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FACTS, PLEASE MR. Geiger and Ms. Martinez are entitled to their personal opinions (Posts, Oct. 26), but not to their own set of facts. The Coastal Commission’s detailed staff report clearly states on page 37 that the proposed La Bahia hotel “will not result in incursion into the Santa Cruz Mountains ridgeline view.” This is a statement of fact, not opinion. The staff report should have served as the basis of debate among Coastal Commissioners; instead, it was ignored by Mr. Stone and a few of his colleagues. The Report named only one environmental issue: public views/visual esthetics. (This is an urban environment, not a sensitive wetland.) The fact that the staff ’s exhaustive research was swept under the carpet proves that some

commissioners relied on their own biases and selfish interests rather than on factual information. The democratic process suffers immensely when emotional arguments and knee-jerk reactions trump rational debate.

Thanks, Weekly, for continuing to cover this issue, which is no longer just about La Bahia itself, but increasingly about the dysfunctional state of our so-called democracy, in which “politics” become more important than truth. Mr. Stone’s self-serving vote will become clear as his race for the State Assembly unfolds. I urge your readers to follow the money: namely, the source of Mr. Stone’s future campaign contributions.

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FRESH AND WILD OR NOTHING THANKS for the article on farmed fish flu (“Farm-Raised Flu,” Currents, Oct. 26). A few of us were talking about why or why not to eat farmed fish. At first it seems like a good idea to use farmed fish, but a closer look shows that these fish are raised in less than ideal situations.

It diminishes their immune system, requires lots of antibiotics and leaves us with a weakened fish overall. While many might consider that fish are non-sentient beings, they still do not deserve to suffer crowded tanks, illness, over-medicating, etc, all so we can have a lovely piece of fish at dinner. I say fresh wild fish or nothing at all. It may be too late, though, as this fish virus is on its way to contaminating the entire population of fish. Thanks for informing us to make better choices ... maybe vegetarian!

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If we do not solve these problems together, the occupation will feel welcome only to those who have a tolerance for using violence as a way of solving interpersonal conflict. The occupation relies on our working collectively whether we are housed or not, camping onsite or not, have other responsibilities or the freedom to be onsite 24/7. If the occupation is not welcoming to a wide diversity of people, it will not only fail to grow, it will not survive.

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Winter spells time off for field workers—and less money for food

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ELIA Fernandez walks cautiously to the middle of the room and glances at the exit sign before turning towards the 40 strangers awaiting her story. She stands behind the translator, Ann Lopez, and waits to be announced.

Fernandez is one of five field workers speaking at the Buena Vista Migrant Camp in Watsonville for a “Reality Tour” put on by Human Agenda, a human rights organization from San Jose.

“I’ve been working in the fields for 19 years,” she says to the room in Spanish. “My husband hurt his back in 2001. It’s been difficult to support the family since.”

She says that he needs an operation, but if it doesn’t go well he won’t be able to walk.

Fernandez also has five children to

feed. Her farmworker’s pay averages less than $13,000 a year and her husband is on disability. The whole family works hard, the children achieve 4.0’s in all their classes, she says, even though they have to change schools twice during the year because they are migrants.

In order to make ends meet, the Fernandez family takes advantage of many of the food distribution programs in Watsonville, a common practice for field workers. She cites Passion for Produce, a program started by Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County early last year.

It has evolved into much more than a free fruit stand for farmworkers.

“The grant was directed towards farm workers, but also open to anyone with low income,” says Teresa Moran, Nutrition Programs Manager at Second Harvest.

Not surprisingly, the condition of the farmworkers themselves fluctuates seasonally along with income, the coinciding physical work and the easy availability of good produce.

Dr. José A. Chibrás, chief medical officer at Salud Para La Gente, says that “during the winter months they gain weight, and the summer months they lose weight—undulating like a sine curve.”

Ronquillo, the clinic’s nutritionist, says the winter weight gain can be significant. “They gain weight easily, 10-20 pounds in the winter, since they eat foods with high fat and high sugar content, ” she says. She adds, “This is not about a lack of calories. It’s a lack of quality food.”

As nutritionists everywhere know, one of the cheap and easy fixes for people without much money to spend on nourishment is junk food.

Dana Wagner, assistant director at the county’s Women, Infants and Children office, notes that in this respect farmworkers are typical.

“Families that work in the fields tend to be our poorest families,” Wagner says.

“Like many poor in our country, the field workers will tend to eat convenient foods, fast foods, cheap foods.”

Dr. Chibrás points out a major difference, suspected but never confirmed, in the diets of Santa Cruz and Watsonville residents.

“Santa Cruz is completely different from Watsonville. Santa Cruz residents have more whole foods, and the amount of healthy food options may even be better than the rest of the U.S,” he says. “They cycle, walk, run, eat more fruits and vegetables. In Watsonville, when under financial strain, three hamburgers plus three kids equals $3, and in some corner markets, three apples plus three kids equals $3!”

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TOUCH BUT DON’T EAT As a group, farmworkers rely heavily on food distribution centers like Second Harvest to get by.

Through the program, 11 sites in Santa Cruz County offer classes on nutrition and bags of produce twice a month (the classes are required to get the produce). The classes range from diabetes prevention to demonstrations on how to prepare enchiladas without oil—all geared to educate farmworkers and other attendees.

“The reason Passion for Produce is so unique is it’s a peer–to–peer model—we recruit volunteers, even chefs from the community, lead them through the training so that they can lead the classes themselves,” says Brooke Johnson, Chief Operations and Program Officer at Second Harvest.

Like other food distributors in Watsonville, Moran, the nutritionist, notes that the need for food increases in the winter, when farmworkers are furloughed for the off-season, which runs roughly October through February. The need is particularly high for fresh produce.

“We know that farmworkers need produce because they will stand up in class to say, ‘Thank you so much for this,’” Moran says.

Maria Ronquillo, a nutritionist with Salud Para La Gente, agrees that the need is seasonally acute.

“I have a lot of people tell me they run out of food during the winter months,” she says.

Salud Para La Gente, which means “Health for the People,” is a medical clinic in Santa Cruz and North Monterey counties that generally serves Spanish-speaking, low-income families. The clinic partners with Second Harvest to provide food for clients every Wednesday at its main office in Watsonville. Of these clients, 86 percent are farmworkers.

That includes retired or disabled pickers.

“It’s really sad. It’s discouraging to pick food all day long for other peoples’ families and not be able to bring any home to your own,” says Johnson, the Food Bank’s COO.

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Dr. ChibrĂĄs and Ronquillo agree on the common ailments of farm workers in regard to their diets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have a high risk for obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s common to see in their children,â&#x20AC;? Ronquillo says.

Elia Fernandezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother and father in-law died last year. Both had diabetes and both worked in the fields until their fifties. Fortunately, the Fernandez children are healthy and do not have any problems to date.

Fernandez works hard in the fields and at home to provide nutritious food for her family. She stays up late during the week or spends weekends making potato tacos and bean and rice burritos for the week. Her combined kitchen/living room is virtually empty, with chairs lining the walls and a small yellow table with a large basket of fruit on top.

She is concerned about the meals being provided for free at her sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s school, Calabasas Elementary in Watsonville. She asks her son, Christian, to come out of the bedroom to talk about what food he gets at school.

He walks out to the room without hesitation or objection and reports that they usually serve pizza, hamburgers and, on that day, corn dogs. They sometimes offer bananas or apples, he says, but not often. Fernandez has spoken to one of his teachers about the unhealthy food options but has not heard of any proposed changes.

Right now she hopes the food distribution programs continue running because, she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;These services are important to me, they help my family very much.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It breaks my heart to see food insecurity among these people,â&#x20AC;?

Ronquillo says. Even with these services, farm workers are struggling to afford fresh food for their families.â&#x20AC;?

Says Dr. ChibrĂĄs, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Watsonville has a diverse agricultural base of broccoli, artichokes, lettuce. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ironic that we have all this produce and the laborers in the industry canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to buy it.â&#x20AC;?0

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The grand duchess of the environmental movement is back with a message for the times

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RANCES Moore LappĂŠ became a leading environmental figure in 1971 with the publication of her bestselling book Diet for a Small Planet. Four decades and 17 books later, her message is still relevant, as the response to her latest release, EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want, would suggest.

Between travel and prepping for EcoMindâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s promotional events (including the discussion she will be a part of at Cabrillo Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crocker Theater on Nov. 11), LappĂŠ took a moment to tell Santa Cruz Weekly that while a lot of the issues environmentalists debate today werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even on the radar when she first began (such as climate change), the root of our problems is exactly the same. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything is still framed in terms of creating self-defeating schemas,â&#x20AC;? she says. She thinks we actually have â&#x20AC;&#x153;so much evidence for the solutions that are right at hand.â&#x20AC;?

In EcoMind, LappĂŠ challenges seven of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;thought trapsâ&#x20AC;? environmentalists commonly pitch as what prevents us from resolving Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s woes. One such idea is that â&#x20AC;&#x153;weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve hit the limits of a finite earth,â&#x20AC;? meaning that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been living beyond our means and must now â&#x20AC;&#x153;power down.â&#x20AC;? LappĂŠ says this framing implies that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s necessary to lead less fulfilling lives if we care about the future of the planet;

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she then explains why this notion is wrong. She writes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because most people know they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t invited to the Too Good party, the message falls f lat. An effective and ecologically attuned goal is not about more or less. Moving from fixation on quantities, our focus shifts to what brings health, ease, joy, creativityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;more life.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first step is getting people to realize that the current metaphors arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t working,â&#x20AC;? LappĂŠ says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not saying that I have the final answer, but I do know that we have to think about these issues differently.â&#x20AC;? She continues, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing inexorableâ&#x20AC;? about the environmental problems at hand. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a matter of how we perceive them, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why the book is so full of solutions.â&#x20AC;?

