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JONATHAN FRANZEN ON FAME, BIRDS AND WHY HE LIVES IN SANTA CRUZ BY WALLACE BAINE P18

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LIFE OF BRIAN

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EDITOR’S NOTE Here in Santa Cruz, I think we have a bit of cognitive dissonance around Jonathan Franzen, just because he lives here and has made himself such a part of the community. Obviously, we know about his Great American Novelist status. We may have even been blown away ourselves reading The Corrections and Freedom and Purity. And yet, a lot of us see him as a pretty normal dude with particularly fetching glasses who shows up at local library events, or as a bartender at a Bookshop Santa Cruz charity mixer, or out

LETTERS

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HERE’S THE DEAL

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Re: “Particular Exposure” (GT, Nov. 21): As California burns around us, it’s easy to lose hope. For years, as the climate crisis has worsened, our nation has had neither a plan nor the will to face the problem.

Now, thanks to the Blue Wave of young people in Congress, we have a plan, but it will take all our efforts to make it happen.

I support Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s resolution to create a House Select Committee for a Green New Deal in Congress.

United Nations climate scientists tell us we have just 12 years to move our country off fossil fuels to avert catastrophic climate disaster. The Green New Deal does that, while also creating millions of green jobs and protecting working people of all backgrounds.

The Democrats must share a compelling vision for the future to win in 2020.

The Green New Deal is our best hope.

Representative Panetta should get behind his progressive colleagues and support the Green New Deal.

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BUS IT Re: “Push Track (GT, 11/21): A novelty train can run once a year and call itself the “Polar

in the scrub while he’s doing some birdwatching.

So the various “Jonathan Franzen said this, and now the internet is mad at him” so-called controversies seem a million miles away. And of course, that’s how he likes it, as Wallace Baine discusses in this week’s cover story. It’s a great read, and an insightful look into Franzen’s life here, and his new collection of essays.

I also urge you to take a look at the story by Ryan Masters in this week’s news section about CERT, one of the nonprofits you can donate to through Santa Cruz Gives.

There are only 34 days left in our holiday giving drive—so many great local causes, so little time. So go to santacruzgives.org and find your perfect philanthropic match!

STEVE PALOPOLI | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Express.” A genuine high-speed train may be able to run only once an hour and yet serve a useful purpose. A “commuter train” running only once per half-hour is a stretch, and even every 15 minutes may be on the edge of acceptability. Such infrequency obviously deters interest in public transportation, so a goal should always be to do better. Properly providing strategic bursts of every five minutes would seem very desirable.

Such a passenger commuter train traveling through Santa Cruz County on a single track (intended only for slow moving freight) isn’t going to happen! A simple solution that should satisfy all is to replace the obsolete freight track with a low-cost, multi-use arrangement that would safely accommodate bus passengers, bicyclists, pedestrians, families and genuinely improve Highway 1 traffic during rush hours.

Briefly, the existing single railroad track could be covered with a surface that is drivable by existing buses. During morning commutes, buses depart the Watsonville bus terminal to pick-up this upgraded “single vehicle lane” corridor at the most convenient spot and travel westward unimpeded through the corridor to the Santa Cruz bus terminal and then return via the free-moving (at this time) eastbound Highway 1, back to the Watsonville >8

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Thanks to a much-needed soaking, the city of Santa Cruz is reopening five open spaces it had recently closed due to fire danger: Pogonip, Arana Gulch, Moore Creek Preserve, DeLaveaga Park, and Arroyo Seco Canyon Trail. All of them are ready to have hiking trails traversed by outdoor lovers.

Rains greeted Santa Cruz County this past week, starting on Wednesday, Nov. 21. As of press time, there are more showers in the forecasts ahead.

A heart-warming Facebook video posted by Clare Campbell recently made the rounds showing two children playing patty-cake at the Ishara House orphanage that Campbell founded in the Congo. Campbell, who owns Felton’s Outback Trading Company, launched scholarships to improve the lives of young Congolese. She also started Congo Threads, a sewing project to employ women in the region. Campbell carries Congo Threads clothes in her store.

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LOCAL TALK

What do you think about Black Friday and Cyber Monday?

BY MATTHEW COLE SCOTT

I live in a town where we all value small business and community, so I would rather shop at a local shop than Amazon.

ALICIA SHIVELY SANTA CRUZ | OFFICE MANAGER

I don’t really care for either one of them. I care for small business owners.

SONDI CARCELLO CAPITOLA | ASSISTANT

I don’t need any impetus or extra attention to buy gifts.

DAVID JONES

I spent money on wine Friday, and saved some money, and that’s all I care about.

MIKE GRABILL CAPITOLA | GENERAL CONTRACTOR

Destroy capitalism.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of November 28 ARIES Mar21–Apr19 Every year the bird known as the Arctic tern experiences two summers and enjoys more daylight than any other animal. That’s because it regularly makes a long-distance journey from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back again. Let’s designate this hardy traveler as your inspirational creature for the next eleven months.

May it help animate you to experiment with brave jaunts that broaden and deepen your views of the world. I don’t necessarily mean you should literally do the equivalent of circumnavigating the planet. Your expansive adventures might take place mostly in inner realms or closer to home.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 When the American Civil War began in 1861, the United States fractured. Four years later, the union was technically restored when the northern states defeated the southern states. At that time, African American slavery became illegal everywhere for the first time since the country’s birth decades earlier. But there was a catch. The southern states soon enacted laws that mandated racial segregation and ensured that African Americans continued to suffer systematic disadvantages. Is there a comparable issue in your personal life? Did you at sometime in the past try to fix an untenable situation only to have it sneak back in a less severe but still debilitating form? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to finish the reforms; to enforce a thorough and permanent correction.

GEMINI May21–June20 Does an elusive giant creature with a long neck inhabit the waters of Loch Ness in northern Scotland? Alleged sightings have been reported since 1933. Most scientists dismiss the possibility that “Nessie” actually exists, but there are photos, films, and videos that provide tantalizing evidence. A government-funded Scottish organization has prepared contingency plans just in case the beast does make an unambiguous appearance. In that spirit, and in accordance with astrological omens, I recommend that you prepare yourself for the arrival in your life of intriguing anomalies and fun mysteries. Like Nessie, they’re nothing to worry about, but you’ll be better able to deal gracefully with them if you’re not totally taken by surprise.

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CANCER Jun21–Jul22

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Does moss really “eat” rocks, as Cancerian author Elizabeth Gilbert attests in her novel The Signature of All Things?

Marine chemist Martin Johnson says yes. Moss really does break down and release elements in solid stone. Gilbert adds, “Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.” Furthermore, this hardy plant can grow virtually everywhere: in the tropics and frozen wastes, on tree bark and roofing slate, on sloth fur and snail shells. I propose that we make moss your personal symbol of power for now, Cancerian. Be as indomitable, resourceful, and resilient as moss.

LE0 Jul23–Aug22 Let’s shout out a big “THANKS!” and “HALLELUJAH!” to the enzymes in our bodies. These catalytic proteins do an amazing job of converting the food we eat into available energy. Without them, our cells would take forever to turn any particular meal into the power we need to walk, talk, and think. I bring this marvel to your attention, Leo, because now is a favorable time to look for and locate metaphorical equivalents of enzymes: influences and resources that will aid and expedite your ability to live the life you want to live.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground,” writes author Judith Thurman. I’m guessing you will experience this feeling in the coming weeks. What does it mean if you do? It may be your deep psyche’s way of nudging you to find an energizing new sanctuary. Or perhaps it means you should search for fresh ways to feel peaceful and well-grounded. Maybe

it’s a prod to push you outside your existing comfort zone so you can expand your comfort zone.

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22 Venice, Italy consists of 118 small islands that rise from a shallow lagoon. A network of 443 bridges keeps them all connected. But Venice isn’t the world champion of bridges. The American city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania holds that title, with 446. I nominate these two places to be your inspirational symbols in the coming weeks. It’s time for you to build new metaphorical bridges and take good care of your existing metaphorical bridges.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 To aid and support your navigation through this pragmatic phase of your astrological cycle, I have gathered counsel from three productive pragmatists. First is author Helen Keller. She said she wanted to accomplish great and noble things, but her “chief duty” was “to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” Second, author George Orwell believed that “to see what is in front of one’s nose” requires never-ending diligence. Finally, author Pearl S. Buck testified that she didn’t wait around until she was in the right mood before beginning her work. Instead, she invoked her willpower to summon the necessary motivation.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 Blackjack is a card game popular in gambling casinos.

In the eternal struggle to improve the odds of winning big money, some blackjack players work in teams. One teammate secretly counts the cards as they’re dealt and assesses what cards are likely to come up next. Another teammate gets subtle signals from his card-counting buddy and makes the bets. A casino in Windsor, Ontario pressed charges against one blackjack team, complaining that this tactic was deceptive and dishonest. But the court decided in the team’s favor, ruling that the players weren’t cheating but simply using smart strategy. In the spirit of these blackjack teams, Sagittarius, and in accordance with astrological omens, I urge you to better your odds in a “game” of your choice by using strategy that is almost as good as cheating but isn’t actually cheating.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 What has become of the metaphorical seeds you planted during the weeks after your last birthday? Have your intentions flourished? Have your dreams blossomed?

Have your talents matured? Have your naive questions evolved into more penetrating questions? Be honest and kind as you answer these inquiries. Be thoughtful and big-hearted as you take inventory of your ability to follow through on your promises to yourself. If people are quizzical about how much attention you’re giving yourself as you take stock, inform them that your astrologer has told you that December is Love Yourself Better Month.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 If you want to play the drinking game called Possum, you and your friends climb up into a tree with a case of beer and start drinking. As time goes by, people get so hammered they fall out of the tree. The winner is the last one left in the tree. I hope you won’t engage in this form of recreation anytime soon—nor in any other activity that even vaguely resembles it. The coming weeks should be a time of calling on favors, claiming your rewards, collecting your blessings, and graduating to the next level. I trust your policy will be: no trivial pursuits, no wasted efforts, no silly stunts.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 In his song “Happy Talk,” Academy Award-winning lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II offered this advice: “You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?” Where do you stand in this regard, Pisces? Do you in fact have a vivid, clearly defined dream? And have you developed a strategy for making that dream come true? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to home in on what you really want and hone your scheme for manifesting it. (P.S. Keep in mind Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s idea: “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”)

Homework: Hug yourself as you tell yourself your biggest secret.

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NEWS FIRST RESPONDERS Teaching disaster preparedness and fire safety, Santa Cruz Gives participant CERT builds stronger communities

BY RYAN MASTERS

FIRST PLACED Justin Cummings was the top vote getter in the 2018 November election.

Splitting the Odds

What the election of Justin Cummings and Donna Meyers means in a tight Santa Cruz City Council race BY JACOB PIERCE

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ith the vast majority of the ballots counted, environmental educator Justin Cummings is currently the top votegetter in a very tight Santa Cruz City Council race. As of press time, community organizer Drew Glover, who ran on a slate with Cummings, is third in the race for three seats, which would be good enough for a majority for the council’s far-left wing, currently led by councilmembers Chris Krohn and Sandy Brown.

Environmental consultant Donna Meyers is in second, but only 44 votes behind Cummings, who was leading by a wider margin last week.

Cummings remembers feeling

overwhelmed and “pretty shaken” the day after the election—he was in second place in the early ballot counting, and it was starting to sink in that the hard work on his campaign had truly paid off.

The more time Cummings had to recuperate from the campaign trail, the more excited he became.

“I’m just trying to figure out how I’m gonna organize my time,” says Cummings, who already works long hours at his day job.

Customarily, the top two vote getters each serve one year as mayor, although the decision is ultimately left up to the council.

There are a few thousand provisional ballots left for election workers to

research and count, but Meyers is currently 1,400 votes ahead of Glover for second place.

Before deciding how he would approach his year as mayor, Cummings says he wants to get to know city staff, and continue thinking about the issues. If selected to serve a term as mayor, Meyers says she would focus on homelessness issues, climate readiness and housing affordability— especially in light of the affordable housing bond failing to earn a twothirds majority at the polls.

Glover and Cummings have, for the most part, steadily risen in the vote count ever since results started coming in. As GT reported >12

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There’s an adage these days that health care should not begin in the emergency room—given that preventative care is more impactful and more cost-effective than a last-minute trip to the ER when a patient is already in serious trouble. It is equally true that emergency preparation should not begin in the midst of a fire, flood, mudslide, or earthquake.

That’s why Santa Cruz County CERT, which stands for Community Emergency Response Team, brings neighbors together to train, plan and prepare for a wide variety of hazards before they happen. Safety is a serious concern this fall, as fires are raging throughout California. But CERT goes beyond thinking about worst-case scenarios.

“This is about community more than anything. It’s about neighbors learning to work as a cohesive unit,” says Santa Cruz County CERT executive director Mary Edmund, 69, of Aptos. “People expect the government to step in and handle things in an emergency. That’s a dangerous way of thinking. The government cannot do everything for us.”

This holiday season marks the first time that Santa Cruz County CERT has been selected to participate in the holiday fundraising program Santa Cruz Gives, a partnership between GT and the Santa Cruz County Volunteer Center.

A retired U.S. Army colonel, Edmund’s 30-year military career ranged from duty as a nurse to medical advisor for the chief of the U.S. Army Reserve. She spent the final 10 years of her career working for the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness at the Pentagon.

After retiring from the Army in 1996, Edmund moved to Santa Cruz County and became a self-described “career volunteer.”

She spent 16 years with the Homeless Garden Project and more than 20 years with the Monterey Bay Master Gardeners.

