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THWARTED MAJORITY AFTER lobbying the coastal commissioners, Mr. Webber (“Staff Report That Wouldn’t Die,” Posts, Nov. 16) and his special-interest group were successful in killing a plan to construct an appropriately sized hotel on Beach Street, which would have benefited the great majority of Santa Cruz residents for decades to come. The Coastal Commission opted to protect private views in violation of its own mandate to increase coastal public access. And, because the urban parcel is surrounded by asphalt and concrete, there is simply no impact on the natural environment. Appropriately,

city leaders acted in the public interest: coastal access for all and many benefits for the majority of local residents. A handful of coastal commissioners ignored the will of the people of our community. The Commission’s decision negates years of adherence to a rigorous democratic process.

It’s now time to ask: Did the opposition have a financial interest in stopping plans for a new La Bahia hotel? Did one or more of the commissioners protect private interests at the expense of the public good?

Is our democracy diminished when a vocal minority thwarts the will of the majority?

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CANDY’S DANDY I READ your article suggesting ideas for holiday gifts and found the instructions for a pinhole camera (“Gifts From the Sole,” Nov. 23) to be way too complicated. I can get behind the lash–on running slippers, but who has PVC tape lying around, much less an X-Acto knife? Most items to make the camera I’d have to borrow or liberate if not buy, making this gift kinda costly. And I just don’t have time to go scrummaging around in a photo lab for 1cm film, you know what I mean? Though I dig the homemade gladiators, leather’s not cheap, so I think I’ll stick to my yearly gift of smallGladbagged RiteAid candy corn.

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CITING a long list of grievances, the Occupy movement has railed against big banks and urged supporters to move their money to smaller community banks and credit unions. Chief among protesters’ gripes: bailout funds.

“You got bailed out, we got sold out!” is the favorite refrain chanted by the Occupy Santa Cruz protestors while demonstrating outside Santa Cruz branches of Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America in numerous marches and rallies since early October.

Occupy Wall Street, like the right-wing Tea Party movement, focused a large share of its anger against the bailout. There are pieces missing in the bailout narratives

from both the left and right, though.

Money loaned to big banks has been paid back, while many of the smaller banks and credit unions—the ones who give loans to the little guy—are still being kept afloat by bailout funds.

Under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or the bailout, Bank of America and Citigroup each received $45 billion, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo each got $25 billion and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley scored a cool $10 billion apiece. Bailout money rolled in at the local level too, albeit at more modest levels. Santa Cruz Community Credit Union received $2,828,000 and Bay Federal Credit Union was committed $580,212, according a list of bailout recipients compiled by the nonprofit ProPublica.

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October, a little more than double the number of accounts they typically open in a month, according to spokesman Carlos Rodriguez.

Rodriguez also confirmed that the credit union received $2.8 million through a TARP program for credit unions called the Community Development Capital Initiative.

The credit union received an eightyear loan with an interest rate of 2 percent, and an option to extend for an additional five years at 9 percent.

“We got $2.8 million, and it’s not like we turn around and give out that $2.8 million right away,” he said.

“What we do is keep it as secondary capital.” Secondary capital, Rodriguez explained, is a loan that counts toward an institution’s net worth, to stabilize that institution.

The positive effects of that TARP loan are still being felt in Santa Cruz.

“Had we not received that secondary capital we may not have been as aggressive as we were this last fiscal year,” Rodriguez says, referring to $3,000,300 of loans the credit union made to local small businesses this year. Those loans made the credit union the second highest lender to small businesses in the county (after Santa Cruz County Bank, which loaned more than $7 million), according to the Small Business Association. Big banks Chase, Wells Fargo and US Bank fell far short of those numbers, lending $112,200, $58,000 and $10,000, respectively.

The local support was exactly the point for Donehoo, who already knew the numbers. “I put my money in a credit union because the Santa Cruz County Credit Union spends somewhere along the lines of $3 million in the local economy, where Chase, I think they spent $100,000,” he said. “The credit union makes loans to low–income folks so they can buy houses, it supports local businesses—makes loans available to them—and it’s a non-profit, so they actually have to spend the money in the community.” 0

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BANK STANK Big banks that received huge bailout packages have been a target of Occupy’s ire from the start.

Local credit unions not only benefited from the bailout, but— unlike the aforementioned big banks, which have repaid their loans in full—locals have yet to repay their funds. Santa Cruz Community Credit Union has paid $36,293 in interest and nothing toward the principal of its balance. The money allotted to Bay Federal Credit Union under the Mortgage Servicers bailout (which offers incentives to mortgage lenders and homeowners) is available to individual homeowners who have loans with the credit union. Bay Federal as a lender has not received any money, a representative for the bank said.

Occupy Santa Cruz protestor Michael Donehoo, who moved his money from Washington Mutual to Santa Cruz Community Credit Union, is not fazed by the fact that his new credit union received bailout funds and has not repaid them. “No, it doesn’t bother me,” he says. “There is a definite difference between $20 billion and $3 million.

“Obviously [the big banks] are going to have money in their reserves to pay back—they’ve made a profit off something that is unethical,” he continues. “They make money off building prisons, they make money off of lots of questionable practices.

So, it’s sort of like, yeah, they paid their money back, but my concern is how did the big banks pay back their 20 billion dollars? So for me that’s more important.”

The movement has been a boon for credit unions. In the first month and a half after Occupy Wall Street began in New York City, an estimated 90,100 new members brought $624 million into California credit unions, according to figures from the Credit Union National Association. Then, on Nov. 5, known as “Bank Transfer Day,” 5,550 new members in California deposited an additional $11.1 million.

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So Bil Keane is no more. At age 89, this celebrated and beloved cartoonist has gone to meet Winsor McCay and Charles Schulz. The creator of The Family Circus, a redoubt of simpler times for more than 50 years, died Nov. 8.

Few among us have not

gloried in the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most widely syndicated one-panel cartoon, or chuckled over the gentle, homey foibles of Bil, Thelma and their four rambunctious kids, Billy, Jeffy, Dolly and young P.J., as well as the grim specters â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ida Knowâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not Me.â&#x20AC;? ¨

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Semiautobiographical cuteness was Keaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mĂŠtier, and he worked it hard. He led his ageless family through adorable malapropisms, harmless joshing and many church services. One of his trademark techniques was a twisting, turning dotted line that Billy often pursued in getting between points A and B. It was such a perfect picture of cute that it almost came out the other side as horror.

I learned of Keaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passing the day after it happened. Immediately, I started to hear, via email, from some old partners in slime. I was in a little circle of my own, a circle of shame. Yes, it was time to confess.

I was one of a group of three or four who started the Dysfunctional Family Circus meme. My friends and contributors slipped pamphlets full of re-imagined Family Circus cartoons adorned with snide and troubling new captions to unsuspecting receipients like Penn Jillette and Sonic Youth. And it all began in an apartment building in San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Japantown.

The year was 1991. I was gainfully

employed but still living like the college student I had been at UCâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Santa Cruz. A frequent visitor was my good pal Mike Monahan (please purchase many copies of his new book Shock It to Me: Golden Ghouls of the Golden Gate, about the beloved horror hosts of latenight TV.) Back then, we had a nice solid proposition for a book on the lesserknown spy movies of the 1960s. We had a title, The Second Best Secret Agents in the Whole Wide World. We even had a New York agent, who was quite optimistic. Arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t they all.

We spent our weekends as urban archaeologists: writing up proposals, hitting the library, comparing notes and raiding thrift shops looking for spymovie memorabilia. One memorable day, we noticed that some aged crock had just jettisoned a large set of Family Circus paperbacks.

I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seen the comic in a while, and I looked at it with fresh annoyance.

As I flipped through the books, the demented contentment of Keaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little kids in it brought out the thug in me. ¨

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We scrawled away. My old UCSC pal and neighbor Broos Campbell (now a novelist, once a Metro columnist) joined in on the vandalism. His personal best was Dolly as literary critic: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Characters in existential novels arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t supposed to be realistic, you depressing little simpleton.â&#x20AC;? Broos says he prefers his caption of a tableau of the family at the zoo, with Dolly protesting, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ibex, my ass! Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a goat!â&#x20AC;? My pal D. (who still insists on anonymity) added his own lines.

Others took whacks at the piĂąata, which was left lying around, or brought it to a neighborhood bar for doodling on when the music was too loud for conversation.

I have another friend who would prefer to be namelessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and in fact, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d prefer it if this story wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t told. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why interfere with the mystique?â&#x20AC;? he asked when I approached him to talk. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better when they seemed to come out of nowhere. Misdirect the public, tell them some lies about ¨ #

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Mike recalls that moment at the thrift store: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Looking back, I heard this chuckling sound. What, you thought Family Circus was funny? What did I miss there? And then you started talking about â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;fixing the captions.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Heedless of the commandment Thou Shalt Not Deface a Book, I crossed out the caption on one of the cartoons and scrawled one of my own.

