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EDITOR R’S NOTE EDITOR’S While doing some fact-checking for my m y cover story story this week on the anniversary 40th anniver sary Tandy of T andy Beal & Company, Compan y, I called Beal’ss house, and Beal’ her partner Jon Scoville answered. answ wered. “Oh, I was just talking to Tandy Tan ndy about you,” you,” I said.

“She said a lot lo ot of terrible things.” things.”

“Hmm,”” he dryly.

“Hmm, e mused dr yly. ““That That sounds like Tandy.”

Tandy.” you’re not If you’ re no ot familiar with Beal or her work, work, upon reading reading the story story you’ll ’ll quickly i kly realize realize li nothing thi could ld sound less like lik ke her, her, and that Scoville is pretty pretty much muc ch the last person person on the planet she’d sh he’d say say something terrible about. about. But his humor is a huge she loves about huge part of what w him—”it keeps keep ps me lighthearted,” lighthearted,” she says. says. And d their relationship relationship is as fascinating g as it is artistically fruitful. Rom Romantically mantically entangled

siince they met on a blind date as since teenagers, here the te eenagers, they moved her e in th e 1960s, partnerss an and 19 960s, and have been partner nd collaborators through entire co ollaborators thr ough their entir e careers—his providing ca areers—his music pr oviding the soundtrack work. so oundtrack to her dance wor k. In n 1974, 19 974, they founded their dance company, list co ompany, and they have a long lis st of celebrations with ce elebrations planned, starting wi ith the th he show “40 Odd Moves.”

Moves.” story, That was the impetus for this st tory, and an nd since I was writing a Q&A (as an a interview subject, Beal’ Beal’ss obser observations in nterrview v rv vatiions are ar re so intricate and quotable they kind defy writer’ss narr narrative), ki ind of def fy a writer’ ra ative), I ffigured ig igured it would be only about her..

But personal career have Bu ut her per sonal life and car eer ha ave been draws be een so intertwined, and she dr ra aw ws so inspiration from that m much inspir ra ation fr om Scoville, th hat story it rreally eally became a stor y about both h of them. th hem. And their rrelationship elationship is one e for I’m concerned. fo or the ages, ages, as far as I’ m concerne ed.

We artistic W e should all be so lucky in artisti ic purpose pu urpose … and love.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of January 7 ARIES Mar21–Apr19

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22

In his novel “Breakfast of Champions”, Kurt Vonnegut describes a character, Ned Lingamon, who “had a penis eight hundred miles long and two hundred and ten miles in diameter, but practically all of it was in the fourth dimension.” If there is any part of you that metaphorically resembles Lingamon, Aries, the coming months will be a favorable time to fix the problem. You finally have sufficient power and wisdom and feistiness to start expressing your latent capacities in practical ways ... to manifest your hidden beauty in a tangible form ... to bring your purely fourth-dimensional aspects all the way into the third dimension.

Doug Von Koss leads groups of people in sing-alongs.

You don't have to be an accomplished vocalist to be part of his events, nor is it crucial that you know the lyrics and melodies to a large repertoire of songs. He strives to foster a "perfection-free zone." I encourage you to dwell in the midst of your own personal perfection-free zone everywhere you go this week, Libra. You need a break from the pressure to be smooth, sleek and savvy.

You have a poetic license to be innocent, loose, and a bit messy. At least temporarily, allow yourself the deep pleasure of ignoring everyone's expectations and demands.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 Novelist E. L. Doctorow says that the art of writing “is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

This realistic yet hopeful assessment is true of many challenges, not just writing. The big picture of what you're trying to accomplish is often obscure. You wish you had the comfort of knowing exactly what you're doing every step of the way, but it seems that all you're allowed to know is the next step. Every now and then, however, you are blessed with an exception to the rule. Suddenly you get a glimpse of the whole story you're embedded in. It's like you're standing on a mountaintop drinking in the vast view of what lies behind you and before you. I suspect that this is one of those times for you, Taurus.

GEMINI May21–June20 Most people have numerous items in their closet that they never wear. Is that true for you? Why? Do you think you will eventually come to like them again, even though you don't now? Are you hoping that by keeping them around you can avoid feeling remorse about having wasted money? Do you fantasize that the uncool stuff will come back into fashion? In accordance with the astrological omens, Gemini, I invite you to stage an all-out purge.

Admit the truth to yourself about what clothes no longer work for you, and get rid of them. While you're at it, why not carry out a similar cleanup in other areas of your life?

CANCER Jun21–Jul22 "Nothing was ever created by two men," wrote John Steinbeck in his novel “East of Eden.” “There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.” In my view, this statement is delusional nonsense. And it's especially inapt for you in the coming weeks. In fact, the only success that will have any lasting impact will be the kind that you instigate in tandem with an ally or allies you respect.

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I live in Northern California, where an extended drought led to water-rationing for much of 2014. But in December, a series of downpours arrived to replenish the parched landscape. Now bursts of white wildflowers have erupted along my favorite hiking trails. They're called shepherd's purse. Herbalists say this useful weed can be made into an ointment that eases pain and heals wounds. I'd like to give you a metaphorical version of this good stuff. You could use some support in alleviating the psychic aches and pangs you're feeling. Any ideas about how to get it? Brainstorm. Ask questions. Seek help.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Actress Uzo Aduba's formal first name is Uzoamaka.

She tells the story about how she wanted to change it when she was a kid. One day she came home and said, "Mommy, can you call me Zoe?" Her mother asked her why, and she said, "Because no one can say Uzoamaka."

Mom was quick to respond: "If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky, and Michelangelo, they can learn to say Uzoamaka." The moral of the story, as far as you're concerned ia: This is no time to suppress your quirks and idiosyncrasies. That's rarely a good idea, but especially now. Say no to making yourself more generic.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 "I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can," wrote Jack Gilbert in his poem "The Forgotten Dialects of the Heart." Judging from the current astrological omens, I'd say that you are close to accessing some of those lost vocabularies. You're more eloquent than usual. You have an enhanced power to find the right words to describe mysterious feelings and subtle thoughts. As a result of your expanded facility with language, you may be able to grasp truths that have been out of reach before now.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 "If you have built castles in the air," said philosopher Henry David Thoreau, "your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." That may seem like a backward way to approach the building process: erecting the top of the structure first, and later the bottom. But I think this approach is more likely to work for you than it is for any other sign of the zodiac. And now is an excellent time to attend to such a task.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 Songwriter R.B. Morris wrote a fanciful poem in which he imagines a smart mockingbird hearing rock ’n’ roll music for the first time. "When Mockingbird first heard rock / He cocked his head and crapped / What in the hell is that? / It sounded like a train wreck / Someone was screaming / Someone's banging on garbage cans."

Despite his initial alienation, Mockingbird couldn't drag himself away. He stayed to listen. Soon he was spellbound. "His blood pounded and rolled." Next thing you know, Mockingbird and his friends are making raucous music themselves —"all for the love of that joyful noise."

I foresee a comparable progression for you in the coming weeks, Capricorn. What initially disturbs you may ultimately excite you — maybe even fulfill you.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 Do you recall the opening scene of Lewis Carroll's story “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”? Alice is sitting outside on a hot day, feeling bored, when a white rabbit scurries by. He's wearing a coat and consulting a watch as he talks to himself. She follows him, even when he jumps into a hole in the ground. Her descent takes a long time. On the way down, she passes cupboards and bookshelves and other odd sights. Not once does she feel fear. Instead, she makes careful observations and thinks reasonably about her unexpected trip. Finally she lands safely. As you do your personal equivalent of falling down the rabbit hole, Aquarius, be as poised and calm as Alice. Think of it as an adventure, not a crisis, and an adventure it will be.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 You are positively oceanic these days. You are vast and deep, restless and boundless, unruly and unstoppable.

As much as it's possible for a human being to be, you are ageless and fantastical. I wouldn't be surprised if you could communicate telepathically and remember your past lives and observe the invisible world in great detail. I'm tempted to think of you as omnidirectional and omniscient, as well as polyrhythmic and polymorphously perverse. Dream big, you crazy wise dreamer.

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NEWS ON HIS TERMS Mayor Don Lane talks about serving one last time

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Because mayors only serve one year at a time, they often like to pick an area of focus to make sure the term doesn’t get away from them. This year, Santa Cruz Mayor Don Lane, whose term began last month, wants to prioritize affordable housing.

Lane, who says he will not run for council again, has also been a big supporter of the 180/2020 project, which aims to end chronic homelessness by the year 2020. GT sat down with the mayor in his office to talk about the year ahead, the community at large, and the future of Santa Cruz.

We’ve heard a lot of uproar about federal grants for an armored police vehicle. Do you support that purchase?

DON LANE: I feel OK about it. I have minor reservations, but on balance, I’ve supported it. It’s unfortunate that it came up in a time when people were thinking about what police departments are doing to interact with the communities. It looked like something that was a real obstacle and not a community-building tool, which [it is]. But I also think it wasn’t fully understood that the actual purpose [is] a rescue vehicle and a protection vehicle, not just for cops, but also for firefighters and paramedics.

Council has shown interest in revisiting the laws around food trucks. What’s their future?

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n the era of pervasive, portable technology, seemingly everyone can access a wealth of information with their fingertips. But a disparity exists between the number of men and women who design these devices and applications that shape our everyday lives.

“Unfortunately, it is still maledominated,” says UCSC freshman Anjali Kanthilal. “But we are 100 percent trying to change that.”

Kanthilal is a student organizer for the 2015 HACK UCSC, a hackathon taking place at the Merrill Cultural Center on the weekend of Jan. 9.

Generally held over a period of 48 hours, hackathons are events where

teams of coders, designers and various out-of-the-box thinkers unite for an almost sleepless two-day tech bender. Teams create mobile and web applications with the prospect of cash prizes, prestige, and possibly a job offer. The event kicks off with a speech from Wikimedia Executive Director Lila Tretikov.

At last year’s hackathon, organizers noticed a lack of women participants, and doubled their efforts to reach out to female students for this second annual event.

“Hackathons and engineering by their very nature are maledominated,” says HACK UCSC organizer Mark Adams. “It’s

specifically white men and Asian men, so anything we can do to increase the presence of people outside of those two categories is a great feat.”

According to a 2011 study conducted by the U.S. Department of Commerce, only 24 percent of jobs in science, engineering, technology, and math were held by women. The study also states that there were approximately 2.5 million college-educated women in science and technology fields compared to 6.7 million men.

Organizers like Kanthilal connected with UCSC student organizations such as Project AWESOmE (Advancing Women’s Education in the School of Engineering) and others to >12

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You supported Councilmember Micah Posner’s motion not to have the vehicle be used for nonviolent protests. Were you surprised it didn’t pass?

I was disappointed, and I don’t think that’s a settled issue yet, and the environment that council meeting took place in was so tumultuous. Some of the councilmembers might be interested in having more discussion about that. It didn’t feel like that was going to be a productive discussion at that moment.

I’m hoping the city will explore that question a little more about what are the guidelines for the vehicle’s use.

BINARY BREAKERS Anjali Kanthilal and other organizers of HACK UCSC are trying to bring gender diversity to the event at Merrill Cultural Center. PHOTO CHIP SCHEUER.

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encourage young women to participate in the hackathon. And they’ve also taken other small steps to pique the interest of aspiring female engineers.

This year, for instance, HACK UCSC will have T-shirts in women’s sizes.

“Now, that may not seem like a big thing, but it is actually a really nice thing to do for inclusiveness,” says Adams.

Although there were fewer than 10 female participants at the first HACK UCSC last year, there are more than 50 signed up for this year’s event, which has gained a wide range of sponsors from across the Monterey Bay. Approximately 30 percent of student participants at the first HACK UCSC last April were approached with job offers by tech professionals in Santa Cruz and over the hill. With an estimated 300 to 400 participants at the hackathon, organizers are expecting upward of 100 projects at the event, and have recruited about 25 judges so far, compared to the nine judges the event had last year.

Doug Erickson, a HACK UCSC organizer, anticipates that they will need even more, and wants to ensure that women are represented among judges as well as participants.

“We’ve reached out to as many women as we can in engineering,” says Erickson. “We have quite a few

women judges, like Sara Ross—a UCSC graduate who is an engineer at Yahoo, and Margaret Rosas from Looker.

We have at least six women judges, but we’d like it to be 50/50, and we continue to look.”

Diversity in the field of science and technology is key, says Jacob Martinez, founder of Watsonvillebased tech incubator Digital NEST, which will be sending about eight college-aged students to HACK UCSC— half of them young women. Although Martinez says that the young Digital NEST team is slightly inexperienced in the realm of coding, he hopes that the event will serve as a learning experience, and will demystify it for the group.

Martinez believes that events like HACK UCSC will serve as a model for other areas seeking to increase the gender and racial diversity of professionals in the science and tech field.

“Right now the people who are creating technology are not representative of the demographic of the state or the country. Over half of the population is female, but yet only a small percentage of them are in tech, and if you look at California, the growing population of Latinos is not represented as well,” says Martinez.

“I actually think that Santa Cruz County and the tech scene here are in a really unique position, where we

can be a model to the country on how to engage Latinos and how to engage women in tech.”

CASHING IN This year’s hackathon will have hefty community support, with pay off for those who enter.

With an influx of sponsors, including the city of Santa Cruz Economic Development Department, this year’s HACK UCSC boasts $80,000 in prizes, compared to $10,000 at its first event. Sponsors have also inspired two new prize categories: Ag Tech, and Tech Cares.

The Ag Tech theme was inspired largely by Driscoll’s, which is headquartered in Watsonville and sponsoring the prize category.

Driscoll’s and other sponsors, like local tech startup Cityblooms, have already posted potential projects on the HACK UCSC Facebook page.

Suggestions include an app that would measure and control moisture levels in growing plants and one that would determine how much light a plant is receiving.

The Tech Cares prize category is sponsored by the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County.

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POMP ADORE A television costume designer is returning to Santa Cruz to help with a grooooovy celebration. The hip gal is “Mad Men” designer Tiffany White Stanton, who graduated in 2003 from UCSC, a school that, for those who don’t know, opened in 1965. Hey, that was 50 years ago! And for a wacky 50th Anniversary commemoration, Stanton will judge contestants at the university’s “Dress Like It’s

1965 Day.” Students will roll out their dashing looks at the Quarry Plaza on Thursday, Jan. 15 from noon to 2 p.m., and the ones who make the cut will earn inalienable bragging rights (with the obvious caveat that these bragging rights actually expired 49 years ago). Up until the event, UCSC will be sharing Stanton’s oldfashioned tips on social media for how to look totally outta sight.

BETTER EXPRESS January is Positive Parenting Awareness Month, as proclaimed by the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors.

First 5 Santa Cruz County runs the Positive Parenting Program. To mark the occasion, the group will release its Pocket Guide For Parents of Children with Special Needs and offer a number of classes that begin this month. According to First 5, 78

percent of parents who receive in-depth support through Triple P report improvements in their children’s behaviors.

And 90 percent of parents who experience significant challenges also report improvements in their children’s behaviors, as well as a decrease in their stress.

This month’s events and classes, some of which are in Spanish, stretch from Felton to Watsonville. For more information, visit www. first5scc.org. JACOB PIERCE

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willing to jump in under this pilot program.

The community would go for it … Doing things up on the river levee, or the river walk, as I guess we’re calling it, is a [possible] spot. If there were good food there, it’s a nice place to get out. It’s right in the middle of town, but it’s out of the urban feel.

What will the river look like in 15 years?

I think the river itself will look fairly similar.

