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BAGS OF CHEMICALS NEUROSCIENTIST Michael S. Gazzaniga (“Write Brain,” A&E, Jan. 4) conceives of human beings as chemically determined robots with no will of their own. Were scientists required to take one or two years of epistemology, they would distinguish between science and what they as scientists believe.

Our knowledge of what we take for the material world is indirect and mediated (by the five senses). Within this manifestly partial, and therefore delusive, representation of what is real, neither the conscious mind nor the volitional self appears. Can we rightly infer that the volitional self does not

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exist? Or is it possible that the colorful representation all around us is not everything?

Our knowledge of ourselves and of our own minds is direct and immediate.

Those of us who possess souls, volition, goodness and love directly observe ourselves being, doing, sharing and giving. Those who would claim they are bags of chemicals—robots—should speak for themselves.

Richard Flacco Santa Cruz

DUMP THE DUMPS I STROLL Manresa Beach almost daily, and I regularly see from one to three

plastic bags of dog feces lying in the sand. Today I plucked one from the surf. Manresa is heavily used by dogs and their guardians, and I would like to tell the 99 percent who pick up after their pets and carry their waste to the trash how much I appreciate their thoughtfulness. People who bag their dogs’ waste and leave it lying on the sand are also considerate to the extent that they have made an effort to save other users of the beach from stepping in their pets’ excrement. However, these folks have apparently forgotten about the impact of the plastic bags and the feces within them on the coastal and ocean ecology, as well as the physical beauty of the shoreline. The Pacific Ocean is plagued by a vortex of plastic debris that has been estimated to be anywhere from the size of Texas to twice that size. The Atlantic and Indian oceans have their own huge concentrations of plastic. The adverse impacts of this plastic to the marine ecosystem, and even to humans, are far too complex to discuss here, but they are sobering.

My assumption is that some of the bags I see are retrieved by dog owners on their return trip down the beach and then taken to the trash; however, I know that not all of them are. To those of you who leave the bags behind, please take the next important step: Deposit them in the trash. Thank you.

Rob Goodwin La Selva Beach

METER MISFIRE [RE: “Tough Tickets,” Posts, Jan. 4], I agree and understand that, although frustrating, getting ticketed for an expired meter isn’t a big surprise. [But] I do share the negative sentiment towards some of our parking enforcement. Along with witnessing a meter attendant watch and wait for a meter to expire to issue a ticket, my girlfriend was recently issued a ticket in the Church Street parking garage when she had paid for time in her designated

space. When she brought the ticket to the parking office and asked them why she got a ticket, they told her that the machine must not have processed her transaction yet. How is that possible if it instantly prints you a receipt? We then found a few other people with similar stories, one of whom didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the time to clear it up and was wrongfully fined. Meters aside, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a problem, especially when the money collected goes to unnecessary traffic circles.

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YOUR timely article (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The End of the World as We Know It,â&#x20AC;? Cover story, Jan. 4), which I read super-fast (just in case, you know?), reminded me of a New Yorker cartoon that came out shortly after the last Doomsday prediction fizzled. It depicts a stereotypical endof-the-world type (long white hair, f lowing beard, gown) holding up a sign that reads, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The End Was Near.â&#x20AC;? Oh, those Mayans and their wicked sense of humor!

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In last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Currents (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Phase Twoâ&#x20AC;?) we inaccurately implied that funding for the Performing Arts Center at the Tannery was imperiled because of the ruling affecting the Redevelopment Agency. That was wrong.

Funding for the center is not dependent on redevelopment.

Also, in our cover story (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The End of the World as We Know Itâ&#x20AC;?) we misspelled the term that describes the change in the orientation of the earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s axis over time. It is spelled â&#x20AC;&#x153;precession.â&#x20AC;? We regret the errors.

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WHEN I listen to the nightly news and hear the words â&#x20AC;&#x153;heroâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;courage,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;victorâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;winnerâ&#x20AC;? when referring to the current political race, I feel nauseated.

What sickens me is the sham of it all, how candidates will promise anything, declare devotion to an ideology that may change by the next primary. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t trust these speeches or the motives of any political figure. They are self-serving, self-absorbed and want power rather than equity for the people. Recently, when debating health care, a commentator rightly criticized these bickering school boys, saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t they see that the American people want and need health care, and here they are arguing about having it at all!â&#x20AC;?

I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even watch the news lately. It hurts my stomach and my heart. I want real heroes who are brave and able to face challenge with courage and optimism, who are afraid yet doing it anywayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;whatever is needed.

I found my heroes in an unlikely place. Well, actually, not so unlikely, the VA Hospital in Palo Alto. Here men who were once soldiers are sitting in recliners with needles in their arms. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the infusion room where chemo cocktails are given, and every chair is filled.

My husband is in one of the chairs listening to his iPod. He greets every vet with a high five or fists that meet, and eye contact that says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in this together.â&#x20AC;?

I look around the room at the men and see such diversity. They all have some type of cancer, but are of every age, every ethnicity, from their thirties to their eighties, and represent every war weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve fought in. Each week we become closer, and as I look around today, I realize these are the real heroes Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been looking for, and not just the patients, but their loved ones: the young wife holding her husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hand; the daughter stroking her dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head; the partner in biker leather who brought their fluffy dog for companionship. We become a family. I love these strangers, and know in the deepest part of me that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve found the real American heroes. They have served their country, have faced and seen death, and are once more fighting for their lives, and doing it with grace and kindness towards one another.

In comparison to these giants, our political leaders are pygmies. They lack the oneness of spirit, the courage to handle the real issues facing real people. They argue about health care, jobs and bailouts for homeowners, but mainly disagree based on ideology, while our citizens suffer.

Maybe we should choose our candidates for public office from oncology infusion rooms, where the patients and their families reflect all the qualities I look for: courage, determination, camaraderie, inclusiveness, fighting spirit and willingness to face whatever comes with optimism and a heroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision.

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Art Museum Puns run amok in this Nutzle show, the artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pungent pen subverting the uppermost floor of the county-jail-turned-temple-of-culture where I commune in pleasant privacy with the artifacts and arty fictions, my afternoon paused in one more interactive interlude between serendipitous meetings in the street and leisurely browsings in Logos. Machines of artificial ventilation groan in the walls, discombobulating contemplation, but the concrete floor echoes a more musical, jazzlike, subtly syncopated, all-but-abstract rhythm off which the pictures bounce jokily as sentences in a Zen blender, a smoothie of pure non sequitur.

Remembered aromas of freshly historic coffee can be smelled from the next gallery where Caffe

Pergolesi is commemorated, pictures of Page Smith and Mary Holmes in their heyday holding forth at the Penny University, having dropped out of the other one they founded. Just outside is the sculpture garden, punctuated by lovely succulents and a three-stream fountain whose cool murmur is a delicious antidote to the industrial drone indoors.

You can still hear the street three stories down and smell the exhaust of the trucks pulling up behind the supermarket, but this is urbanely apropos for such a downtown terrace from which you can look up and see Loma Prieta. You walk into this building and you are moved to prove you too are art, or at least an artiste with cheeky nerve enough to scribble a caption under a cartoonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one of those enigmatic

doodles that has you scratching your head and laughing at the same time. It is the clean black line that captivates, the ink speaking for itself in loopy hieroglyphs, something to stuff into the beholderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pipe while he contemplates what is said in what he has seen. I think of the preening egret on West Cliff yesterday, posing, I swear, for the photo-clicking strollers as if to say Check me out, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m so beautiful, as are those blazingly radiant trees across the street and just beyond the bank. Where was I? Oh yes, above a river where art demands to be spoken back to and whose transient birds can see their faces in the bus windows.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;THE HELP,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; the hit film released last summer, deals with discrimination and bad behavior toward African-American maids in 1960s Mississippi. Movie audiences were shocked by the treatment of women who worked for homeowners, earning a pittance, with no workplace protections and no recourse against vengeful, rude or racist employers. But times have changed since then. Right?

Not really, says Esmeralda Montufar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not given vacation pay, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not given workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; compensation,â&#x20AC;? says Montufar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a bare minimum, we want protections on our work and as human beings.â&#x20AC;?

As the president of ALMAS, a womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s action and solidarity alliance based in Sonoma County,

Montufar has spent two years campaigning for AB 889, a domestic workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bill of rights. Authored by California assemblymembers Tom Ammiano and V. Manuel Perez, the bill follows similar legislation enacted by the state of New York in 2010.

If passed, it would grant nannies, housekeepers and attendants to the elderly and disabled the right to rest and meal breaks, limited overtime pay and workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; compensation benefits to those who work fewer than 52 hours over a three-month period. (Inhome support services workers are excluded from the bill.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Domestic workers historically havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been heard,â&#x20AC;? says Imelda Mateos, referring to the exclusion of domestic workers from the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Back then, Southern lawmakers intentionally

confusing and leave domestic workers vulnerable to abuse by bad employers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an industry thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never had any laws protecting it before,â&#x20AC;? says Maureen Purtill, an organizer at the Graton Day Labor Center in Sonoma County who has been participating in conferences in Sacramento. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By having a law that protects domestic workers, even on five or six points, it could have the side effect of a cultural shift, where we start to think of them as real workers and value the labor force.â&#x20AC;?

