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EDITOR’S NOTE I always like to start the year out feeling good about Santa Cruz, which is why I look forward to getting the final totals from Santa Cruz Gives. That number is in, and all I can say is wow. You guys outdid yourselves in generosity over the holiday season, as we raised $234,426 for local nonprofits. That’s an 18.7 percent increase over last year’s total of $197,459. It’s so exciting to see this program keep growing every year, and I can’t stress enough how big a difference the debut involvement of Community Foundation Santa Cruz County made. Next week we’ll have

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Although spread across four pages, your “Gimme Shelter” story (GT, Jan. 2) provided little new information about Santa Cruz’s homeless situation, except to say that the city is salivating over the $10 million in new funding that’s headed our way. Yes, tending to the homeless certainly has become a growth industry here in Santa Cruz.

I thought it was interesting that the photo chosen to accompany the article was that of a young, wholesome-looking couple instead of some grungy burnout that would be more typical of our transient population.

Whitewashing the face of this problem won’t do anything to help ease it.

And what about this couple? He says that he came to Santa Cruz to get away from drugs in his hometown. Was he joking, or what? This area is awash in hard drugs and their easy access and low cost is a primary reason for the influx of drifters from near and far. It’s the last place anyone would come expecting to get away from that horror-show lifestyle. This area’s skyhigh rents are also well known…just where does a person with few resources expect to be living once they get here?

How long must we continue allocating funds to support those who migrate here with substance abuse issues and little motivation to change their destructive

a more thorough wrap-up, with feedback from our partners at the Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County, who always provide way more insight into what this all means than my low-level analysis, which is basically, “Yay Santa Cruz!”

Speaking of fresh starts, our cover story this week is about how Santa Cruz-based MDMA research may provide a whole new approach for mentalhealth therapy. (I know, I know, one of my resolutions for the new year is to work on my transitions.) The piece by Wallace Baine really brings home this idea of psychedelics-asmedical-science with a close-up look at one person whose life has been transformed by the work at Santa Cruz’s Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS).

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habits? Having our city spend nearly $80,000 a month to shelter a relative handful of homeless transients was pure lunacy!

Instead of passing out much of that $10 million to the abundance of local nonprofits involved with the homeless, imagine spending a similar sum on additional resources focused on suppressing our illegal drug trade. Addictive street drugs will never be totally eradicated, but a full-court press on the local supply will push prices up beyond the reach of many users. If drugs become harder to come by, or significantly more expensive, Santa Cruz might just lose some of its appeal as a transient hang out. A reduction in drug use, in addition to saving lives and reducing crime, will also slow the drain on city and county services and help ease already-strapped budgets.

Instead of throwing money at problem that’s already way out of control, why not focus on trying to keep people from wasting their lives behind drugs and becoming homeless in the first place?

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Organizers of an upcoming event will freely distribute clone-able cuttings, or scions, from hundreds of rare, heirloom and experimental varieties of fruit. The Monterey Bay Chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers will hold its annual winter Scion Exchange at Cabrillo College on Sunday, Jan. 13, in coordination with fruit growing enthusiasts around the state. The event will be 12-3 p.m. at the Cabrillo College Horticulture Center. Admission is free to members and 5$ to non-members. Visit mbcrfg.org for more information.

AA Safe & Security, a 65-year-old local company, has expanded, adding a brand new division that brings the business up to speed in the year 2019. With AA Security Technologies, the company is bringing its safety expertise to the market for cloud services, alarm systems and household internet devices. Collaborating with manufacturing partners, AA Safe & Security perfected solutions that will help consumers manage programs that track their wellness or energy usage, while protecting their information.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of January 9 ARIES Mar21–Apr19

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22

Computer-generated special effects used in the 1993 film Jurassic Park may seem modest to us now. But at the time, they were revolutionary. Inspired by the new possibilities revealed, filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas and Peter Jackson launched new projects they had previously thought to be beyond their ability to create. In 2019, I urge you to go in quest of your personal equivalent of Jurassic Park’s pioneering breakthroughs.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you may be able to find help and resources that enable you to get more serious about seemingly unfeasible or impractical dreams.

In 1557, Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde invented the equals sign: =. Historical records don't tell us when he was born, so we don't know his astrological sign.

But I'm guessing he was a Libra. Is there any tribe more skillful at finding correlations, establishing equivalencies, and creating reciprocity? In all the zodiac, who is best at crafting righteous proportions and uniting apparent opposites? Who is the genius of balance? In the coming months, my friend, I suspect you will be even more adept at these fine arts than you usually are.

TAURUS Apr20–May20

There’s a modest, one-story office building at 1209 North Orange Street in Wilmington, Delaware. More than 285,000 businesses from all over the U.S. claim it as their address. Why? Because the state of Delaware has advantageous tax laws that enable those businesses to save massive amounts of money. Other buildings in Delaware house thousands of additional corporations. It’s all legal.

No one gets in trouble for it. I bring this to your attention in the hope of inspiring you to hunt for comparable situations: ethical loopholes and workarounds that will provide you with extra benefits and advantages.

I’m a big proponent of authenticity. I almost always advise you to be yourself with bold candor and unapologetic panache. Speak the truth about your deepest values and clearest perceptions. Be an expert about what really moves you, and devote yourself passionately to your relationships with what really moves you. But there is one exception to this approach. Sometimes it’s wise to employ the “fake it until you make it” strategy—to pretend you are what you want to be with such conviction that you ultimately become what you want to be. I suspect now is one of those times for you.

GEMINI May21–June20 The student dining hall at Michigan State University serves gobs of mayonnaise. But in late 2016, a problem arose when 1,250 gallons of the stuff became rancid.

Rather than simply throw it away, the school’s sustainability pfficer came up with a brilliant solution: load it into a machine called an anaerobic digester, which turns biodegradable waste into energy. Problem solved! The transformed rot provided electricity for parts of the campus. I recommend you regard this story as a metaphor for your own use. Is there anything in your life that has begun to decay or lose its usefulness? If so, can you convert it into a source of power?

CANCER Jun21–Jul22 If you grow vegetables, fruits, and grains on an acre of land, you can feed twelve people. If you use that acre to raise meat-producing animals, you'll feed at most four people. But to produce the meat, you'll need at least four times more water and twenty times more electric power than you would if you grew the plants. I offer this as a useful metaphor for you to consider in the coming months. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you should prioritize efficiency and value. What will provide you with the most bang for your bucks?

What's the wisest use of your resources?

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Modern kids don't spend much time playing outside.

They have fun in natural environments only half as often as their parents did while growing up. In fact, the average child spends less time in the open air than prison inmates. And today's unjailed adults get even less exposure to the elements. But I hope you will avoid that fate in 2019. According to my astrological estimates, you need to allocate more than the usual amount of time to feeling the sun and wind and sky. Not just because it's key to your physical health, but also because many of your best ideas and decisions are likely to emerge while you're outdoors.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 NASA landed its robotic explorer Opportunity on Mars in January of 2004. The craft’s mission, which was supposed to last for 92 days, began by taking photos and collecting soil samples. More than 14 years later, the hardy machine was still in operation, continuing to send data back to Earth. It far outlived its designed lifespan. I foresee you being able to generate a comparable marvel in 2019, Virgo: a stalwart resource or influence or situation that will have more staying power than you could imagine. What could it be?

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 People in the Solomon Islands buy many goods and services with regular currency, but also use other symbols of worth to pay for important cultural events like staging weddings and settling disputes and expressing apologies.

These alternate forms of currency include the teeth of flying foxes, which are the local species of bat. In that spirit, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I’d love to see you expand your sense of what constitutes your wealth. In addition to material possessions and funds in the bank, what else makes you valuable? In what other ways do you measure your potency, your vitality, your merit? It’s a favorable time to take inventory.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 In 1984, singer-songwriter John Fogerty released a new album whose lead single was “The Old Man Down the Road.” It sold well. But trouble arose soon afterward. when Fogerty’s former record company sued him in court, claiming he stole the idea for “The Old Man Down the Road” from “Run Through the Jungle.” That was a tune Fogerty himself had written and recorded in 1970 while playing with the band Creedence Clearwater Revival. The legal process took a while, but he was ultimately vindicated. No, the courts declared, he didn’t plagiarize himself, even though there were some similarities between the two songs. In this spirit, I authorize you to borrow from a good thing you did in the past as you create a new good thing in the future. There’ll be no hell to pay if you engage in a bit of self-plagiarism.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book is a collection of fables that take place in India. Three movies have been made based on it. All of them portray the giant talking snake named Kaa as an adversary to the hero Mowgli. But in Kipling’s original stories, Kaa is a benevolent ally and teacher. I bring this to your attention to provide context for a certain situation in your life. Is there an influence with a metaphorical resemblance to Kaa—misinterpreted by some people, but actually quite supportive and nourishing to you?

If so, I suggest you intensify your appreciation for it.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 Virginia Woolf thought that her Piscean lover Vita Sackville-West was a decent writer, but a bit too fluid and effortless. Self-expression was so natural to SackvilleWest that she didn’t work hard enough to hone her craft and discipline her flow. In a letter, Woolf wrote, “I think there are odder, deeper, more angular thoughts in your mind than you have yet let come out.” I invite you to meditate on the possibility that Woolf’s advice might be useful in 2019. Is there anything in your skill set that comes so easily that you haven’t fully ripened? If so, develop it with more focused intention.

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The time to make change is now and, in terms of the environment alone, we must not delay. We face huge challenges with drug/alcohol and opiod addiction and with growing homelessness and yet, we are one of the richest cities, per capita, there is. We can be humanistic leaders for the future of Northern California and I fully support Mayor Martine Watkins, Justin, Drew, Cynthia, Donna and Christopher in their role as the new leaders of Santa Cruz.

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SPEAKER TRAINING Barry Scott, seen here at a rally for the rail trail earlier this year, supports proposals for a commuter train,

as well as the idea of higher-density housing near major transit hubs. PHOTO: KEANA PARKER

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What would a rail-with-trail project mean for the future of local housing? BY JACOB PIERCE [This is part one of a two-part series on transportation ahead of a Jan. 17 Regional Transportation Commission vote on the Unified Corridor Study. Part two runs next week. — Editor]

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f commuter trains come rolling through the county’s coastal rail corridor 30 years from now, it’s anyone’s guess how exactly those trains will look, or where they will stop. But whatever the details, there’s a decent chance that some of the buildings near those stops will

be four times taller than many of them are today.

While the Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) prepares to vote on the county’s transportation future later this month, there’s a growing effort to zone for taller, denser housing projects near major transit stops. Here in Santa Cruz, the RTC is getting ready to vote on accepting a Unified Corridor Study on Thursday, Jan. 17. The study outlines a scenario which includes some highway improvements, a

commuter train and new bike trails.

Some activists are still pushing for a wider trail with no train, given concerns about low potential ridership and high costs.

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Peggy Stap was ready when the call came in on a Sunday in October. A humpback whale was caught in what appeared to be a Dungeness crab line, likely dragged from Oregon to the Central Coast.

With the volunteer Whale Entanglement Team she oversees at research nonprofit Marine Life Studies, Stap drove north with her 40-foot boat Current’Sea, along with a wing boat recently acquired to help rescuers get closer to entangled whales.

It was just before sunset when the team located the entangled humpback south of Half Moon Bay. They attached a satellite buoy to keep tabs on the animal’s location, and Stap stayed overnight to babysit the boat. The next day, the team was back in the water to cut the whale lose.

“The whale kept going south, and we ended up doing the rescue west of Santa Cruz,” says Stap, a Michigan transplant who has slowly grown Marine Life Studies and the entanglement team over the past 12 years. “Now we’re kind of like a whale ambulance.”

Stap’s nonprofit rescue team attempts to plug one humpback-sized hole in how state environmental agencies and ocean-focused advocacy groups respond to shifting biological and commercial dynamics in the Monterey Bay ecosystem. Increasingly, variable water temperatures, acid levels and food patterns have contributed to unanticipated interactions between wildlife and the region’s famous fishing industry, according to researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.

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But California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) recently told GT that increased housing density—or “up-zoning,” as it’s known in housing policy circles— should “absolutely” be part of the discussion when it comes to new transportation projects.

Urban planners typically view the approach of zoning for taller apartment complexes next to public transportation as a way to build affordable housing in the most environmentally friendly way possible. It’s this kind of housing, after all, that makes it easy for everyday people to get around without owning a car.

The backdrop here is that the statewide affordable housing crisis is now several years old, and governments around California,

including in Santa Cruz County, aren’t meeting their mandated housing production goals. As a possible solution, Wiener introduced Senate Bill 827 last year to up-zone for high density in the blocks surrounding major transit stops.

That original bill would have allowed developers to build as high as 85 feet. Wiener then toned down SB 827, which earned both widespread criticism and enthusiastic praise nationwide, but the bill died a quick death in its committee. This year, Wiener is back with a revised version, SB 50, which would allow buildings of up to 45 or 55 feet, depending on how close they are to a major transit hub, and the new bill has more buy-in. Each new building under the legislation would include some affordable housing.

Shortly after he finished delivering the keynote at a Monterey Bay Economic Development conference, I asked Wiener about the state of housing and transportation. He mentioned that he recently helped kill an extension of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system to Livermore, because the train stops would not

have had the housing density to support robust ridership. “Let’s focus on the system where people are actually living and riding,” Wiener told me. “If you’re gonna make a big public investment in major transit infrastructure, you should make sure that there is housing right around the station, so that more people can use it and walk and not have to drive everywhere.”

Cars aside, there’s also an affordable housing element here.

Without major changes in housing policy, it’s possible that most everyday workers would be unable to afford a place to rent near a major transit hub.

According to new research out of the University of WisconsinMadison, communities that approve big transportation projects typically see an increase in rents and real estate values in the area as urban professionals flock to the suburbs and then commute to work by train.

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NEWS BRIEFS WHAT THE FLIX? One Silicon Valley giant came under fire this month when it bowed to an autocratic government’s order to silence a critic.

According to a Jan. 1 Financial Times report, the Los Gatos-based streaming service Netflix yanked an episode in Saudi Arabia of The Patriot Act over host Hasan Minhaj’s condemnation of the kingdom’s murderous monarchy.

In the show’s second installment, which first aired Oct. 28, the California-bred, Muslim-American comedian

rebuked Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the slaying of renowned columnist Jamal Khashoggi and the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led war in Yemen.

