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I DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T pretend to know a thing about running a state, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be surprised if California saves a cent after dealing with the problems it will likely face after closing 70 state parks and beaches in September.

No ideas about how to even do this, says â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sands of Timeâ&#x20AC;? (Currents, Aug. 3). Sounds like a bigger mess in the making, and for a mere $22 million? Though it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pass with a majority vote, why not provide the Prop 21 option to those who supported it?

If the 4,190,643 people (42.7 percent) who voted â&#x20AC;&#x153;yesâ&#x20AC;? in November 2010 (according to ballotpedia.org) paid the $18 annual fee, that would be $75,431,574 annually. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right. If

only the yes voters paid, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have over three times the amount closing the parks would save. In addition, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d continue to enjoy the money that having areas of interest, like state parks, brings to local economies. And, if the â&#x20AC;&#x153;noâ&#x20AC;? voters want to enjoy a state park or beach, they can pay the $5-plus-a-pop fee while the rest of us cruise on through, having paid our annual dues with our vehicle registration.

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I USE an electric bike as my primary source of transportation. It makes me the object of

curiosity to people in cars, and when the traffic is bad or gas prices spike, I am openly envied zipping along in my own lane. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve noticed a certain behavior that, while odd, does not surprise me. I would call it passive aggressive, but confrontation between a bicycle and tons of steel is anything but passive. After passing me by very carefully, certain drivers will drift in and out of the bike lane in front of me, almost as if to demonstrate how easy it would be to crush me with their vehicle. Or to protest having to be mindful of my existence and show me their resentment at having to share the road. These drivers almost invariably favor absurdly oversized vehicles: Suburbans, Explorers, Escalades, huge 4x4 trucks to haul a sack of groceries and a latte. Commercial trucks and buses donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t share this tendency despite their size. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because they are keenly aware of the lethal consequences of not holding their lane. The way all drivers instinctually avoid crossing the yellow lines because they know doing so would result in death and destruction.

And the police will ticket you if you are seen doing that. Sadly, basic consideration for others isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sufficient and if there is no consequence, this behavior will continue. The police need to strictly enforce the bike lane. We would all do well to remember the first rule of aggression: People are only aggressive if they think they can get away with it.

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by Jews, Christians and Muslims. Freedom of speech is not freedom to enrage or provoke. That is not my personal dictate.

It is recognized internationally by human rights organizations. Yes, Crumb is entitled to his opinion but so are those who find his expression insulting. Are you planning to give equal space to the believers amongst you?

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Younglove Avenue ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ONLY three blocks long, between Mission Street and the circle with the church, hardly an avenue really, but the train tracks slashing through it at an angle give it a greater scope because as you ride across them carefully on your bike so as not to slip you can look both ways and imagine long trips in a boxcar. So maybe the street is bigger than it seems, and when you lived there for a year it certainly was, opening both ways (not to speak of the journeys along those rails) toward unpredictable loves, the ones you knew and the ones you pursued and those who showed up at your door at midnight just to amaze you.

The fire station across the street was where you

voted, and the kid next door who mowed your meager lawn was paid with your little portable TV because you needed some excuse to give it away, you had no use for the televised lives of stars because your own was already almost too romantic to take, so many ballads going at once you needed a few more bodies to play them all, more guitars, more typewriters, more ballpoint pens, more songs. Fast forward a couple of decades to another house a block or so down on the other side of the street, where in a rented room behind the kitchen you took little naps on break on production night when your newspaper was about to be put to bed.

Your paramourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spare bike was kept with

hers in back and after work some summer evenings youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d take them out through the neighborhood whose cooking smelled eternal both for what it suggested about your dinner and for its aromatic echoes, neither here nor there yet all-pervasive, more total recall than you can bear. Younglove Avenue, who gave it that name, as if knowing it would set the stage for such passions, and that so many more years would pass before youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d know how long you could hold what happened there in your heart, something youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never understand and are still in search of.

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FAIR Time Gov. Brown signs simple LGBT education bill; opposition acts like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the end of the world

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IN THE early morning hours of June 27, 1969, after countless police raids on the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, gays and lesbians finally fought back.

The ensuing three days of bottlethrowing, broken windows and street fighting has gone down in history as the Stonewall riots and is acknowledged as the beginning of the gay rights movement.

With the signing of the FAIR Education Act by Gov. Jerry Brown in July, key LGBT historical events like Stonewall may now be included in California textbooks and curriculum. Known as SB 48,

the law requires that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, as well as disabled people and Pacific Islanders, be included in social science curricula for their historical contributions to California and the United States. The first of its kind in the nation, SB 48 could mark a sea change in how LGBT people are represented in the classroom. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know that as an educator, the more voices that we can bring to our discussion, and the more perspectives we can teach kids about, enriches their learning and their ability to be in the world,â&#x20AC;? notes Jennie Snyder, superintendent of Piner-Olivet Union School District in Santa Rosa. With

â&#x20AC;&#x153;allows instruction that puts the homosexual or transgender lifestyle in a positive light irrespective of the facts as recorded in history.â&#x20AC;?

Whatever those facts may be, Equality California representative Orr says that the antiâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;SB 48 forces are twisting them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know every campaign weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever fought on any equality issue has come down to one thing: the lies and stereotypes perpetrated by our opponents about LGBT people,â&#x20AC;? she says.

Orr adds that Equality California has partnered with the Service Employees International Union to create a hotline where people can record the location of antiâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;SB 48 petitioners. After receiving a call, trained volunteers will go out to â&#x20AC;&#x153;educateâ&#x20AC;? the signature gatherers about the FAIR Education Act. Part of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;re-educationâ&#x20AC;? may address how the teaching of LGBT contributions has been shown to lessen incidences of bullying.

According to the Preventing School Harassment Survey by the California Safe Schools Coalition, in schools where students report having learned about LGBT people in the curriculum, 11 percent of LGBT students say theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been bullied.

Conversely, in schools where the majority of students say they havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t learned about LGBT people, that number jumps to 24 percent.

Snyder says that while sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not familiar with these studies, she does see a direct connection between the two. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once we can open up things for discussion, it sort of demystifies,â&#x20AC;? says Snyder. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rather than having it be something that is the other or distant or the unknown, you bring that into an awareness that these are people who have made contributions. These are people who are not unlike your classmates and people that you encounter in your community. I think that is central to what we do as teachers.â&#x20AC;? 0 0@734A 3

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EQUAL ED California students will be reading more about figures like San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first openly gay public official.

nine years of experience as a middleschool social studies teacher prior to her entry into administration, Snyder says the FAIR Education Act complements the goals of history and social science teachers: to teach about current challenges and problems in a historical context. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see [SB 48] as being a conflict; I see it as having the potential for enriching those learning experiences,â&#x20AC;? says Snyder.

Supporters say that the FAIR Education Act brings classroom instruction into alignment with nondiscrimination laws around race, gender and ethnicity that were already adopted by the State Board of Education a decade ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What a student learns about gay civil rights or leaders with disabilities in the curriculum would be developed with input from teachers and parents at the local school district level,â&#x20AC;? notes Rebekah Orr, communications director for Equality California, the San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;based gay rights organization that co-sponsored the bill with the Gay Straight Alliance.

Yet a group calling itself the Stop SB 48 Coalition claims the FAIR Education Act infringes on parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rights to decide what their child should or shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t learn in school, and that it promotes a â&#x20AC;&#x153;homosexual agenda.â&#x20AC;? Within a day of the billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signing, the coalition filed documents with the attorney generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office to place a referendum on the 2012 ballot to repeal the bill. The group is looking to collect approximately 500,000 signatures by early October. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This legislation cheapens and discredits the education process by requiring that the history curriculum highlight historical figuresâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sexual orientation,â&#x20AC;? says Brad Dacus by phone. Dacus is president of the Pacific Justice Institute, which has a history of lobbying against gay marriage and hate crimes legislation.

