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EDITOR TRACI HUKILL (thukill@santacruzweekly.com) STAFF WRITERS TESSA STUART (tstuart@santacruzweekly.com) JACOB PIERCE (jpierce@santacruzweekly.com) RICHARD VON BUSACK (richard@santacruzweekly.com) CONTRIBUTING EDITOR CHRISTINA WATERS POETRY EDITOR ROBERT SWARD PROOFREADER GABRIELLA WEST EDITORIAL INTERN SAMANTHA LARSON CONTRIBUTORS ROB BREZSNY, PAUL M. DAVIS, MICHAEL S. GANT, ANDREW GILBERT, MARIA GRUSAUSKAS, JORY JOHN, CAT JOHNSON, STEPHEN KESSLER, KELLY LUKER, SCOTT MACCLELLAND, AVERY MONSEN STEVE PALOPOLI, PAUL WAGNER

SUPERSCRIBES FOR A free weekly, you have some pretty fine writers on your staff. Before I read “Troubled Waters” (Currents, Sept. 28) by Jacob Pierce, I had zero-point-zero knowledge of or interest in poor little Lompico’s water woes. But Pierce really peeled the onion back to reveal the personalities and conflicts of folks in a small community who rub up against each other in trying to solve a nagging problem. Water is the new gold—it’s finite, precious, and if you go four days without its life-giving qualities, you die. I presume that there will be more water wars around the state as climate change and population growth come up against old infrastructure and questionable management practices, a volatile mix to be sure.

Send letters to Santa Cruz Weekly, letters@santacruz.com or to Attn: Letters, 115 Cooper St., Santa Cruz, 95060. Include city and phone number or email address. Submissions may be edited for length, clarity or factual inaccuracies known to us.

Thanks for the well-written article. “Beaks and Geeks” (Cover story, Sept. 28) by Kate Jacobson was equally as good.

Tim Rudolph Santa Cruz

THEY CAN’T ROLL STONE I REMEMBER the photo of a newly elected Supervisor Mark Stone being sworn in by Judge McAdams. That was years ago but I believed he would be a strong fighter for the will of county residents. He proved me right: as county supervisor he prevented a few large-scale housing projects which would

have spelled doom for the exiting ecology and adjacent neighborhoods. As Coastal Commissioner he voted down the Barry Swenson Builder Beach Hotel, another project spelling doom for the entire sea and shore amenities of the Main Beach area.

Mr. Stone had a few detractors for denying the city this major “opportunity for growth.”

But I have a sneaking suspicion each critic was a contractor like Barry Swenson Builder or associated with the building trades. They were all of the mindset “let the coastal skyline be disfigured forever just so we can make some quick chuck.”

I want to thank Mr. Stone for seeing the greater good here and also urge him to do right by Arana Gulch and see the Bike Road’s redundancy and the city’s motives in this plan. Enhancing human powered transportation ain’t one of the motives.

We got a rail trail now. Now if that isn’t a reason to oppose the Arana Bike road, how’s this? Boy-Mayor Ryan Coonerty, vigorous proponent of Builder Barry’s Beach highrise, is frothing at the mouth to get the bike road approved.

Theodore F. Meyer Santa Cruz

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FROM THE WEB

AIMING FOR EARLY BIRD OUCH! Brutal lead sentence, Kate [“Beaks and Geeks”]. In my defense, I did arrive right on time, though I should have arrived 15 minutes early to get my computer set up.

Otherwise, great story. Engaging writing, good interviews and nice coverage of the event. Keep up the good work.

Steve Shunk

CORRECTION In last week’s cover story (“Beaks and Geeks”) we incorrectly identified a bird as a ruddy turnstile. It was a ruddy turnstone. We regret the error.

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with my life is these animals. You have every kind of emotion here. It’s really nice when you put time into raising them and open your hand and they fly, and then other times you have to choose whether they live or die. And that’s very hard.

Favorite birds? The barn swallow. Some

go all the way to the tip of Argentina for the summertime.

MOLLY RICHARDSON Founder, Native Animal Rescue What do you do for a living?

I get social security.

What would you be doing if you weren’t doing that? Enjoying my golden years.

What do you do in your free time?

I have a huge beautiful yard and I take care of it, pretty much.

What brought you to Santa Cruz?

I liked it here in the ’70s. I used to live in Pacific Grove. When I retired, I decided to come here.

Name something you’re excited about.

Well, this is the nicest thing I’ve done

Name a pet peeve. People hose down

[barn swallow nests] with the power hose. And that really bugs me. I’d like to take them and hose them!

Do you have a personal connection with the birds? No. We try not to. We try to

keep it as wild as possible.

What would you like people to know about wild birds? If people would not

cut down trees or branches then—or at least look and see [if birds are nesting in them]!

What else? Every human has the best part of human nature and the worst part, and the best part is what comes in here.

THE TURN Tricia Deaton’s photo suggests we can’t pretend anymore: Fall’s here.

Read a longer version at www.santacruz.com/news.

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STREET SIGNS

Local Poets, Local Inspiration Here Hear Incessant tinny crickets someone’s named tinnitus ringing high-pitched in the ear, sotto voce allelu-u-ia in the wake of last night’s choir, crunch of radish and romaine, meets the bubble-bump of eggs boiling, bird cheep, long swish thunk thunk of car down the road with boom-box blasting, squishy slaps of wetsuits, squeals of laughter, constant rush-hush of waves on the shore, faint woofing, yelping, bang of screen door, mommy, where’re my . . .? f lip-f lops f lapping, then these

rackety scratches rolling around the corner, skateboards, neighbor’s wind-chimes, more hammering with banter in Spanish from the roof out back, high up, a small plane’s buzz, and this scratch scratch of writing, clump it in a notebook for later . . . the sky clear blue now, my feet tell me, move, out the door, and happily the weeds are calling— tickly foxtails, pungent fever-few, the tiny orange not-so-scarlet pimpernel, the stringy-rooted runners to get down on my knees to—

and with a leaf of mint for taste— in the pulling of weeds merciful silence.

Rosie King Rosie King grew up down the road from Theodore Roethke’s family house in Saginaw, Mich., had his strict sister, June, for 9th grade English, and went on to graduate from Wellesley.

She moved west in 1966 and taught at San Francisco State and UC–Santa Cruz. Her first collection of poems, Sweetwater, Saltwater, published in 2007, is available from Hummingbird Press.

Local Poets, Local Inspiration, edited by Robert Sward, appears monthly on this page.

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A new market analysis offers bold suggestions for downtown

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SO MUCH FOR keeping Santa Cruz weird. If nationally recognized retail expert Robert Gibbs is right about us, much of the town’s population can be summed up in two words: “urban chic.”

His recent market analysis, which has made waves since he presented it at the Sept. 27 city council meeting, says this group features “professionals that stay physically fit, own Apple computers, drink premium wines and Starbucks coffee.”

These well-heeled shoppers also “take advantage of city life, visit museums and shop at Nordstrom, Ann Taylor and Macy’s.” But for a number of reasons—including

bad infrastructure and a retail mix that doesn’t appeal to them—Gibbs says those shoppers are leaving the city in droves for places like Santana Row in San Jose. His $32,000 study, paid for with city redevelopment money, offers several solutions aimed at turning downtown Santa Cruz back into a bustling shopping destination again.

One of them would require a sharp change in policy. “One of our assumptions was that Pacific would be turned into a two-way street,” Gibbs said at last week’s meeting, describing one of the solution scenarios. Making the street twoway, he said, would boost business 20-30 percent.

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translating to $237 million per the heels of the latest attempt to stimulate the downtown economy. year in revenue, which would lead The council’s decision last month to a big boost to city coffers. But to reduce the parking fees charged Santa Cruz could also choose a noto downtown businesses follows the build option, perhaps even finding July move to make Pacific Avenue ways to better tap into markets more inviting to dog owners, a la with existing stores.

Carmel and Los Gatos. It’s all part The report notes that 77 percent of the general hand-wringing over of the money Santa Cruzans spend the health of Pacific Avenue, where is leaked to other cities. It says gaping holes in the former Borders downtown could support a Target and the E.C. Rittenhouse buildings or H&M, that the beach district stand as constant reminders of the could support a Dave & Busters recession. or an ESPN Zone and that the Gibbs doesn’t expect to see either Westside could handle a JC Penney. of those two prominent vacancies None of those, of course, would filled until the street becomes easier go in without a fight. Gibbs also for people in cars to navigate. The stresses that the city needs to update current setup, he says, is frustrating its signage on the Ocean Street overstretched workers and busy corridor—many beachgoers don’t moms who are juggling jobs and even know there is a downtown— babies with their everyday shopping. and strongly endorses the city’s “They don’t want to loop around Wayfinding signage program, one-way streets. They just won’t do currently in the planning process, to it,” says Gibbs. do just that.

Transportation advocates from City Council agreed at last week’s People Power, as well as activists like meeting to schedule a study session Reed Searle and Ron Pomerantz, on the report. “I really don’t want who ran for city council last year, this to be seen as the Pacific Avenue see a different vision for Pacific. two-way study,” said Councilmember Environmentalists have been Don Lane. The session will give the clamoring for years to instead city time to figure out just which close traffic on the street in favor direction both Pacific Avenue and of a more pedestrian-friendly the latest market analysis will take. destination like the 3rd Street “It’s a fantastic idea,” says Promenade in Santa Monica or John Stansbury, a partner with the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder. “I Terranomics Retail Services, which think the community is going to handles rentals for properties like find it a pretty ridiculous idea,” says the Rittenhouse building. “I think Pomerantz of a two-way option. it’s not only important. I think it’s “Let’s have the hearing, but if we critical in revitalizing Santa Cruz, have the hearing, we’re going to talk which is stagnant.” about closing the street, too.”

Gibbs’s 104page report ON T H E B E AC H covers a lot of ground On the Beach is a report from Save Our Shores besides twothat appears the first week of each month way streets. It says Santa Cruz as a whole can Pounds of trash and recycling gathered accommodate from 81 beach and river sites in Santa Cruz and Monterey 584,000 counties on Coastal Cleanup Day, Sept. 17. additional square feet of retail

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WRONG MESSAGE A market analysis of downtown has people talking about whether Pacific Avenue should go both ways, run one-way all the way through or be closed to traffic altogether.

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MOVING IN Monarch butterf lies are

here to winter at Natural Bridges.

Hang Time ‘THERE’S a bunch of butterflies down there!” a girl of about 9 excitedly whispers to me as I start down the bridge toward the eucalyptus grove of Natural Bridges State Beach, the winter home to thousands of monarch butterflies recently arrived from the north. Surveying the underbrush, I glimpse one resting on a leafy stalk and lean in with my camera to capture its delicate stance. A step too far and the creature is up in the air, swirling as if in a dance with two newfound friends. I crane my neck to watch their ascent into the trees, their path bringing my attention to a eucalyptus branch that looks slightly off. And then it becomes clear: Hundreds of reddish, drooping leaves are actually all monarchs.

Natural Bridges celebrates the return of the monarchs this Sunday, Oct. 9 at the 31st annual Welcome Back Monarchs Day. It’s also a celebration of the reopening of the boardwalk trail that leads down to the eucalyptus grove—repaired with the help of the Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks after it was damaged last winter.