“It blows my mind that it took the killing of a Washington Post journalist for everyone to go, ‘Oh, I guess he’s not really a reformer,” Minhaj observed of 33-year-old bin Salman, who’s accused by the U.S. Senate and the CIA of orchestrating the gruesome killing.

Minhaj also slammed Silicon Valley for choosing money over morals. The crown prince has cozied up to a long list tech industry elites with oil-fueled

Saudi making big investments in U.S companies like Uber, Twitter, Tesla, DoorDash, and Slack.

Samah Hadid, the Middle East director of Human rights group Amnesty International, called Saudi Arabia’s censorship further proof of a relentless crackdown on dissent and an assault on international norms. “Netflix is in danger of facilitating the kingdom’s zerotolerance policy on freedom of expression and assisting the authorities in denying people’s right to freely access information,” he said in a statement to reporters.

Netflix, which is run by Santa Cruz’s Reed Hastings, downplayed its decision as banal and benign, with the company insisting that it supports “artistic freedom.”

In a tweet, Minhaj scoffed at the futility of the attempt to silence him, considering that Saudis can still find the offending episode free of charge on another popular platform.

“Clearly,” he wrote, “the best way to stop people from watching something is to ban it, make it a trend online and then leave it up on YouTube.”

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WHALE TALES <11 patterns to better identification of fishing lines. While Stap says the local crabbing industry in particular has been active in finding potential solutions to entanglement, options like quick-release lines or advanced materials often remain prohibitively expensive.

“If you look at the bigger picture, [with] two-thirds of the entanglements, we don’t even know what fishery they’re from,” Stap says. Difficult-to-assemble data on the wide world of marine habitats also add to the challenge. “Every year is different. We haven’t gotten all the numbers for 2018.”

Stap’s quest to buy the Whale Entanglement Team’s new rescue boat, which GT covered last summer, also

illustrates a rethinking of how resources are deployed by local ocean-focused nonprofits and businesses. This month, ocean wildlife will be a focal point of Cal State Monterey Bay’s second-annual Sustainable Hospitality Summit from Jan. 10-12, plus the ninth-annual Whalefest at Monterey’s Old Fisherman’s Wharf on Jan. 26-27 (where Stap will speak).

After naming whale entanglement one of its top three priority issues last year, the nascent Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Foundation also hired its first full-time executive director in the fall. A year-old local branch of marine sanctuary foundations located near federally protected waters across the country, the Monterey Bay chapter hired longtime local surfer and former world longboard

championship competitor Ginaia Kelly to lead the group.

“It was a very, very natural fit,” says Kelly, whose board at the foundation includes former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, former Santa Cruz Mayor Hilary Bryant, interim O’Neill Sea Odyssey Executive Director Dan Haifley and other prominent figures in government and conservation causes. “While I have boots to the ground here locally, our connection to the national foundation can help us gain greater visibility.”

The federal government shutdown at the start of 2019 has furloughed much of the local staff for the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary, but Kelly says her group also plans to focus on water quality monitoring, naturalist training and education programs.

A resident of Davenport, Kelly headed Save Our Shares and other organizations before accepting the role with the Marine Sanctuary Foundation.

Meanwhile, Stap says Marine Life Studies continues to host volunteer trainings and raise funds for specialized response equipment after welcoming a new federally trained level-four whale entanglement responder last year. The group is also in need of licensed drone operators to help with whale monitoring and assessment.

“We are one of the busiest sanctuaries,” Stap says, though she knows demand for her services will always come down to nature. “It just depends where the fish are, where the krill are, where the anchovies are.”

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With a big transportation vote around the corner at the RTC, maybe now is the right moment for an honest conversation about what we’re really discussing when we talk about the future of the rail corridor, and the planning considerations that should go along with it. But Assemblymember Mark Stone (D-Scotts Valley) suggests that may be “putting the cart before the horse.”

Stone, a former RTC commissioner, says that the landuse decisions will come when the time is right. Although wary of Wiener’s housing bills, he says it’s a given that communities around the county and state need to plan for denser housing as part of addressing the housing crisis.

But he says that each area should do it in the way that’s best for them, given their own constraints and resources. That approach, he suggests, would be the best defense against legislation from lawmakers like Wiener, who want to introduce new statewide mandates.

Locally, some train supporters are nonetheless bullish on the idea of up-zoning. Barry Scott, a board member for Friends of the Rail and Trail, says that increased density next to commuter train stops would bolster ridership.

“It’s nothing new. If you go back and look at the communities and cities from 100 years ago, you had taller, denser buildings,” says Scott, who coordinates environmental education programs around the state. “You had the cobbler on the ground floor, and you lived above it.

You might have had transit in the area.”

Scott, pulling up a map on his computer, sees plenty of room to build up the areas near the rail line, including in the industrial area of Santa Cruz’s Westside, as well as in parts of Live Oak and Pleasure Point.

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And that hope has arrived in the form of psychedelic drugs.

The widespread public perception of PTSD when it comes to military veterans is that the condition is linked to combat or war-zone experience. That’s not the case with Graves. In 2003, while serving in the Navy, she was raped by another service member. The rape left her not only traumatized, but also pregnant, and she had an abortion while on leave on the island of Guam.

She decided not to pursue a legal case against her assailant. She was 24 years old at the time.

“The abortion is what bothers me most,” Graves says. “I had to ask permission to do this from my commanding officer. It was humiliating. He wanted to know who it was, why I wasn’t pressing charges. I think you’ve heard enough about military culture to know you don’t report these kinds of things because I didn’t want to

be seen as a troublemaker. I just wanted to do my job. I just wanted to do the right thing.”

Seared by shame, she soldiered on through her tour of duty after the abortion, until her body rebelled.

Eventually, she was discharged from the Navy on a medical basis.

In that respect, her ordeal carried three distinct traumas: the rape, the abortion and the loss of her livelihood and social identity.

“My body just stopped working,” she says. “I mean, I could tell myself, ‘Get up.’ I could say, ‘Do this, do that.’ By my body wasn’t doing it.”

So she was “separated” from the Navy, and told that she would get better once away from her military surroundings.

But she didn’t get better. Living in San Juan Bautista, she felt adrift.

She didn’t do much more than sit on her sofa for days and weeks on end.

She tried to cope in ways healthy and otherwise: booze, pharmaceuticals, religious devotion, nutrition, even denial. She just kept drowning.

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n the outside, Trish Graves has everything—a devoted husband, a beautiful 4-year-old daughter and a breathtaking piece of ranchland in quiet, spacious southern San Benito County.

On the inside, though, she is shattered.

Graves is a veteran who served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific for eight years. Since her discharge a decade ago, she has been struggling with the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder.

She says that the past 10 years have been crippling, as she has dealt with intense and unrelenting daily bouts of anxiety, depression, fear and self-loathing. She admits that she has considered suicide. The word she uses to describe her experience is “drowning.”

But over the last year, Graves has rediscovered a measure of hope that seemed unattainable before.

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“There was a lot I didn’t know about PTSD that I know now; that it can really change your perception of reality. You can have flashbacks one moment. You can feel like you’re living in a dream. Or you can just feel very disconnected from everything around you. It’s crazymaking.”

Desperate for something— anything—to help alleviate the punishing frame of mind that had come to dominate her life, Graves began reading about promising therapies involving the powerful psychedelic agent known as ayahuasca. She heard stories about people suffering from PTSD traveling to South America to experience the organic brew that has been used in shamanic practice in the Amazon for centuries. For her purposes, ayahuasca seemed too risky and expensive.

She was eventually led to other research linking drugs such as LSD, psilocybin (found in some mushrooms) and MDMA to breakthroughs in treatment for depression, addiction,

alcoholism, and PTSD. And that path finally brought Graves to the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a Santa Cruz-based nonprofit that is conducting the country’s only clinical trials approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for otherwise-illegal psychedelic drugs in psychotherapy. MAPS, it seemed to Graves, was offering a road map to escape the shadow.

“As soon as I heard it was being developed, it gave me an anchor in the future,” she says. “I figured, ‘OK, I can hang on until this is available.

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Still, “psychedelic” is more a cultural term than a scientific one.

It has become a catch-all that can be applied to music, art, fashion or cinema as well as drugs. For Brad Burge, director of strategic communications at MAPS, it’s part of the job to grapple with a word that could just as easily apply to either Jimi Hendrix’s version of The StarSpangled Banner or serious medical interventions for mental illness.

“It’s definitely a challenge,” says Burge, especially since the word “psychedelic” is in the organization’s name. “That’s part of why we exist. We could have been called something else, something that doesn’t bring up a whole host of connotations that we’ve absorbed from media and TV, whether it’s Timothy Leary or fractal patterns on the computer. What we don’t want to do is avoid the term, because then all of that stigma just stays there.

Instead, we use it as an education opportunity and try to unpack it.”

It can be a maddeningly imprecise label, because the drugs that are often called “psychedelic” are fundamentally different from each other. “In most cases,” says Burge, “they are just completely different chemicals. One of the reasons we’ve lumped them all together is how they’ve been historically used, as a tool for introspection, consciousness alteration, spiritual work. So, ‘psychedelic’ is more of a term on how they’re used than how they work.”

Though the organization has worked with other drugs, MAPS

has dedicated most of its efforts to MDMA, the psychoactive agent known by the informal names Ecstasy or Molly. Burge says that much of his public relations heavy lifting has been convincing the public that the terms are not interchangeable—that what is sold on the street as Ecstasy or Molly may or may not be MDMA. MDMA may be the most promising drug in treatment settings because it tends not to bring on visual or auditory hallucinations.

“One of the things that MDMA does,” says Burge, “is that it turns down the activity in the amygdala, the part of the brain that governs the fight-or-flight response.

People with PTSD tend to have a hyperactive amygdala. That’s why psychotherapy is so hard for people with PTSD. Anything that remotely reminds them of their trauma is interpreted as happening right now, in the moment. Really, what MDMA seems to be doing is enhancing the effectiveness of psychotherapy.”

MAPS is now entering Phase 3 clinical trials, which will include a larger pool of test subjects. The organization has stated that its goal is to get FDA approval of MDMA as a psychiatric prescription drug by 2021, which may seem quite far in the indefinite future for people who suffer from PTSD like Trish Graves.

RETHINKING THERAPY After going through the screening process with MAPS, Graves underwent three separate day-long therapy sessions in San Francisco, spaced out over several weeks, which included supervised doses of MDMA.

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The experiences with MDMA have provided her with the kind of detachment that people involved in meditation have long talked about. “It was kind of like three long meditations,” she says. “It was able to teach me that kind of detachment, so that I can say, ‘This is happening, and it feels really bad. But it’s not you. It’s just something that washes over you. You can endure it. And you can even be curious about it.’”

Last spring, the psychiatry journal Lancet published the findings of a MAPS Phase 2 trial for MDMA therapy that included military vets, firefighters and police officers. Of those who had suffered chronic PTSD, about two-thirds reported dramatic decreases in symptoms, to the degree that they no longer met clinical criteria for a PTSD diagnosis.

Phase 3 trials are currently taking place at 15 sites across North America and in Israel to further investigate MDMA’s effectiveness in treating PTSD. MAPS is also involved in a training program for prospective therapists in the treatment, hosting training events and drafting a code of ethics for therapists who might use MDMA in their practices.

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“It wasn’t what I expected at all,” Graves says. “The whole time I kept thinking, ‘I must be doing this wrong.’ From what I read, people were supposed to lay down and relax with some music playing, or eye shades or something. But all I wanted to do was talk. I was talking, talking, talking.”

In the second session, the dosage was higher and the experience was even more intense. She felt she was communicating with her long-dead grandfather who was expressing love and support to her, but at the same time was also “cutting me into pieces. But I could see that he needed to do that. I needed to disconnect from who I was, and he was putting me back together again.”

After three sessions, Graves says, she was able to separate from her pain in a way that was impossible before. Each of the experiences was unique, and she is still seeing a therapist to help her “integrate” the experiences. “It all keeps unfolding,” she says. “It’s taught my brain how to think in a new way.”

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If putting the word “psychedelic” in the organization’s title wasn’t enough of a public perception issue for MAPS, what about that Santa Cruz mailing address? In the big world on the other side of Highway 17, Santa Cruz is often stereotyped as a freerange habitat for hippies and acid casualties from the ’60s. A globally minded organization looking to lend scientific credibility to the study of psychoactive drugs might find that an association with Santa Cruz would undermine that credibility. That would be wrong, says Burge.

“Given that our work is being taken a lot more seriously by the mainstream now,” he says, “I wouldn’t say it’s having much of a detrimental effect. In fact, it really legitimizes MAPS in the eyes of the right people.

And the people who might judge MAPS (negatively) for being in Santa Cruz don’t seem to care.”

On top of the MDMA trials and programs, MAPS is also continuing to build up its Zendo Project, which trains individuals in “psychedelic harm reduction,” mostly for people using psychedelics recreationally at events and music festivals. The project’s biggest effort remains Burning Man, where they send a couple hundred volunteers to provide 24-hour support, working with on-site law enforcement and medical staff. With Zendo, MAPS is again involved in a rebranding effort, trying to remove the stigma of Woodstock-style “trip tents,” and replacing it with a professionally staffed space for compassion and safety.

“I think psychedelic harmreduction should be an essential part of first aid and general crisis training,” says Burge. “The principles apply not just for psychedelic states, but for any sort of difficult psychological state.”

Still, if all goes according to plan, the MDMA therapy program is likely to emerge as the organization’s biggest contribution to bringing psychedelics into the light of legal therapy. Once Phase 3 is over, the FDA will assess the data to make a judgment on whether MDMA is useful as a prescription treatment in psychotherapy. If the drug gets FDA approval, it will then be up to the agency to take MDMA off its list of Schedule 1 controlled substances deemed to have a high potential for abuse and no legitimate medical uses.

Even in the best-case scenarios for groups like MAPS, MDMA will not be the kind of drug you’ll be able to pick up at the Costco pharmacy window on your way home from work. Treatment will necessarily be under strict conditions and supervision of trained therapists.

Still, the therapy has the potential to change the lives of people like Graves, who now have few options.

Reflecting on her own experience, Graves feels the need to evangelize on behalf of MDMA treatment.

“I can’t wait for more people to get the relief I’ve experienced,” she says.

