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GARY FOUSE (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hatred at Its Heart,â&#x20AC;? Posts, May 4) lists several disgusting racist comments directed at people of Jewish descent. Yes, Mr. Fouse, racism, including anti-Semitism, is unfortunately still with us. However, factual criticism of Israeli policy is not racist: Racism is directed at human beings, not at policies.

Discussion of racism has its place and so does the analysis of Israeli national policy toward Palestinians. The brutal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza strip is a legitimate target for honest debate. The collective punishment of Palestinians, including the targeted killing of civiliansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;men, women and childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is just as immoral as any other act of terror. The conflict will be resolved as soon as an even-handed approach is establishedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one

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our lives! Though we may never again be at peace with the planet, the ferocity of battling the elements will force all humanity into harmony and teach us how to work together.

Ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it great? Peace at last!

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CALL IT making lemonade from lemons mentality: I am comforted to know that the severe weather we are now witnessing is the foreshadowing of the end of war on our planet.

Whether or not we want to believe it as being our fault, the Earth has decidedly declared war on us. There simply are not enough resources available to waste them fighting with each other. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna need every helicopter and 4X4 vehicle we can get our hands on.

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[RE: â&#x20AC;&#x153;State Parks Closure List Released,â&#x20AC;?

SantaCruz.com, May 13]: Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re closing Castle Rock and Portola Redwoods?!? Those bastards! I voted for Jerry Brown, but this is just plain extortion; it costs almost nothing to run the state parks, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trying to stampede us into supporting his budgetary proposals by taking something we value away from us. Jerk! Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna save $16 million dollars per year out of a $25 billion or so budgetary shortfall. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have money to pay my mortgage, but hey, I found five shiny dimes.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Kevin Riley Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keeffe via Facebook

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THE PRESS release said they were going to close these parks, but nowhere did it say WHEN. Is this a scare tactic in order to get public outcry so they get more of the budget?

And seriously, the state owns those beaches, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll bet the Coastal Commission has a say in it too. The reason Seabright does not have permit parking is because the Coastal Commission says you have to give the public access to the beach.

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Terroirisme, or Proust at the Wine Bar THE TASTE of this Soquel red whose name is Noir speaks a language of lost time on my tongue listening to old songs and finding echoes of Old San Jose Road years ago where I met bobcats or coyotes prowling from time to time, heard owls some nights or loud bees swarming as they moved their hive, and wild girls rode their bikes five miles uphill to find me in my remembered home with just such sips of blood-deep crimson to sweeten and darken some warm afternoons.

That road still curls past schools and farms and Seventh Day Adventist conference grounds and Subud House where Sufi square dances or something comparably occult occurred, redtail

hawks cutting long curves through cool blue sky harassed by redwing blackbirds protecting their turf. You could pull over and buy fresh eggs if you knew where to turn, or hike up the creek and meet babes on horseback who asked you to speak to their mounts to keep them from spooking.

The f lavor of those days has a long finish, a strong bouquet of bay and redwood duff and poison oak and thorny blackberry bushes that pierced your f lesh as you picked their sweet, dark, fingertip-staining fruit. The oaks and madrones that escaped the stove spoke of deer and fox scat on the forest f loor, strangely rhyming with the scat of jazz singers so urbane their voices ring

almost as clear as cricket choruses keeping the beat in the quiet of a summer night. For all we know, we may never meet again, they seem to sing, though maybe what they are saying is This is eternity, this is eternity, this is eternity, repeating these rhythmic riffs like happy frogs croaking and thirsty creeks rippling as if forever after the gift of a wet winter. The trees are multi-instrumentalists whose reeds are played by sensuously shifty winds or subtle breezes that stroke your face like familiar fingers. Just listen to this local wine and taste its earthy whispers moistening your lips with something like kisses.

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ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BEEN a busy few weeks at the corner of Front and Beach streets, where a steel structure has sprouted out of the wedgeshaped lot across from the Santa Cruz Wharf, kitty-corner to the Dream Inn and a hop, skip and a jump from the Beach Boardwalk.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the perfect location, really, for an ocean-themed visitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; center with fun for the kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;precisely what the NOAA Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Exploration Center promises to be.

On Tuesday, the construction hit another milestone with the installation of the centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crowning gloryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a two-story, 14,000-gallon tank housing a model of the deep-sea canyon

lying just off Moss Landing in the Monterey Bay. At this point, only the bare bones of the building are in place, but at 13 feet high, 10 feet wide and 15 feet long, the canyon exhibit is so large it needed to be installed via crane before the walls of the building go up.

As large as it is, the model is not even close to scale, says Lisa Uttal of the Monterey Bay National Marine sanctuary. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No,â&#x20AC;? she says, laughing, â&#x20AC;&#x153;it canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be made to scale because the canyon here in Monterey Bay is 4,000 meters deep.â&#x20AC;? (Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s twice as deep as the Grand Canyon.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;What it represents is a deep water body.â&#x20AC;?

The model wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have live plants or animals but will feature a replica ecosystem, complete with replica creatures of the deepâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;lanternfish,

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by Life Labâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s youth empowerment group, ;ddY! L]Vi4 , the fourth annual Strawberry Blast took 300 middle and high school students from Santa Cruz County on a food education free-for-all on May 12, exposing surprising realities behind the food we eat and the equally surprising need for such outings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even though we live in an agriculturally rich community, a lot of kids are still disconnected from the food,â&#x20AC;? says Food, What?! director 9dgdc 8dbZX]Zgd. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Instead of a strawberry, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a strawberry Pop Tart.â&#x20AC;?

The Pop Tarts didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stand a chance last Thursday. The Blast experience began with students being guided to the middle of an organic strawberry field and then asked to pick a berry, eat it and describe the experience.

Some of the responses from a lively group of Soquel High students: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Amazing,â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x153;delish,â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x153;mas!â&#x20AC;? They made smoothies from simple ingredients (milk, yogurt and strawberries). They transplanted lettuce to take home, heard talks on food justice, learned shocking facts such as the average number of miles (1,500) it takes to get produce from Safeway off a farm and onto a plate. They heard sugar horror stories. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every time you spend a dollar, you vote. Every time you buy a Coke or a Rockstar or a Monster, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re showing the world you believe in that product,â&#x20AC;? says 8#8# EVghdch, a Food, What?! staff member. His demonstration asked kids to guess how many tablespoons of sugar were in a Vitamin Water (12.5 tablespoons) and a Rockstar (15.5 tablespoons), but it was the visual representation of sugar in a cup that really seemed to stick. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When they hear these things and actually see the volume of sugar, they flip,â&#x20AC;? says Parsons.

It even functioned as a career day of sorts, at least for one student. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Farming is one of the best things that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever done,â&#x20AC;? says 9^Z\d Bjcdo! a Food, What?! member and Strawberry Blast co-organizer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to do it the rest of my life.â&#x20AC;?

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HOLDING TANK A section of the structure that will hold the exhibit is unloaded on Tuesday morning.

anglerfish, sponges and other invertebrates, plus a purse seiner fishing boat skimming the surface.

Visitors to the Center will be able to roam the exhibit by proxy, directing an underwater robot outfitted with a VideoRay camera via remote control. Real-time video from the ROV will feed to a screen suspended above the tank.

The tank is one of several exhibits slated to be on display at the Exploration Center. Others include an intertidal touch tank, a replica kelp forest and a theater with interactive video exhibits. The total tab for the center is close to $3 million, of which the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three partnersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;NOAA, the city of Santa Cruz and the National Marine Sanctuary Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;have already raised $2.6 million.

As far back as 2003, when the search for a location got underway, the city lobbied hard to be the home of the Exploration Center.

Ultimately Santa Cruz donated the land, a former bike and skate park known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Fun Spot,â&#x20AC;? for the project.

According to Bonnie Lipscomb, economic development director for the city, the center is a linchpin in the effort to bridge downtown Santa Cruz with the beachfront. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Exploration Center is the key project in our revitalization efforts.

It is a link between downtown and the beach, so we are really excited that the project is going forward,â&#x20AC;?

