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EDITOR’S NOTE I’ve interviewed many of my favorite (and least favorite!) musicians over the years, and I can attest that sometimes the best profile subjects turn out to be not the most famous ones, but the ones that should have been more famous—that history somehow let get away. The cult figures and the trailblazers who never got the appreciation they deserved.

That’s probably why, despite the fact that talking to Lou Reed and Patti Smith were bigger moments for me personally, my favorite musician

profile I’ve ever done will probably always be the one I wrote about San Jose’s Legendary Stardust Cowboy a decade ago. His history had never really been told—but deserved to be.

It’s the same reason that I think Christina Waters’ cover story this week on Terry Riley is so important.

He may not be as famous as Philip Glass (who we’ve also interviewed in GT) or Brian Eno, but his compositions in the 1960s were just as groundbreaking. It’s nice to see his work celebrated by New Music Works at their Feb. 2 concert— really, would you expect any less from Santa Cruz County’s new music maniacs?—and it’s a great opportunity to give his story the attention it deserves.

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We must take issue with the advice given

by Priyanka Runwal of UCSC regarding planting milkweed to help the Monarch butterflies (GT, 1/2). According to a Santa Cruz Sentinel article published on September 27, there were more than 10 million Monarch butterflies wintering in California in 1980. That number “plummeted to about 147,000 in the fall of 2017—fewer than used to flock to Natural Bridges State Beach alone in the 1980s.”

Only 9,000 butterflies were counted at Natural Bridges last year. This year, there were 1,000. The same article attributes this precipitous drop in the western Monarch population to loss of milkweed due to settlement, agriculture and climate change.

This is not the first time I have heard a UCSC entomologist advise us not to plant non-native species of milkweed due to the possibility of disrupting the insects’ migration patterns. This advice, if taken, will ensure the destruction of the species. When the western Monarch is extinct, shall we be comforted by the fact that we did nothing that might disturb their migration patterns?

For several years now, my wife and I have planted whatever species of milkweed we could obtain from local nurseries and online seed vendors to attract the butterflies and capture Monarch caterpillars for our hatchery. The hatchery consists of

a small glass cage with a door and a jar full of milkweed cuttings. When ready, the caterpillars climb to the top of the cage and form chrysalis. After about 10 days, they hatch into adults. Over the last three seasons, we have hatched and released over 700 Monarchs.

Most of this breeding activity occurs in the summer. The plants go to seed in the fall, when we collect the seeds and cut back the plants. We have not observed parasites passed from the plants, but it is important to protect the hatchery from flies. Ladybugs released by well-meaning gardeners have also been problem, as they eat the Monarch larvae. When we have seen any sign of disease (which, in our experience, almost always affects the chrysalis), we sterilize the hatchery, destroy the milkweed cuttings, and start anew. We never use any pesticides. A monarch caterpillar has about a 3 percent chance of becoming an adult butterfly in the wild. In our hatchery, the result is well over 90 percent.

Raising Monarchs is very easy to do and a delight to watch. Children are captivated by the experience and readily become active participants in caterpillar collection.

With regular attention, we are hatching 250 butterflies per year, and our backyard paradise is visited daily by butterflies, bees and dozens of species of birds, depending on weather and the season.

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Families and individuals receiving early CalFresh benefits should plan their food budgets knowing these will be the only benefits provided through the end of February.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of January 16 ARIES Mar21–Apr19 In 1917, leaders of the Christian sect Jehovah's Witnesses prophesied that all earthly governments would soon disappear and Christianity would perish. In 1924, they predicted that the ancient Hebrew prophet Moses would be resurrected and speak to people everywhere over the radio. In 1938, they advised their followers not to get married or have children, because the end of civilization was nigh. In 1974, they said there was only a “short time remaining before the wicked world's end.” I bring these failed predictions to your attention, Aries, so as to get you in the mood for my prediction, which is: all prophecies that have been made about your life up until now are as wrong as the Jehovah Witnesses’ visions. In 2019, your life will be bracingly free of old ideas about who you are and who you’re supposed to be. You will have unprecedented opportunities to prove that your future is wide open.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 Movie critic Roger Ebert defined the term “idiot plot” as “any film plot containing problems that would be solved instantly if all of the characters were not idiots.”

I bring this to your attention because I suspect there has been a storyline affecting you that in some ways fits that description. Fortunately, any temptation you might have had to go along with the delusions of other people will soon fade. I expect that as a result, you will catalyze a surge of creative problem-solving. The idiot plot will transform into a much smarter plot.

GEMINI May21–June20 In 1865, Prussia’s political leader, Otto von Bismarck, got angry when an adversary, Rudolf Virchow, suggested cuts to the proposed military budget. Bismarck challenged Virchow to a duel. Virchow didn’t want to fight, so he came up with a clever plan. As the challenged party, he was authorized to choose the weapons to be used in the duel. He decided upon two sausages. His sausage would be cooked; Bismarck’s sausage would be crammed with parasitic roundworms. It was a brilliant stratagem. The proposition spooked Bismarck, who backed down from the duel. Keep this story in mind if you’re challenged to an argument, dispute or conflict in the coming days. It’s best to figure out a tricky or amusing way to avoid it altogether.

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CANCER Jun21–Jul22

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An imaginative 27-year-old man with the pseudonym Thewildandcrazyoli decided he was getting too old to keep his imaginary friend in his life. So he took out an ad on Ebay, offering to sell that long-time invisible ally, whose name was John Malipieman. Soon his old buddy was dispatched to the highest bidder for $3,000. Please don’t attempt anything like that in the coming weeks, Cancerian. You need more friends, not fewer—both of the imaginary and non-imaginary variety. Now is a ripe time to expand your network of compatriots.

LE0 Jul23–Aug22 In December 1981, novice Leo filmmaker James Cameron got sick, fell asleep and had a disturbing dream. He saw a truncated robot armed with kitchen knives crawling away from an explosion. This nightmare ultimately turned out to be a godsend for Cameron. It inspired him to write the script for the 1984 film The Terminator, a successful creation that launched him on the road to fame and fortune. I’m expecting a comparable development in your near future, Leo. An initially weird or difficult event will actually be a stroke of luck.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Psychologists define the “spotlight effect” as our tendency to imagine that other people are acutely attuned to every little nuance of our behavior and appearance.

The truth is that they’re not, of course. Most everyone is primarily occupied with the welter of thoughts buzzing around inside his or her own head. The good news, Virgo, is that you are well set up to capitalize on this phenomenon in the coming weeks. I’m betting you will achieve a dramatic new liberation: you’ll be freer than ever before

from the power of people’s opinions to inhibit your behavior or make you self-conscious.

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22 What North America community is farthest north? It’s an Alaskan city that used to be called Barrow, named after a British admiral. But in 2016, local residents voted to reinstate the name that the indigenous Iñupiat people had ˙ once used for the place: Utqiagvik.

In accordance with astrological omens, I propose that in the coming weeks, you take inspiration from their decision, Libra. Return to your roots. Pay homage to your sources. Restore and revive the spirit of your original influences.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 The Alaskan town of Talkeetna has a population of 900, so it doesn’t require a complicated political structure to manage its needs. Still, it made a bold statement by electing a cat as its mayor for 15 years. Stubbs, a partmanx, won his first campaign as a write-in candidate, and his policies were so benign—no new taxes, no repressive laws—that he kept getting re-elected. What might be the equivalent of having a cat as your supreme leader for a while, Scorpio? From an astrological perspective, now would be a favorable time to implement that arrangement.

This phase of your cycle calls for relaxed fun and amused mellowness and laissez-faire jauntiness.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 Trees need to be buffeted by the wind. It makes them strong. As they respond to the pressure of breezes and gusts, they generate a hardier kind of wood called “reaction wood.” Without the assistance of the wind’s stress, trees’ internal structure would be weak and they might topple over as they grew larger. I’m pleased to report that you’re due to receive the benefits of a phenomenon that’s metaphorically equivalent to a brisk wind. Exult in this brisk-but-low-stress opportunity to toughen yourself up!

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 Writing at The Pudding, pop culture commentator Colin Morris reveals the conclusions he drew after analyzing 15,000 pop songs. First, the lyrics of today's tunes have significantly more repetition than the lyrics of songs in the 1960s. Second, the most popular songs, both then and now, have more repetitive lyrics than the average song. Why? Morris speculates that repetitive songs are catchier. But in accordance with current astrological omens, I encourage you Capricorns to be as un-repetitive as possible in the songs you sing, the messages you communicate, the moves you make, and the ideas you articulate. In the coming weeks, put a premium on originality, unpredictability, complexity, and novelty.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 In May 1927, Aquarian aviator Charles Lindbergh made a pioneering flight in his one-engine plane from New York to Paris. He became instantly famous. Years later, Lindbergh testified that part-way through his epic journey he was visited by a host of odd, vaporous beings who suddenly appeared in his small cabin. They spoke with him, demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of navigation and airplane technology. Lindbergh’s spirits were buoyed. His concentration, which had been flagging, revived. He was grateful for their unexpected support. I foresee a comparable kind of assistance becoming available to you sometime soon, Aquarius. Don’t waste any time being skeptical about it; just welcome it.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 More than four centuries ago, a Piscean samurai named Honda Tadakatsu became a leading general in the Japanese army. In the course of his military career, he fought in more than a hundred battles. Yet he never endured a major wound and was never beaten by another samurai. I propose we make him your inspirational role model for the coming weeks. As you navigate your way through interesting challenges, I believe that like him, you’ll lead a charmed life. No wounds. No traumas.

Just a whole lot of educational adventures.

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A SARDONIC PROPOSAL Hear, hear, James S., for your compassionate solution re: the couple who’ve come to Santa Cruz for a fresh start (GT, 1/9). Are they kidding? Come to our lovely town where Mother Nature regularly smiles down upon us truly deserving citizens? Where most folks are generally open and inviting? What’ve they been smoking? They need to head to an urban jungle somewhere, where they’ll be made to feel like the losers they are, and

be able to face the hard reality of a truly solipsistic existence … like James has so masterfully accomplished! Problem solved!

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HOLE NEW AWARENESS A plot at Purissima Cemetery in Half Moon Bay, which has become a green burial pioneer.

Ever Green ‘Cremation conversion’ and natural burials BY JUNE SMITH JANUARY 16-22, 2019 | GOODTIMES.SC | SANTACRUZ.COM

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hen my husband Jim died in 2003, it was an obvious choice to scatter his ashes at the Santa Cruz Mountains Estate Vineyard we co-owned with our winery partner.

Benito & Azzaro’s Pacific Garden Chapel handled our funeral services and arranged for his cremation. Soon after, to protect my family from future cost increases, I locked in my own funeral plan there by pre-paying at current rates.

It was my intention to be cremated—that is, until I read a 2017 GT article by Maria Grusauskas about how “Eco-Friendly Burial Practices May Make Death Greener.” I’d been dedicated to organic, chemicalfree living since the ‘70s, so a green burial plan got my attention immediately.

Though environmental impacts aren't often the focal point of funerals, American burials put 1.6 million tons of reinforced concrete, 20 million feet of wood, 17,000 tons of copper and bronze, and 64,500 tons of steel into the ground.

But what is a green burial?

The Green Burial Council, an environmental certification organization setting the standard in North America, states that a burial is green only when it furthers legitimate environmental and social aims, such as protecting worker health, reducing carbon emissions, conserving natural resources, and preserving habitat.

Levels of environmental benefits are detailed in the organization’s standards and eco-rating system.

Soquel Cemetery is a hybrid burial ground, or a conventional cemetery

allowing green burial. Purissima Cemetery in Half Moon Bay rates as a natural burial ground.

The green rating system excludes concrete vaults and the use of embalming fluids in the body. Only caskets made of untreated pine or wicker, markers made of natural field stones, and linen or cotton shrouds can be used for the burial.

Costs for green burial are lower because of the restrictions on caskets, embalming and elaborate headstones. Plots at Purissima run from $3,000 to $5,000, while conventional burials can cost up to $12,000, plus $6,000 or more for extra services.

Ed Bixby, owner of Purissima Cemetery since 2017, has been restoring the dense, overgrown grounds to their original natural beauty. The 5.5-acre property along

Purissima Creek is surrounded by massive cedar and pine trees with sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean.

His term, "cremation conversion," refers to individuals who originally planned for cremation but after visiting the grounds decided on a natural burial.

At the invitation of Patricia Kimie, pre-arrangement counselor and advocate for green burial at The Benito & Azzaro Chapel, I joined her for the idyllic drive to Half Moon Bay to visit Purissima. After meeting Bixby and touring the lush grounds, I felt deeply inspired to consider a cremation conversion of my own.

Bixby says that religious and ethnic groups often ask for their own private section, but he declines. “We’re all from the same earth; there’s no need for division now,” he says.

When he acquired his first cemetery in New Jersey after his brother’s burial, Bixby asked the state to fund a clean-up of the unkempt grounds. The response was that the only way to raise money was to sell plots. He became certified with the sole intention of raising enough money to clean it up. After witnessing his first green burial, he says, "I saw the effect it had on the family and got a new passion for what I was doing.” Then he began getting natural burial requests from California and a search led him to Purissima.

According to historian and author Mitch Postel, the cemetery is all that’s left of a town in the 1860s that had a saloon, hotel, schoolhouse, store, livery stable and post office.

While I hadn’t even heard the term green burial until two years ago, a conversation with my neighbor, Margaret Hammond Larson, made the concept real. I learned that when her daughter died five years ago, she and her son chose a beautiful spot in Soquel Cemetery designated as green.

As for how my four grown kids will react, I’m sure they’ll honor my wishes after they see the oceanview plots at Purissima. With the blessing of my Creator, I visualize this “blue-minded”—as Wallace J. Nichols might put it—woman’s soul uniting in glorious harmony with the brilliant blue sea.

