ...

Few folks in Santa Cruz County are aware of the small, unincorporated town in our midst. It doesn't appear on AAA road maps beside points of interest and members of the local Chamber of Commerce. In ...

If a town or county's General Plan is its local constitution, then its Housing Element may well be its Bill of Rights. Other general plan sections describe how local traffic flows, or what facilities ...

Santa Cruz is preparing for one of its most popular annual surf competitions, complete with three days of food, music and wicked acrobatics. The only thing that will be missing: surfboards. Instead, ...

Every community has its hot-button issues; Santa Cruz is different only because it's got an entire bank of hot buttons, all flashing at the same time. Although some controversies tend to flare up and ...

I'm always depressed after the holidays. It's not because I buy into the craze of consumerism or relate to religious associations, but more due to the sudden letdown of facing the banalities of going ...