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Construction on the building, designed by the Portland-based architecture firm Thomas Hacker Architects, Inc. to meet LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold standards, is expected to finish up in December of this year, with the centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final unveiling slated for next spring.

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Corps Values Shearer takes on the Army Corps in new film

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O READERS who are running out of things to get outraged about: Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always Katrina. Satirist, filmmaker and radio host Harry Shearer is all too happy to provide fresh grist for the mill in his new documentary The Big Uneasy, showing Thursday at the Del Mar in a special event featuring a questionand-answer session with Shearer himself.

Better known for mockumentaries like This Is Spinal Tap (which he co-wrote and starred in), for radioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scathingly funny Le Show and for the voice of Mr. Burns on The Simpsons, Shearer fell upon the idea of making a straight documentary in 2009 when President Obama went to New Orleans and referred to Katrina as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a natural disaster.â&#x20AC;? The assessment flew in the face of what Shearer had learned from local news reports, namely that shoddy work by the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) had left New Orleans unacceptably vulnerable to a pretty average hurricane.

It was a man-made disaster, not a natural one. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought, radio and blogging are not working,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I thought, well, people make feature-length documentaries.â&#x20AC;?

The 95-minute film follows postKatrina investigations of the ACE that found serious construction problems with the levees, starting with the fact that when work began in 1969, the meteorological models the Corps was using were already outdated. Shearer marshals a procession of missed deadlines, bad engineering decisions and cost-cutting moves to expose the picture of a doomed

enterprise. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s data-dense, dramatic and the furthest thing from comedy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because it conflicted with five years of mainstream narrative on the subject, I thought it had to be absolutely rigorous to have any hope of influencing public awareness,â&#x20AC;? says Shearer, adding, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d made fun of documentaries, so I knew what parts I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to have in this one.â&#x20AC;?

Chief among those irritants are selfimportant narrators. Staying carefully offscreen, Shearer interviews Army brass, journalists, local residents, mid-level Corps managers and a Corps whistleblower and researchers who paid dearly for their roles in the investigations.

So why does it fall to a comedian to set the record straight? Shearer criticizes the mediaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s habit of parachuting in and allowing first impressions and â&#x20AC;&#x153;logistical biasâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;basically covering the closest thing to the airportâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to determine lasting narratives. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They covered it as a hurricane, but they were out-of-towners, so they went away,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As the news [about the ACE] was coming out, their version had long since hardened.â&#x20AC;?

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The Santa Cruz Blues Festival takes Hendrix back to his roots

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BILLY COX has been playing Jimi Hendrixâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music on and off for five decades, since the two of them served in the army together as teenagers and formed their first band.

Cox was there with Hendrix onstage at Woodstock and played bass in the Band of Gypsys and the reunited Jimi Hendrix Experience right up to the guitar legendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last concert 12 days before his death in 1970.

Since then, besides his own solo albums, session work and stints in other bands, Cox has continued to play Hendrixâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music at tribute shows, on tour and on records. After playing with perhaps the greatest guitarist of all time, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worked with countless others around the world. And heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s come to one conclusion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are two kinds of guitar players,â&#x20AC;? says the 69-year-old Cox by phone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The ones who will admit they were influenced by Jimi Hendrix, and the other ones who will not admit they were influenced by Jimi Hendrix.â&#x20AC;?

Only one of those types, incidentally, will be welcome onstage at the Santa Cruz Blues Festival this year, when the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Experience Hendrixâ&#x20AC;? tour is the headlining attraction Saturday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Experience Hendrixâ&#x20AC;? features Cox as well as a diverse array of guitarists and other artists who are secure in their Hendrix inf luence. Performers include Steve Vai, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Kebâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Moâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Living Colour, David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos, Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford, Ernie Isley of the Isley Brothers, Stevie Ray Vaughan drummer Chris Layton, Luther and Cody Dickinson of the North Mississippi All Stars, Indigenous guitarist Mato Nanji and othersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all performing Hendrixâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music. ¨ #

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C OV E R S T O RY S A N TA C RU Z B LU E S F E S T hard for some to understand how the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Experience Hendrixâ&#x20AC;? show fits into a blues festival. But Cox has no doubt how much they were influenced by the blues.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You listen to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Red House,â&#x20AC;? you listen to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Voodoo Chile,â&#x20AC;? that is the blues. That was a part of our culture. When you walked into a little food joint, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what was on the jukebox.

B.B. King. Elmore James.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Billy Cox â&#x20AC;&#x153;About 150 percent,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You listen to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Red House,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; you listen to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Voodoo Chile,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; that is the blues. That was a part of our culture. There was always Howlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Wolf, always Albert King. After all, we were in the South.

We were down in Clarksville and Nashville, and when you walked into a little food joint, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what was on the jukebox. B.B. King. Elmore James.â&#x20AC;?

Blue Like Me Janie Hendrix, Jimiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s younger, adopted sister, says even before that, the future rock legend grew up with the blues at home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of Jimiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roots are blues,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was what my father was listening to during that time period, because it was really a time ¨ %

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What Hendrix did to inspire so many musicians across all genres could fill countless books, and of course it has. But as the only surviving member of both the Jimi Hendrix Experience and the Band of Gypsysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he calls himself â&#x20AC;&#x153;the last voodoo chile standingâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Cox is uniquely qualified to sum it up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He took the guitar, and rock music, to another level. He threw the rulebook out the door,â&#x20AC;? says Cox. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And even today, 40 years after he made his transition, he reaches out through generations and transcends cultural boundaries.â&#x20AC;?

When he heard Hendrix play back at Fort Campbell in Clarksville, Tenn., he already had a sense of this.

Cox had played bass in high school, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never thought heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d do it for a living. He and Hendrix put together an R&B band called the King Kasuals and started playing on what was known in the South of the late â&#x20AC;&#x2122;50s and early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;chitlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; circuit,â&#x20AC;? because the venues that would book the regional tours of African American artists also served soul food. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I met him when he was 17, 18 years old, and I was about the same age. When I first heard that music, I was attracted to the sound,â&#x20AC;? remembers Cox. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was in his early embryonic stage, and trying to get it all together, but I sensed intuitively my destiny.â&#x20AC;?

Even then, Hendrix was possessed by his singular devotion to making music, a relentless drive that allowed him to write over 100 songs and produce hundreds of hours of recordingsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;many of which have yet to even be releasedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in a span of less than four years from 1966 to 1970. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bowl, we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hunt, we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fish. We rehearsed,â&#x20AC;? says Cox of the early years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Music was not only our living on that little chitlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; circuit, but it was our hobby also. A lot of times in rehearsing, we would come up with some crazy riffsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he called them â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;patterns.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d look at me and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;If anybody ever heard us play these, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d lock us up.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Those riffs got into songs like â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Dolly Dagger.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

What fed their passion was the blues. With Hendrix so inseparably identified with rock music, it may be

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to be singing the blues, when it was a struggle to make ends meet. The 45s and albums that were in my dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection were really heavy blues, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what Jimi was listening to.â&#x20AC;?

Still, one of the guiding principles of her brotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music, to her, is the way he blended all types of music into something undefinable. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jimiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s genre is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the Hendrix sound,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not rock, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not blues, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not jazzâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a combination of everything. He once said that if you try to peg him as one genre of music, it frustrates you and it frustrates him.â&#x20AC;?

Janie is the CEO of Experience Hendrix, which besides being the tribute tour is also the name of the company that controls the rights to Jimiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in charge of releasing the material in the vault.

Like his musical legacy itself, the story of the fight to control it could fill volumes. The Hendrix family, headed by Jimiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father Al Hendrix, waged a long battle after Jimiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death to get the rights to his music. In 1995, they finally did. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My father once said when we lost our rights, that he lost Jimi during those years. And that it would never happen again,â&#x20AC;? says Janie. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like regaining your child and making sure that you take care of him and nurture him, and make sure the world hears what heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s left us.â&#x20AC;?

But the fight didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t end there.

