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EDITOR’S NOTE Working at a community newspaper that focuses as much as possible on local news, it’s always interesting when a story in Santa Cruz County offers a new or different perspective on an issue that’s being talked about at a national or even international level.

Sometimes a local story reveals an issue that should be discussed at a national or international level, but isn’t—and that’s the case this week.

It all started when a reader called

the office to tell Georgia Johnson that the man she’d just bought cigars from in Midtown had an interesting life story that GT might be interested in writing about. That tipster was right—a former translator for the U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan, Sayed Nadim Hashimi does indeed have a remarkable story—but I doubt she could have suspected that her call would lead to this eyeopening exploration of the issues that translators face after they’re done with their service. It’s a prime example of why we love tips from readers; they are the starting point for some of our most important stories. I hope you enjoy this one.

STEVE PALOPOLI | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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Thanks to Jacob Pierce and the Good Times for covering the recent Santa Cruz City Council conflicts between progressives and moderates over agenda-setting and issues (GT, 3/13). I also thank all council members for their largely thankless, sparsely paid toil on our many urgent city issues.

A major part of the controversy is the currently established (but not legally required) process of agenda setting by only the mayor and city staff—an undemocratic and inefficient way of dealing with the enormous job of setting a city government’s priorities. One solution would be to replace that protocol with a rotating three-member city council group, changing composition each meeting, determined by lot and not by rank such as mayor or vice mayor. That group would meet with staff to compose an agenda with all items requested by council members, possibly rationing times for each and all items so as to include all of the city business we have elected them to deal with. Other democratic solutions could be proposed as well as this one.

In order to put contention behind and effectively conduct business, all council members, including mayor and vice mayor, need to learn how to work together, as does any group with tasks. I suggest they set time apart from council business meetings to consult with expert facilitators in both group and meeting process and in how to reach out to each other to reconcile their personal and political differences.

For our collective and individual sake, I think most of us, and the council members themselves, prefer that they solve these problems rather than continue them. I invite the public to support our council in finding creative solutions to an apparent but unnecessary showdown.

CAROL LONG | SANTA CRUZ

FOR THE BIRDS A recent story in Good Times (2/26) suggested that “there has been sort of a sea change in recent years with offshorewind farms, as the graver existential issue of global climate catastrophe has trumped concerns about pelicans flying into windmill blades.” Are we really no longer concerned about pelicans?

Prominent environmental groups want wind energy development off the shores of California to happen “the right way.” But, what is the right way?

At American Bird Conservancy (ABC), we advocate for “Bird-Smart Wind Energy,” which means finding locations for turbines away from high-bird-collision-risk areas; conducting independent, transparent pre-and-post-construction monitoring; executing effective mitigation by wind energy facilities to minimize bird mortality; and providing compensation for the loss of protected birds. ABC recommended this strategy in our comments to the task force for California offshore wind.

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The recent “Saving Democracy” forum has been released on the podcast “Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good.” Dan Schnurr, a politics professor at USC and UC Berkeley, implored audience members to remember that “there’s a difference between being evil and being merely incorrect—and realizing that the person we’re disagreeing with isn’t stupid or evil.” He said we should remember that our opponents are concerned about the same issues we are.

The Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History has been hanging its Art of Nature exhibit, with its full unveiling set for First Friday on April 5. The show, now in its 30th year, features work from more than 30 Bay Area artists. There will be live artist demonstrations and free admission both this Friday and Friday, May 3, from 5-7 p.m. The show features everything from watercolors of fungi and herbs to highly detailed depictions of insects and colorful crustaceans.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of April 3 ARIES Mar21–Apr19 A mushroom shaped like a horse’s hoof grows on birch trees in parts of Europe and the U.S. If you strip off its outer layer, you get amadou, spongy stuff that’s great for igniting fires. It’s not used much anymore, but it was a crucial resource for some of our ancestors. As for the word “amadou,” it’s derived from an old French term that means “tinder, kindling, spunk.” The same word was formerly used to refer to a person who is quick to light up, or do something that stimulates liveliness. In accordance with astrological omens, I’m making “Amadou” your nickname for the next four weeks.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 “Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them,” wrote novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. “Life obliges them over and over to give birth to themselves.” Here’s what I’ll add to that: As you mature, you do your best to give birth to ever-new selves that are in alignment with the idealistic visions you have of the person you want to become. Unfortunately, most of us aren’t skilled at that task in adolescence and early adulthood, so the selves we create may be inadequate or delusory or distorted. Fortunately, as we learn from our mistakes, we eventually learn to give birth to selves that are strong and righteous. The only problem is that the old false selves we generated along the way may persist as ghostly echoes in our psyche. And we have a sacred duty to banish those ghostly echoes. I tell you this, Taurus, because the coming months will be en excellent time to do that banishing. Ramp up your efforts now!

GEMINI May21–June20 “When spring came, there were no problems except where to be happiest,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in his memoir.

He quickly amended that statement, though, mourning, “The only thing that could spoil a day was people.” Then he ventured even further, testifying, “People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” I bring these thoughts to your attention to prepare you for some good news. In the next three weeks, I suspect you will far exceed your quota for encounters with people who are not “limiters of happiness”—who are as good as spring itself.

CANCER Jun21–Jul22

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It’s time to prove that Cancerians have more to offer than nurturing, empathizing, softening the edges, feeling deeply, getting comfortable, and being creative. Not that there’s anything wrong with those talents. On the contrary! They’re beautiful and necessary. It’s just that for now you need to avoid being pigeonholed as a gentle, sensitive soul. To gather the goodies that are potentially available to you, you’ll have to be more forthright and aggressive than usual. Is it possible for you to wield a commanding presence? Can you add a big dose of willfulness and a pinch of ferocity to your self-presentation? Yes and yes!

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LE0 Jul23–Aug22 General Motors manufactured a car called the Pontiac Aztek from 2001-2005. It wasn’t commercially successful.

One critic said it looked like, “an angry kitchen appliance,” and many others agreed that it was exceptionally unstylish. But later the Aztek had an odd revival because of the popularity of the TV show Breaking Bad. The show’s protagonist Walter White owned one, and that motivated some of his fans to emulate his taste in cars. In accordance with astrological omens, Leo, I suspect that something of yours may also enjoy a second life sometime soon. An offering that didn’t get much appreciation the first time around may undergo a resurgence. Help it do so.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 “Of all the female sins, hunger is the least forgivable,” laments feminist author Laurie Penny. She’s referring to the hunger “for anything, for food, sex, power, education, even love.” She continues: “If we have desires, we are expected to conceal them, to control them, to keep ourselves in check. We are supposed to be objects of desire, not desiring beings.” I’ve quoted her because I suspect

it’s crucial for you to not suppress or hide your longings in the coming weeks. That’s triply true if you’re a woman, but also important if you’re a man or some other gender.

You have a potential to heal deeply if you get very clear about what you hunger for and then express it frankly.

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22 Only one of Nana Mouskouris’s vocal cords works, but over the course of an almost 60-year career, the Libran singer has sold over 30 million records in 12 different languages. Many critics speculate that her apparent disadvantage is key to her unique style. She’s a coloratura mezzo, a rare category of chanteuse who sings ornate passages with exceptional agility and purity.

In the coming weeks, I suspect that you will be like Mouskouris in your ability to capitalize on a seeming lack or deprivation.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 Your tribe is symbolized by three animals: the scorpion, the eagle and the mythological phoenix. Some astrologers say that the scorpion is the ruling creature of “unevolved” or immature Scorpios, whereas the eagle and phoenix are associated with those of your tribe who express the riper, more enlightened qualities of your sign. But I want to put in a plug for the scorpion as being worthy of all Scorpios. It is a hardy critter that rivals the cockroach in its ability to survive—and even thrive—in less than ideal conditions. For the next two weeks, I propose we make it your spirit creature.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 Sagittarian novelist Gustave Flaubert declared that, “Our duty is to feel what is sublime and cherish what is beautiful.” But that’s a demanding task to pull off on an ongoing basis. Maybe the best we can hope for is to feel what’s sublime and cherish what’s beautiful for 30-35 days every year. Having said that, though, I’m happy to tell you that in 2019 you could get all the way up to 95-100 days of feeling what’s sublime and cherishing what’s beautiful. And as many as 15-17 of those days could come during the next 21.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 Sommeliers are people trained to perceive the nuances of wine. By sampling a few sips, the best sommeliers can discern facts about the type of grapes that were used to make the wine and where on earth they were grown.

I think that in the coming weeks, you Capricorns should launch an effort to reach a comparable level of sensitivity and perceptivity about any subject you care about. It’s a favorable time to become even more masterful about your specialties—to dive deeper into the areas of knowledge that captivate your imagination.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 Every language is a work in progress. New words constantly insinuate themselves into common usage, while others fade away. If you traveled back in time to 1719 while remaining in your current location, you’d have trouble communicating with people of that era. And today linguistic evolution is even more rapid than in previous ages. The Oxford English Dictionary adds more than 1,000 new words annually. In recognition of the extra verbal skill and inventiveness you now possess, Aquarius, I invite you to coin a slew of your own fresh terms. To get you warmed up, try this utterance I coined: vorizzimo! It’s an exclamation that means “thrillingly beautiful and true.”

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 One of history’s most audacious con men was George C. Parker, a Pisces. He made his living selling property that did not legally belong to him, like the Brooklyn Bridge, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Statue of Liberty. I suspect you could summon his level of salesmanship and persuasive skills in the coming weeks. But I hope you will use your nearly magical powers to make deals and perform feats that have maximum integrity.

It’s OK to be a teensy bit greedy, though.

Homework: Name a beautiful thing you were never capable of doing until now. freewill astrology.com.

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NEWS HUMAN INTEREST Santa Cruz councilmember pitches creation of a new commission on human rights, starting a discussion

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alking past the Tannery’s housing complex, Michelle Williams reflects on something her financial advisor said to her four months ago. Williams, who has served as executive director of Arts Council Santa Cruz County for nine years, gets emotional just thinking about it.

The advisor told Williams and her husband Jonathan Vaden that if they cut $10,000 annually out of their

already-meager budget, they could begin seriously saving for one of three things eight years from now: a house, their retirement or college tuition for their two children. They would have to pick one.

“We’re going backwards, instead of forwards, in our financial lives,” Williams remembers thinking. “We have no hope of ever buying a home here.”

With that reality setting in, Vaden started looking for work. Not long

after, he was offered a lucrative marketing position in Tampa, Florida. Vaden accepted it, and now he, Williams and their two sons will be moving at the beginning of their upcoming summer vacation. They’re already in escrow on a house.

“Our financial lives will change overnight,” Williams says, in neardisbelief.

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At the misty hour of 4 a.m. on Feb. 15, six explosions rocked the 500 block of Windsor Street in the Seabright neighborhood.

Outside, an armored vehicle and a dozen unmarked cars from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded a family home as scared and confused neighbors rushed to see what was happening. The experience brought back memories of the 2017 raids in the Beach Flats, where ICE officials arrested members of the notorious MS-13 gang, along with 11 other undocumented individuals (10 were released shortly after).

With incidents like these in mind, recently elected Santa Cruz City Councilmember Drew Glover has suggested launching a citywide human rights commission, similar to models in San Francisco and Santa Clara County.

The commission, Glover tells GT, would advocate for human and civil rights, as well as investigate and mediate discrimination complaints.

The idea has been on his mind for some time. Glover, a longtime local activist and one of two new African-American members of the council, says people of color experience bigotry more often than white people would expect, both on an individual level and systemically.

Glover believes that if a commission had already been in place, it would have helped quell some of the fear and confusion caused by events like the recent immigration raid.

The council has agreed to discuss the raids in a community meeting.

Glover is still working through many of the specifics for how the commission would address problems of bigotry.

Santa Cruz is no stranger to racism and stereotyping. Last November, anti-rentcontrol flyers circulated around the county with the caption, “Meet Your Neighbors” over a picture of what was implied to be MS-13 gang members. The photo was later revealed to be from a Salvadoran prison.

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He says he’s hopeful that the council will vote as early as April 23 on whether to explore his proposal, and he has a loose archetype for the commission that he’s ready to submit.

The group that he’s proposing would be far more robust than the city’s existing committees. He says it would consist of seven members, each representing a subcommittee focusing on one of the following topics: citizenship issues, the environment, the homeless, people with disabilities, protection against race-based discrimination, and justice issues facing schools and students.

The commission could meet every two months, with the subcommittees meeting in between to report back with recommendations. Once chosen, subcommittee commissioners would go through “comprehensive equity training.”

“All of that can be fleshed out in the conversation on how we want to structure the commission,” Glover says.

One consideration that may weigh on the council is that it isn’t clear how much the commission would cost. Even without

the addition of new programs, financial deficits are projected to reappear before long. Despite a successful quarter-cent sales tax approved by voters in June, Santa Cruz is one of many cities feeling the squeeze of growing pension costs. On the campaign trail, Glover invoked a quote often attributed to Martin Luther King Jr. that a budget is a “moral document,” and he has criticized cuts in social services spending.

As to whether this new commission would assist those most in need or just create more bureaucracy, Glover insists that the body would lend needed assistance to marginalized groups.

He isn’t ready to say where he might suggest saving money instead, but when he scans the city budget, he questions “if it represents Santa Cruz values.”

Glover gives the example of the Grille at DeLa, a restaurant at the city-owned DeLaveaga Golf Course, where the city is spending $925,000 on maintenance and renovations that are running more than $600,000 over budget, as the council recently learned when approving a budget allocation. Leaky pipes, termites, dry rot, and a failed deck all contributed to the cost overrun. Public Works Director Mark Dettle says crews worked on the project over

several years, and that for future projects, he would like to have his team report back to the council in six-month intervals.

Glover says the city needs to make allocations where it sees the highest need.

“When looking at the needs of the city, I would prioritize human rights and supportive services over something that serves a small percentage of our community,” he explains.

“The money is there.”

So far, the City Council seems open to exploring the human rights idea. Glover initially proposed the new commission at the tail end of a discussion about the ICE raids.

After the city attorney mentioned that it wasn’t the appropriate time, Glover brought up the idea a few minutes later, during the council’s calendar review. Councilmembers Sandy Brown, Justin Cummings, Donna Meyers, and Cynthia Matthews all spoke positively about the concept, though some council members expressed concern over the budget and wondered if the principles could be worked into existing commissions.

“Establishing a whole new commission, as newer councilmembers will learn, is a big commitment,” Matthews said at the meeting.

“It would be worth sitting down and thinking how to incorporate these into already existing commissions and programs.”

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NEWS TROUBLING DEVELOPMENT <11 housing crisis impact workers in every sector of the economy. She personally knows many artists who could not afford to live locally, were it not for the affordable units at the Tannery Arts Center, which is also home to the Arts Council offices.