Dacus goes on to call the bill â&#x20AC;&#x153;social indoctrinationâ&#x20AC;? that

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Coonerty says he was particularly disappointed with Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors member BVg` HidcZ, who sits on the commission along with representatives from across the state.

Stone never communicated any problems he had with the project prior to the meeting, Coonerty says.

Stone kept his position on the La Bahia private until Thursday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see myself as an advocate just because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m from this area and sitting on this commission,â&#x20AC;? Stone said at the meeting. He said he asked himself, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What would I do in any other community where this was proposed?â&#x20AC;?

Expensive Shell The county agency responsible for building the Live Oak Library, Simpkins Family Swim Center and 20 miles of sidewalk has decided to keep its name but little else. The

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portion of the cumulative $1.7 billion the Brown administration says redevelopment agencies owe California.

Only one employeeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; administrative services manager @^b CVbWVâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;will remain out of 18 agency employees, some of whom have found county jobs in other departments. Namba will oversee a $110 million string of lastminute projects that includes a new sheriff center, a youth center and Eastside beach improvements. The foreseeable future of the agency will largely consist of payments to the contractors and annual payments to the state of $2.3 million in addition to this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s payment.

County Supervisor John Leopold, whose Live Oak district makes up most of the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s redevelopment zone, says saving the agency will allow it to pay for low-income housing projects, though not for a few years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Redevelopment was the single largest source of affordable housing in California,â&#x20AC;? says Leopold, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and the state just got away with the single largest source of affordable housing funds.â&#x20AC;?

Redevelopment agencies are entering a period of legal uncertainty.

On Aug. 11 the 8Va^[dgc^V HjegZbZ 8djgi announced it will hear a challenge to the constitutionality of the two laws eliminating the redevelopment agencies. The principal argument against them is California votersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; approval in November 2010 of Proposition 22, which prohibits the state from taking local funds. The court has adopted a schedule that will allow for a decision in January 2012, just as agencies are preparing to make their first payments to the state.

Redevelopment also has its critics, like former Capitola treasurer <aZcc =VccV and 9dj\ @VeaVc, an Aptos developer. For years theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve criticized redevelopment agencies for redirecting property tax increments they say could have gone to other local districts. They back a movement to send redevelopment projects to a public vote, just as schools need voter approval for bond issuances.

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or give them away to friends and neighbors like Angie Reed, who grew up next door. When Reed got older, she would ask if she could pay for the pickles; Kenville would say no, and so Reed would ask if, instead, the older woman would teach her how to make the pickles herself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She always had an excuseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;she was like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;My kitchen is too small,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

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The practice of canning has run like a thread through their lives, weaving together the places and people theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve known and locating each in a time and taste.

That weekend in the fall of 2003, they packed pickles together, and Kenville shared with Reed several of those savory secrets that are jealously guarded by practitioners of folk arts like canning. She gave Reed her brine recipe, showed her how to use a grape leaf (from green grapes, not purple ones) to keep the pickles crisp and told her which flea market vendor she purchased her cucumbers from. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just spent a few hours with her,â&#x20AC;? says Reed, who won the blue

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13 P R E S E R V A T I O N ribbon for her Garlic Dills at last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Santa Cruz County Fair. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember that winter I asked her, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Can I get a refresher course?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and she said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Yeah, yeah, sure.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? It never happened, thoughâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in February of that year Kenville succumbed to an eight-year battle with lymphoma.

Now every fall, Reed jars pickles in her neighborâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memory, doing it just the way Kenville taught her that day.

Yes, We Can! In the last several years, the art and science of canning has come back into vogue on the strength of the local food movement and a recession-era DIY revival. Around these parts, renewed interest in canning and preserving has spawned classes and demonstrations at DIG Gardens, Love Apple Farm and the Santa Cruz Reskilling Expo and whole establishments like the Happy Girl Kitchen Co., which opened last fall in Pacific Grove. Closer to home, Mountain Feed and Farm Supply in Ben Lomond opened an entire food preservation section in spring with information and equipment for making everything from jams to sausage.

For three Santa Cruz County Fair blue ribbon winnersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Reed, Mary Bannister of Watsonville and Dan Scripture of Corralitosâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the practice of canning has run like a thread through their lives, weaving together the places and people theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve known and locating each in a time and taste.

Bannister, whose day job is general manager of the Pajaro Valley Water Management District, started canning when she was a little girl in Port Townsend, Wash. She has done it everywhere sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lived since, from the Pacific Northwest to the East Bay and Alaska. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Alaska it was a lot of rhubarbâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;rhubarb and sauerkraut,â&#x20AC;? she says. Here in Santa Cruz? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, apples! Apples and berries, for sure,â&#x20AC;? says Bannister, who won a blue ribbon for her applesauce last year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Apricot jam is one of my favorites, too, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very short seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already come and gone. If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ¨

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HEN Connie DeWitt and her husband Kam Kasavri began designing a weekend getaway house in the quiet woods of Zayante, they knew what they wanted: high style, low impact on the earth and a minimal cash outlay. Two years later, their modern cabin is taking form as the very first home in Santa Cruz County to be constructed out of shipping containers.

Those would be the same shipping containers that our cell phones, wines, electronics, furniture, clothing and everything else get packed in for transport across the high seas. The standard steel boxesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;8 feet wide, 8.5 feet tall and either 20 or 40 feet

longâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;revolutionized international trade back in the 1970s, cutting the loading and unloading process from several days to several hours and the cost by 90 percent.

Over the last two decades, though, shipping containers have begun piling up in shipyards all over the globeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially in countries that import far more than they export, like the U.S., where the number of surplus containers in shipyards peaked around 1 million in 2005.

It was about that time that people began building with them, initially for storage and office space and eventually for housing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The shipping container itself is basically the strongest structural module ever built,â&#x20AC;? says David Fenster of Modulus Architects, who

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Let the Sunshine In â&#x20AC;&#x153;The basis for the design was to create something wonderfully unique for Connie and her family, and to take these boxes and break them apart gently to create light,â&#x20AC;? says Fenster of his first shipping container project.

Fenster even camped out on the property to get a feel for how the light moves through the sunny clearing where the compact twostory structure now sits. A long skylight bisecting the roof splits the top container in two, lighting up the master and guest bedrooms that make up the second floor. A steel mesh walkway bisecting the second story floor runs exactly beneath the skylight, allowing the same light to reach the first floor, where the living room will be. Only when it is dark out will it be necessary to have electric lights turned on in the house. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The container home is acting like another series of trees in the way it is letting the light filter down into the space,â&#x20AC;? says Fenster. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The containers are split to let the light in, and also expose the site around the house. Instead of just creating a glass box [from which] you see all of your surroundings, I think it makes you more aware of your surroundings,â&#x20AC;? says Fenster.

This happens especially in the living room, where partially opened doors have been turned into what DeWitt calls her â&#x20AC;&#x153;shipping container bay windowsâ&#x20AC;? overlooking the forested hillside. A 40-foot container makes up the one-story wing of the house where the kitchen will be. It is brightly lit by skylights and sliding glass doors that lead into a picnic area.

In total, the house is 1,200 square feet. While the structure itself costs about $10 per square foot, DeWitt estimates that wiring and other modifications will bring that figure to between $200 and $275 per square foot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cost-wise, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably a little bit less than regular construction,â&#x20AC;? says Fenster. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The container itself is very cost effective, but when you have to modify it, put drywall in, utilities, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where the cost comes in. It still came in $50 or $60 less per square foot than regular construction.â&#x20AC;?

The inside of the cabin will be drywalled, except for two walls upstairs that DeWitt says she wants to keep exposed to retain the containerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique feel. Outside, the structure is painted industrial Red #3175, a pleasant rusty red color purchased from the containerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s manufacturer.

