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INSIDE Volume 45, No.37 December 11-17, 2019

STREET FIGHT Former employees of Downtown Streets Team describe a toxic culture P11

POST SCRIPT The incredible artistic transformation of local poet Jory Post P18

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EDITOR’S NOTE How many times have all of us thought of something we really wanted to do, perhaps some piece of art we have always wanted to create, and thought, “Well, not now, but I’ll get around to it eventually?”

Wallace Baine’s cover story this week considers what happens when fate calls our bluff, and we’re faced with the possibility that there might not be an “eventually.” Do we slink back and say, “Never mind, I guess I didn’t really want to do it, anyway?”

Santa Cruz artist Jory Post didn’t.

After he was faced with a devastating diagnosis that suggested he might not have much time left, he instead threw

LETTERS

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Thank you for publishing Jordy Hyman’s article “Unreal Meats” (GT, 10/30). I appreciate you providing information about the toll animal agriculture takes on our environment. Given the incredible success of these products, including Beyond Meat’s IPO being the largest in history, it is important for our community to be informed about alternatives to the rainforest destruction, mass extinctions, and greenhouse gases associated with raising beef. I hope your readers will take note of the statistics Hyman included, such as an 89% reduction in greenhouse gases compared to beef.

Somehow, the main point I made when Hyman interviewed me was lost. We are in the midst of the greatest threat to life on Earth that humanity has ever faced. The IPCC has said we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions drastically by 2030, or risk entering complete climate chaos, a point beyond which no human intervention will stabilize the climate. Many scientists think this prediction is overly optimistic.

We must make wide-ranging changes in human activities or we are not going to make it. Once we hit runaway global warming, it is possible that the cascading feedback loops will render the earth too hot for all life.

Meat alternatives exists within this context.

himself into a creative overdrive, holding nothing back. His story is a moving and inspiring look at how we’re all capable of making this the day we stop saying “eventually.”

Two other things to mention this week: first, with 20 days left to go in Santa Cruz Gives, we are about $40,000 away from our goal. That means we have to raise $2,000 a day for our local groups to make it happen. I know we can! Read Alisha Green’s story this week on a big change in the works for SCG participant the Homeless Garden Project, and go to santacruzgives.org to donate to our groups.

And lastly, we’re officially opening the voting for our Best of Santa Cruz 2020 awards. Go to goodtimes.sc and vote early to give your favorite local people, places and things a head start!

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We need to reduce greenhouse gases in as many ways as possible, and that includes radically reducing emissions from animal agriculture, one of the main sources of emissions. According to Drawdown, “if cattle were their own nation, they would be the world’s third largest emitter of greenhouse gases.” Each time someone eats a burger made from “unreal meats” instead of meat, they are decreasing their greenhouse gas contribution. Of course, Hyman’s suggestion to “eat your vegetables” works as well!

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The Seymour Marine Discovery Center will host its annual Art and Craft Festival on Sunday, Dec. 15. Local artists and craftspeople will be offering ocean-inspired and other nature-conscious creations that make great gifts, and the proceeds support marine education. There will also be live music, apple cider and children’s activities.

You can’t get to the ocean every day, so grab a piece made by a local artist from the annual art and craft festival at the Seymour Center. Noon-5:30pm. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz. 459-3800, seymourcenter.ucsc.edu. $7 adults/$5 seniors, students, children/ free for children under 2.

The 4th Annual Christmas Dinner at the MAH will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 25, from noon-3 pm. This event will bring a hot meal, warm clothing and gifts to the less fortunate. Volunteers can sign up by emailing christmasatthemah@gmail.com.

Warm clothing and gifts may be dropped off at the UN Store at 903 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz. Monetary donations may be made online, and checks can be sent to Veterans For Peace, P.O. Box 865, Santa Cruz, CA 95061. For more information, visit santacruzmah.org/events.

CALL IT SEWAGE The Board of Directors and personnel of the Soquel Creek Water District are engaged in a project to combat the intrusion of salt water into the Purisima Aquifer, currently our almost exclusive source of drinking water. There are a number of questionable aspects related to this project, in which they have already invested a substantial amount of money.

I am referring to the Clean Water Soquel project, which will produce treated water to inject into the aquifer to halt the intrusion of ocean water. The source of this water is highly questionable, as it is to come from the treatment of sewage—a word they seldom use when discussing the project in which they will be producing water that is anything but clean.

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LOCAL TALK

What are your thoughts on losing the Circle Church and Community Center on the Westside?

BY MATTHEW COLE SCOTT

It would be a devastating loss for the culture of the Westside.

JENNIFER SMITH SURF AND TURF | SANTA CRUZ

I’m going to be extremely sad. A place which has been a spiritual and community center for 130 years would be gone forever.

FREYA SANDS RETIRED TEACHER | SANTA CRUZ

Because the rich are getting richer, and the poor poorer, I think a monument to the sign of the times is necessary. Someone needs to build a castle for a single-family residence, complete with a shark-filled moat.

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I think it’s a really good place for the community to gather.

You can’t find that very many places, and it would be terrible for that to go to waste.

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I would love to see more churches converted to homes, especially if the new development is like a co-housing setup encouraging community.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of December 11 ARIES Mar21–Apr19 “Nobody knows really what they’re doing,” says Aries comedian Conan O’Brien. “And there are two ways to go with that information. One is to be afraid, and the other is to be liberated, and I choose to be liberated by it.” I hope you’ll be inspired by O’Brien’s example in the coming weeks, Aries. I suspect that if you shed your worries about the uncertainty you feel, you’ll trigger an influx of genius. Declaring your relaxed independence from the temptation to be a know-it-all will bless you with expansive new perspectives and freedom to move.

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Creativity expert Roger von Oech tells us, “Everyone has a ‘risk muscle.’ You keep it in shape by trying new things.

If you don’t, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.” Here’s what I’ll add to his advice. If your risk muscle is flabby right now, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to whip it into better shape. Start with small, modest risks, and gradually work your way up to bigger and braver ones. And what should you do if your risk muscle is already well-toned? Dream and scheme about embarking on a major, long-term venture that is the robust embodiment of a smart gamble.

Isaac Newton (1642–1726) was one of history’s most influential scientists and a key contributor to physics, astronomy, mathematics, and optics. His mastery of the nuances of human relationships was less developed, however. He had one close friendship with a Swiss mathematician, though he broke it off abruptly after four years. And his biographers agree that he never had sex with another person. What I find most curious, however, is the fact that he refused to even meet the brilliant French philosopher Voltaire, who reached out to him and asked to get together. I trust you won’t do anything like that in the coming weeks, Scorpio. In fact, I urge you to be extra receptive to making new acquaintances, accepting invitations and expanding your circle of influence.

GEMINI May21–June20 Many people engage in laughably feeble attempts to appear witty by being cynical—as if by exuding sardonic irony and sneering pessimism they could prove their mettle as brilliant observers of modern culture. An example is this lame wisecrack from humorist David Sedaris: “If you’re looking for sympathy you’ll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.” I bring this to your attention in the hope of coaxing you to avoid indulging in gratuitous pessimism during the coming weeks. For the sake of your good health, it's important for you to be as open-minded and generous-spirited as possible. And besides that, pessimism will be unwarranted.

CANCER Jun21–Jul22 “You can shop online and find whatever you’re looking for,” writes pundit Paul Krugman, “but bookstores are where you find what you weren’t looking for.” That’s a good principle to apply in every area of your life. It’s always smart to know exactly what you need and want, but sometimes—like now—it’s important that you put yourself in position to encounter what you need and want, but don’t realize that you need and want.

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to regulating behavior works very well. To be constantly thinking about what you’re not supposed to do and say and think about tends to strengthen and reinforce what you’re not supposed to do and say and think about. I prefer author Elizabeth Gilbert’s strategy. She writes, “I don’t try to kill off my fear. I make all that space for it. Heaps of space. I allow my fear to live and breathe and stretch out its legs comfortably. It seems to me the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back.” That’s the method I recommend for you, Libra—especially in the coming weeks.

Bachianas Brasileiras is a nine-part piece of music that blends Brazilian folk music with the compositional style of Johann Sebastian Bach. The poet Anne Sexton relied on it, letting it re-play ceaselessly during her long writing sessions. My painter friend Robin sometimes follows a similar method with Leonard Cohen’s album Ten New Songs, allowing it to cycle for hours as she works on her latest masterpiece. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to select a new theme song or collection of theme songs to inspire your intense efforts in behalf of your labors of love in the coming weeks. It’s a favorable time to explore the generative power of joyous, lyrical obsession.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 “I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination,” mourned Virgo musician Nick Cave, who’s renowned for his original approach to his craft. I’m bringing this to your attention because I suspect you will be endowed with an extra fertile imagination in the coming weeks. And I would hate for you to waste time and energy trying to make full use of it in the presence of influences that would resist and discourage you. Therefore, I’ll cheer you on as you seek out people and situations that enhance your freedom to express your imagination in its expansive glory.

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22 A scholar counted up how often the Bible delivers the command “Fear not!” and “Don’t be afraid!” and similar advice. The number was 145. I don’t think that approach

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 How did humans figure out that a luxurious fabric could be made from the cocoons of insect larvae? Ancient Chinese sage Confucius told the following story. One day in 2460 B.C., 14-year-old Chinese princess Xi Ling Shi was sitting under a mulberry tree sipping tea. A silk worm’s cocoon fell off a branch and landed in her drink.

She was curious, not bothered. She unrolled the delicate structure and got the idea of using the threads to weave a fabric. The rest is history. I foresee a silk-worm’scocoon-falling-in-your-cup-of-tea type of event in your future, Sagittarius. Be alert for it.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 “It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires,” wrote Capricorn author Rebecca West. “It must abandon itself to its master passion.” That’s a high standard to live up to! But then you Capricorns have substantial potential to do just that: become the champions of devoting practical commitment to righteous causes. With that in mind, I’ll ask you: How are you doing in your work to embody the ideal that Rebecca West articulated? Is your soul loyal to its deepest desires? Has it abandoned itself to its master passion? Take inventory—and make any corrections, if necessary.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 I would never try to talk you into downplaying or denying your suffering. I would never try to convince you that the pain you have experienced is mild or tolerable or eminently manageable. Who among us has the wisdom to judge the severity or intractability of anyone else’s afflictions? Not I. But in the coming months, I will ask you to consider the possibility that you have the power— perhaps more than you realize—to diminish your primal aches and angst. I will encourage you to dream of healing yourself in ways that you have previously imagined to be impossible.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 “You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at,” wrote Piscean poet W. H. Auden. In other words, you have a responsibility to develop your potential and figure out how to offer your best gifts. It’s not just a selfish act for you to fulfill your promise; it’s a generous act of service to your fellow humans. So how are you doing with that assignment, Pisces? According to my analysis, you should be right in the middle of raising your efforts to a higher octave; you should be discovering the key to activating the next phase of your success—which also happens to be the next phase of your ability to bestow blessings on others.

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It is difficult for me to understand the motivation of these folks. To begin with, we do not own the aquifer. And we are not the only ones who depend on it for their water supply. How can they think they have the right to contaminate it?

When the district notified us of their intent to raise rates, they referred several times to the need to develop a supplemental water supply. They mentioned Pure Water Soquel project, but nowhere the word “sewage.” They required 50%+1 of us to object, in writing, to stop the project (which is unnecessary, as there is plenty of water available without it).

I believe that requirement to be upside-down.

To be fair, they should be required to get 50%+1 of everyone using the aquifer to approve of their shenanigans, making it more like Government of the People, By the People, and For the People.

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NEWS WORTH ROOTING FOR The team at the Homeless Garden Project is working on expanding its programs for the homeless with a move to a larger farm

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WINE PAIRING A dozen former Downtown Streets Team employees say the nonprofit's leaders promoted heavy drinking at the office and at work functions.

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s with many Downtown Streets Team staff functions, attendees say the liquor flowed freely during a 2014 holiday party at the nonprofit’s San Jose headquarters.

A young female staffer hired a month prior recalls mingling with colleagues by the receptionist’s desk when Eileen Richardson, the homeless services provider’s CEO, walked up to join her. “Out of nowhere,” the employee recalls, Richardson asked, “So, you’re a lesbian?”

“We were standing at the front desk chatting, tipsy on wine, and talking about how I liked the job so far,” the newcomer, who requested

anonymity to protect future job prospects, later wrote about the encounter. The woman says she laughed at the prying question but answered affirmatively. Richardson then inquired about her relationship status and physical preferences before waxing poetic about feminine beauty, the ex-employee says.

“OK, so what’s your type?” she says she asked Richardson, who “suddenly got serious and sultry-eyed, leaned in and said, ‘Well, you are.’”

The night grew “increasingly strange” as guests helped themselves to boxed wine and spiked fruit punch, did keg stands—that is, a handstand on a keg to guzzle as much beer as

possible—and took swigs of hard liquor, according to the woman, who says she drank so much that she threw up in the office toilet.

All the while, the employee says, an “incredibly drunk” Richardson followed her around and “had her arm around me and kept telling my friends to go ahead and leave.” The staffer says her employer began “brushing my hair back from my face, snuggling her head into my neck” as onlookers shot worried looks at the pair.

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Adam Marshall remembers fondly the time he spent as a kid on his grandfather’s ranch in Watsonville.

That’s where he learned how much he enjoyed labor-intensive work. He dreamed of carrying on his grandfather’s commitment to helping others in need without an expectation of anything in return—as Marshall recently explained to a riveted audience at DNA’s Comedy Lab. Earlier this year, Marshall had been out of jail for two months and was living out of his car when he realized that he could use some help putting his life back together.

He discovered the Homeless Garden Project, where he joined a group of fellow trainees building skills and growing their support networks while transitioning out of homelessness.

Marshall was sharing his story at a celebration of the Homeless Garden Project and its impact on the lives of trainees like Marshall.

“The farm has changed my life in so many ways,” Marshall told the audience.

“It has given me hope. It has given me a willingness to live and to better myself.

If there is a cure for homelessness, it is through community outreach programs like the Homeless Garden Project.”

Now, the Homeless Garden Project is working on more than doubling its size.

Once it expands, the nonprofit will be able to help even more people like Marshall who are experiencing homelessness. The group, founded in 1990, has achieved remarkable results with its current 3.5-acre farm near Natural Bridges State Beach. In 2018, 100% of the group’s trainee graduates obtained stable employment and housing. The farm generated 30,000 pounds of organic produce, including about 7,000 pounds that were donated to community members, providing ingredients for some 40 products sold at the group’s shops in downtown Santa Cruz and Capitola.

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Something From Nothing

By Datta Khalsa, Broker

I get that this is a small town. But in the course of practicing and investing in real estate here over the past 26 years, the number of correlations that pop up in the course of the various interactions has steadily grown to the point where they have become irreversibly intertwined. And I have found there is a central force tying them all together that is unmistakable.

In a recent occurrence of this phenomenon, I wrote a letter of intent on behalf of a client to assume a lease downtown. Turns out the landlord for the building lives right next door to a home sale I am also handling several miles away. And the client buying that home is best friends with the largest investor in a real estate fund that I manage.

Likewise, certain properties are starting to play a recurring role in my life as well. For instance, there’s a listing downtown where I am writing an offer for a partnership to purchase a certain property from another group who bought this property the last time I listed it—from a client who eventually became my office’s IT provider. You see, it all seems to run in a circular motion.

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I have also lost count of the number of friends who have become clients and the number of clients who have become friends to the point where it all begins to blur the lines between work life and personal life. The most significant example is my wife, whom I helped buy a home soon after we met. Ultimately, I believe it all comes down to the relationships we build with the world around us that makes success possible.

