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C urren ents A/1932 A /1932 Single-use Single-use plastic plastic bag, bag, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re about ab out to to be b e fired. f i re d .

Bag-Free B ag-Free Zone Zone Our countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coun ntty â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on track track to to have haave the first fir i st bor der-to-bor o der ban on o plas tic bags baggs border-to-border plastic 0G 83AA71/ :G=<A

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OR THE OR THE M MOST OST p part, art, ccomplaints omplaints aabout bout a ban ban on on plastic plastic bags bags ccome ome ffrom rom tthree hree cconstituencies: onstituencies: dog d og owners owners that that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want want tto o pay pay for for puppy puppy poo poo bags, bags, grannies grannies that that CVS bags rreuse euse ttheir heir C VS b ags aass ggarbage arbage ccan an lliners iners American Council, aand nd the the A merican Chemistry Chemistry C ouncil, Big aa.k.a. .k.a. B ig Plastic.

Plastic.

But Santa B ut aass S anta Cruz Cruz County County aand nd aall ll of of its its ccities ities move move fforward orward with with ordinances ordinances tthat hat would ban w ould b an plastic plastic aand nd ccharge harge 10 10 cents cents for for paper bags, p aper b ags, officials offf icials in in each each jurisdiction jurisdiction aare re aanticipating nticipating a call call from from attorney attorney Stephen who S tephen Joseph, Joseph, w ho iiss ssuing uing ccities ities have aand nd ccounties ounties aacross cross tthe he sstate tate tthat hat h ave banned b anned ssingle-use ingle-use plastic plastic bags. bags.

According his website, A ccording tto oh is w ebsite, www.SaveThe www.SaveTh he PlasticBag.com, not P lasticBag.com, JJoseph oseph iiss n ot ggetting etting aany ny money bag m oney from from plastic plastic b ag manufacturers. manufacturers.

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warrior. A warrior.

According ccording tto oh his is ssite, ite, b banning anning p lastic b ags â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;would would rresult esult iin nam ajor plastic bags major iincrease ncrease iin n ggreenhouse reenhouse ggas as eemissions, missions,â&#x20AC;? because would be cause â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;it it w ould rresult esult iin n a sswitch witch to to paper bags, which p aper b ags, w hich would would be worse worse for for the the eenvironment. nvironment.â&#x20AC;?

Santa S anta Cruz Cruz County, County, which which in in April April decided on proposed d ecided tto o move move fforward orward o nap roposed ban, him. b an, iiss rready eady ffor or h im. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;We We iincluded ncluded a paper bag use ffee ee for for p aper b ag u se tto o ccounter ounter tthat hat Kasey Kolassa, aargument, rgument,â&#x20AC;? rresponds esponds K asey K olassa, waste manager rrecycling ecycling aand nd ssolid olid w aste sservices ervices m anager weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ffor or the the ccounty. ounty. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;What What w eâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re rreally eally ttrying rying promote bags. tto o do do iiss p romote reusable reusable b ags.â&#x20AC;?

Kolassa hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t K olassa says says tthe he ccounty ounty h asnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rreceived eceived a legal legal threat threat from from Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;yet.

Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;yet. As As public public works w orks staff staff reported reported to to the the Santa Santa Cruz Cruz County Board C ounty B oard of of Supervisors Supervisors at at its its Nov. Nov. Plastic 9 meeting, meeting, the the case case of of Save Save the the P lastic Bag City Manhattan Beach Bag Coalition Coalition vv.. C it y ooff M anhattan B each iiss

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pending pe nding before before the the California California Supreme Supreme Court.

C ourt. The Th he primary primary issue issue in in this this case, case, however h owever is is not not whether whether cities cities can can ban ban plastic p lastic bags, bags, but but whether whether such such a law law under rrequires equires environmental environmental rreview eview u nder tthe he California California Environmental Environmental Quality Quality Act A ct ((CEQA), CEQA), and and if if so, so, whether whether a full full Environmental E nvironmental Impact Impact Report Report (EIR) (EIR) is is rrequired. equired.

To meet CEQA T om eet tthe he C EQA rrequirementsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; equirementsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; hopefully aand nd h opefully aavoid void aany ny unnecessary unnecessarry llawsuitsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the awsuitsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version version of of the the ordinance undergoing o rdinance is is currently currently u ndergoing eenvironmental nvironmental review. review. At At the the Nov. Nov. 9 board board bo ard meeting, meeting, county county sstaff taff f ttold old bo ard members m embers tthat hat tthe he iinitial nitial sstudy tudy iiss aalmost lmost ffinished inished aand nd tthey hey aanticipate nticipate tthat hat a declarationâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;negative negative d eclarationâ&#x20AC;? will will be issued, issued, which means w hich m eans tthat hat a ssingle-use ingle-use bag bag ordinance o rdinance would would not not have have an an adverse adverse on aaffect ff ffect o n tthe he eenvironment. nvironment. Santa Santa Cruz Cruz County C ounty Supervisors Supervisors will will most most likely likely rreview eview tthe he eenvironmental nvironmental findings f indings in in February, Kolassa F ebruary ry, K olassa ssays. ays.

Meanwhile M eanwhile the the cities, cities, too, too, are are moving moving fforward orward with with plastic plastic bag bag bans. bans. The The city city off S Santa held on o anta Cruz Cruz h eld a sstudy tudy ssession ession o n Nov. Capitola held one next night.

N ov. 115; 5; C apitola h eld o ne tthe he n ext n ight.

Watsonville Valley W atsonville and and Scotts Scotts V alley aare re iin n tthe he phases. eearlier arlier p hases.

Bob Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s B ob Nelson, Nelson, the the city city of of Santa Santa C ruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ssuperintendent uperintendent of of resource resource recovery, recovery, says says plastic bag ban ordinance tthe he ccityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s p lastic b ag b an o rdinance ccould ould ssee ee iits ts ffirst irst rreading eading as as early early as as the the first first will ccouncil ouncil meeting meeting of of 2011.

2011. Itt w ill llikely ikely go go months iinto nto eeffect ffect ssix ix m onths aafter fter tthe he ccouncil ouncil aapproves pproves iit, t, which which should should give give businesses businesses off ttheir eenough nough ttime ime tto o gget et rrid id o heir eexisting xisting used ssupplyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and upplyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and ffor or ccustomers ustomers tto o gget et u sed off b bringing own bags tto o the the iidea dea o ringing ttheir heir o wn b ags orr p paying o aying 10 10 cents cents for for each each paper paper bag bag use. tthey hey u se. ((The The 110-cent 0-cent ffee ee sstays tays with with the the business; doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t orr b usiness; iitt d oesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ggo o tto o tthe he ccounty ounty o ccities ities tthat hat eenforce nforce the the new new llaw.) aw.)