The main change will be what’s adjacent to the river—a variety of activities happening on the river walk, and I think on the downtown side of the river there will be more buildings that are oriented to the river, maybe some restaurants that have a patio.

You and Councilmember Hilary Bryant have both shown a sense of humor in meetings. Is that a helpful trait for a mayor?

Yes. But it’s really important to be careful—to make sure it’s fun and isn’t too barbed.

Sometimes making jokes can be at others’ expense. And I’m hoping that for the most part when we use humor, it’s in genuinely good spirit. In politics it’s so easy—I’ve had some

experience with this—to think I was doing something I thought was being funny and then have the recipient of that take offense.

Are you referring partly to a valentine sent a couple of decades ago that was seen as obscene?

Yeah, Mo Reich was a councilmember, and he bought the valentine and got me and a couple of other people to sign it, and that’s when I thought “Oh, this is just a silly, fun thing.”

Steve Hartman, who was the recipient, took offense, and I apologized.

What are some possible locations for a new basketball arena if the Santa Cruz Warriors decide to stay?

One possibility is where they are now. But I think every site we look at, I can see obstacles to, even as I see benefits. For instance, that site is one where it probably isn’t big enough for a permanent arena. So, you’d have to take out some of the adjacent apartment buildings, so that becomes a problem: what happens with that housing? Another one that concerns me, at least as much, is if that’s the site that’s building a permanent arena, there’s a gap. The temporary arena would be removed, and then

there’s one or two years of construction, and there wouldn’t be anywhere. To me, there’s some value in looking at other sites, so that we can have that continuity and keep using the temporary one until the new one is built.

Some sites are being considered in the beach area. My personal preference is a little closer to downtown. I think there’s some places, especially along the Front Street corridor. A key issue is a place where the parking would be the best.

The council has relaxed rules around accessory dwelling units [ADUs], which some say contribute to affordable housing. Are ADUs critical to that, or just one component?

They’re a moderate component, but they’re not a game changer. We have to be realistic that it’s one thing we can do, but if that’s all we do, we’re not going to come anywhere close to what we need. I’m not confident we can do what we need to do. There’s both issues around some of the regulatory questions: will we allow more height, more density where I think the community would support it. Another regulatory piece is around tiny houses and smaller units in general. Are we prepared

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to support the idea that we have a different model for what makes a legitimate housing unit? Historically, the model has grown bigger and bigger and bigger. It’s time to shift the opposite direction and say we need more smaller units. I think it’s common for people to say ‘All I need is 300 square feet. That meets my needs.’ That’s not as hard as the financing part … For lower-income housing, we do need to have some tools for subsidy, and those have almost all dried up. I think it’s helpful, now that redevelopment is gone, for the city to start thinking, ‘Is there anything else we can do to create some financing?’

So, you’ll be temporarily termed out in 2016.

Not temporarily. For me, it’s permanent. My wife just retired. When I’m done with my council term in a couple of years, I intend to not be fully retired, but I intend to be part-way to retirement at that point. So, I don’t think being on the council fits in with that plan, for me or my wife. I have another part-time job for a charitable foundation, and I hope I keep doing that. And I will probably keep doing a lot of work around housing and homelessness as a volunteer, and I will probably travel more.

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“This is the philanthropic side of technology,” says Erickson. “If we are doing as well as we are all doing here, let’s give back. Let’s help our community and find different causes we can contribute to.”

To inspire hackathon participants who may not have their own idea for an app, technology sponsors like Plantronics Inc. and Pebble, which makes smart watches, will bring in an assortment of wearable gadgets to the event, like prototype Bluetooth headsets. Students will be able to hack into them and find ways to improve or complement them. Tech sponsors will also have their own experts on standby to help participants with project development.

The 2 p.m. talk with Tretikov of Wikimedia will be followed by an hour-long pitching session where working groups spontaneously form.

The hacking will commence at 4 p.m.

“When the hack begins, people will have their heads down, with heavyduty Red Bull, and then it’s two-anda-half days of very little sleep,” says Erickson.

Organizers like Adams want all students who participate to know that they may just have the time of their young lives.

“It’s just one weekend. You will definitely find a team that will want to have you. And it will be the craziest weekend of your life,” says Adams.

“I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that. A hackathon is probably the craziest weekend you will ever have.

There will be moments where you’ll be with a friend or someone you just met, and they will solve a problem that’s been vexing your team at 4 a.m., and in a flash of insight brings everything together. You will make it to the finals, or you won’t. You’ll see people put together amazing ideas that you never thought were possible—things that seem so obvious in retrospect. So go in and find out what you can do. It’s the first weekend of winter quarter, so you have very little reason not to go.”

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Locallly, along with her company y’s long run of intriguing productiions, Beal is probably best known for f being the fi first artist to remak ke the Nutcracker in a modern style with “Mixed Nutz,” which de ebuted in 1982, and for running the Pickle Family Circus.

Beal and d Scoville also ran Café Zi i th Zinio, h Santa he S t Cruz C coffee ff shop h immorta alized in Cracker’s song “Big Dipper.”

Outsid de of Santa Cruz, Beal and com mpany tour nationally and inte ernationally, including a state-sponsored tour of Eastern Europe in i 1989, just months before th he Berlin Wa Wall came down.

Among other o career highlights, Beal dire ected the Moscow Circus i Japan in J n, choreographed h g h d lifelif sized pu uppets for the American premiere of Frank Zappa’s orchestrral works, has collaborated for deca ades with Bobby McFerrin, and crea ated the movements on which th he now-iconic characters of Jack Skellington, S Sally, Oogie Boogie and a all the others were based fo or the Tim Burtonproduced animated fi film The Ni ht re Before Nightma f Christmas. fo Ch i t After ft a rehearsal for her

retrospective show, Beal spoke to GT about what it’s like to reflectt on her career and relationship afte er four decades.

How does it feel to look back on four decades of work?

TANDY BEAL: It’s pretty hard to o encompass it all. There’s a ton of o feelings. First of all, it’s shock.

Really? I feel like I’ve backed into all of the major things in my m life, including having an ongoin ng nonprofit. fi Learning one of my old solos [from video, for the upcoming show], it was from 20 0 years ago, and I’m talking to the e audience at the 20th anniversarry celebration, and go, laughingly, “Well, We I’ll see you in another 20..”

And I just went, “Well, Well, my god, We Beal, you did it.” It’s amazing th hat w we’re in the black, and we’re no ot in a metropolis. It’s very tricky to run an arts organization that keeps making things through th he years. I feel huge joy in how mu uch collaboration we’ve done. How many artists who were already at the top of their game, or who we ere young ones who we’ve helped ge et to the next ne t step. step It’s It’ deep. deep It’s It’ really deep.

How w did you approach th he idea of a career retrospective ve fo or ‘40 Odd Moves?’

Originally, I was going to t do a huge thing of bringing in i lots of large company works an nd doing them. And then I starte ed thinking, “No, go back to originall intention.

Go back to space, time, a single figure, and music.” Whiich is fi where h I started. t t d And A d my y father f th always wanted me just to do that—he felt that as a performer I should just push that envelope. e He was a professional actor; a his first show was with Hellen Hayes, fi his last show was The Firm with Tom Cruise, so he had a huge arc. I think he wanted me m to go into theater, probably, but b he never pushed. In fact, he h bent over backwards b k d to t nott push. p h But B t I did an off-Broadway sh how once, and I tell you, friends off mine said they saw my paren nts in the audience that night and d they were incoherent, they were so s nervous.

And I went, “Nervous? I’ve danced on Broadway. What’s th he deal?”

But I was on their turf. It was theater. It was like sudd denly I came back into really be eing a performer, f if I was doin d ing g theater. th t [Laughs.] Kind of charm ming.

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he storry of Tandy Beal’s life as an a artist in Santa Cruz is really a love story.

First and forem most, it’s the story of Beal and d her partner Jon Scoville, who she met on a blind date in 1963, and d came to Santa Cruz with in 1966. A musician and composer, he h has been her constant t t collabo ll borator t ever since, i and has scored her h dance work in Santa Cruz rig ght from her very fi first solo sh how, in 1972. In 1974, they found ded Tandy Beal & Company here e, and this year they’ll celebrate the organization’s 40th anniversary y, beginning with the show “40 Od dd Moves,” Jan. 30-Feb. 1 at the Cabrillo C Crocker Theater.

B t that’s But th t’ only ly the th beginning; b gi i g Beal has a lot pla anned for this anniversary yearr, including directing one of the “8 Tens @ Eight” plays thatt opens this week (see story, page 28.) She and Scoville are also starting a First Saturday Family y Concert Series that will run Feb bruary through May, every fi first Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Santa a Cruz Ve Veterans M Memorial i l Buildi B ildiing. i g The Th fi firstt show, h on Feb. 7, feature es Linda Tillery

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How is this show different from what fans who don’t know your early work might expect?

The last 20 years, I’ve been doing huge shows, with either 40 people onstage, or “Here After Here” had a three-level set. Highly complex shows that go from beginning to end without a stop. And this one goes back to, like, beautiful miniature paintings. They’re fiveminute solos. You don’t like one, another one’s coming down the pike. And they’re all different, totally different. Some are zany, totally out there. I did a rehearsal this morning, and someone who was watching said, “Oh my god, I had no idea you could be that dopey.”

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You’ve made Santa Cruz your home, which can be notoriously difficult for artists. Did you know right away that

this is where you wanted to make art for the next four decades?

No. We came out here because Jon’s scholarship job at Yale was to type the papers for a man named Harry Berger, who came out here and started the English program at UCSC. We were coming out for the summer, and at the end of that time in ’66, Jon said, “I can’t go back to New York. And I went “I have to go back to New York. You have to go back to New York.” He said, “I can’t. I love it here.” For about six years, we did bicoastal—four months together in New York, four months apart, four months together out here. And we never knew if it was going to last between us. We didn’t know.

Obviously your life with him is a huge part of your creative life, as well.

His music is totally central. His belief, his zaniness. Oh my god,

itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an amazing collaboration, not only of work, but to have been together all these years. He is totally instrumental.

You said he had the original idea for you to remake the Nutcracker.

We were touring everywhere, exhausted and cranky. On a long drive, Jon put on this tape that he called Mit Schlag to cheer us all up, and they were all charming, wonderful pieces of music, and one was Tchaikovskyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nutcracker. It did the trick, we all got out of our bad moods, and Jon looked at meâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this is in the late â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70sâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know what you should do, you should make a new Nutcracker.â&#x20AC;? And I went, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh yeah, pfft.â&#x20AC;? And about two years later, I went â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know, that was a good idea.â&#x20AC;? And then two years after that, I raised the money to do it. He was also the one who said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you do a work on William Blake?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why, Jon?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be interesting.â&#x20AC;? [The idea would become the show â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outside Blakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Window.â&#x20AC;?]

He kind of drops these things. So I say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;They would never happen without you,â&#x20AC;? and he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the one who does it.â&#x20AC;?

A lot of times the reason artists leave Santa Cruz is they feel they need a bigger city to do their best work. But youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve managed to stay here and do big things around the world.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been really lucky. And I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get it. I feel great luck. [People have] asked me, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Howâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d you get the gig with Frank Zappa?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Howâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d you get the gig with Tim Burton?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know. I mean, I look back on those, and it just feels like a lot of grace. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not saying I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work hard. I work stupidly hard.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve certainly had a lot of career highlights, but specifically, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your favorite work youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done in Santa Cruz?

My annual Thanksgiving dinner. No, I love things for different reasons.

I love that we did the original alternative Nutcracker when we did it, because it was totally out thereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;me kind of discovering how to do circus without any training in it. How do you take classical music and re-shape it? How do you make another storyline? I loved doing that.

Then I loved remaking it with the singers Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d met with Bobby McFerrin, and they sing the Tchaikovsky live, a capella. Those were wonderful leaps of faith. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You think we can do it?â&#x20AC;? We did something out on the beach, which I might do again next year, called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Merpeople.â&#x20AC;? And people just discovered it. Everybody was buried in the sand, and people just suddenly saw these people emerging from the sand. It was shocking. It was gorgeous. I loved that. We did an experimental concert that started at 8:09 â&#x20AC;Ś sharp. Adults were $5, students were $10, children were $15, dogs were $40 and babies were $50.

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Probably about five years ago. No, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m kidding! Once you put your roots down in Santa Cruz, you realize the specialness hereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;how difficult it would be to be someplace else, where peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mentality is so different.

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GETTING WITH THE PROGRAMS

Beal through the years; the ’60 Odd Minutes’ image is the program from her very first solo show in Santa Cruz, in 1972.

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go out with an older woman!” He has a constant lightness that has allowed my own. I do have a good sense of humor. But in the contemporary dance world, when I was first starting, to do something funny— everybody was kind of nonplussed by it. “You shouldn’t be doing that!

You should be doing serious art!”

And yet I had a zany streak, which is probably why I got involved with the circus.

You take your art very seriously, even when you aren’t being serious.

I think my works kind of fall into two categories: one is celebrational, and the other is poetic or introspection. I think in a way they’re both about the grand mystery that we’re here on the

planet. One is doing it with total joy—gobsmacked with fun, delight, whimsy. “Mixed Nutz” is like that, all the stuff with the Circus, the stuff with Bobby that I’ve done, a number of these solos. The mystery part, again, quite a few of the solos have that. “Here After Here,” that was all about the big mystery.

“Outside Blake’s Window” was about that. “Nightlife” was a solo show all about insomnia, and the thoughts you have in the middle of the night that you can’t think in the daytime.

And there was another full-length solo show I did called “Wing and a Prayer,” that was about my father’s ending time. The whole first part of it was very strong, and then the second part was completely zany.

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TURNING POINT Tandy Beal and Company in Czechoslovakia, on their 1989 state-sponsored tour of Eastern Europe.

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kitchen, where all the appliances had a life of their own … I kept talking about how there’s a party that’s going to happen, and how I have to get this place cleaned up, what a mess it is. And finally I went “I really need help, this place is a wreck.” And I used my circus skills to bring everybody up on stage … and I catered the whole damn thing.

It was so amazing. My wonderful tech crew, they all came to me privately going “You’re not going to take a bow? This is weird.” They all came worried that I was smashing the convention. I said, “You know what? I’ve been doing shows for a million years, and this is in honor of my dad, and I’m going to do it how I want, I don’t care.” It was fabulous to stand in the audience, and see the audience up on the stage eating and drinking and having a great time.

Are there ideas you have where you think “Well, that’s too zany” or “That’s too dark”?

No, I think that’s where it becomes engaging. Now, renting a theater is so damn expensive, but we used to do these things where we’d do two weekends at Cabrillo, and in there we’d always do one experimental concert. And we would go crazy.

We’d bring in 400 pairs of shoes, and dump them and improvise and do something crazy with them. One time we took the money we got at the box office that day—or maybe we didn’t do it exactly that way, we got $300 in clean bills. We’d put them into a clear plastic bag, and at a certain point in the concert we handed it out to the audience and said, “If you liked the show, put more money in. If you didn’t, take it out.” I mean, it’s like the American

icon, a big bag of money. People did not want to let go of it.

Did more people take money out, or put money in?

More people put in. We ended up with more money. And we saw people taking money out! It was completely soup-to-nuts, and I love that spirit.

On the business side, it’s remarkable how you’ve maintained long working relationships with dancers and staff over the decades.

I feel very grateful that I have deep relationships that last and last. I have a number of new staff, and I asked all of them, as I try to get everybody to know each other fast, I said “I’d like everybody to give three things that are important to you.” I made myself do it, too. Loyalty is one for me.

