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EDITOR’S NOTE It used to be that champions of privacy on the Internet were often treated as paranoid, or somehow against technological progress. Who were they to stand in the way of the New Economy, or viral dancingbaby videos or inspiring photos of unlikely animal friends? The fact that big tech companies were making it harder and harder to keep our data private, and even refusing to delete it when we tried to take it off the Internet, was deemed nothing to get too worked up about in the great social media expansion.

That attitude is shifting quickly, however. As Madeleine Turner describes in this week’s cover story,

people seem to have a growing mistrust of sharing information online—the kind of thing you’d expect after huge data-breach scandals everywhere, from Target to Ashley Madison to the federal government.

But what if your privacy could be invaded without even a hack? That reality, it turns out, is already here, and the new trend Turner writes about toward profiling users based on their social media information represents a significant turning point. Companies are no longer satisfied with predicting your behavior based on what you’ve done online, now they want to know what you’re like. The most unnerving thing is that by using an algorithm, they can. Maybe it’s time for all of us to look a little closer at our privacy settings.

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As part of the continued dialogue re: our potential new national monument: on face value, protecting a valued open space is a terrific notion. Who could be against that?

However, this potential designation comes with its own set of considerations and possible problems. Among them are: What do we want from a national monument? Is this space to have as its primary goal open and free access to people? What is the consideration for the local residents?—and I’m referencing the flora and fauna.

Frans Lanting has spoken at a recent Bonny Doon residents meeting to “go slow,” that “we have the chance to get this right.” Some of the local opposition has been derided as simple NIMBY-ism. Yet a national monument designation will advertise our North Coast both nationally and internationally as wildlands worth visiting. Will an influx of new visitors impact the recognition of our North Coast as the “Slow Coast?” Will Highway 1 and even Westside Santa Cruz, Mission Street, specifically, become overloaded and gridlocked with traffic? These are all legitimate questions that should be addressed.

If the designation happens, the management plan would then need to be created and discussed before implementation.

Bureau of Land Management, the chief stakeholder for either a national monument or a simpler BLM open space, has implemented limited access plans for other wild lands in their jurisdiction. Rick Cooper, BLM Hollister coordinator for Cotoni-Coast Dairies, in answer to a question, said that river rafting, among other areas, fell into this BLM limitedaccess designation. The Nature Conservancy, the Federal Wilderness backpacking quota system, various Land Trusts (including our local one) have limited-access wildlands.

Internationally, this is becoming more and more the norm in attempts to try to keep areas from becoming “loved to death.”

Could something like this address my concerns listed here, while also speaking to the legitimate opposition from other concerned parties? Could this be part of a smart pathway to “getting it right?”

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A new Dientes clinic, which held a ribboncutting ceremony on Tuesday, Aug. 25, is now open in Watsonville. A federal grant available under the Affordable Care Act funded the new facility, which includes five medical exam rooms, four dental operatories, a small lab, counseling space and a meeting room. Dientes has a goal of serving 40,000 people annually in five years.

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Do you overshare online?

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I don’t think so. I just post things about my life, like successful things.

Sometimes I just like sharing different news that I find interesting, or favorite artists, clothes, music. I like to post photos.

NATALIA DELGADO SANTA CRUZ | SERVER

I Instagram about food, and I have a blog about a personal health issue. I think I share just enough.

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I do share too much online.

Pictures and words.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of September 2 ARIES Mar21–Apr19 “Excess is the common substitute for energy,� said poet Marianne Moore. That’s a problem you should watch out for in the coming weeks. According to my astrological projections, you’re a bit less lively and dynamic than usual. And you may be tempted to compensate by engaging in extreme behavior or resorting to a contrived show of force. Please don’t! A better strategy would be to recharge your power. Lie low and take extra good care of yourself. Get high-quality food, sleep, entertainment, art, love, and relaxation.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 For a pregnant woman, the fetus often begins to move for the first time during the fifth month of gestation. The sensation may resemble popcorn popping or a butterfly fluttering. It’s small but dramatic: the distinct evidence that a live creature is growing inside her. Even if you are not literally expecting a baby, and even if you are male, I suspect you will soon feel the metaphorical equivalent of a fetus’s first kicks. You’re not ready to give birth yet, of course, but you are well on your way to generating a new creation.

GEMINI May21–June20 “Since U Been Gone� is a pop song recorded by vocalist Kelly Clarkson. She won a Grammy for it, and made a lot of money from its sales. But two other singers turned down the chance to make it their own before Clarkson got her shot. The people who wrote the tune offered it first to Pink and then to Hillary Duff, but neither accepted. Don’t be like those two singers, Gemini. Be like Clarkson. Recognize opportunities when they are presented to you, even if they are in disguise or partially cloaked.

CANCER Jun21–Jul22 “Going with the flow� sounds easy and relaxing, but here’s another side of the truth: Sometimes it can kick your ass. The rippling current you’re floating on may swell up into a boisterous wave. The surge of the stream might get so hard and fast that your ride becomes more spirited than you anticipated. And yet I still think that going with the flow is your best strategy in the coming weeks. It will eventually deliver you to where you need to go, even if there are bouncy surprises along the way.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand.â&#x20AC;? So sang Jimi Hendrix in his raucous psychedelic tune â&#x20AC;&#x153;Voodoo Child (Slight Return).â&#x20AC;?

We could view his statement as an example of delusional grandiosity, and dismiss it as meaningless. Or we could say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a funny and brash boast that Hendrix made as he imagined himself to be a mythic hero capable of unlikely feats. For the purposes of this horoscope, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s go with the latter interpretation. I encourage you to dream up a slew of extravagant brags about the outlandish magic powers you have at your disposal. I bet it will rouse hidden reserves of energy that will enhance your more practical powers.

LIBRA Sep23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct22 Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the phase of your cycle when you have maximum power to transform yourself. If you work hard to rectify and purify your inner life, you will be able to generate a transcendent release. Moreover, you may tap into previously dormant or inaccessible aspects of your soulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

code. Here are some tips on how to fully activate this magic. 1. Without any ambivalence, banish ghosts that are more trouble than they are worth. 2. Identify the one bad habit you most want to dissolve, and replace it with a good habit. 3. Forgive everyone, including yourself. 4.

Play a joke on your fear. 5. Discard or give away material objects that no longer have any meaning or use.

SCORPIO Oct23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov21 I hope youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not getting bored with all of the good news I have been delivering in recent weeks. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sorry if I sound like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sugarcoating or whitewashing, but I swear Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m simply reporting the truth about the cosmic omens.

Your karma is extra sweet these days. You do have a few obstacles, but they are weaker than usual. So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m afraid you will have to tolerate my rosy prophecies for a while longer. Stop reading now if you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bear to receive a few more buoyant beams. This is your last warning! Your web of allies is getting more resilient and interesting.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re expressing just the right mix of wise selfishness and enlightened helpfulness. As your influence increases, you are becoming even more responsible about wielding it.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec21 When 16th-century Spanish invaders arrived in the land of the Mayans, they found a civilization that was in many ways highly advanced. The native people had a superior medical system and calendar. They built impressive cities with sophisticated architecture and paved roads.

They were prolific artists, and had a profound understanding of mathematics and astronomy. And yet they did not make or use wheeled vehicles, which had been common in much of the rest of the world for over 2,000 years. I see a certain similarity between this odd disjunction and your life. Although youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re mostly competent and authoritative, you are neglecting to employ a certain resource that would enhance your competence and authority even further. Fix this oversight!

CAPRICORN Dec22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan19 If you have ever fantasized about taking a pilgrimage to a wild frontier or sacred sanctuary or your ancestral homeland, the next ten months will be an excellent time to do it. And the best time to plan such an adventure will be the coming two weeks. Keep the following questions in mind as you brainstorm. 1. What are your lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest mysteries, and what sort of journey might bring an awakening that clarifies them? 2. Where could you go in order to clarify the curious yearnings that you have never fully understood? 3. What power spot on planet Earth might activate the changes you most want to make in your life?

AQUARIUS Jan20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb18 When he died at the age of 77 in 1905, Aquarian author Jules Verne had published 54 books. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve probably heard of his science fiction novels Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. He was a major influence on numerous writers, including Jean-Paul Sartre, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Arthur Rimbaud. But one of his manuscripts never made it into book form. When he finished it in 1863, his publisher refused to publish it, so Verne stashed it in a safe. It remained there until his great-grandson discovered it in 1989. Five years later, Verneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;lost novel,â&#x20AC;? Paris in the Twentieth Century, went on sale for the first time.

I suspect that in the coming months, you may have a comparable experience, Aquarius. An old dream that was lost or never fulfilled may be available for recovery and resuscitation.

PISCES Feb19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Mar20 â&#x20AC;&#x153;I enjoy using the comedy technique of self-deprecation,â&#x20AC;? says stand-up comic Arnold Brown, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not very good at it.â&#x20AC;? Your task in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to undermine your own skills at self-deprecation. You may think they are too strong and entrenched to undo and unlearn, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;tâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially now, when the cosmic forces are conspiring to prove to you how beautiful you are. Cooperate with those cosmic forces! Exploit the advantages they are providing. Inundate yourself with approval, praise, and naked flattery.

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Speed Demons For years Comcast wasn’t delivering the fast-lane Internet they promised. Are they now? BY BRAD KAVA

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hen Xfinity announced this month that it was upping its Internet download speeds for Santa Cruz from 29 megabits per second to more than 105, many were skeptical.

For two years, the company, a subsidiary of Comcast, has been telling users they were getting 105 mbps, and charging $39 extra per month for the “Blast!” high-speed service, but an internal document released to Good Times shows the area was only capable of receiving 29 mbps—more of a fizzle than a “blast.”

“We’ve been complaining to the

company in Philadelphia for years, asking them to stop promising something they weren’t delivering,” says a Comcast technician whose identity is being withheld to protect his job. “But they ignored us.”

The technician was so frustrated that he gave customers an internal document saying that speeds in the county were limited to 29 mbps, despite the company’s sales promises of the 105 mbps Blast! service. The company’s infrastructure of fiber and computers couldn’t yet support the faster speeds, according to Comcast spokesman Bryan Byrd.

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movies without interruption or to send large files.

I experienced this frustration firsthand. Once a loyal Comcast customer, I changed my opinion over the past year, while I paid $39 extra per month for faster service, and still never got more than 29 mbps. During repeated calls, I was told I had to change my modem or have a service technician come out to fix the speed, or that I was getting the speed to my house, but something in the house was slowing it down. The company source told GT none of that was true.

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Every Tuesday evening for more than a month, a band of activists and homeless Santa Cruz residents has shown up at Santa Cruz City Hall, trickling in with their sleeping bags, tarps, pads, and other camping equipment.

The Freedom Sleepers, as this loose consortium calls itself, attempts to sleep through the night on the expansive lawn in front of city council chambers. Invariably, the police are called in to disperse the group members, whose ranks have varied from about 20 to about 60 throughout the summer. The sleepers disperse, only to return to sleep until morning, awakening at dawn to a breakfast prepared by Food Not Bombs.

“We do this every Tuesday, and we are not stopping until we get some response from local government,” says Steve Pleich, a member of the Freedom Sleepers. The overnight ritual was initiated in July after news broke that the Homeless Services Center would be temporarily shuttering its emergency shelter and other services due to a $600,000 budget shortfall.

But this summer, the activists got an unlikely boost from the federal government.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement of intent on Aug. 6 in an obscure case in Boise, Idaho, regarding its anticamping ordinance. In the court filing, DOJ lawyers argue that “criminalizing sleeping in public when no shelter is available violates the Eighth Amendment” of the U.S. Constitution. The Eighth Amendment prohibits excessive fines, excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment. In the past, courts have affirmed that the punishment of status, as opposed to conduct, constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

In a prior court case in Los Angeles, a federal judge ruled that because lying, resting, sitting or sleeping are “unavoidable consequences of being human,” municipalities must either provide shelter or refrain from issuing criminal fines. Otherwise, cities are effectively punishing people for who they are, rather than what they do. The judge’s ruling was eventually vacated due to a settlement in the case, but the DOJ is arguing that his legal rationale is correct.

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NEWS SPEED DEMONS <11 calls to Comcast’s customer service staff—many of them by GT readers— produced no results.

“Every time I’ve talked to a technician or someone has come to my house, they say it’s supposed to be up to 50, but I never got it up to 50, except one time,” says Soquel art teacher Lilith Ohlson-Perez, who lives off Branciforte Drive in Santa Cruz.

“There’s not enough speed to do what we need to do,” she adds.

Ohlson-Perez is building an Internet design business that requires fast streaming to provide her clients with images and videos, but has suffered through frustratingly sluggish speeds.