In spite of the homages to the homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s industrial origins, DeWitt says the plan â&#x20AC;&#x153;is to make it look like a house in the woods, as naturallooking as possible.â&#x20AC;?

Surprisingly, the steel house that once tossed around on the high seas looks as if it has always been in the middle of a redwood forest, but standing inside it feels exhilaratingly mysterious. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where they have been,â&#x20AC;? DeWitt says of her homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s huge building blocks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have their passport, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re more welltraveled than I am, for sure.â&#x20AC;?

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worked on the project.

Indeed, anything built to withstand 20 years stacked 10 high on cargo ships (the amount of time shipping containers are deemed â&#x20AC;&#x153;seaworthyâ&#x20AC;?) is going to be durable, to say the least. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Besides the uniqueness and being green it has a lot of benefits, too,â&#x20AC;? says DeWitt, standing against an exposed shipping container wall in her soonto-be upstairs bedroom. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to worry about the wood rotting out from under the house.â&#x20AC;?

Like all shipping containers, the three and a half containers DeWitt and Kasavri purchased from the Port of Oakland are made from Corten steelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the strongest steel in the world, which also happens to be resistant to rust, mold and fire.

So what happens when you take massive steel boxes designed for the wet salty air and crane them into the middle of a damp forest? A refreshingly harmonious juncture.

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Botanica Exotica Design-minded folk are experimenting with plants in unexpected places BY TRACI HUKILL Can a plant ever really be surprising? The bird that was devoured by a pitcher plant in Somerset, England earlier this month probably thought so in its final moments. Generally, though, plants donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a lot of tricks up their sleeves. Which means that in order to create interesting, unexpected design with plants, one must manipulate other things about themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;such as where they appear. Following are some intriguing examples of plants in strange places.

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In a Table At Five Feet From the Moonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s generous warehouse space on Fair Avenue, Dominic Boinich makes sleek, modern furniture using poured concrete.

Among his inspirations: smooth tabletops split by cracks from which sprout tiny succulent gardens.

The organic shape and unexpected botanical element makes these tables as stylish as they are functional. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d always wanted to make a table with a crack down it,â&#x20AC;? says partner Katrina King, whose gorgeous metal patinas fill the shop. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first one was kind of a geometric shape and we looked at it and thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We should plant something in it.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Succulents, with their scant space and water requirements, fit the bill. Tables start at $375; vertical cement wall hangings start at $275. Available at Five Feet From the Moon (Fair Avenue between Mission and Ingalls in Santa Cruz) and DIG Gardens (420 Water St., Santa Cruz).

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In the handful of years that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been open, DIG Gardens has established itself as Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headquarters for vertical gardening. Besides providing beautiful design possibilities, the forwardthinking concept melds nicely with a low-carbon future in which cities build up, not out, and urbanites garden anywayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;on their walls.

Owner Cara Meyers has introduced us to Woolly Pockets (around $40), wall-hanging pouches that hold enough soil for an artful array of plants.

The store also carries terrariums like the Recycled Tear Drop ($59) and holds workshops on making spectacular vertical succulent pictures, pretty much the definition of living art (the next one is Sept. 3). These and many more innovations exploring the art of flora are on display at DIG Gardens, 420 Water St., Santa Cruz.

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Unlike Chicago and Brooklyn, where vertical buildings are the rule and arable land is at a premium, Santa Cruz doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a ton of rooftop gardensâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;yet.

Architect Mark Primack installed one on his Westside house in July. Thirty yards of soil weighting 12 1/2 tons were hoisted onto the roof to a soil depth of 5-12 inchesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;perfect for many garden veggies. Rooftop gardens also act as insulators, cooling structures in summer and slowing heat loss in winter. No word yet on the Primacksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; actual veggie harvest, but we can confidently say the style dividends are substantial.

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Outside the Kitchen Door OK, finding culinary herbs growing on a back porch isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t unexpected at all. Still, the herb bowls from Cole Canyon Farm ($15-45) deserve a mention for their unique combinations, not to mention the sleek rice-hull Ecoform pots they come in. The Tiny Thyme Bowl comes with two types of thyme and rosemary or sage, depending on the season. The Herbs de Provence Bowl comes with basil, summer savory, sweet marjoram, rosemary and lavender. Thai Chef comes with lemongrass, Thai basil, a chili pepper and Vietnamese coriander. And the Love Potion Bowl comes with parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you mix those herbs you can create great love grisgris,â&#x20AC;? says Pamela Cole, using New Orleans-speak for â&#x20AC;&#x153;spell.â&#x20AC;? Can any of them be grown on the kitchen windowsill? Sadly, no, says Cole: Even kitchens with lots of light donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get enough sun for culinary herbs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We encourage people to keep them right outside the door,â&#x20AC;? she saysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and to transplant them into larger pots after two or three months. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most perennial herbs you can keep going outside beautifully all year long.â&#x20AC;?

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Home & Garden get someone to run over to Gilroy and get some apricots, you can miss it pretty easily.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really luckyâ&#x20AC;? in Santa Cruz County, she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think one of the benefits of living here is that we have so much fresh produce available for us. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Out on Freedom Boulevard, the Silvas have a little roadside stand,â&#x20AC;?

Bannister says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can go and get any variety of apples and peaches out there, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the honor system.â&#x20AC;?

The flea market also always has good deals on apricots, she advises. Right now she has some lima beans coming up in her garden that she is going to can with garlic.

Recipes for Success When Dan Scriptureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter was little, they lived in house that had blackberries in the backyard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She loves blackberries,â&#x20AC;? Scripture, a retired UCSC professor and canner of award-winning ginger jelly, explains when asked how he got into canning. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost 40 now, so this is a while ago, but she asked, Could we make some blackberry jam? So I found a recipe in the Joy of Cooking and we made some blackberry jam.â&#x20AC;?

They have moved in the 30-odd years since, but Scripture found another house with blackberry bushes in back, so now every year for Christmas his daughter still gets a jar of jam.

For beginners interested in canning, Scripture says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Start with the Ball Blue Book and follow the directions carefully. Those recipes are tested very, very carefully so theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll work.â&#x20AC;?

Bannister agrees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I say start with the basics and then get brave.â&#x20AC;?

Last year, for instance, she made a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Meyerkiwicotâ&#x20AC;? marmalade using Meyer lemons, kiwis and apricots. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if it tasted that good, but I thought the colors were really kind of fun,â&#x20AC;? Bannister laughs.

Judges at the fair evaluate each entry based on appearance, texture and flavor. The ginger jelly Scripture made that won for last year, for instance, had to be filtered several times through coffee filters so it would be clear. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is why you win prizesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;because you have the

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Scripture laughs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can make a perfectly good-tasting jelly without all that filtering, but the judges care about clarity as much as the taste.â&#x20AC;?

To make a tasty jam or jelly, Scripture says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to have really fresh produce and not overcook it. Like the blueberry jamâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if you cook it too much it begins to taste cooked, not like nice blueberries.â&#x20AC;?

The timing indicated in recipes is key. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Follow it religiously,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and when you have it in a hot water bathâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use a pressure canner; you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to for things that are acidic or have tons of sugarâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t process it too long.â&#x20AC;?

Expect that there will be disasters, too, like the time Bannister shattered 16 jars. She was just a kid, using a pressure canner to preserve beans with her mother. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She left, so I took the big pressure canner and I put it under cold water and opened it and it blew up all the bottles,â&#x20AC;? Bannister laughs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yeah, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had some disasters.â&#x20AC;?

Shared Wisdom Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all part of the experience, though. Sifting through the disasters and triumphs, canners learn the special tricks that make their jams, jellies and pickles special. For Reed it means using the grape leaf to keep her pickles crisp. This year, Bannister will be experimenting with homemade pectin boiled down last year from apple cores and pits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember my mother used to boil those down and get the pectin,â&#x20AC;? she says.

