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EDITOR’S NOTE If you’re a new student arriving at UCSC this week, first of all, welcome! A glance at our cover this week may inspire a lot of questions, like “Oh no, I just got here, why does everyone in Santa Cruz hate me?” and “How did things get so bad between the city and the university?”

On the first one, don’t worry.

Nobody here hates you personally, and chances are, like thousands of us before you, you will end up loving Santa Cruz, deciding to stay here, and eventually complaining about how the students are ruining the housing market—just like a native!

The second question is more complicated. Considering the long history of locals resenting UCSC’s impact on the city, it might be just as valid to ask “How did things get so good between the city and the university?” As Georgia Johnson’s

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I was greatly saddened to learn of the hatred being promoted by KSCO’s correspondent Georgia Beardslee (GT, 9/13, 9/20). I performed with a live music act on KSCO only a few weeks before this issue was brought to light. I (perhaps naively) assumed that a performance on a local radio show would not lead to me participating in an organization that promoted beliefs harmful to myself, my family and my loved ones. I am racially mixed, but white-passing. In several instances prior to this one, people have shared with me shockingly racist and bigoted sentiments, not knowing that they are including myself and my family in the groups that they so despise. Though Beardslee’s rhetoric toes right behind the line that is legally “hate speech,” it is important to realize that holding and publicly sharing such opinions is not harmless; it creates an echo chamber which validates hateful behavior. I hope that anyone who is of the belief that some persons ought to be denied humanity, based solely on the color of their skin or their country

cover story explains, they’ve actually rebounded from an all-time low in the mid-2000s, and at least they are communicating with each other over the all-too-real issues that we all have to find a way to navigate together. Read the story and you’ll understand the history, and also why this is a critical moment in the future of those relations.

After that, find our Dilated Pupil student guide around town for a comprehensive look at your new ecosystem and to feel a lot better about your choice of schools.

One more plug: I interviewed directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton about their new movie Battle of the Sexes this week (page 50), and on Thursday I’m going to be leading the Q&A with them after the 7 p.m. screening of the film at the Del Mar. They have a lot of great insights into Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, the making of the film, the breakout success of their first movie, Little Miss Sunshine, and more that I didn’t have room to include, so I hope you’ll come out and hear them talk about it.

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of origin, also considers that everyone who they condemn is someone’s mother, someone’s child, someone’s brother or sister. Some of you probably have a friend of mixed heritage, whether you realize it or not. Do you really want hatred to define the America that your children grow up in?

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The Santa Cruz Parks and Recreation Department has announced the last food truck event of the season will happen Friday, Sept. 29, and the theme will be Star Wars.

There will be a contest for best costume, as well as for the best Chewbacca sound. The fanatical 501st Legion Golden Gate Garrison troopers will be there. Parks and Rec is officially telling people, “May the forks be with you”—pretty cheesy! We like it.

Strawberries remain Santa Cruz County’s top crop, with an estimated value of $229,107,000 on just over 3,000 acres, according to the county’s 2016 crop report.

Berries account for 70 percent of the total gross production value for all county crops.

Overall crop values were up 1.9 percent in 2016. Apples, once the agricultural king, had a horrendous year in 2015, before bouncing back and doubling in value.

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LISTEN WITHOUT CRITICISM While I cringed reading T. Legan’s letter (GT, 9/20) denying climate change is caused by humans, I also cringed reading the editorial response to the letter. I believe dismissing the author’s letter as neither “nuanced” nor “interesting” shows an intolerance of a point of view that some people hold. While I find Legan’s views alarming because I staunchly believe that global warming is directly caused by humans, I also value hearing his perspective, one I rarely hear in Santa Cruz. Listening without criticism can be the start of understanding and is often a more effective approach to launching a persuasive counter argument. (I >8 make an exception for hate speech.)

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Do you think that taking a knee during the national anthem is an appropriate form of protest?

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I think taking the knee is one of the best ways you could protest.

You’re not getting in anyone’s face, you’re not disrupting anyone’s day. You’re doing what you feel.

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Speaking as a former veteran, I find it to be highly disrespectful. However, that is a First Amendment right.

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Yes. There is a history of protest by athletes, from Tommie Smith and John Carlos’Black Power salute on the podium in the 1968 Olympics to Kobe Bryant and Lebron James wearing “I Can’t Breathe” shirts in 2014.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of September 27 ARIES Mar21–Apr19 Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats likes to play along with the music of nature. On one occasion he collaborated with Mandeville Creek in Montana. He listened and studied the melodies that emanated from its flowing current.

Then he moved around some of the underwater rocks, subtly changing the creek’s song. Your assignment, Aries, is to experiment with equally imaginative and exotic collaborations. The coming weeks will be a time when you can make beautiful music together with anyone or anything that tickles your imagination.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 Some newspapers publish regular rectifications of the mistakes they’ve made in past editions. For example, the editors of the UK publication The Guardian once apologized to readers for a mistaken statement about Richard Wagner. They said that when the 19th-century German composer had trysts with his chambermaid, he did not in fact ask her to wear purple underpants, as previously reported. They were pink underpants. I tell you this, Taurus, as encouragement to engage in corrective meditations yourself. Before bedtime on the next ten nights, scan the day’s events and identify any actions you might have done differently—perhaps with more integrity or focus or creativity. This will have a deeply tonic effect.

You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll flourish as you make amendments and revisions.

GEMINI May21–June20 It’s high time to allow your yearnings to overflow … to surrender to the vitalizing pleasures of nonrational joy … to grant love the permission to bless you and confound you with its unruly truths. For inspiration, read this excerpt of a poem by Caitlyn Siehl. “My love is honey tongue. Thirsty love. My love is peach juice dripping down the neck. Too much sugar love. Sticky sweet, sticky sweat love. My love can’t ride a bike. My love walks everywhere. Wanders through the river. Feeds the fish, skips the stones. Barefoot love. My love stretches itself out on the grass, kisses a nectarine. My love is never waiting. My love is a traveler.”

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you: I recommend that you start with safe, manageable tasks. Master the simple details and practical actions.

Work on achieving easy, low-risk victories. In this way, you’ll prepare yourself for more epic efforts in the future.

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22 Be realistic, Libra: Demand the impossible; expect inspiration; visualize yourself being able to express yourself more completely and vividly than you ever have before.

Believe me when I tell you that you now have extra power to develop your sleeping potentials, and are capable of accomplishing feats that might seem like miracles. You are braver than you know, as sexy as you need to be, and wiser than you were two months ago. I am not exaggerating, nor am I flattering you. It’s time for you to start making your move to the next level.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to take extra good care of yourself during the next three weeks. Do whatever it takes to feel safe and protected and resilient. Ask for the support you need, and if the people whose help you solicit can't or won't give it to you, seek elsewhere. Provide your body with more than the usual amount of healthy food, deep sleep, tender touch, and enlivening movement. Go see a psychotherapist or counselor or good listener every single day if you want. And don’t you dare apologize or feel guilty for being such a connoisseur of self-respect and self-healing.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 A queen bee may keep mating until she gathers 70 million sperm from many different drones. When composing my horoscopes, I aim to cultivate a metaphorically comparable receptivity. Long ago, I realized that all of creation is speaking to me all the time; I recognized that everyone I encounter is potentially a muse or teacher.

If I hope to rustle up the oracles that are precisely suitable for your needs, I have to be alert to the possibility that they may arrive from unexpected directions and surprising sources. Can you handle being that open to influence, Sagittarius? Now is a favorable time to expand your capacity to be fertilized.

One of the oldest houses in Northern Europe is called the Knap of Howar. Built out of stone around 3,600 B.C., it faces the wild sea on Papa Westray, an island off the northern coast of Scotland. Although no one has lived there for 5,000 years, some of its stone furniture remains intact. Places like this will have a symbolic power for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. They’ll tease your imagination and provoke worthwhile fantasies. Why? Because the past will be calling to you more than usual. The old days and old ways will have secrets to reveal and stories to teach. Listen with alert discernment.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19

LE0 Jul23–Aug22

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18

The United States has a bizarre system for electing its president. There’s nothing like it in any other democratic nation on earth. Every four years, the winning candidate needs only to win the electoral college, not the popular vote. So theoretically, it’s possible to garner just 23 percent of all votes actually cast, and yet still ascend to the most powerful political position in the world. For example, in two of the last five elections, the new chief of state has received significantly fewer votes than his main competitor. I suspect that you may soon benefit from a comparable anomaly, Leo. You'll be able to claim victory on a technicality. Your effort may be “ugly,” yet good enough to succeed.

In 1901, physician Duncan MacDougall carried out experiments that led him to conclude that the average human soul weighs 21 grams. Does his claim have any merit? That question is beyond my level of expertise. But if he was right, then I’m pretty sure your soul has bulked up to at least 42 grams in the past few weeks. The work you’ve been doing to refine and cultivate your inner state has been heroic. It's like you’ve been ingesting a healthy version of soul-building steroids. Congrats!

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 I found this advertisement for a workshop: “You will learn to do the incredible! Smash bricks with your bare hands!

Walk on fiery coals unscathed! Leap safely off a roof! No broken bones! No cuts! No pain! Accomplish the impossible first! Then everything else will be a breeze!” I bring this to your attention, Virgo, not because I think you should sign up for this class or anything like it. I hope you don’t. In fact, a very different approach is preferable for

Yo’'re approaching a rendezvous with prime time. Any minute now you could receive an invitation to live up to your hype or fulfill your promises to yourself—or both.

This test is likely to involve an edgy challenge that is both fun and daunting, both liberating and exacting. It will have the potential to either steal a bit of your soul or else heal an ache in your soul. To ensure the healing occurs rather than the stealing, do your best to understand why the difficulty and the pleasure are both essential.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 There are enough authorities, experts, and know-it-alls out there trying to tell you what to think and do. In accordance with current astrological factors, I urge you to utterly ignore them during the next two weeks. And do it gleefully, not angrily. Exult in the power that this declaration of independence gives you to trust your own assessments and heed your own intuitions. Furthermore, regard your rebellion as good practice for dealing with the little voices in your head that speak for those authorities, experts, and know-it-alls. Rise up and reject their shaming and criticism, too. Shield yourself from their fearful fantasies.

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OBVIOUS COURSE The United States may be the only place on Earth where an elected official can publicly deny the existence of man-made climate change, or where a climate change denier can write a completely ludicrous letter to his

local weekly paper. Luckily for Planet Earth, the rest of the world has already moved on to addressing climate change. Examples abound from countries phasing out fossil fuel powered vehicles (Britain, India, France), to China leading the world in renewable energy production, to a carbon tax in British Columbia.

If America is going to at least make an attempt at being great again, then the obvious course of action is to start implementing climate change solutions. The good news is that the bi-partisan Climate Solutions Caucus in the U.S. Congress is adding new members every month.

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COMMITTING TO MEMORY While laptops are more and more common in lecture halls, they could be

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on’t worry, you won’t be tested on any of this material. But if you were to be, the first thing most people would do is start taking notes.

Today, that can mean a couple of things: Going the tech route and using a state-of-the-art laptop or tablet, or keeping it classic and busting out an old-school notebook and pen. So which way is more effective?—an especially relevant question given the recent dawning of another school year, and scientific research may help provide an answer.

