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OPINION

EDITOR’S NOTE It’s not that much of a surprise that, as Cat Johnson reports in her cover story this week about the Open Studios Art Tour, Santa Cruz is one of the most artist-dense cities in the nation. (Although our actual ranking—I won’t spoil it—is kind of an eye-opener.) And yet, this can still be an incredibly tough place for an artist to make a living. Johnson’s story reveals just how much of a difference Open Studios makes for many artists living here, and how

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Re: Coast Dairies (GT, 9/23): Wow, I am surprised by Fred Keeley’s quote “Will there be increased traffic? Of course. Will there be more tourists? We hope so.” Sounds a lot more focused on increasing tourism business than land preservation!

This land is already protected, and the BLM has already been planning for public access.

The issue is the additional tourists who will come to the area because of the monument status. According to the Land Trust’s own website, the estimations are that “the Bureau of Land Management estimates 150,000 to 300,000 visits when everything (trails, parking lots) is built. The higher number is most likely if it becomes a National Monument.” The monument status will bring more people … period.

Do we really need 300,000 tourists tromping though the area? How does that protect the wildlife and environment? How are we going to manage the additional traffic, trash, fire danger, policing, parking, etc? I think preserving the area is great and providing access is great. But there has got to be a better way of really preserving the environment. I think designating this as a national monument and sending up an invite to the entire nation to visit this area before mitigating the huge environmental, cultural and safety impacts is just not responsible management.

these three weekends in October can be make-or-break.

After 30 years, most of us around here know about and likely participate in Open Studios, but few probably realize that it is one of the most acclaimed events of its type in the country. It’s easy to understand why after reading what the organizers say about their relationships with local artists, and what artists say about the importance of Open Studios in their lives.

After you’ve been properly primed by the story, grab the Open Studios guide in this issue and check out the scene for yourself!

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EGG-BREAKING NEWS McDonald's pledge this month to start using cage-free eggs is only a small step in preventing staggering suffering endured by millions of birds.

Hatcheries that annually supply 200 million female hens for U.S. egg production, including cage-free, also kill the same number of male chicks at birth by grinding them up alive in industrial macerators, or suffocating them slowly in plastic garbage bags. The female laying hens endure a lifetime of misery, crammed with five to six others in small wire-mesh cages that cut into their feet and tear out their feathers.

Eggs are common carriers of foodborne bacteria, including salmonella, campylobacter. listeria and staphylococcus.

The USDA estimates that Salmonella alone accounts for 1.3 million U.S. illnesses and 500 deaths annually.

Eggs contain saturated fat and cholesterol, key factors in incidents of heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes. They are a common cause of allergies in children.

Waste from millions of egg-laying hens ends up in waterways, rendering vast areas unsuited for recreation or water supply.

The good news for compassionate, health-conscious, eco-friendly consumers is that our local supermarket offers a number of delicious egg substitutes and egg-free food products. Entering “egg-free” in a search engine returns tons of recipes.

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People can call 420-5593 for free garage sale kits, which include bright yellow street signs, labels for pricing items, and a booklet of helpful tips.

It means a lot to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, but it means even more to put a stranger in a pair of brand new kicks. And that’s essentially what Merrill Lehrer, the new owner of Aptos Shoes & Apparel, did when she helped donate 100 pairs of Naot shoes to the Walnut Avenue Women’s Center on Friday, Sept. 18.

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The next seven weeks will NOT be a favorable time to fool around with psychic vampires and charismatic jerks.

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TAURUS Apr20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May20 You may have seen websites that offer practical tips on how to improve your mastery of lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little details. They tell you how to de-clutter your home, or how to keep baked goods from going stale, or why you should shop for shoes at night to get the best fit. I recently came across a humorous site that provides the opposite: bad life tips. For instance, it suggests that you make job interviews less stressful by only applying for jobs you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want. Put your laptop in cold water to prevent overheating. To save time, brush your teeth while you eat. In the two sets of examples Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just given, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to tell the difference between which tips are trustworthy and which arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. But in the coming days, you might find it more challenging to distinguish between the good advice and bad advice youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll receive. Be very discerning.

GEMINI May21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June20 On a windy afternoon last spring I was walking through a quiet neighborhood in Berkeley. In one yard there was a garden plot filled with the young green stems of as-yet unidentifiable plants. Anchored in their midst was a small handwritten sign. Its message seemed to be directed not at passers-by like me but at the sprouts themselves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Grow faster, you little bastards!â&#x20AC;? the sign saidâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as if the blooming things might be bullied into ripening. I hope youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re smart enough not to make similar demands on yourself and those you care about, Gemini. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not even necessary. I suspect that everything in your life will just naturally grow with vigor in the coming weeks.

CANCER Jun21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jul22 â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am rooted, but I flow,â&#x20AC;? wrote Virginia Woolf in her novel The Waves. That paradoxical image reminds me of you right now. You are as grounded as a tree and as fluid as a river. Your foundation is deep and strong, even as you are resilient in your ability to adapt to changing circumstances. This is your birthright as a Cancerian! Enjoy and use the blessings it confers. (P.S. If for some strange reason youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not experiencing an exquisite version of what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve described, there must be some obstacle you are mistakenly tolerating. Get rid of it.)

LE0 Jul23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug22 Should I offer my congratulations? You have corralled a gorgeous mess of problems that are more interesting and provocative than everyone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unclear how long this odd good fortune will last, however. So I suggest you act decisively to take maximum advantage of the opportunities that your dilemmas have cracked open. If anyone can turn the heartache of misplaced energy into practical wisdom, you can. If anyone can harness chaos to drum up new assets, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s you. Is it possible to be both cunning and conscientious, both strategic and ethical? For you right now, I think it is.

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Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s say you have walked along the same path or driven down the same road a thousand times. Then, one day, as you repeat your familiar route, a certain object or scene snags your attention for the first time. Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a small fountain or a statue of the Buddhist goddess Guanyin or a wall with graffiti that says â&#x20AC;&#x153;Crap happens, but so does magic.â&#x20AC;? It has always been there. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been subconsciously aware of it. But at this moment, for unknown reasons, it finally arrives in your conscious

mind. I believe this is an apt metaphor for your life in the next week. More than once, you will suddenly tune in to facts, situations, or influences that had previously been invisible to you. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good thing! But it might initially bring a jolt.

LIBRA Sep23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct 22 The 20th centuryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most influential artist may have been Pablo Picasso. He created thousands of paintings, and was still churning them out when he was 91 years old.

A journalist asked him which one was his favorite. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The next one,â&#x20AC;? he said. I suggest you adopt a similar attitude in the coming weeks, Libra. What you did in the past is irrelevant. You should neither depend on nor be weighed down by anything that has come before. For now, all that matters are the accomplishments and adventures that lie ahead of you.

SCORPIO Oct23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov21 A windbreak is a line of stout trees or thick bushes that provides shelter from the wind. I think you need a metaphorical version: someone or something to shield you from a relentless force that has been putting pressure on you; a buffer zone or protected haven where you can take refuge from a stressful barrage that has been hampering your ability to act with clarity and grace.

Do you know what you will have to do to get it? Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your battle cry: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I need sanctuary! I deserve sanctuary!â&#x20AC;?

SAGITTARIUS Nov22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec21 Your fellow Sagittarian Walt Disney accomplished a lot. He was a pioneer in the art of animation and made movies that won numerous Academy Awards. He built theme parks, created an entertainment empire and amassed fantastic wealth. Why was he so successful? In part because he had high standards, worked hard and harbored an obsessive devotion to his quirky vision. If you aspire to cultivate any of those qualities, now is a favorable time to raise your mastery to the next level.

Disney had one other trait you might consider working on: He liked to play the game of life by his own rules. For example, his favorite breakfast was doughnuts dipped in Scotch whisky. What would be your equivalent?

CAPRICORN Dec22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan19 October is Fix the Fundamentals Month. It will be a favorable time to substitute good habits for bad habits.

You will attract lucky breaks and practical blessings as you work to transform overwrought compulsions into rigorous passions. You will thrive as you seek to discover the holy yearning thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hidden at the root of devitalizing addictions. To get started, instigate freewheeling experiments that will propel you out of your sticky rut and in the direction of a percolating groove.

AQUARIUS Jan20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb18 Have you made your travel plans yet? Have you plotted your escape? I hope you will hightail it to a festive playground where some of your inhibitions will shrink, or else journey to a holy spot where your spiritual yearnings will ripen. What would be even better is if you made a pilgrimage to a place that satisfied both of those agendasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;filled up your senses with novel enticements and fed your hunger for transcendent insights. Off you go, Aquarius! Why arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you already on your way? If you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t manage a real getaway in the near future, please at least stage a jailbreak for your imagination.

PISCES Feb19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Mar20 Pablo Nerudaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Book of Questions consists entirely of 316 questions. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of those rare texts that makes no assertions and draws no conclusions. In this spirit, and in honor of the sphinx-like phase youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re now passing through, I offer you six pertinent riddles: 1. What is the most important thing you have never done? 2. How could you play a joke on your fears? 3. Identify the people in your life who have made you real to yourself. 4. Name a good old thing you would have to give up in order to get a great new thing. 5. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the one feeling you want to feel more than any other in the next three years? 6. What inspires you to love?

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By Datta Khalsa, Broker As the saying goes, the only constant in the world is change. The sustained expansion we have seen over the past few years has started to slow, accompanied by several other factors that have given rise to a different kind of housing market in Santa Cruz County. Frank Costanza would call it “the Market for the Rest of Us.” While we still see occasional multiple offers and overbids, more properties are staying on the MLS a little longer now. This is partly because sellers are still pricing their homes ahead of the curve while prices have begun to flatten, giving buyers more time to get out and see the inventory before it gets snapped up.

On top of that, corrections to the Dow and NASDAQ have depleted the number of stock option millionaire all-cash buyers competing with the mere mortals needing loans, so increasing numbers of the buyers emerging into the daylight now are folks who couldn’t compete in faster times.

This includes buyers with credit card debt, student loans, or short sales and foreclosures not yet off their record, and lenders are scrambling to make loans accessible to this formerly neglected segment. We are also seeing a new wave of former tenants whose rents have soared entering the market as entry-level homebuyers when they figure out that it can sometimes be cheaper to own than to rent.

As a backdrop to all of this, the local economy is enjoying a continued influx of employers like Amazon and Pinterest bringing new dollars into the housing market, while the list of local successful startups continues to grow. The engine powering this market has been termed by some as the Blender Economy, with new companies coming in the top as more traditional companies look at costs that could lead them to reduce workforces or move to cheaper markets.

It stands to reason that the Market for the Rest of Us will continue to thrive as long as there are more innovators coming in at the top of the blender than companies leaving at the bottom. All of us in the middle will keep happily whirling around in the meantime.

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Leading the charge of latecomers into this new market are move-up buyers, fueled by a perfect storm of conditions: low interest rates free them up to leave their low-rate mortgage on their current home, and equity accumulated through appreciation gives them enough money for a down payment.

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to recreation—national monument status is not needed.

— SANDY BARON

Coast Dairies is a small piece of true wilderness situated very close to large population centers. What makes it wilderness are the mountain lions, badgers and grey foxes that will not stay in areas of high use. If they are displaced, they may not be able to find other suitable habitat.

The land is already protected in perpetuity against any development other than recreation. It is not suitable for the kind of visitation national monuments get. The BLM will develop a management plan and open it

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BLANK SLATE The Kanamba Primary School in Uganda’s Kasese District has overcrowded classrooms with few chairs or supplies, a constant problem. PHOTO: ARDY RAGHIAN

Family Matter A close look at our next possible sister city

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he small African town of Kasese is six hours from the Ugandan capital of Kampala, most of it down bumpy dirt stretch roads. On the drive, scenery morphs from condensed buildings and heaps of scattered trash into a mountainous lush green countryside.

As the drive nears its end, the mayor’s bodyguard, who’s sitting in front of me and has an AK-47 hanging from his arm, turns and says, “this is the real Africa. Uganda is the pearl, and Kasese is the shimmer.”

Thirteen Santa Cruz delegates, myself included, visited Kasese in late August for seven days to look at the viability of establishing a

sister city relationship between the Ugandan municipality and the city of Santa Cruz. Such relationships provide cultural, economic, and educational exchanges for the purpose of “letting the people themselves give expression of a common desire for friendship, goodwill and cooperation for a better world for all.” Those were the words of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Sister Cities International’s founder. Since 1956, the nationwide nonprofit has formed over 2,000 partnerships in 145 countries. Depending on an upcoming vote, the Kasese Municipality could be Santa Cruz’s sixth sister city.

In the Kasese District, barefoot

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They sell meats, produce and international products like CocaCola.

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“The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.” That isn’t from a climatologist, or even former Vice President Al Gore.

It’s from Pope Francis’ recent encyclical on the environment. Released in June, the open letter to clergy is a thrilling read. Straight-talking and earnest, this latest addition to the canon of Roman Catholic literature has managed to spell out the critical dangers facing the planet while appealing to the global community, regardless of faith, to act.

The transformative power of the pope’s words has begun sinking in around Santa Cruz County, with the announcement that the Progressive Christian Forum will hold an event on Thursday, Oct. 1 to discuss the pope’s words and the message behind them.

“The group has decided to focus its attention on climate change from a moral, religious, spiritual perspective,” event organizer Robert Strayer tells GT via email.

“This Community Forum builds on the pope's encyclical and his visit to the United States. So, we are hoping to leverage the pope's message to stimulate a conversation locally about this issue.”

The event will be at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 1 at Resurrection Catholic Church in Aptos.

Panelists include experts like Andrew Szasz, the chair of UCSC’s Environmental Studies Department, who is also the co-editor and contributor to the recent report, How the World’s Religions are Responding to Climate Change.

Pope Francis has called on the global community to see that where one suffers, we all do, and that the way we live our lives impacts future generations.

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over, and there isn’t a building in sight larger than a Victorian house in Santa Cruz. At 1,000 square miles, the Kasese District, which has 800,000 residents, is analogous to an expansive large county. This municipality, with a population of 120,000, is like the county seat.

The majority of residents have no electricity or water in their homes, and the municipality plans to build 2.5 miles of clean water pipes by the end of the year. Most people currently have to walk several miles for clean water. “We have problems with everything here,” Kasese Mayor Godfrey Kabbyanga says.

The region’s classrooms are overcrowded and underfunded.

The area also has many dangerous diseases like typhoid and bilharzia.

To put it bluntly, as Kabbyanga told me, “we waste a lot of time here burying people.”

Eighty percent of people between ages 18 and 30 completed primary education. Only 10 percent are employed, and a lack of white-collar jobs leaves most of college graduates with jobs in carpentry, small grocery

students to Kasese, but she and the departments are still working out the details of such an exchange.

“They don’t want just charitable handouts,” Pollard, also a delegate who went on the recent trip, says of the Ugandan people. “What they need most now is to learn how to develop entrepreneurship and how to develop local businesses to create many more local jobs.”

The sister city committee will vote on whether or not to make Kasese its Sister City, probably on Monday, Nov. 9, Pollard says. If the committee votes yes, the issue will go before the Santa Cruz City Council.

