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EDITOR’S NOTE I have some extremely vivid memories of the 1997 El Niño in Santa Cruz.

I saw people’s backyards—trees, lawn furniture, swing sets, everything—floating through Steamer Lane because they’d been washed into the San Lorenzo River. I saw a wave rise up onto the roadway and crash over a Metro bus.

I was housesitting most of that December for two good friends in Happy Valley, in a place next to a creek, and before they left, one of them said “If the El Niño rains get bad enough this month, the creek might flood. Try to save the dogs and the records.” I laughed, because that’s what you do when someone says that.

Four weeks later, I was definitely not laughing, as the water crept up

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First, many thanks to the Santa Cruz City Council, which voted last Tuesday, Nov. 3 to seek to purchase the entire half-acre Beach Flats Community Garden site, leased for the past 20 years from the Seaside Company (GT, 11/4). And thanks to Mayor Don Lane, council members and the city officials who conducted two subsequent meetings with the Beach Flats Community Garden users and the supportive coalition from the general Santa Cruz community.

After that seeming victory, the city met with Seaside Company representatives and came away with a very different deal: to downsize the footprint of the garden by 40 percent, completely remove all present beds and vegetation, including many trees, and to allocate much smaller beds to only 17 of the current total of 25 gardeners. The meeting space under a heritage tree was to be preserved. The new lease—not purchase— was to be for another three years.

The common response of the community and gardeners, expressed in many contrasting ways and tones, was that they—we—want “todos” of the garden

near the top of the banks on one excruciating, sleepless night. The sound of footsteps outside turned out to be a neighbor pacing the water line, literally watching to see what the fate of his home was going to be. My girlfriend and I were up all night—like most of the San Lorenzo Valley, probably—waiting for the moment we had to grab those dogs and those records.

The moment never came. But when I read Maria Grusauskas’ cover story this week about the likely return of El Niño this year, all those memories came flooding back, no pun intended. In the story, Gary Griggs talks about how we’ve been sort of spoiled by almost two decades of moderate winters since then, and many people who live here now have never experienced an El Niño in Santa Cruz. If they do, I hope their memories don’t end up quite as hair-raising as mine.

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preserved as it is: all 25 gardeners having space; preserving all communal space and structures for tools and equipment; keeping the food-crop trees which were planted by the gardeners and are now wellgrown; preserving the present large beds containing ancestral food plants shared with neighbors and from the gardeners’ homeland south of the border.

City officials say that acquiescing to Seaside Company’s terms is their only option, and that using the city’s power of eminent domain to acquire the land for a fair or even generous market price is not an option—it takes too long, and requires a supermajority (5 out of 7 of the council) even to begin the process. The city has never in its entire history used eminent domain to acquire property, according to City Manager Martín Bernal. In the meantime, if the lease deal is not signed, the Seaside Company can evict the sublessors, the gardeners, after the lease termination date on Nov. 13.

Meanwhile, the Santa Cruz General Plan, if applied to Beach Flats, would mandate approximately four acres of park/green space in this area—eight times the present half-acre footprint of the Beach Flats Garden.

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The Golden State Warriors are the hottest team in the NBA, and the only undefeated team left (at 8-0). Former Santa Cruz Warrior James Michael McAdoo has played 40 strong minutes, but there’s always room for improvement. On Saturday night, reigning MVP Stephen Curry yelled, “Hey Mac, make a free throw, man!” McAdoo is just 5-15 from the line this season.

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Take half of it and put it away for my kids, buy myself a new car and put the rest in my bank account to watch it whittle away.

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Urbandictionary.com defines the English word “balter” as follows: “to dance without particular skill or grace, but with extreme joy.” It’s related to the Danish term baltre, which means “to romp, tumble, roll, cavort.” I nominate this activity to be one of your ruling metaphors in the coming weeks. You have a mandate to explore the frontiers of amusement and bliss, but you have no mandate to be polite and polished as you do it. To generate optimal levels of righteous fun, your experiments may have to be more than a bit rowdy.

Normally I charge $270 an hour for the kind of advice I’m about to offer, but I’m giving it to you at no cost. For now, at least, I think you should refrain from relying on experts. Be skeptical of professional opinions and highly paid authorities. The useful information you need will come your way via chance encounters, playful explorations, and gossipy spies. Folk wisdom and street smarts will provide better guidance than elite consultants. Trust curious amateurs; avoid somber careerists.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 You’ve arrived at a crossroads. From here, you could travel in one of four directions, including back toward where you came from. You shouldn’t stay here indefinitely, but on the other hand you’ll be wise to pause and linger for a while. Steep yourself in the mystery of the transition that looms. Pay special attention to the feelings that rise up as you visualize the experiences that may await you along each path. Are there any holy memories you can call on for guidance? Are you receptive to the tricky inspiration of the fertility spirits that are gathered here? Here’s your motto: Trust, but verify.

Some athletes think it’s unwise to have sex before a big game. They believe it diminishes the raw physical power they need to excel. For them, abstinence is crucial for victory. But scientific studies contradict this theory. There’s evidence that boinking increases testosterone levels for both men and women. Martial artist Ronda Rousey subscribes to this view. She says she has “as much sex as possible” before a match. Her approach must be working.

She has won all of her professional fights, and Sports Illustrated calls her “the world’s most dominant athlete.”

As you approach your equivalent of the “big game,” Scorpio, I suggest you consider Rousey’s strategy.

GEMINI May21–June20

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English model and TV personality Katie Price has been on the planet for just 37 years, but has already written four autobiographies. You Only Live Once, for instance, covers the action-packed time between 2008 and 2010, when she got divorced and then remarried in a romantic Las Vegas ceremony. I propose that we choose this talkative, self-revealing Gemini to be your spirit animal and role model. In the coming weeks, you should go almost to extremes as you express the truth about who you have been, who you are, and who you will become.

If you were embarking on a 100-mile hike, would you wear new boots that you purchased the day before your trip? Of course not. They wouldn’t be broken in. They'd be so stiff and unyielding that your feet would soon be in agony. Instead, you would anchor your trek with supple footwear that had already adjusted to the idiosyncrasies of your gait and anatomy. Apply a similar principle as you prepare to launch a different long-term exploit. Make yourself as comfortable as possible

CANCER Jun21–Jul22 A flier on a telephone pole caught my eye. It showed a photo of a 9-year-old male cat named Bubby, whose face was contorted in pain. A message from Bubby’s owner revealed that her beloved pet desperately needed expensive dental work. She had launched a campaign at gofundme.com to raise the cash. Of course I broke into tears, as I often do when confronted so viscerally with the suffering of sentient creatures. I longed to donate to Bubby’s well-being. But I thought, “Shouldn’t I funnel my limited funds to a bigger cause, like the World Wildlife Fund?” Back home an hour later, I sent $25 to Bubby.

After analyzing the astrological omens for my own sign, Cancer the Crab, I realized that now is a time to adhere to the principle “Think globally, act locally” in every way imaginable.

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How well do you treat yourself? What do you do to ensure that you receive a steady flow of the nurturing you need? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are now primed to expand and intensify your approach to self-care. If you’re alert to the possibilities, you will learn an array of new life-enhancing strategies.

Here are two ideas to get you started: 1. Imagine at least three acts of practical love you can bestow on yourself.

2. Give yourself three gifts that will promote your healing and stimulate your pleasure.

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To activate your full potential in the coming weeks, you don’t need to scuba-dive into an underwater canyon or spelunk into the pitch blackness of a remote cave or head out on an archaeological dig to uncover the lost artifacts of an ancient civilization. But I recommend that you consider trying the metaphorical equivalent of those activities. Explore the recesses of your own psyche, as well as those of the people you love. Ponder the riddles of the past and rummage around for lost treasure and hidden truths. Penetrate to the core, the gist, the roots.

The abyss is much friendlier than usual! You have a talent for delving deep into any mystery that will be important for your future.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 Here’s how Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins: “Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” The preface I’d write for your upcoming adventures would be less extreme, but might have a similar tone. That’s because I expect you to do a lot of meandering. At times your life may seem like a shaggy-dog story with no punchline in sight. Your best strategy will be to cultivate an amused patience; to stay relaxed and unflappable as you navigate your way through the enigmas, and not demand easy answers or simple lessons. If you take that approach, intricate answers and many-faceted lessons will eventually arrive.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 The Confederation of African Football prohibits the use of magic by professional soccer teams. Witch doctors are forbidden to be on the field during a match, and they are not supposed to spray elixirs on the goals or bury consecrated talismans beneath the turf. But most teams work around the ban. Magic is viewed as an essential ingredient in developing a winning tradition. Given the current astrological omens, I invite you to experiment with your own personal equivalent of this approach.

Don’t scrimp on logical analysis, of course. Don’t stint on your preparation and discipline. But also be mischievously wise enough to call on the help of some crafty mojo.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 Slavery is illegal everywhere in the world. And yet there are more slaves now than at any other time in history: at least 29 million. A disproportionate percentage of them are women and children. After studying your astrological omens, I feel you are in a phase when you can bestow blessings on yourself by responding to this predicament.

How? First, express gratitude for all the freedoms you have. Second, vow to take full advantage of those freedoms. Third, brainstorm about how to liberate any part of you that acts or thinks or feels like a slave. Fourth, lend your energy to an organization that helps to free slaves. Start here: http://bit.ly/liberateslaves.

Homework: Take a guess about what your closest ally most needs to learn in order to be happier. FreeWillAstrology.com

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Please do it. Negotiate with Seaside from a position of power, the real power to grant permits for land use under zoning laws and the General Plan. Seaside Company surely has plans for the many properties it owns in the Beach Flats area, and they need the city's permits for everything they do. We will

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WAGES WAR UCSC sociology professor Steve McKay, who spoke at a press conference for a new report

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Brutes of Labor New report uncovers employer abuses in Santa Cruz County’s low-wage economy BY PATRICK DWIRE

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arlos Rodriguez, a construction laborer in Santa Cruz County, needed money and took a quick job pouring and finishing concrete— but his compensation never came.

“The boss just left at the end of the day—we agreed we would get paid at the end of the day, and he was just gone,” Rodriguez told a crowd of about 30 people at the Watsonville Civic Plaza Community Room on Thursday, Nov. 5., with the help of a translator.

Rodriguez was one of several speakers at a launch event for the Working for Dignity Project, a newly released report on low-income jobs

and working conditions in Santa Cruz County.

After failing to get any response from several phone messages, Rodriguez asked for help from the Day Worker Center of Santa Cruz County, where he had originally received the job referral, Rodriguez said. Eventually, the employer told the Day Worker Center staff that he had just put the check in the mail. A week later, the employer said some mistake had been made, and the check would be sent that day. Now, months later, Rodriguez still has not been paid, and a formal “wage theft” claim has been filed with the California Labor Commission with the assistance of the Day Worker Center.

A newly released study of lowwage workers in Santa Cruz County documents the struggle to make ends meet in one of the least-affordable housing markets in the nation. It also shows systematic patterns of abuse in terms of wage theft, inadequate break times and retaliation against workers who speak out against the mistreatment.

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“What world are we living in?”

That was a gregarious Gavin Newsom’s repeated question for Monterey Bay leaders last week. Guests at a summit on the economy and other issues were treated to a fascinating look into the possible future of California—with Newsom, the keynote speaker, front and center.

In his remarks at the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership’s “State of the Region” conference at Chaminade Resort, Newsom, California’s lieutenant governor, encouraged listeners to embrace the world of rapidly advancing technology. He pushed the crowd of politicians and business people to think critically about the daunting challenges that this new economic landscape poses. All the while, Newsom kept the room roaring with laughter with asides and selfeffacing jabs at his own expense.

The election is still three years away, but Newsom, who served as San Francisco mayor from 2004 to 2011, is running hard to be the state’s next governor, having announced his candidacy in February.

“There’s nothing unusual about someone running for governor this far in advance,” says Dan Schnur, director of USC’s Unruh Institute of Politics. “What is unusual is making the announcement official so early.”

The more typical approach, Schnur mentions, is to begin “exploring” a run for office, like former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is doing right now as he travels through the Central Valley, listening to people’s stories. Analysts assume that Villaraigosa will jump into the race, too, but he has been keeping relatively quiet, unlike the lieutenant governor.

“Give him credit,” Schnur says of Newsom’s decision to announce this year. “He didn’t want to spend the next two years playing semantic games. He decided this is something he’s prepared to do, and he’s been very straightforward about it.”

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Every month, Mireya GomezContreras, Director of the Day Labor Center of Santa Cruz County, processes an average of three to four cases of workers not getting paid for work performed across all sectors of lowwage occupations, she says, “from hotel workers, casual laborers, men and women.”

“These claims range from a day to a week of unpaid labor,” GomezContreras says. “The most difficult thing for me is those workers who stay silent—who decide not to pursue a claim, because it was ‘just a day,’ or

‘just a few days’—because we know that employer is going to do it again.”

A more common problem than outright wage theft is workers not getting paid for overtime hours. Fully 38 percent of the workers surveyed reported being cheated out of overtime pay, the legally mandated time-andhalf paid for hours worked in excess of eight hours a day or 40 hours a week. “Wage theft,” as it’s called, can be overt, with bosses not paying timeand-half for extra hours worked. Or it can be more subtle—accumulated in 15 and 30-minute increments over the course of a work week that aren’t counted.

“This is a really insidious problem,” says Gretchen Regenhardt, lead attorney for California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA). “There seems to be no end to the different ways it happens because of the truly imaginative ways employers find to cheat their workers.”

A similar epidemic is many employers’ failure to provide legally required breaks—the mandated 15 minutes every four hours and a minimum 30-minute lunch break per eight-hour work shift.

Many employers hide these violations by not providing legally required pay stubs stating earnings and deductions, according to the report. Forty percent of low-wage workers reported not receiving adequate documentation—showing how much and for how many hours they were getting paid—with their paychecks. And 11.5 percent received no pay stubs at all. Without proper pay documentation, there is no way for workers to know whether or not they are getting ripped off, and if so, by how much.

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suffered gunshot wounds every year, according to the Center for Disease Control. In total, 8,300 of those people died, 2,300 of them children.

It was October’s shooting in Oregon, Noroyan says, that made her reflect on her opportunity to recommend gun laws for Santa Cruz. Later that day when she heard President Barack Obama’s frustrated speech about lawmakers’ refusal to prevent gun deaths, she knew she had to do something.

“When he said ‘this has become routine,’ it made me sick to my stomach,” she says, “and he’s absolutely right.”

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SCHOOL BUCKS Alisun Thompson has been walking precincts with her two kids, a high school senior and a sophomore, to raise awareness about Measures O and P, which will support local public schools.

“It’s great when we can involve

the youth. It’s a great impact,” she says. “Kids’ testimony about the things parcel tax funds really resonates with voters.”

Measure P is an extension of a current $105 annual parcel tax supporting Santa Cruz elementary schools, which is set to expire. Measure O is $72 annual tax to support Santa Cruz City School District’s three high schools: Santa Cruz High, Harbor High and Soquel High. The money goes toward arts, sports, Regional Occupation Programs, and supporting science, technology and engineering initiatives.

Endorsers include California Sen. Bill Monning, Assemblymember Mark Stone, four county supervisors, Sheriff Jim Hart, and all seven Santa Cruz city councilmembers. No argument was filed against it, and there’s no formal opposition.

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It often takes a Santa Cruz city councilmember two years to find their footing, but Richelle Noroyan, who was sworn in in December of 2014, is already proposing her first ordinance change, a piece of gun reform.

Shortly after she was elected, she says, someone approached Noroyan with the suggestion. “I liked the idea, but we were going through some controversial legislation. And then there were my own concerns, and the learning curve of being on the council,” Noryan says.

Her concerns basically boiled down to overzealous gun enthusiasts, like the one who threatened California Assemblymember Bruce Bozman’s office over the phone when she interned at the state capital in 1992. The caller was arrested shortly after with a loaded assault rifle as he left his driveway.