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NEWS WEIRD RACISM A local magazine’s nod to the KKK illustrates Santa Cruz’s racial blind spot

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BY LAUREN HEPLER

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Ah, Santa Cruz. The city where street performers with a penchant for pink umbrellas and techies into one-wheeled electric skateboards are free to “Dream Weird.”

Such carefree nostalgia seemed to be the gist of a five-page article in the winter issue of local magazine Santa Cruz Style—that is, until you see the photo of a figure in the white robes and hood synonymous with America’s most notorious hate group standing under a hot pink awning that says “Bikinis Beach & Sport.” A caption reads, “A Ku Klux Klan member makes a phone call from a pay phone on Beach Street in Santa Cruz.”

The decision to run the photo absent historical context not once but twice, also in the magazine’s table of contents, has sparked condemnation online and and letters to the editor at multiple area media outlets, including GT. Last week, Santa Cruz Style quietly deleted the photo from its online edition, though print copies are still available at some newsstands that distribute the free quarterly lifestyle publication.

Brenda Griffin first saw the photo when a concerned reader copied her local chapter of the NAACP on a letter to Santa Cruz Style two weeks ago. After Griffin’s initial reaction—“I was incensed. I was insulted. I was outraged.”—she says the lack of explanation and magnitude of the image set in.

“I’m saying to myself, ‘This has nothing to do with Santa Cruz’s weirdness,’” Griffin says. “It’s insulting because of the history— the violence and the torture and the murder of black Americans. To use that image to represent Santa Cruz, the town in which I live, is mind-boggling.”

Amid national controversy over white supremacist rallies, confederate statues and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, Santa Cruz has also seen racial tension boil over in recent years. In 2017, a UCSC administrative building was “reclaimed” by student activists with the Afrikan Black Coalition, who occupied the building for three days calling for more support for students of color. Months later, Westside restaurant O’mei Szechuan Chinese closed after the owner’s 2016 campaign donations to former >16

SEE CHANGE City Councilmember Chris Krohn, who has a new majority, says the city should add new members

to a group studying possible changes to Santa Cruz’s elections, as well as councilmember pay.

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Should Santa Cruz City Council stack its newly formed election committee with new members? BY JACOB PIERCE

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ome Santa Cruz leaders are pushing to expand a special committee tasked with examining the city’s elections, as well as the basic framework of the town’s government.

The 2018 election has come and gone. Three new members have been seated, and the Santa Cruz City Council is considering adding five new members to the town’s 13-member Charter Amendment Committee.

That council-appointed task force had its first two meetings last year.

Now, members of the newly minted City Council majority say that their suggested change would give more folks a seat at the committee’s table.

“Having diverse representation is important,” says Councilmember

Sandy Brown, who endorsed both Justin Cummings and Drew Glover, two of the council’s three new members. Councilmember Chris Krohn, who is part of the push to add members to the task force, says he defines diversity in this context as “pulling people from various economic backgrounds, as well ethnicities and race and gender.”

But the change would also allow the council’s majority—Krohn, Brown, Cummings, and Glover—to partially reshape the overall makeup of the committee. The news has raised concerns about the intentions behind the possible shift, as well as about what they would mean for the future of the city.

Cummings, now the vice mayor,

and Glover both expressed an interest in picking committee members who might share their values. Donna Meyers, the council’s other newly elected member, said she would prefer to keep the Charter Amendment Committee at the size that it is now. The council was scheduled to vote on Tuesday, Jan. 8, but ultimately decided to put off the decision until a later date.

I spoke with a member of the watchdog group Common Cause, who says he has never heard of a city considering such a change to a special committee that had already been seated.

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“The council should play by the rules and not try to change the committee in the middle of the process,” says Lopez-Calderon, who’s based in San Diego. Without knowing the council’s true intentions, Lopez-Calderon adds, a change to the committee’s membership could potentially be warranted, provided that the electeds can prove that the current committee is lacking in a certain kind of diversity—and if the council has a specific plan remedy that issue.

Others are supportive of the move, arguing that it can be generally beneficial to bring wider-ranging representation to city discussions like these. That’s particularly the case when the scope of a body is as large as this committee’s is, says Pedro Hernandez, the senior policy advisor for FairVote, which has supported a

campaign to introduce ranked-choice voting to the city of Santa Cruz.

Krohn, for his part, says the suggested changes are “just leveling the playing field,” adding that he thinks the body could benefit from seating more students, in addition to committee member Keshav Kumar.

If the changes to the group go through, the committee would be the city’s largest council-appointed body in more than 15 years.

No one I talked to at the city— Brown and Krohn included—can remember the last time that the City Council added new members to a committee after it began meeting, nor the last time that an election necessitated a change in a committee’s makeup.

Over the summer, some councilmembers s recommended that the council pump the brakes and slow down on picking committee members, partly because the makeup of the council itself was about to change with

elections just around the corner.

Before Krohn’s favorite candidates won their election bids, he was not one of the councilmembers who felt that way. “That happens all the time,” Krohn said at the time. “When you get elected to the council, all the commissioners are selected by past councilmembers who are off the council, so I don’t see a problem with that.”

Mayor Martine Watkins said last week that the idea of reversing course now and adding new members strikes her as odd.

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When he does, he rolls across the bike and pedestrian path slowly. If he comes across a pedestrian going the other way, he stops to let them pass.

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On Thursday, Jan. 10, Van Allen, a former Santa Cruz mayor, hung out with hundreds of other transportation activists and politicians at the groundbreaking ceremony for construction of the rail trail in a Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk parking lot.

Under a brisk, sunny sky, Mayor Martine Watkins took to the microphone first, followed by fellow leaders like RTC Chair Ed Bottorff and Bike Santa Cruz County’s Janneke Strause. Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing,

meanwhile, poured its Rail Trail IPA into commemorative pint glasses, and members of Friends of the Rail and Trail—which advocates for a combination of a commuter train and a trail down the corridor, an approach that the RTC has generally supported— were in full celebration mode.

Their rival nonprofit Greenway has pushed back, arguing, in part, that ridership projections are anemic and that the trail would be inadequately narrow if shoved next to running locomotives.

The group has called for other solutions, including a trail-only plan or bus-rapid transit.

Greenway’s new Executive Director Manu Koenig says that he’s happy about the new 340-foot-long bridge improvement, although he’s more sanguine about the celebration’s underlying significance in the county’s

wider transportation strategy.

Many cyclists were hoping that a much longer leg of the rail trail—segment 7, stretching from Natural Bridges Drive to downtown—would have been finished by now. Instead it’s been beset by multiple delays and hasn’t broken ground. Even six months ago, Santa Cruz civil engineers were boasting that construction would begin by the end of summer of 2018.

But when bids came in above budget, the Santa Cruz City Council rejected the proposals, opting to try to get more funding, clarify the contract wording and send the project to bid again.

“Have a beer, say a cheer,” Koenig told GT sarcastically, as rail trail supporters toasted around him. “Let’s party.”

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KKK leader David Duke came to light. Art exhibitions like photographer Allison Garcia’s “Black Lives in Santa Cruz: What Matters” have also pushed residents to consider a lack of racial diversity and common slights— conscious or not—in a county where about 1 percent of residents are black, 2017 Census data shows.

In the case of the recent KKK photo, “We’re always disappointed when we see things like this, but we weren’t incredibly surprised,” says a representative of UCSC’s Black Student Union, who declined to give their name after the group received death threats following the 2017 campus occupation. “The casual context was pretty indicative. Santa Cruz is so cut off and such a big bubble that it’s almost like blind sheep leading the blind.”

On Jan. 10, Santa Cruz Style Editor Michael Seal Riley wrote a public post on the magazine’s Facebook page acknowledging “numerous posts concerning the historic photo.” The image, shot by longtime photojournalist Dan Coyro first appeared in the Santa Cruz Sentinel in 1999, Riley wrote, before numerous follow-up stories about the subject and his eventual suicide.

“I felt the juxtaposition between the

person's outfit and surf shop created a unique photo,” Riley wrote in the Facebook post. “The photographer and I both felt it represented the wide range of ‘weird or unusual’ people that over the years have called Santa Cruz home.” Though some readers felt the photo was “harmless,” Riley wrote, he added that the magazine’s staff and advertisers “of course” do not support the hate group.

The explanation has done little to temper backlash, both on- and offline. Sharla Jacobs, CEO of business consultancy Thrive Academy, is among those who have posted the magazine’s advertisers on Facebook and urged others to voice their concerns.

“If you live in Santa Cruz and you want to stop perpetuating racism, please call their advertisers and complain,” Jacobs wrote.

“They obviously aren’t getting it.”

Griffin also says the explanation falls short. Ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. day next week, she quotes the civil rights icon: “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance.” Still, she says, her goal is not to shame Riley, but to meet with him. While she says the editor has yet to respond, the NAACP is in talks about a community discussion with local religious and social justice groups, including Temple Beth El, the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Innerlight Ministries.

Neither Riley nor Coyro respond to GT’s requests for comment. The author of the story, local writer Ryan Masters, says he was unaware of the photo “until I opened the finished magazine.” (At many media organizations, reporters do not select images or write headlines for their stories.)

“My article has nothing to do with the KKK or racism in any form,” Masters tells GT in an email. “I was totally baffled by the decision and felt the photo was at best a bizarre non sequitur, at worst a totally tone deaf and potentially offensive mistake.”

As for what comes next, representatives of the Black Student Union say that Riley’s online comments about encouraging “dialogue on the subject” ring hollow given ongoing local issues. In November, for instance, a student rally ended in reports of physical altercations with police, sparking calls this month for an official review of the incident from UCSC’s ethnic studies faculty.

“We make the effort and we’ve been making the effort,” the representative says.

“There’s only so much we can do.”

The 2019 MLK March For the Dream will start at 10 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 21 at Cathcart Street & Pacific Avenue; details at cityofsantacruz.com. UCSC’s Black Student Union offers one-on-one support for local residents of color at bsu.slugs@gmail.com.

that anyone can agree on what the problems are.

However, city councilmembers of all stripes have complained over the years that voters find the current setup of Santa Cruz’s council elections confusing. Under the city charter, Santa Cruz’s city operations aren’t run by the mayor, but rather by its city manager. The sevenmember City Council is only parttime, and the mayor isn’t elected by the voters. Instead, the leading role rotates between councilmembers, with various members each serving one year at a time.

The new elections committee is looking at a long list of possible changes to the system, including the concept of having a directly elected mayor, increasing councilmember pay, changing the size of the council, tweaking term-limit rules, implementing ranked-choice voting, and switching to a system of district elections.

After the committee wraps up this summer, their recommendations will go to the City Council. Significant changes would require approval from city voters at the polls.

LONG DIVISION Last week’s discussion about the committee was understandably overshadowed by a vote about banning no-cause evictions. The council voted 4-3 to take the first step toward implementing temporary tenant protections similar to portions of Measure M, the local rent control initiative which 62 percent of voters opposed at the polls in November.

While the anti-rent control group Santa Cruz Together painted it as a brazen attempt to force a rule that voters had overwhelmingly already shut down, supporters praised the new effort as an important step to provide relief for renters. The council also finalized a new law aimed at penalizing landlords who enact significant rent increases by forcing them to pay relocation assistance if their tenants get priced out.

That debate may have stolen the headlines, but it’s the tension over the city’s election committee that is exposing a rift over political power and questions of process.

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Of the current 13-member committee, seven members were appointed by individual councilmembers this past fall. The council then voted on a pool of 13 applicants to determine the other six committee members, two of them nominated by Krohn.

Under the new proposal, which the council discussed Jan. 8, each of the three new councilmembers would get to appoint one member to the committee, and the council would approve two additional members.

Krohn says that he generally doesn’t like the idea of district elections, but he insists that he isn’t trying to tip the scales with this move. “I’m interested in what’s going to come out of the committee’s conversations, but I’m not at all sure that they’re going to come out with something I want,” he says.

I’ve watched a few special councilappointed bodies wade through touchy subjects over the years.

When they wrap up, the council does often make tweaks to whatever recommendations come back to them. Krohn emphasizes that the real decision on how to proceed with these matters will, in fact, be left up to the council.

But that’s part of what makes this saga so confusing. If the council’s going to have the final say over the matter, why stack the committee with people that you think are more likely to agree with you?

“I just wanted to see a robust debate,” says Krohn.

The proposal was originally on the council’s consent agenda, which is reserved for items thought to be non-controversial. Councilmember Cynthia Mathews, however, pulled it from the consent agenda, demanding a full discussion. After 40 minutes of deliberation, the council voted to put off the matter until a later meeting.

Before that happened, though, Glover, Cummings and Mathews each mentioned that they were open to adding just three new members instead of five as a compromise.

Krohn, however, drew a line in the sand last week and insisted that he wasn’t willing to budge. “We are talking about politics,” Krohn said.

“It’s real important to have more voices in a group like this.”

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Beyond Boundaries Terry Riley shredded the musical status quo in the ’60s with the pioneering ‘In C,’ ‘Tread on the Trail,’ and the psychedelics-inspired ‘A Rainbow in Curved Air.’ Now, New Music Works gives him the local tribute his genius deserves BY CHRISTINA WATERS

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f you’ve heard the intro to the Who’s “Baba O’Riley,” you’ve heard the influence of Terry Riley. In the wake of his genius with tape loops and interlocking repetitions came Philip Glass, Brian Eno, Riley’s many commissions for the Kronos Quartet, and inevitably, countless rock feedback loop knockoffs. Unlike Glass, whose minimalism explores process-based abstraction, Riley pushed onward, interweaving electronic cycles and jazz tropes with serious engagement in world music, notably the hypnotic rhythms and melodic improvisations of Indian raga. As inventive as Bach and audacious as Miles Davis, the California-born new music guru has soared into the mystic ever since.

