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METER-MADE PROBLEM WITH ALL of the expense on studying solutions to declining retail business downtown, political handwringing and chest-pounding, one situation has (once again) not been addressed—overzealous parking enforcement.

Case in point: one week in November while returning a DVD (having plugged the meter) I returned to find a $38 (!) parking tickets for being less than 2 minutes expired. The following week, while trying to shop locally and avoid the “big box” stores (with free parking), I received another $38 ticket (this time probably five minutes over). Any self-

congratulation for spending my money downtown was quickly erased, since the items cost an additional $38.

While Santa Cruz cries for more revenue from business sales, it defeats its own purposes by driving away business with extremely aggressive parking enforcement.

Once again, the city of Santa Cruz and its backward-thinking policies trump logic.

Carolyn Claeys Santa Cruz

SAW LIGHT, DUMPED BANK ‘BAILING Grades” by Tessa Stuart

(Currents, Nov. 30) changed my life in one reading. I have banked exclusively at Bank of America since 1985. I was resigned to living with the terrible service and fees, then Stuart’s article woke me up and I have moved my accounts from B of A to the Santa Cruz Community Credit Union.

The fact Stuart presented in the article that most struck me was that this past year the Santa Cruz Community Credit Union loaned over $3 million to local small businesses while “big banks Chase, Wells Fargo and US Bank fell far short of these numbers, lending $112,200, $58,000 and $10,000 respectively.” The megabanks hoarded their bailout money and our local banks and credit unions invested in our neighbors.

True, there are some services you don’t get at Santa Cruz Community Credit Union that you get at Bank of America.

At SC Credit Union you don’t get the B of A row of Barbie-doll tellers with perfect makeup and bewildered looks on their faces (B of A tellers include Ken dolls as well, who appear equally f lummoxed).

At SC Community Credit Union you don’t get to watch slick corporate B of A commercials on continuously running TV screens. And so far at Santa Cruz Community Credit Union I have not gotten one surprise “fee” or “penalty.”

Will I miss Bank of America? No, my aim has improved.

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TIME FOR RESET TWO THOUSAND years ago, Christ chased the moneychangers out of the temple. Four hundred years ago, Chief Seattle stated, “No one can own the Earth, She is our Mother, we must serve Her in gratitude for giving us life and sustaining us.”

Robber barons started the banks and made three times their loans back in interest. They still do. For hundreds of years the practice of “debt forgiveness” in Europe was done every 40 years (the

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FREEDOMLOADERS THIS COUNTRY suffers from a bad case of semantic miscommunication. While some people think of freedom as a state of liberation from religious, political and class oppressions, there are others who interpret that word to mean something entirely different. Freedom in the United States means to them a place where you can find free land and free labor and life without moral constrictions to the land or to other people. When we send the troops to “fight for our freedom,” which definition are they defending? We ought to clarify to ourselves and the rest of the world just what it is that we represent.

J.T. Younger Santa Cruz

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OUR CANDY’S DANDY ON THE “Next Small Thing” gift guide (Cover story, Nov. 23), I have to offer a correction: Scharffen Berger, whose mini-chocolate bars you recommend, is no longer the independent, Berkeley-based chocolatier you described it as. It was purchased by Hershey’s in 2009 and all production was moved to Illinois.

Scharffen Berger is now only a Hershey brand name.

Yes, the bars are still good, but why not mention local makers like Richard Donnelly or Lula’s? They make small bars and small candy boxes, and are very fine.

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REMEMBER where I was standing and what I was wearing. And I remember how it felt saying four words chosen purposefully. I’d returned home for Christmas, my second year at college, and I was standing by the kitchen table. Dad was at the sink.

I suppose I wanted to hurt him. I certainly intended to shock him, to prove to my father that I could think for myself. I didn’t need his ideas anymore, or his ideology, or his president. I was 19.

“Ronald Reagan’s an asshole,” I hissed. Just like that. I’d rehearsed these four words all the way home. I reviewed my reasons: the president’s belligerent foreign policy, his nuclear gamesmanship, his administration’s assault on the environment. Was there any doubt? “Ronald Reagan’s an asshole.” Dad had returned from a long day at the office, undoubtedly looking forward to some family time before the busy holiday. He went for a drink; I waited by the table. I was well-rehearsed and proud: an Ivy Leaguer with the whole world figured out. “Ronald Reagan’s an asshole.” Sinatra crooning carols on the stereo. Merry Christmas!

Dad’s dying now, 30 years later, with a neurological disease I can hardly pronounce, let alone explain. Yesterday I knelt by the legs he no longer uses. He sits most of the day in a big blue chair, fighting to get words out, losing that battle time and again.

He was never at a loss for words, a grand personality, opinionated and sure of himself.

After I blasphemed his president that Christmas, he and I fought like feral cats: politics and social issues, religion and family secrets. We both said things we came to regret; and we knew exactly what we were doing. We were good at it.

These days he can’t say more than “yes” and “no.” I caress his rigid hand and massage his cramping calf. I see him wanting to say something, but can’t make much of it. After all these years and all we’ve said to one another, we’re stripped of words, left with rigid hands and cramping calves, and tenderness. Dad seems oddly content sitting with the preacher son who has nothing at all figured out. Not any more.

Over the years, we’ve had time to work through some things. Not politics, and not so much religion. We’ve sorted through some family stuff, but certainly not all. Still I’ve learned some things about my father, things that have helped me appreciate how hard he’s tried.

My own daughters are pushing back these days—at my values, my faith. I wish I could tell Dad about that. How I feel when one slams a door in my face, when another sits a mile away in church, texting during the sermon.

To his credit, Dad’s looked past my lefty politics and seen a son who loves his parents.

A son who’s doing his best to raise a family. A few years ago, struggling to make sense of his disease, Dad came to California for a few weeks. He let me cook for him and do his laundry. We walked on West Cliff and cried a lot. Those are sweet memories now.

Whatever else Christmas is, it’s an invitation to a kind of radical vulnerability. It’s an opening in the thin fabric between despair and hope. Christmas is that poor woman pushing through the night to give birth to a child of God. It’s that teenager hanging onto his heart as the world breaks it again. And Christmas is my Dad—his one good hand reaching for mine, the hint of a smile on his lips, his eye saying thanks.

Dave Grishaw-Jones is senior minister of First Congregational Church, the United Church of Christ in Santa Cruz.

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average life expectancy then).

Today, in the United States over 40 million people are in poverty while the top 1 percent— bankers, stockbrokers, financiers and corporate CEOs—have 43 percent of the money.

I think it’s time to start over—equal. All debt erased. The United States was founded on the ideal of equality. Money is merely a measuring system, it’s like inches. It has no inherent value. Our monetary system must facilitate an even exchange of materials and services so that we each receive value equal to what we give.

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What brought you to Santa Cruz?

My wife of almost 40 years (Margie).

She was finishing her degree at Moss Landing to become a marine biologist.

What’s your favorite street?

Beach Street … is there any other?

Name something you’re excited about.

Working the holiday season as Santa.

Name a pet peeve.

VINCE TUZZI What do you do for a living?

I own a hot dog stand at the entrance to the Wharf called Paradise Dogs.

During the winter months, I’m a musician and professional Santa Claus.

I work for Roaring Camp Railroads and also do corporate events. (vincetuzzi.com) What would you be doing if you weren’t doing that?

Entertaining and playing music somewhere, somehow.

People that do not come to a complete stop at a stop sign and just “roll through” … very thoughtless of them What are you reading?

The recent issue of Vintage Guitar is by my chair. Santa likes to “dream” too.

Any advice for first-year Santas?

Make sure you always are positive around children. Also, do not promise something that you have no control over. If the child does not receive what they asked you for, they will be very upset with Santa in the future.

What do you do in your free time?

’Fess up: Do you prefer naughty or nice?

Enjoy riding my cruiser bike and hangin’ at the beach.

Nice. I think people should be nice … all year round.

THERE’S A LIGHT ON THIS TREE THAT WON’T LIGHT ON ONE SIDE. “So I’m taking it home to my workshop, my dear/I’ll fix it up there. Then I’ll bring it back here.” Photo from Dec. 8 sweep of San Lorenzo Park by Chip Scheuer. ) submit your cruzscapes photo to publiceye@santacruz.com (

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Midnight in Santa Cruz Coming out of the Art Deco darkness of the Del Mar after the late show I note it is past midnight and Pacific Avenue looks oddly twisted, the street wiggled down to one lane curling snakelike among dense foliage like the old Garden Mall and, amazingly, it is. There’s no place open and I’d like a beer so I stroll over to Front Street to see who’s playing at the Catalyst. It must be 1973 or so because Oganookie is into its last set and the dancers crammed in front of the bandstand have worked up a sweat and the cowboys and bikers and hippies and grad students are stomping their boots on the boards of the old carriagehouse f loor. The music is some kind of Boulder Creek bluegrass, blue as the smoke of cannabis

leaves grown and burned in these hills, fiddleguitar-mandolin-bass-and-banjo burning as if the musicians’ fingers are af lame, possessed of some ancient backwoods juju that rocks the big room with primal rhythms that move everyone, even the bouncers and bartenders who rule the place with the force of their studly cool, and the busgirls collecting the dregs of the downed pints.

This is old Santa Cruz, what’s going on, have I fallen into a time warp where stoned golden ages are hallucinated, or is the past not past, as Faulkner said, or all ages contemporaneous, per that blowhard Pound? Poets are everywhere, as they were then, reading at Zachary’s every chance they get or printing broadsides in

Westside garages or running off their latest works on Xerox machines and scattering them about town, shamelessly promoting Romance.

This was before tiny devices made hooking up so casually electronic, when you had to seduce your sex object by serenading her until she swooned into your arms against her sisters’ advice.

Those were the days, or so they seem from this distance, under the inf luence of senior discounts, reimagining your twenties in some surf-crashed redwooded Left Bank or Montparnasse of the mind. The time is real, is now; it is you who have passed.

Stephen Kessler

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BREAKING CAMP Most of the Occupy protesters cleared out of San Lorenzo Park on Wednesday, Dec. 7. The group is still holding daily General Assemblies.

Is Occupy Finished?

Absolutely not, says the Adbusters editor behind the movement

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AFTER the eviction of Occupy Santa Cruz last week, some questions loom large: Is this the end of the protest? Without the encampment, will there be further action advancing the movement’s ideals? Have they even figured out, specifically, what those ideals are yet?

The protestors gathered on the courthouse steps after the General Assembly on Sunday expressed little doubt that, although it’s suffered a blow, Occupy Santa Cruz will continue on.

“The camp was for the Occupy protestors to have a 24–hour protest,” Andre Llana says. Given that the purpose of activism was largely diluted toward the end

of the camp’s existence, as it turned increasingly away from a platform for protest and into a residence for Santa Cruz’s transient and homeless community, the eviction of the camp may even have done the political focus some good. “All the blowout of the camp did was prove who’s really here for the protest and who’s not,” Llana says.

“The camp has been cleared out, but we’re still having General Assemblies. We’re just regrouping,” says protestor Isaac Collins.

Occupy Santa Cruz is now in the same position as most of the other Occupy protests around the country.

Kalle Lasn, co-founder and editorin-chief of Adbusters Magazine and a driving force behind the start of the

national movement, told Santa Cruz Weekly that he thinks the protest, rather than fizzling out, is now in its second phase. “Phase one of this movement was very monolithic,” he says. “It was one wonderful occupation without demands, without leaders, and it had a certain magic to it that really worked. Now that’s over and no one really knows what will happen.” But, he continues, “I think it’ll fracture into a myriad of projects of different kinds. I don’t think there’s any clarity of what’s going to happen in the future, but I do think this movement will have long legs.”

One question the movement now faces is to what degree it will focus on physical space. In Santa Cruz in the hours and days following the Dec. 8 sweep of San Lorenzo Park, some protesters turned their energy toward an effort to restore a small vacant lot at Spruce and Pacific into a community garden.

Activist Andy Moscowitz, who’s served as protest spokesperson, says the biggest thing to come out of Occupy Santa Cruz is “a consciousness as to how we use our space.” But, he adds, “I think the concepts that have come out of the Occupy movement are spreading into people’s awareness and now people are running with them in a million different directions.

It’s really diffuse through everything right now.”

Last Friday over the hill, Stanford University took an intellectual approach to the diffuse ideas of the Occupy movement during the “Occupy the Future” event, organized

by Stanford professors. Some speakers, like Michele Barry, dean of global health, were specific about directions the Occupy movement could take.

“The widening gap between health and equity needs to be upfront and center,” Barry said. “We all need to send a message to Congress when the Affordable Care Act is quietly gutted, as it was a few weeks ago when the House of Representatives took out

all of the preventative health care services in the act.”

Others, like former Assemblymember Sally Lieber, more generally sought to keep the ethos of the movement alive in spite of the loss of the encampments. “It’s not just about occupying a physical space.

It’s about occupying the intellectual space, occupying the spiritual space,” she says. “Occupy whatever you find is juicy to you.”