LappĂŠ was initially worried about challenging the common environmentalist mindset for fear of offending advocates who are some of her biggest heroes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was nervous about publishing it because I knew it was heretical in some ways,â&#x20AC;? she says.

But, she says, referring to her

nervousness, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fear has potential to produce really good things.â&#x20AC;?

Her hesitation led her to send an email out to The Small Planet Institute (her organization) subscribers, saying that she would send the manuscript to, and solicit advice from, the first six people to respond. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got an overwhelmingly positive response,â&#x20AC;? she says. She calls EcoMind a â&#x20AC;&#x153;crowd-sourced bookâ&#x20AC;?; after posting a draft book on the website, she received â&#x20AC;&#x153;80 singlespaced pages of comments from people all over the world.â&#x20AC;?

Local author John Robbins, Transition Santa Cruz founder Michael Levy, and scientist and author Dr. Wallace J. Nichols will join LappĂŠ for the discussion.

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Real World Web Everything and everyone will be connected as the Internet moves offline

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At Tokyoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s busiest rail hub, men with briefcases and women with purses surge forward, swooshing their billfolds past a scanner. Tickets or tokens make no appearances.

Mohammad Khan, a man obsessed with the way people spend money, recalls about that moment in the Shinjuku Train Station: â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were just waving their purses, waving their wallets and passing through.â&#x20AC;?

Eventually, all anyone will need to pay their bills, Khan realized, is a mobile phone. Khan had just seen the future: the extinction of cash and credit cards.

That was nine years ago. The futureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now here.

The network has jumped out of our computers and into our wallets and phones and cars and household appliances. The transformative effect on the physical landscape will likely mirror the destruction of legacy communications technologies and information media during the past decade. And the spoils will accrue to the companies (or company) that can straddle multiple transaction points: the research query, the RFID chip in the sticker on the plate-glass window of the downtown store, the device in your hand and the checkout station on the counter. ¨ !

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For the past few months, the tech world has been buzzing about Google Wallet, a new app created by the advertising, media and search giant. For the first time in America, consumers now have the ability to use their smart phones as credit cards.

With a Samsung Nexus S 4G, people can leave their billfolds behind and buy anything from taxi rides to prescription drugs. All they have to do is hold the phone within an inch of a specialized scanner. A chip in the phone sends a signal to the scanner, which then passes the payment information on. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Empowering the consumer by putting a phone in their hand has become extremely important to daily life,â&#x20AC;? says Khan, now sitting in his office across the street from Santa Clara University. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I saw that [in Japan] and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This is the technology weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to use.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more of hassle to type into your phone,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why not do touch? Instead of pulling out paper coupons, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll just pull out my phone and make a payment with one touch.â&#x20AC;?

A Pakistani who immigrated to the United States in 1983, Khan is the president of ViVOtech, a company that has partnered with Google to redefine the way cell phones are used.

More than half of the card readers required to use Google Wallet are made by ViVOtech.

In the two decades before he went to Shinjuku, Khan helped his former Silicon Valley company, VeriFone, expand from a four-person shop to a multinational corporation. HP bought VeriFone in 1997 for $1.2 billion.

Thanks to Khan and other entrepreneurs, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible that just a few years from now, phones will be a cross between an electronic Swiss Army knife and a magic wand. Your diverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license, credit cards, medical insurance ID, house keys and gym card will all be bundled inside the plastic, glass and circuitry of a mobile device. With the digital wallet, Google has created a new form of commerceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;packaging search, marketing, advertising, coupons and now transactions.

Starbucks has already launched an

app that allows customers to wave their phones at cash registers to pay for their macchiatos. Banks and credit card companies have unveiled apps that directly link to accounts. Google and Foursquare, the leader in checkin social networking, are currently plastering tags on business windows in beta-launch cities across America so people can use their phones to check in and access reviews and digital coupons. Other companies, such as Earthmine, in Berkeley, are pioneering â&#x20AC;&#x153;visual browsing,â&#x20AC;? which allows people to point their phones at actual stores and products and see pop-ups with similar information.

The World Wide Web is making a subtle shift to the real wide world.

Objects linked to the Internet are starting to share information not only with people but also with each other. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not many people get it, but the digital world is coming to the physical environment,â&#x20AC;? Khan says, adding that phones arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only items that are being built with specialized computer chips and sensors.

In the future, everything will be chipped. Groceries will contain chips that identify an object, its price and expiration date. Shoppers wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to stop at a checkout lineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the store will recognize that a person has walked out with a gallon of milk and automatically transmit a signal that sends a charge to that personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s phone.

Ten days later, the refrigerator will note that the milk has gone bad.

The web will live in almost every objectâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;dormant, in a state of hibernation just waiting to be activated. Data will no longer sit inside a desktop or laptop computer; it will now be all over the room, on the streets, in our cars, on our bodies.

A Virtual Race A race is taking place among Silicon Valley tech companies big and small to harness two of the most important forms of technology of the future.

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become the focus of a cluster of startups as well as industry mainstays.

Smart phones are now being built with specialized NFC security chips that store and pass information with the help of receivers in close range.

NFC-enabled devices allow their owners to share contact information, websites, music and YouTube videos by putting the phones within a few inches of one another. Going beyond peer-to-peer sharing, NFC is now capable of making payments with Googleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s digital wallet.

This technology is still in its infancy, but Google is providing the most concrete example yet of how smart phones will supplant credit cards and cash. Drew Weinstein, CEO of Redwood Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;based Sequent, a pioneer in near-field communication technology, says the ultimate goal for NFC is to modify consumersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; daily routines. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Payment is a means to an end,â&#x20AC;?

Weinstein says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such an innovative moment in time, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s certainly not the most fundamentally disruptive use case for NFC. For us, that is a fundamental change in physical behavior.â&#x20AC;?

Weinsteinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business partner, Hans Reisgies, eats, sleeps and breathes NFC. Having headed business development for Mohammad Khan at ViVOtech for five years, Reisgies is now herding business development for Sequent.

Located across the street from Oracleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cylindrical towers, Sequent is a 40-person company created eight years ago to help smart-phone carriers and operating systems manage NFC. Weinstein and Reisgies, both in their 30s, formed Sequent with the stated goal of using the Internet to engage the physical world. NFC is one of the two ways in which this will occur.

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Google vs. Everyone When Google announced at a tech conference in May that it was throwing its considerable

influence into the expansion of NFC technology, the world took notice. Before acquiring Motorola last month so it could begin manufacturing its own smart-phone hardware, Google was already the global leader in search, advertising and smart-phone operating systems.

Realizing that Googleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Android operating system could allow it to completely dominate the emerging mobile-transactions industry, the ISIS consortium made a bold move this summer by partnering with Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express. ISIS hopes to unveil its own digital wallet early next year.

Google has partnered with a variety of companies. And creditcard companies such as Chase have already developed apps designed to keep their customer base intact, while merchants like Starbucks have created their own tailored packages for phones. PayPal also plans to enter the mix and has showcased a peer-topeer transaction program that allows people to pay one another through NFC. Established banks are still carefully considering their options. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a battle that will be fought on many fronts,â&#x20AC;? says Richard Crone, a 30-year veteran in the payment industry who runs his own consulting firm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Merchants, banks and brand new intermediariesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;like ISIS and Googleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;will all be fighting to enroll the customer.â&#x20AC;?

Having constant contact with a smart-phone user will allow companies to entice customers into a purchase through search or ads, facilitate the transaction with NFC and then make follow-up suggestions on similar or supplementary offers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The one who enrolls a customer for a mobile wallet will control the upside for advertising opportunity, the marketing and the cost to process the payment,â&#x20AC;? Crone says.

Crone Consulting predicts that within a few years, 75 percent of all American dollars spent at a cash register will move through mobile technology. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game-changing,â&#x20AC;? Crone says matter-of-factly.

Whether it is through mobile search, ads or social networking, companies that corner even a tiny ¨ %

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identificationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is a closely related technology that will work hand in hand with NFC to facilitate this behavioral change. Thinner than a piece of paper and smaller than a fingernail, RFID chips are already installed in many credit and debit cards, making magnetic strip swiping unnecessary.

A simple tap or wave does the trickâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the chips act as transmitter, receiver and antenna. Not long from now, RFID chips will begin to replace bar codes, as they are capable of storing far more information. â&#x20AC;&#x153;RFID and NFC are very similar concepts, because NFC uses RFID signals to communicate,â&#x20AC;? Reisgies says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For the very first time, Internet devices are now interacting with the physical environment, and that crossover is what makes the technology so special.â&#x20AC;?

The economic consequences for businesses promise to be massive.

Lewis Gersh, managing partner of the New York investment firm Metamorphic Ventures, says digital wallets are still several years away from being ubiquitous but adds that many companies are being lured into the chaotic scramble with dreams of a payoff.

Factions are forming, with each hoping to control the chipâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;known as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;secure elementâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;used in NFC-enabled devices. Google has come out of the gate first, but competitors are gaining.

Gersh compares the battle for dominating the NFC chip market to a hockey game, where the winners will be rich and the losers will fall by the wayside. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about getting the puck,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But are you going to see an empty net or a 6-foot-7 Russian with no vowels in his name who is going to take your fucking head off ?â&#x20AC;?

Whoever wins will have access to consumers before, during and after a transaction, an entirely new phenomenon in the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $28.5 billion online marketing and advertising industry.

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The question, he says, is whether Google is â&#x20AC;&#x153;looking to expand a $50billion ad market or tap in to the $2.4 trillion offline market. If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the former, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incredibly shortsighted.â&#x20AC;?

Googleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ultimate goal is to reach the local advertising market and have an â&#x20AC;&#x153;enrolled base,â&#x20AC;? according to Crone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those are two things they want,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A known geography and a registered user.â&#x20AC;?

That data is the reason Google joined the social network fray recently with Google+.

Earlier this spring, Facebook users noticed a strange welcome screen when they logged into their accounts.

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security screen. The landing page requested usersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; phone numbers, explaining that it would provide an extra layer of security.