Once a person learns some tricks, he or she gets to decide whether to share them or guard them furtively.

For her part, Reed says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had some people ask, but I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t taught anybody else. It feels circularâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;here I am and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m able to make these pickles in [Kenvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s] honor and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doing really well at the fair and I wonder, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Do I want to teach someone else right now or do I want to keep it to myself ?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Laughing, she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;She had the same excuses for why she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to teach people. I guess one day Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll just decide. I guess the time will come.â&#x20AC;? 0

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TAKE FIVE Jeff Rosenstock & Co. mellow out on â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Vacation.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Impermanent Vacation Bomb the Music Industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s audacious gamble

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WHEN Jeff Rosenstockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s band The Arrogant Sons of Bitches broke up in 2004, instead of starting a new band he decided to record a bunch of weird songs alone on his computer and just give them away for free on the Internet. He called this project â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bomb the Music Industry.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I realized I could record in my room, I went wild,â&#x20AC;? says Rosenstock. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I recorded everything I was thinking.

Instead of waiting for people to practice or CDs to be pressed, if I thought of a song, I just recorded it and put it out.â&#x20AC;?

Seven years later, Bomb the Music Industry, now a five-piece band, is one of the most important names in the underground punk rock scene. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gained a reputation for being all over the map, music genre-wise, and playing insane, cathartic music with a no-holds-barred attitude.

Bomb the Music Industry is constantly evolving. The early albums were just Rosenstock. Then he went the other direction and recorded with a rotating cast of 30-plus musicians. Over the past couple of years, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s formed a more consistent band to tour and record with. With its sixth and newest release, Vacation, Rosenstock has created his most unique and interesting album to date, a work marked by restraint and subtlety.

The opening track, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Campaign for a better next weekend,â&#x20AC;? begins with a two-

minute keyboard/vocal drone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sponge Board/Baby Wavesâ&#x20AC;? is a 40-second Beach Boys-esque vocal-harmony-laden interlude. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sick, Laterâ&#x20AC;? sounds almost like a Superchunk song.

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s missing are some of the key identifying traits from his past albums: thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost a complete lack of ska, hardcore and synth sections on Vacation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was trying not to add unnecessary parts, basically. I was trying to not put a ska part in or a hardcore part just because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a band that puts ska parts and hardcore parts in,â&#x20AC;? Rosenstock says.

Another big change this time around was that Rosenstock decided to start his own record label, Really Records, and release Vacation on it. Even though Bomb the Music Industry has always given away its albums on its website (and continues to do so), the physical CDs and vinyl were always released by Asian Man Records. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were really comfortable with Asian Man Records,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With this record, we were like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s make ourselves a little bit uncomfortable.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

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Email it to calendar@santacruzweekly.com, fax it to 831.457.5828, or drop it by our office. Events need to be received a week prior to publication and placement cannot be guaranteed.

all-or-nothing battle to save the British crown. Thru Aug 28. $14-$44. SinsheimerStanley Festival Glen, UCSC. 831.459.2159. www. shakespearesantacruz.org.

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A.R. Gurneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charming play tracing the lifelong correspondence of the dutiful Andrew and the lively, unstable artist Melissa. Aug 19-21. $12-$15. Park Hall, 9370 Mill St, Ben Lomond, 831.336.4777.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hard-knock life for little orphan Annie until millionaire Daddy Warbucks sweeps her away to a life of luxury. ThuSun. Thru Sep 25. $28-$35.

Forest Theater, Corner of Mt. View and Santa Rita, Carmelby-the-Sea, 831.622.0100.

Summer Nights

Cirque Polynesian

A rock & roll musical tribute to the early â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s. Sat, 3 and 7pm and Sun, Aug 21, 3pm.

Thru Aug 20. $10-$12. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.334.2121.

See Polynesian dancing and find out what â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chinese pole,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;cyr wheel,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;tissu,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;hand to hand,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;rolla bolla,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;fire knifeâ&#x20AC;? are. Mon-Thu, 12 and 3pm. Thru Aug 18. Free.

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.7433.

The Three Musketeers Dazzling swordplay, harrowing adventure and sweeping romance in this adaptation of the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas.

Thru Aug 28. $14-$44.

Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen, UCSC. 831.459.2159. www.shakespearesantacruz. org.

The Comedy of Errors Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most popular farce, featuring two sets of twins separated at birth, mistaken identity, lyrical comedy and rollicking slapstick. Thu-Sun. Thru Aug 28. $14-$44. UCSC Mainstage Theater, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

The Goat or Who is Sylvia The bittingly funny tale of a married, middle-aged architect whose life crumbles when he falls in love with a goat. Fri-Sat, 8pm. Thru Sep 3. $20. Paper Wing Theater, 320 Hoffman Ave, Monterey, 813.905.5684.

Henry IV, Part One In the first installment of Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Making of a Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; trilogy, to be continued

by SSC in 2012 and 2013, Prince Hal fritters his time away while his father, King Henry, is embroiled in an

of the Decadeâ&#x20AC;? performs alongside Sherry Austin and the Henhouse. Sat, Aug 20, 7pm. $15-$18. Aromas Community Grange, Corner of Rose Ave and Bardue St, Aromas, 831.726.7234.

Reggae in the Redwoods Lineup features Jahmali, Jamelody, Kulcha Knox, Khari Kill and Lymie Murray.

ReggaeintheRedwoods.org Sat, Aug 20, noon-7pm. $25.

Aptos Village Park, 100 Aptos Creek Rd, Aptos.

Sherry Austin Band Live music on the Capitola Esplanade as well as painting, photography, mixed media and jewelry from local artists.

Sun, Aug 21, 11am-6pm. Free.

Capitola Esplanade Park, Capitola Village, Capitola, 831.475.7300.

Stu Reynolds Part of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evenings by the Bayâ&#x20AC;? summer concert series, presented by the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Aquarium. Sat, Aug 20, 6-8pm. Monterey Bay Aquarium, Cannery Row, Monterey.

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Terry Hanck CD Release Concert

Gary Meek with Eddie Mendenhall, Dan Robbins, Kim Edmundson

The revered blues artist releases his new album â&#x20AC;&#x153;Look Out.â&#x20AC;? Fri, Aug 19, 9pm. Free.

Casa Sorrento Pizza and Spirits, 393 Salinas Street, Salinas.

Part of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evenings by the Bayâ&#x20AC;? summer concert series, presented by the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Aquarium. Sun, Aug 21, 6-8pm. Free. Monterey Bay Aquarium, Cannery Row, Monterey.

Jeffrey Halford and the Healers American troubadour and one of Paste Magazineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ten Most Influential Artists

Trace Adkins Grammy nominated country artist performs live with Walker Hayes. Fri, Aug 19, 7:30pm. $20. Monterey County Fairgrounds, 2004 Fairgrounds Rd, Monterey, 831.372.5863.

Cut Chemist Master DJ and Jurassic 5â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former secret weapon appears with the rappers Edan and Mr. Lif. Aug 18 at Mezzanine.

Nick 13 Ukiah-born tough punker now obsessed with Morrissey and eyeliner plays free in-store. Aug 18 at Amoeba SF.

Bell Biv Devoe Relive â&#x20AC;&#x153;Poison,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do Meâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;B.B.D.â&#x20AC;? with all original members in New Jack Swing party. Aug 18-19 at Yoshiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SF.

Public Enemy With a live band and incendiary as ever, despite gooďŹ ness of â&#x20AC;&#x153;that reality-show star.â&#x20AC;? Aug 19 at Regency Ballroom.

Be Good Tanyas Enduring Canadian folk trio hits all the right notes, from early hit â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Littlest Birdsâ&#x20AC;? to now. Aug 20-21 at the Independent.