As far as the issues that Occupy Santa Cruz finds juicy, given the action of taking over the vacant building on River Street and a recent letter from the General Assembly to the County Board of Supervisors, the group seems to be developing a focus on foreclosures and evictions.

This is an emphasis that Occupy protestor Jay Cambell thinks is likely to continue. “The foreclosed homes aspect is very important,” he says. “This week we’re going to the supervisors and to city council and we’re going to bring some individuals who have some very rich stories.

By showing the human side of the foreclosures, we hope to sway some hearts and minds and at least get the issue of improper foreclosures looked at.”

Ultimately, while splinter groups may now decide to take on a variety of issues and approaches, Kalle thinks there is still a cohesive element to the national, if not international, protests that have been sparked by Occupy Wall Street.

“All the young people know that their future doesn’t compute, that their lives are going to be full of political, economic and ecological crisis—that if they don’t stand up, they won’t have a future,” he says.

“That’s what keeps the movement together. We don’t need a park to keep it focused.

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SANTA CRUZ was Grateful, Nourished, Fortified—for a few months, anyway. Beginning in midAugust, the city was the newest home to Café Gratitude, the chain of local, live, organic, vegan restaurants known for self-affirming dishes bearing names like “I Am Dazzling.”

Then, on Nov. 29, Santa Cruz was Crestfallen after an open letter posted on Café Gratitude’s website stated the company would be closing all Northern California locations.

Conflicting news reports followed, giving both employees and devotees hope the Santa Cruz café would remain open.

The message on the site, though, was fairly straightforward. “A series of aggressive lawsuits has brought us to this unfortunate choice,” read the note, signed by owners Matthew and Terces Engelhart. “Although we believe that we have done nothing wrong and our policies are completely

legal, it will cost us too much money to defend them in court.”

Santa Cruz’s Café Gratitude opened on Aug. 15, joining existing locations in Berkeley, Cupertino, Oakland, Healdsburg, San Rafael and two in San Francisco—the original Café Gratitude and the popular Mexican restaurant Gracias Madre—located a few blocks from one another in the city’s Mission District. (Two additional Café Gratitudes are operated by independent owners in Los Angeles and Kansas City; those locations will remain unaffected by the decision.)

In addition to operating the restaurants, Café Gratitude LLC brands and sells cookbooks, supplements, foodstuffs, apparel and dishware emblazoned with the slogan “What are you grateful for?” It also holds workshops and retreats and manufactures a self-help board game called “The Abounding River.”

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The letter’s closing words offered some hope to fans that Café Gratitude would survive in some form: “We have come to realize that it isn’t how we serve that is most important but rather that we serve,” it reads. “Our mission will survive this, as love cannot be threatened.”

The Engelharts signed the letter “on behalf of Café Gratitude LLC,” stirring speculation that Café Gratitude would attempt to reorganize under a different LLC. Gilbert says there is no chance of that. “Not with Matthew and Terces Engelhart. They’re moving on,” she says. “They are just trying to negotiate through this particular part in their life—the big unknown.” 0

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would take for Café Gratitude LLC to be sold off piece by piece.

“If I took a guess, it would just be based on different circumstances that could happen. I wouldn’t guess because it could be three months, it could be forever,” she says. The “forever” scenario would involve a new owner taking over the company.

The Santa Cruz location, like the others, “is currently open and it is going to stay open until something occurs,” Gilbert says. “The best way for the community to support it is just to continue coming in right now because it is flourishing now. There are people who have jobs there now, and they’d like to keep it rich as long as that can happen.”

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of operation Chandra Gilbert. “Café Gratitude LLC and all of its properties are for sale. What that means in the future unfortunately makes people uncomfortable. Will the buildings be for sale? Will somebody want to come in and offer Matthew and Terce enough money to keep the concept going, like they have in Los Angeles and Kansas City? We’re just really not sure at this time.”

Five separate lawsuits are currently in litigation—two from former employees, two suits alleging noncompliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and one involving a car accident. “They are all in litigation so I can’t talk about them a lot,” Gilbert says, but together the suits have created “a bunch of financial stress all at one time.”

The claims in lawsuits by former employees include unfair division of tips, deprivation of mandated breaks and allegations that the organization pressured employees to take Landmark Forum seminars if they wished to advance to managerial roles.

Landmark Forum is an outgrowth of Erhard Seminars Training, or est, the controversial ’70s self-help seminar. Est received criticism for its almost military–style control tactics, like not allowing participants leave the room to use the bathroom, eat or drink and encouraging harsh confrontations. Since its emergence in the early ’90s, Landmark Education has sued organizations from Condé Nast to the Cult Awareness Network for suggesting it was a cult.

The founders of Café Gratitude are both graduates of Landmark Forum and openly encourage employees to take the course. In one pending suit, a former employee alleges that she was fired after refusing to take a Landmark workshop; her accusations were chronicled in a piece that appeared in Oakland’s East Bay Express in 2009.

Santa Cruz’s Café Gratitude has 28 employees, according to a count by one shift leader; what this development means for their short– or long–term employment prospects is hard to say.

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MOVE ALONG The Dec. 8 dismantling of the Occupy camp by police spelled the end of a short-lived haven of safety for some of the homeless.

Picnic’s Over On the lawn of San Lorenzo Park hours after police broke up the Occupy Santa Cruz camp, Devin Gonzales, 18 years old and homeless, is sitting on a picnic blanket with his legs crossed.

Gonzales gazes across the park’s duck pond toward the collapsed tents of the Occupy camp he had been calling home. “This was finally a safe place to come,” says Gonzales, who had never felt safe sleeping on the San Lorenzo River levee or in the woods of Felton.

The Occupy camp was a welcome change.

Safety is key for the homeless, according to Paul Brindel of the Community Action Board, which provides job training, homeless services and other programs for low-income people. Brindel says the Occupy Santa Cruz camp filled a community need.

He says whenever there is an open and protected space like Occupy for people to camp, the homeless will gladly make use of it. “You have to sleep,” says Brindel. “And if you don’t have a place to do it legally, you have to do it on public land somewhere.”

At the park, Gonzales’ girlfriend Mallory Gray, also 18 and homeless, is sitting across from him, their rat Bella tucked stealthily away in her black sweatshirt. Beside them is a stroller shoved full of their belongings: blankets, clothes and a tent—or, as Gonzales calls them, “my life.” He

and Gray are looking for some place to spend the rest of their December nights.

“We can go to Felton up the highway. We can camp on the side of freeways, behind cemeteries, behind McDonald’s, the levee, Pogonip,” says Gonzales looking at Gray under the brim of his black baseball cap. “Those are our options right now.”

The homeless have another option for now, according to Monica Martinez, executive director of the Santa Cruz Homeless Services Center. There are still about 25 spots in its winter shelter, she says, adding, “[But] I imagine when the rains start, we’ll see those numbers decrease.” The shelter, which has 100 spots total, opened its annual season in November with more vacancies than usual due to less demand this fall.

Martinez says demand at the shelter jumped 50 percent on Thursday when the Occupy camp closed.

Occupy, whose political message dwindled as the camp’s homeless population grew, brought well-known issues into a more public light. On the grass Gray, while feeding her black puppy Indo small pieces of chicken, says she’s nervous when she pictures her future. “I can see two roads, and they’re very clear,” says Gray, wondering if she will be homeless for the rest of her life. “They are clear directions. It’s like: What do I do?”

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At two Santa Cruz coworking hubs, a new model based on shared spaces and informal collaborators is transforming the nature of work

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CRUZIOWORKS is housed in a large light-filled atrium. There are desks, carrels, a reading nook, a couple of long tables and a white board bearing the scrawled, somewhat cryptic note â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bounce hour, Thursday, 10:30 on the blue couch.â&#x20AC;?

Bounce Hour is not whatever it sounds like. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a chance for the workers

who share this spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the contractors, freelancers, consultants and founders of startupsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to connect and bounce ideas off one another. Today, about 20 have shown up. Among them are a couple of software developers, a microprocessing engineer, the two founders of the Makers Factory, a blogger, a home-school teacher and Cruzio founder Peggy Dolgenos. ¨ $

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jo!tvnnfs/ The conversation ricochets between a discussion of potential uses for QR codes and a recent red tide causing seizures in seals before one participant mentions that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interested in making a game about evolution. Someone suggests a local game design meetup she could attend. Another coworkerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who turns out to be one of the designers of the popular online game Second Lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;helps narrow her focus with a couple of questions. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a simple enough conversation, but instances like this are where the sense emerges that the coworking whole is more than the sum of its parts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to work in the same space with people and never talk to them because you have your blinders on, and Bounce Hour kind of forces people out of that,â&#x20AC;? says Manu Koenig, the founder of Greenocracy, a social media site designed to facilitate public discussion of policy issues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bounce Hour is just one more thing that brings the coworking community together.â&#x20AC;?

Cruzioworks opened in January of this year, becoming the second facility in the city of Santa Cruz to cater to a growing army of officeless workers. (Full disclosure: Santa Cruz Weeklyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staff worked out of Cruzioworks for six weeks this fall while its office within the Cruzio building was being finished.) On the other side of Pacific Avenue is a cozy loft space where the coffee is always on. It is the original NextSpace,

started in 2008 by Ryan Coonerty, Caleb Baskin and Jeremy Neuner as a way to keep some of the best and brightest on this side of the hill.

Neuner and Coonerty initially viewed Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brain drain from the perspective of city officialsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Neuner as the economic development manager for Santa Cruz, Coonerty as vice mayor (and later mayor). From that standpoint, this area presents a set of obstacles to increasing employment: it is fairly isolated geographically (45 minutes from the closest airport), the cost of living is high and two of the largest economic driversâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;agriculture and tourismâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;offer only seasonal work, meaning the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unemployment rate spikes each winter.

Instead of lobbying to attract large traditional companies to Santa Cruz, Neuner and Coonerty wanted to create a space that could attract lots of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; or twoâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; person companies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Twoâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;thirds of the day the typical office is empty,â&#x20AC;? says Neuner, now CEO of NextSpace. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are off at client sites or they are telecommuting or they are in a conference room or whatever.â&#x20AC;? NextSpace has branches in Santa Cruz, San Jose, San Francisco and Culver City, with plans to open even more spaces next year.

The Satellite Telework Center, which opened in Felton in April 2009 and expanded to Scotts Valley in January 2011, is also planning to expand in the upcoming year. ¨

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Getting Wired Even now, Neuner says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got an iPhone and a laptop and an Internet connection, generally speaking, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in a creative, knowledgebased economy.â&#x20AC;?

The Internet connection is crucial. If Neuner and Coonertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategy was to keep Santa Cruz competitive by keeping talented individuals here, Cruzioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategy is to offer workers who stay in Santa Cruz a technological infrastructure on par with what they would find in Silicon Valley. And that begins with bandwidth.

Cruzio started in 1989 in the spare bedroom of computer programmers Peggy Dolgenos and Chris Neklasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Westside home as an Internet service provider with email and web hosting services. The business grew rapidly, but eventually Dolgenos and Neklason realized the Internet infrastructure wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keeping up with the demand for things like Netf lix instant streaming or the loading of huge files. â&#x20AC;&#x153;About five years ago we realized

that the big companies were not going to be building out in Santa Cruz Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not worth it for themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and our customers have been wanting a lot more speed,â&#x20AC;?

Dolgenos says.

Cruzio made a deal with the University of California, which was working to improve connectivity at UCSC. Today, fiber optic lines run from campus to the Cruzio building and all the way up Highway 9â&#x20AC;&#x201D;46 miles through the Santa Cruz Mountainsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to Sunnyvale.

The new lines offer 200 times as much bandwidth as was previously available in Santa Cruz, making it possible for local businesses to maintain an edge against rivals in Silicon Valley.

The infrastructure expansion also meant expanding to a building that could house the generator and servers. That turned out to be the former Sentinel building, whose owners had defaulted on the loan in 2009. Once Cruzio had lines and a hub in town, all that remained was connecting to individual users. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It can get expensive going to every house separately or every business separately,â&#x20AC;? Dolgenos says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We thought one thing we could do is invite people in.â&#x20AC;? And they didâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at last count Cruzioworks, which opened in January 2011, had close to 120 members.

Teleworkforce Initially, Cruzio was in talks with the Satellite Telework Center to open a location in the building. The Satellite, though, prides itself on a nononsense philosophy that puts it in a different category from Cruzioworks and NextSpace. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our approach at the Satellite is just a little bit different from your typical coworking space,â&#x20AC;? Jim Graham says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a lot of people who have worked out of their house for a long time, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got little kids or a spouse who comes home, and those little distractions that can get very frustrating,â&#x20AC;? Graham says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So what people will do is come here a day or two a week, set up in a cubicle and just dive right in to what they are doing. They really like how much ¨

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According to co-founder Jim Graham, the company is eyeing spaces in Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Santa Barbara and Hollywood. The Satellite offers many of the same services as Cruzioworks and NextSpace, but Graham insists their facilities fill a slightly different need.