What were the other two?

I can’t remember. [Laughs.] I bet it was about kindness, and something about attention to detail—even though, on a certain level, I’m probably completely chaotic. But on another level, no art gets made without super attention to detail.

I would imagine some of the loyalty you’ve experienced comes from the fact that you’re a gifted collaborator and mentor, and, even among creative people, that can be rare. You’re able to recognize talent and help people bring it out.

What was most artistically interesting about modeling the choreography for ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’?

Danny Elfman’s music was great, and I loved working with the animators.

Those guys are wacko. They’re really creatures who live in their imagination totally. They were paying me what, to me, was scads of money, so I would come in with the work done three different ways, so they could choose. “Here’s this song, I did it this way, this way, this way.” “Oh, good.” Then once they said “Could you be a little zanier?” And I went, “OK, great.” And then I just went completely nuts. There was one guy, Walter, who I just loved, who was so calm, but I knew I’d aced it. I just improvised it for him, right there.

That was great. And actually there’s one piece in there that I made for Jack Skellington, but then I flipped it and I turned it into a very serious solo for myself, to a Bach Goldberg [Variation]. And I’m going to do it in this show. It’s from “Nightlife.”

There’s been an educational component to your work here since the beginning, right?

My first outreach, my first nonconcert event here, was in the schools in Watsonville, and that was in 1972 or 1973. And I have done something in Watsonville almost every year since. This last year, we did a pilot project called ArtSmart, and we got wonderful artists to 10,000 children, teachers and family.

It kind of surprised me. There are moments where the dreamer and the practical person are going “What?

Are you crazy? You’re out of your mind!” About a year before, I started saying, “We’re going to do this,” and

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That’s so interesting that loyalty was that far above the other two that it’s the only one that sticks in your mind.

Well, I definitely have received it from people. The woman who was watching my rehearsal this morning, Song Nelson, started off as a student 25 years ago. She just did a show of her own at 418 Project.

When I saw her show, I was stunned that she understood metaphor so deeply. And I just said, I want her to look at my work, you know? It was great to have her come up. I don’t have children, and I think that if you have children, you are really struck by the spiraling of time. But I have that in another way—people who have been students and moved on, or started their career with us.

I see it differently. I see it as: if we enjoy working together, if we have fun working together, this is somebody I want to keep working with. Because there are a lot of talented people who are very difficult to work with. And, yeah, I still will work with them sometimes, but my choice is not to. My choice is to enjoy this life. This work is not easy, and so you make it easier by having a good time with the people you’re with. Enjoy it.

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QUITE A RIDE As partners and collaborators, Jon Scoville and Tandy Beal have made their Santa Cruz dance company a success for four decades.

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then I’m going “How?” But we did it.

And this year, we’re going to double it, and go into Monterey County and get down to Salinas, King City, Monterey, as well as Watsonville and Santa Cruz.

After four decades, has the nature of your collaborations changed?

Sometimes with Jon now, we barely talk about stuff. We can do it simultaneously, and nail it. With Evan [Parker], my lighting designer for many, many years, one dancer who was a smart cookie—went on to chair a lot of dance departments— said “God, you and Evan don’t talk to each other. You grunt! Evan puts up a light and you go ‘Mmm.’ And he goes ‘Mmm.’ And you go ‘Mmm.’ And everything changes!”

Bringing it all back around full circle, you’re going to do the first solo work you ever did in Santa Cruz for ‘40 Odd Moves.’

I made it when Jon and I didn’t have two nickels to rub together, and so I gave it to him as a Christmas present. And he turned around and made the music for it. That was 1972.

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ALL THE LAUGHS Kip Allert and Evan Hunt in ‘Countess Befits Her’ by Steve Spike Wong, one of 16 short plays for this year’s 8 Tens @ Eight festival. PHOTO: STEVE DIBARTOLOMEO

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Sixteen short plays at this year’s 20th ‘8 Tens @ Eight’ festival BY ANNE-MARIE HARRISON

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wenty years ago, Santa Cruz’s 8 Tens @ Eight was the first short theater festival of its kind. Now, over two-hundred people from all over the world send in their 10-minute plays to be considered for selection.

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a new need, says Wilma Marcus Chandler, the artistic director for 8 Tens @ Eight. The beauty of a theater “sample platter” is that it allows the audience to indulge in a full narrative—in a quarter of the time.

“Now with everything being so fast and our attention span being

much shorter, I think this kind of fulfills an appetite for story, or action, but within a framework where we can be satiated in a short amount of time,” says Chandler.

“It fills the need to be enlightened more quickly. You can get the message, the characters, the story, the intensity and the passion

more quickly, without sacrificing anything.”

For a festival that only advertises in a few theater and literary magazines, 8 Tens @ Eight has garnered an international following. This year is the festival’s 20th anniversary production, and organizers received applications

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- Wilma Marcus Chandler diagnosis and what people expect of her as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;appropriateâ&#x20AC;? behavior. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s handled with a lot of humor, the playwright was very specific and direct in not wanting it to turn into some weepy tear-jerker Kleenex fest,â&#x20AC;? says McRae. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was very insistent that the actress who plays the part of the character with cancer is not feeling sorry for herself and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want anyone else feeling sorry for herself, either.â&#x20AC;?

From drama to comedy, the beauty of a rapid-fire-shorts showcase is that the audience can glean all genres, says Chandler.

And with 20 years of reading shorts that span every topic imaginable, distinctive themes do come up in the writing itself: â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are certain themes that permeate everything and they disappearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; one year almost every play was about food. Another year there were a lot of stories about ghosts,â&#x20AC;? says Chandler. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This year many of them are about surviving crisis, whether it be illness or sexual identity or losing a child or finding love,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And then finding your way toward some sort of beautiful transformation and redemption.â&#x20AC;?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how art attempts to make sense of the world, says Chandler. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Perhaps, because of the way the world is now with so much terrorism and fear and bad things going onâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I think people, especially artists, try to give us answers for how to continue with integrity in our lives.â&#x20AC;?

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from all across the U.S. and Europe, including Russia. Plays are selected by a group of local panel readers who narrow down the final production pool; this year instead of having eight plays at 8 p.m., theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re featuring 16.

But 16 short plays maxing out at 10 minutes doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re only a snippet, says Chandler. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to make it all happen within a smaller framework. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a poem almostâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;every word has to be important, every action has to be valuable,â&#x20AC;? says Chandler. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the luxury of Act 1, Act 2â&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all there for you, very concise.â&#x20AC;?

After the reader panel chooses which plays will be featured, a group of local directors (of which Chandler assures there are manyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; she has a rotating pool of 60) decide on the work they will direct.

As playwright and director Ian McRae points out, however, that reading the words on paper is never quite the same as seeing them performed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are some that when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re reading them you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, to be honest, likeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and then you see it and you go â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;God, how did I miss that?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Because you see somebody else breathe some life into it,â&#x20AC;?

McRae says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You see it and â&#x20AC;Ś itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charming and lovely and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always an education in that sense.â&#x20AC;?

As director, McRae is heading this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Winning,â&#x20AC;? written

by San Francisco-based Mercilee Jenkins, which circles around a conversation between two women at their annual Oscar award ceremony fĂŞte. One of the characters is battling cancer and when her friend catches her smoking, they discuss her

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ART ON THE ROCKS Janice Shane Mann’s 2013 painting ‘California Seas’ from MAH’s ‘Everybody’s Ocean’ exhibit.

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Now We Can Sea Crowdsourced exhibit ‘Everybody’s Ocean’ opens at the MAH BY MAUREEN DAVIDSON

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onths ago, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) issued a call to Central and Northern California residents for ocean-inspired visual art of any medium, any size: “your painting of West Cliff at sunset. Your twoyear old’s drawing of the beach that’s been on the fridge for five months. That awesome GoPro

footage you took while surfing.

Submit all of it.” Accurately predicting a huge response, the resulting “part crowd-sourced, part-curated” exhibition will be presented in two waves of Everybody’s Ocean, the first of which opened Friday.

The current four-month exhibition features 158 works, some dozen of these from artists

invited to “anchor” it. Crashing waves, beachgoers, giant squid, mermaid grottos, dire gyre, surf photos and rainbows overflow the edges of the 12-foot high tealcolored walls of MAH’s Solari Gallery. Art hangs suspended from the ceiling and lies on the floor, while videos occupy two full-standing walls and a small viewing area. Loud, ominous

ambient music fills the aural space. The works are grouped into commonalities of theme; MAH’s preparator Robbie Schoen and exhibitions manager Justin Collins remarkably comb visual sense out of the cacophony.

The entry wall offers a video loop of most of the exhibition participants completing the phrase “What the ocean represents to me … ” My first encounter was with Brooke MacKellar (whose “Sunset Ocean” watercolor hangs in the Sublime area) responding with deep seriousness “families and fish.” Sincere youth, dreamy-eyed elders—there are a lot of touching moments in Everybody’s Ocean.

Here, 158 humans consider the elemental force that so governs our lives, expressing the relationship using the visual language available to them. I first visited when there were few identifying labels.

Distinctive styles identified familiar locals: Ann Thiermann’s sensitive pastel and Ian Everard’s impossibly crisp book portrait, Michele Hausman’s grand plein aire and David Gardner’s cheeky paint on panel. Ed Smiley’s joyful chaos, Andrew Ward’s quirky ceramic fish, Peter Loftus’ soulful landscape, Margaret Niven’s manipulated pattern, Wayne Jiang’s oblique view or Jenni Ward’s thoughtful ceramic installation.

There are also compelling unfamiliar works obviously created by trained artists, and many that could have been created by inspired amateurs. The breadth of expression is exciting.

At the bustling First Friday opening, while tracking down the painter of an impressive oil of a lone swimmer in vast dark ocean (“Cave” by invited artist Narangkar Glover), I met Torreya Cumming, who had been invited to submit “Small Craft for the Anthropocene,” an Ohlone designbased canoe of pipe insulation and plastic twine which she had bravely paddled to Angel Island.

“I was unsure at first,” she says of being invited to the crowdsourced exhibition. “But it celebrates creativity a lot more than many shows that are curated.”

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rom a well-equipped photo geek’s lab/bunker located in the corner of the student house he shares with, oh, let’s just say more than three other people, photographer Shawheen Keyani is able to tweak digital films, edit large-format photographs, and record audio to accompany his latest documentary films. Sharing the studio living quarters with his buddy and collaborator Kevin Hall, Keyani processes images around the clock. “We produce videos and music here,” the Iran-born UCSC

senior explains. “I’ve learned a lot working at Gadget Box Studios— they’ve got good equipment. And I use my home studio because I’m comfortable here.”

Keyani’s current passion is public photography. “I’m using a vintage medium,” he says, reaching for a non-digital Hasselblad. “The project isn’t voyeuristic—it’s a direct engagement. I set up a tripod, call people over and ask them a few questions. If they’re interested, I take some shots.”

The 6 by 6 inch square format guarantees that his images have an

intriguing look. “I want to connect with people and their stories,” he says. “The Hasselblad is a very beautiful machine. It gives me confidence first and foremost in a public place. I can place it on a tripod in a public place and play the photographer. But on another level I love the restrictions and magic of analog technology—it’s very temperamental at times and as an imperfect machine myself, I can relate to it.” He likes his analogy.

Keyani also shoots digital films on a Canon 5D Mark 3. Pointing to his bag on the floor he explains, “I

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can make an entire movie out of a backpack. Laptop, cameras, audio equipment, memory chips—it’s portable yet affordable.” Keyani and his collaborator have postgraduation plans to check out the east coast, and “then maybe Berlin.”

A native of Iran, Keyani returned to Tehran for a visit last summer.

"It was interesting to be back as an adult—I took road trips and made a lot of photographs. It's very dangerous to be holding a camera in Iran," he reminds me. “There’s lots of political anxiety around photographs, but the underground art scene is very vibrant.”

Keyani started shooting video at boarding school in Ojai. “It was a social challenge—I was the shortest kid there,” he says.

We both grin. Keyani is well over 6-foot-2. “A lot of stuff made me feel like an outsider. But I started taking videos of a few friends skateboarding. You’d film for 20 minutes and get that great 10 seconds.” It broke the ice.

But Keyani still feels like an outsider in the U.S. “I’ve been here seven years but I still treat America like this country I moved to with fresh eyes. Everything is still new, still fresh,” he says.

The Hasselblad, “a less forgiving media than digital, forces you to plan—to be more careful. That’s something I want to learn. To take care,” he says. “On the other hand, I never want to be the guy looking down on people who use an iPhone.”

While he admits he would like to show his work in galleries, “for now I focus on Flickr and Tumblr. They offer a really nice community,” he says. “You can create groups easily and communicate with other photographers.” Keyani welcomes the dialogue, critiques and views of other people’s work.

“And I can send my images back and forth,” he says. Refreshingly, the emerging artist insists that “getting off Facebook is my goal. I use photography to understand and connect with people, but also it is how I hope to contribute to their experience. I don’t want to spend my life on the computer,” he says.

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HILLSTOMP The DIY drum kit played by the Portland duo Hillstomp features buckets, pots, and even car parts.

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ohn Johnson’s first drum kit was just a tad unconventional: a cardboard box, a soup pot, a bucket, and a barbecue lid.

No, he wasn’t a toddler finding odds and ends to bang on; Johnson had just agreed to play drums in a new lo-fi blues duo. The only problem?

He didn’t have drums.

“I’d certainly banged on drum kits before and knew how to put them together,” says Johnson, “but I’d never been a drummer.”

The solution? Johnson, whose nickname is “Lord Buckets,” raided the kitchen of the Portland restaurant where he and Henry Hill Kammerer, the other half of the new duo, worked, scaring up a collection of objects to bang on.

The DIY drum sound lent itself perfectly to Kammerer’s raw guitar playing and singing, and with that kitchen raid, Hillstomp was born.

Drawing from the musical styles of blues greats R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough’s, Hillstomp plays no-frills, junkyard blues at a hellfire pace. In a video of the band performing the song “Cardiac Arrest in D,” Kammerer is playing rapid-fire guitar licks, breathlessly singing, and headbanging with all he’s got, while Johnson pounds tight and wild rhythms out of his buckets, nearly bouncing off of his stool. It’s a musical frenzy typical of Hillstomp.

Twelve years into their musical partnership, Johnson and Kammerer are tighter than ever and still having

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a great time—even as the raucous, high-energy delivery has taken a toll.

“When we’re playing the show it doesn't feel like it’s been 12 years at all, ” says Johnson. “It feels as exciting and new as it ever felt.” Then he adds with a laugh, “But after the show it feels like it’s been about 18.”

One of Hillstomp’s biggest inspirations is Doo Rag, a 1990s lo-fi duo out of Tucson whose foundinstrument, punk-inspired take on Southern blues established them as underappreciated heroes of the underground.

These days, Hillstomp regularly garners comparisons to the Black Keys and the White Stripes. And though comparisons to the early Black Keys are justified, Hillstomp

has stayed with the two-man stripped-down approach where the Black Keys have gradually gone from lo-fi blues to production-heavy rock.

“When I hear that comparison to the Black Keys, I honestly just kind of feel like, ‘Oh, you’re not really listening,’” Johnson says. “You hear two guys and something vaguely blues-related and think, ‘Oh, Black Keys,’ but I just don’t really hear it.”

Johnson isn’t bothered by the comparisons though, as long as people enjoy the music.

“For all I care,” he says, “they can say we sound like James Taylor if they like it and come out to the show and have a great time.”

