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EDITOR’S NOTE Earlier this year, Jacob Pierce did a cover story on accusations of sexism and bullying at Santa Cruz’s City Hall.

There was a wide range of reactions, but many could be summed up by the reader who wrote, “Reading this article, I found myself shaking my head at the petty, immature antics of the Santa Cruz City Council.”

Chris Krohn and Drew Glover were the two councilmembers at the center of the controversy. While Krohn struck an apologetic note at

LETTERS

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RACE AND ‘THE WINTER’S TALE’

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Re: “Slipping Through Time” (GT, 8/14): So let’s talk about the elephant in the room. Black American directors are hardly ever associated with Shakespeare, and Black female directors taking on Shakespeare are even more rare. With that said, the existence of an adequate platform to discuss director Raelle MyrickHodges’ choices in The Winter’s Tale is essential. At opening night, I was blown away by the nuanced ways in which she skillfully navigated a deeply intentional subtext of race and power in her strategic placement of characters and blocking. The weight of representation was palpable, the comparisons to an American legacy of racism which haunts us today as a national emergency, unmistakable. It would be a huge loss to not be able to see, understand or acknowledge her work, and demonstrates how one’s position in society dictates what is visible to one’s conscience.

To start, we begin the play in the 1940s because it represents a time of illusory, whitewashed glamour that fails to cover the horrors of lynching and Jim Crow racism. We cannot ignore the sinister pull of Hermione’s (Karen Peakes) white womanhood as she insists that a Black King Polixenes (Lindsay Smiling) stay as her “guest or prisoner.” The imminent danger to Polixenes fills the stage as we watch

the time, Glover was defiant, calling the accusations “laughable.” That didn’t quiet the brewing storm, and talk of a recall effort against both politicians began soon after.

It’s hard not to think about the new report on the complaints against Krohn and Glover in the context of that potential recall.

In this week’s cover story, Pierce returns to the topic to analyze the report’s findings and consider what supporters and detractors of the embattled councilmembers are likely to take away from it. Perhaps most importantly, his story looks at the bigger question hanging over all of this infighting: where do we go from here?

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King Leontes (Ian Merrill Peakes) become psychotically consumed by jealousy and rage at the thought of Polixenes having touched his queen. In this moment, MyrickHodges draws clear references to Emmett Till, and the historically violent obsession with perceived transgressions against white womanhood by Black men, itself a byproduct of the legacy of slavery and the making of American capitalism.

Leontes cannot be convinced otherwise, and goes on to wreak havoc and ruin in the lives of his most beloved relationships.

His tyrannical ideology, his privilege and entitlement being centered at all costs, smacks so clearly of our current president that it’s almost funny, until one considers the real atrocities being visited on mothers and children at this very moment. Leonte’s disgust at the thought of Polixenes being the father of the baby in Hermione’s womb oozes with eugenic rage. At the same time, the refusal of Lady Paulina(Chavez Ravine) to come to Hermione when called and her silent, yet powerful, confrontational stance towards Leontes are an allegory for the historical resistance of Black women as the collective conscience of America, even while being reviled and shunned.

In short, the directorial choices being made by Myrick-Hodges are both nuanced and pointed as they invite us to unpack a tangled web of jealousy, patriarchal ownership and vengeance for perceived adultery, as it relates to race. The fact that none of these choices have been touched upon by any reviewer >8

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The Santa Cruz Water Department has completed fieldwork for the first pilot study of aquifer storage and recovery, also known as ASR, at its Beltz 12 well facility. The citizen-led Water Supply Advisory Committee recommended ASR as a way to bank excess winter surface water in depleted underground aquifers for future use during dry conditions.

Recharge could play an important role in the county’s local water supply, and signs are so far encouraging. The study’s final results will be available this fall.

The Institute for Local Governments has awarded the city of Santa Cruz a 2019 Beacon Award for Energy and Emissions Reductions. The Beacon Program supports and recognizes action

by California local governments to address climate change, promote energy innovation and create more sustainable communities. The program recognized Santa Cruz for its greenhouse gas emission reductions, energy savings and sustainability best practices.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of August 28 ARIES Mar21–Apr19 Here are examples of activities I recommend you try in the coming days: 1. Build a campfire on the beach with friends and regale each other with stories of your most interesting successes. 2. Buy eccentric treasures at a flea market, and ever thereafter refer to them as your holy icons. 3. Climb a hill and sit on the grass as you sing your favorite songs and watch the moon slowly rise over the eastern horizon. 4. Take naps when you’re “not supposed to.” 5. Sneak into an orchard at night and eat fruit plucked just moments before. 6. Tell a beloved person a fairy tale in which he or she is the hero.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 The hardiest creature on the planet may be the bacterium known as Deinococcus radiodurans. It can endure exposure to radiation, intense cold, dehydration, acid, and vacuum. I propose we make it your power creature for the coming weeks. Why? Not because I expect you’ll have to deal with a lot of extreme conditions, but rather because I think you’ll be exceptionally robust, both physically and psychologically. If you’ve been waiting for the right time to succeed at demanding challenges that require you to be in top form, now is a good time to do it. P.S. Deinococcus radiodurans is colloquially referred to as Conan the Bacterium, borrowing from the spirit of the fictional character Conan the Barbarian, who is renowned for his strength and agility.

GEMINI May21–June20 In the yearly cycle of many Geminis, retreating into a state akin to hibernation makes sense during the end of August and the first three weeks of September. But since many of you are high-energy sophisticates, you often override your body’s signals. And then nature pushes back by compelling you to slow down. The result may be a rhythm that feels like constantly taking three steps forward and two steps backward. May I suggest a different approach this year? Would you consider surrendering, even slightly, to the invitation to relax and recharge?

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If you decide to travel to a particular place via hot air balloon, you must be prepared for the possibility that your route will be indirect. At different altitudes, the wind may be blowing in different directions: toward the east at 100 feet high, but toward the southwest at 200 feet. The trick for the pilot is to jockey up and down until finding a layer that’s headed toward the desired destination. I see your life right now as having a metaphorical resemblance to this riddle. You have not yet discovered the layer that will take you where you want to go. But I bet you will soon.

LE0 Jul23–Aug22 Considering how bright you have been burning since the Flame Angels designated you as the Hottest Cool Person of the Month, I hesitate to urge you to simmer down.

But I must. Before there’s a meltdown in your vicinity, please lower your thermostat. Not a lot. Just a little. If you do that, everyone will continue to see your gleaming charisma in the best possible light. But don’t you dare extinguish your blaze. Don’t apologize for your brilliant shimmer. The rest of us need your magical radiance.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Shogun is a bestselling novel about an Englishman who transforms himself into a samurai warrior in 17th-century Japan. Written by James Clavell, it’s over 1,100 pages long. Clavell testified that the idea for the story sprang up in him when he read one line in his daughter’s school book: “In 1600 an Englishman went to Japan and became a samurai.” I suspect it’s highly likely you will soon encounter a seed like that, Virgo: a bare inspiration that will eventually bloom into a Big Thing.

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22 Libran athlete Mickey Mantle is in Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame. He had a spectacular 18-year career, winning the Most Valuable Player Award three

times, playing in 12 World Series and being selected to the All-Star team 16 times. So it’s astounding that he played with a torn ligament in his knee for 17 years, according to his biographer Jane Leavy. She quoted an orthopedic surgeon who said that Mantle compensated for his injury with “neuromuscular genius.” I’m thinking that in the next few weeks, you’re in a position to accomplish an equivalent of Mantle’s heroic adjustment.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 Most people who belong to the Church of Satan neither believe in nor worship Satan. (They’re atheists, and don’t believe in the supernatural.) I think a comparable principle is true for many right-wing fundamentalist Christians. Their actions and words are replete with bigotry, hard-heartedness, materialism, and selfishness: so contrary to what the real Jesus Christ taught that they in effect don’t believe in or worship Jesus Christ. I mention this, Scorpio, in hope of inspiring you to take inventory of whether your stated ideals are reflected in the practical details of how you live your life. That’s always an interesting and important task, of course, but it’s especially so for you right now. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to purge any hypocrisy from your system and get your actual behavior in close alignment with your deepest values.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 It’s the right time for you to create a fresh mission statement and promotional campaign. For inspiration, read mine: “My column Free Will Astrology offers you a wide selection of realities to choose from. With 4,212 years of dedication to customer service (over the course of my last 13 incarnations), I’m a reliable ally supporting your efforts to escape your oppressive conditioning and other people’s hells. My horoscopes come with an ironclad guarantee: If the advice you read is wrong, you’re under no obligation to believe it. And remember: a panel of 531 experts has determined that Free Will Astrology is an effective therapy for your chronic wounds and primordial pain. It is also dramatic proof that there is no good reason to be afraid of life.”

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 Here are good questions for you to meditate on during the next four weeks: 1. How can you attract resources that will expand your mind and your world? 2. Are you bold enough to reach out to wise sources and provocative influences that could connect you with useful tricks and practical treasures? 3. What interesting lessons can you stir up as you explore the mercurial edges, skirt the changeable boundaries, journey to catalytic frontiers, and make pilgrimages to holy hubbubs? 4. How best can you encourage lyrical emotion over polished sentimentality? Joyous idealism over astringent zealotry?

Exuberant integrity over formulaic kindness?

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 “It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by,” wrote author Wallace Stegner, “and it’s persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.” That will be an excellent meditation for you during the coming weeks. I trust you are long past the time of fantasizing you can live without any rules. Your challenge now is to adjust some of the rules you have been living by, or even dare to align yourself with some new rules—and then completely commit yourself to being loyal to them and enjoying them.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 Given the astrological omens that will symbolize your personal story in the coming weeks and months, I think Piscean author Nikos Kazantzakis articulated the perfect prescription for you. I invite you to interpret his thoughts to fit your circumstances. “We’re going to start with small, easy things,” he wrote. “Then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.” Here’s an additional prod from Kazantzakis: “Reach what you cannot.”

Homework: What do you want most for the person or animal you love best? freewillastrology.com.

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of this production of The Winter’s Tale is an example of how the realities of Black American lives are still largely misunderstood and unacknowledged. If we are asking Black female directors like Raelle Myrick-Hodges to produce plays by William Shakespeare, we owe it to the work to insure their choices are centered, discussed with critical thought, intersectional analysis, and their intentions made perfectly clear to reviewers and theater patrons alike.Representation is important, and it’s easy to feel good about providing it. Looking at our own privilege, entitlement

and patriarchy is more difficult to do, but it’s the only way that we can move forward.

I commend Myrick-Hodges for pushing us towards waking up.

D’MITRA SMITH | SONOMA

When reached for comment about this letter, Director Raelle Myrick-Hodges said, “It’s hard not to have an emotional reaction to being seen.” She also said she found Santa Cruz Shakespeare to be a “safe space” for creating the vision she wanted.

‘The Winter’s Tale’ is in its final week; it closes Sept. 1. — Editor

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BREW IT YOURSELF Alongside fermented ketchup and kombucha, Farmhouse Culture’s Apple Fennel Kraut

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first tried the “gut shot” after Thanksgiving rendered me comatose yet again. It was the third helping of stuffing that did it, but it was Kathryn Lukas—and Vogue—that helped me to undo it with the article ”Why ‘Gut Shots’ Are the Key to Healthy Holiday Eating.” I never looked back.

Lukas is the founder of Watsonvillebased Farmhouse Culture, which makes organic fermented foods. Her gut shot is sauerkraut brine, flavored or not. Though Germans and other kraut-loving Eastern Europeans have been drinking sauerkraut juice since the beginning of time, it was Lukas that popularized the “shot”

in California. The vitamin-rich, probiotic sour drink can help reduce bloating and stimulate the release of enzymes to help the body digest food more efficiently, particularly if it’s overloaded. For me, it meant I could be a functioning member of society post-Thanksgiving dinner.

What began as a condiment turned into a fermentation empire for Lukas.

Farmhouse Culture is perhaps bestknown for its kraut, which Lukas began making in 2005. They also have Kraut Krisps (flavored chips made of cabbage) that have also been saving guts all over America.

Lukas’ interest in fermented foods led her to eventually co-author

a cookbook with her son, Shane Peterson. The new book, The Farmhouse Culture Guide to Fermenting, was released in August—a motherson collaboration where, Lukas says, styles and personalities collided.

“We use muppets to describe our personalities. I am the Swedish Chef, and he is Beaker. I’m all about getting the flavor right and throwing things in there, and he likes to measure everything as we go,” Lukas laughs.

“I don’t really measure. So for the book, I come up with the ideas for the recipes—and that’s not to say he doesn’t have a few in there—then we tweak it together. He would perfect the ratios for salt or kraut juice

Kathryn Lukas and Shane Peterson come to Bookshop Santa Cruz at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 12, for a free event celebrating their new book. farmhouseculture.com.

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through a lot of trial and error.”

Peterson also wrote the book Fermentering, which is a best-seller in Scandinavia. The new Farmhouse Culture book contains more than 100 recipes, including sauerkraut, kombucha and even fermented ketchup. It details the history and importance of fermented foods, and how to better incorporate them into our diets—though Lukas says that the latter is likely to be its own book further down the line. “I’m working on recipes that incorporate ferments into the everyday diet, a lot of that stuff didn’t make it into this book,” she says. “Like how to eat fermented foods with breakfast.”

When Lukas first started Farmhouse Culture, she sold at Santa Cruz farmers markets. She says she would actively avoid talking about the health benefits because she didn’t know much about it. It wasn’t until she read Michael Pollan’s 2013 New York Times article “Some of My Best Friends Are Germs” (which delves into the trillions of microbes in our bodies, and how they are linked to our overall health) that Lukas became much more interested in the gut, the microbiome and the health benefits of fermented foods. “It’s funny, when I talk to my doctors, they actually know a lot less than I do,” she says. “There are very few people in the world that know a lot about how the gut works. It’s such a fast-moving science, it’s hard to make definitive statements about it.”

Probiotics should be consumed according to professional guidelines, and can lead to some pretty nasty bowel-related results if ingested too much—I know from experience.

“If you are getting ready to make changes in your lifestyle, get some baseline testing to understand what’s going on with your microbiome,” Lukas says. “Then add fermented foods and fiber or whatever you want to add. Then check again and see where you are. That’s the ideal way to figure out how much fermented food is right for you.”

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NEWS FEST FOOT FORWARD Santa Cruz Music Festival Founders respond to criticism about not paying some acts, say they pay about 80% of performers

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Kyle Meyers and Brian Crabtree say they were surprised when they saw a Los Gatos musician complain on social media about an email he’d received from Santa Cruz Music Festival (SCMF).

An organizer had emailed the guitar player Kevan Smedt, offering his band Skyline Hot Club the opportunity to play one of the event’s unpaid slots, which Smedt found insulting. A post from the guitar player went viral on social media and later turned into a San Francisco Chronicle story.

Meyers and Crabtree, both SCMF founders, say that they normally pull from some 600 festival submissions to fill free slots, but they reached out to Smedt on the advice of a friend. The festival does pay about four-fifths of performers, they say. What hurt the most, the organizers add, was Smedt’s claim that they don’t care about local artists.

“We did some math,” Meyers says. “Sixtyfive percent of the lineup is Santa Cruz, with 95% of the lineup being Bay Area. And 70% of our budget goes to the artists.”

Myers says that all sizable music festivals book unpaid shows, with the difference being that SCMF’s unpaid gigs are free to the public. Artists at unpaid stages do sometimes renegotiate for some compensation, they say. This year’s festival will be held Oct. 19 and 20. Meyers, who isn’t sorry about what he chalks up to miscommunication, believes that Smedt isn’t used to receiving offers from festivals.

Reached for comment on Tuesday, Smedt tells GT that he’s been asked to play a few festivals, like San Jose Summer Jazz Fest, but never without pay.” It’s different than volunteer labor because we’re dealing with people’s passion, life-path and chosen profession,” he says, in an email.

Do you remember the first time you saw one of the emails you sent out posted online?

KYLE MYERS: The offer sheet. Yeah, we saw it from the beginning … The meat of it is we have free-to-the-public stages that require no wristband. Those stages—some

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GENERATION CLIMATE Watsonville nonprofit Regeneración-Pájaro Valley Climate Action aims to bridge

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his fall, Santa Cruz County could become one of the first local governments in the country to take decisive action on sea-level rise by altering permitting rules for residents who want to build seawalls or other forms of armoring around valuable coastal real estate.

