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UNPLANNED pregnancies result from unplanned sex. When will we change the conversation to include our men? Instead of arguing about restricting womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reproductive health, why not have a discussion about regulating menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sexual behaviors and our failure to punish crimes against women and children? Abuses ignored do not fade, they flourish. We are all witness to this tendency with regard to rape in the military and child abuse in the Catholic Church. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to try a different approach.

SANTA CRUZ County Courthouse, Friday the 17th of February, 1:30pm, Department #2. With hands and feet shackled the prisoner shuffled into the courtroom led by the Sheriff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deputy. There were another four deputies present besides the District Attorney, Deputy District Attorney, judge and court reporter. The crime the prisoner was accused of was sleeping on the park bench in front of the County Courthouse.

I sat there in awe and disbelief that our government was wasting so much of our tax dollars and police time prosecuting a homeless man with nowhere to sleep at night while allowing real criminals in the

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Maneuvering on a desal vote hits a new level

BY JACOB PIERCE

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WHEN Santa Cruz Mayor Don Lane read local activists’ ballot initiative to put desal to a vote, he says one thing caught his attention. It had to do with timing.

Lane agrees with a host of activists that Santa Cruz voters should weigh in on whether or not to build a $100 millionplus desalination plant on the Westside to increase the fresh water supply. But they agree on little else—including when to hold the vote.

Lane, who says he sees himself being “stuck” with plans for a desal plant because he hasn’t seen any viable alternatives, says it

should happen as soon as the city is ready, probably in 2013.

The original initiative, written by Rick Longinotti and fellow activist Paul Gratz, sets a date of November 2014 for a vote on the fate of the plant, a delay Lane says could wind up costing water customers millions of dollars as material and building costs rise.

“There’s no need for it,” says Lane.

With that in mind, Lane and Councilmember David Terrazas last week proposed an ordinance that would allow Santa Cruzans to vote on the plant “as soon as practicable” after the plans and environmental impact report are finished. The city council is expected to approve the

Fear of Desal If Longinotti and company get their November initiative, Lane says the council will overturn its own ordinance rather than hold a third election.

“We would of course have to abide by the voters’ wishes and hold the election when the charter decides,” says Lane. “That would fulfill the requirements of our ordinance.”

Longinotti says that in addition to his concerns about the financial and environmental costs of the plant, he

Longinotti says he fears wellfunded desal supporters would take the edge in a special election.

The water swap plan isn’t perfect, though. Even the county Resource Conservation District’s John Ricker, the man who thought of the swap and became something of a folk hero to environmental activists, has said it isn’t a viable alternative to desalination; Soquel Creek Water District’s overdraft problems are too severe.

Longinotti also says he fears wellfunded desal supporters would take the edge in a special election. Offyear elections draw smaller numbers of voters, so successful campaigns tend to be targeted and expensive.

“It could hurt our chances if there was a heavily funded campaign to target likely voters in a special election that we should spend millions of dollars on a desal plant,” says Longinotti. 0

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also has problems with Lane’s spedup process. Longinotti says the city needs more time to study possible water transfers with the Soquel Creek Water District. Those plans would involve pumping city water to the neighboring district in the winter and maybe having that water come back to Santa Cruz during droughts.

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ELECTION ON TAP Mayor Don Lane says November 2014 is too long to wait to hold an election on a desalination plant. His new proposal would move the vote up.

move on Feb. 28. It could mean a vote as early as June 2013.

Longinotti, founder of the group Desal Alternatives, says he’s happy Lane and Terrazas are taking the issue seriously enough to codify putting it to voters.

“I think they should be congratulated for that,” says Longinotti. “If they’re going to try to use it to rush it through, that’s where we don’t agree, which is why we’re still working on the ballot initiative.”

Longinotti, worried that a 2013 special election could hurt his chances of stopping the plant, is moving forward with his own proposed charter amendment. The Right to Vote on Desal has hired a part-time employee to gather up signatures and is trying to raise $8,000 to fund that effort.

If the group succeeds in gathering signatures from 15 percent of registered voters (about 5,500 people), Longinotti and Gratz will get a measure on the November 2012 ballot.

But here it gets complicated (or Kaf kaesque, depending on your thinking). Under Longinotti’s proposal, Santa Cruzans wouldn’t be voting on the plant this November.

They’d be voting on whether or not to vote on the plant in November 2014.

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BRIEFS Cassidy Meijer, 1978-2012 Little more than a decade later, the latter half of the ’90s stands out as a golden age of underground music in Santa Cruz. But it was a bubble, packed on the inside with great shows every week but nearly invisible to everyone on the outside.

If a local band like Slow Gherkin could sell out the Catalyst 10 times in a row but fail to make any kind of impact on the rest of the world, could anyone from Santa Cruz make it big?

Yes, as Good Riddance proved, but there were so many other bands that local fans championed.

And the one that almost everyone seemed to be able to get behind was Cassidy Meijer’s Sin in Space. As he developed the songs that would ultimately end up on the 2001 Sin in Space debut album Asteroid Band, Meijer showed a quirky talent that was impossible to deny.

But when he died last week, on Valentine’s Day, at the age of 33, Meijer had never again truly delivered on that talent. While it’s easy to once again blame the Santa Cruz curse, the real reason was the local scene’s dirtier secret: heroin.

As far back as his 1999 demo, Meijer’s unique voice was obvious.

Comparisons to Black Francis and the Pixies were justified, but also too easy. While a song like “Break It” would have fit in just fine on Surfer Rosa, Meijer had a very un-Pixieslike vulnerability, an emotional nakedness even on his loudest songs and a worldview all his own.

All of those things came together beautifully on Asteroid Band, but by his follow-up EP, 2005’s Space, they were barely audible. Space was for the most part meandering and bland, a bad sign that Meijer was losing his battle with addiction, and after that it eclipsed his music completely for several years. After some time in jail, and further struggles, Meijer reemerged in 2009 with the Cobwebs.

To lose him so soon afterward, at such a young age, is a tragedy. Not nearly enough people got the chance to listen to his asteroid band.

— Steve Palopoli

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ARE YOU VEDIC? Ayurvedic practitioner Heather Nagel says Aushadi Santa Cruz exists to serve people who can’t afford health care.

Pitta for a Pittance A nonprofit Ayurvedic clinic opens in Santa Cruz

BY MARIA GRUSAUSKAS

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I CATCH sight of Heather Nagel’s red hair first, ablaze in the noontime sun as she stands on the sidewalk and waves. She leads me up the stairs of an apartment building tucked away off Center Street and into Aushadi Santa Cruz, the first non-profit Ayurvedic clinic in town.

The clinic consists of a large waiting room with a kitchenette and privacy screens and a smaller room, warmly lit by yellow walls, soft music and a mobile of platesized butterf lies spiraling from the ceiling. In the center of the room

stands a massage table.

“Our goal is to provide a service that the community is lacking,” says Nagel. “There’s a huge demographic of people in this town that want health care but can’t afford it. So the goal of this particular clinic is to meet that need.”

Nagel and her partner Talya Lutzker are fully trained Ayurvedic practitioners. A satellite office of the Aushadi Health Foundation in Sebastapol, Aushadi Santa Cruz is set to run on a slidingscale donation system. “There is a suggested $35 donation, but

9 like fish oil capsules for “brain juice,” and a tablespoon of aloe vera gel in the morning and at night to clean the liver and clear the lymph system.

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“For optimum health, the lymph system is pretty much where it’s at.

We can avoid pretty much every disease that’s out there if we keep our lymph moving,” she says. Then she dispenses the kicker: “I want you in bed by 11 every night, no matter what. And up by 7—to start.” She recommends a bedtime tincture containing valerian root (from which valium is made), skullcap and passionf lower, which is about $12 at Staff of Life and has almost immediate calming effects.

I leave the clinic inspired by the prospect of improved health and head directly to Staff of Life, where I spent around $30 on my remedies.

I am not sure which I am more thrilled about—taking supplements and being more mindful of my diet or finally having the opportunity to sit down face-to-face with someone who cares about my well-being— white coat and stethoscope or not.

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patients who can’t afford that are encouraged to leave what they can afford,” says Nagel. The sliding-scale system encompasses any Ayurvedic treatments the patient may require, as well as the initial assessment.

“We’re really hoping that people get that this is a gift to the community, and that Ayurveda is a gift to all of us. There is such a huge need for it,” says Lutzker, who specializes in Ayurvedic cooking.

She explains that remedies can be as simple and practical as adding cilantro or cumin to one’s daily diet, or cooking with coconut oil instead of olive oil. “These remedies can make a profound difference in people’s lives,” she says.

The remedies of Ayurveda are different for everybody, though.

The 5,000-year-old system, which originated in India, is based on the idea that the mind, body and spirit, like the earth, have a natural balance, and that our bodies run just like the seasons: hot, cold, wet and dry. These characteristics are represented by three main doshas.

Vata is made up of air and ether, Pitta consists of fire and water and Kapha is made of water and earth.

Ayurvedic medicine rebalances the levels of Vata, Pitta and Kapha in the individual, bringing them back to the levels of our birth constitutions.

After writing down my main heath concerns—erratic sleep cycle, trouble focusing, frequent headaches—Nagel determines the ratio of Kapha, Pitta and Vata in my body by holding my wrists and listening to my “blood song.” After about a minute, she determines an imbalance of Vata on all seven levels of my pulse, which explains my cold hands and feet, among other things.

“We don’t keep a lot of stuff on hand, so that’s where the patient needs to be proactive,” says Nagel, as she gives me a six-page list of foods to favor and foods to avoid.

Nagel prescribes me fresh ginger root tea, boiled for 20 minutes and served with honey and lemon 20 minutes before meals, which she describes as an extremely potent immune booster. She also recommends an essential fatty acid

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As the camera pans away from the rising sunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s glare, jagged white and blue ice peaks fill the screen. The tallest catches the first pink light of dawn. In the foreground we see a climber encased in his red down survival spacesuit. He is walking very, very slowly, inching up a steep knife-edge ridge toward us. As the scene shifts to slow motion, we can see that he is stumbling.

Watching that scene from the film Cold at the Banff Mountain Film Festival in November, I was almost choking with dread. Ten minutes into the film, I had already come to care about this climber and his two partners, who, alone in the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highest wilderness, were trying to do one of the most difficult things any human has done. Their quest had become an epic metaphor, and the man at the center of the story was my new hero (or antihero).