Many of The Satelliteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s workers have full-time jobs in Silicon Valley but have been given the opportunity to work more autonomously. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They will work two or three days over in Silicon Valley,â&#x20AC;? Graham says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll schedule all of their face time with everyone over there, then theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll come back over to our place for that uninterrupted time to actually sit down and get work done.â&#x20AC;?

The future of work, as Neuner sees it developing, will allow for this kind of f lexibility. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The workplace will no longer be a placeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it will be a portfolio of places that you will pick and choose from almost on a real time basis based on who you are and what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing that day and who you need to work with,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and even what your mood is, quite frankly.â&#x20AC;?

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Cruzio wanted to go with a more collaborative model, Graham says, but here are no hard feelings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had worked with Cruzio on their space, and it got to a place where they wanted to go one direction with it and we wanted to go another,â&#x20AC;? Graham says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just kind of said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;OK, you want to go that way,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and we shifted our attention to other spaces.â&#x20AC;? The Satellite opened a second location in Scotts Valley last January, the same month Cruzioworks opened.

Right Place, Right Time At Cruzioworks and NextSpace, though, the collaborative element is paying dividends (literally) for some members. Manu Koenig, the founder of Greenocracy, started working at Cruzio in April. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We decided to move into Cruzio for one simple reason: We couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a serious business meeting in cafes anymore,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coworking turned out to be an added bonus that I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really anticipated.â&#x20AC;? From among their coworkers, he and co-founder Robert Singleton have recruited both investors and web developers for their site.

A similar dynamic exists at NextSpace. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It might just be that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a freelancer, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a solopreneur, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a telecommuter and because I work at

NextSpace I meet a few people, and now I know some cool people that I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know before,â&#x20AC;? Neuner explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those people start to trade ideas and trade expertise and little bits of knowledge, and you find that the person sitting next to you is exactly the guru that you need to help you with your project or with your work.â&#x20AC;?

Sol Lipman joined NextSpace at the very beginning, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Literally, I was there the day the doors opened,â&#x20AC;? he says. It was at NextSpace that Lipman and his partner, working on a video platform for Twitter, connected with a few other oneâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; and twoâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;person companiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a design firm, a backend technology firmâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to form Rally Up, a mobile application company. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They all started out as independents or little groups of two who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know each other,â&#x20AC;? Neuner says of the individuals who formed Rally Up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They found each other at NextSpace, realized that they had complementary skills, came together into a company, created some cool applications that got on everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s radar screen and AOL acquired them not even a year ago to be sort of their lead mobile team.â&#x20AC;?

Rally Up was purchased in the fall of last year; the team is now spearheading mobile projects like Editions, AOLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s magazine for iPad, on behalf of the Internet behemoth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At AOL, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re like the A Team, if you will,â&#x20AC;? Lipman says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sort of brought in mercenaryâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;style when ¨

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Buddy System As the workspace is changing, coworking facilities like NextSpace and Cruzio are also stepping into a newly created void in workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; social lives. Coworkers at NextSpace have gone on not just to start businesses but also to fill each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social circles. The San Francisco branch of NextSpace has spawned a band, the Dodgy Winos, and chapters of a running group, the NextPacers, have started at both the San Francisco and Santa Cruz offices.

At Cruzioworks the coworkers are still getting to know each other, but a similar camaraderie is emerging. The two-buck Chuck was f lowing at a recent â&#x20AC;&#x153;Work Wines Downâ&#x20AC;? event, which started just as the work day was ending. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got to meet everyone in the space who I wave at but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really know their names,â&#x20AC;? says Robert Singleton. That was just at the beginning of the night, thoughâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;by the end, a giant inf latable remotecontrolled shark was f lying around and karaoke broke out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Manu and Chrissy sang â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sweet Child Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mine,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and one of the guys sangâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; verbatim, like he knew every single word, grunt, everything in the songâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I Like Big Buttsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; by Sir MixA-Lot. Perfectly nailed it.â&#x20AC;?

One NextSpace member saw one other gap in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;coworking revolution,â&#x20AC;? as NextSpace refers to itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; a gap in the accessibility of coworking itself. Shelley McKittrick is now the founder of Bootstraps Enterprises,

which aims to offer affordable coworking to people who have had a hard time entering the workforce. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing is creating a model that includes coworking, which is really not available to poor folks at this point,â&#x20AC;? says McKittrick. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even the cheapest coworking in town is 100 bucks a month, and then where do you put your kids?â&#x20AC;?

McKittrick moved to Santa Cruz in August 2010 after working at nonprofits in Denver and Los Angeles for 17 years. She started working out of NextSpace in February 2011, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where she got the idea to put a social entrepreneurial spin on the same model.

McKittrick ticks off groups that could benefit from involvement with the organization: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Low-income families with young children, the transgender community, older folks, veterans. People who especially in this economy, but even outside of this economy, have a really hard time working.â&#x20AC;?

In addition to coworking, McKittrick says Bootstraps Enterprises will offer child care, work readiness training, cottage industry incubation and counseling services onsite.

Already McKittrick has received a lot of support from the NextSpace community in her venture. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What the community at NextSpace is doing is connecting me. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m new in town, I have a lot of nonprofit experience but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know the players. The folks in the coworking communityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it really is a community, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not really about where you are sittingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;share skills and resources.â&#x20AC;?

Those skills and resources are helping put Bootstraps Enterprises on track to spread the idea of a work community around. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have our 501c3, we have a strong board of directors and we have applied for several grants,â&#x20AC;? McKittrick says.

And they have fallen in love with a spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a mustard-colored craftsman on Mission Street next door to the Youth Services Center.

Asked if she expected Bootstraps to be up and running some time in the next year, McKittrick answers, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be open in three to four months come hell or high water.â&#x20AC;? 0

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Lipman doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see Rally Upâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success as an anomaly either. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what NextSpace doesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just putting people in one location allows people to get to know each other, and the desire for people to collaborate, I think, is a very human thing.â&#x20AC;?

Even though he has an office at AOL in Palo Alto and a title there, Senior Director of Mobile, Lipman is still a member at NextSpace Santa Cruz, where he works every couple of weeks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I miss my friends, so I go there and get distracted and eat some lunch with old friends.â&#x20AC;?

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The Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t-Fail, Last-Minute Gift Guide An assortment of carefully curated gift ideas, because a full-blown holiday shopping panic is even less fun than it looks

BY ALEX GILRANE, MARIA GRUSAUSKAS AND TRACI HUKILL

Tom Killion Notecards The celebrated local woodblock print master Tom Killion has created scores of images celebrating the California landscape, a number of which have been printed on notecards and collected in boxed sets ($15). His most famous images are of the High Sierra, but our favorites are two eight-card series titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Coast of California.â&#x20AC;? At Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz; and Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave., Capitola. (AG)

Vintage Santa Cruz Prints Classic 1960s scenes of Santa Cruz, like the vertical shot of a dozen longboarders taking off on the same wave, are a quick way to class up a joint. Buy the print alone ($30) or have the good people at Graphfix frame it up for you. Graphfix, 1229 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz.

Sheaffer VFM Fountain Pen The venerable maker of fine writing implements offers a new weapon in the war against the keyboardâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a line of sleek, colorful and very affordable fountain pens. The VFM is available in nine colors (the silver one is particularly cool) and feels light and good in

the hand. As the receiver of this gift may learn, there is something oddly pleasurable about writing with a fountain pen; expect an eloquent thank-you note. $14. Palace Art & Office Supply, 1407 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. (AG)

Jack Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill Book Drew Kampionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new book Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Always Summer on the Inside, about local legend Jack Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, is the perfect gift for anyone who cherishes their stash of surfing magazines, as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s written by the former editor of Surferâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Path, Surfer and Surfing.

Abundantly illustrated with historic photographs, it explores the evolution of the sport through the life of Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite wetsuit inventor. $40. At Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill Surf Shop, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz. (MG)

Art Calendars People (at least my people) arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in the habit of spending $25 on artful wall calendars for themselves, so a nice one makes a

sweet gift. Paper Vision has a huge selection of gorgeous calendars long on vintage themes and Victorian art, like the Cavallini â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flora and Faunaâ&#x20AC;? ($22, shown) or the Taschen â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vegetablesâ&#x20AC;? ($25) calendars. There are also a slew of vintage minieasel numbers by Cavallini ($13) and compelling calendars featuring the artwork of two local artists, Tom Killion and Marie Gabrielle ($18), which include astrological arcana and an intriguing selection of noteworthy dates, such as the Dalai Lamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthday ( July 6) and Emancipation Day in Washington, D.C. (April 16). Paper Vision, 1345 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. (TH)

Pleasure Point Mermaid Clothing Maybe thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s someone on your holiday list with Pleasure Point pride, but a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pack Your Trashâ&#x20AC;? hoodie with its iconic Jim Phillips log isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly right. For that surfer girl, Zen Island carries a line of

cotton Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, sweats, hoods and yoga pants (natch) emblazoned with the image of a mermaid meditating on a nautilus shell. Zen Garden Trading Company, 825 41st Ave., Santa Cruz. (AG)

Slippers Who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t love slippers, apart from persons of suspect character?

Choose from supersoft fuzzy Hue ballerina slippers in brilliant colors with waterproof canvas bottoms ($14), snuggly f leece Acorns with cushalicious Memory Foam soles ($45), pure wool Haf linger mules built to last ($65) and the ne plus ultra of loungewear for the foot, Ugg f leece-lined slippers ($100). At Sockshop & Shoe Co., 1515 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. (TH)

The LEZYN Multitool Indispensable for any do-ityourself bicycle enthusiast. Its compact design is small enough to squeeze into the pocket of the skinniest hipster jeans, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complete with all of the wrenches, screwdrivers and other tools your bike nut needs to perform a quick repair and keep riding. $25. At Epicenter Cycling, 8035 Soquel Dr., Suite 23. Aptos. (MG) ¨ !

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Aqua Safaris 6896 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz (831) 476-9200

Nubius Organics 1334 Brommer St., Ste. B-3, Santa Cruz (831) 479-7744

These beautiful handblown wine stoppers look muuuch better than boring old cork, and they come in all different swirls of color. Mamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Little Vases, meanwhile, are an attractive substitute for the non-wine-drinking domestic god or goddess. These miniature vases stand a few inches tallâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the perfect size for sitting on a windowsill with a single flower stem. $25. At Artisans Gallery, 1368 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. (MG)

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Wallflower Boutiqueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection of handmade earrings ($20-40) is a veritable Victorian cabinet of curiosities, featuring crochet, etched glass, even bay leaves embossed with fine print. Good luck decidingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or not getting distracted by cute animalstamped wallets ($28-38) or crazygood-smelling Kobo candles ($12 for the small one, which comes with matches). Wallflower Boutique, 103 Locust St., Santa Cruz. (TH)

Bay Photo Lab 2161 Delaware Ave., Santa Cruz (831) 475- 6686 Cali Zen 6287 Felton, Felton (831) 335-0100 Click-In Computers 724 East Lake Ave., Watsonville (831) 722-1888 Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;n Cellular 266 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley (831) 430-0663 Eco Goods 1130 PaciďŹ c Ave., Santa Cruz (831) 429-5758

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Forget Me Not 275 Center Ave., Aptos (831) 688-2787 Global Concepts

Palace Art & OfďŹ ce Supply 1407 PaciďŹ c Ave., Santa Cruz (831) 427-1550 1501 41st Ave., Capitola (831) 464-2700 Pure Pleasure 204 Church St., Santa Cruz (831) 466-9870 Santa Cruz Kitchen & Bath, Inc 1824 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz (831) 426-9600 SC41 Furniture 2647 41st Ave., Soquel (831) 464-2228 Shampoochez 1380 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz ( 831) 427-2284 Soif Wine Merchants 105 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz (831) 423-2020 Somerset Door and Window 4005 Cory St., Soquel (831) 476-4693 Treasures Fine Jewelry

109 Lee Rd., Watsonville (831) 768-9000

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ISI Soda Siphon Seltzer lovers whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been guiltily lugging home bottles of fizzy water by the case will swoon when they see this eco-friendly contraption, which delivers bubbles from tap water with no plastic involvement whatsoever.

In silver or brushed red aluminum ($45). Set of 24 soda cartridges is $20. A more frugal option: a couple of vintage flour sack kitchen towels ($6 each) in a cool European canning jar from Weck or Quattro Stagione ($4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$15). Mountain Feed and Farm, 9550 Highway 9, Ben Lomond.

Quicksilver Beckett Jacket This classic Western-style corduroy jacket ($80) is lined with satin quilting, has buttondown breast pockets as well as good-sized side pockets for handwarming and is just a bit longer than the Wrangler jacket that inspired it (which is a good thing). Its cousin, the Victoria Bay ($110), comes with a plaid wool lining and is made of stretchy cotton corduroy, which is

also a good thing. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill Surf Shop, 1115 41st Ave., Capitola. (AG)

Disc Golfersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Stocking Stuffer Thanks to its proximity to DeLaveaga, DJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mini Mart has become Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unofficial and unlikely disc golf headquarters, with a great selection of discs as well as T-shirts and other peripherals. To celebrate the holiday theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve put together a cool little stocking-stuffer package: a mini disc, a lighter, a pack of Zig-Zags and a Santa Cruz sticker.

