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Volume 45, No. 39 December 25-31, 2019

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REWRITING THE BOOKS Local songstress is bending genres with the ‘Lost Jazz Songbooks’ P18

LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN Santa Cruz Art League celebrates 100 years P28

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OPINION EDITOR’S NOTE Is it party time yet? Because I’ve got my tux and my flippers, and I’m getting impatient. I know, I know, it’s not like me to be so consumed with party fever, or so elegant. I guess I’m just beside myself (which really helps when you’re trying to fasten these flippers—I don’t care what anyone says, it’s a two-person job) after seeing how you, our amazing readers, have pushed Santa Cruz Gives past its goal of raising $300,000 for 37 local nonprofits. That is going to make this week a much happier Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa for a lot of people in his county who need help this holiday season. And the groups that you’ve contributed to will keep helping all through 2020. This is a huge moment for a little program that we started just five years ago, which

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PEACE, JUSTICE AND SANITY

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Re: “Walk This Way” (GT, 12/4): I was about to call Rep. Panetta to thank him for speaking out for “facts, values, morals and trust” in your recent article and interview.

Then I learned about his vote for the obscene NDAA military spending bill of $732 billion that enables U.S. participation in unjust, cruel wars in Yemen, Iraq and many other places. It also continues the unconstitutional AUMF (Authorization of Military Force) from 2001, as well as U.S. complicity in Yemen and elsewhere, and expands dirty nukes and a new “space war.”

Voting to spend the people’s money on more and more war-making is not demonstrating good values, morals or trust.

Please join me in calling Panetta and objecting to this vote, which enables more violence and aggression in our world. We want our tax dollars to create peace, justice and sanity—not war, exploitation and violence.

JERI BODEMAR | WATSONVILLE

WHEN EMOTIONS RUN HIGH On Dec. 10, the Community Advisory

has now raised more than $1 million for local nonprofits. And I think it’s a huge moment for our community, too. With a week left to go in the campaign, let’s wow everyone even more.

But back to the celebrating part.

I know a lot of great places to do it.

Santa Cruz always has a bumper crop of New Year’s shows the last week of the year, and we’ve written about them in our music pages in this issue.

But I would especially direct your attention to Wallace Baine’s cover story about the talented, soulful local singer Tammi Brown. Now, if you’ve been around Santa Cruz for a while, you’ve no doubt heard of Tammi, and probably even seen Tammi perform— if you haven’t, New Year’s Eve is your chance to fix that. But I for one wasn’t aware of her fascinating backstory until now, and I think after reading it, you’ll appreciate her talent on a whole new level. Until next year, peace and love to all.

STEVE PALOPOLI | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Committee on Homelessness (CACH) presented immediate recommendations, which included shelter, bathrooms and community engagement. During the Q&A portion of the presentation, there was discussion about the ability of committee members to remain engaged in the process.

Specific concerns included not feeling heard and feeling alienated.

I can see how difficult it is for members of our community to remain engaged, both in the public and private realms. Emotions run high. Sometimes decorum flies out the window. Then if we stand by our commitments, we return again and again to work with people who have opinions that differ from our own. In these conversations, most of us are learning how to respectfully disagree with one another while building relationships. The work ahead of us is to continue to build these relationships, to continue to engage, and to disagree without alienating or disregarding each other.

You and I will not always see eye to eye on every issue, but I am committed to returning to you. Sometimes I may be a little afraid.

Sometimes it may take me more time than you or I would like. However, it is my hope that our relationship grows because of our differences. We must continue

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed a cost-benefit analysis of efforts to protect Pajaro Valley residents from catastrophic flooding. The ratio was positive, which will be key to freeing up state funding and eventually breaking ground on the Pajaro River Levee Project.

The goal is to increase protection by rebuilding existing levees, or to add new floodwalls so that flood flows can be contained within the river channel.

The Santa Cruz Police Department is encouraging everyone attending holiday parties where alcohol may be involved to use a designated sober driver. This holiday season and through New Year’s, Santa Cruz Police Department will have more officers out on patrol looking for drivers suspected of being under the influence. Impaired driving does not just mean driving under the influence of alcohol—it also pertains to other substances, including prescription drugs and cannabis.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK “Live for today, plan for tomorrow, party tonight, party tonight.” — DRAKE

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LOCAL TALK What’s your favorite way to party?

BY MATTHEW COLE SCOTT

Making sure everyone else is having a fun and meaningful experience around me.

MICHELLE BAUGU SOCIAL WORKER | SANTA CRUZ

With a lot of alcohol, weed and other unmentionable drugs flowing all over the place.

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Live music, outside, kidfriendly, and a group of friends.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of December 25

ARIES Mar21–Apr19 Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Denmark during World War II. In 1943, Hitler ordered all Danish Jews to be arrested—a first step in his plan to send them to concentration camps. But the Danish resistance movement leapt into action and smuggled virtually all of them to safety via fishing boats bound for Sweden. As a result, 8,000-plus Danish Jews survived the Holocaust. You may not have the opportunity to do anything quite as heroic in 2020, Aries. But I expect you will have chances to express a high order of practical idealism that could be among your noblest and most valiant efforts ever. Draw inspiration from the Danish resistance.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 When she was 31, Taurus writer Charlotte Brontë finished writing her novel Jane Eyre. She guessed it would have a better chance of getting published if its author was thought to be a man. So she adopted the masculine pen name of Currer Bell and sent the manuscript unsolicited to a London publisher. Less than eight weeks later, her new book was in print. It quickly became a commercial success. I propose that we make Brontë one of your role models for 2020, Taurus. May she inspire you to be audacious in expressing yourself and confident in seeking the help you need to reach your goals. May she embolden you, too, to use ingenious stratagems to support your righteous cause.

new source of energy by responding creatively to experiences that initially provoke anxiety.

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22 Libra-born mystic poet Rumi (1207–1273) wrote that he searched for holy sustenance and divine inspiration in temples, churches and mosques—but couldn't find them there.

The good news? Because of his disappointment, he was motivated to go on an inner quest—and ultimately found holy sustenance and divine inspiration in his own heart. I’ve got a strong feeling that you’ll have similar experiences in 2020, Libra. Not on every occasion, but much of the time, you will discover the treasure you need and long for not in the outside world, but rather in your own depths.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 Among his many accomplishments, Scorpio rapper Drake is an inventive rhymer. In his song “Diplomatic Immunity,” he rhymes “sacred temple” with “stencil.” Brilliant! Other rhymes: “statistics” with "ballistics”; “Treaty of Versailles” with “no cease and desist in I”; and—my favorite—“Al Jazeera” (the Qatar-based news source) with “Shakira” (the Colombian singer). According to my analysis of the astrological omens in 2020, many of you Scorpios will have Drake-style skill at mixing and blending seemingly disparate elements. I bet you’ll also be good at connecting influences that belong together but have never been able to combine before.

GEMINI May21–June20

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21

The new year can and should be a lyrically healing year for you. Here’s what I mean: Beauty and grace will be curative. The “medicine” you need will come to you via poetic and mellifluous experiences. With this in mind, I encourage you to seek out encounters with the following remedies. 1. Truth Whimsies 2. Curiosity Breakthroughs 3.

Delight Gambles 4. Sacred Amusements 4. Redemptive Synchronicities 5. Surprise Ripenings 6. Gleeful Discoveries 7. Epiphany Adventures 8. Enchantment Games 9. Elegance Eruptions 10. Intimacy Angels 11.

Playful Salvation 12. Luminosity Spells

Sagittarian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) embodied a trait that many astrology textbooks suggest is common to the Sagittarian tribe: wanderlust. He was born in Prague but traveled widely throughout Europe and Russia. If there were a Guinness World Records’ category for “Time Spent as a Houseguest,” Rilke might hold it.

There was a four-year period when he lived at 50 different addresses. I’m going to be bold here and hypothesize that 2020 will not be one of those years when you would benefit from being like Rilke. In fact, I hope you’ll seek out more stability and security than usual.

CANCER Jun21–Jul22

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer,” wrote author Zora Neale Hurston. According to my astrological analysis, Cancerian, 2020 is likely to be one of those years that asks questions, while 2021 will be a time when you’ll get rich and meaningful answers to the queries you’ll pose in 2020. To ensure that this plan works out for your maximum benefit, it’s essential that you formulate provocative questions in the coming months. At first, it’s fine if you generate too many. As the year progresses, you can whittle them down to the most ultimate and important questions. Get started!

The 15th-century Italian metalworker Lorenzo Ghiberti worked for 28 years to turn the Doors of the Florence Baptistry into a massive work of art. He used bronze to create numerous scenes from the Bible. His fellow artist Michelangelo was so impressed that he said Ghiberti’s doors could have served as “The Gates of Paradise.” I offer Ghiberti as inspiration for your life in 2020, Capricorn. I think you’ll be capable of beginning a masterwork that could take quite some time to complete and serve as your very own “gate to paradise”—in other words, an engaging project and delightful accomplishment that will make you feel your life is eminently meaningful and worthwhile.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18

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LE0 Jul23–Aug22 The Roman Emperor Vespasian (9–79 A.D.) supervised the restoration of the Temple of Peace, the Temple of Claudius and the Theater of Marcellus. He also built a huge statue of Apollo and the amphitheater now known as the Colosseum, whose magnificent ruins are still a major tourist attraction. Vespasian also created a less majestic but quite practical wonder: Rome’s first public urinals. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you Leos to be stimulated by his example in 2020. Be your usual magnificent self as you generate both inspiring beauty and earthy, pragmatic improvements.

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Homework: Your imagination is the single most important asset you possess. What can © Copyright 2019 you do to ensure it serves you well and doesn’t drive you crazy?

You’re wise to cultivate a degree of skepticism and even contrariness. Like all of us, your abilities to say no to detrimental influences and to criticize bad things are key to your mental health. On the other hand, it’s a smart idea to keep checking yourself for irrelevant, gratuitous skepticism and contrariness. You have a sacred duty to maintain just the amount you need, but no more—even as you foster a vigorous reservoir of receptivity, optimism and generosity. And guess what? Your 2020 will be an excellent time to make this a cornerstone habit.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22

PISCES Feb19–Mar20

When Virgo author Mary Shelley was 18 years old, she had a disconcerting dream-like vision about a mad chemist who created a weird, human-like creature out of non-living matter. She set about to write a book based on her mirage. At age 20, she published Frankenstein, a novel that would ultimately wield a huge cultural influence and become a seminal work in the “science fiction” genre.

I propose we make Shelley one of your role models for 2020. Why? Because I suspect that you, too, will have the power to transform a challenging event or influence into an important asset. You’ll be able to generate or attract a

Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) finished writing The Divine Comedy in 1320. Today it’s considered one of the supreme literary accomplishments in the Italian language and a classic of world literature. But no one ever read the entire work in the English language until 1802, when it was translated for the first time. Let’s invoke this as a metaphor for your life in the coming months, Pisces. According to my visions, a resource or influence that has previously been inaccessible to you will finally arrive in a form you can understand and use. Some wisdom that has been untranslatable or unreadable will at last be available.

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During a one-inch rainstorm, you can harvest 600 gallons of water off a 1,000 square-foot roof. That’s a lot! Tanks come in all shapes and sizes.

√ PREPARE FOR STORMS:

Bioswales, Rain Gardens and Dry Creek Beds look lovely and prevent erosion and drainage issues.The new mantra is “Slow it, Spread it, Sink it.” That is, keep rain on the land and out of the storm drain—where it flows into the ocean with pollutants like car oil.

√ PUT DOWN MULCH:

With all the rain, the impossible-to-weed weeds are waking up.

Little oxalis bulbs will soon show their tops, and knotweed and bermudagrass are on the move—you just can’t see them yet.

Make your maintenance easy this spring by sheet mulching.

(What’s that? Ask us.) Or just mulch. Thickly. At least four inches.

(Side benefit: Your plants will love it.)

√ PLANT BARE ROOT FRUIT TREES:

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You can find potted fruit trees at the nursery all year long, but bare root trees are a seasonal opportunity. Bare root trees are generally deciduous—like apples and pears, and plums, pluots, nectarines, apricots and other stone fruits. Planting from bare root saves $$$ and affords a wider selection of varieties.

(Also look for bare root roses, strawberries and more.)

√ PRUNE YOUR ROSES:

The best time to prune roses is during the hush of a cold winter day. Wrap an old silk scarf around your neck for warmth and conjure up your inner Grace Kelly. Take out a thermos of hot green tea, and whip out your clippers. After a couple hours of winter gardening—perhaps you’ve also been working on your fruit trees and cutting back perennials—if you are warm despite the cold, that means your blood is circulating and you’re burning excess calories from the holidays!

√ AND THINK AHEAD:

For very early spring color, plant daffodils and seed for annuals like hybrid poppies—now. It’ll gladden your heart—later.

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to return to each other respectfully if we are to have a thriving democratic system of governance. We are more creative, resilient and effective when people of differing backgrounds come together to find solutions that address the concerns of our city.

CANDICE ELLIOTT | CO-CHAIR, COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON HOMELESSNESS

NO TO FIRE TAX INCREASE The proposed fire tax increase for County Fire, C.S.A. #48, will cost more than double what you already pay. Only property owners can vote. The tax increase is around $150

to $200 per year additional for a house on 1 acre. Properties with a house and over 1 acre are proposed to be assessed larger amounts for the amount of acreage over 1 acre. I am not an anti-tax zealot; to the contrary, I like it when taxes help the people. I do not support this proposed tax, since it just helps Cal Fire hire another firefighter in the off-season, but it does nothing to support the Volunteer Firefighting program. Sadly, Cal Fire wants more paid staff, not more volunteers.

Please vote no!

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SIBLING THE DIFFERENCE Mangan got her start with Big Brothers Big Sisters 20 years ago as a program manager for the Santa Clara County branch.

As a mentor, Mangan has been matched with her own “little sister,” Tehya—a relationship that has lasted for more than eight years now. “I look forward to seeing her get her driver’s license and pursuing college in the next few years,” Mangan says.

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LEVEE LIFTING The Coastal Watershed Council, which is participating in Santa Cruz Gives, is raising money for its San Lorenzo River Health Days and promoting a new vision for the Riverwalk.

River Chance

Santa Cruz takes a shot at an $8.5 million grant to turn the Riverwalk into a destination BY SUSAN LANDRY

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anta Cruz’s longest city park is a 5-mile loop that stretches from the Tannery Arts Center in Harvey West all the way to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and back again.

It’s the San Lorenzo Riverwalk, and a new city plan lays out a vision for overhauling the greenspace and levy system, bringing in path improvements, lighting upgrades and accessibility changes to comply with the American Disabilities Act. There would be art installations, overlook plazas and garden spaces.

In general, the plan focuses on

protecting the river’s natural ecosystems, while also addressing public safety concerns. According to a grant proposal for the project, “pretty theft, illicit drug use and car break-ins are common within the project area.”

The plans all hinge on an $8.5 million grant that the city of Santa Cruz applied for earlier this year.

“It might sound like a big-budget number, but we’re going to need every penny of it to make the improvements we want to see out there,” says city transportation planner Claire Gallogly (née

Fliesler), who helped put together the grant application.

The opportunity arose from Proposition 68, a $4 billion voterapproved 2018 bond initiative aimed largely at supporting equitable access to parks throughout the state. The measure promised funds to parks that benefit lower-income residents, making the Riverwalk plan particularly competitive, supporters say.

“The lowest-income communities are all along the river, so there’s a parks equity component that matters a lot,” says Greg

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Aimee Mangan has helped just about every type of youngster who’s walked through the front door of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County office in Capitola.

One visit she remembers in particular happened about three years ago, when a family showed up looking for one-onone mentoring assistance, which is the nonprofit’s specialty.

What stands out to Mangan, looking back now, was a question that the family’s 8 year old asked.

“The daughter saw one of our LGBTQ flags up in the office and started asking if there were mentors for people like that,” says Mangan, who took over as executive director of BB/BS in March of last year.

The young girl ended up requesting a trans mentor, Mangan says.

In 2015, BB/BS of Santa Cruz County became the first agency in the nation to offer a Trans Matching Program, which connects transgender youth with volunteer transgender adult mentors.

“Over and over, the youth in the program report how helpful it is to be connected with somebody who truly knows their experience,” Mangan says.

This holiday season, BB/BS is raising money for its Trans Matching Program via GT’s holiday giving campaign Santa Cruz Gives.

BB/BS is one of 37 nonprofits participating this year. It’s one of two that specializes in youth mentoring. The other, Youth N.O.W., serves youth in Watsonville and the greater Pajaro Valley through free academic, social and emotional support programs.

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NEWS RIVER CHANCE < 11 Pepping, executive director of the Coastal Watershed Council (CWC), a nonprofit that helps steward and advocate for the river.

In fact, 45% of nearby residents live at or below the poverty line, and the median income is about $25,000 lower than the city’s average, according to the grant application filed by the city. Around 13% of people in the area lack access to a vehicle, making Riverwalk paths an important means of transportation.

Path improvements involve

basic maintenance, like sealing and repaving, plus making it all look good. “Right now, it resembles more of a maintenance road,” says city park planner Noah Downing.

Under the plan, the city would use design features like wayfinding and thematic landscaping to “tell more of a complete story,” he says.

Another key to promoting accessibility on the Riverwalk is what’s known as “centralizing.”

That means improving connections to surrounding parks and facing new structures toward the river.

Currently, many surrounding

businesses face away from the river, which Pepping notes can contribute to a “back-alley” feeling at the Riverwalk.

“We want it to feel like our front yard,” he says.

ON THE SAME PAGE Before putting together the proposal, the city held 14 outreach meetings to gather feedback on what the community wanted from the space. Gallogly says one theme that came up over and over again from locals was the desire to feel safe.

To that end, the plan calls

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Add Santa Cruz Police Deputy Chief Rick Martinez to the list of people who moved on from Santa Cruz in one way or another this year, now that he has retired after 30 years with the department. Down in Watsonville, Gretchen Reganhardt, directing attorney at California Rural Legal Assistance, also had a retirement party this month.

Other folks eagerly turning the page on a new chapter in their lives in 2019: UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal, who retired; Campus Provost Marlene Tromp, who moved to Idaho; Downtown Association leader Chip, who moved to Colorado; Arts Council Executive Director Michelle Williams, who left for Florida; Museum of Art and History visionary Nina Simon, who still lives locally but started a new nonprofit; former Mayor Cynthia Chase, who left for Oakland; and Santa Cruz Assistant City Manager Tina Friend, who took a slight pay cut to become the city manager for Scotts Valley.