When Al Hendrix died in 2002, he left control of the family business to Janie and her cousin Robert Hendrix. They were sued by Jimiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brother Leon Hendrix, who claimed his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1998 will was bogus, the result of Janie and Robert taking advantage of Al in an attempt to write him out. In 2004, a judge found this claim groundless and left control of the music with Janie and Robert and Experience Hendrix. In a partial victory for Leon and other family members angry about how Alâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will was administered, however, the judge took some financial control of the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trusts and companies away from Janie and Robert.

And the legal battles continue, including a lawsuit by the Hendrix estate seeking to be named the rightful owners of recordings from two 1969 shows at Royal Albert Hall.

However all the lawyering might look from the outside, Janie says Jimiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legacy is a deeply personal issue for the family, and for her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I was 6 years old, Jimi made a promise that he would always take care of me. And I promised him I would always take care of him,â&#x20AC;? says the now-49-year-old Hendrix. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine that he wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be here, but I am fulfilling that promise.â&#x20AC;?

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The original members of Hendrixâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bands were approached, including Cox, as well as bassist Noel Redding and drummers Buddy Miles and Mitch Mitchell. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was the first time since Jimiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passing that they had come back together,â&#x20AC;? says Janie. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was really like a homecoming for all of us.â&#x20AC;?

After the show proved a success, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Experience Hendrixâ&#x20AC;? developed into a series of tours, with major artists taking time off from their own tours and recording to take part. As emcee for the show, Janie says no two tours have been alike, though she always expects the unexpected. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got Corey Glover from Living Colour running out into the stands or climbing up on the monitors. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crazy, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of fun. And then you have Kenny Wayneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;when he plays â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Voodoo Chile,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just so amazing. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost like an electrical storm. And you have Ernie and Billy telling their stories. So you have all this incredible talent onstage, and all this incredible energy,â&#x20AC;? she says.

All of the artists have their stories about how Hendrix influenced them personally. Janie has been hearing those her whole life, though she

says she will never get tired of them.

Perhaps the most notable came from one of the few artists as iconic as Hendrix himself, Bob Dylan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dylan had called my father 10 years after Jimi died. But he said he was â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Bob Zimmerman,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; [Dylanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real name], and of course, my dad didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know who Bob Zimmerman was,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? she remembers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I am so sorry, Mr. Hendrix, I wanted to call you, but every time I picked up the phone I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it. I would break down in tears, because Jimi meant so much to me. The way he played â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;All Along the Watchtower,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; now I play it the way he did.â&#x20AC;?

Later, Dylan ended up meeting the Hendrix family when he performed in Seattle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We sat on the stage and were basically serenaded by him,â&#x20AC;? says Janie.

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We have fun, and the music is our guiding force. It enables us to have the brotherhood and the friendship that we do have.â&#x20AC;?

Interestingly, one person who never had any doubt that the show would work for the Blues Festival is festival organizer Bill Welsh. He simply asked them to include more blues artists for this date, although the diversity of the show is also one of his favorite things about it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It definitely crosses the genres of music,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But it also blends it all together. It makes it just about the music.â&#x20AC;?

However, Welsh has an ulterior motive, as well: like Ray Charles, whom Welsh brought to the festival in 2003, Hendrix is one of his alltime musical heroes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was one of the first artists I ever saw. I was 14. I got my buddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

parents to drive us,â&#x20AC;? recalls Welsh.

The impact that showâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as well as the two other times he would see Hendrix performâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;had on him canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be overstated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was just overwhelming,â&#x20AC;? says Welsh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was magic to watch. It opened my eyes to something I had never seen. It was the thing that got me hooked on what I do today.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one more story of how Hendrix has influenced the way that we see music. After all, there are really only two types of music fans: the ones who will admit they were influenced by Jimi Hendrix, and the ones who wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

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IF HOTBOX Harry were a disc jockey, his classic country show would feature the likes of Buck Owens, Loretta Lynn and Hank Williams and be piped into your living room via a staticky AM signal.

Hotbox Harry isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a DJ, thoughâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a roly-poly train-hopping hobo Mike Scutari met perched on a barstool in Arcadia years ago.

According to lore, on the night they met Harry wrote out a list of 15 essential country albumsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;among them Willie Nelsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Redheaded Stranger, Marty Robbinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Gunfighter Ballads and Patsy Clineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Greatest Hitsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and made a gift of it to Scutari, who keeps the list folded in his wallet to this day.

An inspired Scutari assembled the seven-piece Songs Hotbox Harry Taught Us to perform classic country coversâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;songs that are so ingrained in American culture that you find yourself singing along without knowing the title, the original artist or even how it is that you know the words at all. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of the fun of playing a Hotbox Harry show, Scutari says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every girl in the crowd, without a doubt, 100 percent, knows every single word to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Walking After Midnight,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; regardless of her age,â&#x20AC;?

Scutari says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But then we do a song

by Marty Robbins called â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;A White Sport Coatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and no one under 30 should know that songâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always fun to see some of the older folks sing along, and you can tell theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re

THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WHOLE U.S.A. Songs Hotbox Harry Taught Us frontwoman Tara Wing got her gig by volunteering at FolkYeah shows in Big Sur.

kind of surprised, like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What the hell? Who are these young people singing this song?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Who are these young people?

Well, first of all, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not all youngâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they range from their early twenties to their fiftiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and they come from various backgrounds and hometowns. What they all have in common is the fact that they each somehow exist in the orbit of Big Surâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Henry Miller Memorial Library.

Scutari (guitar, vocals, piano) is originally from the East Coast, where he performed with the Decemberists and the Walkmen as part of the D.C. psych-folk outfit Nethers; these days he lives and works at the library. His boss, Magnus Toren (guitar, vocals), is the libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive director.

Wally Barnick (bass, vocals) was roped in after playing a wedding held at HMML, and vocalist Tara Wing met Scutari while volunteering at FolkYeah events there.

Coming together in Big Sur, along

with all the other benefits it entails, has given the band a loyal built-in fan base. Scutari described a recent show at Fernwood, the Big Sur bar and dance hall, saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was afraid there were going to be bottles flying.

People weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re literally hootinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and hollerinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and we were hanging on for dear life and it was amazing. Those shows are really, really fun to play.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re fortunate that we that we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to play in dive bars for like four people, that we can play a Fernwood show with a lot of people who are interested,â&#x20AC;? Scutari says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And the kind of music we play makes it easy for that.â&#x20AC;?

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Spotlight Tours. Bringing the artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; voices directly to visitors. Go behind the scenes and museum-wide exhibitions. Third Sat of every month, 11:30am12:30pm. Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

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The Art of Nature: works from the Northern California Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. The museum welcomes back the Northern California chapter of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (GNSI).

The exhibit will include over 60 works depicting the flora and fauna of Northern California, from moon snails to mountain lions, roses to red tides. Thru Jun 4.

831.429.1964. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. 1305 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz.

5/::3@73A =>3<7<5 R. Blitzer Gallery EDGE: Art on the Westside. 16 artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; paintings, woodcuts, bronze, ceramic and steel sculpture, mixed-media works and collage plus food, music and a no-host bar provided

by Hulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar and Grill. Sat, May 21, 4-8pm. $5 donation.

Mission Extension and Natural Bridges, Santa Cruz.

1=<B7<C7<5 Davenport Gallery Fibre and Textiles. Over a dozen local artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work, including wearable art, wall display, quilting and sculptural work. Artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reception Saturday, May 14, 3-6pm Thru May 19.

Free. 450 Hwy 1, Davenport, 831.426.1199.

Felix Kulpa Gallery Inked Up: New Work from the MPC Printmakers. A display of more than 40 artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work produced with plates, blocks, palettes and brayers. Thru May 29. Free. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

Pajaro Valley Arts Council Multiples: Variations on a Theme. Featuring multiple small works on a theme by PV gallery members. Artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reception Sunday, May 15.

Thru Jun 12. 37 Sudden St, Watsonville, 831.722.3062.

