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EDITOR’S NOTE While working on this week’s issue, I noticed a couple of interesting parallels between my cover story on Malcolm Gladwell and Wallace Baine’s feature on Tatiana Schlossberg. Both Gladwell and Schlossberg have new books out on topics that are unsettling, to say the least—in Talking With Strangers: What We Should Know About People We Don’t Know, Gladwell examines how our inability to judge other people can lead to disaster, while in Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have, Schlossberg

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Re: “Paint Staking” (GT, 9/11): The art world has always been obsessed with tradition and prestige. What I find ironic is not that some MAH board members want more works of “real art,” but that they are blindly overlooking the cultural treasure the MAH as an institution has become over the last 8 years. Nina Simon literally wrote the book on revolutionizing museum culture to be participatory, inclusive, and full of community. The live, pulsating, reinvented MAH is the artwork, and it’s a masterpiece.

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LOOK AT THE RESULTS The trouble with your article “Claims of Bullying and Misbehavior in Santa Cruz’s City Hall” (GT, 8/28) is its focus on unproven and difficult-to-measure allegations of misconduct.

Verbal interactions in which one person alleges misconduct can be used as a way to diminish one’s political opponent—used as a cover for political differences. It serves as a distraction from focusing on the real issues. I fear this is what might be the case in the campaign against Glover and Krohn.

Your article seems designed to help the efforts of those who want to recall Glover and Krohn. The four-month investigation did not substantiate 11 of the accusations, including any intimations of gender bias. It did conclude that Councilmember Krohn made an audible sarcastic laugh that offended a staff person

looks at how we are worsening climate change in all kinds of ways we haven’t even considered.

But underneath the more anxiety-inducing elements of these works, there’s a strong humanistic undercurrent. Both books are calls to actions, yes, but both authors also make a point to not try to shame the very people who care enough about these topics to be reading their books. There are things we can do, and important changes we can make, they say, but we also have to make our approach about understanding and reason, not blame and anger.

Those messages seem all too rare— and more important than ever—in these difficult times.

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and that Councilmember Glover did have an uncomfortable interchange with another councilmember over the scheduling of a room.

The investigator’s most potent finding led to his recommendation that “Councilmembers should avoid making public accusations of misconduct or bad faith against one another and against city staff without first privately and internally addressing these concerns and attempting conflict resolution and rectification when possible.” This advice was directed squarely at the mayor, whose public accusations in February touched off the investigation that cost the City $18,000 and set a divisive tone for future council relations.

At the same time, it is heartening to look at the council accomplishments since the new council formed in January: Our new council has continued to make steady progress on a range of issues, large and small, with most actions requiring split votes.

Environment: endorsed the Green New Deal. This resolution got a 7-0 vote, but no teeth.

Transportation: Bus passes and Jump Bike credit will be provided for all downtown workers. Also, new city vehicles will be electric.

Homelessness: Secured funding for a future 24/7 homeless facility and day center. Also, City Hall bathrooms are to be reopened to the public during business hours.

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After a year-long search, the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History has appointed one of its own as its next executive director.

Felicia Van Stolk, who grew up locally, graduated from UCLA with a major in Marine Biology and a minor in Conservation Ecology. As the museum’s first woman of color to serve as education director, Van Stolk expanded programs and partnerships.

Her first event as executive director will be “California on Fire” at the Rio Theatre on Thursday, Sept. 19 (see page 11).

From Año Nuevo State Beach to Rio Del Mar, Save Our Shores volunteer crews will be picking up trash this weekend as part of the 2019 Coastal Cleanup Day on Saturday, Sept.

21. In the San Lorenzo Valley from 9 a.m. to noon, the Tobacco Education Coalition will be at Felton Covered Bridge Park, with a focus on collecting cigarette butts. During last year’s cleanup, 2,412,151 butts were collected worldwide, making them the most littered item in the world. For more information on local cleanups, visit saveourshores.org.

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What makes you trust someone?

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Well, basically I trust everyone unless they prove that they're not trustworthy.

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I guess their actions, and what they continue to show you every time they tell you they’re going to do something.

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Their eyes, eye contact. When somebody is looking directly at you when conversing. A warmth.

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When you know you trust someone, they come to your mind every time you need some help.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of September 18 ARIES Mar21–Apr19 We’re in the equinoctial season. During this pregnant pause, the sun seems to hover directly over the equator; the lengths of night and day are equal. For all of us, but especially for you, it’s a favorable phase to conjure and cultivate more sweet symmetry, calming balance and healing harmony. In that spirit, I encourage you to temporarily suspend any rough, tough approaches you might have in regard to those themes. Resist the temptation to slam two opposites together simply to see what happens. Avoid engaging in the pseudo-fun of purging by day and bingeing by night. And don’t you dare get swept up in hating what you love or loving what you hate.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 “I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.” So said singer and activist Nina Simone. But it’s doubtful there ever came a time when she reached the perfect embodiment of that idyllic state. How can any of us empty out our anxiety so completely as to be utterly emancipated?

It’s not possible. That’s the bad news, Taurus. The good news is that in the coming weeks, you will have the potential to be as unafraid as you have ever been. For best results, try to ensure that love is your primary motivation in everything you do and say and think.

GEMINI May21–June20 Some things don’t change much. The beautiful marine animal species known as the pearly nautilus, which lives in the South Pacific, is mostly the same as it was 150 million years ago. Then there’s Fuggerei, a walled enclave within the German city of Augsburg. The rent is cheap, about $1 per year, and that fee hasn’t increased in almost 500 years. While I am in awe of these bastions of stability, and wish we had more such symbolic anchors, I advise you to head in a different direction. During the coming weeks, you’ll be wise to be a maestro of mutability, a connoisseur of transformation, an adept of novelty.

CANCER Jun21–Jul22 Granny Smith apples are widely available. But before 1868, the tart, crispy, juicy fruit never existed on planet Earth.

Around that time, an Australian mother of eight named Maria Ann Smith threw the cores of French crab apples out her window while she was cooking. The seeds were fertilized by the pollen from a different, unknown variety of apple, and a new type was born: Granny Smith. I foresee the possibility of a metaphorically comparable event in your future—a lucky accident that enables you to weave together two interesting threads into a fascinating third thread.

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“Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way,” writes storyteller Chuck Palahniuk, who has completed several novelistic masterpieces.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you Leos have assembled much of the dirt and ash necessary to create your next masterpiece, and are now ready to move on to the next phase. And what is that phase?

Identifying the help and support you’ll need for the rest of the process.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 In 1959, scandal erupted among Americans who loved to eat peanut butter. Studies revealed that manufacturers had added so much hydrogenated vegetable oil and glycerin to their product that only 75% of it could truly be called peanut butter. So began a long legal process to restore high standards. Finally there was a new law specifying that no company could sell a product called “peanut butter” unless it contained at least 90% peanuts. I hope this fight for purity inspires you to conduct a metaphorically comparable campaign. It’s time to ensure that all the important resources and influences in your life are at peak intensity and efficiency. Say no to dilution and adulteration.

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22 In 1936, the city of Cleveland, Ohio, staged the Great Lakes Exposition, a 135-acre fair with thrill rides, art

galleries, gardens, and sideshows. One of its fun features was The Golden Book of Cleveland, a 2.5-ton, 6,000page text the size of a mattress. After the expo closed down, the “biggest book in the world” went missing. If it still exists today, no one knows where it is. I’m going to speculate that there’s a metaphorical version of The Golden Book of Cleveland in your life. You, too, have lost track of a major Something that would seem hard to misplace. Here’s the good news: If you intensify your search now, I bet you’ll find it before the end of 2019.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 In 1990, the New Zealand government appointed educator, magician and comedian Ian Brackenbury Channell to be the official Wizard of New Zealand. His jobs include protecting the government, blessing new enterprises, casting out evil spirits, upsetting fanatics and cheering people up. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to find your personal equivalents of an inspirational force like that. There’s really no need to scrimp. According to my reading of the cosmic energies, you have license to be extravagant in getting what you need to thrive.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 “Do silly things,” advised playwright Anton Chekhov.

“Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.” I think that’s a perspective worth adopting now and then. Most of us go through phases when we take things too seriously and too personally and too literally. Bouts of fun absurdity can be healing agents for that affliction. But now is not one of those times for you, in my opinion. Just the reverse is true, in fact. I encourage you to cultivate majestic moods and seek out awe-inspiring experiences and induce sublime perspectives. Your serious and noble quest for a meaningful life can be especially rewarding in the coming weeks.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 Before comedian Jack Benny died in 1974, he arranged to have a florist deliver a single red rose to his wife every day for the rest of her life. She lived another nine years, and received more than 3,000 of these gifts. Even though you’ll be around on this Earth for a long time, I think the coming weeks would be an excellent time to establish a comparable custom: a commitment to providing regular blessings to a person or persons for whom you care deeply. This bold decision would be in alignment with astrological omens, which suggest that you can generate substantial benefits for yourself by being creative with your generosity.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 Actress and author Ruby Dee formulated an unusual prayer. “God,” she wrote, “Make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.” As you might imagine, she was a brave activist who risked her reputation and career working for the Civil Rights Movement and other idealistic causes. I think her exceptional request to a Higher Power makes good sense for you right now.

You’re in a phase when you can generate practical blessings by doing the very things that intimidate you or make you nervous. And maybe the best way to motivate and mobilize yourself is by getting at least a bit flustered or unsettled.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 Syndicated cartoon strip Calvin and Hobbes appeared for 10 years in 2,400 newspapers in 50 countries. It wielded a sizable cultural influence. For example, in 1992, six-year-old Calvin decided “The Big Bang” was a boring term for how the universe began, and instead proposed we call it the “Horrendous Space Kablooie.” A number of real scientists subsequently adopted Calvin’s innovation, and it has been invoked playfully but seriously in university courses and textbooks. In that spirit, I encourage you to give fun new names to anything and everything you feel like spicing up. You now have substantial power to reshape and revamp the components of your world.

It’s identify-shifting time.

Homework: Say these words in front of a mirror: “It’s bad luck to be superstitious.” freewillastrology.com.

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or the two years before she moved into a quiet house with a garden on the Westside of Santa Cruz, Jennifer Chaplin’s life was anything but calm.

A long struggle with addiction and an abusive relationship had finally come to a head, leaving the

now-34-year-old Chaplin to pick up the pieces with her infant daughter, Quin. Earlier this year, the pair found stability in the Jesus Mary Joseph Home, a long-term shelter where Quin soon took her first steps in a living room filled with board games, rocking horses and tributes to the house’s namesake religious trio.

But there was another, even more fundamental benefit, which Chaplin and other local mothers on a tight budget say is often overlooked on the high-cost Central Coast: free compostable diapers.

“It’s, like, the biggest concern,” says Chaplin, who herself grew up in nearby Corralitos. “You

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From Shasta to San Diego, Yosemite to Santa Cruz, there is a sense of foreboding, maybe even dread, as summer turns to fall.

Fire season is here.

The last couple of years have seen some of the most devastating wildfires in the state’s history. Taken as a whole, the fires of 2017 and 2018 are unprecedented, as measured by damage and death. The Camp Fire, which all but destroyed the foothill town of Paradise in 2018, is now classified as the deadliest blaze in California history, and the most lethal fire in the U.S. in a hundred years.

Several months before that, the Mendocino Complex fires became the largest wildfire event by acreage in California history. Add to that the almost-as-tragic Carr Fire in Shasta County, the Tubbs Fire which devoured large parts of Santa Rosa, the Wine Country Fires which killed 44 people across Northern California, and the Thomas Fire which laid waste to huge chunks of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, and it’s clear that the past two fire seasons could one day be remembered a particularly terrifying period in state history.

That is, if we’re lucky.

Although this year’s wildfires have not come close to the impact of 2017 and 2018, that’s thanks in part to significant rainfall, and it’s also still quite early. Most of the deadly fires of the last two years took place in October and November. The 2017 Thomas Fire in Southern California didn’t begin until December.

This could be the ideal moment for an event like “California On Fire: The Past, Present and Future of Fire Ecology in the Golden State,” sponsored by the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. The lecture/panel discussion comes to the Rio Theatre on Thursday, Sept.

19. San Francisco State University biologist and plant ecologist Thomas Parker will give the keynote presentation. Following Parker’s lecture will be a panel discussion featuring the county’s Emergency Services Manager Rosemary Anderson, chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Valentin Lopez, and former Cal Fire Director Ken Pimlott.

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Chaplin and 14-month-old Quin were among the first beneficiaries of Earth Diaper, a nascent local nonprofit that fuses the social goal of direct public health services for low-income families with the environmental goal of cutting down on the number of nonbiodegradable disposable diapers in area landfills.

The idea for Earth Diaper was planted when Santa Cruz County public health nurse Lily Broberg Strong noticed more local residents trying to stretch how long diapers could last, sometimes resulting in health complications like rashes or skin irritation. There were some 228 reported cases of health conditions caused by diapers in Santa Cruz during 2017, Broberg Strong says, with 80% of those cases treated at emergency rooms.

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the culture of diapers,” says Broberg Strong, who co-founded Earth Diaper with lawyer, nonprofit strategist and Bay Area mom Hayden Lilien. “The need is just so great.”

Broberg Strong says she’s seen local mothers try to put off diaper changes for 6-8 hours instead of every few hours, or in desperate circumstances, steal diapers before their next paychecks. Nationwide, one in three moms will experience “diaper need,” or trouble paying for enough diapers to “keep an infant dry, comfortable and healthy,” according to a 2017 study

by Jennifer Randles, a sociology professor at Cal State University Fresno.

Earth Diaper, which recently completed a six-month pilot program at Jesus Mary Joseph Home, is now fundraising to expand access to its free bamboo diapers, which are picked up and taken

to a composting facility able to process them in Gilroy. In addition to alleviating average costs of $100 a month or more for parents, Earth Diaper aims to make a dent in the more than 7 billion tons of waste generated by disposable diapers each year, according to the most recent EPA estimates.

“This is a health problem in addition to a huge environmental problem,” Broberg Strong says.

“The disposable model isn’t sustainable.”

HOUSING SIDE EFFECTS Juana Flores had lived in Watsonville for two decades when the worst happened. It was this past spring when the single mother of then-4-month-old twins Leo and Zoe was told that only one person was allowed to live in the room she was renting outside of town.

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We’ve heard a lot of supposed reasons floating around to recall Santa Cruz city councilmembers Drew Glover and Chris Krohn.

Some of those reasons are dumber than others.

One rationalization that signature collectors have been peddling is that Glover and Krohn are planning to bring Ross camp-esque transitional encampments to every neighborhood in the next six months. Not only is that an exaggeration, but even if it were 100% factual, that reason would still suck.

The hard truth is that, yes, the City Council supports studying transitional encampments in the coming months. However, in the realm of local government, it takes at least two to tango. And as a matter of fact, all seven city

councilmembers have voted, in one form or another, in favor of studying the concept, because that’s how you make good policy.

Transitional encampments deserve a fair shake. Ever since the Ross camp closed, the impacts of homelessness have gotten spread out across the city, with unregulated camps popping up around town, including at the beach. Better to have the encampments be at least somewhat managed, and give campers structure to help get their lives back on track.

As it is, homelessness bears extraordinary costs, both to those experiencing its struggle and to the wider community surrounding those individuals.

KITCHEN CABINET Eager to think through solutions to homelessness, Gabriella Cafe owner Paul Cocking decided to hold

a conversation, and invite Assemblymember Mark Stone (D-Scotts Valley) to meet with Police Chief Andy Mills and architect Mark Primack, a housing advocate. Also in attendance was Claudia Brown, board president for Homeless Services Center, which just changed its name to Housing Matters on Tuesday, Sept. 17. (The center hopes to stimulate discussions about resolving homelessness.)

In conversation, Cocking learned that although the state is providing more money, there’s not much cooperation between various agencies and local governments on how to spend it, and it’s almost impossible to get local governments and neighborhoods to accept badly needed housing and other facilities. Over two-thirds of our police and fire resources are devoted to homelessness issues, Cocking says. Also, many

homeless people refuse help and current legislation allows them to continue to endanger themselves and the community, and it costs the community three times as much to help people living in the street as it does to give them supportive housing, he says. He believes most California politicians haven’t bought in on the need for statewide solutions, like Stone has.

Here are some of Cocking’s suggestions for those who care and think about these issues: • Send an email to every member of the Assembly demanding action.

• Buy a copy of Sam Davis’ book Designing for the Homeless: Architecture that Works.

• Visit downtown San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, and San Diego.

“Remember we all said during the Vietnam War that things might have to get worse before they got better?” Cocking tells Nuz in an email.“They got a lot worse.”

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recent years were the culmination of an almost decades-long period in which fires were made increasingly deadly because of the years-long drought in California. He remembers the devastating but “almost forgotten” Valley Fire of 2015 that consumed much of the small town of Middletown in Lake County in less than 24 hours. “That was in 2015,” he says, “and I remember we were all asking ourselves, how could it possibly get worse? But it did.”

