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IN RESPONSE to the letter â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not to Be Rudeâ&#x20AC;?

(Posts, June 22) Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sorry to inform you that not only are you rude, but insensitive as well. In reports concerning the hit-and-run death of Zachary Parke it was documented that Parkeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bike had a legally required rear reflector, as stated by CHP officer Sarah Jackson, who investigated the case. I believe the bigger question on everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mind is how is it that someone could hit a cyclist with their vehicle, flee the scene and then leave them to die without at least a call in to 911.

Out of respect for the victim and his family this letter with its heartless title should never have been published.

Cindy Martino Santa Cruz

I READ the articles on sharing resources in this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edition (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Sharing Economy,â&#x20AC;?

Cover story, June 22), and how can I but agree? We consume too much; God bless the child who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to have his own, but is happy sharing a tool or a vehicle with one, two, or even five or 10 other people. Even if we could all afford to have our own, forever and everâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;could the earth afford to keep giving it to us? I truly doubt it.

Jim Jones Santa Cruz

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[Re: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shelved,â&#x20AC;? A&E, June 22]: This is very insulting to an incredibly large community of women and men who are passionate about what they do. What do we do? We blog about literature, books, etc. All genres. All aspects of the industry...

To refer to us as â&#x20AC;&#x153;mommy bloggersâ&#x20AC;? is insulting not only to the many book bloggers out there but to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;mommyâ&#x20AC;? or lifestyle bloggers that you were referring to. I am a stay-at-home mom, but I certainly donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think of myself as merely a demographic sitting around eating bonbons pecking away about the latest bodice ripper on my laptop that my husband let me buy. Oh thanks, honey! Can I have permission to start a blog, too?

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As a male non-20-something book blogger with no children Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure where I fit in Ms. Tueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rather ignorant generalization of who book bloggers are. With that said, Ms. Tue seems to be confusing â&#x20AC;&#x153;professionalâ&#x20AC;? book reviewing with blogging. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure of any blogs that purport themselves to be professional review outlets.

They are the natural extension of readers being readers in a digital age. All Ms. Tue would have to do is spend 15 minutes in a good bookstore talking to readers and she would find that serious readers enjoy engaging other readers in conversation.

A cursory bit of advice would be to do a little research before embarking on any bit of â&#x20AC;&#x153;journalism,â&#x20AC;? as facts are usually warranted and appreciated.

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STOP ORDER Activist Joshua Hart was arrested June 21 at a PG&E office in Capitola.

Meter Beaters SmartMeter opposition steps up tactics

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BY ALASTAIR BLAND

THE WILDFIRE of rebellion against PG&Eâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plans to install SmartMeters in households across the state is growing hotter by the day. Before sunrise on Monday, June 27, about 50 demonstrators surrounded the gates of a PG&E yard in Capitola to keep workers from exiting and installing wireless SmartMeters in local neighborhoods, as PG&E had announced would happen that day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were ready to block them in, but the Wellington (Energy Company) workers (contracted

by PG&E to conduct the installations) never materialized,â&#x20AC;? said Joshua Hart, the director of Stop SmartMeters!

Hart says local residents are watching the fleet of about two dozen Wellington Energy trucks and will report any indication that they are preparing to leave the premises.

Monica Tell, a PG&E spokesperson, confirmed that PG&E has contracted Wellington Energy, based in Pittsburgh, Penn., to install SmartMeters. She said the company will attempt do so sometime this week.

Hart assures heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll try to block any such efforts to install the wireless energy meters, which he and others believe emit dangerous levels of radiation and which several local governments have banned. On June 21, in fact, Hart was arrested minutes after blocking the entrance to PG&Eâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s administrative office at Capitola Mall.

Hart says he was demonstrating in direct response to an announcement from PG&E that it would soon resume installations of SmartMeters in the area, from which it had desisted for several months. Officers with the Capitola Police Department charged Hart with disrupting a business and released him with an order to appear in court on July 28.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;With PG&Eâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arrogance in ignoring our local laws I felt I had to put my own body in their way,â&#x20AC;? Hart explains.

The Capitola Police Department did not return a call seeking comment.

Hart, who launched his antiSmartMeter nonprofit about a year ago, is among a vocal group of people that claim SmartMeters are hazardous to human health. In May, the World Health Organization classified the radiofrequency electromagnetic fields emitted by cell phones and wireless communication devices as â&#x20AC;&#x153;possibly carcinogenic to humans.â&#x20AC;? Though the WHO looked mostly at correlations between cell phone use and cancer, SmartMeters, as their critics have pointed out, emit the same kind of radiation as cell phones and WiFi routers.

In spite of local bans on SmartMeters in Capitola, Watsonville and other parts of Santa Cruz County, Tell at PG&E says the energy giant recognizes no authority beyond the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Public Utilities Commission. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The CPUC is the only entity with jurisdiction to impose moratoriums on SmartMeter installation,â&#x20AC;? Tell said.

In Capitola, where the city council last year voted to temporarily prohibit SmartMeters, Councilmember Kirby Nicolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the lone vote against the ordinanceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;says city and county laws have no power to deflect an initiative with federal backing. He said that any local-level opposition to PG&Eâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SmartMeter plan will amount to just â&#x20AC;&#x153;a political game.â&#x20AC;?

In March, PG&E proposed an â&#x20AC;&#x153;opt outâ&#x20AC;? plan by which customers can pay an upfront fee of up to $270, plus a monthly fee of $14-20 thereafter, to have their SmartMeters deactivated. Pending approval of the plan by the CPUC, customers can call 866.743.0263 to get on a delay list.

Hartâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who says he is ready to be arrested againâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;says local representatives have a responsibility to block PG&Eâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s advance entirely. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We believe that the local government has the right and even

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GameGirl With clenched knuckles and a list of combo moves, Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own BZa^hhV :hijZhiV made her way this month into the Guinness Book of World Records for â&#x20AC;&#x153;longest videogames marathon playing a fighting game,â&#x20AC;? with exactly 32 hours, 5 minutes and 47 seconds of continuous time playing Mortal Kombat. On June 7, Melissa joined her three teammatesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Lance Moose, Cris Bryant and Paul Chillinoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at the Mecca of gaming conventions, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, in an attempt to break the previous record of 30 hours. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just got pulled into it via Twitter,â&#x20AC;? explains Estuesta. â&#x20AC;&#x153;CraveOnline posted they were looking for a female gamer. I sat on the idea for two days and thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You know, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll regret not trying if I pass this up.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? An avid gamer, Estuesta grew up watching her older siblings play video games and had to get into the action. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a techno geek and I find a lot of the time Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m underestimated because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a female,â&#x20AC;? she says.

