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EDITOR’S NOTE One of the complaints I hear most often from locals about Santa Cruz County is that “there’s nothing happening on the food scene.”

This isn’t literally true, but then, they don’t mean it literally. We all have our favorite dining spots, and our favorite locally produced foods, and would wail to high heaven if they suddenly disappeared (I am still wailing about Louie’s Cajun Kitchen). But we also get so used to our regular meal haunts that we start to take them for granted after a while, and when we hear about snappy new food trends elsewhere— smoke, algae, moringa, whatever—we wonder if and when we’re going to get a taste. So, what people are really saying when they complain about “nothing happening” is that they want

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Re: “Posner Undisclosed” (GT, 3/9): You know that Santa Cruz has a housing crisis when our own city council member Micah Posner rents an illegal shed out of his backyard and doesn’t disclose the income because the unit is “unpermitted.”

Note to the voting public: no matter how “cool” your chosen politician appears to be, they generally don’t want to live under the same rules they would like to enforce upon the rest of us.

An elected official who votes for laws that restrict the housing market, while simultaneously benefiting from that same tight market by illegally renting a shed for $700 a month and then lying about it and hiding the income, epitomizes the corruption in government that the public is so angry about.

His actions are hypocritical, illegal, and dishonest, and they betray the public trust.

Santa Cruz deserves better.

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GET REAL Re: “Posner Undisclosed”: I was amazed at the time spent explaining the Micah Posner cardinal sin of renting out a room for $700/month. The idea that such a thing could inspire any action at

to see bold new culinary ideas here.

The thing is, they are here. It’s great when there’s a high-visibility place to find them, like the Santa Cruz Food Lounge, but sometimes they’re hidden away. One of our food writers who has dedicated herself to finding them is Lily Stoicheff, who recently started writing the “Love at First Bite” column every other week in GT for that exact purpose. This week, she’s written about a little-known nexus of culinary experimentation in Santa Cruz, the Commercial Kitchen Incubator Program in Watsonville. Home to almost three dozen food start-ups over the last three years, this program from the El Pájaro Commercial Development Corporation is nurturing exactly the kind of innovative ideas locals say they want to see on our food scene. And the stories of the people behind these startups are often what you’d least expect. Let’s all support the foodies who are feeding both our stomachs and our thirst for the new.

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all demonstrates a clear lack of direction for our housing issues in Santa Cruz.

1. There is a significant housing shortage here. It hits renters, the single people and lower income people worst of all. Where are these people supposed to go when units like this are taken off the market? We need to get real—what happens to them?

2. It was cheap. $700 a month was a figure that Micah’s former tenant will not find elsewhere. I only hope that said tenant finds something that he/she can afford after being kicked out by the city.

3. There actually are some really squalid and abusive housing situations existing in Santa Cruz and Live Oak, and no one seems minimally interested in addressing these disgusting situations.

I find this ridiculous. We need to move on to the real issues.

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Tensions at UCSC and among alumni reached a boiling point after the university announced it would be changing the way the Stevenson Coffee House operates and launching a renovation. Administrators later clarified that they plan to introduce Jewish foods and that the kitchen would need remodeling. UCSC has announced feedback sessions to hear from the community at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5 and 6 p.m. on April 6 at the Stevenson Coffee House.

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

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22

Artist Steven Spazuk works exclusively with an unusual medium: soot from candles and torches. He spreads the stuff across a blank canvas, then uses various instruments to sculpt the accidental blobs into definitive forms. I’ve seen the results, and they’re both well-done and intriguing. What would be the metaphorical equivalent, in your world, of using soot to make beautiful and interesting things? I think you’re primed to turn waste into building blocks, rot into splendor and lead into gold.

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In her book The Winter Vault, Anne Michaels says, “We become ourselves when things are given to us or when things are taken away.” If she’s right, does it mean we should be grateful for those times when things are taken away? Should we regard moments of loss as therapeutic prods that compel us to understand ourselves better and to create ourselves with a fiercer determination? Meditate on these possibilities, Libra. In the meantime, I’m pleased to announce that the thingsgetting-taken-away period of your cycle is winding down. Soon you’ll begin a new phase, when you can become a deeper, stronger version of yourself because of the things that are given to you.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 Carl Sagan said that science thrives on “two seemingly contradictory attitudes: an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new.”

Whether or not you are a scientist, Taurus, I recommend that you practice this approach in the coming weeks. It’s the tool that’s most likely to keep you centered and free of both rigidity and illusion. As Sagan concluded, this is “how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.”

GEMINI May21–June20 “Excess on occasion is exhilarating,” said British author W. Somerset Maugham. “It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.” Now would be an excellent time to take that advice to heart, Gemini.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you not only have a license to engage in rowdy fun and extravagant pleasures; it’s your sacred duty. So get out there and treat yourself to an orgy of naughty adventures—or at least a celebration of meaningful thrills. You can return to the rigors of discipline and order once you have harvested the healthy benefits that will come from escaping them.

CANCER Jun21–Jul22 At one point in Friedrich Nietzsche’s book Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the hero is having a conversation with himself.

“You have wanted to pet every monster,” he says. “A whiff of warm breath, a little soft tuft on the paw—and at once you were ready to love and to lure it.” If I were you, Cancerian, I would regard that type of behavior as forbidden in the coming weeks. In fact, I will ask you not to pet any monsters at all—not even the cute ones; not even the beasties and rascals and imps that have slight resemblances to monsters. It’s time for maximum discernment and caution.

(P.S.: One of the monsters may ultimately become a non-monstrous ally if you are wary toward it now.)

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On a social media site, I posted the following quote from self-help teacher Byron Katie: “Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.” One commenter took issue with this. “‘Pushing buttons’ is a metaphor that’s long past its expiration date,” she wrote. “Can’t you come up with something fresher?”

So I did. Here are a few potential substitutes for “push our buttons”: “tweak our manias” ... “prank our obsessions” ... “glitter-bomb our biases” ... “squeeze our phobias” ... “badger our compulsions” ... “seduce our repressions” ... “prick our dogmas.” Whichever expression you prefer, Leo, find a graceful way to embrace your fate: Your current job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in your life is to tweak your manias and prick your dogmas.

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In the coming weeks, you will have maximum power to revise and reinvigorate your approach to cultivating intimate relationships. To aid your quest, I offer this paraphrased advice from Andrew Boyd: Almost every one of us seeks a special partner who is just right. But there is no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why? Because you yourself are “wrong” in some ways—you have demons and flaws and problems. In fact, these “wrongs” are essential components of who you are. When you ripen into this understanding, you’re ready to find and be with your special counterpart. He or she has the precise set of problems you need—is the person who is wrong for you in just the right ways. (See Boyd’s original quote: tinyurl.com/boydquote.)

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 “I’ll make love when the lust subsides,” sings Denitia, of the electro-pop band Denitia and Sene. That would be a good motto for you to play around with in the coming days, Scorpio—in both literal and metaphorical ways.

I’ll enjoy seeing how your emotional intelligence ripens as the white-hot passion of recent weeks evolves into a more manageable warmth. As fun as the intensity has been, it has blinded you to some of the possibilities for collaborative growth that have been emerging. You may now be ready to explore and appreciate sweeter, subtler pleasures.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 “The poems I have loved the most are those I have understood the least,” said T. S. Eliot. I’m going to steal and expand upon his idea for the purpose of giving you an accurate horoscope. In the coming days, Sagittarius, I suspect that the experiences you love most will be those that you understand the least. Indeed, the experiences you need the most will be those that surprise and mystify and intrigue you. Luckily, life will be ingenious in bypassing your analytical intelligence so as to provide you with rich emotional stimuli for your soul.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 Capricorn painter Henri Matisse made the following testimony about his creative process: “At each stage I reach a balance, a conclusion. At the next sitting, if I find that there is a weakness in the whole, I make my way back into the picture by means of the weakness—I re-enter through the breach—and I reconceive the whole. Thus everything becomes fluid again.” I recommend this approach to you in the coming days, Capricorn. You’ve been making decent progress on your key project. To keep up the good work, you should now find where the cracks are, and let them teach you how to proceed from here.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 “We all lead three lives,” said Austrian novelist Thomas Bernhard, “an actual one, an imaginary one, and the one we are not aware of.” I suspect you'll get big glimpses of your third life in the coming weeks, Aquarius: the one you’re normally not aware of. It might freak you out a bit, maybe unleash a few blasts of laughter and surges of tears. But if you approach these revelations with reverent curiosity, I bet they will be cleansing and catalytic. They are also likely to make you less entranced by your imaginary life and better grounded in your actual life.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 “The greatest illusion is not religion,” says aphorist Michael Lipsey. “It’s waking up in the morning imagining how much you’re going to get done today.” But even if that’s often true, Pisces, I suspect that you have the power to refute it in the coming weeks. Your ability to accomplish small wonders will be at a peak. Your knack for mastering details and acting with practical acumen may be unprecedented. For the immediate future, then, I predict that you’ll largely be able to get done what you imagine you can get done.

Homework: Identify your fondest childhood memory, and recreate in the present time the feeling you had back then. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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LEARNING CURVE State Assemblymember Luis Alejo (D-Salinas) recently introduced a bill to create an

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saac Nieblas’ world changed when he signed up for a Chicano Studies class at Santa Clara University. The son of Mexican immigrants, Nieblas grew up for a time in Arizona, where ethnic studies were banned from the public school curriculum during his sophomore year of high school. He never had the opportunity to learn about Mexican-American history, politics or literature, which created a disconnect he felt for his course material until he attended college— the first time in his life that he

began learning about his own people.

“I felt I was studying who I was as a human,” says Nieblas, now a junior. “Learning about the Chicano revolution in the 1960s made me feel as though my concerns, my issues, my humanity were legitimate.”

Nieblas’ experience with ethnic studies is far from unique, but for the first time it’s being quantified.

New research out of Stanford University shows clear academic benefits to ethnic studies.

Thomas Dee, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of

Education, recently tracked more than 1,400 ninth-graders enrolled in a pilot ethnic studies program in the San Francisco Unified School District.

The students were enrolled in the course if they had a GPA below 2.0 the year before, meaning they were considered at-risk for dropping out.

Dee found that the students who took the ethnic studies courses, which focused on issues such as social justice, discrimination, stereotypes, and social movements in U.S. history, saw a boost in overall

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Now that Santa Cruz City Councilmember Micah Posner has admitted to renting out a unit in his backyard that was unpermitted for housing, some of his former supporters are feeling betrayed.

“I put an addition on my house, and my husband and I haven’t had a vacation since 2008, and we’re paying for it, because we enjoy it, but we did it legally,” said Sarah Nash, who voted for Posner four years ago, at a hearing on Posner’s violations on March 8. “And I can’t tell you how totally upset I am.”

Nash, a retired federal employee, stressed that it wasn’t personal—she would be “pissed” at any of the other council members if they had broken such laws, as well—even saying that she felt she was probably going easier on Posner because he’s her neighbor in the Lower Ocean area.

“But I don’t just want my neighbors to put something in their shed and think they can get away with it,” she added, her voice trembling. “I didn’t even think about getting away with it.”

Others told the council they felt it was unethical that Posner had presided over regulations around accessory dwelling units (ADUs)—some of which passed on narrow votes—while skirting the rules on his own.

Posner supporters spoke as well, outnumbering critics 4 to 1 at the meeting.

They called his since-abated unit a valuable piece of affordable housing in an increasingly expensive town, and praised Posner for apologizing. Some suggested the council’s whole hearing was part of a larger crackdown on poor and liberal community members—like Keith McHenry, who has been charged with vandalism downtown, and Leonie Sherman, a former council candidate who was called an anarchist by a police officer in 2014.

“This, to me, is one of the final straws,” activist Grant Wilson said.

The council voted to censure Posner, issuing a formal reprimand that has no effect on his ability to serve. Council members also voted unanimously to have City Attorney Tony Condotti send a formal letter to the Fair and Political Practices Commission (FPPC) notifying the group that they are now aware of Posner’s actions.

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NEWS TEACHING MOMENT <11 academic performance compared to their peers—and not just in the ethnic studies course itself. Ethnic studies students increased their attendance by 21 percent, credits earned by 23 percent, and cumulative GPA by 1.4 points, elevating them from failing grades to the B-minus/C-plus range.

Some of the highest GPA gains were made in math and science.

While there have been many qualitative studies on the value of culturally relevant pedagogy, this is the first quantitative one.

“I’ll confess that when we first generated these results, I was incredulous,” Dee says. “If I was reading a study saying that taking the course increases GPA by 1.4 points, I would not believe that.”

While the results seem clear, the reason for the benefits may be less so. Dee attributes the value of ethnic studies to pedagogy. “It’s about having instruction that corresponds with the out-of-school experience of these kids,” he says. “It’s simply going to fit them better and promote academic engagement.”

Another explanation is what’s known as the stereotype threat, which theorizes that minority students underperform in the classroom because of anxiety stemming from the expectation of negative stereotypes. But through buffering, either by forewarning against stereotypes or providing external examples of the challenges people of color face, students can overcome the stereotype threat.

“When I look at the ethnic studies curriculum,” Dee says, “it has many of the active ingredients of these lighttouch psychological interventions.”

Here in Santa Cruz, Eric Porter, a professor with UCSC’s newly created Critical Race and Ethnic Studies department, says the basic findings “make sense.”

“It provides a sense of self worth to students, understanding of how their groups exist in the world,” Porter says of ethnic studies.

The study has made an impact in Sacramento, too. Last month, California State Assemblymember Luis Alejo (D-Salinas) introduced legislation that would require California high schools to create

ethnic studies programs. Alejo, who also introduced similar legislation two years before, cites the study as new support for the cause.

Despite the newly identified advantages to ethnic studies, the field has faced political challenges since its inception in the 1960s. Even though Santa Clara has one of the oldest ethnic studies programs in the country, Anna Sampaio, director of ethnic studies at Santa Clara University, says it still hasn’t been granted departmental status, and it still can’t offer a standalone major to undergraduates.

UCSC, meanwhile, has had a major for over a year, but no department.

All of the major’s professors and staff share responsibilities with other disciplines on campus, like history or Latin American and Latino Studies. The first two critical and ethnic studies students are applying to graduate this quarter, and 12-18 will by the end of the year. Porter hopes to regularly graduate about 40 students per year in the major soon.

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To casual observers, the wall had appeared to be part of the beach, but it gained notoriety two years ago, when neighbor Nicole Richardson and her husband James, whose property actually extends to the wall, threatened to remove all remnants of the memorial.

After an uproar from mourners and Aptos beach lovers alike, the couple appeared to reconsider and backed off from any immediate action. Then, they finally struck down all the

mementos this past month, inciting more ire than ever.

For better or worse, the Richardsons, who showed no interest in negotiating, appear to have the law on their side, and sympathizers may see them as ordinary sticklers for property rights.

It was a different story 11 years ago, however. The couple, who live in Los Gatos, illegally graded a path at their home in 2005 without a permit, according to public records, GT has learned. The path connected their Los Gatos home to the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve.

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Councilmember Pamela Comstock says she hopes that the letter will relieve the city of any possible legal responsibility should the FPPC decide that Posner did anything seriously wrong. “It’s about the impropriety, and I want it to be airtight in our statement that we didn’t do anything wrong,” Comstock said at the meeting.

Councilmember Don Lane, who in the meeting called Posner’s violation “embarrassing,” says the censure should help the council put this whole thing in the past. “I felt like it was important for the council to make a statement on this and move on,” he tells GT. Community members were packed into the council chambers benches so tightly

that they overflowed into the aisles and lined the back wall. The meeting was at times intense, with people clapping with those they agreed with and yelling at those they didn’t. As Lane described the ethical problems he had with Posner’s actions, one person blurted out, “That’s enough, Don.” Condotti said that he did not think Posner’s votes on ADUs presented any conflict of interest because the council member’s unit was in a multi-residential zone where such units aren’t allowed anyway.

