Arts & Entertainment Santa Cruz Boardwalk Roller Coaster Giant Dipper Turns 100 Years Old This Weekend The oldest roller coaster in California celebrates its 100th birthday Saturday, as the Giant Dipper at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk turns 100 with a rollicking party, and someone even brewed it a commemorative beer.
SF News Notorious 'Evil Elmo' Guy Appears to Be Back at It Harassing People On the Santa Cruz Boardwalk, Now As Cookie Monster Hide your kids if you see Cookie Monster coming at you near the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk — he is not the cute and kindly Sesame Street character he appears to be.
Arts & Entertainment Jordan Peele's 'Us' May Scare People Away From Santa Cruz This Summer One perhaps unintended side-effect of Jordan Peele's by-all-accounts-terrifying new horror film 'Us' is that moviegoers can't see the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in quite the same way anymore.
SF News Ohio State Fair Tragedy Prompts Santa Cruz And Sacramento To Shut Down Fireball Rides A tragic accident involving a carnival ride at the Ohio State Fair Wednesday evening has prompted the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk to temporarily shut down their Fireball ride for further inspection. The ride,
Arts & Entertainment Rock of Ageds: Your 'Throwback' Summer Concert Guide For 2017 The classic rock reunion festival known as “Oldchella” will not be taking place this summer, but neither Styx nor the Stones will be taking the summer of 2017 off. (The Stones, however, will
SF News World Famous Surfer, Now Homeless, Questioned And Released In Santa Cruz Homicide Onetime surfing legend Kevin Reed, a.k.a. Kevin Callahan, was arrested Sunday and questioned by Santa Cruz police in connection to the death of another man whose body was found by some
Arts & Entertainment Old Person Sent Into Fog Of Nostalgia By Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk's Free Summer 2017 Concert Lineup Forty- and fifty-somethings nostalgic about the soundtracks to their younger years got a bit of good news this week and, no, I'm not talking about a Hair Club For Men coupon in today's