Luckily, those hours of childhood gaming paid off at E3. The rules were simple: the four gamers were split into two teams. Each player was allowed a 10-minute break for every hour of game play that could be taken on the hour or accumulated over time (play for four hours straight and get a very needed 40minute rest), as long as every person was playing within the last hour.

And to answer the question all game geeks are wondering, the players chose random character settings so nobody could be cheap by always playing certain moves. Estuesta says that if anyone breaks their record, the team will happily go for a rematch, but in the meantime, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll keep tapping buttons. Game on.

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the obligation to step in and stand up for the community if the state or federal government wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have laws against SmartMeters here, and if the local government canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enforce them, then whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the point of having them?â&#x20AC;? 0

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In an elite UCSC lab, one group of computer scientists strives for hyperadvanced gaming software that can duplicate the human experience, while another puzzles over how to keep the tools of a powerful new medium accessible to all BY NEAL SOLDOFSKY

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THERE WERE many brilliant and

indie games. But no one there sounded

distinguished guests at the Inventing the

more like a futurist than UCSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own

Future of Games Symposium last month

Professor Michael Mateas.

hosted by UCâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center for

In his keynote address, Mateas compared

image, let alone execute it.â&#x20AC;?

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Games and Playable Media. There was the

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of SimCity, the Sims and Spore. There was

slides in his PowerPoint presentation,

unique as a medium is that they can express

Rod Humble, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not only the CEO of

bringing up a picture of the Mona Lisa. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If

themselves through systems. Or more grandly,

Liden Lab, the studio that created Second

all youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever seen are images produced

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Life, but also the auteur behind a number

by your broken crayon cup,â&#x20AC;? Mateas said,

complex and vast state-space that is enabled

of artistically and intellectually ambitious

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by an underlying system,â&#x20AC;? as Mateas said.

kinds of tools are we talking about here?

Mateas points out that what makes games

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A state-space is a way of mathematically representing the realm of possibilities for a given system. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a graph in which any conceivable state for that systemâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in the case of chess, imagine the layout of pieces after any given series of movesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;can be expressed with a single point. The more complex the game, the larger the state-space, with a greater number of dimensions needed to represent it.

In a traditional medium such as film or literature, each â&#x20AC;&#x153;stateâ&#x20AC;? that exists in the work is handmade by an artist. But to build that complex and vast state-space that Mateas speaks of, things must be generated procedurallyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that is, automatically, by systems. The software tools of today are limited in what things they can produce: mostly itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a matter of representing simple things, like movement through space, collisions and physics.

So today a game designer can create a complex and vast state-space based around the physical aspects of a gun battle. Players can run through

an imaginary landscape, their feet in collision with the ground, their bodies in collision with walls if they want to try to run through them. They can run and jump off any structure, and the way they fall will be approximately the way Isaac Newton would predict for the real world. And the paths of their bullets will miss or collide with their targets until someone is dead. All of these elements are fully playable.

But what about the moral and emotional aspects of a gun battle?

What about the characters? Instead of shooting the enemy, can the player take him or her as a prisoner of war and then have a conversation about the conflict they are both caught up in?

For these kinds of issues, game designers have basically the same limited techniques available to them as authors of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Choose Your Own Adventureâ&#x20AC;? novels. Designers cannot put in place underlying systems for complex conversation, emotion and decision-making. They can only hand¨ #

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Who Says?

A recurring theme ran throughout the May symposium: In the future, everyone will play video games.

And this change in our culture will change the world of gaming, just as the world of gaming will change our culture.

Will Wright of Sims fame imagined that in the future, the range of games will be something like a vast magazine rack at the time when the publishing industry was at its healthiest. There will be something for every little niche, every interest, every demographic.

As an illustration of this, Wright invoked a very specific demographic: young girls in Germany who have PCs and love horses. The next slide in his PowerPoint presentation was completely covered with numerous examples of box art from German PC horse games for children.

Currently itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only an elite class of technophiles who can truly utilize the expressive power of games. This limit on who can say things with games is effectively also a limit on what will be said.

Ian Bogost, a noted critic and game designer, saw a future in which games are as ubiquitous and ordinary as photographs, and used for as many purposes. Games as advertising is not a new thing by any means ¨ $

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make forking paths, with a limited set of pre-scripted options. This is a simple and very small state-space from which only predetermined possibilities can emerge. This is not truly playable.

For this reason, Mateas says, the goal of research into â&#x20AC;&#x153;computational media,â&#x20AC;? as he likes to call the field, should be â&#x20AC;&#x153;procedural everything.â&#x20AC;?

In other words, software that can dynamically represent anything in human experience. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the perfect tool for a new kind of artist who does not craft objects or stories, but systems. As co-director of UCSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Expressive Intelligence Studio, Mateas is furthering this goal.

On its website, the Expressive Intelligence Studio says that it is â&#x20AC;&#x153;exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence, art and design.â&#x20AC;?

It may be surprising that what Mateas has been talking about is artificial intelligence. This speaks to what an interesting time this is for both video games and AI. Among the studioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s graduate projects is RoleModel, a tool that uses the way character roles interact as the basis for a kind of physics of story. The user defines the constraints of each role, and then RoleModel procedurally generates the story.

Another project is Prom Week, a social puzzle game that depends on a simulated social physics. Charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; attitudes toward each other are defined in the system, and these attitudes restrict social action. For instance, a character wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go out with someone he or she hates. The challenge of a given puzzle might be to manipulate the social dynamics of a group of characters until two of the characters who used to hate each other become friendly enough to date. The game will make its debut on Facebook later this year.

Both of these projects represent small steps toward the goal of making the human condition fully playable.

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Bogost himself is the co-author of Newsgames, a book about how games can be a medium for journalism.

UCSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Prof. Noah Wardrip-Fruin pointed out that this upcoming cultural shift has important, if not obvious, implications for the gamemaking tools of future. During his talk, Wardrip-Fruin defined culture as â&#x20AC;&#x153;what we say to each other and who says it.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Games are becoming a really important way that we say things to each other,â&#x20AC;? Wardrip-Fruin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybe theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the most important emerging form for this century, the way the moving image was for the previous century.â&#x20AC;?