Posner has taken heat for not disclosing the income from his back unit on his form 700 through the FPPC. He has since updated the paperwork, and at the meeting he provided his tax returns showing that he had reported the income on his income taxes.

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Posner’s house had tipped off city planning staff about the violation. Upon inspection, the staff found that the unit did not have a bathroom, a foundation, heating, or permits for electricity and plumbing, city planning director Juliana Rebagliati says.

Posner has stressed that it would have been difficult to afford the fees for a remodel, but Rebagliati says that staff works with homeowners to try and bring buildings in violation up to code and that there is a way to waive all fees, as long as landlords make their units affordable to renters. “There was no discussion of that. There is a process to waive the fees,” she tells GT. Under the plan, homeowners also must pay a prevailing wage for the construction labor.

Posner, who hasn’t decided yet whether he’ll run for re-election this year, says it

would have been impossible to bring the building up to the city’s housing code for a second unit. He and his wife Akiko Minami would like to build a second unit using those same provisions to waive fees, but he says it has been a lesson in permitting.

“Essentially I’m starting over, and I’m excited to learn how it works,” he says.

In his remarks last week, Posner said he understands and agrees that public officials should follow the rules and that he especially regrets the impact this has had on his colleagues at the city.

“It’s been a month of apologies, and I think that’s reasonable,” Posner said. “I am a public official, and I understand why the council would want me to speak about this matter and frankly to publicly apologize. So, I want to do that.”

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completely shifts the learning rubric,” Sampaio explains. “It says the center of the universe isn’t just rich, white, well-educated men. It can also be poor, working-class communities of color or women of color, and their voices have validity.”

Last year, Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill authored by Alejo that would have required the California Department of Education to develop an ethnic studies curriculum for public schools.

Alejo notes that some laws he’s written—like the minimum wage increase and a bill to provide driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants—were carried for years by previous lawmakers before they finally passed and received the governor’s signature. Alejo is optimistic Californians won’t have to wait decades for the governor to sign an ethnic studies bill into law.

“We’re building a broad coalition—teachers, university scholars, teachers, labor unions and legislators—to convince the governor to do it,” Alejo says.

Santa Cruz City Schools don't currently have an ethnic studies program, per se. The district does, however, support a Heritage Language class at all three high schools providing Spanish language instruction with history and culture studies for students whose first language is Spanish.

Elsewhere in California, some school districts are working to implement ethnic studies on their own. In 2014, Los Angeles approved plans to make ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement, and San Francisco and Oakland school boards voted to mandate that all high schools offer ethnic studies.

Nieblas argues that, given his own experiences, ethnic studies should be required starting in elementary school.

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s I’m handed a pea green waffle, I’m reminded a little bit of Dr. Seuss. The warm, toasted pastry is almost savory, with a delicate sweetness, and Blanca Madriz, who co-owns the Green Waffle with her husband Martin, explains that it contains just five ingredients: egg whites, oats, banana, and spinach, with additions of either blueberry, yam or cauliflower.

“They can be eaten as breakfast waffles with honey and fresh fruit,” she explains. “They can also be eaten as sandwiches with egg and cheese, regular cold cut meats, or

vegetarian. We have even made green waffle pizza.”

Madriz and her husband launched their business just a few months ago, but it almost didn’t get off the ground.

“Neither of us had any experience in starting a business or in the food industry, we just knew we had an idea we truly believed in.

In the beginning, we got our own location, but it did not pass the city inspection. We thought that was it, that it was over, because we were out of all the money we had to invest. We did not have very much to begin with.”

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they check out the incubator in Watsonville, where they live.

Martin rushed to their office and filled out an application the same day. Now, nine months later, their product is available in four locations, including Staff of Life in Santa Cruz and Aptos Natural Foods.

“We think that if the Kitchen Incubator did not exist we would not be in business right now,” says Bianca. “We would either have abandoned the idea all together or be working to save up money to reinvest, which would have taken a long time.”

START ME UP Since its launch three years ago, the Kitchen Incubator program has nurtured at least 30 food start-ups.

As the newest incubator program from the El Pájaro Commercial Development Corporation (CDC), a nonprofit based in Watsonville, its goal is to help underserved entrepreneurs in Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito counties by lowering the costs of their initial investments and providing them with technical training.

Entrepreneurs apply to share a commercial kitchen facility for $10

HIP TO BE SQUARE Left and center: Martin Madriz, co-owner of the Green Waffle, blends ingredients at the El Pajaro Commercial Kitchen Incubator, and pours the batter into a hot griddle. Above: The final product, toasted with butter and maple syrup.

closely with all of its start-up clients.

“We bring in new people who want to use the facility, and often times they don’t even know where to start. Once we collect those documents—business plan, the identity of the proper entity that’s overseeing them, and ServSafe—then we move into local permits, insurance for your business and obtaining a business license from the City of Watsonville.”

Only after all of this initial training, which takes three to six months, do clients finally move into the Kitchen Incubator, which sometimes poses its own set of challenges for new entrepreneurs, many of whom

have never worked in a commercial kitchen before. “Some people come in with experience and they don’t take very much time,” explains Ruiz.

“Others have no idea how to use a commercial oven or commercial stove.”

The need for a commercial kitchen space had been apparent to the CDC for more than a decade. Of the 200 or so clients that visited the CDC every year, at least 40 percent of them wanted to start a food business, but were prohibited from doing so due to lack of start-up capital and commercial space. According to labor statistics from the Employment

Development Department of California, at 10.9 percent Watsonville has the highest unemployment rate in Santa Cruz County, more than double the national average of 5.4 percent.

By opening the Kitchen Incubator, the CDC hoped to provide support for potential entrepreneurs, who would create new businesses and jobs to build on the strong food and farming traditions in the region.

The number of kitchen incubator programs, both nonprofit and for-profit, has grown enormously nationwide over the last decade, from virtually none to more than 200, due to booming demand from

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to $30 an hour, depending on their equipment and energy needs, which significantly lowers their start-up costs by tens of thousands of dollars by removing the need to rent or build their own kitchen.

The CDC also offers a 13-week technical assistance program to applicants, where they work with consultants to put together a business plan, figure out which federal entities will oversee their production, and obtain a ServSafe certification and the correct permits.

“That’s a big part of what we do,” explains Cesario Ruiz, who manages the Kitchen Incubator and works

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“foodpreneurs” and a call from consumers for local, fresh, artisanal products. As the CDC began to take concrete steps toward bringing a Kitchen Incubator to Watsonville, they worked closely with La Cocina Kitchen Incubator in San Francisco, operating since 2005, which follows a similar business model. Early reports on this new trending industry show that incubators that provide business training, as the Watsonville Incubator does, are much more likely to succeed by ensuring the success of their clients.

Carmen Herrera, executive director of the CDC, says business training is essential for many of the entrepreneurs they work with.

“People have a dream, and sometimes they have savings, and it’s very important to us that they don’t invest their time and savings in something that they don’t understand,” explains Herrera. “Our

clients don’t always know what kind of questions to ask, or what kind of due diligence is required to negotiate a business deal, and that’s the kind of thing we help people with. It takes so much effort before people are ready to apply for a loan, and to get a good interest rate, but the rate of success for people who receive this kind of assistance is much higher when they have received the kind of support we’ve offered to them, than when they haven’t.”

CULTURAL SHIFT Ruiz, who recently won a local NEXTie award for Entrepreneur of the Year, is one of these success stories. In 2013, with 17 years in the food industry under his belt, including five years at Gayle’s Bakery & Rosticceria in Capitola and five years as a manager at New Leaf Community Markets, he left to

mole business, and he started a week before the Kitchen Incubator opened.

He’s been there ever since, and says he’s inspired daily by the work he does helping other entrepreneurs.

“I love what I’m doing because I see a huge change in the food industry in the area, and I want to be a part of that future,” says Ruiz. “Yes, we hear bad news, sad news, coming out of Watsonville, but that’s not the only thing that’s happening. We have so many community leaders who are committed to changing the culture and changing what we’re doing for the good of the community. I’d much rather be a part of that and focus on that to continue changing that vision that most people from North County have about Watsonville.”

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launch his own product, My Mom’s Mole, a sustainably sourced mole powder based on his mother’s recipe.

After several fruitless weeks looking for a commercial kitchen, Ruiz was introduced to Herrera through a friend, who invited him to come look at the facility.

“When I come in here and she opened those doors, my jaw just dropped at how beautiful the kitchen was,” Ruiz says. “Everything was so shiny, sparkly, new ... unopened boxes of cooking equipment were everywhere. It took me about 10 minutes to recover.”

Ruiz confesses that Herrera was alarmed that he had quit his job to start his business, which is something they never initially recommend to the clients who visit the CDC. “I thought it was going to be easier,” admits Ruiz.

Herrera offered him a job on a parttime basis as manager of the facility while simultaneously running his

The Incubator was far from an instant success. Ruiz says that when the doors opened, they started with four or five clients, and it took about a year and a half to really get the word out about the new facility. Those they did take on, however, had been practically pounding on their door to get in. One such client was Vicente Quintana, who had been in desperate need of an affordable commercial kitchen in order to sustain his growing cactus business, El Nopalito Produce. Quintana was receiving his training from the CDC at the time, but without a commercial kitchen he wasn’t able to obtain any of the permits needed to legitimize his business. Although his product had been steadily gaining a client base, until the Kitchen Incubator opened everything had been under the table.

Ruiz translates for Quintana, who emigrated from Mexico and moved to Watsonville in 2009: “Technically, it wasn’t OK, but what was he going to do? He couldn’t go back to the fields, the work was too difficult for him, and he had a family to feed. That was the easiest solution at the moment. But once his competition saw him coming into the markets, they knew who he was and started to call the police on him. Every time he went to make a delivery, he would get pulled because the competition would call him out,” Ruiz says of Quintana’s struggle to get

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Quintana scraped by for eight months before finally moving into the facility as soon as it opened in 2013. Now, his business produces 7,000-8,000 pounds of cactus out of the Kitchen Incubator every week and supports six full-time employees.

His cactus—which is trimmed, peeled and cut by hand to preserve, as he says, “the integrity of the cactus”—is available in more than 30 markets from Salinas to the Bay Area.

Quintana admits that without the availability of the Kitchen Incubator as a resource, it’s likely that he wouldn’t have been able to reach this level of success. With the federal officials pursuing him, it was only a matter of time before he faced a huge violation write-up that would have prevented him from selling again.

Besides enabling him to support his family and employees, Ruiz adds that Quintana’s business has helped local cactus farmers, as well. “There is a cactus farmer in Los Banos who has six acres of cactus. This farmer used to take four or five cases of cactus to sell at farmers markets, and sometimes he’d have to return it all to the farm. Last year, Vicente bought all of his production, about a hundred cases a week, and it’s

generating a positive impact in that community,” Ruiz says. “So, you kind of see how the good intentions just keep rolling and affecting people in a positive way.”

It’s also clear from stories like Quintana’s why the Health Department is a big supporter of the Kitchen Incubator, and refers clients to them who are working under the table. “They love the facility and the way we take care of clients, because we’re trying to take businesses out of the shadows who are risking people’s health by producing in a way that they shouldn’t be producing,” says Ruiz.

COMMUNITY KITCHEN While the training entrepreneurs receive is key to the success of their fledgling businesses, participants in the program say that working in a shared facility has other benefits.

Newcomers Amanda Pargh and Chase Atkins, owners of Burn Hot Sauce, started working out of the Kitchen Incubator just a few months ago and were thrilled at the support they found from the other participants.

“It’s an honor to be in there because you’re surrounded by such good vibes. It’s not like you’re in

PACKING UP The next step for the Kitchen Incubator is to install co-packing services. Currently, all of the businesses operating out of the Kitchen are packaging by hand, which impedes their ability to expand. “For many of our clients, they have a great product and are showing amazing growth, but they won’t be able to support themselves full time unless they sell a lot more, and the only way to do that is to package differently,” explains Herrera. “We don’t want to start making businesses that are just going to go away because they want to expand, you know?”

Local farmers would also benefit from access to a facility that would allow them to make “value added” products like jams, sauces, and pickles from leftover produce and sell them at farmers markets instead of returning the unused produce to their fields.

Currently there are no co-packing facilities for small businesses in Santa Cruz County, and Herrera has heard of farmers exporting their co-packing out of state in order to find a more affordable option. “There are many people that will benefit from this and we’ll attract other people. It will create jobs, because the lines have to be managed by people that we’ll hire.

It’s a win-win for everybody,” says Herrera. The preliminary design for the co-packing facility is already in place, with plans to open in early fall.

Herrera’s experiences growing up helped to shape her belief in the long-term benefits of nurturing successful small businesses. Her mother and father opened a bakery in Mexico 53 years ago, which her sister runs today. “If my parents struggled at the beginning, they did very well later. Because of that business, everyone who wanted to was able to go to college,” says Herrera. “That’s also the vision that I have for our clients. Not only selfappointment, but that they’re able to build some assets for themselves, send their kids to college, buy a house … We have a quote that we sometimes say, ‘Believe in the transformational power of entrepreneurship.’ Because it does.”

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another hardcore kitchen where no one talks to each other; it’s a really good community,” says Atkins. “They are some of the most unique and inspiring people because they’ve been through it all—breaking the glass, flooding the kitchen …” “Everyone is willing to help each other. If you’re going through something, someone will say, ‘I just went through that.

Here’s what I did.’ It’s really nice,” adds Pargh.

Missy Woolstenhulme, who co-owns Kitchen Witch Bone Broth with partners Magali Brecke and Rhiannon Henry, says she shudders at the thought of where their business would be without the incubator, which they have been using for the past two years. The CDC agreed to let them bring in a large steam kettle, which takes up valuable kitchen space but has allowed them to greatly expand their business. “They have been instrumental in our growth in countless ways. Carmen has always been open to helping us grow by allowing us to purchase and bring in our own equipment and renting us more space when we have needed it,” says Woolstenhulme. “And Cesario is one of the most genuinely helpful and awesome human beings you can meet. He has always had advice to help us learn and grow into the food industry and when we have stumped him on a question, he goes looking for the answer.”

Kitchen Witch Bone Broth has gone from producing about 150 jars of their nutrient-rich broth every two weeks to nearly five times that every week since their early days at the Incubator. Says co-owner Henry, “Being in such a large facility has really given us the growing room we didn’t even know we would need.”

The value of the interpersonal resources at the Kitchen Incubator isn’t lost on Herrera, who says, “The facility is amazing, it’s beautiful, but at the end of the day the thing that makes the big difference from other commercial kitchens is the amount of support that people get when they’re accepted to the program. It happens formally, through our programs and assistance, but also organically when they share knowledge and ideas with each other. It’s a community.”

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ver the next four weeks, the Felix Kulpa Gallery will blur the lines between visual, musical, kinetic, and even culinary arts, as it hosts choreographer Cid Pearlman’s latest reimagining of the divide between performer and audience.

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“This is living art to me,” says gallery director Robbie Schoen. “It moves on its own.”

Pearlman has designed “Economies of Effort 3” to go beyond the typical notions of what a dance show can be.

“We’re even planning to make

soup,” says Pearlman, “So when dancers aren’t dancing, they may sit down and make soup.”

It’s all part of her larger creative philosophy, Pearlman says.

“I want the dances I make to show the complexity of the world and the people in it. It’s how we continue to

grow audiences for live performance.”

Her vision fits into a maker movement that encourages open access to art: “People want to know about the process and be in the same room with it,” says Pearlman.

“The closer they can get to us, the more permeable the membrane is,

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“People are falling and jumping. They’re swinging their limbs around. You’re within a fraction of an inch.” - ROBBIE SCHOEN to challenge the notion that dance is ephemeral.

“I want to make the labor of dance visible, and to question the idea that it’s more temporary and less tangible than other art forms.”

One of Pearlman’s dancers and collaborators, Collete Kollewe, says the audience will get to tour the performance the way they would tour a gallery, which will make the dancers’ movements more relatable.