A 2014 study published in Psychological Science produced results that strongly suggest handwritten notes are superior to typed digital ones. The study’s authors had

university students watch TED talk videos and either take notes by typing on a laptop or writing by hand. About 30 minutes later, and without going back to review their notes, the two groups did equally well in their ability to remember factual information such as dates. But the handwritten note takers did significantly better when it came to conceptual-application questions like “How do Japan and Sweden differ in their approaches to equality within their societies?”

The authors, hailing from Princeton University and UCLA, attributed these results to the fact that we can’t write as fast as we can type. So in a “less is more” kind of way, the handwritten note takers were forced to process, internalize, and selectively write

down only the information they felt most important—a method that leads to deeper understanding. The laptop group, on the other hand, simply typed every word they heard without giving the material as much conscious and critical thought. So the researchers delved deeper and had a second study condition where they overtly and specifically told the laptop group not to write down information verbatim and instead type notes as they would if they were handwriting. But the instinct for exact transcription was still too strong in these participants, and the handwritten note takers performed better once again.

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benefit from being able to go back and review their more extensive and thorough notes after the lecture and before the test. So they ran a third study condition, but even in this scenario, the handwritten note-takers still outperformed their digital counterparts. The study’s findings seem to suggest that pen and paper notes are superior to typed digital ones not only in terms of encoding the information initially, but also when reviewed and studied after the fact.

Julie Salido, a history teacher at San Lorenzo Valley High, says that about two-thirds to threequarters of her students take notes by hand, using pen and paper. She says that the process of writing information down helps in and of itself, but adds that technology devices do work better for some.

“It’s so individual, we all process and retain information differently,” she says. One problem with digital note-taking, she says, is that she can’t see what’s on the student’s screen, making it hard to know if they are actually taking notes, and that for group-based activities technology can take kids out of that social setting. “It needs to be used thoughtfully,” she says.

Serena Palumbo, an English teacher at Santa Cruz High, says that in her class all of the notes are handwritten. “Taking handwritten notes helps the students stay engaged and forces them to decide what’s important in that information,” she says.

Even younger children who have grown up alongside laptops and tablets can appreciate the benefits of handwritten notes. “Many of my students are artistic and like to include hand drawings in written notes or alter their handwriting style to match the topic,” says Jessica Pitsch, a fifth grade teacher at Soquel Elementary. She asks her students to use handwritten notes for brainstorming and while reading books, especially on sticky notes that can be placed right in the book itself. “Writing is thinking,” says Pitsch. “It’s about the process over the product.”

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NEWS SEEING GREEN Cannabis environmental document predicts economic boom and offers ‘permissive’ regulatory path forward

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The fall harvest season has arrived, ripe with apples, pears, grapes and persimmons.

For some locals, it’s also a time known as “trim season,” when twentysomethings with flexible work schedules find themselves caravaning up to Humboldt County or neighboring areas for seasonal work on cannabis farms—sometimes earning several thousand dollars in just a few short weeks.

Although it may never quite match those weed meccas of Northern California, Santa Cruz County also looks poised to become fertile ground for cannabis, an industry that could easily continue blossoming here after last year’s passage of Proposition 64 legalized the drug for recreational use—that is, according to a new Santa Cruz County environmental impact report (EIR).

The document examines proposed cultivating and manufacturing regulations for cannabis, and it’s now available for public review. One notable finding is the potential financial stimulus from the growing industry.

The 636-page EIR, compiled by Santa Barbara-based Amec Foster Wheeler, examined the local potential of the recreational cannabis industry, which could bring in billions of dollars in annual tax revenue across the state. Between growing, testing, farming and other fields, the EIR estimates the industry will create 7,100 new full-time jobs here in the county.

“This surprised a lot of folks when it came out in the environmental impact report,” says Robin Bolster-Grant, the county’s newly appointed Santa Cruz County cannabis licensing manager. “The economic impact extends beyond tax implications.”

It was no surprise, though, to the industry’s most vocal advocates. Cannabis attorney Ben Rice tells GT, “The EIR said what I and folks in the industry have been saying for several years.”

A 45-day comment window for the EIR closes at 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 16, and one unexpected development so far has been a surprising lack of controversy surrounding this sometimes-heated topic.

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SPRAY DAY Amid Hepatitis outbreak, county public health officials have recommended cleaning bathrooms that are open to the public with bleach and water. The epicenter is downtown Santa Cruz.

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hen health officials looked at the recent spread of Hepatitis A across California, some began noticing a pattern—and not a familiar one.

The first Hepatitis A outbreak began in San Diego, where there have been 450 cases to date, and the disease was found in Santa Cruz after that. Soon, confirmed Santa Cruz-related cases popped up in the counties of Santa Clara, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles and Riverside, says county Public Health Officer Arnold Leff.

Leff says Hepatitis A is found primarily within known “vulnerable” populations, mostly intravenous drug users and the homeless. The trail of cases statewide reveals an insight that Leff didn’t expect, regarding the travel patterns of at least a slice of California’s transient population.

“It’s surprising that folks are traveling as far as they are,” Leff says. According to the 2017 Homeless Census Survey, 68 percent of local homeless people lived in the county prior to becoming homeless,

similar to many other California communities.

With 71 cases of the disease discovered in the county, health workers are literally going door to door at local businesses, mostly in the downtown area, to talk about risks and prevention. They’ve connected with almost 1,000 people so far, warning them to wash their hands and to clean bathrooms that are open to the public with a bleach solution. Health workers have been in talks with city officials and staff, including new Police Chief Andy Mills, whose officers have >14

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Mills, who’s worked at departments from San Diego to Humboldt, isn’t sure the Hepatitis A map tells us much about hypothetical transient travel patterns. It might say more, he argues, about the conditions that many homeless people are living in, all over the state. “I’ve talked to numerous homeless. Like all other

people, they enjoy traveling. They may do it more frequently, whereas many of us have homes, and we can’t do it as freely,” he says.

Hepatitis A spreads when someone comes in contact with an infected person’s feces, sometimes when hands are not properly washed after going to the bathroom.

City public works employees installed new wash stations outside each of the downtown portable toilets, and they are sending two

cleaning crews per day downtown, one with steam cleaning equipment and another with sidewalk scrubbers, according to parking services manager Marlin Granlund.

Public Works spokesperson Janice Bisgaard says crews are now cleaning the area outside the post office every week, instead of every other week, based on “complaints of foul odors and uncleanliness.”

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JUSTICE UNNERVED There’s an uncomfortable reality for supporters of Prop 57, the criminal reform initiative that voters approved last November, with three quarters of county residents supporting it, and locals rocked by the tragic death of Maddy Middleton two years ago. Last year’s criminal reform ballot measure, aimed primarily at rehabilitation, also forbids district attorneys from immediately charging any youths as adults, without a hearing first to weigh the matter—yes, even in the highprofile case of Adrian “A.J.” Gonzalez, the youth who’s been charged with raping and killing 8-year-old Middleton, his former neighbor at the Tannery Arts Center.

The question is: what could possibly drive any 15-year-old to commit such a violent sexual assault and murder? That answer, his defense team would argue, lies partly in a 39-page rundown of suspect Gonzalez’s life history and psychological background, compiled for the public defender.

When Gonzalez was six years old, he and his mother Reggie Factor were staying at the Rebele Family Shelter

after moving away from Factor’s third husband, Joel Jimenez, when Jimenez found them both and kidnapped them. He then took them to an abandoned house, put a gun to Factor’s head and threatened to kill her, holding them both captive for days, according to the report, which shows a lesser-known side of Gonzalez.

A hearing into whether or not Gonzalez should be tried as an adult has entered its sixth week.

Attorney Frankie Guzman, who co-authored Prop 57 and thinks most child criminals can be rehabilitated, says the news media often focuses on the victim in crafting narratives—spinning public opinion in the process—and ignores that the suspect is usually a victim as well.

“Media looks for the big story, the sensationalized story,” says Guzman, director of the California Juvenile Justice Initiative in Oakland, adding that he does not discount the suffering of any victim’s family. “The coverage is designed to evoke an emotional response.”

If convicted as a juvenile, Gonzalez could stay behind bars until age 23, which Guzman says is plenty of time

to rehabilitate young people.

Needless to say, though, it stands in stark contrast to the much longer sentences he would get as an adult.

Gonzalez’s life up until Middleton’s eventual murder, according to the report, had been filled with constant change, parental neglect, physical abuse and persistent emotional abuse, which studies show is actually much more likely than physical abuse to make victims violent later in life. The report details that Gonzalez’s lifelong challenges were exacerbated by his struggles with Autism Spectrum Disorder, which went undiagnosed until after he was charged, and had made it difficult for him to cope with nonstop change in his early years. It also details repeated failures from school officials and Child Protective Services who did not step up on Gonzalez’s behalf, sometimes ignoring protocols in the process.

Gonzalez faces felony charges of murder, kidnapping, rape of a victim younger than 14, penetration by a foreign object, and two charges of forcible lewd acts upon a child.

TALKS ICK KSCO owner Michael Zwerling says he’ll no longer allow anyone to spew “toxic subjects” over his airwaves.

An editorial that aired Friday, Sept. 23 outlined that racebaiting, white genocide and anti-Jewish conspiracy theories would all be offlimits.

Twice-weekly KSCO host Georgia “Peach” Beardslee had been stirring up controversy, as reported

by GT, mostly for racially charged remarks (“Shock Waves,” 9/13). Zwerling tells GT that KSCO doesn’t subscribe to rating services to track listenership, but Jonty McCollyer, the station’s digital media manager, says Beardslee gets 150 to 400 listeners online, livestreaming the host during each show, and that her online archive gets 1,000 visits per month.

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GROWING CONSENSUS An assortment of cannabis awaits testing at SC Labs in the Harvey West neighborhood. With the cannabis draft EIR out, advocates and regulators predict an economic boom, one that will create 7,100 jobs in growing, testing, farming and other fields. PHOTO: KEANA PARKER

SEEING GREEN <12 like property rights, zoning questions, neighborhood concerns, business interests, access to medicine, and—yes, of course—users’ desire to get high.

“A big part of our job is to help educate folks about the industry and what our process will look like,” Bolster-Grant says.

“It is rigorous and people will have to show they are growing responsibly.”

In exploring options for a cannabis licensing program, the draft EIR divides the project into two versions—one similar to what the county originally recommended, allowing for large-scale cultivation to major operators with the right setup, and another

option that it deems “more permissive” and which goes further. Not surprisingly, the latter is just the kind of option that Rice and many cultivators are rooting for, in the hopes that it will bring more small-time growers into a legal framework.

“The sensible way to move forward— and consider the environmental impacts, neighborhood impacts and overall value or problems associated with this new industry—is best dealt with by taking a more permissible approach,” Rice says.

Bolster-Grant says the licensing office is also aiming to bring as many businesses as possible into a regulated framework, as a way to avoid harmful environmental problems along the way. The EIR stands

by many of the county’s proposed strict regulations, like ones prohibiting grows within 100 feet of perennial streams, and preventing operations that would cause a direct physical change to the environment. The document also suggests maintaining strict regulations that prohibit cannabis cultivation and sale within 600 feet of schools, libraries, parks, and drug and alcohol treatment facilities. Those elements are important to many youth advocates.