The social network was offering to contact users by phone if there was unusual activity. But Facebook is also keenly aware that smart phones are the remote controls of the future, and possessing that piece of contact information for 750 million people would extend its franchise.

Anything posted on Facebookâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; photos, personal bios, messages, chat logs, fan pagesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;becomes part of the social network. And Facebook shares that information with its partners and advertising customers.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why, if a user likes a bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fan page, banner ads will start plugging upcoming CDs and concerts by that band.

Google similarly targets users with ads, either putting sponsored links above organic search results or draping display ads on pages based on a userâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s search history.

Both Facebook and Google understand that this highly specific data is priceless to the marketing and advertising industry, which wants nothing more than to contact blue-chip customers in the physical environment.

Delivering a more useful and enjoyable experience to the consumer is the best way for these companies to keep people coming back and make money. If Google or Facebook can tell that someone enjoys pizza but likes PETA based on their online activity, the chances of local offers for veggie combos being forwarded to that personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s phone will increase. NFC-enabled smart phones, along with the help of GPS, will allow people to seamlessly check-in and be targeted for discounts from proximate businesses.

There is reasonable concern that people are giving away too much information. But for some, the tradeoff is worth it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fact of the matter is we are all creatures of habit, and the more information a marketer has about you, the more likely you are to respond to it,â&#x20AC;? Swanson says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge privacy issue. But I think many people think trading

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fraction of the $6.2 trillion spent each year in America will reap major rewards, Crone says.

Lewis Gersh, who started exploring the potential growth of mobile payments seven years ago, says each group vying for control over NFC has its advantages and drawbacks.

But Google, he says, is in a unique position. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Google and you can actually get installed on these devices with a mobile wallet and GPS, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll know exactly where someone was and when they were there,â&#x20AC;? Gersh says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth an enormous amount in user data.â&#x20AC;?

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Intrusive marketing campaigns can also be added to the list. But some experts predict ads will be sent on an opt-in basis. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As the noise from advertisers increases, the tools we will have to turn that noise down will increase as well,â&#x20AC;? Swanson says.

Reanimating Utopia Rudy Rucker, a former SJSU professor and author of 30 science fiction novels, is known for crafting stories in which cyberpunks fight oppressive regimes, moon aliens and even machines. Rucker says there is something unnerving about the pervasive manner in which personal data and technology are being intertwined, and, as a result, serendipitous experiences become fewer and further between. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not so much virtual reality; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s augmented reality,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It changes the way you relate to the physical world, in a way thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not entirely good.â&#x20AC;?

There is a sense of security that is lost when digital wallets replace cash, and money is no longer exchanged for goods, Rucker says. But even the author who has imagined and depicted a dark science-fiction future is not ultimately concerned that NFC will lead to a technological dystopia. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you hear about the phones bumping things, and your money is taken out, it makes you a little queasy. But theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find a way to make it work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s become a layer of the world thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to go away,â&#x20AC;? Rucker says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to go away, we might as well enjoy it.â&#x20AC;?

Peter Hirshberg, chairman of the San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;based Re:imagine Group, estimates there are now a billion transistorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the heart and soul of any electronic deviceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for every person on the planet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And the exciting thing is that all of these devices will soon be able to communicate,â&#x20AC;? Hirshberg says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are 4.3 billion Internet connections, but about 2 billion of that number is people, and the rest are things.â&#x20AC;?

Cars, phones, TVs, toysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all of these are already being chipped or sensored so people can track their usage.

The fluid exchange of information between what were once inanimate objectsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;whether by NFC, RFID or other digital sensorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is growing at a rate thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult to comprehend because it can only be counted on an exponential scale.

In 15 to 20 years, Hirschberg says, more than a trillion digitized objects will have access to the Internet, linking every object in a household, garage and even a garden to a home grid, where information will be stored and analyzed.

The cookie jar will know how many times it has been opened in a day. The lawnmower, unused for weeks, will expect the grass to be taller than usual. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People will really efficiently manage their resources,â&#x20AC;? Hirshberg says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about to pop up in many different parts of our lives.â&#x20AC;?

While much of the technology is being crafted with a consumerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal use in mind, there are also global-scale consequences. Re:imagine Group has collaborated with the United Nations on technology that analyzes agricultural data and allows developing countries to anticipate food shortages. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re excited because we think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the next revolution,â&#x20AC;? Hirshberg says.

The advancements also aid other basic human needs. A healthier society, he says, is one of the most significant breakthroughs expected to take shape as the web establishes a physical presence. Prescription pill bottles, chipped in the cap, or running shoes with sensors on their soles will produce traceable data.

The more people interact with the Internet, the more they will want to monitor their progress, Hirshberg says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Americans are nuts about managing their weight or their health,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and anything that helps in measuring those incentives is going to be a big part of our lives.â&#x20AC;?

The goal of technology has always been to establish new human behaviors. But as the Internet moves offline and becomes part of the objects we touch, feel, see and hold, the web isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just changing routinesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it is transforming reality. 0

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RUSSIAN DOLLS The Prozorov sisters and their brother negotiate failed dreams and new love in ‘Three Sisters,’ at the Black Box Theater. married to Olga’s sister Masha (April Green). Irina (Crystelle Reola) also wants to work, lamenting at the outset the dull life of well-off women who rise at noon. Their brother, the violinplaying Andrei (Mark Bilovsky), shows promise as a scholar, but after marrying Natasha (Dina Silva), he settles into the colorless routine of a petty bureaucrat.

The arrival of Vershinin (the charming Erik Gandolfi), a dashing lieutenant colonel, is a breath of fresh air, and the melancholic Masha, weary of her older schoolteacher husband, falls hard. Green is excellent as the sad middle sister, conveying with an economy of gesture and expression the sorrow and need of a woman who feels betrayed by her marriage, even as her husband (sensitively portrayed by Peters) remains steady in his love.

Yet can love really be love if it is not returned? Adam Stanton and David Jackson turn in solid performances as two rival soldiers interested in Irina, men who seem not to care that she is not interested in them.

Chekhov’s play offers the texture of real life, in which even secondary characters have their own stories and value. Jean Weisz as the 80-year-old nanny Anfisa, Jim Schultz as the near-deaf and limping Ferapont and Chad Davies as the drunken doctor Chebutykin each imbue their vivid scenes with poignant realism and depth.

As time passes in the Prozorov

household, Andrei’s wife Nastasha becomes increasingly dominant and grasping for what little power there is to be had in this small corner of the world. On opening night, Silva was appropriately manipulative as Natasha; perhaps as the play’s run continues, she will dig even deeper into her character’s steely intent to rule her domestic kingdom.

Other pleasures of this production include the superb costumes, the wonderful moments of piano-playing and dancing and the evocative set design by Skip Epperson. The entire theater is surrounded by a forest of birch trees, painted onto hanging strips of translucent fabric. People come and go, time passes, while the Prozorovs spend their days in an atmosphere of enclosure and confinement. Yet a kinetic quality informs the clever multilevel use of the stage, as if the seeming busyness of daily life could obscure a deeper truth.

And what is that truth? “If only we could know!” Olga cries at the end, determined to carry on with the business of living yet without knowing why.

Three Sisters Through Nov. 19 at Cabrillo Black Box Theater Tickets $12-$18 at 831.479.6154

Periodically checking your pet at home for lumps and bumps is an easy and important responsibility of pet ownership. Running your hands over the entire body can help you identify a new bump or aid you in monitoring changes in formerly identified ones. Start by examining from the nose all the way to the tip of the tail. Rub your hands over the muzzle. Feel around the eyes. Run your fingers over each earflap. You . are trying to find any difference from one side to the other. Now work your fingers over the entire back, sides, chest and belly. If your pet has a heavy coat, it may take some work to get down to the skin level. Be sure to feel each limb from the shoulder or hips down to toes.

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Finding a lump or a bump is not a death sentence. There are many causes of lumps and bumps in addition to cancer. Simply contact your Veterinarian to set up an evaluation. There are several ways with which to determine the true identity of a mass. Usually a sample is taken. Sometimes the best course is to remove the entire area of concern and send it to a pathologist for study. Your pet’s doctor may also suggest that you merely monitor the bump for changes.

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ANTON Chekhov opens his brilliant play Three Sisters with a trick. Irina, the youngest daughter of the Prozorov family, is celebrating her Saint’s Day with family members, townspeople and soldiers. Irina is young, fresh-faced and beautiful, and the house and garden are garlanded with pink and white flowers. Everything about the occasion points to a spirit of youth and renewal.

Yet Irina’s mother and father are both in the ground; her brother-in-law gives her the same gift he gave her last year, a useless volume from the school where he teaches; and Irina’s deepest wish is to return to Moscow—the magical place where she believes her real life will begin. Time is marching on, but Irina, like the rest of the Prozorovs, feels left behind.

Chekhov employed a famously naturalistic style in his plays to explore the workings of loneliness and longing and the search for happiness. Light on plot, Three Sisters is mostly about the Prozorovs’ relationships—with the past, with an imagined future, with others and with themselves. At Cabrillo College’s versatile Black Box Theater, director Sarah Albertson has mounted a handsome production that emphasizes the dimensionality of these relationships and the turbulent emotions that lie under the surface. Working with a large and varied cast and with excellent technical support, Albertson’s intelligent direction keeps the action moving, even as Chekhov’s text reveals the stagnation underlying his characters’ lives.

The central drama is the sisters’ quest for happiness. Olga (Judith Wellner), works unhappily as a schoolteacher.

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Stage DANCE Emerging Choreographers Showcase The third annual event will feature choreography by Erin Price, Colette Kollewe, Frankie Rivera and Brance Souza.

Fri, Nov 11, 8pm and Sat, Nov 12, 8pm. $15. 418 Project, 418 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.466.9770.