Noroyan’s new proposal would require gun owners to report the theft of a firearm within five days of it going missing. It would also require people to keep any loaded guns either on their person, locked away, or disabled with a trigger lock.

She hopes those two changes, which appear before the council on Tuesday, Nov. 24, will help prevent shootings and suicides.

According to a 2011 national poll, 94 percent of people support requiring people to report stolen or missing guns. Ten states require reporting missing guns, as do 11 communities across California, and there’s evidence that keeping guns lying around the house is a serious problem.

According to the Secret Service and the Department of Education, 65 percent of school shooters obtained their weapons from their home or a relative, according to an investigation between 1974 and 2000.

Between 1999 and 2010, says Noroyan, 16,000 people

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WIN SOME, NEWSOM If Gavin Newsom is elected governor in 2018, his strategy of announcing his candidacy early could catch on. PHOTO: CHARLIE NGUYEN

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day 2018, Newsom could either become a trendsetter or an example of what not to do.

“In politics, like in most areas of life, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery,” Schnur says.

“If Gavin Newsom gets elected, announcing early will become a strategy. If he doesn’t, then not so much.”

In his speech at the Santa Cruz conference, he quoted Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King, Winston Churchill, Greek philosopher Plutarch, Airbnb founder Brian Chesky, a few authors, and a couple of his friends. The sixth-generation San Franciscan even has a bit of a southern drawl—sounding more these days like Matthew McConaughey than a Bay Area native.

“I am literally up and down this state,” Newsom told the crowd of almost 300. “I was milking cows in Hanford. You know someone is running for governor when they’re milking cows in Hanford.”

The hotly contested Proposition F, which Newsom opposed, had been defeated just the day before, and Newsom invoked it early in

his speech. The initiative aimed to crack down on vacation rentals in San Francisco, many of them through sites like Airbnb.com, which is headquartered there. It would have limited short-term rentals to 75 days a year and beefed up enforcement. Newsom said its defeat shows that voters are ready to embrace a different kind of economy.

“As we’ve gone from something old to something new, there’s a recognition that the industrial economy has run out of gas. It’s an atrophy. It’s stalled,” Newsom said.

Newsom’s argument was that in the information age, California leaders need to foster the emerging tech economy, instead of trying to slow it down.

To further that point, the former San Francisco supervisor invoked the reason he decided to run for mayor over a decade ago: his desire to reform the taxi industry—which, he admits, didn’t go exactly as planned. “It was a complete failure. What I did—I did what politicians do. I put together a task force to improve things. It bought me some time,” he says.

When cab fares continued skyrocketing and still no one could get a cab, Newsom decided to form a commission. When that didn’t work, he merged his task force into the commission to form “a super commission.”

“I was being rewarded the whole time,” he added. “It was amazing! People said, ‘Thank you for caring about this. Thank you for trying.’”

Then, Newsom mused, a young entrepreneur came along with a revolutionary cell phone application called Uber. Soon after the ridesharing app’s launch, taxi fares plummeted.

In one year, he said, Uber did more to fix the problem than he had done in 15 years.

Although Newsom’s overall message to Santa Cruz was positive, he did express anxieties about income inequalities and the future job market in a world where work can be replaced by machines or shipped overseas.

He wondered, for instance, what’s going to happen when UPS drivers and Uber drivers are replaced by self-driving vehicles. Santa Cruz Mayor Don Lane pressed him on that point, when he asked how to fight income inequality in this changing economy.

“The tech genie’s out of the bottle,” said Newsom, adding that he has served on six different panels in the last six months, each of them trying to answer this exact question.

Newsom said we’re living in a “401 K world,” one that’s no longer defined by benefits, but instead by contributions and portfolios. Next, he launched into a riveting story about his ride inside a self-driving Audi weeks earlier, getting up to 108 miles per hour on Sears Point Raceway, a wildly curving road in Sonoma County.

Then he looked back toward Lane.

“Now, you asked this question that I can’t answer, so this is me completely misdirecting the answer,” Newsom said, to more chuckles.

“I’m making it appear I’m smart, when in fact I don’t know anything. We have spent the past few months trying to answer this question, and it scares the hell out of me. The best folks we can find, they’re not able to answer this question. That’s how alarming it is. Someone said, ‘You know, we’re living in a world with no ceilings anymore and no walls, meaning limitless possibility. But also no floor.’”

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Based on the California Poverty Measure, which takes into account the high cost of housing, the poverty threshold for a family of four in Santa Cruz County was determined to be $32,884 in 2012.

That “threshold of poverty” translates into one $15.81 hourly wage.

The average wage of the workers surveyed was $12.37 an hour, with a median wage of only $10 an hour—an annual gross income of $20,800. That’s 63 percent of the income necessary for a household of four to stay above the poverty line.

The report emphasizes that job growth since the Great Recession, both locally and statewide, has been mostly in low-wage occupations, with a “hollowing out” of middle-class jobs since 2011. It notes that the county’s two biggest sectors, agriculture and tourism, are both heavily dependent on low-wage workers. The average age of workers surveyed was 35, compared to an average age of 40 in low-wage occupations statewide.

McKay, the sociology professor, says the larger community can help workers by supporting the community organizations that try to give low-wage workers more voice. He endorses a newly formed partnership between CRLA and the Day Worker Center to provide monthly wage and hour clinics that assist in processing claims of wage theft and other violations of basic worker rights.

McKay says the larger community should be more conscious of the fact that so much of what consumers depend on—the low prices for food and services many take for granted—is only possible because some people are getting paid very little.

“There are so many people who do the fundamental hard work that makes this community run, who are often invisible and who face all kinds of indignities in the workplace,” says McKay. “Our goal was to make the lowwage worker and their issues more visible, and really listen to them about their problems at work.”

For more information on the findings, visit workingfordignity.ucsc.edu. Working for Dignity will host a panel discussion on raising the minimum wage from 7-9 p.m., Nov. 19 at the Museum of Art & History.

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HILL WEEK Coach Casey Hill (second from right) leads D-League champions the Santa Cruz Warriors when they open their season on Friday, Nov. 13, at Kaiser Permanente Arena.

Doubling Down Why repeat championships are even harder in the D-League than the NBA BY STEVE PALOPOLI percent of last season’s team is currently playing overseas.

“Our whole freakin’ team’s over there,” says Weyermann.

That’s because D-League players, who earn relatively low wages while hoping to break into the NBA, can parlay the visibility and credibility of a D-League championship into a chance to play for some real money in a foreign league. They have to grab that opportunity while they have it, and no one in the Santa Cruz organization begrudges them for it.

But for the Santa Cruz Warriors’ new season, which starts Nov. 13 with a home game at Kaiser Permanente Arena against the Bakersfield Jam, it’s not so great.

“It’s hard, because you don’t maintain your core,” says Weyermann. “We start every year essentially brand new.”

And all those new guys coming

on to the team every year? They’re looking to fill up their stat sheets, since that’s the yardstick by which they’ll be judged by NBA scouts. (Oh, and in the NBA D-League, unlike minor leagues in other sports, scouts from other franchises can sign your players away.) Since individual play is what gets results for D-League players, they come in with very little motivation to prioritize the systems that create championship team play.

That’s where Weyermann says Santa Cruz Warriors coach Casey Hill has excelled.

“Casey getting our team to play as a team becomes a competitive advantage,” he says.

Hill’s strategy for winning another championship is particularly interesting: he doesn’t have one.

“I don’t expect to win a championship,” he says. With all the other pressures on D-League players,

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ith one NBA championship under their belts, the Golden State Warriors are dreaming of a dynasty.

But despite their fast start (8-0 as of press time), every basketball fan knows how hard it is to win back-toback titles in the NBA. Still, compared to what their Development League counterparts on the Santa Cruz Warriors are up against in trying to repeat as league champions, it’s a cakewalk.

“It’s not just hard to repeat,” says Santa Cruz Warriors President Jim Weyermann, “the system is designed to not allow a dynasty at the D-League level.”

What exactly are the Santa Cruz Warriors up against, after clinching their first D-League championship last season? Well, for starters, there’s the fact that roughly 80

“I’m not going to put that on their shoulders,” he says. Instead, he emphasizes the player development for which the D-League is designed.

Yet he’s had enormous success with several Santa Cruz Warriors teams in this brutal, almost antiteam system. What’s his secret?

“The first thing we do is create a really strong culture,” he says.

“Any new guys that come here, they aren’t bigger than that.”

But if he can see his players’ games and careers develop, get guys called up to the NBA, and then win a championship, well, that’s “a cherry on top of a very delicious sundae.”

Besides the coaching strategy and a few returning players, Weyermann says what gives a team like the Santa Cruz Warriors consistency is the quality of the scouting, always looking to the next year to reconstitute the team.

“Have you built a dynasty of basketball evaluators?” he asks.

“Because that’s how you build basketball dynasties.”

Unfortunately for the Warriors, Weyermann announced last week that he’s removing himself from this potential dynasty at the end of the season. He has been a tenacious fighter for both the Warriors and the Santa Cruz community, and it’s hard to imagine how he’ll be replaced. But he didn’t want to go through the arena process a second time, and felt he had to let the Warriors know that up front.

“I think everybody was a little jolted by the timing,” he admits.

“But if you know me, it’s pretty consistent with who I am.”

Besides, he claims with a laugh, the biggest percentage of emails he got were asking if his girlfriend, local nonprofit angel Angela Chestnut, was going to be leaving Santa Cruz because of this.

“Please tell people: Angela Chestnut is not leaving Santa Cruz,” he says. “She’s the reason that I’m staying here.”

Indeed, he is looking at some local and regional projects that he describes as “wild.” And his advice for the planners on the arena project would probably come in handy for the two Warriors teams defending their championships, too: “People need to stop talking about it, and just go do it.”

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STORM SURGE Top: The Soquel Avenue bridge crumbled into the San Lorenzo River after a storm in early January of 1982.

Bottom left: Seacliff Beach State Beach after an El Ni単o storm in 1983. Bottom right: East Cliff Drive near Corcoran Lagoon in the winter of 1983. PHOTOS: GARY GRIGGS

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with late afternoon sun and the briny smell of the Pacific.

The oceans are warming, the trade winds have already died down, and the usually bone-dry Atacama desert in northern Chile and southern Peru is blooming—a telltale sign that El Niño is upon us. There’s just one thing: if El Niño was, in fact, a boy child gathering strength inside the womb of the Pacific, his sonogram would be atypical, to say the least.

Yes, there’s that unmistakable band of warm water bulging along the equator—El Niño’s hallmark—but there are also large masses of warm water, creatively dubbed “the warm blob,” extending, as we have never seen before, from coastal U.S. and Mexico as far north as Alaska.

“We’ve got this incredible warming of the higher latitudes of the Pacific Ocean,” says Mantua, “and ocean temperatures have been record-high for the last two years. That makes this year unlike anything in our historical record.”

The anomalous “warm blob” is raising many questions about climate change and our future— including what this year’s El Niño winter will be like. Warmer oceans mean stronger storms and increased odds of above-average winter precipitation. But just how much rain is the boy child planning to bring us—enough to replenish our parched land? Will it unfold slow and steady like applause or come in fits and torrential downpours,

unleashing landslides, floods and hurricane-force winds like the ones that tormented California’s not-sodistant past?

“We know that no two El Niño events in the past have been the same, even though a lot of attention is being put on what happened in 1997-98 and 1983 [El Niños], because of similarities in the strength of this event to what those two events had, but there is no guarantee that we’ll see a repeat of all of the things that might stand out in people’s memories,” says Mantua. “Odds are there will be some surprises.”

Even with advanced technology— which includes some 70 buoys moored in the depths between Japan and the California Coast— climate prediction is a field riddled with unknowns, probabilities and conservative estimates. How does the saying go? Climate is what you predict and weather is what you get.

But one thing is certain: it’s probably going to rain this winter. Possibly, a lot. And maybe, in a way that Santa Cruz hasn’t seen in almost two decades.

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ast year, hopeful citizens banked on a wet winter and got the opposite—a meager 3.36 inches of rain in Santa Cruz County between January and March of 2015. It was the Great El Niño Fizzle, sparked by the promise of increased ocean temperatures and extinguished by the trade winds, which, in an El Niño event, need to slacken in order for all of that warm water to slosh back to our side of the Pacific.

This year, organizers of the Titans of Mavericks big-wave surf contest have already printed T-Shirts that say “EL NIÑO IS COMING,” and they are right to be excited for largerthan-average swells in the coming months. A much-belated El Niño is coming—the first in 18 years—and it may be the strongest since 1950, when oceanographic monitoring began.

“It’s right on schedule,” says Nate Mantua, Ph.D., a climate scientist for NOAA’s Southwest Fishery Science Center on the Westside. “I checked today, and temperatures in Southern California are about 5 degrees Celsius warmer than normal, or almost 10 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal.

Local waters are 5.5 degrees Fahrenheit above average, or in the low- to mid-60s, depending what the wind is doing.”

It’s Nov. 3, and Mantua’s office, which he shares with a 63-pound taxidermic king salmon, is awash

STORMY PAST In early January of 1982, a storm sat over the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Bay Area. The rain began to fall during the last quarter of the NFL championship game between the 49ers and New York Giants, pouring through the night and into

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“All you saw were trees sticking out and cars and pieces of houses, and it was right after Christmas so there were Christmas decorations, and there were 10 people buried under it all,” says Gary Griggs, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UCSC, where he’s taught since 1968, and the first geologist on the scene the morning after the storm. “And they never found them. Actually, one woman survived, she grabbed onto a tree as it went through her house at one in the morning.” To this day, residents of Love Creek still decorate a Christmas tree to remember those who died in the storm.

Mudslides also claimed houses in Aptos and Santa Cruz. Downtown,

the San Lorenzo River swelled over its banks near the County building, and soon after, the Soquel Avenue bridge collapsed. The river levees—constructed after the entire downtown flooded in 1955—came dangerously close to overflowing.

Soquel Village flooded, and the Old Mill Mobile Home Park was all but devastated.

“Everywhere we went, we saw pickup trucks filled with shovels, and people just driving around helping complete strangers,” recalls Aptos resident John Yung, who was a 16-year-old student at Harbor High at the time—the back field of which had flooded with 3 feet of water, prompting high-school students to paddle around it in a rubber raft.

Yung and four friends piled into his pickup and helped to dig out Soquel Auto—today the Soquel Post Office— which had filled with 2 feet of mud.

Then they decided to drive around and help residents. “Because that’s where people really needed help, especially the elderly,” he says.

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IS RETIRING! of Coastal Research, about 76 percent of the storms between 1910 and 1995 that caused significant erosion and structural damage along the California coast occurred during El NiĂąo years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What happened in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;83 was that those storms happened to coincide with high tides,â&#x20AC;? says Griggs. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the worst kind of timing, and the ocean encroached upon the land, flooding several areas of the county. Along the coast at Rio Del Mar, several houses settled down onto the beach after seawalls busted out and the sand was eroded. Houses built on Pajaro Dunes had a similar fate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From about 1945 through the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;50s and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s was the period after World War II when almost all of the California shoreline development took place, and it took place in a really calm period,â&#x20AC;? says Griggs, pointing to a blue seismographlike segment of a graph of Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or warmer and cooler ocean-temperature periods that fluctuate every 10 to 20 years.

(El NiĂąos typically occur in the warmer periods.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;So when [the storms of] â&#x20AC;&#x2122;78, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;82 and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;83 came, all of a sudden all of the people who were settling on the dunes and on the cliffs were just pummeled.

They lost maybe 30 feet of sand overnight [in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;83]â&#x20AC;? says Griggs, who shares his office at UCSC with an archive of some 10,000 slides he took during Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s active past of earthquakes and floods and other natural disasters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I tell time in disasters,â&#x20AC;? he says.

Between 1931 and 1982, the coast eroded a total of 25 feet. In the winter alone of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;82-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;83, it eroded 46 feet, notes Griggs in his book Living with the Changing California Coast.

