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I swear, I read through the summaries in this week’s issue of what the local nonprofits involved in Santa Cruz Gives are doing in our community, and what they want to do with donations they receive from GT readers, and I think: Oh my god, I so want to work with these people. And then I think: Oh my god, I am working with these people. I can’t even express how lucky that makes me feel.

I mean, even in the most progressive of political times, there are so many things that fall through the cracks—things that seem small to the world at large, but make a huge difference to the people they affect in our community. And then times like now, as we’re about to face possibly the most repressive and backward-thinking regime in the history of modern American politics? All, and I mean all of the good work is going to be done at the local level. Who does the burden fall on to protect the vulnerable members of our community, to do the good work that needs to be done to make us the best community we can be? The people who dedicate themselves to the groups we’re asking you to give to this year through the Santa Cruz Gives website, santacruzgives.org. These are the people who are working to build the county’s first playground that’s accessible to children with disabilities (Shane’s Inspiration). The health providers who are bracing for a full-

LETTERS FOUR-YEAR PLAN To all who voted: If your candidate did not win, you can leave, sit and pout, scream for four years or, perhaps, stick around, get involved, and help make the best of things for the term.

If your candidate won, don’t relax.

Politicians need to be encouraged to do their job right and discouraged from taking themselves too seriously.

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scale attack on women’s reproductive rights (Planned Parenthood Mar Monte). The compassionate souls who are struggling to provide a safety net for the neediest in our community (Warming Center Program).

And that’s only the smallest sampling of the people you’ll find in this issue who are working to keep anything and everything from falling through the cracks in our community.

I can’t urge you strongly enough to read about them, and about how Santa Cruz Gives works (page 23), and also to check out Maria Grusauskas’ article this week on the science of giving (page 11) to understand even better why embracing the holiday spirit of giving strengthens and enriches all of us. In the first year of Santa Cruz Gives, we raised $92,688, far more than anyone imagined GT’s holiday giving campaign ever could—and this year our goal is $140,000. We at GT want to thank our partners at the Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County, without whom this project would not be possible, and our first two corporate sponsors, Wynn Capital Management and Santa Cruz County Bank, who leaped on board to support Santa Cruz Gives. We also want to give a shout out to all of the donors who provided Challenge Grants to kickstart some of the individual nonprofits’ campaigns—you’ll see those on the profile pages for each nonprofit. I personally want to say thanks to GT’s publisher, Jeanne Howard, for having the vision to dream this up in the first place. And, of course, thanks to all of our readers for everything they do to help those who help our community.

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AMERICAN ELECTORAL Re: Letters, 11/16: The Electoral College is not at all obsolete! Capturing the most electoral votes requires 21st-century candidates to travel all over the United States learning the particular and peculiar pertinent local issues.

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The local parks department has been busy as well, recently opening the Polo Grounds Park in Aptos and, before that, Chanticleer Park. Last week, the county opened restrooms and a concession stand building at Polo Grounds Park.

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LOCAL TALK

What are you grateful for?

BY MATTHEW COLE SCOTT

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of November 23 ARIES Mar21–Apr19

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22

“Creative people are at greater risk,” said psychiatrist R. D. Laing, “just as one who climbs a mountain is more at risk than one who walks along a village lane.” I bring this to your attention, Aries, because in the coming weeks you will have the potential to be abundantly creative, as well as extra imaginative, ingenious, and innovative. But I should also let you know that if you want to fulfill this potential, you must be willing to work with the extra tests and challenges that life throws your way. For example, you could be asked to drop a pose, renounce lame excuses, or reclaim powers that you gave away once upon a time.

One of your vices could at least temporarily act as a virtue. In an odd twist, one of your virtues may also briefly function like a vice. And there’s more to this mysterious turn of events. A so-called liability could be useful in your efforts to solve a dilemma, while a reliable asset might cloud your discernment or cause a miscalculation. I’m riffing here, Libra, in the hopes of stimulating your imagination as you work your way through the paradoxical days ahead. Consider this intriguing possibility: An influence that you like and value may hold you back, even as something or someone you’ve previously been almost allergic to could be quite helpful.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 Taurus musician Brian Eno has been successful as a composer, producer, singer, and visual artist. Among his many collaborators have been David Byrne, David Bowie, U2, Coldplay, Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones, and James Blake. Eno’s biographer David Sheppard testified that capturing his essence in a book was “like packing a skyscraper into a suitcase.” I suspect that description may fit you during the next four weeks, Taurus. You’re gearing up for some high-intensity living. But please don’t be nervous about it. Although you may be led into intimate contact with unfamiliar themes and mysterious passions, the story you actualize should feel quite natural.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21

You are free! Or almost free! Or let me put it this way: You could become significantly freer if you choose to be—if you exert your willpower to snatch the liberating experiences that are available. For example, you could be free from a slippery obligation that has driven you to say things you don’t mean. You could be free from the temptation to distort your soul in service to your ego. You might even be free to go after what you really want rather than indulging in lazy lust for a gaggle of mediocre thrills. Be brave, Gemini. Define your top three emancipating possibilities, and pursue them with vigor and rigor.

Despite your sign’s reputation, you Sagittarians don’t always require vast expanses to roam in. You aren’t ceaselessly restless, on an inexhaustible quest for unexpected experiences and fresh teachings. And no, you are not forever consumed with the primal roar of raw life, obsessed with the naked truth, and fiercely devoted to exploration for its own sake. But having said that, I suspect that you may at least be flirting with these extreme states in the coming weeks. Your keynote, lifted from Virginia Woolf’s diary: “I need space. I need air. I need the empty fields round me; and my legs pounding along roads; and sleep; and animal existence.”

Have you been feeling twinges of perplexity? Do you find yourself immersed in meandering meditations that make you doubt your commitments? Are you entertaining weird fantasies that give you odd little shivers and quivers? I hope so! As an analyzer of cycles, I suspect that now is an excellent time to question everything. You could have a lot of fun playing with riddles and wrestling with enigmas. Please note, however, that I’m not advising you to abandon what you’ve been working on and run away. Now is a time for fertile inquiry, not for rash actions. It’s healthy to contemplate adjustments, but not to initiate massive overhauls.

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“Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves,” writes psychoanalytic writer Adam Phillips. Where do you fit on this scale, Leo? Whatever your usual place might be, I’m guessing that in the coming weeks you will approach record-breaking levels in your ability to handle your own aliveness. You may even summon and celebrate massive amounts of aliveness that you had previously suppressed. In fact, I’ll recklessly speculate that your need to numb yourself will be closer to zero than it has been since you were 5 years old. (I could be exaggerating a bit; but maybe not!)

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Between now and the solstice on Dec. 21, you will have extraordinary power to transform into a more practical, well-grounded version of yourself. You may surprise yourself with how naturally you can shed beliefs and habits that no longer serve you. Now try saying the following affirmations and see how they feel coming out of your mouth: “I am an earthy realist.

I am a fact-lover and an illusion-buster. I love actions that actually work more than I like theories that I wish would work. I’d rather create constructive change than be renowned for my clever dreams.”

GEMINI May21–June20

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CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 “If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet,” said George Bernard Shaw, “you had best teach it to dance.” This advice is worthy of your consideration, Capricorn. You may still be unable to expunge a certain karmic debt, and it may be harder than ever to hide, so I suggest you dream up a way to play with it—maybe even have some dark fun with it. And who knows? Your willingness to loosen up might at least alleviate the angst your skeleton causes you—and may ultimately transform it in some unpredictably helpful way.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 “No pain, no gain” is a modern expression of an old idea. In a second-century Jewish book of ethics, Rabbi Ben Hei Hei wrote, “According to the pain is the gain.”

Eighteenth-century English poet Robert Herrick said, “If little labor, little are our gains: Man’s fate is according to his pains.” But I’m here to tell you, Aquarius, that I don’t think this prescription will apply to you in the coming weeks. From what I can surmise, your greatest gains will emerge from the absence of pain. You will learn and improve through release, relaxation, generosity, expansiveness, and pleasure.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22

PISCES Feb19–Mar20

Do you periodically turn the volume down on your mind’s endless chatter and tune into the still, small voice within you? Have you developed reliable techniques for escaping the daily frenzy so as to make yourself available for the Wild Silence that restores and revitalizes? If so, now would be a good time to make aggressive use of those capacities. And if you haven’t attended well to these rituals of self-care, please remedy the situation. Claim more power to commune with your depths. In the coming weeks, most of your best information will flow from the sweet darkness.

The less egotistical you are, the more likely it is that you will attract what you really need. If you do nice things for people without expecting favors in return, your mental and physical health will improve. As you increase your mastery of the art of empathy, your creativity will also thrive. Everything I just said is always true, of course, but it will be intensely, emphatically true for you during the next four weeks. So I suggest you make it a top priority to explore the following cosmic riddle: Practicing unselfishness will serve your selfish goals.

Homework: What famous historical personage were you in your past life? If you don’t know or weren’t really, make something up. Testify at freewillastrology.com. © Copyright 2016

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STEVE EDWARDS | SOQUEL

SKIP THE TURKEY President Obama is taking a break from Trump transition to pardon two turkeys. Every one of us can exercise that presidential pardon power on Thanksgiving by giving thanks for health and happiness while skipping gratuitous violence.

The 235 million turkeys killed in the U.S. this year have nothing to be thankful for.

They are raised in crowded sheds filled with toxic fumes. At 16 weeks, slaughterhouse

workers cut their throats and dump them in boiling water to remove their feathers.

Consumers pay a heavy price, too. Turkey flesh is laced with cholesterol and saturated fats that elevate risk of chronic killer diseases.

Package labels warn of food poisoning potential.

But, there is good news. Annual per capita consumption of turkeys is down by a whopping 35 percent from a 1996 high. A third of our population is reducing meat consumption. Food manufacturers are developing a great variety of healthful, delicious plant-based meat products.

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SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE You can’t buy happiness, but giving to a cause and helping others may be an effective alternative.

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n the uncomfortable, surreal aftermath of the presidential election, a somber weight settled over much of the country like volcanic ash. For millions of Americans, the initial shock at having elected an unqualified buffoon known for his hate rhetoric and spoiled-child demeanor has given way to feelings of fear, apprehension, anger and embarrassment. As Inauguration Day ticks closer, the only seed of hope I have found (other than the hope that this is only a bad dream) is in the actions we can still take as citizens.

I’ve noticed, in the past two weeks, a strong embrace of nature (maybe because we know that it too

is threatened), as people take to the forests for solace and reflection.

And whether it’s done publicly in the streets or in their homes, people are coming together for support.

Meanwhile, local government and nonprofits stand as totems of people’s power, the last arenas where meaningful change can be fought for and won. As of last week, more than 125,000 people donated to Planned Parenthood—20,000 of whom donated in the name of anti-choice Mike Pence. (Visit mikepence.co for a breakdown of ways to give to Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky.)

In the week following the election, the American Civil Liberties Union

announced $7.2 million in donations over a five-day period, compared to $27,806 in the same period in 2012.

Actually, the whole world appears to be jumping in: the Trevor Project, a nonprofit that offers suicide prevention services for the LGBTQ community and struggled before the election, reported more than $165,000 from donors in 20 countries after the election.

So it seems fitting, as websites like ragedonate.com continue to materialize, that GT is rolling out its Santa Cruz Gives project.

Now in its second year, SC Gives offers a crowdfunding platform for making online donations to support

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Science is beginning to understand how generosity makes our lives better—and maybe even longer BY MARIA GRUSAUSKAS

your choice of 33 local nonprofit organizations, all of which are doing amazing work in our community.

While the holidays usually see an uptick in consumerism—and a 25-percent increase in household waste between November and January, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency— this year’s spending may have a different flavor. After all, allocating funds to help others doesn’t just empower the organizations and movements that need it most, it helps the giver, too: In 2010, the social psychologist Liz Dunn found that cortisol levels (that notorious stress hormone linked to ill health) were lower in people who gave money away rather than hanging on to it.

But if you don’t have disposable income to donate to a cause, don’t worry—the benefits of altruism extend beyond the realm of dollars and cents.

Not only do researchers call it part of a “healthy psychological reward system,” the spirit of generosity may also prolong the length of our lives. While science has long since established that social isolation and stress are significant predictors of mortality and morbidity, the link between giving and a lowered risk of early death was first revealed in 2010, in a five-year multi-institutional study led by Michael J. Poulin, Ph.D., at the University of Buffalo. The study, which followed 846 subjects, monitored both stressful life experiences as well as tangible assistance—errands, housework, childcare, transportation—given to friends and family members, and found helping behaviors to be a significant buffer in the association between stress and mortality.

“We don’t know what the active ingredient is. Nobody has captured that yet,” Poulin told NPR last December. Compassion and caregiving have been shown to release oxytocin, the “love hormone” believed to drive social attachment and maternal behavior, which may be helping to curb stress. And keep you from sitting on Twitter or Facebook, growing orange with rage. Here’s to smiling at strangers, going for more hikes, and visiting santacruzgives.org to give to a cause that will directly touch the lives around you.

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NEWS SMALL THINKERS Meet the locals who want to make a major day for local businesses mean something bigger

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“Who’s the small-business advocate who actually helps them—who’s not out for money all the time? That’s a challenge,” says entrepreneur Andy Van Valer, leaning forward at his desk at NextSpace. “Who’s on their side, who’s not really just out there for the money?”

Van Valer, a business consultant, helped organize this year’s local Small Business Saturday, which falls on Nov. 26, and he owns Slingshot SV, a company that helps new entrepreneurs find their way. He’s also among a group of locals on the cutting edge of local investing, looking to help worthwhile small businesses find the assistance—financial or otherwise—they’re looking for.

Over the years, Van Valer has noticed that all too often small business owners will get tangled up either with advisers who don’t know what they’re talking about or firms charging a prohibitive fee for simple advice.

That’s partly why Van Valer has put so much energy into growing Small Business Saturday, working with the county’s economic development department and his friend Bryce Root, a marketing expert, free of charge.

Together he and Root created a website, press releases, blog posts and promotional materials to assist participating businesses.

This local spin on Black Friday was started

by American Express six years ago, with communities around the country still joining in.

With well over 1,000 county businesses participating this year, the day of local shopping offers deals from Boulder Creek to Watsonville and puts everything from boutiques to taquerias in the spotlight.

In Santa Cruz, “thinking locally” sometimes sounds like a cliché, but as this year’s event draws near, a new trend has emerged in Santa Cruz’s economy. More techies and business people are thinking creatively about the landscape of local funding and investing, as well as how to improve it.

Van Valer says he has been trying for five years to figure out how to help “locals fund locals,” and the wheels on that movement recently began to turn.

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DOLLAR BILL After 10 years, Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce Director Bill Tysseling is retiring, sparking a discussion about what direction the group needs to take next. PHOTO:KEANA PARKER

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Bill Tysseling to retire as chamber’s executive director, as Santa Cruz’s economy faces new challenges BY KARA GUZMAN

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t’s a few months until local business icon Bill Tysseling retires, but he’s already nostalgic about his 27 years in Santa Cruz.

He began working on local economic development in 1989, after the Loma Prieta earthquake, then directed programs at UC Extension in Silicon Valley and later Iowa State University, routinely flying out from Santa Cruz and staying for several days.

For the past decade, Tysseling has headed the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce.

But his roots are in Central Iowa,

where he was a young lawyer and magistrate in Ames, not far from where he was raised. He fondly remembers the barn raisings from his childhood, which taught him about building community.

“You get this warm feeling. All these people turn out for a day, sometimes for a weekend—hundreds of people, families, and they build a barn on somebody’s homestead. It just felt like this act of grace, and I still think that’s true,” says Tysseling, now 69. “But at some point I realized—it was really one of those cathartic moments—that

this was necessary. This was what it was to have a successful economic community.”