Cold, Grand Prize winner at the Banff Mountain Film Festival, which arrives in Santa Cruz this weekend, documents an expedition on Gasherbrum II in the Pakistani Himalayas, the first successful winter

ascent of an 8,000-meter (26,246-foot) mountain by an American. It succeeds as an adventure flick, and more so as a powerfully moving self-portrait of the young Boulder-based climber and photographer Cory Richards, who shot the film, which was brilliantly directed and edited by Anson Fogel.

Marshalling a combination of artistic courage and cheerful, belligerence, these two men, along with the writer Kelly Cordes, have created an astonishing 20-minute masterpiece that has been wowing audiences and sweeping festivals all winter long. Cold brings the adventure documentary into new territory that seems perfectly suited to its two subjects: elite alpinism and the soul of a mountaineer. Just as the new breed of pure alpinists scorn the armies of porters and the boatloads of gear that characterize modern â&#x20AC;&#x153;siegeâ&#x20AC;? mountaineering (shunning even supplemental oxygen), Cold steers clear of the macho glamor that too often surrounds the adventure sports scene.

It feels raw, real and truer than any outdoor film Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen.

The film is almost halfway over by

the time we get that first full-blown panoramic alpine shot. Prior to that, we meet Richards and his fellow climbers Simone Moro of Italy and Denis Urubko of Kazakhstan (both of whom are superstars in mountaineerworshiping Europe) in a series of scenes that illustrate the grueling and human-sizedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;rather than the heroic or grandioseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;aspect of the enterprise.

We are with the men inside their dark tent, where the walls have iced over and spindrift crystals swirl about while Moro coughs incessantly. And later weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re inside a bright tent as the two veteran mountaineers engage in a comical dialogue made more charming by their quirky and creative command of the English language. But mostly, we are inside Cory Richardsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; head as he battles death and demons.

Trudging steeply up one (gorgeously photographed) steep grade after another, Richards engages in a straightforwardly poetic inner monologue, spoken over a stunning soundtrack by Academy Awardâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla (Babel, Brokeback Mountain). ¨

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love the mountains. Grew up in them, climbing with my dad. He gave me this. But I was such a fuckup.

Until climbing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beautiful. Spectacular. Free. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just â&#x20AC;Ś so â&#x20AC;Ś cold. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What the fuck am I doing here?â&#x20AC;?

As the days tick by and the men climb, the temperature drops into the low minus-40s. When they summit, Moro is curled in a ball, coughing and puking into the snow.

And the real ordeal hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet begun.

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Talking about their film in a cafe at the stunning Banff Centre the afternoon before the film was awarded the Grand Prize, Richards and Fogel seemed to be still struggling to understand this thing they had created together.

Coldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s triumphant screening at Banff occurred fewer than nine months after the expedition it documents. Its creation was apparently a flurry of networking and partying followed by a creative marathon.

It began with a email from a friend. While still in Pakistan, Richards had uploaded some raw footage to a blog maintained by The North Face, the expeditionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sponsor.

That could very well have been the end of it; Richards was there primarily as a still photographer to document the expedition, and the video footage was bonus. But the posts blew upâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;drawing upwards of 30,000 views. Julie Kennedy, founder of Climbing magazine as well as the 5 Point Film Festival, saw some footage of a riveting moment of grief and terror following (spoiler alert) an avalanche that almost killed Richards, and forwarded a link to Fogel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something incredible here,â&#x20AC;? Fogel recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But immediately I thought, This needs to be something different. Becauseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a mountaineering filmmaker; I just want to make films about the human condition. I saw these clips and was just immediately like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Wow, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something really true and real and essential going on there.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And kind of dark, which appeals to me too.â&#x20AC;?

When the two men met, they

quickly determined that this thing was going to happen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A film can only be made if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lots of trust between the filmmaker and a subject,â&#x20AC;? Fogel says. So he was blunt: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to bare your soul onscreen. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to make you look like a hero.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

That was just fine with Richards (who has since been named a 2012 Explorer of the Year by National Geographic). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always horrified when I go climbing,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I spend the entire two months scared. You go through icefall and see all these huge pieces of ice that came down since the last time you were there. And you know that it could happen again at any second. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re exhausted. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dehydrated. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got nothing left so you do something stupid. Or youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just too tired to do something smart. Likeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;on your down suit, there are these little eyelets that you fasten your mitten to so you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lose it. And you forget to fasten it.

Then you reach down to tie your boot or something and your mitten falls out of your coat where you stuffed it and it blows away. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re probably going to die. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fucking terrifying. And I really believe all alpinists experience that doubt and fear, and the experience of working through it. And you leave base camp knowing, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This could be it.

This might be it.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; But you try not to think of it on that frontal level.â&#x20AC;?

Richards says the film managed to portray what he loves about alpinism: â&#x20AC;&#x153;When itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not about getting to the top, but about climbing. The soul of climbing. When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re pushed to a place where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve having to look into why youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing it.â&#x20AC;?

Fogel, whose production company, Forge Motion Pictures, produces high-end TV commercials as well as adventure films, had invited his friend Kelly Cordes, an alpinist who writes for Patagoniaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blog, to join him and Richards in Carbondale, Colo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We spent a day and half there, sitting at my house talking and drinking tequila,â&#x20AC;? Fogel says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And that was essentially the interview. We talked about what we thought the

film should be and decided that it was going to be pretty weird. And we knew that was pretty risky.â&#x20AC;?

Again, that was motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s milk for Richards, who apparently spent his adolescence at war with the world.

After starting high school in Boulder two years early, Richards says, he â&#x20AC;&#x153;got screwed up by the social imbalanceâ&#x20AC;? and dropped out at 14. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hated authority,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was a little shit and I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t listen to anybody. Anybody that said I had to do something, I was like â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;No, I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I was such a junk show that my parents basically threw me out of the house.â&#x20AC;?

He spent the next couple of years couch surfing and barely avoiding the street. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In that time,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think I developed an ability and an aptitude to suffer.â&#x20AC;?

Bottoming Out at 8k Richardsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ability to abide suffering is evident from the first frame of Cold to the last. But it is the veteran Simone Moro, a longtime hero of Richards, who is clearly in the worst kind of hurt.

We learn in an early scene that the trio has decided to take advantage of a two-day break from winter storms to reach the peak. That means breaking camp before theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to fully acclimate to the altitude.

And it means racing the weather up the mountain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were going at a pace that was sort of a gamble,â&#x20AC;? Richards concedes, then adds, â&#x20AC;&#x153;a very big gamble.â&#x20AC;?

For Moro, the leader of the expedition, the result was a bad altitude coughâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a condition that alpinists frequently face.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get up in the morning and cough a lot,â&#x20AC;? Richards recalls, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and he was coughing blood. His lungs were just raw. He suffers more than anybody.â&#x20AC;?

Richards addresses the situation matter-of-factly in the film: â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the morning Simone pukes, and we all piss so dark it looks like blood. The storm rages harder. We pack up our gear and work our way down.â&#x20AC;?

For Fogel, the ordeal came later.

Having gotten all of the raw footage from Richards, he had to race to get it produced in time for showing at the 5 Point Festival, which takes place in his hometown. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I logged all the video in three 16hour days,â&#x20AC;? he says, groaning from the memory. He then had less than two months to cut and mix the whole thing.

Sitting in Banff six months later, before Cold won the biggest of its string of awards, both men are adamant that the other deserves the lionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s share of the credit for its success.

Richards is proudest that Moro, his friend and onetime idol, likes the finished product: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Simone said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the first time Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever seen an honest movie about mountaineering.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

But he insists that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fogelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movie. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think what you did is you made a new kind of mountaineering film,â&#x20AC;? he tells his colleague. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve changed the way people will look at mountaineering films.â&#x20AC;?

COLD (NR; 19 min.) screens Saturday as part of the Banff Film Festival. The festival runs Friday-Saturday, Feb. 24-25, at 7pm at the Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Dr., Santa Cruz. Sold out. For more information on the Banff Film Fest visit SantaCruz.com. ¨ "

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Song of the River â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Chasing Waterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tells the tale of the once-mighty Colorado River IN A sense, photographer Pete McBride has been preparing to make Chasing Water all his life. Raised on a cattle ranch in central Colorado, he grew up working hay fields irrigated by the snowmelt that carved the Grand Canyon and slaked the thirst of the Southwest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I often used to think about water,â&#x20AC;? he says in the film. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wondered how long it would take irrigation water to reach the sea.â&#x20AC;?

Later, as a photographer for National Geographic, Outside and Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Journal,

McBride traveled to some of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most exotic localesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;often, as it happened, shooting stories that related in some way to water.

His 18-minute documentary, judged the Best Short Mountain Film of the 2011 Banff Film Festival and screening this Saturday at the Rio, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t begin as a film at all. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This started as a magazine assignment for the now-defunct National Geographic Adventure,â&#x20AC;? McBride said in November in a conversation at Banff.

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The original idea was to shoot writer Jonathan Watermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paddling trip down the length of the Colorado River, one of the most heavily diverted waterways in the world. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then I was like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This is too dear to my heart,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and I thought maybe we could get a book, and then sponsors showed up.â&#x20AC;?

In fact two books resulted from the project, Watermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Running Dry and the McBride/Waterman coffee table stunner The Colorado River: Flowing Through Conflict.

While taking aerial footage for the book from the cockpit of his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plane, McBride shot some HD video, and the idea for a film took hold.

McBride connected with fellow Colorodoan and film editor Anson Fogel (see â&#x20AC;&#x153;Inside Mountaineering,â&#x20AC;? page 11), who convinced him to participate in the film as a narrator.

Shot almost entirely from overhead, Chasing Water film follows the riverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s progression as it flows southwest from its mountain headwaters through the Grand Canyon and southern California toward its ignominious end in the Mexican desert, drained by the thirst of 30 million people and 3.5 million acres of farmland. The vantage point gives the piece a cerebral aspect: thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing like an aerial view to show the cold logic of dams and canals, and the 100-foot â&#x20AC;&#x153;bathtub ringsâ&#x20AC;? around Lake Powell serve as a grim reminder that the water demands of the Southwest far exceed its diminishing supply. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is confined, fractured and fading,â&#x20AC;? McBride says in the film. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I start seeing the river as an orphan.â&#x20AC;?

Chasing Water succeeds as art, rather than lesson, because of its remarkable beauty and its shockingly personal impact. When McBride as cameraman deplanes, leaving behind lyrical views of the turquoise river meandering through red sandstone to meet up with the kayak-bound Waterman in what McBride calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;the frappuccino pitâ&#x20AC;? in the Delta, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a kick in the gut. A foaming sludge of agricultural effluent and raw sewage, what is now the graveyard of the Colorado River used to be a braided network of lagoons where birds nested and shrimp hatched. McBride and Waterman had to walk the last 29 miles in order to complete their mission of following the riverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old course to the Sea of Cortez.

