Every once in a while if you are lucky, smart or know the right people, you might encounter a scene on the Santa Cruz coastline where something special is happening. The dolphins are jumping, whales ...

SANTA CRUZ — With its abundance of beaches and waves that can reach some pretty large heights, it is no surprise that Santa Cruz has developed its own surfing culture for more than a century. Many ...

Stakes come no higher than in Particle Fever, a dazzling, dizzying documentary about nothing less than whether we exist in a coherent universe of ordered, even beautiful laws — or whether, as ...