“At the core, we’re hoping having some regulations in place will limit youth access,” says Jenna Shankman, a community organizer for the Santa Cruz County Community Prevention Partners.

Since 2010, the partnership has advocated for “a diverse community that promotes health and well-being” through alcohol and drug prevention. Shankman and her colleagues have yet to go through the details of the EIR, but she has high hopes for regulating the emerging legal market, which could be officially online early next year, depending on what happens in Sacramento. According to the California Healthy Kids Survey, she says 77 percent of Santa Cruz County 11th graders say it’s easy for them to obtain marijuana.

“We know the black market is a big source of that access,” she says.

Rice argues new research has shown that a more regulated environment might indeed cut back on that black market.

Earlier this month, the federal government released the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, showing only 6.5 percent of teens ages 12 to 17 use marijuana on a monthly basis. This represents a significant drop from 2014, when several states first opened their recreational marijuana stores, and it’s the lowest use rate among the age group since 1994.

People in the industry argue there’s a connection between the drop and the newly regulated markets.

“The study also shows that in places with legal cannabis use less people are drinking,” Rice says. “It’s an argument many in the cannabis community have been claiming for a long time.”

Since the local laws aren’t finished, the cannabis business owners can’t purchase new licenses yet, but the county encourages them to register for prelicensing inspections through the county website. However, Bolster-Grant says that out of the roughly 760 registered cannabis cultivators, only 25 so far have paid the $2,500 application fee.

“It’s a slow process,” she admits. “These are folks who have not, traditionally, been out and open about what they’re doing. So they’re understandably resistant to say, ‘Here I am.’”

Public comments on the Environmental Impact Report can be submitted to the Santa Cruz County Planning Department until 5 p.m. on Oct. 16. There will also be a public meeting on the draft EIR from 6 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 2 on the fifth floor of the Board of Supervisors chambers at 701 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. For more information, visit sccoplanning.com.

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Santa Cruz, although the health department isn’t sure exactly where. County health officials, he says, took a van loaded with vaccines up and down the San Lorenzo River levee, as part of an effort to get the word out.

The health department has also been holding vaccination clinics, including at the Homeless Services Center and the Emeline Avenue health building. Many pharmacies carry the vaccine as well, usually for a little more than $100, although many insurers cover the cost.

There have been no new cases since the county reached 71 a few weeks ago, but the incubation time, when infected people show no symptoms, can last up to a month and a half.

Santa Cruz County normally sees an average of one or two cases per year, and Leff says the first cases this year were in early April. By the beginning of May, the county had declared a level 1 emergency and began contacting local clinics.

The first media release went out in early June, and the county officially declared an outbreak last month.

Chief Mills says that if people look out for themselves and get their vaccines, the illness should stop in its tracks.

“We truly care about all our brothers and sisters here and all the homeless in Santa Cruz,” Mills says.

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t a United Nations meeting in the ’60s, Nikita Khrushchev famously banged his shoe on his desk in protest of another delegate’s speech. Santa Cruz City Councilmember Chris Krohn likes to imagine UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal wielding his footwear in the same manner at a UC Regents meeting.

“I just see him reaching out to these people, grabbing them by the collar, and saying ‘No, we aren’t adding more students!’” Krohn says.

“Then they all go out to a $30,000 dinner.”

In 2015 the UC regents mandated a 10,000-student increase over three years across all nine undergraduate colleges, and as enrollment numbers climb, both UCSC and the city have scrambled to accommodate the influx of students. The student housing crisis led to a virtual cold war between UCSC and the city in the mid-2000s; since then, the relationship has thawed, but the mandated growth—which comes as Santa Cruz is already one of the most priced-out rental markets in the country—could make things worse than ever.

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“It is not a ‘city on a hill’ as UCSC’s masthead says,” says John Aird, co-founder of the Coalition for Limiting University Expansion (CLUE). “That name suggests that it’s a self-contained, self-supported community and organization. That is really more myth than reality.”

Aird notes that more than 80 percent of the Santa Cruz population growth from 1995 to 2009 was directly attributable to UCSC. Since 2009, he says, the pattern has continued as the university population climbs at more than three times the rate of the rest of the city.

UCSC is a public entity committed to both serving the growing state population and expansion. Antiexpansionists say that based on growing housing, water, and transportation impacts of UCSC, the city cannot accommodate more student expansion.

“At the very least, I think it’s reasonable and necessary for there to be a pause in terms of any further growth here now until this community has had a chance to catch up,” Aird says. “It’s going to take some time to regain some equilibrium here.”

It’s a problem that no amount of shoe-banging is going to solve.

Just as the city certainly won’t tell people to stop moving to Santa Cruz, Blumenthal won’t tell students to stop coming to UCSC. “Things were really difficult between the city and university 15 years ago—and there was enough fault to go around—but things improved a lot a decade ago because we opened up conversations,” Blumenthal says.

THINKING LONG-TERM As UCSC looks to the future, others remember the past. A decade ago, UCSC and its host city were in a gridlock. UCSC was determined to accommodate an increasing student body, and the city was frustrated by the UC Regents’ failure to acknowledge the student housing crisis.

The city, along with CLUE, sued

over the Environmental Impact Report proposed in UCSC’s Long Range Development Plan (LRDP).

Mediation led to a settlement four years later, which resulted in quarterly committee meetings to implement the settlement agreement, which seem to have pleased both sides.

“The city and the university relationship is a lot better than it used to be before the settlement agreement,” says city manager Martín Bernal. “Nonetheless, the city’s position continues to be that the impacts should be mitigated, particularly now with respect to housing.”

Chancellor Blumenthal says that the priorities of UCSC reflect those of the UC, and he doesn’t always have the final say when it comes to expansion issues. When the UC Regents mandated enrollment growth, he says, the state did not provide the funding to support it, and tuition doesn’t cover all of the associated costs. Likewise, because the state doesn’t provide funding for housing expenses, and UCSC’s debt ceiling limited how much they could increase their housing budget, campus administrators felt they were doing as much as they could to accommodate students.

“There is a desire from the UC to grow, and that’s a legitimate desire, but some campuses wanted to grow and some did not,” Blumenthal says.

“The university should grow to meet the state’s need, but there should be money available to do that. If there isn’t money, then we shouldn’t grow.”

Other UCs’ relationships to their respective cities aren’t exactly perfect, either—representatives from UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara and UC Riverside all admit to having some bumps in the road. Yet none have ever been sued by their own city government.

“We really try and roll up our sleeves and work with them before that happens,” says UCR Director of Local Government and Community Relations Jeff Kraus.

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But a new LRDP is due, and the hope is that is can appease both the university and the city. As UCSC looks to map out the next 20 years of development, many remember the political turmoil that the previous plan stirred up.

“LRDPs aren’t an enrollment plan, they are a land use plan,” Blumenthal says. “It is not a plan to build enrollment, it’s a plan to figure out the land if you do.”

The current LRDP outlines a 19,500 student limit by 2020—over 2,000 more students than the current enrollment. Though the future 20202040 LRDP plans are still in the early stages of development, and there is no mandate that UCSC reach 19,500 by 2020, UCSC will likely look to again increase enrollment in line with California’s population for the next 20 years.

“You can’t go over the LRDP, but you can go under,” Chris Krohn says. “But once you put it out there as a benchmark, that becomes the conversation starter.”

TRYING TO BE ACCOMMODATING In the last few years, UCSC has been playing catch-up with student housing, while also adhering to the previous LRDP enrollment outlines. The administration is

trying to mitigate the impacts of its own swelling student body, having converted 141 lounges into residences and double rooms into triple rooms while also changing class times to squeeze in more classes.

UCSC currently houses more than 52 percent of students on campus, among the highest of all of the UC campuses. But UCSC’s housing prices are much higher than the average rates in town, at more than $1,500 monthly for one space in a quadruple room, including a sevenday meal plan.

“You can get a nice place in Santa Cruz for $1,500 and maybe even hire a cook,” Chris Krohn says.

In recognition of the housing crisis, and also the comparatively high on-campus housing rates, UCSC has introduced the Student Housing West Project, scheduled to begin construction in the fall. The project aims to have at least 900 beds online by 2020, with about 3,000 total by completion. Since state funding cannot be used for housing projects, the facility will operate on a publicprivate partnership (P3) model, meaning that it will be financed through a private third party instead of the university. “[I have] no doubt that people will have different perspectives and there will be different answers and there will be some individuals that fundamentally do not want the university to grow,” says Vice Chancellor of Business and Administrative Services Sarah Latham. “We have an obligation to reflect the diversity and growth of the state of California, but we

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“The [city] leadership at that time was conservative and businessoriented and came upon the idea of ‘why not have a university here?’”

John Aird says. “The grounds upon which this was pursued came before any environmental movement or anything, and Santa Cruz was itself just a small community that pretty much viewed growth as a good thing. But times change, circumstances change.”

Currently, UCSC generates over $1.3 billion in economic activity within the Santa Cruz regional area, while the city provides much-needed utilities and housing for UCSC’s population. Aird also points out that many of the city council members have close ties to UCSC, and suggests that it’s a conflict of interest for those members to vote on issues between the city and university.

“The city on a hill really is the city on a hill, there is such a distance between what happens downtown and what happens up there,” says Krohn, who is the environmental studies internship director at UCSC. “Am I putting myself in jeopardy by being upfront in criticizing the university and being part of the dialogue? Possibly, but I do think there are people who wouldn’t do

that because they are worried about their job or politics, but I don’t think the conflict of interest is huge in this case.”

Krohn added that if he and other council members don’t speak out against the university, the quality of education will suffer. He says that the city council has a tremendous amount of power that they don’t use, and if UCSC continues to expand beyond what the council approves of, students will ultimately bear the brunt of increased enrollment.

There are no more lounges that can be converted on campus, and in many spots on campus students are packed into rooms like canned sardines. With options running low and continued enrollment swelling, UCSC administration is now restricting housing guarantees for transfers (one year guarantee instead of two) and those involved in Education Opportunity Programs (three years instead of four). This will result in more students seeking off-campus housing over the next few years as UCSC enrollment numbers climb.

“It’s pretty clear that having the university here is a mixed bag,” CLUE negotiator Reed Searle says.

“It certainly has improved the city—we have a lot more stuff here because of the university—but it has also very adversely affected housing.

The people that work here cannot afford to live here any more.”

Coupled with more student expansion into town and an increase in vacation rentals, Santa Cruz’s housing crisis doesn’t have any easy solutions. In an effort to mediate past anxieties and better communication between the university and city, UCSC has invited various community groups, including CLUE, to take part in an LRDP community advisory committee. The group will meet regularly to discuss concerns of university impacts and be more inclusive of community voices.

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curator Shelby Graham. This rare collection was generously donated in 2013 to UCSC Special Collections by Gail’s daughter, Geri Gail, a former UCSC staff member who believed the images would be most useful in an educational setting. But in order to yield an emotional connection with the old black and white images, Graham realized she needed context. Turns out that UCSC is that rare institution with an Okinawa specialist—History Professor Alan Christy—on its faculty. Christy recently took a small group of student researchers and faculty on a trip to Okinawa especially to re-visit those sites first captured by Gail’s lens. It was the beginning of fresh oral histories, discoveries, and an intensive program of searching out and re-photographing some of the iconic places Gail had originally captured. “Being in Okinawa in 2017 with this group was a profound sitespecific learning experience,” says Shelby Graham, director/curator of the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery.