I was about to put the book back on the shelf for some other aged crock to discover, when my inner Mr. Hyde spoke up again: No. Buy it.

That evening, we went over the text with a mad purpose. Keane helped us out. He had once spent an entire mortal week doing variations on a gag about those newfangled ceiling smoke detectors. (The older me, a somber bore, notes that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keane probably saved a lot of lives by publicizing those wretched things, you know.â&#x20AC;?)

The family was posed, staring at the shrieking coming from their ceiling and jabbing at it with a broomstick. Our caption was a natural: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The upstairs neighbor is

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Jeffy: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know, a few dollars worth of quicklime could have prevented all of this.â&#x20AC;?

Mike notes that â&#x20AC;&#x153;there was rudeness, and then there was funny in the context: like the one I did where the kids are in the backseat of the car, and we see a detour sign through the windshield: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Story of your life, eh, Pop?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Word got out. A friend presented me with a T-shirt he bought in Berkeley, picturing Thelma and the children confronting a baff led dad: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m taking the kids to where you can never hurt them again, you sick bastard.â&#x20AC;? Fame at last. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Within the year of the first pamphlet,â&#x20AC;? Mike recalls, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I picked up Mad magazine, and they were running their own Dysfunctional Family Circus comic. ... We got ripped off by Alfred E. Neuman! He ripped off our ripoff !â&#x20AC;?

Meme of Mine During the mid-1990s, after we had quit, strangers scooped up the meme and ran like deer with it. The Dysfunctional Family Circus website ran 500 panels, each one a caption contest. It sometimes drew 70,000 hits a day.

Trevor Mills, a livery company VP in Texas, was a regular contributor to the site. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s captions were so brilliant,â&#x20AC;? Mills recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The DFC became the perfect pastime for me in between mundane tasks at a horrible receptionist job in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d answer the phone laughing all the time. And to actually have one of my captions accepted once in a while was very addicting.â&#x20AC;?

After 1999, the website was gone, though it persists on a Facebook appreciation group. David Matthews, from eastern Pennsylvania, has administered the Facebook page for two years. He took over from the previous administrator, who went off to the Naval Academy. (â&#x20AC;&#x153;He liked the high quality of my captions, if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mind me bragging,â&#x20AC;? Matthews tells me.)

For reasons known only to Facebook, Matthews hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been able to post new entries, except to older files.

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where these things came from.

This silent partner was versed in the then-arcane science of desktop publishing. He made the little booklets look good, getting the proper typeface to match the original newspaper font.

When we had boxes of professional looking 12- or 24-pagers, we left handfuls of them of them in public places around San Jose. Our inf luence was Jack Chick, the Chinobased comic-book evangelist whose millions of free pamphlets still turn up like lint at the Laundromat. This silent partner, who had superior Internet skills, distributed them online by request.

Mr. Anonymousâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; publishing signature was the anagram names he made of Bil Keaneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bean Like, I Be an Elk, etc. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how you can always tell ours, as in the complete set that can be found at the Schmulowitz Collection of Wit and Humor at the San Francisco Main Library.

We knew what we were doing was semilegal, if that. We werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just skirting certain sacred rules of copyright, we were making jokes about always uneasy subjects like molestation and incest. For some odd reason, this is the first direction a nihilist humorist takes when disfiguring cartoons about a blameless family.

In a 1999 article for Gettingit. com, David Cassel interviewed Seth Friedman, then editor of the zine roundup Factsheet Five. Friedman said he expected lawyers coming out of the woodwork when he saw the Dysfunctional Family Circus booklets: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were kind of surprised at the time to hear that there was no legal action coming down. I think the anonymity of it really helped.â&#x20AC;?

The cabal finally broke up with the same forces that destroy bands and marriages. Humor, like water, seeks its own level, and the more people who contributed meant more excrement jokes. Admittedly this kind of humor was a gimme from Keane, since Jeffy was a muddy kid.

I always thought the best gags revolved around Satanism (always a laugh-getter), psychedelics and homicide. A picture of the family enduring a near vertical hike up a mountain suggested that the

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old DFC site. One example was an especially tough panel to caption: a kind of ordinary drawing of a breakfast table, with the little autocrat of it, Jeffy, complaining about something or another. The submitted captions broke down like so: scat jokes 1, sex jokes 12, and only a couple that seemed closer to the bullâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-eye: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why does my cereal taste like bitter almonds?â&#x20AC;?

One caption really opened my eyes: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why mother, you look smashing!

Simply smashing! Seriously, would it kill you to freshen up a little bit?â&#x20AC;? I read it and instantly became the last person on the planet to realize that oval-headed Stewie Griffin on Family Guy is based on Jeffy in Family Circus.

When the Dysfunctional Family Circus site closed, the news went out to CBS and Wired alike. Editor Greg Galick had been caught in the twin prongs of a cease-and-desist letter from King Features and a long personal phone call from Bil Keane himself.

Keane turned out to be a real nice guy about it, under the circumstances.

The website KnowYourMeme.com follows the gradual decline of interest in the many Dysfunctional Family Circuses that cropped upâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the little line is now close to perfect flatness.

Despite that, others still play the game. One witty Wholly Functional Family parody urges readers to outwholesome Keane: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I drank all my milk today!â&#x20AC;?

Perhaps even smarter: the Losanjealous.com siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nietzsche Family Circus, taking the master philosopherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s words and putting them into the mouths of these children. For instance: â&#x20AC;&#x153;After the old god has been assassinated, I am ready to rule the world.â&#x20AC;?

I think we might have put a Nietzsche gag in one of our pamphlets, but who knows. Mike recalls that his â&#x20AC;&#x153;own favorite was Billy yelling into a church, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;God is dead, pass it on!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I certainly donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be mean to Bil Keane,â&#x20AC;? he adds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got the sense that if I knew him long enough heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d probably get on my nerves, but he was likely a legitimately straight arrow.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always kind of liked The Family Circus, though,â&#x20AC;? Broos Campbell says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like looking into a shop window full of nice things that you know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never be able to afford. I suppose what made me want to join in on the vandalism was resenting the gulf between the Keane familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smug ¨ '

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suburbanity and what the suburbs are really like. The DFC was payback.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;With The Family Circus,â&#x20AC;? says Trevor Mills, â&#x20AC;&#x153;you have this painfully antiquated comic strip with four enormous-headed, goodygoody toddlers and a hot-house mom doing every chore while her cartoonist husband appears to do nothing but recline and constantly remind them all that he wields the very pen thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kept them frozen in time for 50 years. Meanwhile, the kids have a missing nostril, the house is haunted by dead relatives and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a guilt ghost for every kind of sloth. And yet with all this, Family Circus only ever delivers this dreadfully bland, sanitized humor.

Rather than revenge, maybe we were just making it interesting for ourselves.â&#x20AC;?

Before they shut down, Mike wrote the DFC website to tell them our story, but he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t receive a reply. He wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t impressed with it anyway. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was nothing vaguely political or absurdist in their approach,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And reading those hundreds

of captions was a classic roomfulof-monkeys situations. One monkey in a room is funny. A dozen of them arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.â&#x20AC;?

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Second, as a partisan of the great city of San Jose, I want it to see it get its cultural respectâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which always gets swiped by San Francisco or L.A. Believe it: San Jose is the place where this disgraceful international phenom began. But only Mr. Keane in heaven has seen the end of it. 0

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Outsider Dog Robert Sward throws his voice, and fetches it

BY STEPHEN KESSLER

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When Robert Sward arrived in Santa Cruz in 1985, he instantly became the area’s most nationally famous resident poet. Thanks to his much-anthologized poem “Uncle Dog: The Poet at 9,” the first he ever published and one that remains a classic 50 years later, local writers knew Sward’s name and welcomed him as a borderline celebrity.

Ever since then he has thrived here as a prolific poet, novelist, journalist, teacher and, in recent years, poetry editor of the Santa Cruz Weekly.

“Uncle Dog,” with its fractured syntax, deadpan wit, acute observation and wry poignancy, proved a prophetic overture for Sward’s career, now totaling some two dozen books and culminating in the appearance of his New and Selected Poems 1957-2011 (Red Hen Press), to be launched officially Tuesday at the Capitola Book Café.

Born in Chicago in 1933, Sward served in the U.S. Navy, where he began writing, and in the late ’50s was admitted into the elite Iowa Writers Workshop. “Iowa showed me the importance of a community of writers,” he says, the kind of community he later found in Santa Cruz. In Iowa, at the time, a formalist poetics prevailed.

“People were writing rhymes, couplets, sonnets, villanelles; and I was writing free verse.” What inspired him was the collective enthusiasm for poetry, a spirit of “cross-fertilization. I was somewhat annoyed at feeling an outsider, but I was an outsider in a community of outsiders.”