It will be the scene of true monarch mania. Park ranger Martha Nitzberg reels off the attractions: “There will be monarch music, monarch dancing, the return of monarch man and monarch woman, the rising of the monarch flag. There will even be hand-made pumpkin—I mean butterfly—ice cream.”

As with all festivals, arts and crafts, face painting and a raffle round out the bill, and this case there are also monarchfriendly gardening tips and, of course, trips down the boardwalk trail to see the butterflies. It’s the perfect family destination and, as Nitzberg puts it, “an opportunity to have different generations connect to the natural world.

“The festival is about protecting an insect, which is unusual,” she says. “I hope it will create awe and inspiration to protect the little things.”

But while the return of the monarchs provides a great excuse to celebrate,

Nitzberg notes that Natural Bridges isn’t just about the butterflies, and the event will provide a time for people to explore any of its many different habitats, from intertidal zone to wetlands. “I hope the day will make people want to come back here,” she says. “After all, the parks are for everyone.”

WELCOME BACK MONARCHS DAY is Sunday, Oct. 9, 10am-4pm at Natural Bridges State Beach, Santa Cruz.

Kindest Cuts Fall is the season of change—the perfect time to get a new look. This Sunday there’s a great chance to do just that: look good and feel good by getting a new ’do at L’Atelier Salon between 10am and 4pm, when stylists will donate their time for the Hope Cuts fundraising campaign benefiting the City of Hope.

The Southern California–based hospital and research institution is not only world renowned for its premier patient care, it also spends nearly $2 million a week on state-of-the-line research towards curing cancer, HIV/AIDS and other lifethreatening diseases.

L’Atelier stylist Nick Saporito first organized a Hope Cuts event four years ago after learning about the campaign through spending time at City of Hope with his father, who was a lymphoma patient there. Years past have reaped as much as $4,000 in the six-hour period, thanks to great raffle schwag.

The money raised this Sunday will have the potential to make a great impact: 85 percent will go toward patient care and research, 10 percent toward buildings and facilities and only 4 percent toward administrative costs. The event will glean additional fundraising from the raffle and silent auction featuring prizes donated from many local individuals and businesses.

Hope Cuts will be open to walk-ins only, but there will be live music as entertainment if there is a wait. There is a $40 flat rate for all cuts.

To really bring in the change, consider making this a double-whammy—L’Atelier salon will mail in ponytails of more than 10 inches to Locks of Love, an organization that provides hair pieces to financially disadvantaged children who lose their hair from cancer treatment and other diagnoses.

HOPE CUTS is Sunday, Oct. 9, 10am4pm, at L’Atelier, 114 Pearl Alley, Santa Cruz.

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LE GRAND PRIX-FIXE Santa Cruz Restaurant Week is back with eight days of prix-fixe menus. Ladies and gentlemen, start your appetites.

PROFILES BY CHRISTINA WATERS * PHOTOS BY CHIP SCHEUER

WHEN DOES innovation become tradition? Right about now. Three years ago Santa Cruz Weekly took the Restaurant Week plunge and started a local version of the seven-day culinary extravaganza thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s swept cities across the country. Year One saw participating restaurants packed to the gills with diners eager for a chance to sample three coursesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; worth of culinary inspiration for the bargain price of $25. Year Two saw a fresh group of restaurants sign onto the program, offering Santa Cruzans new f lavors and tastes.

And now we come to Year Three, our biggest Restaurant Week ever.

Timed to the end of Indian summer, as the last heirloom tomatoes

cling to the vine and the first of the fall harvest comes in, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a chance to rejuvenate the senses and get back in touch with this place we call home. We may not share feast days in our multicultural, secular society, but we do share Restaurant Week, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a new tradition worth savoring.

The four chefs profiled in these pages are making the most of the local bounty and offering diners a chance to see what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all about for the low price of $25 for three courses. A full listing of participating restaurants follows on page 26 and at www.santacruzrestaurantweek. com. Restaurant Week runs Oct. 5-12. Happy feasting. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Traci Hukill

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DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE AT THE CASH STORE Armed with a lengthy culinary background and a popular roadhouse setting on the rugged North Coast cliffs, chef Tim Edmonds is winning praise from local foodies and visitors alike. His freshly conceived menu at the Davenport Roadhouse showcases bright flavors in all the major food groups. But the Rocky Mountain native does have his favorites. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like cooking fish the most,â&#x20AC;? he admits. Why? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so immediateâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you have to be fast and precise.â&#x20AC;?

Edmonds is able to translate his particular fondness for fish cookery into some of the best-tasting fish entrees on the Central Coast. A recent order of steelhead salmon, for example, paired Edmondsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; expert roasting touch with his commitment to fresh, local ingredients. Skin delicately crisped, the fish arrived accompanied by fingerling potatoes and sauteed late-harvest chicories.

Earlier in the summer, Edmonds was building deeply flavored vertical

creations with roasted local halibut on a bed of favas and lemon spaetzle.

The dish was strewn with capers and topped with slender spears of asparagus. This attractive pairing of vegetables of the season with carefully executed fresh seafood is an Edmonds signature.

Originally from Colorado, Edmonds learned a lot of his culinary tricks in Chicago, much of it working with legendary Midwestern chef Steve Chiappetti, now at the helm of Viand. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He gave me my foundation,â&#x20AC;? says Edmonds.

Having gone to college at Grinnell in Iowa, Edmonds naturally gravitated toward the Windy City and its large population of top urban eateries. From there he traveled to Boston and Connecticut, perfecting classic French technique. Back in Chicago, he worked at the Peninsula Hotelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shanghai Terrace, then migrated back to the East Coast in what seems to be the typical vision ¨ %

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After another stint in New England, Edmonds cooked in Spain for a year, then came out West. When he arrived in Santa Cruz a few years ago, he soon found a place in the Cellar Door exhibition kitchen with founding chef Charlie Parker. He made the jump to Davenport, and the Roadhouse, a little over a year ago.

Edmonds is especially pleased with the organizational changes heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brought to the Roadhouse kitchen, and with the notable focus on fresh produce heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s introduced to the menu. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a little more French in style than California cuisine,â&#x20AC;? he explains.

While admitting that everything can always be improved, Edmonds is happy to have such abundant access to the fresh and the seasonal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I stress organization in the kitchen and lots of fresh ingredients.â&#x20AC;?

As anyone whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worked in a kitchen knows, cooking is a team sport, and backing Edmonds up on the line are three brothers whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been at the Roadhouse since it openedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;David, Armando

and Javier Trejoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as well as Rick Wilcox. Roadhouse veterans Rick Hernandez, Edgar Lopez and Raymundo Armando handle prep and dishwashing. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll all be in high gear for Restaurant Week, when Edmonds plans to showcase the foods he loves to cook. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably do a tomato salad and a quail entree,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And probably a clam chowder. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to get more recognition for our chowder. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not as thick as most people do it. Lots of broth and just a little cream.â&#x20AC;?

After all the time spent cooking in the Midwest and the urban atmospheres of Chicago and Boston, Edmonds says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quite happy living on the coast, on land right behind Pie Ranch, near AĂąo Nuevo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like being in a rural area,â&#x20AC;? he says.

In fact, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s completely sold on our food-friendly region. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love using fresh ingredients,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Central Coast has everything.â&#x20AC;?

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CASABLANCA INN & BISTRO Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entirely possible that Casablanca owns the finest seaside views on the West Coast. Hanging over the sparkling water, with a view of the Carmel Highlands in the distance, this dining room romances its location, especially with chef Job Carder in the kitchen.

Reopened last spring by Tyrolean Inn owners Whitney Belvin and Charles Cheatham, the Casablancaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reinvention as an inn and bistro stresses a regional organic menu, thanks to Carderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many personal contacts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have friends who have ranches in Sonoma, produce growers, artisanal cheesemakersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;having strong personal contacts with local suppliers allows me to get great prices,â&#x20AC;? says Carder, a big man with a robust attitude and a can-do spirit.

Although heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a native of Los Angeles, in many ways Carderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s move to Casablanca is a homecoming: his

first job in the restaurant business was cooking on 41st Avenue at a place called Little Louâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s BBQ. Years later, as part of the Patina Group team operating fine French restaurants on both coasts, he helped open new restaurants in California and Las Vegas. Under the tutelage of Patina founder Joachim Splichal, he took the helm as executive chef at various Patina group bistros, then moved to CafĂŠ Bizou in Santa Monica, where he garnered kudos from Zagat, and on to Manzanita in Healdsburg. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I learned a lot from Joachim,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but after lots of urban experience, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad to be back in Santa Cruz.â&#x20AC;?

At this point in his career, Casablanca is the right fit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more the world I want to be part of, the farm-direct style of cooking,â&#x20AC;? he explains. Now heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s busy fine-tuning a new menu with the support of ¨

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Carder will be doing some specially packaged items from the regular menuâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including a lamb ragout with housemade pappardelle and mussel steamers with friesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for Restaurant Week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That way when people find a favorite, they can come back and have it again.â&#x20AC;? And again.

Casablanca Inn & Bistro, 101 Main St., Santa Cruz. 831.426.9063. Closed Tuesdays.

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LAILI RESTAURANT

The flavor theme is Silk Road cuisine, the spice-laden ingredients of the high altitude Middle East.

The setting is a sleek Mark Primackdesigned interior and an adjoining outdoor garden terrace dining area.

The culinary art direction involves a romantic and vibrant menu of items ranging from hummus platters and lamb kabobs to walnut date

flatbread and grilled chicken. It is the handiwork of an ambitious and skilled young chef named Elder Lopez.

Lopez grew up on a farm watching his parents cook together for friends. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I watched and tasted and I liked the food,â&#x20AC;? he recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And that started me off.â&#x20AC;? Moving to San Francisco 15 ¨

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Small plate appetizers range from oven baked ravioli with umbrian truffles to fresh kumomoto oysters and duck sliders. Carder has just added new dishes to match the changing season, too. A braised short rib entree announces fall, as does a dish of seared rabbit tenderloin paired with braised lamb leg over farro and fresh English peas.

Look for French and even Japanese seasoning touches in Carderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mediterranean-intensive menu, like wasabi ketchup served with his hand-cut fries. The chef makes all of his own salame and a variety of prosciuttos. Right now

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years ago, Lopez began cooking in restaurants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had an Italian teacher.

He had cooked in Tuscany, and he taught me all his techniques,â&#x20AC;? Lopez remembers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I owe him everything.â&#x20AC;?

Armed with a large repertoire of Italian classic recipes, Lopez recently moved to the Santa Cruz area to be closer to his wifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family. Lopezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife now commutes to her job in Cupertino, and four months ago he started at Laili.

Lopez adapted immediately to the Afghani and Persian specialties of Laili. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you grow up with a family who loves food, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so easy to get into cooking of every kind.â&#x20AC;?

Undaunted by a menu already in place, and full of specialties such as aushak dumplings with lentils and yogurt and pomegranate eggplant, Lopez stepped in and hit the ground running. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you know how to cook, you can do any cuisine,â&#x20AC;? he contends. Plus there were many crossovers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even though there were more spices than in Italian cooking, I liked these flavors from the start,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was used to spicy food, so it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so different.â&#x20AC;?

