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[RE: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coastal Commission Nixes La Bahia,â&#x20AC;? news.santacruz.com, Aug. 12]: Mayor Coonerty expressed disappointment in Supervisor/Commissioner Mark Stoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leadership, or Coonertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s views of Stoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lack of it, but that is precisely what Commissioner Stone provided. His job, along with the other commissioners, is to apply the Coastal Act to any given proposed project, insure that it meets the provisions of the law and rule accordingly.

The La Bahia project failed to conform to the Coastal Act and thus was rejected

and its application denied. This is great leadership and Stone didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t act alone.

Upholding established laws and regulations is what the commission exists to doâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that is its only job.

The continued protection of the wonders of the California coastline, this time in our little community, is well guarded. As Mr. Coonerty considers a run for higher office (the Assembly, perhaps) he should take the time to think of those broad responsibilities, as he may one day be in a position to author or vote on legislation affecting all Californians. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a serious, weighty job. Based on his comments about Commissioner Stone, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear that at this point, Mayor Coonerty doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand

the true definition of leadership and thus is unqualified to hold higher office.

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TELL YOU WHAT, Ms Hochmanâ&#x20AC;Śwhen you learn to use apostrophes correctly, you can tell Mayor Coonerty what the true definition of leadership is. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll put my faith in him any day of the week and if I ever get a chance to vote or not vote for Mr. Stone or any of the other members of the Coastal Commission, it will be a happy day for me. I usually try to maintain civility in discourse, but this has me so fried I can barely control myself. The La Bahia is an embarrassment and needs to come down.

Just a few blocks away, the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary Interpretive Center is going up. It will bring people from all over the world. I wonder what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll think when they see that eyesore on Beach Street. And all because of 1-1/2 stories?

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And Ms. Cohen, once you learn to use periods correctly, how to spell â&#x20AC;&#x153;pleaseâ&#x20AC;? correctly, and that neither have anything to do with the ability to determine good leadership or not, then you can lecture someone on their three tiny apostrophe mistakes.

I would LOVE to see some beautiful apartment or hotel be built thereâ&#x20AC;Ś and I see no reason why one canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be designed that follows all the rules and regulations.

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Letter to a Friend Dear Princess Doumba, First of all, let me tell you how honored I am that someone like youâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;royalty!â&#x20AC;&#x201C;contacted me via email.

How sad it is that His Royal Highness died and your country will not allow you to inherit his vast fortune. As his daughter, you rightfully deserve it!

Rest assured, you made an excellent choice when you chose me out of over 300 million Americans to â&#x20AC;&#x153;assistâ&#x20AC;? you in â&#x20AC;&#x153;liftingâ&#x20AC;? almost $5 million out of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and into to my personal checking account. I will indeed help you invest it wisely. As a professional dog sitter, I understand the intricacies of the American monetary system and its many options for making

money grow. I understand that derivatives are big right now. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what they are, but I think we should put at least half of your fortune into one or two ASAP! And, you want to give me 20 percent of yours just because I am willing to help you??

Forget itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I would not dream of accepting money for being what we call in my country a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Samaritan.â&#x20AC;?

You obviously chose me over everyone else because you intuitively knew I was trustworthy and possessed remarkable integrity. So, do what your heart so clearly demands: Wire me $3,500 via Western Union so I can buy a plane ticket to Africa and meet with you personally!! We shall have

lunch together and plan how to get your wealth to America so it can grow, grow, grow! You are probably surprised there are honest people like me still around. But know that I do this because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just that kind of person: always looking for ways to help others.

In closing, Princess, know that I stand ready to do anything I can to help you get justice (and $5 million). I will check with Western Union daily to see if you have taken your first step towards building an even vaster fortune. Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait to meet you !!!

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THE FOG has just burned off on the Westside, giving way to one of those sunny, saltyaired days that makes living in Santa Cruz worth every penny.

Stepping over pipes and two-byfours, I follow contractor Pete Testorff through the airy shell of the house heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s building at 325 John St., near Delaware and Swift. Even though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s months from completion, the house feels futuristic and differentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the living room is lit by sunlight streaming through two garagesized f loor-to-ceiling windows facing the sea. Even with the brown insulation still exposed, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pleasant place to be, and I notice thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an absence

of strange chemical smells and fiberglass-induced eye itch. Testorff explains that the insulation heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s using is â&#x20AC;&#x153;EcoBatt,â&#x20AC;? a new phenoland formaldehyde-free insulation that is sustainably made from sand and post-consumer recycled bottle glass. And that is just the beginning.

Once finished, the greenest home to be built in Santa Cruz will produce as much energy as it uses, if not more. It complies with Platinum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standardsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the absolute highest certification for green buildings.

The LEED certification is based on a stringent rating system set by the U.S. Green Building Council, a nonprofit organization promoting

the surrounding landscape through a graywater system designed by Oakland-based Hyphae Design Laboratory. At the same time, an underground cistern will collect rainwater from the roof of the house and pipe it back into the household for use in the toilets and laundry.

Pohlmann, a developer, moved to the area from Ohio because of coastal Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forward-thinking mentality. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really believe that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the way itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to go for the future because utilities are so expensive and resources are getting rare,â&#x20AC;? says Pohlmann. For him, the most important component of a green house is location. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can build green all you want and put panels on it and recapture the water and everything, but the one most important thing that makes a house green and cut down on the carbon footprint is the location. Here we can pretty much walk to get groceries, walk for entertainment and get away from the lifestyle where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re stuck in a car. In Ohio, we had a very green house but in the end we spent on average an hour and a half in the car driving around.â&#x20AC;?

Testorff estimates that the 3,200square-foot project, designed by San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Feldman Architecture, costs about $250 per square foot, while standard non-green construction is around $210-$220 per square foot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a builder, I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a completely admirable thing to do even when someone says maybe this wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pencil out right away, or you could do it for cheaper,â&#x20AC;? says Testorff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The green thing is not out of touch anymore. This is finding out where that price point is and finding out will people pay for this.

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LESS IS MORE New framing techniques on this Platinum LEEDâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;certified house mean using 35 percent less wood than for a typical house.

sustainable design and construction (and the fastest-growing nonprofit since 2005). Bright Green Strategies, a local green rater company, is helping with LEED compliance.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an extremely ambitious project with long-term benefits.

The green factor begins with the building materials, explains the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contractor, Pete Testorff of Testorff Construction, Inc. Advanced framing techniques use 35 percent less wood (Forest Stewardship Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;certified, of course) than standard construction.

Concrete f loors polished to a sheen and inlaid with sea glass require far less energy and resources than your typical wood or tiled f loor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It seems sort of silly to be building something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a perfectly good f loor just to put another f loor over it. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just less embodied energy building the house,â&#x20AC;? says Testorff, using the term to describe the fossil fuels that have gone into a piece of building material.

Solar panels installed by a local company, Solcon Solar Construction, will cover the surface of the south-facing roof to maximize energy absorption and convert sunlight to electricity.