After Iowa, he became a “roving academic nomad” until 1969 when “a half-hour poetry reading in Toronto turned into a 14-year stay.” In Canada he worked as a newspaper journalist and as a radio interviewer for the CBC, sharpening his skills as a listener. “For

WRITER WITH CO-PILOT Robert Sward with Toby, one of his canine companions through the years. me,” says Sward, “journalism fed my poetry as much as anything else—doing profiles, doing interviews with people.”

Since then, “I feel very comfortable including dialogue, as in the father poems, with the father speaking—I think I got his voice. I got the dog speaking—I don’t know if I got his voice, but it’s a voice that works for me.”

The father poems and the dog poems dominate Sward’s later work in extraordinary acts of poetic ventriloquism, the dramatic monologue serving as an extremely effective vehicle for exploration of the poet’s touchingly comical uncertainties and insecurities.

The father, a Jewish podiatrist turned Rosicrucian after the death of his wife (the poet’s mother), is a straight-talking, no-nonsense, up-from-the-bootstraps (or soles-of-the-feet) philosopher who speaks from the beyond with astonishing eloquence and insight.

As for the dogs, who play a similar role in his most recent poems, serving as sure-footed philosophical foils to the author’s doubtful strivings, “The

voice is everything,” Sward says. “The persona thing really fascinates me. I had many dogs as a kid. We’d go down to the Chicago pound and see these poor miserable creatures, shelter dogs, and we’d bring one home, and it never quite seemed to work out. Outsider dogs.”

He continues: “There’s something about the dog presence, he’s always in the moment, and left to their own devices they’re pretty joyful creatures.”

Sward’s New and Selected Poems, a trim 200 pages selected from thousands previously published, has the coherence of a single sustained composition.

“Putting together this book in a way was like writing a poem,” he says. “It is like one poem; it’s a life.”

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Stage THEATER 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.

Every Christmas Story Ever Told Santa Claus, Frosty, Rudolf and just about every other Christmas character in pop culture history make an appearance in this irreverent comedy. Sat, 7:30pm and SatSun, 2pm. Thru Dec 18. $16$35. Circle Theatre, Casanova St, Carmel-by-the-Sea, 831.622.0100.

La Pastorela The story of how the shepherds’ search for the Holy Child was plagued by the demonic followers of Luzbel and Satanas, as presented by the legendary Teatro Campesino. Thu-Sun Thru Dec 18. $14-$35. Mission San Juan Bautista, 408 Second St at Mariposa, San Juan Bautista, 831.623.2444.

Our Town Mountain Community Theater stages the history of two neighboring families in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. FriSat, 8pm and Sun, 2pm. Thru Dec 18. $12-$18. Mountain Community Theater, 9400 Mill St, Ben Lomond, 831.336.4777.

Willing Suspension Armchair Theater Prayers by North American Indians, Muslims, Christians and Jews, from authors like Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, Ernest Hemingway and Rumi accompanied by harp, flute,

percussion and song. Thu, Dec 1, 7:30pm. Free, donations welcome. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

A Year With Frog and Toad Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s production of the Tony Award– nominated play chronicling the madcap adventures of two friends, based on the beloved books by Arnold Lobel. Fri-Sun Thru Dec 11. $18-$40. UCSC Mainstage Theater, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

CONCERTS Cabrillo Winter Dance Concert The Cabrillo student dancers will stop, pop and lock it, performing new work by Bay Area- and Santa Cruz-based professional dance artists.

Fri, Dec 2, 7:30pm, Sat, Dec 3, 7:30pm and Sun, Dec 4, 1pm. $8-$12. Cabrillo College Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6464.

Double Bill Korey Dane, folk-rock from Long Beach and Sam Outlaw, rootsy country from Long Beach. Mon, Dec 5, 4pm. Free.

Streetlight Records Santa Cruz, 939 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.421.9200.

SambaDa & WILPF Concert Dance Party Enjoy the rhythms of SambaDa and the Afro-Brazilian dancers.

A benefit for the Women’s International League For Peace & Freedom. Sat, Dec 3, 6-9:30pm. $5-$50. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6177.

Suite Music The UCSC Wind Ensemble performs Suite Francaise

by Darius Milhaud, Second Suite in F for Military Band by Gustav Holst and Suite of Old American Dances by Robert Russell Bennett under the direction of Dr. Robert Klevan.

Fri, Dec 2, 7:30pm. $6-$10.

UCSC Music Center Recital Hall, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

Winter Festival of Bands featuring the Cabrillo Symphonic Winds Wind band music from the 20th and 21st centuries directed by Jon Nordgren. Tue, Dec 6, 7:30pm. $6-$7. Cabrillo Music Recital Hall, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos.

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Leo Kottke Acoustic guitar virtuoso and “A Prairie Home Companion” regular will play (and ramble between songs). Sat, Dec 3, 8pm. $35. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel, Santa Cruz, 831.423.8209.

MUSEUMS

Music for the Feast of Christmas: Sun, Moon & Stars

Free First Friday. View the exhibits for free every first Friday of the month. Docent tours at noon. First Fri of every month, 11am-6pm. Spotlight Tours. Bringing the artists’ voices directly to visitors.

Go behind the scenes and museum-wide exhibitions. First Sat of every month, 11:30am12:30pm. Museum hours

The 29th annual iteration of the Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus’ Feast of Christmas features an intergalactic theme. Fri, Dec 2, 8pm, Sat, Dec 3, 8pm and Sun, Dec 4, 4pm. $18-$20.

Holy Cross Church, 126 High St, Santa Cruz.

CONTINUING Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History

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

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

GALLERIES

FRIDAY 12/2

OPENING Felix Kulpa Gallery And Then There Was Light. The second annual neon show will feature the work of Lili Lakich, Catarina Hosler, Michael Leeds, Denise Vivar, Patrick Stafford, Penny Waller, Bill Concannon and Mark Brandwene. Dec 2-1.

Free. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

Motiv Cosmographs: Big Black and White. Blurring the lines between photography and painting, Stephen Laufer’s work explores space, landscape and abstract figures, staking out a new organic cosmology.

An artist’s reception 5-9pm on Fri, Dec 2, will also include a slideshow of Laufer’s work. Dec 2-Jan 31. Free. 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.479.5572.

Santa Cruz Art League Luck of the Draw. Preview the pieces between Sat, Nov 26 and Sun, Dec 4, then list your choices. One piece is given for each ticket, drawing begins at promptly at 2:45pm. Sun,

FIRST FRIDAY Stephen Laufer’s large-scale photographic prints of his own paintings aim to stake out a new organic cosmology in “Cosmographs: Big Black and White,” while a slide show featuring Laufer’s portrait photography preserves moments from the past. On display through Jan. 31. Artist’s reception Friday, Dec. 2, 5-9pm at Motiv, 1209 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. 831.429.8070. Free.

Dec 4, 2:45pm. $65. Wed-Sat, noon-5pm, Sun noon-4pm.

526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, 831.426.5787.

Tannery Work Studios Art Hang. Featuring the work of 21 artists, including and interactive exhibit by Ned Greene, a digital installation by Miguel Libarnes, fashion pieces

by Tobin W. Keller, plus music from Stolen Moments and the Stanford Harmonics. Fri, Dec 2, 5-9pm, Sat, Dec 3, 11am-5pm and Sun, Dec 4, 11am-5pm.

Free. 1000 River St, Santa Cruz.

CONTINUING Cabrillo College Gallery Without Art. Artists respond to life without art in a multimedia exhibition featuring two- and three-dimensional works, dance performances, theater and vocal performances. Thru Dec 16. Free. 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6308.

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.

The Winter Glass Exhibition.

Featuring hand blown art glass ornaments, jewelry, hearts, platters, vases and pumpkins. Thru Dec 31. Free, 831.659.4953. 13766 Center St, Carmel Valley.

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

Santa Cruz County Bank

SATURDAY 12/3

LIGHTED BOAT PARADE The harbor will be bathed in the glow of twinkle lights lining 50 power and sailboats in a nautical cavalcade celebrating the season. Hot drinks and treats will be available for spectators and a canned food drive will benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank. Saturday, Dec. 3, 5:30pm at the Santa Cruz Harbor. Free.

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

AROUND TOWN $25 or Less Handmade Gift Sale Sat, Dec 3 at 1543 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz and Sun, Dec 4 at The Art Factory, 9099 Soquel Dr, Aptos. Sat, Dec 3 and Sun, Dec 4. Free. 831.688.8862.

Clay Creation Sale The sale and show will include treats, hot drinks and discounts on introductory pottery lessons. First Friday reception Dec 2, 4:30-8:30pm.

Dec 2-4. 831.429.1645. Clay Creation, 1125 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1645.