The idea for a sister city relationship first began when Godfrey Kasozi, the director of the Center for Environment Technology and Rural Development (CETRUD) in Kasese, attended UCSC for a sixmonth program at the university’s Center for Agroecology in 1999.

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stores or construction. Most women in the district as a whole marry around the age of 13 and abandon their education, leading officials to denounce early marriages.

Through exchanges, community members both here and in Kasese hope that Santa Cruz could help the Ugandan municipality develop.

“Our municipality is just starting to grow. What we need most is not necessarily money, but knowledge,” says Allan Tusiime, student president at the Bugema University in Kasese.

Mayor Kabbyanga hopes that a Sister City relationship would bring professional exchanges, where doctors, businessmen and other experts can share knowledge to help improve the community.

Additionally, he says Kasese can share cultural arts with Santa Cruz, and give students an understanding of the way of life 9,306 miles away.

“We don’t want to reinvent the wheel here,” he says. “We want to learn from Santa Cruz.”

Peggy Pollard, chair of the Santa Cruz Sister City Committee, would love to see UCSC and Cabrillo College send engineering and sustainability

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“If you want to get everyone’s attention, turn off everyone’s water in the middle of the water rush hour,” says Steve Leonard, operations director for the the Santa Cruz Water Department. “It’s one of those things you notice very quickly.”

Leonard says the problem affected about 264 customers and lasted about 18 minutes—long enough for the department to get 60 upset phone calls about the incident.

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Operators didn’t realize they hadn’t opened those valves yet. Additionally, a worker accidentally closed a fourth valve. After the incident was over, water officials communicated with the State Department of Health, which

determined that the city had done everything they could to resolve the problem.

“It was a quick jump in the morning to get us going,” Leonard says, “but it was resolved pretty quickly.”

GOAT STANDARD Santa Cruz Biotechnology and local veterinarians denied allegations of animal welfare violations at a hearing this summer, according to a report this week from BuzzFeed News.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has found more than a dozen alleged violations against the company,

which produces antibodies used in labs and has offices on Delaware Avenue in Santa Cruz. The alleged violations, filed in three complaints beginning in 2012, include multiple counts of goats suffering due to lack of veterinary care. A USDA inspector also told a judge that Santa Cruz Biotech had hidden a goat barn from the department.

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ALLOW HIM TO BE FRANK Pope Francis, the fourth most powerful person in the world according to Forbes, talks to President Barack Obama, the second. The two have been supporters of fighting climate change.

FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE <11 the event, adds that if humans continue burning fossil fuels at this rate, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will triple, compared to what it was before we started burning fossil fuels. That amount of carbon dioxide has not been seen in the earth’s atmosphere in 30 million years.

The pope is not one to mince words when it comes to the climate or anything else. This is the same pope who famously said, “Who am I to judge?” when asked about gay clergy. When it comes to environmental degradation and climate change, the pontiff knows exactly who to blame: us.

Reading at times like a laundry list of the Earth’s ills, the encyclical touches on most, if not all, pressing environmental

problems we face today: climate change, deforestation, overfishing, loss of biodiversity, lack of clean and sustainable water sources, exploitation of delicate ecosystems, pollution of the marine environment, and destruction of the coral reefs.

Pope Francis, who in September became the first pope ever to address the U.S. Congress, has been heralded in liberal and progressive circles. The more conservative wing of America’s Catholic community, meanwhile, has shown disdain for his criticism of capitalism and what they consider his overreach into political issues.

Pope Francis would be the first to say, though, that he is not “liberal,” and that his teachings are no different from that of his predecessors and Church doctrine.

Francis is by no means the first to

pontificate about the environment and humanity’s responsibility to the planet. He recounts in his encyclical that in 1971, Pope Paul VI spoke to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations about the potential for an “ecological catastrophe under the effective explosion of industrial civilization.” He stressed “the urgent need for a radical change in the conduct of humanity.”

Pope Francis’ predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, also spoke about the danger climate change poses to the planet and its people. The Association of American Catholic Bishops were so alarmed that they stepped into action, establishing an army of 24 climate ambassadors to develop presentations based on the pope’s teachings and share them with Catholic congregations throughout the country.

Szasz, during his research into various religions’ responses to climate change, spoke with one of the ambassadors, a practicing Catholic and atmospheric scientist. Szasz says the reception the climate ambassador got from the priests he approached was mixed. Some priests welcomed the presentation, while others denied him the opportunity to present.

“What I learned is whatever the Pope says is important, but how it filters down into the grassroots of the churches [is] uncertain,” Szasz says.

Szasz also found there was a divide in the American Catholic community over concerns about climate change. Of those surveyed, 43 percent of Hispanic Catholics said they were “very concerned” about climate change, compared to 17 percent of white Catholics.

The distinction is compelling, given the changing face of the church. Hispanics account for 71 percent of the growth of the Catholic population in the United States since 1960, according to a report released last year. That increasing diversity is not yet reflected in church leadership. Hispanic Catholic congregations continue to grow, but only 10 percent of active bishops in the United States—and 7.5 percent of priests— identify as Hispanic or Latino, according to the New York Times.

The first pope from Latin America, Francis was born in Argentina and served in the church during times of tremendous economic and social upheaval in that country. Compared to his predecessors, he also has displayed greater acceptance of “liberation theology,” an interpretation of Christian doctrine that puts the poor at its center and believes the church has a duty to act on issues of social justice.

If only in terms of his messaging, Francis has also made waves on climate change.

Kiehl, the former NOAA scientist, stresses that this is a topic that cannot be ignored.

“This is the ethical dimension of this issue,” Kiehl says. “We cannot make this decision for future generations. We cannot condemn them to live in that sort of environment.”

The Community Forum on Pope Francis Encyclical and Visit will be at 7:30 p.m on Thursday, Oct. 1, at Resurrection Catholic Church, located at 7600 Soquel Drive in Aptos. Panelists include Jeffrey Kiehl, Andrew Szasz and Brother Keith Warner, a Franciscan friar with a Ph.D. in environmental studies. Admission is free.

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CETRUD focuses on mitigating health and poverty issues throughout the Kasese District through programs that educate people about sustainable agriculture techniques and sponsorship programs for abandoned children.

One of Kasoziâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goals is to build a processing plant for coffee, Ugandaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top export, by the end of 2016 to reel in some much-needed funds.

Reneeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Garden, a Felton garden seed company, has been sending Kasese and Kasozi thousands of free seeds, ranging from tomatoes and lettuce to flowers. Community members, including Pollard, have also helped fundraise for CETRUD and to bring clean water to the district. In March, the Santa Cruz Sunrise Rotary raised money to build pipes bringing clean water to 800 people in Lhuhuwahwa village, one of the other communities in the Kasese District.

If the sister city relationship is approved, Pollard expects annual or bi-annual delegation exchanges, where both communities send students, artists, community leaders, and business experts.

Santa Cruz has five current sister citiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Shingu, Japan; Alushta, Crimea; Sestri Levante, Italy; Jinotepe, Nicaragua, and Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. Pollard says only Shingu and Alushta have had a constant flow of exchanges of teachers, students, businesses, and local government leaders with Santa Cruz. She attributes the lack of exchanges in some communities to an absence of motivation by leaders, something she says wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be an issue with Kasese.

Tyler Wilson, a recent graduate of CSU Monterey Bay and representative for the local chapter of the American Red Cross, says he had to think hard about what Uganda could bring to Santa Cruz.

He suggests that Kasese could help Santa Cruzans gain a new outlook on life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I learned that I live a very luxurious life, and that not everyone is that privileged,â&#x20AC;? Wilson says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I took away that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more to life than just material stuff, that you can still be happy even living in huts.â&#x20AC;?

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CEO, Fullpower Technologies, Inc. A pioneer in software and wearables who founded four successful technology companies, including software powerhouse Borland in the 1980s, Philippe Kahn is now recognized as the inventor of the cameraphone. Philippeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s photo from the birth of his daughter, taken and instantly shared on 1\UL PZ [OL Ă&#x201E;YZ[ RUV^U W\ISPJS` [YHUZTP[[LK HUK shared camera-phone picture. His company Fullpower created the MotionX 24/7 wearable technology platform that powers solutions by Nike, Jawbone and others. He is also the inventor of 100 technology patents covering wearables & IoT, eyewear, smartphones, mobile, imaging, wireless, synchronization and TLKPJHS [LJOUVSVNPLZ /L PZ Ă&#x2026;\LU[ PU SHUN\HNLZ HUK ILZPKLZ working passionately at Fullpower, spends time with his family, plays classical music and improvisational jazz, sails, surfs and skis in the backcountry.

JEREMIAH OWYANG Founder, Crowd Companies

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Startup Liason OfďŹ cer, Rackspace As Futurist for Rackspace, the leading Managed Cloud Computing Company, Scoble travels the world looking for whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening on the bleeding edge of technology for Rackspace.

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Founder, iSocialFanz LLC Brian is a leading voice of the millennial generation in digital media. He has 10+ years experience managing, deploying and training enterprises and small businesses on cyber security, community management, collaboration, digital marketing, video conferencing and social business. As a technology and social media strategist, Brianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presented at numerous technology conferences, as well as quarterly presentations for the Federal Government Joint *OPLMZ VM :[HÉ&#x2C6; HUK VU ZP[L PU 0YHX HUK (MNOHUPZ[HU MVY [OL <UP[LK States Army. His passion for change and people is evident as he delivers keynotes on topics ranging from employee advocacy and social selling to personal branding. He was recently awarded the Top 25 Social Business Leaders of 2014 by IBM & The Economist Intelligence Unit.

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TODD WEAVER Founder, Purism

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SCOTT SCHREIMANN CEO, Samepage

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ANYA AND THE GETDOWN

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PERFORMERS TWO NIGHTS OF MUSIC FLAMMY MARCIANO

This San Jose rapper brings the ruckus.

Stomping on propulsive beats, his tweaked bars shine with gleeful punchlines followed by loony ad-libs. Flammy shines when he gets metaphorical, like when he compares his smoothness to lotion. (JF)

GRACE LOVE & THE TRUE LOVES

Grace Love and the True Loves is an original 9-piece soul sensation from Seattle, Wash.

On vocals, Grace Love is Seattleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shining jewel of grit, beauty and powerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;think Etta James and Betty Wright meet Mahalia 1HJRZVU )HJRLK I` [OL ;Y\L 3V]LZ OLY ]VJHSZ Ă&#x2026;VH[ LÉ&#x2C6;VY[SLZZS` over kickinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; back beats, smart horns, syncopated rhythms and sweet B-3 color. (NV)

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@VVKVV 7HYR HUK JVTWHU` OH]L ILLU Ă&#x2026;VH[PUN around the Bay Area for a couple years now, playing Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bright, guitar-drenched indie pop.

Park and his brother are currently in the process of recording their third LP, a follow-up to last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Soon Away on Carpark Records. (SL)

JEAN BAUDIN

Known for his unique, dark, melodic compositions and versatile technique, Jean Baudin is one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most highly recognizable bass playersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; known for his phenomenal tapping, slapping and Ă&#x201E;UNLYZ[`SL IHZZ WSH`PUN HZ ^LSS HZ OPZ JYLH[P]L \ZL VM LÉ&#x2C6;LJ[ WLKHSZ 5=

JULIUS PAPP

Julius Pappâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dance music roots lie in the disco of the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s and the new wave of the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s. Now based in San Francisco, he was born and raised in Montreal, and got tuned into dance music through his home townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ă&#x2026;V\YPZOPUN JS\I ZJLUL HUK KP]LYZL YHKPV broadcasts. He started collecting vinyl records in the mid â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s and has been spinning since 1985. (NV)

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One of the three greatest calypsonians out of Trinidad and Tobago still performing, Lord Superior is considered by many to be an international treasure. His breezy, lilting island grooves are beloved in Trinidad and throughout the Caribbean, New York City, Canada and London. (NV)

LUCID OPTICS

Lucid Optics is a San Jose-based rapper, singer and producer. With roots in live music, he lays out his psychedelic worldview in a Z[PS[LK Ă&#x2026;V^ V]LY ZHTWSL SLZZ ILH[Z /L ^YV[L lyrics instead of doing homework in high ZJOVVS HUK ^LU[ VU OPZ Ă&#x201E;YZ[ [V\Y PU H [^V KVVY sedan. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your quintessential DIY rap story. (JF)

MITCHELL LUJAN

Born and raised in San Jose, singerZVUN^YP[LY 4P[JOLSS 3\QHU KYH^Z PUĂ&#x2026;\LUJL from old souls and modern R&B artists, but his musical dynamism lands him in the alternative spectrum. Mitchell has performed at numerous local venues, including Slimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in San Francisco and the SLG Art Boutiki in San Jose. His upcoming EP Subject to Change, is slated for late 2015. (NV)

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PAT HULL

Connecticut-born Patt Hull is currently based out of Chico. His lyrically and vocally charged songwriting is â&#x20AC;&#x153;gently reinventing the genre, rather than obeying its exhausted axioms,â&#x20AC;? according to Deli Magazine /PZ SH[LZ[ LÉ&#x2C6;VY[ In the Yellow Room, was recorded live and engineered by Peter Rodocker at Yellow Room Recording, in Portland. (NV)

SHERIFF RAMB

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Compared to his previous work, Ramb says his new work focuses â&#x20AC;&#x153;more on layers, textures of sound and leaving certain aspects of the music completely up to chance.â&#x20AC;? (NV)

STEELY NASH

Texas-born Steely Nash puts her powerful voice to use on electro-tinged soul jams, where â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s girl group harmonies abound.

