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THE TRUE MEANING OF WEIRD I HATE raining on the Halloween Parade, but as someone who has resided on both coasts, I feel obligated to tell you that the Bates Motel house in Psycho was not based on the old McCray Hotel on Beach Hill (”Fright Seeing,” Cover story, Oct. 26). Santa Cruz is not that kind of weird.

Hitchcock modeled it on a spooky 1925 painting by Edward Hopper entitled Hotel by the Railroad. I passed Hopper’s model several times driving to NYC, an old house on a Connecticut bluff easily seen by I95 commuters. It did remind me of the McCray, whose residents my Census team

tabulated in 1980. I remember that when some Beach Hill residents were told that no one would see anything they wrote on their forms for 70 years, they addressed little messages on the backs “To the People of 2050.” That’s why I moved back to Santa Cruz. That’s Santa Cruz “weird.”

Tony Phillips Aptos

SALMON FARMERS TALK BACK RE: “Deadly Fish Farm Virus Found in Wild Pacific Salmon” (Currents, Oct. 26): While we agree with the concerns about suspect positive ISAv tests in British Columbian

sockeye smolts, there are some significant misinterpretations in Mr. Johnson’s article and omissions of some key facts in this situation.

The first is likely the most important: that the tests have not been verified. The tests showed positive results in two of 48 sockeye smolts taken from Rivers Inlet—an area nearly 100 kilometers north of any salmon farms. The PCR tests which were used for testing these samples are highly sensitive and therefore are susceptible to false positives. These results were released before the Canadian Food Inspection Agency verified the testing—verification that’s being done now. Nonetheless, if ISAv is in British Columbia, it’s a concern for our farmers because Atlantic salmon—which are raised in the majority of our ocean pen industry—is highly susceptible to the disease it causes. Studies to date, however, show that Pacific salmon are unaffected by it—and in fact coho salmon that were raised in Chile during the outbreak there remained healthy as the Atlantic industry was heavily affected.

The suggestion that salmon farms are the only possible source of any virus or new disease in British Columbia is completely unfounded. Not only does that neglect to discuss the large amount of international traffic in our waters, but it also does not recognize the stringent regulations that our farmers operate under—including rules that have prohibited the import of any fish product from any country with ISA. We’ve tested nearly 5,000 of our fish and have never found an incidence of ISA. Our sockeye salmon are facing many challenges—however, our highly-regulated, innovative and conscientious industry has operated in the same way during record highs and lows of the wild salmon stocks.

There is much that needs to be understood when it comes to wild salmon survival, but we do know our fish are healthy and their care is extremely well-managed.

Mary Ellen Walling Executive Director, BC Salmon Farmers Assc.

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Occupy SC struggles to resolve tensions with the homeless faction it first embraced

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THE OCCUPY Santa Cruz encampment consists of 75 or so shelters—camouflage-print tents nestled next to tents festooned with Tibetan prayer flags—visible from the Water Street bridge. At the very center of it all, towering above them all, stands a 20-foot teepee fashioned from white tarpaulin and tree branches.

What is not visible from the bridge is an invisible border that runs through the teepee, a kind of Mason-Dixon line dividing the camp into two distinct groups.

Sleeping in tents north of the teepee in closely packed rows are the Occupy Santa Cruz protestors who took up residence in the park nearly a month ago. To the south is a homeless community whose occupancy in the park long predates their current neighbors.

Occupy Santa Cruz originally chose San Lorenzo Park in part, as one participant who nominated the location put it, “in solidarity with our homeless brothers and sisters,” but tensions are growing between the movement and the homeless and transient community.

The issue that physically divided the camp arose when it became clear that a youth soccer league was holding a permit to use the park for practices and games. The area delineated by the permit runs through the meadow and to the edge of the teepee.

In an effort to be neighborly, the Occupy Santa Cruz camping committee asked protesters to move behind the teepee, but today 25 tents—belonging almost exclusively to homeless and transients—remain beyond the border.

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mediate conflicts in the camp—the committee has discussed enlisting police assistance. But that comes with some ideological baggage.

“We don’t want to be the same as the people we are against—when we call the police and we’re more privileged and tell them to take care of these less privileged people for our benefit,” Livingood says.

Although the committee ultimately decided against involving law enforcement, one person did approach the police asking for action.

Livingood says the response was: “You guys are breaking the law, they are breaking the law—there is no difference between you.”

Since the occupation of San Lorenzo Park began, though, Shenoa says she has felt a difference in the police’s treatment. Before the protestors were there, police would drive through the park six or seven times a day hassling the homeless, Shenoa says, but not anymore.

“The police are not going to throw someone down with no reason right in front of people who are going to say shit about it,” she says. “We say shit about it all the time, the only difference is that we don’t have a place in society with a voice loud enough.”

In a way, then, the Occupy movement, as Livingood describes it, is already working. “We all have these different problems, but they are not being solved, they are actually getting worse,” he says. “We find a commonality in trying to find a solution that works for everyone, and in doing so we try to provide a forum that allows everyone’s voice to be heard and eventually when enough people—the whole 99 percent—get here we’ll have our collective voices.”

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LINE IN THE GRASS An invisible line running through the big white teepee divides the Occupy protesters ( foreground) in San Lorenzo Park from the transients.

over,” says Shenoa, who has slept in San Lorenzo Park since before the occupation, “has been here forever.

We live here.” She calls the area south of the teepee “the ghetto of the camp.”

Like the other homeless who have planted their tents in this area, Shenoa says she sleeps there for multiple reasons. “One, we’re not going to get in trouble—it’s illegal to sleep in Santa Cruz, so why would we want to go somewhere else and get arrested and get a ticket when we can go over here? And two, because this is a cause for us too, obviously, because we’re at the bottom of the 99 percent.”

She refers to herself in terms coined by the Occupy movement and camps alongside the demonstration, but Shenoa doesn’t attend general assemblies or believe in the cause.

“I don’t really think occupying this space is going to do much,” she says.

“They might change something but it’ll be very small, and it will only be to shut people up.”

There have been other incidents highlighting the divide between the Occupy movement and the transient community, including several disturbances in the camp and the continued use of drugs and alcohol by homeless individuals despite camp rules forbidding the use of either.

They have made some participants feel unsafe, says Casey Livingood, who has slept in the park every night save three since the movement began nearly a month ago. Livingood sits on Occupy Santa Cruz’s camping committee, which has discussed several options for addressing conflicts between demonstrators and the homeless.

“It’s hard—it’s public land. We don’t have a right to dictate what happens on it. We can’t, like, demand them to leave,” Livingood says. “It’s a difficult situation. All we can do is encourage them to participate.”

Among other solutions—such as forming an informal security detail to

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Steamer Lane is a world-class wave. It’s Councilmember Katherine Beiers one of the best places there is to watch a made an impassioned plea at last week’s surf contest. Some of the top surfers from City Council meeting. She tried to bring across the globe competed in this year’s in more public input on the Downtown O’Neill Coldwater Classic.

Association’s plan to turn Pacific Avenue But none of that matters if the swell into a two-way street for part of the doesn’t deliver. holiday season—even though businesses A week of giant tide swings and lesslike the idea. than-desirable surf forced event organizers “The street doesn’t belong to the to move from the Lane to the backup landlords and the retailers, however venue at Waddell Creek and back again wonderful they are,” said Beiers at the Oct. throughout the contest. On Sunday the 26 meeting. “It doesn’t even belong to us.

