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EDITOR’S NOTE While working on this week’s cover story, I was getting a bit nostalgic about days of Pacific Avenue past, and how great the street performance scene used to be. Of all people, it was Tom Noddy, one of Santa Cruz’s biggest street-performer success stories, who gave me a reality check. “Remember the guy who used to hang out in front of the pawn shop with a ventriloquist dummy and call out to passersby?” he asked me.

“Remember the older Mexican man with the squeaky violin? Some people loved those guys—me among them— but no one would argue that they were acts that you sell tickets to.”

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RUFF LIFE We don’t generally pick group photos as the winners of our weekly contest, but this shot of the Peace of Mind Dog Rescue group after last weekend’s holiday parade in downtown Santa Cruz … well, let’s just say there are a lot of dog people at GT. Photograph by Monica Gordon.

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Chris Potter at NASA completely misses the ball when he argues the so-called causes of Santa Cruz Mountain “wildfires,” which is a misnomer for what are really “man-caused disasters.” (“Burn Notice,” GT, 11/2) Let’s look at the facts: The three main fires focused on in the article were all caused by human error, not by lightning strikes, the true and real cause of wildfires.

The Summit fire was started by a burn pile not fully extinguished when winds came up and re-kindled it. Horrific, irresponsible behavior.

The recent fire in Big Sur was started by an illegal campfire created by humans, or sub-humans. Deplorable.

The most recent Loma fire was caused, once again, by a spark from a motor at a legal or illegal pot-growing operation.

Dumb, dumb, dumb! I learned this early by contacting an employee at the Summit Store on day two. The locals know the scoop!

These are certainly not “acts of God” and have nothing to do with warm air, climate change, sunspots, etc.Let’s keep it real and not let a government bureaucrat mislead us in an effort to create a boogeyman. The sky is not falling, sir. We’re all smarter than that out here.

A specter is haunting Santa Cruz—the specter of rent control. All the powers of gentrified Santa Cruz have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this specter: City Council and Chamber of Commerce, Rittenhouse and Canfield, Take Back Santa Cruz and the California Apartment Association.

Rent control and tenant protection ballot measures were passed or strengthened Nov. 8 in these nearby communities: Humboldt County, mobile home park rent control; Berkeley, stronger tenant protections; Richmond, rent control and limits reasons tenants can be evicted; East Palo Alto, limits rent increases to 10 percent a year and limits reasons tenants can be evicted; Mountain View, rent control and allows landlords to increase rent each year by at least 2 percent but not more than 5 percent, depending on the inflation rate.

Even as severely weakened by the California Costa-Hawkins Act, which exempts housing constructed after 1995 and enacts vacancy decontrol, rent control would affect a significant number of Santa Cruz city renters. And Costa-Hawkins may yet be overturned.

So let’s get going. Rent Control for Santa Cruz, now!

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OK, I do remember those guys, and yeah, they were terrible. So maybe the Golden Age of the Pacific Avenue scene wasn’t always as golden as we romanticize it to have been. Ah, but the Great Morgani—to me, he was always the class of the avenue. He came along much later than Noddy and other legendary downtown acts, but actually, I’m glad, because in those post-earthquake years, Santa Cruz’s main street suddenly needed all the cultural help it could get. The Great Morgani carried the flag—a brightly colored spandex flag, sure, but still … he made Pacific Avenue feel like Pacific Avenue at a time when downtown was desperately searching for its identity. Talking about his 20-year career with me, he was as funny and down-to-Earth as always.

I hope you enjoy our look back at his two decades of street performance.

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Leaders of the local electric skateboard company Inboard made its appearance on “Shark Tank” last week, as covered in last week’s issue (“All Aboard,” briefs). On the episode, which aired Friday, Dec. 2, the team agreed to take a $750,000 loan at 9 percent, with a 4-percent equity stake in the company for shark panelists Kevin O’Leary and Lori Greiner. Good deal!

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Who’s the most amazing street performer you have witnessed?

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Bucketman in San Francisco.

He plays 10 or 12 buckets and pans simultaneously for 15 hours. He's a solid percussionist.

CHAOS 938 SANTA CRUZ | TEACHER

The Great Morgani. He always has the greatest costumes, and he’s a great Santa Cruz entertainer.

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The xylophone [players] are undoubtedly the best. They’re so enthusiastic, they play homemade instruments, and there’s like 15 of them of all sizes and all ages.

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In Boulder, Colorado there was this man that would ride a unicycle and throw fire and he would catch it in his mouth. It was pretty cool.

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Miming in France. I had never seen it before and it was pretty cool. People laughing in the outdoor cafes.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of December 7 ARIES Mar21–Apr19 Normally I cheer you on when you devote single-minded attention to pressing concerns, even if you become a bit obsessive. But right now, in accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to run wild and free as you sample lavish variety. It’s prime time to survey a spectrum of spicy, shiny, and feisty possibilities . . . to entertain a host of ticklish riddles rather than insist on prosaic answers. You have been authorized by the cosmos to fabricate your own temporary religion of playing around and messing around and fooling around.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 Taurus poet Adrienne Rich described “an honorable human relationship” as “one in which two people have the right to use the word ‘love.’” How is that right earned?

How is such a bond nurtured? Rich said it was “often terrifying to both persons involved,” because it’s “a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.” I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because you’re in a favorable phase to become an even more honorable lover, friend, and ally than you already are. To take advantage of the opportunity, explore this question: How can you supercharge and purify your ability to speak and hear the truth?

GEMINI May21–June20 In Goethe’s play Faust, the hero bemoans his lack of inner unity. Two different souls live within him, he says, and they don’t cooperate. Even worse, they each try to rule him without consulting the other. I’m guessing you’ve experienced a more manageable version of that split during the course of your life. Lately, though, it may have grown more intense and divisive. If that’s true, I think it’s a good sign. It portends the possibility that healing is in the works . . . that energy is building for a novel synthesis. To help make it happen, identify and celebrate what your two sides have in common.

CANCER Jun21–Jul22 The poet Dick Allen described Zen Buddhism as being “so filled with paradoxes that it jumps through hoops that aren’t even there.” I’m tempted to apply this description to the way you’ve been living your life recently. While I can see how it may have entertained you to engage in such glamorous intrigue, I’m hoping you will stop. There is no longer anything to be gained by the complicated hocus-pocus. But it’s fine for you to jump through actual hoops if doing so yields concrete benefits.

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For decades, numerous self-help authors have claimed that humans use 10 percent or less of their brain’s potential. But the truth is that our gray matter is far more active than that. The scientific evidence is now abundant. (See a summary here: tinyurl.com/mindmyths.) I hope this helps spur you to destroy any limited assumptions you might have about your own brainpower, Leo. According to my astrological analysis, you could and should become significantly smarter in the next nine months—and wiser, too!

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Born under the sign of Virgo, Mary Oliver is America’s best-selling poet. She wasn’t an overnight sensation, but she did win a Pulitzer Prize when she was 49. “What I loved in the beginning, I think, was mostly myself,” she confesses in one poem. “Never mind that I had to, since somebody had to. That was many years ago.” I bet that even at her current age of 81, Oliver is still refining and deepening her self-love. Neither she nor you will ever be finished with this grand and grueling project. Luckily for you both, now is a time when Virgos can and should make plucky progress in the ongoing work. (P.S. And this is an essential practice if you want to keep refining and deepening your love for others.)

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Most high-quality suits worn by men are made from the wool of Merino sheep raised in Australia. So says Nicholas Antongiavanni in his book The Suit: A

Machiavellian Approach to Men’s Style. There are now more than 100 million members of this breed, but they are all descendants of just two rams and four ewes from 18th-century Spain. How did that happen? It’s a long story. (Read about it here: tinyurl.com/merinosheep.)

For the oracular purposes of this horoscope, I’ll simply say that in the next nine months you’ll also have the potential to germinate a few choice seeds that could ultimately yield enormous, enduring results. Choose well!

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 Five of my Scorpio acquaintances and 17 of my Scorpio readers have let me know that they’re actively seeking to make new alliances and strengthen their existing alliances. Does this mean that Scorpios everywhere are engaged in similar quests? I hope so. I would love to see you expand your network of like-minded souls. I would love for you to be ardent about recruiting more help and support. Happily, the current astrological omens favor such efforts. Hot tip: For best results, be receptive, inviting, and forthright.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 “The awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks,” wrote novelist Terry Pratchett. That’s true enough, but I’ll add a caveat: Now and then the trickle of small chunks of awesome splendor gives way to a surge of really big chunks. According to my astrological analysis, that’s either already happening for you, or else is about to happen. Can you handle it? I’m sure you’ve noticed that some people are unskilled at welcoming such glory; they prefer to keep their lives tidy and tiny. They may even get stressed out by their own good fortune. I trust you’re not one of these fainthearted souls. I hope you will summon the grace you’ll need to make spirited use of the onslaught of magnificence.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 In his book The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig coins words to describe previously unnamed feelings. I suspect you may have experienced a few of them recently. One is “monachopsis,” defined as “the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.” Then there’s “altschmerz,” meaning “weariness with the same old issues you’ve always had.” Another obscure sorrow you might recognize is “nodus tollens,” or “the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense anymore.” Now I’ll tell you two of Koenig’s more uplifting terms, which I bet you’ll feel as you claw your way free of the morass. First, there’s “liberosis,” caring less about unimportant things; relaxing your grip so you can hold your life loosely and playfully. Second, there’s “flashover,” that moment when conversations become “real and alive, which occurs when a spark of trust shorts out the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers of irony.”

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 In 1983, two Australian blokes launched a quest to tip a drink at every pub in Melbourne. Thirty-two years later, Mick Stevens and Stuart MacArthur finally accomplished their goal when they sipped beers at The Clyde. It was the 476th establishment on their list. The coming weeks will be a highly favorable time to plan an epic adventure of your own, Aquarius. I hope and pray, though, that you will make it more sacred and meaningful than Stevens’ and MacArthur’s trivial mission.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 For three seasons of the year—spring, summer, and fall—a certain weasel species has brown fur. During that time, it’s known as a stoat. When winter arrives, the creature’s coat turns to white. Its name changes, too. We call it an ermine. The next spring, it once again becomes a stoat. Given the nature of the astrological omens, Pisces, I think it would make poetic sense for you to borrow this strategy. What would you like your nickname to be during the next three months? Here are a few suggestions: Sweet Sorcerer; Secret Freedom-Seeker; Lostand-Found Specialist; Mystery Maker; Resurrector.

Homework: Imagine it’s many years from now. As you look back on your life, what adventure do you regret not trying? truthrooster@gmail.com.

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So you can imagine my concern when I arrived home one evening to find the little guy barely able to sit up, wobbling from side to side with each beat of his heart. I watched him walk a slow, crooked line through the kitchen, then stop to gaze at me through half-lidded eyes. An 11-pound sack of flour in my arms when I picked him up, he was docile and purring, but glassy-eyed and sedate,

and he slept in my lap as I googled his symptoms. As soon as I read that tulips and lilies—like the ones growing in my backyard—are among several plants known to be fatally poisonous to cats, I gathered his limp body into a carrier and rushed him to the Pacific Veterinary Specialists emergency room on 41st Avenue, suspecting the worst.

After a thorough examination that ruled out poisoning by lily or synthetic chemicals like rat poison—he would be vomiting and pooping everywhere, said Mark Saphir, DVM—the doctor sat back and watched Asi slink under a chair, then asked calmly: “Could he have had access to any marijuana?”

I felt what I imagine is close to a mother’s shame. It was a distinct possibility. “It doesn’t take a lot for a cat,” Saphir said. “Look at how big he is compared to you. All it would take is a few crumbs on the carpet.”

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“Take him home, put on some mellow music, and you’ll have your cat back in about 8-12 hours,” said Saphir, who assured me that no, this would not leave any lasting neurological damage.

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small morsel of plant matter, and not a highly concentrated edible product like pot butter, which can be extremely dangerous. “There is a lethal dose for dogs and cats. There is not a lethal dose for humans,” says Ken Cholden, DVM, of Santa Cruz Veterinary Hospital on Soquel Drive. That lethal dose varies from animal to animal, while the most common effects of cannabis ingestion are listlessness, loss of motor coordination and balance, depression, dilated eyes, vomiting and hypothermia. About 25 percent of animals become quite distressed, with a heightened heart rate, panting and pacing. The neurotoxic effects usually last for about 12 hours, and kick in within a half hour to two hours of ingestion.

In cases that aren’t severe, the best treatment is time, says Cholden. But if a dog has consumed a large quantity of edibles within the last hour, the doctor will often induce vomiting. If it’s been more than a couple hours, activated charcoal is administered to draw out the toxins, and in the most severe cases, an intravenous lipid therapy, to soak up fat-soluble THC. In the rare case that an animal dies, what usually kills them is respiratory depression—where their breathing becomes so shallow that it stops and they need to be put on a ventilator—rapid or slow heart rates, and seizures, says Cholden.

The moral of this story is: Pets and pot do not mix. “It’s something that a lot of times people feel ‘well I like it, my dog should like it.’ But they don’t, they’re very different.” That means: do not blow smoke in your pet’s face (this should go without saying), and “Keep your stash secure,” says Cholden.

But along with the legalization of marijuana, medicinal oils and capsules containing cannabidiol or CBD are seeing a rapid increase in popularity for topical use on pets (in cases of skin cancer), as well as for internal consumption. While promising, Cholden cautions that dosage is key, and he has seen psychoactive effects from topical application.

Back at home I fed Asi a second dinner and put on some Brazilian jazz, which he has always liked, and he collapsed into my lap, purring the rest of the night away. He was back to his normal self by 5 a.m.

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An eclectic, endearingly eager group of more than 60 people squeezes into the Louden Nelson Community Center.

Throughout the crowd sit grandparents, young children, dreadlocked hippies and tattooed punks, all awaiting a talk from Noah Levine, author of Dharma Punx, Against the Stream and other Buddhistbased teachings.