Before 2018, on a rotation of antidepressants, she says she felt, “like I was a robot. I wasn’t alive.

And now I feel alive. That’s a big thing for me.”

The improvement in her condition has come at a crucial time for her as a parent. Her daughter is just now reaching the age where she’s discovering the world around her.

“I feel such relief that I’m now able to engage with her. Before, I always felt so far away. She would talk to me and I knew I needed to answer her, but I couldn’t even open my mouth,” she says. “Now I’m laughing with her, playing with her.”

Graves is not out of danger yet.

Managing PTSD is complicated, and she still has days when she’s not well, she says. “It’s not an overnight thing. But I’ve changed a lot in a very short period,” she says. “It’s really scary to say that I feel like I have a future. I don’t want to get my hopes up. It still all feels really new.”

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Al Hinkle (1926-2018) didn’t just outlive his friends in the Beat movement, he also helped bring them together in the first place BY GEOFFREY DUNN

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eventually included an unpublished writer named Jack Kerouac; one of Cassady’s many girlfriends, Luanne Henderson; and an assortment of other hitchhikers and hangerson who were all immortalized in Kerouac’s seminal Beat novel, On the Road (1957).

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT <28 Ginsburg, the poet laureate of the Beat movement, joined the ragtag assemblage of novelists and poets on the West Coast. Both Cassady and Kerouac (briefly) also worked with Hinkle on the railroad.

As a result, Hinkle was the steady gravitational anchor (with a home and regular paycheck) who augured the San Francisco literary Renaissance before its 1955 apotheosis with the reading of Ginsberg’s epic poem Howl—in which Cassady was acknowledged as the “secret hero” of Ginsberg’s work.

While Kerouac and Cassady flamed out early—Cassady at the age of 43 in 1968; and Kerouac, at 47, the following year—Hinkle, who died two weeks ago from heart failure at the age of 92, held steady, and outlived his two more famous pals by a full half-century.

A few years ago, he put together a booklet (based on an interview with Stephen D. Edington and some other writings) entitled Last Man Standing, in which he consolidated some of his groundbreaking memories.

Born in Florida in 1926 (his father was playing minor league baseball), Hinkle and his family returned to his father’s hometown of Denver when he was two. Hinkle’s mother died when he was 8, leaving him free to roam the Depression-era streets with his buddies and siblings. It was in the late 1930s that he first met Neal Cassady at a YMCA recreation hall.

Five years later, Hinkle, by then a lanky 6-foot-6, joined the Merchant Marines and headed off to the Pacific. He served two years before returning to Denver at the end of World War II. It was then that he re-connected with Cassady—six months his junior—in the pool halls and beer joints of Denver.

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ne night in the early 1990s, Al, Helen and I stayed up until nearly dawn, drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes and recounting stories of their earlier days when Kerouac, Cassady and Ginsberg were part of their daily social milieu. Both Al and Helen felt it was important to normalize much of that history. Indeed, Helen acknowledged that she hadn’t read On the Road, in which she and her

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It was in March of 1947 that another Denver chum of Hinkle’s named Bill Tomson introduced the irrepressible Cassady to a beautiful Bennington graduate named Carolyn Robinson, then pursuing a master's degree in theater arts at Denver University. After more than a few false starts, they eventually married.

Both the Hinkles and Cassadys would eventually settle into new tract homes in the burgeoning Santa Clara Valley, with Al and Neal holding down steady jobs with Southern Pacific. The Hinkles had two children—Mark and Dawn— while the Cassadys had three—Cathy, Jami and John Allen (the latter named after Kerouac and Ginsberg).

“They were like family,” Al’s daughter Dawn Davis recently told me. “We were always very close.”

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visited with Hinkle last winter, and although not as physically spry as he once was, his mind was still sharp. He was also willing to go a little farther with some of his stories than he had a quartercentury earlier. He was always very fond of Kerouac, and, when we first met, spoke in only glowing terms about the famous novelist. At our final meeting, he acknowledged to me that Jack’s alcohol problem posed some real difficulties for their friendship and that Kerouac was “a mean drunk.” That was one of the first times I ever heard him be critical of anyone.

Hinkle received a degree from San Francisco State and studied for his master’s degree at Stanford (which he never quite finished). He ran unsuccessfully for Congress on the Libertarian Party ticket in 1980, and then retired in 1987 from Southern Pacific—with more than 40 years on the job.

After Helen died in 1994, Hinkle remarried briefly, and kept up a daily routine as friend, father and grandfather. He enjoyed cards and engaging in long conversations.

According to his daughter Dawn, there will be no memorial service for Hinkle, at his request. “Dad didn’t want anyone to fuss over him,” she said. “That’s just who he was.”

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‘GIFT’ EXCHANGE Left to right: W. Scott Whisler, Joyce Michaelson and Jocelyn McMahon in ‘The Birthday Gift,’ one of this year’s ‘8 Tens @ 8.’ PHOTO: JANA MARCUS

How Time Flies

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ne of the most popular events in the Santa Cruz theater season returns as Actors’ Theatre presents its spanking new 2019 edition of the 8 Tens @ 8 festival. This annual crowdpleasing event, now in its 24th year, features a program of eight 10-minute plays submitted by playwrights from around the country and performed and directed by members of the local theatrical community.

Festival organizers have again added a second program featuring eight more plays, with both sets—

identified as Night A and Night B— playing in repertory through Feb. 3. If Night B (not yet seen by press time) is as enjoyable as Night A, audiences can look forward to lots of laughter, punctuated with moments of wistful reflection.

If I had to pick a discernible theme among the plays bundled together for Night A, it would be “time flies”—for the bereaved, missing departed spouses, for parents coping with the departure of adult children, and for young people on the brink of a new, possibly scary

future. In fact, the first play of the show—and one of the best—is called Tempus Fugit. Written by Greg Atkins and directed with plenty of bounce

by Cathy Warner, it’s a very funny time-travel comedy in which a sweet nerdy guy (Nat Robinson), about to propose to his girlfriend, is visited by her future self (both incarnations played with panache by Alie Mac) trying to talk him out of it.

Mafia widows straight out of Real Housewives of New Jersey convene at a funeral to take charge of a future without their variously iced and offed

The Santa Cruz County Actors Theater production of ‘8 Tens @ 8’ plays through Feb. 3 at Center Stage Theater, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. Call 800 838-3006, or visit sccat.org.

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menfolk in Steven Capasso’s Gossip Queens, directed by Bonnie Ronzio and performed with sitcom energy.

In The Dating Game, by Rod McFadden, a very different widow wisecracks her way through the pitfalls of online dating while grieving for her beloved husband. Helene Simkin Jara, heartfelt in the central role, also has a sly way with a one-liner.

A widow also figures in John Chandler’s Jello Salad, attending a family reunion with her restless daughter (Solange Marcotte), just home from her first year at college.

With everybody warning her against her rascally, black-sheep uncle (Gino Danna), of course, the two of them bond, but the range of the story doesn’t quite fit the short format, and the final epiphany — while poignant — doesn’t quite feel earned.

Another mom (a droll Nicolette Nasr) insists on a ceremony when her collegebound son (Tristan Ahn) is about to flush his deceased goldfish down the loo in Elizabeth Flanagan’s Frodo Lives —an event that becomes both a wistful metaphor for leaving childhood behind, and a pep-talk for embracing future possibilities. In Morning In America, a grown daughter (Mac again) discusses media overload in the Information Age with her disgruntled dad (wellplayed by Marcus Cato), who starts each day with the question, “Is he still president?”

Richard Lyons Conlon’s Jackson is a middling story about corporate cubicle-mates given a brisk, funny production from director Miguel Reyna and performers Nat Robinson and Jocelyn McMahon.

And Night A concludes on a high note with The Birthday Gift,

by Elizabeth Douglas, in which a daughter (McMahon) learns her freedom-relishing parents have remodeled the family home— without extra bedrooms—now that she, their youngest, has flown the coop for college. (“We’re closing down Hotel Mom and Dad!”) So, welcome back 8 Tens @ 8, and prepare to be entertained.

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REUNITED WE STAND Coercion, featuring members of the Lonely Kings, Good Riddance, Fury 66 and Death By Stereo, plays the Catalyst on Wednesday, Jan. 16.

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here have been plenty of great bands before and after, but underground music in Santa Cruz may have had its most fertile period in the mid-to-late ’90s. Punk music here certainly peaked at that time—and from Good Riddance to Fury 66 to Riff Raff to the Muggs, those are the bands that are best remembered—but the scene was actually remarkably diverse stylistically. There was room for everyone, it seemed, and there was probably more camaraderie across genres than there had ever been. But what people tend to forget is that the influx of great bands also made the scene pretty competitive.

New groups quickly learned to bring their A-game at every show, because

failure to do so meant running the risk of being blown off the stage by the other bands on the bill.

“I loved that,” says Jake Desrochers of moving his punky, hark-rocking band Lonely Kings from Grass Valley to Santa Cruz in 1995. “There were so many good shows. I went to shows every weekend. The first show Lonely Kings played was with Riff Raff and Ten Foot Pole at the Vet’s Hall. We got thrown on this amazing bill.”

That’s not to say he learned every lesson quite fast enough. When he got a chance to move into a house with members of a couple of his favorite bands in 1996, he discovered Good Riddance drummer Sean Sellers and guitarist Luke Pabich were starting a new project with Fury bassist Tom

Kennedy. They were practicing in the garage, where Derek Plourde—best known as the drummer on Lagwagon and the Ataris’ early albums, who died in 2005—had built a studio.

Desrochers talked his way into their rehearsals, where he threw together some lyrics that impressed the others. Coercion was born, and they even recorded some songs with Andy Ernst, whose Oakland studio Art of Ears produced AFI and Green Day’s early work.

“I hadn’t even really prepared that much, and was improv-ing some, and kind of sketching down lyrics on napkins and coffee filters and whatever I could find,” he remembers.

But his laissez-faire nature turned out to be his downfall, as his

bandmates took their music with the ambitious intensity that had permeated the local scene.

“We did the recording, and then we played one party at the Riff Raff House that was there on Soquel, and then that was it,” he says. “Then they actually kicked me out of the band because I wouldn’t come to practice prepared.”

Desrochers laughs about it now, but he certainly didn’t then.

“I was really hurt by that whole thing, but it really fueled me to work harder on Lonely Kings, because that’s when I put everything into that and that’s when we started making moves,” he says.

It paid off, as Lonely Kings became one of Santa Cruz’s top bands, signing to Fearless Records. Meanwhile, he patched things up with Pabich, who came on to produce their second album, 2001’s Crowning Glory.

“That’s when I really learned about recording,” says Desrochers. “He was having us practice to a metronome five days a week and stuff. So I got a lot of work ethic from him, and still do. Now I don’t walk into the studio without everything laid out.”

Desrochers would eventually move to Sacramento, where he lives now, and has kept Lonely Kings going to this day. He kept in touch with his former Coercion bandmates, but he was still surprised in 2016 when, 20 years after the band had briefly been together, he started getting Facebook messages from them suggesting they restart it. With Jim Miner of Death By Stereo joining on guitar and Ghost Parade’s Anthony Garay now drumming, Coercion finally released a debut album, Veritas, last month.

Darker and more metal-edged than Lonely Kings, Desrochers is enjoying the new outlet Coercion is giving him.

“I used to tell stories in Lonely Kings, Coercion’s just right to the heart of the matter,” he says.

“Coercion is just so hard-rocking that I feel like the lyrical content needs to be strong, needs to be up front, and needs to ring true to the music. It’s a little more brutally honest.”

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MAN MAN OF THE HOUR Ryan Kattner brings Man Man to the Catalyst on Friday, Jan. 11.

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After an ill-fated solo detour, Ryan Kattner brings the weird magic of Man Man back to the Catalyst BY AARON CARNES

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yan Kattner isn’t sure if anyone will come to see his band Man Man. It’s been four years since the band has toured, and even longer since their last record, On Oni Pond. Now they hit Santa Cruz on Jan. 11 as part of a short string of West Coast dates, their first shows since 2015. They’ll be road-testing some new material for what will be a new Man Man record, which has no official release date yet. They’re also just getting a sense of who they even are as a band.

“I’m trying to tap into why I'm even doing this anymore. Music

is weird right now. Especially if you’re making—are we rock music?”

Kattner asks himself mid-sentence.

“Hopefully there’s still an audience.

Who knows anymore?”

He has reason to be nervous.

His group carved out a loyal cult audience in the early 2000s with its oddball, punky, avante-pop sound.

But Kattner’s last record, 2016’s Use Your Delusion, which was released as a solo record under his stage moniker Honus Honus, didn’t do as well.

“I feel like the majority of Man Man appreciators out there in the universe have no idea it even existed.

They definitely didn’t come to shows.

That’s okay, it’s only my life,” Kattner says. “It was just a reaffirmation of that fact that you never go solo.”

The smaller crowds on the Honus Honus tour were documented in a recently released film, also titled Use Your Delusion.

“It wavers between tragedy and comedy, my life,” Kattner says. “It turned into a feature documentary of a sad tour.”

He’s eager to tour under the name Man Man again, though he’s a little vague as to why he took a break from the band, which had toured pretty much constantly for 15 years up until its hiatus.

“Man Man was being an unruly brat, so I had to put it in the corner for a timeout. But we all know you can’t put baby in the corner,” he says.

The material on Use Your Delusion is spiritually very much in the same demented world as any other Man Man record, though in some ways it’s a bit more bonkers. He dabbles heavily with synthesizers and tinkers with some unexpected genres like reggae and New Wave, creating an almost uncomfortably happy sound at times. He refers to it as an “apocalyptic L.A. pop” album.

“I wanted to go for a vibe of Leonard Cohen’s The Future, even though it's nothing like that. But in my head that was the synths, and we had fun with it,” Kattner says.

It’s not like Man Man have ever not been weird or completely out of place. Originally formed in Philadelphia, the band’s first record, The Man in a Blue Turban with a Face, is a swath of primitive Beefheartian prog-pop, charged with youthful hysteria and a trunk of instruments that could please the hearts of a traveling medieval minstrel troupe.

By their second album Six Demon Bag, the band’s songwriting and live energy jumped a couple of notches.

With each record, Man Man got just a hair more accessible.

“When I first started, I was making music to not go insane,” Kattner says.

