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SUPPORT FOR STONE IN A RECENT letter, Robert de Freitas condemned Coastal Commission member and Santa Cruz County Supervisor Mark Stone for his Coastal Commission vote against the La Bahia project in Santa Cruz (“Stone’s Selfishness,” Posts, Oct. 19).

Mr. de Freitas claims there was only one environmental issue relevant. He says that point was visual esthetics and that its impact was not an issue of objection of the Commission staff.

The fact is the staff had previously opposed this project due to its over 70–foot height (double the allowable height in that area) and f lip-f lopped its position when the height was lowered by

just a few feet—certainly an insufficient modification. There were at least three other environmental legal impediments to the approval of the La Bahia that were raised by many speakers at the hearing. As to the “open public process” mentioned by de Freitas, we attended several of these meetings over the years. The developer was proposing five stories and the public acceptance seemed about 50 percent either way at that height. When brought forward for governmental approval, the project height had grown by 40 percent to 7 stories.

So much for developers listening to the public for input.

It seems that there are always individuals who are willing to sacrifice

the environment as long as a few bucks are likely to find a way into their own pockets. It was evident at the hearing that it was these people who were supporting the project and in their own presentations mentioned only financial reasons for their support (which are irrelevant under the Coastal Protection Act). The arguments against the project voiced by Stone and the rest of the majority on the Commission were directly related to the legal requirements of the Coastal Act. If there was a legitimate legal case for approval, why was the La Bahia rejected by a clear majority of the Coastal Commission?

Mark Stone should be appreciated for resisting these self-interested people’s demands and voting in accordance with the environmental protections contained in the Coastal Act that he swore to uphold regardless of untoward pressures. According to the Ventana magazine of the local Sierra Club, “SC County now has a Commission on the Environment and has bans on pesticide spraying by the county, genetically modified crops, styrofoam containers and single use plastic bags because of Mark’s leadership.”

Mr. Stone will be running for State Assembly for a seat in our redistricted community soon to be vacated by Bill Monning. We can think of no one else who has proven his integrity and environmental commitment as well as being an effective elected as clearly as has Mark Stone.

We will be strongly supporting him in his run for State Assembly and expect him to achieve a resounding victory to the benefit of all in our district.

Fred Geiger and Susan Martinez Santa Cruz

CORRECTION In last week’s news story about medical cannabis (“New Sprouts,” Currents) we erroneously described SC Laboratories as a dispensary. It is not a dispensary; it is an independent third-party analytical laboratory. We regret the error.

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Scientists aghast as mutant salmon virus hits the Pacific

BY ERIC JOHNSON

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MARGOT STILES, a marine scientist with the conservation group Oceana, calls the breaking news of a salmon-killing virus loose in the Pacific Northwest “horrifying.” Tobias Aguirre, director of the Santa Cruz–based FishWise, agrees that the virus—infectious salmon anemia (ISA)—could have a “devastating” impact on fisheries in the region and beyond.

They both agree that the disease could spread to California—a view widely held by ocean ecologists.

Scientists in British Columbia announced last week that the ISA virus had been discovered in sockeye salmon there. It’s the first time the mutant virus has been found in the open ocean

of the North American West Coast.

Evidence suggests it spread from fish farms in the area.

George Leonard, an aquaculture expert at the Ocean Conservancy’s Santa Cruz office, says it was inevitable that the virus would wind up in Canada, where open-net oceanic fish farming is prevalent.

And, he says, it’s difficult to believe that it will not wind up here as well.

“We’ve seen ISA spread all around the globe,” Leonard says. “It was just a matter of time before it arrived in British Columbia. And I don’t doubt that it will spread here—not because of any of the specifics of this particular disease, but because of the basic principles of ecology. A disease that occurs in a fish farm’s open net is going to be

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British Columbia “is really not that far away from California.”

FishWise’s Aguirre, whose international nonprofit organization includes partners in the aquaculture industry, says the apparent outbreak of ISA is only the most recent problem with open-ocean operations in British Columbia.

“Net-pen production of salmon in B.C. is highly controversial,” Aguirre says. “There are many peer-reviewed academic papers illustrating the impacts of farmed salmon on wild salmon, as well as impacts on the entire marine ecosystem.”

The sockeye fishery in the area is already in near-collapse, with many biologists and activists pointing to aquaculture as the culprit.

Aguirre says that British Columbia “may be ahead of other regions in some of its efforts to limit risks to the natural ecosystem.”

However, if it is shown that ISA is linked to the salmon farms, there will be intense pressure to put stricter regulations in place. Many advocates, including FishWise, have called on salmon producers to raise their fish in fully enclosed pens.

A law penned by California state Sen. Joe Simitian of Palo Alto strictly regulated aquaculture in this state in 2006—virtually banning the open-ocean farming of carnivorous fish such as salmon.

But George Leonard points out that statewide regulations are not sufficient protection for oceangoing species.

“It’s very difficult to put a fence in the ocean,” Leonard says.

“California took precautions to protect the waters under its control, but it has very little impact on other states, or in this case other countries.”

In the wake of the apparent ISA outbreak, the U.S. Senate approved an amendment last Friday calling for an investigation and “a rapid federal response” to the threat. 0

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SICKEYE A deadly virus incubated in Norwegian fish farming pens has shown up in the wild Pacific sockeye population.

transferred into the outside world.

This is not rocket science.”

This disease, however, is particularly dangerous. ISA had been found in ocean-going salmon for years, but it was not deadly in the wild. The virus morphed into a virulent strain in fish-farming pens in Norway. Stiles says poor aquaculture practices contributed to the virus’s mutation.

“These were fish living in densely packed pens, being fed antibiotics—these were not healthy fish,” she says. Because there were no predators to pick off the diseased fish, the virus spread rapidly.

When some salmon eggs from Norway were imported to Chile in 2007, the virus came with them and decimated the Chilean salmonfarming industry, which has not recovered. There are no wild salmon native to Chile, so the disease could not spread beyond the fish farms.

But British Columbia is home to one of the most productive wild salmon fisheries in the world.

The Western Fisheries Research Center, a branch of the U.S. Geological Survey, called the recent discovery a “disease emergency.”

Richard Routledge, the Simon Fraser University sockeye researcher whose team found the virus, said the disease could have “a devastating impact” on farmed and wild salmon, as well as grizzly bears, killer whales and wolves, which feed on salmon. “No country has ever gotten rid of [ISA] once it arrives,” Routledge said.

Margot Stiles points out that it’s entirely possible that Pacific Northwest sockeye—which have been known to travel as far south as the Mendocino County coast— might come in contact with the salmon that make their homes in the Monterey Bay. “Their habitats do overlap, so there is a definite possibility that eventually coho salmon will become infected,” she says, adding that

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SIGN IN Occupy Santa Cruz demonstrators formed a human chain Sunday.

Media Watch IT’S NOW obvious that the Occupy Wall Street movement has captured the public eye. According to the Pew

Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, the nationwide movement filled 10 percent of the overall big media news hole Oct. 10–16, up from 7 percent the previous week and from just 2 percent the week before that. With coverage during that time in outlets from the Santa Cruz Sentinel to the Huffington Post, Occupy Santa Cruz proves no exception to the national trend.

But is the media getting it right?

“In general, the mainstream media has had a very difficult time framing Occupy for the same reason that detractors have found it easy to criticize us: The movement is novel and very unlike any previous protest movement,” says Andy Moskowitz, a member of Occupy Santa Cruz’s media working group. “It’s hard, for this reason, to write a traditional hook, a traditional 600word newspaper story or 120-second television brief. And it’s hard to see what we’re about until you approach us at street level.”

Thya Shea, another member of the media working group, adds, “There’s been a lot of generalizations because people aren’t able to peg it down. People don’t know how to report on it. I don’t think [these generalizations] accurately depict what we’re doing.”

Like the protests that took place in Egypt and Israel earlier this year, and on which some say Occupy Wall Street was originally based, Occupy Santa Cruz has heavily relied upon alternative forms of media to get the word out in the way the members of movement themselves see

fit—an approach that has proven quite successful.

“Within the first four days that the Facebook page was up, there were like 750 likes,” Shea says. “Ten days later was [our first] General Assembly and 300 people showed up, advertised purely through Facebook. I remember saying [before the General Assembly], ‘We’ll see what a like on Facebook means in person . . . whether people actually get off of their couches for it,’ and in this community, they did.” The page now has over 5,000 likes.

“I visit the Facebook page like 900 times a day,” laughs David Schlesinger, another member of the media working group.

The media working group is still brainstorming ways to broadcast their message. They’re hoping to create “a more democratic newsmedia” on their website, www.occupysantacruz.org.

“We’re trying to allow people to directly voice their opinion . . . we’d like our publication to not just represent the General Assemblies, but also the diversity of the people [that attend them],” Moscowitz says. He explains that it’s a difficult task because “a lot of people have a lot of things they’d like to say about Occupy Santa Cruz, but we can’t publish everything having it look like it represents the group [as a whole].”

They thus plan to accept “community reporting” through a contact form on the site, letting individuals send in essays, photos or videos.

“Our occupation is far less about the Federal Reserve than it is about us,” says Moscowitz. “It’s our connections, it’s our process, it’s our working groups, it’s our shared meals and campouts that make this movement newsworthy and revolutionary.”

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In The Lost Boys, a young boy recently transplanted from Arizona asks if his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new hometown really is, as advertised, the murder capital of the world. His grandfather replies, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, now, let me put it this way: if all the corpses buried around here were to stand up all at once, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have one hell of a population problem.â&#x20AC;? Gramps is speaking, of course, of a fictionalized Santa Cruz called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santa Carla,â&#x20AC;? and like the movie city, the real townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grisly reputation is based on some unsettling facts.

In the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, things in Santa Cruz were getting, for a lack of a better term, very weird.

People were disappearing and pieces of bodies were washing up on the beach. Today Santa Cruzans wear our eccentricity as a point of pride, slapping â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keep Santa Cruz Weirdâ&#x20AC;? bumper stickers on our cars. But thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ha-ha-look-at-our-costumedaccordionist weird, and then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s omigod-what-ifmy-neighbor-is-the-Trailside-Killer weird, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re real different. In an 11-year span not one, not two, not even three but four mass murderers terrorized this seaside city, making a mark on the collective psyche and guaranteeing that newcomers will forever be a little freaked out at some point in their first six months here.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Environmentalistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Halloweenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;1970 Today world war 3 will begin as brought to you by the people of the Free Universe. From this day forward any one and-or company of persons who misuses the natural environment or destroys same will suffer the penalty of death by the people of the Free Universe.