Levine is in town giving a special lecture on behalf of the Mind Body Awareness Project (MBA), a nonprofit he founded here decades ago. The program teaches incarcerated and at-risk youth mindful meditation and coping skills to deal with tough issues. Entry to the talk was by donation, with all proceeds going to MBA, which re-opened a local chapter the next day, headed by Joe Clements—a fellow Dharma Punx founder and singer in longtime local punk rock band Fury 66.

The mindful skills and ideas they teach are just as important outside of the penitentiary walls, Clements says, as they are within. “They are incarcerated, but we’re all prisoners of our minds and emotions,” he says. “The revolution starts inside.”

Micah Anderson, another Dharma Punx founder, has been a practicing Muslim for 20 years, and at the Nov. 19 chat, he alludes to the pall hanging over the crowd in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election. He suggests there’s never been a better time to take action and get involved politically or spiritually.

“In this age, especially in the last couple weeks, it seems we’re all disenfranchised,” says Anderson, who also volunteers at a Muslim nonprofit in Fremont called the Ta’Leef Collective that does work similar to MBA. The event represented something of a coming home, too, for MBA, which is now based in the East Bay. “The Mind Body Awareness Project is very personal to me and a part of growing up in Santa Cruz,” Levine begins his talk.

“The Mind Body Awareness program came out of this local community.”

Officially founded as a nonprofit in 2000, the MBA’s origins go back to 1988, when Levine was locked up in the Santa >16

HEALTHY HOUSING Joshua Bamberger, a physician who works with the homeless in San Francisco, told Monterey Bay leaders

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hysician Joshua Bamberger does what he can to treat one of his patients, a wheelchairbound homeless veteran.

But after an appointment draws to a close, Bamberger and the patient go their separate ways, leaving the doctor feeling deeply frustrated on his ride back from work.

“I roll him out to the street corner, I get on BART and go home,” Bamberger tells a crowd of nearly 400 Monterey Bay leaders. “And he’s still there, under the rain and wind,

to suffer on the streets, because we haven’t figured a way to serve this one particular individual. That is wrong. That is not what a just society does.”

Housing, he says, is the real solution to this patient’s medical needs. Bamberger was one of more than a dozen speakers at the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership’s “State of the Region” conference at Seaside’s Embassy Suites on Thursday, Dec. 1. Talks centered on housing, health, the environment and transportation,

and the area’s affordable housing crisis was a recurring theme.

Stable housing is the primary factor in an individual’s health, yet it’s the least-funded treatment in the healthcare system, says Bamberger, who has spent the past 20 years caring for San Francisco’s homeless.

He urged Monterey Bay entrepreneurs to “get yourself together” and find funding for affordable housing. There are pools of available money out there, he says, such as “community benefit obligations,” which require >14

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Philanthropy is another opportunity, Bamberger says. For example, the Central California Alliance for Health, a nonprofit administering Medi-Cal in Santa Cruz, Monterey and Merced counties, funds grants for mental health, clinic expansion and resources for complex, fragile patients. Of the $116 million set aside for these grants, $10 million is reserved for permanent supportive housing that provides onsite healthcare, says Kathleen McCarthy, the alliance’s business development director and a conference attendee.

A grant for $2.5 million has already been awarded to MidPen Housing, a Foster City nonprofit developer, for a housing complex in Salinas’s Chinatown, McCarthy says.

Bamberger called for the health

nonprofit leaders in the audience to invest more in housing.

“We have to ask more of our healthcare system. Stop spending money on expensive tests and medications,” Bamberger says.

“We have to stand up and say the healthcare system has to be responsible for the sickest people first and get them into housing first, and then the healthcare costs go down.”

Linda Mandolini, CEO of Eden Housing, a Hayward nonprofit developer, also spoke last Thursday, listing troubling statistics from a recent McKinsey Global Institute report. California ranks 49th out of 50 states in housing units per capita, and needs to build 3.5 million homes by 2025 to satisfy the pent-up demand.

It’s the poorest people who are hit the hardest, but the crisis affects everybody, she says.

“Not building housing doesn’t just affect the people who don’t have anywhere to live. It’s actually a huge economic drag,” says Mandolini, adding that the state loses $140

billion annually from homes not getting built and people spending more on housing than on other consumption.

Nearly 60 percent of households in the Santa Cruz metropolitan area are unable to find housing they can truly afford, meaning that they spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing, she says.

“The solutions to these problems have to start regionally and locally, and if we don’t start regionally and locally, we’re not going to get anywhere,” Mandolini says.

When California dissolved its redevelopment agencies in 2012, much of the local funding for affordable housing disappeared, and companies like hers were severely impacted, she says. With elusive funding, it’s “a huge challenge,” for example, to connect sewer lines under a freeway for a new development, she says.

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NEWS BRIEFS WET’S WRONG? Here’s a bit of somber news for the politically savvy, H20-loving Santa Cruzans who had hoped to see water transfers last winter.

Those water swaps, which didn’t materialize last year, probably won’t this winter either, Taj Dufour, engineering manager for Soquel Creek Water District, told the Santa Cruz Water Commission Monday, Dec. 5.

There’s a number of questions about conjunctive use—the process of the Santa Cruz Water Department sharing water with Soquel Creek Water District, and vice versa, during dry years and months when one agency has more supply than the other.

The idea, borne out of the Water Supply Advisory Committee (WSAC), is for Santa Cruz to share excess river flows with Soquel Creek Water District during rainy winters, and for Soquel Creek to share

its groundwater with the city during dry summers. But staff members from both Soquel Creek Water District and the city have been drilling down into difficult questions, including the possibility that the agency’s water supplies may react badly—either with one another, with the pipe mains, or with homeowners’ individual plumbing systems.

The worst-case example of what can go wrong when pumping river water into an unfamiliar pipe system can be summed up in two words: Flint, Michigan. That, of course, is where officials infamously sent Flint River water down old pipes, corroding them and creating an epidemic of health problems.

Here in California, water customers in both Davis and Fresno have run into water quality issues and pipe problems stemming from similar projects.

The concern in Santa Cruz

County is that the two water supplies might clash if their pH, alkalinity or mineral makeup doesn’t match up. There could also be issues with sending water flowing down these old pipes in the opposite direction it has been moving in for years.

Water Commissioner Andy Schiffrin wondered aloud if the competing water chemistries from two neighboring districts might be a “fatal flaw” for any hopes of a water transfer.

Schiffrin noted that the district only represents half the water customers in the Purisima Aquifer basin. And if engineers inject Santa Cruz water directly into the aquifer—a possibility that experts are exploring—Schiffrin worries that the districts could open themselves up to liabilities.

Private well users who share the basin, like Cabrillo College and Seascape Golf Club, could possibly have chemical reactions

with that city-slickin’ water too, he suggested, even if Soquel Creek customers don’t.

Commissioner Doug Engfer suggested a successful conjunctive use program in the Placer area might make a nice case study for what to do. “That’s not to say it would work here, but it might. I want to think they were good more than lucky,” he said, “and maybe there’s some positive lessons we can learn.”

Outside City Hall on a meeting break, Scott McGilvray, a Live Oak resident, mentioned he’s “encouraged” by all the staff members’ hard work, and staying optimistic about water transfers.

“We’re on the right path. I think they’re asking the right questions,” says McGilvray, who likes conjunctive use partly because it’s cheaper to operate than backups like recycled water. “I think they have a sense of urgency about it.”

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TEACH THEIR OWN From left to right, Joe Clements, Micah Anderson and Noah Levine prepare for the first meeting of Santa Cruz’s newly rebooted Mind Body Awareness Project at juvenile hall. PHOTO: NOAH LEVINE

MIND OVER MATTERS <12 Cruz County Juvenile Hall for a childhood of drug addiction and theft. “At that time, I was constantly blaming everyone else,” he tells the captivated audience. “No responsibility for my actions, just a constant blaming of society.”

Levine believes the type of work MBA performs is not only important to the lives of the young people they interact with, but for the future of the greater community.

“It’s important now, more than ever, to come together in service,” he tells GT. “Especially populations that have been historically underserved, such as the incarcerated.”

It was during Levine’s incarceration that

his father, Stephen Levine—also a worldrenowned Buddhist author and practitioner who is credited with helping bring Eastern religion to the West during the 1960s— taught Noah how to mindfully meditate over the Juvenile Hall phone.

Over time, the younger Levine realized he was a drug addict and that he needed to change his life. Once released, Levine continued his practice, and in the 1990s, he began returning to the juvenile detention center as a volunteer to teach at-risk youth the same meditation practices he had learned while he was in their predicament.

“I think it’s a lot easier for someone like me to go in and say, ‘Look, I was here, but I changed my life, and I want to introduce you to it’ in a very open and offering way,” he says.

Today, the MBA headquarters are in Oakland with classes at juvenile halls in Alameda and San Mateo and continuation schools in Oakland, Newark and Hayward.

By utilizing meditation and group therapy, MBA teachers show young people their 10-module curriculum with lessons such as empathy, impulse regulation, emotional intelligence and forgiveness. According to its 2015 Annual Report, MBA served 3,659 at-risk and incarcerated youth, with 88 percent saying MBA helped them manage their emotions.

“Here we are, still doing it,” Anderson says. His friendship with Levine having spanned more than 20 years, he notes that while they still teach mindful meditation, MBA is now “less dharma-approached.”

Instead, it focuses more on practices based in clinical psychology and therapy.

With Clements spearheading the local reboot, the four-week pilot program features a changing cast of teachers for the youth to work with, including the fourth Dharma Punx founder, Vinnie Ferraro.

Clements, who spent time incarcerated as an adult, never intended to start his own chapter when he began volunteering at MBA. But he quickly realized it was the next natural step, and he’s amazed at how his meditative journey has come full circle.

“It’s a really cool feeling to be a part of this, not just for myself but for our community,” he says. “It gives me chills just thinking about it.”

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Audience member Julie Conway, Santa Cruz County’s housing manager, says the county used to receive $8 million annually for affordable housing from its redevelopment agency, but now lacks a reliable local source of housing funding, she says.

“The loss of redevelopment was absolutely devastating,” Conway says. “There is nothing on the horizon that comes anywhere close to being the tool that it was.”

A few things give her hope.

She says it’s “encouraging” that San Mateo, Santa Clara and Los Angeles counties passed ballot measures supporting affordable housing this November. She’s unsure whether Santa Cruz County voters would support a similar measure, but is motivated by the success of Measure D, the half-cent sales tax supporting transportation.

The county is also starting to see some revenue from its $15-persquare-foot impact fee on new developments, to fund affordable housing. The county began collecting the fee last year, and it’s still too new to predict how much it will raise, Conway says.

Matt Huerta, Monterey Bay Economic Partnership’s housing program manager, oversees a newly created $10 million revolving loan fund for affordable housing looking for its first project.

He’s trying to build a coalition advocating for affordable housing throughout the region. That’s important because too often when affordable housing proposals come before a planning commission or city council, the loudest voices in the room tend to be the naysayers, he says.

“People are afraid of affordable housing because they buy into the myth that it will create more problems than it solves, whether it’s bringing in ‘those people’ or whether it’s decreasing property values or increasing congestion,” Huerta says. “So I think it’s typically a misunderstanding of how affordable housing really works.”

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omelessness is a complex problem, which is why there are so many different ideas about how to fix it.

“Homelessness is just as diverse as we are,” explains Pajaro Valley Shelter Services (PVSS) executive director Kimberly Ferm. “Anyone can be homeless for any reason at any time. There’s no one cause for someone to become homeless.”

Fortunately, in Santa Cruz County, there are multiple organizations that provide services to help the homeless community. Four of them are part of this year’s Santa Cruz Gives holiday giving drive, in which GT and its partners are

asking readers to contribute to local nonprofits at santacruzgives.org. The almost three dozen organizations participating in Santa Cruz Gives have many different goals, but PVSS, the Homeless Garden Project (HGP), the Mental Health Client Action Network (MHCAN) and the Warming Center Program are focusing this holiday season on improving the lives of homeless families and individuals in Santa Cruz County.

HGP helps give people transitional work, with the goal of getting them working full-time elsewhere, and into a more secure life. They work on an active, functioning farm, and are involved with every aspect,

from tilling the soil to selling HGP’s produce and products to the public.

“It’s hard for people to move from homelessness directly into a job.

The project is here to make that transition,” says Executive Director Darrie Ganzhorn.

Another factor affecting some members of the homeless community is mental illness—when untreated, with no support system, it can have catastrophic effects, and sometimes those dealing with mental health issues find themselves on the street. MHCAN is a local peer-topeer organization that seeks to help them gain control of their lives.

Through Santa Cruz Gives, MHCAN

is hoping to fund a shower room for its members. While a majority of MHCAN members do have a home, group organizers say, some individuals they work with—housed or not—have issues with daily living skills like hygiene to the point where it affects how they are perceived by others. Sometimes a lack of self-care can come from a history of child sexual abuse, negative self-image, or other issues that increase feelings of vulnerability. MHCAN wants to remodel a small room into a shower room designed to offer a safe space.

The Warming Center, meanwhile, helps the homeless with a different kind of vulnerability. On a cold night, the Warming Center will give those who have nowhere to go a place to stay, and a meal—and possibly save their life in the process.

“There are far too few shelter beds, and they don’t allow people with dogs, or large personal property, often not even bikes,” says program director and manager Brent Adams. “We’ve made a pledge to never refuse anyone. We pack people in pretty tight sometimes.”

The all-volunteer organization often gives out blankets and clothes, and sometimes will even send drivers out to pick people up on cold nights.

PVSS deals with yet another source of vulnerability and homelessness.

Women and children often have no home to go to in situations when there’s divorce or an abusive spouse, and PVSS offers transitional housing.

They offer an emergency 90-day program for women and children, and there are also one- and two-year programs for homeless families.

PVSS isn’t just housing, it’s also a comprehensive program to develop skills for self-sufficiency. Saving money, for instance, is required.

The case manager even works with the clients by reviewing their expenditures, pay stubs and receipts to help them develop the skills to take care of themselves.

“We help them to know the importance of taking good care of property, as well as taking care of your health, yourself, and your housing and your family,” says Ferm. “Those are the core values that we have.”