Like Styrofoam ban, L ike tthe he S tyrofoam b an, tthe he ccounty ounty will primarily on aand nd ccities ities w ill p rimarily rrely ely o n ccitizen itizen watchdogs will w atchdogs for for enforcement. enforcement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mostly, Mostly, iitt w ill bee a complaint-based b complaint-based system, system,â&#x20AC;? Nelson Nelson says. says.

Iff tthe he county county and and cities cities all all adopt adopt singlesingleuse bag u se b ag ordinances, ordinances, Santa Santa Cruz Cruz will will be only tthe he o nly county county in in the the state state with w th full u ccompliance. ompliance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need need to to make make sure sure the the others move o thers m ove fforward, orward â&#x20AC;? Nelson Ne son says. says â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;We We want people w ant tto o rremind emind pe op e that that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s t s pretty pretty eeasy asy to to use use a reusable reusab e bag. bag Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s That s rreally ea y key. wee d did tthe he k ey. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aabout bout ttime ime w d tthis h s aand nd itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ts not hard. n ot tthat hat h ard.â&#x20AC;?

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Ron Duncan, eeffuses fffuses R on D uncan, cconservation onserv r ation manager aand nd ccustomer ustomer sservice ervice ffield ield m anager for for Soquel Soquel Creek Creek Water Water District.

District. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We â&#x20AC;&#x153;We call call it it wastewater wastewater when when iitt goes go oes down down tthe he drain, drain, but waiting but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not. not. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a resource resource w aiting tto o be b had. days, had.â&#x20AC;? Water Water conservation conservation iiss hot hot tthese hese d ays, especially off ttalks espe p cially iin n llight ight o alks over over a desalination desalination plant would unnecessary plant that that many many ssay ay w ould be u nnecessary if wee were more if w were just just m ore careful careful with with water. water.

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But d o pe ople aactually ctually w ant tto o bo ther?

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Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S an old joke about our stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consumerist culture that Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s architects can design parking lots that put others to shame. In the case of the newly remodeled Sentinel Building itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true, but the joke is on the person who made it. Bio-swale troughs surround the parking lot to metabolize runoff oil, covered bicycle parking awaits pedal-powered commuters and electric vehicle charging stations line up outside the doorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just the start of a long list of sustainable features at the recently redesigned downtown building.

Originally constructed in 1966 as the headquarters of the Santa Cruz Sentinel, 207 Church St. will soon be home to Cruzio Internet and the nonprofit Ecology Action, as well as a small collection of office, commercial and co-working spaces available for rent from Appenrodt Commercial Properties. Architectural firm Thatcher and Thompson preserved the exterior of the building and salvaged elements from the original structureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a maple rail, for example, that once ran around the outside of the building now serves as a hand-rail for the interior staircase. Repurposing of available materials is a theme. A rain catchment system will provide irrigation for the low-water landscaping, 216 solar panels will provide 51 kilowatts of energy for the building and strategically placed windows and fans will allow for natural air circulation throughout the building.

In anticipation of their move, Cruzio

founder Peggy Dolgenos rolls out the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crowning glory. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We brought fiber over the hill,â&#x20AC;? she says, referring to the routing of a fiber optic network through downtown Santa Cruz. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a first for the city, and a move that Dolgenos hopes will mean â&#x20AC;&#x153;more companies can start here, and more companies can stay here.â&#x20AC;? In addition to housing the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s server farm and technical support call center, Cruzioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third of the building includes a classroom space and a special high-capacity 10,000 megabits-per-second (enough to stream 3,276 HD films at once) â&#x20AC;&#x153;fiber barâ&#x20AC;? open to the public for large uploads and downloads.

While Cruzioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s priority was the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high-tech capacity, Ecology Action emphasized aesthetics. Vice-President Chuck Tremper said that because many of the nonprofitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s employees are used to working outside, they tried to create the sense of being outdoors inside, for example by constructing an â&#x20AC;&#x153;aedicula,â&#x20AC;? or a structure resembling the exterior of a building inside, for their conference room. The space is illuminated by wide-angle skylights. Santa Cruz retailer Green Space helped by outfitting the offices with recycled resin tiles, recycled rubber stairs and cork floors.

The total price tag for the renovation of 207 Church St. is estimated at more than $5 million. The building is expected to achieve a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold rating this spring. 0

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Long before chambers of commerce adopted the â&#x20AC;&#x153;buy localâ&#x20AC;? slogan, before slow food and farm-to-table entered the popular lexicon, Guisinger, founder and co-owner of Consolidated Skateboards, battled mega-corporations and made it his mission to educate skaters about the importance of supporting their local skate shops.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paid off for the skater-turnedbusinessmanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so far. Consolidated currently sells its boards in about 30

countries and online. But the warâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not over, and Guisinger marches on, reminding folks about the role independent skate, surf and snowboard shops play in the industry.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the ones sponsoring up-and-coming rides, pushing for public skateparks and sponsoring competitions. And Guisinger argues theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also the best bet for a thriving skateboarding industry that remains healthy and vital no matter whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening economically.

He cites a lesson learned from Discoveryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Planet Earth series. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The healthiest and most successful ecosystems are the ones that

support the most diversity,â&#x20AC;? says the 44-yearold Guisinger. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As humans, business is our ecosystem, and our distribution systems are the mom-and-pop, core shops. If one goes out of business, the other ones can fill in.â&#x20AC;?

That works until a Great Recession comes along. Like other small businesses, mom-andpop storefronts feel the economic downturn more acutely than a huge corporation with the wherewithal to simply ride it out. What would happen if the mom-and-pops went extinct due to economic pressure from the recession and powerful corporate competitors, leaving the market to, say, Foot Locker? ¨

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Garage to Globe Like most forward-thinking, influential companies, Consolidated has the sort of origin story that has become almost mythic.

The year was 1992, a transitional time for skateboarding. In the early 1980s, skating was a fringe sport dominated by rebellious youngsters who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the means (or the work permits) to make and sell their own products. So it was primarily nonskaters running the skateboard shops and manufacturing companies.

But by the late â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s and early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s, those young skaters were growing up and entering the workforce. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People like

me,â&#x20AC;? says Guisinger, â&#x20AC;&#x153;who thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I could do this on my own.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

After five years working for Santa Cruz Skateboards, Guisinger and co-worker Steve Keenan, a skate photographer, decided to start their own company. Four team riders left their endorsements to skate for the young upstart. It was a classically humble beginning. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were working out of a garage in Pleasure Point,â&#x20AC;? Guisinger recalls.

