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OPINION

EDITOR’S NOTE Some of the most interesting and important scientific work in the world is being done right here in Santa Cruz. Usually it’s up at UCSC, but the Puma Project is a collaboration between the university and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. This week, as Henry Houskeeper writes in our cover story, Puma Project director Chris Wilmers and environmental chemist Peter Weiss-Penzias are delivering their findings about mercury found in the whiskers of pumas in the Santa

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Our quality of life in Aptos is being threatened.

Our involvement—or apathy—today will have specific consequences tomorrow.

Saltwater intrusion is a threat, and traffic congestion is a daily challenge. Both of these situations will definitely be exacerbated by the construction of the Aptos Village project in the heart of the old village. I can’t even begin to envision 5,000 residents trying to make their way out of Trout Gulch and Soquel Drive in the event of an emergency evacuation.

I personally attended community meetings organized by Ellen Pirie back in 2008, when this project was under consideration. I have spoken to countless Aptos residents, local business owners, and friends who attended those meetings. My conclusion, then and now, is that the overwhelming majority of Aptos people did not and do not want a project of this magnitude.

Those who are in favor would like to see a New Leaf and a few shops and restaurants. I found that the majority of the people who actually want the proposed housing development are real estate agents, developers, and others who will profit initially in some way.

To my mind, the best-case scenario would be to have a market and a few retail shops.

But even that is a questionable proposition. By creating more shopping, you don’t necessarily create more tax revenue and jobs—you may well end up taking business away from existing stores and restaurants. A New Leaf market will most probably put Aptos Natural Foods out of

Cruz Mountains at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. In his story, Houskeeper explains the potential implications of these findings for understanding how what Weiss-Penzias calls “the most reckless, unnecessary pollution” has been spread in our own backyard. It’s a startling and unnerving piece that I hope you’ll take the time to read.

Please also check out Anne-Marie Harrison’s story about the Teen Kitchen Project, one of the innovative local nonprofits we’re asking you to support as part of our Santa Cruz Gives campaign through Dec. 31. Then go to santacruzgives.com to become part of the holiday giving.

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business and will definitely take a bite out of Deluxe Foods of Aptos and Safeway.

I researched why high-density mixeduse projects are mandated by the state of California. The reasons make sense for places where there is adequate space for the flow of traffic and abundant infrastructure. In our case, the Aptos Village project is like putting a round peg in a square hole. It will definitely exacerbate the current problems facing us: lack of water, lack of affordable housing, traffic jams, transportation problems, and potential disaster during any type of emergency.

It seems to me that our local government is putting the cart before the horse. I agree that housing shortages cause home values to rise and the price of rentals to skyrocket. But building more expensive homes aggravates the situation.

We are quickly becoming a bedroom and weekend-home community for Silicon Valley.

Our high cost of living means that people who work in restaurants, markets, convenience stores, box stores, shoe stores, hair salons, coffee shops, etc., can’t afford to live here anymore. The situation is appalling: we have people renting out walk-in closets as bedrooms; grown kids are living with their parents; three-tofour people sharing a one-bedroom apartment.

Our county leaders should work closely with developers to build tiny homes and apartment complexes that take up a much smaller footprint and are much more affordable. We must address the challenge of providing affordable housing for the labor and professional workforce that fuels the economy of our county and community. >11

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With all this chilly weather, some people will want to celebrate Christmas the Jimmy Buffett way—by getting some tropical traveling in to Mexico, South America, the Caribbean, or maybe even the Big Island of Hawaii. County officials want any travelers to these parts to protect themselves from mosquitoes and the dangerous diseases they carry. That means long sleeves and bug repellant.

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Curtis Reliford of Follow Your Heart Action Network is continuing his work collecting donations to give to those in need. With an extra emphasis on the holiday season, he wants locals to know that he’ll be giving bags filled with toiletries, warm socks, canned goods and miscellaneous new items to community members in need. To donate, call him at 831-246-4240, or catch him as he rolls through town in his Peace Train, which is covered in American flags.

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LOCAL TALK

Do you have any concerns about eating fish and seafood?

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I’ve heard things about mercury and radiation, but otherwise I’m not really worried.

TONA KARLSSON SANTA CRUZ | STUDENT/SERVICE COORDINATOR

With the pollution, mercury and garbage that goes into the ocean, I don’t want to be consuming it.

MAIA THOMAS SANTA CRUZ | STUDENT

I wonder if it is poisonous, but I don’t really think that it is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with the seafood here in Santa Cruz.

CHARLES ALEXANDER SANTA CRUZ | LANDSCAPER

SPENCER CORN SANTA CRUZ | FREELANCER

Yes, I’m concerned about sustainability, and that our oceans are becoming more and more polluted.

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Definitely, because of the toxicity of the water, and the crab season being delayed or canceled because of a toxin produced by a microscopic algae.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of December 16 ARIES Mar21–Apr19

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22

The Neanderthals were a different human species that co-existed with our ancestors, homo sapiens, for at least 5,000 years. But they eventually died out while our people thrived. Why? One reason, says science writer Marcus Chown, is that we alone invented sewing needles.

Our newborn babies had well-made clothes to keep them warm and healthy through frigid winters. Neanderthal infants, covered with ill-fitting animal skins, had a lower survival rate. Chown suggests that although this provided us with a mere one percent survival advantage, that turned out to be significant. I think you’re ready to find and use a small yet ultimately crucial edge like that over your competitors, Aries.

The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to consort with hidden depths and unknown riches. In every way you can imagine, I urge you to go deeper down and further in. Cultivate a more conscious connection with the core resources you sometimes take for granted.

This is one time when delving into the darkness can lead you to pleasure and treasure. As you explore, keep in mind this advice from author T. Harv Eker: “In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, what’s under the ground creates what’s above the ground.

That’s why placing your attention on the fruits you have already grown is futile. You can’t change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree. But you can change tomorrow’s fruits. To do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots.”

TAURUS Apr20–May20 Artist Robert Barry created “30 Pieces,” an installation that consisted of pieces of paper on which he had typed the following statement: “Something which is very near in place and time, but not yet known to me.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, this theme captures the spirit of the phase you’re now entering.

But I think it will evolve in the coming weeks. First it’ll be “Something which is very near in place and time, and is becoming known to me.” By mid-January it could turn into “Something which is very near and dear, and has become known to me.”

GEMINI May21–June20 “There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is uncanny, wild, and lawless.” Greek philosopher Plato wrote that in his book The Republic, and I’m bringing it to your attention just in time for your Season of Awakening and Deepening Desire. The coming days will be a time when you can, if you choose, more fully tune in to the uncanny, wild, and lawless aspects of your primal yearnings. But wait a minute! I’m not suggesting you should immediately take action to gratify them. For now, just feel them and observe them. Find out what they have to teach you.

Wait until the new year before you consider the possibility of expressing them.

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Congratulations! You have broken all your previous records for doing boring tasks that are good for you.

On behalf of the other eleven signs, I thank you for your heroic, if unexciting, campaign of self-improvement. You have not only purified your emotional resources and cleared out some breathing room for yourself, but you have also made it easier for people to help you and feel close to you. Your duty has not yet been completed, however. There are a few more details to take care of before the gods of healthy tedium will be finished with you. But start looking for signs of your big chance to make a break for freedom.

They’ll arrive soon.

LE0 Jul23–Aug22

Give Kids a Smile

The English word “fluke” means “lucky stroke.” It was originally used in the game of billiards when a player made a good shot that he or she wasn’t even trying to accomplish. Later its definition expanded to include any fortuitous event that happens by chance rather than because of skill: good fortune generated accidentally. I suspect that you are about to be the beneficiary of what may seem to be a series of flukes, Leo. In at least one case, though, your lucky break will have been earned by the steady work you’ve done without any fanfare.

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You may not have to use a literal crowbar in the coming weeks, but this rough tool will serve you well as a metaphor. Wherever you go, imagine that you’ve got one with you. Why? It’s time to jimmy open glued-shut portals . . . to pry loose mental blocks . . . to coax unyielding influences to budge . . . to nudge intransigent people free of their fixations. Anything that is stuck or jammed needs to get unstuck or unjammed through the power of your willful intervention.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 In the coming weeks, the pursuit of pleasure could drain your creative powers, diminish your collaborative possibilities, and wear you out. But it’s also possible that the pursuit of pleasure will enhance your creative powers, synergize your alliances, and lead you to new opportunities. Which way will you go? It all depends on the kinds of pleasures you pursue. The dumb, numbing, mediocre type will shrink your soul. The smart, intriguing, invigorating variety will expand your mind. Got all that? Say “hell, no” to trivializing decadence so you can say “wow, yes” to uplifting bliss.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 Garnets are considered less valuable than diamonds. But out in the wild, there’s an intimate connection between these two gemstones. Wherever you find garnets near the surface of the earth, you can be reasonably sure that diamonds are buried deeper down in the same location.

Let’s use this relationship as a metaphor for your life, Sagittarius. I suspect you have recently chanced upon a metaphorical version of garnets, or will do so soon.

Maybe you should make plans to search for the bigger treasure toward which they point the way.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 Ready for the Cool Anger Contest? You can earn maximum points by expressing your dissatisfaction in ways that generate the most constructive transformations.

Bonus points will be awarded for your ability to tactfully articulate complicated feelings, as well as for your emotionally intelligent analyses that inspire people to respond empathetically rather than defensively. What are the prizes? First prize is a breakthrough in your relationship with an ally who could be crucial to your expansion in 2016. Second prize is a liberation from one of your limiting beliefs.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 A fourth-century monk named Martin was a pioneer winemaker in France. He founded the Marmoutier Abbey and planted vineyards on the surrounding land. According to legend, Martin’s donkey had a crucial role in lifting viticulture out of its primitive state. Midway through one growing season, the beast escaped its tether and nibbled on a lot of the grapevines. All the monks freaked out, fearing that the crop was wrecked. But ultimately the grapes grew better than they had in previous years, and the wine they produced was fabulous. Thus was born the practice of pruning, which became de rigueur for all grape-growers.

What’s your equivalent of Martin’s donkey, Aquarius? I bet it’ll exert its influence very soon.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 “The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important,” said educator John Dewey. If that’s true, Pisces, you are on the verge of having your deepest urge fulfilled more than it has been in a long time. The astrological alignments suggest that you are reaching the peak of your value to other people. You’re unusually likely to be seen and appreciated and acknowledged for who you really are. If you have been underestimating your worth, I doubt you will be able to continue doing so. Here’s your homework: Take a realistic inventory of the ways your life has had a positive impact on the lives of people you have known.

Homework: Make a guess about what you will be most proud of 15 years from today. Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.

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The time is now: I urge the taxpayers of our community to become well-informed

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HELLO DARKNESS Decreased levels of sunlight during the winter is the likely culprit for Seasonal Affective Disorder. But at least you don’t live in Antarctica.

SAD Faced Seven ways to beat the all-too-real Seasonal Affective Disorder this winter BY MARIA GRUSAUSKAS hours in Helsinki.)

On top of the estimated 14.8 million Americans living with depression, another 10 million are estimated to experience Seasonal Affective Disorder, a physiologically rooted depression associated with lower light levels and appropriately acronymed SAD. Most common among adults ages 18-30, and affecting women more than men, SAD’s varying symptoms include fatigue, irritability, difficulty concentrating, weight gain, and social isolation.

Here’s a crowd-sourced list of ideas for staying healthy and happy during the year’s darkest days: 1. EAT LIKE IT’S SUMMER: Sweets and carbs are everywhere during the winter months, especially during the holidays. While that sugar cookie will supply a temporary rush of dopamine, it will also weaken your

immune system (and virtually every system in your body) and leave you craving more. In the long term, sugar depletes dopamine levels, as well as vitamins and minerals. Feed your body with high-vibration foods— fruits, vegetables and complete proteins—and consider a vitamin D supplement as well as an omega-3 fatty acid supplement for optimum brain health.

2. GET YOUR VITAMIN D: “I believe the main cause of SAD is not directly lack of light but the lack of vitamin D that occurs due to the sun being lower in the sky,” says Dr. Randy Baker of Soquel. Vitamin D supplements work for many people, as do high-vitamin-D foods like bonein fish, cod liver oil, eggs, Greek yogurt, and many plant-based milks.