SOME BAD ACID One of the downsides to looming, catastrophic climate change—there are a few!—is that the ocean absorbs much of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, setting off dangerous chemical reactions harmful to sea life.

It turns out that acidity levels in California’s coastal waters are rising at a rate double that of the global average, according to a study led by NOAA. This news threatens major fisheries, and should sound the alarm that the ocean can absorb only so much more of the world’s carbon emissions.

YEAR IN DREW City Councilmember Drew Glover had another complaint filed against him under Santa Cruz’s Respectful Workplace Conduct policy, and this was the second one that was substantiated.

Glover contends that the real issue is that the city still doesn’t have adequate conflict resolution, and that all these bureaucrats can’t get used to his direct style.

Glover always talks about how this stuff is a distraction from real issues—housing, homelessness, discrimination, and so forth. Nuz is sympathetic

to that concern. There are indeed lots of other city problems to talk about. Glover implies, however, that journalists are to blame for creating this distraction. Maybe … The question is whether it’s Glover’s fault for always doing bad, weird and newsworthy things, or the news media’s fault for writing about it when Glover does bad, weird and newsworthy things.

It so happens there have been plenty of Drew Glover-y moments during this long year, which Nuz didn’t even mention because Nuz was just damn tired of the City Council circus.

Take, for instance, the resolution to restore civility on April 9. Then-Mayor Martine Watkins, then-Vice Mayor Justin Cummings and City Councilmember Cynthia Mathews brought the item forward at an afternoon meeting. Mathews talked about a nationwide movement supported by the UC Berkeley Center on Civility & Democratic Engagement.

Cummings, a sometimesally of Glover, talked about unconstructive tension, disrespect and misinformation that permeates local policy discussions, as well as the emails that many community members send to city officials.

Then, Glover spoke up.

Reading from a prepared statement off his laptop, Glover covered his background in “nonviolent conflict reconciliation” and talked about the “chasm” on the City Council.

“I call it a chasm because it’s much more than merely a divide,” Glover explained in his six-minute screed. “It feels like almost there’s a complete disconnect. And in that sense of being disconnected, there’s seemingly very little desire or drive ro address it or reconcile it or to move forward.”

Glover talked about the religious origins of civility.

He cited “many researchers and journalists” and a TED Talk he watched. He implied that his colleagues often show passive aggressive tendencies.

He then proceeded, in the same speech, to throw out repeated barbs about his colleagues’ policy positions.

Glover’s remarks prompted many of his supporters to stand up during public comment to yell about how dangerous civility is. And then everyone, including Glover, voted in favor of the resolution.

It’s true that civility can be weaponized in dangerous ways.

But incivility can as well.

It was a weird year, and frankly, Nuz is not all that sad to see it go.

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The number of youngsters who pour in looking for an ear to bend is quickly growing, she says. It’s important, Mangan adds, for kids to have a connection and a chance to be heard.

That need may be especially acute among LGBTQ+ youth.

What’s notable—as laid out in a 2013 study called “The Role of Risk: Mentoring Experiences and Outcomes for Youth with Varying Risk Profiles”—is that developing trusting, caring relationships with adults allows LGBTQ+ youth to see themselves in a more positive light. That allows them to “develop cognitive and social skills that they can transfer to other important relationships and envision their futures with greater optimism and clarity,” according to the report.

The California Healthy Kids Survey, which gathered statewide data from 20132015, found that LGBTQ+ youth in Santa Cruz County were more than three times more likely than their peers to consider suicide.

“That’s a pretty staggering statistic to look at,” Mangan says. According to information from BB/BS, research shows a quality mentoring relationship cuts the risk of suicide in half for young transgender people.

“Who better to understand the experience that they are facing than somebody who had been through that experience themselves?” Mangan says.

YOUNG AT HEART For the past two years, Michele Chaney has been the executive director at Youth N.O.W., the other mentor-oriented group taking part in Santa Cruz Gives. Prior to Youth N.O.W, she worked in early childhood education, in migrant programs and with Head Start.

“Our vision is that all youth have the ability to thrive,” Chaney says. “There’s obviously an opportunity gap, and there’s no equitable access to education resources.”

Chaney says a majority of the students in the program are English language learners who don’t have a strong academic background.

The group’s “big idea” as part of this year’s Santa Cruz Gives campaign is “Cultivating Success,” an annual event recognizing six inspiring middle and high school-aged youth from Santa Cruz County in the areas of academic dedication, growth and leadership.

Students receive scholarships honoring their achievements to help pay for school supplies, upcoming college expenses or any

other sort of educational experiences.

Youth N.O.W. is seeking donations to increase the spring scholarships from $100 to $500. The group also hopes to establish a scholarship fund for future graduates.

Chaney says what makes this nonprofit unique is that it addresses an opportunity gap for students facing barriers to education. “We’re looking at the whole child in terms of supporting them,” Chaney says, “Not only with academics, but also with social and emotional learning support.”

Youth N.O.W. helps create one-onone mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. So far, they’ve served more than 7,000 local at-risk children. Volunteers are from the community, and the groip also collaborates with CSU Monterey Bay. Chaney says that Youth N.O.W. mentors provide tools and support to help young people gain confidence in school, and in life.

“We’re able to step in to educate those students,” Chaney says, “and provide that piece that’s missing in order for them to succeed.”

For information on how to donate to Youth N.O.W., Big Brothers/Big Sisters or any of the other 35 nonprofits participating in Santa Cruz Gives, visit santacruzgives.org.

for more lighting along the entire 5-mile route, and landscaping that ensures clear sightlines for those walking on the paths. Perhaps most importantly, Gallogly says, the city plans to take a sort of safetyin-numbers approach, by building amenities and creating spaces that will attract more visitors. “People feel safer when they see other people,” she says.

Gallogly adds that attracting more visitors doesn’t mean pushing out the homeless and those who already frequent the levy paths. “This is a public space, and public space means public for everyone, not just one group or another,” she says.

Instead of banishing or punishing anyone, the grant application promises efforts to help people share spaces and interact with one another.

“The Riverwalk itself is located right in the heart of the city. It’s an important north-south connection for walking and biking,” says Downing, the park planner. “But it’s also an area that’s important for fish and wildlife habitat.” Several endangered or threatened species like steelhead trout and western pond turtles call the area home.

Currently, the river is sensitive to toxic runoff, which can harm vulnerable populations.

To combat this problem, the city would add environmental features like swales and rain gardens to absorb runoff before it enters the waterway.

Pepping says the full revitalization plan could take as many as 10 years to implement. The city also recently secured a grant for almost $1 million to improve lighting on the Riverwalk next year.

“The San Lorenzo River goes right through the heart of the community, and some of us really love it and enjoy it,” Pepping says. “One of the challenges is that not enough of the community connects with the river.

This is the type of investment that can change that.”

ART REVITALIZATION Environmentalists and city employees agree that when it comes to revitalization, beautifying the space is key. “At the end of

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The most recent concept includes 11 river-themed art pieces, five wayfinding art pieces and four plaza overlook areas. Downing says that art pieces will highlight the cultural and ecological history of the river.

The plan also includes interactive play structures along the Riverwalk area for children. “People are excited about the youth energy at the river. We like to say the kids are an indicator species for the health of this park,” says Pepping, whose work with the CWC helps teach thousands of students about the river each year.

The CWC is also participating in GT’s Santa Cruz Gives holiday fundraising campaign this year to support its San Lorenzo River Health Days.

Earlier this year, the city approved the “Chinatown Bridge Project,” which is slated for completion in October of next year. The project is largely the brainchild of Pepping and community leader George Ow Jr., 76, who lived in Santa Cruz’s last Chinatown, located right next to the San Lorenzo River, during his formative years.

When complete, the project will feature a mosaic of a water dragon atop a 14-foot Chinese archway.

Commemorative plaques will provide information about the history of Santa Cruz’s various Chinatowns.

Ow, who walks the river several times a week, says he’s excited to celebrate the natural and cultural history of the river through this project, while honoring the spirits of those who inhabited Santa Cruz’s Chinatowns.

“I believe that the spirits of the people who once lived here are still with us, especially the spirits of the people who had hard and disturbed lives,” says Ow. “By remembering them and honoring them, we can kind of placate the spirits of these pioneers.”

For information on how to donate to the Coastal Watershed Council or any of the other 36 nonprofits participating in Santa Cruz Gives, visit santacruzgives.org.

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LOST AND FOUND DEPARTMENT Left to right: Dan Zemelman, Albert Greenberg and Tammi Brown of the ‘Lost American Jazzbook’ project.

pop music of the ’70s: soul, funk, R&B, jazz.

This little rendezvous in the closet carries a bit of an illicit thrill, and the girl can feel it. Her father, a devout man of god, would strongly disapprove of what was going on there. He loved music—40 years later, his daughter would say that

he had a beautifully supple singing voice not unlike Nat King Cole’s.

But in his mind, music was either in the service of heaven or of hell.

Whatever was coming out of that radio was surely the devil’s work.

“My dad didn’t want secular music in the house,” says Tammi Brown, that wide-eyed girl in the closet.

“But my mom and my aunt were like, ‘Aw, hell, no. She has to have this music.’ And I would just absorb it like a sponge.”

Brown’s stories about her childhood are much like this, her earliest memories shaped against the backdrop of a rich musical life.

In fact, her mother and her aunt

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weren’t the only ones in the family undermining her father’s prohibition of godless music.

Around the same time, a greatuncle took an interest in the child’s obvious musical abilities. “He kind of stopped me one day when I was visiting my great grandmother, and said, ‘Let’s see if you can sing something like this.’” Then, he put on an Ella Fitzgerald recording of the old Jerome Kern song “All the Things You Are.” In 2019, a lifetime later, Brown found herself in a recording studio, again singing “All the Things You Are,” a song that is as deeply in her bones as any other. The Santa Cruzbased singer is part of an ambitious jazz collaboration with Oakland lyricist Albert Greenberg and composer Dan Zemelman titled The Lost American Jazzbook. The theme of the album is the creation of new, original songs to revive the canon of American jazz standards, to shake off the nostalgia inherent in the term “jazz standards” and make new

songs for new circumstances.

And yet, in a project laser-focused on new material, Brown is recording a song she first learned at 4 years old.

“It’s on the album because Albert heard me sing it,” says Brown.

“Every 4-year-old in the country should be singing that song,” says Greenberg.

A NEW STANDARD Taxonomy of Pleasure: The Lost American Jazzbook II was released last August with a memorable performance at Yoshi’s in Oakland.

Of the album’s nine tracks, seven are new originals, the exceptions being the Kern song and a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues.”

Jazz standards, often defined as “The Great American Songbook,” make up a beloved legacy of American music. But they are almost always associated with the past.

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emotions is a good thing, and it seeks to emulsify the oil-and-water-like relationship between vulnerability and traditional male culture.

“Most men coming to Breakthrough are facing a big life challenge, but many others aren’t in crisis and are just looking for deeper meanings, meaningful friendships, and a sense of community,” says Fitz, who emphasizes that Breakthrough isn’t geared just to men who may feel broken in some way. “At Breakthrough, we believe every man can benefit from the program.”

Fitz says program graduates include men from all walks of life—their backgrounds, educational and occupational pedigrees are as diverse as their various ethnicities, religions, and sexual orientations. He says the average attendee is between 40 and 45 years old, but adds that there have been graduates as young as 18, all the way up to men in their 70s.

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n 1987, counselor and teacher of nonviolent communication Fred Jealous founded a men’s education and support program called Breakthrough Men’s Community with just himself and six others in the Monterey area. Thirty years and 2,000 graduates later, the program continues to expand, and now is offered in Santa Cruz.

“Fred had a strong belief that the way men are raised in this culture is damaging,” says Breakthrough executive director Chris Fitz, who graduated the program five years ago. “We are brought up to believe that boys must sacrifice their humanity to be ‘real men,’ and that the only way to relate to other men is to compete with them. Because of the way we’re raised, there is a lot of distrust in other men.”

A major tenet of the program, says Fitz, is that men need the support of other men to heal and regain the humanity that has often been socialized out of them. Another emphasis of the program is that experiencing

usually find it to be a very compelling, profound experience. He says that the most common feedback he hears from graduates is that Breakthrough “saved my life, saved my marriage, saved my relationship with my kids, or helped me through a painful divorce.”

A 2008 Blue Shield study on Breakthrough confirmed these sentiments, finding that the word “transformative” best described the Breakthrough experience, and that 91 percent of survey respondents used the words “enormous” or “considerable” to describe the impact that Breakthrough had on their lives.

But such transformation comes with a level of time commitment that sets Breakthrough apart from other programs of its kind. The program is 34 weeks long, which is broken up into two 17-week sessions. Each of these sessions has 14 evening classes, two all-day Saturday courses, and one weekend retreat. Most of the work is done in small groups, where participants learn to put the lessons into action.

“Practice makes perfect, and it takes time to rewire the neural pathways so we can live our lives differently,” says Fitz. He emphasizes the importance of taking one’s time and going slowly, providing men with the support to practice things like affirmations, identifying triggers with issues like anger addiction, and taking time and space to contemplate and reflect.

Breakthrough is a nonprofit organization, and tuition is done on a sliding scale. “No willing participant has ever been turned away for financial reasons in 30 years,” Fitz says.

About 40 percent of Monterey participants are referred by their therapists, with the other 60 percent being referred by word-of-mouth. Fitz adds that many of these referrals are given by women, who, he says, have a more instinctual understanding of the benefits a support community can provide. A similar program called Breakfree was subsequently created for women.

“Women get right away what we’re all about,” says Fitz.

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Greenberg is a veteran of music and theater, as well as the co-director of the Oakland nonprofit Black Swan, which produces experimental and socially conscious performance art. He rebels against the idea that all the great jazz standards have already been written.

He took it upon himself to add to the canon.

“I did it because I just got tired of hearing ‘My Funny Valentine,’” he says.

The Jazzbook concept predates Greenberg’s first encounter with Brown. The first album in the series was released in 2014 with a different singer. And though it was met with some acclaim (including Jazz Vocal Album of the Year at the Independent Music Awards), the project stalled because the collaboration wasn’t quite what the composers expected.

Greenberg and Zemelman spent two years looking for a vocalist to continue the Jazzbook series.

Greenberg called up Bay Area musical legend Linda Tillery to measure her interest in taking on the project. Tillery declined, but pointed to her friend Tammi Brown, a member of Tillery’s Cultural Heritage Choir, who was hiding in plain sight down in Santa Cruz.

“I just felt tapped out of names at the time,” says pianist Zemelman.

“I know almost all of the musicians in the Bay Area, but Santa Cruz, honestly, is kind of like another world. It doesn’t always crosspollinate.”

For 20 years, Brown has been one of the most prominent faces on the Santa Cruz music scene. She has performed in a variety of venues in

everything from formal concerts to fundraisers. She was nominated for a Grammy for her work with jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan (who guests on Taxonomy of Pleasure), and she has performed alongside such giants as Maya Angelou, Joan Baez and Quincy Jones.

Still, to Greenberg and Zemelman, she was a revelation.

“We just couldn’t move forward until Tammi came along,” says Zemelman. “And then, all of a sudden, she was the missing component that we needed, which was a phenomenal front person.

Tammi did so many things. She’s super charismatic and an amazing singer. She knows how to woo an audience, plus she has business savvy and lots of connections. All of her talents put together felt like a superpower.”

As a vocalist, Brown finds the wistful soul behind such songs as “Without You” and “Free Fall,” the latter a graceful piano ballad in which she pronounces at the beginning the definition of the melancholic, uniquely Brazilian concept of saudade as “the presence of absence.”

Elsewhere, though, she makes a bold step in adventure. The cover of the Dylan song—known for its timeless line, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”—was combined with a melody cribbed from another inscrutable genius, pianist Thelonious Monk.

“There are so many words,” says Brown of the Dylan song. “You have to really watch your breathing. I had to get to the gym so I’d have the stamina for that one.”

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CROSSING THE LINE “Swank in the Night” is the most provocative song on the record, a cheeky testament to the AfricanAmerican’s experience that opens with the hot-button line, “I want to make white people happy/ I want to make white people gay/ Not in some LGBTQ kind of way/ More in a James Baldwin sort of way.”

“At first, I was uncomfortable when I read the lyrics,” Brown admits. “I was like, ‘You guys understand I am black, right? You want me to sing this in a roomful of people?’”

As the song’s writer, Greenberg says the lyrics reflect a cultural void.“We live in such crude times,” he says. “I wanted to talk about the endless crudeness of our culture. It’s now gotten to the White House, so it’s as if it’s lost its potency. It’s not that it’s always wrong. It’s that it’s empty.”

Brown took on the song by researching the work of mid-century black writer Baldwin in order to find a voice of black resistance that all people could understand.

Race consciousness is an ongoing journey for Brown, who grew up in the predominantly white Peninsula community of Los Altos Hills, where she was often one of maybe two or three black students in her entire school. At the same time, she had a strong connection through her family with predominantly black churches in the East Bay. But her parents never instructed her on the civil rights struggle. “I didn’t even know about slavery until junior high school,” she says. She had to confront race as a young girl through music. She grew up with the

upbeat and buoyant black gospel of Kirk Franklin and Walter Hawkins.

“My immediate family, they weren’t telling us anything about slavery,” she says. “So as a little kid (in church), I didn’t really understand all the moaning and travailing up on the altar. All that stuff seemed crazy and ridiculous, and it wasn’t my favorite part of the service. I didn’t understand it because I didn’t know where it came from.”

What she did understand was the clear demarcation line her father had drawn between the godly and the secular. Brown’s aunt, the one who shared her love of music in the walk-in closet, was an accomplished singer who even opened once for Sammy Davis Jr. “She grew up in the church,” says Brown, “but she sang secular music. So in the eyes of the church, she was going to hell, and she was never asked to sing at the church.”

Still, the girl was entranced by secular music. She remained deeply tied to her gospel. But she was also a kid, and like many others, fell in love with pop music.

“My whole life and ambition was to be Chaka Khan,” Brown says of the charismatic front woman of 1970s funk band Rufus. “I loved the power of Chaka Khan. That’s who I wanted to be.” At the same time, through her church, she got to see some of the big names of the era— Peabo Bryson, Cissy Houston—up close singing at church conventions.

Her father’s efforts to fight against secular music backfired.