Testorff estimates the panels will produce 12.3 kilowatts, while average homes use about 3.7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5. kilowatts. A recent law requiring PG&E to buy back excess energy produced by homes means that the system will pay for itself in 12 years and start reaping benefits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once we figured that out, we maximized the entire solar system,â&#x20AC;? says owner Marcus Pohlmann, who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet know the exact PG&E rate, but estimates that it is between 8 and 30 cents a kilowatt hour. The garage is also being wired to charge an electric car.

Two-thirds of the water used inside the house will be diverted from the sewer and filtered into

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Loan Help First the bad news. An Aug. 16 report released by the 8ZciZg [dg =djh^c\ Eda^Xn in Washington, D.C., noted that while, nationwide, home loans either 90 days delinquent or in foreclosure had dropped 10 percent in the last two years, rates of foreclosure in Santa Cruz County have actually risenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from 7.3 percent in 2009 to 7.6 percent this year. Not surprisingly, the majority are subprime loans, 15 percent of which are now delinquent or in foreclosure locally, compared to 3.1 percent of ordinary loans. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wish I would have heard this two months ago,â&#x20AC;? read one of the anonymous feedback cards from the last workshop staged by the 8ZcigVa 8dVhi ;dgZXadhjgZ 8daaVWdgVi^kZ. The CCFC, a joint effort between State Assemblymember 7^aa Bdcc^c\, Congressman HVb ;Vgg, several local government offices and nonprofit organizations like 8Va^[dgc^V GjgVa AZ\Va 6hh^hiVcXZ, LVihdck^aaZ AVl 8ZciZg and 8DE6, was formed in 2009 to help struggling homeowners understand the options available to them. Since then the organization has staged quarterly workshops in parts of the tri-county area most affected by the housing crisis like Aptos, Watsonville, Marina and Salinas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The whole purpose of these presentations is to give real and accurate information and to try to counteract the misinformation thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out there,â&#x20AC;? says 9dg^ GdhZ >cYV, executive director of the Watsonville Law Center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s certainly not all good news for people, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real information that they hopefully use to make decisions that are, in the long run, safer for them.â&#x20AC;?

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The canvassers positioned on downtown corners may have a good reason for being there, but that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make them any more popular

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ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S A SUNNY August afternoon in downtown Santa Cruz, and teenagers are strolling to the movies and eating ice cream cones while young mothers push baby strollers down Pacific Avenue. Ken Hietella, 49, is standing on the corner arguing with a college-aged man holding a clipboard about the specifics of Alaskaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fishing regulations. Apparently it was the question â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do you have a minute to save the environment?â&#x20AC;? that set him off.

Hietella, a fishing enthusiast and resident of downtown Santa Cruz, has a term for political canvassers downtown. He calls them aggressive panhandlers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are so many of them downtown, it makes me sick. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just another version of panhandling harassment,â&#x20AC;? says Hietella, who lives in the Saint George Hotel.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Remember when everyone complained for a long time about the panhandling? This is worse.â&#x20AC;?

In a town that two years ago passed a raft of ordinances prohibiting people from seeking handouts from passersby within 14 feet of a trash compactor, ATM or public art statueâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to name just three of some 15 public objects that enjoy a city-sanctioned panhandlerfree buffer zoneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;canvassing runs mostly unregulated. The result is unavoidable gantlets of clipboardwielding twentysomethings stationed at key areas throughout town, seeking handouts from passersby on behalf of nonprofit organizations.

They set up at the entrances of stores like Safeway and Whole Foods. Those canvassing downtown for organizations like Greenpeace stand on street corners in groups of two or more (a privilege denied panhandlers), often sporting neon vests normally associated with the also well-intentioned, blank-faced employees who pick up trash from downtown sidewalks.

And a lot of people resent the intrusion. In fact, one might say street canvassers do the same thing in the 21st century for a pedestrianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s casual midday stroll downtown or a busy personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s after-work grocery stop that telemarketers have been doing to family dinners for years.

Felton resident Steven Robins says the downtown canvassers bother him more than the panhandlers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think they are a subtly, insidiously benign parallel to the scummy, disgusting, freeloading panhandlers,â&#x20AC;? says Robins. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really a version of the same thing. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want you asking me for something. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want you asking me for anything.â&#x20AC;?

Even the panhandlers have a critique. Leo Brown, a regular Pacific Avenue panhandler, says he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t resent the unregulated competition from canvassers. Still, he takes a more passive approach based purely on principle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really dislike them because they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait and ask people,â&#x20AC;? says Brown, who can be seen most days standing with his long black dreads pushed back, holding a sign that says â&#x20AC;&#x153;Diabetic Change.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They push people.â&#x20AC;?

Other people who live, work or shop downtown express similar

sentiments. They say that, however worthy the causes espoused, organizations like Greenpeace and Grassroots Campaigns Inc., which fundraises for Save the Children and The Nature Conservancy, are obnoxious. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The guilt they put on you is just annoying as hell,â&#x20AC;? says Anders Steele, who works at Forty Three PR, a public relations firm on Front Street.

He says he sometimes avoids Pacific altogether and walks down Front Street in order to dodge questions to which the answer has be â&#x20AC;&#x153;yes.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;When someone asks you a question like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hey, do you care about the environment?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hey, do you care about the air?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hey, do you care about the children?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say no,â&#x20AC;? says Steele.

People find other methods of getting past political blockades on Pacific. Some zig-zag through crosswalks; others stare straight and walk full steam ahead, approaching breakneck speeds.

Jasmine Castro, who also works at Forty Three PR, uses her own trick to sneak past the Greenpeace canvassers outside Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill Surf Shop on Cooper and Pacific. The 21-year-old account executive holds her iPhone to her ear, up against her long blonde hair, so they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask her any questions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annoying as fuck. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any money,â&#x20AC;? says Castro, who adds that she used to make monthly donations of about $15. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford that. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m working my ass off to pay my rent.â&#x20AC;?

The View From The Corner â&#x20AC;&#x153;The aggression just comes out of being absolutely desperate,â&#x20AC;? explains Dana Burd, who canvassed for Grassroots Campaigns Inc. on behalf of Save the Children for less than two weeks in July.

Like many canvassers, Burd, who has a degree in Film and Digital Media from UCâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Santa Cruz, took the job because she couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find anything else. She decided to take her shot at a job paying $8 an hour from an organization that is always posting help wanted ads on Craigslist. (Greenpeace ¨ $

(An homage to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Go the F**k to Sleep,â&#x20AC;?

By Adam Mansbach) BY JULY ST. JAMES Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve shopped and spent money, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to leave But I will stay inside Trader Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

You want me to sign something, I believe Must I wait here â&#x20AC;&#x2122;til they close?

Please go the f ck away.

I needed more groceries and dry goods, another shopping expedition Now stuck here in Safeway because of you do-gooder hoods Trapped until I read your petition.

O, pen-toting children, go the f ck away.

Like vultures you sweep in with your cause du jour Wave that damn paper with glee I do care about solar power, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure But you will bring sunshine to me If you just go the f ck away.

If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anything I loathe more than initiative season It just doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come to mind today Gimme that pen, bend over, just give me a reason, If you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go the f ck away.