That’s only half of the equation though: Health professionals

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arring landslides and flooding, winter in California is a cookie bake compared to other places. In Antarctica, the sun sets in March and doesn’t rise again until September—and all anyone wants is an avocado, according to winter dwellers in the documentary Antarctica: A Year On Ice. Here in avocado-filled California, I feel bad blaming any sort of unease on the weather. But it’s true: the 6 o’clock news may not be the sole culprit for recent feelings of hopeless despair. The physical darkness of the days could be a factor, too.

Locally, darkness fell at its earliest last week, at 4:51 p.m., as we creep toward the shortest day of the year—9 hours and 37 minutes in length—on Dec. 21. (Compare to 4:07 hours in Reykjavik, Iceland, and 5:41

recommend 10 to 15 minutes of unblocked sun on the hands, feet or back at least twice a week for prime vitamin D absorption—and longer for those with a darker complexion.

3. GET OUT: Have you ever been hiking in the rain? Add it to this winter’s bucket list—you should have lots of opportunities. Storm watching also looks like a promising activity this winter, as does mushroom hunting— because, “when it rains, it spores,” according to the Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz. Look for mushrooms about 48 hours after rain, and visit their awesome website, ffsc.us, for info, local workshops and events.

4. GET A HELPER’S HIGH: The research is in: prosocial behavior— voluntary acts intended to benefit another person—boosts happiness.

Volunteer work is associated with less depression and greater happiness, according to a 2001 study published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, among other studies, and doing five random acts of kindness a day for six weeks, can have the same positive effect on mental state, according to the American Psychological Association.

5. FREEZE FACEBOOK: Time spent on Facebook has been linked with negative emotions, according to a 2014 Austrian behavioral research study. Replace screen time with reallife social interaction or a good book.

6. LIGHT THERAPY: “Happy Lights” are now relatively inexpensive.

The full-spectrum light is said to affect brain chemicals, including the hormone melatonin, which regulates the body’s mood, sleep, and appetite cycles. Several friends say light boxes have made a notable difference in their energy levels and mood during the winter months.

7. SHAKE YOUR BOOTY: A no-brainer, really. The exercise-mental health connection is well-documented, especially in reducing depression and anxiety. So, even if all of the cells in your body want to curl up with a good book, give yourself at least 30 minutes of exercise a day. Dance, do yoga while watching clips from SNL’s golden years, or get out for a walk—even if it’s dark.

For the ultimate introduction to Santa Cruz’s exercise opportunities, sign up for the Santa Cruz Challenge, which starts Jan. 23, and incorporates some 22 local fitness studios and counting. Go to santacruzchallenge.com for more info.

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NEWS RING LEADER Santa Cruz fighter takes UFC middleweight title

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Luke Rockhold, a mixed martial artist out of Santa Cruz, has managed to get one of the greatest fighters in the world trapped between his legs, as he relentlessly pounds his opponent’s face with vicious blows. It’s the Ultimate Fighting Championship Middleweight Title in Las Vegas on Saturday, Dec. 12, and Rockhold’s opponent is Chris Weidman, the reigning champion—though not for much longer.

As Rockhold buries his fists and elbows in Weidman’s nose, eyes and forehead, blood splatters into the ring and even onto Rockhold’s face. Weidman is helplessly holding both hands up in front of him, wincing and rolling from side to side, with absolutely nowhere to go. Finally, the referee calls the fight with a technical knockout, or TKO, making Rockhold the new champion. Rockhold tumbles off Weidman and rolls to the side, lying face down in the ring with his head resting on his forearm, overcome with emotion.

The fight went three and a half rounds, with Rockhold winning each of them. By the end of the third round, many were surprised the referee hadn’t already called a fight that was growing increasingly one-sided. Even Rockhold would later say he thought the fight should have been over in the third, as would UFC president Dana White.

Rockhold has recently established himself as one of the UFC’s more entertaining fighters, not only for his dominance inside the ring—called “the Octagon” in ultimate fighting—but also for the man he is outside of it.

Before each major event, UFC follows its leading fighters with camera crews and posts installments of a video series called “Embedded.” The most recent edition features Rockhold, Weidman and two other mixed martial artists who fought this past Saturday.

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few miles north of Davenport, Scott Creek winds through steep coastal mountains that time forgot, past old farmhouses, redwoods and pines.

A rare Bay Area watershed spared from development, the creek has become the front lines of the fight to save the endangered Central California Coast coho salmon, where the federal government, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and a nonprofit fish hatchery have partnered to pull the fish from the brink of extinction.

If these coho salmon were to stage a comeback anywhere south of the Golden Gate Bridge,

it would be in Scott Creek, says Erick Sturm, research fisheries biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a federal agency.

Hundreds of thousands of coho once swarmed the waters between Humboldt County and Santa Cruz, enough to be fished with pitchforks, according to the NOAA website. But development, logging, overfishing, climate change, water diversion, and other factors led to their decline, from around 99,000 statewide in the 1960s to 6,000 in the 1990s, Sturm says. The fish was federally listed as threatened in 1996, then as endangered in 2005.

In 2009, fewer than 500 Central Coast coho lived in the wild, and

this past May, NOAA listed it as one of eight ocean species most at risk of extinction.

Scott Creek is at the southern border of the coho’s range, where the species is vulnerable, says Sturm.

“They’re living life on the very edge, so that’s somewhat difficult for them,” Sturm says. “And historically, because you’re on the southern edge of their run the disturbances in their natural habitat, be it natural or manmade, can really have a greater effect on their life cycle.”

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The fish follow a three-year cycle.

Eggs are laid in the creek in winter and hatch in the spring. Juveniles spend a year in freshwater, then swim to the ocean, spending a year or two there before returning to the creek to spawn and die.

In 2002, 400 spawning adult coho returned to Scott Creek, a figure that dropped to 330 in 2005 and 11 in 2008. In 2011, only three adults were counted.

But thanks to a breeding program led by NOAA, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and local hatchery nonprofit Monterey Bay Salmon and Trout Project, the fish are making a resurgence.

Last winter, around 150 spawning adults returned to the creek, the highest number in a decade.

What’s more, this fall NOAA divers counted around 7,000 juvenile coho in the creek, a high number considering this summer was the fourth summer in a drought.

“We hope we’ve turned the corner and we’re on the upward trajectory on the species, but we need another two or three years to tell,” Sturm says. “As far as

delisting, we’re nowhere near that.”

To be considered no longer endangered, not only does Scott Creek need a 12-year average of more than 500 spawning adults each winter, but 27 other watersheds farther north to Humboldt County need similar gains.

SCALE OF A TALE Six miles north of Davenport, along a wooded tributary of Scott Creek sits the Monterey Bay Salmon and Trout Project’s Kingfisher Flat Hatchery, where around a dozen tanks hold thousands of young coho raised on-site.

Since 2002, the volunteer-run hatchery has led a coho breeding program supported in part by NOAA and state fish and wildlife. In the last two years the hatchery has released around 40,000 juvenile coho in Scott Creek.

Mark Galloway, the hatchery’s manager, points to an incubator which will house around 130,000 fertilized eggs this winter.

“It’s like a fridge,” he says. “The eggs like it cool and it uses very little water.”

When the eggs hatch and develop

eyes, they are moved to water trays covered with screens. Over the following weeks, the tiny fish slowly digest the yolk sack bulging from their abdomens until they start nosing the screen, hungry for real food.

As the fish grow, hatchery staff and volunteers move them to larger tanks, until eventually at one year old, they are tagged and released in Scott Creek.

Outside, Galloway flung food pellets into the hatchery’s two largest tanks, each holding 10,000 fish destined for a carefully timed release this spring. As the fish head to the ocean, it’s crucial that their food source—seasonal krill fueled by wind-driven ocean upwelling—is there to meet them.

“If that upwelling current is not generated and their food source crashes, the population will crash,” Galloway says.

In 2017, the hatchery hopes to increase its release numbers by 10,000 fish, thanks to a new system completed recently, built mostly by volunteers and funded by the state, that allows it to return water to the creek. Until now, the drought levels in the creek have been >20

NEWS BRIEFS SWEPT AWAY The Friday morning rain has dispersed, and a crowd of two dozen has gathered outside of New Leaf Community Market on Fair Avenue for the battle of the century: leaf blower vs. broom.

Ken Foster of Terra Nova Ecological Landscaping is pitting his environmentally friendly, manually operated stick broom against activist Brent Adams’ twostroke gas and oil leaf blower. The rules are simple: each contender had to clean up a trash can’s worth of leaves and debris spread over 75 feet of sidewalk. The grades were passed by four judges on four criteria: air pollution, noise pollution, time and efficiency.

The real issue at hand,

Foster says, is to highlight the unnecessary emissions produced by gas-powered blowers.

“This is a critical issue for urban areas,” Foster says.

“We think we can destroy the soundscape in this vain search for the perfect landscape.”

Leaf blower pollution goes beyond just noise. A 2011 study by automotive information site edmunds.com found a consumergrade, two-stroke blower produces 23 times more carbon dioxide and almost 300 times more non-methane hydrocarbons than a 2011 Ford Raptor truck.

Foster, a founding member of the Leaf Blower Task Force (LBTF), formed in 2013, quickly pointed out that even if

landscapers don’t want to ditch the blower, many of today’s models can be electric and produce significantly fewer emissions than their antiquated equivalents. The LBTF plans to take the results of the broom vs. blower competition, along with a survey of more than 500 Santa Cruz residents, to the Santa Cruz City Council early next year in hopes of moving forward with progressive legislation on the issue.

Foster says the task force isn’t necessarily calling for a ban: “We’re saying intelligent use, education, and restrictions are a good way to go,” he says.

According to a 2000 report by the California Air Resources Board, 20 California cities have

banned the blower.

So what were the final results of the first-ever Santa Cruz Broom vs. Blower Challenge?

The broom beat the blower in all categories except time, where Adams pulled into the lead by 24 seconds, although Foster put on a great show. Even if your average landscaper doesn’t work as vigorously as Foster—one cheering spectator exclaimed it looked like he was doing “garden CrossFit”—the landscaping guru believes alternative options to the blower are worth exploring.

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RING LEADER <14 bongs and then shatter them in front of the whole class. “My goal was to make the most intricate, disguised bong [so] that he would never know,” he says, holding up his grotesque, weed-smoking creation.

So Rockhold began his project by sculpting an alien head, he says. An arm comes out from the alien’s crown, extending through the body of a helpless victim and holds up the head of an old man.

The alien head, Rockhold explains to the camera, is the bubbler, which holds the water. Ta-da: a secret bong.

“The smoke comes up the chamber,” he says, “and then you have to take a toke out of the old guy’s mouth. The shit you come up with—Santa Cruz High School days. Won the high school county art show with a bong.”

The next episode shows Rockhold getting a simple haircut, because he doesn’t want to be a pretty boy with some fancy ’do. After that, he promptly leaves to get a pedicure, because, he’s a nice guy, and, as he puts it, “If I’m going to kick Weidman in the face, I’m going to kick him with clean feet. Nice clean, sparkling toes, right in the face.” Then he blows a kiss.

After getting his new belt on Dec. 12, Rockhold looked more distracted than jubilant about his big feat. Maybe the gore of a strangely drawn-out fight had gotten to him, or perhaps he was just tired and overwhelmed. Backstage, a UFC television reporter called him “subdued,” and in the profanity-laced interview, Rockhold tried to explain to her that the whole experience was difficult to take in.

He said he had been suffering

from cellulitis in his foot and that the antibiotics had affected his stamina. He had also worried that if the fight had gone on much longer, his foot would have swelled up. Additionally, he had been taking a bunch of anti-inflammatories for pain in his knee, he said. “My body’s calling for a little time off right now,” he told the reporter, but that didn’t stop him from calling for his next opponent immediately after. Rockhold said he wants to fight Vitor Belfort, a mixed martial artist who beat him in 2013.

As impressive as Rockhold’s skill in the Octagon was, it was overshadowed by that night’s main event, a fight featuring Conor McGregor, who knocked out his opponent, Jose Aldo, in a UFC-record of 13 seconds.

It could be said that some of the appeal of the sport lies in unexpected moments like

these—as well as underdog stories, a theme Rockhold feels comfortable with.

