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EDITOR’S NOTE A few people around here probably remember OnRadio, the also-ran online company I worked at in Scotts Valley that originally planned to make web pages for radio stations and syndicate content to them. Yeah, it seems like a completely ridiculous idea now, but hey, it was a different time. The people were great (fellow OnRadio vet Sue Lamothe is here at GT, too) and it’s where I met James Rocchi, the excellent film critic who would go on to be “Mr. DVD” for Netflix. Through him, I did some work for Netflix reviewing movies, back when they thought they needed professional reviewers. It was definitely a wild and woolly time among the barn-like office buildings just off Highway 17 in Scotts Valley (OnRadio’s office was just a couple blocks down from Netflix). This week, Wallace Baine takes Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph back there to discuss that

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Re: “Stories to Come” (GT, 10/30): It’s great that you are citing figures and plans as we talk about a renewed library. But the semantics you use are a bit confusing.

While the new parking garage could provide some housing, a real proposal with a significant amount of housing is not on the table. What has been on the table for decades is the idea of building a huge parking garage where the Farmers Market is. In a political marriage five years ago or so, the project was made more attractive by adding a library to it and using the parking funds paying for the structure to subsidize part of the construction of the library. Of course, no one asked library users if they wanted their library in the parking garage. I don’t think they do.

With regard to the parking garage end of this artificially joined conversation, the reason many of us oppose spending $60 million to build a parking garage is that our

era and Randolph’s new book about the company, That Will Never Work.

Also in this issue, Richard von Busack reviews Netflix’s latest volley in its continuing shakeup of the movie world, the $160 million Martin Scorsese epic The Irishman.

Santa Cruz Gives is off to an incredible start—I won’t spoil it here, but I guarantee you’ll be shocked at what we’ve already raised if you check out the leaderboard at santacruzgives.org. We’re on our way toward our goal, but our nonprofits need your help to reach it.

Meanwhile, three new sponsors have joined Santa Cruz Gives this year to provide matching funds to be shared among all 38 participating nonprofits: the Joe Collins Fund at the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County, Kaiser Permanente, and Barry Swenson Builders. Huge thanks to all of them.

Finally, I’ll be on the panel for the Q&A discussion after the screening of James Whale’s Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein this Thursday, Nov. 21, at DNA’s Comedy Lab. The night starts at 7pm, come on out. It’s all part of this week’s FrankenCon, and it’ll be a lot of fun!

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community has a communal obligation to owning and operating a lot less cars within the next 11 years. That’s because, as Greta Thunberg and my daughter keep reminding us, we have to reduce our CO2 emissions by at least 50% in the next 11 years to prevent a runaway climate disaster. And the use of automobiles is our community's single biggest contribution. So, we are going to succeed at not needing another large parking garage because we have to; because even if we do everything else, from electric cars to solar panels, we have to use a lot less cars in the next 11 years. Anyone who reviews the material of CO2 sources and potential for reductions will come to the same conclusion.

With regard to automobile use, It is not a matter of projections anymore, it is a matter of necessity.

Our plans for our little downtown, like the plans for little downtowns everywhere, have to start with a commitment to stopping runaway climate change.

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The city of Santa Cruz’s new virtual-reality exhibit on sea-level rise is now open at the downtown branch of the Santa Cruz Public Library. The exhibit includes virtual reality headsets, informational panels and fact sheets.

The American Geophysicist’s Union is funding the exhibit, with support from a Coastal Commission grant. It’s part of the Resilient Coast Santa Cruz Initiative, a set of projects aimed at developing more resilient coastal management in the face of climate change.

Randy Morris, an Alameda County social services executive, will be the next human services director for Santa Cruz County.

Morris has served Alameda County for nearly 25 years in a variety of roles, working on child welfare, Medi-Cal, and adult and aging services. Current Human Services Director Ellen Timberlake is retiring and will continue leading the Human Services Department through Randy’s arrival in early 2020, and will assist in the leadership transition.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of November 20 ARIES Mar21–Apr19 “Beware of what disturbs the heart,” said Ibn Mas’ud, a companion of the prophet Mohammed. “If something unsettles your heart, then abandon it.” My wise Aries friend Artemisia has a different perspective. She advises, “Pay close attention to what disturbs the heart.

Whatever has the power to unsettle your heart will show you a key lesson you must learn, a crucial task you’d be smart to undertake.” Here’s my synthesis of Ibn Mas’ud and Artemisia: Do your very best to fix the problem revealed by your unsettled heart. Learn all you can in the process. Then, even if the fix isn’t totally perfect, move on. Graduate from the problem for good.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 Taurus social critic Bertrand Russell won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950. He’s regarded as the founder of analytic philosophy and one of the 20th century’s premier intellectuals. But he went through a rough patch in 1940. He was adjudged “morally unfit” to accept his appointment as a professor at the City College of New York. The lawsuit that banned him from the job described him as being “libidinous, lustful, aphrodisiac, and irreverent.” Why? Simply because of his liberated opinions about sexuality, which he had conscientiously articulated in his book Marriage and Morals. In our modern era, we’re more likely to welcome libidinous, lustful, aphrodisiac, and irreverent ideas if they’re expressed respectfully, as Russell did. With that as a subtext, I invite you to update and deepen your relationship with your own sexuality in the coming weeks.

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LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22 It’s natural and healthy to feel both the longing to connect and the longing to be independent. Each of those urges deserves an honored place in your heart. But you may sometimes experience them as being contradictory; their opposing pulls may rouse tension. I bring this to your attention because I suspect that the coming weeks will be a test of your ability to not just abide in this tension, but to learn from and thrive on it. For inspiration, read these words by Jeanette Winterson. “What should I do about the wild heart that wants to be free and the tame heart that wants to come home? I want to be held.

I don’t want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at night. I don’t want to tell you where I am. I want to be with you.”

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 The Louvre Museum in Paris displays 38,000 objects throughout its 18 acres of floor space. Among its most treasured 13th-century artworks is The Madonna and Child in Majesty Surrounded by Angels, a huge painting

by Italian painter Cimabue. When a museum representative first acquired it in the 19nth century, its price was 5 francs, or less than $1. I urge you to be on the lookout for bargains like that in the coming weeks. Something that could be valuable in the future may be undervalued now.

GEMINI May21–June20

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21

In her poem “What the Light Teaches,” Anne Michaels describes herself arriving at a lover’s house soaked with rain, “dripping with new memory.” She’s ready for “one past to grow out of another.” In other words, she’s eager to leave behind the story that she and her lover have lived together up until now—and to begin a new story. A similar blessing will be available for you in the coming weeks, Gemini: a chance for you and an intimate partner or close ally to launch a new chapter of your history together.

Sagittarian performance artist Marina Abramovic observes that Muhammad, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses “all went to the desert as nobodies and came back as somebodies.” She herself spent a year in Australia’s Great Sandy Desert near Lake Disappointment, leading her to exclaim that the desert is “the most incredible place, because there is nothing there except yourself, and yourself is a big deal.” From what I can tell, Sagittarius, you’re just returning from your own metaphorical version of the desert, which is very good news. Welcome back! I can’t wait to see what marvels you spawn.

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that are usually beneath your conscious awareness. You have a mandate to reacquaint yourself with where you came from and how you got to where you are now.

Some scientists deride astrology despite being ignorant about it. For example, they complain, “The miniscule gravitational forces beaming from the planets can’t possibly have any effect on our personal lives.” But the truth is that most astrologers don’t believe the planets exert influence on us with gravity or any other invisible force. Instead, we analyze planetary movements as evidence of a hidden order in the universe. It’s comparable to the way weather forecasters use a barometer to read atmospheric pressure, but know that barometers don’t cause changes in atmospheric pressure. I hope this inspires you, Cancerian, as you develop constructive critiques of situations in your own sphere. Don’t rely on naive assumption and unwarranted biases. Make sure you have the correct facts before you proceed. If you do, you could generate remarkable transformations in the coming weeks.

LE0 Jul23–Aug22 As you glide into the Season of Love, I’d love you to soak up wise counsel from the author bell hooks. (She doesn’t capitalize her name.) “Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high,” she cautions. “They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.” I trust you won’t do that, Leo. Here’s more from hooks: “Dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love—which is to transform us.”

Are you ready to be transformed by love, Leo?

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Burrow down as deep as you dare, Virgo. Give yourself pep talks as you descend toward the gritty core of every matter.

Feel your way into the underground, where the roots meet the foundations. It’s time for you to explore the mysteries

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 Upcoming events may bedevil your mind. They may mess with your certainties and agitate your self-doubts.

But if you want my view about those possibilities, they’re cause for celebration. According to my analysis of the astrological indicators, you will benefit from having your mind bedeviled and your certainties messed with and your self-doubts agitated. You may ultimately even thrive and exult and glow like a miniature sun. Why? Because you need life to gently but firmly kick your ass in just the right way so you’ll become alert to opportunities you have been ignoring or blind to.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 Every writer I’ve ever known says that a key practice to becoming a good writer is to read a lot of books. So what are we to make of the fact that one of the 20th century’s most celebrated novelists didn’t hew to that principle? In 1936, three years before the publication of his last book, Aquarian-born James Joyce confessed that he had “not read a novel in any language for many years.” Here’s my take on the subject: More than any other sign of the zodiac, you Aquarians have the potential to succeed despite not playing by conventional rules. And I suspect your power to do that is even greater than usual these days.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 “If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it,” wrote Piscean novelist John Irving. In the coming weeks, Pisces, you will have the power to get clearer than ever before about knowing the way of life you love. As a bonus, I predict you will also have an expanded access to the courage necessary to actually live that way of life. Take full advantage!

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NOT RARE, BUT RARELY COUNTED Re: “Secrets and Lyme” (GT, 10/23): Thank you for taking on this divisive issue. You characterize Lyme as rare in California, but I would like to give you some information you may not be aware of.

Lyme and other TBDs are not rare, they are, instead, rarely counted. Case under-reporting is far more than a factor of 10 here, it is at least 40 according to a Quest Lab study which found a rate for their (average in U.S.) 1/3 of market that translates to ~4,000 cases per year. CDPH

reports 100 per year. My county, Sonoma, counts a pre-selected number. I have Karen Holbrook (deputy Public Health Officer) recorded saying, “we plan to continue counting 8-10 cases per year.” This is evidence of blatant corruption of the entire case reporting process. CDPH is aware of this incidence and has done nothing.

We have a dozen reportable tick-borne diseases endemic to California, and those are vastly under-reported too.

Lyme and tick-borne diseases in California: not rare at all.

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IN THE DARK Power blackouts and fire panic are two increasingly common local reminders of threats compounded by climate change.

Planet Grief Anxiety about ecological doomsday inspires a climate support group BY ANDREW STEINGRUBE with depression, anxiety, or both.

A 2018 Yale survey confirmed that environmental concern is on the rise, with 62% of Americans saying they are at least “somewhat worried” about global warming and 21% saying they are “very worried”—the latter figure having almost doubled since 2015.

Only 6% of those surveyed believed that humans can and will successfully reduce global warming.

The American Psychological Association (APA) has also recognized the problem, and in 2017 released an extensive report that focused on the issue. “When you think about climate change, mental health might not be the first thing that comes to mind,” states the report. “It is time to expand information and action on climate

and health, including mental health.

The health, economic, political, and environmental implications of climate change affect all of us. The tolls on our mental health are far reaching.”

“It’s why I created Novasutras,” says Michelle Y. Merrill, Ph.D., “to provide a place where people can come together and help each other through this crisis.” Merrill not only founded Novasutras, but also recently brought the organization to Santa Cruz. She calls it a climate support group of sorts, with the mission of bringing people together to co-create spiritual practices based in nature. “There is a need for this. It’s a way to connect and drop into a community where they know everyone gets it,” she says.

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roughts causing extended water shortages, with landscapes parched and dry. Large, powerful storms causing massive flooding and reducing cities to rubble-filled wastelands.

Rising sea levels and warmer, deader, and more acidic oceans than ever before. Wildfires of epic proportions ravaging entire states, burning towns to the ground, causing large-scale evacuations, poor air quality, and unprecedented power shutoffs. These are the nightmares we associate we associate with global warming.

But what if climate change is also eroding our mental health?

Climate grief is a very real and growing phenomenon, and is causing more and more people to be stricken

subcategories of ecological grief,” says Merrill. “It’s very present right now because we’re very aware of the effects of climate change. People are realizing that it’s an existential threat, and that there’s a possibility of human extinction.” This sobering sentiment is echoed by the 2018 U.N. Climate Report, which states that without “unprecedented” action, catastrophic conditions could come as soon as 2040. But Merrill said she’s seen some climate research implying the U.N. projections were based on older data and that these catastrophic conditions could come even sooner.

A recent and poignant example that hit close to home were the unprecedented PG&E Public power shut-offs that left large portions of California, including parts of Santa Cruz County, completely without power for hours and even days. And PG&E says that large-scale rolling preventative blackouts like this could become the new normal in California and last for as long as a decade.

On a more global scale, Merrill says that we are already seeing what she calls a climate apartheid, where the poorest communities are being affected first. The effects of climate change are no longer abstract; they seem to be closing in around us and collectively affecting us on a deeper and deeper level with each passing year. “We’re seeing this, we know it could happen to us and we empathize with those affected,” says Merrill. “It’s the constant sense of things getting worse and a lack of confidence that things will get better.”

Merrill says there are ways we can cope with climate change-induced depression and anxiety, while still confronting the issue. “The first and most important thing to recognize is that you’re not alone,” she says, adding that it’s important to acknowledge grief about climate change with others, while still realizing that there are many reasons for gratitude and joy. She says there are groups like Novasutras not only in Santa Cruz, but worldwide, and that cultural acceptance of climate grief is growing.

“It’s very much something we talk about now, more so than 3-4 years ago,” says Merrill. “Amongst people who are already climate aware, people are talking about their grief more.”

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In the center of a room in the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter, 11-year-old Scarlett Rider is reading The Famous Nini: A Mostly True Story of How a Plain White Cat Became a Star to four kittens.

“They need inspiration to become great cats,” she explains. Partway through the book, she yells, “I want to adopt one, mom!”

Her mother, Katie Rider, is sitting at a table not far behind her. “I want to bring one home myself,” she whispers, as if she doesn’t want her daughter to know she’s been tempted.

So far, her will has held up. She brought her family on a whim Saturday evening after reading about the “Bedtime Stories for Shelter Pets” event at the organization’s Live Oak shelter. But she’s impressed.

“They seem to be listening to her,” she says.

In another room, young couple Holly and Jason Zappala sit on the floor in front of a row of kennels against the wall. Their 9-monthold daughter Oakley is on Holly’s lap in her pajamas (as many of the kids in attendance are) as Holly reads Can I Be Your Dog? to Olive, a black Schnauzer who watches them intently. Oakley reciprocates by reaching a tiny hand out toward Olive’s kennel.

“She loves dogs,” says Holly. “We have three rescue dogs at home, and 11 rescue chickens.”

The Zappalas are there to support the shelter, and they’re happy to have something they can bring their daughter to. “We just want to get her involved in animal rescue at an early age,” says Holly. “I can’t wait ’til she’s old enough to start going to some of their summer camps.”

This is exactly the kind of community the shelter organization seeks to build with these “bedtime stories” events, which continue every Saturday from 5:45 to 6:15pm through Dec. 28. They were conceived by the Animal Shelter’s Program and Development Director Erika Anderson, who was looking for a way to bring new donors—and especially new young donors—to the group (through the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter Foundation) as it participates in Santa Cruz Gives this year.

Each family that comes in to read gets a bookmark declaring, “I Read to a Shelter Pet at the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter,” plus a postcard explaining how to donate to the group through Santa Cruz Gives. >16

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omedian Richard Stockton remembers walking through the halls of the Santa Cruz Police Department several years ago, following the lead of Zach Friend, then the department’s spokesperson.

Stockton and Friend were collaborating on a humorous video for Stockton’s recurring live Planet Cruz Comedy special. As Stockton remembers it, a cop in a room behind them sneezed and blew his nose. Friend turned, pointed over his shoulder and said, “Dude!

Get a better coke dealer!” Friend, who kept walking down the hall, barked it loud enough for everyone within earshot to bust up laughing, Stockton says.

“I don’t remember that, but I wouldn’t put it past me, because that’s funny shit,” says Friend, now a Santa Cruz County supervisor, who resumes his recurring role as a guest at Planet Cruz this Saturday, Nov. 23.

Stockton’s story encapsulates what’s perhaps the worst-kept secret in all of Santa Cruz County politics: Friend, who represents the county’s 2nd District and lives in Aptos, is a relentless shit-talker. “I guess all the stuff I say was going to catch up with me sooner or later,” he says.