Ocean A performance combining dance and mixed media to explore critical issues facing our world ocean. Fri, Nov 11, 8pm, Sat, Nov 12, 6:30pm and Sun, Nov 13, 2pm. $20$60. Spector Dance, 3343 Paul Davis Drive, Marina, 831.384.1050.

THEATER “blu” & “Poets Corner” 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.

Sat, Nov 12, 6:30pm. $7-$10.

Stevenson Event Center, 101 McLaughlin Drive, Santa Cruz, 831.459.1861.

An Evening with Mr. Johnson A man and his extremely opinionated penis argue about fidelity and other issues in a new play by Michael Matteo. Fri-Sat, 8pm. Thru Dec 3. $18-$20.

Paper Wing Theater, 320 Hoffman Ave, Monterey, 831.905.5684.

“The First Seed” & “Captivated” UCSC’s Rainbow Theater’s presents “The First Seed”

by Aman Gohal about an arranged marriage in South Asian communities and “Captivated” by Darryl C. Davis about a man imprisoned in a cage and subjected to a battery of tests by three female scientists. Fri, Nov 11, 6:30pm. $7-$10. Stevenson Event Center, 101 McLaughlin Drive, Santa Cruz, 831.459.1861.

CONCERTS December People One part tribute band, one part traditional holiday music, December People play what familiar holiday songs might sound like if they were made by rock icons of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Sat, Nov 12, 2 and 8pm. $29. World Theater, CSU Monterey Bay, Sixth Ave, Seaside, 831.582.4580.

Kander & Ebb A musical revue showcasing the songs of legendary Broadway song-writing 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.

Three’s Company Featuring three up and coming young artists in back-to-back performances of three concertos by three master composers—Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.

Sat, Nov. 12, 8pm at the Santa Cruz Civic, 307 Church St, Santa Cruz and Sun, Nov. 13, 2pm at the Mello Center, 250 East Beach St, Watsonville. Sat, Nov 12, 8pm and Sun, Nov 13, 2pm. $20-$65.

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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 13, 2pm. Thru Nov 19. $12-$18.

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

Davenport Gallery Voyages. Art about special journeys from renowned local artists. Artist reception Sat, Nov. 12, 4-7pm. Thru Nov 27.

Free. 450 Hwy 1, Davenport, 831.426.1199.

Louden Nelson Community Center Gallery Different Directions 4.

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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 Art League Works on Paper. Thru Nov 20.

Free. Wed-Sat, noon-5pm, Sun noon-4pm. 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, 831.426.5787.

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CONTINUING 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

Murder in Reel Time Murder-mystery dinner theatre by the Elf Empire Productions. Sun, Nov 13, 5:30pm. $45. Peachwood’s Grill and Bar, 555 Hwy 17, Santa Cruz, 831.426.6333.

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.

OPENING Cabrillo College Gallery Without Art. Artists respond to life without art in a multimedia exhibition featuring two- and threedimensional works, dance performances, theater and vocal performances. Opening reception on Thu, Nov. 17, 5-7pm. Nov 14-Dec 16. Free.

6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6308.

CONTINUING Claraty Arts TBD: To Be Disabled. Multiple installations, including “Face

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.

Sue Dee’s Sewing Center Embroidistry. Hand embroidered masterpieces reproducing well known artworks, album covers and original designs. Thru Nov 30.

Free. 222G Mount Hermon Rd, Scotts Valley.

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

Philippines, to name a few.

Thru Nov 30, 5-9pm. Free.

216 Fern St, Santa Cruz, 831.423.8786.

Events AROUND TOWN Autumn Artisans Faire Handcrafted birdhouses and hand-turned wooden bowls, locally made toffee and gourmet caramel apples, paintings, ceramics, photography, handbags, jewelry and more. Fri, Nov 11, 7-9pm and Sat, Nov 12, 10am-4pm. $5. Aptos Community United Methodist Church, Education Wing, 221 Thunderbird Dr, Aptos, 831.688.2210.

Black Ties & Red Roses A gala honoring winners of the 2011 Scotts Valley Community Awards. Sat, Nov 12, 6-10:30pm. $75.

Scotts Valley Hilton, 6001 La Madrona Dr, Scotts Valley, 831.438.1010.

Davenport Paddle Surf Contest All paddle-powered surf craft welcome. Prizes will be awarded to winners in the following categories: SUP, HP Kayak, IC Kayak, Women’s Kayak, Waveski, Women’s SUP and King of the Wave. Nov 12-13, 7am. Registration $25$75. Davenport Landing, Hwy 1, Davenport.

THROUGH 11/30

TITANGOS PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO 20TH ANNIVERSARY Photographer Paul Titangos has been the proprietor of a commercial photography studio for two decades. In the meantime, he has been traveling the world, capturing images of everything from Mother Teresa in Calcutta to both sides of Berlin before the wall fell. Personal photographs chronicling his travels will be on display throughout the month. Exhibit runs through Nov. 30 at Titangos Photography Studio, 216-A Fern St., Santa Cruz. 831.423.8786.

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

Mom’s Night Out A semi-monthly event for moms who want to go out, socialize, eat adult food and just finish a sentence. Thu, Nov 10, 6-9pm. Backstage Lounge, 1207 Soquel Ave at Seabright, Santa Cruz, 831.359.7130.

Trade as One Boutique Handmade gifts and products from survivors of HIV/AIDS, human trafficking, poverty, abuse and ex-gang members in the U.S. and around the world. Nov 12-13. Free. The Abbey, 350 Mission St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1058.

FILM My Brother Mike A collection of interviews between filmmaker Lisa Sheridan and her musician brother, who has struggled with mental illness his entire adult life. Screening of the film will be followed by a Q&A with the director. Thu, Nov 10. Nickelodeon Theatre, 210 Lincoln St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.7500.

Our Cinema Centennial A century ago, the first dramatic motion pictures were filmed in Santa Cruz: “A Diamond in the Rough” and “The Danites.” A screening, exhibit and lecture by historian Randall Brown will celebrate Santa Cruz’s early film history. Sat, Nov 12, 25pm. $5. Humanities Lecture Hall, UC-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, 831.459.1254.

LITERARY EVENTS Devik Schreiner The author of the novel Search a Darker Sky: A Cleft Mind will discuss his book.

Wed, Nov 16, 3pm. Free.

Scotts Valley Library, 230-D Mt. Hermon Rd, Scotts Valley, 831.420.5369.

Donald Young Young will read from his new novel, The Battle for Snow Mountain, about his experiences in the military during World War II, including The Battle of the Bulge, his capture, POW release and march to freedom. Thu, Nov 10, 7:30pm. Free. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

Drop-in Poetry An on-going group welcoming

newcomers and drop-ins. All levels and ages encouraged.

Fri, Nov 11, 7-9pm. $10.

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

for today’s authors. Sat, Nov 12, 5-7pm. Free. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

Lawrence Weschler

Playhouse, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz.

Special Preview: A Year with Frog and Toad

A workshop using poetry and prose as a means of exploring issues around adoption.

Fri, Nov 11, 9:30-11am. $15.

Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.252.5776.

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.

A preview event featuring a presentation by director Art Manke and musical performances by the cast from Shakespeare Santa Cruz/UCSC Theatre Department. Sat, Nov 12, 10am. Free. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

E-Reader Petting Zoo

A Memoir Writing Workshop

Susie Bright

Readers are invited to try out different devices, get support with technical questions and hear about the ways to enjoy reading while supporting local independent bookstores.

Wed, Nov 16, 7:30pm. Free.

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

Gail Burk of the Santa Cruz Genealogical Society leads a series of six workshops focused on weaving personal history with the craft of writing. Wed, Nov 16. Free.

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

The author (most recently of the memoir Big Sex Little Death) and performer also known as Susie Sexpert will appear as part of UCSC’s Living Writers series. Thu, Nov 10, 6-7:45pm. Free. Humanities Lecture Hall, UC-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, 831.459.4778.

Drop-in Writing Workshop for Adoptive Moms

Fariba Nawa The author will read, discuss and sign copies of her book, Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman’s Journey Through Afghanistan.

Sun, Nov 13, 5pm. Free.

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

Launch Your Book in 2012 Devorah Harris, formerly of Harper & Row and Houghton Mifflin Publishers, presently of the Monterey County literary agency Author’s Launching Pad, will speak about avenues

Scott Wallace The National Geographic writer will read, discuss and sign copies of his book The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes. Wed, Nov 9, 7:30pm.

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

Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts Open mic followed by a bout featuring Ava Bird, Lauren Cruz, John Laue, Leon Petty, Paul Corman Roberts and Donald Young. Hosted by Yaryan. Wed, Nov 16, 7pm. $5 suggested donation. Broadway

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

LECTURES The Art of Entertaining: Tasting Workshop An interactive workshop on the art of entertaining featuring a four-course tasting menu of wines

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Support your local Certified Green Businesses

Look for the Green Business Logo!

Changing Tides: A Historic Tour of Santa Cruz Coastal Lagoons

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Family Art Saturday: Play With Your Food Printmaking and linoleum cuts with Denise Shaw.

Sat, Nov 12, 10am-12pm and 1-3pm. $10. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

For more information about the Monterey Bay Area Green Business Program, contact your local Santa Cruz County Coordinator

Francis Moore Lappe

Freedom Forum: Who Declared a War on Health?

A discussion of the safety and legality of GMOs, nutritional supplements, vaccines and medical marijuana. Wed, Nov 16, 7pm. Free. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz.

History & Philosophy of Herbal Medicine UCSC professor Dr. Paul Lee will trace the history of herbal medicine over the centuries from Ancient Greece to the present time. Sat, Nov 12, noon-4pm. $45. College of Botanical Healing Arts, 1821 17th Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.462.1807.

Ken Norris Memorial Lecture Panelists John Laird, JoeBen Bevirt and Peter Nelson and moderator Gary Griggs will explore the current prospects of deriving renewable energy from the ocean. Thu, Nov 10, 9pm. Free. Seymour Discovery Center, 100 Shaffer Rd, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3800.