Guisinger and Keenan set up shop and started making skateboards. Guisinger also became an advocate of sorts for decriminalizing his sport with the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Plan,â&#x20AC;? step-by-step instructions on how to legalize skateboarding and build public parks. Skate shops across the U.S. distributed the Plan, Guisinger mailed it out to kids who sent him a buck and a self-addressed, stamped envelope and he publicized it in skate magazines. The ¨

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The Plan included steps like: when you get ticketed, always fight it in court. Do not waive your right to a trial. If you are found guilty, choose community service work instead of a fine. In other words, it aspired to prove that skateboarding isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the problem, banning skateboarding is the problem because it costs cities money. The Plan also told young skaters to encourage their parents and local shop owners to go to city council meetings and push for public skateparks.

Meanwhile, Consolidated was growing. The company started selling directly to retail stores instead of only to distributors, and soon Keenanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s garage wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t big enough. In 1994, the company moved into its current digs, a warehouse on Center Street.

About a year later, Leticia Ruano, Guisingerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s then-girlfriend, started working for the company selling skateboards while she earned her MBA from Santa Clara University. In 1996, Keenan and Guisinger decided to part ways in what Guisinger describes as an â&#x20AC;&#x153;amicable separation;â&#x20AC;? Keenan was married, he and his wife had kids and she wanted to move to L.A. Guisinger took over the business with more than a little help from Ruano, even though the two had broken up. In 1998 Guisinger offered to make her a partner.

Business was booming. But by the mid-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s, as skateboarding became more popular, big companies like Nike, Adidas and Puma began to notice. So did mall shops like Zumiez, which in 1998 decided to shift its focus to exclusively surf, skate and snowboarding gear and clothing. The chain now operates more than 170 stores in 20 states. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a battle because, as something becomes popular, corporate interests want in, and mall chains owned by people who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t skateboarders start popping up,â&#x20AC;? Ruano says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I talk to shops on a daily basis, and they suffered and are suffering because of it. I saw core shops closeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and these skate shops are the lifeblood of our industry.â&#x20AC;?

Consolidated refused and still refuses to sell to the chains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It potentially stifles our growth because we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sell to sporting goods stores, mall chains, but we want to have our cake and eat it, too,â&#x20AC;? Guisinger says.

Adds Ruano: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re willing to take the risk that people will understand the importance of supporting your local skate shop.â&#x20AC;?

For the first five years Consolidatedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business grew steadily in spite of the onslaught. Then the 800-pound gorilla entered the room.

Just Take It Over â&#x20AC;&#x153;Recently there have been a few big companies who are very involved in basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, etc., and are trying to break into our industry by slinging a lot of money around, running some pretty cool TV commercials, and trying to endorse the pros,â&#x20AC;? begins an ad written by Guisinger. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where were these companies for the last 20 years when skaters were fighting just to legalize our sport? Now that skating is more widely accepted, they want to jump on the bandwagon, portray themselves as alterna-heroes and take over.â&#x20AC;?

Nike first attempted to enter the skateboarding industry in 1997.

Guisinger responded with the Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Do It campaign. He bought advertising space for the aforementioned ad in Thrasher magazine and Transworld Skateboarding magazine, made posters and sent them to shops.

The message was never intended to be anti-big business or anti-commercial, Guisinger says. Rather, it was about opposition to the co-opting of a grassroots movement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait for this to get big and then try to cash in on something that you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t build,â&#x20AC;? he says.

In order for Nikeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or any other major companyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to make it into the industry, it had to sell its products in core skate shops, which would allow it to gain credibility among skaters.

So Consolidated distributed literature and ads to mom-and-pop shops and explained why letting big sporting goods companies come to the party was a bad idea: They have distribution sites that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily include skate shops.

They have the deep pockets to put skate shops out of business. They will destroy skateboardingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soul.

It was an easy sell. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It went over well,â&#x20AC;? Guisinger says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nike pulled out. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Do It went into hibernation.â&#x20AC;?

Nike, however, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. The company came back in 2000. This time, it launched an all-out attack. The first volley came under the name of Savier shoes, sold at core skate shops. The second happened about five years later, when Nike entered the industry under its own name, buying big, flashy ads in skateboarding magazines, wining and dining industry reporters with lavish ¨ %

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Now thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a new generation of skaters who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what a Nikefree skate industry looks like. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The older age bracket, 19 and older, what they buy is more influenced by the politics of it as opposed to just who rides for a particular company or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What did I see in a magazine,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? says Jason Strubing, owner of Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;based Skateworks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And with the younger kids, so much of it is peer-driven. You get a group of kids that decides, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This brand is cool, this brand sucks,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and that carries a lot of weight.â&#x20AC;?

The Pacific Avenue shop has two other locations, one in Redwood City and another in Santa Rosa. Santa Cruz skaters are more conscious of buying locally and supporting local business, Strubing says, adding that it may be because of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reputation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s renowned around the world as a skateboard mecca,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really steeped in skate history.â&#x20AC;?

Strubing says he prefers to support local and independent companies like Consolidated. But he admits it wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be financially feasible for him to just say no to carrying Nike. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of a tricky one to work around,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If a company like Nike is throwing money around and bringing money into the skateboarding industry, there are some benefits to that.â&#x20AC;? Besides, he adds, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We carry Nike because I feel like if a kid has chosen Nike as a brand he can identify with, then who am I to say no because of the politics behind it? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more of a precautionary message: Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget that a brand like this doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come into an industry like this with a motive that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t profit-driven.

And Nike is the scapegoat for all of the other brands that have similar agendas, whether it be Vans or anything elseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to hold your nose when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re turning in the order form.â&#x20AC;?

These days, all the skate shops in Santa Cruz County that carry shoes sell Nikes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nike is probably the bestselling shoe in the industry,â&#x20AC;? Guisinger says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It puts us in a hard place because we want the shops to strive and do well, but they need to carry what people want. So weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to educate people to not want Nikes.â&#x20AC;?

Passion Play This brings him to Consolidatedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest project: the Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Do It Foundation.

The skate company recently started the nonprofit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Its message,â&#x20AC;? Guisinger says: â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Keep the surf, skate and snowboard industry in the hands of those that are passionate about it.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Consolidated is currently revamping its company website, which will include information on the Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Do It Foundation in the next month or so. As of now, the site encourages visitors to support their local skateboard shops. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If all you have is a mall or sporting goods chain in your town, we ask that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t support them, and instead order from a skater-owned, online store,â&#x20AC;? it says.

Guisinger sees it as a simple choice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only way for local stores to survive is to drive mall chains out of business,â&#x20AC;? he explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So we want people at whatever cost to not support the mall chain. You vote with your money. If you go to the mall chains, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re only empowering them. Go to your local skate shop. If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a local skate shop, buy online from a local company.â&#x20AC;?

