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AVE YOU EVER seen the blog stuffwhitepeoplelike.com? It explains why white liberals like things such as awareness, diversity, the Prius and yoga. Perhaps this is beyond its purview, but stuffwhitepeoplelike.com doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell the whole story, so I added a few items it neglects to name: maximum police protection, no questions asked; political homogeneity; self-aggrandizing hand-wringing in the name of the wretched of the earth and as little contact with them as possible. This month, UCSC and the Resource Center for Nonviolence (RCNV) hosted a talk by shylock-hustler buster and avowed Hizbollah supporter Norman Finkelstein.

What could possibly be more important for Santa Cruzans than doing our part to soothe tensions in the Holy Land by speaking â&#x20AC;&#x153;truthâ&#x20AC;? to Israeli power?

Where to begin? Median home price in Santa Cruz is over a half-million dollars while annual per capita income is about $25,000. Over 50 percent of households are renter-occupied and many longterm residents canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to hold a fixed stake in the community. Our city fatherpersons are smug, patronizing instructors paying lip service to inclusiveness while imposing themselves on all who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fit their vision of New Athens. â&#x20AC;&#x153;First, they came for the homelessâ&#x20AC;? with a plethora of selectively enforceable ordinances regulating sitting, standing, smoking and sleeping. Next they came for the thrifty, banning plastic grocery bags despite their practicality (free saran-wrap, garbage liners). I guess proponents of the ban have money for their own costly, disposable plastic products but are thoughtful enough to legislate values to others. At least suffocation no longer requires plasticâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;each year the electorate is composed of more UC students whose capricious votes outweigh the rest of us, bolstering city cooperation with the very bureaucracy that punks them with fee hikes and guts the Humanities Department, mocking their futile protests. At least weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still on the cutting edge of young, righteous subversionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;right?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a dull blade: as a recent article in Time Out New York puts it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What distinguishes the zombie hipsters at-large today from the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;white Negroesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Norman Mailer described in the 1950s is a lack of menace. September 11 left hordes of twentysomethings whispering, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We would be safe.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? So what remains from the salad days of dissent?

Two weeks ago, RCNVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Scott Kennedy penned a column for the Bullhorn titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Finkelstein Returns.â&#x20AC;? In the first paragraph, he acknowledges that Finkelstein is abrasive and offensive to Jews. In the very next paragraph, he rehashes post-9/11 Muslim-baiting as if to rationalize abrasive Jew-baiting.

Token Israeli participation in RCNV events aside, their track record is solidly anti-Zionist and Dr. Finkelsteinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work, while not entirely without merit, tends to be deeply offensive to his fellow Jews, the majority of whom who support Zionism while debating its aims, results and future. Despite Kennedyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high claims for RCNVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even-handedness, his actions only serve to disenfranchise such Jews from public discourse in Santa Cruz so that he can re-educate those who are intrigued by this issue but have little prior familiarity with it and RCNVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bias. Such glib, incessant focus on Israel only keeps us away from the mirror: under Obama, the PATRIOT Act is being renewed and posse comitatus remains dead and buried (meaning: more paramilitary and undercover cops). In fact, most Bush-era policies are continuing right on schedule. We have plenty on our plate without RCNV packaging dark insinuations of perfidious Zionist (Jewish) influence in the language of peace and justice, for in a town geared toward rich know-it-alls there can be little solidarityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just easy, trendy outlets for impotent indignation. You might call it: stuff white people like.

Aaron Cress, a standup comedian, served in the Israeli army.

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Repair Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s R epair C aliforniaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s claim claim was was that that tthe he sstate tate is is so so broken, broken, so so institutionally institutionally bee ffixed ccrippled, rippled, tthat hat iitt ccanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t anâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t b ixed And weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re iincrementally. ncrementally. A nd w eâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re aall ll cculpable ulpable Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s iin n tthis his ffailure ailure iinasmuch nasmuch aass C aliforniaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s process has had 1100-year-old 00-year- old iinitiative nitiative p rocess h as h ad a major part breaking m ajor p art iin nb reaking the the state. state.

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by Bay Bay Area Area businessman businessman Jim Jim Wunderman Wunderman that that ran ran in in the the San San Francisco Francisco Chronicle Chronicle under under the the title title â&#x20AC;&#x153;California Government â&#x20AC;&#x153;California G overnment Has Has Failed Failed Us. off Us.â&#x20AC;? Wunderman Wunderman invoked invoked tthe he llikes ikes o Thomas Thomas Jefferson Jefferson and and unapologetically unapologgetically aired aired Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dirty dirty laundry laundry list list of of institutional institutional failures. failures. our duty â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;It It iiss o ur d uty to to declare declare that that our our California not California government government iiss n ot only only broken, broken, it it has has become become destructive destructive to to our declared. our future, future,â&#x20AC;? Wunderman Wunderman d eclared. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Therefore, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Therefore, are are we we not not obligated obligated to to nullify nullify our our government government and and institute institute a new one?â&#x20AC;? new o ne?â&#x20AC;?

Wunderman not most W underman iiss n ot tthe he m ost llikely ikely candidate candidate to to organize organize a peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political political revolution. heads revolution. He He h eads the the Bay Bay Area Area Council, which Council, w hich represents represents the the business business interests interests of of Google, Googgle, PG&E PG&E and and United United Airlines, Airlines, to to name name a few. few. But But that that summer summer in in 2008, 2008, after after legislators legislators failed failed to to get get a budget budget passed passed on on time time again, again, the the business business community community was was thinking thinking of of 3' 3'

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ways to get around the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s toxic twothirds majority threshold.

The effect was magic. The commentary was so well received that the Bay Area Council sent one of its own, John Grubb, to be the face of Repair California.