Do I have a minute to save the planet?

You Greenpeace gremlins say No, but I have plenty of time to scream, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leave me alone, dammit,â&#x20AC;?

Wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you please go the f ck away.

Houseless rights and homeless sleeping bans, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really care where yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;all lay, But those handouts you shove in my hand?

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be laid out for good if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go the f

ck away

With a million more names, we can legalize pot!

You insist as I offer breath spray.

Criminy! Have you showered this decade or not?

Never mind, run along, and please go the f ck away Those smart-meter freaks want me to sign this â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; that So my mind will not suffer radioactive decay Guess what? My brain waves are already flatâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; too many drugsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;adios, go the f ck away.

End the fight, bring home the troops Be they breeders, transvestites or gay I agree with you anti-war groups But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll start my own war if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go the f

ck away.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve run out of ways to say itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; wees zo goed, por favor, sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;il vous plaitâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no other way to convey it: Just puh-leaze go the f ck away.

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posts entry-level job openings for between $12 and $14 an hour.)

Political canvassers come in all shapes and forms. Some stand with ballot petitions and get paid per signature. For canvassers such as Burd who work for groups like Grassroots or Greenpeace, memberships complete with monthly contributions are the goal. They also take donations.

Burd once suffered a tear-filled emotional breakdown on a sidewalk curb when she realized she wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to make her fundraising quota of $135 for that week. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t helping that people were ignoring her or just holding a hand in her face as they walked past. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People were being a little bit rude, and I just couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deal with it,â&#x20AC;? says Burd.

Shortly after starting, she stopped coming into work out of fear that she would be let go after missing her quota. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If people are desperate, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been standing there for five hours, and four people have stopped and talked to them and given them a total of a dollar,â&#x20AC;? says Burd, currently unemployed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And when you have to make $135, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just not enough.â&#x20AC;?

Those are the kinds of conditions that make for high turnover. And where thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rapid burnout, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s often exploitation.

Joe Smyth, a spokesperson for Greenpeace, acknowledges that the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foot soldiers are fighting an uphill member-seeking battle, but he says it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exploitation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oftentimes young people that are involved with Greenpeace as canvassers are our most active supporters,â&#x20AC;? says Smyth, who grew up in Santa Cruz and is now based in Washington, D.C. No one in the Grassroots Santa Cruz office is allowed to talk to reporters, says canvass director Rallie Murray. Officials from the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national office in Boston did not return phone calls or emails for this story.

Burd says the hardest part of her time at Grassroots was learning to think of it purely as a job. If she had begun to ponder what she was telling passersby, the work would have been unbearable. She was unable to let herself think about how, for example, 26,000 children under the

age of 5 die every day, according to the United Nations Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fund.

Burd also struggled not to take things personally when people blew her off as they walked into the grocery store she was canvassing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You get people saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Go get a real jobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I save kids every dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Where are their parents?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? says Burd. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh my God, that was the most ridiculous one. I ran into this 60year-old guy and asked him, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Do you have a minute to help save some kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and he said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Uh, where are their parents?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well, their parents are probably dead.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Retail Democracy Some critics of street canvassing have a bottom-line concern in mind: business. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a person that would deny that they occasionally go out of their way to avoid these people unless they enjoy getting into an argument or something,â&#x20AC;? says former Santa Cruz Mayor Tim Fitzmaurice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nobody would deny it.â&#x20AC;?

Fitzmaurice, who lives on Washington Street, does not think people who go downtown on a missionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;perhaps to CVS or New Leafâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are deterred by canvassers. But those who just want to browse their way down Pacific might instead stay home or take side streets to avoid harassment. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, of course, bad for business. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s standing in front of their door, then people are going to avoid going there,â&#x20AC;? says Fitzmaurice.

Not everyone agrees. Melanie Otts, assistant manager at Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, says she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think the Greenpeace canvassers frequently stationed out front distract potential customers at all. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Growing up in Santa Cruz, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always gotten used to it,â&#x20AC;? says Otts.

(Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth noting that the Downtown Association and business owners have, for the most part, offered little comment for this story. Chip, executive director of the Downtown Association and a past supporter of various antipanhandling ordinances, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t return phone calls or emails about downtown business and canvassers.)

Regardless of the effect on businesses, there are crucial differences between street canvassing

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Canvass Morass One can argue that, at a moment when the U.S. Supreme Court just paved the way for even greater corporate control of the political process by lifting restrictions on corporate contributions, the grassroots processâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;annoying street canvassers and allâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;represents at least some kind of counterbalance in the political system.

Greenpeace, the organization that helped ban whaling and spread awareness about global warming, draws on a broad base of 3 million members, says Smyth. That broad support, he explains, frees Greenpeace of any possible special interests. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It allows us to carry on

in our campaign without thinking, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh, is this going to upset a powerful corporate funder?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Even vociferous critics of canvassersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Fitzmaurice and Robins includedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;say they would never advocate for curbing the clipboardwieldersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; activities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that I want it to be illegal for canvassers to exercise their reasonable rights to ask me a question,â&#x20AC;? says Robins. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think you could.â&#x20AC;?

Robins adds that he would be much more likely to respond to a passive presence, perhaps someone holding up a sign.

But Smyth of Greenpeace says that passive presence wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work.

Canvassers need to be vocal in order to take people out of their normal routine. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more powerful, but I can see itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also more controversial,â&#x20AC;? says Smyth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are being interrupted.â&#x20AC;?

The market may solve the problem. While Smyth says Greenpeaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s street canvassing operation has grown steadily over the past 10 years, Cooper, of the Fund for the Public Interest, says street canvassers may have reached a critical mass. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Street canvassing, generally speaking, has begun to get oversaturated. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve taken a market and a population and oversaturated the population, and [canvassers have] sprung up too quickly,â&#x20AC;? says Cooper, a relaxed-looking boss with flip flops, bedhead hair and light stubble.

The Fund does street canvassing, in the sense of setting up on corners, in other towns, says Cooper, but its Santa Cruz workers only go door-to-door through affluent neighborhoods. On the streets, Cooper adds, tensions between pedestrians and canvassers are running high.

Ultimately, Cooper says that canvassersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;no matter how pushyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; deserve respect, and a few kind words can go a long way. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to stop, say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;No, sorry. Have a nice day.

Good luck.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Be a decent human being,â&#x20AC;?

Cooper says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On Pacific Avenue I get waved at everyday. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve stopped and signed up monthly, and I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stopped. And when I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop, I say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh, no, not today. But good luck with it, dude. Good luck.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? 0

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and panhandling, says Chase Cooper, who helps run Fund for the Public Interestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Santa Cruz office. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;comparing apples and oranges,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have nonprofit tax status with the IRS.â&#x20AC;?

Fitzmaurice, who also drops money in the hats of panhandlers, sees important distinctions too. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The problem is, free speech about politics on the sidewalk is something you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t interfere with,â&#x20AC;? says Fitzmaurice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much different than someone whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collecting money. Maybe it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem fair, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a different story when you have a political message than when you have a commercial message of some sort. Police arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to interfere with politics.â&#x20AC;?