“The objects we’re interacting with are extremely recognizable to the audience. They might not have a giant box in their house, or use a ladder the way we do,” she says.

“But up close, they can imagine what it’s like to move with these limited resources in this limited space. They get to walk through it.”

Fifteen dancers, ages 22 to 66, comprise “Economies of Effort 3.”

Pearl takes pride in the fact that their body types vary and their movement shifts all over the map between hard and soft, fast and slow, electric and deliberate.

She cites her background in punk rock and Aikido as fueling her creative and kinetic language.

“My work can have a darkness and thick physicality, but there’s also an inherent optimism to it,” she says. “I have a lot of faith in people, that given the right motivation and information, they’ll do the right thing.”

What has surprised her about collaborating with Schoen and the dancers at the Felix Kulpa Gallery is the endless opportunity to create micro-worlds of movement and meaning. What has surprised Schoen is the sheer joy of collaboration.

“It really turns me on,” he says.

“I’m doing things I’ve always wanted to do. It makes me want to get up early and move.”

7:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m., March 17-20, 24-27.

Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm St., Santa Cruz.

Reservations suggested; entry is limited to 35 people per performance. cidpearlman.org.

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so there’s not a fourth wall. They’re with us.”

And they will get close, Schoen says. “People are falling and jumping. They’re swinging their limbs around. You’re within a fraction of an inch.”

Schoen and Pearlman have collaborated in the past, working together on “Economies of Effort 1,” and he’s thrilled to continue the conversation they began then about creativity and agency. In a slightly ironic nod to the name, “Economies of Effort 3” is free, although audience members are encouraged to reserve a space in advance, as the gallery can only accommodate 35 guests at a time.

“I’ve always been interested in interdisciplinary work,” says Pearlman. “In building that first piece, dancers basically created their own worlds, so we had control over the lighting, props and sound throughout. We were able to be creative and self-sufficient.”

The results can be seen in photographs from past shows covering the gallery walls, where the choreography included dancers constructing their own staging with power tools.

Using the Felix Kulpa’s indoor and outdoor sculptures (which include a converted telephone booth and junked television sets), Pearlman says, was a natural next step.

“I wanted to do something immersive and site-specific this time, as well as something really accessible to the audience. We’ve spent the last two months in the gallery creating micro-spaces throughout, so they’ll be able to move around inside and outside,” says Pearlman. “There will be more than one thing going on at any one time. [The audience] will have the freedom to choose their own path.”

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CAST OF THOUSANDS Ann Morhauser of Annieglass next to one of 30 kilns at her studio in Watsonville. PHOTO: GIGI GOLDEEN

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wo decades after founding the Annieglass house of designer glass tableware, Ann Morhauser still shapes every facet of her business.

A quick tour of her fabrication studio/plant in Watsonville renews my appreciation for Morhauser’s attention to both craft and detail.

From sheets of architectural glass— delivered in two-ton batches—the future-bowls and plates are cut into manageable sizes, then cut again by hand or by water jet pressure into Morhauser’s various custom shapes.

Before heading into the main production room for heating, the cut-glass pieces are beveled smooth to make them chip-resistant. After careful washing, each piece moves into the next room, where skilled

artisans hand-paint platinum and 24-karat gold onto the edges.

The best-selling items? “The ripply glass,” Morhauser reveals.

“It’s especially popular in the South and the Northeast. Santa Cruz loves the aquatic theme, the bluegreen glass lines.” She nods toward towering racks of teal glass shaped into shells, waves and even dolphins.

Morhauser bought the huge industrial building in 1996, filled it with racks, work tables, precision computer-regulated equipment, and 30 electric ovens. The production is housed under a single high ceiling, and one of the new line of Edgey ruffled bowls can begin life as a sheet of glass, be cut, detailed, gilded, then slumped and fired, detailed a final time, packed, and

shipped just by moving through a series of adjoining rooms. “We used to be busy primarily in the first and fourth quarters,” Morhauser tells me as we continue through tall racks of shimmering glass pieces. “Now it’s year-round.”

About 200 to 300 pieces are shipped out each day. Morhauser runs her hand along a two-foot green glass leaf, part of an upcoming line that needs more fine-tuning. “We change the product every three months,” she says.

Morhauser’s team helps manage her glass empire. “Eighteen people work on the glass here, and there’s a national sales manager, 60 road reps and six major showrooms in L.A., Vegas, Dallas, Seattle, New York, and Atlanta—our biggest

wholesale site,” she says.

“I make the clay molds myself,” Morhauser says, patting the cast of an oblong serving dish. Masters are then made from the molds. The cut and gilded glass piece will be placed on the master mold, then fired until the flat glass “slumps,” relaxing into the desired curved shape. Giant clam shells? Who uses these? I wonder out loud. “The Marriott see-through buffet uses these,” she calls back over her shoulder, leopard-print heels clicking toward the packing tables. Packing is crucial, she says: “It doesn’t matter how much work goes into a piece—if it isn’t packed well, it can be ruined.”

Annieglass’ biggest account?

“Bloomingdale’s online is our biggest single account. Then Nieman, and Gumps. We’re in most of the big stores,” she says. And the Smithsonian.

A New Jersey native, Morhauser came west for college. “My oldest brother was out here. I was always into art,” she says. It was a raku party at Waddell Beach that ignited Morhauser’s destiny. “Somebody showed up with a propane glass furnace and that was that,” she remembers. At San Francisco State, “we had to learn to build furnaces— anything to do with it fascinated me,” she says. At Cal Arts & Crafts, she did glass blowing.

In Santa Cruz, she got a studio and finally her first employee. “Santa Cruz Glass Company gave me their scrap glass,” she says. Morhauser went from museum shops to trade shows. “I marketed my own product for a long time. It was all men in those days, and they wouldn’t let me in,” she says. She persisted, learned retail, and Annieglass was born in July 1989. “I knew it was working when I had a big story in the New York Times. It was a total thrill,” she says, her eyes gleaming.

“I’m still an entrepreneur,” she says. “I make most of the prototypes, new ones twice a year. It all has to work, I have to test every phase of it—that’s my primary job.”

There are so many technical issues, she says, scrutinizing a shimmering bowl the size of a wading pool. And yes, she does dine on Annieglass plates. annieglass.com.

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BE DIVA OR NOT Left to right: Diana Torres Koss as Manny, Jennifer Mitchell as Sophie and Patty Gallagher as

Maria Callas in ‘Master Class.’ PHOTO: STEVE DIBARTOLOMEO

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An opera icon battles her students in Jewel Theatre’s vibrant and surprising ‘Master Class’ BY LISA JENSEN students. But fear not; it doesn’t matter if your Italian is a little rusty.

Callas herself—beautifully played con brio by Patty Gallagher—is onstage throughout to talk us through the passion conveyed in the words. And the way these words reflect the deep passions of La Callas’ life, gradually revealed in brief moving monologues, drives the drama forward.

The production is impressively directed by Susan Myer Silton as a chamber piece for five: Callas, three of her nervous, starstruck voice students, and her piano accompanist (the ever-reliable Diana Torres Koss)—or six, if you count a couple of comic appearances by a surly stagehand (Lucas Brandt). The action takes place over real time, with Mark Hopkins’ minimal set of

wood-grain panels suggesting an academic lecture hall.

Into this low-key milieu strides Gallagher’s imperious, larger-thanlife Callas, exuding wry wit, banked fire, and disingenuous modesty. (“We are not here to talk about me,” she reminds us constantly.) From her very first entrance, she takes the audience into her confidence, addressing us throughout the play as if we were all students in the lecture hall auditing her class. She dispenses random advice (“Get a look!” she exhorts us, or “Don’t act.

Feel!”), and provides often waspish commentary on the students brave enough to meet her onstage.

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ven if you don’t think you understand or like opera, you might find yourself drawn into the lush world of Master Class, a sharply observed drama about opera and life that’s the third offering from Jewel Theatre Company in its new home at the Tannery’s Colligan Theater. Written in 1995 by Terrence McNally, the play imagines a voice class conducted by iconic diva Maria Callas during her tenure as guest lecturer at the Juilliard School in New York City in 1971-72.

Yes, a few snippets of operatic arias are sung during the course of the play, seeded in for maximum effect at crucial emotional moments, and delivered by a cast of excellent singers in the roles of Callas’ Juilliard

for Lady Macbeth from Verdi’s Macbeth—as soon as La Callas finally allows her to proceed past the opening syllable, “O …” The next soprano, Sharon (Aubrey Scarr) is so cowed by Callas’ criticism that she flees the stage. Handsome tenor Tony (Mete Tasin) is chastised for wanting to be famous. But his impassioned delivery of a love aria from Tosca leaves Callas speechless— and mesmerizes the audience.

In counterpoint to these studentteacher dynamics, and the namedropping reminiscences of her famous life “in the war” or “at La Scala” with which Callas regales the auditorium, another theme creeps in: Callas’ life as an artist and a woman, and the struggles and sacrifices she’s endured to follow her art. Twice in the course of the play, the action onstage fades into the background, and the voice of the real-life Callas, recorded live in concert, flows through the speakers.

In these moments, the play’s Callas, driven to emotional peaks and valleys by the music she’s known so well, relives in monologue the moments of her greatest triumphs and tragedies, onstage and off. When Sharon at last musters the grit to return and sing another aria for Verdi’s Lady Macbeth—in which she convinces her husband to murder the old king—it’s the catalyst for Callas’ most heartrending memory.

Onstage “students” Mitchell, Scarr, and Tasin are all veteran performers with credits from the Bay Area to New York City to Europe, and their singing fills the Colligan stage to gorgeous effect.

And kudos to Hopkins’ lighting design, recreating (among other things) an impressionistic view of La Scala from the stage, and a rain of giant white roses during Callas’ monologues.

McNally’s vibrant play is itself something of a master class in stage writing (it won a Tony), and pursuing a life in the arts. And this JTC production delivers it with verve.

The Jewel Theatre Company production of ‘Master Class’ plays through April 3 at the Colligan Theater, Tannery Arts Center.

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GROWL PLAY Greg Brown performs at the Rio on Saturday, March 19.

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sk Greg Brown what he’s been doing the last few years and you’ll likely get a few mumbled words about how he’s old and tired and worn out. Though not particularly old, the 66-year-old singer-songwriter is one of the elder statesmen of contemporary folk music, having laid down a lot of songs, years and miles. These days though, he’s happy to have more time to relax at home.

“I’m just sitting around, looking at the sky,” he says, explaining that he’s looking forward to some spring fishing in his favorite streams. “I go and do gigs, but not nearly as many as I used to.”

When asked if he picks up his

guitar very often, Brown perks up.

“Oh yeah,” he says, “I’m still writing songs. I’ll probably do another CD here before too long.”

Such is the life of Greg Brown—a weary traveler with little tolerance for bullshit, who also happens to be one of the most talented songwriters of our time. Beneath his gruff disposition lies a tender heart and a keen ability to tap into the universal through tales of everyday life and simple pleasures like fishing, love and old friends.

In concert, Brown sits on stage, looking and sounding like a big, ornery bear, telling stories and jokes.

He’ll then launch into a song full of such emotional insight that eyes well up in the audience. Then the tune

ends and the bear resurfaces.

In his song “The Poet Game,” from the album of the same name, he explores the beauty and struggle of the poet’s life, spent crafting tales about the sadness, joy and the beauty of it all. In one verse, he references his grandparents’ young courtship singing, “She’d been cooking, ashamed and feeling sad / she could only offer him bread and her name / Grandpa said that was the best gift a fella ever had / and he taught me the poet game.”

On “Kate’s Guitar,” a song that pays tribute to the late Kate Wolf, Brown captures the gentle, enduring strength of the legendary songwriter and gives a nod to Wolf’s friend and collaborator, Nina Gerber, who now plays Wolf’s

guitar: “I know why we live, I know why we die / I know why we laugh, I know why we cry / But I don’t know how this color of sky invites the evening star / I don’t know how such peacefulness found a home in Kate’s guitar.”

Brown has more than 30 albums to his name now, but he didn’t buy in easily to the idea of a music career.

He gave it a shot in his late teens, but the business didn’t agree with him.

“I got into it for a while,” he says, “then I thought, ‘man, I don’t really care for this stuff’—8x10 glossies and all that—so I quit for four or five years.”

Music and writing run deep in Brown’s family, though. His grandfather and mother were both musicians, and his father was a Pentecostal minister. Despite his best efforts, the urge to write songs and play guitar was strong, so he returned to the musician’s life.

“I wanted to be a lawyer,” he says with a laugh, “but I was forced by circumstance to become a singer-songwriter.”

These days, Brown is still surrounded by music. He and his wife, singer-songwriter Iris DeMent, play music together at home—and when his daughters, including celebrated singer-songwriter Pieta Brown, are around, they’ll join in, too.

A favorite of local audiences, Brown has been performing in Santa Cruz for decades. On March 19, he plays the Rio Theatre, joined by singer-songwriter Karen Savoca and guitarist Peter Heitzman, two old friends Brown regularly performed with in the ’90s.

When asked if he has any advice for young singer-songwriters considering a career in music, Brown simply says, “Run.” True to form, however, his growl is followed by warm insight.

“If you can find something that you really love to do, and that feels natural to you, and you feel like you’re putting something good out, stick to it as far as you can,” he says.

“We’re not here long and if you can find something that really fills you up, just hang on to it.”

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SAVE OUR SHORES BEACH CLEANUP WOLF School and Save Our Shores have teamed up to double their efforts in reaching California youth and educating them about marine stewardship and advocacy. WOLF School is a nonprofit organization providing educational outdoor science camp to 3,500 students each year.

Free calendar listings in print and online are available for community events. Listings show up online within 24 hours. Submissions of free events and those $15 or less received by Thursday at noon, six days prior to the Good Times publication date, will be prioritized for print (space available). All listings must specify a day, start time, location and price (or ‘free’ if applicable). Listings can be set to repeat every week or month, and can be edited by the poster as needed. Ongoing events must be updated quarterly. It is the responsibility of the person submitting an event to cancel or modify the listing. Register at our website at santacruz.com in order to SUBMIT EVENTS ONLINE. E-mail calendar@goodtimes.sc or call 458.1100 with any questions.

WEDNESDAY 3/16 ARTS SHADES OF BLUE Celebrate the cool blue feelings of winter in our first show of 2016.

This is our annual juried show with cash prizes. Come see who wins. Gallery open Wednesdays through Sundays, Noon-5 p.m.

SC Mountains Art Center, 9341 Mill St., Ben Lomond. 336-3513. Free.

Their new partnership will incorporate three Save Our Shores beach cleanups into the fifth and sixth grade student programs at Natural Bridges State Beach with students from San Jose, Aptos and Carmichael. They’ll be leading beach clean ups on March 17 and 23. Info: 10-11 a.m. March 17 & 23, Natural Bridges State Beach. wolfschool.org. Free

TRANSFORMING DISCOMFORT In this five-week session, we will present a systematic approach to acknowledging challenging energies in a safe, supportive atmosphere. All levels of practice are welcome. 6:30-8 p.m. Insight Santa Cruz, 1010 Fair Ave., Suite C, Santa Cruz. hyman@ earthlink.net.

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CLASSES SALSA RUEDA CLASSES Cuban-style dance at the Tannery. Introductory and beginning classes 7-8 p.m. Intermediate and advanced classes 8-9 pm. 7-9 p.m. Tannery 1060 River St., Suite #111, Santa Cruz.

Cesario, Danny, Gilberto. $7/$5.

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This month is International Women’s History Month, so you can take the whole month to learn about the incredible contributions to history that women from all backgrounds have made to our nation’s (and world’s) history. In celebration of this month’s theme, Girls Inc. is presenting an exhibit on the first floor of the County Building describing their services and programs. Their mission is to inspire young females to be strong, bold and smart and respect themselves.