The questions this raises for Wardrip-Fruin are some of the same that Mateas brings up. How do games create meaning? What kinds of meaning can they create? But Wardrip-Fruin is also very interested in this question: Who gets to use games to create meaning?

Currently itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only an elite class of technophiles who can truly utilize the expressive power of games. This limit on who can say things with games is effectively also a limit on what will be said.

But as the other co-director of the Expressive Intelligence Studio, Wardrip-Fruin is working toward more accessible and more expressive tools.

Among the studioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s graduate projects is the Kodu AI Lab, an extension of Microsoftâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kodu Game Lab project. The Kodu Game Lab is a game-making tool for kids. At its core is what Microsoft calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;a visual programming language.â&#x20AC;? The AI Lab extension aims to give that project more muscle, putting powerful artificial intelligence tools into the hands of children and allowing them to create games centered around characters and changing relationships.

As Wardrip-Fruin said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to provide underlying computational support for a system in which saying things could matter.â&#x20AC;?

He wants these kinds of tools to be kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first exposure not just to gamemaking but to the field of computer

science. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think that those tools can embody a broader vision of what games can beâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and what computer science can be,â&#x20AC;? he says.

The two goals Mateas and Wardrip-Fruin laid outâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;tools to make games vastly more complex and tools to make complexity accessible, even to childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;may seem to be in conflict, but really they go hand-in-hand. If things go Wardrip-Fruinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way, the Kodu AI Lab will help make a new generation of people who, like Mateas, see computer science as an expressive field. And it seems for every complex system in development at the Expressive Intelligence Studio, there is an accessible tool. Mateas and Wardrip-Fruin are both advisors to every EIS project mentioned here.

Mind Expansion At one point in his presentation Wardrip-Fruin showed the audience the lesson from day one of the first computer science course he took.

It was a diagram demonstrating a method of sorting the numbers one through five. A diagram like that is enough to vastly narrow the range of people whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d want to engage in computer science.

This is unfortunate, because it is new work in computer science that gaming needs in order reach its expressive potential. A limit on who wants to say things with computer science will limit what computer science will say.

But with the tools Wardrip-Fruin proposes, he hopes to open the field to people with different types of intelligence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully, we can get broader participation,â&#x20AC;? he told the group. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just get the people who are interested in sorting. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just get the people who are interested in shooting. We get the people who are interested in more things. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not me, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not anyone in this room who I think is actually going to create the new operational logics that vastly broaden what games can be, and how they can mean. I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s those people, who are now in middle school or earlier, that will create the future of games.â&#x20AC;? 0

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IN 2009, a full six years after the release of Gillian Welchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s critically acclaimed Soul Journey, Welchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s partner David Rawlings was asked when their next album would come out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the happiest day of my life,â&#x20AC;? he replied.

It should be a good week for Rawlings then, because after eight long years The Harrow & The Harvest was finally released on Tuesday, June 28. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we are both really happy to finally have a new record out,â&#x20AC;? Welch answered when contacted via email. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a long time since weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had this many new songs to add into the show. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m excited and curious to see how the new songs behave live.â&#x20AC;?

Welch attended UCSC in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, where she majored in photography, played bass in a goth band and drums in a psych rock outfit and spent two seasons working on an organic f lower and vegetable farm in the Pogonip where, she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was the slime queen of the radicchio patch.â&#x20AC;?

Harrow: (n.) an implement consisting of a heavy frame set with teeth or tines that is dragged over plowed land to break up clods, remove weeds and cover seed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harrowingâ&#x20AC;? is derived from the backbreaking difficulty of the work.

Like the tool, the songs on The Harrow & The Harvest are heavy and set with teeth. They are populated by itinerant farm

workers, spurned brides and Catholic school dropouts; concern losses of innocence, losses of faith and losses of love; contain stubborn mules, rivers of whiskey, rivers of fire and turns of phrase like â&#x20AC;&#x153;thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the way the cornbread crumbles.â&#x20AC;?

The album process was rightly rough too: in the eight years since their last release, Welch has said she and Rawlings wrote enough songs to fill several albums, but never liked any enough to record.

The 10 songs that ultimately made it on The Harrow & The Harvest are stripped-down as in the pastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just Welch and Rawlings on their guitars, sometimes with a banjo or harmonicaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but they have a precision and a deliberateness that is different from previous records.

The practiced feel of the songs is no doubt an result of their protracted development; Welch and Rawlings have been playing the achingly beautiful and haunting ballad â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Way It Will Be,â&#x20AC;? a holdover from the last album, for years.

On the new album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Way It Will Beâ&#x20AC;? is part of a triptych, followed directly by the up-tempo (if decidedly fatalistic) â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Way It Goesâ&#x20AC;? and, five tracks later, the recordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final song, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Way The Whole Thing Ends,â&#x20AC;? a piece so simple and slow that it feels like it should be emanating from a hand-cranked music box.

THE WANTING AND THE WAITING Gillian Welch fans have waited eight years for a follow-up to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Soul Journey.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The new album dropped June 28.

Repositioning the same simple phrase three ways with strikingly different effects, Welch and Rawlings show off their skill at crafting deceptively complex songs that often invoke several musical traditions at once, using the most basic tools. Other standouts on the album include the loss-ofinnocence lullaby â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tennesseeâ&#x20AC;? (vintage Townes Van Zandt) and the starkly arranged work song â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hard Times.â&#x20AC;?

Welch and Rawlings will be kicking off a tour for The Harrow

& The Harvest in Santa Cruz next week with a show at the Cocoanut Grove. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve wanted to play the Cocoanut Grove Ballroom for years.

Glad itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finally happening,â&#x20AC;? Welch said. We are too, Gillian. We are too.

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From the spicy curtain raiser to the bodacious closing number, Cabrillo Stageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 30th season opener has wildly appreciative audiences shrieklaughing and whooping for more.

Deservedly so. Nominated for nine Tony Awards, The Full Monty is the comical story of six jobless steelworkers whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lost their income and self-confidence. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re feeling like scrap. They dream up a bold move to acquire big cash and reclaim their man cardsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if only they can work up the nerve to bare their souls and let it all hang out. On the way, they sort through issues of friendship, self-respect, family ties and the true measure of a manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth, which canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be found in a wallet, a mirror or a G-string.