Lopez regularly consults with Laili owner and entrepreneur Wafi Amin, who set the menuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ethnic tone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to keep it simple, yet rich in flavor,â&#x20AC;? says Lopez. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will do some

specials, depending on the season.

For example, I did a beet salad this summer, and now I am doing an heirloom tomato salad. I like to go to the farmers markets, to see whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fresh, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new.â&#x20AC;?

Wines have been chosen to match the food, and Lopez works with Lailiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s owner on the menu. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s helped me a lot. We make everything from scratch.â&#x20AC;? That includes the chai and the popular lemon ginger soda.

If pressed, Lopez will admit that the Silk Road plateâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an orchestration of hummus, tabbouleh, baba ghanoush and cucumber yogurtâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is his favorite lunch. But he also loves the pomegranate eggplant and the anar chicken. And the pumpkin boranee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all good. Anyone who tastes our foodâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;well, they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be disappointed.â&#x20AC;?

At home, Lailiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chef says he likes to make chicken marsala with prosciutto and mozzarella, a little wine and cream. He smiles as he says this, adding that his wife is a great foodie and his primary recipe tester. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything I cook has to come from my heart.â&#x20AC;?

Laili Restaurant, 101 B Cooper St., Santa Cruz. 831.423.4545.

KATHERINE STERNI

LA POSTA

Petite, hardworking and restlessly creative, Katherine Stern cooked her way around the world before taking over the sunny kitchen at La Posta on Seabright in early 2010. The restaurant â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s popularity has continued to grow under her expertise, evident in imaginative pastas, feather-light pizzas and entrees like braised quail and fennel sausage. She was expertly dressing an 80-pound pig for spit-roasting when I caught up with her last week.

A native of Silicon Valley, Stern attended culinary school in Portland. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always loved cooking, so

thought Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d give it a shot,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It felt right.â&#x20AC;?

It also quickly began to lead her in interesting directions. After a stint post-college working in Santa Cruz, Stern traveled to Europe, ending up in Tuscany. There she joined a group working on organic farms, where a friend turned her on to a new winery just getting underway on a castle estate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I began working in the fields, then the olive orchards and vineyards. I also helped in the kitchen. It felt very special,â&#x20AC;? she recalls. ¨

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She returned to the United States, but not for long. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 2002 the estate asked me to come back as their cook, mostly for family meals. It was very traditional Italian cooking.

I learned a lot.â&#x20AC;? She also met her future husband. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was restoring part of the castle, and I was cooking.â&#x20AC;?

Romantic, no?

Sternâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus on Italian cookery began then, and it continues to this day. Back in this country she worked at Quince in San Francisco, â&#x20AC;&#x153;during the big California passion for Italian food,â&#x20AC;? she recalls. Then she and her husband moved to New Zealand. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Travel gave me a good idea of what was going on elsewhere in cooking,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We lived in Wellington for a while, then we moved to Scotland, where my husband is from. I worked at a hotel.

It was rugged and gorgeous.â&#x20AC;?

It was also, she admits, challenging for finding ingredients. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And it was too rainy.â&#x20AC;? So they returned to California, got a tip about La Posta and met with owner Patrice Boyle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We talked about Italy and the food I liked. And it clicked.â&#x20AC;?

Using the existing menu as a template, Stern gradually revamped everything. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all mine,â&#x20AC;? she

says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Patrice has confidence in me and lets me do what I want.â&#x20AC;?

Stern haunts the farmers markets twice a week, always looking for the newest harvest and locally sourced items like the pig sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fixing for an upcoming barbecue. Famously, the restaurant also has its own chicken coop. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have our own chickens for eggs and make our own sausage, salames, pancetta. And we do the breads. Everything is from scratch,â&#x20AC;? she chuckles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can get a little carried away.â&#x20AC;?

Naturally that means housemade pasta, a subject that makes Sternâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face light up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love to make pastaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I always enjoy that,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once you have it down, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy.â&#x20AC;?

For Restaurant Week sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thinking about a sunchoke soup, a tiny pizzetta and, of course, pasta. She also has quail and lingcod on her mind.

Morning wears on, and Sternâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s peach leaf gelato with wild fennel is almost finished. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see myself doing anything else than cooking,â&#x20AC;? she says.

La Posta, 538 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz. 831.457.2782. Closed Monday. ¨

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2011 Participating Restaurants Where to go during Restaurant Week Just what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always wanted: an excuse to eat out every single night of the week. All of the following are offering $25 prix-fixe menus Oct. 5-12 as part of Santa Cruz Restaurant Week. Just call ahead, since some are closed Sundays or Mondays.

Aquarius

Linwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at Chaminade Resort

175 W Cliff Dr., Santa Cruz 831.460.5012

1 Chaminade Ln., Santa Cruz 831.475.5600

Casablanca Inn & Bistro

Michaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Main

101 Main St., Santa Cruz 831.426.9063

2591 Main St., Soquel 831.479.9777

Clouds

Nuevo Southwest Grill

110 Church St., Santa Cruz 831.429.2000

21490 East Cliff Dr., Santa Cruz 831.4752233

Crowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nest

Oak Tree Ristorante

2218 E. Cliff Dr., Santa Cruz 831.476.4560

5447 Highway 9, Felton 831.335.5551

Davenport Roadhouse

Red Restaurant and Bar

1 Davenport Ave., Davenport 831.426.8801

1003 Cedar St., Santa Cruz 831.425.1913

515 Kitchen & Cocktails

Riva

515 Cedar St., Santa Cruz 831.425.5051

31 Santa Cruz Wharf, Santa Cruz 831.429.1223

Gabriella Cafe

Sandabs

910 Cedar St., Santa Cruz 831.457.1677

11 Camp Evers Ln., Scotts Valley 831.430.0657

Hindquarter Bar & Grille

Sanderlingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

303 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz 831.426.7770

Seascape Beach Resort on Monterey Bay One Seascape Resort Dr., Aptos 831.662.7120

The Hollins House at Pasatiempo

Stockton Bridge Grille

20 Clubhouse Rd., Santa Cruz 831.459.9177

231 Esplanade #112, Capitola 831.464.1933

Johnnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Harborside

Soif

493 Lake Ave., Santa Cruz 831.621.4481

105 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz .831.423.2020

La Posta

The Point Chophouse & Lounge

538 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz 831.457.2782

3326 Portola Dr., Santa Cruz 831.476.2733

Laili

Tyrolean Inn

101 Cooper St., Santa Cruz 831.423.4545

9600 Highway 9, Ben Lomond 831.336.5188

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THE MOST pointed critique of contemporary indie rock is that the genre has calcified into an unthreatening stylistic form, while its perpetual sexlessness has metastasized into a regressive form of twee infantilization. English fourpiece Wild Beasts has successfully resisted those trends, penning a body of unconventional work that is preoccupied with the tense power dynamics and negotiations of the bedroom.

Though the band has always excelled at meticulously arranged, nearly theatrical explorations of sexual relations, nothing on 2008â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Limbo, Panto or 2009â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Two Dancers suggested the baroque interiority of the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest release, Smother. To an insistent beat, Hayden Thorpeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s operatic vocals careen through an elegant yet claustrophobic haze of muted guitar and synthesizer tones, while bassist and vocalist Tom Flemingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lower register serves as a ominous counterpoint.

While their peers are intent on chasing the Arcade Fireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coattails, Wild Beasts are making difficult and challenging music that is deceptively enveloping. As Fleming explains, the band defies expectations by design. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re four skinny white boys,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;which people have seen before, so we spend a lot of time trying to subvert what a band should look and sound like.â&#x20AC;?

Nothing else in contemporary rock sounds quite like Smother. And

BEASTLY BOYS The U.K.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wild Beasts let the dogs out this Tuesday. while the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous albums were far from balls-to-the-wall rock extravaganzas, the album still represents a radical inward turn for the band. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We spent a lot of time on tour playing rock shows,â&#x20AC;? says Fleming. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve kind of exhausted the original drive behind making that kind of sound. We had an intention to bring it back to the interior, and focus on texture and tone and atmosphere. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t design that, but you can create the conditions for it.â&#x20AC;?

Drawing inspiration from minimalist composer Steve Reich and the ambient work of Aphex Twin, Wild Beasts were intent on deconstructing arrangement while still servicing the songs at the core. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are ultimately songwriters, but we wanted that abstraction, where songs are sort of marooned in texture,â&#x20AC;? Fleming says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very easy to retreat into solipsism when making more ambient music, but

weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to make collective, communicative music.â&#x20AC;?

Though the band has been pegged as a bunch of romanticist lotharios, this latest work has a sinister fascination with the curdling of desire and its intertwined relationship with fear and power. In album opener â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Lion's Share,â&#x20AC;?

Thorpe sings, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It's a terrible scare, but that's why the dark is there: so you don't have to see what you can't bear.â&#x20AC;? Throughout the album, the band unflinchingly explores sexuality in all its discomfiting complexity, without succumbing to the aggressive caricatures that pop music usually employs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more violence to these songs than people are seeing,â&#x20AC;? says Fleming. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The lyrics and sounds are a lot more violent than what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made in the past.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hiding a lot in these love songs.â&#x20AC;?

The violence Fleming speaks of is largely of the intimate,

psycho-sexual variety. If the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous music was unfettered by consequences and bordering on hedonistic, Smother delves into the unspoken psychological and emotional negotiations of sexual relationships. The band is circling around familiar fundamental themes but approaching them from a very different place. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Sex] is a preoccupation, to be honest,â&#x20AC;? says Fleming. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All our favorite writers, at their core, write about the same thing over and over again.â&#x20AC;?

Fortunately for the band, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plenty of fertile ground to work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you start talking about sexuality, what it does to people, it anchors you to a very heavy thing.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re focused on dignifying a lot of the stuff that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talked about.â&#x20AC;?

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THE SAHEL is a ribbon of semiarid land, 600 miles at its widest point, that runs the width of Africa from Senegal and Mauritania at one end to Ethiopia and Eritrea at the other. It separates the rippling sand dunes of the Sahara in the north from a more verdant savannah to the south—or maybe it bridges them.

In any case, the Sahel exists between two very different worlds, not unlike its most famous native son, the singer Baaba Maal.

Maal was born in Senegal and educated in France, and over the last 30 years he has toured the globe earning a reputation as one of the most distinctive voices in world music. “I come from a small town, from a very cultural town,” Maal told Santa Cruz Weekly from London, where he was readying for his Tales From the Sahel tour. “I was lucky because that town was not just one ethnic group—it was nearly all the ethnic groups from West Africa who just came at one point to live together.

“I was able, when I was growing up, to hear in one night the music for the ceremony of this tribe, and the next night the ceremony of another tribe or two,” Maal recalls. “I was going from corner to corner to witness how people were using music to communicate—to talk about the past, about now, about the future, to talk about their relationships, to talk about how together to make a better life.”

Cross-cultural conversations were part of the inspiration for Maal’s most recent album, Television, released in 2009. Maal saw, with television’s introduction into the last unexposed corners of the world,

SENEGALESE SON Baaba Maal plays the Rio on Friday night. increased access to information and the potential to advance and expand conversations beyond lines of ethnicity, geography or genre.