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Every common thread shared between two individuals, whether through business or as friends, romantic partners, spouses, family members and even with pets, contains the potential for a mutual feeling of gratitude and caring which provides ground upon which a relationship can grow and flourish.

The bond can be as brief as a shared nod from a stranger or as lasting as a lifelong connection, and the feeling can also extend to inanimate objects and symbols of special significance if you grow attached enough to them. So it is only natural that this bond extends out to the people we come in contact with during the course of our work.

In fact, I feel this connection with each client, tenant, employee, contractor and agent on every project I am a part of. I have an equally lasting connection with every property, business and investment deal I am able to facilitate, and I feel fortunate to find common ground and savor each connection that we as humans are able to create in life, quite often from out of thin air. And that to me is nothing short of a miracle every time.

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employee remembers waking up at one point to see her boss lying beside her “staring lovingly at me.”

One of the colleagues who witnessed the evening’s uncomfortably intimate conclusion checked in often during the next few weeks over Richardson’s “obvious coming on to me,” the employee says.

Others found humor in the escapade.

“Several other staff joked about Eileen having a crush on me, and there was a rumor that she’d kissed me,” the employee says. “If she did that night, I don’t recall.”

A couple months later, the employee says she attended a Super Bowl party at Chris Richardson’s home, at which Eileen invited her to have a beer and view a photo album at her adjacent residence, where she followed her and “kissed me in the doorway of the bathroom.”

‘A FRAT HOUSE’ As Silicon Valley’s homeless population ballooned amid an unprecedented affordability crisis over the past decade, Downtown Streets Team (DST) emerged as one of the most prominent Bay Area organizations trying to lift people out of poverty. By 2012, it counted Palo Alto’s top cop as a board member and received nearly $400,000, about 40% of its budget, from direct government support. In

2013, the nonprofit expanded into the North Bay, landing contracts with the cities of San Rafael and Novato; four years later, it launched a team in Santa Cruz.

On the Central Coast, the group’s model of employing people experiencing homelessness to clean up Santa Cruz’s downtown had been floated over the years as one possible tool to address a large local chronically homeless population. Chip, the one-name, thenexecutive-director of the Downtown Association, threw a fundraiser for the nonprofit in the winter of 2017.

A few months later, the nonprofit earned the blessing of a Santa Cruz City Council committee studying homelessness. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Joan Baez spoke at the ribbon-cutting ceremony that October. Over the next two years, DST expanded, with crews now servicing Harvey West, downtown, the San Lorenzo Riverwalk, Cowell Beach, Main Beach, and even North County beaches. (A Santa Cruz program manager referred us to public relations in San Jose for comment.)

Behind the do-good mission of employing the unhoused, however, a toxic workplace culture festered for years, according to a dozen former staffers.

In letters prepared by attorneys and echoed in reviews on jobrating platform Glassdoor.com, ex-employees accuse both Eileen, 58, and her son Chris, 33, of

sexual harassment, making lewd comments, paying women less than men for similar work, and promoting a culture of heavy drinking.

Employees have described the workplace as “toxic,” “a frat house,” “full of nepotism and favoritism,” and “a joke.” Multiple people compared working at DST to being in an abusive relationship.

Yet reporting misconduct proved difficult because of close friendships between the Richardsons, their strategically appointed board of directors and other managers, including Chief Operating Officer Elfedra Strydom, who until earlier this year fielded all personnel concerns.

In all, more than a dozen former employees allege harassment, sexual assault and discrimination at DST. Two of those ex-staffers are coming forward publicly with their claims for the first time.

“Things got really, really bad,” says 34-year-old Zia MacWilliams, a former DST program manager who left the nonprofit in 2017 after four progressively stressful years on the job. “I honestly believe in the mission and loved working with my clients, but internally it was just out of control.”

Both MacWilliams and Michelle Fox Wiles, 29, accuse DST of perpetuating a pay gap that privileged their male counterparts.

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NUZ PLAYING BOOKIE We’ll soon have more answers about the upgrade options for Santa Cruz’s downtown library—possibly more information than we ever really needed.

As of last year, the plan was to build a brand new library combined with parking and affordable housing.

Evidence showed that the alternative, a remodel, would have given library users

far less bang for the city’s buck. However, city leaders opted to ask around. That’s why a council committee had consultant Abe Jayson present on how much of a remodel the town could get for $27 million. The plan isn’t perfect, but his renderings showed big windows with lots of natural light. So pretty!

Of course, because Santa Cruz leaders are better at asking for more information than making decisions, they then had

Jayson go back to the drawing board to sketch out plans to build a brand new library from the ground up, also on a $27 million budget.

Jayson will give his second presentation on a new downtown library at the current downtown library Friday, Dec. 13 at 5pm.

Just as a reminder, it was nine months ago that the City Council closed the book on the library-planning process because of the parking concerns. And it was six weeks

ago that Jayson said that construction costs have been going up 8-10% per year and that the “good news” was that those will drop to 5-6% a year.

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is raising money for a long-planned move to a 9-acre site in Pogonip. The move has been in the works for more than 20 years, with the acreage originally allocated in the city’s 1998 master plan. The group wanted to make sure it was effective and well-run and then think about expanding, says Darrie Ganzhorn, executive director of the Homeless Garden Project.

It will be the first time the nonprofit can make a long-term farm plan and add an orchard. Site plans also include a greenhouse and barn, and will bring electricity, internet and bathrooms instead of portable toilets. The new farm would allow the group to work with up to 50 trainees at a time, too, and all for more community visits.

“We want to see the project be a destination for people to come see a model for how a community can both really promote sustainable agriculture and also solutions to homelessness,” Ganzhorn says.

But progress hit an unexpected hurdle this year, when the group found remnants of clay pigeons in the dirt of the Pogonip site. Newspaper articles from the 1930s seem to confirm that the site formerly hosted skeet shooting, and the clay pigeons used for the activity apparently contained lead and other contaminants that are now in the soil.

While the levels are not unsafe for activities like hiking in the park, based on initial soil studies, they could be unsafe for farming, says Tony Elliot, director of Parks and Recreation for the city of Santa Cruz.

“It was a surprise to all of us, so we wanted to work expeditiously with them to figure

out what’s going on and resolve it as quickly as possible,” Elliot says.

A grant from the state covered most of the cost of additional assessment and evaluation of the soil, the results of which are expected by May. At that point, the city and the HGP team hope to understand the scope of the contamination and what remediation is needed. It’s not clear at this time how much the remediation might cost.

“We want to make sure it can be a sustainable operation and a healthy operation both for the people working there and for the people consuming the food grown there,” Elliot says.

In the meantime, Elliot says, the city is working closely with the Homeless Garden Project to figure out what steps they can take toward completing the move, such as obtaining tree permits and putting in a water line to the property.

The group currently plans to prepare the soil and take other basic steps starting in May, then farm at the Pogonip site starting in the 2021 growing season, Ganzhorn says.

“It’s just such a long-held dream for the project and for our community,” she says.

“It’s a complicated project, and it’s worth it. It stands to have so much community impact.”

For Marshall, being a trainee at the farm gave him a drive and determination he didn’t know he had before, he told the audience at the HGP event. His speech was met with a standing ovation from everyone in the theater.

“The Homeless Garden Project is my home … It’s a magical place,” he said. “It saved my life.”

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Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto (CLSEPA) took the case and offered the DST board a chance to resolve the allegations out of court.

(At this point, the Santa Cruz branch was only a few months old.)

It took a year and a month before the DST board agreed to hire a law firm to investigate the allegations.

The probe, which commenced in late 2018 and concluded this past July, “substantiated a culture of drinking and inappropriate joking in the workplace,” according to an Aug. 28 letter from CLSEPA lawyer Jennifer Smith to the 11 claimants. “The board seems to be genuinely concerned about the work environment that was described,” she wrote, though, “they believe that things are better now than they were three to five years ago.”

While the board insists that the investigation found no evidence of a gender-based pay disparity, Smith said in her letter that trustees expressed a desire to “see changes made.” One of the most significant changes, Smith wrote, is that DST ramped up its reporting system by allowing employees to complain to the board directly and created a human resources position for the first time in the organization’s 14-year history.

The board also conceded that alcohol “has been an issue,” Smith said, and instituted a “total prohibition.”

Richardson says she never read any of the Glassdoor reviews and is only vaguely aware of the CLSEPA negotiation. But she denies there were ever any problems with DST’s work environment. “Those claims,” she says, “were unfounded.”

A BOLD VISION A successful venture capitalist who gained global notoriety on the cusp of the 21st century as the CEO of the groundbreaking but controversial music-file-sharing platform Napster, Richardson brought her change-theworld ethos to the charitable sector.

Under the DST model, local governments and business associations hire a team of homeless people to clean up streets in exchange for gift cards and case management.

DST’s “win-win-win” system of hiring the homeless, cleaning up

trash and benefiting the broader community garnered renewed acclaim for the elder Richardson.

Since its inception, DST has blossomed from a cash-strapped experiment in Palo Alto to a burgeoning enterprise spanning a dozen cities in two states with an $8 million annual budget.

Richardson—who makes upward of $200,000 in base pay as president and CEO of DST and an affiliated nonprofit clinic called Peninsula Healthcare Connection—has since racked up accolades. The San Francisco Chronicle named her a recipient of the Visionary Award earlier this year thanks to nominations from, among other dignitaries, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and his counterpart in Oakland, Mayor Libby Schaaf. “The honor salutes leaders who strive to make the world a better place,” the Chron wrote about the distinction.

The New York Times gave her a similar honor a year prior. Also in 2018, the League of California Cities and the California State Association of Counties’ Joint Homeless Task Force recognized DST’s model as a “best practice” for supporting homeless people.

In a blog post a few years back, Richardson credited her success for running her charitable enterprise the only way she knows how: “like a high-tech startup rather than a social service—action-oriented versus service-oriented.” To that end, she said, “We improvised, tried new ideas and constantly corrected our course.”

That constant course-correction may guide the nonprofit’s growthfocused public mission, but sources say that it elided internal mismanagement, which exposed employees to workplace abuses and, at times, put vulnerable clients at risk.

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functions made it something of a tradition for attendees to sit in his lap before they could claim a gift from under the Christmas tree. A photo of holiday office party in 2015 shows him in his red-and-white St. Nick finery rubbing an oversized dildo on his face while Eileen Richardson apparently tries not to laugh. Another from that same event depicts the Santa cosplayer pouring a bag of white wine straight into the mouth of Chris Richardson, who kneels on the floor with his right fist thrust victoriously in the air.

Like mother, like son.

“Eileen had a history of getting extremely inappropriate at office functions,” one former staffer wrote in a review of her multi-year tenure at DST. “Some of these moments were kind of funny, even to me, such as the time she twerked upside down at the office Christmas party.

However, similarly to Chris, Eileen did not know when to rein it in.”

Then there were the weekly Costco runs for booze, staff meetings where managers would partake and frequent klatches at Wine Affairs and other restaurants and bars near the office. Richardson didn’t respond to a query about whether the nonprofit footed the bill for any of the alcohol purchases.

One manager complained that not only were these outings inappropriate, but also that staffers often felt uncomfortable sitting them out because they were a place where conversations about promotions often happened.

MacWilliams says she’s concerned that public agencies continue to grant DST millions of dollars a year in taxpayer money without demanding more from the nonprofit’s leadership.

She hoped the investigation would lead to some sort of leadership change, compensation for the women she felt were underpaid, and an apology.

“Years later, none of this has happened,” she says. “Although I have come to peace with this, I truly believe that DST should not have access to public funds until those responsible for irrevocably hurting so many people have been held responsible.”

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he phone call came, ominously, at 7am. It was the morning after a CT scan and Jory Post, swallowing a growing dread, sensed bad news.

He sensed right.

“I’m sorry to hit you with this nuclear bomb,” said the doctor on the other end. Post had a large malignant tumor on his pancreas, wrapped around an artery.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer—difficult to detect early, often resistant to treatment and infamous for its low survival rate.

Post and his wife Karen cried a lot that morning. “But it didn’t completely wipe me out,” he says months later, reflecting on the moment at his Santa Cruz home. “I know it’s the worst cancer in the world. I know I have a 7.5% chance of survival. But I’m a poker player.

I’ve won a lot of poker tournaments at worse odds than that. Mostly, though, I’m a pragmatist. I know what’s coming and how to plan for it.

So, I got to work.”

This is not a story of a man

facing a life-threatening diagnosis.

Tragically, such a thing is so common these days that it’s hardly newsworthy. Neither is it a story of a man beating cancer. He has kept it at arm’s length, and he has stubbornly pushed through it, but he hasn’t beaten anything.

This is a story of a respected community artist, writer and teacher living through a year that has been paradoxically both the worst year of his life, and the best.

Pancreatic cancer has informed every waking moment of Jory Post’s 2019, from bouts of pain and exhaustion to chemo treatments to the psycho-spiritual labor of confronting death. Yet, at the same time, he has never been more in command of his artistic powers, attaining improbable professional goals while finding a wellspring of creativity in a newly discovered art form.

Amidst an epic struggle to survive, he’s somehow living his best life.

In February, about three months after his diagnosis, Post, 69, joined

a writing group for poetry under the direction of Danusha Laméris, Santa Cruz County’s reigning Poet Laureate. (He already belonged to two other writing groups for fiction and playwriting).

After a frustrating start wrestling with traditional poetry, he happened upon prose poetry. What sounds like an oxymoron is actually poetry without the line breaks on the page, written in undifferentiated paragraphs. Santa Cruz has a rich history in this literary niche, thanks mostly to two men who devoted their writing careers to the prose poem—the late poet, teacher and critic Morton Marcus, and UCSC printer and poet Gary Young, whom Post refers to as “my poetry guru.”

Since adopting the prosepoetry form, Post has been on fire artistically. He has written close to 300 prose poems this year, many of which were published in his first book of poetry poignantly titled The Extra Year, released in September by Anaphora Literary Press. His work has also been published in The Sun, one of the country’s most prominent

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He was also the subject of a celebratory book launch party that was one of highlights of the Santa Cruz literary community’s year, and held court at both a writers salon at Gabriella Café and a Lit Chat hosted by the Santa Cruz literary journal Catamaran. This month, he even traveled to Chicago, where he was invited to read his work at the 25th anniversary party of the Chicago Quarterly Review, which also published his poems.

The prose poems that have fueled this run of productivity often come to him in the middle of the night.

Even in the midst of bouts of nausea and cramps, reactions to chemo, and the anxieties and worries that

accompany serious illness, often he’ll be up at 3am, recording ideas or polishing them into poems in his journal.

“Something has upped my game,” he says. “I don’t personally take credit for it. I like to believe something takes over your pen, that you are writing through some other medium. I lucked into something I don’t completely understand.”

The literary output is accompanied by a similar flowering in his other art form of choice. For years, Post and his wife, book artist Karen Wallace, have run JoKa Press, their in-house art workshop that features her handmade journals and his found-art collage boxes, inspired by the work of assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. Post’s creations are often humorous or whimsical settings built into the drawers of old dressers and featuring everything from Scrabble tiles to star charts to 45-rpm records. Their Santa Cruz home has been a hot spot on the annual Open Studios tour for several

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“I’ve never seen someone who has had this kind of creative arc before,” says Laméris, a veteran workshop leader and teacher. “It’s like seeing someone emerge from a chrysalis.”

“He’s experiencing his life and his art coming together in a really remarkable and inspiring way,” says friend and fellow writer Kathryn Chetkovich. “He’s been constantly shuttling back and forth between these physical objects he’s making and the poems. You get a sense when you’re over there that something is getting made all the time, in a very cool way.”