Santa Cruz County Bank Celebrate Santa Cruz County.

Over 100 images celebrating our rich local heritage and a special tribute to the 100th anniversary of the Boardwalkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Looff Carousel.

Thru Jul 1. Free. 720 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.457.5000.

Santa Cruz Rehearsal Studios Calaveras De Los Heroes. The prints of Enrique Lopez. Thru May 31. Free. 118 Coral St, Santa Cruz, 831.425.7277.

Events 075 23/:A 16th Annual Open Architecture Tour A self-guided tour presented by the Architects Association of Santa Cruz County benefiting Habitat

for Humanity. Ticket books available at Aladdin Nursery in Watsonville, Bookshop Santa Cruz, PRO-Build on River Street in Santa Cruz and Palace Arts in Capitola.

Sat, May 21, 10am-4pm. $32 for guide with map and admission for two.

831.460.2999.

2011 Medicine Buddha Festival There will be blessings of animals and humans and relics available for public viewing on Saturday. On Sunday, a festival will follow the Tibetan Procession will led by Gamelan Orchestra.

Fri, May 20, 1-7pm and Sun, May 22, 10am-5pm. Free.

Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Rd, Soquel, 831.476.0865.

25th Santa Cruz Bluegrass Fair Featuring music by Harmony Grits, Windy Hill, Slide Road, Down Beets and Jimmy Chickenpants. Sat, May 21, noon-5pm. Free. San Lorenzo Park, between Water St and Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.459.0908.

The Guelaguetza A Oaxacan indigenous tradition featuring traditional food and crafts, cultural music

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Free. 831.662.0311.

Santa Cruz Derby Girls Boardwalk Bombshells v.

LA Derby Dolls. Sat, May 21, 5:45pm. $19.50-$22.50.

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5260.

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Participants score points by visiting 30 checkpoints in any order and answering a question to prove they were there. Awards and refreshments at the finish.

Sat, May 21, 10:30am. $15-$45. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, 510.681.6181.

47:; Under the Boardwalk: A Ukulele Love Story Local filmmaker Nina Koocherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s documentary about the Ukulele Club of Santa Cruz. Tue, May 24, 7:30pm. $10 adv/$12 door. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel, Santa Cruz, 831.423.8209.

:7B3@/@G 3D3<BA Bookshop Santa Cruz Outdoors A hike and writing excursion led by Clifford Henderson, author of Mayeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Request.

Sun, May 22, 10am-4pm. $30. Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Hwy 9, Felton, 831.423.0900.

Community Book Group with Sarah Rabkin A facilitated discussion of Rabkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new title, What I Learned at Bug Camp. Tue, May 24, 7:30pm. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

THE HERESY that Santa Cruz is actually a strayed Hawaiian island isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t denied by Nina Koocherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sweet and sometimes sad documentary about the Ukulele Club of Santa Cruz. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re reputedly the largest group of uke-fanciers in the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;a Mormon Tabernacle uke chorusâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;riding the new wave of popularity for the four-stringed instrument. The clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s monthly meetings threaten to outgrow a room at Bocciâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cellar. Guest performers include noted professionals, such as Herb Ohta, exemplar of Tin Pan Alley revival Ian Whitcomb and 97-yearold maestro Bill Tapia, as well as locals with a repertoire of five chords, if that.

Interviewees include luthiers Mike Da Silva and Tony Graziano.

The latterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s redwood-topped, koa woodâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;bodied uke symbolizes the Hawaiian/Californian connection. Of course there are heartfelt performances: lap steel guitarist Patti Maxine sings (beautifully) and recalls picking up the radio signal from KPOAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hawaii Callsâ&#x20AC;? all the way in Virginia. Founders Peter Thomas and Andy Andrews explain how they built up the club from a few fanciers. And the movie makes an excursion to Burning Uke, a small gathering in Big Sur. Koocher expertly uses that topic of combustion to segue into a story of how mortality strikes the club. My objection to this documentary is that it was hard to watch, take notes and at the same time horse around with my Makala Soprano. Happily, this charming, winning documentary has a place for those armed with ukes to join in, a follow-thebouncing-ball singalong for the Kenny Young-Arthur Resnick title tune. (Richard von Busack)

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Joyce Oroz The local author will read and sign copies of her mystery Secure the Ranch. Sat, May 21, 1-3pm. Free. Crossroads Books, 1935 Main St, Watsonville, 831.726.9923.

Steno Pool, profiling various incarnations of the secretary.

Thu, May 19, 7:30pm. Free.

Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

Lisa Lutz & David Hayward

The author of The Four Ms. Bradwells will read and sign copies of her book. Tue, May 24, 7:30pm. Free. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

The authors of Heads You Lose join Rick Kleffel for the latest installment of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Agony Column Live.â&#x20AC;? Sat, May 21, 6:30pm. Free. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

Lynn Peril Author-secretary Peril will read and sign copies of her book, Swimming in the

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Political Satire Writing Workshop Lizz Winstead, co-creator and former head writer of The Daily Show and cofounder Air America Radio,

will share tips on crafting jokes that respond to current events. Sat, May 21, 1-4pm. $50. NextSpace, 101 Cooper Street, Santa Cruz, 831.420.0710.

Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork Wed, May 18, 7:30pm. Free. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

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Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

Collecting Antiques: Informing the Eye of the Collector Professional appraiser Steve Turner, who has over 15 years of appraisal experience in the areas of fine art, antiques and residential

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contents, will speak. Fri, May 20, 7pm. $10 members/$15 general. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Show August 5 - September 4, 2011. Max 3 entries; jpegs on CD and prospectus. Mail to: Santa Cruz Art League, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, CA 95060. Deadline Friday, May 20, 2011. Thru May 20. $40/$30 Members.

Explore Natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Super Store Docent Barry Grimm will lead a 4-mile hike exploring redwood forest, sandhill chaparral, oakconifer woodland and riverside forestâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the four departments of Natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Super Store. Sun, May 22, 10am. Free. Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Hwy 9, Felton, 831.335.7077 .

Freedom Forum: â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Will You Do If...?â&#x20AC;?

A discussion of community disaster preparedness, with presentations on tools and supplies, eating for wellness, preparing for scarcity, radiation, communications and health care. Wed, May 18, 7pm. Free. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz.

League of Women Voters of Santa Cruz 46th Annual Meeting Former LWV of California president Jackie Jacobberger will deliver the keynote speech â&#x20AC;&#x153;Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fiscal Woes: Can We Finance Our Future?â&#x20AC;? Sat, May 21, 11:30am-2pm. $10. Beachcliff Clubhouse, 863 Via Palo Alto, Aptos.

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Fly Fishing Workshop Learn techniques of flycasting, fly-tying and more.

Sun, May 22, 10am-4pm.

Free. Quail Hollow Ranch, 800 Quail Hollow Rd, Felton, 831.335.9348.

GLBT Business & Professional Mixer Enjoy noshes and beverages upstairs on the deck. Thu, May 19, 5:30-7:30pm. Free.

Pacific Sun Properties, 734 Chestnut St, Santa Cruz.

831.471.0737. Chronic Pain: American Chronic Pain Association, 831.423.1385.

Grief and Loss: Hospice, 831.430.3000. Lupus: Jeanette Miller, 831.566.0962. Men Overcoming Abusive Behavior: 831.464.3855. SMART Recovery: 831.462.5470. Trans Latina women: Mariposas, 831.425.5422. Trichotillomania: 831.457.1004. Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bipolar/Depression Peer Support: 831.345.7190. 12-Step Programs: 831.454.HELP (4357).

Yoga Instruction Pacific Cultural Center: 35+ classes per week, 831.462.8893. SC Yoga: 45 classes per week, 831.227.2156. TriYoga:

numerous weekly classes, 831.464.8100. Also: Yoga Within at Aptos Station, 831.687.0818; Om Room School of Yoga, 831.429.9355; Pacific Climbing Gym, 831.454.9254; Aptos Yoga Center, 831.688.1019; Twin Lotus Center, 831.239.3900.