Their programs are facilitated by teens, for teens, as a model for leadership that teaches them practical skills and reaches a broad spectrum of girls.

Info: Exhibit runs through March 30.

Santa Cruz County Building, 701 Ocean St., Santa Cruz.

BATERIA SAMBA CRUZ Come learn to play drums and the carnival rhythms of Brazil.

All levels. Instruments provided. 6-7 p.m.

Tannery Arts Center, 1060 River St., #104, Santa Cruz. Joe Mailloux, 435-6813. $7.

BEGINNING BALLET WITH DIANA ROSE An introduction to ballet technique with a focus on posture, balance and strength building.

Noon-1:15 p.m. International Academy of Dance Santa Cruz. info@iadance.com. $10.

ORGASMIC BLISS: MEN'S SEXUAL PLEASURE 101 Expand your erotic landscape with tips, tricks, and techniques to skillfully understand and please your man.

7-9 p.m. Pure Pleasure, 204 Church St. Santa Cruz. 466-9870. $25/$20.

TRIPLE P SEMINAR: GETTING TEENS CONNECTED 6-8 p.m. Mission Hill Middle School, 425 King St., Santa Cruz. first5scc. org/seminar-getting-teens-connected-9. Free.

VINYASA FLOW Join Michelle for this fun, exploratory vinyasa flow class. We warm

WEDNESDAY 3/16 HAVEN OF HOPE FUNDRAISER AT NEW BOHEMIA Haven of Hope is a national nonprofit that provides families with supervision and therapeutic services in order to prepare children for the transition to non-institutional care in foster homes, adoptive homes, or a family home. With Haven of Hope, children can enter a safe, nurturing, structured, 24-hour care environment during a difficult and emotionally stressful time. This Wednesday, March 16, New Bohemia Brewery Co. in Santa Cruz hosts a fundraiser featuring Time Sincere and the Wallflowers and Zameen food truck with 10 percent of all proceeds benefitting the nonprofit.

Info: 4-9 p.m., New Bohemia Brewery Co., 1030 41st Ave., Santa Cruz. havenofhopehomes.org. Free.

the body with rhythmic movement then go deeper into our peak poses. Some experience with yoga is recommended. 9-10:30 a.m.

Santa Cruz Yoga, 402 Ingalls St., Santa Cruz. michellenak2@gmail.com. $15/$9.

PRENATAL YOGA TEACHER TRAINING 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mount Madonna Institute, 445 Summit Road Watsonville. mountmadonnainstitute.org/yoga/prenatal. html. $575.

GROUPS OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS OA is a 12-Step support group for those who wish to stop compulsive eating. 10:30-11:30 a.m. Trinity Presbyterian Church, Youth Room, 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. Nate, santacruzoa.org/meetings or 429-7906. Free SPRING TEA BENEFIT FOR SENIORS COUNCIL Enjoy a relaxing cup of tea while

CALENDAR learning about Seniors Council, a nonprofit whose mission is to enable older persons to function with independence and dignity.

Noon-2 p.m. New Leaf Community Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleaf.com/ events. $3 donation.

HEALTH QI GONG FOR ENERGY BALANCE & HEALTH

BY BREIGE WALBRIDGE Qi Gong is a fantastic and easy practice that brings physical happiness and mental calm. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel.

462-8383. Donation.

ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP This drop-in group for caregivers for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia. No preregistration is needed. 5:30-7 p.m. Live Oak Senior Center Conference Room. mkaminski@alz.org or 800-272-3900. Free.

TAI JI & CHI GONG CLASS Exercise creates an overall balance between body, mind and spirit. Benefits include improved health, vitality, strength, and flexibility. First class is free. 10-11:15 a.m. Inner Light Center, in the Social Hall, 5630 Soquel Drive, Soquel.

AwakeningChi.org. Linda Gerson. $10.

MUSIC WESTERN WEDNESDAYS FEATURING HOOT AND HOLLER AND THE ABBOTT BROTHERS This week's Western Wednesday is featuring Hoot and Hoot and Holler and the Abbott Brothers. 9 p.m.-Midnight The Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. abbottbrothers.com $8/$7 with cowboy boots.

BEHIND THE SCENES: SANTA CRUZ WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY Join the Coastal Watershed Council to go behind the scenes and learn how this “Best in this State” facility manages your waste. For ages 10 and up. 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. 110 California St., Santa Cruz. RSVP by calling 464-9200.

Coastal Watershed Council, abilginsoy@ coastal-watershed.org. Free.

THURSDAY 3/17 ARTS RUMI ON STAGE It uses the full range of theatrical arts and local artists to create a point of entry into the mythical

COMMUNITY POETRY CIRCLE Join the circle and write a poem in a supportive and creative environment. All ages and levels of poets are welcomed. Facilitated by Magdalena Montagne. 6-7:30 p.m. Watsonville Public Library, 275 Main St., Suite 100, Watsonville. magdarose@hughes.net. Free.

CLASSES SALSA DANCING CUBAN-STYLE This class is for intermediate dancers and features Cuban casino partnering, salsa suelta and great Cuban music. 7-8 p.m.

Louden Nelson Center, Santa Cruz. salsagente.com or 426-4724. $9/$5.

SALSA RUEDA SERIES BEGINNER 2 A fun four-week Rueda de Casino series for Beginner 2 and up. No partner required.

Need to know the basics in Rueda such as Guapea, dame, enchufla doble, el uno, sombrero and setenta. 8-9 p.m. Louden Nelson Community, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. 420-6177. $34.

BEGINNING BALLET WITH DIANA ROSE An introduction to ballet technique with a focus on posture, balance and strength building. Noon-1:15 p.m. International Academy of Dance Santa Cruz. info@ iadance.com. $10.

IMPROVING CHILDREN’S NUTRITION & PHYSICAL ACTIVITY THROUGH POSITIVE PARENTING This is a free parenting support group to provide strategies to increase children’s healthy eating and physical activity.

6-8 p.m. Dominican Rehabilitation Center, First Floor Conference Room, 610 Frederick St., Santa Cruz. 227-4145 or first5scc.org/ calendar/parent?trainings. Free.

TRIPLE P SEMINAR: GETTING TEENS CONNECTED 1-2:30 p.m. Mission Hill Middle School, 425 King St., Santa Cruz. first5scc. org. Free.

VINYASA FLOW Join Michelle for this fun, exploratory vinyasa flow class. We warm the body with rhythmic movement then go deeper into our peak poses. Some experience with yoga is recommended. 7:15-8:15 p.m.

Santa Cruz Yoga, 402 Ingalls St., Santa Cruz. michellenak2@gmail.com. $15/$9.

FRIDAY 3/18 ARTIVISM AT THE MAH Art and activism have long worked hand-in-hand. Art has the power to spread political messages to the masses, and activism, in turn, to bring people together. That’s why this Friday, March 18, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is back with their Friday festival “Artivism.” It’s a blending of art and activism co-created by the museum’s Teen Program Subjects to Change to appeal to all ages. Make decorations for the Queer Youth Task Force, share spoken word poems alongside poets and singers in the Most Open Mic, get hands-on with workshops and demonstrations and talk about the issues with local African-American artists.

Info: 6-9 p.m., Museum of Art & History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. $3-$5.

AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT Come explore Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Classes. These engaging classes will heighten your vitality as they increase your self-awareness and flexibility.

Pre-registration required. 5:30 p.m. Pacific Cultural Center, 1307 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz. 426-8893. Free.

FOOD & WINE THIRSTY THURSDAY: BEER AND CIDER TASTING New Leaf is now hosting a monthly, tasting featuring microbrew beer, local up-and-coming ales, or a new craft cider. This week: Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing will pour their Dread Brown Ale and Lavender IPA, and Santa Cruz Scrumpy will pour their dry cider. 5-7 p.m. New Leaf Community Market, 1011 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleaf.com/events. Free.

HEALTH ENTRE NOSOTRAS GRUPO DE APOYO Open to Spanish speaking women with all types of cancer from diagnosis through treatment and the healing process. Meets every first and third Thursday of the month.

Call to register. 6-8 p.m. Entre Nosotras, Watsonville. 761-3973. Free.

OUTDOORS ST. PATRICK’S DAY SUN STREET CENTERS CARWASH Join us at McShane’s Nursery & Landscape Supply for our annual St. Patrick’s Day carwash in collaboration with Sun Street Centers. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

McShane’s Nursery & Landscape Supply, 115 Monterey Salinas Hwy, Salinas. sp@ mcshanesnursery.com.

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world that Rumi still evokes, some eight centuries after his death. 8 a.m.-10 p.m.

Center Stage; 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. suzansturn@sbcglobal.net. facebook.com/ events/964464920268546/ or tickets at brownpapertickets.com/event/2491252. $20.

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Strictly Watercolor - Central Coast Artists ($500 Awards) Mar. 25 - Apr. 17, 2016 • Reception: Apr. 2, Saturday, 3-5pm

Awards will be chosen by Jane R. Hofstetter, award winning watercolor artist, teacher, Santa Clara Valley Watercolor Society and author of “7 Keys to Great Paintings” New Ongoing Classes and Weekend Workshops • Call (831) 426-5787 or www.scal.org 526 Broadway Santa Cruz, CA 95060 (831) 426-5787 Wed-Sat. 12-5/Sun.12-4 1st Fri. 12-9pm

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SATURDAY 3/19 Between 1907 and 1915, Norwegian photographer Ole Ravnos operated a photography studio in Capitola. Ravnos captured some of the best images of Capitola during that era and this Saturday, March 19, visitors are invited to step back in history and into the old Italian fishing village, Glen Beulah picnic grounds, and more. Ravnos was one of the first local photojournalists and operated Ravnos Photos and Art on Pacific Avenue with his wife, Amelia. What came together after years of culling museums, libraries and private collections has amassed to become the very first museum exhibition devoted to this early 20th century photographer.

Info: 2 p.m., Capitola Historical Museum, 410 Capitola Ave., Capitola. capitolamuseum.org. Free.

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THE REVEREND BILLY AT UCSC Legendary performance artist and eco/anticonsumerism activist Reverend Billy will be in Santa Cruz on Monday, April 18 for two public events at UCSC promoting his new City Lights book and album The Earth Wants YOU. Noon-5 p.m. Media Theater, University of California, Santa Cruz. Stacey Lewis. Free.

THIRD FRIDAY: ARTIVISM Discover creative resources that inspire people of all ages to make a difference in Santa Cruz County. Listen to local youth poets and hip-hop duos perform.

Chat with local African-American artists about their work. 6-9 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. 429-1964. $5/$3/Free.

COMMUNITY DRUMMING WITH JIM GREINER IN SOQUEL Jim Greiner conducts a community drumming session.

All ages and all levels of experience welcome. Jim provided the instruments and instruction, and bring your own favorites.

7-8:30 p.m. Inner Light Ministries, 5630 Soquel Drive, Soquel. Jim Greiner 4623786, jgreiner@handsondrum.com or SantaCruzDrumLessons.com. $10.

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CRAIG HARWOOD AT SCOTTS VALLEY LIBRARY Join the author of Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West as he paints a picture of Montgomery, a prolific scientific inventor and aviation pioneer at the end of the 19th century. Montgomery single-handedly solved the problem of human-controlled flight and was the unofficial dean for a community of California aviation pioneers—and all in Santa Cruz County. Local history fans are invited to meet biographer Harwood, also an engineering geologist, at the Scotts Valley Library.

Harwood’s book won the Regional Literature Award and received honorable mention in the 2013 San Francisco Book Festival.

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ARTS SOULFUL LIVING ARTS FAIR 38-plus exhibits and free lectures for the mind, body and soul. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Community of Infinite Spirit, 1540 Hicks Ave., San Jose.

Christine Emmerling. Free.

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FREE MASTER GARDENERS WORKSHOP: SPRING & SUMMER VEGETABLE GARDENING Learn all about starting a vegetable garden from the seeds up. Learn what type of vegetables to plant, when to plant them, and how to care for them. 1:30-3:30 p.m. McShane’s Nursery & Landscape Supply, 115 Monterey Salinas Hwy., Salinas. mcshanesnursery.com or sp@mcshanesnursery.com. Free.

MASTERING STRAW BALE GARDENING WORKSHOP Whether you want perfect tomatoes but only have a cement patio for a garden, or you want to easily get rid of a lawn and feed the family, straw bale gardens get you great results.

Reservation required. 11 a.m.-Noon. 1900B Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. General Feed & Seed 476-5344. Free.

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APTOS FARMERS MARKET AT CABRILLO COLLEGE Voted Good Times best farmers market in Santa Cruz County. With more than 90 vendors, the Aptos Farmers Market offers an unmatched selection of locally grown produce and specialty foods. 8 a.m.-Noon.

Cabrillo College. montereybayfarmers.org or akeller@montereybayfarmers.org. Free.

LESBIAN HAPPY HOUR Join us at Tampico Kitchen & Lounge for liter margaritas, $17, and full nachos con todo $9 special. Everyone welcome. 3-6 p.m. Tampico’s Kitchen & Lounge, 822 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz.

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MUSIC PROJECT POLLINATE VERNAL EQUINOX COMMUNITY FESTIVAL AND ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY The Vernal Equinox Community Music Festival is an educational family event. The event will include five hours of music by local musicians, bands and DJs while showcasing nonprofit organizations and businesses dedicated to serving the community. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. 137 Dakota St., Santa Cruz. projectpollinate. org. Dru Glover. Free.

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PACIFIC CREST APIARIES SPRING FESTIVAL AND EASTER EGG HUNT Please join us for our annual Celebration of Spring and Easter Egg Hunt. Join us atop the sunkissed Santa Cruz mountains at our family honey farm for a fun day of games and crafts. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Pacific Crest Apiaries,

875 Calabasas Road, Watsonville. info@ pacificcrestapiaries.com. Free.

SPIRITUAL SPRING EQUINOX PICNIC W/ COMMUNITY SEED EARTH SPIRIT FELLOWSHIP Come celebrate the beginnings of Spring with your local Pagan Earth-Spirit Fellowship with a potluck picnic and games. Noon-3 p.m. George Washington Grove, DeLaveaga Park. Communityseed.org or espi@communityseed.org. Free.

VOLUNTEER REPAIR CAFE Habitat for Humanity and Grey Bears will be holding our next Repair Cafe.

Bring your damaged items to the Repair Cafe and work with our volunteers to fix them or learn how to fix them. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. John Scally Volunteer@habitatsc.org. Free/Donations.

SUNDAY 3/20 MUSIC THE PICASSO ENSEMBLE PERFORMS AT THE SESNON HOUSE Musical highlights from the program include two premiers for the Picasso Ensemble by San Francisco Bay Area composer D’Arcy Reynolds (“Five Preludes”), and New York City composer Valerie Capers (excerpts from “Ruby”). 3-5 p.m. Sesnon House, Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. cabrillovapa.com/ tickets $15/$8/$7.

THE SANTA CRUZ CHORALE IN CONCERT WITH THE SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY CHORALIERS The Santa Cruz Chorale is thrilled to welcome the SJSU Choraliers, known for their exquisite blend and masterful musicianship, conducted by Jeffrey Benson.

4-5 p.m. Holy Cross Church, 123 High St., Santa Cruz. Get tickets at santacruzchorale. org/tickets or 427-8023. $25/$20/$5.

JAZZ FOR FREEDOM CONCERT SERIES—DR. LOCO & FRIENDS This jazz performance will be a tribute to John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and Stanley Turrentine. The focus of this event is to bring awareness to the issue of mass incarceration in our criminal justice system. 3-5 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. RSVP at facebook.com/ events/569635019878488. Mandy 4578208. Free/Donations.