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At Paradise Park, situated along the banks of the San Lorenzo River on the outskirts of town, Yung and his friends helped a man of about 80 named Leo, whose basement was filled with mud up to his front door. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never forget Leo, he was kind of a character, a frail little grandfather type, but he was cracking jokes and still pretty upbeat about it all,â&#x20AC;? says Yung, who at one point stepped in the quicksand-like mud and lost his bootâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;never to find it again.

By the end of the day, emergency dispatch had answered 3,500 calls from around the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and probably would have gotten more calls had many of the phone lines not been taken out. (These were, of course, pre-cell-phone times.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;What saved us in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;82 from flooding downtown Santa Cruz was that the peak of the flooding occurred at low tide. At high tide, ocean water can extend up the San Lorenzo River, all the way through the city and it can come clear up to the Highway 1 bridge, but if flood water hits at a high tide, then itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to make it even higher,â&#x20AC;? says Griggs, who notes that downtown Santa Cruz is actually built on the floodplain of the San Lorenzo River.

That nightmarish storm of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;82, which took 22 lives countywide, remains the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worst natural disaster. But 1982 wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t an El NiĂąo yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that would come the following winter of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;82-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;83, bringing with it 15 major storms and about $250 million (in 2015 dollars) of damage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to have an El NiĂąo year to have a really devastating winter,â&#x20AC;? says Griggs. At the same time, the stormâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s magnitude is reminiscent of the storms that wreaked havoc during many of Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s El NiĂąo years. According to a study published in the Journal

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By the time El Niño returned in 1997, 67 percent of Santa Cruz’s coast had been reinforced with seawalls and protective structures, compared to just 17 percent in ’82-’83, which, along with significantly lower tidal conditions, helped decrease storm damage costs by about 50 percent.

Elevated sea levels due to warmer water are another variable at play during El Niño years, as they extend the reach of storm waves. Locally, sea levels are already about six inches above tide book predictions.

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We still don’t really know why it happens, but when the trade winds—which normally blow toward the equator from the northeast and southeast—die down, it allows the warm water in the Western Pacific to flow back toward the coast of South America and then up the coast.

“The first thing it does is change the climate on opposite sides of the Pacific,” says Griggs. That means drought in places like the Philippines, New Guinea and parts of Australia, as well as heavy rainfall in the eastern half of the tropical Pacific—and some of these shifts are already happening, says Mantua.

“For instance, right now, the Atacama desert in southern Peru and northern Chile is blooming.

They’ve had lots of rainfall the last couple of months. And that’s a part of the world that has some of the driest deserts on Earth in the absence of these El Niño periods. It can go years without any appreciable rain at all,” says Mantua, who notes that the same is true for the Galapagos Islands.

“I think the thing about El Niño years that can make for an exciting winter in California, with abundant rainfall and snowpack, is that the storm track will tend to spend more time pointed at us than in an average winter,” says Mantua. “And it will be what’s called the subtropical branch of the jet stream that gets especially active in the winter time.”

During El Niño winters, which typically peak in December and continue through January and February, periods of active storm development at the same latitude as central and Southern California have sent storms barrelling into the West Coast, says Mantua. This happened in ’82-’83 as well as ’97-’98 El Niño years, but we have also had lots of storms like this in some non-El Niño years, he points out.

One concern is that the ominous warm blob could potentially add fuel to storms as they develop in their breeding ground between Hawaii and the Aleutians.

“When we have big storms that do develop and move across that water, they’re going to have strong winds, and they’re going to evaporate a lot of water off that surface,” says Mantua. “They’re going to cool that warm blob, but in the process, they’re going to fuel themselves up.

So, I do think that our storms are going to be warmer and stronger than they otherwise would be without that vast area of warm water.”

Another concern for local residents is that storms during an El Niño year typically come from the west or southwest, rather than from the northwest down the coast as in a “normal” year, says Griggs—though he notes that we don’t really know what “normal” is anymore.

Coupled with elevated sea levels typical of a warmer ocean, the more direct westerly wave approach of El Niño winters delivers an extra blow to the geography of Santa Cruz’s coast.

“The wind and wave directions come into the Bay rather than get sheltered,” says Griggs. “If you look at Monterey Bay, the waves tend to refract or wrap around, and so as they come into Main Beach and Capitola, they’ve lost energy, whereas when they come directly from this direction they hit straight on. Places like Beach Drive and Seacliff [in Aptos] all get hammered in El Niño years.”

Other vulnerable areas include Capitola’s Depot Hill, with its 70-foot vertical drop, as well as Opal Cliffs,

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THIRST FOR RAIN El Niño isn’t synonymous with rain, per se. Four out of the last six strong El Niños brought wet winters to California, says Mantua. But NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is calling for “increased odds” of a wet winter in Northern California—to the tune of a one-in-three chance of having a wet winter, and a lessthan one-in-three chance for having a dry winter. And while the odds for a wet winter increase toward Southern California, the Gulf Coast

and Florida, there’s just a 5- to 10-percent shift in the odds for a wet winter for the Central and Northern Coast, says Mantua.

“It’s pretty subtle,” says Mantua, “but that is the nature of climate forecasting.”

Would a wet winter end our drought?

“While the precipitation outlook suggests good news for California, one season of above-average rain and snow is unlikely to erase four years of drought,” says Mike Halpert of NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center.

“The drought outlook shows some improvement is likely in Central and Southern California by the end of January, but not drought removal.

Additional statewide relief is possible during February and March.”

The average yearly rainfall in Santa Cruz is 29.3 inches, according to data from the Western Regional Climate Center. During the El Niño months of January-March of 1983,

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Santa Cruz received about 34.06 inches of rain, and 59.7 inches the entire year—about double the yearly average. In the El Niño months of January-March of ’98, we received 38.8 inches of rain, and 54 inches of rain the entire year.

“There was good snowpack in the Sierras, and if we had a repeat of those kind of winters it would definitely put a dent in the drought,” says Mantua. “It wouldn’t wipe out all of our water supply deficit, it wouldn’t recharge all of the ground water that’s been pumped out in the last four years and the last dozens of years, but at least it would help refill reservoirs and recharge our soils and get a snowpack established again in the mountains.”

El Niño was identified by fishermen in Peru and Ecuador as far back as the 1600s—not so much for its weather patterns as for its negative impacts on fishing. The warm waters shut down nutrient-

rich upwelling, halting the plankton bloom and subsequently breaking the entire food chain. But El Niño’s warm water can also mean weak upwelling in local waters, too, which could mean poor reproduction this year for Dungeness crab, which are also being plagued by the warm blob’s algae bloom of toxic domoic acid.

The warm water isn’t great for Pacific salmon either, which thrive in cold, upwelled water high in nutrients and a productive plankton community that includes lipid-rich copepods, and other crustaceans like krill, says Mantua.

“During these warm periods we know that it can be stressful for top predators, including salmon, seabirds, sea lions and seals,” says Mantua. Salmon released from hatcheries, which produce most of the salmon caught off the coast of California, are usually fished after they’ve been in the ocean for two or three years, says Mantua, “So it doesn’t have such a big impact on the season that you’re in, but two or three years down the road.”

Similar to past El Niño years, bluefin tuna, opa or moonfish, and bonito—marine life typical off the coast of Southern California—are all currently swarming local waters.

Since the last El Niño, Santa Cruz has experienced almost two decades of relatively mild winters, and Griggs points out that only a small portion of today’s residents were even here to experience the full wrath of an intense storm season.

“It’s like all earthquakes aren’t the same—all floods aren’t the same, and all El Niños are not the same. I’m not sure if people fully understand that,” says Griggs. “I think in terms of flooding, what people are doing is trying to clean out storm drains and get sandbags ready and make sure your roof gutters are clean, which helps the water get out faster.” Even so, “You can’t stop sea levels from rising and you can’t stop the waves from coming,” says Griggs.

For more information on disaster preparedness and an El Niño Preparedness Workshop from 12-4 p.m. at the Civic Auditorium on Nov. 21, go to cityofsantacruz.com.

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I think I can spot a tiny golden fleck in her right eye. “Circus is a very fast way for adults to drop their judgment, or their sarcasm—whatever the things are that hold them back.”

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“It helps deepen a student's perception about what the arts are about and it lets the artists be part of the village that raises the next generation,” says Beal.

Performers who started out in the show as children now step out in leading roles, and this year folklorico groups Corazon en Flor and Los Mejicas return with local juggling queen Iman Lizarazu.

The idea for Mixed Nutz was born in the late ’70s when Beal’s partner, Jon Scoville, suggested that she use her creative choreographic background to transform Tchaikovsky’s music into a revamped, festive Nutcracker.

“I went ‘Oh yeah, that’s a great idea,’” recounts Beal, recreating the eye-roll that likely accompanied her initial reaction.

Four years of fundraising later, Beal put on the first show, with her father, actor John Beal, as the original Herr Drosselmeyer. She created it mostly from scratch, fashioning the storyline from Tchaikovsky’s musical cues rather than the original story, which she hadn’t seen since childhood.

Dance Magazine heralded it as the first contemporary take on the classic

ballet, and after “running away” to join the Pickle Family Circus, as she puts it, Beal commissioned Bay Area a capella group SoVoSó to rescore the music for live performance.

Beal is known locally and internationally for her collaborations with Bobby McFerrin and Frank Zappa, heading both Moscow Circus and Pickle Family Circus, and for choreographing Tim Burton’s iconic The Nightmare Before Christmas. This year marks 40 years of her company, Tandy Beal & Company.

Every season that it’s performed, Mixed Nutz evolves, says Beal. This year’s show features Fred Astaire-era waltzes alongside hip-hop numbers, in between the acrobats on cyr wheels, circus performers balancing parasols on their feet, and dancers leaping into somersaults—all heightened by award-winning designer Beaver Bauer’s brilliant costumes.

“It goes beyond ‘this is an art thing’ and ‘we’re all getting our art ya-yas out,’” says Beal. “It’s fun, but I’m interested in deeper— this interconnectivity with the community, the cultures and various styles are inviting us all to stretch.”

And at its core, it’s about spreading the holiday spirit—which to Beal is, above all, that sense of wonder.

“It’s very difficult to live as an artist in this town. There’s not a lot of opportunity and the rents are really high, so everybody’s working a million jobs, but when they come together and can experience their own lightness, it’s exponential,” says Beal, emphasising the “t” in lightness. “It’s very hard work for me to do this, and it’s worth it when I can put my hand into this joy socket and the joy juice comes out like errrr, like electricity.”

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California farmers dealing with drought, a London artist-inventordesigner on a quest to “come up with something creative” each day, a bike ride from Oregon to Patagonia, a Nepalese Rinpoche believed to be the reincarnation of the Tengboche Rinpoche, protecting the Canyonlands with Edward Abbey’s passionate language, and more.

I began attending Mountainfilm in 1991, and went for most of the next 20 years. In the early days, some documentaries were a sheer delight, and others were edifying but depressing. Many filmmakers failed to present solutions, ideas for solutions, or even a lone idealist attempting a solution. I sometimes sobbed on my partner’s shoulder in the dark of a theater, unable to exit for a time.

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efore Michael Moore was a household name, before An Inconvenient Truth, before documentaries were mainstream entertainment, there was Telluride Mountainfilm.

Founded in 1979, Mountainfilm has always had a knack for finding and curating a slate of films with zing and zest, and this Friday local audiences get to watch the cream of the juried crop of shorts at the Rio Theatre’s Telluride Mountainfilm on Tour.

Mountainfilm started with a primary focus on stoking audience adrenaline. If it could be done in the mountains—on snow, ice, rivers, canyons, cliffs, or in the sky above peaks—the subject matter could qualify as a documentary for Telluride.

Since then, Mountainfilm has broadened into culture, travel, environmental, and social issues, and now features panel discussions, lectures and stories, ultimately becoming of interest to anyone with a hankering to know more about our big, beautiful, harrowing world.

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ears before Sting declared himself the first eco-rock star, a coterie of young, ecologically aware hippies in Santa Cruz chose to become musical stewards of the Earth.

They adopted monikers that shaped their stage personas: Larry Graff evaporated into “Airy Larry,” Doug Greenfield grew roots and became “Doug Dirt,” Steve Van Zandt ignited into “Solar Steve,” and Mark Nolan submerged to become “Marine Mark.”

Now, the Banana Slug String Band is celebrating 30 years of music with some shows at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center, with special guest and Jerry Garcia sideman Joe Craven. These four elemental men have endured, thrived and survived without ever losing sight of the goal of educating

and entertaining the youth of Santa Cruz and the world beyond.

“The message is more important than ever,” says Greenfield. “It’s always been about the mission.”

That mission, he says, is “teaching ecological and Earth-loving concepts to families, children, teachers, and all sorts. It’s empowering to give people an awareness about the planet that we live on. Kids love this world. And we show them that they can take action to keep the planet healthy and gorgeous.”

“Nowadays everyone is talking about the climate and the environment,” says Graff. “It wasn’t like that when we got together in 1985. We were all teaching environmental education in science schools in Santa Cruz. Then we would get together and talk about different

ways to educate young people that were engaging. So all our songs had that thrust. Love the planet. It never changed along the way.”

The band has played 43 of the 50 states, for millions of people. Red state or blue, the quartet from Santa Cruz never dilutes their message.

“Truth be told,” says Greenfield, “as we travel through some of the most conservative areas, like the middle of Ohio, we find that people all want the same things. A safe place for their children to grow up, a healthy environment where they can drink the water and breathe the air, and soil that provides food that is healthy and nourishing. That’s not a conservative or liberal issue. That’s a human issue.”

The Banana Slug String Band has always had the support of numerous

kindred spirits that share their passion for a sustainable planet; the Only One Ocean album, for instance, was funded by 30 different ocean conservation organizations. It has a swinging tune about climate change called “Too Hot,” for which the band released a video on Nov. 1,, in celebration of their 30th anniversary.

It was funded by the Rex Foundation, the giving arm of the Grateful Dead.

They also had the help of a local video production company, Compass Rose Media, which pitched in with the tedious process of animation.

Along with guest cameos from Santa Cruz Mayor Don Lane, the Samba Stilt Circus and cartoon whales and plankton, the band is hoping for some viral success.

The “Too Hot” video opens up with our four eco-friendly freaks decked out in brilliant tie-dye, dancing in front of the Surf Museum and lighthouse at Steamer Lane. Children are singing and life looks amazingly vibrant. The animated polar bears that have to leave their icebergs are juxtaposed with grown men looking like they just walked out of a Grateful Dead parking lot, singing “Too Hot!” Watching it, it’s easy to imagine the Banana Slug String Band having their own Saturday morning show for children—a technicolor feast with an environmental message smartly wrapped in costumes, sketches and singing marine animals.

In person, Greenfield strips it down without the flash: “While the situation is dire and stressed out, our message for kids and adults remains a positive one. It’s about paying attention and enjoying the beauty that is all around us.” And, the entire band agrees that there’s hope for our future as a species.

“The good news is kids’ minds are open,” Greenfield chimes. “And if you feed them things that are real and have meaningful content to them, they will embrace it with a fervor. They are the real warriors.”

The Banana Slug String Band plays at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 14. Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320 Center St., Santa Cruz. $10/kids, $15/ adults. The video for ‘Too Hot’ is at bananaslugstringband.com.

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The Santa Cruz County Association of REALTORS® Housing Foundation (SCCARHF) is thrilled to invite you to this fun and tasty event on November 12, 2015 at the Cocoanut Grove. This year we are welcoming back many of the restaurants that have consistently offered flavorful samplings from their menus during the past few years and excitedly await the cuisine being introduced by our new entries.

“A Taste of Santa Cruz” is one of the few community fundraising events that truly offers an affordable ticket. Our ticket price is $40, and allows you to continuously sample edible delights from over 30 restaurants and sips from local wineries and breweries! You can take a break from your culinary adventure to shop from over 100 silent and live auction items and know that all your gift buying is a tax deductible opportunity.