Novelist and former UCSC lit prof Paul Skenazy was moved

by Post’s story enough to write an essay about his friend for the online journal Brevity. “He took his diagnosis as a challenge,” Skenazy wrote, “and answered it with his stern will, adventurous spirit, and imagination. We do make our own miracles sometimes, but not always, or often.”

Friends and colleagues stress that the timing of Post’s cancer diagnosis and his astonishing artistic output are not coincidental—that the former served as a catalyst for the latter. Whether it was his intention or not, the poetry has been a path that allowed Post to escape being defined by his condition.

“He remains,” says Chetkovich, “a person much bigger than this thing that has happened to him.”

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Jory Post has lived in Santa Cruz most of his life. He moved to town in 1962 at the age of 12 with his family,

living just steps away from the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. His first summer in his new home was a rush of pinball machines and crabbing at the Wharf. He’s a product of Mission Hill Junior High, Soquel High, Cabrillo College—where he first encountered poets and role models Morton Marcus and Joe Stroud—and UCSC. He spent most of his career in the classroom, first as an aide, then a part-time and finally a full-time teacher at Happy Valley School.

He had a particular interest in technology, and was a pioneer in the early 1980s in bringing computers into an education setting. In the 1990s, he received a fellowship— named for Christa McAuliffe, the teacher who died in the 1986 Challenger explosion—to design computer-aided “virtual” field trips.

In 2000, his educational career took an unexpected turn when he was hired by Apple to help design an online environment for teachers and students, though his association with the world’s most famous computer company didn’t last as long as he had hoped. “It became apparent it was not the mecca I thought it was,” he says.

The last couple of decades Post has dedicated to his creative work, as well as to establishing relationships in Santa Cruz’s artistic communities. In 2011, he co-founded phren-Z, an online literary journal devoted to Santa Cruz County writers. He served as a formal and informal editor of the writings of friends and colleagues.

“He’s now bearing the profits of all those years of community service, connections with people who care about him, things he’s done for other people,” says Paul Skenazy.

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Santa Cruz novelist Elizabeth McKenzie, another long-time friend, says that, “I really depend on him as a reader and as a literary critic.”

Filmmaker Jon Silver has known Post for years, going back to the days when both were involved in Santa Cruz educational circles. In September, Silver released a short film he had made titled Along for the Ride, inspired by the prose poems of The Extra Year. “It’s kind of amazing,” he says. “It’s been a creative explosion, and there’s something about those prose poems that capture the realness and rawness of [what he’s been going through].”

The poems in The Extra Year forthrightly address the exhausting rituals of having cancer in the contemporary world, from losing hair to grappling with doctors.

The book is rife with gallows humor that walks the knife-edge of tragedy, such as contemplating with his wife the music to play at his memorial (“‘Another One Bites the Dust’ is first,” he writes). There’s a heartbreaking story about a longlost sister who died as an infant. He names names, and expresses himself

openly about the meaningful people in his life, as if coyness disappeared with his hair.

“I find his writing to be original and mysterious,” says McKenzie.

“It always comes at you from an unexpected angle.”

Laméris has noticed the way Post knits together darkness and levity.

“There’s a real kind of unflappable coolness of tone that comes through,” she says. “And that really contrasts with the (inherently) hot emotional material and offsets it, making it more powerful. The poems really move between pathos and dark humor. They hit all the notes.”

But perhaps above all, the poems are deeply relatable.

“What I experience,” says Chetkovich, “is that it feels like he has opened his own road for other people to walk with him in a way that I find moving and really generous.”

BLUFFS AND CALLS The bifurcation between Post’s old-line Santa Cruz life and his not-so-old life as a literary lion

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PREPARING THE EARTH FOR NEW BIRTH We invite you to journey with us through Advent, as we ready our hearts, our spiritual home, for the celebration of Christmas.

Other plans include a self-guided tour of Neary Lagoon, a writing campaign to our legislators, and contemplations to deepen our spiritual well-being. We plan to provide practical methods for responding to the care of our climate and planet.

The Advent season will culminate with a heartwarming Candlelight Service of Carols on Christmas Eve at 7 p.m..

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Our focus for the season is “Preparing the Earth for New Birth.” We are committing ourselves to greater care for both our spiritual home and our earthly home,especially exploring how to respond to the climate crisis.

Our choir will offer special music as each Sunday we will focus on extending Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love into our world.

On Sunday, December 15, our Steel Drum Band will also be playing.

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< 24 is nicely symbolized by poker. He hosts two semi-regular poker games.

One includes friends that go back to his high-school days; that game has been going on for more than 50 years. The other game is populated mostly by writers and poets.

For Post, poker is more than idle entertainment. The poker games at his house take place on a regulation table. He has been an accomplished player for years. In 2005, he walked away with $45,000 in winnings from a World Series of Poker event at Lake Tahoe.

He’s been entranced with the challenges of “beating the house” in poker since he was 17, when he won $100 at Harvey’s on Tahoe’s south shore. The same man who is now a prose-poet and visual artist said, “I’m really a numbers guy.

Literature and writing were not my strong suit on the SAT. But I was 99th-percentile in math.”

His grounding in math (and cards) has given him a fuller understanding of probabilities, which is useful in avoiding both denial and self-pity when it comes to facing a lifethreatening illness.

In November, a year after his original diagnosis, Post endured another CT scan. What followed wasn’t exactly bad news. But it wasn’t good news, either. The tumor was essentially unchanged after months of chemotherapy, still clinging to a crucial artery. He was disappointed, but the doctor told him that, with pancreatic cancer, “stability equals success.” He will return for another scan in three months. “So I’m going to be around another three months,” he says.

“The doctor told me that maybe we’ll just keep doing this for a year or two, which made me happy.”

Meanwhile, the urge to create continues, only a tad less intensely.

To get out of the house, he’s rented an office in downtown Santa Cruz, where he goes for the express purpose to write without distraction. In the last month alone, aside from the continued production of prose poems, he’s written two 10-minute plays and started a new novel, of which he’s logged more than 20,000 words.

He’s also revising a novel that he initially finished before his diagnosis in 2018. It’s about death and dying. “I had several people read the manuscript,” he says, “and many of them came back pointing to one particular character, that ‘She was a little flat.’ Well, then I got my diagnosis, and it struck me that my experience wasn’t anywhere in that book. So I looked at that character, and it was, ‘Congratulations Louise, you now have pancreatic cancer.’”

At the center of Jory Post’s creative life is his daily journal.

Inside it, he brings order to his creative restlessness by the use of icons, most notably a yellow light bulb. The light bulb represents a germ of an idea, often one or two words, a fragment from a dream, a beguiling phrase.

He had the journal with him last summer when he watched a two-hour documentary on the late novelist Toni Morrison at the Nickelodeon. “I just sat there with my pen the whole time. I think I got 25 to 30 light bulbs that day.”

He keeps the journal in the zippered pocket of his Patagonia jacket, which he wears everywhere he goes. He carries the journal when he walks to his downtown office, a ray of light in the enveloping darkness of his health.

“The role of the poet,” he says, “is to look at everything and figure out how, say, looking at bunnies in the backyard has a connection to not only what’s going on in my life, but in all our lives as a universal. I want to hit everything head-on. And because I don’t know how much time I have left to do that, I’m always (referencing) the list of these light bulbs. There’s no ennui at all. The only times that I’ve really been slowed down have been related to my nausea or stomach issues. Otherwise, no. I don’t know what ennui is.”

“As an observer and a teacher,” says Laméris, “what I see is that he’s always had this in him. And because he’s under the gun of mortality in a more obvious way than most of us, he’s really stepped into more of himself. It turns out, this is who he was all along.”

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VOICE OF THE SHAMAN Andy Vargas first began singing lead in Santana on the band’s 2002 album ‘Shaman.’ He brings his own band to the Rio on Saturday for a benefit show.

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Watsonville native and Santana lead singer Andy Vargas brings his own band Souleros to music and comedy benefit show at the Rio BY WALLACE BAINE

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alk about a quintessential Bay Area cultural experience. With images spanning his entire half-century career projected behind him, rock god Carlos Santana led his band in the final show of

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Cabrillo Chorus & Ensemble Monterey Chamber Orchestra Present

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Vargas. For two decades, he’s occupied a coveted spot in the rock firmament as lead vocalist in Santana. The most recent world tour was the 20th in which Vargas has participated.

Vargas knew when he first joined the band “that I was going to be a sponge, just learning from Carlos, for the rest of my life. I still learn something every day with him,” he says. “And it’s hard to catch up with him. He’s already done his two hours of meditation and prayer and has e-mailed me a setlist for the day when I’m just waking up.”

On Dec. 14, Vargas comes to the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz (sans Santana) for a show he calls El Sueño.

He’ll lead his own band Souleros in a benefit performance that also includes the South Bay band Tortilla Soup and comedian Frankie Quiñones. Souleros is Vargas’s attempt—even in the band’s very name—to combine the style and spirit of R&B/soul with the Cuban genre of bolero.

The show is a fundraiser for the Andy Vargas Foundation, which provides musical instruments, musical mentors and college scholarships for kids in underserved communities, including his home town of Watsonville.

“The basic idea is to turn on the light bulb,” he says, “to let kids see that their dreams and aspirations, what they want to do with their lives, is limitless.”

Vargas can point to no better example than himself. His own musical upbringing can be traced back to his grandparents’ Watsonville record store, where as a kid he was surrounded by the latest recordings of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and the Ohio Players.

Young Andy was playing in bands from his teenage years, and was a musical prodigy at Watsonville High in the mid 1990s—there’s a video on YouTube featuring Vargas at 14 performing at a WHS talent show to an audience of Beatlemania-style screaming girls.

He was still in high school when he first met Terry Melcher, the wellknown record producer who was central in shaping the California sound of the 1960s. Melcher brought Vargas to L.A. and got him a record

deal—though, thanks to fall out from music-industry consolidations and changes in ownership, the young singer’s debut record was never released.

But Vargas was brought to the attention of Carlos Santana by Melcher and Lou Adler, another record industry legend. At the time, Santana was experiencing a career resurgence with the 1999 release of his album Supernatural, which spawned his first hit single in years, “Smooth,” featuring Matchbox 20 vocalist Rob Thomas.

Despite its commercial success, Supernatural, loaded with guest vocal performances, exposed the band’s lack of a consistent lead voice.

Santana put out the word that he was looking for singers.

Vargas was 20 years old when he was brought into Santana’s studio in San Rafael. “I saw him in the backroom through the window,” he remembers. “Yep, that’s the guy right there. Someone you see in books and magazines, someone you listen to your whole life, then you see him in person. Yeah, I was nervous.”

The entire band was on hand.

Without a word, Santana struck up the band with monster hit “Smooth.”

“I just jumped right in,” says Vargas.

“By the way, he still does that.

Nothing’s changed. He’ll get up and begin playing a song without even telling you what it is. You have to recognize the intro and jump right in.”

Vargas was quickly hired for a three-week tour, as a test run. A few days in, Santana and longtime conga player Raul Rekow sat Vargas down and told him they wanted him in the band as a permanent member.

He made his recording debut on the 2002 album Shaman. He’s been an integral part of Santana ever since.

“It’s been quite a blessing,” he says.

“I remember when I first joined, people would come up to me and say, weeks after the show, ‘Oh my God! I need another Santana concert.’ It’s like their soul needs it. And I’ve seen it consistently for years.”

Andy Vargas & Souleros perform a benefit for the Andy Vargas Foundation, with Tortilla Soup and Frankie Quiñones, on Saturday, Dec. 14, at 7:20pm at the Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $35-75. andyvargas.com.

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HOLDING ON After a serious accident left acclaimed jazz guitarist Mike Stern unable to hold a guitar pick, he had to get creative to find the way back to the top of his game.

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ike Stern has had a hell of a career. A bona fide shredder schooled in both jazz and rock, Stern was just a freshfaced kid out of college when he was recommended to Blood Sweat & Tears

by Pat Metheny. After a few years, he caught the ear of another New Yorker, a trumpeter named Miles Davis who tapped Stern for his band, and even named a song after him: “Fat Time” from The Man With the Horn.

From there, Stern played with Jaco Pastorius and the Yellowjackets and received Grammy nods for his solo work. Jazz magazine Down Beat dubbed

him one of the 75 Great Jazz Guitarists of All Time.

But in 2015, while crossing a New York street, a freak accident threatened to take him out of music permanently.

“There was some construction that was not supposed to be where it was,” Stern says. “Very camouflaged.

It looked like a line in the middle of the road, but in fact it was elevated.

I tripped on this thing.”

He broke both of his humerus bones, which connect the shoulder to the elbow. In addition, he had to have his right shoulder replaced

entirely. He was left with permanent nerve damage in his right hand—he could no longer hold a guitar pick.

While many would have tossed in the towel, in the months after the accident, Stern fought through, looking for ways to adapt to his new situation.

“I was struggling to find something that would work, because the pick kept sliding around,” he says. “I was playing with a glove for a while, using Velcro, but that didn’t work.”

He thought of his friend Ray LeVier, a New Orleans drummer who had been seriously injured in a fire.

Mike Stern performs Thursday, Dec. 12, at 7 and 9pm at Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $31.50 adv/$36.75 door. 427-2227.

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“He’s a great drummer, but he’s got really bad injuries on his hands.

I said, ‘How do you do it?’”

The solution came from an unexpected source: that provenance of debutantes and drag queens, wig glue.

“It’s not like gorilla glue, or anything that’s bad for your skin,” Stern says.

“Certain things are difficult, but I’m able to play, thank god.”

Stern crawled out of the wreckage and back to the top of his game. In 2017, just a year and a half after the accident, he released Trip, a dizzying fusion album that finds the guitarist continuing to push himself to the limit. Opening with a title track that sounds half-mad as it swirls feverishly into a spiral-staircase chorus, Stern plays with as much searching melodicism and fretboard shredding exactitude as ever.

This week, Stern comes to Santa Cruz on the heels of his second album since the accident, Eleven, a collaborative work with fusion keyboardist (and recent Grammy winner) Jeff Lorber.

With five songs written by Stern and five by Lorber, Eleven sees two titans of fusion going hard in the paint for each other’s tunes, unearthing some monster grooves and some truly blazing melodic passages. Late-album track “Ha Ha Hotel” is a barn-burner.

“I always like to do my recordings live,” Stern says. “It’s part of the beauty of people playing together— like we’re all conversing in a certain subject, which is the song.”

Though he’ll never get feeling back in his right hand, Stern has always had a deeper sense of feel than mere touch.

“I remember playing with Miles towards the end,” he says. “He was sick at one point, and he was still swinging his ass off—still playing his heart out, being creative and finding his way of playing, just doing it no matter what. I’m always saying: ‘Keep going. Keep pushing.’”

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GARY GRIGGS BOOK SIGNING A Santa Cruz favorite, geologist, scientist, ocean lover, award winner, Sentinel columnist, house renovator, people person, Earth mascot, professor, and all-around everything-er, Gary Griggs knows what’s going on in our ocean backyard. Griggs’ new book Our Ocean Backyard: Collected Essays, Volume 2 is a compilation of 106 previously published articles from his popular column for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Written for anyone with an interest in the oceans, the essays draw upon our rich history of ocean exploration and discovery, shedding light on our past history and what we can expect in the years and decades to come.

6pm. Wednesday, Dec. 18. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz. 459-3800, seymourcenter.ucsc.edu. Free.

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There’s no better way to get into the holiday spirit than to overload on the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.” Santa Cruz City Ballet Artistic Director, choreographer and Juilliard Alumnae Shannon Chipman began the Nutcracker tradition in Santa Cruz as the first Snow Queen at Cabrillo’s theater in 1988, and it’s still going strong today. The Nut is celebrating its 10th year at Cabrillo this season with a full-length performance by the Santa Cruz City Ballet at International Academy of Dance. There will be local talent and principal dancers from the Oregon Ballet Theater, as well as guest dancers from the Bay Area and Krazy George (Sunday only), inventor of the Wave as Mother Ginger.