Tysseling plans to retire this spring from his post as the chamber’s executive director, which he’s held for 10 years. This vision of a collaborative economic community is what he’s tried to achieve at the chamber, he says.

Tysseling has spent much of his career responding to economic crises, first with the 1989 earthquake, then the 2002 dot-com bust.

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I was all set to write a typical real estate column talking about things to be thankful for in the current market, which could have proven a controversial topic depending on which side of the equation you are on amidst the current housing crisis.

And then something much more important came up: we had a health scare with our dog Zoe Coconut, who had to get emergency spinal surgery last week.

Anyone who’s been to Main Street Realtors has probably met Zoe, and has most likely been greeted by a cheerful wag and a wet nose, along with a little nudge for a pat on the head or the occasional belly rub. She and our other office dog Sapphire provide a kind of comic relief amidst the stresses that a real estate office can at times be host to, and I have always appreciated the therapeutic relief that their presence brings.

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Over a very short time frame, Zoe had been losing the use of her right rear leg due what an MRI eventually revealed to be a ruptured disc in her spine. Fortunately, our local vet Dr Condreay and the team at Chanticleer Vet Hospital had the insight to refer us to the SAGE clinic in Campbell, where they were able to perform a Hemilaminectomy procedure that took longer than usual due to her having more extensive damage than was initially thought.

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I am happy to report Zoe is now recovering nicely.

We checked in with the surgeon after he had a chance to assess her post-op condition, and he was pleased at her progress just 24 hours after the operation. She was able to walk under her own power again, even running a little, and he expected to release her for home care on Monday, back to her loyal support circle of friends (Carol, Mike, Scott, Karen and the list goes on) who surround her with so much love and care when we are away that we sometimes wonder if she even misses us.

The prognosis for Zoe is basically bed rest for the next month, followed by a month of relatively light movement. Her surgeon predicts, based on what he’s seeing, that she will make a full recovery by month three, when she can return to running, playing, catching balls and basically being her usual happy self—as long as we avoid jarring impact of movements like having her jump in and out of the car, which I wish we had stopped long ago (take note other dog owners!).

We feel fortunate to have gotten her under the best care available as soon as the symptoms showed an acute problem and we are overjoyed that Zoe will be able to lead a happy and pain-free existence where she can continue to spread joy and love to everyone she meets. Feel free to drop by and give her a pat the next time you’re in the neighborhood at Main Street, and she’ll no doubt be happy to give you a wag in return.

Datta Khalsa is the broker and owner at Main Street Realtors in Soquel. He can be reached at (831)818-0181 or datta@mainstrealtors.com

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he led the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce through difficult budget cuts. The chamber’s classes on social media, technology and finance brought people together, Tysseling said.

“We had a community of people who would show up at 7:30 in the morning. A lot of them were in stress, struggling to find confidence in their business and around their job,” says Tysseling. “The education piece was good, but as much as anything, it was a community. People could come and feel like everybody was struggling and we were doing it together.”

Tysseling’s departure opens a new discussion on what directions the chamber should take next.

The chamber is searching for his successor, who must deal with a local economy in which growth hinges on housing, transportation and water, he says.

The city has plans to address water sustainability with the 2015 Water Supply Advisory Committee report, and transportation with the pending passage of Measure D, an initiative the chamber supported that is currently ahead by 1,500 votes.

Housing is a trickier issue, Tysseling says. In September, Santa Cruz was named the second most unaffordable city in the U.S., behind Brooklyn, New York—something he says needs to change in order for Santa Cruz to be what he calls “an independent economy” that’s home to all kinds of workers.

If the city can’t fix its housing crisis, then it will become a vacation home community for wealthy people who live elsewhere, Tysseling says.

“We’ll have to depend on a very significant part of our wealth coming from outside of the county,” he says, such as social security, savings and federal and state education funding.

“So it really changes the character of the community. There’ll be agriculture over the next 50 years. Agriculture will survive because we’re pretty dedicated to it. And our tourism—the place is just too beautiful not to have visitors, but it’s not impossible that the character of visitors changes, that it becomes higher-end.”

To sustain a working community, people must have a “sufferable commute” to their jobs. Time to destination also determines Santa Cruz’s competitiveness as a retail community, Tysseling says.

“We’re losing the ability to have, for instance, speciality shops, you know?” says Tysseling. “You can have a beautiful lamp store, but if only people who are within three miles of you can get there in less than 15 or 20 minutes, you start to lose customers.

You can’t have specialty. You have to be general, and we become less interesting and then people drive over the hill to go shopping.”

Douglas Hull, a Santa Cruz marketing consultant and fundraiser who has been involved with the chamber since 2011, says Tysseling’s positions on housing and economic development are sound, but that the chamber has not acted on them. Local business leaders, Hull says, have failed to represent and capture the creative energy and talent that’s already here.

At Monterey Bay International Trade Association luncheons in 2012 and 2014, Rep. Sam Farr urged local businesses to brand the region by highlighting its strengths: agricultural technology, marine science, academic research and natural beauty. But no real leader came forward and progress hasn’t been made. The chamber was the natural candidate, Hull says.

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NEWS BRIEFS STANDING CALL Noah-Michael Treanor, a Pajaro Valley High School grad, says he was protesting peacefully near the Standing Rock Native American reservation when he found himself blindsided by sheriff’s deputies on the night of Sunday, Nov. 20.

Earlier in the evening, some activists at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in North Dakota had been trying to move a barricade over a bridge and clear an emergency route, according to the Washington Post.

Later, law enforcement began using a water cannon on the crowd in subfreezing temperatures—a decision

that would cause an uproar nationwide the following day.

Treanor says he was behind a barbed wire fence chanting “Forgive them, Father, they know not what they do.”

Suddenly, a rubber bullet struck Treanor in the head, and he began bleeding profusely.

In recent months, hundreds of activists like Treanor have gathered to stop construction of the oil pipeline, which was controversially rerouted under the Missouri River near a Sioux reservation without an environmental review, thanks to a shortcut granted by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Although phone reception and internet access in the middle of North Dakota are

limited, Treanor managed to give friends and family a brief update on Facebook the next day that he had gotten six staples in his head and was feeling better.

“I had to sleep all day today, but I’m waking up right now, and I’m feeling better,” he told GT via text message late Monday afternoon. “Getting ready to go back on the front lines.”

The initial news had shaken his mother Joelle Marek Treanor— she found out about the incident on Facebook Monday morning, and couldn’t get in touch with him for hours. A fellow activist had posted an image of a tall, wounded 21-year-old asking if it might be Treanor. His mother knew immediately that it was.

A video from “The Young Turks,” an online media group, showed Treanor with blood gushing from his forehead, and it mentioned other people getting struck in the head also.

Others in the crowd came down with severe hypothermia from the water cannons, and the highpressure water ripped the skin off one protester’s hand, according to the video. Law enforcement additionally launched tear gas, and some reports said that concussion grenades were used as well.

The video shows medics cleaning Treanor’s wound and bandaging it before placing an emergency blanket over him and driving him away in the back of a station wagon. JACOB PIERCE

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small companies he believes in, from tech startups to his favorite local restaurants. PHOTO: CHIP SCHEUER

SMALL THINKERS <12 color orange—orange business cards, orange day-passes to the co-working spot, a rusting orange beach cruiser. A few feet away, typing away on his laptop, sits NextSpace CEO Kurt Grutzmacher, who shares Van Valer’s passion for local investments.

Grutzmacher also has a few consulting clients of his own. Both entrepreneurs say they’ve proudly put money into clients’ companies when they truly believed in them and didn’t know how else their clients would find the cash.

Grutzmacher has also invested in his favorite places to eat or drink, like Gabriella Café and Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing.

“I don’t go around actively seeking it, but when those opportunities arise, it’s a dream marriage. You know these people. You trust them. You know the business. They’re right here,” says Grutzmacher, who’s wearing a San Jose Sharks hat. “Why wouldn’t you support ‘em? I’ve been a customer of theirs for 10 years. It’s for a reason.”

Grutzmacher gets so excited about the importance of local community that he started bringing his kids to city council meetings when they were in preschool.

Longtime financial services planner Michael Meara, who lives in Aptos, has also spent plenty of time wondering how to get more folks in the Monterey Bay to partner in their neighbors’ ventures. It would be better for the local community, he says, than if everyone just kept pushing their money toward Wall Street.

Meara would love, for instance, if it became easier for more individuals to invest in momand-pop businesses that are likely to grow steadily over the years, making for some smart money along the way. Historically, cash flowing into emerging small businesses typically comes from venture capitalists, who often make bets on lots of tiny tech

companies, knowing that if one of them makes it big, they can increase their money 100-fold or more.

“This is different than that. You’re not trying to make a home run, just singles.

Maybe a double—ching,” he explains, swinging his arms in the air as if holding a baseball bat. “And then you’re loading up bases. For me it’s about leverage impact.

One plus one equals four. Or five.”

As interest in the topic grows, Meara also has his eye on a few pieces of state legislation that could ease regulations on who can become an accredited lender. The current rules, which were borne out of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, have aimed to eliminate “fly-by-night” trading practices, Meara says, but he fears they’re now inhibiting savvy business people from making good small-time investments.

It’s that lower end of the funding spectrum where it’s already more difficult to secure cash. Banks don’t typically dole out less than $250,000 because it’s hard for them to make those types of loans profitable. Even most venture capitalists and angel funds—like Central Coast Angels, which has been in the Monterey Bay since 2014—would rather not mess around with smaller investments.

But a new local funding group called Angels by the Sea, which formed last year, has specialized in loans as low as $25,000. With more than 20 members including Van Valer and Grutzmacher, it’s already made a few investments, including LifeAID beverages and InBoard, an electric skateboard with motors in its wheels.

Board member Randy Whiting says the group’s members—some of whom have decades of experience in related fields—have been able to offer lendees guidance, which can be almost as helpful as a check in getting to the next level.

That level, though, Van Valer, points out, is not for everyone. Now and again he meets a small business owner who’s grappling with long-term planning, and he reminds us that it’s perfectly fine to run a small-scale operation.

“Their cash flow’s great. Their business is good, but for some reason, someone’s convinced them that they have to open two more restaurants or another brewery or another clothing store down the street, when really they’re fine where they are,” he says.

“Enjoy it. And that’s OK. That’s one of the challenges. People feel like they have to grow all the time. Not really. There’s a lot of people looking for VC money. They want to be the next big thing. There’s nothing wrong with being a $2-million-a-year business. So just, do that, be happy if that’s what you want. Sometimes you go to that next step—it’s hard.”

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It is not representative of important communities who define the professionals who make this area home and attract Silicon Valley managers: artists, healers, among others,” Hull tells GT via email. “The Chamber is a conventional chamber, focused on traditional memberships and old-fashioned objectives, and does not tap into the resources that make the region so unique.”

Charles Eadie, principal at Santa Cruz planning firm Eadie Consultants and former board president at the chamber, says the chamber has a clearer brand than it did in the past.

“The next step is probably to take that further and to promote the community in a broader context,” Eadie says. “And I don’t know that it’s something that I think has been failing. I would just say that you have to take things one step at a time.”

Eadie says that going forward, the chamber could do more to attract younger people, women and people of color. Millennials approach civic engagement differently and are less likely to join a chamber, Eadie says, adding that the chamber has to adapt to how young people communicate, and find ways to create a diverse membership.

Greg Carter, Tysseling’s predecessor at the chamber and an Aptos attorney, says that unlike other chambers which have a conservative, corporate bent, Santa Cruz’s chamber has both small business owners and large corporations. Tysseling, he notes, inherited a chamber that had many talented locals who had lost tech jobs when the dot-com bubble burst, but stayed in Santa Cruz to start their own businesses.

“The chamber is a conduit of information to the business community, and the more players you’ve got and the more diverse the business community is, the more challenging efficient distribution of information becomes,” Carter says.

Luckily, communicating with all types of business owners has been one of Tysseling’s strengths, Carter says.

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We kick off the second year of Santa Cruz Gives with a look at the organizations we’re asking you to support this holiday season AGRICULTURAL HISTORY PROJECT

Organization mission: The

Agricultural History Project promotes knowledge about agriculture in our region in an engaging way that helps visitors experience daily life on farms and ranches, both past and present.

AHP preserves, exhibits, collects and builds community awareness of the economic, cultural and ethnic aspects of agriculture in the area.

Children’s Activity Center Children are thrilled to pump and make the water flow at the AHP’s water-pump activity station.

This attraction can be used more fully to educate children and families about the broader issues of water use for growing food—from the mechanics of pumping and moving water to the protection of this limited natural resource. AHP also plans to build several vegetable garden boxes that demonstrate several different irrigation practices, from historic redwood runways to today’s state-of-the-art methods. By bringing families closer to the source

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS

Organization mission: To

provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. Over the past 34 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters has positively changed the lives of more than 6,000 local children.

BIG IDEA Recruiting Caring Mentors to Change the Lives of Children in Santa Cruz Big Brothers Big Sisters helps children facing adversity in Santa Cruz County reach their highest potential by creating, supervising, and supporting mentor relationships with caring adults. Mentoring has a proven positive impact on youth who face a wide range of challenges, and

demand for this program is high. Big Brothers Big Sisters has an average wait list of 70 to 75 children. They believe there are many adults in the Santa Cruz County community who could serve as excellent mentors for these waiting children, and their goal is to find mentors for at least half the children on the waiting list.

Big Brothers Big Sisters’ plan for 2017 is to ramp up mentor outreach and recruiting efforts with a community-wide campaign to reach potential mentors, including the use of current and past mentors to share their experiences and the rewards of mentoring.

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of their food, we hope to create lasting impressions that grow into a full appreciation of agriculture’s role in a healthy society. It’s time to retrofit this station into an education exhibit complete with interpretive bilingual signage.

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hen we started Santa Cruz Gives last year with the Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County, we hoped to bring something new and innovative to the idea of a holiday donation drive. But it was only after analyzing last year’s results that we really started to understand the potential this campaign has to evolve charitable giving as we know it in Santa Cruz County.

To start with, Santa Cruz Gives is the first countywide crowdsourcing website for local fundraising. And what we discovered is that most donors were going to santacruzgives.org and taking advantage of the ability to contribute to more than one nonprofit; in fact, they gave to an average of four. The nonprofits who participated last year also reported an influx of new donors, and of young donors—two growth areas that are essential not only for Santa Cruz Gives’ groups, but also for the future of charitable giving.

So when we say we see Santa Cruz Gives as a “new way to give,” we mean it. This year, we’ve expanded the number of nonprofits participating in Santa Cruz Gives, which runs through Dec. 31, and we hope you’ll read here about these groups and the projects they want to fund with your donations, and then go to santacruzgives.org and make it happen.

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COASTAL WATERSHED COUNCIL

Organization mission: In

response to the declining health of watersheds in the Monterey Bay region, the Coastal Watershed Council formed to protect coastal watersheds through community stewardship, education and monitoring.

We partner with schools, community organizations, and local government agencies, and emphasize hands-on learning— getting community members out into the watershed to learn about water quality, riparian and wetland ecosystems and the solutions affecting our watersheds.

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The San Lorenzo River is the primary source of drinking water for nearly 100,000 residents. It is critical habitat for endangered Coho salmon, threatened steelhead trout, birds and other wildlife. Coastal Watershed Council works to make the river feel more like a park than a back alley.

Despite the important resources the river provides, it is plagued with a negative reputation resulting from pollution and neglect. CWC leads the San Lorenzo River Alliance, a coalition of local agencies and organizations, to revitalize the river, and to improve water quality and the way in which we interact with this natural community space in the heart of downtown Santa Cruz.

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• River Talk: Maintain media focus on the San Lorenzo River; increase positive press mentions about the river by 10 percent by the end of 2016.