For non-smokers, they also carry the souvenir 2011 World Championship disc. 833 Water St., Santa Cruz. (AG)

Karen Klein Knits Quietly panicking husbands and boyfriends, help is nigh. For the lady who has been very, very good, Karen Klein knits are the ticket. Made of fine rayon and spandex with a silky hand in clean, no-fuss designs with stylish accentsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; some ruching here, a drape thereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;these appealing shirts, tunics and dresses will make things right. $167-287. At Moda Bellissima, 107 Locust St., Santa Cruz.

Hello Kitty Lunch Boxes Other stores may carry Hello Kitty products, but authentic Sanrio brand Hello Kitty products imported from Japan are tough to find around these parts. Better hightail it to Bluebird Lane. Pink Bento Box lunch boxes are small and compact, and a larger red cherry Hello Kitty lunch box features a thermos and sandwich container. $23. At Bluebird Lane, 5011 Soquel Dr., Soquel. 831.464.3212. (MG)

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30 G I F T G U I D E | C A N â&#x20AC;&#x2122; T F A I L Bandit Brand Screen-Printed T-Shirts Idle Handsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; products evoke OldWest-meets-post-punk Americana. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the place to find genuine hand-tooled leather belts and/or loose vintage belt buckles, as well as a pair of used but well-preserved Tony Lamas or (if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re lucky) a nice Stetson. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also the retail outlet for Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Bandit Brand, featuring a line of made-in-the-USA T-shirts bearing cool old logos for establishments like the Blue Eagle Bar in Thermopolis, Wyo., or the Horseshoe Cafe in West Yellowstone, Mont. $36. Idle Hands Dry Goods, 803 Pacific Ave. Santa Cruz. (AG)

Coyuchi Organic Bathrobes

Luxurious yet light and floaty, these bathrobes are the perfect gift for an eco-friendly grownup who deserves some pampering. Made from 100 percent organic cotton and colored with low-impact dyes, this robe gets softer with each wash.

Available in menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s or womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sizes, stripes or solids. $120. At Greenspace, 1122 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. (MG)

Jeremiah Kille / Dave Van Patten Art Prints

might be just the thing for the art lover on your holiday shopping list.

Verve Coffee Roasters, 816 41st Ave, Santa Cruz. (AG)

Feather Accessories Feather accessories are appearing everywhere these days, from locks of hair to necklaces. Beautiful Jean makes high-end hair accessories and earrings out of crueltyâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;free feathers. The ornate hairpieces feature brilliantly dyed feathers and real crystals, and can be fastened to a headband or directly into the hair. $30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;75. At Bubble Beauty Lounge, 110 Cooper St., Suite 100. (MG)

Jane Iredale Chocoholicks Lipstick Palette Four tasteful lipstick colors all wrapped up to look like a gourmet chocolate bar. The colors smell and taste like rich chocolate, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard resisting the urge to eat the stuff, even though large amounts of Chili Pepper, Espresso, Blood Orange and Very Berry probably wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ultimately serve as a food substitute.

The palette comes complete with an application brush and mirror. $35. At Aptos Village Skin and Body Care, 8035 Soquel Dr., Suite 39, Aptos. (MG)

Fruit & Vegetable Soft Toys Kids stuck in the terrible twos just need something fuzzy and cute to chew on. Hand-crafted from 100 percent organically grown cotton, Under the Nileâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soft toy collection of stuffed fruits and vegetables have cute faces (aww!) and may help brainwash the children into eating well, at least until they taste their first Pop-Tart. Buy the Veggie Crate or Fruit Basket and take the edge off the hard years. $30. At Greenspace, 1122 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz.

831.423.7200. (MG)

Wild Eye Serving Utensils Everything about the original Verve Coffee in Pleasure Point is very cool, including the art on the walls.

(Ditto the Seabright and downtown locations.) Out on 41st Avenue right now two artists, Dave Van Patten of Long Beach (shown) and Santa Cruzan Jeremiah Kille, are showing awesome prints ($40-$110) that

So maybe you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford the $237 silver-edged salmon platter at Annieglass. So snap up nifty serving utensils by Wild Eye, including a high heel cake server (the glittery heel is a magnet that pops off when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to actually serve cake) and pie servers and salad sets with ¨ !%

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Schylling Tin Toys Robots Schylling features a line of robots fashioned after the original Japanese models from the 1950s. High quality and unique, each robot comes alive with a windâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;up key that makes it spin, walk and light up with sparks inside the chest cavity. $30.

At Bluebird Lane, 5011 Soquel Dr., Soquel. 831.464.3212. (MG)

JBW Studio Goose Egg Ornaments Who laid the golden egg? You, the tasteful giftâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;giver, on your eternally grateful giftee. A unique way to accent a Christmas tree, each goose egg is hand-painted, with a cutout you can peer into through a glass window. Inside each egg is a different intricate sculptural detail, and some of the eggs even light up. Made by J. Brook Patterson in Oakland. $68â&#x20AC;&#x201C;80. At Artisans Gallery, 1368 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. (MG) 0

Throw Mama From a Plane This year, give the gift of adventure

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Makes any table festive. $22-29. At Annieglass, 110 Cooper St., Santa Cruz. (TH)

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Scuba Diving Go deepâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;up to 40 feet deepâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;by giving a PADI open water scuba certification class at 6YkZcijgZ Hedgih Jca^b^iZY (303 Potrero St. #15, Santa Cruz; 831.458.3648). After drifting down into a whole new world, fledgling divers will resurface with a brightened appreciation for this landlocked one.

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5:=@G =4 0:/H3!Tuvefout!mfbso!up! nblf!gjsf!bu!Bewfouvsf!PvuĂ&#x2013;t!tvswjwbm!dmjojd/ after all, diehards still have the chance to surf in the morning or go hiking in the afternoon even at this time of the yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;opportunities to soak up those mood-lifting rays of vitamin D these winter months pale in comparison to what we get in the summer.

Which is to say that if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a friend or loved one whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hiding under the covers, or just stuck in a rut, sometimes a little push to get out there and test the limits of the old comfort zone may be the ticket. Luckily, there are plenty of places locally that provide just such activities, from skydiving to ballroom dancing, so a gift certificate may be just the thing.

Stand Up Paddle Boarding and Kayaking Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dispiriting how quickly the novelty of living in a beach town can wear off; newcomers arrive imagining how good for the soul itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be to see the ocean each and every day, only to lose that initiative within the first month. Getting out on the water and touring the bay on a stand-up paddle board or kayak with the @VnV` 8dccZXi^dc (413 Lake Ave., #3, Santa Cruz; 831.479.1121) may help reinvigorate that inspiring ocean connection. 8dkZlViZg EVYYaZ Hjg[ (726 Water St., Santa Cruz; 831.600.7230), the local headquarters for all things stand-up paddle, has a two-hour introductory lesson special that includes photos of the proud paddler.

Want to deliver an even bigger kick? Rather than floating down to great depths, give the gift of a fall from great heights with H`nY^kZ Hjg[X^in (160 Aviation Way, Watsonville; 831.435.5169). Strapping onto the back of one of their frequent fliers in a tandem dive is one way to change perspective while soaring over spectacular ocean views.

Rock Climbing Sometimes the struggle up is actually more rewarding than the free-fall down. Scaling walls with the gift of a membership at EVX^[^X :Y\Z 8a^bW^c\ <nb (104 Bronson St. #12, Santa Cruz; 831.454.9254) can be like a vertical dance that requires a fulfilling synthesis of balance, strength, flexibility and yogic mental control.

Ballroom Dancing For those who may be into the dance but not the heights, let them trade in the belay partner for a tango partner with the gift of a class at EVadbVg 7Vaagddb (1344 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz; 831.426.1221).

Language Classes If this present is really just an excuse to play matchmaker with the recipient and that hot Argentinean, keep in mind that getting him or her to the next level may require more than just fancy footwork. A Spanish language class at 6jm ( EdbbZh (765 Cedar St., Suite 102, Santa Cruz; 831.421.0898) might prove to be more fruitful.

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Box Talk Boxed sets this season, essential to extravagant

BY GABE MELINE

AH, Nevermind. Although the Pixies’ Trompe le Monde, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ BloodSugarSexMagik and A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory were all released on the same day in 1991 as Nirvana’s breakthrough album, only Nevermind received the 20thanniversary box-set treatment this year.

“It’s totally unnecessary,” said my die-hard-Nirvana-fan friend at the time, and he was right. Neither the fourCD, one-DVD “Super Deluxe” edition nor the two-CD “Deluxe” version has anything substantial to offer that hasn’t already been widely bootlegged.

And so it is with box sets, those desperate prayers-in-shrinkwrap from what’s left of the recording industry that are shouted from the mountaintop every Christmas season.

Or, in the words of Morrissey, “Reissue, repackage, repackage! Reevaluate the songs, double-pack with a photograph, extra track and a tacky badge!” That’s “Paint a Vulgar Picture,” collected with all the Smiths’ other already-released material in Complete, an eight-CD or -LP set of redundancy.

Previously issued material is also comprised in the four-CD Howlin’ Wolf set Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters, but the packaging is perfect for people who threw away their CD towers years ago but kept their bookshelves: The

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“Now I can put my quadraphonic 8-track to rest” is as good a review as one will find for Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon “Immersion Edition”—six discs of the same album, including 5.1 surround and quadraphonic mixes, demo mixes, live performances, early mixes, original stereo mixes, books, ticket stubs, coasters, a scarf and some marbles, which Capitol Records executives have evidently lost.

The Beach Boys album Smile has gone from mythic lost status to a series of celebrated issuances, most notably Brian Wilson’s own “completed” version in 2004. The Smile Sessions is a five-CD, two-LP, two-45rpm set in a 3-D box of the original recordings. An

entire CD dedicated to snippets of the song “Good Vibrations” is included.

On his site, Elvis Costello has implored his fans to not buy his Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook box set, since, for one CD, one DVD and one 10-inch LP, his record company is charging an abhorrent $262. Calling the scheme an “elaborate hoax” with a price that’s “either a misprint or a satire,” he advised his fans to wait for the single CD out next year and to buy Ambassador of Jazz, a Louis Armstrong box set, instead.

Reaching the upper altitude of price is Danny Elfman and Tim Burton’s 25th Anniversary Box Set, coming in at a whopping $500+ (depending on the site) for 16 CDs. In a not-exactly-valiant effort in justification, the set includes

a book with gold-foil stamping, a DVD of Burton and Elfman having a conversation, a USB flash drive and an embedded music chip that plays a song Elman wrote specifically for this box set. Enticing, isn’t it? No? By far the worthiest set this year is Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You, a five-CD set of early material, mostly unavailable, by the visionary guitarist John Fahey. Fahey’s influence is massive, and his music endlessly listenable. He played guitar not like the average 1960s folkie but like a carnival knife-thrower; his otherworldly finger patterns and bizarre tunings stand in stark contrast to Kurt Cobain’s sloppy power chords. If you’ve got a budding guitar player on your Christmas list, choose your inspiration.0

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Man and Maus In his new book, MetaMaus, cartoonist Art Spiegelman delves deep into the making of his tale of tragedy

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CARTOONIST Art Spiegelman’s new book MetaMaus is a series of literary concentric rings around his Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel Maus, which was originally published between the years 1977 and 1991.

These are conceivably Spiegelman’s last words on the subject. He has been drawing “tragics” (as opposed to comics) about the Nazi death camps ever since a three-pager in a San Francisco underground comic in 1972. His main source was his own father, Vladek Spiegelman, a prisoner of both Auschwitz and Dachau.

(Spiegelman’s mother, who also made it out alive, later committed suicide in 1968.)

Trying, like so many undergrounders, to free cartoons from the realm of Disney, Spiegelman portrayed the Holocaust as a cat-and-mouse game. In the two parts of Maus, the Nazis are cats and the rounded-up Jews are mice.

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CAUGHT IN HISTORY In Art Spiegelman’s ‘Maus,’ history became a deadly game of cat and mouse. business in shoah business. Today though, no comment is necessary under one of his drawings in Maus, critiquing what the artist calls “Holokitsch.” We see a starved, shocked concentration camp prisoner holding an oversized Oscar.

How to communicate this inconceivability? In this collection of transcriptions, documentation, memoirs and interviews—not to mention the sheaf of rejection letters Maus received from a dozen publishers—Spiegelman chronicles his life of being a historian of

something people would prefer not to remember. “No one wants anyway to hear such stories,” says his father.

“Maybe everyone has to feel guilty! Forever!” Spiegelman satirically imagines shouting at an interviewer.

Due to its dozens of translations, easy accessibility and frequent assignments in schools, Maus may be the only book a postliterate generation reads about the extermination of the European Jews.

The good news is that the

beginner couldn’t ask for a better guide than MetaMaus, which has much better mapping: guides to further reading, along with contemporary illustrations by Nazis and camp prisoners alike.