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She’s trying to chase away demons in us.”

Brown’s mother, herself a fine singer and piano player, was Brown’s link to the greater world outside the church. But when Tammi was 14, her mother died. “Everything fell apart,” she says. “My dad remarried someone else. None of us ever really recovered from that.”

Brown discovered Santa Cruz in the 1990s, when she began to sing with the late Sista Monica Parker’s band the Essentials. Parker, who died of cancer in 2014, had a similar orientation to African-American music, embracing both Saturday night secular music and Sunday morning gospel (Parker’s love always followed the blues, while Brown is more comfortable with jazz).

Since then, Brown has made Santa Cruz home, and she’s become a touchstone of the local music community, rarely saying no to a local performance, while at the same time trying to reach beyond Santa Cruz to make a living as a musician.

(The old family dynamic persists; a few years ago, when Brown was performing with Stanley Jordan at Yoshi’s, her father, now in his 80s, made a rare appearance at the show.

According to Tammi, after the show, her father said to her, “All these people are going to hell, and you’re leading the way.”)

DELIVERANCE Taxonomy of Pleasure represents a new triumph in Brown’s career.

She’s found two collaborators in Greenberg and Zemelman who see her versatility and appreciate her chops. She’s engaged in creative, even risky material. The three collaborators said that 2020 will mark another go at a recording

of original material in the jazz standards idiom, with probably another performance at Yoshi’s.

“We think we can get this stuff into the concert world,” says Greenberg. Wherever it takes him, Greenberg says he wants to do it alongside Brown. “We were rehearsing a tune not too long ago,” he says. “I’m in Oakland. She had come from two hours away. She had a session the night before, a rehearsal before she came, and she had another rehearsal to go to later.

She was just exhausted. But she comes in, and right when the music started, she just goes there. She really is an artist.”

For Brown, the ability to engage with music comes from the seeds planted in church pews, as well as in her mother’s walk-in closet.

“Anything I sing is going to come from inside my heart,” she says.

“Even when I was a little kid, music was a source of healing, a source of deliverance, a source of power.

When I was little, a woman named Tramaine Hawkins came to our church. It was the most beautiful and powerful thing I had ever heard, and I told my mom, ‘I want to sing like that.’ And she said to me, ‘All you have to do is open your mouth and let God.’ And days on end, I was walking around the house with my mouth open, saying to my mom, ‘When’s God going to send it out?’

And I learned then, that when you create sounds, he’ll take over.”

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A Century of Local Art The Santa Cruz Art League celebrates its 100th anniversary BY WALLACE BAINE

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his week, the Santa Cruz Art League will enter territory that no other arts organization in Santa Cruz County has ever ventured—its second century.

In 2019, the Art League marked its centennial year doing what it

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“There is a perception out there in the community that the Art League is only about paintings and other traditional art,” says Miranda, who is approaching her fourth year

running the organization. “We’re trying to change that perception and open up even more broadly to the range of arts that are out there.”

Yes, the Art League was founded on a devotion to plein-air landscape painting. But its artistic sensibilities

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ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT commitment to the local community and its prominent place beyond the county line. The first is the annual High School Competition, in which local high-schoolers get the chance to display their art at the SCAL gallery. In 2020, the high-school show will mark its 65th year.

The second tradition is more of an indicator of the Art League’s standing among arts organizations across California. It’s the Statewide California Landscape Exhibition, which features landscape art by artists from all over the state. In the spring, the Statewide show will be hosted by the Art League for the 90th consecutive year.

Including those traditional shows, the Art League hosts between eight and 10 exhibitions each year. In recent years, it has worked with art students from UCSC to produce a number of temporary “pop-up” exhibits, which give students experience in curating, planning and installing art shows. The Art League also offers art classes and weekend workshops in a wide variety of artistic pursuits, including watercolor, pastels and figure drawing.

In 2020, says Miranda, the Art League will go forward in establishing visual arts education in a way that it’s never done before with K-12 school and family programs. “There will be lots of kids in the building,” she says.

In January, the Art League’s second century will kick off with another annual tradition: the Members Exhibition, featuring work from SCAL’s member artists.

“I always describe the Art League as being committed to the life cycle of the artist,” says Miranda. “From people who have no experience with art at all to artists who want to develop their skills, so they can be confident enough to get an artwork in the Members Show and have exhibitions in different places all over town.”

The Santa Cruz Art League is open Tuesday through Saturday noon5pm; Sundays from noon-4pm at 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz. Free admission. scal.org.

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have not languished in antiquity.

For example, the League’s current exhibit is a photography show themed on “divergent” travel photography and curated by Allison Garcia, co-founder of the thriving local photography community Open Show Santa Cruz. In the past year, the Art League has hosted gallery shows on metal arts and fiber arts—with plenty of shows aimed at painting, as well.

The Art League was first incorporated in 1919, but the artist community that founded it reaches back even further, to the late 1800s—the golden age of Cezanne and Gaugin. It was during that period that a group of artists known as the “Jolly Daubers” would gather for excursions to paint landscapes in spots all around Santa Cruz County.

From that community, artists Fred Heath and Margaret Rogers established what would become the Santa Cruz Art League, which nurtured a handful of accomplished local women painters, most notable among them Cor de Gavere and Leonora Naylor Penniman (Leonora’s grandson Ed Penniman today remains one of Santa Cruz’s most well-known painters).

It was in the years following World War II that the Art League made the canny decision that allowed it to live to 100. In 1949, the Art League raised funds to buy property on Broadway near Ocean Street, and in 1951 it opened the building at 526 Broadway, where it still is today.

“I feel like they were real mavericks,” Miranda says of the Art League’s post-war generation that made the decision to invest in real estate, something well beyond the reach of most arts organizations today. The Art League building consists of a main gallery, a smaller gallery, a gift shop, and the Broadway Playhouse, which has hosted hundreds of theater productions going back decades.

Today, SCAL has a 10-member board of directors and between 400 and 500 member artists. The League still maintains two longstanding art traditions established by their forebears that, taken together, illustrate the Art League’s

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ABBEY NORMAL The White Album Ensemble is used to playing the Beatles songs that the Beatles thought were too hard.

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The White Album Ensemble celebrates 50 years of ‘Abbey Road’ BY AARON CARNES

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ocal musician Dale Ockerman— who played with the Doobie Brothers for many years, among other classic Bay Area bands of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s—recalls when his current group the White Album Ensemble first performed the Beatles album Revolver at the Rio in 2004.

There was a look of shock and delight on people’s faces when they performed “Eleanor Rigby” for the crowd.

“All the sudden, everybody walks off stage. The singer sings with a string quartet,” says Ockerman. “It was so un-rock—a big surprise.”

The group started out in 2003 as a way to replicate the Beatles’ behemoth, scatter-brained double-

album The White Album, a record the Fab Four released in 1968 as they worked in turmoil and often as separate entities. They never performed the songs live. Ockerman assembled an eight-piece band that included two keyboards, two guitars, bass, drums, and two lead singers who don’t play instruments—the material is too hard to play and sing at the same time.

After a year of sold-out shows, Ockerman thought his project should expand its concept to bring any of the Beatles albums to the stage that were released after the band stopped touring in 1966. They also included Rubber Soul, released in 1965, which

had a handful of songs too complex to perform live, like the sitar-laden “Norwegian Wood.” On Dec. 27 and 28, the White Album Ensemble will perform Abbey Road in its entirety at the Rio Theatre.

“It’s the stuff that the Beatles didn’t do because it was too hard,” Ockerman says. “The technology didn’t allow it, either. They didn’t have monitors, they didn’t bring string sections, horn sections—all that stuff. We do.”

It has been an evolving process for Ockerman. In 2004, he and his group first attempted Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour, but found that it didn’t work without an orchestra (and, in the case

of Sgt. Pepper’s, Indian instruments like the sitar and tabla). So, the first official non-White Album production of the White Album Ensemble was a double feature of Rubber Soul and Revolver. That one string quartet song, “Eleanor Rigby,” went so well that it seemed worth assembling an even bigger band to do Sgt. Peppers.

Now, 16 years into the band’s existence—which is longer than the Beatles were a band—the White Album Ensemble have performed every Beatles album from Rubber Soul on.

Abbey Road, the Beatles final record, has been performed a few times, but this upcoming show is a special performance to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the record.

“On Abbey Road, you see this maturity. George Harrison is coming up with ‘Here Comes the Sun’ and ‘Something.’ Masterpieces!” Ockerman says. “The side two medley, where it’s just songs all tacked together, it was this huge thing. Once you start playing it, you can’t stop. That was a lot of fun.

A lot of really good-quality stuff, a lot of really clever songwriting.”

The band that Ockerman has assembled for Abbey Road is mostly a rock arrangement: Ken Kraft (vocals/ guitar), Richard Bryant (vocals), Ockerman (keys, guitar), Stephen Krilanovich (guitar, vocals), Endre Tarczy (bass, vocals), Trey Sabitelli (drums, percussion), and Will McDougal (keys). There will also be a four-piece string quartet and some other nuances, like having five singers on the lush “Because,” and some synth parts on “Golden Slumbers,” “She’s So Heavy” and “Here Comes The Sun.” It’s one of the group’s most cohesive records. It was a farewell to an era, and a sneak peak of what was to come in rock ‘n’ roll.

“They really got ahead of everyone else: Elton John, Led Zeppelin. It was pretty advanced. I wouldn’t call it prog-rock. It was nothing like Genesis or Yes. It had really beautiful symphonic tones. It was hard to describe. Great rock ’n’ roll. ” The White Album Ensemble will perform ‘Abbey Road’ at 8pm on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 27 & 28, at the Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $25. 423-8209.

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POLYMER EARRING WORKSHOP

Learn how to make unique polymer clay earrings, from rolling the clay to assembling each piece. Local artist Morgan Sandusky is the owner and operator of Queer Abstraction, a local business that aims to increase queer representation in the arts. Sandusky will be going over the basics of polymer clay, how to mix clay to create new colors and marbled patterns, and how to assemble new, original earrings.

Participants will go home with two new pairs of earrings.

1-3:30pm. Saturday, Dec. 28. All Hands Workshops, 514A Front St., Santa Cruz. etsy.com/shop/queerabstraction. $65.

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CHRISTMAS AT THE MAH Friends of Christmas, Veterans For Peace, and the Museum for Art & History announce the 4th Annual Christmas at the MAH on Wednesday, Dec. 25, from noon-3pm. A hot meal along with warm clothing and gifts will be given to those less fortunate in our community. Clothing and wrapped gifts may be dropped off at the UN Store, 903 Pacific Ave. Noon. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH), 705 Front St., Santa Cruz.

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

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DANCE CLASS WITH ZOE JAKES OF BEATS ANTIQUE

Zoe Jakes is a prominent belly dancer and founding member of the American experimental world fusion and electronic music group Beats Antique.

Jakes is coming to Santa Cruz to teach a three-hour workshop between Beats Antique shows. What better way to celebrate New Year’s than to dive into dance practice and then go out for a show? No warm-up needed.

1pm. Tuesday, Dec. 31. Desert Dream Dance Company, 1025 Water St., Santa Cruz. 295-0953. $65/$75.

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.

‘HELLO DOLLIES’ EXHIBITION Come explore this community holiday exhibition: Hello Dollies featuring dolls of the past to the present—oh, and robots, too! Noon-4pm.

San Lorenzo Valley Museum, 12547 Hwy. 9, Boulder Creek.

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

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NYE WITH THE WILY MINXES BURLESQUE SHOW Catapult into 2020 with the Wily Minxes, who’s bringing you an evening of exceptional entertainment and talent. The show will be full of burlesque, drag and striptease, followed by a midnight toast and dance party taking us into the New Year. Each ticket includes champagne for the midnight toast.

9pm. Motion Pacific, 131 Front St. E, Santa Cruz. motionpacific.com. $45.

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.

‘HELLO DOLLIES’ EXHIBITION Come explore this community holiday exhibition: Hello Dollies featuring dolls of the past to

the present—oh, and robots, too! Noon-4pm.

San Lorenzo Valley Museum, 12547 Hwy. 9, Boulder Creek.

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

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CALENDAR on. The figures themselves, which are simple and easy to learn, are similar to those used in traditional square dances-- for example, do-si-do and swing your partner. A caller teaches the dance and prompts the moves to live music (usually Celtic or traditional American reels and jigs). A night consists of multiple Contra dances, with each dance lasting 8-9 minutes. Then you thank this partner and ask someone new to dance. Also usually two waltzes a night. Bring your dance shoes and a water bottle. Potluck snacks at the break. Wear comfortable clothes and low-heeled non-marking shoes (preferably that slide). 6:30am. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave., Santa Cruz.

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THURSDAY 12/26 CHANUKAH TRAIN

On the fifth night of Chanukah, gather at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk for the lighting of the menorah. Following the menorah lighting, all aboard the train on Roaring Camp’s old-fashioned excursion cars adorned with thousands of lights and Chanukah decorations. Including special Chanukah stories, dreidel and kosher refreshments provided by Chabad by the Sea, the evening includes your choice of one activity at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk: miniature golf, laser tag or arcade games. Create a new holiday tradition full of lights, stories and traditions of Chanukah in a whole new way.

5:15 and 6:45pm. Roaring Camp Railroads, 5401 Graham Hill Road Felton. roaringcamp.com/events/chanukah-train. $31.

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Beth El in Aptos. Donation based class. 10am. Temple Beth El, 3055

Porter Gulch Rd., Aptos.

SALSA DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ Drop-in class for all intermediate dancers.

Cuban-style Salsa Suelta and Casino partner.

Latest tunes from Cuba. No partner required, age 16+. 7pm. Tiny Dancer Ballet School, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz.

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

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

tunes by female artists! Grab your gal pals, besties, buddies, sisters, brothers, and cousins and keep the holiday cheer going by dancing the night away to your favorite female artists! Coaster’s is an iconic hub of fun across from the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz. Learn more about Glory at glorytributes.com. Learn more about Coaster’s at boardwalkbowl.com/coastersbar-grill. 9pm. Coaster’s Bar & Grill, 115 Cliff St., Santa Cruz.

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SANTA CRUZ CONTRA DANCE “Contra” (New England Folk) community dance! Easy to learn dances are taught & prompted. Live music always! All ages welcome. Come alone, with a partner, or with friends. Experienced dancers will often ask new folks to dance to help them learn the ropes. Contra dancing is a form of traditional American set dance, with its roots in the French and English country dancing of the 17th and 18th centuries. The dances are done in longways sets of couples, in which a dancer and their partner do a short series of dance figures or moves with each other and another couple, then each couple moves along the set to a new couple and repeats the figures, and so

awareness on the present. This class is also known as “adult nap time,” “goodnight yoga” or “the pathway to bliss.” By taking the time to have an intimate conversation with yourself and to control the quality of your breath, you are stepping on a path to a fuller, more fulfilled lifestyle. This class is candlelit and uses props (blocks, blankets, bolsters) as we move from shape to shape with relaxing music to put you at ease. This class has an assistant and offers a nurturing, safe, and consensual touch. This class is open to all ages and experience levels. 6:458pm. Breath+Oneness, 708 Capitola Ave., Capitola.

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

GROUPS COMPLEMENTARY TREATMENT FORUM Educational & collaborative group for women with cancer who want to learn about complementary treatments. Meets every fourth Saturday at WomenCARE. Call to register at 457-2273. Free.

10:30am-12:30pm. WomenCARE, 2901 Park Ave. Suite A1, Soquel.

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

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

Meets in the Redwood Room. This meeting is fragrance-free. 11am-noon. Watsonville Community Hospital, 75 Nielson St., Watsonville.

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JOIN US FOR DANCING, DJS & DRINK SPECIALS @MOTIVSC SATURDAYS! IT’S TIME FOR HOMO HAPPY HOUR, GIRL! C’mon up to MOTIV Saturdays for

to slow down from your busy lives and reconnect to your inner wisdom. Learn how to take care of your body, mind, and spirit through gentle yin yoga postures, breath, and guided meditation. In this practice we will hold restorative poses for 3-7 minutes to gently open the connective tissues in the body, release tension, and focus our

DJs dancing & drinks! DJ Bad Boo has the party lights lit and the dance grooves mixed.

Spend the early evening with the friendliest LGBTQ crowd in town. gay, straight, trans or just plain KINKY? All LGBTQ allies &

CALENDAR orientations are welcome. Make that move.

You’ll love Homo (sapien) Happy Hour! #HHH Curious what the music is like? Mixes from MOTIV parties are found mixcloud. com/athonia-cappelli. Would you like to submit music requests? Send them in advance on Facebook. 3:30pm. Motiv, 1209 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz.

OUTDOOR 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 www.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 Boulevard and W Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz.

SUNDAY 12/29 ARTS

TOY TRAINS Experience a mini-universe

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

10:30am-noon. Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz.

CLIMATE EMERGENCY DISCUSSION 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.

MONDAY 12/30 CLASSES

YOGA CHURCH WITH HANNAH MUSE Non-denominational. No experience necessary. All bodies welcome. These classes are intended to be accessible and inclusive to anyone who seeks to open their heart, body and mind; not just those who can afford it. Self-care is a radical act: as we learn to love and take care of ourselves, we extend that love and support to others more abundantly, and it ripples out into our communities. 5:30-7:15pm. Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front St., Santa Cruz. $15.

TUESDAY 12/31 CLASSES

CHAIR YOGA Join Suzi Mahler Tuesdays and Fridays 9:30am at Grey Bears. This chair yoga class is fun, informative. Whether you are rehabilitating after surgery, want to increase flexibility and coordination or just

TUESDAY 12/31

NEW YEAR’S EVE AT THE 418 PROJECT The 418 Projects second annual New Year’s Eve Black Light Ball is ringing in the next century in style. This drug and alcohol free celebration includes a multi-DJ lineup, bassfilled sound system, silent disco, art and face painting, fire dancing, vegetarian snacks and of course a special countdown ceremony. This event will likely sell out, buying tickets online in advance is recommended.

8pm-1am. The 418 Project, 418 Front St., Santa Cruz. 466-9770, the418project.org. $35.

want to add another yoga class to your week, it is time to start! 9:30am. California Grey Bears, 2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. $5.

class usually has 20 minutes of restorative yoga. 10:30am. Watsonville Yoga, Dance and Healing Arts, 375 N. Main St., Watsonville.