If passed it would grant nannies and housekeepers the right to breaks, limited overtime pay and workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; comp Assembly Bill 889 moves to the Senate floor in late January; it may gain even more traction due to the Obama administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dec. 15 announcement of a plan to extend minimum wage and healthcare protections to home healthcare workers across the nation, the majority of which are womenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;92 percent, according to administration statisticsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and immigrants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Immigrants that come to this countryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we come and we go, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just kind of how it is,â&#x20AC;? says Montufar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But this kind of law is good, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be there for the people who come next, so that this work is recognized.â&#x20AC;? 0

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excluded domestic workers and farm workersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;then predominantly AfricanAmericanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from laws providing federal minimum wage and overtime protections. Fast-forward 73 years, and despite a 1974 amendment that extended coverage, many domestic workers still donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have these rights. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If the bill passes, at least employers will have more consideration in regards to us,â&#x20AC;? says Mateos, a domestic worker who moved to the Bay Area from Oaxaca four years ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right now, people experience a lot of abuse from their bosses.â&#x20AC;?

Montufar relates a story about arriving at a regular housecleaning job to a note on the door stating that her services would no longer be needed, with no notice given.

Others have had to work 24-hour shifts with no time allotted for a full nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sleep. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I speak about my experience because I think about the other women, too,â&#x20AC;? explains Montufar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want anyone else to be in a situation like thatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an ugly feeling. What happened to me was bad, but things way worse happen to other women.â&#x20AC;?

Critics of the bill say that it could make care for the elderly and disabled prohibitively expensive, pricing out care for people who most need it. Speaking on KQEDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Forum last August, Jordan Lindsey, director of policy and public affairs for the California Association for Health Services at Home, argued that more time should be spent finding a balance between the needs of the individuals and the needs of caretakers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If this was a bill just about the overtime exemption, I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be having a different discussion,â&#x20AC;? said Lindsey. â&#x20AC;&#x153;However, this is a bill about overtime exemption, along with sleep time, along with some rather strange provisions about kitchen use.â&#x20AC;?

Those that support the bill, like the California Domestic Workers Coalition, say the ultimate goal is to set clearer, industry-wide standards because the current rules are complicated and

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m trying to find at least one matsutake,â&#x20AC;? says Arora, scanning the path in front of him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re amazing.â&#x20AC;? At this dark hour, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading a group of 10 mushroom enthusiasts, only about half of them holding f lashlights, through the woods of his multiple acres of fungal paradise in Mendocino County. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been drinking wine and eating mushroom-laden dishes, like a black trumpet dip and some hedgehog turnovers, all night, and people are in fine spirits.

Arora, one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foremost experts on mushrooms, often hosts parties on Thanksgiving and New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve for small groups of fungi enthusiasts. A hike wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t on the agenda for tonight, but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a huge surprise either. For the moment the group has fallen behind Arora as the foragers kneel on a carpet of pine needles, busily picking hedgehog mushrooms.

Arora, meanwhile, has moved ahead and is zigzagging across the winding dirt path. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one here,â&#x20AC;? he says. Surveying the forest with his f lashlight, Arora suddenly finds his jackpot, a patch of matsutakes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh look, you guys!â&#x20AC;? he shouts down to the group. When no one responds, he switches to a whisper, as if he were in a museum. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wait for them to come up here,â&#x20AC;? he says in

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Arora on a mushroom hunt is like a kid in a candy cap store. William Rubel, a food writer and close friend since 1970, is on the hike, having survived a nearâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;freezing lateâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;night skinnydipping session to procure watercress for a salad (at Aroraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s insistence, of course). Rubel says in some ways the 59-year-old Arora is still at heart the same curious explorer he was as a teenager, roaming the hills of Pasadena, and later the Santa Cruz Mountains, looking for fungi. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still excited to pick a chanterelle,â&#x20AC;? says Rubel, who was Aroraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neighbor at UCâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; Santa Cruz, where Aroraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passion bloomed into a veritable obsession. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How many thousands has he found? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still like the first day he discovered mushrooms. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still 16.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It never gets old,â&#x20AC;? Arora explains casually. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always exciting to find mushrooms. They never look quite the same. Some years everythingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bigger. Today we found some beautiful mushrooms.â&#x20AC;?

A quarter past midnight may sound like an odd time for a foray, but Arora loves the challenge and thrill of foraging for mushrooms when he can barely see his own feet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exciting!â&#x20AC;? Arora says the next morning. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just different to be out in the woods at night, and we may have nightlife in cities, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not nocturnal creatures. So, when weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the woods at night, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at a great disadvantage in every way. We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see well. We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t smell well. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just interesting.â&#x20AC;?

Arora returns to the Monterey Bay this weekend for the Santa Cruz Fungus Fair, which he founded 38 years ago. After taking a mostly hands-off approach to the fair for the past two decades, Arora is speaking for the second straight year. While he says he never regrets having left town, he says he does miss Santa Cruz at times.

It was in Santa Cruz, after all, that he wrote his opus, Mushrooms Demystified, the go-to field guide and, at 1,056 pages, essentially the mushroom bible to anyone living in the Western United States. Arora is currently working on the third edition

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Mr. Mushroom Mushrooms Demystified is still widely regarded as the premier book for mushrooms west of the Mississippi, and it covers all of North America.

Experts say the book has opened foraging to millions who never would have become interested otherwise. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best field guide Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever used,â&#x20AC;? says Tom Bruns, a mycology professor at UCâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Berkeley who grew up on the East Coast and got his PhD from the University of Michigan. Bruns uses Mushrooms Demystified as required reading for all his classes. He has a lot of respect for Arora as a mycologist, even though Arora lacks the formal scientific training of most academics in the field. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s selfâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;taught, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really impressive,â&#x20AC;? says Bruns. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked on fungi all my life, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know them like he does.â&#x20AC;?

Phil Carpenter, co-chair for the Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz, says Aroraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wry sense of humor makes his books more accessible. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got a very strong command of language,â&#x20AC;? says Carpenter, who organizes the annual Fungus Fair. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The sense of humor that he puts into his books adds an element you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find in other serious texts, and Mushrooms Demystified is a very serious text.â&#x20AC;?

Carpenter says that between Aroraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s renewed involvement with the fair and his rewrite, this is the most active Arora has been in 20 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He just had so much other things going on. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been traveling a lot. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always been a world traveler when it comes to mushrooms. But heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting more active,â&#x20AC;? says Carpenter.

Indeed, Arora is taking almost all new photographs for the new Mushrooms Demystified.

But he downplays any career transformations that appear underway. He says he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have rewritten his book much sooner because ongoing DNA research left so many speciesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; names in f lux. As for the fair, Arora says he became involved again in part as he noticed changes in its management that

have allowed its revenue to stay with the federation instead of going to the city.

Arora says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excited to be retaking so many pictures, too. His publisher, Ten Speed Press, wants as many digital photographs as possible in the new edition, and the digital camera allows Arora to take essentially the same picture for hours until he gets the shot he wants without wasting any film. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would say my interest in mushroom photography is being reinvigorated,â&#x20AC;? says Arora.

Most nights at sunset, Arora attempts to snap the perfect picture of a bowl of chanterelles in front of a glowing chanterelle-colored sky.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all part of his vision to create an entertaining, user-friendly field guide better than any other on the market. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got better sunsets than they do,â&#x20AC;? Arora says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to use â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em.â&#x20AC;?

Keeping It Real As much as Arora loves fungus clubs, including, obviously, the one he helped found, he does offer a critique of them. Many people lose sight of the reasons mushrooms are so much fun, he arguesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;namely that many of them taste good, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re fun to find. Aroraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s idea of perfect mushroom hunting is what he finds on his annual visits to China, where the ultimate goal is simply finding the ingredients for a good meal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like to go mushroom hunting with villagers because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually very simple,â&#x20AC;? he says. Unlike mushroom clubs, Chinese villages have specified roles, with certain people assigned to go out and pick mushroomsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;hierarchy, as he calls it. The villagers donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get competitive in the search. They bring mushrooms home, cook them and share them with the group.

In clubs itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little different. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no hierarchy here,â&#x20AC;? Arora says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It becomes about: Who can pick the most mushrooms? Who can name the most mushrooms? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just endless. Not as much fun.â&#x20AC;?

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It is fitting that a man who got his start by leafing through a book in a cabin in the woods now owns a cabin of his own, where he invites interested foragers for dinner and classes.

It isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Aroraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s style to keep copies of his famous guides prominently displayed in his library, but maybe books arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the world-renowned authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most effective way of teaching anyway. If Arora, a walking encyclopedia himself, gets hungry enough, he will likely take dinner guests on a curious stomp through his thickly forested yard in search of fresh suppliesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;no matter what time of day or night.

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in New York State. Arora came across a mushroom book and started venturing out to see what he could find. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d come back.

The dog would have a turtle in his mouth, and David would have a new mushroom,â&#x20AC;? says his mother, Shirley Arora.

These days Arora and Rubel, the food writer, often travel together, eating mushrooms many Westerners frown upon or even thought were inedible. â&#x20AC;&#x153;William and I have a philosophy thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s different than people in the mushroom clubs,â&#x20AC;? says Arora. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They become like mushroom snobs. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sit with them on purpose, but if I sit with them somewhere at a dinner table and they start talking that way, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cool because I can always one-up them. I can always say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well, you might think the chanterelles in Oregon are the best, but I prefer the ones from Zimbabwe.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And of course they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t top that.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Connoisseurship is good,â&#x20AC;? Arora continues, â&#x20AC;&#x153;because that means youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re appreciating something in a more nuanced way. But then when people invest their ego in it, they become snobs. There are dozens of great mushrooms, and it would actually be a disaster if everyone picked just a couple kinds.â&#x20AC;?