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=>3<7<5 Art du Jour Mindâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eye. Cerebral work for the creative class by artist Stephen Lynch. Tue-Sun . Thru Aug 31. Free, 831.621.0672.

1013 Cedar St., Santa Cruz.

1=<B7<C7<5 Davenport Gallery Cash/Clash Culture.

Large format photos, acrylic paintings, collage, drawings, digital paintings and sculpture about the conflict between economics, aesthetics and the environment. Thru Aug 28.

Free. 450 Hwy 1, Davenport, 831.426.1199.

Felix Kulpa Gallery Pictures of Things I May Have Forgotten. New works by Blaise Rosenthal. Thru Aug 31. Free. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

;CA3C;A 1=<B7<C7<5 Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Creativity Under the Influence: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ever judge a wine by its label?â&#x20AC;? Wine varietals will be poured, then attendees will drink and draw their own wine labels based the notes on their palettes. Thu, Aug 18, 6:30pm. $25-$30. Spotlight Tours.

Bringing the artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; voices directly to visitors. Go behind the scenes and museum-wide exhibitions. Third Sat of every month, 11:30am-12:30pm.

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

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History Endangered Neighbors.

Conservation photographs

by Sebastian Kennerknecht.

Wed-Sun . Thru Sep 10. TueSun, 10am-5pm. 1305 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6115.

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Marjorie Evans Gallery Wings & Wings. An exhibition of photorealistic automotive and aviation original paintings, limited edition Giclees and prints by internationally reknowned fine artist and Carmel Valley resident Thierry Thompson. Thru Aug 31. Free, 831.620.2040. San Carlos Street at Ninth Avenue, Carmel.

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.

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Birds of a Feather. Seven artists observe birds through original prints, paintings, photographs, encaustic and assemblage.

On display at all branch locations. Artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reception Wed Aug 3, 5-7pm, 595 Auto Center Dr, Watsonville. Thru Sep 30. Free. 720 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.457.5000.

Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center From the Mountains.

Highlighting open studios artists. Thru Oct 22. Free, 831.336.3513. Wed-Sun, noon-6pm. 9341 Mill St, Ben Lomond.

Santa Cruz Rehearsal Studios Hitting a Subcutaneous Nerve. Vaguely scientific lithographs, intaglio prints, woodcuts and handbound books by UCSC graduate Ari Bird. Thru Aug 31. Free.

118 Coral St, Santa Cruz, 831.425.7277.

Santa Cruz Stoves and Fireplaces ArtWorx. Mixed media paintings by Jane Harlow and new sculptures

by Aaron Van de Kerckhove.

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Thru Sep 17. Free. 1043 Water St, Santa Cruz, 831.476.8007.

Events 075 23/:A 19th Annual Aloha Outrigger Races and Polynesian Festival Featuring dance, Polynesian culture and crafts, outrigger canoe races and a special performance by Hawaiian singer-songwriter Willie K. Sun, Aug 21, 9am-5pm.

Free. Santa Cruz Wharf, Beach Street, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5273.

/@=C<2 B=E< Automobilia Monterey International Expo A sale of pre & post-war auto memorabilia including vintage auto posters, rally plates, grille badges, hood ornaments, auto themed apparel, original art and photography. Wed, Aug 17, 10am-7pm. $15 single day/$20 two day. Embassy Suites Seaside, 1441 Canyon Del Rey, Seaside, 831.443.3092.

Munching With Mozart This monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program will feature Beethovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sonata

Number 5 in D Major, Op. 102, Nr.2 for Cello and Piano. Thu, Aug 18, 12:1012:50pm. Free. Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5700.

Music, Rhythm and Movement Improvisation Workshop Enliven your creativity and create community through music, rhythm and movement, exploration and play with Mary Knysh and John Fitzgerald. Sat, Aug 20, 1:30-6pm. $55-$65. Music Together, 239 High St., Santa Cruz, 570.204.9783.

A Rare Chair Affair Guests will enjoy wine and hors dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oeuvres as they place silent bids on the decorated chairs. All proceeds will benefit the Santa Cruz County Symphonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classical concerts at the Santa Cruz Civic and Mello Center, and the Youth and Family programs. Sat, Aug 20, 4pm. $35. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.662.8908.

Save Our Shores Toast to the Coast Fundraiser A sustainable clambake dinner on the beach honoring individuals and businesses who have shown leadership on ocean issues. Sun, Aug 21, 5-9pm. $125. Seascape Resort, One Seascape Dr, Aptos, 831.462.5660.

:7B3@/@G 3D3<BA Jacob Sackin and Shelley Buck Sackin, the author of Islands and Iglu, and Buck, author of the travel memoir Floating Point, will discuss their respective works. Wed, Aug 17, 7-8:30pm. Free. Boulder Creek Library, 13390 W. Park Ave, Boulder Creek, 831.420.5319.

Michael Katakis & Kris Hardin Photographer and writer Katakis and anthropologist Hardin will discuss their professions, travels, lives, and new book Photographs and Words with Rick Kleffel. Sat, Aug 20. Free. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

Workshop: Write Your Own Future with Marcia Heinegg â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Art of Retirement,â&#x20AC;? part one of a four-part series. Wed, Aug 17, 10:30am-12pm. $10.

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

:31BC@3A Alternative Expressions of Grief and Loss Featuring guest speaker Forbes Ellis, MFT, Bereavement Coordinator with Heartland Hospice.

Thu, Aug 18, 10:30am-12pm.

Free. Live Oak Senior Center, 1777-A Capitola Rd, Live Oak, 831.464.9982.

Focus on Wetlands

Join Nina Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Amore and Sean Barry as they discuss their research on the San Francisco Garter Snake and the California Red-legged frogâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both of which make their homes in the wetlands of Santa Cruz County. Thu, Aug 18, 7pm. $8-$10. Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, 1305 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6115.

Freedom Forum: Central Valley Farms Need Water Featuring a presentation by Mary Winfree, researcher and BioMedical Sciences PhD, about agricultural policy, endangered species and water use in California. Wed, Aug 17, 7pm. Free. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz.

Nonviolent Conflict Resolution Improvisational Workshop Bring your conflicts, challenges and friends and explore a model that can transform conflict into opportunity with NVC trainers Kristin Masters, Christine King and Todd Phillips. Tue, Aug 23, 7:30pm.

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

Seacliffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Amazing Past A 45-minute stroll traveling back in time to the cultural beginnings of Seacliff State Beach. Sun, Aug 21, 1pm.

Free. Seacliff State Beach, State Park Drive, Aptos, 831.685.6444.

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REVIEW Call for Actors and Volunteers for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Annie Get Your Gunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Looking for males ages 15 to 35 who love to sing and dance for the ensemble. Email the director, pr_sawyer@ hotmail.com. Also seeking volunteers in several areas including sets, costumes, props and publicity, email info@ svpaa.org. Thru Aug 17. Bethany University Theatre, 800 Bethany Dr, Scotts Valley, 831.818.1516.

Eating Disorders Resource Center Meeting Groups will be led by Kimberly Kuhn, LCSW and Carolyn Blackman, RN, LCSW. Third Fri of every month, 6-7:30pm.

Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave, Santa Cruz, 408.559.5593.

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

Santa Cruz Public Librariesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 3rd Annual Teen Battle of the Bands Community Television of Santa Cruz County will air their video production of the Santa Cruz Public Librariesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 3rd Annual Teen Battle of the Bands on Comcast 25/Charter 71. Thu, Aug 18, 9pm, Fri, Aug 19, 12pm, Sun, Aug 21, 10pm, Mon, Aug 22, 8pm and Tue, Aug 23, 11am. 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

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1/0@7::= 1=2/ IMAGINE a symphony orchestra playing a complex score that does not require melody, harmony or rhythm. So it was with Zosha Di Castriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alba, which opened the Cabrillo Festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program last Saturday in Santa Cruz. This eight-minute world premiere was all about the â&#x20AC;&#x153;stark quilted silence and stunning flatnessâ&#x20AC;? of a wintry dawn in Northern Alberta, birthplace of its composer. Composer John Adams commissioned the talented Canadian to celebrate Marin Alsopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20th anniversary at Cabrillo.