“It was supposed to be, ‘Let’s make that one super earnest, possibly unlistenable record at 23.’ Pull it off the shelf some years later and say, ‘Look what I made, kids.’ And they'll be like, ‘You’re not my dad.’”

The world is a totally different place since Man Man last played together. It’s hard to predict how crowds will respond to the band now.

“I’ve been trying to write the perfect pop song since day one. I just don’t know how, or the audience hasn’t learned that it’s wonderful yet.

My music will make sense on a melted jukebox after the fallout,” Kattner says. “Good thing our apocalyptic jams haven’t gone out of style. If anything, they’re more timely. Who would’ve thought the world could go so haywire in such quick fashion?”

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RAIL TRAIL GROUNDBREAKING The first segment of the 32-mile rail trail bicycle/pedestrian path is set to begin construction this month, and the city of Santa Cruz is inviting the community to a celebratory groundbreaking party. The first segment will replace the existing 4-footwide walkway on the San Lorenzo River Railroad Trestle Bridge with a new 10-foot, multi-use trail. The ceremony will be followed by a community party, including addresses from Mayor Martine Watkins and Santa Cruz County Supervisor Ryan Coonerty, plus refreshments, commemorative giveaways and more.

The event will happen rain or shine, and free parking at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk River Parking Lot and bicycle valet parking will be provided.

12:15-2:15 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 10. Western base of the San Lorenzo River Railroad Trestle Bridge, Santa Cruz Riverwalk, Santa Cruz. cityofsantacruz.com. Free.

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WEDNESDAY 1/9 ARTS FRIENDS OF THE SCPL BOOKSTORE SALE EVERY DAY The Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries Bookstore sells books used and nearly-new at a fraction of the cost you’d usually pay for them. We have all types of books, including classics, fiction, mysteries, biographies, local interest, art books, science books, nature, cookbooks, some reference books, children’s and young adult books, holiday books and more. 10 a.m.-6 p.m daily. Santa Cruz Public Library, 240 Church St., Santa Cruz. fscpl.org.

8 TENS @ 8 SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL The annual 10-minute play festival is one of the most anticipated and popular events of the theatre season in Santa Cruz! Sixteen awarded-winning short plays from our annual international playwriting contest are performed and directed by some of the best the Santa Cruz theatre community has to offer. 8 p.m. Center Stage Theater, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. sccat.org. $58/$32/$29

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Back in August, Goodwill Central Coast staff reached out to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) looking for a way to create something unique for their community. Together, they came up with this yearlong, bilingual pop-up exhibition inside the downtown Watsonville storefront. The pop-up includes sculptures made out of salvaged Goodwill items, historic images of Watsonville from the MAH archives, and new images taken by local graduate student Carlos Campos, who grew up in Watsonville and works at the Watsonville Digital Nest.

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

BRAIN FITNESS Improve memory, mood and flexibility of your mind. Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout life. In order to reconnect, the neurons need to be stimulated through activity. Most people know about exercise and diet to help us keep fit as we grow older, but “brain exercise” is not as well known. 2 p.m. Wisdom Center of Santa Cruz, 740 Front St. #155, Santa Cruz. >38 wisdomcentersc.org. $40/$25.

SATURDAY 1/12 SARAH HENNIES’ ‘CONTRALTO’ The first installment of a series hosted by Indexical and the Radius Gallery, this show explores the intersection of video, strings and percussion that exists in between the spaces of experimental music and documentary. The term “contralto” is the the operatic term for the lowest female voice, so the show is accordingly a one-hour video compilation of transgender women practicing vocal exercises. It isn’t widely known that trans women’s voices are unaffected by higher levels of estrogen in the body, so many trans women train their voices to sound more female. The women are accompanied by a dense and varied musical score by seven musicians that includes a variety of conventional and “non-musical” approaches to sound-making.

8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12. Radius Gallery, 1050 River St. #127, Santa Cruz. 706-1620. indexical.org/events. $10-$15.

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CruzHacks JANUARY 18–20 STEVENSON EVENT CENTER FREE ADMISSION

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

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.

Traction: Art Talk with Glenn Ligon JANUARY 15, 7PM DIGITAL ARTS RESEARCH CENTER (DARC) 108 FREE ADMISSION

Glenn Ligon is one of the most celebrated American artists of his generation. Both politically provocative and formally rigorous, his work explores issues of history, language, and identity.

“Wandering Seminar” with Futurefarmers JANUARY 22, 5PM MARY PORTER SESNON FACULTY GALLERY, PORTER COLLEGE FREE ADMISSION

Ethics Bowl JANUARY 12, SEMI-FINAL AT 3:15PM; FINAL ROUND AT 4:30PM HUMANITIES LECTURE HALL FREE ADMISSION

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.

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JANUARY 26, 11AM & 1PM MUSIC CENTER RECITAL HALL $0–$10/PERSON

UCSC opera students and instrumentalists present the story of an imaginative child, Amahl, and his three royal visitors.

Sung in English with chamber orchestra.

Santa Cruz County Spelling Bee JANUARY 26, NOON–3PM UC SANTA CRUZ, CLASSROOM UNIT 1 & 2 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 $15/PERSON

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.

Jessica Bauman: “What Refugees Taught Me About Shakespeare”

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

Amahl and the Night Visitors

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, exam-

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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.

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

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.

Future Garden for the Central Coast of California OPEN DURING ARBORETUM HOURS UC SANTA CRUZ ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDEN $0–$5 ADMISSION

A major art and science project by Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison. The Harrisons worked with scientists and botanists to create trial gardens in geodesic domes, where native plant species respond to the temperatures and water conditions scientists foresee for the next 50 years.

UPCOMING EVENTS FEBRUARY 5

An Evening with Madeleine Albright FEBRUARY 11

Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation with Melissa Harris-Perry FEBRUARY 12

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism FEBRUARY 20

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

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The Ethics Bowl presents high school teams with a series of wide-ranging ethical dilemmas and a challenge to analyze them.

This exciting tournament is also a way for students to gain insight into ethical and philosophical issues.

Futurefarmers is an internationally renowned collaborative artist group with an interest in creating frameworks for exchange. The “Wandering Seminar” will be an experiential look into their artmaking process.

ines how life 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.

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CALENDAR 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.

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. 4771377 or scnmc.com. $29/$17.

B12 HAPPY HOUR B12 deficiencies are

FRIDAY 1/11 JON NAKAMATSU AND JON MANASSE CONCERT Two of the Bay Area’s favorite musicians, pianist Jon Nakamatsu and clarinetist Jon Manasse, are coming to Santa Cruz for an evening of classical music. This concert is the fourth installment of the Distinguished Artists 2018 season. Manasse was the principal clarinetist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, while San Jose native Nakamatsu has performed for the Clinton White House and has released thirteen CDs to date. Together, the duo of Jons serve as artistic directors of the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival in Massachusetts.

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7:30 p.m. Peace United Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. 539-0000. distinguishedartists.org. $12.50-$35.

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<34 UCSC WOMEN’S CLUB SPEAKER PROGRAM Dr.Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor of History, UCSC, will speak on the topic, "Stubborn Silences: Writing the History of Chinese Women."

UCSC Women’s Club monthly meetings are open to members and guests. Each general meeting features a speaker or program and a light buffet lunch. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden, 85 Empire Grade, Santa Cruz. womensclub.ucsc.edu.

Free.

FOOD & WINE DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ FARMERS MARKET In addition to a large variety of farm products, this market offers a great

selection of local artisan foodstuffs, delicious baked goods and lots of options for lunch and dinner. 1-6 p.m. Cedar and Lincoln streets, Santa Cruz. 454-0566.

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.

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.

THURSDAY 1/10 CLASSES TRIYOGA BASICS/THERAPEUTIC YOGA TriYoga flows are presented with personalized guided alignment assistance.

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

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.

GROUPS OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Overeaters Anonymous is a 12-Step support program for those who wish to stop compulsive eating, including anorexia and bulimia. 1 p.m.

Trinity Presbyterian Church, 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. 476-8291. Free.

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.

HEALTH B12 HAPPY HOUR B12 helps support 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.

OUTDOOR COASTAL RAIL TRAIL GROUNDBREAKING The City of Santa Cruz invites the community to the groundbreaking for first segment of the Coastal Rail Trail, the San Lorenzo River Parkway Phase III/Trestle Trail Project.

Come rain or shine, celebrate with City and Santa Cruz County officials and community members who helped to bring this project to fruition over many years. 12:15-12:45 p.m. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz. cityofsantacruz.com. Free.

FRIDAY 1/11 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

CALENDAR 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.

IMMERSE IN TRIYOGA LEVEL 3 TEACHER TRAINING One weekend per month through to June. Deepen your practice or certify to teach Level 3. Learn systematic approach, props, modifications, alignment assistance, and practicum.

Everyone is welcome. Students who must miss a session can make up the hours.

Pre-registration required. 5-9 p.m. TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. triyoga-santacruz.com.

PAINT AND SIP—DIAMOND HEAD No experience necessary and all art supplies included. Don’t forget that we allow you to BYOB wine or beer and snacks, which makes this class even more affordable. Ages 21 and up. 6:30 p.m. The Painted Cork Art Studio, 1129 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. paintedcork. com. $35.

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

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

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

SATURDAY 1/12 ARTS PATHWAYS THROUGH OUR PARKS EXHIBITION On exhibition will be a selection of artwork from artist Ann Thiermann’s series of pastel and acrylic paintings. This series invites the viewer to linger visually over the flora and fauna along the pathways of our local parks. Noon.

San Lorenzo Valley Museum, 12547 Hwy. 9, Boulder Creek. slvmuseum.com. Free.

CLASSES PAINT AND SIP—POPPY No experience necessary and all art supplies included.

Don’t forget that we allow you to BYOB wine or beer and snacks which makes this class even more affordable. Ages 21 and up. 2 p.m.

The Painted Cork Art Studio, 1129 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. paintedcork.com. $35.

HEAL YOUR HORMONES: 5 SECRETS TO ROCK YOUR METABOLISM, ENERGY, AND MOODS Hormone

FRIDAY 1/11 14TH ANNUAL HARP FESTIVAL The harp is one of the oldest instruments in the world, so it’s only fitting that there be a festival to commemorate it. Together the Community Music School and the Museum of Art and History (MAH) will showcase different kinds of harps, and various ways to play them. There will be soloists on celtic, classical and double-strung harps, and an all-ages harp orchestra.

5-8:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. 429-1964. santacruzmah.org. Free, donations accepted.

imbalance is the number one reason women don't feel well. It affects everything from brain chemistry, weight, and aches and pains, to water retention, hair loss and blood sugar balance, plus so much more. 10-11:30 a.m. Santa Cruz Chiropractic, 1220 41st Ave. Suite I, Capitola. meetup.com. Free.

management, and climate change. The meetings will be held the second Saturdays of the month from January to March. 9 a.m.

Felton Community Hall, 6191 Hwy. 9, Felton. smgwa.org. Free.

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.

INTERMEDIATE TRIYOGA CLASS WITH JAMIE ANDRES-LARSEN TriYoga

FOOD & WINE

RELATIONSHIP ADDICTION AND AVOIDANCE WOMEN'S GROUP

SANTA MARGARITA GROUNDWATER AGENCY THREE-PART EDUCATIONAL SERIES: LAND USE AND WATER: HOW MUCH DOES GROWTH MATTER?

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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.

flows are presented with personalized guided alignment assistance. For Levels 1 and 2. 10:30 a.m.-Noon. TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. triyogasantacruz.com. $15.

Education series topics will include water supply, land development and population growth, groundwater and surface water

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. Saturdays, 8 a.m.-Noon.

Cabrillo College. montereybayfarmers.org or akeller@montereybayfarmers.org. Free.

WESTSIDE FARMERS MARKET The Westside Farmers Market takes place every

week at the corner of Highway 1 and Western Drive, situated on the northern edge of Santa Cruz’s greenbelt. This market serves the communities of the west-end of Santa Cruz, including Bonny Doon, North Coast, UCSC Campus and is a short trip from downtown.

9 a.m.-1 p.m. Mission Street and Western Drive, Santa Cruz. 454-0566.

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

GROUPS OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Speaker/ Discussion meeting. Have a problem with

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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.

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CALENDAR <39 food? OA is a 12-Step support group to stop compulsive eating behaviors.

9 a.m. Calvary Episcopal Church, 532 Center St., Santa Cruz. santacruzoa.org or 423-8787. 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. 10 a.m.Noon. Santa Cruz Naturopathic Medical Center, 736 Chestnut St., Santa Cruz.

477-1377 or scnmc.com. $29/$17.

MUSIC SARAH HENNIES: CONTRALTO Sarah Hennies’ “Contralto” is a one-hour work for video, strings, and percussion that exists in between the spaces of experimental music and documentary.

The piece features a cast of transgender women speaking, singing and performing vocal exercises accompanied by a dense and varied musical score that includes a variety of conventional and “non-musical” approaches to sound-making. 8 p.m.

Radius Gallery, 1050 River St., Santa Cruz. indexical.org. $15.

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VOLUNTEER TO FEED THE HUNGRY WITH FOOD NOT BOMBS We need help

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sharing vegan meals with the hungry every Saturday and Sunday in downtown Santa Cruz. Cooking from noon-3 p.m, 418 Front St., Santa Cruz. Serving from 4-6 p.m. at the Post Office, 840 Front St., Santa Cruz.

515-8234.

SUNDAY 1/13 ARTS PATHWAYS THROUGH OUR PARKS EXHIBITION On exhibition will be a selection of artwork from artist Ann Thiermann’s series of pastel and acrylic paintings. This series invites the viewer to linger visually over the flora and fauna along the pathways of our local parks. 2 p.m. San Lorenzo Valley Museum, 12547 Hwy. 9, Boulder Creek. slvmuseum.com.

Free.

CLASSES IMMERSE IN TRIYOGA LEVEL 3 TEACHER TRAINING One weekend per month through to June. Deepen your practice or certify to teach Level 3. Learn systematic approach, props, modifications, alignment assistance, and practicum. Everyone is welcome. Students who must miss a session can make up the hours. Pre-registration required. 12:304:30 p.m. Triyoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. triyoga-santacruz.com.

GREG LEVOY WORKSHOP: VITAL SIGNS, PASSION What inspires passion in your life? And what defeats it? How do you lose it and how do you get it back?