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THE FUNGUS FAIR is Friday, Jan. 13, 3-7pm and Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sunday, Jan. 14â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 15, 10amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;4:30pm. David Arora presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wheel of Fungiâ&#x20AC;? Saturday and Sunday at 1pm. Louden Nelson Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. Admission $5 Friday, $10 Saturday and Sunday. e]did XdjgiZhn 9Vk^Y 6gdgV

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Mondo Mando The mandolin stars in NMW’s latest

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THE NIGHT before the New Music Works stages its concert, “Mandolicious,” this Friday at Cabrillo College, a limited-space audience will gather at The Darling House Bed and Breakfast on West Cliff Drive for an evening of “dialog and music” with guest composer Mark Kilstofte. (The Darling House has packaged the event with an overnight stay, but available seats will be sold singly by advance confirmation at 831.588.6489; cost is $15.) For the Cabrillo performance, Kilstofte’s Ballistic Etude 3.1 will run riot across six members of the NMW Ensemble.

The seven-minute piece, in the form of a “hunting” ritornello, paints a nowfrantic, now-darkly-insinuating film noir image while its hero attempts to rescue his girl from evil clutches. Kilstofte, now teaching at a liberal arts college in South Carolina, wrote the piece in 2008 and subtitled it Spasmosis.

Nigerian-American composer Akindele “Akiva” Olanrewaju Bankole, now a Santa Cruz resident, will hear the premiere of three sections from his Yoruba Life Cycle Dances, ritual rites of passage drawn on the ancient oral-tradition melodies and rhythms of the large—30 to 50 million— ethnic tribe spread across Nigeria, Benin and Togo. (An accomplished singer, Bankole will also perform Schubert’s popular Ständchen with pianist Michael McGushin, just ahead of three Arnold Schoenberg song arrangements for instruments.)

Featured guest artist will be celebrated mandolinist Mike Marshall, who solos in his own Concerto in G for mandolin(s) and orchestra dating from 2007. Easy on the ear, the work’s first movement contrasts lyrical melodies with Baroquestyle counterpoint. The middle of its three movements makes use of the mandocello—the cello register member of the mandolin family—that has remained largely in the shadows since the early 20th century when mandolin orchestras enjoyed popularity. The ensemble slowly but surely asserts itself here, coming to a climactic finish. The work’s overall American character comes into full focus with a fiddle tune that dominates the finale. Marshall’s mandolin compositions are generally scaled to chamber ensembles and, notwithstanding the larger forces used here, retain their intimate rather than virtuosic character.

However, this finale will arouse toetapping, while Marshall’s improvisations are guaranteed to put smiles on all faces present. The program will also include Schoenberg’s own Six Little Piano Pieces of 1911.

MANDOLICIOUS Friday, 8pm, Cabrillo College Music Recital Hall Tickets $23 gen/ $17 senior/ $12 student

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SNEAK PREVIEW Composer Mark Kilstofte appears Thursday at the Darling House.

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Stage THEATER Avenue Q Paper Wing Theater presents the Tony Award-winning puppet-powered musical comedy. Fri-Sat, 8pm and Sat, 4pm. Thru Jan 21. $22$25. Paper Wing Theater, 320 Hoffman Ave, Monterey, 831.905.5684.

spanning almost two centuries performed by New Music Works Ensemble under the direction of Phil Collins, with mandolin virtuoso Mike Marshall and tenor Akindele ‘Akiva’ Olanrewaju Bankole.

Fri, Jan 13, 8pm. $12-$23.

Cabrillo Music Recital Hall, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.295.0426.

Wooster and Vendredi A fundraiser to help finance the band’s first trip to SXSW. Fri, Jan 13, 9pm. $10. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.429.6994.

CONCERTS American Crossroads An evening of works by great American composers of the 20th century, including “Balinese Ceremonial Music,” transcribed in 1940 for two pianos by pioneering ethnomusicologist Colin McPhee. Fri, Jan 13, 7:30pm. $8-$12. UCSC Music Center Recital Hall, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

John McCutcheon Folk singer-songwritermaster instrumentalist McCutcheon will play guitar, banjo, hammer dulcimer and piano. Fri, Jan 13, 7:30pm and Sat, Jan 14, 10am. $8$25. Resource Center for Nonviolence, 515 Broadway, Santa Cruz, 831.423.1626.

The Kingston Trio The legendary American folk trio performs live. Sat, Jan 14, 8pm. $39-$69. Sunset Center, Mission and Eighth streets, Carmel-by-the-Sea, 831.620.2040.

Mandolicious An evening of rare and new small ensemble treats

Art MUSEUMS CONTINUING Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Futzie Nutzle & The Espresso Police. Featuring works by Nutzle, Judy Foreman and Frank Foreman, musical performances by the artists who played Caffe Pergolesi and artifacts from the old cafe. Thru Mar 17. 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 health of each

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RYDELL AWARD WINNERS From 46 Santa Cruz artists who applied, the field was winnowed to just four Rydell Visual Art Fellows. An exhibition of the winners’ work will feature the paintings of Cabrillo College instructor Andrea Borsuk, ceramics by Foothill College instructor Andy Ruble, the abstract work of Tim Craighead (a lecturer at UCSC) and handmade garments and headgear by Victoria May. On display through Mar. 18 at the Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. General admission $5, students and seniors $3. 831.429.1964. lagoon and how artists continue to be inspired by the ever-changing nature of lagoons. Thru Feb 25. $2-$4, free for members and youth under 18. Tue-Sun, 10am5pm. 1305 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6115.

Roy Hargrove Quintet Adroit and inventive jazz trumpeter adds Latin, R&B and hard-swinging bop. Jan 12-15 at Yoshi’s SF.

Silian Rail Loud, many-tentacled two-piece plays multiple instruments at once. Jan 13 at Hemlock Tavern.

Mavis Staples Gospel songstress belts earthy civil rights anthems for Martin Luther King, Jr. day. Jan 15 at the Paramount Theater.

OPENING Oceans ‘12. Fourteen painters, photographers and sculptors show work relating to the ocean. Sat, Jan 14, 47pm. 450 Hwy 1, Davenport, 831.426.1199.

Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery Personal Memory, Public History. Fifteen assemblages

by Lucien Kubo predicated on the Japanese American experience. Artist reception Sun, Jan 15, 2-4pm. Jan 15-Feb 19. 831.459.2953.

An Untold Odyssey. The story of Akira Nagamine by artists Tosh Tanaka and Jono Shaferkotter. Jan 15-Feb 19. Cowell College, UCSC, Santa Cruz.

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Marjorie Evans Gallery

Singer / songwriter Andy Cavic traffics in dreamy folk-rock on new album, ‘Tight Knit.’ Jan 15 at the Independent.

Etching in the Footsteps of the Masters. An exhibition of original etchings by artist and Monterey Peninsula resident Justin Ward. Artist reception Fri, Jan 13, 5-7pm.

Jan 11-31. 831.620.2077.

San Carlos Street at Ninth Avenue, Carmel.

Ty Segall Garage-rock belle du jour joins Shannon and the Clams in benefit for Jonathan Toubin. Jan 18 at Mezzanine.

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GALLERIES Davenport Gallery

San Francisco’s City Guide

Santa Cruz Mountain Art Center artists. Jan 11-Mar 17. Wed-Sun, noon-6pm.

9341 Mill St, Ben Lomond, 831.336.4273.

Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center Inspirations. A collection of inspirational artwork by

Meeting of Minds.

Featuring five of the artists of FU Tattoo Shop showcasing art created outside the tattoo parlour. Thru Jan 31. Free.

107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

Motiv 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.

Free. 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.479.5572.

Events

America. Fri, Jan 13, 8pm. $9. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel, Santa Cruz, 831.423.8209.

AROUND TOWN

LITERARY EVENTS

38th Annual Fungus Fair

Geoff Drake

Lectures by famed mycologists, culinary demonstrations, activities, exhibits, mushroom identification and more. Fri, Jan 13, 3-7pm and Jan 14-15, 10am-5pm. $5-$10. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.684.2275.

The local biking enthusiast and former editor of Bicycling magazine will read, sign and discuss his book, Team 7-Eleven. Thu, Jan 12, 7:30pm.

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

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

Santa Cruz Central Branch Library Gallery

Scotts Valley Falcons’ BBQ FUN-raiser

Paul Titangos: Personal Photography From Around the World. Traditional black and white silver gelatin prints and colorful digitally re-mastered large canvases. Thru Jan 31. 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5700.

Enjoy a raffle and barbecue.

All funds raised will be used to improve the “Falcon Nest” baseball field and team facilities. Fri, Jan 13, 6:30pm. $20 adv/$25 door.

Bruno’s BBQ, 230 Mount Hermon Road, Scotts Valley, 831.262.2366.

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. Free.

720 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.457.5000.

FILM Revenge of the Electric Car The story of the global resurgence of electric cars.

Presented by the Monterey Bay Electric Vehicle Alliance, Ecology Action, Electric Auto Association and Plug-In

James Irwin Kruger Local author and distinguished former newspaperman will discuss Beach Street and other works.