Riley shredded the musical status quo with In C in 1964.

Loosely controlled improv met jazz swing in Tread on the Trail (1965). After completing an MFA in Composition at Berkeley, Riley headed for the jazz clubs of Paris, where he played piano for rent money with greats like Chet Baker. Transformed by psychedelics, his musical quest went supernova with the much-adored A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969), with its droning organ and bubbling melodic patterns that defined the future of layered electronica. Suddenly there were no boundaries, either to what his generation wanted to hear or what he was willing to discover.

Now, the world master of the restless arpeggio will bring his voice, keyboards and sense of wonder to Santa Cruz on Feb. 2 for a plunge into electronic invention. The headliner for the next New Music Works 40th season concert, Riley, now 83, will join the NMW ensemble for a concert devoted almost entirely to his music.

Riley’s performance will display his long immersion in Indian classical music and why, as new music aficionado Sarah Cahill puts it, “the classical music establishment has never known what to do with his music, and how freely he moves between Indian

raga, jazz, minimalism, ragtime, and other genres.” The concert will conclude with a NMW ensemble performance of Riley’s Tread on the Trail, one of his improvisationally bold and most widely interpreted pieces, in which his jazz origins break open new territory.

“The object is to free yourself of all set composition,” Riley told me in a recent phone interview. “That takes the aliveness out of the music. The point is to surprise yourself as you go.”

‘TRAIL’ BLAZING Tread On the Trail was born after Riley heard a concert with the tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins in San Francisco. “It was an interesting night,” Riley has said, “because he just sat up on the stage, and he would start improvising something with his horn, and he would kind of glance at the musicians and expect them to interact with the music he was playing.” Riley then concocted his jazzy canon of six repeated lines for a San Francisco State University band he played with.

The version he’ll perform in Santa Cruz will include flute, clarinet, tenor saxophone, violin, cello, double bass, piano, vibraphone, drum set, electric guitar, and acoustic guitar. Tread's

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title page reads, “For any number of instruments.” NMW’s arrangement has never been heard before.

As with his tradition-shattering In C, Tread invokes world music influences as well as intuitive collaboration among the musicians, who are free to negotiate duration and repetition of the piece's six lines of notation. Each time this piece is played, it is refreshed through the tempo, placement and instincts of the performers. Overlapping improvisations add depth and playfulness to a piece that is free to explore within the composer’s very loose parameters. Lightly structured freedom of form is Riley’s signature.

Compelling intensity is the result.

The score itself is fascinating. A single page of musical notation, six lines of 12 bars, plus one pivot bar.

Each line is a palindrome—at bar six, the sequence of notes reverses itself. The performance notes Riley provides encourage variation and play. “The six lines may be performed in a variety of ways,” the composer suggests. Musicians may play each line many times, enter and exit at any point—indeed, Riley’s notes specify, “any performer can decide at any time whether to play the line or the drone part that goes with the line.” Any number of musicians may be involved, and while Riley suggests that an ideal performance could last

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10-12 minutes, “longer and shorter performances can also be considered.”

PLAYER’S PERSPECTIVE "There’s lots of freedom in Riley’s work," says Stan Poplin, the double bass artist who will perform in Tread. “But freedom that requires far more boundaries.” NMW director Phil Collins proposed the idea to Poplin, who then found Klub Katarakt”s version on the Internet.

“That gave me some direction,” he says. “But then I saw the music and that changed everything.”

Poplin began forming a vision of how the piece might be performed, and will work on the “proper jazz feel,” thanks to Riley’s instructions for a swinging 1/16. (In lay terms, the 1/16 note is played in slight syncopation ahead of the beat.

Essentially, the feeling of music being “swung” is what makes jazz sound like jazz). Once that’s established, “We can work on a plan to present the material and how we will work through it,” Poplin says.

Poplin’s approach to the music is to “go through it very slowly, learn the notes and figure out the fingering.” After decades as a professional musician, Poplin is comfortable improvising.

“I find this kind of music exciting,” he says. “It’s the excitement of not knowing exactly what will happen, combined with the freedom to move in unexpected directions that makes this music particularly interesting to me." Poplin, who leads UCSC’s jazz ensemble, also plays with Nicole Paiement’s Opera Parallele performing classical music that is fully composed. “The result of that kind of musical setting is very much shaped by the composer’s intention,” he says. “Tread offers a different result—the excitement of the unknown and an opportunity to be freely playful in the process.”

Poplin will act as what he calls the “traffic conductor” of the ensemble during the performance.

“The tempo is easy to show,” he

DARE TO ‘TREAD’ Bassist Stan Poplin (left) and New Music Works director

Phil Collins have re-imagined Riley’s classic 1965 composition ‘Tread on the Trail’ for the Feb. 2 NMW event. PHOTO: JULES HOLDSWORTH says, demonstrating for me by breathing and raising his head as if indicating the start of the performance. “Then we could go into different grooves, like Latin, more jazz, or straight interpretation.”

Poplin, a 40-year NMW veteran, has worked with all the players who will be involved in this performance.

Three rehearsals are planned, plus meetings with NMW director Collins, mapping out ways to explore and interpret the piece. “I want the audience to feel that what we’ve done is not simply to indulge ourselves as performers,” says Poplin. “But to present it in a way that widens their ears and hopefully they’ll enjoy. A small town like Santa Cruz supporting new music for all these years. That's incredible.”

THE LONG VISION Collins—composer, conductor, guitarist, and world music educator—founded New Music Works 40 years ago, and has since worked with avant-garde pioneers like Lou Harrison, Aaron Jay Kernis,

Pauline Oliveros, Philip Glass, Sarah Cahill, and Larry Polansky.

A protege of Harrison’s, Collins had met Riley several time at his mentor’s estate. After Riley sent a donation for NMW’s 39th season benefit, Collins decided to make contact. “He’s part of the California experimental tradition, and after some negotiation he agreed to come,” says Collins.

Riley and Collins share world music interests. “Improv is at the basis of classical Indian music— that’s what you hear in his music,” Collins believes. “When he performs, as we’ll hear, he lets himself go where the material takes him.

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In a recent note to Collins, Riley suggested, “As far as Tread on the Trail goes, the one piece of advice I would offer is for the group to try to coalesce into a unison occasionally after treating the lines canonically. I don’t want to say too much because part of the fun is for the players to get creative and have fun with the chart and I love to be surprised by the solutions different groups come up with.”

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But I find that musicians need some architecture.” -TERRY RILEY <20 A performance note like this is a musician’s dream—a few guidelines, and then permission to get creative.

“As musicians, we look forward to seeing how it manifests,” says Collins.

“After each line is introduced, the players are encouraged to experiment canonically, which makes everyone’s different points of entries sound wonderfully unexpected and offkilter.”

Collins calls Tread for the Trail “a fascinating piece to address. It’s the most jazz vernacular I’ve encountered in Terry’s music, and a unique rhythmic application of repetitive cell improvisations,” says the NMW director, who will play amplified acoustic guitar in this piece. “Like In C, everyone plays from the same single sheet of music, six lines across an 11x17 sheet. We enter a new neighborhood on each line. We’ll begin by working through each line several times in unison, and then it starts to tweak away."

Riley is “a perfect fit for Santa Cruz,” says Collins. “He erases all boundaries, both within his musical works and in terms of his openness to musical traditions. He started with rock ’n’ roll and jazz roots— he seemed to come to the table somehow already ready.”

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Asked about his own performances, traveling all over the world from his home base in the Bay Area, Riley laughs. “I’m old now, and every day is a gift. Taking chances is easy—I have nothing to lose.” Riley’s mystique among professional musicians is built upon his sheer performance courage.

Armed with a cross-cultural lifetime of virtuosity and favored tropes,

the experimental master tends to approach the keyboard with only a sketch of a map. He is willing to lean way out on the edge and see what shows up. “Improvisation means you’re willing to crash and mess up in public. Putting yourself out there, that’s where the great moments are.”

Of the repetitive structures that ripple through his work—“a path toward ecstasy,” as he calls it— Riley says, “It happened accidentally.

I was living in Southern Spain and I went to Morocco, where the repeated musical cycles to achieve an altered state were an old tradition.”

Traveling onto India, where he eventually lived for several years, Riley found that, “Repetitive principles were millennia old. So I studied there, and now I do Indian classical vocal music as a daily practice.”

Asked whether he made music for the performer or for the listener, Riley responds: “The performer is also a listener. They make decisions according to their ears, not a set of notes on the page. I’ve tried to get further away from a written score.

But,” he says with a wry chuckle, “I find that musicians need some architecture.”

These days, Riley says he lives with music day in and day out.

“Indian classical vocal music, which I practice daily, hones your senses.

Almost all guided spontaneity taps into the free-floating universe of music out there,” he says.

He often performs with his guitarist son Gyan, but Riley says he no longer composes. “It’s much more real to have my existing music performed over and over. I keep

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Pre-concert talk with Terry Riley 6-6:45 p.m., concert 7:30 p.m. newmusicworks.org The program includes Riley’s works for piano four hands, 'Waltz for Charismas' (2003, commissioned by pianist Sarah Cahill) and 'Jaztine' (2000), as well as Terry Riley in performance.

Eighteen-year-old Alice Jen makes her debut with Sarah Cahill, premiering Phil Collins’ 'Going Places' (2018). To honor Frederic Rzewski’s 80th birthday, 'To the Earth' (1985) will be performed by percussionist Henry Wilson.

'Tread on the Trail' (1965) will be performed by an 11-member ensemble of NMW all-stars.

Preview this piece on Saturday, Jan. 19th, when Stan Poplin and Cary Nichols will play a version of 'Tread on the Trail' at R. Blitzer Gallery. 6-8 p.m. rblitzergallery.com.

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hearing new aspects each time. I work on improvisation daily, to keep sharp, like sparring with a partner.

I practice every day as if it’s for a performance.”

For the new music innovator, every concert is a unique experience.

“I like what happens with each interpretation,” Riley says. “I like to see it from the now, from fast to slow, the colors and shapes that emerge.”

He refuses to be labeled a conceptualist or a minimalist.

“That’s not me,” he says. Riley’s also pleased that audiences find emotional and expressive content in his work. “There’s no way to pin down a composing style.

Everything is a hybrid now because of availability of recorded music and the internet.”

Spontaneity defines his solo piano pieces. “Playing a concert is always affected by where I am, and how it feels that day. What the crowd is like. I like to keep it open.”

He says he uses, “the known and familiar to launch into unfamiliar territories. I am happiest as a performer when surprising directions in the musical flow occur that allow me to see and hear things from an unexpected angle.”

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“The community has responded overall really well to it ... kids run by and say, ‘Mom, you didn’t tell me we could paint on the walls outside!’ It’s really cool to see.” - AUGIE WK <24 it was too large, too colorful and offensive.

“The person just didn’t like me, and didn’t like what I was doing,” WK explained. “For me, it’s incredulous. I’ve been there since August, I was there on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. Those were the days I had off, so I had to work on it. For the most parts passersby can appreciate art, but not everyone apparently.”

Despite the fact that the mural was on private property, it was on a public throughway. The city billed WK almost $1,000 for a public hearing to approve the mural. After starting a GoFundMe page to foot the bill, the project got the mayor’s support and the city dropped the hearing, settling on a $187 signage fee.

WK’s 62-foot-long Sabor mural is inspired by candy, Latin serape blankets, and a love for big, bold colors. Look closely and Sabor— which means “flavor” in Spanish—is made up of hundreds of lines that WK and his girlfriend hand-painted.

Stand further away and the colors meld into one big, colorful image.

“I wanted to be a muralist all my life, and it’s not necessarily as easy as saying ‘Hey, let me turn your wall pretty,’” he says. “People really liked the idea at first, but I felt like they were bureaucratically a little shy. Watsonville is a working town, people are just trying to work and get by, and don’t want to deal with extra headaches. That’s what I felt like I was bringing at times when I was looking for a place for it.”

When he approached one of the partners of Don Rafa's Supermercado in Watsonville, his work was welcomed. This was WK’s largest project yet, and after receiving the grant he donated his time, working on the weekends to

try and get the mural done as soon as possible.

“The mural is my gift to the community,” he says. “The reason the word ‘Sabor’ hangs so high in the air is because I want people to be able to walk around in the rich color that is the three dimensionals of the word. Color is my favorite part about it. It’s mostly basic colors, but they are strategically placed. It’s like a serapre blanket, but it reflects the Mexican culture as a whole.”

Now that it’s complete, WK has been fighting the weather to set a grand opening date. He finally celebrated the unveiling on Jan. 13 and says around 100 people showed up to celebrate and support the mural.

“The community has responded overall really well to it,” he says. “The people who live nearby, they wake up and see it every morning. One lady told me she bought the house before the wall was built and used to have a great view of the skyline, then when the building went up she was really sad. But now she's really excited to see the mural, and says she’s so happy she bought the house. Kids run by and say, ‘Mom, you didn’t tell me we could paint on the walls outside!’ It’s really cool to see.”

WK says that the most common question he got at the event was, “What’s next?” Although he wants to take some much-needed time off, he’s already exploring his next project.

“I don’t have a plan for another mural, but I’ve had a lot of people approach me about their own projects and doing another mural,” he says. “My girlfriend and I also do screenprintings, so maybe I’ll do some shirts. I’d love to paint a mural the same size as this one. I really loved the response from people, so we’ll see.”

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The L.A. group performs on Saturday, Jan. 26, at the Crepe Place.

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he latest music video from L.A. indie dance-pop group Gardens & Villa is a delightfully fun montage of a man with bad vampire teeth meeting a woman and falling in love.