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generous support of its sponsors. We thank our Platinum Sponsors, Bay Federal Credit Union and Bank of America, along with our Gold Sponsors, Santa Cruz Home Finance, Good Times, Bailey Properties, Century 21 M & M and Associates, Sereno Group, Chase and In Kind sponsors, Century 21 Lad, Kelley Trousdale and Keller Williams Realty for their financial assistance in producing this eleventh annual event. A special thank you to our media sponsors, Good Times, Sentinel, KAZU for helping us get the word out and Coastal Homes Magazine for providing our printing needs. It is with their help that we can bring our story about the SCCAR Housing Foundation and “A Taste of Santa Cruz” to the public.

We are extremely fortunate to have our booth sponsors step up in this very busy real estate market and want to thank each and every one of them for contributing financially to the event, providing auction

items, and for partnering with some of the best restaurants in town. “A Taste of Santa Cruz” happens as a result of the Santa Cruz County real estate community coming together to create a fundraiser that “Bridges the Gap to Homeownership”.

The SCCARHF provides grants to help cover closing costs to low income, first time homebuyers. To date close to a half a million dollars has been awarded to over 200 families and individuals. We are fortunate to have a wonderful group of volunteers who work very hard behind the scenes to make this event happen. Thank you to the Housing Foundation Board of Trustees and to the “A Taste of Santa Cruz” committee for donating hundreds of hours of assistance to both this event and to the Housing Foundation.

“A Taste of Santa Cruz” is an incredibly fun and festive event. We invite you to come back again or come for the first time and bring others with you! We know it will be a

sell-out, so please don’t wait to purchase your tickets at www.atosc.com or the SCCAR office. Come eat, drink, mingle, network and most of all; support a great cause and a non-profit that is working to help local families and individuals become first-time homebuyers. By creating homeowners, we create neighborhoods that flourish.

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DATE, TIME, LOCATION Thursday, November 12 from 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm at the Boardwalk's Cocoanut Grove in Santa Cruz.

FEE AND REGISTRATION Tickets to the event are $40 in advance and $50 at the door and can be purchased online at www.atosc.com or at the SCCAR offices located at 2525 Main Street in Soquel. For more information please call 831-464-2000.

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ABOUT US ‘A Taste of Santa Cruz’ raises over $30,000 each year with proceeds going to fund the Santa Cruz County Association of REALTORS® Housing Foundation’s Closing Cost Assistance Grant Program. This program currently provides grants up to $2,500 for first-time, low income home buyers in Santa Cruz County.

This event was first implemented in the Fall of 2005 as a major fundraising event for the newly created SCCAR Housing Foundation.

In the eight years since this event has been held, over $400,000 has collectively been

Over 600 people attend this culinary adventure, so purchasing your ticket in advance is highly recommended. Tickets can be purchased online at www.atosc.com or at the Santa Cruz County Association of REALTORS®, located at 2525 Main St., Soquel, CA 95073.

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Confusingly enough, Cavanaugh is best known in jazz circles these days for his work with former Miles Davis saxophonist Bill Evans’ jazzand-funk-meet-bluegrass project Soulgrass. Saxophonist Evans spent his early years explaining to people he’s not piano legend Bill Evans, and when he got wind of banjoist Bill Evans, he sent a playful cease and desist letter asking him to stop using his name (“I wrote him back saying I wanted my bluegrass back,” the banjoist notes).

What makes the Banjo Extravaganza work is that Evans has assembled an all-star band capable of covering the musical expanse.

With John Reischman (mandolin), Chad Manning (fiddle), Sharon Gilchrist (bass and mandolin) and Jim Nunally (guitar), the tour, which also hits Palo Alto, Berkeley and Winters, “would not be possible without this band,” Evans says.

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Featuring North Carolina old-time music master Riley Baugus and searing jazz expert Ryan Cavanaugh, the Extravaganza encompasses American culture’s often unbridgeable rural/urban divide.

“What seems to be happening is with each year the stylistic spectrum gets wider,” says Evans from his home in El Cerrito. “The first year we had three mainstream bluegrass players. This year we go as far in both directions as you can go.”

A student of old-time music icon Tommy Jarrell, the Appalachianraised Baugus is “authentic by any definition,” Evans says. “On the other end, Ryan is building on Béla Fleck and Noam Pikelny and pushing it even further. He studied with John McLaughlin and Pat Metheny, and his ability to play straight-ahead

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ORGANIC SEED TRAINING This Sunday, Nov. 15, the Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) and the Ecological Farming Association will host a day-long course on how to improve variety and produce organic seeds. OSA’s Jared Zystro and Steve Peters will lead a training for farmers and agricultural students who are interested in learning fundamental skills for developing and adapting varieties to their organic farms. They’ll instruct participants on the biology of seed production, choosing appropriate seed crops for farms and climate, seed harvesting and cleaning, conducting variety trials, and more. Prior experience in basic seed growing is recommended and online registration is required.

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WATSONVILLE COMMUNITY POETRY WORKSHOP Join poet and teacher, Magdalena Montagne on the third Thursday of each month at the Watsonville Public Library for community poetry workshops offering a supportive and creative space to write new poems for writers of all levels and ages. Montagne has been writing poetry since she was 11, and honed her skills at UCSC. She has published works in the Porter Gulch Review, California Poets in the Schools Statewide Anthology, La Gazette, and the Santa Cruz Sentinel, and has taught workshops all over the county.

Info: 6-7:30 p.m., Nov. 19, Watsonville Public Library, 2012 Freedom Blvd., Freedom. cityofwatsonville.org/public-library. Free.

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WEDNESDAY 11/11 BUSINESS REGISTER FOR HOLIDAY PARADE The Downtown Association welcomes you to join us in celebrating the winter holidays. 332-7422, downtownsantacruz.com to register and for more information. $50.

CLASSES SCHOOL DAY TOURS AT GATEWAY SCHOOL Gateway School is an independent, K-8, academically challenging progressive school. 9-11 a.m. Gateway School, 126 Eucalyptus Ave., Santa Cruz. 423-0341 ext.

302. Free. gatewaysc.org.

SALSA RUEDA CLASSES Cuban-style dance. Intro/beg 7-8 p.m. Int/adv 8-9 p.m.

Tannery Arts Center, 1060 River St. Suite #111., Santa Cruz. $7/$5.

BATERIA SAMBA CRUZ Explore samba of Rio de Janeiro and Bahia. All levels welcome. 8-9:15 p.m. Tannery World Dance Center, 1060 River St., Santa Cruz. $7.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING CLASSES No partner required. Wear soft-soled shoes.

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

FOOD & DRINK 6TH ANNUAL VETERANS DAY DINNER Join us in saluting our Veterans for their courageous service. Sr. Master Sergeant, U.S. Air Force, Rod Metoyer is the MC, and Sr. Master Sergeant, U.S. Air Force, Bernadette Guimarin is the speaker. Fifth District Supervisor Bruce McPherson will present a proclamation. All Veterans are encouraged to wear their military uniforms and medals, and bring a memento of their service to share. 6:30-9 p.m. Scopazzi’s Restaurant, 13300 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. Tickets at: The Redwood Keg, BC Hardware, Joe’s Bar, SLV Museum, Felton Paint & Hardware, and slvmuseum.com. $50/$45/$35.

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SATURDAY 11/14 KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE AT MOE’S ALLEY Back from his summer of touring 15 stadiums in the U.S. as newest addition to the Rolling Stones, saxophonist Karl Denson drops in on Moe’s Alley this Saturday, Nov. 14, with his Tiny Universe band. Denson is a funk and jazz saxophonist who has played as a member of Lenny Kravitz’s band and co-founded the Greyboy Allstars. He’s recorded with artists from Slightly Stoopid to Blackalicious, Dave Holland and Switchfoot. His band embarks on a nationwide run this fall for fans old and new with their latest album New Ammo.

Info: 8 p.m., Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. 479-1854. $25-$30.

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

HEALTH SOUND PLAY FOR THE HEALING JOURNEY Come play with sound in a variety of forms, Tibetan bowls, sound games, and more. For women with cancer. Call to register. 1:30-3 p.m.

WomenCARE. 457-2273. Free.

QIGONG FOR ENERGY BALANCE & HEALTH Ongoing. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel.

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SHERRY AUSTIN WITH HENHOUSE A magical combination of music woven from folk, country and rock. 6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant & Inn. Free.

SPIRITUAL JUNIPER MEDITATION FOR MODERN LIFE Second and fourth Wednesday of the month. 7:30-9 p.m. Pacific Cultural Center, Gallery room. pam@juniperpath. org. $10.

WEEKLY MEDITATION Vipassana-style mindfulness meditation focusing on being present with what is in the moment. 7-8 p.m.

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Room 245. holeyboy.com. Free/Donation.

THURSDAY 11/12 ARTS 6TH ANNUAL MORTON MARCUS

MEMORIAL POETRY READING Poetry reading by former California Poet Laureate Al Young. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Humanities Lecture Hall, Cowell College, UCSC. mortonmarcus. com. Free/$4.

PLAY GO IN SANTA CRUZ Play Go with other local Go/Baduk/Weiqi players. All levels. Bring a board or use one provided. Meetup.com/ Monterey-Bay-Go/events/225024311. 5:45-9 p.m. Hidden Peak Teahouse, 1541-C, Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. Free.

THURSDAY ART MARKET Held rain or shine in the Tannery Courtyard, features live music, artist demonstrations, loft artists and guest chefs with rotating menus. The adjacent Working Studios at the Tannery Arts Center will be open to visitors. 3-6 p.m. Tannery Arts Center, Santa Cruz.

GUYS & DOLLS PREVIEW Preview of Jewel Theatre Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Guys & Dollsâ&#x20AC;? at their new home, the Colligan Theater at The Tannery. 7:30-10 p.m. Colligan Theater, The Tannery Arts Center, Santa Cruz. Tickets at jeweltheatre.net/bay-area-drama-playsbox-office.php.

TALK FREE SOCIAL SECURITY SEMINAR Learn everything there is to know for your future and how to discern the complex Social Security system. Food and drink. 6-7:30 p.m. Scotts Valley Library. Free.

CLASSES SALSA DANCING CUBAN-STYLE Drop-in class. No partner required. Intermediate.

7-8 p.m. Louden Nelson Center, Santa Cruz. salsagente.com, 295-6107. $9/$5.

EARLY RISER ALL-LEVELS YOGA with Korrine. Ongoing. 6:30-7:45 a.m. Yoga Within, Aptos. $15.

COOKING CLASS: PLANT-BASED THANKSGIVING Develop a holiday meal plan tailored to your familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dietary needs with a certified health coach. 6-7:30 p.m. New Leaf Community Market classroom, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleafwestside.eventbrite.com. $25/$20.

FOOD & DRINK SECOND ANNUAL GREAT FUTURES BREAKFAST Breakfast and presentation highlighting the creativity and individual aspirations of Boys & Girls Club of Santa Cruz members and their vision for the future of

CALENDAR Santa Cruz. RSVP. 7:30-9 a.m. Boys & Girls Club of Santa Cruz. 423-3138 ext 29, rebbie@ boysandgirlsclub.info. Free.

residents in care facilities by leading an art group. For further information: 459 8917 x208, scohelanfsa@gmail.com. Free.

CELEBRATE SANTA CRUZ Event includes a drawing for a Kauai vacation, silent auction, special guest speakers, wine/beer, food, and music. Benefit for National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). 5-7:30 p.m. Community Foundation, 7807 Soquel Drive, Aptos. slee@ namiscc.org, 331-9084, celebrate.namiscc.org. $60/$25.

VETS4VETS Volunteer to help veterans with transportation to appointments, housingsearch assistance, obtaining benefits, recovery coaching, and more. Contact Dean for more information at 420-7348. Veterans Memorial Bldg, Basement, 846 Front St., Santa Cruz.

EVENT SANTA CRUZ: BITE A Food Bazaar.

Each of our speakers this month embodies the diversity and individuality from the Santa Cruz food scene. Vendors will give out samples. 6-8 p.m. North Coast Coffee Roasting Company, 2901 Research Park Drive, Soquel. eventsantacruz.com. $10.

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LOVING MORE POLY POTLUCK AND DISCUSSION GROUP A monthly group for polyamorous and poly-curious people and allies. 7:15-9:15 p.m. Fellowship Room, Friends Meeting House, 225 Rooney St., Santa Cruz.

925-895-3424; goodheartduck@gmail.com.

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MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW HEISLER MOOT COURT: ARMED AND DANGEROUS? WHO DECIDES? When an alleged mentally unstable man legally purchases a gun and harms people, who is responsible? Four law students argue before a panel of Appellate Justices regarding this and more. 7:30 p.m.

CSUMB World Theater, 100 Campus Center, Seaside. Free.

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FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS Twelve-step program. 9-10:30 a.m. 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. 435-0680.

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TELLURIDE MOUNTAINFILM TOUR Presenting documentary films that explore the themes connected to Telluride Mountainfilm’s mission of exploring cultures, preserving environments and promoting adventure. 7 p.m.

Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz. $18.

NATURALIST NIGHT: EXPLORE THE MILKY WAY Join us for a tour of our galactic home.

In the event of clear skies, the second hour of the program will include a drive up to the UCSC campus for guided stargazing. Register online. 7-9 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, 1305 East Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. 4206115. $12/$6.

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE World premiere of Kaufman and Perri’s modern-day rendition of the beloved Christmas classic, featuring original gospel, reggae, rock, ballad, and show-tune song-and-dance numbers. Friday and Saturday.

7:30 p.m. Cabrillo Crocker Theater, Aptos. $17/$19.

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ADOPT-A-FAMILY Jacob’s Heart asks community members to provide gifts and good cheer to 125 local children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses for the holidays.

More information at jacobsheart.org or call 7249100. 680 West Beach St., Watsonville.

A TASTE OF SANTA CRUZ Visit more than 30 local restaurants, wineries and breweries in one evening. All proceeds from this event help lowincome first-time home buyers in Santa Cruz County through the Santa Cruz Association of REALTORS® Housing Foundation’s Closing Cost Grant Assistance Program. 5:30-9pm.

Cocoanut Grove, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz.

Tickets $40-$50.

NO-COST FORUMS ON MEDICARE OPTIONS FOR 2016 Now is the time for Medicare beneficiaries to compare plans and make sure they have the right prescription drug coverage. No reservations required. First come, first seated. 1-3 p.m. Scotts Valley Branch Library, 251 Kings Village Road. 462-5510, seniornetworkservices.org. Free.

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ISAAC’S EYE Playwright Lucas Hnath pits a young Newton against his real-life adversary Robert Hooke in a race to define the new rules of modern science. Friday and Saturday. 8 p.m.

Center Street Theater, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. siderealtheater.com. $18/$20.

WINE AND WATERCOLOR CLUB Features a seasonal still life, paint, paper, and brushes.

Bring your friends and enjoy a glass of artfully crafted wine or kombucha. Monthly event. RSVP required. 6-8 p.m. New Leaf Community Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleafwestside.eventbrite.com. $15 for supplies.

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AN EVENING WITH DOLORES HUERTA: HONORING THE STRUGGLE, ENGAGING A NEW GENERATION Join us in celebrating Dolores Huerta’s 85th birthday with the farm labor activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers union. Live music by Flor de Caña and DJ Cultura Cura, and food for everyone.

Proceeds benefit the Dolores Huerta Foundation.

6-10 p.m. Inner Light Center, 5630 Soquel Drive, Aptos. araghian93@gmail.com. $10/$5/Free.

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NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS: GREATER BAY AREA SANTA CRUZ Nar-Anon GBA Santa Cruz offers three meetings in support of friends and families of addicts. We meet weekly to share our experiences. 291-5099. Santa Cruz, Aptos and Scotts Valley. saveyoursanity@ aol.com. Free/Donations.