While most of the media coverage and public conversation surrounding catastrophic wildfires comes from the context of the human cost, keynote speaker Parker focuses on the California landscape. From his perspective, fire ecology is about the role fire plays in various landforms—forests, oak grasslands, chaparral, etc.—and how native and non-native vegetation adapts to the threat of fire.

Fire, Parker says, has been a part of the local landscape for millions of years. But human intervention and changes in climate have altered the nature and the severity of fires in recent years. Rainfall, or the lack of it, obviously

plays a big role in fire season, but there are other factors.

He says that recent California autumns that have seen more frequent high-pressure systems coming from the east, the kind that drive high-wind events. “And when there’s an ignition during those high-wind events, like what happened in Santa Rosa two years ago and Paradise last year, that’s when you get the devastating fires,” he says.

If there’s good news here, it’s that, in the aftermath of the historic fire seasons, Californians may be paying more attention to fire preparation, says former Cal Fire Chief Pimlott. “In 2017, we issued red-flag warnings about critical fire conditions. But, by that time, it had become like white noise to the public,” he says. Pimlott now lives in the fire-prone Sierra foothills where, he says, “people are now hyperaware about fire. They’re scared, and they’re listening to what other people are saying. It really has improved, as long as people maintain their attention.”

Santa Cruz County is, of course, far from immune from fire devastation. As the county’s Emergency Services Manager, Rosemary Anderson has a wide-ranging purview that

includes earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, fire, and other potential disasters. Anderson says that, when the unthinkable strikes, local residents should take action instead of waiting for an authority to tell them what to do.

She notes that many local communities already have plans in place through the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program. Through CERT trainings, Anderson is trying to build a culture of selfreliance—about preparedness and how neighbors can take care of one other.

“In lots of neighborhoods, people don’t even know each other, because they’re not home most of the time,” she says. “How do you get these people engaged in some kind of response post-incident? The people who you are going to rely on the most are the people who live right next door to you. That’s been the case in every post-disaster we’ve had in Santa Cruz County.”

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other places she could afford on her tight budget from cleaning work said the same thing, so Flores and her young twins moved to a homeless shelter.

“It was like we were in jail,” says Flores, 42, since the facility had strict rules about everything from cell phone use to the milk she was allowed to bring in for her children. “I think the babies felt the environment.”

At the first shelter, Flores says she was on her own when it came to buying diapers, and her kids began suffering from skin irritation. Since the twins switched to the higherquality bamboo diapers supplied by Earth Diaper at Jesus Mary Joseph Home, they haven’t had the same issues that they had before.

Flores and Chaplin are just two of many local moms, Broberg Strong says, for whom housing struggles and diaper struggles have gone hand in hand as rents have risen sharply.

“Everything has gotten tighter,” Broberg Strong says. “People are spending all their money on housing.”

For Flores and her twins, the combination of a reliable place to live and a steady supply of diapers has been life changing.

“Te da paz (it gives you peace),” says Flores, who moved to the Central Coast from the Northern Mexico city of León more than 20 years ago.

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“You try to shop around and find the cheapest,” says Nelson, who helped track diaper use at the house and found that five families went through about 1,200 diapers per month.

Still, Broberg Strong says, the group’s environmental objective has to be tailored to its clients.

While some supporters have suggested that Earth Diaper use cloth diapers, for instance, that type of sustainable choice may not be practical for households where parents work multiple jobs or don’t have easy access to laundry.

“That’s not really the first thing on their priority list,” she says.

“You have to be sensitive.”

Broberg Strong hopes to expand the service to three shelters in the coming months, then partner with other community hubs to distribute diapers to larger numbers of families than would be possible with home delivery.

“We’re chipping away at reducing our costs,” she says. “We have big aspirations.”

Chaplin, who recently started sign language classes at Cabrillo, says she hopes the program is able to keep serving other mothers in search of support.

“It took some worry out of my life,” she says, “which was really, really nice.”

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TALKING TO READERS Bookshop Santa Cruz and the Humanities Institute at UCSC will present Malcolm Gladwell discussing ‘Talking to Strangers’ on Saturday, Sept. 21, at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center. PHOTO: CELESTE SLOMAN

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deeper about their subjects, which can lead them to overreach.

“I’ve always had a baseline skepticism about journalistic profiles,” Gladwell tells me. “I always feel they’re overly ambitious. The idea that you can sit down with a stranger and come to a reckoning of who they are, and what motivates them, in a short period of time is just nonsense. It’s just not true.”

Gladwell isn’t singling out journalists here. The conceptual through-line of his new Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About People We Don’t Know is that we’re all downright terrible at reading people we don’t know—gleaning their true feelings, motives or intentions.

“Journalists are not immune from the mistakes that all of us make, and maybe we ought to be a lot more cautious,” says Gladwell. “I think the best journalists do that. The best work, the most successful profiles, are modest in their aspiration. They aim to focus on a very specific part of the person being profiled, as opposed to a global assessment.”

MISREADING AND WRITING Throughout his new book, Gladwell lays out example after example of times that the misreading of strangers has had historically catastrophic consequences. And in the chapter on Jerry Sandusky and the sex abuse scandal at Penn State, we see a couple of examples of profiles that writers would probably like to take back, including one from the Philadelphia Inquirer that lays it on thick about a predisgraced Sandusky’s “ennobling” qualities. But even here, Gladwell’s point is not to shame the writers. On the contrary, the Sandusky section of the book attempts to build a complex case for why the people around Sandusky didn’t understand what was going on at the time. He argues that the fallout from the case led to a lot of misinformed scapegoating, including of Joe Paterno.

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alcolm Gladwell is a complete stranger to me.

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Gladwell himself, however, would not. Because the truth is I don’t know him at all, really. I can tell you what point he argued in which episode of his podcast. I can definitely remember when I most emphatically agreed or disagreed with his conclusions. I can also do an impression of his voice that makes my co-workers crack up.

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“I think Joe Paterno was treated abominably. It was completely wrong to blame him,” says Gladwell.

“Having read hundreds of pages of the court transcripts, I don’t think a plausible case could be made that Joe Paterno had any inkling whatsoever of Jerry Sandusky’s activities. He did exactly what he was supposed to do—he notified his superiors immediately and turned the matter over to them. That is what he was supposed to do. I’m

quite sympathetic to some of the Penn State people who feel that case was mishandled.”

The Sandusky part of the book is perhaps the toughest to analyze, and the easiest to criticize, partially because it’s a very limited discussion of a sprawling topic. Entire books could be written about who knew what, and when, in the Penn State story—and, of course, they have. The titles of these books alone make their vastly different conclusions apparent:

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Game Over: Jerry Sandusky, Penn State and the Culture of Silence will never be confused for The Most Hated Man in America: Jerry Sandusky and the Rush to Judgment. The latter goes even further than Gladwell, arguing that Sandusky may very well be innocent, and that the same “repressed memory therapy” that spurred the fraudulent “Satanic Panic” in the 1980s played a huge role in the case—but he takes 400 pages to explore this argument, compared to Gladwell’s 35-page chapter.

CAMPUS CONUNDRUM The Penn State case is far from the only controversial topic Gladwell takes on in Talking With Strangers.

In a chapter called “Transparency Case Study: The Fraternity Party,” he uses the 2015 case in which Stanford University student Brock Turner was convicted of three counts of felony sexual assault to examine the problem of alcohol abuse on college campuses. This would be a dicey proposition by any measure: Turner’s assault of Chanel Miller (who was known at the time as “Emily Doe”; she revealed her real name earlier this month) made national headlines when Santa Clara County judge Aaron Persky ignored prosecutors’ recommendation of a six-year sentence and gave Turner six months in county jail (he ended up serving three months), plus three years probation. Perksy’s assertion that Turner’s lack of a criminal record and upstanding character warranted a reduced sentence led to a successful recall of the judge in 2018. The case led to changes in California state law about the definition of rape and the

mandatory minimum-sentencing for sexual assault of an unconscious or intoxicated person.

“The People vs. Brock Turner is a case about alcohol,” writes Gladwell.

He then proceeds to walk a very fine line in defining what his argument is about (a salient point about a lack of education for young people about the dangers of blackout drinking) and what it is not (a denial of the seriousness of Turner’s crime).

Gladwell knows that with both the Sandusky and Turner cases, he is venturing into territory that can be not only difficult to write, but also difficult to read.

“I have, after 30 years, an enormous amount of faith in my readers. I know who my readers are, and I know my readers read things carefully. Those chapters both require careful reading,” he says. “I am not blaming the victim in the Brock Turner case. I am making an argument about how we prevent these kinds of things in the future.

That’s a subtle point, but I think people who listen to my podcast or read my books are totally fine with subtle points.”

Indeed, fans of Revisionist History will be familiar with other times Gladwell has taken on topics that other writers might consider taboo; for instance, the Brown v. Board of Education episode “Miss Buchanan’s Period Of Adjustment” (possibly the best episode he has produced), in which he attempted to lay out the problems black teachers faced in the wake of the landmark desegregation ruling without undermining the importance of the decision itself.

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“I would say that I feel I have an obligation to write about those kinds of things because I can. I’m now in a position—having been a journalist for a long time, and having established a reputation for myself and having a readership—to have the freedom to write about those things.

I can take the blow,” he says. “Sure, people will get upset, but it’s fine. I mean, I can handle that. A 25-yearold journalist starting out would be taking a real risk for their career if they were to approach some of these topics. I think when you’re an established journalist, you have an obligation to go where others can’t or don’t want to.”

‘HISTORY’ LESSONS The type of material Gladwell takes on in Talking to Strangers is not the only parallel with his podcast—in fact, the whole book’s layout is not unlike an episode of Revisionist History, or perhaps a whole season packed into one book. It starts out with one character—Sandra Bland, an African-American woman from Chicago who was famously the victim of a bizarre and frankly terrifying traffic stop by a white cop in Houston, Texas, in 2015—and then threads through other case studies before returning to Bland’s story, and a fierce indictment of the policing system responsible for it.

This is a classic setup for a Revisionist History episode—the aforementioned Brown v. Board of Education episode, for instance, employed the same structure. And the way Talking to Strangers is so thoroughly character-driven seems like a lesson Gladwell picked up from doing the podcast as well.

Though Revisionist History is perhaps most famous for episodes like 2016’s “Blame Game,” which smashed popular misconceptions about the “unintended acceleration” recalls of Toyota vehicles in 2009, 2010 and 2011, I’ve always found the best episodes to be the ones solidly built around characters first, and Gladwell’s trademark data analysis second.

Gladwell says it’s no accident that his latest book is so reminiscent of the podcast, and that Revisionist History has had a “profound impact” on the way he writes books.

“The podcast has been the dominant thing in my life now for four years, and it’s the thing I’m most excited about. It’s been a way to kind of—not re-invent, that’s too strong a word, but learn a whole new skill, and think about storytelling in a whole new way. It absolutely influenced Talking to Strangers,” he says.

The most definitive sign of that influence is the fact that instead of the traditional audiobook, in which he reads the text, he actually created—well, basically a podcast.

It includes the audio from his interviews for the book, as well as archival tape that he discusses in the book, and music. And he’s more excited about it than the print version.

“It’s like a six-hour episode of Revisionist History,” he says. “This is an emotional book, and I feel like in some ways the audio book is better than the print book, because you get more. You hear Sandra Bland at the beginning talking about ‘my beautiful kings and queens,’ and she stays with you. And at the end, the whole thing, about the cop and the deposition, [State Trooper Brian] Encinia explaining himself, I have that tape. So you hear him, and it becomes really, really visceral and real.

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‘BLINK’ AGAIN Gladwell cites a number of examples in his new book about how our own misplaced confidence in our ability to read other people has had disastrous consequences throughout history. He discusses Neville Chamberlain’s famous failure to judge Adolf Hitler’s intentions,

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On the flip side, in one of the best chapters for explaining our inability to read the people around us, he deconstructs how Amanda Knox was convicted of murder not because she was guilty, but because she unintentionally acted guilty.

If all of this about perception and the length of time it takes to accurately parse information sounds a lot like Gladwell’s 2005 book Blink, that’s because it is. In fact, Talking to Strangers came out of Gladwell’s belief that his book about snap judgement had been widely misunderstood and misinterpreted in the media.

“Blink was a fascinating and frustrating experience for me,” he says. “Because Blink was really a cautionary tale about our first impressions. It was a story that began with all the ways they work, and then the latter half of the book was about all the ways that we’re misled by our intuition. That didn’t quite come across. So this book first of all zeroes in on a particular kind of first impression, which is the relationship with a stranger.

But I really wanted to squarely address what can go wrong, and the consequences of that. Just as David and Goliath grew out of Outliers, this

book grows out of Blink. With a lot of my books, I write it once, then I sit with it, then I come back and tackle the issue again.”

Ultimately, Talking to Strangers looks at the problem of how we misunderstand strangers from both a macro and micro perspective.

In the way it suggests the need for reform in our institutions— like policing, the justice system and military-intelligence interrogation policies (the section on the biological reasons for the ineffectiveness of torture is a stunner)—it argues that action is needed to bring the systems of society in line with how our brains really work. But on another, individual level, it also suggests that the “default to truth” principle most of us use in everyday dealings with each other isn’t such a bad thing—even if it can be wrong. The alternative, he suggests, can be much worse.

“Let’s make sure that our institutions and practices conform to who we are,” says Gladwell. “But let’s accept ourselves for who we are, and stop pretending otherwise.

We should stop beating ourselves up over our fundamental tendency to trust each other, and instead intelligently adapt to it.”

Bookshop Santa Cruz and the Humanities Institute at UCSC present Malcolm Gladwell talking about his new book ‘Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About People We Don’t Know’ at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center, 600 N. Delaware St., San Mateo. The $40 ticket package includes entry to the event and one copy of ‘Talking to Strangers’ with signed bookplate, to be picked up at the event. bookshopsantacruz.com.

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SEALED AND DELIVERED Melvin Seals leads JBG at the Mountain Sol Festival this weekend in Felton. PHOTO: JEREMY WILLIAMS

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erry Garcia had filled so many hearts with happiness for so many decades that it was inconceivable it would ever end. So, after Garcia passed in 1995, the musical and economic world

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Headlining the Mountain Sol Festival at Roaring Camp on Sept. 16 is Melvin Seals and JGB. The origins of the band, post-Jerry, started off innocently enough at Santa Cruz’s legendary music venue Palookaville.

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The show sold out so fast, a second night was added.

“It was going to be called The John Kahn Band,” says Seals. “Kahn added some additional singers and musicians that were not in the Jerry Garcia Band, like Larry Batiste and a few other people. Kahn didn’t want to play JGB songs, but songs in the style that Jerry Garcia would definitely have played. At that time, people were hurting, and Kahn wanted to stay away from [Garcia’s] signature songs. So we played a lot of Motown songs like ‘Beechwood 4-5789,’ songs Jerry would have easily said yes to.”

What Seals picked up was that fans were hurting, but at the same time wanting to see the members of the Jerry Garcia Band playing the songs they loved. “All night long, they were hollering out JGB songs like ‘Stop that Train’ and ‘Knocking on Heaven’s Door.’ I remember walking out the first night of Palookaville. Fans were wanting to hang out and take pictures, and they asked me, ‘Melvin are you guys going to do any Jerry Garcia songs tomorrow night?’”

On the second night at Palookaville, the John Kahn Band played four Garcia Band songs.

“Folks still wanted to hear this music in spite of the king not being on guitar,” Seals concluded.

With two successful nights under their belt, the surviving members got ready to go on the road as the John Kahn Band, but within a few months, Kahn passed. The promoter (and Jefferson Starship manger) Michael Gaiman, who had previously worked with Kahn, contacted Seals.

“He said I was the next-longestsurviving member, and he wanted to know if we wanted to put something together. Based on what I saw at Palookaville, I decided to do what Jerry would have done.” Seals wanted to call the band Tribute, but Gaiman wanted to brand them JGB. There were lawsuits over the Garcia estate, and it was believed that Bill Graham Presents owned the name JGB. Seals didn’t want to get caught up in possible litigation.

He ran a title search and found that only one business in New York used

the acronym, and it was available to name a band. “So I registered the name as a musical organization in California,” Seals says.

When asked what inspired him to carry the torch, he says, “I saw an interview where Jerry was asked what he would like to think would happen after he was no longer here. And Jerry said, ‘I believe the music is much bigger than me, and I hope it will live on.’” And that stuck with Seals.

More than two decades later, the ice has totally broken, and there are seemingly more Dead-related projects touring than ever before.

On the road most of the year, Seals often has different guitar players filling Garcia’s shoes. At the Mountain Sol Festival this weekend, and for the next month or so, John Kadlecik is in the role.

Having been the leader of Dark Star Orchestra, and being the first guitarist to tour with Bob Weir and Phil Lesh after Garcia, Kadlecik has the credentials. “John is number one at sitting in that seat of simulation. Most players have a few licks that sound like Garcia, but John is full force,” says Seals.