When she asked Comcast to stop charging her an extra $12 per month for higher speeds, her service got even slower, she says. “Every time I talked with them, they say they are slowly updating all the routers in the area and I should be having speeds over 100, but I never did,” Ohlson-Perez says.

Byrd says the problem was that customer service reps were giving out the wrong information.

Seemingly miraculously, when Comcast announced its faster speeds, mine jumped up to 186 mbps with

no new modem and no visit from a technician. For the first time in a year, I could use my WiFi phone and computer at the same time.

After Aug. 11, when the cable and Internet provider announced its free upgrade to Santa Cruz, Ohlson-Perez’s service shot up to 177 mbps and she’s loving it.

“I have no more complaints about the speed, at least,” she says after six months of frustration with customer service and paying for speeds she wasn’t getting.

Today, Comcast lists its fees for various tiers as $39.95 for 3 mbps; $66.95 for 75 mbps and $78.95 for Blast! However, customers with bundled services can get cheaper prices. On Aug. 11 it announced free upgrades to 75 mbps for those who were paying for 16 mbps and Blast! speeds from 25 to 150 mbps.

Until the recent Comcast speedup, the city and county of Santa Cruz ranked among the lowest Internet speeds in the state, according to a report filed by the city’s office of economic development. At 29 mbps, Santa Cruz was 447th of 505 California cities, according to a report by the Ookla Net Index Explorer—slower

than Gilroy or Monterey. It was way behind Kansas City, which boasted speeds to 150 mbps.

“We view the Internet as a utility, like water, sewer and electric,” says J. Guevara, Santa Cruz Economic Development Manager, who is pushing for a new fiber network. “For the public good, we have to have better broadband service.”

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The project is capturing perspectives of residents, tourists and businesses. More than 2,000 people have participated in an online survey so far, and the association is planning a community conversation to discuss downtown at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12 at the Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building. After that, there will be a video log project and hands-on art projects around town.

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The new platform will roll out this holiday season with support from the Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County.

Instead of focusing on just four nonprofits, this year GT will highlight about 25 organizations from a variety of areas across the county serving an array of different needs.

“The goal is to create a network of giving that doesn’t exist now,” says GT publisher Jeanne Howard.

When fundraising begins, a leaderboard will track the money raised by each group. “The key is the leaderboard,” Howard says.

“You can see the numbers tick up.”

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proposals from organizations that want to participate in Santa Cruz Gives. A board that includes GT staff and volunteer center representatives will pick the winning organizations. A strong proposal will include not only a strong organizational mission statement, but also a compelling project in need of funding.

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Cruz city manager, says that while the feds do have their opportunity to weigh in on homeless issues, their position currently has no legal standing.

“The city will be watching to see how the Boise case proceeds,” Collins says via email.

“In the interim, the city will continue to work on the larger issues of homelessness in our community.”

Collins further notes that the city contributes nearly $300,000 toward local shelters and nonprofits that provide direct services.

The county of Santa Cruz, which contributes the largest share to homeless services, does not have a camping ban in its code; nor does Scotts Valley. Watsonville and Capitola maintain camping bans similar in language to that of the city of Santa Cruz.

Alan Schlosser, senior counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, says the DOJ’s filing is much bigger than a strict legal analysis of a Boise ordinance, and that it could affect camping ordinances throughout the nation.

“This brief says that criminalizing

homelessness is bad public policy,” Schlosser says. “It pushes them into the criminal justice system, into the jails, it uses up public defender resources and it throws homeless people into more social disarray. It exaggerates their problems and at huge cost to the public.”

Santa Cruz Mayor Don Lane says he agrees with the statement of intent, to the extent that he believes any approach relying solely on the criminal justice system falls short of addressing the complexities of homelessness in Santa Cruz and other jurisdictions. However, both Collins and Lane say enforcement of the camping ordinance remains a tool for the city.

In the meantime, with the city’s emergency shelter closed, several hundred of the estimated 2,000 men, women and children without an address in Santa Cruz County are saddled with less access to resources. The Homeless Services Center has transitioned away from an emergency shelter and toward a housing facility, meaning the homeless in Santa Cruz have little to no recourse to emergency overnight housing.

Recently, two women went into the public bathroom on Soquel Avenue, only to find a woman attempting to sleep on a toilet seat, says Rabbi Phil Posner, a founder of the Freedom Sleepers. “The situation we have in Santa Cruz is immoral, chaotic and illegal,” says Posner, whose son Micah is on the Santa Cruz City Council.

Schlosser says that even without a precedent-establishing court decision, the statement of intent alone could encourage attorneys to bring lawsuits similar to the one in Boise challenging the unconstitutionality of anti-sleeping ordinances. “In cities where they do not have enough beds, they do have a problem,” Schlosser says.

According to Santa Cruz’s 2015 homeless census, 69 percent of homeless people are unsheltered, down from 82 percent two years ago. This number is likely to spike now that most emergency shelter beds in the city are no longer available.

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organizations to create a countywide plan to end homelessness. As part of that plan, the County Board of Supervisors approved funding for the position to manage a community-wide approach in June.

Lane believes that programs providing a pathway to housing are the best way to address homelessness in Santa Cruz. He adds that the Freedom Sleepers’ ongoing protest, for better or for worse, encapsulates Santa Cruz’s housing problem.

“They represent the dilemma we face,” Lane says. “They properly demonstrate the problem that the city does not have sufficient shelters. But they also demonstrate, just by the amount of trash that is left over after people have been sleeping there, and some of the negative behavior that is disruptive to city employees, that just letting people camp out doesn’t work. It’s never worked. There is too much history of informal campgrounds in the city and you have trash, drug use and a lot of other problems.”

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The county has streamlined the permit process for getting fiber built, to encourage private companies to offer faster speeds. He also expects the county to be able to tap into a state and federally funded Internet fiber project that will bring faster speeds to the county in the next two years.

All hope may not be lost for disgruntled Comcast customers, according to Santa Cruz Assistant District Attorney William Atkinson.

He says people who want a refund from Comcast for services they paid for but didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t receive should submit a request in writing to the company.

They can also complain to the consumer affairs unit of the county district attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office.

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You Are What You Post Online personality algorithms put astrological profiles to shame, but UCSC psychologists are raising questions about sharing personal data

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These tools are a lot like classic personality tests. But instead of drawing from answers on a questionnaire, the computer churns out profiles based on what users have written for the cybersphere to see. How we choose words reflects our thoughts, feelings, motivations, and behaviors—even certain categories of words reveal a lot about personality. The algorithms sift through a user’s online activity and place words in different bins.

They infer how extroverted or neurotic the user might be. They deduce whether excitement or obedience motivates him or her through life. These systems are primitive, but they systematically distill our humanity—and they don’t need to know where the planets were when we were born.

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and Google recently tested how volunteers responded to seeing and sharing their hyper-personal profiles. The researchers published their results in advance of the Computer Human Interactions (CHI) 2015 Conference held in April in Seoul, South Korea.

For the study, Warshaw recruited 18 volunteers from a Bay Area business. He gave them access to an iPad app that generated their personality profile using their Facebook posts or Twitter tweets.

Then he interviewed each person to explore this question: If you give people full power over their profiles, how will they choose to use or share them, and why?

“Our role,” says Warshaw, “was to make [a hyper-personal profile] more understandable, then to see where people would want to share it.”

He found that most volunteers felt apprehensive about the technology, but many shared their profiles anyway. In general, people felt they had little control over their own data.

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Employers are also intrigued by this technology. What traits or tendencies might they glean outside of an interview?

UNCANNY ACCURACY When I used the same algorithm to generate my own profile, I fed it posts from my old Facebook account.

I was impressed by the algorithm's accuracy, especially since it saw only the silly things I had written in high school. Before seeing my own profile, I felt this technology could be as esoteric as an astrology reading. But it was surprisingly straightforward.

The studyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 18 volunteers also acknowledged the systemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

accuracy. When Warshaw asked them if the algorithm did a good job of capturing their personalities, all but one participant agreed it did.

Some people used only professional accounts. Others rarely posted on social media. Still, their profile results were uncannily accurate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how it would derive that from the limited number of tweets that I made,â&#x20AC;? one participant said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I guess Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a little shocked that it works so well.â&#x20AC;?

Then, the team randomly presented several hypothetical scenarios to each participant. In each scenario, the volunteers could choose whether to share their profiles. The incentive to share ranged from getting an online shopping discount to being matched with professional mentors.

More than half of the participants shared their profiles in each situation. Thirteen out of 14 people shared them for the reward of recommendations about local events. Fewer volunteersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just 10 out of 17â&#x20AC;&#x201D;shared their profiles in a mock job application.

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Companies already take our data without asking, Warshaw says.

“This technology is out there, and some versions aren’t requiring user consent,” he notes.

For example, a study by HighTech Bridge, an information security company, revealed that both Facebook and Google+ “click” on links found in users’ private messages. Soon after, two Facebook users filed a class action lawsuit against Facebook. Campbell et. al v.

Facebook alleged that the company was reading private messages, not to search for scams or spam, but to collect valuable data about users.

Any link found in a private message would be counted as a “like,” information useful for developing better advertisements. The case is ongoing.

DEMANDING PRIVACY Not all reactions from participants in the study were negative.

People saw value in the event recommendation scenario, since people with similar personalities might give better tips about upcoming happenings. Subjects also liked the idea of adding their profile to résumés. “Someone like me has a lot of between-the-lines interpersonal skills that are hard to build into a résumé,” said one volunteer.

Also, people simply enjoyed reading the profiles. “What was really striking about this research was just how captivated and intrigued people were with this information about them,” says Warshaw. They felt like they were learning about themselves—or at least how they appear to others, he says.

Although participants saw the technology’s benefits, they still felt uncomfortable about sharing.

But if most people didn’t want to share their profiles, why did more than half of them share in every scenario? Whittaker sees the paradox: “One sad thing about the study is that it shows people don’t

seem to believe they have a lot of control.” Participants feared that in real life, their information would be used regardless of their consent.

So in their minds, there was no use in trying to keep it private.

Aside from privacy, people also worried about not sharing. “Nonsharing is interpreted as hiding terrible information, pressuring non-sharers to share against their wishes,” the team writes.

This phenomenon is known as the “unraveling effect.” “If they know you decline, that’s more of a red flag to them,” said one participant.

Despite these attitudes, Warshaw and Whittaker hope social media users eventually feel empowered enough to demand privacy and consent. An underlying purpose of the study was to “draw people’s attention and shock people,” says Whittaker. “I think these systems will continue to be deployed, but if papers like ours have an impact on people’s consciousness, it will lead them to be more careful.”

This trend already is taking root. In 2007, just 20 percent of Facebook profiles were private.

Now, 70 percent are private.

“I think companies see a role for these kinds of analytics in employment situations and market research,” says Warshaw. “Right now, companies assume they can get data without consent. But now that people are going more private, eventually that won’t be viable.”

The researchers appreciate the strangeness of using computers to condense our characters into neat packages of words. “Granting the algorithm this level of ‘humanity’ simultaneously reduces our humanity by supplanting people as the sole judges of character,” the team writes. “This result raises the ethical question: Should an algorithm judge character?”

Indeed, should it? “People aren’t perfect, and systems aren’t perfect,” Warshaw says. “We’re still at the point where it might be better for a person to be wrong than for an algorithm to be wrong.”

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Why we miss the Pacific Rim Film Festival BY GEOFFREY DUNN

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or the past several months I have been thumbing through the archives—movie posters and film programs, promotional photos and newspaper articles—of the Pacific Rim Film Festival, which was founded here in Santa Cruz in the spring of

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After more than a remarkable quarter-century run, the Pacific Rim Film Festival is no more. Pa’u.

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a significant vacuum, the festival also leaves a profound and lasting cultural legacy.

The roots of this unique festival stretch back to the early 1980s, when writers Jim and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston began a collaboration with the East-West

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Center at the University of Hawaii, and more specifically, with Jeanette Paulson, the dynamic founder of the Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF) in Honolulu.

Jim and Jeanne returned to Santa Cruz, sharing the excitement of their artistic discoveries and

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the fall of 1984, a small delegation of filmmakers and film aficionados from Santa Cruz attended the HIFF and encountered the magic of the festival and the cinematic fare being offered—for free—not only in Honolulu and Oahu, but throughout the “outer” islands.

A short time later, Jim and Jeanne’s daughter, Cori Houston, served as an intern in Honolulu for the HIFF’s traveling film tour, and then as the coordinator for the first Pacific Rim Film Festival (PRFF) held in Santa Cruz. Like hot molten lava giving birth to new land along the Pacific Rim’s ring of fire, a cultural institution that helped to inspire and define the local community was born. The goddess Pele smiled down upon us.