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FREE El Niño Storm Prep Workshop Saturday November 21, 12-4pm Civic Auditorium Hear about the latest forecasts for El Niño and Central Coast storms. Learn how to prepare your home and family for winter storms. Visit representatives from the Red Cross, Police and Fire Departments, CERT, and Emergency Services. Family-friendly sandbag-making station. cityofsantacruz.com/elnino

YAMEINU On the first, second and third Friday.

Potluck and refreshments follow. 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Peace United Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. cysantacruz.com. Free.

ZEN PRACTICE & LIFE Four classes on The Awakened Mind & Heart. Meditation at 8:30 a.m., class and tea 9-10:30 a.m. Ocean Gate Zen Center, 920 41st Ave. Suite B., Capitola. oceangatezen.org. Donation.

SATURDAY 11/14 ARTS THE 2015 SANTA CRUZ ORCHID SOCIETY SHOW AND SALE See and purchase unique orchids, mingle with other enthusiasts and support your local society. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Soquel High School, 401 Old San Jose Road, Soquel. info@santacruzorchidsociety.org. Free.

CERAMIC CLASS WITH KEVIN WAHL: GLAZE SOFTWARE Introductory ceramics class about glaze theory; learn to use glaze calculations software to troubleshoot problems.

9 a.m.-5 p.m. Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center. mountainartcenter.org/adults/ceramics or info@mountainartcenter.org. $70/$80.

SANTA CRUZ IMPROV PLAYGROUND Featuring scenes based on audience suggestions, improvised story and duo act. Presented by Liquid Improv. Tickets at improvplayground.brownpapertickets.com or at the box office. 8-10 p.m. The Broadway Playhouse, Santa Cruz. Info@liquidimprov. com. $15.

CLUTTERERS ANONYMOUS Twelve-step program every Friday. There is hope for order and serenity in your life. You are not alone.

5:30-6:45 p.m. Sutter Room, Sutter Maternity & Surgical Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. 359-3008. Free.

GOAT HILL FAIR VINTAGE ANTIQUE MARKET A full weekend of browsing and shopping 85+ vendors. Featuring jewelry, vintage clothing, furnishings and garden. Farm to shabby chic. Food vendors, beer and wine.

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

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OPEN MEDITATION Experience a sacred space to just stop in, remove your shoes, stretch, breathe, and listen to soothing music. 4-8 p.m.

Elemental Art Studio Gallery-128, Tannery Arts Center, Santa Cruz. elementalartsudio.com.

RAINWATER CATCHMENT CLASS Learn how much rainwater can be collected from your roof and see a large tank being connected to a downspout. Examine a working graywater system. Register to receive address. timebanksantacruz.org/events. 10:30 a.m.Noon. admin@timebanksantacruz.org. $10.

MUNCHKIN MINYAN SHABBAT Shabbat fun, followed by potluck. Ongoing second Friday activities and events for young children and their families. 4:30-6 p.m. Peace United Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. chadeishyameinu. com. Free.

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KINDERGARTEN VISIT DAY Visit Gateway School to meet our kindergarten faculty and explore our classrooms. Gatewaysc.org. 10 a.m.Noon. Gateway School, 126 Eucalyptus Ave., Santa Cruz. 423-0341 ext. 302. Free.

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BEGINNING YOGA With Korrine. Ongoing.

10:15-11:30 a.m. Yoga Within, Aptos. $15.

GROUPS LGBT 60+ SENIOR THANKSGIVING LUNCHEON Are you interested in sharing a meal with other LGBT older adults? Join us for a Thanksgiving luncheon. 12:30-4 p.m. 5630 Soquel Drive, Aptos. 325-5422 x104 or email 60plus@diversitycenter.org. Free.

ANIMAL SHELTER RELIEF RESCUE ADOPTION FAIR Meet animals looking for their forever homes. ASR rescues cats and dogs from high-risk situations in Santa Cruz and the surrounding areas. View animals at animalshelterrelief.org. Noon. PetSmart, 490 River St., Santa Cruz.

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

Ongoing second Saturday. Call to register. 10 a.m.-Noon. WomenCARE. 457-2273. Free.

MUSIC WEST COAST SWING DANCE PARTY W/ CHUCK & PAT We play “traditional” West Coast Swing music. 7-11 p.m. 222 Market St., Santa Cruz. 479-4826, chuck@gonnadance.com. $10.

SAMBA CRUZ Repertoire includes bossa nova, samba, baiao, choro and other jazzinflected Brazilian musical forms in the spirit of jazz greats. 6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant and Inn, 1 Davenport Ave., Davenport. davenportroadhouse.com. Free.

OUTDOORS ANNUAL FALL RUMMAGE SALE Rummage and bake sale supporting nonprofit Santa Cruz Parent Education Nursery School (SCPENS).

8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. 411 Roxas St., Santa Cruz.

425-4495. Free.

SPROUT UP RAD FALL CARNIVAL Bounce house, face painting, local food, games, activities. 100 percent of proceeds benefit Sprout Up. SproutUp.org 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Laurel Park, 440 Washington St., Santa Cruz. directorsc@sproutup.org. $5 donation.

SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY SEED EARTH SPIRIT

FELLOWSHIP Introductory Pagan Earth-Spirit ritual. 2-3:30 p.m. Quaker Meetinghouse, 225 Rooney St., Santa Cruz. espi@communityseed. org. $15/$7/Donation.

SHABBAT SERVICES WITH CHADEISH YAMEINU All are welcome! Potluck luncheon follows; bring a vegetarian item to share. 10 a.m.-Noon. Peace United Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. cysantaCruz.com. Free.

SUNDAY 11/15 ARTS VIETNAM-ERA DRAFT-RESISTER DOCUMENTARY FUNDRAISER The Boys Who Said NO! is a documentary about Vietnamera draft resisters who chose to go to prison rather than cooperate with the draft and the military currently under production. We will show a 17-minute clip, discuss the issues it raises, and ask for donations to support the film’s production. 7-9 p.m. Santa Cruz Friends Meetinghouse, 225 Rooney St., Santa Cruz. sendbillsomenews@yahoo.com. Donations.

THE 2015 SANTA CRUZ ORCHID SOCIETY SHOW AND SALE Day Two. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Soquel High School, 401 Soquel San Jose Road., Soquel. Info@santacruzorchidsociety. org. Free entry.

GOAT HILL FAIR VINTAGE ANTIQUE MARKET A full weekend of browsing and shopping more than 85 vendors. Food vendors, beer and wine. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, Watsonville. $5.

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE 2 p.m. Cabrillo Crocker Theater, Aptos. 479-6154. $17/$19.

GUYS & DOLLS 2 p.m. The Colligan Theater, 1010 River St., Santa Cruz. jeweltheatre.net. $34/$38.

CLASSES GOOD MORNING WORKOUT Get your juices flowing. 9-10 a.m. The Tannery, 1060 River St., Suite #111, Santa Cruz. $7/$5.

BEGINNING BALLET Introduction to ballet technique with a focus on posture, balance and strength building. Noon-1:15 p.m.

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

HEALTHY HOLIDAYS COOKING CLASS: PART 1: THANKSGIVING We will have several plant-based holiday dishes for demonstration and tasting. 5-6:30 p.m. Santa Cruz SDA Church, 1024 Cayuga St., Santa Cruz. 4989060. $5.

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ACORN PREPARATION THE OHLONE WAY Five hundred years ago the Ohlone people lived a lifestyle that was very different from today’s.

Shell, pound, and leach acorn to prepare a standard Ohlone dish of acorn. 1-2:30 p.m.

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Formerly the Bike Dojo, the new and transformed Kids Dojo kicks off its first annual trivia night fundraiser this Saturday, Nov. 14 at Stockwell Cellars. Kids Dojo strives to offer every child the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of mountain biking through their many programs, including school programs and summer camps. Designed for children of all mountain biking levels, Kids Dojo’s goal is to have children of all economic backgrounds be active and healthy, build selfesteem and enable them to experience “the great outdoors” while finding the love for exercise.

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GUIDED MEDITATION Stabilizing meditation followed by guided contemplation on various Dharma topics. 9:30-10:30 a.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel.

462-8383. Donation.

INSPIRATIONAL MEDITATION SERVICE Join the Santa Cruz SRF Meditation Group for Inspirational Service. 11 a.m.-Noon. Call for location 334-2088.

SUNDAY SERVICE WITH HEART CIRCLE We’re a spiritual community exploring the Divine Nature. Wherever you are on your journey, you are welcome here. 10-11:30 a.m.

920 41st Ave., # H, Capitola. heartcirclecsl.com.

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BEGINNING HIP-HOP FOR ADULTS Build strength, stamina and flexibility while having fun and learning to dance. 7-8 p.m. International Academy of Dance Santa Cruz. $10.

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COOKING CLASS: ALLERGY-FREE HOLIDAY SIDE DISHES Hands-on cooking class featuring favorite holiday classics that everyone following a gluten-free or dairy-free diet can eat. Preregister. 5:30-8:30 p.m. New Leaf Community Market classroom, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleafwestside.eventbrite.com. $35/$30.

CHAIR YOGA WITH SUZI Instructor Suzi Mahler, CMT NE guides you through a series of gentle seated-yoga postures that are performed slowly and with breath awareness. 9:30 a.m.

Tuesdays and Fridays. Grey Bears, 2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. $5.

GROUPS MOOD MATTERS SUPPORT FOR MOOD PROBLEMS Weekly, confidential, drop-in support group for persons with any type of mood challenge. 6-8 p.m. MHCAN, Room 12, 1051 Cayuga St., Santa Cruz. 247-1124. Free.

BUSINESS DEBTORS ANONYMOUS Focuses on recovering from debting in business. 5:156:30 p.m. Calvary Episcopal Church, Parish Hall, 532 Center St., Santa Cruz. 425-3272. Free.

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ANGEL HEALING CIRCLE Come enjoy a warm Healing Circle, sharing our experiences where Spirit and the Angels have helped us in our lives, followed by Individual and World Prayer requests. Led by follower of Dorie d’Angelo, the Angel Lady of Carmel. RSVP. 7-9 p.m. Location given with RSVP. Love offerings accepted.

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TRANSLOVE GROUP For non-trans (cis) partners and close friends of transgender people. 7-8:30 p.m. Address in Soquel. Email debabbott.lmft@gmail.com for location and to register. $25.

CROOKED BRANCHES This local band plays original, inspired music ranging from soul to roots rock to country. 6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant & Inn, 1 Davenport Ave., Davenport. davenportroadhouse.com. Free.

ARM-IN-ARM CANCER SUPPORT GROUP For women with advanced, recurrent and metastatic cancers. Registration required.

12:30-2 p.m. WomenCARE. 457-2273. Free.

NEW MOMMY MUSICAL MEET-UP Meet and mingle with other new mamas just like you.

“New Mommy Musical MeetUp” @Meetup.com.

12:30-2 p.m. 239 High St., Santa Cruz. 4383514 or musicalme.com. $10.

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DE-STRESS TO DIGEST FOR HEALTH How not taking time for meals and the meals-onthe-go mentality disrupts our natural rhythms.

RSVP. 6-7:30 p.m. New Leaf Community Market classroom, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleafwestside.eventbrite.com. $10/$7.50.

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

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

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VOLUNTEER HELP SOMEONE READ Orientation on how you can teach an adult how to read. Requires only 2-3 hours per week. 6-7 p.m. Volunteer Center, 1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. 427-5077 or literacysantacruz.org. Free.

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LOCAL BAND GETAWAY DOGS

When Kai Killion recorded his solo album Mermaid Legs & Getaway Dogs, he played all the instruments on it himself. Last year, he wanted to perform the tunes in a live setting properly, with a band, and had to come up with a group name.

“At the last minute, we realized we didn’t have a name. I don’t know if it was me or one of the other guys that suggested it. It made sense—the band was a continuation off of that album,” Killion says. “I recorded the entire record on my own, but playing just the guitar live wasn’t cutting it so much anymore. I wanted to be able to make people dance.”

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Killion has gone through a few lineups since. The one constant is vocalist Samantha Stone, who creates gorgeous harmonies with Killion. So far, Getaway Dogs has released one single, and hopes to put out their debut full-length next year.

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Killion’s influences include jazz, indie rock, and Brazilian music—a style of music he grew up with as a child. His mother is a Brazilian immigrant, and he spent a year in Brazil when he was a kid. He cites Seu Jorge and Rodrigo Amarante in particular as influences. His music, while leaning heavily in the indie rock realm, has a subtle bossa nova groove in the guitar and drums, which he got from listening to these Brazilian songwriters.

“I like to make sure I stay true to my roots, try to channel that whenever I can,” Killion says. “I don’t know how it all meshes together. Radiohead has also been a huge influence for me. It’s pretty much all the music that I listen to just combined into one thing. That’s how it comes out.” AARON CARNES INFO: 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994

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WEDNESDAY 11/11 FOLK/ROOTS

GILL LANDRY As a longtime contributing songwriter and multi-instrumentalist for Old Crow Medicine Show, Gill Landry helped usher in the current tidal wave of young acoustic bands rooted in traditional American styles. But, aside from his fame with O.C.M.S., Landry is a celebrated solo artist in his own right, well-deserving of attention away from the spotlight of the band. On Wednesday, he brings his skillful songwriting to town. Also on the bill is Stelth Ulvang, a multi-instrumentalist from the Lumineers, and new transplant to Santa Cruz. CAT JOHNSON

INFO: 7:30 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $15. 603-2294.

THURSDAY 11/12 JAZZ VOCALS

KIM NALLEY BAND Most people have about a two-octave vocal range. San Francisco-based vocalist Kim Nalley has almost double that, and her voice is powerful, to

boot. She takes on the light familiarity of jazz standards with ease, and delves into the depths of a deep blues or Nina Simone protest song like a master.

Did I mention she can scat like Ella Fitzgerald and that she’s an actor and playwright, too? Nalley is a bonafide musical and creative treasure of the Bay Area. On Thursday, she and her band celebrate the release of her new album, Blues People. CJ

Slightly Stoopid, and the Blind Boys of Alabama—to name just a few—on his resume. MAT WEIR

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

Portland five-piece Blitzen Trapper have had a healthy career for more than 15 years, and spent a lot of that time experimenting in the studio with folk, psychedelic, country, R&B, metal, and prog rock. All along, they’ve been an active touring band.

On the road, these songs have had a way of just rocking harder. Between their prior studio record, 2013’s VII, and their current, 2015’s All Across This Land, they released two live records. It’s no surprise then that they approached All Across This Land wanting to bring this live sound to the studio. They forgo some of their usual studio trickery and pump out a much punchier album with a lot of classic rock influences. AARON CARNES

SATURDAY 11/14 FUNK

KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE Get ready to get down, because the cosmic funk sound of Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe is caught in Santa Cruz’s gravitational pull and returning to Moe’s Alley. For more than 20 years, the all-star line-up of permanent and rotating musicians has delivered their bona fide jazz-enhanced funk to ecstatic audiences throughout the world. At the helm is saxophonist Karl Denson, a man who can claim work with Lenny Kravitz, the Rolling Stones, Stanton Moore,

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

INDIE

BLITZEN TRAPPER

INFO: 9 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 CA-9, Felton. $18/adv, $20/door. 603-2294.

MUSIC

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PSYCHPOP

TRIPTIDES

INFO: 9 p.m. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $7. 423-7117.

SUNDAY 11/15 AMERICANA

YARN The Grateful Dead have Deadheads, Jimmy Buffett has Parrotheads, and Yarn has the Yarmy, a loyal and dedicated fanbase that follows the Brooklyn-based, Grammy-nominated Americana quintet out on the road for 170-plus shows per year. Like the Dead, Yarn makes the Yarmy part of the experience—hanging out with them, drinking beer with them after shows, and generally making themselves accessible to them. They

INFO: 8:30 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $7/adv, $10/door. 479-1854.