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hen I was editor of Metro Santa Cruz back in the early 2000s, our annual “Best of Santa Cruz County” awards were called the Goldies. And every year, as sort of a tongue-in-cheek take on the name—and on the awards themselves, really—we’d photograph Santa Cruz’s favorite street performer, the Great Morgani, in a costume he called “The Oscordionist.” It wasn’t even close to the most outrageous of the head-to-toe lycra outfits locals and tourists have seen him in on Pacific Avenue and at events around the county for two decades, but it made him look like a giant gold Academy Award statuette—and posed in front of various Santa Cruz landmarks on the cover of the awards issue, he embodied exactly the quirky-yet-captivating vibe we were going for.

One year, while heading to the Goldies photo shoot with him, I got a chance to see something that few outside of his closest friends have seen: the inside of his house. And let me say that it was everything locals would expect it to be, times a hundred: costumes of every color hung in various spots around the living room, and there were multi-colored accordions on the couch. Underneath the tools of his artistic trade, however, the décor was shockingly normal.

Now, as Frank Lima celebrates 20 years of performing in Santa Cruz as the Great Morgani, he tells me that he still lives in that house, as he has for the last 43 years. And the 74-year-old Lima says the décor is still as bland as he can possibly get it.

“My whole place is beige,” he says. “I don’t like color. I love color in costumes, but I cannot live in that. So the beige is my Zen.” His 800 square-feet now houses 150 costumes (the most elaborate take him around 100 hours to make) and 39 accordions. But I must have seen it during a particularly busy performance stretch, because generally he needs everything put away out of sight or he’ll pretty much go crazy, as he was reminded after doing the Cotati Accordion Festival, Palo Alto Fine Arts Festival and Capitola Art and Wine Festival in the space of just a couple of weeks this summer.

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THE MASKED MAN GOES WEST The Great Morgani as ‘The Coetaughty

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HITTING THE STREET When Lima started all this Great Morgani business 20 years ago, he didn’t have a shocking pink accordion to lose. He didn’t even

have a costume. His was just the typical story of a successful stockbroker who gets fed up after 18 years and sells his share of the business, retires at the ripe old age of 35, does nothing for another 18 years, loses his motivation to get out of bed, and finally re-invents himself as the most famous postearthquake street performer on Pacific Avenue. Textbook!

That’s not even the craziest part, though. Though he’d been playing accordion since the age of 9 (saved from a life of rock ’n’ roll by an honest-to-god door-to-door accordion salesman, who showed up at his parents’ house and talked

dozens of plastic egg shells sewn on the fabric, clocks, full-body black-and-white stripes, giant cones and a whole lot more. Who-knowshow-many thousands of locals and tourists have caught him performing on the street over the years, and he’s upped his design game at events like First Night Santa Cruz, Seventh Sense, and FashionArt. Lima came along after what locals generally think of as the Golden Age of street performing in Santa Cruz; famous acts like the Flying Karamazov Brothers and Artis the Spoonman that are the cornerstone of Pacific Avenue lore had long since left. However, Tom Noddy—who performed on Pacific Avenue from 1977 to 1983, before being invited on The Tonight Show and finding international fame with his “Bubble Magic” act—thinks that “Golden Age” was actually much longer than most locals remember. Noddy was instrumental in forming the Santa Cruz Street Performers Guild, and has seen the local tradition wax and wane through several eras. “In the 1980s and ’90s, we had some truly amazing acts coming through town because of the reputation that had grown up around the Karamazovs and their rise in show business,” says Noddy. “Of course we also had Tom Scribner as a fixture downtown, and an ever-changing group of musicians who called themselves the Ethnophonic Orchestra. They played Mexican or Balkan music, classical pieces or odd Hungarian music with the strangest time signatures ... and they were regulars! You might step outside of the Woolworths and be transported to one of these remarkable places.”

However, he thinks Morgani’s imagination, humor and musicianship have made him a headliner of the Pacific Avenue “show.”

“Frank is a charmer,” says Noddy.

“He loves what he does. That's what's kept him and the others around.”

SYMBOL WITH A SQUEEZEBOX Lima doesn’t like being called a local “icon,” even though he is. (He’s

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“Oh my god, I didn’t put anything away for three weeks,” says Lima. “There were bodysuits and accordions and wings—it looked like a clown threw up in my place.

So then I spent two weeks putting everything away to get back to my Zen. I just really need that in my life. I’m very good at hiding stuff.

In fact, I lost a pink accordion for a year. How do you lose a shocking pink accordion?”

them out of starting him on guitar— four years before Elvis broke), Lima had never aspired to live the artistic life; he just happened to pick up a book on street performance and decided to try it. But clearly there had been something in the back of his head pushing him toward Great Morgani-ness, even two decades earlier, in his life of finance, as evidenced by the jokes he’d make to his business partner about quitting.

“I’d say ‘I am getting out of this business. I’m going to go to the Azores and raise goats, or I’m going to go out on the Avenue with my accordion and play music.’ Just kidding, just a very flip remark! So I went to the Azores to visit some relatives, and they had goats. Man, those things smell. That’s off the list.

Never thinking I would end up on the Avenue.”

He did, though, taking his name from the “J Morgan” emblazoned in rhinestones on his 1933 Guerrini accordion, which was actually the name of its original owner. Lima went with it, adding an “i” to the last name to make it sound more Italian (although he’s actually Portuguese), and creating the first name “Julio,” which he later dropped.

And how he got the other part of his stage name? It is, of course, a “great” story: the late Peter Ciccarelli, who hired him to play at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, saw a photo of Lima on the front page of the Gilroy Dispatch serenading the festival queens, and credited as simply “Morgani.”

“Peter called me the next day and said ‘If you ever go by the name of Morgani again, I will deduct 1 percent of your pay. I can get a Morgani on any street corner! I’m paying for a Great Morgani!’” Lima remembers, laughing. “I changed up my business cards and became the Great Morgani. Which sounds a bit egotistical. I’d rather just be Morgani, and that’s what people generally call me: ‘Hey, Morgani!’”

Just as boredom had driven him to the streets in the first place, so did it push him to cover himself up in full-on bodysuits and craft wilder and wilder costumes, complete with fiber optics, 10-pound shoes,

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not too crazy about the times he’s been called an “oddball” in the local press, either.) He sees himself as just another “colorful Santa Cruz character.” But he admits his view of his status in Santa Cruz did change in February of 2014, after he was threatened with a ticket under the ordinances governing street performance downtown. He had permission from the Verizon store he was playing in front of to be there, but was still told he’d have to pay the $300 fine.

“I could have gone in a really nasty direction. And I had some

people who were advising me to go in front of the city council and raise holy hell,” says Lima. “And I said ‘no, I won’t do that.’”

Instead, he posted on Facebook that he would be retiring from street performance—and Santa Cruz basically lost its collective mind.

He was flooded with interview requests, and the idea that the already-controversial ordinances would drive away a performer like the Great Morgani turned a lot of the public against them for good.

“Since the 2014 thing, maybe I do realize now that I have an image, but

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I think I’ve always had this image,” he says. “I want to be respectful. I’ve always had a good relationship with the businesspeople, and the cops, and the downtown hosts.”

Lima’s longtime friend Woody Carroll, who once produced a video about him for Comcast, isn’t afraid to use the i-word when describing him, and thinks many people are fooled by the theatrics into overlooking his genuine talent.

“There are a number of reasons the Great Morgani is still going

strong after 20 years, and has become an icon in Santa Cruz,” says Carroll. “Yes, the dayglo spandex and outlandish costumes first get your attention, but if you pause to actually listen, you’ll hear that Frank Lima is actually a very talented musician. That’s a good thing as far as longevity goes. If you’re a bad accordion player, you’ll get run out of town pretty fast.”

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“I used to wear three-piece suits, and I was always on Pacific Avenue a lot delivering securities. I’d see the [street performers] at the Cooper House—Ginger the Rainbow Lady, the guy that tap-danced.

My thinking at the time was just terrible: ‘Why don’t these people get a job? God, look at these freaks!’

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perform in front of the Rittenhouse Building, he returned. (The Rittenhouse alcove facing Pacific is private property and thus not covered by downtown ordinances.)

To this day, people are still coming up and saying ‘welcome back” and he responds with typical Morgani humor: “I say, ‘Yeah, I had to buy the building. I’m going to open a store here selling accordion-shaped pot holders.’”

Since he dreams of eventually kicking it while playing a Puccini opera, then immediately being spray-painted bronze and hoisted onto a Tom-Scribner-like pedestal, it’s unlikely Lima will retire from his retirement anytime soon. Until then, he’ll chuckle at the great irony of it all.

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Kondabolu, a former immigrants rights organizer, also co-hosts the podcast Politically Reactive with W. Kamau Bell, which landed among the top 15 podcasts in the country in its first two weeks on air. On the show, Bell and Kondabolu have interviewed the likes of Jill Stein, Rachel Maddow, Shaun King, Robert Reich, Kathleen Hanna and other think-producers of the zeitgeist.

Between the podcast, his standup and his in-the-works documentary The Problem with Apu, Kondabolu has slyly emerged as the wokest comic on the national stage and the deputy of our 2016 angst.

But he doesn’t call himself an activist. Kondabolu’s goal is to make people laugh, he says, and he has to talk about the things that matter. He eviscerates Twitter like his personal chew toy, creating trending hashtags like #BobbyJindalIsSoWhite in mockery of his least-favorite politician, vehemently defending his Jill Stein vote, and lamenting how his Bumble matches only ask for tour dates. Sometimes he’s even doing all that with pants on.

In the days and weeks after Nov. 8, Kondabolu says he’s found himself responding to almost every question with something about Trump. “Even the question ‘How are you’ has become so loaded,” he says.

People shouldn’t normalize Trump’s win or what has followed, says Kondabolu. It’s emboldened some people to a sickening degree, even shouting Trump’s name as a weird sort of justification for interrupting a show, as some of Kondabolu’s friends have experienced.

“He makes people feel that they have power, and it’s not a power to

create positive change, it’s a power to destroy and not be held accountable,” he says.

On his album Mainstream American Comic, Kondabolu hits on all the politically charged topics that make him so beloved, like the immigrant experience and how it has affected those close to him: “I think about what my mom’s been through in this country, people saying things like ‘Take that dot off your head,’ or ‘Why are you wearing bedsheets out of the house,’ or ‘Why don’t you shut up and make me food?’ And this is just stuff me and my brother said growing up. Can you imagine what she dealt with out of the house from people who didn’t love her?”

It’s the kind of funny that hurts, because it’s true—immigrants, women, people of color, they’re all going to have it harder, says Kondabolu, which is why the momentum to hold Trump and the media to task needs to keep growing.

“Every day on Facebook I read about a different hate crime or something that’s happened to a friend, someone being attacked or harassed or targeted—and this is before [Trump] starts,” says Kondabolu. “If we’ve learned anything, it’s that passiveness, allowing for violence, allowing for oppression—that’s almost as evil. I don’t think that everyone who voted for Trump is racist. I do think if we see racism as a crime against humanity, they aided and abetted in that crime.”

There is a wide swath of people who will probably never change their hearts or minds on the issues that liberals hold dear, says Kondabolu, and if the children of those voters aren’t the answer, hopefully at least they’ll see after four years that Trump was full of hot air and empty promises.

For those who still grieve, Kondabolu will be there.

“I want people to know that we’re in it together, this is a safe place where for at least an hour you get some relief, some catharsis, and a feeling that you’re not alone,” he says.

Info: 7 p.m., Fri, Dec. 9. The Catalyst Club, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $15-$20.

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ocal drummer Jeff Allgrove can hardly believe what’s happened in his life in the decade since his reggae band Pure Roots formed. Like, for instance, the time he sat at Ken Boothe’s house in Kingston, Jamaica eating the best mango he ever tasted, and munching on some really spicy red snapper.

Boothe’s name may not be as recognizable as Bob Marley’s, but to hardcore reggae fans, he is right up there with the legends. Boothe is often called “Mr. Rock Steady,” in reference to the soulful, slowerpaced sub-genre between ska and reggae that dominated the Jamaican airwaves in the late ’60s. Allgrove not

only broke bread with Boothe, he also got him to record vocals on a Pure Roots track that will be featured on the group’s debut album in late 2017.

“He was a really humble guy, and he welcomed me into his house very warmly,” Allgrove says. “I turned on some music I produced. He listened to the song four times in a row. By the fourth time, we started a conversation about recording some music together.

It was really a blessing.”

The Pure Roots debut is a long time coming. The band recorded and re-recorded tracks several times, most recently in 2014 with Steel Pulse’s Amlak Tafari in the co-producer chair.

“We were looking for that real crisp sound. It took us a few years longer than we anticipated,” Allgrove says.

Vocal duties for the album have been filled by a variety of singers, including a who’s who of classic Jamaican music. In addition to Boothe, Junior Reid and Earl Zero (who is the group’s current live lead singer since 2011, and also a featured guest at their Moe’s Alley show on Friday) contributed to the record.

There are more, Allgrove says, but he can’t announce them just yet.

How did a Santa Cruz reggae group get to work with so many legendary Jamaican artists? Well, before Allgrove brought any of them

into the recording booth, he was booking them. In 2008, he founded Right Vibes Productions to get Pure Roots better gigs. In no time, he was booking other local acts, too.

Then, in 2012, he connected with the Wailing Souls, a Jamaican band that dates back to 1967, and started representing them. From there, he forged connections with other international reggae acts like Horace Andy, Black Uhuru and Junior Reid.

“The Wailing Souls are an example of one of the more underappreciated reggae bands, an original harmony trio from Kingston Jamaica,” Allgrove says. “They’ve told me stories of them picking through the landfill with Bob Marley, looking for food, before they were ever playing music.”

Allgrove works hard for his clients. Last year, he took the Wailing Souls to Brazil, where they played five sold-out shows. Just a few months ago, he took them to Kenya—the first time in the band’s entire career they had performed in Africa. According to Allgrove, the band played to 6,000 people from 1:30 a.m. until 5:15 in the morning.

“Those guys are up there, so joyful, playing their music. They are genuinely happy and looking young and youthful. They had more energy than me. It’s crazy. I look up to those guys,” Allgrove says.