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SPLITTING THE ODDS <11 last week online, the tally announced Tuesday, Nov. 20, showed Glover finally inching ahead of Larson, who wrote on Facebook shortly after that it looked unlikely that he would surpass Glover. But new results came in Monday, after election officials added a whopping 1,500 additional vote-bymail ballots, which tend to come from slightly older voters and skew more conservative. Those returns narrowed the race for third place; Glover is still ahead of Larson, but only by 20 votes. Larson stresses that he did not concede the race in his Facebook post.

Although optimistic about the returns, Glover never announced victory, even last week when things were looking pretty good for him. “I try not to focus on things that are totally out of my control,” he told GT. If nothing changes, Cummings and Glover would be the first two black men to serve on the Santa Cruz City Council, where they’ll join Vice Mayor

Martine Watkins, who became the first African American ever elected to the body two years ago.

Incumbent Councilmember Richelle Noroyan is currently in fifth place, 180 votes behind Larson.

Psychotherapist Cynthia Hawthorne is sixth.

All eyes have turned to the outstanding provisional ballots, which historically skew left.

(Nationally, they overwhelmingly backed Obama in 2012, and Clinton in 2016.) But in Santa Cruz County, where most voters cast ballots by mail, there is more uncertainty about how those results will break. A number of provisional ballots could come from vote-by-mail voters who lost their ballots at home.

If the results hold, the arrival of a new majority would call into question the future of several majors projects, including a mixed-use parking garage and library, as well as current attempts to ease the housing crisis.

(Krohn cast the lone dissenting vote this past summer against a robust housing plan initially kick-started

by Councilmember Cynthia Chase’s outreach as mayor.)

There is already talk of passing a rent control ordinance, now that the rent control ballot measure, which Cummings and Glover supported, failed at the polls. That initiative, Measure M, earned 36.4 percent of the vote. “Rent control by ordinance, here we come!” local activist James Weller wrote Tuesday in a Facebook post, in which he tagged both Cummings and Glover.

Glover says that if the council chose to pass a rent control ordinance, he believes it would want to tone down some of the more controversial elements of Measure M to address concerns from opponents.

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NEWS BRIEFS FAREWELL, MAH LOVELY The Nina Simon era at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz is coming to an end.

Simon and the MAH’s board of directors announced this week that she will leave her position as the museum’s executive director in 2019, and the board will begin the search for a replacement in December. Simon will become the director of a new nonprofit, in association with the MAH, to help cultural organizations around the world pursue innovations in developing their communities. She and her family will remain residents of Santa Cruz County.

Simon radically transformed the MAH during her eight-year tenure as its leader. Before she assumed the job in 2011, the MAH was a traditional, if unremarkable, community museum with a twin

mission of preserving local history and promoting fine art through periodic exhibitions. Today, it’s the vortex of a wide range of community activities from sociopolitically oriented exhibitions to celebratory fire festivals. Simon’s leadership also includes the $5 million Abbott Square project, which transformed the small plaza adjacent to the museum into a bustling urban community space in the spirit of San Pedro Square in San Jose and the Grand Central Market in Los Angeles.

Attendance to the museum has roughly tripled under Simon.

Once a successor is hired, Simon will spearhead a new organization called OF/BY/FOR ALL, which will seek to take the lessons from the transformation of the MAH and create a framework for other communityfocused organizations to emulate—including not only other museums, but parks, libraries and media organizations.

Simon is quick to correct the notion that she’ll take on the role of a consultant.

“We’re really seeing this as a movement,” she says. “The MAH is a beautiful place and it is perceived as a leader and an incubator of these kinds of approaches. This is about putting more fuel into sharing that energy and these opportunities globally.”

The new effort has been in the planning stages for about a year, and the specific relationship between the MAH and the new organization has yet to be determined. “The idea,” says Simon, “is to have strong separate entities—the MAH doing great local work, and OF/BY/FOR ALL sharing the secret sauce and the framework [of the MAH] that we see being adaptable in many different contexts.”

The move is a natural extension of Simon’s career

as a kind of agent for bold democratization of historically elitist museum culture. She laid the groundwork of her vision in her ongoing blog “Museum 2.0,” which began in 2006, and the publication of her book The Participatory Museum in 2010. Her mission, she says, is to break down the barriers that have prevented full participation of communities in their local institutions, not only as audiences but as creators and decisionmakers, an approach reflected in her new organization’s Lincolnesque use of the prepositions “of,” “by,” and “for.”

Though she’s ready to take the MAH model global, Simon says that leaving her position was “a very hard decision to make.” Of her successor, she says, “I honestly think this is the best executive director job in the world. [Whoever is hired] is going to be one of the luckiest people in the world.” WALLACE BAINE

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program across the county. The former colonel took it upon herself to do exactly that.

“Considering my background, CERT seemed like a natural fit, and I wanted to do something for my neighborhood,” Edmund says. “At that time, there were only one or two classes a year in the entire county.

Watsonville hadn’t had a CERT class in nine years.”

CERT plans to use its Santa Cruz Gives funds to partially cover the cost of training equipment, including two mannequins, for search-and-rescue and disaster medicine training units. Edmund says the program aims to expand and adapt its FEMAcertified basic and advanced training to reflect the unique geographical areas in Santa Cruz County. She wants to develop a training branch that focuses on mountain communities’ needs and another that serves coastal communities.

Edmund says Santa Cruz County CERT operates on an annual budget of roughly $40,000. To date, the program has survived on grants and donations, yet a sudden drop

off in donations has strained resources in 2018, she says.

“This year has been a tough one. I’m not sure if it was because of changes to the tax law or all the calls to action in the wake of the wildfires, but I’ve noticed the decrease,” Edmund says.

At the same time, demand for Santa Cruz County CERT’s classes is climbing.

FEMA-certified instructors train volunteers in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, disaster medical operations and search and rescue.

“Last year we didn’t post our 2018 classes until January,” says Santa Cruz County CERT registrar Dawn Mackey. “This year we’re getting requests in October for classes in March of next year. People are jumping on registration. We’re seeing far more interest even than last year.”

Mackey, 70, has lived in Bonny Doon since 1974. She joined CERT three years ago because she wanted to help her neighborhood prepare for fire, heavy rains and other hazards. Mackey sees CERT as not only emergency preparedness, but also invaluable community building.

“In the event of an emergency, people

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The FEMA-certified training classes are free to all residents of Santa Cruz County.

The only requirements are time and the willingness to support your neighborhood and community, according to Mackey.

“When you’re done, you’re prepared to give first responders a specific, valuable map of your neighborhood when they arrive during an emergency,” Mackey said. “It can save them a lot of crucial time.”

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isn’t everything. Glover set a surprisingly low fundraising limit for himself of about $10,000. He ended up raising $12,800, as of Oct. 31, according to reporting forms submitted to the city of Santa Cruz.

Glover, who grew up in Santa Cruz, feels that voter response to his candidacy sends a powerful message.

“It’s more in the connections you make in the world than the money you raise in the campaign,” he says.

Glover wouldn’t recommend his strategy to everyone, however. He says that a candidate needs deep roots in the community in order to pull it off.

In Larson’s campaign effort, the city management consultant went in the opposite direction. He broke the voluntary campaign spending limit of $39,900, after initially signing on to it when kicking off his campaign.

City Council candidates have yet to submit their final round of paperwork, but Larson says he ended up spending more than $50,000.

Larson says he felt he needed to raise lots of money to make up for his late start in the campaign, which he launched in August, shortly before the filing deadline. He believes that if he had launched his campaign earlier, he would have had better results on election day, but says that he wasn’t able to announce sooner because of business and personal reasons.

Although the field looked crowded on paper, Larson felt at the time that there were only a few serious candidates, and he believed that was good enough to provide an opening for him. He says that if the results don’t turn around for him in the final vote count, he will consider another run in 2020 or 2022.

There may also be lessons in the race’s crowded field, which had 10 candidates vying for just three seats.

Other than Cummings and Glover, all of the candidates were either relatively moderate or right-leaning.

Supporters of the public safety group Take Back Santa Cruz, which doesn’t make endorsements, had their eyes on four candidates, all of whom were active and popular on the group’s Facebook page: Larson, Noroyan, Ashley Scontriano and Paige Concannon, the race’s >16

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Those four were also the only candidates that the local public safety blog Santa Mierda wrote about favorably in its election guide.

There was also disagreement and confusion about who the strongest public safety candidates were. Meyers, for example, wasn’t typically lumped into that group, but did earn endorsements from the Police Officers’ Association, the local firefighters’ union and the Police Management Association.

“They splintered each other,” Glover says. “There was infighting going on. There was combativeness that was made public. There were all of these obstacles that they basically put up themselves. The question I would pose to voters is, ‘What kind of leaders are you looking for? Do you want leaders who would lift each other up and work together or rip each other down in a conquest of power?’”

Former Mayor Mike Rotkin endorsed three of race’s centrists: Meyers, Larson and Noroyan. He gives credit to Cummings and Glover for running on a united front.

Rotkin, a Marxist UCSC lecturer, says both Cummings and Glover were popular on campus, and he figured that the two candidates would do well with voters who chose same-day registration at their polling places. In late returns, which included same-day registration ballots, both Cummings and Glover made major gains.

“Those guys were united, they were the only candidates who supported M,” Rotkin says.

Rotkin says that Larson, who he called the most qualified candidate in the race, probably should have entered the race earlier. If he had, Rotkin says, Larson’s presence may have dissuaded other candidates from jumping in. In hindsight, Rotkin suggests that instead of declaring late, maybe Larson should have just sat the election out.

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broad-shouldered feature stories in the national and international media, which by their general aimlessness indicate that editors feel about Franzen as a mom feels about her daughter away at college: “Just checking in to see what’s new with you.” One New York Times feature was titled “Jonathan Franzen is Fine With All of It.” Another in the online magazine The Outline says only “Jonathan Franzen is Fine.”)

At the same time, Franzen, 59, still finds himself trapped in the online dunking booth of social media, where little more than clearing his throat can draw shrieks of derision. Last week, with the publication of his new collection of essays The End of the End of the Earth (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Twitter exploded in response to a list of rules for writers that Franzen included in the collection. If such an assertion as “It’s doubtful that anyone

with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction” had come from any one of 10,000 creative-writing professors, it would have barely merited a shrug. But from Franzen, such a mildly provocative notion turbocharged the outrage machine for days.

It’s the kind of situation that would drive many writers into vampire-like misanthropy or at least a Salinger-esque selfexile. But Franzen’s strategy to cope with this particular kind of trending-topic hell is simple: 1) keep working, 2) stay off social media, and 3) live in Santa Cruz.

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e is famously fond of birds. But you could argue that Jonathan Franzen’s spirit animal is of a different phylum altogether.

Like some exotic Amazonian butterfly pinned under glass, Franzen has for years been the object of a brand of obsessive public curiosity like no other writer of his generation.

Franzen’s landmark 2001 novel The Corrections is a consensus choice for the canon of the greatest novels of the 21st century, and you could make a good argument for its follow-ups, Freedom and Purity. So, he is in no way undeserving of widespread recognition.

But Franzen’s fame is as much a condition of the mosquito-swarm nature of today’s information-decadent media culture as it is of his literary accomplishments. Just in the last few months, he has been the subject of several

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He has lived on and off in Santa Cruz for years, but in 2018, he sold his New York City apartment, making Santa Cruz his only home address.

“I’m a ’70s guy,” he says. “When I first came here, it was: ‘Oh, I recognize this. This is what I liked about the ’70s.’ And it’s still here.”

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he has maintained a refreshingly regular-guy lifestyle. This year, he has made public appearances in such decidedly cozy local venues as the Porter Memorial Library in Soquel and the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods. At Porter, he even read a passage from his new novel, a project not likely to see publication until the next decade. On Thursday, Nov. 29, Franzen, as he has done for most of his books, will begin his tour with an appearance at Bookshop Santa Cruz.

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The idea of community is taken seriously here.”

Franzen is originally a Midwesterner—he grew up near St. Louis—and ended up in California, a pattern that fits many of his literary peers such as George Saunders, Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers and the late David Foster Wallace.

“My worry before coming here was that I would never get any writing done, because it’s the good life,” says Franzen. “I had the wrong idea about California. When you live in the East, and grew up in the Midwest, California exists in your imagination in this kind of golden light—red wine, golden hills, hot tubs, redwoods. It looks like your brain is going to rot there.”

To Franzen’s delight, he found early on that, at least in Santa Cruz, the Beach Boys endless-summer fantasy gave way to gray summers and fog-smothered mornings.

Of the summer of 2018, he said, with satisfaction, “It was the best summer in a decade for morning fog and low temperatures. I just love the weather.”

Not that the weather or anything about his surroundings matter when it comes time to write. Franzen calls his home office a “sensory deprivation chamber,” a signifier of his ongoing personal vendetta against distractions. Not only does he keep the internet and cellphones out, he cannot even tolerate a window. “I look

at some venetian blinds that are shut.

I can tell that there are some redwood trees out there. But I can’t see them well enough to risk getting distracted by a bird.”

Franzen’s new book, however, belies the notion that he’s a hermit trapped in his writer’s distractionproof booth. It’s a wide-ranging collection of his nonfiction, much of it published before, though “in completely invisible places.”

The short piece that finishes the collection was actually originally published on a Chipotle bag.

“Literally nothing in this book is exactly the way it was when it was published,” says Franzen. “In a number of cases, there have been substantial revisions.”

The book features mostly recent material, the outlier being a piece written in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Franzen owes the success of The Corrections, in part, to a quirk of timing at the intersection of commerce and tragedy. The novel was released the same week as the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and became the book people turned to as an escape from the tragedy.

