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EDITOR’S NOTE There’s so much happening in Santa Cruz County every week that it’s pretty much impossible to give everything its due. Even an event that’s proven itself year in and year out as an important contributor to the cultural scene can get overlooked, and that’s often how I’ve felt about the Reel Work Film Festival.

It’s gotten some ink here and there, but certainly not what it deserves, considering it’s now in its 15th year.

This week’s cover story by John Malkin will hopefully go a long way toward correcting that, and it’s an

LETTERS

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Last week’s cover story “Is The Drought Over?” (GT, 4/20) brings to light a huge misunderstanding by the general public about our water supply. This problem affects our welfare and even life itself.

After this winter’s rains, many people thought, “Thank God the drought is over, let’s get back to building more homes and using water in our many (wasteful) ways.”

Kara Guzman’s article concludes, “We can’t solve this problem through conservation,” which is only partially true.

It will take a paradigm shift in what we consume water for before we will be safe from the coming disaster. The article correctly states that 85 percent of our water is used for agriculture. What it doesn’t mention is that, in California, 48 percent of that water is used to raise and slaughter cattle (mostly for irrigating feed crops).

Californians use about 1,500 gallons of water per day, per person. Close to half of that is associated with meat and dairy production. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef, 477 gallons to produce 1 pound of eggs, 1,000 gallons of water to produce 1 gallon of milk, and even the hamburger you had for lunch required 660 gallons of water to produce!

Home water use requires only 5 percent of the total water we consume. In the U.S., 55 percent of our total water is used for

ideal time to do so, as this year’s festival features a very timely documentary and discussion on drones. Malkin spoke to former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who’ll speak on the topic at the screening of director Tonje Hessen Schei’s Drone, and his insights into the state of our country’s intelligence gathering are sobering.

Also in this issue is a tribute by Lisa Jensen to Nancy Raney, the founding co-owner with her husband Bill Raney of the Nickelodeon Theatres, and the undisputed grande dame of the local film scene. I was saddened to hear of the passing of a woman who—with her humor, smarts and passion for indie culture—to me represented everything that makes this community great, and Jensen’s testament is truly moving.

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animal agriculture. Consider that 1.5 acres of land can produce 37,000 pounds of plant-based food, while the same 1.5 acres will only produce 375 pounds of meat.

A person eating a vegetarian diet saves 1,000 gallons of water per day!

There is a long-term, permanent solution to our looming water crisis; reducing our meat consumption—or, better yet, becoming a vegetarian. Will people do this?

Most will not until they turn on their faucet one day and there is no water.

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While it’s not the central point of Mr. Meade’s letter, I should point out that the line about conservation to which he refers was not a conclusion made by the article’s author, but rather a snippet of a quote from Ron Duncan, the manager of Soquel Creek Water District. When read in its original context, it referenced the need for action by administrative agencies, not a dismissal of conservation efforts. — Editor

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of April 27 ARIES Mar21–Apr19

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22

The oracle I’m about to present may be controversial. It contains advice that most astrologers would never dare to offer an Aries. But I believe you are more receptive than usual to this challenge, and I am also convinced that you especially need it right now. Are you ready to be pushed further than I have ever pushed you? Study this quote from novelist Mark Z. Danielewski: “Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati.”

“Everyone who has ever built a new heaven first found the power to do so in his own hell.” That noble truth was uttered by Libran philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and I bet it will be especially meaningful for most of you during the rest of 2016. The bad news is that in the past few months you’ve had to reconnoiter your own hell a little more than you would have liked, even if it has been pretty damn interesting. The good news is that these explorations will soon be winding down. The fantastic news is that you are already getting glimpses of how to use what you’ve been learning. You’ll be well-prepared when the time comes to start constructing a new heaven.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 You’re in a phase of your cycle when you’ll be rewarded for your freshness and originality. The more you cultivate a “beginner’s mind,” the smarter you will be. What you want will become more possible to the degree that you shed everything you think you know about what you want. As the artist Henri Matisse said, if a truly creative painter hopes to paint a rose, he or she “first has to forget all the roses that were ever painted.” What would be the equivalent type of forgetting in your own life?

GEMINI May21–June20 “Am I still a hero if the only person I save is myself?” asks poet B. Damani. If you posed that question to me right now, I would reply, “Yes, Gemini. You are still a hero if the only person you save is yourself.” If you asked me to elaborate, I’d say, “In fact, saving yourself is the only way you can be a hero right now. You can’t rescue or fix or rehabilitate anyone else unless and until you can rescue and fix and rehabilitate yourself.” If you pushed me to provide you with a hint about how you should approach this challenge, I’d be bold and finish with a flourish: “Now I dare you to be the kind of hero you have always feared was beyond your capacity.”

CANCER Jun21–Jul22 “We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible,” declares psychotherapist Thomas Moore. I agree. Our mental health thrives when we can have candid conversations with free spirits who don’t censor themselves and don’t expect us to water down what we say. This is always true, of course, but it will be an absolute necessity for you in the coming weeks. So I suggest that you do everything you can to put yourself in the company of curious minds that love to hear and tell the truth. Look for opportunities to express yourself with extra clarity and depth. “To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion,” says Moore, “but it involves courage and risk.”

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I watched a video of a helicopter pilot as he descended from the sky and tried to land his vehicle on the small deck of a Danish ship patrolling the North Sea. The weather was blustery and the seas were choppy. The task looked at best strenuous, at worst impossible. The pilot hovered patiently as the ship pitched wildly. Finally there was a brief calm, and he seized on that moment to settle down safely. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you may have a metaphorically similar challenge in the coming days. To be successful, all you have to do is be alert for the brief calm, and then act with swift, relaxed decisiveness.

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“Show me a man who isn’t a slave,” wrote the Roman philosopher Seneca. “One is a slave to sex, another to money, another to ambition; all are slaves to hope or fear.”

Commenting on Seneca’s thought, blogger Ryan Holiday says, “I’m disappointed in my enslavement to self-doubt, to my resentment towards those that I dislike, to the power that the favor and approval of certain people hold over me.” What about you, Virgo? Are there any emotional states or bedeviling thoughts or addictive desires that you’re a slave to? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to emancipate yourself. As you do, remember this: There’s a difference between being compulsively driven by a delusion and lovingly devoted to a worthy goal.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 “Zugzwang” is a German-derived word used in chess and other games. It refers to a predicament in which a player cannot possibly make a good move. Every available option will weaken his or her position. I propose that we coin a new word that means the opposite of zugzwang: “zugfrei,” which shall hereafter signify a situation in which every choice you have in front of you is a positive or constructive one; you cannot make a wrong move. I think this captures the essence of the coming days for you, Scorpio.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 “We have to learn how to live with our frailties,” poet Stanley Kunitz told The Paris Review. “The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.” That’s the keynote I hope you will adopt in the coming weeks. No matter how strong and capable you are, no matter how hard you try to be your best, there are ways you fall short of perfection. And now is a special phase of your astrological cycle when you can learn a lot about how to feel at peace with that fact.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 How do plants reproduce? They generate seeds that are designed to travel. Dandelion and orchid seeds are so light they can drift long distances through the air.

Milkweed seeds are a bit heavier, but are easily carried by the wind. Foxglove and sycamore seeds are so buoyant they can float on flowing water. Birds and other animals serve as transportation for burdock seeds, which hook onto feather and fur. Fruit seeds may be eaten by animals and later excreted, fully intact, far from their original homes. I hope this meditation stimulates you to think creatively about dispersing your own metaphorical seeds, Capricorn. It’s time for you to vividly express your essence, make your mark, spread your influence.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 “It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves,” said philosopher Simone Weil. I hope that prod makes you feel a bit uncomfortable, Aquarius. I hope it motivates you to get busy investigating some of your vague ideas and fuzzy self-images and confused intentions. It will soon be high time for you to ask for more empathy and acknowledgment from those whose opinions matter to you. You’re overdue to be more appreciated, to be seen for who you really are. But before any of that good stuff can happen, you will have to engage in a flurry of introspection. You’ve got to clarify and deepen your relationship with yourself.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education,” said writer Mark Twain. That’s excellent advice for you to apply and explore in the coming weeks. Much of the time, the knowledge you have accumulated and the skills you have developed are supreme assets. But for the immediate future, they could obstruct you from learning the lessons you need most. For instance, they might trick you into thinking you are smarter than you really are.

Or they could cause you to miss simple and seemingly obvious truths that your sophisticated perspective is too proud to notice. Be a humble student, my dear.

Homework: Describe how you’ve fought off the seductive power of trendy cynicism without turning into a gullible Pollyanna. Freewillastrology.com.

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NEWS GAME CHANGER UCSC alum’s video game illuminates world of young, poor African-American men

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ed-and-white tiles line the walls under framed reviews from around the country. An army of 20-somethings stands behind the counter sporting matching red-andwhite T-shirts, and sacks of potatoes and boxes of peanut oil rest near the register, looking almost forgotten in the middle of the room.

It’s Wednesday, April 20, opening day for the Five Guys restaurant on Pacific Avenue. Only a half-dozen

tables in the 2,500-square-foot space are taken. It would appear to be an inauspicious debut for a burger joint on what happens to be stoners’ biggest weed-smoking celebration of the year. But Malav Patel, one of the franchise owners, says the chain never promotes the opening of new locations, hoping instead to spread the news through word of mouth.

Today is something of a “soft opening,” he says. Five Guys likes to open a location on a Tuesday

or Wednesday, and by Saturday night, Patel says, a line will be out the door. “It just happened to be Wednesday. Nothing to do with 420,” he says.

The atmosphere that Patel and his cohort are going for is “fast-casual,” a dining experience that’s slightly higher-end than traditional fast food, and a term that’s come to be the latest buzzword in the American food industry. >13

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You’re out of shampoo. So you grab your coat and keys, and head down the street to the closest grocery store. Whether you end up safely back home, terrified in a jail cell, or zipped up in a body bag has everything to do with your race.

At least, that’s the premise of &maybetheywontkillyou, a game designed

by Akira Thompson to shed light on what it’s like to be black in America. Thompson, a UCSC Games and Playable Media graduate program alumnus, took the name from over a dozen tweets sent by writer and activist Ijeoma Oluo in December, 2014.

Oluo’s dispatches came in response to the Department of Justice’s decision that it would not indict Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri the summer before.

“Don’t wear a hoodie and maybe they won’t kill you,” one tweet said.

“Don’t ask for help after a car accident and maybe they won’t kill you,” read another.

In Thompson’s game, the player experiences the trip to the store as a young, poor black man. Walking down the street, someone locks their car door as you, the player, pass by. A cop car slows down and shines its light on you. In the store, the store owner follows the character down every aisle. In every situation, the player has the option to say something, in which case the scene could dramatically change and end with the police. Or they can choose to “say nothing” and watch their “Frustration Counter” go up and up.

“That frustration—it can only be pushed down so far until it explodes, and the further down it gets pushed, the more crazy and huge the explosion will be,” says Thompson, who is African American.

UCSC literature professor Kimberly Lau says Thompson’s game forces people to understand what it feels like when frustration over racism starts to snowball.

“What is it like, that burden of people constantly being vigilant around you—always being under surveillance, unable to speak against that system?” says Lau, whose recent work includes examining masculinity in the popular “World of Warcraft” game.

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NEWS BUN APPÉTIT <11 Around the U.S., there is a growing number of chain restaurants itching to cater to the fast-casual crowd, including Shake Shack, the Habit, the Counter, and Blaze Pizza. Then there are the local eateries like Santa Cruz’s the Picnic Basket, which opened in 2011, and India Joze, which re-opened after a 10-year hiatus in 2010, and even a rotating slate of pop-up restaurants, like Lawman Ramen, which are only open a few hours a week.

The arrival of Five Guys as Santa Cruz’s first major chain in this category raises some questions, starting with whether or not Five Guys is fast-casual at all.

“They’ve got hamburgers, hot dogs and fries—and nothing else. How do you call that fast-casual?” asks Jozseph Schultz, chef and founder of India Joze, who suggests fastcasual dining is something closer to Chipotle Mexican Grill.

Patel, though—who for his part refers to the chain as the “Chipotle of burgers”—says it takes them just a little longer to prepare a meal than it would at a typical fast-food joint. “We don’t do fast food,” says Patel, who owns two other Five Guys locations, one in Salinas and the one

in the Capitola Mall that opened last fall. “It takes up to seven minutes to get the burger and the fries and the shake. So, it’s different than In-N-Out or somebody else, which has drivethrough. We can’t do drive-through, because our food takes longer.”

Patel, who prefers not to say what he did before coming to Five Guys, is wearing a McAfee anti-virus polo and light-blue jeans. He says that with 1,350 locations worldwide, Five Guys is on the cutting edge of the fast-casual trend. Shake Shack, an East Coast-based burger chain with more than 80 locations, made a splash of its own two years ago when it went public on Wall Street, where its stocks have performed well. After McDonald’s launched its “premium” burger line in the United Kingdom last year, many interpreted it as a response to the growth of chains like Five Guys and Shake Shack.

“It’s an interesting time when people are thinking, ‘Let’s try something really new and daring. How about … hey, hamburgers! Now there’s something we haven’t ever had,’” says Schultz, who worries that the efficiency and simplicity in a chain like Five Guys leaves out what’s best about restaurants.

“It started about 10 years ago that people started to do this, ‘Whoa.

Let’s be really transgressive. Let’s have a burger,’” Schultz says.

The fast-casual trend appeared to secure its footing in the Great Recession’s aftermath, as wages were slow to recover, prompting Americans to be more conscious about their dollars. (That may help explain why more expensive chains like Red Lobster and Olive Garden have suffered major losses in the past few years, forcing sales and restructuring.)

Particularly in Santa Cruz, Schultz says he doesn’t know how young people survive with living costs so high, insisting that 20-somethings pay 20 to 50 times what he paid when he moved here over 40 years ago.

Zachary Davis, who helped create the Picnic Basket and other “it” Santa Cruz dining destinations, says that after the recession, people have been more concerned about value than ever before, but that people are valuing more than just a great deal—they crave authenticity and want to know the story behind what they’re eating. That, he suggests, is why many chain restaurants have suffered.

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NEWS BRIEFS Possibly the highest-profile supporter of making Pacific Avenue one-way all the way has now backed off.

The board for the Santa Cruz Downtown Association (DTA) has rescinded its support of making the downtown street run one-way southbound. The board’s initial vote to back the traffic change had caught business owners on streets like Walnut Avenue off guard.

“There wasn’t as much outreach as was warranted,” says Chip, executive director of the DTA. DTA officials now say more

study would need to be done before they would support a two-year pilot program of the switch, which would require also a direction change on Lincoln Street and Walnut Avenue, where four parking spots would be lost.

“This is going to destroy Walnut Avenue. We should be trying make all the other streets like Walnut,” says Mia Bossie, co-owner of 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.

The one-way Pacific plan, which has the backing of both the Downtown Commission (separate from the DTA) and the Transportation and Public

Works Commission, heads to Santa Cruz City Council next month. Supporters have wanted to make the street more navigable for locals and tourists alike, hopefully even leading to a boost in retail.

Some thought the pilot program looked like a no-brainer, but enthusiasm was lukewarm at best.

“There was not a huge opposition, but there also wasn’t anyone that was hugely enthusiastic,” says Vice Mayor Cynthia Chase, who says things changed when people looked into the details and the Walnut businesses got more involved.

“It does make sense that we pump the brakes on this, so to

speak,” she explains, “and get some more analysis about how one-way would affect downtown.”

Patrice Boyle, the owner of Soif, which is across the street from 99 Bottles, says the one-way proposal felt like it was rushed through, along with wayfinding signage improvements and possible contra-flow bike lanes— changes that could instead be done one at a time.