Of course harmony and rhythm are found abundantly in the workâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s musical notation, but those elements disappeared for the audience in an atmospheric tour de force.

On the same program, George Tsontakisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Laconika sounded positively retro, five smart pop-tinged miniatures that played off its L.A. Chamber Orchestra commission. But it was composer Michael Daughertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Geeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bend, a concerto for electric guitar, that sparked the sharpest focus of the evening as soloist DJ Sparr found a kaleidoscope of colors and effects to match the four movements: Housetop, Grandmotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dream, Washboard and Chicken Pickin.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; These pieces honor pop and blues guitarists from Chet Atkins to Jimi Hendrix, while the work overall celebrates a tiny hamlet on an Alabama river where its residents, descended from slaves, have created a unique heritage of quilting. Daughertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vivacious orchestrations were ear- and eye-popping, as was his own jazzy tribute to Alsop, Fever.

Dutchman Robin de Raaffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Entangled Tales, celebrating his time at Tanglewood, proved to be a prismatically dense thicket of colors.

On Sunday, at Mission San Juan, principal hornist Kristin Jurkscheit showed off what a fine and versatile player she is in the premiere of Chiayuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concerto, Xuan Zang, a festival commission. Tracing the travels of the Tang Dynasty monk of its title, the largely cinematic score engages â&#x20AC;&#x153;diverse cultural elements,â&#x20AC;? says the composer, including a folk song of the Uighur people of Xinjiang. Anna Clyneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s masterful Within Her Arms, for 15 individual strings, recalled Richard Straussâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Metamorphosen, but with a haunting and much warmer embrace.

Pierre Jalbertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fire and Ice delivered as promised, while Dan Welcherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A Valediction tracked a more personal narrative with formal clarity and a sure hand. Both works well deserved Alsopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention, the orchestra sizzled and all composers were in attendance.

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).

be a positive role model by becoming a Triangle Speaker in local schools, organizations and businesses. Sat, Aug 20, 11am-4pm. Free. Diversity Center, 1117 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.425.5422.

Triangle Speakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Training

Yoga Instruction

Help shatter the myths and stereotypes and

Pacific Cultural Center: 35+ classes per week,

Scott MacClelland

831.462.8893. SC Yoga: 45 classes per week, 831.227.2156.

TriYoga: numerous weekly classes, 831.464.8100. 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.

Hatha Yoga with Debra Whizin, 831.588.8527.

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.

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SOPHIE MILMAN $22/Adv $25/Door

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AN EVENING OF STRINGS: BUCKY PIZZARELLI, HOWARD ALDEN & HOWARD PAUL $25/Adv $28/Dr, No Jazztix/Comps Sponsored by MIner Family Vineyards Monday, August 22 U 7 pm

NINETY MILES featuring STEFON HARRIS, DAVID SANCHEZ, CHRISTIAN SCOTT $25/Adv $28/Dr, No Jazztix/Comps

Wednesday, August 24 U 7 pm New Peruvian Minister of Culture!

SUSANA BACA

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Thursday, August 25 U 7 pm

DILLON BAIOCCHI QUINTET $12/Adv $15/Door

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OLIVER LAKE ORGAN QUARTET Jared Gold - Hammond B3 Freddie Hendrix - trumpet Chris Beck - drums $22/Adv $25/Door

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9/12 Fellowship Band featuring Brian Blade 9/20 An Evening with Branford Marsalis 9/26 Janis Siegel 9/28 Jimmy Webb 10/3 Rudresh Mahanthappa: Samdhi 10/7 Tales From the Sahel: An Evening with Baaba Maal At the Rio Theatre 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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Paul Thorn has been living at the crossroads his entire life. The son of a preacher, former prizefighter and now road dog has many years of experience refereeing the no-holds-barred fight between sin and redemption.

Thornâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest release, 2010â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pimps and Preachers, takes those lofty themes head-on. Reconciling the two isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in Thornâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scope; instead, he gets his kicks from examining the eternal opposition between the two extremes and turning on gritty roots music for those of the flock who greet Sunday morning with a hangover. Rio Theatre; $25 gen/$40 gold; 7:30pm. (PMD)

Michael Rappaportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A Tribe Called Quest documentary Beats, Rhymes and Life is an insightful, if depressing, look at what happens when a conscious hip-hop group dissolves in acrimony. Freestyle Fellowship took the other route, not letting breakout MC Aceyaloneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solo success and the incarceration of Self Jupiter bring it down. Two decades into the game, Freestyle Fellowship is still going strong, holding it down with the limber wordplay and conscious rhymes that have long been the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s calling card. Richie Cunning, the Santa Cruz local voted one of the best freshman rappers of the year by KMEL 106.1 FM, opens the show. The Catalyst; $10 adv/$15 door; 8:30pm. (PMD)

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always good to have some hidden talents up your sleeve. Encouraged by her husband Tim Bluhm of the Mother Hips after she performed an impromptu blues song at a New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve party, Bluhm started her music career on a lark but has since come into her own. Bluhmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stately second release, Driftwood, echoes the smooth country-rock of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s Linda Ronstadt but retains Bluhmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own assured voice.

With muted accompaniment courtesy of her backing band the Gramblers, Bluhmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rich vocals and unadorned songwriting mark her as one of the most compelling figures to emerge from the Bay Area Americana scene in recent memory. Don Quixoteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; $10; 8:30pm. (Paul M. Davis)

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wailing goodies. His solo work is heavily influenced by his love for mid-century Americana with its yawning slide guitar and banjos.

Opening for 13 is up-and-coming folk songwriter and grandniece to Judy Garland, Audra Mae. Rio Theatre; $13 adv/$15 door; 8pm. (Mat Weir)

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Grammy-winning vocalist Susana Baca has been an unofficial cultural ambassador of her native Peru for two decades. And now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s official.

Baca, who is well known for her clear and powerful voice and dedication to preserving Afro-Peruvian tradition, was recently made Peruâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Minister of Culture. A quiet storm of passion and determination, Baca is clear in her vision: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will work to ensure that culture is not something that is only enjoyed by the people who can afford it,â&#x20AC;? she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but that it be democratic, and that it reaches everyone.â&#x20AC;?

Kuumbwa; $25 adv/$28 door; 7pm. (CJ)

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COPS WITHOUT BORDERS Rachel Weisz is a security firm employee who discovers a Balkan sex slavery ring in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Whistleblower.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Screech No relief from a tone-deaf â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Whistleblowerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

A

AWARE of the problems of an audience with compassion fatigue, novice filmmaker Larysa Kondracki takes already sensational material and pumps it up. The Whistleblower is based on the case of Kathryn Bolkovac (a thoroughly miscast Rachel Weisz), a police officer from Nebraska who went to the Balkans to work for the U.N. via a private security firm called DemoCra Security. (The real-life scandal involved DynCo.) Bolkovac is stationed in the war-worn city of Sarajevo, where she enforces the law against beating women in a country where the local cops say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was Muslim, so she deserved it.â&#x20AC;?

She discovers that some local roadhouses are holding prostitutes prisoner. Local cops as well as employees in her company are involved in the slavery, and not only do they dislike being exposed, they know everything about her investigation. (It might be because Kathryn, honoring the old cop-show trope, has a corkboard with Polaroids and Post-Its on her wall.)

Weiszâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fellow actors are no relief.

Benedict Cumberbatch turns up, scowls and vanishes. As a mucky muck for the U.N., Vanessa Redgrave is there to make tea for Kathryn and say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just done in four months what we couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do in two years.â&#x20AC;? One mitigation: Monica Bellucci as some kind of frowning NGO officer who looks like she knows the lay of the land.