Zen, Vipassana, Basic: Intro to Meditation Zen: SC Zen Center, Wed, 5:45pm, 831.457.0206.

Vipassana: Vipassana SC, Wed 6:30-8pm, 831.425.3431. Basic: Land of the Medicine Buddha, Wed, 5:30-6:30pm, 831.462.8383.

Zen: Ocean Gate Zendo, first Tue each month 6:30-7pm.

All are free.

Junior Guards Tryouts Tryouts take place at the Cabrillo College pool and applications can be filled out for sessions 1 & 2. Sat, May 21, 10:30am-2:30pm. Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.476.4992.

Red Cross Mobile Blood Drives Drives occur at several locations countywide each month; for schedule and locations call 800.733.2767.

SC Diversity Center The Diversity Center provides services, support and socializing for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and questioning individuals and their allies. Diversity Center, 1117 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.425.5422.

Support and Recovery Groups Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s: Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Assn., 831.464.9982. Cancer: Katz Cancer Resource Center, 831.351.7770; WomenCARE, 831.457.2273. Candida:

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Fiery Furnaces Brother-and-sister variety act alternates garage rock, folk, blues and more . May 18 at Cafe du Nord.

Lauryn Hill Unpredictable legend plays special set of Bob Marley songs with openers Dead Prez. May 18 at Mezzanine.

Weekend San Francisco three-piece gaining steam; look for debut LP â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sportsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; this year. May 19 at the Independent.

Lionel Loueke Trio Piercingly original Benin-born guitarist and Herbie Hancock sideman. May 20 at YBCA Forum.

Aloe Blacc Stones Throw recording artist ďŹ&#x201A;ies from hip-hop into Latin and folk. May 25 at the Great American Music Hall.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

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30 Jazz Presenters since 1975

Thursday, May 19 U 7 pm

KUUMBWA JAZZ HONOR BAND - CD Release Concert!

Concert only: $12/Adv $15/Door Jazz & Dinner: $24.60/Adv

Monday, May 23 U 7 & 9 pm Brazilian pianist! New Release!

ELIANE ELIAS

$23/Adv $26/Door

Sponsored by Ten Sharps Media Sponsor: Smoothjazz.com

Tuesday, May 24 U 7 & 9 pm

LES NUBIANS

A fusion of hip hop, soul and R&B $30/Adv $33/Door, No Jazztix/Comps Sponsored by ZNA Communications

Thursday, May 26 U 7 pm

BRENDA WONG AOKIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S KABUKI CABARET: A JAPAN RELIEF BENEFIT

A night of Ghost Stories & Performance Art! $20/Adv $23/Door Thursday, June 2 U 7 pm

HELCIO MILITO: A NIGHT OF BOSSA NOVA Concert only: $12/Adv $15/Door Jazz & Dinner: $24.60/Adv Monday, June 6 U 7 & 9 pm

LARRY CARLTON TRIO 7 pm: $28/Adv $31/Door 9 pm: $23/Adv $26/Door No Jazztix or Comps

Sponsored by Harry Harrington & Sharon Hale Media Sponsor: Smoothjazz.com

Friday, June 10 U 7 & 9 pm

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Monday, June 13 U 7 pm Brazilian Grande Dame of Bossa Nova!

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Mon. June 20 7:30 pm @ Santa Cruz Civic

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS Tickets: santacruztickets.com Sponsored by Wells Fargo Bank

JAZZ CAMP

June 20th â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 30th At Cabrillo College Grades 8 â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12 Register online at: kuumbwajazz.org Advance tickets at Logos Books & Records and online at kuumbwajazz.org. Tickets subject to service charge and 5% S.C. City Admissions Tax. All ages venue.

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Memphis born-and-raised blues phenom Eric Gales can sure rip out a mean lickâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to the extent that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s known by some as the Second Coming of Hendrix. Gales, famous for his stylized guitar playing in the upsidedown and left-handed tradition passed down from his grandfather, Dempsey Garrett, Sr., won his first contest at 11 and released his first album on Electra at age 16; in 2010 Guitarist magazine named him Blues Guitar Player of the Year. In keeping with his Memphis roots, the adventurous songsterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s repertoire edges beyond classic blues guitar and into the realms of hard rock and funk. Don Quixoteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; $12; 7:30pm.

(Maya Weeks)

A product of the North Lake Tahoe music scene, Dead Winter Carpenters is a bright new voice in the old-timedriven, indie-inspired roots revival.

Capably combining â&#x20AC;&#x153;rollicking Amerigrassâ&#x20AC;? with string-based ballads, stomps, ragtime ditties and country blues, the young but polished band is capturing the attention of audiences around the country. Currently in the middle of a 22-state breakout tour, the neo-traditionalist folksters are poised to make a unique mark on the Americana scene. Crepe Place; $8; 9pm.

(Cat Johnson)

Hayride to Hell has the distinction of being one of the first American bands to bring the slasher-flick style and sound of European psychobilly to the states. Seventeen years later, the bet has paid off, with the band being one of the most in-demand acts on the psychobilly circuit while inspiring a generation of retro-minded Santa Cruz musicians to slick back their hair and overdrive their amps. The bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fearsome and manic sound is a long way from rockabillyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relatively genteel roots, an unholy concoction mixed from equal parts spite, bottom-shelf liquor and diesel fuel. The Catalyst; $6 adv/$9 door; 9pm. (Paul M. Davis)

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Together with his band Onola he plays Afrobeat, funk and world dance music.

This convergence of diverse international percussion and Putamayo-worthy vocals will keep toes tapping and hips swaying all night long. Moeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alley; $10; 9pm.

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fingerpicked guitar, limber fiddling and dizzying feats of banjo-picking derringdo. The bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breakout 2010 release Palomino was a commercial and creative success, hitting number one on the U.S. bluegrass charts and demonstrating the band is as concerned with substance as style. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plenty of nuance and pathos buried in those supersonic arrangements, and repeated listening reveals a band with considerable range. Moeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alley; $12 adv/$15 door; 9pm. (PMD)

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Kuumbwa; $20 adv/$24 door; 7:30pm.

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With their multi-cultural mash-up of hip-hop, nu-roots and Afropean soul, Les Nubians have become much-loved ambassadors of small-planet musicality.

Raised in both France and Central Africa, sisters Helene and Celia Faussart burst onto the scene in 1998 and have been bringing their unique blend of styles and experiences to the global community ever since. Their latest album, Nu Revolution, takes the French-singing duo into trip-hop and afro-funk territory and furthers their reputation as musical and cultural visionaries. Kuumbwa; $30 adv/$33 door; 7pm & 9pm. (CJ)

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Saturday, May 21 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 21+ PACIFIC KINGS plus Ian Bell $5 Adv./ $7 Drs. â&#x20AC;˘ Drs. 8:30 p.m./ Show 9 p.m.

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May 26 Indian Giver Atrium (Ages 21+) May 27 Kraddy/ Mochipet (Ages 18+) May 27 The Young Rapscallions Atrium (Ages 16+) May 28 Hellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Belles (Ages 21+) May 28 Wild Rovers Atrium (Ages 21+) Jun 3 First Friday Function Atrium (Ages 21+) Jun 4 Frontier Wives Atrium (Ages 21+) Jun 5 Almost Cut My Hair Atrium (Ages 21+) Jun 8 Les Dudek Atrium (Ages 21+) Jun 9 The Skatalites Atrium (Ages 21+) Jun 10 Craigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brother/ The Lonely Kings Atrium (Ages 21+) Jun 17 X/ Devils Brigade (Ages 21+) Jun 18 Tech N9ne (Ages 16+) Jun 21 Face to Face (Ages 16+) Jul 3 Rev. Horton Heat (Ages 21+) Sep 2 Montrose (Ages 21+)

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OVER General Pattonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cavalry sword on display at Fort Knox, Ky., is a note summing up the generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thoughts on that weapon. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to paraphrase, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something to the effect that while being shot is a dreadful thing, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing that inspires fear in a man like the thought of cold steel exploring his guts. Takashi Miikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 13 Assassins isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t nearly as shocking as some of his films (Audition was about as grisly as it gets), but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a novel take on the samurai film; it mulls over the terrible thought of being transfixed by a sword.