“We all witnessed and walked on landscapes simultaneously beautiful and brutal—it was unforgettable and timely, a research opportunity for all” Christy is also The Gail Project’s director, and co-director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories at UCSC. “One of the signs of the history becoming real is when it takes an emotional hold, whether that is excitement, joy, sadness, or anger,” he explains. “It also comes with gaining a sense of the place and space itself, which gives to them a deeper understanding of the complexity of any event, the way that many people and many forces can play out differently in a single space.”

Working with the Gail photos, “which show an Okinawa that is

largely gone, but still has locatable traces, meant that the students became really close readers of the landscape, of exhibitions in local museums and of texts that they encountered,” he adds. Students discovered the locations of Gail’s original photos. “And that gave the background to the scene that was photographed by Charles Gail, and that meant that they were honing their skills of observation and connection.”

The upcoming exhibition will display an array of new color photographs alongside the older images of the same sites, plus oral histories and wall text. “Okinawa has had a complicated relationship with the U.S. military presence, and a blend of cultures, especially that of Japan,” Graham notes. “The exhibit is about learning history in a different way, exploring multiple perspectives and building a dialogue.”

And this is just the start, promises Christy. “We intend to travel the show from here to Okinawa and then to locations in the Okinawan diaspora, including (hopefully) Osaka, Hawaii, Los Angeles, São Paolo, and, possibly, Bolivia, before we return to Santa Cruz for a final show. And through our website, we hope to be building a growing archive of oral histories about the postwar Okinawan-American relationship.”

Intriguing and little-known history, alive and accessible, forms the heart of this bold international project.

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or a moment, you can see genuine surprise on Conan O’Brien’s face as he shakes Hannah Joy’s hand. Her band Middle Kids have just finished their performance of “The Edge of Town” on his show, and they killed.

The dynamics and underlying passion of the song brings to mind Bruce Springsteen, with the group bringing spine-tingling harmonies to the indie-rock chorus. When they played it on the show, they rocked the ending out hard, unleashing everything they’d been holding

back for the bulk of the song. It’s no wonder O’Brien looked shocked.

This was back in February, when the Australian four-piece had only played one small U.S. tour. They hadn’t even been a band for a year.

Around that same time, Middle Kids released a self-titled EP. There’s a full-length in the works too. On the band’s current three-month tour— they stop in Santa Cruz on Sept. 30— they will stop in Connecticut to mix the tracks for a full-length that is expected to get an early 2018 release on Domino Records.

But everything leads back to “The Edge of Town,” the first song the band ever wrote and released, even before they had played a show together. At that point, Middle Kids was more of a side project for its members. Joy in particular had been pursuing a solo career. Guitarist Tim Fitz had a different band.

“We kind of threw it out there, not really knowing what the response was going to be. So then we had to catch up, ’cause people liked it more than we thought they would,” Joy says.

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the response, but also in how they collaborate as a group. Joy primarily writes the bare-bones elements of the music. Before Middle Kids, she wrote mostly on the piano, and had more of a singer-songwriter execution of her music.

“The very nature of writing and playing on the guitar kind of toughens it up in a way that I’ve really enjoyed. Tim brings a lot of his influences to that,” Joy says.

“That song was just so cool. It opened the floodgates. It felt like, ‘oh this is so our strength’ in terms of that indie rock vibe. We had all these other songs that took that vibe so well.”

In no time, “The Edge of Town” was a hit on Triple J, pretty much the only station for indie rock in all of Australia. Middle Kids quickly became everyone’s main full-time project.

The invitation to perform on Conan came a few months later. The group was playing at a festival that Joy says is the “South by Southwest of Australia.” A man introduced himself to the band’s manager and said that he booked for Conan O’Brien’s show, and wanted them to play.

Meanwhile, the EP captures the unique songwriting of Joy and Fitz, as well as their live energy, which pushes and pulls with outward energy and internal reflective calm.

It’s not a unique recipe, but the execution of it is exceptional, and shows the promise of a young band.

For their upcoming full-length, they hope to expand on it without straying from what made it so good.

Joy says the biggest difference is that it might feel a little bigger: “Like when we’re strumming a million guitars and you’re playing four on the floor.”

When Middle Kids comes through Santa Cruz, it will have been just roughly 13 months since their first show, so they are still discovering who they are. They hope to do a lot more live shows to find out.

“We love this project so much, so we have no qualms with making it the thing for our life,” says Joy. INFO: 9 p.m. Sept. 30, Catalyst Atrium, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $15. 429-4135.

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WEDNESDAY 9/27 ARTS KIM STANLEY ROBINSON COMES TO BOOKSHOP What will cities look like when sealevels rise another 50 feet? Kim Stanley Robinson—an award-winning science-fiction author focusing on ecological and environmental impacts of climate change—imagines postglobal warming New York in his newest book, New York 2140. Sure, commuters use boats instead of cars, but climate change will have more large-scale implications beyond just traffic. But don’t worry, it’s just fiction, right?

INFO: Monday, Oct. 2. 7 p.m. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. bookshopsantacruz.com.

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‘THE SONG IN US’ A site-responsive sound installation by San Francisco artist Ali True.

The Song in Us offers a space for peace and participation throughout the entire exhibition. The work is reflective, meditative and musical. Noon-5 p.m. Radius Gallery, 1050 River St., Santa Cruz. 706-1620.

CLASSES SALSA RUEDA CLASSES Cuban-style dance at the Tannery. Introductory and beginning classes 7-8 p.m. Intermediate and advanced classes 8-9 p.m. Tannery, 1060 River St., Suite #111, Santa Cruz. Cesario, Danny, Gilberto. $7/$5.

CRYSTAL SOUND INFUSION Sacred sound raises your vibrational level, increases spiritual awareness, releases energy blocks and increases flow. 8:15 p.m. Divine Tree Yoga, 1043-B Water St., Santa Cruz. 3336736. $10.

JUNIPER MEDITATION TRADITION FOR MODERN LIFE A drop-in meditation session that includes meditation, a short talk and discussion on Buddhist training for modern life. Beginners and experienced meditators welcome. 7:30-9 p.m. Pacific Cultural Center, 1307 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz. 818-7984. $10.

‘NEW THREADS’ OPENS AT CABRILLO Cabrillo’s “New Threads” exhibit showcases fiber and textiles as a medium for contemporary issues and ideas. Ranging from film and horsehair sculptures to crochet and lace doilies, the show proves that textile art goes far beyond grandma’s knitting.

INFO: Oct. 2-27. Cabrillo College Gallery, 6500 Soquel Drive, Room 1002, Aptos.

KNOWER OF THE WORLD—A SENSORY TOUR The world is what we experience through our senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, smell and thought. But how fully do we really know these? Many of us only skim the surface, never penetrating deeply enough for wisdom to arise. 2:30-4:30 p.m. 740 Front St. #240, Santa Cruz. insightsantacruz.org. Free.

DANIEL HANDLER, ALL THE DIRTY PARTS From bestselling, award-winning author Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), a gutsy, exciting novel that looks honestly at the erotic impulses of an all-too-typical young man. All The Dirty Parts is an unblinking take on teenage desire in a culture of unrelenting explicitness and shunted communication, but one in which no one knows what love feels like. 7 p.m. Bookshop Santa Cruz,1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz.

SATURDAY 9/30 UCSC HARVEST FESTIVAL It’s time to break out the knit sweaters and pumpkin-spice everything, if you’re into that.

Speaking of pumpkins, UCSC farm showcases their organically raised pumpkins at the open farm harvest festival, where they will also have a pie-baking contest, apple cider and every other fall activity you can imagine. Yes, bobbing for apples, too.

INFO: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. UCSC Farm, Hagar Drive and Village Road, Santa Cruz. casfs.ucsc.edu. Students and children are free, general admission is $5.

TRIPLE P WORKSHOP: PARENTING AS A TEAM Does your teen’s moodiness, unpredictable emotions or outbursts make you feel like you’re riding a wild roller coaster? You’re not alone. Come to this Triple P-Positive Parenting Program workshop to gain tools for handling your teenager’s emotions in a calm and loving way. 6:308:30 p.m. Dominican Hospital-Rehabilitation, 610 Frederick St., Santa Cruz. 457-7077. $30.

instruction in mindfulness meditation with an emphasis on working skillfully with thinking. We will explore how habitual thinking patterns can undermine our well-being, adding to anxiety and stress. Email registration required. 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Ocean Gate Zen Center, 920 41st Ave. Suite B, Santa Cruz. gardenblessings@gmail.com. Free.

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INFO: The Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. General admission $16, all-screening pass: $50. A portion of all proceeds benefit Save Our Shores.

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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.

WOODSTOCK’S SC PINT NIGHT When life hands you beer specials … drink up!

If you’re searching for the best sudsy social scene in Santa Cruz, look no further than Woodstock’s Pizza. 9 p.m.-Midnight.

Woodstock’s Pizza, 710 Front St., Santa Cruz. woodstockscruz.com/events. Free.

WELLNESS WEDNESDAY #2 Foot screenings offered by the Foot Doctors of Santa Cruz. Gait screenings and inserts offered by Fleet Feet Aptos. Local wine and refreshments served. Fun raffle prizes and giveaways. 4-7 p.m. Fleet Feet Sports, 26 Rancho Del Mar, Aptos. 465-7835 or scworkplacewellness.com/events.

GROUPS NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA—APTOS/SANTA CRUZ A 12-step group for those who have been affected by the addiction or drug problem of another. Nar-Anon’s program is adapted from Narcotics Anonymous and uses Nar-Anon’s 12 Steps. 7-8:30 p.m.

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Includes compulsive overeating, anorexia, and bulimia. Meets in the church Youth Room, two doors down from the corner of Poplar and Melrose. 10:30-11:30 a.m. Trinity Presbyterian Church, 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. santacruzoa.org. Free.

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8-9:30 a.m. The Abbey Coffee Shop, 350 Mission St., Santa Cruz. bni.com. $10.

GEEZER GOLFERS OF VALLEY GARDENS You’re invited to join our affable group of senior citizens on Wednesdays. Valley Gardens is a beautiful nine hole, par 31 course. Club membership is optional. 9 a.m. Valley Gardens, 263 Mt. Hermon Road, Scotts Valley. 685- 3829. $20.

HEALTH B12 HAPPY HOUR B12 deficiencies are common, as the vitamin is used up by stress, causing fatigue, depression, anxiety, insomnia and more. Not well absorbed in the gut, B12 injections can be effective in helping to support energy, mood, sleep, immunity, metabolism and stress resilience. Come get a discounted shot from 1:30-4:30 p.m. Thrive Natural Medicine, 2840 Park Ave., Soquel. thrivenatmed.com/b12injections or 515-8699. $15.

MUSIC TOBY GRAY AT REEF/PONO Toby’s music is cool, mellow and smooth, with a repertoire of classic favorites and heartfelt originals.

6:30-9:30 p.m. The Reef Bar and Restaurant, 120 Union St., Santa Cruz. reefbarsantacruz. com. Free.