A committee and advisory board were formed, a bridge was built to UCSC’s Division of the Arts for structure and funding, and the heavy lifting of turning ideas into reality fell upon Cori, who served as the festival’s centrifugal force for years to come. George Ow Jr. and the Ow Family Businesses stepped up as the festival’s financial angel by providing additional funding and logistical support for nearly thirty years.

The theme of both the Hawaii and Pacific Rim festivals was “When Strangers Meet,” and the tensions around cross-cultural, social and economic encounters in the region provided a common motif for the varied films that were scheduled in the festival.

One of the very first works that was screened at what I would call the “old” Del Mar Theatre was Chen Kaige’s breathtaking film, Yellow Earth, set in 1939 in a small, rural village located deep in the interior of the People’s Republic of China.

With breathtaking cinematography

by Zhang Yimou (who became a significant director in the so-called “Fifth Generation” of Chinese filmmakers), the film explored the complex relationships between unyielding Chinese traditions, the growing influence of the Communist Party and the life challenges of a teenage girl caught between those historic forces.

In 1997, the PRFF screened a Russian-made film at Cabrillo College

entitled Close to Eden, which had been nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film. Eden chronicles an encounter between a multi-generation shepherding family living in a yurt on the steppes of Inner Mongolia. Their lives are dramatically altered by the arrival of a coarse Russian truck driver who introduces them to modernity. The after-film discussion for Eden was a real donnybrook, focusing on the costs and benefits of technology as humanity races toward the New Millennia. (Anyone with a memory of this particular discussion, please write to me c/o Good Times).

The festival also became an important mainland venue for the films of Eddie and Myrna Kamae, working in collaboration with Jim Houston, documenting the native music of the Hawaiian Islands.

The screenings of their films often involved performances in Santa Cruz

by Eddie with the Sons of Hawaii, along with luaus and talking story with the crackling of a beach fire in the background. They were all glorious events steeped with the aloha and mana that defined the festival.

After Jim Houston’s death in April of 2009, we carried on the tradition with his spirit guiding us.

Jim delighted in the magic of the festivals, the East-West synergy, the music, the dialogue. I can still see him smiling that big smile of his, dressed in his trademark white suit, looking out over the festivities. In certain respects, keeping our work focused on the festival kept us closer to Jim’s spirit. It was yet another gift.

The changing economics of mainstream film distribution, however, finally took its toll. For the last several years, the festival had found a home at the Del Mar, but when market demands necessitated a change in city policies around public screenings at the theatre, the challenges of finding a new home proved, well, a bit too challenging for our collective old bones. It was difficult enough to stage, fund and manage a free festival annually as it was. The times had changed. A quarter-century was a good run.

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Poet Laureate Ellen Bass on workshops, the ‘New Yorker’ and the town that feeds her creatively BY CHRISTINA WATERS

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ike her celebrated workshops, poet Ellen Bass is approachable and inspiring. When we meet, Bass, the town’s current poet laureate, is fresh from giving a poetry workshop. “I’m always just getting back from something,” Bass says, her eyes shining.

About workshops, she says, “Each morning for four days I would start with one aspect of poetry. For example the concept of discovery.

If there’s no surprise for the writer, there’s no surprise for the reader,” she explains, paraphrasing Robert Frost. “In poetry it’s important that you, the writer, discover something you didn’t know before you started.

That way the reader does too. We want to break out of old patterns,” she smiles, embraced by three walls of books, a colorful rug, and an old black dog on the verge of falling asleep.

“Students bring poems they’ve already written for feedback. And they write new ones while they’re at the retreat. The news ones are almost always better,” she confides.

“In a four-day immersion you get so much input. It’s like being fed and nourished. Then you’re able to work with that input for a long, long time afterward.”

Raised in New Jersey, Bass always knew she wanted to be a poet. It was in Boulder Creek

in the mid-70s that she gave her first poetry workshop. “I remember putting up fliers in all the coffeehouses and bookstores.

I was so nervous,” she says. Bass estimates that these days she gives close to 15 workshops a year in California, “a lot at Esalen, also Taos, the East Coast. I used to go to Mallorca every year.” But, like many baby boomers, she finds her priorities changing. “I’m so aware of time.”

Surprisingly, Bass confesses that while she feels “very competent” as a teacher, “writing is never the place where I feel quite confident.

Especially with creative fiction— each piece is new. I can easily put

in many many hours on a poem without results,” she says.

Poems come to her in many ways. “A line suddenly appears, or in reading other people’s poems. I might have a response to it. Yes,” she says, her face lighting up, “other poetry is a great source for me.”

Then there’s life experience, the daily as well as the extraordinary.

“Sharon Olds says she always has her poetry antenna open—so do I. I love it, I love writing poetry,” she says. In the best of worlds Bass would be able to have “maybe two days in a row to think about nothing else.” But administration gets in the way. Preparing to teach, preparing to travel. “Poetry doesn’t attract readers all by itself. It’s like a child—you have to hold its hand and take it out into the world.

“Santa Cruz was an astonishingly fertile place for me,” says Bass, who admits that right now conditions are “shockingly good” for her work. “The confirmation from the world, I get a lot of response from people I don’t know, through email and online,” she says. And then there are those poems published in the New Yorker, “six of them this year,” she says with a grin.

Bass teaches poetry workshops in the Santa Cruz jails and is currently working on a Sept. 20 free poetry reading along the San Lorenzo River, called “Voices of the River.” “I like bringing poetry out to where people are, people who might not go to bookshops or galleries,” says Bass. Poetry, she believes, “helps us join each other, it transcends all differences, gender, race, class, time period— poetry transcends everything.”

Is the world over-populated with mediocre poetry? “Self expression is really OK,” Bass laughs. “And there’s a lot of good work made as self-expression. But it’s not art. It’s just an experience for the author.

Art happens when the reader also has an experience.”

No sooner had I left her study than I picked up my mail, in it the latest issue of the New Yorker. And there was one of Ellen Bass’ poems, big as life, exactly like her.

For more information on Ellen Bass and her poetry events, visit ellenbass.com.

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DREAM DUO Amy LaVere performs with Will Sexton on Wednesday, Sept. 9 at Don Quixote’s.

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my LaVere’s mother once said of her daughter, “You could drop Amy naked in the middle of New York City with one dollar, and she’d walk out clothed with a hundred.”

LaVere’s self-confidence and wildly independent streak prompted the singer-songwriter/bassist to run away from home when she was in 10th grade.

She and a friend took the train from Detroit to Chicago, where they slept in the train station and were approached by pimps wondering if they needed work. The adventure was short-lived— after two nights they were picked up,

taken by paddy wagon to juvenile hall, and flown home—but it made enough of an impression on her to inspire the album Runaway’s Diary.

A story album full of quiet insights into the life of a young woman, Runaway’s Diary combines fiction with real-life experiences. Inspiration for the project came when LaVere discovered an old box of her notes and other scraps of paper. Full of half-written journal entries, poems and random observations from her younger years, the box revealed a glimpse into her life.

“With some other material I had

prepared, I realize there was a story unfolding,” LaVere says. “I started to focus my writing of the songs in that direction, then filled in the gaps with some songs that I thought kind of pulled the story together.”

The result is an album that draws out the emotions of a young runaway and the characters she meets. Musically, it’s full of spacious Americana guitarscapes, haunting vocals, catchy melodies and, of course, LaVere’s thumping, swinging bass lines.

A self-described people person who doesn’t spend much time alone, LaVere was born in Shreveport,

Amy LaVere and Will Sexton will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 9 at Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $10. 603-2294.

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Americana singer-songwriter Amy LaVere trades youthful indiscretion for mature insight BY CAT JOHNSON

Louisiana and moved 13 times with her family before she hit high school. She loved the travel and adventure, but did not share her parents’ appreciation of classic country music—at least not during her teen years when she was more interested in Siouxsie and the Banshees and Michelle Shocked than she was in anything her parents introduced her to.

“Wild, angstful art-rock was my jam,” she says. “It suited my angstful sensibilities at that time.”

It was in Nashville that LaVere reacquainted herself with classic country music as her friends “made it hip again” for her. Coming full circle with her country roots, LaVere played rockabilly legend Wanda Jackson in the 2005 film Walk the Line. Her part was, she says, “a lot better” before more than half of it was left on the cutting room floor, but she enjoyed the experience and ended up opening up several shows for Jackson.

Now based in Memphis, LaVere spends more time on the road than anywhere else. Her traveling companion these days is her husband and collaborator Will Sexton, who she calls one of the best musicians she’s ever seen, much less gotten to play with. When LaVere realized that Sexton was “a joy to tour with,” it sealed the deal on their relationship— musical and otherwise. But it did take some adjusting to go from a full band to a duo.

“It was terrifying, really,” she says. “I never wanted to be in a duo, I wanted to be in a rock and roll band.”

She now loves it. Playing as a duo brings a new intimacy to the songs.

Fans ask about songs that no one asked about before—songs that may have gotten lost with a full band.

To share this stripped-down, more intimate sound with fans, LaVere and Sexton recorded a merch table exclusive album titled Hallelujah I’m a Dreamer. It’s a reflection of a new direction for LaVere—one that she can see doing into the foreseeable future.

“This is something I can do that’s far more sustainable than carting around a whole band all the time,” she says. “And it’s a lot easier to figure out where you’re going to eat when there’s only two people.”

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VEGAN/VEGETARIAN POTLUCK FIRST FRIDAYS BOULDER CREEK Local environmentalist Tamara Scott hosts vegan and vegetarian potlucks every month for First Friday events in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Musicians and artists join for live performances and a plant-based food event. Scott hopes to bring food lovers together to connect the notion of diet and global climate changes. One way to rectify the man-made damage of climate change, she says, is to move away from the non-sustainable methods that animal-based diets incur and to return to a cleaner, less devastating diet such as veganism. Bring food to share, learn about the environment and enjoy a community clean-food gathering.

Info: 11:30 a.m., Friday, Sept. 4, St. Michael’s Catholic Church, 13005 Pine St., Boulder Creek. RSVP to TamaraLynnScott@gmail. com. 338-6112. Free.

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WEDNESDAY 9/2 ARTS EN NUESTRA IMAGEN/IN OUR IMAGE Exhibit from a distinct Chicana/o Latina/o perspective. The works respond to unique environments, issues of gender, immigration, labor, culture, nature, humor and beauty.

Through Oct. 11. Pajaro Valley Arts Council, 37 Sudden St., Watsonville. 722-3062. Free.

CLASSES SALSA RUEDA CLASSES Learn how to dance and get fit at the same time. No partners needed. Drop-ins welcome. Int/Beg. from 7 p.m. Int/Adv. from 8 p.m. Portuguese (CPDES) Hall by Costco and Harvey West Park. 818-1834. bailamossalsarueda.com. $7/$5 student.

BATERIA SAMBA CRUZ Learn drums, percussion, and join in the carnival rhythms of Brazil. All levels welcome. Instruments provided. 8-9:15 p.m. Raizes do Brasil Capoeira Center, 207 McPherson St., Santa Cruz. 435-6813. $10.

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GENTLE YOGA Gentle stretching and breathing. Class is a combination of standing and floor work. Mats and other equipment provided. 10-11:30 a.m. Louden Nelson Community Center, Santa Cruz. $5/$5.50.

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LEARNING FROM THE MASTERS AT ATELIER To celebrate the beginning of September and this month’s First Friday festivities, local art studio Atelier will host an exhibit showcasing what their masters can teach their students with an array of traditional methods. Students can develop the skills to deeply and faithfully represent the natural world around them—for Atelier instructor and founder Lisa Joseph, that’s precisely what this drawing and painting exhibit is about.

Info: 6-9 p.m., Friday, Sept. 4. Santa Cruz Atelier, 303 Potrero St., Building 47, Santa Cruz. santacruzatelier.com.

PING PONG Start your day with a rousing game of ping pong. No partners necessary and all levels welcome. 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Louden Nelson Community Center, Santa Cruz. 420-6180. Free.

EXERCISE CLASS FOR SENIORS Gentle sitting stretches for the arms, shoulders, neck, and torso. 11-11:30 a.m. Louden Nelson Community Center. 420-6180. Donation: $1/$1.25.

TALMADGE CONSTRUCTION KITCHEN REMODELING ROUNDUP Tips and trends to make your kitchen design and remodel project a success. Three fun micro presentations. Wine and hors d'oeuvres. 6:30-9 p.m. Armitage Wine Tasting Room, 105 Post Office Drive, Aptos.

Information and RSVP 689-9133, inbox@ talmadgeconstruction.com.