Only the remoteness of the Delta has allowed this to happen, McBride said at Banff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The river stopped reaching the sea in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s,â&#x20AC;? McBride explained, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but during the spring runoff it would reach it. Not a drop has reached since the late â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s, but most people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big issue, I think. Because if the river ended in San Diego theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d freak out.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our river?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Traci Hukill

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Tar Sands vs. the Spirit Bear An award-winning documentary offers a glimpse of a little-known pipeline planâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the paradise it threatens One Sunday last November, while intervention developed by the 10,000 people encircled the White International League of Conservation House to protest the Keystone XL Photographers. In a RAVE, a dozen pipeline, judges at the Banff Mountain or so top-shelf wildlife shooters Film Festival were giving an award to quickly assemble a visual chronicle of a powerful documentary about a less a special place that is in peril. well-known pipeline.

The Northern Gateway project would pump bitumen from Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s massive tar sands development more than 700 miles to the coast of northwestern British Columbia, where it would be put on supertankers destined for China.

The film Spoil, winner of Banff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best Environmental Film award, takes place in the Great Bear B63 =B63@ 5@3/B E67B3 The Kermode Rainforest, which lies in the bear is a rare subspecies of black bear.

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The Great Bear, one of the The ultimate photographic target wildest pieces of land on earth, is of the Great Bear RAVE was, of home of the Gitgaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;at First Nation, course, the spirit bear. And the hunt as well as the Kermode bearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an for the elusive creature creates a extremely rare, all-white creature also narrative that culminates with a known as the spirit bear. riveting bit of screen magic involving Trip Jennings, who directed and Marvin Robinson and the Canadian edited the film, says the existence of photographer Paul Nicklen. the spirit bear was a secret that the Over the course of its 44 minutes, Gitgaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;at rarely spoke of, even among Spoil shows footage of the tar sands themselves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They knew what the strip minesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a complex frequently trappers had done for centuries,â&#x20AC;? described as the most destructive Jennings said in an interview with industrial project on earth. This is the Weekly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So it became a taboo contrasted with the Great Bearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; passed down from the eldersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if they salmon leaping up waterfalls, moose happened to see a spirit bear they wandering through 1,000-year-old kept it to themselves.â&#x20AC;? red cedar forests, time-lapse footage of As Gigaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;at leader and guide Marvin subarctic starfields set to a soundtrack Robinson explains in Spoil, the prospect of a howling wolf pack. But the stars of supertankers plying their narrow of the film are definitely Robinson intercoastal waterways moved his and the spirit bear he has known since community to allow the mysterious, it was a cubâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an animal he describes charismatic animal to become â&#x20AC;&#x153;the as â&#x20AC;&#x153;my friend.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Eric Johnson icon for the whole pipeline issue.â&#x20AC;?

Spoil documents a Rapid SPOIL (NR; 44 min.) screens Saturday Assessment Visual Expedition at the Rio. For more on Banff visit (RAVE), a unique artistic SantaCruz.com.

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NAMED a rising percussion star

by Downbeat magazine in 2011, bandleader Sunny Jain is known as an innovator in the contemporary world fusion scene. On Friday he leads his high-energy crew of self-styled “party starters,” known collectively as Red Baraat, to Moe’s Alley. The Brooklyn nine-piece melds Indian Bhangra beats with big brass accompaniments to create a unique sound somewhere between go-go, Latin jazz and funk that’s been described as “New York meets New Delhi.”

Jain, a drumset player since the age of 12, was trained in the jazz tradition and established an impressive resume early on playing with such high-profile stars as Peter Gabriel, Norah Jones and David Byrne. In 2007 he even performed for Al Gore at the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo with the Sufi-rock group Junoon. Despite the success, he felt the need to ref lect his identity as an Indian-American through his music. The dhol—the double-headed drum often played with an almost galloping jangle in traditional Indian dance music—caught his attention.

“Music has always served as a bridge for me between two disparate cultures,” he told Santa Cruz Weekly.

“For about a decade now I’ve felt myself being drawn to the dhol.

[With Red Baraat] I wanted to look back and cull all of the inf luences that I grew up with and that affected me. Create something that was Indian-American, not just Indian and not just American.”

Born to Punjabi immigrants, Jain grew up in a household that strongly ref lected his Indian background.

As a child he was introduced to the sounds of his parents’ native country, an inf luence that left an indelible trace on Jain and eventually on Red Baraat. “I wanted a band that was very primal and energetic, that was able to do it on a completely acoustic set with no electrified instruments. Almost a throwback to the traditional Indian marching bands I grew listening to as a child, but incorporating the sounds of America everyone in the band grew up listening to.”

Their rollicking combination of styles culminates in a stage show full of bombastic energy. NPR’s Fresh Air called them “one of the greatest party bands around,” a distinction that they have worked hard to live up to. “We throw it all out there,” says Jain. “By the end of the performance I’m pretty much exhausted, but it’s a good exhaustion.

I feel like I didn’t hold anything back.

It’s a great cathartic release. Everyone gives 100 percent no matter what condition they’re in.”

Since Red Baraat formed in 2008 to record its debut album, Chaal Baby—the title track of which is now the theme music for the television show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia—the band’s profile has rapidly ascended. After playing at world music festivals across the Midwest in support of the first

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BIG BHANGRA THEORY Brooklyn nine-piece Red Baraat makes a big noise this Friday at Moe’s.

album, its market of listeners has expanded immensely, both at home in New York City and abroad. The band members are making their first trip to Northern California on this tour in anticipation of their second studio album, Shruggy Ji. Their current tour will take them across the Atlantic to make their first European tour.

As Red Baraat gains accolades, the band focuses on improving its sound and performance. “The only real difference for us is that we’re getting stronger. We’re adding to our history, we’re adding to our repertoire,

we’re adding to the breadth and scope of what we do,” says Jain, who insists that the band is committed to “bringing good vibes and good energy to people.

“It’s one big party and you’re a part of it, whether you’re playing an instrument or not.”

RED BARAAT Friday 9pm Moe’s Alley Tickets $12 adv/$15 door

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THE BAY AREA used to be a second home for Scott Hamilton.

In the mid-’70s, the brawnytoned tenor saxophonist signed to Concord Records and helped revitalize acoustic jazz at a time when young lions like Wynton Marsalis and Terence Blanchard were still unknown cubs.

But he’s been a scarce presence in Northern California for more than a decade. In the late 1990s, Hamilton bid the United States goodbye and settled in London, where he had built up a dedicated following. About four years ago, with visa rules changing and the cost of living rising, he decamped to Tuscany, taking up residence in a village outside Florence.

“I’d been working in Europe since the late 1970s, and I was making about 20 trips a year in the 1990s,” says Hamilton, 57. “It just seemed kind of ridiculous, and I figured it’s easier to get on a plane and come back to United States for a few gigs.”

He plays Thursday at Kuumbwa

with a quintet featuring veteran pianist Larry Vuckovich, ace bassist Jeff Chambers, artful drummer Vince Lateano and savvy trumpeter Erik Jekabson. Friday’s gig at Stanford’s Dinkelspiel Auditorium features an expanded ensemble, adding percussion master John Santos and soul-drenched vocalist Kenny Washington (with Chuck McPherson replacing Lateano on drums).

Possessing a buttery sound that harks back to Ben Webster, Don Byas and Zoot Sims, Hamilton was at the forefront of a neo-swing cadre associated with Concord Jazz. Recording prolifically for the label as both a leader and featured sideman on classic sessions by singers Rosemary Clooney, Maxine Sullivan and Susannah McCorkle, he was a regular Bay Area presence, playing the major jazz clubs and the Concord Jazz Festival.

It’s hard to overstate just how anomalous he seemed at the release of his 1977 Concord debut Scott Hamilton Is a Good Wind

Scott Hamilton Thursday, 7pm Kuumbwa Jazz Center Tickets $20 adv/$23 door

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Blowing Us No Ill. At a time when jazz/rock fusion dominated the market, Hamilton and collaborators like trumpeter Warren Vache, trombonist Dan Barrett and guitarist Howard Alden helped revive acoustic, pre-bop mainstream jazz.

“There wasn’t a Lester Young record in print in America when I was 14,” Hamilton says. “At that time, there were very few jazz artists who could make a record if they weren’t playing electric instruments. I just happened to come at the right time. I got a lot of attention as a young musician. It didn’t hurt that I was also cheap. I was unknown, so for $50 a night I got a lot of work.”

Rather than learning small group swing from vintage recordings, Hamilton forged ties with players two and three times his age, musicians who had made their mark in the 1930s and ’40s.

Growing up in Providence, R.I., he befriended Arnett Cobb, the powerful Houston-raised tenor saxophonist who replaced Illinois Jacquet in Lionel Hampton’s rocking big band in 1942. Trumpet legend Roy Eldridge, a player who didn’t hand out compliments easily, encouraged Hamilton to make the move to New York City, where Benny Goodman hired him for his orchestra. He was particularly well-matched with the criminally underappreciated Ruby Braff, a trumpeter and cornetist who combined Bix Beiderbecke’s puckish, singing lyricism with Louis Armstrong’s bravura, big-hearted melodic invention.

“Most of the big names who played the kind of jazz I play are gone now,” Hamilton says. “You have to keep going. As far as the music goes, people want honesty above all else. I try to stick by what I know is me, and hopefully there’s some growth. I hesitate to get involved in major overhauls.”

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Stage DANCE 5th Annual Evening of World Theatre Cabrillo College Theatre Arts presents an evening with the South Indian Abhinaya Dance Company. Sat, Feb 25, 8pm. $13-$18. Cabrillo College Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6154.

The Daughters of Hypatia: Circles of Mathematical Women A dance concert by Karl Schaffer and friends that celebrates great female mathematicians and their contributions to mathematics. Feb 24-25, 8pm. $12-$17. Motion at the Mill, 131 Front Street, Santa Cruz, 831.335.1861.

Random With A Purpose UC Santa Cruz celebrates 20 years of student dance featuring works by Cid Pearlman and Leslie Johnson.

Thu-Sat, 7pm and Sun, Feb 26, 3pm. Thru Feb 25. $10$11. UCSC Mainstage Theater, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5260.

THEATER Cafe Subterraneo II Chicano TheatreWorks presents a multimedia art performance with featured artists Gitana Martinez, Ruth Jasso, Noe Lomeli, Shahin Gutierrez and Manuel Montez. Contains adult subject matter. Sat, Feb 25, 8-10pm. $20. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.325.8469.