There are lion-brave samurai in it. Koji Yakusho, maybe the most stirring Japanese actor since Toshiro Mifune, plays the organizer of a team of assassins. You know how it is, even if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unfair: if someone resembles someone you like, you tend to like them, and Yakushoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s physical resemblance to Patrick Stewart makes one feel his leadership qualities are a given. He has the kind of authority that rests easily with a personal mildness, which itself is no indication of cowardice.

Miikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tale is of samurai who have been used to rank as a decoration requiring no duties. They now have to train themselves in war; none among them, all the way to the top

NERVES OF STEEL Masachika Ichimura (left), general to an evil lord, fights it out with samurai leader Koji Yakusho in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;13 Assassins.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; of the command, are ready for what swordfighting entails. With atypical restraint Miike shows us what that means by opening the film with an elder (Masaaki Uchino) committing an act of seppuku (sometimes called hara-kiri) in protest. The protest is the reason why there is no second behind the elder with a sword waiting to chop off his head, the easier way of enduring this peculiar ritual. Miike doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t show us what the sword does: the emphasis is on the man preparing his willpower to stab himself in the stomach. We hear what happens rather than seeing it: a wet, disgusting sloshing, like laundry being agitated.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the 1800s, very late in the day for the samurai. And there is an unignorable crisis: the shogunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brother Lord Naritsugu is a Caligula who rapes and mutilates anyone

he pleases. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next in line for the throne. It falls to Shinzaemon (Yakusho) to organize a team that can wipe out this madman. They will strike in the countryside during the evil lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey from his castle to the capitol in Edo. Recruiting a team is essential; so is outwitting the psychoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sane and noble general (Masachika Ichimura), who is smart enough to anticipate the attack and to organize the counterpreparations.

The timeâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;honored mixed bag is assembled: most flamboyant is Yusuke Iseya as a ragged, mosquitobitten hunter who is lethal with a sling, and who loathes samurai.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a suave gambler and the usual mercenary ronin.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capped with a battle of some 45 minutes: a war to end all samurai battles, and frankly, you hope it does.

Miike dreams up a long, muddy

siege with everything that makes war worth avoiding and more (such as huge man traps that slam the troops into corrals and firebombs that burn them alive). The directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s battles are more of a brutal slam dance than a Kurosawa ballet. The ultimate lesson is that war is less glorious than it sounds, which is nothing new. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Yakushoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gravity we take with us, and the ragged manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s battle cry (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why are you samurai so arrogant?â&#x20AC;?) that stay with us after the ringing of the steel has fallen silent.

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Film Capsules <3E 13 ASSASSINS (R; 141 min.) See review, page 37. (Opens Fri at Nickelodeon) ARMY OF DARKNESS (1992) Director Sam Raimi (SpiderMan 3, Xena: Warrior Princess, The Evil Dead) camps it up in this tongue-in-cheek story of a clerk (Bruce Campbell) who is transported back in time to a medieval castle under siege from monsters, crowned the savior of the day and then compelled to battle the legions of the undead whom he accidentally unleashes when he botches a spell. (Fri-Sat midnight at the Del Mar) THE BEAVER (PG-13, 91 min.)

Walter Black (Mel Gibson)

is the president and heir to a successful toy company.

On the brink of suicide, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rescued by a beaver hand puppet. Back in the game, he brandishes a card explaining that this â&#x20AC;&#x153;prescription puppetâ&#x20AC;? helps him with a medical condition. His younger son is delighted. His older son Porter (Anton Yelchin) was already overwhelmed with contempt for his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weakness. The neutral party is Walterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife Meredith (Jodie Foster, who directed); initially delighted by her husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recovery, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unwilling to live in a menage a beaver. Gibsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at home with this kind of manic-depressive acting and Foster is faultless: she sidesteps the trap of being the bitch in the story who wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

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learn to love the fluffy puppet.

Tony Gardner designed the little creature with human eyes, complete with whites, and an oversized maw. The puppet is not cute and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not scary. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as neutral as a psychiatristâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grunt. The Beaver insists, and wraps with, the idea that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s families that â&#x20AC;&#x153;you could put on a holiday cardâ&#x20AC;?; we know better: like talking beavers, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really no such animal. (RvB) (Opens Fri at Del Mar)

THE BIG UNEASY (NR; 95 min.)

Think Katrina was a natural disaster? Think again. With appearance by filmmaker Harry Shearer (The Simpsons, A Mighty Wind, This Is Spinal Tap). See story, page 11. (Thu at Del Mar)

Movie reviews by Tessa Stuart and Richard von Busack

THE FISHER KING (1991) Terry Gilliam (Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) directed this drama starring Jeff Bridges as Jack Lucas, a shock jock in crisis, and Robin Williams as a delusional homeless man whose condition stems from the very incident that haunts Lucas. (Thu at Santa Cruz 9) THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD (PG-13, 90 minutes) Satirical documentary financed by brands, advertising and product placement seeks to unmask the process of branding, advertising and product placement in the media. Viewers follow director Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) as he convinces sponsors

to let him push their brands as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;greatestâ&#x20AC;? while he maintains creative control over the project. (Opens Fri at Nickelodeon)

THE HANGOVER 2 (R; 102 min.)

After the Las Vegas debauchery, the boys (Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha) head to Thailand to see Stu (Ed Helms) get hitched, but plans for a quiet brunch go awry. With Mike Tyson and Paul Giamatti.

(Opens Weds, 5/25 at Santa Cruz 9) THE MET: IL TROVATORE (NR; 165 min.) Verdiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complex opera about love in the time of the Spanish Civil War is staged in all its difficulty. With Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Ă lvarez and Dmitri

Showtimes are for Wednesday, May 18, through Wednesday, May 25, unless otherwise indicated.

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Something Borrowed â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 2; 4:20; 6:50; 9:10.

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Fast Five â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1; 4; 7; Fri-Wed call for show times.

Thor 3D â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 11; 1:40; 4:20; 7:15; 9:55; Fri-Wed call for show times.

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Everything Must Go â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Daily 2:50; 5; 7:20; 9:20 plus Sat-Sun 12:40pm.

Water for Elephants â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 2; 3:30; 4:30; 6; 7; 8:30; 9:30; Thu-Fri 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11:30pm.

Army of Darkness â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fri-Sat midnight.

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The Greatest Movie Ever Sold â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Fri) 3; 5; 7; 9:10 plus Sat-Sun 1pm.

Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Fri) 2:50; 6:40 plus Sat-Sun 1:10pm.

The Princess of Montpensier â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Fri) 3:30; 6:15; 9 plus Sat-Sun 12:40pm.

African Cats â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 2:40.

Jane Eyre â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 4:30; 6:50; 9:10.

Meeks Cutoff â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 2:20; 4:40; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed 4:30; 8:20.

Queen to Play â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 2:10; 4:20; 6:40; 9.

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NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR TODAY (NR; 86 min.) Restored version of the official postwar U.S. government film on how prosecutors built their case against the Nazis. It circulated throughout Europe in the late 1940s but was never released stateside due to political concerns. (Opens Fri at Nickelodeon) PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG13; 137 min.) Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and his nemesis Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) go searching for the Fountain of Youth, but things go awry for Sparrow when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kidnapped by a woman from his past (Penelope Cruz) and forced onto the ship commanded by the fearsome Blackbeard (Ian McShane of Deadwood fame). Keith Richards reprises his cameo as Sparrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father. (Opens Thu midnight at Santa Cruz 9, Scotts Valley, 41st Ave and Green Valley) PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER (NR; 139 min.) In 16th-century France, amid the brutal Catholic-Protestant wars, a young noblewoman (Melanie Thierry) falls in love with a bad boy (Gaspard Ulliel), complicating her imminent betrothal to a prince (GrĂŠgoire Leprince-Ringuet). (Opens Fri at Nickelodeon) WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942) Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn star in tale of rival reporters who fall in love and marry, only to find their relationship beset by conventional expectations from an unexpected quarter.