The themes feel especially relevant in this time of high unemployment, struggling families and faltering self-assurance. But director Dustin Leonardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s treatment keeps this production light-hearted, by turns hilarious, tender, tough and bawdy. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also chock full oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; nuts, mature themes, strong language, adult situations and frank nudity (woohoo!).

The songs develop the story well and showcase strong musical talent from leads Kyle Payne (Jerry), Kevin High (Dave) and Robin DiCello (Georgie). Especially delightful,

FULLY FUNKTIONAL Horse, played by Jarrod Washington, works it in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Full Monty,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; running through July 17. however, are the song-and-dance turns by Jarrod Washington (Horse), last seen in Swing! and The Wizard of Oz. In these and other numbers, choreographer Andrew Ceglio plays to each actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strengths.

Amazing performances by Alice Hughes (Vicki) and Claire Hodgin (Jeanette) are excellent reminders of the value of seasoned performers.

Hodgin could give Betty White a run for her money. And hankies will come in handy for the duet by Dan Housek (Malcolm) and Andrew Willis-Woodward (Ethan).

It takes a big man to bare all without benefit of airbrushing or a body double. None of that is available in a live production.

These actors are regular men with a range of body shapes and less-thanperfect features, but they, like their characters, do what responsible men doâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;make a plan, show up, hit their marks and follow throughâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with style and great good humor.

Speaking of grace, the women in the cast, while they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to go quite as commando, certainly contribute greatly to the concept of

beauty and strength taking many forms.

In the end, The Full Monty is not so much a story about physical appearance as it is about the definition of self-value. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge treat to see charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and actorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; applauded for their self-acceptance.

Under the baton of Jon Nordgren, conductor and artistic director, this large cast, crew and orchestra deftly handle difficult musical arrangements and complicated sets.

The stagecraft is smooth and expertly invisible. The production delivers excellent value at three hours long.

Run, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t walk, to see The Full Monty before its July 17 closing date.

Be prepared to laugh yourself sillyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t blink.

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2/<13 Bellydance Cabaret Featuring Crystal Silmi & Raks Arabi. Sat, Jul 2, 7:30pm. $10. Backstage Lounge, 1207 Soquel Ave at Seabright, Santa Cruz, 831.689.0923 831.689.0924.

B63/B3@ The Birdcage The owner of a popular drag nightclub in South Miami Beach and his partner meet their sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fiancĂŠe and inlaws-to-be: a U.S. senator (and vice president of the Committee for Moral Order) and his wife. Fri-Sat, 8pm.

Thru Jul 9. $22. Paper Wing Theater, 320 Hoffman Ave, Monterey, 831.905.5684.

Dangerous Neighbors Comedy Sketch comedy from Bill Burman, Suzanne Schrag, Eric Conly, Robert Vickers and Mike Steitz. Fri-Sat Thru Jul 9. $13 adv/$15 door. Center Stage, 1001 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.425. 4451.

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1=<13@BA Main Street Classics The 15-piece Monterey Bay Symphony will present a one-hour program conducted

by Dr. Carl Christensen. Mon, Jul 4, 10-11am. Free. Spreckels Memorial Park, Hatton Ave between 2nd and 3rd Sts, Spreckels.

Wooster Part of the Capitola Twilight concert series. Wed, Jul 6, 68pm. Free. Capitola Esplanade Park, Capitola Village, Capitola.

Art ;CA3C;A 1=<B7<C7<5 Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Big Creek Pottery: Social History of a Visual Idea, 1967-

1983. An exhibit featuring more than 70 vessels made at or brought to the Big Creek workshops by visiting master potters and the founders, plus a photo collection documenting the school at its beginnings along with workshop experiences and writings by workshop leaders and students at Big Creek.

Thru Jul 17. $2-$5. Free First Friday. View the exhibits for free every first Friday of the month. Docent tours at noon.

First Fri of every month, 11am6pm. Spotlight Tours. Bringing the artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; voices directly to visitors. Go behind the scenes and museum-wide exhibitions.

First Sat of every month, 11:30am-12:30pm. Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History Endangered Neighbors.

Conservation photographs by Sebastian Kennerknecht. WedSun . Thru Sep 10. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. 1305 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6115.

sculpture by local artists. Jul 131. 1013 Cedar St., Santa Cruz.

Felix Kulpa Gallery White Balance. New mixed media paintings by Michelle Stitz and selected works by Jody Alexander. Opening reception July 1, 5-9pm. Jul 1-31. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

Louden Nelson Community Center Gallery By the Coast & Stones of Ages Past. Fine art photography

by Virginia Draper & Tom Bullock. Artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reception July 1, 6pmâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;8pm. Jun 30-Jul 31.

Free, 831.420.6177. 301 Center St, Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz Art League David Fleming: Recent Paintings. Artist reception July 1, 6-8pm and July 2, 35pm. Jul 1-3. Free. Wed-Sat, noon-5pm, Sun noon-4pm.

526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, 831.426.5787.

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Art of Photography. Original work from over a dozen artists. Artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reception Sat July 9, 4-7pm. Thru Jul 31.

Free. 450 Hwy 1, Davenport, 831.426.1199.

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The Bees Knees: Flowers, Fauna and Bees of California.

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Santa Cruz Art League, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz. 831.426.5787. Free.

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Pajaro Valley Arts Council Sculpture Is. 56 artists and 135 sculptures among two acres of Mediterranean gardens.

Thru Oct 31. 831.728.2532. 37 Sudden St, Watsonville.

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 County Office Building Ageless Art: Reflected Images.

Featuring images created by the residents of local health care facilities. Thru Jun 30.

Free, 831.459.8917. 701 Ocean St, Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Alexander Lowry: Documentary Photographs of Santa Cruz County. UCSC & MAH present a virtual retrospective of photographer Alexander Lowryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gelatin silver prints at www.mahshow. ucsc.edu. Thru Jul 17. Free.

Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Events 075 23/:A Second Annual Hop and Barley Festival Pouring libations from 30 brewers, including six local ones: Boulder Creek Brewery, Santa Cruz Ale Works, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing, Seabright Brewing, Uncommon Brewing and Corralitos Brewing. Sat, Jul 2, 11:30am-4:30pm. $25 adv/$30 door. Skypark, 361 Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Village Rd, Scotts Valley, 831.713.9813.