Lane was flat, so the final few heats ran at It really belongs to the community.”

Waddell in small, mushy beach break. It Beiers, worried the discussion is moving was not the sort of thing we’ve come to too fast, tried to convince the council to expect from the Coldwater Classic over send out postcards or do a reverse 911 the last few years, but it was entertaining phone call to get the word out about a all the same. And evidently Brazilian hearing on the three-month trial run. She didn’t win much support.

Miguel Pupo found it to his liking.

“When we added dogs to downtown, Pupo took down Tiago Pires of we had months of debate, and we didn’t Portugal in the final with an 18.93 heat postcard the entire community,” said total out of a possible 20 points. Pupo is an aerialist and Pires is not, and the Mayor Ryan Coonerty. City Council crumbling lefts with a slight side-shore agreed instead to place an ad in a local wind were perfect for airs. The final was, newspaper. essentially, over before it began.

The council’s decision to test the waters “I’ve been surfing a beach break my with a two-way Pacific Avenue represents whole life so I know how to surf these a 180-degree turnaround since retail waves,” said Pupo. “It was perfect for me expert Bob Gibbs first brought up the idea it moved to here. The story could be at a City Council meeting in September. different if they moved to the Lane.”

Gibbs said it would boost sales on Pacific Pupo won the event (good for 20-30 percent virtually overnight. $40,000) and the Coldwater Classic Councilmembers Don Lane, Hillary Series Title (another $50,000) to take Bryant and Lynn Robinson all expressed home $90,000. Not a bad payday for skepticism at first. the 19-year-old from Camburi Beach, just Since then, the $20,000 trial run, outside of São Paulo. which would launch Dec. 2, has been Pupo was a longshot for the CWC adopted by the Downtown Association series win. He finished 5th at the first and submitted to City Council. The event in New Zealand, didn’t compete in council last week unanimously approved the second event in Scotland and had to a joint public meeting—sending it to win the Santa Cruz event to take the extra the Downtown Commission and the $50 grand, which he did.

Transportation Commission for the larger As for the locals, Randy Bonds and Matt session, scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 3.

After the hearing will be a Nov. 8 Myers won the 10-surfer local trials to council meeting, which will ultimately make it to the main event. Both, however, subsequently lost in their first round heats.

Jonny Craft and Jason ON T H E B E AC H Collins made their first heats, but fell in the second round. That left On the Beach is a report from Save Our Shores 2008 Coldwater Classic that appears the first week of each month champion Nat Young as the last local standing, Pounds of trash collected by more than 150 but even he finally ceded students from Redwood Middle School in Saratoga at to the stampeding Pupo Seabright and Seacliff beaches on Oct. 14. They also in the quarterfinals. picked up 36 pounds of recycling.

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decide the fate of the proposed trial run.

Meanwhile, bicycle advocacy group People Power is mounting a campaign for a pedestrian-only Pacific, starting with closing the street on Sundays on a trial basis. “We do have an excellent idea as far as what it could be and what it would look like,” says Micah Posner.

City Attorney John Barisone says he won’t know until he sees a final plan whether or not it will need more study or an environmental impact report.

Councilmember Lane reserved the right to vote “no” on the proposal next week if he feels the public process gets compromised. “Clearly it is a fast and short process, and maybe we can get the job done in two weeks,” said Lane.

Jacob Pierce

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Bank Breakup Day As we steam toward Bank Transfer Day this Saturday, Nov. 5, local credit unions are staffing up and making extra copies of their application forms. Indeed, it seems that L.A. art gallery owner Kristen Christian’s initiative—to dump your lyin’, cheatin’, extra-fee-chargin’, bailouthoardin’, refi-refusin’ corporate bank and cast your lot and your shekels with a locally owned bank or credit union—is already yielding some results.

“We have since the beginning of the month seen a considerable increase in new accounts opening,” says Carlos Rodriguez, marketing director for Santa Cruz Community Credit Union. “People are saying they’re moving away from big megabanks in the area. They’re saying they’ve been meaning to do it and just didn’t get around to it and this was the last straw.”

Rodriguez says SCCCU got more than 160 new accounts this month—roughly double the usual number of newbies. The credit union’s two branches are staying open this Saturday to accommodate BTDers.

Over at Bay Federal Credit Union, VicePresident Tonee Picard also reports a 100 percent jump in new checking accounts.

“On average we open 300-350 new checking accounts per month,” she wrote us, “and we just closed October [with approximately] 600 accounts.”

“We continue to see it growing on a daily basis,” she adds. “We expect this to be a very busy week. We have been staffing the branches to support this opportunity.”

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Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forget about the lyrics for a minute. Weird Al Yankovic has blown audiences away for 30 years partly due to nailing every note, layer and distorted tone in the industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hugest pop songs.

Yankovic and his group turned â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beat Itâ&#x20AC;? into â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eat It,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lolaâ&#x20AC;? into â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yodaâ&#x20AC;? and the Offspringsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pretty Flyâ&#x20AC;? into â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pretty Fly (For a Rabbi)â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;mastering the sound each time.

Yankovic and his group are the unofficial tribute band to everyone from Michael Jackson to Chamillionareâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who even praised Yankovic for his geeky reworking of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ridinâ&#x20AC;? into â&#x20AC;&#x153;White and Nerdy.â&#x20AC;? On his latest album, Alpocalypse, Yankovic took on the 21st-century sounds of Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Perform This Wayâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Party in the CIA,â&#x20AC;? respectively. For an experienced

rocker like Yankovic, music is still serious business.

And as far as words go, when the parody master sets out to destroy and reassemble a pop song, the result is often something more brilliant than the originalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;like what Yankovic did to R. Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trapped in the Closet,â&#x20AC;? for example (a song with few redeeming qualities), which he morphed into â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trapped in the Drive-thru,â&#x20AC;? an 11minute argument about dinner.

Yankovic, the leading parody artist of all time, is the Allan Sherman for a generation that never knew who Allan Sherman was. The singing satirist, who comes to the Civic Auditorium this Friday, Nov. 4, talked to Santa Cruz Weekly last month about his career, the radio DJ who made him famous and the art of poking fun. ¨ !

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Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re probably both long shots.

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IN XIAOZE XIE’S large-scale oil paintings, future history is spied through stacks of folded newspapers, their headlines and front-page photos only partially visible to our eyes. Xie’s work is alternatingly soothing—thanks to the artist’s color choices and flattened gesture—and confrontational. Our response, to be lulled as well as shocked, mirrors world events as well as the emotional interior of global citizens of crumbling political infrastructures. Just as the artist intended.

Xie, who currently holds an endowed chair at Stanford University, was born in China at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution but has lived, attended university and taught in the United States for the past 20 years. His transnational vantage point inflects this neatly mounted show at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, running through Nov. 23. Jointly curated by the Sesnon Gallery’s Shelby Graham with professor emerita Joyce Brodsky, the exhibition moves beyond postmodern photorealism in offering a non-ironic statement of the eerie, mediated visual culture hustled through print media. These journalistic inventories of catastrophes morphed into temporary, sudden and, most importantly, partial

THE REST OF THE STORY Is not to be found in Xiaoze Xie’s tantalizing images of stacked newspapers. views form the vehicle for Xie’s softfocus ethical arguments.