The note was found two weeks before Halloweenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Oct. 19, 1970â&#x20AC;&#x201D;tucked beneath the windshield wiper of a red Rolls-Royce parked across the entrance to Dr. Victor Ohtaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sprawling Soquel property.

Smoke was pouring from the hillside estate shortly after 8pm when firefighters arrived on the scene, tipped off by two deputy sheriffs. Accelerated by thickly insulated walls, the blaze quickly depleted the fire truckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tank. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when Live Oak Fire Chief Dick Pound went looking for a hookup. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I went to the pool to see where the end of the pipe came through,â&#x20AC;? Pound told the Santa Cruz

Sentinel, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and my flashlight beam spotted one of the children. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ever forget.â&#x20AC;?

One body floated on the surface; four others lay at the bottom. The victims included the houseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s owner, popular Santa Cruz ophthalmologist Victor Ohta; his wife; their two sons (ages 11 and 12) and the doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s secretary. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was blood on the deck by the end of the pool,â&#x20AC;? Pete Amos, chief photographer for the Sentinel, would later tell his colleague Cliff Johnson, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and a stream of blood four or five inches thick across the water.â&#x20AC;?

The news made the front page of the New York Times. Other mentions appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Time (which dubbed the killer â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Environmentalistâ&#x20AC;?) and Newsweek. The rambling note struck fear in the heart of locals that this was another â&#x20AC;&#x153;hippie killingâ&#x20AC;? like those perpetrated by Charles Mansonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disciples, on trial at the time for the Tate and LaBianca murders.

Every night 24-year-old high school dropout John Linley Frazier seethed at the sight of the Ohtasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hilltop mansion, visible from the window of the converted milk barn where he lived half a mile away.

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Mad, Mad Mullin Two years nearly to the day of Frazierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crimeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Oct. 13, 1972â&#x20AC;&#x201D;began the next chapter in Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history of serial killers. The morning started innocently enough, with Herbert Mullin setting out to return a book to the San Francisco Public Library.

Mullinâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;varsity athlete, honors student and the individual voted â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most Likely to Succeedâ&#x20AC;? by his classmates at San Lorenzo Valley High in 1965â&#x20AC;&#x201D;was driving south on Highway 9 when he spotted a 55-year-old man ambling down the road. Mullin pulled over and popped open the hood of his â&#x20AC;&#x2122;59 Chevy station wagon. When the man offered to take a look at the engine, Mullin cracked him on the back of the head with a baseball bat. He stashed the body in nearby bushes and got back on the road to return his bookâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Einstein on Peace.

Over the next four months, Mullin continued killing in similarly random fashion. Eleven days after his first murder, he picked up a Cabrillo student hitchhiking. He stabbed her in the heart and left her sitting in the passenger seat of the station wagon as he drove through the city of Santa Cruz and into the mountains, where he disposed of her body. A week and a half later he stabbed a priest three times in a Los Gatos confessional booth.

Retired Watsonville Police Chief Terry Medina, who was with the sheriffs department at the time, said it was difficult to identify Mullinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s victims as such. Mullin had â&#x20AC;&#x153;a number of psychological issues,â&#x20AC;?

Medina says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;so it just depended on the time and who he ran into as to who he killed.â&#x20AC;?

Mullinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high school classmate and his wife, as well as the coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friend (â&#x20AC;&#x153;eating a dried fig when stabbed three times and shot twiceâ&#x20AC;? the San Francisco Examiner reported) and her two sons, ages 9 and 3, followed on a Jan. 25 spree. ¨ #

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removing slats one at a time, training himself to cross until he would be able to do it on the rope alone.

The killerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s psychologist would later relate the nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s events to a jury.

Frazier broke into the Ohtasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; house, taking members of the family and the secretary hostage as they arrived home from work and school one and two at a time. He bound the women and children with silk scarves, but Dr. Ohta he brought outside to the edge of the pool, where he accused him of ruining the mountains with his ostentatious home.

He suggested they burn down the house together, and when Ohta tried to reason with him, Frazier pushed him into the pool and shot him three times in the back. The others were executed one at a time at the poolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edge. Frazier then set fire to the house and fled in Mrs. Ohtaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s station wagon.

Frazierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long hair and back-to-theland existence became a flashpoint in the case. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The grisly murder of five people has set a fuse burning on long-smouldering tensions in this oceanside city,â&#x20AC;? the front page of the Santa Cruz Sentinel read days after the bodies were discovered.

Santa Cruz, until then a sleepy seaside town, became the latest front in global culture clashes that were pitting the â&#x20AC;&#x153;straightsâ&#x20AC;? against the â&#x20AC;&#x153;longhairs.â&#x20AC;? The Catalyst, a hippie hangout, began receiving bomb threats. In response to the events here, the Vaticanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weekly magazine Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Osservatore warned that too many â&#x20AC;&#x153;stuffed shirtsâ&#x20AC;? looked on hippies as â&#x20AC;&#x153;modern witches on whom to cast the blame and collective hatred.â&#x20AC;? The Christian Science Monitor called for calm, insisting the events in Santa Cruz were not â&#x20AC;&#x153;grounds for panic.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santa Cruz was going through a lot of change,â&#x20AC;? says former Sentinel editor Tom Honig. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The old town of Santa Cruz was a retirement communityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;very traditional, very Republicanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and all of sudden UCSC is here, and a new era of people.â&#x20AC;?

Officers, tipped off by three local hippies who recognized the wording in the note as the sentiments of a man they knew, staked out Frazierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shack for 20 hours until he returned to sleep. He came quietly, speaking only to ask for a glass of water after his arrest.

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The Coed Killer â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is no prankâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I want to talk about the coed murders.

You know what I mean.â&#x20AC;? Six feet, 9 inches tall, 285 pounds, stuffed in a phone booth in Pueblo, Colo., Edmund Emil Kemper III wore a long-sleeved plaid sports shirt and washed-out blue jeans. The dispatcher at the Santa Cruz Police Department refused his collect call. He called twice more, begging cops to take his confessions seriously in conversations that were recorded and played back at his trial. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going out of my goddamn head. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never done that before,â&#x20AC;? said the 24-year-old.

In fact, Kemper had spent his late teenage years institutionalized for the murder of his grandparents.

Days before the April 24 call from Colorado, Kemper had killed his mother, an administrator at UCSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College Five, out of fear that she would learn of his other killingsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;six total, of young female college students over the preceding 11 months. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d killed her best friend as well, so anyone who noticed his motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disappearance would figure the pair had left on a trip.

The man who would gain infamy as â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Coed Killerâ&#x20AC;? may have picked up hundreds of hitchhikers, but he only murdered them when the conditions were right. The night of Jan. 8, 1973, for instance, Kemper picked up two hitchhikers, but too many people saw them get into his car. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All the other conditions were perfect,â&#x20AC;? he said at the trial. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It had been raining real hard and people were getting any ride they could get and windows were fogging up.â&#x20AC;? He dropped them at their destination. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had given up on those other two and I was kind of uptight about it, and driving down the ¨ %

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A few weeks later, 72-year-old Fred Perez was shot dead while doing yard work in front of his Lighthouse Avenue property at 8am. A neighbor reported seeing a blue Chevy station wagon with an STP bumper sticker driving slowly away from the scene.

Mullin was stopped by police minutes later and arrested, but that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the end of the saga. Four days later authorities discovered the bodies of four more victims in Henry Cowell State Park. (â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a good walk, to get away,â&#x20AC;?

Mullin would later tell a reporter from the Valley Press of the February day when he came upon four teenagers camping. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I came upon the tent and saw them, the first thing that came into my mind was, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Wow, human sacrifices.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? He pled insanity at the trail, claiming voices told him he had to kill in order to stave off a devastating earthquake on the San Andreas Fault.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;This must be Murdersville, USA,â&#x20AC;?

District Attorney Peter Chang remarked to a writer from the Watsonville Register-Pajaronian while walking up the trail from the scene.

As the story goes, an AP reporter walking a few steps behind the pair scribbled down â&#x20AC;&#x153;Murder Capital of the World,â&#x20AC;? the title that would haunt Santa Cruz for years to come after it was picked up by papers around the country.

Mullin killed 13 people in all. But there were 32 murders in 1972 and an unusually high number in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;73 as well. On Feb. 13, 1973, the day the newspapers reported Perezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death, another report ran on a 70year-old woman whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been raped and murdered in her bathroom in Capitola. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was another mystery,â&#x20AC;? says Medina, â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;cause youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re thinking, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Is this a Mullin, is this aâ&#x20AC;Ś? What is this?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And it turned out to be totally, totally separate.â&#x20AC;?

Separate too were the disappearances of several young women hitchhikers from the Santa Cruz area. District Attorney Chang later admitted there was pressure at the time of Mullinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arrest to tie those killings to him, but investigators would have to wait a few more months for a break in that case and a disturbing realization.

Says Medina, â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were two

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By springâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end in 1973, both Kemper and Mullin were safely behind bars (even sitting in adjacent cells for a time), but things didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessary settle down in Santa Cruz. Big cases continued to plague the area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These things were kind of coming one after another, and it really taxed the Sheriff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office and the District Attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office,â&#x20AC;? Terry Medina recalls.

Beginning in 1979 and continuing through the following year, women began turning up dead on trails on Mt. Tamalpais. Then the criminal dubbed â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Trailside Killerâ&#x20AC;? decided to change venues.

In March of 1981, two UC Davis students came out to the coast on a getaway. They spent an afternoon at the Boardwalk and the next day took a drive down to Monterey.

When the couple returned to their campsite at Henry Cowell State Park, they decided to take a short hike down the Ridge Trail to Cathedral Redwoods.

On their way back, Steven Haertle

and Ellen Hansen passed a husky older man wearing a dark baseball cap and a gold jacket emblazoned with the slogan â&#x20AC;&#x153;Western Bar Olympic Drinking Team, Billings, Montanaâ&#x20AC;? on the trail for the second time that night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He says, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ah, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve met again,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Haertle would later recall in court. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then pulled out a gun from his jacket and pointed it at Ellen and I.â&#x20AC;?