In the first episode of “Embedded” previewing Saturday’s fight, Rockhold explained that much of what he is trying to do is overcome people’s expectations of him. “People underestimate me. They look at me, and they see this surfer kid. It’s fun.

I do all these things. This isn’t a game for me,” Rockhold says. “This is what I fucking do for a living. This is what I love to do, and I don’t fuck around.”

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the hatchery’s biggest limitation, since creekwater is used for all the tanks.

Another key part of the program is the captive broodstock—around 400 fish culled from each year’s batch, genetically selected to remain at the hatchery and artificially spawn the next generation.

To check for sexual maturity, each of these 400 fish is individually anesthetized and scanned with ultrasound, similar to a pregnant woman in an obstetrician’s office.

Without the hatchery program and biologists’ devotion, the coho would be extinct, says Galloway.

Only the Russian River in Sonoma County has similar resources devoted to the coho.

The record numbers of spawning adults returning to Scott Creek last winter were all tagged and released by the hatchery two years prior.

“The key is that they were able to spawn voluntarily,” says Galloway.

“They didn’t need our help to find a habitat or choose a mate. The drought conditions probably did affect their survival somewhat. The creek dried up, but it didn’t prevent the significant production that federal survey crews found.”

FROM THE BANKS OF SCOTT CREEK Unlike the San Lorenzo River, which has thousands of private landowners along its banks, Scott Creek is sparsely populated, making it some of the best coho habitat south of the Golden Gate Bridge.

But the creek isn’t exactly untouched, and more can be done to improve the coho’s chances, says Jon Ambrose, salmon reintroduction coordinator at NOAA. Ambrose says it’s not just one thing, but many interacting factors upstream that impact the coho.

What’s important for people to know, he says, is that there’s hope.

“That little hatchery, a little bit of habitat restoration, a little bit of oversight by the county, and the regulatory agencies are making a difference,” he says. “If we really put our backs into it, we can really bring this fish back.”

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“Some people have a [negative image of] young people, [but] a lot of them are very compassionate individuals who want to share with the world their good qualities,” says Angela Farley, founder of the Teen Kitchen Project. “We’re giving young people an opportunity not only to serve and show they’re compassionate people and have value in our community—we also

show them a new career.”

Teen Kitchen Project teaches teenagers how to cook healthy sustainable meals that they then deliver to people in crisis—those in temporary situations where they cannot cook for themselves, often due to illness. Last week alone, Teen Kitchen served 390 meals, and last year they served 15,400 meals in total.

Farley knows all too well how difficult it can be to put food on the table in times of unimaginable stress; when her son was 4 years old, he was undergoing chemotherapy and major surgery for cancer.

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that people stopped signing up,” says Farley. “Around the same time I received a one-year donation of blue plate specials from Gayle’s and I went ‘I know so many people who could benefit from that.’”

Gayle’s Bakery’s ready-made pickup meals inspired Farley, and when she heard about an organization in Sebastopol called Ceres Community Project which teaches teenagers how to cook meals to deliver to people in similar situations, she decided Santa Cruz needed the same thing. In 2012, she started Teen Kitchen Project in a friend’s commercial kitchen as a Ceres affiliate.

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All meals are cooked and prepared by the 200 or so teens who volunteer with the Project. With the guidance of two chaperoning chefs (trained as nutritionists), they first learn knife skills and food safety and then prepare meals that are organic, locally sourced, and healthy.

“Delivery angels” deliver three main dishes for each person in a family twice a week; meals typically consist of a protein like chicken or fish, soup, salad, and dessert, with recipes one-and-a-half the USDA’s portion guidelines so that they can last several days.

“We kind of get people in two times when they’re open to seeing the world in a different way. Teens are at the cusp of going into the world and creating their own life, and suffering from illness, people want to make changes in their lives to recover,” says Farley.

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“It’s helped me to be a better person,” Kirchener says. “In writing the cards that go with the meals, something like ‘We’re here for you’— just a few words—can go a long way.”

Farley says that her plans for Teen Kitchen are to expand it to Watsonville to better reach the community in South County and collaborate with Cabrillo College’s culinary program.

“We’re showing them a way of eating that they can use in their lives to move forward, be more healthy and connected to their environment,” says Farley. “The face of a teen when a client says ‘You helped save my life’—what teen hears that? To hear that from somebody is a big deal, it changes your perception of yourself and your values.”

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“Mountain lions don’t tend to live very long in the Santa Cruz Mountains,” says Yovovich, a wildlife biologist with the Santa Cruz Puma Project. “Many are hit by cars.” But when scientists took

a closer look at the puma whiskers Yovovich has plucked in recent years, they found that the animals in the foggy Santa Cruz Mountains faced an unexpected problem: mercury.

In research presented this week in San Francisco at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union, environmental chemist Peter Weiss-Penzias and longtime Puma Project director Chris Wilmers showed that mountain lions in the woods and mountains around us

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SOMETHING IN THE FOG Weiss-Penzias is an expert in tracking the spread of mercury, a toxic chemical released mainly from coal plants.

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TRACING THE ELEMENTS <24 trace metals can build up to much higher levels once living organisms get involved—like redwood trees.

In the Santa Cruz Mountains, redwoods survive the long rainless summer by using their needles like Weiss-Penzias’ fog nets. They sop up water directly from the wet air and trickle it along their needles. As redwoods drink, the toxic mercury builds up in the trees’ tissues. Eventually, redwoods shed their needles, along with the bound mercury, to the forest floor.

Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey helped the UCSC scientists out. They gathered redwood needles and brought them back to Weiss-Penzias’s lab. Here, the team not only found mercury, but they also measured much more than was in the fog. “It seemed a little too simple to be actually occurring,” Weiss-Penzias says. The amount of mercury in the redwood needles was too small to threaten humans, but now the team wondered if they might find more elsewhere in the forest.

They soon had another opportunity—a graduate student in Weiss-Penzias’ lab was fond of collecting wolf spiders. “He would lay out cups in the forest, and the spiders would simply fall in,” WeissPenzias says. The team tested the spiders, and once again they found mercury—but this time at levels beyond the safe human health threshold.

The high mercury level in spiders doesn’t come from the fog droplets that bead on their webs. Instead, Weiss-Penzias says, spiders must consume mercury-laden prey. In a common ecosystem phenomenon called bioaccumulation, toxins become more concentrated as they move up the food chain. When predators consume prey, they burn through the fats, carbohydrates and proteins in their food, but the unusable toxins—often heavy metals—become trapped in their tissues.

Wilmers and Weiss-Penzias suspected that mercury might contaminate the entire redwood ecosystem. “Pretty much

everywhere we look, there seems to be an enhancement,” Weiss-Penzias says. And bioaccumulation hints that mercury increases with each rung up the food chain. To know for sure, the team wanted to find out whether the redwood forest’s apex predators, mountain lions, were consuming mercury.

THE PUMA CONNECTION To study redwood ecosystems, Wilmers had been collecting mountain lion whiskers for years and storing them in a lab freezer.

“It’s hard to catch a mountain lion,” says Yovovich, “but every time we capture one we want to gather as much data as we can, so we pull a whisker.”

Like a human hair or a tree ring, a mountain lion whisker is a chemical archive that traces the cat’s health as the whisker grows. Mercury in particular sticks to hair-like tissues, Weiss-Penzias says, such as whiskers. As a mountain lion whisker grows, tiny amounts of the mercury from within the cat attach to the whisker.

The team pored through the Puma Project’s whisker collection.

More than one-third of Santa Cruz– area mountain lions had mercury levels well above the human health threshold. Of the 88 pumas sampled from the Santa Cruz Mountains, three cats had whiskers with four times the human health threshold— with one animal carrying 12 times more of the metal than is considered safe in humans.

Meanwhile, technicians at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife sent the team whiskers from Sierra Nevada pumas—inland cats that live hundreds of miles from coastal fog. When the scientists tested the whiskers of these fogfree cats, the high level of mercury wasn’t there. Only cats from foggy coastal climes, they found, had whiskers rich in mercury.

Mercury pollution can come from other sources, such as abandoned mines. However, for the mercury that reached pumas here, fog is the

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most likely source. Cats in the Santa Cruz Mountains that live near old mines are about as likely to have high mercury as those that live far away from them. “We do see some high mercury levels near old mines at the summit,” Weiss-Penzias says. “But we also see comparable levels at some coastal sites.” And abandoned mines exist in the Sierra Nevada, too.

Weiss-Penzias points to another important clue that coastal fog is the most likely source. “Mercury from old mines exists in a form that is hard for organisms to take up,” Weiss-Penzias says. “I’m not sure how they could even do it.”

The mercury in coastal fog, on the other hand, is very dilute, but it’s in a form that is more easily bound by plants and animals.

Scientists don’t know exactly how mercury gets into fog, but the idea that it trickles back into coastal ecosystems is new. And for pumas, the potential effects of mercury

haven’t been examined before.

“We didn’t really think mercury was a threat to mountain lions,” Yovovich says. Now scientists need to understand whether the mercury that pumas are consuming poses risks to them.

MAPPING MERCURY’S PATH Researchers don’t yet know how mercury might be affecting mountain lions, but research has clearly shown that it harms other large mammals. Mercury tangles up the enzymes that make important “cleaning molecules” in cells. These molecules are necessary to prevent natural but harmful byproducts from building up. In small doses, an animal can cope with the damaging clutter. But if it consumes too much mercury, the rogue byproducts damage tissues in an irreversible, cascading cycle. Still, the researchers emphasize, mercury’s

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The team’s next step will be to understand where the pumas are consuming the mercury-rich prey.

“In general, the majority of what mountain lions eat in this area is mule deer,” says Yovovich. The researchers plan to use deer fur, like the puma whiskers, to find out whether deer are the source of the mountain lions’ mercury. They will also look for mercury in the plants that Santa Cruz mule deer graze.

Their tests should help map out mercury’s path through the redwood ecosystem.

Yovovich points out that increasing residential developments in San Francisco’s Bay Area may also affect how mercury reaches pumas.

“In more urbanized areas, mountain lions tend to eat less deer, and more small mammals,” says Yovovich.

Unlike mule deer that graze meadow grasses, small mammals may feed on mercury-contaminated prey such as spiders. If more pumas eat small mammals, their exposure to mercury may increase.

Mercury from fog may be the latest and most surprising threat to wildlife in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and knowing that coastal fog can carry toxins from the ocean into the hills may complicate how scientists track pollution. But the biggest struggle for pumas in the Santa Cruz Mountains is still simply a lack of space. “There’s a challenge of pumas being pumas,” Wilmers says.

For mountain lions, living in a crowded world isn’t new. But the protected cats are doing better here than elsewhere. “We don’t have a lot of older pumas,” Wilmers says, “but we still do have a lot of pumas in the Santa Cruz Mountains.”

As they hunt and roam through the foggy hills, these wild cats have to make do in the tight margins created by our towns and highways.

“There are tendrils of development interspersed with the open spaces,” Yovovich says. “It’s a mosaic of land uses that the cats have to negotiate in order to just be cats.”

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he Santa Cruz Puma Project is a collaboration between UC Santa Cruz researchers and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife that tries to understand how pumas and people coexist in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Pumas help maintain a healthy balance of animal life in the redwood forest ecosystem.

Ecologists call animals like pumas keystone species, because their activities help shape their habitat. For example, pumas prevent deer from overgrazing plants, or trampling stream corridors. But although pumas play a pivotal role in the redwood ecosystem, making space for them has never been easy.

The Santa Cruz Mountains border one of the densest urban areas in the country.

Highways and roads cut through pumas’ redwood homes, and everywhere people and pumas compete for scarce space.

Neither people nor pumas are to blame, say the researchers, but the more we know about how pumas adapt and respond to human development, the better we can design our communities to help share the space.

The Puma Project uses tracking collars to map out how pumas move through our local mountains. Knowing how pumas travel, and where they choose to spend their time, helps us learn what regions are most important to conserve, and what highway crossings are most dangerous.

The Puma Project’s whisker library, which provided the samples used to test for mercury, also helps researchers understand food chain position and foraging behavior.

Follow the Santa Cruz Puma Project’s online blog at santacruzpumas.com, or search santacruzpumas on Twitter to hear about what Chris Wilmers and other researchers are up to each week.

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Daughter of Wilma Marcus Chandler and the late poet/author Morten Marcus, Marcus arrived in Santa Cruz in 1968 as a small child.