Friend’s wit is quick enough that he often starts talking trash before the recipient even sees he’s there.

A few years ago, I was withdrawing cash from an ATM

downtown when I heard a voice say loudly—again, to everyone within earshot—“Doesn’t it suck when you can only withdraw 20 bucks out of the ATM?” Recognizing Friend’s voice, I spun around once the machine spat out my money to see him strolling down Pacific Avenue alongside his wife Tina, then Santa Cruz’s deputy city manager. I fanned out two crisp $20 bills. “Look!” I said. “There’s 40.”

“Guess they let you overdraft, then,” Friend replied with a shrug, never breaking his stride.

Friend doesn’t remember this interaction, either, but hearing the story cracks him up. He says he doesn’t think of his remarks beforehand, and that he can’t >14

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A few years ago, producer Brian Shulman asked me to participate in a local-access talk show about social, political and land use-related topics on Community TV Channel 27, called BTS Presents: Community Café.

The show uses an issues-based program format, and we record on the first Sunday of every month. Episodes can also be accessed on YouTube with links available on the Main Street Realtors website and Facebook page for anyone who is interested in viewing the show and/or joining the discussion.

My role over time has evolved into that of moderator, interviewing a steady stream of guest panelists who participate in spirited on-air discussions of community and landuse topics, with the recurring hot topic being housing issues.

So now, in addition to my day job serving my clients as a longtime real estate agent in the area, I also carry a business card that I hand out from time to time as the Host/Moderator of a local reality TV talk show.

The variety of guests is a uniquely Santa Cruz blend that features a broad spectrum of people from all walks, ranging from city council members to real estate professionals and property owners, along with NIMBY’s, YIMBY’s, homeless advocates and tenant advocates, all generally active in the political arena.

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The format is shot at the CTV studios in downtown Santa Cruz in 25-minute episodes with 2 to 7 guests on the panel, and me alternately interviewing and interjecting my thoughts on the subject matter. Guests are given a general idea of the theme ahead of time, but the actual topic and title of each show is generally thought up just before the cameras start rolling, by whoever is there to participate in the day’s discussion.

As Brian likes to remind guests, the best thing about the show is not just having their views aired, but rather that they get to be at the table in a safe forum, often coming from diametrically opposed sides of an issue of great relevance with a chance to meet the other side and participate in a conversation.

In the course of hosting, I have found myself reconnecting with my college days of studying political science and mass media communications, uncovering layers of my persona which have been largely dormant amidst a career and investments in real estate.

It has been personally rewarding to come in closer contact with key people who are passionate and active in shaping the social and political climate of our community, and it feels good to have a voice in matters of impact to everyone who shares life as we know it here in Santa Cruz.

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explain the ways his brain works or how he thinks of the quips that he does—let alone why he says the things he does. He nonetheless believes that the run-in on Pacific shows that he thinks I’m underpaid for the work that I do. “I also think it’s ridiculous that ATMs won’t let you withdraw tens, but that’s another issue,” Friend quickly adds, his voice trailing off.

Stockton says he sometimes wonders how Friend would fare should he continue his rise through the ranks in the world of politics.

Stockton’s curious whether the supervisor’s biting sense of humor and off-the-cuff remarks might hurt him in the long run. He notes, however, that recent presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke was known to let a few F-bombs fly and still attracted wide-ranging support before dropping out at the beginning of November.

“Maybe it’s all right. Maybe things have changed,” Stockton says.

Friend says he’s found that voters want leaders to be real.

“Inauthenticity is one of the biggest turnoffs to people who are in elected office,” he says.

There’s value, Friend explains, in a politician being open about who he or she is and what their values are. He also believes that he doesn’t change much from one situation to another, whether he’s on the dais, at a private event or meeting a reporter for coffee. “It just makes the days and nights a lot easier, because you’re not trying to figure out who you are in any given context,” Friend adds.

At DNA’s Comedy Lab this Saturday night, Stockton and Friend will riff on serious topics like housing, homelessness and environmental policy, with Stockton running a loosely rehearsed Q&A segment with the supervisor.

They’ll also be taking topics from the audience. Friend says the scene wouldn’t work if the bits were tightly scripted.

Stockton’s Planet Cruz Comedy special, which has been running on and off since 2007, will also feature performances from fellow comics

Sven Davis, Emily Catalano, “Larry Bubbles” Brown, Diane Amos, and DNA, as well as singer Alan Heit.

Friend isn’t the only politician Stockton has brought on his show.

In previous years, Stockton featured Friend’s fellow county Supervisor Ryan Coonerty, who represents the city of Santa Cruz and the North Coast. Coonerty is funny, too, Stockton adds.

Onstage, Stockton’s persona is one of a pot-smoking burnout. Most of his stand-up material focuses on trying to get at the environmentally friendly, socially conscious and stoned-out id of Santa Cruz, or at least the stereotypes that surround the liberal town.

Friend, with his nice suits and his political background, provides a contrast with that vision of Santa Cruz. Stockton says riffing with the supervisor helps him in his effort to dig into the essence of the town. “It’s a way to bring real Santa Cruz into the show,” Stockton says.

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NUZ ROSS FOR WORDS Well, that didn’t last long.

The Ross Survival Camp, also known as Camp Phoenix, closed this past Friday, just a few days after it had opened. Given that the city isn’t doing much on homelessness right now, it would not have seemed crazy for Santa Cruz to opt to simply wait and see if the camp could be better run on its second go-round.

But, nope. Everyone’s been kicked out, and it’s now going to be that much more likely that you’ll find someone camping in your front lawn, instead of on an empty patch of grass between a department store and a freeway.

FLOOD OF SUPPORT Friday morning actually

looked like it was going be a tough one for DIY homeless efforts.

The same morning that the Ross Camp ended, there was a small flood just on the other side of the pedestrian bridge. A pipe burst at the Day and Night Storage building, as activist Brent Adams announced on Facebook.

Adams—who founded the program, as well as the Warming Center shelter— worked with volunteer Nancy Krusoe to clear out bins that house homeless people’s belongings. Adams wrote that just one user out of 250 had their belongings damaged.

It’s worth noting that, because of political infighting, strategic missteps and bureaucratic backlog, the city has not implemented

many of the widely popular recommendations that the Homelessness Coordinating Committee brought forward two and a half years ago. One of the suggestions was for a storage program that would give the homeless community a place to put their things.

And if it weren’t for Adams’ shoestring operation, Santa Cruz wouldn’t have that, either.

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WHEEL SEE With the Street Smarts traffic-safety education

campaign rolling out around Santa Cruz County, the California Office of Traffic Safety has awarded three new grants locally. All three grants, totaling $398,000, are going to the county of Santa Cruz—one for bicycle and pedestrian safety, one for impaired driving, and another for child passenger safety.

The bike grants will fund classroom presentations on safety, walking field trips and bicycle rodeos in schools, plus distributions of bicycle helmets and lights to low-income community members.

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Nuz certainly hopes the next generation of cyclists and motorists is better than the current ones.

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The card also explains how the funds raised through Santa Cruz Gives will go to support the group’s “Animobile,” which will help them transport animals from remote locations around the county to and from the shelter for spay-and-neuter services, and expand their free “Healthy Pets for All” pop-up clinics.

“I was just at one on Wednesday in Watsonville,” says Anderson. “We served 52 pets and signed up 19 free spay-and-neuter appointments at our shelter. We set up in the Veterans Memorial Hall with a volunteer vet team—free exams, vaccinations, fleaand-tick medication. We had pet beds donated by PetSmart. We had a bunch of dog and cat food donated by PetPals. We were giving it all away for free.”

Even Anderson seems a little shocked at the effect the bedtime stories are having at the shelter, especially around the dog kennels. “People are crying,” she says of the volunteers who are guiding families through the event. “For a lot of the staff, it’s because of how calm the dogs are right now.”

The Santa Cruz County SPCA is another animal welfare group trying something innovative to encourage donations through Santa Cruz Gives this holiday season. The group is hosting a series of “pop-up cuddle booths” around the county, and just did their first one on Saturday at Home/Work (future booths will be announced 48 hours in advance on the Santa Cruz County SPCA Facebook page).

The unique human-animal love connection is an important part of the project Santa Cruz Gives donors can fund for the group. Their “Support for Seniors” program has two main components. First, it provides veterinary care to the animal companions of low-income seniors.

“A lot of times, we’re helping them stay with their pet,” says Alison “Ali” Talley, the local SPCA’s executive director. “We’re preventing their animals from being surrendered to a shelter situation.”

The second element of “Support for Seniors” connects senior people with senior pets, covering the costs of adoption, vaccinations, spay/neuter and microchipping.

Mandi Hart, the group’s shelter manager, says they’ve seen adopted animals do as much for their senior caretakers as the other way around. “The pet can end up being the reason the person gets up in the morning,” says Hart. “It’s the lifeline.”

The senior program was originally established by a gift from renowned botanist and UCSC Professor Emerita Dr. Jean Langenheim, who also contributed a $1,500 challenge gift to the group’s Santa Cruz Gives campaign this year.

WHO LEADS WHO The staff and volunteers at Unchained know a lot about what humans and animals can do for each other. In their ongoing program, Canines Teaching Compassion, young people—many of whom come from the juvenile hall system—are matched with a shelter dog that they are taught how to train for eight weeks. Santa Cruz Gives donations to the group will help fund a new “Dogs in Residence” program they hope to establish next year, which will allow teams of youth to provide foster care and training for rescue dogs.

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Teaching and spreading empathy has never been more important in the animalwelfare community, she says.

“I think what animal rescue is seeing right now—and this is what we were born out of—is if you’re going to change the plight of animals, you have to start with people,” says King.

“Research has shown a direct tie-in,” says Anderson. “How we treat animals reflects how we treat people.”

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Friend comes off as the more serious one, so the arrangement allows for Stockton to play an exaggerated version of his hippie self.

“I’m a communist who’s learned how to live in a capitalist world,” Stockton says. “Zach is a straight arrow. That’s good for us comedically. He gives me a hard time about my pot, and I give him a hard time for not smoking pot.”

Friend says there’s an added comedic wrinkle, in that he generally comes across as more offthe-cuff and more biting than what the typical voter might expect from a county politician.

Stockton concedes that he and Friend—a longtime local Democratic leader, going back even before his days in elected office—don’t see eyeto-eye in some areas.

Friend, for instance, doesn’t have the most liberal record on cannabis issues. This past spring, the supervisor voted against a county law change that aims to allow more cannabis businesses to come into the fold legally, but it passed anyway.

Friend says it’s a complicated topic, and one that involves taxes, various environmental concerns and artificial timelines mandated by the state.

Stockton does say many of his friends ask him about his support of Friend, arguing that the supervisor isn’t even all that liberal. But the comic says that he trusts Friend’s judgment.

“If he’s governor some day, when the shit really comes down, I think he’ll make the right decision,” Stockton says. “I believe it. I wouldn’t do it if I thought he was an asshole.”

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produced. Along with Google, Facebook and Amazon, it ranks among the most massively successful businesses of the 21st century.

But back in ’97, they were just a couple of schemers, trying to figure out a way to take advantage of this new tool called the internet. Their story is told in Randolph’s exhilarating new book That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea.

The pair had already been kicking around the idea of an online video rental business. But the format of the times, the VHS tape, was too big and too heavy. Handling costs would have been prohibitive. They had, in fact, already scrapped the idea when the buzz began to grow about another format, the DVD, being developed in Japan.

They didn’t have a DVD—nobody outside of Japan did at that point. But they knew it would be identical to a compact disc. So they needed to see how the U.S. Postal Service would treat a vulnerable 5-inch plastic disc.

By that time, Randolph had already put in 20 years in direct marketing and sent out millions of pieces of mail.

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n a summer day in Santa Cruz in 1997, two guys came out of Logos Books & Records on Pacific Avenue, one of them carrying a newly purchased used CD of Patsy Cline’s greatest hits.

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Patsy did not go into a CD player that day. Instead, she was slipped into a self-addressed stamped greeting-card envelope (sans jewel case), escorted to the Santa Cruz main post office, and put into the mail.

From that otherwise banal moment on an otherwise ordinary day came a revolution that has turned the movie and television industries upside down.

That was the day Netflix was born.

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<21 “I had been to the San Jose central post office,” he told me in an interview in Scotts Valley, right across the street from the site of Netflix’s first office. “I’d seen those machines shoot those letters through at 16 gazillion miles an hour and bend them around corners, and all that.”

He was certain that Patsy Cline—whose biggest hit was I Fall to Pieces—would arrive to them in pieces.

The next day, Hastings and Randolph met in a parking lot in Scotts Valley, just as they did every day, for the carpool over Highway 17 to their tech jobs in Silicon Valley.

Hastings nonchalantly handed Randolph the square envelope, containing the CD, in one piece. For 32 cents, the price of a stamp.

It was not, however, the classic a-ha moment. It wasn’t like BoJack Horseman appeared to them on Highway 17 and laid out the whole glorious future ahead of them, Randolph says.

“It was more akin to finding the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle under the couch,” he says. “We had this puzzle that we couldn’t complete. So we walked away from it. Then we found the piece that finished it. If the book is about anything, it’s not an epiphany story, nor is it some brilliant visionary CEO story, either. It was just luck. Lots of luck.”

Many months later, when the Netflix idea was already well underway, Randolph learned exactly how lucky they had been. He writes in That Will Never Work that he was given a tour of the Santa Cruz post office and discovered that cross-town mail was handled in a different way—a gentler way—than out-of-town mail. If they had mailed Patsy Cline to anywhere else than Hastings’s Santa Cruz address, even to Randolph’s Scotts Valley home, the CD would probably have gotten scratched or broken. “And I wouldn’t be writing this book,” he wrote.

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But the Netflix story is more than incidentally about Santa Cruz.

Randolph, 61, first came to Santa Cruz County in the late ’80s to work at the Scotts Valley-based software firm Borland International. He fell in love with the place, and part of his entrepreneurial vision before Netflix was to somehow establish Santa Cruz as a conducive place for tech.

“I did like the lifestyle aspects of Santa Cruz,” he says. “Being able to surf in the morning or go for a trail run. I really liked that the networks in Santa Cruz weren’t all Silicon Valley people. There was a diversity here—not necessarily in a racial sense, but more a diversity in viewpoint and background. I just felt that the range of people walking on Pacific Avenue was remarkable.”

Randolph was the original CEO of Netflix, but he left the company in 2002, and his new book is an often-funny, sometimes-harrowing romp through those early years of getting established in Scotts Valley. If the idea to send DVDs through the mail had been the company’s only innovation, it probably would have quickly sank in the swamp of internet get-rich schemes, particularly given the absolute dominance of Blockbuster and its competitors in establishing consumer habits when it came to

watching movies at home.

The innovations had to keep coming, and Randolph and Hastings were up to the job. In the early days, when DVDs had reached the tipping point toward market dominance, Randolph remembered standing in the middle of the company’s San Jose warehouse looking at more than 100,000 DVDs. “I thought, why are we storing these here?” he says.

“I wonder if there’s a way to store them at customer’s houses instead.

Then Reed said, ‘Let’s let them keep the DVDs as long as they want.

When they’re done with one, we’ll send them another one.’”

That was quickly followed by two other innovations that taken together spelled doom for the Blockbuster era: Charging customers a flat monthly subscription fee, rather than making them pay for each movie, and creating the famous Netflix queue in which customers could create a priority list of what they wanted to see and have it automatically delivered.

Early on, before Patsy Cline, Randolph and Hastings had developed a ritual. As the two took turns driving over 17, Randolph would pitch Hastings with an idea.

And Hastings would, more often than not, deliver the verdict from which Randolph titled his book: “That’ll never work.”

Randolph’s pre-Netflix ideas were, in hindsight, not exactly brilliant: home-delivery shampoo, personalized dog food, custombuilt baseball bats and surfboards.

The Netflix idea developed in stages, after hours of research and discussion, and through a series of timely actions and lucky breaks. The

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“Distrust epiphanies,” Randolph writes in That Will Never Work.

“Epiphanies are rare. When they appear in origin stories, they’re often oversimplified or just plain false.”

Before he met Reed Hastings, Randolph was a veteran in marketing. He was a co-founder of MacUser magazine and started two of the first mail-order catalogues for computer products in the preinternet days. He worked for years at Borland. Eventually, he helped found a start-up that was bought by a software development company run by Hastings, who decided to keep Randolph on after the merger.

Randolph’s tale takes on many of the roller coaster elements of startup culture, from finding funding to recruiting talent to building an inventory to deciding on a name (among the names that lost out to Netflix were CinemaCenter, Videopix, SceneOne, E-Flix, and NowShowing. Of the final choice, now a familiar touchstone around

the world, Randolph writes: “It wasn’t perfect. It sounded a little porn-y. But it was the best we could do.”)