“I went on the road almost as soon as the planes got back in the air,” he says, “and everywhere I went, people were like, ‘Oh my God. You’re the only writer coming to town. We’re so happy to think about something that isn’t what we’re seeing on CNN.’”

BIRD WATCH The rest of the collection is a potpourri of memory pieces, literary and arts criticism, reported travel pieces, and polemics, much of it touching on the dimensions of climate change and even more of it about birds, put most urgently and succinctly in the essay “Why Birds Matter.”

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I’m an opinionated guy. I’m an argumentative guy,” he says. “When it comes to certain issues, I can be an angry guy. Argumentation, opinion and anger are not the best things to make a novel out of.”

In the realm of anger comes a takedown of the National Audubon Society, “better known for its holiday cards and plush-toy cardinals and bluebirds, which sing when you squeeze them, than for generating hard science, taking controversial positions, or partnering with groups that do real conservation work.”

More memorable are Franzen’s astounding field reports, including a trip to Albania to see firsthand an avian apocalypse at the hands of hunters, a killing field in which thousands of birds entered and none escaped. These accounts are reported somewhat dispassionately, as a way to tackle the inconsistencies and paradoxes of modern-day conservation.

Still, Franzen’s piece on Albanian hunters’ indiscriminate slaughter of migratory birds was partially responsible for a two-year ban on hunting birds there.

Franzen realizes that his writing about birds is only effective insofar as it avoids sentimentality.

“If you take birds seriously and find out about them and watch them carefully, it’s hard to be too sentimental about them. My friend [UC Santa Cruz Professor] Todd Newberry refers to birds as killing machines. Most birds are all about killing, killing, killing and being killed, often by other birds. I don’t sentimentalize them. I respect that they are different from me, and I do love them. But when I see a dead bird, the only time I get upset is when I hit one myself. I’ve killed three birds with cars, that I know of, and I can describe exactly where each of those bird deaths happened.”

The book’s showcase essay may be the title piece, which weaves together personal reflections of fraught family relationships with

a vivid account of traveling to Antarctica on a Lindblad cruise ship. The takeaway image from the story features a majestic Emperor Penguin, spotted by Franzen from aboard the ship, holding court for a bunch of orange-bejacketed eco-tourists with cameras, as if it were holding a press conference.

Franzen, always the contrarian, had already vowed he would not take a single photo on the trip. But, he allowed himself to bathe a bit in the congratulations of his fellow tourists for spotting the penguin: “I finally had an inkling of how it must feel to a be a high-school athlete and come to school after scoring a seasonsaving touchdown,” he wrote.

There is no indication in the essay, however, of the other travelers’ acknowledgement that they were with one of the world’s most famous bird lovers and a man who once appeared on the cover of Time magazine under the headline “Great American Novelist.”

Antarctica is far to go to escape the pressures of literary fame, but they were there when Franzen returned to the unfrozen world, and they remain today, including the flaming arrows launched from social media.

“By living in Santa Cruz, it’s much easier to ignore it all than it is being in New York,” he says. He says he does not participate in social media.

He has not googled himself since 2001. He points to Chetkovich—who he slyly refers to in his new book as “The Californian”—as his anchor to the non-internet world. “My first line of defense is Kathy. She knows who I am,” he says. “Whatever persona I have publicly is meaningless to her. I know who I am. My friends know who I am. I do feel there is less of all that stuff here in Santa Cruz, that this is a self-selected cultural community that looks inward, not in a bad way, but in a good way, that’s not obsessed with the world’s opinion. And that feels good.”

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I literally bought Greyhound bus passes where you could go anywhere you want for 30 days. It wasn’t until after I moved to New York in 1986 that I began branching out and playing the West Coast states.”

It took a decade on the East Coast circuit and a chance gig with Jerry Seinfeld to open Regan’s eyes to the beauty of playing theaters, rather than clubs. “I love the complete focus you get from a theater. When you go back to a comedy club, it’s people eating nachos and there’s a blender going off in the background and the people over here, they came from New York and it’s Jack’s birthday,” Regan reflects. “It’s a different vibe, I enjoy it, but I don’t enjoy it as much as everyone sitting in velvet chairs and paying 100 percent attention.”

Even with an audience giving a comic 100 percent of their undivided attention, there is something that Regan misses from the early comedy club days, and that’s hanging out with other comedians after a gig.

Which is why after a Mountain Winery show earlier this year, Regan popped by Rooster T. Feathers in Sunnyvale, just to hang out and say hello. Because for Regan, comedy clubs are his home away from home.

“That’s a great way to put it. I miss the camaraderie of comedy clubs. What’s weird at a theater is that you say good night and the audience goes and walks out one

door, and you walk out another door,” he says. “Aren’t we supposed to cuddle when we’re done?”

Over the years, Regan has been adamant that he was not a comic looking to move toward a TV show or some lame sitcom about his life.

Call it kismet, but the stars lined up, and Regan is now on a Farrelly Brothers-directed show called Loudermilk on the somewhat obscure AT&T Audience Network channel. “I love the autonomy of being a standup comedian and all the choices that come with that,” Regan admits.

“Besides the amount of time I get to perform, it’s all up to me and I get to do whatever I want to do.” But when asked about the differences, it seems Regan is no longer against being on the tube. “Acting is a whole other animal. I’m thrilled that I get to do it because it’s a big deal for me.

You only get this one life—might as well take on some challenges. I like the team aspect of acting. It’s real interesting to see how a TV show is made.”

For season two, Regan is being directed by either Peter or Bobby Farrelly in various episodes. “Both of them are great,” he says. “Both of them are very cool about letting me branch out and do what I want to do, but if it goes beyond what’s going to help the scene they have to reign me in. And I don’t mind because I’m serving somebody else’s creative vision. I like the difference, and I like being able to do both.”

Brian Regan performs at 7 p.m. on Nov. 30 at the Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $47.50/General Admission, $63/Gold Circle. riotheatre.com.

Friday, December 7th 8:00pm at

A benefit for Pajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes and the Food Bank for Low Income Pet Owners at Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter

November 1 through December 31. Limit one free game per person, per day. Open play only. All donations will be given to Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County.

115 Cliff Street Santa Cruz (831)426-3324

15th Annual Native American Market

Holiday Art & Craft Faire

Sat, Dec 1 10am-5pm Sun, Dec 2 10am-4pm Come & shop for unique Native American gifts:

Simpkins Swim Center Saturday, December 1, 10:00 AM-4:00 PM Free Admission & Parking

Sterling silver jewelry, beadwork, paintings, handmade drums, & interesting gift items for family & friends.

Buy American By Native Americans Enjoy a Rez Dog, Fry Bread or Indian Taco

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MANY A MIRACLE MCT’s “Miracle” runs through Sunday, Dec. 9 in Ben Lomond. PHOTO: ALIE MA

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MCT’s 10th ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ puts the holidays into perspective BY GEORGIA JOHNSON

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fter a couple of years of playing Kris Kringle, Peter Gelblum has traded in his Santa cap for a director’s hat. Maybe he’s looking to change things up, or maybe it’s that he hasn’t quite gone gray enough yet. Regardless, his new role suits him, and Mountain Community Theater’s new Santa Claus, Jackson Wolffe, fills Gelbum’s boots ably.

MCT is rounding out their 36th season with Miracle on 34th Street, a tried and true original classic

not only as a film, but also for the theater. Now in their 10th installment of the show, Miracle on 34th Street was MCT’s first show ever after opening its doors in 1982. The founders and original cast members wrote a new version of the play adapted from the 1947 black-andwhite film starring Maureen O’Hara and Edmund Gwenn. MCT’s latest production has its own modern twists, of course, including cell phones and online holiday shopping.

No, Miracle on 34th Street never goes

out of style. Despite having probably seen the film’s heartwarming ending, the thought of committing Santa Claus to a mental institution is enough to keep children and adults alike on the edge of their seats. Still, Miracle seems particularly important this holiday season. In a year filled with so much sadness and anger, particularly in the aftermath of disasters across California, I had a little extra appreciation for Gelblum and the cast’s determination to bring the holiday spirit to the stage.

In fact, the very existence of MCT’s Miracle is somewhat of a miracle in its own right. After losing the rights to produce and publish the play 10 years ago, Gelblum, also an attorney, sought to regain them from 20th Century Fox. Gelblum’s brother represented Fox, and they were able to make a deal to insure that MCT could continue their Miracle legacy.

This time of year, it’s easy to get caught up in the details, the prices and the planning of the holidays.

Some of us are already on the edge of panic over Christmas presents and party planning, and there’s still Thanksgiving turkey in the fridge.

Too many holiday shows leave cast members and audiences alike drowning in red bows and holiday lights, or on the contrary, throw a fat man in a red suit and expect it to just “work.”

It’s no easy feat to put on a successful holiday show, particularly one rooted in so much history and tradition. MCT’s Miracle promised extra laughter and warmth, and delivered both.

This Miracle is a gentle reminder that though the holidays are drawing near, there’s no need to stress, because they are about more than planning and presents. It’s silly and goofy, with a good amount of holiday carolling for a hefty two-and-ahalf-hour production (including intermission), and the heart of it all is community.

There’s nothing particularly profound or provocative about Miracle—but then again, there doesn’t need to be. I don’t know if it was the holiday lights, the extraconvincing Santa Claus or the trio of young, somewhat clumsy unionized elves—but I left feeling like there’s enough enchantment to breathe a little magic into the most shriveled holiday hearts. To the Santa Claus naysayers and holiday pessimists: I believe the front seats are reserved for you.

MCT’s ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ runs Friday-Sunday at 2 and 8 p.m. through Sunday, Dec. 9. 9400 Mill St., Ben Lomond. 336-4777. mctshows.org. $10-$20.

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HEAD HONCHO Blockhead performs at the Catalyst on Tuesday, Dec. 5.

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Producer Blockhead is a hip-hop poet’s best friend—but he saves some of the best beats for himself BY MIKE HUGUENOR

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roducer Blockhead has never worked with Justin Bieber, but he kind of wants to, despite building his entire career on collaborating with some of the most respected names in underground hip-hop.

“If Justin Bieber wanted to do a beat that I made, as is, then he could have that beat,” says Blockhead aka Tony Simon. “I’d be curious to know what he does with it, to be honest with you.”

For many pop music fans, the name Blockhead doesn’t ring a bell.

But for a generation of hardcore hip-hop heads, he’s right up there with RZA, Pharrell and Dr. Dre as one of the greatest producers to ever do it. His brilliance isn’t as overt as

some of the household beatmakers.

There’s a moody atmospheric quality and subtle complexity to his beats.

As a young artist, he didn’t really know what he wanted to do. In the mid-90s, the young Manhattanite enrolled at Boston University, a stone’s throw from Harvard and MIT. Less than a year later, he dropped out.

His college career was a nonstarter, but one good thing came out of it: he met a fellow New Yorker on campus, a lanky guy named Ian Bavitz with a similar taste in rap.

The two got along immediately. The rap world would soon know Bavitz by his stage name: Aesop Rock.

“Back in that era, you knew what kind of music people listened to by

how they dressed,” Simon says over the phone. “You just see someone and you’re like, ‘That’s gonna be my friend. I know that person is into what I’m into.’”

Soon after meeting, the two began to collaborate. When Aesop Rock signed to tastemaking label Def Jux (founded by El-P, of Run the Jewels), Simon produced the lion’s share of the album, a production job that drew praise from Pitchfork for his “remarkably lush, cinematic spread of subtly weaving beats.”

“I made my beats on a cassette back then,” Simon remembers. “I’d just play them, and he’d be like, ‘I want that one, I want that one, I want that one.’

Then he’d write, and we’d make the

song. It was a very simple time.”

During the Def Jux era, Simon made many of the label’s rappers’ best beats. Since then, he’s worked with a wide array of the underground’s finest: Open Mike Eagle, Murs, Billy Woods, and Cannibal Ox’s Vordul Mega.

By the mid-2000s, Simon had developed a taste for producing his own instrumental hip-hop music—a niche taste for sure, but a place where his subtle beat-making gifts shine. He crafts songs which trace a strange and invisible architecture, curling along the faultlines of their own internal logic.

“I find instrumental music in general to be pretty predictable and boring, so I purposefully make mine not that,” Simon says, describing his Frankensteinian process of beats chopped and sutured.

The process can be particularly complicated, but the results when done right are a disorienting kaleidoscope of sounds.

“I’m taking two or three beats that weren’t originally made together and kind of fusing them,” he says.

The seven-minute “Festival Paramedics” from 2017’s Funeral Balloons opens with a piano melody straight out of Halloween, transforms into a pulsing mutant disco, and then settles into an odd lounge/juke hybrid complete with wood flute, soul horns, and an unfurling harp. Elements arise and disappear only to reappear at unexpected times, creating the odd contiguity of a cryptid skeleton. Live, things only get stranger.

“I have all the parts separated, then I sequence and mix and match.

It’s like putting all my songs in a blender,” Simon says.

It’s also a chance to see the producer in his element: sampling; mixing; pulling elements out of the ether and fusing them into alchemical combinations. He may not be working with mainstream pop stars anytime soon, but after 20 years in the game, Blockhead remains one of the strongest, most enduring undercurrents in hip-hop.

Bieber take note.

Blockhead performs at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 5, at the Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $15/adv, $18/ door. 429-4135.