Don’t Fence Me In The World Theater Performing Arts Series presents five acts depicting the the American West. Wed, Feb 29, 7:30pm. $10-$50.

CSU Monterey Bay University Center, 100 Campus Center, Seaside, 831.582.4580.

Ruined A powerful play that takes place in the Congo about the casualties of a civil war.

Feb 24-25, 7pm and Sun, Feb 26, 3pm. $11-$15. UCSC Second Stage, Performing Arts Complex, Santa Cruz, 831.459.1861.

Smudge A dark comedy about how a couple deals with the arrival of their unbearably deformed baby. Fri-Sat, 8pm. Thru Mar 10. $17-$20. Paper Wing Theater, 320 Hoffman Ave, Monterey, 831.905.5684.

CONCERTS The Garden, at Night: Symbolism and Psychology in Music The Santa Cruz Chamber Players present a program of

works with The Garden as a central theme. Sat, Feb 25, 8pm and Sun, Feb 26, 3pm. $10-$25. Christ Lutheran Church, 10707 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.420.5260.

GALLERIES

Ladysmith Black Mambazo Grammy-winning a cappella group from South Africa performs at the Rio Theatre.

Tue, Feb 28, 7:30pm. $30-$45. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel, Santa Cruz, 831.427.5100.

Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery hosts opening receptions for “Contemplation of the Female Form” and “The Shape of Water” exhibits.

Sun, Feb 26, 2-4pm.

831.459.2953. Cowell College, UCSC, Santa Cruz.

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Nine-piece group from Brooklyn blends Indian bhangra and New Orleans funk. New World Ape is the opening act. Fri, Feb 24, 9pm. $12-$15. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz, 831.479.1854.

Santa Cruz County Symphony Youth Concert Members of the Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony perform with professional orchestral musicians for a free concert. Mon, Feb 27, 9:30 and 11am. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.462.0553.

Top Students Featured with UCSC Orchestra Conducting student and concerto competition winners will showcase their talent. Feb 24-25, 7:30pm. $6-$10. UCSC Music Center Recital Hall, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

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 landuse decisions have changed the outlines of each site, how scientists measure the current health of each lagoon and how artists continue to be inspired by the ever-changing nature of lagoons. Thru Feb 25. $2$4, free for members and youth under 18. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. 1305 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6115.

OPENING Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery

Art duJour Written Word/Spoken Word.

Featuring the book art of Mary Atkinson and Felicia Rice. Thru Feb 29. 1013 Cedar St., Santa Cruz.

Artisan’s Gallery Hearts for the Arts. A heartinspired exhibit featuring local art students and teachers. Thru Feb 29. 1368 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.8183 .

Cabrillo College Gallery Glenn Carter: A Guest to the Mystery. Mixed media work by Santa Cruz resident Glenn Carter. Thru Mar 9.

Free. 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6308.

Cruzio Art From Within. Cruzio’s staff and coworking members, both professional and hobbyists, display their artwork side by side. Thru Feb 29. Free. 877 Cedar St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.6301.

Felix Kulpa Gallery

work of mother-daughter artists Janis O’Driscoll (printmaker) and Ana Schechter (photographer).

Thru Feb 29. 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5700.

Santa Cruz County Bank REPEAT!. A playful exploration of repetition by six artists utilizing mixed media, photography, assemblage and construction.

On display at all locations.

Opening reception Feb 8, 56:30pm at 720 Front St. Thru Apr 20. 720 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.457.5000.

Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center Inspirations. A collection of inspirational artwork by Santa Cruz Mountain Art Center artists. Thru Mar 17. Wed-Sun, noon-6pm.

9341 Mill St, Ben Lomond, 831.336.4273.

Sesnon Gallery Katerina Lanfranco: Natural Selection. A site-specific paper cutout installation

by Katerina Lanfranco. Thru Mar 16. UCSC, Porter College, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2273.

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

Pass It On. Seven artists used coffee, sugar, ink, silkscreen, thread and other material to alter each other’s work in a collaboration that waxed and waned for more than four years as squares were passed between them. Thru Feb 27. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

Stories From the American Urban Farm

Marjorie Evans Gallery

Ultimate Winemakers Dinner

The Horse: A Guide To The Unknown. An exhibition of original mixed media and collage by Nancy Leigh Hillis.

Thru Feb 29. Free. San Carlos Street at Ninth Avenue, Carmel, 831.620.2052.

Rittenhouse Building Wet Art 2012. Wetsuits, donated by local surfers, turned into art pieces by local artists. Thru Feb 29.

1375 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz.

Rivendell Tea Room Treescapes. Plein aire acrylic and watercolor landscapes

by Pegatha Hughes. Thru Feb 29. Squid Row Alley, Santa Cruz, 831.459.0614.

Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos A Prison Art Exhibit. Works feature themes of survival, culture, and spirituality. Thru May 17. 1817 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.457.8208.

Santa Cruz Central Branch Library Gallery Do You See What I See?. The

Author David Hanson and photographer Michael Hanson give a presentation on how urban farms are creating strong, healthy communities. Thu, Feb 23, 68pm. $10. DIG Gardens, 420 Water St, Santa Cruz.

Guests can enjoy up to 25 different wineries along with an elegant 5-course meal. For reservations, call 831.685.8463 Tue, Feb 28, 6-8pm. $105. Shadowbrook, 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola, 831.685.8463.

FILM Declaration of War A powerful drama about the dissolution of a marriage set in contemporary Iran. Fri, Feb 24. $6.50-$10. Nickelodeon Theatre, 210 Lincoln St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.7507.

Wednesday Night Cinema Society Guest curator Greg Youmans presents screenings of “It is Not the Homosexual who is Perverse But the Situation in which He Lives” and “Michael, A Gay Son.” Wed, Feb 22, 7pm.

Communications Room 150 Studio C, UCSC, Santa Cruz.

THURSDAY 2/23

BREAKING THROUGH CONCRETE In the summer of 2010, brothers David and Michael Hanson (pictured) and urban farmer Edwin Marty set out in a veggie oil–powered bus to discover the stories behind the agricultural renaissance unfolding inside America’s cities. The brothers discuss the resulting book, Breaking Through Concrete: Stories from the American Urban Farm, tonight in a benefit for the Homeless Garden Project. Thursday, Feb. 23, 6-8pm at DIG Gardens, 420 Water St., Santa Cruz. Tickets $10 at http://shop.homelessgardenproject.org/index.html. in on the discussion. Thu, Feb 23, 7pm. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

finance and investor. Free.

Tue, Feb 28, 2-3:30pm.

Engineering 2- Simularium, UCSC, Santa Cruz.

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Meredith Maran discusses her first novel, “A Theory of Small Earthquakes,” a love story that addresses equal rights and the changing definition of family. Wed, Feb 29, 7:30pm. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

Cultivating A Movement Editors Sarah Rabkin, Irene Reti & Ellen Farmer discuss their book, “Cultivating a Movement: An Oral History of Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture on California’s Central Coast.”

Wed, Feb 22, 7pm. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

Poetry Santa Cruz Readings by Toi Derricotte and Ellen Bass. Fri-Sat, 7:30pm. Thru Mar 10. $3 donation suggested.

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

World Affairs Book Club This month’s selection is “China in Ten Words” by Yu Hua. Guests are encouraged to read the book and join

Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, gives a free lecture about finding habitable Earth-like planets around our nearest stars.

Tue, Feb 28, 7pm. UCSC Music Center Recital Hall, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

Connect with Nature Series Natural History classes for adults. Sat, Feb 25, 10am. $8 members/$10 general.

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, 1305 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6115.

Memory Loss, Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease: The Basics Attendees will learn about Alzheimer’s disease, aging and dementia, as well as local community resources. Call to make your reservation. Thu, Feb 23, 10:30am-12pm. Live Oak Senior Center, 1777A Capitola Rd, Live Oak, 831.464.9982.

The Investor’s Worst Enemy Finance professor Terrance Odean discusses behavioral

Available at Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Mon 3:305:30 Garfield Park, 705 Woodrow Ave., Tue, 2-4pm at Boulder Creek, 13390 West Park Ave., Tue 3-5pm at Live Oak, 23080 Portola Dr., Tue 3:30-5:30pm at Branciforte, 230 Gault St. Mon and Tue. 831.477.7700x7665.

locations countywide each month; for schedule and locations call 800.733.2767.

Santa Cruz Baroque Festival Youth Chamber Music Auditions Applications at scbaroque. org/youth.html. Deadline for submission Feb. 18.

Auditions Feb. 25. Sat, Feb 25, 10am-4pm. UCSC Music Center Recital Hall, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

Santa Cruz Fringe Festival Needs Performers

Courtesy of Project Purr.

Thru Mar 31. 831.423.6369.

Performing artists and groups of all kinds are encouraged to apply. The deadline to apply is Feb 29. Info and application are available at www.scfringe. com Wed, Feb 29.

Hemlock Discussion Group

SC Diversity Center

Discuss end-of-life options for serenity and dignity.

Meets in Aptos the last Wed afternoon of every month except Dec; call for more info. 831.251.2240.

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.

Free Spay or Neuter for Feral Cats

Overeaters Anonymous Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30pm at Teach By The Beach in the Rancho Del Mar Shopping Center, Aptos.

Thursdays 1-2pm at Louden Nelson Community Center, Room 5, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. Wed-Thu. 831.429.7906.

Red Cross Mobile Blood Drives Drives occur at several

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

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RUINED Set in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ruined tells a touching and occasionally humorous tale about human suffering in civil war as soldiers from rival factions visit a brothel where woman are, paradoxically, hoping to be saved from sexual brutality in the war-ravaged villages. The fundraiser is presented by the African American Theater Arts Troupe, which has raised over $30,000 in scholarship funding in the last 20 years. FridaySaturday, Feb. 24-25, 7pm and Sunday, Feb. 26, 3pm at UCSC Theatre Arts Second Stage, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz. Tickets $15 general/$12 students and seniors/free for UCSC students.

831.420.5260 SantaCruzTickets.com. 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).

Touched By Adoption Group Adoptive families, adult adoptees, families waiting to adopt and birth parents meet monthly to connect in a safe, confidential setting.

Last Sat of every month, 10am-12pm. Free. Live Oak Family Resource Center, 1438 Capitola Rd, Santa Cruz, 1.866.219.1155.