An important moment in the constitutional rights of canvassers was shaped just over the hill, at the Pruneyard Shopping Center in Campbell. In the late 1970s a group of high school students was soliciting signatures for a petition against a United Nations resolution that deemed Zionism a form of racism.

The shopping center, irked by the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; use of its pathways, decided to take them to court.

In a landmark 1980 decision, Pruneyard v. Robins, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; right to petition on private shopping centers under the state constitution.

The decision set a precedent for petitionersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; free speech in California, one that has been invoked several times, including by the state Supreme Court.

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ESSAY writing is a sideline to Stephen Kesslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work: the â&#x20AC;&#x153;marginal yet essentialâ&#x20AC;? creation of poetry, the translation of verse and the editing of the Redwood Coast Review, a quarterly literary broadsheet. Kesslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new collection The Tolstoy of the Zulus: On Culture, Arts & Letters (El Leon Literary Arts, $20) on the whole looks backwards to older writers, artists and technologies: the little magazine, the postcard, the personal letter. The author, a longtime contributor to, and sometime publisher of, Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many weekly newspapers since coming here to attend UCSC in the 1960s, looks at the scenes of his Southern California youth, at Disneyland and Watts Towers. He revisits Hollywood Boulevard, with its crap icons of Marilyn Monroe (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Marilyn is everywhere, lifeless, and sadder than everâ&#x20AC;?). Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a celebration of the typewriter many of us still have cached in case of worldwide computer crash.

Sometime during the last decade, Kessler got a website. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A loss of the soul,â&#x20AC;? he calls it. The constant fray of tweeting and postingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all that blogorrheaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;thins the skin. Then

ARTS AND THE MAN Westside resident Stephen Kessler reads from his new collection of cultural essays this Thursday at Bookshop Santa Cruz. again, is it better to have a thin skin or a thick one when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the cultural prognostication grift?

Kesslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2001 essay â&#x20AC;&#x153;Terror, Propaganda and Imaginationâ&#x20AC;? is expert soothsaying, perfectly timed for the Ten Years of Dismal Insanity celebrations for this Sept.

11. Even though Kessler was in New York so soon after the attacks that he could still nose â&#x20AC;&#x153;the stench of smoldering syntheticsâ&#x20AC;? from the crater, he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want revenge; rather he hoped for â&#x20AC;&#x153;vaccinations against blind hopelessness and blind obedience.â&#x20AC;?

To describe his task in these essays, Kessler appropriates a Julio Cortazar term, â&#x20AC;&#x153;polygraphâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D; meaning someone who can or must write about any subjectâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which

longtime readers of Santa Cruz weeklies will recognize as the name of Kesslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s column in the Express from 1981 to 1986. Here are subjects the author knows well, such as reportage on Carlos Fuentesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 1994 visit to Santa Cruz. (Kessler has translated Fuentes, as well as Cortazar and Borges).

On Bob Dylan, Kessler falters a bit. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s panning for gold in a stream thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been visited by too many miners. He tries to defend Dylan at his most unlovable: in the Renaldo and Clara period and in Dylanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s born-again Christian phase.

Otherwise, even Kesslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passing brushes with literary giants are enlightening. Visiting Henry Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house, Kessler caught sight of a card on the door with

â&#x20AC;&#x153;something to the effect of: THE GREATEST TRIBUTE YOU CAN PAY THE MASTER IS TO LEAVE HIM ALONE.â&#x20AC;? He was close enough to Bukowskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s radius to suspect Ham on Ryeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title ref lects The Catcher in the Rye. (In Kesslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s view, J. D. Salingerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s withdrawal from the world was â&#x20AC;&#x153;his masterpiece.â&#x20AC;?)

Kesslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reminiscences of local writers, professors, poets and artists, several of which first appeared in Metro Santa Cruz, are invaluable. Maybe the best piece in Tolstoy of the Zulus is a profile of Futzie Nutzle (real name Bruce Kleinsmith), whose spidery works appeared in Rolling Stone and were longtime staples of the Santa Cruz cafe-newspaper scene. Nutzle says his early work back in Ohio as a

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steel puddler honed his esthetics: the changing glowing hues of molten metal seen against the Great Lakes sunset were â&#x20AC;&#x153;better than any Hopper painting.â&#x20AC;?

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d missed the news of the death of the outsized George Hitchcock, editor of kayak, the Santa Cruz digest that published, among others, the current poet laureate Philip Levine. I was one of his students; 30 years later, I can still hear Hitchcockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice wobbling with passion as he read â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Ballad of Reading Gaol.â&#x20AC;?

Kesslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work gets even closer to home in the pieces on James D. Houston and Morton Marcus.

Kessler describes their passing as a pair of devastating blows to the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural scene. I relished Kesslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s summing up of Mortâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s energy, his engagement with the world, his pugnaciousness. I was sadly surprised to read that Mort once confided his feelings that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d missed becoming â&#x20AC;&#x153;a truly great and famous writer.â&#x20AC;? I understand what he meant, but disagree. Mort wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the most famous man I ever met.

But he was certainly the greatest.

One of the delights of literature is timeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s redemption of neglected figures. It is famously not a race that goes to the swift. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a number of not-household names hereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;among them the San Jose poet Greg Hall (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Poetry has lost one of its truest souls, and hardly anyone will ever know,â&#x20AC;? Kessler laments) as well as the out-ofprint New York novelist Richard P. Brickner, whom Kessler met when he was writing his own novel The Mental Traveler.

Such pieces cast light on the title of Kesslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, taken from Bellow. Here, memorialized and analyzed, are stories of first-rate writers. Because of the way the publishing game goes, they might as well be the leading talents of some remote nation.

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Blackbird Singing Blackbird Raumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s streetwise esthetic

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YEARS before the members of the folk-punk-jug-band Blackbird Raum played their first show, they were squatting in abandoned buildings in Santa Cruz, making art and music and staging political protests. It was the early 2000s and, with no electricity and little money, they picked up whatever instruments they could play around a campfire: banjo, mandolin, accordion, washtub bass, a washboard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all started playing those instruments because you could,â&#x20AC;? says mandolin player Mars.

It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until they saw the Eugene, Ore.-based outfit the Sour Mash Hug Band, though, that the idea of forming a band took hold. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of us were scraping by in the most squalid manner possible,â&#x20AC;? says banjo player Caspian (the players use only their first names). â&#x20AC;&#x153;The idea that these people played the streets and got 30 bucks, we thought they were millionaires.â&#x20AC;?

Part of a loose circuit of traveling squatter bands like the Inkwell Rhythm Makers and the Hobo Goblins, the Sour Mash Hug Band played old acoustic folk instruments, mimicking the sounds of rural turn-of-the-century Americana, early jazz and traditional European music.