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for &maybetheywontkillyou the day that his UCSC professor, renowned game designer Brenda Romero, showed the class her board game “Train,” which has never been available for sale and explores complicity in horrible crimes. In it, players have to put as many people onto a train as possible. It isn’t revealed until the end that they’re being shuttled to a concentration camp.

That day in class was the same day that the news of the Wilson court decision hit.

“It didn’t feel like justice was being properly served. It didn’t feel like the problem was being addressed in a meaningful way,” says Thompson, who recalls many of his Facebook friends worrying about the rioting and destruction in the aftermath. “When people riot, that is a long-term build-up from some issue that isn’t being addressed, and people feeling so disempowered and disillusioned that they feel like they have no other recourse.”

Thompson channeled his skills into something that could reach people and create empathy in people who may have never

experienced racism firsthand. To play the game in person, the player must wear a black hoodie and hold the Frustration Counter. A moderator holds a large binder, called the Resolution Penal Code, and asks the questions.

A similar online model, available on his company’s website Rainb.ro, features simple black letters against a white background.

Thompson has presented the in-person version of the game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the International Festival of Independent Games (IndieCade), the XOXO Festival, and a handful of others.

Reactions to the game, Thompson says, have differed depending on race. Sometimes he’s met with staunch disbelief, he says, because some people live so far removed from this world that it’s difficult to grasp. He’s got the numbers on hand to back him up.

An analysis by the ACLU of New York City’s stop-and-frisk policy found that nine out of 10 New Yorkers stopped were innocent, according to the NYPD’s own reports. Fifty-four percent of those stopped were black, according to the same report.

According to a Washington Post investigation, 990 people were shot and

killed by police nationwide, 9 percent of them unarmed. Whites made up 50 percent of the people who died, and African Americans, who account for 13 percent of the country’s population, made up 26 percent of the total group.

Thompson grew up across the river from Matt Hale’s white supremacist World Church of the Creator in Peoria, Illinois, where he and his siblings and a couple of other kids made up the school’s entire black population, he says. Luckily, he managed to avoid blatant or extreme racism outside of microaggressions.

After high school, he enrolled at Columbia College in Chicago and served in Iraq before working with Seamus Blackley, one of the creators of Xbox, at the Creative Artists Agency, and later as a production coordinator at Walt Disney Imagineering.

Disney’s resources were ample, says Thompson, but after a while he wanted to create something of his own, and dove into USC’s Cinematic Arts department in Los Angeles before making the move to UCSC. Thompson was drawn to UCSC because of Romero and her husband, John Romero,

who were both professors in the digital media department at the time.

Thompson’s newest release, Stop! Thief! was recently made commercially available on iPhone systems and explores how crimes like robbery are perceived when compared with major white-collar crimes.

The larger the scale, Thompson says, the less likely the person is to serve time.

Lau, who was excited to read about &maybetheywontkillyou, but has yet to play the game herself, says that society’s inequalities were carved out of a history of white supremacy, and that’s what his game conveys.

“He’s using the fact that games have a structure to get at the fact that racism also has structure—that there is institutional racism that operates through certain rules, maybe unspoken,” Lau says, “maybe unknown or unfair.”

Those structures reach deeper than dayto-day encounters, says Thompson. “It goes to believing it,” he says, “having self-worth issues and thinking ‘Well, society views me this way and everything in society is telling me that this is my value, so this is my value.’”

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Patel has also seen a shift in people wanting to know more about their food, and he says that’s why they leave containers of peanut oil and potatoes out in the open. “We want to convey the message of fresh. Those ones, those exact ones—that’s the oil that we’re going to fry them in,” he says.

Patel says part of what customers love about Five Guys is that the food is healthier than typical fast food. But with a $8.29 bacon cheese burger coming in at 925 calories before adding any toppings, eating off this menu doesn’t exactly scream healthy. And for years red meat has been linked to heart disease.

Still, Patel says that Five Guys is selective about its meat, which is never frozen and doesn’t come precooked. Typical customers, he adds, only eat at Five Guys once every week or two, maybe after a good workout.

“When I work out, I don’t mind eating whatever I want, because I feel that as a reward for my workout,” he says. “A lot of our customers eat here every week, every two weeks. They have planned it in their schedule— every Saturday I’m going to eat here, or every Sunday, I’m going to eat here, or whatever. They have a full schedule worked out.”

Davis, who can see Five Guys from Assembly’s patio across the street, says he’s curious to see how the chain does in Santa Cruz.

“I wouldn’t want to be a burger shop next door to them,” Davis says, his voice trailing off. “But you know, I don’t know if that’s true. Like, if I was Verve [Coffee Roasters], I would be tempted to open up next to Starbucks and steal their customers, because I think Verve is better than Starbucks. That was the Starbucks’ model for a long time—open up next to a local business and take their business. But I feel like if you’re doing something well, you can put the shoe on the other foot.”

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The film Drone features Brandon Bryant, an ex-U.S. Air Force drone pilot who killed more than 1,600 people. In the film he says of drone warfare, ‘It’s sort of like a bad science-fiction story. And we’re watching it happen.’ What are your main concerns about drones?

RAY MCGOVERN: Drones were developed for a specific and legitimate purpose: intelligence gathering. Satellites used to go over a certain point on earth just twice a day and people could predict exactly when they would come, so camouflage could easily be arranged.

The intelligence community had a felt need for what we called a “dwell” capability—a platform that would dwell over a certain suspected terrorist training camp, etc., and be there 24 hours a day, and watch for as long as a week. Lockheed and all those high-tech arms manufacturers were delighted to do this. And then a general in the Pentagon said, “I bet we could put missiles on those things. That would kill a lot of people.” So they asked the arms manufacturers, “Do you think you could do that?” and they said, “No problem.” When I was in the Army we struggled about “capture or kill.”

Now it’s just kill.

How does the use of drones affect the ‘war on terrorism?’

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Ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern discusses the realities and dangers of drones at Reel Work Film Festival screening

irector Tonje Hessen Schei’s Drone, a documentary about modern drone warfare, may seem like a strange selection for the Reel Work May Day Film Festival, which has been showcasing films about labor issues and working people for 15 years.

But festival organizer Jeffrey Smedberg says it’s a natural.

“Soldiers are workers in the military industry. Combatants and casualties on both sides of every conflict are working people,” exaplains Smedberg. “The Bill Motto VFW Post recognizes this connection and has partnered with Reel Work for many years, [highlighting] the brutalization of human beings and military workers’ resistance to dehumanizing conditions.”

This year’s festival runs through May 3 in Santa Cruz, Monterey and Santa Clara counties, with films on subjects as varied as California labor history, the link between mass incarceration and poverty, South African apartheid and climate change.

Drone will screen at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 30, at the Vets Memorial Building, paired with a talk by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern on “America’s Drone Program: The Dark Realities of Modern Warfare.”

In 1990, after 27 years with the CIA, McGovern found himself an expert on a country that no longer existed, the Soviet Union. After retiring, he dedicated himself to social-justice activism, including co-founding Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). GT spoke with McGovern about drones and his history with the CIA.

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Activists Kathy Kelly and Brian Terrell were arrested recently at Volk Air National Guard Base in Wisconsin where ‘shadow’ drones are piloted. What do you think are the best strategies for challenging the use of drones?

I have the utmost admiration for Kathy Kelly. She and I were on the U.S. boat to Gaza in 2011. Alice Walker was also on that boat. We got 9 nautical miles into the Aegean when we were intercepted by very

apologetic Greek Coast Guard people who said, “Please turn around.

We’re under orders.” What does Alice Walker say about activism?

She says, “I look at activism as the rent I pay for living on this planet.” … A group of Catholic workers and I shut down Hancock Air Force Base, where they push the buttons for the drones. I’m very happy to put my skin in the game. If you care about the kind of country that your children and grandchildren are going to inherit, it’s time now to put our bodies into the works, as Mario Salvo once said.

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Hillary Clinton comes in and everyone stands and applauds. The president of the university gets up and flowerly gives her fulsome praise. We’re all standing and I think, “This woman is responsible for untold misery for her own political fortunes.” I couldn’t let her leave thinking that everybody was rapt in warmth for her. That morning the only clean undershirt I had was my Veterans For Peace shirt, so I took off my outer shirt and stood up and turned my back on her. I didn’t say a word, and just fixed my gaze on the back of the auditorium. It went well for about two minutes.

Then all of a sudden I see this bulky guy in a civilian suit and I think, “Uh oh, this is going to have a no-good end.” And I’m taken down from behind. They put me in a chokehold and took me outside, where they administered some brutal stuff. Two pairs of steel handcuffs, and I was bleeding profusely from my wrists.

Hillary Clinton’s speech that day was about the necessity to provide protection for dissent … in Iran! It was something out of Franz Kafka.

You worked for the CIA for 27 years. How did the agency change in that time, and why did you leave?

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What people have to realize is that there are two CIAs. There is the one that President Truman intended— the analysis group—to tell him without fear or favor what’s going on in the world. He knew the Pentagon would tell him the Russians were 10 feet high. By ’48, the Russians had overrun Eastern Europe and the KGB was flitting all over the world overthrowing governments, so the leaders of our country in their wisdom said, “If the Russians are doing it, we have to have the capability to do it, too. We’ll put the covert action people right in with the analysts, and they’ll be one big happy family.”

I was able to tell the president

what I thought about the Sino-Soviet split, and later about larger things when I worked under presidents Nixon, Ford Ray McGovern and Reagan.

President Reagan liked to sleep in, so we did the morning briefing to his chief advisors and they briefed the President later at 11:30 a.m., a decent time for somebody from California. George H. W. Bush actually was a friend of mine; I briefed him every other morning for four years. I told them the truth.

Quite often, I didn’t know the whole truth. But they never asked me for the whole truth, because they were getting the whole truth from the covert operators. I was kept in the dark about covert actions. So, to this day you have this hybrid—what I call a “structural false.”

I turned 50 in August 1989, and I quit in January 1990. In November, it became clear the Soviet Union was going to collapse. I became an expert on a country that didn’t exist anymore. That was a bummer.

I can see where people would have a cognitive dissonance trying to figure out, “was there a part of the agency that did tell the truth?” There was, but it was corrupted by the likes of Bobby Gates and George Tenet and their acolytes. Bill Clinton came in and NATO was enlarged and that’s where we are today. Little did I know that I’d see my former profession corrupted to the point of falsifying intelligence to justify deceiving our elected representatives to authorize war. That’s as bad as it gets. Be afraid—not of terrorists so much. Be afraid of the incipient fascism that’s being introduced under that rubric military-industrial-Congressionalmedia-security-services-complex.

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WHEN VOICES MEET SHARON KATZ & MARILYN COHEN, 2015, 86 MIN, SOUTH AFRICA

11 a.m., Sunday, May 1, Nickelodeon Theatre, followed by 1 p.m. reception and performance at Calvary Episcopal “Red” Church When Nelson Mandela was released from prison, courageous South African musicians broke through Apartheid’s barriers to form a 500-voice, multiracial children’s choir. Threatened with bombs and thwarted at every turn, they prevailed and railroaded across the country aboard the Peace Train, singing their way into the hearts, minds and souls of a divided nation. When Voices Meet tells their story, and in conjunction with this screening, South African singer, choir director and activist Sharon Katz will perform songs from the Peace Train project featured in the film. Joining her will be the Santa Cruz Peace Chorale and Zabalaza, directed by Aileen Vance. Refreshments will be served.

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The Oscar-nominated director of Gasland continues in his deeply personal style, investigating climate change. Traveling to 12 countries on six continents, the film acknowledges that it may be too late to stop some of the worst consequences and asks: what is it that climate change can’t destroy? What is so deep within us that no calamity can take it away? Speaker: John Laird, Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency. Event Host: United Nations Association.

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epic stage dive from frontman Dan Potthast. Wilson had hijacked the mic for a few minutes to grumble about how happy he was and how much he loved everybody.

“I’m always stoked,” Wilson, who sometimes goes by the stage name Birdman, says of his Sunday morning festival routine. “It’s a therapeutic thing for me on Sundays to space out and feel the morning vibes and feel that the festival’s ending.”

This weekend marks the fourth annual DIO Fest at Camp Krem in Boulder Creek. The festival, which runs April 29 through May 1, has announced more sponsors than ever, including Mountain Feed & Farm Supply, and Lagunitas Brewing Company, which is supplying the festival with several kegs of Northern California beer. “Not that it’s a cornerstone of the festival, but we all appreciate beer, and it’s a part of festival culture,” Wilson says. “Financially, it’s going to help us out a lot.”

Wilson, who handles the festival booking, is also bringing in San Diego funk group Sure Fire Soul Ensemble, and Golden Void, a ’70s-style rock outfit, as well as Rushad Eggleston, an eccentric cello player who performed last year. Eggleston, a Carmel resident, is known as much for his virtuosity as he is for his wacky outfits, funny hats and standing up while playing and holding his cello, as if it were a guitar.

“We’re really honored to have him there again. He’s by far the weirdest but also the most prolific and amazing artist that will be at DIO this year,” Wilson says.

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When the first DIO Fest kicked off three years ago, many Santa Cruz songwriters who have since blossomed into successful touring acts were still so green that they hadn’t even developed local followings yet. Marty O’Reilly and his Old Soul Orchestra, for instance, had only been together six months.

“We were still developing and figuring this out, and we had just recorded our first album,” O’Reilly says. “It was a new festival, and we were very much a new product.

We’ve seen each part grow.”

“It’s kind of like a family reunion,” he says of the festival now. “You get to see what everyone has done in the past year and what everyone’s worked on.”

O’Reilly lives at the Tannery Arts Center, although he tours year round. His band released a new EP in December, and their next two-month tour begins in May in Indiana, followed by New York City, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

Singer-songwriter and Aptos native Kendra McKinley, who, like O’Reilly, played the festival in 2013, says she wouldn’t miss the event because she says she can’t imagine anything better than camping with friends and making music.

“The first year was just nice,” she remembers. “Not one of us could believe that it happened on Sunday.

We were all just blissed out and hungover. But we were like, ‘Yep, we’ve been through a music festival, and tomorrow’s Monday.’”

McKinley moved to San Francisco two years ago, and has been playing big shows at venues like the Fillmore.

McKinley, whose sound is somewhere between bossa nova and 1960s rock, is releasing a full-length album called Party Mask this summer, and following it up with a tour.

O’Reilly finds himself constantly telling people about DIO Fest and convincing friends they can’t skip it. The only festival he ever encountered that rivaled it in atmosphere was the Stendhal Festival of Art in Northern Ireland last August, when “it was just pissing rain for two weeks,” he says.

“Everyone is just covered in mud by the end of it because it’s pouring rain, and I didn’t go to bed until 11 in the morning because I was hanging out with all these amazing kids from England and Northern Ireland,” he says. “When festivals get too big, it’s hard to meet people that easily.”

The Do-It-Ourselves Festival starts at 1:50 p.m. on April 29 and runs through May 1. A three-day pass to the festival is $125. A one-day pass is $45. For more information, visit doitourselvespresents.com.

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A STITCH IN TIME Designer Christina MacColl in her home studio in downtown Santa Cruz. PHOTO: KEANA PARKER

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f anyone could turn the color orange into a visual statement both subtle and sophisticated, it’s fashion designer Christina MacColl. Even the front door of her cozy Craftsman bungalow is painted orange, I notice, as the dressmaker guides me through the spacious back garden and into her sewing studio.

MacColl took up sewing a while back at the suggestion of her sister, and became expert enough to now enjoy a Bay Area cult following for her bold coats and dresses. MacColl’s hallmark is her surprising choice of upholstery fabric.

“I like to work with patterns,” she explains, as we make our way through

her laundry storage area filled with dresses and coats hanging from zippered bags. MacColl’s clientele grew as people began stopping her on the street and asking where she got the clothes she was wearing.