In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore how you can cultivate not just a specific passion, but passion as a mindset or a stance that helps bring vitality to all your engagements, from work and relationships to creativity and spiritual life. 10:30 a.m.3:30 p.m. Center for Spiritual Living, 1818 Felt St., Santa Cruz. cslsantacruz.org.

GROUPS TRANSMASCULINE PEER SUPPORT GROUP No matter where you are on the gender spectrum, The Diversity Center's Trans Program has something for you.

Support groups for and by trans folks, referrals to trans friendly providers, lively conversations about the specific ways being trans impacts us, fun outings—these are just some of the ways we serve you. 6-7:30 p.m. The Diversity Center, 1117 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. diversitycenter.org.

SANTA CRUZ PICKWICK CLUB: 'OUR MUTUAL FRIEND' The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a 19th-century novel, beginning in September with Charles Dickens’s 'Our Mutual Friend.' Join us each month for conversations about the novel and guest speaker presentations to help us contextualize our readings. 2 p.m. Santa Cruz Public Library, 240 Church St., Santa Cruz. dickens.ucsc.edu. Free.

SPIRITUAL SUBUD INTRODUCTION Subud is an international spiritual community whose members experience an active moving exercise that can lead to deep inner healing and an experience of the Divine.

Reservation required. 11 a.m.-Noon. Subud Center, 3800 Old San Jose Rd., Soquel.

588-3013 subud.com. Free.

MONDAY 1/14 CLASSES 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.

IMPROVE YOUR BRAIN HEALTH We are not at the mercy of our genes and genetic destiny! Learn how to make changes to prevent/slow the effects of aging. Topics: how to reduce a toxic load and brain inflammation, gut-brain connection, exercise, supplements and herbs. Leave feeling empowered. With Danette Sutton, D.C. 1-2:30 p.m. New Leaf Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleaf.com. Free.

TAI CHI FOR HEALTH Tai Chi for Health is a slow, mindful, low-impact movement program designed to be safe and beneficial for those living with arthritis or other chronic conditions. Based on a Sun style tai chi form developed by Dr. Paul Lam, MD, this form can be learned and practiced either seated or standing. The course is seven weeks long.

12:45 p.m. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. taichiforhealthinstitute.org.

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 T/ Th beginning 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.

BOMBAY JAM Total body workout. Cardio and toning routines are combined in one action-packed class. The program has a serious focus on integrating fun and fitness. 7:45-8:45 p.m. Desert Dream Dance Company, 1025 Water St., Santa Cruz. bellydancebyjill.com $40/$12.

THE HORMONE, MOOD AND FOOD CONNECTION Over the course of weeks or a month, do you fluctuate between happy and focused to worried and weepy? Join certified nutrition nonsultant Erin Fisher and learn about hormones driving mood and the best foods to stabilize your mood swings.

6-7:30 p.m. New Leaf Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleaf.com. Free.

JANUARY JUMPSTART: 4 WEEKS TO A HEALTHIER EATING Four-part lecture series full of creative, easy-to-implement ideas and inspiration to improve your health through healthier eating. 1-2 p.m. New Leaf Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleaf. com. Free.

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OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Overeaters Anonymous is a 12-Step support program for those who wish to stop compulsive eating, including anorexia and bulimia. 12:151:15 p.m. Trinity Presbyterian Church, 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. 476-8291. Free.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Tools of recovery study. OA is a 12-step support group to stop eating compulsively, including anorexia and bulimia. 1-2 p.m.

Trinity Presbyterian Church, Youth Room, 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. 429-7906, santacruzoa.org. Free.

TUESDAY 1/15 CLASSES

SPIRITUAL

CHAIR YOGA WITH SUZI Instructor Suzi

PSYCHIC SOUND HEALER—MICHELE NEWMAN Psychic sound healer, uplifting

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.

humanity one soul at a time. Michele’s clairvoyant, spirit-guided reading of auras, accessing akashic records, is inspiring and healing and helps transform relationships, emotions, finances and health. Preregistration required. 7-9 p.m. Avalon Visions Center, 2815 Porter St., Soquel.

464-7245.

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LOCAL BAND

BLAZEEN AND TRIBE Shoko Blazeen was at Moe’s Alley one night watching Virgin Islands-based roots reggae band Midnite when he was struck with a profound feeling: I want to play this venue.

It was in 2012, and he was still relatively new in Santa Cruz. But in no time, he’d put together a band that played primarily reggae, which he called Blazeen. Less than a year after that, the band played the same Moe’s Alley stage.

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“It happened pretty quickly,” Blazeen says. “It was just my ultimate spot to perform.”

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Blazeen is now in its third iteration, and goes by the name Blazeen and Tribe. Before moving to Santa Cruz, Blazeen had been playing music for quite a while. Originally from Ghana, West Africa, he grew up around a wide variety of musical genres—one of which was reggae. Blazeen and Tribe isn’t a strictly reggae band, though that is the most prominent influence.

There are other elements in there, like hip-hop, Afrobeat and salsa.

This third iteration is less than a year old, but Blazeen says that the lineup really clicks well. He plans to do a lot more gigging with them in 2019.

“We connect very well,” he says. “We come from different backgrounds, but once you hear that drum, bass and skank, it just transforms us into a whole different arena.” AARON CARNES 9 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $9 adv/$12 door. 479-1854.

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WEDNESDAY 1/9 SINGER-SONGWRITER

PAT HULL With a sinuously androgynous counter-tenor (think Thom Yorke or Wayne Newton) and plenty of warm, distant reverb, Hull’s music is hauntingly beautiful—just familiar enough to be evocative, while fearlessly searching out its own path. On this year’s Denmark Sessions, Hull sounds like some childhood memory playing out in another room, the shearing winds of time blowing through the hallway between. It is the aural equivalent of a billowing curtain, rising just enough to show the edges of an unknown field beyond. MIKE HUGUENOR 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $10. 429-6994.

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SVER It’s freezing outside—snow drifts across the Arctic tundra, icicles hang from eskers, and it looks like we’re gonna be snowed in here for a while. That’s probably what they’re saying in Norway right now, anyway, and SVER brings a bit of that winter wonderland to SC with high-spirited Norwegian folk music.

Fiddles, accordions and soft-but-robust percussions encourage all to come

inside, gather, warm yourself with a hot (and preferably spiked) beverage, and show off your snowflake-adorned sweater that’s way too heavy for our weather. SVER will showcase both their dreamy, icy soundscapes and toe-tapping, fire-fueled ditties. AMY BEE 8:30 p.m. Flynn’s Cabaret & Steakhouse, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $12 adv/$15 door. 335-2800.

THURSDAY 1/10 BLUES

AKI KUMAR Aki Kumar, aka “The Only Bombay Blues Man” added fresh ingredients to the American musical melting pot with his first album, Aki Goes to Bollywood, which infused Chicago-style blues with retro Bollywood classics.

His newest album, Hindi Man Blues, further asserts Kumar’s place in the blues genre, keeping the Bollywood flavor going, but adding original pieces that include political commentary and a song written by his mother.

June Core and Rusty Zinn will be joining Kumar at Moe’s for some original R&B compositions, as well as assisting in spreading his blend of infectious Bollywood blues pop. AB 8 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $10 adv/$15 door. 479-1854.

FRIDAY 1/11 HIP-HOP

DIGGIN’ IN THE CREPE You know that whole thing where the Crepe Place doesn’t often feature live hip-hop? Guess what, they are personally making it up to you with a stacked lineup of regional underground rappers that will blow your socks off.

The featured performer will be SF’s slinky Professa Gabel, whose latest record Ouch is a lo-fi booty shaker.

Also be sure to check out some grade-A local talent like Steezy Sins (Salinas), 1AM (Gilroy) and the rising talent from Santa Cruz that is Alwa Gordon. AC 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.

JAZZ

SPECIAL EFX At first glance this might seem like a strange booking for Kuumbwa, which doesn’t tend to pay much attention to smooth jazz. But guitarist Chieli Minucci has a long and distinguished career, and he’s lined up a strong cast of players to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Special EFX. Founded with Hungarian-born drummer George

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Minucci has led the band himself in recent years, while also recording with pop stars like Celine Dion and Jennifer Lopez and contributing to film soundtracks including No Country For Old Men. ANDREW GILBERT 7 and 9 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $31.50-$47.25. 427-2227.

FRI & SAT 1/11-12 METALACHI For years, this meticulously finetuned group of Los Angeles mariachis have perfected the art of sensuously covering everyone’s favorite hair-metal tunes, from Ozzy Osbourne to Motley Crue. For those who have never experienced the hard-rocking, hilariously entertaining, soul-moving and pelvis-gyrating extravaganza that is Metalachi, I have a couple words of advice. First, don’t tell anyone, nobody needs that sort of judgement in their life. Next, make sure to pick up a ticket for one (or both!) of their Moe’s Alley shows this January. MAT WEIR 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $15 adv/$20 door. 479-1854.

AMERICANA

ECHOES & ARTIFACTS As a songwriter, Allyson Makuch doesn’t like to dress up her music with unnecessary fluff. Her songs, which are performed passionately in acoustic splendor with multi-instrumentalist Rory Cloud, cut right to the sometime uncomfortable marrow of her deepest emotions. The name of their musical collaboration, Echoes and Artifacts, reflects the transcendental lens through which they view songs: the past echoing for an eternity, or at least as long as people take the time to listen. This duo plays their instruments with the awareness of the power they wield with their acoustic guitars, and takes no detours in expressing something authentic and heartbreaking at its core. AC 8 p.m. Lillie Aeske, 13160 Hwy. 9, Boulder Creek. $20. 703-4183.

CAJUN

BLAKE MILLER Bust out the ‘gator and make space for the accordion, because Blake Miller and the Old Fashioned Aces are seasoning

Santa Cruz’s new year with their cajun spices. Hailing from Lafayette, Louisiana, this trio puts the “raw” in “crawfish,” keeping their tunes as traditional as an étouffée. As a bonus treat, this same afternoon is Michael’s on Main’s “Louisiana Picnic Dance,” a 2 p.m. matinee show with a Louisiana feast (for a separate charge of $18.95). MW 2 p.m. Michael’s on Main, 2591 Main St., Soquel. $12 adv/$15 door. 479-9777.

MON & TUE 1/14-15 PUNK

PATTI SMITH Plenty has been written about Patti Smith’s debut Horses, though none of it adequately captures those first moments when, like a voice out of nowhere, she sings, “Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine.” An indispensable part of both 20th-century feminism and rock, Smith has had her share of sins along the way, all of which she gleefully claims as her own.

A renowned author as well as punk icon and poet, Smith comes to Santa Cruz for two nights at the Rio. Make your peace now with whatever sins you gotta commit to get tickets. MH 8 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $76.50. 423-8209.

8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $24 adv/$28 door. Information: catalystclub.com.

WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/ giveaways before 11 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 14 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

IN THE QUEUE DAVE STAMEY

Old school cowboy entertainer. Wednesday and Thursday at Michael’s on Main ED GERHARD

Soothing New Age-y acoustic guitar maestro. Thursday at Flynn’s Cabaret & Steakhouse PATHETIC HONEY STRING BAND

Bluegrass to the max! Twentieth anniversary. Friday at Flynn’s Cabaret & Steakhouse BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY

Melodic hip-hop ’90s style. Saturday at Catalyst

PAMELA ROSE PRESENTS: BLUES IS A WOMAN

The history of women of the blues.

Monday at Kuumbwa Jazz Center

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SATURDAY 1/12

In the ’90s, L.A. ensemble Ozomatli showed the world that a Spanglish multicultural band that dealt primarily in a diverse palate of Latin subgenres could have a wide, even mainstream audience. Time has proved them right, as more Latin-infused bands have propped up and even broken onto U.S. radio. The group’s latest record Nonstop: Mexico to Jamaica reveals a new truth: The line separating Latin music and Jamaican music is a thin one.

Indeed, if you visit Mexico, you will hear ska and reggae everywhere. Or you can listen to the latest Ozomatli to get that cross-cultural experience.

Maybe we’ll be hearing Latino reggae on U.S. radio in the very near future.

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Thursday January 10 – 7:30/8pm $10/15 Aki Goes To Bollywood Featuring

AKI KUMAR, JUNE CORE, RUSTY ZINN Friday January 11 – 8/9pm $15/20 & Saturday January 12 - 8/9pm $15/20

Two Nights Of Heavy Metal Mariachi

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FRI

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ABBOTT SQUARE 118 Cooper St, Santa Cruz

Elie Mabanza Free 6:30-9p

THE APPLETON EVENT CENTER 410 Rodriguez St, Watsonville

Baile Cumbia Sonidera $15

APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

Al Frisby 6-8p

Scott Miller 6-8p

Kid Andersen & John “Blues” Boyd 6-8p

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Live Bands 9p

Comedy Night, ’80s Night Free 8:30p

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

Wednesday January 16 – 7:30/8pm $10/13

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

Poetry Slam 8p

PETER HARPER

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

Sunday January 13 - 8/9pm $9/12 Reggae/Rock With

TOMORROW’S BAD SEEDS + BLAZEEN

Folk/Soul Fav Returns With His Live Band

+ JAMES LEE MURRAY Thursday January 17 - 8/9pm $20/25

Grammy Nominated Reggae/Dancehall

CHAM

+ IRIE ROCKERS W/ STEVIE CULTURE & DJ SPLEECE Friday January 18 – 7:30/8:30pm $15/20 Alt-Country/Americana From Canada

CORB LUND

SAT

1/12

SUN

1/13

MON

1/14

TUE

1/15

Grateful Dads Free 12-2:30p

Blues Mechanics 6-8p

Steve Freund 6-8p

Broken Shades 6-8p

Mojo Mix 6-8p

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

The Box (Goth Night) 9p

Post Punk Dance Floor 9p

Funk Night w/ DJ Ed 9p

Karaoke 8p-Close

John Michael Band 9:30-12:45p

Karaoke 6p-Close

Karaoke 6p-Close

Karaoke 6p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke Free 8p

Coastal Greeting 8p

People’s Disco 8p

SC Jazz Society, Beat Weekend w/ DJ Monk Earl Free 3:30p

Alex Lucero & Friends 8p

Karaoke 9-12:30a

Karaoke 9-12:30a

Comedy Night w/ Shwa Free 8p

CAPITOLA WINE BAR 115 San Jose Ave, Capitola CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Bone Thugs N’ Harmony $26-$60 8p

CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Man Man $15 8:30p

Illeagles $15/$18 8:30p

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

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

Saturday January 19 - 8/9pm $15/20 Live Hip Hop/Funk & Soul w/

LYRICS BORN

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Jan 20 BOOSTIVE Jan 24 PATRICK MAGUIRE, APPLE CITY, AUGUST SUN 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 Jan 31 LARRY & HIS FLASK + WILLY TEA TAYLOR Feb 1 JAMES HUNTER Feb 2 KATDELIC Feb 6 KATCHAFIRE Feb 7 FANTASTIC NEGRITO Feb 8 HOT BUTTERED RUM Feb 9 SOULWISE + SOL HORIZON Feb 10 STEVE GUNN Feb 15 Y LA BAMBA + JUAN SON Feb 16 SPACE HEATER Feb 19 DEAD MEADOW Feb 20 SCOTT PEMBERTON Feb 22 SLY & ROBBIE w/ BITTY MCLEAN Feb 23 ANTIBALAS Feb 24 DEAD FUNK SUMMIT w/ MELVIN SEALS Mar 1 DIEGO’S UMBRELLA Mar 2 WAILING SOULS

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Jazz The Dog

Fri. Jan. 11 8pm

Ten O’clock Lunch Band w/ Tammi Brown $10 adv./$10 door Dance– ages 21 +

Sat. Jan. 12 2pm

9PM - $10 DOOR

THURSDAY 1/10

THIRSTY THURSDAY

COME IN FOR SOME FANCY COCKTAILS

FRIDAY 1/11

DIGGIN’ IN THE CREPE

PROFESSA GABEL, KHAN, IAM STEEZY SINS, ALWA GORDON, DJ LOS

Blake Miller & the Old-Fashioned Aces

LEROY GHOST

$12 adv./$15 door (Children <13 Free) <21 w/parent

Achilles Wheel plus The Puffball Collective $10 adv./$10 door Dance – ages 21 +

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Sun. Jan. 13 5:30pm GRATEFUL DEAD TUNES/NO COVER Fri Jan. 18 Sat Jan. 19 Tue Jan. 22 Wed Jan. 23

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JAN 20

Thursday, January 31

WEDNESDAY 1/9

THE LOUISIANA PICNIC & DANCE 2pm Matinee

Sat. Jan. 12 8pm

ADVANCE TICKETS ON TICKETWEB

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RICHARD THOMPSON Cocoanut Grove ELECTRIC TRIO w/

FANTASTIC NEGRITO MOES 2/7

STEVE GUNN MOES 2/10 DEAD MEADOW MOES 2/19

SAM AMIDON SANTA CRUZ 3/1

VETIVER + FRUIT BATS

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2 SETS OF HONEST SOULFUL TUNES EARLY SHOW 8PM - $7 DOOR

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WOOD BROTHERS 3/5 RIO

OM RIO THEATRE 2/27

GREEN LEAF RUSTLERS BIG SUR FRI/SAT MARCH 15 & 16

9PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT THURSDAY 1/17

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w/ PRACTICING SINCERITY & DAY TRIP SHOW 9PM - $7 DOOR MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ

1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz 429-6994

FERNWOOD TAVERN!

CASS McCOMBS BAND MOES THURSDAY, APRIL 4

LIVE MUSIC WED CORK AND FORK 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

1/9

Open Mic Night Free 7-10p

THU

1/10

FRI

1/11

1/12

SUN

1/13

MON

1/14

TUE

1/15

Steve’s Jazz Kitchen Free 7:30-10

CORRALITOS CULTURAL CENTER 127 Hames Rd., Corralitos THE CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Pat Hull w/ Dan Too & Idle Joy $10 9p

CROW’S NEST 2218 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz

Stella By Barlight $3 7:30p

SkyPark $5 8p

DAV. ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport

Sasha’s Money $7 9:30p

Live Comedy $7 9p

Funk Night ft. 7 Come 11 $6 9p-12a Dave D’Oh & Alex Lucero $5 7:30p

Melody Guy & Justin Hambly Free 6-9p

Billy Walker Free 6-9p

TBA Free 6:30-8:30p

Tickets: eventbrite.com

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

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville

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

Greyhound

FLYNN’S CABARET 6275 Hwy 9, Felton

Sver $12/$15 8:30p

Ed Gerhard $20/$25 8:30p

GABRIELLA CAFE 910 Cedar St., Santa Cruz

Linc Russin 7-9p

Jeannine Bonstelle & Sweeney Schragg 6:30-9:30p

Pathetic Honey String Band w/ Alex Lytle $12/$15 9p

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS

George Michael Tribute Show $20 9p

Monday, January 21 • 7 PM

SHEILA JORDAN WITH CAMERON BROWN

A trailblazing jazz vocalist with bass duet accompaniment.

JACK O’NEILL LOUNGE Santa Cruz Dream Inn 175 W Cliff Dr. Santa Cruz KUUMBWA JAZZ 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Special EFX All-Stars $31.50/$36.75 7&9p

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

Jazz the Dog Free 5p The Louisiana Picnic Ten O’Clock Lunch Band & Dance $12/$15 2p $10 8p Achilles Wheel $10 8p

Dave Stamey w/ Annie Lydon $17/$20 7:30p

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

SIN SISTERS BURLESQUE Lilacs w/ Subpar & Dirt Buyer $8 9p

Groovity $6 9p

SPECIAL EFX ALL-STARS

Saturday, January 12 • 8:30 PM

Acoustic Open Jam 3-5p

Open Mic 7-10p Diggin’ in the Crepe w/ Professa Gabel, Khan, 1AM $8 9p

DISCRETION BREWING 2703 41st Ave, Soquel

SAT

Friday, January 11 • 7 PM & 9 PM

Dave Stamey w/ Annie Lydon $17/$20 7:30p

Pamela Rose Presents: Blue Is A Woman $26.25/$31.50 7p

Sin Sisters Burlesque: Disney $20-$40 8:30p Grateful Sundays Free 5:30p

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.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS

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.

Monday, January 28 • 7 PM

PETER BERNSTEIN, LARRY GOLDINGS & BILL STEWART TRIO

A soulful and nuanced organ trio.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS

BAKERY

1420 41st Ave Capitola | melindasbakery.com

HOT CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO

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

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Monday, February 4 • 7 PM

BEN WENDEL SEASONS BAND

A melding of jazz and chamber music, inspired by Tchaikovsky and the changing seasons.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Thursday, February 7 • 7 PM

LEYLA MCCALLA

American- and Caribbean-influenced folk melodies, imbued with history.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS

Unless noted, advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and dinner served one hour before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wine & beer available.

All ages welcome.

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Thursday, January 31 • 7 PM

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We are now open Tuesday-Sunday for dinner.

Stop by for an amazing farm to table dining experience!

Wed Jan 9

Sver

Excellent Norwegian-Swedish Folk Music $12 adv./$15 door Dance – ages 21+ 8:30PM Thur Jan 10

Ed Gerhard

Grammy award-winning guitarist from New Hampshire $20 adv./$25 door seated – <21w/parent 8:30PM Fri Jan 11

Pathetic Honey String Band w/Alex Lytle & Them Rounders

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

MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Bruce, Linda and John

Sat Jan 19

Aja Vu/Steelin’ Chicago

Wed Jan 23

The Posies

Thu Jan 24

Matthew Michael and Christina Marie

Trivia 8p

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

Woodstock Generation Band & San Francisco Airship Acoustic

Fri Jan 18

The Program, Euphoric 9:30p

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Fri Feb 8

1/11

SAT

1/12

SUN

1/13

MON

Lloyd Whitley Free 6p

Steve Freund Free 6p

AC Myles Free 6p

Aki Goes to Bollywood $10/$15 8p

Metalachi & Coffee Zombie Collective $15/$20 8p

Metalachi & Divided By Seven $15/$20 8p

Tomorrow’s Bad Seeds & Blazeen $9/$12 9p

Libation Lab w/ King Wizard & Chief Transcend 9:30p

Adam Cova 9:30p

D-ROC 9:30p

Rasta Cruz Reggae Party 9:30p

Shotgun Suitor Free 6:30-9:30p

American Trashbird Free 7p

1/14

ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

1/15

Hip Hop w/ DJ Marc 9:30p Taco Trivia Tuesday w/ Hive Mind 6:30p

Vinny Johnson 2-5p

The Joint Chiefs 2-5p

The Felt House Band Free 9p

Erin Avila 6-9p Comedy Free 8p

Open Mic Free 8-11p

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

TUE

Virgil Thrasher & Rick Stevens Free 6p

Rob Vye Free 6p

Shotgun Suitor Free 10p-12a

Matt Nice & the Derls, Moon Giant Free 9p

‘Geeks Who Drink’ Trivia Night 8p Variety Show w/ Toby Gray 6:30p

Comedy Night 9p

THE SAND BAR 211 Esplanade, Capitola

Acoustic Reggae Jam 6:30p

Aloha Friday 6:30p

Featured Acts 6:30p

First & Third Celtic Jam

Live DJ

Don Karuth Open Jam 7:30-11p

Jake Nelson Triple Threat Isaac & The Hayes 8:30p-12a 8:30p-12a

The Human Juke Box 6p

Live DJ

Open Mic 6p

Tuesday Trivia Night 6:30p

Patti Smith & Her Band SOLD OUT 8p

Patti Smith & Her Band SOLD OUT

Trivia 7:30p Alex Lucero 7-10p

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135

Steely Dan and Chicago Tribute $20 adv./$25 door Dance - ages 21+ 9PM

Friday, January 11 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

MAN MAN

Soft Machine w/Levin Brothers Wild Child

The Van Burdon Project A Tribute to The Music of Van Morrison and Eric Burdon $15 adv./$18 Dance – ages 21+ 9PM

Pride and Joy

The name says it all… $20 adv./$20 Dance – ages 21+ 9PM COMIN G RIGH T U P

Sat, Feb 9

Steven Graves w/ Reckless Poets Band Thu, Feb 14 Girls’ Night Out Fri, Feb 15 Frankie Gavin Fri, Mar 8 The Boys of Summer Sun, Mar 24 An Evening with Steve Poltz

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Rockin'Church Service Every Sunday ELEVATION at 10am-11:15am

plus Locus Pocus

Saturday, January 12 • Ages 16+

30th Anniversary Tour $20 adv./$25 door Dance – ages 21+ 8:30PM

Authentic Doors tribute from Southern California $18 adv/$20 doors Dance – ages 21+ 9PM Sat Feb 2

FRI

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

An Evening of Wonderful Music with Legendary Artists $35 adv./$35 door seated - ages 21+ 9PM Sat Jan 26

1/10

Broken Shades 6-8p

Matias 6-9p

Bone Thugs-n-harmony Saturday, January 12 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

ILLEAGLES

Honest songs expressed in harmonically-rich layers of voices and strings $10 adv./$15 door seated – <21w/parent 8:30PM Fri Jan 25

THU

NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

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

1/9

Little Jonny Lawton Free 6p

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

The George Michael Tribute & Forever Whitney - Whitney Houston Tribute

Two Icons. Two Spectacular Tributes. 1 Night. $20 adv./$20 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM Thu Jan 17

WED MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

A really fun place on the Pacific!

LOCATED ON THE BEACH

Amazing waterfront deck views.

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

See live music grid for this week’s bands.

STAND-UP COMEDY

Three live comedians every Sunday night.

HAPPY HOUR

Mon–Fri from 3:00pm. Wednesday all night!

VISIT OUR BEACH MARKET

Wood-fired pizza, ice cream, unique fine gifts.

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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 1 Lil Xan (Ages 16+) Feb 2 RJD2/ Memba (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 12 J Boog (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/ Robotaki (Ages 16+) Mar 12 Atmosphere/ deM atlaS (Ages 16+) Mar 14 Liquid Stranger (Ages 16+) Mar 16 Stephen Marley (Ages 16+) Mar 19 Flogging Molly (Ages 21+) Mar 21 Eli Young Band (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 877-987-6487 & online

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THU

1/10

FRI

1/11

SAT

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

Steven Walters Trio w/ Jeff Buenz 7:30-10:30p

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz

The Joint Chiefs

1/12

Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-9p

Breeze Babes 8-11:30p

Jackie Turner Group 8-11:30p

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

Ken Constable 6:30-9:30p

Joe Ferrara 6:30-9:30p

Claudio Melega 7-10p

Mikey Bilello 6-9p

Jive Machine 6-9p

Tyler Larson 6-9p

STEEL BONNET 20 Victor Square, Scotts Valley

Joe Kaplow Free 5p

Tim & Angela Bennett Free 5p

SUSHI GARDEN S.V. 5600 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley

Toby Gray Free 5:30p

Scott Slaughter Free 5:30p

Kage O’Malley 6-9p

1/13

MON

1/14

TUE

1/15

We Three 7:30-10:30p

SEVERINO’S BAR & GRILL 7500 Old Dominion Court, Aptos

SHANTY SHACK BREWING 138 Fern St, Santa Cruz

SUN

Lindsey Wall 6-9p

FEB 02 Frans Lanting FEB 14 Laura Love w/ Terry Hunt FEB 15 Oliver Tree FEB 16 Paula Poundstone FEB 21-24 Banff Mountain Film Festival FEB 27 OM

SID’S SMOKEHOUSE 10110 Soquel Dr, Aptos

UGLY MUG 4640 Soquel Ave, Soquel

Chuck Brodsky $20/$25 7:30p

Open Mic w/ Steven David 5:30p

VINOCRUZ 4901 Soquel Dr, Soquel VINO LOCALE 55 Municipal Wharf, Santa Cruz

Joe Leonard Free 6-8p

ZELDA’S 203 Esplanade, Capitola

Bobby Markowitz Free 6-8p

Shady Characters Free6-8p

Stella Blue 9:30p

The Joint Chiefs 9:30p

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CLASS DISCUSSION Yalitza Aparicio stars as a live-in maid in an upscale Mexican household in writer-director Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma.’

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on’t go to Roma expecting an action movie. The story builds slowly, its effects a gradual process of accumulated details. Events that might be huge crescendos in a more traditional narrative—birth, death, violence, heroism, heartbreak—roll in and out of this movie with the same steady rhythm as the wash water that ebbs and flows across a tiled hallway floor in the film’s lengthy opening shot. Victories are small. Tragedies are muted. Life goes on.