THURSDAY 9/3 CLEARWINGS AT STREETLIGHT RECORDS Independent alt-folk duo the Clearwings are all about the live performance—they focus their attention on the intimacy of their tight harmonies and driving guitar, bringing a modern edge to the classic folk sensibility. Fronted by Raven Adams on vocals and percussion, and Mark Phillips on vocals and guitar, the duo draw influences from 1960s greats like Peter, Paul and Mary, and Johnny Cash and June Carter, as well as contemporary bands the White Stripes, and the Strokes. Starting out in Colorado in 2009, the two released their first EP, The Outskirts EP, in November of last year. They’ll be voyaging to Streetlight Records from Denver by way of New Mexico for an exclusive show this Thursday, Sept. 3.

Info: 5 p.m., Streetlight Records, 939 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. 421-9200

CHAIR YOGA WITH SUZI Instructor Suzi Mahler, CMT NE guides you through a series of gentle seated yoga postures.

10:30 a.m. Yoga Center Santa Cruz, 428 Front St., Santa Cruz. $5.

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VEG. POTLUCK & SWIM AT GARDEN OF EDEN Meet at Felton Faire Shopping Center on Graham Hill Road, Felton, near the bus stop at 11 a.m. for carpool to the San Lorenzo River trailhead. Bring plate, cup, serving utensils, water, and a potluck dish to share.

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OPEN REHEARSALS Santa Cruz Peace Chorale, a singing community for peace and justice, welcomes potential new members at our open rehearsals throughout the month of September. No audition or experience required. We meet Thursday evenings 7:30-9:00 p.m. at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, 2402 Cabrillo College Drive, Soquel. For more information visit santacruzpeacechorale.com or email sylvibo@cruzio.com.

VOLUNTEER ARBORETUM SEEKS SPECIAL VOLUNTEERS Work with other volunteers to make wreaths, centerpieces, dish gardens, and propagate succulents. No experience necessary. Meetings on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. 10 a.m.-Noon.

Arboretum Drive and Empire Grade Road.

Arboretum@ucsc.edu, 502-2300.

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CLASSES SALSA DANCING CUBAN-STYLE Drop-in class. No partner required. Intermediate dancers and up. 7-8 p.m. Louden Nelson Community Center, Santa Cruz. salsagente. com, 295-6107. $9/$5 students.

SALSA RUEDA FUN DANCING DOWNTOWN Drop-in class, no partner required. For Beginner level 2 and up. Basic salsa skills required. 8-9 p.m. Louden Nelson Community Center, Santa Cruz. salsagente. com, 426-4724. $9/$5 students.

GROUPS A COURSE IN MIRACLES SANTA CRUZ REGULAR MEETING We informally but deeply study this great book, taking a few paragraphs each week. Books provided,

regular attendance not required. 7:15-9 p.m.

Barn Studio 104b Agnes St., Santa Cruz.

272-2246. spiritualear.org/acim (map). Free.

HEALTH WOMENCARE: LAUGHTER YOGA For women with cancer. Meets the first and third Thursdays. Register: 457-227. 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free.

FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS Based on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. 9:00-10:30 a.m. 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. 435-0680. Free.

OUTDOORS WALKING ADVENTURE GROUP: SAN LORENZO RIVER LEVEE Downtown Seniors host guided walking tour of the San Lorenzo River. With Coastal Watershed Council.

9:30-11:30 a.m. Louden Nelson Community Center, Santa Cruz. 420-6180. Free.

SPIRITUAL INTRO TO BUDDHISM Explore the fundamental teachings of Buddha from a Zen perspective in a four-part class. 6:30-8 p.m. 920 41st Ave., Suite B. oceangatezen. org. Donation $10.

FRIDAY 9/4 ARTS ELEMENTS OF DRAWING EXHIBIT Drawings by Lisa Joseph from Lisa’s atelier training. The drawings represent the series of lessons that help to transform skills into artistry. 6-9 p.m. Santa Cruz Atelier, 303 Potrero St., Santa Cruz. Free.

THE CONCEPTIONAL BEAST AND ITS INTENTION Eike Waltz and Sheila HalliganWaltz have been grappling with conceptional art (see conceptual art) and its problem … is the extent to which conceptualism is, in fact, a form of deconceptualism. 5 p.m. Sept.

4–27. Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm St., Santa Cruz.

AMERICAN IDIOT: THE MUSICAL Presented by Santa Cruz Performing Arts Teen Theatre, a nonprofit company led by teens, for teens. Shows: Sept. 4, 5, 11, and 12 at 7:30-11 p.m. Additional 2 p.m. show on Sept. 12. Louden Nelson Community Center, Santa Cruz. santacruzperformingarts.org/ tickets/. $16-$12.50.

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Louden Nelson Community Center, Santa Cruz. 420-6180. $5/$5.50.

GROUPS NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS - GREATER BAY AREA SANTA CRUZ Meets weekly to share our experience, strength and hope. naranoncalifornia.org/norcal; Helpline:

CLUTTERERS ANONYMOUS Twelvestep program every Friday. There is hope for order and serenity in your life. You are not alone. 5:30-6:45 p.m. Sutter Room, Sutter Maternity & Surgical Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave. 359-3008. Free.

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CHAIR YOGA WITH SUZI Instructor Suzi Mahler, CMT NE guides you through a series of gentle seated yoga postures that are performed slowly and with breath awareness. Learn self care and stress reduction in a safe and supportive environment. Tuesdays and Fridays 9:30 a.m. Grey Bears, 2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. $5.

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ETHNIC DANCE FESTIVAL Baile Folklorico, Mexican folkloric dance. Taught by Malena Vega, participants of all ages explore basic folklorico skills. 11 a.m.-Noon. Scotts Valley Library, 251 Kings Village Road. 427-7713. Free.

MOVIES AT THE BEACH Bring a picnic dinner or dine locally at area restaurants.

Low-back chairs, blankets and jackets recommended (free popcorn from 7 p.m.).

No alcohol or dogs on the beach. 7:30 p.m.

Capitola Esplanade Stage. Free.

THRILLER DANCE CLASS Ongoing Saturdays. No previous enrollment necessary. Learn Michael Jackson’s famous moves from the music video Thriller. Dance in the internationally synchronized “Thrill the World” event on Oct. 24 at 3 p.m. in Laurel Park. 10 a.m.-Noon. Louden Nelson Community Center, Santa Cruz. Free.

FOOD & DRINK MICROBIOMES ARE US Learn how microbiome influences your moods and energy levels and what you can do to support your health. RSVP required. 5-6:30 p.m. New Leaf Community Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleafwestside.eventbrite. com. $15/$10.

LOCALS MONTH AT WOODSTOCK PIZZA Locals get 10 percent off all month. Mention ‘Local’ to the cashier or use code LOCAL for online ordering. Tap takeovers with local breweries. Local-themed trivia. Community Fundraisers. CinnaBread featuring Mission Hill Creamery Ice Cream. 710 Front St., Santa Cruz.

MUSIC WEST COAST SWING DANCE PARTY West Coast swing dancing at the “Best Little Dance House” in Santa Cruz on the first Saturday of each month. Free refreshments.

7-10:30 p.m. 222 Market St., Santa Cruz.

479-4826, chuck@gonnadance.com. $10.

SAMBA CRUZ Jazz-inflected Brazilian musical forms in the spirit of jazz greats.

American jazz standards with a unique twist.

6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant and Inn, 1 Davenport Ave., Davenport. davenportroadhouse.com. Free.

OUTDOORS FIRE'S ROLE IN OUR PARK Last campfire program of the year. Ranger Scott discusses the importance of prescribed fire in our parks ecosystem. 8:30-9:30 p.m. Henry Cowell Campground, 2991 Graham Hill Road.

Parks.ca.gov or 335-7077. Free/$10.

SPIRITUAL KSITIGARBHA FESTIVAL Share our celebration of the Buddha Ksitigarbha who promised not to cease from benefitting sentient beings until the hells are empty; he, himself promising to help free all beings in the hell realms. 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. landofmedicinebuddha.org. Free/Donation.

VOLUNTEER YLI FALL RUMMAGE SALE Come and get your bargains. 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Our Lady Star of the Sea Church Hall, 515 Frederick St., Santa Cruz. 458-9542.

SUNDAY 9/6 CLASSES GOOD MORNING WORKOUT Get your juices flowing. Enjoy the music and get fit at the same time. 9-10 a.m. The Tannery, 1060 River St., Suite #111 Santa Cruz. $7/$5.

MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE CLASS Santa Cruz Performing Arts enrolling students for ‘Broadway Tots.’ For ages 5-7. Aug. 18-Sept.

12. Ben Jammin’s Live Oak Studio-2345 B Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. 334-2121, santacruzperformingarts.com. $200.

COMPOSTING AND VERMICULTURE Learn the principles of composting kitchen and yard wastes. Learn how composting improves soil and aids in the health of plants and vegetables. For ages 16 and up. RSVP 335-9348. 1 p.m. Quail Hollow Ranch, 800 Quail Hollow Road, Felton. Free.

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THURSDAY 9/3 LAMPSHADE PRODUCTIONS’ ‘MARRIAGE PLAY’ Directed by Wilma Marcus Chandler, the fierce comedy ‘Marriage Play’ comes to Santa Cruz for its Monterey Bay premier Thursday, Sept. 3. Richard Saldavia and Joyce Michaelson star as a husband and wife in the midst of profound life changes—Jack wants to leave Gillian after 30 years of marriage, but she doesn’t take the news at all how he expected. A Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?-type examination of the mechanics of marriage ensues.

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Info: Shows run Sept. 3-13, Broadway Playhouse, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz. 345-7157. $16-$18.

technique. Use of props and modifications discussed. 1:30-3:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Yoga Workshop Annex, 1010 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. santacruzyoga.net, 227-2156. Free.

GROUPS SERENITY FIRST—PAGANS IN RECOVERY Weekly meeting with a Pagan flair, where guests are free to discuss their spiritual paths, including those which are naturebased and goddess-centered. 7:15-8:15 p.m.

MHCAN, 1051 Cayuga St., Santa Cruz. Room 12. 925-895-3424. Free/Donations.

SPIRITUAL INSPIRATIONAL MEDITATION SERVICE Includes inspirational readings from the

teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda. 11 a.m.-Noon. Call for location, 334-2088.

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VOLUNTEER YLI FALL RUMMAGE SALE Come and get your bargains at the YLI Fall Rummage Sale. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Our Lady Star of the Sea Church Hall, 515 Frederick St., Santa Cruz.

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FRIDAY 9/4 ‘THE CONCEPTUAL BEAST AND ITS INTENTION’ Sheila Halligan-Waltz and Eike Waltz grapple with the meaning of conceptual art in their latest exhibit, which opens this First Friday at the Felix Kulpa Gallery. With extensive inside and outside installations, the Waltzes explore “our inner beast, the birth of our sexual instinct, creative arousal, society’s excesses, our technological introverted cage mentality.”

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JAZZ: BEGINNING JAZZ FOR ADULTS Introductory study in classic American jazz choreography and technique. 1:30-2:30 p.m.

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PING PONG Great exercise and a fun way to meet new friends. 9-11:30 a.m. Louden Nelson Community Center. Downtown Seniors, 420-6180. Donation.

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metastatic cancers. RSVP required. 12:30-2 p.m. WomenCARE 457-2273. Free.

SPIRITUAL MONDAY DROP-IN MEDITATION Basic meditation instruction and practice. 5:306:30 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 462-8383. Donation.

METTA: LIBERATION THROUGH LOVE The Buddha Metta has been translated as loving-kindness, universal friendliness, kind regard or simply kindness. 6:30-8 p.m.

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FRIDAY 9/4 SHARED ADVENTURES FIRST FRIDAY

Do you love to sing?

This First Friday, Shared Adventures will begin their month-long celebration of the 10th anniversary of their Open Art Studio—a free art program that empowers individuals with developmental and physical disabilities to strive toward their full creative potential. Program participants will have artwork on display at Louden Nelson throughout the month of September, and will be present for the opening night with speakers, refreshments and the opportunity to purchase artwork. In 2005, the National Endowment for the Arts granted Shared Adventures a grant to launch their after-school art program. Throughout the years, the program’s students have produced art pieces in watercolor, acrylic, collage, photography, and more, including the Claraty Arts program collaboration temporary mural on Pacific Avenue and the permanent mural on Firefly Cafe’s outside wall.

Info: 5 p.m. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. 420-6177. sharedadventuresartists.org

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Center, Santa Cruz. 420-6180. Donation: $2/$2.25.

Join one of the great award-winning ensembles in the Cabrillo Choral Program!

Symphonic Chorus - Tuesday evenings 7-10 pm Cantiamo! - Thursdays 4-7 pm Chorale - Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12-1:30 pm All at Cabrillo College - Semper Recital Hall Building Please contact Cheryl Anderson cranders@cabrillo.edu for more information Work for a living, sing for a life!