Being on the road most of the year makes it hard to find time for solo projects, but Seals has plans for the future. “I’ve set dates three times bringing in studio musicians to start tracking some things, and my [touring] agency calls and makes an offer,” says Seals. “With the exception of a couple of gigs, I have most of November through February off, with the whole idea of getting something going.”

Seals has two projects in 2020—a Christmas album and a Melvin Seals project. “I have some new ideas.

It won’t be implemented in JGB,” he says. “Like Garcia, I have some different projects going.”

Melvin Seals and JGB perform at the Mountain Soul Festival at Roaring Camp in Felton, which runs Sept. 20-22.

Also on the bill are Bob Weir and Wolf Bros, Dispatch, Chicano Batman, Beats Antique, and many more. For a full lineup, schedule and tickets, go to santacruzmountainsol.com.

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CONSUMER REPORT Tatiana Schlossberg brings her new book ‘Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental

Impact You Don’t Know You Have’ to Bookshop Santa Cruz on Tuesday, Sept. 24.

Invisible Footprint Tatiana Schlossberg examines the ecological impacts we don’t often think about BY WALLACE BAINE climate change and gradually ravaging the planet. But she is hoping to help all consumers and wasteproducers—i.e. everybody—see the bigger picture.

“I have felt for a long time frustrated,” says Schlossberg, “and I’ve heard from friends and readers that they felt frustrated as well, that the scale of the conversation about climate change didn’t really make sense to them. On one hand, we’re talking about plastic bottles and straws, and on the other hand, we’re talking about transforming the electricity grid. And I wanted to find what was in between those things, helping people make sense of these problems in the context of their own lives.”

Her book lands on four broad areas of interest: food, fuel, fashion and the internet. In the latter category, Schlossberg investigates the physical infrastructure of the internet in an effort to counter the assumption that online activity has a negligible effect on climate change. She examines e-commerce, the data centers that constitute the “cloud,” and, in a chapter that hits close to home for those in Santa Cruz County, she visits Silicon Valley to underscore that the clean, gleaming campuses of tech behemoths like Google, Apple and Facebook exist on top of a valley full of toxic Superfund sites, dating back to the area’s heyday as a tech manufacturing hubSchlossberg, 29, is part of

Tatiana Schlossberg will read from and discuss her new book at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. Free. bookshopsantacruz.com.

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aybe one day humanity will figure out how to live like disembodied angels in an immaterial world. Until then, however, humans will remain consuming, wasteproducing machines, and books like Tatiana Schlossberg’s Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have will continue to be necessary to remind us of that fact.

Schlossberg comes to Bookshop Santa Cruz on Sept. 24 with a familiar message that she hopes to relate in an unfamiliar way. The New York Times environmental reporter is not interested in letting anyone off the hook for the habits and systems that are leading to potentially catastrophic

America’s most prominent political family. She is the granddaughter of John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy, and the daughter of Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg. Journalism, she says, is a part of the Kennedy legacy. “I do come from a family of writers,” she says. “My grandparents met when my grandmother was a reporter in Washington D.C. And both of my parents are writers.”

Though her book is steeped in reporting, Schlossberg brings a sense of humor to what can be a dispiriting subject, with an ironic use of exclamation points and cheeky facetiousness.

“I really didn’t want that eatyour-vegetables tone,” she says.

“Trying to shame people about their behavior or framing this as a moral issue has made it really difficult.

It automatically makes people feel ashamed, like they’re doing something wrong. But in a lot of cases, they just have no idea.”

The paradox inherent in Schlossberg’s book is that at the same time, we all should be learning more about how consumption and waste works on a global scale. It’s probably a good idea to let up on all the choiceshaming.

“Yes, I’ve gotten a lot of tweets (saying), ‘So, how many trees were cut down to make your book?,’” she says. “That tactic, trying to call out environmentalists as being hypocrites, that’s been a tactic of the fossil-fuel industry and of people who are trying to prevent progress on this issue, by making it seem like you can’t trust anybody. I don’t think it’s the consumer’s responsibility to always make all the right choices.

It really is on corporations and governments to make sure things are produced more responsibly. I think we need to spend less time generally policing each other’s behavior. I’m not trying to make anyone feel bad. On the contrary, I’m trying to help them understand their lives in the context of these larger global problems, and to help people feel that we’re all in this together.”

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MOMENTOUS TROUBLE Titus Andronicus brings new album ‘An Obelisk’—and its everyman narrator

Troubleman—to Felton Music Hall on Sunday, Sept. 22.

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unk music doesn’t get much more high concept than Titus Andronicus. By the time the New Jersey upstart released its second record in 2010, there were already albumlength metaphors, recordings of abolitionist speeches and 14-plusminute odes to naval warfare—all to chart the tumultuous interior of the soul.

The band’s career has been defined by unexpected choices that few else would dare (or want) to make. In 2015, there was a double-album about manic depression, which was meant to be listened to out of order. Last year came a cover of “Like a Rolling Stone” (by, you know, Bob Dylan),

with key lyrics replaced: “I know what it’s like to be a rolling stone,” and: “I’m feeling like Mick Jagger!”

But with the release of An Obelisk, the group’s sixth album, Titus’ boldest move is grammatical.

“I used to be very fond of using the definite article ‘the,’” says lead singer Patrick Stickles, from his home in Queens. “We have albums called The Monitor, The Most Lamentable Tragedy.

But as I got older, I started to think, ‘Gee, I got a lot of nerve. Here I am using this definite article. Maybe people are taking that as me trying to present my experiences as somehow definitive.’”

Stickles says he’s a normal guy, someone whose career just so

happens to involve music.

“The only real difference between me and the common person is that I’m externalizing my experiences by way of art,” he says.

Taking his own indefiniteness a step further, throughout An Obelisk, Stickles sings from the perspective of a vague narrator, an angry loner called Troubleman who “used to be a problem child” and now rages against society, insincere rock music, and (Stickles’s most constant target) himself.

“The narrator is a singular individual,” he says. “Very average. He is a dude, rather than the dude. Even though he’s not special, he has his own understanding of the conflict between

the individual and society, which is the central conflict of the narrative.”

Narrator Troubleman tells us, “I’m not sick, it’s the world that is” on (aptly-named) single “(I Blame) Society.” “They think that we are spineless, I think they are all cheats/ It seems the Earth is speeding swiftly towards a grave catastrophe.”

If that sounds like Stickles himself, he says that’s intentional.

“All the feelings expressed by my character, those are my real feelings,” he admits. “I’m presenting them in an exaggerated way. I like to create art that exists in a heightened reality.”

Musically, An Obelisk definitely feels heightened. From the opening chord to the final drum fill, it is a white-knuckle ride. Stickles and company keep the energy high as Troubleman relentlessly spits and stumbles towards his awakening on the Clash-like finale “Tumult Around the World.”

And while reviewers have roundly declared it a more concise record than the band’s previous gargantuan statements, An Obelisk still finds plenty of room to spread out. On shuffling pub rocker “Hey Ma,” the band vamps on chords for a solid minute and a half, building pressure until the whole thing explodes into bagpipes (another Titus favorite). On emotional eye-of-the-storm “Within the Gravitron,” they take a lengthy side quest through a sludgy passage of minor chords, queasily toiling in the muck until the narrator finally catches a clear glimpse of himself, declaring once and for all: “If you’re looking for Troubleman, nothing can show you like a mirror can.”

Once again, if that sounds like Stickles himself, so be it.

“Even if I tried to put a certain amount of distance between myself and my art, I still recognize that I’m only equipped to speak about my own experiences,” he says. “To try and create a whole new narrator that has a wholly different perspective would be disingenuous and probably foolish.

Furthermore, I contend that objective reality is illusory.”

Titus Andronicus performs at 9 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 22, at Felton Music Hall, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $15 adv/$18 door.

335-2800, feltonmusichall.com.

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WEDNESDAY 9/18 YOGA CHURCH: ALL FOR ONE ANNIVERSARY PARTY Local nonprofit Yoga For All Movement (YFAM) advocates for equitable yoga and mindfulness services for underserved and vulnerable community members. They serve more than 2,000 students across more than 26 classes and additional programs. In celebration of their two years of serving the community, YFAM is hosting an anniversary party with live music and a special yoga class.

5:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 23. Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front St., Santa Cruz. yogaforallmovement.org. $25 suggested donation.

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CLASSES POSTNATAL YOGA: MAMAS AND 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 (age 6 weeks to crawling). No experience is necessary. Led by Hannah Muse, certified prenatal and postnatal yoga teacher, mindfulness coach, doula and mother. She has been holding space for mothers at PCC for over 8 years, and is known for her deep knowledge of women’s health, skillful instruction of therapeutic yoga, and perhaps most beloved in the community for her compassionate way of holding space for all mamas, no matter their story or circumstance. 10-11:30 a.m. Pacific Cultural Center/Ashtanga Yoga Institute, 1307 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz. $15.

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TOBY GRAY VARIETY ACOUSTIC MUSIC Featuring artist showcases and a

Local artists have already brought the ocean to the street, literally, with the new oceans mural at Mission Street and Bay Avenue. But they aren’t done yet. In collaboration with the PangeaSeed Foundation, local artists from around town are gearing up for a new marine-inspired art program, Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans. Also partnered with Patagonia, the collaboration highlights pressing environmental issues the oceans are facing, on a large scale worthy of the issue. Local muralists (including those behind the Mission Street magic) are collaborating on an exhibit showcasing Patagonia’s WornWear used clothing. These one-of-a-kind artworks highlight issues such as climate change, plastic pollution, biodiversity loss, and warming seas, and will be available for purchase, with proceeds directly supporting the foundation’s Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans program. Image: Gavin Murai.

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

COASTAL BELLYDANCE FESTIVAL Belly dancing is a great workout. It’s no wonder that belly dancers have fabulous abs. Move and groove your way to the hardest and most alluring core workout ever. For those taking a pass on workshops, there will be plenty of pro belly dancers showing off their skills in a gala show.

10 a.m. start, gala at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21. Vets Hall, 846 Front St., Santa Cruz. coastalbellyfest.com. $5-$40, workshop pricing separate.

THURSDAY 9/19

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

THURSDAY 9/19 ARTS ‘A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN’

7-9 p.m. Santa Cruz Patagonia Outlet, 415 River St. seawalls.org. Free.

Directed by Joy Carlin, this soaring and poignant play by four-time Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright and Nobel Laureate Eugene O’Neill, a barren patch of land on a Connecticut farm in 1923 sets the stage for two lost souls to find hope under a lover’s moon. The boisterous and sharp-tongued Josie Hogan seems destined to live her life alone working a rented farm with her bullying father. When the weary but charming Jamie Tyrone returns to settle the farm’s estate, which was owned by his late mother, sparks

fly, hearts open, and desire just might make dreams come true—a moving exploration of the Power of our humanity. 7:30 p.m. The Colligan Theater, 1010 River St., Santa Cruz.

FABMO PROMOTES CREATIVE REUSE AT EVENT Get discontinued designer fabrics, tile, wallpaper, sewing patterns, and more at an inspirational and fun event on Thursday, Sept. 19 from 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. at the Harvey West Park Clubhouse (near Costco in Santa Cruz).The event is hosted

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

An Evening with The Nature Conservancy’s Chief Scientist

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SEPTEMBER 19, 7PM HUMANITIES LECTURE HALL $0–$10/PERSON

in six years, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know, Gladwell offers an incisive and powerful examination of our interactions with strangers—and why they often go so terribly wrong. Register in advance: talkingtostrangers.brownpapertickets.com.

Sea Otter Awareness Week SEPTEMBER 24–29 SEYMOUR MARINE DISCOVERY CENTER FREE WITH ADMISSION TO THE SEYMOUR CENTER

Discover the vital role sea otters play in the nearshore ecosystem. Special pop-up exhibits will highlight sea otters’ natural history, reveal conservation issues facing these marine mammals, and more. Many thanks to our event sponsor: Elizabeth Quinn, MS DC.

Learn about The Nature Conservancy’s innovative research with Chief Scientist Dr. Hugh Possingham. A Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Possingham leads more than 500 scientists engaged in conservation around the world.

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This exhibit explores how the band invented, improvised, redefined, and pioneered new ways of thinking about work, about being in business, and about the relationship between creators and their communities. It draws on the newly processed business records of the band.

“New Directions in Cancer Research at UC Santa Cruz” features short presentations by Professors Rebecca Dubois, Christopher Vollmers, and Karen Ottemann. Supported by the Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group.

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

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An evening with acclaimed author Jacqueline Woodson to celebrate the release of her newest book, Red at the Bone, an extraordinary new novel about wthe influence of history on a contemporary family. Cosponsored by The Humanities Institute of UC Santa Cruz.

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Before Hurricane Dorian made landfall, the American Red Cross moved blood products into position and stocked hospitals in the Southeast because they predicted that the hurricane would disrupt access to blood. Hurricane Dorian also resulted in the cancellation of blood drives across the Southeast U.S. To support those in need, the Red Cross is calling on donors from across the country to step up and help out to ensure blood needs continue to be met in storm-impacted areas and around the U.S. Locally, Santa Cruz is hosting blood drives throughout the month.

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 220 Elk St., Santa Cruz; 1-6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 9545 Lovecreek Road, Ben Lomond. 800-733-2767, redcrossblood.org.

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PLEASURE POINT THIRD THURSDAY Join us this evening at Way of Life to meet up with local artist Lisa Marie Jewelry Design.

We are partnering with the Pleasure Point Business Association to offer this monthly event. Refreshments will be served. 5-8 p.m.

Way of Life, 1220 A 41st Ave., Capitola.

GROUPS JOB FAIR Meet more than 50 exhibitors at the Access Two Employment Job Fair! 5-7 p.m. Cocoanut Grove, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz. https://a2ejobfair.eventbrite.com.

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 8-18. No registration required.

Space available on a first come first served basis. 3:30-4:30. Aptos Branch Library, 7695 Soquel Drive, Aptos.

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. 6-8 p.m. WomenCARE, 2901 Park Ave. Suite A1, Soquel. 761-3973.

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

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

WATSONVILLE MUSIC IN THE PLAZA Music for the Heart / Musica Para El Corazón. Bring your blankets, chairs and a picnic, and join us in the Watsonville Plaza Park for a free evening of great music!

The first half of the program will feature students from the Pajaro Valley Unified School District, while the second half will feature six string musicians from the Santa

Cruz Symphony (including concertmaster Nigel Armstrong on violin and Daniel Stewart on viola) who will be joined by dancers from Esperanza Del Valle for Moncoya’s Huapango. You are invited to kick off the evening with a reception at Pajaro Valley Arts, 37 Sudden St. Watsonville from 3:305:30. 6-8 p.m. Watsonville City Plaza, 174 Main St., Watsonville. Free.

OUTDOOR GRAVITY WATER PROJECTS IN FIVE COUNTRIES Come learn about the wonderful work that is being done by local non-profit Gravity Water to bring clean drinking water to over 25 communities in Nepal, Vietnam, Indonesia, Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica. Founder Danny Wright will share this unique program for creating an affordable, sustainable, reliable, and energyfree solution to the global water crisis.

Presented by the Santa Cruz Group of the Sierra Club. All are welcome. 7 p.m. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave., Santa Cruz.

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FRIDAY 9/20 ARTS JENIE THAI A performer, songwriter, singer, and instrumentalist, Jenie Thai combines her love of the traditional piano blues, ’60s R&B and great American songwriters to produce a unique charm as a roots and blues musician on the national and international scene. Vocally, she has been compared to Eva Cassidy, but soaks in the musical influences of Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Memphis Slim, and Nina Simone.Jenie Thai is building a musical presence throughout the country through the electric energy she displays on stage and the old soul that’s conveyed through her songwriting. 8 p.m. lille æske, 13160 Central Ave., Boulder Creek. jeniethai.ca. $20/$25.

MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY THEATER PRESENTS: ‘MAMMA MIA!’ Mountain Community Theater is proud to present Mamma Mia! By Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus with songs from Stig Anderson, book by Catherine Johnson, and originally conceived by Judy Craymer. Over 54 million people all around the world have fallen in love with the characters, the story and the music that make Mamma Mia! the ultimate feel-good show! A mother. A daughter. Three possible dads. And a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget! The production opens Friday, Sept. 20 and runs five weekends through Sunday, Oct. 20. 8 p.m. Mountain Community Theater/Park Hall, 9400 Mill St., Ben Lomond. mammamiathemusical. brownpapertickets.com.$25.

celebration and concert kicks off Climate Strike Week. It benefits the Romero Institute and Quaker Friends on Legislation for Childhood Poverty and Mass Incarceration.

Bringing our community and hearts together for change with music, poetry, spoken word, and song! 7 p.m. Resource Center For Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz.