For the last seven years, the Hillstomp sound has included a car part, which is the result of a broken-down van in Salt Lake City.

While waiting in the garage, Johnson started banging on a brake drum that was leaning against the wall. He liked the sound and incorporated one into his kit.

Picking up random “instruments” along the road is not unusual for Hillstomp. The last time the band was in Santa Cruz, Johnson needed a new bucket so he got one from the Crepe Place. Though the bucket lasted only two songs, it made quite an impression on him. It sounded like a gunshot and looked unlike other five gallon buckets. Since then, he’s tried, unsuccessfully, to replace it.

“It was,” he says, “the best bucket I’ve ever heard in my life.”

On the band’s latest record, Portland, Ore., Johnson and Kammerer bring all the junkyard grit that Hillstomp fans have come to expect, as well as a few slower, emotional tunes that allow for more nuance and subtlety. When asked how they keep things fresh, Johnson acknowledges that it’s always a challenge.

“Maybe we can’t,” he says. “Maybe that was the last [record] that won’t sound like we’re repeating ourselves.

We really just try to go in and keep doing what we enjoy.” He adds, “We do everything we can to write music we love—and hope other people do too.”

Hillstomp will perform at 9 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 10, at the Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $10/adv, $12/door. 423-1338.

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41ST ANNUAL FUNGUS FAIR A world without fungus would be a world without bread, cheese, beer and wine. Chew it over this weekend at the Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz’s 41st annual Fungus Fair, and explore the fungi kingdom with internationally recognized photographers, authors and speakers who will present talks on the world of mushrooming. Attendees can explore the hundreds of native mushroom species found in the Santa Cruz area with a re-created woodland habitat, while the little ones can enjoy face painting, clay mushroom building, and the fascinating underworld of fungal fantasy. For adults, there will be wine and beer tasting, in addition to cooking demonstrations by chefs Bob Wynn and Neil Marquis.

Info: Jan. 9-11, Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. ffsc.us/fair. $5-$10.

ART SEEN

TAKE AWAYS: ART TO GO

Info: Opening Reception, 2-4 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 11. Pajaro Valley Arts Council, 37 Sudden St., Watsonville. 588-3741.

WEDNESDAY 1/07 CLASSES A CYBERSECURITY WORKSHOP Parents and educators become updated on best practices to protect yourself and the networks you use. Learn strong, safe online habits with an expert from Santa Cruz Public Libraries IT department. 7 - 8:30 p.m. Aptos Branch Library, 7695 Soquel Drive, Aptos. 427-7717. Free.

ARGENTINE TANGO Ongoing Wednesday class and practice with John and Nancy Lingemann. Beginners 7 p.m., Int./Adv. 8:30 p.m. Parish Hall Calvary Episcopal Church, Lincoln & Cedar Streets. 469-3288. $3.

BEAT SANCTUARY-ECSTATIC DANCE Sweat, dance, pray, and play. There are no moves to learn. 7:30-9:15 p.m. Santa Cruz Yoga 402 Ingalls St., Santa Cruz. 430-9848. $15/$12/passes available.

SALSA RUEDA Learn style and technique in a welcoming environment. No partners needed.

Drop-ins welcome. 8-9 p.m. Portuguese Hall

by Costco and Harvey West Park. 818-1834. $7/$5.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING Fun and aerobic. No partner required. The traditional dancing of Scotland. Wear soft-soled shoes.

7-9:30 p.m. Peace United Church of Christ, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. 427-1921. $6.

GROUPS ACA: SILENT READING FOLLOWED BY OPTIONAL SHARING First 45 minutes dedicated to reading silently whatever you choose from the ACA literature. The last 15 minutes is for sharing whatever you wish.

ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics and/ or Dysfunctional Families) is a Twelve Step program of women and men who grew up in a myriad of dysfunctional homes or who were raised by those who grew up in alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional homes. 8:30-9:30 a.m. Live Oak Family Resource Center, 1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. 239-9904. adultchildren. org. Free (donations accepted).

ACA “SERENITY SEEKERS” Open to all, discussion, speaker, steps, book study,

THURSDAY 1/8 VINNIE HANSEN Local author Vinnie Hansen presents her latest work of mystery, Black Beans & Venom, this Thursday at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Set in Santa Cruz, Black Beans & Venom is the seventh installment in the series that chronicles Carol Sabala’s fateful journey as she flees her abusive husband and ventures to Cuba in search of blue scorpion venom, hoping it will provide a cure for her cancer. Hansen has published multiple works of fiction, and has been a finalist for the Claymore Award and winner of the Santa Cruz Reads fiction contest.

Info: 7-9 p.m., Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. 423-0900. Free.

fellowship text, nonsmoking. 9:30-10:30 a.m.

Live Oak Family Resource Center, 1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. 239-9904. adultchildren.org.

Free (donations accepted).

MOUNTAIN SPIRIT WRITING GROUP Join Wendy Ledger to explore our lives through creative writing. Bring a pen and journal. 5-7 p.m. Mountain Spirit, 6299 Hwy 9, Felton.

335-7700. $15.

INSPIRATIONAL CAREGIVER’S SUPPORT GROUP For family members, friends or care partners for someone with memory loss or Alzheimer’s. RSVP for Jan 17 class. diana@ mindnhealth.com, 750-0035. 10:30 a.m.- 2:30 p.m. St Joseph’s Shrine on West Cliff in Santa Cruz. Free.

MEDITATION FOR WOMEN WITH CANCER WomenCARE. Guided meditation and talk with a facilitator from Land of the Medicine Buddha. 2:30-4 p.m. Land of the Medicine Buddha, 457-2273. Free.

PARKINSON'S DISEASE SUPPORT GROUP For people with Parkinson’s and their caregivers.

Ongoing first Wednesday of the month (except holidays). 1-2:30 p.m. Inner Light Center, 5630 Soquel Drive, Soquel. 708-2906. Free.

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WEEKLY WEDNESDAY MEDITATION Drop-in meditation group includes a silent mindfulness meditation and Dharma talk on Buddhist >34 teachings. Led by Buddhist teacher,

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To kick off 2015, the Pajaro Valley Arts Council invites the community to indulge in small works of art—perfect to pick up and take home. More than 50 artists will display works in a benefit exhibit for the PVAC gallery. Community artists known for their works in Open Studios and other local events will present works of printing, painting, sculpture, wax, and glasswork. Defining “art” across diverse interpretations, PVAC encourages visitors to “take away” the art of their choosing and enjoy works from Rose Sellery, Daniella Woolf, Jim and Connie Grant, Susana Arias, Susanna Waddell, Ted Orland, Robynn Smith and many others.

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SUNDAY 1/11 HOMEBREWING CLASSES Over the past several years, homebrewing has become Northern California’s new favorite pastime. And we love it. From pomegranate Pale Ales to chocolate-caramel IPAs, experimenting with flavors can put a new spin on what you sip in front of Sunday night television. And with all the bad beer in the world (we won’t name names) it’s worth getting hopped up on your own technique—that’s why the Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing is offering a half-day class demonstrating the art of the brew. Open to anyone over 21, tickets include breakfast, lunch, tasting, and a SCMB t-shirt.

UCSC ARBORETUM VOLUNTEER CLASSES New Year’s resolutions are the perfect way to pause, take stock, and evaluate what is lacking. Is it exercise? Is it giving back? Learning new things? This Tuesday, the UCSC Arboretum invites locals who are searching for a resolution to learn about their volunteer program through an introductory class about botany, horticulture, conservation and propagation. Classes continue through February and are a way to become acquainted with the many volunteer opportunities or simply dive into the beauty of the Arboretum with the people who make it thrive.

Info: 9:30 a.m.-Noon., UCSC Arboretum, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz. 502-2998. $10-$45.

Info: 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing, 402 Ingalls St., Ste. 27, Santa Cruz.

425-4900. $60.

SALSA RUEDA DANCE DOWNTOWN Cuban Salsa Rueda dancing. Drop-in class, no partner required. Two classes: Intro/Beg. and Beg2/Int. SalsaGente.com. 8-9 p.m. Louden Nelson Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. $9/$5.

ACA WOMEN IN RECOVERY Women ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics and/or Dysfunctional Families) only. Discussion, speaker, steps, book study, fellowship text, non-smoking. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Quaker Meeting House, 225 Rooney St., Santa Cruz. Jaden 359-2932. adultchildren.org. Free (donations accepted).

WATSONVILLE COMMUNITY POETRY CIRCLE Poetry reading and open-mic. All ages and levels welcome. 5:30-8 p.m. Watsonville Public Library Meeting Room 275 Main St. Suite 100 Watsonville. 768-3400. Free.

NIGHT CLUB TWO-STEP 6-WEEK SERIES A partner dance, related to salsa and cumbia, designed for popular, slow music. For those with limited or no experience with couples dances, wedding parties. RSVP at Capitola Recreation.

475-4134. 6-7 p.m. 4400 Felt St., Capitola.

“ACA SERENITY SEEKERS” Open to all, discussion, speaker, steps, book study, fellowship text, nonsmoking. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Calvary Episcopal Church, 532 Center St., Santa Cruz. adultchildren.org. Free (donations accepted).

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VOLUNTEER

SAMBA: ALL LEVELS DANCE CLASS Highenergy Brazilian dance fitness class infused with Samba Rio, Samba Reggae, Samba de Roda, plus movements from Africa, Cuba, Trinidad, Tobago, and more. Live drumming.

6-7:25 p.m. 418 Front St., Santa Cruz.

DanceOfBrazil.com. $15.

NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS: SCOTTS VALLEY Newcomers come 15 minutes early to get acquainted. www.naranoncalifornia. org/norcal. 7-8:30 p.m. St. Philip’s Church, 5271 Scotts Valley Drive, Room #1, Scotts Valley. saveyoursanity@aol.com, Helpline 291-5099. Free.

HOUSING NAVIGATOR TRAINING Volunteer to help permanently house homeless in Santa Cruz. Housing Navigators help search for permanent housing for homeless, help prepare homeless for landlord interviews and other helpful tasks. 6-7:30 p.m. United Way 4450 Capitola Road, Suite 106, Capitola. 818-0988.

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Pacific Cultural Center, 1307 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz. 212-6641. Donation.

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FRIDAY 1/09 COMMUNITY 41ST ANNUAL FUNGUS FAIR Three days of fun, informative speakers, demonstrations and vendors with food for sale. Learn about the hundreds of species of mushrooms found in the Santa Cruz area. Fungi on display in a recreated woodland habitat. Fungal activities for the whole family and kids room. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz.

3 - 7 p.m. Saturday - Sunday (10 a.m.-5 p.m.). $5 on Friday. Sat/Sun 10/$5/Free.

ARTS CABRILLO STAGE PRESENTS URINETOWN, THE MUSICAL A tale of greed, corruption, love, and revolution during a period of drought.

A musical comedy that spoofs musical comedy and musical drama. 7:30 - 10 p.m.

Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. 479-6154. cabrillostage.com. $22-$49.

FREEBIE COMMUNITY FREE DAY Enjoy free access to the Seymour Center all day. Opens 10 a.m.

Seymour Discovery Center, 100 Schaffer Road, Santa Cruz. 459-3800. Free.

CLASSES CHAIR YOGA Instructor Suzi Mahler, CMT, NE guides you through a series of gentle seated yoga postures performed slowly and with breath awareness. Tue/Fri 9:30 a.m. at Grey Bears (2710 Chanticleer Ave. Santa Cruz); Wednesday 10:30 a.m. at Yoga Center Santa Cruz. 234-6791. suzimahler@gmail. com. $5.

GROUPS SANTA CRUZ DOWNTOWN TOASTMASTERS Est. in 1955, open to all who want to further their speaking and leadership skills. 7-8:30 a.m. Live Oak Senior Center, 1777 Capitola Road, Santa Cruz. santacruzdowntowntoastmasters.org.

WOMENCARE: CONNECT WITH NATURE A potent way for women with cancer to nurture body, mind, and spirit. Every second Friday. RSVP 457-2273. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free.

YOGA OF 12-STEP RECOVERY Each weekly two-hour class includes an hour of recovery discussions and an hour of gentle recovery oriented yoga practice. Come for either or both hours. Helpful for those with addictions, family and friends. 7-9 p.m. Yoga Within, 8035 Soquel Drive, Aptos. Donation.

MUSIC

YUJI TOJO Bittersweet Bistro, 787 Rio Del Mar Blvd, Aptos. 8-11 p.m. Free.

SATURDAY 1/10 CLASSES ESSENTIAL OILS FOR ROMANCE Join Heather Williams to learn about the overall benefits of essential oils and how they can be used to enhance a romantic evening. Make personalized bath salts. 1-2 p.m. Mountain Spirit, 6299 Hwy 9, Felton. 335-7700. $10.

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SĂ&#x2030;VERINE BALLON PLAYS CONTEMPORARY CELLO WORKS By UCSC composers Andrew C. Smith, Pablo Rubio Vargas, and Rebecca Saunders, Timothy McCormack, Franck Bedrossian, Andrea Sarto. 7-8:30 p.m. UCSC Music Center, Room 131. anchsmit@ucsc.edu. Free.

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OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS 12-Step support group to stop eating compulsively.

Meetings daily. Check website for times. www.santacruzoa.org. 9-10:10 a.m. Calvary Episcopal Church, 532 Center St., Santa Cruz.

462-9644. Free.

WRITING CIRCLE FOR WOMEN WITH CANCER Open to the writer in each of us.

Meets second Saturday of the month. Call to register. 10 a.m.-Noon. 457-2273. Free.

MUSIC WESTMINSTER CHOIR PERFORMS AT CABRILLO COLLEGE A concert, “The Invention of Love,” conducted by Joe Miller.

Est. 94 years ago, the Westminster Choir is composed of students at Westminster Choir College, a division of Rider University’s Westminster College of the Arts. 7:309:30 p.m. Cabrillo College, Samper Recital Hall 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. 479-6154. $15/$10/Free.

WISE FOOLS OF GOTHAM Playful and plaintive Celtic music sung by Colleen Segale, Josh Reilly on guitar, Russ Bennett on bodhran. 6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant and Inn. davenportroadhouse. com. Free.

THE JOINT CHIEFS Bittersweet Bistro, 787 Rio Del Mar Blvd, Aptos. 8-11 p.m. Free.

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DUNE RESTORATION AT MOSS LANDING SB Join ESF and State Parks to plant native seedlings at Moss Landing State Beach. No experience necessary. 9 a.m.-Noon. Moss Landing State Beach, Hwy 1. 728-5939. Free.

BROOM BASHES French Broom is an invasive, exotic plant that takes over natural habitats. Join us to remove many of these unwanted plants from the park trails. Tools provided. Bring work gloves, water, and lunch.

Ages 16 and up. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Quail Hollow Ranch County Park, 800 Quail Hollow Road, Felton. 335-9348, prc120@scparks.com. Free.

VOLUNTEER BECOME A VOLUNTEER TUTOR Join the Literacy Program for a free one-hour orientation to learn more about becoming a tutor to an adult English language learner. No teaching of foreign language skills necessary. 10-11 a.m.

Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County, 1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. 427-5070. Free.

SUNDAY 1/11 CLASSES SALSA FOOTWORK AND WORKOUT Learn how to dance and get fit at the same time. No partners needed. Drop-ins welcome. 9-10 a.m. The Tannery #111, 1060 River St., Santa Cruz. 818-1834.

BailamosSalsaRueda.com. $7/$5.