But as property owners confront the potential eye-popping costs of warding off rising tides, environmental advocates also warn of a catch-22 scenario. Further armoring the coastline, agencies like the U.S. Geologic Survey and California Coastal Commission have warned, will also speed up the demise of vulnerable landscapes— namely, public beaches—that make the area desirable in the first place.

“You essentially drown the beach or flood the beach,” says Gary Griggs, a UCSC earth sciences professor who has studied the effects of armoring on California beaches.

Still, he says, there are few easy answers to the existential crisis that comes with trying to prepare a beach town for dramatic changes in the coastal environment. Denial is more untenable with each new shattered heat record, and paying millions of dollars for “beach nourishment,” or adding tons of sand back to waning beaches, is another expensive Band-Aid. Retreating from the shoreline and forfeiting billions of dollars in coastal property may be the surest bet, but there are obvious drawbacks.

“The scientists have been dealing with this for a while, but it’s going back to local governments,” Griggs says.

In September, Santa Cruz County spokesperson Jason Hoppin said the Board of Supervisors will wrestle with these questions when they revisit a long process of updating local rules for coastal development.

Among the changes proposed in a 248-page county report released earlier this year are allowing for more armoring within urban areas of the county, establishing new mitigation fees and criteria for geologic monitoring, and shifting financial liability to private property owners in the event of climateinduced damage to homes in hazardous areas. >14

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The result is a “hybrid approach,” the county report says, where rural areas would be prescribed a “managed natural retreat” as tides rise and urban areas around the city of Santa Cruz would hew toward “conditional accommodation, acceptance of risk, amortization and adaptation.”

“It’s one of the first examples of a county adopting a policy to armor an urban area,” says Dan Carl, a Santa Cruz native and Central Coast district director for the California Coastal Commission. “A lot of people don’t seem to realize that this debate is going on, and this debate will go a long way towards identifying, what is this county gonna look like along the shoreline in both the short and the long term?”

It’s also not just seawalls. At both the city and county level, policymakers are moving beyond years of climate studies to grapple with what to actually do about increasingly immediate risks for the region’s shoreline, water supply and famous agriculture industry.

In addition to the county’s local coastal program update, the city of Santa Cruz is evaluating how to adapt West Cliff Drive to increasingly unavoidable climate impacts, and how to expand emissions-reducing measures like

electric transportation beyond the most affluent residents.

Farther south, Watsonville environmental justice nonprofit Regeneración-Pájaro Valley Climate Action is among those questioning how social programs might be forced to evolve as temperature rises impact agricultural workers directly exposed to the elements.

“Over the past few years, there’s definitely been a significant increase in awareness and knowledge on climate and where things are going,” says Nancy Faulstich, a teacher turned director of RegeneraciónPájaro Valley Climate Action.

“Frankly, it’s all so little and so late.”

Amid a national conversation about the feasibility of a New Green Deal to jumpstart renewable energy, job training in sustainable industries and large-scale climate mitigation, one big question is how to balance property concerns and concerns about people likely to bear the brunt of extreme heat, stronger storms and potential complications like food or water shortages.

“I’m concerned about life and death,” Faulstich says. During heat waves in the Watsonville area impacting farm workers in recent years, she says, “We’ve heard reports of people fainting, getting taken to the hospital.”

While much of the political conversation revolves around coastal

real estate, Regeneración is lobbying officials to consider solutions like reducing emissions by locating farmworker housing closer to jobs, or new kinds of funds that could compensate farm workers for days when it is unsafe to work outdoors.

At the county’s more northern end, advocacy groups Santa Cruz Climate Action Network, the Romero Institute and a local branch of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby are organizing events like a “Global Climate Strike” planned for Sept. 20-27.

Regeneración has also launched an “ambassador program” where locals share infographics and climate updates in either English or Spanish.

“There’s a lot about the general environmental movement that’s been very alienating to a lot of people,” Faulstich says, which she hopes may be changing. “Spreading information one by one is really key.”

CLIMATE COSTS Just how much it might cost to try to climate-proof the Central Coast, even temporarily, is still an open question.

A 2018 study focused on the ninecounty Bay Area put the current market value of 13,000 properties at risk of “chronic inundation” at $8.6 billion, illustrating a disconnect between short-term property values and longer-term climate >16

NUZ MOTHER OVERLODE Santa Cruz County is officially one of the hardest places in the country to be a single mom, according to a new analysis of federal income, education and housing data.

The Santa Cruz-Watsonville metro area ranked No. 1 on the list of the toughest cities for single mothers from financial news site 24/7 Wall St. That’s in large part because it’s “practically impossible,” the report notes, for those who earn the area’s median $31,000-a-year income for

households headed by a single mom to pay the going $2,400 a month for a two-bedroom apartment on the Central Coast.

Women earning that local median wage would have to work more than 181 hours per week—spoiler: there literally aren’t that many hours in a week—to avoid draining more than 30% of their incomes on rent (a common threshold for “affordable” housing, leaving money for health care, food and other necessities).

Beyond that daunting math, the report factored in access

to early-childhood education, public transit and local poverty rates. For those keeping score, Santa Cruz also has the state’s No. 2-highest overall poverty rate when adjusting for housing costs.

While California does generally offer higher wages and better access to health care than other states, the report notes that expensive regions like New York City offset some costs for families with programs like universal kindergarten and affordable (if not exactly kidfriendly) mass transit.

Still, misery loves company,

and Santa Cruz is by no means alone when it comes to California cities inhospitable to working class families. Also on the list for the toughest cities for single moms were Madera (No. 3), Salinas (No. 4), Visalia (No. 5), Hanford (No. 8), and Bakersfield (No. 9).

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of them—have unpaid artists. For instance, Abbott Square is free to the public. Abbott Square did their best bar days since they’ve opened on SCMF, made a ton of money.

This year, we have artists being paid via sponsor. We asked Abbott if they wanted to kick in money. It’s always no. None of the venues want to help pay for anything. The city doesn’t want to help us pay for anything.

Nobody wants to help us pay for anything.

We have to work all year to save and pay these artists. This year, we have a sponsor for Abbott Square, so that’s cool. All the artists are going to get paid here, that are playing free to the public. And then 100% of our wristbanded stages are paid. That was our main disconnect with that SFGate article— “SCMF doesn’t pay local artists.” That couldn’t be further from the truth. We have Schlump on the bill this year, that we’re paying to headline the Catalyst. He’s played with us for years, in the beginning for very little, and now for over $5,000, and he’s a local. Minnesota we’re paying $7,000. He’s a local.

How many of your artists get paid?

KM: In the 80% range are paid, I would say.

We haven’t done that math.

BRIAN CRABTREE: We’re still not done with the booking, so it’s hard to say where these last bookings go.

KM: Also, we’re not done getting

sponsors for these stages. Every year, I spend a lot of my time reaching out to hundreds of Santa Cruz businesses and beyond asking for this. ‘Hey, this brings money to downtown. You’re part of that.

Help support us by paying artists playing stages that are free to the public.’ … The question is always, ‘Should we just not have those free stages?’ Because that would erase the issue. There’s eight this year.

But the email offer also included a radius clause, asking that unpaid performers not play any shows in Santa Cruz for the two months preceding the festival.

BC: If you read it closely, it says we prefer you not to. Really that is us reaching out.

We want to know about other shows or gigs they do have. As far as the free artists performing, we waive the radiuses on them all the time. The thing is knowing about their other shows and gigs to see if they’re the right fit for us. And in the offer, you’ve got to find out about their availabilities and what they already do or if they have a gig the week before. The radius is in the industry offer to find out what other shows or gigs they have in your area.

KM: Every offer sheet from festivals and clubs has a radius clause. Coachella has one of the most aggressive radius clauses in the industry, and people play there for free. The radius clause is considered highly negotiable. It’s determined on mutually

BC: But when you don’t know anything about an act and you look them up on Facebook, and they have 200 followers, not a real big draw, where do you sell your starting point?

KM: It could have fluffier verbiage.

BC: But after years of doing this, you have to be direct. The more gray room you leave leaves more issues when you come to ticketing day of and payouts, and people are a little confused.

What do you think of the saying that there’s no such thing as bad publicity?

BC: There’s always a limit somewhere where things can go bad. But if anything, this whole situation has brought awareness about the event.

It was clear from the response on your website that you guys were upset. Organizational statements are often more conciliatory. How did you think about the tone?

KM: There’s a big group of us, from people that work directly with the festival to friends of the festival to other business owners in town.

And to be honest with you, we got input from everybody. We reached out to all constituents of the festival, and everybody put down their points. And we put it together. The tone is that we all agree that we want to make sure that everyone at these free-to-the-public stages gets something. The question is how do we do it?

The only answer I really have is sponsors. People have said other things, like, ‘Well, you could not have big headliners and you could pay all the little artists.’ But we’ve learned that when you do that, nobody comes, and then the festival loses a bunch of money. And then there isn’t another next year. Until me and Brian save up everything we have, and then go broke doing it again, which is what we’ve done forever.

The festival has floated around to different times of the year over the past six years. Why is that?

BC: The first year, on the advice of the

city, was to do it in the summer, so it was just contingent on the rest of the crazy summer crowd. So we did it in July of 2013.

After that, they asked us to move out of the summer. Getting the dates, we have to confirm with the city. It can’t conflict with any other event, marathon, something else going on. And then, we moved to October for two years. Then, we moved to February, trying to get into the spring, and then March was this last one.

KC: It’s a balance between three main factors: the city, when they allow us to have it; the rest of the festival scene and budgetary. After 2013, there was a huge loss of money, and we’ve had to recuperate from that. Me and Brian have never gotten back our investment. We brought all this money together and then we put it into the event.

There’s been some good years, but we’ve never been able to take any of that money out because we need to use that money to create the following year. This year, we had to switch dates because Lighting in a Bottle switched their dates from Memorial Day to our weekend that we had already sent out offers for. We had artists on board. We had the city confirmed. We work with Lightning in a Bottle.

We ran a stage for Lightning in a Bottle—of unpaid acts, because that’s how Lightning in a Bottle does it. … We had to switch our dates because they switched their dates. We’re hoping to stay in October.

How much did changing dates affect the festival’s bottom line? There hasn’t been enough continuity for a music fan to say to themselves, “It’s that time of year again, Santa Cruz Music Festival is coming up!”

KM: Exactly. That’s how Lightning in a Bottle lost millions of dollars this year. When they had to switch from Memorial Day, which everybody plans around every year, they lost 10,000 tickets. So absolutely. These are the things we struggle with. What are we supposed to do? We can just not have the event, or we can just roll with the punches.

BC: And we’re not out of competition, going with October. That weekend we have there are several other events going on that we are competing with—the Burning Man Decomp in San Francisco, which is huge.

There’s a couple big shows in the Bay Area.

I want to ask about the challenges of putting on a music festival.

BC: How long do you have?

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Armoring projects can cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and Carl says there is the potential for “fees up into millions of dollars” if the county or state agencies like the Coastal Commission strictly enforce efforts to mitigate impacts on public spaces.

Already, groups including the Coastal Property Owners Association and two organizations affiliated with the Pajaro Dunes development near Sunset State Beach have raised concerns about hurting home values if the county moves ahead with a proposal to add deed restrictions noting geologic hazards to properties that add new coastal armoring.

“The public should not be responsible for risks undertaken to benefit private property owners in voluntarily developing within hazardous areas,” the county’s report on the issue states.

How armoring may hold up over time is also uncertain.

“At what point do you say we can’t build walls any higher?” Griggs says.

As it stands, about 25% of the Santa Cruz County coast is armored. After high-profile debates about adding seawalls in areas like Opal Cliffs, the county estimates that about half of the shoreline in the urban area around the city of Santa Cruz is armored. In Southern California, where Griggs says 38% of the coast is armored from Santa Barbara to the Mexico border, about two-thirds of beaches are expected to disappear by 2060 if current trends hold.

“The same thing would happen in Santa Cruz,” Griggs says.

As another winter storm season draws nearer, local officials are attempting to balance efforts to reduce carbon emissions that fuel climate change and brace for more immediate fallout, says Tiffany Wise-West, the city of Santa Cruz’s sustainability and climate action manager.

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That’s how Santa Cruz City Manager Martín Bernal describes the current work environment at City Hall in his cover letter atop a new report investigating the

conduct of two Santa Cruz city councilmembers.

“It is imperative that we refrain from engaging in conduct that might be reasonably perceived as abusive, or that which may create an intimidating and uncomfortable working environment or cause morale problems,” Bernal writes in the letter.

The much-anticipated report detailed employee complaints that the

city’s Human Resources Department received earlier this year concerning the conduct of councilmembers Drew Glover, who was elected in November, and Chris Krohn, who was elected in 2016. It all started at a February City Council meeting, when Mayor Martine Watkins referenced “perceptions” that Krohn and Glover had been bullying her because she’s a woman. She attributed

that observation to people in the community, but she didn’t deny it, either. As reported in a GT cover story at the time (“Bully Pulpit,” 3/6/19), other politicians and community members echoed Watkins’ concerns— among them, county Supervisor Ryan Coonerty, former Mayor Cynthia Chase and former Councilmember Richelle Noroyan.

The new report, which was

released last week, deemed that claim unsubstantiated. But the report also addressed other complaints against Krohn and Glover—both of whom are now facing a combined recall effort—and each had one conduct complaint against them substantiated. Although all five of the complainants were women, independent investigator Joe Rose did not confirm any instances of

gender discrimination.

In his cover letter, Bernal writes that morale at City Hall “has suffered considerably” in the current work environment. “This is completely unacceptable,” he adds.

The report attempts to lay out what the city can do better in the future, including tips for councilmembers like Krohn and Glover, but also for Bernal and Watkins.

“There’s work to do,” Watkins tells GT. “I know the report findings have recommendations. I’m 100% open to that, and I hope my colleagues are as well.”

ON HALL It’s not clear whether the report will do anything to ease tensions at City Hall.

Less than 24 hours after its release, Glover had two Thursday morning meetings. The first meeting was with Vice Mayor Justin Cummings, City Councilmember Sandy Brown and a city staffer.

Some details of the conversation are unclear, but the meeting became heated, and the staffer became upset. Bernal had a meeting with Glover later that morning.

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By 11:30 a.m., Bernal had sent out a message to employees across the city outlining new instructions for interacting with Glover. Effective immediately, the only employees who were to interact with Glover would be department heads, Bernal and the assistant city manager.

“I felt like I had a duty and responsibility to ensure that it didn’t happen again with any other staff,” Bernal says of the reported heated exchange. “But I did tell him in my conversation that I was going to do that, because I didn’t get any response from him with respect to taking any accountability at all.”

The decision has frustrated Glover.

“I don’t think I can talk about it,” Glover says. “It’s an internal matter.

Regardless of the cause of it, I disagree with the decision to do it. For this exact reason—why? What’s going on? Can I talk about it? Probably not.

It’s indicative of the way that conflict is dealt with in the city.”

This past November, voters elected Glover, along with Vice Mayor Cummings and Councilmember Donna Meyers.

Glover and Cummings serve in a council majority with Krohn and Brown. Together, the four of them make up the more left-wing faction of Santa Cruz’s all-Democrat city council, although Cummings has shown an independent streak, occasionally serving as a swing vote on the seven-member body.

According to the report, Cummings told the investigator that he’s seen some councilmembers “interrogate” others, in an apparent reference to Krohn and Glover’s style of questioning their colleagues.

Cummings added that when councilmembers start “calling people out,” “grandstanding” or acting “grandiose,” their behavior could be considered “demeaning, humiliating or offensive” to others, and some other councilmembers and many community members feel that these theatrics get in the way of the substance of the meeting.

“That starts to compromise the city’s ability to function,” Cummings said in the report.

Council meetings over the past few months have not just been characterized by clashes between councilmembers, but also by tense exchanges with city staff.

The only conduct complaint against Krohn that was substantiated actually happened at a council meeting. It involved a sarcastic snorting laugh at a meeting after a staffer began an answer with a phrase along the lines of “In my professional opinion.” Krohn says he doesn’t remember that moment, but two witnesses remembered it, and he’s apologized.

The only substantiated claim against Glover was submitted by Councilmember Meyers.

As the appointed independent investigator, Rose looked for possible evidence as he tried to corroborate the narratives in the conduct complaints. The Sacramento-based lawyer did not deem any of the claims unfounded or false.

Responses to the report have ranged from anger at the councilmembers’ behavior to sarcastic indifference about the findings.

Such emotions were on full display on the Santa Cruz and Central Coast Politics Facebook page last week.