The five members of Blackbird Raum knew almost nothing of traditional folk and jazz and had no interest in replicating it. So they mixed in punk and penned songs with a harder edge, like â&#x20AC;&#x153;A rat in my

dreamâ&#x20AC;?: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bleach out the oceans, castrate the winds, sterilize the blood so we die while we live.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our music isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rooted in much of anything. We just hodgepodge it in such a weird way,â&#x20AC;? says Caspian. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I might tune my banjo to some weird old banjo tuning from Appalachia, but use it to play chord progressions that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d probably find in a Tragedy (hardcore/crust punk) song and steal a lyric from some dancehall reggae song. We just grab stuff freely.â&#x20AC;?

After five years touring the continental United States, Alaska and Europe on their own, Blackbird Raum has released two albums, Under the Starling Host (2009) and Swidden (2010). These days they play any and all venues. Three years ago they were playing a shopping mall in Salt Lake City when an ordinary-looking guy approached. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are you Blackbird Raum?â&#x20AC;? he asked eagerly. It was their first day in town, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d played earlier at a farmers market and had apparently made a new fan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re playing on the streets, everyone has access to our music. Our CDs end up in the hands of people who youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never think,â&#x20AC;? Caspian says.

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Stage B63/B3@ 2012â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Musical The Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe presents a lively political satire about corporate funding and the art of mass distraction. Sat, Aug 27, 3pm and Sun, Aug 28, 3pm. Free.

San Lorenzo Park, between Water St and Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 415.285.1717.

Annie Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hard-knock life for little orphan Annie until millionaire Daddy Warbucks whisks her away to a life of luxury. Thu-Sun Thru Sep 25. $28-$35. Forest Theater, Corner of Mt. View and Santa Rita, Carmel-by-theSea, 831.622.0100.

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, middleaged 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.

by SSC in 2012 and 2013, Prince Hal fritters his time away while his father, King Henry, is embroiled in an all-or-nothing battle to save the British crown. Thru Aug 28. $14-$44. SinsheimerStanley Glen Theater, UCSC, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

Art

Love Letters

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History

A.R. Gurneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charming play tracing the lifelong correspondence of the dutiful Andrew and the lively, unstable artist Melissa. Fri-Sat, 8pm and Sun, Aug 28, 2pm. Thru Aug 27. $12-$15. Center Stage, 1001 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.336.4777.

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 Glen Theater, UCSC, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

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

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by Sebastian Kennerknecht.

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

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1013 Cedar St., Santa Cruz.

Davenport Gallery

1=<13@BA Bill Spencer 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 28, 6-8pm. Monterey Bay Aquarium, Cannery Row, Monterey.

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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 27, 6-8pm. Monterey Bay Aquarium, Cannery Row, Monterey.

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John Doe Formidable X bassist and all-around badass plays free in-store for new album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keeper.â&#x20AC;? Aug 26 at Amoeba SF.

Sade The quiet storm reigns with Nigerian songstressâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; new album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Soldier of Love.â&#x20AC;? Aug 26-27 at Oracle Arena.

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.

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.

Despite no new material, Texasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; strangest serve up guaranteed spectacle. Aug 30 at Regency Ballroom.

Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center

Young Jeezy Hustlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rapper from the Dirty South spins whitepowder tales with opener Freddie Gibbs. Aug 31 at the Mezzanine.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

How does a mime troupe perform a musical, you ask? Well, turns out theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not actually the silent types. The Tony Award-winning musical comedy troupe brings its meta road show about a struggling theater company that receives a commission to create a show called 2012â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Musical! to San Lorenzo Park for two free shows this weekend. SaturdaySunday, Aug 27-28, 3pm, San Lorenzo Park, Santa Cruz. Free.

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. Thru Sep 17.

Free. 1043 Water St, Santa Cruz, 831.476.8007.

Events

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

institutions plus tasty food, live music and a presentation from award-winning author John Robbins. Sat, Aug 27, 11am-5pm. Free. Lincoln and Cedar streets, NA, Santa Cruz, 831.462.1807.

Aromas Day 2011 Celebrate small-town values with big-time fun: live music, a petting zoo, free horsedrawn wagon rides, a parade and a display of work by the award winning Aromas Hills Artisans. Sun, Aug 28, 7:30am-4pm. Free. Aromas Community Grange, Corner of Rose Ave and Bardue St, Aromas.

Barking Lot Party

Santa Cruz County Bank

Butthole Surfers

Everybody loves the sunshine, especially coming from this jazz legendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vibes. Aug 27-28 at Yoshiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SF.

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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. Thru Sep 30.

Free. 720 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.457.5000.

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Pets and owners are invited to attend. Free samples, giveaways, contests, adoptable pets and free advice from veterinarian Sheena Logothetti, DVM. Sat, Aug 27, 11am-2pm. Free. New Leaf Market Westside, 1101 Fair Ave, Santa Cruz.

English Country Dance Second and fourth Thursdays of each month; beginners welcome. Fourth Thu of every month. $5-$7. First Congregational Church of Santa Cruz, 900 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.8621.

Greenwood Arts Savor summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end and

prepare for a new season through song, dance, music, movement with colored materials, pastel drawing, writing and sharing circle.

Call for reservation and Aptos location. Tue, Aug 30, 11am-1pm. $10-$15 sliding scale. 831.662.0186.

Hot Rods for Kids Featuring a variety of cars plus food, live music, raffle prizes and a kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; zone.

A benefit for the Youth Development Services and Family Literacy Programs of the Walnut Avenue Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center. HotRods4Kids. com Sat, Aug 27, 10am.

Free. Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, Hwy 152/East Lake Ave, Watsonville.

Ishi Centennial Day A celebration of the centennial anniversary of Ishiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (the last surviving member of the Yahi Indians) emergence from the Mt. Lassen wilderness. 130 Handley Street, Santa Cruz.

Sun, Aug 28, 11am-5pm.

Free.

Congregational Church, 900 High St, Santa Cruz.

831.427.3900.

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Stephen Kessler The local poet and author will read, discuss and sign copies of his latest work The Tolstoy of the Zulus.

Thu, Aug 25, 7:30pm. Free.

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

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UCSC Fall Gardening Workshop

Santa Cruz AIDS Projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual fundraiser featuring wine tasting and hors dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oeuvres by local chefs, music by Tammi Brown and a silent auction. Fri, Aug 26, 7pm. $50. First

Gardener Trish Hildinger will teach you how to plan ahead and extend your gardening season with timely ideas on what to plant and how to plant it for harvest at Thanksgiving and

through the winter. Sun, Aug 28, 10am-1pm. $5-$20. UCSC Farm and Garden, UCSC, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3240.

<=B713A Auditions: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Avenue Qâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; No appointment necessary; please be on time for audition check in. Be prepared to cold read from the script. Prepare two songs with sheet music. All roles are open. No previous experience required. Sat, Aug 27, 11am. Paper Wing Theater, 320 Hoffman Ave, Monterey, 831.905.5684.

Hemlock Discussion Group Discuss end-of-life options for serenity and dignity.

Meets in Aptos the last Wed afternoon of every month except Dec; call for more info. 831.251.2240.

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;

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3rd Annual Teen Battle of the Bands on Comcast 25/Charter 71. Thu, Aug 25, 6pm and Sat, Aug 27, 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).

Touched By Adoption Group Adoptive families, adult adoptees, families waiting to adopt and birth parents meet monthly to connect in a safe, confidential setting. Last Sat of every month, 10am-12pm.