MetaMaus is a fine primer on how to create a graphic novel, with Spiegelman’s early sketches linked to final versions to show the artistic choices he made. More importantly, now we can actually listen to Vladek Spiegelman’s voice (on the accompanying CD) and read a transcript of his interviews.

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Of course, the younger Spiegelman tries to refute some of the charges against him. Two reoccur frequently. One is how he used (or perverted) the ageold funny-animals format, which goes back to Aesop. Spiegelman’s Poles are pigs, but in the Warner Bros. bestiary, Porky was always the settled one, the farmer and the straight man. The animals aren’t of any one type. Civilian German cats are less fanged than Spiegelman’s Nazis. No American who knows his historical slang can object to the U.S. soldiers as literal dogfaces.

Spiegelman also seems sensitive to those who thought he equated his own personal angst with the sufferings of his father.

Rereading Maus, one gets a fresh exposure to the old man’s abrasiveness. Who was Vladek typical of, except himself ? His ingenuity was the reason he was the one among thousands who lived. Vladek was an escape artist, a salesman and a conniver, with poetic syntax (he knew five languages, but his English was idiosyncratic).

He was a racist and a selfaggrandizer. And he was a scavenger.

Vladek embarrasses his son by salvaging some wire from a garbage can. Yet this incident makes a subtle lead into a story of the camps—of one Mandlebaum who prayed to God for a length of string, because he couldn’t guard his soup and hold up his sagging uniform pants at the same time.

As one of the ones who made it back, Vladek was never entirely sure that the Nazis might not return.

And he wanted to pass his prison education to his child. Many would have run away from such lessons for good.

Critics have pointed to this cartoon version of Art Spiegelman as a bad son, angry, neglecting and neurotic. In fact, such a slaved-over and haunting preservation of a father’s history shows nothing but a son’s devotion.

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Members of the Santa Cruz and UCSC community are invited to nominate individuals

Tony Hill

The 4th Annual UC Santa Cruz

This award honors individuals for their efforts in seeking solutions to the needs of our local community, building bridges across diverse communities, and developing innovative approaches to solving social problems. The Tony Hill Memorial Award recipient will be recognized at the UC Santa Cruz annual Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation on February 2, 2012.

Anatomy of a Hand-Up...

After staying at the Rebele Family Shelter for 5 months, Cranatyous was able to turn life back around.

In her first year of recovery from addiction, her relationship dissolved and she was working to regain her stability. At RFS, Cranatyous found resources to help her budget, maintain her sobriety, and search for housing and employment. The Family Shelter requires residents to save 85% of their income after expenses, and Cranatyous dove into the savings program head-on.

She saved up enough to put a deposit down on an apartment, and found a job with the Santa Cruz Seaside Company. She has since been promoted twice, and her toddler son is in early Head Start, where she and her sister sit on the County Council. ...this is how a Hand-Up works.

Donate to the Homeless Services Center today, and join us in our mission of helping those in need achieve self-sufficiency once again.

Memorial Award In recognition of an individual in Santa Cruz County who exempliďŹ es the work and efforts of the late Tony Hill

Previous awardees: Honorable Luis Alejo, CA State Assemblyman for the 30th district Santa Cruz Mayor, Ryan Coonerty Reverend Deborah L. Johnson

Criteria for nomination 1. The individual is actively engaged in the needs of the community and seeks to provide tools to work toward a solution.

2. The individual demonstrates hands-on service that results in building connections among diverse groups, promoting equality and justice. 3. The individualâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities reďŹ&#x201A;ect innovative or unique approaches to solving social problems.

Nominations must be submitted by Friday, January 6, 2012 to UC Santa Cruz Special Events OfďŹ ce by e-mail (specialevents@ucsc.edu), fax (831.459.2284) or mail to: Special Events OfďŹ ce, 2155 Delaware Avenue Suite 200 Santa Cruz, CA 95060.

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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 Sat-Sun, 2pm.

Thru Dec 18. $16-$35.

Circle Theatre, Casanova St, Carmel-by-the-Sea, 831.622.0100.

La Pastorela

Magic for Ghana

Our Town

Magician Nick Federoff performs to raise money to build a health clinic for an isolated mountaintop village in Ghana, West Africa. Sat, Dec 17, 6-7 and 8-9pm. $15-$20.

Broadway Playhouse, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, 530.913.0364.

Mountain Community Theater stages the history of two neighboring families in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire.

Fri-Sat, 8pm and Sun, 2pm. Thru Dec 18. $12$18. Mountain Community Theater, 9400 Mill St, Ben Lomond, 831.336.4777.

Me & Tom

Plaid Tidings

Peter Nichols brings Tom Lehrer’s sardonic humor and stylistic songs to life in a one-man show. Fri, Dec 16, 8pm. Donation suggested. SubRosa Cafe, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.763.1895.

A holiday spectacular featuring the male a capella group the Plaids performing Christmas hits from the ‘50s and ‘60s. Dec 16-30. $16-$34.

Cabrillo College Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6154.

The Nutcracker Santa Cruz Ballet Theater Company is joined by alumni Melody Mennite of the Houston Ballet and Lucien Postlewaite of the Pacific Northwest Ballet and accompanied by a 55-piece orchestra in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet. Fri, Dec 16, 8pm

CONCERTS 8th Annual Santa Cruz Harp Festival A celebration of the harp in its many forms, from the Irish folk harp to the African kora. Sun, Dec 18, 2pm. Free. Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, 515

Frederick St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.9155.

Cabrillo Classical Guitar Ensemble Thu, Dec 15, 7pm. Free.

Cabrillo Music Recital Hall, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos.

Cantiamo! Concert For A Winter’s Eve Conductor Cheryl Anderson celebrates her 20th anniversary leading the choral group in a repertoire of a cappella and accompanied works from the past six centuries. Fri, Dec 16, 8pm. $18-$20. First Congregational Church of Santa Cruz, 900 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.479.6155.

Christmas with The Chorale Featuring work by Bach and Monteverdi, plus a selection of a cappella Renaissance motets and Christmas songs in Latvian, German, Spanish and French. Friday, Dec. 16, 7pm at Our Lady Help of Christians, 2401 East Lake Ave., Watsonville.

Saturday Dec. 17, 8pm and Sunday Dec. 18, 4pm at Holy Cross Church, 170

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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

and Dec 17-18, 1 and 4:30pm. $15-$64. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5260.

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Paper Wing Theater presents the Tony Award-winning puppetpowered musical comedy.

Fri-Sat, 8pm. Thru Jan 14. $22-$25. Paper Wing Theater, 320 Hoffman Ave, Monterey, 831.905.5684.

Dec 18. $14-$35. Mission San Juan Bautista, 408 Second St at Mariposa, San Juan Bautista, 831.623.2444.

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PLAID TIDINGS The Plaids have been summoned back to Earth to spread comfort and joy through their a capella renditions of “Mr. Santa,“ “Let It Snow” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” Through Friday, Dec. 30 at Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos.

Tickets $16-$38 at CabrilloStage.com or 831.479.6154.

Wednesday Facebook Giveaways Every week.

facebook.com/santacruzweekly

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SANTA CRUZ BALLET THEATRE’S NUTCRACKER Santa Cruz Ballet Alumni Melody Mennite and Lucien Postlewaite (currently of the Houston Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet, respectively) are back to perform Tchaikovsky’s holiday masterpiece alongside members of the current company. Friday, Dec. 16 at 8pm; SaturdaySunday, Dec. 17-18 at 1pm and 4:30pm at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. Tickets $15-$64 at SantaCruzTickets.com or 831.420-5262. < 51 High St., Santa Cruz. Fri, Dec 16, 7pm, Sat, Dec 17, 8pm and Sun, Dec 18, 4pm. $5-$23. 831.427.8023.

Good Shepherd Catholic School Holiday Concert Classes from preschool through fifth grade will perform. Wed, Dec 14, 6pm. Good Shepherd Catholic School, 2727 Mattison Lane, Santa Cruz, 831.476.4000.

Joyous, Jolly, Jingles The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus’ 22nd annual ‘Home for the Holidays” concert. Sat, Dec 17, 7pm. $20-$30. First Congregational Church of Santa Cruz, 900 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.423.1626.

Levi’s Ghost A danceable mix of classic rock and originals. Sat, Dec 17, 9pm. Free. Britannia Arms, 8017 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.688.1233.

Messiah Sing-A-Long The Cabrillo Chorus and Ensemble Monterey Chamber Orchestra lead a community sing-a-long to Handel’s “Messiah.”

Participants are welcome to bring their own score or rent one. Tue, Dec 20, 7pm. $20.

First Congregational Church of Santa Cruz, 900 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.479.6155.

The Sagittarius Ball

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. TueSun, 10am-5pm. 1305 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6115.

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GALLERIES

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. Thru Jan 31, 2012. Free. 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.479.5572.

CONTINUING

Santa Cruz Central Branch Library Gallery

MUSEUMS

Cabrillo College Gallery

The Slugs N Roses will play the Grateful Dead’s greatest hits among glistening orbs provided by Tom Noddy’s Bubble Magic.

Sat, Dec 17, 9pm. $10. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy 9, Felton, 831.603.2294.

CONTINUING Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Spotlight Tours. Bringing the artists’ voices directly to visitors. Go behind the scenes and museum-wide exhibitions. Third Sat of every month, 11:30am12:30pm. Museum hours 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

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

Davenport Gallery Favorite Things. Thirty artists share their favorite works in a variety of mediums. Thru Dec 31. Free. 450 Hwy 1, Davenport, 831.426.1199.

Masaoka Glass Design 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.

Paul Titangos: Personal Photography From Around the World. Traditional black and white silver gelatin prints and colorful digitally remastered large canvases.

Thru Jan 31, 2012. 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5700.

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

Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center The Gift of Art. Over 40 local artists showcase their jewelry, textiles, ceramics, wood, glass, baskets, paintings, cards and more. Wed-Sun . Thru Dec 24. Free, 831.336.3513.

Freedom Forum’s Christmas Potluck & Movie Night Featuring a screening of John Harris’ It’s An Illusion and a potluck dinner. Wed, Dec 21, 7pm. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz.

The Truck Stop will be frying up latkes and jelly donuts, while the Filling Station will have mulled cider, mandelbrot, Four Barrel Coffee and cocoa, plus live music from 3 Time Loser. Tue, Dec 20, 5:308:30pm. Filling Station, 1500 Mission St, Santa Cruz.

SpectorDance Annual Holiday Performance & Silent Auction Performing “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” “Don’t Look Back,” and “Four Seasons.” Dec 16-17, 7pm and Dec 17-18, 2pm. $15-$20. Spector Dance, 3343 Paul Davis Drive, Marina, 831.384.1050.

HOLIDAYS Holiday Out With Thomas Thomas the Tank Engine chugs into Santa Cruz, decorated for the holidays and ready to greet his fans in Santa Cruz. Festivities also include face painting, a bounce house and a choice of arcade tokens,

Santa Cruz Holiday Lights Train 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.

FILM Programming the Nation Screening followed by live Q&A with local film producer Jeff Warwick.

Fri, Dec 16, 7pm. $5 adv/$7 door. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel, Santa Cruz, 831.423.8209.

LITERARY EVENTS Cynthia Messer & Tory Beale The local authors will be signing copies of their picture book The Adventures of Jack and Rugby. Sun, Dec 18, noon-3pm. Free. Capitola

Founded in 1903, FSC is Santa Cruz’s oldest social club for women.

Visitors and new members welcome. Third Fri of every month, 10:30am-12:30pm.

Free. 831.421.0930.

Poet/Speak Open Reading With featured reader Joe Navarro. Sun, Dec 18, 2pm.

831.464.8983. Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5700.

Thomas Hickenbottom & Susan Allison He is the author of the novel Local Tribes; she is the author of the self-help book Empowered Healer.

Both authors will read, sign and discuss their books.

Sat, Dec 17, noon-3pm.

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

LECTURES Staying Healthy Through the Holidays in Mind, Body and Spirit Discussing strategies to deal with holiday stress, holiday blues and holiday lbs. Thu, Dec 15, 6:30pm.

Free. Staff of Life, 1305 Water St, Santa Cruz, 831.423.8632.

NOTICES Bring Your Own Bag Day Save Our Shores will hand out custom-made, reusable canvas bags at Mi Pueblo market in Watsonville, the Capitola Mall, Live Oak Market, Scotts Valley Market and Kmart in Scotts Valley. Thu, Dec 15, 4-6pm.

Eating Disorders Resource Center Meeting

Tommy Guerrero

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

Street skating legend and musician plays benefit for SF Food Bank. Dec 15 at Cafe du Nord.

Red Cross Mobile Blood Drives

The Pharcyde

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

San Francisco’s City Guide

“Passin’ Me By” hitmakers take their bizzare ride to the jazz club with live band. Dec 16 at Yoshi’s SF.

D.R.I. After defining “crossover,” seminal hardcore band returns playing classic ‘Dealing With It’-era thrash.

Dec 16 at Slim’s.