Heartland Hospice Day Participants are invited to decorate a Luminary bag in honor of a loved one and illuminate the bag in unison to live by Celina and the C Monkeys. Tue, Dec 6, 3:305:30pm. Free. Capitola Village by the Sea, Capitola Village, Capitola.

Jingle Shells Arts & Crafts Festival Shop for gifts inspired by the sea or just take in educational presentations, live music and, at dusk, the whale lighting ceremony (not as gruesome as it sounds). Sun, Dec 4, noon-5pm. Free. Seymour Discovery Center, 100 Shaffer Rd, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3800.

Local Artisan Holiday Gift Faire Meet local artists and shop for gifts like jewelry, artwork, handmade skin products, winter tonics & elixirs, organic edibles and discounted gift certificates and packages for SCNMC services. Sat, Dec 3, noon5pm. Free. Santa Cruz Naturopathic Medical Center, 736 Chestnut St, Santa Cruz.

Monarch Community School Holiday Craft Fair Gingerbread house-building, ornament-making, giftwrapping, elf hat- and stocking-making plus the sale of work by local artisans.

Sat, Dec 3, 11am-4pm. Free.

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

Santa Cruz Children’s School Open House An opportunity for parents to meet the Kindergarten teacher and tour the school. Tue, Dec 6, 4-5pm. Free. Santa Cruz Children’s School, 366 Gault St., Santa Cruz, 831.429.8444.

Swanton Artisans Holiday Sale Featuring the work of Sharon Carpenter, Rebecca Herman, Rose Jacobs, Morning Star, Debora Morrison, Erika Perloff, Acacia Smith and Jessica Vaughan, plus organic coffees and teas from Alta Organic Coffee Co-Op. Sat, Dec 3, 10am-4pm and Sun, Dec 4, 10am-4pm. Free. Swanton Berry Farm, 25 Swanton Rd, Davenport, 831.427.1718.

Watsonville Snow Day One can of nonperishable food gains admission to the winter wonderland at Peck St. at Union St., Watsonville. Fri, Dec 2, 3pm. 831.768.3266.

World AIDS Day Remembrance Celebration Live musical performances, words of compassion, lighting of remembrance candles, reading of names of those in Santa Cruz County who have lost their lives to HIV/AIDS and an opportunity for the public to share memories with others.

Thu, Dec 1, 5:30pm. Free.

Veterans’ Plaza, Pacific & Front Streets, Santa Cruz.

HOLIDAYS Downtown Santa Cruz Holiday Parade Celebrating the season with a march down the city’s main drag featuring floats, marching bands, horses, classic cars and the man in red himself. Sat, Dec 3, 10-11am. Free. Downtown Santa Cruz, Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.429.8433.

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Passengers on the steam train can sip hot cider and take in the trees atop Bear Mountain, festooned for the holidays by local businesses and organizations. Sat-Sun, 11am and 12:30pm. Thru Dec 18. $17-$24. Roaring Camp, Narrow Gauge Railroad, Graham Hill and Mount Herman Road, Felton, 831.335.4484.

Frank Bardacke The local author and community activist will speak about his new book, Trampling Out the Vintage. Sun, Dec 4, 2pm. Free. Watsonville Public Library, 275 Main Street, Watsonville, 831.728.6040.

Lighted Boat Parade A nautical celebration of the nativity and electricity featuring 50 power and sailboats strung up with lights parading through the Santa Cruz Harbor. Sat, Dec 3, 5:30pm. Free. Santa Cruz Harbor, Santa Cruz.

Friday Shakespeare Club Founded in 1903, FSC is Santa Cruz’s oldest social club for women. Visitors and new members welcome. First Fri of every month, 10:30am12:30pm. Free. 831.421.0930.

Santa Cruz Holiday Lights Train

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Passengers can sing along to seasonal carols, sip spiced cider and enjoy a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus while riding vintage rail cars adorned with thousands of lights through city streets of Santa Cruz. Thu-Sun, 5 and 6:30pm. Thru Dec 23. $18-$26.

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St, Santa Cruz, 831.335.4484.

Reading by Robert Sward. Tue, Dec 6, 7:30pm. $3 donation.

Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.464.8983.

Student Reading The final installment of UCSC’s Living Writer series will feature students. Thu, Dec 1, 6-7:45pm. Free. Humanities Lecture Hall, UC-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, 831.459.4778.

Scotts Valley Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony Festivities include food,

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Johnny Mathis Christmas just ain’t Christmas without a miraculously high falsetto. Dec 2 at the Paramount Theater.

Yo! Majesty Florida’s dynamic lesbian hip-hop duo brings back the pulse of 2008 in small club. Dec 3 at the Hemlock Tavern.

Cass McCombs Literature, Kodachrome and drug use all find a place in McCombs’ music. Dec 4 at Great American Music Hall.

Peter Murphy No one takes a free apple and everyone wears black jeans when former Bauhaus frontman plays.

Dec 4 at the Fillmore.

Chelsea Wolfe Gothic folk artist with a penchant for drone and the scariest set of eyes you’ll ever see. Dec 4 at Bottom of the Hill.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

Coping with Grief during the Holidays The holidays can be a difficult time when someone you love has died. Hospice of Santa Cruz County invites bereaved individuals to an evening of grief support.

Wed, Nov 30, 6:30pm. Free.

Hospice of Santa Cruz County, 940 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, 831.430.3000.

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

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

Red Cross Mobile Blood Drives

BLUEGRASS STUDENT Peter Rowan plays the Digital Media Factory this Sunday for Bill Monroe Day.

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

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SC Diversity Center

IF bluegrass music were a family-run company, mandolin-picker Bill Monroe would be founding CEO.

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

Support and Recovery Groups Alzheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Assn., 831.464.9982. Cancer: Katz Cancer Resource Center, 831.351.7770; WomenCARE, 831.457.2273. Candida: 831.471.0737. Chronic Pain: American Chronic Pain Association, 831.423.1385.

Grief and Loss: Hospice, 831.430.3000. Lupus: Jeanette Miller, 831.566.0962. Men Overcoming Abusive Behavior: 831.464.3855. SMART Recovery: 831.462.5470. Trans Latina women: Mariposas, 831.425.5422. Trichotillomania: 831.457.1004. 12-Step Programs: 831.454.HELP (4357).

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

TriYoga: numerous weekly classes, 831.464.8100. Yoga Within at Aptos Station, 831.687.0818; Om Room School of Yoga, 831.429.9355; Pacific Climbing Gym, 831.454.9254; Aptos Yoga Center, 831.688.1019; Twin Lotus Center, 831.239.3900.

Hatha Yoga with Debra Whizin, 831.588.8527.

That’s why Ginny Mitchell of Santa Cruz Live TV is bringing guitar maven Peter Rowan, who played with Monroe as one of his “Bluegrass Boys,” to the Digital Media Factory on Sunday. Dec. 4 for Bill Monroe Day in Santa Cruz (so designated by mayoral proclamation). Rowan is on tour right now promoting his new album Legacy.

“I don’t actually know how much Bill Monroe music there’s going to be,” says Mitchell. She says the show isn’t a tribute to the legend per se, but that all bluegrass music plays homage to Granddaddy Monroe, more or less. The Kentucky-born legend would have celebrated his 100th birthday this past September.

After the 4pm bluegrass show, Rob Ickes and Jim Hurst of Blue Highway and the Claire Lynch Band, respectively, will play at Don Quixote’s in Felton. Fans who check out the first show will get $5 off admission at the evening show just for flashing their ticket stubs.

The festivities take place against a backdrop of general bluegrass mania in the form of the Boulder Creek Bluegrass and Old-Timey Festival, running Dec. 2–3 at Scopazzi’s and Pass Studio (13111 Pine St., Boulder Creek).

Mitchell can’t remember if the idea for the belated birthday party inspired organizers to book the Santa Cruz and Felton concerts or if it happened the other way around. “I don’t know which came first, the chicken or the concert, but it happened,” says Mitchell, “and I’m happy it did.”

Rowan says he learned a lot on the bus touring with his idol. “What I picked up from Bill Monroe was more the inner workings of the music,” says Rowan in a promotional video.

According to Mitchell, a bluegrass fan, the formula always pays off.

“When you get a three-part harmony—and you can’t fit a razor blade between those harmonies,” says Mitchell, “it just doesn’t get any better that that. It transcends time and space.” (Jacob Pierce)

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

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

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

PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND plays Sunday, Dec. 4 at 4pm at the Digital Music Factory, 2809 Mission St., Santa Cruz. Tickets $20 adv/$20 door.

ROB HICKES AND JIM HURST play Sunday, Dec. 4 at 7pm at Don Quixote’s 6275 Highway 9 95018, Felton. $15.

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The Los Angeles native will read, discuss and sign copies of her memoir I Taste Fire, Earth, Rain: Elements of a Life with a Sherpa about falling in love while trekking through the Annapurna Mountains.