Away from the campus, Williams knows many other creatives who struggle to juggle various jobs while navigating stressful housing arrangements. She wonders how any service workers could ever survive here.

Educators are feeling the squeeze, too, Williams has noticed.

The parents of one of her son’s friends are both teachers—and like Williams, they’ll be moving away in June. They’re headed to San Diego, where they’ve been able to

find higher-paying jobs, as well as cheaper housing.

Williams stresses that, for all its flaws, she loves Santa Cruz as much as ever. The decision hasn’t been easy.

“It’s been a combination of love and heartbreak,” she explains. “It’s not like I was burned out. It’s not like I ran out of passion for this job.

It’s math. It doesn’t work, and it hasn’t worked. We’ve got to make it work. We owe it to our kids and our futures.”

At the Arts Council, Williams’ announcement kickstarts the search for a new leader. The nonprofit oversees First Friday art walks, the Ebb and Flow Festival, grant programs for artists, and art education programs for 17,000 school kids.

BUILDER BEWARE It’s one thing to recognize that Santa Cruz is one of the least affordable housing markets in the country.

Doing something about it is another.

Over the past year, the city of Santa Cruz has taken action— adopting a relocation assistance ordinance for tenants who see large rent increases, streamlining accessory dwelling unit rules and approving 205 new units of marketrate housing on Pacific Avenue and Laurel Street. City leaders have expressed hopes of building an additional 100-percent affordable housing complex next door.

Matt Huerta works as the housing program manager for the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership, which will host a housing-related discussion with state Sen. Scott

Weiner at Peace United Church on Friday night. He says Santa Cruz’s leadership on housing has been mixed.

The city, he explains, needs to take action on more items—like making changes to fee structures on new housing construction. “They makes steps in the right direction and have demonstrated an openness, but there’s a lack of progress,” Huerta says. “There’s a lack of strong enough political will to get the big things done.”

Last year, local activists filed a lawsuit against the approved downtown development, alleging that the complex skirts affordable housing requirements. Huerta views the challenge as a setback for the city because the project is badly needed, he says, even if affordable

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“Lot 24 ain’t gonna happen.”

That’s what Santa Cruz Parks Ranger Jeremy Mathews said about a possible encampment near Depot Park, in a Facebook comment thread about homelessness on Tuesday, March 26. The implication was that a planned nighttime sleeping site and daystorage facility in that spot will never open. And he might have some inside intel—Mathews’ mom Cynthia is a longtime member of the City Council, and she made a motion that same night to reconsider the idea after hearing community frustration. With two councilmembers absent, her motion passed 5-0, so she wasn’t alone in having concerns.

Ranger Mathews was replying to a post from Cannabis Club TV impresario Danny Keith, who was criticizing the county’s needle-exchange program after hearing about a botulism warning from the county. But before Mathews wrote that sentence, no one had even mentioned Lot 24, so it was a weird thing to bring up. It almost felt like he wanted to tell everyone a secret he’d heard at dinner!

One commenter jokingly implied that it was time to start shooting the homeless “Philippines-style,” as he put it, and Keith liked the comment, clicking Facebook’s “Haha” button. (Last year, President of the Philippines

Rodrigo Duterte launched a bloody war on loitering.)

In the thread, Mathews told stories about how large the rats have gotten in the current Gateway encampment, and he liked a comment saying that no one would show up to a new sanctioned camp anyway, because it would be drug-free. The overall theme was that government leaders need to stop messing around and crack down on those lazy, drug-addicted homeless people who can’t get their lives together.

Mathews certainly doesn’t seem shy about letting loose online, whether or not it’s appropriate for a city employee to do so. Nuz also has a screenshot of the time in August of 2016 when Mathews jumped into the comments of a friend’s post calling out Judge John Salazar, who he apparently had sentencing disagreements with. Mathews wrote, “Salazar needs to go.”

LEVEL OF DISCOURSE Anti-corridor-rezoning group Save Santa Cruz is refashioning itself as an antithree-to-six-story-building-in-general group. In addition to opposing taller apartment buildings on major streets like Soquel Avenue, Ocean Street and Mission Street, the group has expanded to

opposing them downtown, too, according to a Facebook post about a proposed Front Street housing development along the river.

Nuz doesn’t even feel comfortable making fun of these old-school NIMBYs, because their pathological fear of tall-ish buildings is so extreme that they might be candidates for batophobia—which is defined as, “the abnormal fear of being near an object of great height.”

But if that’s the case, these architecture haters already can’t go downtown, because the old Hotel Palomar is eight stories and probably taller than anything that will ever get built there again.

Save Santa Cruz has built its premise on the idea that this town is at risk of turning into Santa Clara County. It’s no secret that Silicon Valley is itself unaffordable, but that’s partly because the region isn’t building enough housing, despite adding high-paying jobs faster than you can say “Google.” The mayor of Cupertino, home to Apple, even joked about building a wall around his city. (It did not go over well.) If we truly put the kibosh on development locally, we’ll run the risk of going one step further and turning into Carmel, with Santa Cruz continuing to lose the young, bootstrapping creative community that helps make it a special place (see page 11).

Here’s an idea: maybe we could have an honest discussion about growth and try

to learn more about our options, instead of lethargically whining about every single rendering for a building that doesn’t look like the kind of home that a hippie might dream up during a watercolor-painting session?

FLYNN’S LIMBO After a $650,000 overhaul that saw the Felton institution Don Quixote’s reopen as Flynn’s Cabaret and Steakhouse last summer, a mystery buyer has stepped up to (maybe) buy the revamped music venue.

Flynn’s owner Bradd Barkan says that a sale has become a financial inevitability after opening delays related to overhauling the in-house kitchen, inconsistent bookings and a recent non-compliance claim over disability access to the club’s bathrooms. “I don’t really have any more money,” Barkan tells GT. “It is in escrow, so that’s the reality.”

A real estate broker involved in the deal says the sale is moving quickly, but is by no means final, and the identity of the would-be buyers remains confidential. Rumor has it that the prospective new owners have ties to Petaluma’s Mystic Theatre and Monterey’s California Roots music festival. “There’s lots of rumors as to who exactly they are,” Barkan says. “I can tell you they have some deep musical connections.”

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Williams isn’t deeply familiar with all of Santa Cruz’s policy workings, but in visiting Tampa, she says she’s been impressed by how committed the Florida city is to solving whatever problems seem to arise. She gives the example of an intersection where the city did a large overhaul. The first didn’t improve traffic, so Tampa is breaking ground again, this time with a revised plan, she says.

“Tampa felt like a city that— through its infrastructure investments, its public transit investments, its cultural facility investments—was working really hard to make it a place where everyone felt welcome, and to make it as easy as possible to live there,” she says. “That was my experience as an outsider. I don’t know how to solve the housing crisis, but it seems like for some, there is this dedication to keeping Santa Cruz as it is, from whatever moment in time people got here.”

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There were other aspects of life in Santa Cruz that tested the patience of Williams and her family.

Just over a year ago, Williams’ home was broken into, and the thief stole her purse, the family’s computers and their minivan. Her family probably left a door unlocked, Williams admits. The thief tossed pretty much everything from their van, including the middle seats.

When cops found the vehicle, its interior was covered in blood and littered with syringes—prompting six weeks and $13,000-worth of repairs, she says.

After the whole ordeal was over, Williams says her family looked at the thief with compassion. She adds that they still felt committed to Santa Cruz, even though her kids would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and say, “Mommy, can you go make sure all the doors are locked?”

This year, though, she says, the family has decided that it’s time to move on.

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hen Sayed Nadim Hashimi first joined the U.S. special forces as an Afghan translator, he was replacing a longtime translator who had been killed on a mission. Hashimi knew the man, and volunteered to bring his clothes and belongings back to his family in Kabul. He remembers going to the home, where the man’s 5-year-old daughter asked him when her father was returning.

Eight years later, Hashimi, now 27, has moved to the U.S. and lives in Santa Cruz. He works at a local tobacco shop, and although he rarely gets days off, he’s thrilled to be finally living in America with his wife and new baby.

Hashmi went on over 100 missions throughout Afghanistan during his three years as a translator in the Mission Essential Personnel (MEP) program with U.S. special forces. For his service, he was promised a shot at a Special Immigrant Visa (SIV)—a chance to move to America. Sometimes the missions lasted for days without food or much rest, Hashimi remembers. They worked seven days a week for 12 hours a day and were required to be on call 24/7.

“There were many times like that where we were facing an ambush and arrested Taliban spies,” Hashimi says. “I was on a mission where the Taliban shot an RPG at a helicopter, there was a soldier trying to jump out, but he and 11 other soldiers ended up dying.”

He wore a bulletproof vest and helmet and carried an AK-47, despite the fact that he’d never held a gun before. He says it wasn’t the policy of his company to carry weapons, and they only get a week or two of training on military organization—not on operating in battlegrounds. Regardless, soldiers often gave them guns anyway because of dangerous conditions and the fact that translators were often considered traitors by the Taliban—and thus targets.

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<17 “On my first mission, my captain at the time in the special forces, he got shot in an ambush,” Hashimi says. “Two other interpreters got shot, too. It was my first mission, one of my first days, and still someone got shot. It could have been me. It could have been anyone.”

The New York-based nonprofit International Refugee Assistance Project estimated that in 2014, an Afghan interpreter was killed every 36 hours. Having moved to the U.S. just last year, Hashimi says he wants people to remember his Afghan co-workers who have died serving the U.S., and also their families, who often do not receive any government support beyond

a few thousand dollars—a modest amount compared to the $100,000 that U.S. military service members families are eligible for as part of a death gratuity program and other allowance programs.

“I saw thousands of young Afghan soldiers die or get seriously injured, losing their hands and feet,” Hashimi says. “Facing that all, that sacrifice, was hard. But you have to lose some things to get some things.

I live here now and am trying to not be a part of those days anymore.

Now, I want to help the families whose sons died on the missions.”

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in 1992. As one of nine children, he helped his family operate a grocery store in Pakistan before they returned to Kabul five years later. He was in fifth grade when they returned, and eventually took a Youth Exchange Study exam in hopes of traveling to the U.S. as an exchange student. After failing the exam, he says his only other option was to join the special forces and hope that they would eventually grant him an American visa.

Hashimi signed up for MEP at 19-years-old in June 2011. He waited one year to apply for his visa, eventually leaving his position as a translator in December 2014, once he was granted the special visa. He

was one of over 7,000 Afghan natives granted an SIV in 2014, over 2,300 of whom immigrated to California.

Hashimi found his way to Santa Cruz after a stint in Fremont, where he has extended family, and took up a job at a local tobacco store. Even getting here seemed like a huge risk, but one worth taking.

“I saw that I could fight for the country, and if I stayed alive, then I could go to the United States,” he says. “So the day after I finished school, I went with three other classmates and joined MEP.” MEP, now known as Mission Essential, is a government contractor serving intelligence and military clients. As one of the primary companies providing translation services for the U.S. government, MEP has been responsible for recruiting and screening thousands of interpreters headed for the battlefield. Hashimi’s translator number was in the 14 thousands, and he says he now knows translators with numbers as high as 22,000. “It goes for a long time,” he says. “If they need somebody, they will hire them and they get a number.”

MEP pays interpreters a maximum of $900 a month to accompany front-line troops into action. Hashimi says for the times that he wasn’t on active, hazardous missions, he got paid a salary equivalent to about half that amount, $450 a month. In the past, MEP has been accused by former employees of abandoning wounded employees and sending physically unfit interpreters to the front lines.

MEP’s press spokesperson did not return multiple requests for comment in the weeks leading up to the publication of this story.

“Those classmates that I had signed up with, a week or two after they saw the battlefield and soldier injuries, they quit. It was just me left between us four friends,” Hashimi says. “I stayed because I wanted to help my family, fight for my country and eventually come to America.”

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2014, he says he waited for three more years to get his visa—though according to U.S. law, the process shouldn’t take longer than nine months. Getting a visa requires 14 lengthy steps, including that applicants prove they are in danger based on their service with the U.S. “A lot of people get denied visas, and I know a lot of people still that are waiting to apply for a visa,” Hashimi says. All the while, many of the people waiting for SIVs are in life-threatening danger.

Afghans are increasingly the top recipients of SIVs. According to the Refugee Processing Center, more than 97 percent of the 3,234 people who immigrated to the U.S. under the SIV program since Oct. 2018 are Afghan nationals. The highest number of Afghan SIVs awarded in a year, more than 16,800 visas, was in 2017. The 2019 U.S. federal budget authorized 4,000 additional SIVs for Afghan applicants. That would be good news for those applying for a visa, but the problem for hopeful immigrants is that the U.S. State Department may not be able to accommodate the extra visas because of a backlog in the long vetting process.

“It is important to note that the issuance numbers in FY 2017 were more than any other year in the program’s history,” a U.S. Department of State spokesperson told GT in an email, which “resulted from a Department surge to keep up with past demand. We do not expect to issue as many Afghan SIVs in FY 2019 as we did in FY 2017.”

But these numbers only tell part of the story. Many of the people who thought they would be able to move and begin a new life in the U.S. because of their service will be severely delayed or unable to.

“All immigrant visa applicants, including SIV applicants, are thoroughly vetted to ensure they do not pose a threat to the security of the United States,” the U.S. Department of State official said. “Our goal is to issue every SIV as quickly as possible, while maintaining national security as our highest priority. Depending on

the facts of a case, we sometimes need additional time to thoroughly evaluate the application.”

Increasing scrutiny—and at times intense cynicism—of immigrant and refugee motives has become a hallmark of the Trump Administration, which has impacted visa applicants from Syria to Venezuela. Yet there is little data to back up claims that recent immigrants pose any increased threat to homeland security.

“To my knowledge, since the SIV program started in 2008, and with coming up on 75,000 SIVs and their family members resettled, not one has ever been charged with any terrorist-related charge,” says Kirt Lewis, chief operating officer of No One Left Behind, a national nonprofit aimed at helping wartime allies who are displaced and in need of assistance. “I don't know how much better of a public safety track record we can reasonably ask for.”

Hashimi says he knew of many translators who were stopped or killed by the Taliban for working with the U.S. He remembers one instance in particular, where a suicide bomber actively sought out a translator to kill.

“Many of these people, especially those who served as interpreters, are hunted and killed, tortured, or both,” says Jason Gorey, executive director of No One Left Behind. “To my knowledge, no accurate data exists regarding how many Afghan and Iraqi wartime allies have been killed for working with U.S. forces after they stopped their work. Based on anecdotal information, especially due to ISIS in Iraq, I believe we can safely say it is in the tens of thousands—with hundreds killed after applying for and while waiting for their Special Immigrant Visa.”

Hashimi says he doesn’t often try to get in contact with impacted families in Afghanistan, since he doesn’t feel like there is much he can do. He says it makes him sad because many of those caught up in the danger and visa delays are young, stay-at-home mothers who have lost their husbands.