To further encourage local support here on the home front, Consolidated recently started its â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thank Localâ&#x20AC;? program, under which it sells boards to Santa Cruz area skate shops at cost, which allows those shops to turn around and sell Consolidated boards to consumers at a steep discount.

At Skateworks, a sign is posted on the wall alongside the Consolidated boards explaining â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thank Localâ&#x20AC;? and telling buyers theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll save $20 if they purchase one. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The response is almost disbelief,â&#x20AC;?

Strubing says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of kids are overjoyed. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Wait, these are only 30 bucks?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; They almost do a double take.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a way of giving back to the community that has supported Consolidated for 18 years, says Guisinger, and hopefully a means to educate a new generation of skateboarders. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You see sporting goods stores: How many are owned by football players?

Soccer players? Basketball players?

They canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t compete with the major companies. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want that to happen to surf, skate and snow. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why we keep fighting.â&#x20AC;?

He thinks thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a strong chance it will work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Look at family farms, farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s markets growing all across the nation. People are starting to realize and think local, and that gives me hope that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a lost cause.â&#x20AC;?

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/@B =4 /:5=@7B6; LIGHT might well be the most distinctive mark of mankind on the surface of the planet. From space, continents glow and light clusters indicate where people are gathered. Artists long have â&#x20AC;&#x153;painted with lightâ&#x20AC;? metaphorically, but at the beginning of the 21st century, light became the medium for a new art form.

Using computer programming, the artist creates and sets in motion a sequence of actions expressed in light and directed by mathematical rules or algorithms, then allows that sequence to play itself out without intervention.

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Steinkampâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s works repeated patterns in a massive video loop, while Listening Post created a â&#x20AC;&#x153;canvasâ&#x20AC;? of digital monitors exhibiting a fascinating but distinguishable progression. The current :3= D7::/@3/: exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art reveals, more than any exhibit Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen, an evolutionary moment in technology-enabled art. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;objectsâ&#x20AC;? of transmission are themselves elegant: the 10-by-15-foot wall of mirror-finished stainless steel with hundreds of recessed LED lights of Diamond Sea; a dozen naked horizontal LED tubes in Chasing Rainbows with just enough space between them to act as a pinstripe shadow in the colorful streams of light, while the black curving wires and plugs at the end of each 8-foot tube frame the motion of light that goes through them. The light sequences appear to be completely random.

Villarealâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sequences are set in motion by sometimes complex rulesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the exhibition provides an opportunity for the viewer to understand the process by playing the Game of Life, in which the participant creates an initial configuration of LED-lit cells, then sees how the rulesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;any live cell with fewer than two live neighbors diesâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;play out to the end.

The for-all-intents-random sequence of, say, tiny colored LED lights on or off behind a screen of plexiglass, as in Primordial, compels the viewer to â&#x20AC;&#x153;make senseâ&#x20AC;? of the pattern, to attribute values to the coalescing and separating and apparently directional movement of light, even to see a narrative unfold. In these works, Leo Villareal plays the Zen Frankenstein mimicking the primordial organization of life. Perhaps the magic is only the echo of our cells responding.

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With roots that extend deep into the heart of traditional Brazilian music and a future-forward embrace of contemporary urban, pop and electronic influences, Luisa Maita has established herself as a musical ambassador to the world. Hailed by NPR as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;new voice of Brazil,â&#x20AC;? the Sao Paoloâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;born Maita began her professional music career singing advertising jingles at age 7. These days Maita is known for wrapping her sultry, soulful voiceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which has garnered her comparisons to Sade, Billie Holiday, Feist and Cat Powerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; around her own songs, which are steeped heavily in the syncopation of samba, the cool stylings of bossa nova, and the spirit of life in Brazil today.

Kuumbwa; $20 adv/$23 door; 7pm.

(Cat Johnson)

Spearheading the roots music revival in Holyoke, Minn., the rough and raw three-piece known as the Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank takes the backroads approach to songsmithing, spinning yarns of traveling shows, loneliness, love, mama and life on the road. Drawing inspiration from Bob Dylan, Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie, these boys are a less-is-more, straightto-the-point ensemble able to throw down bluesy stomps and hollers played at a freight-train pace, or else slow it down for a well-crafted, country ballad full of scars, heartache and tears. Crepe Place; $10; 9pm. (CJ)

Never has a band been so appropriately named. The musical equivalent of slamming a Natty Ice against your forehead, Slightly Stoopidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hip-hopinflected skatepunk might be termed the lowest common denominator, though thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s insulting to both populist culture and integers. The band got its break through the endorsement of Sublimeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brad Nowell but shares neither his thick-necked broâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wit nor his ample songcraft. That said, Slightly Stoopid fills a niche for enthusiasts of easygoing, no-consequences rock that draws artistic inspiration from the resin that settles at the bottom of day-old bongwater. Catalyst; $25; 8:30pm.

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Outside of the name, the main thing LA Riots seems interested in provoking is asses on the dance floor. The duo specializes in club bangers that have earned them remix gigs for N*E*R*D, Justice, Chromeo and even the Cure.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also able hands at rocking a crowd, which has quickly made them a festival favorite at gigs around the world.

Catalyst; $22; 8pm. (PMD)

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Hipsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sweet digs for a band striving to heap on the garage-band fuzz.

Meanwhile, tonightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s partner in crime Newfangled Wasteland has set its sights on Beck, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never sounded so lovely as through the lips of vocalist Trevor Garrod. This is a handful of guys who like Beck with all their hearts, and even though their versions of the phenomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classics donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wander far from the originals, they manage to shake loose the nostalgia like an autumn wind.

Moeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alley; $10; 9pm. (Kate Jacobson)

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The two outfits shared Jerry Garcia and concert halls, and eventually the New Riders went gold with The Adventures of Panama Red. Guitarist David Nelson is the only remaining member who has seen the entire timeline from electrocountry to bluegrass. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s here tonight.

Moeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alley; $17 adv/$20 door; 8:30pm.

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A Cut Below Danny Boyleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hiking horror film â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;127 Hoursâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is like â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in a Utah canyon 0G @716/@2 D=< 0CA/19

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127 Hours is Danny Boyleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version of the true-life story of climber Aron Ralston. In spring 2003, Ralston was pinned under a half-ton boulder in a remote Utah canyon; what he did to survive became worldwide news.

Those who have heard of the story (and essentially prayed that they would never make a movie out of itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or that Werner Herzog would direct if it absolutely had to be done) will be teased early on. As Aron (James Franco) packs for the fateful trip, we see his face from the inside of a cupboard, where a Swiss army knife lies waiting.

