Santa Clara County has seen an encouraging decline in child death rates, while simultaneously being marred by repeat ...

Pacific Coast Athletic League football teams began spring ball this week, and there's a buzz among the players and coaches ...

Months-long backpacking trips to Thailand might have just got a lot harder to arrange. The Southeast Asian nation is ending a 60-day visa-free entry program for travelers from 93 countries and ...

A fast-moving brush fire dubbed the Sandy Fire broke out in Simi Valley on Monday, forcing residents to evacuate their homes.

Gijón and Bárbara Lennie star in this semi-autobiographical meta-fiction about a film director whose screenplay violates a ...

A review of Bitter Christmas, which finds Pedro Almodóvar digs into his own profession again in a movie that explores ...

The Santa Cruz Sentinel’s Letters to the Editor for May 19, 2026.

A tortured filmmaker writes — and re-writes — a screenplay about a tortured filmmaker in this satisfying late-career gem from ...

Bitter Christmas' is mid-tier Pedro Almodóvar: immaculately art-directed and color-blocked, as per, and plenty enjoyable.

Pedro Almodóvar’s film about two fictional directors ends up brutally interrogating the Spanish auteur’s own work ...