“I try not to talk about it. It makes

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These families don’t have anyone to support them, because for many people, their only financial support is gone and they don’t get any help from the country that they fought for.” —SAYED NADIM HASHIMI “People understand that they have seen horrible things and that it will impact them, but what they don’t know is that it’s treatable, that they can get to a point that they can live with all of the things that they have seen,” Silverman says. “Literally, we have clients who were on the verge of agoraphobia, who will only leave the house when they have to. I had a client in Afghanistan who hadn’t left their house in years. And the majority of them moved here under SIV.” According to the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, there have been only around 60 death insurance claims filed for MEP LLC from 2001 to 2018. Hashimi himself says he and his coworkers know of “probably hundreds” of translators who were killed or critically injured while working for MEP. “The people that die, if they are not Americans, then the government forgets them,” Hashimi says. “They shouldn’t. It’s not easy to do that job.

We know that we might die, but we do it to support family, fight for the country and move to the U.S. These families don’t have anyone to support them, because for many people, their only financial support is gone and they don’t get any help from the country that they fought for.”

Likewise, the families of those who die while serving often do not receive the visa benefits that translators do. In order for families to be eligible for American visas, they must apply and travel with the MEP worker, like in Hashimi’s case.

“They say ‘no one left behind’, but how can you say that when I know all of these people, families, who are stuck in Afghanistan without support. They get left behind,” Hashimi says. “I want to fight for those people. I feel that it’s my job to not forget them.”

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me hurt. It makes me cry when I think about those young women,” he says. “There was a man I knew who asked for vacation to see his babies.

He died for the U.S. government in a car with other U.S. soldiers.

Those soldiers are taken care of, but the man who died, he has a family also—and his family will not be supported.”

Although they are often eligible for much more, Afghan and Iranian families typically receive a one-time payment between $2,000-$5,000 from the employer for a killed servicemember, Hashimi and Michael Silverman, associate at Military Justice Attorneys, say. But under the U.S. Department of Labor Defense Base Act, Afghan translators working for contractors like MEP are insured and eligible for more workers’ compensation if injured or killed.

“In a nutshell, any time an employee is injured or suffers a psychological injury, these insurance companies are responsible for it, and that is also the case for the death of an employee,” Silverman says. “What we have found is that many times the employer will pay a small stipend for an interpreter who is killed and not inform the family that there is insurance that will cover it.”

Silverman, who works closely with No One Left Behind, says his firm represents many clients from Afghanistan and Iraq who have severe, debilitating psychological trauma from working as translators many years ago. Some have already moved to the U.S. and are trying to start a new life here. Although these clients were eligible for compensation and psychological support under the Defense Base Act, they often never received it because they didn’t know about it.

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The pianist had already played with Clemmens several times, and what stood out most was “his massive sound,” Fortner recalls. “It was like the first time I heard Justin Brown or Marcus Gilmore, these modern guys who imply a whole lot of rhythms on top. When the time would fluctuate, it was hard to understand what they were doing, but when you play with them it’s very clear and easy.”

Growing up in New Orleans, Fortner heard a lot of the great piano lore “in the air,” catching strains of James Booker, Allen Toussaint and Professor Longhair. “It was stuff you’d hear on the street, but I didn’t really absorb it,” he says. “I was more attracted to the modern jazz scene—what Nicholas Payton was doing, and the older masters like Kid Jordan and Alvin Batiste.”

After earning a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin and a master’s from the Manhattan School of Music, Fortner first started gaining attention in 2009 with vibraphonist Stefon Harris.

Landing the gig with Hargrove the following year gave him another boost of confidence, at least until he asked veteran pianist Rodney Kendrick for an honest appraisal.

“He said, ‘You got potential,’” Fortner recalled. “He said, ‘You sound alright, but you definitely sound corny. You need to learn from somebody. Take your black ass over to see Barry Harris.’”

A product of the fecund postWorld War II Detroit scene, Harris has mentored generations of musicians, and is still passing on hard-won wisdom at 89. Harris introduced Sullivan to concepts he

gleaned directly from modern jazz architects Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.

“They say bebop is the gateway to everything,” Fortner says. “Going and listening to Barry Harris play, he’d drop little nuggets. He’s like a poet. Some things were easy to understand, and some things I still don’t understand. He’s not giving you the steps. It’s very much him sitting at the piano working out things.”

The time he spent with Harris clearly paid off. A panel of distinguished players didn’t think Fortner sounded corny at all when he won the American Pianists Association’s 2015 Cole Porter Fellowship in Jazz, earning a $50,000 prize and a deal with the Mack Avenue label. The formidable competition included Kris Bowers, Emmet Cohen and Christian Sands, who each performed one number with a big band and on a song accompanying NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves.

Looking for more experience playing with vocalists, Fortner got up the nerve to contact Cécile McLorin Salvant when he was offered a gig at the Greenwich Village piano room Mezzrow. “I was scared to call her,” he says. “I thought, she won’t play with me, but I talked to her pianist Aaron Diehl, and I wrote her a message on Facebook. Luckily, she responded, and she was really into it. From the first note it felt right. We’ve been doing a lot of things since then.

We’re kind of riding high.”

As a bandleader, Fortner is just starting to soar.

Sullivan Fortner performs at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 8, at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $26.25 adv/$31.50 door. 427-2227.

2019 Concert Series

6 ABBA The Concert 7 Del McCoury Band and

MAY 25 UB40 feat.

Ali Campbell and Astro Collie Buddz

The Travelin’ McCourys

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“The Greatest Day” Tour

13 SEAL 14 Natalia Lafourcade 18 Common

19 Sebastian Maniscalco: 20 Dave Koz and Friends

SiriusXM FLY Presents Hammer’s House Party

Summer Horns feat. Gerald Albright, Rick Braun, Kenny Lattimore and Aubrey Logan

MC Hammer En Vogue / Tone Loc Michael Franti & Spearhead / Ziggy Marley

21 Rodrigo y Gabriela 23 Pat Benatar &

Alejandro Escovedo

19 Sublime with Rome

Neil Giraldo & Melissa Etheridge 24 Postmodern Jukebox / The Tenors 26 Russell Peters

20 Alanis Morissette Acoustic

27 George Lopez

23 Indigo Girls

28 The Royal Affair

15 Foreigner 16 Rob Thomas: Chip Tooth Tour

Performances by Yes, Asia,

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An Evening With Lyle Lovett

Brit Floyd

World Tour 2019 The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show

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The Temptations / Four Tops

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Kool & The Gang Special Guest Evelyn “Champagne” King

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25 Tower of Power Very Special Guest

Average White Band 27 Gov’t Mule 30 Los Tigres Del Norte 31 Lost 80’s Live

A Flock of Seagulls/Missing Persons/Wang Chung/ Musical Youth /Animotion/ Real Life / The Motels / The Vapors / The Escape Club / Boys Don’t Cry / Farrington & Mann - Original Members of When In Rome UK / Trans X

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3 Josh Groban: Bridges Tour

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5 Chris Isaak

Los Lonely Boys

6 Jeff Dunham

Richard Bean & SAPO

Passively Aggressive

12 The B-52s with very special

8 The Beach Boys 17 18 Steely Dan 22 Diana Krall 23 India.Arie 24 Earth, Wind & Fire 25 28 Oingo Boingo

guests OMD and Berlin

13 14 Jackson Browne

15 Feist Special Guest Rhye

Former Members / The Tubes / Dramarama

16 THE FAB FOUR: The Ultimate Tribute

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4 Steve Martin and

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19 Boz Scaggs / Aaron Neville 20 Taj Mahal Quartet /

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Martin Short: “Now you see them, soon you won’t” featuring Della Mae with Alison Brown and Jeff Babko

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John Lodge of the Moody Blues and Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy with vocals by Arthur Brown

Trevor Noah Loud and Clear

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Gipsy Kings feat. Nicolas Reyes & Tonino Baliardo

The Wall World Tour

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One Nation Under Groove Tour feat. George Clinton &

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Lance Bass of *NSYNC, with O-Town, Aaron Carter, Ryan Cabrera & Tyler Hilton Parliament Funkadelic, Dumpstaphunk, Fishbone, Miss Velvet & The Blue Wolf

Stay Hungry Tour

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Ian Anderson Presents Jethro Tull 50th Anniversary Tour

El Gran Festival 1 de Musica Cubana

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David Grisman Trio

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6TH ANNUAL UC SANTA CRUZ CLIMATE CONFERENCE For the first time, the annual UC Santa Cruz Climate Conference will bring together prominent ocean scientists and leading social-justice advocates to discuss the environmental and equity dimensions of the crisis. The conference will focus on local, state and national efforts to pursue climate justice; the panel discussion will be followed by an interactive opportunity to learn about UCSC research and opportunities for local action. Panelists include UCSC professor Gary Griggs, sustainability and climate action manager for the City of Santa Cruz Climate Action Program Tiffany Wise-West and more.

6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11. Rio Theatre. 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. climateconference.ucsc.edu. Free, online registration required.

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WEDNESDAY 4/3 ARTS SANTA CRUZ JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL The Santa Cruz Jewish Film Festival returns to the Del Mar Theatre with two short films, a Q&A with a producer, and a feature documentary. Near Normal Man tells the story of Ben Stein, who survived three concentration camps before immigrating to the U.S. On My Way Out tells the story of Roman and Ruth Blank, a seemingly happy couple in a 60-year marriage who reveal a long held secret. The film’s producer and granddaughter of the couple, Lili Gross, will be on hand for Q&A. 6-9:30 p.m. Del Mar Theatre, 1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. scjff. org. Free.

SAMARA JADE & ERIC DEARATANHA AT THE UGLY MUG From Asheville, North Carolina, now based in Port Townsend, Washington, songstress Samara Jade is thrilled to bring her soulful folk tunes to the Santa Cruz area. She will be teaming up with local songster Eric DeAratanha for an evening of nourishing original music at the Ugly Mug Cafe. 7-9:30 p.m. The Ugly Mug, 4640 Soquel Drive, Soquel. cafeugly.com.

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Local hero Tammi Brown was raised in the gospel and jazz traditions—roots that blossomed when she discovered the grace and power of great women in soul, R&B and pop. Brown has continued to spread her musical wings with Grammynominated vocal ensemble Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir, SoVoSó, and in opening for Dr. Maya Angelou and Joan Baez, as well as co-producing her single “That’s How it Goes” with 13-time Grammy nominated jazz fusion artist Tom Schuman of Spyro Gyra. Brown will be performing with her band as part of Tandy Beal and Company’s ArtSmart Arts Education Program.

WRITE THROUGH IT: CREATIVE WRITING CLASS In a safe and fun setting,

11 a.m. Saturday, April 6. Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front St., Santa Cruz. tandybeal.com. $15 adult/$10 child.

seniors will utilize journaling as the mode for self-discovery leading to poetry, personal essays and other techniques useful in creating memoirs. Facilitated by published poet and author Ellen Hart, MA.E. 9:30-11 a.m. Louden Nelson Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. cityofsantacruz.com.

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

FRIDAY 4/5 FELIX KULPA ‘PRO-COMMUNITY VISIONS AND VOICES’ With work from 10 member artists, the Felix Kulpa gallery will be transformed into a thought-provoking space for visitors to look, listen and be heard. Just in time for First Friday, the exhibit centers around pressing issues like affordable housing, definitions of personhood, and the health of our ecosystems. In April and May, the collective will host a number of events, workshops and conversations in the exhibition space, exploring the powerful intersection of creative collaboration and civic engagement through drawing, painting, fiber sculpture, and video installation. Areperia 831 will be there slinging delicious vegan Arepas and other Venezuelan food.

5-8 p.m. Felix Kulpa Gallery and Sculpture Garden, 107 Elm St., Santa Cruz. 421-9107, felixkulpa.com. Free.

OUTDOOR SPRING BREAK AT THE BOARDWALK Ditch the books and hit the beach.

Boardwalk rides are open daily during spring break. Enjoy rides, free magic shows, costumed characters, arcade happy hours, and more. Ride and play tickets available per ride, per day or per season. All rides open, weather and maintenance permitting. 11 a.m.

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

THURSDAY 4/4 ARTS SANTA CRUZ JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL At 27 years of age, Ben Ferencz was appointed lead prosecutor in the Einsatzgruppen case at Nuremberg, then the biggest murder trial in history; 22 high ranking Nazis were charged with murdering over 1 million people. It was his first trial. A >28 panel discussion will follow the film

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FRIDAY 4/5-SUNDAY 9/22 ‘WE’RE STILL HERE: STORIES OF SENIORS AND SOCIAL ISOLATION’ Loneliness and social isolation affect 1 in 3 seniors in Santa Cruz County. Many seniors contact just one person a week; some said they see a visitor less than once a month. The new exhibit, curated entirely by Santa Cruz senior citizens, sheds light on this local crisis and gives visitors the tools to help. It also shares solutions to loneliness from different cultures and families around the world. It’s not your typical exhibition; over 180 seniors, advocates and organizations created this show themselves in partnership with the MAH. Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. 429-1964. santacruzmah.org. $10 general admission/free on First Fridays. Photo: Gina Orlando.

<26 featuring Cabrillo College professors Michael Mangin and David Sullivan, Rabbi Paula Marcus, and immigration attorney Ann Lipson. 2-4:30 p.m. Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. Scjff.org. Free.

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Our final program of the season begins with Esa-Pekka Salonen’s endlessly inventive Karawane (2014), a riotously playful oratorio for chorus and orchestra, based on a poem of the same title by Dada founder Hugo Ball. 7:30-10 p.m. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. santacruzsymphony.org. Free.

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

FRIDAY 4/5 ARTS MCT’S ‘FOUR OLD BROADS’ Four Old Broads is a new comedic play featuring four sassy, smart, and savvy older women who are living at the Magnolia Place >35

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6th Annual Climate Conference APRIL 11, 6:30–9PM RIO THEATRE, SANTA CRUZ FREE ADMISSION; REGISTRATION REQUIRED

For the first time, the annual UC Santa Cruz Climate Conference will bring together prominent ocean scientists and leading social-justice advocates to discuss the environmental and equity dimensions of the crisis during a free public panel on April 11.

Astronomy on Tap APRIL 4, 6:30PM NEW BOHEMIA BREWING COMPANY, SANTA CRUZ FREE ADMISSION

Hear about amazing discoveries about planets, galaxies, stars, and our own Universe at this free event for all ages.

An Evening with Grammy Award–Winning Baritone Daniel Belcher APRIL 4, 7:30PM MUSIC CENTER RECITAL HALL $4–$10/ PERSON

Internationally renowned, Grammy® Award-winning baritone Daniel Belcher sings a recital of French music by Poulenc, Ibert, and Ravel with pianist Ronny Michael Greenberg in this rare Santa Cruz appearance.

