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EDITOR’S NOTE Sure, Hanukkah (all done), Christmas (this week!) and Kwanzaa (takin’ us into the new year) are all great, but one of the best presents we get at the GT office in December is the chance to roast everything about this year that bummed us out, killed our buzz, harshed our mellow, pissed us off, made us laugh, made us cry or made us laugh-cry. If you didn’t hear about some of the local news stories we not-so-fondly reminisce about in this week’s cover story, take a moment to cherish these last precious seconds of blissful ignorance, ’cause you’re about to experience just how ridiculous Santa Cruz can be. But there was some weird and good stuff, too, and

LETTERS

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THANK YOU, WATSONVILLE!

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Re: “Push Track” (GT, 11/21): This letter is to thank and congratulate the Watsonville City Council for their public support for the Unified Corridor Study’s “Scenario B,” the rail and trail option with some adjustments to address Watsonville’s specific interests. It was a long and late council meeting that went from Tuesday into Wednesday. Council members surfaced reasonable and diverse questions and points of view. But in the end, they all came together—Hurst, Hernandez, Gonzalez, Dutra, Garcia, Coffman-Gomez, and Bilicich—to vote unanimously in support of rail and trail.

The Council-supported adjustments included allowing freight service on the rail line, reallocating funding from certain Mission Street improvements to areas with greater need and, adding HOV lanes to sections of Highway 1.

While the Watsonville City Council doesn’t make the final decision, they’ve taken an admirable step to weigh in on what will be best for their constituents.

Thank you, Watsonville!

DAVID VAN BRINK | | SANTA CRUZ

CULTURAL DARK SIDE I would like to respond to the letter from

we didn’t leave that out. (I won’t spoil who comes out the winner of deer vs. shark.) It’s all part of a “year in review” tradition that’s always cathartic—and, OK, pretty fun—for us.

Hopefully it is for you, too.

Also, I really hope you’ll take a look at Hugh McCormick’s story this week on the Conflict Resolution Center, one of the groups you can donate to through Santa Cruz Gives. I think it’s a great example how many Santa Cruz Gives participants are doing things that are truly “outside the box” of what we typically expect from local nonprofits. They’re doing great work, and you can help by going to santacruzgives.org and donating.

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“Gary” (Letters, Nov. 28) that incorrectly described the reason Santa Cruz attracts homeless people more than other local cities.

What he cited is incorrect. I corrected him when he posted in the Facebook group “The Santa Cruz Community,” and I will correct him again so people know facts from fiction.

Many homeless folks who come from other areas don’t come for services, because they are a non-existent myth. They come to Santa Cruz for the easy score of drugs that you can get on almost every corner. This why we attract certain tourists as well: drugs, prostitution, sex trafficking, swinger sex rings, etc. Santa Cruz after dark, especially around downtown bars like Red Room, goes unchecked by SCPD. The horrendous drug/ surf culture (dealing, using) that is destroying Santa Cruz is neither an unhoused or housed problem. It crosses all classes, races and social standing. We have many rich citizens who live double lives. Why do you think the Google executive died in the Santa Cruz Harbor? Until Santa Cruz leaders/police attack the real crime problems plaguing the city, SC will continue to spiral into a deeper cesspool attracting unsavory characters.

Demand the police stop protecting and making confidential informants out of the criminal white majority.

PAT COLBY | | SANTA CRUZ

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The Third Annual Christmas at the MAH will serve a delicious free meal at the Museum of Art and History on Dec. 25 from 12-3 p.m. Organizers are looking for volunteers for the 8:30 a.m. food prep shift at India Joze. Interested volunteers may email christmasatthemah@gmail.com. To donate, visit gofundme.com and type in “Christmas at the MAH.” The United Nations Store, located at 903 Pacific Ave., is accepting donations of winter clothing donations to distribute. Call Steve Pleich at 831-466-6078 to arrange a drop-off time.

Efforts to protect the area’s ocean waters now have yet another defender. The Monterey Bay chapter of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation has announced its first-ever executive director, who will help lead the way forward on ocean conservation issues. The group’s hire is Ginaia Kelly, who has years of nonprofit administrative experience—at Save Our Shores, Save the Waves, American Red Cross and Goodwill. Our local federally protected marine sanctuary stretches from Marin County to Big Sur. For more information, visit montereybayfoundation.org.

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What’s the strangest thing that happened to you this year?

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My mom died, and I've been dealing with that. I've grown a lot and learned a lot and continue to do so.

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I went to a bar with my family and got too drunk, and my mother ended up carrying me out.

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I go home, and in my bedroom someone had dropped trousers in the middle of my floor. No explanation. There were just pants, and they were not my pants.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of December 19 ARIES Mar21–Apr19

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22

Consumer Reports says that between 1975 and 2008, the average number of products for sale in a supermarket rose from about 9,000 to nearly 47,000. The glut is holding steady. Years ago, you selected from among three or four brands of soup and shampoo. Nowadays, you may be faced with 20 varieties of each. I suspect that 2019 will bring a comparable expansion in some of your life choices, Aries—especially when you’re deciding what to do with your future and who your allies should be. This could be both a problem and a blessing. For best results, opt for choices that have all three of these qualities: fun, usefulness and meaningfulness.

“Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out.” This advice is sometimes attributed to 16th-century politician and cardinal Thomas Wolsey. Now I’m offering it to you as one of your important themes in 2019. Here's how you can best take it to heart. First, be extremely discerning about what ideas, theories and opinions you allow to flow into your imagination. Make sure they’re based on objective facts, and make sure they’re good for you. Second, be aggressive about purging old ideas, theories and opinions from your head, especially if they’re outmoded, unfounded or toxic.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 People have been trying to convert ordinary metals into gold since at least 300 A.D. At that time, an Egyptian alchemist named Zosimos of Panopolis unsuccessfully mixed sulfur and mercury in the hope of performing such magic. Fourteen centuries later, seminal scientist Isaac Newton also failed in his efforts to produce gold from cheap metal. But now let’s fast forward to 20th-century chemist Glenn T. Seaborg, a distinguished researcher who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1951. He and his team did an experiment with bismuth, an element that’s immediately adjacent to lead on the periodic table. By using a particle accelerator, they literally transmuted a small quantity of bismuth into gold. I propose that we make this your teaching story for 2019.

May it inspire you to seek transformations that have never before been possible.

GEMINI May21–June20 U.S. President Donald Trump wants to build a concrete and fence wall between Mexico and America, hoping to slow down the flow of immigrants across the border.

Meanwhile, 12 North African countries are collaborating to build a 4,750-mile-long wall of drought-resistant trees at the border of the Sahara, hoping to stop the desert from swallowing up farmland. During the coming year, I’ll be rooting for you to draw inspiration from the latter, not the former. Erecting new boundaries will be healthy for you—if it’s done out of love and for the sake of your health, not out of fear and divisiveness.

CANCER Jun21–Jul22

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Cancerian poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau advised artists to notice the aspects of their work that critics didn’t like—and then cultivate those precise aspects. He regarded the disparaged or misconstrued elements as being key to an artist’s uniqueness and originality, even if they were as-yet immature. I’m expanding his suggestion and applying it to all of you crabs during the next 10 months, even if you’re not strictly an artist. Watch carefully what your community seems to misunderstand about the new trends you’re pursuing, and work hard to ripen them.

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LE0 Jul23–Aug22 In 1891, a 29-year-old British mother named Constance Garnett decided she would study the Russian language and become a translator. She learned fast. During the next 40 years, she produced English translations of 71 Russian literary books, including works by Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, and Chekhov. Many had never before been rendered in English. I see 2019 as a Constance Garnetttype year for you, Leo. Any late-blooming potential you might possess could enter a period of rapid maturation.

Awash in enthusiasm and ambition, you’ll have the power to launch a new phase of development that could animate and motivate you for a long time.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 Memorize this quote by author Peter Newton and keep it close to your awareness during the coming months: “No remorse. No if-onlys. Just the alertness of being.”

Here’s another useful maxim, this one from author Mignon McLaughlin: “Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.” Shall we make it a lucky three mottos to live by in 2019? This one’s by author A. A. Milne: “You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 Until 1920, most American women didn’t have the right to vote. For that matter, few had ever been candidates for public office. There were exceptions.

In 1866, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first to seek a seat in Congress. In 1875, Victoria Woodhull ran for president. Susanna Salter became the first woman mayor in 1887. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Sagittarius, 2019 will be a StantonWoodhull-Salter type of year for you. You’re likely to be ahead of your time and primed to innovate. You’ll have the courage and resourcefulness necessary to try seemingly unlikely and unprecedented feats, and you’ll have a knack for ushering the future into the present.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 Studies show that the best possible solution to the problem of homelessness is to provide cheap or free living spaces for the homeless. Not only is it the most effective way of helping the people involved; in the long run, it’s also the least expensive. Is there a comparable problem in your personal life? A chronic difficulty that you keep putting Band-Aids on, but that never gets much better? I’m happy to inform you that 2019 will be a favorable time to dig down to find deeper, more fundamental solutions; to finally fix a troublesome issue rather than just addressing its symptoms.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 Many people in Iceland write poems, but only a few publish them. There’s even a term for those who put their creations away in a drawer rather than seeking an audience: skúffuskáld, literally translated as “drawer-poet.” Is there a comparable phenomenon in your life, Aquarius? Do you produce some good thing but never share it? Is there a part of you that you’re proud of but keep secret? Is there an aspect of your ongoing adventures that’s meaningful but mostly private? If so, 2019 will be the year you might want to change your mind about it.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22

PISCES Feb19–Mar20

I’ll be bold and predict that 2019 will be a nurturing chapter in your story; a time when you will feel loved and supported to a greater degree than usual; a phase when you will be more at home in your body and more at peace with your fate than you have in a long time. I have chosen an appropriate blessing to bestow upon you, written by the poet Claire Wahmanholm. Speak her words as if they were your own. “On Earth I am held, honeysuckled not just by honeysuckle but by everything—marigolds, bog after bog of small sundews, the cold smell of spruce.”

Scientists at Goldsmiths, University of London, did a study to determine the catchiest pop song ever recorded. After extensive research in which they evaluated an array of factors, they decided that Queen’s “We Are the Champions” is the song that more people love to sing than any other. This triumphant tune happens to be your theme song in 2019. I suggest you learn the lyrics and melody, and sing it once every day. It should help you build on the natural confidence-building influences that will be streaming into your life.

Homework: Write a parable or fairy tale that captures what your life has been © Copyright 2018 like in 2018. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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CORRECTION Last week’s news story “Bin Asking,” about local composting policy, misreported plans for the city of Santa Cruz’s food scraps program. The city plans to take composting waste to anaerobic digesters at the city’s Wastewater Treatment Facility.

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NEWS GETTING A PEACE Lejla Bratovic, who escaped genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, brings natural mediation skills to the Conflict Resolution Center

BY HUGH MCCORMICK

SHRED OF HOPE Peter Truman was dismayed that he had to start putting once-recyclable paper scraps in the trash months ago. He hopes a different recycler will take his trimmings in the future. PHOTO: JACOB PIERCE

Paper Rue

Confusion and piles of paper and plastic, while international recycling markets tighten BY JACOB PIERCE

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ntil about four months ago, Peter Truman and his employees would fill 12 recycling bins a week full of glossy paper scraps.

Each blue bin weighed about 350 pounds, estimates Truman, who owns the MPress Digital Printing shop on Potrero Street in Santa Cruz. The company prints books, brochures, postcards, and catalogs five days a week, all while the shop’s press operator blasts classic rock CDs. One day this past summer, Truman says that a Santa Cruz resource recovery supervisor told him that

the city was having issues hauling Mpress’ glossy trimmings, and that it was going to stop accepting them in its recycling collection.

Bob Nelson, superintendent of resource recovery, tells GT that all those tiny paper strands make a stringy mess that spreads all over the city’s facility. Nelson says Santa Cruz had a special route that only picked up print scraps, but as clients dwindled, the operation stopped penciling out.

Truman’s paper scraps now had to start going into the landfill.

He says that the garbage bill more than quadrupled. Truman

used to pay about $85 for garbage, and have all his paper hauled away for recycling. He’s now paying $260 a month to fill a giant metal dumpster, but even that isn’t always enough to get him and his employees through the week. Trash day for the print shop is Tuesday. When I meet Truman at the business, it’s a Thursday, and the dumpster is nearly full with what he estimates is close to a couple thousand pounds of once-recyclable paper. That means he’s going to have to pay for an extra trash pick-up on Friday.

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War took 13-year-old Lejla Bratovic and her family by surprise.

The atrocities that befell their formerly peaceful home country of Bosnia and Herzegovina would become the worst act of genocide since World War II. While their beloved hometown of Sarajevo smoldered, the Bratovic family tried to escape. The Bosnian Serb Army started an ethnic cleansing, and incidents of mass rape shook the country.

Bratovic’s parents pushed their daughter onto a plane bound for the West, one of the last aircrafts to leave the country. Alone and on a plane for the first time in her life, Bratovic felt shocked as she stared out the window of the 747, replaying scenes of her family’s flight and the conflict raging in her homeland. In the U.S., she found herself lost in a labyrinth of awkward interrogations, paperwork and a nearly impossible language barrier, recalls Bratovic, who is now the executive director of the nonprofit Conflict Resolution Center (CRC) of Santa Cruz.

Bratovic applied for a tourist visa and was denied multiple times before earning political asylum in America. Bratovic moved in with a host family in Kansas, joining more than 120,000 Bosnian refugees resettled in America. She began working diligently to learn English, piecing words and phrases together from popular songs and television shows. She wondered if she would ever see her family again.

The experience strengthened Bratovic, giving her the tools to find her true calling: mediating and resolving contested matters.

In a life largely defined by conflict, the job came naturally to her. “The work chose me. Actually, I don’t even consider it work.

It’s really just a path in life,” says Bratovic, 40, who finally reunited with her family after several long years, once her parents received visas as part of a U.S. program.

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IT’S ABOUT THE PEOPLE

By Datta Khalsa, Broker Looking back on another year in real estate, I have a deep sense of appreciation for the broad range of opportunities and challenges that I am bestowed with the opportunity to handle. And I am filled with appreciation for the fact that it’s really not just about the transaction, or the home, the investment property or the business being handled. In the end, it’s about the people.

To paraphrase the words of noted architect William Wurster, Architecture is not a goal. It is merely the frame around the people who are the picture. I have found this to be true as well about the practice of real estate in general.

The role that a proactive agent plays in the course of representing their client can range at any given moment from being their analyst and project manager to acting as a detective and advisor on property issues; from serving as art director and copywriter for a seller to becoming concierge and tour guide for a buyer; or from providing support and counseling behind the scenes to serving as their advocate and diplomat to negotiate the best of outcomes on their behalf.

And the final outcome often relies not just on what you know, but who you know and how things go, in large part due to who you bring in to help handle the various moving parts as you go along.

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Ultimately, it is often the relationships that bind a transaction, and to that end I would like to honor and acknowledge the many people who help guide the twists and turns of each client’s journey to an ultimately happy conclusion.

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First and foremost, my heartfelt gratitude goes to the clients who entrust agents like me with the privilege of representing them. Thanks also go out to my amazing and talented team who help me with the marketing, research and coordination of the many details that come up in the course of a transaction.