“We moved here because of the Houstons,” Marcus says. Writers Jim and Jeanne Houston had known Marcus’ dad in grad school at Stanford. “Our two families were intertwined in those days,” she says.

Marcus trained passionately for a career as a classical pianist—until her father bought her a camera. “It changed my life,” she confesses.

“I realized I was such a social person—I didn’t want to sit in a room and practice piano for six hours a day.”

Marcus credits photography with opening up her “deep reservoirs” of expressive sensitivity. “The day I graduated I left for New York,” she says with a grin. “Visual communication was fascinating,” she says of her time in New York apprenticed to a fashion photographer. Once the glitz wore off, Marcus says she “had a light-bulb moment. I needed to do something that would contribute.” Documentary and photojournalism called. She studied photography, first at New York’s School of Visual Arts, and then finished up at UCSC, where her thesis work in Community Studies led her back to the gritty streets of the South Bronx in 1985. “I spent 10 months working with a social services group who put me in touch with the people who lived there,” she says. Marcus often met with danger and active hostility. “Being young and naive really saved me. It was a learning experience that I have taken throughout my life,” she says.

Marcus returned to Santa Cruz in the mid-’90s. “I cherished the quiet of Santa Cruz to digest and finish projects,” she says.

The pace picked up for photographer Marcus, starting with an unexpected invitation to photograph vampires at Anne Rice’s annual costume ball. That led to her first book, Vampires, in 1997, followed by After Midnight, which documents the nightclub culture, punk and heavy metal.

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these days,” she complains. “But not everyone is a storyteller.”

Determined to hone her skills, Marcus went to grad school at San Jose State, where she had time to create her own work, she says. It was there that she also discovered that her roommate was a transgender man. “I’m fascinated with things I don’t understand,” she says. She gained trust and began asking questions, determined to check out this phenomenon before it had caught the mainstream eye.

At transgender support group meetings Marcus gradually found some individuals willing to be photographed. “It takes a huge amount of courage to come and let themselves be photographed,” she says. First transgender men, and then women. The resulting months of work are compiled in Marcus’ pioneer glossy photo essay Transfigurations, which is filled with candid glimpses of transgender individuals in the process of physical metamorphosis. The collection of original photos has toured for six years at universities and galleries all over the country. “The work really touched people in the community,” she notes with pride.

Liberated from her full-time Cabrillo jobs, Marcus recently pivoted into the world of writing, developing a project she began decades earlier with her father—a true family story of 1930s New York, in which her two mobster greatuncles were murdered. “I have been so driven to solve these cases, which were long ago considered closed. The trail had grown cold,” she says.

Armed with a cold-case detective and a crime scene psychic, Marcus has traced the steps that led to those last weeks and days of the murdered brothers. “It’s a huge story, corruption, murder—it’s ginormous!” she says. As you read this, Line of Blood is being finished. “I just got an agent,” she reveals with conspiratorial excitement. “It feels like a new direction for me, finding long-lost relatives, reconstructing their story. I am a recorder of stories, be they visual or written.”

For more information, visit janamarcus.com.

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huck Ragan is neck deep in the best job he’s ever had. Six months ago, the Americana singersongwriter, who also fronts posthardcore band Hot Water Music, became father to a baby boy. When GT catches up with Ragan, he’s out running errands in his hometown of Grass Valley, juggling baby duties with his wife Jill, and doing his best to keep up with the demands of being a new parent.

“The whole time management thing is kind of crazy,” he says. “Your time is just cut in half and then some.”

For Ragan, being a new dad means that life has changed—he’s booking performances closer to home, and he has taken a break from long tours. But he and Jill love their new

life as parents. The two planned to have kids for years, but there was always another tour or another record cycle, and parenthood kept getting bumped to the back burner.

Once they both hit 40, they knew it was now or never. They made a plan to settle down for a bit and embrace the quiet—something for which Ragan is not especially known.

As frontman for Hot Water Music, Ragan established himself as a charismatic performer, a gifted songwriter, and a powerful vocalist with a strong, resonant voice that easily filled venues and mosh pits.

The band became a staple of the ’90s underground music scene, and Ragan held down lead duties with energy and passion.

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hiatus in 2005, Ragan began focusing on the roots music he was raised on. From the outside, switching from post-hardcore to Americana troubadour may seem like a big jump, but it was really a return to the music he was raised on.

Born and raised in the Southeastern U.S., Ragan grew up listening to Cajun music, classic country, bluegrass and old-time gospel. His embrace of punk and hardcore came later.

“I was playing acoustic music before I was ever in a band playing electric music,” he says. “Then I found skateboarding, and rock ’n’ roll, and a more aggressive approach to music. It was exciting.

It scared the hell out of me. It was kind of angry and rebellious and

that’s how I felt at that age.”

Even through his aggressive phase, Ragan never abandoned his acoustic roots. In the early days of Hot Water Music, the band would write everything on acoustic instruments because they lived in apartment buildings and couldn’t plug in their amps and let loose. The shift to playing roots music was just the next step in Ragan’s musical journey—a journey he counts himself lucky to be on with the many talented artists he shares stages and highways with.

“Where I get the most inspiration nowadays,” he says, “are the singersongwriters that I actually know.

There’s a lot of people that I love, there’s a lot of music that I really get into, but I’m one of the lucky ones that is not only able to know and admire all this great music around us, but to know and admire the people behind it. That’s what really drives me and really inspires.”

Ragan lists Cory Branan, Rocky Votolato, Jenny Owen Young, and Tim Barry as a few of his favorites.

“I’m not only inspired by their music, but I’ve sat down and had coffee with them, broke bread with them, and know what’s truly behind that music,” he says.

A man of many talents, Ragan put together The Road Most Traveled, a collection of artists’ tour stories; he spearheaded the acoustic Revival Tour; he recorded the score for the forthcoming video game The Flame in the Flood; and he is cofounder of a sauce company. He’s also a fly fishing guide who “drifts folks down the river.”

These things all contribute to a songwriter and human who is as realdeal as they come—a humble, salt-ofthe-earth artist embracing the beauty of this new chapter in his life.

“I don’t know if happy is the right word,” he says. “I feel so much more than that. Sometimes it’s not all super-positive. Sometimes it’s overwhelming—just wanting to guide this little fella in the right direction. But it is definitely the most whole I’ve ever felt in my life.”

Chuck Ragan will perform at 9 p.m.

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GUIDED SEAL WALKS Having a front-row seat to nature’s most awe-inspiring phenomenon is a true holiday season miracle: where else can you witness pregnant female elephant seals coming ashore to give birth?

Guided by the expert California State Park docents, these annual guided seal walks take hikers on a 3-mile round trip, rain or shine, around the Año Nuevo State Park to see the large colony of Northern Elephant Seals that make Pescadero their home every winter season.

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NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS PARTY There are plenty of reasons that the nights leading up to Christmas can be a nightmare (gift shopping comes to mind)—but that’s not what the Nightmare Before Christmas Party and Absinthe Tasting event at Hoffman’s Bistro downtown is about. Instead, it’s the finest in goth jazz with a hint of the Tim Burton classic to Rick Walker and the Deadbeats and a portion of tasting proceeds goes to Doctors Without Borders. Hoffman’s Bistro will provide absinthe tasting for those of the appropriate age and a free jazz concert open to all ages featuring Rick Walker, Thomas Nold, Jesse Elias, and Jeremy and Christina True.

Info: 8-10 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 20, Hoffman’s Bistro, 1102 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. 420-0135.

FOOD & DRINK FREEDOM FORUM HOLIDAY POTLUCK Join us for a potluck dinner, followed by a short news video about the emerging situation in Europe. Watch alternative media expose what is happening behind the scenes. 7 p.m. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. 708-8626.

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CURL CARE FOR YOUR HAIR Learn how to make your curly mane manageable during this tutorial with image consultant Noga Vilozny, who will introduce her hair care products. Sign up and reserve your goodie bag. 5-6 p.m. New Leaf Community Market, 1134 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. curlcare.eventbrite.com. Free.

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THURSDAY 12/17 - SATURDAY 12/19 STOCKINGS—A HOLIDAY CABARET It's holiday cheer of the very best kind: saucy, scintillating and slightly scandalous. Motion Pacific’s annual cabaret event returns this weekend with a blast from a ’40s Cuba past and the sauciest in the biz: Vyxen Monroe and the Wiley Minxes, Lyndsey Loosely & Dancers, are among the top-tier talent lineup with MC Eli Weinberg and Santa Cruz comedy heroine Kim Luke leading the evening with barrels of laughs. Flor de Caña will provide the tunes for the one evening a year where it’s truly OK to be a little less than “nice.” And it’s not just sinfully good fun either, there are charitable good tidings behind the whole event, too: ticket sales fund Motion Pacific Dance, a local nonprofit charitable arts organization dedicated to dance as art and cultivating imagination.

Info: 8 p.m., Motion Pacific, 131 Front St., Santa Cruz. motionpacific.com. $25-$195 for VIP tables.

THURSDAY 12/17 CLASSES SALSA DANCING CUBAN-STYLE Drop-in class. No partner required. Intermediate. 7-8 p.m. Louden Nelson Center. salsagente.com, 295-6107. $9/$5.

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EOS: AN ORIGINAL CIRCUS & ACROBATIC ENSEMBLE Eos is an acrobatic circus ensemble comprised of six adolescent young women. The message of Eos is one of radical inclusion and the importance of teamwork. 7-8 p.m. Santa Cruz Memorial Veterans Building. aeraflux.bpt.me. $15/20.

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OPEN MEDITATION Iris welcomes you to join her in experiencing a sacred space for meditation and prayer. Ongoing Fridays, except First Fridays. 4-8 p.m. Elemental Art Studio Gallery-128, Tannery Arts Center. elementalartsudio.com.

SHABBAT SERVICES WITH CHADEISH YAMEINU Family Shabbat activities hosted in member homes. No public services. For more information: rabbiasst@gmail.com. 7:30-9:30 p.m. cysantacruz.com. Free.

FRIDAY NIGHT INSIGHT—LYDIA: MINDFULNESS AND ADHD We will inquire into mindfulness and its ability to offer insights and relief from suffering. There will be time for socializing and snacks after session. 7-9:30 p.m.

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EOS: AN ORIGINAL CIRCUS & ACROBATIC ENSEMBLE Eos is an acrobatic circus ensemble comprised of six adolescent young women. The message of Eos is one of radical inclusion and the importance of teamwork. 7-8 p.m. Santa Cruz Memorial Veterans Building. aeraflux.bpt.me. $15/20.

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HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE Shop local creative gifts for the holidays. Perfect for last-minute shopping. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 207 McPherson St., Santa Cruz. Free.

CLASSES BEGINNING YOGA Instructor Korrine. Ongoing.

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

HEALING DIVORCE AND SEPARATION: AN ENLIGHTENED APPROACH Using the circumstances of your relationships you will regain self confidence, learn powerful tools of awareness and self love. Call to reserve your space. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 112 Winfield Way, Aptos.

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GROUPS BOOGIE FOR BERNIE All ages dance party in support of Bernie Sanders for President, with music, dancing and food. 7-10 p.m. 418 Project, 418 Front St., Santa Cruz. 314-402-3553,

chuckschuller@hotmail.com. $25 donation.

DEMOCRATIC DEBATE WATCH AND ORGANIZING PARTY Join other Bernie supporters who Feel the Bern. Learn how to outreach to voters in the early states and watch the third Democratic debate together. 4-7 p.m.

Appleton Grill, 410 Rodriguez St., Watsonville.

Website: Bit.ly/BerndebateDec19. Free.

HEALTH WOMENCARE—ART FOR HEALING For women living with cancer: Paint, draw, glitter, and use pastels, clay, and natural materials to explore our deepest self. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Call 4572273. Free.

WOMENCARE SPANISH SUPPORT GROUP WomenCARE offers a support group in Spanish for women with cancer on the first and third Saturday of the month. Call to sign up. 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Santa Cruz. 457-2273 or 336-8662. Free.

QIGONG FOR WOMEN LIVING WITH CANCER Learn specific tools for managing side effects of cancer treatments. Meets every third Saturday. 2-3 p.m. Pacific Cultural Center. Free.