It’s another intriguing departure in tone and style for Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón, a chameleon of a storyteller wellknown for the diversity of his

films. After the raucous Y Tu Mamá También, he went on to direct one of the best Harry Potter movies (The Prisoner of Azkaban), the sci-fi thriller Children of Men, and the nifty Hollywood space epic Gravity.

But in Roma, Cuarón returns from space, fantasy and the future to explore his own roots in the suburban district of Mexico City where he grew up. Shot in pristine, almost sculptural black-andwhite, and beautifully composed in terms of both visuals and sound, it's a cinematic dose of deep yoga breathing, slowing down the heart rate while inviting us to observe and appreciate the small details that make up a life.

The woman wielding the water bucket in that opening shot is our heroine, Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a live-in maid in an upscale household who is also de facto nanny to her employers’ young children. Cleo is unassuming and efficient at her job; she’s always pleasant and polite to her employers, and the kids adore her.

The household includes Señor Antonio (Fernando Grediaga), a harried professional, his chic wife, Señora Sofia (Marina de Tavira), her mother, and the couples’ four children, along with a second housemaid. But the comfortable in-home dynamic starts to change when the father runs off with his mistress.

Other events occur, but this movie

isn’t about plot; it prefers to reveal complex relationships in telling little epiphanies. It’s almost shockingly subservient when Cleo kneels at the end of the sofa where the family is gathered to watch TV, until we see the affection with which one of the kids instantly drapes his arm around her.

Both Sofia and her husband are prone to snap at the maid when aggravated by something else (say, the dog, or the kids), but when Cleo needs help, Sofia supports her unflinchingly. And yet, Sofia’s flustered mother doesn’t know enough details about the longtime family servant to fill out a form when Cleo is admitted to the hospital.

Meanwhile, Cuarón’s curious camera eye feasts on everything: the graphic pattern of the iron staircase railing inside the family home; the corrugated tin walls of a shanty house; the geometric shape of a skylight dancing on a sheen of moving water.

When Cleo is scrubbing laundry in a cement tub on the roof, joking with one of the kids, the camera pans backward to reveal a pattern of washscrubbing housemaids on the roofs of adjoining houses.

Sound, too, almost becomes a character in the movie. Cleo quietly sings along with the radio on her daily rounds around the house.

But outside, when she’s searching for an address in an unfamiliar neighborhood, the clamor of noise—vendor cart bells, barking dogs, shrieking children, shouted conversations, prowling cars, the brass horns of a distant band— grows to a sinister cacophony, like a physical threat. When she wades into the water after the kids at the beach, we feel each propulsive, bone-shaking pound of the surf.

Roma builds to a celebration of simple virtues that are so undervalued in the current sociopolitical climate—affection, compassion and co-operation, the dignity of work, and the right of all individuals (including women and people of color) to try to build a stable, decent life. And Cuarón observes these values in practice, with artistry and perception.

ROMA ***1/2 With Yalitza Aparicio and Maria de Tavira. Written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. A Netflix release. Rated R. 135 minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles.

FILM NEW RELEASES A DOG’S WAY HOME Good lord, just one week into 2019 and we already have a damn dog movie?

Forget global warming and government shutdowns—this, my friends, is proof of impending apocalypse. And Bryce Dallas Howard as the voice of the dog that has to travel hundreds of miles to find its home, are you kidding me?

I don’t know what hope is even left for new dog movies to take away.

Like, what’s next, a Benjiverse of interconnected dog films? Wait, why did I just bring that idea into the world? Directed by Charles Martin Smith. Starring Jonah Hauer-King, Ashley Judd and Alexandra Shipp. (PG) 96 minutes.

(SP) ON THE BASIS OF SEX If you loved RBG in RBG, you might enjoy … more RBG! This time it’s a fictionalized version of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s early career, depicting her crusade for gender equality.

Directed by Mimi Leder. Starring Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer and Justin Theroux. (PG-13) 120 minutes. (SP)

THE UPSIDE Do you really want to watch Kevin Hart in a movie right now, after all of his exhausting apologizing/non-apologizing for his past anti-LGBTQ jokes?

I know, me neither. What’s that, you didn’t really want to watch Kevin Hart in a movie anyway?

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 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 drug-addicted 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) ESCAPE ROOM The Saw-like premise and the tagline “Everyone is dying to play” make this sound like a slasher flick, but it’s actually a twisty thriller along the lines of Identity. (OK, the big twist is probably not as weird as that

one’s was.) Several strangers are invited to an escape room—and while they’re deciding whether to do it, discover they’re already in it.

Dun dun! But who’s behind it, and why did it pick them? And will they get out alive? WILL THEY? I have suspenseful feelings! Directed by Adam Robitel. Starring Deborah Ann Woll, Tyler Labine and Taylor Russell. (PG-13) (SP) THE FAVOURITE Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone and especially Olivia Colman as a cranky, insecure Queen Anne are all excellent as women jockeying for power in the man's world of early 18th-century England. But the narrative often goes awry in Yorgos Lanthimos’ witches’ brew of sex, politics and intrigue—if not historically, in terms of its weirdly comic tone.

Lanthimos may be taking satirical aim at human folly—greed, ambition, depravity, especially among the oh-so-idle rich—but that’s a broad target. Too often, his contrived set-ups and deliberately provocative images don’t add up to anything. And as the fortunes of these women rise and fall, and viewer sympathies are meant to keep shifting, they remain little more than pawns in an exercise of mannered absurdity. (R) 131 minutes. (LJ) 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) HOLMES & WATSON Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly reunite to deliver a dramatic, emotional take on the Sherlock Holmes mythology that examines the crippling mental toll that being the world’s most sought-after detective would exact. J/k! It’s totally another one of their goofy comedies, this time with an Arthur Conan Doyle theme. Directed by Etan Cohen.

Co-starring Lauren Lapkis, Kelly Macdonald and Ralph Fiennes.

(PG-13) 89 minutes. (SP) IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK After the success of I Am Not Your Negro, we may be getting a bit of a James Baldwin Renaissance, which is way better than a Stephen Baldwin Renaissance, and way, way better than a William Baldwin Renaissance. In this adaptation of Baldwin’s acclaimed 1974 novel by the writer-director of Moonlight, a young pregnant African American woman tries to exonerate her husband, who has been falsely accused of rape, before their baby is born. Written and directed by Barry Jenkins. Starring Kiki Layne, Stephan James and Regina King.

(R) 119 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) THE MULE Clint Eastwood apparently is a mule in this

movie, which kind of makes sense, since we already know from his interviewing-a-chairat-the-RNC 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 Reviewed this issue.

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) VICE Political dramas can be deathly dull, but one look at the trailer for Vice and it’s clear that this is not one of them. Christian Bale as Dick Cheney, somehow looking exactly like Dick Cheney?

Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush?

Are you kidding me? All in the service of writer-director Adam McKay’s funny-scary take on how one vice president usurped the White House and altered the course of history. Co-starring Amy Adams, Steve Carell and Jesse Plemons. (R) 132 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)

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REPLICAS Ho-hum, looks like another typical boy-meets-girl, boy-marries-girl, boy-has-a-familywith-girl-and-then-watches-thatfamily-die-in-a-horrible-car-crash, boy-creates-clones-of-familybecause-he-can’t-bear-to-losethem, boy-finds-that-clones-donot-react-well-to-finding-out-theyare-clones, boy-fights-owners-oftechnology-that-made-clonespossible-because-they-wantto-repossess-family-of-clones story. Doesn’t Hollywood have any new ideas? Directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff. Starring Keanu Reeves, Alice Eve and Thomas Middleditch. (PG-13) 107 minutes.

(SP)

Oh, you! You’re so funny. What?

The Upside? Oh right, I was going to tell you about it! Your joke was so clever that I forgot all about it.

Anyway, in this comedy from the director of Divergent, Hart plays an ex-con who becomes friends with a quadriplegic billionaire played

by Bryan Cranston. Oh, I get it, the hands are your pillow, like you were falling asleep before I even got to the end of that sentence. You are hilarious today! Directed by Neil Burger. Starring Nicole Kidman, Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart.

(PG-13) 125 minutes. (SP)

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ant to know what the future tastes like? Head over to the impressive new Primal Santa Cruz, at the corner of Laurel and Mission, and find out.

This is smart dining that bursts with intelligent design. Whether or not you care about “ancestrally inspired” foods, you probably do care about organic, nutrient-dense, gluten-free dishes made with locally sourced ingredients. At a Primal lunch last week, we were blown away by the sleek, industrial-chic interior loaded with botanicals and polished wood. Cloth napkins and gorgeous dishes help soothe patrons who might at first pause over the 21st-century trend of placing orders

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But think about it—there’s no waiting for staff to come around and take your order, and when you’re finished, you can leave anytime.

Streamlined to the max, Primal has its template down.

And it’s delicious. We loved our huge mugs of green pomegranate tea sweetened with coconut sugar, not processed sugar. Entree orders were inventive, created with an eye for beauty and generously portioned. My sweetie loved his blackened fish tacos, two GF tortillas (very tasty) topped with albacore, shaved mango-lime slaw, cilantro and watermelon radish tossed into a pretty mound ($17).

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Alderwood is open. Aquarius is closed—but not for long. Sometime in mid-February the gorgeous dining room and bar at the Dream Inn will re-open its newly renovated Jack O’Neill Restaurant and Lounge.

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Terry Beech says sharper knives can be safer than dull ones BY JACOB PIERCE

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There’s no sparks. It’s preserving the steel on your knife. It’s treating the knife steel as best it can be treated.

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My girlfriend tells me that sharp knives are safer than dull knives. To what extent is that true? Because, unless I’m missing something, sharp knives are also sharper than dull ones.

The problem with dull knives is you end up pushing too hard to get something accomplished. And invariably, something slips—boom— and you ding yourself. If you have a sharp knife, everything goes nice and easy. Of course, the first time you use it, you’re so surprised how quickly it cuts through things that sometimes people will ding themselves. They’re just not used to it. People come back to me all the time with a Band-Aid on their finger: “See what I did! You sharpened my knives last week.” And they have a big smile on their face.

How much of this is a job, and how much is a hobby?

It started out as a hobby, but I made 60 grand last year. If that isn’t a job, I don’t know what is. sharpquick.com, 345-4380.

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t’s Dec. 21, the winter solstice, and one Terry Beech’s favorite holidays. While sharpening cutlery on his solar-powered machine in the New Leaf parking lot, Beech is wearing a jester-like cap that he calls his “Santa’s helper hat” and blasting holiday music out of his van.

Beech, who sharpens knives at local markets, is the brains and brawn behind his one-man business, SharpQuick. He keeps track of how many knives he sharpens each day by piling up a rainbow assortment of Popsicle sticks, each representing a certain number of specific kinds of knives. He calls his method “stick books”—a play on QuickBooks’ accounting software.

A physicist by training, Beech also calculates the angle at which each knife should be sharpened, leaving every blade as sharp as possible while still ensuring that the new edge will last. A former high-tech consultant, he’s taught his sharpening technique to 26 trainees, six of them in the last year, including one apprentice from Austria. “In 2007, I decided this is way too much fun to keep to myself,” he says.

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A bottle of Robert Hall Winery 2015 Zinfandel for $18.99 turned out to be a good choice.

Meeting up with friends to share our spoils, we gathered ‘round a campfire to enjoy this full-bodied wine, its dense core of fresh raspberry and cranberry fruit intertwined with peppery spice.

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At a recent Aptos Natural Foods open house, I sampled locally produced Hakouya Miso Dressing made by two ladies from Japan, Eriko Yokoyama and business partner Masumi Diaz.

Miso is a traditional Japanese fermented seasoning high in protein and probiotics, and also packed with vitamins and minerals. The savory flavor has for centuries been a culinary staple in Japan.

Hakouya Miso produces homemade miso (soybeans, koji and sea salt) with olive oil, rice vinegar, honey, sesame oil, ginger, and garlic.

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H RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES CAPRICORN – LOST IN LIGHT SUPERNAL Capricorn, our 10th sign and 10th Labor of Hercules, continues. We (all of humanity) are Hercules. Capricorn is the sign of the goat climbing the mountain, becoming a unicorn on the mountaintop. The preceding Nine Labors (signs) were concerned with how to liberate ourselves from the thralldom of matter (materialism). But when we, disciples, (soul-directed personalities), come to Capricorn, the situation changes.

Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces—these three signs are not concerned with personal liberation. We are concerned with humanity’s liberation.

Once we reach Capricorn, we are free to serve. We become an initiate. On the mountaintop, standing under the rising sun, we become transfigured. Our essential divinity is revealed to ourselves, and each other. Having passed round and round the zodiac many lifetimes, learning all there is to know in each

of the signs (7x7 and more), experiencing all the lessons of each sign, we finally climb the mountain of initiation (Capricorn).

All of our lifetimes prepared us to see and then remember our divine origins—our divine essential selves.

We become free.

We then realize that with all of our training and experience, and with our developed will, love, wisdom, compassion, and intelligence, we are prepared to help a world in suffering (like Prometheus). And like Hercules, who frees Prometheus, we begin to free humanity through our recognized and cultivated gifts (Leo). While we are in Capricorn, after the long sojourn from Aries to Capricorn, we pause and rest. Before returning to the valleys of Earth once again.

“Lost are we in light supernal, yet on this light we will turn our backs.”

ARIES Mar21–Apr20

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22

What are you thinking and feeling concerning your work in the world? How is your professional work coming along, and are you considering expansion, a new job, new work, or an entirely different field of endeavor? You’re climbing the Capricorn ladder. Remember to take others with you, assisting those below to rise up, too. Remember the true warrior is a spiritual disciple. Practice ahimsa.

It’s time to review garden catalogues, planning for summer.

Soon, seeds must be planted. Do you have a greenhouse?

If not, consider one, small at first. Notice your concern with home, food and nurturing things. Realize in coming times, we’ll need to grow much of our food. You could (are, were, will) be an excellent gardener, especially with edible flowers and herbs. Your foundations are shifting, past emotions falling away. A healing occurs in the garden.

Esoteric astrology as news for week of Jan. 9, 2019

TAURUS Apr21–May21 You may be invited to travel. You may (most likely) say “No, too many responsibilities at home.” However, you must expand your mind, body, emotions, and spirit. Like studying esoteric texts, preparing to teach, understanding our justice system (blind still), visiting libraries, building an online college (with another), buying a car, cow or horse, donkey to ride over the plains toward a mountaintop where the light shines. You will travel.