Newspapers across the state, as well as magazines including The New Yorker and The Economist, were soon spilling free ink to advance the idea, and Repair Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own polling showed that 70 percent of Californians of all political ideologies supported a constitutional convention. (A later Field Poll showed about 50 percent of Californians in support.)

Soon the group had a staff of close to 250 people working on two initiatives for the November 2010 ballot: the first would change the state constitution to allow votersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;instead of legislatorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to call a constitutional convention and rewrite the rules of the state. The second would actually call the first constitutional convention in California in more that 100 years. If the initiative process got California into this mess, the theory went, perhaps it could get California out of the mess.

There was one major hitch in this plan: the reluctance of professional signaturegathering companies to collect the names on a petition that could put them out of business.

In a recent telephone interview, Repair Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spokesman, John Grubb, gets right to the point. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were blacklisted,â&#x20AC;? he says.

Sig Magic This year may be remembered as the one in which big money stopped being subtle about its domination of state politics. The gubernatorial and Senate races are all about the tech billionaires and millionaires this round. And such ballot initiatives as Propositions 16 and 17 have been introduced, promoted and funded by single corporations. PG&E alone has thrown $35 million at Prop. 16 in an effort to constitutionally ensure itself a monopoly in the energy market.

More to the point, it seems that only the extremely wealthy can afford the privilege of Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s democracy.

Repair California argued that California has outgrown the initiative process as it currently exists. To get an idea on the ballot requires signatures from 8 percent of the voters who turned out in the previous gubernatorial election. For 2010 constitutional amendments, the magic number is 694,354 signatures. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It comes out to about one in 10

California residents that have to sign a petition,â&#x20AC;? Repair Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s John Grubb says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no way you can do that without signature gatherers. Even with a big grassroots effort.â&#x20AC;?

Signature gathering is like a shadow industry, ostensibly operating in the open with independent contractors parked at folding tables in front of grocery stores and college libraries while the real deals are brokered in boardrooms.

There are at least five such signaturegathering firms in California, Kimball Petition Management and National Petition Management being among the largest of these groups, and each with its specialtyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;union issues, socially conservative causes, socially liberal causes, etc. Each signature can cost between $1 and $1.50, depending on several factors, including the deadline to get on a ballot.

When Repair California was circulating its two petitions, Grubb said the going rate was $1.35 per signatureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with about 35 cents of that going to the actual gatherer.

Repair was looking at close to $1 million just to gather the signatures needed.

The service, which Grubb argues is critical to getting an issue on the ballot, can be too pricey for any real grassroots organization. Repair California, however, was not a poor grassroots group, and when California petitioners refused to circulate the initiatives, Repair bussed in independent signature gatherers from Oregon and Arizona at an additional cost.

Grubb says those workers were routinely harassed.

The biggest obstacle to Repair California turned out not to be unions or activists but the signature-gathering companies themselves. Grubb alleges that signature gatherers would not circulate his petition for fear that a constitutional rewrite would fix the initiative problemâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the problem being that the process is owned by special interests.

Fred Kimball, head of Kimball Petition Management, which is the oldest signature-gathering firm in California, did not return calls from Santa Cruz Weekly, but he went on record in the Feb. 4, 2010, issue of The Economist about his feelings for Repair California, saying flatly, â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a business, I oppose it.â&#x20AC;?

By the People Indeed, not everyone wants change.

The same groups that passed initiatives to ensure themselves funding or groups that passed laws in memory of crime victims, and anti tax-activists such as the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jarvis was 3

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responsible for Prop. 13â&#x20AC;&#x201D;donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to see their work undone in a sweeping constitutional rewrite.

Kris Vosburgh, a spokesman for the Howard Jarvis Tax Association, says that the group did not support a constitutional convention for fear that the two-thirds threshold for passing new taxes would be repealed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been suspicious of those efforts,â&#x20AC;? Vosburgh says of the convention talk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because it could make it easier to raise taxes.â&#x20AC;?

But professor Jeffrey Lustig says he was intrigued by the idea of a convention called by the people. He was so intrigued, he says, that he put his book together as a resource for people when the debate over specific constitutional changes began.

Nonetheless, he was surprised, even skeptical, at the Bay Area Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s support for it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the last 20 years,â&#x20AC;? Lustig explains, â&#x20AC;&#x153;while public services have been ravaged, there has been a vast redistribution of wealth upward. Even though they talk about the system being broken, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been working for some people.â&#x20AC;?

John Grubb says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that simple. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dysfunctional governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at some point itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not helping anyone,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of our members were able to see that.â&#x20AC;?

Put Out of Biz â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is going to sound cheesy,â&#x20AC;? Grubb says of Repair Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brief sortie, â&#x20AC;&#x153;But there were some really touching democratic moments. We knew we had something, but we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how to proceed, how it would actually work.â&#x20AC;?

Repair California was breaking new ground when it suggested that Californians be the ones to fix the state government. Using the initiative process was basically a new approach.

The plan to elect delegates from each community in the state was not entirely democratic, as it called on county officials to choose delegates. It was also extremely complicated. Several pages of the proposal were devoted just to the process of picking delegates. But in true â&#x20AC;&#x2122;08 style, the initiative didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t propose any specific changes, just change itself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The actual proposal to call a convention was way overdetailed,â&#x20AC;?

Lustig says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was almost a parody of the problems they were trying to solve.â&#x20AC;?

There were other problems too, like funding. How a group sponsored by some of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most powerful

businesses could run out of money is sort of a mystery. The group was able to raise almost $600,000, according to Grubb, and another $1 million in pledged donations. Then, he alleges, the money dried up as would-be corporate donors received threats from unions and members of the state Legislature. Grubb would not mention specific legislators or companies, but said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Members of the Legislature told companies they would be iced out if they supported the convention.â&#x20AC;? Grubb points to the unionsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hold on big business, saying that threats were coming from both directions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Companies really needed to be brave to contribute to the constitutional convention campaign.â&#x20AC;?

