Arts & Culture

A new art exhibit is going up at PV Arts at the Porter Building in downtown Watsonville and runs from Aug. 4 through Sept. 19.  “Body Marking: Art, Ritual & Story” explores global practice of marking the body as a form of personal expression, cultural...

Settling into the Sunset West Best Western Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, my wife Sarah and I had a couple days to explore the old and new of one of America’s largest cities.  In this third part of a series, we wander the...

Girl Scouts lend a hand keeping book shelves tidy at the hospital on Dec. 20, 1956.

These are a collection of images that did not make it into stories, but we think should be enjoyed. Do you have a photo you’d like to be considered for our gallery? Send it to editor@pajaronian.com.

The First Aloha Music & Arts Festival, inspired by the spirit of aloha and Hawaii, will take place at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds July 31, and Aug. 1. The free event will feature music, art and crafts, and food that celebrates Hawaiian, Polynesian,...

These high school juniors lend a hand helping the Blood Bank for the Red Cross on Dec. 27, 1956.

On day two of our nine-day road trip to Los Angeles in May, My wife Sarah and I headed south from Santa Barbara, but not before we scouted out the burial site of my mother’s parents at the Santa Barbara Cemetery.  Thanks to online research,...

Frequent world-traveler Mary Altier of La Selva Beach is showing her photographs at the Aptos Branch Library.   “Around the World with Color Photography,” a 60-piece exhibition, will run through Sept. 30.  The show, which is spread out in several rooms at the library, features images taken...

The Moreland Notre Dame Brownie troop lines up for an event in Watsonville on Dec 17, 1956.

In May my wife, Sarah, and I took a nine-day, 1,250-mile road trip to southern California with a goal of checking out coastal towns big and small.  We headed south through Prunedale and caught Highway 101 south aiming for Santa Barbara where we had a...