/@=C<2 B=E< 19th annual Skyland Mountain Run 5K and 10K runs through gently rolling hills accompanied by Zydeco music. SkylandRun.com Sat, Jul 2, 8:30am. $25-$13 adv/$35-$15 race day.

Radonich Ranch, 25240 Highland Way, Los Gatos.

Bigfoot Museum Benefit A series of benefit shows to raise awareness of forest conservation and funds for equipment and operating cost for the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in Felton.

July 1, 8pm concert at the Blue Lagoon; July 2, 1pm BBQ and concert at the Bigfoot Discovery Museum and 8pm concert at The Crepe Place; July 3, 8pm concert at The Jury Room.

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Rugg believes Bigfoot chose Santa Cruz County for its mix of natural beauty and agriculture, and he says he has proof to offer curious visitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including Bigfootâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tooth and his fecal matter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right over there in a plastic container inside the glass case,â&#x20AC;? says Rugg. He trusts the 7 1/2-year-old poopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s authenticity because it shows a diet of pine needles and bugsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and because it used to be much larger before drying up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know: double. Someone with very big poop,â&#x20AC;? says Rugg.

Santa Cruz musicians and musical establishments are banding together for weekend-long â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bigfoot Benefeetâ&#x20AC;? to keep the institution afloat. Things kick off Friday at the Blue Lagoon where Mean Jeans, Personal and the Pizzas, Clorox Girls and the Groggs will perform, followed by a barbecue at the museum on Saturday, 11am-3pm. Saturday night the party moves to the Crepe Place, where Paul Collins Beat, Shannon and the Clams, Red Pony Clock and Garboâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Daughter will play. On Sunday Behind the Wagon and Devilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Own play at the Jury Room. (Jake Pierce)

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Jul 1-3. $25 adv for all shows & BBQ. 831.331.3174.

Club Uke Open Mic A benefit for Santa Cruz Uke News and its online counterpart,

Ukelist.com, serving the growing ukulele playing community in Santa Cruz, presented by Rhan Wilson. Fri, Jul 1. $10.

Backstage Lounge, 1207 Soquel Ave at Seabright,

Santa Cruz, 831.689.0923 831.689.0924.

Sandcastle Showcase Meet on the beach at Manresa Uplands off Sand Dollar Rd to show off

Food Video Night and Potluck with Transition Santa Cruz

6=:72/GA Big Basinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fourth of July Weekend Celebration

A potluck and screening of videos about farms, gardens and sustainable food. Wed, Jun 29, 6:30-9pm. Free. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz.

Campfire, sing-a-long and talent show. Sign up at headquarters in advance.

Sat, Jul 2, 7pm. Free. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Hwy 236, Boulder Creek, 831.338.8883.

Lumberjack Days A display of axe throwing and chainsaw skills, plus log rolling, vintage saws and barbecue to boot. Sun, Jul 3, 11am-5pm and Mon, Jul 4, 11am-5pm. Free. Downtown Boulder Creek, NA, Boulder Creek, 831.338.6833.

Old-Fashioned Independence Day Celebration Historic lawn games, draft horse wagon rides, ice cream cranking, a cake walk, crafts and live music from the turn of the 19th century. Mon, Jul 4, 11am-4pm. Free. Wilder Ranch State Park, 1401 Coast Rd, Santa Cruz, 831.426.0505.

Roaring Camp Independence Day Celebration A sock hop, hula contests, sack races, a balloon toss, tug of war as well as a steam train hold-up and shoot-out at Bear Mountain. Sat, Jul 2, Sun, Jul 3 and Mon, Jul 4. $24 adult/$17 children.

Roaring Camp, Narrow Gauge Railroad, Graham Hill and Mount Herman Road, Felton, 831.335.4484.

Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shortest Parade The 50th anniversary of the Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shortest Parade will feature classic cars from the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s cruising down Soquel Dr in Aptos, preceded by a pancake breakfast and followed by a party. Mon, Jul 4, 7:30am-4pm. Free. Aptos

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Santa Cruz Community Credit Union, 512 Front St., Santa Cruz, 831.460.2346.

Nancy Abrams and Joel Primack

Red Cross Mobile Blood Drives

UCSC professors, TEDx speakers and the husband and wife team behind The New Universe and the Human Future will read and sign copies of their latest work. Tue, Jul 5, 7:30pm.

Free. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

Drives occur at several locations countywide each month; for schedule and locations call 800.733.2767.

Santa Cruz: The Real Surf City Local surfers Carl Churchfield, Patti Sirens, Rocky Snyder, David Thorn and Steve â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spikeâ&#x20AC;? Wong read prose and poetry about surfing in Santa Cruz by David Thorn, Thomas Hickenbottom, Daniel Duane, Patti Sirens and Devin Murphy. Thu, Jun 30, 7pm.

Free. Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5700.

The World Affairs Book Club This monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s selection is On the State of Egypt: What Made the Revolution Inevitable by Alaa Al Aswany.

Thu, Jun 30. Free. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

:31BC@3A Redwoods, Reflections and Connections Docent Lou Wolner introduces

San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s City Guide

Blonde Redhead Angular, atmospheric New York trio plays in support of new album â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Penny Sparkle.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jun 30 at the Independent.

Pink Martini Cosmopolitan loungesters appear with San Francisco Symphony. Jun 30-Jul 1 at Davies Symphony Hall.

Rihanna Cee-Lo drops out of the tour; wild mix-ups at BET Awards; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a crazy week for Rihanna.

Jun 30 at Oracle Arena.

Sonny & the Sunsets Globetrotting San Francisco tunesmiths play with Calvin Johnson. Jul 1 at Great American Music Hall.

Grandmaster Flash Hip-hop turntable legend from the Bronx appears in jazz club lounge. Jul 2 at Yoshiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SF. More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

Save Our Shores Star Spangled Beach Cleanup Volunteers are needed on Davenport Main Beach, Panther Beach, Main/Cowell Beach, Seabright Beach, Moran Lake Beach, and Seacliff/Rio Del Mar Beach.

Volunteers may preregister online at SaveOurShores. org or simply show up at the location of their choice Tue, Jul 5, 8-10am. Free.

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: 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. 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.

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hikers to the trees, flowers and other plants on a 12mile, six-hour tour of one of Big Basinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most impressive trails. Sat, Jul 2, 10am. Free.

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Sat, Jul 2. Free. Manresa State Beach, 1445 San Andreas Rd, Watsonville, 831.763.7123.