Researchers Anonymous: Round Table A round table discussion for people interested in Santa Cruz County history.

Bring questions, current projects and ideas. Sat, Nov 12, 11am-1pm. Free.

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

(831) 477-3976 the City of Santa Cruz Coordinator

(831) 420-5086 or your local San Benito County Coordinator

(831) 636-4110

SATURDAY-SUNDAY 11/12-13

THREE’S COMPANY The Santa Cruz Symphony’s second concert of the season follows the rule of three: a trio of emerging artists—Chetan Tierra, Aaron Miller and Nikki Chooi (pictured)—will perform a triptych of concertos by a triad of master composers: Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. Saturday, Nov. 12, 8pm at the Santa Cruz Civic, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz and Sunday, Nov. 13, 2pm at the Mello Center, 250 East Beach St., Watsonville. Tickets $20-$65, 831.420.5260 or SantaCruzTickets.com.

NOTICES Beginning Bridge Lessons Come alone or bring a partner. For more information contact Peggy Dilfer, padilfer@sbcglobal. net. Wed, 7-9pm. Thru Nov 9. First lesson free, $10 thereafter. Santa Cruz Bridge Center, 720 Capitola Ave., Capitola.

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

SC Diversity Center The Diversity Center provides services, support and socializing for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and questioning individuals and their allies. Diversity Center, 1117 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.425.5422.

Stitchers-by-the-Sea Meeting The local chapter of

Embroiderers’ Guild of America meets and weaves yarns; public welcome. Second Wed of every month, 7pm. Free.

Dominican Hospital Rehab Center, 610 Frederick St, Santa Cruz, 831.475.1853.

Support and Recovery Groups Alzheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Assn., 831.464.9982. Cancer: Katz Cancer Resource Center, 831.351.7770; WomenCARE, 831.457.2273.

Candida: 831.471.0737.

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

Lupus: Jeanette Miller, 831.566.0962.

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

Trans Latina women: Mariposas, 831.425.5422.

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

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5500 Scotts Valley Dr., Scotts Valley (831) 438-8939

Lloyd’s Tire Service

Professional Touch

Mick’s Automotive

303 River St., Santa Cruz (831) 426-4363

5500 Scotts Valley Dr., Scotts Valley (831) 438-8939

1257 Thompson Ave., Santa Cruz (831) 464-6855

GREEN AUTO REPAIR

2335 Soquel Dr., Santa Cruz (831) 476-1332

Alan Rice Automotive

Opal Cliffs Auto Center

3545 Soquel Dr., Soquel (831) 475-4774

4001 Portola Dr., Santa Cruz (831) 475-0284

Car Care Center

Pearce European & Japanese

2852 A Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz (831) 479-4777

3301 Portola Dr. #6, Santa Cruz (831) 476-2477

Chevrolet of Watsonville

Randy’s Auto Repair, Inc.

Nate Smith’s Optimal Auto Care

1125 17th Ave., Santa Cruz (831) 462-0336

490 Auto Center Drive, Watsonville (831) 722-4122

Rick’s Auto Shop

Cruz Car Wash

1050 B 17th Ave., Santa Cruz (831) 475-2470

DMV Clinic

Rusty’s Honda & Mazda Repair 318 River St., Santa Cruz (831) 458-9445

2731 41st Ave., Capitola (831) 476-7246 2335 Soquel Dr. Suite G, Santa Cruz (831) 462-4436

Scotts Valley Transmission & Auto Care 5346 Scotts Valley Drive, Scotts Valley (831) 438-0402

Gino’s Carco Santa Cruz Auto Recycling 3315 Portola Dr., Santa Cruz (831) 475-4113

Green Motors 1823 Soquel Ave., Ste. B, Santa Cruz (831) 475-5873

Henderson Automotive

Specialized Auto 2415 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz (831) 462-3458 Toyota of Santa Cruz 4200 Auto Plaza Dr., Capitola (831) 462-4200

982 17th Ave., Santa Cruz (831) 464-8667

L&M Auto Repair

Water Star Motors 318 A River St., Santa Cruz (831) 457-0996

27 1st St., Watsonville (831) 724-4118

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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.

Santa Cruz Veterinary Hospital

50 years of caring for pets and their people

Dr. Cheryl Dembner has been a part of the SCVH family for

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.

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Local historian Norman Poitevin will lead a tour through time of three neighborhood tidal lagoons. Sat, Nov 12, 9am. $10-$15. Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, 1305 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, 831.420.1168.

Frances Moore Lappé is the author of 18 books including the threemillion copy Diet for a Small Planet. Lappé will discuss her recent work, EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think to Create the World We Want. Fri, Nov 11, 6:30pm. $8-$12.

Cabrillo College Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.462.4415.

Support your local Certified Green Businesses

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and sophisticated, easy-to-make artisanal appetizers. Thu, Nov 10, 6:30pm. $15/$20. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

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24 Celebrating Creativity Since 1975

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” 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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BANJOHENGE Greensky Bluesgrass

plays the Catalyst this Friday.

THURSDAY | 11/10

FRIDAY | 11/11

FRIDAY | 11/11

BLUES BROADS

JAY FARRAR

A contemporary blues supergroup, the Blues Broads are made up of a diverse collection of artists who have all made significant contributions to popular music. Dorothy Morrison co-wrote and sang on the Edwin Hawkins Singers’ mega-hit “Oh Happy Day”; Tracy Nelson founded and led the legendary group Mother Earth; Angela Strehli is an acclaimed blues singer and historian; Annie Sampson was a longtime cast member of Hair and member of the rock band Stoneground; and frequent guest and multi-instrumentalist Deanna Bogart adds her lively touch to the group’s sound—which is soulful, informed and aged to perfection. Kuumbwa; $22 adv/$25 door; 7:30. (Cat Johnson)

Being a founding member—along with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy—of firstwave alt-country band Uncle Tupelo is a blessing and a curse for Jay Farrar.

He has mountains of Americana credibility and will always be regarded as a genre-breaking artist, but he also has everything he ever writes held up to songs he wrote 20-plus years ago.

His post-Uncle Tupelo music, including albums with Son Volt, a handful of solo releases and a soundtrack project with Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, reveals an artist who is firmly planted in punk and country rock but has matured into a singer/songwriter with a feel for nuance, experimentation and variety. Rio Theatre; $16; 8pm. (CJ)

GREENSKY BLUEGRASS A night of back-to-back bluegrass brings fans a twangy pairing of two five-man bands, Greensky Bluegrass and Hot Buttered Rum. Hot Buttered Rum first formed as a traditional bluegrass acoustic band but has since plugged in. Known for easygoing classic covers of the Beatles, Bob Marley and more, they keep listeners bouncing with a light, poppy sound.

Some of Greensky Bluegrass’ acoustic songs, on the other hand, take on slightly darker themes and sounds. After 11 years of playing as many as 175 shows a year, they’ve honed improvisational skills, perfected the lengthy jam and, on the new album Handguns, brought brooding lyricism to the big time. The Catalyst; $15 adv/$20 door; 9pm. (Samantha Larson)

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SATURDAY | 11/12

KOFFIN KATS These punk paradoxes are not to be ignored. With a classic country voice, lead singer Vic Victor yells fast songs about wanting to see his sweetheart â&#x20AC;&#x153;six feet undergroundâ&#x20AC;? over surf rock riffs reminiscent of the Venturesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; transcending both music genres and generations. Imagine if Glen Campbell took cocaine and joined the Beach Boys.

These Kats are bringing their short songs, screaming vocals and lightning-quick

Steel Pulse

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Nov. 10 at Catalyst

YOUNG DUBLINERS

SUNDAY | 11/13

Nov. 30 at Moeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alley

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After learning how to sing in his local church choir, Jamaican-born reggae star Cornel Campbell got his first big break in 1956 when he recorded his first single, â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Treasure,â&#x20AC;? at age 11.

Once out on the scene, he was part of several bands through the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s, shifting styles as Jamaican music evolved from rhythm and blues to ska. Campbell launched his solo career in 1973 with his self-titled debut album (on which his name was misspelledâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a misprint heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still trying to shake). Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now best known for the trademark falsetto voice he uses to sing sweet love songs. Moeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alley; $15 adv/$20 door; 9pm. (SL)

stand-up bass-plucking to Santa Cruz, where they will be joined by local heroes Stellar Corpses. With a reasonable price tag, the eight-year-old Detroit psychobilly bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s show will be a steep thrill at a notso-steep price. The Catalyst; $10 adv/ $12 door. (Jacob Pierce)

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SATURDAY | 11/12

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LITTLE SCREAM Indie-pop multi-instrumentalist Little Scream, a.k.a. Laurel Sprengelmeyer, started her career as an acoustic musician, working her magic on the guitar, violin and keys. Now more of an art-rocker, the Iowa-born, Montrealbased artist makes layered and unpredictable music that showcases her technical chops, creative vision and timeless style. She garners comparisons to contemporary pop stars such as Feist, but one gets the sense that she could do justice to just about any genre. Her latest release, The Golden Record, features an all-star backing band including members of Silver Mt. Zion, Arcade Fire and the National. Crepe Place; $10; 9pm. (CJ)

SUNDAY | 11/13

BIG SANDY AND HIS FLY-RITE BOYS Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to â&#x20AC;&#x153;drop the needle in the

UNCLE JAY Alt-country hero Jay Farrar at the Rio

Dec. 3 at Rio Theatre

CAVE SINGERS

Dec. 7 at Crepe Place

MOTHER HIPS

Dec. 10 at Don Quixoteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

groove and start to move,â&#x20AC;? sings frontman Big Sandy in the first song on their 2006 release Turntable Matinee. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taking rock & roll back to its roots, playing songs reminiscent of the styles of the late 1940s and early 1950s, including rockabilly, swing and country boogie. As true revivalists, they do their rocking out on time-period authentic instruments; rumor has it theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve even been confused for a walking time machine. But theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not just a novelty actâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they immerse themselves in the genre but end up making the music their own. Don Quixoteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; $10; 1pm. (SL)

MONDAY | 11/14

DJANGO REINHARDT ALL-STARS The father of the Quintette du Hot Club de France and the gypsy swing style of Django Reinhardt is honored by tributes around the world (like Monterey Bayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Hot Club Pacific) and festivals like the New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Django Reinhardt Festival.