COMMUNITY PILATES CLASS

TRIYOGA BASICS CLASS WITH TERRI TriYoga flows are presented with

Community Pilates class led by instructor Jennifer Balboni. Drop in any Tuesday or Thursday beginning at 10am 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 emphasize balance, healthy digestion, and enhancing bone density will be explored. This

personalized guided alignment assistance. $15/drop in. 9:30am. TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz.

MUSIC NEW YEAR’S EVE ORGANIST’S KALEIDOPHONE The 15th annual organists’ kaleidophone! A feast of music for organ solo, duet, other instruments and voice performed by local organists with their musical friends. Admission is free, and all donations will go to the Organ Maintenance Fund. A traditional reception of Champagne, Sparkling Cider and Chocolates follows!

4pm. Peace United Church of Christ, Santa Cruz, 900 High St., Santa Cruz.

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of model trains that delight the young and young at heart.Swing by the MAH to hear the roar as the diesel starts up, the blast of the mighty horn, the squeal of the brakes as these tiny trains slow for a curve and the chatter between the engineer and the control tower. This beloved annual pop-up exhibit located inside the MAH's atrium can be enjoyed by the whole family. Members of the Golden State Toy Train Operators will be on hand to help young engineers master controls and answer questions. Plus, bring your own toy train to show off and put it on the track. Don't forget to enter the raffle when you arrive. You could win your very own model toy train!. 10am-5pm. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH), 705 Front St., Santa Cruz.

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LOVE YOUR

LOCAL BAND MADDIE PARTIDA After Halloween, when the inevitable barrage of Christmas music hits the mall radio system, we all clench our teeth at the thought of having to muster through “Jingle Bell Rock” for the 15-millionth time. Local musician Maddie Partida wanted to hear new Christmas music this year, but was disappointed by what she found.

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“I wasn’t finding anything new that I liked that was upbeat,” Partida says.

“I just got the idea to come up with something on my own. It was the easiest song I’ve ever written.”

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She released the song “A Very Merry Christmas” in early December on CD, and to various streaming platforms. It’s a joyous, festive song, on which her sister Jacklyn Paulette (aka “Jackie Rocks”) plays guitar and bass, and Ryan Loomis plays drums. That’s not the only family tie. Her father gave some CDs away to car dealerships in the Bay Area, and one time when he came back, he heard “A Very Merry Christmas” in the showroom.

This is the first song Partida has released as a solo artist. She’s been playing music in bands since age 12, usually roped in by Paulette when she joined a band on guitar. In April, Partida took the leap and started playing solo—with Paulette on guitar, of course.

“I always wanted to do it. I had anxiety, and so I never wanted to put myself out there. But I’ve gotten a lot more confident just playing over and over,” Partida says.

On Jan. 5, she’ll release her new single, “Up In The Clouds.” AARON CARNES 2:30pm. Sunday, Jan. 5, New Bohemia Brewing Company, 1030 41st Ave., Santa Cruz. Free. 350-0253.

THE MOTHER HIPS

THURSDAY 12/26 INDIE ROCK

I’M GLAD IT’S YOU

Two years ago, indie rock band I’m Glad It’s You was in a major car accident, injuring band members and tragically killing punk-scene videographer Chris Avis. Instead of letting this destroy the group, they kept the spirit of their friend alive by putting out some of their most urgent and soul-searching music to date. MAT WEIR 9pm. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $6. 429-6994.

FRIDAY INDIE

KILLER WHALE

Killer whales, aka orcas, are apex predators and will prey on almost any animal they find in the sea, air or coastline.

The band Killer Whale plays easygoing psych-rock infused with strong R&B elements. Orcas have been documented to travel long distances and adapt to any climate. Thomas Johnson, the creator of the band Killer Whale, moved

long-distance, from Baton Rouge to San Francisco, with dreams of pairing his rustic twangy vocals with dreamy California folk-rock. Orcas live in giant pods and have been reported to hunt and take down moose. The band Killer Whale compares itself to a “cold beverage on a warm afternoon.” AMY BEE 8pm, Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $7 423-7117.

LATIN

FLOR DE CAÑA

Drawing on a luscious bouquet of Caribbean grooves, local dance-floor savants Flor de Caña deliver an irresistible sound steeped in foundational traditions, like Cuban son, Colombian cumbia, Puerto Rican bomba, and Dominican merengue. In celebrating the birthday of lead vocalist Angel Rosas, who hails from Mexico’s Caribbean coast in Veracruz, the seven-piece combo has more reason to party than ever. With Los Angeles-reared Liliana Barrios on bongo, percussion and vocals—and featuring veteran Puerto Rican conguero Jose Reyes—Flor de Caña packs the wallop of a stiff shot of rum. ANDREW GILBERT 9pm. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $10 adv/$15 door. 479-1854.

SOUL

MONOPHONICS

In October, San Francisco cosmic-soul group Monophonics released a 19-second video teasing the reverb-drenched “Chances,” itself a sneak peak of their upcoming 2020 record It’s Only Us. A preview of a preview! Fortunately, “Chances” came out a few weeks later.

It’s a brilliant track, and one that suggests the group has mastered its mojo by channeling Stax-era vintage soul, still with a subtle science-fiction polish. The grooves are tight with the warmest, fuzziest production, and it’ll make you feel like the song is giving you a hug. No album release date yet, so you’ll have to keep listening to “Chances” on infinite repeat. AC 8pm. Felton Music Hall, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $20 adv/$24 door. 704-7113.

INDIE ROCK

CRACKER & CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN

David Lowery is a busy man. The frontman of both Santa Cruz indie rock band Camper Van Beethoven and alt-rock chart-toppers Cracker, he’s seen just

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tic/electric work with moody Italian guitar maven Corrado Rustici. MH

8pm. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz. $30. 423-1338.

It’s no shocker that North Bay’s Mother Hips weren’t ’90s superstars, despite a major-label push. But they released several brilliant records and anticipated the hippie-rock-with-Americanagrooves trend that would gain traction in the 2000s. Hell, even singer/guitarist Tim Bluhm would build a sizable fanbase in the post-Mother Hips years.

But now, many moons later, the cult of Mother Hips remains strong. AC

SUNDAY 12/29 GUITAR

PEPPINO D’AGOSTINO

Widely regarded as one of the greatest acoustic guitarists alive, Peppino D’Agostino comes to Michael’s on Main for a calming Sunday afternoon performance. Calming, yes, but that’s not to say there won’t be action. D’Agostino is capable of some surprising pyrotechnic feats on the guitar, sudden whirls and flourishes that produce sounds that hardly seem possible on just six strings. Last year, D’Agostino stretched his range the furthest yet with For the Beauty of this Wicked World, a collaborative acous-

2pm. Michael’s On Main, 2591 Main St., Soquel. $15 adv/$17 door. 479-9777.

MON & TUE 12/30-31 ROCK

THE MOTHER HIPS

9pm. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $28-55. 479-1854.

TUESDAY 12/31 ELECTRONIC

BEATS ANTIQUE

Extinguish 2019 with Beats Antique and their Grand Bizarre, a whirlwind

celebration of the strange and unusual.

Culture and genre collide and explode like glitter cannons in the Beats circus of the senses. Writhing belly dancers, elaborate costumes, twisted set designs, twirling props, and a pulsating light show thrill and chill, while cabaret-style world fusion and experimental electronica play backdrop to sensually fun performance art. AB 9pm. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $49-65. 423-1338.

ROCK

MARTY O’REILLY & THE OLD SOUL ORCHESTRA New year, new you, same Old Soul Orchestra. That’s something we can all be thankful for. Ring in the ’20s with these local favorites, who personify the sounds of the mountains with their part-blues, part-folky tunes.

O’Reilly recently announced he will be touring Europe solo in early 2020, so this might be the last time locals see him for a while. MW 8pm. Felton Music Hall, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $29 adv/$34 door. 704-7113.

7pm. Monday, Jan. 13. Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $33.60 advance,/$38.85 door. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11am on Monday, Jan. 6, to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

IN THE QUEUE THE DC TRIO

They will funk you up—and jazz and R&B you. Thursday at Michael’s On Main

BIGRIG

Heavy rock that’s not for the faint of heart. Friday at Crepe Place

CON BRIO

Tripped-out soul and R&B. Saturday at Moe’s Alley

GREEN LEAF RUSTLERS

Chris Robinson and company getting all cosmic country. Sunday at Felton Music Hall

FISHHOOK

Rock ’n’ roll for you to dance to.

Tuesday at Crow’s Nest

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about every side of the music industry.

In Cracker, he landed a massive hit with 1993’s “Low,” its grimy grunge-pop sitting comfortably on the radio alongside the Goo Goo Dolls and early Foo Fighters. Meanwhile, the reformed Camper Van Beethoven have been free to pursue jangle-rock songs about California surfers and skaters leading the resistance against fascist dictatorships. As it should be. MIKE HUGUENOR

Jazz is a balancing act between technical skill and unvarnished emotion. Jeremy Pelt is the kind of trumpet player that excels at both. It doesn’t matter if he’s playing a tender ballad or performing an intricate solo over a vibraphone-based groove. As a graduate of Berklee College of Music, he broke out on the jazz scene at a young age playing with the Mingus Big Band. He’s released over a dozen solo albums and played the sideman on even more, including work with artists like Mike LeDonne, Eric Alexander, Cedar Walton, and Vincent Herring.

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LIVE MUSIC

Friday December 27 –8/9pm $10/15 Latin Dance Party

FLOR DE CAÑA Saturday December 28 –8/9pm $15/20 Funk & Soul Dance Party

CON BRIO

+ MESTIZO BEAT

FRI 12/27

SAT 12/28

SUN 12/29

James Murray Free 6-8p

Blues Mechanics Free 6-8p

Mojo Mix 6-8p

MOTHER HIPS

BLUE LAGOON

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

Killer Whale & special guests 9p

Nightmare After XXXmas (Costume Party) 9p

The Box: Gothic/ Industrial Free 9p

Tuesday December 31 –8/9pm $50/55

BOARDWALK BOWL

Karaoke 8p-Close

Glory 9:15p-12a

Karaoke 6p-Close

Karaoke 6p-Close

+ COFFIS BROTHERS

BOCCI’S CELLAR

Thursday January 2–8/8:30pm $8/12

BRITANNIA ARMS

8059 Aptos St, Aptos

+ TRIP TIDES

923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

MOTHER HIPS

115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

ROSEBUD

Friday January 3 –8/9pm $16/20 Hip Hop Favorite Returns

ZION I

+ ALWA GORDON Saturday January 4 –8/9pm $12/15

4th Annual David Bowie Birthday Bash

BOWIE B-DAY BASH

Jan 9 EDGE OF THE WEST Jan 10 THRIFTWORKS Jan 11 KATDELIC Jan 12 TOMMY CASTRO Jan 16 SA-ROC, SAGE FRANCIS Jan 17 DREAMING GHOSTS - CD Release Jan 18 BOOSTIVE Jan 19 COLD BLOOD Jan 23 HOMELAND REVIVAL w JAMES DURBIN Jan 25 LYRICS BORN Jan 26 CHRIS DUARTE Jan 30 GENE EVARO JR + SWEET PLOT Jan 31 LA MISA NEGRA Feb 1 SOULWISE Feb 5 BLACK UHURU + ETANA Feb 7 MIGHTY DIAMONDS Feb 9 THAT 1 GUY Feb 12 ANTIBALAS Feb 16 THE GLADIATORS Feb 18 SON LITTLE Feb 23 CHRIS CAIN Feb 26 GREYBOY ALL STARS Feb 26 LONG BEACH DUB ALLSTARS + AGGROLITES Mar 1 RICK ESTRIN Mar 7 SAM CHASE + EZRA BELL Mar 11 SHOOTER JENNINGS Mar 12 METALACHI Mar 14 STONE FOXES Mar 19 TANYA STEPHENS Mar 26PIMPS OF JOYTIME + DIRTY REVIVAL Apr 3 HOT BUTTERED RUM + HILLSTOMP

MON 12/30

TUE 12/31

118 Cooper St, Santa Cruz Scott Miller Free 6-8p

Grateful Dead Dance Party With

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THU 12/26

APTOS ST. BBQ

Monday December 30 –8/9pm $28/30

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WED 12/25 ABBOTT SQUARE

Karaoke 8p-Close

Free Broken Shades Free 6-8p

Jimmy Dewrance Free 6-8p NYE Dance Party 9p

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke Old School Free 8p

140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz Alex Lucero & Friends 8p

110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

Karaoke 9-12:30a

Karaoke 9-12:30a

CAPITOLA WINE BAR

Blind Rick w/ Virgil Free Mark Creech Thrasher 7-10p 7-10p

THE CATALYST

Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven w/ Maids of Honor $30 8p

115 San Jose Ave, Capitola 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Free

Vinny Johnson 2-5p

Free Beats Antique w/ David Starfire & Motion Potion $49.50 9p

Micro Mania Midget Wrestling $20-$99 8p

THE CATALYST ATRIUM

1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

CATALYST UPSTAIRS

Queen Bingo 9p

1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

CILANTROS

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

CORK AND FORK

Open Mic Night Free 7-10p

1934 Main St, Watsonville

312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

Karaoke 9p

Jazz Jam 9p KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

The Aquacats Free 7-10p

Nomad 7-10p

Free Ryan Price Free 3-6p

THE

CREPE PLACE OPEN LATE - EVERY NIGHT!

The DC Trio

Thu. Dec. 26 7:30pm NO COVER

Paperback Ryders

Fri. Dec. 27 5pm HAPPY HOUR / NO COVER

Papiba and Friends

Fri. Dec. 27 8:30pm $10 adv./$10 door Dance – ages 21 +

Not So Young

Sat. Dec. 28 8:30pm Neil Young Tribute $10 adv./$10 door Dance – ages 21 +

Peppino D’Agostino

Sun. Dec. 29 2pm 2pm Matinee $15 adv./$17 door seated <21 w/parent

Grateful Sunday

Sun. Dec. 29 5:30pm GRATEFUL DEAD TUNES / NO COVER Tue. Dec. 31 9pm

NEW YEARS EVE CELEBRATION The China Cats $30 adv./$35 door or Dinner & Show Combo $70.00 adv.

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Thu. Jan. 2 Fri. Jan. 3 Sat. Jan. 4

Wed. Jan. 8 Thu. Jan. 9

Dave Holodiloff Band Mike Hadley Band Painted Mandolin feat.

Joe Craven plus AJ Lee & Blue Summit Shady Rest Soul Doubt

ADVANCE TICKETS ON TICKETWEB WEDNESDAY 12/25

HAPPY HOLIDAYS CLOSED WE WILL REOPEN ON THE 26TH

THANKS! THURSDAY 12/26

I’M GLAD IT’S YOU w/ MILDURA & GRAD NITE 9PM - $6 DOOR FRIDAY 12/27

BIGRIG

w/ SHAMPAIN & BORN JEALOUS 9PM - $7 DOOR SATURDAY 12/28

CHEAP HORSE w/ MONDO CHAGA 9PM - $7 DOOR TUESDAY 12/31

NEW YEARS EVE PARTY!!!!

w/ THE INCITERS & INFAMOUS SWANKS 9PM - $10 ADV. $10 DOOR FRIDAY 1/3

FULMINANTE w/ SPECIAL GUEST 9PM - $5 DOOR

SATURDAY 1/4

BERNIE & THE WOLF

w/ SOLLOMON HOLLOW & PRACTICING SINCERITY 9PM - $8 DOOR

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WEEKEND BRUNCH FULL BAR

2591 Main St, Soquel, CA 95073

1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz 429-6994

Full Concert Calendar : MichaelsonMainMusic.com

MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ

LIVE MUSIC WED 12/25

THU 12/26

Monday, January 6 • 7 PM

BENNY GREEN TRIO FRI 12/27

CORRALITOS CULTURAL CENTER

SAT 12/28

Open Mic 7-10p

127 Hames Rd., Corralitos

I’m Glad it’s You w/ Mildura & Grad Nite $6 9p

THE CREPE PLACE

1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

CROW’S NEST

Bump 8p

2218 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz

$5

SUN 12/29

MON 12/30

Acoustic Open Jam 3-5p

BigRig w/ ShamPain & Born Jealous $7 9p

Cheap Horse w/ Mondo Chaga $7 9p

Blind Pilots $6 9p

Viva Santana $7 9:30p

Live Comedy $7 9p

FishHook $20 9:30p New Year’s Eve at the Lab 7:30p

155 River St, Santa Cruz

FELTON MUSIC HALL

An Evening w/ Green Leaf & Rustlers $32/$35 7p

Monophonics $20/$24 7p

6275 Hwy 9, Felton

THE FISH HOUSE

Bob Basa 6:30-9:30p

HENFLINGS

Bingo Night 7p

Yuji & Jimmy 7p

Vito & friends 8p

Who’s Holdin’ 8p

Ted Welty 6:30-9:30p

Mark Creech 6:30-9:30p

Captain & Messina 6:30-9:30p

Kevin Hamm Band Free 8:30p

Pro Jam Free 8:30p

JACK O’NEILL

175 W Cliff Dr. Santa Cruz

JOE’S BAR

13118 CA-9, Boulder Creek

Marty O’Reilly & the Old Soul Orchestra $29/$34 8p

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.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Saturday, January 11 • 8:30 PM

GABRIELLA CAFE

Linc Russin 7-9p

9450 CA-9, Ben Lomond

Beats Antique DJ Set $25/$29 7p

Southsiders 8p

972 Main St, Watsonville

Joyous and imaginative swinging – both elegant and earthy.

Thursday, January 9 • 7 PM

NYE Party w/ the Inciters & Infamous $10 9p

DNA’S COMEDY LAB

910 Cedar St., Santa Cruz

TUE 12/31

SIN SISTERS BURLESQUE Pro Jam 4p

Open Mic 7p

Wredhorse New Year’s Eve 9p Eddie G8, Breedloves 5-11p

Nomad Free 5p

Plateau Jazz Band Free 9p

Tickets: eventbrite.com

Monday, January 13 • 7 PM

JEREMY PELT QUINTET

One of the preeminent trumpeters in contemporary jazz.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Thursday, January 16 • 7 PM

KUUMBWA JAZZ

PAMELA ROSE & TERRENCE BREWER: THE MUSIC OF ELLA FITZGERALD & JOE PASS

320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

LILLE AESKE

13160 CA-9, Boulder Creek

Two Bay Area favorites, celebrating an enduring collaboration.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS

The Last Great

Monday, January 20 • 7 PM

SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK

An internationally-renowned a cappella ensemble, uplifting listeners for over four decades.