To top it off, Grubb says he received death threats over his work. The very same institutional failures crippling the state also brought Repair California to its knees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were challenging the status quo,â&#x20AC;? Grubb says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were challenging the biggest unions and the biggest companies in California.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an unlikely point of pride for a man who arguably represents some of the most powerful companies in the world, companies that work with powerful unions. But Grubb seems sincere. In the end, he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;it was a totally heart-wrenching experience.â&#x20AC;?

Repair Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ties to business, the very ties that normally make initiative efforts possible, turned out to be its undoing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If they were a grassroots movement,â&#x20AC;? Lustig points out, â&#x20AC;&#x153;they would have had volunteers out there gathering signaturesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they were thinking in a very corporate way.â&#x20AC;?

Hope Springs Eternal â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would be really surprised if there wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t another effort,â&#x20AC;? Grubb says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;certainly in time for the 2012 elections.â&#x20AC;?

Like many initiatives, Repair Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legacy could be in the ripple. It may have been an expensive experiment in self-governance, but the seed has been planted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would guess that they were way out ahead of the rest of the state,â&#x20AC;? Lustig opines. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bay Area Council, being representative of high tech, biotech, alternative energy, I would guess that they were very forward thinking,â&#x20AC;?

But, Lustig warns, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any serious change has to come from the ground, up. It has to be grassroots.â&#x20AC;? 0

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In another corner of his cluttered room, a pile of weapons is stacked: a long crooked staff, a wooden katana blade and a pair of small swords crossed in an â&#x20AC;&#x153;X,â&#x20AC;? each with its corresponding attire hanging proudly nearby. On his walls are posters of big-eyed heroes and heroines; on his desk, stacks of DVDs and video games, each colorfully illustrated with characters that look like they shop at the same stores he does.

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1=D3@ AB=@G j 5339 1671 And though it would be easy to write him off as a run-of-the-mill Japanimation geek, that would miss the mark. Pleasant is a cosplayerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an anime fan who takes his love of the Japanese art and cranks the nerd dial up to dizzying heights by creating costumes and dressing the part of his favorite characters. And for four days at the FanimeCon anime convention at the San Jose Convention Center this week, his ilk will reign supreme. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I started in 2004 or 2005 when a friend suggested I go to an anime convention, and I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Yes, but I want to cosplay,â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; says the 20-year-old UCâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Santa Cruz literature major matter-of-factly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now I go to four or five conventions per year. I usually donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have enough money to buy the fancy costumes, so I try and construct mine with materials I acquire at thrift stores. My grandma helps sew some of the harder ones. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incredible.â&#x20AC;?

Cosplayingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or, as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s known in Japanese (and to the more hardcore fans), kosupureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;represents a fervent subculture of anime fanatics that travel to conventions like FanimeCon and Anime Expo in Los Angeles, chat on message boards like cosplay.com and meet up at parks and coffee shops around the world dressed like everything from twinkly-eyed schoolgirls to multitentacled beasts.

Their source material is most often anime titles, manga (comic book) series and Japanese fashion trends, though video game heroes and American animation characters also find traction in certain circles.

At FanimeCon, which has been held every year since 1994 and drew 15,000 fans last year, the motto is â&#x20AC;&#x153;By Fans, For Fans.â&#x20AC;? That might as well be â&#x20AC;&#x153;By Cosplayers, For Cosplayers,â&#x20AC;? because for folks like Pleasant and others like Jerry Pang, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming dressed as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Russell,â&#x20AC;? the plump Asian Cub Scout from Disney Pixarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Up, the anime art itself takes a back seat to the elaborate costumes created in tribute to it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cosplaying is its own universe,â&#x20AC;? say Pang. â&#x20AC;?Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essentially representing something you have viewed on mainstream media and emulating it. Five to seven years ago it was really underground. Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty widespread. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just an excuse to hang out with friends who are into the same things you are.â&#x20AC;?

solution of nearly pure testosterone, cosplaying manages to attract a sizable number of ladies. In anime films and comics, female characters often find leading roles as deadly assassins, seductive temptresses and powerful matriarchs. And if the powerful roles werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough, the female characters are also often dressed like theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on their way to a beachside bondage party, giving a gal with some assets to showcase plenty of options. And for the girls that would rather go as a hulking hero or the guys who long to wear miniskirts and knee-highs, â&#x20AC;&#x153;crossplayingâ&#x20AC;? is a common and accepted practice.

Kai Gault, a 21-year-old San Jose resident who moved from Michigan last year and starts at West Valley College this fall, has been cosplaying since 2007. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember seeing cosplayers in magazines and saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Man, I want to do that,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? says the young woman, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to FanimeCon as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tall Aliceâ&#x20AC;? from Alice in Wonderland and also as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Revyâ&#x20AC;? from the anime series Black Lagoon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think of it as an expression of my fandom. Also, being able to dress up and act differently, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of an escape from reality. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A common misconception is that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just nerds. Yeah, you have to be a nerd, but most of us do have jobs and lives and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t live in our momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basement.â&#x20AC;?

The more crafty cosplayers like Gault and Pleasant (or rather, Pleasantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandma) make their own costumes from items found at stores like Goodwill, Savers and The Home Depot.

Others buy their costumes from sites like qqcosplay.com, where hundreds of precisely made anime costumes are available for anywhere from $75 to $1,000. A sales agent from the Chinesebased company says they ship about 200 costumes per month to fans around the world and that characters from Bleach, Naruto and Kingdom Hearts are the most common items.

When Pleasant, Gault, Pang and others get to FanimeCon, one of the first orders of business will be seeking out other fans who dressed as characters in the same anime title. After that, however, all thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s left is the partying. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cosplayers can get crazy,â&#x20AC;? says Pleasant as he readjusts his glasses and hangs his Aizen costume back in his closet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We certainly know how to have a good time.â&#x20AC;?