Wed, Jan 11, 10:30-11:30am.

Free. Porter Memorial Library, 3050 Porter St, Soquel, 831.475.3326.

Kelly McGonigal The Stanford University psychologist will read, sign and discuss her book, The Willpower Instinct. Wed, Jan 11, 7:30pm. Free. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

Local Authors Night An evening of book discussion, signing and Q&A with these three local writers: Susan Allison, Marcy Alancraig and Mara Kerr. Tue, Jan 17, 7pm. Free. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

Tea Obreht The acclaimed author of The Tiger’s Wife will read, sign and discuss her novel. Fri, Jan 13, 7:30pm. Free. Bookshop Santa

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LECTURES California’s Battle of the Ballot Box

CRFG Scion Exchange Several hundred varieties of common, rare and experimental scions from all over the world will be available, plus grafting demonstrations, apple, pear and stone fruit rootstocks for sale and experts to answer questions. Sun, Jan 15, noon3pm. Free for CRFG members; $5 for non-members. Cabrillo College Horticulture Center, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.332.4699.

The Ultimate Alternatives: Nature’s Answer to Treating Infections Rachel Fresco L. Ac. and owner of Bio-Botanical Research, Inc will discuss the link between bio films and antibiotic resistance, the best way to kick a virus and which botanicals have the strongest activities. Thu, Jan 12, 6:307:30pm. Free. Staff of Life, 1266 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz.

NOTICES Center for Animal Protection & Education Adoption Event A dog adoption event hosted

by CAPE for people interested in adopting a new canine family member. Sat, Jan 14, 2pm. ACE Hardware, 218 Mt. Hermon Rd, Scotts Valley, 831.336.4695.

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

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Examining six ballot measures that could change civil society in California. Co-sponsored

by Health Care for All and the Santa Cruz Chapter of ACLU. Tue, Jan 17, 7-9pm.

Free. Friends Quaker Meeting House, 225 Rooney St, Santa Cruz, 831.465.8272.

CHILD OF WAR As a girl, celebrated author Téa Obreht fled violence in the Balkans.

TÉA OBREHT AT BOOKSHOP TÉA OBREHT’S first novel had not even been published when she was named one of the 20 best writers under 40 by the New Yorker at the tender age of 24. Those squirrelly Manhattanites were on to something, though—upon its publication nearly a year later, The Tiger’s Wife scooped up the Orange Prize for Fiction and was named a finalist for the National Book Award.

In The Tiger’s Wife, written over three years as she completed an MFA in creative writing at Cornell, Obreht traces a young doctor’s journey to understand the mysterious circumstances of her grandfather’s death. The novel presents deftly woven modern folk tales—stories of the deathless man, of the tiger’s wife—against the backdrop of a war-torn Balkan province.

Obreht began writing the story just a year after the death of her own grandfather.

“The forty days of the soul begin on the morning after death,” Obreht writes. “That first night, before its forty days begin, the soul lies still against sweated-on pillows and watches the living fold the hands and close the eyes, choke the room with smoke and silence to keep the new soul from the doors and the windows and the cracks in the floor so that it does not run out of the house like a river.”

Téa Bajraktarevic was born in Belgrade, in what was then Yugoslavia, in 1985. War drove Bajraktarevic, her mother and grandfather to Cyprus and then to Cairo before they settled in America. He was on his deathbed, the story goes, when her grandfather requested that she write under his surname, instead of her absent father’s. (Tessa Stuart) TÉA OBREHT will read from The Tiger’s Wife on Friday, Jan. 13 at 7:30pm at Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. 831.423.0900. Free.

Santa Cruz Film Festival Call for Entries Films and videos of all lengths and formats completed after January 1, 2011 are invited to enter including narrative, documentary, animation, experimental, student and youth-produced works.

SantaCruzFilmFestival.org Thru Feb 10.

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

Stitchers-by-the-Sea Meeting The local chapter of Embroiderers’ Guild of

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

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

Sumi-e for Beginners Japanese ink painting lessons.

No art experience necessary.

Wed, 1:30-3pm. Thru Jan 25. $40. Market Street Senior Center, 222 Market St, Santa Cruz.

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).

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.

VFW Tres Pueblos Post 7263

Zen, Vipassana, Basic: Intro to Meditation

Second Thu of every month, 6:30pm. Veterans Hall, 2259 7th Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.345.3925.

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

Zen: SC Zen Center, Wed, 5:45pm, 831.457.0206.

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

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

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Wed. January 11 U 7 & 9 pm

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Tickets: snazzyproductions.com Thursday, January 12 U 7 pm

GRAFFITI WITH DENNIS CHAMBERS

Monday, January 16 U 7 & 9 pm

ROY HARGROVE QUINTET 9 pm: 1/2 Price Night for Students Thursday, January 19 U 7 pm

MADS TOLLING QUARTET: A TRIBUTE TO JEAN-LUC PONTY Pre-Concert Talk “History of Jazz Violin” with Artist- in-Resdience Renata Bratt at 6:30 pm Monday, January 23 U 7 pm

GRETCHEN PARLATO

Wed. January 25 U 7 & 9 pm

STANLEY CLARKE BAND Tues. February 28 U 7:30 pm

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

LADY LUCINDA Lucinda Williams plays the Rio on Jan. 18.

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THURSDAY | 1/12

FRIDAY | 1/13

DAVID LINDLEY

NORTH PACIFIC STRING BAND & WINDY HILL

WOOSTER

The nasal–voiced slide guitarist known for backing up Jackson Browne on classic albums like Running on Empty has crafted an impressive resume in his 35-year career.

David Lindley plays so many instruments he lost count years ago; he plucks the bouzouki, the saz, chumbush and Turkish oud, to name just a few. It’s no wonder Acoustic Guitar Magazine in 2005 referred to him not as a multi-instrumentalist but “a maxi-instrumentalist.” Lindley’s lyrical inspiration is just as intriguing. Song topics include shopping for a car in 1981’s “Mercury Blues” and his ever-growing love for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts in 2003’s “When A Guy Gets Boobs.”

Kuumbwa; $25; 7pm; 9pm. (Jacob Pierce)

Taking inspiration from Flatt & Scruggs, the Grateful Dead and John Hartford, North Pacific String Band is a homespun supergroup made up of member of the On the Spot Trio, Birdhouse and the Family Hogwash.

Thursday sees the band teaming up with the award-winning, Menlo Park– based bluegrass outfit Windy Hill for a bluegrass double-bill that promises to be a high-energy get-down with plenty of high and lonesome picking, strumming, plucking, pulling and harmonizing. Moe’s Alley; $5 adv/$8 door; 8:30pm. (CJ)

Blending horn-driven, harmony-rich jams with rocking guitar riffs, deep funk grooves and reggae rhythms, Wooster has made a name for itself as one of the most exciting area bands.

Deeply rooted in a Santa Cruz music scene that tends to eschew genre labels in favor of music that moves the heart and feet, Wooster gets crowds swaying with its heartfelt love songs, ups the ante with a steady-rockin’ number and then blows the roof off the joint with a high-energy heart-pumper played with abandon. Crepe Place; $10; 9pm. (CJ)

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SATURDAY | 1/14

HOUSE OF FLOYD This Pink Floyd cover band comprised of veteran San Francisco Bay Area musicians uses 21st-century technology to re-create the complete Pink Floyd experience of the therapeutic trip. At some shows, House of Floyd plays original set lists from actual Pink Floyd concerts; at others, the band performs custom House of Floyd mixes.

House of Floyd’s repertoire ranges from

SATURDAY | 1/14

THE WAILERS Much has come to pass since 1969 when Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer recorded “Trenchtown Rock” with support from the brothers Barrett (Aston on bass, Carly on drums).

Reconstituted in various forms over the years, the Wailers—not to be confused with a rival band of former Bob-Marleyand-the-Wailers members who tour as The Original Wailers—continue touring and recording anchored by original bassist Barrett; recent collaborators include Kenny Chesney, Eve, Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat. Moe’s Alley; $27 adv/$30 door; 9pm. (Tessa Stuart)

MONDAY | 1/16

ROY HARGROVE QUINTET Critically acclaimed jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove has been to Funkytown (with his hip-hop fusion project RH Factor)

CONCERTS WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM Jan. 24 at Catalyst

COUNTRY JOE MCDONALD Jan. 28 at Don Quixote’s

SOCIAL DISTORTION Feb. 9 at Civic Auditorium

FRED EAGLESMITH Feb. 18 at Kuumbwa

LILA DOWNS Feb. 22 at Mello Center

and gone to Havana (with Crisol, his Grammy-winning collaboration with Cuban percussionists), but when he gets with his quintet it’s like coming home.

Playing standards and originals in a straightahead style, the band of longtime co-conspirators is tight enough to deliver the bright blasts of melody you crave on a winter’s night and loose enough to swing.

That’s what we call just right. Student tickets for the late show are half-price.

Kuumbwa; $25 adv/$28 door; 7pm and 9pm. (Traci Hukill)

WEDNESDAY | 1/18

LUCINDA WILLIAMS

Andrea Boccalini

Lucinda Williams is a bonafide rock star who has been playing packed houses and recording hit albums for decades.