(Sat-Sun at Aptos)

@3D73EA AFRICAN CATS (G; 89 min.)

Disneynatureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s live-action film following two families of African lions as they raise their cubs; narrated by Samuel L. Jackson.

ATLAS SHRUGGED: PART 1 (PG13; 97 min.) Railroad baroness Dagny Taggart spearheads an effort to replace aging tracks with newfangled Rearden Metal despite opposition from industry lobbyists and government regulators in this adaptation of Ayn Randâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s objectivist opus.

BRIDESMAIDS (R; 125 min.)

Annie (Kristen Wiig) is a Milwaukee woman going downhill. Her ex-boyfriend (Jon Hamm) uses her for

sex. Suddenly, Annieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best pal, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), announces her impending marriage. Lillian also introduces a new gorgeous friend (Rose Byrne) who elbows Annie aside and takes charge of the wedding. The wedding planning becomes more pretentious, more expensive and ever more humiliating for Annie. Wiig is at her most comically nonchalant as the desperation seeps out of her pores. In her capacity to register degrees of comedic suffering, this actress suggests what happens when like when a movie is really loose down deep in its soul, and is not just wobbly and formulaic. But Judd Apatow was the executive producer, and Bridesmaids is shaped like an Apatow film: itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a half-hour too long. Though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s released as a chick-flick alternative, we still get the traditional pointless fight between Annie and her new man (Chris Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Dowd). (RvB)

THE CONSPIRATOR (PG-13; 123 min.) Robert Redfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Conspirator is one of those pieces of history that Howard Zinn liked to unearth.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a shameful episode and it deserves to be remembered.

After Lincolnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assassination at the hands of John Wilkes Booth (Toby Kebbell), accused accessories are rounded up. Caught in the dragnet is one female prisoner: the landlady Mrs. Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), whose son had been in cahoots with Booth. She refuses to inform.

The trial of the conspirators was a military tribunal, on the grounds that Lincoln was a military commander himself.

But is this movie really about 1865? Throughout, we can feel Redford whispering in our ear: â&#x20AC;&#x153;This suspension of rightsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;remarkable how it anticipates Gitmo. And the hooding of prisoners is like Abu Ghraib. Did you notice the parallels?â&#x20AC;? (RvB) EVERYTHING MUST GO (R; 96 min.) When an alcoholic salesman (Will Ferrell) gets canned from his job and dumped by his wife falling off the wagon yet again, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forced to sell everything and start from scratch with the help of an awkward neighborhood kid (Christopher Jordan Wallace) and an interesting new neighbor (Rebecca Hall). With Laura Dern. Based on a short story

by Raymond Carver. FAST FIVE (PG-13; 130 min.) In the fifth installment of the Fast

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and the Furious franchise, Brian (Paul Walker) springs Dom (Vin Diesel) from prison and the crew lights out for South America. Upon arrival, they find themselves caught between a brutal drug dealer and an unrelenting federal agent.

HANNA (PG-13, 105 min.)

Dressed in a fur wardrobe and living in the permafrost, Hanna (the icy Saoirse Ronan) was raised to kill; her ex-assassin father (Eric Bana) raises her with the motto â&#x20AC;&#x153;adapt or die.â&#x20AC;? She turns 16, and Dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s idea of a debutante party is to contact the CIA, which has been seeking Hanna since birth with the intent of rubbing her out. Evil intelligence agent Marissa (Cate Blanchett), as motivelessly evil as a wicked stepmother, chases the girl across Europe; so does a trio of theatrical German goons, with their own evil musicbox tune by the Chemical Brothers. Director Joe Wright (Atonement) sensibly adds some art-house cachet to the butt-kicking action.

Considering the Girl Who Brought People Back to the Art Houses trilogy, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a smart commercial tactic. This weirdly artsy mash of Jack London and Alias is meant as a pleasure machine, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an oddly dour thrill ride that insists on repetitive training over the free-style adaptation it claims is the only key to survival. (RvB) I AM (Unrated; 76 min.)

Director Tom Shadyac (Ace Ventura, etc.) tells of how a bad fall from a bicycle left him with post-concussion syndrome. When he recovered, he decided to make a film about the essential problems of the world. Shadyac put a microphone in front of some renowned people: Rumi scholar Coleman Barks, Desmond Tutu and populist radio host Thom Hartmann, among them. Shadyac is sincere, but this is a twirl through the kind o Northern California crypto-physics that proves loving attitudes in our hearts can magnetically effect change. Maybe so, but a lot more gets accomplished by justly angry people. (RvB) JANE EYRE (PG-13; 121 min.)

Atmospheric yet unselfconscious version by Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre), perhaps the best film of the novel ever. Moira Buffiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s script makes the smart choice of circumventing Janeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s horrifying school years

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and starting the story after Jane leaves Thornfield. Mia Wasikowska, pale, hair tightly braided and dyed a dull brickred, embodies the fine bones and honesty of the bravest of Gothic heroines. While no one beats Orson Welles, Michael Fassbenderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s study of the proud yet internally crumbling Rochester takes this character out of the realm of the theatrical and into realism. A combination of popularity and rare talent is what you hope for in a film.

And a young audience that associates Gothic lit with the mass-market paperback will be exposed to a story rich with depths and cross currents: itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dreamy, tragic, completely fulfilling. (RvB)

JUMPING THE BROOM (PG-13; 101 minutes) Angela Bassett and Paula Patton star in a film about two black families from opposite ends of the economic spectrum who clash when they meet for the first time at a Marthaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vineyard wedding.

MEEKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CUTOFF (PG; 104 min.)

Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy) gets more ambitious with a pocket-size antiWestern based on a real-life crossing of Oregon in the 1840s. It is a pioneer Wages of Fear, and at times your blood runs cold watching it.

The wives (Michelle Williams, Shirley Henderson and Zoe Kazan) are guarded in expression; they watch the horizon as the water runs out.

The husbands (Paul Dano, Will Patton and Neal Huff)

stay the course, dividing up the water and ignoring the endless screek of the wagonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s axles. And the guide, Stephen Meek (Bruce Greenwood), may either be leading them to the Columbia River or their doom.

If Reichardt had taken it in a slightly more commercial veinâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;i.e., gave it a proper endingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I might have an easier time recommending the film, but it deserves credit as a movie about the West that hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite been done before. (RvB)

PRIEST (PG-13; 87 min.) In a post-apocalyptic world, the church rules over downtrodden humans, among whom dwells a Warrior Priest (Paul Bettany) from the old Vampire Wars. When vampires abduct his niece, he breaks his vow in order to rescue her with the help of a Warrior Priestess (Maggie Q).

QUEEN TO PLAY (NR; 97 min.)

After discovering an interest in chess, middle-aged HĂŠlène (Sandrine Bonnaire) seeks wisdom from expat American Kroger (Kevin Kline), whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whiling away his time in lovely Corsica.

RIO (PG; 96 min.) Blu, a modest macaw from Minnesota, sets off on a madcap adventure tailing the bird of his dreams to Brazil in this 3-D animated film from Pixar.

SOMETHING BORROWED (PG13; 103 minutes) Romantic comedy takes a complicated turn when, at her 30th birthday party, a successful

lawyer and perpetualâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and unhappily still singleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;good girl (Ginnifer Goodwin) has one too many drinks and winds up with her crush from law school, who happens to be her best friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fiancĂŠ.