The Sesnon Gallery’s two chambers create a tone of intimacy that adds tension to the large-scale implications of Xie’s work. In the smaller of the rooms, realist paintings of books seemingly discarded in mid-air, flung and blurred a la Gerhard Richter, pack a quiet but powerful punch. At the far end rises an installation called Chinese Library No. 1, created entirely of books foraged from rummage sale tables and stacked up to the ceiling, upon which is projected a video showing book after book tossed and whirling through space. Marx, Sartre, Freud—all are tossed into oblivion. The point, while not new, is made anew, and still offers plenty of existential chill to go around.

The main room holds large-scale paintings, each of which suggests a shrine, calling us to stop and meditate on a future about to implode. In these, stacks of newspapers are piled up randomly. We see only the folded edge, tiny “moments” of what has happened; the contents remain hidden within. We

never quite know if our interpretation is correct, or if any interpretation is.

The largest work, painted in shades of blue, shows us machines, devices and vehicles of war. In others, apocalyptic images tease us with what might, or might not, be going on in the multinational everywhere that trashes our collective serenity. Folded tabloids focus on the Middle East in bright red paint.

Faces, some in chador, peek out at us, questioning, confronting, killing.

Media saturation and our willingness to read, only partially, between the headlines, is Xiaoze Xie’s thought for the global day. It is one that many try to avoid—a bracing dose of how events might, or might not, really be unfolding in an East/West that is morphing into uneasy unison.

Xiaoze Xie: Resistant Archeology Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, UCSC Through Nov. 23

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Against the Grain A lumberyard salvages trees headed for the landfill

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STEVE Jackel moseys about the premises of Jackel Enterprises, occasionally interrupting his monologue to point out an irregular slab of Monterey cypressâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; wood with umber lines that swirl into a speckling of eyesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or a bisected redwood log with burnt bark, evidence of the fire it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t survive. Jackel acquired these pieces of lumber because his business involves â&#x20AC;&#x153;urban, suburban and rural forestry.â&#x20AC;? He salvages trees that would probably otherwise be taken to the landfill after falling on a road during a storm or being cut down to make room for new landscaping.

Jackel explains that salvaging these trees is good for both the landowner and the environment because it halts some carbon emissions. If Jackel doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buy the tree, the owner has to â&#x20AC;&#x153;take it to the landfill. And he has to pay the landfill. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a double negativeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s money out of his pocket and the carbon gets released.â&#x20AC;?

Jackel has been involved in processing salvaged woods since 1974, when he met a park ranger at Henry Cowell State Park trying to get rid of a walnut tree. Even though at the time he was working at a lumberyard, Jackel marvels that he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;24 years old and hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t made the connection between lumber and a tree.â&#x20AC;? He says he got it the moment they cracked the walnut tree open and he saw the beauty of what was inside.

Jackel is teaming up with the

NO DEADWOOD Though charred on the outside, this salvaged redwood makes fine lumber.

Museum of Art and History to help more people internalize the connection between trees and wood this Saturday with a guided tour through his Watsonville mill, woodshop and lumberyard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;None of these woods are what I would call popular in the scheme of markets,â&#x20AC;? Jackel says, but some of the local woodworking artists currently featured at MAH in an exhibit called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Studio Made: Santa Cruz Woodworkersâ&#x20AC;? still covet them. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the â&#x20AC;&#x153;defects and characterâ&#x20AC;? within salvaged woods, as Jackel calls it, that appeal to these artisans. Matthew Werner, who makes handcrafted furniture using marquetry (a technique of creating a decorative veneer), says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always looking for unique woodsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;anything a little different from whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the racks at the lumber store.â&#x20AC;?

Patrick Stafford, another local woodworking artist and teacher at Cabrillo College, says he uses salvaged woods whenever possible for environmental reasons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s less and less wood available. I feel like people are wasting wood in

huge amounts,â&#x20AC;? he says. Stafford also says the quality of traditionally harvested lumber has diminished over the last 30 years due to efforts to keep up with the increasing demand for it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The quality of the wood is not as good as it once was because they are growing the trees too fast,â&#x20AC;? he explains.

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El Teatro Campesino’s annual Dia de los Muertos Celebration Watsonville dance troupe Esperanza del Valle will be perform dances from Huasteca, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Jalisco, plus their original choreodrama “Macaria” and a special presentation of Los Viejos, or spirits coming back from the dead to dance among the living. Fri, Nov 4, 8pm, Sat, Nov 5, 2 and 8pm and Sun, Nov 6, 2pm. $8-$15.

El Teatro Campesino, 705 Fourth St, San Juan Bautista, 831.623.2444.

“The First Seed” & “Captivated” UCSC’s Rainbow Theater presents “The First Seed” by Aman Gohal, about arranged marriage in South Asian communities, and “Captivated”

by Darryl C. Davis, about a man imprisoned in a cage a subjected to a battery of tests

Murder mystery dinner theatre by the Elf Empire Productions.

Sun, Nov 6, 5:30pm. $45.

Peachwood’s Grill and Bar, 555 Hwy 17, Santa Cruz, 831.426.6333.

Three Sisters Chekhov’s story about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern world as seen through the eyes of the Prozorov family.

Fri-Sat, 8pm and Sun, Nov 6, 2pm. Thru Nov 19. $12-$18.

Cabrillo Black Box Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, 831.479.6154.

CONCERTS Antonio Iturrioz The Cuban pianist performs music of Leopold Godowsky, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Scriabin, Strauss and Blumfield. Sun, Nov 6, 3pm.

New Music Building VAPA 5000, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.656.9507.

Cosmas Magaya Magaya will play the mbira, a traditional Zimbabwean instrument composed of 22 keys mounted on a soundboard and played with two thumbs and an index finger. Fri, Nov 4, 8pm. $10.

Santa Cruz Waldorf School,

Inner Light Choir Classics Concert The concert will showcase the talents of the 80-voice choir in song, dance, photography and videography. Proceeds from the concert and silent auction will benefit the Carnegie Scholarship Funds.

Sat, Nov 5, 7pm. $20/$25.

Inner Light Ministries, 5630 Soquel Dr, Soquel, 831.465.9090.

Kander & Ebb A musical revue showcasing the songs of legendary Broadway songwriting team John Kander and Fred Ebb. Thu-Sat, 8pm and Sun, 2pm.

Thru Nov 20. $22-$28. Center Stage, 1001 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.425.7506.

Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony Fall Concert, The Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony, under the leadership of its new music director, Nathaniel Berman, will present works by Mendelssohn, Debussy and Vaughan Williams. Sun, Nov 6, 3pm. $5-$10. UCSC Music Center, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.607.9678.

Voice of Africa African traditional music from the Kissi tribes of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Proceeds benefit Global Women Intact, a nonprofit eliminating female circumcision and genital mutilation in Africa through

education. Sat, Nov 5, 8pm. $25-$35. Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz, 415.378.4413.

Weird Al Yankovic The foremost song parodist of the MTV era performs live.

Fri, Nov 4, 8pm. $25-$45.

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5260.

Art MUSEUMS CONTINUING Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Free First Friday. View the exhibits for free every first Friday of the month. Docent tours at noon. First Fri of every month, 11am-6pm. Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History First Fridays: Dia de los Muertos. Community members are invited to create an ofrenda to put on the community altar. Fri, Nov 4, 5-9pm. Free. Spotlight Tours.

Bringing the artists’ voices directly to visitors. Go behind the scenes and museum-wide exhibitions. First Sat of every month, 11:30am-12:30pm.

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

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History Coastal Lagoons: A Closer Look through Art, History and 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.