INDIE

YO LA TENGO Yo La Tengo practically carved out the folk-meets-noise rules that came to define the ’90s indie rock movement. But their brilliance was that no matter how far on either end of the spectrum they went, there was always something tender and intimate about their music. They also became the voice of the obsessive music-collecting fanatics that held the indie scene together, and have been virtual live jukeboxes, pulling out obscure and familiar covers alike, while always putting their personal stamp on them. Their latest record, Stuff Like That There, is a throwback to 1990s brilliant Fakebook, which was mostly covers. The new record has plenty of odd covers of the Cure,

Hank Williams, Great Plains, Lovin Spoonful, and Antietam, as well as some remakes of early Yo La Tengo tunes. AC INFO: 8 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $21. 423-8209.

HIP-HOP

ENSEMBLE MIK NAWOOJ There’s not a lot of overlap between classical music fans and hip-hop heads. San Francisco’s Ensemble Mik Nawooj might change that, or at least help both groups view each other’s music a little differently. The group’s founder, JooWan Kim, is a classically trained pianist and composer with a fascination with rap music. On the surface, it appears to be a live classical chamber group with rappers spitting verses over the top. But according to Kim, it’s much deeper.

He is taking rap music, deconstructing it, and rebuilding it as classical music pieces. And indeed, there are some highly emotional, very intense dynamics at work with these songs.

It’s way beyond rap or classical. AC INFO: 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $10. 429-6994.

INFO: 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $35/adv, $40/door. 423-1338. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 13 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

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Minneapolis-based rap duo comprising rapper Slug and DJ/producer Ant. Thursday at Catalyst SHOOK TWINS

Identical-twin-fronted indie-folk band out of Portland. Friday at Moe’s Alley WAKE THE DEAD

Grateful Dead-inspired Celtic music.

Friday at Don Quixote’s CATIE CURTIS

Acclaimed singer-songwriter with roots in the Boston folk scene. Sunday at Don Quixote’s CHRIS POTTER

Award-winning jazz saxophonist and bandleader. Monday at Kuumbwa

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Based out of Los Angeles, this self-described “sun-warped” group perfectly captures the psych-pop sound of the Byrds, Spirit and Love. Touring with fellow Angelenos Levitation Room— and with local boys Beach Fuzz opening up—this will be the perfect show to impress a date with mind-bending sounds while saving damage to your bank account balance. MW

also upload recordings of every show that the Yarmy can access freely. Oh yeah, and they play the hell out of some roots music, with sad and lovely tales held up by tight harmonies, singalong-inspiring grooves, and solid instrumentation, including the sweet thump of an upright bass. CJ

You may know Gesaffelstein, aka Parisbased DJ/producer Mike Levy, from his collaborations with Kanye West on the rapper’s 2013 album Yeezus. Or maybe you know him for connecting hard techno to its industrial roots in bands such as Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb. But did you know where he got his name?

It’s a mashup of Gesamtkunstwerk, the German ideal of universal artwork that combines numerous disciplines into a single vision, and Albert Einstein.

“Gesaffelstein is an ambitious name,” Levy has said. “I want my music to be art, with something to say, but Einstein is about quantum physics, too. That means the small things, the tiny things that change everything, the detail.” CAT JOHNSON

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LIVE MUSIC

Thursday November 12th 9pm $7/10 Live Reggae Music With

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+ SHANE & DELIGHT Friday November 13th 9pm $10/13 Americana/Roots/Blues/Folk

MARTY O’REILLY SHOOK TWINS TALL HEIGHTS Saturday November 14th 9pm $25/30 The Fantastic Fall Tour With

KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE + EUFÓRQUESTRA Sunday November 15th 8:30pm $7/10

AQUARIUS RESTAURANT Santa Cruz Dream Inn 175 W Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz

11/12

THU Big Jon Atkinson w/ Alabama Mike & Bob Welsh 6-8p

FRI

11/13

Mark Hummel 6-8p

Minor Thirds Trio 6:30-9:30p

BAYVIEW HOTEL 8041 Soquel Dr, Aptos

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

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Strap-On Halo, Revri $5 9p

BLUE LOUNGE 529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

11/14

11/15

SAT SUN Lloyd Whitney 1-5p Hawk n Blues Kid Andersen and John Mechanics 6-8p “Blues” Boyd 6-8p

11/16

MON Aptos Student Rockers 4:30-6p Rand Rueter 6-8p

Comedy Night/ 80s Night Free 8:30p

Hippy Mobb Harvest feat. Aplus & Knobody, Equipto & More $10 9p

Top 40 Music Videos w/ The Box (Goth Night) DJ Tripp $5 9p 9p

Pride Night 9p

Party w/Raina 9p

Incidental Live Music Revue w/Alisha

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

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Zebra 3 9-11:45p

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

Get Weird Wednesdays Free 9p

Eric Winders Free 8p

Swing Night $5 5:30p Sub-Central $10/$20 Free 9p

United Rasta Reggae Party Free 9p

Karaoke 9p

Karaoke 9p

Comedy Night 9p

Karaoke

Locals Night, Music w/ Lil Billy

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Jazz Happy Hour Free The Black Order 3:30p Cloudship Free 8p Free 8p

CASA SORRENTO 393 Salinas St, Salinas

DJ Luna 9p

Tuesday November 17th 8:30pm $9/12

CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Tokimonsta $20 8p

Atmosphere Waitlist 7p

Mac Miller Waitlist 7p

Ride $32/$35 7p

Cherub $17.50/$20 7p

The Misfits $26/$30 7p

CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Michael Menert and the Pretty Fantastics $10/$15 8:30p

Random Rab $12/$15 8:30p

Escape the Fate $15/$18 7p

Sin Sisters Burlesque $15 9p

David Ryan Harris $10/$14 8:30p

Stevie Stone $12/$15 9p

CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Froth, Watergate Sandals, Babewatch $10 9p

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Comedy Night Free 8p Derek Astles Free 8p

Gesaffelstein $35/$40 8p

KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

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

Sundays: Live Comedy Estimated 55 smiles-per-hour.

11/17

Al Frisby 6-8p

Tango Ecstasy 6-9:30p

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DANIELLE NICOLE BAND

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Minor Thirds Trio 7-10p

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WED Nathan James and The Rythm Scratchers 6-8p

Grammy Nominated Americana & Roots Music

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APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

Sat Nov 14

Gill Landry Of Old Crow Medicine Show + Stelth Ulvang Of The Lumineers

$15 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm Jamie Lin Wilson of the Trishas plus The Painted Horses $10 adv./$10 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm

Wake The Dead $15 adv./$15 door 21 + 8pm

Blitzen Trapper

Sun Nov 15

$18 adv./$20 door 21 + 9pm Catie Curtis + Maia Sharp 2pm Matinee $15 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 2pm

Sun Nov 15

Ten Strings and A Goat Skin

Mon Nov 16

Erin McKeown + Rod Picott

Tues Nov 17

Brian Finnegan & William Coulter w/ John Weed & Aria DiSalvio

Wed Nov 18 Thur Nov 19

$15 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 7pm $12 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm $15 adv./$17 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm Iain Matthews plus James Lee Stanley $10 adv./$10 door 21 <21 w/parent 7:30pm

David Nelson Band $30 adv./$35 door 21 + 8pm

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Fri. Nov. 20

The Refugees, Heartless, Gator Alley Band T. Petty, Heart, Skynyrd Tributes honoring Mike Bargas Sat. Nov. 21 The Beggar Kings R. Stones Virtual 1972 Concert Sun. Nov. 22 Gina Sicilia 2pm Sun. Nov. 22 Tish Hinojosa 7pm Mon. Nov. 23 Christine Lavin & Lot’s Of Friends Tue. Nov. 24 Nikki Lane Wed. Nov. 25 Painted Mandolin ACOUSTIC GARCIA with Joe Craven, Matt Hartle, Larry Graff, Roger Sideman, Reservations Now Online at www.donquixotesmusic.com Rockin'Church Service Every Sunday ELEVATION at 10am-11:15am

Willy Tea Taylor, Jordan Smart, Jeff Wilson $10 9p

7 Come 11 $5 9p

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

11/11

West Coast Soul $3 7:30p

THU

11/12

Blazeen $5 8:30p

FRI

11/13

Lenny’s Basement $6 9p

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

SAT

11/14

Pawn Shop Soul $7 9:30p

Gill Landry, Stelth Ulvang $15 7:30p

Jamie Lin Wilson, The Painted Horses $10 7:30p

MON

11/16

Catie Curtis, Maia Sharp Erin McKeown, Rod $15 2p Ten Strings, A Picott $12/$15 7:30p Goat Skin $15 7p

The Next Blues Band

The Crew

Mick Overman

The Leftovers 9p

Present Tense 9p

Ten O’Clock Lunch 9p

Jade 7p

Don and Friends 4p

IT’S WINE TYME 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

Open Mic 7p

Mike and Lenny 7p

KUUMBWA 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Ariel Thiermann Free 7p

Houston Jones w/Susie Banana Slug Glaze, The HiLonesome String Band Band $20 8p $10/$15 2, 4p

MALONE’S 4402 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley

Live Music 5:30-9p

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

Kip Allert 7-10p

MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Tomas Gomez 6p

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

DassWassup! By Zagg 9p-1:30a

Dr.Madd 8p

Kim Nalley Band $25 7p

Wild Blue 7-10p

Live Music 5:30-9p

Karaoke w/Ken 9p

Nora Cruz Band 8-11p

Beat Street 8-11p

11/17

Crooked Branches

Blitzen Trapper $18/$20 9p

Flingo 7p

TUE

Reggae Party Free 9:30p

Wake the Dead $15 8p

HENFLING’S 9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond

NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz

11/15

Live Comedy $7 9p

Samba Cruz

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville

MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

SUN

Brian Finnegan & William Coulter & more $15/$17 7p

Monday Night Football 6:30p

Wed. November 11 9 7 pm | Free

MASTER CLASS: ALIVE –– THE ART OF VOCAL IMPROVISATION WITH ARIEL THIERMANN Thursday, November 12 9 7 pm

KIM NALLEY “BLUES PEOPLE” CD RELEASE CONCERT HOUSTON JONES WITH SUSIE GLAZE & THE HILONESOME BAND Tickets: BrownPaperTickets.com

Saturday, November 14 9 2 and 4 pm

30th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BANANA SLUG STRING BAND Tickets: BrownPaperTickets.com Kip Allert Noon-3p

Monday, November 16 9 7 pm | No Comp Tix

CHRIS POTTER TRIO Thursday, November 19 9 7 pm

Rand Rueter 6p

One A-Chord, Shane & Delight $7/$10 8p

Marty O’Reilly & the Old Karl Denson’s Soul Orchestra & more Tiny Universe $10/$13 8p $25/$30 8p

Yarn, Grampa’s Chili $7/$10 8p

Danielle Nicole Band $9/$12 8p

Libation Lab w/Syntax 9:30p-1:30a

D-ROC 9:30p-1:30a

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

Hip-hop with DJ Marc 9:30p-2a

Rola-J Free 7-9p Mortal Dumpling Pop-Up 5-9p

Celebrating Forty Years of Creativity

Friday, November 13 9 8 pm Roadhouse Karaoke 7:30p

Chris Potter Trio $25 7p

Broken Shades 6p

DJ Juan Burgandy 9:30p-1:30a

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Trivia 6-8p

EVAN CHRISTOPHER & CLARINET ROAD Plenty of rhythm...plenty of swing!

New Orleans based clarinetist!

1/2 Price Night for Students Friday, November 20 9 9 pm

CLUB KUUMBWA: ABALONE GREY AND THE PAINTED HORSES

$5 at the door

Monday, November 23 9 7:30 pm At Cabrillo College Crocker Theatre

RAY BROWN’S GREAT BIG BAND Tickets: Cabrillo Box Office, (831) 479-6154 No Comp Tix Monday, November 30 9 7 pm

MATT WILSON CHRISTMAS TREE–O 1/2 Price Night for Students DILLON BAIOCCHI QUINTET 1/2 Price Night for Students Monday, December 7 9 7 and 9 pm

CHARLIE HUNTER TRIO WITH BOBBY PREVITE & CURTIS FOWLKES Wednesday, December 9 9 7 and 9 pm

THE BAD PLUS JOSHUA REDMAN

No Comp Tix

Saturday, December 12 9 7:30 pm | No Comp Tix At the Rio Theatre

MARIACHI SOL DE MÉXICO DE JOSÉ HERNÁNDEZ: A MERRI-ACHI CHRISTMAS 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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Thursday, December 3 9 7 pm

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LIVE MUSIC WED 99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz

11/11

Trivia 8p

THU

11/12

FRI

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

Omar Spence

THE POCKET 3102 Portola Dr, Santa Cruz

Jam Session w/Pam Hawkins 7p

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Trivia

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

The Alex Raymond Band 8p

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

Jazz Jam

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

11/13

SAT

11/14

SUN

11/15

Vinny Johnson

11/16

Kerry Pastine & the Carie & the Soul Shakers Crime Scene $5 9p $5 9p

Isaiah Picket Billy Manzik 8p

11/17

Jazz Session w/Jazz Jam Tuesday Night Comedy Santa Cruz 8-11p Smackdown 9p

Open Mic 4-7p

Comedy Open Mic 8p

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Acoustic Jam w/Toby Gray and Friends

Traditional Hawaiian Music

Traditional Hawaiian Music

Sunday Brunch w/ Chris

Open Mic

California Banjo Extravaganza $25/$35 7:30-10:30p

Telluride MountainďŹ lm on Tour $18 7-10p

Rising Appalachia $24 8-11p

Yo La Tengo $21 8-11p

Patti Smith Sold Out 7-11p Trivia

Little Petie & The Mean Olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Men 8-11p

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Chris Ellis

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Shotgun Suitor 10p-Midnight

DJ RJ2 Ray Stevens 8:30-11p

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

Live Again 8-Midnight

DB Walker Band 8-Midnight

Yuji and Steve

In Three with Steven Walters

The Lenny and Kenny Show

Open Mic 7:30p

Pro Jam w/Dennis Dove Ten Foot Faces 7-11p 7-11p

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THE GOOD FIGHT Carey Mulligan is drawn into Britain’s fight for women’s right to vote in Sarah Gavron’s ‘Suffragette.’

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he campaign of women to win the right to vote has had a long and volatile history. Once exclusively the privilege of the male ruling class—no slaves, servants, women, or other unreliables allowed—voting rights extended to women was considered a dangerously radical idea in the 1880s, when it was first introduced into the public dialogue in Britain. By the turn of the century, the campaign had become a polite, orderly, utterly futile movement called suffrage, or suffragism, based on the Biblical sense of the word “suffer,” as in “to allow.”

The women who defied social convention and risked family rupture, public ridicule, and physical violence to speak out for the cause were known by the vaguely demeaning name,

“suffragette.” But women on the front lines of the struggle for equality considered themselves warriors, especially as their protests became more disruptive and the reaction of the authorities more brutal. The story of these women is told in the illuminating drama, Suffragette, a fictional story woven skillfully into the fabric of real-life history about the radicalization of an ordinary woman into the cause of justice.

Directed by Sarah Gavron, from a script by Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady; The Invisible Woman), the film begins in 1909 in the steaming sweatshop of a commercial laundry in London’s East End. Maud (Carey Mulligan) was literally born in the workplace, to a laundress mother (father unknown) who died a few years later. She’s worked there

all her life, and is married to one of the delivery men, Sonny (Ben Whishaw), with whom she lives in a cramped flat nearby with their little boy.

Maud is horrified one day to witness an act of rebellion— women heaving rocks through local shop windows in the name of equal rights—and the swift, violent retaliation by the police.

But as she’s befriended by a new employee, Violet (AnneMarie Duff), and neighborhood pharmacist, Edith (Helena Bonham Carter)—whose sympathetic husband has earned the degrees, allowing her to practice her calling behind the scenes—Maud is gradually drawn into the cause.

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Pankhurst (a one-scene cameo

by Meryl Streep), women are routinely beaten with billy clubs and arrested. (Movement organizers hand out badges of honor commemorating each woman’s number of arrests.)