“My goodness.. so someone’s feelings got hurt on the council?” user Denica De Foy asked facetiously in one comment. Most comment threads devolved into arguments about the recall, for which groups are gathering signatures.

Glover and Krohn both openly admit that they ask tough questions of other councilmembers and staff, and they say it’s their style. Perhaps as a result, meetings have been running long. Under the current council, meetings have been starting as early as 10 a.m. and sometimes going past 11 p.m. The new majority has also directed staff to bring back items to the City Council on tightened deadlines. Bernal hinted in his letter that the current approach doesn’t lead staffers to create their best work, and even suggested that it may open the city up to potential lawsuits.

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city staff has seen two recent highprofile departures.

Although neither mentioned the current work environment as a reason for leaving, former Santa Cruz Assistant City Manager Tina Friend took a pay cut to become city manager for nearby Scotts Valley in June, and Finance Director Marcus Pimentel left this month for an administrative post at the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency.

Krohn and Glover both believe their approach is good for the city, and Krohn says he wants to make sure that important policy work is done in public.

Glover says that he knows tough conversations can make people “uncomfortable,” but he’s repeatedly argued that it’s time to move away from the notion that being uncomfortable is necessarily a bad thing. He also says he doesn’t want to be “a rubber stamp” for staff recommendations.

“That’s one thing I’ve become known for in my time on the council, is asking tough questions,” Glover says.

CONFRONTING THE TRUTH Just after 11:15 p.m. on Feb. 1, Councilmember Donna Meyers was wrapping up a 45-minute meeting with two community members, both UCSC officials, in a City Hall conference room.

Glover had the room reserved for the next slot, when he planned to meet with three or four of his several interns. Meyers says it was about 12:03 p.m. when they got up to leave—a fact that one of the UCSC officials verified to Rose. (Glover remembers the time being closer to 12:10.) When Meyers and the community members opened the

door to leave, they found Glover standing in the doorway, where he expressed his disapproval that Meyers had gone over her time, and taken up some of his.

“We’re done. I’m sorry that we ran a bit late,” Meyers remembers telling Glover, according to the report.

“This is very inappropriate that you don’t respect the calendar for the meeting,” he responded in Meyers’ recounting. The community members, who go unnamed in the report, felt uncomfortable as they squeezed by, cautiously sliding out around either side of Glover and into the hallway. Meyers apologized again, waiting for Glover to back up.

She remembered it being difficult to get out of the room. Meyers said that as she walked toward her office, Glover followed her, repeating his frustration and saying that she wasn’t appreciating or valuing him.

Partly based on witness testimony, Rose substantiated the claim and wrote that Glover had embarrassed Meyers by being “needlessly and unjustifiably antagonistic.” Rose wrote that the encounter did long-term damage to Glover’s working relationship with Meyers. The newly elected council had only met twice at the time the run-in occurred.

Glover contends, however, that even before their run-in at City Hall, he already had an icy relationship with Meyers, who declined to comment for this story. Meyers also had a second claim against Glover, which went unsubstantiated.

Glover says he’s not sorry about what happened that winter afternoon, but he is sorry that it made Meyers feel uncomfortable, and he wants to ensure that doesn’t happen again.

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“It’s a great opportunity and learning experience for me, with engaging with Donna Meyers and potentially other people in general,” Glover says. “I could have brought up the issue of being late in a oneon-one meeting with her, but that would be assuming that we have a relationship that allows us to have one-on-one meetings, which I don’t believe that we do. And that comes from our ideological differences, her behavior towards me, her perception of my behavior towards her. It’s just an uncomfortable situation.”

In addition to the two substantiated complaints against Glover and Krohn, there are six other claims in the report, including three informal claims initiated

by Watkins. The mayor tells GT that when she first made her comments, she didn’t realize that they would spur an investigation, but according to a city memo from Human Resources, the follow-up is required under California law. It’s Watkins’ understanding that the investigation began as a result of

other complaints, starting with one the following day.

Some of the complaints detailed multiple instances of conflict. One female staffer who came forward recounted to Rose, through tears, Glover’s “really upsetting” pattern of questioning her morals, character, professionalism, competence, and ethics.

That was one of several complaints that went unsubstantiated.

Former mayor Chase, who has criticized Glover’s and Krohn’s styles of discourse, says that it is important to look at the bigger picture of all complaints and their context, even though the investigator didn’t establish any evidence of gender desrcrimination.

A clear pattern of problematic behavior starts to emerge, she says.

“A lot of it is just being able to find evidence to prove that things happened,” says Chase, who has cited the behavior of her colleagues—Krohn included—as a reason she didn’t run for re-election last year. “I don’t know all of the

circumstances. But I do know that where there’s smoke, there’s fire. If more than one person complained, that shows a pattern of behavior, and that’s troubling.”

The Rose Report noted that Watkins didn’t reach out to Krohn and Glover in advance of going public, or try to mediate her concerns in private conversation before her remarks.

Even though the mayor’s own complaints weren’t substantiated, Watkins doesn’t have any regrets about speaking up. She says that her words created a space for other women to come forward, including women who otherwise may not have.

(The staffer who came forward the day after the mayor, for instance, had her complaint substantiated, Watkins notes.)

Afterward, Krohn sent two emails to the mayor hoping to discuss the matter and never heard back.

Watkins says HR advised her not to respond until the report was finished, as there would be an opportunity for dialogue at that

time. The report’s release, she adds, took longer than anyone anticipated.

As it considers possible next steps, the City Council will have an opportunity to address the matter, and could even issue a public censure—a form of reprimand— against the two councilmembers.

But the report also sheds light on a few possible procedural flaws.

Cummings says one takeaway from the investigation is that neither he nor Glover received a copy of the city’s Respectful Workplace Conduct Policy until they were more than a couple of months into their terms. Cummings received his copy in late February.

Glover received his copy in March, after complaints had begun rolling in. Glover and Krohn both describe the onboarding process as terribly inadequate.

Be that as it may, Watkins says that everyone on the council is an adult, and they should know how to behave like it.

Glover, for his part, notes that the concept of conduct policies is not new to him, given that he sees himself as “someone that supports worker rights and policies that support workers.”

But it’s still difficult for Cummings to put the onboarding process and timeline out of mind when trying to figure out how to think about Glover’s alleged violation.

“If someone breaks a rule, you should sit them down and let them know they did something wrong,” Cummings says. “And if it continues, then you should do something.”

MEND TIMES Some Krohn and Glover supporters have groaned at the Rose Report’s $18,000 price tag, but if the city pays careful attention to pages 123 and 124, it could get its money’s worth.

The report’s final section has five recommendations, all of which Human Resources Director Lisa Murphy has signed onto. One is that the City Council should receive immediate training in three areas, including Santa Cruz’s Respectful Workplace Conduct Policy.

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Lejla Bratovic, that nonprofit’s executive director, hasn’t heard from the city, but she says that the center does handle work like this.

Bernal says that it has typically been the city’s policy to send councilmembers a copy of the conduct policy after they begin harassment training, which they have six months to complete.

But he says that he’s receptive to making changes, including the ones outlined in the report.

“We’re completely open,” he says. “It’s not like we say, ‘Here’s the onboarding process. Take it or leave it.’ If [councilmembers] come and say, ‘Hey, I don’t think I got enough information on this,’ then we’ll arrange for something else.

We’re always available to them to help them with whatever they have.

We make staff available to them all the time. It’s not like it ever ends.

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“Councilmembers should avoid making public accusations of misconduct against one another and against staff without first privately and internally addressing these concerns and attempting conflict resolution and rectification when possible.”

He added that the city should review its post-election onboarding process for new city councilmembers, and that all councilmembers and “selected staff members should participate in professional mediation and conflict resolution services.”

Glover says that Rose is the third outside expert, in recent months, to recommend that the City Council seek conflict resolution services.

Rose referred all questions for this story to Murphy’s office, which referred GT to Santa Cruz Management Analyst Ralph Dimarucut. Dimarucut says that the city is working on a scope of services to hire a mediator.

The Rose Report mentions the Conflict Resolution Center of Santa

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LITTLE SHOP, BIG IMPACT New York-based artist Pablo Helguera collected over 20,000 Spanish books donated from Mexico to start the Librería Donceles bookstore in 2013.

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“Books are quickly disappearing.

Brick-and-mortar bookstores are having a hard time keeping up with giants like Amazon,”

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of information and experience that is particularly impactful to everyone, including non-Spanish speakers. It’s the freedom to get lost in the store, to thumb through old editions and marvel at found objects in the pages.

“When we opened the bookstore and started going through all of the donated books, we started finding things,” Helguera says.

“From movie tickets to love letters, business cards and pressed flowers and religious images, we found things—secrets—that people put in their books. They become biographies of people’s lives. That can’t happen digitally.”

Helguera references his upbringing as some inspiration for the project. Growing up without the internet, he often looked to books for entertainment, many of which were handed down from his relatives.

“In the past, you could give your books to your kids, which is why I have my parents’ and grandparents’ books. But I can’t give my daughter my iTunes library, because I don’t own it. I am leasing those songs, they are never mine,” he says.

“There is something special about really owning an object.”

The project has been to California before, including a stop in San Francisco’s Mission District. Helguera says that California in particular has an interesting response because of the large number of Hispanic and Latino residents, compared to other stops like Anchorage, Alaska. “Anchorage has maybe a 3% Latino population, but still lots of people came because it was such an exciting and new thing to experience,” he says.

“In California, the reception is different. There are a lot more people that remember books from their childhood, or can resonate with particular stories. It’s fascinating.”

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Through this art project, I am trying to create an experience of reading and learning and living that I feel is getting lost.”

The exhibit is a pay-what-youwish bookstore, with all proceeds benefiting Latin organizations.

The Librería has set up in the Museum of Art and History (MAH)—replacing the Chamber of Heart and Mystery—this month. All proceeds support the Hablamos Juntos Project run by the Young Writers Program Santa Cruz.

The name Librería Donceles comes from Donceles Street in Mexico City, a second-hand bookstore destination. “The stores were packed spaces where you’d get lost,” Helguera recalls. “It was an expedition to find something interesting there.”

Fast forward to New York in 2013. There were around 2 million Latinos and not a single Spanishlanguage bookstore. “To me, it was ironic that we had such a big Latinx population and no books,” Helguera says. “I felt it would be really important to address this issue through an art project. That’s when I started accepting book donations from Mexico.”

The response was so enormous that Helguera had to fundraise to ship all 20,000 donated books to the U.S. Mexican libraries donated, as did families and other people looking to get rid of clutter. The exhibit received every kind of book imaginable, from student textbooks to poetry, cooking and children’s books. The art project became a miniature Donceles Street. It’s intimate and comfortable, but also new and different, like a stranger’s living room.

“People had very emotional and strong responses to some of the books that I had for sale,” Helguera says. “They remember different parts of their lives, editions from the past. Books contain parts of our lives, and that’s something that became very clear from exhibit.”

Despite the strictly Spanish content, Helguera notes that there is more about the exhibit than the books that resonates with people. It’s the cultural exchange

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‘FALL’ TOUR Nicki Bluhm brings her latest album ‘To Rise You Gotta Fall’ to Felton Music Hall on Saturday, Aug. 31.

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Bluhm Country Bay Area favorite Nicki Bluhm moves to Nashville for her break-up record BY MIKE HUGUENOR

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n last year’s To Rise You Gotta Fall, alt-country singer Nicki Bluhm sings, “How can you know good until you know better?” with soulful passion. If that sounds like the sentiment of a break-up record, well, there’s a reason for that.

In 2017, the celebrated Bay Area folk-rocker split from both her longtime band the Gramblers and her husband (who doubled as her musical director), and left California for a new start in Tennessee. It was a painful, tumultuous time. A lot of that pain can be heard on the

record. But if To Rise You Gotta Fall says anything, it is that the pain was always worth it.

“The content is personal,” Bluhm says from her new home in Nashville, “but the reason people keep writing about love and heartbreak is because it never stops happening. It doesn’t matter what country you live in. It doesn’t matter what you believe, your religion—we all fall in love, and get our hearts broken. There’s something oddly comforting about that.”

More importantly, she adds, you recover.

“There’s so much growth that

happens. That’s the hope,” she says.

“You get beat down, but you will get back up.”

Recorded in Memphis at legendary Sam Phillips Recording, To Rise You Gotta Fall was a collaboration with producer Matt Ross-Spang, whose recent credits include producing an album’s worth of unreleased songs

by Elvis Presley.

In addition to being Bluhm’s first time recording outside of her home state, it was her first time recording without the Gramblers backing her. In true Nashville fashion, Ross-Sprang hired a group of studio musicians

to back her—a choice that greatly influenced the feel of the record.

“I liked the idea of people not knowing me or the story I was recording, because it was so personal,” she says. “It would have been too vulnerable if I did it with a bunch of people I knew. Instead, it brought this professionalism to these super painful songs.”

Even with the comfortable emotional distance, Bluhm still had to get outside of her comfort zone a bit for the recording.

“When I went into the studio, I thought I was going to sing scratch with the band, but then I realized they didn’t know the songs or the energy, so I needed to sing them for real so they knew where to put the emphasis,” she says. “I had to guide them in that way.”

Throughout, Bluhm’s live vocal takes lend to Rise’s raw, performative feel. On tracks like folk-rock opener “How Do I Love You,” Bluhm sets the tempo, gently pulling the beat forward or getting it to lay back, depending on the lyric. And on the title track (a great bit of Dusty Springfield by way of Curtis Mayfield), Bluhm’s interplay with the band gives the song a sinuous feel, bobbing and weaving through the punches that come. Across the album’s 11 tracks, there’s a voice crack here and there, but instead of sounding loose, the performances feel full, lived in and more powerful than something artificially polished through dozens of takes.

“My goal with this record was to capture the moment, not perfection,” Bluhm says. “There’s a lot of imperfections in my singing, but I thought it was more important to be authentic. I wanted people to hear me the way that it happened, not the way I manipulated it to be.”

Now on the other side of the pain, Bluhm is on to better things. She loves playing the songs—it’s just that they’re not for her anymore.

They’re for anyone who needs them.

“I’m definitely emotionally beyond it all,” she says, “I still like to play these songs because there are a lot of people who are in that space I was in when I wrote them.”

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TRIANNA FERUZA AND FRIENDS The Santa Cruz Vets Hall has reopened in downtown Santa Cruz, and local singer/songwriter Trianna Feruza will take the stage with dancer Maleah Rose for a musical extravaganza with special guests like Side Piece, plus artists Genoa, Know Morals and live spoken-word poetry.

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history, in images, of Welch’s Big Trees, now the Redwood Loop Trail at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. See images of features no longer in the park and learn about others that have unusual stories to tell. Noon-4 p.m. San Lorenzo Valley Museum, 12547 Hwy. 9, Boulder Creek. slvmuseum.com. Free.

WINE AND PAINT NIGHT! Follow along with local artist Ana of Follow the Sun to create your own Plumeria-inspired masterpiece! In just two hours, you will be guided, step by step, in creating our painting of the day. Great for complete beginners and seasoned creatives alike. You have the freedom to add your personal touch; tweak the colors and composition, or just follow along with the instruction! We will learn and practice various painting techniques as we go, with plenty of room for creativity. One-onone help is always available, and all supplies are included. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cava Wine Bar, 115 San Jose Ave., Capitola. $30/$35.

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An Evening with Malcolm Gladwell: Talking to Strangers SEPTEMBER 21, 7PM SAN MATEO PERFORMING ARTS CENTER $40/PERSON (INCLUDES EVENT ENTRY + BOOK)

Malcolm Gladwell’s books have become cultural touchstones. In his first new book in six years, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know, Gladwell offers an incisive and powerful examination of our interactions with strangers—and why they often go so terribly wrong.

Founded in Paris in 1947, the Trianon Press published an astonishing catalog of fine art books in the latter half of the 20th century. This exhibit explores the breadth of this renowned press’s publications and the highly skilled printers’ art behind each edition’s creation.

UPCOMING EVENTS SEPTEMBER 21

Sketching in the Garden SEPTEMBER 24–29

Sea Otter Awareness Week SEPTEMBER 29

Fall Harvest Festival

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Community Day at the Arboretum & Botanic Garden

Bay and Santa Cruz’s north coast with students, faculty, and alumni experts from UC Santa Cruz. Explore the area’s birding and natural history via kayaking, hiking, drawing, and more.

Bookshop Santa Cruz and the Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz present Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Colson Whitehead for a reading of The Nickel Boys, his highly anticipated follow-up and companion to The Underground Railroad.