Jasper Rose Exhibition Opening APRIL 12, 5–7PM ELOISE PICKARD SMITH GALLERY, COWELL COLLEGE FREE ADMISSION

Join us as we view artwork done by former Cowell Provost and Art History Emeriti Professor Jasper Rose. The show will include audio narration from Jasper.

Sinister Resonance: The American Ultramodernists and Beyond

Phil Crews, distinguished research professor of chemistry and biochemistry,

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SELECTED THURSDAYS AND SUNDAYS OF EACH MONTH BEGINNING AT 10:30AM SEYMOUR MARINE DISCOVERY CENTER FREE WITH ADMISSION TO THE CENTER

APRIL 13, 7:30PM MUSIC CENTER RECITAL HALL FREE ADMISSION

The world-renowned Del Sol String Quartet and critically acclaimed percussionist Chris Froh premiere compositions by cutting-edge young composers. Part of the April in Santa Cruz Contemporary Music Festival.

Santa Cruz Pickwick Club Reads Barnaby Rudge APRIL 14, 2–4PM SANTA CRUZ DOWNTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY FREE ADMISSION

The Pickwick Book Club, a community of local bookworms, meets monthly to discuss a 19th-century novel, currently Charles Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge.

Younger Lagoon Reserve Tours

This 90-minute, behind-the-scenes hiking tour takes visitors into Younger Lagoon Reserve adjacent to the Seymour Marine Discovery Center. The Reserve contains diverse coastal habitat and is home to birds of prey, migrating sea birds, bobcats, and other wildlife.

Question Bridge: Black Males THROUGH APRIL 6 MARY PORTER SESNON ART GALLERY, PORTER COLLEGE FREE ADMISSION

Question Bridge: Black Males is an innovative, widely exhibited multimedia project that uses video to facilitate a conversation among black men from 12 cities across the U.S. This five-screen video installation is on view through April 6.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Works by faculty composers David Cope, Chris Pratorius Gómez, David Evan Jones, Hi Kyung Kim, William Coulter, Larry Polansky, and others. Part of the April in Santa Cruz Contemporary Music Festiv

APRIL 25

DNA Day Celebration!

APRIL 26–28

Alumni Weekend MAY 2

Earth Week at the Seymour Center

Global-African dance, spoken word, winds, strings, percussion, turntable, beat box, and digital artwork with Professor Karlton Hester. Part of the April in Santa Cruz Contemporary Music Festival.

APRIL 9, 7PM MUSIC CENTER RECITAL HALL FREE ADMISSION

Del Sol String Quartet & Percussionist Chris Froh

APRIL 12, 7:30PM MUSIC CENTER RECITAL HALL FREE ADMISSION

APRIL 6, 7:30PM MUSIC CENTER RECITAL HALL FREE ADMISSION

Emeriti Lecture with Phil Crews

ONGOING EVENTS

Growing Organic Hops: Production Techniques & Trellis Design APRIL 13, 9:30AM–1:30PM ALAN CHADWICK GARDEN $5–$40/PERSON

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APRIL 23–28, 10AM–5PM SEYMOUR MARINE DISCOVERY CENTER FREE ADMISSION FOR ANYONE ARRIVING VIA PEOPLE POWER (BICYCLE, WALKING, ETC.) OR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Learn more about the big blue planet called Earth! Pop-up exhibits and fun arts and crafts will be set up for visitors every day during Earth Week, April 23–28.

Rethinking Gendered Violence and Immigrant Lives MAY 2

Astronomy on Tap MAY 2

Lick Observatory: Public Evening Tours MAY 11

Kresge Presents PRIDE

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Quantum Elders Hip-Bop Ballet

will speak on “Inspirational Biomolecules from Oceania.”

maximize your harvest and get hands-on experience building a trellis system in the Chadwick Garden. Space is limited, please pre-register.

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SUE HOLMES Sereno Group Real Estate Company will christen their new Downtown location this First Friday with music, food and celebration. Every new home deserves to be graced with great art.

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GALLERIES APRIL 5, 2019

DOWNTOWN Ann Baldwin May Art Quilts at the Santa Cruz Art Center 1001 Center St. annbaldwinmayartquilts.com 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Artisans Gallery March Sea Glass Art First Friday 1368 Pacific Ave. artisanssantacruz.com/ 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm Estrella Collective Kati Greaney 175 Walnut Ave. estrellacollective.com 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Felix Kulpa Gallery & Sculpture Garden Pro Community Visions and Voices 107 Elm Street felixkulpa.com 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Food Lounge Joe Jacobs & Enrique Ortiz-Villegas 1001 Center Street Suite 1 scfoodlounge.com 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm L’Atelier Salon Aisha Hudson 114 Pearl Alley lateliersalon.com 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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Pacific Wave Surf Shop Dominic Ennamorato 1502 Pacific Ave pacwave.com 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Palace Art & Office Supply Downtown Courtney Scruggs 1407 Pacific Ave. stores.gopalace.com 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm Pure Pleasure Frank Leonard 111 Cooper St. purepleasureshop.com 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Red Dot Gallery Grant Stoner 1001 Center Street Suite 5 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Satellite Flexible Workspace & Digital Media Center Megan Gnekow 325 Soquel Ave. satellite.communitytv.org 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Sereno Group Sue Holmes Fine Art 720 Front St. serenogroup.com 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

TANNERY Apricity Gallery Nuala 1060 River St. #104 apricitygallery.com 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Stripe MEN Joan Bogart 117 Walnut Ave. stripedesigngroup.com 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Gallery 125 Lynne Todaro, Joan Hellenthal, Chela Zabin, Chris Miroyan, Adrienne Momi, Beth Shields, Roger Shields 1050 River St. Space #125 facebook.com/gallery125.theTannery/ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Stripe Mary Tartaro 107 Walnut Ave. stripedesigngroup.com 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Kerri Linden Arts 1050 River St. #115 kerrilindenartsstore.com 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Tabby Cat Café Lolo Lauren Jie-ye 1101 Cedar St. 7:00 am - 8:00 pm

Printmakers at the Tannery April Show 1060 River St. studio 107 pattpress.org/ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The Fabrica @ the HUB Protest Banner Lending Library 703 Pacific Ave. thefabrica.org 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Radius Gallery Light Worlds : Photographic Abstractions by Wynn Bullock & Robert Strizich 1050 River St. #127 radius.gallery 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The MAH We’re Still Here 705 Front St. santacruzmah.org 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Studio 119 Joohee Miller 1050 River St. tanneryartscenter.org/ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Tannery Arts Center Artists of the Tannery 1050 / 1060 River St. tanneryartscenter.org 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

TREEHOUSE Joshua Hobmeier, Mario Guizar, Jennifer Wildermuth Reyes, Slogan 3651 Soquel Dr. ourtreehouse.io 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

TAC EAST WEST Artist Studio 1060 River St. #102 towsonartscollective.org 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

MIDTOWN The Claraty Arts Project 1725 Seabright Ave. claratyarts.com/ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Maggie’s Place Katie Cater 910 A Soquel Ave. 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Mmê. Boutique Kathryn Stowell 910 B Soquel Ave. mme.ltd 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Santa Cruz Art League 526 Broadway scal.org 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Offsite Studio GROBO 980 17th Ave #1 offsite-studio.com 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History Various Artists 1305 East Cliff Dr. santacruzmuseum.org 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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R. Blitzer Gallery Abstract Santa Cruz 2801 Mission St. rblitzergallery.com 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Sesnon Gallery at UCSC Question Bridge: Black Males by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas in collaboration with Bayet, Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair 1156 High St. at Porter College 2nd Floor art.ucsc.edu/galleries/sesnon/current 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm Special Edition Art Project Trey Roberts 328-D Ingalls St. seartproject.com 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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Humble Sea Barrel House Jennifer Hamilton 330 Ingalls St. 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Stockwell Cellars Sefla Joseph and Company 1100 Fair Ave. (across from New Leaf Market ) stockwellcellars.com/ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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To quote Paul Klee: “Art doesn’t reproduce what we can see, it makes it visible” Presented by Cornucopia Real Estate & Red Dot Gallery

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VIDEO GAME DEVELOPER SHOWCASE

paced and quick-witted dialogue, it has been called “a laugh-out-loud hysterical play with a whole lot of heart.” 8 p.m. Park Hall, 9401 Mill St., Ben Lomond. mctshows.org. $20/$17.

Level Up is hosting the first in a series of game developer events featuring local new game designers. This is your chance to see and play their games for two nights only.

7:30-9:30 p.m. Level Up Video Games, 113 Locust St., Santa Cruz. levelupvideogames. com. Free.

STORM Storm, a dance concert on a current “perfect storm” of political themes: peace, justice, culture, conflict, and environment, with a special focus on the Middle East, accompanied by lively folk dances and engaging multimedia.

Choreography is by Karl Schaffer. This is a studio performance, and seating is very limited, please buy tickets online in advance at Brown Paper Tickets. 8 p.m. Dancenter, 1550 41st Ave., Capitola. dancenterinfo.com. $10.

VIDEO GAME DEVELOPER SHOWCASE Level Up is hosting the first in a series of game developer events featuring local new game designers. This is your chance to see and play their games for two nights only.

7:30-9:30 p.m. Level Up Video Games, 113 Locust St., Santa Cruz. levelupvideogames. com. Free.

IMAGINARIUM This March TPI is celebrating two years in the Santa Cruz community with the first of what we hope will become a monthly event, “Imaginarium,” a gathering of imaginations at the Capitola Mall. We’re inviting puppets/puppeteers, cosplayers, fur folk, steampunks, and fantasy artists designers, and makers to join us in showing off the diversity and craftsmanship in what we do with our imaginations. 4-6 p.m. Capitola Mall Shopping Center, 1845 41st Ave., Capitola. 465-0773. Free.

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Cruz Bonsai Kai is a local club devoted to promoting and teaching bonsai as an art form. A bonsai is actually a living sculpture and an art form that dates back at least 700 years. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. santacruzbonsaikai.com. $5.

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

The Scotts Valley Library will be showing paintings by Beverly Martin April 6-July 5.

An artist reception will be Saturday April 6 from 1-3 p.m. at the Scotts Valley Library. 1 p.m. Scotts Valley Branch Library, 251 Kings Village Rd., Scotts Valley. 427-7717. Free.

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SANTA CRUZ BALLET THEATRE IN CONCERT 2019 Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre presents Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, accompanied by a mixed repertory of neoclassical and contemporary works choreographed by Robert Kelley and Ron Cunningham. 2 p.m. Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. 4796154.

series for adults features a different art or craft every month. Come discover your new favorite hobby or hone the skills you already have. Attendees get to leave with a new project, a learned skill, and a greater sense of community. All materials and teachers are paid for by the Friends of the Scotts Valley Library. 2-6 p.m. Scotts Valley Branch Library, 251 Kings Village Rd., Scotts Valley.

427-7717. Free.

LOCAL HISTORY: SCOTTS VALLEY’S FUN YEARS Relive the 1940s-1970s with Jay Topping, who will offer a lively presentation on Scotts Valley in the days of Santa’s Village, Lost World, and Hocus Pocus, the TV clown remembered by thousands of kids. This program is part of the spring local history series. 11 a.m. Scotts Valley Branch Library, 251 Kings Village Rd., Scotts Valley. >36 427-7717. Free.

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MCT’S ‘FOUR OLD BROADS’ Four Old Broads is a new comedic play featuring four sassy, smart, and savvy older women who are living at the Magnolia Place Assisted Living home. With fast-paced and quickwitted dialogue, it has been called “a laughout-loud hysterical play with a whole lot of heart.” 8 p.m. Park Hall, 9401 Mill St., Ben Lomond. mctshows.org. $20/$17.

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CALENDAR WITH SANTA CRUZ SYMPHONY Under the direction of Cheryl Anderson, with a rich history and many wonderful traditions, we welcome you to our website to share our love of music. 7:30 a.m. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. cabrillovapa.com.

OUTDOOR OPEN HOUSE AT THE CASTRO ADOBE: VAQUEROS Y BANDIDOS Round up your family and drop in to our celebration of California’s Rancho Era, when cattle was king, bandits roamed the countryside, and the Castro Family built their one-of-a-kind home on a hill at the height of their power.

Get to know the tools of the cattle trade; listen to cowboy songs and tales of infamous bandits; relax in the beauty of our garden and grounds with spring in full spring. 11 a.m.

Castro Adobe State History Park, 184 Old Adobe Rd., Watsonville. 335-6318. Free.

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WEDNESDAY 4/3-SUNDAY 5/26 ‘VOTE! YOUR VOTE IS YOUR VOICE / ¡VOTE! SU VOTO ES SU VOZ!’ Pajaro Valley Arts’ latest exhibit is inspired by images and stories from Monterey Bay artists and activists who worked in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, and on Latino voting rights issues in Watsonville in the 1970 and 1980s. Contemporary art, historical images, artifacts, educational events, and films illustrate ordinary people taking courageous stands for democratic values. The exhibit features selections from the Stanford Library’s Bob Fitch Photo Archives and Maria Gitin’s civil rights archives, showcasing their experiences as young voting rights workers in the South.

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Show runs through Sunday, May 26. Opening reception 2-4 p.m. Sunday, April 7. Pajaro Valley Arts Council, 37 Sudden St., Watsonville. Free.

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SANTA CRUZ VEGFEST VegFest brings the local community together to celebrate and learn about a plant-based, cruelty-free, and environmentally-sustainable lifestyle.

11 a.m.-6 p.m. Cocoanut Grove, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz. cocoanutgrovesantacruz. com. Free.

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

With more than 90 vendors, the Aptos Farmers Market offers an unmatched selection of locally-grown produce and specialty foods. 8 a.m.-noon, Saturdays,

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

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

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

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Society will be holding its annual tuber and plant sale Saturday, April 6, at the Deer Park Shopping Center in Aptos. The sale is located behind the shopping center in front of the Red Apple Cafe. 9-11 a.m. Red Apple Cafe, 783 Rio Del Mar Blvd. #15, Aptos. 685-1124.

SUNDAY 4/7 ARTS SANTA CRUZ BONSAI KAI 31ST ANNUAL BONSAI SHOW The Santa Cruz Bonsai Kai is a local club devoted to promoting and teaching bonsai as an art form. A bonsai is actually a living sculpture and an art form that dates back at least 700 years. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. santacruzbonsaikai.com. $5.

SANTA CRUZ BALLET THEATRE IN CONCERT 2019 Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre presents Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, accompanied by a mixed repertory of Neoclassical and Contemporary works choreographed by Robert Kelley and Ron Cunningham. 2 p.m. Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. 4796154.

PATHWAYS THROUGH OUR PARKS EXHIBITION On exhibition will be a selection of artwork from artist Ann Thiermann’s series of pastel and acrylic paintings. This series invites the viewer to

linger visually over the flora and fauna along the pathways of our local parks. Noon-4 p.m.