“They asked where they could buy them,” she laughs. MacColl now shows her work with artisan colleagues of the Look Collective twice a year in Santa Cruz, and takes orders year-round from her expanding fanbase.

“I shop at Hart’s [Fabric] and wherever I travel," says the seamstress, freshly returned from two weeks in Cuba. Bins of antique buttons and rainbows of thread decorate her

tidy studio. “Portland has good fabric stores,” she reveals. “In San Francisco, I go to Britex for buttons—I love buttons. Or to Satin Moon on Clement,” she adds. My eyes enjoy the sight of giant carved deco-style buttons, the Bakelite kind my Auntie Da used to sew onto her swing jackets.

“Usually I make one-of-a-kind pieces. I want them to be distinctive, unique,” she says.

The studio, whose central work table was custom-made for the statuesque seamstress, is lined with sewing counters. Her equipment arsenal includes the workhorse Pfaff, a Serger—“to finish edges”—and, most recently, an industrial sewing

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machine for working with leather.

“Buttonholes are the trickiest thing,” she confides to me. As a lifelong amateur seamstress, I can relate. “I love to use big buttons.”

“If I wanted to sell my stuff in San Francisco or Carmel, I could charge twice as much,” MacColl says. But she wants her clothing to be accessible to everyone. “I look at clothing in stores these days,” she says, raising her impeccable eyebrows. “The prices!”

Born in Philadelphia and raised in South Jersey, MacColl is one of five sisters. She graduated from UMass with a degree in literature, but says she didn’t want to teach. “I was a jock, and I didn’t tap into my creativity until late,” she grins. (Her coral lipstick is perfection.) “My first girlfriend came out here for Five Branches in the mid-’80s and I came with her,” she says.

Fashion design beckoned, but unable to afford an art school education, MacColl settled on Wayne’s College of Beauty in downtown Santa Cruz. As a hair stylist at Jillz Hair Design Studio for many decades, MacColl is her own best model. “My clients see what I’m wearing, and they want me to make them something.”

Word of mouth does the rest.

“I’m excited by interesting clothing. Always coats. I bought upholstery for coats, and lots of buttons,” she says. “I make lined things in winter, and loose drapy cottons in the summertime.”

MacColl believes there’s no rhyme or reason to what sells, but likes to push her clients beyond their usual attire. “I don’t have much black in my collections,” she says. “I think people don’t think they can dress up here in Santa Cruz. But every day I dress for myself. I think you can be comfortable in these clothes. I’m not afraid to wear anything.”

Radiant in a sundress of her own construction, MacColl is enjoying a bit of down time from dressmaking.

“Right now I don’t have a show in front of me,” she says. “It’s good, because I have some ideas for leather that I want to explore. Sometimes you need time just to let things materialize.” We both grin. I take another close look at the dress she’s wearing. Custom.

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Safe At Home Senior Care

Ten years later, Safe At Home is still family owned and operated and has served thousands of customers throughout Santa Cruz County. For the last five years, they have proudly stood apart from their peers by being the only Diamond Certified home care agency in Santa Cruz, a distinction bestowed to businesses with outstanding customer service.

Director Ryan Colligan says personal relationships have been the focus of their care since day one, and they have invested considerably in their caregivers.

“We feel like we have the best pro-

fessional caregivers in the business,” says Colligan. “We look for people who look at caregiving as a career, and not necessarily as a bridge to something else. We look for people who really enjoy this kind of work, enjoy helping people, enjoy the companionship aspect, and are good at what they do. When we find those types of people we do our best to hold onto them.”

Colligan was drawn to the family business at an early age by Glenn, his stepfather, and became director of the company after, sadly, Glenn passed away in 2014. During Colligan’s summers in college, he worked as a caregiver at Safe At Home and its sister company, Oceanside Supported Living, which provides care for mentally disabled individuals, and saw firsthand the service they provided to the community.

“What really drew me was the gratification I got from helping other people, and the sense of knowing that we’re doing something great for the community,” says Colligan. “We’re providing a service that is much needed and in many cases life-changing. There are people that re-

ally need assistance to remain safe and comfortable in their own homes” After a decade providing service for Santa Cruz County residents, Safe At Home Senior Care still works with the same financial institution they started with when they opened their doors ten years ago—Santa Cruz Community Credit Union.

“Relationships were important to my stepfather,” says Colligan. “When we developed a relationship, he liked to work with that person or entity for a long time. That’s been the case with our relationship with Santa Cruz Community Credit Union.”

Furthermore, Colligan says the Credit Union has been flexible and responsive to their needs as the company has grown, working with them as they’ve explored different financial options.

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WINTER IS COMING The Dead Winter Carpenters play Moe’s Alley on Saturday, April 30.

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n 2000, Jenni Charles moved from the Lake Tahoe area to go to UCSC. She studied philosophy, religion, early childhood education, and jazz violin. But it was the extended Santa Cruz bluegrass community— found in jam circles, open mics and house concerts—that left a lasting impression, and satisfied the longtime musician’s need to play roots music.

“When I moved [to Santa Cruz], I was blown away by how many bluegrass musicians there were,” she says. “So many people were willing to play with bluegrass novices, such as myself. I was really impressed with how welcoming the community there is and how many people I met.”

These days, Charles is the fiddler

and one of the vocalists in Dead Winter Carpenters, a North Lake Tahoe-based band that blends progressive bluegrass, Americana, folk, and country into a sound that elicits both a careful listen and a good old foot-stomp. The band draws from American roots and pulls in some indie rock and psychedelic influences, but the thing that sets it apart from many other young roots acts is its embrace of the classic country sound, with slow slide guitar runs, perfectly placed Telecaster licks, and quick and tight drums.

It’s a sound the band—comprising Jesse Dunn on guitar, Charles on fiddle, Dave Lockhart on upright and electric bass, Bryan Daines on

guitar, and Brian Huston on drums, with all of them contributing vocals— comes by honestly, as several of the members grew up listening to classic country. They hail from different areas of the States, but they all love the classic country sound.

“We grew up all over the country,” says Charles “and the classic country thing is one thread that we all have in common. We love to pull from it, because it is such great music.”

You don’t hear of too many bands emerging out of the Lake Tahoe area but, according to Charles, the local music scene is rich and thriving.

“Even though the population is small, the community of musicians here is quite strong and diverse,” she

says. “With the casinos, we get huge acts that come in and play, but we also cater to tourists that come up, as well, so just about every bar or restaurant has a place for live music.”

Though they play in their hometown occasionally, the members of the band are bona fide road warriors, averaging about 180 Dead Winter Carpenters shows per year. This year, they’ve reduced that number to about 150, which still averages out to nearly three shows per week.

Formed in 2010 in the middle of winter—a fact that helped inspire the name—the band “hit the road hard” their first year. They had only been together five months before they started touring. Now, six years in, they’re working on furthering their own style.

“We’re always evolving our sound,” says Charles, “and trying to come up with new ways to stay fresh.”

A multi-faceted group, the members all write songs and take turns singing about love, letting go, the beauty of the natural world, and drinking—sometimes in the same song. They’re a fun, home-style band that’s open to new experiences.

Among other things, they’ve been featured on Jam in the Van, where bands record videos inside a solarpowered mobile studio, and the Gondola Sessions, where, during the course of a gondola ride in Aspen, Colorado, bands record two music videos—one on the way up the mountain and one on the way down.

On their new album, Washoe, the Dead Winter Carpenters introduce more indie rock to their saloon sound.

The album sees the band evolving and growing, but staying true to their highenergy, mountain music roots.

For this album, it was important to the band to capture the energy of their shows. They recorded as much as possible live in the studio, with everyone playing together.

“This album, with all its little nuances and everything, really has a lot more spirit than our last album,” says Charles. “It really captures what our energy is live. It sounds like us.”

Dead Winter Carpenters will perform with Bay Area roots band the Sam Chase at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 30 at Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $9/adv, $12/door. 479-1854.

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SAVE THE FROGS DAY Jump on board the world’s largest day of amphibian education and conservation action by participating locally in the eighth annual Save the Frogs Day. Conceived by SAVE THE FROGS!, the first and only public charity dedicated to amphibian conservation, Save the Frogs Day celebrates frogs while bringing awareness to a little-known fact: the frogs are disappearing. Take an amphibian-themed walk through Loch Lomond Recreation Area and learn about the work being done locally to protect amphibians, as well as invasive species issues, wetland restoration, and water management efforts. Presented by the City of Santa Cruz Water Department and the Resources Conservation District of Santa Cruz County.

Info: 10 a.m.-Noon, April 30, Loch Lomond Recreation Area, 100 Loch Lomond Way, Felton. savethefrogs.com/day. $6.

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Curated by artist, educator and Tannery resident Margaret Niven, “Rain Percussions” is an international collection of works by 20 artists, all inspired by their own interpretations of the rain. For two more weeks, the Tannery’s brilliant Radius Gallery is awash with visual and auditory representations of rain, in this impressively varied, mixed-media show that explores the history, science, culture, nurturance, absence and devastation of one of the world’s most valuable natural resource.

Info: Noon-5 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday through May 8, and until 9 p.m. on First Friday, May 6. Radius Gallery, 1050 River St., Studio #127, Santa Cruz. 7061620, http://radius.gallery. Free.

WEDNESDAY 4/27 ARTS COLOR YOUR STRESS AWAY A unique program for adults. Take time from your busy schedule and spend a relaxing hour in the library coloring. Designs and pencils provided. 5:30-6:30 p.m. 230 Gault St., Santa Cruz. 420-6330. Free.

CLASSES WHAT-IF WEDNESDAY “What-If Wednesday” is a combination of science and art that prompts wonder and discovery.

Weird, wacky science becomes wonderfully wild, while art and science are brought together. 11:30 a.m.-Noon. Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery. 888-4248035. Free with admission.

FOOD & WINE TRIVIA NIGHT Trivia night at 99 bottles. 21 and up. 8 p.m. 110 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz.

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DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ FARMERS MARKET In addition to a large variety of farm products, this market offers a great selection of local artisan foodstuffs, delicious baked goods, and lots of options for lunch and dinner. 1:30 p.m. Cedar and Lincoln streets, Santa Cruz. 454-0566.

GROUPS OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Young person’s focus. All ages welcome. Overeaters Anonymous is a 12-Step program for those who wish to stop eating compulsively, including anorexia and bulimia. 7-8 p.m. “The Cove” at UCSC, Kresge College, Building 393, Room 153.

Nate, 429-7906 or santacruzoa.org. Free.

NATURAL HEALERS NETWORK Come enjoy a like-minded group of dedicated Holistic Practitioners who meet the third Wednesday of each month to inform, inspire and share. Our goal is to build powerful relationships and depth of resources. 9:3011 a.m. Well Being Center, 5905 Soquel Drive, Suite 150, Soquel. info@lyona.info

FRIDAY 4/29 DANCE WITH SAMBADÁ Santa Cruz Dance Week keeps us grooving through the weekend with its wonderful sampler of pop-up dance events. Don’t miss the opportunity to dance with Worldanz and SambaDá in the open ocean air at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, April 29 at the lighthouse on Westcliff Drive, where they’ll be shooting their newest music video. Learn the dance ahead of time by visiting scdanceweek.com/sambada. There’s also still time to utilize Dance Week’s $10 all-class pass, which grants access to a variety of local dance studios and provides the opportunity to dip your toe into everything from hip-hop and Egyptian belly dancing to Samba, African, ballet, and much more, through Friday, April 29.

Info: Various locations. scdanceweek.com.

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NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA—APTOS/SANTA CRUZ A 12-step group for those who have been affected by the addiction or drug problem of another. Nar-Anon’s program is adapted from Narcotics Anonymous and uses Nar-Anon’s 12 Steps. 6:30-8 p.m. Santa Cruz and Aptos. saveyoursanity@aol.com or helpline or 291-5099. Free/donations.

HEALTH B12 HAPPY HOUR B12 can treat fatigue, anemia, anxiety, depression, PMS, heart disease and more. 3-6 p.m. 736 Chestnut St., Santa Cruz. 477-1377. $29/$17.

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THURSDAY 4/28 ARTS STORYTIME Join us for Storytime. Free with Museum admission and for MOD Members.

10:30-11 a.m. Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery. 888-424-8035. Free.

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INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY In collaboration with Kuumbwa Jazz, the UCSC Humanities department celebrates International Jazz Day with a panel of speakers followed by a headline performance by the Bay Area’s jazz and blues vocalist Kim Nalley. “Race, Class, and Culture through the Lens of Jazz” will explore the global historical role of jazz on race, class and culture with UCSC Dean of Humanities and author Tyler Stovall, UCSC history professor Eric Porter.

Nalley, a Ph.D. candidate focusing on the globalization of jazz and cultural politics will also join in the conversation before launching into her performance.

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Info: 7 p.m., Saturday, April 30. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. 459-5003, kuumbwajazz.org. $25.

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Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf Saturday, April 30th, 12 pm - 3pm International Artists Live Music Performances Free - Open to the Public Lifeforce Jazz JZZline Institute Starving Musicians Mayor of Santa Cruz

food from Jonathan Parvis’ Dead Cow BBQ. New features and performers every week. 3-6 p.m. The Tannery Arts Center, 1050 River St., Santa Cruz. 621-6226.

COMMUNITY POETRY CIRCLE Join the circle and write a poem in a creative and supportive environment. Open to all ages and levels of poets. Led by poet-teacher, Magdalena Montagne. 1-3 p.m. Aptos Public Library, 7695 Soquel Drive, Aptos. magdarose@hughes.net. Free.

CASTING CALL: FIVE SHORT FILMS Five short films have been developed and crewed with directors, DPs, sound utility, editors, associate producers and more. All we need now is amazing casts. More than 25 roles are available for ages 18 and up. 6:30 p.m. 2259 7th Ave., Santa Cruz. 475-9804.

FOOD & WINE TRIVIA NIGHT This festive event brings together trivia aficionados, boneheads and the chic geek for a night of boisterous fun.

8:30 p.m. Woodstock’s Pizza, 710 Front St., Santa Cruz. 427-4444.

GROUPS OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS OA is a 12-step program to stop eating compulsively. 1-2 p.m.

Trinity Presbyterian Church, Youth Room, 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. santacruzoa.org/ meetings or 429-7906. Free.

VOTE FOR NEW LEAF ENVIROTOKEN BENEFICIARIES Help decide which local nonprofits will be beneficiaries of New Leaf’s Envirotoken program for a year. Whenever you reuse a grocery bag at New Leaf, you receive a 10¢ Envirotoken to donate to the nonprofit

of your choice. Vote online until May 31 at newleaf.com/community/envirotokens. New Leaf Community Markets. Free.

SLV Caregivers Support Group Are you a caregiver of someone with Alzheimer's, dementia, or other long-term illness?

Connect with others, find out about services to help you, plus get valuable information and support. 2 p.m. Highlands Park, 8500 Hwy. 9, Ben Lomond. facebook.com/ valleywomensclub/ 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.

WOMENCARE: LAUGHTER YOGA Laughter yoga for women with cancer meets the first and third Thursdays. 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Call WomenCARE to register: 457-2273.

WomenCARE. Free.

FRIDAY 4/29 ARTS STORY TIME Free with Museum admission and for MOD Members. 10:30-11 a.m. Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery. 888424-8035. Free.

CALI ROOTS FESTIVAL TICKET GIVEAWAY Win a pair of three-day tickets valued at $400 to the California Roots Music and Arts Festival May 27-29 at Monterey Fairgrounds from event sponsor Equal Exchange and longtime partner New Leaf Community Markets. 7 a.m. Enter online at/ bit.ly/CaliRootsContest. 426-1306. Free.

JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG The play is a fictionalized account of the military trials of former Nazi judges. Its exploration of what caused the defendants and other Germans to do the evil that they did is frighteningly apt for the United States today. Times vary.

Cabrillo Black Box Theater, 6500 Soquel

ART LEAGUE

CLASSES COOKING FOR DIGESTIVE HEALING: GAPS DIET GAPS (Gut And Psychology Syndrome). Did you know that your gut can be referred to as your “Second Brain?”

This is because there is a HUGE connection between what’s happening with your digestion, and what you are experiencing psychologically. 6-8:30 p.m. New Leaf Community Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. 426-1306. $40.

ARGENTINE TANGO DANCING Tango Open Dancing. 8-11 p.m. Tannery World Dance and Cultural Center, 1060 River St., Santa Cruz.

For info on beginners classes please contact tangoalternativo@gmail.com. $10/$8/$5.

FOOD & WINE EVENT SANTA CRUZ FOOD TRUCK ROUNDUP Event Santa Cruz and Food Trucks A Go Go present: The Food Truck RoundUp. Come on down to our RoundUp, pull up a hay bale, and listen in on a great discussion with area event organizers, enjoy great food, plus great beer from Humble Sea Brewery. 5-8 p.m. Delaware Addition, 2120 Delaware Ave., Santa Cruz. 408-282-3878. $3.

61st Annual High School Show April 29 - May 22, 2016 Reception: May 7, Saturday, 3-5pm

Come in and see the wonderful paintings, drawings, sculptures, jewelry and more, created by your local high school students 526 Broadway Santa Cruz, CA 95060 (831) 426-5787 Wed-Sat. 12-5/Sun.12-4 1st Fri. 12-9pm www.scal.org

Call us for more info: (831) 426-5787 “Santa Cruz Art League”

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WATSONVILLE FARMERS MARKET This market is in the heart of the famously bountiful Pajaro Valley. Peaceful and familyoriented, the Hispanic heritage of this community gives this market a “mercado” feel. 2-7 p.m. 200 Main St., Watsonville.

HEALTH VITAMIN B12 FRIDAY Receiving B12 via injection means that people can increase their energy. B12 Fridays are a fun time for people to meet and mingle. 3-6 p.m. Thrive Natural Medicine 2840 Park Ave., Soquel. 515-8699.

SATURDAY 4/30 ARTS EN ROUTE URBAN DANCE SHOWCASE 2016 6 p.m. Cabrillo College Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. 479-6154. Buy tickets at bit.ly/1RFhYU5. $25/$20/$15.

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SENSORY PLAY Join us in the MOD Workshop for this new weekly class exploring sensory play activities. Messy sensory play gives young children endless ways to develop and learn, while using all their senses for creative thinking. 3-3:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery. 888-4248035. Free with admission.

Drive, Aptos. 479-6154 or cabrillovapa.com/ events/judgment-nuremberg. $16.

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FRIDAY 4/29 SUPER KID RACE

EVERY HUMAN RACE TEAM HAS A CAUSE THAT MATTERS

More than 35 percent of Santa Cruz County teens—twice the national average—and 49 percent of the county’s Latino youth are not at a healthy weight. With the understanding that juvenile obesity often turns into adult obesity and diabetes, Fitness 4 Life is working hard to curb juvenile obesity in Watsonville youth, which is disproportionately affected.

On Friday, April 29, more than 550 elementary and middle-school students will have free reign to celebrate fitness on an inflatable obstacle course in this year’s 11th annual Super Kid Race. The event is hosted by Fitness 4 Life, an award-winning program that gives Watsonville youth a leg up on a healthy, active future by offering them engaging, interactive after-school classes in nutrition, gardening, healthy cooking, swimming, dance, sports and more for more than 5,000 students and at no cost to families. The event will also include a bounce house, smoothie bike, taste tests, and DJ’ed dance party.

Info: 2:30-5:30 p.m., Watsonville High School Field, 250 East Beach St., Watsonville. Free.

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depending on the number of signups. Parking is behind the library, entering through the Bagelry parking lot via Soquel Drive. All are welcome. 2:30-4:30 p.m. Porter Memorial Library, 3050 Porter Road, Soquel.

479-4800. Free.

TINKER TIME Come join us for Tinker Time, an open-art hour for kids to learn and explore through art. 1-2 p.m. Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery. 888-4248035. Free with admission.

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FREE SWIM LESSONS WITH SEAHORSE SWIM SCHOOL In an effort to reduce accidental drownings, free swim lessons are offered to children and adults ages two and up. No swimming skills required. 1-3 p.m.

Seascape Sports Club 1505 Seascape Blvd., Aptos. Tiffany Harmon. Free.

FOOD & WINE 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, Saturdays, Cabrillo College. montereybayfarmers.org or akeller@ montereybayfarmers.org. Free.

WESTSIDE FARMERS MARKET The Westside Farmers’ Market takes place every week at the corner of Hwy 1 and Western Drive, situated on the northern edge of Santa Cruz’s greenbelt. This market serves the communities of the west-end of Santa Cruz including Boony Doon, North Coast, UCSC Campus and is a short trip from Downtown.

9 a.m.-1 p.m. Mission St., and Western Drive, Santa Cruz. 454-0566.

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SATURDAY 4/30 IRIS SALE & SHOW Set against the towering redwoods in Ben Lomond, the Brook Lomond Iris Farm is an organic haven for more than 40 colors and shapes of fragrant tall bearded irises. The farm will open its gardens to the public to come view, photograph and take home their favorite rhizomes this weekend and next during the Brook Lomond Iris Farm Sale and Show. Demonstrations will be offered on how to prepare and care for the rhizomes, which reach peak bloom around May and are drought tolerant and deer- and gopher-resistant.

Driving the farm production is a rich working composting system, and demonstrations will also be available on how to produce the rich gardener’s gold for the best blooms.

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Info: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, April 30, May 1, and May 7, Brook Lomond Iris Farm, 10310 California Drive, Ben Lomond. 336-2203.

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.

TODDLER CENTER BAGEL BRUNCH SILENT AUCTION Come join us for a wonderful morning of family fun, including: African drumming circle, face painting and a silent auction, all taking place at the beautiful Toddler Center play yard. Gluten free and vegan options available. 10 a.m.12:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Toddler Care Center,

1738 16th Ave., Santa Cruz. 476-4120 or sctcc.org. $10/$6/Free.

OUTDOORS SPRING WILDFLOWER WALKS The wildflowers are blooming! Join entertainer and wildflower expert/photographer Al Frisby on a leisurely 2-3 mile hike at Waddell Creek, and learn how to identify and photograph several types of California wildflowers. Meet at Kelly’s Bakery on the Westside at 9 a.m. for coffee and a chat, then head north to see what’s in bloom. Optional: Bring a notebook for identification notes and camera/phone to take photographs. Details and RSVP to aljfrisby@yahoo.com. $15.

BONSAI DEMO & WORKSHOP Don White, bonsai practitioner for more than 40 years, has been doing demonstrations at Alladin Nursery in Watsonville for many years. He will start with a demonstration and then

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Started in 2009 with the City of Scotts Valley, the market represents farmers and specialty food purveyors along with cookto-order food. This local market is the place for the Scotts Valley community to get their fill of fresh, healthy, locally grown fruits and vegetables. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. 360, Kings Valley Road, Scotts Valley. 454-0566.

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32ND ANNUAL CALIFORNIA INDIAN MARKET & PEACE POWWOW Awardwinning Native American, western, wildlife arts, crafts, dances, foods. Celebrating Cinco de Mayo with Aztec dance groups. Honoring military active duty and veterans. 10 a.m.

San Juan Bautista Soccer Field, The Alameda San Juan Bautista. 623-4771. Donation $1.

VOLUNTEER ANIMAL SHELTER RELIEF RESCUE ADOPTION FAIR Come meet some adorable animals who are looking for their forever homes! Animal Shelter Relief rescues cats and dogs from high-risk situations in Santa Cruz and the surrounding areas. Our ultimate goal is to reduce euthanasia numbers at local shelters. Noon. PetSmart, 490 River St., Santa Cruz. animalshelterrelief.org.

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SPRUCE UP YOUR GARDEN WITH RHODODENDRONS Besides obtaining choice rhododendrons from Bay Laurel Nursery in Scotts Valley, there will very likely be deciduous azalea series rhododendrons that were hybridized by Jerry Harris, who lives in Ben Lomond, California. 7:30 a.m. Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. 479-5012.

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SCM MAKERS MARKET come on out and shop local with over 40 artists and crafters, enjoy free live local music by Take 1, Taylor Rae, and the crooked branches while supporting the local nonprofit mountain community resources. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 6134 CA-9, Felton. Scmmakersmarket.com. Free.

THE CREATIVITY PLAYSHOP FOR ADULTS Explore and discover your creative process.

Play games, make art, converse and collaborate. 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 185 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz. 316-0918, Kaiwaspace.org or swirlsoup.com. $50.

MOTHER’S DAY GIFT FAIR Live Oak Community Resources is hosting its second annual Mother’s Day Gift Fair, one week before Mother’s Day. This free event features local food vendors, live music, raffle prizes, games and activities, and the opportunity to shop for jewelry, plants, clothing, skin care products, ceramics and more. 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Live Oak Elementary, 1916 Capitola Road, Santa Cruz. 688-8840 ext. 203. Free.

GROUPS HIDDEN GEMS FILM CLUB: NOT YOUR ORDINARY FILM CLUB The Santa Cruz Public Libraries invite you to an afternoon of cinema. Come and enjoy those “hidden gems” of foreign films, documentaries, independents and even perhaps some mainstream movies that you might have missed. 1-4 p.m. Santa Cruz Public Library, 224 Church St., Santa Cruz. 427-7717.

HEALTH GERANIUM DAY OPEN HOUSE The College of Botanical Healing Arts (COBHA) opens its doors to the public for a live demonstration of geranium steam distillation, essential oilinfused hors d’oeuvres, and a chance to learn more about essential oil therapy, including course offerings, teachers and workshops.

COBHA offers an exciting and unique statecertified 456-hour Holistic Health Certification program with two levels of training and 12 core courses. 11 a.m.-2 p.m., The College of Botanical Healing Arts, 1821 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. 831-462-1807. Free.

MUSIC EVERY CHILD OUTDOORS FESTIVAL Hosted by the Every Child Outdoors Foundation, all proceeds will benefit fifth- and sixth-grade students attending Santa Cruz County Outdoor Science School. Featuring hot jazz band Speakeasy 3, acoustic duo Will Fourt and Sheila Golden, folk band The Painted Horses, and juggling puppeteer Aaron Drake. 2-6 p.m.

Harvey West Clubhouse, 326 Evergreen St., Santa Cruz. Hannah, 435-9999 or everychildoutdoors.bpt.me. $40/$10.

OUTDOORS TOUR A THREE-ACRE RHODODENDRON GARDEN The Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society will feature a tour of the Monte Toyon Garden of Maury and Fran Sumner. Noon. 220 Cloister Lane, Aptos. 688-5420. Free.

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SATURDAY 4/30 26TH ANNUAL DUCKY DERBY It’s that time of year again: the time for thousands of bright yellow duckies to race around a 75-yard man-made waterway in the park. It’s the 26th Annual Ducky Derby, a lively family event sponsored by Omega Nu of Santa Cruz, a volunteer group with a focus on charity, service and scholarships to benefit the local community. Adults and children alike will find excitement in the fun-filled day of activities, which includes food, carnival games, live music and, of course, 12,000 rubber ducks racing in several heats. Adopt a duck to race by visiting duckyderbysantacruz.org, and you’ll be in the running to win one of 100 prizes, including gift certificates to a wide variety of local businesses.

Info: 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Friendship Gardens at Harvey West Park, 326 Evergreen St., Santa Cruz. Free.

VOLUNTEER TUTOR ORIENTATION Come to a one-hour orientation to learn how you can help an eager adult learn to read, write, and speak English.

No teaching or foreign language experience needed; requires only 2-3 hours per week. 6-7 p.m. 1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. 476-7284. Free.

TUESDAY 5/3 HEALTH CHAIR YOGA WITH SUZI Instructor Suzi Mahler, CMT NE will guide you through a

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series of gentle seated yoga postures that are performed slowly and with breath awareness.

9:30 a.m. California Grey Bears, 2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. 479-1055. $5.

OUTDOORS COMMUNITY DAY AT UCSC ARBORETUM The first Tuesday of each month, the Arboretum is open without charge to visitors. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. UCSC Arboretum, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz. 427-2998. Free.

FELTON FARMERS MARKET The Felton Farmers’ Market started in 1987 and is the second oldest market in Santa Cruz County.

In 2009, SCCFM took over operations and has since increased the variety of certified organic fruits and vegetables, artisan foods and implemented the EBT/SNAP benefit program. 2:30-6:30 p.m. 120 Russell Ave., Felton. 454-0566.

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use of varied artistic mediums. Children will paint, sketch, sculpt, design, and assemble as they make new discoveries and are delighted by art and science. 3-3:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery. 888-4248035. Free with admission or membership.

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LOCAL BAND KAT FACTOR

Gifted with both a powerful voice and a name fit for the stage, Kat Factor sings from a place that she describes as “spontaneous, fun, and deep.” Drawing inspiration from Sarah Vaughan, Factor’s smoldering vocals are well-suited for the jazz-fusion she performs both as a solo artist and with her folk band, Abalone Grey.

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When she first moved to Santa Cruz, Factor lived out of her ’89 Honda Accord, busking on Pacific Avenue before teaching children’s choir at Cabrillo College for three years. Now, in between getting her doctorate in Medical Anthropology at UCSC and raising a 4-year-old daughter, the singer finds time to write and perform her own music while booking and promoting the monthly Swing Night show at the Crepe Place. Not one to be pigeonholed, Factor is taking her sound in a completely new direction this summer with the release of a full-length electronic album.

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But despite her various endeavors, Factor’s “master plan” isn’t musicrelated: she hopes to one day open a medical clinic in her family’s hometown of Aloneros, in the Quezon province of the Philippines.

After visiting Aloneros in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, Factor was struck by the devastation: “Seeing the poverty in the Philippines made me realize, ‘Ok, if I’m onstage, it has to be for a larger purpose … I have a voice, I have a public platform. People are listening.

So what do I want to be telling people, if they’re listening?’” KATIE SMALL INFO: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 29-May 1 at Camp Krem, 102 Brook Lane, Boulder Creek. $45-$120.

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WEDNESDAY 4/27 DANCE-ROCK

THE HEAVY “How You Like Me Now?” is easily the Heavy’s most recognizable tune.

Released in 2009 while the group was getting a lot of hype, it’s a fun dance track that mixes old R&B, garage-rock and the simple yet effective sing-alongchorus—and very dark, very creepy lyrics (though few bothered to listen to them). Now the U.K. four-piece is back with a new record, Hurt & Merciless, with a new set of songs that are just as danceable and dark. AARON CARNES

studio album, Elaenia. The seven-track recording is a masterful work of dance music woven with streams of classical, jazz, funk, and experimental instruments and sounds that won him critical acclaim. Oh, and did I mention that during the five-year recording process he also earned his doctorate in neuroscience? Maybe that’s why he can create infectious music that takes over the brain. MAT WEIR INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst Atrium, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $15/adv, $18/door. 429-4135.

FRIDAY 4/29

INFO: 8:30 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $18/adv, $20/door. 429-4135.

GYPSY ROCK

THURSDAY 4/28

Once described as San Francisco's ambassadors of gypsy rock, Diego’s Umbrella blends Eastern European and traditional Roma music with rock, flamenco, ska, and a touch of polka. The resulting sound is not as crazy as it may sound—but it is as high-energy and wild as you might imagine, a musical tapestry that reflects our global culture of borderless musical styles. CAT JOHNSON

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FLOATING POINTS This British producer hit the U.K. dubstep scene in 2009, but abandoned his laptop the following year to embark on an entirely new endeavor. Armed with his Studer A80 master tape recorder, he spent the next five years engineering what would become his debut

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INFO: 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $12/adv, $15/door. 479-1854.