1 and 4:30pm. Saturday, Dec. 14, and Sunday, Dec. 15. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. cabrillovapa.com. $28-40.

Free calendar listings in print and online are available for community events. Listings show up online within 24 hours. Submissions of free events and those $15 or less received by Thursday at noon, six days prior to the Good Times publication date, will be prioritized for print (space available). All listings must specify a day, start time, location and price (or ‘free’ if applicable). Listings can be set to repeat every week or month, and can be edited by the poster as needed. Ongoing events must be updated quarterly. It is the responsibility of the person submitting an event to cancel or modify the listing. Register at our website at santacruz.com in order to SUBMIT EVENTS ONLINE. E-mail calendar@goodtimes.sc or call 458.1100 with any questions.

WEDNESDAY 12/11 ARTS FRIENDS OF THE SCPL BOOKSTORE Visit us to see the treasures we have! Our Bookstore sells books great low priced of many genres for adults and children.

Sales support the library. Open every day.

Mondays-Thursdays 10am-6pm; Fridays and Saturdays 10am-4pm; Sundays 1-4pm.

Santa Cruz Public Library, 224 Church St., Santa Cruz.

GROUPS CALLING ALL PRESCHOOLERS! TODDLER HOUR AT THE SANCTUARY CENTER! Come enjoy weekly preschool adventures at the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary Exploration Center, with book readings, show-and-tell, singing songs, and crafts! 10-11am. Monterey Bay Sanctuary Exploration Center, 35 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz.

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SATURDAY 12/14

FARLEY’S WINTER WONDERLAND— 13TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY LIGHTS WALK THROUGH Farley’s Winter Wonderland

‘WOWIE-ZOWIE WITH JEFF RAZ’

brings the magic of the holiday season to life with a spectacular display of lights and holiday vignettes the whole family can enjoy. Nestled in Santa Cruz’s Seabright neighborhood, this free, open-air holiday display has brought joy and holiday cheer to those from near and far for 13 years. Farley’s Winter Wonderland, 108 Seaview Ave., Santa Cruz. Free.

THURSDAY 12/12 ARTS LIVELY ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE English country dance is a lively, social form of folk dance that was popular in the Renaissance era. You might have seen it performed at the Renaissance Faire.

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As part of this year’s ArtSmart Family Concert Series, Tandy Beal & Company is hosting Joy! favorite Jeff Raz. During this magical hour, experience the hilarity, wonder and dazzlement of physical theater and musical juggling with one of the preeminent circus performers of the West Coast. Raz has made a juggling act out of life: he toured as a soloist in Cirque du Soleil and spent nine years with the legendary Pickle Family Circus.

An expert at clowning around, Raz will bring volunteers to perform feats of balance, to make people gasp in awe and delight, and to uplift our hearts and spirits!

11am. Saturday, Dec. 14. Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front St., Santa Cruz. tandybeal.com. $15 adults/$10 children.

to learn. Beginners are very welcome -- all dances taught and prompted. Genderneutral roles/calling (larks/ravens). This group has been going for many years, and we always welcome new folks. We generally meet the second Thursdays of the month and have live music. If you're a musician, you're welcome to join our open band. We're a casual, fun-loving group. Come dance with us. Directions atenglishcountrydancing.info/ contact.html. Wear comfortable clothes and

shoes, sneakers are good. 7:30-9:30pm.

Peace United Church of Christ, Santa Cruz, 900 High St., Santa Cruz.

CLASSES WORKSHOP: ECO-FRIENDLY GIFT BASKETS This giving season, share the gift of sustainability. Learn new skills and practice limiting waste as you create a >36 variety of eco-friendly products

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Gary Griggs Presentation and Book Signing DECEMBER 18, 6–7:30PM SEYMOUR MARINE DISCOVERY CENTER FREE ADMISSION

Join the Seymour Marine Discovery Center for a special evening with Gary Griggs.

Written for anyone with an interest in the oceans, his new book, Our Ocean Backyard: Collected Essays, Volume 2, draws upon our rich history of ocean exploration and discovery, shedding light on what we can expect in the years and decades to come.

Community Science: Fall Phenology Walks DECEMBER 14, 11AM–1PM NORRIE’S GIFT AND GARDEN SHOP AT UCSC ARBORETUM FREE WITH ADMISSION TO THE ARBORETUM

Calling citizen scientists to collect phenology data and contribute to climate change research. Help monitor 18 permanently marked California native plants while touring the beautiful Native Plant Garden.

Jingle Shells Arts & Crafts Festival

This holiday tradition features more than 30 local artists and craftspeople who will tempt you with their ocean- and nature-inspired wares.

The festival features ocean-themed gifts, while proceeds directly support marine science education.

Getting Started with Fruit Trees JANUARY 11, 9:30AM–NOON HAY BARN $0–$25/PERSON

Most mistakes made with fruit trees are a result of poor, or no, planning. Alan Chadwick Garden Manager Orin Martin will show you how to select, plant, grow, and manage healthy, productive deciduous fruit trees organically.

This racially charged moment we are experiencing comes with danger, but also great opportunity. Alondra Nelson (president, Social Sciences Research Council), Herman Gray (emeritus professor of sociology), and Jenny Reardon (professor of sociology) discuss.

Carlos Motta: We The Enemy Opening Reception JANUARY 23, 5–7PM SESNON GALLERY, PORTER COLLEGE FREE ADMISSION

Presenting Carlos Motta: We The Enemy, the first West Coast solo exhibition of artworks by the internationally acclaimed artist. Motta works across media to trace connections between current political crises and repressive notions of gender and sexuality.

Pruning Deciduous Fruit Trees

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

A major art and science project by Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison.

The Harrisons worked with scientists and botanists to create trial gardens in geodesic domes, where native plant species respond to the temperatures and water conditions scientists foresee for the next 50 years.

Solitary Garden Public Sculpture & Garden Project THROUGH DECEMBER 31 BASKIN ART STUDIOS FREE ADMISSION

Solitary Garden is an installation by artist jackie sumell, replicating a standard U.S. solitary confinement cell and imagining a landscape without prisons. Around the 6’ x 9’ cell grows a garden of flowers and vegetables, designed by Tim Young, currently incarcerated in San Quentin.

JANUARY 18, 9:30AM–NOON HAY BARN $0–$30/PERSON

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Learn the basic concepts of fruit tree care as well as the do’s and don’ts of pruning in this workshop, led by Orin Martin and former CASFS apprentice Ryan Silsbee.

Videos from past events, including Angela Davis, CEO of YouTube Susan Wojcicki, and Breakthrough Prize winner Harry Noller, are available to view at the UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures YouTube channel.

Tickets go on sale: Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival 2020 DECEMBER 15 $18–$22/PERSON

Ignite your passion for adventure, action, and travel! The Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour will

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Right Livelihood Lecture: Dr. Vandana Shiva JANUARY 25, 7PM MUSIC RECITAL HALL $0–$10/PERSON

An environmental hero (Time) and one of the most Powerful Women on the Globe (Forbes), Dr. Shiva is an eco-activist and agro-ecologist who is dedicated to addressing significant ecological and social issues of our times.

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DECEMBER 15, 12–5:30PM SEYMOUR MARINE DISCOVERY CENTER $0–$7/PERSON

exhilarate you with amazing big-screen stories when it comes to the Rio Theatre, February 20–23. Get your tickets online or by phone: recreation.ucsc.edu or call (831) 459-2806.

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December 14th 4-9pm 4-5pm: Underwater Santa Photos

5-8pm: Live Music, Open Swim, Food and Libations 8pm: Raffle!

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SATURDAY 12/14 ‘AYURVEDIC COOKING DURING THE HOLIDAYS’ Fall and winter are full of family gatherings, holidays and food galore. While this is a time to celebrate, it can also lead to digestive issues for many people. In this workshop, experts will go over how to combine Ayurvedic cooking with favorite holiday foods. The class will go over ways to digest and assimilate holiday foods better, how to eat in a balanced way, and ways to feel satiated longer. Lunch is included in the ticket price.

10am. New Leaf Community Markets, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleaf.com. $47.

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important person in your life — or treat yourself! We won’t tell. Products include naturally dyed tea towels, sugar scrub, bath salt soak, foraged potpourri, hand bound recipe booklet Festive treats and drinks including mulled wine will be provided during this gathering at the Museum.

Pre-registration is required and space is limited. 5:30-7:30pm. Santa Cruz Museum Of Natural History, 1305 E Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz.

FOOD & WINE APTOS CHAMBER COMMUNITY BREAKFAST MEETING End the year with cheer! Christmas carols from Aptos High School, holiday raffle including wine, gift certificates and a Christmas Tree! Our guest speaker will be the new UCSC Chancellor, Cynthia Larive. Enjoy a hot breakfast, meet your neighbors, local business owners,

and celebrate the season with us!. 7:309am. Best Western Seacliff Inn, 7500 Old Dominion Court, Aptos. $25/$30.

GROUPS THIRD COMMUNITY MEETING— APTOS BRANCH LIBRARY RENOVATION Santa Cruz Public Libraries and the County of Santa Cruz invite you to the third Community Meeting for the Aptos branch library. Come and participate in the discussion on the library development and learn more about the Design Build Process!

6:30pm. Aptos Branch Library, 7695 Soquel Drive, Aptos.

KIDS CREATE! Explore where science meets art with a new STEAM based project every week, and leave the mess at the library! Every Thursday beginning Sept. 19.

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There’s a gift inside every gift purchased at Goodwill Central Coast – your holiday shopping headquarters What if you could buy someone a holiday gift that would keep on giving long after the wrapping paper is recycled?

That’s the reality when shoppers comb the aisles or the online store at Goodwill. Each purchase enables the community-based nonprofit to better fund its job-training and employment placement services — so you’re actually giving twice.

Throughout December, all Goodwill Central Coast stores will put an emphasis on stocking stuffers priced in four categories (under $20, under $10, under $5, and under $2).

The list of stocking stuffers is as long as your imagination, but popular items include jewelry, games, earbuds, phone chargers, candy, ornaments, decorative mugs and books.

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New Years Eve

at Jack O'Neill Restaurant & Lounge

December 31st

5:30 pm – 10:00 pm $85 per person | $125 with wine (tax & gratuity not included) kid’s menu available ages 12 & under

View menus at jackoneillrestaurant.com RESERVE IT NOW! opentable.com or 831-460-5012

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FRIDAY 12/14 HARMONY FOR THE HOMELESS When it comes to homelessness in our community, many people want to help but don’t know exactly how to. Join the 418 Project in an opportunity to take action in a way that builds solidarity and raises a voice around the challenges that impact the Santa Cruz community. Local artists are initiating a conversation around homelessness to inspire people through song and poetry, to search for creative solutions rather than turning cheeks or feeling overwhelmed and powerless. Proceeds will go to support Downtown Streets Team, a nonprofit providing homeless and low-income folks with the resources they need to rebuild their lives. Please also bring non-perishable food donations if you can, which will be donated to Second Harvest Food Bank.

Making the best better for over 30 years...

7pm. The 418 Project. 418 Front St., Santa Cruz. 466-9770, the418project.org. $25.

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calendar for the project of the week: santacruzpl.org/calendar. 3:30-4:30pm.

Garfield Park Library, 705 Woodrow Ave., Santa Cruz.

FRIDAY 12/13

Winery & Tasting Room @ the Quarry Corralitos

ARTS

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‘THE CHERRY ORCHARD’ The Cherry Orchard, MCT’s final production of 2019, deals with dislocating events in the life of a Russian family of landowners, their neighbors, and the people who work for them. Powerful social forces are in motion, and everyone is altered by them. Despair seems pervasive, and yet joy persists.

Chekhov makes each of his characters simultaneously likable and infuriating, credible and foolish. It was his great gift as a

writer to make each life in his plays complex, vivid, and necessary. 8pm. Mountain Community Theater/Park Hall, 9400 Mill St., Ben Lomond.

‘LOOK MOM I’M ON TV’ One hour live music show on Community TV every second and fourth Friday of the month. Tune in to channel 27 or channel 73. 7pm. The Satellite Flexible Workspace & Digital Media Studio, 325 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz.

OS KEYES: ‘BENJAMIN’S GHOST: GENDER, AI AND THE TWISTING OF TRANS LIVES’ Discussions of technology and gender usually focus on how gender shapes the design and use of technology—but less-discussed is the way that technology shapes our idea of what gender even is. In this talk, Os Keyes, a researcher and writer at the University of Washington studying gender, technology

CALENDAR and (counter)power, will parallel the development of facial recognition systems for gender with the history of attempts to identify and classify trans people. In doing so, they will demonstrate the profound (and violent) threat that AI systems—even those which claim to merely be “observing” or “measuring”—pose for individuals’, communities, and societies understanding of the range of possible human lives.

This event is part of Digital Alchemy, a series of performances and discussions exploring the intertwined intellectual and ideological histories of art and technology.

For admission to the full series, become a member and pick up the Digital Alchemy All-Access Pass. 6pm. Design by Cosmic, 115 Cooper St., Santa Cruz.

MUSIC REN'S ACOUSTIC WINTER WONDERLAND Ren Geisick combines her love for holiday music and her love for jazz, blues, and country to put you in the holiday spirit. This acoustic show, featuring Scott Sorkin on guitar and Jon Dryden on accordion, will showcase new interpretations of your favorite festive tunes and new classics written by Ren and Jon. Come get cozy with us and be wrapped in a musical blanket of warm holiday cheer. 8-10pm. lille æske, 13160 Central Ave., Boulder Creek.

SATURDAY 12/14 FOOD & WINE WINTER FAIRE Join us for our magical

MUSIC TIM & ANGELA BENNETT LIVE AT STEEL BONNET BREWING CO. Come out and experience Santa Cruz live music at a great venue. Singer-Songwriter Tim Bennett will be performing unique original Acoustic Rock, Folk, and Americana. Tim will be joined by wife Angela Bennett on harmony vocals, harmonium, and more.

Enjoy excellent craft beers from Steel Bonnet and food from multiple local vendors. Family

OUTDOOR COMMUNITY SCIENCE: FALL PHENOLOGY WALKS Join us to study the science of the seasons and be a part of a national effort to monitor the effects of climate change. Phenology is nature’s calendar —the timing of life cycle events, for example: when plants first bloom, birds migrate, and insects hatch. Monitoring phenology is important: changing phenology is a key indicator of climate change. It is a hot topic in climate change research. You may have even observed phenology change without realizing it, like if you noticed plants in your garden blooming earlier during warm years. You can collect phenology data and contribute to climate change research: The Garden Phenology Walk gathers data on seasonal changes in plants including when they leaf out, flower and form fruit.

Help us monitor 18 permanently marked California native plants while touring the beautiful Native Plant Garden. Your data will be uploaded to the USA National Phenology Network’s database for use in research, policy and land management.

Space is limited, advanced registration is recommended, free with $5.00 admission to the Arboretum; UCSC students free. Meets at Norrie’s Gift Shop. 11am-1pm. Arboretum, Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz.

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SUNDAY 12/15 ARTS JINGLE SHELLS ARTS & CRAFTS FESTIVAL Celebrate the holidays— Santa Cruz-style! This holiday tradition features more than thirty local artists and craftspeople who will tempt you with their ocean- and nature-inspired wares. The festival features ocean-themed gifts, while proceeds directly support marine science education. Meet artists, shop for unique holiday gifts, enjoy live music, hot apple cider, free gift wrapping, children’s activities, and explore Seymour Center exhibits, aquarium, and touch pools. Where else can you touch a shark and get your holiday shopping accomplished all while supporting ocean conservation? Shop jewelry, ceramics, art glass, photography, gourmet food gifts, and much more—all by local artisans—and save 10% in the Ocean Discovery Shop!