She is currently working on her Paper Doll EP and can be found playing shows in SoFA and around the Bay. (SL)

SUENATRON

Brothers Raul and Hernan â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Mexiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Hernandez began making music together in order to tell of their experiences as children growing up in San Jose. They have created a fresh, dancible take VU J\TIPH HUK 5VY[L|V PUĂ&#x2026;\LUJLK WVW 5=

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Survival Guide is Emily Whitehurstâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s indieelectro pop project. She got her start playing in the well-known Petaluma punk band, Tsunami Bomb. Those early punk days can still be heard in her strong vocals. However, these days now sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more about fuzzy synths and grinding guitars. Her latest LP, Way to Go was released in May. (SL)

SWEET HAYAH

Emerging from the multicultural and diverse heart of the Silicon Valley, Sweet HayaH is truly a product of its environment. The band originally emerged 2011 and has quickly become as a regular on in the Bay Area scene. (NV)

The roots of this Los Angeles-based trio burrow in post-millennial punk, but their growth incorporates supersonic â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s rock [OH[ Ă&#x201E;YZ[ PUZWPYLK [OLT ;OL IHUK PU[LNYH[LZ nuance and dynamic momentum while V^UPUN [OLPY ]VSJHUPJ YPÉ&#x2C6;Z THZZP]L TLSVKPLZ and provocative lyrical stances. (JF)

WESTACY

An eight member collective out of San Jose, Westacy consists of Ziggy, RJxV, Thatfool AL, Yates, M.Lawley, C-Note, Mac Bastard and Keylow B. Characterizing the memberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ]HYPV\Z V\[W\[ PZ KPÉ&#x2030;J\S[ I\[ [OL JYL^ TVZ[S` [YHÉ&#x2030;JZ PU JOPSSLK V\[ IV[[VT OLH]` ILH[Z though the rhymes come thick and fast. Two members, Yates and Ziggy, recently dropped new LPs. (SL)

WOOSHAY

Starting in 2013 with no experience in music at all, this DJ duo started composing EDM and have been making the rounds on the Bay Area club circuit with their bouncy, undulating bass, skittering hi hats, and disembodied wailing vocals. Their skipping synthy sounds opened for Nelly when he came to town. (JF)

X RATED FUNK SQUAD

This quartet unleashes rambling, interstellar jams that meld face-melting solos, shimmying drum Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bass grooves, and the ambient electric oddness emanating from their â&#x20AC;&#x153;space IV_ š :VHYPUN MYVT VUL PTTLYZP]L YPÉ&#x2C6; [V [OL next, their compositions tower and sway, bulging with force that rattles your jawbone. May the funk be with you. (JF)

YOUNG GULLY

Young Gully is wide awake. A eyewitness to gang/police violence, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not content to rap aimlessly, plumbing deep into his past and innermost emotions to unearth undeniable truths that are as potent as they are seamlessly strung together. Laced with NY\É&#x2C6; JYLKPIPSP[` OPZ Ă&#x2026;V^Z YVSSPJR HUK I\JR IL[^LLU L_WHUZP]L breath-catching hooks. (JF)

ZIGGY

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This driving pop-punk trio deals mostly in TVVK` N\P[HY YPÉ&#x2C6;Z NHSSVWPUN KY\TZ HUK [OL failed romantic angst of lead vocalist/guitarist Brandon Leland that feels like a spirited progression from the early aughts, the golden days of their crossover genre. (JF)

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San Francisco DJ and producer Erik Wilson, a.k.a. Natural Curves, builds his skeletal tracks and sets out of odd bits of voices, synths and ILH[Z¡JVUZ[Y\J[PUN VÉ&#x2C6;ILH[ JVU[YHW[PVUZ [OH[ still groove. Genres blur in these dreamy and enfolding soundscapes. (SL)

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for example, estimates that half of her annual income comes from Open Studios. A watercolorist who paints Santa Cruz scenery and other landscapes, Gabrielle sells more originals during Open Studios than she does the rest of the year.

“I don’t really lean on the galleries for my income,” she says, “I lean on Open Studios. It’s a very important part of my income.”

“A core value of ours is to help those artists who want to professionalize and expand their businesses,” says Michelle Williams, executive director of the Arts Council Santa Cruz County. “We want to teach artists how to thrive, and we do everything within our resources to support them in that way.”

The Arts Council provides infrastructure and promotion for the event so the artists can focus on getting their studios ready for the public. In the weeks leading up to it, Open Studios manager Ann Ostermann has her hands full keeping the artists calm.

“It’s my job to get them to breathe,” she says. “I tell them to get down to basics: decide what they want to show the public about their art, put it out there, and have fun.”

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ith the fifth most dense artist population in the country—behind San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Santa Fe—Santa Cruz is a hotbed for creative talent. Several local venues, including Tannery Arts Center, Artisans Gallery, R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz Art League, Many Hands Gallery, Pajaro Valley Arts Council Gallery, and First Friday venues provide space for local artists to show and sell their creations. But the number of local artists we have far outnumbers the space available. This is where Open Studios comes in.

For three weekends in October, artists from Watsonville to Davenport open up their workspaces and invite the public in. Open Studios gives the participating artists—whether fulltime or weekend warriors—a chance to get their work in front of people, connect with their peers, network with the extended community of art appreciators and collectors, and make some money. This year—the event’s 30th anniversary—there are 288 artists participating. For some of them, Open Studios brings in a significant portion of their annual income.

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By enabling local artists to meet the public in their own element, Open Studios offers a unique opportunity for art lovers to connect not just with a piece of art, but with the artist, the process, and story behind it.

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THE GREAT EQUALIZER Artist Charles Prentiss, who spent 29 years as curator at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, has participated in Open Studios for the last 15 years. Prentiss lives in a cohousing community in La Selva Beach with three families who all designed their own houses in 1979.

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A number of painters participate in Open Studios, but there are also guitar makers, sculptors, furniture makers, jewelry makers, bookmakers, ceramicists, glass artists, printmakers, street artists, tile artists, photographers, toy makers, and more. This diversity of styles is one of the things that makes Open Studios so special. While some mediums—such as handcrafted furniture and guitars—don’t easily lend themselves to gallery shows, Open Studios enables the artists and their creations to stay put and have art lovers come to them.

Open Studios also demystifies the art-making process and spotlights the fact that there are fine artists all around us. It’s the great equalizer of the local art scene, bringing to the foreground the abundance of creative people in our community, from emerging artists and hobbyists, to retired professionals and full-time artists.

“People see that these are everyday people who just happen to express themselves artistically,” says Ostermann. “It makes them much more approachable. Open Studios brings art down to the human level so people see that these are just regular folks who happen to be really creative.”

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opens up his work space for people to see his paintings, which include landscapes, beach scenes, farm fields, plants, and still lifes. Some of his sweeping, colorful works are enormous, running several feet and beyond in length.

“Open Studios is a great opportunity to sell art,” he says, “and a great social time. You see all your friends, and patrons, and people that want to buy art.”

He explains that Open Studios is the one time of year when people in Santa Cruz County feel comfortable going out and looking at artists’ work, studios, and tools.

“They could probably do that any time of the year,” he says, “but Open Studios triggers it.”

Over the last three decades, Santa Cruz County’s Open Studios Art Tour has grown to be one of the most robust and longest-running in the country. Where other, volunteer-driven programs have been unable to maintain momentum, the local program has been going strong—and covering its costs. For the last 11 years, Open Studios has been managed by Ostermann, who Williams calls “the picture of grace under pressure.” Prentiss echoes the sentiment, saying one thing that makes Open Studios work so well is the people behind it.

“Ann keeps it fresh for everybody and makes it easy,” he says. “And she keeps it just loose enough for the artists.”

As with years past, organizers expect Open Studios visitors from throughout California and beyond.

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Every year, they field calls from around the state regarding Open Studios, and every year, they have people come in from the surrounding states, and as far away as New York.

This year, artists Freya Larson and Rollo Baer, who create art as Larson Baer, have people flying in from Sweden for Open Studios. The couple, who started making art together in the 1960s and had a gallery in SoHo in the ’70s, now lives in a lively artist community with their children and grandchildren in Beach Flats.

They’ve participated in Santa Cruz Open Studios periodically since its inception.

The two collaborate on pieces inspired by the pre-Christian, indigenous art of Europe and 16th and 17th century Dutch portraiture.

Baer sculpts reclaimed redwood boards and pieces into textured,

one-of-a-kind shapes, and Larson paints fantastic images combining muted colors and vibrant splashes onto the redwood forms. The process involves constant back-andforth between the two artists. The result is something extraordinary that pays tribute to ancient art and classical styles, introducing the aesthetics to new audiences. Over the years, they’ve fine-tuned their approach to working together.

“When we lived in New York, we attempted to work on the same painting at the same time,” says Larson. “We did it as conceptual work, and we got written up in the New York Times. But slowly, over the years, we’ve realized that he’s the sculptor and I’m the painter. It’s much easier.”

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Larson is trained in the European classical painting tradition, and Baer was raised in the Modernist sculptural tradition.

“We feel like we’ve synthesized sculpture and painting a little more thoroughly than anyone else has,” says Baer. “Or we’re in the process of it. It’s a real struggle. They’re quite different disciplines.”

Where Larson Baer reaches back to the earliest European art for creative inspiration, street artist Taylor Reinhold works on the cutting edge of urban art, creating large-scale, vibrant works that combine spray paint and acrylic paint. His primary focus these days is live-painting temporary walls at festivals.

When GT spoke with Reinhold, he had just returned from Burning Man, where he and several other members of his Made Fresh Crew (MFC), a collective of local artists, musicians, photographers, skateboarders, performers, and more, created a 50-foot mural at Center Camp. They were on their way to do a three-day live painting project at the Symbiosis Gathering in Oakdale, California.

Reinhold sees Open Studios as a great opportunity for people to see creative styles that they might not otherwise encounter.

At his home workspace, which is in a renovated barn in the Soquel hills, Reinhold will have paintings, apparel, lasercut wood, and art toys, all made

by MFC. There will also be muralists collaborating on a wall and an interactive element where visitors can learn to create art with spray paint.

“Anyone can come and spray paint, and learn to use the can,” he says.

“It’s an interactive studio space for people to come and see a different side of art that they might not have been exposed to, or they might not understand.”

As a muralist working at different sites most of the year, Reinhold, who is the son of Annie Morhauser of Annieglass, appreciates the opportunity Open Studios provides to clean his space, organize his work, get grounded, and show his creations. At his first Open Studios last year, he was surprised and pleased by the turnout.

“You get a lot of response from the community,” he says. “People who have seen your stuff talk to their friends and it just spreads like wildfire. I live pretty far up in the mountains, in probably one of the

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But people from three or four hours away come to Santa Cruz just to check out the art.â&#x20AC;?

MORE OPEN For the last 29 years, the Santa Cruz Open Studios Art Tour has been payto-playâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to find out where all the artists were, one needed to buy the artist guide. This year, organizers are taking a dramatically different route and giving the guide away for free. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We actively decided to focus on the open part of Open Studios,â&#x20AC;? says Williams, Arts Council executive director.

The programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old business model, which involved selling a $20 guide, worked for a while, but over the past several years, guide sales have been declining by 20 percent each year.

The declining sales prompted the Arts Council to reevaluate how the program could support itself.

Reinhold says making the guide free and accessible is â&#x20AC;&#x153;the best call they could have made.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even know about Open Studios because of the cost,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s free and available to anybody, there are way more possibilities for people to explore and check it out. Art should be free, and to learn about art should be free, so why are we going to put a price on that?â&#x20AC;?

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new model, Open Studios shakes off any sense of elitism that may have surrounded the program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do think that before, there was an implicit message that [Open Studios] is for people who want to go out and buy art,â&#x20AC;? says Ostermann. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is not just about you going out and buying art. If you want to, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great, you do have the opportunity to do that, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the reason weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing this.â&#x20AC;?

Williams adds that with the abundance and diversity of artists, Open Studios is now truly a community-wide event, with â&#x20AC;&#x153;every possible, imaginable artistic discipline.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is something for everyone on this tour,â&#x20AC;? she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and now, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open to everybody. There are so many ways to access this and make it your own.â&#x20AC;?

The Open Studios Art Tour runs the first three weekends in October. For a preview, visit the Open Studios Preview at the Art League. Guides are available in this issue of Good Times, through the Open Studios website, and for $5 in locations around the county. The Open Studios Art Tour app is available for $4.99 through itunes and Google Drive. Using a pay-whatyou-want-model, event organizers ask that those who are impressed with the tour consider making a donation to help cover the costs.

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Open Studios Preview – Santa Cruz Art League and R. Blitzer Gallery 526 Broadway and 2801 Mission St Before you explore all corners of this most creative of counties, get a preview of what’s in store. The Art League will be open from 11am-9pm and the Blitzer will be open from 5pm-9pm. Plan to plan accordingly.

First Friday is many things; it’s an engaging community social event, it’s a chance to meet friends, an opportunity to explore new venues, shops and even neighborhoods and no one will dispute, it’s a great party. And then there is the art. Some months more than others, we are reminded that it is a showcase for the considerable wealth of artistic talent we enjoy here in our town. This month the talent is almost unbelievable.

Yet, some months we are reminded that it is a showcase for the considerable wealth of artistic talent we enjoy here in our town. This month the talent is almost unbelievable.

Shmuel Thaler, R.R. Jones, Meg Venter, Glenn Carter, Lori Penner, Whitney Wirtz, Raymond Saunders and Michele Giulvezan-Tanner are just a few of the artists whose work will be on display around town this Friday evening. And that doesn’t even take into account the Open Studios Preview Exhibits at the Art League and the r. blitzer gallery.

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As he prepares for a 25th Open Studios season and retires from painting his striking Santa Cruz murals, James Aschbacher is re-inventing his art BY CHRISTINA WATERS

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hough he’s best known now as Santa Cruz’s most popular muralist, James Aschbacher once wrote a column for Magic Magazine.

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graders from around the county— have sprung up everywhere, 18 in all. Working with private clients and city partners, Aschbacher has created wall-sized fantasies populated by his whimsical flying fish, twirling birds and cats, and fanciful folk with wild hair. Retiring this year from the

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With cans of spray paint and hand-cut stencils, he began feeling his way into a style. “I did 200 paintings that way, spray paint through stencils on illustration board. I was obsessed,” he admits. “I installed lights in the backyard so I could work late into the night.”

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west in 1975 with a girlfriend who was attending UCSC. “I saw the palm trees and I loved it immediately.”

Supporting himself with a mailorder business in illustrated and vintage children’s books, the future painter began to expand his valuable collection of comics. “I went to flea markets,” he recalls. “And that’s where I met Joe Ferrara. We were both go-getters, and so in 1978 we opened Atlantis Fantasyworld on Pacific Avenue.”

Aschbacher recalls the scene as “fun, weird, wild times. We handled some Star Trek stuff, and when Star Wars opened six months later, sci-fi came out of the closet. We were the first with TSR role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons.”

After the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, Aschbacher retired from the comics scene and started experimenting with art. “I had all these ideas, but no skill,” he says with a chuckle. “I never took an art class. I had to start at the very beginning.”

Having grown up working in construction with his dad, Aschbacher was no stranger to woodshops. With cans of spray paint and hand-cut stencils, he began feeling his way into a style. “I did 200 paintings that way, spray paint through stencils on illustration board. I was obsessed,” he admits. “I installed lights in the backyard so I could work late into the night.”

The next breakthrough came when he started painting fanciful figures onto the stencils, each coated with hundreds of coats of sprayed color.

“Lisa’s mom gave me paint brushes one Christmas, so I started carving

in wood, then brushing paint into the carvings.” His familiar style was born. First a plywood base, then the painted board nailed onto the wood, and finally a border of incised and painted hieroglyphs.

“Paul Klee's quirky drawing gave me confidence that I didn’t have to have an academic style, I didn’t need perspective.”

Aschbacher entered his first Open Studios in 1995. “I've been doing it for 25 years,” he notes. And it has been very very good to him.

The size of each painting was originally determined by the sizes of the recycled scrap board. Only later did he make large foundations for the highly popular pieces, available at the annual Church Street Art Fair, at Bargetto, on Pasta Mike sauces, etc.

“Then I started getting galleries,” he says, including Many Hands in Santa Cruz and two in Chicago.

“Those were big for me, since my family was from that area.”

As the years went by, Aschbacher’s palette got brighter.

“I wasn’t brave enough at first.”

Color is now a central feature of his style, along with the hieroglyphs.