GALLERIES OPENING Felix Kulpa Gallery

FRIDAY 11/4

FIRST FRIDAYS Marvin Plummer, the artist behind Kuumbwa’s “Jazz Alley” mural, and Slate illustrator Charlie Powell will showcase a series of portraits of their personal jazz heroes. Powell’s band, Surf City Swing, will play gypsy jazz tunes inspired by Django Reinhardt. Party of citywide First Friday festivities. Friday, Nov. 4, 6–8pm at Kuumbwa, 320 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. 831.427.2227. Free.

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UCSC’s Rainbow Theater presents “blu” by Virginia Grise, following the journey of a queer Chicano family, and “Poets Corner,” featuring students performing their own spoken word poetry. Fri, Nov 4, 6:30pm and Sun, Nov 6, 6:30pm. $7-$10. Stevenson Event Center, 101 McLaughlin Drive, Santa Cruz, 831.459.1861.

Murder in Reel Time

2190 Empire Grade, Santa Cruz, 831.425.0519.

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by three female scientists. Thu, Nov 3, 6:30pm and Sat, Nov 5, 6:30pm. $7-$10. Stevenson Event Center, 101 McLaughlin Drive, Santa Cruz, 831.459.1861.

Paint My Future. DJs on the turntables and paintings Jose Mendez. Proceeds from the event will go toward arts education and poverty alleviation in San Pedro, Guatemala. Thu, Nov 3 and Fri, Nov 4. Free. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

Titangos Digital Imaging Studio 20th Anniversary Exhibit. Paul Titangos’ photographs from around the world—Calcutta, Bangladesh, Berlin, China,

FRIDAY 11/4

THREE SISTERS The Cabrillo College Theater Arts Department stages a production of Chekhov’s play about the deterioration of the Russian middle class at the turn of the 20th century, as experienced by the Prozorov sisters Olga, Masha and Irina. Runs Friday–Sunday through Nov. 19 at Cabrillo College Black Box Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos. Tickets $12-$18. 831.479.6145.

Sudan, Egypt and the Philippines, to name a few.

Reception Fri, Nov. 4, 5-9pm.

Fri, Nov 4, 5-9pm. Free.

216 Fern St, Santa Cruz, 831.423.8786.

CONTINUING Claraty Arts TBD: To Be Disabled. Multiple installations, including “Face It!,” portraits and statistics relating to the current social climate and history of people with disabilities. Thru Nov 18. Free, 831.427.1878. 1725 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz.

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.

Santa Cruz County Bank 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 Mountains Art Center The Gift of Art. Over 40 local artists showcase their jewelry, textiles, ceramics, wood, glass, baskets, paintings, cards and more. Wed-Sun . Thru Dec 24.

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

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 2011 Big Sur Food and Wine Festival Events at the three-day festival include “Hiking with Stemware,” “Pinot Walkabout” and the “Wine and Swine Dinner.” Nov 3-5. $110-$220.

831.869.1341.

College and Career Night College-bound Santa Cruz County students and their parents will have a chance to meet with representatives from more than 60 public and private colleges and universities. Mon, Nov 7, 68pm. Free. Cabrillo College,

6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.477.5650.

First Friday Contra Dance Erik Hoffman will call to the jigs and reels of Jim Oakden and Friends. Fri, Nov 4, 7:40pm. $6-$10. Felton Community Hall, 6191 Hwy 9, Felton, 831.464.0877.

Half Moon Bay Food & Wine Fare Featuring wines from over 20 Santa Cruz Mountains Wineries and food from Half Moon Bay restaurants.

Sat, Nov 5, noon-4pm. Free.

Oceano Hotel and Spa, 280 Capistrano Road, Half Moon Bay, 831.685.8463.

Holiday Boutique Hand-pressed clay leaves, holiday floral centerpieces, birdhouses, watercolors and wall hangings for sale by four local artists. 110 Wanda Ct., Santa Cruz. Sat, Nov 5, 10am4pm and Sun, Nov 6, 10am4pm. Free. 831.421.0417.

Symphony League Home Tour The 26th annual avent will feature five unique homes, with a special attraction at each location. Sat, Nov 5, noon-5pm and Sun, Nov 6, noon-5pm. $25. 831.427.0760.

FILM The Buddha of the Piano A documentary about Leopold Godowsky, teacher and arranger in the 1890s to 1920s to a generation of pianists in the era of Jazz and Ragtime and one of the greatest pianists of all time. Sat, Nov 5, 7:30pm. Erica Schilling Forum, Room 450, Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.656.9507.

LITERARY EVENTS Dava Sobel The author will read, discuss and sign copies of her latest book, A More Perfect Heaven about the Copernican Revolution. Sun, Nov 6, 7:30pm. Free. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

Lawrence Weschler One of the masters of literary nonfiction will read, discuss and sign copies of his latest work, Uncanny Valley: Adventures in Narrative Wed, Nov 9, 7:30pm. Free. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

Leta Miller UCSC professor of music will read from her lively history of San Francisco’s musical life during the first half of the twentieth century, Music and Politics in San Francisco: From the 1906 Quake to the Second World War. Wed, Nov 2, 7:30pm. Free. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

Maggie Nelson and Cecil Giscombe Nelson is the author of The Art of Cruelty, Something Bright, Then Holes and Jane: A Murder and Bluets. Poet Cecil Giscombe is the author of Giscome Road, Into and Out of Dislocation and Prairie Style. Both will appear as part of UCSC’s Living Writers series. Thu, Nov 3, 6-7:45pm.

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

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Gail Burk of the Santa Cruz Genealogical Society leads a series of six workshops focused on weaving personal history with the craft of writing. Thu, Nov 3. Free.

La Selva Beach Library, 316 Estrella, La Selva, 831.427.7710.

Poetry for Protection

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All youth ages 6 to 17 are invited to participate in a poetry slam to benefit the homeless in Santa Cruz County. Proceeds will be donated to River Street Shelter in Santa Cruz. Sat, Nov 5, 2-4pm. Free, donations accepted. The Ugly Mug, 4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel, 831.234.7109.

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Pat Pfremmer will explore the ten most common mistakes researchers make when looking for difficult to locate people, living as well as deceased, at the Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County’s November meeting. Thu, Nov 3, 1pm. Free.

Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.335.7838.

Water Awareness Series A Transition Santa Cruz series investigating where our water comes from, examining local policy issues—like desalination—and considering options for conservation. TransitionSC. org Tue, 6:30-8:30pm. Thru Nov 8. $5-$10. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6177.

NOW REGISTERING FOR INDOOR SOCCER Registration begins Nov. 1st

Boys & Girls U8, U10, U12, U14, U16

Lann-Clark and Gaither embarked on their first collaboration shortly after the 2006 release of Gaither’s first record, Spotted Mule and Other Tales. “It’s fun because she’s such a great performer.

I always come away learning something,” Gaither says.

Come alone or bring a partner.

For more information contact Peggy Dilfer, padilfer@ sbcglobal.net. Wed, 7-9pm.

Thru Nov 9. First lesson free, $10 thereafter. Santa Cruz Bridge Center, 720 Capitola Ave., Capitola.