MUSIC THE MUSIC OF YOGA: BHAKTI YOGA KIRTAN WITH LIVING DEVOTION Kirtan is the ancient art of singing and meditation. Join us for singing, dancing chanting and healing.

7:30-10:30 p.m. Divinitree Yoga Studio, 1043B Water St., Santa Cruz. events@livingdevotion. org. $20/$10/Donation.

CHARMAS Playing traditional and modern Celtic music featuring fiddle, flute, mandolin, bagpipes, and vocal music. 6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant and Inn, 1 Davenport Ave., Davenport. Free.

SUNDAY 12/20 HIPPO HOLIDAY AERIAL SHOW On Sunday, Dec. 20 the talented performers of Wide Blue Yonder Dance showcase a holiday extravaganza featuring aerial dance, bungee moon dance, hoop dance, and more. Children of all ages will demonstrate their unbelievable feats of strength and gravity-defying stunts.

All the choreography is created by the students, for the students, and showcases highly technical talent at its finest. All proceeds from the show benefit the 418 Project, a nonprofit movement arts center that offers classes and programming to foster emerging and cuttingedge dance exploration.

Info: 3:30 p.m., 418 Project, 418 Front St., Santa Cruz. wideblueyonderdance.com. $10-$15.

THE SANTA CRUZ CHORALE PRESENTS: “CHRISTMAS WITH THE CHORALE” The Santa Cruz Chorale continues its tradition of festive Christmas concerts, guiding the audience through centuries of music. Get your tickets at santacruzchorale.org/tickets or 4278023. 8-10 p.m. Holy Cross Church, 123 High St., Santa Cruz. $25/$20/$5.

SYNERGY SOLSTICE Spectacular guests Sasha “Butterfly” Rose and Marya Stark headline this unique winter gathering featuring music, dancing, meditation, and more. 5:30 p.m.-Midnight. Divinitree Yoga Studio 2805 West Mission St., Santa Cruz. devotionalliving. org; 425-3355. $22/$15.

SPIRITUAL WISE SPEECH: BOB STAHL AND VICK ASSEGUED In this retreat we will learn the principles of wise speech and wise listening to enhance our communication skills. The Dhamma teaches us that wise speech is honest, kind, beneficial, and timely. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

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EARTH ENERGY WALK—COMMUNITY SEED EARTH SPIRIT FELLOWSHIP Come join your local Pagan Earth Spirit Fellowship for a meditative walk through one of Santa

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9:45 a.m.-Noon. Henry Cowell Park. espi@ communityseed.org. Free.

SUNDAY 12/20 CLASSES GOOD MORNING WORKOUT Get your juices flowing. Drop-ins welcome. 9-10 a.m. The Tannery, 1060 River St., Suite #111, Santa Cruz. $7/$5.

BEGINNING BALLET WITH DIANA ROSE

CALENDAR Introduction to ballet technique with a focus on posture, balance and strength building. Noon1:15 p.m. International Academy of Dance Santa Cruz. info@iadance.com. $10.

ADAPTIVE RIDING CENTER REGISTRATION OPEN Registration is open for the next eightweek session starting Jan. 5. The nonprofit Lichen Oaks Adaptive Riding Center offers horsemanship and therapeutic riding for people of all ages with special needs. 114 Quail Hollow Road, Felton. lichenoaksarc.org, 335-2347.

GROUPS SERENITY FIRST—PAGANS IN RECOVERY Twelve-step meeting with a Pagan flair, where people from all twelve-step programs are free to discuss their spiritual paths. 7:15-8:15 p.m.

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

MUSIC THE SANTA CRUZ CHORALE PRESENTS: “CHRISTMAS WITH THE CHORALE” The Santa Cruz Chorale continues its tradition of festive Christmas concerts, guiding the audience through centuries of music. Get your tickets at santacruzchorale.org/tickets or 4278023. 4-6 p.m. Holy Cross Church, 123 High St., Santa Cruz. $25/$20/$5.

NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS PARTY & ABSINTHE TASTING Featuring the finest in Goth/Jazz from Rick Walker and the Deadbeats.

The trio will reimagine favorite Goth songs with a jazz twist; lyric sheets will be available for those who want to sing along. 8-10 p.m. Hoffman’s Bistro. Free concert/absinthe tasting fee.

MONDAY 12/21 GROUPS TRANSLOVE GROUP For non-trans (cis) partners and close friends of transgender people. First and third Mondays, 7-8:30 p.m. Address in Soquel. Email debabbott.lmft@ gmail.com for location and to register. $25.

SPIRITUAL MONDAY DROP-IN MEDITATION Basic meditation instruction and practice. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 462-8383. Donation.

CRYSTAL BOWL SOUND JOURNEY Carrying you beyond the mind-locks of your consciousness. 7:30-8:30 p.m. The Garden Sanctuary, 3070 Prather Lane, Santa Cruz. 3336736. Free/Donation.

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LOCAL BAND

SHADY GROOVE Jerry Brown, the frontman/band leader of Shady Groove, has a business card that says “funky, jazzy rock and space exploration.” This expansive description only just begins to explain the variety of the music his group plays.

“We play funk, jazz, blues. We play reggae, we play some New Orleans style. It’s primarily a dance band,” Brown says.

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The five-piece, which has been around for 15 years, gets the “jam band” label in part because of all of the different styles they play, but also because of their penchant for improvisation. They, of course, play fully improvised solos in their songs, but the part that Brown feels really strongly about is what happens at the end of the tunes.

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“We’ll continue out on whatever the prevailing mood is at the end. By the end, it’s kind of just phasing out on that primary vibe and we will take that and just go with it, take off into an improvisation jam based on the key and whatever else has gone into that tune that night,” Brown says. “That’s a very open-ended time. It can go anywhere.

Frequently it’s not recognizable as having anything to do with the song.

That, to me, is really improvisational, as opposed to noodling over the changes.”

During their set, they will play both covers and originals (roughly 65 percent covers, 35 percent originals). Even with their covers, the diversity doesn’t stop.

“We do everything from Delta Blues to Motown to classic rock, any kind of good song whether it’s gospel, reggae, anything at all. It’s all over the map,” Brown says. AARON CARNES INFO: 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19.

Don Quixote’s, Hwy. 9, Felton. $12/adv, $15/door. 335-2800.

ANUHEA

WEDNESDAY 12/16 POST-PUNK

LA WITCH So often band names give you no indication of what kind of music the group plays. But such is not the case with LA Witch, a group that sounds exactly as you’d imagine: haunting, reverb-soaked garage-punk. And bonus point for the all-female trio that they are actually from L.A. What’s more, they are really good, and despite a lot of familiar influences—proto-punk, goth, psychrock—it all gets remixed into something unique. AARON CARNES INFO: 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $10. 429-6994.

HAWAIIAN/POP

ANUHEA Anuhea is a Hawaiian pop star who blends reggae, rock, soul, and rap into a sound that has island style all over it. Full of tales of sunshine, easy days, friends, and the ocean, her songs are the perfect soundtrack to a day spent beachside, or daydreaming about being beachside. On Wednesday, Anuhea, who is of German, Ha-

waiian, Welsh, Chinese, and Cherokee descent, throws a release celebration for her new Christmas EP, All is Bright.

She’s joined by beloved Hawaiian musician Paula Fuga. CAT JOHNSON INFO: 8:30 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $25/door. 479-1854.

THURSDAY 12/17 JAZZ

LAVAY SMITH While Santa is busying himself with checking that list twice, treat yourself to a futuristic blast from the past with Lavay Smith and her swinging big band. With a deep voice straight outta the Golden Age of Gangsters, Smith delivers a brass-backed punch of nostalgia and rejuvenized classics set to the tune of 2015. MAT WEIR INFO: 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz Center. 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 427-2227.

SWING

NEW FLAMINGO SWING ORCHESTRA What I want to know is: how will a

swing band fit into the Crepe Place? Fortunately, that should be a fun question to answer, because the New Flamingo Swing Orchestra is a great time. This isn’t some kooky Squirrel Nut Zippers swing revival group. Saxophonist/arranger Richard Fenno started the New Flamingo Swing Orchestra in Los Angeles in 1979, and their most recent revival started in 2011 right here in Santa Cruz.

The new group is as hot and vibrant as ever. I guess you could call them the New New Flamingo Swing Orchestra. AC INFO: 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.

FRIDAY 12/18 POST-HARDCORE

DANCE GAVIN DANCE Ten years is a big milestone for any band. And if you have six solid studio albums and several headlining tours in that time, all the better. Such is the case with Sacramento post-hardcore bands Dance Gavin Dance, who are celebrating their 10-year anniversary this Friday at the Catalyst. They released their latest record, Instant Gratification, earlier this year, and it’s a crowd pleaser. It’s chock-

MUSIC

BE OUR GUEST BEATS ANTIQUE One part world fusion, one part electronica, and one part futuristic tribal rendezvous, Beats Antique is a true original. Formed in 2007, the three-piece comprising David Satori on production and live instrumentation, Tommy Cappel on production and percussion, and Zoe Jakes directing dance and choreography, is a favorite of the Bay Area arts underground. Incorporating electronic music, Eastern European melodies, belly dancing, and a seemingly endless supply of visuals and props, this group transcends the boundaries of sound and imagination. CAT JOHNSON IAMSU!

full of fast screaming-hardcore sections, clean hooky vocals, math rock chops, and a nice professional polish over the whole thing. Dance Gavin Dance are favorites in the cluttered post-hardcore scene for a reason. These guys are excellent players and are committed to their craft. AC INFO: 7:30 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $22/door. 429-4135.

HIP HOP

IAMSU! IAMSU! is a Bay Area artist with a broad vision. After several hits and multiple collaborations, it only makes sense that he’s heading out on his own headlining tour. His 19-date “I Love My Squad” tour features some of the newest names in hip-hop as they jet-set around the world from the United States to Australia and back. But every Bay Area artist knows there’s nothing like a home show for holiday cheer, so IAMSU! and company are wrapping 2015 with two backto-back dates at the Catalyst. MW INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst Club. 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $27.50/adv, $30/door. 429-4135.

ROCK/TRIBUTE

SOUTH 46 The impact the Allman Brothers Band made on popular music can’t be overstated. They took blues-rock to places it had never been before, the late Duane Allman is considered one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time, and Gregg Allman carries the family torch still. South 46 is our little local version of the Allman Brothers, paying tribute to the legendary rockers with covers of the band’s best-known jams. They also takes on tunes by Stevie Ray Vaughan, ZZ Top, Bob Dylan, and more. CJ INFO: 9:30 p.m. Crow’s Nest, 2218 E Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. $7. 476-4560.

KLEZMER

THE KLEZMATICS America’s most renowned band devoted to the secular, celebratory music of Eastern European Jewry, the Klezmatics emerged from Manhattan’s roiling downtown scene in the mid-1980s. Over the years, the ensemble has created a vast and varied body of music via

collaborations with a gaudy array of artists, including John Zorn and Itzhak Perlman. This time of year, they tap into their deep well of songs, particularly from the acclaimed album Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah, which revealed the American icon’s deep ties to Yiddish culture. ANDREW GILBERT INFO: 7:30 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 427-2227.

SUNDAY 12/20

IN THE QUEUE HOLIDAY SINGALONG

Sing in the holidays with Johnny Fabulous. Wednesday at the Pocket

FOLK/GOSPEL/BLUES

HOLIDAY HOOT

SCOTT COOPER & THE BARRELMAKERS

Gospel, folk, blues, country, jazz, soul—nothing will be off-limits as some of the area’s finest artists gather for a holiday songwriters in the round.

Dubbed a Holiday Hoot, the evening features Tammi Brown, Dan Frechette and Laurel Thomsen, Ukulele Dick and Jayme Kelly Curtis, and Wendy Treat— all talented artists known for sharing thoughtful, poignant, beautiful, and catchy tunes. What the artists will bring to this particular Hoot remains to be seen, but the evening is lining up to be a bright, festive affair. CJ

Album release party for standout local jam band. Thursday at Moe’s Alley

INFO: 7 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $12/adv, $15/door. 603-2294.

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Santa Cruz-based, Western swamp rock outfit. Thursday at Crow’s Nest SANTA IS REAL

The Carolyn Sills Combo presents their annual 1950s Christmas Spectacular.