Tori Amos Pianist and singer with a new album, ‘Night of Hunters,’ out on classical label. Dec 16 at the Paramount Theater.

The Naked and Famous New Zealand buzz band working actively on the latter, lackadaisically on the former. Dec 18-19 at the Independent.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony Auditions There are openings in all sections of the orchestra, including all strings, particularly winds and brass—oboe, bassoon, french horn, trumpet and trombone. Scholarship assistance is available. Sat, Dec 17. Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School, 425 Encinal St, Santa Cruz, 831.607.9678.

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

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L’CHAIM, Y’ALL It’s a bluegrass Chanukah hoedown this Tuesday at the Truck Stop and Filling Station.

YEE-HAWNUKAH! THE TRUCK STOP and Filling Station, two independent but symbiotic neighboring food stops, gear up for the holidays with “Hardly Strictly Chanukah (or Festivus for the Rest of Us)” on Tuesday, Dec. 20. At this “multi-holiday mash-up of eats, treats and music,” the Truck Stop will be frying it up, serving potato latkes, jelly donuts and brisket, while Filling Station will have plenty to pacify the collective sweet tooth with gingerbread teacakes, mandelbrot cookies and holiday drinks. Three Time Loser, the Santa Cruz local bluegrass band, will provide convivial sounds to help out with the hop and the skip between the offerings of the two yummy joints. (Samantha Larson)

HARDLY STRICTLY CHANUKAH is Tuesday, Dec. 20, 5:30pm-8:30pm at The Truck Stop and Filling Station, 1500 Mission St., Santa Cruz

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).

Training for Signature Gathering for GMO Foods Labeling Help get labeling for genetically engineered foods on the California ballot in 2012. Sun, Dec 18, 3:30-4:30pm and Tue, Dec 20, 12:30-1:30pm. Free.

New Leaf Market Westside, 1101 Fair Ave, Santa Cruz.

Yoga Instruction Pacific Cultural Center: 35+ classes per week, 831.462.8893. SC Yoga: 45 classes per week, 831.227.2156. TriYoga: numerous weekly classes, 831.464.8100.

Yoga Within at Aptos Station, 831.687.0818; Om Room School of Yoga, 831.429.9355; Pacific Climbing Gym, 831.454.9254; Aptos Yoga Center, 831.688.1019; Twin Lotus Center, 831.239.3900.

Hatha Yoga with Debra Whizin, 831.588.8527.

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

Vipassana: Vipassana SC, Wed 6:30-8pm, 831.425.3431. Basic: Land of the Medicine Buddha, Wed, 5:30-6:30pm, 831.462.8383.

Zen: Ocean Gate Zendo, first Tue each month 6:307pm. All are free.

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Hardly Strictly Chanukah: A multi-holiday event at The Truck Stop and Filling Station

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.

Friday Shakespeare Club

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Holiday Tree Walk

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

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mini golf or laser tag.

Sat-Sun Thru Dec 18. $28. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.7433.

TRACI HUKILL

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

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Thursday, December 15 U 7 pm

LARRY GOLDINGS TRIO 1/2 Price Night for Students Larry Goldings – piano/Hammond Peter Bernstein – guitar Bill Stewert – drums

TICKETS MAKE GREAT GIFTS! Jan 9

ROBERTA GAMBARINI QUARTET

Jan 12 GRAFFITI WITH DENNIS CHAMBERS Jan 16 ROY HARGROVE QUINTET Jan 23 GRETCHEN PARLATO Jan 25 STANLEY CLARKE BAND Feb 9 RAVI COLTRANE QUARTET Feb 14 VALENTINE’S JAZZ AND DINNER WITH TUCK & PATTI Feb 28 LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO At the Rio Theatre 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

RIOT’S HERE Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot at the Catalyst

THURSDAY | 12/15

THURSDAY | 12/15

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LARRY GOLDINGS TRIO

BILLY MARTIN & WIL BLADES DUO

SCOTT KELLEY

Working with top-tier artists is a good way to get noticed in the music world.

It implies a level of professionalism and musicality that is beyond the commonplace. For keyboard sensation Larry Goldings, playing with top-tier artists is commonplace. Highly sought after as a session player, Goldings has graced albums by such heavy hitters as De La Soul, Norah Jones, Herbie Hancock, Christina Aguilera, Tracy Chapman, Solomon Burke and more. Existing in a realm that hovers above genre distinction, Goldings can pull his funky, jazzy, signature sound out of just about anything with keys but he is best known for his skills on the Hammond B3.

Kuumbwa; $22 adv/$25 door; 7pm.

(Cat Johnson)

Billy Martin, the middle name in Medeski, Martin & Wood, pursues the ecstatic and the insightful with a particular penchant for improv, hoping it’ll help him to create a profound emotional impact, live in the moment and experience glimpses of the truth.

Pair this with Wil Blades’ training in classical jazz, and the result is an epic show. With Martin on the drums and Blades on the Hammond organ, the duo grooves on rhythmic beats with a bluesy feel. While they clearly root their sound in traditional jazz, they bring in contemporary influences that keep it funky and fresh. Moe’s Alley; $12 adv/$15 door; 8:30pm. (Samantha Larson)

Since 1985, this Oakland-born musician has been at the forefront of the underground metal scene. First he co-founded the post-hardcoreturned-doom-metal outfit Neurosis while continuing to work on a slew of side projects like creating indie label Neurot Records and doing guest stints on the last five Mastodon albums.

Kelley’s (not so) newest project finds him stripped bare of the rock star eccentricities, armed with only his words and a lone guitar—the perfect combo for a man whose art is eerie and ethereal. He will be joined by Jay Munly (Slim Cessna’s Auto Club) and Bob Wayne. Crepe Place; $10 adv/$12 door; 9pm. (Mat Weir)

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ANDRE THIERRY Whether it was premonition or directive, when “King of Zydeco” Clifton Chenier picked up 3-year-old Andre Thierry and declared that he would become an accordion player, the toddler’s fate was sealed. As a boy, Thierry took up the contraption and began playing Chenier’s music for his family and friends. By the age of 12, he had formed his own band, Zydeco Magic. Now widely considered one of the finest zydeco musicians of his time, Thierry takes on two-steps, waltzes and the blues with virtuosic technique and

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Shawn Colvin

CONCERTS SHAWN COLVIN Dec. 15 at Catalyst

INCITERS

DEVIL MAKES THREE

Taking its cue from mid-1960s American soul music, the U.K.-born genre known as northern soul is full of upbeat tempos and soulful vocals in the spirit of the Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas and the Temptations.

As local purveyors of the genre, the Inciters are a throwback in all the right ways. The 11-piece outfit has the rhythms, harmonies, band and soul to keep the house rocking all night, and whether crammed into a tiny venue or stretching out in a theatre, the Inciters are one of the must-see treasures of the Santa Cruz music scene. Crepe Place; $8 adv/$10 door; 9pm. (CJ)

DAVID LINDLEY

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STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO While some may argue that ska is dead, nobody ever told the guys in Streetlight Manifesto. Even after various lineup changes and not one but two robberies in 2005 that resulted in all of their equipment being

SESSION MAN Hammond Player to The Stars Larry Goldings at Kuumbwa

Dec. 30 & 31 at Catalyst Jan. 11 at Kuumbwa

WAILERS

Jan. 17 at Moe’s Alley

COUNTRY JOE MCDONALD Jan. 28 at Don Quixote’s

stolen, the seven-piece hodgepodge of musicians is still skankin’ strong. To prove this point, the rock-steady crew decided to embark on the massive 99 Songs of Revolution project in 2010. In collaboration with three other bands (all Streetlight Manifesto-related), they will be releasing eight full-length albums of cover songs from the archives of musical history. Catalyst; $21 adv/$23 door; 7pm. (MW)

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BRIAN SETZER’S ROCKABILLY RIOT “Rev it up and go!” Brian Setzer’s back in town. The man who single-handedly brought back the rockabilly sound is returning to his leather-and-leopardprint roots for the holidays. But, as anyone who follows Setzer knows, the man never skimps, and to prove that point, the “Rockabilly Riot” band features a boogie piano, two drum kits and a double dose of that slappin’ stand-up bass rockers never get sick of. As if that weren’t enough, Setzer’s spiking the eggnog with Slim Jim Phantom as one of the drummers.

So that’s six slick musicians on four kinds of instruments and two out of three Stray Cats; who needs 12 days of Christmas when there’s one stellar night? Catalyst; $35 adv/$40 door; 8pm. (MW)

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Singer-songwriter Jeff Pehrson, a member of Furthur (the band founded by former Grateful Dead members) and of the group Box Set, brought together eight of his buddies to play in his new Americana folk-rock band Fall Risk with an eye toward keeping the most famous music of the Bay Area’s past alive. Fall Risk’s act will be followed by The Secret Identities and guitarist David Gans, author of the book Playing in the Band: An Oral and Visual Portrait of the Grateful Dead and host of the weekly radio show The Grateful Dead Hour. Don Quixote’s; $10; 8pm. (SL)

a deep nod of respect to tradition. Don Quixote’s; $13 adv/$15 door; 1pm. (CJ)

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WED 12/14

THU 12/15

FRI 12/16

SAT 12/17

Requiem for the Dead

VJ/DJ Tripp

Bernadette Conant

350 Mission St, Santa Cruz

BLUE LAGOON

Old Arc Wanderdusk

923 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

Coda Clay Collar

BOCCIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CELLAR

Roberto Howell

Live Comedy

Based on a True Story

Jon Rubin

China Cats

Shawn Colvin

The Growlers

Karaoke

plus John Craigie

Tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tulips

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

Poetry Slam

Te Hau Nui

1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

& Open Mic

Holiday Hula Danc

CROWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NEST

West Coast Soul

The Breakfast Show

Take 1

The Inciters

Reggae Night

Aloha Friday

Lost Dog Found, Aminojams

Mutha Ship

2218 East Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz

CYPRESS LOUNGE 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

Live Hawaiian Music

DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE

Ugly Beauty

1 Davenport Ave, Santa Cruz

FINS COFFEE

Mike Wilkinson

Ryan Hoopes

1104 Ocean St, Santa Cruz

HOFFMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAKERY CAFE

Preston Brahm Trio

Mapanova

Isoceles

Larry Goldings Trio

Baths, DNTEL

1102 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

with Gary Montrezza

KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

MAD HOUSE BAR & COCKTAILS

Raleigh Moncreif

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 Klezmatics

Billy Martin

Flor de CaĂąa

OTS Trio

1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

& Wil Blades Duo

MOTIV

DJ Tom LG

Libation Lab

1209 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

Atom & Evil

with AL-B

with Alan Evans

D-ROC

RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel, Santa Cruz

SEABRIGHT BREWERY

The Vinny

519 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

Johnson Band

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SHAWN COLVIN

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BRIAN SETZERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ROCKABILLY RIOT

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Dec 21 La Plebe Atrium (Ages 16+) Dec 30 The Devil Makes Three (Ages 21+) Dec 31 The Devil Makes Three (NYE Ages 21+) Jan 4 NOFX/ No Use For A Name (Ages 16+) Jan 15 Slightly Stoopid (Ages 16+) Jan 28 Jackie Greene (Ages 21+) Feb 6 Groundation (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

www.catalystclub.com

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SANTA CRUZ THE ABBEY 831.429.1058

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Apothesary

90s Night

Goth Industrial

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SC Jazz Society

Mondo Blue

Western Skaylarks

Streetlight

Jazz Jam

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Guy Ritchie’s second ‘Sherlock Holmes’ plays to the cheap seats

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IN SETTING up the career of the ultimate archvillain, Arthur Conan Doyle may have introduced him the wrong way around. We don’t witness the moment of discovery when Sherlock Holmes first pieces together the vastness of the enterprises of Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. And in Guy Ritchie’s hasty and frequently low-class sequel to his 2009 franchise-builder, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, he doesn’t give us that moment either.

The game in question is already afoot: In the pretitles, Holmes introduces himself as a consulting detective and explains that he’s discovered Moriarty’s schemes. When Watson (Jude Law) rejoins Robert Downey, Jr.’s Holmes in his flat filled with tropical plants, parrots and barnyard animals, the detective is raving: “He’s been living off of cigarettes, coffee and coca leaves,” says Mrs. Hudson the landlady. Given the dialogue, the scriptwriters were perhaps on that diet also.

The detective is treated as a clown throughout, with cheap wigs and beards and long underwear scenes.

He wears humorous goggles while driving a rattling horseless carriage.

Holmes is even painted with mascara and lipstick. Sooner or later, the hero in a Joel Silver–produced movie ends up as Bugs Bunny. The oil spreads; Mycroft (Stephen Fry) turns up nude

EVERYBODY RUN The Mad Professor’s got a gun, and Noomi Rapace, Robert Downey, Jr. (center) and Jude Law are having none of it. and persists in referring to his lesssmart brother as “Sherley,” as if he were Miss Temple.

True, Holmes’ hypertextual vision—the gimmick from the first film—is reliable fun. Holmes’ discovery of a hidden staircase from stains on the floor and scuffs on the walls is pleasurable. So is his coldblooded way of advancing the plot.