When prison inmates seek to publicize their cause by going on hunger strikes, they are violently force-fed by matrons. The police bring in a chief investigator (Brendan Gleeson), determined to “quash” the female rebellion.

But as police methods become more draconian, the suffragist’s publicity campaign begins to pay off, and the press becomes more and more sympathetic to the cause of voting equality.

The film is very clear about personalizing what these women are fighting for. Male employees earn more pay for delivering the laundry around town than the women stuck in the inferno all day doing the work. Violet’s 12-year-old daughter, another laundress, attracts the unwanted attention of the laundry’s predatory foreman. Women have no rights over their own bodies, their property or income (if any), or their children—as Maud discovers when the indignant Sonny locks her out and forbids her access to their son.

There’s a bit of a flabby dramatic midsection as the outrages against the women accrue. But the filmmakers want us to understand how courageously these women fought for something so easy to take for granted now—the chance to have even a tiny political stake in their own destinies.

These days, politicians have to at least pay lip service to issues that concern women. Not all women vote alike, of course, but blatant sexism is now considered detrimental to a successful political platform.

Women who appreciate the power of the vote, and what it cost our foremothers to secure it, can be an influential force for change. The only thing standing in our way is apathy.

SUFFRAGETTE *** (out of four) With Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, and Anne-Marie Duff. Written by Abi Morgan. Directed by Sarah Gavron. A Focus Features release. Rated PG-13.106 minutes.

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BY THE SEA It’s the Hollywood royal couple on the screen together as a couple, it’s cinema mirroring life! No, not Jay Z and Beyonce, the other royal couple—Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt star as tortured married couple travelling the country together in the mid-1970s.

They’re glamorous, aching and you can’t really look straight at the screen when they’re together in one frame because it’s a little like looking into the sun. Angelina Jolie directs. Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Mélanie Laurent co-star. (R) 132 minutes.

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LOVE THE COOPERS In case the ’90s didn’t deliver enough holiday feel-good films about families around the dinner table—here’s one that sounds just like all the others except with Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, Marisa Tomei, Diane Keaton and John Goodman.

There’s the gorgeous daughter who feels pressure to bring home a life mate so she snags a stand-in at the airport, the single dad with his potty-mouthed daughter, the crazy grandmother, and the overbearing mother who only wants a perfect Christmas. Jessie Nelson directs.

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ROOM To Jack, there is nothing outside Room: Room is the entire world. He wakes up and says hello to Lamp, to Table, and to Plant. Now it’s up to the 5-year-old to break his mother out of Room, so they can both find freedom in a harrowing outside world that he’s never even heard of. Lenny Abrahamson directs. Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridges co-star. (R) 118 minutes.

THE 33 The mine owners knew there was structural damage, but they still sent 33 miners 22-stories under the earth’s surface. Without ladders, radio contact to the outside world, an empty medical kit and food and water for only three days, the miners have no option but to sit and wait for rescue. Only, the mine owners do not attempt any removal of the gargantuan rock blocking the exit and the government sends

drills to reach the chamber only after pressure by families and the international media. Based on the 2010 Chilean mining disaster, The 33 follows the 69 agonizing days the men spent underground. Patricia Riggen directs. Naomi Scott, Cote de Pablo, Antonio Banderas co-star.

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NOW PLAYING 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. BRIDGE OF SPIES In May of 1960, two weeks before an East-West summit in Paris, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace. With the world teetering on the brink of Mutually Assured Destruction, the entire course of the Cold War depended on getting that CIA agent back on U.S. soil.

Tom Hanks plays the man who was trusted with negotiating the prisoner exchange, a lawyer plucked from a normal, everyday existence by the CIA. Steven Spielberg directs. Alan Alda, Amy Ryan co-star. (PG-13) 135 minutes.

BURNT The Netflix show Chef’s Table gives a fairly good look into the angst, desperation and rockstardom of today’s top chefs—Burnt blows it wide open. Bradley Cooper is Adam Jones, a two-star Michelin chef, who is hunted, wanted, idolized, and despised on the path to culinary perfection and restaurant redemption. John Wells directs.

Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Daniel Brühl co-star. (NR) 100 minutes.

GOOSEBUMPS Quiver in your Sketchers and flannel shirts, ’90s kids, because the beloved R.L. Stine books are coming for you—again!

This time, in live action, to reawaken every fourth-grade nightmare you ever had. Plus, Jack Black with a very fake, very bad English accent? We are so, so in. Rob Letterman directs.

Odeya Rush, Halston Sage co-star.

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HE NAMED ME MALALA Malala Yousafzai is still a teenager, but it’s possible to look at her life story and not be amazed—she’s a goofball who can do card tricks, she laughs at herself, but she’s also the young Pakistani girl who was shot in the head for taking a stand against the Taliban. Her wisdom and her courage in supporting girls’ education around the world has stunned world leaders. He Named Me Malala takes a look at what has made one young girl an international hero. Davis Guggenheim directs. Malala Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai and Toor Pekai Yousafzai co-star. (PG13) 87 minutes.

LABYRINTH OF LIES Reconstructing Germany after the war was difficult enough—few wanted to face the daily reality that the perpetrators of the Holocaust often worked, lived, and flourished side by side their victims. For a nation trying to rebuild, it was easier to ignore. Except for Johann Radmann. In the 60s the young public prosecutor begins to uncover the previously unknown truth about Auschwitz and unmask the many thousands of former Nazis who were still sitting in positions of power in the government, academia, law enforcement, and beyond. Giulio Ricciarelli directs. André Szymanski, Alexander Fehling, Friederike Becht.

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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. (PG-13) 141 minutes.

MISS YOU ALREADY Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette play Jess and Milly, two lifelong friends who’ve been at each other’s side through thick and thin. The thick gets thicker when Milly is diagnosed with breast cancer and Jess struggles to have the baby she’s longed for.

Catherine Hardwicke directs. Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette, Dominic Cooper co-star. (PG-13) 112 minutes.

OUR BRAND IS CRISIS Sandra Bullock plays Jane, a high-stakes, all-or-nothing campaign manager who is sent to Bolivia to install a new leader against her nemesis, the coordinator for the opposing candidate, Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton). Based on the 2005 documentary of the same name, the film follows the events which quickly take Jane’s fight out of the realm of pure politics when the country starts to disintegrate into war and chaos.

David Gordon Green directs. Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie co-star. (R) 107 minutes.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE GHOST DIMENSION For the crazy kids who weren’t freaked out enough by the handful of other Paranormal Activity films, here’s one about a family that has to protect their daughter from an evil entity using a special camera that can see spirits.

We’ll be watching this one with all the lights on, in broad daylight, a solid thirty feet from the movie screen—but, hey, at least it’s the final installment in the franchise so thankfully the nightmares will end soon. Gregory Plotkin directs. Chris J.Murray, Brit Shaw, Ivy George costar. (R) 88 minutes.

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.

SPECTRE Beautiful Bond is back again: hello, piercing blue eyes and puckered pout, it’s been too long!

Oh yeah—something about a secret organization, M struggling again to secure Bond’s job, and over two hours of bing, bang, boom, kablooey.

Also, Christoph Waltz! Sam Mendes directs. Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux co-star. (PG-13) 148 minutes.

STEVE JOBS Musicians play their instruments, I play the orchestra,” says Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs. And play it he did—even posthumously, as it seems Hollywood can’t get enough of him.

At least this biopic’s got writer Aaron Sorkin and director Danny Boyle behind it. (R) 122 minutes.

SUFFRAGETTE “All my life I’ve been respectful, done what men have told me—well I can’t have that any more,” says Maud Watts, an almost reluctant suffragette who stumbles upon the underground women's movement in England in the late 19th century. Cornered by men at every turn, these foot soldiers of the early feminist movement risked everything to gain the right to vote—suffering oppression at work, brutality in the streets, humiliation by their peers, ostracization from their families and children, imprisonment by the police, and in some cases, even death. Sarah Gavron directs.

Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter co-star. (Pg13) 106 minutes.

TRUTH A group of journalists stumble upon the “holy grail” of documents—proof that President George W. Bush lied about his military service. Only, once the story goes national, it turns out the memos haven’t been confirmed and some of them can easily be forged on Microsoft Word. Truth is the story of the 2004 CBS “60 Minutes” report which sank anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes’ career. James Vanderbilt directs. Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Dennis Quaid costar. (R) 121 minutes.

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n order to roast some choice “off-the-beaten-track” coffees, Lulu Carpenter’s entrepreneur Manthri Srinath has acquired “a couple of very cool semi-commercial trial roasters,” small enough to roast micro batches of coffee beans. These beautiful cylindrical roasters— adorned with pressure gauges, temperature meters, shiny cylinder drums with wooden knobs, funnels, and curved spouts like something out of Jules Verne—are brought out onto the sidewalk in front of the Octagon a few times a week in order to custom roast some of the specialty beans bound for Lulu’s Blue Label small-batch coffees.

Last week I watched roast mistress Emily Warfield as she fired up the most complex of the gorgeous little precision gadgets, waited until the proper temperature was reached, and then poured in a pound of green mountain-grown Yemen Mokha beans.

The quality of Yemen harvests is up, after some years of languishing (not to mention the deteriorating political climate), so the beans of Yemen’s Matari appellation are back, and as Srinath notes, “this coffee doesn’t disappoint.” He describes it as “earthy and rustic,” with a bittersweet chocolate tone that persists through the entire cup.

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temperature inside the stainless steel drum to approach its optimum 400plus degrees, she explained that the miniaturized equipment is useful for roasting small batches as well as for teaching the coffee-roasting process.

She consulted several gauges to make sure the temperature inside the drum was consistent. Then, the beans were poured into the top funnel and spun for approximately 12 minutes. “You can smell the color change,” she said with a grin. “It goes from a grassy aroma to that of full roast coffee.” I watched the beans darken through the tiny porthole while they were frequently checked through a small pull-out drawer. “You can hear the

beans popping and beginning to crack,” Srinath added. The small-scale microroasting equipment lets Srinath and his team work with specialty beans not purchased in large quantities.

“Roasting at such a small scale results in some pretty spectacular coffees,” Srinath contends. Small roasts may vary in terms of the consistency possible in larger-batch roasting—e.g.

Lulu’s up at Scotts Valley roasts, in 25-pound batches, many thousands of pounds each month. But “it can yield some amazing flavors.”

Indeed, it did. An hour later I sampled the fresh-roasted Yemen Mokha, filtered on Chemex, and discovered its rounded bright flavors of figs, chocolate and tobacco, which grew mellower as it cooled. Wellworth $5 for a medium Chemex cup, and $15.75 for a 12-ounce bag.

All Blue Label coffees are roasted to order, so for mail order Lulu’s says to allow an additional week for roasting and shipping. Find your new favorite Blue Label specialty at Lulu’s Octagon on Front Street or online at lulucarpenters.com. Also, check out Lulu’s for weekend brunch (8 a.m.-2 p.m.) and/or newly expanded lunches at the Kitchen at Lulu’s, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL On a drizzly midday last week, we settled into the sidewalk cafe ambiance of Chocolate, next door to Bookshop Santa Cruz, for a very delightful hot lunch. Jack powered through his freshly cooked swordfish sandwich with barbecue sauce and tomatoes on a Gayle’s francese bun ($11.50). The sandwich arrived with a major green salad and terrific balsamic vinaigrette. I enjoyed a very satisfying housemade free-range chicken and organic vegetable soup ($5), with a slice of francese. We both staved off the chill with big cups of delicate Dragon Pearl jasmine green tea ($2.75), soothed by the white noise of the restaurant’s Italianate fountain.

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Food Trucks a Go Go Finally, an easy way to find food trucks in Santa Cruz County BY AARON CARNES

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Why hasn’t there been much happening with food trucks in Santa Cruz County?

What does Food Trucks a Go Go do?

That’s part of the reason why we’re up and running—to get us on the map and to create more of these events for everybody. For the past number of years, so many of my clients have been asking ‘why isn’t there anything like that here? Will you get something going?’ We have food trucks here. I wouldn’t say there’s a lot. We’re not as populated as San Jose and all the other larger cities. We’re newbies down here and just trying to make it exciting and fun for everybody.

anta Cruz has been on the cutting edge of certain food trends, like pop-ups, but where are all the food trucks? Rest assured, they’ve been hard to find, but they are here. And now, thanks to Food Trucks a Go Go, they are much easier to locate.

The company, owned by Lali Kates (also owner of Aunt Lali’s ice cream truck), started putting on food truck events in September. The next one will be at Skypark on Friday, Nov. 13. Kates talked to us about how she keeps Go Go going.

LALI KATES: We are a food truck event company. We create food truck gatherings, or “Go Go” gatherings, as we’re calling them, for mobile food businesses in the area. They can be public or private. Businesses have contacted us to supply food trucks for their private events. The overall feeling at these events is high-energy and a lot of fun.

Do you only do these events in Scotts Valley?

We are currently operating on a monthly basis in Scotts Valley, and having conversations with various other people around the county for events in their locations as well.

What do you love about food trucks?

When you go to a restaurant, there’s the menu of all the restaurant’s fabulous food. When you come to a food truck event, you also have the fabulous food, if you imagine each food truck is its own restaurant. So it creates many more options for people to choose from. And it’s just really fun being in the middle of all the food trucks and hearing the music and talking to everybody—people gathering and sharing picnic tables.

It’s a whole community. Friday, Nov. 13, Skypark, 361 Kings Village Road, Scotts Valley. Free. foodtrucksagogo.com.

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DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ WINE WALK The next Santa Cruz Wine Walk is from 3-6 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 15. Around 10 wineries and 10 businesses are participating, so there will be plenty of fun to be had as you stroll around. Check in at the Food Lounge for your pass and to get your glass, as well as a map of the pouring locations. Tickets are $30. Many downtown restaurants will be offering specials on the same evening, so stay for dinner! Info: downtownsantacruz.com/wine-walk.

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n early June, I was invited by the owners and winemakers of Soquel Vineyards, Peter and Paul Bargetto and Jon Morgan, to watch a bottling session. It’s an amazing sight to see the smooth choreography of hundreds of bottles whizzing by to get filled with wine, then labels being slapped on, and corks and foil topping everything off.

We tasted a few wines over lunch, including their impressive new Intreccio 2013 ($75). The Intreccio, Italian for “weave,” is an absolutely gorgeous blend of 20 percent each of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, and Petit Verdot.

Awash with aromas of tobacco, cedar and blueberry, and fullon berry fruits to tantalize the tongue, the well-crafted Intreccio is a lush mouthful of rich red wine.

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Scorpio works with Ray 4, harmony through conflict, which is how humanity learns— through suffering. Scorpio streams through

Mars, Pluto and Mercury. Mars brings the Nine Personality Tests, urging us to bring harmony out of chaos (Ray 4); raise lesser values (desire) to higher (aspiration); lift darkness/ ignorance up to the soul’s light. In Scorpio we battle with crystallized (old) thinking and behaviors.

We identify with the symbols of Scorpio: the scorpion (sting), serpent (betrayal), spider (web), eagle (air), and phoenix (firelight). Earth to air and into the light. Humanity’s present battle is to reorient materialism from greed to a world of sharing. In Scorpio, the spiritual power of humanity can triumph. Let us work together to see that we do.

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Are you feeling overworked and overextended? Is there a wound you’re tending? Are you easily tired, sleeping less and awakening before dawn? Do you sense the need for either a new home or a house renovation? Are you planning the holiday season? Use resources already accumulated. They are beautiful and enough to make the coming season one of beauty, reflecting the light of your generosity. Rest more.

TAURUS Apr21–May21 You must tend and listen more to your partner, close associates, those you love. Invitations for closeness are spoken. But you may not be hearing them. When we don’t listen deeply, we lose the essence of the contact and relationship. If you are seeking closeness then offer listening, ask questions. What do you want from your partner(s)?

When there is no deep listening in relationships, everyone becomes physically drained. Tend carefully to personal health and the health of all relationships.