Saturday, December 1, 2018 TOM RALSTON’S ALL-STAR BAND TOM RALSTON songwritter, lead vocals & keyboards LISA TAYLOR & JEN KARNO vocals KEN HARRILL guitar JIMMY NORRIS drums GARY KEHOE percussion DANIEL VEE LEWIS bass JENNIFER CASS harp KRISTEN GARBEFF cello SHANNON DELANEY D’ANTONIO violin BRIAN MOORE trombone NICK BIANCHINI trumpet PAUL TARANTINO baritone sax/alto flute GARY REGINA sax/percussion MATEO LETTUNICH harmonica JEFFERY LUHN videographer/photographer DAVE EGAN & JUSTIN MAYER production & sound engineers

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REDWOOD GROVE LOOP WALK The oldest redwood tree is thought to be around 5,000 years old—that’s more than 50 Betty Whites combined.

Considering their age and height, redwoods actually have a fairly shallow root system. But what they lack in depth they make up for in width—some roots spread out as far as 100 feet. Join the Big Basin state park staff on an informative guided half-mile stroll through their old-growth redwood forest to learn more about these giants. The tour will stop at the famous Mother Tree, the Father of the Forest and the incredible Chimney Tree. The 90-minute walk is stroller and wheelchairaccessible.

11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 30. Big Basin State Park Headquarters, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. 338-8883, thatsmypark. org. Free event, $10 day parking.

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PAINT A CHEETAH, SAVE A CHEETAH Mark your calendars—International Cheetah Day is Dec. 4. This special day was developed in memory of Khayam, a cheetah that Dr. Laurie Marker raised from a cub at Wildlife Safari in Oregon. Khayam was trained for the first research project in rewilding, and inspired Dr. Marker’s first trip to Namibia in 1977, and another to found the Cheetah Conservation Fund in the ’90s. For the love of cheetahs everywhere, the Painted Cork is hosting a fundraiser that includes instruction on how to paint a cheetah face. There will be snacks and drinks, plus a raffle.

12:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2. The Painted Cork. 1129 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz. paintedcork.com. 471-8939. $70, all supplies included.

Free calendar listings in print and online are available for community events. Listings show up online within 24 hours. Submissions of free events and those $15 or less received by Thursday at noon, six days prior to the Good Times publication date, will be prioritized for print (space available). All listings must specify a day, start time, location and price (or ‘free’ if applicable). Listings can be set to repeat every week or month, and can be edited by the poster as needed. Ongoing events must be updated quarterly. It is the responsibility of the person submitting an event to cancel or modify the listing. Register at our website at santacruz.com in order to SUBMIT EVENTS ONLINE. E-mail calendar@goodtimes.sc or call 458.1100 with any questions.

WEDNESDAY 11/28 CLASSES LOCALS ‘SEYMOUR’ IN NOVEMBER Santa Cruz County locals can visit the Seymour Marine Discovery Center for free from Tuesday, Nov. 27 through Friday, Nov. 30. Simply present a current photo ID showing Santa Cruz County residence.

Current student ID from any school in Santa Cruz County or current utility bills are also valid proof of residence. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz. seymourcenter. ucsc.edu. Free.

FOOD & WINE DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ FARMERS MARKET In addition to a large variety of farm products, this market offers a great selection of local artisan foodstuffs, delicious baked goods and lots of options for lunch and dinner. 1-6 p.m. Cedar and Lincoln streets, Santa Cruz. 454-0566.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT TRIVIA Grab your smartest group of friends and get ready for a challenge! We’ve got the rest. Wine. Beer.

Cider. Tapas. 8-10 p.m. Cantine Wine Pub, 8050 Soquel Drive, Aptos. Cantinewinepub. com.

HEALTH B12 HAPPY HOUR Come and get your Happy Hour B12 shot. Your body needs B12 to create energy and is not well absorbed from the diet or in capsule form. Everyone can benefit from a B12 shot. After B12 injections many patients feel a natural boost in energy. 3-6 p.m. Santa Cruz Naturopathic Medical Center, 736 Chestnut St., Santa Cruz. 477-1377 or scnmc.com. $29/$17.

B12 HAPPY HOUR B12 deficiencies are common, as the vitamin is used up by stress, causing fatigue, depression, anxiety, insomnia and more. Not well absorbed in the gut, B12 injections can be effective in helping to support energy, mood, sleep, immunity, metabolism and stress resilience. Come get a discounted shot from 1:30-4:30 p.m.

FRIDAY 11/30 ‘SHE SPEAKS OUT’ Everyone knows that Santa Cruz has been home to some powerful women throughout the years. From Angela Davis to Florence Thompson, it’s hosted many feminine truth-telling change makers. Join some strong women dancers, singers, musicians, entertainers and storytellers in listening to and drawing inspiration from women’s voices to benefit Monarch Services.

8 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz Center. 320 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. 427-2227. kuumbwajazz.org. $20/$25.

Thrive Natural Medicine, 2840 Park Ave., Soquel. thrivenatmed.com/b12-injections or 515-8699. $15.

MUSIC TOBY GRAY REEF PONO WEDNESDAYS Toby takes on songs made famous by the Eagles, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Peter Rowan, Bob Marley, and many other classic artists adding his own interpretations and owning the songs. 6:30 p.m. The Reef Bar and

Restaurant, 120 Union St., Santa Cruz.

459-9876.

WORLD HARMONY CHORUS The World Harmony Chorus is a community chorus that welcomes participants of all ages and ability levels. There are no auditions nor entrance requirements. 7:15-9:15 p.m.

Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. instantharmony.com.

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Microbiomes: From the White House to the Lab DECEMBER 5, 7PM COWELL RANCH HAY BARN FREE ADMISSION

Dr. Jo Handelsman served as a science adviser to President Barack Obama and is recognized for her contributions to science education and diversity and gender bias in science. Part of the Kamieniecki Lecture Series.

Between Paradise and Chamber Singers: Peril: The Natural Disaster Out from the Desert History of the Monterey DECEMBER 1, 7:30PM MUSIC CENTER RECITAL HALL Bay Region $4–$10/PERSON NOVEMBER 29, 6PM SEYMOUR MARINE DISCOVERY CENTER FREE ADMISSION

What will the future of paradise hold?

Join the Seymour Center for a special evening with Gary Griggs. His new book, Between Paradise and Peril, chronicles 200 years of earthquakes, tsunamis, coastal storms and shoreline retreat, rainfall and flooding, landslides and mudflows, plus current droughts and climate change.

NOVEMBER 29 & DECEMBER 4, 7PM; DECEMBER 1, 2PM SCOTTS VALLEY LIBRARY (11/29), WATSONVILLE MAIN LIBRARY (12/1), APTOS LIBRARY (12/4) FREE ADMISSION

An original piece written by JoAnna Rottke, former assistant director of the Dickens Project, and directed by Karen Schamberg.

Presented by Willing Suspension Armchair Theater and the UC Santa Cruz Dickens Project.

Fuzzy Face Frisbee Friday NOVEMBER 30, 1–5PM EAST FIELD DISC GOLF COURSE FREE ADMISSION

Disc golf tournament, taco party, and raffle! Supports the Movember Foundation, promoting men’s health and cancer awareness. Free hat and disc with team participation.

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UCSC Jazz Ensembles and Big Band DECEMBER 2, 3PM MUSIC CENTER RECITAL HALL $4–$10/PERSON

A two-part jazz extravaganza featuring UCSC’s Small Jazz Ensembles and the UCSC Jazz Big Band. The Big Band will perform music from four jazz eras.

ONGOING EVENTS

DECEMBER 5, 1–4PM HUMANITIES PLAZA FREE ADMISSION

Pop Up! Movable Books & Art at the Library

Find a great book for yourself or a gift for a friend. A $5 donation will get you two books! Sponsored by the Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries and the UCSC Humanities Division.

Open Studios DECEMBER 7, NOON–4PM ELENA BASKIN VISUAL ARTS CENTER FREE ADMISSION

Open Studios features student artwork in a variety of media—drawing, painting, print media, sculpture, intermedia, photography, and electronic art.

Reserves of Inspiration Exhibition Open House DECEMBER 7, 5–8PM ELOISE PICKARD SMITH GALLERY FREE ADMISSION

A look at UC Santa Cruz’s Natural Reserves through artwork by students, faculty, and community that opens our eyes to the intricacies of the natural world and sparks our connection to nature.

DECEMBER 4, 7PM DIGITAL ARTS RESEARCH CTR (DARC), 108/FREE ADMISSION

LASER is an international program that brings artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Hear from chemist Peter WeissPenzias, artist and game designer A. M. Darke, artist and computer scientist Angus Forbes, and seismologist Susan Schwartz.

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Fall Drop-In Figure Drawing WEDNESDAYS THROUGH DECEMBER 5, 7–9PM UCSC ART DEPARTMENT M-101 FREE ADMISSION

Drop-In Figure Drawing provides a live model and a room monitor. There is no formal lesson; the sessions are free and open to the public. ONLY DRY MEDIA ALLOWED.

UPCOMING EVENTS

UCSC Wind Ensemble: Stravinsky and Respighi

DECEMBER 4, 10AM–5PM SEYMOUR MARINE DISCOVERY CENTER FREE ADMISSION

Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)

Explore the world of movable books— from commercially produced works to inventive handmade artists’ books— all drawn from Special Collections & Archives at McHenry Library.

DECEMBER 8

Community Free Day Enjoy free admission to the Seymour Center all day!

THROUGH DECEMBER 14, MON–FRI 10AM–NOON & 1–4PM UC SANTA CRUZ MCHENRY LIBRARY, THIRD FLOOR FREE ADMISSION

DECEMBER 8

UCSC Concert Choir: Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms DECEMBER 7, 7:30PM MUSIC CENTER RECITAL HALL $4–$10/PERSON

The Concert Choir performs Gyorgy Sviridov’s Songs of Kursk; Russian peasant songs for choir, soloists, and chamber ensemble; and selections from Sergei Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil. The UCSC Wind Ensemble and guest musicians join to perform Stravinsky’s masterpiece, Symphony of Psalms.

Norrie’s Gift & Garden Shop Holiday Open House DECEMBER 10

Altai Kai Music Ensemble DECEMBER 19

A Celtic Christmas JANUARY 18–20

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Christmas with Dickens

The UCSC Chamber Singers, under the direction of Michael McGushin, presents a program of choral music inspired by the cultures stemming from the three Abrahamic religious traditions.

Used Book Sale

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Chartwell School:

Empowering students who think and learn differently.

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For students with dyslexia and other learning differences.

Prospective parents:

join us for a Tuesday Tour Tuesday, December 4 at 10:30 am or call for a private tour.

For more information call 831.394.3468 or visit www.chartwell.org Chartwell School | 2511 Numa Watson Rd. | Seaside, CA 93955

SATURDAY 12/1 LIGHTED BOAT PARADE This is perhaps the most lit holiday event of the year. Mariners decorate their boats with lights and holiday decorations and parade them across the harbor for your oohing and aahing pleasure. There are few things more magical than watching the festooned boats glide through the harbor on a cold December night. The event will happen rain or shine, so grab a hot chocolate and a blanket and get there early for a good seat. The parade can be viewed from either side of the harbor, so feel free to stroll along the channel, too.

Parking is extremely limited, so biking or carpooling is encouraged.

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5:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Harbor, 135 Fifth Ave., Santa Cruz. santacruzharbor.org. Free.

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<34 vocal harmonies, extremely tight instrumental arrangements, and story-filled, poetic songwriting, adding up to some of the most electrifying music on the scene today.

Misner & Smith's sound harkens back to the bedrock of American rock and folk. They can shake the walls like a freight train and then quiet the room to a whisper in a single song.7:30 p.m. Michaels On Main, 2591 S Main St., Soquel. Michaelsonmainmusic. com. $12.

THURSDAY 11/29 ARTS GARY GRIGGS PRESENTATION AND BOOK SIGNING Join the Seymour Center

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for a special evening with Gary Griggs.

Between Paradise and Peril: The Natural Disaster History of the Monterey Bay Region chronicles 200 years of earthquakes, tsunamis, coastal storms and shoreline

retreat, rainfall and flooding, landslides and mudflows, plus current droughts and climate change. 6-7:30 p.m. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz. seymourcenter.ucsc.edu. Free.

CHRISTMAS WITH DICKENS Charles Dickens just wants to talk about his book, A Christmas Carol, but what happens when Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Mrs. Catherine Dickens, and the Ghost of Christmas Present show up?

Chaos, confusion, conflict, and complaints, just like a normal holiday gathering. 7-8 p.m. Scotts Valley Public Library, 251 Kings Village Road, Scotts Valley. Free.

VISUAL ARTIST MEET UP Meet other local artists, find inspiration, motivation, and new friends. There will be a skillshare and artist presentation. Artist Meetups will be every other month. Join the Santa Cruz Visual Artist Meetup group. 6-7:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Art League, 526 Broadway Ave., Santa Cruz. tanneryartscenter.org. Free.

CLASSES TRIYOGA BASICS/THERAPEUTIC YOGA TriYoga flows are presented with personalized guided alignment assistance.

Everyone is welcome. 9:30 a.m. Triyoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. 310589-0600. $15.

MOM & BABY CONNECTION Nursing Mothers Counsel and Luma Yoga host a weekly Mom & Baby Connection support group. Every family presents their own unique situations and challenges. This is a time to get together with other moms in a group setting to explore and discuss the tips and tricks of successful breastfeeding, and much more. 1:30-2:30 p.m. Luma Yoga and Family Center, 1010 Center St., Santa Cruz. lumayoga.com. Free.

COMMUNITY PILATES CLASS Community Pilates class led by Pilates Instructor Jennifer Balboni. Drop-in any Tuesday or Thursday for a fun and challenging 60-minute core-based flowing strength class. Bring your own mat. 10 a.m.

Temple Beth El, 3055 Porter Gulch Road, Aptos. tbeaptos.org. Free.