BOOK CLUB Meet for an hour (or so) to discuss current book selections and future books. 10:30-11:30 a.m. Louden Nelson Community Center, Santa Cruz.

420-6180. Donation.

AEROBIC LINE DANCING Kick up your heels to jazz, waltz and contemporary music in this ongoing class. 9:30-11:30 a.m. Louden Nelson Community Center, Santa Cruz. 4206180. Donation: $2/$2.25.

GROUPS MOOD MATTERS Weekly, confidential drop-in peer support group for persons with any type of mood challenge. 6-8 p.m.

MHCAN, Room 12, 1051 Cayuga St., Santa Cruz. 247-1124. Free.

MUSIC SHERRY AUSTIN WITH HENHOUSE A magical combination of music woven from folk, country, and rock. 6-9 p.m.

Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant & Inn. davenportroadhouse.com. Free.

OUTDOORS TASTE OF TINKERGARTEN Get a feel for what our classes are like. For 3- to 5-yearolds. 3-4:30 p.m. Harvey West Park (Meet by Wagner Cottage). Katherine@tinkergarten. com. Free.

SPIRITUAL PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT STUDY GROUP Studying, discussing and meditating with group facilitator and resident nun.

6:30-8 p.m. Vajrapani Institute for Wisdom Culture. Drolma@vajrapani.org. Free.

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LOVE YOUR

LOCAL BAND ARCHER

Archer’s Dylan Rose is describing how his veteran heavy thrash band hooked up to tour with some of his metal heroes. As he talks, it’s evident he’s still as humbled— and possibly in disbelief—now as when it first happened.

“Touring with [Zakk Wylde] is like trying to hold on for dear life,” says the 29-yearold guitarist and singer. “Nothing bad, he just blows up the room whenever he enters.”

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Then again, after 13 years of playing and recording, it’s no surprise to see Archer (which also features David DeSilva on bass and newest member, Alex Rivas, on drums) touring with international acts like Hell Yeah and Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society.

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“My thing is about progress,” says Rose.

“You have to look at this year and say, ‘OK, that was better than last year.’”

WEDNESDAY 9/2

If that’s how they measure progress, then 2015 has been pretty damn successful for Archer. Not only did the metal trio tour with Hell Yeah in February and recently play Ride For Dime, the Dimebag Darrell tribute benefit concert in Texas, but they’ll also be hooking up with Canadian thrash metal legends Annihilator in Europe for two months starting in October. They’ll also join up with German metal queen Doro for another month to end the year.

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If that wasn’t enough, Archer just released its first CD in four years, Culling the Weak, with legendary producer Mike Clink (Guns N’ Roses, Megadeth) behind the soundboard. Culling the Weak finds them with a tighter and more mature sound than ever.

INDIE Five albums in, and the Massachusetts indie group is starting to broach something resembling convention. They had already dropped the lo-fi aesthetic on 2013’s The Flower Lane. But the latest record, St. Catherine, which was released this past July, takes their psychedelic/ dream-pop sound in a much more palatable direction. They’ve focused on fine-tuning their layering of gorgeous, melancholy, hazy psych-pop guitars that is close to—but not quite—ready for radio. AARON CARNES INFO: 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $15. 429-6994.

“Over the last several years, we’ve been constantly evolving to get a little bit heavier, a little bit faster,” Rose says. “So it’s very rewarding to finally have a united effort to capture and show people.” MAT WEIR

THURSDAY 9/3

INFO: 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3.

Catalyst Atrium. 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $7. 429-4135.

Claudia Villela seizes your ears with her extraordinary voice, a voluptuous instrument that can caress vowels with a velvet purr or deliver consonants with

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the percussive snap and rattle of a pandeiro. But the Rio de Janeiro-born singer is also a capaciously inventive composer who has created a vast and soaring body of songs that serve as ideal vehicles for her vocal flights. The longtime Bay Area resident keeps superlative musical company, and this show is no exception, with guitarist Jeff Buenz, bassist Gary Brown, drummer Celso Alberti, and Vitor Goncalves on piano and accordion.

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INFO: 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 427-2227.

FRIDAY 9/4 ALTERNATIVE

CAT POWER It’s been 20 years since Cat Power’s debut record, Dear Sir, and in those past two decades, she’s been an artist difficult to categorize. That’s mostly because of how willing she is to just totally move on from her past and chart new territory. She’s written in punk, folk, blues, soul, and on her most recent record, 2012’s Sun, electronica.

What’s tied all of her work together is her dry, husky voice, a sort of deadpan that packs a massive, unexpected

emotional punch. The new album, her ninth, is a heavy affair, reflecting recent break-ups, issues with substance abuse and other personal demons, with synths, drum machines and all. AC INFO: 7 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $31/gen, $47/gold. 423-8209.

HIP HOP

ELIGH If a true artist bears many titles, then Eligh is definitely in the mix. The Living Legend from Los Angeles has had a stunning career, with 16 releases with his former crew, an uncanny 18 solo releases, 16 collaboration albums and a long list of production credits. He flows with a mission: spitting fast and clear rhymes that walk the fine line between spiritually uplifting and crushingly introverted. The last time Eligh played the Catalyst it was on the main stage, so this Friday hip-hop heads will receive a rare, close-up glimpse of the artist at work as he performs with Rhymesayers’ deM atlaS and Rey Resurreccion, in the Atrium. MAT WEIR INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst Atrium, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $12/adv, $15/door.

429-4135.

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BE OUR GUEST MOLE & MARIACHI FESTIVAL

CAT POWER

SATURDAY 9/5 NEW WAVE/TRIBUTE

DURAN DURAN DURAN

INFO: 8 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $12/adv, $15/door. 603-2294.

FUNK

FUNKANAUTS The Funkanauts come all the way from Planet Funk—via Oakland—ready to party. Boasting six members (plus their horn section, dubbed the “Men in Black”), the band claims that its origins date back to leader JStone’s abduc-

INFO: 9 p.m. The Pocket, 3102 Portola Drive, Santa Cruz. $5. 475-9819.

MONDAY 9/7 ROCK/BLUES

DEVON ALLMAN The last name Allman comes with some heavy expectations. With the late Duane Allman considered one of the greatest guitarists that ever lived, and his brother Gregg being a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, there’s a musical legacy in place here that is beloved and revered by fans around the world.

So what is the next generation to do?

If you’re Devon Allman, you go with it. The son of Gregg, Devon has the musical heart of his father and uncle, but is quietly carving his own groove in the family tree, most recently as a member of the Royal Southern Brotherhood. Raised by his mother outside

all the Allman Brothers hoopla, Devon has earned his place as a rising star of the blues-rock scene with his fiery vocals and shredding guitar work. CJ INFO: 8 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $12/adv, $15/door. 479-1854.

INFO: 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 19.

Santa Cruz Mission Adobe State Historic Park, 144 School St., Santa Cruz. $10. 429-1840. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 4 to find out how you could win a fourpack of tickets to the festival.

TUESDAY 9/8 FOLK/ROOTS

CULTURAL HERITAGE CHOIR Linda Tillery has been a force on the Bay Area folk music scene for decades.

As a producer and artist for Olivia Records, she helped further the women’s music movement, and as leader of the Cultural Heritage Choir, she preserves and shares the rich history of African American folk and roots music. Known for engaging audiences with layered rhythms, dance, storytelling, and soulful, mighty vocals, the Cultural Heritage Choir moves with ease and a contagious, roof-raising energy, through gospel, jazz, spiritual, blues, and work songs from West Africa, the American South, the Caribbean and more. CJ INFO: 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 427-2227.

IN THE QUEUE FOLK FAMILY REVIVAL

Psychedelic folk rockers from Magnolia, Texas. Thursday at Don Quixote’s LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY

Dub/reggae pioneer. Friday at Moe’s Alley FIDDLE EXTRAVAGANZA

Lively string celebration led by fiddler Alasdair Fraser. Friday at Civic Auditorium MAOLI

Island-style roots reggae. Sunday at Moe’s Alley DECKER

Dark, spacious, desert-inspired music out of Sedona, Arizona. Sunday at the Pocket

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In their heyday, Duran Duran was seen as a boy band version of counterculture rock. But the thing is, they wrote really good songs, and people continued to love them even after they lost their good looks and boyish charms. SF’s Duran Duran Duran are a spot-on tribute to the group, nailing such popular favorites as “Hungry Like A Wolf,” “Rio” and “The Reflex.” But they also dig a little deeper into the group’s discography. Duran Duran even had some killer album cuts, it turns out. How many boy bands can make that claim? AC

tion by aliens as a child. His quest to find out why it happened led him to the funk, where the band has been preaching the gospel of the Mothership Connection ever since. The Funkanauts are for anyone who can get down with Parliament, boogie with Funkadelic, or rip it up to Living Colour. MW

A celebration of food, music, dance, culture, and community, the Mole & Mariachi Festival is a family-fun event that benefits a great cause: the Santa Cruz Mission Adobe State Historic Park.

Fancy yourself a mole connoisseur?

This is your day, as chefs from El Jardín, El Chipotle, My Mom’s Mole, and more compete to see who makes the best mole around. CAT JOHNSON

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LIVE MUSIC

Thursday September 3rd 8:30pm $7/10 Salsa & Latin Dance Party

BROKEN ENGLISH Friday September 4th 9pm $25/30 Grammy Winning Reggae Icon Returns

LEE SCRATCH PERRY Saturday September 5th 9pm $12/15

WED APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos AQUARIUS RESTAURANT Santa Cruz Dream Inn 175 W Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz

Grateful Dead Dance Party

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

THE CHINA CATS

BLUE LOUNGE 529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

Sunday September 6th 9pm $12/15 Live Reggae From Maui

MAOLI + Penidean Monday September 7th 8pm $12/15 Blues/Rock Great Debuts New Band

THU

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Preacher Boy 6-8p

FRI

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Broken Shades 6-8p

Minor Thirds Trio 6:30-9:30p Grievance, Dwell, Hallucinator $5 9p

Comedy Night/ 80s Night Free 8:30p

SAT

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Acoustic Punk Rock $5 9p

DJ/Live Music

Comedy Night

Karaoke

Open Mic

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

The Season of Us Free 8p

Comedy Night Free 8p

Funk Night Free 9p

Intangabillies Free 8p

Swing Night $5 5:30p Dave Wasted Free 9p

Reggae Night Free 9p

Karaoke 9p

Karaoke 9p

The Holdup Wheeland Brothers $16/$20 7p

Andre Nickatina $23/$28 8p

Eligh $12/$15 8:30p

Felix Cartal $15/$20 8p

CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

September 10th TUMBLEWEED WANDERERS + PAINTED HORSES

9/8

Lara and Laura 6-8p

Bleu House Dance Party 9p

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

SANTA CRUZ REGGAE ALL STARS + THE LEFTOVERS

TUE

Labor Day Party 8p

DC Power & Electric Co. CRC 9p-12:15a 9p-12:15a

CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

9/7

Aki Kumar 6-8p

The Box (Goth Night) 9p

Karaoke 8p-Close

Wednesday September 9th 9pm $7/10

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DJ Chilango $5 9p

Karaoke 8p-Close

CASA SORRENTO 393 Salinas St, Salinas

9/6

Minor Thirds Trio 7-10p

Rainbow Night w/DJ AD DJ/Ladies’ Night

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

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Lloyd Whitney 1-5p Shane Dwight 7-10p

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

DEVON ALLMAN Locak Live Reggae Showcase

9/2

Al Frisby 6-8p

Jazz Happy Hour Free 3:30p Insubordination Free 8p

Songwriter Showcase 7-10p

DJ Luna 9p

Archer $7 8:30p

CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Ducktails, Regal Degal, Plush $15 9p

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

Yuji Tojo $3 9:30p

KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

Extra Large Free 5:30p Echo Street $5 8:30p

Paradise Soul Savers $8 9p

The Redlight District $8 9p

Greyhound $6 9p

Tsunami $7 9:30p

7 Come 11 $5 9p Live Comedy $7 9p

Reggae Party Free 9:30p

September 11th GAPPY RANKS September 12th BRAZILIAN DAY w/ Members Of Olodum, SambaDá, Ile Aye & More September 13th LIBERATION MOVEMENT September 15th JAYKE ORVIS + MY GRAVEYARD DOG

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September 17th NATTY VIBES + ANIMO CRUZ September 18th PREZIDENT BROWN + BLACK SLATE September 19th ROGER CLYNE & THE PEACEMAKERS

Scotland! Sweden! Ireland!

Alasdair Fraser’s Valley of The Moon Scottish Fiddling School Concert

Fun for the whole family!

September 20th ANDY MCKEE

Kids 8 and under are FREE!