The site launched in April 1998, and the book provides a tick-tock account of the site’s first days and weeks (Predictably, the server crashed the day of the launch).

In the days before the company’s trademark red envelopes clogged mailboxes coast to coast, Netflix needed a marketing break. That came from an unlikely source: President Bill Clinton, who was at the time consumed in scandal.

Randolph decided to offer Clinton’s full grand-jury testimony on the Lewinsky scandal on DVD to all customers for the price of 2 cents.

That stunt got the media’s attention, and suddenly Netflix was news.

But by the next year, Hastings replaced Randolph in the CEO’s chair, Randolph took on the role of company president, and Netflix moved up Highway 17 from Scotts Valley to Los Gatos.

Netflix’s permanent residence in Santa Cruz County was not destined to be, for the most prosaic of reasons: geography and personnel.

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“One of the fundamental miscalculations I made,” says Randolph, within sight of Netflix’s first office, “was that I assumed that the type of engineering talent we would need would be the ‘frontend’ talent: web design, user interface, etc. But it was really the ‘back-end’ people (servers, database administration) that we needed. And they were all clustered around Oracle in Redwood City. Try convincing someone from there to drive here, especially considering the amazing job opportunities they had closer to home.”

Even when it became inevitable that the company would have to move operations to the South Bay, Randolph wanted it in Los Gatos.

“The thing I did fight for was, if we had to go over-the-hill, it had to be barely over the hill, as close as I could get. If I could have put it in [famous Highway 17 restaurant] the Cats, I would have. But we got University [Avenue], this side of Lark. That’s pretty darn good.”

Still, the company began its amazing life in Scotts Valley. It was there that they kept their first DVDs in an old bank vault, developed the business model that contributed to

the company’s early success, and helped break Blockbuster’s hold on consumer home viewing habits.

Today, Randolph is unsparing on himself about moving the company out of Santa Cruz County. After leaving Netflix, he assumed a seat on the board of Looker, a data-analytics company based in Santa Cruz.

“It’s a big regret,” he says of leaving Scotts Valley. “It was a big failure on my part. But my karma has been restored with Looker. From the very beginning, we wanted this to be a Santa Cruz company and stay a Santa Cruz company. Luckily, I learned a few things about how I messed up the first time.”

Looking back at his role in the creation of one of Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies, Randolph says, “I’m a huge optimist. I’m not just a glass-half-full person. I’m overflowing. I’m a believer. I can believe anything can work. It’s just my nature. And it’s also a powerful viewpoint when you keep trying things that everybody else says, ‘That’ll never work.’ Still, you can be astounded when something really does work, especially Netflix, when it took so long to figure out how to get it to work.”

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new bands are followed around by a film crew. Paris Jackson and Gabriel Glenn—Paris’ boyfriend and lead singer and guitar player for Hollywood’s self-proclaimed “mangiest band,” the Trash Dogs— play together as the Soundflowers.

Their sound echoes Joni Mitchell and early Dylan while fitting in with the sound of newer folk artists like Two Gallants (minus the drums) and the Civil Wars. They actually played two shows in the Santa Cruz area on Thursday, with a set at the Blue Lagoon before the performance in Soquel. The question is: why here?

“You probably know almost as much information as me,” says Ugly Mug owner Steve Volk. The call proposing the show came randomly, and he admits his initial reaction was to worry if there would be an audience, since the Mug normally has music on Mondays, not Thursdays.

“But then I realized that’s probably not going to be an issue,” Volk says with a laugh. “When the universe gives you an opportunity like this, you should probably say ‘yes.’” “[Santa Cruz] is such an ideal West Coast, California destination,” says Soundflowers manager Tom Hamilton. “And it coordinates so well with their music and their personalities.” He says both Santa Cruz-area locations were suggested to them “through friends.”

Recently formed, the Soundflowers performed their first official show earlier this year. Their Santa Cruz debut was the third night of their Full Moon Tour, which—as the name implies—began on the full moon and is the band’s first. While their social media teased a possible EP release earlier this summer, Hamilton says it’s still in the works and should be finished soon. In lieu of albums, they sold tie-dyed shirts, hand dipped by the band, with the Soundflowers logo printed on front.

It’s easy to chalk this up to nothing more than Hollywood elite trying to commandeer any minute crumb of

the hippie movement that is left— part Woodstock, part Coachella, mostly Instagram. But that would be a cynical view, and a wrong one at that. Listening to their lyrics, it’s clear they are as genuine—sometimes dark and raw, other times innocent as a laugh—as the looks of love stolen between harmonies, or the way Jackson brushes back Glenn’s hair. And in true hippie fashion, they took no fee for the gigs, allowing the venues the option to make some money on a cover charge or not.

“It’s their lifestyle,” Hamilton says matter-of-factly.

As for their sets, being earlier in the evening and having to finish before the weekly scheduled Blue Lagoonies Free Thursday Night Comedy, the first was short and sweet. But with less of a time restriction at the Ugly Mug—and a smaller, more intimate space—the two seemed more at ease and opened up, interacting with the audience about the origins of certain songs, jokes and their best Morrissey impressions. Both also stuck around after the shows to meet fans eagerly waiting for selfies.

While most of the tunes were duets, they took turns on lead vocals, guitar and ukulele. At one point, Jackson covered Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song,” which Glenn later explained made him fall in love with her. He wasn’t her only admirer at the show.

“I love Paris,” says Eryka Ramos, who travelled straight from work in San Jose for the Ugly Mug concert, and was first to arrive. “It was amazing, up close and personal. It couldn’t have been any better, and was a once-in-a-lifetime thing.”

“You don’t hear about stuff like this happening,” agrees her husband, Robert.

Which raises another question: Will the Soundflowers return?

“Definitely,” Hamilton says. “We love it here! Know of any other coffee shops to play?”

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‘KEEP’ THEIR PROMISE Built to Spill will play 1999 album ‘Keep it Like a Secret in its entirety at Rio show.

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or a generation of indie rockers, Built to Spill’s 1999 album Keep It Like a Secret is one of the great heavyweights, an album up there with the undefeated champs like Pavement’s Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, and Modest Mouse’s Lonesome Crowded West. Located in the band’s catalog between two longer, more meandering albums, Keep it Like a Secret plays out almost like a pop record—nimble and confident and endlessly resourceful—but something much more daring.

Pitchfork called it one of the 50 best

indie-rock albums of the Pacific Northwest.

In February, Keep it Like a Secret hit its 20-year anniversary. Doug Martsch, Built to Spill’s singer, guitarist and sole constant, has been revisiting the album.

“I think the record still sounds really cool,” he says over the phone, from a Seattle green room. “I listened to it a little bit before we learned the songs. [Producer] Phil Ek did an amazing job recording it. It’s ambitious. I like that about it.”

On opener “The Plan,” the band spends half the song developing one

of its catchiest hooks before taking a sharp turn, digging into a massively discordant bridge, shrieking with feedback. When the melody finally returns, the song opens bright like a clearing in a forest. On mid-album highlight “Time Trap,” the band develops a groove and coaxes it into a fine bloom, only to stop abruptly and begin the first verse at a different tempo.

“There’s this balance in music,” Martsch says. “I don’t know how it’s accomplished, but I’m always trying to do it, where things are conventional, and are pleasant to the

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brain, but are challenging, too. The Beatles did it, so it’s not a new thing.”

Keep it Like a Secret was the band’s second major-label release. First was the ponderous, nearly doomed Perfect From Now On, a Gordian knot of a record filled with interweaving guitar parts and sinuous countermelodies. Though Perfect went on to be a critical hit, by the time it was finally released, it had become something of an albatross to Martsch.

After a painstaking original session that saw Martsch playing everything but drums, neither he nor producer Ek were happy, so they started over from scratch. After another full recording session (this time with a real band), the master tapes from the second session melted while en route from Seattle to Boise. By the time it was done, Perfect From Now On had taken almost a full year to record eight songs.

“That record before was a real drain,” Martsch says. “Working on those songs took so long. It became really complex, and taxing. I was burnt out.”

When time came to start working on a follow-up, he opted for its diametric opposite: shorter songs, and more collaboration.

“I think it was the first time where we made a record where the guys were more set in the band,” he says.

“We all played together a lot and had been for a while. It was more collaborative in spirit and music.”

Twenty years later, the album still sounds fresh, unperturbed by the changing currents of music in the intervening years. Counter-intuitively, a strange status as a major-label band without any hit singles may be the secret to enduring success; rather than coming to the band from a specific song, fans tend to form connections with Built to Spill albums.

“We’ve been blessed to have a long career without any of the pains of success,” Martsch says. “The fans who are there have found it on their own. Nobody shoved it down their throat at some point. Nobody’s waiting to hear just one song. It’s incredibly satisfying, the career I’ve been able to get out of this.”

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Featuring tatted locals with powerful stories about their ink, the MAH’s newest exhibit uncovers personal tattoo stories from across Santa Cruz County. Grounded in the history of tattoo legalization, this exhibition highlights the artistry and creativity of tattooing throughout the county. Stop by on opening day to dive into tattoo history and artistry found throughout the county, featuring the works of nine local tattoo shops and artists. Plus, there will be a temporary tattoo in the pop-up tattoo shop located inside the gallery. Photo: Mickey Ta. 10am- 8pm. Exhibit runs Friday, Nov. 22-Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. 429-1964, santacruzmah.org. $10.

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WEDNESDAY 11/20 ARTS BIG TREES EXHIBITION Enjoy the history, in images, of Welch’s Big Trees, now the Redwood Loop Trail at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. See images of features no longer in the park and learn about others that have unusual stories to tell. Noon-4pm. San Lorenzo Valley Museum, 12547 Hwy. 9, Boulder Creek. slvmuseum. com. Free.

UNIQUE MULTIPLES: TEACHING WITH THE PARKETT COLLECTION FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA-LA MANCHA The exclusive exhibition features approximately 60 selected works from the Parkett Collection housed at the University of Castilla-La Mancha School of Fine Arts and the Contemporary Art Archives & Collections (CAAC), including experimental objects and artifacts by internationally influential contemporary artists. Included in this particular selection of the Parkett Collection are works by Ai Weiwei, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, and many other renowned contemporary artists. Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz.

CLASSES POSTNATAL YOGA: MAMAS + BABIES Supportive sanctuary for mothers to breathe and take a load off, connect with others navigating the path of motherhood, and therapeutically open and strengthen their bodies, all while bonding with infants (six weeks to crawling). No experience necessary. Led by Hannah Muse, certified Prenatal+Postnatal yoga teacher, mindfulness coach, doula and mother.

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SATURDAY 11/23 DIG GARDENS 10TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE One of Santa Cruz’s favorite boutique nurseries is turning 10 this year. Dig Gardens has always been a go-to for kitchen and home products, accessories and, of course, plants.

A haven for plant parents, Dig always has some kind of new, exotic addition to any collection. In celebration of their first decade, Dig is hosting a holiday Open House and anniversary party that is a must for holiday shopping. All items in the store will be 10% off, and there will be a raffle and small bites.

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DECEMBER 2, 7PM MUSIC CENTER RECITAL HALL FREE ADMISSION

Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous

Experience the gamelan by listening to the ensemble’s performance rehearsal.

Presented by the UC Santa Cruz Music Department.

Forensic Genomics for Investigators DECEMBER 3, 4–6PM NAMASTE LOUNGE FREE ADMISSION

Visiting scholar Cris Hughes convenes academics and forensic technicians to discuss historical and contemporary field training. Cris is a forensic anthropologist interested in perceptions of race and the use of ancestry in forensic investigations.

DECEMBER 3

DECEMBER 5

Community Free Day at Seymour Center DECEMBER 6

Fall 2019 Open Studios DECEMBER 7

Garden Tour at the UCSC Arboretum

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Dried Flower WreathMaking Workshop

UCSC Wind Ensemble Performance

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CALENDAR that made you walk into a venue to see whose it was? That is Jimbo Scott’s voice—a bell, magnetic and the definition of a powerhouse.

A favorite in the Bay Area’s esteemed house concert scene and folk venues, Jimbo’s combines the influences of his birthplace of Memphis, Tennessee, and his life-long home in the San Francisco Bay Area, His songs evoke traditions of Tennessee country and bluegrass, Oakland soul and sepia toned California landscapes and life-scapes. Like a spinning mirror, Jimbo’s music casts reflections around the room, flashing from honest selfdeprecation to cinematic retrospectives on our part in shaping our communities and accounting the consequences of our actions and inactions. 7pm. Felton Music Hall, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton.

WEST AFRICAN DRUM CLASSES AT DRUMSKULL DRUMS Sahar El Khatib

SATURDAY 11/23 AMERICAN INDIAN ART Join the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History for an in-depth exploration of American Indian art through conversation and artifact exploration.From gift baskets to painted pottery to shell pendants and beaded clothing, American Indian art varies from region to region. During this seminar at the museum, Rebecca Hernandez will give a general overview of artistic characteristics across several regions and demonstrate how various artifacts are made. Hernandez is director of the American Indian Resource Center at UCSC, and her academic research focuses on American Indian identity constructs in America.

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1-4pm. Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. santacruzmuseum.org. $20.

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<34 STRONG VINYASA Join seasoned instructors Marilu Shinn and Angela Rocchio for a class that will challenge, invigorate, and open you deeply. Strong Vinyasa is equivalent to a level 2/3 practice and is recommended for experienced practitioners.

5:30pm. Watsonville Yoga, Dance and Healing Arts, 375 N. Main St., Watsonville.

GROUPS R.E.A.D. PROGRAM R.E.A.D. is a reading comprehension program for students, grades 2-12. Students receive 25 minutes of individual instruction from a California credentialed teacher. 3-5pm. Aptos Branch Library, 7695 Soquel Drive, Aptos.

SANTA CRUZ YOUNG PROFESSIONALS MIXER Come connect with young professionals ages 21-45 and engage with local organizations making a difference in Santa Cruz County! 5:30-

7:30pm. Cruzio Internet, 877 Cedar St. Suite #150, Santa Cruz.

HEALTH MEET CALIFORNIA'S NEW MENTAL HEALTH ADVISOR! NAMI-SCC is PROUD to host Dr. Thomas Insel, newly appointed advisor to Governor Newsom on MENTAL HEALTH in California. After his presentation, he wants to hear from those dealing with Mental Health Crises: family members, peers and providers. Dr. Insel wants to hear from our community and will create opportunities to gather input. He will also discuss California’s challenges and changes.

6:30pm. Peace United Church of Christ, Santa Cruz, 900 High St., Santa Cruz.

teaches a beginner Djembe drumming class every Wednesday at 7pm at Drumskull Drums. These classes are designed as Introductory classes to West African Rhythms, learning all the Djembe and Dunun parts, along with the history, tradition and song. 7pm. Drumskull Drums, 105 Pioneer St., Santa Cruz.

THURSDAY 11/21 ARTS FRANKENCON For over two hundred years, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has haunted our days and chilled our dreaming nights. Celebrate and explore the enduring legacy of the world’s first science-fiction horror story with FRANKENCON, a threeday conference of scientists, theorists, authors, and artists at UC Santa Cruz.

The conference is in conjunction with the Theater Arts Department production of The Frankenstein Project, written and directed by Kirsten Brandt. 7pm. UC Santa Cruz Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), 407 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz. frankencon.com.

POETS’ CIRCLE POETRY READING SERIES Join featured readers, distinguished

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Cabrillo College instructors and poets, Shirley Flores-Munoz and Ekua Omosupe, as well as open mic for all! Refreshments provided. This free event is supported by the Friends of the Watsonville Public Library and produced and hosted by Magdalena Montagne. 7-9pm. Watsonville Public Library, 275 Main St. Suite 100, Watsonville.

LITTLE PEOPLE Have you ever been walking down the street, and suddenly heard a voice

‘THE OUTSIDERS’ Watsonville High School Drama puts a twist on The Outsiders.

Since it was published in 1967, The Outsiders has been a favorite book of young readers.

It isn’t surprising that The Outsiders is so popular. It is the gripping story of young greasers Ponyboy and Jonny and how if they take the wrong step, they get jumped. They have their family and gang to help defend their territory against the privileged Socs, but they must battle for survival. 2 and 7pm.

Henry J. Mello Center for the Performing Arts, 250 East Beach St., Watsonville.

GROUPS ENTRE NOSOTRAS GRUPO DE APOYO Open to Spanish speaking women with all types of cancer from diagnosis through treatment and the healing process. Meets every first and third Thursday of the month in Watsonville. Call 761-3973 to register.

6-8pm. WomenCARE, 2901 Park Ave. Suite A1, Soquel.