The song, “Underneath the Moon”— the first new song by the group in three years—is a surprisingly breezy synth-pop jam. Lyrically, it’s bittersweet in celebrating new love, but from the perspective of a person who deeply believed they would never find love again.

The making of the video matched the carefree tone of the music. It

was a spontaneous, almost silly affair arranged by guitarist/singer/ flute player Chris Lynch and his girlfriend.

“I had these vampire teeth and we had these elk ears. We just kind of improvised it,” Lynch says. “We filmed it all with just the two of us, and we were just having fun. It was one of the best nights of our summer.”

The song is also a sneak peak of the group’s upcoming album. Lynch is extremely excited about it, and says that “Underneath the Moon” isn’t a good indicator of what the rest of the album will sound like.

Like the band’s previous records, it’ll be all over the place, blending indie, synth-pop and post-punk.

“It’s the most I’ve ever put into a record before,” Lynch says. “It has a lot of passion. A lot of love. A lot of beers.”

The last album the group released was Music For Dogs back in 2015. They broke up shortly after due to internal conflict and the generally poor response the album got from fans.

The members have since reconciled, and have been working on this record for the past year and a half.

“This album is the most true I’ve

Gardens & Villa perform at 9 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26, at the Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $15.

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felt musically probably since our first album. It just feels honest and real. I think we had to die a little bit,” Lynch says. “When you're in a band with people, you tour for months and then you literally can't stand them.

Then when you’re away—I miss making love in our music together.”

In addition to dealing with the breakup of the band, the past couple of years haven’t been easy for Lynch.

In 2017, he dealt with the death of his best friend. Then last year, his musical mentor and Gardens & Villa producer Richard Swift passed away. Swift was supposed to help mix the new album in 2017, but he fell ill around that time.

“Basically, we wouldn't even be a band without him,” Lynch says. “He gave us our sound, our aesthetic. He was so instrumental to everything.

It was a huge loss for us.”

One appeal of Gardens & Villa has always been their deep, philosophical, conflicted records that tug back and forth on heady topics. This record has a story to it—one that Lynch doesn’t want to explicitly state—but it came out of the ups and downs of his life over the past few years. In addition to loss, there’s been new love, which inspired “Underneath the Moon.”

“The whole theme of the record, I would say, is death and life,” Lynch says. “There’s a good quote that I really was moved by: ‘Love is like death, it changes everything.’ It’s a heavy quote.”

Putting the vampire teeth in the video wasn’t just meant for a laugh; it represents the despair he had fallen into during the dark period of his life. His soon-to-be-girlfriend shook him out of that.

“I wasn’t going outside. I was crying all the time. Sleeping all day.

She helped me emerge from my cave—helped me survive through the darkness,” Lynch says. “We fell in love. That’s the rough gist of the story. Reemerging. But also feeling these waves of meaninglessness, like we're all going to die. I'm still wrestling with that. But also trying to embrace life and enjoy and love.”

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NATURALIST NIGHT: CALIFORNIA DINOSAURS This month, the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History’s Naturalist Night is all about the Mesozoic. Also known as the age of the reptiles, the Mesozoic era occurred around 65 million years ago.

Dinosaur fossils are few and far between in California, but their importance to dinosaurology far outweighs their numbers. This talk from UCSC lecturer Hilde Schwartz will focus on the types of dinosaurs that inhabited California, the environments in which they lived and died, why traces are rare, and what we’ve learned from their remains. The lecture will also include a discussion about California’s recently anointed state dinosaur: augustynolophus morrisi. Say that five times fast. Registration recommended.

7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17. Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, 1305 E Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. 420-6115. santacruzmuseum.org. Free with $4 general admission/$2 students and seniors.

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WEDNESDAY 1/16 ARTS FRIENDS OF THE SCPL BOOKSTORE SALE EVERY DAY The Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries Bookstore sell 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. Santa Cruz Public Library, 240 Church St., Santa Cruz. fscpl.org.

8 TENS @ 8 SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL This 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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ALL ABOUT THEATRE’S ‘HONK! THE MUSICAL’ Everyone knows the story of the ugly duckling, wven if they haven’t heard it in a while. Since this musical version composed by British duo Stiles and Drewe first hatched in 1993, it’s flown all over the world in over 8,000 productions. Winner of multiple awards, including the 2000 Olivier Award for Best Musical, this heartwarming story proves that being different isn’t a bad thing—sometimes it leads to greatness.

2 and 7 p.m. Friday Jan. 18-Saturday Jan. 26. Louden Nelson Community Theater, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. 345-6340. allabouttheatre.org. $16 general/$13 students and seniors.

a selection of work 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-4 p.m.

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

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SUNDAY 1/20 POLAR BEARS AND CLIMATE CHANGE Polar bears are an iconic symbol of climate change. These unique marine mammals exist in a remote and inhospitable Arctic where only a few scientists have documented their basic behaviors. Join post-doctoral research fellow at the San Diego Zoo Global Institute for Conservation Research, Anthony Pagano, to learn how advancements in electronic devices, combined with research on wild and captive polar bears, are helping scientists to understand how polar bears use sea ice and how they’re responding to its decline.

1:30-2:30 p.m. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz.

459-3800. seymourcenter.ucsc.edu. Free with $9 general/$7 senior. UCSC students free.

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

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

chronic disease. Learn easy ways to reduce your sugar intake, such as using sugar alternatives and how to read labels so you can make better choices. With certified nutrition consultant Madia Jamgochian. 1-2 p.m. or 6-7 p.m. New Leaf Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleaf.com. Free.

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Over-consuming added sugar, often hidden in unsuspected places, can contribute to

this casual study group, we will start getting our meditational feet wet by following a series

of renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher and writer Pema Chodrön’s user-friendly-butrevealing videos and meditations, all designed to help us break free of old habits and negative patterns. Join Denice Everham, a long-time meditation teacher and brain fitness coach for teachings and discussion. 6 p.m. Wisdom Center of Santa Cruz, 740 Front St. #155, Santa Cruz. wisdomcentersc.org. $10.

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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.

Science Sunday: Polar Bears and Climate Change, Living on Sea Ice in a Warming World

Basic Winter Fruit Tree Care: Pruning and More!

JANUARY 20, 1:30PM SEYMOUR MARINE DISCOVERY CENTER $0–$9/PERSON

Learn how to prune fruit trees to maximize health and production with Matthew Sutton of Orchard Keepers. Heavy rain cancels. Rainout date is Saturday, February 2. Please pre-register for this event.

Polar bears are an iconic symbol of climate change. Anthony Pagano explains how electronic devices are helping scientists to understand how polar bears adapt to declining sea ice.

JANUARY 26, 9:30AM–NOON FARM & GARDEN $0–$30/PERSON

Questions That Matter: Data and Democracy

ONGOING EVENTS

JANUARY 29, 7PM KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER $15/PERSON

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

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

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

New York City theater director Jessica Bauman explores how the stories we tell about refugees influence how we respond to the migration crisis. Her production of Arden/Everywhere reimagines Shakespeare’s As You Like It as a refugee story.

Foundation Medal Honoring Janet Yellen FEBRUARY 2, 6:30PM HOTEL NIA, MENLO PARK $100/PERSON; SPONSORSHIPS AVAILABLE

“Wandering Seminar” with Futurefarmers

Futurefarmers, a collaborative artist group, is in residence at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. Their project, “Fog Inquiry,” explores new modes of thinking and making.

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

Patrick Lopez-Aguado examines 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.”

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Santa Cruz County Spelling Bee JANUARY 26, NOON–3PM UCSC, 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.

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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.

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Land of the Jaguars: Wild Wetlands of South America FEBRUARY 5

Have Spacesuit, Will Travel

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.

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.

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An Evening with Madeleine Albright FEBRUARY 5, 7PM KAISER PERMANENTE ARENA $23/PERSON

Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. Secretary of State, will speak about her book, Fascism: A Warning, a personal and urgent examination of fascism in the 20th century and how its legacy shapes today’s world. Cosponsored by the Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.

Women’s Club Meeting FEBRUARY 11

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

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

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JANUARY 22, 5PM MARY PORTER SESNON FACULTY GALLERY, PORTER COLLEGE FREE ADMISSION

Janet Yellen, former chair of the Federal Reserve, will receive the UC Santa Cruz Foundation Medal. The award recognizes distinguished achievement that exemplifies the ideals of UC Santa Cruz.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation

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This is a meet and greet for current and future greyhound dog owners (not bus riders).

Greyhounds are perhaps most known for racing, but there’s much more to them than that. They are the most polite dogs around—they don’t really bark and are docile, affectionate and calm. But hopeful adopters beware: they are the cheetahs of the dog world and do need time to run around off leash. Can’t make it to this one? No problem.

Meet and greets are held every third Sunday each month.

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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.

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Members of the Santa Cruz and UC Santa Cruz community are invited to submit nominations to specialevents.ucsc.edu/mlk/ tony-hill-award-nomination.html The Tony Hill Memorial Award will be presented at the convocation.

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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.

10:30-11:30 a.m. Trinity Presbyterian

Church, 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. santacruzoa.org. Free.

SURVIVOR SUPPORT GROUP Is your partner violent or controlling?

Have you survived a sexual assault?

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

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

CALENDAR Chestnut St., Santa Cruz. 477-1377, scnmc. com. $29/$17.

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

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

VOLUNTEER NEW DOCENT ORIENTATION AT THE SANTA CRUZ MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Looking for a rewarding 2019 resolution? Join our team of volunteers at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History and help elementary school students foster strong connections to nature through science. 5-7:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, 1305 E. Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. santacruzmuseum.org. Free.

THURSDAY 1/17 ARTS TANNERY TALKS, CREATIVITY, SPIRITUALITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Finding the connection between art, spirit and cultural activism. Tannery resident, dancer, dance educator, Fulbright Scholar and dance historian Yasmina Porter will be the moderator. 7-8:30 p.m. Radius Gallery, 1050 River St., Santa Cruz. facebook.com/ events/2198299897088801/. Free.

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

We are partnering with the Pleasure Point Business Association to offer this monthly event. Refreshments will be served. 5-8 p.m.

Way of Life, 1220-A 41st Ave., Santa Cruz. pleasurepointguide.com. Free.

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

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

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.

BONE BROTH WORKSHOP Magali Brecke returns to give her popular workshop. Learn to choose, roast, boil, simmer, and chop your way to a deeply nourishing pot of bone broth. Sample beef, chicken and pork bone broths with her favorite flavor additions. 6-7:30 p.m. New Leaf Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. new leaf.com. $25.

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BOULDER CREEK LIBRARY COMMUNITY MEETING & DESIGN DISCUSSION Please join us to learn more about the plans for the renovation of the existing Boulder Creek library, and for an opportunity to share thoughts about the proposed plans for the new space. Boulder Creek Library, 13390 West Park Ave., Boulder Creek. santacruzpl.libcal.com. Free.

INTERNSHIP WORKSHOP FOR EMPLOYERS Looking for the perfect intern for your business? This interactive workshop is designed to help you do just that. Monterey Bay Economic Partnership with Community Foundation Santa Cruz County and Think Local First is hosting a free workshop for employers. Noon-1 p.m.

Community Foundation Santa Cruz, 7807 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz. cfscc.org. Free.

GIRLS WHO CODE: SESSION A Girls Who Code (GWC) is a program meant to bridge the gender gap in the field of tech.

In Session A, 3rd-5th grade girls will build sisterhood, read and reflect on the Girls Who Code book, and complete various challenges over a 10-week course. Participants must attend all classes. Space is limited and attendees MUST register. 3-4 p.m. Scotts Valley Library, 251 Kings Village Rd., Scotts Valley. santacruzpl.libcal.com. Free.

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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.

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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. 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.

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MUSIC TROUBLE IN THE WIND AT THE SANDBAR Trouble in the Wind are touring

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SPIRITUAL EXPLORING SPIRITUALITY A discussion group focusing on spirituality and ways to incorporate it into our daily lives. This group is not affiliated with any religion, nor is it a therapy group. Will meet Thursday evenings in the music room. Peace United Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. peaceunited.org. $10 donation.

FRIDAY 1/18 CLASSES CHAIR YOGA WITH SUZI Instructor Suzi

736 Chestnut Street downtown Santa Cruz 831.477.1377 www.scnmc.com

Mahler, CMT, NE, will guide you through a series of gentle seated yoga postures that are performed slowly and with breath

awareness. This wonderfully therapeutic practice will help you increase strength and range of motion. 9:30 a.m. California Grey Bears, 2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz.

234-6791. $5.

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

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

WINE & WATERCOLOR CLASS Spend a relaxing evening sipping wine and painting.

Paper, paint, brushes and still-life subject provided. Brief instruction by self-taught artist Madia Jamgochian. 6-8 p.m. New Leaf Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleaf. com. $18.

CALLINGS: IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHENTIC LIFE Join Gregg Levoy, bestselling author of Callings (Random House) and Vital Signs (Penguin) for this weekend exploration of your callings, whether in work, creativity, relationships or service. 7 p.m. 1440 Multiversity, 800 Bethany Drive, Scotts Valley. 1440.org. $305.

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

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

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

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“informative, entertaining, and thought-provoking.” – London Telegraph This stirring drama transports audiences to the turbulent backstage world of London’s Theatre Royal in the early 1800s.

Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of WEDS. THURS. FRI. SAT. SUN. his generation, has taken ill and can’t Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 26 Jan 25 Jan 27 2pm 8pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 2pm go on tonight as Othello, leaving his (Opening) (Preview) (Preview) 8pm company in disarray. A young Jan 31 Feb 2 Feb 1 Feb 3 7:30pm 2pm American actor named Ira Aldridge 8pm 2pm (Talk-Back) 8pm arrives to step into the role—but no black Feb 7 Feb 8 Feb 9 Feb 10 man has ever played Othello on the English 7:30pm 8pm 8pm 2pm (Talk-Back) stage. His groundbreaking performance Feb 14 Feb 15 Feb 17 Feb 16 upends stage tradition and changes the lives 7:30pm 8pm 2pm 8pm of everyone involved. Lolita Chakrabarti’s (Talk-Back) multi-award-winning play uncovers the fascinating true story of a pivotal figure in theatre history. The accomplished and versatile Aldo Billingslea, recently seen in the brilliant BLACK ODYSSEY at California Shakespeare Festival, makes his Jewel Theatre debut as Ira Aldridge.

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SATURDAY 1/19 ARTS PATHWAYS THROUGH OUR PARKS EXHIBITION On exhibition will be a selection of work 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.

TRIYOGA CLASS WITH YOGINI KALIJI TriYoga flows are presented with personalized guided alignment assistance.

For Levels 1 and 2. 1:30 p.m. TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. triyogasantacruz.com. $150/$50.

SENIOR TECH SUPPORT Need help with your computer or phone? Drop in and receive free tech tutoring by local area youth.

As "digital natives," young people are the perfect candidates to help seniors enhance their technology skills. Seniors are invited to drop in for free workshops to gain the skills they desire to stay connected with family and friends online. Noon-3 p.m. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. scvolunteercenter.org. Free.

WE BRING THE SANDHILLS TO YOU! Discover the Santa Cruz Sandhills formation— its fossils, its unique plants and animals, and how fire plays a role in preserving this special habitat at our Sandhills Mobile Visitor Center in the parking lot next to the nature store. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, 101 N Big Trees Park Rd., Felton. thatsmypark. org. Free.

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for a marvelous, free, family workshop learning how to make a basket from local ponderosa pine needles. Children 10 and older may attend if accompanied by an adult. No experience necessary. Meet at the visitor center. 10 a.m.-Noon. Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, 101 N. Big Trees Park Rd., Felton. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

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

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personalized, guided alignment assistance.

With Jamie Andres-Larsen. For levels 1 and 2.

10:30 a.m. Triyoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. 310-589-0600. $15.

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Come and see how the oldest building in town was made. We will look at the materials used by the Ohlone to build their homes and then at the materials used by the Spanish to build Mission Santa Cruz. You will have the chance to get your hands dirty and make your own mini abode brick. Rain cancels. 1 p.m. Santa Cruz Historic Mission State Park, 144 School St., Santa Cruz. thatsmypark.org. Free.

CLASSES INTERMEDIATE TRIYOGA CLASS TriYoga flows are presented with

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 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.

CALENDAR GROUPS OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Speaker and discussion meeting. Have a problem with 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 ENCHANTMENT WITH JAI UTTAL, PRAJNA VIEIRA AND RAMA Kirtan is the calling, the crying, the reaching across infinite space, digging into the heart’s deepest well to touch and be touched by the divine presence.Embark on a vocal journey through the sacred sounds of ancient India. With call-and-response group chanting and storytelling, Jai Uttal creates a space of invocation, prayer and heartfelt expression.7-9 p.m. Breath+Oneness, 708 Capitola Ave., Capitola. breathandoneness. com.

YOUTH SYMPHONY CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT Musicians ages 13 to 17 who

OUTDOOR OLD COVE LANDING TRAIL WALK On this two-hour natural history excursion, you will explore the plants, animals and geology of the spectacular coastal bluffs. Meet at the interpretive center. Bring snack, water, binoculars, and good walking shoes. 11 a.m.

Wilder Ranch State Park, 1401 Coast Rd., Santa Cruz. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

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DISCOVER BIG BASIN REDWOODS HIKE Explore the park’s less-travelled backcountry with Docent Barry Grimm. This moderately paced hike will be individually tailored to your group. Based on group size, experience level and weather conditions, we will choose from the many trails that explore the park’s most scenic areas. Noon. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. thatsmypark.org. Free.

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We work together with your primary veterinarian to diagnose and treat all conditions affecting the eyes.

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CASTLE ROCK LOOP HIKE Join us on a 2-mile, two-hour hike to Castle Rock and Castle Rock Falls. During this trip, we will discuss Castle Rock’s unique geology, plant diversity, human impacts, and various important preservationists that helped give Castle Rock State Park the protections we have today. Bring water, closed-toe shoes, camera, and snacks. Meet at kiosk. 11 a.m.

Castle Rock State Park, 1500 Skyline Blvd., Los Gatos. 291-8273 or thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

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

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

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

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participate in the Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony Chamber Music Academy (CMA) rehearse throughout the school year with coaching by professional musicians.

CMA proudly presents its winter concert.

Refreshments will be served. 3 p.m. The Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist, 125 Canterbury Drive, Aptos. sccys.org. Free.

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

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ARTS PATHWAYS THROUGH OUR PARKS EXHIBITION On exhibition will be a selection of work 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 until 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. 12:30-4:30 p.m. Triyoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. triyogasantacruz.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.

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

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

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OUTDOOR DISCOVER BIG BASIN REDWOODS HIKE Explore the park’s less-travelled backcountry with Docent Barry Grimm. This moderately paced hike will be individually tailored to your group. Based on group size, experience level, and weather conditions, we will choose from the many trails that explore the park’s most scenic areas. Noon. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. thatsmypark.org. Free.

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BIRDING FOR BEGINNERS Join birder extraordinaire Jim Williams for a tranquil morning filled with our little flying friends!

Learn about the birds in our park, receive a Henry Cowell RSP birding brochure, and begin your career as an energized birder. Make sure to bring water, comfortable footwear, and a keen eye and/or ears. 8 a.m. Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, 101 N Big Tree Park Rd., Felton. thatsmypark.org. Free.

COFFEE TALK AND CRAFTS Come to the Sempervirens Room next to park headquarters for free coffee or hot chocolate! This is a great way to start your day in Big Basin. Docents will be happy to answer your questions about the park and help get you going on the right trail. And bring the kids for a fun craft activity. 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

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THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED: A DOGFRIENDLY WALK On this dog-friendly walk, we travel North Escape Road, a paved road closed to traffic. We tour stunning oldgrowth redwood groves along beautiful Opal Creek. We'll discuss redwood ecology and park history while exploring the deep shade of the redwood forest. This is a fun and easy, 3-mile, two-hour walk with docent Diane Shaw. 9:30 a.m. Big Basins Redwood State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free. >38

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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.

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CALENDAR genetic destiny! Learn how to make changes to prevent or 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 Paul Lam, MD, this form can be learned and practiced either seated or standing. The course is 7 weeks long. 12:45 p.m. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. taichiforhealthinstitute.org.

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THURSDAY 1/17 LOCAL AMAH MUTSUN TRIBAL RELEARNING PROGRAM The Amah Mutsun tribe, a band of the Ohlone, managed local ecosystems and plants for thousands of years before Europeans arrived. UCSC Arboretum Director of Horticulture Rick Flores is going to explain how. Today, descendants of the Amah Mutsun survivors of the Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista missions are working to relearn the ecological wisdom of their ancestors in order to restore and steward their traditional tribal territory. Join Flores and the Sierra Club in discussing their efforts for cultural revitalization, recuperation and relearning of dormant cultural knowledge, and environmental justice. Mural by Ann Thiermann.

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7 p.m. Live Oak Grange Hall, 1900 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. act.sierraclub.org/events. Free, donations appreciated.

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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 1/21 ARTS PAINT NIGHT Mondays aren't so bad when you get a sweet dose of creative expression at the end of the day. Come down to Solaire to relax, unwind and make a painting! Great for complete beginners and seasoned creatives alike, you will be creating a painting with the

freedom to make it your own—tweak the colors or composition, or follow along with step-by-step instruction for our painting of the day. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Solaire, 611 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. eventbrite.com/e/paint-nighttickets-53284265673. $35.

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

round the table and play a board game set in the 18th century. Spend Spanish real coins and roll the sheep’s knucklebone to determine the fate of your mission. Geared for ages 8 and older. 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Santa Cruz Mission Historic State Park, 144 School St., Santa Cruz. thatsmypark.org.

Free.

GROUPS 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.

SANTA CRUZ BODYWORK COLLECTIVE Santa Cruz Bodywork Collective is a forum for bodyworkers from various disciplines to gather monthly to elevate their repertoire of touch and enhance their self-care tool kit. 7 p.m. Cypress Health Institute, 1119 Pacific Ave., Suite 300, Santa Cruz. 476-2115. Free.

TUESDAY 1/22 ARTS FILM: "SAVING OTTER 501" Monterey Bay Aquarium otter expert Michelle Staedler will present her film about a rescued otter pup and its journey through rehabilitation until its release into the wild. This event is a part of Our Community Reads, a program sponsored by the Friends of the Aptos Library. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Twin Lakes Church, 2701 Cabrillo College Drive, Aptos. friendsofaptoslibrary.org. Free.

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

234-6791. $5.

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

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

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

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

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.

JANUARY JUMPSTART: 4 WEEKS TO 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.

GROUPS 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 or santacruzoa.org. Free.

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

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Muscle Change Qigong from Bodhidharma, preserved in the famous Shaolin monastery, improves stamina, makes muscles supple and strong and builds internal energy.

It has long been considered a fundamental approach to wellness.

Tai Chi 24 Form gives us effortless movement, circulation of internal energy, and unity of body, mind and spirit. Regular practice brings improved health, fitness, muscular strength, and balance. Come learn this vital form that leads to profound health—and more!

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He is known nationally and internationally for ten books, including “365 Tao” and “Chronicles of Tao”.

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When Zac Shober was living in Europe, he really missed Santa Cruz. So he wrote the reverb-drenched, low-key dream-pop song “Summer” as his ode to the sunny California coastlines and carefree afternoons spent surfing.

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When he returned to Santa Cruz, the song found a home with his new trio, Coastal Greetings. Their first EP, also called Summer, features the image of three guys on the shoreline walking back with their surfboards on its cover. It’s not a surf record, though.

The rest of the songs have similar influences, but go into darker, sadder territory, with prominent psych-pop influences.

“I feel like surf culture is an influence in our lives,” Shober says. “We don’t want to sound like a normal surf-rock band. It’s kind of boring for us. We just want to be more technical music.”

Shober says they started working with reverb to help fill in the spaces of their low-key music. Pretty soon it came to define their sound.

“It makes it sound really full, especially when we’re performing live as a three-person band,” Shober says.

AARON CARNES

9 p.m. Saturday, Jan 19. Bocci’s Cellar, 140 Encinal St., Santa Cruz. Free.

427-1795.

DENT MAY

THURSDAY 1/17 DANCEHALL

CHAM Dancehall, the Jamaican musical genre that finds a meeting ground between hip-hop and reggae, has in recent years found a home in mainstream American culture with artists like Shaggy and Foxy Brown. Even Drake and Rihanna have embraced the genre. Cham (formerly Baby Cham) is a Jamaican dancehall artist who is both bringing the authentic dancehall sound to international ears and broadening its range with high-profile collaborations with Alicia Keys, DJ Khaled and T-Pain. AC 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $20 adv/$25 door. 479-1854.

FRIDAY 1/18 ROCK

HOWLIN’ RAIN Good classic rock epitomizes restless youth and reckless abandon. Howlin’ Rain exude both of these things, and will also goad you into selling your condo for a hippie van, warning you against a vague and problematic

future and inviting you to live now.

The endearing magic of their raucous rock ’n’ roll is at once nostalgic and invigorating. Howlin Rain howl and yowl and pierce your apathetic heart with the grittiest, sweetest, meanest, truest guitar riffs. AMY BEE 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $15 adv/$20 door. 423-1338.

INDIE

THE 131ERS Easygoing indie rockers the 131ers’ latest album Nothing’s As It Should Be sounds ripe for radio with its cool, breezy beats, pseudo-anthem power pieces, and slick-but-not-corporate production value. But these guys are proud of their working-class ethic and strive to keep the DIY vibe as long their audience continues to find worth in it—and they keep having fun doing it. With charming harmonies and catchy, well-executed riffs, the 131ers exude friendly confidence as they deftly navigate the space between “selling themselves and selling out,” as frontman Kaleb Davies once quipped. AB 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.

SATURDAY 1/19 HIP HOP

LYRICS BORN Twenty five years in, Lyrics Born is still as distinct a voice in hip hop as when the Tokyo-born Bay Area transplant first rapped over a DJ Shadow beat back in ’93. This year’s Quite A Life plays like a victory lap for the self-proclaimed “funkiest rapper alive,” stuffed to the brim with tenement-rocking party jams, huge funk beats, killer guest spots, and endlessly playful lyrics. “The biggest thing I hate about hatred is how it keeps us distracted from achieving our greatness,” he raps on standout track “Same But Different.” Truer words, LB. Truer words. MIKE HUGUENOR 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Drive, Santa Cruz. $15 adv/$20 door. 479-1854.

SINGER-SONGWRITER

JOHN ELLIOTT Plaintive, soft-spoken and with vulnerability front and center, John Elliott’s music rides a diagonal which crosses the early work of Ben Gibbard. For those who wish the Death Cab singer’s work had stayed bed-

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room-sized instead of distending into stadium rock, Elliott’s gentle Rhodes and reverby guitar may have what you’ve been missing. On the recent album North Star, the California singer projects internal desires for meaning, connection and escape onto the night sky, following the same celestial metaphor for freedom that has inspired dreamers for generations. MH

SUNDAY 1/20 METAL

MELVINS It’s been said before, but we’ll say it again: there has not been a more influential band in recent rock history than the Melvins. For 35 solid years, the sometimes-trio, sometimes-quartet has created a fuzz-filled, distorted cacophony of sound that has influenced everyone from underground artists like Karp and Earth to mainstream gods such as Nirvana, Soundgarden and Tool. MAT WEIR 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $25. 423-1338.