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

SUNDAY SEASIDE CRAFTS AT THE SEYMOUR CENTER Come create and take home a fun souvenir, an activity for the whole family to share. For example, find out what gray whales eat by creating a bright sun catcher for your window, or create a fancy fish with paper, paint, and color. 1-3 p.m. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz. seymourcenter. ucsc.edu.

‘DISTURBING THE PEACE’ The film is part of this year’s Reel Work Labor Film Festival and follows a group of former enemy combatants—Israeli soldiers from the most elite units, and Palestinian fighters, many of whom served years in prison—who have come together to challenge the status quo and say “enough.” 2 p.m. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. reelwork.org.

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MUSIC INVOCATIONS Our final program of the season begins with Esa-Pekka Salonen's endlessly inventive Karawane (2014), a riotously playful oratorio for chorus and orchestra, based on a poem of the same title by Dada founder Hugo Ball. 2 p.m.

Henry J. Mello Center for the Performing Arts, 250 East Beach St., Watsonville. santacruzsymphony.org. $103/$32

CABRILLO SYMPHONIC CHORUS WITH SANTA CRUZ SYMPHONY Under the direction of Cheryl Anderson, with a rich history and many wonderful traditions, we welcome you to our website to share our love of music. 2 p.m. Henry J. Mello Center for the Performing Arts, 250 East Beach St., Watsonville. cabrillovapa.com.

MTAC HONOR STUDENT RECITAL Piano, violin, flute, and voice students of the Santa Cruz Branch of the Music Teachers’ Association of California who received honors at Certificate of Merit Testing will perform in a recital at Resurrection Church, Aptos. These young musicians got the highest scores during their evaluation held at UCSC on March 24 in all five categories: performance, sight reading, theory, and ear training. 2:30 p.m. Resurrection Church, 7600 Soquel Drive, Aptos. Resurrectionaptos.org. Free.

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OUTDOORS BOARDWALK FUN RUN Lace up your shoes and join the fun with this familyfriendly race through the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Celebrate your accomplishment with: finisher medal, Boardwalk treats, $5 MyBoardwalk Card, up to two hours of freeplay in the Casino Arcade. 6:30-10:30 a.m.

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz. beachboardwalk.com $45/$25.

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

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Bring water and snacks; close toed shoes, layered clothing, sunscreen, and binoculars recommended. Meet at the Pescadero State Beach central parking lot on Highway 1, 0.25 miles north of Pescadero Creek Road. 10 a.m. Half Moon Bay State Beach, 95 Kelly Ave., Half Moon Bay. thatsmypark.org.

MONDAY 4/8

FOOD & WINE SIR MONTHLY LUNCHEON/SPEAKER MEETING Sons in Retirement (SIR) of Santa Cruz is hosting its monthly luncheon and this month’s speaker is Jack Healey, the longest-tenured unpaid sportscaster in Santa Clara County history. For over two decades, Jack did the radio play-by-play for Santa Clara University football and basketball games along with some Pacific Coast League baseball. 11:30 a.m. Santa Cruz Elks Lodge, 150 Jewell St., Santa Cruz.

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TUESDAY 4/9 ART MOVIE NIGHT: FORKS OVER KNIVES Highly acclaimed 2011 documentary examines food as medicine, and how degenerative diseases and several forms of cancer can be prevented and in many cases reversed by adopting a whole-foods, plantbased diet. 6-8 p.m. New Leaf Community Markets, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleaf. com. Free.

FOOD & WINE SECRETS FOR OPTIMIZING YOUR WELLBEING Discover powerful habits that you and other busy people can implement right away to regain and maintain your vitality and help your body become more capable and resilient. With Graseilah Coolidge, Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach. 1-2 p.m. New Leaf Community Markets, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleaf.com. Free.

TACO TUESDAY Tuesdays are better with tacos, especially when you can enjoy two delicious tacos with a locally crafted beer and a B-rated movie. 6-9 p.m. Solaire Restaurant and Bar, 611 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. hotelparadox.com. $10.

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class will consist of a full-body warm-up, general dance technique instruction and an originally choreographed routine that we will build onto gradually throughout the Motown 1-2 series. All set to a fun and lively playlist of the Motown classics. 10:30 a.m.

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GERARD EGAN Two years ago, Gerard Egan and Carolyn Sills—both from the Carolyn Sills Combo—were hired to be DJs on KPIG. At first they dutifully followed the station rules and only played music from the station’s song database. But at a certain point, they figured why not sneak in some of the obscure ’40s and ’50s country, western, surf, blues, and rockabilly music they had stashed away in their collection, telling stories of these once-huge, now-forgotten songs of yesteryear.

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“At first, I thought she was busting me for breaking the rules. But she said, ‘No, it’s great! These are really cool songs that you don’t really hear on the radio,’” Egan says. “She basically cut us loose to play whatever we wanted.”

People really responded to these old songs, particularly the old country songs. Travis’ distinct style of picking, where it sounds like two guitars at once, is the foundation for what he does.

“It’s like a one-man hillbilly orchestra kind of thing,” he says. “The music doesn’t take itself too seriously. It’s just fun. It’s kind of like jazz with a cowboy hat in one sense. It’s stuff that I feel is timeless. I feel like I’m doing a small part in keeping that history music alive and breathing some new life into it if I can.” AARON CARNES 8 p.m. Friday, April 5. Michael’s On Main, Soquel. $12. 479-9777.

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SWEET SPIRIT Founded and fronted by A Giant Dog frontwoman Sabrina Ellis, Sweet Spirit finds the Austin musician exploring the more unabashedly pop side of indie rock. Big, swaggering and just a little bit country, Sweet Spirit go for something along the lines of the New Pornographers-meets-Spoon. Appropriately, Spoon’s Britt Daniel (a fellow Austinite) was an early supporter of the band, inviting Sweet Spirit to open their They Want My Soul album release show. With each release, Sweet Spirit has upped the pop stakes, leading all the way to the recently released Southern, New Wave-y, ultra-catchy “Los Lonely Girls.” MIKE HUGUENOR 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8 adv/$10 door. 429-6994.

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JAMES MCMURTRY With three decades of recording and touring under his belt, James McMurtry is one of the most recognizable names in folk rock today. His last album Compli-

cated Game was hailed as an “Americana masterpiece” by Rolling Stone, and McMurtry dropped the online-only track “State of The Union” last year, in which he bemoaned how politics have divided the nation. MAT WEIR 8 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $30. 423-8209.

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CASS MCCOMBS Cass McCombs has a lot to say, having released over 14 albums since 2002.

No matter which genre he chooses to express himself—from quirky folk ballads to road trip psychedelic rock or even jaunty emo pop—it all ends up sounding like the bits and pieces of a strange person’s fever dream. Nothing is ever quite straightforward with McCombs’ decidedly folk-rock flair; even when it seems like you’re listening to a mere classic rock tripping-acid rip-off, the off-kilter prose will throw you for a loop, causing you to question whether you have been properly appreciating the possibility that Cass McCombs is a musical mastermind. AMY BEE 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $18 adv/$22 door. 479-1854.

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SPACE JESUS Space Jesus has brought the “Temple of Noom” tour to our neighborhood with a friendly request for anyone within earshot to kindly jump up and bow down to our lords and lady of low frequencies. Thank you, Space Jesus— may he ever keep our ears bleeding and our hearts jammed in our guts.

Naysayers are invited to enter the Temple of Noom to quiver and quake at the awesome power and never-ending progression of dubstep, techno, electronic, and any other far-flung genre our lords and lady choose to bring to the decks.

True, believers, we welcome you. AB 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $20. 423-1338.

FRIDAY 4/5 ELECTRO-POP

DELHI 2 DUBLIN Over a decade ago, when Canadians Tarun Nayar, Sanjay Seran and Ravi Binning formed Delhi 2 Dublin, they were really interested in taking traditional Indian instruments like the tabla and dhol and mixing them with the electronic rave music they loved. The

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mixture was hypnotic. As the group evolved, they really sharpened their pop game, writing some epic, amphitheater-level electro-pop jams. The music has gotten more accessible, but they’ve really been able to use these elements to talk about issues that matter to them, like what it’s like growing up as children of immigrants in Canada. AC 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $15 adv/$20 door. 423-1338.

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MAGIC IN THE OTHER The idea of finding “magic in the other” is a throughline that connects all jam bands, from titans of the genre like Phish and the Dead to fringe jam artists like My Morning Jacket and Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Made up of members of Phil Lesh & Friends, Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers, and Jolie Holland’s band, Magic in the Other conjures a cosmic jam, each musician bringing their own bit of magic to the jammy table. MH 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz. $10. 429-6994.

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TIM BLUHM Tim Bluhm is back on the road and even releasing a new album. Some might consider that a miracle. Back in 2015, he shattered his pelvis and nearly lost one of his feet in a speed-flying accident. Recovery has been slow, with numerous surgeries. How has he processed all this life-changing, traumatic pain? If you want the full picture, his new album Sorta Surviving is a hefty one. AC 8 p.m. Flynn’s Cabaret & Steakhouse, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $18 adv/$20 door. 335-2800.

TUESDAY 4/9 VSEN The acoustic trio Väsen has earned an avid following among musical adventurers over the past three decades. Featuring Olov Johansson on the keyed fiddle nyckelharpa, Roger Tallroth on 12-string guitar, and Mikael Marin on viola, the group has influenced and inspired progressive American string play-

ers with an intricately textured blend of traditional terpsichorean melodies and beautifully wrought original compositions. Väsen has become an international creative force moving far beyond folk music circuits. The trio is touring in advance of a new album, Brewed.

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9 p.m. Thursday, April 11. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $25 adv/$30 door. Information: catalystclub.com. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 4, to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

7:30 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $22 adv/$25 door. 464-9778.

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DASH When thinking about great cities to spawn party-rock bands, Bozeman, Montana probably doesn’t come to mind. After listening to Dash, that might change. Barely a year old, this fledgling band has already recorded their first album, Super, and won several awards around their hometown, including Best New Local Band. Blending rock, funk, country and a little soul—mixed with a, ahem, dash of reggae—it’s hard to peg this quartet with just one label. MW INFO: 9 p.m. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $5. 423-7117.

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The finest vintage cover tunes. Friday at Flynn’s Cabaret & Steakhouse ALICE DIMICELE

Lonely folk music. Saturday at Kuumbwa Jazz Center LUCKY+LOVE

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Evie Ladin Band plus Paper Wings $15 adv./$15 door seated <21 w/parent Jazz The Dog

Fri. Apr. 5 5pm HAPPY HOUR / NO COVER Fri. Apr. 5 8pm

Hank & Ella With The Fine Country Band plus Gerard Egan $12 adv./$12 door Dance – ages 21 + Joint Chiefs

Sat. Apr. 6 8pm $10 adv./$10 door Dance – ages 21 + Sun. Apr. 7 5:30pm GRATEFUL DEAD TUNES / NO COVER

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Wed. Apr. 10 7:30pm with Richie Lawrence $15 adv./$15 door seated <21 w/parent Thu. Apr. 11 7:30pm

Simple Dreams: A Tribute to Linda Ronstadt $15 adv./$15 door seated <21 w/parent COMING UP

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Wednesday, April 3 • 7 PM

BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO

WED CORK AND FORK 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

4/3

THU

4/4

Open Mic Night Free 7-10p

FRI

4/5

Nomad Free 7-10p

CORRALITOS CULTURAL CENTER 127 Hames Rd., Corralitos

Open Mic 7-10p

THE CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Sweet Spirit w/ El Radio Blue Summit w/ Elliot Fantastique & more Peck $10 9p $8/$10 9p

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

Yuji Tojo $3 8p

Manorlady w/ The No. 44 & Shoobies $10 9p

Papiba & Friends $5 8p

SAT

4/6

SUN

4/7

MON

4/8

TUE

4/9

Bonny June & Bonfire Free 7-10p The Bear Chaplain Extravaganza $10/$15 7-10p Magic In the Other w/ King Dream & more $10 9p Extra Large $7 9:30p

A singular and beautifully hypnotic piano trio.

Thursday, April 4 • 7 PM

MIGHTY MIKE SCHERMER BAND

Acoustic Open Jam 3-5p

Celebrating the release of the searing blues guitarist’s new album.

Lucky & Love w/ Steilacoom, Elevate the Sky & more $5 9p

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

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS

Live Comedy $7 9p

Glory $5 8p

ALICE DIMICELE WITH SPECIAL GUESTS MAMA CROW & DANIEL PAUL NELSON

DAV. ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport

Saturday, April 6 • 7 PM

Tickets: brownpapertickets.com Monday, April 8 • 7 PM

DISCRETION BREWING 2703 41st Ave, Soquel

SULLIVAN FORTNER TRIO At the forefront of the new piano trio vanguard.

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville FLYNN’S CABARET 6275 Hwy 9, Felton

Vintage Point $10/$12 9p

GABRIELLA CAFE 910 Cedar St., Santa Cruz

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

Linc Russin 7-9p

JACK O’NEILL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 175 W Cliff Dr. Santa Cruz

Matias 6:30-9:30p

Scott Capurro $20/$25 9p

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS

Tim Bluhm $18/$20 8p

Tuesday, April 9 • 7:30 PM

VÄSEN

Tickets: celticsociety.org Scott Slaughter 6:30-9:30p

Wednesday, April 10 • 7:30 PM

7th Wave Trio 6:30-9:30p

KUUMBWA JAZZ 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Brad Mehldau Trio SOLD OUT 7p

Mighty Mike Schermer Band $23.10/$28.35 7p

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

California Guitar Trio $25 7:30p

Jazz the Dog Free 5p Evie Ladin Band & Paper Joint Chiefs Hank & Ella w/ The Fine Wings $15 7:30p $10 8p Country Band $12 8p

MARIZA

Alice DiMicele & more $20 7p

Sullivan Fortner Trio $26.25/$31.50 7p Grateful Sundays Free 5:30p

Väsen $22/$25 7:30p

A global superstar of Portuguese fado.

AT THE RIO THEATRE

Thursday, April 11 • 7 PM & 9 PM

LEE RITENOUR WITH DAVE GRUSIN

Two influential, multi-faceted artists in a trasured collaboration.

Saturday, April 13 • 8:30 PM

SIN SISTERS BURLESQUE Tickets: eventbrite.com

Monday, April 15 • 7 PM

KURT ROSENWINKEL STANDARDS TRIO WITH DARIO DEIDDA & MARK WHITFIELD, JR.

A trailblazing guitarist’s unique take on time-tested classics.

Friday, April 19 • 7 PM

GERALD CLAYTON TRIO

Rich in harmonic curiosity and honest expression.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Thursday, April 25 • 7 PM

A firebrand guitarist known for his work with Genesis and Phil Collins.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Monday, April 29 • 7 PM

CLAUDIA VILLELA: THE MUSIC OF JOBIM

Spellbinding vocals and beloved melodies.