The killer stated an intention to rape Hansen, and when she protested, he shot her in the head and her companion in the neck.

A 69-year-old Ben Lomond woman recognized David J. Carpenter from the police composite sketch based on details Haertle provided. Twenty-six years earlier sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been one of 12 passengers on an 18-day voyage to Japan aboard the freighter Fleetwood. Carpenter had been the shipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purser; she remembered his terrible stutter and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;unwholesomeâ&#x20AC;? amount of attention he paid her 14-year-old daughter.

Weeks after he was apprehended, another partially decomposed body, Carpenterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20-year-old coworker at the California Trade School Hayward print shop, was discovered in Big Basin State Park. She was the seventh of his victims. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What does all this mean? What is happening?â&#x20AC;? Medina recalls wondering as the fourth serial killer terrorized Santa Cruz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was pretty â&#x20AC;Ś pretty â&#x20AC;Ś weird.â&#x20AC;?

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street I spotted her standing with her thumb out.â&#x20AC;? Pieces of Cynthia Schallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dismembered body would wash up on beaches between Big Sur and Santa Cruz weeks later. Her head, though, he buried outside his bedroom window in the back yard of the Aptos home he shared with his mother, where he could speak to it.

Schall was the fourth of Kemperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eight victims, six of them hitchhikers.

Some of his victims he dismembered, some he dissected, some (including his mother) he conducted sexual acts with post-mortem.

When Santa Cruz authorities collected Kemper (who some officers knew as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Ed,â&#x20AC;? their drinking buddy at the Jury Room) from Colorado and brought him back to Santa Cruz, he led them to various sites at which he had left pieces of his victims around the county and the state.

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World-renowned psychic Sylvia Browne told the San Francisco Chronicle in 1997 that Santa Cruz has a â&#x20AC;&#x153;gaggleâ&#x20AC;? of ghosts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A ghost can come in on moisture easier,â&#x20AC;? she said. That would help explain these hot spots for paranormal activity around the Monterey Bay.

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HEY, WHITE LADY Various witnesses have seen a ghostly figure resembling a woman in a wedding dress wandering around Ocean Street Extension just below Graham Hill Road. After that the details get a little hazy.

One would think the phenomenon is related to the Santa Cruz Memorial Cemetery nearby, but according to legend, a German immigrant in the neighborhood often beat his mailorder bride during their marriage together. One night, she decided to escape, but he cut off her head before she could. The mysterious figure might be the same one seen watching the cemetery or hanging out on Graham Hill Road.

CAPITOLA CREEPERS The Rispin Mansion in Capitola has three levels of bizarre. On the dilapidated buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top story, people have reportedly seen a woman in a black dress gazing out the window. On the ground floor, a man with glasses sits by the fireplace. Paranormal experts say a barking dog in the basement could be a holdover from the days when the Capitola Police Department used it as a training facility for their canine unit.

Capitola City Council had ambitious plans to turn the house into a hotel, but the redevelopment money was difficult to come by, and a mysterious 2009 fire didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help. The fire came just days after the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s announcement that Barry Swenson Builder would redevelop the property. No suspects were ever arrested.

GRUMPIEST CUSTOMER The Hotel Del Monte in Monterey has all the classic signs

of being haunted: lights turning on and off on their own, people getting tapped on the shoulder by unseen hands, even apparitions wandering the towers of the 130year-old building, now the Naval Postgraduate School.

A kitchen employee cleaning the dining room reportedly once saw a disgruntled-looking ghost sitting at a table and staring at him. The employee ran out of the room, terrified. When staff gathered up the courage to confront the otherworldly dinner guest, one chair had been pushed back from a neatly arranged table as if it had gotten up and walked away.

THE REAL BATES MANSION? Is Santa Cruz inspiring or what? Alfred Hitchcock thought so. There are a number of elements in his movies that Hitchcock pulled from Monterey Bayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;like the Capitola divebombing bird event of 1961 that seems to have informed The Birds or the foggy curves of Highway 1 that would become the English coastline in Suspicion. Perhaps the most iconic example is Pyschoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bates Motel. Hitchcock, who kept a home near Scotts Valley, was rumored to have drawn its inspiration from the McCray Hotel on Beach Hill.

The Victorian mansion is now the Sunshine Villa Retirement Community, located on 3rd and Front streets. Residents and employees of the community have reportedly complained about windows opening and closing, footsteps going up and down the stairs and halls, voices sounding and soap dispensers self-dispensing. The authorities at Sunshine Villa deny that there are any visitors from the other side in the retirement community, and they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appreciate the ghost chatter, either. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Residents can get upset,â&#x20AC;? said one staff member. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is their home.â&#x20AC;? 0

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HALLOWEEN in Santa Cruz conjures up many haunting images of a frightfully crowded downtown filled with strangely (and skimpily) costumed revelers enjoying sinful fun. But for those who want to participate in the wicked festivities without the hustle, bustle and drunk-in-public citations, Moe’s Alley has plenty of treats, without any tricks, at the inaugural Halloweekend Haunt festival.

“We wanted to create an alternative to downtown,” says owner Bill Welch.

“It’s something that participates in the holiday while focusing on music.” Along with a costume contest offering cash prizes, Moe’s will be sporting creepy decorations to match the unsettling sounds.

The Haunt kicks off on Thursday, Oct. 27 with Saratoga’s own band of misfits, the Animal Liberation Orchestra (ALO). Since their first album in 1998, ALO’s creamy blend of jazz, bass-driven dirty funk and contemporary rock has caught the ears of many fans—most notably Jack Johnson, who signed them onto his Brushfire label shortly before re-releasing their Fly Between Falls album in 2006. To sweeten the deal, Moe’s Alley double-dipped this candy apple by signing the four-piece, bluegrass-infused string band Fruition to the bill.

Friday and Saturday night will be possessed by the Afro-samba-reggae sound of SambaDá. Local heroes and veterans of Moe’s Alley, SambaDá’s

THE BOOGIEMEN ALO kicks off the Halloweekend Haunt at Moe’s Alley this Thursday. impressive nine-musician lineup blasts audiences with a wall of sound that not only invites dancing but flat-out dares anyone not to shake their groove thang. With their rhythmic drumming stirring the instinctive regions of the soul, SambaDá sets the soundtrack to a holiday steeped in the darker, more primitive side of humanity. Saturday will be the night of the costume contest for cash prizes, making it the perfect time to test run this year’s costume.

But wait, there’s more! The fourth night of the Haunt kicks it up a notch with a triple bill of The Mumlers, He’s My Brother She’s My Sister and the Soft White Sixties. Presented in association with FolkYEAH!, the Sunday night lineup will be for anyone with a morbid addiction to rock & roll.

Hailing from San Francisco, with buzzing guitars, pop hooks and haunting keys, openers the Soft White Sixties are a straight-up rock band in the same R&B vein of earlier garage acts. If He’s My Brother She’s My Sister sounds familiar, that’s because this will

be their second time playing Santa Cruz this year. The folksy quartet (plus a tap dancer!) from Los Angeles twists time by weaving webs of nostalgia into present-day pop in a slice of golden Americana.

Just when the witching hour is close, the Mumlers will provide the perfect nightcap. Though they’re from San Jose, the Mumlers create an otherworldly sound with a very wide range. From a soft, roots-based ditty a la Two Gallants, they can seamlessly flow to a New Orleans-funeralesque song in a way that would make Tom Waits crack a haggard smile. After four nights of debaucherous music, the Halloweekend Haunt comes to a cacophonous climax on Monday. “This year, Halloween is blue,” Welch devilishly remarks, as the Haunt closes with a full night of bluegrass and old-timey string revival music. Opening will be Santa Cruz sons the North Pacific String band with their intricate, finger-plucking fun hot off a dusty back porch. They’ll be followed by the Elephant Revival from Colorado,

an acoustic quintet filled with rich mandolin, upright bass, guitar, the sweet sound of the fiddle and even a good old-fashioned washboard. Headlining the final night will be fellow Colorado bluegrass rockers Head For The Hills, for two years voted the “Best Bluegrass” band in Colorado by the Westword Magazine Music Showcase. Eerily haunting with a specter of beauty, Head For The Hills’ music will linger in the mind and leave the audience hearing ghosts of the past around every corner.

So this Halloween, take some time out from scaring the little ones to celebrate grown-up style. It’s like Bill Welch says: “Basically, Moe’s Alley is throwing five nights of Halloween parties,” and with cash prizes to boot, the Halloweekend Haunt will leave a fiendish smile on anyone’s blood-red lips.

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Song of Kong Anamanaguchi pays tribute to the tunes of 8-bit video games

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C HILDREN of the ’80s terrorized their parents with the repetitive, bleating soundtracks that scored 8-bit video games, to the point of distraction. Some parents (mine included) demanded that their children turn the infernal noises off while playing the games. Now that the members of this generation have grown into nostalgia-addled adults, these synthesized tones are considered less an annoyance than an evocative reminder of youth, and the limitless imaginative worlds suggested by these primitive games.

Some have gone so far as to create an entire musical subgenre—chiptune— comprised of bands that emulate the tinny bleeps and bloops of video games past. While many chiptune acts merely recreate the video game music of their youth, New York’s Anamanaguchi are more ambitious, composing original material on outdated video game audio chips.

Chiptune bands are primarily the domain of the geeky and nostalgic, but a band with Anamanaguchi’s

pop smarts and songwriting skill potentially has mainstream appeal. Merging a traditional rock band setup—vocals, bass, guitars and drums—with digital tones conjured from a hacked Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Anamanaguchi draw inspiration as much from Super Mario Brothers as the Beach Boys, The Legend of Zelda as Weezer. As a result, the band has achieved what amounts to popular success for a chiptune band, appearing on the soundtrack to the film version of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, contemporary games like Bit. Trip Runner and Rock Band, and the intros for shows on comedian Chris Hardwick’s Nerdist podcast network.

Much of the band’s crossover appeal lies in songwriter Peter Berkman’s strong grasp of infectious melodies and traditional pop songcraft. Though he writes for limited 8-bit audio chips, Berkman aims to create songs that are evocative rather than kitschy. “Having grown up with these systems, these

sounds are intimately associated with ideas of fantasies and dreams—crazy narrative stuff,” Berkman says. This appreciation for the haunting quality of these tones results in songs that are as addictive as the earworms that scored ’80s video games, but with a rich sense of pathos, showing the human heart behind those leaping 8bit game sprites.