FIELD RENTALS AVAILABLE FOR PRACTICES, SCRIMMAGES & PARTIES Located within Ramsay Park at 34 Harkins Slough Rd, Watsonville Phone: (831) 768-8961 Email: info@soccercentralindoor.com

And the audience sometimes plays a role in the show, too. “We’re hoping that if we tell our stories and sing our songs, we’ll be able to get them to tell their stories, too,” says Lann-Clark. “If it’s a good audience, we can probably turn it over to them.” (Samantha Larson) STORIES, SONGS AND SILLINESS is Sunday, Nov. 6 at 1pm at Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy 9, Felton. Tickets $10/ $5 children 12 & under. 831.603.2294

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

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

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

SC Diversity Center

Forms and information available at www.soccercentralindoor.com

She plans to join up this Sunday with Michael Gaither, local writer and singer of light-heated songs about quotidian life, for their third collaborative show, “Stories, Songs and Silliness.” The partnership weaves together stories and music for fun, familyoriented performances.

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

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YOUTH SESSIONS BEGIN JAN. 7, 2012

ERICA Lann-Clark says she discovered the art form of storytelling late in life. Really, she just didn’t know there was a name for what she grew up listening to in her family’s Brooklyn apartment.

Once she discovered it, she started practicing it, and she hasn’t stopped since.

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“We try to synchronize the stories and the songs in a way that they slide into each other. I like funny, so they’ll be funny,” LannClark says. “We’re aiming it at everyone from grandparents to preschool kids. Families nowadays don’t get enough opportunity to be together and do something that involves art.”

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SPIN SISTER Storyteller Erica Lann-Clark teams up with singer-songwriter Michael Gaither this Sunday.

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.

Auditions for St. John’s ‘Big Sky’ Youth Choir 6th-12th graders welcome.

Performance at the 9 AM service the first Sunday of the month required. Sun, Nov 6, 11am-12pm. St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church, 125 Canterbury Dr, Aptos, 831.427.2980.

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

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

Support and Recovery Groups Alzheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Assn., 831.464.9982. Cancer: Katz Cancer Resource

Center, 831.351.7770; WomenCARE, 831.457.2273.

Candida: 831.471.0737.

Chronic Pain: American Chronic Pain Association, 831.423.1385. Grief and Loss: Hospice, 831.430.3000.

Lupus: Jeanette Miller, 831.566.0962. Men Overcoming Abusive Behavior: 831.464.3855. SMART Recovery: 831.462.5470. Trans Latina women: Mariposas, 831.425.5422. Trichotillomania: 831.457.1004. 12-Step Programs: 831.454.HELP (4357).

Yoga Instruction Pacific Cultural Center: 35+ classes per week, 831.462.8893. SC Yoga: 45 classes per week, 831.227.2156. TriYoga:

numerous weekly classes, 831.464.8100. Yoga Within at Aptos Station, 831.687.0818; Om Room School of Yoga, 831.429.9355; Pacific Climbing Gym, 831.454.9254; Aptos Yoga Center, 831.688.1019; Twin Lotus Center, 831.239.3900. Hatha Yoga with Debra Whizin, 831.588.8527.

Zen, Vipassana, Basic: Intro to Meditation Zen: SC Zen Center, Wed, 5:45pm, 831.457.0206.

Vipassana: Vipassana SC, Wed 6:30-8pm, 831.425.3431.

Basic: Land of the Medicine Buddha, Wed, 5:30-6:30pm, 831.462.8383. Zen: Ocean Gate Zendo, first Tue each month 6:30-7pm. All are free.

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Celebrating Creativity Since 1975

Thursday, November 3 U 7 pm

PAUL CONTOS QUINTET

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

FIRST FRIDAY ART TOUR: MARVIN PLUMMER & CHARLIE POWELL “JAZZ HEROS” Sunday, November 6 U 7:30 pm

THREE METRE DAY

Tickets at brownpapertickets.com Monday, November 7 U 7 pm

PAULA WEST

No Jazztix/Comps Thursday, November 10 U 7:30 pm

THE BLUES BROADS FEATURING TRACY NELSON, ANGELA STREHLI, DOROTHY MORRISON, ANNIE SAMPSON Monday, November 14 U 7 & 9 pm

THE DJANGO REINHARDT ALLSTARS FEAT. DORADO SCHMITT Reduced late show pricing!

No Jazztix/Comps

Monday, November 21 U 7:30 pm At Cabrillo College Crocker Theatre

RAY BROWN’S GREAT BIG BAND

Tickets at brownpapertickets.com Monday, November 28 U 7 pm

CHESTER THOMPSON QUARTET Friday, December 2 U 7 & 9 pm

SISTA MONICA PARKER CD RELEASE CONCERT “LIVING IN THE DANGER ZONE”

Jesse Justice

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SEE-I MAKE-U BOOGIE D.C. party

reggae outfit See-I lights up Moe’s Alley on Thursday.

Monday, December 5 U 7 pm

KENNY WERNER QUINTET FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS DAVID SANCHEZ, RANDY BRECKER, SCOTT COLLEY & ANTONIO SANCHEZ No Jazztix/Comps

Wednesdaay, December 7 U 7 pm, FREE

PAUL MEHLING: UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF GYPSY JAZZ GUITAR Thursday, December 8 U 7 pm

HOT CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO “COOL YULE” Monday, December 12 U 7 & 9 pm

CHARLIE HUNTER DUO WITH SCOTT AMENDOLA Thursday, December 15 U 7 pm

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

All ages welcome.

320-2 Cedar St [ Santa Cruz 831.427.2227

kuumbwajazz.org

WEDNESDAY | 11/2

THURSDAY | 11/3

FRIDAY | 11/4

BATTLEFIELD BAND

SEE-I

ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI

Named for the town near Glasgow where, back in 1969, four students began playing traditional songs together, Battlefield Band makes Scottish folk music of the kind that would make William Wallace proud. True, none of the founding members remain in the group, but the current lineup carries on the tradition with bagpipes a-blowin’, fiddle a-sawin’, bodhràn (that’s an Irish hand drum) a-beatin,’ and even some synthesizer for good measure. The band’s energetic songs make a person want to stomp their heels, do the Highland fling and bellow “FREEDOM!” Don Quixote’s; $18 adv/$20 door; 7:30pm.

(Tessa Stuart)

Outside the District of Columbia, Rootz and Zeebo Steele are best known for the distinctive vocals and magnetic dub vibe they bring to Thievery Corporation’s infectious global mix.

But inside the culturally rich confines of D.C.’s Adams Morgan and U Street neighborhoods, the brothers are known as the reigning kings of reggae.

See-I, their longtime project, gathers members of Thievery’s live band and pulls from funk, ’70s R&B and rock & roll influences for an irresistible, unique and extremely danceable global music experience. Moe’s Alley; 9pm; $12 adv/$15 door. (Traci Hukill)

Architecture in Helsinki is a band from which one expects the unexpected.

Formed in the late 1990s in Australia, the playful synth-pop band’s early material drew from the experimental side of the ’80s, with dense layers of sound and instrumentation that included the tuba, analog synthesizers, samplers and a glockenspiel. A reflection of its evolution, the band’s latest release, Moment Bends, feels deliberate, dreamy and polished, yet maintains the pleasant indie vibe that has established Architecture in Helsinki as one of the darlings of the electro underground. Rio Theatre; $15 adv/$18 door; 8pm. (Cat Johnson)

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FRUIT BATS

SATURDAY | 11/5

TOUBAB KREWE Fusing the music of Mali with American roots styles, the North Carolina-based instrumental band Toubab Krewe circles back on the musical intersection that paved the way for rock & roll by way of the blues. Where some fusion acts fall into the musical pit of being pleasant but watered-down, Toubab Krewe goes right for the heart of both styles

SATURDAY | 11/5

VOICE OF AFRICA Liberian-born comedian, dancer, actress and vocalist Sia Amma is the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Voice of Africa,â&#x20AC;? powerfully asserting herself as a woman of African descent who â&#x20AC;&#x153;dares to play the drums.â&#x20AC;?