127 Hours records an ordeal so singular, Poe couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t improve on it.

Unfortunately, director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) tries to blow up the storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elemental horror through pyrotechnics. The title sequence shows the crowded world, driving, praying, rushingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all at once on triple-screen.

Aron is running away from this hectic existence: first driving through the night in his truck into the desert and then speeding on his mountain bike over the hills.

Boyle starts with a burst of relentless motion, as in his Trainspotting.

Unfortunately, this ADD style has been thoroughly appropriated for sports-drink commercials. (The products more or less

<= E/G =CB James Franco gets wedged too tight for comfort in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;127 Hours.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

advertised in 127 Hours are Gatorade and Coors, likely appropriate in a story of a man perishing of thirst.)

Ralston isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t an ordinary Joe; reporter Scott Willoughby notes that he had climbed 49 of Coloradoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 14,000-footplus peaks. Franco plays him as a het-up kid, a showman, with a digital camera recording his thoughts and acting as chorus. At times, Aron imagines himself as a guest on a hallucinatory TV show, as if forecasting the real-life Ralstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s later fame as the subject of a major motion picture.

The camera plays back visions of the life that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely to lose, and the battery never seems to give up. There are other video-game essentials; a digital thermometer onscreen recording the drop in the temperature.

The film is the work of someone terrified of boring the audience by making the walls close in on them.

And yet all this relentless flashâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the

camera even snakes up inside the tube of a camelback water carrierâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t illuminate something that was essentially a terrible incident. Instead, it finds a moral lesson: Aron should have connected with the multitude, with his plaintive mom, whose calls he never returned, as well as with the girlfriend who dumped him for his breeziness.

ClĂŠmence PoĂŠsy plays the girl, and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an oasis in this picture, a vision of downy flesh in a movie thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loaded with tight close-ups of a man expiring slowly. Her parting line, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be so alone, Aron,â&#x20AC;? underscores a weak idea: the cave ordeal as a kind of payback for someone young and disengaged. You can see how Boyle has changed since the misanthropy of Shallow Grave, where hell was other people.

Francoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visceral acting in the service of this horror story probably should be praised, even if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a pleasure to watch. One would have to be fairly

simple-minded to think of this ghastly story as some kind of triumph of the human spirit.

127 Hours should be effective to anyone not numbed by disgust, but I was just that numbed by Boyleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempt to scratch up a narrative. The detailsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;like an antâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mandible pinching Aronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s faceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;mirror the sense that Boyle had ants in his pants, that he was without enough calm to make visions of a home life look homey, or a lover look compassionate, or a desert look serene.

Watching 127 Hours, I ended up trapped myself: trapped between the longing to see Aron just get it over with, and the longing to not to see it happen.

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100 min.) Christina Aguilera stars in a musical about a smalltown girl with dreams of stardom. Aguileraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character takes a job as a cocktail waitress at a once-legendary Los Angeles burlesque club that has lost its luster. Also starring Cher as the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proprietress and aging star, Kristin Bell as a spotlight-hogging rival, Stanley Tucci as the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stage manager and Alan Cummings as the revueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MC. (Opens Wed Nov. 24 at Riverfront Twin, Scotts Valley and Green Valley.)

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A documentary chronicling the life and times of the former governor of New York, who resigned in disgrace after revelations surfaced of his involvement in a prostitution ring. The film f loats theories that Spitzer, once known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Sheriff of Wall Street,â&#x20AC;? was conspired against by powerful enemies. (Opens Fri at Del Mar.) 4/AB3@ (R; 95 min.)

An ex-con sets out to avenge his brotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death after they were double-crossed during a heist years ago. Stars Dwayne Johnson and

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(PG-13; 147 min.) In the penultimate film of the series, Harry (Daniel Radcliff ), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) must leave Hogwarts to find and destroy a set of Horcuxes in order to defeat Lord Voldemort (played by Ralph Fiennes) once and for all. Also starring Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman.

(Opens Thu midnight at 41st Ave, Santa Cruz 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley.)

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(1953) Long before there were reality TV shows designed for the purpose, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Gable and Lauren Bacall starred as bachelorettes on the hunt for wealthy spouses. (Plays Sat and Sun 11am at Aptos.)

min.) Russell Crowe stars in a remake of the French film Pour Elle, about a man who risks everything to help spring his wife (accused of murder) from prison. Also starring Liam Neeson as an escapee who gives Croweâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character advice. (Opens Fri at the Nick and Green Valley.)

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Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal star in a comedy about a charismatic pharmaceutical rep.

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by Jamie Reidy. (Opens Wed Nov 24 at Aptos and Santa Cruz 9.)

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min.) See review, page 29. (Opens Fri at Nickelodeon.)

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Stanley Kubrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production of the Stephen King novel stars Jack Nicholson as

a writer gone insane over the course of a winter spent with his family in a haunted old hotel. With Shelly Duvall. (Plays Fri and Sat midnight at Del Mar.) AB/@ B@39 !( B63 A3/@16 4=@ A>=19

(1984) Stars William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. (Plays Thu 8pm at Cinema 9.)

B/<5:32 (PG; 153 min.) Disneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s animated adaptation of the fairy tale Rapunzel, featuring the vocal talents of Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi. (Opens Wed Nov. 24 at 41st Ave, Del Mar, Scotts Valley and Green Valley.)

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@3D73EA 1=<D71B7=< (R; 107

min.) Hilary Swank stars in a biopic about Betty Ann Waters, a single working mother who put herself through law school in order to appeal a murder charge brought against her brother Kenneth, played by Sam Rockwell.

1==: 7B (PG; 88

min.) An answer to An Inconvenient Truth from Danish statistician and The Skeptical Environmentalist author Bjorn Lomborg. The film discusses the broader context of the debate on climate change, dispels myths and calls for a reordering of priorities.

2C3 2/B3 (R; 100 min.)

A high-strung fatherto-be (Robert Downey Jr.) is forced hitch a ride cross-country with a sloppy slacker (Zack Galifianakis) in order to make it to his wifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bedside in time for the birth of his first child.

4/7@ 5/;3 (PG-

13; 108 min.) Doug Limanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s account of the felonious Valerie Plame business is a model of exciting, intelligent espionage lore. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shot with braced but fluid camerawork. Naomi Wattsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; performance as Plame is one of the yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best. Between the Sept.

11 attacks and the Iraq invasion, members of the CIA ask the independent consultant Joseph Wilson (Sean Penn) to go to Niger to confirm confidential reports of uranium being sent to Saddam Hussein.