We rely on the river, we impact it, and it can improve our daily lives.

DIENTES COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE

Organization mission: To

create lasting oral health for underserved local children and adults.

BIG IDEA Give Kids a Smile Day Dientes aims to make prevention more common than treatment so that kids can focus on school instead of a toothache. This day of free care helps identify and serve kids who would otherwise fall through the cracks—families who don’t qualify for Medi-Cal, and can’t afford expensive or even discounted dental care at local clinics.

Dientes’ 13th annual Give Kids a Smile Day gives free dental care to 40 uninsured children from low-income families in Santa Cruz County. The event serves kids that would otherwise fall through the healthcare cracks, and instills healthy dental habits and positive experiences with the dentist. This way, kids can continue their good oral health throughout their life.

FARM DISCOVERY AT LIVE EARTH

Organization mission: To

empower local youth and families to build and sustain healthy food, farming, social and natural systems.

Farm Discovery provides yearround opportunities for people of all ages to learn to grow and prepare healthy, plant-based, organic foods through hands-on programs such as summer camps, field trips and community events.

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Organization mission: To

support the Santa Cruz City-County Library System, in order to promote literacy and a thriving, informed community. Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries does this through fundraising, volunteer services and advocacy.

BIG IDEA Guarantee Another 150 Years of Community and Freedom in Santa Cruz Local historian Geoffrey Dunn said it well: “Even in the Age of the Internet—and perhaps because of the Internet—libraries remain a cornerstone of civilized society.

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Farm Discovery’s goal is to provide scholarships for 50-60 local, lowincome youths to attend Farm Discovery Summer Camps at Live Earth Farm’s 150-acre patchwork of working organic farm, riparian corridor, oak and redwood forest in Pajaro Valley.

Farm Discovery aims to positively transform young people’s relationship to food and the environment as they learn about the importance of taking care of their bodies, environment and communities. Campers plant, pick, preserve and cook fruits and vegetables; save seeds; make compost; create healthy snacks; and feed and care for chickens, dairy cows and goats.

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SANTA CRUZ GIVES <25 Libraries are community.”

Libraries have evolved to meet changing needs. Attendance is up, and support is needed to enhance programs. This year, Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries are asking that donors help to: • Foster a library system that builds community: New parents connect at storytime hours held at each branch; this year, branches will host story hours held in Spanish as well as English.

• Foster library branches that are centers for the arts: Donations will ensure free art classes for children and adults alike through craft programs, creative writing workshops, and monthly free classical music concerts.

• Nourish a library system that champions youth: From toddler storytime and craft hours to the teen “Battle of the Bands” and other programs at our Teen Centers, donations will encourage youth to explore, interact and imagine.

FRIENDS OF THE WATSONVILLE ANIMAL SHELTER

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of the Watsonville Animal Shelter works to reduce pet overpopulation and improve the treatment of pets in Santa Cruz County. In 2013, the organization opened a low-cost spay-neuter clinic in Watsonville, which has significantly reduced the number of stray and abandoned pets in South County.

In partnership with the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter, the FOWAS clinic performed 769 cat spay/neuter surgeries and 473 dog spay/neuter surgeries in 2015, in addition to providing free humane education programs for local schools and free pet supplies each month at the Watsonville Farmers Market.

BIG IDEA Help Needy Pets Through Education Outreach Last year, the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter took in 5,000 stray

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and abandoned pets, but there is still more work to be done to curb pet overpopulation and animal mistreatment and neglect.

In partnership with the county shelter, FOWAS’ 2017 project includes a comprehensive plan to educate the community about pet care, while also providing free pet supplies and free spay/neuter services for cats and dogs. FOWAS seeks support to help continue its free humane education programs in local schools, which build empathy for animals. Last year, the organization presented 139 lessons to local school children, as well as scholarship money for students to attend after-school programs and summer camp at the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter.

The organization will focus on outreach to low-income residents in the southern part of the county, which sees the most stray and abandoned pets.

GREY BEARS

Organization mission: Grey

Bears improves the health and well-being of seniors through food distribution, volunteerism and community participation. Their vision is that all seniors live healthy, meaningful lives.

BIG IDEA Brown Bag Program After a devastating fire in 2014, construction is underway on a new 3,000-square-foot thrift store at Grey Bears’ Chanticleer campus. The profits from the group’s thrift store, electronics store and bookstore fund the Brown Bag Program, which delivers a bag of fresh produce and healthy staples weekly to 4,200 low-income seniors (1,000 are homebound). That adds up to two million meals each year.

From the simple act of sharing garden produce with senior

neighbors in 1973, Grey Bears has grown into one of the most resourceful food distribution and recycling nonprofits in the U.S. Local, vital and multifaceted, the group’s programs sustain seniors, our community and our environment.

HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT

Organization mission: The

Homeless Garden Project is an urban farm and garden that provides job training, transitional employment, and support services to people who are homeless. With an emphasis on creating a thriving and inclusive community, as well as growing the local food system, the project provides people with the tools they need to build a home in the world.

The Homeless Garden Project also supports the broader Santa Cruz community with a Community Supported Agriculture program (CSA), and an education and

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The HGP is taking its organic farmworkers to the next level by teaching people to create more than 30 value-added products from the organic farm, including flower wreaths, beeswax candles, salves, lavender shortbread and more. The group needs funds to scale up its production of these goods and to purchase workshop materials, including containers, locally-sourced beeswax and organic ingredients for baking mixes.

This project is a social enterprise aspect of our transitional employment program that helps individuals experiencing homelessness build job skills.

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Organization mission: To improve the quality of life for children with cancer and their families. Since 1998, Jacob’s Heart has been at the side of more than 600 local children with cancer and more than 3,000 family members as they have navigated the journey from diagnosis through an uncertain future, and beyond.

Our vision is to create a community where every child with a serious or life-threatening condition has a supported and informed family empowered to fully participate in their care. The no-cost services are funded entirely through community donations. Jacob’s Heart receives no government support or reimbursement for services.

BIG IDEA Camp Heart and Hands Having cancer is isolating and scary, especially if you’re a child. Camp Heart and Hands is a life-changing

weekend camp where families of children with cancer can forget about their disease and create bonds with other families enduring pediatric cancer. The camp is staffed by pediatric ICU nurses and oncologists from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford and includes campfires, support groups, movie night, a climbing wall, a skateboard park, a carnival, music, dancing, healthy food, art, swimming, games, magic, and pony rides.

Jacob’s Heart needs to raise funds so that the camp is free of charge.

By providing emotional, practical, financial and peer support to children and their families, Jacob’s Heart aims to create a support network and serve the unique needs of each child and family battling cancer.

LEO’S HAVEN/SHANE’S INSPIRATION

Organization mission: The

mission of Shane’s Inspiration is to create inclusive playgrounds and programs that integrate children of all abilities, fostering acceptance, friendship and understanding.

BIG IDEA An Inclusive Playground A playground is a child’s creative classroom. It is where one learns to negotiate, share and communicate; strengthens one’s imagination and muscles; and learns to trust oneself and others. While we would never deny a child entrance into a classroom, children with disabilities are routinely prevented from entering life’s classroom: the playground.

Shane’s Inspiration is working with the Santa Cruz Playground Project and the County of Santa Cruz to design, fundraise and build the county’s first inclusive playground: LEO’s Haven at Chanticleer Park.

The capital campaign includes funding the inclusive playground, restrooms, and a parking area.

Even today, with Americans with Disabilities Act guidelines in place, most playgrounds only provide an

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Often this mindset and lack of selfcare comes from a history of child sexual abuse. As adults, some of us don’t like to change clothing because of the vulnerability, and don’t like to look in the mirror to groom because our own reflection is painful.

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With a focus on education, support and promoting public understanding, the organization offers free classes, presentations, leadership guidance, support groups, initiatives to advocate for better services for county residents and more.

Class topics include managing crises, communicating effectively, handling stress, supporting children’s issues with compassion, impacts on the family, advocating for a child’s rights, current treatments, understanding the difference between “bad behavior” and symptoms of a mental health condition and understanding public mental health care, school and juvenile justice systems.

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MHCAN provides a day center for the severely mental health diagnosed in Santa Cruz and a safe space to socialize, celebrate lives and survive times of intensity.

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In addition to a non-institutional style shower and mirror, hygiene supplies will be provided, which are usually in short supply.

Good hygiene can go a long way toward self-confidence and finding one’s rightful place in the world.

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A inclusive playground provides an ideal opportunity to prevent bias from taking root at an early age in able children by providing a place for them to play with children who have disabilities. LEO’s Haven will be a permanent legacy of compassion and inclusion in our community.

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For youth experiencing emerging mental health issues, navigating school, friendships, and family life can be even more frightening and challenging than for other children.

NAMI seeks to ease those challenges and bring hope to all through free classes, support groups and access to resources for parents.

Next year, the organization aims to provide more than 2,000 students and teachers with dynamic “Ending the Silence” and “Teachers and Parents as Allies” presentations that offer inspirational real-life stories from young adults and parents who have survived a mental health crisis.

These real-life experiences equip young people with new ideas and offer resources that help to prevent mental illness from escalating.

NOURISHING GENERATIONS

Organization mission:

Nourishing Generations is dedicated to educating children, families, and people of all ages about cooking and eating a healthy, whole foods diet and enjoying regular exercise. They aim to maximize optimal health and minimize disease.

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Nourishing Generations brings together chefs, nutrition educators, fitness specialists, and community members who are passionate about motivating children, teens, and adults to eat better and be more active. In recent years, the group has offered a dynamic six-week series of engaging classes at one of the Mid-Peninsula Housing sites each year, but this program has been so successful that they have been asked to increase their class offerings to five affordable housing communities in South Santa Cruz County in 2017.

The weekly program will consist of a healthy snack, engaging nutrition

activity, hands-on cooking, fun fitness activity, and food sharing during a two-hour session. Staff prepare and present lessons such as rethinking your drink, a balanced plate, and reading nutrition labels.

Nutritionists present the lessons, chefs help the children prepare healthy meals, and fitness instructors help kids have fun while moving.

PAJARO VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL

Organization mission:

Celebrating its 32nd year, Pajaro Valley Arts continues to bring exemplary art exhibits and arts education to a richly diverse multicultural population. Their mission is to bring the community together through the arts. Annually PVA presents six to eight rotating visual art exhibits and cultural events in partnership with guest curators, schools, city government and local organizations.

PVA believes that every person deserves to have access to the arts, and conducts programming yearround at no cost to the public to fulfill this vision.

BIG IDEA Photojournalism for Impact In spring of 2017, Pajaro Valley Arts will produce a six-week gallery exhibit around the theme of photojournalism, featuring the work of some of their most beloved local photojournalists: Bob Fitch, Shmuel Thaler, and Tarmo Hannula, all of whom are well-known for their artistry and craftsmanship, as well as their contributions to journalism.

Fitch’s nationally-known work speaks to issues that resonate today throughout our communities, such as nonviolence, labor rights, and economic and racial equality.

Because these photojournalists have lived and worked in Santa Cruz County, reflecting life here on a daily basis both in the news media and through social activism, their work has had a continuous impact on Santa Cruz County. They have

focused attention on critical social issues, as well as bringing awareness of the beauty and uniqueness of our local area. In this exhibit, PVAC will turn the focus to the extraordinary work of these artists.

PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES

Organization mission: To assist

Santa Cruz County homeless women, children and families in obtaining stable housing through temporary shelter and services.

BIG IDEA Ending Family Homelessness, Building Skills for Self-Sufficiency PVSS inspires and supports families as they build skills to move out of homelessness and into selfsufficiency and stable housing.

Funds from the Santa Cruz Gives campaign would go toward housing families while they go through PVSS’ program to build financial and emotional stability. The organization is asking for support to go toward their case management services to guide families experiencing homelessness in gaining the skills they need to become independent.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE

Organization mission: Planned

Parenthood Mar Monte provides excellent, affordable reproductive health education and services. Since 1964, it has remained committed to compassionate, nonjudgmental family planning and health care, and to presenting the knowledge and opportunity to make every child a wanted child, and every family a healthy family.

A diverse group of 30,000 patients are seen annually in Santa Cruz County—and many come from out of the area for trans care.

Education includes parent-child communication workshops and a Farm Worker Family Health Program.

From reducing unintended pregnancies to promoting responsible behavior and communication related to sexuality and health, PPMM is an essential resource for women, families, teens and communities who may not otherwise have access to such health care.

BIG IDEA Stronger Than Ever “Stronger Than Ever” is the theme uniting thousands of PPMM’s patients and supporters in response to an increase in attacks by antireproductive rights legislators and zealots around the country, whose goal is to shut down PP’s services for those who cannot find excellent, affordable reproductive health care elsewhere.

In 2017, Stronger Than Ever aims to see more patients, increase education programming for teens and young adults, and provide enhanced health care services— including behavioral health counseling, family medicine health care, and transgender services at its Coast health centers.

SALUD Y CARIÑO

Organization mission: Salud y

Cariño opens doors for girls to take action and gain confidence through physical activity and healthy choices to live their best lives now and in the future. By supporting and empowering girls, they strengthen the community for generations to come.

BIG IDEA Leadership Surf Camp for Girls Mentoring is proven to have a lasting impact on both the mentor and mentee. Salud facilitates these meaningful connections at a oneweek leadership camp where girls learn to surf and develop a wide range of healthy habits that they can pass on to younger girls two years later.

SANTA CRUZ GIVES Eighth-graders who have been with the organization since sixth grade will participate in the leadership camp in summer of 2017, where they will develop the confidence and leadership skills to return as Junior Facilitators to lead and inspire incoming sixth graders.

The camp will include leadership modules, nutrition, and surfing in alignment with their mission to use physical activity and healthy choices to enable girls to live their best lives.

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE RAIL AND TRAIL

Organization mission: To

promote, support, and enable the development of a rail with trail transportation system in Santa Cruz County.

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SAVE OUR SHORES

Organization mission: Save Our Shores mission is to care for the marine environment through ocean awareness, advocacy, action and access.

Summer of Clean Beaches Through their Summer of Clean Beaches program, Save Our Shores keeps the shores of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary clean and healthy for all to enjoy. SOS activates nearly 5,000 volunteers to educate beachgoers, hand out trash bags, and encourage everyone to do their part to leave beaches clean in their wake. They also run more than 50 cleanups throughout the summer months to ensure debris that visitors failed to pack out is removed before the tides wash it into the Sanctuary.

Additionally, they run weekly cleanups on this area’s most-visited shores and on days after holidays.

The Summer of Clean Beaches culminates with the Annual Coastal Cleanup each September, which includes 80 sites (sloughs, levees, river watersheds and beaches) where more than 3,500 volunteers pick up trash from Waddell Creek to Big Sur.

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Organization mission: To end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community. Through a network of more than 200 community partners, nutrition programs and emergency food distributions, Second Harvest delivers 8.2 million pounds of healthy food—including fresh fruits and vegetables—to local children, seniors, working families and individuals in need every year.

With community wellness as the organization’s focus, Second Harvest also provides 600 healthy living classes across Santa Cruz County and acts as a community hub where volunteers give 42,000 hours each year and 5,000 individuals are directed to the nearest food resource.

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Imagine a community where thousands bike to work and school each day separately from car traffic.

Right here in Santa Cruz County, a 32-mile paved bicycling and walking path along the coast from Davenport to Watsonville is underway, and Friends of the Rail and Trail are asking donors to help finish this project.

This big-picture legacy project will benefit hundreds of thousands of residents and visitors for decades to come. It will set an example for other environmentally progressive cities to follow. With unparalleled coastal views and proximity to local schools, beaches and towns, the Rail Trail will provide substantial environmental, health, economic, and quality-oflife benefits for the Monterey Bay and San Francisco Bay regions for generations.