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JAZZ CAMP CONCERT

FREE COMMUNITY EVENT! Students from this summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jazz camp perform on stage!

Monday, July 11 U 7 & 9 pm

AIRTO MOREIRA & EYEDENTITY

A cross polliination of Latin Jazz, soul & trip-hop $23/Adv $26/Door 9 pm: 1/2 Price Night for Students Thursday, July 14 U 7 pm

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Award winning Afro-pop sensations from South Africa $20/Adv $23/Door Monday, July 18 U 7 & 9 pm

PETE ESCOVEDO LATIN JAZZ ENSEMBLE $22/Adv $25/Door Sponsored by Universal Audio, Inc.

Wednesday, July 20 U 7 pm Considered one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best singers!

JIMMY SCOTT AND THE JAZZ EXPRESSIONS

$25/Adv $28/Dr, No Jazztix/Comps Monday, July 25 U 7 pm

EDMAR CASTANEDA TRIO Phenomenal Columbian harpist! $20/Adv $23/Door Aug 1

SASHA DOBSON Aug 3

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Horton Heat channels the spirit this Sunday at the Catalyst.

MARTIN TAYLOR Aug 11

KEIKO MATSUI Acclaimed Flamenco Masters!

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BY JAVIER LIMĂ&#x201C;N FEATURING BUIKA,

LA SHICA, SANDRA CARRASSCO $40/Gold Circle, $30/General No Jazztix/Comps, Sponsored by Redtree Properties Advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org amd Logos Books & Records.

Dinner served one hour prior. Prremium wine and beer.

Tickets subject to service charge and 5% city tax. All age venue.

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BENNETT JACKSON featuring THE RANCH HANDS An evening of roadhouse country-rock!

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A string-based style of music that fuses elements of several different traditions, choro emerged in the early 20th century as Brazilian folk music, European cafe music and African rhythms all collided on the streets of Rio de Janeiro and created a sound that has been called â&#x20AC;&#x153;the New Orleans jazz of Brazil.â&#x20AC;? As modernday purveyors of choro, the Portlandbased duo Rio Con Brio (Mike Burdette on guitar and Tim Connell on mandolin) preserves this rich tradition with stylish interpretations of choro classics as well as lively original compositions. Pairing up with local â&#x20AC;&#x153;mando-centricâ&#x20AC;? bluegrass outfit the Hobnobbers, Rio Con Brio brings its modern take on choro to town for a night of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mando Madness.â&#x20AC;? Don Quixoteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; $10; 7:30pm. (CJ)

Get ready to â&#x20AC;&#x153;dance to the musicâ&#x20AC;? for some â&#x20AC;&#x153;hot fun in the summertime.â&#x20AC;?

Yes, the legendary Family Stone is back with founding members Cynthia Robinson and Jerry Martini leading the charge. Founded in 1966, this ragtag band of soulful funk paved the way and influenced generations of musicians from George Clinton and Michael Jackson to guitarist John Mayer. In 1993, the Family Stone was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2006 the Grammy Awards bade them a special tribute.

But donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think the fame has fed their egos, because when all is said and done, they are still just â&#x20AC;&#x153;everyday people.â&#x20AC;?

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk; free; 6:30pm & 8:30pm. (Mat Weir)

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The resulting cross-cultural interplay in their music is irresistible and affecting, a testament to the way in

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There are plenty of deserving charities to donate your money to, but be sure to save a few shekels to support Feltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bigfoot Discovery Museum, the research center devoted to the Pacific Northwestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite cryptid. This show, part of a weekend-long benefit for the museum, boasts Paul Collinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Beat as headliners. Featuring Collins of twitchy protoâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;New Wave act the Nerves, the Beat was one of the top acts of the early-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s mod revival and a worthy contemporary of Joe Jackson and the Jam. Collins is joined by Red Pony Clock, the Huxtables and more, all voicing their support for continued research into the mysterious hominid of mythic proportions. Crepe Place; $15; 8pm.

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Born Jim Heath, the right Reverend takes one part country swing, one part honky-tonk and shakes it up with punk rock attitude in a cocktail of fun-loving trouble. Stand-up bassist Jimbo Wallaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fast-paced slapping perfectly synchronizes with Paul Simmonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; impeccable drumming while the Reverend croons the ladies into a frenzy that only rock & roll can deliver.

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Hailing from Austin, Milkdrive takes a refreshingly straightforward and assured approach to contemporary string band music. That may be because its members started early: frontman Noah Jeffries played bluegrass and gospel in his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s band as a child and has been writing his own material since the age of 14.

Jeffriesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; youthful songwriting chops and subsequent success since leaving sleepy northern Idaho is the kind of story that has a timeless quality appropriate to the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s austere old-time music. Don Quixoteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; $10; 7pm. (PMD)

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Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 866-384-3060 & online

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Film Capsules BEGINNERS (R; 104 min.) In this semi-autobiographical film inspired by writerdirector Mike Millsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; past, Oliver (Ewan McGregor) must deal with two revelations about his father (Christopher Plummer): that, after 45 years of marriage to Oliverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s late mother, he is coming out of the closet; and that he has terminal cancer. Such honesty marks a new beginning for the father-son relationship and helps Oliver define his feelings for a French actress he has just met (MĂŠlanie Laurent). (Opens Fri at the

Nickelodeon)

BORN YESTERDAY (1950) Business tycoon Harry Brock forces his mistress Billie Dawn to take etiquette lessons from a journalist (William Holden) in this picture based on the 1946 original Broadway show.

Billie not only learns her mannersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;she uncovers who Harry really is and tries to put a stop to his affairs. (Sat-Sun at Aptos) CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (2010) Lucy and Edmund return to Narnia, departure point for a

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maritime journey fraught with meetings with dragons, dwarves and warriors. (Weds 7/6 at Scotts Valley)

DESPICABLE ME (2010) This thoughtful animated feature stars Steve Carell as the voice of Felonious Gru, an evil supervillain looking to regain his pride. In an attempt to defeat his nemesis, Vector Perkins (Jason Segel), Gru adopts three orphan girls who end up changing his sour outlook on life. (Weds 6/29-Thu 6/30 at Scotts Valley; Weds 7/6 at 41st Ave) E.T. (1982) Steven Spielbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heartwarming film about a

gentle alien botanist stranded on Earth and the American kids who try to help him won four Oscars. With Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Henry Thomas and Drew Barrymore.