Wilson quickly discovers there was no such shipment. In a Nixonian attempt to silence a whistleblower, high Bush administration figures leak the name of Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife, Victoria Plame, to columnist Robert Novak, a move that destroys her career and puts her operations in jeopardy. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard for a film to be all things to all people. Fair Gameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s script is less surefooted with the domestic drama than it is with the paranoid/political tale-telling. Penn gets to play a different kind of character: decidedly upper-class, peremptory and with little patience

for fools. He gives one of his strongest and slyest performances. (RvB) 4=@ 1=:=@32 57@:A

(R; 120 min.) Tyler Perryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adaptation of the 1975 stage play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Each member of the ensemble (including Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton, Whoopie Goldberg and Kerry Washington) grapples with a different heavy issue like unplanned pregnancy, infidelity or abuse.

B63 57@: E6= 971932 B63 6=@<3BA¸ <3AB (R;

148 min.) The glowing harbor and country views of the last entry are replaced by a televisionistic series of close-ups of baleful Swedes frowning at each other over tables or sitting fidgeting at press conferences.

The survivors of the government cabal that planned to silence the troublesome Lisbeth (Noomi Rapace) are still afoot and grumpier than ever. Our hero, Mikael (Michael Nyqvist) of Millennium magazine, is trying to get Lisbethâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side of the story. But his co-editor Erika (Lena Endre) is menaced by anonymous emails and a brick through the window. Lisbeth is also cornered by yet another smirking civil servant: her former shrink, Dr. Peter Teleborian (Anders Ahlbom). The film pedantically insists on the realistic aftereffects of some gunshot wounds, and it makes a very, very long journey from hospital bed to very unmoving last goodbye.

63@3/4B3@ (PG-13; 129 min.) The opening of this dull, morose and oatmeal-colored drama is a flawlessly animated tsunami. Swept into the tide and clonked by an automobile, Parisian journalist Marie LeLay (CĂŠcile De France) is rescued just as she has a vision of human beings standing around a glowing plaza. She has seen the Hereafter itself; so has San Francisco psychic Matt Damon.

Meanwhile a pair of twins in London, separated by death, try

to reconnect. Bland and slow, the film seems as if it will never get started, and the afterworld is neither sinister nor inspirational. (RvB) 7<A723 8=0 (PG-13; 120

min.) A whirlwind tour through the economic rubble of 30 years of deregulation of banks and financial institutions.

Charles Fergusonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enraging documentary discovers that the famous revolving door turns 360 degrees; grossly overpaid gamblers from Goldman Sachs and elsewhere are returned to government offices they left for Wall Street. Some of these spoilsmen go to formerly honorable Ivy League institutions, there to legitimize the kind of fiscal policies that made them superrich. Few have regrets, but some have anger at being asked impertinent questions about ethics by a lowly submillionaire with a camera. One of the prime disappointments of the Obama administration is the way he found work for the familiar rogues from the Meltdown of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;08. Ferguson asks great questions. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect a lot of great answers about how a glorified Ponzi scheme left most of America either overworked or unemployed, heavily in debt and a few millimeters away from homelessness. (RvB) ;35/;7<2 (PG; 96 min.) An animated film featuring Will Ferrell and Brad Pitt as a pair of aliens who take different paths after their arrival on Earth. Outcast knowit-all Megamind (Ferrell) becomes a supervillain while brawny MetroMan (Pitt) wins fame and glory defending the city from Megamindâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plots. ;=@<7<5 5:=@G

(PG-13; 102 min.)

The forced nervous energy and desperate eagerness to please of the wakey-wakey TV show is evident.

Chirpy Becky (Rachel McAdams) is on her way up as the producer of a despondent morning news show, essentially fourth-ranked in a field of three networks.

Becky takes a celebrated but now languishing former anchorman,

Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford), and partners him with the current AM show host, Colleen (Diane Keaton). Colleen knows Pomeroy of old, and she loathes him. As Pomeroy, Ford is a very amusing grumpusâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a newsman frozen in distaste for the parade of exotic animals, cooking tips and celebrity chat.

Ford and Keaton have a comedic rapport thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like an elegant version of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jane, you ignorant slutâ&#x20AC;? routine between Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin in ancient episodes of SNL. The film has terminal thirdact problems, the kind that force a trip into sudden-death overtime, just to reassure us that Becky has a choice in her career. (RvB) <=E63@3 0=G (R; 98

min.) Disappointing film about John Lennonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 16th year in suburban Liverpool. John (Aaron Johnson) has a cozy life with his chummy uncle and his Aunt Mimi (Kristin-Scott Thomas).

When the former dies, Mimi becomes severe and cold. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estranged mother, Julia (Anne-Marie Duff), reappears. The young mother, a flirt and a primper, introduces John to Elvis and other rock & rollers and gives him his first lesson on a banjo. Headmasters try to cane the wickedness out of Lennon, but he becomes a truant anyway, boosting 45 rpm records from the stores.

Meanwhile Lennon starts a skiffle band and meets the small, fragile and not-quite-weanedlooking Paul McCartney (Thomas Sangster) for the beginning of a conflict-laden friendship.

Nowhere Boy is more like a version of Hamlet in which the young prince has a stern aunt instead of an uncleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s torn apart. The film has neither the music of Liverpool speech nor the Beatlesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; music itself.

Inevitably, Lennonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s therapy session in musical form, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mother,â&#x20AC;? is the wrap-up. The movie agrees with him, shaking a finger at pretty, disorderly Julia. (RvB) @32 (PG-13; 111 min.)

Bruce Willis is a retired black-ops CIA agent at

loose ends until a hightech assassin comes to pick him off, at which point he assembles his old team and gets the brass at Langley all in a tizzy. With Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Richard Dreyfuss, MaryLouise Parker and Karl Urban.

A31@3B/@7/B (PG; 116 minutes) I was ready to believe that Seabiscuit ended the Depression.

You have to give a good film some slack. I was alive in 1973, the year Secretariat won the Triple Crown. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recall his victory healing our divisions over the Vietnam War, though director Randall Wallace coaxes us to believe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true. Secretariat is inbredâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the offspring of too many similar sports films. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relentlessly thickâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;custard-thickâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and cheap-looking, too, and its story is as fishy as 3-day-old salmon; it tries to make an underhorse out of a very blueblooded steed. Diane Lane, ordinarily a fine actress, gets no help from the script which seems to be trying to make her an anti-heroine. Lane plays thoroughbred breeder Penny Chenery.

Ultimately, Secretariat is more fundraising pitch than racetrack action.

(RvB) A9G:7<3 (PG-13; 92 min.) A group of friends fight for their lives during an alien attack on Los Angeles. Starring Eric Balfour, Donald Faison and Scottie Thompson.