AT THE RIO THEATRE

Thursday, January 23 • 7 PM

BIRELI LAGRENE GIPSY PROJECT TRIO

A guitarist with dazzling energy and precision.

Monday, January 27 • 7 PM

An evening of piano and guitar with two risk-taking and provocative instrumentalists.

Thursday, January 30 • 7 PM

RANKY TANKY

South Carolina’s global ambassadors for the Gullah music of the Sea Islands.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS

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

All ages welcome.

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

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LIVE MUSIC WED 12/25

THU 12/26

FRI 12/27

SAT 12/28

SUN 12/29

MON 12/30

Paperback Ryders Free 5p

Peppino D’Agostino Not So Young: Neil Young $15/$17 2p Grateful Tribute $10 8:30p Sunday Free 5:30p

MISSION ST. BBQ

Lloyd Whitley Free 6p

Gil de Leon Trio Free 6p

MOE’S ALLEY

Flor de Cana $10/$15 8p

Con Brio, Mestizo Beat $15/$20 8p

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN

The DC Trio Free 7:30p

2591 Main St, Soquel 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

MOTIV

1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

The Get Down 9:30p

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

NYE Celebration w/ the China Cats $30/$35 9p

The Mother Hips, Trip Tides $28/$30 8p

Brandon Beach 9:30p

Tacos & Trivia Free 6:30p

1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz

110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz

Trivia 8p

PARADISE BEACH

Bleu 10p-12a Live Again w/ Alex Lucero 6-9p

215 Esplanade, Capitola

Gravity Pool 2-5p

POET & PATRIOT

Live Again w/ Alex Lucero 2-5p

Open Mic Free 4-7p

320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Bump NYE Party 9p-1a Comedy Free 8p

THE RED

120 Union St, Santa Cruz

Variety Show w/ Toby Gray 6:30p

Acoustic Classics 6:30p

RIO THEATRE

1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

ROSIE MCCANN’S

1220 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

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

200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

THE REEF

The Mother Tides, the Coffis Brothers $50/$55 8p The Takeover 9:30p

NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 99 BOTTLES

TUE 12/31

Comedy Night 9p

9450 Hwy 9 Ben Lomond, CA (831) 586-0606

First & Third Celtic Jam

Aloha Friday 6:30p

Acoustic Grooves 12:30p Light Acoustic 12:30p Featured Acts 6:30p Acoustic Classics 6p

The White Album Ensemble $25-$40 8p

The White Album Ensemble $25-$40 8p

Live DJ

Live DJ

Open Mic 6p

Light Acoustic 6:30p

Trivia 7:30p

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Friday, December 27 • Ages 21+

CRACKER CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN Saturday, December 28 • Ages 16+

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Dec 31st @ 8pm

$3

OFF

Pancake Breakfast, Basic Burger

$2

Kitchen Specials Free Champagne Toast

OFF

Basic Breakfast

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Exp. 1/3/20 Tues-Fri with coupon

Open every day from 11am to 2am

Open Tues – Sun, 7-2:30pm 819 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz • 427-0646

www.henflingsbar.com

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At least ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ finally ends the saga BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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irst comes the brassy blast of John Williams’ iconic theme—hurtling at you from 42 years ago in a galaxy far, far away. Then, the first words in the title crawl of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. “The dead speak!”

And that’s your problem right there.

An enervating part of the Star Wars religion is the way the dearly departed keep coming back as blue-tinted ghosts. The grave never seems to be able to hold either the characters or the actors who play them, such as Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher. When the filmmakers mean us to feel sorry about an already demised actor dying on screen,

it’s like that glitch in Facebook’s algorithms that reprints a dead person’s obituary on the anniversary of their death. It’s sad, and news to some, but it lacks surprise.

Moreover, The Rise of Skywalker violates a sacred law of good filmmaking—that is, waiting to show the monster until the end of the movie. From the crawl, we know that Emperor Palpatine (quavery old Ian McDiarmid) has come back to life.

He’s resurrected and needs to be snuffed. Thus, we know where this movie will end. Him and the final order (a football stadium full of hooded faceless cheerers-on) hide on a grim, bad planet, punctuated by

streaks of blue lightning. It’s a Sith stronghold that can only be found with a triangular widget, which in turn can only be found with the help of an inscription on a blade, written in the dread tongue of Mordor (actually Sithese), which C3P0 is forbidden to utter. And we know that the last of the Jedi, the one-named Rey (Daisy Ridley—sometimes beautifully fierce, sometimes blandly intrepid) must be the spearhead.

The Rise of Skywalker has the disadvantage of following The Last Jedi, maybe the best in the series; during lag times in this J.J. Abrams vehicle, one recalls the energy Rian Johnson brought to the lightsaber

fight in Snoke’s crimson throne room, and the groans of the grizzled Chewbacca, and the closeups of Adam Driver’s vaguely teenage face swollen with emotion.

Kylo Ren helps this film. One enjoys the mournfulness of this would-be villain, and how this grandfatherworshipping warrior is like Napoleon III—floundering violently in the shade of his famous uncle.

The Rise of the Skywalker’s most compelling motif is the relationship between him and Rey, the woman he loves and hates and can’t stop pulling a lightsaber on. The two are so bonded that they’re in each other’s heads. They share separate spaces at the same time; in one fight, she’s on a spaceship and he’s in a marketplace; he swings his saber and bursts open a bag of beans, and the beans roll at her feet, many miles away.

Their more or less climactic duel takes place atop the rusting ruins of the Death Star, surrounded by a turbulent sea. But there’s plenty of rudderless action as the rest of the characters make a crowded, yet uneventful, chase from one planet to another. The Rise of Skywalker seems to lose track of everyone, particularly the becalmed rebels where a digitally reconstructed Leia (Fisher) waits for news. Kelly Marie Tran’s Rose—who’d refreshed The Last Jedi—is put in the corner. C3P0 risks lobotomy in a scene with no payoff.

There’s constant eye candy: a Kumba Mehla-style celebration in the desert called “The Festival of the Ancestors” (which the movie certainly is), a six-eyed sandworm attack and various growling muppets.

Yet nothing much connects: the threats during a final duel, blasted with CGI lightning, sounding like the taunts of children on a playground trying to top each other. This was once a series that did things that no other movie franchise could; the best thing you can say now is that it’s finally wrapped up.

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FILM NEW RELEASES LITTLE WOMEN People who enjoy thoughtful adaptations of great literature will want to see this movie. But I have to assume a lot of people are waiting for Disney to buy this property and add Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Directed by Greta Gerwig.

Starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Laura Dern and Meryl Streep. (PG) 134 minutes. (SP) 1917 Sam Mendes’ World War I story follows two privates who must deliver a message deep into enemy territory to prevent a massacre.

Starring Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch and Richard Madden.

(R) 119 minutes. (SP) SPIES IN DISGUISE In this animated kid’s action movie, Will Smith plays a super-spy who is accidentally turned into a pigeon by boy scientist Tom Holland. Ironically, his character turning into a pigeon would have made any of Smith’s last several movies way more interesting.

(PG) 101 minutes. (SP)

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UNCUT GEMS This thriller about a jeweler who is also a gambling addict—and gets in over his head with loan sharks—features Adam Sandler in a rare dramatic starring role. It’s being praised as Sandler’s best performance. Wait, better than Bobby in The Waterboy? That’s hard to believe. Directed by Josh and Benny Safdie. (R) 135 minutes. (SP)

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NOW PLAYING 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 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) 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. (PG-13) 92 minutes. (SP) CATS It’s not so much that this live-action adaptation seems like a movie that never should have been made. It’s more like a movie that you assume was made in, like, 1998. It wasn’t (OK, there was an animated direct-to-video version that year), but the goofy-ass-looking cat people sure look like they come from an era when computer graphics were just very … sad. The effects were done with motion-capture, which I guess is an upgrade from the cat suits worn on Broadway, but do you really need to make Idris Elba dance around in front of a green screen with pingpong balls hanging off his spandex suit and dots all over his face? That’s a hell of a Jellicle choice. Directed by Tom Hooper. Starring James Cordon, Judi Dench, Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, and Idris Elba. (PG) 102 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) A HIDDEN LIFE Terence Malick’s latest is about an Austrian farmer who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. This will be his first film not to feature obtuse storytelling and heavy symbolism. Just kidding!

Starring August DIehl, Michael Nyqvist and Valerie Pachner. (PG-13) 174 minutes. (SP) 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) 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.

(SP) 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. (RvB) 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) STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Reviewed this issue.

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Santa Cruz County’s top dishes of the year, from tapas to a killer chocolate-espresso tart BY CHRISTINA WATERS

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alamari is so easy to love—and so hard to cook perfectly.

It’s turned up in quite a few of my favorite dishes of the year. A platter of tender grilled squid adorned with English peas and bits of rich pork belly made one lunch at Avanti Santa Cruz an enduring memory. But perhaps the most memorable calamari of the year was a tapas dish at Barceloneta in downtown Santa Cruz filled with succulent morsels of grilled Monterey squid, fideos pasta and finely diced chorizo, all bathed in black squid ink with spicy little

peppers and piquant aioli. I could eat three plates of it right now.

At the chic bookshop-café Bad Animal, a glass of one of the house bubblies, Crémant de Bourgogne from Céline & Laurent Tripoz, was a lively partner to an earthy and authentically French paté served with dijon mustard, cornichons and outstanding sourdough bread. This dish made sense of a crazy world. And the sparkling wine didn’t hurt.

Bantam is always welcoming, a serious restaurant disguised as a neighborhood pizza joint. On one of my trips to the intimate bar—for

something with gin in it, plus an appetizer—I found culinary salvation.

An elegant creation of a single plump, grilled scallop arrived astride a miniature landscape of black lentils surrounded by avocado cream.

The scallop was perfect—tender inside, golden and crisp outside.

Crimson Jimmy Nardello peppers joined the shellfish, and everything shimmered with an intense citrus oil.

A spectacular constellation of flavors and textures.

The Kitchen at Discretion Brewing offers plenty of gastronomic seduction, but it was that plate of

tempura eggplant with a soy-citrus reduction and aioli all dusted with red pepper togarashi that had us well and truly enchanted. Thanks Santos Majano! I would drive from the Westside, even during rush hour, for this dish.

From chef Tom McNary’s kitchen at Soif came a gorgeous small plate of Vietnamese-style grilled quail accompanied by rosy butter leaf lettuce, pickled onions and slices of spectacularly ripe tomatoes.

The glazed quail was tender-chewy wonderful, especially dipped into a tart and fiery vinegar sauce laced with chilis and shallots.

From La Posta’s kitchen came an elegant dessert of barely sweet ricotta pear tart, embedded with almonds and glazed pear and served with a housemade Meyer lemon gelato. An adult dessert made with flair, filled with dazzle.

At the Homeless Garden Project’s Sustain Supper last autumn, I swooned over an ensemble of desserts from chef Laci Sandoval of Wind & Rye. All were beautiful, but for sheer sex appeal, nothing topped her densely creamy chocolate espresso tart inflected with candied orange zest and sea salt. Brilliant combination of sensations.

The ethereal GF Carrot Cake from Manresa Bread—available at Verve locations throughout Santa Cruz—always knocks me out. Light and addictively flavorful, this buttery little tea cake is shaped into a miniature round studded with carrots, spices and walnuts. A spectacular achievement in glutenfree sin.

At Oswald, the drinks are perfection and the bar food sophisticated. Along with an evening special gin cocktail with pomegranate juice, blood orange and lime, I was transported (and not for the first time) by an appetizer of Dungeness crab layered with avocado and lemon zest. Great service, great food, and the chance to see everybody in town.

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n April, Craig Hammond officially became his own boss. His Hiccuping Dragon pop-up hot dog stand can now be found on Fridays at Watsonville’s Fruition Brewing, plus other local events and catering gigs.

With his family-inspired offerings, Hammond aims to both focus on local food and interact with the community.

Where did the idea for a pop-up shop come from?

CRAIG HAMMOND: I have always wanted to own my own business, and this last year, we have discovered my son has special needs. As we needed flexibility to accommodate his appointments and therapies, I made the jump.

How did you come up with the concept for the name and logo?

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found Hiccuping Dragon, after my son. He was born in the year of the dragon and was constantly hiccuping during the pregnancy. My visual for this was a baby dragon hiccuping and catching things on fire. Perfect.

What are your most popular hot dogs?

My Big Dragon is a quarter-pound, all-beef hot dog served on a steamed, fresh-baked bun from Paulino’s Bakery. Or Corralitos Market’s cheesy Bavarian with jalapeños.

This is a pork and beef sausage in a natural casing with chunks of sharp cheddar cheese and jalapeño. It has a great snap and amazing juicy flavor, melty cheese and just the right amount of spice. (There’s also) a full condiment bar with seven or more mustards and sauces. facebook.com/hiccupingdragon or @hiccupingdragon on Instagram.

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ne of the most stunning places in the Santa Cruz Mountains is Big Basin Vineyards. Situated up a narrow, winding road close to Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Boulder Creek, its bucolic setting is no less than God’s Little Acre.

My Wild Wine Women group gathered there on a Monday lunchtime recently, when the winery is closed to the public, so we had the whole place to ourselves. I took my friend Una from England, and she was bowled over with the setting— and the wines!

After tasting some delicious elixirs made by proprietor and winemaker Bradley Brown, who was there to talk us through his wines until his young son pulled him away, I fell for the 2014 Grizzly Grenache ($55). Made with 100% Grenache from Big Basin’s certified-organic estate vineyard, this full-bodied red wine needs hot, dry conditions to eventually showcase its wonderful red-fruit flavors. “The nose is a mélange of delicate spice notes and fruit,” says Brown. He suggests pairing it with roast chicken or

waterfowl. Wine Enthusiast awarded 91 points to the 2014 Grizzly.

An exciting bit of news is that Brown could also be your host on a cruise on the River Danube in November 2020—a delightful way to experience his wines and knowledge.

And there’s quite a saving if you book by Dec. 31. Visit Big Basin’s website for more info.

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BUBBLEFEST The Half Moon Bay Wine and Cheese Company will be holding a BubbleFest at the end of December— its third-annual champagne and sparkling wine festival. Celebrate sparkling wines from around the world from 3-6pm on Dec. 28.

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RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES TWELVE HOLY DAYS, FOLLOWING THE STAR

Esoteric Astrology as news for the week of Dec. 25, 2019 We are deep in the heart of Hanukkah, Christmas (solar eclipse; the old passes away) and the Festival of the New Group of World Servers (festivalweek.org). Powerful solstice radiations continue to sweep the Earth through the Twelfth Night (Jan. 6), when the Three Astrologer Kings, bearing (spiritual) gifts, discover the Holy Child (the soul of humanity).

We too journey with the Three Magi Kings, walking from east to west, seeking the stable, the holy child, the new light for the world, and following a star. Each of the days after Christmas, 12 days, embrace the spiritual heart of the new year to come.

These 12 days after Christmas are called the Twelve Holy Days, where 12 zodiacal forces are released to Earth. Each sign projects a cosmic

ARIES Mar21–Apr20 During the holy days (Dec. 26-Jan. 6), after tending with joy and care to family, we begin to plan, create goals and agendas for our new work in the world. Jupiter, the beneficent, gives Aries the needed focus upon career, profession and work in the world. Whatever work and responsibilities you assume, prosperity and opportunity are significant. Remember also, in all that you do, to radiate Goodwill (to all).

TAURUS Apr21–May21 It is a good thing to take up short and long-distance travel to areas and people you’ve never seen before. This is a vital time of learning and then teaching; a time of experiencing different people, places and cultures that allow for new thinking to occur. It would be good to take up archery or horseback riding. These create in one a flexibility fluidity. Beliefs will change. Adaptation becomes most important.

GEMINI May 22–June 20

pattern into the world, and a task to be completed this year.

Contemplate the signs: Aries (26th) head, “Behold I make all things new”; Taurus (27th) constancy, illumined mind, throat, humility, “The creative word is sent forth”; Gemini (28th), hands (healing, benediction), duality; Mercury (messenger); Venus (intelligent love), “Be still”; Cancer (29th), cosmic mother, home, stomach/solar plexus cherubim, the moon (memory), “I build a lighted house;” Leo (30th), heart, creativity, power of love, the Royal Way. “Love fulfills the Law;” Virgo (31st), world mother, Mary holding a sheaf of wheat (star Spica), purity (a Soul power), life of service, “I am the Mother and Child, I God, I matter, Am;” (Libra – Pisces) continue on my Facebook page and website.

Peace on Earth, goodwill to all. Love, Risa. place. Allow them to pass. Remain poised. Focus on what you love and care for, and what/who loves you. Much may shift and change at home. You may buy or sell property, someone (a child, a mother, an elder, a friend) may begin to live with you, or you will choose to live alone. Living with parents provides the time needed to correct relationships before death, the next adventure, spirits them happily away.

You notice your community seems more vital, alive and inviting. You realize it contains interesting information, and you visit different areas and neighborhoods and realize how important where you live is. You give thanks for the services, amenities, facilities, and people that serve you. Yes, they serve you. And then you give back, tithing, working, creating new relationships, and your heart expands in proportion. It’s joy, and hark! The angels are singing about it!

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20

CANCER Jun21–Jul20

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20

This week of holidays and holy days, you’ll reach out, seeking company, companionship and friendship. A deep closeness results, which you have been seeking. You will also understand what it means to have harmony with others, which you also seek.

Promise yourself that you will not betray anyone emotionally.

Think on this. Turning back into your crab shell can make others feel lost and abandoned. Blessings in disguise will begin to occur.

You’ve actually become the king/queen of the zodiac as so many things come your way, all of which you deserve, like personal self-esteem and success, attainting goals, feeling loved. Most importantly, your feelings of not being enough are gradually vanishing. Know that decisions you make professionally are correct. Reach for the sky in all matters.

You have many skills and opportunities. They are like stars hanging from the sky waiting to be gathered. Follow Polaris.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 You may not consider yourself creative or artistic, thinking your detail and need for perfection (there is none; there is only “good enough”) keeps you from more aesthetic arts. But actually, you are artistic and creative, and soon this will be so apparent you’ll have to choose among the many projects available. You will be like a happy child who knows their work is good (enough). And so it is. More play is what you need.