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

BRUBECK BROTHERS QUARTET CELEBRATES 60 YEARS OF DAVE BRUBECK’S TIME OUT Unless noted, advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and dinner served one hour before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wine & beer available.

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Stop by for an amazing farm to table dining experience!

Fri Apr 5 Sat Apr 6 Sun Apr 7

Area 52 w/ Vintage Point Rock n Roll/Dance Music from Santa Cruz

4/5

SAT

4/6

$20 adv./$25 door seated - ages 21+ 9PM

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

Whitney Rose, Margo Cilker & Patrick Maguire $8/$12 7:30p

Cass McCombs $18/$22 8p

Ginger & Juice, Coffee Zombie Collective $10/$15 8p

Flor De Caña $10/$15 9p

Crooked Branches, Lauren Wahl & Simply Put, Wild Iris $10/$15 8p

MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Hi Ya! By Little John 9:30p

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

Eden Roc 9:30p

Thomas Young 9:30p

Rasta Cruz Reggae Party 9:30p

Scott Capurro Comic, Actor, Author, Raconteur

Tim Bluhm The new album is coming March 29

David Holodiloff Band An evening of high-energy quality Jesse Daniel w/Pat Reedy Outlaw Country at its best…

Glory A unique tribute band with a feminine twist Elie Mabanza and Friends Stories in song of roots in Africa

Mdou Moctar w/Marisa Anderson West African music

Frank Barter w/Matt Jaffe A Night of Americana, Rock n Roll, Folk, and

Mabrak w/Emmanuel Selassie Roots Reggae Music Live and Direct $10 adv./$12 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM

Mon Apr 22

Norman Baker Americana, Alt Country, Roots, Folk, Alt Blues,

Singer/Songwriter… $10 adv./$12 door seated - <21 w/parent 8:30PM Thu Apr 25

Burnin’ Vernon Funk, Soul, R&B, Jazz and Classic Rock

$12 adv./$15 door Dance – ages 21+ 8:30PM Fri Apr 26

The Big Jangle A Tribute to Tom Petty

99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz

Trivia 8p

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

Comedy Free 8p

Skypark 2-5p

Chain Of Fools 2-5p

Open Mic Free, 4-7p Three Chords of Truth Monkey Boys Free 9p

Trivia Free 7:30p

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

Variety Show w/ Toby Gray 6:30p

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

James McMurtry $30-$40 8p

ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz THE SAND BAR 211 Esplanade, Capitola

Acoustic Reggae Jam 6:30p

Aloha Friday 6:30p

Featured Acts 6:30p

Comedy Night 9p

First & Third Celtic Jam

Live DJ

Live DJ

Alex Lucero 7:30p

Reggae Jam 7:30p

Isaac & the Haze 8:30p

Touch’d Too Much 8:30p

The Last Great

The Sun Kings A Beatles Tribute as Nature Intended…

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Special Live Performance of the White Album

The Country Cougars Hot Rockin’ Country

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Amazing waterfront deck views.

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Tsunami Band Rock/Classic Rock ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s

See live music grid for this week’s bands.

STAND-UP COMEDY

The String Revolution w/Anthony Arya Four Guitar Masters

Three live comedians every Sunday night.

HAPPY HOUR

$12 adv./$15 door Dance <21 w/parent 8:30PM Fri May 10

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

The Billie Holliday Project Brings back the feeling of seeing Lady Day

live in a ‘30s jazz club… $15 adv./$18 door seated - <21 w/parent 9PM COMIN G RIGH T U P

Sat, May 11 Rusty Rock and Roll Thu, May, 16 Harpdog Brown Sat, May 18 China Cats Thu, May 23 None Too Soon Sat, May 25 When Doves Cry – Prince Tribute Show Wed, May 29 Lucas Hahn w/Keshav Batish Tickets Now Online at flynnscabaret.com

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

Erin Avila 6-9p Comedy Free 8p

Open Mic Free 8-11p ‘Geeks Who Drink’ Trivia Night 8p

$10 adv./$12 door seated - <21 w/parent 9PM Thu May 9

4/9

Blues Mechanics Free 6p

The Takeover, Turn Up Tuesday 9:30p

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

$12 adv./$15 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM Sat May 4

TUE

Bert Javier Free 10p Alex Lucero 6-9p

$25 adv./$30 door seated - <21 w/parent 2PM Fri May 3

4/8

Rob Vye Free 6p

Taco Trivia Tuesday w/ Hive Mind 6:30p

$20 adv./$25 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM Sun Apr 28

MON

NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz

$18 adv./$20 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM Sar Apr 27

4/7

$10 adv./$12 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM

some Funk $12 adv./$15 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM Sar Apr 20

SUN

AC Myles Free 6p

$16 adv./$20 door Dance – ages 21+ 7PM Fri Apr 19

FRI

Steve Freund Free 6p

$10 adv./$12 door seated - <21 w/parent 7PM Tue Apr 16

4/4

Lloyd Whitley Free 6p

$12 adv./$15 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM Sun Apr 14

THU

Mike Osborn Free 6-8p

$12 adv./$15 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM Sat Apr 13

4/3

Little Jonny Lawton Free 6p

acoustic entertainment $10 adv./$12 door seated - <21 w/parent 8:30PM Fri Apr 12

WED MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Presented by Flynn’s and (((Folk YEAH!))) $18 adv./$20 door Dance – ages 21+ 8PM Thu Apr 11

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The Human Juke Box 6p

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Alex Lucero & Friends 7:30p

Tuesday Trivia Night 6:30p

LIVE MUSIC WED

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4/4

FRI

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

4/5

SAT

4/6

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz

4/7

MON

4/8

TUE

4/9

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

Nora Cruz Band 8-11:30p

Matt Masih & the Messengers 8-11:30p

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

Ken Constable 6:30-9:30p

Joe Ferrara 6:30-9:30p

Claudio Melega 7-10p

Zack Freitas Free 6-9p

Funk Ur Soul Free 6-9p

Danger Bang!

Free 6-9p

Kage O’Malley Free 6-9p

Michael Gaither & His New Best Friends Free 6-9p

MAY 09 MAY 10 MAY 12 MAY 14 MAY 17 MAY 27 MAY 29

SID’S SMOKEHOUSE 10110 Soquel Dr, Aptos STEEL BONNET 20 Victor Square, Scotts Valley

Wildcat Mountain Ramblers 5p

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

Mark Creech Free 5:30p

Toby Gray Free 5:30p

UGLY MUG 4640 Soquel Ave, Soquel

The Real Sarahs $18/$20 7:30p

Open Mic w/ Steven David 5:30p

VINOCRUZ 4901 Soquel Drive, Soquel

Yolanda Rhodes & Peter Suk 6-8p

VINO LOCALE 55 Municipal Wharf, Santa Cruz

Pablo Riviere 6-8p

Bobby Markowitz 6-8p

Live Again 9:30p

Santa Cruz Reggae All-Stars 9:30p

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Thursday, April 4 • Ages 16+

SPACE JESUS

Friday, April 5 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

DELHI 2 DUBLIN

Saturday, April 6 • In the Atrium • Ages 18+ with

110 Monterey Avenue, Capitola Village

CALI FIRE BASS RELIEF

Sayer, Tripzy Leary, Jalaya, Star Monster, Dalfin plus Trivecta

Tuesday, April 9 • Ages 16+

DERMOT KENNEDY

Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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

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JAMES McMURTRY 4/3 RIO (Santa Cruz) 4/4 HMML

For advance signup and info, contact Bob Carter at 831.462.9373 or crtcom@pacbell.net Raffling off an acoustic guitar Raffle proceeds go to Guitars Not Guns

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CASS McCOMBS BAND

TIM BLUHM BAND (of The Mother Hips) 4/7 Flynns

+ THE COFFIS BROTHERS

SUN KIL MOON April 17 Kuumbwa Jazz Cntr.

FANTASTIC NEGRITO MOES ALLEY

SEAN HAYES

MAY 2

BIG SUR Fri, May 10

THE CHURCH

5/10 RIO Starfish 30th Anniversary Tour!

JACKIE GREENE BAND

MUSIC ARTS

Guitar Works

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5/17 ROBYN HITCHCOCK HMML BIG SUR RECORDING STUDIO

NOV 21 Built To Spill

Friday, June 7 Monterey Golden State Theater

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solo seated shows!

Free and open to everyone Show starts at 7pm

Tuesday, April 9 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

WICCA PHASE SPRINGS ETERNAL

SEP 13 Kevin Nealon

7-10pm

Sunday, April 7 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

DABIN

JUL 05 Rising Appalachia

Singer Songwriter Showcase BRITANNIA ARMS IN CAPITOLA

Lunafest Santa Cruz The Church Deva Primal & Miten Cowboy Junkies Ace of Cups Puddles Pity Party The Winery Dogs

JUN 22 John Mayall JUN 28 John Hiatt

WHARF HOUSE 1400 Wharf Road, Capitola ZELDA’S 203 Esplanade, Capitola

Upcoming Shows

APR 03 James McMurtry APR 10 Mariza APR 13 Jimmie Vaughan APR 27 Film: The Devil’s Road

Jimmy Dewrance Band Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-10p

SHANTY SHACK BREWING 138 Fern St, Santa Cruz

SUN

Yuji Tojo & Jimmy Norris Burns, Renwick & Rags 7:30p 7:30p

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FEAR FACTOR Dev Patel in Anthony Maras’ ‘Hotel Mumbai.’

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E

ven if you’re familiar with the events on which it’s based, there’s still plenty of suspense dished up in Hotel Mumbai. This harrowing thriller from director and co-writer Anthony Maras depicts the shocking attacks by jihadi terrorists that fanned out across the city of Mumbai, India, for three days in November of 2008. Maras narrows his focus to the luxury Taj Palace Hotel, where staff, guests and refugees fleeing coordinated attacks in other parts of the city found themselves trapped in a deadly game of cat and mouse with three assault-weapon-toting terrorists inside the hotel.

One way to portray historical

events onscreen is to stick as closely as possible to known facts with documentary-style realism, allowing dramatic significance and personal stories to emerge organically out of the situation—as Paul Greengrass did so effectively in United 93. Or you can tart it up with a lot of Hollywood window dressing in support of a completely fictional main story, like Titanic.

In Hotel Mumbai, Maras attempts to combine the two. Only one of his main characters is based on a specific real person, Taj head chef Hermant Oberoi (played by Anupam Kher), a well-known culinary star in India who organized the hotel staff to protect the guests and out-maneuver the gunmen during the three-day siege. The rest

of the characters tasked with bearing the emotional weight of the story are largely fictionalized, although their actions in the movie are often based on actions taken by various people trapped inside the hotel at the time.

Dev Patel gets star billing (although this is truly an ensemble piece) in the everyman role of Arjun. A young Muslim waiter at the hotel with a wife and adorable child to support, he earns our empathy right away when he’s unable to find the correct shoes in time for his shift, to the displeasure of the impeccable Oberoi.

Arriving on the same day is a globetrotting young married couple: American David (Armie Hammer) and his Muslim wife Zahra (Nazanin

Boniadi), who have come to Mumbai to replicate their stateside wedding for her family in India. They have their infant son in tow, along with young British au pair Sally (Tilda Cobham-Hervey ). Vasili (Jason Isaacs)—a cool, imperious Russian—is a repeat customer who’s in the middle of ordering a couple of girls off the appetizer menu in the dining room when the Taj gets word that terrorists are running amok in the city.

Oberoi tells the staff that their No. 1 objective is to protect the guests, but he gives everyone the option of returning home to their own families. Most stay, including the resourceful Arjun, to help Oberoi gather the guests in a relatively safe area to wait out the siege. But the stakes rise when three armed terrorists sneak into the hotel and start perpetrating bloody mayhem from within, raining gunfire on anything that moves and burning entire wings in their wake as they hunt relentlessly for more victims.

Moral imperatives and random acts of heroism ensue, as Maras tries to hew to the fine line between stark realism and the purely sensational.

You can feel him trying to take the high ground to deliver a sobering account of events (real and imagined), but as the body count escalates, it all starts to play out like a horror movie.

Yes, the horror for these people was all too real, depicted here with deft precision; if you long to experience the nerve-shredding anxiety of a terrorist attack, this movie is for you.

But there’s nothing especially transcendent in Maras’ storytelling — some epiphany that would make wading through all the bloodshed more meaningful. The narrative is calculated to give us a rooting interest in the fate of certain characters. The gunmen are interchangeable young men with earbuds plugged into a faceless jihadist, whose vicious directions they obey without question. Hotel Mumbai is a visceral, handsomely produced record of unimaginable brutality, but our emotional reactions—while shaken—are not stirred.

HOTEL MUMBAI **1/2 (out of four) With Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, and Jason Isaacs. Written by John Collee and Anthony Maras. Directed by Anthony Maras.

Rated R. 125 minutes.

FILM NEW RELEASES THE BEST OF ENEMIES Anyone else starting to wonder if Sam Rockwell is just a little too into playing racists? Don’t get me wrong, the roles are in well-meaning movies— including this one, in which Rockwell plays a real-life KKK leader who battled with civil rights activist Ann Atwater (Taraji P. Henson) for years, until an unlikely event changed their relationship for good. Co-starring Anne Heche and Wes Bentley. (PG-13) (SP) PET SEMATARY “I don’t want to be buried in a pet cemetery,” the Ramones once sang, and they won’t be alone now that there is a movie remake to revive interest in what was easily Stephen King’s scariest book.

The original film adaptation from 1987 was fun but campy, with Fred Gwynne (Herman Munster!) laying on a terrible Maine accent way too thick in lines like,“Sometimes dead is better,” and,“The soil of a man’s heart is stonier, Louis.”The setup here is identical, with a doctor and his family moving to the edge of a small town and discovering that the pet cemetery deep in the woods doesn’t keep pets—or anything else—dead for long. John Lithgow replaces Gwynne as the old neighbor, and even in the trailer you can hear how his delivery is scarier and camp-free. Hopefully the rest of the movie is, too. Directed

by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer.

Co-starring Jason Clarke and Amy Seimetz. (R) 101 minutes. (SP)

CONTINUING EVENT: LET’S

NOW PLAYING THE AFTERMATH I’m glad we get a break from all these movies about World War II to make room for something different: a movie about the people from World War II, right after World War II. Refreshing!

This period drama about political tension, passion and betrayal in 1946 Germany—as seen through the eyes of a British military officer tasked with rebuilding Hamburg (Jason Clare) and his wife (Keira Knightley)—is just the thing for anyone who watched all those History Channel documentaries about the rise and fall of the Third Reich and said,“And thennnnnnn?”

Directed by James Kent. Co-starring Alexander Skarsgard, Kate Phillips and Fionn O’Shea. (R) 108 minutes.