Wild and Minimal Impact Camping by Kayak, Bicycle and Backpack Sierra Club Santa Cruz Group gives a handson demonstration of equipment and techniques used for wild, low-impact camping. Free. Wed, Feb 29,

6:30pm. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz.

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

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

Hatha Yoga with Debra Whizin, 831.588.8527.

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

Vipassana: Vipassana SC, Wed 6:30-8pm, 831.425.3431. Basic: Land of the Medicine Buddha, Wed, 5:30-6:30pm, 831.462.8383. Zen: Ocean Gate Zendo, first Tue each month 6:30-7pm. All are free.

San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s City Guide

Sleigh Bells Brooklyn buzz duo with a new, more aurally palatable album, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Reign of Terror.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Feb 23 at the Regency Ballroom.

Mac McCaughan Co-founder of Merge Records and Superchunk frontman plays sharp solo set. Feb 23 at Swedish American Hall.

Dave Holland Quartet Master bassist plays with Jason Moran, Eric Harland and Chris Potter. Feb 24 at Palace of Fine Arts.

DJ Krush Japanese hip-hop producer and creator of textural universes plays 20th Anniversary show. Feb 25 at Mezzanine.

The Dodos Hometown heroes fronted by Meric Long strum and hum up a melodic storm. Feb 26 at the Great American Music Hall.

More San Francisco events by subscribing to the email letter at www.sfstation.com.

Celebrating Creativity Since 1975

Thurs. February 23 U 7 pm

SCOTT HAMILTON WITH THE LARRY VUKOVICH TRIO Big, warm tenor saxophone tone and unerring sense of swing!

Fri. February 24 U 7:30 pm

TESS DUNN

Tickets: snazzyproductions.com Sat. February 25 U 8 pm

KEN ARCONTI

Tickets: Streetlight Records and Brownpapertickets.com Mon. February 27 U 7 pm

Hypnotic rhythms & seductive melodies TIM BERNE / SNAKEOIL 1/2 Price Night for Students Tues. February 28 U 7:30 pm At the Rio Theatre

LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO No Jazztix or Comps

Thurs. March 1 U 7 pm

LA VOZ DE TRES An intimate evening of Latin Jazz Monday, March 5 U 7 & 9 pm

BENNY GOLSON QUINTET FEAT. NNENNA FREELON, MIKE LEDONNE, RAY DRUMMOND AND JASON MARSALIS No Jazztix or Comps Pre-concert talk beginning at 6:30 pm

9 pm: 1/2 Price Night for Students Thurs. March 8 U 7 pm

NELLIE MCKAY “I WANT TO LIVE!” No Jazztix or Comps

Anastasiya Sanchez

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DUNN THAT Tess Dunn plays Kuumbwa this Friday.

Mon. March 12 U 7 pm

TOOTS THIELEMANS/ KENNY WERNER DUO No Jazztix or Comps

Thurs. March 15 U 7 pm

BEN WILLIAMS & SOUND EFFECT 1/2 Price Night for Students Mar. 19 Helen Sung Quartet Mar. 23 Overtone Mar. 26 Chano Dominguez “Flamenco Sketches” Mar. 29 Kuumbwa Jazz Honor Band Mar. 29 Strunz & Farah April 2

Raul Midón

April 4

Hiromi: The Trio Project

May 6

Rosanne Cash at the Rio

May 16 Brad Mehldau Trio Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records. Dinner served 1-hr before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer.

All ages welcome.

320-2 Cedar St [ Santa Cruz 831.427.2227

kuumbwajazz.org

WEDNESDAY | 2/22

FRIDAY | 2/24

FRIDAY | 2/24

GOITSE

TREVOR HALL

TESS DUNN

A high-energy five-piece that deftly blends traditional Irish music with contemporary sensibilities and compositions, Goitse (pronounced “Gwitcha”) strikes a fine balance of old and new. Comprised of young but seasoned musicians possessing a striking musical chemistry, the band is being celebrated as a rising star on the Irish music scene. As one critic put it, “They play with an easy assurance that should cause those fretting about the future of Irish trad to rest more easily at night.” Don Quixote’s; $12 adv/$14 door; 7:30pm. (Cat Johnson)

Bringing a message of universal love, light and peace, Trevor Hall is an extraordinary young artist with the ability to move listeners on many levels. A talented songwriter capable of combining catchy hooks with engaging, thoughtful lyrics, Hall is also an energetic performer who stirs up a sea of grooveability. His greatest strength, however, lies in his open-hearted focus on the spiritual realm. Without sounding preachy, Hall returns over and over to themes of personal evolution, global responsibility and heightened consciousness. Fusing elements of rock, reggae, hip-hop and world music, Hall is a unique voice in a pop landscape cluttered with prefab artists and canned hits. Catalyst; $11 adv/$15 door; 9pm.

(CJ)

Leave it to a youngster dealing with cystic fibrosis, epilepsy and diabetes to teach the rest of us a little something about life. A veteran of the music business at just 17 years old, Tess Dunn has a knack for taking on life’s issues, both large and small, filtering them through her fiery, joyful perspective and emerging with something that is insightful and life-affirming. The Avril Lavigne–esque indie rocker, who hails from Santa Cruz, is a regular on the Bay Area music scene and has been a featured artist on the last three Warped Tours. Kuumbwa; Student $10.50 adv/$14.50 door; general: $16 adv/$20 door; 7:30pm. (CJ)

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MALONE BROTHERS Veterans of the New Orleans music scene, brothers Dave and Tommy Malone have been touring for years with their respective bands the Radiators and the Subdudes. Now they’re finally joining forces in their first tour together. Prone to heavy jam sessions, the brothers Malone look to

CONCERTS MISTAH FAB

SUNDAY | 2/26

Feb. 25 at Catalyst

GIRLS

JOLIE HOLLAND It’s hard to tell if Jolie Holland really recorded her emotionally raw 2011 album or just let it bleed slowly out of her on the studio floor. The acoustic singer/songwriter’s latest effort, appropriately titled Pint of Blood, comes with electric tones reminiscent of Velvet Underground, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and 1970s Neil Young. But the heart-wrenching lyrical intensity found in her 2008 effort The Living and the Dead remains perfectly intact. Hailing from the same record label as Tom Waits and Sage Francis, this intimate performer shares Waits’ love for morbid folk music with minor keys and dramatic themes.

The Crepe Place; $12; 9pm. (Jacob Pierce)

TUESDAY | 2/28

LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO One of the most prolific and wellknown groups to rise out of the 1970s Afropop scene, Ladysmith Black

TRES JOLIE Americana sweetheart Jolie Holland at the Crepe Place

Mar. 1 at Cocoanut Grove

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Longtime Santa Cruzan Ken Arconti has been a fixture on the local music scene for 35-plus years. A celebrated guitarist, songwriter, singer and teacher, Arconti traverses genres with ease, putting his unique touch on country, jazz, rock and R&B tunes.

He’s performed at the Monterey Jazz and Blues festivals, collaborated with the Santa Cruz Symphony and proven himself a capable solo artist and bandleader alike. Saturday sees him fronting his band of ace musicians who have worked with Coco Montoya, Dan Hicks and others. Kuumbwa; $15 adv/$18 door; 8pm. (CJ)

Girls

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blend country rock, Zydeco and roots rock into a mixture that recalls all the flavors of the Big Easy itself, opening a brand new chapter in Crescent City rock & roll history. Moe’s Alley; $20 adv/$25 door; 9pm. (Juan Guzman)

B E AT S C A P E

SATURDAY | 2/25

MASON JENNINGS

Mar. 16 at Rio Theatre

SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80 Mar. 23 at Moe’s Alley

OVER THE RHINE Apr. 7 at Kuumbwa

Mambazo first gained notoriety after appearing on Paul Simon’s album Graceland. Founder and musical director Joseph Shabalala formed the group in 1974 after the choral singing he heard in church inspired him to create a new hybrid of gospel music and traditional Zulu harmony. The result has been an unmitigated success: big label deals with Warner Brothers, worldwide acclaim and three Grammy awards. Rio Theatre; $30 general/$45 gold; 7:30pm. (JG)

WEDNESDAY | 2/29

ALKALINE TRIO Illinois punk band Alkaline Trio formed in 1996 in frontman Matt Skiba’s hometown of McHenry. Their particular brand of angst-ridden cathartic punk made them innovators of the emo genre and gained them a large underground following across the Midwest. As the ’90s progressed into the naughts, the band saw its fortunes rise, and 2010 release Agony & Irony peaked at number 13 on the Billboard charts. Since then the band has gone on to form the Heart & Skull record label and record an acoustic compilation of some of its most beloved tracks. The Catalyst; $18 adv/$22 door; 8pm. (JG)

Jayme Stone + Coulter/Phillips Ensemble Acoustic Tour of the World

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WED 2/22

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FRI 2/24

Preachers That Lie

Live Comedy

Hip Hop Show

Live Bands

THE ABBEY

SAT 2/25 The Abbott Brothers

350 Mission St, Santa Cruz

BLUE LAGOON 923 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

BOCCIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CELLAR

Roberto - Howell

CofďŹ s Brothers

Big BamBu

Karaoke

Goatwhore

Trevor Hall

Mistah Fab Fashawn

140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

THE CATALYST 1011 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

CLOUDS

Jazz Open Mic

110 Church St, Santa Cruz

The Esoteric Collective

CREPE PLACE

Circus Finelli

Lake Street Dive

Pickwick

Tumbleweed Wanderers

Phoenix Rising

Jake Nielsen

Saints & Sinners

The Refugees

1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

CROWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NEST 2218 East Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz

DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE

Steve Gray

1 Davenport Ave, Santa Cruz

FINS COFFEE 1104 Ocean St, Santa Cruz

HOFFMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAKERY CAFE

Preston Brahm Trio

Mapanova

Scott Hamilton

Tess Dunn

1102 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

Isoceles with Gary Montrezza

KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER

Ken Arconti

320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

MAD HOUSE BAR & COCKTAILS

DJ Marc

DJ E

529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

Bring your instrument

Rainbow Room

Cruzing

Church

MOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ALLEY

Blyndsite

Mad Jam

Alika

DJ AD

Red Baraat

The Malone Brothers

Dubstep Monthly

Libation Lab

DJ Sparkle

Casino Gold

1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

MOTIV 1209 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

with AL-B

RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

THE REEF

Reggae Night

120 Union St, Santa Cruz

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel, Santa Cruz

SEABRIGHT BREWERY

Dennis Dove & Band

519 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-423-1336 Thursday, February 23 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 16+ GOATWHORE plus Hate Eternal also Fallujah and Cerebral Bore, Theories !DV $RS s $RS P M 3HOW STARTS P M