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PISCES Feb19–Mar20 You’ve been thinking about how to expand your social circle, but you realize that to feel comfort and safety, others must understand and act within the new Aquarian Laws and Principles. Have you noticed that when children look at you, they smile? What is it they see? Is it your light, perplexedness, your humility, your grace, your pure spirit? Know that you are not alone. Know also that you must ask for what you want and need. Ask and ask and ask. Obstacles will be removed. The light of the holy season shines upon you.

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Whereas you always wondered what you value and how to use money resourcefully, you’ll soon begin to just enjoy life consciously. Your appreciation for the Earth will at times feel like happiness enfolded in joy. You recognize you’re here on this beautiful planet along with everyone else, all doing their psychological karmic work. Money situations ease up, and opportunities you didn’t expect (but hoped for) materialize.

Be grateful for everything. Be one of the Magi. Which one would you choose to be? With what gift?

As your daily work increases, include as a priority working on your health and well-being, diet, exercise, and the restriction of stress and worry. Your happiness depends upon this.

Happiness is the daily life personality. But Leos seek joy, which is a Soul quality. Joy emerges from the heart of the sun. Joy is what the birth of the Holy Child brought to humanity and the Earth. This year, begin to take pride in all your endeavors.

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ORDINANCE NO. 2019-27 AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ AMENDING ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT REGULATIONS AND ADDING JUNIOR ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT REGULATIONS IN CHAPTERS 24.08, 24.12, 24.16 AND 24.22 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE IN RESPONSE TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 2019 LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS BE IT ORDAINED By the City of Santa Cruz as follows: Section 1. Findings.

• Pursuant to Article XI, Section 7 of the California Constitution, the City of Santa Cruz (“City”) may make and enforce all regulations and ordinances using its police powers.

• The regulation and facilitation of the development of accessory dwelling units is a vital component of the City’s Housing strategy.

• The legislation signed by Governor Newsom on October 9 of this year requires the City to make certain amendments to the local regulations governing the development of accessory dwelling units.

• The state legislation contains a clause that would invalidate the City’s local accessory dwelling unit regulations if they do not conform to the requirements of the new state law on or before January 1, 2020.

• The local standards for accessory dwelling units will facilitate the development of accessory dwelling units within the City, and are necessary for maintaining orderly growth and development patterns.

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• Based upon the above-described facts and circumstances, and for these same reasons, the City Council finds that this ordinance is necessary as an emergency measure for preserving the public peace, health and safety, and therefore that it may be introduced and adopted at one and the same meeting, and shall take effect immediately upon its adoption.

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Section 2. Section 24.08.800 et seq (Slope Regulations Modifications) of Chapter 24.08 of the Santa Cruz Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Part 9: SLOPE REGULATIONS MODIFICATIONS 24.08.800 PURPOSE Slope regulation modifications may be permitted to allow for development in unique situations where mitigation measures achieve the purpose of provisions of Section 24.14.030, subsection (d) (slope regulations) and where strict compliance with Section 24.14.030, subsection (d) creates a particular physical hardship and where no reasonable alternative to the exception exists, and when the extent of the exception is minimized. This section of the Zoning Ordinance is also part of the Local Coastal Implementation Plan.

24.08.810 PROCEDURE Projects requiring an exception to slope standards established by Section 24.14.030

must apply for a slope modification permit.

This permit may be granted by the zoning administrator without a hearing if the project is no closer than ten feet from the top edge of a thirty-percent slope and is consistent with the findings in Section 24.08.820, unless the slope modification permit is accompanied by an application which must be heard by a higher body. Should a project be closer than ten feet to a thirty-percent slope, then it must be considered at a public hearing by the zoning board as a variance which must also be consistent with the findings in Section 24.08.820. In the case of construction of an accessory dwelling unit pursuant to Section 24.16.100 et.seq, this section shall apply only when alternative site configurations are available to an applicant that would permit the construction of a detached accessory dwelling unit up to eight hundred square feet in size without the need for a slope modification permit; when no alternative site configuration will allow the construction of an eight hundred square foot detached accessory dwelling unit, the applicant shall comply with the maximum possible number of findings in Section 24.08.820, but shall not be denied a building permit for the accessory dwelling unit based on this section.

24.08.820 FINDINGS REQUIRED A slope modification permit may be granted when all of the following applicable conditions are found or when, pursuant to the provisions of 24.08.810, an application for an accessory dwelling unit meets as many of the following conditions as possible: 1. Measures have been included within the design of the project to mitigate impacts on environmental constraint areas identified in the Environmental Quality Element of the General Plan and the Local Coastal Program.

2. Landscaping of an appropriate type, size and quality is proposed to mitigate any adverse environmental effect.

3. Usable open space is proposed in an amount equal to that normally required.

4. To conform with existing land forms and topography, streets, buildings, and other man-made structures have been designed by a registered civil engineer or other qualified professional.

5. Adequate fire safety measures as required by the city fire department have been incorporated into the design of the proposed development, when located in a designated fire hazard area.

6. The proposed project employs architectural and design elements which in total serve to reduce the mass and bulk of structures. Such elements may include:

• Multiple floor levels which follow natural slopes; • Multiple roof lines; • Decks and balconies; • Foundation types such as poles, piles, or stepped levels which minimize cut and fill and need for retaining walls; • Fence lines, walls, and other features which blend with the terrain rather than strike off at an angle against it.

7. If a project proposed for construction is in a designated landslide area, before granting a modification to Section 24.14.030(1) (d), findings must be made that mitigation measures necessary to fulfill the purpose of this part have been incorporated into project design, based on the project’s environmental review.

Section 3. Section 24.12.140 (Accessory Buildings) of Chapter 24.12 of the Santa Cruz Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: 24.12.140 ACCESSORY BUILDINGS Accessory buildings are subject to the regulations and permit requirements of the zoning district in which they’re located.

1. No setback shall be required for an accessory building except as otherwise provided.

2. No accessory building shall be located in a front or exterior side yard. A garage may not be located closer than twenty feet from front or exterior side yard lot lines; except that a garage may be built to the front and exterior side yard lot lines where the slope of the front half of the lot is greater than one foot rise or fall in a distance of seven feet from the established street elevation at the property line, or where the elevation of the lot at the street line is five feet more above or below the established street elevation.

3. Accessory buildings that are less than one hundred twenty square feet in floor area are not required to conform to the distance-between-buildings requirement set forth in the district regulations, Chapter 24.10; however, such structures are subject to all other standards, regulations, and requirements of this title.

4. Habitable accessory buildings shall not be located within the front yard nor closer than six feet to the nearest point of the principal building; and shall conform to principal building rear and side yard requirements of the district in which they are located. a. No accessory buildings shall be used as living quarters unless used for nonpaying guests (guesthouses).

5. Accessory buildings may not cover an area in excess of thirty percent of any

required yard area. Standards applicable to accessory dwelling units can be found in Section 24.16.140.5, and accessory dwelling units shall count toward the limit on allowable coverage by other accessory structures.

6. An accessory building attached to a main building by a breezeway is not part of the main building.

7. An accessory building may have one sink installed in it if a plumbing permit is obtained. A property with multiple accessory buildings may have a sink in only one accessory building. Any additional plumbing fixtures would require an administrative use permit subject to findings listed in subsection (8) and a building permit for plumbing facilities is obtained.

8. Except for accessory dwelling units, accessory buildings may contain a full bathroom only when an administrative use permit and design permit are approved in accordance with district regulations and all of the following findings are made: a. The structure and use are subordinate to the principal use; and b. The purpose of the use is incidental to the principal use; and c. The use is customarily appurtenant to the permitted use; and d. The structure will not be used as a dwelling unit except as set forth in Chapter 24.16, Part 2, Accessory Dwelling Units; and e. A deed restriction will be recorded limiting the use of the structure to that approved under the permit unless otherwise authorized by the city.

Section 4. Section 24.16.100 et seq (Accessory Dwelling Units) of Chapter 24.16 of the Santa Cruz Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Part 2: ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS 24.16.100 PURPOSE The ordinance codified in this part provides for accessory dwelling units in certain areas and on lots developed or proposed to be developed with single- or multi-family dwellings. Such accessory dwellings are allowed because they can contribute needed housing to the community’s housing stock.

Thus, it is found that accessory dwelling units are a residential use which is consistent with the General Plan objectives and zoning regulations and which enhances housing opportunities that are compatible with residential development. Accessory dwelling units provide housing for family members, students, the elderly, in-home health care providers, the disabled and others within existing neighborhoods, and homeowners who create accessory dwelling units may benefit from added income and an increased sense of security.

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In addition the ordinance codified in this part provides a mechanism to grant legal status to existing illegally constructed accessory dwelling units in single-family neighborhoods. By encouraging legalization, safe dwellings may be added to the city’s existing housing supply.

Thus it is found that accessory dwelling units are a residential use which is consistent with the General Plan objectives and zoning regulations and which enhances housing opportunities throughout the city of Santa Cruz. To ensure that accessory dwelling units will conform to General Plan policy the following regulations are established.

24.16.120 LOCATIONS PERMITTED Accessory dwelling units are permitted on lots of any size in conjunction with a proposed or existing residential use in any zone that allows residential uses.

24.16.125 DEFINITIONS The following definitions shall apply to accessory dwelling units throughout the municipal code:

“New construction accessory dwelling unit” shall mean any accessory dwelling unit that includes new construction and which does not meet the definition and requirements for a conversion accessory dwelling unit.

24.16.130 PERMIT PROCEDURES 1. Accessory dwelling units shall be principally permitted uses within the zoning districts specified in Section 24.16.120 and subject to the development standards in Section 24.16.140 et seq.

2. Accessory dwelling units on substandard lots shall not be required to obtain a design permit unless they are associated with the construction of a new single-family dwelling per Section 24.08.400 et seq.

3. City shall issue a ministerial building permit for an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit without discretionary review or a hearing, consistent with the provisions of this Chapter and state

a. Additional administrative or discretionary review is required under applicable provisions of the Santa Cruz Municipal Code or otherwise allowed by state law; i. Applications to construct accessory dwelling units shall be subject only to ministerial permitting processes to the extent necessary to allow construction of a singlestory accessory dwelling unit up to eight hundred square feet in size. Applications that propose to locate an accessory dwelling unit on a parcel or portion of a parcel triggering additional administrative or discretionary review shall only be relieved of the requirement for those reviews when no alternative site plan or project proposal can be created which would allow the creation of an up to eight-hundred square foot accessory dwelling unit that would not trigger additional reviews. b. If the permit application to create an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit is submitted with a permit application to create a new single-family dwelling on the same lot or parcel; or c. When the applicant seeks a delay.

4. Applications to construct accessory dwelling units on properties that are designated as historic resources by the City, the State of California, or by the National Register of Historic Places, shall show substantial compliance with the guidelines of the Secretary of the Interior for development on such properties.

5. Applications to construct accessory dwelling units on properties that are subject to the Citywide Creeks and Wetlands Plan shall show substantial compliance with the requirements established in that plan for such properties.

24.16.140 DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS All accessory dwelling units, both new construction and conversion, must conform to the following requirements: • Number of Accessory Dwelling Units per Parcel.

• For parcels zoned for and including a proposed or existing Single Family Home: One accessory dwelling unit shall be allowed for each parcel. Each parcel may also include a junior accessory dwelling unit conforming to the standards set forth in 24.16.170.

• For parcels zoned to allow and including an existing Multi-Family structure(s) as of December 31, 2019: Two new construction and at least 1 conversion accessory dwelling unit shall be allowed on each parcel. Up to 25% of the number of existing dwellings in the structure may be added as conversion

accessory dwelling units. When the 25% limit results in a fraction of a unit, the total number of accessory dwelling units that may be added shall be determined by rounding the fraction up to the next whole number. i. For the purposes of this section, multifamily structures are those that contain more than one dwelling unit, including but not limited to duplexes, triplexes, apartment buildings, and condominium buildings.

2. Parking. No off-street parking shall be required for any accessory dwelling unit.

Any parking spaces, covered or uncovered, removed in order to create an accessory dwelling unit shall not be required to be replaced.

3. Unit Size.

• The floor area for new construction detached accessory dwelling units shall not exceed ten percent of the net lot area or eight-hundred square feet, whichever is greater, and no ADU shall exceed a maximum of one thousand two hundred square feet of habitable area.

• The floor area for new construction accessory dwelling units attached to a single-family dwelling shall not exceed fifty percent of the existing habitable floor area of the principal single-family dwelling or eighthundred square feet, whichever is greater.

• The floor area for conversion accessory dwelling units shall not exceed one thousand two hundred square feet.

• Accessory units that utilize alternative green construction methods that cause the exterior wall thickness to be greater than normal shall be accommodated by calculating the unit square footage size in a manner that accounts for the difference between the square footage of the proposed structure and the square footage of a traditional frame house.

• Stairways which provide access to accessory dwelling units do not count toward the floor area of an accessory dwelling unit when the stairs are not part of the conditioned space, the stairs do not include any other rooms or room-like areas that would function as habitable floor area for the ADU, and there is a fire-rated entry door at the top of the stairs at the entrance to the accessory dwelling unit.

4. Existing Development on Lot. One of the following conditions must be present in order to approve an application to create an accessory dwelling unit: • One or more single-family dwellings exists on the lot or will be constructed in conjunction with the accessory dwelling unit; • The lot contains an existing multi-family structure, as defined in 24.16.140.1.b.i, as of December 31, 2019.

5. Rear Yard Lot Coverage. In no case

shall any accessory dwelling unit be limited in size based on Rear Yard Lot Coverage requirements contained in Section 24.12.140.5. In the application of Section 24.12.140.5, accessory dwelling units shall count toward the limit on allowable coverage by other accessory structures.

6. Open Space and Landscaping. The site plan shall provide open space and landscaping that are useful for both the accessory dwelling unit and the principal single-family dwelling.

Landscaping shall provide for the privacy and screening of adjacent properties.

7. The following standards apply to accessory dwelling units located outside the standard side and rear yard setbacks for the district: The entrance to the accessory dwelling unit shall face the interior of the lot unless the accessory dwelling unit is directly accessible from an alley, a public street, or the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Scenic Trail.

Windows which face an adjoining residential property shall be designed to protect the privacy of neighbors; alternatively, fencing or landscaping shall be required to provide screening.

8. Alley or Rail Trail Orientation. When an accessory dwelling unit is adjacent to an alley or the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Scenic Trail, the accessory dwelling unit is encouraged to be oriented toward the alley or trail with the front access door and windows facing the alley. Parking provided off the alley shall maintain a twenty-four-foot back out which includes the alley. Fences shall be three feet, six inches tall along the alley.

However, higher fencing up to six feet can be considered in unusual design circumstances subject to review and approval of the zoning administrator.

9. Occupancy.

• For accessory dwelling units issued a building permit between January 1, 2020 and January 1, 2025, owner occupancy shall not be required and no land use agreement requiring owner occupancy shall be recorded or enforced on properties containing these units.

• For accessory dwelling units issued a building permit on or before December 31, 2019 or on or after January 1, 2025, the property owner or an adult member of the property owner’s immediate family limited to the property owner’s spouse, adult children, parents, or siblings, and subject to verification by the city, must occupy either the primary or accessory dwelling as his or her principal place of residence except under circumstances as established by resolution by the city council that may allow the property owner or the executor or trustee of the property owner’s estate, to apply to the city council for approval of a temporary change in use allowing both units to be rented for a period of no more than two years with a possible extension of one year by the planning director if circumstances

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“Conversion accessory dwelling unit” shall mean any accessory dwelling unit created primarily by the conversion of any permitted or legal nonconforming structure erected prior to 2017, or portion of such a structure.

On property developed with multi-family structures only areas that are not used as livable space, including, but not limited to, storage rooms, boiler rooms, passageways, attics, basements, or garages, shall be eligible to become conversion accessory dwelling units. Consistent with zoning standards, conversion accessory dwelling units shall be permitted to expand the existing footprint of the structure by up to one hundred fifty square feet, and the existing height by up to two feet, and must be in conformance with all requirements of Section 24.16.142.

law, within sixty (60) days of submittal of a complete building permit application, unless provided otherwise. The sixty (60) day review period shall not apply when:

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warrant. Upon the expiration of the rental period, the property owner and/or the property owner’s immediate family member, as specified above, shall reoccupy the property or the property owner shall cease renting one of the units, or sell the property to a buyer who will reside on the property. A fee for such a request shall be in an amount established by resolution by the city council.

• For purposes of this chapter, the property owner is the majority owner of the property as shown in the most recent Santa Cruz County assessor’s roll.

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• If there is more than one property owner of record the owner with the majority interest in the property shall be deemed the property owner for purposes of this chapter. Any property owner of record holding an equal share interest in the property may be deemed the majority property owner if no other property owner owns a greater interest. (For example, if the property is owned by two people, each with a fifty percent interest, either of the two owners may be deemed the property owner for purposes of the owner occupancy requirement. If three people own the property, each with a thirty-three and one-third percent interest, any one of the three may be deemed the property owner for purposes of the owner occupancy requirement.)

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• Notwithstanding subsection (9)(a), the community development director, in consultation with the city manager and city attorney, shall be authorized to promulgate regulations intended to legalize accessory dwelling units which are nonconforming solely by virtue of the fact that the property owner has failed to comply with subsection (9)(a)’s owner occupancy requirement, including but not limited to regulations providing for the amortization of the nonconformity by specifying a period of time within which the absentee owner must either establish occupancy or discontinue the accessory dwelling unit use of the property or alternatively sell the property, and regulations providing for the recordation of land use agreements specifying the terms of amortization.

• Accessory dwelling unit properties shall be used for long-term residential purposes.

Accessory dwelling unit properties may neither be used on a transient occupancy basis nor for short-term/vacation rental purposes. Within condominium or townhouse properties that contain an accessory dwelling unit associated with a specific individual unit and not the larger common condominium or townhouse complex, neither the accessory dwelling unit nor the associated condominium or townhouse unit shall be used as a short term rental.

• Exception. A legal accessory dwelling unit property that had legal status prior to November 10, 2015, and was in use as a

short-term/vacation rental prior to that date, and for which the owner remits transient occupancy tax in compliance with Chapter 3.28 in full in a timely manner for the use of the property as short-term/vacation rental purposes, may continue the use. The owner must meet the owner-occupancy requirement of this code.

10. Connections Between Units. At the discretion of the planning director, accessory dwelling units may be permitted to create direct access between units, or common access to a shared garage, laundry room, or storage area; provided, that each unit meets the definition of dwelling unit found in Section 24.22.320.

11. Other Code Requirements. The accessory dwelling unit shall meet the requirements of the California Building Standards Code including the alternative means and methods section as prescribed therein.