Getting to record and travel with these legendary Jamaican musicians has been an inspiration for Allgrove as he continues to finish up Pure Roots’ debut album, and play shows in and out of the Santa Cruz area for eager reggae fans.

“There’s a saying: ‘Who feels it knows it.’ That saying didn’t mean much to me the first time I heard it,” Allgrove says. “With all the professional musicians we’ve worked with, you’re standing there watching it—it’s pure energy. It’s really nice to know that there’s a spirit in reggae.

Our message is in the music, and the music is in the message.”

Pure Roots plans to release four singles in 2017 prior to the release of its full-length album. The first, with vocalist Junior Reid, is expected to be out in April.

INFO: 9 p.m., Dec. 9, Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $7/adv, $10/ door. 479-1854.

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Noon-5 p.m. Radius Gallery, 1050 River St., Santa Cruz. 706-1620. $5.

FOOD & WINE TRIVIA NIGHT Trivia night at 99 bottles.

21 and up. 8 p.m. 110 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz. 459-9999.

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

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DIVERSITY CENTER HOLIDAY PARTY When the going gets tough, the tough get together. Celebrate the beginning of the winter holidays with the Diversity Center’s annual holiday party. Bring nutritious canned or boxed food donations for the Santa Cruz Aids Project holiday drive. Raffle tickets will be offered for chances to win a sail on the Monterey Bay for four, trips to the spa, craniosacral massages, yoga, dinner and a show at Kuumbwa and so much more. Celebrate the end of one year with friends in the local community.

Info: 4-7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11. 126 Pacheco Ave., Santa Cruz. $10-$100.

CITY HALL TO YOU—OCEAN STREET AND UPPER EASTSIDE The City of Santa Cruz welcomes Ocean Street and Upper Eastside residents and business owners to its City Hall to YOU community forum for dialogue with city leaders and staff on neighborhood-specific topics. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Elks Lodge, 150 Jewell St., Santa Cruz. cityofsantacruz.com. Free.

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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

DECEMBER SHOP LOCAL MONTH Remember “think global, act local?” Well here’s a way you can combine that with the best in holiday shopping sprees—shop local for your Christmas gifts. This year, Think Local First of Santa Cruz has expanded its annual Shop Local Week to extend to the entire month of December. Make your dollar count where your friends, family and neighbors reside. It’s all about the Think Local First principle—which TLF has put to the test with a month-long “Great Money Race.” Five checks of $100 from five local financial institutions were given to five members of the locally owned business community, who were then asked to spend the check at another local business, and so on. At the end of the month, the five $100 checks generated $8,711.48 in local business.

Info: Santa Cruz businesses. thinklocalsantacruz.org/shoplocal.

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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 12/8 ARTS STORYTIME Join us for storytime. Free with

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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. 4-7 p.m. The Tannery Arts Center, 1050 River St., Santa Cruz. 621-6226. >38

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SALSA DANCING CUBAN-STYLE This class is for intermediate dancers and features Cuban casino partnering, salsa suelta and great Cuban music. 7-8 p.m. Louden Nelson Center, Santa Cruz. salsagente.com or 426-4724. $9/$5.

SALSA RUEDA SERIES BEGINNER 2 A fun, four-week Rueda de Casino series for Beginner 2 and up. No partner required. Must know the basics in Rueda such as guapea, dame, enchufla doble, el uno, sombrero, and setenta.

8-9 p.m. Louden Nelson Community, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. 420-6177. $34.

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

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

GROUPS DAD’S CLUB BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT— 61ST ANNUAL EMMETT THOMPSON MEMORIAL The Santa Cruz High School Boys Basketball program will host the 61st Annual Emmett Thompson Memorial Dad’s Club Basketball Tournament. Proceeds benefit the Santa Cruz High School Boys Basketball program. 3:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz.

566-7462. $8.

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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.

HEALTH ARM-IN-ARM CANCER SUPPORT GROUP2 For women with advanced, recurrent and metastatic cancers. Registration required.

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

MUSIC 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. 4751222.

SPIRITUAL BUDDHISM FOR BEGINNERS You may have 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.

VOLUNTEER TOYS FOR TOTS DANCE Modern Western Square Dance with the proceeds going to the Salvation Army. Bring an unwrapped gift as your entrance into the dance. 7 p.m. La Selva Beach Clubhouse, 314 Estrella Ave., Watsonville. 726-7053.

FRIDAY 12/9 ARTS STORYTIME Free with museum admission and for MOD Members. 10:30-11 a.m. Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery. 888-4248035. Free.

SENSORY PLAY Join us in the MOD Workshop for this new weekly class exploring sensory play activities. Messy sensory play gives young children endless ways to develop and learn, while using all their senses for creative thinking.

3-3:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery. 888-424-8035. Free with admission.

JEWEL THEATRE PRESENTS: NEXT TO NORMAL This groundbreaking and awardwinning musical explores how one suburban family copes with crisis. With a thrilling contemporary score, Next to Normal is an intense, emotional powerhouse of a musical that aims right for the heart. 8 p.m. The Colligan Theater, 1010 RIver St., Santa Cruz. jeweltheatre.net. $26.

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

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SATURDAY 12/10 ARTS JEWEL THEATRE PRESENTS: NEXT TO NORMAL This groundbreaking and awardwinning musical explores how one suburban family copes with crisis. With a thrilling contemporary score, Next to Normal is an intense, emotional powerhouse of a musical

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CLASSES SATURDAY MORNING YOGA AT YOGA WITHIN Class will focus on the fundamentals of basic poses, offering a well-rounded practice emphasizing safe alignment, breathing techniques, and the gradual development of greater flexibility, strength and balance. 10:15 a.m. 8035 Soquel Drive, Aptos. 251-3553. $15.

AHIMSA (UH-HIM-SAH): FREE YOGA IN THE PARK “Ahimsa” is Sanskrit for non-violence.

We will join together every week to cultivate inner peace through meditation and physical well-being through a gentle yoga practice in an inclusive atmosphere of kindness and mutual respect. 9:30-11 a.m. San Lorenzo Park, 137 Dakota St., Santa Cruz. 423-1626. Free.

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JOE FERRARA San Jose native Joe Ferrara has been entertaining audiences from Santa Cruz to San Francisco since his first gig at the Grog and Sirloin in Los Gatos in 1968. Joe’s rich baritone voice and comfort with his audience have attracted fans of all ages. 6:30-9:30 p.m.

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RISE AND SHINE YOGA Set the tone for your weekend with a relaxed body, calm mind, and smile on your face. We’ll start with some standing asanas (postures/poses) to awaken energy and get it moving in an inward and upward direction. 8:30 a.m. Ananda Scotts Valley, 221-A Mount Hermon Road, Scotts Valley. anandascottsvalley.org. $15.

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PARTNER YOGA AND WINE TASTING Share sacred energy the second and fourth Saturdays of each month at Poetic Cellars Winery. Yoga class will be taught first, with wine tasting following. 10 a.m.-Noon. Poetic Cellars, 5000 N. Rodeo Gulch. 462-3478.

SINGLE PARENTING This is a great Positive Discipline parenting workshop for all single or coparenting parents. Childcare will be provided, limited scholarships may be available. 10 a.m.Noon. Live Oak Family Resource Center, 1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. 476-7284 EXT.107. $20.

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APTOS FARMERS MARKET AT CABRILLO COLLEGE Voted Good Times best farmers market in Santa Cruz County. With more than 90 vendors, the Aptos Farmers Market offers an unmatched selection of locally grown produce and specialty foods. 8 a.m.-Noon, 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 west-end of Santa Cruz including Boony Doon, North Coast, UCSC Campus and is a short trip from downtown. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Mission 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.

9 a.m.-1 p.m. 360, Kings Valley Road, Scotts Valley. 454-0566.

BREAKFAST WITH SANTA Guests will enjoy

a holiday breakfast buffet with made-to-order waffles and omelets, and children will delight having their own photos taken with Santa and a cuddly take-home collectible Chaminade teddy bear. Enjoy writing letters to Santa, while basking in the glow of a beautiful winter morning overlooking the Monterey Bay. 9-11 a.m. Chaminade Resort, 1 Chaminade Lane, Santa Cruz. 475-5600. $12.

GROUPS 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.

STOKE OUT SANTA CRUZ A group that tries to lighten the burden of Christmas shopping by hosting a private shopping event for parents to shop for new Vans shoes and hooded sweatshirts for their elementary age children and leave with a full food bag for their family.

9 a.m.-9 p.m. Santa Cruz Hope Church, 4525 Soquel Drive, Soquel. 345-6340.

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.

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.

462-8383. Donation.

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

CALENDAR animals who are looking for their forever homes! Animal Shelter Relief rescues cats and dogs from high-risk situations in Santa Cruz and the surrounding areas. Our ultimate goal is to reduce euthanasia numbers at local shelters.

Noon. PetSmart, 490 River St., Santa Cruz. animalshelterrelief.org.

VOLUNTEER TO FEED THE HUNGRY WITH FOOD NOT BOMBS We need help sharing vegan meals with the hungry every Saturday and Sunday in downtown Santa Cruz. Cooking from Noon-3 p.m, 418 Front St., Santa Cruz.

515-8234. Serving from 4-6 p.m. at the Post Office, 840 Front St., Santa Cruz.

SUNDAY 12/11 ARTS DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ ANTIQUE FAIR The Santa Cruz Antique Faire is on the second Sunday of every month from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Vendors offer an eclectic blend of antiques and unique items, vintage clothing, collectibles and more. Downtown Farmers Market lot, Cedar and Lincoln streets. Santa Cruz. downtownsantacruz.com. Free.

FOOD & WINE LIVE COMEDY AT THE CROW’S NEST Crow’s Nest features live comedy, with talent from the national circuit, every Sunday night year-round. 21 and up. 2218 E. Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. 476-4560. $7.

OUTDOOR JINGLE BELL ROCK 5K Come and join our annual year end holiday event! It’s all about the toys and fun. Put a smile on a child’s face for a really great cause. Bring a toy for Toys for Tots, and go for a walk or run along the San Lorenzo River Levee. 9 a.m. San Lorenzo Park, 137 Dakota Ave., Santa Cruz. 419-0883. $5.

YOUNGER LAGOON RESERVE TOUR Part of the UC Natural Reserve System, Younger Lagoon contains diverse coastal habitat and is home to birds of prey, migrating sea birds, bobcats, and other wildlife. Come and see what scientists are doing to track local wildlife. 2-3:30 p.m. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz. 459-3800. $6.

GUIDED MEDITATION Led by Venerable Drimay, an excellent way to learn how to set up a daily meditation practice. Stabilizing meditation followed by guided contemplation on various Dharma topics. 9:30-10:30 a.m., Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 462-8383. Donation.

MEDICINE BUDDHA PUJA Medicine Buddha Puja is a prayer ceremony that is performed daily at Land of Medicine Buddha. One Sunday a month it is done in English. The other three Sundays it is done in Tibetan. 2-3 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel.

462-8383 or landofmedicinebuddha.org. Free/ donation.

INSPIRATIONAL MEDITATION SERVICE Join the Santa Cruz SRF Meditation Group for Sunday morning Inspirational Service. This service includes inspirational readings from the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda. 11 a.m.noon. Call for location, 334-2088.

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ARTS 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.

STITCHERS BY THE SEA Come stitch in the company of friends. We all have an appreciation for the art of stitchery and an insatiable desire to learn and share with our fellow stitchers.

Please bring your own materials. 7 p.m. 1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. egausa.org. Free.

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CLASSES JAZZ: BEGINNING JAZZ FOR ADULTS An introductory study in classic American jazz choreography and technique. This class begins with placement, strength and an emphasis on turns, kicks and jumps. 1:30-2:30 p.m.

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

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TRIYOGA LEVEL 1 YOGA CLASS Enjoy the wealth of TriYoga. Taught by Terri Richards. 9:30 a.m. 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. 4648100. $15.

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TOBY GRAY AT THE PONO Acoustic sweet classic favorites and jammin’ originals at the downtown Santa Cruz Oasis. 1:30-4:30 p.m.

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SUNDAY 12/11 ‘MARY/MARYAM’ PLAY Who was Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ in the Christian Bible and who was Maryam, the mother of Isa, in the Qur’an? That’s the question that writer and director Victoria Rue, who teaches Comparative Religious Studies at San Jose State University, wants to flesh out in Mary/Maryam. “In these difficult times, it is so important to build bridges of understanding among people and religions. The story of Mary/Maryam is that bridge between Christianity and Islam,” says Rue. This dinner-and-a-show event is a benefit for the Islamic Center of Santa Cruz and Peace United Church programs, and hosts a cast of all different faiths including Muslim, Christian, Hindu and Sufi.

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TUESDAY 12/13 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 with admission.

HOLIDAY GARLAND WORKSHOP Create one-of-a-kind holiday garlands with recycled paper and book pages. Several designs will be explored. 1 p.m. Somersault Vintage Goods, 1226 Mission St., Santa Cruz. 316-0920. Free.

FOOD & WINE TRIVIA NIGHT Trivia Night at New Bohemia Brewing Company every Tuesday. 21 and up.

6 p.m. 1030 41st Ave., Santa Cruz. nubobrew. com/events. Free.

VOLUNTEER UCSC WOMEN’S CLUB COMMUNITY TUESDAYS “Community Tuesdays” event at the Shadowbrook Restaurant in Capitola has supported local nonprofits for 16 years.

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Local soul-funk outfit Disiac recently shared the stage with Santa Cruz soul ensemble the Inciters at Don Quixote’s.

It shouldn’t be surprising that the two bands were a great fit, since Disiac was born out of the Inciters, in a way. Andrea “Button” Pisani sang in the Inciters for three years; she started Disiac while still in the group, but eventually decided to put all her creative energy into her own project.

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“I wanted to come up with something new and fresh. I wanted to be in charge,” Pisani says. “We’re honoring these older soul, funk songs. We’re not so pigeonholed into these very specific types of songs, or very specific genres.

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Certainly, the band is much smaller, and more stripped down, with influences that include soul, funk, rock, and blues. But what makes the group different from just about any other soul band on the planet is its inclusion of an electric vibraphone player instead of a keyboardist. It makes for a spacey, psychedelic sound.

