Metro Santa Cruz

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Metro Santa Cruz
The October 13, 2004 front page of Metro Santa Cruz
Type	Alternative weekly
Format	Tabloid

Owner	Metro Newspapers
Publisher	Debra Whizin
Editor	Traci Hukill
Founded	1994
Headquarters	115 Cooper St. Santa Cruz, CA 95060 United States
Circulation	33,000 ^[1]

Website: metrosantacruz.com

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.