Arts & Culture

A new mural honoring farmworker families adorns a wall in East Salinas and gives workers in nearby fields a chance to see themselves represented.

The Santa Cruz County Civil Grand Jury makes housing recommendations, a new mural celebrates community in Seaside, employees protest at Dominican Hospital, and more.

A new mural at Lupita’s Bakery in Seaside is honoring the founding family’s roots while celebrating the community they’ve built over the past nine years. And, Santa Cruz wants more people to bike to work. Now, it’s offering bigger incentives for e-bikes.

A group of Watsonville children met players from soccer's biggest stage, an international art instillation coming to Salinas, and organizers speak out against data centers in Gilroy

Grammy-winning slack-key guitarist and singer George Kahumoku, Jr. has been making music for years. He's also a sculptor, farmer, and preserver ofHawaiian culture and heritage. He's lived most of his life in Hawaii, but he moved to Watsonville about a year ago. Now, he'll be performing at a Hawaiian cultural event taking place at the Chaminade Resort & Spa in Santa Cruz this weekend.

Maestro Daniel Henriks and I Cantori di Carmel will perform Carmina Burana at the Forest Theater in Carmel and the Quarry Amphitheater in Santa Cruz over the next two weeks

An indigenous storytelling event led by educators from the Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe.

KAZU’s Jerimiah Oetting joined these local art students for an exhibition of their work. There was wine, cheese, live music … and scrubs? 🏥Turns out, museums and galleries aren’t the only places for local art. Find out why these students are thrilled their art is gracing the halls of a local hospital in Salinas.

Pacific Grove nurtures an expanding music and bar scene where people mix across generations.

The art exhibit "Pictures of Belonging" is showing now at the Monterey Museum of Art.