Four other African drummers and musicians from Mali, Senegal and Guinea will join her to play traditional African music from the Kissi tribes of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea on instruments such as the sakara and the agogo. With songs that carry messages about women and social liberation, all proceeds from this performance will go to Global Women Intact, a non-profit dedicated to eliminating African customs of female circumcision and genital mutilation. Kuumbwa; $20; 8pm. (Samantha Larson)

IF YOU BUILD IT ... Architecture in Helsinki at the Rio

Pixies

CONCERTS MAC MILLER

Nov. 2 at Catalyst

PAUL CONTOS QUINTET Nov. 3 at Kuumbwa

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Up-strokes are still in. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reassuring to know that syncopated, feel-good rhythms didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave us when Bob Marley did in 1981 or even when the 1990s ska movement fizzled out faster than the Y2K scare. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not to say this band isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t evolving. The Fruit Batsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; latest album, Tipper, has an alt-country feel, with the occasional synthesizer and vocal effects thrown in for good measureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a big change from the skasounding folk-pop tunes that made them, well, the Fruit Bats. Over the past decade, the Fruit Bats have showcased a wide variety of tempos, styles, andâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;of courseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;their lionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s share of accented up-strokes. The Catalyst; $12 advance; $15 door; 9pm. (Jacob Pierce)

and emerges with something that is rough, raw and extraordinary.

Having spent significant time living and studying in Africa, the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s knowledge of Malian music is as legit as its down-home take on gritty Southern blues. Think Toumani Diabate sitting in with the Black Keys. Moeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alley; $12 adv/$15 door; 9pm. (CJ)

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FRIDAY | 11/4

BIG SANDY & HIS FLY-RITE BOYS Nov. 13 at Don Quixoteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

PIXIES

Nov. 21 at Civic Auditorium

CAVE SINGERS

Dec. 7 at Crepe Place

TUESDAY | 11/8

WILLY PORTER Singer-songwriter Willy Porter has attracted something of a cult following on the modern folk-music scene. Since his humble beginnings (he sold his selfproduced debut album, The Trees Have Soul, out of the trunk of his car in 1990), Porter has released several albums and toured the country, opening for artists such as Jeff Beck, Tori Amos, Paul Simon and the Cranberries. Crepe Place; $15; 9pm. (SL)

WEDNESDAY | 11/9

CROOKED STILL If there wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a â&#x20AC;&#x153;chamber roots musicâ&#x20AC;? genre before, there is now. Crooked Still has the songs, subjects and style of a roots band, but they have the chops, delivery and make-up of a string quintet. Grounded in bluegrass, and often lumped into the nu-folk category, the band members shun labels and tradition, preferring to filter roots music through their own experience and abilities. They play music that is warm, adventurous, masterfully arranged and â&#x20AC;&#x153;defiantly non-traditional.â&#x20AC;? Unafraid to reimagine classic pop and rock songs, they also have a deep catalog of original material that has made them a standout act of the Americana scene. Kuumbwa; $22 adv/$26 door; 7:30pm. (CJ)

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140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

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120 Union St, Santa Cruz

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1 Davenport Ave, Santa Cruz

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1104 Ocean St, Santa Cruz

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Preston Brahm Trio

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1102 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

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320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

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529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

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november 2-9, 2011

Cult Fallout

S A N TAC RU Z .C O M

A madman’s victim grapples with her past in ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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THE OMINOUS Martha Marcy May Marlene has a damnable title, but it’s worth learning. It’s a very tight thriller, quivering with emotional violence and suspense.

Director Sean Durkin films in rural upstate New York locations, with a lot of natural light. The film has a slow, dreamy tone. But it’s deceptively muzzy-looking. MMMM is actually a careful, close-in study of something that most people f linch from thinking about: what’s it like to be under the skin of a cult’s victim.

Elizabeth Olsen, remembered as one half of a popular sister act, gives an astounding performance as the multinamed heroine, hollowed out by a thug-guru called Patrick and unstuck in time. The runaway dropout Martha (that’s her birth name) escapes after two years with an unnamed family in upstate New York. She’s plagued with memories of what was done to her and what she did to others. Martha’s estranged sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson) puts the penniless girl up in her lakeside vacation house.

The vacation turns dismal. Severely traumatized, yet unable to put her ordeal in words, Martha thwarts her sister’s attempts to connect.

What happened is cloudy and half-remembered. It wasn’t all Gothic; much of her time was two years as an underfed female drone sleeping in a pile in a girl’s room, cooking, waiting patiently for the men to eat. When new arrivals show up, Martha (now renamed

NO KIN DO Sisters Martha (Elizabeth Olsen, left) and Lucy (Sarah Paulson)

can’t connect in ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene.’

Marcy May by Patrick) is there to help break them in—to help make them a member of the family.

Durkin has done something surprising. Charles Manson was so specific in his time and place that it seemed seriously unlikely someone could derive a present-day fiction based in part on his methods.

MMMM the film isn’t about the racist eschatology of Manson’s Family—there are no madhouse revelations, only rituals—and eventually the “creepy crawling” that leads to bigger felonies than just breaking and entering.

Durkin approached it from the right angle: It wasn’t the disgusting crimes that made Manson interesting. Rather, it was his ability to vamp people, to know what they needed and to become just that thing. It’s the power any cult leader has, as both boulevard pimp and sham holy man. The inspired and frightening John Hawkes, who plays Patrick, looks startlingly like Manson as the older jailbird. He considers himself a folk musician,

just as Charlie did. It’s a turning point in this movie when he makes everyone listen to his little recital, a song about Martha, the new girl in the family: “You’re just a picture on the wall”: What uncertain young girl can resist being summed up as shallow and decorative?

Olsen is extremely pretty in some angles, pretty as Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde, and she’s very plain and lost and stubborn in others. She gives us a remarkable portrait of someone split in pieces.

And Durkin is smart about how such charlatans as Patrick thrive, how the contradictions that look like hypocrisies create fissures large enough for a spider to get in.

MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (R; 120 min.)

Opens Friday at the Nickelodeon

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Film Capsules

november 2-9, 2011

NEW CAPS 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)

S A N TAC RU Z .C O M

ANONYMOUS (PG-13; 130 min.) A dramatization of the (unsupported) theory that the works of Shakespeare were actually written by Edward de Vere, an Elizabethan aristocrat.

Starring Rhys Ifans and Vanessa Redgrave. (Opens Fri at Del Mar)

GOODFELLAS (1990) Martin Scorcese’s Oscar-winning picture about a small-time gangster running with bigger and badder dogs stars Robert DeNiro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci and Lorraine Bracco. (Thu at Santa Cruz 9) MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (R; 120 min.) See review, page 29. (Opens Fri at Nickelodeon) OTELLO (NR; 164 min.) San

SHOWTIMES

Francisco Opera presents Verdi’s opera about the general undone by jealousy.

(Thu and Sun at Del Mar)

SARAH’S KEY (PG-13; 111 min.)

Kristin Scott Thomas is an American living in Paris with her French husband (Frederic Pierrot) when she discovers that the apartment building owned by his family has a tragic history bound up in the plight of the Jews during World War II. (Opens Fri at Aptos) SPACE JAM (1996) Michael Jordan must help Bugs

122 Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos 831.688.6541 www.culvertheaters.com The Rum Diary — Daily 1:50; 4:20; 6:50; 9:20 plus Fri-Sun 11:30am.