Gesturing to a suicide’s discarded pistol, he offers it to Watson: “He has no further use of that.”

The tension between Holmes and Moriarty survives Ritchie’s unconquerable urge to vulgarize.

This time, Moriarty is kind of a Krupp, as seen in all the high– explosive ordnance in the trailers. But rather than in all the explosions and shootings, the movie’s deathliness is in the end game: Holmes and Moriarty, in heavy bearskin robes, play a game of chess on the balcony of a Swiss chalet. The place looks like a frozen castle in Mordor.

The Professor is a sweet role for any actor, and Jared Harris does it well. There’s a vaguely syphilitic

quality to this citizen above suspicion. While his exterior is mild, Harris’ teeth are ogreish, especially in a bulging-eyed final snarl. One nasty scene has M. admiring his reflection in a mirror, singing Schubert’s “Die Forelle” while putting Holmes through the torture sequence.

The women seem retrofitted into the script. Rachel McAdams’s Irene Adler gets a demonstration of Moriarty’s power at a crowded restaurant; this demonstration, seen from the ceiling, is the movie’s best scene. Noomi Rapace is a gypsy with a kidnapped anarchist brother, but she has no better agenda than a simple rescue. The former Girl With The Dragon Tattoo shows off cheekbones that’d make a jaguar look flabby, as well as a fashion model’s ability to make any preposterous hat look fetching.

Kelly Reilly has a very droll profile, but she’s dropped out of a speeding train into a river. So much here depends on the Bond films; Mrs. Watson’s plunge is like the one Lana Wood took in Diamonds Are Forever.

Possibly because of the snow scenes in Game of Shadows, there’s a shoutout to George Lazenby, star of that Christmas classic, 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. That film’s title is also said aloud by Downey’s Holmes.

It was forgotten that there was a romance in OHMSS, and there’s really none here: just the partnership of two men and their conveniently missing beard. The bromance peaks in a cramped ballroom, where a tuxedoed Holmes dances with Watson. Like all the film’s many double entendres questioning the closeness of the great detective and his assistant, this moment is absent of all sexual charge. Unless you’re sexually aroused by stupidity.

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Teen Devil Unseemly teen angst and bad behavior win the day in ‘Young Adult’

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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THE THIRTYISH Mavis (Charlize Theron) is a hack writer for the Waverly Prep School series. The anti-heroine of Young Adult, Mavis conducts herself as if she were a finalist for the Booker Prize.

Needing a break, Mavis drives her Mini Cooper to the small town where she grew up: Mercury, Minn. Mavis plans to rescue her high-school prince Buddy (Patrick Wilson) from his wife and child.

Buddy and his surprisingly tolerant wife Beth (Elizabeth Reaser, Esme from the Twilight series) have just had a new baby. Mavis puts her war paint on to meet Buddy for a drink, but she should be discouraged. Buddy shows no sign of dissatisfaction.

The setup is ticklish, but director Jason Reitman and scriptwriter Diablo Cody decided to alternatize this, adding a touch of the zaniness of their mutual hit Juno. What we see in Mercury can’t convince us this is supposed to be a bad small town, stinky from some kind of agribusiness. Instead it looks like John Hughes land.

Cody had to include a nod to the righteous moms she knows in Hollywood. Beth and some new mom friends take a break from breast-feeding to play in a bar in a band called Nipple Confusion.

Just how backwards is Mercury supposed to be?

The too–smooth backdrops are more than a case of a world that the self-obsessed and drunken Mavis doesn’t want to notice.

BAD GIRL Charlize Theron gets gritty in ‘Young Adult.’

The filmmakers really pose Mavis in front of a wave of nostalgic music. Young Adult is a soundtrack album in search of a script, with Teenage Fanclub’s “The Concept” predominating.

Mavis picks up a drinking buddy, Matt (Patton Oswalt). He’s a pudgy, short beta-male still crippled from being queer-bashed by a gang years ago. Oswalt is covert—he’s a good reactor, comically tolerating Mavis’ many moods.

He gives this film some earned bitterness, and Young Adult snaps out slightly out of its sitcomishness whenever he turns up.

Charlize Theron can look convincingly ratty, and slutty, and drunk. She does unglam things like picking at herself or spitting into a printer’s ink cartridge to prime its pump. It’s funny, but it’s one-level funny, and it’s like watching an SNL skit go on for an hour.

It’s hard to believe Mavis came from a writing background. The part about Mavis’ authorship is, of course, Cody’s way of setting her seal on this character.

Meanwhile, Cody is congratulated for her edginess, even though she doesn’t give us any more than the woman’s grudges, and her transparent yearning for motherhood disguised as a dislike of babies. Juno didn’t have anything to say, either, except that having babies is transgressive.

Incidentally, one of the things that makes mumblecore films bearable is their smallness. The nasty, fail-prone, mean-for-the-funof-it characters have a bad, cheap and ugly world to live in. While these films are often half-baked and self-pitying, they strive against the idea that movies have to be about pretty people with pretty problems.

In Young Adult, Reitman and Cody seem to be attempting that kind of seat-of-the-pants filmmaking without having the stomach to go really down and dirty.

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THE MIDDLE-AGED German is all the more emotional for his dispassionateness. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tone of respect in that easy-to-imitate voiceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; an oncologistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note of quiet doom.

Into the Abyss is Werner Herzogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excellent documentary on a triple murder in Texas, carried out by a pair of then-teenagers. One of the convicted was the chipmunklike Michael Perry, who, as of the time of the film, was awaiting execution. His partner in crime, Jason Burkett, received a life sentence. When Burkett went to prison, he joined one of his closest relations, who was already serving an extended sentence.

Into the Abyss isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t obsessed with violence. The crime was quick, banal and commonplace, with clear motives.

The object was a red Camaro that the two killers wanted. When Herzog shows us, in several camera angles, what finally became of this prize, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an indelible lesson in ultimate folly and waste.

In the presence of Perry, a man who can only really focus on his own suffering, Herzog is sympathetic, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a tool. Eventually, Herzog leaves the prison and visits the city where the murders took place.

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of the tracks in Conroe, Texas: the gated community where the murder occurred, and the rougher side of town. He talks to people who knew people. We meet a female bartender at the bucket-of-blood tavern where Perry stopped to show off his brandnew stolen ride. And the filmmaker rounds the circle of misery caused by these foolish, drugged kids, by speaking to others affected. One is a prison death-house captain who quit after ministering to too many executions.

Another is the victimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter, who imprisoned herself in her home for years. Lastly is a woman who loves Burkett with a great reservoir of hope.

Into the Abyss makes a subtle yet damning case against the death penalty, shot in a state that adores the process beyond reason. Even Gov. Ann Richards, of sainted memory to Democrats, executed 50 people.

The film makes its point without underlining itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;surely even the most beloved custom has to yield some day to common sense.

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Film Capsules NEW CAPS THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (PG; 113 min.) Steven Spielberg directs adaptation of the beloved series by Herge, starring the curious young reporter Tintin (Justin Bell) and his loyal dog Snowy.

(Opens Wed at Santa Cruz 9, Scotts Valley, Green Valley)

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G; 93 min.)

While on a cruise, the Chipmunks and the Chipettes fall overboard but, alas, survive the ordeal to torture parents everywhere this holiday season with their high-pitched, booty-shaking tale of desert island survival.

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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (R; 164 min.) Director David Fincher (Fight Club, Social Network) takes on the first installment of the Swedish trilogy armed with Daniel Craig, Robin Wright, Christopher Plummer and

Rooney Mara. (Opens Tue at Aptos and Scotts Valley, Wed at Santa Cruz 9 and Green Valley)

THE LION KING 3D (1994) The young lion Simba returns from self-imposed exile to take his place as leader of the savannah. With voices of Matthew Broderick, Whoopi Goldberg, Jeremy Irons, James

Earl Jones, Cheech Marin and Nathan Lane. (Sat at Del Mar)

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL (PG-13; 139 min.)

Tom Cruise and the rest of the Mission Impossible force must operate outside the spy agency’s command structure and umbrella of protection

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Dec. 14, through Wednesday, Dec. 21, unless otherwise indicated.

Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

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The Muppets — Daily 1:30; 4; 6:30; 8:45 plus Sat-Sun 11:10am.

J. Edgar — Daily 3:40; 8:45. (Tue No 8:45pm.)

The Way — Daily 1:20; 6:20 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

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A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas — Wed-Thu 7:50; 10:25.

CINELUX SCOTTS VALLEY 6 CINEMA 226 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley 831.438.3260 www.cineluxtheatres.com The Adventures of Tintin — (Opens Wed 12/21) 4:30pm.

The Adventures of Tintin 3D — (Opens Wed 12/21) 11:30; 2; 7; 9:30.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked — (Opens Fri) 11:40; 12:15; 2;

2:45; 4:20; 5:10; 6:45; 7:30; 9; 9:45.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — (Opens Tue 9:45pm) Wed 12/21 7; 9.

Mission Impossible — (Opens Tue 7:30pm) 11:15; 1; 2:15; 4:15; 5:20; 7:15;

12/2112:45; 4; 7:15; 10:10.

8:30; 10:20.

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows — (Opens Midnight Thu) Fri-

1:45; 4:40; 7:30; 10:20.

Tue 11; 11:30; 1:45; 2:30; 4:40; 5:30; 7:30; 8:30; 10; 10:20; plus Wed 8:30. (No Tue 9pm, No Wed 9pm.)

Arthur Christmas — Wed-Thu 11:20; 1:45; 4:10; 6:45; 9:15; Fri-Tue 11; 1:30; 4; 6:30.

Hugo — Wed-Thu 2; 4:45; 7:30; 10:10.

Hugo 3D — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2:20; 5:15; 8:15; Fri-Tue 11; 1:40; 4:30; 7:20.

(No Tue 7:20pm.)

Happy Feet Two — Wed-Thu 11; 1:20; 3:45.

J. Edgar — Wed-Thu 6:30; 9:30.

Jack and Jill — Wed-Thu 11:55; 2:30; 4:45; 7:10; 9:30.

The Muppets — Wed-Thu 11; 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:40; Fri-Tue 11:10; 1:45; 4:20.

(No Tue 7pm.)

New Year’s Eve — Wed-Tue 11:20; 2; 4:40; 7:20; 10. (No Tue 10pm.)

The Sitter — Wed-Thu 11:10; 1:10; 3:20; 5:30; 7:45; 9:55; Fri-Tue 12:45; 3; 5:20; 7:40; 9:45. (Tue No 7:40; 9:45.)

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 — Wed-Thu 10:45; 1:30; 4:30; 7:20; 10:10 Fri-Mon 9:30pm.

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians — Wed-Thu 11:15am.

Hugo — Daily 11; 1:45; 4:30. (No Tue 7:15; 10.)

New Year’s Eve — Wed-Thu 11:15; 2; 4:45; 7:30; 10:10 Fri-Wed 11; 1:30; 4:20; 7; 9:45.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 — Wed-Thu 1:15; 4; 7; 9:45.

DEL MAR 1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com Young Adult — (Opens Fri) 12; 2; 4; 6:15; 8:15; 10:15.

Hugo — Daily 12:40; 3:20; 6; 8:30.

Hugo 3D — Wed-Thu 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed 11:10; 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:30.

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

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.

Into the Abyss — Wed-Thu 7:10; 9:20.

Like Crazy — Wed-Thu 2:10; 4:10; 6:10.

Melancholia — Wed-Thu 8:10pm; Fri-Wed 2:20; 5:10; 8:10 plus Sat-Sun 11:40am.

My Week With Marilyn — Fri-Wed 12:30; 2:45; 5; 7:15; 9:20.

RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN 155 S. River St, Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1701 www.regmovies.com J. Edgar — Daily 12:45; 3:45.

New Year’s Eve — Daily 1; 4; 6:45; 7:15; 9:30; 10.

SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9 1405 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1700 www.regmovies.com The Adventures of Tintin — (Opens Wed 12/21) 1:35; 4:15; 7:15; 10.

Alvin and the Chipmunks — (Opens Wed 12/21) Fri-Tue 2:35; 4:55; 7:15;

9:35 Sat-Sun 12:15pm.

Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol — (Opens Wed 12/21) 1:20; 3:20;

4:25; 6:30; 7:30; 9:40; 10:35.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — (Opens Wed 12/21) 1; 3:30; 4:30; 8; 7; 10:30.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows — (Opens Fri) Fri-Tue 1; 1:50;

3:25; 3:55; 4:45; 6:30; 7; 7:45; 9:45; 10:10; 10:45 plus Sat-Sun 11; 12:25.

Arthur Christmas — Wed-Thu 4; 9:25; Fri-Tue 4:10; 9:20.

Arthur Christmas 3D — Wed-Thu 1:20; 6:50; Fri-Tue 1:25; 6:45.

Happy Feet Two — Wed-Thu 1:50; 9:50.

Happy Feet Two 3D — Wed-Thu 4:30; 7:10.