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CALENDAR <32 ONGOING CONGA DRUMMING CLASS WITH JIM GREINER IN SOQUEL Play Conga drums with multiple

award-winning percussionist and educator Jim Greiner for fun and as a positive life practice. Release stress, ground and center yourself, tap into your innate ability to enter the flow state, learn fundamental and rhythmic principles, and celebrate life. All levels are welcome. Instruments provided and bring your own. 7-8:30 p.m. Jim Greiner’s Hands-On Drumming Events, 2745 Daubenbiss Ave., Soquel. 462-3786. $80.

GROUPS OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Do you struggle with compulsive eating? You are not alone. Drop into a free, friendly OA 12-Step meeting with the solution. All are welcome.

Meets in the Youth Room, second door down from Melrose and Poplar. 10:30-11:30 a.m. and 7:30-8:30 p.m. Trinity Presbyterian Church, 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz.

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AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DONATION EVENT IN SANTA CRUZ

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The Central Coast community is invited to become a hometown hero and answer the call of patients in need by donating blood.

Donating blood is one of the simplest things a person can do to help save a patient’s life.

For the hour it takes to give blood, there could be a whole community of people thankful for another birthday given to their loved one. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. American Red Cross, 2960 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz.

B12 HAPPY HOUR B12 deficiencies are

FRIDAY 8/30 ALASDAIR FRASER’S 36TH ANNUAL ‘FIDDLE EXTRAVAGANZA’ Join Indie Award-winning Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser, Ryan McKasson, Eric McDonald, and more than 200 musicians, singers and dancers in a celebration of music, song and dance at the culmination of this year’s Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddling School. All seating is general admission—first come, first served—so get there early for the best seats!

8 p.m. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. valleyofthemoon.org. $25.50/$27.50 general admission.

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

Thrive Natural Medicine, 2840 Park Ave., Soquel. 515-8699, thrivenatmed.com/b12injections. $15.

DOTERRA ESSENTIAL OILS WORKSHOP DoTERRA essential oils workshop with Marie-Josee LeBlanc. Reduce Toxic Load with essential oils. 6 p.m. Better Back and Body Center, 920 41st Ave., Santa Cruz.

MUSIC TOBY GRAY VARIETY ACOUSTIC

MUSIC Featuring artist showcases and a variety of musical styles and guests. Great food and drinks, a Santa Cruz downtown oasis. Family fun. Toby Gray—cool, mellow and smooth with a repertoire of several hundred of your favorite songs and fun, heartfelt originals. 6:30 p.m. The Reef Bar, 120 Union St., Santa Cruz. 459-9876. Free.

OUTDOOR COAST PADDLE BOARDS SUMMER SALE Come on by Coast Paddle Boards this weekend for our incredible summer sale. Check out our high quality, affordable Vesl paddle boards as well as some awesome accessories. 10 a.m. Coast Paddleboards, 916 A Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. coastpaddleboards.com.

THURSDAY 9/29 CLASSES COMMUNITY PILATES CLASS Community Pilates class led by pilates instructor Jennifer Balboni. Drop in any Tuesday or Thursday beginning at 10 a.m. for a fun and challenging 60-minute, core-based flowing strength class. Bring your own mat.

10 a.m. Temple Beth El, 3055 Porter Gulch Rd., Aptos. tbeaptos.org. Donation.

TRIYOGA BASICS CLASS WITH TERRI TriYoga flows are presented with personalized guided alignment assistance.

9:30 a.m. TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. triyoga-santacruz.com. $15.

TRIYOGA BASICS/THERAPEUTIC YOGA WITH KIM TriYoga taught by Kim Beecher, DC (chiropractor) includes sustained postures with prop support.

Everyone is welcome. Suitable for those with chronic conditions. TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz, 7:30-9 p.m. $15.

VINYASA & YIN YOGA WITH LIVE SAXOPHONE Join Brendan Sick, professional musician and yoga instructor, for a warming and mindfully-paced Vinyasa practice followed by a meditative soak in Yin Yoga postures. Bask in the beautiful stream of Brendan’s live music on the saxophone.

5:45-6:45 p.m. Watsonville Yoga, Dance and Healing Arts, 375 N. Main St., Watsonville. watsonville.yoga.

WEST AFRICAN DRUM CLASSES AT DRUMSKULL DRUMS Two teachers teach Djembe at Drumskull Drums every Thursday.

Sahar El Khatib teaches the beginner class

CALENDAR every first and third Thursday of the month.

7 p.m. Drumskull Drums, 105 Pioneer St., Santa Cruz. 420-7803. $40/$30/$20.

GROUPS CCC MONTEREY BAY CENTER INFO SESSIONS The California Conservation Corps Monterey Bay Center hosts information sessions every Thursday for interested parents and future Corps members wanting to know more about the Corps. 10 a.m. CCC Monterey Bay Center, 30 Aviation Way, Watsonville. ccc.ca.gov. Free

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Do you struggle with compulsive eating? You are not alone. Drop into a free, friendly OA 12-Step meeting with the solution. All are welcome.

Meets in the Youth Room, second door down from Melrose and Poplar. 1-2 p.m. Trinity Presbyterian Church, 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz.

S+LAA MENS’ MEETING Having trouble with compulsive sexual or emotional behavior? Recovery is possible. Our small 12-step group meets Saturday evenings.

6 p.m. Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. Free.

YOUNG ADULT (18-25) TRANSGENDER SUPPORT GROUP A weekly peer

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

Thrive Natural Medicine, 2840 Park Ave., Soquel. 515-8699, thrivenatmed.com/b12injections. $15.

MUSIC REGGAE THURSDAYS MI DEH YAH Reality Sound International and The Catalyst present Reggae Thursdays with DJ Spleece and friends. Dancehall reggae remix. 7 p.m.

THE BLASTERS AND JESSE DAYTON The Blasters are vocalist-guitarist Phil Alvin, drummer Bill Bateman, bassist John Bazz, and guitarist Keith Wyatt. Blasters shows have been described as “a cross between Creedence and the Clash,” with a display of passion and energy only deepened by decades of experience. For all of the ways in which the world has changed in the past few decades, one thing is guaranteed: the Blasters play American Music. 8 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz.

OUTDOOR PESTS OUT NOW EDUCATION SEMINAR “Pests Out Now” is a unique non-toxic, non-invasive and compassionate approach to pest control. Developed by sisters Marilyn and Patricia Smith, who both have extensive experience and knowledge in various wellness practices with people, Pests Out Now uses elevated frequencies of Universal Light to treat significant, life challenges in health and well-being, and now with pest control. 6-8 p.m. city of Capitola Community Center, 4400 Jade St., Santa Cruz.

FRIDAY 8/30 CLASSES CHAIR YOGA WITH SUZI Instructor Suzi Mahler, CMT, NE, will guide you through a series of gentle seated yoga postures that are performed slowly and with breath awareness. This wonderfully therapeutic practice will help you increase strength and range of motion. 9:30 a.m. California Grey Bears, 2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz.

234-6791. $5.

GENTLE YOGA/YOGA FOR SENIORS Join us for a very enjoyable and relaxing deep stretch through a variety of postures clearly narrated and slowly paced for safety and personalization with meditation and pranayama offered. Seated and reclined poses that are relaxing and build flexibility and joint mobility are highlighted. 10:30 a.m.

Watsonville Yoga, Dance and Healing Arts, 375 N. Main St., Watsonville. watsonville. yoga.

PRESCHOOL STORYTIME Join us at the Aptos Library for our weekly Preschool Story Time. We'll read books, sing songs and make simple crafts! Suggested ages 3-6. >36

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support group for young adults ages 18-25 who identify as transgender, non-binary, genderqueer, agender, or any other noncisgender identity. This is a social group where we meet and chat among ourselves, sharing our experiences and thoughts in a warm, welcoming setting. For more info contact Ezra Bowen at (510) 927-1106.

The Catalyst Club, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. santacruzreggae.com. Free.

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Chartwell School: Empowering students who think and learn differently.

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For over 35 years, Chartwell has been transforming the lives of students in grades 2 to 12 with a variety of learning differences.

For students with dyslexia and other learning differences.

Prospective parents:

join us for a Tuesday Tour Tuesday, September 3 at 10:30 am. www.chartwell.org | 831.394.3468 Chartwell School | 2511 Numa Watson Rd. | Seaside, CA 93955

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WEDNESDAY 8/28 ‘THE NOBLE KINSMEN’

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Each year, Santa Cruz Shakespeare continues the tradition of showcasing the season’s intern acting company with its celebratory Fringe production. This year’s effort, The Two Noble Kinsmen, is a world premiere adaptation of what is believed to be Shakespeare’s last play, and a possible collaboration with Jacobean tragedian John Fletcher. The Two Noble Kinsmen is directed by Dash Waterbury and features an all-intern cast and crew. The play tells the story of two best friends who fall in love with the same woman, exposing the adventures and absurdity of love at first sight. How drama-tic. Photo: RR Jones.

7:30 p.m. The Grove in DeLaveaga Park, 501 Upper Park Rd., Santa Cruz. 460-6399, santacruzshakespeare.org/tickets. $27.50.

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10-11 a.m. Aptos Branch Library, 7695 Soquel Drive, Aptos.

PRESENTING THE PATH: A WEEKEND GETAWAY This weekend covers the material in Discovering Buddhism module 3, a general overview of the Lam Rim, i.e, the stages of the path to enlightenment.

This course will cover the following: an overview of the entire Tibetan Buddhist path to awakening, the life story of the Buddha, the Lam-Rim, or “graduated path to enlightenment,” exploration of how all the Buddha’s teachings fit together as a practice for an individual person and more. 7 p.m.

Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Rd., Soquel.

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

MUSIC GROUP KARAOKE FUN WITH GINA Sing along in an environment that is completely accepting of all diverse voices with the goal of having a good time. No experience necessary, just sing-along and have fun. 1 p.m. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. cityofsantacruz.com. $2/donation.

Beach Boardwalk’s free Friday Night Bands on the Beach concert series features top 40 bands from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s with free shows at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. on the Boardwalk’s beach bandstand.

Formed in Cupertino in 1965, the group has toured with surf music icons Jan and Dean and the Beach Boys, and served as the “celebrity house band” at Disneyland for an unprecedented 15 years. 6:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz. Free.

SATURDAY 8/31 CLASSES COME AS YOU ARE ZEN This is an informal Saturday morning program focused on investigating Buddhist teachings for creating ease and skillful response in our daily life. The program begins with meditation followed by a dharma talk by

KSITIGARBHA FESTIVAL We are delighted to invite you to attend the second of our Annual Festival Days! On this day, our diverse community comes together to celebrate Ksitigarbha, who cares especially for those who have been reborn in unfavorable states. 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Rd., Soquel.

SALSA RUEDA FOR BEGINNERS / PARA PRINCIPIANTES Salsa Rueda for the pure beginner. Monthly socials for experienced dancers! Great music and sound system. Learn the footwork, the cues, and the stylizations in an encouraging environment from a great teacher with years of experience teaching dance. Students warm up, learn at the mirror, then learn partner dancing and finally dance in a Rueda or wheel, trading partners and flowing the joy and learning. 7-8 p.m. Watsonville Yoga, Dance and Healing Arts, 375 N. Main St., Watsonville. $10.

FOOD & WINE GREAT STARTS PRODUCE POPUP Patagonia Santa Cruz is pleased to announce that Great Starts, our community nonprofit produce pop-up will continue in August at the store. Join us on the deck at to pick up fresh produce and vegetable starts provided by small farms including Green Planet Organics, Common Roots Farm, Mesa Verde Gardens, and The Homeless Garden Project. Come support these amazing organizations and stock your fridge and pantry with farm-to-table organic vegetables, fruits and flowers. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Patagonia, 415 River St. Suite C, Santa Cruz.

GROUPS OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Do you have a problem with food? Compulsive eating?Overexercising? Anorexia? Bulimia?

Purging? Food addiction? Binging? You are not alone. Check out our free, friendly, 12-Step supportive meetings with the solution. All are very welcome! 11 a.m.-noon.

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one of our teachers: Rev. Daijaku Kinst or Rev. Shinshu Roberts. Talks are for both the beginner as well as the advanced practitioner. 8:30 a.m. Ocean Gate Zen, 920 41st Ave. Suite F, Santa Cruz. oceangatezen. org.

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CALENDAR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL OVERDOSE AWARENESS DAY Accidental drug overdose is currently the leading cause of death in the United States for those under 50. Santa Cruz County has one of the highest rates of overdose in California. Many drug overdoses are preventable. Join SafeRx Santa Cruz, The Harm Reduction Coalition of Santa Cruz County and Community Prevention Partners.

We honor the lives lost, commit to doing more to prevent overdose and hold space to grieve, mourn and connect. We thank the community who carries naloxone and reverses overdoses.

1 p.m. San Lorenzo Park, 137 Dakota Ave., Santa Cruz. Free.

MUSIC JOIN US FOR DANCING, DJS & DRINK SPECIALS @MOTIVSC SATURDAYS. IT’S TIME FOR HOMO HAPPY HOUR, GIRL Spend the early evening with the friendliest LGBTQ crowd in town. Gay, straight, trans or just plain kinky? All LGBTQ allies and orientations are welcome. Make that move. 3-7 p.m. Motiv, 1209 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. motivsc.com.

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TELEGRAMS AND PARTY JAMS LAUNCH PARTY New singing telegram

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and party entertainment company making a name for themselves in Santa Cruz. Come check out all the amazing talent their team has to offer. It’s fun, its free and its silly.

Bring the whole family down for a beautiful afternoon! 1 p.m. Abbott Square Market, 110 Cooper St., Santa Cruz.

OUTDOOR NAACP ANNUAL LABOR DAY PICNIC Games and family fun. BBQ Dinner. For ticket information call 429-2266. Noon. VFW Post 7263, 2259 7th Ave., Santa Cruz. $5 children/$15 adults.

YLI RUMMAGE SALE Young Ladies Institute fall rummage sale! Come and get your bargains at the YLI Rummage Sale. Sale times: Sat., Aug. 31, from 8:30 a..m.-3:30 p.m. and Sun., Sept. 1, from 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. ($5 a bag on Sunday). Our Lady Star of the Sea Hall, 515 Frederick St., Santa Cruz.

423-8141.

SUNDAY 9/1 ARTS BIG TREES EXHIBITION Enjoy the

history, in images, of Welch’s Big Trees, now the Redwood Loop Trail at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. See images of features no longer in the park and learn about others that have unusual stories to tell. Noon-4 p.m. San Lorenzo Valley Museum, 12547 Hwy. 9, Boulder Creek. slvmuseum.com. Free.

DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ MAKERS MARKET Join us at the First Sundays Downtown Santa Cruz Makers Market on Pacific Avenue between Water & Locust streets! Shop local with 40 Santa Cruz artists and crafters, and enjoy a free concert featuring local bands each month! 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Downtown Santa Cruz, Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. scmmakersmarket.com. Free.

LOTUS HEART GALLERY APTOS VILLAGE GRAND OPEN SUNDAYS Lotus Heart Gallery is an event gallery for art openings and special events. Our Grand Opening is Sept. 1 in Aptos Village, across from the Bayview Hotel . Please park on that side and walk over in the crosswalk to 8032 B, just above Cabrillo College at Trout Gulch.

3-9 p.m. Aptos Village, 8032 Soquel Drive, Aptos. 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. Build a seal or sea lion puppet decorated with your own special seal nose, complete with whiskers! Join the hands-on fun at the crafts table every Sunday. 1-3 p.m. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz. Free with admission to the Seymour Center.

CLASSES FAMILY SANGHA MONTHLY MEDITATION Come help create a family meditation cooperative community! Parents will meet in the main room for about 40 minutes of silent meditation, followed by 10-15 minutes of discussion about life and mindful parenting. Kids will be in a separate volunteer-led room, playing and exploring mindfulness through games and stories.

Parents may need to help with the kids for a portion of the hour, depending on volunteer turnout. All ages of children are welcome.

Please bring toys to share. room. 10:30 a.m.noon. Insight Santa Cruz, 740 Front St. #240, Santa Cruz. Free, donations encouraged.

FOOD & WINE FREE, GUIDED TOUR OF THE UCSC FARM Enjoy a free tour of one of the most beautiful locations in Santa Cruz—the 30-acre organic farm at UCSC. Guided public tours of the farm are offered from 2-3:30 p.m. on the first Sunday of the month through November. Founded in 1971, the UCSC Farm offers examples of organic farming and gardening practices, hosts education programs, and conducts research to improve organic farming techniques. Perched on a meadow near the campus entrance, the farm also offers spectacular views of the Monterey Bay. 2 p.m. UCSC Hay Barn, 306 Ranch View Rd., Santa Cruz. casfs.ucsc.edu/about/ directions.html. Free.