12. Green Building Standards. New accessory dwelling unit construction (not conversion of existing space) shall be required to meet green building prioritized permit processing. Conversion of existing space into an accessory dwelling unit shall be required to meet minimum green building point standards plus fifteen additional points.

13. Large Home Design Permit. The square footage of an accessory dwelling unit shall not be counted with the square footage of the single-family home in determining whether a large home design permit is required.

24.16.141 NEW CONSTRUCTION ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS • Design. The design of the accessory dwelling unit shall relate to the design of the principal single-family dwelling by use of the compatible exterior wall materials, window types, door and window trims, roofing materials and roof pitch.

• Setbacks for New Construction Detached Accessory Dwelling Units. a. The side yard and rear yard setbacks for a new construction detached single-story accessory dwelling unit shall not be less than three feet and the distance between buildings on the same lot must be a minimum of six feet. b. Any portion of a new construction accessory dwelling unit that is over sixteen feet in height shall provide side setbacks of at least five feet and rear setbacks of at least ten feet.

• Exception: Any two-story accessory dwelling unit oriented toward an alley, street, or the Monterey Bay Scenic Sanctuary Trail provide a setback of no less than five feet from the side and rear property lines.

• If any portion of a new construction

accessory dwelling unit is located in front of the principal structure, then the front and side yard setbacks shall be the same as those required for single-family homes in the zoning district.

• Setbacks for New Construction Attached Accessory Dwelling Units. New construction attached accessory dwelling units shall meet the same setbacks as the principal structure, either the single-family dwelling or the multi-family structure, in the zoning district, except that any requirement for an additional setback based on height over fifteen feet shall not apply to the portion of the structure that contains the accessory dwelling unit.

• Building Height and Stories. a. A one-story detached new construction accessory dwelling unit shall be no more than sixteen feet in height measured to the roof peak. b. A two-story detached new construction accessory dwelling unit shall meet one of the following standards, with height measured to the roof peak: • Any two-story accessory dwelling unit that is built within four feet of a side and rear property line shall be subject to a height limit of sixteen feet.

• Any two-story accessory dwelling unit that is oriented toward an alley, street, or the Monterey Bay Scenic Sanctuary Trail shall be subject to a height limit of twenty two feet.

• Any other two-story accessory dwelling unit shall be subject to a height limit of twenty-two feet. c. Any two-story detached new construction accessory dwelling unit shall limit the major access stairs, decks, entry doors, and windows to the interior of the lot, an alley, or the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Scenic Trail if applicable. Windows that impact the privacy of the neighboring side or rear yards shall be minimized. d. An attached new construction accessory dwelling unit may occupy any level of the principal single-family dwelling and must comply with the height standard established for single-family homes in the zone district, except as noted in section 24.16.141.3. e. If the design of the principal structure has special roof features that should be matched on the detached accessory dwelling unit to enhance design compatibility, the maximum allowed building height of the accessory dwelling unit may be exceeded in order to include such similar special roof features subject to review and approval of the zoning administrator as part of the review of the building permit application.

• Substandard Lots. When a new construction accessory dwelling unit is proposed on a substandard residential lot, as defined in Section 24.22.520, the following design standards shall apply, but

shall not serve to limit the accessory dwelling unit to a size of less than 800 square feet: • The maximum allowable lot coverage for all structures shall be forty-five percent. Lot coverage shall include the footprints of the first floor, garage (attached and detached), decks and porches (greater than thirty inches in height and not cantilevered), and any secondstory cantilevered projection (enclosed or open) beyond two and one-half feet. Decks under thirty inches in height or fully cantilevered with no vertical support posts do not count toward lot coverage for this purpose. Second-story enclosed cantilevered areas that project less than thirty inches from the building wall do not count toward lot coverage. For such areas that project more than thirty inches from the building wall, only the floor area that projects more than thirty inches shall be counted as lot coverage.

• The floor area for all second stories shall not exceed fifty percent of the first floor area for all structures, except in cases where the first floor area of the structure to which a second story is being added constitutes thirty percent or less of the net lot area.

• Continuous long walls parallel to the side property line with narrow side yards shall be minimized.

• Landscaping shall be required at least for front yard areas.

• Structures, landscaping or other features shall incorporate methods to lessen the visibility of garages on a street facade.

6. Large Home Design Permit. Accessory dwelling units, both attached and detached, conversion and new construction, shall not contribute to the need for a Large Home Design Permit, and consistent with Section 24.16.130, shall be subject only to ministerial review. The City reserves the right to delay action on an application to build an accessory dwelling unit until such time as the permits for the primary residential use on the parcel have been approved.

24.16.142 CONVERSION ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS 1. Setbacks and Lot Coverage. Conversion accessory dwelling units shall be permitted to maintain the existing setbacks and lot coverage of the structure to be converted or reconstructed, regardless of their conformance to current zoning standards.

2. Reconstruction. Structures to be converted may either be converted utilizing the existing structural components of the building, or reconstructed within the existing threedimensional physical space occupied by the structure.

3. Additions and Expansions. An accessory dwelling unit shall be considered a conversion accessory dwelling unit when the proposed dwelling unit is created primarily within an

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existing or reconstructed structure. a. Expansions of floor space up to one hundred fifty square feet shall be permitted, and these expansions shall comply with the development standards that apply to new construction accessory dwelling units as stated in Section 24.16.141, and shall not enlarge the accessory dwelling unit beyond the size permitted for a new construction accessory dwelling unit on the parcel. b. Expansions of height up to two feet in additional height shall be permitted, and these expansions shall comply with the height limits set for new construction accessory dwelling units in Section 24.16.141. c. Any expansion in excess of the above thresholds will trigger review as a new construction accessory dwelling unit, including assessment of any required fees.

24.16.150 DEED RESTRICTIONS Before obtaining a building permit for an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit the property owner shall file with the county recorder a declaration of restrictions containing a reference to the deed under which the property was acquired by the present owner and stating that: 1. The accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit shall not be sold separately.

2. The unit is restricted to the approved size.

3. The use of the accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit shall be in effect only so long as the property is in compliance with the ordinance as codified and the Land Use Agreement recorded on the property, including any requirements regarding occupancy.

5. The deed restrictions shall lapse upon removal of the accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit.

6. For properties with accessory dwelling units and/or junior accessory dwelling units that are located in a permit parking program district, the primary residence and the accessory dwelling unit combined shall qualify only for the number of residential parking permits that would have been available to the primary residence. No additional permits will be granted for the accessory dwelling unit. The property owner shall offer the tenant of an accessory dwelling unit a residential parking permit if requested by the tenant.

7. For properties developed with singlefamily homes, neither the accessory dwelling unit, the junior accessory dwelling unit, nor the primary unit shall be used as a short

24.16.160 ZONING INCENTIVES The following incentives are to encourage construction of accessory dwelling units: 1. Affordability Requirements for Fee Waivers. Accessory dwelling units proposed to be rented at affordable rents, as established by the city, may have development fees waived per Part 4 of this chapter. Existing dwelling units shall be relieved of the affordability requirement upon payment of fees in the amount previously waived plus the difference between that amount and the fees in effect at the time of repayment.

2. Covered Parking. The covered parking requirement for the principal single-family dwelling shall not apply if an accessory dwelling unit is provided. However, no plumbing fixtures may be installed in any remaining existing garage or newly constructed garage on a property that has an accessory dwelling unit without approval of the zoning administrator.

3. Front or Exterior Yard Parking. Three parking spaces may be provided in the front or exterior yard setback under this incentive with the parking design subject to approval of the zoning administrator. The maximum impervious surfaces devoted to the parking area shall be no greater than the existing driveway surfaces at time of application.

Not more than fifty percent of the front yard width shall be allowed to be parking area.

4. Tandem Parking. For a parcel with a permitted accessory dwelling unit, required parking spaces for the principal single-family dwelling and the accessory dwelling unit may be provided in tandem on a driveway.

A tandem arrangement consists of one car behind the other. No more than three total cars in tandem may be counted towards meeting the parking requirement.

an allowed use and where single family structures exist or are proposed on the site, and where the owner of the property occupies the property as their primary place of residence.

• For the purposes of this section, junior accessory dwelling unit shall have the same meaning as defined in Section 65852.22 of the California Government Code.

• Junior accessory dwelling units must be attached to a single-family dwelling, may be created in any part of an existing or proposed single-family dwelling, and may be created in an addition to a single-family dwelling.

• Junior accessory dwelling units may be no larger than five-hundred square feet in size.

• Junior accessory dwelling units shall contain at a minimum, the following features: • An exterior entrance separate from that of the primary home.

• A cooking facility with appliances.

• A food preparation counter and storage cabinets of reasonable size in relation to the size of the junior accessory dwelling unit.

• Junior accessory dwelling units may include separate sanitation facilities, or may share sanitation facilities with the primary dwelling.

• Junior accessory dwelling units that contain all the required features of a dwelling unit will not be required to maintain an interior connection between the junior accessory dwelling unit and the primary dwelling. Junior accessory dwelling units that do not contain all the required features of a dwelling unit will be required to maintain an interior connection between the junior accessory dwelling unit and the primary dwelling unit.

• A deed restriction pursuant to Section 24.16.150 shall be required and recorded on the parcel.

Section 6. The following entries found in Chapter 24.22 (Definitions) of the Santa Cruz Municipal Code are hereby amended to read as follows: 24.22.012 ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT.

Section 5. Section 24.16.170 (Junior Accessory Dwelling Units) of Chapter 24.16 is hereby added to the Santa Cruz Municipal Code and shall read as follows:

A dwelling unit accessory to a residential use on a parcel of land and which meets the requirements of Chapter 24.16, Part 2 of this title.

24.16.170 JUNIOR ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS

A single-family dwelling is a building which is designed or used exclusively as a residence, including only one dwelling unit and may also contain one area meeting the standards of a junior accessory dwelling unit complying with Section 24.16.170 of this title.

• Notwithstanding any other regulation or definition of this code, a junior accessory dwelling unit shall be permitted on parcels in zones where single-family dwellings are

24.22.310 DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY.*

24.22.320 DWELLING UNIT. A dwelling unit is a building or portion of a building including one or more rooms which is/are designed or used as a residence by one family or housekeeping unit, with facilities for living, sleeping, eating, sanitation, and food preparation. A dwelling unit shall have only one domestic food preparation facility, except that a single-family dwelling may also include one area meeting the standards of a junior accessory dwelling unit complying with Section 24.16.170 of this title. A dwelling unit shall have interior access between all habitable spaces, except that a junior accessory dwelling unit containing all facilities necessary for living, sleeping, eating, food preparation and sanitation need not maintain interior access to the remainder of the dwelling unit.

Section 7. The following entry shall be added to Chapter 24.22 (Definitions) of the Santa Cruz Municipal Code and shall read as follows: 24.22.012.1 ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT, JUNIOR A living area attached to a single-family dwelling unit that is no more than five hundred square feet in size and which meets the requirements of Section 24.16.170 of this title.

Section 8. Effective Date and Expiration Date.

This ordinance shall take effect immediately following its adoption, and the provisions of this ordinance shall remain in effect until each is replaced by a regular ordinance amending the same code section. The provisions of this ordinance shall terminate upon the effective dates of the regular ordinances amending these same code sections.

PASSED FOR FINAL ADOPTION as an urgency ordinance this 10th day of December, 2019, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Krohn, Glover, Meyers, Brown, Mathews; Vice Mayor Cummings; Mayor Watkins.

NOES: None. ABSENT: None.

DISQUALIFIED: None.

APPROVED: Martine Watkins, Mayor ATTEST: Bonnie Bush, City Clerk Administrator This is to certify that the above and foregoing document is the original of Ordinance No. 2019-27 and that it has been published or posted in accordance with the Charter of the City of Santa Cruz.

Bonnie Bush, City Clerk Administrator

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4. The above declarations are binding upon any successor in ownership of the property; lack of compliance shall be cause for code enforcement.

term rental. On properties zoned for and developed with multi-family structures, the accessory dwelling unit shall not be used as a short term or vacation rental. In units within condominium or townhouse properties that contain an accessory dwelling unit associated with a specific individual unit and not the larger common condominium or townhouse complex, neither the accessory dwelling unit nor the associated condominium or townhouse unit shall be used as a short term rental.

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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. 2019-0002022 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. 2019-0001983 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.

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.

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. 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 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.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF KATIE LYNN PRUITT CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV03683. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner KATIE LYNN PRUITT has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: KATIE LYNN PRUITT to: KATIE LYNN DOUGLAS. 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 30,2020 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: December 11, 2019. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Dec 18, 25, 2019, Jan 1,& 8 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0002082The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as HIGHER EDIBLES. 2890 SOQUEL AVE SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz.

HIGH HONEY LLC. 7840 GLEN HAVEN RD. SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: HIGH HONEY, LLC. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOV 19, 2018.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Dec. 10 2019. Dec 18, 25, 2019 Jan 1 & 8 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0002076 The following Individual is doing business as AUDIO CHEMISTRY. 321 DAKOTA AVE. #A., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. GREGORY ALLEN LISHER. 321 DAKOTA AVE. #A., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: GREGORY ALLEN LISTER. 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 9, 2019. Dec 18, 25, Jan 1 & 8 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0002068The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as SEVERINO’S RESTAURANT. 7500 OLD DOMINION CT., APTOS, CA 95003. County of Santa Cruz. 7500 OLD DOMINION COURT ASSOCIATES, LLC. 39 ARGONAUT, ALISO VIEJO, CA 92656. AI# 201928010483. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: 7500 OLD DOMINION COURT ASSOCIATES, LLC. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/5/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 6, 2019. Dec. 18, 25, Jan. 1, & 8.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0002069The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as BEST WESTERN SEACLIFF INN. 7500 OLD DOMINION CT., APTOS, CA 95003. County of Santa Cruz. 7500 OLD DOMINION COURT ASSOCIATES, LLC. 39 ARGONAUT, ALISO VIEJO, CA 92656. AI# 201928010483. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: 7500 OLD DOMINION COURT ASSOCIATES, LLC. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/5/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 6, 2019. Dec. 18, 25, Jan. 1, & 8.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0002109 The following Individual is doing business as SANTA CRUZ OUTFITTERS. 105 SCHOOL WAY, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz.

WILLIAM HALL. 105 SCHOOL WAY, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: WILLIAM HALL. 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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0002166 The following Individual is doing business as SANTA CRUZ CARPET CLEANING 3383 MALIBU DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz.

SANDRO ENRIQUEZ. 3383 MALIBU DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: SANDRO ENRIQUEZ. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is November 24, 2014. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 17, 2019. Dec 25, Jan 1, 8, & 15 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0002123 The following Corporation is doing business as ARGUS LENDING. 621 CAPITOLA AVE. CAPITOLA, CA 95010. County of Santa Cruz. BEACH PROPERTIES NORCAL INC. 621 CAPITOLA AVE. CAPITOLA, CA 95010. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: KEN J. PITTMAN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/17/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Dec. 17, 2019. Dec.25, Jan 1, 8 & 15 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0002123 The following Corporation is doing business as ARGUS LENDING FUNDING ACCOUNT. 621 CAPITOLA AVE. CAPITOLA, CA 95010. County of Santa Cruz. BEACH PROPERTIES NORCAL INC. 621 CAPITOLA AVE. CAPITOLA, CA 95010. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: KEN J. PITTMAN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/17/2019.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Dec. 17, 2019. Dec.25, Jan 1, 8 & 15 2020.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-00012117 The following Individual is doing business as PRIMA CLEAN. 657 24TH AVENUE APT 7, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. JULIA PRIMAVERA. 657 24TH AVENUE APT 7, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JULIA PRIMAVERA. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is February 1, 2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 17, 2019. December 25, 2019, January 1, 8 & 15 2020.

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Continuing...wondering whether we’re at an inflection point where the all-encompassing embrace of technology will finally begin to wane. As more folks get overwhelmed by the cumulative effects of too much tech and begin to resist the temptation to integrate one more device and password into their daily lives.

Where is real estate’s place in all of this? How does tech’s powerful drive to make everythi5ng faster and easier clash with the more traditional role Realtors used to have? Will algorithms replace Realtors? Will buying and selling a home morph into a completely online experience accessed entirely by smartphone?

The jury’s still out, of course. But anyone who has bought or sold a home in recent years has had a chance to observe the relationship between the benefits of technology and the ways that too much tech can actually make their big life transition a lot more unsettling.

It’s not that tech itself is bad. There are plenty of ways it makes real estate better. It’s more that lives can spin quickly out of control whenever the ease and speed of technology start to become ends in themselves. Especially when they aren’t modulated by any real advice from someone who knows what they are doing.

As more key parts of the real estate process are digitized it becomes easier for buyers, sellers and agents to switch to autopilot. Using something as notoriously inaccurate as a Zillow Zestimate to determine a list price is a perfect example. The information is fast and free but it is also devoid of any useful context on which to base important decisions.

These days, Realtors are anxious to hurry their clients through the mountain of inspections and disclosures that accompany transactions.

And there’s often an appalling lack of discussion about the intricacies of those documents. Some agents send huge zip files by email and invite their clients to review and affix their digital signatures to every page, without saying a whole lot more.

Another example is the increasing number of escrow signoffs that are being done remotely by mobile notaries these days. It’s easier for buyers/sellers to skip the drive over to the title company, but unfortunately there’s no Realtor or Escrow Officer around to answer important last minute questions when they arise.

There are lots of other examples of course...to survive, Realtors are going to have to figure out ways to: slow down parts of the process even as other parts speed up, provide ongoing context in the face of way too much information, and keep things human even as they get less so.