AMERICANA

KEITH GREENINGER Local singer-songwriter Keith Greeninger has made quite the name for himself in the folk/Americana scene. Born in the Santa Clara Valley, he moved to Santa Cruz during his high-school years, leaving for Colorado soon after graduation. But Santa Cruz was in his blood, and he eventually returned. His thoughtful and catchy music reflects our local landscape with its soulful storytelling. He will be joined by his friend, David Jacobs-Strain, an Oregonian with a mean slide guitar and the heart of a bluesman. MW INFO: 8 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz.$25/gen, $40/gold.

427-2227.

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HARMED BROTHERS One of the standout young roots bands in Portland, the Harmed Brothers get right to the heart of things with acoustic-based music that is raw,

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making music that is honest, warm, and stripped down. When asked about his change of heart around playing music, Peter has said it just didn’t feel right not to share his songs. CJ

Jason Lindner, a member of Donny McCaslin’s electro-acoustic quartet recruited by David Bowie for Blackstar, round out the estimable band. This concert is half price for students. ANDREW GILBERT

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

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

MONDAY 5/2

HIP-HOP

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

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SUNDAY 5/1 FOLK

PETER HARPER Born into a musical family and growing up in his family’s shop, the Folk Music Center and Museum in Claremont, California, one would think Peter Harper would have gravitated to a career in music—his brother Ben certainly did. But Peter did his best to avoid music and took a different route, studying fine art and becoming a bronze sculptor. In the last few years, however, Peter has come around to embrace his musical DNA and is pursuing the singer-songwriter life,

AVISHAI COHEN QUARTET During his long run in the SFJAZZ Collective (2009-2015), Israeli-born trumpeter Avishai Cohen brought a bracing combination of poise, drama and technical bravado to the ensemble. Released in February, his new album Into the Silence revealed a different facet of his musical persona, with its brooding Romanticism, elegiac mood, and compressed lyricism. For his West Coast tour, he’s performing with a quartet propelled by Silence drummer Nasheet Waits, a superlative accompanist who spent years in pianist Jason Moran’s Bandwagon.

Young Israeli bassist Tal Mashiach, who also performs with Cohen’s older sister, reed expert Anat Cohen, and pianist

CAKES DA KILLA There was a time when it was unheard of for a male rapper to be openly gay.

Then, as society loosened up, artists emerged and plenty of articles were written on it, mostly taking a very serious tone. Cakes Da Killa emerged about five years ago, and then three years ago released his breakthrough mixtape, The Eulogy. As serious as the discussion about gender and orientation became around hip-hop, Cakes has delivered some of the most fun, raunchy, and hilarious music from any rapper in the past decade. His pronouncement of how much he loves having sex with men, in his rapid-fire Brooklyn flow, will bring to mind Nicki Minaj (but better). AC INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $12/adv, $15/door. 429-4135.

INFO: 8 p.m. Saturday, May 7. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. $27-$72. 426-6966. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, April 29 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the concert.

IN THE QUEUE NATURAL VIBRATIONS

Fun-loving reggae outfit from O’ahu, Hawaii. Wednesday at Moe’s Alley ENSEMBLE MIK NAWOOJ

Genre-bending Bay Area band blending classical, jazz, and hip-hop. Thursday at Crepe Place WASABI

Local funk-rock power trio. Thursday at Kuumbwa PRIDE & JOY

Beloved Bay Area band pays tribute to the Motown era. Friday at Don Quixote’s CRYSTAL BOWERSOX

Singer-songwriter and American Idol finalist. Sunday at Kuumbwa

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honest and without pretension. Led by guitarist/vocalist Ray Vietti and banjo player/vocalist Alex Salcido, the band draws comparisons to early alt-country acts, including the pioneering band Uncle Tupelo—not bad for a couple of young artists with great musical chemistry and a penchant for making heartfelt roots music. As Vietti said last year, “We’re pretty good at making each other a little bit better.” CJ

Originally a poem written in the late1700s, “Ode to Joy” is best known as the final movement of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, which is widely considered one of the greatest compositions in western music. In that context, the piece has been described as “one of mankind’s supreme epiphanies of love and goodwill,” with its swirling melodies, triumphant horns, and rafter-raising vocals. On May 7, the Santa Cruz Symphony, featuring vocal soloists from the Metropolitan Opera and the Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus under the direction of Cheryl Anderson, bring the masterpiece to town. CAT JOHNSON

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LIVE MUSIC

THANK YOU FOR VOTING US 1ST PLACE BEST LIVE MUSIC Wednesday April 27th 9pm $15

WED

Reggae From Hawaii

NATURAL VIBRATIONS Thursday April 28th 8:30pm $9/12

Funk & Soul w/ Orgóne’s Former Lead Singer

NIKI J CRAWFORD + AFROFUNK EXPERIENCE Friday April 29th 9pm $12/15 A Very Special Co-Bill With

DIEGO’S UMBRELLA + ZACH DEPUTY Saturday April 30th 8:30pm $9/12 Album Release Celebration

DEAD WINTER CARPENTERS, THE SAM CHASE & RIN TIN TIGER

APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

4/28

THU Open Mic Night, The Cherry Bombs Free 8p

Preacher Boy 6-8p

FRI

4/29

SAT

4/30

SUN

5/1

MON

5/2

TUE

5/3

Healing Voices Film Free 2p Al Frisby 6-8p

Minor Thirds Trio 6:30-9:30p

Lloyd Whitney 1-5p Alabama Mike 6-8p

Blues Mechanics 6-8p

Aki Kumar 6-8p

Lara Price 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

SC Cypher Sessions, L-MO 415 & more $5 9p

Comedy Night/80s Night Free 8:30p

Arrows, Haunted Ghost Town, The Imperialist $5 9p

DNA Presents and The Box (Goth Night) Destiny’s Mom Present 9p Grant Gordon $5 8:30p

Death Eyes & Losing Teeth $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

Filibusta/Megan Hamilton Free 8p

Nova Saves Free 8p

BLUE LOUNGE 529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

Knutzens Free 8p

CASA SORRENTO 393 Salinas St, Salinas

PETER HARPER

CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Tango Ecstasy 6-9:30p

Comedy Night 9p

Back to Nowhere 9-11:45p Do Rights Burlesque $5 Swing Dance $5 5:30p 8p Roadhouse Karaoke Aria Free 9p Free 8p

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

+ ASHER

Al Frisby 6-8p

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

Sunday May 1st 8pm $7/10

Folk For The 21st Century With

4/27

THE APPLETON GRILL 410 Rodriguez St, Watsonville

Sound Off Saturdays Reggae Party Free 9p

Karaoke 9p

Karaoke 9p

Kottonmouth Kings $19/$24 8p

Justin Martin $10/$20 8p

The Slackers $12/$15 8p

The Movement $12/$15 8p

Jazz Society Donation 3:30p Lis the Songwriter Free 8p

Songwriter Showcase 7-10p

DJ Luna 9p

The Heavy $18/$20 8p

Floating Points $15/$18 8:30p

Benefit for Costanoa School Prom $4/$7 8p

Cakes Da Killa $12/$15 8:30p

Rooney $14/$16 8p

Tuesday May 3rd 8:30pm $7/10 California Bluegrass With

SWEETWATER STRING BAND +

ONE GRASS TWO GRASS & JOE KAPLOW Thursday May 5th 9pm $25/30 New Orleans Funk Favorites

DUMPSTAPHUNK Friday May 6th 9pm $25/30

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Funk & Soul Dance Party

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KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE May 7th EDGE OF THE WEST + LACY J. DALTON May 8th HENRY CHADWICK May 12th RODDY RADIATION + TINGLY May 13th THE RECORD COMPANY May 14th 7 COME 11- album release party May 15th CURTIS SALGADO (afternoon) May 15th MATT ANDERSON (eve) May 18th MIPSO + STEEP RAVINE May 19th KING JAMMY May 20th NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE May 21st SAMBADÁ May 24th KING GIZZARD May 27th, 28th THE ENGLISH BEAT May 30th GONDWANA + Fayuca

WWW.MOESALLEY.COM 1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz 831.479.1854

International Music Hall and Restaurant

OPEN LATE EVERY NIGHT!

FINE MEXICAN AND AMERICAN FOOD ALL YOU CAN EAT LUNCH BUFFET M-F $7.95 Wed Dan Frechette & Laurel Thomsen Apr 27

wednesday 4/27

CD Release Alt-folk

UNPOPPABLE

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

Thu David Nelson & Eric Thompson Apr 28

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

Of David Nelson Band / Eric of Jerry Garcia’s Early Bluegrass Band

thursday 4/28

ENSEMBLE MIK NAWOOJ Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $10 Door

friday 4/29

BEACH FUZZ

w / WALLY JOYNER w / MUST BE THE HOLY GHOST Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 Door

saturday 4/30

HARMED BROTHERS w / TOM VANDENAVOND w / ACOUSTA NOIR

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

sunday 5/1

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

monday 5/2

mix tape monday Show 9pm $3 Door

TUESday 5/3

7 COME 11 Show 9pm $5 Door

MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz

429-6994

$20 adv./$20 door 21 + 8pm

All views – all the time.

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

crowsnest-santacruz.com

Fri Pride & Joy Apr 29

Premiere Motown & Soul Review $17 adv./$17 door 21 + 8pm

Sat Spirit of ’76 Music Of The Grateful Dead Apr 30

$12 adv./$15 door 21 + 8:30pm

Sun May 1 Drake White and The Big Fire

“an electric performer with a gospel howl” Rolling Stone Country

$12 adv./$12 door 21 + 7pm

Thu Sisters Morales Cinco de Mayo Concert May 5

Mexican-American sisters from San Antonio CHICKEN MOLE DINNER SPECIAL

$12 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm

Fri Sharon Allen with Her Dusty Boots and Blues May 6

“A Night of Folk, Alt-Country and Blues— We’re going to dance tonight”

$15 adv./$18 door 21 + 8pm Sat EmiSunshine plus The Rain May 7

She’s 11 & from Tennessee. Think “Old Soul”. Think Doc Watson, Dolly Parton, Janis Joplin, Carter Family.

$15 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 8pm COMING RIGHT UP

Sun. May 8 Thu. May 12 Fri. May 13 Sat. May 14

Rick Scott, Neal Hellman, Verlene Schermer Jeffrey Foucault Almost Cut My Hair Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Tribute Foreverland Electrifying 14-Piece Michael Jackson Tribute

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

LIVE MUSIC WED

4/27

THU

4/28

FRI

4/29

SAT

4/30

SUN

5/1

MON

5/2

TUE

5/3

CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Unpoppable $5 9p

Ensemble Mik Nawooj $10 9p

Beach Fuzz, Wally Joyner, Must Be the Holy $8 9p

Harmed Brothers, Tom VandenAvond, Acousta $10 9p

Bob Wayne $10 9p

Mix Tape Mondays $3 9p

7 Come 11 $5 9p

Hot Club Pacific $3 7:30p

Isaac and the Haze $5 8:30p

FishHook $7 9:30p

Hall Pass $7 9:30p

Live Comedy $7 9p

Open Funk Jam Free 8p

Reggae Party Free 8p

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

KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

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

David Nelson & Eric Thompson $20 8p

Pride & Joy $17 8p

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville

Spirit of ‘76 $12/$15 8:30p

Flingo 7:30p

IT’S WINE TYME 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

Open Mic 7p

KUUMBWA 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

One Country Free 8p

Jeff Gardner and the Tools 9p

Shotgun Suitor 2p

LIVE & LOCAL: WASABI Funk-Rock Power Trio 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS Friday, April 29 • 8 pm

AN EVENING WITH KEITH GREENINGER AND DAVID JACOB STRAIN Tickets: BrownPaperTickets.com

Saturday, April 30 • 7 pm

Drake White and the Big Fire $12 7p

RACE, CLASS, AND CULTURE THROUGH THE LENS OF JAZZ: FEATURING VOCALIST KIM NALLEY Panel discussion

The Western Skylarks

HENFLING’S 9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond

Thursday, April 28 • 7 pm

INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY!

Esoteric Collective Dan Frechette & Laurel Thomsen $10 7:30p

Celebrating Creativity Since 1975

The Joint Chiefs 4p

Roadhouse Karaoke 7:30p

Tickets: ihr.ucsc.edu

+ concert

Sunday, May 1 • 7 pm

CRYSTAL BOWERSOX Wasabi $15 7p

Keith Greeninger and David Jacob Strain $25/$40 8p

Tickets: PulseProduction.net Kim Nalley $30 7:30p

MALONE’S 4402 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley

Live Music 5:30-9p

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

Paul Logan 7-10p

Acoustic Soul 7-10p

B-Movie Kings 8-11p

Stormin’Norman and the Cyclones 8-11p

MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Broken Shades 6p

Al Frisby 6p

Lloyd Whitley 6p

Al Frisby 6p

Crystal Bowersox $27 7p

Avishai Cohen Quartet $25 8p

Monday, May 2 • 7 pm

AVISHAI COHEN QUARTET Avishai Cohen - trumpet, Jason Lindner - piano, Tal Mashiah bass, Nasheet Waits - drums 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS

Karaoke w/Ken 9p

Rand Rueter 6p

Preacher Boy 6p

Wednesday, May 4 • 7 pm

DAKHA BRAKHA Everything from punk-pop to traditional Ukrainian songs Friday, May 6 • 8 pm

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Wednesday, April 27 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

THE HEAVY plus The Peach Kings

Thursday, April 28 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

FLOATING POINTS (Live) Friday, April 29 • Ages 16+

7 years in a row

209 PACIFIC AVENUE SANTA CRUZ 831.429.8070 MOTIVSC.COM

Friday, April 29 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

THE SLACKERS plus Viernes 13 Saturday, April 30 • Ages 18+

JUSTIN MARTIN (Dirtybird) Saturday, April 30 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

THE MOVEMENT plus Iya Terra

Sunday, May 1 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

THRASH COMPACTOR

Monday, May 2 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

CAKES DA KILLA

Tuesday, May 3 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

ROONEY plus Wild Wild Horses

May 5 Jadakiss/ DJ Aspect (Ages 16+) May 7 Lucius/ Margaret Glaspy (Ages 16+) May 10 Aesop Rock (Ages 16+) May 11 Luca Turilli’s Rhapsody/ Primal Fear (Ages 16+) May 12 KDON’s Major Rager (Ages 18+) May 13 Memphis May Fire/ We Came As Romans (Ages 16+) May 15 Illenium/ Said The Sky (Ages 18+) May 16 Charles Bradley (Ages 16+) May 17 Somo/ Quinn XCII (Ages 16+) May 18 B.o.B./ Scotty ATL (Ages 16+) May 19 Young Thug (Ages 16+) May 20 Leon Russell (Ages 21+) May 27 Stephen “Ragga” Marley (Ages 16+) Jun 2 Jon Pardi (Ages 16+) Jun 3 Bad Religion (Ages 21+)

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

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

www.catalystclub.com

Tickets: Streetlight Records and Tix.com

Sunday, May 8 • 7 pm

Bay Area Flamenco presents: FIESTA FLAMENCA DE CANTE GITANO Tickets: Eventbrite.com

Monday, May 9 • 7 pm | No Comp Tix

BILL CHARLAP TRIO From the Great American Songbook classics to obscure bebop tunes Thursday, May 12 • 7 pm

FORMANISM: BRUCE FORMAN TRIO Bop-oriented guitarist!