As for the group’s name, it might be a little confusing at first. In fact, most people mispronounce it as “dizzy-ack,” but it’s easy to get it right once you know it’s short for “aphrodisiac.” The name, they feel, is a perfect fit for what they’re trying to do as a band.

“It’s about making people feel good, making people feel empowered and confident, because that really is a sexy thing,” Pisani says. “We try to create our own energy from this little made-up word, which nobody knows how to pronounce.” AARON CARNES INFO: 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $5/adv, $8/door.

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QUITAPENAS Quitapenas is an infectious afro-cuban dance band from the Inland Empire, thus adding further proof to my theory that all of the best music coming out of Southern California right now is from the Latino-American communities.

Afro-cuban is an exciting genre that, as the title suggests, mixes Latin and African rhythms. But if you hear the term “afro-Cuban” and immediately feel like you’re reading a boring textbook, you are precisely the person that needs to shell out the modest door price and feel the band’s vibes in person. This is make-you-forget-all-your-cares music.

The guys have such an interesting tropical-meets-lounge-meets-funk take on the music. AARON CARNES INFO: 8:30 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $7/adv, $10/door. 479-1854.

AMERICANA

HANDSOME FAMILY Remember “Far From Any Road,” the haunting song from season one of True Detective? That was the Handsome Fam-

ily. A husband-and-wife Americana duo comprising Brett and Rennie Sparks, the Handsome Family does not sing about the good old days in the country or romanticize life on the land—they create dark, textured stories from the underside of the American West. At times shadowy and beautiful, and at other times terrifying, the music has an unsettling depth that makes the duo one of the most remarkable American roots acts around. CAT JOHNSON INFO: 8 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $15. 335-2800.

REGGAE

KABAKA PYRAMID Keron Salmon’s eclectic mix of hip-hop and reggae garnered internet fame in the early days of Myspace Music. The Kingston native drew inspiration from African roots for his stage name—Kabaka is Ugandan for king, and the long-lasting survival of the Pyramids of ancient Africa represent his “desire for longevity in music and his deep connection to Kemetic roots.” Kabaka Pyramid has made it his goal to leave spiritual messages for generations to come. Opening the set are Raging Fyah, a five-piece regarded as one of Jamai-

ca’s most promising young acts for their nuanced harmonies and expressive roots rock reggae. KATIE SMALL INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $15/adv, $18/door. 429-4135.

ROCK

DAVE MASON In 1970, Dave Mason released the album Alone Together, with the hit song “Only You Know and I Know.” The solo debut from the Traffic guitarist, who would later be inducted into the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame, the album is packed with star power, including Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell and Rita Coolidge, and has since become a staple of classic rock music collections. Mason is currently revisiting the masterpiece on his Alone Together Again Tour, along with his band, comprising Johnne Sambataro, Alvino Bennett, Tony Patler, and Bekka Bramlett—daughter of Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, who toured with Mason in the 1970s and had a No. 2 hit on their own with Mason’s “Only You Know and I Know.” On Thursday, Mason and company hit the Rio. CJ INFO: 7:30 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $55/gen, $125/gold. 423-8209.

MUSIC

BE OUR GUEST FOREVERLAND

JIM KWESKIN & GEOFF MULDAUR

FRIDAY 12/9 AMERICANA

PATTERSON HOOD

INFO: 9 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy 9, Felton. $22. 335-2800.

AMERICANA

MYLO JENKINS Two years ago, local folk ensemble Mylo Jenkins wrote the tearful ballad “California Funeral Song.” (“You died so sad and slow”). It may have been written a couple of years back, but hearing it, you can’t help but immediately be

INFO: 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.

SATURDAY 12/10 INDIE ROCK

WILD CHILD Austin-natives Kelsey Wilson and Alexander Beggins met during a mutual backup band stint for a Danish artist’s U.S. tour. With Wilson on violin and Beggins on ukulele, the pair share lead vocal and songwriting responsibilities, and are backed by a formidable five-piece band. Wild Child’s sound is difficult to pin down, landing somewhere between pop and indie rock, with distinct Romanian folk influences. The bright and cheery

instrumentation contrasts with more serious lyrical material. The group recorded their third album earlier this year in Dr. Dog’s “Mt. Slippery” studio in Pennsylvania. KS INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $14/adv, $17/door. 429-4135.

JIM KWESKIN & GEOFF MULDAUR Jim Kweskin and Geoff Muldaur led their own musical revolution in the 1960s with the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, which reinvented early 20th century roots music for a new generation. They weren’t playing country music, they were playing boondocks music—the songs from way out in the sticks. And they inspired a whole lot of bands, including the Grateful Dead. The Jug Band also happens to be where Geoff Muldaur met Maria Muldaur (then known as Maria D’Amato) when she joined the band in 1963. Hmm, wonder if that went anywhere? In any case, Kweskin and Geoff Muldaur joined up again in 2006 for more Jug Band albums, recreating the chemistry that is partly responsible for the Americana movement as we know it. STEVE PALOPOLI INFO: Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $32/gold circle. 479-9421.

INFO: 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 30. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $25.

335-2800. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 23 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

IN THE QUEUE LAURENCE JUBER

Acoustic guitar master and his trio play sounds of the season. Wednesday at Don Quixote’s JESSE AUTUMN

Local favorite plays a farewell Santa Cruz show. Sunday at Kuumbwa BONE, THUGS-N-HARMONY

Legendary hip-hop group out of Cleveland. Sunday at Catalyst ELVIN BISHOP

Blues rock elder statesman. Sunday at Moe’s Alley GARY HOEY

Guitarist spanning surf and prog to rock and the blues.. Tuesday at Moe’s Alley

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Former Drive-By Trucker Jason Isbell may be getting “the future of country music” write-ups in the press, but Patterson Hood—co-founder, and member of Drive-By Truckers—is a country-rock-Americana artist you don’t want to miss. He has a handful of solo albums, which aren’t far from the worntorn roots sound that’s made Drive-By Truckers a favorite for folks seeking intelligent and vulnerable country-inspired music. Hood’s solo material taps into the bleakness, loneliness and regret of the music in a much more haunting way than when he’s surrounded by his longtime bandmates. AC

transported to the general despair of 2016’s election results. California may have overwhelmingly rejected Trump, but we are tied to the rest of the country in this epic intellectual and moral funeral. “California Funeral Song” is a sad, cathartic acoustic tune—the likes of which Mylo Jenkins delivers on the daily. It’ll hopefully heal your wounds enough to get you out of the house and back in action, to fight what’s most definitely wrong with our country over the coming years. AC

One of the greatest performers of all time, Michael Jackson has no equal. But, that’s not to say that a Michael Jackson tribute can’t pack a dance floor and be loads of fun. Enter Foreverland, the Bay Area’s favorite MJ tribute band. A 14-piece ensemble featuring four lead vocalists, four horns and a six-piece rhythm section, Foreverland honors the out-of-this-world talent, showmanship and artistry of the late, great Jackson with high-energy renditions of his countless jams, which spanned eras, styles and cultures. On Dec. 30, the band performs its Night Before New Year’s Eve Thriller Ball. CAT JOHNSON

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LIVE MUSIC

Thursday December 8th 8:30pm $7/10 Latin Dance Party With

QUITAPENAS Friday December 9th 9pm $7/10 Live Reggae Showcase With

PURE ROOTS, EARL ZERO,

SOUND REASONING & DJ SPLEECE

WED

12/7

THE APPLETON GRILL 410 Rodriguez St, Watsonville APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

Al Frisby 6-8p

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

THU

12/8

FRI

12/9

SAT

12/10

Open Mic Free 7:30p

Lucha Libre $15 7:30p

Reggae Dub Club $5 8p

Preacher Boy 6-8p

RJ Mischo & Kid Andersen 6-8p

Al Frisby 1p Lloyd Whitley 6-8p

Minor Thirds Trio 6:30-9:30p

SUN

12/11

MON

Chris James & Patrick Rynn 6-8p

12/12

Broken Shades 6-8p

TUE

12/13

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

DJ

B-SIDE PLAYERS

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Xasthur $10 9p

90s Night 9p

Downpour, Fountain of The Box (Goth Night) Bile, Drain, Moirai $5 9p 9p

Post Punk Night 9p

Nomalakadoja, Grimace & the Fakers & more $5 9p

Sunday December 11th 4pm $25/30

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

Three Agents 9-11:45p

Take1, Who’s HOldin, 3upFront 9-11:45p

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

Funk Night w/ Light the Band Free 9p

Joey Hoduklin Free 8p

Comedy and Music w/Shwa Free 8p

Saturday December 10th 9pm $15/20

Afro-Latin-Cumbia-Reggae Dance Party

Afternoon Blues Series

ELVIN BISHOP Sunday December 11th 9pm $8/12

Americana & Roots Music Double Bill

MCCOY TYLER w/

THE MOUNTAIN MEN

+ THE GRAHAMS

Tuesday December 13th 8pm $25/30 Ho Ho Hoey Rockin’ Holiday Tour

GARY HOEY

Comedy Night/80s Night Free 8:30p

Ukulele Monthly Free 5:30p

Swing Dance $5 5:30p Bandanarama Funk the Mighty Free 9p $10/$12 8:30p Karaoke 9p

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

Tango Ecstasy 6-9:30p

Jazz Society of SC Donation 9p

Karaoke 9p

DJ Luna 9p

CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Kabaka Pyramid, Raging Hari Kondabolu Fyah $15/$18 8p $15/$20 7p

CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Sims $13/$15 8:30p

CAVA WINE BAR 115 San Jose Ave, Capitola

Steve’s Kitchen Jazz 6:30-9:30p

Aqua Cats 6:30-9:30p

Bone Thugs n Harmony $25/$50 6p

Sunsquabi $12/$15 8:30p

Wild Child $14/$17 8:30p

Krimer $12/$15 8:30p

Dave Muldawer 6:30-9:30p

Frank Sorci 6:30-9:30p

Aqua Cats 6:30-9:30p

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

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December 30th & 31st DON CARLOS

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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 January 19th CELSO PIÑA February 1st ALO February 10th THE ENGLISH BEAT February 14th SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB February 18th CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS February 24th DEADPHISH ORCHESTRA

OPEN LATE EVERY NIGHT! thursday 12/8

TOM FREUND w / THE CRAFTERS

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

friday 12/9

MYLO JENKINS w / ... And hod

International Music Hall and Restaurant

FINE MEXICAN AND AMERICAN FOOD ALL YOU CAN EAT LUNCH BUFFET M-F $7.95 Wed Dec 7

Laurence Juber Trio

Thu Dec 8

Handsome Family

Fri Dec 9

Patterson Hood of The Drive-By Truckers

Sat Dec 10

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

saturday 12/10

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

TUESday 12/13

Sun Dec 11

Show 9pm $5 Door

Sun Dec 11

thursday 12/15

ARROWS w / BURN THE EFFIGY w / SOMATOSE

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

friday 12/16

JESSE DANIEL AND THE SLOW LEARNERS

WWW.MOESALLEY.COM

w / CADILLAC GRAINERS w / HANK & ELLA WITH THE FINE COUNTRY BAND

1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz 831.479.1854

MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz

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

429-6994

$15 adv./$15 door 21 + 8pm plus Jesse Daniel Duo $22 adv./$22 door 21 + 9pm

Hollywood Holidays A Youth Vocal Journey 1pm Matinee $7 adv./$7 door seated <21 w/parent

Sat Dec 10

w / DUSTED ANGEL

7 COME 11

$17 adv./$20 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm

Painted Mandolin 8:30pm Concert ACOUSTIC GARCIA with Joe Craven, Matt Hartle, Larry Graff, Roger Sideman $15 adv./$15 door 21 + 8:30pm

Uncle Bonsai 2pm

$15 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 2pm

Dave Holodiloff Band “Enchanted Winter” Holiday Hoedown! 7pm Concert $12 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 7pm

Wed Dec 14

Mike Renwick’s Holiday Deluxe $10 adv./$15 door 21+ 8pm

COMING RIGHT UP

Thu. Dec. 15 Peter Case Fri. Dec. 16 The Carolyn Sills Combo Santa is Real Show!