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NIME is clearly the future of animation. Japanese animation is an economic powerhouseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a $4 billion industryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and cultural fire hose thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already shaped Asian pop culture and is now in the middle of shaping our own.

Our high school students donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need a dictionary to understand the word otaku, a once-negative term meaning â&#x20AC;&#x153;shut-in addict,â&#x20AC;? now worn as a badge of honor like â&#x20AC;&#x153;nerd.â&#x20AC;?

At night at FanimeCon, adults-only cartoons come out, including a screening of some examples of the hentai porn subgenre, which is like a cuter version of American pornâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;popular, indefensible, sometimes copyright-stretching.

Elsewhere, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s some gaming: a group Japanese spelling-bee game in which players make male cartoon figures (bishonen, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re calledâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;meaning, essentially, the young David Bowie type) give up their Armani-oid wardrobes bit by bit. Anime has what U.S. animation lacks in its category of yaoi and yuriâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;male/male and female/female love stories, scripted with a soap-opera elaboration unmatched in American animated films.

Yaoi is an acronym meant to advertise the harmlessness of the material: Yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi (no climax, no point, no meaning), in other words, not

hentai on the whole, with unrequited love and hurt feelings. The female audience for yaoi (and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost all female) gets to see the common unthreatening boy love we usually see in Disney programs, only in yaoi itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken to the next step.

Yuri is the other side of the spectrum, presumably enjoyed by some males. If you like wading through verbal labyrinths, try finding even a simple summing-up of the plot of the yuri manga-turned-anime Strawberry Panic, filmed in 26 episodes

by Madhouse Studios. The Sapphic (but again, never very explicit) conduct at the three separate girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; schools in this series is more complicated than the whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s who at Hogwarts.

The idea of erotic animation is loaded, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always assumed that the key audience for animation is sheltered children, plus it makes good copy. The point is that anime doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be either Pikachu or battle robots. Of course, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t become a multibillion-dollar industry without leaving some toxic waste around.

The visiting Anime Hell â&#x20AC;&#x153;otakalypseâ&#x20AC;? show at Fanime will offer some of the worst of the worst; bad animation is always prized by hipsters. Still, a tradition that offers up Princess Mononoke, Barefoot Jen, Paprika, and Ghost in the Shell still has its best years ahead of it.

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inf luence. Her Her literary literary approach approach explores explores influence. the forgotten forgotten lives lives of of generations generations of of the women, drawing drawing inspiration inspiration from from the the work work women, of the the BrontĂŤ BrontĂŤ sisters sisters and and Beloved-era Belovedd--era Toni Toni of Morrison. Ghosts, Ghosts, m urders aand nd ssuicides uicides Morrison. murders haunt these these ssongs ongs ffrom rom tthe he p eriphery, haunt periphery, referenced in in ssidelong idelong ffashion ashion b ut rrarely arely referenced but given center center sstage. tage. W hite ttends ends tto o aavoid void tthe he given White direct or or tthe he o bvious. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s n ot a llot ot o direct obvious. not off literal narrative, narrative,â&#x20AC;? sshe he ssays. ays. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;II sstrive trive tto o ccreate reate literal scenes in in m riting tthat hat aallow llow ffor or aabstract bstract scenes myy w writing rather than than lliteral iteral iinterpretation. nterpretation.â&#x20AC;? rather The albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title title song, song, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Victorian â&#x20AC;&#x153;Victorian The America,â&#x20AC;? is is p erhaps tthe he b est d istillation America, perhaps best distillation of Whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aapproach, pproach, ffinding inding ccommon ommon of threads of of ssocial ocial iinjustice njustice iin n tthe he A merican threads American South. During During tthe he aaftermath ftermath o urricane South. off H Hurricane Katrina, White White ffound ound h erself ffascinated ascinated Katrina, herself by the the V ictorian llegacy egacy o 9th-century by Victorian off 119th-century Louisiana, and and tthe he w ays iin nw hich tthe he Louisiana, ways which racism and and ssexism exism o he eera ra ccontinue ontinue tto o racism off tthe resonate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I â&#x20AC;&#x153;I w as rreading eading a b ook aatt tthe he ttime ime resonate. was book about women women iin n tthe he V ictorian p eriod, aand nd about Victorian period, Louisiana was was o ne o he m ain A merican Louisiana one off tthe main American Victorian areas areas d uring tthe he eera. ra. Th here Victorian during There

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W hite d eftly cconnects onnects tthese hese eelements lements White deftly tthrough hrough eeffectively ffectively cclear lear llanguage. anguage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;A A ggiant iant fflood lood ttook ook Louisiana Louisiana but but iitt ttook ook m ore more tthan han tthe he ccity ity o ew Orleans, Orleans,â&#x20AC;? sshe he ssings, ings, off N New â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;she she llost ost h er h ome in in V ictorian A merica. her home Victorian America.

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EEMILY MILY JANE JANE WHITE WHITE performs performs Wednesday, W ednesday, May May 26, 26, at at 8pm 8pm at at the the Crepe C repe Place, Place, 1134 1134 Soquel Soquel Ave., Ave., Santa Santa Cruz.

C ruz. Tickets Tickeets are are $8. $8. (831.429.6994) (831.429.6994)

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This meeting will provide an opportunity to: â&#x20AC;˘ Learn how conservation is factored into water supply planning â&#x20AC;˘ Learn about existing and new conservation programs â&#x20AC;˘ Learn about the opportunities and limitations on what more can be done â&#x20AC;˘ Ask questions during the Q/A Session

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Opening reception Thursday, May 27, 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7pm at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Porter College, UCSC. Through June 12.