“Certain symbols—the circle, the cross, the star, the wave—are universal. And I like to alternate lines and solids. I’m a Libra, so I want balance.”

A devoted pizza and pasta chef, Aschbacher says he never tires of creating in his highly recognizable style. “It might bore other people, but not me, because I always love seeing how it will look.”

Do his smiling creatures reflect his own persona? “Absolutely. My mission is to make people smile.”

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LITERATURE for this creative project, and it bombed. I feel enraged.” I asked who she was enraged with, and she said, “Inspiration.” Well that’s like trying to punch a raindrop. The hippie in me says “create, create, create,” but the farmer’s daughter says, “don’t take out a loan to become a painter.”

Your book empowers people who have less time than they want, less money, less confidence, and scolds gatekeepers who preach that we can’t create unless conditions are right.

You can’t put it all on someone else, but I can imagine when you’re 21 years old and just got accepted into a prestigious fine arts program, you just want to go. They don’t have any money for you, so you get it however you can, and tell yourself you’re investing in your future. But my friend, Ann Patchett, wisely says, “if they don’t give you money, you didn’t really get in, they’re just letting you attend.” I try really hard to stay away from the word “racket.”

MAGIC SHOW Bookshop Santa Cruz will present an event with Elizabeth Gilbert, whose new book is ‘Big Magic: Creative Living

Beyond Fear,’ on Saturday, Oct. 10 at the Santa Cruz High School Theater.

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efore Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir Eat, Pray, Love hit the New York Times bestseller list like a tidal wave, her first book, Pilgrims, received a Pushcart Prize, and her third, The Last American Man, was nominated for the National Book Award. Her novel The Signature of All Things dazzled readers with a galloping adventure of botanical discovery. Her work reflects a spirited sense that curiosity is the key to a well-lived life, and her new book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear is no exception.

Gilbert and I share a fascination with the self-help genre, and we laugh about it during our phone conversation.

“People dance around it with Big Magic,” she says. “They go, ‘it’s sort of like a self-help book,’ worried I’ll be insulted. But I tell them, ‘Dude, it’s the definition of a self-help book.’” When we talk, I recognize the funny relatable voice that narrated Eat, Pray, Love.

Quenching as a cold beer on a hot day, it drives Big Magic, too.

I want to thank you for pulling creativity out of the clutches of that evil word, success.

ELIZABETH GILBERT: The Yankee pragmatist in me shares space with the airy-fairy, woo-hoo freak. I wanted to reach out to people who’ve said to me, “I quit my job so I can write a novel,” which makes me break

out in hives. I’m in combat with that most dangerous of bumper stickers: “jump and the net will catch you.” My life experience suggests, “jump and the net might catch you.”

But doesn’t that squash people’s dreams?

I didn’t quit my day job, even after three books published. It’s great to be childlike in your creativity, but don’t be childish in your life. Wishing for something doesn’t make it happen.

Even performing doesn’t always do it. You have to have another reason to create, and it had better be because you love it. Nothing else will hold up.

That’s a hard pill to swallow.

It can be. I talked with a woman at an event who said, “I risked everything

Where does talent come in?

It’s one of the least important parts of the story, because it’s so subjective. I don’t know how much innate writing talent I have, but I do know how much life I’ve devoted to it. I’ve known people I thought were way more talented than me, who never used it, and others I arrogantly dismissed as untalented, who blew my mind. The real question is, what are you going to do to uncover whatever it is that’s inside you?

Elizabeth Gilbert will speak at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 10 at the Santa Cruz High School Theater. Tickets are $27.15 and include a copy of her new book, ‘Big Magic.’ bookshopsantacruz.com.

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You talk about having genius as opposed to being a genius. It makes me feel like if I’m open and ready, it will find me.

As it found your ancestors, and mine.

They were makers, every one. They designed and built things, made up songs and stories. There’s this idea now that unless you live in the right city, go to the right schools, and grow up in the right family, you’re not allowed to be creative, but that’s our human heritage. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.

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LEVITATE ME Mike Schermer shows off his other cool guitar tricks Thursday at Kuumbwa.

‘Mighty’ Mike Schermer took a huge risk leaving Santa Cruz— but as he returns this week, it’s paid off BY ANDREW GILBERT

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he novelist Thomas Wolfe famously noted that you can’t go home again, but to the best of my knowledge Mr. Wolfe never caught a wave on Steamer Lane. Santa Cruz has changed some since “Mighty” Mike Schermer moved to Austin in 2009 and gave up his unofficial title as Surf City’s reigning blues guitarist, but the waves remain the same, and it’s a good bet you can find him catching a few over the weekend.

Introduced to surfing by veteran soul and blues saxophonist Terry Hanck, Schermer took to it much like he made the blues his own—with ease.

He returns to town Thursday to make his Kuumbwa debut, celebrating the release of his lean and aptly titled fourth album Blues In Good Hands.

Joined by bassist Steve Ehrmann, drummer Paul Revelli, and keyboardist Tony Stead, the same top-shelf rhythm section that’s featured on the album, Schermer also recruited Nancy Wright, one of the region’s busiest blues saxophonists to make up “an allstar amalgamation of people who play their asses off,” he says.

By just about every measure, Santa Cruz was good to Schermer. Hailing from a high-achieving New York family (one sister is a geophysicist, another is

a trauma surgeon), he landed at UCSC in 1984 and quickly experienced a transformative epiphany hearing blues legend Albert Collins at Kresge Town Hall. “Everything changed after that night,” he says. “I bought a Telecaster the next day.”

While he was transfixed by Collins’ scorching Texas soul, Schermer eventually gravitated to the cool and jazz-inflected West Coast sound of T-Bone Walker. Schermer’s elegant and stinging single note lines attracted the attention of blues stars such as Elvin Bishop and Bonnie Raitt. As a co-founder of the Soul Drivers with Andy Santana and drummer June

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Core, he brought a bracing jolt of jump blues to Moe’s Alley with an eight-year Tuesday night gig.

Duly impressed, Austin blues icon Angela Strehli adopted the Soul Drivers as her band, which gave Schermer an intimate look at the Austin scene. He loved the Santa Cruz lifestyle, but a confluence of bad news and good timing prompted him to pick up stakes.

“I had just got out of an eight-year relationship, and my dog just died,” he says. “I know it sounds like a country song, but it’s true.”

Never one to make a move too soon, he was loathe to trade his big fish/small pond status for a much larger pool of talent. But when he got word that the guitar chair in Marcia Ball’s band had opened up, a gig that entailed relocating to Austin, he jumped at the opportunity.

“It was just never a town I felt confident about moving to,” Schermer says. “You’re one of 3 million guitarists, and the guy serving your pizza can play circles around you. But joining Marcia was a way to move there and have a soft landing with steady work.”

He’s been an essential component of Ball’s band ever since, touring about four months out of every year with her, and contributing to her Grammy Award-nominated 2011 album Roadside Attractions and 2014’s The Tattooed Lady and the Alligator Man. Schermer’s full array of skills comes into focus on his own projects. Blues In Good Hands showcases his talents as a player, songwriter, vocalist, and bandleader who artfully employs a glittering cast of special guests, including Ball, Strehli, Terry Hanck, Tommy Castro, John Németh, and Vicki Randle. A standout songwriter since his second album, 2005’s Next Set, he’s grown considerably since moving to Austin.

“The fun of producing your own record is that you hand-pick the people you want,” Schermer says. “But you start with the song, and resist getting too busy. A good song can be played on just an acoustic guitar or a piano, and if it doesn’t hold up—well, it’s not as good as you thought it was.”

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Back For Seconds Cannibal Ox brings its 14-years-in-the-making sophomore album to Santa Cruz BY AARON CARNES

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hen indie/hip-hop blog Pigeons and Planes published an article on the “30 Best Underground Hip-Hop Albums,” it put The Cold Vein by Brooklyn duo Cannibal Ox at No. 2.

But that wasn’t anything underground hip-hop fans didn’t already know. The Cold Vein has been universally adored since its release in 2001. It’s a brilliantly produced record with lush, foreboding post-apocalyptic beats by the consistently groundbreaking

El-P, known nowadays as one half of Run the Jewels. Emcees Vordul Mega and Vast Aire take naturally to the glitchy boom-bap landscape with verses toggling between bleak realism and surreal abstract poetry.

Fans, almost immediately, awaited a follow-up—which took 14 years to finally come to fruition.

“We didn’t just disappear for 14 years,” Aire explains, regarding the sophomore record Blade of Ronin released this past March. “Vordul put out solo music. I put out solo music, and with other groups. I think

Cold Vein took off and it blew up and people expected an immediate follow-up. If that was my only group, I would understand. We don’t like all of that music being bypassed,” Aire says.

The duo continued working together, often with guest verses on each other’s records, and occasionally joining each other on stage. They’d suggested for years that a new album was on the way, but made an official announcement in 2012. It took them almost two and a half years to complete Blade of Ronin.

“It had to be right. It did have to be on our terms. People were begging us to do it for years. But there was no intention on rushing this project.

We are real artists. You’re going to get some stubborn reactions, like a master chef when he’s baking.

Everybody is prancing around the kitchen, but we know when the cake is ready,” Aire says.

There are significant similarities to The Cold Vein, and Aire and Mega’s distinct chemistry shines through.

They bring the jumble of sci-fi vocabulary, gritty street life and high-minded philosophy to Blade of Ronin, but the beats are darker and starker, as they worked with producer Cosmiq (and Black Milk on one track), due to their public falling out with El-P some years ago.

It’s almost odd that they would continue the project without El-P, as he was a major part of pitching the project to the two emcees, who he knew from the Atoms Family collective. The Cold Vein became the premiere (and in ways, defining) release for El-P’s indie label Definitive Jux. The dark, paranoid imagery of New York, which was oddly released just four months before 9-11, struck a chord with a lot of folks for its blunt realism and profound sadness.

“I pay attention to my surroundings, just everyday experiences, current events, maybe something that happened with a close friend, jokes. All of that influences what we’re writing,” Aire says.

The duo is happy to be back, and they’re excited about the new direction of the new record. As much as they were surprised by the enormous response their first record got, they don’t seem to mind not receiving the same level of accolades as The Cold Vein.

“Cannibal Ox is back to take over.

We’re here to make some noise,” Aire says. “Just like with The Cold Vein, people are going to have to catch up to Blade of Ronin. Just when you thought you figured us out, that you knew our style, our style is different. You never know how we’re going to come.”

INFO: 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 6, Catalyst Atrium, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $13/ adv, $15/door. 429-4135

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Arts Events Cabrillo Gallery Presents

The Narrative Cloth: Tobin W. Keller Sabbatical Exhibition October 5 – October 30 Reception: October 3, 5:30pm-7:00pm Artist Talk: October 7, 6:30pm VAPA Room 1001 (lower campus) Closing Reception: October 28, 4:30pm-6:00pm

Picasso Ensemble Performs at the Sesnon House October 18, 3:00pm, Sesnon House, Cabrillo College $15 general, $8 senior/students, $4 Cabrillo SAC holders

Cabrillo Youth Strings String Orchestras Concert October 23, 7:00pm, Samper Recital Hall $10 general, $4 senior, $8 student, $4 Cabrillo SAC holders

Spooky Symphonic Winds October 28, 7:30pm, Samper Recital Hall $10 general, $9 senior/student, $4 Cabrillo SAC holders

88 Keys Halloween Show October 30, 12:40pm, Samper Recital Hall Public Welcome – Donations at the door

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PAJARO VALLEY HABITAT FESTIVAL AND NATIVE PLANT SALE To the urban dweller or city-baby, there are often many mysteries behind modern-day drought-resistant gardening: how would you even begin? Get your green thumb on this Saturday, Oct. 3, with the Watsonville Wetlands Watch for the Pajaro Valley native plant sale and festival.

Plants will be available for sale beginning at 9 a.m., and for the rest of the day there will be a full lineup of workshops, speakers (including The American Meadow Garden author John Greenlee) an Eco Kid Zone, free native plant consultations, native Ohlone storytelling, tours of the greenhouses, visits with live snakes and animals, and photography and art exhibitions.

Info: 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 3, Fitz Wetlands Educational Resource Center, Watsonville. watsonvillewetlandswatch.org.

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WEDNESDAY 9/30 ARTS PRINTMAKING: HERE/NOW Exhibition includes more than 80 prints by 18 printmakers using a variety of printmaking techniques. 5:307 p.m. Santa Cruz County Bank, 720 Front St., Santa Cruz. artscollaborative@sccountybank. com. Free.

EN NUESTRA IMAGEN/IN OUR IMAGE Curator and artist Juan R. Fuentes has assembled a collection of works featuring artists from the Bay area. Exhibit addresses distinct Chicana/o Latina/o perspective. Until Oct. 11. Pajaro Valley Arts Council, 37 Sudden St., Watsonville. Free.

TALK 2015 AG TALKS Second lecture of a threepart series. “25 Years of Focus Agriculture.” An opportunity to learn more about the program.

Hosted by the Agricultural History Project. 7 p.m. 2601 East Lake Ave., Watsonville. $3/$5.

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FIRST FRIDAY ‘SLOGUN’ POSTER SHOW Two weeks, two colors and the theme “slogun: words to live and die by”—that’s all that eight local artists and designers were given in order to create posters for this year’s poster show, creating a strikingly eclectic mix of designs and artistic re-imaginings. From well-known mottos to lesser-said gems, each artist’s unique creative style and individual life experience fuse together to make a collection of posters with universal messages.

Info: 6-9 p.m., Friday, Oct. 2. Design & Art Studio at the Tannery Arts Center, 1050 River St. #114, Santa Cruz.

REVERSING DIABETES NATURALLY "The Best Tips for Long-Lasting Self Control."

Nutritious low glycemic cooking demonstration followed by food tasting. Presented by Nutritionist, Maria Jose Hummel, MA. MPH. 7 p.m. SDA Church, Health Education Center, 700 S. Green Valley Road, Watsonville. 325-7993.

CD's from the lectures: $5, English cookbooks: $10. Donations are welcome, not required.

SALSA RUEDA Cuban style dance at the Tannery. Introductory and beginners 7-8 pm.

Intermediate and advanced 8-9 pm. 1060 River St., Suite #111. $7/$5.

BATERIA SAMBA CRUZ Drums, percussion; join in the carnival rhythms of Brazil. All levels.

8-9:15 p.m. Raizes do Brasil Capoeira Center, 207 McPherson St., Santa Cruz. 435-6813. $10 GENTLE YOGA Combination of standing and floor work. Equipment provided. 10-11:30 a.m.

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

BEGINNING BALLET Introduction to ballet

WEDNESDAY 9/30 ‘PRINTMAKING: HERE/NOW’ OPENING RECEPTION With more than 80 works on display exploring new and old printmaking methodology and representing techniques by eighteen printmakers at the Tannery, “Here/Now” is almost guaranteed to have something for everyone. Created by Jane Gregorius and Janis O’Driscoll, the show includes everything from silkscreen to monotype, chine collé to photopolymer etching and woodcut printing. Participating artist Hedwig Heerschop explains that with her work for the show she strives to draw the viewer into the “cycle of life, to a deeper understanding of how all living things are tied together.”