Monday, May 16 • 7 pm

ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ TRIO A new generation of Cuban pianistss featuring guest vocalist Ganavya Doraiswamy 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS Thursday, May 19 • 7 pm

THE GUITARSONISTS: CHRIS CAIN, MIGHTY MIKE SCHERMER AND DANIEL CASTRO 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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BEST DANCE CLUB

KOTTONMOUTH KINGS

BEGGAR KINGS

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BBQ BEER BLUES

BBQ

BEER

BLUES

Wed. April 27 Al Frisby 6-8 pm Thurs. April 28 Preacher Boy 6-8 pm Fri. April 29 Al Frisby 6-8 pm Sat. April 30 Lloyd Whitney 1-5 pm Alabama Mike 6-8 pm Sun. May 1 Blues Mechanics 6-8pm Mon. May 2 Aki Kumar 6-8 pm Tues. May 3 Lara Price 6-8 pm

LIVE MUSIC WED

4/27

THU

4/28

FRI

4/29

SAT

4/30

SUN

5/1

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TUE

5/3

Niki J Crawford, The Afrofunk Experience $9/$12 8p

Diego’s Umbrella, Zach Deputy $12/$15 8p

Dead Winter Carpenters, Peter Harper, Asher Sam Chase $9/$12 8p $7/$10 8p

Sweetwater StringBand, One Grass, Two Joe Kaplow $7/$10 8p

MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Depth!

9:30p-2a

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

Shawn Steele 9:30p-1:30a

Thomas Young 9:30p-1:30a

Hip-Hop w/DJ Marc 9:30p-Close

Jeremy Powell and the Special Guest Stars 7-9p

The Crafters 7-9p

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

Trivia 8p

Trivia 6-8p

Asher Stern 10p

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

Jam Session w/ Burnin’Vernon Davis 7p

THE POCKET 3102 Portola Dr, Santa Cruz

Rasta Cruz Reggae Party Eclectic Bass Event 9:30p-Close 9:30p-Close

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Isaiah Picket

7th Wave

The SubOrbitals $5 9p

The Pops Phillips Project $5 9p

Blues for Bernie Sanders, Robin Anderson Big Dale Ockerman & Friends Band, Ruby Rudman $10 9p 7p

Catalina Scramblers 4-7p

Soulciter 4-7p

Comedy Open Mic 8p

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

THE SAND BAR 211 Esplanade, Capitola

Comedy 9p Open Mic 7:30-11:30p ‘Geeks Who Drink’ Trivia Night 8p

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

Coastal Connection 6p

Kenny of Water Tower 6p

Trivia 8p

Open Mic 7:30p

Maria en tierra de nadie Free 7-9p

ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

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Natural Vibrations $12/$15 8p

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

8059 APTOS ST, APTOS APTOSSTBBQ.COM | 662.1721

MON

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

Little Petie & the Mean Ol’Men 7-11p

Sasha’s Money 8-12p

Tsunami 8-12p

Dennis Dove 7-11p

Alex Lucero 7-11p

LIVE MUSIC WED

4/27

THU

4/28

FRI

4/29

SAT

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

4/30

SUN

5/1

MON

5/2

TUE

5/3

Yuji Tojo

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz

APR 28 Film: Maria en tierra de nadie

Broken Shades

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

Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-10p

Funkrunomican 7:30-11:30p

Beach Cowboy Band 8-11:30p

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

Chas & Friends 6-9p Thirsty Thursday, Local Music $4 5-7p Jim Lewin and Edge of the West 5-7p

UGLY MUG 4640 Soquel Ave, Soquel WHALE CITY 490 Highway 1, Davenport

The Night Creepers 7-9p

MAY 05 Kathleen Madigan MAY 06 Tommy Emmanuel

Trivia Night Grampas Chili Free 9p

Upcoming Shows

TBA 6p

Taco Tuesday Billy Manzik 7-9p

Open Mic w/Mosephus 5:30p

Jug Band Sing Along 6p

MAY 07 Warren Miller Ocean Films MAY 10 Mandell Lecture: The Search for Life in the Universe

MAY 18 Lecture: Chris Wilmers MAY 20 Billy Elliott the Musical

Inangibillies 5-7p

WHARF HOUSE RESTAURANT 1400 Wharf Rd, Capitola

MAY 21 Billy Elliott the Musical

Burnin Vernon Davis

MAY 22 Mac DeMarco S O L D

OUT

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

The Leftovers 9:30p

Soulwise 9:30p

MAY 28 Billy Elliott the Musical

Clay Whittington 7-9:30p

Magdalena Parker & Robert Ridder 7-9:30p

JUN 03 Billy Elliott the Musical

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

Live Music 7-9:30p

MAY 27 Billy Elliott the Musical

JUN 04 Billy Elliott the Musical JUN 09 Film: Vertical Lines JUN 25 David Bromberg AUG 13 The Beggar Kings

Follow the Rio Theatre on Facebook & Twitter!

Apr. 28 Todd Rundgren 8pm

Our 7th Year Same Great Location • Same Great Reputation

Apr. 29 Paula Poundstone 8pm

501 River St, Santa Cruz • 831-466-9551

May 5 The Marshall Tucker Band with Moonalice 8pm

Sponsored by KAZU 90.3

May 11 Jewel 8pm We’ll matc h any local clin ad specia ic l! w/copy of th is ad

Jun. 4 The Biggest Game in Town 7pm Jun. 25 Al DiMeola 8pm Jul. 2 Judy Collins 8pm Sep. 15 Art Garfunkel 8pm

MON-SAT 12-6PM

Sep. 22 Iris Dement and Loudon Wainwright III 8pm

ONE STEP EVALUATION PROCESS WALK-INS WELCOME GET APPROVED OR NO CHARGE!

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

TUESDAY DINNER SPECIAL 2-TOPPING LARGE PIZZAS 1/2 PRICE DINE IN ONLY 6-9 ALSO KARAOKE 6-10 FRIDAY APRIL 29TH SKANKS ROOTS PROJECT, LUJAN, JANELLE PHILLIPS, MILITIA OF LOVE, DJ SUGERBEAR SPECIAL GUEST DONOVAN BANZANA SATURDAY APRIL 30TH DJ JESSE SERRANO HIP HOP, LATIN, HOUSE, DANCE, REGGAETON, OLD SCHOOL, TRAP/TWERK

393 Salinas St, SALINAS (oldtown) 831.757.2720 // casasorrento.com

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May 7 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy 8pm

Growrs e Lettb a le dto avail ifie qualie pat nts

831.423.8209 www.riotheatre.com

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HUMP DAYS Film-scene fixture and world traveler Nancy Raney on a camel in Morocco. PHOTO: COURTESY BILL RANEY

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Bon voyage to local film icon Nancy Raney BY LISA JENSEN

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he never actually made a film, but Nancy Raney was the undisputed godmother of the Santa Cruz movie community. When she took her final bow last week, surrounded by her loved ones, it was truly the end of an era.

As co-owner of the Nickelodeon Theatre with her husband, Bill Raney, who opened it in 1969, Nancy was the theater’s one-woman publicity department. As soon as a movie was booked, Nancy was on the phone to get the word out, not only to us inkstained wretches of the press, but also to anyone else in town she could think of who might be remotely interested in the film, or its subject—schools, service groups, foreign language societies, politicians, surfers, artists, musicians, you name it.

She was also a tireless cheerleader for arts and culture in Santa Cruz.

She attended, promoted, or otherwise supported such local institutions as Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Symphony, Pacific Rim Film Festival and Santa Cruz Public Libraries, among others. An avid reader, she loved to organize cross-promotions with Bookshop Santa Cruz or Capitola Book Café anytime a movie came out with a literary pedigree.

But perhaps Nancy’s most indelible influence on our arts scene—besides her buoyant personality—were the advance press screenings she organized at the Nick so local scribes could get their reviews in print the same week a movie opened. I was only a lowly stringer at Good Times in 1976 when Nancy first invited me to a screening. She greeted us in the lobby and ushered us into the auditorium, exuding her usual warmth and good humor. She had my life story out of me in no time

(granted, at age 22, my story was pretty short). It’s not that she pried, exactly, but she was always so interested in other people, and we all found her interest irresistible.

As I inherited the job of full-time film critic, Nick screenings became a weekly event in my life. At first, I remember being worried about a potential conflict of interest: heaven forbid I should let myself get too chummy with the proprietors of a local movie house. Ha! I found I couldn’t maintain a sense of aloof, professional decorum for very long with Nancy. She was way too much fun.

It was never held against me when I wrote a negative review—and I wrote plenty. Nobody laughed about the stinkers more uproariously than Nancy. When I once revealed to her that I kept a mini-bag of M&Ms in my purse to keep me awake if a movie dragged, she gave me a family-

sized jar of M&Ms for Christmas.

When I married Art Boy (yes, Nancy was one of the few people in town I knew even longer than I’ve known him), he and I started hanging out with Nancy and Bill regularly at the Raneys’ mountaintop retreat above Happy Valley, enjoying Nancy’s great dinners, telling stories, and always laughing like crazy. When we started hosting Oscar Night parties for local film folk, Nancy and Bill were at the top of the A-list.

A trip we once took to the city turned into Nancy’s Swanky Public Restroom Tour of San Francisco.

Upscale department stores, uberplush restaurants and hotels, she knew them all. Then there was the time that Nancy, the instigator—in cahoots with Stacey Vreeken, one of my favorite ex-Good Times editors— sprung a surprise 50th birthday party on me, featuring just about everybody I knew in town.

When I took my first halting steps into fiction writing, Nancy was there to cheer me on. She read all of my unpublished novels in manuscript form (talk about a trooper), and when I finally got one into print, she made sure her book club read it.

Nancy was no mean hand at writing, herself. A veteran traveler, she and Bill favored remote destinations— Yellowknife, in Canada’s Northwest Territories; Papua New Guinea; African safaris—and she wrote some fine travel pieces for the alternate alt-weekly. (In a photo in the Raneys’ hallway from one of her last trips, Nancy is beaming down from the back of a camel.)

To my undying admiration, she once journeyed along the Trans-Siberian Railway (by herself) to St. Petersburg to visit the Hermitage Museum. For years, I was helping her edit her memoir of this astonishing event, but her life was always so full, I don’t know if she ever had time to finish it.

It’s hard to imagine Santa Cruz without Nancy Raney. I loved her pretty much from the minute I met her in the lobby of the Nick, and that never changed. We were as close as family—closer than most—but now it helps to imagine her perched on that camel, off on her next adventure.

There will be an open house in memory of Nancy Raney from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Nickelodeon on Saturday, June 4.

MOVIE TIMES April 29-May 5

All times are PM unless otherwise noted.

“Stirring...Ethan Hawke’s performance rises to jaw-dropping, Oscar-worthy intensity.”

- Ben Dickinson, Elle

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A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING Daily 2:20, 4:40 + Wed-Thu 7:10, 9:30 + Fri-Tue 7:00*, 9:20* + Sat-Sun 12:00

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ETHAN ETHAN

HAWKE HAWKE

CARMEN CARMEN

EJOGO EJOGO

CRIMINAL Wed-Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:00*, 9:40 *No Thu show EYE IN THE SKY Daily 2:30, 4:50* + Wed-Thu 7:20, 9:35* + Fri-Tue 7:10**, 9:30 + Sat-Sun 12:10 *No Tues show

**No Mon show

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GREEN ROOM Fri-Tue 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 + Fri-Sat 11:30pm + Sat-Sun 12:20 MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO Fri-Sat 11:59pm 831.426.7500

BORN TO BE BLUE Fri-Tue 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:30 + Sat-Sun 12:10 ELVIS & NIXON Daily 7:10 + Wed-Thu 2:50, 5:00, 9:10 + Fri-Tue 2:20 + Sat-Sun 12:00 EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT Wed-Thu 2:00, 9:35 EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! Wed-Thu 4:35, 7:05, 9:30 Fri-Tue 4:30, 9:10 HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS Wed-Thu 3:00, 5:10, 7:10 Fri-Tue 2:30, 4:50, 7:05, 9:15 + Sat 12:20

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BARBERSHOP: THE NEXT CUT Wed-Thu 1:55, 4:35, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 BATMAN V. SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE Wed-Thu 12:45 + Wed 4:15, 7:45 THE BOSS Wed-Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 COMPADRES Daily 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 + Sat-Sun 10:45am CRIMINAL Wed-Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45*, 9:45* *No Thu show THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR Daily 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 + Wed 5:30 + Sat-Sun 11:00am THE JUNGLE BOOK Wed-Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 8:15*, 9:30 Fri-Tue 1:30, 4;15, 5:40**, 7:00, 8:20**, 9:45 + Sat-

Sun 10:45am *No Thu show **No Tue show

THE JUNGLE BOOK 3D Wed-Thu 2:55 KEANU Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Tue 2:15, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 + Sat-Sun 11:45 MOTHER’S DAY Thu 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Tue 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 + Sat-Sun 11:00am RATCHET AND CLANK Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Tue 1:45, 3:00, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 + Sat-Sun 11:15, 12:30 ZOOTOPIA Wed-Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30

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BATMAN V. SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE Wed-Thu 12:15, 4:00, 8:00 THE BOSS Wed-Thu 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:45, 9:30 CRIMINAL Wed-Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:45 HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS Wed-Thu 11:30, 4:30, 10:15 THE HUNTSMAN: WINTERS WAR Daily 7:30, 10:15 + Wed-Thu 11:30, 1:15, 2:15, 4:15, 5:15, 8:30, + Fri-Tue

11:15, 2:00, 4:45

THE JUNGLE BOOK Daily 11:00, 11:55, 1:45, 2:45, 5:30 + Wed-Thu 4:30, 7:15, 8:15*, 9:15, 10:00 + Fri-Tue 4:15,

7:00, 8:30, 9:45 *No Thu show

THE JUNGLE BOOK DBOX Wed-Thu 11:55, 2:45, 5:30 THE JUNGLE BOOK 3D Wed-Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:30 KEANU Thu 8:00 Fri-Tue 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 5:30, 7:30, 8:15, 10:00 MOTHER’S DAY Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Tue 11:30, 1:15, 2:15, 4:00, 7:15, 10:15 MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 2 Wed-Thu 2:00, 7:00 RATCHET AND CLANK Fri-Tue 11:15, 12:15, 1:45, 3:00, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15

CINELUX 41ST AVENUE CINEMA 831.479.3504 BATMAN V. SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE Wed-Thu 9:30 Fri-Tue 9:15 THE BOSS Daily 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 + Wed-Thu 12:15, 2:45 + Fri-Tue 11:45, 2:30 EYE IN THE SKY Daily 2:15 + Wed-Thu 11:45, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 + Fri-Tue 11:30, 4:55, 7:30, 10:00 HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS Wed-Thu 11:30, 4:30 Fri-Tue 1:30, 6:45 THE HUNTSMAN: WINTERS WAR Daily 7:30 + Wed-Thu 11:55, 1:15, 2:30, 4:15, 5:15, 8:30, 10:15 + Fri-Tue 11:15,

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THE JUNGLE BOOK Daily 11:00, 11:55, 1:45 Wed-Thu 4:30, 7:15, 8:15, 10:00 Fri-Tue 2:45, 4:15, 5:30, 7:00, 8:30, 9:45 THE JUNGLE BOOK 3D Wed-Thu 2:45, 5:30 MOTHER’S DAY Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Tue 11:30, 1:15, 2:30, 4:30, 5:30, 7:20, 8:15, 10:15 MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 2 Wed-Thu 2:00, 7:00 Fri-Tue 11:00, 4:00

Temple Beth El Presents the 16th Annual

D E L M A R

8:00 p.m. - Natasha Drama, Canada

Wed. May 4 Del Mar Theater

FREE ADMISSION - limited seating

In Remembrance of Those Who Perished

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(2:40, 5:00), 7:20, 9:30 + Sat, Sun (12:10) Don Cheadle in

5:30 pm Rosenwald - Documentary, U.S., 2015

6:45 p.m Vice Versa Drama, Israel, subtitled

Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre Presents

In Japanese w/English subtitles Fri & Sat @ MIDNIGHT

Includes Two Movies & Reception

FREE ADMISSION - limited seating

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MIDNIGHTS @ THE DEL MAR presents

Sat. April 30 Temple Beth El

8:00 pm Flory’s Flame - Documentary, U.S., 2014

Helen Mirren & Alan Rickman in

Monday May 2nd at 7:00pm

Santa Cruz Jewish Film Festival

Fantastic Films Celebrating Jewish Culture, History and the Israeli Experience!