GROUPS RECOVERING COUPLES ANONYMOUS RCA is a 12-step group for couples. We are based on the principles of AA. Our primary purpose is to stay committed in loving and intimate relationships and to help other couples achieve freedom from dysfunctional relationships. All couples are welcome whether married or partnered. 10:30-noon.

Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz.

OUTDOOR YOUNGER LAGOON RESERVE TOURS

p.m. WomenCARE, 2901 Park Ave. Suite A1, Soquel. Registration required at 457-2273.

Free.

HEALTH SANTA CRUZ BODYWORK COLLECTIVE Santa Cruz Bodywork Collective is a forum for bodyworkers from various disciplines to gather monthly to elevate their repertoire of touch and enhance their self-care tool kit. The first Monday of each month is open to doctors, bodyworkers and therapists only. 7 p.m. Cypress Health Institute, 1119 Pacific Ave. Suite 300, Santa Cruz.

TUESDAY 9/3 CLASSES COMMUNITY PILATES CLASS Community Pilates class led by pilates instructor Jennifer Balboni. Drop in any Tuesday or Thursday beginning at 10 a.m. for a fun and challenging 60-minute, core-based flowing strength class. Bring your own mat.

10 a.m. Temple Beth El, 3055 Porter Gulch Rd., Aptos. tbeaptos.org. Donation.

HOW TO TEACH YOGA Learn to teach yoga! This course covers lesson planning, class organization, posture sequencing, integrating practices, and how to speak effectively as a yoga teacher. The ethics of yoga teaching professionalism will also be explored. Completion of prerequisites and instructor permission required for enrollment. This course may be used as credit toward the completion of a 200 hour teaching certification or as continuing education for yoga instructors. 7 p.m.

Nourish, Santa Cruz, 130 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz.

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. Come and see what scientists are doing to track local mammals, restore native habitat, and learn about the workings of one of California’s rare coastal lagoons. A tour is offered on selected Thursdays and Sundays of each month. 10:30 a.m.-noon. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz. 459-3800. Free, reservations recommended.

TACO TUESDAY On Tuesdays we eat tacos!

Two delicious tacos and a locally crafted beer for $10. If the mood suits you, add a side of guacamole or a single order of tacos!

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

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CANCER SUPPORT GROUP WomenCARE support group for women newly diagnosed, or undergoing treatment for cancer. 12:30-2 p.m. WomenCARE, 2901 Park Ave. Suite A1, Soquel.

ARM-IN-ARM CANCER SUPPORT GROUP For women with advanced, recurrent and metastatic cancers. 12:30-2

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NELS ANDREWS A friend of local musician Nels Andrews was given a box of keys, rocks and other odd treasures by her mom when she graduated high school. Her mom had acquired them over the years from some crows she’d been feeding (apparently, if you feed crows, they will sometimes gift you random items in return). This peculiar story served as inspiration for Andrews to explore the nuances of long-term relationships in his new song “Pigeon and the Crow.”

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It’s the title track off his new album, which came out on Aug. 9; he’ll release the vinyl version on Aug. 30 at Streetlight Records. In conjunction, he collaborated with friend Mike Bencze to create a graphic novella to tell the story of “Pigeon and the Crow.”

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“People have told me that my songs are little graphic novels,” Andrews says. “They jump around a lot. They’re full of imagery instead of having long narration in the stories.”

Pigeon And The Crow is Andrew’s fourth album, his first since moving to Santa Cruz in 2013. When he started recording, he reached out to friend Nuala Kennedy, an Irish flautist who played on his previous album. They started to record in L.A., but she moved back to Ireland when it was only partially complete. To finish the album, she gathered up some players in Ireland, and Andrews turned to some of his local friends.

The album has an emotional tenderness to it that is rooted in folk, with Irish elements and a bit of the Santa Cruz breezy indie-folk sound.

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6:30 p.m. Streetlight Records, 939 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. Free. 421-9200.

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ON DRUGS Some of On Drugs’ songs sound like they were recorded on a tape recorder; screams cut to buzzy screeches, interrupted by background conversations that fade to droning instruments. Other songs are surprisingly heartfelt; sweeping falsettos croon over twinkling guitars while a comforting, Pavement-esque drumbeat keeps all those sad feels moving toward angsty release. No matter the song, fun or sad (at shows, they’ll let you choose), On Drugs has affable punk energy to bolster the eccentric mood swings and anthemic tirades.

Like many drugs, On Drugs takes what’s comedic and makes it deep. Or is it the other way around? I dunno.

I’m high. AMY BEE 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $5. 429-6994.

COUNTRY

VINCENT NEIL EMERSON What makes a great country song?

Good pickin’ and singin’ is a start,

but songs about hard living and sad heartbreaks are essential. Just like the blues or punk, it has to be authentic, because true believers can spot a fake a mile away. Folks, it doesn’t get much more authentic than Vincent Neil Emerson. This Texan’s tales of inebriation, sobriety, bad luck, and dreams of stardom travel on a road of twangy guitars, haunting organs and a wounded voice. Joining him will be local honky-tonk torch bearer Jesse Daniel. MAT WEIR 7:30 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $15 adv/$20 door. 479-1854.

THURSDAY 8/29 ROCK

THE BLASTERS Catching a Blasters show is like strolling through the annals of American music, an audio tour of blues, country, rock, and R&B by a band whose members have been playing for decades. Today, the Blaster’s lineup includes vocalist-guitarist Phil Alvin, guitarist Keith Wyatt, bassist John Bazz, and drummer Bill Bateman, who all have impressive chops and distinguished musical careers. They’re the perfect group to

explore the diverse musical legacy of American music with an energetic passion born from the love of playing live shows. AB 8 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $20 adv/$25 door. 479-1854.

JAZZ

KRISTEN STROM GROUP During his life, San Jose bassist John Shifflett earned universal recognition as a consummate jazz musician whose commanding tone and supple sense of time elevated countless ensembles. With drummer Jason Lewis, he formed one of the region’s definitive rhythm section tandems that recorded with everyone from pianist Taylor Eigsti and saxophonist Mike Zilber to guitarist Mason Razavi and reed expert Kristen Strom. Following Shifflett’s death in 2017, Strom set about revealing that Shifflett was more than a first-call sideman. On last year’s Moving Day, she recorded a gorgeous album of his compositions.

She’s been playing Shifflett’s music ever since. ANDREW GILBERT 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $21 adv/$26.25 door. 427-2227.

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FRIDAY 8/30 COMEDY

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7 & 9:30 p.m. DNA’s Comedy Lab, 155 S River St., Santa Cruz. $20 adv/$25 door.

900-5123.

SATURDAY 8/31 POP-PUNK

PEACH KELLI POP Peach Kelli Pop’s Gentle Leader sounds like a punk album recorded after hours in a Sanrio store. Not that PKP’s earlier albums don’t—the Canadian one-woman-band has

9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $10. 429-6994.

MONDAY 9/2 INDIE-FOLK

XAVIER RUDD Australian singer-songwriter Xavier Rudd is an optimist. On his latest single “Walk Away,” he captures our moment in time of social inequality and political dysfunction. In the midst of highlighting how dire everything is, he closes the song with a call for action and hope over an uplifting folk-rock melody. Rudd has always highlighted social injustices like the plight of indigenous Australians, the decay of our environment and racism. But he creates

arena-worthy folk-rock songs that will fill your heart with the possibility of all the good we can do if we just try a little harder. AC 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $23. 423-1338.

TUESDAY 9/3 REGGAE

STEPHEN MARLEY Perhaps you’ve heard of Stephen Marley’s father, Jacob Marley. An ex-business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge, Marley visited the “Humbug” businessman on Christmas Eve to offer him a chance of redemption from his greedy ways. Wait! No, hang on. I might have that wrong.

Let’s start over. Stephen Marley is a six-time Grammy winner, and a living link to the roots of Jamaican popular music. His 2011 album Revelation Part 1: Root of Life won Best Reggae Album and features the beautiful “Made in Africa” (featuring the cast of Fela!), a powerful reminder of the genre’s transformative, spiritual power. MH 8 p.m. Felton Music Hall, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $56 adv/$60 door. 335-2800.

11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park, 144 School St., Santa Cruz. $10 per tasting ticket. Information: thatsmypark. org/events/mole-and-mariachi.

WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/ giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 30, to find out how you could win a package of eight tasting tickets.

IN THE QUEUE THE LAST TEN SECONDS OF LIFE

The brutalest of deathcore.

Wednesday at Catalyst HANK AND ELLA WITH THE FINE COUNTRY BAND

Sparkling vintage country tunes.

Thursday at Crepe Place DRENNON DAVIS

Stand-up overflowing in hilarity.

Saturday at DNA’s Comedy Lab POPA CHUBBY

Electric blues that will get you excited.

Sunday at Moe’s Alley LED KAAPANA

Master of the Hawaiian slack-key guitar. Tuesday at Michael’s On Main

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Torio Van Grol isn’t a stoner, but he does have some hilarious weed stories, like the time he got so high that when he played foosball, he got too distracted by the inner lives of each individual “player.” His entire delivery and point of view is stoner-esque, with his oddball perspective and leftfield takes. Maybe that’s because all his friends are stoners. As he points out, he likes to hang out with people that are having snacks. Whether you partake or not, you will enjoy Grol’s absurd observational humor. AC

always had been endearingly sweet, making a point to expand the punkrock cannon beyond male misanthropes and ‘80s outsiders to include characters like Sailor Mars, Lisa Frank, Keroppi, and Badtz Maru. On tracks like “Cherry (That’s Not Her Real Name)” and “Hello Kitty Knife,” PKP veers towards art-punk weirdos like Eat Skull and OOIOO, but without losing the music’s candy-coated core. MIKE HUGUENOR

Mole is one of the tastiest traditional Mexican foods you can get. It’s a complex sauce that is sweet, spicy and tangy. Some moles have chocolate, but no two moles have the exact same proportion of spices, so it’s always an adventure to taste. This is what makes the Mole and Mariachi festival such a fun experience. You get to sample a bunch of different moles and taste the distinction of a good mole. The festival is a tasting competition, with live Mariachi bands to enhance the experience.

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LIVE MUSIC

Wednesday August 28 – 7:30/8:30pm $20

Country Double Bill - California Meets Texas

JESSE DANIEL+ VINCENT NEIL EMERSON Thursday August 29 – 7:30/8pm $20/25 American Music Since 1979

THE BLASTERS + JESSE DAYTON

WED

8/28

THU

8/29

FRI

ABBOTT SQUARE 118 Cooper St, Santa Cruz

8/30

SAT

8/31

The Dooners Free 6:30p

Chain of Fools Free 7p

SUN

9/1

MON

Friday August 30 – 8/9pm $15/20 Saturday August 31 – 8/9pm $15/20

APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

Al Frisby Free 6-8p

Little Jonny Lawton Free 6-8p

James Murray Free 6-8p

Gil de Leon Free 6-8p

Jimmy Dewrance Free 6-8p

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Carry A Purpose $5 9p

Club 2000 Free 9p

The Big Dance Party Free 9p

The Box: Gothic/ Industrial Night Free 9p

METALACHI

Comedy Night w/ Chree, Retro Dance Party Free 9p

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Touch’d Too Much 9:15p-12:45a

Karaoke 6p-Close

Karaoke 6p-Close

Alex Lucero & Friends 8p

Karaoke 9-12:30a

Karaoke 9-12:30a

Heavy Metal Mariachi with

Sunday September 1 – 3/4pm $20/25 Afternoon Blues Series

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

Wednesday September 4 – 8/8:30pm $8/12

CAPITOLA WINE BAR 115 San Jose Ave, Capitola

THE YAWPERS

THE CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Thursday September 5 – 8/9pm $8/12

THE CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

The Last Ten Seconds of Josh Heinrichs Life & more $10 7:30p $12 9p

YAADCORE

CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

Performing “Dark Side Of The Moon” In It’s Entirety + A Set Of Originals

CORK AND FORK 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

Open Mic Night Free 7-10p

Saturday September 7 – 8/9pm $35/40

CORRALITOS CULTURAL CENTER 127 Hames Rd., Corralitos

POPA CHUBBY

Rock & Roll w/Bloodshot Recording Artist

+ THANKS BUDDY

Jamaican Reggae Featuring Protoje’s DJ

Friday September 6 – 8/9pm $10/15

SAN GERONIMO New Zealand Reggae Legends

Danny Duncan $25-$99 8p Soulwise w/ Ancestree & Nocean $7 8:30p

9/2

TUE

9/3

Broken Shades Free 6-8p

Mojo Mix Free 6-8p

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Xavier Rudd w/ Gene Evaro Jr. $23 9p

Adolescents $15 8:30p KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

Woodstock Revival Scott Kail & the Yasgur Minstrels $10 5p

Open Mic 7-10p

KATCHAFIRE + EARTHKRY

Sunday September 8 – 7/8pm $25/30 Country & Americana Great

JUNIOR BROWN

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Sep 13 BEN MORRISON + RON ARTIS II Sep 14 BOOSTIVE Sep 15 RICK ESTRIN Sep 18 TUBBY LOVE, AMBER LILY & PETER HARPER Sep 19 MIKE WATT + THE MISSINGMEN Sep 20 DELVON LAMARR ORGAN TRIO Sep 21 BLACKALICIOUS Sep 22 LYDIA PENCE & COLD BLOOD Sep 25 PAUL CAUTHEN + ANNA ROSE Sep 26 THE CHINA CATS Sep 27 HENRY CHADWICK Sep 28 HILLSTOMP + Caitlin Jemma Oct 4 LITTLE HURRICANE Oct 5 LA MISA NEGRA Oct 6 JIMBO MATHUS Oct 9 ZACK DEPUTY Oct 10 SWEET PLOT + YAK ATTACK Oct 11 GYPTIAN Oct 12 B-SIDE PLAYERS Oct 17 FRONT COUNTRY Oct 18 DIEGO’S UMBRELLA + VANDOLIERS Oct 20 CHRIS CAIN Oct 25 SOULWISE + HARBOR PATROL Oct 26 WOOSTER Oct 27 WHITEY JOHNSON w/GARY NICHOLSON Oct 31 SAMBADÁ

WWW.MOESALLEY.COM 1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz 831.479.1854

THE

CREPE PLACE

MATTSON 2

OPEN LATE - EVERY NIGHT!

Folking Funny

Wed. Aug. 28 7:30pm An Evening of Funny Songs $10 adv./$10 door seated <21 w/parent Thu. Aug. 29 7:30pm

1973: Where The Beat Meets The Street plus Brightshine $10 adv./$10 door Dance - 21 +

Blues Mechanics

Fri. Aug. 30 5pm HAPPY HOUR / NO COVER Fri. Aug. 30 8:30pm $10 adv./$10 door Dance – ages 21 +

Papiba and Friends China Cats

Sat. Aug. 31 8:30pm $15 adv./$15 door Dance – ages 21 +

Grateful Sunday

Sun. Sept. 1 5:30pm GRATEFUL DEAD TUNES / NO COVER Tue. Sept. 3 7:30pm

Led Kaapana with Fran Guidry

$17 adv. / $20 door seated <21 w/parent Wed. Sept. 4 7:30pm

Quinn Becker and

the Spacemen $8 adv. / $10 door Dance <21 w/parent COMING UP

Kevin Brennan & Wavelength: A Tribute to Van Morrison Spirit of ’76 Heavy Traffic: All-Star Tribute to Traffic Sun. Sept. 8 Anthony Arya plus Preacher Boy Wed. Sept. 11 Southern Pacific plus The Puffball Collective Thu. Sept. 5 Fri. Sept. 6 Sat. Sept. 7

WEDNESDAY 8/28

ON DRUGS

w/ GRUMPSTER & BB SINCLAIR

9PM - $5 DOOR

WEDNESDAY 8/28

SCIENCE ON TAP

SOCIAL & ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF LIGHT POLLUTION IN SC

7:30PM - FREE - IN THE HEATED GARDEN

Big Sur 9/8

HENRY MILLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY Please CARPOOL / RIDEHSARE to Big Sur.

THURSDAY 8/29

HANK AND ELLA & THE FINE COUNTRY BAND 9PM - $10 DOOR FRIDAY 8/30

THE WAX DROPS w/ PERFECT BLUE & AJIMAS

Please CARPOOL / RIDEHSARE to Big Sur.