FOOD & WINE FOOD TRUCK FRIDAY Join us at the next Food Truck Friday on Sept. 20, 5-8 p.m. at Skypark in Scotts Valley. Cringe, a local cover band playing hits from the 70’s to the present, will be performing.The participating food trucks include: Drunk Monkeys, Pana, Nomad Momo, El Buen Taco, Union and Aunt LaLi’s. A Beer and Wine Garden fundraiser is sponsored by the Scotts Valley Educational

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ONE POT AYURVEDIC SOUPS AND STEWS Warm your bones and stoke your digestive fire. Help prepare then enjoy original Ayurveda-inspired soups and stews with different protein sources, followed by a healthy Fresh Coconut Cream Pie. With Ayurvedic Chef Talya Lutzker. 6:30-9 p.m.

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SATURDAY 9/21 ARTS BOARDWALK FIESTA EN LA PLAYA Celebrate the vibrant traditions of the Latino community with mariachis, folklorico dancers, and a free beach concert. Enjoy Boardwalk rides and games plus fun food and beverage specials throughout the park.

11 a.m.-8 p.m. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz.

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DOMOU AFRICA If you always wanted to travel to Africa and can’t find the time or money and you live in Santa Cruz or the greater SF Bay Area, then you’re in for a treat. It’s rumored that this area is the closest you can get to having an authentic, cultural African experience. That being said Santa Cruz is home to a plethora of cultural dance. Amongst this talent are two shining gems that reside right here in Santa Cruz, Mbor and Oumou Faye, straight out of Senegal, West Africa. Mbor is a master drummer Extraordinaire. Oumou is a master Dancer and expert choreographer of Senegalese dance. 8 p.m. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz.

DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY DRUMMING FESTIVAL BENEFIT Jim Greiner, percussionist, educator and community drumming leader, is bringing the Downtown Santa Cruz Community Drumming Festival back.

Jim will raffle off an Afro Cuban Conga Drum with a stand, donated by LP Music of Oxnard, California, with all proceeds going to Jacob’s Heart. Raffle tickets are available at the event for $5 each, and $20 for five. 1-3 p.m.The Starving Musician, 1003 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. 462-3786. Free. >40

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TATANKA’S GLOBAL ARTISTS CELEBRATION An international artists’

Foundation (SVEF) and will feature local beer from Steel Bonnet Brewing. All money raised supports Scotts Valley’s four public schools.

5-8 p.m. Skypark, 361 Kings Village Rd., Scotts Valley.

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SENIOR TECH SUPPORT As “digital natives,” young people are the perfect candidates to help seniors enhance their technology skills. Seniors are invited to drop in for free workshops to gain the skills they desire to stay connected with family and friends online. Volunteers will be on hand to show seniors how to use social media and personal electronic devices or answer any other technology questions. All workshops are led by local teens with an adult supervisor to answer any advanced questions. Please Note: We ask that you bring your own devices with you. Noon-3 p.m. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. Free.

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

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at the Monterey Bay Birding Festival's Family Day! Visit the Community Room of the Watsonville Civic Plaza to enjoy free crafts and activities. Organizations from around the Monterey Bay area will gather to help you explore the curious world of birds through interactive games, crafts, activities, and presentations. Noon. Watsonville Civic Plaza Community Room, 275 Main St., Watsonville. montereybaybirding.org.

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. 1 p.m. Wilder Ranch State Park, 1401 Coast Rd., Santa Cruz. 426-0505. $10.

SISSTR SURF SESSIONS We're bringing Sisstrs together for a free surf session!

Let's get as many girls in the water together including local team riders Marissa Miller and Anna Talken. Try on new wetsuits; we’re bringing our Sisstrevolution 7 Seas wetsuit collection to the beach for you to demo. It’s

International Beach Cleanup Day and our friends at Save Our Shores will be just down the beach hosting a beach cleanup. Bring your own gloves and bucket. Come hang, clean the beach, and surf with us! Want a free Sisstr beach towel? Head over to Pacific Wave Surf Shop, show them your Sisstr Surf Sessions RSVP confirmation and leave with yours while supplies last! 9 a.m.-noon.

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SUNDAY 9/22 ARTS ACRYLIC POUR PAINTING In this class, we will explore the fun and very addicting technique of “dirty pours” and “flip cup” acrylic pours. The results look like marble, planets, or even underwater worlds when poured onto a surface. After a quick introduction, I will demo color mixing, pouring techniques, and the art of creating cells within your art piece. You will then make your own unique abstract painting. At the end of class, each student will have a 16 x 20 one-of-a-kind finished work of art to enjoy.

2-4 p.m. Art of Santa Cruz, 1855 41st Ave., Capitola.

FOOD & WINE LEFT BANK BRUNCH The Left Bank title is a nod to the artistic and bohemian enclave in Paris, though we're also on the left bank of the mighty San Lorenzo River and on the left coast of the continent. The brunch menu will retain a focus on California-French fare. In the afternoon hours, we'll also be putting on a series of lectures and readings, all free and open to the public. The first run of lectures, in keeping with our theme, will focus on "The Adventure of French Philosophy." Live music and vinyl spinning throughout the day. To paraphrase one of the founders of this great nation: boozy, decadent brunches are proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

11 a.m. Bad Animal, 1011 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. badanimalbooks.com.

MUSIC LILACS. WITH WYATT SMITH, WISTAPPEAR (LA), AND JESSE STOUT (SEATTLE) AT THE CREPE PLACE LILACS, a groove-oriented alternative R&B project fronted by Santa Cruz native, Austin Corona, who is returning to the West Coast after several years based in Boston. He has been active in the Santa Cruz music scene for many years, and his past music projects

OUTDOOR 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.1 p.m. Wilder Ranch State Park, 1401 Coast Rd., Santa Cruz. 426-0505.$10.

REDWOODS AND CLIMATE CHANGE How have coast redwoods adapted to the natural environment? Can they adapt to a human-altered environment? How can we make a difference? Answer these questions and more during a Sunday saunter. Walk through the ancient old-growth forest with a docent and discuss our relationship with the forest and the prospective future. Meet at the visitor center. 2 p.m. Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, 101 N Big Trees Park Rd., Felton. 335-7077.

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MONDAY 9/23 ARTS PAINT NIGHT: CACTUS! In just two hours you will be guided, step by step, in creating our painting of the day. Great for complete beginners and seasoned creatives alike.

You have the freedom to add your personal touch; tweak the colors and composition, or just follow along with the instruction!

We will learn and practice various painting techniques as we go, with plenty of room for creativity. One-on-one help is always available & all supplies are included - 16x20 canvas, paint, brushes, and aprons. 5:307:30 p.m. Bruno’s Bar and Grill, 230G Mount Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley. $30/$35.

BREWS FOR BERNIE AT HUMBLE SEA “Bernie ca’'t be bought, but at least you can buy him a beer!” For every $5 beer you buy, we ask you to “buy one” for Bernie and donate the cost of that second beer to the campaign. There will be “tabs” for Bernie at our check-in table. Sample great beer and buy beers for Bernie. Meet others who #FeelTheBern. Find out how you can help the Bernie movement all over Santa Cruz.

We have lots of events for this new campaign and welcome your energy and ideas for more. 6 p.m. Humble Sea Brewery, 820 Swift St., Santa Cruz.

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Make your pets feel special and bring them in for a $25.00 Wellness Exam

We Now Offer Acupuncture with Dr. Kim Delkener

TUESDAY 9/24 CLASSES MEDICARE MADE SIMPLE If you are turning 65, about to retire or want to review your current Medicare options, please join us for a free informational workshop to learn more. 6- 7 p.m. Santa Cruz Chiropractic, 1220 41st Ave. Suite I, Capitola. 252-2256.

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FOOD & WINE TACO TUESDAY On Tuesdays we eat tacos!

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

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

HEALTH IMPROVE YOUR DIGESTIVE HEALTH Join Dr. Danette Sutton and get answers to your questions about GERD, reflux, H pylori, diverticulitis,leaky gut and Irritable Bowel, as well as testing options, test results, and how to read labels. 1-2:30 p.m. New Leaf Community Markets, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz.

OUTDOOR SEA OTTER AWARENESS WEEK Discover the vital role sea otters play in the nearshore ecosystem during Sea Otter Awareness Week at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center. Special pop-up exhibits will highlight sea otters’ natural history, reveal conservation issues facing these marine mammals, and so much more. Sea Otter Awareness Week is September 24-29.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz.

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take home a fun souvenir, an activity for the whole family to share! For example, find out what gray whales eat by creating a bright sun catcher for your window, or create a fancy fish with paper, paint, and color. Build a seal or sea lion puppet decorated with your own special seal nose, complete with whiskers! Join the hands-on fun at the crafts table every Sunday from 1-3 p.m. Free with admission to the Seymour Center. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz.

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ALWA GORDON In 2016, local rapper Alwa Gordon was working on his song “Motown.” He found himself singing over the beat.

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He had been rapping for over a decade but suddenly found himself wanting to take his music career more seriously. “Motown” landed on 16 Summers, which was released on May 15. The whole EP reflects his newfound diversity, and stretches beyond strictly hip-hop.

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“It’s very hard to put 16 Summers in a category,” Gordon says. “It’s hip-hop.

It’s pop. It’s got soul. There’s some surf guitar, Santa Cruz vibes in there.”

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A major struggle here is the lack of a hip-hop scene. Big acts come through town and headline the Catalyst, but there’s not much space for up-andcoming artists. Local emcee Khan has been doing his part by throwing quarterly events at the Crepe Place called “Diggin’ In The Crepe,” and Gordon has played most of them.

When Scottish group the Tannahill Weavers formed in the late ’60s, the idea of playing traditional music was uncool. The band not only paved a path for hundreds of other Scottish bands wanting to embrace their roots, it was also the first to take the sounds of the highlands bagpipe and put it in the context of a popular ensemble. In sustaining a healthy career with 18 albums and plenty of tours all over the world, the group has watched as the rest of the world realized that playing traditional Scottish music was a very cool thing. AC

But as a rapper in a town that has no rap scene, he’s been able to stretch and grow in unexpected ways. “I’ve done shows with bass artists, DJs. I’ve made music with [folk-hip-hop group] Driftr. I’ve done acoustic stuff with just a guitar. It’s made it so I’ve had to get out of this whole thinking that it’s just hip-hop,” Gordon says. “Now I love it, because I can exist in so many different worlds.” AARON CARNES 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $20 adv/$25 door. 479-1854.

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7:30 p.m. Michael’s On Main, 2591 Main St., Soquel. $18 adv/$20 door. 479-9777.

THURSDAY 9/19 PUNK

MIKE WATT Even if you’ve never heard of Mike Watt, you’ve probably heard the beginning of the song “Corona,” which was used as the theme for Jackass. As

bassist and unofficial leader of the Minutemen, Watt and crew wrote some of the most influential punk music of the early ’80s by incorporating elements of funk and jazz into the mix. For the past 13 years, he has been on-and-off touring with the Missingmen, a return to his punk-rock-trio roots. MAT WEIR 8:30 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $25 adv/$30 door. 479-1854.

FRIDAY 9/20 COMEDY

SHENG WANG Sheng Wang has great delivery. Even as he talks about the time he “probably” pissed his pants (he was drunk), or when he might have accidentally started a new racial stereotype (“Everybody put that online and tag ...

Asia”) he is consistently understated, his face weirdly stern as he slowly shuffles around the stage. A writer on ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat, Wang recently appeared on HBO’s 2 Dope Queens, where he riffed on the stresses of avocados and his passion for not getting hurt. MIKE HUGUENOR 7 & 9:30 p.m. DNA’s Comedy Lab, 155 S River St., Santa Cruz. $20 adv/$25 door.

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MATTHEW AND THE ATLAS Matthew and the Atlas is known to dabble in all types of music, from soft, acoustic contemplations to synth-driven rock dramas. The band has a slight eccentric edge to it, like if Sufjan Stevens, Tracy Chapman and Beirut started a super band, and Neil Young wrote all the lyrics. Founder Matt Hegarty is often dubbed the “British Bon Iver.” I don’t really see it, but Hegarty does have quite a unique voice, somehow low and throaty yet high and birdlike at the same time. AMY BEE 9 p.m. Felton Music Hall, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $12 adv/$14 door. 704-7113.

SATURDAY 9/21 HIP-HOP

BLACKALICIOUS It’s hard to think of another rapper with the verbal dexterity, wit and emotional vulnerability of Gift Of Gab. But he doesn’t deserve sole credit for his group Blackalicious’ rabid cult fanbase. He and DJ Chief Xcel have a unique relationship, where they riff

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off of each other like jazz musicians or a two-piece White Stripes-style rock duo. It creates a flexible, vibrant dynamic. In 20 years, the group has only released four albums. They’re all meticulously crafted, vibrant hip-hop masterpieces. The group comes to Moe’s to celebrate 20 years of topnotch underground hip-hop with zero compromises. AC

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THIEF Thief is the brainchild of D. Neal, dulcimer player for black metal outfit Botanist. It’s a nightmare of industrial sounds mixed with surprisingly danceable beats—for fans of Sisters of Mercy, early NIN, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, or basically anything fierce, electronic and spooky. They will be joined in the dungeons of the Blue Lagoon by local, heavy space surf rockers Cosmic Reef Temple and Oakland’s surreal post-punk group Silence in the Snow (featuring members of Wolves in the Throne Room and Lycus!) MW 8:30 p.m. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $10. 423-7117.

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LILACS The three members in art-punk project Lilacs seem to be inhabiting their own spheres. They pluck and pound on their instruments, eliciting high-pitched growls and guttural roars in three separate microphones, vocals jumbling over each other and fusing into dissonant white noise.

Emotive on a gut level like the Slits, but stripped down to the nitty-gritty, Lilac’s lyrics are indecipherable— except to the lizard brain, which completely understands. AB 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $10. 429-6994.

MONDAY 9/23 JAZZ

BOBBY McFERRIN Bobby McFerrin is back. The vocalist extraordinaire cancelled a slew of concerts in 2016 with his management, citing ill health. As several years passed, worries grew about his condition. But the crisis seems to have passed, and he’s on the road with more than two dozen dates

booked through the winter. McFerrin returns to Santa Cruz with some of his most trusted vocal companions, including founding members of his innovative Voicestra. With later Voicestra addition Judi Vinar, McFerrin is performing with a lineup similar to his recent a cappella group Gimme 5 Circlesongs. ANDREW GILBERT 7:30 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $52.50. 427-2227.

TUESDAY 9/24 SYNTH-POP

HOT CHIP Hot Chip has never sounded as smooth as it does on this year’s A Bath Full of Ecstacy. Sure, the group has been fusing indie rock with big, dancey, synth-pop hooks for decades now, but this time around, it seems to have fully embraced the dance and left almost all the angularity of indie rock behind. Lead single “Hungry Child” channels ’90s New Order with a pulsing dance beat, swirling synths and those oh-so-sensitive vocals. The heavily autotuned title track is likewise smooth as velvet as it promises “the cure, the pure remedy.” MH 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $35. 429-4135.

7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $20.

Information: riotheatre.com. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19, to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

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Experimentally jazzy. Thursday at Kuumbwa Jazz Center DELVON LAMARR ORGAN TRIO

Old-school soul, funk and blues, with a sprinkling of jazz. Friday at Moe’s Alley DAVID TYLER FOX

Orchestral rock drenched in psychedelia. Saturday at Lille Aeske MERSIV

Electro beats for emotional misfits.

Sunday at Catalyst TEMPLE CANYON

Folk-rock with lots of reverb and hallucinations. Monday at Blue Lagoon

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9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $20 adv/$25 door. 479-1854.

SUNDAY 9/22

It’s always exciting to see daredevils scaling a steep mountain or leaping off a cliff and paragliding to remote parts of the globe. It’s also exhilarating to watch the focus and tenacity of athletes stretch the possibility of human greatness, whether it’s a bicyclist or a skier making record time on an obstacle course. All of these fast-paced, real-life adventurers will be featured at this year’s Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival, and you can watch them on the big screen at the Rio, making it that much more exciting. The festival is a collection of eight short films. Your heart will be racing the whole time.

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Wednesday September 18 –8/8:30pm $15 Folk, Reggae & World Music With

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Thursday September 19 –8/8:30pm $25/30 Presented By (((FolkYEAH!!!)))

