Metro Santa Cruz
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For Santa Cruz Metro the bus agency see: Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District.
Metro Santa Cruz is a free-circulation weekly newspaper published in Santa Cruz, California since 1994. It covers news, arts and entertainment in Santa Cruz County, a coastal area that includes Capitola, Aptos and Watsonville.
Popular features include Nuz, a free-wheeling un-bylined political column, a weekly panel by controversial cartoonist Steven DeCinzo, the "ClubGrid" music calendar and Muz, a music column.
Locally based in Santa Cruz, the alternative weekly is owned by Metro Newspapers, which publishes Metro in the adjacent Santa Clara Valley, a.k.a. Silicon Valley and the North Bay Bohemian in the Sonoma/Napa/Marin area.
Metro Santa Cruz has a downloadable edition in PDF format and is affiliated with the SantaCruz.com community web portal, operated by a sister company, Boulevards New Media.