YO LA TENGO KEVIN MORBY

9PM - $8 DOOR

SATURDAY 8/31

PEACH KELLI POP

w/ SMALL CRUSH, KITTY KAT FAN CLUB AND FUSS

9PM - $10 DOOR SUNDAY 9/1

FREE BLUEGRASS IN THE GARDEN. 5PM

TUESDAY 9/3

FUNK NIGHT w/ SPACE HEATER

9:30 PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT

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WEEKEND BRUNCH FULL BAR

2591 Main St, Soquel, CA 95073

1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz 429-6994

Full Concert Calendar : MichaelsonMainMusic.com

CREPE PLACE TWO NIGHTS SEPT 18 + 19

ADVANCE TICKETS ON TICKETWEB

MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ

Waxahatchee + MORE BENEFIT CAMPING WEEKEND

FERNWOOD BIG SUR SEPT 20 + 21

MIKE WATT

Please CARPOOL / RIDEHSARE to Big Sur.

OCT

Moe’s 9/19

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BIG

SUR

TODD SNIDER + RAMBLIN JACK RIO 10/24

LIVE MUSIC 8/28

8/29

WED THU FRI Science On Tap Free Hank & Ella w/ the Fine 7:30p On Drugs & more Country Band $10 9p $5 9p

THE CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz CROW’S NEST 2218 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz

Hot Club Pacific $3 7:30p

Extra Large Free 5:30p Spun $5 8:30p

8/30

Thursday, August 29 • 7 PM

8/31

SkyPark $6 9p

9/1

MON

9/2

TUE

9/3

KRISTEN STROM GROUP: THE MUSIC OF JOHN SHIFFLETT

SAT Peach Kelli Pop, Small Crush, Kitty Kat Fan Club $10 9p

SUN

Open Bluegrass Jam Free 5p

Funk Night w/ Space Heater $6 9p-12a

Paying homage to a local jazz figurehead with a renowned Bay Area ensemble.

Elie & Enah Free 2p The Refugees $7 9:30p

Elie & Enah Free 2p Live Comedy $7 9p

John Michael Free 8p

Wednesday, September 4 • 7 PM

DISCRETION BREWING 2703 41st Ave, Soquel

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS

THE HOT SARDINES

The self-described “mischief makers” of hot jazz.

Blind Tiger Open Mic Night 8p

DNA’S COMEDY LAB 155 River St, Santa Cruz

The Mental Health Comedy Hour 8p

Torio Van Grol 7 & 9:30p

Drennon Davis 7 & 9:30p

FELTON MUSIC HALL 6275 Hwy 9, Felton

Nicki Bluhm w/ Scott Law & Ross James, Skyway Man $29 7p

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville

Greyhound 8p

GABRIELLA CAFE 910 Cedar St., Santa Cruz

Linc Russin 7-9p

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

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

Folking Funny $10 7:30p

MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Blind Rick Free 6p

11th ANNUAL SONGFEST FOR PROSTATE CANCER AWARENESS Free

Monday, September 9 • 7 PM

OPTIONS FEATURING BENNIE MAUPIN, ERIC REVIS & NASHEET WAITS

Bob Basa 6:30-9:30p Matias 6:30-9:30p

KUUMBWA JAZZ 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Saturday, September 7 • 5 PM

7th Wave 6:30-9:30p

A convening of peerless artists.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS

Kristin Strom Group: Music of John Shifflett $21/$26.25 7p 1973: Where the Beat Meets the Street & more $10 7:30p

Blues Mechanics Free 5p Papiba & Friends $10 8:30p

China Cats Grateful Dead Tribute $15 8:30p

Al Frisby Free 6p

Lloyd Whitley Free 6p

Blues Mechanics Free 6p

Thursday, September 12 • 7 PM Led Kaapana w/ Fran Guidry $17/$20 7:30p Andy Santana Free 6p

Tom Lawson Free 6p

Blues Mechanics Free 6p

THEO CROKER

A brooding and eloquent approach to the trumpet.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Saturday, September 14 • 8:30 PM

SIN SISTERS BURLESQUE Tickets: eventbrite.com

Monday, September 16 • 7 PM

TIERNEY SUTTON BAND

PULSE PRODUCTIONS WELCOMES

JAKE SHIMABUKURO

Kevin Nealon

THE GREATEST DAY TOUR

The Last Great

A long-running ensemble and true collaborative unit, led by Sutton’s crystalline vocals.

Thursday, September 19 • 7 PM

STEVE LEHMAN TRIO WITH SPECIAL GUEST JOSHUA WHITE

A dazzling display of musicianship – fearless and bold.

Monday, September 23 • 7:30 PM

BOBBY McFERRIN

Riveting vocals – musically adventurous and thoroughly celebratory.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 15TH RIO THEATRE

RICHARD THOMPSON

AT THE RIO THEATRE

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23rd

Tuesday, October 1 • 7:30 PM

MADELEINE PEYROUX

KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER

with special guest

Lisa Males

An extraordinary vocalist and songsmith, celebrating the release of her new album, Anthem.

AT THE RIO THEATRE

An Evening of Kirtan

Thursday, October 3 • 7 PM

CIRCUS – KNIFE, BLOOD & FIRE

Music from a new one-act theater production created by Joe Ortiz and Greg Fritsch, featuring Lori Rivera.

FRIDAY WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8TH NOVEMBER 13TH RIO THEATRE RIO THEATRE

Monday November 25th Rio Theatre

WWW.PULSEPRODUCTIONS.NET

Radio Station

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS

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

All ages welcome.

320-2 Cedar St | Santa Cruz 831.427.2227 kuumbwajazz.org

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SHOWS

LIVE MUSIC

AUG 31ST NICKI BLUHM W/ SCOTT LAW & ROSS JAMES PLUS SKYWAYMAN

SEP 3RD

8/28

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

WED Jesse Daniel & Vincent Neil Emerson $15/$20 8:30p

The Get Down w/ Groove 9:30p

NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz

STEPHEN MARLEY

99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz

SEP 5TH

Trivia 8p

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

THU

8/29

FRI

SEP 6TH

CORDUROY - PEARL JAM TRIBUTE SEP 7TH

ILLEAGLES - TRIBUTE TO THE EAGLES

SAT

8/31

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

Audio1 9:30p

Brandon Fox 9:30p

Reggae Night Free 7p

Call Box Free 7p

Apple City Slough Free 7p

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Dave D’Oh 2-5p John Rybak & Friends Free 8p

Anthony Arya (From the Voice) 2-5p Open Mic Free 4-7p Catalina Scramblers & more Free 9p

BOOST YOUR MOOD, ENERGY & WELL-BEING

B-12 HAPPY HOUR

Wednesdays 3-6 PM Saturdays 10AM-12PM Walk-Ins Welcome

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

Variety Show w/ Toby Gray 6:30p

Acoustic Reggae Jam 6:30p

Aloha Friday 6:30p

Featured Acts 6:30p

ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Comedy Night 9p

First & Third Celtic Jam

Live DJ

Live DJ

THE SAND BAR 211 Esplanade, Capitola

The Joint Chiefs 8p

Issac & the Haze 9p

Burnt 9p

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Wednesday, August 28 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

THE LAST TEN SECONDS OF LIFE Thursday, August 29 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

JOSH HEINRICHS

Friday, August 30 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

SOULWISE

9/3

The Takeover, Turn Up Tuesday w/ Cali 9:30p Tacos & Trivia Free 6:30p

Mojo Cruz 2-5p

Chain of Fools 6-9p

Erin Avila 6-9p

Queer Bingo $5/card 3:30-6:30p Trivia Free 7:30p

Comedy Free 8p

Open Mic Free 8-11p

The Human Juke Box 6p

Open Mic 6p

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

plus Ancestree also Nocean

Saturday, August 31 • All Ages

Danny Duncan ADOLESCENTS

Sunday, September 1 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

WILLOW SMITH

Monday, September 2 • Ages 16+

XAVIER RUDD

Sep 12 Gogol Bordello (Ages 16+) Sep 13 Iya Terra/ Thrive (Ages 16+) Sep 14 The California Honeydrops (Ages 16+) Sep 15 Lil Keed/ Lil Gotit (Ages 16+) Sep 24 Hot Chip/ Holy Fuck (Ages 16+) Sep 26 Loud Luxury/ CID (Ages 16+) Sep 28 & 29 Durand Jones & The Indications (Ages 16+) Oct 3 PNB Rock/ NoCap (Ages 16+) Oct 4 & 5 Steel Pulse (Ages 16+) Oct 10 Collie Buddz (Ages 16+) Oct 11 Riot Ten/ Al Ross (Ages 18+) Oct 12 Manila Killa (Ages 16+) Oct 14 Yung Gravy (Ages 16+) Oct 17 Common Kings (Ages 16+) Oct 19 & 20 Santa Cruz Music Festival (Ages 16+) Oct 23 The Distillers (Ages 16+) Oct 26 The Garden (Ages 16+) Oct 31 Skizzy Mars (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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

Rasta Cruz Reggae Party 9:30p

TUE

‘Geeks Who Drink’ Trivia Night 8p

Saturday, August 31 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

Santa Cruz Naturopathic Medical Center

9/2

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

SEP 13TH

WED-SUN 4-9PM

MON

Chas Crowder Free 10p-12a

KATCHAFIRE

RESTAURANT NOW OPEN

9/1

Metalachi & Shark in the Poppa Chubby Water $15/$20 8p $20/$25 3p

SEP 8TH

MONKEY HANDS

SUN

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

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

HOWLIN RAIN

8/30

The Blasters & Jesse Dayton $20/$25 7p

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

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Amazing waterfront deck views.

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

See live music grid for this week’s bands.

STAND-UP COMEDY

Three live comedians every Sunday night.

HAPPY HOUR

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

VISIT OUR BEACH MARKET

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

SAILBOAT RACES

Every Wednesday Night

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Trivia 7:30p

Tuesday Trivia Night 6:30p

LIVE MUSIC WED

8/28

THU

8/29

FRI

8/30

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

Steve Robertson Trio 7:30-10:30p

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz

Live Again 6:30p

SAT

8/31

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

Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-9p

Soul Doubt 8-11:30p

Patio Acoustics 1-4p John Michael Band 8-11:30p

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

Ken Constable 6:30-9:30p

Joe Ferrara 6:30-9:30p

Claudio Melega 7-10p

Rare Faction Free 6-9p

DJ Abraham Free 6-9p

The Grateful Dads Free 6-9p

Paul Damon & the Healing Free 6-9p

SHANTY SHACK BREWING 138 Fern St, Santa Cruz STEEL BONNET 20 Victor Square, Scotts Valley

The Luckless Carie & the Soulshakers Pedestrians Free 5p Free 6p

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

Paul Trugman Free 5:30p

UGLY MUG 4640 Soquel Ave, Soquel

SUN

9/1

Jenny & the Bets 6-8p

WHARF HOUSE 1400 Wharf Road, Capitola

Open Mic w/ Steven David 5:30p

Shady Characters 7-9p Live Again 1p

ZELDA’S 203 Esplanade, Capitola

DJ Joey Alotti 9:30p

TUE

9/3

DJ Yosemite & the Spicy Boys 9:30p

A Good Night’s Sleep is the Greatest Gift Maintains proper spinal support Opens the airway for easier breathing

The Joint Chiefs 1p

Upcoming Shows

SEP 07 Int. Ocean Film Tour Vol. 6 SEP 13 Film: And Two if By Sea SEP 15 Kevin Nealon SEP 19 Lecture: California on Fire SEP 20 Banff Centre Mountain Film SEP 21 Pivot: The Art of Fashion SEP 23 Bobby McFerrin SEP 28 Jim Messina OCT 01 Madeleine Peyroux OCT 04 Film: Fantastic Fungi OCT 05 Dave Mason OCT 08 Namibia: Land of the Cheetah OCT 11-12 Santa Cruz Surf Film Festival OCT 24 Todd Snider and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott NOV 08 Richard Thompson NOV 09 Mountainfilm on Tour NOV 13 Los Lonely Boys NOV 17 Jesse Cook NOV 20 A Tuba to Cuba NOV 21 Built To Spill NOV 23 Warren Miller’s “Timeless” NOV 25 Kirtan with Krishna Das DEC 05 Lecture with Rob Bell DEC 09 Tommy Emmanuel Follow the Rio Theatre on Facebook & Twitter! info@riotheatre.com www.riotheatre.com

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Scott Slaughter Free 5:30p

Myhaylo K 5-8p

VINO LOCALE 55 Municipal Wharf, Santa Cruz

9/2

Patio Acoustics 1-4p Live Again 7:30-11:30p

Jennings & Keller $18/$20 7:30p

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Tammi Brown, Yuji Tojo & Steve Robertson 7:30-10:30p

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FLIGHT PLANNERS Left to right: Shia LaBoeuf, Dakota Johnson and Zack Gottsagen in ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon.’

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‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’ is a quirky, funky audience pleaser BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

S

omeday you’ll meet someone quirky who considers Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s audience-pleasing The Peanut Butter Falcon their favorite movie of all time. That choice wouldn’t be disgraceful; like the star Zack Gottsagen, this movie is on its own wavelength.

Gottsagen’s Zak introduces himself: “I am a Down’s Syndrome person.” He’s stubby, stubborn, and he wins you over fast with the strength of his own agenda and his willingness to carry it out.

Using a special-needs actor could be considered problematic—a

question of exploitation and how deep the performance goes.

However, such casting is always better than having a normally abled actor pretending to be differently abled, or what novelist Bruce Wagner famously termed “the perennial audience-pleaser and vainglorious actor’s showcase staple.” (Sean Penn may some day live down I Am Sam, the subject of a devastating monologue by Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder.)

This Zak is a fan of professional wrestling and one vintage wrestler in particular, the SaltWater Redneck (Thomas Haden Church), who he watches repeatedly on a

VHS tape. This obsession spurs his plan to flee the coastal North Carolina old folks’ home where he’s being kept. One night, he gives staff the slip with the help of his roommate Carl (Bruce Dern). Dern does some superior codgering, and he’s infectiously amusing here. One by one, they take away pleasures from the old, but Dern makes it look like the pleasure of defying authority is the best of them all.

Zak flees at night in his underwear, stowing away in the boat of another fugitive, Tyler (Shia LaBoeuf), a hard-luck, broken-hearted crab poacher; on Tyler’s trail are a couple of

bad bastards (a formidable John Hawke and the rapper Yelawolf).

Tyler and Zak become traveling companions, rafting south on the wide, flat Pamlico Sound: ankle-deep wetlands you can walk on as if you’re Jesus. The pair is intended to look like Huck and Jim, but the Mark Twain side is hard to perceive, despite Zak’s keen ad libs. (“Stay cool!” Zack says in parting to someone who isn’t exactly the coolest ice cube in the refrigerator.) As a road trip movie, it’s more like The Last Detail done watery. The two southwardbound runners are at last joined

by Eleanor (Dakota Johnson), who tended to Zak at the nursing home and who is responsible for tracking him down. In her scene at a gas station, smilingly rebuffing greasy Tyler’s elaborate compliments, Johnson shows she has more than enough selfamusement to survive the various ordeals she writhed through in the 50 Shades of Gray series.

Directors Nilson and Schwartz built the cuteness in from the title on down (the name is Zak’s unusual choice for a wrestler’s nom de guerre). The Peanut Butter Falcon is sometimes as gooshy as its namesake food. Moments that don’t quite work include a baptism by a profane junkyard lay-reverend. And there’s a final magical realist moment of triumph that isn’t set up perfectly.

That said, the Outer Banks waterscapes make The Peanut Butter Falcon funky and appealingly summery; it’s like seeing coastal Louisiana in a movie for the first time.

LaBeouf will never be mistaken for a hotdog Transformer stooge again. His Tyler is seasoned by lingering regret from that session of weird public penance LaBeouf did a few years back. Self-inflicted shame-ordeals or shoemaking, you never know what’ll nourish an actor. LaBoeuf nails this wispy tale together. There are worse things you can say about a film than it’s like Beasts of the Southern Wild if Frank Darabont directed it.

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Starring David Oyelowo, Storm Reid and Byron Mann. (R) 103 minutes.