Instead of plucking away at a guitar or noodling on a keyboard, Berkman’s canvas is an emulator of the NES audio chip that runs on his laptop. The band then feeds these compositions into a modified game cartridge so the synthesized melodies can be “performed” by the original hardware. “I write songs on my laptop and we put them on a chip that gets put into the cartridge,” he says. “We put sounds into the old systems’ soundchips, which are just tiny synthesizers. After that, we play guitars and drums on top of it live, so live it’s a punk rock party time.”

For Berkman, the limitations of the humble NES audio chip present a creative challenge. “You’ve got a limited amount of channels, so you’re working with a tiny pocket orchestra,” he says. “You have to find fun workarounds to create sounds you’d want to listen to. Electronic music gets more complex every day.

It’s the simplicity of this that drives me to it.”

While many of Anamanaguchi’s peers revel in their geeky obscurantism, Berkman’s background in punk bands balances out his egghead impulses. In fact, he finds many parallels between chiptune music and punk rock, an influence which is apparent in the band’s cacophonous-yet-melodic din of pummeling drums, insistent guitars and warbling NES melodies. NES audio is comprised of “superprimitive tones,” Berkman says. “I grew up playing in punk bands, and with these sounds being as dirty and raw as they are, they’re a lot like a punk power chords to me.”

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Duncan Smith perform a concert of traditional Scottish music. Tue, Nov 1, 7pm. $15 suggested donation. St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, 9850 Monroe Ave, Aptos, 831.688.4211.

A Halloween Concert

One of Spain’s most explosive dancers performs in Santa Cruz as part of the Bay Area Flamenco Festival. Sat, Oct 29, 8pm. $30-$60. Cabrillo College Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 800.838.3006.

Ensemble Monterey Chamber Orchestra performs “Dead Elvis,” David Del Tredici’s “Dracula!,” Saint Saens’ “Dance Macabre,” the “Funeral March for a Marionette,” “New Moon” from the Twilight Saga and Bach’s “Toccata” and “Fugue in D minor.” Sun, Oct 30, 7pm. $20-$28. Cabrillo Music Recital Hall, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.333.1283.

THEATER Murder in Reel Time Murder mystery dinner theater by the Elf Empire Productions. Sun, Oct 30, 5:30pm. $45. Peachwood’s Grill and Bar, 555 Hwy 17, Santa Cruz, 831.426.6333.

The Rocky Horror Show 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 and Mon, Oct 31, 8pm and 12am. Thru Oct 29. $23. Paper Wing Theater, 320 Hoffman Ave, Monterey, 831.905.5684.

Latif Bolat with Camille & Kabir Helminski An evening of Sufi music, poetry and a Sufi Zhikr. Fri, Oct 28, 7:30-9:30pm. $15 adv/$20 door. Pacific Cultural Center, 1307 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.662.2238.

Art

GALLERIES CONTINUING Cabrillo College Gallery 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.

Davenport Gallery Secret Art. Work by local artists that you won’t see at Open Studios. Thru Oct 30.

Free. 450 Hwy 1, Davenport, 831.426.1199.

Felix Kulpa Gallery

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Celtic Music Night at St Andrew

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History

Australian fiddle and piano duo Catherine Fraser &

Coastal Lagoons: A Closer Look through Art, History and

We Are All Animals MMXI. A multi-media art and performance event curated by Louise Chen. Thru Oct 30, 7pm.

Free. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

Louden Nelson Community Center Gallery Different Directions 4.

Photographs by Susan Lysik, gail nichols and Virginia Scott.

Thru Nov 18. Free. 301 Center 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. Thru Nov 23. Free.

Porter College, UCSC, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3606.

Masaoka Glass Design 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 30. 13766 Center St, Carmel Valley.

Motiv Cyphergraph. New digital prints of technical drawings

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

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.

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Palace Art and Office Supply

The 1927 sci-fi silent film Metropolis will screen accompanied by a live performance of Phil Collins’ original film score, played by The New Music Works Ensemble. A costume contest will award the best character-inspired outfit. Friday, Oct. 28 and Saturday, Oct. 29, 8pm at the Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. 831.423.8209. $23 adv/$30 door.

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

welcome. Fourth Thu of every month. $5-$7. First Congregational Church of Santa Cruz, 900 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.8621.

Santa Cruz County Bank

FoodWhat’s Harvest Festival for Food Justice

Into the Woods. Featuring the work of nine local artists who explore the natural beauty, strength and mythical character of trees on display at all branches. Thru Jan 18, 2012. Free. 720 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.457.5000.

Santa Cruz Stoves and Fireplaces Generations: Renderings of Life Through Brush and Lens.

Paintings and drawings by Susie Wilson, photographs

by Daniel Wilson. Thru Dec 1. Free. 1043 Water St, Santa Cruz, 831.476.8007.

Events AROUND TOWN

SATURDAY 10/29

15th Annual Strike Out Against Cancer Bowling Benefit

WEARABLE ART HALLOWEEN BALL: FRACTURED FAIRYTALES

WomenCARE’s yearly bowling fundraiser. Participants are encouraged to form teams of 5 with friends, family and coworkers. Sun, Oct 30, 12:30-5:30pm. Boardwalk Bowl, 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz, 831.425.4425.

A fairy-tale inspired costume party with a sinister twist. Featuring music, dancing and a costume contest. Saturday, Oct. 29, 8pm at the Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. 831.429.1964. $20.

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Science. A virtual visit to seven local lagoons. Visitors will learn how land-use decisions have changed the outlines of each site, how scientists measure the current health of each lagoon and how artists continue to be inspired by the ever-changing nature of lagoons. Thru Feb 25, 2012. $2-$4, free for members and youth under 18. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. 1305 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6115.

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English Country Dance Second and fourth Thursdays of each month; beginners

Public middle and high schools from Santa Cruz County are invited for pumpkin harvesting, cider pressing, apple pie baking, pumpkin carving and farm fresh pizza by Chef Jamie Smith. Thu, Oct 27, 10am-12pm. Free. UCSC Farm and Garden, UCSC, Santa Cruz, 831.459.5476.

Night of the Living Dance Exotic foods, dance performances from Santa Cruz & Bay area artists, local wine tasting, silent auction, DJ and live music at a fundraiser for the Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center. Fri, Oct 28, 7pm. $20. Tannery Arts Center, 1040 River St, Santa Cruz, 831.227.6770.

Scotts Valley Chamber of Commerce Business Networking Mixer Plus the 50 Year Celebration at Scotts Valley Water District.

Thu, Oct 27, 5:30-7pm. Free.

Scotts Valley Water District, 2 Civic Center Dr, Scotts Valley.

Sweets and Treats Sneak Preview Party Sample handmade organic sweet and savory products, enjoy music, wine and other wares that will be on sale in the Homeless Garden Project’s Holiday Store. Fri, Oct 28, 4-7pm. Homeless Garden Project, Shaffer and Delaware, Santa Cruz.

HOLIDAYS Wearable Art Halloween Ball: Fractured Fairytales Drape yourself in art and come down to the Museum for a night of music, dancing, costume contest and unearthly delights. The evening will be styled on the theme Fractured Fairytales.

Sat, Oct 29, 8pm. $20. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

FILM La Commune A historical drama about the brief revolutionary government established in Paris, France in 1871.

Fri, Oct 28, 1pm. Free.

Communications Building, Studio C, UCSC, Santa Cruz.

Metropolis The newly restored version of the 1927 sci-fi classic silent film by Fritz Lang will play complete with 25 extra minutes of discovered footage and an original film score by Phil Collins, Santa Cruz County Artist of the year 2011. Fri, Oct 28, 6:30pm and Sat, Oct 29, 7pm. $14-$30. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel, Santa Cruz, 831.421.9200.

LITERARY EVENTS Charles Frazier The famed novelist whose work includes Cold Mountain,

Thirteen Moons and, most recently Nightwoods, returns to Bookshop for a talk, signing and Q&A. Thu, Oct 27, 7:30pm. Free. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

Stories, will appear as part of UCSC’s Living Writers series.

Thu, Oct 27, 6-7:45pm. Free.

Humanities Lecture Hall, UC-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, 831.459.4778.

David Marin

Master storyteller, awardwinning author and Stanford University professor will present a talk as part of the President’s Speaker Series.

Tue, Nov 1, 7pm. Free. World Theater, CSU Monterey Bay, Sixth Ave, Seaside, 831.582.4580.

The author of This Is US: The New All American Family, a memoir of single parent adoption, will read, discuss and sign copies of his book.

Thu, Oct 27, 7:30pm. Free.

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

Tobias Wolff

Halloween Story Hour Pre-schoolers in particular are invited to this free event which will feature fun Halloween stories, puppets, songs and crafts. Fri, Oct 28, 11am. Free. Porter Memorial Library, 3050 Porter St, Soquel, 831.475.3326.

Halloween Story Time Animated storytelling for kids ages 2 to 8 by Jill Rose and her daughter Amber.

Treats provided, costumes encouraged. Sun, Oct 30, 2pm. Free. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

Jane Hirshfield Poetry Santa Cruz presents Jane Hirshfield reading from her own work in the 3rd Annual Maude Meehan Memorial Poetry Reading. Sat, Oct 29, 7:30pm. Free. Cabrillo College Forum, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos.

Peter Orner Author of a novel, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, and a story collection, Esther

LECTURES Autumn Art Workshops A variety of workshops will be held by the Aromas Hills Artisans including classes in drawing, beading, relief printing, stained glass, wet wool felting and oil pastels. Sun, Oct 30, 9-11am.

Free. Aromas Community Grange, Corner of Rose Ave and Bardue St, Aromas, 408.607.5888.

Central Coast Archaeology Night A panel discussion and lectures will focus on topics from the archaeology of Monterey and Santa Cruz to the relationship between archaeologists and Indian peoples. Thu, Oct 27, 6:308:30pm. Free. Cabrillo College Horticulture Center, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6158.

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net. Wed, 7-9pm. Thru Nov 9. First lesson free, $10 thereafter. Santa Cruz Bridge Center, 720 Capitola Ave., Capitola.