Next are all the other agents who uphold their shared duty to help ensure a stable and smooth transaction that is correctly handled. And finally, the many inspectors, experts and third-party vendors who provide the help needed to assess, repair or facilitate the multiple components that, if not correctly handled, could result in a lessthan-happy ending for the parties involved.

As the saying goes, it takes a village.

And it really helps to have someone on your side to help make sure that the village you invite to your next transaction is filled with the right people.

Datta Khalsa is the broker and owner at Main Street Realtors in Soquel. He can be reached at (831)818-0181 or datta@ mainstrealtors.com

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print shop, which is in Aptos, he says he’s still able to put scraps in his blue bins. There’s a different hauler in Aptos and the rest of Santa Cruz County’s unincorporated area. The county has a contract with GreenWaste, which also hauls garbage, recycling and yard waste for Capitola and Scotts Valley.

What happened next may have been a miscommunication, but nonetheless, the breakdown epitomizes much of the confusion around recycling policy. It was also the part of the whole saga that made Truman most upset. A few months ago, Truman looked into having a third-party recycler come and pick up the paper scraps. But he says a city employee informed him that he couldn’t even let outside recyclers— some of whom Truman says would actually pay him for his scraps—

come in to haul his recycling away.

“And the fact that it’s going into our landfill, when it should be recycled paper. Here we are a certified green business, and we can’t recycle our paper,” Truman says.

Nelson says that Truman actually is allowed to have his recycling hauled away by third parties, although he isn’t sure how many would be willing to do it. The rule, he explains, is that Truman isn’t allowed to pay anyone else to take it away. Truman tells GT he wishes he had learned that sooner.

Bewilderment and miscommunications can both be common in the world of recycling.

When Santa Cruz County published a recycling guide in January, the brochure included instructions for a few items, like the Christmas lights and types of glass that many county residents were allowed to put in their blue bins.

The problem was that much of the guide did not line up with the city of Santa Cruz’s policy. That prompted many confused phone calls from residents and ultimately led Santa Cruz to launch an outreach campaign of its own, explaining how city residents are supposed to dispose of everything.

WASTED ENERGY For all of recycling’s overwhelming environmental benefits, one trade-off is that a huge portion of America’s recyclable material gets shipped overseas on industrial cargo ships.

Until a couple of years ago, two-thirds of those exports went to China, which has since closed its doors to recycling from other countries. That change let other recycling-importing countries get pickier about which goods >14

NEWS BRIEFS CUMMINGS OUT ON TOP Santa Cruz has a new mayor, and her name is Martine Watkins.

Watkins, who just wrapped up her one-year term as vice mayor this week, began her new role at the end of the Tuesday, Dec. 11 meeting. Also at the nighttime meeting, the Santa Cruz City Council voted to make newly elected City Councilmember Justin Cummings the town’s new vice mayor.

Councilmember Chris Krohn, who supported Cummings’ campaign, made the nomination, behind a newly minted City Council majority. The change marks first time in two decades that a newly elected City Council candidate has transitioned right from his swearing in to the vice mayor seat. By conventional wisdom, the post puts Cummings next in line to be mayor.

In his remarks Tuesday night, Cummings said he was looking

forward to working collaboratively with colleagues and staff.

At the same meeting, City Clerk Bonnie Bush swore in the two other new councilmembers—Donna Meyers, who finished second, and Drew Glover, who ran on a slate with Cummings. Cummings and Glover are the first African American men to serve on the council. Meyers is the city’s first openly lesbian councilmember.

The council unanimously confirmed Krohn’s vice mayor nomination of Cummings.

Customarily, the top two vote-getters from each election serve a one-year term as vice mayor and another as mayor, although the actual decision is left up to the council. Meyers nominated Councilmember Cynthia Mathews, the second-leading vote getter in the 2016 election, to be vice mayor. Meyers cited Mathews’ years of service and her work

protecting women’s health.

Mathews withdrew the nomination, signaling a desire to move forward, adding that she enjoyed getting to know Cummings in recent months and that she did not want to further a perception that politics in Santa Cruz is divisive. (Under a majority led by Krohn, Mathews’ nomination would likely not have had the votes to pass.)

The shift in order marks the first disruption to the mayoral norm since 1998, at the beginning of the last term Krohn served on the council. That’s when Krohn and his newly elected fellow councilmembers Keith Sugar and Tim Fitzmaurice shook up the rotation for mayor. The specifics were different, but the council voted to appoint Katherine Beiers to the mayorship, in lieu of then-Vice Mayor Mike Rotkin, who had been the top vote-getter two

years prior, and customarily would have been next in line.

Sugar became the vice mayor.

Over the course of their shared four-year council term, Sugar, Fitzmaurice and Krohn would each serve a year as mayor.

Krohn says his decision to nominate Cummings wasn’t just about politics, but also about his leadership style. “Right person, right time,” he says.

After the election results confirmed earlier this month that Meyers came in second at the polls, many voters thought that she would end up serving a year as vice mayor and another as mayor during her time on the council. Krohn isn’t ready to say who he might support for vice mayor at the end of 2019.

“I won’t go there yet,” he says. “Let’s just get this year done first and see how it goes.”

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her the ability to remove herself “from a conflict, and see all sides, always having empathy for people who are suffering.”

At the CRC, Bratovic manages a staff of four, plus an army of 45-50 volunteers who offer a variety of services to county residents. Programs are either inexpensive or totally free and include community mediation, victim-offender dialogues, restorative justice dialogues, parent-teen mediation, workplace mediation, and law enforcement-community dialogues.

The center, which is participating in this year’s Santa Cruz Gives holiday campaign, has helped thousands of clients, partners, organizations and businesses find solutions to difficult problems in their homes, neighborhoods, court settings, and workplaces. Bratovic says the staff and volunteers like to say that they “get people unstuck.”

Bratovic says funds from this year’s holiday giving campaign will cover conflict resolution trainings, as well as the development of a youth violence prevention program. The CRC, which has been around for four decades, will embark on a community-wide engagement campaign in 2019 to promote the use of peaceful dialogue through facilitation, mediation and education.

The CRC holds monthly community events to bring people together and have difficult conversations. Bratovic says the center, which has a modest annual operating budget of $140,000, hopes to hire more staff soon to create more visibility and exposure for the organization.

Programs address conflict at all stages, including prevention and early intervention.

They also provide alternatives to hostility, violence, and litigation. “Conflict will always be here,” says Bratovic. “We need to offer alternative ways to going to court, having

violence and living in hate and animosity.”

A modest stipend gets each visitor a three-hour mediation session with two CRC employees who facilitate a restorative and healing dialogue. “Any more and you’ll burn out,” admits Bratovic. Most parties only need one session to resolve their conflicts and move on amicably, she says.

Bratovic says that she is happy to have found a home with the CRC in Santa Cruz, where she feels the community here is so active and caring.

“They’re always giving back and taking a stand,” she says. “The group at the CRC—staff, board and volunteers—are all committed to creating a more peaceful community and giving back. We are resolving conflicts. That is what I love.”

To donate to the Conflict Resolution Center and nearly three dozen other local nonprofits, go to santacruzgives.org through Dec. 31.

they’re willing to accept, and made it harder for recycling facility managers to get rid of their plastic and paper. For much of the year, the city of Santa Cruz was asking residents to cut back on their paper usage, while baled paper piled up for months on end at the city’s own material recycling facility—known as a MRF for short (and often pronounced murph in the waste management industry).

Santa Cruz did finally manage to sell off all 1,800 of its bales in the fall to buyers in South Korea and Indonesia.

The city’s MRF is next to its landfill, just off Highway 1. There, workers stand alongside a conveyor belt pulling off trash, bags and cardboard as fast as they can manage before a giant V-shaped, mouth-like machine shakes out the bottles and cans, blowing the paper upward.

On a tour of the city’s MRF, Waste Disposal Superintendent Craig Pearson tells me that he’s skeptical that GreenWaste, which is based in San Jose, is actually finding markets for all the materials it accepts in its blue bins, but he won’t say what he thinks is happening to it.

Tim Goncharoff, the county’s resource planner, notes that the county has done audits following the recycling that GreenWaste takes in from its MRF in San Jose to the recyclers it works with. He says that the company has the advantage of scale, since its operation is several times bigger than the city’s.

City and county leaders both take a lot of pride in their own respective recycling programs, but they do share elements in common.

The collection rates for the two are comparable to one another, although the county’s rates are slightly cheaper than the city’s.

Neither the city nor the county use general fund dollars to subsidize their waste management programs.

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The city has made it clear in recent brochures that it no longer accepts them.

GreenWaste, on the other hand, hasn’t gotten the word out, even though it doesn’t have a market for clamshells right now, either. Hanson is optimistic that the company might find a way to get rid of them, and she doesn’t want to tell anyone not to put something in the recycling, since GreenWaste may be able to recycle them in the future.

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HEY, THAT REALLY WARMED THE PLACE UP! SAME TIME TOMORROW? “Love's what I got/ Don't start a riot/ You'll feel it when the dance gets hot.” Those Sublime lyrics were certainly not playing when 26 prisoners charged county sheriff’s deputies at Santa Cruz Main Jail. After complaining that their unit was too cold, the inmates pulled out all the stops boobytrapping the joint. They tied trip lines from ripped sheets, covered their arms with socks, hid their faces with makeshift masks and armed themselves with soap, a radio, a mop and books. They covered the floor with soap and water, and blocked stairwells and walkways with mattresses as they tried to pelt the guards with books and soap.

Officers quelled the uprising with rubber pellets and beanbag rounds, and despite all the suds, no one made a clean getaway.

Train A is departing for UCSC with 9,000 new students. Train B is departing for the same destination carrying a buttload of angry Santa Cruz townspeople waving pitchforks. If Train A is scheduled to arrive by 2040, and Train B is scheduled to arrive any day now, how soon must Chancellor George Blumenthal retire to avoid getting the ass-poking of his life? For full credit, correlate the 80 percent of city voters who said “yes” to a meaningless measure in favor of limiting university expansion. Bonus points: Calculate the integer X that represents how much the UC Regents care that no one in Santa Cruz likes their plan, if X is less than zero.

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OR ROUGHLY THE COST OF A THREE-BEDROOM ON OPAL CLIFF DRIVE The 175-acre Coastside Ranch went on the market for $35 million. The property sits between Wilder Ranch and CotoniCoast Dairies National Monument. This prized ranch land includes the Red, White and Blue Beach, which was home to a nudist colony until 2006. OK, the price is right, but does it still smell like hippies?

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Tired of haphazardly managing a burgeoning transient population with nowhere to live, go to the bathroom, or even just hang out, the city of Santa Cruz started letting the homeless kick it at San Lorenzo Park. Everyone brought their tents to the benchlands for the monthslong camp-out, until the city grew tired of hearing locals—many of them nearby county employees—complain about the impacts of the camp, and city parks employees got fed up with picking syringes out of the grass. Next, Santa Cruz opened up a smaller, more controlled camp on River Street. Most were happy with the new permanent camp. Well, it wasn’t permanent-permanent, but more temporary-permanent. Theoretically, there was a plan here. A city analyst swore to GT—as unrealistic as it sounded at the time—that it would be hasta luego for that camp by the end of June, and that the campers would move to a bigger facility. But actually, the camp closed in November, with no long-term solution in sight. Sigh.

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There she is, sparkling like a child’s toy in the unforgettable hawk’s-eye-view opening shot of the Beach Boardwalk at night in The Lost Boys. The centerpiece of countless tourist photos and home movies, the Boardwalk’s majestic old Ferris wheel met its demise this year. First erected in 1959, the wheel was retired and dismantled in March. The Facebook explanation from the Boardwalk sounds like something you’d say to your 5-year-old when it’s time to take the dying family dog for one last trip to the vet: “Every ride is unique, and each has a lifespan. Sometimes it’s just time to let them go.” The decision removed a major courtship go-to move for generations of locals, leaving thousands of singles to wonder where they were supposed to go on a second date. It was also one of the few attractions at the Boardwalk not designed with drooling toddlers or insane adrenaline junkies in mind. Now, Santa Cruz speaks with one voice: Please, please leave the Sky Glider alone!

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WON’T YOU COME HOME, JAMES DURBIN? WON’T YOU COME ON HOME? Back in 2011, it was madness. The electrifying performances on national TV. The packed bars and restaurants every week to watch them. The wild homecoming concert that drew 30,000 people to the Beach Boardwalk. It was Santa Cruz’s own mini-Beatlemania moment, and it was all thanks to the supernaturally talented singer James Durbin and his unlikely run on Fox’s American Idol. But in 2018, Durbinsanity was officially consigned to history when Durbin and his family left their Santa Cruz home for a new adventure in Nashville.

Durbin was much more than a local phenom—he was a genuine national curiosity, the kid who struggled with the double diagnosis of Asperger’s and Tourette’s, but was nonetheless possessed of a rock singer’s wail that would make Robert Plant cry. Durbin represented Santa Cruz with distinction when he decided to champion ballsy hard rock on a show much more inclined to leather-lunged divas. Good luck, amigo. And thanks for the reflected glory.

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HER ENEMIES SLEEP WITH THE FISHES Did you know that there’s a lady orca mob boss calling the shots on who lives and who dies in the Monterey Bay? There is, and her name is Emma. The matriarch of an orca pod that returns to the bay each spring to hunt is easy to spot because of her own Scarface-esque calling card: distinctive E-shaped notches in her dorsal fin that helped marine biologists like Nancy Black of the Monterey Bay Whale Watch link Emma’s pod with 12 local attacks on gray whales last year alone. In a refreshingly vivid reminder of our collective descent into unfettered social Darwinism, this year’s killer whale season started with a bang on April 5, when a group of unsuspecting whale watchers witnessed a crew of 17 orcas give a gray whale calf the business.

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And it might have been, if UCSC’s campus police hadn’t decided to make their play for the Buzzkill Hall of Fame. As students and other bud enthusiasts gathered at Porter Meadows for the annual day of rest and nonsensical reflection, an estimated 100 officers from multiple UC police departments, plus a videographer working for the campus cops, were reportedly on hand to unfurl a giant wet blanket over the festivities. People’s Champion and art student Marco Cota, for one, tried to make peace with the officers directing revelers to stop smoking in public. “The policeman declined his offer to share the doobie,” the San Jose Mercury News reported.

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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, SOMEBODY JUMP IN THERE AND GET HER! Santa Cruz native Shell Eisenberg set a new U.S. women’s national record in May by freediving to a depth of 85 meters (278.87 feet). To put that in perspective, it’s more than twice the maximum limit for recreational diving (40 meters) and far beyond even what is considered a “deep dive” for technical divers (60m). Santa Cruz’s Kirby School, of which Eisenberg is an alumna, proudly trumpeted her accomplishment on their web page. However, they inadvertently put an unsettling twist on the story with a graphic of the Washington Monument that showed her dive was roughly equivalent to half-way down the stone structure. “This is the depth she dove to,” it was captioned. “Now she has to swim back to the surface.” Wait, she’s still down there?