Her commercial claim to fame is the Grammy-winning album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, but the Williams catalog, which runs 11 albums deep, is packed with musical gems whose luster grows with every listen. Putting a unique stamp on country-blues, folk and Americana, Williams consistently stretches into unexpected musical directions, taking on tunes by Howlin’ Wolf, AC/DC and more with a fiery style and reminding us that it really is a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll. Rio Theatre; $30 general/$40 gold; 8pm. (CJ) COME BLOW YOUR HORN The Roy Hargrove Quintet

plays two shows at Kuumbwa on Monday.

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Collaborating musically with Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom is a good way to get lumped into the freak folk category, and initially that’s where Vetiver landed. But the San Francisco–based band didn’t stay there for long. Over several albums, songwriter and frontman Andy Cabic steered the band into the gently rolling dreampop waters where slow and swirling melodies, bliss-fueled vocals and catchy rhythms bob around in a sea of pleasantness. The band’s latest release, 2011’s Errant Charm, carries Vetiver deeper into dreamy territory and furthers Cabic’s reputation as a unique voice in indie music, famous freaky friends or not.

Catalyst; $12 adv/$15 door; 9pm. (CJ)

Social Distortion

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Piper at the Gates of Dawn all the way to The Division Bell. Although Dark Side of the Moon may be an allusion to lunacy, the listener doesn’t have to be crazy to be captivated by timeless psychedelic overtones. Don Quixote’s; $16 adv/$18 door; 8pm. (Maya Weeks)

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1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-423-1336

clubgrid

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SANTA CRUZ

WED 1/11

THU 1/12

FRI 1/13

Bernadette Conant

350 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Taylor Rae

BLUE LAGOON

Fu F Manchu M h

Live Comedy

923 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

BOCCIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CELLAR

Roberto - Howell

Annie Asbestos

Young Rapscallions

Hip Hop Showcase

Them Guns, Phantom Pains

Presented by Eliquate

Steveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz Kitchen

Karaoke

140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

& Kinsley Hill

THE CATALYST

Equipto

Vetiver

Sin Sisters

1011 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

Mac Jar & Monikape

Magic Trick, Deep Ellum

Burlesque

CLOUDS

Jazz Open Mic

110 Church St, Santa Cruz

The Esoteric Collective

CREPE PLACE

Olentangy John

1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

CROWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NEST

The Abbott Brothers

Amee Chapman

Wooster

Wubakia

The Velvet Tumbleweeds

Vendredi

Antioquia

The Joint Chiefs

Billy Martini Band

The House Rockers

2218 East Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz

*AN Isadoraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Scarf Atrium (Ages 21+) Jan 20 Dan Potthast Atrium (Ages 16+) Jan 21 Too Short (Ages 16+) Jan 21 Voodoo Glow Skulls Authority Zero Atrium (Ages 16+) Jan 24 Wolves in the Throne Room Atrium (Ages 16+) *AN Buckethead (Ages 16+) Jan 28 Jackie Greene (Ages 21+) Feb 4 Marianne Aya Omac (Ages 21+) Feb 6 Groundation (Ages 16+) Feb 11 Y & T (Ages 21+) &EB Rebelution (Ages 16+) Mar 2 Lagwagon (Ages 16+) Mar 8 SOJA (Ages 16+) -AR Iration (Ages 16+) Apr 10 Dark Star Orchestra (Ages 21+)

CYPRESS LOUNGE

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

1205 Soquel, Santa Cruz

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

SEABRIGHT BREWERY

Isis

519 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

and the Cold Truth

www.catalystclub.com

SAT 1/14

THE ABBEY

Reggae Night

120 Union St, Santa Cruz

DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE

Ugly Beauty

1 Davenport Ave, Santa Cruz

FINS COFFEE

Don Bostick

1104 Ocean St, Santa Cruz

HOFFMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAKERY CAFE

Preston Brahm Trio

Mapanova

1102 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER

Isoceles with Gary Montrezza

David Lindley

320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

GrafďŹ ti

CABARET BeneďŹ t

with Dennis Chambers

The White Album Ensemble

MAD HOUSE BAR & COCKTAILS

Mad Jam

DJ AD

DJ Marc

DJ E

529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

Bring your instrument

Rainbow Room

Cruzing

Church

MOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ALLEY

Foil Method

Windy Hill

The Nibblers

The Wailers

North PaciďŹ c String Band

The Inciters

Rocker T

MOTIV

DJ Tom LG

Libation Lab

Charly Fusion

C-FLO

1209 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

Atom & Evil

with AL-B

DJ Sparkle

1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

RIO THEATRE

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SANTA CRUZ THE ABBEY 831.429.1058

SC Jazz Society

Modern Day Moonshine

90s Night

Malima Kone, Dude Watch

with DJ AL9k

Bleu

Western Skylarks

BLUE LAGOON 831.423.7117

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

Slightly Stoopid

THE CATALYST

Aggrolites, Perro Bravo

831.423.1336

Jazz Baby

CLOUDS 831.429.2000

Sarah Blackwood

Movie Nite

Swamp Angel

<i>Fear and Loathing</i>

7 Come 11

CREPE PLACE 831.429.6994

Live Comedy

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

Open Acoustic Night

CYPRESS LOUNGE 831.459.9876&#8206;

CofďŹ s Brothers

DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE 831.426.8801

FINS COFFEE 831.423.6131

Dana Scruggs Trio

Joe Leonard Trio

Barry Scott

HOFFMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAKERY CAFE

& Associates

831.420.0135

Roy Hargrove

KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER 831.427.2227

DJ Chante

MAD HOUSE BAR & COCKTAILS

Neighborhood Night

Bryan John Appleby

Split Shot

The Flying Childers

Matt Hopper&RomanCandles

Moombahton

831.425.2900

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

Terminal

Two$days

MOTIV

w/ Dane Jouras

with DJ AD

831.479.5572

RED 831.425.1913

RIO THEATRE 831.423.8209

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 831.426.2739

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WED 1/11

BRITANNIA ARMS

Trivia Quiz Night Nigh

THU 1/12

FRI 1/13

SAT 1/14

Karaoke

Back To Nowhere

DB Walker

John Michael

Lou DeLuca

Lara Price

8017 Soquel q Dr,, Aptos p

THE FOG BANK

Karaoke

211 Esplanade, Capitola

with Eve

MARGARITAVILLE 221 Esplanade, Capitola

MICHAELâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ON MAIN

Karaoke

Bay Area Heat

2591 Main St, Soquel

and Velvet Plum

PARADISE BEACH GRILLE

Johnny Fabulous

Breeze Babes

215 Esplanade, Capitola

SANDERLINGS

Dizzy Burnett

1 Seascape Resort Dr, Rio del Mar

& Grover Coe

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

Don McCaslin &

7500 Old Dominion Ct, Aptos

The Amazing Jazz Geezers

In Three

Breeze Babes

Electric Grease

Joe Ferrara

Lisa Marie

Jake Shandling Trio

The Joint Chiefs

Bombshell Bullys

Roy Zimmerman

House of Floyd

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

THE WHARF HOUSE 1400 Wharf Rd, Capitola

THE UGLY MUG 4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel

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

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

Bluetech

Steve Seskin

6275 Hwy 9, Felton

Little John

CraigCarothers, DonHenry

HENFLINGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TAVERN

Culo a Boca

Cindy Edwards

9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond

Seduce the Dead

& the Road Hogs

Mariachi Ensemble

KDON DJ Showbiz

WATSONVILLE / MONTEREY / CARMEL CILANTROâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

Hippo Happy Hour

1934 Main St, Watsonville

MOSS LANDING INN Hwy 1, Moss Landing

& KDON DJ SolRock

Open Jam

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

Dennis Dove Pro Jam

Game Night

THE FOG BANK

Dennis Dove Pro Jam

831.462.1881

MARGARITAVILLE 831.476.2263

Ken Constable

MICHAELâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ON MAIN

Food and Wine Pairing

Yuji Tojo

Lisa Taylor

831.476.4900

SANDERLINGS 831.662.7120

Johnny Fabulous Dance Lessons

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831.479.9777

PARADISE BEACH GRILLE

& Soul City

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

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831.475.1511

THE WHARF HOUSE 831.476.3534

Open Mic with Jordan

Movie Night

THE UGLY MUG

7:45 pm start time

831.477.1341

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ZELDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 831.475.4900

SCOTTS VALLEY / SAN LORENZO VALLEY Pam Mark Hall

Will Kimbrough

DON QUIXOTEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

Sons of The Oregon Trail

Next Blues Band

831.603.2294

Karaoke with Ken

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

WATSONVILLE / MONTEREY / CARMEL Santa Cruz Trio

KPIG Happy Hour Happy hour

Karaoke

CILANTROâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 831.761.2161

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Roman Woolf Photo by Guy Ferrandis, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

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In Polanski’s Carnage, two couples battle like Albee characters

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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A QUARTET of nasty bourgeois, played by four top-drawer actors with crack timing, make Roman Polanski’s Carnage a civilized entertainment.

Based on Parisian author Yasmina Reza’s play God of Carnage, the film is about an after-school mediation session that goes bad.

In the prologue, in the distance, one bad little boy hits another bad little boy in the head with a tree branch. Aside from that scene, we never leave the living room and kitchen of a couple in the high-rent part of Brooklyn. They possess all the trimmings: coffee-table books, African artifacts and a vase full of out-of-season tulips.