FOOD & WINE

MAKING MUSIC WITH OUR FRIENDS Come sing, drink, eat, and enjoy a night of music and fun. Every fourth Thursday of the month is Making Music with our Friends.

Sheet music will be provided. 6-9 p.m. Santa Cruz Food Lounge, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. scfoodlounge.com. Free.

HEALTH B12 HAPPY HOUR B12 helps support energy, mood, sleep, immunity, metabolism

MUSIC THE SANTA CRUZ TREMOLOS SINGING GROUP FOR PEOPLE WITH PARKINSON’S Singing is known to be a good voicestrengthening exercise for people with Parkinson’s disease. Santa Cruz County has an ongoing singing group for people with Parkinson’s and their caregivers. 1-2:30 p.m.

The Episcopal Church, 125 Canterbury Drive, Aptos. easepd.org/singing. Free.

FRIDAY 11/30 ARTS ‘SUDS: THE ROCKING ’60S MUSICAL SOAP OPERA’ This high energy, hilarious musical tells the story of a down-on-her-luck laundress named Cindy and the colorful guardian angels who come to teach her about finding true love. SUDS is loaded with good clean fun, bubbling energy and more than 50 well-known songs that topped the charts in the 1960s. 8 p.m. The Colligan Theater, 1010 River St., Santa Cruz. jeweltheatre.net. $50/$45/$27.

HOLIDAY SALE PREVIEW DAY Shop four ParkStore locations for thoughtful holiday gifts. All proceeds benefit our local state parks and beaches. Friends members receive up to 30 percent off on select iconic Michael Schwab park illustrations on apparel and more, plus jewelry, maps, nature guides, local history books, educational toys and other merchandise that represent the special cultural history and environment of our parks. 4-7 p.m. Natural Bridges State Park, Swanton Blvd and West Cliff Drive, Santa >38 Cruz. thatsmypark.org.

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THANKSGIVING DAY DINNER Join us for Thanksgiving day dinner! Enjoy a festive buffet dinner the whole family will enjoy.

Noon-6 p.m. Chaminade Resort and Spa, 1 Chaminade Lane, Santa Cruz. chaminade. com. $65/$20.

MEDICARE MADE EASY 2019 Are you ready for the new Medicare changes?

Come hear a free presentation designed to help you navigate the changes coming in 2019. New plans are available for Santa Cruz County residents. 2-3 p.m. Watsonville Senior Center, 114 E. 5th St., Watsonville. pattifagan.com. Free.

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UC SANTA CRUZ KRESGE COLLEGE PROJECT Members of the public and public agencies are invited to learn about the Kresge College Renewal and Expansion Project and provide oral comments on the Draft EIR. Louden Nelson Center, 301 Center Street, Santa Cruz Tuesday, November 27, 2018, 6:30–8:30 PM Kresge Town Hall, UC Santa Cruz Main Campus Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 5:30–7:30 PM For more information, call 459-3732 or visit: ppc.ucsc.edu/planning/EnvDoc.html.

SATURDAY 12/1 AND SUNDAY 12/2 TANNERY WINTER ART MARKET The Tannery is one of the most creative hubs in the county, and their Winter Arts Market is a prime example. The annual event features 20 Tannery studios and dozens of artists, including ceramicists, jewelers, sculptors, and embroiderers, each selling one-of-a-kind gifts for the holidays. There’s something for everyone at this one-stop shop, so why not invest in local arts while getting your holiday shopping done early?

Saturday 11 a.m.-7 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. The Tannery Arts Center, 1010 River St., Santa Cruz. tanneryartscenter.org. Free.

<37 NO ROOM AT THE INN—OPENING GALA St. Philip the Apostle Episcopal Church in Scotts Valley is grateful to host our third annual No Room at the Inn event.

No Room at the Inn is a Nativity Display and fundraiser to benefit those for whom there is no room. Join us for our Opening Gala where we will enjoy appetizers and wine, a silent auction, an opportunity drawing, and door prize. 6-8:30 p.m. St. Phillips Episcopal Church, 5271 Scotts Valley Drive, Scotts Valley. $30/$25.

5G MICROWAVE ONSLAUGHT—WHAT IT MEANS FOR US The FCC voted to institute Federal control of the construction and management of 5G infrastructure.

More than 180 scientists in 36 countries have petitioned for a moratorium on the use of 5G because of its unknown effects on humans and all of life. Join experts and other informed community members to find out what’s going on with the breakneck roll out of fifth generation Wifi technology. 7 p.m.

Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave., Santa Cruz.

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MONTEREY BAY ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP 2018 STATE OF THE REGION CONFERENCE Over the past four years, MBEP has brought people together to solve problems and do grand things that they cannot do on their own. MBEP’s fourth Annual State of the Region will be another compelling gathering of leaders from across the region and the state with relevant topics to inspire collaboration and action. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monterey Embassy Suite, 1441 Canyon Del Rey Blvd., Monterey. mbep.biz. $149/$129.

FOOD & WINE WATSONVILLE FARMERS MARKET This market is in the heart of the famously bountiful Pajaro Valley. Peaceful and family-oriented, the Latino heritage of this community gives this market a “mercado” feel. 2-7 p.m. 200 Main St., Watsonville.

CALENDAR HEALTH VITAMIN B12 FRIDAY Every Friday is B12 Happy Hour at Thrive Natural Medicine. B12 improves energy, memory, mood, immunity, sleep, metabolism and stress resilience.

Come on down for a discounted shot and start your weekend off right! Walk-ins only.

3-6 p.m. Thrive Natural Medicine, 2840 Park Ave., Soquel. thrivenatmed.com/b12injections or 515-8699. $15.

MUSIC SENDEROS DECEMBER IN MEXICO: COLORES DE MI TIERRA Colorful folkloric dancing by Centeotl Danza y Baile will be featured showcasing traditional dances from many states in Mexico. Also performing will be Ensamble Musical, the youth band of Senderos. 7 p.m. Harbor High School, 300 La Fonda Ave., Santa Cruz. scsenderos.org. $10/$5.

UCSC ORCHESTRA CONCERT Join us for a wonderful evening of live instrumental music. UCSC Music Center Recital Hall, Heller and Meyer Drive, Santa Cruz. arts. ucsc.edu. $10/$8/$4.

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SATURDAY 12/1 ARTS LIVING NATIVITY & CHRISTMAS BAZAAR Begin your holidays with a living Nativity.

We have choirs with holiday music, a jazz band, children’s crafts, warm cider, popcorn, petting zoo, and of course, our Living Nativity. For over 40 years Messiah Lutheran Church has had this community event. Kick off the season with us. 5-7 p.m. Messiah Lutheran Church, 801 High St., Santa Cruz. messiah-lutheran.us. Free.

HOLIDAY SALE PREVIEW DAY Shop four ParkStore locations for thoughtful holiday gifts. All proceeds benefit our local state parks and beaches. Friends members receive up to 30 percent off on select iconic Michael

ANNUAL HOLIDAY SALE Don’t miss this opportunity to find that unique gift of art for someone special—handcrafted art and beautiful, unique pieces you won’t see in any mall. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Santa Cruz Mountain Arts Center, 9341 Mill St., Ben Lomond. mountainartcenter.org. Free.

11TH ANNUAL $25 AND UNDER ARTISAN GIFT SHOW All items priced at $25 or less. More than 30 vendors will be selling beautiful handmade gifts. Browse locally made clothing, accessories, jewelry, art, candles, soaps, artisan food and more. Come down to celebrate and support our local artists and finish your holiday shopping early. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front St., Santa Cruz. artisansgiftsale.com. Free.

HOLIDAY ART & CRAFT FAIRE Shoppers will find unique gifts created by local artists and craftspeople, including jewelry, hats and bags, textiles, ornaments, chocolates, candles, nightlights, pottery, original artwork, pillows, art glass, and much more. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Simpkins Family Swim Center, 979 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. facebook.com/ events/280682525863411/. Free.

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CLASSES ZEN MEDITATION & DISCUSSION Ocean Gate Zen Center. Meditation and talk on Zen Buddhism. Every Saturday. All are welcome.

9 a.m. Ocean Gate Zen Center, 920 41st Ave., Suite B, Santa Cruz. 824-7900 or oceangatezen.org. Free.

INTERMEDIATE TRIYOGA CLASS TriYoga flows are presented with personalized, guided alignment assistance. With Jamie Andres-Larsen. For levels 1 and 2. 10:30 a.m.

Triyoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. 310-589-0600. $15.

COME AS YOU ARE ZEN This is an informal Saturday morning program focused on investigating Buddhist teachings for creating ease and skillful response in our daily life. The program begins with meditation followed by a dharma talk by one of our teachers: Rev. Daijaku Kinst or Rev. Shinshu >40 Roberts. Talks are for both the

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REDWOOD GROVE LOOP WALK Join us for this fun and informative guided half-mile stroll through a magnificent old-growth redwood forest. Meet the famous Mother Tree, the Father of the Forest and the incredible Chimney Tree on this 90-minute walk. 11 a.m. Big Basin Redwood State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek.

Thatsmypark.org. Free.

Schwab park illustrations on apparel and more, plus jewelry, maps, nature guides, local history books, educational toys and other merchandise that represent the special cultural history and environment of our parks. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wilder Ranch State Park, 1401 Coast Road, Santa Cruz. thatsmypark.org.

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HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW 2018 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2ND 11AM-5PM WESTSIDE’S CIRCLE CHURCH 111 ERRETT CIRCLE LOCAL ARTISTS AND CRAFTSPEOPLE GREAT MUSIC • SHOCKWAVE FOOD TRUCK

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SANTA CRUZ SYMPHONY LEAGUE HOME TOUR This year’s Symphony League Home Tour is going to be better than ever with five breathtaking homes featuring some of the best architecture and design in Santa Cruz. Don’t miss the new Opal Cliffs stunner home, the Farm Style home with ADU, the ArtFilled home in Aptos, fabulous West Side family home, and brand new Twin Lakes beach house. Noon-5 p.m. Santa Cruz Symphony, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. santacruzsymphonyleague.org. $45.

NATURAL MIND MEDITATION & KUNSANG GAR WISDOM Whether you are an experienced meditator or you are curious and wish to learn about meditation, join Geshe Dangsong Namgyel for lecture, meditation, questions, answers, and the inspiration of Kunsang Gar Wisdom. During this six-week course, we will explore Natural Mind or DzogChen meditation. 7 p.m.

Corralitos Cultural Center, 127 Hames Road, Watsonville. kunsanggarcenter.org.

FOOD & WINE APTOS FARMERS MARKET AT CABRILLO COLLEGE Voted Good Times best farmers market in Santa Cruz County.

With more than 90 vendors, the Aptos Farmers Market offers an unmatched selection of locally-grown produce and specialty foods. 8 a.m.-Noon, Saturdays, Cabrillo College. montereybayfarmers.org or akeller@montereybayfarmers.org. Free.

WESTSIDE FARMERS MARKET The Westside Farmers Market takes place every week at the corner of Highway 1 and Western Drive, situated on the northern edge of Santa Cruz’s greenbelt. This market serves the communities of the west-end of Santa Cruz, including Bonny Doon, North Coast, UCSC Campus and is a short trip from downtown. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Mission Street and Western Drive, Santa Cruz. 454-0566.

PARTNER YOGA AND WINE TASTING Share sacred energy the second and fourth Saturdays of each month at Poetic Cellars Winery. Wine tasting will follow the class. 10 a.m.-Noon. Poetic Cellars, 5000 N. Rodeo Gulch Rd., Soquel. 462-3478.

GROUPS WITCHY WINTER SOCIAL Our 17th Annual Yule Social. Come and meet other pagans, young and old, in the Santa Cruz area with a feast, a blessing, a wild and wacky raffle, an enigmatic storyteller, and lots of coloring books. This is a holiday party for Earth-worshipping, feisty, witchy people who love parties, but not so much the holidays. 5:30-9:30 p.m. Masonic Temple, 828 N. Branciforte Ave., Santa Cruz. communityseed.org.

HEALTH B12 HAPPY HOUR Come and get your Happy Hour B12 shot. Your body needs B12 to create energy and is not well absorbed from the diet or in capsule form. Everyone can benefit from a B12 shot! After B12 injections many patients feel a natural boost in energy. 10 a.m.-Noon. Santa Cruz Naturopathic Medical Center, 736 Chestnut St., Santa Cruz. 477-1377 or scnmc.com. $29/$17.

VOLUNTEER VOLUNTEER TO FEED THE HUNGRY WITH FOOD NOT BOMBS We need help sharing vegan meals with the hungry every Saturday and Sunday in downtown Santa Cruz: Cooking from noon-3 p.m, 418 Front St., Santa Cruz. 515-8234. Serving from 4-6 p.m. at the Post Office, 840 Front St., Santa Cruz.

SUNDAY 12/2 ARTS SUNDAY SEASIDE CRAFTS Make it and take it! Come create and take home a fun souvenir, an activity for the whole family to share. Join the hands-on fun in the crafts room every Sunday. 1-3 p.m. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz. seymourcenter.ucsc.edu.

HOLIDAY SALE PREVIEW DAY Shop four ParkStore locations for thoughtful holiday gifts. All proceeds benefit our local state parks and beaches. Friends members receive up to 30 percent off on select iconic Michael Schwab park illustrations on apparel and more, plus jewelry, maps, nature guides, local history books, educational toys and other merchandise that represent the special cultural history and environment of our parks. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Seacliff State Beach, State Park Drive

CALENDAR Exit Hwy. 1, Aptos. thatsmypark.org.