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This year, they are introducing the Virtual Barrel for the holidays: for $25, donors can fill a barrel and provide 100 meals for families and seniors in need in Santa Cruz County.

Second Harvest has grown to operate as a hub that works with 200 smaller nonprofits and program sites throughout Santa Cruz County—food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, churches—that reach deep into our neighborhoods where food is most needed. Their partners don’t simply hand out food, but work to eliminate the root causes of hunger, homelessness, substance abuse, and mental health issues for the healthy future of Santa Cruz County.

SENDEROS

Organization mission:

Senderos is an all-volunteer organization that forges pathways to success for Latino youth through the performing arts, and fosters educational opportunities that would not otherwise be available.

Since its founding in 2001, Senderos’ music and dance programs grew from serving seven to 80 youths, and established cultural pride in the face of racism and gang involvement.

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Creating Pathways for Youth Senderos’ 2017 project is to meet the demand for its free after-school dance and music instruction for Latino youth, many of whom are low-income. The classes promote family unity, push for academic success leading to higher education, and enhance self-esteem. There are now more than 20 community and school performances annually, seen by more than 10,000. There is a need for instruments to expand the instrument lending library, and for traditional dance outfits for Senderos’ young performers.

The results reverberate into the

community by fostering creative thinking, confidence, problemsolving, accountability, relationship building, communication, adaptability and dreaming big.

SENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES

Organization mission: Senior Citizens Legal Services provides free legal services to elderly residents with an emphasis on those who are low-income, disabled, minority and geographically isolated.

SCLS focuses on advocacy to ensure that seniors have access to health care, decent housing, a liveable income and a life free of physical, emotional and financial abuse.

For low-income seniors, meeting basic needs of food, clothing, shelter and medical care is a daily challenge, putting the services of a private attorney for legal matters far out of reach. SCLS is the only local, nonprofit law firm offering legal assistance at no cost (including representation in superior court and administrative law judge proceedings) to these members of our community.

BIG IDEA Protecting Senior Citizens from Scams and Elder Abuse Senior citizens are the fastest growing population in our county, and they are particularly susceptible to predatory scams. In 2017, SCLS will focus on education for both staff and clients to protect senior citizens from scams and to protect their rights after they have been defrauded.

SCLS will use funds raised to create and deliver presentations on elder abuse prevention to empower older people in our community to recognize and protect themselves from predatory scams.

SHARED ADVENTURES

Organization mission: Founded on the belief that recreation,

WADING IN Shared Adventures’ Day on the Beach event provides ocean recreation

to more than 120 children and adults with disabilities. PHOTO: SHARED ADVENTURES challenge, fun and access to the outdoors are essential parts of a fulfilling life, Shared Adventures is dedicated to improving the quality of life for people living with disabilities.

We create opportunities for social and recreational interaction that encourage: • Personal growth and selfconfidence • Cooperation, decision-making, and leadership skills • Outdoor skills and environmental awareness • Increased level of happiness

BIG IDEA Day on the Beach Next year is the 25th anniversary of Day on the Beach, the foundational event of the Shared Adventures program, and they hope to make this one truly memorable. Day on the Beach creates an opportunity for disabled individuals to participate in ocean sports such as kayaking, outrigger canoeing, and SCUBA diving, as well as cruising in the sand on beach wheelchairs. Approximately 6,000 square feet of plywood on frames will be constructed over Cowell Beach to enable those with

mobility issues to travel over the sand all the way to the water.

More than 120 children and adults with disabilities will experience an ocean sport, while hundreds more join in for the festivities. For the day, a city on the beach comes alive with live music, free food, and beach games for all to enjoy.

SPECIAL PARENTS INFORMATION NETWORK

Organization mission: SPIN

helps children with special needs achieve their full potential by empowering their families and the professionals who serve them through information, support and resources.

When someone feels they are the only one going through the experience of raising a child with special needs, it can be debilitating.

The moment they feel they are not alone, a huge burden is lifted in a way that has been described as miraculous. SPIN helps families maintain a healthy outlook on life while living with a child with special needs. This is done through various programs, including parent support groups in English and Spanish, educational training, a resource library and networking opportunities.

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weekly connection and a friendly face during a time of isolation and recovery from illness, and can be a powerfully transformative experience for a young person as they serve the community in a meaningful way.

The Mentor Parent Program matches Kick off the holiday season parents who are dealing with a •UNCHAINED Hors d’oeurves child’s disability—whether it is physical, cognitive, developmental, • Raffles and free gifts Organization mission: medical, learning, neurobehavioral,• Largest ornament collection UnChained pairs at-risk youth with or emotional—with volunteer in Santa Cruz County homeless dogs in need of training “veteran” parents, or mentors, who •and Tons of sparkle! adoption.

The youth prepare the have traveled a similar journey. dogs for adoption, and in the process There can be medical, emotional, develop respect, responsibility and financial, and social issues that compassion for themselves and impact an entire family. SPIN others, while improving the chances mentors are experienced with of adoption for the dogs by 50 what can be an overwhelming and percent. isolating experience. It is a profound Teachers have reported that contribution to receive emotional participating youths were more support and information to new engaged academically and that their parents embarking on a difficult truancy rates were down. journey.

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TEEN KITCHEN PROJECT

Organization mission: Teen Kitchen Project brings about healthier people, healthier communities and a healthier environment through healing food, empowerment of the next generation, and love.

BIG IDEA Expansion of Teen Kitchen Program

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Canines Teaching Compassion The Canines Teaching Compassion program offers an innovative way of instilling positive values in at-risk youth. In the upcoming year we hope to expand this successful eightweek program by adding three more programs in Santa Cruz County.

UnChained offers an affordable, effective solution to reducing violence among youth through dog training and relationship building.

The youths train the dogs using reward and praise versus force and punishment. This method supports positive interpersonal relationships with humans, as well. When youths are given the opportunity to change the lives of homeless dogs who share similar experiences of neglect, abandonment or abuse, they can begin to see the possibility of their own second chance.

VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY

Organization mission: To transform the community through volunteerism, empowering everyone to be the difference.

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Teen Kitchen Project is the county’s only prepared-meal delivery service for those in crisis due to illness and is also the only nonprofit offering free, healthy cooking instruction for young people each week. Youth volunteers at TKP have been preparing and delivering meals to families in need in Soquel, and the organization expanded to South County in March of 2016 thanks to generous donations from Santa Cruz Gives in 2015.

In order to meet the increasing need for their services, the goal for 2017 is to engage 50 percent more teens to generate 20 percent more meals. Delivery “angels” provide a

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Expansion of Reading Buddies Project and Senior Tech Day

Financial Empowerment Education for Survivors of Domestic Abuse

Being of service to others is one of the most rewarding experiences in a person’s life. Young people have an unbridled passion for making the world a better place, but they are consistently told they can’t contribute because they are too young.

Our YouthSERVE program provides adult supervision and guidance to more than 300 young people each year who share their time and talents to be the difference in our community.

The Volunteer Center seeks to expand the efforts of two of YouthSERVE’s most successful initiatives, Reading Buddies Project and Senior Tech Day. Reading Buddies project volunteers mentor K-2 students to help them develop a love of reading and succeed in school. We are excited to add a new location at Schapiro Knolls, an affordable housing complex in Watsonville.

Senior Tech Day matches youth volunteers with seniors to teach them how to use tech devices so they can stay connected to their friends and family. This year, it will expand to the San Lorenzo Valley, where SLV middle school students will tutor seniors in Felton.

Financial abuse remains one of the most common ways of keeping survivors of domestic violence trapped in abusive relationships.

Walnut Avenue Family and Women’s Center would like to offer two series of workshops on financial management to participants in their Services for Survivors of Domestic Violence programs. The curriculum was established by the Allstate Foundation specifically with survivors in mind, and the goal is to provide survivors with the financial management skills that will increase their likelihood of not just “getting by,” but actually thriving after an abusive relationship.

WALNUT AVENUE FAMILY AND WOMEN’S CENTER

Organization mission: Walnut

Avenue Family and Women’s Center provides support and services so that women, children, and families will have the opportunities and skills to thrive.

Programs in child care, youth development, parenting, domestic violence prevention, and advocacy are their primary focus. Many families served are from underserved populations due to poverty, early pregnancy, homelessness and domestic violence.

WARMING CENTER PROGRAM

Organization mission:

Warming Center Program has taken a strong stand to reduce and end hypothermia for those who sleep outside. On the coldest and wettest nights of the year, Warming Center Program provides a warm, safe place to sleep for anyone who needs it and can adhere to a simple set of rules.

The program serves a large unmet need in the county, and includes an activation alert system, a community awareness campaign, several site locations, a large stock of floor pads, clean bedding, volunteer coordination, an emergency phone hotline, a shuttle van and shuttle stops, soup and coffee all night, and a small breakfast.

BIG IDEA Shuttle and Soup Stop Loss of Homeless Service Center’s drop-in emergency shelter and the traditional location of the Winter Shelter at the Armory means Warming Center Program will work to expand capacity this winter, using

different locations throughout the winter.

A centrally located pop-up Shuttle and Soup Stop is set up when the shelter is activated. The population of people who sleep outside, as well as the community-at-large, need to be aware of it and know how and when they can access it.

They need resources for an emergency hotline, printed materials, banners and street signs, print advertising, street team outreach, structural elements, food heating and serving, and shuttle pickups that occur until 2:30 a.m.

WATSONVILLE FILM FESTIVAL

Organization mission: The organizers of the Watsonville Film Festival believe that film is a catalyst to spark conversations, expand possibilities and transform communities. Their mission is to share films that inspire and engage their diverse community, encourage conversations between filmmakers and audiences, empower local youth through video production and film culture as a way to transform the world, and promote economic and cultural development of the Monterey Bay region through the cinematic arts in Watsonville.

BIG IDEA Celebrating This Region’s Multi-Dimensionality Reopening the historic Fox Theater to host the Watsonville Film Festival in 2016 was a breakthrough for the local community. The group’s focus in 2017 will be to establish a cultural destination in the heart of Monterey Bay and to make their interactive program ongoing.

This will be done through creating a permanent home in downtown Watsonville; acquiring their own equipment; screening local as well as international films rarely seen in our region; creating a platform to support unique films, including many produced

by local youth that portray underrepresented communities; encouraging post-film conversations between filmmakers and the audience; and promoting entrepreneurial development of this region through the cinematic arts in Watsonville.

YOUTH N.O.W.

Organization mission: Youth

N.O.W. is a place of new beginnings that provides after-school resources for underprivileged youth, ages 10-18, in the Watsonville area. At the heart of the mission is engaging young people in a nurturing community where they succeed personally and academically through participation in individualized programs that cultivate critical life skills.

Nearly 300 students per year participate in a variety of programs including one-on-one tutoring, enrichment classes, college field trips, and more. These programs increase educational-attainment levels, reduce after-school risky behavior, and increase local hiring for high-skilled jobs.

BIG IDEA Pathways N.O.W. The Pathways N.O.W. program provides college and career readiness for high school students.

The program is created in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education and Your Future is our Business.

It’s designed to give youth an opportunity to have a long-term, one-on-one mentoring relationship with an allied adult. These relationships provide mentees with support, guidance, and a sense of belonging to a community of caring individuals to which they may not otherwise have access.

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FIRE TALKER Christina Waters will discuss her new book ‘Inside the Flame’ at Bookshop Santa Cruz on Monday, Nov. 28. PHOTO: KEANA PARKER

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ou’re beginning to become predictable. That’s a little worrisome,” Christina Waters told me recently.

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even the mundane ones spent ironing or folding sheets. Her approach is a bit like that scene in Amélie, where, standing in a noisy Paris market place, Amélie pauses amid the chaos to sink her fingers into a sack of beans, just for the tactile thrill of it.

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LITERATURE <36 the writing sparkles with rich clarity, but mines the human experience to ignite deeper emotion.

“let’s see where that leads,” or “let’s go there” or “let’s try this.” That’s sort of the mantra of my life: Let’s try this.

You don’t mention technology, but it played a role in triggering the book?

I really love the recurring themes of color and of the Mojave.

CHRISTINA WATERS: Right. I was noticing my university students all sort of hungry to get back to their cell phones the minute that they were out of my class. And I got to realizing that they think that this—what’s on their phone—is as real as what they can get walking around and digging and talking and touching things. I thought that was a poor substitute for real life; watching things on screens.

I hoped that by writing some chapters that were vivid enough, people would say, “you know, that’s better than what I’m getting on my cell phone.”

The desert is a place where a lot of things become very clear. The thing about the desert is that there’s not a lot of distraction. And as we all know, the world conspires to distract us. In the desert, you can pretty much see, and you can hear, and you can feel things very clearly. I’ve gotten a lot of good writing done in deserts. But also just hiking, and enjoying the sunsets, and watching the stars come out one by one. It’s incredible.

Would you say living inside the flame is similar to ‘mindfulness’?

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The word mindfulness I know is extremely au courant. But I think I prefer the word focus, and an intended life, rather than just always being mindful, which for me can kind of devolve into a nebulous halo … It’s a version of the Platonic “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

I have a post-it on my computer that says “Radical adventures in everyday life.” You don’t have to go to Egypt, you don’t have to go to Paris, you really can stay in your backyard and find much more there. It’s being open to something powerful at all times.

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To what extent did your childhood as an army brat influence this approach to life?

That was one of my own puzzles.

Working backward, it occurred to me that because I only had a few years or a few months to be in any place, I had to get into it fast. I had to make friends quickly. So everything had to intensify a little, I sort of dialed up everything. When we were visiting some place or taking a drive, I wanted to see where it went. I wanted to get the whole experience. I didn’t feel that I had the luxury of lots of time in any one place. So it developed, it’s true, since the very beginning. Not that I was reckless … all the time, but it led to a certain willingness to say “take a chance.” A habit of my saying

I wanted to read more about the sad, trapped housewife in the San Francisco forest who made mudpies.

Writing about making mudpies as an adult, which I thought was so much fun, and therapeutic, forced me back into that place where there really didn’t seem to be a solution. And in fact, I had to leave it. I simply left and started a new life. And that happened several times in my life. But I had to be careful because all of those people are still alive. If I were writing a true memoir, it would be grittier and darker and more convoluted, and filled with a lot more questioning, I think, than this book has. This book is about what I know. So the next book I write will be a fictionalized version that will have lots of, shall we say, the ugly underbelly of making discoveries that we all have to make.

Tell me more about what’s next.

I already have two books that I’m working on. They’re both fiction, but, of course, they will be filled with me and people I’ve known and people I’ve hated, and people who were wonderful. They’re both set in Europe, and both involve murders.

One of them deals with music and the other one deals with art. There will be plenty of sex, travel, and really wonderful food. You have to. I mean, while you’re having adventures you might as well eat well.

INFO: Christina Waters will read and discuss ‘Inside the Flame’ at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 28, at Bookshop Santa Cruz.

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Sure, they produce their share of the classics—Harold Pinter, Athol Fugard, Noel Coward—but Artistic Director Julie James also has a sharp eye for innovative work less familiar to local audiences.

Case in point: Next To Normal, the exhilarating second production in JTC’s 12th season. This show also marks the company’s first anniversary in its new space, the Colligan Theater at the Tannery (where they opened last November with Guys and Dolls). Next To Normal

is also a musical, but there’s nothing old school about it. Debuting on Broadway in 2009, the show won a couple of Tonys, along with a Pulitzer Prize, for its audacious depiction of a wife and mother with bipolar disorder whose struggles to cope with her husband, her family, and herself are surprisingly universal.

