Santa Cruz Weekly

Santa Cruz Weekly

Front page of the May 27, 2009 edition of the Santa Cruz Weekly
Type	Alternative weekly
Format	Tabloid
Owner(s)	Metro Newspapers; Dan Pulcrano
Publisher	Jeanne Howard
Editor	Steve Palopoli
Founded	2009; predecessor founded 1994
Language	English
Ceased publication	April 2, 2014
Headquarters	877 Cedar St. Ste 147 Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Circulation	33,000
Website	www.santacruzweekly.com

Santa Cruz Weekly, a free-circulation weekly newspaper published in Santa Cruz, California began publishing under its current name on May 6, 2009. Formerly known as Metro Santa Cruz, the alternative weekly covered news, people, culture and entertainment in Santa Cruz County, a coastal area that includes Capitola, Aptos, Boulder Creek, Scotts Valley and Watsonville.

Locally based in Santa Cruz, the alternative weekly was owned by Metro Newspapers, a company started by former Santa Cruz publisher Dan Pulcrano. The company also published Metro in the adjacent Santa Clara Valley, a.k.a. Silicon Valley and the North Bay Bohemian in the Sonoma/Napa/Marin area. In 2014, Metro bought the competing alternative weekly, Good Times, and merged the two papers under the Good Times banner.

Metro Santa Cruz began publishing in 1994 and continued under that name until it became Santa Cruz Weekly in 2009. The founding editors' stated objective was to continue a local tradition of independent journalism that had included such publications as Free Spaghetti Dinner, Sundaze, Santa Cruz Independent, an unrelated publication in the 1980s called Santa Cruz Weekly, Santa Cruz Express and Santa Cruz Sun.