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The wooden seats and overly steep metal stairs are reminiscent of a high school spirit rally in an oldtimey gymnasiumâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;okay for the retro-cool Derby Girls, but not exactly ideal when it comes to Santa Cruz symphony concerts. With the complaints about practicality, handicap accommodations and air conditioning in mind, Santa Cruz Mayor David Terrazas and Ellen Primack, executive director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, announced plans for a $20 million Civic Auditorium makeover to be potentially funded by a future ballot measure.

WE LITERALLY CANNOT STOP WRITING ABOUT SHARKS #SORRYNOTSORRY Everyone knows shark populations in the Monterey Bay have gone up in recent years, which researchers attribute to food availability.

Though shark attacks are super rare, beachgoers were still on the edge of their uncomfortable chairs when a Capitola kayaker reported that he saw two dozen sharks about the same size as his kayak while paddling off of New Brighton State Beach.

A young, 8-foot male great white weighing in at 500 pounds washed up in Aptos a few days later. It had several cuts and scrapes, which prompted criminal investigators to push their way through the crowd of Instagrammers for a closer look.

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I AM THE KEYMASTER. ARE YOU THE GATEKEEPER? The California Coastal Commission had an ultimatum for the Opal Cliffs Recreation District: Open your freakin’ beach to the public, or else. The district’s response: How about no? Some Mid-County surfers and neighbors have long preferred keeping the gated Privates Beach under lock and key (membership costs $100 a year), arguing that it keeps the area pristine. So when the Coastal Commission provided a July 31 deadline to respond, the county let the date come and go, opening up a controversy over coastal access. The standoff has cooled off in the months since, after neighbors indicated they would be open to keeping the gate open to the public for at least a few hours a day. Assuming it all works out, we hope that the Coastal Commission’s next ruling has to do with a name change for Privates Beach. Whoever named that is bad at naming beaches and should feel bad.

Landlords and other opponents of the Measure M rent control initiative somehow missed the deadline to file an argument against the local measure that they were so angry about. Supporters, meanwhile, turned their piece in on time. Santa Cruz city employees said that they were to blame for all the confusion, and the City Council granted opponents more time to file their argument. That reminds us, we’re actually gonna be a few weeks late on rent this month … so we’ll just beg the City Council to let us turn it in when we get around to it. Is that how it works?

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DO YOU PROMISE TO BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER, IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH? Anyone who’s seen Keanu Reeves’ most recent film, Destination Wedding, probably has a good idea of what he’s like in real life—handsome, sort of funny and mildly awkward, perhaps a tad dickish. But his name does mean “cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian, so we could be wrong. One couple who got married at the Dream Inn got an unexpected little Hawaiian breeze of their own when Reeves showed up out of the blue at their wedding. Guests reported seeing a phone booth nearby, which seems kind of weird in this day and age, especially because it had Alex Winters in it.

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Easy way to get to be Santa Cruz’s most hated person of the day? Spill 200 gallons of diesel into one of the world's most renowned marine sanctuaries. That’s what happened when a man ran a 56-foot commercial fishing boat aground on Aug. 13 near UCSC’s Seymour Marine Discovery Center. He and his dog were able to hop off and walk away—too bad the otters and dolphins couldn’t do the same.

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Physics majors will tell you that it’s technically impossible to be hot and cool at the same time. But that doesn’t apply to director/writer/actor Jordan Peele, who landed an Oscar nom and scored major hipster cred with his directorial debut Get Out last year. In September, Peele (formerly of the Key & Peele comedy duo) came to the Seabright neighborhood of Santa Cruz with his production crew to shoot some exteriors and stunt scenes for his new film titled Us, to be released in March. There is apparently a Mueller-esque level of security against leaking details of the new movie. What we do know is that, as with Get Out, Peele will be working from his own script, and he’ll be tackling the subject of race in, we can hope, the same funny-scary-angry tone that made his debut film such a standout. The movie will star Lupita Nyong’o, Elisabeth Moss and at least one or two breathtaking establishing shots of the local landscape.

BECAUSE OUR NAVEL IS JUST THAT GAZE-WORTHY It was a big year for literary self-examination in Santa Cruz. Right on the heels of the collection Santa Cruz Noir, a second anthology of Santa Cruz-inspired literature, Santa Cruz Weird, was released in September. Weird featured 18 short stories, each an attempt to capture the uniquely eccentric essence of Santa Cruz and the various weirdos it attracts. The earlier book, Santa Cruz Noir, featured an entirely different cast of local writers, all turning their gaze to the sleazy dark underbelly of life in Surf City. Taken together, the two collections might present a fairly comprehensive, if somewhat lurid portrait of Santa Cruz. But we’ll wait for the third, still-unpublished volume to complete 32> the picture: Santa Cruz Expensive and Crowded.

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Cruz County’s new poet laureate, taking the baton from the incumbent Robert Sward, who himself followed a string of luminaries in the position, including Ellen Bass, Gary Young and David Swanger.

It’s a sudden boost in credibility and visibility for the author of the 2014 volume The Moons of August, who has also published in the New York Times, Ploughshares, Best American Poetry and several other journals and anthologies.

A decade ago, Laméris was part of the effort to establish the program as a board member for the local group Poetry Santa Cruz. This time, her friends in the organization approached her with what they called an “invitation.”

“They said, ‘We have an invitation for you,’ and I said, ‘Is it a party?’ They were like, ‘Well, it’s a two-year party.’”

Each poet laureate comes into office with a specific mission.

Laméris’s mission is to initiate what she calls “poetry pop-ups,” to bring poetry events to venues and settings where you probably would not encounter poetry otherwise.

The first example will take place on Feb. 9 at the downtown yoga studio Nourish. It’s a pre-Valentine’s Day event called One Breath. “It’ll be an event for Valentine’s that’s not necessarily for couples, but for everybody,” she says.

Laméris came to poetry from an unusual parallel path. When she first came to Santa Cruz as an undergrad at UCSC, she studied painting. But poetry had been a central theme of her upbringing. One of the drivers of the carpool she belonged to as a kid growing up in Berkeley was U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. In high school, she met acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland (“He just happened to be dating my Spanish teacher,” she says).

But most fundamentally of all, her grandfather was a poet who

published a collection of poems about life in his native Barbados.

“I remember going (to Barbados) when I was 9 or 10,” she says, “and being with my granddad talking with his friends who were all poets. Years later, I read their work in anthologies.

And the conversations they were having were so fascinating to me, these men in their West Indian accents, quoting verse and debating it.

It was very pivotal for me.”

Still, Laméris didn’t turn to poetry until after graduation, when she saw a flyer for a workshop with poet Ellen Bass. Since then, it has not only been her artistic playground and an avenue to meet mentors and other inspiring people; it has helped her survive considerable family tragedy, specifically the death of her son and the suicide of her twin brother.

“I feel that as artists, we all have some kind of irritant that we work on over a lifetime,” she says. “You know, that whole grain-of-sand-inan-oyster thing. For me, that irritant has been grief.”

Today, Laméris is not only writing—she’s just completed a new manuscript of what she hopes will become her second book of poetry— but also leading workshops for other aspiring poets. As poet laureate, she’ll be part of the Hive Collective, which will broadcast a poetry show on Santa Cruz’s new non-commercial radio station KSQD in the new year.

She’ll also become the public face of a thriving culture of poetry that goes back generations in Santa Cruz, which has produced high-profile poets and poetry events and created an environment where poetry can continue to pop up in unexpected places.

“I’m just looking forward to creating more poetry communities and pollinating poetry in the community,” she says. “That’s my passion and dedication.”

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emotions is a good thing, and it seeks to emulsify the oil-and-water-like relationship between vulnerability and traditional male culture.

“Most men coming to Breakthrough are facing a big life challenge, but many others aren’t in crisis and are just looking for deeper meanings, meaningful friendships, and a sense of community,” says Fitz, who emphasizes that Breakthrough isn’t geared just to men who may feel broken in some way. “At Breakthrough, we believe every man can benefit from the program.”

Fitz says program graduates include men from all walks of life—their backgrounds, educational and occupational pedigrees are as diverse as their various ethnicities, religions, and sexual orientations. He says the average attendee is between 40 and 45 years old, but adds that there have been graduates as young as 18, all the way up to men in their 70s.

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n 1987, counselor and teacher of nonviolent communication Fred Jealous founded a men’s education and support program called Breakthrough Men’s Community with just himself and six others in the Monterey area. Thirty years and 2,000 graduates later, the program continues to expand, and now is offered in Santa Cruz.

“Fred had a strong belief that the way men are raised in this culture is damaging,” says Breakthrough executive director Chris Fitz, who graduated the program five years ago. “We are brought up to believe that boys must sacrifice their humanity to be ‘real men,’ and that the only way to relate to other men is to compete with them. Because of the way we’re raised, there is a lot of distrust in other men.”

A major tenet of the program, says Fitz, is that men need the support of other men to heal and regain the humanity that has often been socialized out of them. Another emphasis of the program is that experiencing

usually find it to be a very compelling, profound experience. He says that the most common feedback he hears from graduates is that Breakthrough “saved my life, saved my marriage, saved my relationship with my kids, or helped me through a painful divorce.”

A 2008 Blue Shield study on Breakthrough confirmed these sentiments, finding that the word “transformative” best described the Breakthrough experience, and that 91 percent of survey respondents used the words “enormous” or “considerable” to describe the impact that Breakthrough had on their lives.

But such transformation comes with a level of time commitment that sets Breakthrough apart from other programs of its kind. The program is 34 weeks long, which is broken up into two 17-week sessions. Each of these sessions has 14 evening classes, two all-day Saturday courses, and one weekend retreat. Most of the work is done in small groups, where participants learn to put the lessons into action.

“Practice makes perfect, and it takes time to rewire the neural pathways so we can live our lives differently,” says Fitz. He emphasizes the importance of taking one’s time and going slowly, providing men with the support to practice things like affirmations, identifying triggers with issues like anger addiction, and taking time and space to contemplate and reflect.

Breakthrough is a nonprofit organization, and tuition is done on a sliding scale. “No willing participant has ever been turned away for financial reasons in 30 years,” Fitz says.

About 40 percent of Monterey participants are referred by their therapists, with the other 60 percent being referred by word-of-mouth. Fitz adds that many of these referrals are given by women, who, he says, have a more instinctual understanding of the benefits a support community can provide. A similar program called Breakfree was subsequently created for women.

“Women get right away what we’re all about,” says Fitz.

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Singer-songwriter-bassist Thundercat has hit the big time— here are five collaborations that got him there BY AARON CARNES

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he world is waking up to the genius that is Thundercat. Fans of prog-rock, funk, R&B and smooth pop have always had overlapping tastes, but few modern musicians have blurred these lines quite as well as he has.

So he isn’t new to collaborating with high-level artists, but it was a shock for everyone—including him— when he got to work with yacht-rock legends Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald, the hitmakers behind “What a Fool Believes” and “Danger Zone.” He somehow managed to rope them into contributing vocals to

“Show You the Way” on his excellent third album Drunk, released in 2017.

This collaboration sprang up after a radio interview in which Thundercat was asked who he would take if he was stuck at sea, and he said Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald. Loggins heard the comment—his son had turned him onto Thundercat—but thought it was a joke. After all, who doesn’t treat ’70s soft rock as a joke?

But for Thundercat, it was a very earnest moment, and his collaboration with them, “Show You the Way,” ended up being one of the best tracks on an already brilliant cosmic, adult-

contemporary-infused R&B record.

In fact, many of the best moments in Thundercat’s career have come out of the work he’s done with and for other artists. Here are five of them.

Mac Miller’s NPR ‘Tiny Desk’ session: A month before Mac Miller passed away from a drug overdose at the age of 26, he left us with one of his best, most emotive performances via NPR’s Tiny Desk series. His backing band is phenomenal, with low-key, jazzy-funk grooves, but it’s Thundercat—who plays bass and sings on the song “What’s the Use?”— who really stands out. He offsets Miller’s melancholy with some funky

bass lines. Just listen to those dreamy fills and deep, punchy grooves.

Kendrick Lamar’s “These Walls”: For many people, the first time Thundercat popped up on their radar was with Kendrick Lamar’s landmark hip-hop album To Pimp a Butterfly.

Thundercat took home a Grammy in 2016 for his work on the sexy, surreal track “These Walls.” But he deserves credit for much of the album’s vibe as a whole. He had a huge hand in shaping its sound, by giving Lamar a seminar-level education in jazz as he worked, guiding the artist toward sonic brilliance.

Flying Lotus’ ‘You’re Dead’: If it was Kendrick that launched Thundercat into the mainstream, it was Flying Lotus that made him the cult musician everyone wanted to work with. Flying Lotus released all of Thundercat’s solo records on his Brainfeeder label. He also invited Thundercat to play bass on his Cosmogramma album in 2010.

Thundercat plays a major role on Flying Lotus’ 2014 album You’re Dead as bassist and guest vocalist. It’s a whirlwind of tripped-out electrojazz, and Thundercat enhances it significantly.

Erykah Badu’s ‘New Amerykah Pt. 1’: As Badu reached for a more hip-hop sound in 2008 with New Amerykah Pt. 1, she enlisted Thundercat to play bass. He killed it with some of his funkiest, yet simplest, bass lines. She mentored him on how to be an artist, not just a sideman in a band. After this record, Thundercat embraced a much more experimental approach to music. His grooves on this record are about as solid as they come.

Eric Andre’s “Tron Song” video: Along with a lot of amazing music, Thundercat also has a weird sense of humor. For his own “Tron Song,” he got comedian Eric Andre of Tim and Eric, Awesome Show, Great Job! to direct the video for the $5K Video Series (where comedians make a video for an artist using a $5,000 budget).

This video is Tim-and-Eric humor at its most disgusting. It’s a really odd juxtaposition to the easy-breezy groove of “Tron Song,” Thundercat performs Friday, Dec. 21 at 9 p.m. at the Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $25/$28. 423-1338.

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WEDNESDAY 12/19 PHOTO HIKE FOR BEGINNERS Anyone can take a selfie, but this guided photography class is more about capturing nature than doublechinned angles. The class is four hours long and focuses on capturing different lighting, camera skills and becoming more familiar with the park. Make sure to bring your camera, water and comfortable recreational shoes.

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CLASSES CHAIR YOGA Suzi Mahler has been teaching chair yoga to all ages and abilities for more than six years. She has developed a unique style that allows each person to access the benefits of yoga without getting on the floor. Her classes are a gentleyet-dynamic blend of strength-building movement and breath awareness. 9 a.m.

Yoga Center, 429 Front St., Santa Cruz. 4236719 or suzimahler.com. Donation/$5.

GENTLE YOGA Customized for every body.

Feel free to practice in a chair if you like, or sit and meditate through part or all of the class. Beautiful bamboo floors, plants and light in a lovely Zen space. 10:30-11:30 a.m.

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There’s something about the holidays and trains. Maybe it’s Roaring Camp’s train rides, or the perennial demand for new train sets under the tree, but trains and Christmas go hand in hand.

With this in mind, the folks at the San Lorenzo Valley Museum have put together an exhibit of transportation through the ages featuring 50 transportation models. From trains and cars to balloons and ships, anything and everything that goes from A to B will be there. Many of the models shown belong to local residents.