FREE GIFT MAKING WORKSHOP Drop in to make holiday crafts and gifts for free. Holiday fun for the whole family. The workshop is tailored to an inter-generational age range; kids attend accompanied by an adult of choice. 12:30-3 p.m. Santa Cruz Mountain Arts Center, 9341 Mill St., Ben Lomond. mountainartcenter.org. Free.

ADOPT A SAILOR Screening of the awardwinning feature film Adopt A Sailor starring Bebe Neuwirth, Peter Coyote and Ethan Peck. Q&A after with writer/director Charles Evered and producer Sherry Halperin, a Santa Cruz resident. Donations appreciated and welcome to benefit the CJE House, an artist residency for Veterans where they are housed and mentored in their discipline. 4 p.m. Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front St., Santa Cruz. veteranshall.org. Free.

GROUPS HOLIDAYS IN THE PLAZA—SNOW DAY The North Pole has returned to downtown Watsonville. Bring a canned food item for your ticket to the winter wonderland.

Kids and kids at heart can board the train for a magical tour around the Plaza. Join Santa in his workshop and snap a pic. 2 p.m. Watsonville City Plaza, 174 Main St., Watsonville. cityofwatsonville.org. Free.

WATSONVILLE NATURE WALKS Come experience the incredible bird life that the Wetlands of Watsonville have to offer.

Located along the globally important Pacific Flyway, the Wetlands of Watsonville provide a resting stop for birds on their migratory journey. 1:30 p.m. City of Watsonville Nature Center, 130 Harkins Slough Road, Watsonville. cityofwatsonville.org. Free.

YOUNGER LAGOON RESERVE TOUR This 90-minute, behind-the-scenes hiking tour takes visitors into Younger Lagoon Reserve adjacent to the Seymour Marine Discovery Center. Part of the University of California Natural Reserve System, Younger Lagoon Reserve contains diverse coastal habitat and is home to birds of prey, migrating sea birds, bobcats, and other wildlife. 10:30 a.m. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz. seymourcenter.ucsc.edu.

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Sentinel

ARTS POETRY OPEN MIC A project of the Legendary Collective, the weekly Santa Cruz Word Church poetry open mic is a community of local writers who recognize the power of spoken word. They gather every Monday for a community writing workshop, then host a 15-slot open mic followed by a different featured poet each week. 4 p.m.

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

Free.

FOOD & WINE TRIVIA Discover the Joy of Trivia with your friends! Win food and beer for your otherwise trivial knowledge. 7:30 p.m. Rosie McCann’s Irish Pub, 1220 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. rosiemccanns.com. Free.

TUESDAY 12/4

A holiday show

with circus, dance, AND a cappella stars SoVoSó

Nov. 23-DEC.2 in Santa Cruz!

UCSC Theater Arts Center (831) 420-5260 Tickets at:

featuring Cirque du Soleil soloists

Jeff Ra z and

Diane Wasnak

www.Holiday-Joy.com

ARTS CHRISTMAS WITH DICKENS Charles Dickens just wants to talk about his book, A Christmas Carol, but what happens when Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Mrs. Catherine Dickens, and the Ghost of Christmas Present show up? Chaos, confusion, conflict, and complaints, just like a normal holiday gathering. 7-8 p.m. Santa Cruz Public Library, 240 Church St., Santa Cruz. Free.

CLASSES CHAIR YOGA WITH SUZI Instructor Suzi Mahler, CMT, NE will guide you through a series of gentle seated yoga postures that are performed slowly and with breath awareness. This wonderfully therapeutic practice will help you increase strength and range of motion. 9:30 a.m. California Grey Bears, 2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz.

234-6791. $5.

WOMENCARE: LAUGHTER YOGA Laughter yoga for women with cancer meets the second and fourth Tuesdays. Pre registration required. 3:30-4:30 p.m. Inner Light Center, 5630 Soquel Drive, Soquel. fsacc.org/womencare/. Free.

HOMEWORK HELP Drop-in homework help for students through grade 12. 3-5 p.m.

Various locations throughout the county. santacruzpl.org. Free.

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LOCAL BAND

VINTAGE POINT Sometimes you want to hear the music that instantly puts a smile on your face.

That’s the idea of local band Vintage Point, who aren’t searching for the obscure gems. They’re looking for the songs that are vintage.

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“Everybody has something in their own time period, songs that are instantly recognizable and memorable for everybody,” says co-vocalist Steve Jonsson. “That’s the whole concept of ‘vintage’—that a three-minute song can have a hook that everybody loves.”

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The group, which formed a couple years ago, understands that these sort of culturally satisfying songs are specifically tied to people’s ages and the time period they grew up in, which is why they include material ranging from Etta James to present-day pop songs in their set—though you will tend to see a lot of the material coming from the important decades in Johnson’s musical life.

“My heart is kind of in the ’60s and ’80s, because of the music I grew up playing and loving, and the bands I was in,” Jonsson says.

He wants other people, when they come out to see them, to just bask in the pleasure of good music that takes you away for at least a moment.

“We’re doing things that are crowd pleasers, like Loverboy songs,” Johnson says. “‘Working for the Weekend,’ that’s a song that everyone appreciates and understands, especially in a club on the weekend.”AARON CARNES 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, Crow’s Nest, 2218 East Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. $6.

476-4560.

MISNER AND SMITH

WEDNESDAY 11/28 AMERICANA

MISNER AND SMITH Misner and Smith are an eclectic folk duo whose vocal harmonies are chillingly beautiful, but also haunting—even foreboding. To really understand the diversity of influences of the group that covers a wide range of American songwriters, you should check out their latest project Headwaters. It’s an all-covers album made with the purpose of giving folks a little sneak behind their creative curtain. It includes songs written by Paul Simon, Neil Young, the Lovin’ Spoonful, Talking Heads, and Dr. Dog. They transform all of these songs with the group’s unique stirring folk sound. AC 7:30 p.m. Michael’s on Main, 2591 Main St., Soquel. $12/adv, $15/door. 479-9777.

BLUES

SUE FOLEY It’s hard to know which to admire more: Sue Foley’s confident, full-throttled guitar skills, or her sultry, kick ass vocals.

The blues-rocker effortlessly struts

from sweet-as-you-please rhythm and blues to fiery, whiskey-rasp roadhouse rock, even throwing in some Texas shuffle, because it ain’t no thing. Anyone with a pulse who hears Foley’s fevered heartbreak ballads will be smitten all the way down to their cowboy boots and immediately take to drinking bourbon. It’s just what happens when faced with an extraordinarily talented, guitar-slinging blueswoman. AMY BEE

perfect opportunity to toast the ghosts of past and to kick off the new year. MAT WEIR

8 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $15/adv, $20/door. 479-1854.

Born and raised in São Paulo, Luciana Souza is one of the most expressive and versatile singers in jazz. Her recent album The Book of Longing stands out as an extraordinary achievement at a time when many of jazz’s leading artists have found inspiration in verse. With her luxuriantly velvet-smooth tone, she delivers her original compositions, creating incantatory songs from the prose and poetry of Emily Dickinson, Edna St . Vincent Millay, Christina Rossetti and Leonard Cohen. Joined by the acclaimed Brazilian guitarist Chico Pinheiro and bass virtuoso Scott Colley, Souza says she plans on mixing in uptempo pieces from the Brazilian songbook. ANDREW GILBERT

THURSDAY 11/29 CELTIC

MOLLY’S REVENGE Just before the dawn of December, the Central Coast’s own Celtic folk trio Molly’s Revenge kick off the holiday season at Flynn’s with their special annual Winterdance show, with traditional (and new) Celtic Christmas songs. What makes Celtic music and Christmas go together so well? Maybe it’s the light-hearted melodies, the penny whistle, or the holiday’s pagan origins. Whatever the reason, Molly’s Revenge’s annual Winterdance is always the

8:30 p.m. Flynn’s Cabaret & Steakhouse, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $18/adv, $20/door.

335-2800.

JAZZ

LUCIANA SOUZA

7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $31.50/adv, $36.75/door.

427-2227.

MUSIC

BE OUR GUEST BAND OF FRIENDS

BROTHER ALI

SATURDAY 12/1 AMERICANA

PATTI MAXINE

7 p.m. & 9:15 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $25-35/adv, $30/door. 427-2227

ROCK

TOM RALSTON AND THE ALLSTAR BAND Have your children shown an interest in the concrete business lately?

they couldn’t kill the legend. He returns to the Catalyst with his “white shirt, blue jeans and Nikes.”

Santa Cruz’s own Chris Rene will open. MW

7 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $20. 423-8209.

For almost two decades, Brother Ali has been one of the most uplifting and socially conscious voices in hip-hop. Ali comes to the Catalyst to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Shadows on the Sun, the flawless LP that made the Minneapolis emcee a bona fide heavyweight of the underground. With him is Busdriver, a genre-defying artist who just this June released the mammoth Electricity is on Our Side. Formless and bracing, Electricity is a wild ride through hip-hop’s outer edges, and an excellent compliment to Ali’s reverent boombap. MH

HIP HOP

KEAK DA SNEAK The word legend gets thrown around a lot, but when it comes to Keak Da Sneak and his role in hip-hop, there’s no other way to describe him. Along with other Bay Area rappers like Mac Dre and E-40, Keak pioneered the hyphy movement—even down to coining the name. After building a career spanning two decades, he was almost taken in a flash last year when he was shot in a calculated attack. Lucky for us and hip-hop,

9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $16/adv, $20/door. 423-1338.

SUNDAY 12/2 HIP HOP

BROTHER ALI

9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $24/door. 423-1338.

8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $25/door. Information: moesalley.com. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 30 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

IN THE QUEUE CARL VERHEYEN

Supertramp guitarist gets bluesy.

Thursday at Moe’s Alley RICK SHEA

Touching honky tonk. Thursday at Ugly Mug ONE GRASS TWO GRASS

Big city bluegrass. Saturday at Crepe Place AJ LEE AND BLUE SUMMIT

Santa Cruz’s great bluegrass hope.

Sunday at Flynn’s Cabaret and Steakhouse HOLLY NEAR

Feminist folk legend. Sunday at Kuumbwa Jazz Center

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It’s impossible for Patti Maxine to add up how many shows she’s played in her 80 years on the planet. But in that time, the queen of the lap steel has played mostly on the sidelines: sitting in with other people, or as part of someone else’s band. It’s not often that she gets the spotlight. This pair of upcoming shows are particularly special because not only is Maxine the star, but it’s her 80th birthday party and the release of her debut album Steelin’ Home. She can play country, Hawaiian music, Western swing, and anything that a lap steel will make sound better, which is everything! AC

If so, be on alert. If they’re anything like Tom Ralston—local concrete layer and award winning concrete artist—the cement game may just be the first step on that paved sidewalk leading to celebrated musical showmanship, 15-person bands, and the dusky AM pop of Hunky Dory era Bowie. It’s a tale as old as time, and one that Santa Cruzans can experience live when Tom Ralston and the All Star Band lays it down at the Rio Theatre this Saturday. MIKE HUGUENOR

Rory Gallagher (above) was an Irish heavy-blues rocker from the ’60s known for his unhinged guitar playing and wild vocal attack. He wasn’t the most famous rocker of his era, but he had a loyal, dedicated fanbase all over the world.

Unfortunately, his life was cut short in 1995 due to complications from a liver transplant. To celebrate his memory, Gerry McAvoy and Ted McKenna, who backed him for years, are bringing his music to Moe’s with Davy Knowles fronting the group for the evening. Knowles is an impressive, young rising bluesrocker in his own right.

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LIVE MUSIC

Wednesday November 28 – 7:30/8pm $20 Blues Favorite Returns

SUE FOLEY Thursday November 29 – 7:30/8pm $15/20

Legendary Guitarist’s Long Awaited Return

CARL VERHEYEN BAND Friday November 30 – 8/9pm $25/30

WED

11/28

FRI

11/30

SAT

12/1

Afrowawa 6:30-9p

Hip Hop Night 7:30-9:30p

Lloyd Whitley 1p Magpies Blues Band 6-8p

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THE APPLETON GRILL 410 Rodriguez St, Watsonville

Hot Roux 6-8p

Preacher Boy 6-8p

James Murray 6-8p

Andy Santana 6-8p

Broken Shades 6-8p

Mojo Mix 6-8p

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Live Bands 9p

Comedy Night, ’80s Night Free 8:30p

Live Bands/Club 2000 Live VJ Dancing 9p Free 9p

The Box (Goth Night) 9p

Post Punk Dance Floor 9p

Funk Night w/ DJ Ed 9p

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

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Johnny Tsunami & Shoulder Hoppers 9:30-12:45p

Karaoke 6p-Close

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SOLD OUT THANK YOU

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

Generation Hopeless 8p

Karaoke Free 8p

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Molly’s Revenge Winterdance Celebration Winterdance Celtic Christmas Celebration $18 adv./$20 door seated – <21w/parent 8:30PM

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Scotty G and the Goldblues Breakers

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Rock‘n’ Roll and Blues from Santa Cruz $10 adv./$12 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM Sat Dec 22

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STRAIGHT LIES Theodore Pellerin (left) and Lucas Hedges as gay teenagers undergoing ‘conversion therapy’ in ‘Boy Erased.’

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Religious ‘gay conversion therapy’ outed in harrowing ‘Boy Erased’ BY LISA JENSEN

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alk about the politics of fear. What kind of demonic cult would subject its own impressionable children to shame and torment in order to force them into its own rigid code of behavior? If you’re thinking Jim Jones or Charles Manson, think again. The culprits are a fear-mongering group of Baptist church elders convinced they’re doing the lord’s work in Boy Erased, a harrowing look inside the practice of so-called “gay conversion therapy” in small-town America.