Noon-5:30pm. Seymour Marine

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Winter Faire! Winter forest walk, bonfire with chestnut-roasting, seasonal kids crafts & activities, puppet show, holiday shopping, food & music. Free Shuttle from the UCSC Barn at High and Bay streets. Limited Parking at school for $15. Event cancelled if heavy rain. Sorry, no dogs allowed.

11am-3pm. Santa Cruz Waldorf School, 2190 Empire Grade, Santa Cruz. 425-0519.

and dog friendly. See you there!. 4-6pm.

Steel Bonnet Brewing Co., 20 Victor Square, Scotts Valley.

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SUNDAY 12/15 DIVERSITY CENTER COMMUNITY HOLIDAY PARTY When the going gets tough, the tough get together. Celebrate the beginning of the winter holidays with the Diversity Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual holiday party. Bring nutritious canned or boxed food donations for the annual Santa Cruz Aids Project holiday drive. Raffle tickets will be offered for chances to win all kinds of local wellness, adventure and dining prizes.

Celebrate the end of one year with friends in the local community.

4pm. 126 Pacheco Ave., Santa Cruz. 425-5422, diversitycenter.org. $10-100.

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EMPIRE Zirzuvi brings to life the music of

Way, Santa Cruz. $7.

the Sephardic Jews who fled the Spanish inquisition to settle in new lands. They weave together Middle Eastern and Balkan musical styles to create a sound that will take the audience on a melodic journey to distant places. 3pm. Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320 Cedar St., Santa Cruz.

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LOOK COLLECTIVE WINTER ART EXTRAVAGANZA Over 10 years strong,

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a shining jewel of community groundswell goodness, the Look Collective gathers itself once again to share special things made by hand with great care. On Sunday, Dec. 15, 11am to 5pm, 14 local artists will take over an old farmhouse, an army barrack turned print studio, a mobile gallery inhabiting a vintage trailer, a magical vardo, and a repurposed short busâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all overlooking the mighty Pacific, on what used to be a Brussels sprout farm.

In addition to offering this one-of-a-kind gift show that feels more like a treasure hunt than a shopping experience. Please arrive hungry and enjoy a bake sale fundraiser to help our immigrant neighbors to the south.

11am-5pm. Look Collective, 5221 Coast Rd., Santa Cruz.

ZIRZUVI: A MUSICAL JOURNEY OF THE JEWS IN THE OTTOMAN

FOOD & WINE IF LIGHT AND DARKNESS CELEBRATION Celebrate the stillness of the winter season with old and new friends, a community potluck and music. Everyone is welcome and the event is free. Hosted by Bill and Karen Cane. Please RSVP at 724-4108.

IF is a nonprofit humanitarian, educational and social change organization located in the Santa Cruz area. We are a community of friends seeking hopeful alternatives to the violence, greed and destructiveness of our world. 4pm. IF-Integrities, 160 Sunflower Lane, Watsonville. >42

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BREAKTHROUGH LIFE TOOLS FOR MEN

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CLIMATE EMERGENCY DISCUSSION

Would you like to be a: • Better partner • Better father • Better friend • Better man

Breakthrough can help!

Many men struggle with relationship issues, loss, self-worth, anger, addictions and isolation. Breakthrough works on the causes behind the challenges that affect all men.

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Presented by Alekz Londos. This is an eco-open mic, discussion, encouraging support and networking towards sustainable solutions. Alekz is an international freelance photojournalist, environmentalist and disaster relief expert with two decades of experience. He will discuss the Climate Emergency, our ability to prepare, adapt and implement long long-term solutions. He will also be discussing multiple forms of activism the general public can undertake. Alekz has also contacted politicians, climatologists, scientists, environmentalists and owners of nonprofits that will sometimes speak at the event. 3pm. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. 295-9443.

MONARCH BUTTERFLY TOURS MidOctober through December; Saturdays and Sundays at 11am and 2pm. Meet at the visitor center for a free 1-hour guided tour of the Monarch Butterfly Natural Preserve. Monarch migration is variable, please check the website or contact the park to find out the current population at parks.ca.gov or 423-4609. To arrange a tour for groups of 10 or more, please visit thatsmypark. org. Parking is $10. 11am-noon. Natural Bridges State Beach, Swanton Blvd. and West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz.

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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! Free with admission to the Seymour Center. 1-3pm.

Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz.

MONDAY 12/16 CLASSES STRONG VINYASA Join seasoned instructors Marilu Shinn and Angela Rocchio for a class that will challenge, invigorate, and open you deeply.

Strong Vinyasa is equivalent to a level 2/3 practice and is recommended for experienced practitioners. ¡Muévete, respira y fortalece! Únase a nuestro

maestras experimentadas para una clase que desafiará, vigorizará y abrirá profundamente. Vinyasa fuerte es equivalente a una práctica de nivel 2/3 y se recomienda para practicantes experimentados. 5:30pm. Watsonville Yoga, Dance and Healing Arts, 375 N. Main, Watsonville.

HEALTH SANTA CRUZ BODYWORK COLLECTIVE (SCBC) Santa Cruz Bodywork Collective is a dojo—a place of the way—for those seeking guided instruction to achieving greater ease, flow and connection in one’s body, mind, heart and life. The third Monday of each month is open for the community to come deepen their healing skills and personal growth and development. 7pm. Cypress Health Institute, 1119 Pacific Ave. Suite 300, Santa Cruz.

TUESDAY 12/17 CLASSES COMMUNITY PILATES CLASS Community Pilates Class led by Pilates Instructor Jennifer Balboni. Drop-in any T/Th beginning at 10 am for a fun and challenging 60 minute core-based flowing strength class! Bring your own mat. In the spacious social hall at temple Beth El in Aptos.

Donation based class. 10am. Temple Beth El, 3055 Porter Gulch Rd., Aptos.

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. Poses that emphasis balance, healthy digestion, and enhancing bone density will be explored. This class usually has 20 minutes of restorative Yoga.

10:30am. Watsonville Yoga, Dance and Healing Arts, 375 N. Main St., Watsonville.

GROUPS HOMEWORK HELP Homework Help is free to all students under 18 years of age.

Drop-in. Bilingual assistance is available.

3-5pm. Branciforte Library A Santa Cruz City County Public Library Branch, 230 Gault St., Santa Cruz.

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LOVE YOUR

LOCAL BAND COME FLY WITH ME

For more than 10 years, John Michael has been performing the music of Frank Sinatra solo and with various groups. In 2016, he approached local pianist Will McDougal about putting together a legit band to give the gift of Sinatra’s music to Santa Cruz. Come Fly With Me was born.

There was only one problem: Sinatra was always backed by huge orchestras.

McDougal put his mind to work on transposing those fantastic, big-band pieces so they’d be just as snappy played by a seven- or eight-piece band.

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“We try to stay as close to the original arrangements as possible,” McDougal says. “Sometimes it’s like choosing which kid you like more. You only have two horns. It’s about staying true to the parts everybody knows. But also to feature the singer.”

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The group’s first show was in July 2017.

They’ve since done a special Valentine’s Day show, because nothing says romance like the music of the Rat Pack.

But there’s also something distinctly festive about Sinatra. That’s why Come Fly With Me is doing their first ever Christmas-themed show.

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THURSDAY 12/12 INDIE

OMNI Slipping in at the tail end of the decade, when “Best Of” lists have long since been filed, Omni’s Networker should not be overlooked. The Atlanta band’s first for Sub Pop, Networker is a quietly bold statement: a great collection of guitar-rock songs in the year 2019. “Guitar rock” in Omni’s hands sounds like a mix of Television and Wire, with juuuust a pinch of Steely Dan (see “Skeleton Key”). Throughout Networker, the Omni are sharp, zipper-tight, and just angular enough to give it all some nervous energy.

“It seems that Christmas is the time that jazz becomes modern again,” McDougal says. “There’s people that listen to jazz all year long, but for the normal population, you start hearing it in the mall and on the radio more around the holidays. Everybody likes those Rat Pack Christmas carols.”

MIKE HUGUENOR

AARON CARNES

In the world of Celtic music, there are few touring names as famous as John Doyle. As a founding member of the two-decade-running Irish rock group Solas, this Dublin-born musician made his name playing the

7:30pm. Wednesday, Dec. 11, Michael’s on Main, 2591 Main St., Soquel. $15 adv/$20 door. 479-9777.

9pm. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz. $14. 423-1338.

CELTIC

JOHN DOYLE & MICK MCAULEY

music of his heritage. Today, Doyle lives in Asheville, a city called the “Santa Cruz of the South,” and has been touring the country, often solo, but sometimes with a kindred spirit, pulling from the plethora he keeps on speed dial. This go-around, it’s traditional Irish player and multi-instrumentalist Mick McAuley. MAT WEIR 7:30pm. Michael’s on Main, 2591 Main St., Soquel. $20 adv/$22 door. 479-9777.

FRIDAY 12/13 ALT-COUNTRY

KASSI VALAZZA Country singer Kassi Valazza grew up in rural Arizona. Not only did she have to deal with the brain-melting heat, but so often found herself alone in the massive desert expanse. Beautiful, yes. Scary, and lonely, indeed! As a country musician, she found herself drawn to music that evoked this same sense of loneliness—the kind that large, never-ending spaces instill in you on a base level. Her latest record Dear Dead Days captures this duality brilliantly with psychedelic soundscapes melding with traditional country twang. The record

is a nostalgia trip, but not one that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. AC 9pm. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.

COMEDY

TWO DYKES AND A MIC You’ve listened to all the podcasts.

You jotted down your notes on how lesbians can be categorized by Sandra Bullock movies and stuck it on your refrigerator. You’ve compared your tools to the ones in Rachel’s Toolbox, and Bumble’s Bumbles reminds you of your own funny-sad online hookups. No doubt Two Dykes and a Mic offers a pair of the most hilarious yet approachable dykes around. Come see Rachel Scanlon and McKenzie Goodwin do their thing live, first with two individual sets and then podcast-style in real-time, a la “Ask the Dykes,” where you can finally ask Rachel and McKenzie if they want to be best friends with you! AMY BEE 7 & 9:3pm. DNA’s Comedy Lab, 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz. $20 adv/$25 door.

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BE OUR GUEST MELVIN SEALS & JGB

TWO DYKES AND A MIC

SATURDAY 12/14 HIP-HOP

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MONDAY 12/16 CHARLIE HUNTER & LUCY WOODWARD

MARIA MULDAUR & JOHN JORGENSON

Ariel View is an all girl, queer-identified band on legendary punk label Epitaph Records—part pop-punk, part indie-rock, all heart. Debut album Until My Lungs Are Cleared just dropped and is filled with heartbreak of teenage love, wild nights with friends and the annoying moments of boredom in-between. MW

Charlie Hunter and Lucy Woodard are highly versatile musicians who have collaborated with a dauntingly diverse array of artists, but they both thrive best in gritty settings defined by dank, sinewy grooves, telegraphic melodic lines, and R&B-laced cadences. Hunter, the Berkeleyreared 7-string guitar star, keeps finding new ways to express the most fundamental musical truths.

A consummate professional, Woodward has performed with Snarky Puppy, Pink Martini, and sang backup for Rod Stewart and Barbra Streisand. But even her most ardent fans might be surprised at her expert interplay with Hunter on their new duo album Music!Music!Music, a session that captures her in full gorgeous flower. ANDREW GILBERT

Like eggnog and brandy, somehow, Christmas music and swing go down

9pm. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $10 adv/$12 door. 423-1338.

7 and 9pm. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $29.40-45.15. 427-2227.

9pm. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $26 adv/$30 door. 479-1854.

JAZZ

8pm. Felton Music Hall, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $34 adv/$39 door. 704-7113.

SUNDAY 12/15 INDIE

ARIEL VIEW

8:30pm. Thursday, Dec. 19, Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $25 adv/$30 door. Information: moesalley.com WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11am on Thursday, Dec. 12, to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

IN THE QUEUE WILLIE WATSON

Just a man, a banjo and some dusty ol’ tunes. Wednesday at Felton Music Hall GOLDEN GATE WINGMEN

Grateful Dead jams—all star edition!

Friday at Felton Music Hall ANDY VARGAS & SOULEROS

Lead singer for the Carlos Santana Band! Saturday at Rio Theatre BOB MINKIN

Book release for My Life Photographing The Dead. Sunday at Michael’s On Main ALEX LUCERO & LIVE AGAIN

Local soul and rock ‘n’ rollers. Album release show. Sunday at Moe’s Alley

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It’s no exaggeration to refer to Del The Funky Homosapien as a west coast hip-hop legend. In addition to several brilliant solo albums, he founded Oakland’s Hieroglyphics crew, arguably the most talented emcees to call the Bay their home. And he’s also a member of Deltron 3030, one of the darkest and most imaginative hip-hop projects to emerge from anywhere. His other collaborations and individual solo albums are too numerous to mention. Plus, he’s not one to get caught up in his impressive resume. He keeps on creating, and keeps working to reinvent himself. AC

well together. Led by Maria Muldaur (a veteran of both the ‘60s Greenwich Village scene and the Jerry Garcia Band) and gypsy jazz scion John Jorgenson, this “Holiday Swing” show promises a mix of jazzy Christmas classics alongside a number of rarely heard holiday songs from Christmas past. Will they play “Yuletide for Calvin Coolidge” or “A Ford Model T For Christmas?” No. Those songs don’t exist! Whatever they do play will be played with unparalleled skill and gay holiday spirit! MH

Jam band fanatics, you know and love Melvin Seals. So the time for action is now. Seals joined the Jerry Garcia Band in 1980, and kept on pumping away at the organ until 1995 when Garcia passed. He was so critical to the Jerry Garcia Band that he went on to form the JGB band, essentially Jerry Garcia’s band sans Garcia.

These brilliant musicians, with Seals at the helm, keep Garcia’s legacy alive. But after all these years, what’s become obvious to anyone with a pulse is that Seals is a legend, one who deserves to have his legacy kept alive after he’s gone.

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LIVE MUSIC

Wednesday December 11 –8 /9pm $15

Live Reggae Music With

JORDAN T

Thursday December 12 –7:30/8:30pm $25/30 A Rare Intimate Performance With

THE WHITE BUFFALO Friday December 13 –8/9pm $12/15 Funk Dance Party With

SPACE HEATER Saturday December 14 –8/9pm $25/30 Euphoric Presents Hip Hop Legend

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Sunday December 15 –7/7:30pm $10/15 R&B/Soul CD Release Party With

ALEX LUCERO & LIVE AGAIN

Thursday December 19 –8/8:30pm $25/30 The Keepers Of The Flame Return

MELVIN SEALS & JGB featuring JOHN KADLECIK

Friday December 20 –8/9pm $10/15 Funk & Soul Dance Party With

SAL’S GREENHOUSE + VITAMINS Saturday December 21 –8/9 $15/20

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12/12

FRI

12/13

SAT

12/14

Scott Miller Free 6-8p

James Murray Free 6-8p

Gil de Leon Trio Free 6-8p

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

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

The Pathogens, the Nerv, Enemy of My Enemy $5 9p

The Tunnel, Cosmic Reef The Box: Gothic/ Temple & Vultures at Industrial Free 9p Arms Reach $5 9p

Karaoke 8p-Close

John Michael Band 9:15p-12a

Karaoke 6p-Close

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

Alex Lucero & Friends 8p

CAPITOLA WINE BAR 115 San Jose Ave, Capitola

Ted Welty Free 7-10p

Six-String Pharmacy Free 7-10p

The Radio Free 3-6p

THE CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Lil Tjay w/ JT the 4th $27.50/$30 9p

The Expendables $25 9p

The Expendables $25 9p

Russ Liquid $13/$15 9p

Ariel View & Carpool Tunnel w/ Mundaze $10 9p

THE CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Omni w/ Motel Radio $14/$17 9p

CATALYST UPSTAIRS 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Queen Bingo 9p

CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

CORK AND FORK 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

Open Mic Night Free 7-10p

Karaoke 9p

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Grapes for Good Free 6-9p

Green Dog Duo Free 7-10p

NoJoKen Free 7-10p

OPEN LATE - EVERY NIGHT!