With music by Tom Kitt and book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, this is not the kind of musical that comes with show tunes and a chorus line. It’s more like a rock operetta, with almost non-stop music provided in this production by an onstage jazz-rock combo (ably led by keyboardist Katie Coleman) and a cast of six terrific

singers. The music ranges from poetic to powerhouse, the lyrics are insightful, and the singers perform in an endlessly inventive series of duets, quartets, and counterpoints.

The story revolves around Diana (Lee Ann Payne), a suburban housewife struggling to keep herself together in order to hold her family together. Husband Dan (Christopher Reber) has stuck with her through all the peaks and valleys of her illness.

Son Gabe (the outstanding Coleton Schmitto) is the apple of his mother’s eye. Teenage daughter Natalie (a poignant, affecting Brittany Law), a scholastic overachiever, also plays keyboard, embracing the classical

The Jewel Theatre Company production of ‘Next To Normal’ plays at the Colligan Theater in the Tannery through Dec. 11.

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precision of Mozart as an antidote to the chaos at home.

In the course of the story, Natalie warily allows a new boyfriend, Henry (affable Ryland Gordon), into her carefully sealed-up life. Family secrets are revealed, while Diana sinks into a low period, and changes her meds and her doctors (both played by Nick Gallego, one whitecoated and avuncular; the other described as a “rock star” in his field, who appears to Diana strutting and wailing, bathed in a neon spotlight.)

Even in this cast of excellent singers, special kudos go to Schmitto.

A dynamic performer onstage, he not only brings an authoritative edge to his rock singing, but also contributes beautiful harmonies in the multi-part vocal arrangements, while his sweet falsetto is used to very tender effect in the ballads.

The lyrics are smart and the music propulsive. A recurring theme is presence, in life and in one’s own self, in songs like “He’s Not Here,” “Wish I Were Here” and Schmitto’s showstopping “I’m Alive.” “Wish I Were Here” is sung by Diana, watching from above (on Kent Dorsey’s spare, effective double-decker set), while doctors perform ECT (it used to be called shock therapy) on her sedated body. Diana’s very funny pre-op number, “Didn’t I See This Movie?,” manages to reference Sylvia Plath, Frances Farmer, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

As Diana, Payne sings up a storm (even when her mic temporarily failed her during one song on opening night); she captures Diana’s wry wit, and articulates the emotional terrain of each number. Reber’s rumpled, loyal Dan, trying to do his best, partners with her beautifully. Married in real life, they last appeared onstage together for JTC in the fabulous film noir musical Gunmetal Blues. (He was the gumshoe; she was the blonde who popped up in all the female roles.)

James (who also directs) keeps the action brisk and the audience engaged.

The exuberance of this production is what live theater is all about.

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RISING TRIBE Rising Appalachia performs at the Catalyst on Friday, Nov. 25.

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ailing from Atlanta, Georgia, Rising Appalachia— consisting primarily of sisters Chloe and Leah Smith—blends bluegrass, folk, world music and even hip-hop into a new perspective on a traditional sound.

“So much of what we do is try to tell a different Southern narrative,” explains Leah, who also performs solo as Leah Song. “That’s been part of our work from the get-go.”

Haunting vocals, banjos, fiddles, congas, djembes, beatboxes, spoons, and practically everything else that

makes a noise can be found in their recordings. Rising Appalachia’s songs are as eclectic as the music they listen to themselves.

“We’ve got the newest A Tribe Called Quest album, Kendrick Lamar, and then traditional music from Bali and Ireland, along with American traditional players like Bruce Molsky,” says Leah. “We have a whole peculiar rotation of sounds coming out of our tour van.”

Founded 11 years ago, Rising Appalachia, who plays the Catalyst on Friday, Nov. 25, began as a Christmas

present to their friends and family, with Chloe and Leah recording their first album in a basement. The sisters received so much encouragement and positive feedback, it ultimately became Rising Appalachia’s first album, Leah and Chloe. Since then, the band has recorded five more albums, all independently released and each one evolving a unique sound while focusing on music as an engine to unite, inform and heal.

Last year the band released Wider Circles, after a massively successful Kickstarter funding campaign.

“It’s definitely our strongest album to date,” says Leah. “But while the music industry intentionally tries to get artists to crank out new material, we’ve intentionally dug our heels to take time and explore the nuances of all our music.”

That “intentional dig” culminated in the Slow Music Movement, launched by the band last year. More than just rediscovering their old tunes, the Slow Music Movement represents the realization of Rising Appalachia’s ideological principles through what they call “sustainable touring.” Instead of travelling by massive tour buses or planes, the band tours with a minivan and did most of last year’s tour via Amtrak. Most venues will provide acts with food or snacks—part of the “rider,” in industry lingo—so Rising Appalachia decided to request locally sourced and farmed food, often creating personal relationships with the farmers firsthand. The Slow Music Movement also provides a handful of free tickets to Rising Appalachia’s shows to local charities in each city, which in turns gives audience members a chance to connect to activists in their area that they might not have previously come across.

“Nothing about it is set in stone,” explains Song, who was inspired to move to Mexico when she was 19 years old to study how the Zapatistas used art as a revolutionary tool for empowerment. “But it’s more a general creative concept for looking the music industry in the eye and seeing where we can make adjustments.”

It’s a philosophy that seems increasingly more important in these tumultuous political times.

“I always say, ‘Bitterness is a palpable part of medicine,’” she states. “But our goal has always been to empower local folks to be part of the solution, and that seems more important than ever now.”

So what does 2017 hold for Rising Appalachia? Leah says the future is as extensive as the countries they travel.

“Music is a universal language, and we’ll continue to make universal dance parties,” she says. “Things that we all can relate to, no matter where you come from.”

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Most people don’t know that cherry pits, garlic, avocados, and apple seeds are all poisonous to dogs— and that doesn’t even come close to encompassing the whole list of foods that can hurt or even be lethal to our four-legged companions.

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

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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 2915099. Free/donations.

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SCM HOLIDAY MAKERS MARKET The Santa Cruz Mountains Holiday Makers Market has an array of handmade goods from clothing, jewelry, toys and woodwork to up-cycled items, pottery, cakes, jams, and more. The SCM folks want to make holiday shopping a stress-free experience with live local music featuring Taylor Rae, Joshua Lowe, Patti Maxine, and the Swirly Girls.

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MUSIC ‘COME SING WITH US’ EVERY WEDNESDAY Gold Standard Barbershop Chorus is a mixed (men and women) voice chorus that sings in four-part a cappella barbershop style. Come sing with us. 7 p.m. Kirby Prep School Music Room, 425 Encinal St., Santa Cruz. 218-1771.

WORLD HARMONY CHORUS Everyone is welcome, there are no auditions and no singing experience is necessary but is welcomed.

All parts are taught by ear, and musical transcriptions are provided. 7 p.m. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. 420-6177.

THURSDAY 11/24 VETERANS THANKSGIVING Veterans Day has come and gone this year, but Thanksgiving can be an especially difficult time for people who have made sacrifices for their country and did not receive sufficient support when they returned home. To celebrate them, Vets and the Friends of Thanksgiving have organized a dinner for the whole community. Meals are first-come, first-served and every dollar donated ensures that a person in need will have a place at the holiday table.

Info: Noon. Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front St., Santa Cruz. gofundme.com/VetsHallDinner. Free.

SPIRITUAL WEEKLY MEDITATION GROUP Vipassanastyle meditation group for all experience levels. Beginners welcome. 7-8 p.m.

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PEMA CHODRON AUDIO TEACHING Learn to meditate from one of the world’s foremost meditation instructors at weekly Shambala gatherings. Guided meditation and instruction, followed by discussion. 7-9 p.m. 920 41st Ave., Santa Cruz. 316-8282.

THURSDAY 11/24 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.

THURSDAY ART MARKET Check out the new Thursday Art Market with live music, demonstrations from artists across mediums, featured loft artists, and food from Jonathan Parvis’ Dead Cow BBQ. New features and performers every week. 3-6

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WEDNESDAY-SUNDAY, THROUGH 12/23 SMALL WORKS EXHIBITION Can’t make it to the mountains for the holiday makers market? Fear not, whether you need last-minute Thanksgiving housewares or early holiday gifts, Santa Cruz has got its own celebration of artisans and craftspeople. Shop local and small with the works of 12 local artists creating handmade wearables, gifts, and housewares in the spirit of “giving art.” Rachel Riot, Jewelry Toolery, Ann Hazels, and Chance Lane are among some of the artists, makers and designers who will be represented, along with live music by Jess Autumn.

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p.m. The Tannery Arts Center, 1050 River St., Santa Cruz. 621-6226.

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KEN CONSTABLE IN THE ROCKROOM LOUNGE Ken Constable has been part of the Santa Cruz music scene since the late ’80s. He has performed in numerous legendary clubs on the West Coast such as Whiskey A Go Go, Slim’s, Bimbo’s 365 Club, and the Catalyst.

6:30-9:30 p.m. Shadowbrook Restaurant, 1750 Wharf Road, Capitola. 475-1222.

STORYTIME Free with museum admission and for MOD Members. 10:30-11 a.m. Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery. 888424-8035. Free.

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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.

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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.

heard something about Buddhism but are still wondering how such a “foreign” spiritual tradition could be relevant to life in the world today. Join us in learning about Buddhist viewpoints and time-tested methods for leading a meaningful life. 7-9 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. landofmedicinebuddha.org. Free.

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THROUGH NOVEMBER NEW LEAF’S 10TH ANNUAL SMART GIVING PROGRAM Throughout November, for every 10 pounds of Smart Chicken that is purchased at any New Leaf location in Santa Cruz County, one pound of nutritious, air-chilled poultry will be donated to Second Harvest Food Bank. Last holiday season, New Leaf donated 2.5 tons of Smart Chicken to Second Harvest, which is the oldest food bank in the state and the second-oldest in the nation. Smart Chicken is 100-percent all-natural, free-roaming, grain-fed chicken raised without byproducts, antibiotics or hormones.

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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 Highway 1 and Western Drive, situated on the northern edge of Santa Cruz’s greenbelt.

This market serves the communities of the westend of Santa Cruz including Boony Doon, North Coast, UCSC Campus and is a short trip from downtown. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Mission Street and Western Drive, Santa Cruz. 454-0566.

SCOTTS VALLEY FARMERS MARKET Started in 2009 with the City of Scotts Valley, the market represents farmers and specialty food purveyors along with cooked-to-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.

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SANTA CRUZ LGBTQ YOUTH MEET-UP Are you an LGBTQ youth between the ages of 12-18 who wants to join a welcoming community?

Join our dynamic team of youth from the Santa Cruz County. Bring yourself or bring a friend. 1-3:30 p.m. 1117 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. diversitycenter.org. Free.

MUSIC MUSIC TOGETHER WITH MUSICAL ME Lizz Hodgins teaches the essential Music Together class for all ages. Music Together is hosted

by Musical Me in the MOD Workshop. 10-11 a.m. and 11 a.m.-Noon. Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery. Register at musicalme. com or 438-3514.

OUTDOOR SANTA CRUZ TURKEY TROT Flat, fast, out-and-back courses that begin and end on Delaware Street by the back entrance to Natural Bridges. A run with spectacular ocean views. 7 a.m. UCSC Extension, 2300 Delaware Ave., Santa Cruz. 345-9399. $40.

SPIRITUAL MEDICINE BUDDHA PRACTICE GUIDED MEDITATION Sessions include recitation of traditional Tibetan Buddhist prayers and the Medicine Buddha mantra, as well as some quiet meditation. 9:30-10:45 a.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel.

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ZEN MEDITATION & LIFE How do you practice equanimity, kindness and compassion? Four classes on The Awakened Mind & Heart.

Meditation 8:30 a.m. Class and tea: 9-10:30 a.m.

Ocean Gate Zen Center, 920 41st Ave., Capitola.

8:30-10:30 a.m. 920 41st Ave., Suite B, Capitola. info@oceangatezen.org. Donation.

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.

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SWING DANCING EVERY SUNDAY Come join Swing Set Lounge every Sunday for all things swing. Lessons and social dancing. Snacks provided. All ages welcome. No partner needed.

No experience necessary. 6-10 p.m. 1122 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. 471-8142. $10.

MAKE ART MONDAY Explore the creative human expression of objects through the 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. 888-424-8035. Free with admission or membership.

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GOOD MORNING WORKOUT Get your juices flowing. Enjoy the music and get fit at the same time. You’ll learn movement, patterns, style, and technique in a welcoming environment. No partners needed. Drop-ins are welcome. 9-10 a.m. The Tannery, 1060 River St., Suite #111, Santa Cruz. Cesario. $7/$5.

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ECHO FABRIC AT CROW’S NEST They’re the new Santa Cruz band of seasoned jazz musicians and they’re formulating fresh, upbeat music with electronic sounds and traditional jazz tunes. Echo Fabric’s founder, Jon Lukas, started out wanting to bring in familiar jazz elements combined with exciting and original work—a combination that brings out some reflective, instrumental pieces with rhythmic and danceable partners. Echo Fabric plays at the Crow’s Nest on Wednesday, Nov. 30.

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TRANSLOVE Support group for non-trans (cis) partners and close friends of transgender people. First and third Mondays. 7-9 p.m.

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CLASSES GUIDED MEDITATION FOR STRESS REDUCTION Guided meditation to reduce your stress with Renee Rowe. Every Tuesday evening.

7-7:45 p.m. The Barn Studio, 104 S. Park Way, Santa Cruz. awakentoyourpath.com. Donation.

NAVIGATING THE SCHOOL YEARS WITH POSITIVE DISCIPLINE This is an excellent eight-week Positive Discipline Tuesday evening class series for parents of children 5-12 years of age. Childcare will be provided. Scholarships may be available. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Live Oak Family Resource Center, 1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. 476-7284 EXT 107.

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PREACHER BOY On a Thursday night at Aptos St. BBQ, families and couples sit eating cornbread and pulled pork while Preacher Boy’s raw and raspy growl assaults their ears.

As he beats his long leather boot, four to the floor, his National steel guitar slides and spits a devious storm of gothic Americana and gritty country blues.

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He’s a tall, lean, grisly white guy who sings theatrical Delta blues, so the typical comparisons have been made: Captain Beefheart, Tom Waits, Nick Cave. But he’s got Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James, and Bukka White covered, too. Preacher Boy’s fiendish and quirky take on the genre is a testament to his many influences. “I don’t like shuffle-y, weedily guitar, Chicago blues stuff. That’s not my bag … what I really like about the Delta country blues tradition is its weirdness. It’s not codified,” he says. “It’s individualized music created by people who produced, against all odds and for no discernible reason, really odd music. Strange, colloquial poetry with a lack of structure.”

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Preacher considers his weekly gig at Aptos St. BBQ a “direct enactment and reminder of where [blues] music comes from. Roots, Americana, folk, bluegrass, country, all of that stuff. It’s not theater music. It’s music for people to enjoy when they get together, eat and hang out.”

Since the early ’90s Preacher Boy has been touring overseas; he’s co-written gold albums and played with everyone from Robert Lowry to the Pogues. He’s seen his name in fancy lights, but doesn’t require an audience’s undivided attention to deliver. That backyard fish-fry aspect— the Delta blues demand it. KATIE SMALL INFO: 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 26, Aptos St. BBQ, 8059 Aptos St., Aptos. Free.

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REDLIGHT DISTRICT It used to be that if you were a psychedelic rock band, you created music that was eerie, or even downright scary.

Ever heard early Pink Floyd with all the lights off in your house? A lot of revival psych-rock bands play music that’s layered and nuanced, but lack the fear-inducing melodies that ruined so many acid trips back in the good ’ol days.

Fortunately, local four-piece Redlight District gets dark. It might not instill total panic in you (that’s Trump’s job!), but it’s certainly unsettling. These guys riff pretty hard, too, so even you stoner rock types should be able to get your vibe on. AARON CARNES INFO: 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $10. 429-6994.