The man of the house, Michael, is a gregarious but lumpy executive at a household hardware company; he’s played by a lively John C. Reilly, who here has the shape, heartiness and accent of Fred Flintstone. Meet his wife, Penelope (Jodie Foster), whose upcoming book about Darfur makes her particularly ready to forgive and forget playground violence. The father of the offscreen bullying boy is Alan (Christoph Waltz), a snide lawyer.

In the aftermath of the rounds of apologies, acceptances and coffee drinking, Alan’s phone starts ringing ceaselessly. The sound heralds the renewed aggression to come.

UNCIVIL DISCOURSE Left to Right: John C. Reilly as Michael Longstreet, Jodie Foster as Penelope Longstreet, Christoph Waltz as Alan Cowan and Kate Winslet as Nancy Cowan If the out-of-control games of Get the Guests that ensue remind one of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, certainly Alan’s wife, Annette (Kate Winslet), is the group’s Honey—with a bit of brass to the gold hair and more than a touch of incapacitating nausea.

Three of the four having at each other are evenly matched. Waltz, who reminds one of Jason Robards during that actors’ best days, knows how to inject a word with poison.

Foster satirizes the kind of do-gooder she probably encounters a dozen times a day—many of those times in the mirror. It’s wisdom and an actor’s sense of self-preservation to parody their persona, but you can see the strain in Foster.

The tale seems to have more sympathy to the two men. They turn the sofa into their own personal man-cave once the single-malt gets

broken out. And they’re in good spirits, compared to the ailing moaners they married.

The strange thing is that the more Carnage flaunts the idea that man is a wolf to man, the cozier it finally gets.

Reza’s play is uneasily translated into New Yorkese, with the mannerisms and reactions off about 10 degrees.

A play doesn’t take the world by storm these days unless it’s essentially safe entertainment. Carnage is made for audiences of married people who know what it’s like to live with someone who can look like a ninny or a hog in social situations.

In the film’s attack on “nice” people, I’m reminded of Orwell’s description of Charles Dickens as a man beating the conservative elephant with a cane, and the beast feeling it as a delightful tickling. In this case, it’s the weepy liberal getting thwacked.

Being 78, and having seen what he’s seen, Polanski is likely sharing every old man’s feelings that the struggle against injustice is doomed.

But is Penelope such a phony? Those who are trying to rescue Africa aren’t opposed by some evil deity; it’s not some gory Kronos who put AK-47s into the hands of 8-year-olds.

Something in Carnage’s argument bypasses the real story of postcolonial Africa, of what got stolen or sold off. And in laughing at all that, it’s as if you were complicit in making a man a beggar—and then you mocked him for his filth, his poverty and the bloodiness of his life.

CARNAGE R; 79 min.

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JONATHAN DIMMOCK, ORGANIST

LOTS OF MAGGAGE ‘The Iron Lady’ lionizes an unsympathetic character.

Meryl & Maggs

Even Streep can’t save revisionist Thatcher tribute

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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THE NEW Meryl Streep film The Iron Lady fails even as a handkerchief-soaker for an audience of wonks from the Hoover Institute. Banking on historical amnesia, The Iron Lady transcends its surpassing political naiveté by trying to sleaze its way into Margaret Thatcher’s personal life.

The film presents Thatcher in her senility as being haunted by the prankish specter of her late husband, Denis (Jim Broadbent). Just what we needed: a Tory version of Topper. In the fullness of time, you do feel some compassion for Thatcher, thanks to the tastelessly invasive way director Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!) presents the doddering old gal.

Parts of The Iron Lady are just what they look like from the previews: a grateful celebration of a politician who really knew how to spread misery around. Abi Morgan’s script trumpets the feminism of Thatcher’s rise from cloth-coat suburbia to #10 Downing Street, where she tamed the unions and conducted the triumphant war in the South Atlantic.

The Falklands War between the U.K. and Argentina, characterized by Jorge Luis Borges as “two bald men

fighting over a comb,” is portrayed in thundering terms that make Thatcher look like Elizabeth I conquering the Spanish Armada. Americans can get a little irritated during the scene where Thatcher has the last word to an American ambassador trying to stave off war. What is the attack on the Falklands if not England’s Pearl Harbor, Thatcher asks—a political analogy in need of a challenge.

The Iron Lady reverses the angle on the way Thatcher worked, making her a besieged woman encircled by furious crowds and mad bombers. Her Labor opponents shake their heads at her, or else have to pull back ruefully, amused at being bested by her wit.

This unusually meretricious biopic has been called worth seeing for Streep. It’s a tribute to her that the movie isn’t worse. She coasts on her gift for accents and mimicry, but this is hardly an example of a peerless actress playing a really once-in-alifetime part.

THE IRON LADY PG-13; 105 min.

Opens Friday

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Film Capsules FILM CAPS BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 3D (G; 90 min.) A 3-D version of Disney’s classic 1991 tale about a prince who is bewitched because he could not love and a girl who happens upon his castle while in search of her father. Only her love can save the prince and his courtiers from the evil enchantment. (Opens Fri at Santa Cruz 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley) CARNAGE (R; 79 min.)

Roman Polanski (Chinatown, The Pianist) directs screen

adaption of Yasmina Reza’s play about two sets of parents who meet after their sons are involved in a fight. See review, page 28. (Opens Fri at Nickelodeon) Contraband (R; 110 min.) Mark Wahlberg (Boogie Nights, The Fighter) plays a former smuggler who is brought back into the game after his brother-in-law fails to deliver millions in counterfeit bills.

He must decide how far he is willing to go to protect his family from danger. (Opens Fri at Santa Cruz 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley)

SHOWTIMES

THE IRON LADY (PG-13; 105 min.) Phyllida Lloyd’s (Mamma Mia!) biopic on the life of Margaret Thatcher (played

by Meryl Streep) focusing on the obstacles she had to overcome in gaining entrance into the boy’s club of British politics and the sacrifices she made on the way. See review, page 29. (Opens Fri at Del Mar) JOYFUL NOISE (PG-13; 123 min.) Two small-town choir directors (Dolly Parton, Queen Latifah) go toe-to-toe over how best to win a national competition. With Kris

Kristofferson and Keke Palmer.

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

JURASSIC PARK (1993) Steven Spielberg’s paleothriller about a theme park gone wild during a power outage stars Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Samuel Jackson and Wayne Knight, plus a number of animatronic dinosaurs. (Thu at Santa Cruz 9)

REVIEWS THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (PG; 113 min.) Steven Spielberg directs this adaptation of

the beloved series by Hergé, starring the curious young reporter Tintin (Justin Bell) and his loyal dog Snowy.

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 highpitched, booty-shaking tale of desert island survival.

THE ARTIST (PG-13; 110 min.) The French writerdirector Michel Hazanavicius brought his cinematographer

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Jan. 11, through Wednesday, Jan. 17, unless otherwise indicated.

Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

APTOS CINEMAS 122 Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos 831.688.6541 www.thenick.com The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — Daily 11:50; 3; 6:15; 9:15.

My Week With Marilyn — Fri-Wed 12; 2:10; 4:20; 6:30; 8:40.

We Bought a Zoo — Wed-Thu 1:30; 4; 6:30; 9.

CINELUX 41ST AVENUE CINEMA 1475 41st Ave., Capitola 831.479.3504 www.cineluxtheatres.com

Alvin and the Chimpmunks — Wed 12:10; 2:20; 5; 7:20; 9:40 Thu 1:20;

4; 6:30 Fri-Wed 1:50; 4:10; 6:40; 9:15 plus Sat-Mon 11:30am.

The Darkest Hour 3D — Wed-Thu 2:25; 8.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — Wed-Thu 11; 12; 2:30; 3:35; 6:20; 7;

9:45; 10:25; Fri-Wed 2:40; 9:40.

Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol — Wed-Thu 12:30; 3:40; 4:30;

6:50; 7:50; 10; 10:50 Fri-Wed 6:30pm plus Sat-Mon 11:40am.

The Muppets — Wed-Thu 11:05; 1:40.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows — Wed-Thu 12:20; 3:30; 6:40;

Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol — Wed-Thu 12:45; 4; 7:15; 10:10

Fri-Wed 1:20; 4:20; 7:25; 10:25.

Fri-Wed 1:15; 4:15; 7:15; 10:10.

7:30; 10:20.

Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 — Wed-Thu 11:30; 4:50; 10:20.

Faust — Wed 1/11 6:30pm.

Jurassic Park — Thu 1/12 9pm.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — Fri-Wed 1; 4; 7; 10.

War Horse — Wed-Thu 11:55; 4; 6:30; 9:45 Fri-Wed 11:55; 3:15; 6:30; 9:45.

CINELUX SCOTTS VALLEY 6 CINEMA

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows — Wed-Thu 11; 1:45; 4:40;

DEL MAR 1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com The Iron Lady — (Opens Fri) 12:10; 2:20; 4:30; 6:40; 8:50.

Hugo 3D — Wed-Thu 11:10; 1:45; 4:20; 7; 9:40 Fri-Wed 11:15; 1:45; 4:20; 6:50; 9:30.

My Week With Marilyn — Fri-Wed 11:40; 1:30; 3:20; 7; 10:30.

War Horse — Wed-Thu 12:30; 3:30; 6:30; 9:30.