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

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8 1125 S. Green Valley Rd, Watsonville 831.761.8200 www.greenvalleycinema.com The Adventures of Tintin — (Opens Wed 12/21) 4:10pm.

The Adventures of Tintin 3D — (Opens Wed 12/21) 1:40; 7:15; 9:40.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked — (Opens Fri) 1; 3; 5:05; 7:15;

9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — (Opens Tue 7pm) Wed 12/21 3:40; 6:45; 9:50.

Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol — (Opens Tue 8pm) Wed 12/21 1:35; 4; 7; 9:40.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows — (Opens Fri) 1:35; 4; 7; 9:40

plus Sat-Sun11am.

Arthur Christmas — Wed-Tue 1:40; 4:10; 7:15 plus Sat-Sun 11:15am. (No Tue

7:15pm) Happy Feet Two — Wed-Thu 4:10.

Happy Feet Two 3D — Daily 1:30; 7:15 plus Sat-Sun 11:15am.

Hugo — Fri-Tue 4:10pm.

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

Immortals — Wed-Thu 9:30pm.

Jack and Jill — Wed-Thu 1; 3; 5:05; 7:15; 9:30; Fri-Mon 9:30pm.

The Muppets — Wed-Thu 1:40; 4:10; 7:15; 9:30 Fri-Wed 4:10; 9:30.

New Year’s Eve — Daily 1:30; 4; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

The Sitter — Daily 1:40; 4:10; 7:15; 9:40 plus Sat-Sun 11:15am.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Wed-Tue 1:30; 4; 7; 9:40 plus

Sat-Sun 11am.

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YOUNG ADULT (R; 102 min.)

See review, page 62. (Opens Fri at Del Mar)

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 fatherin-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

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.

INTO THE ABYSS (PG-13; 117 min.) See review, page 65.

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

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SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG-13; 135 min.) See review, page 61.

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

kind of star’s performance that probably only looks easy and smooth to pull off. And he finishes with some very heavy old-school acting, which puts Clooney farther out on the limb than he is in the rest of the film.

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when a bomb goes off at the Kremlin, pushing the U.S. and Russia to the brink of war. (Opens Tue at 41st Ave and Scotts Valley and Wed at Santa Cruz 9 and Green Valley)

FILM

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

INVISIBLE INK: Rooney Mara plays the title character in David Fincher’s adaptation of ‘The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo,’ opening this week.

Jack’s life when she comes for her dreaded annual Thanksgiving visit.

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.

NEW YEAR’S EVE (PG-13; 123 min.) Several couples’ lives intertwine over the course of a New Year’s Eve. With Ashton Kutcher, Robert DeNiro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Biel, Sarah Jessica Parker, Common, Seth Meyers, Katherine Heigl and many more.

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 SITTER (R; 106 min.)

Jonah Hill is a college student home on break who gets suckered into babysitting the little monsters next door, never suspecting the mayhem that awaits.

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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CULINARY SANTA VISITS CHEFWORKS I have had my eye on the blue handpainted Polish Ceramika Artystyczna tableware at Chefworks for a long time now.

Santa needs to know how much I covet the heirloom quality cruet sets, the beautiful little pitchers, the casseroles and bowls—each a work of art. Moderate prices let you know it’s special without forcing you to occupy a local bank, if you know what I mean.

Chefworks has organized its holiday displays in lavish tableaux of red and green. Le Creuset ramikins, diminutive Cordon Bleu condiment bowls, Italian pottery in holly berry crimson, knives to kill for—just go and take a look for yourself. Chefworks is located at 1527 Pacific Ave. in downtown Santa Cruz. Gifts everywhere you look.

SAY YES TO CHEESY Sheep rancher, Garden Variety Cheeses entrepreneuse and former Gabriella chef Rebecca King invites innovative Santas to consider an outstanding—and very distinctive—gift idea. For $500 you can “adopt” an organically raised dairy sheep living at Monkeyflower Ranch in Royal Oaks. Your investment will help pay for the loving care of an individual animal, and of course gives you visiting rights to come and see the lovely pastoral setting and all of King’s well-tended flocks.

You’ll be supporting humanely raised and organically produced products and help keep entrepreneur King living her dream on the land. In exchange for your investment, you will receive $600 worth of dairy and meat products from January to June of next year.

For example, the Lamb Package includes a whole lamb, processed to your specifications, plus two pickups of cheese and yogurt a month, email updates and invitations to come and visit the farm. Dairy and Wool packages available as well. www.gardenvarietycheese. com/

UPDATES Chef Tim Edmonds just called to tell me that he is no longer with Davenport Roadhouse, and as yet has no new plans. . . . Winemakers Jim and Judy Schultze invite you to a New Year’s Eve Reveillon dinner, pairing their Windy Oaks pinot noirs with the authentic French cooking of chef Muriel Loubiere at Au Midi Restaurant in Aptos. This end-of-the-year fête will feature seared foie gras, venison with

red wine-poached pears and more (prix fixe $105–$155). RSVP ASAP at 831.685.2600.

HOT PLATE The caramelized onion and kalamata olive pizza made by Mark Sanchez of Kelly’s served at last week’s opening reception for Vine Hill Winery’s new

Westside 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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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

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$$$ Aptos $$ 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

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This holiday season, please consider supporting Hospice of Santa Cruz County. Donations can be made online at www.HospiceSantaCruz.org or by calling (831) 430-3000.

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1116 Pacific Ave, 831. 426.7588

328 Ingalls St, 831.425.6771

1141 Soquel Ave, 831. 426.5664

110 Church St, 831.429.2000 THE CREPE PLACE

1134 Soquel Ave, 831.429.6994

$$

CROW’S NEST

Santa Cruz

2218 East Cliff Dr, 831.476.4560

$$ Santa Cruz

GABRIELLA’S

$$ Santa Cruz

HINDQUARTER

$$ Santa Cruz

910 Cedar St., 831.457.1677

303 Soquel Ave, 831.426.7770 HOFFMAN’S

1102 Pacific Ave, 837.420.0135

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HULA’S ISLAND GRILL

Santa Cruz

221 Cathcart St, 831.426.4852

$

INDIA JOZE

Santa Cruz

418 Front St, 831.325-3633

$$ Santa Cruz

JOHNNY’S HARBORSIDE

493 Lake Ave, 831.479.3430

$$ Santa Cruz

OLITAS

$$ Santa Cruz

PACIFIC THAI

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

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

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

Fine Mexican cuisine. Opening daily at noon.

49-B Municipal Wharf, 831.458.9393

1319 Pacific Ave, 831.420.1700 RISTORANTE ITALIANO

Santa Cruz

555 Soquel Ave, 831.458.2321

$$ Santa Cruz

1220 Pacific Ave, 831.426.9930

ROSIE MCCANN’S

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

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.

SOQUEL $$ Soquel

EL CHIPOTLE TAQUERIA

4724 Soquel Dr, 831.477.1048

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

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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.

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$$$ LA POSTA Santa Cruz 538 Seabright Ave, 831.457.2782

’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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Free Will

By Rob Brezsny

For the week of December 14

GEMINI (May 21–June 20): I’m not an either-or type of person. I don’t think that there are just two sides of every story and that you have to align yourself with one or the other. That’s one reason why, as an America voter, I reject the idea that I must either sympathize with the goals of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. It’s also why I’m bored by the trumped-up squabble between the atheists and the fundamentalist Christians, and the predictable arguments between dogmatic cynics and fanatical optimists. I urge you to try my approach in the coming weeks, Gemini. Find a third way between any two sides that tend to divide the world into Us against Them.

CANCER (June 21–July 22): No one actually looks like the retouched images of the seemingly perfect people in sexy ads. It’s impossible to be that flawless, with no wrinkles, blemishes and scars. Acknowledging this fact, the iconic supermodel Cindy Crawford once said, “I wish I looked like Cindy Crawford.” Our unconscious inclination to compare ourselves to such unrealistic ideals is the source of a lot of mischief in our lives. Your assignment in the coming week, Cancerian, is to divest yourself, as much as possible, of all standards of perfection that alienate you from yourself or cause you to feel shame about who you really are. (More fodder to motivate you: tinyurl.com/SoftKill.)

LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): Barney Oldfield (1878–1946) was a pioneer car racer who was the first ever to run a 100mph lap at the Indianapolis 500. He was a much better driver while setting speed records and beating other cars on racetracks than he was at moseying through regular street traffic. Why? He said he couldn’t think clearly if he was traveling at less than 100 miles per hour. I suspect you may temporarily have a similar quirk, Leo—not in the way you drive but rather in the way you live and work and play. To achieve maximum lucidity, you may have to be moving pretty fast.

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): Back in August 2010, there was an 11-day traffic snarl on a Chinese highway. At one point, the stuck vehicles stretched for 60 miles and inched along at the rate of a mile per day. In that light, your current jam isn’t so bad. It may be true that your progress has been glacial lately, but at least you’ve had a bed to sleep in and a bathroom to use, which is more than can be said for the stranded Chinese motorists and truck drivers. Plus I’m predicting that your own personal jam is going to disperse sometime in the next few days.

Be prepped and ready to rumble on.

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): Here’s a joke from Woody Allen’s movie Annie Hall: “Two elderly women are in a Catskills Mountain resort and one of them says: ‘Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.’ The other one says, ‘Yeah, I know—and such small portions.’” Is it possible you’re acting like the second woman, Libra?

Are you being influenced to find fault with something that you actually kind of like? Are you ignoring your own preferences simply because you think it might help you to be close to those whose preferences are different? I urge you not to do that in the coming week. According

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): The Los Angeles school district dramatically downgraded the role that homework plays in the life of its students. Beginning this fall, the assignments kids do after school account for only 10 percent of their final grade. As far as you’re concerned, Scorpio, that’s not a good trend to follow. In fact, I think you should go in the opposite direction. During the enhanced learning phase you’re now entering, your homework will be more important than ever. In order to take full advantage of the rich educational opportunities that will be flowing your way, you should do lots of research, think hard about what it all means, and in general be very well prepared. The period between late 2011 and early 2012 is homework time for you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): The Amazon is the second longest river in the world and has such a voluminous flow that it comprises 20 percent of all river water in the world. And yet there is not a single bridge that crosses it. I love that fact. It comforts and inspires me to know that humans have not conquered this natural wonder. Which leads me to my advice for you this week, Sagittarius. Please consider keeping the wild part of you wild. It’s certainly not at all crucial for you to civilize it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): Emotion is the resource we treasure when we’re young, says poet Naomi Shihab Nye, but eventually what we thrive on even more is energy. “Energy is everything,” she says, “not emotion.” And where does energy come from? Often, from juxtaposition, says Nye. “Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy; rubbing one image against another.” That’s what she loves about being a poet. Her specialty is to conjure magic through juxtaposition.

“Our brains are desperate for that kind of energy,” she concludes. I mention this, Capricorn, because the coming weeks will be prime time for you to drum up the vigor and vitality that come from mixing and melding and merging, particularly in unexpected or uncommon ways.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): Studies show that if you’re sharing a meal with one other person, you’re likely to eat up to 35 percent more food than if you’re dining alone. If you sit down at the table with four companions, you’ll probably devour 75 percent extra, and if you’re with a party of eight, your consumption may double. As I contemplate your horoscope, these facts give me pause.

While I do suspect you will benefit from socializing more intensely and prolifically, I also think it’ll be important to raise your commitment to your own physical health. Can you figure out a way to do both, please?

PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): “Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul,” said psychologist Carl Jung, “human beings would rot away in their greatest passion, idleness.” To that edgy observation, I would add this corollary: One of the greatest and most secret forms of idleness comes from being endlessly busy at unimportant tasks. If you are way too wrapped up in doing a thousand little things that have nothing to do with your life’s primary mission, you are, in my opinion, profoundly idle. All the above is prelude for the climactic advice of this week’s horoscope, which goes as follows: Give everything you have to stimulate the leaping and twinkling of your soul.

Homework: Make a prediction about what you will do in 2012. Tell me about it by going to http://RealAstrology.com and clicking on “Email Rob.”

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TAURUS (April 20–May 20): One possible way to tap into the current cosmic opportunities would be to seek out storegasms—the ecstatic feelings released while exercising one’s buyological urges in consumer temples crammed with an obscene abundance of colorful material goods. But I advise you against doing that. It wouldn’t be a very creative solution to the epic yearnings that are welling up in your down-below-anddeep-inside parts. Instead, I offer a potentially far more satisfying recommendation: Routinely maneuver yourself into positions where your primal self will be filled up with sublime wonder, mysterious beauty and smart love.

to my analysis of the astrological omens, it’s very important that you know how you feel and stay true to your feelings.

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ARIES (March 21–April 19): Jim Moran (1908–1999) called himself a publicist, but I regard him as a pioneer performance artist. At various times in his colorful career, he led a bull through a china shop in New York City, changed horses in midstream in Nevada’s Truckee River and looked for a needle in a haystack until he found it.

You might want to draw inspiration from his work in the coming weeks, Aries. You will not only have a knack for mutating clichés and scrambling conventional wisdom.

In doing so, you could also pull off feats that might seem improbable.

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