MIKE WATT + THE MISSINGMEN Friday September 20 –7:30/8:30pm $15/20 Soul, Jazz, R&B Great Debuts Santa Cruz

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Saturday September 21 –8/9pm $20/25 20 Year Anniversary Tour

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Evan Thomas Blues Band Free 6-8p

Magpies Blues Band Free 6-8p

Scott Miller Free 6-8p

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Birdo, Ealdor Bealu, & Burn River Burn$5 9p

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

The Legends Of Tomorrow $5 9p

Silence in the Snow, Thief & Cosmic Reef Temple $5 9p

Temple Canyon, Body The Box: Gothic/ Language, & Panoram Industrial Night Free 9p $5 9p

Funk Night with DJ Ed G Free 9p

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

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Cruz Patrol 9:15p-12:45a

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Mersiv & Mr. Bill w/ Dalfin $15/$20 9p

Dub Trio w/ Give You Nothing & Scowl $13 8:30p

Hot Chip & Holy Fuck $35 9p

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

Broken Shades Free 6-8p

Mojo Mix Free 6-8p

CAPITOLA WINE BAR 115 San Jose Ave, Capitola THE CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Mustacha Harbor $20 8:30p

Mystery Skulls w/ Phangs & Snowblood $15/$18 9p

CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

Wednesday September 25 –8/8:30pm $12/15

CORK AND FORK 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

Open Mic Night Free 7-10p

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CORRALITOS CULTURAL CENTER 127 Hames Rd., Corralitos

Sep 26 THE CHINA CATS Sep 27 HENRY CHADWICK + Talkie & August Sun Sep 28 HILLSTOMP + Caitlin Jemma Oct 3 MIDTOWN SOCIAL + WALK TALK Oct 4 LITTLE HURRICANE + Bobcat Rob Oct 5 LA MISA NEGRA Oct 6 JIMBO MATHUS of SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS Oct 9 ZACK DEPUTY Oct 10 SWEET PLOT + YAK ATTACK Oct 11 GYPTIAN Oct 12 B-SIDE PLAYERS Oct 13 AKI GOES TO BOLLYWOOD Oct 16 JOE MARCINEK w/ GROOVESESSION Oct 17 FRONT COUNTRY Oct 18 DIEGO’S UMBRELLA + VANDOLIERS Oct 20 CHRIS CAIN Oct 24 QIENSAVE + ROB RAMOS Y CALIGENTE Oct 25 SOULWISE + HARBOR PATROL Oct 26 WOOSTER Oct 27 WHITEY JOHNSON w/ GARY NICHOLSON Oct 27 LEE SCRATCH PERRY Oct 31 SAMBADÁ Nov 1 BODEANS Nov 2 FRUITION Nov 5 RHETT MILLER of OLD 97’s Nov 6 VETIVER Nov 7 MICKY & THE MOTORCARS Nov 8 HOT BUTTERED RUM Nov 9 MAKING MOVIES + LOS RAKAS Nov 14 DAN BERN Nov 15 DANIEL RODRIGUEZ of ELEPHANT REVIVAL + WHISKERMAN Nov 16 LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES Nov 17 SELWYN BIRCHWOOD

9/19

APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

LYDIA PENSE & COLD BLOOD + ANNA ROSE

THU

Michael Feinberg Free 7-9:30p

THE CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Country/Rock From Texas

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9/18

Sunday September 22 –3/4pm $20/25 Afternoon Blues Series With

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WED ABBOTT SQUARE 118 Cooper St, Santa Cruz

KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p Stormin’ Norman Free 7-10p

Doug Steigerwald & the Blues Suspects Free 7-10p

Open Mic 7-10p

Acoustic Open Jam 3-5p

THE

CREPE PLACE OPEN LATE - EVERY NIGHT!

The Tannahill Weavers

Wed. Sept. 18 7:30pm $18 adv./$20 door seated <21 w/parent Thu. Sept. 19 7:30pm

Eliza Gilkyson w/Nina Gerber

$30 adv./$33 door seated <21 w/parent Fri. Sept. 20 5pm HAPPY HOUR/NO COVER

Girls and Company AZA

Fri. Sept. 20 8:30pm $15 adv./$15 door Dance – ages 21 + Sat. Sept. 21 2pm

LOUISIANA PICNIC & DANCE Andre Thierry & Zydeco Magic

$12 adv./$15 door Dance – <21 w/parent

Petty Theft

Sat. Sept. 21 8:30pm $20 adv./$20 door Dance – ages 21 +

Grateful Sunday

Sun. Sept. 22 5:30pm GRATEFUL DEAD TUNES / NO COVER Tue. Sept. 24 7:30pm

Cripple Creek

Open Mic Acoustic Jam

NO COVER/Dance<21 w/parent

Way Out West

Wed. Sept. 25 7:30pm $15 adv./$15 door seated <21 w/parent

COMING UP

Thu. Sept. 26 The DC Trio Fri. Sept. 27 Medicine Road plus Wildflower Sat. Sept. 28 Wed. Oct. 2

& The Bees RattleCan plus Cole Hinckle & The Debauchery Love Songs of the World Dror Sinai & Friends

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Scott Slaughter & Lisa Marie Free 5-8p

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THE ARTISANALS w/ SPECIAL GUEST

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SUNDAY 9/22

LILACS w/ WYATT SMITH, WISTAPPEAR & JESSE STOUT 8PM - $10 DOOR

5PM - BLUEGRASS JAM - FREE

MONDAY 9/23

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TUESDAY 9/24

FUNK NIGHT w/ SPACE HEATER

9:30 PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT

WEEKEND BRUNCH FULL BAR MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ

1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz 429-6994

LIVE MUSIC

Thursday, September 19 • 7 PM

STEVE LEHMAN TRIO

WED

9/18

THU

9/19

9/20

FRI Jesse Marchant w/ Wyndham Garnett $10 9p

SAT

9/21

THE CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Mattson 2 $22/$25 9p

Mattson 2 $22/$25 9p

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

Yuji Tojo $3 8p

Rosebud $5 8p

Blind Tiger Open Mic Night 8p

An Evening of Improv Sheng Wang Comedy $15/$20 7:30p $20/$25 7&9p

Tom Rhodes $20/$25 7&9:30p

Brent & Brandon Pierce Matthew & the w/ Wine, Women & Atlas w/ Boy Bjorn Wrong $9/$11 7p $12/$14 8:30p

Con Brio w/ Grand Larson $15/$19 7:30p

Joint Chiefs $6 9p

The Artisanals & more $10 9p Spun $7 9:30p

9/22

SUN Open Bluegrass Jam Free 5p Lilacs & more $10 8p

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

MON

9/23

TUE

9/24

Funk Night w/ Space Heater $6 9p-12a Bump $5 8p

DISCRETION BREWING 2703 41st Ave, Soquel DNA’S COMEDY LAB 155 River St, Santa Cruz

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville

Friday, September 20 • 7:30 PM

SHARON ALLEN & DUSTY BOOTS WITH CAROLYN SILLS COMBO Monday, September 23 • 7:30 PM

BOBBY McFERRIN

Riveting vocals – musically adventurous and thoroughly celebratory.

Titus Andronicus w/ Control Top $15/$18 8p

AT THE RIO THEATRE

Big Junior & the All Stars 8p Linc Russin 7-9p

CAFE MUSIQUE

Tickets: snazzyproductions.com

Mark Creech 6:30-9:30p

Scott Slaughter 6:30-9:30p

KUUMBWA JAZZ 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Steve Lehman Trio $26.25/$31.50 6p

Sharon Allen & Dusty Books w/ Carolyn Sills Combo $25/$40 7:30p

LILLE AESKE 13160 CA-9, Boulder Creek

The Tannahill Weavers $18/$20 7:30p

Friday, September 27 • 7:30 PM

Bob Basa 6:30-9:30p

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

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS

Tickets: snazzyproductions.com

FELTON MUSIC HALL 6275 Hwy 9, Felton

GABRIELLA CAFE 910 Cedar St., Santa Cruz

A dazzling display of musicianship – fearless and bold.

Eliza Gilkyson w/ Nina Gerber $30/$33 7:30p

Saturday, September 28 • 8 PM

Firefly 6:30-9:30p

LARRY’S BIRTHDAY BENEFIT FOR EARTHJUSTICE.ORG: HIGHWAY 61, SONGS OF BOB DYLAN

Jenie Thai $20/$25 7p

David Tyler Fox w/ Jessie Marks $15/$20 7p

Girls & Company Free 5p AZA $15 8:30p

The Louisiana Picnic & Grateful Sunday ConDance $12/$15 2p Petty cert Series Free 5:30p Theft $20 8:30p

Tickets: brownpapertickets.com Cripple Creek Open Mic Acoustic Jam Free/$5 7:30p

Tuesday, October 1 • 7:30 PM

MADELEINE PEYROUX

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

AT THE RIO THEATRE

Thursday, October 3 • 7 PM

CIRCUS – KNIFE, BLOOD & FIRE Music from a new one-act theater production created by Joe Ortiz and Greg Fritsch, featuring Lori Rivera.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Monday, October 7 • 7 PM & 9 PM

AN EVENING WITH THE JULIAN LAGE TRIO

Hailed as one of the most prodigious guitarists of his generation.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS (9 PM) Thursday, October 10 • 7 PM & 9 PM

A landmark chapter in the storied career of a drum legend.

Monday, October 14 • 7 PM

GRACE KELLY

An electrifying saxophonist, genre-bending vocalist, and charismatic bandleader.

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SHOWS

LIVE MUSIC

SEP 19TH WED

BRANDON & BRENT PIERCE SEP 20TH

MATTHEW & THE ATLAS SEP 21ST

MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

9/18

Blind Rick Free 6p

SEP 22ND

FRI

Al Frisby Free 6p

Reggae Night Free 7p Trivia 8p

9/20

SAT

9/21

SUN

9/22

Lloyd Whitley Free 6p

Blue Mechanics Free 6p

Kid Andersen & John “Blues” Boyd Free 6p

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio $15/$20 7:30p

Blackalicious 20th Anniversary Tour $20/$25 8p

Lydia Pense & Cold Blood $20/$25 3p

MON

9/23

TUE

Jonathan Drydan & Jesse Malley Free 6p

Blues Mechanics Free 6p

Trevor Williams 9:30p Menage Free 7p

The Takeover, Hip Hop w/ DJ Marc 9:30p Oktoberfest w/ Thirsty Beats & Brews 9, Luckless Pedestrians Free 7p Free 12p-close

Tacos & Trivia Free 6:30p

Alex Lucero 2-5p

Dennis Dove & Friends 2-5p

Erin Avila 6-9p

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Beat Street 2-5p Comedy Free 8p

Open Mic Free 4-7p

Open Mic Free 8-11p

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

TITUS ANDRONICUS

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

SEP 25TH

ANDERSON EAST SEP 26TH

9/24

Ryan Price Free 10p-12a

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

CON BRIO

9/19

Tubby Love & Amber Lily, Mike Watt & the MissPeter Harper & more ingmen $25/$30 8p $10/$15 8p Libation Lab w/ SCMF King Wizard & 9:30p Chief Transcend 9:30p

NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz 99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz

THU

‘Geeks Who Drink’ Trivia Night 8p Variety Show w/ Toby Gray 6:30p

Acoustic Reggae Jam 6:30p

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Aloha Friday 6:30p

Featured Acts 6:30p

Banff Mountain Film Festival $20 7p

Pivot: the Art of Fashion Bobby McFerrin $25-$60 6:30p SOLD OUT 6:30p

ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Comedy Night 9p

First & Third Celtic Jam

Live DJ

Live DJ

THE SAND BAR 211 Esplanade, Capitola

Kid Dynamite 8p

Billy Martini 8p

DJ Spleece 9p

Wildflower & the Bees 9p

The Human Juke Box 6p

Open Mic 6p

Tuesday Trivia Night 6:30p

Trivia 7:30p Alex Lucero Open Jam 7:30p

Alex Lucero & Friends 7:30p

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Friday, September 20 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

MUSTACHE HARBOR

Sunday, September 22 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

MERSIV & MR. BILL

plus Dalfin

WED-SUN 4-9PM

Monday, September 23 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

FELTONMUSICHALL.COM

Tuesday, September 24 • Ages 16+

DUB TRIO

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HOT CHIP

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Sep 26 Loud Luxury/ CID (Ages 16+) Sep 28 & 29 Durand Jones & The Indications (Ages 16+) Oct 3 PNB Rock/ NoCap (Ages 16+) Oct 4 & 5 Steel Pulse (Ages 16+) Oct 10 Collie Buddz/ Keznamdi (Ages 16+) Oct 11 Riot Ten/ Al Ross (Ages 18+) Oct 12 Manila Killa/ Myrne (Ages 16+) Oct 14 Yung Gravy (Ages 16+) Oct 17 Common Kings (Ages 16+) Oct 19 & 20 Santa Cruz Music Festival (Ages 16+) Oct 23 The Distillers (Ages 16+) Oct 24 The Polish Ambassador (Ages 16+) Oct 25 The Devil Wears Prada (Ages 16+) Oct 26 The Garden/ Brooke Candy (Ages 16+) Oct 29 & 30 Shoreline Mafia (Ages 16+) Oct 31 Skizzy Mars (Ages 16+) Nov 1 P-Lo (Ages 16+) Nov 2 Elephante/ PLS&TY (Ages 16+) Nov 3 Sinead Harnett (Ages 16+) Nov 5 Earthgang/ Guapdad 4000 (Ages 16+) Nov 6 The Drums (Ages 16+) Nov 8 Sammy Johnson (Ages 16+) Nov 9 Ski Mask The Slump God (Ages 16+) Nov 10 Ekali (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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

www.catalystclub.com

Sep-Nov 2019 Fri, Sept 20 7:30 pm $25 Gen. Adv. $40 Gold Circle

Kuumbwa

Fri, Sept 27 7:30 pm $25 Gen. Adv. $32 Gold Circle

Kuumbwa

Tues, Oct 15 7:30 pm $25 Gen. Adv. $40 Gold Circle

Kuumbwa

Kuumbwa

Fri, Oct 18 7:30 pm $27 Gen. Adv. $40 Gold Circle

Kuumbwa

Thurs, Nov 7 7:30 pm $30 Gen. Adv. $40 Gold Circle

Snazzy at Michael’s On Main Tue, Sept 17 Wed, Sept 25 Wed, Oct 3 Thurs, Oct 31 Thurs, Nov 7

7:30 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm

Tony Furtado Band Way Out West Mira Goto The Sam Chase”The Halloween Event “ Costume Dance Party Del Rey

$17 Adv/ $20 Door $15 Adv/$15 Door $15 Adv/$20 Door $20 Adv/$25 Door $15 Adv/ $20 Door

each side (40 seats). Additional $4 for each ticket purchased at the door. Tax is included.

LIVE MUSIC WED

9/18

THU

9/19

FRI

9/20

SAT

9/21

SUN

9/22

MON

9/23

TUE

9/24

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz

Billy Martini Band 6:30p

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

Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-9p

Spun 8-11:30p

Patio Acoustics 1-4p Tsunami 8-11:30p

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Road, Capitola

Ken Constable 6:30-9:30p

Joe Ferrara 6:30-9:30p

Claudio Melega 7-10p

The Fixin’s Free 6p

Rory Lynch Free 2p, Moshe Vilozy 4:30p Iris 6p

STEEL BONNET 20 Victor Square, Scotts Valley

Brian Fitzgerald Free 5p

Tim & Angela Bennet Free 5p

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

Paul Trugman Free 5:30p

Erin Avila Free 5:30p

SHANTY SHACK BREWING 138 Fern St, Santa Cruz

Danger Band & Ryan Price Free 6p

Patio Acoustics 1-4p

Live Again Trio 6-9p

Piper Hayes Free 2p, Eric Morrison & the Mysteries 4p

UGLY MUG 4640 Soquel Ave, Soquel

Open Mic w/ Steven David 5:30p

VINOCRUZ 4901 Soquel Drive, Soquel

Myhaylo K 5-8p

Bobby Markowitz Flamenco 6-9p

VINO LOCALE 55 Municipal Wharf, Santa Cruz WHARF HOUSE 1400 Wharf Road, Capitola

Isis & the Cold Truth 1p

ZELDA’S 203 Esplanade, Capitola

Live Again 9:30p

Hot Fuse 1p

The John Michael Band 9:30p

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Upcoming Shows

SEP 19 Lecture: California on Fire SEP 20 Banff Centre Mountain Film SEP 21 Pivot: The Art of Fashion SEP 23 Bobby McFerrin SEP 28 Jim Messina OCT 01 Madeleine Peyroux OCT 04 Film: Fantastic Fungi OCT 05 Dave Mason OCT 08 Namibia: Land of the Cheetah OCT 09 Snatam Kaur OCT 11-12 Santa Cruz Surf Film Festival OCT 22 The Celtic Tenors OCT 24 Todd Snider and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott OCT 29 Film: Strong NOV 01 Film: Trail Vision Awards NOV 03 Simrit Kaur Music NOV 08 Richard Thompson NOV 09 Mountainfilm on Tour NOV 13 Los Lonely Boys NOV 17 Jesse Cook NOV 19 Lecture: Flea (Chili Peppers) NOV 20 A Tuba to Cuba NOV 21 Built To Spill NOV 23 Warren Miller’s “Timeless”

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GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR ROY Brad Pitt plays astronaut Major Roy McBride in ‘Ad Astra.’

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Brad Pitt’s latest, ‘Ad Astra,’ is a spaced-out take on Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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irector James Grey tries out a Terence Malick style in Ad Astra to crack the enigmatic calm of a Neil Armstrong type. Brad Pitt, bewitchingly cool and handsome in a space suit, plays near-future astronaut Major Roy McBryde. He is a famous man and a stranger to himself. In voice over, he muses over the lack of emotion that’s caused his wife (Liv Tyler) to leave him.

He’s honored at Space Command for a resting pulse that never breaks 80. Roy is cool under pressure, even when he plummets from a stratosphere-piercing antenna, nearly blacking out before his

parachute opens ... and then the chute is pierced by falling debris.