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SUNDAY 3/20 HEART+HANDS FUNDRAISER WITH EXTRA LARGE Move to the groove at Elks Lodge for a good cause? Now that sounds like a way to spend a Sunday evening. This Sunday, March 30, Heart+Hands invites the community to partake in a dance extravaganza hosted by Santa Cruz favorite, Extra Large. Camp Heart+Hands is a new program from Jacob’s Heart which provides a free camp to children with cancer and their families for a weekend to escape the stresses they deal with on a daily basis. This fundraising event will feature a raffle drawing, balloon walk to win prizes, a wine vault, face painting, a surfing magician, and other family friendly activities. Camp Heart+Hands will take place May 20-22 at Ponderosa in Mount Hermon.

Info: 1-6 p.m., Elks Lodge, 150 Jewell St., Santa Cruz. eventbrite.com. gofundme.com/ d37dcsyw. $20.

MONDAY 3/ 21 OUTDOORS

SPIRITUAL THE FOUNDATION OF ALL GOOD QUALITIES In these classes, Yogi Master Je Tsongkhapa explains a four-page poem he wrote on the stages called The Foundation of All Good Qualities. 7-9 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha 5800 Prescott Road Soquel. office@landofmedicinebuddha.org or landofmedicinebuddha.org. $10/Donation.

ALZHEIMER’S AND DEMENTIA CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP This dropin group for caregivers of people with earlystage memory loss meets every second and fourth Monday of the month, excluding holidays. 2-3:30 p.m. Live Oak Senior Center

TUESDAY 3/22 ARTS WILLING SUSPENSION ARMCHAIR THEATER PRESENTS “LETTERS FROM AND TO GROUCHO MARX” Discover a facet of Groucho’s comedic brilliance and intelligence through these irreverent personal letters to and from his friends, colleagues and entertainment honchos of his time. 7-8 p.m. Santa Cruz Public Library, Aptos Branch. Jaye Wolfe: wolfejaye@ yahoo.com or Karen Schamberg: gillprops@ comcast.net. Free/donations.

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MUSIC SHERRY AUSTIN WITH HENHOUSE Gritty folk with a bit of twang, Henhouse delights fans with a blend of folk, country and rock. Familyfriendly venue. 6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant and Inn, 1 Davenport Ave., Davenport. davenportroadhouse.com. Free.

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GREENWOOD ARTS FOR ALL AGES Immerse yourself in the beauty of nature through song, circle dance, and free-form movement. No previous experience needed.

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Last year’s Say Love isn’t local band Coastal Sage’s debut album—but then again, it kind of is. They released their debut in 2010, but the lineup has changed since then, and they only play a couple of tunes off that first record. Say Love represents their sound now, and is a great introduction to the group because it covers all of the different styles they play.

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“Take a song like ‘Woody,’” says guitarist Colin Gailey. “It starts off with something that is almost reminiscent of a pure, traditional kind of funk. Then it progresses into an almost hip-hop middle section, then flows into this whole Latin feel at the end. Other songs are more simplistic and rooted in reggae the whole time.”

Gailey has known brothers Lu (bass) and Nick (drums) Disalvo for a long time, and has played in various groups with them for the past 15 years. Gailey explains that the Disalvo brothers bring the reggae influences into the group, while he is more a rock guy.

The glue that holds it together is their mutual love for funk.

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We all have deep love for that style of music. We’ve been listening to it for such a long time, it naturally bleeds out of us,” Gailey says. AARON CARNES INFO: 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 17.

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HOOT & HOLLER Boston duo Hoot and Holler plays Americana music right at the intersection of technique and tradition. The duo, which includes Mark Kilianski on acoustic guitar and vocals and Amy Alvey on fiddle and vocals, both studied at the famous Berklee College of Music in Boston, but they both also got immersed in the local traditional folk and bluegrass scene, where a college degree was not a prerequisite—and they thrived in both arenas.

Hoot and Holler is the result of their work in these two worlds, a group at once earthy and raw, but also skilled and polished. AARON CARNES INFO: 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.

THURSDAY 3/17 CELTIC

MOLLY’S REVENGE If you want to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with high-energy Celtic music,

Irish dancing, and corned beef and cabbage, Molly’s Revenge has got you covered. A California-based Celtic trio comprising David Brewer on bagpipes, border pipes, uilleann pipes, whistles, and bodhran, John Weed on fiddle, and Stuart Mason on guitar and mandola, Molly’s Revenge is a long-running, fun-loving act and a favorite of local audiences. On Thursday, the band celebrates its 16th anniversary. CAT JOHNSON INFO: 7:30 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $17/adv, $20/door. 335-2800.

HIP-HOP

KRS-ONE Once again it’s the stylistic return of the original BOOM-BAP! KRSOne (an acronym for Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody) is one of the true hiphop O.G.s, launching Boogie Down Productions with DJ Scott La Rock on 1987’s game changer, Criminal Minded. Since then, KRS-One has solidified his place in hip-hop’s Hall of Fame with his intelligent, outspoken and often controversial lyrics. Unforgiving and always

down to drop knowledge on whoever is near, KRS-One has become more of a cultural icon than a musician; someone who embodies the original power of hip-hop as a mechanism for changing society, instead of just another way to sell corporate goods. MAT WEIR INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst Atrium, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $25/door. 429-4135.

INDIE

GUNGOR Gungor is more a project than a band. Led by husband and wife Michael and Lisa Gungor, and working with a rotating cast of musicians, Gungor has produced some slick, powerful, emotive indie-folk and power-pop tunes. This tour finds them in the middle of what is an extremely ambitious vision: they are releasing three thematically linked records over the course of 12 months. Last August, they released the first, One Wild Life: Soul, which did well. The next two—Spirit and Body—are coming soon. As the names suggest, the records are all spiritual, and often come from a

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Christian faith-based perspective, though the couple doesn’t want to be labeled a “Christian band.” AC

FRIDAY 3/18

INFO: 8 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $25/gen, $100/gold. 423-8209.

ORGÓNE

BHANGRA

RED BARAAT

INFO: 8:30 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $15/adv, $20/door. 479-1854.

Purveyors of California soul, the Los Angeles-based Orgóne draws inspiration from 1960s and ’70s funk, with its tight horns and irresistible grooves.

With obvious appreciation for hip-hop, jazz, Afro-beat, blues, electronica and more, the ensemble helped usher in the funk revival of the mid-aughts and has been at it since. As backing band for numerous hip-hop acts, Orgóne established its place in the .LA. scene as a multi-faceted, in-demand outfit, and the band has now taken its funky sound around the world. CJ INFO: 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $25/door. 479-1854.

MONDAY 3/21 KRAUTROCK

FAUST Formed in Germany in 1971, Faust is a pillar of the Krautrock genre. Masterfully weaving ambient, industrial, rock, improvisation, and experimen-

INFO: 8 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $20. 335-2800.

TUESDAY 3/22 METAL

BLACK TUSK The past year has been one of mixed emotions for Black Tusk fans. The sludge-metal group formed in Savannah, Georgia in 2005 and quickly grew a steady underground following. Tragically, at the end of 2014, bassist and founding member Jonathan Athon was in a horrific motorcycle accident and taken off life support, per his wishes. Nobody was quite sure what the remaining members would do, but after a month they announced that the music would live on. This January, the band released Pillars of Ash, its last album with Athon, to much critical acclaim. MW INFO: 8:30 p.m. Catalyst Atrium, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $10/adv, $12/door. 429-4135.

INFO: 11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 28 and 29. Aptos Village Park, 100 Aptos Creek Road. $65-$120. 4547900. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz. com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, March 17, to find out how you could win a pair of Sunday tickets to the festival.

IN THE QUEUE HIRIE

Up-and-coming reggae pop artist.

Thursday at Catalyst SKYLARK

Upbeat musical fusion. Friday at Ugly Mug BUIKA

International singing sensation from Spain. Sunday at Rio Theatre JOY

Psych-rock out of Southern California.

Sunday at Crepe Place FRED & TOODY

Husband-and-wife duo from DIY band Dead Moon. Sunday at Don Quixote’s

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Bhangra, a modern Punjabi dance music, is really big in Brooklyn.

Within that scene, players are broadening the sound of the music in creative ways. It was originally started in the UK by Punjabi immigrants as a way to modernize their parents’ traditional folk music. Now in Brooklyn, Red Baraat and other groups are incorporating jazz, hiphop, rock, Latin, and African beats with the already infectious bhangra sounds. Red Baraat incorporates traditional Punjabi instruments, as well as horns, electric guitars, and rock drum, adding up to one of the coolest, most diverse, dance bands around. AC

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tal music, the band is a fixture on the international music scene and one of the more interesting, mind-expanding acts you’ll have a chance to see. CJ

Last year, the Santa Cruz American Music Festival launched in fine style with an epic Memorial Day weekend that included sets by Bonnie Raitt, Big & Rich, and Ryan Bingham. This year, the festival is back, with a two-day lineup that features 11 artists spanning country, blues, roots, New Orleans, and more.

Blues legend Buddy Guy and multiplatinum country star Josh Turner are headlining, but the fest is full of gems straight down the bill, from Trombone Shorty and Carolyn Wonderland to David Nail and Leaving Austin. CAT JOHNSON

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LIVE MUSIC

Thursday March 17th 8:30pm $15/20 Brooklyn 8 Piece Bhangra/Jazz/Funk

RED BARAAT Friday March 18th 9pm $20/25 Funk & Soul Dance Party

ORGÓNE

+ 7 COME 11 Saturday March 19th 9pm $20/25 The Keepers Of The Flame Return

MELVIN SEALS & JGB Sunday March 20th 4pm $10/15 Afternoon Blues Series With

LARA PRICE Sunday March 20th 9pm $7/10 Latin/Rock/Jam Double Bill

CANDELARIA + BLUE LOTUS Thursday March 24th 9pm $10/15 St. Croix Reggae Heavyweight

RAS ATTITUDE Friday March 25th 8:30pm $20/25 Performing 2 Sets With His Band

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March 26th ANIMO CRUZ March 29th TROUT STEAK REVIVAL + THE LIL’SMOKIES March 30th PIMPS OF JOYTIME April 1st THE COFFIS BROTHERS + T SISTERS April 2nd B-SIDE PLAYERS April 3rd MARCO BENEVENTO April 7th MAKING MOVIES + SALT PETAL April 8th JUNGLE FIRE April 9th PAULA FUGA (afternoon) April 9th POORMAN’S WHISKEY (eve) April 14th CELSO PIÑA – Album Release April 9th POORMAN’S WHISKEY (eve) April 15th MONOPHONICS April 16th PATRICK SWEANY + LIVE AGAIN April 19th ROGER CLYNE & THE PEACEMAKERS April 20th CRYSTAL FIGHTERS April 21st THE RED ELVISES April 23rd THE MERMEN April 24th CASEY ABRAMS April 27th NATURAL VIBRATIONS April 28th NIKI J CRAWFORD + AFROFUNK EXPERIENCE April 29th DIEGO’S UMBRELLA + ZACH DEPUTY April 30th DEAD WINTER CARPENTERS + THE SAM CHASE

WWW.MOESALLEY.COM 1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz 831.479.1854

WED

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APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

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MON

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St. Patty’s Day w/Mike La Plebe, Yautlan, PZ 8p Outraged $15 8p

THE APPLETON GRILL 410 Rodriguez St, Watsonville

Al Frisby 6-8p

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

Billy Watson 6-8p

Jewl Sandoval 6-8p

Minor Thirds Trio 6:30-9:30p

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

Hawk n Blues Mechanics 6-8p

Broken Shades 6-8p

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

DJ

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

TWFBZ, DJ Sosay, Vantana Row, Buck Stallion & more $5 9p

Comedy Night/80s Night Free 8:30p

Doors to Nowhere, Spirit in the Room, Bro-Magnon $5 9p

Twelve Gauge Facelift, The Box (Goth Night) Fountain of Bile, Section 9p 5150 $5 9p

Adlib Rebel Hippies w/ B3, Doetheunknown $5 9p

Pride Night 9p

Party w/Raina 9p

Incidental Live Music Revue w/Alisha

Karaoke

Locals Night, Music w/Lil Billy

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

BLUE LOUNGE 529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

Tango Ecstasy 6-9:30p

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

Nomalakadoja Coastal Connection 9-11:45p

The D’Oh Bros 9-11:45p

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

Funk Night w/Light Free 9p

Ukelele Club, Karaoke Night Free 8p

Swing Dance Social Sound Off Saturdays $5 5:30p Surprise Event Reggae Party, Cypher Free 9p Sessions Free 9p

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

Karaoke 9p

Hirie Free 8p

The Wonder Years $20/$23 6:30p

Eric Bellinger & RJ $20/$25 7p

KRS-ONE $20/$25 8p

Ribsy’s Nickel $10 8:30p

Sin Sisters Burlesque $15/$20 9p

Jazz Society Free 3:30p Flaural Free 8p Free Lise the Songwriter pool 7p Free 8p

Nathan Fox Free 8p Songwriter Showcase 7-10p

DJ Luna 9p

CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 9p

Comedy Night 9p

Sol $13/$15 8:30p

Sammy J $18/$20 8:30p

Ohno $20/$25 8p

Black Tusk $10/$12 8p

bbq beer blues

bbq

beer

blues OPEN LATE EVERY NIGHT!

Wed. Mar 16

Al Frisby 6-8 pm

Thurs. Mar. 17

Billy Watson 6-8 pm

Fri. Mar. 18

Jewel Sandoval 6-8 pm

sat. Mar. 19

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

sun. Mar. 20

Hawk N Blues Mechanics 6-8 pm

Mon. Mar. 21

Broken Shades 6-8 pm

Tues. Mar. 22

Rand Rueter 6-8 pm

wednesday 3/16

Thu Mar 17

sponsored by Tomboy and tourMore Booking:

HOOT AND HOLLER w / THE ABBOTT BROTHERS

Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 Door

CoME EaRlY FoR CoRnED BEEF anD CaBBaGE DinnER SPECial

Fri Mar 18

($7 with boots on!)

thursday 3/17

LACONIC w / URBAN THEORY

Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 Door

friday 3/18

ARROWS

w / MARY SKATE AND THE TRASHLEYS Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 Door

saturday 3/19

BEACH FUZZ w / THE NERVES w / SOLAR GLORY

Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 Door

Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $10 Door

monday 3/14

mix tape monday Show 9pm $3 Door

MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz

429-6994

$17 adv. /$20 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm Front Country plus McCoy Tyler Band Alt-Country, Bluegrass, Roots

$10 adv./$10 door 21 + 8pm Sat Mar 19

Trace Bundy Astonishing Guitarist

Sat Mar 19

AZA

Sun Mar 20

Cruz Control w/ patti Maxine plus Moonstone

Sun Mar 20

Fred & Toody (of Dead Moon)

Mon Mar 21

Faust German Rock Legends

$16 adv./$20 door <21 w/parent 2pm Rockin’ MOROCCO

$12 adv./$15 door 21 + 8pm

$10 adv./$10 door <21 w/parent 2pm

Wed Mar 23

sunday 3/13

JOY

St. paddy’s party with Molly’s Revenge

plus The Rosemary Turco Irish Dancers

western wednesday

w / PHARLEE w / DRAIN

8059 Aptos st, Aptos Aptosstbbq.com | 662.1721

International Music Hall and Restaurant

Fine Mexican and aMerican Food All you cAn eAt lunch buffet m-f $7.95

$12 adv./$14 door 21+ 8pm

$20 adv./$20 door 21+ 8pm Jen Foster plus Kylie Rothfield Acoustic soul, pop

$10 adv./$10 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm Thu Mar 24

The puffball Dance Collective $8 adv./$10 door 21 + 7:30pm

CoMIng RIgHT up

Monkey Boys plus Spun Classic rock, reggae, blues & country Sat. Mar 26 To Linda With Love Music Of Linda Ronstadt plus Cruz Control Sun. Mar 27 Snowapple 3 gals from Amsterdam Wed. Mar 30 Mouths of Babes Members of Girlyman & Coyote Grace Thu. Mar 31 Sap Laughter plus Taylor Rae Coastal Indie Rockers Fri. Mar 25

Reservations Now Online at www.donquixotesmusic.com Rockin'Church Service Every Sunday ElEvation at 10am-11:15am