(Fittingly, the New York–based dance outfit Brazilian Girls lent vocals and electro beats to the album.)

In Africa, B.T. (before television), Maal says, information flowed by word of mouth, and informal concerts were often channels of distribution. “[Someone] will come to say, ‘Hey guys, I just heard this thing today and it comes from far away, what do you think about it?’” The new ideas would give the musician inspiration and he, in turn, would pass the information he received along in song. “It’s all connected,” Maal says.

“Tales From the Sahel” is structured to mimic these concerts, the sites of Maal’s introduction to music. “It was very natural. People come when they want to come, they pick up their instruments, they sit down, have some food, have some tea, and talk about religion, about education, about whatever—they

talk about everything.” During his appearance at the Rio this Friday, Maal will be joined on stage by British journalist Chris Salewicz, who will act as interlocutor, engaging with Maal on a range of topics.

Maal, who has performed in Santa Cruz before with his band, Daande Lenol, says he’s excited at the prospect of returning. “I hope that a lot of people will come with a lot of curiosity to know about what’s behind the music,” he says. “We’re going to give people the opportunity if they have a question, to ask it, because when it comes to African music, African culture—I don’t think one song is enough to explain or to make a picture of the background of the artist. People always want to know, and this is made for that.”

TALES FROM THE SAHEL: AN EVENING WITH BAABA MAAL Friday 8pm at the Rio Tickets $28-$40

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The Rocky Horror Show

DANCE Light Rain

Shifting Currents Five generations and nine women’s experiences, directed by the 418 Project’s Next Frontier 2011 Artist Mandy Greenlee. Fri-Sat, 8pm.

Thru Oct 16. $15-$20. 418 Project, 418 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.466.9770.

THEATER

CONCERTS Bonnie & the Beard Indie country folk rock. Tue, Oct 11, 4pm. Free. Streetlight Records Santa Cruz, 939 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.421.9200.

Art MUSEUMS CONTINUING Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Free First Friday. View the exhibits for free every first Friday of the month. Docent tours at noon. First Fri of every month, 11am-6pm.

Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Annie Get Your Gun The tale of Annie Oakley, sharpshooter from Ohio, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Fri-Sat Thru Oct 16. $10-$20. Bethany University Theatre, 800 Bethany Dr, Scotts Valley, 831.818.1516.

Santa Cruz Sings Carnegie Hall 2012

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Mountain Community Theater’s production of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel. Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher and directed by Miguel Reyna. Fri-Sat, 8pm.

Thru Oct 22. 831.336.4777.

Mountain Community Theater, 9400 Mill St, Ben Lomond, $15-$18.

The Letters An intricate verbal dance set in 1931 Moscow. Fri-Sat, 8pm.

Thru Oct 22. $12-$15. Center Stage, 1001 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.425.7529.

A fundraiser for the Inner Light Choir’s trip to Carnegie Hall featuring silent and live auctions and master of ceremonies Greg Sherwood.

Sat, Oct 8, 7-9pm. $5. Inner Light Ministries, 5630 Soquel Dr, Soquel, 831.465.9090.

Soheil Nasseri The Iranian-American pianist will perform pieces by Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann and premiere for the West Coast a new piece from Turkish composer Hormoz Farhat. Sun, Oct 9, 3pm. $10$27. Cabrillo Music Recital Hall, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6331.

San Francisco’s City Guide

Boris Japan’s loudest three-piece has released three full-length albums this year. Oct 8 at the Regency Ballroom.

Stevie Nicks The original gold dust woman gets her witchy vibe on with new album, “In Your Dreams.” Oct 8-9 at the Fillmore.

Girls The lazy, crazy summer haze of their debut has turned to a sophomore fall. Oct 8-9 at the Great American Music Hall.

Gang Gang Dance Indie-tribal, reverb-heavy outfit with compelling new album, “Eye Contact.” Oct 11 at the Independent.

Modest Mouse-sampling hip-hop star celebrates a whopping five years in the game. Oct 11 at the Fox Theater.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

Pajaro Valley Arts Council Sculpture Is. 135 sculptures by 56 artists are on display throughout two acres of Mediterranean gardens. Thru Oct 31. 831.728.2532. 37 Sudden St, Watsonville.

Palace Art and Office Supply

OPENING

Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center

Davenport Gallery Secret Art. Work by local artists that you won’t see at Open Studios. Artists’ reception Saturday, Oct. 8, 47pm. Oct 5-30. Free. 450 Hwy 1, Davenport, 831.426.1199.

Felix Kulpa Gallery We Are All Animals MMXI. A multi-media art and performance event curated

by Louise Chen. Opening reception Fri, Oct. 7, 7pm. Oct 7-30, 7pm. Free. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

Johnny’s Barbershop Recess. Artist, graphic T-shirt designer and 11-year-old Olin Borgeson will showcase his latest paintings. Fri, Oct 7.

Free. 247 Trescony St, Santa Cruz.

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Xiaoze Xie: Resistant Archeology. A selection of new and previously unseen paintings, prints and video from the Chinese-American artist. Reception Wed, Oct 12, 5-7pm with artist talk at 6:30.

Oct 12-Nov 23. Free. Porter College, UCSC, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3606.

From the Mountains.

Highlighting Open Studios artists. Thru Oct 22.

831.336.3513. Wed-Sun, noon-6pm. 9341 Mill St, Ben Lomond.

Events BIG DEALS CruzaPalooza Kid’s carnival complete with bounce houses, photo booths, skate ramps, arts and crafts and games, followed by the spaghetti feed, courtesy of Zoccoli’s Deli.

Sun, Oct 9, 2-6:30pm. $10$20 for spaghetti. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5430.

Monte Foundation Fireworks Extravaganza

CONTINUING

The annual party and fireworks spectacular at Seacliff State Beach benefits the students of Santa Cruz County schools. Fri, Oct 7, 5-10pm, $10 includes raffle ticket. Seacliff State Beach, Aptos. Park at Cabrillo College.

Cabrillo College Gallery

Open Studios Art Tour

Tasty: Artists Playing with Food. Work was selected from artists throughout the state of California for this competitive exhibition. Thru Nov 1. Free. 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6308.

Studios located south of the harbor will be open Oct. 8 and 9 and selected studios from both north and south will be spotlighted in an encore on Oct. 15 and 16. For maps or more information visit CCSCC.org. Thru Oct 9, 11am-5pm. Free.

Louden Nelson Community Center Gallery Different Directions 4.

Photographs by Susan Lysik, gail nichols and Virginia Scott. Opening reception Fri., Oct. 7, 5:30-8:30pm. Thru Nov 18. Free. 301 Center St, Santa Cruz.

Masaoka Glass Design

Lupe Fiasco

Cyphergraph. New digital prints of technical drawings

by Sabrina Habel. Thru Oct 31. Free, 831.429.8070. 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz.

GALLERIES

Evening with Baaba Maal In conversation with journalist Chris Salewicz. Fri, Oct 7, 7pm.

Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel, Santa Cruz, 831.423.8209.

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Sacred Images. Collagraph prints, collage, stencil and acrylic works by Mary Leherer-Plansky. Thru Oct 31. 1501K 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.427.1550.

Circa Survive With Maps & Atlases and States. Wed, Oct 5, 7pm. $20$22. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel, Santa Cruz, 831.421.9200.

30. 13766 Center St, Carmel Valley.

The Glass Pumpkin Patch.

Featuring the work of Alan Masaoka, Nick Leonoff, Nancy Francioli, Todd Moore, Mark Stephenson, Diane Stendahl and Kevin Chong. Thru Nov

AROUND TOWN

a play area for the kids and prize wheel. Sat, Oct 8, 10am-5pm. Free. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Santa Cruz County, 6401 Freedom Blvd, Aptos, 831.427.0359.

Monterey History Festival 2011 Re-enactments, storytelling and tours of sites like the spot where Captain Gaspar de Portola claimed California for Spain. Sat, Oct 8 and Sun, Oct 9. Free. Presidio of Monterey Museum, Corporal Ewing Road, Bldg. 113, Monterey, 831.646.5640.

Pumpkin Weigh-Off Meet the world’s greatest gourd growers and see the titanic orange orbs they hope will squash the world record. Winner get $6 per pound, $5000 if they break the world record. Mon, Oct 10, 7-11am. Free. IDES Grounds, 735 Main St, Half Moon Bay, 650.726.9652.

UCSC Arboretum’s Fall Plant Sale Featuring an unusual selection of native and non-native species chosen to thrive in local garden. Sat, Oct 8, noon-4pm. Free. UCSC Arboretum, Horticulture Building, Santa Cruz, 831.427.2998.

Welcome Back Monarchs Day An annual event marking the homecoming of the monarchs with guided tours of the monarch grove, live music by the 5-M’s band (Mostly Mediocre Musical Monarch Mariposas), educational displays and guest lecturers. Sun, Oct 9, 10am-4pm. Free. Natural Bridges State Beach, 2531 W. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, 831.423.4609.

HOLIDAYS Yom Kippur Services Contemporary Musaf, Sat., Oct. 8, 2-3pm. Reading of the Book of Jonah and Yom Kippur teaching in the library, Sat., Oct. 8, 4:30-6pm.

Tot Family Service (ages 5 & under), Sat., Oct. 8, 4:154:45pm. School Age Family Service (ages 6-11) Sat., Oct. 8, 5-6pm. Neilah Concluding Service, Sat., Oct 8, 6:15-7pm.

Sat, Oct 8. Temple Beth El, 3055 Porter Gulch Rd, Aptos, 831.479.3444.

FILM 6th Annual Reel Rock Tour

Greg McKenzie will call to the Celtic tunes of Tayleur & Weed. Fri, Oct 7, 7:40pm. $6-$10. Felton Community Hall, 6191 Hwy 9, Felton, 831.464.0877.

The climbing and adventure film tour swings through Santa Cruz. More information at Reelrocktour. com. Thu, Oct 6, 7pm. $10-$12. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel, Santa Cruz, 831.423.8209.

Harvest Festival

The Dead

Hot apple cider and pumpkins, arts and crafts,

A zombie film shot on location in Burkina Faso

First Friday Contra Dance

A-FRIQUE-OUT The Dead’ is a zombie movie … set in Africa!!!

DEAD IT AGAIN THE ZOMBIE has a rich tradition in literature that dates back as far as the Epic of Gilgamesh, in which the spurned goddess Ishtar rages, “I will knock down the Gates of the Netherworld, I will smash the door posts, and leave the doors flat down, and will let the dead go up to eat the living! And the dead will outnumber the living!”

There is no question, though, that when, centuries from now, historians take stock of the canon, they will deem the present era—starting in 1968 with the premiere of George Romero’s black and white classic Night of the Living Dead and building in force with contributions like the Evil Dead series and Shaun of the Dead, to the precipice, a moment in which zombie preparedness handbooks are bestsellers and zombie preparedness conventions are well-attended—as the golden age of the flesh-eating undead.