CODE.ORG AT APTOS LIBRARY Join us for an hour of coding! Immerse yourself in a world of your choosing—be it Minecraft, Star Wars, Frozen or other fantasy worlds.

Utilizing block code, we will learn the fundamentals of computer science through games. Ages 8 to 18. No registration required. Space available on a first come first served basis. 3:30-4:30pm. Aptos Branch Library, 7695 Soquel Drive, Aptos.

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

Program runs through Dec. 12. No program on Oct. 31 or Nov. 28. For kids 5-12 years old.

Check the online calendar for the project of the week: santacruzpl.org/calendar. 3:304:30pm. Garfield Park Library, 705 Woodrow Ave., Santa Cruz.

MONEY MATTERS Financial advisers George Haas and Anthony Rovai cover a variety of topics concerning financial literacy, wealth management, and retirement planning. Join us the 3rd Saturday of each month for a new topic, such as Health Insurance, Investments, Wills and Trusts, Life Insurance, and more. This popular series is back for a 3rd straight year. 10-11am. Scotts Valley Branch Library, 251 Kings Village Rd., Scotts Valley.

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. >38

KUUMBWA JAZZ PRESENTS

Preservation Hall Jazz Band Rio Theatre Wednesday, November 20 7:30 PM

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Sweet Honey in the Rock Rio Theatre Monday, January 20 7:30 PM

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JeWel theatre CoMPanY PRESENTS

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Book and lyrics by l. arthur rose and Douglas Furber Book revised by Stephen Fry, with contributions by Mike ockrent Music by noel gay

“A delight from start to finish…Ridiculously tuneful” – The Hollywood Reporter

at the Colligan theater | 1010 river street, santa Cruz WEDS. THURS. FRI. SAT. SUN. Set in the late 1930s, this classic Nov 13 Nov 14 Nov 15 Nov 16 Nov 17 musical comedy tells the story of 7:30pm 7:30pm 8pm 8pm 2pm (Preview) (Preview) (Opening) an unapologetically unrefined Nov 21 Nov 23 Nov 22 Nov 24 cockney named Bill Snibson, who 7:30pm 8pm 8pm 2pm (Talk-Back) learns he is the 14th heir to the Earl of Dec 1 Thanksgiving Nov 29 Hareford when he is summoned to the Nov 30 2pm No Performance 7:00pm 8pm 8pm Show on 12/1 late earl’s estate to assume his destiny as (Talk-Back) a nobleman. But Bill will have none of Dec 7 Dec 5 Dec 8 Dec 6 2pm 7:30pm it, especially since it involves ditching the 2pm 8pm (Talk-Back) (Talk-Back) 8pm equally unrefined love of his life, Sally.

Filled with memorable tunes like “The Lambeth Walk” and “The Sun Has Got His Hat On”, this energetic Tony Award winning musical ran for 3 years on Broadway and 8 years in the West End.

Tickets: Adults $50 / Seniors & Students $45 Preview $27 all tickets

www.JewelTheatre.net (831) 425-7506 This production is funded, in part, by grants from the following organizations:

JTC voted best theatre company in Santa Cruz!

Me and My Girl is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

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UC SANTA CRUZ THEATER ARTS DEPARTMENT PRESENTS

THURSDAY 11/21 SPARKLING WINE TASTING CLASS

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY

KIRSTEN BRANDT

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NOV. 15-17 & NOV. 21-24, 2019 THURS/FRI/SAT: 7:30 PM SUN: 3 PM

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Champagne may be the king of sparkling wines, but there are truly outstanding examples of sparkling wines—produced according to the same methods and techniques as Champagne—made all over the world. The class will examine the different ways to make a wine sparkle; taste various examples and styles of sparkling wine from Champagne, California and elsewhere around the globe. The class is open to everyone from sparkling wine aficionados to those unfamiliar with fizz. Class size is limited to 24 people and designed for all levels. Students must be over 21. Tickets includes a taste of eight different wines and light refreshments.

7-9pm. Equinox and Bartolo Winery and Tasting Room, 334 Ingalls St., Santa Cruz.

471-8608. $45.

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JOSH COHEN & JOHN HANRAHAN DRUM N BASS DUO Josh Cohen, a sixstring bassist who makes his yearly month long pilgrimage to the Bay Area, is joining forces with local legendary jazz drummer John Hanrahan in a duo that explores the sonic possibilities of drums and bass with extended improvisations over both original compositions and arrangements.

7:30pm. Michael’s on Main, 2591 S Main St., Soquel. $10.

MORE FATTER AND PRÓXIMA PARADA More Fatter is a funk fusion band from the San Francisco Bay Area.

Bringing spacious, brassy dance grooves, lusciously tight choral harmonies, and a fiery live presence, More Fatter has quickly established itself as “San Francisco’s newest funk, rock, and jazz fusion

experiment” (Bay Bridged). 8pm. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz.

PAT HULL Pat Hull is a singer-songwriter from Connecticut currently based out of Chico, CA. His music intertwines a melodic, soulful, counter-tenor vocal range with a unique finger picking style, creating a dreamy landscape with unpredictable hooks and turns. Pat’s newest releases, ‘Sera,’ ‘Denmark Sessions’ and ‘Marrow’ showcase his delicate yet raw ability to compose, sing, write, and perform. 8pm. lille æske, 13160 Central Ave., Boulder Creek.

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.

CALENDAR THE CHARITIES W/ MUNDAZE. SLObased funk/soul/jam band, The Charities, bring their youthful, flowering energy back to The Crepe Place, with support from local indienauts, MUNDAZE. $7. Doors at 8. Show at 9. The Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz.

FRIDAY 11/22 ARTS ‘THE CHERRY ORCHARD’ The Cherry Orchard, MCT’s final production of 2019, deals with dislocating events in the life of a Russian family of landowners, their neighbors, and the people who work for them. Powerful social forces are in motion, and everyone is altered by them. Despair seems pervasive, and yet joy persists.

Chekhov makes each of his characters simultaneously likable and infuriating, credible and foolish. It was his great gift as a writer to make each life in his plays complex, vivid, and necessary. 8pm. Mountain Community Theater/Park Hall, 9400 Mill St., Ben Lomond.

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MUSIC ATOMIC APE, COSMIC REEF TEMPLE, DOCTOR 9, ROB MAGILL Atomic Ape - Los Angeles based band featuring members of Secret Chiefs 3, Estradasphere and John Zorn’s Masada. Traversing surf-rock sounds, avant-rock, rhythmic complexities, jazz improvisations, and folk melodies, Atomic Ape is a musical amalgam of the utmost rarity. 8pm. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz.

GROUP KARAOKE FUN WITH GINA Sing along in an environment that is completely accepting of all diverse voices with the goal of having a good time! No

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

Chekhov makes each of his characters simultaneously likable and infuriating, credible and foolish. It was his great gift as a writer to make each life in his plays complex, vivid, and necessary. 8pm.

Mountain Community Theater/Park Hall, 9400 Mill St., Ben Lomond.

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ANNIEGLASS -MAKE SET OF 4 SALAD PLATES WORKSHOP Make Set of four Salad Plates Workshop. Decorate a set of four 9” salad plates for your holiday table!

Draw with pastel colored glaze crayons on sandblasted glass for a beautiful pastel like imagery. Stencils will be provided for inspiration. Complementary beverage is included. 2pm. Annieglass Incorporated, 310 Harvest Drive, Watsonville.

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ANNUAL ARBORETUM GIFT & WREATH SALE Wonderful Thanksgiving and Holiday items will be available at the 34th Annual Wreath and Gift Sale!

Local artists join forces with talented Arboretum volunteers to produce one-ofkind living succulent wreaths and dried floral wreaths, floral centerpieces and other artwork for the sale. These beautiful botanic decorations will make the perfect seasonal accent for your home, or holiday gift for loved ones! This is the only collection you will find that draws upon the Arboretum’s rare and extraordinary succulents and dried plants. From amazing Australian Banksias to South African Proteas, the Arboretum has a world of natural materials to inspire. Succulent pumpkins and dish gardens will also be for sale! These are the perfect decorations and centerpieces to last through the holidays. 10am. Arboretum, Arboretum >40 Road, Santa Cruz.

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“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.

New dancers are encouraged to attend the free lesson at 6:30pm, before the regular dance at 7pm. 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).

6:30-9pm. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave., Santa Cruz.

experience necessary, just sing-along and have fun! There is a $2 suggested donation, but no one is turned away for lack of funds.

Taught by Gina Val-Leiva. 1pm. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz.

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CALENDAR <39 MISSION COOKING DEMONSTRATION Experience different cooking styles used by the people who lived and worked at Santa Cruz Mission over 200 years ago. There will be a presentation of Ohlone and Spanish cuisine including hot rock cooking, tortilla frying on a comal, and baking in our horno. You can even sample the creations and make your own tortilla. Rain cancels. Free event. For more information, call 425-5849. 1-2pm. Santa Cruz Mission Historic State Park, 144 School St., Santa Cruz.

SANTA'S SHELVES FUNDRAISER Come down and support our local fire department at our annual Santa's Shelves craft faire and bake sale! Come by and see Santa from 11-1 and shop from many local artists and merchants! Hours are 9-4 on Saturday and 10-4 on Sunday! Come support a good cause! 9am. Felton Fire Station, 131 Kirby St., Felton.

WARREN MILLER’S ‘TIMELESS’

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Year after year, generations of ski and snowboard enthusiasts look forward to the coming of winter, and even after seven decades of ski cinematography, Warren Miller Entertainment can confirm that the joys of winter are eternal. Kick off winter with Warren Miller Entertainment’s 70th film, Timeless, presented by Volkswagen.

Timeless features a cast of fresh faces, including Olympic mogul skier Jaelin Kauf and Canadian World Cup ski racer Erin Mielzynski, alongside industry veterans Glen Plake, Rob DesLauries and Marcus Caston.

7:30pm. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz.

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WORLD (ART) MARKET Support creativity and shop from artists from around the county, region, and the world. Check out works from artists and crafters of all mediums - photography, woodburning, printmaking, jewelry, pottery, and more.

Applications are still being accepted. Apply to sell your art at the Market! 1-4pm. Abbott Square, 118 Cooper St., Santa Cruz.

MUSIC BETH ANNE + JULIEN KOZAK Rooted in folk Americana, traditional Irish music, and 90's R&B, Beth creates both haunting and uplifting introspective melodies, inspired by all life has to offer her. Beth performs with powerful soaring vocals, accompanied by an often opentuned acoustic guitar, or simply country chords. Having spent the last 6 years

spearheading the folk-Americana family band, The Railflowers, Beth is now heading solo into the great big folk world. Inspired by artists like Patty Griffin, Joni Mitchell, and The Weepies, Beth is well on her way to becoming an important and honest voice in the folk music world. 8pm. lille æske, 13160 Central Ave., Boulder Creek.

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

NATURAL MIND MEDITATION Natural Mind meditation is from Dzogchen in the Tibetan Buddhist traditions. What Dzogchen teaches is that we already have a purity of Natural Mind and all of its qualities. It is said that Natural Mind is beyond mind and beyond description. It is the ultimate truth.

It is compared to the inconceivable vastness of space, with luminosity and clarity, and a depth of wisdom. With this meditation we can see through conceptual and emotional patterns and experience a bigger, more open view. 10-11:30am. Corralitos Cultural Center, 127 Hames Rd., Watsonville.

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

Enjoy excellent craft beers from Steel Bonnet and food from multiple local vendors. Family and dog friendly. See you there!. 4-6pm. Steel Bonnet Brewing Co., 20 Victor Square, Scotts Valley.

OUTDOOR DISCOVER BIG BASIN REDWOODS HIKE! Explore the park’s less travelled backcountry with Docent Barry Grimm. This moderately paced hike will be individually

tailored to your group. Based on group size, experience level, and weather conditions, we will choose from the many trails that explore the park’s most scenic areas. Bring water and good hiking shoes. Meet at park headquarters. Free event. Vehicle day use fee is $10. For more information, call 3388883. Noon. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek.

headquarters. Stroller and wheelchair accessible. Free event. Vehicle day-use fee is $10. For more information, call 3388883. 11am-12:30pm. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek.

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 www.thatsmypark. org. Parking is $10. 11am-noon. Natural Bridges State Beach, Swanton Blvd. and W Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz.

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

How important are banana slugs to the redwood ecosystems? Answer these questions and more every Saturday on our Redwood Grove Walks. One of our knowledgeable and friendly docents will lead you through the wondrous old growth forest and answer any questions you may have. Meet at the visitor center. Free event. Vehicle day-use fee is $10. For more information, call 335-7077. Noon. Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, 101 N Big Trees Park Rd., Felton.

RANCH TOUR Discover what life was like a century ago on this innovative dairy ranch. This hour-long tour includes the 1897 Victorian home, 1859 Gothic Revival farmhouse, 1896 water-powered machine shop, barns and other historic buildings.

Free event. Vehicle day-use fee is $10. For more information, call 426-0505. 1pm.

Wilder Ranch State Park, 1401 Coast Rd., Santa Cruz.

REDWOOD GROVE LOOP WALK How do these grand redwoods grow to be so old? So tall? How are they important to humans? Join us for this fun and informative guided half-mile stroll through a magnificent old-growth redwood forest.

Meet the famous Mother Tree, the Father of the Forest and the incredible Chimney Tree on this 1.5-hour walk. Bring water and good walking shoes. Meet at park

SUNDAY 11/24 THE CHERRY ORCHARD The Cherry Orchard, MCT's final production of 2019, deals with dislocating events in the life of a Russian family of landowners, their neighbors, and the people who work for them. Powerful social forces are in motion, and everyone is altered by them. Despair seems pervasive, and yet joy persists.

Chekhov makes each of his characters simultaneously likable and infuriating, credible and foolish. It was his great gift as a writer to make each life in his plays complex, vivid, and necessary. 2pm. Mountain Community Theater/Park Hall, 9400 Mill St., Ben Lomond.

‘THE OUTSIDERS’ Watsonville High School Drama puts a twist on The Outsiders. Since it was published in 1967, The Outsiders has been a favorite book of young readers. It isn’t surprising that The Outsiders is so popular. It is the gripping story of young greasers Ponyboy and Jonny and how if they take the wrong step, they get jumped. They have their family and gang to help defend their territory against the privileged Socs, but they must battle for survival. 2 and 7pm. Henry J. Mello Center for the Performing Arts, 250 East Beach St., Watsonville.

CLASSES BIRD WATCHING FOR BEGINNERS On this 2-hour walk, be prepared to hike two miles on uneven surfaces, with many stops to view the many birds, plants, and scenery along the way. You will help each other spot and identify birds! Bring your binoculars if you have them (binoculars are available to borrow), clothes for variable weather, and good walking shoes.

Meet at the interpretive center. Everyone is welcome, but children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by adults. Rain cancels. Free event. Vehicle day-use fee is $10. For more information, call 426-0505.

9:30am. Wilder Ranch State Park, 1401 Coast Rd., Santa Cruz.

CALENDAR OUTDOOR JUST US: TWO FRIENDS DISCUSS THE MEANING OF LIFE Join us for these lively conversations between a Buddhist nun and a Psychotherapist about living life and finding true meaning in these interesting times.Venerable Tenzin Chogkyi and Amy Cayton share the microphones on Sunday evenings on Oct. 27 and Nov. 24th for these informative and interactive talks at Land of Medicine Buddha. Long time friends Ven. Tenzin Chogkyi and Amy Cayton are excited to offer this unique and engaging event. Make sure to be ready with any questions you may have about Buddhism or psychotherapy (or the meaning of life!) as these talks are designed as an informal, conversational style discussion with each other and with participation from the audience. 5-6:30pm. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Rd., Soquel.

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. & West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz.

TRIYOGA BASICS YOGA CLASS A relaxing, stretching, strengthening Basics TriYoga class to benefit your backs and hips. With Dr. Kim Beecher (chiropractor).

For beginners and all levels. $15 drop in.

6-7:30pm. TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz.

YOGA CHURCH WITH HANNAH MUSE Non-denominational. No experience necessary. All bodies welcome. These classes are intended to be accessible + 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 + 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.

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community service and get a great massage at an affordable price. Students provide 50 minute massages to the public. Massage clinic appointment times are: Sundays 1, 2, 3 or 4pm and Tuesdays 4, 5, 6 or 7pm. Santa Cruz Chi Center, 1119 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. . 476-2115.. $25.

OUTDOOR EXPLORING BIG BASIN Learn about redwoods, forest plants, fires, geology, history and more on these fun, varied hikes with docent Diane Shaw. Hikes are fiveeight miles and last up to five hours. Meet at park headquarters. Rain or shine, but strong winds may cancel. Free event. Vehicle day-use fee is $10.For more information, call 338-8883. 9:30am-2:30pm. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek.