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3/17

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3/18

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3/19

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3/20

MON

CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Western Wednesdays: Hoot and Holler, The Abott $7/$8 9p

Laconic, Urban Theory $8 9p

Beach Fuzz, The Arrows, Mary Skate and Nerves, Solar Glory the Trashleys $8 9p $8 9p

Joy, Pharlee, Drain $10 9p

Yuji Tojo $3 8p

Coastal Sage $5 8:30p

Tsunami $6 9p

Live Comedy $7 9p

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

3/21

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DAV. ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport

Bonedrivers $7 9:30p

Mix Tape Mondays $3 9p

Rosemary Turco Irish Dancers $17/$20 7:30p

Front Country, McCoy Tyler Band $10 8p

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville

7 Come 11 $5 9p Free Reggae Party Free 8p Sherry Austin w/ Henhouse

Samba Cruz

DON QUIXOTE’S 6275 Hwy 9, Felton

3/22

KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

Cruz Control w/Patti Trace Bundy $16/$20 2p Maxine $10 2p Fred & AZA $12/$15 8p Toody $12/$14 8p

Celebrating Creativity Since 1975

Friday, March 18 • 9 pm

CLUB KUUMBWA: SPEAKEASY 3

$5 at the door

Saturday, March 19 • 8 pm

TAKOMA RECORDS GUITAR MASTERS “SPIRIT OF JOHN FAHEY TOUR” WITH PETER LANG, TOULOUSE ENGELHARDT & RICK RUSKIN Tickets: BrownPaperTickets.com

Sunday, March 20 • 7:30 pm

BUIKA

At the Rio Theatre | No Comps/Gift Cert Critically acclaimed singer blends Flamenco, R&B and Afro-Beat traditions

Faust $20 8p

Hendu VooDoo 5p

Thursday, March 24 • 7 pm

ORRIN EVANS TRIO

HENFLING’S 9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond

Flingo 7:30p

Bad Dog Free 8p

The Leftovers 9p

The Fuss 9p

East Bay Live 4p

IT’S WINE TYME 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

Open Mic 7p

JP The Band 6:30p

Peter and Sandy 7p

Madrigal and Strange 7p

Jade 4p

1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS

Speakeasy 3 $5 9p

Peter Lang, Toulous Englehardt, Rick Rustin $20/$25 8p

Buika $35/$50 7:30p

PAINTED MANDOLIN: Joe Craven, Matt Hartle, Larry Graff, Roger Sideman

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

Kip Allert 7-10p

Wild Blue 7-10p

Lucille Blues Band 8-11p

Breeze Babes 8-11p

MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Al Frisby 6p

Billy Watson 6p

Jewl Sandoval 6p

Lloyd Whitney, Al Frisby 6p

Roadhouse Karaoke 7:30p

Friday, March 25 • 8 pm

Karaoke w/Ken 9p Paul Logan 6:30-8:30p Hawk n Blues Mechanics 6p

Swinging hard bop, swaggering acoustic funk, and a dash of bold dissonance!

Broken Shades 6p

Rand Rueter 6p

Tickets: BrownPaperTickets.com Monday, March 28 • 7 & 9 pm| No Comps

ACOUSTIC AFRICA: HABIB KOITE & VUSI MAHLASELA Wednesday, March 30 • 7 pm

SOQUEL HIGH JAZZ BAND + KUUMBWA JAZZ HONOR BAND 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS Monday, April 4 • 7 & 9 pm| No Comps

MACK AVENUE SUPERBAND feat. KIRK WHALUM, TIA FULLER, CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE, CHRISTIAN SANDS, CARL ALLEN

BRITANNIA ARMS IN CAPITOLA 110 Monterey Avenue, Capitola Village

7-10pm Free and open to everyone registration starts at 6pm

Thursday, April 7 • 7 pm

New Super Group From The Big Easy NOLATET FEATURIING JOHNNY VIDACOVICH, JAMES SINGLETON, MIKE DILLON, BRIAN HASS 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS

To guarantee a time slot, please pre-register at

831.688.8435 mars-studios.com

Raffling off Boulder Creek Guitar Raffle proceeds go to Guitars Not Guns

MUSIC ARTS

RECORDING STUDIO

Guitar Works

OMAR SOSA QUARTETO AFROCUBANO Thursday, April 14 • 7 pm

ALLISON MILLER BOOM TIC BOOM feat. Myra Melford, Jenny Scheinman, Kirk Knuffke, Ben Goldberg, Todd Sickafoose 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS

Saturday, April 16 • 8 pm

LIZZ WRIGHT

At the Rio Theatre | No Comps/Gift Cert Divinely layered soul & jazz singer Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records.

Dinner served one hour before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer.

All ages welcome.

320-2 Cedar St x Santa Cruz 831.427.2227

kuumbwajazz.org

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Monday, April 11 • 7 & 9 pm| No Comps For contest rules, raffle tickets, information & registration, contact Mars Studio.

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LIVE MUSIC

Wednesday, March 16 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

SOL

plus Brothers From Another

Thursday, March 17 • Ages 16+ • FRee sT. PATTY’s DAY WITH

HIRIE

WED

Thursday, March 17 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

KRS-ONE

plus Jeff Turner also DJ Aspect

Friday, March 18 • Ages 16+

The Wonder Years Friday, March 18 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

RIBSYS NICKEL

plus Who’s Holding

Saturday, March 19 • Ages 16+

ERIC BELLINGER • RJ Saturday, March 19 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

SIN SISTERS BURLESQUE

Sunday, March 20 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

SAMMY J

plus Tenelle

Monday, March 21 • Atrium • Ages 16+ OHNO Tuesday, March 22 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

BLACK TUSK

plus Holy Grail

Mar 23 Yonder Mountain String Band (Ages 21+) Mar 25 Kottonmouth Kings (Ages 16+) Mar 26 Langhorne Slim/ Jonny Fritz (All Ages) Mar 29 Geographer/ The Crookes (Ages 16+) Mar 30 The Floozies/ Sunsquabi (Ages 16+) Apr 8 The Darkness/ Raveneye (Ages 21+) Apr 10 Tyler The Creator (Ages 16+) Apr 14 Death Grips (Ages 16+) Apr 15 Blackberry Smoke (Ages 16+) Apr 18 The Last Shadow Puppets (Ages 16+) Apr 20 Badfish A Tribute To Sublime (Ages 16+) Apr 21 AER (All Ages) Apr 22 La Ley (Ages 21+) Apr 25 Flatbush Zombies (Ages 16+) Apr 30 Justin Martin (Dirty Bird) (Ages 18+)

3/16

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

SpaceBass! By AndrewThePirate 9:30p-2a

NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz 99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz

Trivia 8p

THU

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FRI

3/18

SAT

3/19

SUN

3/20

MON

Red Baraat $15/$20 7:30p

Orgóne $20/$25 8p

Melvin Seals, JGB $20/$25 8p

Lara Price $10/$15 3p Candelaria, Blue Lotus $7/$10 8:30p

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

Trevor Williams 9:30p-1:30a

Dynamic D 9:30p-1:30a

Rasta Cruz Reggae Party 9:30p-Close

Stout Tap Takeover 4p

Young and Lowe, Kickin Chicken 5-9p

Olde Blue, Oak and Rye 5-9p

Claudio Melega

THE POCKET 3102 Portola Dr, Santa Cruz

Jam Session w/ Don Caruth 7p

3/22

Trivia 6-8p

TV Show $5 9p

Kelly Bros.

Dolce Musica

Burnin’Vernon Davis & Aftermath $5 9p

Live Looping w/ Gary Regina 8p

Jazz Session w/ Jazz Jam Comedy Santa Cruz 7p 9p

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Trivia

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

The Alex Raymond Band Fried Chicken Night 8p 8p

DJ Jahi 9p

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

Bert “Animo” Javier 6p

Johnny Hazard 6p

Traditional Hawaiian Music 6:30p

Asher Satori 12:30p Featured Acoustic 6:30p

Toby Gray 1:30p Chas Cmusic 6p

Gungor $25/$100 8-11p

Canntalk Free 9-11p

Greg Brown $32 /$42 7:30-10p

Buika $35/$50 7:30-9p

ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

TUE

7 Come 11 10p

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

3/21

Open Mic 4-7p

Comedy Open Mic 8p

Open Mic 7:30-11:30p ‘Geeks Who Drink’ Trivia Night 8p

Coastal Connection 6p

Kenny of Water Tower 6p

Trivia 8p

Open Mic 7:30p

Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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

www.catalystclub.com

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Sailboat Races begin tonight!

LOCATED ON THE BEACH

Amazing waterfront deck views.

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

See live music grid for this week’s bands.

STAND-UP COMEDY

Three live comedians every Sunday night.

HAPPY HOUR

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

VISIT OUR BEACH MARKET

Wood-fired pizza, ice cream, unique fine gifts.

DEAL WITH A VIEW

$8.95 dinners Mon.-Fri. from 6:00pm.

NOW SERVING BREAKFAST Open for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Daily

(831) 476-4560

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LIVE MUSIC WED THE SAND BAR 211 Esplanade, Capitola

3/16

THU

3/17

FRI

Little Petie & the Mean Old Men 7-11p

3/18

SAT

3/19

Spun 8-12p

John Michael Band 8-12p

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

Jazz Spring

We Three

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz

The Joint Chiefs

3/20

MON

Dennis Dove Pro Jam 7-11p

3/21

TUE

3/22

Ten Foot Faces 8p

Upcoming Shows MAR 17 Gungor: One Wild Life Tour MAR 18 CannTalk MAR 19 Greg Brown

SEVERINO’S BAR & GRILL 7500 Old Dominion Court, Aptos

Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-10p

Billy Martini 7:30-11:30p

Tsunami 8-12p

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

Ken Constable 6:30-9:30p

Joe Ferrara 6:30-10p

Claudio Melega 7-10p

SIR FROGGY’S PUB 4771 Soquel Dr, Soquel

Karaoke w/Eve

TROUT FARM INN 7701 E Zayante Rd, Felton

SUN

Mojo Mix 7-9p

Trivia Night

Chas & Friends 6-9p

Crooked Branches Free 9p

UGLY MUG 4640 Soquel Ave, Soquel

Skylark $15 7:30p

WHALE CITY 490 Highway 1, Davenport

Sweet Spice & Toto 6-9p

David/Doug Dirt and Friends 5-7p

YOUR PLACE 1719 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Danny Lawrence 6-9p

Daniel Martins 6-9p

Danny Lawrence 6-9pm

ZELDA’S 203 Esplanade, Capitola

Kurt Stockdale Jazz Trio 6p

Fish Hook 9:30p

B4Dawn 9:30p

ZIZZO’S COFFEEHOUSE & WINE BAR 3555 Clares St, Capitola

Karaoke w/Joy Haley 7-9:30p

Rocky Pase & Matisse 7-9:30p

Joy Haley & Jon Kennedy 7-9:30p

Taco Tuesday

MAR 20 Buika MAR 24 Warren Haynes APR 01 Leftover Salmon APR 05 Lecture: Robert Reich SOLD OUT

Joy of Jazz Free 3p Open Mic w/Mosephus 5:30p

APR 09 House of Floyd APR 15 Pete Yorn APR 16 Lizz Wright APR 20 Joel Salatin APR 28 Film: Maria en tierra de nadie MAY 05 Kathleen Madigan MAY 06 Tommy Emmanuel MAY 18 Lecture: Chris Wilmers

PRESENTS

AT THE RIO THEATRE

Lizz Wright Divinely layered soul and jazz singer

Buika Sun Mar 20 7:30 pm SPONSORED BY GAYLE’S BAKERY & ROSTICCERIA “One of world’s “50 Great Voices.” – NPR

TICKETS KuumbwaJazz.org / Logos Books & Records, downtown Santa Cruz INFO KuumbwaJazz.org / 831.427. 2227

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Mar. 19 Jackie Greene 8pm presented by (((folkYeah!))) and KPIG

831.423.8209 www.riotheatre.com

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A culture fades on the Amazon in haunting Colombian film ‘Embrace of the Serpent’ BY LISA JENSEN

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he journey is definitely the destination in Embrace of the Serpent, a haunting meditation on culture, colonialism, and loss which this year became the first film out of Colombia to be nominated for an Academy Award in the Foreign Language category. Shot in captivating blackand-white on location in the remote jungles of the Amazon, it’s an absorbing piece of filmmaking with the power of myth in every frame.

The third film from Colombian director Ciro Guerra, Embrace Of The Serpent is inspired by the published

journals of two real-life scientists who visited the Amazon at separate times: Theodor Koch-Grunberg came from Germany at the turn of the 20th century, followed by American Richard Evans Schultes some 40 years later. Each man recorded what he found in words and drawings, and their journals have become the only documented evidence we have left of several indigenous Amazonian cultures that have long since vanished.

Filmmaker Guerra decides to combine these two stories by inventing a character both

expeditions have in common: the shaman Karamakate. A young man when Grunberg arrives in 1909, Karamakate is the last of his people after Europeans destroyed his village in their insatiable lust to harvest rubber from the region. An older, crankier Karamakate is no more impressed with “the whites” when ethnobiologist Schultes appears during World War II, following the course described in Grunberg’s book.

Through his eyes, we see the often devastating disruptions of tribal culture in his lifetime alone—before, during, and after exposure to the

outsiders. And yet, Karamakate accompanies each explorer on his mission, hoping to persuade the white men to see and listen as the journey continues along the serpentine twists and turns of the Amazon into each man’s private heart of darkness.

The movie, too, glides elegantly in and out of its dual time frames as the parallel stories unspool. In 1909, young Karamakate (Nilbio Torres) tries to chase off a canoe bearing Grunberg (Jan Bijvoet). But Grunberg’s companion, Manduca (Yauenku Migue), a tribesman dressed in shirt and trousers, tells him they’ve been sent to ask the shaman the other tribes call the “World Mover” to help heal Grunberg, who is dying of fever.

By the time Schultes (Brionne Davis) paddles up to his bend in the river decades later, Karamakate (now played by Antonio Bolivar) says he can’t remember his culture. He fears he’s become a “chullachaqui”— an empty vessel with his own face, but nothing left inside. But Schultes (also in search of the yakruna plant) represents Karamakate’s last chance to make the white man understand the people of the Amazon and what’s become of them.

Guerra’s dreamlike pacing and sensuous imagery are often enthralling, even though the incidents the travelers encounter on the way can be harrowing. (Even the chevron-shaped scars of the tapped and bleeding rubber trees have a kind of grim beauty.) The story’s awful centerpiece is a mission school in the middle of the jungle where a Spanish priest beats “the devil” out of the young boys he’s stolen to convert, and forbids “pagan” languages.

Things go a bit astray at the very end, with a hallucinatory color sequence that feels cliched. But the impressive cast of nonprofessional actors who are native to the region, and the grandeur of the natural world that Guerra captures so well make this a journey worth taking. ***1/2 (out of four) With Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolivar, Jan Bijvoet, and Brionne Davis. written by Ciro Guerra and Jacques Toulemonde Vidal. Directed by Ciro Guerra.

An Oscilloscope release. 125 minutes. In Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, and German with English subtitles.

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FILM NEW THIS WEEK THE BRONZE Hope is getting her allowance cut off, and is no longer allowed to steal from the back of her dad’s postal delivery van. Even if she does still get free meals in town, the former gymnastics bronze medalist must learn how to transition from the twilight of her local celebrity status to adulthood. Bryan Buckley directs.

Melissa Rauch, Gary Cole, Haley Lu Richardson co-star. (R) 108 minutes.

THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT Finally, finally Tris’ hair has grown past that awful awkward short phase. The rest is—well, she’s still divergent, but hey, Harry from Dumb and Dumber thinks she’s worth saving. Is Shailene Woodley the new Anne Hathaway, or is it just us? Ansel Elgort is still the most annoying person in Hollywood, but if the cast doesn’t make your teeth bleed, by all means, enjoy the next installment of this trying-hard--to-beHunger Games tween series. Robert Schwentke directs. Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Zoë Kravitz co-star. (PG13) 121 minutes.