Sarah’s Key — Fri-Wed 2:20; 4:40; 7; 9:20 plus Sat-Sun noon.

The Three Musketeers — Wed-Thu 2:20; 4:40; 7; 9:20.

41ST AVENUE CINEMA 1475 41st Ave., Capitola 831.479.3504 www.culvertheaters.com A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas — (Opens Thu 11:55pm) 12:30; 2:45; 5:15; 7:45; 10:10.

Tower Heist — (Opens Fri) 11:45; 2:15; 4:55; 7:30; 10; Puss in Boots 3D — Wed-Thu 11:40; 2; 4:20; 6:45; 9; Fri-Wed 11:55; 2:30; 4:45; 7; 9:20.

The Ides of March — Wed-Thu 11:55; 2:20; 4:45; 7:10; 9:40.

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

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

Artisan

Organic

Anonymous — (Opens Fri) 1:40; 4:15; 6:50; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

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

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

Sat noon and Sat-Sun 1pm (no Thu 7 or 9pm).

Otello — Thu 7:30pm; Sun 11am.

Space Jam — Fri-Sat midnight.

Anonymous — Wed 11/9 11am.

NICKELODEON Lincoln and Cedar streets, Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com

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Bunny, Porky, Daffy, Sylvester and the rest of the Looney Tunes gang win a basketball gang or else be enslaved by aliens with an interest in an amusement park called Moron Mountain. (Fri-Sat midnite at Del Mar)

TOWER HEIST (PG-13; 104 min.) Regular working stiffs Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy and Casey Affleck join forces to rob an unscrupulous businessman whose multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme has cost them money. With Alan Alda,

Matthew Broderick, Tea Leoni, Gabourey Sidibe and Judd Hirsch. (Opens Fri at Santa Cruz 9 and Green Valley)

A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR CHRISTMAS (R; 90 min.) Six years after their Guantanamo Bay adventure, Harold and Kumar—now with very different families, friends and lives—reunite for a holiday caper through New York that begins with Kumar accidentally burning down Harold’s father-in-law’s prize Christmas tree. (Opens midnite Thu at Santa Cruz 9,

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Nov. 2, through Wednesday, Nov. 9, unless otherwise indicated.

Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

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Martha Marcy May Marlene — (Opens Fri) 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30; Sat-Sun 11:30am.

Blackthorn — Wed-Thu 2:50; 5:10; 7:20 9:25 Fri-Wed 5; 9:40 plus Sat-Sun 12:20pm Margin Call — Wed-Thu 1:30; 4; 6:30; 9 Fri-Wed 1:40; 4:10; 6:40; 9 plus Sat-Sun 11:10am.

Take Shelter — Wed-Thu 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed 2:30; 7:10.

The Way — Daily 1:50; 4:20; 6:50; 9:20 plus 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 Tower Heist — (Opens Midnight Thu) 2:30; 5:05; 7:40; 10:15 plus Sat-Sun 11:55.

A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas — (Opens Midnight Thu) 3:20; 5;

5:35; 7:25; 8; 9:40; 10:25 plus Sat-Sun 12:45; 2:50.

Footloose — Wed 1:10; 3:50; 6:40; 9:40; Thu 1:10; 3:50; 6:40; 9:20.

In Time — Wed-Thu 2:30; 5:20; 8; 10:40.

Johnny English Reborn — Wed-Thu 1:30pm.

The Ides of March — Wed-Thu 2:20; 4:50; 7:30; 10; Fri-Wed 2:20; 4:45;

7:15; 9:45 plus Sat-Sun 11:30am.

Moneyball — Wed-Thu 1; 4; 7:10; 10:15; Fri-Wed 1; 4; 7; 10. (No Sat 1pm) Puss in Boots — Wed-Thu 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed 1:30; 4:15; 6:45; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11:15am.

Puss in Boots 3D — Wed-Thu 2:40; 5:10; 7:40; 10:10; Fri-Wed 2;40; 5:15; 7:30; 10:10 plus Sat-Sun 11:45am.

Real Steel — Wed-Thu 1:20; 4:20; 7:20; 10:20; Fri 1:10; Sat-Sun noon; Mon-Wed 1:10.

Three Musketeers — Wed-Thu 5; 10:30; Fri-Wed 4:20; 9:55 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Three Musketeers 3D — Wed-Thu 2:10; 10:30; Fri-Wed 1:35; 6:55.

Anna Bolena — Wed 11/2 6:30pm.

Goodfellas — Thu 8pm.

SCOTTS VALLEY 6 CINEMA 226 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley 831.438.3261 www.culvertheaters.com A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas — (Opens Thu 11:55pm)

12:30; 3; 5:20; 7:40; 10.

The Rum Diary — (Opens Fri) 12:45; 3:45; 7; 9:45.

Tower Heist — (Opens Fri) 11:45; 2:20; 4:55; 7:30; 10.

Dolphin Tale — Fri-Wed 11:10; 1:45.

Footloose — Wed-Thu 11:20; 2:20; 4:55; 7:30; 10:10; Fri-Wed 4:20; 9:40.

In Time — Daily 11:30; 2:10; 4:45; 7:20; 10.

Johnny English Reborn — Wed-Thu 11; 1:30; 4; 6:30.

Paranormal Activity 3 — Daily 11:10; 1:15; 3:30; 5:45; 8; 10:15.

Puss in Boots — Wed-Thu 11:40; 2; 4:20; 6:45; 9; Fri-Wed 11:40; 2; 4:30; 7; 9:20 Puss in Boots 3D — Wed-Thu 12:15; 2:20; 5:10; 7:30; 9:45; Fri-Wed 11:15;

1:30; 4; 6:15; 8:30.

Real Steel — Wed-Thu 1; 4; 7; 9:45.

The Thing — Wed-Thu 9pm.

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

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

The Way — Fri-Wed 1; 4; 6:45; 9:30.

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8 1125 S. Green Valley Rd, Watsonville 831.761.8200 www.greenvalleycinema.com Tower Heist — (Opens Fri) 1:30; 4; 7:15; 9:40 plus 11:15am.

A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas — (Opens Fri) 1; 3; 7:15; 9:40

plus Sat-Sun 11am.

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

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

Johnny English Reborn — Wed-Thu 1:30; 4.

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

Puss in Boots — Wed-Thu 1pm; Fri-Wed 1; 5:05; 9:30.

Puss in Boots 3D— Wed-Thu 3; 5:05; 7:15; 9:30 plus Fri-Wed 3; 7:15; Sat-Sun 11am.

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

The Rum Diary — Wed-Thu 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:40; Fri-Wed 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:30

plus Sat-Sun 11am.

The Thing — Wed-Thu 7:15; 9:40.

The Three Musketeers 3D — Wed-Thu 1:30; 4:15; 7:10; 9:30.

41st Ave, Scotts Valley and Fri at Green Valley)

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) 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 live (denoted by a stamp on his or her forearm) becomes the society’s currency.

Starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried.

JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG; 108 min.) Rowan Atkinson, better known to many as Mr. Bean,

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.

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

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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.

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 thumbdrive 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.

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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.

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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.