NORTHERN SOUL

INCITERS One of Santa Cruz’s grooviest acts, the Inciters play a blend of ’50s and ’60s Northern soul classics and original tunes that are guaranteed dance floor fillers. Throw in an attention-grabbing

stage show—complete with an 11-piece band and three powerhouse female vocalists—that transports you to an earlier time, and you have one of the finest soul acts around. Don’t be fooled by the retro stylings of the band; it’s no simple throwback act. CAT JOHNSON INFO: 7:30 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $8. 335-2800.

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THE EXPENDABLES The Expendables is a local four-piece that plays reggae, surf and rock with an overall chill vibe. In other words, this band has so much Santa Cruz in them, you might accidentally leave the show with the paperwork for starting a medical marijuana dispensary.

Seriously, is there a band more Santa Cruz than the Expendables? I’ll wait.

That’s right, you got nothing. The group formed all the way back in 1997, when Cali-reggae-rock was mostly the territory of Sublime. The members of the Expendables have their own take on the genre, and have maintained a successful career for a solid couple of decades. AC INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $22/adv, $27/door, 429-4135.

SATURDAY 11/26 ROCK

ZEPPELIN LIVE Imagine your dad onstage, shaking a tambourine. Now imagine him in tight bell-bottom blue jeans and a flowery, paisley button-up shirt that reveals way too much chest hair. Add a blonde, wavy mermaid wig and your dad is starting to look a lot like Robert Plant—or at the very least, like Jefrey Larson’s Robert Plant. There’s more to pulling off a Led Zeppelin cover band than simply nailing the look, but Zeppelin Live have that part in the bag. Imitating Plant’s sexual demon howl may be harder to duplicate, but maybe that’s a good thing.

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INFO: 8 p.m., Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $17/adv, $20/door. 335-2800.

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KYLE GASS BAND When I saw the Kyle Gass Band a few years back, the funniest moment was seeing his band—all young, proficient rockers—rocking out hard as Gass strolled up to the

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SUNDAY 11/27 FOLK/ROCK

FREEBO Daniel Friedberg, aka Freebo, is a world-renowned bassist, longtime studio musician, and producer who’s worked with Bonnie Raitt, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Ringo Starr, Neil Young, Dr. John and many more top-tier artists. Known for his funky and soulful playing style, he’s also a singer-songwriter whose human observations and heart-centered perspective have established him as a celebrated solo artist in his own right. Freebo is joined by roots outfit Damdave & the Hot Damn Band and

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INFO: 7 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $15/adv, $18/door. 335-2800.

Like catching Willie Nelson in Texas, Gilberto Gil in Salvador da Bahia, or Los Lobos in East L.A., there’s something revelatory about a Charles Lloyd concert in the Monterey Bay. The legendary tenor saxophonist and flutist has lost none of the bluesy grit instilled by his upbringing in Memphis, but his search for transcendence runs right through this region, where he catapulted to superstardom with an epochal performance at the 1966 Monterey Jazz Festival (documented on the hit album Forest Flower). He spent years in Big Sur, mostly avoiding the jazz scene (though collaborating widely with the Beach Boys), but since the early 1980s has enjoyed one of jazz’s most productive second acts. His latest band the Marvels builds on the superlative rhythm section tandem of bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer extraordinaire Eric Harland by adding pedal steel wizard Greg Liesz and guitar master Bill Frisell.

TUESDAY 11/29 POP

MARC E. BASSY After graduating from Mill Valley’s Tamalpais High School, Marc Griffin attended UCSC for two years before he moved to L.A. to found the chart-topping pop group 2AM Club.

The singer has composed hits for CeeLo Green, Sean Kingston, Wiz Khalifa, 2 Chainz, and Chris Brown.

His looks, as well as his poppy R&B, beg an obvious comparison to Justin Timberlake. In his website bio, Bassy claims to draw inspiration from his favorite writers, Charles Bukowski and Henry Miller, and confesses that he “loves having his heart broken,” for the lyrical fodder such an occasion might produce. KS INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $18/adv, $20/door. 429-4135.

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INFO: 7:30 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $35-$60. 427-2227.

INFO: 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $15/ adv, $18/door. 335-2800. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 28 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

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Hip-hop out of Compton. Sunday at Catalyst ONE FAMILY REGGAE BENEFIT

Joseph Israel, Michael Annotti and more. Sunday at Moe’s Alley BITTER BUFFALOES

Psychedelic rock and blues. Tuesday at Blue Lagoon

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INFO: 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $10/adv, $15/door, 479-1854.

local group Eric Burman’s Brookdale Bluegrass Band, whose members have been jamming together for years. CJ

Dubbed a “sonic exploration,” the music of Random Rab is lovely, emotional and relaxing—layered melodies punctuated with electronic beats, strings and vocal flourishes. The person behind the project is producer, instrumentalist and singer Rab Clinton, whose reputation as a master of emotion comes from his skillful balance of the sublime and the modern. On Dec. 2, Clinton is joined by a number of other artists, including Santa Cruz multi-instrumentalist and producer KR3TURE, Feral Fauna, midtempo glitch artist Timonkey, vocalist Kat Factor and, for the yogis among us, a yoga class led

by Magnolia Rasak. CAT JOHNSON

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LIVE MUSIC

Wednesday November 23rd 9pm $12/15

Thanksgiving Eve Grateful Dead Dance Party

THE CHINA CATS

WED

Friday November 25th 9pm $20/25

Roots Reggae With Groundation’s Lead Singer

HARRISON STAFFORD (of Groundation)

& THE PROFESSOR CREW Saturday November 26th 9pm $10/15 Kyle of TENACIOUS D Debuts Moe’s

KYLE GASS BAND + COFFEE ZOMBIE COLLECTIVE Sunday November 27th 7:30pm $7/10

One Family Holiday Benefit. Donations Of Clean Blankets & Canned Food Collected At The Door

JOSEPH ISRAEL & MICHAEL ANNOTTI Wednesday November 30th 8:30pm $25/30 New Orleans Supergroup: Eric Lindell, Ivan Neville, Stanton Moore & Robert Mercurio

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DRAGON SMOKE + JELLY BREAD

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December 1st POST ST. RHYTHM + PUFFBALL DANCE December 2nd TOMMY CASTRO December 3rd FLOBOTS December 6th DOYLE BRAMHALL II December 8th QUITAPENAS December 9th PURE ROOTS + EARL ZERO December 10th B-SIDE PLAYERS December 11th ELVIN BISHOP (afternoon) December 11th MCCOY TYLER +THE GRAHAMS (eve) December 13th GARY HOEY – HO HO HOEY HOLIDAY TOUR December 14th DISIAC + DOS OSOS December 15th ANUHEA December 16th MELVIN SEALS & JGB December 17th REDLIGHT DISTRICT, GINGER & JUICE, ERIC MORRISON, WILD IRIS December 18th MIKE SCHERMER- Moe’s 25th Anniversary Celebration December 28th TESS DUNN December 29th ORGÓNE December 30th & 31st DON CARLOS January 4th TALKING DREADS January 6th KATDELIC January 7th SOUL MAJESTIC January 11th BRYAN SUTTON BAND January 12th THE HEAVY PETS + BROTHERS GOW January 14th SAMBADÁ January 17th THE Nth POWER

WWW.MOESALLEY.COM 1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz 831.479.1854

11/23

APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

THU

11/24

FRI

Open Mic Free 7:30p

THE APPLETON GRILL 410 Rodriguez St, Watsonville

11/26

SAT Yautlan, Asterion, Earendil, Angel Siniestro $5 7p

Virgil Thrasher, Rick Stevens 6-8p

Al Frisby 6-8p

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

11/25

Banda Night $25 9p

Minor Thirds Trio 6:30-9:30p

11/27

MON

Preacher Boy Trio 1-5p Al Frisby Lloyd Whitley 6-8p 6-8p

11/28

Broken Shades 6-8p

TUE

11/29

Rob Vye 6-8p

Minor Thirds Trio 7-10p

BAYVIEW HOTEL 8041 Soquel Dr, Aptos

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

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Party at the Blue Lagoon $5 9p

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

Thanksgiving Karaoke 9-11:45p

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

Funk Night w/ Light the Band Free 9p

Straight, No Chaser Free 9p Swing Dance $5 5:30p

Tango Ecstasy 6-9:30p

DJ

Life Sized Models, The Bitter Buffaloes, Somatose $5 9p

The Box (Goth Night) 9p

Maximum RBS, Somatose, Bitter Buffalo Free 9p

Karaoke 9p

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

SUN

Jazz Society Donation 3:30p

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Free Pool 7p

Eric Winders Free 8p

Karaoke 9p

CASA SORRENTO 393 Salinas St, Salinas

DJ Luna 9p

CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

The Expendables $22/$27 8p

Rising Appalachia $23/$28 8p

Minnesota $20/$25 8p

CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Anonymous That Dude $10/$15 7:30p

Jetlag $7/$10 8:30p

Los Pasteles Verdes $30/$35 8p

CAVA WINE BAR 115 San Jose Ave, Capitola

Steve’s Kitchen Jazz 6:30-9:30p

Myhaylo K 6:30-9:30p

Dave Muldawer 6:30-9:30p

OPEN LATE EVERY NIGHT! wednesday 11/23

YG Sold Out 6:30, 10p Marc E. Bassy $18/$20 8:30p Alex Lucero 6:30-9:30p

International Music Hall and Restaurant

FINE MEXICAN AND AMERICAN FOOD ALL YOU CAN EAT LUNCH BUFFET M-F $7.95 Wed Nov 23

THANKSGIVING BALL with

REDLIGHT DISTRICT Doors 8pm/Show 9pm $10 Door

Sat Nov 26

saturday 11/26

JUDO NO w / BAND OF LOVERS

7 COME 11 SCIENCE ON TAP discussing PREY CAPTURE STRATEGIES in seals free event 7pm

friday 12/2

DRIVIN SOUTH final show!!!

w / THE FIGHTING MURRAYS with special guest

Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 Door MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz

429-6994

Led Zeppelin Concert Experience

Freebo, Damdave and the Hot Damn Band, Eric Burman’s Brookdale Bluegrass Band

$15 adv./$18 door <21 w/parent 7pm Thur Dec 1

WINTERDANCE CELTIC CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION Molly’s Revenge,

Christa Burch, The Rosemary Turco Irish Dancers

$17 adv./$20 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm Fri Random Rab, KR3TURE, Dec 2 Timonkey, Kat Factor & Yoga with Magnolia

$15 adv./$18 door <21+ 8pm

Featuring:

SARAH KIENLE

Zeppelin Live

$17 adv./$20 door 21 + 8pm Sun Nov 27

Show 9pm $5 Door

wednesday 11/30

Locomotive Breath Songs of Tull, Floyd, Who, Cream, Stones, Doors $10 adv./$10 door 21 + 8pm

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

TUESday 11/29

Thanksgiving Eve Rockin’ Soul Dance Party

$8 adv./$8 door 21 + 7:30pm Fri Nov 25

w / THE LOWER 48

The Inciters plus Disiac

Sat Dec 3

Spirit of ’76 plus Edge Of The West $12 adv./$15 door 21+ 8:30pm

COMING RIGHT UP

Sun. Dec. 4 The Beatles White Album Youth Orchestra 2pm Sun. Dec. 4 Henry Kaiser with Walkers plus Evil Genius 7pm Mon. Dec. 5 Tony Furtado Tue. Dec. 6 The Steel Wheels plus David Jacobs-Strain Wed Dec. 7 Laurence Juber Trio Sat. Dec. 31 New Years Eve Celebration The China Cats Big Liquid Light Show Reservations Now Online at www.donquixotesmusic.com Rockin'Church Service Every Sunday ELEVATION at 10am-11:15am

LIVE MUSIC WED

11/23

CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

CRAZY HORSE BAR 529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

Punk Night

CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Redlight District Thanksgiving Ball $10 9p

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

Hot Club Pacific $3 7:30p

THU

11/24

FRI

11/25

SAT

Karaoke

11/27

Comedy/Trivia

MON

11/28

11/29

The Island Hoppers $6 9p

Tree Lighting Party Free 6p

7 Come 11 $5 9p Live Comedy $7 9p

Locomotive Breath $10 8p

Zeppelin Live $17/$20 8p

HINDQUARTER BAR & GRILLE 303 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Jeff Gardner 9p

Suellen’s Entourage 9p

Jon Mulvey 4p

JuannaJam 8p

Live Music 5:30-9p

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

Scott Slaughter 7-10p

Roadhouse Karaoke 7:30p Carlos Martinez 6-9p

Sinne Eeg $25/$30 7p

MALONE’S 4402 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley

Karaoke w/Ken 9p Blue Ocean Rockers 7-10p

Stormin’ Norman and the Cyclones 7-10p

Preeminent young jazz vocalist from Denmark in the mold of Nacy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn & Betty Carter 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS Iconic 2015 NEA Jazz Master Charles Lloyd

Tues. November 29 • 7:30 pm|No Comps at the Rio Theatre

Karaoke 10p

KUUMBWA 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

SINNE EEG

Madrigal & Strange Freebo, Damdave, Hot Damn Band & more $15/$18 7p

Kickback Flingo 7:30p

Monday, November 28 • 7 pm

Reggae Party Free 8p

Ugly Beauty The Inciters, Disiac Thanksgiving Eve Dance Party $8 7:30p

TUE

Karaoke

Judo No, Band of Lovers $8 9p

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

SUN

KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

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

11/26

Celebrating Creativity Since 1975

Charles Lloyd & the Marvels $55/$60 7:30p

CHARLES LLOYD & THE MARVELS FEATURING BILL FRISELL, REUBEN ROGERS, ERIC HARLAND AND GREG LEISZ Thursday, December 1 • 7 pm

CAMILA MEZA QUARTET

Jazz/pop singer-guitarist- composer from Chile with a fresh Pan-American sound!

1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS

Friday, December 2 • 7:30 pm

IRISH CHRISTMAS IN AMERICA Tickets: CelticSociety.org & More Music

Monday, December 5 • 7 pm |No Comps

PEDRITO MARTINEZ GROUP 1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Wednesday, Nov. 23 Ages 21+ Wednesday, Nov. 23 • In the Atrium • Ages 18+

ANONYMOUS THAT DUDE

Friday, November 25 • Ages 16+

RISING APPALACHIA Friday, November 25 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

JETLAG

STAND-UP COMEDY

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

$9.95 dinners Mon.-Fri. from 6:00pm.

NOW SERVING BREAKFAST

Open for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Daily

(831) 476-4560

crowsnest-santacruz.com

Tickets: SnazzyProductions.com Monday, December 12 • 7 & 9 pm |No Comps

ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT

Thursday, December 15 • 7 pm

Tuesday, November 29 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

Three live comedians every Sunday night.

JIM KWESKIN & GEOFF MULDAUR

LOS PASTELES VERDES

LOCATED ON THE BEACH LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

Saturday, December 10 • 7:30 pm

A fusion of jazz, hip-hop and R&B!

Saturday, November 26 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

See live music grid for this week’s bands.

MIKE STERN BAND WITH BOB FRANCESCHINI, TOM KENNEDY AND DAVE WECKL

MINNESOTA

Life is a salad bar – it’s what you make of it.

Amazing waterfront deck views.