There’s also an interactive play area for younger visitors.

Show runs through Sunday, Jan. 6.

Museum open Wednesday-Sunday, noon-4 p.m. San Lorenzo Valley Museum, 12547 Hwy. 9, Boulder Creek.

338-8382, slvmuseum.com. Free, donations accepted.

Libraries’ reading comprehension program for students grades 2-12. Students receive 25 minutes of individual instruction from a California credentialed teacher.

Appointments available every Wednesday.

3-5 p.m. Santa Cruz Public Library, 240 Church St., Santa Cruz. 427-7717 or pro@ santacruzpl.org. Free.

DIGITAL SKILLS WORKSHOPS This weekly workshop will help you learn to use the digital tools that are increasingly required in everyday life. Workshops are hands-on and topics change each week.

You’ll gain the skills to use email, Google Sheets and Docs, search for information online, search for how-tos on YouTube, and get great ebooks and audiobooks from the library. 4:30-5:30 p.m. Downtown Library, 224 Church St., Santa Cruz. santacruzpl. org. Free.

WELLNESS WEDNESDAY Hatha Yoga with Artemis, team member yoga instruction, who will guide you into proper alignment and form to improve strength, flexibility and balance. A 45-minute slow Hatha session followed by a wellnessrejuvenating treat thoughtfully created by our chef de cuisine, Erika. 5:30-6:30 p.m.

SATURDAY 12/22 ‘OBERUFER SHEPHERDS PLAY’ The shepherds from the nativity story never get any credit. No one ever asks what they thought about going to see the birth of Jesus, or of an angel sporadically appearing out of thin air. Plus, the trip to Bethlehem couldn’t have been easy without lights, cars or GPS. At least now we can all know and appreciate how they felt, thanks to the Oberufer Shepherds Play. The sweet, heartwarming play tells Christmas stories from the perspective of shepherds. The cast and crew are all local, with professional and amateur actors and musicians from the Santa Cruz Waldorf School, Anthroposophical Branch and Camphill Communities California.

6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 22. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz.

301-325-1566. Adults $15/Children $8.

Hotel Paradox, 611 Ocean St., Santa Cruz.

CBCT-COGNITIVELY BASED COMPASSION TRAINING Cognitively Based Compassion Training is a 10-week secular ethics program in compassion training. Developed at Emory University and used in medical and educational institutions, this program has a background in Buddhist compassion practice, yet is grounded in sound neuroscience and psychology scientific research from Emory University.

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Science on Tap: “Wings of Wonder: Saving Bats Around the World” DECEMBER 19, 7PM CREPE PLACE, SANTA CRUZ FREE ADMISSION

Winifred Frick, chief scientist at Bat Conservation International, will discuss the fascinating natural history of bats and the challenges and opportunities for protecting bats here and around the world.

Women’s Club Meeting JANUARY 9, 11:30AM UCSC ARBORETUM, HORTICULTURE BUILDING, FREE ADMISSION

Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor of History, on “Stubborn Silences: Writing the History of Chinese Women.” The UCSC Women’s Club is open to all from campus and town.

Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Our Mutual Friend JANUARY 13, 2PM SANTA CRUZ PUBLIC LIBRARY FREE ADMISSION

Carceral Identity Within and Beyond the Prison JANUARY 24, 1:30PM HUMANITIES 1 BUILDING, ROOM 210 FREE ADMISSION, PARKING PERMIT REQUIRED

Patrick Lopez-Aguado’s new book, Stick Together and Come Back Home, examines how what occurs inside a prison affects what happens outside. The stories of youth and adults navigating juvenile justice and penal facilities illustrate a “carceral social order” that racially and geographically divides criminalized populations into gang-associated affiliations.

Santa Cruz County Spelling Bee

ONGOING EVENTS

JANUARY 26, NOON–3PM UC SANTA CRUZ, CLASSROOM UNIT 1 & 2 FREE ADMISSION

THROUGH FEBRUARY 10; OPEN DURING REGULAR LIBRARY HOURS UC SANTA CRUZ MCHENRY LIBRARY THIRD-FLOOR GALLERY FREE ADMISSION

The Santa Cruz County Office of Education hosts the Elementary and Junior High County Spelling Bee Competition at UC Santa Cruz.

Questions That Matter: Data and Democracy JANUARY 29, 7PM KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER FREE ADMISSION

As society navigates fake news, targeted social media, and compromised voting systems, it is essential that we understand the complex and often obscured relationship between data and democracy.

Beginning with Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend, join local bookworms, students, and teachers each month for conversations about a 19th-century novel, with guest speakers giving context to the readings.

Writing the Space Age

Writing the Space Age ponders worlds and futures beyond our own in an exhibition that explores books, magazines, and comics that were created and consumed during the rise of the Space Age, with a special focus on Robert Heinlein.

Put Your Gold Money Where Your Love Is, Baby: Counterculture, Capitalism, and the Grateful Dead THROUGH DECEMBER 20 UC SANTA CRUZ MCHENRY LIBRARY FREE ADMISSION

This exhibit explores how the Grateful Dead redefined business practices, revealing new ways of thinking about business and the relationship between creators and their communities.

UPCOMING EVENTS FEBRUARY 2

JANUARY 18–20 STEVENSON EVENT CENTER FREE ADMISSION

FEBRUARY 6

A weekend of innovation and impact for 700 students, who will apply technology to solve challenging social issues.

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Women’s Club Meeting

Amahl and the Night Visitors JANUARY 26, 11AM & 1PM MUSIC CENTER RECITAL HALL $0–$10/PERSON

UCSC opera students and instrumentalists present Amahl and the Night Visitors, the most beloved of Gian Carlo Menotti’s operas. The story of the imaginative child, Amahl, and his three royal visitors is sung in English with chamber orchestra.

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Jessica Bauman: “What Refugees Taught Me About Shakespeare” JANUARY 31, 5PM KRESGE TOWN HALL FREE ADMISSION

New York City theater director Jessica Bauman explores how the stories we tell (and hear) about refugees influence the ways we respond to the migration crisis.

Her production of Arden/Everywhere reimagines Shakespeare’s As You Like It as a refugee story.

Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation with Melissa Harris-Perry FEBRUARY 20

“The Right to Be Heard—Jews, Human Rights, and Global Democracy in Historical Perspective” FEBRUARY 21–24

Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour

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FRIDAY 12/21 AN ABBA-SOLUTELY CHRISTMAS SHOW Even people who don’t think they know ABBA know ABBA. From “Dancing Queen,” “Waterloo,” “SOS” and “Take a Chance on Me” to “Voulez-Vous,” “Super Trouper” and “Gimme! Gimme!

Gimme! (A Man After Midnight),” these songs are some of the most ubiquitous in pop music history. In an intermingling of ABBA’s greatest hits with some holiday music, the ABBASolutely Christmas Show guarantees some—probably many—smiles.

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7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. 423-8209, riotheatre.com. $40-$60.

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PLAY THE BAY - BOARD GAME NIGHT First and third Wednesday at New Bohemia Brewing, come play games in a bar! Far from just adding points and waiting your turn, come prepared to laugh, cheer, point fingers, and swear you'll never trust your best friend again. 5 p.m. New Bohemia Brewing Co., 1030 41st Ave., Santa Cruz. nubobrew.com.

Free.

GROUPS OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Come join us for a friendly 12-Step support group with the solution. Teens and adults welcome.

Includes compulsive overeating, anorexia and bulimia. Meets in the church Youth Room, two doors down from the corner

of Poplar and Melrose. See our website for additional times and locations. 10:3011:30 a.m. Trinity Presbyterian Church, 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. santacruzoa.org.

Free.

SURVIVOR SUPPORT GROUP Is your partner violent or controlling?

Have you survived a sexual assault?

Monarch Services~Servicios Monarca offers a safe, supportive space. Childcare activities provided. 6-7:30 p.m. Monarch Services, 1509 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz. monarchscc.org. Free.

TRANSPORT OF DELIGHT A holiday community exhibition, featuring a delightful display of transportation models of all kinds.

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219C Mount Hermon Rd • Scotts Valley (831) 430-9466 • Mon-Sat 9-7 Sun 9-5:30 zinniasgiftboutique.com Always complimentary gift wrap

Brighton, Vera Bradley, Hobo, Baggallini, Rosy Rings, Little Me, Color Me Cotton, Bearington, Voluspa,Uno de 50, Candles, Bags, Baby Clothes, Holiday& Home Décor & Gazillions More!

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Creek. slvmuseum.com. Free.

Join us this evening at Way of Life to meet up with local artist Lisa Marie Jewelry Design.

We are partnering with the Pleasure Point Business Association to offer this monthly event. Refreshments will be served. 5-8 p.m. Way of Life, 1220 A 41st Ave., Capitola. pleasurepointguide.com. Free.

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.

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

MUSIC 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.

MIKE RENWICK'S HOLIDAY DELUXE

Thursday 12/20

ARTS DAVID COPPERFIELD, THE NEW MUSICAL Adapted from Charles Dickens' favorite and most autobiographical novel, Copperfield's story comes to tuneful life, from birth to marriage. As a child, David endures the sadism of his stepfather Murdstone, the cruelty of the villainous schoolmaster Creakle, and the mindnumbing routine of a London Sweatshop.

As an adult, he is visited by happiness and success, tragedy and loss. 7 p.m. The Colligan Theater, 1010 River St., Santa Cruz. jeweltheatre.net. $45/$24.

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 Rd., Aptos. tbeaptos.org. Free.

POWER VINYASA FLOW YOGA Surf your edge in this energetic, inspired yoga flow designed to help you dive deep into your personal power. Instructor Tim Brattan will lead you through a fun sequence to move, sweat, smile, detox, discover, focus and play on the mat. Designed for all levels, you’ll build strength, endurance, flexibility, balance and concentration. 5-6:15 p.m. DiviniTree Yoga and Arts Studio, 1043-B Water St., Santa Cruz. oneyoga.org.

SALSA Salsa dance Cuban-style. Featuring Salsa Suelta and Casino partner dancing.

Drop-in class on Thursdays, open for all intermediate dancers. No partner required, ages 16 and up. 7 p.m. Motion Pacific, 131 Front St., Santa Cruz. salsagente.com.

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Mike works half the year with a posse of Bay area musicians to make this a night to remember with many special guests. Make dinner reservations and have a blast. 8 p.m.

Flynn’s Cabaret and Steakhouse, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. flynnscabaret.com.

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MENAGE & FRIENDS MUSIC Thursday

downtown Santa Cruz. Taquitos Gabriel will be providing the food, and a portion of the sales will benefit the park. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park, 144 School St., Santa Cruz. thatsmypark.org.

nights are community music nights at Food Lounge. Menage & Friends heads up this week's live music! Menage is comprised of five Santa Cruz musicians and friends who play a variety of acoustic music, including folk, country, Americana, string jazz, Piedmont blues and originals. 6:30-9 p.m.

Santa Cruz Food Lounge, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. 212-5399.

GROUPS THURSDAY NIGHT BINGO Thursday Night bingo, paying out up to $10,000 per night. All proceeds benefit local schools’ academics, art, theater, and athletics. When you play, our children win. 4 p.m. Santa Cruz Portuguese Hall, 216 Evergreen St., Santa Cruz. falconclub.org.

S+LAA MENS’ MEETINGS+LAA MENS’ MEETING Having trouble with compulsive sexual or emotional behavior? Recovery is possible. Our small 12-step group allows feedback and meets every Thursday. 7:30 p.m. The Barn Studio, 104 S. Park Way, Santa Cruz. Free.

HOMELESS MEMORIAL On or about the longest night of the year—the winter solstice—communities across the country gather to remember neighbors who have died homeless in the past year. This year marks the 20th year for the remembrance gathering in Santa Cruz County. 10 a.m.

Homeless Services Center, 115 Coral St., Santa Cruz. santacruzhsc.org. Free.

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8 Weeks in Santa Cruz Starts Monday, Jan. 21 4:30-6:30pm Facilitated by Marsha Hudson, PhD Marsha is a certified dream worker and has facilitated dreamwork groups for over 18 years

15% OFF if you register by Jan. 14 To register:

marshahudson17@gmail.com or 831.239.4901 marshahudson.com

energy, mood, sleep, immunity, metabolism and stress resilience. Since B12 is not absorbed well during digestion, and all B vitamins are depleted by stress, most Americans are deficient. Having B12 in the form of an injection bypasses the malabsorption problem, and people often feel an immediate difference. Every Thursday morning, we offer discounted vitamin B12 by walk-in or appointment. 9 a.m.-noon. Thrive Natural Medicine, 2840 Park Ave., Soquel. thrivenatmed.com or 515-8699. $15.

MUSIC THE SANTA CRUZ TREMOLOS SINGING GROUP FOR PEOPLE WITH PARKINSON’S Singing is known to be a good voice-strengthening 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.

OPEN MIC NIGHT FEAT. POP-UP KITCHEN Open Mic Night at the Santa Cruz Food Lounge every third Thursday.

This month features a pop-up kitchen meal with food from Moles & Oaxacan Cuisine.

Featuring the talents of local musicians.

Come out, enjoy with friends and family, or take a turn behind the mic. Our craft bar will be serving up local brews and cocktails.

5:30-9 p.m. Santa Cruz Food Lounge, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. scfoodlounge.com.

OUTDOOR BOARDWALK HOLIDAY ICE A covered skating rink is the star attraction, but the fun also includes an impressive display of holiday lights and decorations, cozy fire pits, fun holiday photo ops, a kids’ craft corner, classic holiday movies, visits with Santa, seasonal games and treats. Hourly snow flurries are also in the forecast. 10:30 a.m.

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz. beachboardwalk.com.

FRIDAY 12/21 ARTS ABBA-SOLUTELY CHRISTMAS SHOW The show is family friendly and appropriate for all ages. All of your favorite ABBA hits with the perfect mix of Christmas music sprinkled in to celebrate the holidays. Direct from the U.K., The ABBA Show will light up your holidays with their ABBA-Solutley Christmas Show. 7:30 p.m. Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. riotheatre.com. $60/$40.

DROP-IN FAMILY CRAFT Enjoy an informal afternoon at this hidden jewel near downtown Santa Cruz. You can fashion a tin lantern in our garden courtyard. Please call for more information. Rain cancels. 1-3:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Mission Historic State Park, 144 School St., Santa Cruz. 425-5849. Free.

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Visit our world class health center and be seen by top practitioners who promote healing, preventative health, and effectively meet your healthcare needs.

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Across the Great Divide: A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of The Band

Elvis and Me: An Evening with Priscilla Presley Hosted by Dina Eastwood

featuring The Dustbowl Revival and Hot Club of Cowtown

An Evening with Branford Marsalis

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Sunday, March 31, 2019 at 7PM

Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 8PM

Saturday, April 20, 2019 at 8PM

Styx

SpectorDance: Ocean Trilogy

Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 8PM

Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 7PM

The Second City: It’s Not You, It’s Me

FRIENDS! The Musical Parody

Thursday, February 14, 2019 at 8PM

Friday, April 26, 2019 at 8PM

Nathan Williams & The Zydeco Cha Chas

Louie Anderson

Friday, February 22, 2019 at 8PM

Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 8PM

We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Purple Xperience

Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 8PM

Wednesday, June 5, 2019 at 8PM

Becoming Kareem: An Evening with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 8PM

Brought to you by Sunset Cultural Center, Inc., a nonprofit 501(c)(3) For event details and to purchase tickets:

www.sunsetcenter.org • 831.620.2048 San Carlos Street at Ninth Avenue • Carmel-by-the-Sea

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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.