GEMINI May 22–June 20 Your spirit needs art, beauty, harmony and expressions of creativity each day, lest you become dry as a thistle in the desert’s heat. Do not gamble. Those who do will have moments of prosperity, but they’re as fleeting as tumbleweed. You are many things. The flirt, the lover, the loved one who walks away at a moment’s notice.

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Amidst your love of food and adventures, a call to duty, a vocation into service, is searching for you. Each crisis leads them closer. One day a door will open, with you walking through it. The unobtainable becomes the obtained. Patience. Keep searching for word clues.

Do you know that others who care for you will be available when you’re in need? It’s important to, in turn, nurture all associations and interactions in your life. Then, care from others becomes a reality. Do you feel separated from certain associates or friends or daily life schedules? It’s hard to share and be close from afar. Sometimes we create distance from the ways we think about others. It is difficult to overcome this. Make your love into an art form.

You have the ability at this time to organize social events that become areas of art, creativity, healing, and comfort for both yourself and others. Your sense of justice, ethics and aspiration to serve others allow you to comfort and counsel those who mourn, those in need, unnoticed, unseen, overlooked and left out. Slowly your personal power and capabilities for doing good are recognized. Each opportunity reveals another. Continue up the ladder. It leads to the stars.

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When you leave home it’s for a very short time. Home is most important now. Careful with sharp implements like knives and tools. They become dangerous if not handled with awareness. With discipline you can now prepare your body for utmost fitness through diet, yoga, tai chi and exercise choices. Previous travels, times and friends far away are in your thoughts. Careful with things (including finances) shared with others. Don’t be confused. Be just.

Your imagination will give rise to great ideas helping you feel confident, successful and expanded where beforehand you felt held back. Freedom is available to you now. Allow your heart to speak—not only your desires but your heart. Tell the truth about how you feel.

Speak of your needs, hopes, wishes, and truths. These make you authentic. Those in touch with their hearts will recognize and help you. Then love happens.

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Be conservative with money and resources, for later that money and those resources will be needed. Should some material necessity arise that is expensive, do purchase it. Should someone be in great need, help them (tithing). Both choices can occur simultaneously.

Social interactions with others are important. Should there be no one around, speak with the garden devas (angels). Speak of your cooperation with them.

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In years to come, a group project will begin to manifest.

It will have profound effects upon humanity. The seeds have been planted and although you feel impatience, the project seems not to have manifested, it is growing in unseen ways. Gather flower and vegetable seeds wherever you are. Plant them everywhere, in fields and meadows and small patches of soil. Share them with others. This metaphor (seeds) carries you forward with courage, surety and stillness.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1767 The following Individual is doing business as RAYTEC ELECTRIC. 7 LYLE WAY, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz. RAY T. SIMON. 7 LYLE WAY, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: RAY T. SIMON. 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 Oct. 13, 2015. Oct. 21, 28, & Nov. 4, 11.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1906 The following Individual is doing business as BELLA BOUTIQUE. 731 E. LAKE AVENUE, SUITE 2, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076.

County of Santa Cruz. ANNE MARIE PONCE. 731 E. LAKE AVENUE, SUITE 2, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ANNE MARIE PONCE. 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 Nov. 2, 2015. Nov. 11, 18, 25, & Dec. 2.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1808 The following Individual is doing business as GARCIA MASONRY. 1303 OLD SAN JOSE RD., SOQUEL, CA 95073. County of Santa Cruz. RUBEN GARCIA. 1303 OLD SAN JOSE RD., SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: RUBEN

GARCIA. 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 Oct. 19, 2015. Oct. 28, & Nov. 4, 11, 18.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1866 The following Married Couple is doing business as URMI ART MISTRY. 504 C, FRONT STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. AJAY MISTRY & RAXA MISTRY. 504 C, FRONT STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by a Married Couple signed: AJAY MISTRY. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 4/9/2011.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Oct. 27, 2015. Nov. 11, 18, 25, & Dec. 2.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1823 The following Individual is doing business as BERGERON TREE CARE AND WOODCRAFT. 780 DHARMA RIDGE ROAD, LOS GATOS, CA 95033.

County of Santa Cruz.

COLIN BERGERON. 780 DHARMA RIDGE ROAD, LOS GATOS, CA 95033.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: COLIN BERGERON. 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 Oct. 21, 2015. Oct. 28, & Nov. 4, 11, 18.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1741 The following Individual is doing business as SIGNS OF GOOD TIMES. 4300 SOQUEL DR. #2, SOQUEL, CA 95073. County of Santa Cruz. CHRISTOPHER BALLAS. 4300 SOQUEL DR. #2, SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: CHRISTOPHER BALLAS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/5/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Oct. 5, 2015. Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1892 The following Individual is doing business as DNAMO MARKETING. 207 BROADWAY #1, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. DOUGLAS C. MOLLENAUER. 207 BROADWAY #1, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060 This business is conducted by an Individual signed: DOUGLAS C. MOLLENAUER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/2/2015.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Oct. 29, 2015. Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF SAHARA JANE RAY - BACH. CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV182578. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner SAHARA JANE RAY - BACH has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an

order changing the applicants name from: SAHARA JANE RAY BACH. to: SAHARA JANE RAY. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING November 24, 2015 at 8:30 am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.

Dated: Oct. 6, 2015. Paul M. Marigonda, Judge of the Superior Court. Nov. 11, 18, 25, & Dec. 2.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1760 The following Individual is doing business as VECTOR ARCHITECTURAL METALS. 201 FERN ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. MICHAEL WOOD. 201 FERN ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

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fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Oct. 8, 2015. Nov. 11, 18, 25, & Dec. 2.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1918 The following Individual is doing business as RARE BIRD SALON. 227 CATHCART STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

County of Santa Cruz.

ASHLEY KELLER. 227 CATHCART STREET, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ASHLEY KELLER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 11/3/2015.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Nov. 3, 2015. Nov. 11, 18, 25, & Dec. 2.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME. The following person(s) have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: SURF CITY RENTALS. 4675 CAPITOLA ROAD, CAPITOLA, CA 95010. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on: 5/6/2014. SURF CITY RENTALS. 4675 CAPITOLA ROAD, CAPITOLA, CA 95010. This business was conducted by a GENERAL PARTNERSHIP between:TARA FORREST & JODY STELCK. This statement was filed with the County Clerk- Recorder of SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on the date indicated by the file stamp: Filed: Oct. 22, 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1787 The following Unincorporated Association is doing business as TRANSITION SANTA CRUZ. 877 CEDAR ST. STE. 150, BOX Z., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. JAMIE SNYDER & CHERYL SNYDER. 877 CEDAR ST. STE. 150, BOX Z., Santa Cruz, CA 95060.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JAMIE SNYDER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 11/25/2008. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Oct. 14, 2015. Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1739 The following Individual is doing business as JUAN OF ALL TRADES. 2234 ALICE STREET, APT. B., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. JUAN CARLOS MONROY. 2234 ALICE STREET, APT. B., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JUAN CARLOS MONROY. 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 Oct. 2, 2015. Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1830 The following Corporation is doing business as SURF CITY RENTALS. 749 TANNER COURT, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. SURF CITY RENTALS, INC., 749

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This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Oct. 22, 2015. Oct. 28, & Nov. 4, 11, 18.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1836 The following Individual is

doing business as ENTREPRELAW. 101 COOPER STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. IAN STOCK. 101 COOPER STREET, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060.

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Butcher Shop: All Natural USDA Choice Beef & Lamb only, Corn-Fed Midwest Pork, Rocky Free Range Chickens, Air Chilled Mary’s Chicken, Wild-Caught Seafood, Boar’s Head Brand, Saags Sausages PORK CHOPS, Center-Cuts/ 3.98 Lb SIRLOIN PORK CHOPS/ 2.98 Lb THICK-CUT PORK CHOPS/ 3.98 Lb PORK BABY BACK RIBS/ 4.98 Lb BOARS HEAD CHICKEN BREAST/ 8.98 Lb BLACK PEPPER TRI TIPS/ 8.98 Lb BAY SHRIMP MEAT, Fully Cooked/ 13.98 Lb PACIFIC RED SNAPPER FILLET/ 6.98 Lb CAJUN CATFISH FILLET, Marinated/ 9.98 Lb

Beer/Wine/Spirits:

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BECKMAN’S, Nine Grain Sour Round 16oz/ 2.59 WHOLE GRAIN, California Black Loaf 30oz/ 3.09 KELLY’S, Sour Baguette 16oz/ 2.39 GAYLE’S, Francese Bun 4 Pack/ 3.99 SUMANOS, Garlic Loaf 24oz/ 4.29 Cheese s Best Gourmet Selection in Santa Cruz MILD CHEDDAR, “RBST FREE” Loaf Cuts/ 3.39 Lb, Avg Cuts/ 3.49 Lb SWISS JARLSBERG, “Norwegian Import”/ 10.09 Lb BIERKASE, “German Beer Cheese”/ 17.99 Lb ISABELLA & ROSALINA AGED GOUDA, “Two Sisters Gouda, Try Samples!” 17.99 Lb

Delicatessen NOW TAKING HOLIDAY ORDERS! 423-1696 BOAR’S HEAD BONE IN AND BONELESS 1/2 HAMS, DIESTEL TURKEY’S, LAMB LEGS, LAMB RACKS, LAMB SIRLOIN ROAST, PRIME RIB ROASTS.

Produce: California-Fresh, Blemish-Free, 30% Local / Organic Arrow Citrus Co., Lakeside Organics, Happy Boy Farms, Route 1 Farms BANANAS, Always Ripe/ .89 Lb LIMES, Extra Juicy/ .19 Ea AVOCADOS, Table Ripe Ready/ 1.09 Ea YELLOW ONIONS, A Kitchen Must Have/ .49 Lb LEAF LETTUCE, Red, Green, Romaine, Butter & Iceberg/ 1.49 Ea BROCCOLI CROWNS, Fresh from the Field/ 1.89 Lb GREEN BEANS, Fresh and Tender/ 1.99 Lb NAVEL ORANGES, Sweet & Juicy/ 1.09 Lb CLUSTER TOMATOES. Ripe of the Vine/ 2.29 Lb

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Holiday Needs CARNATION EVAPORATED, Milk 12oz/ 1.49 OCEAN SPRAY CRANBERRY SAUCE, Whole or Jellied 14oz/ 1.69 LIBBY’S PUMPKIN, “Great for Pies” 15oz/ 1.99 PACIFIC BROTH’S, “All Natural” 32oz/ 3.49 PEPPERIDGE FARMS STUFFING, 5 Kinds 12oz/ 2.99

Clover Stornetta HEAVY WHIPPING CREAM, Pint/ 2.99 ORGANIC HEACY WHIPPING CREAM, Pint/ 3.99 BUTTER, Sweet or Salted 16oz/ 6.99 ORGANIC BUTTER, 16oz/ 6.99 EGG NOG, Original & Light, Quart/ 3.99

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ANDERSON VALLEY, Winter Ale 12oz Bottles, 6 Pack/ 9.49 +CRV DESCHUTES, Winter Ale 12oz Bottles, 6 Pack/ 8.49 +CRV SIERRA NEVADA, Winter IPA 12oz Bottles, 6 Pack/ 8.99 +CRV SAMUEL SMITH, Winter Ale 550ml Bottles/ 2.99 +CRV ROGUE, Fall Ale 22oz Bottle/ 6.49 +CRV

Quality Gin DEATH’S DOOR, “Outstanding” (Reg 31.99)/ 24.99 TANGUERAY NO. TEN (97BTI)/ 32.99 VENUS NO. 1, Local “Small Batch”/ 29.99 HENDRIX, “Small Batch Hand Crafted”/ 29.99 ST. GEORGE, Botanivore & Terrior/ 31.99

Thanksgiving Specials 2013 BANFI, L’Ardi Dolcetto d’Acqui (Reg 16.99)/ 8.99 2009 TE KAIRANGA, Pinot Noir (91W&S, Reg 26.99)/ 9.99 2012 LINCOURT, Sauvignon Blanc (90WE, Reg 17.99)/ 9.99 2010 ESTANCIA, Pinot Noir Reserve (Reg 29.99)/ 14.99 2014 ROMBAUER, Chardonnay (Reg 35.99)/ 29.99

Great Value – Chardonnay 2013 CHLOE, Sonoma County (Reg 15.99)/ 9.99 2012 WILD HORSE, “Unbridled” (Reg 24.99)/ 13.99 2012 LINCOURT, Courtney’s (93WE, Reg 17.99)/ 9.99 2014 CRAFTWORK, Monterey (Reg 19.99)/ 9.99 2013 THE MONTEREY VINEYARD by CHALONE (Reg 14.99)/ 9.99

Celebration Sparkles ROEDERER ESTATE, Brut (92WE, Reg 24.99)/ 19.99 SCHARFFENBERGER, Brut (91WE)/ 19.99 G.H. MUMM, Cordon Rouge (92WS, Reg 39.99) 29.99 LAURENT PERRIER, Brut (91WE, Reg 39.99)/ 29.99 BOLLINGER, Special Cuvee (94WS)/ 59.99

Connoisseurs Corner – Pinot Noir 2013 LUCIA, Gary’s Vineyard/ 59.99 2012 BEAUREGARD, Coast Grade Vineyard/ 59.99 2013 SEA SMOKE, Southing/ 69.99 2013 PISONI, “Estate” Santa Lucia Highlands/ 79.99 2012 ROCHIOLI, Russian River Valley/ 89.99

KLIPPY’S COOKIE DOUGH, “Gluten Free” 12oz/ 6.99 CAROLYN’S COOKIE DOUGH, “Frozen, Hand Scooped” 21oz/ 9.99 SHELLY’S BISCOTTI, “Dark Chocolate Dipped” 8oz/ 8.39 GIZDICH PIES, “Fresh Daily”/ Assorted Prices MARIANNE’S ICE CREAM, Quart/ 4.59

SUSAN DAMON, 20-Year Customer, Santa Cruz

OUR 77 T H YEA R

Occupation: Industrial food broker, Riddell Sales Hobbies: Horseback riding, reading, cooking, travel Astrological Sign: Capricorn What do you like to cook? I do it all but I do lean more towards Mediterranean. I just learned how to make paella. The recipe called for a special rice which I got from Shopper’s, along with all the other ingredients. I make a really good crab cioppino. I get a lot of fish from Shopper’s; they and Stagnaro’s are the only stores I trust for seafood. I’m really picky. And the meat: oh my goodness — they’re the best! I use a lot of Shopper’s rib steaks and lamb, their meatloaf, and more. The butchers are so helpful and always provide good service. My pot roast always came out like leather until a butcher here told me how to cook it and at what temp, and for how long. It tasted amazing!

You prefer shopping local? Absolutely.

Shopper’s is intimate, warm and cozy. Who wants to shop in a gi-normous chain store? You get lost. Here, not only does my money go to a family-run market but also to local farmers and vendors who supply the store with strawberries, pies, and apples, dry-farmed tomatoes and roma beans, plus the breads, coffees, and eggs.

Speaking of produce, they have a wide selection of organic and conventional items and they’re always fresh, not dry or wilting.

It’s like going to a farmers market. The produce is gorgeous, it almost looks like a painting! I really love this store.

How so? I love everything about it. The wooden floors, the customer service — you never have to wait long because most of the check stands are always open, plus the people are very friendly and helpful. Shopper’s has the most unique specialty products; they always seem to have what you need, including a great wine department. It’s onestop shopping — it’s like going to Disneyland!

Thanksgiving is right around the corner. I’ll get my Diestel turkey here, all the fixings, plus the ingredients for making my own dressing and pumpkin pies. I enjoy shopping here during the holidays. There’re usually school kids and other non-profit groups set up outside selling pies and goodies. I like that Shopper’s allows that.

“Shopper’s has the most unique specialty products. It’s one-stop shopping — it’s like going to Disneyland!”

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