Friday, December 9 • 7 & 9 pm |No Comps

MARC E. BASSY

plus Bobby Brackins

Dec 2 Beats Antique (Ages 16+) Dec 3 SesHolloWaterBoys (Ages 16+) Dec 4 Living Legends (Ages 16+) Dec 5 Brothers Osborne (Ages 16+) Dec 8 Kabaka Pyramid/ Raging Fyah (Ages 16+) Dec 9 Hari Kondabolu (Ages 21+) Dec 11 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (Ages 16+) Dec 16 IAMSU (Ages 16+) Dec 17 The Expendables (Ages 16+) Dec 29 Del The Funky Homosapien, Andre Nickatina, Chali 2na Yukmouth, A-Plus & more (Ages 16+) Dec 30 & 31 The Devil Makes Three (Ages 21+) Jan 13 & 14 Iration (Ages 16+) Jan 22 Switchfoot & Reliant K (Ages 16+) Jan 24 Tribal Seeds (Ages 16+) Jan 26 Excision (Ages 18+) Jan 27 Felly/ Gypps (Ages 16+)

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

JAZZ UP YOUR HOLIDAYS! ADAM SHULMAN TRIO: CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS FAMILY FRIENDLY CONCERT!

Friday, December 16 • 7:30 pm

ETIENNE CHARLES & CREOLE SOUL: A CREOLE CHRISTMAS Tuesday, December 20• 7:30 pm At the Rio Theatre | No Comps

SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK: CELEBRATING THE HOLYDAYS 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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Saturday, November 26 • Ages 18+

Afro-Cuban conguero with infectious grooves!

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BBQ BEER BLUES

BBQ

BEER

BLUES

Wed. November 23 Al Frisby 6-8 pm Thurs. November 24 HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Fri. November 25 Virgil Thrasher & Rick Stevens 6-8 pm Sat. November 26 Lloyd Whitley 1-5 pm Preacher Boy Trio 6-8 pm Sun. November 27 Al Frisby 6-8 pm Mon. November 28 Broken Shades 6-8 pm Tues. November 29 Rob Vye 6-8 pm

LIVE MUSIC WED MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

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11/24

FRI

11/25

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

The China Cats $12/$15 8p

Harrison Stafford & the Professor Crew $20/$25 8p

MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Depth 9:30p-2a

Libation Lab w/ Syntax 9:30p-2a

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

SAT

11/26

SUN

11/27

Hawk n Blues Mechanics 6p Kyle Gass Band, One Family Benefit Coffee Zombie Collective Concert $10/$15 8p $7/$10 7p James Murray 6p

Chris Slater 9:30p-2a

MON

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

TUE

11/29

Preacher Bo y

6p

Hip-Hop w/DJ Marc 9:30p-Close Tacos & Trivia 6-8p

Trivia 8p Claudio Melega 6p

Yuji 2-5p Burnin Vernon Davis & Aftermath $5 9p

THE POCKET 3102 Portola Dr, Santa Cruz POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Isaiah Picket 2-5p Jazz Jam Santa Cruz 7p

Comedy 9p

Comedy Open Mic 8p

Open Mic 8-11:30p

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

11/28

Rob Vye 6p

The Crafters 7-9p

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

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THU

Lloyd Whitley 6p

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

8059 APTOS ST, APTOS APTOSSTBBQ.COM | 662.1721

11/23

Aki Kumar 6p

‘Geeks Who Drink’ Trivia Night 8p SC Jazz Collective 6p

Acoustic Reggae Jams 6p

Traditional Hawaiian Music 6:30p

Brunch Grooves12:30p Featured Acoustic 6:30p

Brunch Grooves 1:30p Open mic and Bluegrass Musicians Showcase Evening Krowd Karaoke 9p 6p 6p Charles Lloyd & the Marvels $35/$55 7:30p Trivia 8p

Open Mic 7:30p

LIVE MUSIC WED

11/23

THU

11/24

FRI

11/25

SAT

11/26

THE SAND BAR 211 Esplanade, Capitola

Soulwise 8-Midnight

Simple Creation 8-Midnight

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

Golden Shred 8-11p

Golden Shred 8-11p

SUN

11/27

Dennis Dove Pro Jam 7-11p

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz

MON

11/28

TUE

11/29

Alex Lucero Acoustic 7-11p

Upcoming Shows NOV 29 Charles Lloyd & the Marvels

Bonedrivers

Daniel Martins 9-11p

Daniel Martins 9-11p

Peter Murphy Holiday Circus Dave Mason Film: Right to Exist Sweet Honey in the Rock DEC 29-30 White Album Ensemble

ZELDA’S 203 Esplanade, Capitola

Coastal Connection 9:30p

The Leftovers 9:30p

JAN 19 Lecture: Gary Griggs

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

Just Judy 7-9:30p

Al & Richard 7-9:30p

FEB 04 The Comic Strippers FEB 11 Frans Lanting FEB 23-26 Banff Mountain Film

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

Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-10p

Bonedrivers 7:30-11:30p

Nomalakadoja 8-11:30p

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

Ken Constable 6:30-9:30p

Joe Ferrara 6:30-10p

Claudio Melega 7-10p

UGLY MUG 4640 Soquel Ave, Soquel

Thirsty Thursday 5p

IT’S WINE TYME 321 Capitola Ave., Capitola

Open Mic 7-10p

YOUR PLACE 1719 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Open Mic w/Mosephus 5:30p 7th Wave 7-10p

WHALE CITY 490 Highway 1, Davenport

Gemini Jazz 7-10p

Black Eyed Susies 5-7p Daniel Martins 9-11p

Daniel Martins 9-11p

Mojo Mix 6-9p

Steve Walters 4-7p

DEC 02 DEC 06 DEC 08 DEC 10 DEC 20

MAR 05 The Wood Brothers APR 22 Zep Live

Dec 3 Jake Shimabukuro 8pm

Follow the Rio Theatre on Facebook & Twitter!

831.423.8209 www.riotheatre.com

Dec 14 John Prine w/ Ramblin Jack Elliot 8pm Dec 15 Jonny Lang 8pm Jan 29 KPIG & (((folkYEAH!))) present Robert Earl Keen 7pm

Wednesday November 23rd THANKSGIVING JAM with

WASTED NOISE & ONE A CHORD Friday November 25th BLACK FRIDAY AFTER PARTY WITH

DJ NME | HOSTED BY UMPA NOK Saturday November 26th THANKSGIVING WEEKEND AFTER PARTY with

Feb 16 Live Nation Presents: Brian Regan 7:30pm

DJ KING NME, UMPA NOK, & RAYMOND MARTINEZ

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

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

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Dec 9 Lewis Black 8pm

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THERE’LL BE HELLBOY TO PAY Ron Perlman runs a speakeasy in the Harry Potter spinoff ‘Fantastic Beasts

NOVEMBER 23-29, 2016 | GOODTIMES.SC | SANTACRUZ.COM

and Where to Find Them.’

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Magic Dance J.K. Rowling’s world gets new life in ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

J

.K. Rowling’s ingenuity, now freed from the walls of old Hogwarts, gets a real work out in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Credited as scriptwriter and co-producer, Rowling has a new backdrop, the New York of 1926. She and director David Yates, a longtime vet of the Harry Potter series, charm us with the critters in question— from a Roc-sized, golden-pink Arizona thunderbird to a sentient chunk of lucky bamboo with stick arms and opposable thumbs.

We get a lot of beasts in the digital age of cinema, but Rowlings and Yates really hook us with the characters, an appealing mix of types. It’s a warmly cast comedic take on the switchedsuitcase plot, mixing a British amateur cryptozoologist; a busted-down former police officer for the world of magic; her sister, a ravishing if ditzy mindreader; and the baker Kowalski (Dan Fogler, excellent in a dapper stout-man part, dignified and calm).

TARDIS-wise, the battered leather suitcase of Hogwarts dropout Newt

Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) is bigger on the inside than the outside.

It’s stuffed with critters that he’s collected on his travels. One of Newt’s menagerie escapes—a mischievous mystical echidna that loves to stuff treasure into its pouch. Trying to retrieve the thieving monotreme from a bank’s vault, Newt’s suitcase gets switched and he has to track down the hapless Kowalski.

The copper-busted-down-to-clerk Porpentina Goldstein is played by pretty, sad-faced Katherine Waterston;

she hauls Newt into custody for breaking quarantine laws, and this delays the rescue of the portable zoo.

Though the film is set in the 1920s, it seems like the Depression, thanks to Waterston’s air of tragedy. Depressionera movie star Sylvia Sidney once said “I should have been paid by the tear,” and Waterston acts with something like Sidney’s sadness.

Enter Miss Goldstein’s glamorous sister Queenie (Alison “Fine Frenzy” Sudol)—such a doll that you can see why the ordinarily pretty Porpentina is depressed to live with her; Queenie thinks the portly Kowalski is on the cute side, even if his mind is going to need to be “obliviated” (washed, that is) once their adventure is over.

As usual, there’s admirable Dickensian supporting work in this Rowling saga. Samantha Morton is an Aimee-Semple-McPherson-type street preacher who sermonizes in front of a banner emblazoned with a pair of large hands snapping a magic wand. Ron Perlman plays a trollish speakeasy proprietor who looks like a demon version of H. L. Mencken. Colin Farrell is magically evil as a top executive in the wizard’s world, dressed in spotless evening clothes with scarves and overcoat. It’s been a while since Farrell was this much fun, taunting a wretched orphan (Ezra Miller) whom he’s recruited as an assistant.

It’s also surprising how much feeling Yates brings to Fantastic Beasts, and how the emotions flow strong through it, particularly after the problems of wrestling the unwieldy last episodes of the Potter saga together. The little moments sing, like Queenie materializing a delicate transparent umbrella out of the point of her wand, so she can lean in for a kiss. But there are wilder effects: the flying attacks of a living ball of flaming rage, in which the effects get almost abstract—it’s like an animated version of one of Anselm Kiefer’s charred paintings.

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Starring Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Colin Farrell and Ron Perlman. Written by J.K. Rowling. Directed by David Yates. PG-13. 2 hrs, 13 min.

MOVIE TIMES

November 23-29

All times are PM unless otherwise noted.

DEL MAR THEATRE

A FLAT-OUT M ASTERPIECE &”

“

THE BEST FILM OF 2016.

SANTA CRUZ SHOW TIMES FOR

WED. 11/23/16 – THURS. 12/1/16

831.469.3220

MOANA Daily 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 MOONLIGHT Daily 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35

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NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Daily 11:00, 1:40, 4:20, 7:15, 9:40

NICKELODEON

831.426.7500

THE ACCOUNTANT Daily 2:00, 7:15 + Fri-Sun 11:10am A MAN CALLED OVE Daily 1:50, 4:30, 7:00*, 9:30 + Fri-Sun 11:20am *No show Mon BLEED FOR THIS Daily 4:40, 9:50

T H I S S T O R Y O F

I AM BOLT Mon 7:00 LOVING Daily 1:40, 2:30, 4:20, 5:20, 7:10, 8:10, 9:50 + Fri-Sun 11:00am, 11:50am

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8

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NOW PLAYING! ( ) at a discount

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(2:10, 4:40), 7:10, 9:35 + Wed - Sun (11:40am)

ALLIED Daily 10:40*, 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 *No Mon, Tues show ARRIVAL Daily 11:20*, 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 *No Mon-Tue show

D E L M A R

“Classic Disney adventure... with something new, a smart and fiery deviation from your standard love-struck princesses.” –Entertainment Weekly From the Directors of The Little Mermaid and Aladdin PG

(2:00, 4:30), 7:00, 9:45 + Wed – Sun (11:30am) An ambitious high-wire noir thriller with Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal.”- Variety From the Director of A Single Man

NOCTURNAL ANIMALS

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(1:40, 4:20), 7:15, 9:40 + Wed – Sun (11:00am)

R

BAD SANTA 2 Daily 10:55*, 1:10, 3:25, 5:40, 8:00, 10:15 *No Mon, Tues show BLEED FOR THIS Daily 10:15pm

(2:10, 4:40), 7:10*, 9:35* + Wed – Sun (11:40am) *no shows Thursday 12/1

DOCTOR STRANGE Daily 11:20*, 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 *No Mon, Tue show FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Daily 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

HACKSAW RIDGE Daily 4:45, 7:30

ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING 3D

MOANA Daily 10:45*, 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 *No Mon, Tues show MOANA 3D Daily 11:45*, 2:15 *No Mon, Tues show

NR

Thursday 12/1 at 9:00pm

RULES DON’T APPLY Daily 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30

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TROLLS Daily 10:40*, 12:55, 3:10, 5:15, 7:40, 9:55 *No Mon, Tue show

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“Intimate, moving and superbly underplayed.”

– The Washington Post

ALLIED Daily 1:00, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15 ARRIVAL Daily 11:00, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:10

PG13

DOCTOR STRANGE Daily 11:15, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN Daily 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15

(1:40, 2:30, 4:20, 5:20), 7:10, 8:10, 9:50 + Fri - Sun (11:00am, 11:50am)

FANTASTIC BEAST AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Daily 11:30, 12:30, 3:45, 5:15, 7:00, 8:30, 10:15 FANTASTIC BEAST AND WHERE TO FIND THEM 3D Daily 1:30 FANTASTIC BEAST AND WHERE TO FIND THEM DBOX Daily 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15

PG13

HACKSAW RIDGE Daily 3:00, 6:30, 9:45

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FILM NEW THIS WEEK ALLIED OMG, Brangelina broke up because of a German spy? (This is their marriage memoir, right?). Robert Zemeckis directs. Brad Pitt, Vincent Ebrahim, Xavier De Guillebon co-star.

(R) 124 minutes.

BAD SANTA 2 The bad Claus crew is back and this time momma’s coming, too. Kathy Bates as a tattooed con artist from the North Pole, fueled by cheap whiskey and a mean streak, who ropes her son (Santa) into robbing a charity? Now that’s holiday spirit, y’all. Mark Waters directs. Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Tony Cox costar. (R) 92 minutes.

MOANA A great danger is coming but Moana will find the demigod Maui and they’ll save the world—he’s a little difficult, so she’ll need all the help she can get. Thankfully, she’s got the ocean on her side. Ron Clements, Don Hall, John Musker, Chris Williams direct. Auli’i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House co-star. (PG) 113 minutes.

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NOCTURNAL ANIMALS “I did something horrible to him. I loved him in a brutal way,” says Amy Adams as Susan Morrow, looking bleakly into her past, haunted by her ex-husband’s novel and the threat she sees in it. Tom Ford directs. Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon co-star.

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RULES DON’T APPLY Howard Hughes wants 350 gallons of banana nut ice cream. Lucky for him, he’s Howard Hughes so when he’s hiding out in dark corners, sending body doubles to meet foreign dignitaries and bankrolling a fleet of young actresses, the rules simply don’t apply. Warren Beatty directs. Lily Collins, Haley Bennett, Taissa Farmiga co-star. (PG13) 126 minutes.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS: One More Time with Feeling 3D, 9 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 1. Del Mar Theatre, 1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. I Am Bolt, 7 p.m., Monday, Nov. 28. The Nickelodeon, 210 Lincoln St., Santa Cruz.

CONTINUING EVENT: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE MOVIES Film buffs are invited Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. to

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NOW PLAYING THE ACCOUNTANT Ever since he was a kid, Christian Wolff exhibited highly advanced cognitive skills. As an adult, he’s an accountant—with a somewhat illicit sidegig that gets the Treasury Department interested in his daily goingson. Gavin O’Connor directs. Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons co-star. (R) 128 minutes.

ALMOST CHRISTMAS Aah, movies about dysfunctional families during the holidays … do they make us thankful for our own dysfunctional families, or just more fearful? David E. Talbert directs. Kimberly Elise, Omar Epps, Danny Glover co-star. (PG-13) 112 minutes.

AMERICAN HONEY They’re going door-to-door to make money selling magazines but this ragtag group of young misfits are more about the sex and drugs than entrepreneurial spirit.

This is the movie that got LaBeouf 20 stitches and 13 staples, so we can’t say he’s not committed to his craft. Andrea Arnold directs. Sasha Lane and Riley Keough co-star. (R) 183 minutes.