Thursday, May 27 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8:30pm For more info: www.scwd2desal.org

Simpkins Swim Center 979 17th Avenue Santa Cruz, CA 95062

Sponsored by the City of Santa Cruz & Soquel Creek Water District The ďŹ rst in a series of scwd2 community informational meetings.

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To those who fumbled a credit card or missed an alarm clock, we send our sincerest condolences and suggest that if you start digging now you might be able to tunnel under the Civic by Saturday. For everyone else, hold on to your headbands, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a slightly older, fractionally more sober and hugely more polished indie heartthrob duo that will take the stage that night, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a new album thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done playing pretend. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really excited to come to Santa Cruz,â&#x20AC;? Andrew VanWyngarden, the curly-haired frontman tells Santa Cruz Weekly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get to surf.â&#x20AC;?

Congratulations, VanWyngarden and partner Ben Goldwasserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest record, contains a frenetically paced and face-meltingly psychedelic nine tracks of music that come on the heels of one of 2008â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest albums, the debut Oracular Spectacular.

That disc went platinum, garnering red carpet photo shoots, a Grammy nomination and a tour with Radiohead thanks to infectious, tongue-in-cheek hits like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Electric Feel,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kidsâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Time to Pretend.â&#x20AC;? But after a liquor-soaked tour that earned VanWyngarden a reputation as a party animal of MĂśtley CrĂźe magnitude, hipster prognosticators worried the group would join Hootie & the Blowfish, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Bloc Party in the dreaded â&#x20AC;&#x153;sophomore slump.â&#x20AC;?

Well, sorry, haters, Congratulations is great. And while itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the candy-scented synth bop that anyone who entered an American Apparel in the last year and a half bought pants to, it is a bold new direction for a band that needed some depth.

VanWyngarden says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s matured both as a musician and as a person since that first groundbreaking effort. And now that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got his game face on, look for a band thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s less concerned with pointing out the irony in becoming famous artists and more concerned with making art. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had no idea how things worked when we signed to Columbia,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of a sudden we found ourselves on the road for 15 months. That whole process forced us to grow up a little bit. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never thought of MGMT as having a certain one sound. We knew some people would be confused by (the new album), but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not really our problem. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just making whatever music we want.â&#x20AC;? (Curtis Cartier)

MGMT plays Saturday, May 29, at 8pm at the Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. Tickets are sold out, but as of Monday were still available on Ebay for around $90 apiece. Check http:// news.santacruz.com for a full-length article on MGMT, including more quotes from Andrew VanWnygarden.

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(PG-13; 118 min.) A graduate student (Omar Metwally) plans on writing the biography of a deceased writer, Jules Gund, but he must first gain the approval of the authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family.

In the process, he travels to South America to deal with the people who knew Gund, especially the writerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brother, widow and mistress (Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney and

Matthew Broderick stars as Ferris, a high schooler who decides to cut class one last time before graduating and have a whole day of fun. Along with his two best friends, Sloane and Cameron, he rides around in a Ferrari, joins a Von Steuben Day parade and avoids the dean of students, who is determined to catch Ferris red-handed.

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Humorous Korean spaghetti Western set in the 1930s in the Manchurian desert has three men meeting on a train as one is trying to rob it; amid gunfights and skirmishes with a pursuing army and bandits, they form an odd alliance. (Opens Fri at the Nickelodeon.) (TH) >@7<13 =4 >3@A7/( B63 A/<2A =4 B7;3 (PG-13; 116 min.)

Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton are rival royals who join forces to stop an evil ruler (Ben Kingsley) bent on destroying the world by unleashing a massive sandstorm.

Set in medieval Persia, based on the video game. (Opens Fri at 41st

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Andy Garcia Juliana Margulies Emily Mortimer Alan Arkin

Daily: (2:40), (4:50), 7:10, 9:20 & Sat, Sun, Mon (12:20) STARTS FRIDAY 5/28! â&#x20AC;&#x153;A gorgeous cinematic triumph â&#x20AC;Ś I was transfixed from beginning to end!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C;New York Observer

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Zombie movie veteran George Romero wrote and directed this tale, a followup to Land of the Dead and Diary of the Dead, about a group of residents on an island who are fighting off zombies and hoping for a cure that will bring back their zombified family members. (Opens Fri at Del Mar.) (TH)

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(1952) Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor pull off some of the most memorable song and

dance numbers ever in this musical about the transition from silent films to talkies. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the ultimate feel-good movie, and sets the standard for all other Hollywood musicals.

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In Wes Andersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s off beat dramedy, the Tenenbaum siblings (Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow and Owen Wilson, who also co-wrote) and their mother (Anjelica Huston) are reunited with Royal (Gene Hackman), the clanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absentee patriarch.

Though he is dishonest and insensitive, Royal makes a sincere attempt to mend ties with his family, all of whom have grown unhappy with their lives. (Plays Fri-Sat at the Del Mar.) (SC)

146 min.) This sequel, which follows up on the events of the 2008 movie and the hit HBO series that preceded it, sees Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) getting away with the girls once again after her marriage to Big. This time, Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte are headed on a glamorous vacation to Dubai.

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Director Thomas Balmes studies a year in the life of four babies born in four distinctly different places: Mongolia, Namibia, San Francisco and Tokyo. Guess who gets the Robeez flowered shoes?

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(R; 126 min.) Augean stables that it was, the Bush regime is going to require years of cleansing. An especially fragrant part of that era is the story of Jack Abramoff. The sordid tale is told in Alex Gibneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s documentary.

Abramoff was an exâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;industry executive who turned to politics as a way of passing on his right-wing views through more effective means than making movies about them. (Betcha didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that the felon in question produced the commie-bashing 1989 Dolph Lundgren stinker Red Scorpion).