Sat. Dec. 17 Santa Cruz’s Dead Playing Grateful Dead’s historic acoustic/electric shows Sun. Dec. 18 Wendy Treat’s CD Release w/Tammi Brown, Patti Maxine, Pipa Pinion, Dave Egan, Dan Frechette, Laurel Thomsen Wed. Dec. 21 Star La’Moan & The Kitchenettes plus Speakeasy 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

12/7

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

Yuji Tojo $3 8p

THU

12/8

FRI

12/9

Karaoke

SUN

12/11

MON

Comedy/Trivia

Tom Freund, The Crafters $8 9p

Mylo Jenkins, and Hod $8 9p

Fast Asleep, Dusted Angel $8 9p

Cruzah $5 8:30p

Back to Nowhere $6 9p

Tsunami $7 9:30p

12/12

Laurence Juber Trio $17/$20 7:30p

TUE

12/13

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

Handsome Family $15 8p

Patterson Hood, Jesse Daniel Duo $22 9p

Hollywood Holidays $7 1p Painted Mandolin $15 8:30p

Reggae Party Free 8p Sherry Austin w/ Henhouse

Hoopty 9p

Grampa’s Chili 9p

HINDQUARTER BAR & GRILLE 303 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 10p

KUUMBWA 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Mike Stern, Dave Weckl Band & more $30/$35 7, 9p

MALONE’S 4402 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley

Live Music 5:30-9p

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

Metragnomes 7-10p

Jeff Gardner & the Tools 9p

Lil’ Pea & the Third Degree 4p

Hall Pass 7-10p

Tickets: SnazzyProductions.com Sunday, December 11 • 7 pm

JESSE AUTUMN’S “FAREWELL SANTA CRUZ” CONCERT PARTY Tickets: BrownPaperTickets.com

Monday, December 12 • 7 & 9 pm |No Comps

Tuesday, December 13 • 5 pm JuannaJam 8p

Roadhouse Karaoke 7:30p

Jesse Autumn’s ‘Farewell Robert Glasper Santa Cruz’ Experiment $15/$20 7p $35/$40 7p

Be Natural Music Youth Rock Concert Fundraiser $10 5p

Karaoke w/Ken 9p 10 O’Clock Lunch Band 7-10p

Saturday, December 10 • 7:30 pm

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

Carlos Martinez 6-9p Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur $25 7:30p

MIKE STERN/DAVE WECKL BAND W/ BOB FRANCESCHINI AND TOM KENNEDY

ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT

Uncle Bonsai $15 2p Dave Holodiloff Band $10/$15 8p

The Crew Flingo 7:30p

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

JIM KWESKIN & GEOFF MULDAUR

Karaoke

Esoteric Collective

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

12/10

KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

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

SAT

Celebrating Creativity Since 1975

BE NATURAL MUSIC YOUTH ROCK CONCERT FUNDRAISER! Tickets at the door Thursday, December 15 • 7 pm

ADAM SHULMAN TRIO: A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS FAMILY FRIENDLY CONCERT! $8/CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER

Friday, December 16 • 7:30 pm

ETIENNE CHARLES & CREOLE SOUL: A CREOLE CHRISTMAS

Beat Street 7-10p

Saturday, December 17 • 7 pm

KEN EMERSON & JIM “KIMO” WEST

Tickets: TicketFly.com Sunday, December 18 • 3 pm

‘TIS THE SEASON…CHRISTMAS FAVORITES WITH SOLMAAZ ADELI AND JON-MARK Tickets: jonmarkhurley.com

Monday, December 19 • 7 & 9 pm |No Comps

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LIVE MUSIC

Wednesday, Dec. 7 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

SIMS

plus Air Credits

Thursday, December 8 • Ages 16+

Kabaka Pyramid Raging Fyah

WED

Friday, December 9 • Ages 21+

MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

HARI KONDABOLU Friday, December 9 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

SUNSQUABI

MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

plus Walker Lukens

Sunday, December 11 • Ages 16+

BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY

99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz

plus Busta Grymez

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/ Protoje (Ages 16+) Jan 22 Switchfoot & Relient K (Ages 16+) Jan 24 Tribal Seeds (Ages 16+) Jan 26 Excision/ Cookie Monsta (Ages 18+) Jan 27 Felly/ Gypps (Ages 16+) Jan 28 Y & T (Ages 21+) Feb 7 & 8 Rebelution/ Passafire (Ages 16+) Feb 9 The Revivalists (Ages 16+) Feb 15 Riff Raff (Ages 16+) Feb 17 Beatles vs Stones (Ages 21+) Feb 18 & 19 SC Music Festival (Ages 16+) Feb 23 J Boog (Ages 16+)

Trivia 8p

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

THU

12/8

FRI

12/9

SAT

12/10

SUN

12/11

MON

12/12

TUE

Rob Vye 6p

Lloyd Whitley 6p

Little Jonny 6p

Westside Sheiks 6p

Quitapenas $7/$10 8p

Pure Roots, Earl Zero, Sound Reasoning & more $7/$10 8p

B-Side Players $15/$20 8p

McCoy Tyler, Mountain Men, The Grahams $8/$12 8p

Gary Hoey $25/$30 7p

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

D-ROC 9:30p-2a

DJ Juan Burgandy 9:30p-2a

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

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

Football & Gordo’s Gustavo’s BBQ 7-9p

The Crafters 7-9p

Stock Shot 7-9p

Preacher Boy 6p

Tacos & Trivia 6-8p

Asher Stern 10p-Midnight Claudio Melega 6p

Vinny Johnson 2-5p

Ho’Omana 2-5p Comedy 9p

Infamous Swanks Los Hightops, Barnyard Stompers 9p

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Comedy Open Mic 8p

Open Mic 8-11:30p

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

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

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

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

12/13

Al Frisby 6p

THE POCKET 3102 Portola Dr, Santa Cruz

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

www.catalystclub.com

Hi Ya by Little John 9:30p-2a

NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz

Sunday, December 11 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

KRIMER

Broken Shades 6p

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

plus Maddy O’Neil

Saturday, December 10 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

WILD CHILD

12/7

Acoustic Reggae Jams 6p

Traditional Hawaiian Music 6:30p

“Alone Together Again” Dave Mason $55/$125 7:30p

Brunch Grooves12:30p Featured Acoustic 6:30p “Right to Exist” Santa Cruz Skateboards Free 9p

ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Brunch Grooves 1:30p Open Mic & Bluegrass Evening Krowd Karaoke 9p 6p

Musicians Showcase 6p Holiday Circus $25 7p

Trivia 8p

Open Mic 7:30p

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Fri. December 9 Good RJ Mischo & Kid Andersen 6-8 pm Sat. December 10 Lloyd Whitley 1-5 pm Al Frisby 6-8 pm Sun. December 11 Chris James & Patrick Rynn 6-8 pm Mon. December 12 Broken Shades 6-8 pm Tues. December 13 Rob Vye 6-8 pm

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LIVE MUSIC WED

12/7

THE SAND BAR 211 Esplanade, Capitola

THU

12/8

Comanche Joey 7-11p

FRI

12/9

SAT

12/10

IrieFuse & Red Eye Jedi 8-Midnight

Root System 8-Midnight

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

Ultrasonic 8-11p

Groovetime 8-11p

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz

Jesse Sabala & Soul Pusher

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

Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-10p

Phoenix Rising 7:30-11:30p

Joint Chiefs 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

12/11

MON

Dennis Dove Pro Jam 7-11p

12/12

TUE

12/13

Alex Lucero Acoustic 7-11p

Upcoming Shows

Acoustic Soul 6-9p

Open Mic w/Mosephus 5:30p

Jeff Blackburn & Friends Jade 7-10p 7-10p

WHALE CITY 490 Highway 1, Davenport

SUN

Scott Walters & Trish Pate 7-10p

Dave Muldawer 4-7p

Robert Elmond Stone 5-7p

YOUR PLACE 1719 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Daniel Martins 9-11p

Daniel Martins 9-11p

ZELDA’S 203 Esplanade, Capitola ZIZZO’S COFFEEHOUSE & WINE BAR 3555 Clares St, Capitola

Aaron Avila 7-9:30p

Daniel Martins 9-11p

Daniel Martins 9-11p

Billy Martini 9:30p

Nomalakodoja, Lazano 9:30p

David Hobbs 7-9:30p

“Just Judy” w/Ruby & Brandy 7-9:30p

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Dave Mason Film: Right to Exist Sweet Honey in the Rock White Album Ensemble

JAN 19 JAN 22 JAN 28

Lecture: Gary Griggs Ladysmith Black Mambazo Jim Messina Band

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Girl defies tradition in soaring documentary ‘Eagle Huntress’ BY LISA JENSEN

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he best girl-power stories are true. Fiction can inspire, but what better validation can there be for girls in the audience than a young woman who beats the odds in real life to excel at some traditionally male-dominated activity that she loves? Someone like Aisholpan Nurgaiv, the 13-year-old heroine of the stunningly beautiful documentary The Eagle Huntress, a daughter of Mongolian nomads who defies tradition to master the ancient art of hunting with eagles.

Directed by first-timer Otto Bell, the film was shot by Simon Niblett, with great sensitivity to the severe beauty of the vast, craggy steppes of

the Kazakh region of Mongolia, and for the folkways of its people. Nomadic families move out into the grasslands with their yurts to graze their sheep during the warm weather, but band together in their village of stone bunkers when winter comes.

Aisholpan’s father is distinguished among the villagers as an eagle hunter, a skill learned from his own father.

Indeed, the men in their family have been eagle hunters for 12 generations.

Anyone bred into the brotherhood learns to capture his own baby eaglet from an unattended nest, bond with the bird he trains to respond to his commands, and hunt the small game the nomads need to provide fur lining

for their winter clothes. At the end of seven years of service, the hunter returns his bird to the wild with a ceremony of thanks.

It’s always been a skill handed down from father to son, but Aisholpan has been fascinated by her father’s birds from a very young age. He’s taught her to feed and handle the bird, and to wear the forearm cuff on which the eagle perches. Eagle hunting is “a calling,” he says. “It has to be in your blood.” So when his daughter wants to train to be an eagle hunter, he encourages her—and the filmmakers are there every step of the way.

Her father takes Aisholpan out into the mountains where she must “earn

an eagle of her own,” by scrambling down a cliff to snatch a female eaglet out of a nest. (Including some amazing up-close footage from a body cam Aisholpan is wearing.) We see her feeding and cuddling with her eagle (a juvenile, yes, but still an enormous bird), and teaching her bird to respond to her particular voice commands. Aisholpan is the youngest and the first-ever female to compete at a festival for eagle hunters from around the region. But the real test comes when she and her father take their shaggy ponies and their birds out into the mountains in deep winter to hunt for real.

It feels a little stagey that the filmmakers set up a chorus of male tribal elders to ask their opinion of a mere girl hunting with an eagle, but their responses (and especially their expressions) are priceless. In contrast to their stoicism is Aisholpan herself, sturdy, rosy-cheeked, quick to laugh, and incredibly poised, either at her chores, or in the traditional fur hat and embroidered regalia of the eagle hunters. Her mother doesn’t mind that Aisholpan “takes after her father more than me.” She tells us, “I just want my daughter to love her life.”

The details we glimpse of that life are impressive. Eagle hunters are held in such esteem, they rarely appear in public without their birds on their arms. When they ride their horses, a ceremonial post is attached to the saddle to provide a rest to hold their arms horizontal so their birds can perch. Each hunter’s rapport with his or her individual eagle is very stirring.

According to a recent interview with Aisholpan, the movie came about after Niblett heard about an eagle hunter teaching his craft to his daughter and took a series of still photographs of them. Director Bell signed on, with Niblett as cinematographer, and when they showed their footage to Star Wars franchise heroine Daisy Ridley, she begged to be involved, as both narrator and co-producer. Aisholpan’s story in this soaring film inspires that kind of devotion.

THE EAGLE HUNTRESS **** (out of four) With Aisholpan Nurgaiv A film by Otto Bell.

A Sony Pictures Classic release. Rated G. 87 minutes. In Kazakh with English subtitles.

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FILM NEW THIS WEEK FRIEND REQUEST People really need to not take it so personally when they don’t get their friend request accepted—especially when they’re a demon. Simon Verhoeven directs. Alycia DebnamCarey, William Moseley, Connor Paolo co-star. (R) 93 minutes.

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA What do you do when you’re suddenly faced with the responsibility of becoming a teenager’s legal guardian, but your own life is hard enough to handle? Kenneth Lonergan directs. Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler co-star. (R) 137 minutes.

MISS SLOANE She’s the enemy now.

She’ll use whatever resource she has to lead the fight on gun control, and she was hired to win. John Madden directs. Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw co-star.

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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.

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Brad Pitt, Vincent Ebrahim, Xavier De Guillebon co-star. (R) 124 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.

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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?

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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.

THE ACCOUNTANT Ever since he was a kid, Christian Wolff exhibited highly advanced

DOCTOR STRANGE What if the material world was only one of many? In that case it’d probably be

CONTINUING EVENT: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE MOVIES Film buffs are invited Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. to downtown Santa Cruz, where each week the group discusses a different current release. For location and discussion topic, go to https:// groups.google.com/group/LTATM.

TRIGGER WARNING Jessica Chastain leads a gun-control crusade in ‘Miss Sloane.’

beneficial to have someone with a name like Dr. Strange to protect it.

Scott Derrickson directs. Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams co-star. (PG-13) 115 minutes.

THE EAGLE HUNTRESS Reviewed this issue. Otto Bell directs.

Aisholpan Nurgaiv, Daisy Ridley costar. (G) 87 minutes.

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

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FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Eddie Redmayne accidentally let a bunch of evil ghouls into our realm. It all makes sense now: how else could a cheeto-faced Voldemort have gotten in? David Yates directs.

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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 costar. (R) 171 minutes.

INCARNATE A how-to guide on what to do when your kid has one of those screaming fits that gets other shoppers wondering if your child is the demon or just possessed by one. Brad Peyton directs. Carice van Houten, Aaron Eckhart, David Mazouz co-star.

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LOVING Virginia, 1958: Richard and Mildred are in love. But there’s one problem: they’re an interracial couple in a state where their marriage violates antimiscegenation laws. It’s a true story of love overcoming hate. Jeff Nichols directs. Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton co-star. (PG13) 123 minutes.

A MAN CALLED OVE Ove spends his days visiting his wife’s grave.

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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

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Ron Clements, Don Hall, John Musker, Chris Williams direct. Auli’i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House co-star. (PG) 113 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.

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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.

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FOOD & DRINK foods,” she says. Yarr believes that the Baker/Davis presence has already elevated the local food scene. “Now the restaurant is the last piece that needs to be polished,” she says.

As far as new menu design, Yarr chuckles that her job is to “compete with the burger,” Assembly’s popular signature.

“Accessible food, but food that they can’t do at home,” she explains. “I would like to work on fermented, sprouted, crafted foods. More in-house condiments. I’m not there yet. I have to wrap my brain around the beast first.”

We can’t wait to taste what Yarr can do with such an ambitious kitchen. assembly.restaurant.

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apped to become Executive Chef at the evolving Assembly restaurant, Jessica Yarr—barely into her 30s—enjoys a substantial resumé of local establishments that includes Gabriella Cafe, Theo’s, River Café and most recently Mint in Scotts Valley. Pastry has long been a specialty of the mother of three, and for the past seven months Yarr has managed the pastry chef program at The Penny Ice Creamery. Yarr says she felt an instant kinship with Assembly/ Penny co-owner Kendra Baker.

“She was also a woman chef with small children, so I felt good about

that,” says Yarr. “I was happy to join their team.”

Once onboard, Yarr began working with the many Penny/ Assembly events. “I became Kendra’s go-to for events. I did two Outstanding in the Fields, a Live Earth Farm, and a Route One dinner,” and plenty of farmers market pop-ups, she says. “They knew I was more interested in fullservice restaurant work, and they asked me to be Executive Chef at Assembly.”