SHEILA JORDAN I first saw Sheila Jordan in the late 1980s at Kuumbwa in an astounding duo concert with bass virtuosos Harvie S. She was already a revered veteran who literally sang the praises of Charlie Parker, who mentored the young singer when she was starting out on the vibrant Detroit jazz scene in the 1940s. At 90, few figures in jazz are more beloved by their peers. The fact that her voice is in remarkable shape and her improvisational spirit is undaunted make Jordan a natural wonder. She’s touring as part of another high-wire duo with bassist Cameron Brown. ANDREW GILBERT 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $31.50 adv/$36.75 door. 427-2227.

TUESDAY 1/22 INDIE

DENT MAY L.A.-based Dent May is determined to take yesterday’s corny pop clichés and make them sound cool again.

Just about every trick up his sleeve would have been viewed as pastiche

a decade ago: lounge music, ’70s am pop, retro keyboards that steer clear of the obviously cool-sounding analog synthesizers. Just about his only overtly cool move is his uncanny Brian Wilson-esque vocal style. And maybe that’s how he’s able to take all this retro silliness and somehow make timely indie pop. AC 8:30 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $10 adv/$12 door. 423-1338.

TUESDAY 1/22 COUNTRY

BILLY DON BURNS In 2019, it’s hard to find country legends of the same caliber as the likes of Hank Williams or Willie Nelson. Then strolls in Billy Don Burns, and one can’t help but wonder if maybe some myths still live. If the name isn’t familiar you’ve surely heard his songs— everyone from Willie to Connie Smith to Whitey Morgan have recorded Burns’ outlaw honky-tonk tunes. On Jan. 22, he’ll lay down his stories and maybe even pass a thing or two along to Santa Cruz’s own outlaw kid, Jesse Daniel, who opens the show. MW 7:30 p.m. Michael’s on Main, 2591 Main St., Soquel. $10 adv/$12 door. 479-9777.

9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $26 adv/ $30 door. Information: catalystclub.com. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

IN THE QUEUE MARTIN TAYLOR

Jazzy guitarist from England.

Thursday at Kuumbwa Jazz Center CORB LUND

Hunky alt-country Canadian dream boat. Friday at Moe’s Alley AJA VU

Tribute to the great Steely Dan. Saturday at Flynn’s Cabaret & Steakhouse PAUL THORN BAND

Southern rock American musician.

Sunday at Rio Theatre MATTSON 2

Telepathic jazzy twins. Sunday at Kuumbwa Jazz Center

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8 p.m. Lille Aeske, 13160 Hwy. 9, Boulder Creek. $10-20. 703-4183.

MONDAY 1/21

Big house EDM was all the rage not even a decade ago. It didn’t go anywhere, but now the big thing is DJs producing some of the catchiest pop songs out there. Texas duo Tritonal are pop hook masters. And with those infectious, high-energy beats to get crowds moving, they just might be your favorite live act in 2019. These guys are producing songs that will stay in your playlist indefinitely—and get your hands up in the air hyped out when you feel the beats run through you at the concert.

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Wednesday January 16 – 7:30/8pm $13 Folk/Soul Favorite With His Live Band

PETER HARPER

+ 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

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

LYRICS BORN

+ OBJECT HEAVY Sunday January 20 – 8/8:30pm $8/12 Live Funk/Rock & Hip Hop With

BOOSTIVE + TV

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Rock en Español Free

APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

Al Frisby 6-8p

Virgil Thrasher & Rick Stevens 6-8p

James Murray 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

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

The Word Up! Radio Show 8p

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

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TUE

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DJ Flidais Free 12-2:30p

Magpies Blues Band 6-8p

Aki Kumar & Little Jonny Lawton 6-8p

Scott Miller 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

DJ Spooky Ghost 9:30-12:45p

Karaoke 6p-Close

Karaoke 6p-Close

Karaoke 6p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke Free 8p

Acoustix 8p

Hollow Down 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

Sage the Gemini $22 8p

Petty Theft: Tom Petty Tribute $20/$22 8p

Gil De Leon Trio 6-8p

Comedy Night w/ Shwa Free 8p

CAPITOLA WINE BAR 115 San Jose Ave, Capitola

Thursday January 24 – 7:30/8pm $8/12

CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Friday January 25 - 8/9pm $25/30

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CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

PATRICK MAGUIRE APPLE CITY SLOUGH BAND & AUGUST SUN

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Skypark Free 6:30-9p

BROKEN 3RD EYE OPEN

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88 Fingers Louie $13-$15 8p

Sigma Pi Presents: EOC Howlin’ Rain III $20 8p $15/$20 8:30p

Ozomatli $24/$28 8p

Fr333, Ohmi, Jnnfr Arrga The Melvins $10/$12 8p $25 8:30p

Dent May $10/$12 8p

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

Jamaican Reggae Legend

JUNIOR REID

+ KING SCHASCHA Saturday January 26 - 8/9pm $20/25

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Afro/Latin/Cumbia/Funk Dance Party

B-SIDE PLAYERS

Sunday January 27 – 3/4pm $20/25 Afternoon Blues Series

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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 LA MISA NEGRA Feb 10 STEVE GUNN Feb 14 IKE WILLIS of FRANK ZAPPA BAND 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 Feb 27 TOMMY GUERRERO

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Billy Don Burns plus Jesse Daniel

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Gail Dobson Quintet

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RICHARD THOMPSON Cocoanut Grove ELECTRIC TRIO w/

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Tomorrows Tulips & more $15 9p

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

Yuji Tojo $3 8p

Marbled Eye w/ Practicing Sincerity & more $7 9p

The 131ers w/ Inspired & the Sleep & more $8 9p

Wild & Blue 6-9p

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The Fighting Murrays w/ Homebrew & TBD $7 9p

Funk Night ft. 7 Come 11 $6 9p-12a Live Comedy $7 9p

Trappist One 6-9p

Saturday, January 19 • 7 PM

TIM FLANNERY & THE LUNATIC FRINGE

Coast Ridge Ramblers Free 6-9p

Sunday, January 20 • 8:30 PM

TBA Free 6:30-8:30p

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AN EVENING WITH THE MATTSON 2 Tickets: folkyeah.com

Monday, January 21 • 7 PM

FLYNN’S CABARET 6275 Hwy 9, Felton

Linc Russin 7-9p

Woodstock Generation Bruce, Linda & John w/ San Francisco Airship $10/$12 9p Acoustic $10/$12 8:30p Jeannine Bonstelle & Sweeney Schragg 6:30-9:30p

SHEILA JORDAN WITH CAMERON BROWN

Aja Vu & Steelin’ Chicago $20/$25 9p

A trailblazing jazz vocalist with bass duet accompaniment.

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

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

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GrandSam $5 8p

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville

KUUMBWA JAZZ 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

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

Friday, January 18 • 8 PM

Acoustic Open Jam 3-5p

Ten O’Clock Lunch Band Viva Santana $6 9p $7 9:30p

DAV. ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport

GABRIELLA CAFE 910 Cedar St., Santa Cruz

MARTIN TAYLOR

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CORRALITOS CULTURAL CENTER 127 Hames Rd., Corralitos

DISCRETION BREWING 2703 41st Ave, Soquel

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Thursday, January 24 • 7 PM Martin Taylor $28.35/$33.60 7p

AZA $20/$25 8p Harpin’ & Clark Free 5p Extra Large $10 8p

Tim Flannery & the Lunatic Fringe $26.50/$36.50 7p China Cats & The Alligators: A Tribute to Pigpen $15 8:30p

ANDRÉ MEHMARI TRIO

Sheila Jordan w/ An Evening w/ the Cameron Brown Mattson 2 $26.10 8:30p $31.50/$36.75 7p Grateful Sundays Free 5:30p

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

Billy Don Burns & Jesse Daniel $10/$12 7:30p

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Friday, January 25 • 7 PM & 9 PM

BILL FRISELL: WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR

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

Monday, January 28 • 7 PM

PETER BERNSTEIN, LARRY GOLDINGS & BILL STEWART TRIO

A soulful and nuanced organ trio.

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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.

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Stop by for an amazing farm to table dining experience!

Thu Jan 17

Woodstock Generation Band & San Francisco Airship Acoustic

Bay Area Rock n Roll at its finest $10 adv./$12 door Dance – ages 21+ 8:30PM Fri Jan 18

Bruce, Linda and John

An acoustic evening of Springsteen, Ronstadt and Fogerty $10 adv./$12 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM Sat Jan 19

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

Wed Jan 23

The Posies

30th Anniversary Tour $20 adv./$25 door Dance – ages 21+ 8:30PM Thu Jan 24

Matthew Michael and Christina Marie

Honest songs expressed in harmonically-rich layers of voices and strings $10 adv./$12 door seated – <21w/parent 8:30PM Fri Jan 25

Soft Machine w/Levin Brothers

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

WED

Jimmy Dewrance Free 6p

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

Peter Harper & James Lee Murray $10/$13 8p

MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

SCMF 9:30p

NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY Board Game Night w/ Play the Bay 5:30p 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz 99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz

Trivia 8p

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Joshua James Jackson Free 8p

A Tribute to The Music of Van Morrison and Eric Burdon $15 adv./$18 Dance – ages 21+ 9PM Fri Feb 8

Pride and Joy

The name says it all… $20 adv./$20 Dance – ages 21+ 9PM

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Sat Feb 9

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Steven Graves w/ Reckless Poets Band An evening of Americana Roots Music $12 adv./$15 Dance – ages 21+ 9PM

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LOVE, INTERRUPTED Kiki Layne and Stephan James in ‘If Beale Street Could Talk.’

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‘Moonlight’ director Barry Jenkins brings the intensity of a romance to story of prejudice BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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t makes sense to think of If Beale Street Could Talk as a Romeo and Juliet story in which white repression is the force keeping true lovers apart.

The 22-year-old Fonny, short for Alfonso (Stephan James) is a young man with little money and the desire to be a sculptor. His lover, 19-year-old Tish (Kiki Layne) has just discovered she’s pregnant. It all begins with Fonny in jail, wrongly accused of a violent rape. There’s little or no money for the defense, the victim has fled to Puerto Rico, and the New York politicians want the case prosecuted no matter how fishy it is.

When director and adapter Barry

Jenkins (Moonlight) gets the lovers together, everything works. He seeks old-fashioned romantic movie intensity as they make love for the first time during a rainstorm and Fonny tries to make a warm, clean spot for her in the basement where he lives. Looking at each other in the grimy, graffiti-scrawled subways— very evocative photography by James Laxton throughout—Fonny has a sensual gaze as he studies Tish’s slenderness and slightness. They’d known each other since they were children, neighbor kids bathing in the same bathtub: “There had never been any occasion of shame,” Tish recalls, as if the relationship had

been hallowed since the beginning.

Which is thick, I know. But when the lovers are silent and just look at each other, it quiets the narration.

Tish is underwritten, just as she is in James Baldwin’s 1974 source novel. The teenage girl mask didn’t fit snugly on a sophisticated essayist like Baldwin. The book has a young adult quality, despite the explicit sex scene and the language that would evict it from nine out of 10 high schools. Heroines in YA are always right, and they’re always omniscient, too. Describing events to which she wouldn’t have been privy, Tish says, “They don’t tell me this, but I know it.” That makes any

suspicious reader ask, “How?” You could almost get an entire good movie—it might be something like 1978's Killer of Sheep—about Tish’s parents. The longshoreman Joe (Colman Domingo, who is great) hasn’t let hard work beat the life out of him. He shows a lopsided smile with some disbelief in it when he hears the news that his unmarried daughter is pregnant. His formidable wife Sharon (Regina King) takes over and orders him to toast his daughter’s unborn child with a bottle of cognac they have stashed away. Joe goes along with it, but his bemusement is visible. The strife comes when Fonny’s parents show up to join the party. Fonny’s mom (Aunjanue Ellis) is a venomous church-lady with two conceited daughters. Calling on her Jesus, she precipitates a bad fight between the families.

It’s tough inside, and it’s tough outside, between jail and the threat of jail. In flashback, Fonny talks of his struggles with his just-outof-prison friend, Daniel (Brian Tyree Henry). Having just got out of two years in the lion’s den, Daniel answers with one powerful monologue about the terrors he faced being in prison.

Through Daniel’s lines we get, indirectly, what Fonny is going through as he languishes behind bars.

Fonny doesn’t ever scare Tish with the details, even when he talks to her through the heavy jailhouse glass with the marks of a fight on his face.

Indirect scenes are what Jenkins does best, as when Sharon gears up to go meet Fonny’s accuser in Puerto Rico, studying herself in the hotel mirror, getting her look just right for this delicate mission.

If the emotional force of If Beale Street Could Talk is blunted by the flashbacks, the scenes between the young lovers always work. Scene by scene, Jenkins’ very considerable skills as a romanticist bear you away. James and Layne emote the kind of pure, ethereal love that was there at the beginning of the movies and will be there at the end of them.

If Beale Street Could Talk Directed by Barry Jenkins. Starring Kiki Layne, Stephan James and Brian Tyree Henry. R; 119 Mins.

FILM NEW RELEASES GLASS Let’s trace the decline of director M. Night Shyamalan through what we said over the years when we discovered the twists of his various movies: The Sixth Sense: “Whoa, he was dead this whole time?” Unbreakable: “No way, it was a comic book movie in disguise?” Signs: “Huh, so the aliens are hurt by water, but they invaded a planet that’s mostly water?” The Village: “Uh, so it’s basically just a Renaissance Faire?”