SALSA NIGHT Intermediate and beginner salsa lessons, and afterward join us for a hot salsa dance party with DJ CongaBoy. Check out our website for more information.

7:30-11:30 p.m. El Palomar Ballroom, 1344 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. 426-1221 or palomarballroom.com. $14/$6.

TAHITIAN DANCE WITH LIVE DRUMMING Learn the exciting, aerobic Ori Tahiti with Yola and Siaosi! Build a solid foundation in Tahitian dance. This grounded form emphasizes strong, fast hip circles and accents. Learn to dance solo and with a group. Original choreography by Yola. Bring a sarong to tie around the hips. 5:15-6:15 p.m.

Te Hau Nui Dance Studio, 924 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. tehaunuidance.com.

ART OF BELLYDANCE WITH YOLA

ACADEMIC WRITING WORKSHOP Find out how to make the process of writing your college paper interesting and enjoyable. Come to learn insider tips from our team of professional writers.

Noon. Satellite Teleworks Center, 6265 Hwy. 9, Felton. assignmenthelper.com. au. Free.

LAUNCH AND READING OF ZINE FRONTERAS Zine Fronteras features community writings, poetry, photos,

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.

LOCALS BY LOCALS Music is indeed food for the soul. Uplift and nourish your soul with Liam Gillespie, talented musician & singer.

6-9 p.m. Hotel Paradox, 611 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. hotelparadox.com.

GROUPS OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS 90-Day OA, Study of the AA 12 and 12 book. OA is a 12-step support group to stop eating compulsively. Noon-1 p.m. Live Oak Family Resource Center, Community Conference Room, 1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. Nate, 4297906. Free.

VISIT THE FRIENDS’ BOOKSTORE From children’s to young adult, antique to contemporary, and cultural to local interest, Friends’ Bookstore has something for every reader. Come find affordable, diverse books galore at the Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries’ Bookstore in the Downtown Santa Cruz Library today.

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Santa Cruz Public Library, 224 Church St., Santa Cruz. fscpl.org. Free.

RELATIONSHIP ADDICTION AND AVOIDANCE WOMEN'S GROUP Women's 12-step group. Are you attracted to the wrong people? Are you stuck in a bad relationship? Weekly meeting. 7 p.m. Porter Memorial Library, 3050 Porter St., Soquel. santacruzslaa.org. Free.

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Embrace your inner goddess through this sensuous, sacred, divinely feminine dance form. Original choreography

by Yola. Learn body isolation, taxim undulations, belly rolls, floor work, drum solo, veil technique, finger cymbal rhythms and sword work. Bring a scarf to tie around your hips. 6:30-7:45 p.m.

Te Hau Nui Dance Studio, 924 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. tehaunuidance.com.

and artwork from members of our own community reflecting on their own experiences as immigrants and relatives of immigrants. The evening will feature an installation art and photos from the publication and readings by contributing authors. There will also be a drawing for a chance to win a copy of the book. Light refreshments will be provided. 5:30-7 p.m.

Live Oak Library, 2380 Portola Drive, Santa Cruz. calhum.org.

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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/b12-injections or 5158699. $15.

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Reggae and dancehall Favorites in the mix all night with DJ Spleece and ¡Ay Que Linda! plus special guests. Every third Friday. Event is 21 and up. 8:30 p.m. The Sand Bar, 211 Esplanade, Capitola. santacruzreggae.com. Free.

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community exhibition. A delightful display of transportation models of all kinds. Sure to be fun for all ages, with a hands on, interactive play area for our younger visitors. Noon-4 p.m. San Lorenzo Valley Museum, 12547 Hwy. 9, Boulder Creek. slvmuseum.com.

Free.

NUTCRACKER SUITE BALLET The beautiful, full-length performance of the Nutcracker Suite Ballet performed by the Agape Dance Company and professional guest dancers. Party scene guests include local community leaders, Supervisors John Leopold and Zach Friend and more. Benefit for Jacob's Heart Children's Cancer Services. 7 p.m.

Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. agapedance.com. $31/$18.

DROP-IN FAMILY CRAFT - CANDLE DIPPING Enjoy an informal afternoon at this hidden jewel near downtown Santa Cruz. You can fashion a tin lantern in our garden courtyard. Please call for more information. Rain cancels. 1-3:30 p.m.

Santa Cruz Mission Historic State Park, 144 School St., Santa Cruz. 425-5849.

Free.

COMMUNITY WRITERS QUARTERLY OPEN MIC EVEN T Come share your

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own original work at the monthly gathering of Community Writers of Santa Cruz County. You will have five minutes to read (we have a timer), depending on the number of sign-ups.

People who didn't read the month before get first priority. 2:30-4:30 p.m. Porter Memorial Library, 3050

Porter St., Soquel. facebook.com/ CommunityWritersSantaCruzCounty.

Free.

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.

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.

OUTDOOR REDWOOD GROVE LOOP WALK Join us for this fun and informative guided half-mile stroll through a magnificent oldgrowth 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.

OLD COVE LANDING TRAIL WALK On this two-hour natural history excursion, you will explore the plants, animals and

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CALENDAR get to know the park better, and become part of a wonderful community! Make sure to bring your camera, water, proper recreational shoes, a sense of adventure, and your imagination. 2 p.m. Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, 101 N. Big Trees Park Road, Felton. thatsmypark.org. Free.

OLD-GROWTH REDWOOD TOURS Are there different kinds of redwoods? How do coastal redwoods grow to become the tallest organisms on earth? Why are there so few old growth trees left? How important are banana slugs to the redwood ecosystems?

Answer these questions and more every Saturday on our Redwood Grove Walks. 11 a.m. Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, 101 N. Big Trees Park Rd., Felton. thatsmypark. org. $10/Free.

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WEDNESDAY 12/19- SUNDAY 12/23 SANTA CRUZ HOLIDAY LIGHTS TRAIN Can’t get a ride on Santa’s sleigh? Don’t worry, get a lift to the North Pole the next best way. And by “North Pole,” we mean the amazing Santa Cruz Mountains. It’s the Santa Cruz Holiday Lights Train, with spiced cider and holiday carols to spark up the cheer.

Kids, neighbors, grandmas, friends, friends we haven’t met yet—all aboard!

5 and 6:30 p.m. Roaring Camp. 5401 Graham Hill Rd., Felton. roaringcamp.com. Adults $33 general/Children $27.

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bluffs. Meet at the interpretive center. Bring snack, water, binoculars, and good walking shoes. 11 a.m. Wilder Ranch State Park, 1401 Coast Rd., Santa Cruz. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

CASTLE ROCK FALLS AND GOAT ROCK OVERLOOK HIKE Join us on a hike to Castle Rock, Castle Rock Falls and Goat Rock Overlook. During this trip, we will discuss Castle Rock’s unique geology, rock climbing history and various important preservationists that helped give Castle Rock State Park the protections we have today. This 3-mile, 2.5hour hike is considered moderate due to the rocky sections that require the use of hands and feet to climb over. 11 a.m. Castle Rock State Park, 1500 Skyline Blvd., Los Gatos. thatsmypark.org. Free.

MONARCH BUTTERFLY TOURS Meet at the visitor center for a one-hour accessible guided tour of the Monarch Butterfly Natural

Preserve to view the butterflies in the trees they overwinter in. Butterfly numbers typically peak between the end of October to mid-November; warm and sunny days are best for viewing. 11 a.m. Natural Bridges State Beach, Swanton Boulevard and West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

RANCH TOURS Discover what life was like a century ago on this innovative dairy ranch. This hour-long tour includes the 1897 Victorian home, 1859 Gothic Revival farmhouse, 1896 water-powered machine shop, barns and other historic buildings. 1 p.m. Wilder Ranch State Park, 1401 Coast Rd., Santa Cruz. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

PHOTO HIKE FOR BEGINNERS Discover the park through the lens of your camera and render its marvels and phenomena into an artistic language! During this four-hour saunter, you will explore the functions of your camera, create beautiful photographs,

of Wisdom Series is proud to present Laurie Kalli and Doug Brettin for a live raga performance, finding the light within. Holiday healing and balancing—a guided meditative journey celebrating India’s classical and folk music. 7 p.m. Wisdom Center of Santa Cruz, 740 Front St. #155, Santa Cruz. wisdomcentersc.org.

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. at 418 Front St., Santa Cruz. Serving from 4-6 p.m. at the Post Office, 840 Front St., Santa Cruz.

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SUNDAY 12/23 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.

NUTCRACKER SUITE BALLET The beautiful, full-length performance of the Nutcracker Suite Ballet performed by the Agape Dance Company and professional guest dancers. Party scene guests include local community leaders, Supervisors John

Leopold and Zach Friend and more. Benefit for Jacob's Heart Children's Cancer Services.

4:30 p.m. Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. agapedance.com. $31/$18.

MAKING A PRACTICE OF HAVING A PRACTICE WORKSHOP Perhaps it is your practice in the waning days of the “old year” to reflect on what has been, as well as to contemplate the “new year” that soon will be. In that spirit, if part of your process of reflection and contemplation has to do with the practices in your life, such as martial arts, painting, journaling, meditation, yoga, then this workshop may be a timely opportunity for you. Pre-registration required. Noon-3:30 p.m. Downtown Santa Cruz. 312.937.5033 or the.wateringhole.org@ gmail.com. $50/$30.

GROUPS GREYHOUND MEET AND GREET Come get a hands-on introduction to these unique ex-racing hounds, speak with adoption volunteers and get answers to questions you may have about adopting through GSGA. Noon-2 p.m. Pet Pals Discount Pet Supply, 3660 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz. goldengreyhounds.com.

MUSIC STEADY SUNDAZE REGGAE All-ages reggae in Santa Cruz outside on the patio at the Jerk House with DJ Daddy Spleece and DJ Ay Que Linda plus guest DJs in the mix.

1-5 p.m. The Jerk House, 2525 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz. 316-7575. Free.

OUTDOOR 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.

REDWOOD GROVE LOOP WALK Join us for this fun and informative guided half-mile stroll through a magnificent oldgrowth redwood forest. Meet the famous Mother Tree, the Father of the Forest and the incredible Chimney Tree on this 90-minute walk. 1 p.m. Big Basin Redwood State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. >56 Thatsmypark.org. Free.

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MONDAY 12/24 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.

DROP-IN FAMILY CRAFT RAMILLETTAS Enjoy an informal afternoon

Join Santa Cruz County’s holiday giving program.

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at this hidden jewel near downtown Santa Cruz. You can fashion a tin lantern in our garden courtyard. Please call for more information. Rain cancels. 1-3:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Mission Historic State Park, 144 School St., Santa Cruz. 425-5849. Free.

CLASSES TRIYOGA BASICS YOGA A relaxing, stretching, strengthening Basics TriYoga class to benefit your backs and hips. With Dr. Kim Beecher (chiropractor). For beginners and all levels. 6 p.m. Triyoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. 310-589-0600. $15.

TRIYOGA LEVEL 1 Enjoy the wealth of TriYoga. Taught by Terri Richards. 9:30 a.m.

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

THICH NHAT HANH MEDITATION Santa Cruz Heart Sangha is a meditation group in the Thich Nhat Hanh tradition that meets every Monday. We welcome all to spend with us an hour in silent sitting and walking meditation followed by Dharma sharing.

7-8:45 p.m. Santa Cruz Zen Center, 113 School St., Santa Cruz. Free.

SLOW VINYASA (ALL LEVELS) Slow Vinyasa (with adaptations for injuries) is an all-levels class—gentle yoga practitioners are welcome. Enjoy this lovely Zen space with a fun assortment of props; mats are available at no charge. Marks Stephens Yoga, 1010 Fair Ave. Suite C, Santa Cruz. yogawithirene.com.

FOOD & WINE CHRISTMAS EVE DINNER Christmas Eve dinner will be served buffet style with fresh salads, a seafood display, hot appetizers, soup, a carving station, entrees, and traditional holiday accompaniments.

5-9 p.m. Chaminade Resort and Spa, 1 Chaminade Lane, Santa Cruz. chaminade. com. $65/$20.

TUESDAY 12/25 CLASSES LEVEL 2 TRIYOGA CLASS TriYoga for Level 2 with Priya. Strengthen the whole body and free the hips and spine. 9:30 a.m.noon. TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. triyoga-santacruz.com. $15.

WOMENCARE: LAUGHTER YOGA Laughter yoga for women with cancer meets the second and fourth Tuesdays. Preregistration 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.

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 Rd., Aptos. tbeaptos.org. Free.

OUTDOORS EXPLORING BIG BASIN Learn about redwoods, forest plants, fires, history and more on these fun, varied hikes with docent Diane Shaw. Hikes are 5-8 miles and last up to 5 hours. We go rain or shine, but strong winds may cancel. Meet at park headquarters. 9:30 a.m. Big Basins Redwood State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

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LOVE YOUR

LOCAL BAND HARPIN AND CLARK

When John Troutner (aka “Harpin Jonny”) and Peter Clark get up on stage, people expect blues songs. But in reality, the duo Harpin and Clark plays many different styles of music.

For instance, they have a song in their repertoire that’s a medley of Dave Brubeck’s jazz classic “Take Five” and The Sound of Music’s “My Favorite Things.” It works surprisingly well.

“People are not used to hearing that.

I think it’s ear candy for them,” says Troutner. “We both have been musicians a long time, and we like to mix it up. So we don’t get bored, basically.”

But the duo isn’t a jazz band either.

You’ll also hear country, blues, DjangoReinhardt-style tunes, bluegrass and a lot more.

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“We both just like the duo aspect of guitar and harmonica, and the versatility we can do in terms of just a big, wide range of music,” says Troutner.

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The project, which is roughly five years old, gives the longtime local musicians a new experience with music. Both have been friends for a long time, and have even collaborated from time to time, but with this downtempo project, they get to focus less on getting people up on the dance floor.

“As I get older, I prefer to not play at the Crow’s Nest ’til 1 in the morning, and have to be leading a rock band on my feet all night,” says Troutner. “This is a different kind of energy. People listen more. I tend to sell more CDs.” The duo is currently working on their first CD together, featuring originals and some unique renditions of songs they like to cover. AARON CARNES 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21. Michael’s on Main, 2591 Main St., Soquel. Free.

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WEDNESDAY 12/19 ROCK

MIKE RENWICK’S HOLIDAY DELUXE The holidays are back, and that means one man has been preparing all year for one night. Not Santa— we’re talking about Boulder Creek musician Mike Renwick. He’s back with his Holiday Deluxe show. For 364 days, Renwick plans, practices and works with Bay Area musicians to create a holiday experience so amazing you’ll forget about all of the coal Santa left in your stocking. Dashing through the show is a mix of rock, blues and funk jams, with Renwick breaking out the acoustic guitar from time to time. MAT WEIR 8 p.m. Flynn’s Cabaret, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $20/adv, $25/door. 335-2800.