Roy has one nerve, and the story twists it. Roy’s father Clifford (Tommy Lee Jones) was a renowned astronaut who abandoned his family on a mission. Though he never came back, Clifford may still be alive, living in Neptunian orbit; inexplicable pulses from that direction are zapping the earth, killing tens of thousands. Perhaps it’s from the anti-matter generator Clifford took with him into deep space. Has he succumbed to space madness? In one last gamble, the Command sends Roy to Mars to deliver a secret message to Clifford.

Heart of Darkness parallels increase as Roy approaches. As we hear in the endless and mostly redundant firstperson narration, the moon has been turned into a tourist destination, complete with an Applebee’s and alien-masked buskers. Towering over the moon base is a replica of the cowboy Vegas Vick neon sign, the Las Vegas landmark. This is scolding stuff, compared to the fun Paul Verhoeven had with Mars as a carnival planet in Total Recall. A lunar dune buggy chase through the moon’s unpacified zones is interesting enough, but Gray’s not an action director. You know how Roy feels: it doesn’t raise the pulse.

In Mars’ underground tunnels, Roy meets an executive born and raised on the red planet; she’s played

by Ruth Negga, togged out in a handsome set of black pajamas. Like Donald Sutherland, who turned up earlier as a wary Space Command officer, Negga gets dropped from the movie, perhaps for the crime of being too distracting from Grey’s fathers-and-sons thesis.

In the Belt, Ad Astra has a passage illustrating the matter of whether our species belongs off-world, through a fatal encounter with a floating lab doing experiments on animals. It’s similar to the business of the abandoned ship of feral dogs in Claire Denis’ High Life. Ad Astra frets over the problem of human contagion of the pristine emptiness, of sending us apes where we don’t belong.

Gray endeavors to give this drama the sweep and detail of TV’s The Expanse. The over-explaining desiccates Ad Astra, despite both its 2-billion-mile scope, and Hoyte van Hoytema’s glowing photography.

There may be a reasonable explanation for the constant comments, even at their most redundant. Roy sees a frightened fellow officer and thinks aloud, “He’s scared”—is Roy, then, like a man with Asperger’s, always having to read other people’s emotions?

Pitt’s humanity, so evident in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, keeps one hooked through this. The lostfather drama can be tedious in the deftest hands. But this time, the celestial backdrop adds some allegorical freshness to the subject of fathers so obsessed with their business, so closed off from their families that they might as well be in ice-cold orbit around one of the outer planets. Jones is terrific at demonstrating that lack of regret, the inner deadness of one of these technical geniuses. But he also demonstrates flashes of the weakness and willfulness of a father on the edge of senility. Still, in the end, just like High Life, all Ad Astra can do is helplessly endorse the beauty and preciousness of Earth.

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FILM NEW RELEASES AD ASTRA Reviewed this issue. (PG13) 122 minutes.

AQUARELA OK, I know you’re thinking,“A documentary about water? What’s next? A film about watching paint dry?” But this doc from Russian director Victor Kossakovsky is already winning acclaim for bringing emotion, suspense and drama to his meditation about humankind’s interaction with H2O. So go see it!

Also, look for my upcoming film, Watching Paint Dry. (PG) 90 minutes.

(SP)

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DOWNTON ABBEY If, like me, you always thought the hit publictelevision show this film is based on was called “Downtown Abbey,” well, guess what? You are too dumb to watch the show or the movie.

Yes, people like us simply do not deserve the no doubt nuanced and cultured acting, writing, and old-timey clothes-wearing of this show, which is I assume about a woman named Abbey who lives downtown? Or she lives downton? Is downton a place you can live, I don’t even know. Anyway, if you did watch the show, why are you even reading this? It’s embarrassing for both of us. Of course you’re gonna go see this movie. Starring Elizabeth McGovern, Matthew Goode and Maggie Smith. (PG) 122 minutes. (SP)

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RAMBO: LAST BLOOD If you had to think of a name for a Rambo parody movie, wouldn’t Last Blood be pretty close to the top of the list?

Is there anything that represents the sheer bone-headed terribleness of this character and all the bloodsoaked, bullet-hell films Sylvester Stallone made after the original First Blood better than calling the last film in the series Last Blood? I’m almost disappointed that the tagline isn’t something equally making-you-expeliced-tea-from-your-nostrils ridiculous like “He’s good to the last drop.” In fact, the actual tagline is “Everyone has one last fight left in them.” Uh, were they thinking of Stallone’s other franchise, the Rocky movies?

Directed by Adrian Grunberg. (R) 89 minutes. (SP) CONTINUING EVENT: LET’S

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

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

Co-starring Morgan Freeman, Jada Pinkett Smith and Piper Perabo. (R) 120 minutes. (SP) BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON Can a movie be a comedy and an inspirational drama and not suck?

That’s the question this new film from first-time writer-director Paul Downs Colaizzo seeks to answer with a “yes.” Based on the real-life story of Colaizzo’s roommate Brittany O’Neill (whose photos are shown at the end), the film features Jillian Bell (getting her first starring role after impressing in Workaholics and Eastbound and Down) as a woman who takes up running to lose weight and ends up training for the New York City Marathon. Co-starring Michaela Watkins, Micah Stock and Alice Lee. (R) 104 minutes. (SP) FAST AND FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS AND SHAW HOBBS: Me played by Rock! Me hate you, Shaw! SHAW: Me played by Jason Statham! Me hate you, Rock …

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

by Idris Elba. My body has been equipped with cyber-genetic physical technology that has turned me into

a sort of supersoldier, and I’ve gone rogue from MI6 to become a terrorist mastermind. HOBBS: What now?

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

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

(PG-13) 135 minutes. (SP) GOOD BOYS Little kids swearing—it never gets old, right? In fact, the makers of Superbad, Sausage Party and other raunchfests have apparently decided that the littler they are, the funnier it is. And so we have Good Boys, a comedy about 6th graders saying bad words, being wrong about sex, and unknowingly using sex toys. And you thought highconcept comedy was dead. Directed

by Gene Stupnitsky. Starring Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams and Will Forte. (R) 89 minutes. (SP) HUSTLERS Remember that New York magazine article about strippers embezzling money from their Wall Street patrons? No? Well, your failure to get around to that stack of magazines you said you were going to read back in 2015 apparently didn’t faze studio execs, because they made a movie about it. But don’t worry, they probably didn’t read it, either. Written and directed by Lorene Scafaria. Starring Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez and Julia Stiles. (R) 109 minutes. (SP) IT: CHAPTER TWO It used to be that if there was particularly epic source material for something, people would say,“You could never fit that in a movie! It’s more like a TV show or a miniseries.” In fact, the first adaptation of Stephen King’s 1,138-page novel It was a 1990 TV miniseries that is mostly remembered now for Tim Curry playing Pennywise the Clown. It was shown over two nights, cost $12 million, and ran just over three hours, not counting commercials. Times have changed: at 169 minutes, this second part of the $100-million-plus film adaptation alone nearly matches the running time of the entire miniseries (the first installment from 2017 ran a comparatively brisk 135 minutes). This

adaptation is also packed with stars: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy and Bill Hader headline the adult Loser’s Club, which battled the murderous Pennywise as children in the first movie. But does anyone else feel like Curry’s kooky, low-budget Pennywise is still better than Bill Skarsgard’s intense but somehow bland take?

Directed by Andy Muschietti. (R) 169 minutes. (SP) LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE In a hilariously stupid negative review of this documentary, the slobberingly conservative National Review tried to argue that considering Ronstadt’s career through a political lens is an egregious distortion of cultural history.

Ultimately, the only thing they proved is that they know next to nothing about Ronstadt, whose political activism is legendary even in a music industry known for its earnest dogooding. As always, you can count on this time-tested rule: if the National Review doesn’t like a movie, it’s great.

Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. (PG-13) 95 minutes. (SP) OFFICIAL SECRETS Gavin Hood's tightly constructed and efficient suspense drama zeroes in on a few intrepid individuals facing tough moral choices as they uncover the campaign of misinformation and manipulation by the U.S. to try to legitimize its invasion of Iraq in the wake of 9/11. Keira Knightly brings stoic determination as Katharine Gun, an unassuming translator with Britain's information-gathering GCHQ, whose decision to leak a sensitive memo to the press to try to avert the war got her hauled up on charges of violating the Official Secrets Act. Ralph Fiennes and Matt Smith are terrific in supporting roles. The movie almost makes one nostalgic for the Bush era, when the revelation of bald-faced lying and corruption still had the power to incite outrage and moral courage. Those were the days. (R) 112 minutes. (LJ) ONCE UPON A TIME … IN HOLLYWOOD There was a lot of outrage when Quention Tarantino announced his next movie would include the story of the Manson murders. Apparently, people thought

it might glorify Manson, a concern that the casting of beady-eyed Damon “Let Me Be Your Creepy Guy” Herriman in the role should have allayed. Also, this is the filmmaker who killed off Hitler and gave Southern slave owners their comeuppance— fulfilling revenge fantasies is kinda his thing. It’ll be interesting to see how he works this true-crime angle into a fictional story of over-the-hill TV actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) in the fading days of 1960s Hollywood. Co-starring Margot Robbie, Kurt Russell and Al Pacino. (R) 161 minutes. (SP) OVERCOMER I want it on the record that I am writing about this religiousbased drama under protest, as I am completely opposed to … films whose titles turn verbs into nonsensical new nouns. What will they call the sequel to this feelgood story of a failed high school basketball coach who finds new hope training a cross-country athlete? Coacher? The Assisterer?

Overcomerest? Directed by Alex Kendrick. (PG) (SP) THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON Someday you’ll meet someone quirky who considers Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s audiencepleasing The Peanut Butter Falcon their favorite movie of all time. That choice wouldn’t be disgraceful; like the star Zack Gottsagen, this movie is on its own wavelength. Gottsagen’s character Zak introduces himself: “I am a Down’s Syndrome person.”

He’s stubby, stubborn, and he wins you over fast with the strength of his own agenda and his willingness to carry it out. Zak is a fan of professional wrestling and one vintage wrestler in particular, the SaltWater Redneck (Thomas Haden Church), who he watches repeatedly on a VHS tape.

This obsession spurs his plan to flee the coastal North Carolina old folks’ home where he’s being kept. He stows away in the boat of another fugitive, Tyler (Shia LaBoeuf). As a road trip movie, it’s like The Last Detail done watery. The two southward-bound runners are at last joined by Eleanor (Dakota Johnson), who tended to Zak at the nursing home and who is responsible for tracking him down.

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ith a robust CaliforniaMediterranean menu and buffed interior, Avanti is settling into its 21st-century identity. New owners Jonathan and Tatiana Glass have made some attractive decisions.

The side patio is now fully enclosed, lined with ferns and holds its own as a separate party room. An emerald moss sculpture stretches across the far back wall, overlooking curved wood seating, grey upholstery and white walls free of artwork. Slightbut-significant changes give the new Avanti (note, no more “Ristorante”

in the name) a breezy, coastalmodern feel. And, as we discovered at lunch last week, the food has never been better, We started with one of the special drink options, a Cucumber Cooler ($8), utterly refreshing with cucumber, elderflower and lime muddled with Seedlip n/a gin and soda. A mocktail for late summer sophisticates. With it, we shared an appetizer special of plump salmon fritters, a crunchy trio perched on house marinara with a freshly made mayonnaise dipping sauce and a wedge of lime ($13). My companion was busy taking in the details of the stonework around the

BY CHRISTINA WATERS windows and alcoves that give the interior distinction. Skylights keep the room suffused with soft light.

Our entrees were excellent. I always have loved one of the house classics, the confit of Liberty Duck ($19), served with roasted potatoes and a sauté of baby carrots, onions and fresh green beans, the market vegetables of the day. This dish has it all, with the sensory contrasts I expect of a classic: the intensity of duck fat and crisp, salty skin; the earthiness of potatoes; the sweetness of the beans and carrots.

Terrifically satisfying.

Jack went for a gorgeous plate

of lamb meatballs with red pepperlaced marinara arranged atop a trio of grilled polenta cakes ($13).

A generous grating of parmigiano reggiano and chopped parsley dusted every item on the long, rectangular stoneware plate. Trying not to grin while he ate, my companion inhaled a third of this dish before he came up for air. My fork reached over and gave it a try. I started grinning, too. The sensitivity to design of the new interior was echoed by the sensitivity to textures and design of the food. The marinara sauce, pungent with fresh herbs and the depth of slow-cooked tomatoes, was almost addictive. The kind of thing you might happily put on corn flakes.

Jack approved. This is the perfect place to meet for lunch, he agreed. There are still plenty of Italianate entrées—lasagne, ravioli, pappardelle, gnocchi, even clams and linguine—to keep the old-school regulars content. Appetizers are getting creative. Lots of calamari specials and market garden salads.

Checking out the dessert menu, I noted with pleasure that the insanely decadent butterscotch budino with salted caramel sauce was still available. No matter how full you are, once you’ve had a single bite of this semi-legal dessert, you cannot stop eating. So I made sure to try something new. I almost caved at the very idea of mascarpone mousse cake with nectarine glaze, or (upon the high approval rating by savvy hostess Christi Caviglia) the chocolate olive oil cake. But I decided on homemade peach pie with almond crumble and vanilla gelato ($10). Two spoons. A luxurious, pampering pie, it was plump with fresh peaches and festooned with almondy bits of crumbled butter, brown sugar and more almonds. At the side, providing contrast, was an austere, barely sweet scoop of vanilla gelato. I kicked myself that I hadn’t ordered an espresso to pair with this lavish made-for-two dessert. But of course, there’s next time.

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n a move from the gym to the kitchen, entrepreneurial couple Chris Diaz and Andrea Rosas started Easy Preps, a company selling ready-made healthy meals as an alternative to takeout.

The pair, who have both competed in fitness competitions, offer lighter takes on staples like orange chicken, chile con carne or or keto lasagna ($7-9 each). Customers can choose between in-person pick up at gyms including Santa Cruz Power Fitness or weekly home delivery for $5 more.

Where did you come up with the concept for Easy Preps?

ANDREA ROSA: The idea of Easy Preps started a little over a year ago. It was created on an Instagram page, and it was meant for us to share recipe ideas and healthier options for people to follow, fitness tips. But that was it—it was an idea. We left it for a year, and a year later we said, ‘Let’s do it.’

Where do you get meal ideas?

ANDREA ROSA: Many different ways. The first thought is, ‘What is something I crave when dieting, and how can I change it, how can I modify it, for what my needs are?’

What are your go-to recommendations?

ANDREA ROSA: The fiesta bowl is definitely a must-try. It was one of our very first menu items, and it took a lot of work. It has a combination of traditional spices, so the first thing you taste is tacos without the guilt. Also, our Thai noodles. It’s a low-carb, Asianinfused plate.

What is your goal for your customers?

CHRIS DIAZ: We are trying to create a sustainable lifestyle that people can continue to carry on, instead of the 12-week programs that we see on social media, where you diet very hard and you just can’t wait for that 12-week program to end so you can go have your cheat meal.

How do you order a meal plan?

ANDREA ROSA: Go on our website, and it’s very straight forward. You click on a meal, and you have two options: either a 4 oz. or a 6-oz. protein. You have the option of delivering to your door, or you can pick up at a local hub. easy-preps.com.

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was thrilled to find Margins Wine’s Muscat Blanc 2018 ($22) at A.J.’s Market in Soquel.

Produced by adventurous winemaker Megan Bell, this aromatic, dry white wine also contains 10% Chenin Blanc.

It has a touch of honeysuckle and Asian pear, and “smells like fresh rosewater,” Bell says.

Her goal is to produce lowintervention wines using grapes from under-represented vineyards and varietals. “We are part of the growing movement in California to make wines from sustainably farmed vineyards using little to no additives during the winemaking process, thereby showcasing the vineyards the grapes came from,” Bell says.

Margins will be pouring their wines, including the Muscat Blanc 2018, at Seascape Sports Club from 6-7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20.

Heavy hors d’oeuvres are served with four or five Margins wines.

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GROVE GATHERING Don’t miss this unique Felton culinary journey! Be transported

by the magic of steam to a dining experience among the trees. Savor a delightful five-course Italian menu prepared by Roaring Camp’s Chef Alessio Casagrande, direct from Italy. Includes appetizers, dinner and dessert, plus a one-hour steam train ride to Bear Mountain. A no-host bar will also be available at this romantic feast in the redwoods.

4:30-8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28. roaringcamp.com/events. $99.

DINNER AT LIVE EARTH

Farm Discovery at Live Earth Farm will host “Element,” the annual benefit dinner supporting environmental and nutrition education programs for local youth.

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H RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES SATURN: LORD OF KARMA

On Wednesday, Saturn (dweller, teacher, disciplinarian), after four months of being retrograde, turns stationary direct. Saturn offers us lesson after lesson concerning the “rules of the road” governing the cosmos as well as Earth (a Mystery school, our classroom).