Yarr is already getting the lay of the land. “It’s busy in unpredictable ways,” she says. “It’s huge, and it’s a challenge.” But, she says, she

intends to give it her best, and “to see what I can bring to this role.

It’s a definite step forward and up from what I’ve done in the past.”

The new chef wants to attract “a real diversity, especially some younger patrons.” Yarr acknowledges that the sheer size of the restaurant, developed by business partners Zach Davis and Kendra Baker, cuts into a sense of comfort that some patrons seek.

“We need to be targeting millennials. They work hard for their money, and they want quality foods that are good values. People who go to gastropubs, who are interested in fermented and artisan

John Locke, for years the red-haired oeno-savant at Soif, has exited the building to devote himself fulltime to Birichino, the wine brand he partners with Alex Krause. A brick and mortar tasting room is being conceived as we speak. This is both good news and bad news. The good news is that Locke gets to reinvent himself yet again, after years as the savant conspirator with Randall Grahm on the infamous newsletter and other linguistic hijinks. And, after shaping and styling the wine inventory, the wine events, and the seemingly limitless wine lore offered to Soif patrons over the past 10 years, Locke will turn his talents to developing his own stable of Birichino wines. The other good news is that “two weeks ago, we/ they hired a gentleman named Brett Tebo to work with Alyssa [Twelker] on the wine programs,” he says. Locke feels that with a substantial Bay Area wine resumé Tebo “will make a great addition and a needed fresh pair of eyes. My admiration for Alyssa is immense.

Few realize what a prodigy she really is. I am sure she will shine in this new arrangement,” says Locke.

The bad news is that Soif regulars will lose the mercurial and impish presence of Locke’s seemingly endless wine expertise. Change happens. Stay tuned.

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Made with the finest grapes from California’s world-famous wine-growing region, “the Cabernet Sauvignon pairs perfectly with all Sri Lankan dishes,” says Wilen. She has gone to great lengths, tasting many different wines, to find a zesty Cab (Red Pearl) as well as a crisp Chardonnay (White Pearl), that match the delicious cuisine of Sri Lanka—a tea-growing island, known as Pearl of the Ocean, which used to be called Ceylon.

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Wilen partnered with the wellknown Pat Paulsen Vineyards in Livermore, who bottled the wine for her, and she has “poured the same creativity and passion into each and every bottle of wine” that she pours into her food.

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THE PANTRY AT THE FOOD LOUNGE After a lunchtime event at the Santa Cruz Food Lounge, I checked out their new Pantry store, where a wide assortment of local goods are for sale, including local honey, glutenfree Makse Bars, Friend in Cheeses jams, vanilla from Patricia Rain’s Vanilla Company (including Rain’s book Vanilla on the cultural history of this exotic plant), and Farm Fresh Coffee from Hidden Fortress Micro Farm—now with a new coffee shop on Hangar Way in Watsonville. The Food Lounge is at 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz.

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H RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES FULL MOON ON SANTA LUCIA DAY Tuesday, Dec. 13 (winter solstice, Julian calendar) is the Feast of St. Lucia (Lucy). Lucia, from Latin “luc, lux,” means “light” and “lucid.” A Christian young woman during the times of Roman persecution, Lucia distributed her wealth to the poor and brought food to the Christians hiding in the catacombs. She wore candles on her head so that her hands were free. Lucia consecrated her life to God and refused an arranged marriage, leading to martyrdom.

Santa Lucia, patron saint of the blind and a symbol of light in the darkness, is celebrated in Scandinavian and Italian towns and here and there across America. Young girls wear halos of lights, and evergreen (lingonberry) wreaths with seven candles (Advent wreath) are centerpieces on tables. Candles and shining flickering lights are everywhere, for light is the central theme (giving hope and banishing the darkness).

Santa Lucia festivities include parades (serenading the dark, the land, the sky, the trees) of young women, a crown of candles on their heads (passing by and seen through a darkened window).

Festivities begin before dawn. In some villages, entire towns celebrate with open houses, lights in windows, Mass, religious ceremonies, reading the Christmas story and lighting the Christmas tree (like the White House Christmas tree). Festival foods include mulled wine, cider, ginger cookies, and Swedish lussekatter (saffron raisin buns).

Tuesday is also the Sagittarius solar festival and last full moon of 2016. We ponder upon the Sag keynote and the Soul’s directive, “I see the goal, I reach that goal, and then I see another.” We then list our goals. Two notes: Mercury retrogrades Dec. 19!

And my daily Facebook posts (Daily Studies) are now on my website, nightlightnews.org.

ARIES Mar21–Apr20

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22

In the next month, assess the many ways you are valuable. Let this not be difficult. Ponder upon and make an ongoing list of your abilities, kindnesses, good deeds, and plans for Goodwill. Then you see your value. Place lists on walls, doors and mirrors, reading them each day.

This is the beginning of your self-identity as part of the New Group of World Servers.

You are becoming a new person. Expanding with new knowledge and new aspirations. It’s important to travel now.

Not far, but here and there and roundabout. Seeing different neighborhoods allows you to see differences and to compare them to your life. This leads to gratitude, the theme of the season. A new creativity is about to come forth. This is your season of practicing goodwill in all your worlds.

TAURUS Apr21–May21

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21

Things go into hiding for a while … especially you, for rest and protection. Someone else is hiding, too. They are very valuable to you. Tend to them with care. They’re knowledgeable and have the skills needed for your next creative stage and for humanity’s educational future.

Money, too, is hidden at this time. It’s still available, but you must call it forth, using it for practical things like land for community.

Tend to all daily things, small and necessary, with all your attention and awareness. Observe habits, agendas, thoughts, hopes, how you care for yourself, your work, all environments, and everyone in your many worlds. We evolve slowly by tending to physical, emotional, then mental needs, progressing to the Soul. Each day “brood upon your service (work) for the coming day.” This is Soul work. The personality then becomes calm and quiet. Revelations occur.

GEMINI May 22–June 20

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20

Past friends, relationships, groups and a previous resource may have appeared or be on your mind. They are valuable to you; lights shining in the darkness.

A certain group, also from the past, holds the Love/ Wisdom (Ray 2, Gemini’s ray) you need and therefore seek. It holds the new language and study of symbols allowing you entrance into the Temple of Learning. Do you hesitate?

There is a working upon the self, a restructuring and renewing. You may not know this is occurring. Saturn has taken you in hand and wants you to see things differently. First, the past and all your accomplishments.

Then the present, where you must wait in quiet and silence. Silence is the Sagittarius pathway. In Sag, one must listen to the Sound of Silence so that ideas from higher realms can impress the mind. No more clashing symbols.

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CANCER Jun21–Jul20

LE0 Jul21–Aug22 The next nine months you reassess goals, hopes, wishes and aspirations. Earth’s resources (soil, trees, plants) are vital for your health and well-being. Stand in the Sun and work in nature, the most balanced kingdom. Earth and sky radiations strengthen heart and mind, refocus enthusiasm (“filled with God”), allowing practicality to emerge. Are you feeling restricted from too many responsibilities?

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AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 It’s possible that important people and events from the past appear again for review. We learn from life experiences and eventually we create rules or directive from what we’ve learned. You have eliminated the unnecessary already. Allow nothing from the past to rewound you. There may be travel plans coming up. Careful, they may change unexpectedly. All of humanity must now learn to be adaptable very quickly.

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You may struggle to maintain equilibrium between the many desires that arise in daily life. There may be a sense of confusion, or perhaps a wounding. You want to create something new and vital. A hint: the new art has its foundation in astrology and heavenly symbols. Study the electric universe. All that you learn now creates a new foundation for yourself and where you live. Study the Laws of the Soul.

Life calls you back into the world and you respond with assurance and confidence. There is an emphasis on participating in groups. The learning of the new spiritual law now takes place in groups and not necessarily individually. The Soul is group-oriented. And the Soul is what is manifesting in our world now. There is a connection between religious studies and the occult (white magic, hidden sciences, astrology, Ageless Wisdom teachings, the hidden Bible, esoteric, etc.).

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Ponder upon the different ways you want to be seen, known and recognized. Are you interested in the new culture and civilization? You are to nurture the new era at its foundation with visions of the future. How is your garden? Do you have a worm bin? Do you know how to create bio-dynamic soil? Remember to share your discoveries. Cancer teaches humanity how to feed and nurture itself.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-01988 The following Corporation is doing business as SANTA CRUZ FOOD COOP, SANTA CRUZ RESKILLING EXPO, TIMEBANK SANTA CRUZ. 1973 42ND AVE, CAPITOLA, CA 95010. County of Santa Cruz. SANTA CRUZ RESKILLING EXPO. 1973 42ND AVE, CAPITOLA, CA 95010.

Al# 3502468. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: BONNIE LINDEN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Nov. 22, 2016. Dec. 7, 14, 21, 28.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-1973 The following Individual is doing business as MHB VOLLEYBALL OAS. 400 MARTIN DRIVE, SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95066.

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MARK H. BREWER. 400 MARTIN DRIVE, SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95066. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MARK H. BREWER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Nov. 17, 2016.

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name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING January 19, 2017 at 8:30 am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: Nov. 30, 2016. Denine J. Guy, Judge of the Superior Court. Dec. 7, 14, 21, 28.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-1919 The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as RAISED BY WOLVES. 202 BERKSHIRE AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

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RAISED BY WOLVES, LLC. 202 BERKSHIRE AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. AI# 29910629. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: MICHELLE GRAFF. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Nov. 9, 2016. Nov. 16, 23, 30, & Dec. 7.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16 - 0002009 The following General Partnership is doing business as B&C TRADING COMPANY. 454 34TH AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. BLAKE GALLICK & CAMERON HANSON. 454 34TH AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: CAMERON HANSON. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF CAROLYN MARIE GLASGOW CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.16CV03123.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-1982 The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as VISTA 500 CONSULTING, LLC. 2549 HARPER STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. VISTA 500 CONSULTING, LLC. 2549 HARPER STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. AI# 24210200.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: RUDOLPH V. ESCALANTE. The registrant commenced to transact business under

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-1904 The following Married Couple is doing business as SOLIS GARDENING SERVICES. 37 WEBB ROAD, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. JORGE SOLIS BIZARRO & MARIA R. SOLIS. 37 WEBB ROAD, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. This business is conducted by a Married Couple signed: MARIA R. SOLIS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Nov. 4, 2016.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-1927 The following Individual is doing business as LOCO 831, LOCO USA. 2435 FELT STREET #13, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. TOM HAID. 2435 FELT STREET #13, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: TOM HAID. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name

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The City Council of the City of Santa Cruz having authorized the city clerk administrator, that the ordinance hereafter entitled and described, be published by posting copies thereof in three (3) prominent places in the City, to wit: The City of Santa Cruz Website www.cityofsantacruz.com City Hallâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;809 Center Street Central Branch Libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;224 Church Street NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that copies of said ordinance were posted according to said order. (Original on file with city clerk.) Said ordinance was introduced on November 22, 2016 and is entitled and described as follows:

ORDINANCE NO. 2016-19 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ AMENDING SECTIONS 24.12.240 AND 24.16.100 ET AL OF THE SANTA CRUZ MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS.

This ordinance will amend Sections 24.12.240 and 24.16.100 et al of the municipal code pertaining to accessory dwelling units by making updates as reflected by new state laws. PASSED FOR PUBLICATION on this 22nd day of November, 2016, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Noroyan, Lane, Terrazas, Posner, Comstock; Vice Mayor Chase; Mayor Mathews. NOES: None. ABSENT: None. DISQUALIFIED: None. APPROVED: ss/Cynthia Mathews, Mayor. ATTEST: ss/Bren Lehr, City Clerk Administrator. This Ordinance is scheduled for further consideration and final adoption at the Council meeting of December 13, 2016.

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WHEREAS, the City of Santa Cruz is experiencing a severe shortage of rental housing in both single family homes and apartments, including loss of rental units and displacement of tenants as existing housing is being converted to vacation rentals, and WHEREAS, newer online technology allows the marketing of short term/vacation rentals to a larger audience than in the past; and WHEREAS, increasing numbers of short term/vacation rentals have raised concerns about the preservation of residential neighborhood character and integrity such as decreasing long-term rental opportunities and increased rents for local residents; and WHEREAS, the City has received an increasing number of complaints about short term/vacation rentals related to loud late-night parties, and increased traffic and parking issues; and WHEREAS, the City will be conducting a community dialogue on the issue of short term vacation rentals which may led to a consideration of an amendment to the City’s zoning code; and WHEREAS, additional planning and research is necessary before the City considers any permanent regulation regarding appropriate uses in districts that allow residential uses; and WHEREAS, any such regulations adopted by the City may require review and certification by the California Coastal Commission before they could, if adopted, take effect within the Coastal Zone area of the City; and WHEREAS, allowing the proliferation of short term/vacation rentals to occur during the period that regulations are considered by the City Council and the California Coastal Commission would conflict with public health, safety and welfare needs of the community; and WHEREAS, based on the foregoing it is in the best interest of public health, safety and welfare to allow the staff and the City time to adequately study the land use issues related to short term/vacation rentals; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that there is a current and immediate threat to the public health, safety, and welfare associated with the proliferation of short term/vacation

rentals and that the approval of additional use permits, variances, building permits or any other applicable entitlement or change of use from a residence for their new use as a short term/vacation rental while staff and the City conduct the aforementioned study would result in that threat to public health, safety, or welfare; and WHEREAS, for the protection of the public’s health, safety and welfare, the City Council on October 25, 2016 adopted Ordinance No. 2016-17 making findings and establishing a 45-day moratorium on the establishment of short term/vacation rentals in a housing unit or duplex not occupied by the owner of that housing unit or duplex anywhere within the City of Santa Cruz which the 45 day moratorium will expire on December 9, 2016 unless extended in accordance with Government Code Section 65858; and WHEREAS, the City Council desires to extend Ordinance 2016-17 to May 31, 2017 effective immediately from November 22, 2016, expiring on October 7, 2017, as permitted by Government Code Section 65858, to maintain the current status quo and to provide time to allow a working committee of City residents to discuss possible amendment to the City’s zoning code, provide time to allow review of any amendment with properly noticed public hearings before the Planning Commission and City Council; and provide time to allow review and certification of any amendment by the California Coastal Commission.

