Stephen Kessler

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At the candidates' forum for mayor of Santa Cruz the other night at the Hotel Paradox, the

“Like newspapers printed on paper, first class mail — the kinds of letters I still write — and other analog pleasures of times gone by, appear to be going the way of the geezers headed for the existential exits,” writes col…

“The Zellerbach show, when he was 79 and still blowing his horn with phenomenal force and finesse, was the most transcendent musical experience of my life,” writes columnist Stephen Kessler.

“On sunny summer mornings in the 1970s and ’80s, when I was living in a charmingly funky redwood farmhouse 5 miles up Old San Jose Road from Soquel rumored to be the oldest house still standing in the valley, I could step outside and …

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I haven't written much about my mother because we had a rather fraught relationship and I don't

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In March, before the campaign for mayor of Santa Cruz had even begun, and the City Council and

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A couple of years ago, when artificial intelligence was just beginning to blow the doors of

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This column will appear in print on July 4, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Around this time in 1984 I was in Havana at a meeting of North, Central, South American and

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Poor Pete Hegseth. Our supermanly secretary of war has aggression on the brain, one of the seven deadly symptoms of testosterone poisoning.