September 22nd MIKE LOVE

SANTA CRUZ CIVIC AUDITORIUM

September 23rd SISTER SPARROW & THE DIRTY BIRDS September 24th DONAVON FRANKENREITER September 25th T SISTERS + WINDY HILL September 26th THE LEMONHEADS September 29th MR VEGAS

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FRI

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DAV. ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport

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MON

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Folk Family Revival $10 8p

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville

BR Jazz Band $10 8p

Duran Duran Duran $12/$15 8p

Uturn $7/$9 7p

Clamtones

NiteCreepers

Toby Gray

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HENFLINGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond

Flingo 7p

Stock Shot 9p

Flingfest 1p

Flingfest 1p

Labor Day Celebration 2p

B-Movie Kings 10p-1a

Room Shakers 10p-1a Karaoke w/Eve 2-5p

Karaoke w/Eve 9:30p

Karaoke w/Eve 9:30p

Kevin â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Lone Arrangerâ&#x20AC;?

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Scott Slaughter 7p

Mike and Lenny 7p

Jade 5p

Rocky 6p

Claudia Villela $25 7p

Double Deeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brass Band $5 9p

Joe Ferraraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Prostate Cancer Songfest Free 5p

ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S WINE TYME 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

Open Mic 7p

KUUMBWA 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Tango Ecstasy 6-9:30p

MALONEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 4402 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley

Live Music 5:30-9p

Chris Kelly 7-10p

Chris Kelly 7-10p

Karaoke w/Ken 9p

MICHAELâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

Chris Ells 7-10p

Next Blues Band 7-10p

Bombshell Bullys 8-11p

Storminâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Norman and the Cyclones 8-11p

MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Tomas Gomez 6p

MOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz MOTIV 1209 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

Broken English $7/$10 8p Hi Ya! By Little John 9p-2a

Libation Lab w/Syntax 9:30p-2a

Lee â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scratchâ&#x20AC;? Perry $25/$30 8p Tone Sol 9:30p-2a

CLAUDIA VILLELA BAND: TRIBUTE TO ELIS REGINA

Tuesday, September 8 2 7 pm Roadhouse Karaoke 7:30p

Claudio 6:30p Cultural Heritage Choir w/Rhythm Addicts $25 7p

Chris Ells Noon-2:30p

Al Frisby 6p

Thursday, September 3 2 7 pm

CLUB KUUMBWA: DOULBE DEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BRASS BAND ~ ~ $5 AT THE DOOR! ~ ~

LiveJazz & Wine Tasting Salsa Bahia 6-9p 8-11p

IDEAL BAR & GRILL 106 Beach St, Santa Cruz

Celebrating Forty Years of Creativity

Friday, September 4 2 9 pm

GG RESTAURANT 8041 Soquel Dr, Aptos

Naked Agenda 8p

9/8

Sherry Austin w/ Henhouse

Samba Cruz

DON QUIXOTEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 6275 Hwy 9, Felton

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Peter Chang 6:30-8:30p

Maoli, PeniDean $12/$15 9p

Tech Minds 9:30p-2a

Eclectic by Primal Rasta Cruz Reggae Party Productions 9:30p-2a 9:30p-2a

Thursday, September 10 2 7 pm

HELEN SUNG QUARTET 1/2 Price Night for Students Friday, September 11 2 7:30 pm

CAROLYN SILLS COMBO: A TRIBUTE TO PATSY CLINE Tickets: SnazzyProductions.com Saturday, September 12 2 8 pm

HEATHER HOUSTON PRAYERS FOR THE WATER CD RELEASE CONCERT

Rand Rueter 6p The China Cats $12/$15 8p

LINDA TILLERY AND THE CULTURAL HERITAGE CHOIR WITH SPECIAL GUESTS RHYTHM ADDICTS

Devon Allman $12/$15 7p

Tickets: BrownPaperTickets.com Hip-hop with DJ Marc 9:30p-2a

Monday, September 14 2 7 pm

JACKY TERRASSON QUARTET Tuesday, September 15 2 7:30 pm

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Thursday, September 3 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 21+

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ELIGH plus Rhymesayersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; deM atlaS

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ANDRE NICKATINA

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Sep 9 Funk Volume 2015 Tour (Ages 16+) Sep 12 Blackalicious (Ages 16+) Sep 14 SuicideGirls Blackheart Burlesque (Ages 18+) Sep 19 Klingande (Ages 18+) Sep 23 O.A.R./ Gabrielle Ross (Ages 16+) Sep 24 Best Coast/ Lovely Bad Things (Ages 16+) Sep 25 John Hiatt & The Combo (Ages 21+) Sep 26 The California Honeydrops (Ages 16+) Sep 27 Parmalee/ Leaving Austin (Ages 16+) Sep 28 Richie Spice/ I-Wayne (Ages 16+) Oct 1 Cash Cash/ Tritonal (Ages 16+) Oct 2 The Underachievers (Ages 16+) Oct 3 Beth Hart (Ages 16+) Oct 4 Riff Raff (Ages 16+) Oct 8 Figure (Ages 18+) Oct 9 Xavier Rudd & The United Nations (Ages 16+) Oct 10 Santa Cruz Music Fest (Ages 16+) Oct 11 Israel Vibration/ Roots Radics (Ages 16+) Oct 15 Borgore/ Getter (Ages 18+) Oct 16 El Tri (Ages 21+) Oct 17 Gang Of Four (Ages 21+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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

www.catalystclub.com

Tickets: SnazzyProductions.com

Thursday, September 17 2 7 pm

AARON GOLDBERG TRIO Reuben Rogers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; bass Obed Calvaire â&#x20AC;&#x201C; drums Friday, September 18 2 7:30 pm

THE BILLS Tickets: SnazzyProductions.com

Thursday, September 24 2 7 pm

JACQUI NAYLOR QUARTET 1/2 Price Night for Students Monday, September 28 2 7 pm

JOEY ALEXANDER TRIO Thursday, October 1 2 7 pm

MIGHTY MIKE SCHERMER CD RELEASE PARTY 10/2 First Friday: r.r. jones new exhibit 10/5 Yosvany Terry Quartet â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ancestral Memoriesâ&#x20AC;?

10/8 Somi October 27 2 7:30 pm at the Rio Theatre Legendary Band Re-Visited!

CHUCHO VALDES & IRAKERE Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records. Dinner served 1-hr before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer. All ages welcome.

320-2 Cedar St [ Santa Cruz 831.427.2227

kuumbwajazz.org

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Great Food.

9/2

THU

9/3

FRI

99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz

Trivia 8p

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

Various Artists

SAT

9/5

SUN

9/6

Acoustic Soul $10 9p

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

The Alex Raymond Band 8p

Tate Toussaint Live 8p

DJ Shea Butter 10p

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

Jazz Jam

Acoustic Jam w/Toby Gray and Friends

Traditional Hawaiian Music

The Funkanauts $5 9p

Traditional Hawaiian Music

Decker 8p

Burnin Vernon & Aftermath 8:30p-12:30a

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

Ultrasound

Yuji and Steve

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz

Aki Kumar 6:30-10:30p

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Sept. 18 Comedian Lisa Lampanelli The Leaner Meaner Tour

Sept. 23 George Thorogood and the Destroyers Sept. 24 Elton, the Early Years

OPEN 7 DAYS FOR LUNCH & DINNER

Oct. 15 The Wailin’ Jennys Nov. 6 Jonny Lang

334D Ingalls St Santa Cruz

Dec. 10 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

831.471.8115 westendtap.com

For Tickets www.GoldenStateTheatre.com 831-649-1070

Robin Anderson Big Tuesday Night Comedy Band feat. Ruby Rudman Smackdown 9p 7-10p Comedy Open Mic 8p

Open Mic 7:30-11:30p

Sunday Brunch w/ Chris

Open Mic

The Lenny and Kenny Show

Trivia

Open Mic 7:30p

Cat Power $31/$47 7p

Touch’d Too Much 8:30p-12:30a

Award winning musicals

9/8

‘Geeks Who Drink’ Trivia Night 8p

THE SAND BAR 211 Esplanade, Capitola

Celebrating 50 years of presenting

TUE

Various Artists

ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Great Beer.

9/7

Trivia 6-8p

Open Mic 4-7p

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

MON

Breeze Babes Jam Session w/ Vinny Johnson 7-10p

THE POCKET 3102 Portola Dr, Santa Cruz

9/4

Dani Paige & Jesse DeCarlo Free 7-9p

NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY Colby Lee Huston Free 6-8p 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz

This just in: Fresh Seafood!

LOCATED ON THE BEACH Amazing waterfront deck views.

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT See live music grid for this week’s bands.

STAND-UP COMEDY

Three live comedians every Sunday night.

HAPPY HOUR Mon–Fri from 3:30pm. Wednesday all night!

VISIT OUR BEACH MARKET Wood-fired pizza, ice cream, unique fine gifts.

SPECIAL DEALS Weekdays, upstairs and down.

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UNINHIBITED EXPLORATION Kristen Wiig, Bel Powley and Alexander Skarsgard in Marielle Heller’s ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl,’ based on the graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner.

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hen you think of San Francisco underground comics in the 1970s, you might think of Mr. Natural, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, maybe Fritz the Cat. These classic “comix” viewed the era of sex, drugs and the uninhibited exploration of both from a decidedly male and adult perspective.

As you might suspect from the title, the film Diary Of a Teenage Girl revisits that milieu from an entirely different viewpoint—a 15-year-old girl navigating the perilous tightrope between child and grown-up. It’s based on the graphic novel of the same name written and drawn by comics artist Phoebe Gloeckner. The book was published in 2002, but the story looks back to San Francisco in 1976. With

enough raw language, drug use, and sex (and, scarier still, to some viewers, teen sexuality), the film earns its “R” rating, yet there’s something fresh, compelling, and poignant about its female coming-of-age drama set in a liberating yet dangerous world of almost no taboos.

Scripted and directed with verve and sensitivity by Marielle Heller, the film plunges us smack into the middle of its set-up in the opening frames. A young teenage girl in a T-shirt and bell-bottom jeans is tromping wide-eyed through Golden Gate Park. In an exuberant voice-over, she tells us why. “I had sex today!

Holy shit!” She’s Minnie Goetz (an extraordinary Bel Powley), who, like many 15-year-old girls, is really looking for unconditional love, but is

not quite experienced enough to know the difference.

The object of Minnie’s misplaced affection is the feckless Monroe (Alexander Skarsgard), a placidly handsome 35-year-old, who also happens to be the current boyfriend of Minnie’s divorced mom, Charlotte (Kristen Wiig). Early on, we see a moment of easygoing affection between the two of them, shoving playfully at each other, sitting on the couch, watching TV, after Mom has gone to bed.

But when Minnie, in her eagerness, asks for more, the self-serving Monroe lacks the moral backbone to tell her no, in any more than a fleeting, token way. The next day, he takes her out of school and off to a motel. (“I didn’t know you were a virgin,” he says,

offhandedly, afterward, as if it would have made any difference to him.)

Their trysts continue, with Minnie trying to invest them with more meaning than they have, struggling to learn the “adult code,” and wondering why she still feels “so alone.”

When she eagerly confesses all to her wanton girlfriend, Kimmie (Madeleine Waters), Minnie fails to get the validation she hopes for when her friend cries, “Eww—he’s so old!”

Fortunately for Minnie—or not—her mom is a party girl, too wrapped up in her own haze of booze and cocaine to notice what’s going on with Minnie or her kid sister, the ever-watchful Gretel (Abby Wait). Nor do they get much guidance from their father, Pascal (Christopher Meloni), an uptight, button-down scientist with a cool veneer and a short fuse.

The story is narrated by Minnie in a series of diary entries she pours into a vintage piano-key tape recorder while barricaded in her room. Bits of these thoughts are used effectively on the soundtrack as the story unfolds onscreen (“Is this what it feels like for someone to love you?” she wonders tremulously, as Monroe lies snoring beside her).

Meanwhile, after the proprietor of a neighborhood comic book store gives her a copy of Twisted Sister by Aline Kominsky, Minnie starts composing gleefully unexpurgated drawings of both her real-life and fantasy experiences. Animated versions of these become an integral part of the film, like an outbreak of red neon cartoon feathers that carpet her back like wings during an acid trip.

When she discovers her determined sexuality scares boys her own age, she imagines a scenario, “The Making of a Harlot,” in which a giant Minnie lumbers through San Francisco like Godzilla, devouring teenage boys.

This is serious stuff, told with disarming imagination, and a delicate sense of heartbreak for all that rudderless Minnie doesn’t yet know about the treacherous world that might swallow her up at any moment.

But ultimately, it’s a story of victorious selfhood—against all odds.

DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL With Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgard and Kristen Wiig. Written and directed by Marielle Heller. From the graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner. A Sony Classics release. Rated R. 102 minutes.

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FILM NEW THIS WEEK BEFORE WE GO In the tradition of a Meg Ryan rom-com, this is a New York City romance where accidental acquaintances are first at odds but become midnight lovers after the maiden is robbed, stranded in Manhattan, and the knight comes to her rescue. Ah, the swooning ladies (and gents) watching with a box of chocolate and bottle of wine (or several) will be hearts all aflutter—and yes, we’ll all come to believe that this is precisely what happens when you venture to New York City in search of a fairytale ending. But whether it’s a cheese fest or a real nostalgic love story, we’ll see. Chris Evans, Alice Eve, Emma Fitzpatrick co-star. (PG-13) 89 minutes.

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THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED Semi-clothed attractive women, evil villains, scheming superminds, blaring beats, large guns, fast cars, big bangs, another guy who looks vaguely like Jason Statham with apropos steely stare, a kidnapped dad, fast cash, robbery, revenge and reloading … did we leave anything out? Camille Delamarre directs. Ed Skrein, Loan Chabanol and Ray Stevenson co-star.

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A WALK IN THE WOODS Tired of death and funerals, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) wants to hike the Appalachian Trail. But his his wife, played by the everlovable Emma Thompson, forbids him to go it alone, so after exhausting his list of old friends—who find going to the doctor for a colonoscopy adventure enough—he’s joined by Stephen, played by a perfect Nick Nolte. The duo appear a delightful match, and Nolte, who has arguably never looked better, plays the old loon with charm. Ken Kwapis directs. (R) 104 minutes.

Z FOR ZACHARIAH Ann Burden lives with her dog in a remote valley— remote because, well, she’s probably the last survivor of a disaster that wiped out civilization. Or so she thinks, until she finds Chiwetel Ejiofor in a pond and Chris Pine walking down the road. First the problem was not enough men, then it’s that there are too many—ah, how cinema mirrors reality in this sci-fi thriller which puts Ann (Margot Robbie) at the center of a post-apocalyptic love

triangle. She could do worse. Craig Zobel directs. (PG-13) 95 minutes.

CONTINUING EVENT: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE MOVIES Film buffs are invited Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. to downtown Santa Cruz, where each week the group discusses a different current release.

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NOW PLAYING AMERICAN ULTRA Since 1953 the government has been running a top-secret project to control soldiers planted in civilian life. Now, agent Howell has been activated: only, he doesn’t really know it yet because he is wayyy too high. Jesse Eisenberg plays the convenience store cashier who discovers a set of lethal skills he never knew he had when he kills some carjackers with a spoon. “There’s a chance I may be a robot,” he tells his girlfriend Phoebe, played by Kristen Stewart— brilliantly cast, as side by side the couple looks like versions of each other. Stewart might even crack that face with some more facial expressions than usual in what looks like a hilarious action comedy.

Nima Nourizadeh directs. Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Connie Britton co-star. (R) 95 minutes.

DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL We know that teenage boys think about sex every minute of every day: but teenage girls? Finally, a film that explores the possibility that young females aren’t only pious pre-nuns and may also go through hormonal stages with their own, very confusing awakenings. Sure, it might be an awkward topic, but don’t let the tediously tween title dissuade. Newcomer Bel Powley looks delightful as the innocently explorative Minnie who after sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend (played

by Alexander Skarsgård and her mother by Kristen Wiig), finds herself in a new world rife with possibilities— all painted with animated illustrations which soften the whole adolescent sexuality conversation.

Marielle Heller directs. Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Kristen Wiig co-star. (R) 102 minutes.

HITMAN: AGENT 47 It’s funny because this looks like the serious version of American Ultra; Agent 47 is a genetically engineered super agent with a perfectly shaped head and a face that never smiles. Oh, he’s also been hired by that guy from Heroes to kill some lady but it turns out she’s just like him! A film where people say things like “He’s here … to kill you,” with dramatic pause, and “Pretty crazy, huh?” and characters have “subdermal titanium body armor”—leaving you to wonder if all the good lines have already been taken … but all sarcastic nitpicking aside, Hitman does look like a pretty decent kickass action flick. We hope the Homeland bad boy can deliver as leading gentleman, but if not Hannah Ware looks tough enough for the both of them. Aleksander Bach directs. Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zachary Quinto co-star. (R) 96 minutes.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE- ROGUE NATION At this point, audiences might be thinking it’s Tom Cruise in another of these franchise films that is truly impossible (did they get him in a lifetime deal with the devil?), although, as far as action franchises go, needing to eradicate a rogue international organization with equally skilled agents sounds creative enough. At least all the characters surrounding Cruise—from Simon Pegg’s unflinching wit to the best British pout of 2015 (we’re looking at you Rebecca Ferguson) to the incandescence of Alec Baldwin’s face— make up for the tired resurrection of Ethan Hunt. Christopher McQuarrie directs. Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, and Jeremy Renner co-star. (PG-13) 131 minutes.

NO ESCAPE: An American family relocates overseas to embark on what they think will be an exciting new life—maybe a little too exciting, as they quickly find themselves in the epicenter of a military coup.

Owen Wilson, who’s currently in post-production for Zoolander 2 (so it’s OK to find his genre-hopping unexpected), plays Jack Dwyer with Lake Bell as his on-screen wife. With two kids in tow they try desperately to flee the crumbling country but just as they think they’ve escaped,

obstacles meet them at every turn.

John Erick Dowdle directs. Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan, and Owen Wilson co-star. (R) 103 minutes.

PHOENIX Disfigured, alone, and heartbroken Nelly is the lone member of her family to have survived the concentration camps.

Now the war is over and after receiving surgery that leaves her unrecognizable she returns home to crumbling, postwar Berlin in search of her husband—possibly the one who revealed her Jewish identity to the Nazis. Nina Hoss plays Nelly in this German drama which takes on the narrative feat of postwar reality—although the war between Germany and the Allies had finally ended, the war between victims and collaborators had just begun.

Christian Petzold directs. Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf co-star. (PG-13) 98 minutes.

RICKI AND THE FLASH Meryl Streep is the queen of cinema: what other actress can play a self-righteous nun, a famous chef, the Iron Lady, and a totally badass fulltime rocker—all with the sincerity and ease of someone folding their socks? She’s magic: deniers can shoo. We’ll try to keep the swooning at a minimum … but with Streep at the helm of this cast—boasting forever favorite Kevin Kline, Streep’s own offspring Mamie Gummer—and Juno creator, writer Diablo Cody, as the one behind the rock ’n’ roll momma’s story, it is so, so hard.

Jonathan Demme directs. Mamie Gummer, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, and Sebastian Stan co-star. (PG-13) 102 minutes.

SHAUN THE SHEEP From the claymation masters who brought us the genius of Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit comes another installation in Shaun’s epic story of lambish mischief and farm-to-city adventures. The lovable, goofy side-mouthed goons who are timelessly plasticine and innocently hilarious can do no wrong, even if they’re not Pixar-made. This time it’s sneaky Shaun the sheep who decides to take a day off from the farm, but after a mix-up with the farmer, the whole flock is off to the city in an attempt to get everyone

back home safely before anyone is made mincemeat. Mark Burton and Richard Starzak direct. Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, and Omid Djalili co-star. (PG) 85 minutes.

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON “Speak a little truth and people lose their minds”—not everyone was ready for what N.W.A. had to say when the young Compton rappers hit the scene in the late ’80s. Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, MC Ren and DJ Yella rapped about living with one eye open and the daily realities of hood politics. Played here by Ice’s son, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jason Mitchell, Corey Hawkins, Aldis Hodge and Neil Brown Jr., their story as perhaps the most controversial and outspoken hip-hop group in history has reached mythic status. But the film picks and chooses how it wants to remember these icons—conspicuously erasing, for instance, Dre’s history of violence against women. F. Gary Gray directs.

(R) 147 minutes.

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. This Cold War-era action-comedy reads James Bond-ish parody with just the right amount of eye candy and CIA/KGB crossover bravado—all with perfectly chiseled chins which, since it does harken back to the 1964 original, we’ll forgive. Guy Ritchie directs. Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander co-star.

(PG-13) 116 minutes.

WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS Maybe, just maybe, this story about how to make it as a DJ will be more than just a story about how to make it as a DJ. With the requisite bro tanks, lofty camera shots, motivating electro soundtrack (perfect for the gym) and so-chiseled-it-hurtsto-look-at cast of 20-somethings, We Are Your Friends looks like a real cheese fest. Played by Zac Efron, Cole struggles between a “forbidden romance” and the “expectations of his friends” (teehee). But Efron has dipped into some slightly more complex roles in the past few years since Hairspray and High School Musical—he has … right?—so we’re leaving room for possible depth and complexity.

Max Joseph directs. Zac Efron, Wes Bentley, Emily Ratajkowski co-star.

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BERRY ELEGANT A passed appetizer of strawberries from the Homeless Garden Project’s garden, with balsamic, fennel and finger lime, created by Hollins House chef John Paul Lechtenberg and served at the HGP’s most recent Sustain Supper. PHOTO: CRYSTAL BIRNS

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he Homeless Garden Project celebrated its 25th anniversary last week with a gala sit-down dinner benefit for 150 guests. Set in the midst of their 3.5-acre organic garden overlooking the ocean, it was a vibrant gathering of movers and shakers in organic growing, politics, food, and wine.

Such guests included frequent mayor Katherine Beiers (no event is complete without this marathon-running phenom), Molino Creek farmer and ag consultant Mark Lipson, architect Mark Primack, Charlie Hong Kong owner Carolyn Rudolph, cookbook author Carolyn Dille, my former

campus colleagues Sue McLean and Connie Croker, and CCOF’s Cathy Calfo, who is also the current HGP’s board chair. The company, the ambiance, the food—all terrific, and it was one of the only such outdoor sit-down dinners I can recall starting on time. Such expert timing makes the guests feel at ease and inclined to come back again and again.

Hors d’oeuvres from Hollins House’s John Paul Lechtenberg were circulated as guests arrived. One sensational app from Lechtenberg was a slow-roasted lamb shoulder, cubed and skewered on rosemary with a Padrón pepper mole and cilantro arugula pesto. My

favorite from Lechtenberg was a piquant creation of strawberry bathed with balsamic, strands of fennel, and little pale green “caviar” of finger lime that was out of this world. From Sarah LaCasse of Earthbound Farm Organic came a luscious summer salad of tomato and zucchini carpaccio with tiny greens, toasted pine nuts and an extraordinary pesto vinaigrette.

Abundant and tart with freshness, it made a contrasting partner for the baskets full of sliced francese. From the talented hands of chef Brad Briske (of Carmel’s La Balena, and formerly Main Street Garden Cafe and Gabriella Cafe in Santa Cruz) came an entree

SPIRIT OF THE WEEK The bracing and botanical-inflected Gin Blend No. 1 from Venus Spirits tasted like a quick trip into the heart of Icelandic myth last week when I needed some quick respite after a tooth issue. A stellar creation perfumed with juniper cardamom, ginger and citruses. At Shopper’s Corner, but you can stop by the Venus Spirits tasting room on Swift Street to sample. venusspirits.com.

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of Devil’s Gulch Ranch porchetta served with huge platters of fragrant and brilliantly spiced shelling-bean medley, as well as another platter of wax beans, olives, and sliced fennel tossed with Padrón peppers. Bowls of multi-colored cherry tomatoes—at their very peak of ripeness—arrived as another surprise side, sweet in balsamic reduction. The dessert,

by Yulanda Santos of Post Ranch Inn, was simple and lovely. A light, barely sweet white cake spread with strawberry jam, topped with piped lavender cream and Meyer lemon curd and dotted with candied mint leaves.

Utterly delicious, and, again, each bite tasted like summer—even in the gathering fog.

Wines were provided by Bonny Doon Vineyard—winemaker Randall Grahm and daughter were among the dinner guests—and by Burrell School Vineyards. Words of wisdom from Greens Restaurant founder Deborah Madison led to a personal narrative from Garden Project trainee Chris Roberts, which left few dry-eyed. I plan to participate in one or more of these wonderful outdoor HGP dinners each year—the rewards of attendance are profound, as well as delicious.

The next Homeless Garden Project Sustain Supper is on Saturday, Sept.

19, with keynote speaker Catherine Sneed, who launched the Garden Project to address the high rates of recidivism in the San Francisco County Jail. The program was hailed by the USDA as “one of the most innovative and successful community-based crime prevention programs in the country.” Top chefs will prepare an elegant organic four-course meal, with musical accompaniment from members of the Santa Cruz Symphony.

Details at homelessgardenproject.org.