Friday at Don Quixote’s LYDIA PENSE & COLD BLOOD

Pioneering, and long-running, “East Bay Grease” band. Sunday at Moe’s Alley

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SATURDAY 12/19

INFO: 9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 30 and 31. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $25-$95. 423-1338.

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LIVE MUSIC

Wednesday December 16th 8:30pm $20/25 2 Of Hawaiiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Favorite Female Artists

ANUHEA +

PAULA FUGA Thursday December 17th 8:30pm $7/10 CD Release Celebration - Americana/Jam

SCOTT COOPER

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WED APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

12/16

Al Frisby 6-8p

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

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12/17

Preacher Boy 6-8p

FRI

12/18

Hawk n Blues Mechanics 6-8p

Minor Thirds Trio 6:30-9:30p

SAT

12/19

Lloyd Whitney 1-5p Big Jon Atkinson 6-8p

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12/20

MON

Kid Anderson 6-8p

12/21

Broken Shades 6-8p

TUE

12/22

Rand Rueter 6-8p

Minor Thirds Trio 7-10p

BAYVIEW HOTEL 8041 Soquel Dr, Aptos

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

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Live Reggae Showcase

BLUE LAGOON 923 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

Comedy Night/ 80s Night Free 8:30p

Gentlemen of Japan $5 9p

DJ Chilango $5 9p

The Box (Goth Night) 9p

JOSH HEINRICHS

The Real Ones, Little Petie & the Old Men, ARIA $5 9p

BLUE LOUNGE 529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

Pride Night 9p

Party w/Raina 9p

Incidental Live Music Revue w/Alisha

Comedy Night 9p

Karaoke

Locals Night, Music w/ Lil Billy

Funk the Mighty 9p-Midnight

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Be Natural Music 5-8p

Karaoke 8p-Close

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Swing Night $5 5:30p Rumple Steelskin Free 9p

Ribsyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nickel Holiday Show $10 9p

Jazz Society Free 3:30p

Karaoke 9p

Karaoke 9p

Songwriter Showcase 7-10p

Iamsu! $28/$30 8p

Iamsu! $28/$30 8p

Yellow Claw $27/$30 8p

Dance Gavin Dance, Slaves $20/$22 8p

The Sea Wolves $10 8p

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Saturday December 19th 9pm $20/25 Exclusive & Intimate Performance With

CHUCK RAGAN + WOLF CREEK BOYS & THANKS BUDDY Sunday December 20th 7:30pm $20/25 CD Release Celebration With

LYDIA PENSE & COLD BLOOD

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

BOCCIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

Funk Night w/Light the Band Free 9p

The Do-Rights Burlesque $5 9p Jeff Gardner Free 8p

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola CASA SORRENTO 393 Salinas St, Salinas

DJ Luna 9p

CATALYST 1011 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

Scott Kelly $5 8p Through the Roots, Maoli $12/$15 8:30p

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Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

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Santa is Real: A 1950s Christmas Spectacular with

The Carolyn Sills Combo $15 adv./$18 door <21 w/parent 8pm Sat Dec 19

Shady Groove A SHADY X-MAS PARTY $12 adv./$15 door 21+ 8:30pm

Sun Dec 20

The Holiday Hoot Tammi Brown, Dan Frechette & Laurel Thomsen, Ukulele Dick & Jayme Kelly Curtis, Wendy Treat $12 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 7pm

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Elvin Bishopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big Fun Trio $25 adv./$30 door 21+ 8pm

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CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

LA Witch, Feels $10 9p

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

Yuji Tojo $3 7:30p

12/17

THU New Flamingo Swing Orchestra $8 9p

Shotgun Suitor Trio $6 8p

FRI

12/18

IT’S WINE TYME 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

SUN

12/20

MON

12/21

Stamina All-Stars $6 9p

Southpaw $7 9:30p

Mike Renwick’s Holiday Deluxe $10/$15 8p

The Human Experience, “Santa Is Real” w/ Sati, Feral Fauna & More Carylon Sills Combo $15/$20 8p $15/$18 8p

Flingo 7p Open Mic 7p

KUUMBWA 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz MALONE’S 4402 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley

Live Music 5:30-9p

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

7th Wave 7-10p

MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Tomas Gomez 6p

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

Anuhea, Paula Fuga $20/$25 8p

A Shady X-Mas Party $12/$15 8:30p

10 O’Clock Lunch Band

Nitecreepers

The Mile 9p

The Nightdrivers 9p

JP “The Band” 7p

Madrigal and Strrange 7p

Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers $25 7p

Tammi Brown, Yuji Tojo & more $10/$20 8p

The Klezmatics $25 8p

Live Music 5:30-9p

Karaoke w/Ken 9p

Joint Chiefs 8-11p

Breeze Babes 8-11p

Wild Blue 8-11p

Live Comedy $7 9p

12/22

Reggae Party Free 8p Sherry Austin w/ Henhouse

LAVAY SMITH AND HER RED HOT SKILLET LICKERS Friday, December 18 • 8 pm

TAMMI BROWN & YUJI TOJO, HEATHER CHRISTIE & FRIENDS, BELLA VOCE Tickets: BrownPaperTickets.com

Holiday Hoot w/ Tammi Brown & More $12/$15 7p

Saturday, December 19 • 7:30 pm

THE KLEZMATICS Eastern European Klezmer champions!

Streuth 2p The Next Blues Band 5p

Roadhouse Karaoke 7:30p

TICKETS MAKE GREAT GIFTS Monday, January 11 • 7 pm

Dave Muldawer 4p

ERIC HARLAND VOYAGER Thursday, January 14 • 7 pm

TONY LINDSAY PRESENTS: THE MUSIC OF MARVIN GAYE, LOU RAWLS & BILL WITHERS Monday, January 25 • 7 and 9 pm MONTEREY JAZZ No Comp Tix

Broken Shades 6p Scott Cooper & the Barrelmakers, Edge of the West $7/$10 8p

TUE

7 Come 11 $5 9p

Charmas

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville HENFLING’S 9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond

12/19

Wally Joyner $8 9p

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

SAT

Celebrating Forty Years of Creativity Thursday, December 17 • 7 pm

Rand Rueter 6p

FESTIVAL ON TOUR Monday, February 8 • 7:30 pm At the Rio Theatre | No Comp Tix

Josh Heinrichs, Chuck Raga, Wolf Creek Lydia Pense & Cold Skillinjah, Animo Cruz & Boys, Thanks Buddy Blood $20/$25 7p Soulwise $12/$15 8p $20/$25 8p

AARON NEVILLE QUINTET FEATURING CHARLES NEVILLE Tuesday, February 16 • 7:30 pm At the Rio Theatre | No Comp Tix

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LIVE MUSIC

Wednesday, Dec. 16 • In the Atrium • AGES 21+

SCOTT KELLY

Bruce Lamont

plus

Thursday, December 17 • In the Atrium • AGES 16+

THROUGH THE ROOTS • MAOLI

Friday & Saturday, Dec. 18 & 19 • AGES 16+

iamsu!

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Casey Veggies

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Show Banga

Friday, December 18 • In the Atrium • AGES 16+

DANCE GAVIN DANCE • SLAVES

Saturday, December 19 • In the Atrium • AGES 16+

THE SEA WOLVES

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APPLE CITY SLOUGH BAND

Tuesday, December 29 • In the Atrium • AGES 18+ plus

Tasty Treat

Wednesday, December 30 • AGES 18+ Thursday, Dec. 31 New Year’s • AGES 21+

BEATS ANTIQUE Jan 1 The Weight

featuring former members of

The Band Atrium (Ages 21+)

Jan 8 & 9 Tribal Seeds (Ages 16+) Jan 15 Stick Figure (Ages 16+) Jan 22 Minnesota b2b G Jones (Ages 18+) Jan 23 Roach Gigz/ Ezale/ Los Rakas (Ages 16+) Jan 29 Steel Pulse (Ages 16+) Jan 30 Y & T/ Archer (Ages 21+) Jan 31 Dr. Dog (Ages 16+) Feb 6 The White Buffalo (Ages 21+) Feb 9 Mardi Gras Party: Lettuce (Ages 16+) Feb 10 & 11 Iration/ Seedless (Ages 16+) Feb 12 Geoff Tate’s Operation: Mindcrime (Ages 21+) Feb 13 The Growlers (Ages 16+) Feb 14 Brillz/ Party Favor (Ages 18+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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12/16

SpaceBass! by AndrewThePirate 9:30p-2a

NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz

Anisoptera

Saturday, December 26 • Upstairs • AGES 21+

LOUIS THE CHILD

WED MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz

Trivia 8p

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

THU

12/17

FRI

12/18

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

Trevor Williams 9:30p-1:30a

Nubo Neighbor Night 4-9p Paint & Pint Night 6-8p

Special Guest Stars, Mortal Dumpling 5-9p

SAT

12/19

12/20

TUE

12/22

Hip-hop with DJ Marc 9:30p-2a Trivia 6-8p

Kelly Bros.

Tuesday Night Comedy Smackdown 9p

Open Mic 4-7p

Comedy Open Mic 8p

Open Mic 7:30-11:30p

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Trivia

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

The Alex Raymond Band 8p

DJ Pvck 10p

DJ Jahi 10p

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

Jazz Jam

Acoustic Jam w/Toby Gray and Friends

Aloha Fridays Traditional Great Acoustic Covers Hawaiian Music Brunch and Dinner

Mike Osborne Band $5 9p

Chris Ellis Jam Session w/Jazz Jam SC 7p

Holiday Sing-A-Long w/ Johnny Fabulous 8p

Jam Session w/Don Caruth 7p

Isaiah Picket

Mick Overman & the Maniacs $5 9p

THE POCKET 3102 Portola Dr, Santa Cruz

‘Geeks Who Drink’ Trivia Night 8p Chas and Friends 6-9p

Santa Cruz Musicians Only Weekly Showcase 6-9p

The Lenny and Kenny Show

Trivia 8p

Open Mic 7:30p

“Reach for the Sky” film screening $10 8p

ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz THE SAND BAR 211 Esplanade, Capitola

12/21

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

Shotgun Suitor 10p Omar Spence

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

SUN

Band Dog 7-11p

Natural Revolution 8p-Midnight

Velvet Plum 8-Midnight

Vinny Johnson Pro Jam 7-11p

Ten Foot Faces 7-11p

LIVE MUSIC WED

12/16

THU

12/17

FRI

12/18

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

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SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz

Broken Shades w/Jewls 7:30-10:30p

SAT

12/19

SEVERINOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAR & GRILL 7500 Old Dominion Court, Aptos

Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-10p

Tsunami 7:30-11:30p

Joint Chiefs 8p-Midnight

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

Ken Constable 6:30-9:30p

Joe Ferrara 6:30-10p

Claudio Melega 7-10p

SIR FROGGYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PUB 4771 Soquel Dr, Soquel

Karaoke w/Eve

TROUT FARM INN 7701 E Zayante Rd, Felton

SUN

12/20

MON

12/21

Chas and Friends 6-9p Coastal Prairie Band $15 7:30p

WHALE CITY 490 Highway 1, Davenport

Tan of Dreams 6p

The Black Eyed Suzies 5p

YOUR PLACE 1719 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Danny Lawrence 6-9p

Daniel Martins 6-9p

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Kurt Stockdale Jazz Trio SPUN 6p 9:30p

B4Dawn 9:30p

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John David 7-9 pm

Raleigh Neal & Gina Rene 6:30-9:30pm

July Fire 6:30-9:30pm

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AHOY, MATEY! Chris Hemsworth in Ron Howard’s ‘In The Heart of the Sea,’ adapted from the award-winning nonfiction book ‘In

The Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.’

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n modern adspeak, it would be Moby-Dick: The Prequel! The fact-based seafaring drama, In The Heart of the Sea, features a whaling ship and a supernaturally gigantic white whale, but it’s not quite the story you’re expecting. Instead of the early adventures of Captain Ahab, Ron Howard’s film is adapted from the award-winning 2000 nonfiction book by Nathaniel Philbrick, In The Heart Of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. The book tells the story of the harrowing real-life 1820 whaling voyage that inspired Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick.

With its literary pedigree, impressive production values and strong cast, it ought to be a rousing movie experience. And there are moments when it all works—

especially if, like me, you can’t resist the romance of a sailing ship on the open sea. But there are other moments that drag like a fouled anchor, when Howard’s Hollywood sensibility gets a little schmaltzy— swelling music, philosophical points driven home with harpoon-like subtlety, and a bracketing story that interrupts more often than it informs.