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MIDNIGHT SPECIAL Oh sweet, a super child with laser eyes. Or something like that? It’s from the director of Mud, so we’re assuming it’s more of a child-hero sci-fi flick.

Jeff Nichols directs. Adam Driver, Kirsten Dunst, Paul Sparks co-star.

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MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN Jennifer Garner’s comeback, or at least a very eventful story for the kid who plays her daughter: first she gets an incurable disease, which no one can diagnose, and then she falls out of a tree and sees God. And then her incurable disease is healed. It’s a miracle from heaven! Patricia Riggen directs.

Jennifer Garner, Kylie Rogers, Martin Henderson co-star. (PG) 109 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.

THE BIG SHORT Based on the book of the same name, The Big Short follows the players and profiteers of the 2007-2010 financial crisis who bet against collateralized debt obligation, and sent the system reeling. Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt co-star. Adam McKay directs.

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THE BROTHERS GRIMSBY An in-depth sociological investigation of nature versus nurture, it’s Sacha Baron Cohen (much excite) and Mark Scott playing brothers separated as children who ended up with very different lives as adults. It’s all very serious business, obviously, with Cohen at the helm as a dimwitted football hooligan named Nobby. And we hear there’s a Donald Trump (ish) cameo! Louis Leterrier directs. (R) 83 minutes.

DEADPOOL He’s a special ops dude who’s transformed into a super-human in a rogue experiment, left with an indestructible body and the face of chopped liver. How many almost-funny superheroes with the voice of a Disney prince has Ryan Reynolds played now?

Tom Miller directs. Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller co-star. (R) 108 minutes.

EDDIE THE EAGLE Whether it’s the forced underbite, the shaggy overcut, the awful ’70s glasses, or all three, there’s something so adorable about Taron Egerton as Eddie Edwards that we’re willing to overlook the fact that Hugh Jackman is in the film. Even better is that it’s based on the true story of the real Eddie Edwards, who was also really farsighted and equally as huggable. We love all Eddies. Dexter Fletcher directs. Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Christopher Walken co-star.

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EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT Reviewed this issue. (NR) 125 minutes.

THE LADY IN THE VAN Maggie Smith plays an unflappable transient woman living in her car who, despite being quite the vitriolic grouch, manages to form an unlikely bond with the man whose driveway she occupies.

Nicholas Hytner directs. Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent co-star.

(PG-13) 104 minutes.

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MEDAL COLLECTOR Melissa Rauch tries to hold on to Olympic semi-glory in ‘The Bronze.’

Katrin Benedikt for playing on the current state of chaos of the world and exploiting our deepest fears— kind of like that earthquake movie that no one saw because, hello, too close to home. At least Aaron Eckhart’s chin dimple can keep us distracted. Babak Najafi directs. Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Charlotte Riley co-star. (R) 99 minutes.

ONLY YESTERDAY Doesn’t it feel like only yesterday that this film was released? Wait no, that was 1991.

Thankfully another Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki animation masterpiece has made it to the U.S. with Daisey Ridley and Dev Patel in this English dubbed version. Let’s just hope it was worth the 25-year wait. Isao Takahata directs. (PG) 118 minutes.

THE REVENANT Leonardo DiCaprio fighting, grunting, running, shooting—a bear, among other things—and seeking revenge for the death of his son. From the director of Birdman and Babel, it’s the rugged frontier in the 1820s snow and ice, every man for himself: chills, just chills.

Alejandro González Iñárritu directs.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter co-star. (R) 156 minutes.

STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS Ooh, what a neatlooking 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.

10 CLOVERFIELD LANE The Internet is driving itself crazy trying to figure out if this is a proper sequel to the 2008 monster movie Cloverfield.

Producer J.J. Abrams is indeed the mastermind behind it once again, and he keeps dropping hints that are infuriatingly vague about how the two films are connected. What we know is that Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman and the pale guy from The Newsroom are hiding underground from something, and though Abrams claims the Cloverfield monster doesn’t make an appearance … would you really be surprised if it did? Dan Trachtenberg directs.

Bradley Cooper co-stars. (PG-13) 105 minutes.

WHERE TO INVADE NEXT Oddly beardless and slightly thinner, Michael Moore returns as angry and ferocious as ever, investigating the absurdities of modern politics across the entire globe. From public school cafeterias to Wall Street, Moore’s latest documentary takes on the American Dream. Michael Moore directs. Michael Moore, Krista Kiuru, Tim Walker co-star.

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WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT For certain glasses-wearing, brownhaired female journalists with a penchant for sarcasm and dreams of a foreign correspondence post, this film may or may not be their future life story (omg we are the same person, Tina Fey!). For the rest, it’s Fey with Margot Robbie and Martin Freeman, plus laughs, some bangbang and war stories. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa direct. Margot Robbie, Nicholas Braun, Tina Fey costar. (R) 111 minutes.

THE WITCH Spoiler alert: despite the misleading typeface of this film’s posters, apparently it is not “The Vvitch,” and is actually a story about a witch. Fine, a witch who torments a Puritan family in 1630s New England will suffice, although what incredible potential would a vvitch have had?

Robert Eggers directs. Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie co-star. (R) 93 minutes.

ZOOTOPIA Thank goodness it’s become OK for adults to watch kids’ movies (it has, right?). We’d gladly take a cunning bunny cop with her fox informant trying to uncover a conspiracy in a city of adorable animated animals than watch Gerard Butler do … well, anything, really. Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush direct.

Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba co-star. (PG) 108 minutes.

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very day as I return from the gym, I gaze longingly at the various contractor signs still papering the windows of Lillian’s-in-progress, on the corner of Seabright and Soquel.

Soon, I tell myself. Soon I’ll be able to feast on hearty Italian food in the old historic Ebert’s space.

Luckily, we can all take our appetites over to the newly opened East End Gastropub, the twin sister of West End Tap. Well, not identical twins, as it turns out. An early look at the East End menu reveals a

heightened level of ambition at the new eatery housed in the former Tony & Alba’s at 1501 41st Ave. in Capitola. Chef Geoffrey Hargrave has spun the new menu into some intriguing conceptual regions; for example, goat cheese, leeks and bacon pizza, rye pappardelle, and honey-cured pork belly with Brussels sprouts, faro and fried farm egg. Sign me up! We can expect locally-made artisan beers and lunch and dinners seven days a week. If the mega-scene that causes almost seismic activity over at the West

End Tap & Kitchen is any measure, the new gastropub owned by Hargrave and partner Quinn Cormier should shake up the 41st Avenue neighborhood big time.

THIRSTY THURSDAYS

In the quest to be ever-more welcoming to customers, the savvy conceptualists at New Leaf Community Markets will now host monthly complimentary tastings.

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The supple—nay, tumescent—almond orange cookie, dusted with powdered sugar and weighing in at a reasonable $3 at Cafe Ivéta took my breath away last week. I have never been able to get past the outrageous gluten-free fudgy cookie, packed with bittersweet chocolate chips, but somehow the almond orange number finally got my attention. The tension of flavors, intense almond pushing against the tangy citrus, is enough to make anyone’s afternoon (pair with jasmine green tea for a serious bliss event).

But I was utterly unprepared for the texture; “chewy” is too poor a word for the succulent effect of teeth on cookie.

The exterior seemed to melt, while the interior offered a wonderful moment of resistance. Now I have to confess that I adore this cookie as much as the mighty fudgy cookie. Can it be possible? Ivéta has two divine cookies on its mouth-watering pastry counter.

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MELISSA PALACIOS: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m MexicanAmerican, but these arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even my familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recipes. They got too Americanized by the time I came around. I came up with recipes from a cooking school I went to in Mexico, in a state that I had never even heard of called Tlaxcala. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really easy and traditional, and what I liked about them is theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all whole foods. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d go to the market and get our produce.

None of our sauces were out of cans.

I thought this is good for Santa Cruz because everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s into the whole farm-to-table movement. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change the recipes at all. I teach them exactly like I was taught.

What are some misconceptions about Mexican food?

Mexican food gets a bad rap. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

really fresh. Some of it is really simple. We have a house in Cozumel, Mexico. Tacos there are the complete opposite of what tacos are if you go to a Mexican restaurant here in California. The tacos there have soft, warm tortillas, freshly made by hand, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re little. They have the meat in them, and usually thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it. Some of the meats have been marinated in different sauces and then grilled.

What makes the taco is the different sauces on the table, like habanero. In Cozumel, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an avocado sauce. You have a couple of tacos, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re like 80 cents each. You leave feeling good. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel all greased out.

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Sunday is Palm Sunday, the start of Passion Week. Palm Sunday biblically marks the triumphal entry of Jesus of Nazareth, overshadowed by the Christ, into Jerusalem (city of Peace). Palms (symbolizing peace, victory and respect) were waved and placed on the ground for the young colt carrying the Christ to walk upon. It was a procession, heralding the Christ as Messiah, the Promised One. Lent (preparation) ends and the Holy Week begins—a drama of cosmic proportions played out for humanity. The Christ enacts major initiations

(transformations we all experience) for humanity. Holy Week begins with a majestic procession and ends with a trial; crucifixion and resurrection. A deep psychological theme of redemption and hope is offered to humanity, living as we are on Earth, one of the three planets of suffering.

A new world order appeared when Christ, Pisces World Teacher from Sirius, visited Earth.

Since then we’ve been moving steadily toward a New Age. A new era, the signs are everywhere.

The story of Holy Week is written in the heavens, on the Fixed Cross of Taurus, Scorpio, Leo and Aquarius.

Full Moon, Lunar Eclipse (something in our outer world disappears). The New Group of World Servers is preparing for Wednesday’s Aries Resurrection Festival. Join us, everyone.

ARIES Mar21–Apr20

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22

Your true calling comes forth. No longer just a burning ground of aspiration as the world begins to reorient everywhere, your initiating abilities clearly emerge. You gather your philosophical beliefs and goals. You are now at the highest level anyone can be in terms of world work. You begin to see your career in terms of how you help create the culture and civilization, how you serve humanity so their gifts can come forth, too. You’re at the doorstep.

All that’s important to you, all that formed your foundational beliefs, will be revised. This is a part of growing up. You took a path into the new world long ago. You learned new understandings, eliminated restrictions to your true identity.

Now you revise your values, assume a greater sense of selfassurance, knowing this brave new world will always support you. Know every life dimension has its own truth. As you adapt and change, the world changes too.

TAURUS Apr21–May21

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21

So often you have stepped into the shadows, not wanting to speak up and out, thinking that others would do a better job. This gave you the needed strength and stamina, developed your awareness and abilities.

Staying behind the scenes is no longer is appropriate.

You step into the limelight, begin to communicate, teach, lead, facilitate, make the transition from dark room to lighted world. You give your hope to humanity.

It is the “waters of life” for them.

You will find the need to speak the truth in many situations.

Usually you stand aside, allowing others to be the voice of society. However, this is changing. You become the voice of reason, allowing no false information to pass you by. You’re very aware of the impact of untruthfulness. You practice “ahimsa” (doing no harm). Your work becomes a response to world events. Destiny has arrived. It’s within your heart, written in the stars. You are the truth and it sets you free.

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GEMINI May 22–June 20 So much of your life has been about observing the needs of others, stepping into the great world field of service. This has been good. However, there comes a time when your focus shifts from others to self, to develop new tools. That time is now. For further development you need new studies, new people, new information. You’re ready to answer a further call from the soul. This is a transition time for you. Release yourself to your soul’s call and stand in its light.

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Who you’ve been will no longer be who you are. What you’ve been asked to be is no longer who you can be. All the responsibility you’ve assumed for so long will begin to chafe, annoy and irritate you. You will gradually want more things in the world, less of a sense of duty, so your gifts and talents can come forth. The larger world, beyond family, needs you, too.

LE0 Jul21–Aug22 Over and over you will review plans, agendas, regimes, and rituals in your daily life. Over and over these will change in terms of work, health, people, and all environments you interact in. Old concepts shift to new concepts, discoveries break the mold of how you’ve worked and your thoughts on health. You’ll seek new environments that allow for accelerated activities in areas, people, places, and things your heart desires.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Creativity, opportunity, options. What do these mean to you, in what areas of life? Gates will open for you, the Sun will shine brighter in your garden, and a new creative impulse soothes any sense of isolation. You’ve had to make adjustments living on hope. New realities dawn, a new sense of self-expression, too. And a new philosophy takes you on a new journey. Be sure to have sturdy shoes.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 Sag is always philosophically minded. Recently you’ve become security minded, wondering, as you age, how to prepare and build a strong system of resources for later times. It feels like providence has arrived. You sense this and bring forth purpose, energy and passion to whatever you believe in. And so, the question is: what do you believe in? What is most important to you now? The answers, when contemplated, are surprising.

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 You have stepped into power, a most interesting situation.

Authority figures, not understanding the energy of relationship in astrology, may feel you’re challenging them, which you’re not. However, your very presence challenges previous beliefs of others and those in authority. You bring revolutionary change wherever you are. What is this? A call to leadership requiring you to display your ability to lead with both willingness and love, while poised within the center of power. You’ll be learning this over time.

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 As personal and outer world events around you continue to change, you learn to move easily within those changes.

This helps you understand the requirements of the new world coming forth. Only your inner self can understand the truth of all matters, understand right direction and right attitude and how to shine a bright new light of hope for others to see. Your life situation calls forth your humanitarian endeavors. You will understand more later.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 Jupiter is in Virgo. This means it’s a time of healing for all of humanity, but especially for Pisces, Virgo’s opposite sign. Tend to all health matters in all parts of the body, inner and outer.

Find a functional doctor or one who understands alternative methods of testing and healing. After tending to your health, new opportunities will present themselves. New decisions will be made. A new change of focus will appear with new endeavors. Much of this year is a time of healing and preparing.

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CANDACE BRADFIELD & SUZANNE YEAGER. 124 MARINA AVENUE, APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by a Married Couple signed: CANDACE BRADFIELD. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on: NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Feb. 25, 2016. Mar. 2, 9, 16, 23.

KRISTIE MAE LIMA. 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.

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Denine J. Guy, Judge of the Superior Court. Mar. 9, 16, 23, 30.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0297 The following Individual is doing business as O'NERDS, OLLIE'S NERDS. 102 NELSON RD., SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95066. County of Santa Cruz. JULIE STEPHENS. 102 NELSON RD., SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95066. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JULIE STEPHENS. 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 Feb. 8, 2016. Mar. 2, 9, 16, 23.

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Santa Cruz. SHANNE CARVALHO. 1523 COMMERCIAL WAY, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95065. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: SHANNE CARVALHO. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/24/2016. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Feb. 23, 2016.

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NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0290 The following Individual is doing business as 88 OVER EVERYTHING. 127 FELIX ST., APT 8, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz.

ALWA GORDON. 127 FELIX ST., APT 8, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ALWA GORDON. 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 Feb. 8, 2016. Feb. 24, & Mar. 2, 9, 16.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0354 The following Individual is doing business as MARIPOSA LANSCAPING & MARIPOSA'S. 541 WILKES CIRCLE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz.

SUSAN POWELL. 541 WILKES CIRCLE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: SUSAN POWELL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/1/2016. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin,

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0357 The following Individual is doing business as PROFESSIONAL WILD WOMAN. 516 SWIFT ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

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MELANIE COBB MUNIR. 516 SWIFT ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MELANIE MUNIR. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/1/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Feb. 16, 2016. Mar. 2, 9, 16, 23.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF KIRSTIE MAE LIMA CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.16CV00478. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner KIRSTIE LIMA has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: KIRSTIE MAE LIMA to:

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0344FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0344 The following Individual is doing business as CYCLEPATH OUTFITTERS. 353 ELBA CIRCLE, MARINA, CA 93933. County of MONTEREY. ELISEO ANTONIO ZEPEDA. 353 ELBA CIRCLE, MARINA, CA 93933. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ELISEO ZEPEDA. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/16/2016. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Feb. 16, 2016. Feb. 24, & Mar. 2, 9, 16.