It is from the latter that this gumbo of Django devotees comes, including Mayo Hubert on rhythm guitar, Ludovic Beier on accordion, Pierre Blanchard on violin, Xavier Nikci on double bass and, front and center, Dorado Schmitt strumming lead guitar, singing and playing some violin. The All-Stars will stir up some classics from Reinhardtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s catalog and fold in new compositions in the gypsy swing style. Kuumbwa; $25 adv/$28 door; 6pm.

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Science Fiction Jazz

Ash Reiter

and the Lilac Field

Her Band of Gold

CROWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NEST

Coldwater Classic

Ancestree

The Spell

Dub FX

Reggae Night

Aloha Fridays

College Night

Hawaiian Music

live acoustic

2218 East Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz

Party

CYPRESS LOUNGE

Get Rad Wednesdays

120 Union St, Santa Cruz

Surf Industry Night

Professor Burns

DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE

The CofďŹ s Brothers

Ugly Beauty

1 Davenport Ave, Santa Cruz

Nov 16 Lotus Atrium (Ages 16+) Nov 17 Zeds Dead â&#x20AC;&#x153;Liveâ&#x20AC;? (Ages 18+) Nov 17 Freddie Gibbs Atrium (Ages 16+) Nov 18 The Devil Wears Prada (Ages 16+) .OV Stephen Stills (Ages 21+) .OV Murs Atrium (Ages 16+) Dec 2 Tribal Seeds (Ages 16+) $EC The Expendables (Ages 16+) Dec 11 Jonathan Richman (Ages 21+) Dec 18 Streetlight Manifesto Reel Big Fish (Ages 16+) Dec 20 Brian Setzer (Ages 21+) Dec 30 & 31 The Devil Makes Three (Ages 21+)

FINS COFFEE

RIO THEATRE

Jay Farrar

Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

1205 Soquel, Santa Cruz

of Son Volt

Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 866-384-3060 & online

SEABRIGHT BREWERY

www.catalystclub.com

SAT 11/12

THE ABBEY

Marty Atkinson

Gene Fintz

1104 Ocean St, Santa Cruz

& Friends Acoustic Night

HOFFMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAKERY CAFE

Preston Brahm Trio

Mapanova

Isoceles

The Blues Broads

Keith Greeninger

Deby Benton Grosjean

1102 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER

with Gary Montrezza

Crooked Still

320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

MAD HOUSE BAR & COCKTAILS

and Dayan Kai

Mad Jam

DJ AD

DJ Marc

529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

Bring your instrument

Rainbow Room

Cruzing

Church

MOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ALLEY

Great American Taxi

Wunmi

The California

Cornel Campbell

1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

Windy Hill

The Courteous Rudies

Honeydrops

MOTIV

DJ Tom LG

Libation Lab

Charly Fusion

1209 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

Atom & Evil

with AL-B

RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

519 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

DJ E

C-FLO

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Trevor Davis

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Rock This Party

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Wet & Reckless

Western Skylarks

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Jazz Jam

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THE CATALYST 831.423.1336

CLOUDS 831.429.2000

Little Scream

Movie Nite

7 Come 11

Bobby, Eliza Rickman

CREPE PLACE

BEETHOVEN BEETHO VEN

831.429.6994

Live Comedy

CROWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NEST

VIIOLIN OLIN CO ONCERTO NCERTO

831.476.4560

Unwind All Night DJ Jahi

CofďŹ s Brothers

CYPRESS LOUNGE

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DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE 831.426.8801

Geese in the Fog

FINS COFFEE 831.423.6131

Dana Scruggs Trio Remembering

Joe Leonard Trio

Barry Scott

HOFFMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAKERY CAFE

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831.420.0135

Dorado Schmitt

PIIANO A NO CO ONCERTO NCERTO NO.1

831.427.2227

DJ Chante Neighborhood Night

The Syncopaths

Rich Robinson

MAD HOUSE BAR & COCKTAILS MOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ALLEY

Terminal

Two$days

MOTIV

w/ Darie Jouras

with DJ AD

831.479.5572

RED 831.425.1913

RIO THEATRE 831.423.8209

Neighborhood Night

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831.425.2900 831.479.1854

Moombahton

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KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER

to Remember

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 831.426.2739

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Wednesday November 9th 9pm $10/15 CD Release Celebration With

GREAT AMERICAN TAXI + WINDY HILL Thursday November 10th 8:30pm $9/12

Afrobeat Funk & Soul Dance Party

WUNMI + THE COURTEOUS RUDIES Friday November 11th 9pm $12/15

APTOS / CAPITOLA / RIO DEL MAR / SOQUEL BRITANNIA ARMS

THU 11/10

FRI 11/11

Karaoke

Karaoke

The Ploughman

THE FOG BANK

Karaoke Sound Co

Deep Stone

Vinny Johnson Band

211 Esplanade, Capitola

MARGARITAVILLE

HipShake

221 Esplanade, Capitola

MICHAELâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS

215 Esplanade, Capitola

Karaoke

PARADISE BEACH GRILLE SANDERLINGS

Extra Lounge

Lou Deluca

Johnny Fabulous George

Dizzy Burnett

1 Seascape Resort Dr, Rio del Mar

Don McCaslin &

7500 Old Dominion Ct, Aptos

The Amazing Jazz Geezers

SHADOWBROOK

J.E.D.D. Brothers

The Little Big Band

Joe Ferrara

Frank Sorci

1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

CORNEL CAMPBELL

THE UGLY MUG

Christie McCarthy

Mosephus Media

4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel

and Friends

Release Party

Sunday November 13th 8pm $12/15

High Energy Celtic & Folk Music

THE SYNCOPATHS Tuesday November 15th 9pm $15

(((folk-YEAH!))) presents a CD Release With

1400 Wharf Rd, Capitola

ZELDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

The Joint Chiefs

203 Esplanade, Capitola

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

Corrine West

6275 Hwy 9, Felton

& Kelly Joe Phelps

HENFLINGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TAVERN

Go Kart Mozart

CILANTROâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

Hippo Happy Hour

1934 Main St, Watsonville

MOSS LANDING INN

Open Jam

Hwy 1, Moss Landing

Thursday November 17th 8:30pm $12/15

California Country Music featuring LEBO, STEVE ADAMS, DAVE BROGAN, SCOT LAW, NICKI & TIM BLUHM

BROKEDOWN IN BAKerSFIELD Friday November 18th 9pm $20/25

Partially Seated Solo Concert With

JOE ELY + SUNNY WAR

December 8th December 10th December 11th December 13th December 14th December 15th

WWW.MOESALLEY.COM 1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz 831.479.1854

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The Mighty Pines

Mariachi Ensemble

KDON DJ Showbiz

& KDON DJ SolRock

BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR + WOOSER

November 30th December 1st December 2nd December 3rd December 6th December 7th

Bump City Tower of Power Tribute

WATSONVILLE / MOSS LANDING

Rock, Funk & Soul Double Bill

November 29th

Extra Lounge

9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond

Wednesday November 16th 8:30pm $9/12

LUTAN FYAH MIGHTY MIKE SCHERMER HARRY & THE HITMEN BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING CO. NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE + MOONALICE BUSTER BLUE, THE COFFIS BROTHERS & TYLER MCCOY YOUNG DUBLINERS + WILD ROVERS ACEYALONE, AESOP, Z-MAN TOMMY MALONE MIGHTY DIAMONDS MARCO BENEVENTO TRIO PERTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; NEAR SANDSTONE + NORTH PACIFIC STRING BAND DRAGONSMOKE + 7 COME 11 w/ALAN EVANS ORGĂ&#x201C;NE LEE â&#x20AC;&#x153;SCRATCHâ&#x20AC;? PERRY OUTLAW NATION + HONEYBOY CARENCRO THE KLEZMATICS BILLY MARTIN & WILL BLADES DUO

Velvet Plum Laura Price

RICH ROBINSON

November 19th November 20th November 23rd November 25th November 27th

In Three

& Grover Coe

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

THE WHARF HOUSE

+ THE FULLY FULLWOOD ALL-STARS, COASTAL SAGE & DJ SPLEECE

The Breeze Babes Hoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;omana

Saturday November 12th 9pm $15/20 Jamaican Roots Reggae Party

SAT 11/12

8017 Soquel Dr, Aptos

Soul, Blues, Second Line, New Orleans Jazz

+ QUINN DEVEAUX

WED 11/9 Trivia Quiz Night Nig

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APTOS / CAPITOLA / RIO DEL MAR / SOQUEL BRITANNIA ARMS 831.688.1233

Pam Hawkins

Game e Night

Pro Jam

THE FOG BANK 831.462.1881

MARGARITAVILLE 831.476.2263

Jay Alvarez

MICHAELâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ON MAIN 831.479.9777

Lisa Taylor

PARADISE BEACH GRILLE

& Soul City

831.476.4900

SANDERLINGS 831.662.7120

Johnny Fabulous Dance Lessons

SEVERINOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAR & GRILL 831.688.8987

SHADOWBROOK 831.475.1511

THE WHARF HOUSE 831.476.3534

Open Mic with Jordan

Movie Night 7:45 pm start time

THE UGLY MUG 831.477.1341

ZELDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 831.475.4900

SCOTTS VALLEY / SAN LORENZO VALLEY Big Sandy

Kiran Ahluwalia

& His Fly-Rite Boys

Cindy Edwards

DON QUIXOTEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 831.603.2294

Karaoke with Ken

and the Road Hogs

HENFLINGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TAVERN 831.336.9318

WATSONVILLE / MOSS LANDING Santa Cruz Trio

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Film Capsules NEW CAPS 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. (FriSat midnite at Del Mar) IMMORTALS (R; 110 min.) 3-D action adventure flick loosely based in Greek mythology.