The Dead, filmed on location in Burkina Faso and Ghana, brings new blood, flesh and splintered bone-sticking-out-at-an-oddangle to the genre. The film follows the unlikely friendship of American Air Force Lt. Brian Murphy and Sgt. Daniel Dembele as they join forces to re-kill some reanimated corpses. (Tessa Stuart)

THE DEAD plays at 11:40pm Friday, Oct. 7 and Saturday, Oct. 8 at the Del Mar Theatre, 1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. Tickets $6.50, 831.469.3220 or TheNick.com.

and Ghana, West Africa.

Fri, Oct 7 and Sat, Oct 8 at 11:40pm. $6.50. Del Mar Theatre, 1124 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz.

LITERARY EVENTS Charles Mann Atlantic contributor and the author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus will read, discuss and sign copies of his follow-up, 1493. Thu, Oct 6, 7:30pm. Free. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

College Night Sally Springer, Associate Chancellor Emerita of UC Davis, will discuss Admission

Matters: What Students and Parents Need to Know about Getting Into College which she co-authored. Mon, Oct 10, 7pm. Free. Santa Cruz High School, 415 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.429.3960.

James Howe The author of more than 80 books for children and young adults, including the Bunnicula series, will read from his latest book, Addie on the Inside. Fri, Oct 7, 7pm.

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

Mary Jo Ignoffo Historian will discuss and sign copies of her newest book Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune. Sat, Oct 8, 11am-1pm. Free. Santa Cruz

Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

A Memoir Writing Workshop Gail Burk of the Santa Cruz Genealogical Society leads a series of six workshops focused on weaving personal history with the craft of writing. Thu, Oct 6. Free. La Selva Beach Library, 316 Estrella, La Selva, 831.427.7710.

Paul Grushkin The author, rock historian and deadhead will discuss his new title, Dead Letters: The Very Best Grateful Dead Fan Mail. Sun, Oct 9, 7:30pm.

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Bellydance preformances by Sese, Siwa, Ma Shuqa, Rebekah and Raks the Casbah and Rasa Vitalia, plus open floor dancing.

Thu, Oct 6, 7:30pm. $13/$15.

Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy 9, Felton, 831.603.2294.

A newly engaged couple takes refuge in the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter just as the doctor is preparing to unveil his newest creation, Rocky. Fri-Sat, 8pm. Thru Oct 29. $23. Paper Wing Theater, 320 Hoffman Ave, Monterey, 831.905.5684.

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BOOM BOOM ROOM Watsonville Taiko

drummers let loose this weekend.

OPPOSITES RESONATE TAIKO drumming beats with a rhythm as steady as the human heart—and as much life and soul. Letting out screams as they pound huge drums, teams of performers at Watsonville Taiko’s 20th-anniversary celebration this weekend are sure to leave audiences spellbound.

“Taiko drumming resonates,” says Ikuyo Conant, composer for Watsonville Taiko. “That sound and vibration will pull you within your body.”

This year’s incarnation of the annual festival, which has been under the direction of Conant for 19 years, sees the drummers joining forces with the Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus, led by Cheryl Anderson. Organizing three kinds of taiko—all of them based in the martial arts—Conant and her fellow directors have managed to strike an ideal balance between music and dancelike movements. While some groups focus on dancing and others focus on movement at the expense of sound, Conant didn’t want to make any sacrifices. “I wanted to have both,” says Conant of her martial arts-based approach.

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FIRST FRIDAYS The second installment of the Louis Chen–curated exhibit “We Are All Animals MMXI” will feature performances by Gibbons and the Sluts, This Machine Kills Zombies and visual pieces by 16 artists. Opening reception Friday, Oct. 7, 7pm at Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm St., Santa Cruz. Free.

35 Young Adult Literature Community Book Group This week’s selection is Jellicoe Road. Wed, Oct 12.

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

LECTURES Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild Meeting Featuring a lecture by Bay Area fiber artist Barbara Nitzberg. Wed, Oct 12, 9:30am-12pm. Free. Aptos Village Park, 100 Aptos Creek Rd, Aptos, 831.454.0247.

Water Awareness Series A Transition Santa Cruz series investigating where our water comes from, examining local policy issues—like desalination— and considering options for conservation. TransitionSC. org Tue, 6:30-8:30pm. Thru

Nov 8. $5-$10. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6177.

Women in Business Leadership Forum A full day of networking, education and tools for a successful life. Thu, Oct 6, 8am. $89-$99. Cocoanut Grove, 400 Beach St, Santa Cruz, 831.457.3720.

Write Your Future A drop-in writing workshop for women. No experience not necessary. E-mail Marcia, mheinegg@cruzio.com, for more information. Mon, 78:30pm. Thru Nov 14. $10.

NOTICES Beginning Bridge Lessons Come alone or bring a partner. For more information contact Peggy Dilfer, padilfer@sbcglobal. net. Wed, 7-9pm. Thru Nov 9. First lesson free, $10

thereafter. Santa Cruz Bridge Center, 720 Capitola Ave., Capitola.

Community Music School of Santa Cruz Seeks Donnations Donations over $100 get a copy of your choice of one from a selection of fundraising CDs. Send checks to Community Music School, P. O. Box 531, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 or CommunityMusicSchool.org.

Oct 5-12.

Eating Disorders Resource Center Meeting Groups will be led by Kimberly Kuhn, LCSW and Carolyn Blackman, RN, LCSW. First Fri of every month, 6-7:30pm. Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave, Santa Cruz, 408.559.5593.

Extras Needed for Iron Cross Extras over the age of 18 will be needed for the Curtis Hanson-directed biopic of

Jay Moriarity. Interested parties should email 831management@gmail.com with their name, age, email and phone number. Filming begins Oct. 10. Thru Oct 10.

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

SC Diversity Center The Diversity Center provides services, support and socializing for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and questioning individuals and their allies.

Diversity Center, 1117 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.425.5422.

Stitchers-by-the-Sea Meeting The local chapter of Embroiderers’ Guild of America meets and weaves yarns; public welcome.

Second Wed of every month, 7pm. Free. Dominican Hospital Rehab Center, 610 Frederick St, Santa Cruz, 831.475.1853.

Support and Recovery Groups Alzheimer’s: Alzheimer’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).

UNICEF Boxes Not Available The 2011 orange trick-ortreat boxes for UNICEF

Conant has collaborated on performances around the world, composing works that have been performed in London and Japan. In Santa Cruz County she has won both the Gail Rich Award for Artistic Inspiration and the Calabash Award for excellence in the Ethnic Arts.

She says performers learn to reconcile and balance polar opposite forces within themselves by using both male and female energies.

Performances with the chorus will juxtapose sublime choral music with taiko’s thumping rhythm, “more of an earthy sound,” says Conant.

“Everything is kind of a dualism,” says Conant. “We human beings are caught between these two different poles, two extremes. And we have to balance ourselves between these two extremes. That’s how our lives are, and that’s why we learn taiko drumming.” (Jacob Pierce)

WATSONVILLE TAIKO 20TH-ANNIVERSARY celebration is Saturday, Oct. 8 at 7:30pm and Sunday, Oct. 9 at 2pm at Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos.

Tickets $15-20. 831.435.4594. www.watsonvilletaiko.org

are available at the United Nations Association store at 903 Pacific Ave. Oct 5-31.

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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Celebrating Creativity Since 1975

Thursday, October 6 U 7 pm

TIEMPO LIBRE Hot Latin Jazz & Timba!

Friday, October 7 @ Rio Theatre

TALES FROM THE SAHEL: AN EVENING WITH BAABA MAAL Monday, October 10 U 7 & 9 pm

THE NEW GARY BURTON QUARTET

9 pm: 1/2 Price Night for Students Saturday, October 15 U 7 & 9 pm

McCOY TYNER TRIO FEATURING JOSE JAMES & CHRIS POTTER

A Contemporary Exploration of John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman Monday, October 17 U 7 & 9 pm

OREGON

Thursday, October 20 U 7 pm

CLAUDIA VILLELA & ROMERO LUBAMBO

Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records. Dinner served 1-hr before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer.

All ages welcome.

320-2 Cedar St [ Santa Cruz 831.427.2227

kuumbwajazz.org

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ART LEAGUE HEAVY ON HAVANA Tiempo Libre at Kuumbwa this Thursday

Sept. 24 - Oct. 16

1 piece from each Artist!

Buy your catalog, plot your course!

New Classes & Weekend Workshops Life Drawing & more!

Open to County Artists: “Small Wonders”

Dec.10-Jan. 8 Up to 3 pieces, 14”& under Drop-off: Dec. 4, 12-2pm, Dec. 5, 2-4pm 1/$20 - 2/$25 - 3/$30

Don’t miss: Benefit Concert & Poetry Reading Check online!

526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, CA 831-426-5787 Wed.-Sat.,12-5 /Sun. 12-4 Artwork by: Jim & Connie Grant

92 Years of Imagination

THURSDAY | 10/6

THURSDAY | 10/6

FRIDAY | 10/7

TIEMPO LIBRE

NEW FOUND GLORY

DUBEE & SAN QUINN

Once rookies on the alternative rock scene, New Found Glory are today veterans of pop punk, with 14 years behind them, seven studio albums under their belts and a greatest hits compilation in stores. Their latest song, “Radiosurgery,” doesn’t disappoint either. The title track off their latest album, just released under the same name, rings familiar with singer Jordan Pundkin’s bouncy melodies soaring over fast guitar riffs and distorted, palm-muted strumming. Fans had better dust off their studded leather jackets and get ready to mosh. Catalyst; $18 adv/$20 door; 7:30pm. (Jacob Pierce)

A chance to see two of the Bay Area’s hottest underground MCs on the Catalyst Atrium’s small stage. Dubee, a.k.a. Sugawolf, has been at it since the mid ’90s, but in recent years has blown up thanks to the support of the late Mac Dre’s record label Thizz Entertainment and the rebirth of his classic Vallejo hip-hop cut, “My Thang.” Fillmore’s San Quinn has been at it for even longer, but didn’t get his dues until the release of the aptly titled “San Francisco Anthem”, a thugged-out update of “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” that has boomed out of Bay Area lowriders since 2008. Catalyst; $15 adv/$20 door; 9pm. (Paul M. Davis)

As teenagers in Havana, the members of Tiempo Libre would secretly listen to American music via homemade antennas atop their radios. What they heard across the airwaves gave them what they needed to get to America and pursue careers in music. Now based in Miami, Tiempo Libre is a three-time Grammy-nominated band known for its lively and sophisticated combination of Afro-Cuban rhythms and Latin jazz and celebrated as one of the best young Latin bands around. Its recent release, My Secret Radio, pays tribute to Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind and Fire, Chaka Khan and the other artists who inspired them as youngsters from a world away.