(Weds 6/29-Thu 6/30 at 41st Ave)

LARRY CROWNE (PG-13; 99 min.) Middle-aged Larry Crowne (Tom Hanks) gets fired and decides to head back to college, where he crushes on his public speaking teacher (Julia Roberts) and joins a quirky scooter community. (Opens Fri at Aptos, Green Valley and Scotts Valley)

Movie reviews by Tessa Stuart and Richard von Busack MONTE CARLO (PG) Three young women, underwhelmed by their longanticipated Parisian vacation, get all the adventure theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d hoped for and then some when one of them is mistaken for a wealthy British heiress. With Selena Gomez.

(Opens Fri at Santa Cruz 9, Scotts Valley) SUBMARINE (R; 97 min.) In this British dramedy, know-itall teenager Oliver Tate wants to fix his parentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s marriage.

He also wants to lose his virginity. The film, based on the acclaimed 2008 novel by Joe Dunthorne, has a familiar

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TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG-13; 109 min.) In this latest installment of Michael Bayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Transformersâ&#x20AC;? series, the Autobots compete with the Decepticons to find out the secrets of the Cybertronian spacecraft that has crashed on the moon after an attack.

Starring Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

(Opens Weds 6/29 at Santa Cruz 9, 41st Ave, Scotts Valley and Green Valley.)

@3D73EA THE ART OF GETTING BY (PG-13; 92 min.) A high school senior (Freddie Highmore) with an ambition deficit makes unlikely inroads with the most popular girl in school (Emma Roberts), then discovers he may not be able to graduate.

BAD TEACHER (R; 92 min.)

Crude junior high teacher Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz) attempts to charm a rich substitute teacher (Justin Timberlake), but her plan goes awry when she finds out he is interested in her colleague (Lucy Punch).

Halseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friend Lynn (Phyllis of TVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Office) and the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gym teacher (Jason Segel) help her unpack her obvious daddy issues with characteristically dry commentary.

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)

CARS 2 (G; 116 min.) An animated Bond parody.

Events lure Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) into a race demonstrating alternative fuels in Paris, London and Tokyo; tagging along is his gauche towtruck buddy from Radiator Springs. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all barely worthy of Pixarâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the debate between regular fuel versus fossil fuels ends with such nervousness that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d think director John Lasseter was dealing with a controversial matter. (RvB) GREEN LANTERN (PG-13; 105 min.) A cocky test pilot named Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) joins an intergalactic brotherhood known as the Green Lanterns charged with keeping order in the universe and fending off an enemy called the Parallax.

Humans havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t impressed the Green Lanterns much, but Jordan may turn out to be their only hope against the new threat.

KUNG FU PANDA 2 (PG; 90 min.) Smart-ass dialog and the voices of Jack Black, Seth Rogan, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman and a multitude more spice up the story of the chubby panda Po, who takes on old enemies with a new weapon.

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG-13; 100 min.) Woody Allen wrote and directed this film about Gil (Owen Wilson), a killjoy writer on vacation in Paris with his fiancĂŠe (Rachel McAdams) and her family.

When they run into some old friends (Michael Sheen and Nina Arianda), Gil begins stealing away from his party by taking conspicuously long walks at night. He soon discovers a newfound love for the city, and life, in this romantic comedy that asks the question: Is a different life better, or is it justâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;different?

MR. POPPERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PENGUINS (PG; 103 min.) A businessman (Jim Carrey) finds his world turned upside down when he inherits six penguins, starting with one received in the mail.

His Popperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Performing Penguins show doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do much to settle his life down.

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1:=A3 1=;>/<7=<A If, like me, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been shamelessly inhaling the luscious pumpkin bread from Companion Bakers all these years, you have reason to rejoice. Husband-and-wife team 3`W\ O\R 8S`S[g :O[^SZ just celebrated the opening of their new 1][^O\W]\ 0OYSaV]^ on the site of the Westsideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former Beckmannâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bakery. The coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inventory of organic sourdough baguettes, hefty whole wheat loaves, strawberry rhubarb pies and tea breads sold out completely at the new bakery/cafeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opening last week.

Armed with a brick Mugnaini hearth (the Cadillac of brick ovens), the Lampels specialize in Old World bread styles using very New World ingredients. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been baking >WS @O\QVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pies for three years now,â&#x20AC;? Erin told me, literally wiping flour from her forehead. And that brings me to some more good news about the inviting new bakeshop. Not only are Pie Ranch harvests used in the bakeryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creations, but several dozen containers of Pie Ranch eggs were sitting on top of the display caseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;right next to 2 lb. bags of whole wheat Pie Ranch flour, all for sale. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re using their wheat flour in our products,â&#x20AC;? Erin told me. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On weekends weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be making Pie Ranch quiches.â&#x20AC;? They also serve excellent coffee, thanks to a smart partnership with ;O\bV`W A`W\ObV¸a :cZc 1O`^S\bS`a.

Erin apprenticed at UCSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Farm & Garden program and won the taste buds of many organiphiles with her work at Feel Good Foods. Now she and her baker/dietician husband are busy just keeping up with demand. Partnering with top local farmers, the Companion bakers are already on a roll. Stop by and welcome them to the neighborhood. And check the July issue of Sunset magazine for mention of the bakery and coffeehouse. 2341 Mission St., Santa Cruz. 7amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;2pm Tueâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Fri, 8amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;1pm Satâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sun. 6=B >:/B3 The centerpiece of our recent 1SZZO` 2]]` dinner was a gorgeous whole branzino surrounded with roasted squashes and a gossamer zucchini mousse. Turns out produce from the vineyardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biodynamic garden is showing up on the menu. I emailed @O\ROZZ 5`OV[ to find out more. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We, that is to say, brilliant farmer 2OZS 1]YS, has planted a 3.5 acreish farm for us right in the center of the San Juan site,â&#x20AC;? Grahm confirmed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, melons, various herbs, etc.â&#x20AC;? The winemaker/restaurateur likes what heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tasting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The flavor of the produce weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting is pretty much off the charts.â&#x20AC;? Another reason for a trip to the Bonny Doon Vineyard facility on Ingalls Street.

