Cover: Summer Shred
Snowboards are for wimps. Mountain borders like Don Baker eat dirt and come up grinning.

Extreme Success: A hedonist work ethic leads to big bucks for SC entrepreneurial slacker.

News: American Gothic
How mismanagement and family feuds reduced a once-famous vacation playland to scattered shards of real estate.

Hot-Weather Happenings: A complete guide to this summer's cultural, recreational and phantasmagorical fun.

Night Howl: Yadda Yadda proves its creator is much more than Santa Cruz County's answer to Merv Griffin or Johnny Carson.

Good Guy Wears Blue: Blues great headlines Santa Cruz fest.

Notes From the Underground: Canada's classic punk rocker troupe--D.O.A.--makes a heart-stopping SC visit.

Blockbusting Up the Joint: Screens will sizzle and explode as usual this summer, and there'll be some good movies, too.

Liberal Rap: Lefty Warren disses sellout middle-of-the-road boomers in Bulworth.

Starbright Seabright: A surfer pub with incomparable vibes, fine brew and good food is a reason to pause and give thanks for all things that make us 'sooo' California.

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