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605 SAND DOLLAR DR, LA SELVA BEACH 2 Beds | 2 Baths | 2,263 sq. ft. | $2,195,000

618 SAND DOLLAR LN, LA SELVA BEACH 3 Beds | 2.5 Baths | 2,037 sq. ft. | $1,700,000

218 LEONARD ST, SANTA CRUZ 4 - 2 Bed Units | 3,360 sq. ft. | $1,599,000

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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. $2,100,000 720 Pleasant Valley Ln, Aptos Mostly single level, sunny ridge top, 3BR/2.5BA, 2,353 sq ft home on 1.43 acres. Custom hand crafted oak built-ins throughout & updated custom oak floors. Large family/rec room featuring wet bar, pool table, ping pong table, dart board. Storage sheds, oversized 2-car garage. $1,250,000 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

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

CAPITOLA 4425 Clares #82, Capitola Loma Vista Estates! Quiet, centrally located 55+ co-op community. Organized events & affordable HOA fee. 2BR/2BA home on spacious lot. Beautiful updated kitchen. Open porch, added sunroom. This home has much to offer & is a special find. Walk to Capitola Mall & the Village. $365,000

SOQUEL 46 Sears Cl, Soquel Clean, comfortable, move in ready 3BR/2.5BA home in super convenient Soquel location. This lovingly maintained home is located on a quiet street close to beaches, Capitola Village & Cabrillo College. New carpet & paint, versatile open floorplan with fenced back yard & attached 2-car garage. $799,000

755 14th Ave #710, Santa Cruz A resort inspired community w w/fitness room, pool. 2BR/1BA Ne upper unit is bright w/greenbelt view. Remodeled bath & kitchen w/quartz counters, new cabinets, stainless appliances. Plenty of closet space. Private deck. Easily walk to beach, Crow’s Nest, Farmers Mkt. $545,000 g! tin Lis

101-D Frederick, Santa Cruz Sought after Heritage Landing!

Walk to harbor & beach. Short stroll to restaurants & shops.

Bright 3BR/2.5BA, 1,915 sq ft townhouse. Many skylights, nice decks, a beautiful kitchen, loads of storage. Fireplace. Harbor living at it’s finest! $1,100,000 ! ed ist L st Ju

35 Hollins Dr, Santa Cruz Beautiful Pasatiempo! Nearly 4,000 sq ft 3 bedrooms, 4 baths on 6/10ths+ acre parcel has ocean/city lights views. Spacious master suite on 3,000 sf ft main level; lower level perfect for in-law quarters w/kitchenette; additional 500 sq ft basement, wow! $2,199,000 2545 Benson Ave, Santa Cruz Luxury Subdivision! Sunny, secluded cul-de-sac near Santa Cruz Gardens. Ocean views & green belt access. Custom 4BR/3.

5BA, 3,480sf home. Tasteful finishes & amenities. Radiant heat flooring throughout. Custom closet systems, smart wiring, hdwd floors, chef’s kitchen, & so much more. $2,675,000 260 Castle Dr, Santa Cruz Magnificent 5,127sf custom Luxury Home! Two houses on 6+ acres in the Soquel Hills.

Breathtaking ocean views from every room. One Master Suite & 3 junior suites. High-end gourmet kitchen, radiant heat. Plus, updated 2BR guest unit with great separation. See www.260CastleDrive.com $3,800,000

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1572 San Andreas Rd, La Selva Beach Stunning multi-level 5BR/4.5BA, 4,064sf home is perched on a hill.

This modern, custom home is only 9 years old. Panoramic views from the master retreat deck on 3rd floor. 12 ft ceilings in living room, gas fireplace & French doors. 2 private units w/kitchenettes attached to main home. $1,475,000

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. $265,000

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2395 Delaware Ave #44, Santa Cruz Enjoy life at the edge of the Pacific! Recently remodeled 2BR/2BA home located on a corner lot in a beautiful 40+ park.

Hardwood flooring, quality & comfort! Ocean view from living room. Heated swimming pool, spa, sauna, bbq area, fitness center & clubhouse. Planned & organized events. $219,000

120 Lake Dr #6, Boulder Creek WOW! New Kitchen, Appliances, Bathroom Upgraded.

Stunning, sunny 18th Green view, open floor plan, double pane windows, newer wood floors, Great Price. Great Location. EZ 45-minute commute to Silicon Valley. Wood burning fireplace. $319,999

2395 Delaware Ave #150, Santa Cruz Beautiful Oceanside 55+ De Anza Park on the Westside! Short walk along quiet community road & paths to the beach. Amenities include a saltwater pool, hot tub, sauna, club house & bbq area. Built in 2013, 3BR/2BA, 1,272sf mfg home. 20% of homeowners may be 40+. $162,500

16521 Big Basin Way #20, Boulder Creek Polish this Diamond in the Rough! Vacant, clean, & freshly painted. 2BR/2.5BA condo is Livable as is. Lovely Mountain & Creek setting at the Boulder Creek Golf & Country Club. 10 minutes from downtown Boulder Creek, half hour to Santa Cruz, 45 minutes to Silicon Valley. $375,000

SCOTTS VALLEY 111 Bean Creek Rd #129, Scotts Valley Stair-free, sunny end unit with all the bells & whistles. Two bedrooms and 2 full baths. Designer touches throughout with carrera herringbone fireplace surround, custom paint, and beautiful flooring. Big sunny deck to enjoy.

Complex pool. Best Schools and easy commute location. $539,900

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1144 Dundee Ave, Ben Lomond Lots of possibilities with this versatile property. Workshop. The sale includes the adjacent 4,574 sf parcel. Please call listing agent for details. $449,000

BROOKDALE 925 Forest Ave, Brookdale Nice sunny location surrounded by redwoods. Two story 1,920 sq ft home. First level, 1BR/1BA with a kitchen and living room. Top floor, 2BR/1BA with a kitchen and living room.

Property is in need of some TLC. $479,000

685 Kings Highway, Boulder Creek AS-IS - CASH! Complete the remodel of this 1500 sq ft, unfinished, empty shell. Water present on-site. Generous vehicle access with a circular drive. Buyer is responsible to do own due-diligence to establish needs to complete the project. $339,000

SOUTH SANTA CRUZ COUNTY 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. $699,000 758 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! $1,550,000

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SOUTH SANTA CRUZ COUNTY 270 Hames Rd #13, Corralitos Beautiful updated 2BR/1.

5BA, 1440sf home in Rancho Corralitos, a picturesque Senior Park on over 40 acres, stunning views in all directions. Open floor plan, bamboo floors throughout, modern kitchen. New decking, fruit trees & garden areas. Spacious shed w/ workkbench & storage. $399,000 270 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+ co-op park with lots of amenities. Must see this one. $525,000

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Fairytales do come true. This charming home located in East Garrison has it all. One of the few with a private drive to your two car garage which leads you to your extra spacious patio yard and covered lanai off kitchen. Two areas to entertain in. Living room (designed to be formal dining room) and family room, granite kitchen counters, eating bar on the island, designer paint and touches throughout the home. Enjoy coffee by your front window. Once inside this 3 Bedroom, 2.5 bath home there is a Very private Special feeling. The Monterey Peninsula is a special place unique in all the world. Just five miles from the the coast lots of sun and blessed with a near perfect climate. East Garrison is designed with opportunities to live, shop, play, explore and enjoy in a village-inspired setting. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let this opportunity pass you by. Look and purchase today! L#4008 $629,000

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Panoramic Monterey Bay View!!! Estate sized property situated on approx 6 Acres, overlooking the coastline of Santa Cruz, Salinas & the Monterey Bay. Perched on a hilltop this private estate has 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths and approx 6095 square feet, formal living and dining rooms, two family rooms, country size kitchen, 2 pellet stoves and one wood burning fireplace. You will love the large size of every room in this home. There is an Eagles nest/ Bar room perfect for getting away by yourself. So many amenities, two ovens, two dishwashers, trash compactor, two refrigerators, stainless steel railing around patio to relax and enjoy the view and privacy with family and friends.

Abundant natural light throughout. Gated entry, location is central to Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Monterey & San Benito Counties.

1248 sq feet Shop/Garage with grease pit and one tall door for a motorhome.

INCREDIBLE PROPERTY! BRIGHT & OPEN FLOOR PLAN, BRINGS OUTDOORS IN! VIEWS FROM EVERY ROOM! OCEAN, COAST, VALLEY & MOUNTAINS! SPECTACULAR SUNSETS AND CITY LIGHTS! L#4005 $1,695,000

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650 TRAVERS LANE (X-ST. GREEN VALLEY RD.)

S 3 country parcels perfect to build your dream home and or investment properties on. Perhaps modular or Tiny Homes. Nice private location, quiet rolling hills. Santa Cruz county, Easy commute to work then back home to enjoy the country. Consists of parcels with the following acreage 3.49 acres, 3.02 acres and 2.95 acres. $629,000

Downtown Watsonville lot available for GROUND LEASE. Many zoning options, list available. Across the street from the Historic City Plaza, seasonal Farmers market, Cabrillo College, bank, retail stores, restaurants, courthouse and parking garage half a block away. $12,000 p/month

Darling 2 bedroom home on 2.58 acres, 2 car garage, useable land, Water and road agreements in place. Gorgeous views and gentle rolling hills with meadow and some older apple trees, perhaps plant more trees, gardens, vineyard, horses etc. Lots of possibilities.

Seller painting inside home and garage and pressure washing exterior, new carpet and pad and cleaning up tile on fireplace hearth.

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Where the locals shop since 1938.

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

Family owned & operated 80 years.

622 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz

OUR 80 TH YEAR

WEEKLY SPECIALS Good th r u 12/31/19

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

BEEF

Happy New Year!!!

WINE & FOOD PAIRING NOW TAKING ORDERS AT THE MEAT COUNTER FOR YOUR HOLIDAY FEASTS. PLEASE CALL TODAY AT 423-1696!

PRIME RIB ROASTS, BOAR’S HEAD BONELESS WHOLE OR HALF HAMS, DIESTEL TURKEYS, LAMB LEGS, LAMB RACKS, AND LAMB SIRLOIN ROAST. WHATEVER YOUR HEART DESIRES, OUR EXPERIENCED BUTCHERS ARE HERE TO HELP! LUCIEN ALBRECHT MAGNUM Brut Rosé 1.5L 90 Points Wine Enthusiast 39.99

GH MUMM Cordon Rouge 750 ml 92 Points Wine Spectator Reg. 39.99 Shopper’s Special 14.98

VEUVE CLICQUOT Yellow Label 750 ml 90 Points Wine Spectator Shopper’s Special 54.99

SHOP PER’S SPOTLIG HTS

TRI TIPS, USDA Choice/ 7.29 Lb COULOTTE STEAKS, USDA Choice/ 7.98 Lb FLAT IRON STEAKS, USDA Choice/ 6.98 Lb

SAUSAGE

■ MILD ITALIAN/ 5.98 Lb ■ HOT ITALIAN/ 5.98 Lb ■ PORK BREAKFAST LINKS/ 4.98 Lb

MARINATED TUMBLED MEATS

■ LEMON PEPPER CHICKEN BREAST Boneless/Skinless/ 5.98 Lb ■ CAJUN STYLE CHICKEN BREAST Boneless, Skinless/ 5.98 Lb ■ LEMON DIJON CHICKEN BREAST Boneless, Skinless/ 5.98 Lb

FISH

■ SALMON LOX TRIMMINGS/ 10.98 Lb ■ AHI TUNA STEAKS/ 15.98 Lb ■ COOKED PRAWNS, Large/ 14.98 Lb ■ BLACK TIGER PRAWNS Large/ 14.98 Lb

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

■ GREEN BEANS Fresh and Tender/ 2.49 Lb ■ CELERY Premium Quality/ 1.49 Ea ■ RED YAMS & SWEET POTATOES Top Quality/ 1.49 Lb ■ YUKON GOLD & YELLOW FLESH POTATOES/ .99 Lb ■ YELLOW ONIONS Large Size, Great Flavor/ .49 Lb ■ AVOCADOS Always Ripe/ 1.49 Ea ■ BROCCOLI CROWNS Fresh from the Field/ 1.79 Lb ■ LOOSE CARROTS Peak Quality/ .69 Lb ■ NAVEL ORANGES Sweet & Juicy/ 1.49 Lb ■ APPLES FUJI, GRANNY SMITH & HONEYCRISP/ 1.89 Lb

GROCERY

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Beer

■ MARTINELLI’S SPARKLING CIDERS, 25.4oz/ 2.99 ■ SAN PELLEGRINO Italian Sparkling Beverage 6Pk Cans, All Flavors, 11.15oz/ 4.99 +CRV ■ ROMANOFF Caviar, 2oz/ 8.99 ■ HIGHBALL Energy Drink, 17.5OZ/ 1.69 +CRV ■ FITAID BEVERAGE “Supplement Your Lifestyle” All Kinds, 12oz/ 2.99 ■ HANSEN’S Pure Cane Soda, 6Pk Cans, 12oz/2.99 +CRV

Local Bakeries “Fresh Daily”

■ BECKMANN’S Asiago Cheese Sourdough/ 4.29 ■ WHOLE GRAIN Marble Rye/ 4.19 ■ KELLY’S Four Seed, 16oz/ 4.09 ■ SUMANO’S Sliced Sourdough Round/ 4.49 ■ SUMANO’S Sourdough Mini Baguette/ 2.99

Delicatessen

■ KING’S HAWAIIAN ROLLS All Kinds/ 2.99 ■ NETTLE MEADOW All Flavors/ 4.99 ■ TILLAMOOK SHREDDED CHEESE Medium/ 6.09 ■ BELGIOIOSO FRESH MOZZARELLA Log/ 5.99 ■ APPLEGATE BACON All Natural/ 4.99

Cheese - Best Selection in Santa Cruz

■ WISCONSIN SHARP CHEDDAR “rBST-FREE” Loaf Cuts/ 5.09 Lb Average Cuts/ 5.49 Lb ■ POET’S IRISH CHEDDAR Extra Sharp/ 6.79 Lb ■ DANISH BLUE CHEESE Imported/ 7.49 Lb ■ STELLA PARMESAN Whole Wheel Cuts/ 7.39 Lb

Clover Sonoma Best Prices in Santa Cruz

■ ORGANIC SOUR CREAM 16oz/ 2.59 ■ ORGANIC HALF & HALF/ 3.49 ■ ORGANIC WHIPPING CREAM Pint/ 3.89 ■ BUTTER QUARTERS Lb/ 4.59 ■ ORGANIC BUTTER Lb/ 6.89

■ DESCHUTES BREWERY “Fresh Squeezed IPA” 6Pk Btls, 12oz/ 9.99 +CRV

■ ANDERSON VALLEY Asst 6Pk Btls, 12oz/ 9.99 +CRV

■ UNITY VIBRATION KOMBUCHA BEER 4Pk Btls, 12oz/ 9.99 +CRV

■ KONA BREWING CO. Asst 6Pk Btls, 12oz/ 7.99 +CRV

■ SMITH & FORGE HARD CIDER 6Pk Btls, 12oz/ 5.99 Lb

Top Shelf Vodka - 750ml ■ BELVEDERE VODKA/ 22.99

■ CHOPIN VODKA/ 22.99 ■ KETEL ONE/ 21.99

■ ABSOLUT ELYX/ 29.99 ■ GREY GOOSE/ 28.99

Best Buy Reds - Big and Bold ■ 2013 MEDALLA REAL Cabernet Sauvignon (92JS, Reg 21.99)/ 9.99

■ 2015 MERCER Merlot, Horse Haven Hills (26.99)/ 9.99

■ 2014 MONTES ALPHA Syrah (92WS, Reg 26.99)/ 9.99 ■ 2014 CHÂTEAU FLEUR DE LISSE Saint Émilion (Reg 23.99)/ 9.99

■ 2015 SANTA EMA Merlot (91JS, 17.99)/ 9.99

■ 2014 BLEASDALE Bremerview Shiraz (96JH, Reg 19.99)/ 9.99

Celebration Sparklers ■ DOMAINE STE MICHELLE Brut/ 9.99

■ LAMARCA Prosecco/ 14.99

■ LUCIEN ALBRECHT Brut & Rosé/ 19.99 ■ ARGYLE Brut (Reg 29.99)/ 19.99 ■ MUMM NAPA (91WS)/ 19.99

Connoisseurs Corner - Champagne ■ PERRIER-JOUËT Belle Époque (95WE)/ 129.99

■ DOM PERIGNON (98JD, 98JS)/ 199.99 ■ KRUG 166th Edition (96WA)/ 199.99

■ LA GRANDE DAME Clicquot (94WS)/ 159.99

■ CRISTAL 2008 Vintage (100JD, 100JS)/ 279.99

LINNAEA JAMES, 42-Year Customer, Santa Cruz

Occupation: Artisan & Agency co-owner Hobbies: Bike riding with kids; swimming; family traveling; husband’s cooking

PETER JAMES, 25-Year Customer, Santa Cruz

Occupation: Artisan & Agency co-owner; Custom furniture building Hobbies: Cooking; bike riding with kids; family traveling What first got you folks shopping here?

LINNAEA:“I remember my parents bringing me with them to Shopper’s when I was around 3. I thought of the employees as friends.” PETER:“I started shopping here after moving from out-of-state. Shopper’s had everything that I needed plus it was the only market in town that felt like a real grocery store.” LINNAEA: “People may think ‘bigger’ is cheaper, but when we need a case of wine and Pellegrino for an event, we’ve found better pricing here.” PETER:“Shopper’s local ownership makes a big difference in service; at the checkout they even inspect my eggs!”

What would you say to someone who’s new to town about Shopper’s? PETER:“You might as well start now because you’re eventually going to shop at Shopper’s. It’s been here 80 years!” LINNAEA:“They have real butchers who are friendly and extremely helpful. He’s the cook — I eat and drink the wine — so I greatly appreciate their tips and suggestions!”

PETER:“Shopper’s has many specialty products which you’ll rarely find elsewhere. If you do, they’ll cost less here.” LINNAEA:“When our kids, Eloise and Olaf, were babies, the checkers would ask if I needed help out with my bags.They’ve always been sweet.”

Are you shopping here for the holidays?

PETER:“Absolutely.We’ll get a superb prime rib and fresh crab.We’re so lucky to have such fabulous produce in the winter.We’ll get lots of greens and wonderful root vegetables.” ELOISE:“My uncle makes the pies.” PETER:“We’ll pick up lots of wines and Champagne.” LINNAEA:“We have a Christmas Day tradition of shrimp and Champagne to kick off the day.” PETER:“The last couple of days before Christmas at Shopper’s it’s a crazy but fun scene!”

LINNAEA:“I like to eves-drop on peoples’ carts and see what they’re making.‘Oh, that’s a good idea!’”

“Shopper’s has many excellent specialty products which you’ll rarely find elsewhere. If you do they’ll cost less here.”

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Corner: Soquel & Branciforte Avenues 7 Days: 6am-9pm

| Meat: (831) 423-1696 | Produce: (831) 429-1499 | Grocery: (831) 423-1398 | Wine: (831) 429-1804

Superb Products of Value: Local, Natural, Specialty, Gourmet ■ Neighborly Service for 80 Years