B63 A=17/: <3BE=@9 (PG-13;

120 min.) Fiendishly clever and funny movie about the creation of an Internet monster.

As Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg gives a master class on recessive acting: heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beady eyed and covert, with the occasional pit-viper-like sway of a truculent, lowered forehead. The film shuttles between the present-day deposition of the now arrogantly rich Zuckerberg, as heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sued by a quartet of burned partners (among them his former best friend Eduardo, played

by Andrew Garfield). In flashback, we see his own historyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a Jewish student

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at WASP-ridden Harvard, a social reject whose grudge-hacking was his entry into fame. Later, Zuckerberg meets the founder of Napster, Sean Parkerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;played by Justin Timberlake, excellent as a happy wastrel. Aaron Sorkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wild, witty script hands out punishment that goes beyond the financial penalties: this is a comedy in the Balzac sense, a balancing act; the mockery and the disgust for greed matches the essential lightness of the situation. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only Facebook, after all. (RvB) AB=<3 (R; 105 min.)

A troika of heavy-acting steeds pull in all three directions. Director John Curran (We Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Live Here Anymore, The Painted Veil) watches in wonder as the leads act up a Force 5 storm, while common sense sneaks out the back exit. Edward Norton, bug-eyed and corn-rowed, plays â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stone,â&#x20AC;? a longtime convict up for parole.

Swathed completely in polyester and crumbling

like a damp wall is his parole officer, Jack Mabry (Robert De Niro). Stone has a new strategy to get himself released: an elementary honey trap, in the form of his red-hot wife, Lucetta (Milla Jovovich). Stone the con ends up conning himself. He hunts for a religion thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll make him look worthy of parole.

Teetering on the edge from stir-craziness, he discovers â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zukangor,â&#x20AC;? some sort of mail-order creed that makes him insanely passive, right as the trap he engineered snaps. The film is autointoxicated with moral relativism (adultery equals murder once again in our sophisticated cinema). The occasional hard-hitting moments give way to a chain of irresolute endings. (RvB) C<AB=>>/0:3 (PG-13; 111 min.) Only Tony Scott would het up a runaway train movie, a subject het up enough on its own.

In Unstoppable, old dog (Denzel Washington)

and young pup (Chris Pine) race a single engine to catch up with an unmanned train heading for catastrophe; news helicopters buzz around the runaway train as it speeds down the track.

Scott crowds the location changes with captions, including my new alltime favorite: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zinc Plant, Southern Pennsylvania.â&#x20AC;?

Pennsylvania in the full Amazonian green-hell of summer would be a perfect background for a hell-bound train, but this is forlorn, waning fall. Computer animation allows the bad train into something able to do things trains canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ordinarily do, like dance sideways on the rails like the circus train in Dumbo. This impedes the free enjoyment of the heavy-machinery porn, something Scott usually does very well. Every Scott film is heavy on the exclamation points, but this one is as worn out as Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rail infrastructure. (RvB)

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Dinerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guide Our selective list of area restaurants includes those that have been favorably reviewed in print by Santa Cruz Weekly food critics and others that have been sampled but not reviewed in print. All visits by our writers are made anonymously, and all expenses are paid by Metro Santa Cruz.

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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.

American and specialty dishes from the British and Emerald Isles.

Full bar. Children welcome. Happy hour Mon-Fri 2-6pm.

Open daily 11am to 2am.

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.

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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7528 Soquel Dr, 831.688.4465

meat and vegetarian kebabs, gyros, falafel, healthy salads and Mediterranean flatbread pizzas. Beer and wine. Dine in or take out. Tue-Sun 11am-8pm.

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200 Monterey Ave, 831.464.3328

Japanese. This pretty and welcoming sushi bar serves superfresh fish in unusual but well-executed sushi combinations.

Wed-Mon 11:30am-9pm.

California Continental. Swordfish and other seafood specials.

Dinner Mon-Thu 5:30-9:30pm; Fri 5-10pm; Sat 4-10:30pm; Sun 4-9pm.

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international wine list and outdoor dining with terrific views in the heart of Capitola Village. Open daily.

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For the week of November 17 /@73A (March 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 19): â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be the best of the best,â&#x20AC;? said Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You just want to be the only one who does what you do.â&#x20AC;? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always good advice, but it will be especially apt for you during the next few weeks.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re entering a phase when competing with other people will get you nowhere fast. What will get you somewhere fast is nurturing your unique talents and proclivities. Do you know exactly what they are? If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re even a little fuzzy, make it your quest to get very clear.

B/C@CA (April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20): What is the â&#x20AC;&#x153;soul,â&#x20AC;? anyway? Is it a ghostly blob of magic stuff within us that keeps us connected to the world of dreams and the divine realms? Is it an amorphous metaphor for the secret source of our spiritual power? Is it a myth that people entertain because they desperately want to believe thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more to them than just their physical bodies? Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I think: The soul is a perspective that pushes us to go deeper and see further and live wilder. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what drives our imagination to f lesh out our raw experience, transforming that chaotic stuff into rich storylines that animate our love of life. With the gently propulsive force of the soul, we probe beyond the surface level of things, working to find the hidden meaning and truer feeling. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m bringing this up, Taurus, because it is Celebrate the Soul Week for you.

53;7<7 (May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 20): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing changes until itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s changed in everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memories,â&#x20AC;? said poet Alice Notley. I urge you to keep that in mind as you move forward, Gemini. In recent weeks, you have helped untie a knot that once seemed impossibly tangled, and you deserve kudos for that. But your job isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done yet. Your next task is to work on loosening the snarls and smoothing the kinks that still linger in the imaginations of everyone involved.

1/<13@ (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22): In the 1925 silent film The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin plays a prospector during the Alaska Gold Rush. After a series of adventures, he finds himself stuck in a remote cabin on Thanksgiving Day with a ruffian named Big Jim. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re out of food, so Charlie gets resourceful, boiling his right shoe in a big pot and serving it up steaming hot. What the audience doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know is that the movie prop is made of sweet licorice, not leather. So while it may seem that dinner is a hardship, the actors actually had no trouble polishing off their meal. I see a similar scenario in your near future, Cancerian: something like eating a â&#x20AC;&#x153;shoeâ&#x20AC;? thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made of candy. :3= (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): Lots of toddlers in Indonesia smoke cigarettes,not just the chainsmoking 2-year-old in the famous Youtube video (tinyurl.com/SmokerKid). But donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you dare let your inner child get started on a similar habit any time soon, Leo. Make sure that sweet young thing is exposed to only the very best inf luences; feed him or her only the healthiest food, air, water, sounds, sights, images and stories. The innocent, curious, wide-eyed part of you is entering a phase when rapid growth is going to happen, one way or another. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your job to guarantee that the growth goes in the right direction.