Keeping the generic title of Bolkovacâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, The Whistleblower tries for the Soderbergh style of tremblycam and bluish low lighting (perhaps justifiable in a power-failure blighted land). When Kondracki tries to express the ruined beauty of Sarajevo, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in TV commercial terms, with the gong of a church bell and a flock of startled pigeons. The Whistleblower is an uneasy combo of the stylized and the Saw-like specific. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the myriad out-of-focus shots and a soundtrack of sonic moans.

But the details are in sharp relief: â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is what happens when you talk to the devil,â&#x20AC;? says a foreign-accented pimp to a room full of grubby terrified underage sex slaves. And then we get to see what happens, complete with shrieks.

Kondracki wants our noses rubbed in it to make the paranoid encirclement complete.

The Whistleblower is yet another film based on real events that you wish would end so you could go out and find a good book on the subject. It may be to the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s credit that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t resolve things, but this mix of the exploitative and the undercooked makes an audience feel victimized and helpless.

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Monkeyshines Mischief gives way to mayhem in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Planet of the Apesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; origin story BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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Y OU NEVER know how much you wanted to see a gorilla attack a helicopter until you see it. Such are the pleasures offered by science fictionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strangest franchise, counting five movies, a remake, a live action TV series and a Saturday morning cartoon. Like the J. J. Abrams Star Trek, Rise of the Planet of the Apes isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a demolition job. Instead, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a handsomely done renovation of an old property.

At Genesis, a Bay Area genetic tech lab of about 2012 or so, scientist Will Rodman (Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own James Franco) is working on a cure for Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. His own father Charles (John Lithgow) is afflicted with the disease. A lab chimp named â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bright Eyesâ&#x20AC;? gets the treatment. The results are catastrophic, but Bright Eyesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; infant Caesar carries some of his motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intelligence. Baby Caesar is ordered to be destroyed, but Will brings him home. He teaches the Ăźber-chimp sign language while enlisting the help (and love) of a vet from the San Francisco Zoo (Freida Pinto).

As Caesar grows, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s played by a synthespian modeled on the alwaysamazing Andy Serkis. The undertones are clear in the chimpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face. As he ages, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a progression from curiosity to mischief, and from mischief if not to malice, then to adolescent resentment.

The thrilling and fast final third of the film takes over Caesarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story.

The chimp marshals the apes into an

assault on downtown San Francisco. In a time of extreme political strife, these images have as much zeitgeist as the first Apes movie did in 1968. And, as in the radical-chic nonesuch Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re once again on the side of the hairy hominids.

Rupert Wyattâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staging of these battle scenes has terrific facility and visual thrust, and just the right amount of violence. In Caesarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first lesson to his fellow chimps, he shows them the lesson of the strength in bundled sticks (the unbreakable fasces, a symbol of government from Roman times on).

Caesar, a bridge between humans and animals, takes his stand on the Golden Gate Bridge.

In addition to choking up, locals will choke on a little of this. Muir Woods as the forest primeval? Not a banana in sight. But if there are two words that sum up director Wyattâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;strangely plausible.â&#x20AC;? Rise of the Planet of The Apes helps itself to the story chronicled in the documentary Project Nim: Scenes of the ordeal of the tragic ultra-chimp match the story of the first coddled, then abused, Nim Chimpsky.

There but for a pair of chromosomes go we.

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CHIMP OR IMP? A super-smart hominid comes of age in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Rise of the Planet of the Apes.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

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Film Capsules <3E 1/>A CONAN: THE BARBARIAN (R; 112 min.) A 3D swordand-sorcery epic with the American fantasy hero Conan (Jason Momoa), who wants to avenge his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s murder.

Conan leaves his village after itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pillaged to travel across the continent of Hyboria, only to be faced with challenge after challenge. (Opens Thu at Santa Cruz 9 and Scotts

Valley and Fri at Green Valley)

THE CONFORMIST (1970) Based on the novel by Alberto Moravia, this political drama follows Marcello Clerici, a thin-skinned Italian-turnedfascist who sets out to kill one of his own. (Sat-Sun at Aptos) DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) Insurance representative Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) is seduced into carrying out a

SHOWTIMES

Movie reviews by Jenny M. Cain, Traci Hukill and Richard von Busack

fraudulent insurance scheme

by Phyllis Dietrichson. The crime draws the attention of Neffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best friend, a private investigator. (Thu at Santa Cruz 9)

(Anton Yelchin). When Brewster fights back, he uncovers Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s darker side.

(Opens Thu at Scotts Valley and Friday at 41st Ave and Green Valley)

FRIGHT NIGHT (R; 106 min.)

A comedy horror set in a suburban high school setting. Jerry (Colin Farrell), the attractive new teenage vampire next door, steals the attention away from social climber Charley Brewster

KARATE KID (2010) Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan take a whack at the roles previously owned by Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita. (Wed 8/17-Thu 8/18 at 41st Ave) POINT BLANK (R; 84 min.)

Samuel gets caught in a world of gangs when his wife is kidnapped. To get her back he must carry out favors for the local gang that is responsible for taking her.

(Opens Fri at Nickelodeon)

RIFFTRAX LIVE: JACK THE GIANT KILLER (PG: 120 min.)

The wiseacres of Mystery Science Theater 3000 deliver a live cinecast riff on a corny 1962 horror story starring Vikings, rubber monsters and

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SHREK FOREVER AFTER (2010) The final film in the series has Shrek (Mike Myers) in an ill-advised struggle with Rumpelstiltskin (Will Dohrn), who conspires to erase the ogre from history. (Wed 8/17-Thu 8/18 at Scotts Valley) SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (PG; 94 min.)

Marisa Wilson (Jessica Alba) recruits her stepchildren in the fight against the Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven), an evil supervillain. (Opens Fri at Scotts Valley and Green Valley).

THE WHISTLEBLOWER (NR; 112 min.) See review, page 32. (Opens Fri at Nickelodeon)

@3D73EA 30 MINUTES OR LESS (R; 91 min.) A pizza delivery boy (Jesse Eisenberg) is kidnapped by two bumbling criminals (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson) and ordered to rob a bank or else be blown up. With Aziz Ansari.

ANOTHER EARTH (PG-13; 110 min.) An astrophysics student (Brit Marling) crashes into another vehicle and finds herself drawn to the accidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lone survivor on the dawn of the ultimate chance at redemption.

BUCK (PG; 88 min.)

This documentary, fresh

from a successful run at Sundance, tells the story of â&#x20AC;&#x153;horse whispererâ&#x20AC;? Buck Brannaman. The film reveals Brannamanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s childhood history of abuse.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG-13; 124 min.) In the live action origin story of the Marvel comics series, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is deemed unfit to join the Army, but he finds another way of fighting the Nazis: He joins a secret military project. When a special serum renders him capable of superhuman feats of strength, he and his sidekick Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) take on Hitlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main man, Red Skull (Hugo Weaving).

COWBOYS AND ALIENS (PG-13 118 min.) When aliens land in the Wild West with a view of colonizing the Earth it is up to Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde and the citizens of the Arizona Territory town of Absolution to stop them. An epic showdown ensues, but will it mean twilight for the extraterrestrials?

CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG-13; 118 min.) When Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is dumped by his wife, he goes looking for solace at the bottom of a bottle but finds it in a chance meeting with a studly young player (an uncharacteristically tan and ripped Ryan Gosling) who shows Cal the â&#x20AC;&#x153;getting girlsâ&#x20AC;? ropes.

THE DEVILâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DOUBLE (R; 116 min.) After surviving the front in the Iraq/Iran War, the army officer Latif Yahia (Dominic Cooper) is brought in to a meeting. It has struck Uday Hussein, the satanic son of the dictator Saddam, that all great men have doubles to foil assassins.