Info: 5:30-7 p.m., Santa Cruz County Bank, 720 Front St., Santa Cruz.

technique with a focus on posture, balance and strength building. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

International Academy of Dance Santa Cruz. info@iadance.com. $10.

HERBAL SALVE MAKING Demo herbal oil infusions. Salve recipe handouts for different uses. 6-8 p.m. 316 Wilkes Circle, Santa Cruz.

Info@cagba-ahg.org, 713-7608. $5.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING Fun and aerobic. No partner required. Wear soft-soled shoes. 7-9:30 p.m. Peace United Church of Christ, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. mazlarson@

cabrillo.edu. 427-1921. $7.

GROUPS FEMALE SURVIVOR GROUP Monarch Services~Servicios Monarca offers a safe, supportive space. Childcare provided. 6-7:30 p.m. 1685 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz; 222 E. Lake Ave, Watsonville. Santa Cruz 425-4030; Watsonville 722-4532; 24hr: 888-900-4232; monarchscc.org. Free.

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FRIDAY 10/2 - SUNDAY 10/4 ‘OCEAN DRIVEN’ AT SANTA CRUZ SURF FILM FESTIVAL Locally produced and created, the inspirational documentary Ocean Driven follows surfer Chris Bertish as he ascends through the surf ranks from his beginnings in South Africa to the internationally loved and feared Mavericks Invitational Big Wave Surf Competition. While waves burst over the sandy shores of Half Moon Bay, knocking over camera crews and spectators, Bertish nearly drowned—and then surfed the biggest wave ever seen at the competition. Dive into Bertish’s world and unearth his key to success through stunning surf footage from around the globe, along with the other awe-inspiring films presented at the Santa Cruz Surf Film Festival.

Info: 7 p.m., Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. oceandrivenfilm.com. $16-$40.

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NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS - GREATER BAY AREA SANTA CRUZ We offer three meetings in support of friends and families of addicts. naranoncalifornia.org/norcal. Helpline: 291-5099. Santa Cruz, Aptos and Scotts Valley.

Saveyoursanity@aol.com. Free/Donation.

SPIRITUAL QIGONG FOR ENERGY BALANCE & HEALTH Ancient Chinese healing art that has been used for centuries to balance one’s internal body energy. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 4628383. Donation.

WEDNESDAY MEDITATION Ongoing. Includes a silent mindfulness meditation and Dharma talk on Buddhist teachings. Noon-1:15 p.m.

Pacific Cultural Center, 1307 Seabright Ave. 2126641. Donation.

MUSIC KARATE DANCER Music to dance while doing karate, of course. 6 p.m. Streetlight Records, Santa Cruz. Free.

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THURSDAY 10/1 ARTS FILM SCREENING: “ALL OF ME” Free screening of the feature-length documentary, All of Me (Llévate Mis Amores), followed by a conversation with Director Arturo Gonzalez Villasenor. 7-10 p.m. Green Valley Cinemas, 1125 S. Green Valley Road, Watsonville. Facebook.com/ watsonvillefilmfestival. Free.

FILM SCREENING: “WRENCHED” How Edward Abbey lit the flame of environmental activism and gave the movement its soul. A benefit for The Ventana Wilderness Alliance. 6-10 p.m. Del Mar Theatre, 1124 Pacific Ave. Ventanawild. org. 423-3191. $20/$25.

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‘TIERRA PURA CORAZÓN DEL BOSQUE’ DANCE SHOW In any given forest, there is a natural medicine called Tierra Pura Corazón del Bosque—and with each component of nature, there comes a story. This is precisely what Jessa DeLancey strives to bring to dance in her movement story—one that tells the earth’s messages through words, music and dance. Beginning with a single seed hidden underneath everyday rubble, the story unfolds as a forest emerges, a huntress is exposed, and the “feminine force of the river” brings life to it all. The “Tierra Pura” dance show is in collaboration with local poet Devi Gonzales and guest artists Khalil Cummings and Justin Porter.

Info: 8 p.m., Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center, 1060 River St., #111, Santa Cruz.

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TALK COMMUNITY FORUM ON POPE’S ENCYCLICAL & US VISIT A week after Pope Francis' address to Congress and in the wake of his encyclical on the environment, the Santa Cruz community has an opportunity to reflect on these events at a forum with: Keith Warner, a Franciscan friar with a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies; Jeffrey Kiehl, cited as "one of the top climate scientists in the world," recently retired to Santa Cruz; Andrew Szasz, chairperson of the UCSC Environmental Studies Department.

7:30-9 p.m. Resurrection Catholic Church, 7600 Soquel Drive, Aptos. Free.

CITIZEN SCIENCE: SEA OTTERS How do physical differences between individual sea otters affect their ability to feed? Ph.D. student Chris Law leads a discussion on his work with sea otters. 6:30 - 8p.m. Downtown Branch, Santa Cruz Public Library. Free.

CLASSES EARLY RISER YOGA For all levels. 6:30-7:45 a.m. Yoga Within, Aptos. $15 drop-in.

AMAZING ARMS Exercises that tone and sculpt the entire upper body, including your core. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Sand N Sea Fitness, 3700 Portola Drive. sandnseafitness.com.

332-9885. $20.

CALENDAR SALSA DANCING CUBAN-STYLE Drop-in.

No partner required. Intermediate level. 7-8 p.m. Louden Nelson Center, Santa Cruz.

SalsaGente.com. 295-6107. $9/$5.

AEROBIC LINE DANCING Ongoing class.

No partner needed. 9:30-11:30 a.m. Louden Nelson Community Center, Santa Cruz. 4206180. $2/$2.25.

FRIDAY 10/2 ARTS SANTA CRUZ SURF FILM FESTIVAL Three days of spectacular surf feature films and shorts.

Get stoked. Fri-Sun. 7-10 p.m. Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz. $16 adults/$10 groms/$40 3-night pass.

STORY TIME AT MOD Join museum staff for story time on the floor of the museum.

10:30-11 a.m. Santa Cruz Children's Museum of Discovery, 1855 41st Ave., Suite C-10, Capitola.

888-424-8035. $7/$5/Free.

CLASSES QI-GONG FOR STRENGTH AND LONGEVITY Wang Ji Wu's Sixteen Exercises for Health and Strength Training is a qi-gong set which enhances the circulatory system as well as the body's joints, tendons and muscles. 1:30-2:30 p.m. Louden Nelson Community Center. 4206180. $2/$2.25

FOOD & WINE SECRETS FROM A SOMMELIER Oliver Carter, Certified Sommelier and New Leaf’s Director of Beer, Wine and Spirits, will give a class on pairing wine and food. 6-8 p.m. New Leaf Community Market Community Classroom, 1101 Fair Ave. Newleafwestside.eventbrite.com. $45/$80.

HEALTH VITAMIN B12 FRIDAY B12 increases energy, improves mood, enhances sleep, promotes immunity and helps the body handle stress with more ease. 3-6 p.m. Thrive Natural Medicine, 2840 Park Ave., Soquel. 515-8699. $15.

SPIRITUAL SHABBAT SERVICES WITH CHADEISH YAMEINU Ongoing 1st, 2nd, 3rd Fridays. All

SATURDAY 10/3 ARTS WILD AND SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL Fantastic films about wild things and wild places, guaranteed to inspire you to get outside and give back. 6-10 p.m. ventanawild.org. wildandscenicfilmfestival.org. Golden State Theatre, 417 Alvarado St. Monterey. $20/$25.

INTRODUCTION TO BELLYDANCE TECHNIQUE Learn the foundation movements for all genres of belly dance. For Beginners.

10-11 a.m. Desert Dream Studio, 1025 Water St., Santa Cruz. catherine.cooper@hotmail.com or Janelle@janelledance.com. $14/$80.

OPEN STUDIOS AND HELP NEPAL Functional pottery for home & garden, and small sculpture.

I am donating all proceeds from my Open Studios sales to rebuilding in Nepal. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 143 Mason St., Santa Cruz. 421-1263. Free.

JOURNALING WORKSHOP Nobody can write what you will. If you don't tell your stories they will go untold. 2-5 p.m. Scotts Valley Public Library. 427-7702. Free.

HILDY BERNSTEIN PAINTINGS Open Studios.

Sat-Sun. 11a.m. - 5p.m. 2565A Mission St., Santa Cruz.

CLASSES LOSE YOUR LAWN Learn how to remove your lawn and replace it with native and droughttolerant plants. Register at: timebanksantacruz. org/events. 10:30 a.m.-Noon. Suncrest Nurseries, 400 Casserly Road, Watsonville.

Bonnielinden@sbcglobal.net. $10.

GROW YOUR OWN COMPOST Improve the health of your garden and orchards soil and create great compost ingredients. 9:30 a.m.Noon. Alan Chadwick Garden, UC Santa Cruz.

459-3240. Register at covercrop15.bpt.me. $15/$30.

BEGINNING YOGA Ongoing. 10:15-11:30 a.m.

Yoga Within, Aptos. $15 drop-in.

FOOD & DRINK BURRITO BASH Best burrito competition, live music all afternoon by Extra Large, jalapeño eating contest, miniature dog costume contest, White Hawk Dancers, performance

by Mariachi California de Javier Vargas, >50

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BOOMER YOGA For the intermediate yoga student who wants a bit more challenge. For ages 45 and up. 10-11:30 a.m. Louden Nelson Community Center. 420-6180. $5/$5.50.

welcome. Potluck and refreshments follow.

7:30-9:30 p.m. Peace United Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. CYSantaCruz.com. Free.

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CALENDAR <49 kids activities, jump house, face painting, food vendors, arts & crafts vendors.

Noon-4 p.m. Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, Watsonville. $5.

FARM-TO-TABLE A not-to-be missed dining event celebrating the California coast and our local community. All proceeds support the Food Lab program of Pacific Elementary School in Davenport. 5-8 p.m. Green Oaks Creek Farm.

Greenoakscreek.com. $90.

GATHER FARM DINNER Benefit for Teen Kitchen Project. 5-9 p.m. Live Earth Farm, Watsonville. $125 per person, includes organic three course meal, beer and wine.

MUSIC

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CLASSES GOOD MORNING WORKOUT Enjoy the music and get fit at the same time. Drop-ins welcome.

All levels. 9-10 a.m. The Tannery, 1060 River St., Suite #111, Santa Cruz. $7/$5.

NATIVE PLANT GARDENING Learn the basics of small-scale gardens as well as larger ones.

For ages 16 and up. 1-3 p.m.. Quail Hollow Ranch County Park, 800 Quail Hollow Road, Felton.

Register at 335-9348 or prc120@scparks.com. $3.

FOOD & WINE

WEST COAST SWING DANCE PARTY West Coast Swing dancing at the "Best Little Dance House" on the first Saturday of each month.

7-10:30 p.m. 222 Market St., Santa Cruz. 4794826. gonnadance.com. $10.

ANNIEGLASS POUR & TOUR Take a free studio tour to discover the craftsmanship that goes into every sustainably handmade Annieglass piece. Wine tasting for a fee. Noon4:30 p.m. 310 Harvest Drive, Watsonville.

Annieglass.com. $8/$6/Free.

THE BIG TREES SCOTTISH GATHERING AND HIGHLAND GAMES Heavy athletics, highland dance, bagpipes, fiddlers, live music and traditional food and ale. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Roaring Camp Railroad, 5401 Graham Hill Road.

Advance tickets online at BigTreeScots.com. $20/$16/Free.

32ND ANNUAL OKTOBERFEST Food, music, live and silent auctions, drawing for cash prizes.

Traditional Oktoberfest lunch for purchase.

Hosted by the Friends of Hospice. Noon-4 p.m.

Scotts Valley Community Center, 360 Kings Village Road, Scotts Valley. 458-9038. Free.

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SUNDAY 10/4

HABITAT FESTIVAL AND NATIVE PLANT SALE Workshops with experts, Eco Kid Zone and more. Learn about the Watsonville wetlands. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Fitz Wetlands Educational Resource Center building behind Pajaro Valley High School, Watsonville.

Watsonvillewetlandswatch.org.

VOLUNTEER RIVER HEALTH DAY Volunteers will be trained to identify and remove invasive species of plants along the San Lorenzo River in San Lorenzo Park. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Space limited.

Coastal Watershed Council: 464-9200. info@ coastal-watershed.org. San Lorenzo Park, Santa Cruz. Free.

ANNUAL GIFT DRIVE Holiday Helper is kicking off its annual gift drive, to brighten the lives of seniors in care facilities. Gift suggestions: male & female, socks, slippers, shirts, lap blankets, combs, brushes, cards, games, etc. Deliver purchased wrapped & labeled gifts on or before Friday, December 11 to: Family Service Agency, 104 Walnut Ave., Suite 208, Santa Cruz. 459 8917 x208.

GROUPS SERENITY FIRST: PAGANS IN RECOVERY A weekly meeting with a Pagan flair, where guests are free to discuss their spiritual paths, including those which are nature-based and goddess-centered. 7:15-8:15 p.m. MHCAN, 1051 Cayuga St., Santa Cruz, Room 12. 925-8953424. Free/Donations.

OUTDOORS FISH SEINING ON SOQUEL CREEK Join the Coastal Watershed Council and fisheries biologist Don Alley to see the fish of Soquel Creek up close. RSVP required. Djchirco@ coastal-watershed.org or 464-9200. 8:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. Capitola Village. Free.

SPIRITUAL INSPIRATIONAL MEDITATION SERVICE Includes inspirational readings from the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, the founder of Self-Realization Fellowship. 11 a.m.-Noon. 334-2088.

SUNDAY SERVICE WITH HEART CIRCLE Spiritual community exploring the Divine Nature. Wherever you are on your journey,

SATURDAY 10/3 THIRD ANNUAL FARM DINNER This Saturday, the Teen Kitchen Project staff and volunteers will cook a three-course meal highlighting local organic produce and sustainably raised meats. Served at the beautiful Live Earth Farm in the Corralitos hills, dinner will be accompanied by live music and stories told by current Teen Kitchen Project volunteers and clients. The dinner will benefit Teen Kitchen meals, which are served free of charge to individuals and families who are in crisis or suffering from life-threatening illnesses. Not only does this nonprofit provide much-needed services to locals in crisis, it also teaches young people the skills they need to flourish and succeed in their livesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; on top of the ability to create delicious meals.

Info: 5-9 p.m., Live Earth Farm, 172 Litchfield Lane, Watsonville. teenkitchenproject.org/ gather. $125.

you are welcome here. 10-11:30 a.m. 920 41st Ave., # H (behind Family Cycling Center). Heartcirclecsl.com. Free.

HEART FELT ZEN New & experienced practitioners are invited to join this Sunday evening support and study group. Bring questions about Zen and our Sangha. 5-6:20 p.m. SC Zen Center, 113 School St. 457-0206. Free.

TENT OF ABRAHAM - CELEBRATE PEACE Interfaith multi-community celebration of Peace in the Sukkah. 2-5 p.m. Peace United Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. CYSantaCruz.com. Free.