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For the week of June 29 ARIES (March 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 19): When astronaut Buzz Aldrin ďŹ&#x201A;ew to the moon and back on the spacecraft Apollo 11 in 1969, he was paid less than $8 a day. That has to stand as one of the most ďŹ&#x201A;agrant cases of underpaid labor everâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; far worse than what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had to endure in your storied career. I suggest you keep Aldrinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story in mind during the next six months as you meditate steadily on the future of your relationship with making money. Hopefully, it will help keep you in an amused and spacious and philosophical frame of mindâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which is the best possible attitude to have as you scheme and dream about your ďŹ nancial master plan for the years ahead.

TAURUS (April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20): After meditating on your

astrological omens for the rest of 2011, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve picked out the guiding words that best suit your needs. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re from mythologist Joseph Campbell: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your path.â&#x20AC;? Now hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a corollary from Spanish poet Antonio Machado: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, nothing more; there is no roadâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; you make the road by walking. Turning to look behind, you see the path you will never travel again.â&#x20AC;?

GEMINI (May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 20): Emma Goldman (1869â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1940) was a charismatic activist whose writing and speeches had a big impact on leftist politics in the ďŹ rst half of the 20th century. Unlike some of her fellow travelers, she wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a dour, dogmatic proselytizer. She championed a kind of liberation that celebrated beauty and joy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dance, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be in your revolution,â&#x20AC;? she is alleged to have told a sourpuss colleague. As you contemplate the radical transformations you might like to cultivate in your own sphere during the coming months, Gemini, I suggest you adopt a similar attitude. Make sure your uprisings include pleasurable, even humorous elements.

Have some fun with your metamorphoses.

CANCER (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22): A while back, I asked my readers to propose a new name for your astrological sign. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cancerâ&#x20AC;? has a bit of a negative connotation, after all. Many people suggested â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dolphinâ&#x20AC;? as a replacement, which I like. But the two ideas that most captivated my imagination were â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gatewayâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fount.â&#x20AC;? I probably wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be able to convince the astrological community to permanently adopt either of these uplifting designations, but I encourage you to try out them out to see how they feel. This is a good time to experiment: For the next 12 months, you will have substantial potential to embody the highest meanings of both â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gatewayâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fount.â&#x20AC;?

LEO (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): The yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s half over, Leo. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

talk about what you want to make happen in the next six months. My analysis of the astrological omens suggests that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be an excellent time to formulate a long-term master plan and outline in detail what you will need to carry it out. For inspiration, read this pep talk from philosopher Jonathan Zap: â&#x20AC;&#x153;An extremely effective and grounded magical practice is to identify your big dreams, the missions you really need to accomplish in this lifetime. The test of a big dream comes from asking yourself, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Will I remember this well on my death bed?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; If you have a big dream, you will probably ďŹ nd that to accomplish it will require a minimum of two hours of devoted activity per day.â&#x20AC;?

VIRGO (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;The passion to explore is at the heart of being human,â&#x20AC;? said Carl Sagan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This impulseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to go, to see, to knowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has found expression in every culture.â&#x20AC;? But Steven Dutch, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, disagrees. He says thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been lots of societies that have had little interest in exploration.

Africans never discovered Madagascar or the Cape Verde archipelago, for example. Few Asian cultures probed far and wide. During a thousand years of history, ancient Romans ignored Russia, Scandinavia and the Baltic, and made only minimal forays to India and China. Where do you personally ďŹ t on the scale of the human exploratory urge, Virgo? Regardless of what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done in the past, I bet youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be on the move in the coming months. Your hunger for novelty and unfamiliarity should be waxing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): In the coming months, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely you will experience more action than usualâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;some of it quite expansiveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in your astrological eighth house.

Traditional astrologers call this the sphere of sex, drugs

and rock & roll, but I refer to it as the realm of deep connection, altered states of awareness and lyrical interludes that educate and enrich your emotional intelligence. Are you ready to have your habit mind rewired, your certainties reworked and your pleasures reconďŹ gured?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 21): I hope that in the ďŹ rst half of 2011 you have been doing some devoted work on tidying up the messy old karma that had been interfering with the free ďŹ&#x201A;ow of grace into your intimate relationships.

If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still work to be done on that noble task, throw yourself into it now. The renaissance of togetherness is due to begin soon and last for many months. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want any lingering ignorance, self-deceit or lack of compassion to gum it up.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): In 1498, Leonardo da Vinci completed one of his masterworks, the mural known as The Last Supper. Nineteen years later, the paint had begun to ďŹ&#x201A;ake off, and by 1556 Leonardoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biographer considered the whole thing to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;ruined.â&#x20AC;?

Over the centuries, further deterioration occurred, even as many experts tried to restore and repair it. The most recent reclamation project, ďŹ nished in 1999, lasted more than two decades. I hope that in the coming months, Sagittarius, you will show a similar dedication to the high art of regeneration. Please work long and hard on bringing vitality back into what has fallen into decay or stagnancy.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 19): In a horoscope last year, I asked you Capricorns whether you ever obsessed on your longing to such a degree that you missed opportunities to actually satisfy your longing. In response, a reader named John G. sent me the following corrective message: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We Capricorns comprehend the futility of too much longing. We understand it can be a phantasm that gets in the way of real accomplishment. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a telephone that keeps ringing somewhere but canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be found. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t waste energy on dreamy feelings that may or may not be satisďŹ ed, since that energy is so much better funneled into mastering the details that will bring us useful rewards.â&#x20AC;? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m here to tell you, Capricorn, that the coming months will be an excellent time to make use of the Capricornian capacities John G. describes.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Truth is, everybody is

going to hurt you,â&#x20AC;? sang Bob Marley. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You just gotta ďŹ nd the ones worth suffering for.â&#x20AC;? How are you doing on that score, Aquarius? Have you been discerning in picking out allies whose value to you is so high that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re willing to deal with their moments of unconsciousness? Have you created a family and community that bless you far more than they drain you? The next 10 months will be an excellent time to concentrate on reďŹ ning this part of your life.

PISCES (Feb. 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20): Any minute now, you might start learning at a faster rate than you have since 2000.

Any day now, you will be less bored than you have been since 2006, and any week now you will be expressing more spontaneity than you have since early 2010. Any month now, Pisces, you will ďŹ nd yourself able to access more of your visionary intelligence than you have since maybe 2007. What does it all mean? You may not feel an amazing, spectacular, extraordinary degree of personal unity tomorrow, but you will soon begin building toward that happy state. By December I bet youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be enjoying an unprecedented amount of it.

Homework: Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re halfway through 2011.

Testify about what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve accomplished so far and whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s left to do. Freewillastrology.com.

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