Saturn is Ray 3 of Divine Intelligence. Earth is also Ray 3. Which means that humanity, living on the Earth, is to develop intelligence and the ability to think, discern and discriminate.

Saturn brings us lessons in daily life so that we integrate the rules, live by them and become responsible citizens.

Saturn retrograded April 29 in Capricorn.

Saturn is at home in Capricorn. Both teach responsibility, discipline and hard work,

ensuring that we understand the Rule of Law. When a planet is retrograde, we return to the past, assessing and integrating what we have learned. When a planet turns direct, we begin a new cycle, and a new order of things comes forth.

Let us consider the past four-and-a-half months. What hard work, achievements and responsibilities did we assume? What did we create? What direction did we take? What were the strains, stresses and conflicts encountered?

Next week, Saturn joins the South Node (our past presenting itself to us). For two weeks, and then until Jan. 12, our Dweller on the Threshold seeks the Angel of the Presence. And Karma seeks release.

ARIES Mar21–Apr20

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22

The dweller is at the top of your astrology chart— teaching you limitations, knowing that at times everyone is limited and restricted is a freedom. Knowledge frees us. There has been an assessment and analysis of personal achievements, abilities, success, and standing in the world, creating a set of questions. What are my ambitions? What do I want to achieve in the world? Am I working hard enough? Do I have adequate discipline?

How am I rewarded? Do I have Divine Discontent?

This is a time of inner re-working of what family means to you; past, present and future. You will recognize the critical stage in which you made a life decision which created certain psychological events in your life and that of the family. Now you are to rework this decision. Differentiate yourself from childhood difficulties; re-organize mind and heart so that the feeling of being unsupported shifts to a sense of understanding, seeing your childhood through the lens of kindness and compassion.

TAURUS Apr21–May21

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21

Deep learning and study have taken place, and now integration will occur. Perhaps you traveled to a mountain, over hill and dale to places far away. At first this didn’t make sense. In coming months, the purpose of the travel will be clear. You begin to know where you are headed, where the arrow of life is pointing, and once again life is an adventure, a stage upon which one courageously “plays their part.” There’s more to come.

It’s important to network with those around you, gathering and sharing intelligence information, which allows everyone to feel more useful and effective in the world. Perhaps it’s time to gather a group of friends, create a seminar, a study group, or even a garden. It’s good to include siblings. Let any doubts fall away as to your communication skills. Often, Scorpios don’t feel able to communicate. However, when their heart is touched, their golden expertise in all things emerges.

Esoteric Astrology as news for week of Sept. 18, 2019

GEMINI May 22–June 20 What are you seeking, and what are you sensitive to?

These questions are posed by Saturn, helping us to know and realize our deepest needs. What isn’t working these days with relationships, finances and resources?

Are frustration and power issues building? And do you feel a sense of mortality? It’s wise to write down all that is needed. And then visualize that it all comes true. This isn’t superstition. It’s creativity. Especially for a Gemini.

CANCER Jun21–Jul20

LE0 Jul21–Aug22 Everyday realities—work, habits, health, tending to the self—are most important. Assessing your values, you carefully bring them into practical use in and around the home and the environments you work in. Small animals and gardens, health and well-being, exercise, organization, and your productive use of time are to be the focus.

It’s vital that everything is simple, uncomplicated and manageable. Let nothing be neglected.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 For many months perhaps, there’s been a sense that the fire within was extinguished. There has been less and less get up and go. You now seek a new sense of purpose, a stronger sense of self-identity and creativity. When we create something, our self-identity is strengthened and brought to light. You seek to express yourself in useful ways and eventually a deep and essential recognition and love of self begins to dawn. It’s subtle. Watch for it.

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SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 Saturn calls you to assess your personal values and standards and determine what constitutes ease, pleasure and well-being. You will want to put down real roots. There’s a drive and willingness to sacrifice and to persevere. You seek to know what is of real importance, especially in terms of land and real estate. Investing in land at this time is suggested. Wanting real substance, you become, for the first time, the true architect and designer of your life. You thus accomplish much.

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 Have you felt sober and serious these past months?

Have you experienced insecurities, rejection, criticisms, and disappointment concerning certain people’s actions and words towards you? Has this created a deep introspection? You always attempt to rise above difficulties, focusing on your own dreams and visions and guarding your emotions and expressions so as not to feel judged. Saturn says to see yourself as a jewel in the lotus. A rich inner life develops along with wisdom.

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 The changes you have experienced these past years will continue. Change often brings about states of insecurity, sometimes depression. Do not let change affect you in this way. Know that change helps us adapt, forcing us to seek a new state of comfort, security and well-being. Remove yourself immediately from any dangerous “ordeals.” Do not resist or fight; simply face a new direction. Eliminate all things no longer used or needed. Release seven times seven times seven. Then you are free.

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PISCES Feb19–Mar20 You are both a private and a public person. You are both out in the world, yet a hermit. You have visions of community and each day through consistent effort and authentic power you create foundations for the new world order. This is at times quite a challenge. You are a scout for the future, a messenger leading humanity to a new home again.

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Cancers may feel quite withdrawn, unable to compromise, be flexible or adaptable. This will pass.

Is there a sense of lonesomeness, solitude, as if in seclusion? Only real relationships that offer truth and friendship will weather these times. You define and then redefine the differences between casual, superficial, real, and unsatisfying relationships. And make choices. Only a few golden ones remain.

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NO. 2019-0001477 The following Individual is doing business as COSMIC GEOGRAPHY. 711 B CAYUGA ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. ANJOLI MARIE KUMRA. 711 B CAYUGA ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ANJOLI MARIE KUMRA. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 8/20/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 20, 2019. August 28, September 4, 11, & 18.

DUCHARME. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/15/2014. Original FBN number: 2014-0002329. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 29, 2019. Sept. 4, 11, 18, & 25.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001521 The following Married Couple is doing business as STANTON SQUARED. 23644 MOUNTAIN CHARLIE ROAD, LOS GATOS, CA 95033. County of Santa Clara. JULIE ELAINE STANTON & RICHARD AARON STANTON. 23644 MOUNTAIN CHARLIE ROAD, LOS GATOS, CA 95033. This business is conducted by a Married Couple signed: JULIE ELAINE STANTON. 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 August 29, 2019. Sept. 11, 18, 25, & Oct. 2.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001467 The following Individual is doing business as FRANK'S CONSTRUCTION. 114 BARSON ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. FRANK MELVIN RIVERA AVALOS. 114 BARSON ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: FRANK MELVIN RIVERA AVALOS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 7/1/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 19, 2019. August 28, September 4, 11, & 18.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001408 The following Individual is doing business as OPERATION FEED THE PEOPLE. 155 MADRONA RD., BOULDER CREEK, CA 95006.

County of Santa Cruz. ERIC JAN ADEMA. 155 MADRONA RD., BOULDER CREEK, CA 95006. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ERIC JAN ADEMA. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 8, 2019. August 28, September 4, 11, & 18.

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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001486 The following Corporation is doing business as HOMELESS SERVICES CENTER. 115 CORAL ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. HOUSING MATTERS. 115 CORAL ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. Al# 1526216. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: HOUSING MATTERS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 7/31/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 22, 2019. Sept. 4, 11, 18, & 25.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001496 The following Individual is doing business as SEAQUOIA WILD SEAWEEDS. 254 POTRERO ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. IAN TAYLOR O'HOLLAREN. 1191 CHURCH ST., VENTURA, CA 93001. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: IAN TAYLOR O'HOLLAREN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 26, 2019. September 4, 11, 18 & 25.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001495 The following Individual is doing business as COWGIRL CATERING SANTA CRUZ. 1255 HIGH ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. DANIELLE ASHLEY PEARL. 1255 HIGH ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: DANIELLE ASHLEY PEARL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 9/1/2018. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 26, 2019. September 4, 11, 18, & 25.

REFILING OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT WITH CHANGE FILE NO. 20190001527. The following Individual is doing business as VIBRANT EXPRESSION. 105 BAJA SOL DRIVE, SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95066. County of Santa Cruz.

THERESE DUCHARME. 105 BAJA SOL DRIVE, SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95066. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: THERESE

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001545 The following Individual is doing business as ACTIVATING RVS SERVICE & STORAGE. 518 HARRIET AVE., APTOS, CA 95003.

County of Santa Cruz. DONALD EARL GREER, JR. 518 HARRIET AVE., APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: DONALD EARL GREER, JR. 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 4, 2019.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001511 The following Individual is doing business as SANTA CRUZ DUMPRUNS. 134 BAY HEIGHTS, SOQUEL, CA 95073. County of Santa Cruz. ROBERT JOSEPH SPORL. 134 BAY HEIGHTS, SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ROBERT JOSEPH SPORL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 28, 2019. September 11, 18, 25, & October 2.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001493 The following Individual is doing business as WAVE GUARDIAN RECORDS. 115 STOREY ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. SAMUEL NELSON BOODT. 115 STOREY ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: SAMUEL NELSON BOODT. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 26, 2019. September 11, 18, 25 & Oct. 2.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001503 The following Individual is doing business as SMOOTH AT THE NOOK, SMOOTH BODY LOUNGE. 1543 PACIFIC AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. CHERI CHASE. 429 WINDHAM ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: CHERI CHASE. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 26, 2019. September 11, 18, 25 & Oct. 2.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001549 The following Individual is doing business as RM PLUMBING. 246 JACKSON ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz.

JOSE FRANCISCO ROCHA. 246 JACKSON ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JOSE FRANCISCO ROCHA. 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 5, 2019. September 11, 18, 25 & Oct. 2.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001506 The following Individual is doing business as LASHED BY KRIS. 1515 CAPITOLA RD., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz.

JENNIFER KRISTAL MOREIRA. 4411 CORTEZ DR., SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JENNIFER KRISTAL MOREIRA. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 27, 2019. September 11, 18, 25 & Oct. 2.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001528 The following Individual is doing business as COUNSELING THROUGH CREATIVITY. 3050 ELDA LANE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz. MELINDA MARIE MARTINDALE. 3050 ELDA LANE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MELINDA MARIE MARTINDALE. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 29, 2019. September 11, 18, 25 & Oct. 2.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001360 The following Individual is doing business as BAY CARPETS & UPHOLSTERY CARE. 11 ZEPHYR CT., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. OSCAR TOLEDO-SAENZ. 11 ZEPHYR CT., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: OSCAR TOLEDO-SAENZ. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 8/5/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 05, 2019. September 18, 25, Oct. 2 & 9.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001553 The following Individual is doing business as MARTZ CLEANING. 575 BALTUSROL DR., APTOS, CA 95003. County of Santa Cruz.

PATRICIA B. MENDOZA. 575 BALTUSROL DR., APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: PATRICIA B. MENDOZA. 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 Sept.

5, 2019. September 18, 25, Oct. 2, & 9.

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Today’s big question: Why Aren’t More Sellers Selling? Very few folks would disagree with the notion that historic low inventory has been the driving force in the market for the last five or six years. But what’s unclear is the WHY behind it all. What factors have contributed to the huge crimp in the supply side of the equation?

Let’s continue deciphering this riddle wrapped in a mystery inside of a market enigma by looking at one of the prime suspects: Move-Down Buyers (aging baby-boomers and their Octogenarian parents) who have the following things in common: They’ve owned their homes for a long time and have lots of equity.

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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF JOSE VALENTIN RICO RODRIGUEZ CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV02668. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner JOSE VALENTIN RICO RODRIGUEZ has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from:JOSE VALENTIN RICO RODRIGUEZ to: VALENTIN RICO RODRIGUEZ. 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 October 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: Sept. 5, 2019. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001567 The following Individual is doing business as SANTA CRUZ WINDOW TINTING. 715 SAN JUAN AVE. #A, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95065.

County of Santa Cruz. BRYCE GOERING. 715 SAN JUAN AVE. #A, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95065. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: BRYCE GOERING. 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 Sept. 6, 2019. September 18, 25, Oct. 2, & 9.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001436 The following Individual is doing business as YOUR PLACE IS THE BEST PLACE. 1719 MISSION ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. RACHEL WISOTSKY. 125 OXFORD WAY, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: RACHEL WISOTSKY. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 13, 2019. September 18, 25, Oct. 2, & 9.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001605. The following Copartnership is doing business as SHANDOKAN TRIBAL MARTIAL ARTS AND CROSS TRAINING. 2232 S. RODEO GULCH RD., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. ROBERT WILSON IVAN. 1705 ESCALONDA DR., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060 & SITHAN PAT. 2232 S. RODEO GULCH RD., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by a Copartnership signed: SITHAN PAT. 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 Sept. 13, 2019. Sept 18, 25, Oct. 2 & 9.

If only they could figure out how to do it in a way that makes sense and feels right. If only they could think their way past the push-pull of the Chinese finger-trap, torture-puzzle that comes with aging. If only they could learn the secret Jedi Mind-Trick that would allow them sell their home in seamless fashion while simultaneously buying a smaller, less expensive one, better suited to the future.

At first glance, you wouldn’t think it would be that hard to sell a big house and buy a small one in Santa Cruz. But, if it were that easy, hundreds of would-be sellers I’ve talked to over the last few years would already have their houses on the MLS. They’d be in escrow, moving on to smaller and better things in life.

And of course, the inventory of homes for sale would be much higher than it is now and presumably the market would be a much happier place to buy in. So what’s the hold-up? What makes it so hard to downsize in Santa Cruz? Are people asking for too much? Their priorities look pretty simple: They want smaller single level houses.

They want to be closer in to community and conveniences.

They want to free up a chunk of equity for their retirement.

These are all desirable qualities of life that everyone can relate to, right? Which is part of the problem, of course. Buyers young and old are competing for the same kinds of houses in the same price ranges, and that makes the transition between selling and buying anything but seamless.

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ERIC FRANK GREENE CASE NO. 19PR00183.

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: A Petition for Probate has been filed by COLLEEN CASEY in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CRUZ. The Petition for Probate requests that COLLEEN CASEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: 08/12/2019 Time: 8:30 AM Dept.: 10 Address of court: 701 OCEAN ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Petitioner: COLLEEN CASEY 1100 GRAHAM HILL RD., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. (831)-461-4518

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APTOS/RIO DEL MAR

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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. Large level lot, fenced back yard w/artist or home office cottage. $1,199,000 Host: Susan Steely DRE# 01002379

720 Pleasant Valley Ln, Aptos Mostly single level, sunny ridge top, 3BR/2.5BA, 2,353 sq ft home on 1.43 acres. Custom hand crafted oak built-ins throughout & updated custom oak floors. Large family/rec room featuring wet bar, pool table, ping pong table, dart board. Storage sheds, oversized 2-car garage. $1,195,000 Host: Scott Cheney DRE# 00902643

4424 Starboard Ct, Soquel Terrific 3BR/1.5BA home in well maintained Soquel Knolls! Located a few minutes from the beach, Capitola & Soquel Villages. Community features include: Enclosed pool & spa, green belt/lawns; paved walks.

2nd story single level unit, private deck, dual pane windows.

Best value in the area. $529,000 Host: Rob Harrison DRE# 02069628

203 Ranchitos Del Sol, Aptos Mediterranean, light filled 3BR/2.5BA, 2,000sf home in desirable Day Valley features beamed ceilings, hardwood & tile floors, new carpet & paint. Chef’s kitchen, stainless appliances, wine coolers, Wolf range. All BR’s feature private decks. Nearly half an acre of flat landscaped grounds. Hot Tub. $1,069,000 Host: Joe Wright DRE# 00865000

535 Clubhouse Dr, Aptos Contemporary 4BR/2BA home located within the Rio Del Mar elementary school boundary. Natural light is accentuated by vaulted ceilings & dual pane windows throughout. Cozy kitchen recently updated. Tiled back splash compliments the natural wood cabinets. $797,000 Host: Bret Zischke DRE# 01413081

4425 Clares #82, Capitola Loma Vista Estates! Quiet, centrally located 55+ co-op community. Organized events & affordable HOA fee. 2BR/2BA home on spacious lot. Beautiful updated kitchen. Open porch, added sunroom. This home has much to offer & is a special find. Walk to Capitola Mall & the Village. $375,000 Host: Jill Lindsay DRE# 01797789

250 Beachgate Way, Seacliff Life is good when you live at Seacliff Beach. 2-story Mediterranean, with reverse floor plan. The Beachgate Trail is 5 homes away delivering miles of beach enjoyment. Seacliff Village is down the block, home to Marianne’s Ice Cream & Manuel’s Restaurant. $1,025,000 Host: Curt Abramson DRE# 01454446

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. $720,000 Host: Candie Noel DRE# 01339841

1774 Seascape Blvd, Seascape Upscale end unit townhome in desirable Seascape. This 2BR/2.5BA home has a spacious living area, high ceilings, fireplace, & lots of natural light. Two decks for your enjoyment & a delightful backyard. Prime location for a beach get-away or primary residence. $799,000 Host: Marilyn Johnson DRE# 01095691

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! $899,000 Host: Pat Simmons DRE# 01211263

208 Burnham Ct, Aptos Spectacular 4BR/3BA, 2,194sf home nestled in the Rio Del Mar hills with ocean views from all decks & most rooms. Two remote controlled retractable awnings.