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

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MCCOY TYLER BAND

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CHAD VANGAALEN Chad VanGaalen’s music harks back to a long-past era of indie rock, bringing to mind the four-track confessionals that Lou Barlow and Elliot Smith recorded in the early ’90s. With an acoustic guitar and little more, VanGaalen’s work favors spare, economical arrangements, a rarity in the age of GarageBand-enabled bedroom symphonies. Minimalism

SATURDAY | 10/8

Big Sandy

CONCERTS DJ SHADOW

Oct. 20 at Catalyst

BIG SANDY AND HIS FLYRITE BOYS Nov. 13 at Don Quixote’s

SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS Nov. 18 at Rio Theatre

COCO MONTOYA

YOUNG DUBLINERS

Blues guitarist Coco Montoya brings the fire and freeze. Montoya, nominee of several WC Handy Blues awards (and winner, in 1996, of Best New Artist), is a practitioner of a style he describes as “Icy Hot,” acquired under the tutelage of Albert “the Ice Man” Collins, with whom Montoya toured as a teenager. After his stint with Collins, Montoya joined John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers (a band that counts Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor among its former members) in 1985. Montoya went solo in the early ’90s and hasn’t looked back since. Or maybe he has—his latest album, I Want It All Back, produced

by Keb Mo, was released in 2010.

Moe’s Alley; $17 adv/$20 door; 9pm.

(Tessa Stuart)

CAVE SINGERS

Nov. 30 at Moe’s Alley Dec. 7 at Crepe Place

SUNDAY | 10/9

JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE James Garner (no, not that James Garner) has the voice, the look, the style and the swagger to pull off Johnny Cash. Bitten by the Cash bug at an early age, Garner was 14 when he met the Man in Black and told him he was his biggest fan. These days, Garner and his ace band tour the country paying tribute to Cash through stories, historical accounts and songs. Don Quixote’s; $10; 1pm. (CJ)

WEDNESDAY | 10/12

CHICO MANN

THE MANN, THE MYTH One-man electro sensation Chico Mann at Moe’s Alley

Identifying the link between the tightly wound polyrhythms of Afrobeat and the insistent pulse of electronic dance music, Chico Mann mixes both the past and future in his thoroughly modern concoction. Using analog synthesizers and vintage drum machines, Chico Mann’s Latin- and Afro-tinged electro is a radical shift from the more traditional work he turns in under his given name, Marcos Garcia, as a member of the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, but every bit as authentic and danceable. The Australian multicultural dub and electronic outfit OKA opens the show. Moe’s Alley; $9 adv/$12 door; 9pm. (PMD)

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A product of the Santa Cruz Mountains, McCoy Tyler brings an earthy and familiar quality to his music that resonates of home. Taking pages from the playbooks of country, rock and roots legends such as Doc Watson, Mississippi John Hurt, John Prine and Neil Young, Tyler and his band, featuring Clinton James Brown on drums and Chad Bowen on bass, craft unpretentious songs built from the ground up, with catchy melodies, heartfelt lyrics, tight arrangements and a polished delivery. Quickly rising through the local roots ranks, this band would be a good one to keep your eye on. The Ugly Mug; free; 6pm. (CJ)

is the unifying ethic of his work, not only in his arrangements but also his songwriting, which strips any unnecessary words or melodic flourishes, leaving only the essential parts. VanGaalen’s latest album, Diaper Island, is his most embellished work to date, but only when compared to his sparse earlier releases. Crepe Place; $10; 9pm. (PMD)

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Katie Ekin

THE ABBEY 831.429.1058

Death Letters

Rock This Party

Magunson

SC Jazz Society

Wet & Reckless

BLUE LAGOON 831.423.7117

Scott Owens

BOCCIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CELLAR 831.427.1795

Monday Jazz Jam

THE CATALYST 831.423.1336

CLOUDS 831.429.2000

Chamberlin

Edward Scissorhands

Olin & The Moon

Crepe Place Movie Nite

7 Come 11

CREPE PLACE 831.429.6994

Live Comedy

CROWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NEST 831.476.4560

Unwind All Night DJ Jahi

CYPRESS LOUNGE 831.459.9876&#8206;

Sherry Austin Band

DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE 831.426.8801

Geese in the Fog

FINS COFFEE 831.423.6131

Dana Scruggs Trio

Joe Leonard Trio

Barry Scott

HOFFMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAKERY CAFE

& Associates

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The New

KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER

Gary Burton Quartet

831.427.2227

DJ Chante

MAD HOUSE BAR & COCKTAILS

Neighborhood Night

831.425.2900

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Moombahton

Terminal

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Dane Jouras; Ilya Romanov with DJ AD

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RED 831.425.1913

The Singing

Wild Beasts

Revolution

RIO THEATRE 831.423.8209

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 831.426.2739

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The Bonny Doon Garden Company Local Organic Sustainable

Local and Nationwide Delivery

1101 Fair Avenue Santa Cruz 95060 Located inside New Leaf www.bonnydoongardenco.com (831) 421-0975

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Karaoke

Streuth

Karaoke Sound Co

Vinny Johnson Band

The Bone Drivers

Martini Unplugged

Lil Pea

Trivia Quiz Night

8017 Soquel Dr, Aptos

THE FOG BANK 211 Esplanade, Capitola

MARGARITAVILLE 221 Esplanade, Capitola

MICHAELâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ON MAIN

Karaoke

2591 Main St, Soquel

El Cuarto Verde

and the Third Degree

PARADISE BEACH GRILLE

Johnny Fabulous

HoĂ?Ă­omana

215 Esplanade, Capitola

SANDERLINGS

Dizzy Burnett

1 Seascape Resort Dr, Rio del Mar

In Three

& Grover Coe

SEVERINOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAR & GRILL

Don McCaslin &

7500 Old Dominion Ct, Aptos

The Amazing Jazz Geezers

SHADOWBROOK

Nora Cruz

Kaye Bohler Band

Joe Ferrara

David Field

1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

THE WHARF HOUSE

Sparkletone

1400 Wharf Rd, Capitola

THE UGLY MUG

McCoy Tyler Band

4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel

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Yuji Tojo

The Rythm District

203 Esplanade, Capitola

SCOTTS VALLEY / SAN LORENZO VALLEY DON QUIXOTEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

Beppe Gambetta

Helene &

Emmanuel Selassie

Love and Light

6275 Hwy 9, Felton

Peter Ostroushko

Bellydance International

Ras Gombo, Malima Kone

Stephan Jacobs

Bullfrog

George Haggerty

Mariachi Ensemble

KDON DJ Showbiz

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Hippo Happy Hour

1934 Main St, Watsonville

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A Boy and His ’Bot

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Real Steel remakes the classic kidboxer story with large metal objects bashing and crashing

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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WHEN YOU HAVE seen something particularly bad, you start to worry about the stars of the film. Think, for instance, how long it’s been since Hugh Jackman got a really good role. You can see even his charm and energy starting to flag in Real Steel, an arguably worthy attempt to put some heart into the clobbering-robot genre.

Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) fills the screen with slightly futurized Americana. As seen from the opening helicopter shot, Jackman’s Charlie Kenton is driving to a carnival at twilight. He’s the kind of barnstorming robot-boxing proprietor who wakes up with the Budweiser bottles rolling around next to his bunk.

He plans to match his battered ’bot against what was billed as a steer—and turns out to be an angry bull. Happily, for those who prefer not to see animals mistreated, the bull takes one good punch and then tears the robot apart with his horns.

Now broke, ’botless and owing a vicious gambler (Kevin Durand) some serious money, Charlie gets some other news; the 11-year-old son he knew little and cared less about, Max (Dakota Goyo), has just lost his mother. Charlie takes a $75,000 bribe in exchange for custody rights from his

SPARRING PARTNERS Hugh Jackman learns that you can teach an old robot new tricks in ‘Real Steel.’ ex’s in-laws. Some of the money will pay for a space at the local robot gym.

He is welcome to stay there because the owner, Bailey (Evangeline Lilly), is sweet on him.

Charlie and his son are prowling the wrecker’s yard. The rain unearths an old-time robot, with blue LED eyes and a face that looks like a scarred fencing mask. Max’s insistence that Atom the Robot has skills leads the three from Palookaville rings right up to the high-market arenas.

Real Steel really steals a primal boxing-movie plot (King Vidor’s 1931 The Champ). Nominally but scarcely based on a Richard Matheson story, once adapted on The Twilight Zone, the movie aims for lyrical moments; there’s even a reel or so without robots. Peaceful minutes include a training session where Max seems to be instructing his pet ’bot in

what looks like tai chi.

But someone worried about the movie going sweet: Levy also tries to amp up even the macho side of giant metal machines punching each other, with announcers shouting, “Get back in your corner, bitch, and take your whipping like a man.”

I expect that this kind of talk is supposed to make the battle ’bots warmer, in contrast with the vileness of humans. But you also wonder who, exactly, Real Steel is for.

The bloody-minded little boy and bloody-minded former little boy demographic is pretty large (as per the box office on Transformers). But they want what they want. Are they going to feel they were robbed of regularly scheduled wreckage in favor of dad and son bonding?

Real Steel attempts some kind of resonance with the broken United

States. When unearthed, the muddy Atom looks like it’s wearing the sandcolored body armor our soldiers don in Iraq. But Levy overloads his movie with craptasticisms like the swelling of Danny Elfman’s music (suggested title “The Coronation of God”) and RussoJapanese villains and Mohawk wearers snarling in defeat.

Even the fighting robots don’t have interesting names. A two-headed ’bot is called “Twin Cities”—that must have taken an all-nighter. And as Matt Groening once put it, it ain’t over until the plucky little boy puts his fist in the air and screams, “Yes!”

REAL STEEL PG-13; 127 min.

Opens Friday

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Film Capsules NEW CAPS THE DEAD (R; 105 min.) In darkest Africa, two military men from different cultures join forces to fight legions of the undead. (Fri-Sat at Del Mar) THE IDES OF MARCH (R; 103 min.) George Clooney directed and stars in story about a greenhorn political operative (Ryan Gosling) who learns about bare-knuckle politics the hard way from seasoned opponents. With Paul

Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei and Rachel Evan Wood.

(Opens Fri at Santa Cruz 9, 41st Ave, Scotts Valley and Green Valley)

JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963) The Greek hero leads a quest for the Golden Fleece of legend. (Thu at Santa Cruz 9) LIFE, ABOVE ALL (PG-13, 106 min.) Oliver Schmitz’s Oscar-shortlisted study about the fringes of urban South Africa, where a pair of teenage friends do their

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best to survive the lack of parents and deal with a disease too grim to be mentioned by name for most of the film. Chanda (Khomotso Manyaka) is a young girl whose mother is ailing with what is obviously AIDS. Then comes the connivance of a next-door neighbor Mrs. Tafa (the film’s standout, Harriet Manamela), who is involved in literally making the problem go away.

Schmitz has a keen eye for landscapes and people; this isn’t a prettified story.

Often he transcends the

limits of the amateur actors as well as the source, the Canadian writer Allan Stratton’s young-adult novel Chanda’s Secrets. Still, this is a film mostly about good people and bad people instead of people.

The ending grounds this worthwhile movie when Life, Above All tries for too much uplift. (RvB) (Opens Fri at Nick)

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 25TH ANNIVERSARY LIVE (NR; 195 min.) The Royal Albert Hall is the

Movie reviews by Traci Hukill and Richard von Busack

venue for an anniversary performance of the hit musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber about a disfigured genius who terrorizes a theater company for the benefit of a protégé he loves. (Weds, Oct 5 at Santa Cruz 9)

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: THE KITCHEN (NR; 140 min.) In a restaurant in 1950s London, chefs, waitresses and porters from across Europe flirt and argue in a darkly comic tale of multicultural life in the aftermath of

World War II. Part of the British live theatre series.