Still, in terms of mood and atmosphere, this movie takes you on a ride. Scripted by Charles Leavitt, it begins in 1850, when young Herman Melville (Ben Whishaw) arrives at a boarding house on the island of Nantucket to interview its proprietor, Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson). As a boy, Nickerson was one of the few survivors of the last unfortunate whaling voyage of the

Essex, and Melville pays a night’s rent to hear Nickerson’s horrifying story—which he’s never told anyone before, not even his loyal wife (Michelle Fairley, aka Ned Stark’s widow in Game of Thrones).

Flashback to 1820. Veteran whaler Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth) has been promised his own whaleship to captain by the consortium of owners and insurers who run the business.

But first they send him on one more voyage as First Mate on the Essex, under tinhorn Captain George Pollard (Benjamin Walker), whose rich daddy is one of the backers.

The ship sets off with Chase’s old comrade, Matthew Joy (Cillian Murphy), and young Thomas Nickerson (Tom Holland) on board, along with the usual grizzled sea

dogs. It’s pretty clear who the superior seaman is as tensions mount between captain and mate (among other things, Pollard orders them into the teeth of a squall with all sails set). In the South Atlantic, they finally spot a pod of whales, and the hunt is on.

Scenes of the ship’s boats stalking and killing a whale are awful (as they are meant to be), but it’s business as usual for the whalers, who gut the animal and store away the chunks of blubber that will be used for whale oil—the principal fuel of the era. But the Essex has to sail all the way around Cape Horn and deep into the unchartered Pacific before they find more whales— including the “demon” they heard about in a grog shop in Ecuador, a massive white bull whale who doesn’t take kindly to puny human interlopers messing with his pod.

By now, of course, we’re all rooting for the whales, which is kind of the point. It would be nice if Howard let us make these connections for ourselves, without quite so much Nature vs. Big Oil sermonizing. It’s enough that Chase gradually undergoes a crisis of conscience (especially in a great scene where he’s trying to spear the whale, but is paralyzed in the spotlight of the beast’s huge, knowing eye); a philosophical talk he has with Pollard is superfluous.

Back on the home front, a revelation between the Nickersons as he unburdens himself to Melville impedes the action of the story Howard is supposed to be telling. It’s not the Nickersons’ story, and the emotion feels unearned.

But Hemsworth gives a perfectly respectable performance as Chase.

His flat New England accent gets away from him now and then, but he never loses his moral authority.

The bustling waterfront scenes and shipboard action (with pretty terrific effects by VFX supervisor Jody Johnson) make for compelling historical drama—if you don’t mind a little sentimental blubber.

IN THE HEART OF THE SEA **1/2 (out of four) With Chris Hemsworth, Ben Whishaw, Benjamin Walker, Tom Holland, Cillian Murphy, and Brendan Gleeson. Written by Charles Leavitt. Directed by Ron Howard. A Warner Bros. release. Rated PG-13 120 minutes.

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FILM NEW THIS WEEK THE DANISH GIRL Eddie Redmayne looks positively transcendent as Lili Elbe, one of the first transgender women known to have received sexual reassignment surgery. Based on the true story of the artist during her revolutionary transition, and the love of her wife, Gerda, who fought hard to stay by her side, The Danish Girl has the potential to open a beautifully haunting window into a previously unknown story. Tom Hooper directs.

Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard co-star. (R) 120 minutes.

SISTERS Playing sisters who celebrate one final night in their childhood home, it’s Tina Fey and Amy Poehler together, taking their rightful places as as the queens of comedy.

There are no words—except, maybe, yes. Jason Moore directs. Maya Rudolph co-stars. (R) 118 minutes.

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STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS Ooh, what a neat looking indie flick! Lots of pew-pew and bang-bang somewhere in the desert, maybe Nevada? And some grumpy old man mumbling about the Dark Side.

At least the really tall lady from Game of Thrones is in it, otherwise it’d so be a total flop, right? J.J. Abrams directs.

Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher co-star. (PG-13) 135 minutes.

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YOUTH Michael Caine plays a retired composer and orchestra conductor on vacation in the Alps with his still-active film director buddy, played by Harvey Keitel. They sit, they muse, they don’t elaborate on the worlds existing in their minds; “Music is all I understand because you don’t need words or experience to understand it, it just is,” sighs Fred (Caine). They’re contentedly peaceful until Fred is invited by Queen Elizabeth herself to perform for Prince Philip’s birthday. (R) 124 minutes.

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. BROOKLYN From far across the

cavernous pond, Eilis is an Irish immigrant who lands in 1950s Brooklyn, New York, only to face crippling homesickness, glaring cultural differences, prejudice, and hardship. When Eilis falls in love with a young Italian boy from a totally different world, she’s forced to choose between her old home and her new life. John Crowley directs. Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson co-star. (PG-13) 111 minutes.

CHI-RAQ Potentially one of the most intriguing films to debut this December, Spike Lee’s newest creation is a satirical adaptation of the ancient Greek Lysistrata set in modern-day Chi-Raq (aka Chicago), and begs the question: can a sex strike end gang violence? It sounds hokey, sure, but Samuel L. Jackson has a knack for bolstering underrated alt dramas, even if Nick Cannon plays Chi-Raq’s thug king. Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes co-star. (R) 118 minutes.

CREED Well, Michael B. Jordan has sure changed since his days in The Wire—as in he looks like he ate the other Michael Jordan and gained double the body weight. Not that it’s a bad look, mind you, and it makes his appearance as prodigy boxer Adonis Johnson believable at least. Rocky Balboa is back but this time he’s training the young Adonis (really, with that name?) as he strives to fill his father’s shoes. Ryan Coogler directs. Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, and Tessa Thompson costar. (PG-13) 132 minutes.

THE GOOD DINOSAUR What if the comet that destroyed the dinosaurs missed earth? In Pixar’s newest animated wonder, a baby Apatosaurus is separated from his family and encounters several surprising challenges on his journey back home— including a tiny identity-confused human who becomes his sidekick.

Peter Sohn directs. Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, Maleah NipayPadilla co-star. (PG) 100 minutes.

HEART OF A DOG Artist Laurie Anderson traces her relationship with her dog through a lyrical meditation on living between past and future, love, loss, and life. Laurie Anderson directs. Archie, Jason Berg, HeungHeung Chin co-star. 75 minutes.

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2 Did this book need two movies? Who even cares, we’ll follow Katniss anywhere. Francis Lawrence directs. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth co-star. (PG-13) 137 minutes.

IN THE HEART OF THE SEA Reviewed this issue. (PG-13) 121 minutes.

KRAMPUS You know what happens when you tell your kids Santa Claus isn’t real? A giant, hooved Christmas demon ends up haunting your home.

Probably some sort of moral about bad parenting, Krampus looks so bad it might actually be good—in that sort of “Yes, Adam Scott and Toni Collette in a Christmas horror film, this makes sense” (more eggnog, please) kind of way. Michael Dougherty directs. Adam Scott Toni Collette, David Koechner co-star. (PG-13) 98 minutes.

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. (PG-13) 120 minutes.

MACBETH Epic cinematic renditions of classic literature seem to be seeing a resurgence this year, with Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy being born anew in Justin Kurzel’s most ambitious work to date. Ambitious, of course, because how could you refashion the beloved play for the screen without pissing off at least a few hundred dramaturgs? The rest of us will simply nod and smile at the sweeping slo-mo shots, gripping music and oh-so pretty cast—because, let’s be honest, we still don’t have a friggin’ clue what they’re saying. Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jack Madigan co-star. (R) 113 minutes.

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.

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SECRET IN THEIR EYES Jess, Claire and Ray are a tight-knit group of investigators quickly rising through the ranks until they find the body of a teenage girl—the body of Jess’s daughter. Thirteen years have passed when another lead falls into their lap and the trail of justice and retribution is picked up once more. Led by the brilliant trio of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman, and Julia Roberts (with Roberts delivering what looks to be her most haunting performance to date), Secret In Their Eyes is a chilling journey of personal vengeance directed by the screenplay writer for Captain Phillips and The Hunger Games. Billy Ray directs. (PG-13) 111 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.

SPOTLIGHT In Boston, the church ran everything. When the Spotlight investigative reporting team from the Boston Globe began unpacking the decades-long cover-up of child molestation, they found themselves up against a web of religious, legal, and government cronies. The cover-up was linked to the city’s highest levels and the wave of revelations that followed in its wake rocked not only the Catholic world, but the entire international community. Tom McCarthy directs.

Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams co-star. (R) 128 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, AnneMarie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter co-star. (Pg-13) 106 minutes.

TRUMBO He was on his way to becoming a legend, but when Dalton Trumbo was blacklisted as a member of the Communist party and brought in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947, his entire career screeched to a halt.

The famous screenwriter was forced out of Hollywood, so he did the unthinkable—he continued to work.

Based on the true story of the man behind many of Hollywood’s greatest works, including Roman Holiday which he did not receive credit for until 2011. Jay Roach directs. Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren co-star. (R) 124 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 co-star. (R) 121 minutes.

VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN Victor Von Frankenstein played God. He created life from dead flesh and toyed with fate. This is the story from Igor’s perspective—the troubled origins, the tortured friendship and the darkness that emerged from their underworld creation. Paul McGuigan directs. Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown co-star. (PG-13) 109 minutes.

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introduction to the classic dish—the chilled soup based on avocados, tomatoes, peppers, garlic, and broth.

Then Bittman provides variations— inviting color photographs pepper the entire text—each with its own short and seductive set of guidelines. For “gazpacho” we get a classic version, a Thai melon version, a kale and olive version, a tomatillo, avocado and orange version, a grilled one—you see how this works. Bittman’s easy-touse and easy-to-like new cookbook covers all the tricky territory from appetizers and picnics, to soups,

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Who among us hasn’t feasted on ramen? Often the spartan, out-ofa-package kind. But this week, you can savor a much more authentic and aromatic version at the Back Porch Ramen Pop Up Part 2, from 5:30-8:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 18, in Soquel at the corner of Soquel and Daubenbiss. The second installment of the popular November Ramen Pop Up invites you to wrap your mouth around such tasty exotica as ramen noodle soup with egg, pork belly and mushrooms, and Miso Scallop Chazuke with mushrooms and green onions (both $10). There will be seaweed salad ($5), chicken skewers ($6), azuki bean rice ball ($4) and tofu skewer with miso and sesame ($3). You supply the appetite, beer, wine, and what have you. OMG! I just found out there will also be a complimentary Fernet tasting! I am a major, serious, unrepentant Fernet head, and if you’ve never sampled any version of the primal Italian bitters drink, then you best make plans for this pop-up experience.

No reservations—dishes will be available until they’re gone. Check backporchsc.com for any other intel you require. And don’t forget to thank your savvy hosts, Austin and Alicia Kaye for their swift woks and good ideas.

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Grapes for this Chardonnay are harvested from the Griva Vineyard in the Arroyo Seco region of Central California. On the nose it shows bright green apple with hints of grapefruit and a touch of pear. With a solid acidic middle and a fresh, yet long and lingering finish, it pairs well with seafood and chicken dishes.

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Monday, Dec. 21 at 8:48 p.m. (West Coast time) the Sun enters Capricorn. The days before solstice (and Christmas) are days of quiet expectancy. The four candles of the Advent wreath have been lit. There’s a deepening within nature, a hushed reserve, a gathering of strength for what’s to come. Earth’s kingdoms— mineral, plant, animal, human—feel hope and anticipation together—a spark of flame at each center. At solstice, that flame burns brighter.

Darkness gives way to the light. We hold out our hands to each other in gladness. The new light of winter solstice uplifts the Earth to the kingdoms of beauty.

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of Capricorn for three days before its rays, with the promise of summer, move northward once again.

There is expectancy in the temple and in the stable. The Hierarchy and New Group of World Servers begin preparations for Wesak. The Archangel Gabriel assumes his post of protection over Earth and her kingdoms.

The angelic Cherubim from the constellation Cancer, guardians of mothers, babies, children, fathers and all families begin surrounding the Earth. A new light, a star is faintly seen in the sky. All of life is hushed in expectation. Looking up we “set our eyes toward Bethlehem.”