Abramoff gravitated toward the GOP as a Young Republican organizer. He became a lobbyist, the doorkeeper for Tom DeLay, later the Republican congressional majority whip. As such, Abramoff became one of the biggest boodlers since Boss Tweed. The director of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room interviews some of the horrified witnesses to Abramoff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career.

Subjects include Bay Area Rep. George Miller, who tells a particularly stomach-turning story about the free market at loose in the Marianas Islands. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gratifying to see footage of Abramoff right where he belonged, sweating in front of a congressional hearing and taking more fifths than an alcoholic shoplifter. (RvB) B63 57@: E7B6 B63 2@/5=< B/BB==

(Unrated; 158 min.)

Stieg Larssonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book is the hottest thing going in mysteries right now, and thankfully, director Niels Arden Oplev and screenwriters Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg recognized that more important

than any of the hype swirling around the book is the protagonist at its center, Lisbeth Salander. She is the girl with the dragon tattoo, and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s maybe the best fictional character to come around yet this century. Swedish actress Noomi Rapace is absolutely incredible in her ability to bring Lisbeth to life. She is a force of nature, pure and simple. Lisbeth is hired to dig up dirt on Mikael (Michael Nyqvist) but ends up helping him investigate the disappearance many years ago of Harriet, heiress to a creepy, feuding family of millionaires. Though it may use the U.S. title, the movie doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t shy away from the bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unrelenting critique of the violence that society allows men to perpetuate against women, and though the scenes with certain unsavory characters may have been cut down in number, they are still surprisingly graphic.

Luckily, Lisbeth is womankindâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ultimate revenge fantasy come trueâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sooner or later, her boots are gonna walk all over absolutely everyone. (SP) 7@=< ;/< (PG-13;

125 min.) Struck by heavy-metal poisoning from his atomic pacemaker, Tony Stark (a roguish Robert Downey Jr.) is besieged by enemies: a Russian ex-con with access to his technology (Mickey Rourke being the Bear That Walks Like a Man), a glad-handing competitor (Sam â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Always Best in Small Dosesâ&#x20AC;? Rockwell) and last but not least the U.S. government. Politically muddled is the worst you can say about it; a power fantasy ought not to lose the idea of which way the power is flowing. Despite a middle section that vamps for time, Jon Favreau is successful in making this an invigorating meld of screwball comedy and robot-fighting action; Scarlett Johansson is most decorative as the agent known elsewhere as Black Widow, and Gwyneth Paltrow

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Broad, playful, well-cut and economically done, this movie isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just the first of the summer blockbustersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the model for how they all should work. (RvB) :/ ;7AA7=< (R; 125 min.) Che (Benjamin Bratt) is an S.F. Muni conductor, a hobby mechanic and an excon, single-parenting his son, Jesse (Jeremy Ray Valdez). What he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know is that Jesse has a secret lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and a boyfriend who lives in St. Francis Wood. Cheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outright rage at his sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sexuality is tempered by the attentions of his lovely new neighbor Lena (Erika Alexander). Any positive representation of Aztlan has to be applauded; the scenes of highly polished lowriders gliding through the Mission make their own statement of beauty and pride. Bratt is the definition of movie-star gravity: a man doing nothing but thinking about stuff and making it look interesting.

The film, then, is a celebration of San Francisco. Problem is, San Francisco may be San Francisco, but it is still a city. So some hardto-credit idealization mixes uneasily with real, street-level violence.

(And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one thing to make a Sundance movie, another to openly filch a scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.) La Mission is a kind of overexemplified view of San Francisco as a city of healing and refuge: a vision of a place where everyone is wounded, and almost everyone heals each other. (RvB) :3BB3@A B= 8C:73B

(PG; 105 min.) As Sideshow Bob might have predicted: The chick flickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bottomless chum-bucket has claimed Vanessa Redgrave. In Verona, an aspiring New Yorker writer Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) tours the Casa di Giullieta, which the Veronese assert is the actual home of Juliet Capulet. The lovelorn have been leaving letters to the not only dead

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but imaginary girl for years. Sophie finds a 50year-old communiquĂŠ from an English woman (Redgrave) who had to leave an Italian lover behind. Sophie answers the letter; the lady arrives with her diffident yet cute British grandson (Christopher Egan), his insults hiding a tender bruised heart.

Loads of locations, but director Gary Winick doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t frame them well.

Seyfried, despite divine shape and alertness, canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make this work.

You know the saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;The lights are on, but nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home? In Seyfriedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s someone clearly at home, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just that the lights arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t on. (RvB) ;/15@C03@ (R; 99 min.) Will Forte brings his recurring SNL sketch to the big screen with this action farce. When a super villain (Val Kilmer) threatens the world with a nuclear missile, special agent MacGruber and his resourceful team of crime-fighting experts are the only ones who can save the day. =13/<A (G; 100 min.)

The dearth of narrative thrust and useful informational tidbits are a downsideâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the creatures swimming by are sometimes identified, sometimes not. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re arranged by cuteness, color and shape rather than by districts of the ocean, as in the sturdy zonal structure of Earth.

Bruno Coulais, the rising composer whose work was key to the success of The Secret of Kells and Coraline, is adept with musical scoring: the organ is never too heavy and the harp is never too light. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll want to miss most of the text; because this is Disney, the anthropomorphic angle is heavy; narrator Pierce Brosnan salutes the ancient wisdom of a sheepshead wrasse, the smoochiness of a walrus and the smiling face of our friend the Great White Shark.

Oceansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cuteness is, you know, for the kids; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s moments to clutch like a blanket when seeing the bottomless appetites underwater: a horrorsequence of a school of sardines under Scud

attack by plummeting cormorants, frigate birds picking off a beachful of baby tortoises as if they were popcorn and a vicious crab/langouste bout thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as bad as any streetfight. (RvB) @=07< 6==2 (PG-13; 130 min.) Overlong and graceless to the extreme, Robin Hood looks like three long movies spliced into one unwieldy feature. This prequel concerns Robinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s involvement in the end of the crusades, the civil war and the littleknown French invasion of England in the early 1200s. The tale is interspersed with more political palaver than The Phantom Menace. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Robin Longstrideâ&#x20AC;? (Russell Crowe) decamps from Richard the Lionheartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s army and goes into the countryside to pose as a dead knight; the fatherin-law of the deceased (Max von Sydow) decides to do a Martin Guerre on this imposter, as does the widow Marian (Cate Blanchett in a wig nearly as tall as she is). This has to be the least-sylvan Robin Hood

ever made. Crowe looks less like a fox and more like a logy, depressed pit bull as the film tries to chug around him with more montages of burning villages and more meetings of angry Plantagenets. (RvB) B63 A31@3B 7< B637@ 3G3A (R; 127

min.) Elegant but staid murder mystery nibbles around the edges of the Dirty War. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Forget it, Jacobo, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Argentinatownâ&#x20AC;? view: the search for justice evaporating in 1974 Buenos Aires, with present-day sequences to frame a reopened investigator.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leavened by a fine Mulder and Scully anti-romance between an attractive female criminal investigator for the government, Irene (Soledad Villamil), and her attractively crumbling, Mastroiannish male assistant, Benjamin (Ricardo DarĂ­n). Director Juan Jose Campanella is a regular director of House M.D. The film is as restless and jokey as a cop procedural show;

every scene is on the mark, but there arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough counterpoints to the assured flow of the story. The slick, vengeance-is-mine punch line isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t very impressive either, though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably why the Academy preferred this to the far better White Ribbon, where the fascist culprits got away.

Saying that, though, would be assuming the voters didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have eyes for Villamil, an assured 40ish beauty whose performance is the secret in this movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success; her covert smile is the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signature piece. It won the Oscar for best foreign film. (RvB) B3@@70:G 6/>>G

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A police officer is reassigned from Copenhagen to a small Danish community, where his uneasiness about life in the countryside soon gives way to the suspicion that the town is hiding a dark secret. This thriller was Denmarkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s submission to the 2010 Academy Awards as Best Foreign Language Film. (SC)

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All day breakfast. Burgers, gyros, sandwiches and 45 flavors of Marianneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Polar Bear ice cream. Open 8am daily.

California Continental. Swordfish and other seafood specials.

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Continental California cuisine. Breakfast all week 6:30-11am, lunch all week 11am-2pm; dinner Fri-Sat 5-10pm, Sun-Thu 5-9pm. www.seacliffinn.com.

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Italian. Ambience reminiscent of a small trattoria in the streets of Italy, serving handmade lasagna, pasta dishes, gnocchi and fresh fish. Wed-Sun, lunch 11am-2pm, dinner 5-9pm.

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American and specialty dishes from the British and Emerald Isles.

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Indian. Authentic Indian dishes and specialties served in a comfortable dining room. Lunch buffet daily 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner daily 5pm to close. www.ambrosiaib.com.

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Mexican/Seafood/American. Traditional Mexican favorites. Best fajitas, chicken mole, coconut prawns, blackened prime rib!

Fresh seafood. Over 50 premium tequilas, daily happy hour w/ half-price appetizers. Sun-Thu 11am-10pm, Fri-Sat 11am-11pm.

California organic meets Southeast Asian street food. Organic noodle & rice bowls, vegan menu, fish & meat options, Vietnamese-style sandwiches, eat-in or to-go. Consistent winner â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Cheap Eats.â&#x20AC;? Open daily 11am-11pm.

American, California-style. With a great bar scene, casually glamorous setting and attentive waitstaff. Full bar. Mon-Sat 11:30am-10pm, Sun 1-10pm.

Crepes and more. Featuring the spinach crepe and Tunisian donut. Full bar. Mon-Thu 11am-midnight, Fri 11am-1am, Sat 10am-1am, Sun 10am-midnight.

Seafood. Fresh seafood, shellfish, Midwestern aged beef, pasta specialties, abundant salad bar. Kids menu and nightly entertainment. Harbor and Bay views. Lunch and dinner daily.

Mexican. Serving breakfast all day. Popular for our street tacos and handmade Salvadoran pupusas. Vegetarian options made w/ local fresh vegetables & organic tofu. Daily 9: 30am-9:30pm.

Americana. Ribs, steaks and burgers are definitely the stars.

Full bar. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner Sun-Thu 5:30-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 5:30-10pm.

California/full-service bakery. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Eggs Benedict in Town.â&#x20AC;? Happy Hour Mon-Fri 5-6pm. Halfprice appetizers; wines by the glass. Daily 8am-9pm.

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Seafood/California. Fresh catch made your way! Plus many other wonderful menu items. Great view. Full bar. Happy hour Mon-Fri. Brunch Sat-Sun 10am-2pm. Open daily.

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Italian. La Posta serves Italian food made in the old styleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; simple and delicious. Wed-Thu 5-9pm, Fri-Sat 5-9:30pm and Sun 5-8pm.

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For the week of May 26 /@73A (March 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 19): Mozart once challenged his friend Haydn to play a harpsichord piece heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d written. Haydn tried, but stopped partway through when the musical score called for him to play a note in the middle of the keyboard even though his right hand was fully occupied at the high end and his left hand at the low end. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nobody can play this,â&#x20AC;? protested Haydn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can,â&#x20AC;? said Mozart, who proceeded to perform the piece f lawlessly, dipping down to play the problematic note with his nose. In the coming week, Aries, be inspired by Mozart as you not only cover the extremes but also take care of the center.