(Thu at Del Mar)

who is the ghost of a kamikaze pilot. (Opens Fri at the Nick)

REAL STEEL (PG-13; 133 min.) See review, page 45.

(Opens Fri at Santa Cruz 9, 41st Ave, Scotts Valley and Green Valley)

THE SHINING (1980) Stanley Kubrick’s film of the Stephen King novel stars Jack Nicholson as a writer being driven slowly insane by cabin fever and ghostly apparitions at the isolated hotel where he and his family are serving as caretakers for the winter. As he goes off the deep end, the only thing that can save his wife (Shelley Duvall) and son is the boy’s telepathic connection to a mysterious entity known as the Shining.

(Fri-Sat midnite at Del Mar)

RESTLESS (PG-13; 91 min.)

Gus Van Sant (Milk, Good Will Hunting, My Own Private Idaho) directs the story of a terminally ill teenage girl (Mia Wasikowska) who falls for an odd boy who likes to attend funerals (Henry Hopper) and has a friend

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Oct. 5, through Wednesday, Oct. 12, unless otherwise indicated.

Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

APTOS CINEMAS 122 Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos 831.688.6541 www.culvertheaters.com 50/50 — Daily 2:30; 4:45; 7; 9:15. Sat-Sun 12:15pm The Debt — Wed-Thu 4:20; 9:20.

The Help — Wed-Thu 1:30; 6:40. Fri-Wed 4; 8:50.

Midnight in Paris — Fri-Wed 2; 6:50.

41ST AVENUE CINEMA 1475 41st Ave., Capitola 831.479.3504 www.culvertheaters.com

Ides of March — (Opens Fri) Call for showtimes.

Abduction — Wed-Thu 2; 4:50; 7:30; 10:05. Sat-Sun 11:30am. Fri-Wed call for

showtimes.

Contagion — Wed-Thu 1:30; 4:20; 7:10; 9:45. Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Crazy Stupid Love —Wed-Thu 1; 3:45; 6:30; 9:20. Fri-Wed call for

showtimes.

Dolphin Tale — Wed-Thu 1:50; 7:20. Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Dolphin Tale 3D — Wed-Thu 4:30; 10:10. Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Killer Elite — Wed-Thu 2:05; 5; 7:50; 10:30. Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Moneyball — Wed-Thu 1:15; 3:30; 4:25; 6:40; 7:40; 9:50; 10:40; Sat-Sun

12pm. Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Ides of March — (Opens Fri) 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30.

Real Steel — (Opens Fri) 11; 1:45; 4:40; 7:30; 10:20.

Dolphin Tale 3D — Wed-Thu 11; 1:30; 4:15; 7; 9:30.

Drive — Wed-Thu 11:45; 2:15; 4:45; 7:30; 10.

Moneyball — Daily 12:45; 3:45; 6:45; 9:45.

showtimes.

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SCOTTS VALLEY 6 CINEMA

1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com

226 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley 831.438.3261 www.culvertheaters.com

Drive — Wed-Thu 12:40pm. Fri-Wed 2:50; 5:10; 7:30; 9:40.

The Help — Wed-Thu 3:50; 6:45; 9:40. Fri-Wed 2; 6:45.

Senna — Wed-Thu 2:30; 4:40; 7; 9:10. Fri-Wed 4:40; 9:30. Fri-Sun 11:50am.

Tucker & Dale vs Evil — Fri-Wed 5; 9:20. Fri-Sat 11:20pm The Dead — Fri-Sat 11:40pm.

The Shining — Fri-Sat Midnight.

The Kitchen — Thu 7:30pm.

Crazy, Stupid Love — Wed 11am.

The Ides of March — (Opens Fri) 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30.

Real Steel — (Opens Fri) 11; 11:30; 1:45; 2:30; 4:40; 5:30; 7:30; 8:30; 10:20.

50/50 — Fri-Wed 11:45; 2:20; 4:45; 7:10; 9:40.

Abduction — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7:30; 10.

Dream House — Wed-Thu 11:55; 2:30; 4:55; 7:15; 9:40. Fri-Wed 11:55; 2:30;

NICKELODEON Lincoln and Cedar streets, Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com Life Above All — (Opens Fri) 4:30; 6:50.

Restless — (Opens Fri) 5:10; 7:10; 9:10.

Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest — Wed-Thu 5; 9:10.

The Future — Wed-Thu 3:20; 5:20; 7:20; 9:30. Fri-Wed 5:20; 9:20.

The Guard —Wed-Thu 4:40; 9. Fri-Wed 9pm.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 — Wed-Thu 2:10; 6:40.Fri-Wed 4:50.

Midnight in Paris — Wed-Thu 2:30; 6:50. Fri-Wed 7:30; 9:30. Sat-Sun 2:40pm.

Our Idiot Brother — Wed-Thu 3; 7:10. Fri-Wed 7:20pm. Fri-Sun 3:20pm.

Point Blank — Wed-Thu 4:50; 9:20.

RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN 155 S. River St, Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1701 www.regmovies.com 50/50 — Daily 4:15; 7:15; 9:50. Fri-Sun 1:15pm.

What’s Your Number? — Daily 4; 7; 9:40. Fri-Sun 1pm.

SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9

The Lion King 3D — Wed-Thu 2:10; 4:35; 7; 9:30. Fri-Wed call for Phantom of the Opera — Wed 10/4 7:30pm.

Jason and the Argonauts — Thu 8pm.

4:55; 7:20; 9:40.

Contagion — Wed-Thu 3; 8:45.

Dolphin Tale — Daily 11; 1:30; 4:10; 7; 9:30.

The Help — Wed-Thu Fri-Wed 11:55; 5:30.

Killer Elite — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2:10; 4:45. 7:20; 10.

Moneyball — Daily 12:45; 3:45; 6:45; 9:45.

The Lion King — Wed-Thu 7; 9:15. Fri-Wed 11:55; 2:10; 4:20; 6:30; 8:45.

The Lion King 3D — Wed-Thu 11; 2; 4:20.

What’s Your Number? — Daily 12:15; 2:40; 5:10; 7:40; 10:10.

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8 1125 S. Green Valley Rd, Watsonville 831.761.8200 www.greenvalleycinema.com Ides of March — (Opens Fri) 1:30; 4; 7; 9:30. Sat-Sun 11:15am.

Real Steel — (Opens Fri) 1:35; 4:10; 7; 9:40. Sat-Sun 11am.

50/50 — Daily 1:05; 3:10; 5:15; 7:20; 9:40. Sat-Sun 11am.

Abduction — Wed-Thu 1:15; 3:10; 5:05; 7:15; 9:30.

Contagion — Wed-Thu 4; 9:40.

Dolphin Tale — Daily 4; 9:30. Sat-Sun 11am.

Dolphin Tale 3D — Daily 1:30; 7.

Dream House — Daily 1; 3:05; 5:05; 7:15; 9:40. Sat-Sun 11am.

Killer Elite — Wed-Thu 1:05; 3:10; 5:15; 7:20; 9:40.

The Lion King 3D — Daily 3:10; 5:05; 7:15; 9:30. Fri-Wed 1:15am. Sat-Sun

1405 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1700 www.regmovies.com

11:15am.

Reel Steel — (Opens Fri) Call for showtimes.

Moneyball — Daily 1:35; 4:10; 7; 9:40. Sat-Sun 11am What’s Your Number? — Daily 1:30; 4; 7; 9:40. Sat-Sun 11:10a

REVIEWS 50/50 (R; 139 min.)

Alternate title could be So/So, despite leads Anna Kendrick and Joseph GordonLevitt. Their work in this comedy/drama is disrupted by Seth Rogen.

In regularly scheduled bullish (or bullying) comedy moments, Rogen’s Kyle turns up to rattle the cage of the seriously ill Adam (Gordon-Levitt). When Rogen is gone, the film develops interesting counterpoints. Rather than just the sketchily drawn victim of cancer, Adam may be a kind of princeling. Gordon-Levitt finds some humorous notes, but his Adam isn’t a very well-defined character. He’s outlined by the contrast between the two girls in the picture: bitchy live-in Rachel (Bryce Dallas Howard) and Katherine (Kendrick). It may be that Rogen’s ultimate contribution to cinema is taking the fun out of that game where you pretend that the hero and his buddy are lovers. On the bright side, this may be the least spiritual film about facing death we’ve been offered. (RvB) ABDUCTION (PG-13; 112 min.) A young man sees his baby photo on a missing persons’ page and sets out to uncover the truth about his personal history. Directed

by John Singleton (Shaft).

BEATS, RHYMES AND LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST (R; 97 min) Documentarian Michael Rapaport tracks the influence and back story of ’80s hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest. With Q-Tip and the Beastie Boys.

CIRCUMSTANCE (R; 115 min.) Chronicling the budding relationship of Atafeh and Shireen, two young Iranian women, as they navigate Tehran’s underground party circuit and dodge overtures from jealous older brothers.

CONTAGION (PG-13; 105 min.) An all-star cast (Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Winslet) battles fear and avian flu.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh.

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 “getting girls” ropes.

THE DEBT (R; 122 min.)

In 1997 in Tel Aviv, Rachel (Helen Mirren) is telling crowds the true story of how she killed the infamous “Surgeon of Birkenau.” Beaten up and slashed by the Nazi doctor back in the 1960s, she managed to pot him in the back with a revolver at about 400 feet. Good shot!

Attacking the book circuit with this likely story, she encounters two people from her past. One is the shameridden David (Ciarán Hinds), the other is the wheelchair-bound Le Carrean spook Stephan.

In flashback the three are played by Jessica Chastain, the stolid Sam Worthington (David) and Marton Scokas (Stephan). This Israeli cell schemes to capture the Surgeon, to haul him over the Wall and take him back for trial. But the three get emotionally tangled,

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mistakes are made, and the situation heads south rather than west as planned. (RvB)

DOLPHIN TALE (PG; 119 min.) Based on the true story of Winter, a bottlenosed dolphin who lost her tail in a crab trap.

A young boy finds the dolphin and persuades the adults around him to help her. With Harry Connick, Jr., Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd.

DREAM HOUSE (PG-13; 98 min.) Except it’s not, y’see? New Yorkers Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz relocate to a New England town before learning that their new home was the scene of a grisly murder. Naomi Watts is the neighbor who knows the most about what went on there, and what could happen again.

DRIVE (R; 108 min.)

Ryan Gosling transforms from first-rate actor to movie star here.

He plays an unnamed getaway-car driver in L.A. with a studious code of noninvolvement. He tosses away this code at first sight of the film’s girl (Carey Mulligan) and her kid. Terrific action sequences—much preAvid magic here—and a cast of HBO/FX allstars. Among them is the Oscar-bound Albert Brooks who is half (with Ron Perlman) of a pair of aging but lethal gangsters. Still, Drive is so studiously cool it’s hard not to feel cool toward it.

Impractical, coincidental things happen that might have made more sense in a smaller-scale location, such as Phoenix, where James Sallis’ nouveau pulp novel was set. Directed, with all homage to Michael Mann, by Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson). (RvB)

THE FUTURE (R; 91 min.)