MUSIC AUDREY HOWARD Indie/alt singer/ songwriter from SF. 5 p.m. Streetlight Records, Santa Cruz. Free.

MONDAY 10/5 CLASSES BEGINNING STRENGTH TRAINING FOR WOMEN BarBelle Basics strength training class meets twice a week and is designed for beginners. Nearly 80 percent female. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday at 7 a.m. or 6 p.m.

Santa Cruz Strength, 151 Harvey West Blvd Unit D, Santa Cruz. 776-0875 or clayedgin@gmail. com. $99.

PINGPONG Start your day with a rousing game of pingpong. 9-11:30 a.m. Louden Nelson Community Center. 420-6180.

Donation.

BEGINNING HIP-HOP FOR ADULTS Build strength, stamina, and flexibility, while having fun and learning to dance. No experience required. 7-8 p.m. 320 Encinal St., Santa Cruz. International Academy of Dance Santa Cruz. $10.

CALENDAR

SATURDAY 10/3 BIG TREES SCOTTISH GATHERING AND HIGHLAND GAMES For those Outlander fans among us who are desperately waiting for the new season to begin, the Scottish memorabilia, food, and fanfare in town are few and far between. Fear not, Scots and Highland fans, the International Clan MacFarlane Society & Highland Roque Enterprises is hosting a rowdy bevy of Scottish and Irish clans this Saturday in Felton. There’ll be caber tossing, stone throws, hammer throws, traditional highland dance, bagpipe bands, rock bands, a Celtic marketplace, living history demonstrations, and traditional food and ale—so get those gullets ready, haggis is on your horizon this weekend!

Info: 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Roaring Camp Railroad, 5401 Graham Hill Road. Felton. bigtreescots/com. $16-$20

Capitola Foot Massage $5

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RENAISSANCE FAIRE Allows actors and actresses of all ages to explore their fantasies when they step back in time to the village of Willingtown. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Casa de Fruta. $25.

TUESDAY 10/6 ARTS SOULCOLLAGE Wonderful and easy art-based collage method. Build and create your own tarot collage deck of cards. Register by 2 p.m. each Tuesday at 212-1398. 7-9 p.m. Elemental Art Studio Gallery-128. Tannery Arts Center, 1050 River St., Santa Cruz. $10/$20.

CLASSES AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT Explore Feldenkrais Awareness Through

Movement® Classes. Heighten your vitality as they increase your self-awareness, flexibility, and overall well-being. Also on Thursdays at 5:45 p.m. Classes ongoing. 9:30-10:45 a.m.

Pacific Cultural Center, 1307 Seabright. Preregistration required. suzie@suzielundgren. com. First class free for new students.

OFF limited time offer

before 2pm

Foot $18/hour Body $38/hour 10am-10pm every day

1440 41st Ave #G, Capitola | 831.515.7254

FOOD & WINE HEALTH BOOSTING FOODS CLASS PART 2 Join Chef Talya at Whole Foods Market and learn to make healing and cleansing Beet Kvass and Cultured Vegetables. Registration required.

6:30-7:30 p.m. Whole Foods Market, 911 Soquel Ave. 426-9901. Free

HEALTH FRIENDS AND FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Open to all friends and loved ones of people with cancer. Meets every first and third Tuesday of the month. Call to register. 5:30-7 p.m.

WomenCARE 457-2273. Free.

ALL YOU CAN EAT

Bavarian Buffet $19.95 Thurs Oct 1

HAPPY HOUR Tuesday-Friday 4 - 6 pm

9600 Highway 9, Ben Lomond

831-336-5188

Tuesday-Thursday 5pm-9pm Friday & Saturday 4pm-10pm Sunday 12-9pm

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LOVE YOUR

LOCAL BAND

YOUNG AND LOWE S.T. Young, who plays guitar and sings for the Naked Bootleggers, and Joshua Lowe, frontman for Joshua Lowe and the Juncos, found something in each other they didn’t expect: an easygoing side project that really stretches their creative muscles. They call it, appropriately enough, Young and Lowe.

“Usually with a duo or trio, you just get together and there’s a natural easiness to it—it’s a back-porch-picking style of music,” Lowe explains. “The arrangements [in Young and Lowe] are much more simple, and one of the instruments usually takes the lead. It just comes together with a throwback feel. We find a groove and we don’t really have to talk about it.”

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The two musicians had been talking about playing together for a while, for fun, and turned it into a live set when a mutual friend asked them if they wanted to play a show. It went so well, they decided to make it an official group.

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Compared to their other projects, Young and Lowe pulls from a similar reserve of influences—American roots music (jazz, blues, country), but with Young and Lowe it leans more toward the old-timey jug band sound. Not to mention they switch around instruments—Lowe plays tenor banjo, five string banjo, mandolin, guitar, and a kick drum pedal on an old suitcase, while Young plays guitar, harmonica, kazoo and the washboard. They sit down at their performances, with a set that’s normally about 60 percent originals and 40 percent old timey covers.

“We complement each other well.

We’re both songwriters, so we both bring in our own material,” Lowe says.

“It’s cool to have an outlet where I’m experimenting with new songs in a really intimate setting. We’re both leaning toward songs that aren’t being played in other projects.” AARON CARNES INFO: 9 p.m. Thursday, October 1.

Crepe Place, Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz. $10. 429-6994.

WEDNESDAY 9/30

BLUES

REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND Straight outta Indiana, the Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band throws a modern twist on traditional blues and country music. Since the early 2000s, the Reverend Peyton (who’s actually a Kentucky colonel) and his washboard-playing wife, Breezy, have toured the country carrying on the legacies of Charlie Patton and Bukka White, while newest member Ben “Bird Dog” Bussell keeps the beat on his part-drum-part-bucket kit. The Rev’s voice is a boisterous as it is unique, commanding attention and delivering dance wherever he barks. MAT WEIR INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst Atrium, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $10/adv, $13/door. 429-4135.

COUNTRY/WESTERN

JIMBO MATHUS Dig out your hat and pull on your boots because Santa Cruz now has a bona fide Western get-down. Once a month, the Crepe Place hosts Western Wednesday,

pairing up one touring country/roots band and one local outfit for a night of deep honky tonkin.’ On Wednesday, Mississippi-based singer-songwriter Jimbo Mathus (formerly of Squirrel Nut Zippers) comes to town with his downhome brand of Southern country, blues, and folk. Also on the bill: local classic country group the Western Skylarks. Wear cowboy boots and get $1 off the door price, and bring some extra dough so you can get an old-time photo taken at the Revival Tintype Studio Parlor. CAT JOHNSON

he’s got drummer Wes Starr, and famed guitarist Anson Funderburgh. These are all guys that started their careers in the ‘70s when everyone else was busy playing hard rock and metal. They were digging back to the roots of the music, and mastering it. AARON CARNES

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

A National resonator guitar, sweet picking, a slide, and tales of love, loneliness and home. Welcome to the world of Charlie Parr, a veteran country blues artist from Duluth, Minnesota, who is well known to insiders and mostly unknown in mainstream circles. But like many of the finest roots artists around, Parr’s quiet style and understated delivery only add to the depth and soul of his music. His latest album, this year’s Stumpjumper, is garnering high praise from the underground roots press, with No Depression calling Parr “breathtakingly immediate and authentically antiquated.” CJ

THURSDAY 10/1 BLUES

GOLDEN LONE STAR REVUE Is there a difference between California and Texas blues? Probably not, at least not with Mark Hummel’s latest group, the Golden Lone Star Revue. The Grammy-winning blues harp-man, a Californian, has put together an all-star band with players from both states, including fellow Californians guitarist Little Charlie Baty (Ex-Nightcats) and bassist RW Grigsby. From the Lone Star State,

INFO: 7:30 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 CA-9, Felton. $20. 603-2294.

COUNTRY BLUES

CHARLIE PARR

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

MUSIC

BE OUR GUEST SANTA CRUZ MUSIC FESTIVAL

ROGER MCGUINN

FRIDAY 10/2 ROCK

DAVE & PHIL ALVIN

INFO: 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 479-1854.

SATURDAY 10/3 ROCK/BLUES

BETH HART You have to be a brave soul to take on songs made famous by such powerhouse vocalists as Tina Turner and Etta James, but Beth Hart doesn’t miss a

tral Memories” explores his Haitian heritage with his collaborator, French pianist Baptiste Trotignon, powerhouse drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts, and his brother, the stellar bassist Yunior Terry. ANDREW GILBERT

INFO: 8 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $30/adv, $35/door. 423-1338.

ROCK

MONDAY 10/5 JAZZ

ANCESTRAL MEMORIES Cuban alto saxophonist Yosvany Terry is a jazz visionary who has created a startling original body of work by delving into the African roots of little known Caribbean cultural currents, like the Arará traditions in his hometown Matanzas. A creative force on the New York scene since the late 1990s, Terry documented the ongoing investigation on New Throned King (5Passion Records), an album named on many of last year’s Top 10 jazz CD lists. His latest project “Ances-

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

WEDNESDAY 10/7 ROGER MCGUINN In 1964, Roger McGuinn (then known as Jim McGuinn), Gene Clark, and David Crosby formed a trio that would become the foundation for the now-legendary rock band the Byrds. Despite numerous lineup changes and a run that lasted less than 10 years, the band helped put country rock on the map—most directly with its acclaimed album Sweethearts of the Rodeo—and served as inspiration for countless artists drawn to its layered harmonies and rich acoustic guitar sound. Frontman McGuinn, who was the band’s only consistent member, has already been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and is now a celebrated solo artist. CJ INFO: 8 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $27/gen, $43/gold. 423-8209.

INFO: Noon. Saturday, Oct. 10. Multiple downtown locations. $50. More information: santacruzmusicfestival.com.

WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/ giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 2 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the festival.

IN THE QUEUE UNDERACHIEVERS

New York hip-hop group from Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label. Friday at Catalyst DINNER AT THE THOMPSONS

Cross-cultural, singer-producer duo.

Friday at Crepe Place RANDY SAVAGES

Local pop punk outfit headlines the Totally ‘80s Drag Show. Friday at Blue Lagoon B-SIDE PLAYERS

Latin rock/funk/fusion out of San Diego. Saturday at Moe’s Alley HOUSE OF FLOYD

Fantastic, full-sensory Pink Floyd tribute band. Saturday at Don Quixote’s

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For four decades, the Alvin brothers have been writing and performing some of rock and blues most popular songs, though not always together. The brothers formed the landmark roots-rock band the Blasters in 1979, and released four highly influential albums before Dave’s departure in 1986. The brothers didn’t musically reunite until 2014, when they released an album with an apropos name, Common Ground. One year later finds the ground still solid, with the release of a covers album entitled, Lost Time, where the Alvins pay tribute to everyone from James Brown to Lead Belly and Big Joe Turner. MW

beat, singing the hell out of “Nutbush City Limits” and “I’d Rather Go Blind.”

The singer-songwriter with the raspy, capable voice, rocks with the best of them and sings the blues like she has an insider’s view—and she does. Hart’s fame came on the heels of battling her own demons of addiction, loss, and a bipolar diagnosis. But despite her struggles, the Los Angeles-based Hart is a rising rock ’n’ roll star. CJ

A high-point of the local music scene, the Santa Cruz Music Festival features a dozen-plus stages— including several free ones—and more than 100 bands throughout the downtown area. Described as a 13-hour musical marathon, SCMF showcases acts from around the world, including an abundance of Santa Cruz and Bay Area bands. This year’s headliners include RJD2, Delhi 2 Dublin, Prof, Pep Love, Mikey Lion, and Lee Reynolds. New in 2015 is a lecture series, with local movers and shakers sharing thoughts about the state of our town. CAT JOHNSON

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LIVE MUSIC

Thursday October 1st 9pm $5/8 Live Reggae Music With

BLAZEEN + ANCESTREE Friday October 2nd 9pm $25/30 CD Release For “Lost Time”

DAVE ALVIN & PHIL ALVIN

w/THE GUILTY ONES Saturday October 3rd 9pm $15/20 Afro-Latin-Cumbia-Reggae Dance Party

B-SIDE PLAYERS

Sunday October 4th 7pm & 9:30pm $12/15 Live Comedy At Moe’s

GEOFF TATE

+ EMMA ARNOLD & CHAD OPITZ

WED APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

9/30

Big Jon Atkinson 6-8p

AQUARIUS RESTAURANT Santa Cruz Dream Inn 175 W Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

FRI

10/2

Jewl Sandoval 6-8p

Minor Thirds Trio 6:30-9:30p Gorphyryac, Still Searching, The Real Ones $5 9p

BLUE LOUNGE 529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

Comedy Night/ 80s Night Free 8:30p

SAT

10/3

Lloyd Whitney 1-5p Al Frisby 6-8p

Gretchen Weeners ‘Variety Drag Show’ $10 9p

DJ Chilango 9p

The Box (Goth Night) 9p

DJ/Live Music

Comedy Night

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Gravity Band 9:30p-12:15a

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

Funk Night Free 9p

Intangabillies Free 8p

Swing Night $5 5:30p Steve Troope Group Free 9p

Reggae Night Free 9p

Karaoke 9p

Karaoke 9p

Cash Cash, Tritonal $20/$25 8p

The Underachievers $18/$75 8p

Beth Hart $30/$35 7p

Ouster $20/$25 8:30p

Eliot Lipp $12/$15 8p

CASA SORRENTO 393 Salinas St, Salinas

10/4

Hawk n Blues Mechanics 6-8p

CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Science on Tap: “Lick Observatory.” Western Wednesday $7/$8 9p

Charlie Parr, Young and Lowe $10 9p

Sky Country w/ DJ Wax-By-the-Sea Free 9p

The Monets, Sirens of Soul, Gudada $8 9p

Hod and the Helpers, Split Screens $8 9p

October 8th YOUNGBLOOD BRASS BAND

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

West Coast Soul $3 7:30p

Live Again $5 8:30p

The D’Oh Bros $6 9p

The Room Shakers $7 9:30p

Live Comedy $7 9p

October 9th LA MISA NEGRA + FLOR DE CAÑA October 10th LOS LOBOS (6:30 & 9:30pm)

October 15th ROYAL SOUTHERN BROTHERHOOD

International Music Hall and Restaurant

FINE MEXICAN AND AMERICAN FOOD ALL YOU CAN EAT LUNCH BUFFET M-F $7.95 Wed Sept 30 Thu Oct 1

October 17th KATDELIC

October 28th CUTTY FLAM + RUDY DE ANDA October 29th FRONT COUNTRY + MCCOY TYLER October 30th MELVIN SEALS & JGB

Fri Oct 2

November 7th KIEFER SUTHERLAND BAND November 8th WILLIE K November 13th MARTY O’REILLY + SHOOK TWINS November 14th KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE

WWW.MOESALLEY.COM 1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz 831.479.1854

Anson Funderburgh, Mark Hummel & Little Charlie with the McCoy Tyler Band, Frankie Boots & The County Line, The Painted Horses Welcome to Stringband Heaven