Wed. Dec. 11 7:30pm

Frank Sinatra Christmas with

John Michael & Will McDougal Band

$15 adv./$20 door seated <21 w/parent

Thu. Dec. 12 7:30pm

Little Jonny Lawton Free 6-8p Dead Chemist & Chezdelang 9p

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

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Jan 2 ROSEBUD Jan 3 ZION I + Alwa Gordon Jan 4 DAVID BOWIE BASH Cripple Creek Jan 10 THRIFTWORKS Mic Acoustic Jam Jan 12 TOMMYOpen CASTRO NO COVER Dance <21 w/parent Jan 16 SA-ROC, SAGE FRANCIS Jan 17 DREAMING GHOSTS- CD Release Jan 18 BOOSTIVE Jan 19 COLD BLOOD Jan 25 LYRICS BORN Jan 26 CHRIS DUARTE Jan 30 GENE EVARO JR Jan 31 LA MISA NEGRA Feb 5 BLACK UHURU + ETANA Feb 7 MIGHTY DIAMONDS Feb 12 ANTIBALAS Feb 18 SON LITTLE

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Jazz Jam 9p

THE

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Two Nights With

Karaoke 6p-Close

Karaoke 9-12:30a

Latin Dance Party

Monday December 30 –8/9pm $28/30 Tuesday December 31st –8/9pm $50/55

12/16

Rockin’ Johnny Burgin Broken Shades Free 6-8p Free 6-8p

Karaoke 9-12:30a

Friday December 27 –8/9pm $10/15

John Prine Tribute CON BRIO $10 adv./$10 door seated <21 w/parent

MON

Karaoke Old School Free 8p

SAQI, NOETIK & NADI

Funk & Soul Dance Party Diamonds In The Rough

12/15

APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

Live Beats Soundscape Showcase

Saturday December 28 –8/9pm $15/20

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ABBOTT SQUARE 118 Cooper St, Santa Cruz

John Doyle & Mick McAuley

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Blues Mechanics

Apple City Slough Band Whiskey West

Scott Guberman & Friends Bob Minkin Grateful Sunday Cripple Creek

All Star Christmas Jam Sean Seman, Carolyn Sills, Tom Fedele, Gerard Egan, Woody Bell

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The Next Blues Band $5 8p

Boom Draw $6 9p

Vintage Point $7 9:30p

DNA’S COMEDY LAB 155 River St, Santa Cruz

Blind Tiger Open Mic Night 8p

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Willie Watson w/ Joe Kaplow $15 8p

Taylor Rae, Anthony Arya & Lindsey Wall $9/$11 8p

Two Dykes & a Mic Stand Up Special 7&9:30p Golden Gate Wingmen ft. John Kadlecik & more $24/$29 8p

Holiday Swing w/ Maria Muldaur & more $34/$39 8p Johnny Reyes & Blues Crew 8p

MIKE STERN – JEFF LORBER FUSION FEATURING JIMMY HASLIP & DAVE WECKL A heavy-hitting all-star group.

Saturday, December 14 • 8:30 PM

SIN SISTERS BURLESQUE Tickets: eventbrite.com

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THE MUSICAL JOURNEY OF JEWS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

The Art Critique Stand-Up Science w/ Comedy Show 7&9:30p Shane Mauss 7p Dustbowl Revival $20/$24 8p

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Monday, December 16 • 7 PM & 9 PM

CHARLIE HUNTER & LUCY WOODWARD

GABRIELLA CAFE 910 Cedar St., Santa Cruz

Linc Russin 7-9p

Bob Basa 6:30-9:30p

HENFLINGS 9450 CA-9, Ben Lomond

Bingo Night 7p

Swingatto 7p

Fishhook 8p

George Heagerty 8p

Matias 6:30-9:30p

Scott Slaughter 6:30-9:30p

7th Wave 6:30-9:30p

Gypsy Rippers Free 8:30p

Sharon Allen & the Dustu Blues Band Free 8:30p

The Trolly Drops Free 5p

Sin Sisters Burlesque $20-$40 8:30p

The Musical Journey of Jews in the Ottoman Empire $20-$34 3p

Meredith Axelrod $15 8p

Ben Larsen $15 8p

LILLE AESKE 13160 CA-9, Boulder Creek

12/17

Live Comedy $7 9p

Stella by Barlight $3 7:30p

KUUMBWA JAZZ 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

TUE

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

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

JOE’S BAR 13118 CA-9, Boulder Creek

12/16

Idle Joy w/ Ezza Rose & Joshua Barnhart $10 9p

Dinner, Jazz & Cocktails Kassi Valazza w/ Laura Free 8p T Lewis $8 9p

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

MON

Acoustic Open Jam 3-5p

Seized Up w/ Twompsax & Lamaze Technique $12 9p

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville

12/15

Scott Kail’s Wow $10 7p

The House of Twang w/ Gerard & Carolyn Free 8p

THE CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

SUN

An exhilirating blast of blues, soul, and funk.

Mike Stern-Jeff Lorber Fusion $31.50/$36.75 7&9p Ren Geisick Holiday Show $20 8p

Pro Jam 4p

Open Mic 7p

Karaoke Night 9p

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SPANISH HARLEM ORCHESTRA

Setting the gold-standard for New York-style salsa.

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Charlie Hunter & Lucy Woodward $39.90/$41.15 7&9p

Monday, January 6 • 7 PM

BENNY GREEN TRIO

Joyous and imaginative swinging – both elegant and earthy.

Thursday, January 9 • 7 PM

KUUMBWA JAZZ & THE HUMANITIES INSTITUTE AT UCSC PRESENT: LAYALI MOROCCO: JEWISH SONGLINES & SOUNDSCAPES – SAMUEL TORJMAN THOMAS & ASEFA Traversing several North African song forms, drawing upon a rich intercultural mix of Hebraic and Islamic traditions.

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JEREMY PELT QUINTET

One of the preeminent trumpeters in contemporary jazz.

PAMELA ROSE & TERRENCE BREWER: THE MUSIC OF ELLA FITZGERALD & JOE PASS Two Bay Area favorites, celebrating an enduring collaboration.

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WED MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

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12/12

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John Doyle & Mick McAuley $20/$22 7:30p

MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

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Jordan T, the Rxmedy, The White Buffalo DJ Khosmo $10/$15 8p $25/$30 7:30p

MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Euphoric 9:30p

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

12/13

SAT

12/14

Blues Mechanics Free 5p Apple City Slough & more $10 8:30p

Scott Guberman & Friends $15 8:30p

Lloyd Whitley Free 6p

Pete Madsen Duo Free 6p

Space Heater $12/$15 8p

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12/15

MON

12/16

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Alex Lucero & Live Again $10/$15 7p

Trevor Williams 9:30p

The Takeover 9:30p Tacos & Trivia Free 6:30p

Trivia 8p

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

Cement Ship 10p-12a Alex Lucero 6-9p

Vinny Johnson 2-5p

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

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The Joint Chiefs 2-5p

Erin Avila 6-9p

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Aloha Friday 6:30p

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12/17

Cripple Creek Open Mic Acoustic Jam Free-$5 7:30p

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12/16

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Claudio Melega 7-10p

Kai Killion Free 6p

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SHANTY SHACK BREWING 138 Fern St, Santa Cruz

Paul Damon & the Healing Free 6p

STEEL BONNET 20 Victor Square, Scotts Valley

Blind Rick Stevens Free 5p

Tim & Angela Bennett Free 4p

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

Dan Frechette Free 5:30p

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Syvia Herold & Chuck Ervin $18/$20 7:30p

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Open Mic w/ Steven David 5:30p Myhaylo K 5-8p

Ivo Mozart 6-8p

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FILM

EMOTIONAL FLOW Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Alexa Demie star in ‘Waves.’

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Strong characters fuel domestic drama ‘Waves’ BY LISA JENSEN

N

o, it’s not a surfing documentary—unless you want to make some strained metaphor about riding the waves of life. But the gripping domestic drama Waves is an oftenfascinating piece of filmmaking that encompasses euphoria, tragedy and every conceivable emotion in between in depicting a solid American family unit sliding in and out of crisis. The movie is written and directed by Trey Edward Shults, who establishes himself as a filmmaker worth watching with a particular voice and viewpoint.

While some incidents in this story

of a middle-class black family in South Florida seem like they could have been torn from screaming headlines, Shults humanizes everything with his skilled and careful attention to the personal relationships that guide our lives—between parents and children, siblings, and couples both new and long-established. The story is often intense, but Shults’ characters are so involving, and his filmmaking so astute and focused, that he keeps us reeled in.

Shults plunges us into the middle of everything with a long, careening opening montage of daily life for high school senior Tyler (an excellent

Kelvin Harrison Jr.)—reckless driving with his girlfriend, Alexis (Alexa Demie); wrestling practice at the school gym, with his coach’s ferocious motivational speeches; spatting with his kid sister, Emily (Taylor Russell).

Their dad, Ronald (Sterling K. Brown), runs his own contracting business, for which his warm, loving wife, Catharine (Renee Elise Goldsberry) does the books.

Ronald is a forceful presence in the family. He doesn’t let his kids get away with any drama, makes sure they get to church (where the sermon is on love and forgiveness), and behave with respect. His

standards are demanding, but he has a close relationship with his only son, whether they’re arm-wrestling at the diner after church or working out in their home gym, where he dispenses advice and philosophy.

“We can’t afford the luxury of average,” he tells Tyler. “We have to work twice as hard.”

Although the plot hinges on major events, the movie draws its power from the accumulation of small details. Much of the story is told from Tyler’s viewpoint. As the movie cruises along, there are plenty of moments when it all might explode.

But Shults keeps us guessing about when and how that explosion will come, while, in the meantime, we become more involved with the characters and how their stories might play out. And because we don’t know exactly where it’s going, we feel what finally pushes the family to the breaking point even more keenly.

The cast inhabits their characters beautifully; we never feel like we’re watching actors at work. With the dynamics between them constantly evolving, one false note could throw the whole thing off-balance, but everything here rings true. Russell is especially impressive as kid sister Emily. Mostly in the background at first, until a tender, pivotal scene with Tyler, she emerges with quiet poise and unexpected strength as the movie’s focus shifts to her.

Like a composer for opera or musical theater, Shults creates a recurring theme for each character in terms of mood—serious and a bit edgy for Ronald, frenzied and hormonal for Tyler, wistful serenity for Emily. Sometimes their inner soundtracks clash, but sometimes tentative harmonies emerge.

Some moments in Waves are difficult to watch, but that’s the trade-off for a movie that delivers this much emotional intensity. It wouldn’t affect us so deeply if we didn’t care so much about these characters.

WAVES *** (out of four) With Taylor Russell, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Sterling K. Brown.

Written and directed by Trey Edward Shults.

An A24 release. Rated R. 135 minutes.

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11:40, 2, 4:30, 7:20, 9:40; Mon 12/16, Tue 12/17 2, 4:30, 7:20, 9:40 PARASITE Wed 12/11, Thu 12/12 4:10, 7, 9:45; Fri 12/13, Sat 12/14, Sun 12/15, Mon 12/16, Tue 12/17 1:20, 7 QUEEN AND SLIM Wed 12/11, Thu 12/12 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05; Fri 12/13, Sat 12/14, Sun 12/15, Mon 12/16 1:30,

4:20, 7:10, 9:50; Tue 12/17 1:30, 4:20, 9:50 ROYAL OPERA HOUSE: DON PASQUALE Tue 12/17 7PM WAVES Wed 12/11, Thu 12/12 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10; Fri 12/13, Sat 12/14, Sun 12/15, Mon 12/16 4:10, 9:45; Tue

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12/16, Tue 12/17 10 A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD Wed 12/11, Thu 12/12 1, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 BLACK CHRISTMAS Thu 12/12 7, 9:30; Fri 12/13 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:40, 10; Sat 12/14, Sun 12/15 10:20, 12:40, 3,

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8:05, 9, 9:55; Sat 12/14, Sun 12/15 10, 10:55, 11:50, 12:45, 1:40, 2:35, 3:30, 4:25, 5:20, 6:15, 7:10, 8:05, 9, 9:55; Mon 12/16, Tue 12/17 12:45, 1:40, 2:35, 3:30, 4:25, 5:20, 6:15, 7:10, 8:05, 9, 9:55 KNIVES OUT Wed 12/11, Thu 12/12, Fri 12/13 1, 4, 7, 10; Sat 12/14, Sun 12/15 10, 1, 4, 7, 10; Mon 12/16, Tue 12/17

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FILM NEW RELEASES BLACK CHRISTMAS This remake of the 1974 holiday-horror classic— which was one of the inspirations for the ’80s slasher fad, but don’t hold that against it—reimagines the very simple story of sorority girls terrorized over winter break as a conspiracy film, which is sheer genius. While it may not be meta on the level of Scream or The Cabin in the Woods, expect something far beyond a typical mindless maniac flick. Directed by Sophia Takal. Starring Imogen Poots, Cary Elwes and Lily Donoghue. (PG13) 92 minutes. (SP)

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FRANKIE Three generations of a family are faced with a life-altering experience while on vacation in one of those kinds of movies where three generations of a family are faced with a life-altering experience while on vacation. Directed by Ira Sachs.

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Brendan Gleeson and Marisa Tomei. (PG-13) 98 minutes. (SP)

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JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL The Jumanji reboot from a couple of years ago was unexpectedly hilarious; I could have watched the Rock, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillian, and Jack Black play the opposite of their personalities for another hour and a half. Which is what I’ll get to do with this sequel, in which the real-world characters once again jump back into their four avatars in the virtual reality of the game. This time, they switch up characters (except no one could resist having Black play a teenage girl again, so Bethany eventually finds her way back into his avatar), and a couple of new characters pop into various bodies.

The Rock doing Danny DeVito should be funny, and Hart has got a hell of a Danny Glover impression down, judging from the trailer. Directed by Jake Kasdan. (PG-13) 123 minutes.

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of Kleenex is declared sometime in the next two weeks, blame Tom Hanks. Nah, he’s too nice to blame for anything. Blame PG&E. (PG) 108 minutes. (SP) DARK WATERS Ooh, I love Thanksgiving shark movies! Wait, this one is about lawyers? Even sharkier! Specifically, it’s about the real-life lawyer who took on a corporate behemoth after DuPont was linked to a number of unexplained deaths.

Directed by Todd Haynes. Starring Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway and Tim Robbins. (PG-13) 126 minutes. (SP) FORD V FERRARI Christian Bale plays rogue British race-car driver Ken Miles, and Matt Damon plays American auto designer Carroll Shelby in this true story of how massive underdog Ford beat Ferrari in the 1966 Le Mans race, which Ferrari had previously dominated for years. I love that in Europe, the title had to be changed to Le Mans ’66, because only Americans care about Americans winning stuff.