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Santa Cruz as follows: Section 1. In accordance with Government Code Section 65858, from and after the date of this Ordinance, a moratorium against the establishment of short term/vacation rentals in a housing unit or duplex not occupied by the owner of that housing unit or duplex anywhere within the City of Santa Cruz is hereby enacted until May 31, 2017 pending further study by City staff and development of appropriate regulations. This moratorium shall apply to any use which has not yet been lawfully established in accordance with all applicable requirements of the City of Santa Cruz Municipal Code, and which has not yet obtained substantial vested rights as defined by the California Supreme Court in

Avco Community Developers, Inc. v. South Coast Regional Com. (1976) 17 Cal.3d 785.

Section 2. This interim ordinance is necessary in that there is a current and immediate threat to the public health, safety, or welfare, and that the approval of any applicable entitlement for short term/vacation rentals which are required in order to comply with a zoning ordinance would result in that threat to public health, safety, or welfare as discussed above.

Section 3. This interim ordinance is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15060(c) (2) – the activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment and Section 15060(c) (3) – the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378 of the CEQA Guidelines, because it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or indirectly.

Section 4. This interim ordinance shall be of no further force and effect upon the expiration date of May 31, 2017, unless rescinded or extended in accordance with Government Code Section 65858.

Section 5. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force immediately upon its final adoption.

PASSED FOR FINAL ADOPTION as an Urgency Interim Ordinance this 22nd day of November, 2016, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Noroyan, Lane, Terrazas, Posner; Vice Mayor Chase; Mayor Mathews. NOES: Councilmember Comstock. ABSENT: None. DISQUALIFIED: None. Approved: ss/Cynthia Mathews, Mayor. Attest: ss/Bren Lehr, City Clerk Administrator.

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ORDINANCE NO. 2016-18 AN UNCODIFIED URGENCY INTERIM ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ EXTENDING A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SHORT TERM VACATION RENTAL USE IN THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ UNTIL MAY 31, 2017

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Where the locals shop since 1938.

VOTED BEST BUTCHER SHOP BEST WINE SELECTION BEST CHEESE SELECTION BEST LOCALLY OWNED GROCERY STORE BEST MURAL /PUBLIC ART

Family owned & operated 78 years.

622 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz

OUR 78 TH YEAR

WEEKLY SPECIALS

BUTCHER SHOP

A WINE & FOOD PAIRING NOW TAKING ORDERS FOR HOLIDAY FEASTS! 423-1696

PRIME RIB ROASTS, LEG OF LAMB, LAMB RACKS, BOAR’S HEAD HAMS, DIESTEL TURKEYS… WHATEVER YOUR HEART DESIRES! OUR HIGHLY SKILLED BUTCHERS ARE HERE TO HELP!

BE LOCAL! SHOP LOCAL!

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

■ TOP SIRLOIN STEAKS, Natural, Choice/ 6.98 LB ■ NEW YORK STEAK, Natural, Choice/ 12.98 LB ■ FLANK STEAK, U.S.D.A, Choice, Natural/ 7.98 LB ■ FLAT IRON STEAK, Natural, Choice/ 5.98 LB ■ MILD ITALIAN SAUSAGE/ 5.98 LB ■ HOT ITALIAN SAUSAGE/ 5.98 LB ■ BREAKFAST LINK SAUSAGE, Pork/ 4.98 LB ■ BLACK PEPPER PORK CHOPS, Boneless/ 3.98 LB ■ BLOODY MARY PORK CHOPS, Boneless/ 3.98 LB ■ SANTA MARIA PORK CHOPS, Boneless/ 3.98 LB ■ PACIFIC RED SNAPPER, Fillet/ 6.98 LB ■ FRESH TILAPIA, Fillets/ 9.98 LB ■ SALMON LOX, Trimmings/ 9.98 LB

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

■ GREEN BEANS, Fresh and Tender/ 1.49 Lb ■ ZUCHINNI SQUASH, Extra Fancy Squash/ .99Lb ■ BROCCOLI CROWNS, Delivered Fresh Daily / 1.49 Lb ■ SATSUMA MANDARINES, Sweet and Easy to Peel/ 1.79 Lb ■ PEARS, Bartlett, Bosc, D’anjou, Comice and Red/ 1.49 Lb ■ NAVEL ORANGES, Seedless and Juicy/ 1.19 Lb ■ AVOCADOS, Ripe and Ready to Eat/ 1.59 Ea ■ YELLOW ONIONS, A Kitchen Must Have/ .39 Lb ■ RUSSET POTATOES, Premium Quality/ .59 Lb ■ LEAF LETTUCE, Red, Green, Romaine,

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Butter & Iceberg/ 1.39 Ea ■ CAULIFLOWER, Great as a Side Dish/ 2.29 Ea ■ BRUSSELS SPROUTS, Locally Grown/ 1.89 Lb ■ GRAPEFRUIT, Pink Flesh Grapefruit/ .79 Ea ■ PINEAPPLE, Ripe and Sweet/ 1.09 Lb ■ APPLES, Fuji’s, Granny Smith, Pink Lady and Galas/ 1.89 Lb ■ ROMA TOMATOES, Fresh and Firm / 1.19 Ea ■ POTATOES, Red and Yukon/ .89 Lb ■ CLUSTER TOMATOES, Ripe on the Vine/ 2.29 Lb ■ ROMAINE HEARTS, Fresh and Ready to Eat/ 2.99 Ea ■ ORGANIC SPRING MIX, Locally Grown/ 4.99 Lb ■ CRANBERRIES, 12oz Bags/ 1.99 Ea ■ RED ONIONS, Large Size, Great Flavor/ .89 Lb ■ LARGE TOMATOES, Great for Slicing/ 2.29 Lb ■ RED YAMS AND SWEET POTATOES, Super Sweet/ 1.49 Lb

GROCERY

BEER/WINE/SPIRITS

■ BECKMANN’S, Nine Grain Sour Loaf, 24oz/ 3.89 ■ WHOLE GRAIN, California Black, 30oz/ 4.19 ■ KELLY’S, Four Seed, 16oz/ 3.89 ■ GAYLE’S, French Loaf, 16oz/ 3.49 ■ SUMANO’S, Ciabatta Mini Baguette, 1 Lb/ 2.99

■ STONE BREWING, Tangerine IPA, 22oz Bottle/ 7.99 +CRV ■ ANDERSON VALLEY, Oatmeal Stout, 12oz Bottles/ 6

Bakery “Fresh Daily”

Cheese “Best Selection in Santa ■ MONTEREY JACK “rBST Free”

Beer

Pack/ 9.49 +CRV ■ THE DUDES, Double IPA, 16oz Cans/ 4 Pack/ 10.99 +CRV ■ KONA BREWING, Porter, 12oz Bottles/ 6 Pack/ 8.99 +CRV ■ SIERRA NEVADA, Imperial Stout, 12oz Bottles/ 4 Pack/ Cruz” 9.99 +CRV

Loaf Cuts/ 3.09 Lb, Average Cuts/ 3.49 Lb ■ DOMESTIC SWISS, “A Customer Favorite”/ 4.99 Lb ■ WISCONSIN BUTTERMILK BLUE, “Made with Raw ■ Cows Milk”/ 11.99 Lb ■ ITALIAN GRANA WHEEL, “Imported Whole Wheel Cuts”/ 11.99 Lb

Delicatessen

■ RENY PICOT BAKED BRIE, “Add Fruit to This to Make the Perfect Party Appetizer”, 8oz/ 8.09 ■ BEELER’S SMOKED BACON, “Uncured and Hickory Smoked”, 12oz/ 6.29 ■ OLLI SALAMERIA, “All Flavors 100% Vegetarian Fed Pork”, 4oz/ 4.49 ■ THE HUMMUS GUY, “Organic, All Flavors”, 8oz/ 4.49 ■ HIKARI MISO, “Organic Miso Mild & Red”, 11.6oz/ 4.99

Crackers

■ LA PANZANELLA, ‘”Artesian Crackers”, 6oz/ 3.79 ■ WISECRACKERS, “Non GMO”, 4oz/ 3.99 ■ CARR’S, “Since 1831”, 4.25oz/ 3.79 ■ URBAN OVEN, “Perfectly Crisp”, 7.5oz/ 4.59 ■ RAINCOAST CRISPS, “Gluten Free”, 6oz/ 6.99

Clover Stornetta

■ WHIPPING CREAM, Pint/ 2.99 ■ ORGANIC WHIPPING CREAM, Pint/ 3.49 ■ ORGANIC MILK, ½ Gallon/ 3.89 ■ EGGNOG, Original and Light, Quart/ 3.99 ■ BUTTER, Original and Sweet/ 4.49

Gift Ideas

■ SHOPPER’S, Coffee Mug/ 4.99 + Tax ■ SHOPPERS, Travel Coffee Mug/ 6.99 + Tax ■ SHOPPER’S, Crew Neck T- Shirt/ 12.99 + Tax ■ SHOPPER’S, V Neck Women’s T-Shirt/ 14.99 + Tax ■ SHOPPER’S, Hooded Sweatshirt/ 39.99 + Tax

Single Malt Whiskey

■ SPEYBURN, 10 yr/ 18.99 ■ GLENFIDDICH, 12 yr/ 27.99 ■ THE GLENLIVET, 12 yr/ 29.99 ■ GLENMORANGIE, “The Original”, 10 yr/ 36.99 ■ DALWHINNIE, 15 yr/ 59.99

Red Wine – Big and Bold

■ 2013 BERINGER, “The Waymaker” (Reg 34.99)/ 9.99 ■ 2012 VERUM MALBEC (91W&S, Reg 19.99)/ 9.99 ■ 2012 THREE RIVERS RED, Columbia Valley (90WS, Reg 18.99)/ 9.99 ■ 2010 CHATEAU LA GORRE, Medoc (90WA, Reg 22.99)/ 13.99 ■ 2014 ROTHSCHILD, “Reserve Speciale”, Bordeaux (Reg 21.99)/ 11.99

Holiday Specials

■ 2012 METZ ROAD, Chardonnay (92WE, Reg 29.99)/ 11.99 ■ 2012 ALTA, Chadonnay, Napa Valley (90WE, Reg 29.99)/ 12.99 ■ 2012 ESTANCIA, Pinot Noir Reserve (Reg 29.99)/ 12.99 ■ 2010 FELCIANO, Bolgerl (Reg 34.99)/ 14.99 ■ 2008 BELVEDERE, Chianti, Classico Riserva (Reg 37.99)/ 14.99

Celebration Sparklers

■ MICHELLE, Brut (90BTI, Reg 17.99)/ 9.99 ■ ROEDERER ESTATE, Brut (92WE)/ 19.99 ■ SHARFFENBERGER, Brut Excellence (91WE)/ 19.99 ■ G.H MUMM, Cordon Rouge (92WS, Reg 39.99)/ 29.99 ■ BOLLINGER, “Special Cuvee” (94WS)/ 59.99

Connoisseur’s Corner – Incredible Deals ■ 2015 ROMBAUER, Chardonnay (Reg 35.99)/ 29.99 ■ CINNABAR MERCURY RISING (Reg 22.99)/ 14.99 ■ 2014 STORRS, Santa Cruz Mountains (93WE, Reg

23.99)/ 19.99 ■ 2010 SILVER OAK, Alexander Valley (Reg 69.99)/ 59.99 ■ 2009 B.V GEORGE DE LATOUR (94WE, Reg 115.00)/ 79.99

MAYA CRELAN RAY, 15-Year Customer, Santa Cruz Occupation: Realtor, Monterey Bay Properties; urban planner, City of

SHOP PER SPOTLIG HTS

Santa Cruz Hobbies: Family fun, hanging out with girlfriends, dining out, cooking, wine, walking West Cliff, bike riding, cooking Astrological Sign: Taurus

CHRISTOPHER RAY, 12-Year Customer Santa Cruz Occupation: Solar installer, Sandbar Solar & Electric Hobbies: Surfing, travel, Sunday family dinners, eating wife’s cooking Astrological Sign: Virgo What do you folks like to cook? MAYA: “I like to experiment. I recently made some amazing fish tacos, also pasta with fresh tomatoes. Last night I made great pizza, again using fresh tomatoes, mozzarella, and more.

All from Shopper’s. I’m the barbecuer extraordinaire!”

CHRISTOPHER: “She makes a mean from scratch mac and cheese with five cheeses, bacon — all good fresh ingredients. So well done. We’ve had mac-and-cheese cook offs with friends. And oh, she’s great on the barbecue!” MAYA: “Shopper’s butcher shop is amazing.

Got to have the teriyaki skirt steak and marinated chicken, also the Korean short ribs are terrific, same with the sausages.” CHRISTOPHER “It all makes for awesome leftovers for my omelets the next day!”

Are you shopping for your holiday meals here?

MAYA: “For Thanksgiving we got our turkey here plus all the veggies and the sides.

Christmas, we’ll get all our meats at Shopper’s, our specialty products, pies, and more. Holiday shopping here is crazy-fun and enjoyable; you always run into people you know.”

CHRISTOPHER: “Shopper’s is fun year ‘round for us and other families — everyone knows our daughter, Harlow, by name. The main reason we shop here is because of quality: you get what you pay for, like with the fresh local organic produce — excellent pricing! I was born here and I want to support a local business such as Shopper’s.”

What would you say to someone new to the community about Shopper’s? MAYA: “It’s the best place to shop for all products! I know — I worked here as the spice buyer. They have everything you could possibly want.” CHRISTOPHER: “The butchers are so knowledgeable about their cuts of meats and spot-on with their tips. The checkers are awesome, actually everyone in all of the departments is so friendly and courteous.” MAYA: “Like the wine department: it could be overwhelming to choose a bottle with a few thousand to choose from. Thankfully, there are always people available to answer your questions and suggest a good pairing with a meal.”

“Christmas, we’ll get all our meats at Shopper’s, plus our specialty products, pies, and more. Holiday shopping here is always crazy-fun and enjoyable!”

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