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

Evergreen Cemetery Tour

SC Diversity Center

Get ready for Halloween with a spook-tacular journey through the cemetery. Sat, Oct 29, 11am. Free. Evergreen Cemetery, Evergreen Street near Harvey West Park, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

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.

Water Awareness Series A Transition Santa Cruz series investigating where our water comes from, examining local policy issuesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;like desalinationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;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.

Write Your Future A drop-in writing workshop for women. No experience necessary. Email 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.

Support and Recovery Groups Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s: Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Assn., 831.464.9982.

Cancer: Katz Cancer Resource Center, 831.351.7770; WomenCARE, 831.457.2273. Candida: 831.471.0737. Chronic Pain: American Chronic Pain Association, 831.423.1385.

Grief and Loss: Hospice, 831.430.3000.

Lupus: Jeanette Miller, 831.566.0962.

Men Overcoming Abusive Behavior: 831.464.3855. SMART Recovery: 831.462.5470.

Trans Latina women: Mariposas, 831.425.5422.

Trichotillomania: 831.457.1004. 12-Step Programs: 831.454.HELP (4357).

Touched By Adoption Group Adoptive families, adult adoptees, families waiting to adopt and birth parents meet monthly to connect

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.

in a safe, confidential setting. Last Sat of every month, 10am-12pm. Free.

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

UNICEF Boxes Available The 2011 orange trick-ortreat boxes for UNICEF are available at the United Nations Association store at 903 Pacific Ave. Thru Oct 31.

Yoga Instruction Pacific Cultural Center: 35+ classes per week,

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Hans-Joachim Roedelius German ambient electronic pioneer and founding member of Cluster plays solo. Oct 26 at Cafe du Nord.

The Game Why isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t his SF show sold out yet? Oh, rightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he has a Dodgers tattoo on his face. Oct 27 at the Regency Ballroom.

Pomplamoose Charming, twee duo best known for YouTube covers of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Single Ladiesâ&#x20AC;? and more. Oct 29 at YBCA Forum.

The Fastbacks Seattleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enduring pop-punk ensemble soldiers on with opening act the Muffs. Oct 29 at the Bottom of the Hill.

Zola Jesus A little Bjork, a little Laurie Anderson: Nika Roza Danilova is an icy experimentalist of fascinating order. Nov 1 at the Independent.

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ANTJE DUVEKOT WITH ARIEL THIERMANN Tickets at brownpapertickets.com Thursday, November 3 U 7 pm

PAUL CONTOS QUINTET

1/2 Price Night for Students Friday, November 4 U 6 - 8 pm, FREE

FIRST FRIDAY: MARVIN PLUMMER & CHARLIE POWELL “JAZZ HEROS” PAULA WEST

Thursday, November 10 U 7:30 pm

THE BLUES BROADS FEATURING TRACY NELSON, ANGELA STREHLI, DOROTHY MORRISON, ANNIE SAMPSON 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

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NOMADIC JAMS Tinariwen plays desert blues at the Rio on Halloween.

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TY SEGALL

WE FOUR

Though Ty Segall defines himself as a “singer-songwriter,” it’s a particularly skewed brand he’s offering up. Segall is no shrinking violet delicately strumming acoustic guitar strings.

Instead, his music is rough and lofi, evoking the frayed folk hysteria of Skip Spence, the scumbag sneer of the Stooges and the lurching roughness of early Black Sabbath. It’s a schizophrenic combination, yet the madness of Segall’s music is wholly exhilarating. Segall tears into his songs with such wild abandon that his aural dementia is infectious in the best way, resulting in something that is as troubling as it is irresistible. Crepe Place; $10; 9pm. (Paul M. Davis)

One of the most revered musicians of all time, saxophonist John Coltrane was an innovative and expressive artist whose range, technique and spiritually charged music made a massive musical splash that ripples through the jazz world still.

We Four, featuring bandleader Javon Jackson, Mulgrew Miller, Nat Reeves and NEA Jazz Master drummer Jimmy Cobb, pays tribute to Coltrane and his legacy with a night of his classic tunes as well as “’Trane-inspired original compositions.”

Boasting some of the brightest young talent on the jazz circuit today, as well as an undisputed legend in Cobb (Kind of Blue, anyone?), We Four is a multigenerational celebration of the past and future of jazz. Kuumbwa; $25 adv/$28 door; 7pm. (Cat Johnson)

PINK MOUNTAINTOPS In the imposing music of Black Mountain, songwriter Stephen McBean comes off like a doomsdayer on a bad acid trip. Pink Mountaintops shows off McBean’s mellower side — or at least what it sounds like when he’s coming down. Hazy country-rock with a psychedelic edge, the music of Pink Mountaintops draws an unlikely connection between the druggy shoegaze of the Jesus and Mary Chain and Townes Van Zandt’s celestial country music. Even if the music of Pink Mountaintops is more approachable than Black Mountain, McBean still plays the mad soothsayer, and the band’s songs are every bit as uncompromising. The Catalyst; $10 adv/$15 door; 9pm. (PMD)

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CHINA CATS & SLUGS ’N’ ROSES Carrying on the tradition of Grateful Dead Halloween concerts that started in 1966 at San Francisco’s California Hall are two of the Bay Area’s favorite Dead tribute bands, China Cats and Slugs ’n’ Roses. Both bands bring their own unique elements to the

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CONCERTS TOM RUSSELL Oct. 26 at Don Quixote’s

SAMBADA Oct. 28 and 29 at Moe’s Alley

CROOKED STILL Nov. 9 at Kuumbwa

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ANTJE DUVEKOT With a gentle yet soulful voice accompanied by her acoustic guitar, it’s easy to hear why singer-songwriter Antje Duvekot (pronounced Aunt-yuh Doo-va-kott) is causing a stir in the folk scene.

Winner of three top songwriting awards, including the grand prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Duvekot’s songs often have a dark, melancholic feel to them because, she says, “I turn to music in times of trouble and need it as a therapeutic tool to get me through sadness.” Duvekot has become quite adept at turning her personal struggles into lyrics that resonate, eliciting thoughtful reflection amongst her listeners. Kuumbwa; $18 adv/$20 door; 8pm. (SL)

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

STEPHEN STILLS Nov. 19 at Catalyst

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TINARIWEN Hailing from the Sahara Desert region of Mali, Tinariwen has captured the attention of an international audience and given voice to the nomadic Tuareg people with desert blues. Formed in a refugee camp in Libya, the group has now returned to its homeland, where violence and border disputes threaten its people’s very existence.

Incorporating both traditional and modern instruments and styles, the music of Tinariwen reflects the Tuareg struggle for survival and honors the relationship between humans and the land. Rio Theatre; $25; 8pm. (CJ)

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BLUEGRASSWEEN Featuring three ensembles that engage in furious flatpicking, this bluegrass extravaganza may be the ticket for Halloween revelers of a pastoral bent.

Head For The Hills and Elephant Revival are two of Colorado’s most promising progressive bluegrass outfits, trading in classic folk jams and highflying original material. Our own North Pacific String Band rounds out the bill. Moe’s Alley; $10 adv/$13 door; 8:30pm. (PMD) MOOD MUSIC Singer songwriter Antje Duvekot plays Kuumbwa Saturday.

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Visiting from “the Earth’s capital” (a.k.a. Oakland), the Phenomenauts are here on a mission to spread the ideals of science and honor through the transmission of “rocket roll.” Clad in space-punk-inspired garb, the crew is known for lively shows animated by a space-hero gimmick: think The Aquabats! of a galaxy far, far away. The band, which first gained notoriety in 2003 by sneaking onto the Warped Tour, plays songs that further their quest such as “Particle Accelerator” and “Make a Circuit with Me.” With songs like those, maybe they’ll even be able to trick you into learning something.

Crepe Place; $12; 9pm. (Samantha Larson)

legendary band’s vast and varied repertoire while remaining faithful to the original, jam-based, play-ithow-you-feel-it spirit of the Dead.

A double-bill dance party with a costume contest to boot, the evening promises to be a groovalicious, psychedelic pre-Halloween getdown. Don Quixote’s; $12 adv/$15 door; 8pm. (CJ)

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THE ABBEY

Nikki Mokover

350 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Quartet

BLUE LAGOON

Big 80s Dance Party

VJ/DJ Tripp

923 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

BOCCIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CELLAR

Roberto-Howell

CofďŹ s Brothers

Nite Creepers

Karaoke

THE CATALYST

The Green

Country Trash

Zion I

The Holdup

1011 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

Giant Panda

Tether Horse

The Jacka Husalah

The Year, Young Science

CREPE PLACE

Arborea

Ty Segall

The Phenomenauts

Tater Famine

1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Jesse Autumn, Levi Strom

Zulus, White Walls

The Bloodtypes

Country Trash

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2218 East Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz

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140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

CLOUDS

Costume Dance Party

110 Church St, Santa Cruz

CYPRESS LOUNGE

One Love Reggae

120 Union St, Santa Cruz

DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE

Steve Gray

1 Davenport Ave, Santa Cruz

FINS COFFEE

Marty Atkinson

1104 Ocean St, Santa Cruz

& Friends Acoustic Night

HOFFMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAKERY CAFE

Preston Brahm Trio

Mapanova

1102 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

Isoceles with Gary Montrezza

KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER

We Four

Antje Duvekot

320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

MAD HOUSE BAR & COCKTAILS

Mad Jam

DJ AD

DJ Marc

529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

Bring your instrument

Rainbow Room

Cruzing

Church

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Glen Washington

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1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

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1209 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

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RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel, Santa Cruz

SEABRIGHT BREWERY

Road Hogs

519 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

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The Box

Rock This Party

BLUE LAGOON 831.423.7117

SC Jazz Society

Mongo & Guy

Ruby Rudman

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

Mickey Avalon

THE CATALYST 831.423.1336

Costume Dance Party

CLOUDS 831.429.2000

Sun Hop Fat

7 Come 11

CREPE PLACE

Halloween Dance Party

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Live Comedy

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

Unwind All Night DJ Jahi

CYPRESS LOUNGE 831.459.9876&#8206;

Farmers Market String 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

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831.420.0135

KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER 831.427.2227

DJ Chante

MAD HOUSE BAR & COCKTAILS

Neighborhood Night

The Mumlers

Head For The Hills

MOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ALLEY

Elephant Revival

Moombahton

831.425.2900 831.479.1854

BOZAK

Two$days

MOTIV

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831.479.5572

RED 831.425.1913

Tinariwen

RIO THEATRE 831.423.8209

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 831.426.2739

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Chosen by his peers as one of the most eminent psychologists of the 20th century, Elliot Aronson is internationally recognized for his scientific research and its application to social problems, from persuading people to conserve energy to reducing racial conflict in schools. He is the only person in the 120-year history of the American Psychological Association to have received all three of its highest awardsâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;for distinguished writing, teaching and research.