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CHI MASSAGE SCHOOL STUDENT MASSAGE CLINIC Take advantage of this

instructors Marilu Shinn and Angela Rocchio for a class that will challenge, invigorate, and open you deeply. Strong Vinyasa is equivalent to a level 2/3 practice and is

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TACO TUESDAY On Tuesdays we eat tacos!

Two delicious tacos and a locally crafted beer for $10. If the mood suits you, add a side of guacamole or a single order of tacos! 6-9pm.

Hotel Paradox, 611 Ocean St., Santa Cruz.

walk, we travel North Escape Road, a paved road closed to traffic. We tour stunning oldgrowth redwood groves along beautiful Opal Creek. We'll discuss redwood ecology and park history while exploring the deep shade of the redwood forest. This is a fun and easy, 3- mile, 2-hour walk with docent Diane Shaw. Dogs not required, but welcome!

Bring water. Meet at park headquarters. Free event. Vehicle day-use fee is $10. For more information, call 338-8883. 9:30-11:30am.

Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek.

STRONG VINYASA Join seasoned

Come enjoy bubbles and small bites as you browse our exclusive winter sale. In addition to great holiday gifts at discounted prices, we will have giveaways and raffle prizes!

FOOD & WINE

HEALTH

CLASSES

Join us for an evening of holiday fun and festivities hosted by Ginger Stylebar!

TUESDAY 11/26

THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED: A DOGFRIENDLY WALK On this dog-friendly

MONDAY 11/25

You're invited

recommended for experienced practitioners.

5:30pm. Watsonville Yoga, Dance and Healing Arts, 375 N. Main St., Watsonville.

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MUSIC CALENDAR

LOVE YOUR

LOCAL BAND MORGEN

Last year, local singer-songwriter Morgen released the single “Try Again,” a melancholy piano ballad that she put a lot of work into. When she released it, it didn’t really do much, aside from getting some enthusiastic comments from family members.

A year later, the 15-year old musician has re-released the song, with plans for a lot more people to hear it. She’s got management, and a self-titled EP in the works, which should be released in early December. It’s a well-produced pop record, driven by piano, with elements of jazz, blues and Americana, and Morgen’s velvety, emotive voice.

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“Basically, it’s me announcing myself to the world,” she says of “Try Again.” “‘Hey, I know you already know this song, but this is just me telling you guys officially that this is who I am, and this is what I’m doing with my life.’”

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Morgen studied jazz at Kuumbwa band camp and took piano lessons to up her skills. She also devoted three days over the summer to making this record with manager Aidan Schechter and co-producer Walker Landgraf.

“Those three days were probably the best three days of my 15 years on Earth,” Morgen says. “It was so fun, sitting in a room making music with people.”

Even though Morgen has been writing music for a decade, this marks a beginning for her in what she hopes will be a professional career in music.

“I’m just doing it,” she says. “I’m planning on seeing what happens and making connections with people. Just seeing what people’s reactions are.”

AARON CARNES

facebook.com/morgensmusic.

M. LOCKWOOD PORTER

WEDNESDAY 11/20 INDIE

HIPPO CAMPUS The tracklist on Hippo Campus’ breakout album Bambi reads like a mental breakdown explained in a spoken-word piece: “Mistakes,” “Anxious,” “Doubt,” “Why Even Try.” But what comes out is one of the most gorgeous, effervescent records of 2018, with layered, etheric pop songs that are rich in harmonies and punctuated by finely produced electronics.

The songs express loneliness, but do so cathartically, as if to say, “You aren’t alone, because we all feel lonely.”

This year, the group released demos of the record, as if to show the exquisitely raw and post-punk foundation these songs started out as before being transformed into the glossy opuses that landed on Bambi. AC 9pm. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $25. 423-1338.

JAZZ

PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND A bastion of traditional New Orleans jazz since the early 1960s, the Pres-

ervation Hall Jazz Band has radically expanded its preservationist mission in recent years. The ensemble contributes to the extraordinary new album by Haitian collective Lakou Mizik, HaitiaNola, and A Tuba For Cuba, the soundtrack for the recent documentary about the ensemble’s 2015 trip to the communist nation.

The island-crossing sojourn has accentuated the Cuban DNA present at the creation of New Orleans jazz, and the talent-laden ensemble is touring with several top-shelf Cuban artists, including Havana-reared multi-instrumentalist Yusa. ANDREW GILBERT

time rolling verses over in his head while working as a delivery driver. His latest, Father Figure 3: Somewhere Out There, is an incredibly intimate album that feels both like a homemade tape and a marvelously produced, soulful rap record on pop radio. AC

7:30pm. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $42. 423-8209.

If God was Nick Cave, Devon Welsh would be the choir boy writing his solemn worship tunes. Originally the singer for the warbly synth-ballad duo Majical Cloudz, Welsh went solo last year, and has already released two albums of uncomfortably honest devotionals, with music so minimalistic, it’s nearly inaudible behind his deep, majestic baritone. He ponders plain truths about himself, not shielded by even the thinnest metaphors. Instead, demanding you confront his humanity, and perhaps your own in the process. Just like Lord Nick Cave would want. AC

THURSDAY 11/21 HIP-HOP

REXX LIFE RAJ Rexx Life Raj is one of the best new emcees to come out of the East Bay’s vibrant scene. The rapper steers clear of auto-tuned mumble rap, and the gritty pessimism of some of his contemporaries. Instead he delivers old-school bars that are introspective and uplifting. He got a late start with releasing music, though he wrote from a young age, compounding by copious

9pm. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $12 adv/$14 door. 423-1338.

FRIDAY 11/22 INDIE

DEVON WELSH

9pm. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $10 adv/$12 door. 429-6994.

MUSIC

BE OUR GUEST JIM BREUER

REXX LIFE RAJ

EXPERIMENTAL

ATOMIC APE

MIKE HUGUENOR

9pm. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 423-7117.

ROCK

HIDALGOS Will the wolf survive? Thirty-five years ago, David Hidalgo and Los Lobos asked that very question on their sophomore album, and today we can say the wolf not only survived, but thrived! Hidalgo’s gritty vocals and East L.A. sound is part Tex-Mex, part blues ‘and all rock ‘n roll. At Moe’s Alley, Hidalgo will be joined by his sons Vincent Hidalgo (bassist),

8pm. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $25 adv/$30 door. 479-1854.

SATURDAY 11/23 SOUL

ORGONE Orgone has always been a group of nomads of soul, following the funk where it goes. On 2018’s Undercover Mixtape, the L.A. collective dropped some rare grooves channeling both Stevie Wonder and the Daptones. Since then, the group has added the dynamic Adryon de León as full time vocalist. This year’s Reasons finds the group making the most of de León, going full disco-soul a la Cheryl Lynn & Donna Summer. The album swaggers out the gate with slinking bass, strings, a sizzling beat, and huge, funky hooks. MH 9pm. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $25 adv/$30 door. 479-1854.

COMEDY

JONO ZALAY Jono Zalay used to have this pipe dream of one day being a neuroscientist. He put away this childishness to pursue a

steady, dependable career in comedy.

Good thing he did! Zalay’s antics have gained him internet viral status with his some A+ DMV trolling. He’s landed some cushy writing gigs at Comedy Central, Amazon, Fox and more. MW 7 & 9:30pm. DNA’s Comedy Lab, 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $25/door.

900-5123.

SUNDAY 11/24 POWER-POP

M. LOCKWOOD PORTER Chico’s M. Lockwood Porter has both the dapper looks and unmarketable name of a classic power-pop artist.

Which is good, because he writes some pretty classic tunes. Think Graham Parker, and Nick Lowe. But unlike them, Porter sneaks a bit of mountain twang into his pop, and a dash of Tom Petty here and there (the man clearly has an affinity for Tom Petty). This year’s Communion in the Ashes opens with a white knuckle title track bordering on first wave punk, all overdriven Fenders and four on the floor. The lyrics ain’t bad, either. MH 8pm. Lillie Aeske, 13160 Hwy. 9, Boulder Creek. $15. 703-4183.

9pm. Sunday, Dec. 1, Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $28.50.

Information: catalystclub.com. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11am on Friday, Oct. 19 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

IN THE QUEUE EDDIE SPAGHETTI

That dude from Supersuckers, with J.D. Pinkus from the Butthole Surfers!

Wednesday at Moe’s Alley THE CHARITIES

Motown-laced, good-time grooves.

Thursday at Crepe Place BETH ANNE

Tasty folk ballads. Saturday at Lille Aeske KEVIN GATES

Trap music at its most delightful.

Sunday at Catalyst KRISHNA DAS

Hindu devotionals to om to. Monday and Tuesday at Rio Theatre

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What do you get when you cross Danny Elfman at his most playfully eerie, and the fret-shredding surf guitar work of Dick Dale? That’s not a rhetorical question, I’m asking you, what do you get? I don’t know! But I’m guessing it would sound something like L.A.’s Atomic Ape: an exotic blend of instrumental stylings that defies easy categorization. On 2014’s Swarm, the group sound variably like the soundtrack to a haunted beach, and a haunted bazaar. One way or another, there’s some ghosts involved.

and Social Distortion member David Hidalgo Jr. (drums). MAT WEIR

One of comedian Jim Breuer’s most iconic roles is Brian, the stoner sidekick in Dave Chappelle’s Half Baked—a loveable, tie-dye-shirtwearing character with perpetual enthusiasm and a never-ending list of munchies. He even has a hilarious bit in his standup act about the one and only time he was high on the set of the film. But Breuer is more than just stoner bits and wacky Saturday Night Live characters. He’s a great storyteller and quick wit whenever he gets on stage.

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Wednesday November 20–7:30/8:30pm $20

Co-Bill With Two Country/Rock/Punk Greats

EDDIE SPAGHETTI (SUPERSUCKERS) + JD PINKUS (BUTTHOLE SURFERS) Thursday November 21–8/8:30pm $10/15 Double Bill Dance Party

MORE FATTER + PROXIMA PARADA Friday November 22–7/8pm $25/30 A Rare & Intimate Performance With

THE HIDALGOS W/ DAVID OF LOS LOBOS + BACKYARD BLUES BAND

Saturday November 23–8/9pm $25/30

LIVE MUSIC WED

11/20

THU

11/21

FRI

ABBOTT SQUARE 118 Cooper St, Santa Cruz

11/22

Mojo Mix Free 6-8p

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Powers, Wild Powwers & Prism Tats $5 9p

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

Atomic Ape, Doc9, Rob Magil & Cosmic Reef Temple $5 9p

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Donation 9p

The Box: Gothic/ Industrial Free 9p

Funk Night w/ DJ Ed G 9p

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Skypark 9:15p-12:45a

Karaoke 6p-Close

Karaoke 6p-Close

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

Alex Lucero & Friends 8p

Karaoke 9-12:30a

Karaoke 9-12:30a

CAPITOLA WINE BAR 115 San Jose Ave, Capitola

Rich the Trivia Guy Free 5:30-7:30p

Banjer Dan Free 7-10p

Metaphonic Free 7-10p

Hirie & Rdlgdgrn & Tunnel Vision $17/$20 9p

Fortunate Youth w/ Cold War Kids w/ Samia Mike Love & Kash’d Out $28 9p $25 7:30p

Queen Bingo 9p

Karaoke 9p

Hippo Campus $25 9p

CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

CORK AND FORK 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

Open Mic Night Free 7-10p

John Michael Free 3-6p Kevin Gates $40-$50 9p

Shootergang Kony $13 9p Jazz Jam 9p KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

SKATALITES

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Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke Old School Free 8p

Jamaica’s Greatest Band:

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11/26

Chicago Bill & the Next Blind Rick Blues Band Free 6-8p Free 6-8p

CATALYST UPSTAIRS 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Nov 29 AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT, RATTLECAN, LINDSEY WALL Nov 30 SEAN HAYES Dec 1 MIGHTY MIKE SCHERMER Dec 5 SCOTT PEMBERTON + MATT JAFFE Dec 6 CHINA CATS Dec 7 ANUHEA Dec 8 LOS STRAITJACKETS Dec 12 THE WHITE BUFFALO Dec 13 SPACE HEATER Dec 14 DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN Dec 15 LIVE AGAIN - CD RELEASE Dec 19 MELVIN SEALS & JGB with JOHN KADLECIK Dec 21 SAQI + NOETIK Dec 28 CON BRIO + MESTIZO BEAT Dec 30 & 31 THE MOTHER HIPS Jan 3 ZION I + Alwa Gordon Jan 12 TOMMY CASTRO Jan 18 BOOSTIVE Jan 19 COLD BLOOD Jan 25 LYRICS BORN Jan 26 CHRIS DUARTE Feb 7 MIGHTY DIAMONDS Feb 12 ANTIBALAS Feb 26 GREYBOY ALL STARS Feb 26 LONG BEACH DUB ALLSTARS + AGGROLITES Mar 12 METALACHI

TUE

Blues Mechanics Free 6-8p

Buku $18 9p

Wednesday November 27–7:30/8:30pm $25/30

11/25

James Murray Free 6-8p

Rexx Life Raj $12/$14 9p

+ ANDREW BEES & KING HOPETON

MON

Scott Miller Free 6-8p

THE CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

HALF PINT

11/24

Jimmy Dewrance Free 6-8p

+ GENE EVARO JR. Peter Tosh Birthday Celebration With

SUN

APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

THE CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Sunday November 24–8/9pm $20/25

11/23

Eastside Funk Free 7-9:30p

Funk & Soul Favorites

ORGONE

SAT

Summit Sisters Free 7-9:30p

THE

CREPE PLACE OPEN LATE - EVERY NIGHT!

ADVANCE TICKETS ON TICKETWEB

David Gans plus Garrin Benfield BIG RIG $10 adv./$10 door Dance – ages 21 +

Wed. Nov. 20 7:30pm

8PM - $6 DOOR

Thu. Nov. 21 7:30pm

WEDNESDAY 11/20

w/ RETURN TO NAGOYA & LAMAZE TECHNIQUE

WEDNESDAY11/20

SCIENCE ON TAP

7PM - FREE IN THE HEATED PATIO THURSDAY 11/21

THE CHARITIES w/ MUNDAZE

9PM - $7 DOOR FRIDAY 11/22

DEVON WALSH

w/ SORRY GIRLS 9PM - $10 ADV. OR $12 DOOR SATURDAY 11/23

ENEMY OF MY ENEMY w/ HIGH AND TIGHT & PARTY FORCE 9PM - $8 DOOR

TUESDAY 11/26

FUNK NIGHT w/ SPACE HEATER

9PM - $6 DOOR

WEDNESDAY 11/27

KING DREAM w/ DAN TOO

9PM - $10 DOOR

WEEKEND BRUNCH FULL BAR MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ

1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz 429-6994

Tell Me More

Master Storytellers

$15 adv./$15 door seated – ages 21 +

Josh Cohen & John Hanrahan $10 adv./$10 door seated <21 w/parent Fri. Nov. 22 Come Together 5pm HAPPY HOUR/NO COVER Fri. Nov. 22 8:30pm Allman Brothers Tribute $15 adv./$15 door Dance – ages 21 + Sat. Nov. 23 8:30pm plus

Freestone Peaches

Hank & Ella with The Fine Country Band Three On The Tree

$12 adv./$12 door Dance – ages 21 + Sun. Nov. 24 3:30pm

Jay Blakesberg

75 min. Grateful Dead Slideshow

NO COVER

Grateful Sunday

Sun. Nov. 24 5:30pm GRATEFUL DEAD TUNES / NO COVER Tue. Nov. 26 7:30pm

Cripple Creek

Open Mic Acoustic Jam NO COVER / Dance<21 w/parent

Wed. Nov. 27 7:30pm

Diamonds In The Rough John Prine Tribute COMING UP

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On Sale Friday!

$10 adv./$10 door seated <21 w/parent Fri. Nov. 29 Sat. Nov. 30 Wed. Dec. 4

Spirit of ’76 Dallas Hodge of Canned Heat & The Deluxe Band Barrio Manouche from Spain, Quebec, France, Brazil

2591 Main St, Soquel, CA 95073

CROSBY RIO 5/17

LIVE MUSIC WED

11/20

THU

11/21

CORRALITOS CULTURAL CENTER 127 Hames Rd., Corralitos

FRI

11/22

Wednesday, November 20 • 7:30 PM SAT

11/23

Open Mic 7-10p Devon Welsh w/ Sorry Girls $10/$12 9p

Enemy of My Enemy w/ High & more $8 9p

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

Yuji Tojo $3 8p

The Gary Blackburn Band $6 9p

Blue Ocean Rockers $7 9:30p

DNA’S COMEDY LAB 155 River St, Santa Cruz

Blind Tiger Open Mic Night 8p

FELTON MUSIC HALL 6275 Hwy 9, Felton

Jimbo Scott & Pardon the Interruption $9/$11 7p

SkyPark $5 8p FrankenCon: ‘Frankenstein’ & ‘Bride of Frankenstein’ 7p Matisyahu w/ Bedouin Soundclash $39/$44 7p

Soohan w/ Kr3ture & Devin from Heaven $15/$18 8p

11/24

MON

11/25

TUE

11/26

Acoustic Open Jam 3-5p

Science on Tap Free The Charities w/ Hector the Video w/ Big Mundaze $7 9p Rig & more $6 8p

THE CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

SUN

The Purple Ones: Prince Tribute $16/$20 7p

Live Comedy $7 9p

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

Exploring the musical connections between New Orleans and Cuba.