IF IT PLEASES THE QUEEN A young Queen Elizabeth (Joely Richardson, left, with Jamie Campbell Bower) is a lover of the arts in the speculative Shakespeare film ‘Anonymous,’ opening Friday. fury. Moneyball is Pitt’s movie, and the tightly restrained lead shows us an actor finally out of the orbit of Robert Redford. He gives a lean, mean performance, one of his best. The rest of the cast is up to his level: Robin Wright as his ex-wife; Philip Seymour Hoffman is coach Art Howe.

Some will liken the script,

by Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, to Jerry Maguire, but it does without the traditional can o’ corn of the typical baseball movie. (RvB)

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.

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

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.

(RvB)

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 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.

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 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 seriousminded tragedy. (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).

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

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

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

AMBROSIA INDIA BISTRO

$$ Aptos

BRITANNIA ARMS

$$$ Aptos $$ Aptos

207 Searidge Rd, 831.685.0610

8017 Soquel Dr, 831.688.1233 SEVERINO’S GRILL

7500 Old Dominion Ct, 831.688.8987 ZAMEEN MEDITERRANEAN

7528 Soquel Dr, 831.688.4465

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

Open daily 11am to 2am.

Continental California cuisine. Breakfast all week 6:30-11am, lunch all week 11am-2pm; dinner Fri-Sat 5-10pm, Sun-Thu 5-9pm. www.seacliffinn.com.

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

CAPITOLA $ Capitola

CAFE VIOLETTE

$$

GEISHA SUSHI

104 Stockton Ave, 831.479.8888

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

Capitola

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

ZELDA’S

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.

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By Rob Brezsny

For the week of November 2 ARIES (March 21–April 19): Here’s Malcolm Gladwell,

TAURUS (April 20–May 20): Welcome to the autumnal

GEMINI (May 21–June 20): Here’s a vignette described by columnist Thomas Friedman: “Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is 2 plus 2 and he tells you 5, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is 2 plus 2 and he tells you 97, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking with is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.”

I’d like to suggest, Gemini, that for you right now the whole world is like the man who swears 2 plus 2 is 97. At least temporarily, you are on a very different wavelength from your surroundings. In order to understand what’s coming toward you, you will have to do the equivalent of standing on your head, crossing your eyes and opening your mind as wide as it’ll stretch.

CANCER (June 21–July 22): If you want to grow vanilla beans, you have to pollinate the plant’s flowers within 12 hours after they bloom. In nature, the only insect that can do the job is the Melipona, a Mexican bee. Luckily, humans can also serve as pollinators, which they do on commercial vanilla farms. They use thin wood splinters or stems of grass to perform the delicate magic. I’m thinking that you resemble a vanilla bean right now, Cancerian. It is the season when you’re extra receptive to fertilization, but all the conditions have to be just right for the process to be successful. Here’s my advice: Figure out exactly what those conditions are, then call on all your resourcefulness to create them.

LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): Even our most sophisticated drilling machines have barely made pinpricks in the Earth’s surface. The deepest hole ever dug was 40,000 feet, which is just 0.2 percent of the planet’s 20-millionfoot radius. I offer this up as a spur to your imagination, Leo. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to plumb further into the depths of anyplace or anything you’re intrigued by—whether that’s a subject you’ve always wondered about, a person you care for, the mysteries of life or the secrets of your own psyche.

You could reach the equivalent of 5 million feet into the Earth’s innards.

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): National Geographic speculates that most of the species on Earth are still unknown and unnamed (tinyurl.com/UnknownLife).

While 1.2 million life forms have been identified by science, there may be as many as 7.5 million that are not, or 86 percent of the total. I suspect that this breakdown is similar to the situation in your life, Virgo.

You know about 14 percent of what you need to know, but there’s still a big frontier to explore. The coming months should be prime time for you to cover a lot of new ground—and now would be a perfect moment to set the stage for that grand experiment.

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): I suspect that you will have a minor form of good luck going for you this week.

It probably won’t be enough to score you a winning lottery ticket or earn you a chance to get the answer to your most fervent prayers. But it might bring you into close proximity with a financial opportunity, a pretty good helper or a resource that could subtly boost your stability over the long haul. For best results, don’t invoke

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): “Try to be surprised by something every day,” advises Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. That’s an inspirational idea for everyone all the time, but especially for you Scorpios right now. This is the week of all weeks when you have the best chance of tinkering with your rhythm so that it will thrive on delightful unpredictability. Are you brave enough to capitalize on the opportunity? I think you are.

Concentrate your attention on cultivating changes that feel exciting and life-enhancing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): “Dear Rob: I was born on Nov. 30 and am quite attached to having it as a birth date. But there’s a complication. While in Iraq in 2006, I was half-blown up by a bomb and had a near-death experience. When I returned from my excursion to the land of the dead, I felt I’d been born anew. Which is why I now also celebrate Sept. 24, the date of the bombing, as my second birthday. What do you think? Two-Way Tamara.” Dear Two-Way: I believe we’d all benefit from having at least one dramatic rebirth in the course of our lives, though hopefully not in such a wrenching fashion as yours. In fact, a fresh rebirth every few years or so would be quite healthy. If it means adding additional astrological identities to our repertoire, so much the better. Thanks for bringing up the subject, as it’s an excellent time for Sagittarians everywhere to seek out an exhilarating renewal.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): Social climbers are people who are focused on gaining higher status in whatever circle of people they regard as cool, even to the point of engaging in fawning or ingratiating behavior. Soul climbers, on the other hand, are those who foster the power of their imagination, keep deepening their connection with life’s intriguing enigmas and explore the intersection of self-interest and generosity toward others. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you could go far in either of those directions during the coming weeks, Capricorn— but not both. Which will you choose?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): An Australian man named Daniel Fowler has more giraffe tattoos on his shoulders than any other human being on the planet.

So says the Universal Record Database at Recordsetter. com. Meanwhile, Darryl Learie is now the only person to ever be able to insert three steak knives into an inflated balloon, and Billy Disney managed to inject a world-record 31 sexual innuendoes into a rap song about potatoes. What could or should be your claim to fame, Aquarius? This would an excellent time to try to establish your reputation as the best at your specific talent.

PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): “You have to know how far to go too far,” said poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. I reckon that’s good advice for you right now. You’re at a phase of your astrological cycle when you really can’t afford to keep playing by all the rules and staying inside the proper boundaries. For the sake of your physical and psychological and spiritual health, you need to wander out beyond the limits that you’ve been so faithfully respecting. And yet, on the other hand, it would be a mistake to claim you have a right to stop at nothing.

Know how far to go too far.

Homework: Which of your dead ancestors would you most like to talk to? Imagine a conversation with one of them. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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garden of earthly delights, Taurus. It’s a brooding, fermenting paradise, full of the kind of dark beauty that wouldn’t be caught dead in a spring garden. There’s smoldering joy to be found amid this riotous flowering of moody colors, but you won’t appreciate it if you’re too intent on seeking bright serenity and pristine comfort.

Be willing to dirty your hands and even your mind. Feel the moss on your back, the leaves in your hair, and the mist on your bare legs. (P.S. If you like, you can take what I just said as an elaborate metaphor.)

your mild blessings to assist in trivial matters like finding parking places or avoiding long lines at checkout lines. Use them for important stuff.

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writing in The Tipping Point: “We need to prepare ourselves for the possibility that sometimes big changes follow from small events, and that sometimes these changes can happen quickly. … Look at the world around you. It may seem an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push—in just the right place—it can be tipped.” You are now within shouting distance of your own personal tipping point, Aries.

Follow your gut wisdom as you decide where to give a firm little push.

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