OPEN MIC NIGHT Open Mic Night every Wednesday in Capitola Village. Join us at the new Cork and Fork Capitola. All welcome.

Always free, always fun. Awesome wines by the glass or bottle, Discretion beer on tap, handmade pizzas and great small plate dishes. 7 p.m. Cork and Fork, 312 Capitola Ave., Capitola. corkandforkcapitola.com. Free.

THURSDAY 9/28 ARTS JEWEL THEATRE PRESENTS: ‘ALL MY SONS’ This stirring play follows the Keller

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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 4264724. $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.

TRIYOGA BASICS/THERAPEUTIC YOGA WITH KIM TriYoga taught by Kim Beecher, DC (chiropractor) includes sustained postures with prop support. Everyone is welcome.

Suitable for those with chronic conditions.

7:30-9 p.m. Triyoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. 310-589-0600. $15.

BLOOM OF THE PRESENT WEEKLY DROP-IN INSIGHT MEDITATION GROUP Join us each week for silent meditation and a Dharma talk with group discussion. Sitting with others can help support your daily meditation and inspire you to live with wisdom and compassion. New and experienced welcome. 18 and up. 6:30-8 p.m. Ocean Gate Zen Center, 920B 41st Ave., Santa Cruz. bloomofthepresent.org. Free/Donation.

A COURSE IN MIRACLES STUDY GROUP Ongoing weekly drop-in discussion group for anyone interested in learning more about ACIM teachings. Join us with your questions and insights or just listen in as our experienced facilitator takes the group into deep learning of ACIM and lively investigation of self-awareness. 7 p.m. The Barn Studio, 104 S. Park Way, Santa Cruz. spiritualear. >38 org/acim.

Sunday, October 8, 2017 9AM –2PM A ONE-DAY POP-UP STREET PARK West Cliff Drive from Lighthouse Field to Natural Bridges

FREE RAFFLE / GAMES / DANCE MUSIC / COMMUNITY Bring a picnic, visit with neighbors, learn about community groups, and play, dance, bike, roll, and stroll in the street with no cars!

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THE SONG IN US "The Song In Us" is a site-responsive sound installation by San Francisco artist, Ali True. “The Song in Us” offers a space for peace and participation throughout the entire exhibition. The work is reflective, meditative and musical. Noon-5 p.m. Radius Gallery, 1050 River St., Santa Cruz. 706-1620.

family in the years following World War II as they stand at a crossroads—should they keep holding out hope for their missing son Larry to return from the war, or rebuild and move forward around their bright and youngest son, Chris? 7:30 p.m. The Colligan Theater, 1010 River St., Santa Cruz. jeweltheatre.net. $26.

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CALENDAR <37 AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT Come explore Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Classes.

These engaging and potent classes will heighten your vitality as they increase your self-awareness, flexibility, and overall wellbeing. Classes are on-going. Pre registration required. 5 p.m. Pacific Cultural Center, 1307 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz. 332-7347.

NATURAL HISTORY OF RAPA NUI AND ITS ENIGMATIC SPIDER Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is the most remote island on the planet. It is the home of one of the most fascinating cultures in the Pacific. Get to know the only one endemic spider for this island and learn how old museum specimens and methods of studying ancient DNA can help to discover the origin of colonization of this animal. 7 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, 1305 E. Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. santacruzmuseum.org. $12.

FOUR-WEEK TRIPLE P BRIEF GROUP: HELPING WITH HOMEWORK The Triple P-Positive Parenting Program offers simple, practical tools to help families raise happy, healthy children. Attend this four-week Brief Group to learn why homework time is a struggle in many families and tools to decrease stress for you and your child during homework time. 5-6:30 p.m. La Manzana Community Resources, 18 W. Lake Ave., Watsonville. first5scc.org. Free.

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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.

I’M NO SUCCESS OBJECT Comedian Richard Stockton performs his 70-minute stand-up comedy over blues guitar, one liners and rants about finding our own dreams, a hilarious examination of Santa Cruz values and where we go from here.

7-8 p.m. The Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. planetcruzcomedy.com.

WOODSTOCK’S PIZZA FUNDRAISER Peace of Mind Dog Rescue will hold an information and fund raising event at Woodstock’s Pizza. Dogs are welcome at this event. Peace of Mind Dog Rescue, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, is a resource and advocate for senior dogs and senior people on California’s Central Coast. 5-9 p.m. Woodstock’s Pizza, 710 Front St., Santa Cruz. 427-4444.

GROUP WOMENCARE: LAUGHTER YOGA Laughter yoga for women with cancer meets the first and third Thursdays. Call WomenCARE to register. 12:30-1:30 p.m. WomenCARE, 2901 Park Ave., Suite A1, Soquel. 457-2273. Free.

SUPPORT GROUP FOR SURVIVORS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: WOMEN’S GROUP We provide a safe and supportive environment for healing from child sexual abuse. Together we break through isolation, develop healthy coping skills, reduce shame, and build healthy boundaries. 6 p.m. Family Service Agency of the Central Coast, 2901 Park Ave., Suite A3, Soquel. 423-7601.

SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Walnut Avenue Family and Women’s Center offers free drop-in socio-educational support groups, open to those who have experienced or are currently experiencing domestic violence and that identify as female. 6:307:45 p.m. Walnut Avenue Women’s Center, 303 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz. 426-3062.

HEALTH B12 HAPPY HOUR B12 helps support energy, mood, sleep, immunity, metabolism and stress resilience. Since B12 is not absorbed well during digestion, and all B vitamins are depleted by stress, most Americans are deficient. Having B12 in the form of an injection bypasses the malabsorption problem, and people often feel an immediate difference. Every Thursday morning, we offer discounted vitamin B12 by walk-in or appointment. 9 a.m.-Noon. Thrive Natural Medicine, 2840 Park Ave., Soquel. thrivenatmed.com or 515-8699. $15.

MUSIC DJ A.D. Come out every Thursday evening to dance, drink, and play some pool. 21 and up.

9 p.m. The Castaways, 3623 Portola Drive, Santa Cruz. thecastawaysbar.com. Free.

THE SANTA CRUZ TREMOLOS SINGING GROUP FOR PEOPLE WITH PARKINSON’S Singing is known to be a good voice-strengthening exercise for people with Parkinson’s disease. Santa Cruz County has an ongoing singing group for people with Parkinson’s and their caregivers. 1-2:30 p.m. The Episcopal Church, 125 Canterbury Drive, Aptos. easepd.org/singing. Free.

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FRIDAY 9/29 ART MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY THEATER PRESENTS: ‘9 TO 5, THE MUSICAL’ Based on the 20th Century Fox Picture, and set in 1979, this musical comedy of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thought-provoking and even a little romantic.

Pushed to the boiling point, three female co-workers concoct a plan to get even with their sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical and bigoted boss. 8 p.m. Park Hall, 9401 Mill St., Ben Lomond. mctshows.org.

SANTA CRUZ SURF FILM FESTIVAL 2017 Twenty new surf films from around the world over two nights, with two screenings per night. With your ticket, you get a chance to win amazing prizes from our sponsors, like coolers from YETI, a wetsuit from O’Neill Surf Shop, outdoor blankets from Rumpl and more. 6 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. santacruzsurffilmfest.com. $50/$16/$10.

MULTI LANGUAGE POETRY MASH-UP During this collaborative poem-making event we’ll be combining English, Spanish, German and French to create an amazing poem for public display. No experience necessary.

5:30-8 p.m. Kematian Lounge, 805 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. poetrycirclewithmagdalena. com. $15.

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

SANTA CRUZ FOOD TRUCK EVENT Join us for the Final Food Truck Event of the Summer Series in Santa Cruz. This month's theme is Star Wars. Dress as your favorite Star Wars character and enter a chance to win prizes.

There will be contests for the most authentic Star Wars costume and best Chewbacca sound. 5-8 p.m. San Lorenzo Park, 137 Dakota Ave., Santa Cruz. cityofsantacruz. com. Free.

VANILLA FESTIVAL & DINNER Your ticket includes entry to the festival at the Food Lounge, a visual educational journey through the tropics to six unique vanilla farms, a four course dinner, silent auction, raffle, and a complimentary gift bag from the Vanilla Queen. 6 p.m. Santa Cruz Food Lounge, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. 212-5399. $55.

GROUPS SCOTTS VALLEY NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUP Nar-Anon is a 12-step program/ support group for friends and families who have been affected by the addiction or drug problem of another. 6:30-7:45 p.m. Bison Center, The Camp Recovery Center, 3192 Glen Canyon Road, Santa Cruz. Free.

NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS—GREATER BAY AREA SANTA CRUZ Nar-Anon GBA Santa Cruz offers three meetings in support of friends and families of addicts. naranoncalifornia.org/norcal or helpline 291-5099. 9-10 a.m. Santa Cruz, Aptos and Scotts Valley. saveyoursanity@aol.com. Free/ donations.

BABY SIGN LANGUAGE (ADULT WITH CHILD) Weekly American Sign Language class for adults with children, taught by expert native language instructor with more than 40 years experience using ASL. 10 a.m.

3025 Porter St., Soquel. 435-0512. $15.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS 90-Day OA, Study of the AA 12 and 12 book. OA is a 12-step support group to stop eating compulsively. Noon-1 p.m. Live Oak Family Resource Center, Community Conference Room, 1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. Nate, 4297906. Free.

SANTA CRUZ CONTRA DANCE Everyone is welcome! Partners and dancing experience are not necessary. Contra dances are taught and prompted. New dancers are encouraged to attend the beginner’s workshop at 6:40. 7 p.m. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. 476-6424. $12/$8.

CLUTTERERS ANONYMOUS SUPPORT GROUP Is clutter getting you down? Feeling discouraged about all your stuff? There is hope. Come to this weekly 12-step group for understanding and support. 5:30 p.m. Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. 477-2200. Free. >40

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CHAIR YOGA WITH SUZI Instructor Suzi Mahler, CMT, NE will guide you through a series of gentle seated yoga postures that are performed slowly and with breath awareness. This wonderfully therapeutic practice will help you increase strength and range of motion. 9:30 a.m. California Grey Bears, 2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz.

234-6791. $5.

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CALENDAR <39 GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP A dropin grief support group for anyone in the community grieving the death of a loved one.

Meets every Friday. Noon-1 p.m. Hospice of Santa Cruz County, 940 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley. hospicesantacruz.org. Free.

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VITAMIN B12 FRIDAY Every Friday is B12 Happy Hour at Thrive Natural Medicine. B12 improves energy, memory, mood, immunity, sleep, metabolism and stress resilience.

Come on down for a discounted shot and start your weekend off right! Walk-ins only.

3-6 p.m. Thrive Natural Medicine, 2840 Park Ave., Soquel. thrivenatmed.com/b12injections or 515-8699. $15.

MUSIC FORWARD FRIDAYS REGGAE IN THE MIX Reggae Party with DJ Daddy Spleece, Ay Que Linda and special guests in the mix at the Jerk House. All ages event. 6 p.m. The Jerk House, 2525 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz. santacruzreggae.com. Free.

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ZEN MEDITATION & DISCUSSION Ocean Gate Zen Center. Meditation and Ttalk on Zen Buddhism. Every Saturday. All are welcome. 9 a.m. Ocean Gate Zen Center, 920 41st Ave., Suite B, Santa Cruz. 824-7900 or oceangatezen.org. Free.