$10 adv./$10 door 21 + 8pm Sat Oct 3

House of Floyd

Full Production Pink Floyd Tribute $17 adv./$20 door <21 w/parent 8pm

Sun Oct 4

Mailani plus Kaui Dalire 2pm Aloha Music & Hula Matinee

$12 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 2pm Sun Oct 4

In The Spirit of Lennon John Lennon 75 Birthday Celebration & Tribute 7pm

Starring The Sun King’s Drew Harrison $15 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 7pm

October 31st SAMBADÁ November 4th VAUGHN BENJAMIN of MIDNITE

$18 adv./$20 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm

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

October 22nd PARADISE SOUL SAVERS October 23rd POORMAN’S WHISKEY + DIEGO’S UMBRELLA

Dàimh Scottish Gaelic Supergroup

Golden State/Lone Star Revue Blues Summit

October 16th THE COFFIS BROTHERS

Taco Tuesday

Karaoke

Open Mic

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close Comedy Night Free 8p Poor Beggar Thieves

Riff Raff $25/$30 7p

CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

October 14th WILL BERNARD BAND

10/6

Lara and Laura 6-8p

DJ Luna 9p

+ RADIO MOSCOW

October 11th POLYRHYTHMICS (9pm)

TUE

Songwriter Showcase 7-10p

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

October 11th LARA PRICE (4pm)

10/5

Aki Kumar 6-8p

Jazz Happy Hour Free 3:30p Baby Medusa Free 8p

CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

THE SHEEPDOGS

MON

Minor Thirds Trio 7-10p

Rainbow Night w/DJ AD DJ/Ladies’ Night

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

SUN

Reverend Petyon’s Big Damn Band $10/$13 8:30p

Mr Vegas’s B-Day Bash & Album Release Rock & Roll With

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Preacher Boy 6-8p

CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Tuesday October 6th 8:30pm $12/15

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THU

Mon Oct 5

Walter Salas-Humara (of The Silos)

Thu Oct 8

Lost Weekend Western Swing Band

plus Jonathan Rundman $12 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm $15 adv./$15 door 21 + 7:30pm

COMING RIGHT UP

Fri. Oct. 9 Zeppelin Live Dazzling Led Zeppelin Tribute Sat. Oct. 10 Sean Hayes Sun. Oct. 11 HAPA Barry Flanagan & Ron Kuala’au “Hawaii’s hottest group!”--Billboard Tue. Oct. 13 Tannahill Weavers Celtic Legends from Scotland Wed. Oct. 14 Peter Case plus Jim Page Folk, Blues, Rock Reservations Now Online at www.donquixotesmusic.com Rockin'Church Service Every Sunday ELEVATION at 10am-11:15am

Deron Miller $13/$15 8p

Rayven Justice $18/$22 8p

Cannibal Ox $13/$15 8:30p KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

Dirty Mondays w/ Desmadre $3 9p

7 Come 11 $5 9p Reggae Party Free 9:30p

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LIVE MUSIC WED

9/30

THU

10/1

FRI

10/2

DAV. ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport DON QUIXOTE’S 6275 Hwy 9, Felton

SAT

10/3

SUN

10/4

MON

10/5

Anson Funderburgh, Mark Hummel & more $20 7:30p

McCoy Tyler Band, Frankie Boots & more $10 8p

House of Floyd $17/$20 8p

10/6

Richard Stockton & Friends

Ugly Beauty Dàimh $18/$20 7:30p

TUE

Mailani, Kaui Dalire $12/$15 2p Drew Harrison $15 7p

Walter Salas-Humara, Jonathan Rundman $12/$15 7:30p

MIGHTY MIKE SCHERMER CD RELEASE PARTY FIRST FRIDAY: r.r. jones New Exhibition!

Monday, October 5 • 7 pm

GG RESTAURANT 8041 Soquel Dr, Aptos

Live Jazz & Wine Tasting Salsa Bahia 6-9p 6-9p

HENFLING’S 9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond

Flingo 7p

Tango Ecstasy 6-9:30p

DJ

Apple City Slough Band Social Destruction Free 8p 9p

IDEAL BAR & GRILL 106 Beach St, Santa Cruz

Live Music 10p-1a

The Bitter Diamonds Free 9p

Moondance 4p

Roadhouse Karaoke 7:30p

SOMI Friday, October 9 • 7:30 pm

Mighty Mike Schermer $15 7p

First Friday: r.r. Jones 6p

Live Music 5:30-9p

Chris Kelly 7-10p

Chris Kelly 7-10p

Karaoke w/Ken 9p

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

Kip Allert 7-10p

Kid Dynamite 7-10p

Bombshell Bullys 8-11p

Hall Pass 8-11p

MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Tomas Gomez 6p

Depth!

9p-2a

Dance

Party!

SLUGS ‘N ROSES with SPECIAL GUEST TAMMI BROWN

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YOSVANY TERRY QUARTET “ANCESTRAL MEMORIES” w/drummer JEFF “TAIN” WATTS Thursday, October 8 • 7 pm “...the new Nina Simone.” –Huffington Post

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MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Thursday, October 1 • 7 pm

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THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville

IT’S WINE TYME 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

Celebrating Forty Years of Creativity

Tickets: BrownPaperTickets.com Benefiting Monarch Community School

Saturday, October 10 • 11 am

Al Frisby 6p

Family Concert with: LINDA ARNOLD & ARIEL THIERMANN

Rand Rueter 6p

Blazeen, Ancestree $5/$8 8p

Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin, The Guilty Ones $25/$30 8p

B-Side Players $15/$20 8p

Geoff Tate & Emma Arnold, Chad Opitz $12/$15 8p

The Sheepdogs, Radio Moscow $12/$15 8p

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Tone Sol 9:30p-2a

Tech Minds 9:30p-2a

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MYRA MELFORD’S SNOWY EGRET A whirlpool of rolling rhythms, bubbling undercurrents, and torrential energy

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The King of the Hammond B-3!

JOEY DEFRANCESCO TRIO Tues October 27 • 7:30 pm Legendary Band Re-Visited!

CHUCHO VALDES & IRAKERE at the Rio Theatre No Comp Tix 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.

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THE SEARCH IS OVER ‘Pawn Sacrifice’ finds its Bobby Fischer in former Spiderman Tobey Maguire.

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he Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was waged on many fronts.

One of the most intense and memorable confrontations took place not on a battlefield, or in a congressional hearing room, but in an indoor sports arena in Reykjavik, Iceland.

At this venue in 1972, the temperamental American chess phenom Bobby Fischer duked it out with defending Russian champion Boris Spassky for the World Chess Championship, an event publicized at the time (and still thought of) as the Match of the Century.

There’s a lot of drama here— Fischer’s eccentricity, political agendas, the “big game” motif—most of which is used to good effect in Pawn Sacrifice. While the plot

revolves around the famous 1972 match, through canny use of select flashbacks (along with a harrowing glimpse into the future via newsreel footage at the very end), the film provides a long view into the unorthodox life and times of Fischer, forever teetering on the crumbling border between genius and madness.

Scripted by Steven Knight, the film is thoughtfully directed by Edward Zwick, veteran of TV’s thirtysomething and many other screen credits. In the starring role, Tobey Maguire has to ratchet down his innate likeability to play Fischer in all his abrasive, paranoid complexity.

Nobody (including the filmmakers) understands Fischer any better at film’s end, but Zwick and company successfully reconstruct the context within which he rose to fame.

Bobby Fischer captured the world’s imagination as a chess prodigy from Brooklyn who became the youngest player ever to win the U.S. championship (at age 14).

In the film, he and his sister grow up fatherless with their immigrant mother, Regina (Robin Weigert), of Polish-Jewish extraction. Because she and her then-husband (probably not Bobby's father) lived for a while in Russia, she is shown to be under surveillance by U.S. government forces in the Red Scare 1950s.

His mom takes little Bobby to the local chess club hoping he’ll lose to someone and get over his obsession with the game. Instead, the club president, Carmine Nigro (Conrad Pla) becomes Bobby's teacher, shepherding him around to junior tournaments. An international

grandmaster in a field dominated by Russians, the adult Bobby (Maguire) is approached by agent Paul Marshall (Michael Stuhlbarg), who indicates the government is interested in Bobby’s success. Marshall signs on Father Bill Lombardy (Peter Sarsgaard), a Catholic priest and former champion who once mentored Bobby, as Bobby's tournament “second” (chess players, like all duelists, have seconds), and they set out to seize the championship from the Soviets.

I don’t know if Marshall was based on a real person, but he’s used in the film to represent the forces of sociopolitical darkness, to whom Bobby’s mental stability is less important than winning the match for Uncle Sam. Still, Bobby’s increasingly vitriolic anti-Communist and anti-Semitic rhetoric, along with his paranoia about wiretaps and spies, seems to be mostly self-induced. When he finally meets the formidable Spassky (Liev Schreiber, giving his entire performance in Russian), disaster looms—the moderator distracts him, the audience and the cameras are too noisy. Only by moving to a quiet room in the back—which happens only after Bobby forfeits Game 2 by not showing up—can the match continue.

With all these undercurrents at full throttle, the match unfolds like a thriller, even if you know nothing about chess. Zwick doesn’t try to replicate the games play-by-play, but as Lombardy and Marshall follow along on a board offstage, we get a sense of the audacity and complexity of Bobby’s moves, and their effect on the confident, yet ever more amazed Spassky.

An unlikely candidate for America’s Sweetheart, Fischer still became a huge international celebrity after the match. He continued to play around the globe, although, in later years, U.S. officials seemed bent on living up to Fischer’s paranoia, issuing a warrant for his arrest after he played a match in Communist Yugoslavia that made him an eternal nomad, unable to ever return to the States. Fischer is still considered by many as the greatest chess player of all time. Zwick’s film invites us to ponder if that is enough.

PAWN SACRIFICE With Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, and Peter Sarsgaard. Written by Steven Knight. Directed by Edward Zwick. A Bleecker Street Media release. Rated PG-13. 116 minutes.

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THE MARTIAN Astronaut Mark Watney is left stranded on Mars after a storm hits and he’s presumed dead—but somehow, he maintains a pretty positive outlook on the whole thing, despite the fact that he only has enough food for 50 days, the terrain isn’t suited for agriculture, and it’ll take four years to get a message back to Earth.

There are, of course, complications with attempts to rescue Watney but with such a stellar cast (can you say Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Donald Glover a.k.a Childish Gambino?) we don’t even care if he dies at the end.

Note: we have no idea if he dies at the end. Ridley Scott directs. (PG13) 141 minutes.

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SICARIO Emily Blunt is like the way cooler, less smiley version of Anne Hathaway. She’s British and she cries less. She can sing, play Queen Victoria, that super badass chick in Edge of Tomorrow, and everything in between. Did we mention that she’s the total package? Fawning aside, Benicio del Toro is also in this movie! He’s in charge of showing the young idealistic FBI agent the ropes as she struggles to understand the world of Mexican drug cartels.

Denis Villeneuve directs. Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro (R) 121 minutes.

THE WALK Can we all just chuckle a little at Joseph Gordon-Levitt with a French accent? Now that that’s out of the way—this is so not a film for anyone with fear of heights. It’s the totally true story of Philippe Petit, who decided to walk the void between the World Trade Center towers in 1974. Of course it would take a Frenchman to pull off a totally illegal, renegade traverse over a wire at the height of 1,362 feet (no diss to the French, but it was complètement fou!). The documentary starring the real Petit, who’s still alive today, was harrowing enough. In IMAX 3D? We’ll stick to ground-level films, thank you very much. Robert Zemeckis directs.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon, Ben Kingsley co-star. (PG) 123 minutes.

WRENCHED (SPECIAL SCREENING): Edward Abbey started a different kind of environmental movement—the kind that would not sit down or shut up. He wrote the manual on how to get people’s attention on environmental issues, and not everyone liked it, nor the method of its madness, but his extreme protest actions inspired people to reclaim their Earth in whatever ways were necessary.

Ventana Wilderness Alliance presents a special screening of this documentary at the Del Mar Theatre on Oct. 1. at 7 p.m. Edward Abbey, Dave Foreman, and Robert Redford co-star. (NR) 120 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. For location and discussion topic, go to https:// groups.google.com/group/LTATM.

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 way 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.

Stewart might even crack that face with some more 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.

BLACK MASS Just when you thought you’d seen Johnny Depp at his creepiest, he puts on jagged tiny teeth and a blondish receding hairline to become the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston. While it’s true that a terrible film can still feature a brilliant cast, Black Mass shows true promise with Depp as mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, Joel Edgerton as his ally in the

FBI, Benedict Cumberbatch as his senator brother, and a smattering of genre crossovers like Adam Scott, David Harbour, and Corey Stoll. Scott Cooper directs. (R) 122 minutes.

EVEREST As eight Everest climbers make their way up the summit, a massive storm hits and it’s every man for himself. Goosebumps are inevitable when watching this harrowing tale of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster and the survival attempts of two expedition groups. The star-studded (yet just gritty enough to be believable) cast includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke, Sam Worthington, Robin Wright, and Keira Knightley. Baltasar Kormákur directs. (PG-13) 121 minutes.

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 Last time Adam Sandler tried to make a movie, half the cast walked off the set, so it’s probably best that this time he leaves the directing to Genndy Tartakovsky, sticks to a children's film and plays an animated character so nobody can see his face. (Too mean?

We say too true.) In the second round of Hotel Transylvania, Dracula is elated to be a grandvampire, except that Johnny and Mavis’ baby is halfvampire, half-human, and with his foofy mess of red curls, adorable face and very apparent lack of fangs, he’s not quite living up to his family legacy. Andy Samberg and Selena Gomez co-star.

(PG) 89 minutes.

THE INTERN Robert De Niro is the intern and Anne Hathaway is his boss.

Yes, yes, we know—role reversal, oh, the irony! (Of the Alanis Morissette variety, obviously.) Chortles aside, Robert De Niro could bring a certain element of heartwarming nostalgia to this critique of the baby-driven entrepreneurial movement behind modern tech companies and startups. Or the whole thing could just be a big old schmaltz fest with Hathaway crying a lot. We all know how she loves to cry. Nancy Meyers directs. Rene Russo co-stars. (PG-13) 121 minutes.

LEARNING TO DRIVE Ben Kingsley plays a Sikh driving instructor who, through wise parables and street know-how, teaches a New York writer with marriage troubles how to take

the wheel, both on the road and in the rest of her life. Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, Sarita Choudhury, Grace Gummer and Samantha Bee from The Daily Show co-star. Isabel Coixet directs. (R) 90 minutes.

MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS Oh, oh, oh, it’s Littlefinger from Game of Thrones and the Effy from BBC’s Skins—plus that adorable kid also from Thrones. Memorable faces aside, the movie’s about a bunch of children who escape an experimental facility and venture out into the desolate landscape of “The Scorch,” where they’re hunted. And … zombies? It’s a teen flick, but it still looks better than those Shailene Woodley Hunger Games knockoffs.

Wes Ball directs. Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster co-star. (PG-13) 131 minutes.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE- ROGUE NATION At this point, audiences may 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.