THURSDAY 12/20 INDIE

PROXIMA PARADA Things have gotten more laid back since jazz guitarist Josh Collins joined Proxima Parada a few years

back. Having once described their music as “porch-stompin,” this slower, smoother, more soulful version of the band could’ve been met with eye rolls and resistance. Instead, fans embraced the more mature R&B sound, even contributing to a Kickstarter to fund their last album, Big Seven. All in all, redirecting creative efforts into jazzier, smokier and tighter arrangements (and gaining Josh Collins, of course) have evolved Proxima Parada into the best version of itself so far. AMY BEE

tour. Marking the 30th anniversary of that undertaking, three of the original artists are back on the road together: Windham Hill founder Will Ackerman, Grammy-nominated Alex de Grassi and the extraordinary Barbara Higbie. ANDREW GILBERT

9 p.m. Catalyst Club, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $10/adv, $13/door. 423-1338.

These electro-funk, retro visionaries juxtapose ’80s workout hotties, with frontman Dylan Germick pouring wet foods on dry foods and singing catchy, silly-sexy lyrics about getting naked all day. I came away kinda … well, hungry. But maybe Planet Booty are purposefully pointing out the cosmic connection between food, sex and exercise? How dance is the fruit of life, and booty is the fruition of a life well-lived, like that cigarette butt commercial where all the butts rap about the beauty of their differences?

In that case, I (and everyone else) am the perfect fan base. AB

JAZZ

WINDHAM HILL’S WINTER SOLSTICE Back in the bronze age, when record labels could build global empires on the strength of a concept, Windham Hill became an international force with a stable of startlingly accomplished musicians versed in an array of acoustic musical traditions.

Among the label’s best-selling releases was a series of seasonal anthologies, and none did better than 1986’s A Winter’s Solstice. The album birthed a perennially popular

7:30 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $36.75/adv, $45/door. 423-8209.

ELECTRO-FUNK

PLANET BOOTY

8:30 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $8/adv, $12/door. 479-1854.

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FRIDAY 12/21 REGGAE

ANUHEA

9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 479-1854.

ROCK

GRATEFUL SHRED Is it more important to sound like the Grateful Dead, or embody the spirit of the band? We don’t think anyone should have to sacrifice either when trying to get their twirl on in the pit.

Thankfully, neither do Los Angeles’ Grateful Shred. Since 2016, they have kept the laissez-faire, controlled-chaos philosophy of the Dead while replicating the songs and sounds. MW 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $20. 423-1338

APPLE CITY SLOUGH BAND Is there a band name more Watsonville than the Apple City Slough Band? No, there is not. This six-piece of Apple City rockers proudly wears their Watsonville pride on their sleeves as they bring a large heaping of breezy, jam-band rock ‘n’ roll with a distinctly Americana rootsy twist. It’s good, down-home music without pretense, like a low-key, lo-fi Eagles. It’s like they sing: “We’re not musicians. We just like to rock ’n’ roll.” Their record Live at Costanoa will make you feel extra groovy. AC INFO: 8:30 p.m. Michael’s on Main, 2591 Main St., Soquel. $10. 479-9777.

SATURDAY 12/22 ROCK

THE ROCK COLLECTION Santa Cruz, it’s time to light up a J. A nice sticky J—one that slows things down and gets your heart rate up. The kind that gets you hearing new things in music. You know

what J I’m talking about: jam. When it comes to this big J, you’d be hard pressed to find a more accomplished group of musicians than the Rock Collection. Featuring Melvin Seals of the Jerry Garcia Band, Stu Allen of Phil Lesh and Friends, and Greg Anton of blues-fusion beast Zero, the Rock Collective rolls up and pass around gobs of the sticky, icky stuff. MIKE HUGUENOR 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $25/door. 479-1854.

9 p.m. Monday, Dec. 31. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $59.50$74.50. catalystclub.com. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 20 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

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Women plus acoustic guitars.

Wednesday at Michael’s

When you say the word “funk,” everyone thinks of the same thing: sweaters. This Saturday, Michael’s On Main brings us the Funky Sweater Xmess Get Down, wherenthe funkiest sweater wins. Laying down the beat for this holiday bacchanal is Chico’s Smokey the Groove, a jazz-funk ensemble that promises each show will be “a journey through time, space and the beyond.” Be sure to bring a sweater that can handle at least four funky dimensions. MH

BOOM DRAW

Local explosive reggae. Thursday at Crow’s Nest

8:30 p.m. Michael’s On Main, 2591 Main St., Soquel. $10. 479-9777.

TEN O’CLOCK LUNCH BAND

Local, tasty, bluesy rock ‘n’ roll. Friday at Flynn’s Cabaret & Steakhouse ABBA-SOLUTELY CHRISTMAS SHOW

ABBA hits meets Christmas favorites.

Friday at Rio Theatre THE GUITARSONISTS

All-star blues guitar lineup. Sunday at Moe’s Alley

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The lighthearted, breezy reggae-pop songs of Anuhea are staples in Hawaii, the land where she hails from. Her second album, 2011’s For Love, really seems to have struck a pop chord with the people there, finding the middle ground between reggae and island music. After releasing some EPs and a live record, she’s back with a new album, Follow Me. AC

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Don’t let the name fool you. The Eagles of Death Metal are no pentagramslinging, long-haired, vocals-growling, heavy-music madness. They are a feel-good, sexy, hip-swinging rock ‘n’ roll band. The group hails from the deserts of Southern California. Josh Homme, the singer of Queens of the Stone Age, kicks it nonchalantly on the drums. The group was launched into the mainstream in the least desirable way in 2015, when they played a gig in Paris amid a terrorist attack. The emotional, tragic story was pieced together in an HBO documentary called Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis. But don’t worry, they’re still about having lots of fun.

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LIVE MUSIC

Thursday December 20 – 8/8:30pm $8/12 Double Bill Dance Party

PLANET BOOTY + SAL’S GREENHOUSE

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Friday December 21 – 8/9pm $25/30

ABBOTT SQUARE 118 Cooper St, Santa Cruz

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THE APPLETON GRILL 410 Rodriguez St, Watsonville

Hawaii’s #1 Female Artist

Saturday December 22 – 8/9pm $20/25 2 Sets With All Star Jam Band THE

ROCK COLLECTION W/ MELVIN SEALS, LEBO, STU ALLEN, GREG ANTON, STEPHANIE SALVA & JP MCLEAN Sunday December 23 – 3/4pm $20/25 Afternoon Blues Series

THE GUITARSONISTS W/ CHRIS CAIN MIKE SCHERMER DANIEL CASTRO Thursday December 27 – 8/9pm $28/33 New Orleans Funk Supergroup

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FRI

12/21

SAT

12/22

APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

Al Frisby 6-8p

Preacher Boy 6-8p

Virgil Thrasher & Rick Stevens 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

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

The Bonedrivers 9:30-12:45p

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke Free 8p

Swing Dance $5 5:30p Ugly Sweater Christmas Coastal Greeting 8p Party 8p

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

Alex Lucero & Friends 8p

Karaoke 9-12:30a

Karaoke 9-12:30a

CAPITOLA WINE BAR 115 San Jose Ave, Capitola

Rich the Trivia Guy Free 6:30-9:30p

Six String Pharmacy Free 7-10

Mabanza Grove Free 7-10p

CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Lloyd Whitley 1p Gil De Leon Trio 6-8p

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12/24

Steve Freund 6-8p

Broken Shades 6-8p

The Box (Goth Night) 9p

Post Punk Dance Floor 9p

Be Natural Youth Rock Concert 5p, Karaoke 6p-Close SC Jazz Society, Beat Weekend w/ DJ Monk Earl Free 3:30p

TUE

12/25

Karaoke 6p-Close

John Michael Free 3-6p

Thundercat $25/$28 8p

CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Proxima Parada $10/$13 8:30p

Grateful Shred $20 8:30p

CHAMINADE RESORT 1 Chaminade Ln, Santa Cruz CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

Friday December 28 – 8/9pm $10/15 Latin Dance Party With

FLOR DE CAÑA Saturday December 29 – 8/9pm $15/20

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MONOPHONICS

+ QUINN DEVEAUX Jan 5 DAVID BOWIE BASH Jan 6 COCO MONTOYA Jan 10 AKI KUMAR, JUNE CORE, RUSTY ZINN Jan 11,12 METALACHI Jan 13 TOMORROW’S BAD SEEDS Jan 16 PETER HARPER Jan 17 CHAM (A.K.A. BABY CHAM) Jan 18 CORB LUND Jan 19 LYRICS BORN Jan 25 JUNIOR REID + KING SCHASCHA Jan 26 B-SIDE PLAYERS Jan 27 TOMMY CASTRO Jan 29 THE GLADIATORS w/ DROOP LION Jan 30 FRONT COUNTY

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Dec.20 7:30pm Frank’s hits feat. John Michael $12 adv./$12 door seated <21 w/parent Fri. Dec.21 5pm HAPPY HOUR NO COVER Fri. Dec.21 8:30pm Americana Rock Dance! $10 adv./$10 door Dance – ages 21 + Sat. Dec. 22 8:30pm

Harpin’ & Clark

Apple City Slough Band FUNKY SWEATER XMESS GET DOWN Dance-adelic Funk w/ Smokey The Groove

$10 adv./$10 door Dance – ages 21 +

Grateful Sunday

Sun. Dec. 23 5:30pm Grateful Dead Tunes NO COVER Wed. Dec. 26 7:30pm Superhero of Acoustic Guitar $15 adv./$17 door seated <21 w/parent

Peppino D’Agostino COMING UP

Thu. Dec. 27 The DC Trio Fri. Dec. 28 Rosebud Grateful Dead Tribute Sat. Dec. 29 Robyn Hitchcock Sun. Dec. 30 Anthony Arya & Emily Hough 2pm AS SEEN ON THE VOICE Mon. Dec. 31 9pm

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TBA Free 7-10p

Science on Tap Free 7p

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Yuji Tojo $3 8p

Boom Draw $5 8p

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TBA Free 4-7p Acoustic Open Jam 3-5p

The John Michael Band Blue Ocean Rockers $6 9p $7 9:30p

Live Comedy $7 9p

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12/25

With William Ackerman, Barbara Higbie & Alex de Grassi.

AT THE RIO THEATRE

Saturday, January 5 • 7:30 PM

PACIFIC MAMBO ORCHESTRA WITH JON FADDIS One of the West Coast’s premiere Latin music ensembles, joined by a legendary trumpeter.

SPECIAL EFX ALL-STARS

With Chieli Minucci, Eric Marienthal, Regina Carter, Lao Tizer, Joel Rosenblatt & Jerry Brooks.

Deep Fried Free 6:30-8:30p Southsiders Mike Renwick’s Holiday Supernaut Deluxe w/ Special Guests $10/$12 8:30p $20/$25 8p Jeannine Bonstelle Linc Russin & Sweeney Schragg 7-9p 6:30-9:30p

JACK O’NEILL LOUNGE Santa Cruz Dream Inn 175 W Cliff Dr. Santa Cruz

Ten O’Clock Lunch w/ Hwy 9 $10/$12 9p

Jeff Rye w/ Crimson Blues Band $10/$12 9p

Scott Slaughter Free 6-9p

Scott & Craig Owens Free 7-9:30p

Monday, January 14 • 7 PM

PAMELA ROSE PRESENTS: BLUES IS A WOMAN

Celebrating the women of the blues – from Ma Rainey to Bonnie Raitt.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Thursday, January 17 • 7 PM

MARTIN TAYLOR

Virtuosic solo guitar by one of jazz’s finest instrumentalists.

KUUMBWA JAZZ 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

MON

WINDHAM HILL’S WINTER SOLSTICE

Friday, January 11 • 7 PM & 9 PM

Esoteric Collective Free 6-9p

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville

GABRIELLA CAFE 910 Cedar St., Santa Cruz

SUN

Bourbon & Burlesque w/ Lulu & the Lushes $12-$25 8p

DAV. ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport

FLYNN’S CABARET 6275 Hwy 9, Felton

12/22

Nomad Free 7-10p

Open Mic 7-10p

THE CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

DISCRETION BREWING 2703 41st Ave, Soquel

SAT

Thursday, December 20 • 7:30 PM

Women Who Folking Rock $10 7:30p

Sinatra In December $12 7:30p

Harpin’ & Clark Free 5p The Funky XMess Get Apple City Slough Band Down $10 8:30p $10 8:30p

Grateful Sundays Free 5:30p

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Monday, January 21 • 7 PM

SHEILA JORDAN WITH CAMERON BROWN

A trailblazing jazz vocalist with bass duet accompaniment.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Thursday, January 24 • 7 PM

ANDRÉ MEHMARI TRIO

Framing the evolution of Brazilian musical identity through the lens of a piano trio.

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Friday, January 25 • 7 PM & 9 PM

BILL FRISELL: WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR

The singular guitarist’s inventive take on beloved film & TV music.

PETER BERNSTEIN, LARRY GOLDINGS & BILL STEWART TRIO

A soulful and nuanced organ trio.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Thursday, January 31 • 7 PM

HOT CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO

The Bay Area’s champians and guardians of swinging hot jazz traditions.