INTERMEDIATE TRIYOGA CLASS WITH JAMIE ANDRES-LARSEN TriYoga flows are presented with personalized guided alignment assistance. For Levels 1 and 2. 10:30 a.m.-Noon. TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. 310-589-0600 or triyoga-santacruz.com/index.html. $15.

LIVEYou UPReady TO LIFE’S Are to Get CHALLENGES the Help You Need?

Individual life coaching: Addiction Interventions Career Relationships Trauma Codependency

Enlightenment Recovery of Santa Cruz

(831)334-1258 By Appt. Only

enlightenmentrecoveryofsantacruz.org

MASTERING THE WHITE PAPER IN WATERCOLOR The transparency of watercolor demands that you work from white to dark and from large shapes to small. You will learn that where we put color is just as important as where we leave the paper clean and white. 9 a.m. Santa Cruz Art League, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz. scal.org or 426-5787.

(DE)COLONIALISM BREAKING FREE FROM THE COLONIAL MINDSET This workshop, a module of the “Racial Equity Learning” series developed by World Trust Educational Services, allows participants to

explore further some of the root causes of racial inequities. 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. overcomeracism.org. Free.

FOOD & WINE APTOS FARMERS MARKET AT CABRILLO COLLEGE Voted Good Times best farmers market in Santa Cruz County. With more than 90 vendors, the Aptos Farmers Market offers an unmatched selection of locally grown produce and specialty foods. 8 a.m.-Noon, Saturdays, Cabrillo College. montereybayfarmers.org or akeller@ montereybayfarmers.org. Free.

WESTSIDE FARMERS MARKET The Westside Farmers Market takes place every week at the corner of 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 cookedto-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.

HARVEST, HOPS & HOUNDS A benefit outdoor dining event with your dog featuring farm-to-table dining catered by Perez Catering.

Locally crafted wines and beers. One hundred percent of the proceeds will go to helping community-based nonprofits that help animals and children. Both the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter and the nonprofit Unchained are beneficiaries of this year’s event. 4-8 p.m. Living with Dogs Training Complex, 8022 Soquel Drive, Aptos. coastaldogs.com.

Donation $25.

FALL FEST Walnut Avenue Family and Women’s Center is shutting down Walnut Avenue in downtown Santa Cruz to host a communityfocused street fair with live music, local vendors, food trucks, beer and wine, and kid’s activities.

11 a.m. Walnut Avenue Women’s Center, 303 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz. wafwc.org. Free.

GROUPS OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Do you have

CALENDAR a problem with food? Please check out our free, friendly 12-step support groups with the solution. Teens and adults welcome.

11 a.m.-Noon. Watsonville Community Hospital, 75 Nielson St., Watsonville. santacruzoa.org. Free.

QIGONG FOR WOMEN LIVING WITH CANCER WomenCARE offers a group to learn specific tools for managing side effects of cancer treatments. Meets every third Saturday. 2-3 p.m. Pacific Cultural Center, 1307 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz. fsa-cc.org/womencare. Free.

PILLS ANONYMOUS OF SANTA CRUZ Twelve Steps of Recovery. Our primary purpose is to carry the message to the addict who still suffers. Located in the Sutter room in the East end on the first floor. 8 a.m. Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. pillsanonymous.org. Free.

B12 HAPPY HOUR Come and get your Happy Hour B12 shot. Your body needs B12 to create energy and is not well absorbed from the diet or in capsule form.

Everyone can benefit from a B12 shot!

After B12 injections many patients feel a natural boost in energy. 10 a.m.-Noon.

Santa Cruz Naturopathic Medical Center, 736 Chestnut St., Santa Cruz. 477-1377 or scnmc.com. $29.

MUSIC UGLY BEAUTY PLAYS BEAUTIFUL JAZZ Take a musical journey from boogie-woogie of the ’30s, gypsy jazz of the ’40s and New Orleans funk of the ’60s and ’70s, as well as the most popular jazz tunes. 6-9 p.m.

Davenport Roadhouse, 1 Davenport Ave., Davenport. davenportroadhouse.com. Free.

VOLUNTEER 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.

ARTS ACTORS’ THEATRE PRESENTS ‘THE MOUNTAINTOP’ Winner of the 2010 Olivier Award for Best New Play, Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop is set at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in 1968, on the night before Martin Luther King is assassinated and on the day he delivered a speech in which he foretold his own fate. 8 p.m. Actors Theatre, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. sccat.org. $25/$22.

CLASSES SUBUD INTRODUCTION Subud is an international spiritual community whose members experience an active moving exercise that can lead to deep inner healing and an experience of the divine.11 a.m.Noon. Subud Santa Cruz, 3800 Old San Jose Road, Soquel. 476-3020. Free.

INTRODUCTORY SESSION IN THE ART OF COMMUNICATION The purpose of Nonviolent Communication is to speak and listen in a manner that reduces defensiveness, blame, and subtle demands.

The practice of NVC involves listening past another person’s criticism to hear the needs that they are trying to meet. 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Arts Council Santa Cruz County, 1070 RIver St., Santa Cruz. artscouncilsc.org.

TALK ABOUT IT: COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUG MISUSE We hear a lot in the news about the opioid epidemic, but less about how we are going to stop this crisis. Santa Cruz County has been working in collaboration with doctors, pharmacists, and other community members on prevention. Please join us to celebrate these prevention efforts, learn more, and get involved. Noon-4 p.m. Garfield Church, 111 Errett Circle, Santa Cruz.

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.

GROUPS OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Speaker/ Discussion meeting. Have a problem with food? OA is a 12-Step support group to stop compulsive eating behaviors. 9:05-10:15 a.m.

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POKEMON SUN AND MOON VIDEO GAME TOURNAMENT Pokemon Nintendo 3DS Tournament for the latest release of Pokemon “Sun and Moon.” Over $350 in prizes. Open to all ages. Noon. Level Up Video Games, 113 Locust St., Santa Cruz. levelupvideogames.com. $5.

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Sutter Room, 2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. santacruzoa.org or 4297906. Free.

NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS—SANTA CRUZ AREA OF NORTHERN CA, SUTTER HOSPITAL Nar-Anon Family Groups meet to support the friends and families of addicts.

We share experience, strength and hope to reduce the stress related to living with active addiction and after that to live life on life’s terms. We are a 12-Step program.

6:30-8 p.m. Sutter Maternity Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. 477-2200. Free.

MUSIC OPEN BLUEGRASS JAM Got banjo? Come to our open bluegrass jam on the garden stage. Every Sunday through October. 5-8 p.m. The Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. 429-6994 or thecrepeplace.com. Free.

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FALL HARVEST FESTIVAL AT THE UCSC FARM Join us on the 30-acre UCSC Farm to celebrate the fall harvest season. Enjoy live music, kids’ activities, great food, an apple pie baking contest, talks, tours and more at our fall open house event. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. UCSC Hay Barn, 306 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz. casfs.ucsc.edu or 459-3240.

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SUMMER OF LOVE MUSICAL CELEBRATION Join the chancel choir and a host of other musicians for an evening of music, food, fun, and groovy vibes. Tickets available at church office. 6:30 p.m. Peace United Church of Christ, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. peaceunited.org. $30/$10.

MONDAY 10/2 ARTS POETRY OPEN MIC CELEBRATES NEW VENUE What started four years ago as a small group of poets performing at the Tannery Arts Center has quickly evolved into an entire collective of Santa Cruzans and UCSC students that hosts weekly poetry events. 4 p.m. Tannery Arts Center, 1010 River St. Suite 112, Santa Cruz. 621-6226. Free.

CLASSES BEGINNING BALLET WITH DIANA ROSE Ballet for the beginning adult student with little or no ballet training. Learn ballet terminology and fine tune placement, posture and technique. 1:30-2:30 p.m.

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

TRIYOGA LEVEL 1 YOGA CLASS Enjoy the wealth of TriYoga. Taught by Terri Richards.

9:30 a.m. 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz.

464-8100. $15.

SANTA CRUZ CORE FITNESS + REHAB SPT CORE This small group exercise program has between two-five clients.

All sessions incorporate strength, cardio, stability, toning, cardio conditioning, and flexibility into an undulating periodization model. Days and times vary, please see our website for more information. 317 Potrero St., Santa Cruz. 425-9500.

CHI KINETICS Chi Kinetics is a system of exercise that I have developed after studying sports medicine, psychology, health, meditation, dance, and different forms of exercise for the past 30 PLANT-BASED NUTRITION INFO-DINING This course is for beginners, repeaters, and everyone in between. Please let me know if you have any special dietary considerations or requests. This is your class and it’s my pleasure to serve you. 6 p.m. New Leaf Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. pcrm.org. $110/$28.

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BUDDHA’S FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS—A FIVE WEEK CLASS The Four Noble Truths are the foundation of all of the Buddha’s teachings. Legend says that they were the first guidance given after the Buddha awakened under the bodhi tree. Email registration required.

7-9 p.m. 6265 Hwy. 9, Felton. 212-6641 or gardenblessings@gmail.com. $200/$60.

BUDDHIST PRECEPTS FOR DIFFICULT TIMES How do we respond to a world that is increasingly polarized and fearful. These four weekly meetings will discuss the application of Buddhist principles in our current political climate. 6:30 p.m. Ocean Gate Zen Center, 920 41st Ave. Suite F, Santa Cruz. oceangatezen.org.

VIBRANT FOOD, VIBRANT LIFE DINNER PARTY Are you interested in the health benefits of a whole foods, plant-based diet? Here is your chance to enjoy a delicious whole foods, plantbased meal in community and learn about the health benefits of such a lifestyle. This is a free event, but you must register everyone in your party. 6-9 p.m. Location provided upon RSVP. 607-1374 or tasteslikelove.com. Free.

GROUPS OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Overeaters Anonymous is a 12-Step support program for those who wish to stop compulsive eating, including anorexia and bulimia. 12:15-

SUNDAY 10/1 DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS SERIES The first of a six-program concert series, pianist Alon Goldstein and cellist Inbal Segev each boast an impressive list of concerts and venues across the world. This event will feature work of Scarlatti, Brahms, Tsintsadze and others, and includes an interactive talk between artists and the audience.

INFO: 4 p.m. Peace United Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. distinguishedartists.org.

General admission $35.

1:15 p.m. Trinity Presbyterian Church, 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. 476-8291. Free.

Live Oak Senior Center, 1777 Capitola Road, Santa Cruz. 476-3272. Free.

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

12:30-2 p.m. WomenCARE, 2901 Park Ave., Suite A1, Soquel. 457-2273. Free.

SANTA CRUZ BODYWORK COLLECTIVE Santa Cruz Bodywork Collective is a forum for bodyworkers from various disciplines to gather monthly to elevate their repertoire of touch and enhance their self-care tool kit.

7 p.m. Cypress Health Institute, 1119 Pacific Ave., Suite 300, Santa Cruz. 476-2115. Free.

SUPPORT GROUP FOR SURVIVORS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: WOMEN’S GROUP We provide a safe and supportive environment for healing from child sexual abuse. Together we break through isolation, develop healthy coping skills, reduce shame, and build healthy boundaries. 1 p.m. Family Service Agency of the Central Coast, 104 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz. 423-7601.

