art and more by the dragon’s gate along the San Lorenzo River in downtown Santa Cruz. It all kicks off at 8:30 p.m. with the soulful folk stylings of duo MaMuse, followed by aerial performances ...

SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz is an artistic community, home to creative people of every different kind of subculture and a place where being “weird” is not a dirty word but is often seen as a virtue.

Santa Cruz graphic artist Jim Phillips, the man behind the famed Red Dot and Screaming Hand logos, is the subject of a new documentary from filmmaker John Makens. The new film, showing at the Rio on ...