Editor’s Note: This story is part of Good Times’ annual Santa Cruz Visitors Guide 2019. Read the full publication here. When it comes to cannabis, West Cliff Wellness CEO Tyler Smith is a man ahead of the times. Although West Cliff Wellness just opened April, Smith says he envisioned a dispensary in the old Mr.…
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Laugh Riot: A Guide to Santa Cruz Comedy
Editor’s Note: This story is part of Good Times’ annual Santa Cruz Visitors Guide 2019. Read the full publication here. Over the last 13 years, Santa Cruz has been building a comedy revolution. Each week, there are more and more opportunities to check out live comedy. And there’s nothing quite like sitting just a few feet…
Watsonville’s Budget Gardening Wonderland
Editor’s note: This story is part of Good Times’ annual Home & Garden 2019 magazine. Read the full issue here. Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands? After 20 years in business, Refugio Ortega isn’t sure exactly how many succulents, cacti, flowers, herbs and other plants are currently growing at his overflowing namesake Watsonville nursery. What the patriarch…
Yuzu and Rose Updates Ancient Indigo Dyeing
Editor’s note: This story is part of Good Times’ annual Home & Garden 2019 magazine. Read the full issue here. Kaitlin Bonifacio stumbled upon indigo dyeing on a trip to Japan. Originally planning to tour a sake brewery, she found herself in very different company—a group of longtime textile dyers a short distance away. “I went…
A Guide to Upside-Down Gardening
Editor’s note: This story is part of Good Times’ annual Home & Garden 2019 magazine. Read the full issue here. I am never going back to right-side-up gardening ever again. There’s no reason why I should. When I planted my tomatoes upside down a month ago, I knew they would die. I felt guilty even attempting…
Alibi Interiors Reinvents Repurposed Wood
Editor’s note: This story is part of Good Times’ annual Home & Garden 2019 magazine. Read the full issue here. Moss and lichen on a picture frame are the kind of details I never knew I wanted. This was probably also true for local husband-and-wife makers Chris and Paige Curtis, who started Alibi Interiors seven years ago.…
An O.G. Cannabis Enthusiast on New Weed
Editor’s note: This story is part of Good Times’ annual Home & Garden 2019 magazine. Read the full issue here. Let me pull out my razor blade and whittle on this hash block while I tell you whippersnappers about the then and the now of weed. I was born in the deep south—Bakersfield. I started…
Best Of Santa Cruz County 2019
Road rage, succulent overload, and some next-level local comedy: Welcome back to GT’s annual tribute to the best, worst and weirdest that the community has to offer with Best of Santa Cruz County 2019. BEST OF 2019 WINNERS: ARTS & CULTURE | COMMUNITY | FOOD & DRINK | HEALTH & RECREATION | MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE | SHOPPING & SERVICES BEST OF 2019 EDITORS’ PICKS: Best Happy People…
Your Place Farm-to-Table’s Chef Art Russell
[Sponsored] “The way I stay active, as I was taught long ago, is to read one new recipe every day,” says Chef Art Russell, owner of Your Place Farm-to-Table in Santa Cruz. “It gets the juices flowing. It’s part of my routine.” Chef Art started working in restaurants when he was 12 years old in…
UCSC’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness Society Opens Art Show at Felix Kulpa Gallery
If the name Felix Kulpa Gallery & Sculpture Garden doesn’t quite ring familiar, the sight of it might. A tall chainlink fence surrounding a white gravel yard, industrial objects strewn about and an unassuming building squatting in the back—it could almost pass for a junkyard if not for its prime downtown location. But get a…