He joined the faculty at UCSC in 1974 after having taught at Harvard, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Texas. He retired in 1994. He lives in Santa Cruz with Vera, his wife of 57 years, and Desilu, his guide dog.

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Film Capsules NEW CAPS BLACKTHORN (R; 108 min.)

Butch Cassidy (Sam Shepard), living out his golden years in Bolivia, yearns for one last sight of home and winds up with a young robber being pursued by lawmen and gangs alike. (Opens Fri at Nickelodeon) FRIGHT NIGHT (1985) Suburban teen Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) discovers that his new nextdoor neighbor is a vampire.

When no one believes him he

turns to his vampire-hunting hero (Roddy McDowall) for help. (Thu at Santa Cruz 9)

GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis are three outof-work but enterprising paranormal studies professors who start a business getting rid of ghosts. With Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis.

(Thu at Scotts Valley) IN TIME (PG-13; 115 min.) In a future where the “aging gene” has been switched off so people can forever look 25, the time a person has left to

SHOWTIMES

live (denoted by a stamp on his or her forearm) becomes the society’s currency. Starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. (Opens Fri at Santa Cruz 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley)

JACK THE RIPPER AND BUTTERFINGER THE 13TH (PG13; 105 min.) Back-to-back flicks. Rob Lowe’s Butterfinger the 13th, a horror comedy short, followed by Jack the Ripper—the Definitive Story, a documentary about the notorious 19th-century serial killer. (Thu at Santa Cruz 9)

Movie reviews by Traci Hukill, Tessa Stuart and Richard von Busack

MARGIN CALL (R; 105 min.)

A 107-year-old Wall Street brokerage firm is clearing the decks with a brutal layoff. Men are all but frog-marched out with their cardboard boxes in their hands. To calm the remaining traders, middle manager Sam (Kevin Spacey) tells his employees: “You were better. Now they’re gone. Never to be thought of again.” The just-laid-off Eric (Stanley Tucci) gives Peter (Zachary Quinto) a thumb-drive as he leaves. Late at night, when Peter analyzes the data, he sees figures that

spell the certain doom of the brokerage. Coming to terms with a life spent making horrendously rich people horrendously richer, Spacey’s Sam delivers a line that’s both too good to spoil and so good it echoes. For that matter, Jeremy Irons’ speech about the numbers has its own ringing quality. As company headman John Tuld, he talks of how the few booms and the many, many busts never change the invariable percentage of the wealthy to the poor. (Opens Fri at Nickelodeon)

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Oct. 26, through Wednesday, Nov. 2, 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 The Rum Diary — (Opens Fri) 1:50; 4:20; 6:50; 9:20 plus Fri-Sun 11:30am.

Footloose — Wed-Thu 2:10; 4:30; 6:50; 9:10.

The Three Musketeers — Daily 2:20; 4:40; 7; 9:20 plus Sat-Sun noon.

41ST AVENUE CINEMA 1475 41st Ave., Capitola 831.479.3504 www.culvertheaters.com Puss in Boots 3D — (Opens Fri) 11:40; 2; 4:20; 6:45; 9.

The Ides of March — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed 11:55; 2:20;

4:45; 7:10; 9:40.

Moneyball — Wed-Thu 12:45; 3:45; 6:45; 9:45.

Paranormal Activity 3 — Wed-Thu 11:15; 1:15; 3:20; 5:30; 7:45; 10; Fri-Wed

1; 3:15; 5:30; 7:45; 10.

DEL MAR 1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com Drive — Daily 2:50; 5:10; 7:30; 9:40 plus Sat-Sun 12:45pm.

Paranormal Activity 3 — Daily 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10 plus Fri-Sat 11pm

and Sat-Sun noon; 1pm.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show — Fri-Sat midnight.

NICKELODEON Lincoln and Cedar streets, Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com Blackthorn — (Opens Fri) 2:50; 5:10; 7:20; 9:25 plus Sat-Sun 12:30pm Margin Call — (Opens Fri) 1:30; 4; 6:30; 9 plus Sat-Sun 11:10am.

Take Shelter — (Opens Fri) 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11:30am.

The Debt — Wed-Thu 2; 6:40.

Happy Happy — Wed-Thu 6pm.

Midnight in Paris — Wed-Thu 4:30; 9:10.

The Mill and the Cross — Wed-Thu 5:10; 9:30.

Toast — Wed-Thu 2:50; 7:10.

The Way — Daily 1:50; 4:20; 6:50; 9:20. Sat-Sun 11:20am.

RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN 155 S. River St, Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1701 www.regmovies.com

Call for showtimes.

SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9 1405 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1700 www.regmovies.com In Time — (Opens Fri) 2:30; 5:20; 8; 10:40 plus Sat-Sun 11:40am.

Puss in Boots — (Opens Fri) 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11:30am.

Puss in Boots 3D — (Opens Fri) 2:40; 5:10; 7:40; 10:10 plus Sat-Sun 12:10pm.

Contagion — Wed 1:30; 4:10; 6:50; 9:25; Thu 1:30; 4:10.

Dolphin Tale — Wed-Thu 1:10; 6:40.

Dolphin Tale 3D — Wed-Thu 3:50; 9:30.

Footloose — Wed-Thu 1:45; 4:30; 7:20; 10:10; Fri-Wed 1:10; 3:50; 6:40; 9:40.

Johnny English Reborn — Wed-Thu 2:50; 5:25; 8; 10:35; Fri-Wed 1:30;

4:10; 6:50; 9:20 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

The Ides of March — Wed-Thu 2:40; 5:15; 7:50; 10:20; Fri-Wed 2:20; 4:50; 7:30; 10 plus Sat-Sun 11:50am.

Moneyball — Wed 1:05; 4:05; 7:10; 10:15; Thu 1:05; 4:05; Fri-Wed 1; 4; 7:10; 10:15.

Real Steel — Wed-Thu 1; 4; 7; 10; Fri-Wed 1:20; 4:20; 7:20; 10:20.

The Thing — Wed-Thu 2:15; 4:50; 7:30; 10:05.

Three Musketeers — Wed-Thu 4:55; 10:25; Fri-Wed 5; 10:30 plus Sat-Sun 11:20am.

Three Musketeers 3D — Wed-Thu 2:10; 7:40; Fri-Wed 2:10; 10:30.

Fright Night — Thu 8pm.

Jack the Ripper & Butterfinger the 13th — Thu 8pm.

Don Giovanni — Sat 9:55am.

Anna Bolena — Wed 11/2 6:30pm.

SCOTTS VALLEY 6 CINEMA 226 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley 831.438.3261 www.culvertheaters.com In Time — (Opens Fri) 11:30; 2:10; 4:45; 7:20; 10.

Puss in Boots — (Opens Fri) 11:40; 2; 4:20; 6:45; 9.

Puss in Boots 3D — (Opens Fri) 12:15; 2:20; 5:10; 7:30; 9:45.

The Big Year — Wed-Thu 4:20; 9:20.

Dolphin Tale — Wed-Thu 11; 1:30; 6:45; Sat-Sun 11am; 1:30.

Footloose — Wed-Thu 11:20; 2; 4:45; 7:20; 10; Fri-Wed 11:20; 2:20; 4:55; 7:30; 10:10.

Johnny English Reborn — Wed-Thu 12:20; 2:45; 5:15; 7:45; 10:10; Fri-Wed

11; 1:30; 4; 6:30. (No Sat-Sun 11am; 1:30pm).

The Mighty Macs — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30.

Moneyball — Wed-Thu 12:45; 3:45; 6:45; 9:45.

Paranormal Activity 3 — Wed-Thu 11:15; 1:20; 3:30; 5:45; 8; 10:15; Fri-Wed 11:10; 1:15; 3:30; 5:45; 8; 10:15.

Real Steel — Wed-Thu 11; 1:45; 4:40; 7:30; 10:20; Fri-Wed 1; 4; 7; 9:45.

The Thing — Wed-Thu 11:55; 2:30; 4:55; 7:30; 10; Fri-Wed 9pm.

The Three Musketeers — Wed-Thu 4:30; Fri-Wed 11:15; 4:30; 7:10.

The Three Musketeers 3D — Wed-Thu 11:10; 1:45; 7:10; 9:45; Fri-Wed 1:45; 9:40; 9:45.

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

Puss in Boots — (Opens Fri) 1pm; Sat-Sun 11am.

Puss in Boots 3D— (Opens Fri) 3; 5:05; 7:15; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 1pm.

The Rum Diary — (Opens Fri) 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:40 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

The Big Year — Wed-Thu 1:30; 4; 7; 9:30.

Courageous — Wed-Thu 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:40.

Footloose — Daily 1:30; 4; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Johnny English Reborn — Wed-Thu 1:30; 4; 7:15; 9:30; Fri-Wed 1:30; 4

plus Sat-Sun 11:15am.

Paranormal Activity 3 — Daily 1; 3; 5:05; 7:15; 9:40 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Real Steel — Daily 1:35; 4:10; 7; 9:40 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

The Thing — Wed-Thu 1:30; 4:15; 7:15; 9:40; Fri-Wed 7:15; 9:40.

The Three Musketeers 3D — Wed-Thu 1:30; 4; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed 1:30; 4:15;

7:10; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) Brad Majors and Janet Weiss get a flat tire and then find themselves doing the “Time Warp” in the cult megaclassic, starring Tim Curry and Susan Sarandon. With live cast of Slugs in Fishnets. (Fri-Sat midnite at Del Mar) THE RUM DIARY (R; 130 min.)

Adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s book about a lackluster newspaper in the Caribbean in the 1950s and the gang of excess-loving misfits who populate the newsroom and the town stars Johnny Depp. (Opens Fri at Aptos and Green Valley) TAKE SHELTER (R; 124 min.)