The Happening: “Did I just watch the worst movie ever made?” He’s been having a career resurgence, though, with The Visit and the surprise sequel to Unbreakable, Split. Now he winds up the “comic book movie in disguise” trilogy (it’s not really much of a disguise at this point, but I’m sure there will be a twist in there) with this film that brings back Bruce Willis as David Dunn, James McAvoy as Kevin Wendell Crumb (from Split) and, of course, Samuel L. Jackson as Mr. Glass. (PG-13) 129 minutes. (SP)

CONTINUING EVENT: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE MOVIES Film buffs are invited Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. to downtown Santa Cruz, where each week the group discusses a different current release. For location and discussion topic, go to https:// groups.google.com/group/LTATM.

NOW PLAYING 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

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 century-old 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 Lapkus, Kelly Macdonald and Ralph Fiennes.

(PG-13) 89 minutes. (SP) IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Reviewed this issue. Written and directed by Barry Jenkins. Starring Kiki Layne, Stephan James and Regina King. (R) 119 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) 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) 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) ROMA Don'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. In Roma, he explores his own roots in the suburban district of Mexico City where he grew up.

Shot in pristine, almost sculptural black-and-white, 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.

Starring Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira and Carlos Peralta. (R) 135 minutes. (LJ) 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) 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? 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 excon 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) 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)

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SHOPLIFTERS This drama from director Hirokazu Kore-eda about a family that turns to shoplifting when they fall on hard times is about so much more than that premise suggests. I suspect it’d be cleaning up in foreign-language categories this awards season if it wasn’t for Roma. Starring Lily Franky, Sakura Ando and Miyu Matsuoka. (R) 103 minutes. (SP)

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.

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FOOD & DRINK to head off to the stores. I like the 9-to-11 slot, when the energy feels freshest and the pastry choices are most, well, choice.

My writing went well.

AWARD-WINNING BRAND

Congratulations, Ian Brand. You’ll want to run out and grab a bottle of Brand’s Le Petit Paysan Jacks Hill Chardonnay, Monterey County 2017 ($22) after reading a recent article by Esther Mobley in the San Francisco Chronicle. A winemaker’s winemaker, Brand was named the newspaper’s 2018 Winemaker of the Year.

He’s a local who has worked at Bonny Doon Vineyard and Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard. When you’re next in Carmel Valley, stop by Brand’s tasting room and be blown away by the wines he creates from historic vineyards throughout the region.

Open Wed-Sun, noon-6 p.m. I. Brand & Family Winery, 9 East Carmel Valley Rd., Carmel Valley. ibrandwinery.com

PACE-SETTING LA POSTA

NETWORK HUB Abbott Square’s Cat & Cloud has become a local favorite meeting spot. PHOTO: JULES HOLDSWORTH

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Cat & Cloud’s Abbott Square outpost doubles as a creative workspace BY CHRISTINA WATERS

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very writer sooner or later needs that perfect spot to plant a laptop and get to work. One of my new favorite spots is the Cat & Cloud at Abbott Square.

Yes, there are plenty of other folks here. But if you’ve got a project, then all of the music, conversation and kitchen sounds dissolve into white noise. It’s easy to focus on the job at hand—in my case, finishing up a novel.

First things first: coffee. Cat & Cloud coffee doesn’t mess around, if you know what I mean.

Right now, I’m rockin’ a huge mug of the Holiday Blend on tap, a dark

roast with a caramel center and bittersweet finish.

With it, one needs—naturally—a pastry. For that, there’s an all-star lineup from Companion Bakeshop (the café, Cat Cloud Companion, is technically a joint venture between the bakery and the coffee roaster).

My new favorite seasonal scone is dark wheat, studded with pumpkin seeds and cranberries. Heaven with a topnote of brown sugar. I also love the toasts with cheese and pepper jam, or avocado. Hearty stuff. The kind of stuff that writers need to fuel their genius and remove obstacles (ie: occasional writer’s block).

Long counters offer plenty of laptop space and outlets for charging devices. Clean, spacious restrooms are always a plus.

The long community table are great for actual groups, or simply individuals who like to face each other while eating, flirting or brainstorming.

The vibe at the indoor marketplace is quite eclectic, and that also adds to the sense of privacy and cocooning.

Couples, yes, but mostly groups, work colleagues or school classmates.

Fascinating conversations, if one wants to eavesdrop. But I don’t.

Family groups with kids also stop by for a light nosh. Shoppers about

It might just be the greatest pasta this side of Bologna. The dishes Katherine Stern turns out at Seabright’s La Posta are always a treat. The other night, mine was a tangle of tagliatelle tossed with roast pork, radicchio and aged balsamic.

Every element perfect, especially with a glass of Dolcetto d’Alba.

My companion loved his housemade lamb sausage, which arrived on a bed of black caviar lentils and rainbow chard, drizzled with chili yogurt. An exceptional winter dish.

We started with a salad of various chicories adorned with pomegranate, roasted kabocha squash and pumpkin seeds. And of course we indulged in the addictive house bread. We had not saved room for dessert of prickly pear semifreddo (doesn’t that sound unbelievably sexy?) So we’ve resolved to return for our birthdays—only a few days apart—and share a salad, a cheese platter (with red wine!), and then head straight for dessert.

NEW IN TOWN

Tabby Cat Cafe, where the former Cafe Bene used to be (god, I loved that place in the old days).

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USE YOUR NOODLE The spicy sesame soup at Betty’s.

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Spicy Sesame No. 13 continues to be my favorite because of its rich, comforting broth—nutty and aromatic, with the flavor of toasted sesame seeds.

Despite its name and a tablespoon of chili flakes, I don’t find it very spicy, and I always amplify the heat, especially if I’m attempting to clear my sinuses. The bowl comes with more eggless wheat noodles than I can usually eat, and a nice portion of baby bok choy, zucchini, mushrooms and broccoli, still with a little crunch after being just-cooked in the super hot broth on its way to the table. It’s normally topped with pieces of tofu, which can be on the bland side except that they soak up the delicious broth like little sponges. It’s satisfying every time, and although I consider myself to be a pretty good cook, I doubt I could recreate a broth with this kind of depth for a mere $9.50 in my own home. The Spicy Sesame Noodle Bowl is a meal my stomach, stuffed head and wallet can get behind every time.

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he comedown from the holidays is never fun, but this year it hit me especially hard. In the midst of the normal holiday pandemonium, my boyfriend and I brought a puppy into our lives, and then on Christmas Eve we became engaged. The last few weeks of December are a happy blur of champagne toasts and sleepless, puppy-filled nights.

As a result, my fiancé and I started the new year exhausted and fighting off colds. And like many in January, I was looking forward to making healthier meal choices and to begin undoing some of the damage that cheese plates and holiday cookies hath wrought. To top it off, the aches and pains I was feeling were nothing compared to what my credit card was going through.

I have a secret weapon for times like this: the spicy sesame noodle soup at Betty’s Noodle House. You might not think that an Asian restaurant nestled in the Metro Center in downtown Santa Cruz could produce such delights, but it does. I’ve worked my way through many of their soups, but

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Visit our winery & tasting room Winery: On the mountain near Summit Rd. Saturdays 12-5pm

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ook for the fire-breathing dragon on Alfaro’s Dragon Slayer label when you go searching for this flavor-packed red wine. Winemaker Richard Alfaro makes it easy to spot his wines on supermarket shelves with welldesigned labels, often with his signature script “A” logo.

The Dragon Slayer wine’s color theme is decidedly purple—a deep, dark purple—thanks to an abundance of “baked dark fruit, stewed tomatoes and hints of cinnamon and pepper.” These spicy flavors on the palate, plus bright cherry, raspberry and mocha notes on the nose, give one enough courage and stamina to slay at least a dozen dragons!

A lively blend of Sangiovese, Zinfandel, Carignane, and Syrah, this reasonably priced wine ($20) pairs well with different foods. “Try it with sharp cheeses, beef, pork, sausage, Italian meatballs, pizza, and tomato sauces,” the winery suggests.

Alfaro’s tasting room is the place to be to try some for yourself—and then get a bottle to pair with your next T-bone.

Alfaro also participates in the

quarterly Passport program, organized by the Santa Cruz Mountains Winegrowers Association (see below).

Alfaro Family Vineyards & Winery, 420 Hames Rd., Corralitos. 728-5172, alfarowine.com.

PASSPORT DAY

The next Passport event on Saturday, Jan. 19 is a day when you can visit vineyards, meet winemakers and enjoy a winter tasting of wines from the Santa Cruz Mountains. Passport Day offers an opportunity to visit wineries not usually open to the public. About three-dozen wineries participate, from Woodside to Gilroy.

Each passport cost $75 and is valid for one year.

Visit scmwa.com for more info.

VERVE COFFEE

The next time you’re at Verve Coffee and you get the munchies, try their poached egg biscuit. An organic egg served on a heavenly Manresa biscuit with cheddar cheese is all yours for $7.50—and guaranteed to hit the spot!

Visit vervecoffee.com for locations.

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Free Birthday Meal

One item up to $25 value with two or more entree orders Must present ad with order. Cannot be combined with other offers. 1 offer per table, per visit. Dine in only. See store for more details. Good through February 13, 2019.

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H RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES CAPRICORN – ‘I HAVE BEEN TO THE MOUNTAINTOP’

Esoteric Astrology as news for week of Jan. 16, 2019 We are in our last days of Capricorn Sun. On Sunday, the sun enters Aquarius, and nine hours later we have the Aquarius solar festival full-moon lunar eclipse. Something in form and matter, having completed its work, falls away.

It’s no longer useful to us. Something new and vital takes its place. Monday is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. He was a Capricorn with the famous Capricorn words, “I have been to the mountaintop!”

Capricorn, enigmatic and mysterious, is the sign of the mountaintop experience, where the crocodile becomes the goat becomes the unicorn “lost in the Light Supernal.” Capricorn marks the gradual transformation from the “dark time” to the “light time of the year.”

Capricorn’s new rays of the sun represent the “rising of the Spirit” for humanity. At dawn, special rays bestow their light upon Earth’s

ARIES Mar21–Apr20 You’re exploring profoundly what your right work in the world may be, what you are to do that will serve the upliftment of civilization and bring you to the recognition and support needed so that others follow. Keep the internal inquiry going. There are no answers yet, not for months.

They depend upon your ability to focus on the questions.

TAURUS Apr21–May21 New ideas, concepts, school, study, traveling, the art of archery, horseback riding or horse husbandry, publishing, and studying ancient philosophies may catch your attention. Someone, somewhere recognizes your qualities, calls you to leadership. Listening is your best way of being attentive. Giving high spiritual philosophical answers will not be heard.

GEMINI May 22–June 20

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There is a focus on money and investments, and in this critical time of change and monetary reorientation, I want to suggest how you can keep abreast of the financial times and learn the truth of financial matters.

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CANCER Jun21–Jul20 Relationships this month will be on your mind–all types, levels of closeness, friendships and intimacies.

It’s good to review how you are in relationships, if you are attentive, caring and sharing. Or are you focused upon yourself primarily? Adding forgiveness (of self and others) to your list of daily tasks would liberate your heart for further love encounters.

LE0 Jul21–Aug22 We continue to focus on your work in the world and the environments you find yourself in. Something shifts in your profession, some discipline or rule or structure or timing causing a period of fine-tuning to occur. During this time, strengthen your support for others, align with them. This will insure your success should you suddenly be in charge of everything and everyone. Blend your Ray 1 (will) with Ray 2 (love/wisdom). You educate people.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 You must begin to rest, relax and lounge about a bit more, think of ways to create a bit of a respite, pleasure, fun and perhaps a bit of romance (there are many kinds).

Plan each week to attend musical or film events, stroll downtown with friends, have lunches and small dinners, little parties, tête-à-têtes, perhaps a small salon. Art is most important. Name your favorite (artist).

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22 These are times of reconciliation, reunions, understanding leading to rapprochement—of kindness, consideration, and thoughtful and perceptive realization

kingdoms. If we could see the dawn’s light etherically, we would see celestial beings (Devas) flowing into the Earth, ministering to humanity and the kingdoms. The same occurs at sunset.

These beings help us build clear, focused, intelligent minds. When we communicate with them, veils that have settled all around us, obscuring our essential divine selves, loosen and fall away.

Ancient teachers suggest that at dawn and dusk we visualize within our hearts an orange, five-pointed star surrounded by deep indigo blue. It is the soul star, the star of Bethlehem that guided the three kings. We learn of these things in the sign of Capricorn. Capricorn’s symbol represents the face of the ibex and body of the crocodile (Makara in Sanskrit).

Capricorn’s symbol is also (almost) the signature of God.

that each of us (including you) is a character playing their part. Everyone’s doing their very best and everyone’s on their path toward a more enlightened way of being. Is there some sort of suffering or sadness in your life at this time? We will pray with you.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 You’re edgy, agitated, restive, restless with somewhat anxious feelings, including wanting to go anywhere that is not here. However, there’s nowhere to go. The planets are creating a stellium (gathering) of impatience and over-sensitivity. All you can do is make mental visits to the past—to people, events, ideas, work. Forgive everything. Who from the past needs to be contacted?

Who needs forgiveness?

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 I suggest a financial investor and information on finances because most of the planets are influencing your money, finances and resources, seeking to transform how you’ve handled yourself in these areas. Are you generous or challenged to be generous? Do you maintain a budget and balance monetary ins and outs? What are your worries regarding money?

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 Every once in a while, others truly notice us, offering compliments, recognition, praise for jobs well done, for our help, presence and nurturing. They notice the care we take with how we appear in the world. You may be asked to lead a function that magnetizes people to a group or endeavor you’re a part of. You’re the best for this position. Radiate goodwill to everyone and help others recognize they have courage.