Young Adult — Wed-Thu 2; 4; 6:15; 8:15; 10:15 Fri-Wed 5:10; 8:50; 10:45.

NICKELODEON Lincoln and Cedar streets, Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com Carnage — (Opens Fri) 11:20; 1:20; 3:20; 5:20; 7:20; 9:10.

The Artist — Wed-Thu 2:30; 4:40; 6:50; 9; Fri-Wed 12:20; 2:30; 4:40; 6:50; 9.

The Descendants — Wed-Thu 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed 12; 2:20; 4:50; 7:10; 9:35.

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

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — Wed-Thu 1:30; 4:10; 6:45; 9:15 Fri-Wed 11;

1:30; 4:10; 7; 9:30.

RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN 155 S. River St, Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1701 www.regmovies.com The Devil Inside — Daily 4; 7; 9:40 plus Fri-Sun 1:15pm.

We Bought a Zoo — Daily 1; 3:45; 6:45 9:30 plus Fri-Sun 1pm.

SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9 1405 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1700 www.regmovies.com Beauty and the Beast — (Opens Fri) 1:40; 4:30; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Mon

11:10am.

Contraband — (Opens Fri) 2; 4:40; 7:35; 10:20 plus Sat-Mon 11:20am.

Joyful Noise — (Opens Fri) 1:55; 4:50; 7:45; 10:30 plus Sat-Mon 11am.

The Adventures of Tintin — Wed-Thu 11:10; 1:50.

The Adventures of Tintin 3D — Wed-Thu 11:20; 2; 4:45; 7:30; 10:10 Fri-

Wed 1;10; 4; 6:50; 9:35.

226 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley 831.438.3260 www.cineluxtheatres.com Beauty and the Beast 3D — (Opens Fri) 11:45; 2; 4:20; 6:45; 9.

Contraband — (Opens Fri) 11:20; 2; 4:55; 7:40; 10:15.

Joyful Noise — (Opens Fri) 11:10; 1:45; 4:30; 7:20; 10.

The Adventures of Tintin — Wed-Thu 4:30pm Fri-Wed 11; 1:30; 4:10; 7; 9:30.

The Adventures of Tintin 3D — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2; 7; 9:30.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked — Wed-Thu 2; 4:20; 6:45; 9.

The Descendants — Wed-Thu 11; 1:30; 4:20; 7; 9:40 Fri-Wed 11; 1:30; 4:10 7; 9:40.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — Wed-Thu 11:30; 3; 6:30; 10.

Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol — Wed-Thu 10:45; 1;45; 4:40; 7:40;

10:30 Fri-Wed 1; 4; 7:10; 10:10.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows — Daily 11; 1:45; 4:40; 7:30; 10:20.

War Horse — Daily 11:55; 3:15; 6:30; 9:45.

We Bought a Zoo — Daily 12:45; 3:45; 6:45; 9:30.

Young Adult — Wed-Thu 12:15; 2:30; 4:55; 7:10; 9:30.

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8 1125 S. Green Valley Rd, Watsonville 831.761.8200 www.greenvalleycinema.com Beauty and the Beast — (Opens Fri) 1; 5:05.

Beauty and the Beast 3D — (Opens Fri) 3; 7:15; 9:30 plus Sat-Mon 11am.

Contraband — (Opens Fri) 1:15; 4; 7; 9:40 plus Sat-Mon 10:55am.

The Devil Inside — (Opens Fri) 1; 3; 5:05; 7:15; 9:30 plus Sat-Mon 11am.

Joyful Noise — (Opens Fri) 1:15; 3:50; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Mon 10:50am.

The Adventures of Tintin 3D — Wed-Thu 4; 7.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked — Daily 11; 1; 3; 5:05; 7:15;

9:30 plus Sat-Mon 11am.

The Darkest Hour 3D —Wed-Thu 1:30; 9:30.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — Wed-Thu 12:30; 3:35; 6:40; 9:45.

Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol — Wed-Thu 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:45;

Fri-Wed 1:15; 4; 7; 9:45 plus Sat-Mon 10:35am.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows — Wed-Thu 1:35; 4:10; 7; 9:35.

War Horse — Daily 12:30; 3:40; 6:45; 9:45.

We Bought a Zoo — Wed-Thu 1:35; 4:10; 7; 9:35.

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(Guillaume Schiffman) and two French actors to Hollywood to make this black-and-white silent tribute to 1920s American cinema, which has some critics charmed and others blown away.

THE DEVIL INSIDE (R; 87 min.) Filmed in cinéma verité style by director William Brent Bell (2006’s Stay Alive).

A woman tries to discover the fate of her mother in Italy and is led into a world of demonic possession and

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THE DARKEST HOUR (PG13; 89 min.) Director Chris Gorak (1995’s Right at Your Door) brings a bit of an indie sensibility to his first bigbudget flick, a 3-D thriller set in Russia and starring Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella and Rachael Taylor.

THE DESCENDANTS (R; 115 min.) Almost everyone will enjoy the George Clooney/ Alexander Payne film The Descendants. Clooney’s Matt King is a lawyer who toils while his family has a good time. Matt’s wife languishes in a coma after a bad boating accident.

He goes to retrieve his daughter, Alexandra (Shailene Woodley), currently immured at a strict boarding school because of her partying.

Alexandra confesses that she’s been acting out lately because she saw her mom with a stranger’s hands on her. Matt also has to deal with his cutely awkward, profane younger daughter, Scottie (Pacific Grove’s Amara Miller, debuting), as well as with his ornery father-in-law (Robert Forster, excellently embodying the old military side of Hawaii).

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

FILM

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

SHOW CHOIR SHOWDOWN: Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah square off in ‘Joyful Noise,’ opening Friday. unauthorized underground exorcisms.

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.

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 when a bomb goes off at the Kremlin, pushing the U.S. and Russia to the brink of war.

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 WEEK 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.

SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG-13; 135 min.) In Guy Ritchie’s hasty and frequently lowclass sequel to his 2009 franchise-builder, Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) is treated as a clown, with cheap wigs and beards and

long-underwear scenes.

He’s even painted with mascara and lipstick. The tension between Holmes and Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris), whose schemes the detective has discovered, survives Ritchie’s unconquerable urge to vulgarize. The Professor is a sweet role for any actor, and Harris does it well.

There’s a vaguely syphilitic quality to this citizen above suspicion. One nasty scene has him admiring his reflection in a mirror and singing Schubert while putting Holmes through the torture sequence. The women seem retrofitted into the script, while the bromance between Holmes and Watson (Jude Law) peaks in a cramped ballroom with the two dancing. 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. (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.

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (R; 127 min.) In London in the early 1970s, the Cold War still has England frozen.

It’s as if World War II had never stopped. The secret service is the most paranoid

place in this war. And its denizens face unignorable news: a mole at the top level is pipelining secrets to the U.S.S.R. It falls to George Smiley (Gary Oldman), the man once certainly next in line for the position of Control of the British Secret Service, to figure out who it is, but he and his boss (John Hurt) were forced to resign after a particularly bad fiasco in Budapest, so he works from the outside.

The mole suspects include one of the most baleful actors alive, Ciarán Hinds as Roy Bland; Colin Firth as Bill Haydon, an icon of condescension; Toby Jones as the pompous mediocrity Percy Alleline; David Dencik as a downy Toby Esterhase, last seen wailing for his life on an airport tarmac; and Benedict Cumberbatch as the too-natty Peter Guillam (this new version gives Guillam a secret of his own). And out in the cold: the ominous Tom Hardy as Polyester-swathed legbreaker Ricki Tarr. Those who love actors know that a silent man can be more urgent than a noisy, flamboyant type. Oldman is startling, even after years of superb supporting work.

(RvB)

WAR HORSE (PG-13; 154 min.) Steven Spielberg’s epic horse movie begins with the heartwarming story of a friendship between a boy and his mount, and then becomes a heart-rending epic war movie.

WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG; 132 min.) As a recently widowed newspaper columnist who (yes) buys a dilapidated zoo, Matt Damon reportedly shines, rescuing director Cameron Crowe’s latest effort from the mawk.

Scarlett Johansson costars.

YOUNG ADULT (R; 102 min.)

Irked, drunk and thirtysomething young adult fiction writer Mavis (Charlize Theron) returns to her home town in Mercury, Minn. Her mission is to retrieve her high school boyfriend Buddy (Patrick Wilson) from his wife Beth (Elizabeth Reaser) who has just had a new baby. Instead, she ends up in the company of a depressed beta-male (Patton Oswalt) whom she barely glanced at back in her glory years.

The film is almost there; Theron has a good time playing this disagreeable woman, but scriptwriter Diablo Cody pulls her punches and gilds this story with an unbelievable level of alterna-culture; she even gives the unsteady main character supposed wisdom (it’s hard to believe she writes anything, even unsuccessful young adult novels); Mercury looks too rich, too hip and too much like a John Hughes village to be the one we’re hearing described by the dialogue.

And ultimately Young Adult is like an SNL skit that wears out its welcome. (RvB)

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The Icing on the Cake

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THEY TAKE THE CUPCAKE The cream cheese frosting on the lemon

poppyseed cupcake was my favorite. No, it was the subtly cinnamon-tinged frosting on the vegan blood orange cupcake. I was standing in a tiny shop that embodied my inner 12-year-oldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most cherished fantasiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a cupcake shop that specialized in gloriously rich, organic buttercream frostings.