Michael Shannon delivers a phenomenally compelling and tough piece of acting.

In a movie about a storm to come, Shannon’s face has its

REVIEWS THE BIG YEAR (PG, 111 min.)

Narrator John Cleese explains it all. The Audubon Society promotes an annual contest.

Those who spot the most North American birds will be distinguished with a certain kind of fame, if no money.

The competitors: a divorced Baltimore schlep (Jack Black), Owen Wilson as a slick New Jersey contractor ignoring his wife (Rosamund Pike) and a self-made millionaire (Steve Martin) ready to retire to the Rockies. Under David Frankel’s laid-back direction, Martin and Black find some appealing comedic harmonies. (RvB) 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 a global flu epidemic. Directed

by Steven Soderbergh.

COURAGEOUS (PG-13; 135 min.) Four sheriffs’ deputies wrestle with temptation, disillusionment and tragedy and make a fateful decision.

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.

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 pre-Avid magic here—and a cast of HBO/FX all-stars. (RvB)

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LONE RANGER Sam Shepard is Butch Cassidy, living out his twilight years under a pseudonym and on the lam, in ‘Blackthorn,’ opening Friday at the Nick.

FOOTLOOSE (PG-13; 110 min.) Remake of the 1984 Kevin Bacon swoonfest tells the story of rebellious Ren McCormack, who moves to a town where rock & roll is banned and proceeds to convince everybody, everybody, everybody to cut loose.

HAPPY, HAPPY (R; 97 min.)

Norwegian comedy about a woman whose boring life and even more boring marriage are turned upside down when the perfect couple moves in next door.

THE IDES OF MARCH (R; 101 min.) George Clooney’s stiff adaptation of Beau Willimon’s play Farragut North minces some questions of loyalty and politician worship. Can a political activist find a safe ground between foolish innocence and cynicism?

Clooney plays Mike Morris, a Democratic governor of Pennsylvania running in a tough Ohio primary. If he wins, he seems destined to triumph against a scattered opposition. Ryan Gosling plays Stephen Myers, the young but longtime strategist who adores this candidate. This low-temperature drama of idealism simmers further when Molly (Evan Rachel Woods) enters, though the action seems elsewhere, with the strategizing between two rivals, played

by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti. Ides of March doesn’t start to get exciting until far too late in the game, when we get the confrontation we’ve been promised between Myers’ hero worship and Morris’ ruthlessness. (RvB) JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG; 108 min.) Rowan Atkinson, better known to many as Mr. Bean, reprises his role as the most overconfident, underintelligent spy in Her Majesty’s service. This time Johnny English is called forth from his Asian hideaway to help foil a plot to assassinate the Chinese premier.

THE MIGHTY MACS (2009) A scrappy underdog of a high school girls’ basketball team heads to the national championships. With Carla Gugino and Ellen Burstyn.

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. (RvB)

THE MILL & THE CROSS (NR; 104 min.) Meta Polish film lets the viewer inside the creation of Pieter Bruegel’s painting ‘The Procession to Calvary,’ which depicts both Christ’s crucifixion and the occupation of the Netherlands by representatives from the Spanish inquisition.

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.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (R; 95 min.) Demonic prequel shows us how all the funny business began in. In 1988, two sisters befriend an unseen entity in their home in a story told by found footage and creepy shaky cams.

REAL STEEL (PG-13; 127 min.) Hugh Jackman’s Charlie Kenton goes through the circuit of the prizefighting movie: debt, dejection, discovery of a contender (a robot in this case) and bonding with son and girlfriend. (RvB) THE THING (R; 103 min.) A research station in Antarctica is the setting for an alien landing on earth that pits a graduate student against the station’s chief scientist.

THE THREE MUSKETEERS (PG-13; 120 min.) D’Artagnan and the three swordsmen Athos, Porthos and Aramis unite against a lovely but dangerous double agent (Milla Jovovich) and her upto-no-good employer (Mads Mikkelsen).

TOAST (NR; 108 min.)

Young aspiring chef Nigel Slater competes with his stepmother (Helena Bonham Carter), also an excellent cook, for his father’s affections.

THE WAY (PG-13; 132 min.)

Martin Sheen stars in the tale of a man who embarks on a pilgrimage in honor of his son, recently killed. Directed by and co-starring Emilio Estevez.

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PUSS IN BOOTS (PG; 90 min.)

The swashbuckling cat (voiced

by Antonio Banderas) is framed for a robbery and must clear his name by heisting the goose that lays golden eggs. The film goes wrong where prequels usually do, by changing the nature of the characters we love in the name of fleshing them out.

The insistence that Puss needs to be a hero goes against his raffishness; even long before Bogart died, it was more of a pleasure to watch such a free figure drawn in reluctantly, instead of volunteering. And while he’s at his best as a solitary beast (the way he’s depicted on the teaser poster), he has a gang here: Salma Hayek is the voice of a cat burglar named Kitty Softpaws, and Zach Galifianakis is a sinister Humpty Dumpty, looking like an evil Maxfield Parrish character, with a tiny bolero hat perched on his small end. Naturally, there are sweet lines (“Fear me if you dare,” Puss threatens) and some lovely sequences, such as the characters’ romp in the clouds outside the giant’s castle at the nether end of the beanstalk. But the plot is convoluted and doesn’t seem about something, the way a fairy tale has to be—it doesn’t have any resonance.

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THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON GIOVANNI (NR; 240 min.)

Live at the Met’s production of Mozart’s opera, starring Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Ramón Vargas and Luca Pisaroni. (Sat at Santa Cruz 9)

own share of turbulence. He looks like so many men who snap: simultaneously too weak and too strong. As a driller in Elyria, Ohio, Shannon’s Curtis is plagued with visions of disaster that dismay him, and that damage his marriage (to wife Jessica Chastain). But we’re given an alternative explanation, provided in a small but incisive role by the too seldom-seen Kathy Baker.

Just as Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life showed how many fathers were strangling on their neckties in Ike’s day, and Todd Haynes’ Safe perfectly outlined the gargantuan affluence and bad chemicals of the Reagan years, Take Shelter seems keyed to the madness of our time. But after the film comes to a bleak point, a twist undoes what has been a serious-minded tragedy. (RvB) (Opens Fri at the Nick)

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THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: ANNA BOLENA (NR; 260 min.)

Live at the Met’s production of Donizetti’s opera, starring Anna Natrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Ildar Abdrazakov and Marco Armiliato. (Wed 11/2 at Santa Cruz 9)

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gewĂźrztraminer, cabernet franc with house-made duck sausage and black trumpet mushrooms, grilled lamb chops and currant cous cousâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;these are only some of the intriguing dishes that will be showcased by the advanced culinary arts students at Cabrillo College at the Oct. 27 Jazz-N-Juice dinner. Once again the adventurous Culinary Arts program, led by Eric Carter, is teaming up with Surf City Vintners for an alfresco harvest dinner paired with local wines. Hors dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oeuvres and five courses of New American cuisine will join wines from Sones, Quinta Cruz, Bartolo, Devine Cellars and Pelican Ranch. Winemakers will be on hand to describe their selected varietals as well as provide deep background about the 2011 wine harvest. And, just to sweeten this entire deal, wine and food will be enjoyed while diners feast on the jazz flavorings of Hot Club Pacific. The cost is also a sweet $65 per person, and since seating is limited, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d better call 831.479.6524 immediately.

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RUMORS AND CONFIRMATIONS Bonny Doon Vineyard vintner Randall Grahm was spotted in LA last weekend along with filmmakers and

UCSC arts people pouring some of his finest at a gala celebration to honor UCSC alumni Marti â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buffy the Vampire Slayerâ&#x20AC;? Noxon. . . . Yes, chef Ben Sims told me last week, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true that he has left Avanti. Sims isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t making any sudden career moves but will make sure to keep us all in his culinary loop. . . .

Former Gabriella and Main Street Garden Cafe chef Brad Briske is currently looking for a restaurant of his own. . . . Fans of Avantiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current location will be relieved to know that there will still be an Avanti in that spot when the Ristorante moves slightly north. The current Avanti will be transformed into Pizzeria Avanti. Breathe deeply and say â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ciao!â&#x20AC;?

HOT PLATE Well, actually a very cool one. Up at the Global Village Cafe

in McHenry Libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spacious main foyer, I tasted an organic, orgasmic Santa Cruz response to spumoni ice cream. It was a voluptuous creation involving ultra-creamy vanilla ice cream studded with pistachios and candied grapes.

Outrageously delicious. Yes, it was from Penny Ice Creamery, a very busy group who seem to turn up just about everywhere these days, and that is not a complaint.

Send tips about food, wine and dining discoveries to Christina Waters at xtina@cruzio.com. Read her blog at http://christinawaters.com.

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COOK CLUB Cabrillo Culinary Arts student Kristi Dixon gets ready to chef it up Oct. 27.

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$$ 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

$$

Capitola

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.

$$$

SHADOWBROOK

Capitola

1750 Wharf Rd, 831.475.1511

$$$

STOCKTON BRIDGE GRILLE

Capitola

231 Esplanade, 831.464.1933

$$$ Capitola

203 Esplanade, 831.475.4900

104 Stockton Ave, 831.479.8888

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

1141 Soquel Ave, 831. 426.5664

110 Church St, 831.429.2000 THE CREPE PLACE

1134 Soquel Ave, 831.429.6994

$$

CROW’S NEST

Santa Cruz

2218 East Cliff Dr, 831.476.4560

$$ Santa Cruz

GABRIELLA’S

$$ Santa Cruz

HINDQUARTER

$$ Santa Cruz

910 Cedar St., 831.457.1677

303 Soquel Ave, 831.426.7770 HOFFMAN’S

1102 Pacific Ave, 837.420.0135

Mexican/Seafood/American. Traditional Mexican favorites. Best fajitas, chicken mole, coconut prawns, blackened prime rib!

Fresh seafood. Over 50 premium tequilas, daily happy hour w/ half-price appetizers. Sun-Thu 11am-10pm, Fri-Sat 11am-11pm.