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 Aquarians, after they’ve built their personality (selfdevelopment, self-focus, a needed developmental stage for everyone) eventually begin to look outward, to humanity and its needs, and they see humanity is suffering. Aquarians then begin to to serve. Is it that time for you—to help others, seeing their needs, offering support and resources, time and money, care and attention? You too become one who receives.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 It’s important to be part of a group and not to be isolated. You need a balance of being in retreat and being social. Being social is sometimes difficult. You sense a depth of spirituality and the soul within others.

You recognize how everyone is always in service and how love underlies the happenings of the times and all events. Love happens to be the nature of Pisces. A group calls to you to serve, to lead, to teach, to illumine. What will you do?

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20180001919 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 26, 2018.

Jan. 9, 16, 23, & 30.

real estate

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20180001990 The following Married Couple is doing

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20180001996 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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20180001977 The following Individual is doing business as VISION4WELLNESS. 340 SOQUEL AVE., STE 207, SANTA

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20180002013 The following Individual is doing business as WISTERIA GATE. 2935 WILLOWBROOK LANE, APTOS, CA 95003.

County of Santa Cruz.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20180001989 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.

Jan. 9, 16, 23, & 30.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20180002014The 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

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.

File No.2017-0001018.

Jan. 9, 16, 23, & 30.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20180001983 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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20180001988 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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20180001987 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 2, 9, & 16.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20180001896 The following Corporation is doing business as CALIBER COLLISION CENTERS. 1650 MANSFIELD STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

County of Santa Cruz.

CALIBER BODYWORKS, 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.

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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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business as APPENRODT COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES. 4375 CAPITOLA ROAD, STE. C, CAPITOLA, CA 95010. County of Santa Cruz. JOSEPH WILLIAM APPENRODT. 3140 WALLACE DR., APTOS, CA 95003.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JOSEPH WILLIAM APPENRODT. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/12/2009.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Devember 21, 2018.

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the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING February 19, 2019 at 8:30 am, in Department 10 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street.

Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: Jan. 4, 2019. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Jan. 16, 23, 30, & Feb. 6.

that the petitioner MICHELLE KATHERINE SUTTON has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: MICHELLE KATHERINE SUTTON to: MICHELLE KATHERINE GUTMANN. 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 Feb 25, 2019 at 8:30 am, in Department 10 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street.

Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: Jan 9, 2019. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Jan. 16, 23, 30, & Feb 6.

THE COURT FINDS that the petitioners CAITLIN V. MULDER AND KYLE A. CONDE have filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: NOELLE LOUISE ROSE CARR to: NOELLE LOUISE CONDE. 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 Feb 25, 2019 at 8:30 am, in Department 10 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street.

Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: Jan 10, 2019. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Jan. 16, 23, 30, & Feb 6.

MISSED CONNECTION For LeeAnn, who I met at Lupolo on her birthday, October 19th: It was awesome meeting you in line waiting to order beers.

Especially when I discovered you were a fellow Libran. You were delightful and playful and I was immediately attracted to you. So much so that I fumbled our last interaction when you came over to where I was sitting, thinking I was the mystery man who bought you a drink.

I became embarrassingly tongue-tied. It had been so long since such an attractive woman came over and put her arm around me that I suddenly felt timid and shy. Admittedly, part of why I felt awkward was that I was having a business meeting, of sorts, with a client of mine – plying him with beers. No matter, I screwed up royally. If you miraculously read this message, and will forgive my inhospitality, I would love to take you out on a date. Dinner and drinks on me. Rob, 831-204-8765.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20180002015 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.

Jan. 9, 16, 23, & 30.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20190000001 The following Individual is doing business as URBAN GOLD. 122 HOLWAY DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95065. County of Santa Cruz. JOHN FRANCIS DERUOSI. 122 HOLWAY DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95065. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JOHN FRANCIS DERUOSI. 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 January 2, 2019. Jan. 16, 23, 30 & Feb. 6.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20180002011 The following Individual is doing

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF MELISSA MOORE CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV00033.

THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner MELISSA MOORE has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: ISABELLA MAY ROBINSON to: ISABELLA MAY MOORE. 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,

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME.The following person(s) have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: DEJAVU VIDEO SERVICES. 339 ALTA VISTA DR., SANTA CRUZ, CA, 95060. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on: 12/07/2017. DEJAVU VIDEO SERVICES. 339 ALTA VISTA DR., SANTA CRUZ, CA, 95060. This business was conducted by a MARRIED COUPLE ALLISON KAY CLARK & JAMES STEVEN CLARK. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on the date indicated by the file stamp: Filed: Jan 8, 2019. File No.20170001985. Jan. 16, 23, 30, & Feb. 6.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF MICHELLE KATHERINE SUTTON CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV00082.

THE COURT FINDS

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF CAITLIN V. MULDER AND KYLE A. CONDE CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV00092.

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION OF ORDINANCE

BY POSTING (ORDINANCE NO. 2019-01) The City Council of the City of Santa Cruz having authorized the city clerk administrator, that the ordinance hereafter entitled and described, be published by posting copies thereof in three (3) prominent places in the City, to wit: The City of Santa Cruz Website www.cityofsantacruz.com City Hall–809 Center Street Central Branch Library–224 Church Street NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that copies of said ordinance were posted according to said order.

(Original on file with city clerk.) Said ordinance was introduced on January 8th, 2019, and is entitled and described as follows: ORDINANCE NO. 2019-01 AN INTERIM ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ REQUIRING JUST CAUSE FOR TENANT EVICTIONS WITHIN THE CITY This is an interim ordinance requiring just cause eviction by landlords within the City.

PASSED FOR PUBLICATION on this 8th day of January, 2019, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Krohn, Glover, Brown; Vice Mayor Cummings. NOES: Councilmembers Meyers, Mathews; Mayor Watkins. ABSENT: None. DISQUALIFIED: None. APPROVED: ss/Mayor Watkins.

ATTEST: ss/Bonnie Bush, City Clerk Administrator. This ordinance is scheduled for further consideration and final adoption at the Council meeting of January 22, 2019.

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Delightful body to body massages! Swedish, deep tissue and soft touch included. Amy 831.462.1033 A*wonderful*Touch. Relaxing, Therapeutic, Light to Deep Swedish Massage for Men. Peaceful environment. 14 yrs. Exp. Days/Early PM. Jeff (831) 332-8594.

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

Continuing the conversation...is it possible that maybe, just maybe, we’ve reached an inflection point where enough people have become disenchanted with the cumulative effects tech is having on their lives?

Someday we may all look back and be able to see that the all-encompassing embrace of the digital age really started to shift in 2019 as more people began to resist the temptation to integrate one more device, one more password, one more set of insidiously-engineered algorithms into their daily routines.

Opting instead to turn off, tune out and drop back in to life in ways that allowed them to be more present.

One of the things tech likes to brag about is the meaningful opportunity for social interaction it affords everyone on the planet.

Hyper-connectivity, hyper-local, hyper-personal are all part of the hype. Most Realtors struggle with a daily avalanche of information that encourages them to spend huge amounts of time cultivating their online real estate personas. Without a strong digital presence, the message goes, they won’t have the kind of “social proof ” that’s necessary to be successful.

Similar to personal Facebook feeds where people’s carefully curated lives often seem too good to be true, the current generation of real estate hopefuls is busy crafting shiny new avatars that don’t resemble who they are in the real world. Instead of simply venturing out into their own local communities to connect with people on a more experiential level. Not understanding that deeper connection with fewer actual buyers and sellers will make them far more successful than generating lots of shallower “clicks.”

Everyone has heard the meme: “getting information from the Internet is like trying to get a drink of water from a fire hose.”

These days, homebuyers and sellers don’t need more information, they need more context to help them think about all the information they already have. So that the flood of data and details makes a lot more sense when they suddenly find themselves in the heat of the moment. Especially when the choices they make have such a profound effect on the big life transitions they are going through. The ones that involve the largest assets they’ll ever own.

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VOTED BEST BUTCHER SHOP BEST WINE SELECTION BEST CHEESE SELECTION BEST LOCALLY OWNED GROCERY STORE BEST MURAL /PUBLIC ART

Family owned & operated 80 years.

622 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz

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ULTIMATE GARLIC WINE & FOOD PORK LOIN ROAST Ingredients

3 pounds pork loin, not tenderloin 4 cloves garlic, minced ½ teaspoon Kosher salt ½ teaspoon coarse ground black pepper ¼ teaspoon paprika

Instructions:

■ TRI TIP, USDA Choice/ 6.98 Lb

■ 21ST AMENDMENT BREWERY, Asst 6Pks,

CHATEAU STE. MICHELLE INDIAN WELLS VINEYARD MERLOT 2013 90 POINTS WINE SPECTATOR

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■ SAN PELLEGRINO Sparkling Juice, 6Pk 11.15oz ■ PORK LOIN ROAST, Boneless/ 3.98 Lb Cans/ 4.99 +CRV ■ PORK SHOULDER ROAST, Boneless/ 3.29 Lb ■ TERESA’S SALSA, Totally Fresh, 16oz/ 4.69

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Local Bakeries “Fresh Daily”

■ AHI TUNA STEAKS, Thick Cut/ 14.98 Lb ■ FRESH TILAPIA FILLETS/ 10.98 Lb ■ FRESH PETRALE SOLE/ 14.98 Lb ■ SHOPPER’S CHORIZO/ 3.98 Lb ■ SHOPPER’S COUNTRY STYLE SAUSAGE/ 3.98 Lb ■ SHOPPER’S ITALIAN SAUSAGE/ 3.98 Lb ■ POLISH KIELBASA LINKS/ 6.98 Lb ■ LOUISIANA HOT LINKS/ 6.98 Lb ■ SILVA LINGUICA LINKS/ 6.98 Lb

Focused, with firm tannins on a pliable frame, supporting dark berry, licorice and chocolate flavors. Lingers deftly on the finish. Best through 2021.

Smart Buy Reg. 18.99 Shopper’s Special 9.99!!!

■ SALT POINT BEVERAGE CO., Asst 12oz Cans/ 3.99 +CRV 12oz/ 7.99 +CRV 12oz/ 8.99 +CRV ■ PILSNER URQUELL, Pilsner, 6Pk Btls, 12oz/ 8.99 +CRV ■ FIRESTONE WALKER BREWING CO., Asst 6Pks, 12oz/ 8.99 +CRV

Whiskey

■ KELLY’S Sour Cheddar, 16oz/ 4.09

■ RITTENHOUSE RYE (95WE)/ 24.99

■ SUMANO’S, Sourdough Sliced Loaf, 24oz/ 3.99

■ WILD TURKEY 101/ 14.99

■ 1792 Small Batch (#10 of the year)/ 26.99 ■ SUMANO’S, Sourdough Sliced Round, 24oz/ 3.99 ■ SAZERAC RYE (93 WE)/ 29.99

Delicatessen

■ ALIVE & WELL OLIVES, All Kinds/ 7.89

■ PHILADELPHIA CREAM CHEESE, All Kinds/ 3.99 ■ PILLSBURY PIE CRUST, America’s #1 Pie Crust/ 4.99

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■ TILLAMOOK SLICED CHEDDAR, Medium &

California Fresh, Blemish-Free, Organic, Arrow Citrus Co., Lakeside Organics, Happy Boy Farms, Route 1 Farms

■ PILLSBURY GRANDS BISCUITS, Buttermilk/ 1.99

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■ ALL PEARS, Bartlett, D’Anjou, Bosc, Comice & Red/ 1.49 Lb ■ AVOCADOS, Always Ripe/ 1.19 Ea ■ NAVEL ORANGES, Sweet and Seedless/ 1.19 Lb ■ POTATOES, Red and Yukon/ .89 Lb ■ ZUCCHINI SQUASH, Extra Fancy/ 1.19 Lb ■ BANANAS, Ripe and Ready to Eat/ .79 Lb ■ SATSUMA MANDARINS, Sweet and Easy to Peel/ 1.99 Lb ■ YELLOW ONIONS, Top Quality/ .49 Lb ■ LIMES, Extra Juicy/ .19 Ea ■ BROCCOLI CROWNS, Fresh from the Field/ 2.29 Lb

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■ BECKMANN’S Three Seed Sour Loaf, 24oz/ 3.89

■ WHOLE GRAIN Whole Wheat, 30oz/ 4.19

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1. Preheat oven to 375F. 2. Add the pork loin to your baking pan.

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■ TRUMER BREWERY, Trumer Pils, 6Pk Btls,

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■ MILD CHEDDAR Loaf Cuts/ 3.09 Lb Average Cuts/ 3.49 Lb

■ BOAR’S HEAD WHOLE MILK MOZZARELLA, Great Quality/ 4.09 Lb

■ DANISH BLUE CHEESE, Imported/ 7.49 Lb

■ POET’S IRISH CHEDDAR, A Customer Favorite/ 6.59 Lb

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Best Buy Imports

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Connoisseur’s Corner – Australia ■ 2009 D’ARENBERG Footbolt Shiraz/ 19.99

■ ORGANIC CREAM TOP YOGURT, 6oz/ .99

■ 2012 PENFOLDS BIN 138 GSM (94JH, Reg 38.99)/ 19.99

■ ORGANIC KEFIR, 32oz/ 3.99

■ 2009 FRANKLAND Isolation Ridge Shiraz (94W&S, Reg

■ WHOLE MILK GREEK YOGURT, 5.3oz/ 1.59 ■ ORGANIC COTTAGE CHEESE Small Curd & Low Fat, 16oz/ 3.99

■ 2014 YANGARRA GSM (96JH)/ 29.99 43.99)/ 29.99 ■ 2010 TWO HANDS Bella’s Garden (95WS)/ 79.99

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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