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

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

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Thomas the Tank Engine chugs into Santa Cruz, decorated for the holidays and ready to greet his fans in Santa Cruz. Festivities also include a spin on the carousel, face painting, a bounce house and a choice of arcade tokens, mini golf or laser tag. Sat-Sun Thru Dec 18. $28. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.7433.

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games, music and a visit from Santa. Sat, Dec 3, 5pm. Free.

Scotts Valley Community Center, 361 Kings Rd, Scotts Valley, 831.438.1010.

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NEW WEST GUITAR GROUP FEATURNG TRAUGOTT GUITARS Tickets at: www.ticketweb.com

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SISTA MONICA PARKER CD RELEASE CONCERT Monday, December 5 U 7 pm

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

Wednesday, December 7 U 7 pm

MASTER CLASS: Paul Mehling Unlocking the Secrets of Gypsy Jazz Guitar Free! All levels welcome!

Thursday, December 8 U 7 pm

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

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

All ages welcome.

320-2 Cedar St [ Santa Cruz 831.427.2227

kuumbwajazz.org

SOUL SISTER To celebrate her latest CD, Sista Monica Parker will play Kuumbwa on Friday.

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FRIDAY | 12/2

FRIDAY | 12/2

ACEYALONE

TRIBAL SEEDS

This prolific hip-hop artist from L.A. has been slaying lyrics on the mic since the early 1990s. Besides having a pivotal role in the hip-hop scene as a founding member of the influential Freestyle Fellowship, he has collaborated with a slew of artists from Mikah 9 and Abstract Rude (with whom he formed Haiku D’Etat), Zion I, RJD2 and many more.

With his conscious lyrics about the changes of life and his jazzy hypnosis– inducing beats, Aceyalone continues to hold his own in the underground world of “808”s and rhymes. He will be performing with fellow legends Aesop, Z-Man & DJ True Justice for the He’s The DJ I’m The Rapper Tour. Moe’s Alley; $10 adv/$15 door; 9pm. (Mat Weir)

Tribal Seeds, the San Diego–based band, infuses a bit of rock into a “spiritually-driven” classic reggae sound, managing to bring a young and fresh energy to their shows while staying true to reggae’s roots by sticking to the instrumentation of their influences. Brothers Steven and Tony-Ray (or T-Ray) were inspired to start the band when they were in high school and listening to reggae music.

The group has released two awardwinning albums since their debut, including their most recent release, The Harvest (2009), which reached number five on Billboard’s reggae charts. The Catalyst; $15 adv/$18 door; 9pm. (Samantha Larson)

SISTA MONICA CD RELEASE PARTY Sista Monica Parker, “the lioness of the blues,” will celebrate the release of her tenth album, Living in the Danger Zone, over dinner and a concert. The CD, based in her roots as a Chicago blues and R&B artist, features songs about hope, faith and overcoming challenges—something Sista Monica, a cancer survivor, knows more about than anyone would want to. The show will likely delve into her experience in soul, blues and gospel, too. Kuumbwa; $20 adv/$23 door; dinner 6pm/music 7pm. (SL)

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SATURDAY | 12/3

JOSH CATERER Touring on his new holiday EP, The Heart of Christmas, the Windy City’s own Josh Caterer is back with his unique “punk meets crooner” sound. More famously known as the frontman for ’90s rock band The Smoking Popes, Caterer’s smooth and melodic vocals paved the way for later bands like the romantic punk outfit Alkaline Trio. When the Popes broke up in 1998, Caterer took a break from the music scene, releasing only a single EP while he took time to figure out the important things in life. Today,

SUNDAY | 12/4

ROB ICKES & JIM HURST A one-two knockout combination of musical prowess, Rob Ickes and Jim Hurst represent the top tier of contemporary acoustic music. Both International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) award-winning artists whose work with the Claire Lynch Band (Hurst) and Blue Highway (Ickes) solidified their standing in the bluegrass world, the duo’s traditional roots serve only as a starting point for what they are capable of. Combining virtuosic guitar and dobro playing with inventive arrangements, natural showmanship and an easy delivery, these two masterfully complement each other, making music that is warm, intricate and playful. Don Quixote’s; $15; 7pm. (Cat Johnson)

MONDAY | 12/5

They Might Be Giants

CONCERTS BLASTERS Dec. 8 at Catalyst

HOT CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO Dec. 8 at Kuumbwa

ANTHONY B Jan. 7 at Moe’s Alley

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Jan. 27 at Rio Theatre

SOCIAL DISTORTION Feb. 9 at Civic Auditorium

improvisation and a passion for the connection between self-awareness and reaching one’s musical potential (he penned a book on the matter), Kenny Werner is a celebrated and versatile artist, composer and bandleader.

The Grammy-nominated artist has played with Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby Hutcherson, Charlie Haden, Bobby McFerrin and more. His current quintet boasts an all-star lineup featuring David Sanchez, Randy Brecker, Scott Colley and Antonio Sanchez. Kuumbwa; $25 adv/$28 door; 7pm. (CJ)

TUESDAY | 12/6

KENNY WERNER QUINTET A jazz pianist with an instinct for

PICKER OF THE WEEK Leo Kottke plays the Rio this Saturday.

MARCO BENEVENTO TRIO A keyboardist of exceptional style and creativity, Marco Benevento is a genre-bending, avant-garde artist who has been hailed as “the future of jazz keyboards.” Combining pedals, electronics, samples and distortion with innovative and expressive keyboard work, the Brooklyn-based Benevento has created a niche for himself where no style is off limits.

Reworking songs by Beck, Led Zeppelin, Amy Winehouse, the Zombies and more, Benevento and company stretch out in the space between jazz, jams, electronica and rock and roll. Moe’s Alley; $12 adv/$15 door; 8:30. (CJ)

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All great blues musicians are equipped with two essential things: a great sense of humor and the sound of four hands playing one guitar. So it shouldn’t be a surprise for anyone in the know when the name Leo Kottke is mentioned as one of the greats. With an impressive recording career spanning four decades and more than two dozen albums, Kottke is what many call a “musician’s musician.” He keeps his audience spellbound with tales from the road mixed in between a fingerpicking style conjuring up legends like Bukka White or Mississippi John Hurt. Rio Theatre; $35; 8pm. (Mat Weir)

Caterer is back on stage with his own material after the Popes released their sixth studio album, This Is Only a Test, earlier this year. He will be joined by Kepi Ghoulie and Dan Potthast. Crepe Place; $8; 9pm. (MW)

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clubgrid SANTA CRUZ

WED 11/30

THU 12/1

FRI 12/2

THE ABBEY

SAT 12/3 John Miller

350 Mission St, Santa Cruz

BLUE LAGOON

Live Comedy

VJ/DJ Tripp

923 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

BOCCIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CELLAR

Roberto Howell

Lords of Greenbush

Big BamBu

Karaoke

Borgore

Tribal Seeds

J. Stalin

140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

THE CATALYST 1011 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

CLOUDS

Jazz Open Mic

110 Church St, Santa Cruz

The Esoteric Collective

CREPE PLACE

White Buffalo

White Buffalo

Josh Caterer

1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Deep Ellum

Amee Chapman

Dan Potthast

Hall Pass

Extra Lounge

CROWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NEST

Peter Wilde

Matt Masih

2218 East Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz

Jazz Trio

& The Messengers

CYPRESS LOUNGE

Get Rad Wednesdays

Reggae Night

120 Union St, Santa Cruz

Surf Industry Night

Aloha Friday Live Hawaiian Music

DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Santa Cruz

FINS COFFEE

Mike Wilkinson

1104 Ocean St, Santa Cruz

HOFFMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAKERY CAFE

Preston Brahm Trio

Mapanova

KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER

New West

Sista Monica

320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Guitar Group

CD release concert

1102 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

Isoceles with Gary Montrezza

MAD HOUSE BAR & COCKTAILS

Mad Jam

DJ AD

DJ Marc

DJ E

529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

Bring your instrument

Rainbow Room

Cruzing

Church

MOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ALLEY

The Young Dubliners

Aceyalone

Tommy Malone

The Mighty Diamonds

1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

and Wild Rovers

Aesop, Z-Man

of the Subdudes

MOTIV

Libation Lab

KAOS

1209 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

with AL-B

Tech Minds

RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

RIO THEATRE

Leo Kottke

1205 Soquel, Santa Cruz

SEABRIGHT BREWERY

Harpin Johnny

519 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

& The Premadons

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TUE 12/6

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SUN 12/4 Taylor Begert

SANTA CRUZ THE ABBEY 831.429.1058

The Box

Rock This Party

Goth Industrial

BLUE LAGOON 831.423.7117

SC Jazz Society

Kevin McDowell

Ruby Rudman

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

THE CATALYST 831.423.1336

Jazz Baby

CLOUDS 831.429.2000

Other Lives

7 Come 11

JBM

CREPE PLACE 831.429.6994

Live Comedy

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

Open Acoustic Night

CYPRESS LOUNGE 831.459.9876&#8206;

Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market String Band

Geese in the Fog

DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE 831.426.8801

FINS COFFEE 831.423.6131

Dana Scruggs Trio

Joe Leonard Trio

Barry Scott & Associates

Kenny Werner Quintet

HOFFMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAKERY CAFE 831.420.0135

KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER

with David SĂĄnchez

831.427.2227

Beer Pong/Beer Bust

DJ Chante Neighborhood Night

Marco Benevito Trio

MAD HOUSE BAR & COCKTAILS 831.425.2900

MOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ALLEY 831.479.1854

Moombahton

Terminal

Two$days

MOTIV

w/ Dane Jouras

with DJ AD

831.479.5572

RED 831.425.1913

Timothy B. Schmit

RIO THEATRE 831.423.8209

Neighborhood Night

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 831.426.2739

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-423-1336 ;O\YZKH` +LJLTILY Â&#x2039; AGES 18+

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OLD CITY ARMSTRONGS

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Beso Negro s P M P M

Dec 8 Supersuckers Atrium (Ages 21+) $EC The Expendables (Ages 16+) Dec 10 Avey Tare Atrium (All Ages) Dec 11 Jonathan Richman Atrium (Ages 21+) Dec 15 Shawn Colvin (Ages 21+) Dec 15 Tornado Rider Atrium (Ages 21+) Dec 16 Thrive/ Whiskey Avengers Atrium (Ages 16+) Dec 17 The Growlers Atrium (Ages 16+) Dec 18 Streetlight Manifesto Reel Big Fish (Ages 16+) Dec 20 Brian Setzer (Ages 21+) Dec 30 & 31 The Devil Makes Three (Ages 21+) Jan 4 NOFX/ No Use For A Name (Ages 16+) Jan 15 Slightly Stoopid (Ages 16+) &EB Rebelution (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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

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WED 11/30 Trivia Quiz Night

THU 12/1

FRI 12/2

SAT 12/3

Karaoke

Karaoke

Highway 17

Karaoke Sound Co

Nora Cruz

Lou DeLuca

Extra Lounge

B-Movie Kings

T-Mike

8017 Soquel Dr, Aptos

THE FOG BANK 211 Esplanade, Capitola

MARGARITAVILLE 221 Esplanade, Capitola

MICHAELâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ON MAIN

Karaoke

2591 Main St, Soquel

and the Groove

PARADISE BEACH GRILLE

Johnny Fabulous

Dennis Dove

215 Esplanade, Capitola

SANDERLINGS

George

Dizzy Burnett

1 Seascape Resort Dr, Rio del Mar

In Three

& Grover Coe

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

Don McCaslin &

Wallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cocktail

7500 Old Dominion Ct, Aptos

The Amazing Jazz Geezers

Combo

SHADOWBROOK

KOZ

Joe Ferrara

NoNette

Militia of Love

HipShake

Journey Unauthorized

1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

THE WHARF HOUSE 1400 Wharf Rd, Capitola

THE UGLY MUG

Anson Krekeler

ka raj

4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel

ZELDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 203 Esplanade, Capitola

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

Drew Harrison

Pretty Lights

6275 Hwy 9, Felton

Meklit Hadero

John Lennon Tribute

Michal Menert

HENFLINGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TAVERN

Mike Bloom

Buzzkill

Honey Wilders

9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond

and the Miracle Parade

Mariachi Ensemble

KDON DJ Showbiz

WATSONVILLE / MOSS LANDING CILANTROâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

Hippo Happy Hour

1934 Main St, Watsonville

MOSS LANDING INN

& KDON DJ SolRock

Open Jam

Hwy 1, Moss Landing

UpWest Arts

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MON 12/5

TUE 12/6

Dennis Dove Pro Jam

Save the Tataâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Game Night

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

Breast Cancer BeneďŹ t

THE FOG BANK 831.462.1881

Comedy in the Village

David Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor

MARGARITAVILLE 831.476.2263

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

Lisa Taylor

Nick Handley Classical Guitar

PARADISE BEACH GRILLE 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 Rob Ickes

Chris Robinson

Chris Robinson

& Jim Hurst

Brotherhood

Brotherhood

Blue Chevrolet

Karaoke with Ken

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

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

WATSONVILLE / MOSS LANDING Santa Cruz Trio

KPIG Happy Hour Happy hour

Karaoke

CILANTROâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 831.761.2161

MOSS LANDING INN 831.633.3038

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Film Capsules NEW CAPS CHICAGO THE BAND: AN EVE OF HOLIDAY MUSIC AND GREATEST HITS (NR; 90 min.) Music from the album Chicago XXXIII plus holiday ditties. (Tue at Santa Cruz 9) A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) Stanley Kubrick’s dystopian masterpiece stars Malcolm McDowell as an ultraviolent but highly intelligent thug who volunteers for a novel rehabilitation technique after he is apprehended. (Thu at Santa Cruz 9) MET OPERA: RODELINDA (NR; 255 min.) Soprano Renee Fleming stars in Handel’s story of an Italian queen who

must resist the advances of the man who usurped her husband’s throne. (Sat at Santa Cruz 9)

MET OPERA: SATYAGRAHA ENCORE (NR; 225 min.) Philip Glass’s opera about Gandhi’s early years in South Africa, where he developed his philosophy of nonviolence.

(Wed 12/7 at Santa Cruz 9) THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001) Three sibling child prodigies (Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Gwyneth Paltrow), all grown up and neurotic, are called home by their mother (Anjelica Huston) when their estranged father (Gene Hackman) returns to the family home. With Owen Wilson, Danny Glover and Bill Murray.

(Fri-Sat midnite at Del Mar)

SHOWTIMES

ST. OLAF CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL LIVE (NR; 150 min.) The Minnesota college choirs and orchestra have been putting on a lavish Christmas concert each year since 1912. Program includes old crowdpleasers as well as little-known traditional carols and contemporary compositions. (Sun at Santa Cruz 9)

REVIEWS ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (PG; 106 min.) Santa’s youngest son tries to figure out how the old man delivers all those gifts in one night and finds a high-tech contraption buried at the North Pole in this animated tale voiced by

James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie and Imelda Staunton.

THE DESCENDANTS (R; 115 min.) Almost everyone will enjoy the George Clooney/ Alexander Payne film The Descendants. Clooney’s Matt King is a lawyer who toils while his family has a good time. Matt’s wife languishes in a coma after a bad boating accident. He goes to retrieve his daughter, Alexandra (Shailene Woodley), currently immured at a strict boarding school because of her partying. Alexandra confesses that she’s been acting out lately because she saw her mom with a stranger’s hands on her. Matt also has to deal with his cutely awkward, profane younger daughter,

Scottie (Pacific Grove’s Amara Miller, debuting), as well as with his ornery father-in-law (Robert Forster, excellently embodying the old military side of Hawaii).

Coming along for the ride is Alexandra’s pal Sid (Nick Krause), her seemingly silly young partner in partying, who wedges himself into this family tragedy. Meanwhile, Matt must make the painful decision to liquidate a piece of property that he’s holding in trust for the rest of the family. The end result of the deal will be yet another resort with golf course, part of the endless effort to turn Hawaii into Costa Mesa. Clooney is roguish and entertaining; he gives the kind of star’s performance that probably

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Nov. 30, through Wednesday, Dec. 7, 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 J. Edgar — Daily 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:40 plus Wed-Sun 11am.

The Muppets — Daily 1:30; 4; 6:30; 8:50 plus Sat-Sun 11:10am.

CINELUX 41ST AVENUE CINEMA 1475 41st Ave., Capitola 831.479.3504 www.cineluxtheatres.com Arthur Christmas — Daily 11; 1:30; 4; 6:30; 9.

Happy Feet Two 3D — Daily 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 — Daily 11; 1:45; 4:40; 7:30; 10:20.

DEL MAR 1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com Hugo — Daily 12:40; 3:20; 6; 8:30.

Hugo 3D — Daily 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

My Week with Marilyn — Daily 12:30; 2:45; 5; 7:15; 9:20.

The Royal Tenenbaums — Fri-Sat midnight.

NICKELODEON Lincoln and Cedar streets, Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com The Descendants — Daily 1; 2; 3:30 4:30; 6; 7; 8:30; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11:30am.

Like Crazy — Wed-Thu 1:15; 3:15; 5:15; 7:15; 9:10; Fri-Wed 1:15; 3:15; 5:15; 7:15;

9:20 plus Sat-Sun 11:10am.

Melancholia — Wed-Thu 4; 6:40; 9:20; Fri-Wed 4; 9:10.

The Skin I Live In — Fri-Wed 1:40; 6:45 plus Sat-Sun 11:20am.

The Way — Wed-Thu 1:30pm.

RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN

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

Sat-Sun 11:10am.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 — Wed-Thu 1:20; 1:50; 2:20;

4:10; 4:40; 5:10; 6:50; 7:30; 8; 9:50; 10:20; Fri-Wed 1:20; 1:50; 2:20; 4:10; 4:40; 5:10; 7; 7:30; 8; 10:20 plus Sat 10:30am and Sat-Sun 11:30am. (No Tue 4:40; 7:30; No Wed 4:40; 7:30; 10:20.)

A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas — Daily 2; 4:50; 7:10; 9:40 plus SatSun 11:40am. (No Thu 4:50; 7:10; 9:40.)

Bolshoi Ballet: Esmerelda — Wed 11/30 6:30pm.

A Clockwork Orange — Thu 9:30pm.

The Met: Rodelinda — Sat 9:30am.

St. Olaf Christmas Festival Live — Sun 12:30pm.

Chicago the Band: An Eve of Holiday — Tue 7pm.

The Met: Satyagraha Encore — Wed 12/7 6:30pm.

CINELUX SCOTTS VALLEY 6 CINEMA 226 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley 831.438.3260 www.cineluxtheatres.com Arthur Christmas — Daily 11:15; 1:45; 4:10; 6:45; 9:15.

Hugo — Daily 11:55; 2:45; 5:30; 8:15.

Hugo 3D — Daily 11:10; 2; 4:45; 7:30; 10:10.

Happy Feet Two — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7; Fri-Wed 11:20; 1:40; 4; 6:30; 9.

Happy Feet Two 3D — Wed-Thu 9:30pm.

Immortals — Wed-Thu 10pm.

J. Edgar — Wed-Fri 1; 4; 7; 10; Sat-Wed 4; 7; 10.

Jack and Jill — Daily 11:55; 2:20; 4:55; 7:30; 9:45.

The Muppets — Wed-Thu 11; 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:40 Fri-Wed 11; 11:45; 1:40; 2:20;

4:20; 5; 7; 9:40.

Puss in Boots —Wed-Thu 10:45; 11:55; Sat-Sun 11:10; 1:30.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 — Wed-Thu 10:45; 11:40;

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

1:30; 2:30; 4:20; 5:20; 7:20; 8:15; 10:15; Fri-Wed 10:45; 1:30; 4:20; 7:20; 8; 10:15.

J. Edgar — Daily 3:45; 6:45; 9:45 plus Fri-Sun 1pm.

Jack and Jill — Daily 4; 7; 10 plus Fri-Sun 12:45.

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8

SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9

Arthur Christmas — Daily 1:30; 4; 7:15; 9:30 Sat-Sun 11am.

Happy Feet Two — Daily 4:10; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11:15am.

Happy Feet Two 3D — Daily 1:30; 7:15.

Hugo 3D —Daily 1:35; 4:10; 7; 9:40 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Immortals — Daily 1:30; 4; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11:15am.

Jack and Jill — Daily 1; 3; 5:05; 7:15; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

The Muppets — Daily 1:30; 4; 7:15; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Puss in Boots — Daily 1; 3; 5:05 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Tower Heist — Daily 7; 9:30.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Daily 1:30; 4; 7; 9:30; Sat-Sun 11am.

1405 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1700 www.regmovies.com Arthur Christmas — Daily 1:10; 4; 9:20.

Arthur Christmas 3D — Daily 6:45pm plus Sat 10:40am.

Happy Feet Two — Daily 5; 10:30 plus Sat-Sun 11:20am. (No Thu 10:30pm.)

Happy Feet Two 3D — Daily 2:10; 7:45. (Thu No 7:45pm.)

Immortals 3D — Wed-Thu 2:50; 5:30; 8:05; 10:45 Fri-Wed 2:50; 5:30; 8:05;

10:40 plus Sat-Sun 12:10pm.

The Muppets — Daily 1:35; 4:25; 7:15; 10:05 plus Sat 10:45am.

1125 S. Green Valley Rd, Watsonville 831.761.8200 www.greenvalleycinema.com

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only looks easy and smooth to pull off. And he finishes with some very heavy oldschool acting, which puts Clooney farther out on the limb than he is in the rest of the film. (RvB)

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HAPPY FEET TWO (PG; 106 min.) Mumble the Penguin encounters much bigger problems than his son Erik’s unwillingness to dance— the entire colony is under threat and must join forces to defeat it. With voices of Robin Williams, Pink, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon.

HUGO (PG; 133 min.) Martin Scorsese’s first 3-D film, about an orphan growing up in 1930s Paris in a train station, involves an automaton and a reserved man who runs a toy shop.

With Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jude Law and Emily Mortimer.

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.

J. EDGAR (R; 137 min.) Clint Eastwood’s shot-full-ofcurare biopic takes on a half-century of history, from the Palmer raids to Nixon’s regime. This J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardi DiCaprio), founder of the FBI, is a pudgy minotaur, encircled by a loyal secretary (Naomi Watts) and a proud but suffocating mother (Judi Dench). He emerges for lunches, dinners and jaunts to the racetrack with longtime companion Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer, the Winkelvosses of The Social Network). The film asks you to mourn Hoover, who may have hidden his own sexuality even as he snooped into the sex lives of others. Would this epic blackmailer, head of the American secret police, have been a better man if he just could have declared his secret love to the world?

(RvB) JACK AND JILL (PG; 91 min.)

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.

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

LIKE CLOCKWORK: Asa Butterfield is Hugo Cabret, an orphan and secret train-station horologist in Martin Scorsese’s ‘Hugo.’

LIKE CRAZY (PG-13; 90 min.)

Drake Doremus’ Like Crazy is like a pop song: so vague that almost everyone can relate to some small part of it, and the vaguest of all feel as if they’ve been eavesdropped upon. She, Anna (Felicity Jones), is a British writer; he, Jacob (Anton Yelchin), is an upscale custom furniture maker. Their made-foreach-other relationship in L.A. is interfered with by the machinery of American immigration. When Anna returns for a second visit to California, she’s barred from entry because her student visa expired during the previous stay.

MELANCHOLIA (R; 136 min.)

In a Swedish chalet on a lake, a wedding is planned and the bride Justine (Kirsten Dunst) has gone feral with sadness—hiding from the company, ducking her husband to go pee on the lawn on the golf course.

There is cosmic trouble having to do with a newly discovered planet called “Melancholia” that some fanatics are suggesting is in a “Dance of Death” orbit with Terra. After the wedding, Justine’s sister Charlotte Gainsbourg, her new husband (Alexander Skarsgård) and brotherin-law (Kiefer Sutherland) struggle to cope as the inevitable starts to occur.

Does director Lars von Trier feel life itself is evil? That seemed to be the idea in Antichrist, but Melancholia is much easier to take seriously because of its clarity and stillness, and because of Dunst’s wistful, frightening acting. (RvB)

THE MUPPETS (PG: 104 min.) Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo and the rest of the gang are back to save their theater, which is being threatened by an oil tycoon. With Amy Adams, Jason Segel, Chris Cooper and Alan Arkin.

MY WEEKEND WITH MARILYN (Rated R) Kenneth Branagh stars as Sir Laurence Olivier and Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in a story about the tension between the two stars during the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl.

PUSS IN BOOTS (PG; 90 min.) The swashbuckling cat (voiced by Antonio Banderas) is framed for a robbery and must clear his name by heisting the goose that lays golden eggs. The film goes wrong where prequels usually do, by changing the nature of the characters we love in the name of fleshing them out. The insistence that Puss needs to be a hero goes against his raffishness; even long

before Bogart died, it was more of a pleasure to watch such a free figure drawn in reluctantly, instead of volunteering.

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

THE SKIN I LIVE IN (R; 120 min.) Haunted by his wife’s horrible auto accident, a plastic surgeon (Antonio Banderas) creates a synthetic skin that cannot burn. Having only tested it on mice, he holds a young woman captive in his large estate to use as a human subject. In Spanish with subtitles, directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

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.

TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 (PG-13; 117 min.) In the first part of the two-part conclusion to the Twilight series, the happy couple start their monster family and set in motion a series of events leading to a pitched battle with the evil vampire council and the werewolves.

A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR CHRISTMAS (R; 90 min.) Six years after their Guantanamo Bay adventure, Harold and Kumar—now with very different families, friends and lives—reunite for a holiday caper through New York that begins with Kumar accidentally burning down Harold’s father-inlaw’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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GROUNDS FOR REJOICING Verve—the all-new, urban gigantic oasis of coffee, pastries and abundant seating—opened its third location last week at the top of Pacific Mall in downtown Santa Cruz. To say that this second brainchild of Colby Barr and company is “big” is to understate in the extreme.

Three separate barista stations form a service peninsula that juts out into the wraparound seating/schmoozing/studying areas. Windows allow vistas out onto both Front Street and Pacific Avenue. Repurposed antique wood siding lines walls, sharing space with huge splashy oil paintings and little retail islands.