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

California organic meets Southeast Asian street food. Organic noodle & rice bowls, vegan menu, fish & meat options, Vietnamese style sandwiches, eat-in or to-go. Consistent winner “Best Cheap Eats.” Open daily 11am-11pm American, California-style. With a great bar scene, casually glamorous setting and attentive waitstaff. Full bar. Mon-Sat 11:30am-10pm, Sun 1-10pm.

Crepes and more. Featuring the spinach crepe and Tunisian donut. Full bar. Mon-Thu 11am-midnight, Fri 11am-1am, Sat 10am-1am, Sun 10am-midnight.

Seafood. Fresh seafood, shellfish, Midwestern aged beef, pasta specialties, abundant salad bar. Kids menu and nightly entertainment. Harbor and Bay views. Lunch and dinner daily.

Califormia-Italian. fresh from farmers’ markets organic vegetables, local seafood, grilled steaks, frequent duck and rabbit, famous CHICKEN GABRIELLA, legendary local wine list, romantic mission style setting with patio, quiet side street Americana. Ribs, steaks and burgers are definitely the stars.

Full bar. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner Sun-Thu 5:30-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 5:30-10pm.

California/full-service bakery. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. “Best Eggs Benedict in Town.” Happy Hour Mon-Fri 5-6pm. Halfprice appetizers; wines by the glass. Daily 8am-9pm.

HULA’S ISLAND GRILL

Santa Cruz

221 Cathcart St, 831.426.4852

$

INDIA JOZE

Santa Cruz

418 Front St, 831.325-3633

$$ Santa Cruz

JOHNNY’S HARBORSIDE

493 Lake Ave, 831.479.3430

$$ Santa Cruz

OLITAS

$$ Santa Cruz

PACIFIC THAI

Eclectic Pan Asian dishes. Vegetarian, seafood, lamb and chicken with a wok emphasis since 1972. Cafe, catering, culinary classes, food festivals, beer and wine. Open for lunch and dinner daily except Sunday 11:30-9pm. Special events most Sundays.

Seafood/California. Fresh catch made your way! Plus many other wonderful menu items. Great view. Full bar. Happy hour Mon-Fri. Brunch Sat-Sun 10am-2pm. Open daily.

Italian. La Posta serves Italian food made in the old style— simple and delicious. Wed-Thu 5-9pm, Fri-Sat 5-9:30pm and Sun 5-8pm.

Fine Mexican cuisine. Opening daily at noon.

49-B Municipal Wharf, 831.458.9393

1319 Pacific Ave, 831.420.1700

$$

RISTORANTE ITALIANO

Santa Cruz

555 Soquel Ave, 831.458.2321

$$ Santa Cruz

1220 Pacific Ave, 831.426.9930

ROSIE MCCANN’S

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

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

$$ Santa Cruz

SANTA CRUZ MTN. BREWERY California / Brewpub. Enjoy a handcrafted organic ale in the

402 Ingalls Street, Ste 27 831.425.4900

taproom or the outdoor patio while you dine on Bavarian pretzels, a bowl of french fries, Santa Cruz’s best fish tacos and more.

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

$$ Santa Cruz

SOIF

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

$$ Santa Cruz

WOODSTOCK’S PIZZA

105 Walnut Ave, 831.423.2020

710 Front St, 831.427.4444

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

Beers on Tap HD TV’s Free Wi-Fi Huge Patio Video Games Open @ 9:45 AM

SCOTTS VALLEY $ HEAVENLY CAFE American. Serving breakfast and lunch daily. Large parties Scotts Valley 1210 Mt. Hermon Rd, 831.335.7311 welcome. Mon-Fri 6:30am-2:15pm, Sat-Sun 7am-2:45pm. $ JIA TELLA’S Scotts Valley 5600 #D Scotts Valley Dr, 831.438.5005

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

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

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SOQUEL $$ Soquel

EL CHIPOTLE TAQUERIA

4724 Soquel Dr, 831.477.1048

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

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By Rob Brezsny

For the week of October 26

GEMINI (May 21–June 20): You’ve heard the old platitude, “If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”The owner of a pizzeria in Mildura, Australia, updated that sentiment in 2010 when the area was invaded by swarms of locusts.

“They’re crunchy and tasty,” he said of the bugs, which is why he used them as a topping for his main dish. It so happens that his inventive approach would make good sense for you right now, Gemini. So if life gives you a miniplague of locusts, make pizza garnished with the delectable creatures. Halloween costume suggestion: pizza-delivery person carrying this novel delicacy.

CANCER (June 21–July 22): Some doors are almost always locked. On those infrequent occasions when they are ajar, they remain so for only a brief period before being closed and bolted again. In the coming weeks, Cancerian, I urge you to be alert for the rare opening of such a door. Through luck or skill or a blend of both, you may finally be able to gain entrance through—or perhaps exit from—a door or portal that has been shut tight for as long as you remember. Halloween costume suggestion: the seeker who has found the magic key.

LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): Microbiologist Raul Cano managed to obtain a 45-million-year-old strain of yeast from an ancient chunk of amber. It was still alive!

Collaborating with a master brewer, he used it to make a brand of beer. One critic praised Fossil Fuel pale ale for its sweetness and clove aroma, while another said it has a “complex and well-developed taste profile.” I regard their successful project as a good metaphor for the task you have ahead of you in the coming weeks, Leo: extracting the vital essence from an old source and putting it to work in the creation of a valuable addition to your life.

Halloween costume suggestions: a friendly ghost, a polite and helpful mummy, a cloned version of Buddha, the person you were as a child.

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): “When I read a book on Einstein’s physics of which I understood nothing, it doesn’t matter,” testified Pablo Picasso, “because it will make me understand something else.” You might want to adopt that approach for your own use in the coming weeks, Virgo. It’s almost irrelevant what subjects you study and investigate and rack your brains trying to understand; the exercise will help you stretch your ability to master ideas that have been beyond your reach—and maybe even stimulate the eruption of insights that have been sealed away in your subconscious mind. Halloween costume suggestion: an eager student, a white-coated lab researcher, Curious George.

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): “Sit, walk or run, but don’t wobble,” says the Zen proverb. Now I’m passing it on to you as advice worthy of your consideration. Maintaining clarity of purpose will be crucial in the coming weeks.

Achieving crispness of delivery will be thoroughly enjoyable. Cultivating unity among all your different inner voices will be a high art you should aspire to

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): You could preside over your very own Joy Luck Club in the coming days. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the levels of gratification possible could exceed your normal quota by a substantial margin. You may want to Google the Chinese character that means “double happiness” and use it as your ruling symbol. And it might be time to explore and experiment with the concepts of “super bliss,” “sublime delight” and “brilliant ecstasy.” Halloween costume suggestions: a saintly hedonist from paradise; a superhero whose superpower is the ability to experience extreme amounts of pleasure; the luckiest person who ever lived.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): For more than a hundred years, an English woman named Lena Thouless celebrated her birthday on Nov. 23. When she was 106, her daughter found her birth certificate and realized that mom had actually been born on Nov. 22. I’m guessing that a comparable correction is due in your own life, Sagittarius. Something you’ve believed about yourself for a long time is about to be revealed as slightly off.

Halloween costume suggestion: a version of yourself from a parallel reality or another dimension.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): “Everyone is a genius at least once a year,” said scientist Georg Lichtenberg.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, Capricorn, the coming weeks will be your time to confirm the truth of that aphorism. Your idiosyncratic brilliance is rising to a fever pitch, and may start spilling over into crackling virtuosity any minute now. Be discriminating about where you use that stuff; don’t waste it on trivia or on triumphs that are beneath you. Halloween costume suggestions: Einstein, Marie Curie, Leonardo da Vinci, Emily Dickinson.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): You’re ready to shed juvenile theories, amateurish approaches or paltry ambitions. I’m not implying you’re full of those things; I’m just saying that if you have any of them, you’ve now got the power to outgrow them. Your definition of success needs updating, and I think you’re up to the task. Why am I so sure? Well, because the Big Time is calling you—or at least a Bigger Time. Try this: Have brainstorming sessions with an ally or allies who know your true potential and can assist you in formulating aggressive plans to activate it more fully. Halloween costume suggestions: a head honcho, big wheel, fat cat, top dog.

PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): I know a woman who claims on her Facebook page that she speaks four languages: English, Elvish, Mermish and Parseltongue. (For those of you who don’t read Tolkien or Harry Potter, Elvish is the language of the elves, Mermish of the mermaids and mermen, and Parseltongue of the serpents.) My Facebook friend probably also knows Pig Latin, baby talk and glossolalia, although she doesn’t mention them. I’d love for you to expand your mastery of foreign tongues, Pisces, even if it’s just one of the above—and the coming weeks and months will be an excellent time to begin.

You will have a greater capacity for learning new ways to talk than you have since childhood. Halloween costume suggestion: a bilingual bisexual ambidextrous expert in reciting tongue twisters.

Homework: Scare yourself with your exquisite beauty. Freak yourself out by realizing how amazing you are.

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TAURUS (April 20–May 20): Speaking on behalf of the cosmic powers-that-be, I hereby give you permission to make your love bigger and braver. Raise it to the next level, Taurus! Help it find a higher expression. Wherever your love has felt pinched or claustrophobic, treat it to a liberation. If it has been hemmed in by a lack of imagination, saturate it with breezy fantasies and flamboyant dreams. Cut it free from petty emotions that have wounded it and from sour memories that have weighed it down. What else could you do to give love the poetic license it needs to thrive? Halloween costume suggestion: the consummate lover.

master. Whatever you do, Libra, do it with relaxed singlemindedness. Make a sign that says “No wobbling,” and tape it to your mirror. Halloween costume suggestion: Be the superhero known as No Wobbling.

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ARIES (March 21–April 19): “Life is not just a diurnal property of large interesting vertebrates,” poet Gary Snyder reminds us in his book The Practice of the Wild.

“It is also nocturnal, anaerobic, microscopic, digestive, fermentative: cooking away in the warm dark.” I call this to your attention, Aries, because according to my astrological reckoning, you’d be wise to honor all the life that is cooking away in the warm dark. It’s the sun-atmidnight time of your long-term cycle—the phase when your luminescent soul throbs with more vitality than your shiny ego. Celebrate the unseen powers that sustain the world. Pay reverence to what’s underneath, elusive and uncanny. Halloween costume tips: Draw inspiration from the shadow, the dream, the moon, the depths.

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