Free. Live Oak Family Resource Center, 1438 Capitola Rd, Santa Cruz, 1.866.219.1155.

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.

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.

All are free.

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The work of Glass himself, and of several of his famous friends and collaborators, will be featured at the festival, which opened Aug. 19 for a 17-day run at the Hidden Valley Institute of Performing Arts in Carmel Valley and the Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur. The event includes performances of theater, dance, poetry and chamber music, as well as three film screenings, two retrospective ensemble concerts and a solo performance by the man who is credited with bringing contemporary classical music to the masses.

This Thursday and Friday, festival organizers are transforming the Hidden Valley Institute for Performing Arts into a drivein movie theater. Thursday will see a screening of Kundun, Scorseseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biopic based on the life of the 14th Dalai Lama, for which Glass created the score. Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movie is Tabloid, the most recent work of documentarian Errol Morris, with whom Glass has collaborated on several films (Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War). Those screenings will be followed a week later (Thursday, Sept. 1) by an outdoor screening at the Henry Miller Library of the 1931 monster flick Dracula with live accompaniment by the Philip Glass Ensemble using Glassâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commissioned score. Also this week are two dance performances by Molissa Fenley and Company, accompanied

by Glass on piano (Aug. 27-28), and an evening of spoken word poetry featuring Eleni Sikelianos, Jerry Quickley, Francesco Levato and Maria Teutsch, backed up by Glass and the Orchestra of Americas string quartet (Aug. 31). (Tessa Stuart)

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24 Jazz Presenters since 1975

Thursday, August 25 U 7 pm

DILLON BAIOCCHI QUINTET $12/Adv $15/Door

Monday, August 29 U 7 pm

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

Thursday, September 1 U 7 pm

DOMINICK FARINACCI GROUP $20/Adv $23/Door Member Appreciation Night FREE to Kuumbwa Jazz Members

Thursday, September 8 U 7 pm Best New Artist - Brazilian Music Awards!

LUISA MAITA

$20/Adv $23/Door Sponsored by Ten Sharps!

Monday, September 12 U 7 pm

THE FELLOWSHIP BAND featuring Brian Blade, Chris Thomas, Jon Cowherd, Myron Walden, Marvin Butler $20/Adv $23/Door

Tuesday, September 20 U 7 & 9 pm

AN EVENING WITH BRANFORD MARSALIS $20/Adv $23/Door

Sponsored by Mateo Lettunich

Monday, September 26 U 7 pm

JANIS SIEGEL Alan Pasqua â&#x20AC;&#x201C; piano, Darek Oles â&#x20AC;&#x201C; bass, and Steve Hass â&#x20AC;&#x201C; drums

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9/28 Jimmy Webb 9/29 Le Boeuf Brothers CD Release 10/3 Rudresh Mahanthappa: Samdhi Friday, October 7 at the Rio Theatre Tales From the Sahel: An Evening with Baaba Maal A unique event of conversation & song with Senegalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vocalist/cultural activist!

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.

INDEPENDENTLY PRODUCED EVENTS Saturday, August 27 U 8 pm U $15

MICHAEL RAY AND THE COSMIC KREWE

Jazz-Funk from the Future!

Tickets: cosmickrewe.tix.com and at the door Tuesday, August 30 U 8 pm

CARIOCA TRIO

Contemporary Brazilian Jazz $18/Adv $20/Door Tickets: Logos Books & Records and brownpapertickets.com 320-2 Cedar St s Santa Cruz 427-2227

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Throughout the years Orange County has given birth to a smorgasbord of punk bands. Without question, the U.S. Bombs are one of the most notorious. Fronted by professional skateboard legend Duane â&#x20AC;&#x153;Disasterâ&#x20AC;? Peters (who invented a number of tricks still used today) and consisting of members from a variety of infamous scene bands, the Bombs deliver a fast-paced shot of skate-punk straight to the brain.

Although the U.S. Bombs turn 18 this year and have matured in sound, they have managed to keep their anger and angst over social mores as sharp as the spikes on their leather jackets. In a world of watereddown, over-primped and over-produced corporate â&#x20AC;&#x153;punk,â&#x20AC;? Petersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; toothless snarls matched with the Bombsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; grinding sound are a reminder of everything the punk rock rebellion should be. Catalyst; $10 adv/$12 door; 8:30pm. (Mat Weir)

In todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hip-hop climate, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a rarity when a band or artist can climb up from the underground to reach commercial success on a national level through its own determination in the way Atmosphere has. Through relentless touring, prolific writing and constantly pushing the envelope with their lyrics (everything from personal battles with alcoholism to fictional concept albums), Slug & DJ Ant have earned Atmosphere the respect of their hip-hop peers. The Minnesotan duoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest album, The Family Sign, released earlier this year, debuted at number 13 on the Billboard 200, proving thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still room for powerful and insightful hip-hop. Civic Auditorium; $41.75 adv; 8pm. (MW)

8=G 97::A A=@@=E There are bands that find a nice groove, lock it in and ride it for a while. Then there are bands that craft songs note-fornote, layering sounds, intertwining parts and creating something that resembles an audio hologram with a dimension and shape of its own. Such is the case with Joy Kills Sorrow. On paper itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an indie, newroots band, but in practice itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a group of insanely talented Boston-based twentysomethings who combine award-winning artistry with masterful songwriting, a sharp understanding of traditional music and an exploratory spirit. With their fresh, lively sound and impressive compositional and improvisational skills, Joy Kills Sorrow provides a portal to the string bands of the future. Crepe Place; $10; 9pm. (Cat Johnson)

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and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s considered a relic by the eraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slick Nashville shysters, but his totemic cowboy songs have outlasted his doubters.

Rio Theatre; $25 gen/$40 gold circle; 8pm.

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Is a 10-piece band boasting some of the Bay Areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most audacious talents. Not content with merely paying tribute to Kutiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legacy, Albino! adds heaping portions of funk and Latin jazz to the recipe, mixing the ingredients into a zesty stew of dance floor-ready rhythms and piquant horn bursts. The players are natural showmen, donning flashy costumes and doing everything in their physical power to get audiences off their asses and on the sweaty dance floor. Moeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alley; $10 adv/$12 door; 9pm. (PMD)

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Recently some fool broke into local folk diva Sharon Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car and stole her guitar and speakers. In community style, however, her friends and fans are rising to the occasion and putting on a star-studded benefit concert featuring some of the finest talent around. Bob Brozman, the Henhouse, Dayan Kai, Keith Greeninger, Ginny Mitchell, Mary McCaslin and more are all rallying to Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cause, proving that you can take the guitar but you can never get the song. Don Quixoteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; $20; 7pm. (CJ)

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3EP Montrose (Ages 21+) 3EP Breakestra Atrium (Ages 21+) 3EP Kylesa Atrium (Ages 18+) 3EP Fury 66/ At Risk (Ages 16+) 3EP The Chop Tops Atrium (Ages 21+) 3EP Black Uhuru (Ages 16+) 3EP Murder By Death Atrium (Ages 16+) 3EP Tesla (Ages 21+) 3EP The Aggrolites Atrium (Ages 16+) 3EP J Boog (Ages 16+) 3EP Hank 3 Attention DeďŹ cit Domination (Ages 21+)

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Film Capsules <3E 1/>A BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957) A British colonel (Alec Guinness) is unaware of the Alliesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; plan to destroy the bridge his men are reconstructing. Based on the rebuilding of the Burma Railway, this war film stars William Holden. (Thu at Santa Cruz 9) COLOMBIANA (PG-13; 107 min.) A young woman (Zoe Saldana) from Bogota becomes an assassin after seeing her parents

murdered by mobsters.

