A Santa Cruz superfood, superhero-approved: Wonder Woman endorses Goodles’ new mac & cheese

On Tuesday, Goodles: Noodles, Gooder launched a brand-new boxed mac & cheese product on its website, featuring a proprietary noodle recipe that’s packed with nutrients and protein but tastes like the noodles many people grew up eating. The company intends for it to be available at grocery stores in the first half of next year, […]

‘Nature is like a slow-cooked meal’: Regenerative farming brings cannabis, food crops into …

In 2013, Sardinas and her partner, Manny, began cultivating a 99-plant cannabis garden in Aptos and producing full-spectrum cannabis oils, in which the various botanical compounds of the plant are thought to work together to provide healing properties. Fast forward a few years and the partners decided to expand their garden; they set up shop […]

When laughter comes to the rescue: Santa Cruz Comedy Festival set to relieve late-summer anxiety

Laughter might not be the most natural response to a world unraveling, but it could be the best prescription for the sake of mental health. In the years before that, DNA’s ambition was essentially to turn the entire downtown commercial district into one giant rotating comedy club. “I always looked at the floor when I […]

Cannabis dispensary offering 1-cent products as COVID-19 vaccine incentives

“We wanted to offer our platform to help the state achieve their goal of immunity against COVID-19,” 7 Stars Executive Director Zee Handoush said in a statement. 7 Stars Marketing Director Ben Grambergu said Thursday that more than 400 people have taken advantage of the offer since it launched last week, equating to “almost a […]