(PG-13) 152 minutes. (SP) FROZEN II Just when you’d finally scraped the last remnants of that goddamn “Let It Snow” movie out of your head, here comes the sequel, which inevitably has an equally catchy song ready to torture you for the next few years. Otherwise, I’m sure this sequel to the Disney princess blockbuster featuring Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, and that snowman dude is lovely. (PG) 103 minutes. (SP)

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A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD I used up a box of tissues just to get through the trailer for this biopic about Mr. Rogers, so I suggest you really stock up before the actual movie. If nationwide shortage

HARRIET Maybe now that we’re all so woke, the times have finally caught up to the amazing life of Harriet Tubman, a real-life superhero who fought for justice and won major victories in her lifelong battle to end slavery in the

American South. An escaped slave herself, she made many perilous trips back below the Mason-Dixon Line to lead other enslaved people to freedom in the North, via the Underground Railroad, armed with little more than raw courage and a flintlock pistol.

Filmmaker Kasi Lemmons explores the woman behind the historical footnote, played with bristly moral conviction by Cynthia Erivo. The movie sticks pretty close to the extraordinary facts, despite a few melodramatic flourishes, but Harriet's story is so important, it rises in triumph over all obstacles—like the woman herself.

(PG-13) 125 minutes. (LJ) HONEY BOY Who knew there would be a time when the name Shia LaBeouf wouldn’t only be preceded by the phrase “God, I hate?” And yet, here we are! LaBeouf is winning tons of praise for writing and starring as the dysfunctional father in this story of a young actor (played by Noah Jupe at 12 years old and Lucas Hedges at 22) who tries to reconcile with him. He wrote the script in rehab, based on his own relationship with his father. Directed by Alma Har’el. (R) 94 minutes. (SP) JOJO RABBIT Jojo Rabbit is the diary of a Nazi wimpy kid, trying to fit in with the usual social absurdities— it’s just that the absurdities were heightened in the Reich. In a small village in 1944, young Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) is trying to be a good little Hitler Youth member. But he’s a thorough reject, drawing a portion of the scorn doled out by the Jugend’s scoutmaster, an invalided-out Captain Klenzendorf (Sam Rockwell, great.) This uproariously satirical version of a quite serious novel might be modeled on Carol Reed’s The Fallen Idol (1948) in the looming staircases, and the expressionism of the boy’s world collapsing around him. Like Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople, it’s certainly something you could take a smart older child to see. Directed by Taika Waititi. Starring Roman Griffin Davis and Scarlett Johansson. PG-13. 108 minutes. (RvB) KNIVES OUT Middling, but not without surprises, Knives Out is Rian Johnson’s mystery about a group of

greedy heirs in ugly holiday sweaters.

They’re the descendants of writer Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), author of The Menagerie Tragedy Trilogy and other bestselling bafflers. Harlan’s parasitic family isn’t exactly weeping over the senseless waste of human life. They include designer Jamie Lee Curtis, whose business was propped up by Harlan’s checkbook, and her loafer husband Don Johnson. Their son is a professional wastrel (Chris Evans handles this anti-Captain America role well). Another son is the grumbling Michael Shannon, limping on a cane; he’s furious at the old man’s refusal to sell his work to the movies. On scene is Benoit Blanc,“Last of the Gentlemen Detectives,” a role for which Daniel Craig uses a Southern accent with more molasses in it than the one he had in Logan Lucky. Johnson’s superb emulation of Hammett and Chandler in his debut Brick (2006) gave us a more energetic mystery, and this sputters a bit by comparison.

But he does have a purpose beyond pastiche: Knives Out is Thanksgiving entertainment for those seething at their relatives over the turkey carcass.

(PG-13) 130 minutes. (SP) LAST CHRISTMAS They turned the Wham! songs into one of those holiday rom-coms, but I’m not sure if they knew which George Michael song they were adapting, because this movie’s tagline is “Sometimes you’ve just got to have faith.” I’d rather salute the lyrics of the actual song; if I remember right, they were “Last Christmas, I gave you my heart/ But the very next day, you gave it away/This year, to save me from tears/I won’t see this stupid movie.”

Something like that. Directed by Paul Feig. Starring Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding and Emma Thompson. (PG13) 102 minutes. (PS) MIDWAY Roland Emmerich’s new war film is a remake of the 1976 ensemble epic about the attack on Pearl Harbor (and subsequent Battle of Midway) that featured Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Mitchum, and Cliff Robertson. This one stars Woody Harrelson, Aaron Eckhart, Patrick Wilson, Nick Jonas, Mandy Moore … wait, is this the Wayans Brothers

version or something? Like, the Scary Movie version? No? OK, just checking.

(PG-13) 138 minutes. (SP) PARASITE The director of The Host and Snowpiercer returns with a dark comedy/thriller about a poor family that slowly infiltrates the life of a rich family. At Cannes this year, it became the first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or. Directed by Bong Joon-ho.

Starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun and Cho Yeo-jyong. (R) 132 minutes.

(SP) PLAYING WITH FIRE I clicked a link to watch the trailer for Playing With Fire, and—I’m totally serious about this—former WWE wrestling champion John Cena appeared on screen dressed like a firefighter and said, “Ready to turn up the heat on some serious comedy? Watch the trailer for Playing With Fire!”What do you think I’m trying to do, John Cena? I already clicked on the damn link! Don’t tell me what to do when I’m already trying to do it, John Cena! Get your big, manly John Cena head out of the way so I can find out about this cutesy family comedy that you’re so damn excited to be starring in that you won’t even let me watch the trailer! Directed by Andy Fickman. Starring John Cena, Judy Greer and Keegan-Michael Key, (PG) 96 minutes. (SP) QUEEN & SLIM A Driving While Black situation goes even wrongerer when a cop pulls over Slim (Daniel Kaluuya from Get Out) and Queen (Jodie Turner-Smith) on their first date. Slim ends up shooting him, and immediately the pair are on the run, Bonnie and Clyde style. Directed by Melinda Matsoukas. Co-starring Chloe Sevigny, Sturgill Simpson and Flea. (R) 132 minutes. (SP) 21 BRIDGES I don’t know if this crime drama produced by Avengers: Endgame’s Russo Brothers about an NYPD detective hunting down two cop killers is any good, but I can guarantee it has more bridges than any other film you’ll see this year. Directed by Brian Kirk. Starring Chadwick Boseman, J.K. Simmons and Sienna Miller. (R) 99 minutes. (SP) WAVES Reviewed this issue. (R) 135 minutes. (SP)

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he word mezcal whispers of sensory magic. A cousin of tequila—and yet so different— this potent, double-distilled elixir made from the mighty agave succulent can thrill the senses, take the breath away and, if sipped properly, unleash haunting dreams.

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team is led by Aptos residents David Camner and Sam Hernandez, sculptor and emeritus from Santa Clara University, along with their Palo Alto colleagues.

“It started with some local arts guys, family and friends going to Oaxaca, with whom Palo Alto has a sister city connection,” recalls glass blower Camner. “The idea was to support sending fire-fighting equipment to Oaxaca.” After a three-year search, the Huxal team found the ideal producers in the southern valleys of Oaxaca near Miahuatlan. “We were looking for consistent quality and sustainability,” Camner says. “And they had a nice clean palenque (mezcal distillery). It

was ideal.” Camner and Hernandez met me at the cozy, boisterous Parish Publick House and brought along the Huxal product line for me to taste— four bottles of distinctive spirits, plus a jar of those famed Oaxaqueno fried crickets, or chapulines.

We started with Espadin, 40% alcohol, light, easy to like, and made from roasted and fermented agave hearts harvested at seven years of maturity.

Briefly, the making of artisanal mezcal involves harvesting the heart of the huge plant, roasting it in an underground stone oven, crushing it with an ox-pulled stone, then doubledistilling in copper. The Espadin was

smooth, Earthy and satisfying. I taste, rub some on my palms to release aromas, and sample the mezcal along with some sal de gusano—made of spices, crushed worm (hey, it’s traditional) and salt. Espadin’s middle bandwidth expands horizontally on my palate. Like each Huxal bottle, this one comes with a playful label

by Hernandez, and it’s named for the variety of its source agave.

The bravura Barreno (100 proof), made from wild plants from the hills surrounding the Miahuatlán palenque, is the rarest. Hernandez opens a jar of small-batch prickly pear jelly. We sample it on Parish house bread chased by a sip of the complex Barreno. The terroir of the Oaxacan highlands, at 5,500-feet elevation, fills this beautifully balanced organic mezcal, intense with minerals, leather and that smoke signature from its fire roasted origins.

Completing the Huxal quartet are two mezcals made from the karwinskii agave.

The aromatic Cuishe is grassy, floral and fresh. The heftier Madrecuishe is more rounded and deeper in smokiness with a licorice heart. Both are close to 100proof alcohol. “This is a primitive process,” Camner says with a smile.

But the result is refined. The flavors are lavish, yet as elusive as a dream.

“It’s a multi-generational effort,” Hernandez explains. “We’re starting small, for pleasure and the aesthetics of it. And now our own families are involved.” While focusing on small-batch techniques, Huxal is now helping the producers and their families stay working in their small villages. Camner characterizes the ancient craft fueling the Huxal enterprise: “Artisanal, low-tech. Pure spirits.” A portion of every Huxal purchase brings decommissioned fire trucks and ambulances from California to Oaxaca, where the organic agave spirits are created by maestro Don Bernardo. It also makes for a distinctive holiday gift! Bottles available at Deer Park Liquors and Shoppers Corner ($80-100). At the bar at Parish Publick House and Palapas. huxalmezcal.com.

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H RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES SAGITTARIUS, SIGN OF SILENCE

Sagittarius is a sign often hidden in the preparations for Christmas and Hanukkah. It’s hidden also by its symbols and stories—traveling far away, riding over the plains to monasteries, eyes upon the snowy peaks of Capricorn or gazing at the stars in wonder, in some desert region of hot sands and slow-moving camels. Sagittarius is the far-flung traveler, at home in any country and with all peoples. Sagittarius is a most important sign. It’s the “little gate” into heaven; the sign of silence, associated with vision, aspiration and a one-pointed direction toward goals. Sag is on a horse, forever galloping toward the signs of service (Capricorn is initiation; Aquarius, for humanity; and Pisces, saving the world). Sag’s esoteric symbol is the bow and arrow, reminding us that we must cultivate the right use of thought (arrows) and speech, allowing our arrows to be dipped first in honey before discharging them

towards their target.

From the Sagittarius Labors of Hercules, we read these words, the tasks of the archer: “Right use of thought, restraint of speech, and consequent harmlessness result in liberation; for we are held here by what we ourselves have said and done.”

Thursday, early morning, is the Sagittarius solar festival during the last full moon of 2018.

“We see the goal, reach the goal and then we see the next goal.” Thursday is also the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe (patroness of the Americas). Friday is St. Lucy’s Day (lighted candles crowning her head), a Scandinavian festival of light illuminating the darkness. And, Friday and Saturday, in the night sky, the most active meteor shower of the year (Geminids) peaks. We’re called to catch the Light falling to Earth in this preparatory season of Advent.

ARIES Mar21–Apr20

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22

Will you be traveling? Are you thinking of new professional ideas and realities? Do you feel pressured to step up to the next rung of the ladder? Are you curious about a religious or spiritual reality? Every part of yourself is out and about in the world. Is there a sense that discipline and structure (Saturn) are needed to bring order to relationships? Tend to them carefully.

They will see you to the end.

Are you considering remaining home this holiday? It is a good idea this year. A deep transformative change penetrates your heart/mind, and many beliefs begin to have no validity. Disconcerting at first, you’re actually being led to truths previously not understandable. As old beliefs dissolve, a greater capacity to (give/receive) love occurs. You will then understand to “be of love a little more careful than of everything” (ee cummings).

TAURUS Apr21–May21

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21

You think a lot about resources and how to provide safety and security for everyone. The future you know is a question, so you continue your important work. For many of us, the resources we seek are hidden in closets, drawers, storage units, and garages (yours). Bringing them out into the open is a good next step. Out into the fresh air to assess their value. Much will be discarded.

It’s time to ponder upon then articulate goals concerning money and resources, in order to make your future seem safe and practical. Your mind, moving equally between myth and the real world, needs to concentrate on building adequate resources for the times to come. These resources will not be only for yourself, but others will join you in your endeavors. You have the stamina to face great challenges. You are the warrior.

GEMINI May 22–June 20

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20

On your mind are relationships (one in particular), money, and how it’s being used practically. Your relationship is OK, but tend to it a bit more, with love and gratitude. Money and relationships go hand in hand.

Especially now and for you. Assess all that you have and share with another. Update financial documents if needed. And consider all commitments. The ones from the heart last longest.

The entire introduction is about you. Read it slowly many times so its esoteric significances are absorbed and a new identity can emerge, along with new behaviors. As you seek truth and justice along with trying to feel joy, it’s most important to acknowledge you are always seeking new goals ahead. It’s good to list them, rework them, look for them. Watch birds fly out of marshes into the clear light of day. Turning into swans.

CANCER Jun21–Jul20

You stand within inner and outer realities, deeply personal and yet out in the world where humanity resides. There’s much responsibility and work accomplished, morning till night. At day’s end, you exhaustedly fall into bed, hoping sleep will bring physical, emotional and mental balance. Enough sleep does if there are no lights on during the night to interrupt your sleep cycle. Wear a mask if necessary. And drink more water. Saturn and Pluto are your companions.

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There’s something you’ve wished to do for a long time.

You return to the place where your heart resides.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Do you have excess energy but feel restrained by a lack of something? Are you spending much time and energy on things unseen? Do they rest in your heart, unspoken, in longing? It would be good if you concentrated on the season’s festivities by making your home cheerful and welcoming, filled with lights and things of nature. Do things differently this year. Joy comes when you are most creative.

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 Our outer reality is connected with our inner reality. What occurs in our outer life is based on what we believe, envision and have intentions for, and where we place our focus. You are aware, of course, that humanity is to bring forth the new culture and civilization, under the Aquarian Laws and Principles. What are your visions? What are your needs? Communicate with the devas. They wait for your voice to speak with them.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 Each day, there’s a new understanding occurring, which leads to new revelations. That actually is an esoteric rule—revelation emerges from understanding. How does understanding come forth? From suffering, grief and feelings of despair. You understand this line of poetry from Dante’s Divine Comedy: “In the middle of the journey of my life, I came to a dark wood and found myself and my way lost.” You are not lost; the way is not dark. Just keep walking.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001880 The following Corporation is doing business as AUTO EXPRESS TIRE PROS. 2842 SOQUEL AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. SANTA CRUZ AUTO EXPRESS, INC. 2842 SOQUEL AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. Al# 4325943. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: PAUL SALAZAR. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on October 29, 2019. Nov. 20, 27, Dec 4, & 11.

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FILE NO. 2019-0001981 The following Individual is doing business as CORINA'S HOME CARE FOR YOU. 121 CITRON DR., SOQUEL, CA 95073.

County of Santa Cruz. CORINA BAIRD. 121 CITRON DR., SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: CORINA BAIRD. 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 November 15, 2019. Nov. 27, Dec. 4, 11, & 18.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001959 The following Individual is doing business as OCULUS PHOTO. 110 KAYE ST. APT. 2, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. ADAM SANCHEZ. 110 KAYE ST. APT. 2, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ADAM SANCHEZ. 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 November 12, 2019. November 20, 27, Dec. 4, & 11.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001841 The following Corporation is doing business as LIGHTHOUSE BANK. 2020 N PACIFIC AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. SANTA CRUZ COUNTY BANK. 75 RIVER STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. Al# 2550801. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: SANTA CRUZ COUNTY BANK. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/21/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on October 21, 2019. Nov. 20, 27, Dec. 4 & 11.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001702 The following Individual is doing business as HOGWARTS KITCHENS. 101 CENTER ST. #1, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

County of Santa Cruz. KAREN MIREILLE JUDKINS. 300 TOLAK RD., APTOS, CA 95003.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: KAREN MIREILLE JUDKINS. 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 September 30, 2019. November 20, 27, Dec. 4, & 11.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001946 The following Individual is doing business as SHARP CHOICE. 2605 SOQUEL DR., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95065. County of Santa Cruz. MARTIN ANTHONY LUCICH. 2605 SOQUEL DR., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95065.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MARTIN ANTHONY LUCICH. 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 November 7, 2019. November 20, 27, Dec. 4, & 11.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001895 The following Individual is doing business as SANTA CRUZ GOLF. 2235 MATTISON LN., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz. AARON PETERSON. 2235 MATTISON LN., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: AARON PETERSON. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 10/31/2019 This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on October 31, 2019.