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6:15 p.m. Run Boy Run - Drama, Germany & France, 2015, subtitled

Royal Opera House presents

8:30 P.M. Nicky’s Family Documentary, U.K, 2011

Sunday May 1st at 11:00am

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HAMLET Mon 7:00

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FILM NEW THIS WEEK KEANU Dear cat lovers, stoners, maybe cat-loving stoners: rejoice! For this is a movie entirely about cats, as told by cats. Cats undercover. Cat gangs.

Cat strippers. Cat alcoholics—catolics? Cat drug dealers with guns ablazing. It’s catacular. Peter Atencio directs. Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Will Forte co-star. (R) 98 minutes.

MOTHER’S DAY A heartwarming tale about love, life and motherhood. Or whatever. Gary Marshall directs. Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Julia Roberts co-star. (PG-13) 118 minutes.

RATCHET & CLANK For those who might’ve gotten overly excited at the movie title, it’s not that kind of ratchet. Instead it’s an animated film based on the video game series featuring a Lombax with a dream, a nefarious space captain, a robot and a mechanic. Kevin Munroe, Jericca Cleland direct.

James Arnold Taylor, David Kaye, Jim Ward co-star.

(PG) 94 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.

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APRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD Stuck in the age of steam without the hope of innovation and under the rule of Napoleon V, France’s minds begin to disappear. Avril (voiced

by Marion Cotillard) goes out in search of her missing parents with help from her talking cat and an unlikely ally. French with English subtitles.

Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci direct. Marion Cotillard, Philippe Katerine, Jean Rochefort co-star.

(PG) 106 minutes.

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ELVIS & NIXON Finally, finally, finally someone puts the utterly bizarre and confusing bond that Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon shared on the big screen. Finding common ground in their fantastical worldviews and shared love of money, fame, and all things flashy, Elvis and Nixon’s weird connection sounds like the perfect story for Kevin Spacey and Michael Shannon. Liza Johnson directs. Alex Pettyfer co-stars. (R) 86 minutes.

EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! Who decided that April would be the month to release all the sequels to semi-OK films that came out entire lifetimes ago? If you find this person, we have words for them. Even if it is Richard Linklater directing, c’mon, who has been eagerly awaiting another Dazed and Confused—that movie came out in 1993! Even if it is only the “spiritual sequel,” we hope anyone who’s been dying to see just as many tight pants and floppy hair-dos for the last 23 years

gets just what they’ve been waiting for. It’s got not one, but two (!!) exclamation marks in the title, so you know it’s got to be good. Zoey Deutch, Blake Jenner, Tyler Hoechlin co-star. (R) 116 minutes.

EYE IN THE SKY “If they kill 80 people, we win the propaganda war. If we kill one child, they do.”Would you be willing to risk the collateral damage of one innocent girl to save uncounted thousands in the future? Putting a face to a faceless killing machine, Helen Mirren and the late Alan Rickman take on the implications of modern drone warfare. Gavin Hood directs. (R) 102 minutes.

HARDCORE HENRY You, yes you, are Henry—a crazy superhuman who has been resurrected from the dead without memory of your former life.

It’s a first-person action film from Henry’s point of view. Pro-tip: to avoid freaking out, it’s probably best to not do any drugs before watching this film.

Ilya Naishuller directs. Sharlto Copley, Tim Roth, Haley Bennett co-star. (R) 96 minutes.

HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS In what is being called possibly her best performance ever, Sally Field plays a 60-something woman who pursues her younger coworker in this comingof-a-certain-age tale. Michael Showalter directs. Sally Field, Max Greenfield, Tyne Daly co-star. (R) 95 minutes.

THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR Everyone is super fierce, excellently CGI’d and wearing the best in fairy-tale attire (especially Emily Blunt as Freya and Jessica Chastain as badass huntswoman Sara) in this sequel. Charlize Theron’s faux English accent is still a little hard to swallow, but we’ll let it go because Chris Hemsworth may be getting shirtless in this one. Plus, no Kristen Stewart in this pre-Snow White rendering. Cedric Nicolas-Troyan directs. (PG-13) 114 minutes.

I SAW THE LIGHT Hank Williams contributed a revolutionary body of musical work during his short life. The country music’s legend had, like so many musical geniuses before and after, a messy private life that wasn’t nearly as successful as his public one. Marc Abraham directs. Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen. (R) 123 minutes.

MILES AHEAD Don Cheadle is Miles Davis, and Don Cheadle directs Don Cheadle as Miles Davis. Enough said. Emayatzy Corinealdi, Ewan McGregor co-star. (R) 120 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.

A DIFFERENT KIND OF MONSTER Patrick Stewart plays a neo-Nazi leader

in Jeremy Saulnier’s ‘Green Room.’

Panic ‘Room’ Violent thriller ‘Green Room’ shows evolution of a film talent BY STEVE PALOPOLI

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ith the release of his breakthrough revenge thriller Blue Ruin in 2013, writer-director Jeremy Saulnier earned himself comparisons to early Coen brothers and even Hitchcock by demonstrating a flair for brutal suspense and dark humor. Fans of the indie hit were undoubtedly expecting something along the same lines for his follow-up, but while his new film Green Room delivers all of the things that made Blue Ruin great—in spades—it’s a whole other animal entirely.

While not exactly a horror film, Green Room shares a lot in common with the mumblegore movement that is producing some of this decade’s most exciting filmmakers. 2012’s V/H/S anthology was more or less the wellspring from which it sprung, making a name for filmmakers like the directorial collective Radio Silence, who went on to be part of last year’s best horror movie, Southbound, and director-writer team Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett. Like Saulnier, whose debut was the 2006 no-budget horror film Murder Party, Wingard and Barrett move easily between genres with

equal doses of humor and intensity, unleashing the horror-deconstructing You’re Next in 2013 before the even better 2014 crime thriller The Guest.

Saulnier may be the most promising young talent of all. Green Room’s completely out-of-left-field story of a punk-rock band trapped in the back room of a small club by a gang of vicious neo-Nazis could have been a laughable mess in less capable hands.

But under Saulnier’s direction, it’s a tense, violent thriller that keeps the audience on the edge of their seats.

That’s partly because of the talented cast that quickly establishes a reason to care about this story: not just Patrick Stewart, who seems to love playing against type as a chilling White Power mastermind, but especially the young actors in the punk band, like Anton Yelchin (Chekov in the Star Trek reboot films) and Imogen Poots. And also because, as in Blue Ruin, the plot has a long line of twists, surprises and just plain smart touches that subvert convention at every opportunity.

GREEN ROOM ***1/2 (out of four) With Patrick Stewart, Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots. Written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier. Rated R. 95 minutes.

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Plant Sale

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May 6, 7 & 8

Pre-Sale Fri. 3-7

Grilling Season is Here!

Naturally We Have What You Need…

Variety of Marinated Meats • House Made Sausages • Free-Range Poultry This Week’s Special: Skuna Bay Pacific Salmon, $.50 off per lb.

Friends of the Garden pre-sale, silent auction and refreshments. $25 memberships available at the gate.

Public Sale Sat. 9-2 & Sun. 10-2 All proceeds directly benefit the Horticulture Program.

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”Top of Campus” Cabrillo College 6500 Soquel Dr. Aptos

Plant Inventory: http://www.cabrillo.edu/academics/horticulture/plantsale.html

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FOOD & DRINK ENVIROTOKENISM

You’ve got your favorites, I’ve got mine. Those little slots by the exit at New Leaf Community Markets, where you choose the nonprofit you want your token (for bringing in your own shopping bag) to benefit. These little 10-cent tokens offer a chance to put New Leaf’s money where your conscience desires—Native Animal Rescue, the Homeless Garden Project, Save Our Shores, Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks, Friends of the Sea Otter, and Seymour Marine Discovery Center, have all received donations during the past year. Well, now New Leaf customers can vote on which environmentally friendly local nonprofits will be the recipients of Envirotoken donations for the coming year. And these donations do add up. Last year New Leaf donated more than $56,000 to 22 different local organizations. You can help decide where the money will go next. Online voting happens until May 31 at newleaf.com/ community/envirotokens. Don’t forget to bring your bag.

PIÈCE DE RÉSISTANCE Bouillabaisse Provençal from Chef Muriel Loubiere of Aptos’ Au Midi. PHOTO: CHIP SCHEUER

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A new menu for springtime at Au Midi, plus UCSC’s annual spring plant sale BY CHRISTINA WATERS

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he new spring menu at Au Midi in Aptos is knocking me out. Braised halibut with lemongrass and ginger emulsion served on a potato cloud.

A potato cloud. Doesn’t your mouth want a bite of that? Chef Muriel Loubiere has pulled out all the Gallic stops in honor of le printemps. Lamb tenderloin with cream of garlic and tarragon sounds outrageous, but the pièce de résistance has to be bouillabaisse Provençal. Lobster in saffron broth with baby fennel, potatoes, spicy aioli, and toasts. All of the aromatic and toothsome food groups in a single, luscious dish. Carnivores need to check out the Loubiere touch on

classics like Daube Provençal, duck breast with rosemary sauce, and filet mignon with morels and Madeira sauce. I cannot remember a more mouthwatering menu at this charming bistro. It reads like a visit to the sunny South of France. aumidi.com.

SPRING INTO THE GARDEN It’s that time again. UCSC’s giant Farm & Garden Spring Plant Sale will once again unfurl its botanical smorgasbord up at the intersection of Bay and High streets from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 30, and 10 a.m to 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 1. Vegetable growers will be tempted by the sale’s enormous selection of tomatoes and peppers (of

all kinds), as well as lettuces, herbs, squashes, pumpkins, kale, cucumbers, and more. Let’s stay with tomatoes for a minute. Almost nothing is as memorable as a bite of a sun-warmed, ripe tomato tasted right on the spot in your own garden. Tomatoes reward growers with fresh salad ingredients as well as the ingredients for a year’s worth of pasta sauces. The collection for sale this year features pomodori specially chosen for their adaptation to our coastal microclimate. The Marvel Striped, Yellow Pear, Camp Joy Cherry, Rainbow’s End, Brandywine, and dozens more await your purchase. And the flower possibilities are endless. casfs.ucsc.edu.

ECO PRODUCTS OF THE WEEK

The drought responsibility project at Friend in Cheeses Jam Co. strikes us as a great idea. The new Prickly Purple Heart Jam is a prime example of a tasty jam made from fruits that need no additional water to grow and ripen. The use of organic dry-farmed ingredients like tomatoes and figs helps cut down on water waste. And the artisanal group has partnered with the Homeless Garden Project for harvests of organic Padron peppers. Not only are the peppers dry-farmed but they are cultivated by trainees learning valuable employment skills. Check out the friendincheeses.com/blog for updates about this sensitive new direction for the Tabitha Stroup kitchen. And look for the Blue Label!

WINE OF THE WEEK

The ambidextrous Clos de Gilroy Grenache made by the house of Doon (Bonny Doon Vineyard). Red currants, berries and white pepper, driven by Monterey County grapes. Unbeatable for $14.99 (Shopper’s Corner).

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WOULD YOU LIKE CHIPS WITH THAT? Josh Fisher of Capitola Village’s new

Left Coast Sausage Worx. PHOTO: CHIP SCHEUER

Capitola Happy Hour* Sunday – Thursday, 5 to 6pm $3 Draft Beer Pint | $4 Large Hot Sake $5 Sake Cocktail | Appetizer Specials Happy Hour prices are valid at Sushi Garden Capitola in the bar area only.

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Left Coast Sausage Chips with your hot dog? BY AARON CARNES

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ow many times have you gone to the beach and thought, “I could totally go for a hot dog right now,” but there’s nowhere to get one? How about all those times you forgot a towel and sunscreen?

If you’re at the beach in Capitola, these are two concerns you can kiss goodbye. Left Coast Sausage Worx is the latest place to grab a bite in Capitola Village, and they sell a variety of hot dogs and sausages (using local ingredients), and, come summer, they’ll even sell beach supplies. Josh Fisher (who co-owns with Scott McDonald) tells us about their dogs, and their Sasquatch Challenge.

Tell me about the menu item ‘Left Coast Connection.’

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JOSH FISHER: That is one of my random creations. You can use the regular-sized hot dog, or a foot-long or sausage from Corralitos Market.

Then you have our secret sauce. The only ingredient that I can tell you is in there is a crema sauce, like a Mexican sour cream. Then we use avocado for a guacamole as well as Doritos ranch chips and bacon bits— not fake, it’s real bacon.

You have chips in several of your dogs.

Throughout life, Doritos and Fritos and Cheetos, they all tasted good.

Throughout the years, we’ve created random food, and adding chips gives it that crunch, and a little flavor that sets it off. Not necessarily everybody does it. If you meet someone that’s never tried chips in their sandwich or hot dog or anything, they can experience it here. I love it.

What’s the Sasquatch challenge?

That’s going to be like a timed thing like Man vs. Food, where it’s going to be extremely hot, and you have to sign a waiver to do it. We’ll have an extra-hot hot link, along with crazy pepper sauce. We’re still working on it.

We’ll have it ready by summer. We’re trying to figure out the appropriate amount of time. We’re thinking three minutes to eat the whole thing. You’ll have a little container of milk that if you drink, you forfeit. It’s a good-sized sausage from Corralitos Meat Market.

The main thing is that it itself will be hot, as well as peppers and everything.

It’ll be insane. It’s a little bit of selftorture, but hot foods are fantastic. If you can do it, you win a free T-shirt and sticker, so that’s also pretty cool.

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FINEST FIANO Winemaker Barry Jackson has a penchant for the Fiano grape.

Bartolo Wines Barry Jackson’s Fiano delivers a smoky minerality BY JOSIE COWDEN

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iano is a white Italian grape that not all winemakers rush around to get their hands on. But expert winemaker Barry Jackson loves to produce anything that contains the noble grape, and he turned some splendid Fiano fruit from Mann Vineyards in Gilroy into a notable libation.

A high-quality white Italian grape variety grown mostly in the Campania region of southern Italy, Fiano is a pretty strongflavored white wine with intense floral aromas and notes of honey and spice. I first happened to try Jackson’s intriguing Fiano 2014 when in his tasting room to sample his Equinox sparkling wines.

I always enjoy a glass of wine when I’m cooking, and absolutely loved a pouring of the Fiano before I paired it with some baked halibut, sautéed potatoes and green salad—quite a delicious match, I might say. Fiano can be nutty and rich, and some people find it piney and herbaceous. Jackson’s wellmade Fiano is extremely flavorful with a lovely smoky minerality.

And why not venture out and try lesser-known food and wine? At Andre’s Bouchée in Carmel a couple

of weeks ago, we had an amazing tartine with bone marrow, snails on toast, wild mushrooms, garlic, bee balm, and black radish—a culinary feat by Chef Benoit Petel, and an exciting blend of flavors.

The Fiano sells for $26 a bottle and you can find it at the Equinox/ Bartolo tasting room on the Westside. Jackson and his wife Jennifer recently moved into the busy Surf City Vintners complex from their previous location on Swift Street.