GROUPS NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS: SANTA CRUZ Share experiences, strengths and hopes at weekly meetings. naranoncalifornia.org/norcal. 6:30-8 p.m. Santa Cruz Sutter Hospital, Sutter Room, 2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. saveyoursanity@aol.com, Helpline 2915099. Free.

COUPLES RECOVERY Learn tools and steps that will offer you both a path to a loving satisfying couple ship. 10:30 a.m.Noon. Santa Cruz Sutter Hospital, Sutter Room, 2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz.

234-5409. Free.

EATING DISORDER RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUP A supportive environment to connect with people working towards recovery. Come at noon for meal support.

1-2:30 p.m. The Lotus Collaborative, 701 Mission St., Santa Cruz. 600-7103. Free.

SERENITY FIRST: PAGANS IN RECOVERY Weekly meeting with a Pagan flair, guests are free to discuss their spiritual paths, including those that are nature-based and goddess-centered. All 12-step programs welcome. 7-8 p.m. Epic Adventure Games, 222 Mt. Hermon Road, Ste A, Scotts Valley.

336-8591. Free (donations accepted).

HEALTH WHAT IS REIKI? Reiki is an energy-healing technique often used as a light-touch therapy. Learn about this self-healing technique and start feeling better by the time you leave. 10 a.m.-Noon. Santa Cruz Reiki Works, 421-1877. Sliding scale: $10$20.

SPIRITUAL INSPIRATIONAL MEDITATION SERVICE Santa Cruz SRF Meditation Group.

Inspirational readings from Paramahansa Yogananda, founder of Self-Realization Fellowship and author of Autobiography

WEDNESDAY 1/14 JOHN MCCUTCHEON Six-time Grammy nominee John McCutcheon lends his folktastic vocals and 30-some years of making music to the Resource Center for Nonviolence’s benefit concert. As part of the January series “Celebrating Compassion & Courage: In the Spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” McCutcheon will perform his eclectic mix of ballads, love songs, children’s music, topical satire, fiddle and dulcimer tunes and symphonic works.

Info: 7:30 p.m., Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. 423-0900.

of a Yogi. 11 a.m.-Noon. Call for location.

334-2088.

GUIDED MEDITATION Learn how to set up a daily meditation practice.

Stabilizing meditation followed by guided contemplation on Dharma topics. Led by Venerable Drimay. 9:30-10:30 a.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 462-8383. Donation.

MONDAY 1/12 CLASSES ZUMBA GOLD: LOW-IMPACT DANCE PARTY Party at your own pace. Features Latin rhythms (salsa, merengue, cumbia, reggaeton) and other world beats. All levels and abilities of fitness. 5-5:55 p.m. The 418 Project, 418 Front St., Santa Cruz. $10/$9 first class with mention of Good Times.

WEST COAST SWING Smooth form of swing that can be danced to Blues, R&B, Country and Contemporary music. No partner necessary. No drop-ins. Must RSVP at Capitola Community Center, 475-5935.

7-8:30 p.m. Capitola Community Center, 4400 Jade St., Capitola. gonnadance.com. $9/$11.

HEALTH ARM-IN-ARM CANCER SUPPORT GROUP For women with advanced, recurrent and metastatic cancers. RSVP required. 4572273. 12:30-2 p.m. Free.

DEPRESSION RECOVERY AND STRESS MANAGEMENT LECTURE SERIES Lecture series by Dr. Neil Nedley at the Watsonville Seventh-Day Adventist Church. How to control and remove negative symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression. RSVP 325-

7993. Starts 6:30 p.m. 700 South Green Valley Road, Watsonville. Free.

SPIRITUAL MONDAY DROP-IN MEDITATION Led by Venerable Yangchen and Venerable Gyalten.

Basic meditation instruction and practice.

5:30-6:30 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 462-8383.

Donation.

TUESDAY 1/13 ARTS SOULCOLLAGE Easy art-based collage method to build and create your own tarot collage deck of cards. 7-9p.m. Elemental Art Studio-128. Tannery Arts Center, 1050 River St., Santa Cruz. RSVP 212-1398. $10 all included.

CLASSES BATERIA SAMBA CRUZ Brazil's drum and percussion powerhouse: the bateria.

We explore Rio style samba, samba-afro, samba-reggae, and more. All levels. Some instruments provided. 6-7 p.m. The Tannery WDC, 1060 River St., Santa Cruz. 435-6813. $7.

YIN/YANG YOGA In this class we will explore the manifestations of the polarities of yin and yang within our yoga practice.

Tue/Thu 7:30 p.m. All levels. Santa Cruz Yoga, 402 Ingalls St., Santa Cruz. $8-$15.

INTERMEDIATE WEST COAST SWING Must know beginning West Coast Swing levels 1 and 2. We teach traditional West Coast Swing to Swing Beat music. 8 - 9 p.m.

222 Market St., Santa Cruz. 479-4826. $9.

MUSIC SHERRY AUSTIN WITH HENHOUSE A magical combination of music woven from folk, country, and rock. Sherry Austin (rhythm guitar, vocals), Sharon Allen (vocals, guitar), Tracy Parker (bass, vocals), and Patti Maxine (lap steel, dobro). 6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant & Inn. Free.

The City of Santa Cruz encourages public participation in local government through its advisory bodies. These are boards, commissions, committees, and task forces that deal with a variety of issues and make recommendations to the City Council. Applicants must be City residents and/or City voters for most of the advisory bodies.

Information on advisory bodies and applications are available in the City Clerkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department, 809 Center Street, Room 9, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, Phone 420-5030. City advisory body information, current openings, and an application form are also available on the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Advisory Body web page. The online address is: http://www.cityofsantacruz.com/city-government/advisory-bodies

Deadline for applications is Wednesday, January 14, 2015, at noon.

Applicants will be invited to meet with Councilmembers in Council Chambers, 809 Center Street, on Tuesday,

January 20, 2015, beginning at 7:00 p.m.

Appointments will be made on Tuesday, January 27, 2015.

Current Openings In some cases there are vacant positions. In other cases, there are expired terms and advisory body members who may be eligible for reappointment. Reappointments are not automatic; however, an existing committee member has already served a partial or full term and is eligible to be appointed for another term. Most often, such people are reappointed to those seats by Council. #RRNKECVKQPU CTG MGRV QP Ć&#x201A;NG CPF UGTXG CU C UQWTEG HQT HWVWTG QRGPKPIU FWTKPI VJG [GCT UQ CNN KPVGTested parties are encouraged to apply at this time.

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LOVE YOUR

LOCAL BAND

JACKIE ZEALOUS Jackie Zealous is a three-piece garagerock band, but it’s also the name of a real person. Not one of the members, though—the name belongs to a guy they met at their practice space who provides them with a lot of unsolicited advice. And he lives in a van right outside.

“He sits in on some of our practices, and tells us what we should be doing from the business side of things,” says drummer Ryan Lee. “He’ll tell us that we’re too laid back and we need to go off—and then threaten to kick us.”

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The trio obviously has a goofy side, but they also have some real songwriting skills, a couple of notches above the standard fuzzed-out, cymbal-crashing psych-garage formula. There’s some sophisticated Rubber Soul-era Beatles, and late-’60s Kinks influences in there.

The only music they have online at the moment are some mellow acoustic demos of their songs, and they work stripped down because of the strong pop sensibilities. Live, they play the songs much faster and more distorted.

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“I started playing guitar when I was 14-15.

My goal wasn’t to become a technically good player. I was always a lot more interested in writing good songs,” says singer/guitarist Eddie Curzon.

Though their current set of about 15 songs were all written by Curzon, everyone in the group is a singerguitarist-songwriter. However, they all wanted to be in a band together, so Lee and Zach Scott decided to take up drums and bass, respectively.

New recordings are in the works, and they’ll all be full-band songs, not just demos. As for their musical mentor that inspired their name, the band hasn’t seen him around lately.

“Where his van is usually parked, there’s a boot there. I guess he’s gone,” Lee says.

AARON CARNES INFO: 9 p.m. Jan. 10. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.

DAVE STAMEY

WEDNESDAY 1/7 REGGAE

KATCHAFIRE One of the finest reggae bands that New Zealand—or any nation for that matter—has to offer, Katchafire has been building a solid following over the last decade or so. With five albums under their belts—four of which have graced the Top 5 in New Zealand’s album charts, including 2013’s Best So Far—and touring gigs that have taken them throughout most of the world, the word is out about these guys. BRIAN PALMER

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

AFRICAN/FUSION

BONGO LOVE Hailing from Zimbabwe, Bongo Love plays a moving and beautiful blend of Afrobeat and traditional Zimbabwean styles that they’ve dubbed “afrocoustics.” Formed in 2001, Bongo Love has a reach that’s international, having performed on stages, large and small, around the globe. The band’s core

instruments include the mbira thumb piano, the marimba, the djembe, bongos and congas, and now, a bass and full drum set. The newest addition to the band is vocalist Claire Dangarembwa. CAT JOHNSON INFO: 7:30 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $10. 603-2294.

THURSDAY 1/8 WESTERN

DAVE STAMEY Dubbed “The Cowboy Entertainer,” singer and guitarist Dave Stamey has carved out a solid niche for himself over the years. The Western Music Association has named him the Entertainer and Male Performer of the Year three times each, and Songwriter of the Year twice, so he is clearly doing something right.

Let’s face it, if you’re given a Will Rogers Award by the Academy of Western Artists, you’re a true-blue country performer of the highest order. BP INFO: 7:30p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy 9, Felton. $17/adv, $20/door. 603-2294.

SOUTHERN ROCK AND SOUL

BROTHERS KEEPER Hot on the heels of their debut fulllength record, Todd Meadows, Brothers Keeper is set to dazzle Santa Cruz for the first time with their soulful brand of rock ’n’ roll. Numbers like “Days Go By” show the band’s knack for swaggering rhythms, while John Popper— who will be part of the lineup for this show—adds some groovy harmonica on that song in addition to some dirty, thick vocals on the sexy “Cold Rain.” BP INFO: 8:30 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $17/adv, $20/door. 479-1854.

FRIDAY 1/9 ROCK-POP

JAMES DURBIN Even though local singer James Durbin finished fourth place on “American Idol” in 2011, he resonated with audiences in a way that’s unusual for a runner-up. He wasn’t just another pop singer—he brought rock and metal to the program, covering artists like Aerosmith, Judas Priest, Queen and

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KATCHAFIRE

Bon Jovi. Since those days, Durbin has released two LPs. He’s a big hit nationally, but Santa Cruz in particular loves him. His original music is a cross between Thirty Seconds to Mars and Motley Crue, but with a very slick modern pop-edge. He’s got meaty riffs, anthemic choruses and ultra hooky melodies. AARON CARNES

LATIN

LOS SHAKAS DE LA BANDA Formed in 2009 in San Jose, Los Shakas de la Banda is a high-energy, hornbased Latin band that numbers over a dozen members and plays music guaranteed to get your heart pumping and feet moving. Having shared stages with big names in the Latin music world, including La Arrolladora, El Coyote, Julion Alvarez, and El Trono de Mexico, the band defies categorization and is quickly expanding its reach throughout the Bay Area and beyond. CJ INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $15/adv, $20/door. 423-1338.

ROCK/JAM

MELVIN SEALS & JGB Jerry Garcia’s nickname for keyboardist Melvin Seals was “Master of the Universe.” I’m not sure how the name came about, but after Garcia’s passing, it was Seals who carried on the Jerry Garcia Band legacy, transforming the band into Melvin Seals and JGB. Having played with Garcia for 15 years, Seals has established himself as both a vital part of the Grateful Dead extended family and a funky and fun-loving pioneer of the jam-band scene—all in a day’s work for someone in charge of the universe, I guess. CJ INFO: 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $25/door. 479-1854.

ROCK

THE COFFIS BROTHERS Start your New Year off right by checking out the second of a two-night engagement for these local rockers.

2014 was a solid year for the guys, with the release of their electric second full-length record, Wrong Side of the

Road, and they racked up thousands of touring miles performing with everyone from the Brothers Comatose to the Soft White Sixties to the Mother Hips. These guys do rock ’n’ roll right, whether their audience is one person or 1,000.. BP

INFO: 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. $25-$70. 426.6966.

WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/ giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 9 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

INFO: 8 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Highway 9, Felton. $10. 603-2294.

SUNDAY 1/11 REGGAE

TRIBAL THEORY This San Diego six-piece is full of pop melodies and soulful harmonies, but what sets them apart is the way they mix classic reggae beats with Polynesian grooves. Of course there is plenty of soul and pop in there as well, particularly in the vocals. The group has three singers, who bring spine-tingling harmonies to each song. There’s obvious influence from Steel Pulse and the Wailers in there, but it’s neither retro-reggae nor rock influenced like a lot of current cali-reggae bands—it’s something entirely new. AC INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $8/adv, $10/door. 429-4135.

IN THE QUEUE FLORAL

Garage-inspired, Portland-based indie rockers. Thursday at Crepe Place TRAVELING ILLS

Local punk-blues outfit. Thursday at Catalyst CANDELARIA

Bay Area purveyors of “cumbia-dub.”

Friday at Moe’s Alley OUTTA SITES

Rock ’n’ roll with members of Los Straitjackets, and go-go dancers.

Sunday at Don Quixote’s SOUTH RAIL

Americana trio out of D.C. Monday at Don Quixote’s

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INFO: 8 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz. $17-$50. 429-4135.

SATURDAY 1/10

Under the direction of maestro Daniel Stewart, the Santa Cruz Symphony presents an evening of strings-only pieces that spotlight our symphony’s celebrated string section.