(Opens Thu midnite at Scotts Valley and Fri at Green Valley)

THE DEBT (R; 122 min.) Two retired Mossad agents (Helen Mirren and Tom Wilkinson) are drawn into the past when news breaks about their colleague CiarĂĄn Hinds, with whom they undertook a risky Nazihunting operation in 1966 that may not have been as successful as first appears.

(Opens Weds 8/31 at Nickelodeon and Aptos)

SHOWTIMES

DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (R; 99 min.) Goblinlike creatures torment the young Sally Hirst (Bailee Madison) when she moves into a run-down house with her father and his girlfriend (Katie Holmes). Written

by Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Panâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Labyrinth) and directed by comic book artist Troy Nixey. (Opens Thu midnite at Scotts Valley and Fri at Green Valley) GOD BLESS OZZY OSBOURNE (R; 91 min.) With never before seen interviews with

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

Paul McCartney, Ozzy stars in his first documentary that reveals his private struggles as a rock icon. (Wed 8/24 at Santa Cruz 9)

THE GUARD (R; 105 min.)

Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) is a careless cop with a dying mother and liking for prostitutes. When he becomes aware of a large-scale cocaine smuggling ring, he finds himself indifferent towards his duties. (Opens Fri at Nickelodeon)

OUR IDIOT BROTHER (R; 90 min.) Stars Paul Rudd as the idiot brother named Ned. Ned barges in on the lives of his three sisters, and when he overstays his welcome he is forced to reconsider his actions.

(Opens Thu midnite at 41st Ave and Scotts Valley and Fri at Del Mar and Green Valley) KING OF HEARTS (1966) A comic war drama about Charles Plumpick, an ornithologist mistaken for a bomb expert and put in

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Aug 24, through Wednesday, Aug 31, unless otherwise indicated.

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RAMONA AND BEEZUS (2010) Based on the Beverly Cleary book series, this family flick casts Selena Gomez as a young grade schooler who takes on misadventures. (Wed 8/24-Thu 8/25 at Scotts Valley) SHREK FOREVER AFTER (2010) Rumpelstiltskin manipulates Shrek to erase himself from existence in the final chapter of series.

(Wed 8/24-Thu 8/25 at 41st Ave)

@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.

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.

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.

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

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charge of deactivating a bomb that the German army has planted in a town of quite eccentricâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; one might even say nuttyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;folk. (Sat-Sun at Aptos)

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) 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,

OUR BROTHERS, OURSELVES Paul Rudd (right) and Adam Scott star in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our Idiot Brother,â&#x20AC;? opening Friday. steals the attention away from social climber Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin).

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

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?

ONE DAY (PG-13; 108 min.)

This romantic comedy tracks the relationship between two friends who spent the last night of college together (Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess).

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.

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13, 115 min.)

If there are two words that sum up Rupert Wyattâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film, they are â&#x20AC;&#x153;strangely plausible.â&#x20AC;? 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.

When a superintelligent baby lab chimp named

Caesar is ordered to be destroyed, Will brings him home to his Peninsula home, and a San Francisco Zoo veterinarian (Freida Pinto) helps him raise the critter. As Caesar grows, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s played by synthespian modeled on the always-amazing Andy Serkis; this and the storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s links to the tragic story of Nim Chimpsky (as seen recently in Project Nim) â&#x20AC;&#x153;grounds the balloonâ&#x20AC;? as James Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum put it.

The last third of the film, thrilling and fast, takes over Caesarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story. Wyatt shines here, bringing in images of urban rebellion that have as much zeitgeist as the first Apes movie did in 1968. Like the J.J. Abrams remake of Star Trek, this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a demolition job but a handsomely done renovation of an old property. (RvB)

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.

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.

THE WHISTLEBLOWER (R; 112 min.) 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. She discovers that some local roadhouses are holding prostitutes prisoner; local cops as well as employees in her company are in on the dirty business. (RvB)

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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Over the course of the afternoon some 150 guests streamed in and out of the cozy space next to the Museum of Art and History and lounged around tables on the petite outdoor patio, sipping the wines of /ZTO`] 4O[WZg DW\SgO`Ra courtesy of the always-charming @WQVO`R /ZTO`] (Sweet storyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;years ago Alfaro got the business loan for Alfaro Bakery from Principe, then a loan officer at Santa Cruz Community Credit Union.) Full disclosure: Principe and Walker are close personal friends. But if I do say so, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done a great job of warming up the interior. A gorgeous bar made by 1O`Z]a >`S\bWaa from oak barrel staves is the roomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new centerpiece, and a few high tables and chairs invite lingering over flights of Santa Cruz Mountains wines. Paintings by 1VO`ZSa >`S\bWaa, including some jaw-dropping large-format numbers, brighten the walls. And the shelves are stocked with pride of Santa Cruz Mountains viticulture, which Walker describes as perhaps the most â&#x20AC;&#x153;underappreciated wines in the world.â&#x20AC;?

It made my little heart swell with pride to see all our local wines in one place, /VZU`S\ to HOgO\bS. Stay tuned for word on food offerings. On Cooper Street between Front and Pacific; 831.426.VINO. E3 /@3 0:3AA32 It was sad to see /aO\O go (theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re actually still selling tea and teaware online at www.asanateas.com), but in its place is now 1OT{ 5`ObWbcRS. Serving vegan and raw food dishes like the I Am Comforted (zucchini noodles in a cashew cheese sauce) and the I Am Transformed (a vegan taco plate), this small Bay Area chain features produce from its own Be Love farm in Vacaville. 103 Lincoln St., Santa Cruz. 831.427.9583. >3<<G BC@<A =<3 You could have fried an egg on the sidewalk the day >S\\g 7QS 1`SO[S`g opened its doors, one year ago today. As I recall, 0`cQS 0`Obb]\ caught the mercury loitering around the 103-degree mark that afternoon, and that guy sits in the shade. Fortunately 9S\R`O 0OYS`g and HOQV 2OdWa were on hand to save the good citizens of Santa Cruz from heat exhaustion and predictable dairy desserts: they brought the people flavors like Earl Grey, bourbon bacon chocolate and cardamom, and the people rewarded them with love. This Wednesday, Aug. 24, the shop celebrates its first birthday with T`SS aQ]]^a for everybody. As if we needed another reason to sidle over to the little place at 913 Cedar St., thinking happy thoughts all the way.