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Wed Dec 19

Mike Renwick’s Holiday Deluxe w/Special Guests

Dazzling synthesis of Rock, R&B, and Old Soul $20 adv./$20 door Dance – ages 21+ 8PM Thu Dec 20

Fri Dec 21

Supernaut

Heavy Psychedelic Rock $10 adv./$12 door Dance - ages 21+ 8:30PM

Ten O’Clock Lunch w/HWY 9

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

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12/22

Planet Booty & Sal’s Greenhouse $8/$12 8:30p Libation Lab w/ King Wizard & Chief Transcend 9:30p

Anuhea, Soulwise, Justin Young $25/$30 8p

The Rock Collection $20/$25 8p

The Guitarsonists $20/$25 3p

Trevor Williams 9:30p The Wail Aways Free 6:30-9:30p

Ryan Scotlong Free 8p

Triana Free 9p

Levi Jack w/ Grampa’s Chili

Carrie & The Soul Shakers Free 9p

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

Acoustic Reggae Jam 6:30p

Aloha Friday 6:30p

Featured Acts 6:30p

Windham Hill’s Winter Solstice $36.75-$52.50 7:30p

ABBA-Solutely Christmas Show $40-$60 7:30p

7th Wave 2-5p

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Mon Dec 31

The China Cats New Year’s Eve Celebration

ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Comedy Night 9p

First & Third Celtic Jam

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Johny Fabulous XMas Singalong Free 7p

Billy Martini Free 8-11p

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The Joint Chiefs $5 8:30p-12a

Fri Jan 11

Classic Rolling Stones Tribute featuring Dale Ockerman $15 adv./$15 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM

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Excellent Norwegian-Swedish Folk Music $12 adv./$15 door Dance – ages 21+ 8:30PM

Ed Gerhard

Grammy award-winning guitarist from New Hampshire $20 adv./$25 door seated – <21w/parent 8:30PM

Pathetic Honey String Band w/Alex Lytle & Them Rounders

One More Try – The George Michael Tribute A spectacular celebration of George Michael $20 adv./$20 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM

Thu Jan 17

Woodstock Generation Band & San Francisco Airship Acoustic

Bay Area Rock n Roll at its finest $12 adv./$15 door Dance – ages 21+ 8:30PM Fri Jan 18

Sat Jan 19

The Joint Chiefs 2-5p

The Human Juke Box 6p

Open Mic 6p

Hope Church Christmas Free 11a&5p Trivia 7:30p Dennis Dove Open Jam $3 7-11p

Beggar Kings

Rock and Americana from Northern California $10 adv./$12 door Dance – ages 21+ 8:30PM Sat Jan 12

12/25

Bert Javier Free 10p-12a

The Electrifying Tribute to Michael Jackson $25 adv./$25 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM

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Foreverland

Wed Jan 9

12/24

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Rasta Cruz Reggae Party 9:30p

Sat Dec 29

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Coyote Slim Free 6p

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Variety Show w/ Toby Gray 6:30p

12/23

Al Frisby 1p Steve Freund 6p

Classic Rock from the ‘70s to the ‘90s $10 adv./$12 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

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Lloyd Whitley Free 6p

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Broken Shades 6-8p

Alex Lucero 6-9p

Ring In The New Year with California’s Premier Grateful Dead Tribute Dinner Packages with Champagne Available $30 adv./$35 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM

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Bruce, Linda and John

An acoustic evening of Springsteen, Ronstadt and Fogerty $10 adv./$12 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM

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Friday, December 21 • Ages 16+

THUNDERCAT

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Dec 28 Cut Chemist/ Chali 2na (Ages 16+) Dec 30 Ms. Lauryn Hill (Ages 21+) Dec 31 Eagles Of Death Metal (Ages 21+) Jan 12 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (Ages 16+) Jan 18 Sage The Gemini (Ages 16+) Jan 19 Petty Theft (Ages 16+) Jan 20 Ozomatli/ Bang Data (Ages 16+) Jan 24 Berner (Ages 16+) Jan 25 Wifisfuneral/ Robb Bank$ (Ages 16+) Jan 26 Y & T/ The SJ Sindicate (Ages 21+) Jan 27 J.I.D. (Ages 16+) Jan 31 Tritonal (Ages 16+) Feb 2 RJD2/ Ghost & The City (Ages 16+) Feb 5 Badfish A Tribute To Sublime (Ages 16+) Feb 7 Groundation/ Thrive (Ages 16+) Feb 8 The Amity Affliction/ Senses Fail (Ages 16+) Feb 9 The Green/ Eli Mac (Ages 16+) Feb 13 The Record Company (Ages 16+) Feb 14 The Expendables/ Ballyhoo! (Ages 16+) Feb 23 Lil Mosey/ PARKE (Ages 16+) Feb 26 Bad Suns/ Vista Kicks (Ages 16+) Feb 27 David August (Ages 16+) Mar 8 Twiddle/ Iya Terra (Ages 16+) Mar 9 Big Wild (Ages 16+) Mar 12 Atmosphere/ deM atlaS (Ages 16+) Mar 14 Liquid Stranger (Ages 16+) Mar 21 Eli Young Band (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-9p

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The John Michael Band 8-11:30p

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

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Claudio Melega 7-10p

Mikey Bilello 7-9p

Leo & Friends Free 6-9p

Cement Ship Free 6-9p

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Ravi Lamb 7-9p

Toby Gray Duo Free 5-8p

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IF THIS DOESN’T WORK OUT, I CAN ALWAYS BECOME A LOBSTER Emma Stone as the fiendishly ambitious

Abagail in ‘The Favourite.’

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Great performances fuel uneven comedy of manners ‘The Favourite’ BY LISA JENSEN

T

he work of filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos is an acquired taste, like pig’s feet or blood pudding.

It appeals to those with an appetite for caustic low comedy, sexual intemperance, and human venality, all whipped into a heavy bouillabaisse and set to full boil.

His peculiar sensibility seems to resonate with a lot of viewers, especially critics, since his breakout movie, the alternative-reality satire The Lobster, in 2015. Now he applies his worldview to the 18th century in the period piece The Favourite, with decidedly mixed results.

The movie has a nodding acquaintance with historical reality.

The story is set in the time of

England’s Queen Anne, in the first decade of the 1700s, and concerns her relationships with her close friend and confidante, Lady Sarah Churchill (ancestor of you-knowwho) and the genteel servant Abigail.

All are historical personages, and Lanthimos and scriptwriters Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara should be commended for combing through history to find a tale featuring three juicy parts for actresses in a story about women jockeying for position in a man’s world.

Queen Anne (a terrific Olivia Colman) is portrayed as imperious and quicksilver in her temperament, yet timorous about her ability to actually lead. She’s kept on track by the politically astute Lady Sarah

(Rachel Weisz), whose war hero husband, the Duke of Marlborough, is off fighting the French. The women have been besties since girlhood.

Enter Abigail (Emma Stone) a distant relation of Sarah’s hoping to find employment at court. Once a lady but fallen on hard times, she’s ambitious to regain her station and follows Sarah’s example in everything—particularly her attention to the queen. When she spies an intimacy beyond mere friendship between Anne and Lady Sarah, Abigail sees her way forward.

This Abigail is an All About Eve-style opportunist, ruthlessly pursuing her own agenda beneath an innocent exterior. However, the simmering stew of erotic

sexual politics between the three women (and the occasional man onscreen long enough to register, like Nicholas Hoult as foppish, insinuating opposition party leader Harley) has its basis in speculation at the time over Anne’s sexuality that continues today.

Lanthimos often flings history aside, sometimes in entertaining ways, like the palace ball scenes where deadpan, extravagantly costumed dancers dip, flip and haul each other around in moves better suited to an ice-skating arena or hiphop stage. There are other moments of unexpected tenderness in this witches’ brew of intrigue, as when Anne introduces Abigail to her 17 pet rabbits—each one named for one of the children Anne has borne and lost.

This tragic part of Anne's history is true (well, I’m not sure about the rabbits). But the narrative often goes awry, if not historically, in terms of its weirdly comic tone. With her husband off at the front and her hands full of delicate diplomacy, when does Lady Sarah find the time to go shooting birds with Abigail?

The point of other sequences is more obscure, like the lords’ mania for duck racing. Or a giggling, middle-aged aristo, naked under an enormous wig, shown dodging missives flung by a bunch of cackling nobles. On the night of her wedding to a smitten young lord, a scowling bride is too busy scheming to offer her new husband anything more than indifferent hand service.

Lanthimos may be taking aim at human folly—greed, ambition, depravity, especially among the oh-soidle rich—but that’s a broad target. He coaxes excellent performances out of all three of his lead actresses, Colman in particular as the cranky, unhappy, insecure queen. But as the fortunes of these women rise and fall, and viewer sympathies are meant to keep shifting, the characters as written never achieve the resonance that would keep viewers engaged and invested in them.

They remain pawns in an exercise of mannered absurdity.

THE FAVOURITE ** (out of four) With Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, and Olivia Colman. Written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. A Fox Searchlight release. Rated R. 131 minutes.

FILM NEW RELEASES AQUAMAN Back when the first Saw movie came out, people called it “appalling” and “torture porn”—and those were the people who liked it!

Oh, how times change—a decadeand-a-half later, the director of Saw, James Wan, is now overseeing this family-friendly $160 million epic, which takes one of the most ridiculous major superheroes of all time and puts the entire DC Comics movie universe on his back. Lucky for them, that back belongs to charming meathead and killed-off-too-early Game of Thrones favorite Jason Momoa, who can actually hold a trident without looking stupid. This attempt to give the long-ridiculed (most famously on Entourage) undersea dude some street cred imagines him as a reluctant heir to the throne of Atlantis, who must lead his people when his half-brother Orm (Patrick Wilson) declares war on the surface world. Co-starring Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe and Dolph Lundgren.

(PG-13) 143 minutes. (SP)

BUMBLEBEE I saw the headline of a review for this movie that read “Bumblebee is the Best Transformers Movie Ever, For What

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS This costume drama is getting a fair amount of flak for its historical inaccuracies, which is always kind of funny. There are entire books filled with the accounting of errors in beloved films that have spun themselves as “history.” The real truth is that there is probably no “true story” type film that is 100 percent true. We should definitely not be getting our history from movies, although it’s certainly nice when they inspire people to go and read the real history afterward.

Nonetheless, critics are going after the dramatic license in this story of the fractious relationship between Mary, Queen of Scots and her cousin, Queen Elizabeth. One critic even called it “history porn.” What does that even mean? And why did he say it like it was a bad thing?

Directed by Josie Rourke. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie and Guy Pearce. (R) 124 minutes. (SP) MARY POPPINS RETURNS If you grew up loving Mary Poppins, I suspect your only complaint about the release of this trueto-the-original sequel would probably be: why did it take 54 years to pull it together? But hey, it gave Emily Blunt enough time to be age appropriate for the role, so that’s good! And the premise of the world’s most magical nanny returning to take care of the children of the grown Banks siblings is so genius I need a particular word to describe it—you know, something that will sound precocious if I say it loud enough.

Any ideas? Directed by Rob Marshall. Co-starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, Meryl Streep and Colin Firth. (PG) 130 minutes. (SP)

SECOND ACT I’m not saying I’m some kind of expert on the career of Jennifer Lopez, but watching the trailer for this film in which she stars as a retail worker who uses some alternative facts on her resume to land her dream job on Madison Avenue reminded me why she’s one of the most likable of the pop divas—mainly, she’s not obsessed with staying young forever, and she can actually act. Directed by Peter Segal. Costarring Vanessa Hudgens and Leah Remini. (PG-13) 113 minutes.

(SP) WELCOME TO MARWEN Anyone who’s seen the trailer for this film starring Steve Carrell as a man who builds a doll-based fantasy world to help him through a traumatic experience might be surprised that it’s a true story—unless they’ve seen the 2012 documentary Marwencol that pretty much broke the story to the world. Directed

by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Steve Carrell, Leslie Mann and Gwendoline Christie. (PG-13) 116 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.

NOW PLAYING AT ETERNITY’S GATE This portrait of Vincent van Gogh in the last years of his life, impoverished, and churning out his delirious canvases in rural France, was directed by artist-turnedfilmmaker Julian Schnabel. It's more like a feverish plunge into the act of creation itself than a conventional biopic about the facts of Van Gogh's life. Willem Dafoe plays the artist with manic fervor, but Schnabel tries so hard to approximate that woozy, dreamlike state in which we all believe Van Gogh must have painted that his storytelling becomes murky and repetitive. For all Schnabel's

determined technique, nothing in his movie ever achieves the emotional clarity of a single Van Gogh painting. (PG-13) 110 minutes. (LJ) THE FAVOURITE Reviewed this issue. (R) 119 minutes.

GREEN BOOK After earning a well-deserved Supporting Actor Oscar for Moonlight, the versatile Mahershala Ali tries something completely different in this serious-minded, yet entertaining view of racism in the American South, ca 1962, as experienced by a working-class white guy from Brooklyn hired to drive a cultured black pianist on a concert tour through the Deep South. Directed

by Peter Farrelly, and based on a true story, its portrait of centuryold racist attitudes still so deeply ingrained in everyday life could be (and often is) chilling. But the movie succeeds on the chemistry between its excellent stars, Ali as the reserved, morally particular pianist, and Viggo Mortensen as his gregarious, tough-guy driver, forging a hard-won alliance against institutional racism and their own personal prejudices. Co-starring Linda Cardellini, Mike Hatton and Sebastian Maniscalco. (PG-13) 130 minutes. (LJ) 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) MARIA BY CALLAS “If you liked Bohemian Rhapsody, why not spend a night at the real opera with this documentary about the 20th century’s most famous Soprano, Maria Callas?” Hey, that’s pretty good! Maybe I should write movie taglines for a living. “If you want to see the real story about Maria,

maybe you should get your Call-as to Maria by Callas!” OK, never mind. Directed by Tom Volf. (PG) 113 minutes. (SP) MORTAL ENGINES This PeterJackson-produced sci-fi movie imagines a world where cities drive around through the wasteland on wheels and consume other cities to fuel themselves. Can you imagine Santa Cruz in that scenario? We’d be like, “We don’t eat cities because it’s cruel and it’s bad for the environment.” Then L.A. would eventually find us and be like “CHOMP!” Directed by Christian Rivers. Starring Hugo Weaving, Hera Hilmar and Stephen Lang.

(PG-13) 128 minutes. (SP) THE MULE Clint Eastwood apparently is a mule in this movie, which kind of makes sense, since we already know from his interviewing-a-chair-at-theRNC debacle that he can be a jackass. According to the publicity materials, it’s a true story based on the New York Times Magazine article “The Sinaloa Cartel’s 90-Year-Old Drug Mule.”

Ohhhh, a drug mule. I get it now.

Directed by Eastwood. Co-starring Bradley Cooper, Taissa Farmiga and Laurence Fishburne. (R) 116 minutes. (SP) ROMA This semi-autobiographical film from director Alfonso Cuaron (of Gravity fame) just won Best Picture from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. It follows the life of a housekeeper to a middleclass family in Mexico City’s Roma Colonia district. Starring Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira and Carlos Peralta. (R) 135 minutes.

(SP) SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Spider-Man, Spider-Man/Doing whatever several alternative universes full of Spider-Men can/Are there a lot?/ Listen bub/Even Nicholas Cage/Voices one/Look out!/Here comes a new animated Spider-Man movie! Featuring the voices of Jake Johnson, Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld and Mahershala Ali. (PG) 117 minutes. (SP)

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BEN IS BACK Just when it seemed like the nominations for worst movie title had closed for the year, here comes Ben is Back. It’s a shame, too, because the trailer makes this look like a pretty powerful movie about addiction and love. Julia Roberts stars as the mother of a drugaddicted teenager (Lucas Hedges) who shows up unexpectedly on Christmas Eve. Over the next 24 hours, her son’s spiraling life will force her into desperate decisions in order to save her family. Wow! If somebody thought a great name for that story would be Ben is Back, I’d hate to see their list of rejected titles. Wacky Drug Addict Christmas? Not Without My Disappointing Son? Hey Oscar, Check Out Julia Roberts All Up In This Drama? Directed by Peter Hedges. Co-starring Courtney B. Vance and Kristin Griffith. (R) 103 minutes. (SP)

That’s Worth.” You said a mouthful, Mr. Critic Guy! It probably helps that this umpteenth installment in the endless series of movies based on plastic toy cars that turn into robots isn’t directed by Michael Bay, and is about the only one of the robot cars that was ever fun to watch. Directed by Travis Knight.

Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Dylan O’Brien and Megyn Price. (PG-13) 113 minutes. (SP)

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New chef Tom McNary revels in root veggies and hearty meat entrees BY CHRISTINA WATERS

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hef Tom McNary’s winter menu at Soif is long on New American comfort dishes accented by seasonal sides. Citrus relish, roasted root veggies, hearty meats, and salads that pay attention to top local ingredients.

Three of us met last week to celebrate the holiday season, the shortest days of the year, and longstanding friendship. And of course, to sample some of the new items on Soif’s menu after McNary took the helm of the downtown Santa Cruz restaurant and wine bar in October.