Latif endures a round of plastic surgery and dental prosthesis and must learn every mannerism of the man called Abu Harsan (â&#x20AC;&#x153;the wolfâ&#x20AC;?). Between them is Udayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s significant concubine (Ludivine Sagnier), sashaying through his palaces. (RvB) FINAL DESTINATION 5 (R; 92 min.) Characters die one by one when a suspension bridge fails.

HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART II (PG-13; 130 min.)

Director David Yates wraps up the 10-year saga in a cluttered, confusing finaleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t prevent it from being a fast-paced adventure that definitively strikes the sets.

Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), now a sturdy, bland young man, must go solo against the Noseless One (Ralph Fiennes), who, sickened by the loss of most of his soul, looks like a poisoned, bleached ape. And what of Snape (Alan Rickman)?

This should have been Snapeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crescendoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;nope.

The reveal of a tender heart under a supercilious hide is all we get. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nocturnal film, and Yates

is at his best borrowing from Fritz Lang: the cloaked scholars in formation in the courtyard, the figures in silhouette meeting on a staircase top. The downside is claustrophobia from lack of natural light. The religious cranks who said the Potter films failed to endorse the traditional family will get theirs in the epilogue, which returns this horror story to the kid-friendly place where it began. (RvB)

THE HELP (PG-13; 154 min.)

In 1960s Mississippi, newly minted college graduate Skeeter (Emma Stone) goes against the social grain when she decides to write about the black servants in her community. With Viola Davis, Cicely Tyson, Sissy Spacek and others.

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?

PROJECT NIM (NR; 93 min.)

From the director of Man on Wire, a documentary about

a chimpanzee raised as a humanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;complete with training in sign languageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the 1970s. Nim was sent on a bouncing journey from place to place as his animal nature asserted itself and one group of humans after another found itself unable to cope with him.

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13, 115 min.) See review, page 33.

SARAHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S KEY (PG-13; 111 min.) Kristin Scott Thomas is an American living in Paris with her French husband (Frederic Pierrot) when she discovers that the apartment building owned by his family has a tragic history bound up in the plight of the Jews during World War II. SMURFS (PG; 86 min.) The evil wizard Gargamel (Hank Azaria) drives the Smurfs from their woodland village.

In their haste, the little blue fellows stumble into a mysterious portal, which spits them out in New York City where they are taken in by a sweet married couple (Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays) who tries to help them find their way home.

WINNIE-THE-POOH (G; 69 min.) Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit and Piglet set out to rescue Christopher Robin after Pooh misinterprets a note from Christopher and assumes he has been kidnapped by a creature named â&#x20AC;&#x153;Backson.â&#x20AC;?

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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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7500 Old Dominion Ct, 831.688.8987

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.

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.

537A6/ 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.

AB=19B=< 0@7253 5@7::3 Mediterranean tapas. Innovative menu, full-service bar,

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231 Esplanade, 831.464.1933

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

$$$ Capitola

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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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328 Ingalls St, 831.425.6771

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1141 Soquel Ave, 831. 426.5664

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221 Cathcart St, 831.426.4852

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.

Features the vibrant and esoteric wines of Bonny Doon Vineyard, a three-course, family-style prix fixe menu that changes nightly, and an inventive small plates menu, highlighting both seasonal and organic ingredients from local farms.

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. vegetarian.Full-service tiki bar. Happy-hour tiki drinks. Aloha Fri, Sat lunch 11:30am-5pm. Dinner nightly 5pm-close.

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493 Lake Ave, 831.479.3430

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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.

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.

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1319 Pacific Ave, 831.420.1700

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.

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555 Soquel Ave, 831.458.2321

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1220 Pacific Ave, 831.426.9930

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.

402 Ingalls Street, Ste 27 831.425.4900

taproom or the outdoor patio while you dine on Bavarian pretzels, a bowl of french fries, Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best fish tacos and more.

Open everday noon until 10pm. Food served until 7pm.

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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.

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105 Walnut Ave, 831.423.2020

$$ Santa Cruz

2415 Mission St, 831.423.9010

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710 Front St, 831.427.4444

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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.

A1=BBA D/::3G $ 63/D3<:G 1/43 American. Serving breakfast and lunch daily. Large parties Scotts Valley 1210 Mt. Hermon Rd, 831.335.7311 welcome. Mon-Fri 6:30am-2:15pm, Sat-Sun 7am-2:45pm. $ 87/ B3::/¸A Scotts Valley 5600 #D Scotts Valley Dr, 831.438.5005

Cambodian. Fresh kebabs, seafood dishes, soups and noodle bowls with a unique Southeast Asian flair. Beer and wine available. Patio dining. Sun-Thu 11am-9pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10pm.

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Mexican. Open for breakfast. We use no lard in our menu and make your food fresh daily. We are famous for our authentic ingredients such as traditional mole from Oaxaca. Lots of vegetarian options. Mon-Fri 9am-9pm, weekends 8am-9pm.

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PICNIC IN THE PARK ItĘźs off the beaten track yet right in front of you. Hidden in the heart of Santa Cruz.

It is a park like no other. El Rio. Been there for a long time, like a good wine, improving with age. A community to live in consisting of very eclectic, intelligent, creative and unusual folks. A co-op. You run the park, or let others, your choice. You have a say, you own a share.

Carol is in the park, not her real name as she is much too modest to acknowledge any kudos. Carol delivers meals to seniors in need. The food she receives in exchange she gives to those in need in the park. Al is in his nineties. He sits in the sun most all day, usually in his bathing suit.

Has for the last 20 years. Smoking and drinking cocktails all day long in the hot sun. Now he canĘźt see or hear much. But he has a rubber duck or maybe itĘźs a chicken that he squawks every time someone walks by and then he yells out â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hello, who is there?â&#x20AC;? and closes with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Have a good day!!â&#x20AC;? Always with a voice loud with cheer and a really big smile lighting up his face. And then there is Wally. Another oldie but goodie. You could always find him parked on the bench at the entrance. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;powers that beâ&#x20AC;? were coming after him. To put him in one of those homes. The park rallied and his dear neighbors agreed to help out so now he is still in his tiny home â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at least for a bit longer. The park is filled with volunteers that give countless hours of service to all the residents.

Committees, boards, meetings, membership packets to look over, park maintenance, the never ending list. Each member is asked to do a small chore in the park once a month to encourage park participation.

Good things in the park include a â&#x20AC;&#x153;freeâ&#x20AC;? table where members leave unwanted items which may become someone elseĘźs treasure. Books, clothes, fresh organic produce, are among the many things to be found there in the community laundry area.

They even have a big outdoor clothesline!

Being able to walk into town in 5 minutes is also a treat. A community garden is available for digging into, a playground and recreation room for big events is free for members to use and enjoy.

So pass the word, share the secret, a special place filled with special people. A few spaces are now available with old units needing to be replaced. For under 100K or the price of a cheap Ferrari, you can bring in a new unit or an older newer unit and enjoy the good life. This is a low income mobile home park annual income not to exceed $52,900 for a single person, $59,300, for two at the time of application, monthly fees are $354. See you there!

New Brighton Cohousing

More than a condo, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a way of life!

Listed at $289,000 â&#x20AC;˘ Enjoy a small, cohesive community â&#x20AC;˘ Where your neighbors are your friends â&#x20AC;˘ Rare end unit, spacious 2 Bed, 2 full baths â&#x20AC;˘ Sunny & sweet, backyard patio, upstairs balcony â&#x20AC;˘ Enjoy communal activities, shared meals twice weekly â&#x20AC;˘ Community House; meet friends, clients, entertain, guest room available â&#x20AC;˘ Large common areas, community garden, play area â&#x20AC;˘ Centrally located on Soquel Drive, near Park Ave exit and Cabrillo College. â&#x20AC;˘ Close to shopping, beaches, freeway, Capitola Village

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