Friday, February 24 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 16+

TREVOR HALL

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MISTAH FAB/ FASHAWN plus

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Saturday, February 25 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 21+

ATOMIC ACES/ SWAMP ANGEL

plus Fascinating Creatures of the Deep also Rocketpop

$RS ONLY s $RS P M 3HOW STARTS P M

&EB Alkaline Trio (Ages 16+) Mar 1 Eligh & Amp Live Atrium (Ages 16+) Mar 2 Lagwagon (Ages 16+) Mar 3 Gappy Ranks Atrium (Ages 16+) Mar 7 Sleepy Sun Atrium (Ages 21+) Mar 8 SOJA (Ages 16+) Mar 8 Eliquate Atrium (Ages 16+) -AR Red Light District Atrium (Ages 21+) Mar 10 Hellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Belles (Ages 21+) Mar 10 Sin Sisters Burlesque Atrium (Ages 21+) Mar 11 Caught in Motion Atrium (Ages 21+) Mar 17 Iration (Ages 16+) Mar 23 Pennywise (Ages 21+) Mar 24 Tyga (Ages 16+) Apr 4 UKF Tour (Ages 18+) Apr 10 Dark Star Orchestra (Ages 21+) Apr 18 Zeds Dead (Ages 18+) Apr 20 The Holdup (Ages 16+) Apr 22 Tech N9ne (Ages 16+) Jun 13 Thrice (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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

www.catalystclub.com

SUN 2/26

MON 2/27

TUE 2/28

Candle & Rat Trap

SANTA CRUZ THE ABBEY 831.429.1058

The Box

90s Night with DJ AL9k

SC Jazz Society

Czarnecki Quartet

Laury Mac

BLUE LAGOON

FAMILY CONCERT

831.423.7117

Under the Boardwalk

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

Monday Jazz Jam

THE CATALYST 831.423.1336

Jazz Baby

CLOUDS 831.429.2000

Jolie Holland

Sketchy Business

7 Come 11

CREPE PLACE 831.429.6994

Live Comedy

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

Sherry Austin Band

DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE

An educational concert thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun for the whole family!

831.426.8801

Geese In The Fog

FINS COFFEE

SUNDAY, MARCH 4 2 PM Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium

831.423.6131

Dana Scruggs Trio

Joe Leonard Trio Tim Berne/Snakeoil

Barry Scott

HOFFMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAKERY CAFE

& Associates

831.420.0135

Black Mambazo

KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER

Sponsored by James & Catharine Gill and Jack & Barbara Ritchey

831.427.2227

DJ Chante Neighborhood Night

Juno What?!

MAD HOUSE BAR & COCKTAILS 831.425.2900

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

Reggae Party

Ecclectic

DJ AD

Primal Productions

MOTIV 831.479.5572

RED

Program Funding By:

WAGNER Ride of the Valkyries BRITTEN Young Personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guide to the Orchestra Narrated by Joseph Ribeiro

831.425.1913

Open Acoustic Night

THE REEF 831.459.9876&#8206;

Black Mambazo

RIO THEATRE 831.423.8209

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 831.426.2739

SOUSA BADELT

Semper Fidelis March Pirates of the Caribbean Theme

And More!

Tickets $8/10 advance, $10/12 day of show, plus service fees Call 420-5260 or www.SantaCruzTickets.com John Larry Granger, Music Director With special guests: Season Media Sponsors:

Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre Orchard School Circus Troupe

Win Tickets to see Sinbad

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WEDD 2/22

BRITANNIA ARMS

Trivia via Quiz Night

THU 2/23

FRI 2/24

SAT 2/25

Karaoke

Acoustic Shadow

Lara Price

Lou De Luca

Famdamily

Nora Cruz

Samba

In Three

Tsunami

Lennyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basement

Joe Ferrara

NoNette

ROD

The Joint Chiefs

Foreverland

Sidecar Tommy

8017 Soquel Dr, Aptos

THE FOG BANK 211 Esplanade, Capitola

MANGIAMOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PIZZA AND WINE BAR

David Paul Campbell

David Paul Campbell

Karaoke

Extra Lounge

783 Rio del Mar Blvd, Aptos

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

PARADISE BEACH GRILLE

Johnny Fabulous

Yuji

215 Esplanade, Capitola

SANDERLINGS

Music by Jeffty

1 Seascape Resort Dr, Rio del Mar

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

Don McCaslin &

7500 Old Dominion Ct, Aptos

The Amazing Jazz Geezers

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

THE WHARF HOUSE 1400 Wharf Rd, Capitola

THE UGLY MUG 4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel

ZELDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

The Jake Shandling

203 Esplanade, Capitola

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

Goitse

6275 Hwy 9, Felton

HENFLINGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TAVERN

Starlight Girls

Felsen

9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond

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

Hippo Happy Hour

Mariachi Ensemble

1934 Main St, Watsonville

MOSS LANDING INN

KDON DJ Showbiz

& KDON DJ SolRock

Open Jam

Hwy 1, Moss Landing

Kuumbwa Jazz Presents

/$'<60,7+ %/$&. 0$0%$=2 â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Śsheer joy and love emanates from their being.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Paul Simon

FEBRUARY 28 Â&#x2C6; 7:30 PM AT THE RIO THEATRE

Tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records Info: 427-2227 or kuumbwajazz.org Concert Sponsor Media Sponsors

Gayleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bakery & Rosticceria

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SUN 2/26

APTOS / CAPITOLA /RIO DEL MAR / SOQUEL

Songwriter Contest

BRITANNIA ARMS 831.688.1233

Dennis Dove Pro Jam

Karaoke

THE FOG BANK

with Eve

David Paul Campbell

831.462.1881

David Paul CampbellMANGIAMOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PIZZA AND WINE BAR 831.688.1477

F&W Ken Constable

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

Lara Price

Classical Guitar

PARADISE BEACH GRILLE 831.476.4900

SANDERLINGS 831.662.7120

Johnny Fabulous

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

SHADOWBROOK 831.475.1511

THE WHARF HOUSE 831.476.3534

Open Mic with Jordan

Movie Night

THE UGLY MUG

7:45 pm start time

831.477.1341

ZELDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 831.475.4900

SCOTTS VALLEY / SAN LORENZO VALLEY Heel Draggers

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

Blue Chevrolet

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

MOSS LANDING INN 831.633.3038

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She’s Leaving Home

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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ANOTHER BRILLIANT movie from the land of brilliant movies, Iran’s A Separation unfolds in layers, with a secret revealed in the last 20 minutes.

There isn’t a lead actor per se; the cast is more of a circle than a hierarchy. But director Asghar Farhadi has cast his daughter, Sarina, in an auspicious debut. This preciously wise and pretty girl plays 10-going-on-11 Termeh: a student with no social life to speak of (her life is all homework and tutoring). However, she receives a shaming ethics lesson at home.

Termeh’s parents are on the threshold of divorce. Her mother, Simin (Leila Hatami), has already moved back in with her own parents for the time being.

Simin yearns to take her family out of Iran, perhaps to the West. The film doesn’t explain why a Europeanized English teacher who drives a Peugeot would want to leave Iran. The audience can hazard a guess or two.

Simin’s husband, Nader (Peyman Moadi), who works at a bank, is granted custody of his daughter.

Nader needs to stay in Iran to tend to his Alzheimer’s-afflicted father (Ali-Asghar Shahabazi). He hires a caretaker for the father. She’s the deeply religious Razieh (Sareh Bayat); she’s pregnant, but not visibly so,

WORLDS APART Leila Hatami as Simin and Peyman Moadi as Nader because of her tentlike black robes.

When Razieh arrives, the troubles begin. This would-be nursemaid is hiding her job from her angry bluecollar husband, Hodjat (Shahab Hosseini). And the senile old man turns incontinent and has to have his pants changed. (Terrified of being exposed to male nudity, Razieh phones an imam to ask for guidance: “Will it count as a sin?”)

Razieh is overwhelmed by caring for the old man. When Nader’s father is injured as a result of her inexperience, Nader strikes back against Razieh physically. She miscarries. Charges are filed. It’s up to the court to decide whether Nader should go to jail for infanticide—or perhaps even to the gallows.

Razieh’s outraged husband seems a particularly universal character: the young father with a stunning instinct for making matters worse for himself and his family. Hodjat’s own troubles include a ruinous lawsuit and the threat of debtor’s prison. And yet you

see Hodjat’s side of it, too, especially when Nader’s story starts to get as fishy as a vat of bouillabaisse.

We have so many, many movies, and so few have a real reason to exist.

A Separation was made under pressure and with clear urgency; rich as it is, it has no extraneous details. And despite the simmer to this story, and editing that’s so sharp it’s almost harsh, A Separation is visually toiled over. Handheld freshness melds with satisfyingly complex setups, with scenes playing out in rear-view mirrors and in reflections.

A Separation has probably been framed for viewing on TV, but it has some classic elements. It’s strange how black chadors isolate actresses’ faces and put the emphasis on the drama there, as if in a great silent film. (How can swaddled Iranian women act with their bodies, as they do in the West?)

This focus on faces shows how signals cross rooms—with lightning, real-life speed. The significant glances and open-faced lies make the title a

play on words. A Separation is about the split between the world of men and the world of women. It’s obviously worse in an Islamic republic that works to keep the two as separate as possible.

Despite the subject matters of courtroom suspense, tragic divorce and a dead baby, A Separation is postmelodrama. You couldn’t ask for a more eloquent protest against the moral courts, seemingly engineered to complicate already painful situations.

Farhadi argues against these tangled laws with eloquence. Yet he seems to have his eye on more metaphysical, ancient statutes: the hidden laws of bad luck, and how that luck inevitably worsens because of the acts of desperate men and women.

A SEPARATION PG-13; 123 min.

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Film Capsules FILM CAPS ACT OF VALOR (R; 101 min) Active-duty U.S. Navy SEALs star in this edge-of-yourseat thriller. When a CIA operative is kidnapped, it’s up to the SEALs to lead a covert mission to rescue him, but in the process they uncover a plot that would endanger the entire world.

Now it is up to them to foil their enemies before they carry out the deadly plan.

ANCHORMAN (2004) A modern comedy classic that has won audiences’ hearts with its unabashed silliness and over-the-top performances. Buffoonish anchorman Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) is kind of a big deal; he’s San Diego’s top-rated newsman and its most eligible bachelor. When ambitious upstart Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) sets her eyes on Ron’s position, the office devolves into a battleground of the sexes. (Fri-Sat midnite at Del Mar) BULLHEAD (R; 124 min) A gritty crime drama about a young cattle farmer, Jacky Marsenille, who enters into a shady deal with an infamous Mafioso beef trader. When a federal agent ends up dead, Jacky must deal with his dark past and the tragic consequences of his decisions.