THE NEW GIRLFRIEND Laura and Claire have been friends since they were children, inseparable since their youngest moments, so it comes as a devastating blow when Laura suddenly becomes ill and dies, leaving behind her husband, David, to raise their newborn daughter.

Claire soon discovers that David has had a secret all along in this dramatic exploration into identities, secrets, and hidden lives—which looks very dramatic and very French. François Ozon directs. Romain Duris, Anaïs Demoustier, Raphaël Personnaz costar. (R) 108 minutes.

THE PERFECT GUY Leah is at the top of her game—good job, great boyfriend, genuine friends—but, she wants the house with the kids as well. When her all-star boyfriend doesn’t measure up, she moves on—right into the arms of the ohso-suave Carter, who, at first glance, seems completely perfect. Except Carter (played by the gorgeously blue-eyed Michael Ealy) has got a temper, and when Leah tries to distance herself she finds that he’s not all that easy to get rid of. David M. Rosenthal directs. Michael Ealy, Sanaa Lathan, and Morris Chestnut co-star. (PG-13) 100 minutes.

STONEWALL Regardless of who threw the first brick in the pivotal moments of the 1969 Stonewall riots, it’s a story that is crucial to this nation’s history. It’s also just as important to remember the transgender leaders of color that many argue have been written into supporting roles in this film when, in reality, they led the movement—like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, who many debate might have thrown that first brick, instead of the white gay male in Stonewall. Controversy aside, it’s a glimpse into horrendous brutality and discrimination against LGBTQ members, and the most visible—though not the first—point in history where they took a stand against it. Roland Emmerich directs.

Jeremy Irvine, Jonny Beauchamp, Joey King co-star. (R) 129 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.

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BEYOND THE CLOUDS Mozaic co-owner Jay Dib with lamb kabob in his new, remodeled restaurant.

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Weekly rotation at the Popup space (next door to Assembly) will start off on Wednesdays with breads and pastries from Manresa Bread, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Ah, the exceptionally fragrant levain bread, the ryes, the shameless tarts.

Also quite a convenient pit stop for you Farmers Market devotées.

On Thursdays, Mortal Dumpling seduces with its spice-and-kimchipartnered handmade dumplings and bao, from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. And on Fridays, seriously intriguing ramen

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WINE HARVEST DINNER AT CABRILLO Plan to join culinary students of Cabrillo Culinary and Wine program as they serve a multi-course dinner of seasonal creations, paired with wines from a half dozen top Santa Cruz Mountains vineyards. The protegés of program chefs Jeremy MacVeigh, Eric Carter and director Sue Slater will offer salmon three ways, followed by a salad of apples, walnuts, Gorgonzola and arugula.

An entree of braised short ribs with baby vegetables and polenta with wild mushroom ragu will be followed by assorted cookies and chocolates.

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FIRST DINNER AT MOZAIC Open for one month, the new Mediterranean eatery Mozaic, attractively housed inside the former Clouds downtown location, offers genuine hospitality—thanks to hands-on owners Jay Dib and Jerees Rohana—as well as beautiful murals by Russian artist Lana

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Loukianenko. Armed with garlicky arugula pesto and ciabatta bread, we admired the painted view of Venice’s multi-domed Santa Maria della Salute, rendered in a clever and atmospheric trompe l’oeil mural that covers the entire back wall. Opulent central chandelier of hand-blown globes, Turkish wall hangings and warm lighting enhance the dining room, which still adjoins the action at the very well-stocked full bar.

In any new dining room, there’s always lots of fine-tuning that occurs as the weeks and months go by, and we look forward to another visit once the kitchen hits its stride.

We began with a shared mezze platter ($13) from the huge menu that ranges from Greek kabobs, gyros, souvlaki, to Italian pastas and many vegetarian items. We enjoyed the tightly wrapped dolmas and the feather-light spinach cheese spanikopita, made even more tangy with dips into the accompanying yogurt tzatziki sauce. The dolmas had the rich, deep haunting flavor of grape-vine leaves, which invokes for me memories of Crete.

My companion, with fond memories of the year he lived in Greece, hoped for less timid spicing in both the very mild baba ghanoush and hummus. Each one needed more definition, more garlic, and some salt. A grilled half artichoke held down the generous platter, served with very grilled pita triangles. We loved one entree of lamb kabobs ($25), two skewers of tender, beautiful lamb “filet mignon,” as one owner described it. Accompanied by a very tart Greek salad and rice pilaf, the lamb was the star of our dinner. Another order of octopus ($13) arrived without enough in the way of flavor or tenderness.

I look forward to the kitchen at Mozaic inflecting its menu of wonderful Middle Eastern and Greek classics with more bold, ethnic flavors. I would also welcome menu additions of some Greek wines as well as the curiously astringent and utterly authentic retsina. We very much enjoyed glasses of Alfaro Family Pinot Noir, generous pours for $10, with our first dinner at Mozaic. We’ll be back soon to check out further progress. 110 Church St., Santa Cruz. Open daily from 11 a.m.

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WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? Gary Willett of Gary’s Old Fashioned Snappy Dogs let the dogs out. Also pictured: Snappy the Dog.

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K, so you’re craving a hot dog. For God’s sake, stay away from Wienerschnitzel.

And don’t waste your money on a 7-Eleven hot dog, either—who knows how long they’ve been there! Besides, the best hot dogs in town are sold out of a cart in front of U-Save Liquors.

That’s Gary’s Old Fashioned Snappy Dogs, run by Gary Willett and his sidekick, a little cocker spaniel named Snappy the Dog. He parks his cart in front of U-Save Liquors during the week, and in the Ingalls Street complex on weekends.

Why do you sell out of a cart?

Because I had the cart. Years ago, I had them around the state capitol in Sacramento. When I walked away from that, I kept the cart. I was in the wine business. I came to sell wine to U-Save. I mentioned the hot dog cart, and they jumped at the idea. It’s a high-traffic store, and it has a discerning customer. This is a retirement for me.

Why are your dogs so good?

It’s an all-beef dog, and it’s made by a German family that used to be a company. It’s a specially made hot dog

for me. I compare it with anything from the East Coast or Chicago. And I use some Corralitos [Market and Sausage Company] meats for the sausages. They’ve been a sausage company since the late 1800s.

I hear you make a great chili sauce.

People accuse me of putting addictive substances in it. It’s a homemade chili sauce. I learned it from a family that had a restaurant in Sacramento years ago called the Capitol Tamale Café. It really complements the dog or any of the sausages. It’s my secret sauce, if you will.

Did you name your cart after your dog?

The cart was named before the dog.

I was here a year already when I got this little black cocker spaniel, and my business name is Gary’s Old Fashioned Snappy Dogs. I had two choices. I had “Gary.” All that was left was “Snappy” or “Dog.” So I named him “Snappy the Dog.” Snappy’s a part of my show out here. He’s been out here for eight years.

Gary’s cart is in front of U-Save Liquors, 930 Almar Ave, Santa Cruz, during the week; and at 334 Ingalls St, Santa Cruz on weekends.

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Sunday, Oct. 4, Scotts Valley Community Center, 360 Kings Village Road, Scotts Valley. Visit Hospicesantacruz.org/ Oktoberfest. Admission is free.

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Grapes were harvested from Central Avenue Vineyard near Greenfield in Monterey–an area that can get mighty hot in summer, but provides the right amount of warmth and overnight cooling during the growing season.

Cinnabar’s tasting room is in the heart of Saratoga and a splendid place to visit. They make a goodly number of varietals and hold regular live music events on the patio or in the Mudd Room (named after winery founder, the late Tom Mudd). Cinnabar Winery’s tasting room is at 14612 Big Basin Way, Saratoga, (408) 867-1012.

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+ RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES A RITUAL & INITIATION The Pope has come and gone, but his loving presence ignited new hope and goodness in many. While he was in NYC, China’s ruler arrived in Washington D.C. East (China) and West (Rome), meeting in the middle, under Libra, balancing sign of Right Relations. The Pope arrived at Fall Equinox. Things initiated at Fall Equinox are birthed at Winter Solstice.

The Pope’s presence was a ritual, an initiation rite—like the Dalai Lama’s visits— offering prayers, teachings and blessings.

Rituals anchor God’s plan into the world, initiating us to new realities, new rules. The Pope’s presence brings forth the Soul of the United States, its light piercing the veils of materialism.

The Pope’s visit changed things. New questions arise, new reasons for living. A new

wave of emerging life fills the air. Like a cocoon shifting, wings becoming visible. The winds are different now. Calling us to higher vision, moral values, virtues that reaffirm and offer hope for humanity. A changing of the guard has occurred.

Appropriately, this is the week of the Jewish Festival of Sukkoth (’til Oct. 4), when we build temporary homes (little huts in nature), entering into a harvest of prayer and thanksgiving, understanding our fragile and impermanent existences. We are summoned to reflect upon our lives, our humanity, our nature, our spirit and each other. Offering gratitude, becoming a magnet for others. We observe. We see the needs. We love more.

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Are you seeking more intimacy with loved ones? Are you also seeking to show your love more? Are you expressing yourself with more creativity and passion, while also being humorous and entertaining? Careful.

There’s so much light in you that others may feel you’re glowing too brightly, and may want to compete. Let them win. You know you’re the first and the best.

It’s a special time of change, transformation, intimacy and a focus on shared resources. You will subtly touch on all these issues. If you are an artist, this is a time to be in your studio creating beautifully inspired works. Be equally creative with your money and resources. Invest in land. Invest in those you love. Invest in the family. No one is taught this anymore. Now you know a secret of the wealthy.

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Do you feel it? When others come in contact with you they’re puzzled. What is it that’s different, they wonder.

Your personality light dims as your Soul light shines.

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Sleep well.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Working with your finances and resources becomes interesting when you apply all you have to create a future that is sustainable and ecological for not only you and family, but for humanity. Many will come where you are when the many changes begin. Your mind is filled with more opportunities and ideas as you work with others, each of whom have their specific gifts.

Nurture them.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 You’re finding yourself back in time, interacting with people from the past. You’re being given an opportunity to fulfill long-held hopes and wishes. As you perform daily work you realize success. It’s taken years to come to this place of understanding. Your gifts and skills are seen, recognized and appreciated. You touch everyone’s heart. This is Soul work.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 Work will become busy, offering new structures and disciplines. You have, in the past, felt overworked with no room for creative endeavors. Your mind is fertile with possibilities. Something reveals itself soon. Perhaps you’re thinking of distant places and people. You long for loving care. Look not at the past, but live in peace and unity at this time.

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 While Mercury as messenger aligns with Sun and Venus (in Libra), your mind is figuring out what you want to accomplish in the coming months. You’re busy helping others, always working behind the scenes, reading books on religion, seeking respite and seclusion in your garden. All of these prepare you for a loving and transformed future.

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 Are you realizing how important your place and responsibilities are in the world? Do you see you’ve come to an end, a culmination of past ambitions and achievements? More goals and responsibility will come forth later, placing you in the public eye. You will assume your position with grace, creating Right Relations and harmony. Many learn from you. Be aware of this.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 Come closer to the ones you love. Be aware of the passage of time and have the intention to be kinder to everyone. You will reap many benefits from this. Contact releases love. With more contact, more love is released. This nourishes and nurtures you in return, which you need. But you must initiate.

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DESIREE COPENHAFER & SONI REED. 2628 B. SOQUEL DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95065. This business is conducted by a Co-partnership signed: DESIREE COPENHAFER. 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 Aug. 26, 2015. Sept 16, 23, 30, & Oct. 7.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1507The following Married Couple is doing business as A - 1 JANITORIAL SERVICE. 80 JEANETTE WAY, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076.

County of Santa Cruz. HUGO SANCHEZ & RAMONA SANCHEZ. 80 JEANETTE WAY, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. This business is conducted by a Married Couple signed: RAMONA SANCHEZ. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 9/15/1987. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Aug. 25, 2015. Sept. 23, 30, & Oct. 7, 14.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1610The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as REVELRY SUPPLY. 150 DUBOIS ST. UNIT B, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. CALIBER TRUCK CO., LLC. 150 DUBOIS ST. UNIT B, SANTA CRUZ, CA

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95060. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: SPENCER JOSEPH. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/1/2013.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Sept. 10, 2015. Sept.

23, 30, & Oct. 7, 14.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1642The following Individual is doing business as NOODLE KING. 1717 MISSION ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. JIANBIN MO. 1717 MISSION ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JIANBIN MO. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Sept.

17, 2015. Sept. 23, 30, & Oct. 7, 14.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15 - 1575The following Individual is doing business as PERSEPHONE'S LADDER MUSIC. 25800 ADAMS ROAD, LOS GATOS, CA 95033. County of Santa Cruz. LORNA KOHLER. 25800 ADAMS ROAD, LOS GATOS, CA 95033. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: LORNA KOHLER. The registrant commenced

to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 9/4/15. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Sept.

4, 2015. Sept. 23, 30, & Oct. 7, 14.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1641The following Individual is doing business as FLOOR HUGGERS. 130 ANTHONY ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. ZACH LISKE. 130 ANTHONY ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ZACH LISKE. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Sept.

17, 2015. Sept. 23, 30, & Oct. 7, 14 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1618 The following Corporation is doing business as HUMBLE SEA BREWING COMPANY. 355 NORTH STREET, BEN LOMOND, CA 95005.

County of Santa Cruz.

HUMBLE SEA, INC. 355 NORTH STREET, BEN LOMOND, CA 95005. AI# 3780261. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: TAYLOR WEST. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This

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statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Sept.

11, 2015. Sept. 30, & Oct. 7, 14, 21.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1636The following Individual is doing business as IN HOME ACUPUNCTURE SERVICES. 1415 EL DORADO AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz.

TIFFANY TUFTEE. 1415 EL DORADO AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: TIFFANY TUFTEE. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Sept.

16, 2015. Sept. 30, & Oct. 7, 14, 21.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1686The following Individual is doing business as HAMILTON CONSULTING. County of Santa Cruz. 620 BRECKENRIDGE LN., SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MARK SWAN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Sept.

24, 2015. Sept. 30, & Oct. 7, 14, 21.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15 - 1640The following General Partnership is doing business as GRINS & GIGGLES FACE ART. 3218 FOREST PARK LANE, APTOS, CA 95003. County of Santa Cruz. ALEXANDRA CLAY & MY TRAN. 3218 FOREST PARK LANE, APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: ALEXANDRA CLAY. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 8/10/2015.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Sept. 16, 2015. Sept 30, & Oct. 7, 14, 21.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1663The following Individual is doing business as HBMEDIA.US. 3218 FOREST PARK LANE, APTOS, CA 95003. County of Santa Cruz. HOLGER BLECH. 3218 FOREST PARK LANE, APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: HOLGER BLECH. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 8/5/2015.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Sept. 21, 2015. Sept. 30, & Oct. 7, 14, 21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1569The following Individual is doing business as GOOD DOG SANTA CRUZ. 421 EFFEY ST. SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz.

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421 EFFEY ST. SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MARDELLE RICHMOND. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 9/1/2013.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Sept. 3, 2015. Sept.16, 23, 30, & Oct. 7.

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