Written and directed by co-star Joel Edgerton (who gives himself one of the juiciest supporting roles), the movie is adapted from the book Boy Erased: A Memoir

of Identity, Faith and Family, by Garrard Conley. Disturbing as only a true story can be, it recounts the experiences of a teenaged college freshman still trying to figure out his own identity who’s forced into a draconian program to drive the “sin” out of him. Besides exposing the wrong-headed horrors of the program itself, the story delivers a tutorial for resistance in the way the young protagonist manages to find his own moral compass—at last—and stick to it, in spite of daunting pressure to conform.

Lucas Hedges stars as Jared, only son of folksy-seeming but strict Baptist pastor Marshall Eamons (Russell Crowe), at a small-town

Arkansas church. Jared’s mom Nancy (Nicole Kidman) is the perfectly coiffed and manicured pastor’s wife; she loves her son to pieces, but is in all ways obedient to her husband.

They’re a close, loving family until Jared’s first semester at college, where he has a brutal encounter with an upperclassman. Fleeing for the security of home, he’s shocked to learn his parents have been told he was involved in some sort of scandalous liaison. Seeking advice from the church elders, his father enrolls him in a program called Love In Action. His mom drives him to the center where the program takes place in another town, and rents a hotel room nearby.

It’s supposed to last 12 days.

First, they isolate the kids from their families; no phone calls or texts are allowed during the day, and the inmates are forbidden to discuss what goes on in the program with outsiders—especially their parents. Herded around by burly henchmen, the kids are subjected to the psychological abuse of chief interrogator Victor Sykes (Edgerton), a bullying martinet under a facade of reasonableness who insists that homosexuality is a “choice,” forces them to always refer to it as a “sin,” and declares, “God can’t love you the way you are now.”

Budding writer Jared’s notebook is confiscated upon entry, and scrutinized for any dubious content.

When it’s returned to him, half of his stories have been ripped out.

Yet, when it’s his turn to get up and read the confession everyone in the program is required to write, describing the nature of their sins, Jared’s isn’t salacious enough for Sykes, who keeps probing him for more lurid details.

The irony is that Jared is so inexperienced, he can’t even make up the kind of stuff his interrogators want to hear. The private mantra whispered among the inmates —“Fake it ’til you make it”— takes on a more sinister meaning; not to achieve heterosexuality, but survive the program. (Some don’t, as punishments shift from psychological bullying to the corporeal.) Ever-dutiful Jared tries to ignore the red flags and “get better”—until Sykes starts pressuring him to ditch college and spend a year imprisoned in the program instead.

It’s the insider’s view of this predatory “therapy” that gives the movie its infuriating power. Jared isn’t an envelope-pushing rebel, he’s just trying to be a good kid, at a most vulnerable time in his life when he’s still trying to understand who he is.

The zealous way the adults in charge try to to snuff out (or erase) what they fear in him is chilling. His solitary journey to trust his own judgment and determine right from wrong is heroic.

BOY ERASED With Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Joel Edgerton.

Written and directed by Joel Edgerton. From the book by Garrard Conley. A Focus Features release. Rated R. 114 minutes.

FILM NOW PLAYING BEAUTIFUL BOY If you were wondering what you’re getting for Christmas, I’m going to spoil it for you. You’re getting Steve Carell! He’s in three movies coming out in the next two months—Vice, Welcome to Marwen and this film, the heaviest but maybe most important of the trio (although Vice looks to be pretty awesome, as well). Beautiful Boy is unusual in that it adapts not one but two memoirs about addiction, each looking at the same story from a different perspective.

Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction was written by David Sheff, who Carell plays here. Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines was written by Sheff’s son, Nic, who is portrayed here by Timothee Chalamet.

Directed by Felix Van Groeningen.

Co-starring Maura Tierney, Amy Ryan and Timothy Hutton. (R) 120 minutes. (SP)

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Starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe. (R) 114 minutes. (SP) CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? Melissa McCarthy has been in some duds lately, but she’s already getting awards buzz for her portrayal of Lee Israel, a real-life writer who made her name writing celebrity biographies, but later

CREED II Really, they should have just called this Rocky IV 2, since it brings back Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago, who is this time training his son to fight against Apollo Creed’s son. This franchise is really starting to get into Ghost of the Son of the House of Frankenstein territory, but as long as Michael B. Jordan is playing Adonis Creed, I doubt anyone is going to mind. Co-starring Sylvester Stallone and Tessa Thompson. Directed by Steven Caple Jr. (PG-13) 130 minutes. (SP) FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD J.K. Rowling used to let others adapt her Harry Potter stories, but for this spinoff series of Fantastic Beasts films, she’s writing the screenplays herself. I think it’s fair to say the results have been mixed, but if you liked Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which moved all the wizarding action to 1920s New York, you’ll probably like this sequel which picks up a few months later, focuses more on Johnny Depp’s character from the previous film, and brings back Dumbledore.

Directed by David Yates. Co-starring Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law and Katherine Waterston. (PG-13) 134 minutes. (SP) GREEN BOOK Sure to be the feelgood movie of the year about racism, Green Book is based on the real-life friendship between Jamaican piano great Don Shirley and his driver Tony Vallelonga.

The film follows a tour of the Deep South in the 1960s by Shirley (portrayed by Mahershala Ali), who hires New York City bouncer Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen) to be his guide and security. While Shirley comes to grip with the toll racial bias has taken on him

personally, Vallelonga has his eyes opened to the injustice of Jim Crow laws. Directed by Peter Farrelly.

Co-starring Linda Cardellini, Mike Hatton and Sebastian Maniscalco.

(PG-13) 130 minutes. (SP) THE GRINCH They keep making adaptations of Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch Who Stole Christmas like they’re ever going to be better than the 1966 TV special. But with Benedict Cumberbatch voicing the famous green grump, this new cartoon version’s gotta be better than the live-action Jim Carrey mess. Directed by Yarrow Cheney and Scott Mosier. Starring the voices of Cumberbatch, Rashida Jones, Kenan Thompson and Angela Lansbury. (PG) 90 minutes. (SP) FREE SOLO Right now, you’re probably thinking “Wait, there’s a new Star Wars movie already?”

But oh, my friends, this is so much more insane than that. A documentary about rock climber Alex Honnold, it follows his attempt to “free solo” El Capitan. That means doing the climb without ropes, harnesses or, um, anything that would keep you from falling to your death with one wrong move. As discussed in the film, the mortality rate of free solo climbers is somewhere around 100 percent.

Forget about horror movies, this is the most harrowing film you’ll see this year. Directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin.

(PG-13) 100 minutes. (SP) INSTANT FAMILY I watched a trailer for this Mark Wahlberg comedy, and I’m almost 100 percent certain it’s actually just a trailer parodying terrible Mark Wahlberg comedies, and not actually a real movie. I mean, it has kids getting hit in the face with basketballs! My guess is that if you go down to the movie theater and ask for a ticket to this movie—which is allegedly about a couple that adopts a bunch of foster children—Mark Wahlberg will jump out from around the corner and say, “Hey fool! You’re a fool! This movie doesn’t even exist, fool! Say hi to your mother for me!” And then hit you in the face

with a basketball. Directed by Sean Anders. Co-starring Rose Byrne, Isabela Moner and Tig Notaro. (PG13) 119 minutes. (SP) MID90S This story of a 13-year-old who discovers skateboarding as an escape from his dysfunctional family life is winning acclaim for writer-director Jonah Hill, who developed it from his own spec script. Starring Sunny Suljic, Lucas Hedges and Katherine Waterston.

(R) 84 minutes. (SP) THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS Disney attempts to turn the Nutcracker story into some kind of weird Narnia-type universe … I guess? Hard to tell from the extremely generic trailers, which promise magic and wonder while looking neither magical nor wonderful. Directed by Lasse Hallstrom and Joe Johnston.

Starring Mackenzie Foy, Keira Knightley and Morgan Freeman.

(PG) 99 minutes. (SP) OVERLORD Originally, this was supposed to be the latest movie in the Cloverfield series, but after that godawful debacle with The God Particle, I have a feeling no one’s going to want to touch that cinematic universe for a while.

So apparently this is now just a standalone film about U.S. soldiers in World War II who drop behind enemy lines in preparation for D-Day and discover the Nazis preparing a zombie army. No big whoop! Good thing they didn’t bring it into the Cloverfield universe and make it all crazy! Directed by Julius Avery. Starring Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell and John Magaro. (R) 109 minutes. (SP) RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET Wreck-It Ralph was a fun surprise that lovingly poked fun at video game culture. More importantly, it gave me and my eight-year-old daughter an excuse to walk around yelling “I’m gonna wreck it!” for like a month. So you can see why we’re excited for this sequel, which applies the same send-up concept to the internet. Let the catchphrase screaming begin! Directed by Phil Johnston and Rich Moore. Starring the voices of John C. Reilly, Sarah

Silverman and Gal Gadot. (PG) 112 minutes. (SP) ROBIN HOOD Recently, someone asked me, “Is that new Robin Hood movie set in modern times or what?” The answer is definitely no, but I can see from the trailer—in which all of the nobility seems to be dressed like they’re going to an L.A. nightclub in 2005—why somebody might think that. (Star Taron Egerton offered in an interview that “it’s set in a universe that’s set in Medieval England.” OK, so it’s set in Medieval England—thanks for finding the most unnecessarily complicated way to say that, Taron!)

Actually, a Robin Hood set in 2005 where people still use bows and arrows for some reason would probably be a lot more interesting than this eight-millionth retelling of the medieval folktale. Directed by Otto Bathurst. Co-starring Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn and Jamie Dornan. (PG-13) 116 minutes. (SP) WIDOWS This all-star crime thriller brings a dose of class to the heistfilm genre, starting with writerdirector Steve McQueen of 12 Years a Slave fame, through co-writer Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl and Sharp Objects) to a cast that includes Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall and Liam Neeson. Plus it’s based on an award-winning British TV series.

Elegant! The plot has a group of women whose husbands were killed in a heist attempt trying to finish off the job in order to pay back a crime boss. (R) 129 minutes. (SP) WILDLIFE Actor Paul Dano from Little Miss Sunshine and There Will Be Blood makes his writer-director debut with this story of a family falling apart in the early 1960s.

Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan and Ed Oxenbould. (PG13) 104 minutes. (SP) CONTINUING EVENT: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE MOVIES Film buffs are invited Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. to downtown Santa Cruz, where each week the group discusses a different current release. For location and discussion topic, go to https:// groups.google.com/group/LTATM.

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BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY When the subject of a movie biography is the innovative rock group, Queen, at least we know the soundtrack is going to be killer. Bryan Singer’s tribute is also heroic in depicting the band’s late ’70s-early ’80s era, and its phenomenal creative energy and output. Rami Malek is an actor unorthodox enough to embody the legendary Freddie Mercury’s outsider persona, yet soulful enough to engage us in Freddie’s lifelong quest to become himself. From the opening 20th Century Fox fanfare scorched out of an electric guitar to the ecstatic grand finale of “We Are the Champions” live onstage, this is a non-stop joyride for Queen fans.

(PG-13) 134 minutes. (LJ)

turned to selling forgeries when her career went south. One New York bookstore who had bought some of Israel’s forged letters wasn’t even mad, later saying, “She made the letters terrific.” That, people, is some quality fraud! Directed by Marielle Heller. Co-starring Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells and Jane Curtin. (R) 106 minutes. (SP)

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oliday honey, artisanal ciders, aromatic wreaths— it’s time for the annual Holiday Fair at the Downtown Farmers Market, now through the last Wednesday before Christmas, Dec. 19. If you’re in giftgiving mode and looking for some unique, distinctive goodies, then you’ll love this holiday expansion of the downtown market. Selected local artisans will be showing their finest handmade goods to add to the fun of the already abundant al fresco scene. The sensory joys of holiday wreaths made by the UCSC Arboretum are frankly irresistible. Gorgeously designed and arranged succulent

wreaths are one of the Arboretum’s specialties. Truly vibrant, bristling with a lively mix of textures and more than 50 shades of green, these wreaths are legendary among collectors.

And who wouldn’t love an artfully designed potted plant or dried flower bouquet? Only the Grinch! Handmade pottery makes an ideal gift, so don’t miss the stoneware collections from Santa Cruz Pottery and LizzeTee. One-of-a-kind aprons, pot holders and shopping totes from seamstress Violet Resser, or handmade beeswax candles—such a luxury—from R+K Honey Bees. And yes, there are tons of intriguing gifts everywhere in the eclectic market—wines, cheeses,

small-batch chocolates, preserves, organic body products, and the oldfashioned stocking stuffers: citrus and pomegranate. If you think of the Downtown Farmers Market as onestop holiday shopping, you would be just about right. And many of the holiday vendors and their wares will also be on site each Saturday at the Westside Market through Dec. 22.

GIFTS GALORE The Homeless Garden Project Holiday Store is now open at 1338 Pacific Ave. in downtown Santa Cruz—between El Palomar and the Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Company. Store hours are 11 a.m.-7 p.m. through Dec. 6 and 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Dec. 7-24. This is one

Our panel moaned in unison at the first (and last) bite of Beckmann’s pumpkin pie. While I’d put it neck and neck with Kelly’s for the top slot, I could easily be convinced that this is the Holy Grail of pumpkin pies. On every level—texture, flavor, tenderness—Beckmann’s excels. The crust is so delicious it’s worth eating all by itself. And while the actual slices are not quite as thick as Kelly’s or Gayle’s or the Buttery’s, they are just fine. A small pie retails at $11.99 and provides four adult-sized slices of pie. Three, for those with larger needs. Leading with nutmeg and ginger, the first bite unfolds into a rich pumpkin flavor laced robustly with cloves and cinnamon as well.