Featuring Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, one of the best-known American compositions; Stravinsky’s “ingeniously inventive celebration of Greek mythology” Apollon Musagète (Apollo’s Muses); and Tchaikovsky’s sensual Serenade for Strings, the evening promises to be moving and memorable. CAT JOHNSON

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LIVE MUSIC

Thursday January 8th 8:30pm $17/20 All-Star Album Release Party

BROTHERS KEEPER w/ JOHN POPPER JASON CROSBY JONO MANSON MICHAEL JUDE & JOHN MICHEL Friday January 9th 9pm $9/12

Latin Double Bill Dance Party

CANDELARIA + BROKEN ENGLISH Saturday January 10th 9pm $20/25

The Keepers Of The Flame Return

MELVIN SEALS & JGB Wednesday January 14th 8:30pm $10/12 Outlaw Country & Honky Tonk

WHITEY MORGAN & THE 78’s Thursday January 15th 8:30pm $9/12 9 Piece Brooklyn Power Funk

TURKUAZ + 7 COME 11

Friday January 16th 9pm $22/25 (((FolkYEAH!))) Presents

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Bridget Bridg et Marie Band 9-11:45p 911:45p

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Rights, No Bragging Bragging Right s, Greenery The Gr eenery $1 0/$12 7p $10/$12

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Broken Br oken Shades Shades 6p

Rand Reuter 6p

Top T oop 40 Music Videos w/DJ Tripp V ideos w /DJ T ripp 9p

Boxx ((Goth The Bo Goth Night) 9p

Post Punk P ost P unk Night 9p

Livee Music Liv $5 9p

DJ/Live DJ/Live Music

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Karaoke Karaoke

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Dread Speciall D read I Knight, Specia Country Nightss w w/Kristy C ountry Night /Kristy Something Blend, S omething Like Like Parker P arker Seduction S eduction Jamess D Durbin Jame urbin $17/$50 $1 7//$50 7p

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Rainbow R ainbow Night w/ w/ DJ DJ AD DJ DJ / Ladies Ladies Night

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BLUE LOUNGE BL UE L OUNGE Seabright Ave, Santa 529 S eabright A ve, S anta Cruz; 423-7771 4237771 BOARDWALK BOWL BO ARDWA ALK BO WL Santa 115 Cliff St, S anta Cruz; 426-3324 4263324 BOCCI’S BOCCI’ S CELLAR C ELL AR Santa 1140 40 Encinal Encinal St, S anta Cruz; 427-1795 42 7-1795 CASA SORRENTO C ASA S ORRENTO 393 Salinas Salinas; 39 3S alinas St, S alinas; 7757-2720 57-2720

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Tribal Theory,, CR CRSB T ribal Theory SB $8/$10 $8/$1 0 8:30p

T raveling Ills esmadre, Traveling Ills,, D Desmadre, Good Luck Thrift Store Store LLos os Shak as de la Band da Shakas Banda Liz ard Acid Acid Chris Lizard Christt O utfit, Hills tomp, D erek Outfit, Hillstomp, Derek $15/$2 0 8:30p $15/$20 $12 8:30p D unn $1 0/$12 8:30p Dunn $10/$12 KPIG Happ Happyy Hour 5:307:30p 5:30-7:30p Flor al, The Glo ve Floral, Glove Burnt Palms, Palms, Watergate Watergate St eep Ravine, Ravine, Max’ Steep Max’ss D epartment, Str awberry Department, Strawberry S candals, Jackie Scandals, Midnight Kit chen $8 9p 9 Kitchen $8 9p Z ealous $8 9p Zealous

7C ome 11 Come $5 9p

LIVE MUSIC WED WE ED CROW ’ S NEST CROW’S NEST 2218 E. Cliff D Dr, r, S Santa anta Cruz; 476-4560 4 76-4560

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DAV. D AV. ROADHOUSE ROADHOUSE 1D Davenport avenport Ave, Ave, Davenport; Davenport; 426-8801 DON QUIXOTE’S QUIXOTE’ S 6275 62 75 Hwy 9, 9, FFelton; elton; 603-2294 60 3 2294 3-2294

Dave Dave Stamey Stamey w w/Annie /A Annie Lydon $1 0 8p Lydon $10

THE FISH HOUSE THE 972 9 72 Main St, W Watsonville; atsonville; 7728-3333 28-3333 FOG BANK BANK 211 Esplanade, Esplanade, Capit Capitola; ola; 462-1881 4621881 GG RESTAURANT RE STAUR ANT 8041 Soquel Soquel Dr, Dr, Apt Aptos; os; 688-8660

Flingo Flinngo 7p

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Little Little P and the Thir Third d Degreee 6:30-10:30p 6:30-10:30p Degree

The Crew Crew 6-10p 6-10p

Merchants Merchants of of Groove Groove 5-9p

Zebra Zebra 3

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Dennis Dennis D Dove ove P Pro ro Jam

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Rev. Rev. LLovejones ovejoones 4p

Live Live Music

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Live Music Live 7p

BRIAN CHARETTE TRIO Rising Star Organ: DownBeat Critic’s Poll 1/2 Price Night for Students Thursday, January 22 U 7 pm

SMITH DOBSON QUARTET FEATURING BEN GOLDBERG Monday, January 26 U 7 & 9 pm | No Comps

ROBBEN FORD WITH THE FORD BLUES BAND

10 10 Foot Foot Faces Faces

Thursday, January 29 U 7 & 9 pm | No Comps

ALBERT LEE

Matias Urzua Urzua Flamenc Flamencoo 6-9p

David David More More Band 9p

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Uncharted Unccharted Jazz 6-9p 6-9 9p

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Celebrating Forty Years of Creativity Monday, January 19 U 7 pm

Monday, February 2 U 7 pm | No Comps Roadhouse Roadhouse Karaoke Kar a aoke 7:30p 7:30p

ERIC HARLAND VOYAGER

w/Chris Turner, Walter Smith III, Julian Lage, Taylor Eisti, Harish Raghavan Thursday, February 4 U 7 pm

Steve W alters Steve Walters 6-9p

MELISSA ALDANA CRASH TRIO Sunday, February 8 U 7:30 pm | No Comps At the Rio Theate

TOMMY EMMANUEL Sunday Brunch Brrunch Live Live Sunday 11a-1p p Jazz 11a-1p Live Music Live 5:30 0-9p 5:30-9p

Kelly Chris Kelly 7-10p 7-10p

Live Music Muusic Live 5:30-9p 5:30-9p

Karaoke w/Ken w/Ken Karaoke 9p

Monday, February 9 U 7 pm | No Comps 2015 GRAMMY AWARD NOMINEE

BILLY CHILDS QUARTET 2/14 Tuck and Patt: Valentine’s Day Concert – Jazz and Dinner Packages Available Online Only 2/16 Nicholas Payton Trio 3/13 Ladysmith Black Mambazo at the Rio Theatre Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records. Dinner served 1-hr before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer.

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The Robert Cray Band

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Comedian Lewis Black The Rant is Due Part Deux Feb F eb 5 @ 8 pm

320-2 Cedar St [ Santa Cruz 831.427.2227

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Br others Keepers, Keepers, John Brothers Broken Candelaria, Broken P opper, Scott Scott Rednor Rednor & Popper, English $9/$12 8p English Mor $17//$20 8p Moree $17/$20

Melvin Seals Seals & JGB $2 0/$25 8p $20/$25

MOTIV MOTIV M 11209 12 09 P acific A ve, S anta Cruz; Pacific Ave, Santa 429 4 429-80 8070 429-8070

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Beer Pong Pong Tourney, Tourne o y, Lib ation Lab w/ w/ S yntax Libation Syntax 9 9p1 30 1:30a 9p-1:30a

D Burrgandy DJJ Juan Burgandy 9:30p

R asta Cruz R eggae Rasta Reggae Party P arty 9p

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T rivia Night Trivia 8p

7C ome 11 Come FFree ree 10p 10p

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The Olit as All St ars Olitas Stars 6:30p V Vinny inny Johns Johnson on

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Whisk erman Whiskerman $5 9p

Cas ey Wickstrom Wickstrom Casey 6p

Lisaa T Lis Taylor aylor O mingnome Omingnome 8p

POE P T & PATRIOT PATRIO T T POET 3 32 0 E. C edar St, S anta Cruz; 320 Cedar Santa 4 426-862 0 426-8620

Jam S ession w sse Session w// Je Jesse S abala 7p Sabala

The K oz Koz $5 9p

T HE RED RED THE 2200 00 LLocust ocust St, S anta Cruz; Santa 4 4251913 425-1913

TheAle aymond The Alexx R Raymond Band 8p

THE REEF T 1120 12 0 Union St, S anta Cruz; Santa 4 45 9-9876 459-9876

Jazz Jam

A coustic Jam w /T Tooby Acoustic w/Toby Gr ay n’F riends Gray n’Friends

Aloha Friday Friday 6p

Gr eat A coussttic C over Great Acoustic Cover Brunch and Dinner

Wednesday, January 7 • In the Atrium • AGES 16+

NO BRAGGING RIGHTS plus The Greenery

FINE MEXICAN AND AMERICAN FOOD ALL YOU CAN EAT LUNCH BUFFET M-F $7.95

Bongo Love Musicians of Zimbabwe

Thur Jan 8

Dave Stamey Cowboy Entertainer

$10 adv./$10 door 21 + 7:30pm with Annie Lydon

$17 adv. / $20 door 21 + 7:30pm

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Coffis Brothers & The Mountain Men plus Taylor Rae $10 adv./$10 door 21 + 8pm

Sat Jan 10

Coffis Brothers & The Mountain Men plus McCoy Tyler Band $10 adv./$10 door 21 + 8pm

Sun Jan 11

The Outta Sites Rock & Roll Dance w/ members of Los Straitjackets $12 adv./$15 door 21 + 7pm

Mon Jan 12

South Rail Americana rising stars from DC plus Mark Mooney

$8 adv./$10 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm Wed Jan 14

Muriel Anderson Acoustic Guitar Great

$10 Adv./ $12 Drs. • Drs. open 7 p.m./ Show 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, January 8 • In the Atrium • AGES 21+

$5 Off w/this coupon

Pack (1) $25/hr. ~ Pack (2) $45/hr.

Locally owned business serving local people living healthy lives.

China Foot Massage & Reflexology

plus Steve Palazzo & Charlie Rice

$16 adv./$19 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm Thur Jan 15

Roy Zimmerman Satire in Song

$15 adv./$18 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm

COMING RIGHT UP

Fri. Jan. 16 Jerry Miller Band w/ Terry Haggerty & Terry Hiatt, 8pm Sat. Jan. 17 Stu Allen & Mars Hotel, 8:30pm Sun. Jan. 18 Sean Watkins Of Nickel Creek plus Lauren Shera Mon. Jan 19 Goodnight Moonshine with Molly Venter (of Red Molly) plus The Fintztones Rockin'Church Service Every Sunday ELEVATION at 10am-11:15am Reservations Now Online at www.donquixotesmusic.com

TRAVELING ILLS plus Desmadre

also Lizard

Acid Christ $8 Drs. • 8:30 p.m./ 9 p.m.

Friday, January 9 • ALL AGES

JAMES DURBIN

$17 Adv./ $50 M&G • Drs. 7 p.m., Show 8 p.m.

Friday, January 9 • In the Atrium • AGES 21+

LOS SHAKAS DE LA BANDA

$15 Adv./ $20 Drs. • Drs. open 8:30 p.m./ Show 9 p.m.

Ancient Chinese Full Body Deep Tissue Table Massage

Call for appointment 831-464-0168 4140 Ste. “T” Capitola Rd (By Big 5, Near D.M.V.) Open 7 days a week 10am–10pm

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FILM often scathingly funny, meditation on pop culture, celebrity, and the battle between art considered serious and substantial, and the philistine popularity of the movies.

It’s a stylish affair with fine performances from stars Michael Keaton, Edward Norton and Emma Stone.

FINDING VIVIAN MAIER John Maloof bought some miscellaneous boxes at an estate auction, and stumbled into one of the greatest discoveries in 20th Century photography, the previously unknown but amazingly prolific work of amateur street photographer and lifelong nanny Vivian Maier. Maloof’s engrossing documentary exposes her work to the light of day at last, along with the mystery shrouding the artist herself.

INTO THE WOODS Stephen Sondheim’s hit Broadway musical, a fairy-tale mashup for grown-ups, is capably directed by Rob Marshall into a savvy piece of moviemaking.

The mood is dark and lush, and actors not known for their singing handle Sondheim’s witty songs with entertaining gusto.

FULLY GROWN A grown-up Ellar Coltrane and Ethan Hawke star in Richard Linklater’s experimental ‘Boyhood’.

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TIM’S VERMEER Was the meticulous 17th Century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer “a geek who used technology?” Modern-day engineer Tim Jenison wants to know in this engrossing, audacious doc from magicians Penn and Teller.

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here are no themes or trends to make note of in my favorite films of 2014.

Having now seen most of the year-end contenders, I humbly offer up a mixed bag of little gems that ought to put some sparkle in your Netflix queue.

BOYHOOD The evolution of lives and stories in real time is not something the movies often do. Which is why Richard Linklater’s audacious experiment is so refreshing. Linklater shot a scripted film over a period of 12 years, allowing his cast—including his child protagonists—to age naturally onscreen. Nothing much remarkable occurs as the narrative evolves, but it makes for a bold, moving and utterly mesmerizing moviegoing experience.

IDA This Polish drama is a small miracle of economic storytelling, emotional complexity and scope.

Co-written and directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, it’s both an intimate, mostly two-character drama, and an unsparing, unsentimentalized look back on two decades of Polish history, as told over the course of a few days in the life of a young woman.

It’s everything we want a film to be—focused, beautifully composed, surprising, and powerful.

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Eddie Redmayne is terrific at every stage of the life of Stephen Hawking— from vigorous young Cambridge graduate student to wheelchairbound physics icon—in this smart, tender and funny biographical drama

from James Marsh. Felicity Jones is equally formidable as Jane Hawking in a film that celebrates tenacity—in life, love and ideas.

JODOROWSKY’S DUNE “The greatest science fiction movie never made” would have cemented the reputation of one of the most engaging nutball visionaries ever to emerge in the annals of cinema. If only Alejandro Jodorowsky’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune had been made.

But Frank Pavich’s irresistible documentary, complete with dazzling concept drawings and paintings, and commentary by dapper 84-year-old Jodorowsky himself, is as close as we’ll ever get.

BIRDMAN Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s backstage black comedy is a dark,

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (OK, this was released at the end of 2013, but I didn’t see it in time for last year’s Top Ten.) In addition to giving a marvelously subtle performance as the charismatic Charles Dickens, director Ralph Fiennes delivers a shrewdly observed portrait of the relationship between the middle-aged author and his teenage actress mistress, and between the artist and his public.

Honorable Mention: Gloria, Women On Top, Cavalry, Force Majeure, The Imitation Game.

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THE JOURNEY INWARD Oliver Quintanilla’s documentary ‘Little Saints’ screens at the Rio Theatre on Wednesday, Jan 14.

Wings of God Doc explores healing powers of magic mushrooms BY RICHARD VON BUSACK is a woman who feels dead inside because she can’t make connections with men. Two others have physical problems. Under the guidance of the Mazatec healer woman Natalia Martinez, and using the mushrooms she provides, the visitors make an inward journey to face their problems.

Quintanilla, who will be on hand Jan. 14, first visited the Oaxacan hamlet where Martinez works in 2000. “It’s some five hours from Puebla, close to the Veracruz border,” Quintanilla explains. “I wanted to make a movie with Natalia, but she was not interested. It was not until five years after that initial meeting that I gained her trust.”

In America, psychedelic mushrooms are illegal to possess or sell. Mexico has no such laws. Various cultures

have kept their pre-Columbian rituals alive by blending them with Catholicism. As we see in the village of Huautla de Jimenez, the mushrooms are even embroidered into the altar cloths in the church.

Santa Cruz’s Linda Rosewood, who describes herself as “a lesbian witch with a day-job at the University,” saw Little Saints at the 2014 Telluride Mushroom Festival in Colorado.

“It’s the only mushroom festival mentioning the entheogenic [“Godrevealing”] qualities of mushrooms,” she says. Rosewood is an enthusiast on the subject, driving around town with an amanita muscaria mushroom painted on the hood of her truck.

“They call it a magic mushroom, but one thing I learned at Telluride is that all mushrooms are magic. They’re

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hey’re called, variously, “the wings of God,” “the blood of God,” and “the saliva of God”—the last, because of how sacred mushrooms help people’s capacity for selfexpression. Playing Jan. 14 for one night at the Rio Theatre is Little Saints. Oliver Quintanilla’s documentary covers a pilgrimage he took to Oaxaca state with several questers whom he recruited on Craigslist in Los Angeles. Their destination was a ritual mushroom healing session.

Quintanilla’s fellow travelers include a couple who crew in the porn industry. The money is good, but they hate spending their time in a business that, in their opinion, takes the sacredness out of sex. Another client

not a plant, not an animal—they’re a kingdom that is also a network.

This movie is for people like me who wanted to hear mushrooms talked about in an intelligent way—as a medicine that can help people. What I hope people get out of watching this movie is a window into an ancient but efficacious method of solving hard personal problems.”

Little Saints includes interviews with various medical doctors such as Charles Grob, Richard Sandore, and Stanislav Grof. Quintanilla says, “I’m a filmmaker, not a psychiatrist or an anthropologist, and I thought that one aspect of the film ought to include scientists and research.”