(SP) ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL James Cameron started developing this manga adaptation in 1999, but when it came down to actually making one of his two giant-CGI-eyes projects in 2009, he chose Avatar instead.

Director Robert Rodriguez rescued this from development hell, but what may have seemed edgy 20 years ago—a cyborg risking her life in a battle royale bloodsport designed to appease the post-apocalyptic masses … wait, hold on. So this movie is basically Rollerball? No wonder Cameron didn’t want to make it—it’s already been made twice! And one time it was even good! Starring Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, and Mahershala Ali. (PG-13) 122 minutes. (SP) APOLLO 11 If you’re thinking,“Wait a minute, didn’t I already see this movie?”—no, that might have been Ron Howard’s Apollo 13. (I hope for your sake it wasn’t the god-awful horror movie Apollo 18, about a moon mission that never actually happened.) Or maybe it was The Last Steps, the 2016 documentary about

Apollo 17. It could definitely have been First Man, last year’s Neil Armstrong biopic starring Ryan Gosling that worked its way up to the Apollo 11 mission. It’s hard to keep all these Apollos and the movies about them straight, but this documentary is a brand-new look at the 1969 mission that first got us to the moon, and it’s been pieced together entirely out of archival footage (some of it never before seen), with no narration or talking-head interviews. Its unusual approach won it the Special Jury Award for Editing at Cannes last month. (G) 93 minutes. (SP) THE BEACH BUM I really loved Harmony Korine’s 2012 springbreak-from-hell fever dream Spring Breakers. Don’t judge me! If you did too, you might have wondered why he just flat out seemed to stop making movies after that. Well, here’s the follow-up, finally. Whereas Spring Breakers was a tribute/parody/ deconstruction of ’80s surf movies, this one is maybe … The Big Lebowski goes Jimmy Buffett? Buffett does appear as himself here, alongside Matthew McConaughey as the wisecracking, rule-breaking title character, who has to somehow pull his act together and write the Great American Novel. Co-starring Zac Efron, Isla Fisher, Martin Lawrence, and Jonah Hill. (R) 95 minutes. (SP) CAPTAIN MARVEL Expert script-flippage gives texture to the heartfelt female empowerment message within Captain Marvel. Brie Larson’s appealing underplaying of the title character sells this material, which isn’t the freshest. Despite some starchy Louisiana heartland sequences, this is an effective fantasy of power used with grace and without arrogance, featuring a constantly underestimated figure rising up again after being knocked down. Fully charged up and blazing in the heavens, this Captain Marvel is as fine an embodiment of the Superman figure as there has been in the movies. Hopefully, six weeks from now in Avengers: Endgame, this flying light goddess is going to barbecue Thanos and his conservative austerity program. (PG-13) 123 minutes. (RvB) CAPTIVE STATE Ever wonder

what an alien occupation of Earth might be like? Do the words “relaxing” and “positively delightful” come to mind? Well, then you’re totally wrong, according to the gritty new sci-fi film Captive State. No, the world of this science-fiction crime thriller—in which humans have endured 10 years of rule under hostile aliens—is one of fascist crackdowns and the complete disregard for due process of law. But don’t worry, it’s definitely not a metaphor for America in 2019 or anything! Directed by Rupert Wyatt.

Starring John Goodman, Vera Farmiga and Ashton Sanders. (PG-13) 109 minutes. (SP) DUMBO I’ve seen a horse fly. I’ve seen a dragon fly. I’ve seen a house fly. But I’ve been, done, seen about everything when I see an elephant fly. And you can too, in this live-action adaptation of the sorta-sweet-Iguess-but-when-I-was-a-kid-it-sureseemed-hella-depressing Disney classic. Directed by Tim Burton.

Starring Colin Ferrell, Michael Keaton, Eva Green, and Danny DeVito. (PG) 112 minutes. (SP) GLORIA BELL Chilean director Sebastian Lelio remakes his celebrated 2013 film Gloria, about the love life of a 58-year-old divorcée, for an American audience. It seems like the kind of showcase for their talents that actors wait their whole lives for— and most never get—but Julianne Moore (who, it should be noted, is actually 58) is winning universal acclaim for taking the opportunity and running with it. And you know Laura Branigan is praying for a sequel!

Keep that sweet, sweet trailer money coming! Co-starring John Turturro, Sean Astin and Michael Cera. (R) 102 minutes. (SP) HOTEL MUMBAI Reviewed this issue. Directed by Anthony Maras.

Starring Dev Patel, Armie Hammer and Nazinan Boniadi. (R) 123 minutes.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD This is the third film in this series, people. If you haven’t learned how to train your dragon by now, you probably need to hire a professional. Directed by Dean DeBlois. Featuring the voices of Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Cate Blanchett, and F. Murray Abraham.

(PG) 104 minutes. (SP) THE MUSTANG Seriously, the trailer for this movie about a hardened convict who finds redemption and rehabilitation training horses in a special prison program is so inspiring that I kinda want to go on a crime spree in Nevada, get sentenced to a rural state prison, be just wellbehaved enough to qualify for this program—while still behaving badly enough to make everyone think I need to be in this program—and then bam!

I spend the rest of my life calming spooked horses just by looking into their eyes. #LifeGoals. Directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre. Starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Mitchell and Bruce Dern. (R) 96 minutes. (SP) THE WEDDING GUEST Beneath this misleadingly benign title, filmmaker Michael Winterbottom fashions a thriller of skullduggery and deceit that stretches across the churning urban streets and vast, sunbaked rural landscapes of Pakistan and India. Through it all strides Dev Patel’s mysterious soldier of fortune, who finds himself on the wrong end of an increasingly bad deal when he kidnaps a young woman on the eve of her arranged marriage. The movie is like a travelogue of Pakistan and India, but Winterbottom is not as adept at exploring the inner terrain of his characters. Still, Patel’s uncompromising presence gives the movie its backbone. Too bad he wasn’t given more of a part to play. (R) 97 minutes. (LJ) WONDER PARK In this computeranimated family film, a 10-year-old girl discovers that the imaginary amusement park she dreamt up while playing as a young child is actually real, and she has to join up with some talking animals to save it. Perhaps the craziest thing about this premise is that she seems more impressed by the existence of the park than by the fact that animals can talk? Featuring the voices of Brianna Denski, Matthew Broderick, Kenan Thompson, and Jennifer Garner. (PG) 85 minutes.

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SHAZAM! If you liked Captain Marvel, why not try … the other Captain Marvel! Yup, that was the original name of this DC character, who lost his copyright to Marvel Comics. The gimmick was that he was really just a boy, Billy Batson, who could turn into an adult superhero by shouting “Shazam!”That premise gets played for laughs big-time in this adaptation; apparently DC has figured out people don’t want an endless stream of grimdark Zach Snyder comic-book movies. Directed by David F. Sandberg. Starring Zachary Levi, Michelle Borth and Djimon Hounsou. (PG-13) 132 minutes. (SP)

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

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FOOD & DRINK tells me that San Francisco native Dante Cecchini took the helm at La Posta last week. After many years of cooking in the city, chef Cecchini has moved into Santa Cruz. “We are very, very happy to be working with him!” says Boyle. I, for one, can’t wait to taste Cecchini’s work ...

NEW MENU AT AVANTI Jonathan and Tatiana Glass, new owners of Ristorante Avanti are winning new fans and keeping old ones happy with beautiful tableware, a patio expansion and a never-better menu. Rita and I are hooked on the fresh seafood specials at lunchtime. Partnered with exceptional seasonal veggies and brilliant, creamy polenta, the lunch entrées are memorable indeed. I have to stop ordering the house duck confit and try one of the new meatball sandwiches on the menu.

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ew Leaf Community Market will open the doors of a new Aptos Village store— the grocer’s fifth area outpost—on May 1. In addition to kickstarting the long-awaited action at the expanding Village, the newest New Leaf promises an expansion of flavors, including “a delicious deli featuring made-to-order pizza, ramen and wok bars,” according to store manager Justin Reyes.

A large outdoor green space should tempt patrons to stay and picnic during their visits to the new 17,000-square-foot store, which was built to echo the architecture of the vintage 1881 Hihn apple barn

that once occupied the location.

Expect a huge selection of organic everything, plus a full-service coffee bar, an organic juice and smoothie bar, and the delightful option of soft serve ice cream. We’re all invited to come celebrate the May 1 opening.

But wait, there’s more! In the coming weeks, we can also expect to sample the exceptional coffee and espresso specialties at the new Cat & Cloud Coffee moving in at Aptos Village. Later this summer, look for the opening of David Kinch’s new Mediterranean restaurant, Mentone, named for a city on the French/ Italian Riviera. Look for lavish pizza and plenty of highly authentic pesto

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from the man with three Michelin stars. Next up will be Penny Ice Creamery and a Sante Arcangeli Family Wines tasting room. Sounds exciting, and I know the folks in Aptos will be happy when the multiyear construction dust has settled.

The New Leaf Community Market at Aptos Village will open May 1 at 161 Aptos Village Way, Aptos. newleaf.com.

NEW CHEF AT LA POSTA After many years of chef Katherine Stern’s exceptional handiwork, the La Posta kitchen has a new creative force. La Posta owner Patrice Boyle (also the owner of downtown’s Soif)

Meanwhile, at Soquel’s Home Restaurant, culinary ace Brad Briske is planning a Spring Garden Party on Sunday, April 7, from 2-6 p.m. The outdoor meal will be a collaboration between the cottage restaurant and the Soquel Fermentation Project.

Guests can plan to sample new SFP releases, plus locally sourced foods in a truly charming spring garden atmosphere. (Remember when Etan Hamm first planted that garden?)

Briske tells us that the party will go on,rain or shine. Plan to be there.

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am Khanal and his two business partners opened the first Ambrosia India Bistro in Monterey 12 years ago.

Now the restaurant has four locations, including one in Aptos and another in Scotts Valley, which opened in 2016. Khanal, whose favorite dish is the rack of lamb, lives in San Jose and drives 100 miles a day on average. He enjoys offering slightly different menu items at Ambrosia’s various locations.

To hear Khanal tell it, cooking Indian food requires some grit.

Ambrosia has one lentil dish, for example, called dal makhani, that must be soaked overnight before seven hours of cook time. “Small flame. That’s the beauty,” he says.

“You need to have a lot of patience when you cook.”

Which is your favorite location?

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[in Scotts Valley]. This is more like my baby, like how a newborn needs more attention. With specific customers, you need to treat them well—that kind of thing. I’ve been in business since 2007, so my Monterey restaurant already took off. I don’t need to be there 24/7, whereas this one’s about 2-and-a-half years old.

What’s it like sharing ownership with two partners?

If you have understanding partners, it’s a very good idea, because obviously you can’t go around to all four locations and be present there all the time. They come here once a week. I go there once a week. They have different eyes to look at things, and so do I.

What’s your favorite alcohol and food pairing?

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MEMORIAL ANNOUNCEMENTSEEKING CONTACTS Celebration of Life- 4/14/19

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His friends and loved ones are having celebration of his life on Sunday April 14th, 2019, in Santa Cruz.

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Au Naturel Birichino’s powerhouse 2018 Pétulant Naturel Cinsaut BY JOSIE COWDEN

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ohn Locke recently invited me to his Birichino tasting room in downtown Santa Cruz to try a new release. And what a wine! I was bowled over with his 2018 Pétulant Naturel Cinsaut. But then Locke likes the challenge of making something different, and this outstanding wine meets all the criteria.

Grapes are harvested from the Bechthold Vineyard nestled in the Mokelumne River area of Lodi. Planted in 1886, this vineyard is dry-farmed and the oldest Cinsaut on Earth. We should give thanks to Birichino owners Locke and Alex Krause for always tracking down the very best grapes.

Locke and Krause founded Birichino in 2008 with the aim of attaining the perfect balance of “perfume, poise and puckishness.” Their playful way with words is echoed on their wine labels, too, but they’re serious when it comes to making a fine product. “Forecast: cloudy with a chance of amazeballs,” they say of the Cinsaut, adding that it’s supposed to be cloudy since the wine is unfiltered as it finishes fermentation.

“Pétulant Naturel is Birichino’s querulous answer as to how to produce

a complex and delicious lightly ‘pétulant’ wine using traditional lo-fi methods that don’t require luxurygroup-funded production equipment, nor marketing fluff.”

In other words, this talented duo are making a “vividly refreshing and fragrant wine—with a special savory richness” and selling it for a mere $25.

Birichino, 204 Church St., Santa Cruz.

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HIGH TIME FOR TEA The Aptos Chamber of Commerce is presenting a High Tea, Fashion & Shopping event to benefit Caroline’s, a nonprofit thrift shop in Aptos.

Fashions will be provided by Cinnamon Bay Clothing, Fleet Feet Sports, Hopscotch, Kickback, O’Neill Surf Shop, Pacific Wave, Sockshop & Shoe Company, Xandra Swimwear, and more. A buffet spread will include sandwiches, scones and chocolatedipped strawberries—with bottomless mimosas for $25. Tickets $60.

11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, April 14.

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H RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES NEW MOON AND NEW WORLD SERVERS

Esoteric Astrology as news for the week of April 3, 2019 The new moon occurs in the early morning on Friday, April 5, at 15 degrees Aries. New moon times are festival times of the new initiating light. As the pale crescent moon appears in the sky, the New Group of World Servers (NGWS), men and women of goodwill, gather together to distribute the cosmic light to humanity. The NGWS ponder upon how the plan of betterment and goodwill can manifest in the world.

Aries, with its task of initiating all things new, is like a searchlight seeking to anchor new rhythms and new archetypes into the world.

During the month of Aries, the will-to-good and the forces of restoration stream into the Earth.

ARIES Mar21–Apr20

When the will-to-good enters the Earth, it becomes goodwill, Right Relations and the truth, happiness and peace humanity seeks.

The NGWS, often unrecognized, are the ones who meet world need, and are devoted to enriching the quality of life and the welfare of all living beings. They understand planetary and cosmic relationships and the power of Goodwill to bring about real change. Every seven years, the festival of the NGWS is celebrated. It happens at winter solstice of this year. During this Aries new moon festival, we begin our preparations.

It’s most important to think about tact and positive Right Relations instead of the usual competitiveness, lack of tact, frustrations, headstrongness, and any sort of aggressiveness. Have the intentions to bring forth diplomacy. Allow your endeavors and activities to create spiritual resources that serve others. As you make all things new, make them harmonious, too.

brave. Others see this and are attracted to your courage.

You recognize bravery in others because it already rests within you, at first, like a shadow. You have a great sense of justice, and seek, most of the time, peace and harmony. However, there are times when anger takes hold and you lose your way. Think of this as a rainstorm cleansing and clearing the air around you. Love more, no matter what.