GrandSam $5 8p

Monday, December 2 • 7 PM

AKIKO/HAMILTON/DECHTER 1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS

Whitney Morgan w/ Alex Williams $20/$25 7p

Wednesday, December 4 • 7 PM & 9 PM

ISSAC DELGADO

An essential figure in salsa and a leader in Cuban music.

GABRIELLA CAFE 910 Cedar St., Santa Cruz

Linc Russin 7-9p

Bob Basa 6:30-9:30p

HENFLINGS 9450 CA-9, Ben Lomond

Bingo Night 7p

Yuji & Jimmy 7p

Big Bad Wolf 8p

George Heagerty 8p

Mark Creech 6:30-9:30p

Scott Slaughter 6:30-9:30p

7th Wave 6:30-9:30p

Monday, December 9 • 7 PM Pro Jam 4p

Open Mic 7p

Karaoke Night 9p

CHESTER THOMPSON QUARTET A powerhouse organist known for his work with Santana and Tower of Power.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS

Thursday, December 12 • 7 PM & 9 PM

JOE’S BAR 13118 CA-9, Boulder Creek

MIKE STERN – JEFF LORBER FUSION FEATURING JIMMY HASLIP & DAVE WECKL

KUUMBWA JAZZ 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz LILLE AESKE 13160 CA-9, Boulder Creek

AT THE RIO THEATRE

A deft organ trio featuring Akiko Tsuruga, Jeff Hamilton, and Graham Dechter.

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville

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

A TUBA TO CUBA: THE PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND WITH YUSA & SPECIAL GUESTS

Pat Hull $15 8p

Beth Anne & Julien Kozak $20 8p

A heavy-hitting all-star group.

M. Lockwood Porter & John Calvin Abney $15 8p

Monday, December 16 • 7 PM & 9 PM

CHARLIE HUNTER & LUCY WOODWARD

An exhilirating blast of blues, soul, and funk.

9 PM: 1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS

GOOD TIMES HOLIDAY DEADLINES WEDNESDAY, NOV. 27 Dec. 25 & Jan. 1 issues early deadline

MONDAY, DEC. 16 FOR BOTH ISSUES HOLIDAY HOURS Thanksgiving CLOSED NOV. 28 & 29 Christmas & New Year CLOSED DEC. 23 -JAN. 1 We will be open on Thursday, Jan. 2

SPANISH HARLEM ORCHESTRA

Setting the gold-standard for New York-style salsa

9 PM: 1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Monday, January 6 • 7 PM

BENNY GREEN TRIO

Joyous and imaginative swinging, both elegant and earthy.

Thursday, January 9 • 7 PM

KUUMBWA JAZZ & THE HUMANITIES INSTITUTE AT UCSC PRESENT: 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 Monday, January 13 • 7 PM

JEREMY PELT QUINTET

One of the preeminent trumpeters in contemporary jazz.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS BECOME A MEMBER TODAY! 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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Wednesday, December 18 • 7 PM & 9 PM

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LIVE MUSIC CALIFORNIA ROOTS PRESENTS

• REGGAE

WED INSATIABLE TRIBUTE TO PRINCE

• DJ/ELECTRONIC

• NU-JAZZ

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

11/20

Tell Me More $15 7:30p

THU

11/21

Josh Cohen & John Hanrahan $10 7:30p

MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

EXPERIMENTAL

• INDIE POP COUNTRY ROOTS PRESENTS

• AMERICANA

• ROCK/JAM

• AMERICANA

01.03 |

GARY BLACKBURN BAND & RAYBURN BROTHERS BAND

SCMF 9:30p

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

Brandon Beach 9:30p Lavender Fields Band Free 6:30p

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

SUN

11/24

MON

11/25

Jay Blackesberg Free 3p Grateful Sunday Free 5:30p

11/26

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

Half Pint, Andrew Bees & more $20/$25 8p The Takeover 9:30p

Pacific Avenue Free 6:30p

Bump 2-5p

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Tacos & Trivia Free 6:30p

Sugar Beats 2-5p

Erin Avila 6-9p

Open Mic Free 4-7p

Comedy Free 8p

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

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

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

Variety Show w/ Toby Gray 6:30p

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

A Tuba to Cuba: Built to Spill Preservation Hall Jazz $32 7p Band & more $42 7:30p

ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Comedy Night 9p

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135

Acoustic Classics 6:30p

First & Third Celtic Jam

Aloha Friday 6:30p

Live DJ

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

Open Mic 6p

Light Acoustic 6:30p

Warren Miller’s Timeless $16 7:30p

Kirtan w/ Krishna Das SOLD OUT 7p

Kirtan w/ Krishna Das $35 7p

Live DJ

Trivia 7:30p

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

Wednesday, November 20 • Ages 16+

HIPPO CAMPUS

FELTONMUSICHALL.COM

Thursday, November 21 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

Thursday, November 21 • Ages 16+

HIRIE

TUE

Asher Stern Free 10p-12a Dave D’oh 2-5p

RESTAURANT NOW OPEN

WED-SUN 4-9PM

Orgone, Gene Evaro Jr. $25/$30 8p

MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

& PARDON THE INTERRUPTION

12.12 |

Gil de Leon Trio Free 6p

David Hidalgo $25/$30 7p

Trivia 8p

11/23

Lloyd Whitley Free 6p More Fatter, Proxima Parada $10/$15 8p

99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz

SAT

Hank & Ella w/ the Fine Country Band & more $12 8:30p

Eddie Spaghetti & J.D. Pinkus $15/$20 7:30p

11.20 | JIMBO SCOTT

TAYLOR RAE, ANTHONY ARYA, & LINDSEY WALL

11/22

Come Together Free 5p Freestone Peaches $15 8:30p

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz • ROCK

FRI

The Last Great

plus RDGLDGRN

REXX LIFE RAJ

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Friday, November 22 • Ages 16+

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Santa Cruz Naturopathic Medical Center

BOOST YOUR MOOD, ENERGY & WELL-BEING B-12 HAPPY HOUR

COLD WAR KIDS

Friday, November 22 BUKU In the Atrium • Ages 16+ Saturday, November 23 • Ages 16+

Fortunate Youth

Prime Rib Thursday

SHOOTERGANG KONY

Yuji & Jimmy

Saturday, November 23 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+ Sunday, November 24 • Ages 16+

Kevin Gates Wednesdays 3-6 PM Walk-Ins Welcome

Dec 1 Jim Breuer (Ages 16+) Dec 3 Unknown Mortal Orchestra (Ages 16+) Dec 4 Comethazine (Ages 16+) Dec 5 Aly & AJ/ Armors (Ages 16+) Dec 6 The Grouch/ Murs (Ages 16+) Dec 7 DIIV/ Froth (Ages 16+) Dec 13 Lil Tjay (Ages 16+) Dec 13 & 14 The Expendables (Ages 16+) Dec 21 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (Ages 16+) Dec 27 Cracker Camper Van Beethoven (Ages 21+) Dec 28 Micro Mania Midget Wrestling (Ages 16+) Dec 31 Beats Antique (Ages 21+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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

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

www.catalystclub.com

with

Nov 21st 7-11pm

Open every day from 11am to 2am

www.henflingsbar.com

Radio Station

LIVE MUSIC WED THE SAND BAR 211 Esplanade, Capitola

11/20

Trouble in the Wind 7:30p

THU

11/21

FRI

11/22

Billy Martini 7:30p

SAT

11/23

Nigel & Clive 8-11p

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz

The Vinny Johnson Band 6:30p

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

Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-9p

Area 52 8-11:30p

Joint Chiefs 8-11:30p

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Road, Capitola

Ken Constable 6:30-9:30p

Joe Ferrara 6:30-9:30p

Claudio Melega 7-10p

Ryan Price Free 6p

11/24

MON

Dennis Dove Open Jam 7:30p

11/25

TUE

11/26

Live Again 7:30p

Scotty Wright w/ Steve Robertson Trio 8-11p

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

SHANTY SHACK BREWING 138 Fern St, Santa Cruz

SUN

Shotgun Suitor 9p

Rory Lynch Free 6p

Live Oak Jam Free 6-9p

DJ Monk Earl & General Phlint Free 6-9p

STEEL BONNET 20 Victor Square, Scotts Valley SUSHI GARDEN S.V. 5600 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley

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Although, from the art direction to a terrific soundtrack, it’s almost as evocative in summing up mid-century America as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Much of the budget went to the technical component of making Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino into synthespians of themselves. Of course, one could grumble that Francis Coppola doubled old and young actors without the benefit of CGI in Godfather II, using old-media methods like sharp casting, juxtaposition and Nino Rota music strong enough to link present and

past. But the effect works in The Irishman, as the actors get to be the people they used to be.

As for facial mobility, DeNiro doesn’t go in for it much here. His Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran is someone who’s been pretty much dead inside ever since his service in WWII. Given what a rock fan Scorsese is, it’s appropriate to quote the lyrics of Pink Floyd’s “Free Four:” “The memory of a man in his old age/is the deeds of a young man in his prime/he shuffles ’round the gloom of his sick room/and talks to himself as he dies … ” In Goodfellas, Scorsese’s camera glided around the backrooms of the Copacabana to capture the glitz on stage. Now it courses through the

halls of an old folks’ home to zero in on Frank—one more old, gray man in a wheelchair trying to tell some unseen listener the story of a wedding he once attended in Detroit.

The anecdote expands into a three-sided tale of the old days, when Frank was a soldier, then a hapless Philly truck driver who moved sideways into delivering pilfered beef carcasses to a mob restaurant. There, he became first the employee and then the crony of a made man, Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci); he got work as a button man who could never be an insider with the Sicilian gents because of his Irish blood. He’s a contractor. “I hear you paint houses,” is the greeting he

gets—a sick joke explained with a gunshot and a splash of blood.

Frank is a Forest Gumpino, a witness to Secret History, a sturdy if wooden trellis that a half-century’s worth of florid, high-level crime trails around. The Irishman is the story of how the country was warped through the destruction of the most powerful labor leader in American history, Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino). It tells of the assassination of JFK, and how a familiar face or two from all this Mafia-CIA conniving came back for the Watergate burglary.

The Irishman’s understory is about the irony of slow decay. A man who had put so many bullets into so many heads still has the problem of any geezer: He falls and he can’t get up, and his daughter (Anna Paquin) won’t call him. Curious that a film with this much bitterness should be so savory, proof of Willie Sutton’s Law: “Crime pays, but it don’t pay much.”

It’s about pre-Reagan America, before the rich got super rich; a well-off crook like Bufalino may be collecting wads of cash all over the Midwest during the trip to Detroit, but all that money just buys a stay at a Howard Johnson’s or a trip to the bowling alley, the cold comforts of an ice cream sundae or a bowl of cereal.

Factually, the The Irishman is wobbly—fascinating and atmospheric as it is. But I hardly noticed the 3-and-a-half hours passing.

If anything, it could have used a little more length to explain the ins and outs of Jimmy Hoffa’s Nashville trial. Pacino, given a wig to make him look squareheaded like the man himself, becomes a driven, multifaceted figure. He’s a warm man— doomed by his own integrity, and like so many old men, drives over the cliff because of his pride. Hoffa’s Trumpian style (calling RFK “Booby Kennedy” from the podium) gives us a mirror of our own age.

How much allure The Irishman will have for a younger audience is a puzzle. But this movie about the ashes of crime is Scorsese at his sharpest and most feeling.

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Directed by Brian Kirk. Starring Chadwick Boseman, J.K. Simmons and Sienna Miller. (R) 99 minutes.

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NOW PLAYING CHARLIE’S ANGELS When it was announced that Kristin Stewart would play one of the karate-chopping, crime-solving Angels in this new action-comedy reboot, fans started calling it Charlie’s Gayngels, in the hopes that the bisexual actress would be playing an LGBT+ characters.

Which is just … super weird. (She doesn’t, by the way.) Why would the character’s identity be based on the actor’s sexuality? Did Zachary Quinto play a gay Spock in Star Trek? Did

Ellen Page play a lesbian Kitty Pryde in X-Men? Did Jake Gyllenhaal play a straight gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain? C’mon, people. However, kudos to the fans for saving gay-porn producers the 13.7 seconds it would have taken them to come up with the title for their inevitable parody.

Directed by Elizabeth Banks. Starring Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska. (PG-13) 118 minutes. (SP) DOCTOR SLEEP Who could forget Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining, with its classic lines like,“That’s odd, the blood usually gets off at the second floor!” Oh wait, maybe that was the Simpsons’ parody of The Shining.

Does it even matter at this point? After that Room 237 documentary, there’s nothing we don’t know about Kubrick’s movie—even a lot of things that aren’t true (I’m looking at you, rocket-shirtmeans-the-moon-landing-was-faked conspiracy!) My point is, maybe we do need a fresh take on this whole Shining business. Stephen King wrote the book this is based on as a sequel to his original 1977 novel; he famously hated Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining, so if you hear that he likes this one, be worried. Directed by Mike Flanagan.

Starring Rebecca Ferguson and Ewan McGregor. (R) 151 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) THE GOOD LIAR Ian McKellen plays a serial con man who attempts to use his charm to scam wealthy widow Helen Mirren out of her money. I have a feeling Ian McKellen could charm me out of pretty much anything. If I got one of those Nigerian Prince emails from Ian McKellan, I’d be like,“Of course I’ll advance you the money to get your family’s fortune out of that big, mean, asset-freezing bank!

Just pay me back whenever you get around to it.” Directed by Bill Condon.

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and Russell Tovey. (R) 109 minutes.

(SP) HARRIET Maybe now that we’re all so woke, the times have finally caught up to the amazing life of Harriet Tubman, a real-life superhero who fought for justice and won major victories in her lifelong battle to end slavery in the American South. An escaped slave herself, she made many perilous trips back below the Mason-Dixon Line to lead other enslaved people to freedom in the North, via the Underground Railroad, armed with little more than raw courage and a flintlock pistol.

Filmmaker Kasi Lemmons explores the woman behind the historical footnote, played with bristly moral conviction

by Cynthia Erivo. The movie sticks pretty close to the extraordinary facts, despite a few melodramatic flourishes, but Harriet's story is so important, it rises in triumph over all obstacles— like the woman herself. (PG-13) 125 minutes. (LJ) THE IRISHMAN Reviewed this issue. (R) 209 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) LAST CHRISTMAS They turned the Wham! songs into one of those holiday rom-coms, but I’m not sure if they knew which George Michael song they were adapting, because this movie’s tagline is “Sometimes you’ve just got to have faith.” I’d rather salute the lyrics of the actual song;

if I remember right, they were “Last Christmas, I gave you my heart/ But the very next day, you gave it away/This year, to save me from tears/I won’t see this stupid movie.”

Something like that. Directed by Paul Feig. Starring Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding and Emma Thompson. (PG13) 102 minutes. (PS) THE LIGHTHOUSE Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson star in this black-and-white psychological horror film from the director of The Witch about two lighthouse keepers who start to lose their sanity as their nightmares come to life. I find the scariest movies are the ones you can personally relate to, so I am sure to find this terrifying, as I suffer from recurring nightmares of being trapped in a lighthouse with the guy from Twilight. Directed by Robert Eggers. (R) 109 minutes. (SP) MIDWAY Roland Emmerich’s new war film is a remake of the 1976 ensemble epic about the attack on Pearl Harbor (and subsequent Battle of Midway) that featured Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Mitchum, and Cliff Robertson. This one stars Woody Harrelson, Aaron Eckhart, Patrick Wilson, Nick Jonas, Mandy Moore … wait, is this the Wayans Brothers version or something? Like, the Scary Movie version? No? OK, just checking.

(PG-13) 138 minutes. (SP) MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN Edward Norton has been wanting to make Motherless Brooklyn into a movie since Jonathan Lethem’s acclaimed crime novel came out in 1999. But he never did. Just kidding!