GEMINI May 22–June 20 Are you looking at resources held in common with another (or others) trying to create order and organization in daily living? Are you concerned about money and finances? You’re interested more and more in wisdom teachings, community, freeing the self from past inhibited thinking, and traveling somewhere for learning. You’ll wonder who will accompany you for you need a companion on the road. A loving one.

CANCER Jun21–Jul20

LE0 Jul21–Aug22 Things you have created that are now ritual and/or habitual have begun to break down into bits and pieces.

You may feel disrupted, and this will continue for several months, for everyone. The new revolution is organizing, and it needs leaders, so look up and out, gather loved ones (all kingdoms) and begin to realize that your gifts, talents and abilities, many and varied, can be used to create a new order in the world. There are outer leaders and inner ones. Both are needed.

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SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 It’s important at times of new beginnings to consider your communication with others. Is it kind? Do you interact enough with others, and they with you? Are you easily out and about in the community? Do people understand you, or must you remain hidden? Perhaps you felt restricted the last several years? How do you feel about the present community/town/village/city you live in? Do people know you? Do they understand you?

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 It’s possible you feel like staying home forever, never to emerge. Perhaps you wonder who your friends are, for something about friendship is hidden. You feel able to chat, but after a few moments, fall into silence and quietude. You have energy, then you don’t. Do you sense you’re descending the ladder and not ascending? You’re in a boat. There’s no shore. You are not the captain. Yet you are. The stars glide by.

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 So many things appear veiled, and even your communication seems to have gone into hiding. Don’t fret. It will re-emerge soon enough. It’s best to stay home (or in the heart), chat with Sag (joyful) people, and read food, art and architecture magazines. Make a quilt. Think of yourself as a hermit in a forest, foraging in the wild. Tell yourself you’re preparing for the future that no one really comprehends. A friend in a group or living far away comes calling.

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 Are there people, friends, a person, a group you need to speak with? Are you preparing for the future in practical ways, which includes wondering where to live? Do you sense a great change, while not knowing what that change will be? There are deep desires and emotions rumbling about as your sense of self continues to shift.

Stay poised as the changes continue. Be not afraid.

Home is where the heart is.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22

PISCES Feb19–Mar20

Where in your life do you feel shadows, veils, things hidden in the dark? Where in your life does light need to be radiated? Where is there a need for freedom, a creativity that liberates your spirit? In what way do you wish those parts of yourself, shy and quiet, could come forth? Everything will be changing in the coming year.

You will be one of those changes as the lights come on.

You have more internal energy, can stand on your feet longer and accomplish more tasks. There is a new strength, a dramatic change of energy. You see only the moment; what is in front and around you. The past/future no longer holds you. Progressing step by step, task to task, a new direction comes subtly forward. You wonder if you should travel. Someone needs you. You respond with care.

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It’s important to ask yourself, “Who are the important people in my life, and how am I interacting with them? Am I ignoring them, caring for them, resenting them, angry with them, or simply not interested anymore?” It is important to remember St. Paul’s words, “When I was a child, I thought as a child. When an adult, I put aside the things of the child.”

Do not get lost. The dweller is near. Love is never lost, but must be re-activated. Has something appropriated it?

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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.

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. 13, 2018. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court.

Dec. 19, 26, Jan. 2 & 9.

listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Dec. 7, 2018. Dec. 26, Jan. 2, 9, & 16.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001990 The following Married Couple is doing business as GOLD BEAR. 1001 CENTER STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. SARAH CHRISTINA CIPOLLINA & CARLO GREIGG CIPILLINA. 144 BROWN GABLES ROAD, BEN LOMOND, CA 95005.

This business is conducted by a Married Couple signed: SARAH CHRISTINA CIPOLLINA. 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. 17, 2018. Dec. 26, Jan. 2, 9, & 16.

INC. 401 E. CORPORATE DRIVE, SUITE 150, LEWISVILLE, TX 75057.

Al# 1992450. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: CALIBER BODYWORKS, INC. 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. Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23.

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: December 26, 2018. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Jan 9, 16, 23, & 30.

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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF DAVID KIM CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.18CV03592. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner DAVID KIM has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: DAVID KIM to: DAVID HANSUNG KIM. 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 January 28, 2019 at 8:30 am, in Department 5 located at

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001901 The following Corporation is doing business as LUMINOUS HEALING CENTER. 611 MISSION ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

County of Santa Cruz. THE LOTUS COLLABORATIVE, INC., A PSYCHOLOGY CLINIC 603 MISSION ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. Al# 3543201.

This business is conducted by a Corporation 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.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001919 The following Individual is doing business as SUNSHINE ORGANIZING SOLUTIONS. 411 30TH AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. HALEY RAE MANDER. 411 30TH AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: HALEY RAE MANDER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001988 The following Married Couple is doing business as NATURAL SCIENTIFIC GROUP, SANTA CRUZ WHOLISTIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS, & SOQUEL BIOTECHNOLOGIES. 3201 BROWNS LANE, , SOQUEL, CA 95073. County of Santa Cruz. JAMES ROBERT TEMPLETON & MONET MILLARD TEMPLETON. 3201 BROWNS LANE, , SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by a Married Couple signed: JAMES ROBERT TEMPLETON. 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. 17, 2018. Dec. 26, Jan 2, 9, & 16.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001987 The following Individual is doing business as IDEAL HAIR. 222 MT. HERMAN RD. SUITE H, SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95066. County of Santa Cruz. LORI MARLENE PENNER. 117 GAULT STREET UNIT A, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: LORI MARLENE PENNER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 11/14/2005. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Dec. 17, 2018. Dec. 26, Jan

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001996 The following Corporation is doing business as BOARDWALK EXTRACTS. 110 POST STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. 410 EXTRACTS. 309 CEDAR STREET #3C, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. Al# 4213202. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: BOARDWALK EXTRACTS. 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. 19, 2018. Dec. 26, Jan. 2, 9, & 16.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001896 The following Corporation is doing business as CALIBER COLLISION CENTERS. 1650 MANSFIELD STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

County of Santa Cruz.

CALIBER BODYWORKS,

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001977 The following Individual is doing business as VISION4WELLNESS. 340 SOQUEL AVE., STE 207, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz.

RIITTA DE LOS SANTOS .

3827 BROMMER STREET, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: RIITTA DE LOS SANTOS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/1/2018.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Dec. 14, 2018. Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF MAX DAVID MOORMAN CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.18CV03697. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner MAX DAVID MOORMAN has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: MAX DAVID MOORMAN to: MAX DAVID FERRERO. 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 February 11, 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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0002013 The following Individual is doing business as WISTERIA GATE. 2935 WILLOWBROOK LANE, APTOS, CA 95003. County of Santa Cruz. MICHAEL DIOSZEGI. 2935 WILLOWBROOK LANE, APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MICHAEL DIOSZEGI. 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 December 26, 2018. Jan. 9, 16, 23, & 30.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001989 The following Corporation is doing business as CHRISTIE FAMILY DENTISTRY. 550 WATER STREET, E-1., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

County of Santa Cruz.

MARK R. CHRISTIE, DDS, INC. 704 ESCOLONA DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. Al# 4092453. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: MARK R. CHRISTIE, DDS, INC. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 7/1/2014.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 17, 2018.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0002014The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as HEART OF CAREGIVING PETS, HEART OF HOMES TO BUY. 114 MOUNTAIN VIEW AVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. HEART OF CAREGIVING PETS, LLC. 114 MOUNTAIN VIEW AVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

AI# 12310305. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: HEART OF CAREGIVING. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 4/23/2018.

This statement was filed

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME. The following person (persons) have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: GUANG ZHO CHINESE RESTAURANT. 3150 PORTOLA DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on: 6/13/2017 GUANG ZHO CHINESE RESTAURANT. 3150 PORTOLA DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062.

This business was conducted by: INDIVIDUAL: MO QIXIN AND YUEE LI. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on the date indicated by the file stamp: Filed: December 27, 2018.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0002015 The following Individual is doing business as GUANG ZHO CHINESE RESTAURANT. 3150 PORTOLA DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa

Cruz. JIE HUI HE. 1606 HERITAGE LANE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JIE HUI HE. 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 December 26, 2018.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001983 The following Individual is doing business as AFRICAN NECTAR FARMING AND CONSULTING. 1641 ESCALONA DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. DARRIN PETZER. 1641 ESCALONA DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: DARRIN PETZER. 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 December 17, 2018.

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

This is for all the would-be buyers waiting in the wings. Those taking a temporary break from the rigors of the real estate market after experiencing months of frustration and fatigue.

The ones who are girding their loins and girding their loans in preparation for the coming year’s battle. Hoping to rest and recuperate now, so they can be ready for the flood of new listings they are hoping will arrive.

There are plenty of leftover buyers out there who gave it their all in 2018. They deserve an A for effort, even if they weren’t quite able to make it over the hump to the promised land.

Well-qualified folks who just couldn’t seem to out-smart a difficult market and find their way home.

It’s hard to live a normal life and look for a house at the same time. That’s particularly true in a market that demands such an exhausting state of readiness and preparation at the same time as it only parcels a few meager listings at a time to choose from.

Buyers who’ve been slogging around in the trenches in search of inventory for the last six months or longer know what that “always on” feeling is like. The barrage of search engine emails that begins to look like spam rather than real opportunity. Hours spent parsing Sunday open house ads trying to figure out whether “charming” really means “fixer” or whether “cute” really means “tiny.” And whether they should drop everything, jump in the car and head out to the open house to see for themselves.

The rush of an unexpected For Sale sign popping up in the perfect neighborhood.

The promising sneak peak of a new listing on Thursday’s Brokers Tour. The call from a sister-in-law who heard a rumor about a friend of a friend thinking about putting their house on the market. God forbid you should take a vacation and miss that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that could happen at any moment.

On again, off again. Hurry up and wait. All dressed up with no address to go to. Weeks and months of looking hard but finding nothing.

Until suddenly, a house appears out of the blue.

It’s perfect…except for the fact that five other buyers with competing offers seem to have had the same revelation.

So many questions for all those would-be buyers lining up in the queue. What are they waiting for, exactly? Is 2019 really going to be any different? Is that flood of new listings really on its way?

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Where the locals shop since 1938.

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WINE Ingredients & FOOD PAIRING 2 tablespoons honey 4 cloves garlic, minced 2 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce 1 tablespoon no salt ketchup ½ tablespoon sweet chili sauce ½ teaspoon dried oregano 4 (4 ounces each) bone-in pork chops, fat trimmed 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon butter chopped fresh parsley, for garnish

PORK ■ PORK CHOPS, Center Cuts/ 3.98 Lb ■ SIRLOIN PORK CHOPS/ 2.98 Lb ■ PORK CHOPS, Thick Cut/ 3.98 Lb ■ COUNTRY-STYLE PORK RIBS/ 2.98 Lb

LUNCH MEAT ■ BOAR’S HEAD BOLOGNA/ 6.98 Lb ■ BOAR’S HEAD CHICKEN BREAST/ 8.98 Lb ■ BOAR’S HEAD MORTADELLA/ 6.98 Lb

SAUSAGE ■ POLISH KIELBASA/ 6.98 Lb

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 400F. 2. In a small mixing bowl combine honey, garlic, soy sauce, ketchup, chili sauce, and oregano; mix until thoroughly combined.

3. Place pork chops in a large bowl, pour the sauce over the pork chops, and mix it all around.

4. Heat olive oil in an oven safe 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat.

5. Add the pork chops and sauce to the skillet; sear chops on both sides until just browned, about 2 minutes per side.

6. Remove from heat, add the butter, and place pork chops in the preheated oven.

7. Cook for an additional 15 to 18 minutes, or until cooked through. Pork chops are cooked through when internal temperature reaches 160F. 8. Remove from oven and transfer the pork chops to a serving plate.

9. Spoon the sauce over the chops, garnish with parsley, and serve.

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21.99)/ 11.99 ■ FRANCIS COPPOLA Pitagora Red (Reg 31.99)/ 13.99

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■ 2012 CHÂTEAU TOUR PIBRAN, Pauillac (90WS)/ 31.99 ■ 2010 CHÂTEAU TOUR HAUT-CAUSSAN, Médoc (90WA)/ 32.99 ■ 2014 CHÂTEAU LES CRUZELLES, Lalande-de-Pomerol (91WA)/ 35.99 ■ 2012 CHÂTEAU DE PEZ, Saint Estèphe (94WE)/ 44.99 ■ 2010 CHÂTEAU DE KIRWAN, Margaux (92WA)/ 59.99

CHUCK PYLE, 54-Year Customer, Santa Cruz

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Occupation: Woodworker/owner,Wood Chuck Hobbies: Gardening, diving, music, cooking You’ve shopped here quite awhile, is Shopper’s your main store? Yes, I’m here three to four times a week. I think Shopper’s environment is lovely.You walk in and the store is always clean and tidy and nicely laid out.With their great cheeses, breads, wines — amazingly good sale wines at $4/$5/$6 below the meat counter — and their many specialty products, you can put together an entire picnic lunch — including the picnic basket — and head down to the beach! Fun trivia: Grab a shopping cart and you’ll find that the store tilts from the breads to the eggs and from the dairy products to produce!

What do you like to cook? As of late a lot of pasta. I may start with a novelty pasta — Shopper’s carries a terrific variety — and I’ll toss in some chard; then I may add some ravioli. I really like Shopper’s sausages, prawns and other seafood items.Their avocados are always ripe and ready.All of their produce is beautiful. I grow quite a bit myself, and have sold them some squash, pineapple guavas, persimmons and more.

Produce or meat, I appreciate that none is packaged.The butcher shop is cleaner than any other meat department.And they employ real butchers who are knowledgeable and helpful.

If someone is new to the community, what would you tell them about Shopper’s? Don’t waste your time going some place else.

Everybody shops at Shopper’s. I run into old friends all the time and find that it’s a good place to meet new people, too. Everyone is friendly at Shopper's, staff included.They treat all customers well. Shopper’s is not only a landmark but a solid part of the community.They’ve been here over 80 years.They do things right so they’ll be around with our support. I like that my money spent at Shopper’s stays in the community and that they hire locals, especially high school students.

“I like that my money spent at Shopper’s stays in the community and that they hire locals, especially high school students.”

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