It was a night for indulgence, and so we chose some very nice wines to accompany our meal. Patti likes Pinot Noir, so for her there was a gorgeous French Burgundy from Michel Sarrazin 2017 ($12), with pert tannins, spice and dark berries in the finish. Melody splurged on a 2010 Casanuova delle Cerbaie Brunello di Montalcino ($18), and I treated myself to an opulent, plummy, meaty 2015 Chateauneuf du Pape from Roger Perrin ($20) that was worth every penny.

We also had some food with our terrific trio of red wines, starting

with shared plates of fat, fragrant arancini ($11) and Dungeness crab salad ($14). Our server supplied extra plates so that we could sample freely.

Spheres of arborio rice arrived generously dusted with parmesan and piping hot, so that every forkful revealed a molten core of fontina. A spicy tomato sauce added piquance to this very appealing starter. The salad offered an over-abundance of lettuces, fennel and citrus, though rather less crab than we had hoped.

Colorful with slices of watermelon radish, the salad relied on pastel morsels of winter citrus for much

of its impact. We might have liked a smaller portion—this was a very large salad—where the crab meat could have made a bigger impression.

My entree of diver scallops ($34) was beautiful to the eye. Three huge, perfectly cooked scallops on a cloud of celery root puree, adorned with slender parsnips and carrots, and deep green beet leaves.

Again, the grapefruit and citrus relish threatened to overwhelm the delicate shellfish.

Melody’s grilled ribeye was a hit ($33). Excellent beef, sliced so that the crimson interior showed off nicely, came with a rich Bordelaise red wine and demi-glace sauce. A plump pillow of scalloped potatoes sat on one side of the plate, which was ringed with buds of chartreuse romanesco and sweet roast carrots. The house dinner plates are quite large and allow for a wide margin of what we in publishing call “creative white space” around the main attraction. The central culinary ideas tend to gather in the middle of each plate.

Patti’s burger of ground ribeye ($18) was another star entree. Thanks to the huge dinner platters, the burger arrived with a landslide of french fries that might have served the entire Golden State Warriors team. We actually had to chuckle at the sheer quantity of fries. The burger was perfect! On a tasty, soft brioche bun, with aioli, pickled veggies and a deep well of ketchup, it was a great value for its price.

Along with decaf and a glass of port, we attacked a lemon tart dessert with three forks ($10). Indulgence shared feels less naughty, we agreed.

Decorated with remarkably ripe, flavorful raspberries and an oval of whipped cream—also embedded with raspberries—the tart let us down.

The crust was a bit thick, and the thin layer of lemon filling lacked bold citrus punch. This was a polite tart, rather than a tart tart.

The sweet sounds of live jazz sent us happily out into the chilly evening. Remember, Mondays at Soif involve music starting at 6:30 p.m.

Plan your seating accordingly.

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Five last-minute gifts you can get at the grocery store BY LILY STOICHEFF

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hether the result of a full schedule or procrastination, we’ve all felt that panic at the eleventh hour of holiday shopping when we still have multiple gifts to buy and time has run out. Instead of relaxing with friends and family, we’re frantically scanning shops, praying we find a passable gift before the time on our parking meter runs out.

Reader, allow me to take some of that stress off of your shoulders with this lifehack: you can buy plenty of great gifts at the grocery store. There are delicious treats hiding in plain sight on the shelves that anyone in your life would love to receive, whether they’re a foodie or just someone who likes to eat, and they don’t require visiting a specialty shop or paying out the nose for overnight delivery.

Here are a few gifts from local producers available at your preferred local market. Don’t forget to pick up a bottle of wine for yourself—you’ve earned it.

Pinot Cherries by Friend in Cheeses Jam Co.: These dried cherries soaked in Pinot Noir and spices make the perfect festive cocktail garnish

for your friend who loves a great Manhattan. ($10 for 8 oz.)

Belle Farms Extra Virgin Olive Oil: Made from five Tuscan olive varieties harvested in Santa Cruz County, this EVOO is delicate and well-balanced, with a peppery finish. ($14 for 250 ml.)

Burn Hot Sauce: The colors of this probiotic, Santa Cruz-produced hot sauce pop out of the refrigerated section. Made with single-variety heirloom peppers, grab a single sauce for a stocking stuffer or several to taste the rainbow. ($9 for 4 fl. oz.)

CaCoco Drinking Chocolate: Who doesn’t love cozying up with a cup of delicious, creamy hot chocolate?

Now imagine that it’s dairy-free, low in sugar, made with fair-trade cocoa and boosted with natural ingredients like turmeric, maca and reishi mushrooms. Oh, and it comes in a package shaped like a Mayan temple. ($13 for 7 oz.)

Meeks California Buckwheat Honey: This dark, malty honey is delicious on its own, and will certainly come in handy when the inevitable seasonal cold necessitates many, many cups of tea. (Prices vary)

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And consider yourself fortunate if Curtis Cooke is on hand at the Summit Store to help with your purchase.

Cooke is wine, spirits and craft beer buyer and is always more than happy to talk about the fermented grape!

Summit Store often has good sale prices and great deals on wine. I found a Sante Arcangeli 2016 Integrato Pinot Noir for $25, which I have seen for way more in other places.

John Benedetti, winemaker and owner of Sante Arcangeli Family Wines, says of his Integrato, “The idea was to create a party in a bottle that showcases the complexity, variety and nuance of our appellation. This is an all-star barrel selection from our single-vineyard lots that focuses on food-friendliness, structure and that elusive term, ‘pinosity.’ It’s a barrel selection that’s chosen to showcase minerality, structure and vivid red

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ROUDON-SMITH WINERY AT ARTISANS GALLERY

Al Drewke will be pouring his Roudon-Smith wines from 1-5 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 23 at Artisans Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz—a wonderful opportunity to sip and shop as you look for last-minute Christmas gifts, and maybe buy a bottle of wine for a stocking stuffer.

Visit roudonsmith.com for more info.

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Lokahi Juices is a local company based in Santa Cruz. They make delicious, organic, GMO-free, veganfriendly juices and cleansers. The Golden-Milk Elixir with turmeric, black pepper, blackstrap molasses, cayenne pepper, cinnamon, and coconut oil is terrific. And the Energizing Superfood Latte with coconut milk tastes very nourishing.

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H RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES PEACE ON EARTH, GOODWILL TO ALL

Esoteric Astrology as news for Dec. 19, 2018 Winter solstice. Return of the light. Return of the sun. End of darkness. Our hearts, our inner sun, vivifying, coming alive again. Solstice (Yule) is Friday, a complex day when sun enters Capricorn and a three-day pause begins. The sun is quiet and still (sol, “sun”; stice, “still”) for three days.

And then at midnight, Christmas morning, the midnight sun begins to move northward. And the new light, the holy child (the soul) within our hearts and minds and in that little stable in Bethlehem ... the holy child is born. We are anointed with light—the soul’s light.

So many events this week. Such a complex day is the solstice—Capricorn sun, Gemini moon, Venus/Neptune, Mercury/Jupiter (an auspicious time). And Saturday morning, a full moon—the

ARIES Mar21–Apr20 It’s important to maintain moment-to-moment awareness of all experiences each day, and of all who come into your sphere of life. If aware, you will see their gifts (talents and abilities) and they will reflect your talents, too This is a great revelation. Allow yourself no expectations. Remain poised in observation of all that is around you. In this silence, new values, new perspectives and the new realities you’ve been searching for appear.

TAURUS Apr21–May21 Know that plans will change; feelings and emotions, too. Memories will be part of the holidays this year, and you have many of them. You will sense and feel the special people who are no longer with us. Know they still love you, always remaining close by. You will have new revelations about your work in the world. Perhaps a book, a painting, a work of creativity. Follow the signs, intuitions and impressions given.

GEMINI May 22–June 20 If not traveling, then soon you should be. Travel offers prospects and plans that change the course of your life, advancing you into the future. When retrogrades occur, all our focus turns inward. But we are out of the long retrogrades. So thoughts, ideas and plans become practical. You seek new ways to make contact and communicate. Plan to study compassionate (nonviolent) communication with friends and partners. You will never be the same after.

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New insights come forth about the people in your life.

Before, you had global ideas, but now you have a deeper, more personal understanding of how others live their lives. Communicate your insights to those who care for you. Become interested in what others think. Ask for their insights. This creates deeper connections. And then love is released. You are surprised.

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Tend to your health. A health issue from the past may reoccur. If seeing a doctor, seek a functional doctor (M.D.) in your area or close by. Functional doctors diagnose, test and look at health differently. It’s important to have a new approach to all things, from health to work to animals to plants to co-workers. The full moon offers illuminations and revelations. Listen in silence and solitude. Information comes on little cats’ feet.

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Notice your creative expressions increasing. Happiness, enthusiasm and playfulness come into the mix, and you recognize these are natural gifts within each of us. And then something spontaneous occurs, and you understand your life experiences from birth to the present—and then you understand everyone else’s, too. And everything transforms daily in front of your eyes. And then there is joy.

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22 The past returns for review. Nothing can stop this.

last of the year—the Capricorn solar festival at 0.49 degrees.

Monday is Christmas Eve, with Leo moon (sign of the gift of each of us). Tuesday is Christmas day.

The Christmas narrative is familiar.

We all know the story.

Mother and father, innocent child, shepherds, a bright star (Sirius), and animals all around. No room at the inn, the stable, the manger with hay, angels singing. At this solstice Christmas new light time, let us restore Christmas to its spiritual purpose and its distant origins, to its beauty, light and magic, with sacred rituals, prayers and invocations. And let’s join the angels saying “Merry Christmas, everyone.

Peace on Earth, goodwill to all.” Love, Risa Gradually, a new perspective appears concerning childhood home, parents, siblings, family interactions.

Childhood impressions change like a kaleidoscope of colors. With revelations, your understanding increases and you step unexpectedly into a state of compassion.

To anchor this unexpected shift, you reorder everything in your home. And a state of wonder follows you everywhere.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 So many thoughts occurring during this time. You attempt to find a pattern to a puzzle of life. You realize there are things you want to say (and not say) to family and friends. You notice all around is the light of insight and a new way of doing things, and you review old knowledge and see how it forms the foundation for a new philosophy of life. Soon, quietly, new skills appear, and new perspectives about your life as a server. You are the phoenix arising out of the fire.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 Life and its gifts have you assessing many things— values, resources, what you have and don’t yet have, what you want and don’t want. You look too at what you considered lost (returning later in different forms). New and innovative ideas appear about your future work in the world. They take into consideration all your desires and aspirations, later to anchor creatively in your life. A new land calls. You answer.

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 It’s good to create an “I Am ...” journal. With Pluto in your sign, all Capricorns are transforming and becoming their greater selves. Seek to see yourself in new ways, with new information being given about who you are.

Write in your journal sentences beginning with “I am ...” Write every day. See how you begin to unfold and express yourself differently. A new self-coordination, identity, harmony, courage and creativity emerges as you write about yourself and who you are and will become.

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 Perhaps you feel many endings or closings, or maybe you’re approaching a curve in the road. There may be sadness or sorrow concerning something (someone) that is no longer. This will ease over time. New perceptions occur in the coming months, offering an understanding of the past. Look back, then look forward.

Cherish everything. Remembering is a gift. Soon, you will be stepping forward onto another path.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 So many things change for Pisces during this time concerning affiliated groups. You review when and why you joined certain groups and your purpose with them. They hold a different importance in your life now, and you gradually make changes in terms of your interactions. A new world service is calling; new relationships and a new form of group interaction take place. You step more fully into inner worlds, while remaining very practical in the outer worlds. There is no confusion. They are one.

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This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: DONNA PRICE. 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 Nov. 19, 2018. Nov. 28, Dec. 5, 12, & 19.

prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: Nov. 20, 2018. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court.

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NOTICE OF HEARING January 17, 2019 at 8:30 am, in Department 10 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: Dec. 3, 2018. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Dec. 3, 2018.

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Signed: LINNAEA HOLGERS. 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 dec. 5, 2018. Dec. 19, 26, Jan 2, & 9.

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County of Santa Cruz. GAVIN PHILLIPS COMSTOCK. 827 PINE ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: GAVIN PHILLIPS COMSTOCK. 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 November 30, 2018. Dec. 12, 19, 26, & Jan. 2.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF HEPZIBAH BEATRICE PEREZ CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.18CV03456. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner HEPZIBAH BEATRICE PEREZ has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: HEPZIBAH BEATRICE PEREZ to: HEPZIBAH BEATRIX DAHL. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any,

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County of Santa Cruz. TOD NYSETHER. 312 NATIONAL ST., SANTA CRUZ CA 95060.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: TOD NYSETHER. 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 Dec. 4, 2018.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001924 The following Individual is doing business as H&A ACADEMIC SOLUTIONS. 10515 E. ZAYANTE ROAD, FELTON, CA 95018. County of Santa Cruz. ALEXANDER ROCKWELL FAULK. 10515 E. ZAYANTE ROAD, FELTON, CA 95018. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ALEXANDER ROCKWELL FAULK. 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 Dec. 7, 2018. Dec. 12, 19, 26, & Jan. 2.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001912 The following Individual is doing business as SPOTLIGHT NATURALS. 772 BROOKSIDE DR., FELTON, CA 95018. County of Santa Cruz.

JON PAUL COX. 772 BROOKSIDE DR., FELTON, CA 95018. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JON PAUL COX. 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 Dec. 6, 2018. Dec. 19, 26, Jan. 2, & 9.

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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF PATRICIA ANN BROWN CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.18CV03362.

THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner PATRICIA ANN BROWN has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: PATRICIA ANN BROWN to: PATRICIA WHITE BUFFALO. 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 Jan 04, 2019 at 8:30 am, in Department 5 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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001783 The following Individual is doing business as SANTA CRUZ MAGICSHOP. 400 BEACH STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. DOUG HOFKINS. 9890 MONROE AVE., APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: DOUG HOFKINS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 11/7/2018. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Nov. 7, 2018.

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What do you like to cook? CATHY:“I’ll bake pies and cookies with the girls, and many cheesecakes by request! I get my baking flours and other ingredients from Shopper’s. JONATHAN:“I love to cook from scratch: pasta/Italian, French, Mexican, slow-cooked ramen broth… I just did a 15-course menu of small bites. My ragu with Shopper’s veal, English ribs, and sausages, is a Sunday family-and-friends favorite.

Morels, burrells, porcinis — unique items like these are always here.” CATHY:“With Shopper’s quality and variety, you get value: there’s no over-buying with pre-packed meats or produce. No spoilage.”

Shopping here for holiday foods? CATHY:“I’m getting the wines: Pinots, Zinfandels, Sirahs. Shopper’s has the best wine variety and very fair pricing” JONATHAN:“For Christmas, I’m making prime rib, crab cakes using a chanterelle purée, also seafood risotto, and chocolate mousse with Droste cocoa powder — all from Shopper’s.” CATHY:“Shopping here during the holidays is fun: our girls, Grace and Sofia, like the festive scene and the busy checkers and butchers make them feel special.”JONATHAN:“I plan on cruising each aisle for all the specialty items I want; then I’m gift-wrapping them!”

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