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The following General Partnership is doing business as BIG WAVE MOBILE. 1025 WATER ST., SUITE L, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. ASHRAF F. YOUSSEF & ERNEST GRIFFIN-ORTIZ. 1025 WATER ST., SUITE L, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: ASHRAF YOUSSEF. 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 Feb. 29, 2016. Mar. 9, 16, 23, 30.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0440 The following Individual is doing business as LAUREL CANYON FARM. 3243 OLD SAN JOSE RD., SOQUEL, CA 95073. County of Santa Cruz.

JESSICA DEFAYMOREAU. 3243 OLD SAN JOSE RD., SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JESSICA DEFAYMOREAU. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE.

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County of Santa Cruz. RYAN CATTERLIN. 4425 CLARES ST. SPACE 86, CAPITOLA, CA 95010. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: RYAN CATTERLIN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/1/2016. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Feb. 16, 2016. Feb. 24, & Mar. 2, 9, 16.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0369 The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as BLUE HOUSE VINEYARD. 359 CANHAM RD., SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95066. County of Santa Cruz. FOWL PLAY FARM, LLC. 359 CANHAM RD., SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95066. AI# 21210012. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: BROOKE LIPMAN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above: NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Feb. 18, 2016. Feb. 24, & Mar. 2, 9, 16.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0225 The following Individual is doing business as JADE MOUNTAIN PUBLISHING ENTERPRISES. 8065 APTOS STREET, APTOS, CA 95003.

County of Santa Cruz. GARY DOLOWICH. 8065 APTOS STREET, APTOS, CA 95003.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: GARY DOLOWICH. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/16/2003. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 28, 2016.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0361 The following Individual is doing business as CORE FOUR. 134 HOLLYWOOD AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. JACK HANAGAN. 134 HOLLYWOOD AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JACK HANAGAN. 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 Feb. 17, 2016. Mar. 2, 9, 16, 23.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0438 The following Individual is doing business as SKYBOT SERVICES. 704 WESTERN DR., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz.

NIKOLAI DE MALVINSKY. 704 WESTERN DR., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: NIKOLAI DE MALVINSKY. The registrant

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The following General Partnership is doing business as PELICAN POINT PARTNERS. 21245 EAST CLIFF DR., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz.

TROY HINDS, LORI STOLL & NICHOLAS STOLL. 21245 EAST CLIFF DR., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: TROY HINDS. 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 Mar. 1, 2016. Mar. 9, 16, 23, 30.

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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF VICTORIA JULIA FOSTER CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.16CV00374.

THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner ELIZABETH SMITH has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: VICTORIA JULIA FOSTER to: VICTORIA JULIA SMITH. 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 April 4, 2016 at 8:30 am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0403 The following Individual is doing business as VADJRA HEALING. 416 CLEVELAND AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz.

LEIA SUTTON-BARNES. 416 CLEVELAND AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: LEIA SUTTON-BARNES. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/22/2016. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Feb. 22, 2016. Mar. 9, 16, 23, 30.

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NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0378 The following Corporation is doing business as MUTARI CHOCOLATE. 219 ELM ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

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CULTIVATED CULINARY. 219 ELM ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. Al# 3871895. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: KATY OURSLER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/1/2016. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Feb. 18, 2016.

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME. The following person(s) have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: SOKOLOW PROPERTY MANAGEMENT. 301 HIGHVIEW COURT, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. The fictitious business name

referred to above was filed in SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on: 3/24/2015. SOKOLOW PROPERTY MANAGEMENT. 301 HIGHVIEW COURT, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

This business was conducted by an INDIVIDUAL named SONYA JEAN SOKOLOW. This statement was filed with the County Clerk- Recorder of SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on the date indicated by the file stamp: Filed: Mar. 3, 2016.

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Where the locals shop since 1938.

VOTED BEST BUTCHER SHOP BEST WINE STORE BEST CHEESE SELECTIONS BEST LOCALLY OWNED GROCERY STORE BEST MURAL

Family owned & operated 78 years.

622 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz

OUR 78 TH YEAR

WEEKLY SPECIALS

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WINE & FOOD PAIRING corned Beef and cabbage inGreDientS 4 lb corned brisket of beef 3 large carrots, cut into large chunks 6 to 8 small onions 1 teaspoon dry English mustard Large sprig fresh thyme and some parsley stalks, tied together 1 cabbage Salt and freshly ground pepper

DirectionS Put the brisket into a saucepan with the carrots, onions, mustard and the herbs. Cover with cold water, and bring gently to a boil. Simmer, covered, for 2 hours. Discard the outer leaves of the cabbage, cut in quarters and add to the pot. Cook for a further 1 to 2 hours or until the meat and vegetables are soft and tender.

Serve the corned beef in slices, surrounded by the vegetables and cooking liquid. Serve with lots of floury potatoes and freshly made mustard.

LL NATURAL USDA Choice beef & lamb only, corn-fed midwest pork, Rocky free-range chickens, Mary’s airchilled chickens, wild-caught seafood, Boar’s Head products.

Bakery

■ POINT CUT BRISKET, 4.98 Lb ■ 1st CUT BRISKET, 5.98 Lb ■ BOTTOM ROUND EXTRA LEAN/ 5.98 Lb ■ TERIYAKI SKIRT STEAK/ 12.98 Lb ■ FLAT IRON STEAK/ 6.98 Lb ■ COULOTTE STEAK/ 7.98 Lb ■ BLACK PEPPER LONDON BROIL/ 5.98 Lb ■ BLOODY MARY CROSSRIB STEAK/ 5.98 Lb ■ BAY SHRIMP MEAT, Fully Cooked/ 12.98 Lb ■ CAJUN CATFISH FILLETS, Marinated/ 9.98 Lb ■ AHI TUNA STEAK, Thick-Cut/ 14.98 Lb ■ SALMON LOX TRIMMINGS/ 9.98 Lb

cheese

proDuce

Sauvignon Blanc has the acidity to cut through the salt and fattiness of the corned beef and the flavor profile to pair well with cabbage or French Cote du Rhone which posses adequate amounts of fruit, sweetness and acidity to meet the challenge.

SHOP PER SPOTLIG HTS

■ BECKMANN’S, Big California Sour Round 24oz/ 3.89 ■ WHOLE GRAIN, Great White 30oz/ 4.19 ■ KELLY’S, Sour Baguette 16oz/ 2.39 ■ GAYLE’S, Whole Grain 32oz/ 4.79 ■ SUMANO’S, Seeded Mini 16oz/ 3.49 ■ POET’S IRISH CHEDDAR, “Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!” LOAF CUTS/ 6.09 Lb, Average Cuts/ 6.89 Lb ■ IRISH SWISS, “Made from Cows Milk, Nutty-Sweet”/ 8.89 Lb ■ DUBLINER with IRISH STOUT, “SEASONAL AGED IMPORTED”/ 15.89 Lb

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ALIFORNIA-FRESH, blemish free, 30% local/organic: Arrow Citrus Co., Lakeside Organic, Happy Boy Farms, Route 1 Farms.

■ GREEN CABBAGE, Fresh from the Field/ .49 Lb ■ APPLES, Fuji, Gala, Granny Smith, Braeburn & Pink Lady/ 1.89 Lb ■ NAVEL ORANGES, Sweet and Juicy/ 1.19 Lb ■ BANANAS, Always Ripe/ .89 Lb ■ SEEDLESS GRAPES, Red and Green/ 4.19 Lb

■ BROCCOLI CROWNS, Delivered Fresh Daily/ 1.29 Lb Iceberg/ 1.19 Ea

■ GREEN BEANS, Fresh and Tender/ 2.29 Lb ■ AVOCADOS, Ripe and Ready to Eat/ 1.19 Ea ■ CILANTRO, Always Fresh/ .49 Ea ■ YELLOW ONIONS, Premium Quality/ .49 Lb ■ CLUSTER TOMATOES, Ripe on the Vine/ 2.29 Lb ■ POTATOES, Red and Yukon/ 1.19 Lb ■ CELLO ROMAINE HEARTS, Fresh and Ready to

& Delicious”/ 15.89

Delicatessen ■ KERRYGOLD DUBLINER, “Imported from Ireland” 7oz/ 4.69 ■ BEELER’S UNCURED BACON, “A Customer Favorite” 12oz/ 5.99

Eat/ 2.99 Ea ■ CAULIFLOWER, Great as a Side Dish/ 2.29 Ea

Beans” 6oz/ 3.89

irish Whiskey

■ BUSHMILLS, “Smooth & Mellow”/ 19.99 ■ TULLAMORE DEW, “Legendary Irish Whiskey”/ 19.99 ■ JAMESON, “Since 1780”/ 21.99 ■ GREEN SPOT, “Single Pot Still”/ 47.99 ■ REDBREAST, 12yr “Single Pot Still”/ 56.99 ■ 2014 L’ARDI DOLCETTO, D’aqui (Reg 16.99)/ 7.99 ■ 2011 FROG HAVEN, Pinot Noir (90WW, Reg 16.99)/ 9.99 ■ 2011 GIFFT, Red Blend (91WE, Reg 19.99)/ 9.99 ■ 2011 ARESTI CARMENERE, Reserva (Reg 17.99)/ 7.99 ■ 2010 CLOS LA CHANCE, Zinfandel (Reg 17.99)/ 7.99

incredible Values!

■ 2010 ESTANCIA, Pinot Noir “Single Vineyard Reserve” (Reg 29.99)/ 12.99 (Reg 24.99)/ 11.99

■ 2012 CASA LAPOSTOLE CARMENERE, Apalta Vineyard

clover Stornetta

(92JS)/ 14.99

■ 2007 OT OLIVERO TOSCANI (Reg 45.99)/ 19.99 ■ 2010 Le JAS DES PAPES, Chateauneuf-Du-Pape

■ HALF & HALF, Quart/ 1.99 ■ ORGANIC GREEK NONFAT YOGURT 5.3oz/ 1.59 ■ ORGANIC SOUR CREAM, Pints/ 2.79 ■ ORGAINIC CREAM TOP YOGURT 6oz/ .99 ■ LOWFAT YOGURT 6oz/ .79/

(91WA, Reg 43.99)/ 19.99

chilean reds

■ 2011 ODFJELL, Orzada Carmenere (92JS)/ 13.99 ■ 2012 CASA LAPASTOLE, Merlot, Apalta Vineyard

hot Sauce ■ MARIE SHARPS HABANERO SAUCE, 6 Kinds 5oz/ 5.49 ■ CHILE GODS, “Heart Never Hurt So Good” 10oz/ 4.99 ■ SLAP YO MAMA, “Cajun Pepper Sauce” 5oz/ 5.89 ■ DAVES INSANITY SAUCE, “Use One Drop at a Time”

(93JS)/ 14.99

■ 2012 SANTA EMA, Cabernet Sauvignon, Maipo Valley (92JS)/ 13.99

■ 2012 CORRALILLO, Syrah, San Antonio (90WA)/ 17.99 ■ 2013 RITUAL, Pinot Noir, Casablanca Valley (94JS)/ 19.99

connoisseurs corner – Spain

5oz/ 5.99

■ PAIN IS GOOD, “100% Natural, Micro Batch” 7.5oz/ 6.99

crackers

■ 2010 MARQUES MURRIETA, Reserve, Rioja (93WA)/ 24.99

■ URBAN OVEN, “Artisan Baked Hors D’oeuvres” 7.5oz/ 4.54 ■ CARR’S, “Since 1831” Asst./ 3.79 ■ LE PAIN DE FLEURS QUINOA CRISPBREAD, “Gluten ■ WISECRACKERS, “Lowfat, All Natural” 4oz/ 3.99 ■ RAINCOAST CRISPS, “Non GMO” 6oz/ 6.99

■ GUINESS, Daught, 14.9oz Cans, 4 Pack/ 7.99 +CRV ■ GUINESS, Nitro IPA, 11.2oz Cans, 6 Pack/ 8.49 +CRV ■ GUINESS, Extra Stout, 11.2oz Bottles, 6 Pack/ 8.99 +CRV ■ MURPHY’S, Irish Stout, 16oz Cans, 4 Pack/ ■ SMITHWICK’S, Irish Red Ale, 11.2oz Bottles, 6 Pack/

■ 2008 ANIMA LEBERA, Alma 3 Toscana

■ HIKARI ORGANIC MISO, “Mild & Red”/ 17.6oz/ 5.09 ■ COLUMBUS SLICED SALAME 12oz/ 8.09

Free” 4.4oz/ 4.59

St. patrick’s Day Beers

Best Buy reds

■ CAMBOZOLA BLACK LABEL BLUE BRIE, “Creamy

■ WILD WOOD VEGGIE BURGER, “Made with Sprouted Soy

■ LEAF LETTUCE, Romaine, Red, Green, Butter,

If you asked the average person what wine goes with corned beef and cabbage you will likely get the answer, Beer! I agree beer is probably the best beverage to pair with this food but if you must have a wine I have a couple recommendations.

Beer/Wine/SpiritS

Grocery

Butcher Shop

■ 2011 NUMANTHIA, Termes, Toro (90WS, 90 VM)/ 24.99 ■ 2008 MARQUES DE CACERES, Gran Reserva Rioja (91WE)/ 32.99

■ 2011 BODEGAS ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ, Ribera Del Duero (91ST)/ 34.99

■ 2005 BODEGAS LANDALUCE, Capricho Rioja (93WE)/ 37.99

JOCELYN HAYNES, 7-Year Customer, Felton

Occupation: Personal trainer Hobbies: Competitive weigh lifting, the beach, hiking, bike riding, cooking Astrological Sign: Aquarius

KYLE HAYNES, 29-Year Customer, Felton

Occupation: Public safety Hobbies: Playing guitar, hanging out with Jackson, Oympic-style weight lifting, outdoor family-fun Astrological Sign: Aquarius What do you serious weight lifters like to eat?

JOCEYLN: “We lean toward a clean, all-natural food type of diet — American/California cuisine, also Italian. Most meals consist of meat, fruit and vegetables — we make a lot of salads — and seeds.

We love Shopper’s tri-tip, chicken, sausages, bacon — oh the bacon! — and much more.” KYLE: “I won’t eat meat from certain markets. Just looking at Shopper’s selections you can see that they’re high quality. The butcher shop has a great variety of cuts and products, including grass-fed options.” JOCEYLN: “We have a special relationship with the butchers.”

How so? JOCEYLN: “I’m very particular. I can send Kyle here and he’ll say, ’Just prepare it as Jocelyn likes.’

The fact that the butchers will filet or special-cut items cuts down on my kitchen prep time.” KYLE: “The butchers’ level of service is above and beyond, plus they even know our son Jackson and us by name.”

JOCEYLN: “When you shop at a store long enough, you get to know the staff; they’re all so nice.” KYLE: “You come to Shopper’s for the great products but also to see people you know or haven’t seen in a while.

That’s exciting!” JOCEYLN: “When I first moved here I was told this is where I needed to shop.”

Really? JOCEYLN: “Yes, and I was amazed that a store this size — love the size! — would have everything we need.

KYLE: “It’s also cheaper than the big stores.” JOCEYLN: “That’s true. Shopper’s has the best fresh local produce — the organic is often priced less than the conventional. I shop here almost daily. It’s worth my drive from Felton because of Shopper’s overall good pricing. They have all the right choices.” KYLE: “Shopper’s is friendly and has a really cool vibe. I worked here when I was 16; it was my first job, same for my sister and many of my friends. Jim (Beauregard) gives young people a chance to work for a good, community business while gaining valuable experience.”

“I shop here almost daily. It’s worth my drive from Felton because of Shopper’s overall good pricing.”

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