He actually directs and stars in this adaptation of the book, which is about a private investigator with Tourette’s Syndrome in the 1950s. Co-starring Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin and Willem Dafoe. (R) 144 minutes. (SP) PAIN AND GLORY Pedro Almodovar’s latest is clearly a very personal story, featuring his longtime favorite leading man Antonio Banderas as a director in the autumn of his career. It also features his favorite leading lady, Penelope Cruz, as the director’s … what, mother?

Oh, it’s a flashback thing, okay. There are in fact many flashbacks, as the

director “Salvador Mallo” looks back on his life. The result is winning praise as one of Almodovar’s best. (R) 113 minutes. (SP) PARASITE The director of The Host and Snowpiercer returns with a dark comedy/thriller about a poor family that slowly infiltrates the life of a rich family. At Cannes this year, it became the first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or. Directed by Bong Joon-ho.

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

(SP) PLAYING WITH FIRE I clicked a link to watch the trailer for Playing With Fire, and—I’m totally serious about this—former WWE wrestling champion John Cena appeared on screen dressed like a firefighter and said,“Ready to turn up the heat on some serious comedy? Watch the trailer for Playing With Fire!”What do you think I’m trying to do, John Cena? I already clicked on the damn link! Don’t tell me what to do when I’m already trying to do it, John Cena!

Get your big, manly John Cena head out of the way so I can find out about this cutesy family comedy that you’re so damn excited to be starring in that you won’t even let me watch the trailer! Directed by Andy Fickman.

Starring John Cena, Judy Greer and Keegan-Michael Key, (PG) 96 minutes. (SP) ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP This movie has the soul of a shooter game. It reunites us with the four apocalypse survivors from the original film; now they’re not getting along, even with their fine new HQ at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) is happy to be the king of America, while Wichita (Emma Stone) can’t handle the nerdiness and neediness of Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg). Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) is the bitter former-childactor type incarnate. Nihilism and the movie’s referential mania wear you out. There wasn’t enough energy in the first Zombieland to channel into a sequel, and there was little left undone. Moreover, it hasn’t been 10 marvelous years of travelling that got us to this weedy midwestern wasteland, with its ambulatory corpses spilling pixilated glore. (RvB)

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ursting with the flavor intensity of Spain’s Costa Brava, Barceloneta is—at long last—with us.

Thanks to restaurateurs Brett and Elan Emerson, Santa Cruz can now enjoy authentic tapas straight from the restaurant’s wood-fired grill. The minimalist decor is nothing if not bold. Open and unadorned, save for banquette cushions covered in splashy beach colors and straw shades on the ceiling fixtures, the space is devoted to diners, a long bar along one side and kitchen-counter seating in the back. Given the glass walls and pale blue tiled floors, Barceloneta gets loud very quickly. But you might not care once you sample the dishes turned out by this hyper-active kitchen. Add to

that a skilled staff and good value for the price tag, and you’ve got what we all waited for: a sexy new restaurant anchor atop Pacific Avenue.

On a second visit, the concept became clearer. The casual 95-seat space is perfect for large groups and families. Paella and tapas are epic finger foods made to be shared. Hence lots of intermingling and cozy crosstalk about what’s good. We found ourselves checking out our neighbor’s dishes, comparing notes back and forth. You make friends easily in this place, and the line outside the door when we left spoke volumes. On the other hand, this might not be the right place for an intimate, romantic dinner.

The list of house wines by the glass is worth exploring. We fell in love

with a red Listán Negro Bermejos 2018 ($13) from Tenerife that spoke of volcanic soils. The blush Txakoli Ameztoi 2018 ($14) is a glass full of sunshine and salt, just like the beach for which the restaurant is named. The Tempranillo from Toloño 2016 ($16) was a tannic balance of cherries, cassis and smoke. The sophisticated cocktail list looks inventive. Next time.

Deeply devoted to small plates, each with brilliant and distinctive seasonings, this kitchen rearranged our taste buds, starting with seductive sardine and avocado toasts dusted with smoked salt and topped with bright pink pickled onions ($10). A dish of tender grilled Spanish octopus ($17) perfumed by smoked paprika

arrived with a side of cool, vinegary potatoes. Outstanding. On another plate of Pinchos Morunos ($18), two skewers of grilled lamb sat on a glaze of olive oil festooned with bits of Moorish spice lore—cilantro, cumin, orange—and topped with sprigs of dill.

Slices of marinated romanesco added flavor sparkle. So irresistible were the spices, a cumin-tinged yogurt and the sharp magic of chermoula, that we needed an order of bread to dredge up every last morsel.

On another evening, a tiny paella pan of grilled Calamares ($15) was the big hit. Succulent, plump squid bodies tossed with tiny, heat-bearing green peppers were arranged on a substantial cushion of fideos pasta drenched in squid ink. The balanced flavors of the sea went supernova thanks to a fine dice of chorizo, garlic and lemony aioli. A destination dish that had everything going on, especially paired with the remarkable, angular Listán Negro from Tenerife.

They offer three paellas in two sizes: seafood, Valenciana with chicken and beans, and vegetable. We went for the seafood ($40 for two), a beautiful presentation filled with colorful saffron, cumin and tomato sauce with mussels, clams, calamari, and shrimps. It arrived with an addictive tapas of roasted cauliflower florets tossed with dates and green olives ($10). The absence of chorizo in the seafood paella made the dish accessible to non-meat eaters but pulled the expected flavor punch. A festival for the eyes, it would have prospered by a freer hand with the seasonings, and the delicious rice lacked socarrat toastiness on the bottom.

The light, crisp sugar-dusted churros ($5), arriving with a cup of thick warm chocolate for dipping, were decadent perfection. Another night, we fell in love with vanilla soft-serve drizzled with olive oil and sea salt ($6). I still can’t believe how brilliant it looked and tasted. The ice cream was the exact finish a dinner of complex spices deserved. An impressive initial public offering— compliments to the kitchen.

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Santa Cruz Mountains foothills. PHOTO: BLACK RIDGE VINEYARDS

Black Ridge A luxe 2015 Chardonnay BY JOSIE COWDEN

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We do catering for all events

Daily Lunch Buffet Time 11:30am to 3:00pm

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etting together with my Wild Wine Women group is always a fun experience. We especially enjoy going to a winery we haven’t visited before.

That was certainly the case for most of our group when we entered the impressive portals of Black Ridge Vineyards through its massive gate. What a spread! Gorgeous grounds greet the visitor, and a beautiful, well-decorated tasting room invites one to linger and enjoy the variety. This prime piece of real estate is well worth a visit—and you get to taste some good wines, too.

I sampled a few of Black Ridge’s wines but particularly gravitated toward their 2015 estate-grown Chardonnay ($40). Rich and floral, it captures the essence of a well-made Chardonnay with its dense citrus fruit flavors and enticing aromas of apple, pear, banana, and pineapple. Many of us bought wine to share over lunch at a huge table in the tasting room, and the Chardonnay was voted the best.

“Winemaker Bill Brosseau

convinced us to graft over a less popular varietal in order to offer you more of our estate Chardonnay,” say the folks at Black Ridge, who also sing the praises of their vineyard foreman, Armando Perez-Martinez.

Brosseau has crafted the grapes into a lustrous, food-friendly wine worthy of any dinner table.

Black Ridge Vineyards, 18570 Black Ridge Rd., Los Gatos. 408-399-6396, blackridgevineyards.com.

PERSEPHONE HOSTS SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAIN VINEYARD The delightful Persephone Restaurant in Aptos will be pouring the wonderful wines of Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard for a winemaker’s dinner. The five-course dinner includes a main course of seared lamb loin with pomegranatewalnut sauce. Cost is $100 per person, including tax and gratuity.

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H RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES GRATITUDE—THE ROYAL WAY

This Wednesday (Nov. 20), Mercury slowly moves forward in its retrograde shadow. Friday, the sun exits Scorpio (deep waters) and enters Sagittarius (enduring fire). Sunday is a very auspicious (lucky, expansive, loving, wise) day, with Venus joining Jupiter. Tuesday is the Sagittarius new moon festival. Wednesday, Neptune turns direct, and next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day, our Day of Gratitude.

The theme of the season, from now through Jan. 6 (and especially at Thanksgiving), is gratitude, referred to in the wisdom teachings as the “Kingly or Royal Way.” It is a way of life everyone can adopt. The Royal Way is a state of constant and ceaseless gratitude

and appreciation.

“Gratitude” comes from Latin gratus, meaning “pleasing, thankful,” and is related to grace. It salvages humanity, brings forth deep joy, lifts others up, and creates a steadfast orientation toward the Light of Life itself.

Gratitude is an amulet and a talisman, creating merit and virtue leading to forgiveness.

Gratitude liberates us from karma and sets us free. The autumn season, with its many festivals of Light, invites us to embark on a journey of gratitude together. When disciples and the New Group of World Servers offer gratitude, there is a radiance of solace, kindness and love that flows into the sorrow and suffering of the world.

ARIES Mar21–Apr20

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22

It’s most important to find time for reflection and contemplation, because there’s such a rush of activity, ideas and ideals flowing here, there, everywhere this season.

There’s a desire to travel, discovering new realities important to your well being. Without pause, they will be missed. It’s also good to review what is of value while observing what’s occurring in the world. How are you aiding in building the new society, and what do you envision for the future?

It’s good to be in touch with siblings, communicating with them, sharing news, family gossip, hopes, wishes, dreams, plans, and ideals. Do all things with family that makes everyone feel empowered. Do not allow anything (ideas, sorrows, pain, unforgiveness, misunderstandings, etc.) from the past obscure your connections. Allow nothing to be misconstrued. Communicate with the intention to make contact, which releases love. Your family loves you.

TAURUS Apr21–May21

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21

You continue to tend to the care and well-being of others. Sometimes you remember to care for yourself.

You must remember that you are a valuable resource.

If you are not tended to well enough, you no longer can be a resource for others. Ideas and visions for the new era continue to appear. Their manifestation into form has been elusive. There is an esoteric equation for manifestation. We see the need, we call in the resources, we imagine the outflow of abundant resources. It’s an Aquarian triangle (and art) with Uranus at the center.

The entire world’s in a state of reorientation, a condition you know well, for you experience reorientation continually. The entire world is in a Scorpio state of transformation, testing, of dying and regenerating, so that the new era can come forth. Your importance in this great shift is the fact that your research abilities become the core information source for the new culture and civilization. What are your present tasks? What are you using your resources for? Are you happy?

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GEMINI May 22–June 20

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20

It’s most important to reflect upon what your relationships are based upon. Include all relationships, but begin with your most intimate one(s). Consider what’s taken for granted, what’s understood and not understood, and what allows you to be most truthful. Is there talk about moving, relocating and rethinking resources? A new path comes forth, and a new message within the relationship. Listen with patience, perseverance and serenity.

There’s an opportunity now, not wanting to waste a moment of life’s energy or time, to redefine yourself, your self-identity and purpose. You’re able to change your mind about who you (think you) are and how you see yourself.

Be aware that your presence is very impactful to many others around you. Issues and decisions you thought were concluded reappear for re-evaluation and reassessment.

New rhythms, tempos and patterns are appearing. Just let the music play. It’s magic.

CANCER Jun21–Jul20

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20

Your idea of a schedule quickly dissipates, and you find yourself with no routines, plans or the ability to take control of daily events. Anything you’ve thought of doing simply melts into states of chaos, which is seeking the next level of harmony. However, the harmony’s not manifesting for a while. The best thing to do is to read, study and prepare nurturing foods for others. They will receive it as manna (goodness) from the heavens. You are that.

You may feel you’re waiting in the wings for new realities to appear. It’s like planning a garden—arugula, kales, onions, wintergreens, thyme, oregano, parsley–waiting for spring and the first green shoots to appear. Everything on inner levels is being restructured. You feel this, but it hasn’t manifested in your outer world. Everything is in right time.

Be as reclusive as needed to allow the roots and flowers and blooms of a new reality to anchor, grow, become strong, later to reshape your life with a new sort of beauty.

LE0 Jul21–Aug22 The past year has been rather serious for many, especially you—restructuring and disciplining us in confronting the past, and bringing forth new ways of thinking. This new moon with its Sagittarius fire calls you to a new study, possible journeys to recreation, children, pleasure, creativity, games, fun, enjoyment and being with others who think as you think. Is there a wound that has come into your awareness, a sadness, a loss? Do you need to communicate about it so the veils of sorrow can drop away?

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 In the weeks and months to come, you discover your true friends, what groups support your endeavors, and whom you can turn to for nurturance, needs and simple friendship.

So many of humanity are misinformed. Become a researcher (not a reactor) so you can provide humanity with true information. Then you become part of the education of humanity. Assess your life’s journey. When traveling, follow the rules of the road for safety and direction.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22

PISCES Feb19–Mar20

Family and parents, the foundations of your life, your childhood, beliefs learned while young and carried into the present time will be on your mind for the purpose of appraising, cleansing, clearing, and eliminating all that is no longer useful. Be aware that moodiness, brooding, and perhaps intense feelings will arise. Contemplate and evaluate these with intelligence, patience and careful observation.

There’s a brilliance in them, like a jewel to be polished.

There have been thoughts on writing, perhaps a small book or two, perhaps a publishing company of the new art, charts, games. It’s good to think of new endeavors, considering them without making final decisions. Acknowledgements and recognitions come forth unexpectedly. Careful of miscommunication to and with the public. Tend to previous tasks, and continue to work with focused consistency. New tasks will appear. The Hierarchy looks on.

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VETERAN’S ISSUES

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001846 The following Individual is doing business as WASABI SUSHI. 3555 CLARES ST. STE M, CAPITOLA, CA 95010. County of Santa Cruz. HYUN WOO KIM. 2635 WALNUT CT., SOQUEL, CA 95073.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: HYUN WOO KIM. 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 22, 2019. Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 13, & 20.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001850 The following Individual is doing business as SURFING FOR CHANGE. 570 36TH AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. KYLE THIERMANN. 570 36TH AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF HEATHER TATE CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV03027. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner HEATHER TATE has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: HEATHER JO TATE to: HEATHER JO BELL. 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 November 22, 2019 at 8:30 am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: October 8, 2019. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 13 & 20.

REFILING OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT WITH CHANGE FILE NO. 2019-0001715.

The following Individual is doing business as LEAH'S MAGICAL PIECES. 805 PACIFIC AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. LEAH M. PRESTON. 224 LAUREL ST. A202, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: LEAH M. PRESTON. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. Original FBN number: 2019-0001274. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on October 3, 2019. Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 13, & 20.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF IAN TAPLEY PILLSBURY CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV03229. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner IAN TAPLEY PILLSBURY has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: IAN TAPLEY PILLSBURY to: IAN TAPLEY BELL. 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 December 9, 2019 at 8:30 am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060.

A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: October 25, 2019. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Oct.30, Nov. 6, 13, & 20.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF SAUL QUITERRO AND SELENA QUIROZ CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV03233. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner SAUL QUITERRO AND SELENA QUIROZ has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: ADELINA JASMIN QUIROZ to: ADELINA JASMIN QUIROZ QUITERRIO. 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 December 9, 2019 at 8:30 am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060.

A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: October 25, 2019. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Nov. 6, 13, 20 & 27.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001875 The following Individual is doing business as THE COVE. 364 FAIRMOUNT AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. HOLLIS JAMES O'BRIEN. 364 FAIRMOUNT AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: HOLLIS JAMES O'BRIEN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on October 28, 2019. Nov. 6, 13, 20, & 27.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001854 The following Corporation is doing business as LAW OFFICES OF WILLIAM R. LARD. 23076 SUMMIT RD., LOS GATOS, CA 95033. County of Santa

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001888 The following Individual is doing business as STUDIO MCKEE. 355 MCKEE RD., FELTON, CA 95018. County of Santa Cruz. AMY CARNEY. 355 MCKEE RD., FELTON, CA 95018. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: AMY CARNEY. 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 30, 2019. Nov. 6, 13, 20, & 27.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001897. The following General Partnership is doing business as FASHION NAIL SPA. 1855 41ST AVE. #A3, CAPITOLA, CA 95010. County of Santa Cruz. TAN VAN NGUYEN. 10312 CLAUDIA DR., SAN JOSE, CA 95127, & HOANG CONG TRUONG. 4163 LOGANBERRY DR., SAN JOSE, CA 95121. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: TAN VAN NGUYEN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 1/1/2018. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on October 31, 2019. Nov. 6, 13, 20, & 27.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001940 The following Married Couple is doing business as IMPACT PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP. 1756 GARZA LN., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. DAVID CHRIS ALLEN & JAMIE JETRINA ALLEN. 1756 GARZA LN., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by a Married Couple signed: DAVID CHRIS ALLEN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/29/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on November 6, 2019. Nov. 13, 20, 27, & Dec. 4.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001943 The following Individual is doing business as KATIE CO. DESIGN & STILLS. 741 CLUBHOUSE DR., APTOS, CA 95003. County of Santa Cruz. KATHERINE CONRAD COMARTIN. 741 CLUBHOUSE DR., APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: KATHERINE CONRAD COMARTIN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 11/5/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on November 7, 2019. Nov. 13, 20, 27, & Dec. 4.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001939 The following Individual is doing business as ETHOS REAL ESTATE. 1414 SOQUEL AVE. #100, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz.