TAURUS Apr21–May21

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21

Your subconscious comes to life, and all your assertive abilities go into hiding. In the deepest parts of yourself, you gather courage and become brave. You may remember things from the past which create worry or anxiety. Tend to your heart, body and nervous system with care, choosing extra rest and foods that lessen inflammation. A spiritual presence enters your life.

Revelations continue to occur. You may attend or join a church or spiritual group.

Here are questions you might ask yourself: where is my service, what is my service, and whom do I serve?

How is my health, and am I tending to my duties with responsibility and care? Do I practice Right Relations with all my relationships, and with all kingdoms? Am I determined, do I have hope? Do I hold my intensity in high regard, and am I non-judgmental?

GEMINI May 22–June 20 Friends might visit to chat and discuss new ideas. You might meet new ones or join a group or organization that attracts you socially. Some relationships that are not close may fall away, to later reform themselves into better and closer friendships. Whatever your goals, it will be friends who help you move from here to a greater “there.” Friends offer to help with all your hopes, wishes and dreams. And they help you to truly value yourself as well.

Most important at this time is your self-expression, your level of creativity, the supreme effort of distinguishing yourself from all others. Are you seeking something romantic or attempting to have children or simply pursuing entertainment, fun, pleasure, wellbeing, and happiness? You can be fun to be around these days, as long as you don’t get impatient. You are quick to frustration. Don’t wear red or drive fast. And don’t gamble.

CANCER Jun21–Jul20

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20

You wonder about worldly attainment, how you present yourself in public. You want to be remembered. If you’re usually shy, this will disappear. The world is your stage for a while, and there’s an opportunity to establish yourself. You work hard at becoming the best you can be. And you are the very best due to your determination and drive. Be impulsive, trust yourself and shed your shell just for a moment or two.

There is a shift or perhaps an acceleration of your foundation and base of operation. Psychological roots, family lineage, your childhood, how you were nurtured, and how you learned to nurture come into focus. You are fiercely protective of your family, and you actively pursue changes in your home. Be very careful of anyone’s anger, impatience, demands made upon family and loved ones.

Make serious plans to play more and be in the garden.

What are you growing there?

You find yourself setting goals, planning and considering far-distant travels. Interest in philosophy, religion, education and expanding your horizons appear in dreams. This is a good time for you. Gathering your talents and gifts, you’re optimistic and vitalized. In the days ahead, you’ll be blazing a trail into the wide and adventurous unknown. Aspiration, a sense of adventure and visualizations are your guides.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 It would be good to read Jung’s Red Book, along with Memories, Dreams and Reflections. And it’s good to look at, study and draw symbols so that you can begin to anchor greater ideas and archetypes which would energize your life. They will release the most positive dimensions of your personality and soul. There will be a seeking for redemption and the way toward this will be revealed in dreams.

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22 Although you’re not quite aware of this, you’re quite

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 Notice if thinking accelerates and ideas race through your mind. Writing, news, communication, speech, connections, and making contacts all become supremely important. They have to be quick, though, or you lose patience and interest. You become more alert, capable of making snap decision; independence of thought is a primary need. Remember, every other sign thinks and acts much slower than you. Follow up on ideas, aspiration and impressions. Your creativity is there.

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PISCES Feb19–Mar20 You will be wondering what is of value to you as there is a simultaneous giveaway, sale and general release of much of what you considered materially valuable in the past. You will find yourself with perhaps a suitcase or two, and a laptop—nothing more. And you’ll be on your way. This is a significant time for you. Guard your money. patience with someone. Love more. Time, like love, heals everything.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000111 The following Married Couple is doing business as AWEAR WARES, SIRUS WARES. 15210 UPPER ELLEN ROAD, LOS GATOS, CA 95033. County of Santa Cruz. CAROLINE BLISS-ISBERG & CLIFFORD A. ISBERG. 15210 UPPER ELLEN ROAD, LOS GATOS, CA 95033. This business is conducted by a Married Couple signed: CAROLINE BLISS-ISBERG. 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 Jan. 15, 2019.

Mar. 13, 20, 27, & Apr. 3.

STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000446 The following Corporation is doing business as VISION ELECTRIC. 3031 BUCKINGHAM LANE, SANTACRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz.

JAKE GOOCH ELECTRIC, INC. 3031 BUCKINGHAM LANE, SANTACRUZ, CA 95062. AI# 4225664.

This business is conducted by a Corporation signed: ASHLEY GOOCH. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. Original FBN number: 20150000281. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March 5, 2019. Mar. 13, 20, 27, & Apr. 3.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000293 The following Individual is doing business as BODHI TREE. 1128 PACIFIC AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

County of Santa Cruz.

NGUDUP DORJEE LAMA. 1 HELVIC AVE., APT. B, MONTEREY, CA 93940.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: NGUDUP DORJEE LAMA. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 2/12/2019.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Feb. 12, 2019. Mar. 13, 20, 27, & Apr. 3.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000282 The following Individual is doing business as RUBY JOHN VOCAL ARTS. 4281 FAIRWAY DRIVE, SOQUEL, CA 95073.

County of Santa Cruz.

RUBY JOHN COOK. 4281 FAIRWAY DRIVE, SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: RUBY JOHN COOK. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Feb. 11, 2019.

March 13, 20, 27, & Apr. 3.

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 April 22, 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: March 7, 2019.

Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Mar. 20, 7, Apr. 3, & 10.

County, on March 8, 2019.

Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, & 10.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000481 The following Individual is doing business as CAMARA ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING. 613 OLD SAN JOSE ROAD, SOQUEL, CA 95073.

County of Santa Cruz.

KELLI MARIE CAMARA LASHER. 613 OLD SAN JOSE ROAD, SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: KELLI MARIE CAMARA LASHER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March 8, 2019.

Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, & 10.

number: 2018-0000205.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March 13, 2019. Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, & 10.

DAYLON RICHINS. 1630 MERRILL ST. #604, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

This business is conducted by a Married Couple signed: ADAM RICHINS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/1/2016. Original FBN number: 2016-0001437.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March 13, 2019. Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, & 10.

Partnership is doing business as KINDERWOOD FARMS. 730 CATHEDRAL DRIVE, APTOS, CA 95003.

County of Santa Cruz.

MACDONALD CHARLES ELLIS & LAUREN ANNE LINKEMYER. 730 CATHEDRAL DRIVE, APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: MACDONALD ELLIS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 7/1/2018.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Mar 11, 2019. Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, & 17.

four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.

Dated: March 18, 2019.

Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, & 17.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000447 The following Individual is doing business as REALTOR IN YOUR CORNER. 3909 TERRA LANE, SOQUEL, CA 95073. County of Santa Cruz. CONNIE GODINEZ EELLS. 3909 TERRA LANE, SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: CONNIE GODINEZ EELLS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Mar. 5, 2019.

Mar. 13, 20, 27, & Apr. 3.

REFILING OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF SARAH BANASZAK CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV00763. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner SARAH BANASZAK has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: SARAH BANASZAK to: SARAH MARIPOSA. 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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000459 The following Individual is doing business as FLOWERS CENTER. 2752 TROUT GULCH ROAD, APTOS, CA 95003.

County of Santa Cruz.

CATHERINE ANN FLOWERS. 2752 TROUT GULCH ROAD, APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: CATHERINE ANN FLOWERS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March 6, 2019.

Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 2, & 10.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000484 The following Individual is doing business as SOUL TRIBE REVOLUTION. 2228 MATTISON AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz.

LARA CONVERY. 2228 MATTISON AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: LARA CONVERY. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000442 The following Individual is doing business as SPD. 56 MARANATHA DR., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. LEE ANTHONY PARSON. 56 MARANATHA DR., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: LEE ANTHONY PARSON. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March 4, 2019.

Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, & 10.

REFILING OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT WITH CHANGE 2019-0000508 The following Married Couple is doing business as R & G CLEANING SOLUTIONS. 4622 WEST WALNUT STREET APT A, SOQUEL, CA 95073.

County of Santa Cruz.

ANA ANGELINA GUARDIAN ROCHA & CORNELIO RIVERA GARCIA. 4622 WEST WALNUT STREET APT A, SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by a Married Couple signed: CORNELIO GARCIA. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 4/15/2011. Original FBN

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF JOSE RAMON ALVAREZ MELENDEZ CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV00815. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner JOSE RAMON ALVAREZ MELENDEZ has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: JOSE RAMON ALVAREZ MELENDEZ to: JOSE RAMON ALVAREZ. 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 April 29, 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: Mar. 13, 2019.

Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, & 10.

REFILING OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT WITH CHANGE 2019-0000512 The following Married Couple is doing business as AMORY BODY ARTS. 1720 BROMMER ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz.

SHELBY NICHOLE RICHINS & ADAM

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000506 The following Individual is doing business as BLESSEDBE. 1234 BROMMER ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. AMANDA MARY EDWARDS VIEIRA. 1234 BROMMER ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: AMANDA MARY EDWARDS VIEIRA The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March 12, 2019. Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, & 10.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000528. The following General Partnership is doing business as LONE BARREL CIDER COMPANY. 3555 N. MAIN ST., SOQUEL, CA 95073. County of Santa Cruz. TRAVIS MEADOWS GRAHAM, 309 JESSE ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060, & NICHOLAS JOHN MALETA, 3555 N. MAIN ST., SOQUEL, CA 96073. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: TRAVIS GRAHAM. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March 15, 2019. Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, & 17.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000496. The following General

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF JAMON AUGUST REECE SCHLAFKE CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV00864. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner JAMON AUGUST REECE SCHLAFKE has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: JAMON AUGUST REECE SCHLAFKE to: JAMON AUGUST REESE. 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 May 2, 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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000437The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as VIM DINING & DESSERTS. 238 MISSION STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

County of Santa Cruz.

VIM, LLC. 1550 BULB AVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA, 95062. AI# 16010385.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: THERESA STOLAROFF. 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 March 4, 2019. Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, & 17.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000489 The following Individual is doing business as LEVITY VANS. 1010 17TH AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz.

JAMES KEITH GREY. 141 S. PARK WAY, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JAMES KEITH GREY. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 2/1/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March 11, 2019. Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, & 17.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF BROOKE C. WHITE CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV00884. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner BROOKE C. WHITE has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: BROOKE C. WHITE to: BROOKE FARR WHITE. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the

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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 May 7, 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: March 19, 2019.

Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, & 17.

transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March 21, 2019. Apr. 3, 10, 17 & 24.

2019. Apr. 3, 10, 17 & 24.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF CELICA FERNANDEZ ACOSTA CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV00176. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner CELICA FERNANDEZ ACOSTA has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: CELICA FERNANDEZ ACOSTA to: CELICA ACOSTA. 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 May 3, 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: Mar 4, 2019. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Apr. 3, 10, 17, & 24.

WESTRIDGE DR., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. Al# 4224072.

This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: PLANT PROPAGATION TECHNOLOGY, INC. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/1/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March 4, 2019. Apr. 3, 10, 17, & 24.

clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: SEAN D MILLS JR. to: SEAN HODSON. 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 May 13, 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: March 27, 2019.

Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Apr. 3, 10, 17, & 24.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000578 The following Individual is doing business as SIMPATICO. 6223 HIGHWAY 9, FELTON, CA 95018. County of Santa Cruz. CHELSEA DREW. 11280 HIGHWAY 9, BROOKDALE, CA 95007.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: CHELSEA DREW. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March 22,

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000583 The following Corporation is doing business as NUDO SKINCARE. 627 WHITE ROAD, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. JOYFUL BODY CARE INC. 627 WHITE ROAD, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. Al# 4194900.

This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: JOYFUL BODY CARE 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 March 22, 2019. Apr. 3, 10, 17, & 24.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000438 The following Corporation is doing business as PROPTEK. 412 WESTRIDGE DR., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. PLANT PROPAGATION TECHNOLOGY, INC. 412

TO ROBERT MAMBRETTI: Petitioner SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ADULT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES hereby provides notice to Respondent, ROBERT MAMBRETTI, that the Santa Cruz Superior Court has set a hearing on Petitioner’s petition for restraining order against Respondent, ROBERT MAMBRETTI, on: April 30, 2019, at 8:30 a.m., in the Santa Cruz County Superior Court, Watsonville Courthouse, Courtroom B, 1 2nd St., Watsonville, California 95076.

Before the April 30, 2019 hearing, please contact Petitioner’s counsel, Santa Cruz County Counsel, 831454-2040, to receive Petitioner’s filed restraining order documents.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000525. The following Copartnership is doing business as SUNSET STABLES. 485 SAN ANDREAS RD., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. BRIDGETT ELLIOTT & CYNTHIA ANN ELLIS. 6060 FREEDOM BLVD., APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by a Copartnership signed: CYNTHIA ELLIS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March 14, 2019. Apr. 3, 10, 17, & 24.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000538 The following Individual is doing business as ANNA MAE LANDAUER. 200 ALAMO AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. ANNA MAE LANDAUER. 200 ALAMO AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ANNA MAE LANDAUER The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March 18, 2019, 2019. Apr. 3, 10, 17, & 24.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF SEAN D MILLS JR. CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV00943. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner SEAN D MILLS JR. has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the

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JOHN TUCKER OSGOOD. 265 KINGS HIGHWAY, BOULDER CREEK, CA 95006. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JOHN TUCKER OSGOOD The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 9/15/2008. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Feb. 20, 2019.

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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF JOEL LYNDEN ADAMS

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STRYKER CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV00952. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner JOEL LYNDEN ADAMS STRYKER has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: JOEL LYNDEN ADAMS STRYKER to: JOEL ADAMS STRYKER. 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 May 13, 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: March 28, 2019. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Apr. 3, 10, 17, & 24.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000472 The following Individual is doing business as REDWOOD HAULING CO. 1200 CAPITOLA RD. #21, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz.

PASCUAL ROSAS CRUZ. 1200 CAPITOLA RD. #21, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: PASCUAL ROSAS CRUZ. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March 7, 2019.

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Occupation: Co-owner Kickin Chicken Hobbies: Disc golf, golf, cooking, snowboarding, skiing You guys know food: what’s your opinion of Shopper’s? JUSTIN:“Shopper’s ‘ruined’ all the other markets in town for me.They have the perfect amount of organic, healthy ingredients, a great butcher shop and a wide variety of specialty products.” DANIEL:“The customer service is real and everyone is super friendly.Their pricing is really good and they take care of us.” JUSTIN:“Shopper’s special-orders whatever we need, like 10 cases of organic corn flour.” DANIEL:“It feels like a second home.You walk by the butchers, and they say hi first. It’s like seeing friends.”

What do you cook at home? JUSTIN:“Comfort food and Asian style.A lot of Japanese and Korean.

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Nice!” JUSTIN:“Shopper’s produce is awesome with super-competitive pricing.They’re always mixing in new items such as tarragon.The avocados are always ripe, perfect for our avocado toast.”

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