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EAT LIKE A GREEK What!? You’ve never tasted fasolatha, papoutsakia, pastitsio or youvarlakia? Well, now’s your chance. All these dishes and more can be found at the Eat Like A Greek Food Faire as you listen to the Spartan Band playing melodic Greek music. So mark your calendars for May 13, 14 and 15 and head to Prophet Elias Greek Orthodox Church in downtown Santa Cruz. Admission is free.

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H RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES MERCURY RETROGRADE IN TAURUS Mercury (the wing-footed Hermes) retrogrades Thursday at 23 degrees Taurus (until May 22).

Mercury is in Taurus, sign of values, resources, investments (time, money), possessions.

Mercury has us rethinking, reassessing, re-evaluating, reviewing values, money and possessions. What, where, and how are they?

During Mercury retro, humanity, events and Earth’s kingdoms collectively enter into retreat (except for those born with Mercury retrograde).

As Mercury governs our thinking, communication, interactions, and transportation, when in retro (moving in reverse), there’s confusion, everything works backward, sideways or not at all. Everyone’s driving without thinking, looking in a rear-view mirror, and concentrating on inner realities. With Mercury retro we do not move forward easily, destination routes are obstructed and all actions must be re-thought-out, re-done, re-kindled, re-worked, re-assessed, re-envisioned, and re-arranged. It is a time for all words beginning with “re” (meaning to do it again).

During Mercury (and all retrogrades) we’re

forced into an interval of doing things differently, a lull to rest and recuperate in. It’s good to consciously make use of Mercury’s three weeks of retrograde—to consider the retro as sanctuary, a haven of quietude and place of refuge. Businesses need to think this way. But this new way of thinking and utilizing the energies of the planets and stars, understanding their relationships with us, must begin first with each individual.

Mercury retrograde actually creates a time of mental relief. When it begins, Mercury is alerting us that our minds are filled to capacity with information gathered (Gemini task) since the last Mercury retro. Mercury retro gives us time to review, assess, order and organize (Virgo tasks—Mercury rules both Gemini and Virgo) mental information, making room for new information offered over the next three months (till the next Mercury retro).

During Mercury retro we have revelations which allow for deep inner understandings. Mercury is the mind, the “illuminating principle” in our lives. Mercury is the Messenger, i=offering us the “Raincloud of Knowable Things.”

ARIES Mar21–Apr20

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22

What are your financial realities and perspectives, how are they faring? Are they safe, budgeted? Do you tithe? These are some of the monetary questions coming into focus in the next three weeks. Also of importance is the questioning and reviewing of your values. What and whom do you value? Are you also valuable? How valuable? The retro sheds light upon your deep values. You see them change.

Be careful with money, finances and resources. Be acutely aware of where your money is being used, how and when it’s coming in, what you’re doing with it.

Neither provide for nor ask others for loans. Investments at this time are not suggested either. Hold still with your money so you can assess its use when everyone’s mind is clear. Intimacy is renewed in the clear light of day. Be in touch with those you’ve tried to forget. Be forgiving.

Esoteric Astrology as news for week of April 27, 2016

TAURUS Apr21–May21 There could be confusion in communication with close friends, lover(s), intimates. There could also be confusion or questions concerning your values, possessions you consider important, and their maintenance. It’s possible someone close may not agree. There won’t be any compromise. Your life changes through the decisions you make, through what you can’t see.

GEMINI May 22–June 20

CANCER Jun21–Jul20 Revelations may appear as your mind has an inner focus, quite compassionate, yet it could turn quickly to a Virgo criticalness. Be aware of this. Study the religious and/or spiritual. Alice Bailey’s book Ponder on This is good at this time. Have the intention for fairness, for nonjudgment, clarity and the mantram from long ago, “Let reality guide my every thought and Truth be the Master of my Life.”

LE0 Jul21–Aug22 Communication confusions could occur at work, with colleagues, superiors and others working around you.

Awareness of this allows you to make concessions when speaking with others. The focus for three weeks will be on noncritical judgments concerning your work and other people’s work, everything professional, and most importantly your life path. Do you know the Soul Invocation?

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 What are you thinking about in terms of legal affairs, education, travel, and past communications? Be prepared for delays in all areas of your life but especially with any sort of travel. Have discussions concerning the legal system.

You find yourself asking where is justice? Tend to things forgotten. You will be hidden for a while. Your actions must be explained to others so they understand. Use few words.

One-on-one communications need care, awareness and kindness. Previous partnership issues concerning constancy, safety, money, and security, arise once again for re-evaluation.

Messages are mixed. Be aware of this. Disputes call for negotiation. Perhaps this is too difficult at this time. Make no decisions for three weeks. Simply observe. Misperceptions may occur. Follow your ever-present intuition.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 You’re more sensitive than usual. Is that possible, you ask? Yes. Healthwise, for the next three weeks, it’s best to create daily routines that strengthen your well-being. You must maintain a nonjudgmental response to co-workers, lest falling into old criticism occurs. Criticism separates, then an existential loneliness emerges. Read everything over three times as errors are missed in retrogrades. Rest within silence for a while.

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 If you have children, observe them during this Mercury retro in Taurus. Children and elders are especially sensitive to transits.

In your observations, what do you see in terms of their ability to communicate, maneuver their world of friends, school and studies? It’s good to create a Mercury retrograde journal for later use. Observe yourself during these times, too.

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 Something occurs concerning home, where you rest your head each night. It has its roots many months ago. What happened?

What domestic issues are reoccurring now? This is a time for assessment, review, re-evaluation, and revelations concerning what you need, and where and what home means for you.

Continue each night to write down what you want and need.

Always be grateful for what you do have. Have faith and hope.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 Only patience assists you at this time. It seems that emptiness has appeared in all parts of your life and may be difficult to understand. Stand within that emptiness, become empty yourself, allow life to flow through, cleanse, clear and empty out of you. Many will not understand this part of your life. It’s an Initiation, very valuable, extremely difficult. You stand alone. No matter your actions, the emptiness remains. Expect nothing. Be still.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0684 The following Individual is doing business as SEABRIGHT EQUIPMENT COMPANY. 104 BRONSON ST., #17E, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. IAN DAVIS. 104 BRONSON ST., #17E, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: IAN DAVIS. 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 Apr. 4, 2016.

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doing business as DIRTY DOG PIZZA. 112 HAMMOND AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. JOSEPH DANIEL DIGIROLAMO. 112 HAMMOND AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JOSEPH DANIEL DIGIROLAMO. 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 Apr. 1, 2016.

Apr. 13, 20, 27, & May 4.

NAME The following person(s) has/have withdrawn as a general partner(s) from the partnership operating under the fictitious business name of CAFÉ CAMPESINO. 1130 K1 PACIFIC AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. The fictitious business name statement for the partnership was filed on 11/1/2012 in the County of Santa Cruz. The full name and residence of the person(s) withdrawing as a partner(s): DAVID SCOTT LEVIN. 1410 JOSE AVE., #206, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on the date indicated by the file stamp: Filed: Mar. 23, 2016. File No.2012-0002172. Apr. 6, 13, 20, 27.

REFILING OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT WITH CHANGE FILE NO. 16-0648 The following Individual is doing business as DAVID PECK CONSTRUCTION. 940 BEAR MOUNTAIN ROAD, LOS GATOS, CA 95033. County of Santa Cruz. DAVID PECK. 940 BEAR MOUNTAIN ROAD, LOS GATOS, CA 95033.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: DAVID PECK. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 4/13/2011. Original FBN number: 2011-0000862.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Mar. 28, 2016. Apr. 20, 27, & May 4, 11.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0659 The following Individual is doing business as TREASURE CHEST PUBLICATIONS. 119 PASTURE ROAD, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. SCOTT MORLEY. 119 PASTURE ROAD, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: SCOTT MORLEY. 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 March. 30, 2016. Apr. 13, 20, 27, & May 4.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0770 The following Individual is doing business as SEQUOIA PRESERVATION WORKS. 529 BELLEVUE STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

County of Santa Cruz.

FALLIN E. STEFFEN. 529 BELLEVUE STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: FALLIN E. STEFFEN. 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 Apr. 13, 2016.

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NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0735 The following Individual is doing business as TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT RESEARCH CENTER. 185 FREDERICK STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. BEAT NAEF. 185 FREDERICK STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: BEAT NAEF. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 4/8/2016. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Apr. 8, 2016.

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GRACE COLLECTIVE. 2222 EAST CLIFF DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

County of Santa Cruz.

DEVA LAGGNER, LAUREN MOSER & ANNA SURBER. 2222 EAST CLIFF DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: DEVA LAGGNER. 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 Apr. 14, 2016.

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PRINTMAKERS AT THE TANNERY. 1060 RIVER STREET #107, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz.

PRINTMAKERS AT THE TANNERY. 1060 RIVER STREET #107, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. AI# 27110226. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: GEORGE NEWELL. 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 Apr. 8, 2016.

Apr. 13, 20, 27, & May. 4.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0746 The following Individual is doing business as BLUE ROOSTER FARM. 555 MUIR DR., SOQUEL, CA 95073. County of Santa Cruz. LORRAINE J. JACOBS. 555 MUIR DR., SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: LORRAINE J. JACOBS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 4/11/2016. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Apr. 11, 2016.

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REFILING OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT WITH CHANGE FILE NO. 16-0653 The following Individual is doing business as SEAVIEW GUEST HOME. 7231 MESA DR., APTOS, CA 95003. County of Santa Cruz. CECILIA SULLIVAN. 7231 MESA DR., APTOS, CA 95003.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: CECILIA SULLIVAN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/1/1992. Original FBN number: 2011-0000885.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Mar. 30, 2016. Apr. 6, 13, 20, 27.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0652 The following Individual is doing business as DIVA NAILS & SPA. 813 SOQUEL AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. VAN TRAN. 813 SOQUEL AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: VAN TRAN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 3/29/2016. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Mar. 29, 2016.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16 - 0778 The following General Partnership is doing business as GLOW &

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0738 The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as

RESTAURANT, INC. 1116 SOQUEL AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. Al# 3878034. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: DINA TORRES. 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 Mar. 30, 2016.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0680 The following Individual is

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0671 The following Corporation is doing business as POUR TAPROOM - SANTA CRUZ. 110 COOPER STREET, SUITE 100-B, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

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CAEDMON HALL CORPORATION. 331 COMMERCIAL STREET, SAN JOSE, CA 95112. Al# 3812018. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: CHRISTOPHER J. RENO. 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 Apr. 1, 2016.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0658 The following Corporation is doing business as JAGUAR. 1116 SOQUEL AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. JAGUAR

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0562 The following Individual is doing business as LOAVES OF LOVE. 401 HILL AVE., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. LORENA L. ROLON. 401 HILL AVE., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: LORENA L. ROLON. 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. 14, 2016.

Apr. 6, 13, 20, 27.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0764 The following Married Couple is doing business as RIVERSIDE DRIVE APARTMENTS. 139 RIVERSIDE DRIVE. WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. ANNA MARIE PONCE & ROGELIO Q. PONCE. 139 RIVERSIDE

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16 - 0558.

The following Joint Venture is doing business as VILLAFANAMONTESINOS ASSOCIATES. 1285 N. MAIN STREET, SUITE 101, SALINAS, CA 93906.

County of Monterey.

REBECA VILLAFANA & FRANCISCO MONTESINOS. 1285 N. MAIN STREET, SUITE 101, SALINAS, CA 93906.

This business is conducted by a Joint Venture signed: REBECA VILLAFANA. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/22/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March. 14, 2016. Apr. 20, 27, & May. 4, 11.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0672 The following Individual is doing business as LIL MILKERS VALLEY. 161 PIONEER ROAD, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. DAWN STERNADEL. 161 PIONEER ROAD, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: DAWN STERNADEL. The registrant commenced to

transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 4/1/2016. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Apr. 1, 2016. Apr. 6, 13, 20, 27.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0620 The following Individual is doing business as HOBBS MOTORS. 1850 47TH AVE., CAPITOLA, CA 95010. County of Santa Cruz. DAVID HOBBS. 1850 47TH AVE., CAPITOLA, CA 95010.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: DAVID HOBBS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 3/23/2016. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz

County, on Mar. 23, 2016.

Apr. 20, 27, & May 4, 11.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0678 The following Individual is doing business as GYM REPAIR TECHNICIANS. 2939 RENWICK WAY, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz.

GUILLERMO MARTINEZ. 2939 RENWICK WAY, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

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Ingredients

• 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) btter, room temperature • 2 teaspoons chopped fresh parsley • 1 garlic clove, minced • 1/2 teaspoon ground mixed peppercorns, plus more for sprinkling • 1/2 teaspoon (packed) grated lemon peel • 1 tablespoon olive oil • 4 1-inch-thick swordfish fillets (about 6 ounces each)

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DIRECTIONS Preheat oven to 400°F. Mash butter, parsley, garlic, 1/2 teaspoon ground mixed peppercorns, and lemon peel in small bowl. Season to taste with salt.

Heat oil in heavy large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat. Sprinkle swordfish with salt and ground mixed peppercorns. Add swordfish to skillet. Cook until browned, about 3 minutes. Turn swordfish over and transfer to oven. Roast until just cooked through, about 10 minutes longer. Transfer swordfish to plates. Add seasoned butter to same skillet.

Cook over medium-high heat, scraping up browned bits, until melted and bubbling. Pour butter sauce over swordfish and serve.

Metz Road Chardonnay 2012 Extremely intriguing on the nose, this shows aromas of Meyer lemon, green banana and tangerines. Generous yellow fruits like melon and Gala apples show on the palate, which is soft with lemon-bar elements at first but then tightens around green apple skins and a peppery, herbal character.

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RICHARD RUE, 26-Year Customer, Scotts Valley

Occupation: Self-employed recruiter, Volare Group Hobbies: Tennis, reading, cooking, wine, traveling, riding motorcycles Astrological Sign: Scorpio Is Shopper’s your go-to market? Absolutely. I shop here twice a week. It’s a fun place to come to as you see all the locals. Shopper’s is a community market that is locallyowned and supports our countywide vendors.You can get everything in one store, not just the national brands which so many of the other stores are limited to. I don’t shop the big box stores because, well, they’re ’big box stores’; their main focus is profitability — definitely not quality. Shopper’s is very special; it’s as if every single item they’ve picked out was first tasted before it was put on the shelf. I come all the way from Scotts Valley for that very reason. For me, it doesn’t feel like I’m going out of my way to come here. I’m familiar with many of the smiling ’faces’ who work here. They’re all very nice and helpful.

What do you like to cook? Mostly roasts, steaks — flat iron and beef-hanging tenders — chicken, and wild-caught fresh fish: you won’t find any fresher seafood than what Shopper’s carries. The meat department is the most experienced in all of Santa Cruz County.

The butchers are experts — not only in cutting meats but also in advising how to cook them. You definitely get what you pay for in top-notch quality. I do a lot of steamed veggies and appreciate the always-fresh locally sourced organic produce. Some may not know this but Shopper’s offers a very good selection of spices. And you can’t beat the store size.

How so? I don’t have to walk 20 aisles in order to find what I’m looking for, such as a ton of terrific pasta and pasta sauces, cheeses, and the many gourmet/specialty items. I know my wines. I’ve been drinking good wine for 45 years, and have a glass or two with dinner every night. I understand the nuances of all the varietals. Shopper’s probably has the biggest and broadest selection in the entire area ranging from local/Santa Cruz Mountains wineries to Italy, France, and all the other important international regions. Shopper’s has lots of specials buys where you can get phenomenal wines for under $10! It’s amazing that you can get everything here, and I do mean everything!

Shopper's has lots of specials buys where you can get phenomenal wines for under $10! You can get everything here, and I do mean everything!

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