JUSTIN MCNABB. 4960 THURBER LANE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95065. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JUSTIN MCNABB. 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 6, 2019. Nov, 13, 20, 27, & Dec. 4.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001880 The following Corporation is doing business as AUTO EXPRESS TIRE PROS. 2842 SOQUEL AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz.

SANTA CRUZ AUTO EXPRESS, INC. 2842 SOQUEL AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. Al# 4325943. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: PAUL SALAZAR. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on October 29, 2019. Nov. 20, 27, Dec 4, & 11.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001944 The following Individual is doing business as ZK BODYWORK. 101 VAN NESS AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. ZOE KOSOVIC. 101 VAN NESS AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ZOE KOSOVIC. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 6/1/2018. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on November 7, 2019. November 20, 27, Dec. 4, & 11.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001702 The following Individual is doing business as HOGWARTS KITCHENS. 101 CENTER ST. #1, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. KAREN MIREILLE JUDKINS. 300 TOLAK RD., APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: KAREN MIREILLE JUDKINS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on September 30, 2019. November 20, 27, Dec. 4, & 11.

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

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MARTIN ANTHONY LUCICH. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on November 7, 2019. November 20, 27, Dec. 4, & 11.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001895 The following Individual is doing business as SANTA CRUZ GOLF. 2235 MATTISON LN., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. AARON PETERSON. 2235 MATTISON LN., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: AARON PETERSON. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 10/31/2019 This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on October 31, 2019. November 20, 27, Dec. 4, & 11.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001951 The following Individual is doing business as LEARNING LIGHTHOUSE. 9057 SOQUEL DR., APTOS, CA 95003. County of Santa Cruz. MARLYNN LLAMAS. 408 VISTA DEL MAR DR., APTOS, CA 95003.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MARLYNN LLAMAS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on November 12, 2019. November 20, 27, Dec. 4, & 11.

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

Today’s question? In a market where everything sells quickly and for more money... how does the unthinkable happen? As in: Why are there still places that don’t sell quickly?

Ones that languish on the market for a long time before reducing their price?

I’m thinking about a Westside listing that came on recently. The kind of place that checked all the boxes: four bedrooms, single level, large yard. Plenty of buyers were lined up for the first open house, pre-approval letters clutched in their hands. Warm and fuzzy “seller letters” already written in their heads. This one was supposed to fly off the market!

But then? Nothing happened. Lots of showings. Tons of calls. Hundreds of hits online.

But no offers. By the second week, the dynamic shifted. By the third it was completely different. Traffic dwindled to a motley collection of curiosity-seekers, looky-loos and low-ballers starting to smell blood in the water. Finally, a month later, the price came down $100,000 and it sold.

So what happened? Why didn’t it sell in a market where everything sells? What dark and mysterious forces conspired to create a lessthan-hoped-for outcome for the unfortunate seller? More importantly, how can someone else avoid the same situation?

A wise Realtor once said the story of every listing could be written as a Greek play. Each, a real life drama embodying elements of irony, pathos, tragedy and humor. The fickle gods of fate testing the frailties of the human condition. Wait a minute...I said that. And it is still true!

Hubris is the tragic flaw responsible for the downfall of most listings that don’t sell. Too much ego and too much pride make some sellers think it’s possible to succeed without really trying. Doesn’t matter what the price is, they figure. Or how a house is prepared for sale.

Why fix it up or stage it? All those buyers are just lining up out there.

But everything sells until it doesn’t, and that’s when it really costs you. Despite how it looks, those buyers aren’t really tripping over themselves to pay more for your house. They always want to pay less. And if you give them the chance, that’s what they’re going to do.

Think of it this way: everything sells, but not everything sells for the most money possible.

That’s why you should hire a good agent and resolve to take their advice. If your house doesn’t sell in this market, you can always blame it on the gods or bad timing or a bad agent. But in the end...it’s your own fault.

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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.

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320 Rio Del Mar Blvd, Aptos Turn-key, 5-star rated beach house & permitted vacation rental. EZ walk to beach & restaurants in exclusive Rio Del Mar/Cement ship area. New glass garage door, hardwood floors, open floor plan, newer appliances.

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146 Hainline Rd, Aptos Classic Beach Living! Single level duplex only a short walk to the sand & miles of beach. Front unit is 2BR/1BA with a cottage-like front yard patio & white picket fence. The cozy side unit is 1BR/1BA. Both units have back patios. Perfect opportunity to live in one unit & rent out the other. $897,000

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.

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7117 Somerset Ct, Aptos Stunning 4BR/2.5BA, 1,852sf home close to Cabrillo College.

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151 Camino Pacifico, Aptos Beautiful contemporary 3BR/2.5BA, 1,584 sq ft home tucked away in coveted Seascape neighborhood.

Location can’t be beat! Vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors, fireplace in living area. Dining room slider opens to wood deck & lush landscaping. Enjoy the Beach Lifestyle! $869,500 704 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

SOQUEL 3000 Aguazul Dr, Soquel Detached 3BR/2.5BA, 1,916sf home for the price of a townhouse. Dual pane windows, Cat 6 Ethernet, skylights, Minka ceiling fans, vaulted ceilings, fireplace in large, bright living room. 8-ft privacy fencing. 8 minute walk to the heart of Soquel Village. $769,500 ! ed ist tL s Ju

999 Old San Jose Rd #23, Soquel YES! There IS a Beautiful 2BR/ w 2BA manufactured home under e N $350k! Spacious kitchen, Granite counters, high ceilings, wood floors, dual pane windows, new carpet, fresh paint, LOW space rent & a pet is welcome!

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Top rated Scotts Valley schools. $1,875,000 112 Dimond St, Santa Cruz Beautiful, contemporary, West Side 4BR/2BA, 1,875sf home on a quiet street. Spacious floor plan, hardwood floors, high ceilings, gas fireplace in living room. Upgraded kitchen, Viking stove, granite counters.

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SCOTTS VALLEY 118 Alto Sol Ct, Scotts Valley Lovely, sunny 4BR/3BA, 2,396sf home on secluded, spacious cul-de-sac lot. Located in the Whispering Pines neighborhood.

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2038 Eureka Canyon Rd, Corralitos Seller says sell now! 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2,719 per assessor records on 2.5+ majestic acres! Amazing outdoor space - enjoy the sun & stars - plenty of room for extended family. Come visit but be warned you will love this one!

X-Street: Upper Highlands/Eureka Canyon. $799,000 270 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 with a workbench & storage. $399,000

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SOUTH SANTA CRUZ COUNTY 758 Haines Ranch Rd, Watsonville Relax and Enjoy this 3BR/2BA, 2,025 sq ft home on 17+ acres. Updated kitchen with granite counters & stainless appliances. Spacious bedrooms, vaulted ceilings. 3-car garage w/separate 2,560sf workshop. Space for horses, gardening, hobbies & all of your toys! $1,699,999 ! ed ist tL s Ju

104 Willet Cl, Pajaro Dunes Unique 3BR/3BA, 2,049 sq ft beach house on the coveted front row perched on the dunes.

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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 11/26/19

GROCERY

BUTCHER SHOP

ALL NATURAL USDA Choice beef & lamb, Local, Organic, Natural, Specialty, Gourmet only corn-fed Midwest pork, Rocky free-range Compare & Save chickens, Mary’s air-chilled chickens, ■ MARTINELLI’S SPARKLING CIDER 25.4OZ/ 2.99 wild-caught seafood, Boar’s Head products.

WINE & FOOD PAIRING Now taking Orders at the Meat Counter for your Holiday Feasts.

Please Call Today 423-1696!

■ CLOVER SOUR CREAM 16OZ/ 2.19

■ TRI TIPS, USDA Choice/ 7.98B LB ■ FLANK STEAKS, USDA Choice/ 7.98 LB ■ VEAL RIB CHOPS Pasture Fed/ 12.98 LB

■ CLOVER ORGANIC HALF & HALF, QT/ 3.49 ■ CLOVER ORGANIC WHIPPING CREAM PINT/ 3.89

PORK

■ PORK LOIN ROAST, Boneless/ 3.98 LB ■ PORK SHOULDER ROAST, Boneless/ 3.29

SAUSAGE

■ MILD GARLIC & ROMANO CHEESE/ 5.98 LB ■ GARLIC & BASIL/ 5.98 LB ■ BEER BRATWURST/ 5.98 LB ■ VINO & FORMAGGIO/ 5.98 LB ■ ROASTED BELL PEPPER & CARAMELIZED ONION/ 5.98 LB

FISH

■ BAY SHRIMP MEAT Fully Cooked/ 14.98 LB ■ COOKED PRAWNS LARGE, Peeled & Deveined/ 13.98 LB ■ PACIFIC RED SNAPPER FILLETS/ 6.39 LB

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

2016 DOMAINE EDEN PINOT NOIR REG 35.99 92W&S HOLIDAY SPECIAL 29.99!!

2018 ROMBAUER CHARDONNAY REG 37.99 HOLIDAY SPECIAL 31.99!!

Local Bakeries “Fresh Daily” ■ BECKMANN’S MULTI GRAIN/ 3.89 ■ WHOLE GRAIN OAT BRAN LOAF/ 4.19 ■ KELLY’S SOUR BAGUETTE, 16OZ/ 2.69 ■ SUMANO’S SLICED CIABATTA LOAF/ 4.49 ■ SUMANO’S CIABATTA STEAK ROLLS, 4PK/ 3.99

Delicatessen ■ PILLSBURY PIE CRUST “Time to Make Pies”/ 5.99 ■ TILLAMOOK BABY LOAVES COLBY AND SHARP/ 14.69 ■ NIMAN RANCH BACON All Flavors/ 8.59

PRODUCE

2018 STORRS CHRISTIE CHARDONNAY REG 29.99 HOLIDAY SPECIAL 24.99!!

■ CLOVER BUTTER QUARTERS, 16OZ/ 4.49

■ SATSUMA MANDARINS, Sweet and Easy to Peel/ 1.79 LB ■ CRANBERRIES Premium Quality/ 1.99 EA ■ AVOCADOS Table Ripe Ready/ 1.49 EA ■ RED YAMS & SWEET POTATOES Top Quality/ 1.49 LB ■ YELLOW ONIONS Large Size, Great Flavor/ .49 LB ■ PEARS Bartlett, Bosc, D’Anjou and Comice/ 1.49 LB ■ RUSSET POTATOES Great for Mashed Potatoes/ .79 LB ■ GREEN BEANS Fresh and Tender/ 1.99 LB ■ BROCCOLI CROWNS Fresh from the Field/ 1.79 LB ■ CLUSTER TOMATOES Ripe on the Vine/ 2.29 LB

■ BEELER’S HAM STEAKS All Natural/ 3.29 ■ ORGANIC VALLEY CREAM CHEESE TUBS, 8OZ/ 3.99

Cheese - Best Selection in Santa Cruz ■ WISCONSIN SHARP CHEDDAR “rBST-FREE” Loaf Cuts/ 5.29 LB

Average Cuts/ 5.49 LB

■ DOMESTIC SWISS Great Melted/ 4.89 LB ■ COLBY JACK Marbled/ 3.19 LB ■ STELLA PARMESAN Whole Wheel Cuts/ 7.39 LB

Holiday Needs ■ GHIRARDELLI BAKING CHIPS, 3 Kinds/ 3.99 ■ LIBBY’S PUMPKIN 29OZ/ 3.49 ■ BECKMANN’S STUFFING 16OZ/ 5.99 ■ OCEAN SPRAY CRANBERRIES Whole & Jellied 14OZ/ 1.99 ■ PACIFIC BROTH CHICKEN/ 3.89

WINE & SPIRITS Best Buys, Local, Regional, International

Beer ■ LAGUNITAS BREWING CO. Lager, 12Pk Cans, 12oz/ 9.99 ■ 21st AMENDMENT Watermelon Wheat, 12Pk Cans, 12oz/ 9.99 ■ SIERRA NEVADA Asst 6Pks, 12 oz/ 8.99 +CRV ■ STICKMEN BREWING CO. “IPA” or “The Bee’s Knees” 6Pk Cans, 12oz/ 7.99 ■ MAD RIVER BREWING “Steelhead XP” 6Pk, 12oz/ 8.99 +CRV

Incredible Values - Spirits ■ DEATH’S DOOR GIN (Reg 31.99)/ 14.99 ■ DAMRAK GIN (Reg 21.99)/ 14.99 ■ BELVEDERE VODKA/ 22.99 ■ CHOPIN VODKA/ 22.99 ■ BASIL HAYDEN WHISKEY/ 29.99

Thanksgiving Specials - Absolute Steals!

■ 2018 ROMBAUER CHARDONNAY (Reg 37.99)/ 31.99 ■ 2016 DOMAINE EDEN PINOT NOIR (92W&S, Reg 35.99)/ 29.99 ■ 2014 POGGIO ANTICO Madre Toscana (92JS, Reg 59.99)/ 29.99 ■ GH MUMM Cordon Rouge (Reg 44.99)/ 29.99 ■ 2018 STORRS CHRISTIE CHARDONNAY (Reg 29.99)/ 24.99

Best Buy Pinot Noirs ■ 2016 SANTA RITA Pinot Noir, Secret Reserve (93JS, Reg 16.99)/ 9.99 ■ 2013 SILVERTIP Pinot Noir Sandstone (Reg 26.99)/ 13.99 ■ 2015 TIN BARN Rocci Vineyard (Reg 33.99)/ 16.99 ■ 2015 DECELLE-VILLA Bourgogne (Reg 21.99)/ 11.99 ■ 2017 BERINGER Founders Estate (91WE)/ 9.99

Connoisseur’s Corner Santa Cruz Mountain Pinot Noir ■ 2017 SOQUEL VINEYARDS Saveria (94WE)/ 36.99 ■ 2016 ALFARO Lester (94WA)/ 39.99 ■ 2017 SANTE ARCANGELI Split Rail (94WE)/ 47.99 ■ 2015 BEAUREGARD Coast Grade (94WA)/ 59.99 ■ 2015 MOUNT EDEN Estate (96WE)/ 64.99

Erin Asamoto, 15-Year Customer, Santa Cruz

SHOP PER’S SPOTLIG HTS

Occupation: Instructional curriculum coach, San Jose Unified Hobbies: Family life, surfing, jujitsu, bike riding, baking

Robert Asamoto, 15-Year Customer, Santa Cruz

Occupation: Fireman, Salinas Hobbies: Family life, surfing, jujitsu, bike riding, cooking What first brought you to Shopper’s? ERIN:“We had moved here from San Diego and we were looking for a market that had actual butchers.

Shopper’s was recommended to us and we immediately loved it! We shop here three to five days a week.” ROBERT:“We like the store because it’s clean, and they have great produce and the best butcher shop, which includes fresh fish.And when you check out, the cashiers are so friendly, and you never wait in long lines.” ERIN:“We prefer shopping at a family-owned store. Shopper’s brings community together. It’s such an integral part of peoples’ lives.”

How does ‘locally-owned’ make a difference?

ROBERT:“They know what’s going on, day-in and dayout. Shopper’s is well organized and top-of-the-line.”

ERIN:“I know that Shopper’s gives back to the community.And there’s not a time that I go in and don’t see one of my former Soquel High students working there.” ROBERT:“They seem interested in making it the best store that it can be. Shopper’s has fabulous steaks and other fine cuts, and I enjoy barbecuing at lot.They employ experts who help pair the best wines with our meals.” ERIN:“I’m a Cab. person, and I appreciate the choices and price ranges.”

Are you shopping here for Thanksgiving?

ROBERT:“Yes. I plan on cooking a prime rib by sous vide, along with sides of cauliflower, mashed potatoes and roasted Brussels sprouts.” ERIN:“I’m making a keto cheese cake, with an almond flour crust and monk fruit instead of sugar.” ROBERT:“Shopper’s makes the typical stressful holiday shopping a fun experience.The employees always seem happy and that makes a big difference.” ERIN:“They’ll have plenty of checkers so the lines will move quickly. I’m sure butcher Rand will still be smiling while giving treats to our girls, Rylee and Emma.”

“Shopper’s Corner brings community together. It’s such an integral part of peoples’ lives.”

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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