“I believe in working completely within the system,” Rosewood comments. “Who knows what a Western approach to psychedelic medicine would look like? Let’s just start there, rather than with some Northern Californian shaman lying around on the living room floor. When something’s illegal, you can’t be honest about what you’re offering.” Of course, recreational use of mushrooms has a long history in the Santa Cruz area.

Rosewood comments that of the many ethnic cultures that use sacred mushrooms, not one of them hands them out to teenagers, telling them to go out and have a good time.

The ritual Quintanilla photographed is surprising. Martinez’s own altar is covered with Catholic bric-a-brac—a chipped pink plaster Virgin Mary, incense pots, photographs of the Pope, and the Santo Niño de Atocha.

But Martinez has impressively acute practical questions for her visitors.

And she’s patient, and not shocked by their first-world problems. “She is like a grandmother, a caring grandmother,” Quintanilla says, “But she doesn’t tell you what you want to hear.”

That’s what Little Saints offers most: an encounter with a remarkable woman. You can be an atheist and non-user of psychedelics, and still recognize someone who is in a serious state of grace: someone with a crone’s common sense, and a wise-woman’s ability to give help.

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FILM NEW THIS WEEK INHERENT VICE Joaquin Phoenix stars as the hapless goofball protagonist in this adaptation of the Thomas Pynchon comic novel about sex and drugs in 1970s L.A., as a low-rent private eye searches for a missing ex-girlfriend.

Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro, and Reese Witherspoon co-star for director Paul Thomas Anderson. (R) 148 minutes. Starts Friday.

SELMA David Oyelowo stars as Dr. Martin Luther King in Ava DuVernay’s fiction film dramatizing the courageous three-month march King led from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, a massive civil rights demonstration that convinced President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) to sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Cuba Gooding Jr., Tim Roth, and Oprah Winfrey co-star. (PG-13) 123 minutes. Starts Friday.

TAKEN 3 Liam Neeson rides again as the implacably cool ex-CIA op who foiled complex kidnapping plots in the first two thrillers now using all his wicked counter-intelligence skills to elude the bad guys tracking him and clear himself of a bogus murder charge. Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen co-star for returning director Olivier Megaton. (PG-13) 109 minutes. Starts Friday.

CONTINUING EVENT: LET'S TALK ABOUT THE MOVIES This informal movie discussion group meets at the Del Mar mezzanine in downtown Santa Cruz. Movie junkies are invited to join in on Wednesday nights to pursue the elusive and ineffable meanings of cinema. This week (Jan. 7): THE IMITATION GAME Discussion begins at 7 p.m. and admission is free.

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NOW PLAYING ANNIE The delightful Quvenzhané Wallis (last seen in Beasts of the

BIG EYES Time-travel back to San Francisco in the late 1950s and early ‘60s in Tim Burton’s vivid, candycolored homage to the hugely popular big-eyed waifs painted by “Keane.”

Why make a biopic about such kitschy work? Because beneath the tale of the work itself lies the incipient women’s empowerment story about a charismatic alpha male who marketed like crazy, passing himself off as the author of work painted by his unsung wife for 10 years. Christoph Waltz is effective, if exhausting, as the imposter Walter Keane; Amy Adams evolves nicely, if slowly, as the talented, but subjugated wife, Margaret Keane, he threatened and cajoled into keeping their secret for years, who finally claimed her place in the spotlight. (PG13) 109 minutes. (***)—Lisa Jensen.

Wyatt in this update of the vintage James Caan movie. (R) 111 minutes.

THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF FIVE ARMIES Bilbo, Gandalf and their allies return for the final installment of Peter Jackson’s trilogy, in which the intrepid company battles the fearsome dragon, Smaug, to save Middle Earth. Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Luke Evans, Orlando Bloom, and Cate Blanchett head the cast, with Benedict Cumberbatch returning as the voice of Smaug. (PG-13) 144 minutes.

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 Jennifer Lawrence returns again as Katniss Everdeen—along with most of the original cast—in this first installment of the third and last book in Suzanne Collins’ dystopian futurist sci-fi series.

(Part 2 comes out next year.) Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, and Julianne Moore head the cast. Francis Lawrence directs. (PG-13) 123 minutes.

release—stirring up plenty of media controversy. Franco and Rogen play a celebrity tabloid TV host and his producer invited to North Korea to interview Kim Jong-un, but recruited en route by the CIA to assassinate him. Rogen and Evan Goldberg direct. (R) 112 minutes.

INTO THE WOODS Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s hit Broadway musical, a fairy-tale mashup for grown-ups, is capably directed by Rob Marshall into a savvy piece of moviemaking. A great cast of actors not known as singers (Meryl Streep as the Witch and the scene-stealing Chris Pine as Cinderella’s Prince are particularly good) delivers Sondheim’s witty lyrics and intricate harmonies with style and clarity. A dark and lush entertainment that considers classic fairy-tale themes in all their glamorous, sinister glory. PG) 125 minutes. (***1/2)—Lisa Jensen.

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRETS OF THE TOMB Ben Stiller returns for the third and final installment of the series in which he stars as museum guard, Larry, on a one-night, global museum-hopping quest to save the magic that allows all the exhibits to come to life after hours. Robin Williams (in his last on-camera role), Owen Wilson, Dan Stevens, Rebel Wilson, and Ben Kingsley lead the cast. Shawn Levy once again directs. (PG) 97 minutes.

FOXCATCHER There’s much to admire in this thoughtful true-crime drama of money and privilege, severe delusions of grandeur, and a murder that rocked the pro wrestling world—although director Bennett Miller’s slow-moving narrative often threatens to sink under its own sense of gravitas. But the film is shored up by three outstanding performances: Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo as Olympic wrestling champion brothers Mark and Dave Schultz, and Steve Carrell in the pivotal role of poor little rich boy John du Pont, who inextricably inserts himself into the lives, careers, and destiny of the Schultz brothers. (R) 134 minutes. (***)—Lisa Jensen.

THE IMITATION GAME The mighty Benedict Cumberbatch is outstanding as troubled mathematical genius Alan Turing, the brilliant puzzlesolver, unsung in his own lifetime, who built the first computer to break the Nazi’s Enigma code during World War II. Turing’s arrogant intelligence, closeted sexuality and borderline Asperger’s syndrome would reduce a lesser actor to tics and melodrama, but Cumberbatch’s commanding focus makes his performance a series of acute and subtle revelations. Morten Tyldum’s time-traveling narrative conveys the complexity of Turing’s story before, during, and after his work on Enigma, presenting the singular Turing as a man trying to crack the code of social “normality” throughout his life. Mark Strong, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, and Charles Dance offer smart supporting performances.

(PG-13) 114 minutes. (***)—Lisa Jensen.

THE PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR In this animated family comedy, the lovable goofball penguins from the Madagascar franchise get their own movie, in which they are recruited as international spies. Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, and Christopher Knight provide the main voices; Benedict Cumberbatch voices their mysterious spymaster. Eric Darnell and Simon J. Smith direct. (PG) 92 minutes.

THE GAMBLER Mark Wahlberg stars as a mild-mannered English professor by day and a high-stakes gambler after hours who pits his gangster creditor against the owner of a gambling ring in a risky gamble for a second chance.

Jessica Lange, Brie Larson, and John Goodman co-star for director Rupert

THE INTERVIEW Courageous blow for free speech and the American Way, or shameless publicity stunt?

You make the call, now that this Seth Rogen/James Franco comedy has slipped into theatres (right on schedule), after announcing last week it would be pulled from

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING The image of science icon Stephen Hawking slouched in his motorized wheelchair, communicating through his robotic voice synthesizer, is so well-known, it’s difficult to imagine him any other way. But that changes with this smart, funny, and tender

biographical drama from director James Marsh. Beginning with Hawking as a vigorous young grad student at Cambridge, it tells the enduring love story of Hawking and his first wife, Jane. Oscars may loom for the exceptional performances by Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones in a film that celebrates tenacity—in life, love, and ideas. (PG-13) 123 minutes. (****)—Lisa Jensen.

TOP FIVE Chris Rock wrote and directed this pop culture satire in which he stars as a stand-up comedian-turned-movie star who, in a moment of madness, agrees to his fiancée’s idea to document their wedding plans for her reality TV show. Rosario Dawson, Gabrielle Union, Cedric the Entertainer, and Tracy Morgan co-star. (R) UNBROKEN Angelina Jolie directs this World War II drama that follows the true story of Louis Zamperini from American distance runner at the 1936 Olympics, to Air Force captain shot down over the Pacific, to survivor in a brutal Japanese POW camp. Jack O’Connell stars, with Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund, Finn Wittrock, and Japanese actor Miyavi in supporting roles. (PG-13) 137 minutes.

WILD The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.

But the years of turmoil leading up to that step are as compelling as the journey itself in Jean-Marc Vallée’s screen adaptation of the bestselling memoir by Cheryl Strayed about one novice hiker’s quest for redemption on the Pacific Crest Trail. While the woman vs. wilderness motif provides visual engagement (with the inexhaustible Reese Witherspoon as Strayed), the backstory featuring the great Laura Dern as Strayed’s mother gives the film scope and resonance. (R) 115 minutes. (***)—Lisa Jensen.

THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH Forty years after the creepy events in the first movie, the same haunted house is unwisely chosen as the new home for a group of children evacuated from wartime London. Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine, and Phoebe Fox star. Tom Harper directs. (PG-13) 98 minutes.

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Southern Wild) takes on the iconic role of the beloved orphan heroine of comic book page and stage in this updated revamp of the popular musical. Jamie Foxx co-stars as the Daddy Warbucks guardian, here a politician who adopts the orphan in hopes it will improve his election chances. Rose Byrne, Cameron Diaz, and Bobby Cannavale have featured roles. Will Gluck directs.

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FOOD & DRINK more than 30 years and is an ESL/ English instructor at Cabrillo College, is a big fan of tamales, but sopes are her favorites, “because they are so cute and people can put whatever they want on them.”

This exuberant teacher is devoted to demystifying the process of creating authentic dishes, “to show that whole foods are an integral part of Mexican food." Melissa’s Mexican Made Easy classes take place in the demonstration kitchen at the Westside New Leaf, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. To enroll either call 251-5640 or email tamalesmadeeasy@yahoo.com.

Make your reservations so that Palacios will be able to stock up on supplies. Jan. 11 Tamales Made Easy ($55), participants will create tamales including chile cheese with tomato sauce and chicken with verde salsas. Jan. 17 Sopes, Salsas, and Flan and Jan. 25 Frida’s Favorite Foods ($50 each). All classes begin at 11 a.m. and last until 2:30 p.m.

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Culinary classes make Mexican easy, plus a Grüner Veltliner that’s blowing our minds BY CHRISTINA WATERS

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eciding to follow her passion for “food, travel and music,” Melissa Palacios has been teaching her friends and colleagues to make authentic tamales and other foods of Mexico for the past 10 years.

After lots of field study at cooking schools in Tlaxcala and Quintana Roo, Palacios—who is also a singer and guitar player with Los Malangueros and the Cabrillo Latin Ensemble—began offering cooking classes professionally one year ago. Melissa’s Mexican Made Easy promises fun classes for inquiring cooks of all ages. “I love these

classes,” she says. “I love that they are so communal—it reminds me of my childhood when we would make tamales as a family.” Palacios starts each class with a little culinary history and introduction to ingredients. “Students will do most of the actual prep and cooking,” she explains. “I provide recipe packets so they can take notes—I try to get as many people involved in this very tactile experience as possible.”

Upcoming classes by Palacios include a session called Frida’s Favorite Foods, in which participants will learn how to prepare favorite dishes of the Mexican painter Frida

Kahlo. It turns out she was a huge fan of chile en nogada—“poblano chile stuffed with ground meat and fruit with a walnut cream sauce,” Palacios says. Class participants will also make lime coconut macaroons, agua fresca and rice.

The one I’m particularly intrigued by is the Jan. 11 Tamales Made Easy class, which will walk the cooks through the fine points of tamale creation, including chile cheese tamales with tomato sauce, and chicken tamales with salsa verde. You’ll get to take home six tamales at the end. Palacios, who has been in Santa Cruz for

This is very good news for the many thirsty fans of our downtown wine bar, which usually takes a few weeks off each January.

Proprietor Patrice Boyle reveals that the team has “big remodeling plans for March, so we will have some downtime then.” Meanwhile—Soif is open. Think pork belly, wild chanterelles, and chilled bubbly!

WINE OF THE WEEK A while back, Richard Alfaro planted an experimental acre of Grüner Veltliner grapes, something almost no one in the U.S. does. Bottled this past summer, the 2013 GV from Alfaro Family Vineyards is a racy, crisp, and citrusy creation with 12 percent alcohol. This wine might not be for everyone, but we love its liveliness and approachability.

Sprightly with marcona almonds, pulled pork, and of course Dungeness crab, Grüner Veltliner is so refreshing you find yourself craving a second glass. And with its low alcohol content, you can have it! Look around or check at the winery tasting room.

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was first introduced to Ser wines when I met up with winemaker Nicole Walsh for a tasting last year. I wrote then about her unusual Cabernet Pfeffer, which Deluxe Foods of Aptos carries, and now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m spotlighting her delicious 2013 Chardonnayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a beautifully made wine by a very talented winemaker.

Fruit for this wine comes from the well-known Coastview Vineyard in the Gabilan Mountains of Monterey Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a perfect spot for growing prime Chardonnay grapes. At an elevation of 2,300 feet and with the gritty minerality of granite and limestone soils, Coastview is producing some excellent Chardonnay grapes, and more than a few winemakers are clamoring to get this fine fruit, which is farmed organically.

With stone-fruit notes of peach and apricot, as well as nuances of pear and limeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and a delightful lingering mineral finish, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the wine has a lot in common aroma and flavor-wise with Pouilly Fuisse (white burgundy),â&#x20AC;? says Walsh. One thingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for sure, this Chardonnay ($28) will thrill your taste buds with its freshness, soft acidity and not-overly-buttery mouthfeel. It comes with a screw cap, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very convenient, and also perfect for picnics.

In addition to Chardonnay and Cabernet Pfeffer, Walsh also makes Pinot Noir and Sparkling Riesling, all of which you can buy online. I bought the 2013 Chardonnay at New Leaf, which carries an excellent range of local wines, especially the store on the Westside.

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FUNGUS FAIR 2015 This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fungus Fair promises to be one of the best in quite some time.

With all the recent rain, mushrooms have shot up like, well, mushrooms, and the displays of different varieties promises to be nothing short of astonishing. As a mushroom loverâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m particularly partial to a portobello sandwich with micro-greens and cheeseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m planning to attend on two days of the three-day affair, as thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so much going on. On Friday, Jan. 9, Chef Zachary Mazi of the new LionFish catering company is doing a full mushroom-related dinner (what else?!) and tickets are $90.

The Fungus Fair takes place at the Louden Nelson Community Center in downtown Santa Cruz on Jan. 9, 10 and 11. Visit ffsc.us for more information and to make reservations for the dinner.

CENTER STREET GRILL CLOSES Sadly, Center Street Grill in downtown Santa Cruz has closed. Owners Danny Voutos and Marty Soliz will now focus solely on their other restaurant, Heavenly Roadside CafĂŠ. Open for breakfast, brunch and lunch, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a go-to spot in the Scotts Valley area.

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On your website, it looks like you do a lot of teriyaki dishes â&#x20AC;Ś International cuisine. We just did a Nigerian wedding. And this springtime, I went to Korea. I did the diplomatsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; dinner. They specifically asked for me to cook Oaxacan dishes, which is Mexican.