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831-426-VINO (8466)

www.vinocruz.com

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

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Indian. Authentic Indian dishes and specialties served in a comfortable dining room. Lunch buffet daily 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner daily 5pm to close. www.ambrosiaib.com American and specialty dishes from the British and Emerald Isles. Full bar. Children welcome. Happy hour Mon-Fri 2-6pm.

Open daily 11am to 2am.

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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2218 East Cliff Dr, 831.476.4560

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303 Soquel Ave, 831.426.7770

1102 Pacific Ave, 837.420.0135

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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.

$$ Santa Cruz

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49-B Municipal Wharf, 831.458.9393

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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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710 Front St, 831.427.4444

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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For the week of August 24 ARIES (March 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 19): I predict that in the coming weeks, you will be able to extract an unexpected perk or beneďŹ t from one of your less glamorous responsibilities. I also predict that you will decide not to ram headďŹ rst into an obstacle and try to batter it until it crumbles. Instead, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll dream up a roundabout approach that will turn out to be more effective at eliminating the obstacle. Finally, I predict that these departures from habit will show you precious secrets about how to escape more of your own negative conditioning in the future.

TAURUS (April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dear Astrologer: My life is stagnant and slow. It suffers bone-deep from a lack of changes, good or bad or in between. Why has my karma been deprived of all motion? Why must I go on frozen in such eerie peace and quiet? I seek your help. Can you cast a spell for me so that I will be happily disrupted and agitated? Will you predict my sorry state of stillness to be ended soon? Arvind Agnimuka, Taurus from Darjeeling.â&#x20AC;?

Dear Arvind: Funny you should ask. According to my analysis, members of the Taurus tribe are about to be roused out of their plodding rhythm by a bolt of cosmic mojo. Get ready to rumbleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and I mean that in the best sense of the word.

GEMINI (May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 20): I found this unusual classiďŹ ed ad in a small California newspaper. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wanted: Someone to travel backwards in time with me. This is not a joke. You must be unafraid to see the person you used to be, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to keep a wide-open mind about the pastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I mean more wide-open than you have ever been able to. I have made this trip twice before, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect any danger, but there may be a bit of a mess. Please bring your own â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cleaning implements,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; if you know what I mean.â&#x20AC;? As crazy as it sounds, Gemini, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thinking youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be the right person for this gig. The astrological omens suggest youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be doing something similar to it anyway.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Of your ďŹ ve senses, which is the most underdeveloped? If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a typical Westerner, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your sense of smell. You just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use it with the same level of acuity and interest you have when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing, hearing, tasting and touching. You may speak excitedly about an image you saw or song you heard or food you ate or massage you experiencedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;what they were like, how they made you feelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but you rarely do that with odors. You easily tolerate an ugly building or loud trafďŹ c noise or mediocre food or itchy fabric, and yet you feel a deep aversion to an unappealing smell.

Having said that, I want you to know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an excellent time to upgrade your olfactory involvement with the world.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d beneďŹ t greatly from the emotional enrichment that would come from cultivating a more conscious relationship with aromas.

LEO (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Enlightenment is simply this,â&#x20AC;? said the Zen master. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I walk, I walk. When I eat, I eat. When I sleep, I sleep.â&#x20AC;? If thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true, Leo, you now have an excellent chance to achieve at least temporary enlightenment. The universe is virtually conspiring to maneuver you into situations where you can be utterly united with whatever you are doing in the present moment. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be less tempted than usual to let your mind wander away from the experience at hand but will instead relish the opportunity to commit yourself completely to the scene thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right in front of you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): In August 2009, 120 scientists and their helpers staged a BioBlitz in Yellowstone National Park. Their goal was to ďŹ nd as many new species as they could in one day. To their surprise and delight, they located more than 1,200, including beetles, worms, lichens and fungi that had never before been identiďŹ ed.

An equally fertile phase of discovery could very well be imminent for you, Virgo. All you have to do is make that your intention, then become super extra double-wildly receptive.

between the extremes of seeking too much order and allowing too much disorder. What would Goldilocks do?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 21): Readers of Reddit.com were asked to describe their lives in just six words. It would be a good time for you to try this exercise. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve reached a juncture in your unfolding destiny when you could beneďŹ t from a review that pithily sums up where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been up until now, and where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to go next. To inspire your work, here are some of the most interesting from Reddit: 1.) Early opportunities wasted, now attempting redemption. 2.) Searching tirelessly for that one thing. 3.)

Living my dream requires modifying dream. 4.) Must not turn into my mom. 5.) Insane ambition meets debilitating self-doubt. 6.) Do you want to have sex? 7.) Slowly getting the hang of it. 8.) These pretzels are making me thirsty.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): Go where the drama is, Sagittarius, but not where the melodrama is. Place yourself in the path of the most interesting power but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get distracted by displays of power that are dehumanizing or narcissistic. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when you have a mandate to intensify your excitement with life and increase your ability to be deeply engaged with what attracts you. I urge you to be as brave as you once were when you conquered a big fear and to be as curious as you were when you discovered a big secret about who you are. For extra credit, be highly demonstrative in your expression of what you care about.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 19): In his older years, after steadfastly cultivating his vices with the care of a connoisseur, the agnostic actor W.C. Fields was caught reading the Bible by an old friend. Questioned at this departure from his usual behavior, Fields said he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;looking for loopholes.â&#x20AC;? I suspect a comparable shift may be in the ofďŹ ng for you, Capricorn. In your case, you may be drawn to a source youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve perpetually ignored or dismissed, or suddenly interested in a subject youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve long considered to be irrelevant. I say, good for you. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an excellent time to practice opening your mind in any number of ways.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): I watched a YouTube video that showed eight people competing in a weird marathon. They ran two miles, ate 12 doughnuts, then ran another two miles. I hope you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try anything remotely similar to that, Aquarius. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the mood for outlandish feats and exotic adventures (which I suspect you might be), I suggest you try something more lifeenhancing, like making love for an hour, eating an organic gourmet feast, then making love for another hour. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good time for you to be wild, maybe even extreme, about getting the healing you need.

PISCES (Feb. 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20): In the out-of-print book In Portugal, A.F.G. Bell deďŹ nes the Portuguese word saudade as follows: â&#x20AC;&#x153;a vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, for something other than the present, a turning towards the past or towards the future; not an active discontent or poignant sadness, but an indolent dreaming wistfulness.â&#x20AC;? In my astrological opinion, Pisces, it is imperative that you banish as much saudade from your system as you can. If you want, you can bring it back again later, but for now, you need to clarify and reďŹ ne your desires for things that are actually possible. And that requires you to purge the delusional ones.

Homework: Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the part of you that you trust the least? Think up a test whereby that part of you will be challenged to express maximum integrity. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

LIBRA (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two dangers threaten the universe: order and disorder,â&#x20AC;? said poet Paul Valery. I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s especially true for you right now, although the â&#x20AC;&#x153;dangerâ&#x20AC;? in question is psychological in nature, not physical, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a relatively manageable hazard that you shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stay up all night worrying about. Still, the looming challenge to your poise is something that requires you to activate your deeper intelligence. You really do need to ďŹ gure out how to weave a middle way

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