Confident spices. Complex pie, not too sweet. Firm, creamy texture, and that wonderful tender, flaky butter crust make this an outstanding example of the classic autumn dessert. Here’s a pie I would serve at a holiday diner and claim to have made myself. That’s an endorsement. At Shopper’s, New Leaf, Whole Foods, and the Aptos Farmers Market.

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ust over two years ago, Kim Tush was asked to make infused balsamics for a local farmers market. She’d previously worked as a paralegal for more than 30 years and ran a gluten-free bakery, so balsamic infusions were a bit of a change. Tush started Santa Cruz Balsamics out of a Watsonville industrial kitchen incubator around a year ago, importing barrel-aged balsamic vinegar from Italy and infusing it with six California fruit concentrate flavors including mango, pear, black cherry and chocolate raspberry. She found that there are some similarities between baking and balsamics—so much so that she wants to do a vanilla bourbon balsamic to replace vanilla extract.

She spoke to us about the finer points of making great vinegar.

So what makes this vinegar particularly unique?

KIM TUSH: Usually when people are selling flavored balsamics they have customers try it with oil and bread.

We don’t do that—it disguises the flavor, and we want people to really

taste the different depth of flavor.

People aren’t used to the kinds of balsamic we have. There are way more uses for it than just in oil. If you try other balsamics, like the ones from Medina that people make such a big deal about, they can be really acidic. Balsamics need to be aged so that they don’t have that bitter acidic taste.

Also, those bottles are really cool looking.

We import those from Italy, too! They are hand-blown and shaped over there, then sent here in the different sizes. It took six months for the little bottles to get shipped here. Then once we put them in the dishwasher, they take weeks to dry before we can pour anything into them. There can’t be any speck of water when we pour balsamic into them, or else it goes bad. It’s definitely a lengthy process, but it’s a labor of love.

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Cinnabar’s Monterey County 2016 Chardonnay, which comes with a twist-off cap, is a bargain at $16.99 in the store. This 2016 Chard garnered 87 points from Wine Enthusiast, which described it as having roasted pear, light banana and baked-earth aromas. But its crisp flavors of peach, apricot, lemon citrus and baked pineapple are what make it a delicious mouthful of wellmade wine with bright minerality.

Cinnabar’s tasting room in the heart of Saratoga is an upbeat place to visit. They make a goodly number of varietals and hold regular live music events on the patio or in the Mudd Room, named after winery founder the late Tom Mudd.

George Troquato is the longtime winemaker at Cinnabar—now celebrating 35 years in business—with Mudd’s two children, Jack and Karina, working with him to uphold Cinnabar’s commitment to producing “ageworthy wines, elegant in nature and bold in taste.”

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Cinnabar will be at Taste of the Mountains Wine Walk in Menlo Park from 1-4:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1. Contact Santa Cruz Mountains Winegrowers Association for more info at scmwa.com or email contact@ scmwa.com. Tickets are $49.

Cinnabar Winery’s tasting room is at 14612 Big Basin Way, Saratoga. 408-867-1012, cinnabarwine.com.

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H RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES SAGITTARIUS—A BEAM OF DIRECTED LIGHT

Every month, the light distributed to Earth from each sign (Spiritual Hierarchies) is different, holding different tasks for humanity’s evolution.

Each sign also describes the connection between the Soul and personality. Each year, within each human, the light grows from Aries to Pisces, from a “dim point of light within the circle of life seeking where it can be used for divine expression” (Aries) to a light that “saves the world” (Pisces). In Pisces, the light “reveals the Light of Life itself and ends forever the darkness of matter.”

The light of each sign (Aries to Pisces) describes the Soul in relationship to the personality. Eventually the Soul, which is light itself, completely encompasses the personality, becoming its director, its shield, and its protector. The Soul then “uses” the personality as a vehicle to bring light to matter, which in

religious terms means the “redemption” (upliftment into the Light) of matter. From dark to light.

Sagittarius is a beam of directed, focused light, revealing a greater light (the Soul, then Spirit) ahead (toward Capricorn) and illumining the pathway to the Center of the Light. Always, Sag is on a quest following the “beam of light revealing the greater light ahead.” That is why the “archers” are great travelers, wanderers, philosophers, teachers, professors, truth-tellers, publishers—all armed with goals, aims and self-realized inner truths.

The wandering and wanderlust of Sagittarius is the outer manifestation of the inner spiritual seeking of ever-pushing Sagittarius, like an arrow, onward and upward. Outer pilgrimages bring into awareness the inner subjective worlds of truth, light, love and the cosmic music of the spheres.

ARIES Mar21–Apr20

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22

Finances and resources, personal and with others, are highlighted. Careful attention is needed, along with concentration, efficiency, economy and strength. Accomplish these each day in a slow, consistent rhythm. You may uncover more resources. So many things are hidden during retrogrades. Remember others who have much less. Tithing creates great abundance.

You’re called to a past situation and then to a present-future one. The past holds and keeps you for a while in order for it to be liberated. The present-future creates optimism. However, there are two sides working within you. One contains judgment, the other love. Both are risky. One keeps you spiritually lonely.

The other shifts you into a loving community. Can you identify the two sides and where you're positioned? All the past needs to be forgiven. Forgiveness is alchemical.

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TAURUS Apr21–May21 You want to move consistently into the future with new ideas and plans, but there are so few who understand, few with your illumined vision, and even fewer with your force of will and stamina. Always you strive for poise during transition times while sending prayerful requests for able, intelligent and financial assistance in order to manifest all that is new into form and matter. Your prayers prepare the field. Maintain a winter garden.

GEMINI May 22–June 20

CANCER Jun21–Jul20 You may experience stress and overwork as constant change occurs to everyone everywhere in your life. These daily changes reflect the pulse of humanity playing through your body. You need stabilization, an immediate sense of purpose and remaining within the safety of home. Make changes in small ways. When viewing the big picture stand with compassion and dispassion. Children bring both blessings and hard work.

LE0 Jul21–Aug22 It seems you need a retreat to bring forth creative freedom.

This week should bring heightened sense of feeling separated from others, which you may enhance should your communication be harsh. You are able to be very intuitive, so observe your thoughts carefully. Is daily life feeling like a transformation is about to occur? Are financial needs being served? A sudden revelation occurs which expands you into other worlds. Take us with you.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Small changes occur in your personal life, which in turn create big changes. Money may feel restricted, communication may be hidden (from whom, why, where?), there’s a desire to run away from home and a need for regeneration. It feels like seeds of the future, life-changing, are breaking through. You’re restless for emotional independence. Moving forward is slow. Allow inner spiritual intentions to hold you.

Transformation arrives for a long visit.

For about a year, you will participate in changes behind the scenes, internal changes that create your coming future.

Change comes with a revelatory impact. Since you live within this field constantly, be aware of a need to serve others.

Be aware of growing compassion and becoming a model for others. As Scorpio is the warrior of the zodiac, you’re prepared for the coming times where the death of the old finally occurs. Strength and courage will be needed.

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SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 You’re restless, yet duty-bound, responsible yet rebellious, seeking security yet craving freedom, pleased yet dissatisfied and stimulated within conflicts. You’re a paradox once again. Allow contradictions to work psychologically within.

They create new insight, revelations. Don’t push them aside. They are the Harmony Through Conflict process Sag works through to bring new consciousness forth, a natural trajectory into the future.

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It’s imperative you learn how to communicate to others so they can understand. Study and learn Compassionate Communication techniques (nonviolent communication).

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 Some Aquarians are experiencing great success. Some will be traveling the world soon seeking community. Even more are experiencing love, honor and popularity, expanded social and work reputations, tending to financial responsibilities, developing new business or life plans. They’re climbing the ladder of success as they define it (some don’t), and doing more than they thought capable. Keep going.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 You need flexibility in great amounts as interruptions and unexpected events occur in all parts of your life, geographically and in terms of your self-identity. You cannot prepare for what will happen. You can only soothe yourself with knowledge that what occurs is redesigning your life in ways you could never have done yourself. You’re capable, sensitive, sensible and smart. And being looked after aways.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001737 The following Corporation is doing business as R.R.M., INC AND TRITON CONSTRUCTION. 2560 SOQUEL AVE., STE 202, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

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the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: ROSE MARY BEAM to: ROSE MARY AMARU. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Dec. 7, 2018 at 8:30 am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.

Dated: Oct. 23, 2018. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Nov. 14, 21, 28, & Dec. 5.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF ROSE MARY BEAM CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.18CV03093. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner ROSE MARY BEAM has filed a Petition for Change of Name with

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001706 The following Individual is doing business as LIBERATION SUPPER CLUB. 316 MAIN ST. UNIT 1, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. SHOSHANA DEVRA PERREY. 316 MAIN ST. UNIT 1, SANTA CRUZ, CA

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001784 The following Corporation is doing business as CBD BLENDS, CHAMELEON CREATIONS, SACRED BUD, THE SACRED ROSE. 1205 WARREN DRIVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

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COCREATIS. 1205 WARREN DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. Al# 395330. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: COCREATIS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 5/1/2004. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on November 7, 2018. Nov. 14, 21, 28, & Dec. 5.

EMERLYE. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING December 28, 2018 at 8:30 am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.

Dated: November 8, 2018.

Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Nov. 14, 21, 28, & Dec. 5.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF RACHAEL EDITH LYNCH CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.18CV03274. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner RACHAEL RIDENOUR has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: RACHAEL EDITH LYNCH to: RACHAEL EDITH

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001656 The following Individual is doing business as BLOOMING MINDS. 4470 SOQUEL DRIVE, SOQUEL, CA 95073. County of Santa Cruz. COURTNEY LYNN PRIDDY. 4470 SOQUEL DRIVE, SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: COURTNEY LYNN PRIDDY. The registrant commenced to transact

95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: SHOSHANA DEVRA PERREY. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Oct. 24, 2018.

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business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on October 16, 2018. Nov. 14, 21, 28, & December 5.

granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING December 7, 2018 at 8:30 am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.

Dated: Oct. 23, 2018. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Nov. 14, 21, 28, & Dec. 5.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001806 The following Individual is doing business as FURTHER. 560 30TH AVE., SPC 60, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. MARK CHARLES JAMES NELSON. 560 30TH AVE., SPC 60, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MARK CHARLES JAMES NELSON. The registrant commenced to transact

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001803 The following Individual is doing business as FINE ART BY MARIANA. 403 LAGUNA ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. INES MARIANA SUAREZ BARNES. 403 LAGUNA ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: INES MARIANA SUAREZ BARNES. The registrant commenced transacting business under

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County of Santa Cruz. LISA C. FORTES-SCHRAMM. 206 ROBERTS STREET #B, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: LISA C. FORTES-SCHRAMM. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Oct. 30, 2018.

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GERI E. ALLEGRE. 4300 SOQUEL DR. #51, SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: GERI E. ALLEGRE. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/8/2018. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Nov. 8, 2018. Nov. 14, 21, 28, & Dec. 5.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF JONAH YUNUS WILSON CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.18CV03096. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner JONAH YUNUS WILSON has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: JONAH YUNUS WILSON to: YUNUS RAHEEM AMARU. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001807 The following Married Couple is doing business as SEASIDE WASH & DRY. 1911 MISSION STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

County of Santa Cruz.

DIANA LORD AND BRYAN LORD. 880 WEST CLIFF DRIVE, UNIT 12, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by a Married Couple signed: DIANA H. LORD. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/9/2013. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Nov. 13, 2018.

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#3 HAS A LOBBY, RECEPTION SPACE, A LARGE ROOM, KITCHENETTE. #4 HAS A SPACIOUS ROOM AT THE ENTRANCE, & FOUR SMALLER ROOMS. parking to be discussed.

This midcentury modern building is located on the new riverwalk path and footbridge over branciforte creek.

There’ll be lots more choices going forward.

You won’t have to have commit your life savings to a place you’ve only seen for a few minutes. And you won’t find yourselves locked in multiple-offer combat vying with ten other buyers for the same place. And you won’t have to feel so galled by greedy Sellers playing puppet-master with your emotions.

The tide is turning. Power is shifting away from an abject sellers’ market to a much more balanced one. Where confident Buyers have more say and a modicum of sway in how future transactions go down. So here’s the million dollar question: why aren’t you more excited?

After six years of looking for some kind of leverage over sellers, isn’t this the kind of real estate you wanted?

More inventory? Softer prices? More negotiating room? What’s not to like? Why is the big worry suddenly: “What if I buy a house today and it’s worth less six months from now?” When did short-term doubt become a such a viable substitute for long-term decision making?

Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane and look for some insight into the current mindset.

It’s 1990 and we’re on the waning edge of a bull market, the likes of which everyone said we’d never see again. If you bought a home in 1990, it was worth less in 1991. If you panicked in 1992 and tried to sell, you might have had to bring in extra money to close escrow. 1993 was tough too. It felt like you could shoot a cannon through the marketplace and not hit a buyer.

By 1995, things had changed. Values were back to where they were in 1990. By 1997, things were pretty rosy. By 2000, your equity had transformed you into a shrewd real estate investor. By 2003, you were a financial genius and you thought you should have your own late night infomercial teaching others how to share in the wealth. By 2005, you were planning retirement around the equity you’d amassed in your brilliant real estate career!

Now step back and take a look over the scope of that same time horizon. Same house.

Changing cycles. If you were in it for the short haul, you could have lost big time. If you were in it for the long haul - it paid off in ways you couldn’t have imagined.

Tom Brezsny

Realtor® DRE#01063297

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