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

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ANGEL HAS FALLEN Nothing says “mediocre action thriller that is basically just waiting around to be shown over and over on TNT during the NBA offseason” like a movie from this bizarre franchise, which also includes Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen, and features Gerard Butler keeping various world leaders from being assassinated by terrorists. This time, he’s the one on the run, after being framed for an assassination himself. Whoa, what a twist! Perhaps the next entry can be called Gerard Butler Has Fallen, and trace the downward spiral of his career from poor man’s Russell Crowe to poor man’s … er, Gerard Butler. Directed by Ric Roman Waugh.

Co-starring Morgan Freeman, Jada Pinkett Smith and Piper Perabo. (R) 120 minutes. (SP) THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE 2

What do these birds have to be angry about anymore? Their ridiculous mobile game has been downloaded more than 3 billion times in 10 years. They already had a terrible animated movie, and because it was an inexplicably huge hit, now they’ve got another one. Calm down, birds! Directed by Thurop Van Orman. Featuring the voices of Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Jones and Bill Hader.

(PG) 96 minutes. (SP) BLINDED BY THE LIGHT Just when it looked like Yesterday had the Academy Award for Quirkiest Spin On Our Insatiable Nostalgia For Classic Rock all sewn up (it’s one of those Oscars they pass out during the commercials), along comes Blinded By the Light, about a British-Pakistani Muslim whose teen angst can only be cured by his obsession with the music of Bruce Springsteen. Based on the memoir of journalist Sarfraz Mandoor, this is actually a true story. I mean, so was Yesterday, obviously … Directed

by Gurinder Chadha. Starring Viveik Kalra and Hayley Atwell. (PG-13) 117 minutes. (SP) DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD I guess it’s been a long time since I checked in on Dora the Explorer, ’cause now she’s turned into Tomb Raider Jr. and is played by 18-year-old Isabela Moner in this live-action adventure adaptation.

What happened to,“I’m the map! The map! The map, the map, the map?”

Directed by James Bobin. Co-starring Benicio Del Toro, Danny Trejo and Eva Longoria. (PG) 102 minutes.

THE FAREWELL We all know what this year’s biggest blockbuster was.

What? Avengers: Endgame? Never heard of it. No, obviously I’m talking about The Farewell, which made more money at the domestic box office this year than any other film, including that one with the costume people you mentioned. Now, of course, this is only if you’re talking about per-theater average—The Farewell opened in four theaters with a record $87,833 haul per screen (Avengers’ was $76,601 across 4,662 theaters).

But still, it’s kind of crazy that an art-house comedy-drama whose biggest star is Awkwafina from Crazy Rich Asians is breaking any kind of

box-office record. Writer-director Lulu Wang’s story of a Chinese-American woman who travels back to China to visit her grandmother with a terminal diagnosis (which the family has decided to hide) is also a hit with critics, earning a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. (PG) 98 minutes.

(SP) FAST AND FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS AND SHAW HOBBS: Me played by Rock! Me hate you, Shaw! SHAW: Me played by Jason Statham! Me hate you, Rock …

I mean, Hobbs! BRIXTON LORE: Hello, I’m the villain in this movie. I’m played

by Idris Elba. My body has been equipped with cyber-genetic physical technology that has turned me into a sort of supersoldier, and I’ve gone rogue from MI6 to become a terrorist mastermind. HOBBS: What now?

You no say big words, Idris Elbow! You want be in Fast and Furious spinoff?

You talk like this now! BRIXTON LORE: Uh … OK, very well, very well. Me … make … stuff … blow up now? Hobbs: Ooh, me no hate you now, Shaw! Now me hate blow up guy! SHAW: Let’s drive fast! Directed by David Leitch.

(PG-13) 135 minutes. (SP) 47 METERS DOWN: UNCAGED I’ve seen some bad shark movies, but judging from the trailer, this sequel to the surprise low-budget 2017 hit may give them a run for their money. The first one at least had the unusual cage-diving angle, and the intrigue of wondering whether star Mandy Moore was going to melt down on screen. This has four tourists scuba diving in Mayan ruins and encountering a playful narwhal.

Just kidding! It’s another murder shark. Directed by Johannes Roberts.

Starring Sistine Rose Stallone, Nia Long and Corinne Fox. (PG-13) 89 minutes. (SP) GOOD BOYS Little kids swearing—it never gets old, right? In fact, the makers of Superbad, Sausage Party and other raunchfests have apparently decided that the littler they are, the funnier it is. And so we have Good Boys, a comedy about 6th graders saying bad words, being wrong about sex, and unknowingly using sex toys. And you thought highconcept comedy was dead. Directed

by Gene Stupnitsky. Starring Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams and Will Forte. (R) 89 minutes. (SP) LUCE The recent arc of Octavia Spencer’s film roles, from model NASA intellect in Hidden Figures to psycho in Ma, is the perfect setup for what may be the most anticipated indie film of the year. Spencer plays a teacher who locks herself into all-out psychological warfare with a black student who is himself either a model citizen or a maniac. Or maybe both?

Neither? So many people want to know how this film ends that when you google “Luce movie” the first suggestion that comes up is “Luce movie spoilers.” Co-starring Naomi Watts and Tim Roth. (R) 109 minutes.

(SP) ONCE UPON A TIME … IN HOLLYWOOD There was a lot of outrage when Quention Tarantino announced his next movie would include the story of the Manson murders. Apparently, people thought it might glorify Manson, a concern that the casting of beady-eyed Damon “Let Me Be Your Creepy Guy” Herriman in the role should have allayed. Also, this is the filmmaker who killed off Hitler and gave Southern slave owners their comeuppance— fulfilling revenge fantasies is kinda his thing. It’ll be interesting to see how he works this true-crime angle into a fictional story of over-the-hill TV actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) in the fading days of 1960s Hollywood. Co-starring Margot Robbie, Kurt Russell and Al Pacino. (R) 161 minutes. (SP) THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON Reviewed this issue. (PG-13) 93 minutes. (SP) READY OR NOT I sort of understand why The Hunt got shelved after the recent mass shootings, even though it seems like a terrible decision to do so. The film is, after all, yet another variation on the old short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” which is an unmistakably anti-murder work. (On the other hand, I haven’t seen The Hunt—nor has anyone, since it wasn’t screened for critics— so maybe there’s something I don’t know about its content that makes

what seems like a pathetic kowtowing to political pressure actually a very good decision.) What I don’t get is why Ready or Not, which is also a spin on “The Most Dangerous Game,” has completely escaped this same controversy. Is it because the idea of the bride-to-be being hunted by her future in-laws is done with more overt black comedy than the grim tone of The Hunt? Is it because the trailer features more crossbow than gun violence? The distinction between the two doesn’t make a whole lot of sense—but hey, neither do our country’s gun policies, so I guess that works. Directed by Matt BettanelliOlpin and Tyler Gillet. Starring Samara Weaving and Adam Brody. (R) 95 minutes. (SP) SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK If you haven’t traumatized your kids in a while, why not take them to this adaptation of the 1980s and 1990s series of horror tales that thrilled macabre middleschoolers and angered Christian parents everywhere? What’s really scary is how adults can’t think of any way to tap into juvenile scares besides recycling their own obsession with meta-entertainment. So, like the Goosebumps movies, this is another film where the stories in the “cursed” book it’s based on start coming true.

Directed by Andre Ovredai. Starring Zoe Margaret Coletti and Michael Garza. (PG-13) 111 minutes. (SP) WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE It’s weird to see patrician Cate Blanchett in full-on ditz mode, rattling around the house like Lucy Ricardo in Richard Linklater’s adaptation of the bestselling Maria Semple novel. But Blanchett is terrific in her instant transitions from icy and imperious to flirty to sardonic.

While the book was a comic odyssey about the search for a woman in flight from 20 years of domesticity, Linklater keeps the protagonist front and center throughout, caught in the throes of suburban life in Seattle, so the mystery here is not where she’s gone away to but how she got here in the first place. Which gives us more time to watch Blanchett at work, making up for the movie’s sitcom elements and less-than-subtle messages. (PG-13) 104 minutes. (LJ)

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Every home gardener considers fruit trees to be the ultimate challenge. Martin knows this, and he long ago mastered the art of tending many varieties of heirloom

fruit in orchards that have inspired countless apprentice gardeners, as well as artists such as his wife Stephanie Zeiler Martin, whose exquisite color etchings adorn the new book. With daughter and publishing colleague Manjula Martin, Orin shares his secrets in fresh, uncluttered language. Available now, the book is a horticultural gem—a true heirloom.

The title contains the tantalizing implication that we, too, could learn to grown organic orchards.

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I regard fruit growing as a long conversation with trees. It’s a bit of a dialectic, too. I am largely self taught. I never really went to school much. There was no one there to show me the way, and so I had to figure it out myself. And in a slow, methodical, sometimes painstaking manner, I did. This has been a pleasurable journey, but not one without its setbacks. This book aims to make the learning process easier and more rapid for others.

In making this book, what are you especially pleased with?

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We’ve entered Virgo, sign of service (to self first, then others), health, wellness, gardens, devas, and our food systems. Virgo is also the sign of purity, discernment and discrimination, detailed order and organization, and information (Mercury) flowing into our minds. Virgo is the mother of the plant kingdom, bearing sheaves of corn and wheat, the mother (Demeter) of Persephone soon to enter the underworld (Autumn). Virgo is the pregnant Madonna, the World Mother hiding the Light of the Soul. In Virgo, two “lights” are seen.

One waxing, one waning.

The multiple crises in our world today concern the daily needs of humanity. Concerns are the quality of our food, farms, farmers,

ARIES Mar21–Apr20 You will more fully, over time, be able to accept responsibilities greater than your desires. You will seek to go home (childhood) and find it’s no longer approachable. You learn blame doesn’t fix situations. Eventually, security comes when you create your life from a foundation of understanding and responding to the needs of others. Comfort emerges from defining goals for the new age. A serious endeavor, indeed. You are to initiate the building of the new world.

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GEMINI May 22–June 20 It’s in your best interest to remain flexible, to be able to change your mind, include others (ask for help) and let go of old limiting ideas and things (possessions, habits) no longer useful. Should you accomplish any of these, you may create a life crisis, which is good. Do not be afraid to investigate new realities. Much is becoming outdated in your world. And this is not attractive for you. What are your soul’s needs? Ask that all that is needed magically appear.

CANCER Jun21–Jul20 These are the rules of life for the coming times. Refrain from impatience, competitiveness, “me-first thinking,” and taking anything personally. Observe if those around you are sensitive, thoughtful, discreet, and work in cooperation with others. It’s good to see through others’ eyes, and work always towards creating community. Find what feeds your hunger and nourishes you.

LE0 Jul21–Aug22 It’s most important to be practical in the coming times, to not leave anything up to chance. Create a schedule that includes daily health routines, right foods, times of eating, and exercise. It’s important to cultivate order and organization. This allows the mind to focus with clarity and confidence. New realities and awarenesses occur through dreams. Be sure to care for the smallest aspects in your life. Then the large ones take care of themselves.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Study symbols that provide material for new dreams.

Joseph Campbell’s books on symbols are perfect for you.

It’s time to no longer act out old dreams. Merge the gap between what you dream for and what truly is. Virgos are above all practical. Begin to express this practicality in daily life. Then a new surge of creativity emerges. You must not rely on others. A great artistic stream lies within. What do you create that is beautiful, harmonious, and real?

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22 Try not to over-manage your life and to relax old standards of achievement and perfection. Whatever

children, their education, and care of our elders. The Ageless Wisdom tells us to tend to humanity’s daily needs with care, purity, awareness and grace–qualities of Virgo.

Humanity—this round of humanity—is called the 5th Root Race (“race” means all of humanity). The task is to develop and cultivate our mental faculties and abilities, to become deep thinkers able to research, compare and analyze information (all Virgo tasks) in order to become discerning, and make appropriate life-affirming decisions. We have all month to develop and become sensitive to the Mercury’s call in Virgo. you do and achieve is good enough, and that’s better than perfect. Allow yourself to be vulnerable, exposed, insecure, fearful. These are human realities, and they provide needed information about our wounds. Make home and family the most important place on earth. It is your hideaway, refuge, shelter, and sanctuary.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 Are you at times unable to perceive or understand others’ feelings and opinions? Are you experiencing excess nervous energy that interferes with true, real and kind relationships? Are you pressured and hurried and afraid your freedoms will be obstructed? You’ll find that learning to listen deeply to others leads to meaningful and intelligent relationships. Listening is also the secret to having social graces and forming substantial and sustainable social networks. Try.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 You’ve entered a topsy-turvy time in life. Everything’s changed and changing. As you go forward into your new life, remember this: Your value has nothing to do with the values of others, and your needs do not need to be enfolded into the needs of others. Should these occur, you’ll find you attract confusion and intensity in relationships instead of peace and comfort. What are your values? What do you enjoy, and what of your own needs must you realize? Self-worth is being learned here.

Be patient with these questions. Ponder them.

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 Slowly and quietly, without fear, you learn to stand alone, relying on instincts, intuition and inner knowings.

Slowly and quietly, you’ll learn your wishes, hopes and needs are most important, eventually expressing them to others without restraint or fear of consequences. You are indeed very, very good. A bit of impulsiveness always adds a bit of glamour and glitter to all that goodness.

Ponder on the difference between achieving peace in relationships and having inner peace. Interesting thoughts follow.

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 Do you worry often that you do not achieve enough?

Do you ever lack trust in yourself and in God? Do you over-analyze any situation until it simply expires out of exhaustion? It’s most important to focus within your heart more. This will develop the soul virtue of compassion toward yourself—and then, later, to others.

They, like you, traverse the difficult path of life. A great sense of balance comes from patience, understanding and compassion. Always beginning with the self first.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 There’s a difference between seeking what we want and seeking what we need. If we drop the wants, needs are met seemingly by magic. You will experience great changes in the coming two years. Everyone will. You have known about them for a long time. You will begin to simply surrender to what is most practical. The outcome turns out to be a most loving and protective state of being. This will be a surprise and a comfort. Invoke courage to help others along the Way.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001336 The following Corporation is doing business as POST TECh. 7960 B SOQUEL DR. #177, APTOS, CA 95003.

County of Santa Cruz. POST TECh. 7960 B SOQUEL DR. #177, APTOS, CA 95003. Al# 2852587. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: POST TECh. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/2/2006. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 31, 2019. August 7, 14, 21, & 28.

REFILING OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT WITh ChANGE FILE NO. 2019-0001276. The following Individual is doing business as SOQUEL AUTO SALES. 1505 SOQUEL AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz. FARDAD VAZIRI. 138 SEARIDGE CT. #1., APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: FARDAD VAZIRI. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 7/17/2009. original FBn number: 2009-0001437. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 23, 2019. August 7, 14, 21, & 28.

REFILING OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT WITh ChANGE FILE NO. 2019-0001284. The following Copartnership is doing business as TERRA NOVA ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPING. 1514 7Th AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. KEN FOSTER.

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County of Santa Cruz. JULIE GOODWIN & PATRICIA hANSEN. 560 30Th AVENUE SPC 43, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by a Domestic Partnership signed: JULIE GOODWIN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business

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REFILING OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT WITh ChANGE FILE NO. 2019-0001242. The following General Partnership is doing business as PACIFIC CREST DEVELOPMENT. 2551 BRANCIFORTE DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95065 County of Santa Cruz. GALLAGhER, INC. P.O. BOX 2975, TRUCKEE, CA 96160. AL# 3587085.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001194 The following Individual is doing business as CLS STAFFING. 4041 SOQUEL DR., STE 163, SOQUEL, CA 95073. County of Santa Cruz. LANCE JON GASICh. 130 MAPLE STREET UNIT B, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: SEAN JAMES. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 6/30/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 03, 2019. August 14, 21, 28 & September 4.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001363 The following Individual is doing business as WINDMILL CAFE. 21231 E. CLIFF DR., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz. MARy ELIZABETh APRA. 21231 E. CLIFF DR., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MARy ELIZABETh APRA. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 9/17/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 3, 2019. August 14, 21, 28 & September 4.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001388. The following General Partnership is doing business as VINESTORy. 915 41ST AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz. CARLOS BRADLEy. 16081 KLARA LN., MORGAN hILL, CA 95037.

PAUL LOCATELLI. 2462 GLEN CANyON RD., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060 This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: PAUL LOCATELLI The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 7/26/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 06, 2019.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001387 The following Corporation is doing business as MARINI AND LOCATELLI REALTy. 2462 GLEN CANyON RD., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. MARINI AND LOCATELLI PROPERTy MANAGEMENT. 2462 GLEN CANyON RD., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. Al# 3783288. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: MARINI AND LOCATELLI PROPERTy MANAGEMENT. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 7/01/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 6, 2019.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001304 The following Individual is doing business as STUSIC AUDIO, STUSIC STUDIOS. 311 BALTUSROL DR., APTOS, CA 95003. County of Santa Cruz.