November 20, 27, Dec. 4, & 11.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001951 The following Individual is doing business as LEARNING LIGHTHOUSE. 9057 SOQUEL DR., APTOS, CA 95003. County of Santa Cruz. MARLYNN LLAMAS. 408 VISTA DEL MAR DR., APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MARLYNN LLAMAS. 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 November 12, 2019. November 20, 27, Dec. 4, & 11.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001954 The following Individual is doing business as FUN AND FETCH, FUN AND FETCH SANTA CRUZ. 1915 15TH AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz.

ASHLYN MOORE. 1915 15TH AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ASHLYN MOORE. 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 November 12, 2019. Nov. 27, Dec. 4, 11, & 18.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001872 The following Individual is doing business as SUMMIT TO SEA DESIGNS. 712 FREEMAN CT., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz. AUDRA MARIE MCKOWN. 712 FREEMAN CT., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: AUDRA MARIE MCKOWN. 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 October 28, 2019. Nov. 27, Dec. 4, 11, & 18.

statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on November 21, 2019. Nov 27, Dec 4,11 & 18.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF RACHEL ANTICOLI RICE CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV03506. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner RACHEL ANTICOLI RICE has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: RACHEL ANTICOLI RICE to: RACHEL GRACE ANTICOLI. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING January 9, 2020 at 8:30 am, in Department 10 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: November 25, 2019. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Dec. 4, 11, 18, & 25.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0002027. The following General Partnership is doing business as MOUNTAIN ECHO PUBLISHING, SAN LORENZO VALLEY POST, SLV POST, THE MOUNTAIN ECHO, THE SAN LORENZO VALLEY POST. 515 DAVIDSON WAY, BOULDER CREEK, CA 95006. County of Santa Cruz. MARY ANDERSEN. 261 REDWOOD DRIVE, FELTON, CA 95018. JULIA ANN HILL HORNER. 515 DAVIDSON WAY, BOULDER CREEK, CA 95006. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: JULIA ANN HILL HORNER. 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 November 26, 2019. Dec 4, 11, 18, & 25.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0002001 The following Individual is doing business as BERRY MORA'S PAINTING. 30 WEST BEACH APT 419, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. MARIO MORA HUERTA. 30 WEST BEACH APT 419, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MARIO MORA HUERTA 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 November 20, 2019. November 27, December 4, 11 & 18.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0002022 The following Corporation is doing business as WORLD CHATTERS. 855 41ST AVE., SUITE F08, CAPITOLA, CA 95010. County of Santa Cruz.

THE EPP SOLUTIONS CORPORATION. 1231 SERENE VALLEY CT., SAN JOSE, CA 95120.

Al# 4251132. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: THE EPP SOLUTIONS CORPORATION. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on November 22, 2019. Dec. 4, 11, 18, & 25.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0002015. The following General Partnership is doing business as LALO'S MEXICAN ANTOJITOS 2. 70 C MARIPOSA AVENUE, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. EDUARDO MIGUEL GAMEZ HERNANDEZ. 443 VICTORIA AVENUE SALINAS, CA 93906. LIZ VANESSA IBARRAREYNOSO. 60 JEANETTE WAY, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: EDUARDO HERNANDEZ. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001983 The following Individual is doing business as KEYS TO MUSIC. 4448 HILLTOP RD., SOQUEL, CA 95073. County of Santa Cruz. ANGELA DIANE BENNETT. 4448 HILLTOP RD., SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ANGELA DIANE BENNETT. 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 November 18, 2019. Dec. 4, 11, 18, & 25.

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FILE NO. 2019-0001944 The following Individual is doing business as ZK BODYWORK. 101 VAN NESS AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. ZOE KOSOVIC. 101 VAN NESS AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ZOE KOSOVIC. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 6/1/2018. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on November 7, 2019.

November 20, 27, Dec. 4, & 11.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0002049 The following Married Couple is doing business as CANO LOGGING AND LAND MAINTENANCE. 930 ROSEDALE AVE. SP. 69, CAPITOLA, CA 95010. County of Santa Cruz. EUGENIO GAONA & MIREYA GAONA. 930 ROSEDALE AVE. SP. 69, CAPITOLA, CA 95010. This business is conducted by a Married Couple signed: EUGENIO GAONA. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 5/1/2008. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 4, 2019. Dec. 11, 18, 25, & Jan. 1, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0002043 The following Corporation is doing business as SIX STAR ROOFING INC. 217 EUCALYPTUS AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. SIX STAR ROOFING INC. 217 EUCALYPTUS AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. Al# 4318019. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: SIX STAR ROOFING, INC. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 3, 2019. Dec. 11, 18, 25, & 1/1/2020.

REFILING OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT WITH CHANGE FILE NO. 2019-0002053. The following Individual is doing business as HOME/WORK. 1100 SOQUEL AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001899 The following Individual is doing business as THE SHED. 1212 FAIR AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. DAVID KING. 147 SHELTER LAGOON DR., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: DAVID KING. 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 October 31, 2019. Dec. 4, 11, 18, & 25.

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SONIA MCMORAN. 110 OAK KNOLL RD., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: SONIA MCMORAN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. Original FBN number: 2014-0002160. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 4, 2019. Dec. 11, 18, 25, & Jan. 1/2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0002035 The following Individual is doing business as STEVE'S ADAPTED PHYSICAL EDUCATION SERVICE. 940 PINEHURST DR., APTOS, CA 95003.

County of Santa Cruz. STEVEN SLIVKOFF. 940 PINEHURST DR., APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: STEVEN SLIVKOFF. 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 December 2, 2019. Dec. 11, 18, 25, & Jan. 1/2020.

REFILING OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT WITH CHANGE FILE NO. 2019-0002042. The following Married Couple is doing business as LA SELVA LAVENDER. 107 RANCHO ROAD WATSONVILLE, CA 95076.

County of Santa Cruz. KIM A. MILLER, WILLIAM H. MILLER, 107 RANCHO ROAD WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. This business is conducted by a Married Couple signed: KIM A. MILLER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. Original FBN number: 2019-0001587. This statement was filed with Gail

L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 3. 2919 Dec 11, 18, 25 & Jan 1/2020 CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF TATIANA DELGADILLO CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV03577. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner TATIANA CHYEANNE DELGADILLO. has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: TATIANA CHYEANNE DELGADILLO to: TATIANA CHYEANNE GONZALEZ. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Jan 16, 2020 at 8:30 am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: December 2, 2019. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Dec 11, 18, 25 & Jan 1/2020.

Musing about Buyer’s Remorse, that insidious part of real estate that takes great pleasure in showing up like an unwanted guest in the middle of so many escrows. I’m sure Realtors use the phrase too much, but what else can we call it?

Is there another word to describe all those clandestine meetings that happen in our clients’ heads while they’re struggling to navigate the home-buying process? Or the crazy cascade effect that ratchets up when their worry centers start tossing “what-ifs” into the air like random ping pong balls?

Is there another way to describe the crucial moments that inevitably arise when a buyer’s initial dreaming about a house is forced to confront the reality of actually buying one? Particularly when there’s a flood of decisions that keeps rushing them towards the point of no return, known as the close of escrow, accompanied by an insistent inner voice that keeps asking: “Yikes, what if I make a mistake? Will God give me a mulligan?”

Yep. Buyer’s Remorse - it’s a staple of real estate. A dish found hanging around the table whenever the heat gets turned up in the kitchen and the escrow pot starts boiling. A daily special, cooked and served up in all kinds of strange and interesting ways. Steamed. Grilled.

Poached. And definitely fried.

Funny, the more ways Buyer’s Remorse gets prepared, the more unprepared I seem to be when it rears its all-too human head. Call it an occupational hazard, the dreaded spectre of escrow- interruptus hangs around like a shadow in every corner of every real estate transaction.

When buyers fall in love with a house, they are struck by waves of emotion that sweep them forward into the offer process. But as an offer is accepted, the tide turns and immediately they start hiring the equivalent of private detectives in the form of home, termite and roof Inspectors, to find out everything that’s wrong with the perfect place they just fell in love with.

Meanwhile, their Agent is required by law to keep supplying them with thick tomes of boilerplate warnings detailing, ad infinitum, all the things about their future home that could end up harming or killing them. Asbestos. Radon Gas. Lead Paint. Mold. Floods. Earthquakes.

Who knew there were this many horsemen of the Apocalypse?

Buyer’s Remorse isn’t some awful, early-escrow-onset, aberration of the psyche. I’m not sure there’s any buyer on the planet who doesn’t wake up with night sweats at least once or twice during the course of escrow, plagued by tremors of doubt and existential terror. It’s a completely normal response to the way the real estate process is designed.

Next Week: Seller’s Remorse, the other dark meat.

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745 Mockingbird Ridge, Aptos Relax on the front patios of this ridge top estate & enjoy stunning views of the Monterey Bay & surrounding foothills.

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130 Las Lomas Dr, Aptos Spectacular Ocean Views! A rare offering & never before on the market. Lovely 3BR/2BA, 2,483 sq ft home with office, separate family room. Indoor lap pool, & 3-car garage. 1.2 Private acres, yet 2 minutes to town. Ready to move in. $2,100,000 165 Tiburon Ct, Seascape Walk to the beach, Seascape Resort & Tennis Club, nearby shops and restaurants from this move-in ready courtside condo with many upgrades! Versatile open floorplan, 2 master suites with private balconies & a 2-car attached garage. $869,000

704 Encino Dr, Rio Del Mar Lovely 3BR/2BA home in the trees on sunny spot near the top of the hill.

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Move-in ready. Open floor plan. Living area has wall to wall & ceiling to floor windows. Minutes from beaches, great schools, easy freeway access. $699,000 320 Rio Del Mar Blvd, Aptos Turn-key, 5-star rated beach house & permitted vacation rental. EZ walk to beach & restaurants in exclusive Rio Del Mar/Cement ship area. New glass garage door, hardwood floors, open floor plan, newer appliances. Large level lot, fenced back yard w/artist or home office cottage. $1,199,000 se! ou hH c a Be

7117 Somerset Ct, Aptos Stunning 4BR/2.5BA, 1,852sf home close to Cabrillo College. MBR, full bath, laundry downstairs. Built-in caninetry, bright kitchen & dining room, elegant yet cozy living room. Skylights, carved banisters, wood flooring. Immaculate garage. Seacliff State Beach just around the corner. $874,000 151 Camino Pacifico, Aptos Beautiful contemporary 3BR/2.5BA, 1,584 sq ft home tucked away in coveted Seascape neighborhood.

Location can’t be beat! Vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors, fireplace in living area.

Dining room slider opens to wood deck & lush landscaping. Enjoy the Beach Lifestyle! $849,000 e!

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Treasure Island Dr, Aptos Close to Rio Beach, but tucked away from beach traffic. Large sloped lot may have ocean view at top of slope at building pad location. Build your dream home & live the beach life style. Call for more info! $265,000

SOQUEL 100 N Rodeo Gulch #136, Soquel Lovely 2BR/2BA, 1,440 sq ft home. Wonderfully maintained & ready to move it! Spacious living/dining room, lots of natural light opens to large kitchen.

Large master bedroom & bath. Separate laundry room. 2-car covered carport & storage shed. Small yard. Clubhouse, pool, rec room. $310,000 999 Old San Jose Rd #23, Soquel YES! There IS a Beautiful 2BR/2BA manufactured home under $350k! Spacious kitchen, Granite counters, high ceilings, wood floors, dual pane windows, new carpet, fresh paint, LOW space rent & a pet is welcome!

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Great Location. EZ 45-minute commute to Silicon Valley. Wood burning fireplace. $329,999

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New decking, fruit trees & garden areas. Spacious shed w/wkbench & storage. $399,000

SOUTH SANTA CRUZ COUNTY 270 Hames Rd #43, Corralitos Million $ views from this 2BR/2BA home overlooking the hills of Corralitos. Remodeled unit, open kitchen & cozy family room. Gas wood stove, decking, newer roof. Private location in highly desirable 55+ coop park with lots of amenities. Must see this one. $525,000 2038 Eureka Canyon Rd, Corralitos Seller says sell now! 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2,719 per assessor records on 2.5+ majestic acres!

Amazing outdoor space - enjoy the sun & stars - plenty of room for extended family. Come visit but be warned you will love this one! X-Street: Upper Highlands/Eureka Canyon. $799,000 758 Haines Ranch Rd, Watsonville Relax and Enjoy this 3BR/2BA, 2,025 sq ft home on 17+ acres.

Updated kitchen with granite counters & stainless appliances. Spacious bedrooms, vaulted ceilings. 3-car garage w/ separate 2,560sf workshop. Space for horses, gardening, hobbies & all of your toys! $1,699,999 d! te Lis t s Ju

545 Manzana St, Watsonville Desirable location! Energy efficient 5BR/2.5BA, 2,521 sq ft home. Open floor plan. Owner owned solar and Tankless water heater. $699,000

104 Willet Cl, Pajaro Dunes Unique 3BR/3BA, 2,049 sq ft beach house on the coveted front row perched on the dunes. Ideal ocean front location. Open floor plan, mid-century style with inside/outside California living flair. Excellent separation of space, several special nooks to explore. Ideal for multi-generational families. $1,995,000

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Occupation: Yoga instructor Hobbies: Yoga, family life, camping, skiing, walking, the beach, keyboards/synthesizer Who or what first got you shopping here?

MARIE:“I can remember coming here with my parents when I was around 3. I always looked forward to getting candies from the butcher counter, just like my kids now do.” KORKY:“I was living in the neighborhood before I met Marie, and loved Shopper’s old-school meat counter, the wines and the eclectic collection of unusual specialty products, which are still a big draw for me.” MARIE:“Shopper’s is locally owned, which makes a big difference in how it’s run.” KORKY: “I find it attractive that Shopper’s has been around since 1938. It feels solid to shop here.”

What’s generally on your shopping list? MARIE: “I don’t eat meat but I do like Shopper’s seafood, their wide assortment of dried pasta, their local eggs and the fresh salsas.Their chocolate department is the finest in town!” KORKY:“California produce is the best on the planet and much of what Shopper’s carries is local. I enjoy making Asian noodle dishes and curries, and grilling with Shopper’s amazing meats.They employ real butchers who offer tips and will special-cut whatever you need.” MARIE: “Shopper’s has quite the assortment of beers.”

KORKY:“Also fine Scotch’s and liquors in general.”

Are you shopping here for holiday meals?

KORKY:“Yes. My family will be in from England.

ChrIstmas we’ll make what many do for Thanksgiving: a turkey (Diestel), potatoes, veggies, especially Brussels sprouts, and we’ll up pick an apple pie, my favorite!” MARIE:“And wine.” KORKY:“They carry fancy to everyday drinking wines with some amazing bargains.” MARIE:“Shopping here for holiday meals is fun because of Shopper’s community vibe.

Our kids, Finn and Chloe, feel at home because of the staff.” KORKY:“Shopper’s is always efficient at the check-out with lots of checkers and baggers.”

“Shopping here for holiday meals is fun because of Shopper’s community vibe.”

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