This unassuming looking cottage will surprise you. Updated kitchen, remodeled 1/2 bath. Tiered & ultra private back yard. $1,699,000 Host: Krystle Robinson DRE# 01980910

CAPITOLA/SOQUEL 4410 Diamond St #4, Capitola Popular Capitola Shores! Upstairs 2BR/ 1BA single level unit gives you privacy at your door. Close to 41st Ave shops, Capitola’s village & also, Pleasure Point!

Affordable first home, vacation property or rental. Upstairs units are the largest homes in this community. $489,000 Host: Sheila Nittler Connelly DRE# 01448300

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SANTA CRUZ 730 Tanner Ct, Santa Cruz Walk to SC Yacht Harbor or bike to nearby beaches from this 18 year new, 2,043 sq ft, high-end custom home located on quiet Cul-de-Sac in convenient mid-town location. Features include open floor plan, vaulted ceilings, tile & wood floors, mature landscaped yards. $1,269,000 Host: Winslow Burke DRE# 02044541 156 Montclair Dr, Santa Cruz Quality built peaceful home in Rollingwoods Estates neighborhood. Wonderfully private from the road w/views of nature from every window. Carmel styled home perfectly positioned for entertaining. 3BR/3BA, 2,260sf, 2BR/2BA on lower level. Both levels have access to expansive patios & decks. 2 gas fireplaces. Scotts Valley Schools. $1,220,000 Host: Valerie Mishkin DRE# 02092111 220 Atlantic Ave #307, Santa Cruz Very cute, spacious 1BR/1BA bright & airy 3rd floor unit. Beautiful laminate floors, granite counter tops. Nice views from living area & private deck. Relaxing pool area. One block from Ocean. Must see to appreciate! $529,000 Host: Paul Wilson DRE# 02063338

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132 Pearl, Santa Cruz Wow! Great price to be in town, close to beach, Seabright, downtown. Walk or ride your bike to everything. Gated backyard, garage, parking. New kitchen. Wood counters.

This is a jewel, Must see! $739,999 Host: Bryan Chambers DRE# 01459135

16605 Big Basin Way #12, Boulder Creek Don’t miss out on possibly the best location at the Boulder Creek Golf Course. This 2BR/2BA, 1,394 sf condo features single level living, vaulted ceilings, private deck and only steps to the community pool. First time on the market in over 40 years! $475,000 Hosts: Lori Hoover Hayley Hackett DRE# 00677874 & DRE# 02002432

323 Broadway #E1, Santa Cruz First level, corner end unit in great community. Gated entry & ground level secure parking, elevator access. 2BR/2BA, 1,180sf condo. Birch kitchen cabinets, tile counters, recessed ceiling & under cabinet lighting. Solid doors. New carpet in bedrooms. Pool & spa. $529,000 Host: Tarah Fyock DRE# 02095120

SAN LORENZO VALLEY 685 Fiddlesticks Dr, Ben Lomond Completely renovated, exquisite 3BR/3.5BA, 2,099 sq ft estate home situated at the end of the road amidst 11 acres of redwoods. 5 mins to Ben Lomond or Felton. Marble counters, reclaimed oak flooring, outdoor shower, cat/dog condo. Expansive redwood deck. Too many upgrades to list. Must see for yourself! $1,600,000 Host: Debbie Marty DRE# 01718549 11253 Highway 9, Brookdale Entertainer’s Paradise. 3BR/2BA, 1,378 sq ft mountain retreat. Don’t miss this amazing home, first time on the market since the 70’s.

Walking distance to Brookdale Lodge and lots of space outside for entertaining. You will love this mountain retreat with so much to offer! $715,000 Host: Kelly Mechem DRE# 01959885

SCOTTS VALLEY 197 Glenwood Dr, Scotts Valley This is the one! SINGLE level, 3BR/2BA, 1,625 sq ft, nestled to back of nearly 10,000 sq ft level lot! Open beam ceiling in LR, manicured private yard w/new deck, canning kitchen.

Scotts Valley Schools. Just a few minutes to all amenities, highway 17 & much more! $929,000 Host: Pat Simmons DRE# 01211263

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

Open floor plan, mid-century style with inside/outside California living flair. Excellent separation of space, several special nooks to explore. Ideal for multi-generational families. $1,995,000 Host: Gloria Behman DRE# 01483481

Valerie Mishkin has joined Team Bailey, as a Realtor®, in our Santa Cruz office.

Born in West Texas, Valerie lived on four continents prior to returning to Texas as a teen. Following her passion for theater and the arts Valerie went on to study Art at the San Antonio Art Institute and University of Texas. Throughout her 20’s Valerie lived in Dallas working in fashion and art before a move to the island of Kauai, Hawaii where she lived for 14 years while raising her three daughters. 2004 found Valerie and her family moving to Santa Cruz where she pursued a new direction and career as a Massage Therapist practicing Neurological Integration.

“Santa Cruz was the perfect fit for my love of the arts, music and the outdoors.” With the decision to enter the real estate industry Valerie can combine all her life experiences to assist her clients in creating solutions to their housing and investment needs. “Bailey Properties is the established link and leader in community service, and market expertise throughout Santa Cruz and the Monterey Bay area making my choice an easy one.”

Valerie Mishkin DRE# 02092111

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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 workbench & storage. $412,500 Host: Jill Lindsay DRE# 01797789

Kori Williams, Realtor® joins Team Bailey in our Aptos Office.

Kori has grown up in the Aptos community and joins our team of agents after working as a Project Coordinator for a local residential construction company. She brings with her a wealth of knowledge and connections from working with contractors, designers and building officials throughout Santa Cruz County. A graduate from Sonoma State University, in 2016 Kori played volleyball and received a Bachelors in Sociology. Kori likes to spend her time away from Real Estate practicing Pilates at her favorite local studio, spending time with friends and family, traveling, and getting her Mexican food fix at Manuel’s in Seacliff. Her passion for volleyball goes beyond playing for 14 years, she’s also the JV Girls Volleyball coach at her alma mater, Aptos High. Kori is passionate about providing you the utmost quality and service to make your transaction run smoothly. “I am excited to use the tools, marketing and support at Bailey properties to connect with you and build meaningful relationships.”

Kori Williams DRE# 02094844

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617 Peartree Dr, Watsonville 2 bedroom, 2 full bathroom home in the coveted Adult Village of Watsonville. Low maintenance landscaping, Close to the newly renovated East Lake Shopping Center. Priced to sell. $432,000

Host: Ed Gagñe DRE# 01450406

17160 Creekbed Ct, Morgan Hill Wonderful 2BR+huge loft/2.5BA, 1,600+ sq ft townhouse in beautiful gated community. Spacious living/dining combo w/ fireplace. Kitchen w/stainless appl & new flooring. Interior laundry, new A/C. Complex has low HOA dues & lush common space. Close to everything. $639,000 Host: Rob Harrison DRE# 02069628

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Zach Hewett, Realtor® joins Team Bailey in our Aptos Office.

Zach has been a fixture in the community of Aptos for over a decade as a teacher, coach, and role model for high school students. His experiences in the public sector give him a unique perspective on what it means to be client-centered and to meet people where they are.

A graduate from Willamette University in 2007 with a degree in English, Zach also played football for the Bearcats. He obtained his teaching credential from CSUMB and a Masters degree in Athletic Administration from Ohio University. Zach coaches’ football and track & field at Aptos High and has over 20 years of combined coaching experience. He is also an avid reader and loves to cook new and interesting meals.

Zach’s goal is to help his clients connect their dreams to their reality by helping them navigate the real estate process. “I am honored to be invited to join Bailey properties and look forward to advancing my career and supporting their role in the community.”

Zach Hewett DRE# 02096511

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120 Lake Dr #6, Boulder Creek WOW! New Kitchen, Appliances, Bathroom Upgraded. Stunning, sunny 18th Green view, open floor plan, double pane windows, newer wood floors, Great Price. Great Location. EZ 45-minute commute to Silicon Valley. Wood burning fireplace. $344,999 Host: Bryan Chambers DRE# 01459135

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Thank you Becky for making the sale of our home so easy. You were helping us before, during and after it was over. Your knowledge of the market gave us the confidence to be sure that our house was priced right, and would sell quickly. You took the time to explain the paperwork that goes with the process and made Marilyn and I comfortable with a lot of things that were new to us. I especially liked the fact that you kept track of how the house was showing and let us know what the people going though it liked and disliked. I tend to worry, but when we had questions you always called us back with answers. Thank you for the secure feeling that we had knowing that you were really looking out for us. It really was a pleasure having you work for us.

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Pat & Marilyn Edwards Becky is an outstanding realtor. We have used Becky three times buying and selling our homes. She gets you top dollar for your home and helps you get into your new home quick and easy.

Becky is a one stop REALTOR, she is with you from the beginning to the end, every step. I would recommend Becky Campos to all my friends and to anyone who is selling or buying a home.

William & Virgie Neighbors Hiring Becky Campos was the best decision we could have made. She worked so hard to sell our property on West Bel Mar. It took some time but she always kept us posted on how things were going. It was acreage that needed a special buyer for that property. She made the process way easy for us and we would definitely use her again. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing to work with.

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Sell the darling 2 bedroom home on 2.5 acres for approximately $650,000 +-. Build on each lot and sell off or create family compound.

4 total parcels. 3 vacant with NO homes on them ranging from 2.5 to 3.49 acres each. 12 total acres. Water and road agreements in place.

Gorgeous views and gentle rolling hills with green meadows and some older apple trees, perhaps plant more trees, gardens, vineyard, horses etc. Lots of possibilities. Sold as a package all 4 lots.

Gorgeous adult village home with 2 bedrooms plus Den with double doors.

This home is pretty special with it being newly remodeled with new cabinets and full backsplash granite in kitchen. Both baths redone, tiled floors throughout home, crown molding in every room, stainless appliances, flagstone patio front and back, gas log set in fireplace, tiled roof and 2 car garage. Front lawn is artificial turf plus beautiful flowering bushes all on drip. #4006 $575,000

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L#4001 $1,259,000

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

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

Abundant natural light throughout. Gated entry, location is central to Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Monterey & San Benito Counties. 1248 sq feet Shop/Garage with grease pit and one tall door for a motorhome.

INCREDIBLE PROPERTY! BRIGHT & OPEN FLOOR PLAN, BRINGS OUTDOORS IN! VIEWS FROM EVERY ROOM! OCEAN, COAST, VALLEY & MOUNTAINS! SPECTACULAR SUNSETS AND CITY LIGHTS! L#4005 $1,795,000

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1845 ENOS LN, CORRALITOS 5 Beds | 5 Baths | 3,693 sq. ft. | $1,980,000

312 OCEANVIEW DR, LA SELVA BEACH 3 Beds | 2.5 Baths | 1,340 sq. ft. | $1,649,000

780 CALABASAS RD, WATSONVILLE 2 Beds | 2.5 Baths | 2,046 sq. ft. | $1,360,000

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5520 FREEDOM BLVD, APTOS 4 Beds | 3.5 Baths | 3,500 sq. ft. | $1,349,000

1800 SEASCAPE BLVD, APTOS 3 Beds | 2 Baths | 1,777 sq. ft. | $899,000

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This 1932 Estate has been beautifully updated. In one of Watsonville’s most established and desired areas, rarely does a home like this come onto the market. From crystal chandeliers and light fixtures, designer tile, paint, carpet, solid mahogany doors and built-ins, to the Master Bedrooms private balcony patio, every corner of this home has been lovely taken care of. Over 3000 sq. ft. in the Main House with 4 Bedrooms and 3.5 Baths, Formal Living Room, Formal Dining, Family Room and Wet Bar. The Studio Apartment above the Garage has a Separate Entrance, Kitchen, Bath and Laundry.

As you walk through the Beautiful Gardens with Extensive Patios with mature landscaping you’ll find an Outdoor Kitchen that’s perfect for a quiet dinner or a large family gathering. This is truly a Special Property. Please call for your private showing.

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■ DESCHUTES BREWERY Fresh Squeezed IPA, 6Pk Btls, 12oz/ 9.99 +CRV ■ PILSNER URQUELL The Original, 6Pk Btls, ■ CLOVER Organic Sour Cream, 16oz/ 2.49 12oz/ 8.99 +CRV ■ HIGHBALL Organic Energy Drink “Select Flavors” ■ COORS Banquet or Light, 12Pk Cans, 16oz/ 1.89 12oz/ 10.99 +CRV ■ SPINDRIFT Sparkling Water 8Pk Cans, 12oz/ 5.99 ■ LAGUNITAS Little Sumpin’ Hazy, 6Packs, 12oz/ 9.99 +CRV ■ ODWALLA All Kinds “Delicious Nutrients” ■ SPOETZL BREWERY Shiner Bock, 6Packs, 15.2oz/ 1.99 12oz/ 7.99 +CRV ■ WHOLE GRAIN Francese Home Bake Rolls/ 3.69

SAUSAGE

WINE & SPIRITS

■ CLOVER Whole Milk Greek Yogurt, 5.3oz/ 1.39

Local Bakeries “Fresh Daily”

■ HONEY HAM, Sweet Slice/ 8.98 Lb

Ingredients

GROCERY

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

Top Shelf Vodka

■ STOLI ELIT (98WE, Reg 45.99)/ 19.99 ■ GRAND TETON (94BTI, Double Gold)/ 19.99 ■ BELVEDERE/ 22.99 ■ CIROC/ 24.99 ■ ABSOLUT ELYX/ 29.99

Reds - 90+ Points Under $10

■ 2013 ZACA MESA Z Cuvée (91WE, Reg 24.99)/ 9.99 ■ 2015 SANTA EMA Merlot (91JS, Reg 17.99)/ 9.99 ■ 2012 CASA LAPASTOLLE Canto de Apalta (91WE, 91JS, Reg 24.99)/ 9.99 ■ 2013 CHATEAU STE MICHELLE Indian Wells Merlot (90WS, Reg 18.99)/ 9.99 ■ 2013 TAHBILK Cabernet Sauvignon (94JH, Reg 19.99)/ 9.99

Wines Under $5

■ 2011 WILLIAM HARDY Shiraz (90TP, Reg 15.99)/ 4.99 ■ 2012 ANTHROPOLOGY Shiraz (91WS, Reg 14.99)/ 4.99 ■ 2015 RED DIAMOND Mysterious Red (Reg 10.99)/ 4.99 ■ 2015 MOTTO Zinfandel (Reg 15.99)/ 4.99 ■ 2016 FOLONARI Pinot Grigio/ 4.99

Connoisseur’s Corner White Burgundy

■ 2015 DOMAINE SAUMAIZE-MICHELIN Mâcon-Vergisson (91RP)/ 26.99 ■ 2015 CHANSON Vire-Clesse (91WS)/ 27.99 ■ 2016 LOUIS MICHEL Chablis Vaillons (91BH)/ 47.99 ■ 2013 DOMAINE MATROT Meursault (90WS)/ 54.99 ■ 2015 JEAN-MARC PILLOT ChassagneMontrachet (90V)/ 58.99

LORI ALEXANDER, 21-Year Customer, Santa Cruz

S HOPP ER’ S SPOTLIG HT

Occupation: Hair stylist, Fringe Salon; Rare Bird Salon Hobbies: The beach and hiking with with son, hanging with friends, step classes, eating out, cooking

Who or what first got you shopping here?

I think I was barbecuing with friends and was told Shopper’s had the best meat.They were right! I’m still shopping here twice a week, 21years later. Shopper’s seems like it’s very well run: they consistently stock the brands and products one expects to find when shopping here; it’s always really clean; and you see many of the same employees who have worked here for years. I feel that it’s important to support locally-owned businesses such as Shopper’s.

They’re very much in tune with what locals want, and that’s another major reason why I shop here.

What’s usually on your shopping list? Our meals consist of fresh, healthy, natural and simply prepared foods. I love Shopper’s produce! I had worked at another local market and feel Shopper’s produce is the best in the county. It’s always perfect—the avocados!— and the variety—the array of mushrooms—is better than everywhere else. I get a range of marinated products from the meat counter— so easy!—including family-favorite bloody Mary skirt steaks. I like that I can ask the butchers about their products such as Mary’s organic air-chilled chicken or where the meat comes from.That’s important.

You find Shopper’s to be family friendly?

Oh yes. My son, Zephyr, likes coming to Shopper’s.The environment here is friendly and it’s not overwhelming to him—or me— like the big stores are, with their countless aisles filled with junk. I like that I can navigate Shopper’s fast, and there are no long lines at the checkout. Shopper’s has been here a long time and continues to stand out even with all the new competition.They provide store-wide quality — which is everything to me — something I’d pay more for, but that’s not the case at Shopper’s. I know this because I’ve compared prices in the past.

“I had worked at another local market and feel that Shopper’s produce is the best in the county. It’s always perfect!”

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