STUART E. WILSON. 311 BALTUSROL DR., APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: STUART E. WILSON. 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 July 29, 2019. August 7, 14, 21 & 28.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001309 The following Individual is doing business as BONNy DOON SEA GLASS. 325 CONIFER LANE, BONNy DOON, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz.

JAMES SALAZAR. 325 CONIFER LANE, BONNy DOON, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JAMES SALAZAR. 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 July 29, 2019.

August 7, 14, 21 & 28.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001199 The following Individual is doing business as DGS CONSTRUCTION. 9 WINDEMERE LANE, APTOS, CA 95003. County of Santa Cruz.

DANIEL GREGORy ShELDON. 9 WINDEMERE LANE, APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: DANIEL GREGORy ShELDON. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 4/21/2014. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 08, 2019. August 14, 21, 28 & September 4.

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1241 amesti road, WatsoNVille, ca 95076. County of santa Cruz. casey uNderWood & daVid uNderWood. 1241 amesti road, WatsoNVille, ca 95076.

This business is conducted by a married Couple signed: casey uNderWood. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 7/10/2019. This statement was filed with Gail l.

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fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 2019-0001442 The following individual is doing business as astrology 101 press, autheNtic freedom puBlicatioNs, piXy daNce press, speech fairy press. 1540 leila court, saNta cruZ, ca 95062. County of santa Cruz. oralea starr. 1540 leila court, saNta cruZ, ca 95062. This business is conducted by an individual signed: oralea starr. 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 august 14, 2019. august 21, 28, september 4, & 11.

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Dated: aug. 15, 2019. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the superior Court. aug. 21, 28, sept. 4, & 11.

dr., gilroy, ca 95020; James r. moresco - 594 ViVieNNe dr., WatsoNVille, ca 95076; Jeffrey s. moresco - 115 shadoW creeK, WatsoNVille, ca 95076; roBert l. moresco - 1675 toledo court, pacifica, ca 94044; William J. moresco - 13770 Vista dorado, saliNas, ca 93908; & marie t. rimassa - 160 carltoN rd., WatsoNVille, ca 95076. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: loretta i. greco. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 1/3/2018. This statement was filed with Gail l. Pellerin, County Clerk of santa Cruz County, on august 15, 2019. aug. 21, 28, sept. 4, & 11.

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County of santa Cruz. saNta cruZ VaNguard realtors, iNc. 1142 soQuel aVe., saNta cruZ, ca 95062. ai# 1627291.

This business is conducted by a Corporation signed: saNta cruZ VaNguard realtors, iNc. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/30/1989. original FBn number: 2009-0002503. This statement was filed with Gail l. Pellerin, County Clerk of santa Cruz County, on august 8, 2019. august 21, 28, sept. 4, & 11.

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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 august 12, 2019. august 21, 28 & september 4, 11. chaNge of Name iN the superior court of califorNia, for the couNty of saNta cruZ.petitioN of eriN VaNessa reNee castaNeda chaNge of Name case No.19cV02453. the court fiNds that the petitioner eriN VaNessa reNee castaNeda has filed a Petition for Change of name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: eriN VaNessa reNee castaNeda to: eleNa VaNessa reNee castaNeda. 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 sept. 30, 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

fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 2019-0001453. The following General Partnership is doing business as moresco & rimassa. 470 ViVieNNe dr., WatsoNVille, ca 95076. County of santa Cruz. Jill a Bird - 6518 JeffersoN, KaNsas city, mo 64113; loretta i. greco - 360 spiNNaKer dr., foster city, ca 94404; lorraiNe J. Jurach - 470 ViVieNNe dr., WatsoNVille, ca 95076; christiNe m. mcgrath - 239 corralitos rd., WatsoNVille, ca 95076; charles m. moresco . - 6654 eagle ridge

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001456 The following Individual is doing business as LOPEZ MAINTENANCE. 235 PONDEROSA AVE., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa

Cruz. MIGUEL LOPEZ. 235 PONDEROSA AVE., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MIGUEL LOPEZ. 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 August 16, 2019.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001467 The following Individual is doing business as FRANK'S CONSTRUCTION. 114 BARSON ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz.

FRANK MELVIN RIVERA AVALOS. 114 BARSON ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: FRANK MELVIN RIVERA AVALOS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 7/1/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 19, 2019. August 28, September 4, 11, & 18.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001408 The following Individual is doing business as OPERATION FEED THE PEOPLE. 155 MADRONA RD., BOULDER CREEK, CA 95006. County of Santa Cruz. ERIC JAN ADEMA. 155 MADRONA RD., BOULDER CREEK, CA 95006. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ERIC JAN ADEMA. 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 August 8, 2019.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001474 The following Individual is doing business as PEARL OF THE OCEAN. 736 WATER ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. AYOMA NISHANTHI WILEN. 2725 VIA COYOTE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95065. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: AYOMA NISHANTHI WILEN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 3/9/2009. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 19, 2019. August 28, September 4, 11, & 18.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001477 The following Individual is doing business as COSMIC GEOGRAPHY. 711 B CAYUGA ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz.

ANJOLI MARIE KUMRA. 711 B CAYUGA ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ANJOLI MARIE KUMRA. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 8/20/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 20, 2019. August 28, September 4, 11, & 18.

Continuing the conversation...scrolling through the history of the Santa Cruz real estate market, looking at how it has woven itself into the ups and downs of Silicon Valley over the last 30 years.

We left off in 2001...the dot.com bubble was at its inglorious end. People were realizing that the threat of the Y2K millennial bug was never about a mass glitch in computer software.

Rather, it was about the planetary disruption that could result from the irrational exuberance in human programming.

What was billed as the “long boom,” in tech (and in real estate), crashed like a house of cards on a foundation of hype. Tech stocks plunged precipitously and NASDAQ lost roughly $5 trillion overnight. Not surprisingly, without a fresh supply of thirty-something techies with stock options, the real estate market also took a tumble.

It was the techies, who had actually cashed in options to buy real estate early on, who walked away with something to show for all their 80hour work weeks in the ‘90s. Many others who had let their options ride the dot.com wave ended up selling them all in the end, just to pay taxes on the original issues.

In real estate, we started to brace for a long, tough downturn, figuring that it would be at least three or four years before we saw any real signs of recovery. And then, just as we were hunkering down to wait it out, a second shoe dropped on the country and the market in the form of 9/11.

After the initial shockwaves passed, the prevailing wisdom among Realtors was that everyone might as well really pack it in and take a long vacation because real estate was going to be crippled for years to come. Prices dropped in the vicinity of 10% fairly quickly but then a funny thing happened on the way to a deeper recession.

Just three or four months after 9/11, we started seeing first time buyers returning to the market in surprising numbers. Instead of viewing the recent turmoil as an excuse not to buy a home, more folks seemed to be viewing it as a good opportunity to buy.

Prices were coming down into a more affordable range and interest rates were also coming down, partly in response to 9/11. Also, interested buyers were finding it surprisingly easy to qualify for new, higher mortgage amounts, due in part to the investment vacuum created by the disappearance of the dot.coms. Mortgage lenders seemed ready to roll out the red carpet and, in time, it also began to feel more like a magic carpet.

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Where the locals shop since 1938.

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

Family owned & operated 80 years.

622 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz

OUR 80 TH YEAR

WEEKLY SPECIALS Good th r u 9/3/19

BEST BBQ RIBSPAIRING WINE & FOOD Ingredients

BUTCHER SHOP

GROCERY

ALL NATURAL USDA Choice beef & lamb, only corn-fed Midwest pork, Rocky free-range chickens, Mary’s air-chilled chickens, wild-caught seafood, Boar’s Head products.

BEEF

Local, Organic, Natural, Specialty, Gourmet

■ TOP SIRLOIN STEAKS, USDA Choice/ 6.98 Lb ■ COULOTTE STEAKS, USDA Choice/ 7.98 Lb ■ LONDON BROIL/ 5.98 Lb

■ SAN PELLEGRINO Italian Sparkling Beverage,

PORK

1 tablespoon ground cumin 1 tablespoon chili powder 1 tablespoon paprika Salt and pepper to taste 3 lbs baby back ribs 1 cup barbeque sauce

In a small jar, combine cumin, chili powder, paprika, salt and pepper. Close the lid, and shake to mix. Sprinkle as much of the rub onto both sides of the ribs as desired.

Place aluminum foil on lower rack to capture drippings and prevent flare-ups. Lay the ribs on the top rack of the grill (away from the coals, if you’re using briquettes). Reduce gas heat to low, close lid, and leave undisturbed for 1 hour. Do not lift the lid at all.

Brush ribs with barbeque sauce, and grill an additional 5 minutes. Serve ribs as whole rack, or cut between each rib bone and pile individually on a platter.

Wine Recommendation:

One of the many incredible full-bodied reds here at Shopper’s!

■ HANSEN’S Pure Cane Soda, 6Pk Cans, 12oz/ 2.99 +CRV

■ BLUE SKY Non-GMO, 12oz Cans/ 2.99 +CRV All Flavors, 6Pk Cans, 11.15oz/ 4.99 +CRV

■ CRYSTAL GEYSER Sparkling Spring Water, All Kinds 1.25L/ .99 +CRV

■ SANTA CRUZ ORGANIC Lemonades 32oz/ 1.99

SAUSAGE

■ BECKMANN’S Cheese Sourdough Round/ 4.99

Local Bakeries “Fresh Daily” ■ WHOLE GRAIN California Black/ 4.39 ■ KELLY’S Sour Baguette 16oz/ 2.69 ■ SUMANO’S Sliced Watsonville

MARINATED TUMBLED MEATS

Preheat a gas grill for high heat, or arrange charcoal briquettes on one side of the barbeque.

Lightly oil the grate.

Compare & Save

■ PORK BABY BACK RIBS/ 4.98 Lb ■ PORK SPARERIBS/ 2.98 Lb ■ GUINNESS BEER BRATWURST/ 5.98 Lb ■ BASIL & GARLIC SAUSAGE/ 5.98 Lb ■ BEER BRATWURST/ 5.98 Lb

Directions

WINE & SPIRITS

Sourdough Round/ 4.49

■ SUMANO’S Sliced Healthy Grain Loaf/ 4.49

■ BLACK PEPPER LONDON BROIL/ 5.98 Lb ■ SANTA MARIA LONDON BROIL/ 5.98 Lb

Delicatessen

FISH

■ BELGIOIOSO FRESH MOZZARELLA Log/ 5.99

■ AHI TUNA STEAKS/ 14.98 Lb ■ PACIFIC RED SNAPPER FILLETS/ 6.39 Lb ■ COOKED LARGE PRAWNS/ 12.98 Lb

■ NIMAN RANCH HAM STEAKS/ 5.19

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■ BITCHIN’ SAUCE All Kinds/ 5.79

■ COLUMBUS HERB TURKEY BREAST Sliced/ 4.79

■ HEMPLER BACON All Flavors/ 7.19

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

Cheese – Best Selection in Santa Cruz ■ WISCONSIN SHARP CHEDDAR “rBST-Free”

■ BANANAS Always Ripe/ .79 Lb ■ BRUSSELS SPROUTS Locally Grown/ 1.99 Lb ■ AVOCADOS Table Ripe Ready/ 1.99 Ea ■ BROCCOLI CROWNS Fresh from the Field/ 1.49 Lb ■ CANTALOUPES Ripe and Sweet/ .69 Lb ■ BROCCOLI CROWNS Fresh from the Field/ 1.49 Lb ■ ZUCCHINI SQUASH Extra Fancy/ 1.19 Lb ■ ORGANIC BANANAS, A Healthy Snack/ .99 Lb ■ LEAF LETTUCE Red, Romaine, Butter and Iceberg/ 1.19 Ea ■ CLUSTER TOMATOES Ripe on the Vine/ 1.99 Lb ■ RED POTATOES Premium Quality/ .89 Lb

Loaf Cuts/ 5.09 Lb

Average Cuts/ 5.29 Lb

■ CALIFORNIA SHARP CHEDDAR Joseph Farms/ 5.29 Lb

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■ JARLSBERG Whole Wheel Cuts/ 9.89 Lb

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■ MEEKS Wildflower Honey, 24oz/ 14.35

■ MARSALA CHAI Instant Blends, 18oz/ 4.99

■ JAVA BOB’S Coffee “The Connoisseur’s Choice” 12oz/ 9.99

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Beer

■ DESCHUTES BREWERY Fresh Squeezed IPA, 6Pk Btls, 12oz/ 9.99 +CRV ■ PILSNER URQUELL The Original, 6Pk Btls, 12oz/ 8.99 +CRV ■ COORS Banquet or Light, 12Pk Cans, 12oz/ 10.99 +CRV ■ LAGUNITAS Little Sumpin’ Hazy, 6Packs, 12oz/ 9.99 +CRV ■ SPOETZL BREWERY Shiner Bock, 6Packs, 12oz/ 7.99 +CRV

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BBQ Reds - Great Wines Under $10

■ 2013 TRUVÈE Red Blend (Reg 20.99)/ 8.99 ■ 2013 WEST CLIFF Old Vine Zin (Reg 17.99)/ 9.99 ■ 2013 LAPOSTOLLE Canto De Apalta (91WE, Reg 24.99)/ 9.99 ■ 2013 CHATEAU STE MICHELLE Indian Wells Merlot (90WS, Reg 18.99)/ 9.99 ■ 2015 ST HALLETT Faith Shiraz (90W&S, Reg 17.99) / 9.99

Refreshing Whites Under $10

■ 2015 ZACA MESA Z Blanc (91WE, Reg 24.99)/ 8.99 ■ 2016 GUENOC Sauvignon Blanc, Lake County (Gold SF Wine, Reg 15.99)/ 6.99 ■ 2017 GROVE MILL Sauvignon Blanc (90WS, Reg 17.99) / 9.99 ■ 2016 SECRET RESERVE Sauvignon Blanc (91JS, Reg 12.99)/ 7.99 ■ 2016 NOBILO Chardonnay (Reg 15.99)/ 8.99

Connoisseur’s Corner- Australia

■ 2012 PENFOLDS BIN 138 GSM (94JH, Reg 43.99)/ 19.99 ■ 2013 TORBRECK Woodcutters Shiraz (90V)/ 24.99 ■ 2011 FRANKLAND ESTATE Olmo’s Reward (93WA) / 43.99 ■ 2010 TWO HANDS Bella’s Garden Shiraz (94WS)/ 79.99 ■ 2006 PENFOLDS RWT (96JH)/ 150.00

GENE ERVIN, 44-Year Customer, Santa Cruz

S HOPP ER’ S SPOTLIG HT

Occupation: Retired UCSC housing proctor Hobbies: Martial arts, piano, cooking Who or what first got you shopping here?

I was living in Boulder Creek, and a friend told me that if l liked really good food, I should check out Shopper’s Corner. I remember saying,‘That’s a long way to go for grocery shopping.’ But my friend said it was worth it.

And he was right. I discovered that everything was — and still is— top of the line; even the center aisles where you may buy your canned goods, sauces, pasta — you name it.Around Shopper's periphery — the meat counter, produce, cheeses and more — everything is high quality. I’ve always believed in taking good care of myself and eating well.

What’s usually on your shopping list?

When I’m making marinara sauce, I’ll use Strianese San Marzano tomatoes, from Italy, usually accompanied by fresh pasta from Pasta Mike’s. From Shopper’s meat department – the butchers are great and very helpful — I often get lamb or salmon. Shopper’s seafood is always fresh! If I do burgers, this is where I go. If I do hot dogs, this is where I go.

Everything from the meat counter is superior!

Fambrini strawberries and Glaum range-free eggs are fantastic. Shopper’s has a wide, wide variety of wines and terrific specials, plus the crew knows their wines.

What would you tell someone who is new to the community about Shopper’s? It could take you a couple of times to get used to the authenticity of this type of market.The Shopper’s Corner’s experience is something that most people are not used to these days.

When I walk in, it feels like I’m visiting friends.You’re not only shopping but you’re laughing and shooting the breeze.The familiarity between customers and the crew is unparalleled in Santa Cruz. Shopper’s is personal. It feels like family. It’s as if you’re a guest coming into their house to shop to your heart’s content and you leave satisfied.

“The familiarity between customers and the crew is unparalleled in Santa Cruz. Shopper’s is personal.”

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