GOOD DEEDS (PG-13; 129 min) Tyler Perry directs and stars in this film about straightlaced businessman Wesley Deeds, who is jolted from his scripted life when he meets Lindsey, a struggling single mother who works as a maid in Deeds’ office. As he helps her to get back on her feet, he finds the strength to create the life he’s always wanted rather than the one expected of him.

GONE (PG-13; 85 min) When the sister of Jill Parrish (Amanda Seyfried) goes missing, she becomes convinced that the serial killer she escaped from a year before has returned to exact revenge for his failure.

Now she must find her sister before the kidnapper has a chance to take vengeance.

IN A LONELY PLACE (1950) Humphrey Bogart plays Dixon Steele, a burned-out screenwriter who becomes the prime suspect in the murder of young woman.

When Steele’s beautiful neighbor (Gloria Grahame) provides him with an alibi, their friendship soon blossoms into romance, but the relationship begins to crumble as he sinks ever deeper into self-loathing. As Steele’s violent personality emerges, she begins to think that he may be the killer after all. (Thu at Santa Cruz 9)

SHOWTIMES

A SEPARATION (PG-13; 123 min.) See review, page 29.

WANDERLUST (R; 98 min) Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston star as George and Linda, an uptight, stressedout Manhattan couple who find themselves in dire straits when George is laid off. The change forces them to experiment with alternative living options when they stumble upon Elysium, a rural commune where free love is the order of the day. Now their relationship must survive the challenge a new perspective can bring.

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

BIG MIRACLE (PG; 107 min) John Krasinski, Kristen Bell and Drew Barrymore star in this film about an unlikely alliance between oil tycoons, Inuit natives and the American and Russian militaries on their quest to save a family of grey whales.

Capturing it all is Alaskan newsman Adam Carlson

Movie reviews by Richard von Busack and Juan Guzman

(Krasinski), whose main concern is not whales or oil barons but the arrival of his ex-girlfriend (Barrymore).

CHRONICLE (PG-13;) Shy, introverted teen Andrew, his cousin Matt and their popular classmate, Steve, make an unbelievable discovery when they happen upon a mysterious substance that imbues them with superpowers. As their powers grow stronger, their darker sides emerge, forcing each of them to struggle with his baser instincts.

THE DESCENDANTS (R; 115 min.) Almost everyone will enjoy the George Clooney/Alexander Payne film The Descendants.

Clooney’s Matt King is a lawyer who toils while his family has a good time.

Matt’s wife languishes in a coma after a bad boating accident. He goes to retrieve his daughter, Alexandra (Shailene Woodley), currently immured at a strict boarding school because of her partying. Alexandra confesses that she’s been acting out lately because she saw her mom with a stranger’s hands on her.

Matt also has to deal with his cutely awkward, profane younger daughter, Scottie (Pacific Grove’s Amara Miller, debuting), as well as with his ornery fatherin-law (Robert Forster, excellently embodying the old military side of Hawaii).

Coming along for the ride is Alexandra’s pal Sid (Nick Krause), her seemingly silly young partner in partying, who wedges himself into this family tragedy.

Meanwhile, Matt must make the painful decision to liquidate a piece of property that he’s holding in trust for the rest of the family.

The end result of the deal will be yet another resort with golf course, part of the endless effort to turn Hawaii into Costa Mesa. Clooney is roguish and entertaining; he gives the kind of star’s performance that probably only looks easy and smooth to pull off. And he finishes with some very heavy oldschool acting, which puts Clooney farther out on the limb than he is in the rest of the film. (RvB)

GHOST RIDER: THE SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE (PG-13; 95 min) Nicholas Cage reprises his role as Johnny Blaze, the former motorcycle stuntman who sold his soul to the devil. Now Blaze is called from his Eastern European hideout by a group of renegade monks in order to save a young boy’s life, thwart the devil’s plan to take human form and, possibly, rid him of his curse forever.

HUGO (PG; 133 min.) Martin Scorcese’s first 3-D film, about an orphan growing up in 1930s Paris in a train station, involves an

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Feb. 22, through Wednesday, Feb. 29, unless otherwise indicated.

Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

APTOS CINEMAS

RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN

122 Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos 831.688.6541 www.thenick.com

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

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SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9

1475 41st Ave., Capitola 831.479.3504 www.cineluxtheatres.com

1405 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1700 www.regmovies.com

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CINELUX SCOTTS VALLEY STADIUM CINEMA

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

226 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley 831.438.3260 www.cineluxtheatres.com

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GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8

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

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

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BACK TO THE GARDEN Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston play uptight urbanites living in a commune in ‘Wanderlust,’ opening Friday. automaton and a reserved man who runs a toy shop.

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

JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG; 94 min.) Picking up where the original left off, Sean (Josh Hutcherson) is still consumed with the “Vernian” theories that have been a family obsession—the notion that all of Jules Verne’s fantastic tales were actually non-fiction. So when Sean intercepts a coded message that he believes to be from his grandfather, he and Hank (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) head off to the South Pacific to charter a helicopter into an uncharted region, eventually crash-landing on a mysterious island. With Michael Caine, Luis Guzman and Vanessa Hudgens.

OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORTS (Animated) (NR; 52 min) A boy struggles with the boredom of his family’s Sunday routine, a young neophyte learns the family business, a New Yorker and

a chicken square off and an Englishman finds he is entirely unsuited for life in the Canadian frontier in this year’s pack of Oscarnominated animated shorts.

OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORTS (Live Action) This year’s Oscar-nominated live action shorts include the stories of an altar boy called into mass at the last minute, a German couple who adopt a young Indian orphan, a reunion of two friends after 25 years apart, a neurotic inventor who gets lost in time and a dying man who sets things right with his aged mother.

PINA (PG; 103 mins.)

Wim Wenders’ glorious cinematic festschrift for the German choreographer Pina Bausch, who passed away in 2009. The dancers deliver their memories of Bausch straight to the camera. We can see why they fell in love, despite what Bausch demanded from them. However rarefied it seems in descriptions, Bausch’s art was all about hard work and ordinary pain. Note the

melancholy yet sweet line of geriatric dancers at the rim of a strip-mined chasm.

And one performance is staged on the edge of traffic with TJ Maxx and McDonald’s signs looming overhead. (RvB)

SAFE HOUSE (R; 115 min.) Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) is a rookie CIA operative languishing in his remote post in Cape Town when he is charged with safeguarding one of the most dangerous men in the world, Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington). An ex-CIA operative, Frost was once the best in the business, but since turning he has sold U.S. military secrets to the highest bidder. Soon after debriefing, their safe house is attacked, sending the two unlikely allies on a desperate search for those who want them dead.

THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY (G; 94 min) Spunky 14-year-old Borrower Arrietty (voiced

by Bridgit Mendler) lives in the Lilliputian confines of her suburban garden home with her parents

(Will Arnett and Amy Poehler), venturing out only to borrow scraps from her comparatively huge human hosts. When 12year-old Shawn sees the tiny Arrietty one night, a friendship develops that, if discovered, could lead Arrietty and her family into danger.

STAR WARS: EPISODE I — THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D (1999) The first installment in George Lucas’ six-part odyssey rendered for the first time in 3-D. Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi are sent to the blockaded planet of Naboo only to find that the conflict runs much deeper than they first anticipated. As they escort the Queen of Naboo to the Intergalactic Senate, their ship is stranded, and they discover a young boy of incredible potential that may become the leader the Jedi were hoping for.

THIS MEANS WAR (PG-13; 98 min) Partners and best friends FDR (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy) rank among the world’s greatest CIA operatives.

But when they find that they are both dating the same beautiful blonde (Reese Witherspoon), their friendship is put to the test in what becomes a hightech battle for her love.

THE VOW (PG-13; 104 min) Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Jessica Lange and Sam Neill star in this romantic drama about a young couple trying to recover from a devastating accident. When a car accident leaves Paige (McAdams) with severe memory loss, her husband Leo (Tatum) is determined to win her back.

THE WOMAN IN BLACK (PG-13; 95 min) A young lawyer (Daniel Radcliffe) is sent to a remote village to settle the estate of a recently deceased eccentric.

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DRINK LOCAL With the boldly colorful acrylic artwork by W.M. Vinci currently adorning two walls and hundreds of wine bottles providing the rest of the visuals, Vinocruz offers more sensory bombardment than ever. Steve Principe, who with partner Jennifer Walker reopened the popular downtown wine tasting depot in late August, is still fine-tuning many attractive new features.

Not wanting to fix what was already working for the five-year-old wine station, Principe says Vinocruz continues to be “committed to the wines of the Santa Cruz Mountains. They really represent the uniqueness of the region.” The current tasting menu includes offerings from Odonata, McHenry, Trout Gulch, Fernwood and Hallcrest vineyards.

A local since his UCSC days in the late ’70s, Principe is clearly excited about his first-ever wine business. “So many people are excited that we’re open and that we haven’t changed things too much,” he says. But the new owners have made some attractive additions to the stylish wine shop, including a handsome tasting bar designed and created by Carlos Prentiss, son of painter Charles Prentiss. An inviting front patio artfully cordons off Vinocruz guests from the public space of Abbott Square. And, intent on accentuating the shop’s generous wall space as a serious gallery venue, Principe has made sure Vinocruz is front and center as part of the First Friday art walk.

Meanwhile, the shop continues to court overflow participants of the many bold, interactive events held at the adjoining Museum of Art and History. “We generally stay open when there is something happening there,” Principe explains. “I’m excited about the tie-ins with the museum. There’s opportunity to build on the synergy there that I’m looking forward to.”

Admitting to a steep learning curve, the new co-owner says with a smile, “We’re interested in getting it right.” I’ll toast that idea. Vinocruz hosts winemaker pourings on weekends and is open for tastings and sales. 750 Cooper St., Santa Cruz. 831.426.8466. Open Tue-Thu 1-7pm, Fri-Sat 1-8pm, Sun 1-6pm. www. facebook.com/vinocruz MIMI DOES ASIAN FUSION Culinary diva Mimi Snowdon is offering an Asian fusion cooking class on Friday, Mar. 2, the only class she plans to offer this year. So if you’ve ever wanted to take one of her classes, now’s the time. The cost is $125 for instruction, recipes, dinner and wine. To reserve a space, email mimisnowden@att. net or call the office at 831.722.4011.