TOASTMASTERS Toastmasters is an international organization creating confident public speakers and strong leadership skills through supportive, constructive peer support. Overcome your fear of public speaking whether you present a toast, business or public address in a friendly and fun atmosphere. 6:30-8 p.m.

SPIRITUAL MONDAY DROP-IN MEDITATION Basic meditation instruction and practice. The leader will give brief instructions to get you set up for some stabilizing meditation, followed by guided reflection meditations on various Buddhist topics. 6-7 p.m. p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 462-8383. Donation.

TUESDAY 10/3 CLASSES CHAIR YOGA WITH SUZI Instructor Suzi

CALENDAR Mahler, CMT, NE will guide you through a series of gentle seated yoga postures that are performed slowly and with breath awareness. This wonderfully therapeutic practice will help you increase strength and range of motion. 9:30 a.m. California Grey Bears, 2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz.

234-6791. $5.

YOGA FOR 50-PLUS This slower-paced class is designed for the specific needs of midlife and older students. Learn yoga in a supportive, light-hearted atmosphere.

Props and modifications are used to increase mobility, flexibility and strength.

Noon. Yoga Within, 8035 Soquel Drive, Aptos. 408-506-0996. $15.

LEVEL 1 TRIYOGA CLASS TriYoga for Level 1 with Angela. Strengthen the whole body and free the hips and spine. 5:30-7 p.m.

Triyoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. triyoga-santacruz.com. $15.

AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT Come explore Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Classes. These engaging and potent classes will heighten your vitality as they increase your self-awareness, flexibility, and overall well-being. Classes are on-going. Pre registration required. 9:30 a.m.

Pacific Cultural Center, 1307 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz. 332-7347.

IMPROVING ADRENAL AND THYROID HEALTH Experiencing low energy, anxiety or depression? Learn the signs and symptoms of adrenal fatigue and a low-functioning thyroid.

Dr. Tonya Fleck will discuss testing and ways to treat and heal both glands so you can regain vitality. 6-7 p.m. New Leaf Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. 426-1306. $5.

WRITING YOUR BEST BUSINESS PLAN This seminar will help you identify the most appropriate business planning format for starting or expanding a business, marketing basics, and a strategic plan to put your business on the road to success. 2-5 p.m.

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. 420-5260.

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.

FRIED CHICKEN, BUBBLES & BOURBON Nothing pairs better with fried chicken than sparkling wine, so each Tuesday we’re opening a different bottle of bubbly to pour by the glass all evening. For those who prefer a stiff cocktail to the fizz, “The Bitter Liberal,” a house cocktail featuring Benchmark bourbon, will be discounted to $8 all evening.

5 p.m. Soif Wine Bar & Restaurant, 105 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz. 423-2020. $10.

GROUPS OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Tools of Recovery Study. OA is a 12-step support group to stop eating compulsively, including anorexia and bulimia. 1-2 p.m. Trinity Presbyterian Church, Youth Room, 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. 429-7906 or santacruzoa.org. Free.

Sunday, October 1, 2017 10 am – 2 pm Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos

Over 55 professional potters, glass artists, jewelers and other craftspeople sell seconds and overstock at bargain prices!

www.seconds-sale.com

SUPPORT GROUP FOR SURVIVORS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: MEN’S GROUP We help men understand that they are not alone and are not to blame. In a safe, supportive environment, we will use writing and emotional release exercises to help confront the violation, and recognize anger.

Pre registration required. 7 p.m. 104 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz. 423-9444.

Pottery and Glass Seconds Sale

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP WomenCARE support group for women newly diagnosed, or undergoing treatment, for cancer.

Registration required. 12:30-2 p.m. 2901 Park Ave. Suite A1, Soquel. 457-2273. Free.

SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Walnut Avenue Family and Women’s Center offers free drop-in socio-educational support groups open to those who have or are currently experiencing domestic violence and that identify as female. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Walnut Avenue Women’s Center, 303 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz. wafwc.org. Free.

MUSIC SUNSET BEACH BOWLS AND BONFIRE The Ocean Symphony joins the Crystal Bowl Sound Journey. Allow this multi-sensory experience to carry you beyond the mind-locks of your consciousness to the deeper regions of your soul. Bring a blanket. Bring a friend and nestle into the sand. 7:30 p.m. Moran Lake Park and Beach, East Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. 333-6736.

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NAVIGATING THE TEEN YEARS WITH POSITIVE DISCIPLINE A six-week class series through which you will understand the changes in the teenage brain, learn to communicate with dignity and respect, practice listening in new ways, make agreements and follow through with kindness and firmness. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Adult School, 319 La Fonda Ave., Santa Cruz. pdcrcc.org.

FOOD & WINE

Pottery & Glass Seconds Sale

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MUSIC CALENDAR

LOVE YOUR

LOCAL BAND

POORHOUSE MILLIONAIRES Legendary blues artist John Lee Hooker once said, “The blues is a feeling, you can’t get it out of no book.”

If that’s true then “Big” Earl Matthews, singer and songwriter for Big Earl and the Cryin’ Shame and the Poorhouse Millionaires, definitely has them.

“The blues is always happening for me, but my taste goes throughout all American music,” he says.

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That expansive taste is potent in the Poorhouse Millionaires. Saturated in the blues, the five-piece rock band also blasts through a variety of American flavors like rock, funk, folk and early rockabilly.

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“Every artist and musician is just trying to find sincerity, and I find it more in the rootsy Americana,” Matthews says. “I want to make people dance and feel.”

Started in 2011, the band began as a duo featuring Matthews’ baritone vocals and Ray Vasira on ukulele. Last year Matthews and Vasira added Josh Lounsberry on bass, Charles Tyler Rogers on keys, Noah Wilson on guitar and Vasira on drums.

Although they’re technically from Modesto, the Poorhouse Millionaires have been making themselves honorary locals with regular gigs at the upstairs Catalyst bar as part of the club’s weekly Lone Star Lounge, where they will be playing Sept. 30 and Oct. 21. Each Saturday, the Lounge features free shows from different bands playing the blues, country and everything in between. MAT WEIR INFO: 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30.

Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz.

Free. 429-4135.

ELIZABETH COOK

THURSDAY 9/28 ACOUSTIC

PIERRE BENSUSAN If you go onto Pierre Bensusan’s website, there’s a photo of the guitarist embracing his acoustic guitar with the intimacy and seriousness one might use to hold their lover the night before they head out to war. What I’m saying is that Bensusan is connected to his instrument, and his gentle New Age-folkCeltic finger-picking ballads sound like the musical equivalent of a man making sweet love to his wife of 25 years. It’s not really sexual; it’s a level of togetherness so profound, you can’t help but get swept away in it. AARON CARNES INFO: 7:30 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $15. 335-2800.

FRIDAY 9/29 COUNTRY

ELIZABETH COOK If “Sometimes it Takes Balls to be a Woman” sounds like a country song you always kind of wished someone would get around to writing, then

Elizabeth Cook is the singer-songwriter for you. That single, off her Rodney Crowell-produced 2007 album Balls, earned her the most attention she’d gotten since beginning her career in 2000 on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry. But it wasn’t really until two appearances in 2012 on Late Night with David Letterman—one with Jason Isbell of the Drive-By Truckers, another coutry artist who took way too long to get his due—that Cook got mainstream attention. But being on the outside is still her thing—in 2014, she won an Ameripolitan Music Award in the “Outlaw Female” category, and she now hosts a popular show on Sirius XM Outlaw channel. I guess sometimes it takes … oh right, she already said that. STEVE PALOPOLI

Language. His solo material is a much more mellow acoustic version of his Universal Language songwriting. Crooked Branches is a killer six-piece band that takes the line that separates folk and soul, and obliterates it. It’s down-home storytelling that also has a funky groove to it. You’ll dance, you’ll sing along, you’ll think about the purpose of life.

Yay! AC

INFO: 7:30 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $22. 479-9421.

It’s hard to imagine anyone who hasn’t heard of Detroit rap group Insane Clown Posse (aka ICP). For almost 30 years, the face-painted duo has built a family of fans— known as Juggalos—around their blend of horrorcore hip-hop. Their wild live performances are literally drenched in Faygo brand soda, which Juggalos happily bathe in while shouting “Woop Woop” and “Fam-ah-ly.” Yet their self-proclaimed “most hated band in the world” title is no laughing matter,

SATURDAY 9/30 INDIE-FOLK

CROOKED BRANCHES & MOSHE VILOZNY Moshe Vilozny is the former singer of local world beat ensemble Universal

INFO: 8:30 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $10. 479-1854.

SUNDAY 10/1 HIP-HOP

INSANE CLOWN POSSE

MUSIC

BE OUR GUEST SANTA CRUZ FILM FESTIVAL

L.A. WITCH

as ICP is constantly attacked in the media. The FBI labeled Juggalos as a gang, which thousands of fans protested in Washington D.C. on the same day as the pro-Trump “Mother of all Rallies.” No, it’s not you—2017 really is that weird. MAT WEIR

MONDAY 10/2 LATIN JAZZ

SPANISH HARLEM ORCHESTRA What’s in a name? In the case of the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, it’s much more than a mere assertion of regional pride. The moniker evokes the pioneering Latin Dance bands of Machito, Tito Rodriguez, and Tito Puente, who laid the foundation for salsa in the 1940s and ’50s. In the hands of pianist/arranger/producer Oscar Hernandez, the 13-member SHO has earned two Grammy Awards and kept the classic salsa Duraflame burning brightly. Now based in Los Angeles, Hernandez earned respect in salsa circles recording with conga legend Ray Barretto in the early 1980s, but really came into his

INFO: 7 and 9 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $35/adv, $40/door.

427-2227.

TUESDAY 10/3

Preservation Hall Legacy Quintet pays tribute to the rich, sustaining legacy of Preservation Hall, the legendary music venue in New Orleans.

If you’re interested in gospel, soul, or the impact New Orleans has had on popular music, do not miss this show. CJ INFO: 7:30 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $40/gen, $60/gold. 423-8209.

NEW ORLEANS/GOSPEL/SOUL

ROCK

IRMA THOMAS AND GUESTS

L.A. WITCH

If Irma Thomas or the Blind Boys of Alabama or the Preservation Hall Legacy Quintet were coming to town, it would be a really big deal.

The fact that all three are performing together is, for fans of American soul and gospel music, a bit staggering. Thomas is affectionately known as the “Soul Queen” of New Orleans, and for good reason. She’s been holding court in the Crescent City since the 1960s and has been one of the most influential voices in R&B and gospel in the last 50 years. The Blind Boys of Alabama is a long-running, Grammy-winning gospel harmony group with roots that stretch back to the ’30s. The

INFO: The Santa Cruz Film Festival runs Wednesday-Sunday, Oct. 11-15 at multiple venues. For a complete listing of films and ticket information, visit santacruzfilmfestival.org. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 4 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the festival.

Haunting, distorted, darkly melodic—these are just some of the ways to describe garage rock trio L.A. Witch. This isn’t their first Catalyst performance, but it looks to be their largest, hot on the heels of their self-titled debut album’s release on Suicide Squeeze Records. The nine-track LP perfectly captures the group’s aesthetic and live sound, delivering sweet pop tunes coated in existential gloom.