SOURCE CODE (PG-13; 93 min.) A commuter train bound for Chicago has a bomb on it. Because of one of those new time/space-warping devices the U.S. military keeps around, they can beam an officer named Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) back to try to find the bomber. Stevensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; control is Coleen Goodwin (Vera Farmiga). Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mere presence on a video screen. The time-traveling officer takes his orders from her, bunkered in a remote undisclosed location, wired up like a test monkey. The stage is set handsomely, then, and the twisting begins: Groundhog Day meets La JetĂŠe, with a nice little garnish of The Manchurian Candidate. During his cycles into the past, Colter becomes fixated on a girl on the train (Michelle Monaghan). She becomes a human stake in what will happen if the train evaporates into a fireballâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as it does more than once. When finding an escape route out of a seemingly inescapable situation, the movie doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cheat. (RvB) THOR (PG-13; 114 min.) Cast to earth in rural New Mexico, the son of Odin (Anthony Hopkins) must redeem himselfâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even as his disposed brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) schemes

to keep him in exile forever.

The part of Thor is a starmaking performance for Chris Hemsworthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an Australian actor who remembers the old ways of movie heroism.

Director Kenneth Branagh finds the perfect tone of nobility without too much loft. The movie has its Shakespearean side; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as full of grand, ringing voices as it is of fight scenes and fireworks.

Natalie Portman is endearing as the scientist befuddled by the arrival of a god. She looks pleasingly discomfited to be close to someone who is better-looking than she is.

The witty script (co-written by former Metro staffer Zack Stentz) reflects 1950s films about the perplexity of scientists in the bombhaunted New Mexican desert meeting a creature from another world. (RvB)

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG-13; 122 min.) A veterinary student (Robert Pattinson) suffers a minor breakdown following the death of his parents and joins a traveling circus, where he cares for the animals and falls in love with the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s star (Reese Witherspoon).

WIN WIN (R; 106 min.) Paul Giamatti plays Mike Flaherty, a down-on-his-luck attorney moonlighting as a high school wrestling coach who discovers an exceptionally gifted athlete.

Suddenly it looks like all of his personal and professional losing streaks are at their endâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that is, until the kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mom is released from lock-up

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The gourmet nut bar case is fully loaded with 120 varieties of nuts, seeds and colorful dried fruits. One of the top features of the new nuttery, Mina explained, is that you can come in and â&#x20AC;&#x153;design your own custom trail mix.â&#x20AC;? Available in three tiers, from the all-organic $10.99/lb. bag to the $6.99 standard, these trail mixes seem destined to thrill natural foodâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;conscious Santa Cruzans. The couple source their astonishing inventory from all over the world, as well as the Central Valley of California. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And we do some roasting right here,â&#x20AC;? Mina said, pointing to a substantial stainless steel roasting station. How about nut-themed kitchen accessories? Nutcrackers, of course, but unexpected gourmet paraphernalia as well, such as hand-operated nut roasters. From nut brittle and designer corn nuts to chocolate-dipped almonds and flash-dried persimmons, this place drove me, well, nuts. www.NutKreations.com 4/@;57@:A A16==: =4 4==2 E7<3 is a fun idea brought to you by cheese czarina BOPWbVO Ab`]c^ and wine aficionado /[O\RO @SV\ The Wednesday classes, covering the history of winemaking in the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA , happen on May 18 and May 25 at DW\]1`ch facing Cooper Street between Luluâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at the Octagon and Annieglass. Your $50 participation fee covers spellbinding info, plus wine tastings and food pairings. Starting at 6:30pm, the May 18 class will cover the 1970s â&#x20AC;&#x153;salad daysâ&#x20AC;? of the local premium wine movement and work forward to the present day. Guest speakers are 2S\Wa 6]Sg ]T =R]\ObO and ;O`g :W\RaOg ]T ;c\a DW\SgO`R. May 25 is a Riedel Glass Tasting (your personal tasting glass is $12 and yes, you may take it home with you!). The shape of a glass really can affect the flavors of a wine. Sign up at www. friendincheeses.com. ;=@3 1:/AA /1B7=< Cooking maestra ;W[W A\]eRS\ (who most recently designed Aptosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; exotic HO[SS\) is back in the kitchen and ready for summer cooking classes. Join Mimi in her exhibition kitchen in Corralitos on Friday, May 20 at 6:30pm for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spring Entertainingâ&#x20AC;? class followed by an astonishing meal. $125 per person. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost sold out, so make that call!

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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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104 Stockton Ave, 831.479.8888

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

>/@/27A3 ACA67 Japanese. This pretty and welcoming sushi bar serves 200 Monterey Ave, 831.464.3328 superfresh fish in unusual but well-executed sushi combinations. Wed-Mon 11:30am-9pm.

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1750 Wharf Rd, 831.475.1511

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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Capitola

231 Esplanade, 831.464.1933

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

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203 Esplanade, 831.475.4900

California cuisine. Nightly specials include prime rib and lobster. Daily 7am-2am.

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1116 Pacific Ave, 831. 426.7588

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221 Cathcart St, 831.426.4852

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418 Front St, 831.325-3633

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.

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. â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s Vegas meets â&#x20AC;&#x2122;50s Waikiki. Amazing dining experience in kitchy yet swanky tropical setting. Fresh fish, great steaks, vegetarian. Full-service tiki bar. Happy-hour tiki drinks. Aloha Fri, Sat lunch 11:30am-5pm. Dinner nightly 5pm-close.

Eclectic Pan Asian dishes. Vegetarian, seafood, lamb and chicken with a wok emphasis since 1972. Cafe, catering, culinary

classes, food festivals, beer and wine. Open for lunch and dinner daily except Sunday 11:30-9pm. Special events most Sundays.

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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.

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.

Fine Mexican cuisine. Opening daily at noon.

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Japanese Fusion. Sushi bar, sake bar, vegetarian, seafood, steak in fun atmosphere; kids play area; karaoke every night. Open seven days 5-10pm; Mon-Fri 11:30am-2:30pm.

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2415 Mission St, 831.423.9010

710 Front St, 831.427.4444

Thai. Individually prepared with the freshest ingredients, plus ambrosia bubble teas, shakes. Mon-Thu 11:30am-9:30pm, Fri 11:30am-10pm, Sat noon-10pm, Sun noon-9:30pm.

Italian-American. Mouthwatering, generous portions, friendly service and the best patio in town. Full bar. Lunch Mon-Fri 11:30am, dinner nightly at 5pm.

Irish pub and restaurant. Informal pub fare with reliable execution. Lunch and dinner all day, open Mon-Fri 11:30ammidnight, Sat-Sun 11:30am-1:30am.

Wine bar with menu. Flawless plates of great character and flavor; sexy menu listings and wines to match. Dinner Mon-Thu 510pm, Fri-Sat 5-11pm, Sun 4-10pm; retail shop Mon 5pm-close, Tue-Sat noon-close, Sun 4pm-close.

Pizza. Specializing in authentic Sicilian and square pizza.

Homemade pasta, fresh sandwiches, soups, salads and more. Hot slices always ready. Sun-Thu 10am-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 10am-11pm.

Pizza. Pizza, fresh salads, sandwiches, wings, desserts, beers on tap. Patio dining, sports on HDTV and free WiFi. Large groups and catering. Open and delivering Fri-Sat 11am-2am, Mon-Thu 11am-1am, Sun 11am-midnight.

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SSAGITTARIUS AGITT G TARIUS A ((Nov. Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): 21): Are Are yyou ou desperate desperate for for more more companionship? companionship? Have Have your your night night dreams dreams been been crammed crammed with with soulful soulful exchanges? exchanges? Are Are you you prowling prowling around around like a lusty lussty panther, pantherr, fantasizing fantasizing about every candidate candidate whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eeven ven rremotely emotely aappealing? ppealing? IIff sso, o, I have have some advice from from m the poet Rumi: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your â&#x20AC;&#x153;YYoour task is not to seek for for love, but merely merely to seek and ďŹ nd all the barriers within yourself y built against barriers that you have built it.â&#x20AC;? In In other other words, words, Sagittarius: Sagittarius: To To foster foster the the search search it.â&#x20AC;? for intimate intimate connection, connection, identify identify the the patterns patterns within within for yourself yourself that that are are interfering interfering with with it. it. By By the the way, way, this this is is good counsel counsel even even if if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re only only moderately moderately hungry hungry for for good closer connection. connectioon.

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