Buttercup Cakes and Farm House Frostingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the tiny shop at 109 Locust St., in downtown Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;showcases the veteran baking skills of longtime wedding cake expert Jan Wilson, her daughter Carren Dixon and granddaughter Hannah. Rows of gorgeously frosted cupcakesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and smaller â&#x20AC;&#x153;miniâ&#x20AC;? cupcakesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;tempt patrons lured by the sweet designs in the window.

Now, as I take a second bite, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m convinced that the stunning chocolate beet vegan cupcake with impeccable cream cheese frosting is the absolute tops.

Like every single cupcake in the shop, this one is topped with a distinctive bit of fruit. Fresh raspberry. Candied orange peel. Crystallized ginger.

The business is the next sweet step for the trio, who have been winning the tastebuds of Central Coast cake-lovers by selling their frostings at the Pescadero farmers market (theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re for sale here, too, at $9.50 for a 20-oz package). â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t simply give people a sample of frosting, and so we began doing the cupcakes,â&#x20AC;? Dixon recalls. One thing led to another, and now the beautiful little cakesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;minis for $2 each and full-sized cupcakes for $3.50â&#x20AC;&#x201D;come in gluten-free variations too, like the wonderful sherry-spice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s based on my grandmotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recipe,â&#x20AC;? Carren says. It has a soft but not as tender crumbâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;quite delicious and by no means texturally challenged, and is topped with frosting made with non-hydrogenated faux butter.

OK, now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure. The Earl Grey frosting is now my favorite frosting, but the sherry-spice cake is my favorite cake. Perhaps Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see if the Farm House Frosting team is willing to combine the two...

WINE ALERT Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bother to call yourself a pinot noir lover if you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sampled the 2009 Ghostwriter Pinot Noir, Woodruff Family Vineyards. It will take you for a long, terroir-driven ride. Yes, it costs $42 (Shopperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Corner), and yes, it is worth every single penny.

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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207 Searidge Rd, 831.685.0610

8017 Soquel Dr, 831.688.1233 SEVERINOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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

ZELDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

All day breakfast. Burgers, gyros, sandwiches and 45 flavors of Marianneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Polar Bear ice cream. Open 8am daily.

California Continental. Swordfish and other seafood specials.

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

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

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

SANTA CRUZ $$ Santa Cruz

ACAPULCO

$$$ Santa Cruz

CELLAR DOOR

$ Santa Cruz

CHARLIE HONG KONG

$$ Santa Cruz

CLOUDS

$$ Santa Cruz

1116 Pacific Ave, 831. 426.7588

328 Ingalls St, 831.425.6771

1141 Soquel Ave, 831. 426.5664

110 Church St, 831.429.2000 THE CREPE PLACE

1134 Soquel Ave, 831.429.6994

$$

CROWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NEST

Santa Cruz

2218 East Cliff Dr, 831.476.4560

$$ Santa Cruz

GABRIELLAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

$$ Santa Cruz

HINDQUARTER

$$ Santa Cruz

910 Cedar St., 831.457.1677

303 Soquel Ave, 831.426.7770 HOFFMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Cheap Eats.â&#x20AC;? 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 farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Eggs Benedict in Town.â&#x20AC;? 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.

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

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

DINER’S GUIDE

$$

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

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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.

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.

COME JOIN US! Lunch Special Starting at $4.95 Mon-Fri 11:30am-1:30pm

$2 Beer Thursdays!

Tsingtao, Sapporo, Sierra Nevada, Blue Moon & Fat Tire

NO MSG Vegetarian & Vegan Friendly Outdoor Patio Seating Available

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Free Will

By Rob Brezsny

For the week of January 11 ARIES (March 21–April 19): The Sanskrit word tapasya

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): In 1878, Thomas Edison perfected the phonograph, a machine that could record sounds and play them back. There had been some primitive prototypes before, but his version was a major improvement. And what were the first sounds to be immortalized on Edison’s phonograph? The rush of the wind in the trees? A dramatic reading of the Song of Songs? The cries of a newborn infant? Nope.

Edison recited the nursery rhyme, “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” When you make your own breakthrough in communication sometime soon, Scorpio, I hope you deliver a more profound and succulent message.

imagination, not your history,” says Stephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

While that’s always true, it will be especially crucial for you to remember in 2012. This is the year you can transcend stale traditions, Taurus—a time when you can escape your outworn habits, reprogram your conditioned responses, and dissolve old karma. You will be getting unparalleled opportunities to render the past irrelevant. And the key to unlocking all the magic will be your freewheeling yet highly disciplined imagination. Call on it often to show you the way toward the future.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): I suspect you may soon find yourself in a situation similar to the one that 19th-century American President Abraham Lincoln was in when he said the following: “If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. But if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” In other words, Sagittarius, you may not be picky about what you want, but whatever it is, you’ll prefer it to be authentic, pure, and distinctly itself.

Adulterations and hodgepodges won’t satisfy you, and they won’t be useful. Hold out for the Real Thing.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20): Comedian Steven Wright

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): Last summer, before

says his nephew has HDADD, or High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. “He can barely pay attention, but when he does it’s unbelievably clear.” I’m predicting something like that for you in the coming week, Gemini.

You will encounter more things that are dull than are interesting, but those few that fascinate you will awaken an intense focus that allows you to see into the heart of reality.

CANCER (June 21–July 22): As I contemplate the most desirable fate you could create for yourself, I’m reminded of a lyric from one of my songs: “We are searching for the answers/so we can destroy them and dream up better questions.” Here’s what I’m implying by that, Cancerian: This is not the right time for you to push for comprehensive formulas and definitive solutions. Rather, it’s a favorable moment to draw up the incisive inquiries that will frame your quest for comprehensive formulas and definitive solutions. That quest is due to begin in two weeks. For now, raise your curiosity levels, intensify your receptivity, and make yourself highly magnetic to core truths.

LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): “A writer—and, I believe, generally all persons—must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource,” said author Jorge Luis Borges. “All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.” I agree that this advice isn’t just for writers, but for everyone. And it so happens that you are now in an astrological phase when adopting such an approach would bring you abundant wisdom and provide maximum healing. So get started, Leo: Wander through your memories, reinterpreting the difficult experiences as rich raw material that you can use to beautify your soul and intensify your lust for life.

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): “Poetry is the kind of thing you have to see from the corner of your eye,” said the poet William Stafford. “If you look straight at it you can’t see it, but if you look a little to one side it is there.” As I contemplate your life in the immediate future, Virgo, I’m convinced that his definition of poetry will be useful for you to apply to just about everything.

In fact, I think it’s an apt description of all the important phenomena you’ll need to know about. Better start practicing your sideways vision.

the football season started, sportswriter Eric Branch wrote about a rookie running back that San Francisco 49er fans were becoming increasingly excited about.

The newbie had made some big plays in exhibition games. Would he continue performing at a high level when the regular season began? Were the growing expectations justified? After a careful analysis, Branch concluded that the signs were promising, but not yet definitive: “It’s OK to go mildly berserk,” he informed the fans. That’s the same message I’m delivering to you right now, Capricorn. The early stages of your new possibility are encouraging. It’s OK to go mildly berserk, but it’s not yet time to go totally bonkers.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): In summer, the pickleweed plant thrives in the saltwater marshes around San Francisco Bay. In many places, bright orange patches of the dodder plant intermingle with the pickleweed’s sprightly jade green, creating festive displays that suggest nature is having a party. But there’s a secret buried in this scene. The dodder’s webby filaments are actually parasites that suck nutrients from the pickleweed. In accordance with the astrological omens, Aquarius, I’ll ask you if a situation like that exists in your own life. Is there a pretty picture that hides an imbalance in the give-and-take of energy? It’s not necessarily a bad thing—after all, the pickleweed grows abundantly even with its freeloader hanging all over it—but it’s important to be conscious of what’s going on.

PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): “That in a person which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness,” said the writer Antonio Porchia. I invite you to keep that challenging thought close to your heart in the coming days, Pisces. In my astrological opinion, it is an excellent moment to tune in to your wildest goodness—to describe it to yourself, to cherish it as the great treasure it is, to foster it and celebrate it and express it like a spring river overflowing its banks.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): A Swedish man named Richard Handl decided to conduct a scientific experiment in his kitchen. Would it be possible to split atoms using a homemade apparatus? He wanted to see if he could generate atomic reactions with the radioactive elements radium, americium, and uranium.

But before he got too far into the process, the police intervened and ended his risky fairy-tale. I bring this to your attention, Libra, as an example of how not to

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TAURUS (April 20–May 20): “Live out of your

proceed in the coming weeks. It will be a good time for you to experiment around the house—refining your relationship with your roommates, moving the furniture around, and in general rearranging the domestic chemistry—but please avoid trying stuff as crazy as Handl’s.

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is translated as “heat,” but in the yogic tradition it means “essential energy.” It refers to the practice of managing your life force so that it can be directed to the highest possible purposes, thereby furthering your evolution as a spiritual being. Do you have any techniques for accomplishing that—either through yoga or any other techniques? This would be a good year to redouble your commitment to that work. In the coming months, the world will just keep increasing its output of trivial, energy-wasting temptations.

You’ll need to be pretty fierce if you want to continue the work of transforming yourself into the Aries you were born to be: focused, direct, energetic, and full of initiative.

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