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

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

AMBROSIA INDIA BISTRO

$$ Aptos

BRITANNIA ARMS

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$$$ Aptos $$ Aptos

207 Searidge Rd, 831.685.0610

8017 Soquel Dr, 831.688.1233 SEVERINO’S GRILL

7500 Old Dominion Ct, 831.688.8987 ZAMEEN MEDITERRANEAN

7528 Soquel Dr, 831.688.4465

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

Open daily 11am to 2am.

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

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

CAPITOLA $ Capitola

CAFE VIOLETTE

$$

Capitola

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

$$$

SHADOWBROOK

Capitola

1750 Wharf Rd, 831.475.1511

$$$

STOCKTON BRIDGE GRILLE

Capitola

231 Esplanade, 831.464.1933

$$$ Capitola

203 Esplanade, 831.475.4900

104 Stockton Ave, 831.479.8888

ZELDA’S

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

California Continental. Swordfish and other seafood specials.

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

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

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

SANTA CRUZ

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$$ Santa Cruz

ACAPULCO

$$$ Santa Cruz

CELLAR DOOR

$ Santa Cruz

CHARLIE HONG KONG

$$ Santa Cruz

CLOUDS

$$ Santa Cruz

328 Ingalls St, 831.425.6771

1141 Soquel Ave, 831. 426.5664

110 Church St, 831.429.2000 THE CREPE PLACE

1134 Soquel Ave, 831.429.6994

$$

CROW’S NEST

Santa Cruz

2218 East Cliff Dr, 831.476.4560

$$ Santa Cruz

GABRIELLA’S

$$ Santa Cruz

HINDQUARTER

$$ Santa Cruz

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1116 Pacific Ave, 831. 426.7588

910 Cedar St., 831.457.1677

303 Soquel Ave, 831.426.7770 HOFFMAN’S

1102 Pacific Ave, 837.420.0135

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HULA’S ISLAND GRILL

Santa Cruz

221 Cathcart St, 831.426.4852

$

INDIA JOZE

Santa Cruz

418 Front St, 831.325-3633

$$ Santa Cruz

JOHNNY’S HARBORSIDE

493 Lake Ave, 831.479.3430

$$ Santa Cruz

OLITAS

$$ Santa Cruz

PACIFIC THAI

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

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

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

Fine Mexican cuisine. Opening daily at noon.

49-B Municipal Wharf, 831.458.9393

1319 Pacific Ave, 831.420.1700 RISTORANTE ITALIANO

Santa Cruz

555 Soquel Ave, 831.458.2321

$$ Santa Cruz

1220 Pacific Ave, 831.426.9930

ROSIE MCCANN’S

Italian-American. Mouthwatering, generous portions, friendly service and the best patio in town. Full bar. Lunch Mon-Fri 11:30am, dinner nightly at 5pm.

Irish pub and restaurant. Informal pub fare with reliable execution. Lunch and dinner all day, open Mon-Fri 11:30ammidnight, Sat-Sun 11:30am-1:30am.

$$ Santa Cruz

SANTA CRUZ MTN. BREWERY California / Brewpub. Enjoy a handcrafted organic ale in the

402 Ingalls Street, Ste 27 831.425.4900

taproom or the outdoor patio while you dine on Bavarian pretzels, a bowl of french fries, Santa Cruz’s best fish tacos and more.

Open everday noon until 10pm. Food served until 7pm.

$$ Santa Cruz

SOIF

Wine bar with menu. Flawless plates of great character and flavor; sexy menu listings and wines to match. Dinner Mon-Thu 59pm, Fri-Sat 5-10pm, Sun 4-9pm; retail shop Mon 5pm-close, Tue-Sat noon-close, Sun 4pm-close.

$$ Santa Cruz

WOODSTOCK’S PIZZA

105 Walnut Ave, 831.423.2020

710 Front St, 831.427.4444

Pizza. Pizza, fresh salads, sandwiches, wings, desserts, beers on tap. Patio dining, sports on HDTV and free WiFi. Large groups and catering. Open and delivering Fri-Sat 11am-2am, Mon-Thu 11am-1am, Sun 11am-midnight.

SCOTTS VALLEY $ HEAVENLY CAFE American. Serving breakfast and lunch daily. Large parties Scotts Valley 1210 Mt. Hermon Rd, 831.335.7311 welcome. Mon-Fri 6:30am-2:15pm, Sat-Sun 7am-2:45pm. $ JIA TELLA’S Scotts Valley 5600 #D Scotts Valley Dr, 831.438.5005

Cambodian. Fresh kebabs, seafood dishes, soups and noodle bowls with a unique Southeast Asian flair. Beer and wine available. Patio dining. Sun-Thu 11am-9pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10pm.

SOQUEL $$ Soquel

EL CHIPOTLE TAQUERIA

4724 Soquel Dr, 831.477.1048

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

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Thai. Individually prepared with the freshest ingredients, plus ambrosia bubble teas, shakes. Mon-Thu 11:30am-9:30pm, Fri 11:30am-10pm, Sat noon-10pm, Sun noon-9:30pm.

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

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

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Free Will

Astrology

ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny

For the week of February 22

GEMINI (May 21–June 20): “I try to take one day at a time,” says Ashleigh Brilliant, “but sometimes several days attack me all at once.” I think you may soon be able to say words to that effect, Gemini—and that’s a good thing. Life will seem more concentrated and meaningful than usual. Events will flow faster, and your awareness will be extra intense. As a result, you should have exceptional power to unleash transformations that could create ripples lasting for months. Would you like each day to be the equivalent of nine days? Or would four be enough for you?

CANCER (June 21–July 22): When actor Ashton Kutcher is working on the set of his TV show Two and a Half Men, he enjoys spacious digs. His trailer is two stories high and has two bathrooms as well as a full kitchen. Seven 60-inch TVs are available for his viewing pleasure. As you embark on your journey to the far side of reality, Cancerian, it might be tempting for you to try to match that level of comfort. But what’s more important than material luxury will be psychological and spiritual aids that help keep you attuned to your deepest understandings about life. Be sure you’re wellstocked with influences that keep your imagination vital and upbeat. Favorite symbols? Uplifting books?

Photos of mentors? Magic objects?

LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): Veterans of war who’ve been wounded by shrapnel often find that years later some of the metal fragments eventually migrate to the surface and pop out of their skin. The moral of the story: The body may take a long time to purify itself of toxins. The same is true about your psyche. It might not be able to easily and quickly get rid of the poisons it has absorbed, but you should never give up hoping it will find a way. Judging by the astrological omens, I think you are very close to such a climactic cleansing and catharsis, Leo. VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): Distilled water is a poor conductor of electricity. For H2O to have electroconductivity, it must contain impurities in the form of dissolved salts. I see a timely lesson in this for you, Virgo. If you focus too hard on being utterly clean and clear, some of life’s rather chaotic but fertile and invigorating energy may not be able to flow through you. That’s why I suggest you experiment with being at least a little impure and imperfect. Don’t just tolerate the messiness. Learn from it; thrive on it; even exult in it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are neither in a red-alert situation nor are you headed for one. A pink alert may be in effect, however. Thankfully, there’s no danger or emergency in the works. Shouting and bolting and leaping won’t be necessary. Rather, you may simply be called upon to come up with unexpected responses to unpredicted circumstances. Unscripted plot twists could prompt you to take actions you haven’t rehearsed. It actually might be kind of fun as long as

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): “Dear Rob: For months I’ve had a recurring dream in which I own a pet snake.

Here’s the problem: The only cage I have to keep the snake in is sadly inadequate. It has widely spaced bars that the snake just slips right through. In the dream I am constantly struggling to keep the snake in its cage, which is exhausting, since it’s impossible. Just this morning, after having the dream for the billionth time, I finally asked myself, what’s so terrible about letting the snake out of its cage? So I gratefully wrote myself this permission note: ‘It is hereby allowed and perfectly acceptable to let my dreamsnake out of its cage to wander freely.’—Scorpio Devotee.” Dear Devotee: You have provided all your fellow Scorpios with an excellent teaching story for the upcoming weeks. Thank you!

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Trying to act like or be like anyone else should be a taboo of the first degree.

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ARIES (March 21–April 19): I invite you to identify all the things in your life that you really don’t need any more: gadgets that have become outdated, clothes that no longer feel like you, once-exciting music and books and art works that no longer mean what they once did. Don’t stop there. Pinpoint the people who have let you down, the places that lower your vitality, and the activities that have become boring or artificial. Finally, Aries, figure out the traditions that no longer move you, the behavior patterns that no longer serve you, and the compulsive thoughts that have a freaky life of their own. Got all that? Dump at least some of them.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): For millions of years, black kite raptors made their nests with leaves, twigs, grass, mud, fur, and feathers. In recent centuries they have also borrowed materials from humans, like cloth, string, and paper. And in the last few decades, a new element has become quite popular. Eighty-two percent of all black kite nest-builders now use white plastic as decoration. I suggest you take inspiration from these adaptable creatures, Sagittarius. It’s an excellent time for you to add some wrinkles to the way you shape your home base. Departing from tradition could add significantly to your levels of domestic bliss.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): There are many examples of highly accomplished people whose early education was problematical. Thomas Edison’s first teacher called him “addled,” and thereafter he was home-schooled by his mother. Winston Churchill did so poorly in school he was punished. Benjamin Franklin had just two years of formal education. As for Einstein, he told his biographer, “My parents were worried because I started to talk comparatively late, and they consulted a doctor because of it.” What all these people had in common, however, is that they became brilliant at educating themselves according to their own specific needs and timetable. Speaking of which: The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you Capricorns to plot and design the contours of your future learning.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): Nigeria has abundant deposits of petroleum. Since 1974, oil companies have paid the country billions of dollars for the privilege of extracting its treasure. And yet the majority of Nigerians, over 70 percent, live on less than a dollar a day. Where does the money go? That’s a long story, with the word “corruption” at its heart. Now let me ask you, Aquarius: Is there a gap between the valuable things you have to offer and the rewards you receive for them? Are you being properly compensated for your natural riches? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to address this issue.

PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): Gawker.com notes that American politician John McCain tends to repeat himself—a lot. Researchers discovered that he has told the same joke at least 27 times in five years. (And it’s such a feeble joke, it’s not worth retelling.) In the coming week, Pisces, please please please avoid any behavior that resembles this repetitive, habit-bound laziness. You simply cannot afford to be imitating who you used to be and what you used to do. As much as possible, reinvent yourself from scratch—and have maximum fun doing it.

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