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I just went to Uganda last year. Over there, people are starving. The place that we went was an orphanage. They get to eat two, three meals a day. But outside the orphanage people are starving. Kids tried to treat me, so one day they showed me a huge platter of brown round things, and I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what it was. And I took a closer look.

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3 RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES THE UNICORN

All 12 astrological signs have glyphs and symbols.

The higher intuitive mind understands concepts through symbols. Symbols capture the story and essence of a subject. Capricorn’s glyph represents the signature of God (hidden). Most of the astrological signs have animal symbols. Capricorn’s are crocodile, mountain goat and unicorn. Unicorn, spiritual symbol of Capricorn, inspires disciples, indicates one-pointedness, a continued upward movement into divinity and purity. The unicorn moves slowly, never forgetting what is gained through experience. It reaches unreachable heights.

On its ascent the unicorn never slips, reaching its goal (Sagittarius) of the mountaintop, standing within Capricorn’s light.

Unicorn is a divine and mythical creature; one horned, a single spear emerging from the forehead (the Ajna Diamond Light Center of Direction). We imagine ourselves as white unicorns climbing the mountain, alone, at peace, silent.

Silence prevails around us. Discipleship requires the qualities of a unicorn—strength, willingness, stable, tolerant through time, one-pointed, working

toward noble goals, accomplishing slowly and gradually, reaching heights through inner contemplations and outer labor, experiencing silence within and all around, ever expanding into higher states of consciousness.

In the zodiac we encounter the ram (Aries), bull (Taurus), goat (Capricorn) and unicorn (Capricorn). Ram and bull have double horns. Unicorn a single horn.

Ram and bull horns are curved, unicorn’s one horn juts straight outward, like a sun ray. Ram and bull double horns indicate duality in our world.

Unicorn’s single horn indicates nature/reality beyond duality. Like lion, unicorn lives alone, is much more solitary than lion, living in the heights of mountains. In the same way the peacock signifies Master Morya (head of all esoteric schools), the unicorn (appearing in mythical art and stores) signifies a teacher and/or master of wisdom’s presence. May the light of Capricorn bring forth within each of us the spirit of the unicorn. Note: Mercury retrograde on Jan 21.

ARIES Mar21–Apr20

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22

In the next three weeks, issues with groups, friends, hopes, wishes and dreams all blend your professional and spiritual life with the future. Everything concerning these realms, if incomplete and unforgiven, will re-appear seeking explanations, forgiveness, re-assessments, review. You will feel like you’re on a precipice. Maintain poise like the mountain goat. But really like the unicorn.

A mental withdrawal occurs in the next weeks so you can ponder upon choices made within and concerning family.

Soon it will be a time of deep reflection, evaluating emotional needs of self and others. You will both focus on the past as it affects your present and future.

Separations created outwardly create inner separations.

Communication with family is important. Cultivate love.

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SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21

There’s a quiet stillness you possess which often translates into reticence (not speaking much). This is good. However, sometimes the time comes when you must share the information your illumined mind has received. Soon it will be one of those times. If you are Mercury retro (at birth), now’s the time. If not, then next week. You, above all, understand life’s earthly rhythms (music too).

You want to communicate with others. Your activated intelligence wonders about many things, especially future companionship. It’s not time to externalize your thoughts and ideas yet, except in writing. Let them work themselves out naturally. Allow yourself to consider all possibilities, reaching no conclusions. Listen to others.

They have the other half of the information you hold.

GEMINI May22–June20

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20

Your eagerness to understand the present time and to have knowledge that can impart information to others is dependent upon you studying the correct materials. Much new age information is not only incorrect but judgmental.

A new level of discrimination begins to appear in your mind. This is most important, for you must put all the puzzle pieces together now and act on them.

You’re internally working on how you value yourself.

Perhaps you define your resources and values based on others. We need others to reflect our goodness.

That’s how we learn. You may have to explain yourself to another so they understand you better. It may be that some financial and/or business affairs need tending.

Future life planning is occurring quietly within. Patience.

CANCER Jun21–Jul20 You will move into deeper thoughts and contemplation.

You will perhaps think about your own and loved ones’ deaths. It’s important to understand that death is actually liberation and the “Great Adventure.” When loved ones have died we recite Om Mani Padme Hum (mantra). This directs them (and ourselves) to the “Love underlying all events in our worlds” here and hereafter.

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Do you need to consult someone about a situation, a need, repair, or for assistance? Another’s responses to your ideas, thoughts and problems offer you perspective, clarity and clarification. Should there be difficulties in any area of your life, an inner review and reassessment over the next month will lead to greater understanding of reasons and intentions.

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CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 You’re experiencing multiple thoughts at once, jumping here, there and everywhere. Others may be confused by this seeing you as constantly changing. Your thoughts influence others. Explain you’re redefining yourself. Relax in the coming weeks doing what is most creative. Our thoughts create a template for the future that later appear in form and matter. What in your future is most important?

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 You’re examining yourself, ideas, intentions and present state of being, reviewing past year accomplishments.

You realize what more you want to accomplish. In coming weeks wherein you reflect on your life, write down all that you hope to fulfill in the New Year. This anchors your thoughts and ideas. There’s much to do this year for Aquarians. They are to initiate the love central to the new culture and civilization.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 We find you quietly in solitude for the next several weeks, withdrawing to study and think on the future. You’re encountering many non-rational elements reflecting the changing times. Peace and quiet are beneficial for you.

Hidden areas of your character, goals, hopes, wishes and dreams are revealed. You may be thinking about death and mortality. It is a good time to write down how you want your death handled. It’s practical and spiritual.

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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF JUSTIN HERTING, CHRISTIE HERTING CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV180234. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner JUSTIN HERTING, CHRISTIE HERTING has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name from Camara Darlene Placentini to: Camara Darlene Herting. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING January 14, 2015 at 8:30am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110.

Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times , a newspaper of General Circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: December 3, 2014. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior Court. December 17, 24, 31 & Jan.7.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF YANA LINS BONETTI CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV180185. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner YANA LINS BONETTI has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name from Yana Lins Bonetti to: Yana Lins-Clark Bonetti.

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must

file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING January 15, 2015 at 8:30am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110.

Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times , a newspaper of General Circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: December 3, 2014. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior Court. December 17, 24, 31 & Jan.7.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF GUSTAVO CISNEROS LOPEZ CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV180647. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner GUSTAVO CISNEROS LOPEZ has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name from Gustavo Cisneros

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION OF ORDINANCE BY POSTING (ORDINANCE NO. 2015-01) The City Council of the City of Santa Cruz having authorized the city clerk administrator, that the ordinance hereafter entitled and described, be published by posting copies thereof in three (3) prominent places in the City, to wit: The City of Santa Cruz Website www.cityofsantacruz.com City Hallâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;809 Center Street Central Branch Libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;224 Church Street NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that copies of said ordinance were posted according to said order. (Original on ďŹ le with city clerk.) Said ordinance was introduced on November 18, 2014 and is entitled and described as follows: ORDINANCE NO. 2015-01 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ AMENDING SECTION 13.08.100 OF THE SANTA CRUZ MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO ORDERS TO VACATE PARK PROPERTY This ordinance will provide for incremental increases in time that a person receiving a citation in a City park, beach or any other property maintained by the Parks and Recreation Department must stay away from the property where the arrest was made or citation issued.

PASSED FOR PUBLICATION on this 18th day of November, 2014, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Terrazas, Comstock, Mathews; Vice Mayor Lane; Mayor Robinson. NOES: Councilmember Posner. ABSENT: Councilmember Bryant.

DISQUALIFIED: None. APPROVED: ss/Lynn Robinson, Mayor. ATTEST: ss/Bren Lehr, City Clerk Administrator.

This Ordinance is scheduled for further consideration and ďŹ nal adoption at the Council meeting of January 13, 2015.

Lopez to: Gustavo Lopez Cisneros THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING January 28, 2015 at 8:30am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110.

Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times , a newspaper of General Circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: December 3, 2014. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior Court. December 17, 24, 31 & Jan.7.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 14-2313 The following individual is

doing business as BROWNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SEPTIC CONSTRUCTION. PO BOX 1065, SOQUEL CA 95073 County of Santa Cruz.

DARREN PAUL BROWN. PO BOX 1065, SOQUEL CA 95073.

This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: DARREN PAUL BROWN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 9, 2014. December 17, 24, 31 & Jan. 7.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 14-2329 The following individual is doing business as BROWNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SEPTIC CONSTRUCTION. PO BOX 1065, SOQUEL CA 95073 County of Santa Cruz.

DARREN PAUL BROWN. PO BOX 1065, SOQUEL CA 95073.

This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: DARREN PAUL BROWN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 9, 2014. December 17, 24, 31 & Jan. 7.

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION OF ORDINANCE BY POSTING (ORDINANCE NO. 2015-02) The City Council of the City of Santa Cruz having authorized the city clerk administrator, that the ordinance hereafter entitled and described, be published by posting copies thereof in three (3) prominent places in the City, to wit: The City of Santa Cruz Website www.cityofsantacruz.com City Hallâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;809 Center Street Central Branch Libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;224 Church Street NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that copies of said ordinance were posted according to said order. (Original on ďŹ le with city clerk.) Said ordinance was introduced on November 18, 2014 and is entitled and described as follows: ORDINANCE NO. 2015-02 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ AMENDING SECTIONS 24.12 AND 24.16.100 ET AL OF THE SANTA CRUZ MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS AND SECTION 10.41 OF THE SANTA CRUZ MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO RESIDENTIAL PARKING PERMITS This ordinance amends Accessory Dwelling Unit regulations providing additional opportunities for construction of Accessory Dwelling Units and legalization of unpermitted dwelling units while maintaining neighborhood compatibility.

PASSED FOR PUBLICATION on this 18th day of November, 2014, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Terrazas, Comstock, Mathews, Posner; Vice Mayor Lane; Mayor Robinson. NOES: None.

ABSENT: Councilmember Bryant. DISQUALIFIED: None. APPROVED: ss/Lynn Robinson, Mayor. ATTEST: ss/Bren Lehr, City Clerk Administrator. This Ordinance is scheduled for further consideration and ďŹ nal adoption at the Council meeting of January 13, 2015.

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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF YANA LINS BONETTI CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV180185. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner YANA LINS BONETTI has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name from Yana Lins Bonetti to: Yana Lins-Clark Bonetti.

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a

hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING January 15, 2015 at 8:30am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110.

Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times , a newspaper of General Circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: December 3, 2014. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior Court. December 17, 24, 31 & Jan.7.

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CAPITOLA RD. APT. B. SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: THERESE DUCHARME. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 15, 2014.

December 17, 24, 31 & Jan. 7.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 14-2264 The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as ELUCIDATE. 120 HAWKS PEAK RD. SUITE 100, APTOS

CA 95003 County of Santa Cruz. OUTSOURCE RESEARCH CONSULTING, LLC. 120 HAWKS PEAK RD. SUITE 100, APTOS CA 95003. Al# 710147 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed NICO PERUZZI The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 2, 2014. December 17, 24, 31 & Jan. 7.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 1423184 The following Limited Liability

Company is doing business as BEN LOMOND BAKING CO., 9280 HWY 9, BEN LOMOND, CA 95005 County of Santa Cruz. CASA NOSTRA, LLC. 17775 MELISSA LN, BOULDER CREEK, CA 95006.

Al# 25110029. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed RAFFAELE CRISTAUO The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 10, 2014. December 17, 24, 31 & Jan. 7.

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STATEMENT FILE NO. 14-2323 The following individual is doing business as GATHER FLOWERS. 4 MARINE VIEW AVENUE, DAVENPORT CA 95017 County of Santa Cruz. JODY ANN ARSCOTT. 4 MARINE VIEW AVENUE, DAVENPORT CA 95017. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: JODY ANN ARSCOTT. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 11, 2014.

December 24, 31 & Jan. 7, 14.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 14-2339 The following individual is doing business as VITALITY FOOD. 210 HOLLISETER AVENUE, CAPITOLA CA 95010 County of Santa Cruz. MICHAEL W. BIRCH. 210 HOLLISETER AVENUE, CAPITOLA CA 95010.

This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: MICHAEL W. BIRCH. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/16/2014 This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 16, 2014.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 14-2354 The following individual is doing business as REELY HAPPY FISH CO. 116-B ESPLANADE, CAPITOLA CA 95010 County of Santa Cruz. DONALD H. MOORE. 116-B ESPLANADE, CAPITOLA CA 95010. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: DONALD H. MOORE. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 18, 2014.

December 24, 31 & Jan. 7, 14.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF MARYBETH SUNDRAM CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV180688. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner MARYBETH SUNDRAM has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicant’s name from Marybeth Sundram to: Marybeth McLaughlin.

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 February 5, 2015 at 8:30am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110.

Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times , a newspaper of General Circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: December 17, 2014. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior Court. December 24, 31 & Jan.7, 14.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF ELIZABETH RAMIREZ CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV180699. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner ELIZABETH RAMIREZ has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicant’s name from Ashbel David Sanchez to: David Sanchez.

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 February 4, 2015 at 8:30am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110.

Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times , a newspaper of General Circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: December 18, 2014. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior Court. December 24, 31 & Jan.7, 14.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 14-2294 The following Corporation is doing business

as MOUNTAIN MIKE’S PIZZA SANTA CRUZ. 3715 PORTOLA AVE., SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz. EK. OANKAAR INCORORATED 1238 HENDERSON AVE. #1, SUNNYVALE CA 94086. Al# 3088171. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: TEJINDER ARORA The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 5, 2014. December 24, 31 & Jan.7, 14.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE No. 14-2351 The following Married Couple is doing business as D2C PERSPECTIVES. 226 CENTER AVENUE, APTOS CA 95003 County of Santa Cruz.CATHRYN M. GRANT & DONALD W. GRANT. 226 CENTER AVENUE, APTOS CA 95003. This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: DONALD W. GRANT. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/1/2014. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 18, 2014. December 24, 31 & Jan.7, 14.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF SHAWN DERRICK ANDERSON CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV180767. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner SHAWN DERRICK ANDERSON has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicant’s name from Shawn Derrick Anderson to: Dusty White. 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 February 17, 2015 at 8:30 am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110.

Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times , a newspaper of General

Circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: December 29, 2014. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior Court. January 7, 14, 21, 28.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 14-2422 The following individual is doing business as ABSTRACTIONIST FINE ARTE GALLERY. 527 FREDRICK STREET, UNIT D, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz. ELOISE CAMERON. 527 FREDRICK STREET, UNIT D, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: ELOISE CAMERON. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/22/2014. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 30, 2014. January 7, 14, 21, 28.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 14-2423 The following individual is doing business as THE GLASS COLLECTOR. 500 HIGHWAY 1, APT. 1A, DAVENPORT CA 95017 County of MAX TURIGLIATTO. 500 HIGHWAY 1, APT. 1A, DAVENPORT CA 95017This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: MAX TURIGLIATTO. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 30, 2014. January 7, 14, 21, 28.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 14-2356 The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as ISLAND FOX INVESTMENT GROUP. 310 JIMS RD., BEN LOMOND, CA 95005 County of Santa Cruz. SUPERLATIVE ORCA LLC. 310 JIMS RD., BEN LOMOND, CA 95005. Al# 32810186. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed Josh Volden The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 18, 2014. January 7, 14, 21, 28.

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