AMERICAN PASTORAL Swede Levov is a hardworking, respected family man who’s been a staple in his community for years. But it’s 1968, and his teenage daughter is becoming more and more politically radical. One day the bombing of a local building threatens to destroy everything Levov loves and has fought for. Aren’t teenagers just the worst? Ewan McGregor directs. Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning co-star. (R) 108 minutes.

ARRIVAL Aliens are here, but no one can decipher what they’re saying.

Thankfully, the military sends in a woman to help communicate. Denis Villeneuve directs. Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker co-star. (PG13) 116 minutes.

BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK Billy Lynn is brought back from Iraq after a harrowing battle that defines his career. He’s celebrated

with concerts, parades, fireworks, the whole thing. But what really happened to his squad that day? Two-time Oscar-winning director of Life of Pi and Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee, directs this highly anticipated 120-frameper-second (five times faster than the average movie, the first time a studio has shot entirely at that rate) narrative of how America’s perceptions of heroism can contrast with the realities of war. Joe Alwyn, Kristen Stewart, Vin Diesel co-star. (R) 110 minutes.

being in high school, sometimes the awkward moments of youth just never get old—especially when Woody Harrelson plays the lovable, confidant high school teacher who’s writing his suicide note on his lunch break. Kelly Fremon Craig directs. Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner costar. (R) 104 minutes.

there’s no getting us into a theater seat for Naomi Watts desperately chasing a young boy (or his ghost?) around a creepy house with tiny hands jumping out of the dark. For those who are into that, proceed.

Farren Blackburn directs. Naomi Watts, Charlie Heaton, Jacob Tremblay co-star. (PG-13) 91 minutes.

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THE BIRTH OF A NATION No, the U.S. as a post-racial society is not a thing just because a bunch of people watched 12 Years a Slave. Yes, the enslavement of 10.7 million people in the U.S. ended in its legal form some time ago. But the stories still deserve telling, their legacies honored and their cruel remnants discussed—that’s why the true story of Nat Turner’s rebellion in the antebellum South is coming to the big screen. Nate Parker directs.

Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Mark Boone Junior co-star. (R) 120 minutes.

HACKSAW RIDGE Desmond T. Doss enlisted at the height of WWII, but he refused to touch a gun. He became the first conscientious objector in American history to receive the Medal of Honor. Mel Gibson directs. Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey co-star. (R) 171 minutes.

SNOWDEN Edward Snowden was, and still is, one of the most famous and controversial whistleblowers in American history. Joseph GordonLevitt unpacks what it was like for the then-barely-30-year-old to make a decision that would make him the world’s most wanted man. Oliver Stone directs. Shailene Woodley and Melissa Leo co-star. (R) 134 minutes.

BLEED FOR THIS World Champion Boxer Vinny Pazienza was at the top of his game and the top of the world until a car crash broke his neck. He was told that any small movement could sever his spinal cord. He didn’t listen; instead, he took the screws out of his head and went back to the gym to make one of the greatest comebacks in sports history. Don’t try this at home? Ben Younger directs.

Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart, Katey Sagal co-star. (R) 116 minutes.

DOCTOR STRANGE What if the material world was only one of many?

In that case it’d probably be beneficial to have someone with a name like Dr. Strange to protect it. Scott Derrickson directs. Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams costar. (PG-13) 115 minutes.

THE DRESSMAKER Myrtle Dunnage is back and she’s bringing haute couture, sass, and sweet, sweet revenge to rural Australia. Jocelyn Moorhouse directs. Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth co-star. (R) 119 minutes.

THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN While most of us surely would rather avoid revisiting the unbearable pain of

INFERNO The good news is that Professor Langdon’s hair has gotten considerably better since The DaVinci Code. The bad news is that he got yet another more attractive and far younger brunette as a sidekick to solve a puzzle of vaguely illuminating clues based on “Dante’s Inferno.”There’s danger, intrigue, government cover ups, a worldwide plague, all that, and another in a series of movies that makes one wonder what they’ve got on Tom Hanks to make him go from Sully to this? Ron Howard directs. Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan costar. (PG-13) 121 minutes.

A MAN CALLED OVE Ove spends his days visiting his wife’s grave. He’s given up on friendship and he’s had enough.

So he decides to leave the world for good, but “killing oneself isn’t so easy, you know.” Hannes Holm directs. Rolf Lassgård, Bahar Pars, and Zozan Akgün co-star. (PG-13) 116 minutes.

MOONLIGHT Imagine growing up in Miami’s black neighborhoods as a small boy—a boy who likes to dance instead of fight, routinely gets the crap kicked out of him, and has to take care of his single mother and avoid being swept up in the seduction of the streets. And who might be gay. Barry Jenkins directs. Mahershala Ali, Sheriff Earp, Duan Sanderson co-star. (R) 110 minutes.

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STORKS In this animated film, storks used to deliver babies, now they deliver packages for cornerstore.com—is this an allegory about the U.S. Postal Service? Adventure ensues when an order for a baby appears and the top delivery stork scrambles to fix the mistake. Nicholas Stoller, Doug Sweetland direct. Andy Samberg, Jennifer Aniston, Ty Burrell co-star.

(PG) 89 minutes.

SULLY He felt both engines fail. He had 208 seconds to make a call for the 155 souls on board. Did Captain Chesley Burnett “Sully” Sullenberger make the right call to land flight 1549 on the Hudson River? Clint Eastwood directs.

Tom Hanks, Laura Linney and Aaron Eckhart co-star. (PG-13) 96 minutes.

31 Sweet, a movie about clowns who are intent on inciting fear and chaos.

Either art needs to stop imitating life or life needs to stop imitating art (if you can call this horror flick about a group of carnival workers kidnapped by clowns for a sadistic game art). Rob Zombie directs. Malcolm McDowell, Richard Brake, Jeff Daniel Phillips costar. (R) 82 minutes.

TROLLS Branch is a troll living in a fortified survival bunker ... To protect against the indelibly chipper Poppy.

Poppy is the leader of the Trolls, the happiest Troll ever born, and she’s out to rescue her friends from the Bergen.

Walt Dohrn, Mike Mitchell direct. Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel co-star. (PG) 92 minutes.

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LEAF THE WORLD BEHIND David Wright, tea enthusiast and owner of Hidden Peak Teahouse, sources his pu-erh teas on visits to China. PHOTO: KEANA PARKER

Tea Time Out A traditional ‘gung fu’ tea ceremony quiets the outside world BY LILY STOICHEFF

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ast week at Hidden Peak Teahouse, I finally turned my phone off. I needed a break— these last few weeks, the internet has been loud and emotional, and my mind has been racing. But in a courtyard just steps away from Pacific Avenue on a busy weekday afternoon, the dominant sound was the soothing burbling of a fountain.

One of my friends, a frequent visitor to the downtown tea house, recommended that I participate in a gung fu ceremony. She claims that the rhythmic flow and repetition of the traditional tea pouring ritual forces you to slow down, and becomes a kind of meditation. Plus, Hidden Peak Teahouse is a digital-free space, which means no laptops, phones or contact with the virtual world of any kind.

I was immediately into the idea—it sounded like a back rub for my brain.

The server arrived with a bamboo box about the size and shape of an intimidating novel, with slots carved into the lid. She set down a small brown teapot, a glass pitcher, a doll-sized teacup and a thermos of hot water.

At my request, she went through

the steps of the ceremony, which turned out to be pretty simple. First, the server rinses the tea with hot water, pouring this first run through the slots of the box (it’s actually a tray). Then he or she pours more hot water into the teapot, and lets it brew for 30-ish seconds before decanting it into the little glass pitcher, from which the teacup is filled. Sip. Contemplate. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Over the course of an hour, maybe longer—it’s hard to tell because my phone is also my clock—the repetitive ritual did quiet my mind. I read a few stories from my favorite magazine, and noticed how the color of the tea changed from a light Pinot Noir to dark rosewood, depending on the length of the steep. The taste of the pu-erh was more complex than I thought it would be: peaty, softly vegetal, with a nutty sweetness. Pour, steep, pour, pour, sip.

I knew the world and all its noise was still out there, but my little clay teapot held dozens of mini moments of peace. I wondered to myself: Is this what Zen feels like?

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he Kuumbwa Jazz Center is not only a popular music venue, it’s also a good place to enjoy a libation and some tasty food. I usually get a bottle of wine to enjoy throughout the show, and I shared my bright Storrs Winery 2014 Chardonnay with friends at a recent concert—and even offered some to an out-of-town visitor as an introduction to local wine.

One of the better-known wineries in the region, Storrs’ award-winning wines are easily found in local liquor stores and supermarkets.

Winery owners Steve Storrs and Pamela Bianchini-Storrs have been producing fine wine for almost four decades, and their skillful winemaking shows in every bottle.

The 2014 Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay, which sells for about $24 at the Storrs tasting room and elsewhere, is a blend from several vineyards and aged in Burgundian oak for 10 months. It’s a full-bodied mouthful of deliciously complex Chardonnay, which, not surprisingly, won Best Chardonnay of Region and a gold medal at the California State Fair 2016. Speaking of accolades, their 2013 Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot Noir also won gold and Best Pinot Noir of

Region at the same fair, as well as the editor’s pick in the November issue of Wine Enthusiast magazine—garnering a hefty 94 points.

Storrs Winery tasting room is open noon to 5 p.m. daily at 303 Potrero St., No. 35, Santa Cruz, 458-5030. storrswine.com.

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If you’re looking for a fun winetasting event over Thanksgiving weekend, then head to the Holiday Wine Stroll in downtown Saratoga from 2-5 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 26.

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MOUNTAINS TO THE BAY WINE TOURS

A group of us from GT went on a fun wine tour recently. Many thanks go to Alfaro Family Vineyards & Winery, Soquel Vineyards and Silver Mountain Vineyards for hosting us—and to Seth Kinman, owner of Mountains to the Bay Wine Tours, for driving us around.

H RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES WHAT WE BRING TO THE THANKSGIVING TABLE Thursday is Thanksgiving—the feast of gratitude and giving. Sagittarius Sun, Libra Moon. Libra is Right Relations with others. Libra brings Goodwill to the table on this day. Libra has three rulers: Venus (uniting opposites), Uranus (new ideas) and Saturn (the Teacher asks us to have manners).

Working with astrology, we can bring the energies of the planets and signs to the Thanksgiving table, and thus bring heaven down to Earth. Love of Venus, new ideas of Uranus, and manners and tradition of Saturn. Sag loves and appreciates food. Often they are both chefs and musicians.

Turkey, corn (or maize), pumpkins, and cranberry sauce represent the first Thanksgiving foods. In 1988, a Thanksgiving ceremony took place at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, where more than 4,000 people gathered on Thanksgiving night. Invited were

Native American tribes from all over the country and descendants of ancestors who had migrated to the New World. The ceremony was a public acknowledgment of the “first people’s” role in the first Thanksgiving 350 years ago.

On gratitude, from the Tibetan Djwhal Khul (paraphrased): “Gratitude is a scientific and occult releasing agent. It is a service. Gratitude releases us from the past and directs us toward a future path—to the new culture and civilization and to the rising light of Aquarius, the Age of humanity, friendship and equality. The Hierarchy lays great emphasis upon gratitude.”

Advent begins Sunday; advent means “something’s coming.” Tuesday is the new moon festival, 8 degrees Sagittarius. Sag’s keynote is “Let food be sought.”

ARIES Mar21–Apr20

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22

There’s so much in your life to be thankful for. This week it’s that your mind can go here, there and everywhere, filled with goals, plans, ideas, aspirations. You hear a call to travel, to wander and to be in places far away. Music and culture is needed in your day to day life. But then you feel responsibilities. Fret not. Something will come and take you away. It’s intelligent, loving, and shifts you into the future.

Whenever you communicate in coming weeks, many will be listening in order to learn philosophical and spiritual truths.

You are the steward of this opportunity. Your words will be able to deconstruct the past, offer new information about the present/future, help people feel sustained, and offer pathways of harmony for those deeply seeking direction.

You’ll do your best. Venus stands with you.

Esoteric Astrology as news for week of Nov. 23, 2016

TAURUS Apr21–May21 You continue to work day and night preparing for the future. Some Taurus folks are focused upon the wellbeing of their community, not wanting to have a future lacking basic needs and comfort. You are sensitive to all the needs of others (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual). Money may be needed soon for a spiritual endeavor. Know the cosmic law that when we serve others the resources to continue that serving appear unexpectedly. Carry on gratefully.

GEMINI May 22–June 20 Are you planning to flee somewhere? Are you and a partner or colleague, friend or close associate thinking of moving or is there discussion concerning travel, goals, spiritual or philosophical needs? Is there love or disagreement? Know that flurries of conflict are purposeful. Tensions create new understandings. Heated discussions and conflict help the mind seek harmony. Keep discussing. Connection is the groundwork for gratitude.

The Sun, Mercury and Saturn are partners these days—so profound messages stream through your mind uplifting you to another dimension. Messages continue to be given.

Do you hear them? To tend to any financial issues we must ask permaculture questions concerning money: who is your banker, where do you bank, and what is your money used for? The answers demonstrate our values. Make a list of all resources. Attach words of gratitude to each.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 Happy Birthday, Sag. It’s a very good time for you.

Actually, because of Jupiter, it’s always a very good time for all Sags. However, if you’re on the Path it may feel rocky at times. But behind all of the shifts, filled with challenges and obligations, toward the mountain of Initiation, there is always joy. Joy comes from the Soul. Happiness from the personality. Understand the differences, recognizing when they occur. One sings, the other … well, is learning.

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CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20

Cancer’s moods change following the tides and phases of the moon. Soon you’ll be seeing what’s undone and swing into action tending to this and that. However much you want to complete things, you may become overworked and overtired. Should pain or inflammation flare-up, remember turmeric (in capsules) and cayenne (sprinkled over food) are naturally anti-inflammatory.

Begin new habits now. Be grateful that you can.

The weeks have been rather frantic, filled with preparations, plans, people, and perplexity at times.

The coming weeks are slower, calmer, filled with more repose which you need. Choose comfort, solitude, and a prayerful state that honors self-care. Pluto, bringing complete transformation, has been affecting your life— bringing thoughts and experiences of dearth. You are in a state of life as profound. Power has arrived too, in all forms, but especially from within. You did your job well.

LE0 Jul21–Aug22

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18

The personal planets (Sun, Mars, Mercury) are in your sphere of creativity, of big plans that bring forth beauty.

So now you must learn how to make a home through rebuilding, reconstructing, and redesigning. Notice how you are speaking these days. Your words are to have love and kindness and the fragrance of kindness. These stabilize you and everyone around you. Give thanks ceaselessly. You need a party with friends from far away.

The planetary energies are focused in your sphere of friends, future, hopes, wishes, and everything you’ve ever wanted to be and do. So, who are your friends, how do you see your future, what do you hope and wish for, what are your visions and dreams, and what do you need? I wrote need, not want. Needs are possible. Wants are secondary. And most importantly, what are you thankful and grateful for? Then the key turns.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22

PISCES Feb19–Mar20

A depth of creativity emerging, outward from within, is about to begin. While family and friends gather, your mind works overtime with goals and philosophical ideas.

These you attempt to communicate but notice that some understand you and others don’t. That’s OK. Focus only on gratitude and seek to bring love and harmony (through intentions for Goodwill) to all interactions.

Wounds then heal. People listen.

You’ll either be called to religious life or assume more professional responsibilities in the world. This leads to greater discipline and recognition. Swim out from under the water lilies, allow yourself to be seen and heard to those seeking direction. Confidence grows with each step, statement and word. Use your focused will(ingness), your love and intelligence. To assist others.

You have prepared for this for lifetimes. We are grateful.

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