Miranda July wrote, directed and stars in this film about a thirtysomething couple who, alarmed by the threat of lost freedom posed by their imminent adoption of an injured cat (which narrates the film), resolve to live their dreams for a month. A rather divisive film from the maker of Me and You and Everyone We Know.

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.

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

Director David Yates wraps up the 10-year saga in a cluttered, confusing finale—which doesn’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 Snape’s crescendo— nope. The reveal of a tender heart under a supercilious hide is all we get. It’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)

KILLER ELITE (R; 106 min.)

A former special ops agent (Jason Statham) and his mentor (Robert DeNiro) face off against the leader of a secret military society (Clive Owen).

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.

MONEYBALL (PG-13; 132 min.) This unorthodox picture is clearly one of the shrewdest films ever made about the national pastime. The source is Michael Lewis’ nonfiction account of how Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland A’s, brought the science of statistics— sabermetrics—to that team. It happened shortly after the 2001 American League division loss to the Yankees. The Yanks first outspent the A’s by a ratio of about three to one, then cherry-picked star player Jason Giambi from the A’s lineup.

“We’re the last dog at the bowl,” Beane (Brad Pitt) says as he searches for a replacement for his first baseman. Beane meets the fictional Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), a furtive and fat economics major from Yale working on the controversial system of using on-base percentages as a way of forecasting a team’s year.

Moneyball becomes a species of buddy movie, but it’s a dry, unusual one, more interested in exchanged glances than back-patting. Director Bennett Miller (Capote)

emphasizes Beane’s solitude and inner fury.

Moneyball is Pitt’s movie, and the tightly restrained lead shows us an actor finally out of the orbit of Robert Redford. He gives a lean, mean performance, one of his best. The rest of the cast is up to his level: Robin Wright as his ex-wife; Philip Seymour Hoffman is coach Art Howe. Some will liken the script, by Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, to Jerry Maguire, but it does without the traditional can o’ corn of the typical baseball movie.

When was the last time a team of winning misfits looked so inconspicuous?

(RvB)

SENNA (PG-13; 104 min.)

To a Brazilian, the idea of explaining who Ayrton Senna is would be as lunatic as asking a San Franciscan who Willie Mays is. Senna was bigger than the Christ of the Andes: “The one good thing about this country,” says more than one subject in Asif Kapadia’s hero-worshipping yet unquestionably touching bio-doc. As it is sponsored

by ESPN, the director had the necessary budget to acquire several continents worth of TV footage, all concerning Senna’s short, but glittering, Formula One career. Despite the video footage from inside the cars during these races of the 1980s and 1990s, there’s no way here to suggest the power of these machines, the terrific G-forces they whip up on curves, and the miracle that so relatively few drivers get killed. (RvB) WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER (R; 106 min.) Anna Faris looks back on the 20 guys she’s had relationships with and tries to figure out who was the least horrifying.

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Diner’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.

SYMBOLS MADE SIMPLE: $ = Under $10 $$ = $11-$15 $$$ = $16-$20 $$$$ = $21 and up

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Price Ranges based on average cost of dinner entree and salad, excluding alcoholic beverages APTOS $$ Aptos

AMBROSIA INDIA BISTRO

$$ Aptos

BRITANNIA ARMS

$$$ Aptos $$ Aptos

207 Searidge Rd, 831.685.0610

8017 Soquel Dr, 831.688.1233 SEVERINO’S GRILL

7500 Old Dominion Ct, 831.688.8987 ZAMEEN MEDITERRANEAN

7528 Soquel Dr, 831.688.4465

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.

Middle Eastern/Mediterranean. Fresh, fast, flavorful. Gourmet meat and vegetarian kebabs, gyros, falafel, healthy salads and Mediterranean flatbread pizzas. Beer and wine. Dine in or take out. Tue-Sun 11am-8pm.

CAPITOLA $ Capitola

CAFE VIOLETTE

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GEISHA SUSHI 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.

Capitola

104 Stockton Ave, 831.479.8888

$$$

SHADOWBROOK

Capitola

1750 Wharf Rd, 831.475.1511

$$$

STOCKTON BRIDGE GRILLE

Capitola

231 Esplanade, 831.464.1933

$$$ Capitola

203 Esplanade, 831.475.4900

ZELDA’S

All day breakfast. Burgers, gyros, sandwiches and 45 flavors of Marianne’s and Polar Bear ice cream. Open 8am daily.

California Continental. Swordfish and other seafood specials.

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

Mediterranean tapas. Innovative menu, full-service bar, international wine list and outdoor dining with terrific views in the heart of Capitola Village. Open daily.

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

SANTA CRUZ $$ Santa Cruz

ACAPULCO

$$$ Santa Cruz

CELLAR DOOR

$ Santa Cruz

CHARLIE HONG KONG

$$ Santa Cruz

CLOUDS

$$ Santa Cruz

1116 Pacific Ave, 831. 426.7588

328 Ingalls St, 831.425.6771

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For the week of October 5 ARIES (March 21–April 19): “Do unto others as they

GEMINI (May 21–June 20): Is there something you’ve always wanted to create but have not gotten around to creating? Now would be an excellent time to finally get that project off the ground. Is there any role you have fantasized about taking on but have never actually sought out? Now would be a perfect moment to initiate an attempt. Is there any big mysterious deal you’ve thought about connecting with but never have? Any profound question you’ve longed to pose but didn’t? Any heartexpanding message you’ve wanted to deliver but couldn’t bring yourself to? You know what to do.

CANCER (June 21–July 22): The experiences you’re flirting with seem to be revivals of long-forgotten themes.

You’re trying to recover and reinvigorate stuff that was abandoned or neglected way back when. You’re dipping into the past to salvage defunct resources, hoping to find new applications for them. To illustrate the spirit of what you’re doing, I’ve resurrected some obsolete words I found in an 18th-century dictionary. Try sprinkling them into your conversations; make them come alive again.

“Euneirophrenia” means “peace of mind after a sweet dream.”The definition of “neanimorphic” is “looking younger than one’s true age.” “Gloze” is when you speak soothing or flattering words in order to persuade. “Illapse” means the gradual or gentle entrance of one thing into another.

LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): An old Egyptian saying declares

that “the difference between a truth and a lie weighs no more than a feather.” I suspect that your upcoming experiences will vividly demonstrate the accuracy of that statement. There will be a very fine line between delusional nonsense and helpful wisdom ... between colorful but misleading BS and articulate, provocative analysis ... between interesting but irrelevant fantasies and cogent, evidence-based prognostications. Which side will you be on, Leo? To increase your chances of getting it right, be a stickler for telling yourself the heart-strong truth.

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): What’s the most practical

method of acquiring wealth? One out of every five Americans believes that it’s by playing the lottery. While it is true, Virgo, that you now have a slightly elevated chance of guessing the winning numbers in games of chance— the odds are only 90 million to one instead of 100 million to one—I don’t recommend that you spend any time seeking greater financial security in this particular way. A much better use of your current cosmic advantage would be to revitalize and reorganize your approach to making, spending, saving and investing money.

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): The Jet Propulsion Laboratory

landed two robotic vehicles on Mars in 2004. They were expected to explore the planet and send back information for 90 days. But the rover named Spirit kept working for more than six years, and its companion, Opportunity, is still operational. The astrological omens suggest that any carefully prepared project you launch in the coming weeks could achieve that kind of staying power, Libra. So take maximum advantage of the vast potential you have available. Don’t scrimp on the love and intelligence you put into your labor of love.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): “I don’t want to play the

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): When she was 7 years old, my daughter, Zoe, created a cartoon panel with colored pens. It showed an orange-haired girl bending down to tend to three orange flowers. High overhead was an orange five-pointed star. The girl was saying, “I think it would be fun being a star,” while the star mused, “I think it would be great to be a girl.” I urge you to create your own version of this cartoon, Sagittarius. Put a picture of yourself where the girl was in Zoe’s rendering. Getting your imagination to work in this way will put you in the right frame of mind to notice and take advantage of the opportunities that life will bring you. Here’s your mantra, an ancient formula the mystics espouse: “As above, so below.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): Years ago, I discovered I was eligible to join Mensa, an organization for people with high IQs. Since I’d never gotten any awards, plaques or badges, I thought I’d indulge in this little sin of pride. Not too long after I signed up, however, I felt like an idiot for doing it. Whenever I told someone I belonged to Mensa, I felt sheepish about seeming to imply that I was extra smart. Eventually, I resigned from the so-called genius club. But then I descended into deeper egomania—I started bragging about how I had quit MENSA because I didn’t want to come off like an egotist. How egotistical was that? Please avoid this type of unseemly behavior in the coming week, Capricorn. Be authentically humble, not fake like me. It’ll be important for your success.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): Right now, you have license to make pretty much everything bigger and funnier and wickeder. Good fortune is likely to flow your way as you seek out experiences that are extra interesting and colorful and thought-provoking. This is no time for you to be shy about asking for what you want or timid about stirring up adventure. Be louder and prouder than usual. Be bolder and brighter, nosier and cozier, weirder and more whimsical. The world needs your very best idiosyncrasies and eccentricities!

PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): There is a slight chance the following scenario will soon come to pass: A psychic will reveal that you have a mutant liver that can actually thrive on alcohol, and you will then get drunk on absinthe every day for two weeks, and by the end of this grace period, you will have been freed of 55 percent of the lingering guilt you’ve carried around for years, plus you will care 40 percent less about what people think of you. Extra bonus: You’ll feel like a wise rookie who’s ready to learn all about intimacy as if you were just diving into it for the first time.

But get this, Pisces: There’s an even greater chance that these same developments will unfold very naturally— without the psychic, without the prediction about a mutant liver and without the nonstop drunkenness.

Homework: Provide proof of the following hypothesis: “You know what to do and you know when to do it.” Freewillastrology.com.

Visit REALASTROLOGY.COM for Rob’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1.877.873.4888 or 1.900.950.7700

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TAURUS (April 20–May 20): Winner of the American Book Award in 1963, William Stafford wrote thousands of poems. The raw materials for his often-beautiful creations were the fragments and debris of his daily rhythm. “I have woven a parachute out of everything broken,” he said in describing his life’s work. You are now in a phase when you could achieve a comparable feat, Taurus. You have the power to turn dross into sweetness, refuse into treasure, loss into gain.

part of the mythical phoenix again,” my Scorpio friend Kelly has been moaning as she prepares for her latest trial by fire. “I’ve burned myself to the ground and risen reborn out of the ashes two times this year already. Why can’t someone else take a turn for a change?” While I empathized, I thought it was my duty to tell her what I consider to be the truth: More than any other sign of the zodiac, you Scorpios have supreme skills in the art of metaphorical self-immolation and regeneration. You’re better able to endure the ordeal, too. Besides, part of you actually enjoys the heroic drama and the baby-fresh feelings that come over you as you reanimate yourself from the soot and cinders. Ready for another go?

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wish,” advised French artist Marcel Duchamp, “but with imagination.” I recommend that approach to you, Aries.

You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you can create good fortune for yourself by tuning into the needs and cravings of others, and then satisfying those needs and cravings in your own inimitable and unpredictable ways. Don’t just give the people you care about the mirror image of what they ask for—give them a funhouse mirror image that reflects your playful tinkering.

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