D7@5= (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly,â&#x20AC;? wrote Anais Nin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are mature in one realm, childish in another.â&#x20AC;? In you, Virgo, the discrepancies have been especially apparent lately. For example, your brainy insightfulness has been on a hot streak, while your gut wisdom has not. But I suspect this situation to shift in the coming weeks. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that your emotional intelligence is set to thrive. It will be fine if you concentrate on that phenomenon with all your heart, even if it means investing a little less energy in being an analytical whiz.

ability to find and use doors that are inaccessible to other people.

A1=@>7= (Oct. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 21): I recently discovered a blues-gospel artist named Famous L. Renfro, who is also known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Flying Sweet Angel of Joy.â&#x20AC;? His soaring, gritty music had a medicinal effect. It seemed to say to me, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have the power to change your life in the exact way you want to change your life.â&#x20AC;? Your assignment, Scorpio, is to find a new source of music or art or literature or film that has a similar effect on you: a f lying sweet angel of joy that inspires you to do what has been hard for you to do. According to my reading of the astrological omens, such an inf luence is within your reach right now.

A/57BB/@7CA (Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): Your old self is the fuel you will use to burn your old self to the ground. This bonfire will liberate your new self, which has been trapped in a gnarly snarl deep inside your old self. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only at first that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll feel freaked out by the f lames. Very quickly a sense of relief and release will predominate. Then, as the new you makes its way to freedom, escaping its cramped quarters and f lexing its vital force, you will be blessed with a foreshadowing of your future. The intoxication that follows will bring you clarity and peace of mind.

1/>@71=@< (Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 19): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do we love Heaven more than God?â&#x20AC;? asks poet Paula Cisewski in her book Ghost Fargo. I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the kind of cryptic question you Capricorns would benefit from mulling over in the coming weeks. Your mind needs to get its customary categories shaken up and rearranged . . . needs its habitual grooves broken up and diverted . . . needs its easy certainties f lushed and abandoned. Can you think of any other queries that will help you accomplish this noble work? Let me offer a few to get you started: 1. Do we love love itself more than we love the people we say we love?

2. Do we fear failure so much that we interfere with our cultivation of success? 3. Do we obsess on our longing to such a degree that we miss opportunities to satisfy our longing? /?C/@7CA ( Jan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): The Sanskrit word buddhi refers to the part of us that adores the truth. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good at distinguishing between whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real and whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s false, and is passionately attracted to liberation. Although it may go into long periods of dormancy in some of us, buddhi never falls asleep completely. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always ready to jump into action if we call on it. According to my reading of the astrological omens, Aquarius, the buddhi aspect of your psyche will be extra special big strong and bright in the coming week. In my opinion, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better than winning the lottery. >7A13A (Feb. 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20): I like how snowboarder Graham Watanabe described his experiences at last Februaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Winter Olympics. He wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t content with making a generic comment like â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was awesome!â&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;No words could describe how great it was!â&#x20AC;? Instead he got f lorid and specific: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Try to imagine Pegasus mating with a unicorn and the creature that they birth. I somehow tame it and ride it into the sky in the clouds and sunshine and rainbows. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what it feels like.â&#x20AC;? As you break through your previous limits in the coming weeks, Pisces, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love to hear you summon some bursts of articulate jubilation akin to Watanabeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

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:70@/ (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): In the old Looney Tunes cartoons, Wile E. Coyote is constantly chasing after the Road Runner, a long-legged bird that prefers running to f lying. Presumably, Coyote would eat the Road Runner if he ever caught him, but he never does; the birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too fast and smart. In one recurring motif, the Road Runner dashes into the entrance of a cave thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cut into a wall of sheer rock. When Coyote tries to follow him, he smashes into the rock, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s revealed that the cave entrance is just a very realistic painting. I suspect that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have the Road Runnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s power in the coming week: an

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Judy Ziegler, GRI, CRS Cornucopia Real Estate 1001 Center Street - Suite 5 Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Phone: 831-429-8080 Fax: 831-429-2898 judy@cornucopia.com URL: www.cornucopia.com

FOLKS ALONG THE PATH Of all the components of the business of real estate, surely the most fascinating, interesting, often baffling, always unpredictable are the people encountered. I still mull over one sale and the couple who owned it, Arthur and Esther, an older couple in their late 80ʼs.

Being neighbors, I would see Esther set out on foot for her daily shopping expedition pushing a home-made wire basket on wobbly wheels, heading in the direction of the Pacific Garden Mall. She would be gone a few hours then return surreptitiously, her basket laden with purchases. I was quite fascinated by the fact that she was always dressed entirely in black, even had a black veil on her black hat.

If spotted, she would give a short nod. I often pondered her black attire, a lost loved one, a tragic event?

Arthur had his own style. He was seen about town always dressed in a three-piece suit, with a hat he would doff at all passing ladies. A closer look might reveal fraying cuffs, a bit of splattered food on the tie, the suit having seen better times. Certainly he was a “gentle” man.

After some years, Esther passed on and Arthur called to list the house for sale. Never having been inside, I was eager to have the opportunity to explore this old downtown Victorian. Arthur led me into the “parlour” where all was colored in various shades of grey. Old, stained, unaired carpeting surrounded by dirty walls and a very old tiny coal burning fireplace with blackened paneling and overstuffed, torn chairs and couches loomed in the dimly lit room and if old could smell it did. All the rooms downstairs had variations on the previous theme.

Arthur explained some things. He lived in the downstairs “quarters” while Esther had the upstairs and he had not been upstairs for many years. I ascended the creaking stairs to enter a long dark hallway. There were 4 large rooms and each room was crammed from floor to ceiling with boxes of every sort. Small pathways led into some, others were completely blocked. Curious, I opened a box or two. We discovered that each box contained new clothing items ranging from nightgowns to dresses and shoes, nylons, and more. And more. All were from expensive shops that were on the mall, pre-quake. Sales tags were still attached to each item. Thousands of dollars had been spent. Arthur was astounded.

The cache was very surprising, as everyone had assumed Arthur and Esther to be on the poor side, existing on a small pension and social security. Arthur made it clear there was no money for home improvements, changes, or cleaning. Later it was discovered that Esther, with her small weekly household allowance had very successfully invested in stocks and bonds.

The house sold, Arthur moved to Colorado to live with his son, leaving an estate of over two million dollars. There were no clues as to Estherʼs collection; now it would be compulsive behavior, perhaps. One day, before Arthur left, I had to ask why Esther always wore black. Looking at me with tired, bleary eyes Arthur answered: “I have no idea.”

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