On our journey toward the light, and like the three Magi Astrologer Kings, what gifts for each sign shall we bring? See below.

ARIES Mar21–Apr20

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22

Things hot and red that go pop! A bike that goes zoom, fiery things—firecrackers, candles, incense, all that flickers in the dark. Crayola crayons and paintbrushes that glow in the dark, silly putty, anything sparkling with glitter. Hats and helmets, protecting their fire. Bike lights or miners light for the Ajna Center (third eye), illuminating their way.

Things white, red, rouge, ruby, and for some secret reason, deep violet. A watch with diamonds.

Art, art and more art. The kind that immediately is identified as beautiful, balanced and harmonious. Flower seeds, bulbs, fruit trees (apricot, lemon, fuji), a kitchen herb garden, scented candles, mirrors (to see they are the fairest/most handsome of all), magazine scripts (monthly gift), box of chocolates with fleur de sel, a month of homedelivered veggie tonics, more glass baubles for their already overloaded Christmas tree. A party.

TAURUS Apr21–May21

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21

A gardener to plant all their vegetable starts; seed sprouter, yogurt machine, gelato maker. Greenhouse, actually several (two, three, four). They know food in the near future will be the important commodity. Gardening tools and wild desert white sage (plant). A nature walk identifying wild mushrooms. Tools, barometer and weather thermometer. How-to books. A cow (Irish Dexter) or goat for milk. Land in Hawaii (Maui).

Things subtly red, violet, black, and aglitter with exotic scents (sandalwood, patchouli, bergamot, myrrh, frankincense and clove). Incense in these scents and oils also. From Young Living Oils, a blended oil called Thieves, which cleanses and heals and comes in soap and spray (excellent for traveling), throat lozenges, toothpaste, and more. Leather gloves, books on generals, revolutions and warriors. Anything serpentine (from Egypt) or eagle-like. A scarab ring.

GEMINI May 22–June 20

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20

Things to read and write with, ancient (Basho’s poetry, calligraphy brush) and new (a Mac, iPhone, iPad, Kindle, Fire, etc.). Playing cards, a set of jacks, marbles. Things that whirl about, glitter in the Sun, resembling butterflies, like their mind, unable to endure one moment of stillness. Gadgets, fascinating at first, useless later. Games, pick-up sticks, a clutch of bare-root roses: heirlooms, climbers, with fragrance and scent.

A hometown, a place called home, walking shoes, a staff (several), laughter (ho ho ho—St. Nick is a Sag), bow and arrows aimed at the Sun, an archery set with targets and bundles of straw, a new vehicle that runs fast on little gas, another journey somewhere, a new camera, photographs from famous photographers, a mountain top, a plain, a white horse; foods from different cultures, mineral waters, a cashmere beret. A train whistle or harmonica.

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VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Virgo knows how to clean, clear, order, and organize in great detail. Virgo organizes, shelf by shelf, what Gemini discovers. Virgo is my Chiron so what do I know of Virgo needs? Mrs. Meyer’s cleaning products are a good start.

The Zum products, too. Virgo, always gestating a new state of consciousness, hides from everyone except for a few. They need more and more bookshelves, notebooks, reading lights, a silver pencil, the Roomba vacuum cleaner, a book called Just Listen by Mark Goulston. And something precious.

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 New shoes, hiking (mountaineering) boots, mountain climbing equipment, clocks, timepieces, watches (old), surfboard, desk, gardening tools (the best), goat cheese, science sets (for adults and children), magazines (a monthly gift; Architectural Digest, Vogue, New Yorker, Kosmos, and The Week). A week or more of rest. Going nowhere, especially not down. A beginning silverware set (knife, fork, spoon added each year). Silver purifies our foods and palates. A true compliment.

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 For some Aquarians, a home of their own. For little ones, microscope and telescope, for the little and big pictures.

An asteroid named after them, a heavenly star map covering one entire wall in their home, anything with lights, light beams, luminosity and radiance. A Vespa, Prius or electric bike. A warehouse, Coyote Trickster feather, a Kachina, pieces of sky that fell to Earth. Some Aquarians need a new home and some need to travel. A donation toward either. Offer them DJ and Farmers Market work.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 Cashmere socks, bedroom slippers, shawls, sweaters, hats, scarves. Fountains, bells, water-purifying shower head (water drops like rain), goldfish, diamonds, espresso machine. A room of their own. A home of their own in a citrus orchard. Being called to the mountain to serve. Statues of the sleeping Buddha, of Mary, Christ, St. Francis of Assisi. A cross of gold to wear. A chandelier.

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The following Individual is doing business as RODASII. 310 30TH AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. MONICA ESCUDERO. 310 30TH AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MONICA ESCUDERO. 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. 12, 2015. Nov. 25, & Dec. 2, 9, 16.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-2008 The following Individual is doing business as OUR TRIBE PRODUCTIONS. 196 ATHERLEY LN., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. MARCELLO ISAAC III. 196 ATHERLEY LN., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MARCELLO ISAAC III. 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. 23, 2015. Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-2094 The following Individual is doing business as CRAZY HORSE BAR. 529 SEABRIGHT AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. FRED FRIEDMAN. 529 SEABRIGHT AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: FRED FRIEDMAN. 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 Dec. 9, 2015. Dec. 16, 23, 30, & Jan. 6.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1951 The following Individual is doing business as GOAT'S EYE PRESS. 1040 RIVER STREET, APT. 222, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. GILLIAN VICKERS. 1040 RIVER STREET, APT. 222, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: GILLIAN VICKERS. 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. 10, 2015. Nov. 25, & Dec. 2, 9, 16.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF NICOLE ELISABETH SABINE CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.15CV00065. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner NICOLE ELISABETH SABINE has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: NICOLE ELISABETH SABINE. to: NICOLE ELISABETH SABINI. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written

objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING January 21, 2016 at 8:30 am, in Department 4 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. 19, 2015. Paul M. Marigonda, Judge of the Superior Court. Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1983 The following Individual is doing business as VOTYPE EDITORIAL AND TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES. 875 FOREST WAY, BEN LOMOND, CA 95005. County of Santa Cruz. WENDY ELLEN LEDGER. 875 FOREST WAY, BEN LOMOND, CA 95005. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: WENDY ELLEN LEDGER. 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. 17, 2015. Nov. 25, & Dec. 2, 9, 16.

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The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: CLOTHES COTTAGE. 911 C. CAPITOLA AVE. CAPITOLA, CA 95010. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on: 2/4/2015. This business was conducted by: INDIVIDUAL: JOANN MCCULLOUGH. This statement was filed with the County Clerk- Recorder of SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on the date indicated by the file stamp: Filed: Nov. 19, 2015.

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objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING January 22, 2016 at 8:30 am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street, Room 110. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: Nov. 18, 2015. Paul M. Marigonda, Judge of the Superior Court.

Nov. 25, & Dec. 2, 9, 16.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF DENNIS DOYLE TAKAHASHI KELSO, ANNE TAKAHASHIKELSO, & MIDORI REN KELSO-TAKAHASHI. CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. 15CV00331. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner(s) DENNIS DOYLE TAKAHASHI KELSO, ANNE TAKAHASHIKELSO, & MIDORI REN KELSO-TAKAHASHI have filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; names from: DENNIS DOYLE TAKAHASHI KELSO, ANNE TAKAHASHI-KELSO, & MIDORI REN KELSOTAKAHASHI to: DENNIS DOYLE TAKAHASHIKELSO, ANNE MIGAHM TAKAHASHI-KELSO, & MIDORI REN TAKAHASHIKELSO. 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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1874The following Individual is doing business as BREATHING ROOM & MADRONE D'ARDENNE. 316 WILKES CIRCLE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

County of Santa Cruz.

PATRICIA SHIMOKAWA. 316 WILKES CIRCLE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: PATRICIA SHIMOKAWA. 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. 28, 2015. Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-2035 The following Individual is doing business as SANTA CRUZ HAIR DESIGN. 711

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CARMEL ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. KAMRYN CLARKE. 711 CARMEL ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: KAMRYN CLARKE. 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 Dec. 1, 2015. Dec. 9, 16, 23, 30.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15 - 2032.

The following General Partnership is doing business as Z'S PROPERTIES. 338 ISBEL DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. GERALDINE ZABALLOS, EVELYN ZABALLOS & LUCAS ZABALLOS. 338 ISBEL DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: GERALDINE ZABALLOS. The registrant commenced to transact business under

the fictitious business name listed above on 1/1/1997.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Dec. 1, 2015. Dec. 9, 16, 23, 30.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1987 The following Corporation is doing business as GARDENING UNLIMITED, INC., SANTA CRUZ HYDROPONICS AND ORGANICS. 815 ALMAR AVE., SUITE K, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. ERIC G. SHEDLARSKI. 815 ALMAR AVE., SUITE K, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. AI# 3224683. This business is conducted by a Corporation signed: ERIC G. SHEDLARSKI. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/1/2013.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Nov. 18, 2015. Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23.

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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF AMBER REHLING CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.15CV00323. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner AMBER REHLING has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: AMBER REHLING to: AMBER SEASHELL REHLING. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

NOTICE OF HEARING January 11, 2016 at 8:30 am, in Department 4 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: Nov. 18, 2015. Paul M. Marigonda, Judge of the Superior Court. Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23.

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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF SUSAN PATRICIA HARNISH CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.15CV00435.

THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner SUSAN PATRICIA HARNISH has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: SUSAN PATRICIA HARNISH to: SUZAN SEQUOIA. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at

least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING January 20, 2016 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: Dec. 2, 2015. Paul M. Marigonda, Judge of the Superior Court. Dec. 9, 16, 23, 30.

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NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-2042 The following Individual is doing business as CRUZPETS. 1841 ALICE STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. JEFFREY COOPER. 1841 ALICE STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JEFFREY COOPER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/2/2015.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Dec. 2, 2015. Dec. 9, 16, 23, 30.

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REBECCA ANNE ZAVALETA. 1240 BAY ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: REBECCA ZAVALETA. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Dec. 3, 2015. Dec. 9, 16, 23, 30.

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What do you folks enjoy cooking? JAMIE: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cooking is in my blood. I do a lot of Mediterranean cooking such as pasta, soups, brown rice, lots of fresh vegetables, and salads with olives, nuts, artichokes, goat cheese, and more. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always a main dish such as steak, chicken, or seafood.â&#x20AC;? TIM: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love barbecuing using my old Weber.â&#x20AC;? JAMIE: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re grilling, not barbecuing.â&#x20AC;? TIM: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, I call it barbecuing and do rib eye steaks, ďŹ llet mignon, chicken, salmon, swordďŹ sh, and leg of lamb which I slow-cook.â&#x20AC;?

JAMIE: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also GRILL our vegetables. The butchers are so accommodating and the variety of meats is fantastic.â&#x20AC;? TIM: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best quality in town!â&#x20AC;?

Quality is important? JAMIE:â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes, and so is shopping local. Here, not only do we support a family-run business but county-based vendors who supply the breads, coffees, eggs, salsas, pies, apples/organic produce, and the ice cream which is Andrewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, and my other kids, Ellie and Ianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite section.â&#x20AC;? TIM: â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have all the best Santa Cruz Mountain wines such as Ridge and Bargettoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Jim (Beauregard) has done a wonderful job with the store and the staff: theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re well-trained, knowledgeable, and always helpful. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on their game.â&#x20AC;? JAMIE: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The checkers recognize us ask, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Howâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re you doing?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; which makes for a family-friendly feeling. Our kids enjoy coming to Shopperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.â&#x20AC;?

Do you shop here for holidays? JAMIE: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We love coming here for the holidays. So many great memories.â&#x20AC;? TIM: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get a big prime rib â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a must â&#x20AC;&#x201D; some pies, and good wines for Christmas. Holidays or not, Shopperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is the place to go for the community â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been the hub of Midtown forever.â&#x20AC;? JAMIE: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shopperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is very social, and during the holidays youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll run into people you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see on a regular basis. People can be very joyful and excited when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re thinking about preparing their meals, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sharing stories right in the middle of the store. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wonderful. I tell people new to Santa Cruz to shop here. Shopperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will make you feel welcomed to the community.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I tell people new to Santa Cruz to shop here. Shopperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Corner will make you welcomed to the community.â&#x20AC;?

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