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+ RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES VENUS DIRECT, MERCURY RETRO SOON, HONORING OUR LABORS As Burning Man (nine days, Aug. 30-Sept. 7 in the sign of Virgo) burns in the hot white desert sands, a petal of the rose created by retrograde Venus and the twelve-petaled Sun in Virgo’s petals unfold. All of us are on the burning ground (Leo) in the womb (cave of the heart) of the mother (Virgo), gestating for humanity once again (each year) a new state of consciousness. Both Virgo and Cancer, feminine (receptive energies) signs, are from our last solar system (Pleiades). When humanity first appeared on Earth we were nurtured by the mother, a matriarchy of energies (on islands in the Pacific). Eve, Isis and Mary are part of the lineages of our ancient Mother.

Overseen by the Pleiades, the Earth (matter, mater, the mother) in that last solar system was imbued with intelligence (Ray 3). As we move toward autumn, another mother, Ceres realizes

she has mere weeks left with her beloved daughter, Persephone.

Persimmon and pomegranate trees prepare for autumn, their colors signs of hope as the light each day continues to dim.

Sunday, Venus in Leo turns stationary direct, yet continues in her shadow until Oct. 9 (when retrograde Mercury turns direct). Slowly our newly assessed values emerge from the Venus retrograde. We thought in Venus retro how to use our resources more effectively.

Mercury retrogrades Sept. 17.

Monday is Labor Day. Let us honor the labor of everyone, all life a “labor.” Let us honor Labor Day and all those who have “served” (labored for) us this past year. We honor their labors. We honor the labor of our parents, those who have loved us. We honor our own labors, too. We are all in service, we are all laboring. We are all valuable.

ARIES Mar21–Apr20

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22

Those working with you seek your mentorship and direction. You’re the courage, bravery and light needed that “lights their way.” This is not a compliment. It’s a responsibility of leadership and love. It’s important to maintain health, exercise and a simple diet. Possibly you need more calcium/magnesium for calmness. With all relationships, don’t be harsh.

You seek a sense of belonging. Your talents and gifts have created a life filled with spiritual intuition. You wonder when all that appears in your mind and heart can be used with less stress and limitation. You know you’re here to serve. You change your appearance with confidence and a desire to be more harmonious. You’re a bit mysterious now.

Careful with exercise. Careful with bones and ligaments.

TAURUS Apr21–May21

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21

The work and responsibilities continue to arrive. You tend to everything needed, forging ahead with Vulcan’s (Soul ruler) help. Vulcan fashions gold out of iron (Soul/ personality), creates a forward momentum, allows for optimism (a little) and drives you toward future goals.

On your mind, always, is how to create and sustain community. It takes more than a village.

Notice your concern with how others (groups) see and assess you. Notice a change of values occurring, too. It’s an excellent time to make new friends and contact old ones, as well as create business opportunities with groups and social media. There’s a community or group needing your research abilities. The present work situation may shift about. This will accelerate. Maintain composure, balance and faith.

GEMINI May 22–June 20

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20

Home continues to matter more and more—where you live, with whom, and how to create community. These questions sustain your curious and dual mind. Movement forward is always an issue. Continue to care for those in need with compassion and humor. You’re to serve with a wise heart. Venus is your companion. She surrounds you with a pale golden light.

Work should be good, you know you’re well-liked, however, you may possibly feel restricted, constrained and controlled by situations out of your control. It will be important to make yourself more productive, creating harmony at all levels of work. Banish all thoughts of limitations, create a positive, light-filled aura. The outcome will be more than expected.

Work on the honor system. Your honor.

CANCER Jun21–Jul20

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20

Home and family become increasingly filled with responsibilities and work. You try to carry on traditions to family. However, so many tasks interfere. Restrict how much work you’re doing for others or exhaustion ensues.

An acupuncture treatment is most likely needed and chiropractic, too. You’re the one at home needing tender loving care. Rest a while.

Make contact with those far away who love and care for you. Your communication creates harmony and happiness. As your mind ponders future goals, include religious as well as physical, emotional and intellectual considerations. Religion stabilizes and sustains for its energies are greater than we are. Prayer stabilizes us. As you continue to transform recite the Great Invocation daily and with family.

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LE0 Jul21–Aug22 Are you finding yourself going out and about, creating deeper relationships with others? Leos often tend only to themselves and this creates loneliness. Wherever there’s an imbalance, ask questions, listen, assess, speak from the heart and forgive. Saturn, Dweller on the Threshold of new ways of being, asks you to review past beliefs before new foundational realities can form. Share resources and values.

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VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 In your daily life, have the intention to focus on facts not fictions, fantasies, or wishful thinking. Facts are the foundation of a clear thinker and later, good leader. Facts help uplift emotional disturbances, disappointments and confusing changes. Saturn asks that you consider what is of value to you and provides both emotional and intellectual inspiration. Listen for the still small voice of God.

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 Your focus on money is correct in terms of the future.

Assess how you are living and if it’s sustainable for you.

Consider other ways of living, new futuristic ways. Allow no limitations of thought. Discuss with others how the present world situation affects how and where you live.

Share with everyone what you value and what you need.

Daily routines are changed. Your vitality (life force) is intact. Pray to the devas. They’re your friends.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 Walking that raggedy precipice of reality, not remembering yesterday, not seeing tomorrow, summon faith that there is indeed a path you’re walking even if it’s invisible. There will be a moving forward soon (after years of un-knowing). The forests will become the trees of opportunity. Do what’s necessary to create and build that community. Ask humanity to help.

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This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: HERBERT P. GOTELLI.. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 3/31/1983. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 4, 2015. August 12, 19, 26 & Sept. 2.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1393 The following individual is doing business as RAFFISH. 343 CHAPARRAL STREET, SALINAS CA 93906 County of Santa Cruz.

PAUL NASH. 343 CHAPARRAL STREET, SALINAS CA 93906.

This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: PAUL NASH The registrant commenced to

transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 4, 2015. August 12, 19, 26 & Sept. 2.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1397 The following individual is doing business as CALIFORNIA 54321, HOLA BEAUTY & PINK PANDORA. 1555 MERRILL ST. #93, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz. CELENE NELSON . 1555 MERRILL ST. #93, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062.

This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: CELENE NELSON The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 4, 2015.

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1555 MERRILL ST. #93, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: CELENE NELSON The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 4, 2015. August 12, 19, 26 & Sept. 2 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1421 The following Corporation is doing business as TWO WHEEL CLUB. 1077 SMITH GRADE, SANTA CRUZ VA 94050 County of Santa Cruz.

SWANPOUND, INC. 2804 GATEWAY OAKS DRIVE, STE. 200, SACRAMENTO CA 95833.

Al# 3728461. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: REBECCA GUINEY. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1382 The following Married Couple is doing business as CASCADIA ENGINEERING. 370 10TH AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz.

DAVID BOLGER & REBECCA REEDER. 370 10TH AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062.

This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: DAVID BOLGER. 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 July 31, 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1410 The following individual is doing business as LEVERED

LEARNING. 981 OLD SAN JOSE RD., SOQUEL CA 95073 County of Santa Cruz. MITCHELL SLATER. 981 OLD SAN JOSE RD., SOQUEL CA 95073. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: MITCHELL SLATER 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 August 7, 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1449 The following individual is doing business as SUSIE WILSON. 2868 CHESTERFIELD DRIVE APT. 9, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1413 The following individual is doing business as WEBWORLD SERVICES. 104 GRANT ST. WATSONVILLE CA 95076 County of Santa Cruz. SERGHEI MOCANU. 104 GRANT ST. WATSONVILLE CA 95076. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: SERGHEI MOCANU The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 7, 2015. August 19, 26 & Sept. 2, 9.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 151459 The following General Partnership is doing business as ISABEL AND DOTTY. 208

WOODROW AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 County of Santa Cruz. GRASEILAH COOLIDGE & SIERRA CAMPBELL. 208 WOODROW AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060. This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed:GRASEILAH COOLIDGE. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 8/17/2015.. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 17 2015. August 19, 26 & Sept. 2, 9.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1368 The following individual is doing business as JEWEL OF THE NILE. 715 1/2 MISSION STREET, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 County of Santa Cruz.

CHELSEE ROBINSON. 715 1/2 MISSION STREET, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: CHELSEE ROBINSON. 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 July 29, 2015. August 26 & Sept.

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ST., SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 County of Santa Cruz. MAYA LEV. 166 HAGEMANN AVE., SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: MAYA LEV. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 9/14/1995.. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 28, 2015.

August 26 & Sept. 2, 9, 16.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1429 The following individual is doing business as CATZ PAWZ. 265 E. BEACH ST., WATSONVILLE CA 95076 County of Santa Cruz.

JAMIE INIGUEZ. 7 GREGORY ROAD, WATSONVILLE CA 95076. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: JAMIE INIGUEZ. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 8/11/2015.. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 11, 2015. August 26 & Sept.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 151395 The following individual is doing business as PLANK WOODWORKING. 3423 YUCCA DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz. LEVI STILES. 423 YUCCA DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: LEVI STILES. The registrant commenced to transact business under

the fictitious business name listed above on 7/1/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 4, ,2015. August 26 & Sept.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1400 The following individual is doing business as QUEEN BEE PLACENTA ENCAPSULATION SERVICES. 1222 N. BRANCIFORTE AVE., SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz. HOLLY STONE AKIYOSHI. 1222 N. BRANCIFORTE AVE., SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: HOLLY STONE AKIYOSHI. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 5, ,2015. August 26 & Sept.

2, 9, 16.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1488 The following individual is doing business as SEASIDE MASSAGE. 2002 MISSION STREET, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 County of Santa Cruz. SHAOXIN LI. 2283 HEARST AVE. #31, BERKELEY CA 94709. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed:SHAOXIN LI. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 21, ,2015. Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1503 The following individual is doing business as ESCOBAR GARDEN

SERVICE. 177 BLESSING LANE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 County of Santa Cruz. JOSE C. LAINEZANDASOL. 177 BLESSING LANE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060.

This business is conducted by a Individual Signed:JOSE C. LAINEZ-ANDASOL The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 6/8/2005. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 25, ,2015. Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1393 The following individual is doing business as RAFFISH County of Santa Cruz. SHAOXIN LI. 2283 HEARST AVE. #31, BERKELEY CA 94709. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed:SHAOXIN LI. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 4, ,2015. Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1535 The following individual is doing business as LUMINA JEWELRY DESIGN. 433 SPREADING OAK DRIVE, SCOTTS VALLEY CA 96066 County of Santa Cruz. PAMELA RING. 433 SPREADING OAK DRIVE, SCOTTS VALLEY CA 96066. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed:PAMELA RING. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 28, ,2015. Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1511 The following individual is doing business as ORGANIZER FOR HIRE. 4910 CAPITOLA RD. CAPITOLA CA 94010 County of Santa Cruz. MELISSA BREGANTE. 4910 CAPITOLA RD. CAPITOLA CA 94010.

This business is conducted by a Individual Signed:MELISSA BREGANTE. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 3/18/2015 This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 25, ,2015. Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0151 The following Corporation is doing business as AGENCY. 1519 PACIFIC AVE., SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 County of Santa Cruz. LINNAEA, INC. 1368 PACIFIC AVE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060. Al# 3187193.

This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: LINNAEA HOLGERS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 8/25/2015 This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 25, 2015. Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1506 The following Married Couple is doing business as MOORE AND SONS MOTORCYCLES. 2-1431 EAST CLIFF DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz. JUDY L. MOORE & JOHN F. JR. MOORE. 4503 CHERRYVALE AVENUE, SOQUEL CA 95073.

This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: JUDY L. MOORE. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/15/1964. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 25, 2015.

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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF BETHANY ANGELICA SANTIAGO & TREVOR JOSEPH SARRATT CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV182300. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner BETHANY ANGELICA SANTIAGO & TREVOR JOSEPH SARRATT has filed a

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Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING October 9, 2015 at 8:30 am, 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: August 21, 2015. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENTOF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME. The following person(persons) have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: ROTO-ROOTER. 2521 MISSION STREET SUITE A, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on: 1/12/2011 CLD SERVICES, INC. 2521 MISSION STREET SUITE A, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 This business was conducted by: INDIVIDUAL: RAQUEL SORIANO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk- Recorder of

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on the date indicated by the file stamp: Filed: August 24, 2015. File No.2011-0000118. Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23.

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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF RICHARD DAVID VELASCO REYES CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV182347. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner RICHARD DAVID VELASCO REYES has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name from: RICHARD DAVID VELASCO

REYES to: RICHARD (FIRST) DAVID (MIDDLE) VELASCO REYES (LAST NAME). THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING October 19, 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: August 31, 2015. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23.

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