B/C@CA (April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20): If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever contemplated taking a trip to Bora Bora or Pago Pago, now might be a good time to actually go.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a â&#x20AC;&#x153;seeing doubleâ&#x20AC;? phaseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a time when magic will come through repetition, and via duplication, and while youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the throes of imitation. To take maximum advantage of the dualistic cosmic rhythms, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seek just one of anything. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do anything just once. Two is where the power lies. Pairing brings potency.

53;7<7 (May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 20): My favorite news source, The Onion, recently reported on a â&#x20AC;&#x153;freethinking catâ&#x20AC;? that excretes its wastes â&#x20AC;&#x153;outside the box.â&#x20AC;?

As you enjoy your own phase of liberated thinking and uninhibited action, Gemini, I hope that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re putting the emphasis on generating beauty and blessings â&#x20AC;&#x153;outside the box.â&#x20AC;? You will of course also have to make some messes as you tamper with the way things have always been done, but even they could turn out to be productive in the long run.

1/<13@ (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22): Are you slipping into one of those moods in which you feel like a fraud?

Are you starting to worry that maybe youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not who you say you are? If so, I want to remind you of what happened the last time these feelings got stirred up: You became super motivated to prove that you are indeed who you say you are. And that had a most wonderful effect, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it? It led you to locate and call on resources you hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t known you could have access to; it spurred you to purge some self-deception from your system; and it roused you to intensify your commitment to rigorous authenticity. How about an encore? :3= (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a compassion freak.

Empathy is a fetish of mine. My predilection is to comfort the aff licted, champion the underdog, and fight for the rights of people who have been given less than I. And yet thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a part of me thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pagan libertarian anarchist. I subscribe to the idea that pretty much any kind of behavior is fine and good as long as it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt anyone. Now that you Leos are in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;anything goesâ&#x20AC;? phase of your astrological cycle, this full-permission part of me is rising to the forefront, eager to encourage you to go for broke, take it to the limit, and get away with everything you can get away withâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;on one condition, which is that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t harm anyone, including you.

D7@5= (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): Snake charmers are still a fixture in many Indian cities. Moving rhythmically and playing a f lute-like instrument, they inf luence erect cobras to bob and sway as if dancing. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you now have the power to do the metaphorical equivalent of that magic trick. This is one of those rare times when you possess the mojo to direct and even control strong forces that may usually be too wild to tame.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve still got to be careful, though. Just because youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the power doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean that you can scrimp on preparation and discipline.

:70@/ (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to think comprehensively, not defensively . . . to see futuristically, not didactically . . . to fantasize fantastically, not diplomatically. Your assignment is to stop reacting to every little blip that leaps into your field of vision, and start surveying the longterm cycles of your life from an expansive vista. Be a proactive visionary, Libra. Be a high-minded explorer.

Weave all the disparate threads into a tapestry that reveals the big picture. The next phase of your liberation requires you to slough off petty concerns and trivial details.

A1=@>7= (Oct. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 21): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Neverâ&#x20AC;? has never been a more irrelevant word for you. Events that may have always seemed quite improbable are now well within the range of possibility. Exotic people

who up until recently may as well have been fictional characters are showing up as real live actors in your actual life story. Plotlines whose emergence you could not have predicted are snaking their way into your drama. So be alert for a freaking miracle concealed in a f limsy disguise. And donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be surprised if a vision of funky paradise shows up in full regalia. The futureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just knocking at your door, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pounding.

A/57BB/@7CA (Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): Sagittarian writer Samuel Clemens was best known under his pen name, Mark Twain. But he tried many others, including Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, W. Epaminondas Adrastus Blab, Trismegistus, and Sergeant Fathom. Since youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a phase when experiments with your persona would be productive, I suggest you dream up a few aliases of your own.

I hope that at least one of them will be as wacky as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blabâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Snodgrass.â&#x20AC;? Having a sense of humor about yourself will be helpful. It will ensure that your explorations at the frontiers of your identity will be fertile, fun, and never fear-based.

1/>@71=@< (Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 19): Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not living in Iraq or Sudan or the Congo, and you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to walk five miles a day with a jug on your head to fetch the water you need, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not so bereft of food that you have to resort to eating worms and tree bark. So how bad could your problems be? The single best thing you can do to start fixing your lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s small glitches is to feel waves of gratitude for how many resources you have and how lucky you are.

The second best thing would be to aggressively take your worried attention off yourself and turn your mind toward people who could really benefit from your help. As you carry out those two assignments, your dilemmas will begin to solve themselves as if by magic.

/?C/@7CA (Jan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bothersome phenomenon that mucks up reincarnation research: Far too many people profess to have been celebrities and geniuses in their previous lives. A related and equally irksome issue is the problem of multiple claims. For example, I know three different people who have assured me they were Napoleon their last time around. The fact is, almost no one whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reading this horoscope has never been famous in any past incarnation. However, it is worthy to note that a disproportionately high percentage of you Aquarians were formerly people with great imaginations. And it so happens that in the coming weeks you will be at the peak of your ability to tap into the creativity you had back then. >7A13A (Feb. 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20): When I sent out my email newsletter last week, I got the usual number of automatic replies from people who were on vacation or out of the office. But one from Lisa P. caught my attention. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reply to your email right now,â&#x20AC;? it read. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will be meditating until June 1.â&#x20AC;? My first reaction was jealousy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to have the leisure time and willpower to meditate for 14 days nonstop!â&#x20AC;? I thought to myself. I pictured myself free of all business-as-usual, even meditating while I was asleep.

My second reaction was that I should tell you Pisceans about what Lisa P. was up to. The coming days would, after all, be an excellent time for you to retreat from the usual f lood of chaos and seek peaceful sanctuary in a conversation with eternity. If you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t manage a whole week, try to give yourself at least 48 hours of profound and utter slack.

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