Zeus chooses Theseus (Henry Cavill), a mortal, to lead the fight against the Titan

Hyperion (Mickey Rourke)— the ruthless king who has declared war on humanity.

(Opens Fri at Aptos, Santa Cruz 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley)

J. EDGAR (R; 137 min.)

Clint Eastwood directs this biographical drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI from 1935 to 1971. Also starring Armie Hammer and Naomi Watts. (Opens Fri at Aptos, Scotts Valley and Green Valley) JACK AND JILL (PG; 91 min.)

SHOWTIMES

Adam Sandler stars as Jack Sadelstein, successful advertising executive who’s got it all, and as Jack’s goofy twin sister Jill, who manages to wreak havoc on Jack’s life when she comes for her dreaded annual Thanksgiving visit. (Opens Fri at Santa Cruz 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley)

LOVE CRIME (NR; 106 min.)

It seemed that Isabelle had landed a dream job in a large U.S. multinational corporation, but murderous plots emerge after enough manipulation

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

by her boss, Christine (Kristin Scott Thomas). By the French director Alain Corneau. (Opens Fri at Nickelodeon)

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. (Wed 11/16 at Santa Cruz 9) PAVAROTTI: THE DUETS (NR; 70 min.) The late great tenor teams up with pop stars including Sting, Bryan Adams

and Sheryl Crow. (Thu at Del Mar)

SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004; R; 97 min.) Shaun is a 29year-old salesman with no life direction. Though he thinks he’s got enough on his plate just dealing with his relationship with his girlfriend, his mother and his stepfather, an apocalyptic zombie uprising forces him to rise to something even more trying.

(Thu at Santa Cruz 9) THE SKIN I LIVE IN (R; 120 min.) Haunted by his wife’s horrible auto accident, a plastic

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Nov. 9, through Wednesday, Nov. 16, unless otherwise indicated.

Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

APTOS CINEMAS 122 Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos 831.688.6541 www.thenick.com Immortals — (Opens Fri) 3; 5:15; 7:30; 9:45 plus Fri-Sun 12:45.

J. Edgar — (Opens Fri) 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:40 plus Fri-Sun 11am.

The Rum Diary — Wed-Thu 1:50; 4:20; 6:50; 9:20.

Sarah’s Key — Wed-Thu 2:20; 4:40; 7; 9:20.

CINELUX 41ST AVENUE CINEMA 1475 41st Ave., Capitola 831.479.3504 www.cineluxtheatres.com A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas — Daily 12:30; 2:45; 5:15; 7:45; 10:10.

Puss in Boots 3D — Daily 11:55; 2:30; 4:45; 7; 9:20.

Tower Heist — Daily 11:45; 2:15; 4:55; 7:30; 10.

DEL MAR 1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com The Skin I Live In — (Opens Fri) 1:50; 4:30; 7; 9:20 plus Sat-Sun 11:20am.

Anonymous — Daily 1:40; 4:15; 6:50; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am and Wed 11/9 11am.

Paranormal Activity 3 — Wed-Thu 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; Fri-Wed 2; 4; 6;

8; 10 plus Sat-Sun noon.

Ghostbusters — Fri-Sat midnight.

NICKELODEON Lincoln and Cedar streets, Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com Love Crime — (Opens Fri) 2:30; 4:50; 7:10; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 12:10pm.

Margin Call — (Opens Fri) 1:40; 4:10; 6:40; 9 plus Sat-Sun 11:10am.

Blackthorn — Wed-Thu 5; 9:40.

Margin Call — Wed-Thu 1:40; 4:10; 6:40; 9.

Martha Marcy May Marlene — Wed-Thu 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed 2; 4:30;

7; 9:40 plus Sat-Sun 11:30am.

Take Shelter — 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 Immortals 3D — (Opens Fri) 1:45; 2:40; 4:20; 5:20; 7; 8; 9:40; 10:40 plus

Sat-Sun 11:10 and noon.

Jack and Jill — (Opens Fri) 2:30; 5:10; 7:45; 10:10 plus 11:50am.

50/50 — Fri-Wed 4:10; 9:50. (No Wed 9/16 9:50).

A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas — Wed-Thu 3:20; 5; 5:35; 7:25; 8; 9:40; 10:25; Fri-Wed 2; 4:50; 7:50; 10:20 plus Sat-Sun 11:30am.

The Ides of March — Wed-Thu 2:20; 4:45; 7:15; 9:45.

In Time — Fri-Wed 1:50; 4:25; 7:05; 10:30 plus Sat-Sun 11:05.

Moneyball — Wed-Thu 1; 4; 7; 10; Fri-Wed 1; 6:50. (No Thu 7pm or Wed 11/16 6:50)

Puss in Boots — Wed-Thu 1:30; 4:15; 6:45; 9:30; Fri-Wed 1:40; 4:05; 6:30;

8:55 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Puss in Boots 3D — Wed-Thu 2;40; 5:15; 7:30; 10:10; Fri-Wed 2:20; 5; 7:30;

9:55 plus Sat-Sun 11:40am.

Real Steel — Wed-Thu 1:10.

Three Musketeers — Wed-Thu 4:20; 9:55.

Three Musketeers 3D — Wed-Thu 1:35; 6:55.

Tower Heist — Wed-Thu 2:30; 5:05; 7:40; 10:15; Fri-Wed 1:55; 4:35; 7:15; 10 plus Sat-Sun 11:20am.

Shaun of the Dead — Thu 8pm.

The Met: Don Giovanni — Wed 11/16, 6:30pm.

CINELUX SCOTTS VALLEY 6 CINEMA 226 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley 831.438.3260 www.cineluxtheatres.com Immortals — (Opens Fri) 11:55; 2:30; 5:10; 7:45; 10:20.

Immortals 3D — (Opens Fri) 1:45; 7:10; 10.

J. Edgar — (Opens Fri) 11; 12:15; 2:10; 3:30; 5:20; 6:45.

Jack and Jill — (Opens Fri) 11:55; 2:20; 4:40; 7; 9:20.

A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas — Fri-Wed 2:45; 8; 10:15.

A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas — Wed-Thu 12:30; 3; 5:20;

7:40; 10; Fri-Wed 11:30; 4:30.

Dolphin Tale — Wed-Thu 11:10; 1:45; Fri-Wed 11:55; 5:15.

Footloose — Wed-Thu 4:20; 9:40.

In Time — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2:10; 4:45; 7:20; 10.

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

Puss in Boots — Wed-Thu 11:40; 2; 4:30; 7; 9:20; Fri-Wed 11:40; 2; 4:20; 6:45; 9.

Puss in Boots 3D — Wed-Thu 11:15; 1:30; 4; 6:15; 8:30; Fri-Wed 12:15; 2:30;

4:55; 7:20; 9:30.

The Rum Diary — Wed-Thu 12:45; 3:45; 7; 9:45.

The Three Musketeers — Wed-Thu 7:10.

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

Tower Heist — Daily 11:45; 2:20; 4:55; 7:30; 10.

The Way — Wed-Thu 1; 4; 6:45; 9:30.

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

J. Edgar — (Opens Fri) 3:50; 6:45; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 1pm.

Jack and Jill — (Opens Fri) 1; 3; 5:05; 7:15; 9:40 plus Fri-Sun 11am.

A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas — Fri-Wed 1; 5:05 9:40.

A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas — Wed-Thu 3; 7:15; 9:40; Fri-

Wed 3; 7:15 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Tower Heist — Daily 1:30; 4; 7:15; 9:40 plus 11:15am.

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

Footloose — Wed-Thu 1:30; 4; 7; 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:30; 4 plus Fri-Sun 11am.

Paranormal Activity 3 — Wed-Thu 1; 3; 5:05; 7:15; 9:40; Fri-Wed 7:15; 9:40.

Puss in Boots — Daily 1; 5:05; 9:30.

Puss in Boots 3D— Daily 3; 7:15 plus Fri-Sun 11am.

Real Steel — Wed-Thu 1:35; 4:10; 7; 9:40.

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 Clooneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stiff adaptation of Beau Willimonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t start to get exciting until far too late in the game, when we get the confrontation weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been promised between Myersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hero worship and Morrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ruthlessness. (RvB) IN TIME (PG-13; 115 min.) In a future where the â&#x20AC;&#x153;aging geneâ&#x20AC;? 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 societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s currency. Starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried.

MARGIN CALL (R; 105 min.)

A 107-year-old Wall Street brokerage firm is clearing the decks with a brutal layoff. Men

MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (R; 120 min.) Elizabeth Olsen gives an astounding performance as a rescued cult victim hollowed out by a thug-guru called Patrick (an inspired and frightening John Hawkes). Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plagued with memories of what was done to her and what she did to others.

Marthaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estranged sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson) puts the penniless girl up in her lakeside vacation house, but the two are unable to connect. Director Sean Durkin is smart about how such charlatans as Patrick thrive, how the contradictions that look like hypocrisies create fissures large enough in victims for a spider to get in.

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 Lewisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; nonfiction account of how Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, brought the science of statisticsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; sabermetricsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to that team.

It happened shortly after the 2001 American League division loss to the Yankees. The Yanks first outspent the Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s by a ratio of about three to one, then cherry-picked star player Jason Giambi from the Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lineup. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the last dog at the bowl,â&#x20AC;? 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 teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s year.

Moneyball becomes a species of buddy movie, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a dry, unusual one, more interested in exchanged glances than back-patting. Director Bennett Miller (Capote) emphasizes Beaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solitude and inner

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SKIN DEEP Antonio Banderas is a plastic surgeon who prototypes a synthetic skin and Elena Anaya his test subject in Pedro Almodovarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Skin I Live In,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; opening Friday fury. Moneyball is Pittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; corn of the typical baseball movie. (RvB)

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 heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at his best as a solitary beast (the way heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fear me if you dare,â&#x20AC;? Puss threatens) and some lovely sequences, such

as the charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; romp in the clouds outside the giantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s castle at the nether end of the beanstalk. But the plot is convoluted and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem about something, the way a fairy tale has to beâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any resonance. (RvB)

REAL STEEL (PG-13; 127 min.)