And the place was packed in the days right after Thanksgiving, with baristas kept busy making cappuccinos and explaining the various pastries.

Whether the new Verve can share the caffeine needs with its many neighboring coffeehouses remains to be seen. But this is certainly not your basic, tiny, funky, intimate coffee depot. Open daily from 6am until 11pm, Verve is ready for you. Are you ready for Verve?

INNOVATORS AT SOIF You could do worse than to drop by Soif for the Dec. 3 tasting with adventurous winemaker Kenny Likitprakong of the Hobo Wine Company. As Soif wine director John Locke tells it, Likitprakong—a onetime UCSC lit major who went on to study oenology at UC Davis—offers several wine labels. One is called Banyan, which Likitprakong uses for his riesling and gewurtztraminer, “which go so well with Asian cuisines,” Locke reports. A label called Folk Machine and another called Ghost Writer featuring Santa Cruz Mountains wines are also part of his empire. Locke says Hobo Wine Company produces “some of the coolest wines coming out of California right now.” And that is enough to put me in the tasting room next week. If you need more options, join Jeff Vierra of Farm Wine Imports to preview some holiday bubblies at Soif on Dec. 17. Call 831.423.2020 for details and reservations. Now. HOT PLATES Enjoyed a stupendous roast halibut topped with sliced chiles, sesame seeds, caramelized garlic and cilantro and napped with a soy and mirin-intensive reduction sauce, all created by intrepid home chef Steve Spill.

We sampled it last week, along with an appetizer of prosciutto-wrapped figs from Spill’s garden and dessert of poached pears with designer vanilla ice cream.

Many attempt such dinners, few succeed with such finesse.

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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TAKES SOME VERVE Barista Kendall Chade helps administer espresso during Verve’s debut week downtown.

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

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AMBROSIA INDIA BISTRO

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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.

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GEISHA SUSHI

104 Stockton Ave, 831.479.8888

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

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Japanese. This pretty and welcoming sushi bar serves 200 Monterey Ave, 831.464.3328 superfresh fish in unusual but well-executed sushi combinations. Wed-Mon 11:30am-9pm.

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SHADOWBROOK

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1750 Wharf Rd, 831.475.1511

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STOCKTON BRIDGE GRILLE

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231 Esplanade, 831.464.1933

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203 Esplanade, 831.475.4900

ZELDA’S

California Continental. Swordfish and other seafood specials.

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

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

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

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ACAPULCO

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CELLAR DOOR

1116 Pacific Ave, 831. 426.7588

328 Ingalls St, 831.425.6771

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.

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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.

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Free Will

By Rob Brezsny

For the week of November 30 ARIES (March 21–April 19): This would be an excellent

GEMINI (May 21–June 20): One of my Gemini acquaintances, Tara, has been playing a slow-moving game of tag with three friends since they were all in second grade together. They’re 27 years old now and still live in the same city. Currently, Tara is “It,” and has been so for quite some time. But she confided in me that she plans to make a move this week. She says she’ll sneak up on one of the other players during his lunch break at work, tag him and run away before he can tag her back. I told her she’s likely to meet with success, since this is an excellent time for you Geminis to gain an advantage in pretty much any kind of game you’re playing.

CANCER (June 21–July 22): “Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know,” wrote philosopher Eric Hoffer. This is a good idea for you to contemplate right now. I realize it may be a challenge for you to figure out what you would rather not know and are afraid to know and might even be allergic to knowing. Still, I hope you’ll make the effort.

Maybe you could enlist a smart ally who’d be skillful in helping you uncover the taboo truth. And maybe you could formulate an intention to be as objective as you’ve ever been.

LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): Biologists say there are 680 species of trees and shrubs in the United States and Canada. By comparison, Lambir Hills National Park on the island of Borneo is the home of 1,175 species on its 128 acres. I suspect you will feel right at home in places like Lambir Hills in the coming week, Leo. Your own creative urges will be running hotter than usual and are most likely to thrive in contexts that are themselves teeming with lush fertility and rich diversity. Please surround yourself with inspirational influences, thereby giving yourself the best possible chance to express yourself with vivid imagination.

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home,” wrote philosopher Dagobert D. Runes.

Your assignment, Virgo, should you choose to accept it, is to refute that assertion. In other words, I’m inviting you to travel to all of your usual haunts and treat everything that happens there with the attitude of a first-time visitor. Just assume that the familiar people and places in your life have stimulating gifts to give and lessons to impart. Remember, though, they can’t do that to the fullest unless you expect them to.

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): The human brain is composed of 30 percent protein and 70 percent fat.

So it wouldn’t be incorrect to refer to you as a fathead.

In order to nourish your brain cells, you’ve got to eat foods that provide two essential fatty acids your body doesn’t manufacture: omega-3 ALA and omega-6 LA. Since you’re now in a “brain-building” phase of your astrological cycle, I urge you to get more than your minimum requirements of these basics. If I may be permitted to resurrect a now-out-of-fashion slang term, I suggest that you also expose yourself to a lot of extraordinarily phat sources of intellectual stimulation.

that Japanese sumo wrestlers wear while competing. It’s rare for the garment to come off, even in the heat of a match, but it did happen once in 2000, when a wrestler named Asanokiri suddenly found himself standing naked during his bout with Chiyohakuho. In conformity with sumo’s rules, Asanokiri was immediately disqualified.

I don’t think you’re at risk for being rendered literally unclothed in the heat of a showdown or a plot twist, Scorpio. But I do advise you to take extra precautions to prevent a metaphorical version of that occurrence. Get your act very together, and keep it very together.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): “Dear Mr. Brezsny: My name is Sonny McGee, and I own a website that caters to people who are addicted to playing poker. I’m a big fan of your horoscopes, and I’m wondering if you would like to advertise your work to our audience. Gamblers love astrology! Get in touch.—Sagittarian Wheeler Dealer.” Dear Wheeler Dealer: Thanks for your interest, but I’ll pass. I don’t like to encourage anyone to focus their gambling urges on trivial matters like card games, sports events and lotteries. I prefer they direct that mojo to high-minded stuff like daring themselves to excel, pursuing exciting and idealistic adventures and doing brave things to help save the world. By the way, it’s prime time for you Sagittarians to ratchet up your commitment to those kinds of gambles.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): I hope you’re not so perversely attached to your demons that you’re inclined to keep providing them with a comfortable home. Why? Because the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to permanently banish them from the premises. Yes, I know it may seem lonely at first without their nagging, disruptive voices chattering away in your head. But I really do encourage you to bid them adieu. By the way, as you plan your exorcism, you might want to include a humorous touch or two. They’re allergic to satire and mockery, you know.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): The Beauvais Cathedral in northern France has been called “the most daring achievement of Gothic architecture.” Its soaring facades, carved wooden doors, stained glass windows and astronomical clock demonstrate high artistry. There’s a problem with the place, however—it has never been completed. Work began in the year 1225, and experts are still talking about how to solve certain ongoing difficulties with its construction. I don’t know when this happy ending will occur, Aquarius, but I do expect that in 2012 you will be able to put the finishing touches on your own personal version of the Beauvais Cathedral.

And now would be a good time to formulate definite plans to do so.

PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): In my prayers, I’ve been negotiating with the Goddess to grant you the power to change the course of rivers, at least in a metaphorical way. I’ve also beseeched her to show you how to overthrow the Puppet Master and convert overwrought hawks into savvy doves. The Goddess seems to be seriously considering these appeals, and has even hinted she might offer you instructions on how to shape a new Adam out of one of Eve’s ribs, mythically speaking. In return, she does have one request—that you do what you can to make sure the sun rises on schedule for the next 10 days.

Homework: Imagine what your life would be like if you licked your worst fear. Describe this new world to me. Go to RealAstrology.com and click on “Email Rob.” Visit REALASTROLOGY.COM for Rob’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1.877.873.4888 or 1.900.950.7700

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TAURUS (April 20–May 20): As a mouse looks for food or shelter, it is flexible enough to fit through a hole as small as a quarter of an inch. You would really benefit from having a talent like that right now, Taurus. Of course, even if you are as slippery and pliable as you’ll need to be, you will also have to be on high alert for the inviting possibilities, some of which may be brief or subtle. For example, let’s say you spy an interestinglooking person with whom you’d love to chat. The window of opportunity may be open for less than 10 seconds. Seize that moment! Refuse to get hung up in shyness. Don’t convince yourself that another chance will come along later.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): The mawashi is the loincloth

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week to head down to Pucón, Chile, and hire a daredevil to fly you in a helicopter into the caldera of the active Villarrica volcano, whereupon you would bungee-jump out of the copter down to within 700 feet of the molten lava. If that’s too extreme or expensive for your tastes, I urge you to come up a milder adventure that will still bring you a close encounter with primal heat and light—and maybe even some divine fire.

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