Hugh Jackmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. Thompsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

SARAHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S KEY (PG-13; 111 min.)

Kristin Scott Thomas is an American living in Paris with her French husband (Frederic Pierrot) when she discovers that the apartment building owned by his family has a tragic history bound up in the plight of the Jews during World War II. TAKE SHELTER (R; 124 min.)

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

In a movie about a storm to come, Shannonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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, Shannonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Curtis is plagued with visions of disaster that dismay him, and that damage his marriage (to wife Jessica Chastain). But weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re given an alternative explanation, provided in a small but incisive role by the too seldom-seen Kathy Baker.

Just as Nicholas Rayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bigger

Than Life showed how many fathers were strangling on their neckties in Ikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day, and Todd Haynesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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 stationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief scientist.

THE THREE MUSKETEERS (PG13; 120 min.) Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Artagnan and the three swordsmen Athos, Porthos and Aramis unite against a lovely but dangerous double agent (Milla Jovovich) and her up-to-no-good employer (Mads Mikkelsen).

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.

A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR CHRISTMAS (R; 90 min.) Six years after their Guantanamo Bay adventure, Harold and Kumarâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;now with very different families, friends and livesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;reunite for a holiday caper through New York that begins with Kumar accidentally burning down Haroldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fatherin-lawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prize Christmas tree.

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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COCKTAIL HOUR AT OSWALD After the opera last week, we headed for Oswald for something cold and wet. Behind the bar was owner Keet Beck-Brattin with just what the doctor ordered (in this case, the doctor was me). It was something called â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Coolerâ&#x20AC;? involving Sapphire Bombay gin, muddled fresh cucumber and a generous squeeze of lime. A tiny bit of sugar took the highest edge off the lime and a slice of cucumber completed the bracing picture. A thoroughly adult, i.e., not sweet, cocktail, it was soothing and refreshingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially after four hours of Handel and the drive up and back from the City.

In fact we were so enchanted by the Cooler that we celebrated with an appetizer plate of sauteed fresh porcinis, silky perfection in a light glaze of butter and garlic. We added one of Oswaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beautiful cheese plattersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a truffled goat cheese, a Basque Ossau-Iraty sheep cheese and a St. Nectaire cow cheese accompanied by whole walnuts, housemade quince confiture and slices of green apple. Beautifully presented foods, generous portions and the ambience has burnished with age. No wonder the cocktail scene here at 121 Soquel Avenue is booming.

LULUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MIDTOWN We love this place. Grade A espresso drinks you can access via driveâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;through! You can roll out of bed, not even bother with mascara and drive up to the ridiculously convenient Luluâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Midtown and no one will chuckle (at least not to your face) as they whip up your double lattĂŠ. This tiny java house packs a huge presence, holding down its little portion of the vast parking lot at 911 Soquel Avenue (roughly between Comcast and Whole Foods). It has become a hotspot for off-duty highway patrol officers, mothers with multiple babies and multiple puppies and shoppers on the go. The reasons are plenty: the delicious specialty coffee beans the house of Manthri Srinath made famous, fresh pastries and quick delivery. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss the bold chartreuse facadeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even if you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t had your first cup of the day.

HURRY! And see if there are any places remaining for a sparkling matchup of Big Basin Vineyards winemaker Bradley Brown and Chef Josiah Slone of Sent Sovi in Saratoga. The concept is a four-course dinner on Thursday, Nov. 17. Tickets are $130 per person (including tip), available by calling 408.564.7346 or visiting the Saratoga Tasting Room.

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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GIN & JUICE Oswaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fresh-made Cooler puts a nice finish on the day.

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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

$$

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

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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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.

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.

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.

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

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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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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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.

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’60s Vegas meets ’50s Waikiki. Amazing dining experience in kitchy yet swanky tropical setting. Fresh fish, great steaks, vegetarian. vegetarian.Full-service tiki bar. Happy-hour tiki drinks. Aloha Fri, Sat lunch 11:30am-5pm. Dinner nightly 5pm-close.

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By Rob Brezsny

For the week of November 9 ARIES (March 21–April 19): The title of this week’s

GEMINI (May 21–June 20): Funky pagan scientists at Zen State University have found that the regular consumption of Free Will Astrology can be effective in smoothing unsightly wrinkles on your attitude, scouring away stains on your courage and disposing of old garbage stuck to your karma. They’ve also gathered testimony from people who claim to have experienced spontaneous healings of nagging ailments and chronic suffering while under the influence of these oracles. If I were you, I’d try to take advantage of such benefits right now. You could really use some healing. Luckily, it looks like there’ll be an array of other curative options available to you as well. Be aggressive about seeking them out.

CANCER (June 21–July 22): Given the lush and exotic astrological factors now coming to bear on your destiny, and due to the possibility that something resembling actual magic may soon make an appearance, I am taking a leap of faith with this week’s horoscope. Are you game?

There is a hypothetical scene described by the English poet Samuel Coleridge (1772–1834) that would normally be too outlandish to take seriously, but I suspect it’s a possible match for your upcoming adventures. “What if you slept,” he wrote, “and what if in your sleep you dreamed, and what if in your dream you went to heaven and there you plucked a strange and beautiful flower, and what if when you awoke you had the flower in your hand?

Ah, what then?”

LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): I was musing on how slow I am to learn the lessons I need to master—how hard it can be to see the obvious secrets that are right in front of me. But I felt better after I came across the logo for the Jung Institute in San Francisco, which is dedicated to the study of psychology and psychotherapy. The symbol that it has chosen to embody its ruling spirit consists of four snails creeping their way around a center point—a witty acknowledgment of the plodding nature of the human psyche. I bring this to your attention, Leo, because it’s important for you to give yourself credit for how much you’ve grown since the old days—even if your progress seems intolerably gradual.

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): It will be a good week to have nice long talks with yourself—the more, the better. The different subpersonalities that dwell within you need to engage in vigorous dialogues that will get all their various viewpoints out in the open. I even recommend coaxing some of those inner voices to manifest themselves outside the confines of your own head—you know, by speaking out loud. If you feel inhibited about giving them full expression where they might be overheard by people, find a private place that will allow them to feel free to be themselves.

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): During the reign of President George W. Bush, many Americans viewed France as being insufficiently sympathetic with American military might.

So enraged were some conservatives that they tried to change the name of French fries to freedom fries and French toast to freedom toast. The culminating moment in this surrealistic exercise came when Bush told U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, “The French don’t even have a

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): The Cunnilinguistic Dicktionary defines the newly coined word “mutinyversal” as “rebellion against the whole universe.” I think it would be an excellent time for you to engage in a playful, vivacious version of that approach to life. This is one of those rare times when you have so many unique gifts to offer and so many invigorating insights to unleash, that you really should act as if you are mostly right and everyone else is at least half-wrong. Just one caution: As you embark on your crusade to make the world over in your image, do it with as much humility and compassion as you can muster.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): In Mongolia, there’s a famous fossil of two dinosaurs locked in mortal combat. Forever frozen in time, a Velociraptor is clawing a Protoceratops, which in turn is biting its enemy’s arm. They’ve been holding that pose now for, oh, 80 million years or so. I’m shoving this image in your face, Sagittarius, so as to dare you and encourage you to withdraw from your old feuds and disputes. It’s a perfect time, astrologically speaking, to give up any struggle that’s not going to matter 80 million years from now. (More info: tinyurl.com/DinosaurFight.)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): “In your experience, who is the best-smelling actor that you’ve worked with?”TV host Jon Stewart asked his guest Tom Hanks. “Kevin Bacon,” replied Hanks. Why? Not because of the bacon-as-adelicious-food angle, although that would be funny. “He smells like a mix of baby powder and Listerine,” Hanks said. Keep this perspective in mind, Capricorn. I think you should be engaged in a great ongoing quest to put yourself in situations with pleasing aromas. I mean this in both the metaphorical and literal sense. To set yourself up for meaningful experiences that provide you with exactly what you need, follow your nose.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): According to my reading of the omens, Aquarius, you can finally take advantage of a long-standing invitation or opportunity that you have always felt unworthy of or unready for. Congratulations on being so doggedly persistent about ripening the immature parts of yourself. Now here’s an extra bonus: This breakthrough may in turn lead to you finding a lost piece to the puzzle of your identity.

PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): My acquaintance Bob takes a variety of meds for his bipolar disorder. They work pretty well to keep him out of the troughs, but he misses the peaks. Last time he saw his psychiatrist, he told her he wished he could stop taking the complicated brew of drugs and just take a happy pill every day. The psychiatrist told him that if he ever found such a thing, she’d love to take it herself. Wouldn’t we all? I’m pleased to report that you are now very close to locating the next best thing to a happy pill, Pisces. It may require you to at least partially give up your addiction to one of your customary forms of suffering, though. Are you prepared to do that?

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TAURUS (April 20–May 20): How’s your relationship with your muse? Don’t tell me that you’re not an artist so you don’t have a muse. Even garbage collectors need muses.

Even farmers. Even politicians. All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventures. So I ask you again: What have you and your muse been up to lately? I say it’s high time for you to infuse your connection with a dose of raw mojo. And if for some sad reason you don’t have a muse, I urge you to go out in quest of new candidates. (P.S. A muse isn’t necessarily a person; he or she might also be an animal, an ancestor, a spirit or a hero.)

word for entrepreneur”—unaware that “entrepreneur” is a word the English language borrowed from the French. The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned, Libra: Make sure you know the origins of everyone and everything you engage with, especially as they affect your ability to benefit from entrepreneurial influences.

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