With all of the press they’ve been receiving, we’re guessing this might be the last time fans will get to see L.A. Witch in a room the size of the Atrium. MW INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $10/adv, $12/door. 429-4135.

IN THE QUEUE APOCALYPTICA

Cello tribute to Metallica. Wednesday at Rio Theatre INCITERS & PACIFIC ROOTS

Northern Soul double-bill. Thursday at Moe’s Alley SOFIA TALVIK

Swedish singer-songwriter with a knack for Americana. Friday at Lille Aeske BEGGAR KINGS

Tribute to the Rolling Stones and Gregg Allman. Saturday at Don Quixote’s WILLIAM MATHENY

West Virginia-born and raised singersongwriter. Sunday at Crepe Place

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INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $28.50/adv, $30/door. 429-4135.

own during a long stint with Ruben Blades’ popular and innovative band Seis Del Solar. Deep in the tradition, he’s a forceful pianist with a big, ringing sound. ANDREW GILBERT

In 2001, Jane Sullivan and Johnny Davis embarked on an ambitious project to create a local film festival to showcase independent films by national and international filmmakers, as well as filmmakers right here in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties.

This year’s festival includes Cannes prize-winning feature The Cinema Travellers; a documentary about world-famous saw player Tom Scribner, whose statue is outside of Bookshop Santa Cruz; Behind the Curtain: Todrick Hall (above), a documentary feature about growing up black and gay in a small town in Texas; and dozens of other outstanding films. CAT JOHNSON

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LIVE MUSIC

Thursday September 28th 8:30pm $7/10 Big Band Soul With

THE INCITERS

+ PACIFIC ROOTS Friday September 29th 9pm $9/12 Soul/Rock/Swing Double Bill

ROYAL JELLY JIVE + HARRY & THE HITMEN Saturday September 30th 8:30pm $10 Double Bill/Double B-Day Bash With

CROOKED BRANCHES + MOSHE V BAND Wednesday October 4th 8:30pm $12/15 “Keeping The Dead Alive”

WED

Devils of Loudun 8p

APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

AC Myles 6-8p

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

9/28

FRI

9/29

SAT

9/30

SUN

10/1

MON

10/2

TUE

10/3

Trucha 7p Al Frisby 6-8p

Ali Kumar & Little Johnny Lawton 6-8p

Hot Roux 6-8p

SA90, The Defenders & Tvsk, Dingus, Old Iron, The Box Goth Night 9p more $5 9p Anchors $5 9p

Rascal Miles, Shootdang, John Underwood $5 9p

Taco Tuesday 9p

Karaoke

Karaoke

James Murray 6-8p

Minor Thirds Trio 6:30-9:30p

Lloyd Whitley 1p Broken Shades 6-8p

Andy Santana Duo 6-8p

Minor Thirds Trio 7-10p

Warcorpse, The Devils of Loudun & more $5 9p

THE BLUE LOUNGE 529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

Crazy Horse Punk Night

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Aftershock 9:30p-1a

Karaoke 6p-Close

Karaoke 6p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

The Get Down Free 8p

Charlie Don’t Surf Free 8p

Swing Dance 5:30p Erisy Watt Free 8p

The People’s Disco Free 8p

The Pearls Free 8p

Magpie Blues Band Free 8p

Comedy Free 8p

Alex Lucero & friends 8-11p

Karaoke 9-12:30a

Karaoke 9-12:30a

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

Thursday October 5th 8:30pm $7/10

CASA SORRENTO 393 Salinas St, Salinas

HALLWAY BALLERS JOEY HARKUM, NOMALAKADOJA

THU

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

CUBENSIS Black Flys Presents A Santa Cruz Fly Party

9/27

THE APPLETON GRILL 410 Rodriguez St, Watsonville

Comedy, 80s Night Free 8:30p

CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Apocalyptica $35/$38 7p

Borgore $25/$30 8p

CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Death Valley Girls $10/$12 8:30p

Rocker T $10 8:30p

G Jones $25/$30 8p Mickey Avalon $18/$20 Middle Kids $15 8:30p 8:30p

Insane Clown Posse $28.50/30 8p

Get the Led Out $25/$28 8p

Hed PE $15/$18 8p

L.A. Witch $10/$12 8:30p

Friday October 6th 9pm $14/18

Live Jamaican Reggae - CD Release

PREZIDENT BROWN + SOL SEED

Saturday October 7th 9pm $15/20

Afro/Latin/Cumbia/Funk - CD Release

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DJ WILLIAMS’ SHOTS FIRED

w/ Members Of KDTU Greyboy Allstars Dave Mathews Band & Slightly Stoopid Monday October 9th 8pm $25/30

Country Legend Debuts Moe’s With Band

JUNIOR BROWN Oct 11th MAMA MAGNOLIA + REDLIGHT DISTRICT Oct 12th MARC BROUSSARD Oct 13th THE COFFIS BROTHERS + DEAD WINTER CARPENTERS Oct 14th SHAWN MULLINS Oct 18th HUMAN EXPERIENCE + KR3TURE Oct 19th ELIGH, SCARUB, AMP LIVE & PURE POWERS

WWW.MOESALLEY.COM 1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz 831.479.1854

OPEN LATE EVERY NIGHT! wednesday 9/27

LEAD PONY w / ADULT SCHOOL w / THE SHOOBIES

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

thursday 9/28

THE CRAZY BEARD Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 Door

friday 9/29

PAT HULL w / DJ MONK EARL

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

saturday 9/30

BENEFIT TO AID DAVID PURGASON

BABEWATCH w / VAN GOAT

$10 to $20 sliding scale

sunday 10/1

OPEN BLUEGRASS JAM

Hey you pickers, pluckers, fiddlers, and grinners come on down and play from 5-8pm on our on our garden stage. Got banjo?

sunday 10/1

WILLIAM MATHENY AND THE STRANGE CONSTELLATIONS w / SUN MAIDEN w / ...AND HOD

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

429-6994

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

LOCATED ON THE BEACH

Amazing waterfront deck views.

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

See live music grid for this week’s bands.

STAND-UP COMEDY

Three live comedians every Sunday night.

HAPPY HOUR

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

VISIT OUR BEACH MARKET

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

DEAL WITH A VIEW

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

NOW SERVING BREAKFAST

Open for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Daily

(831) 476-4560

crowsnest-santacruz.com

LIVE MUSIC WED

9/27

CAVA CAPITOLA WINE BAR 115 San Jose Ave, Capitola

Summit Sol 6:30p

CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

CORK AND FORK 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

Open Mic 7-10p

CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Comedy 7p Lead Pony & more $8 9p

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

Hot Club Pacific $3 7:30p

THU

9/28

Kip Allert 6:30p

FRI

9/29

JP The Band 6:30p

SAT

9/30

Dave D’Oh 6:30p

John Michael 7-10p

Beach Cowboys 7-10p

The Crazy Beard $8 9p

Pat Hull, DJ Monk Earl $8 9p

Benefit to Aid David Purgason ft. Babewatch $10-$20 9p

Papiba & Friends $5 8:30p

Matt Masih & the Messengers $6 9p

SPUN $7 9:30p Ugly Beauty

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville

Greyhound 8p

FLYNN’S CABARET 6275 Hwy 9, Felton

Y La Bamba $10 7:30p

Pierre Bensusan $15 7:30p

Loose With the Truth $10 8:30p

The Beggar Kings Rolling Stones Classics $15/$18 8p

HENFLING’S 9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond

Flingo 7:30p

Silverback 8p

The Nightdriver 9p

Third Bowl 9p

KUUMBWA 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz LINWOOD’S BAR & GRILL 1 Chaminade Ln, Santa Cruz

10/1

MON

10/2

10/3

John Michael 1-4p

Open Bluegrass Jam 5p William Matheny $8 9p

Success, Give You Nothing, Get Married $8 9p

Elizabeth Cook $22-$32 7:30p

Loose Leaf Album Release Party $15 9p

Funk Night 7 Come 11 $6 9p Reggae Party Free 8p

Live Comedy $7 9p

Wednesday, September 27 • 7:30 pm

SIMRIT Tickets: brightstarevents.com

Friday, September 29 • 7:30 pm

ELIZABETH COOK Tickets: snazzyproductions.com

Saturday, September 30 • 9:00 pm

LOOS LEAF ALBUM RELEASE PARTY Tickets: brownpapertickets.com Monday, October 2 • 7 & 9 pm

SPANISH HARLEM ORCHESTRA Grammy award-winning Latin jazz ensemble Tuesday, October 3 • 7:30 pm

IRMA THOMAS, THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, PRESERVATION HALL LEGACY QUINTET An evening of Southern voices, rhythms and melodies.

Roadhouse Karaoke 8p

Karaoke 10p Simrit $20-$35 7p

TUE

KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

DAV. ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport

HINDQUARTER BAR & GRILLE 303 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

SUN

Celebrating Creativity Since 1975

Spanish Harlem Orchestra $35/$40

AT THE RIO THEATRE

Thursday, October 5 • 7 pm

MICHAEL FEINBERG QUARTET FEATURING BILLY BUSS Up-and-coming bassist premiering music from his new album, alongside trumpeter Billy Buss.

1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS! Sunday, October 8 • 7 pm

MARK GUILIANA JAZZ QUARTET Imaginative drummer heard on David Bowie’s final album, Blackstar.

1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS! Wednesday, October 11 • 7:30 pm

MAKANA Tickets: snazzyproductions.com Thursday, October 12 • 7 pm

1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS! Saturday, October 14 • 8:30 pm

SIN SISTERS BURLESQUE: HALLOWEEN SHOW! Tickets: eventbrite.com Monday, October 16 • 7 pm

JOE SANDERS INFINITY WITH JOHN ELLIS, TAYLOR EIGSTI & GREGORY HUTCHINSON Acclaimed bassist leads an exceptional acoustic quartet.

1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS! Tuesday, October 17 • 7 & 9 pm

ROBBEN FORD A modern master of the blues guitar.

Thursday, October 19 • 7 pm

BANDA MAGDA A glorious fusion of global sounds.

Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org Dinner served one hour before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer available. All ages welcome.

320-2 Cedar St | Santa Cruz 831.427.2227 kuumbwajazz.org

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PANAMONK REVISITED: 20TH ANNIVERSARY - DANILO PEREZ, BEN STREET & ADAM CRUZ Thelonious Monk’s iconoclastic compositions, with a Latin tinge.

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LIVE MUSIC

International Music Hall and Restaurant FINE MEXICAN AND AMERICAN FOOD Wed Sep 27 Thu Sep 28

Fri Sep 29

Y La Bamba

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

10/1

Aki Kumar & Little Jonny Lawton 6p

The Westside Sheiks 6p

Little Jonny Lawton 6p

Al Frisby 1p Rev. Steve Sams 6p

Dennis Herrera 6p

The Inciters & Pacific Roots $7/$10 8:30p

Royal Jelly Jive & Harry & the Hitmen $9/$12 8p

Crooked Branches & Mosche V Band $10 8p

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

Eden Roc 9:30p-2a

Darker Daze 9:30p-2a

Loose With The Truth Grateful Dead Music

The Beggar Kings

Rolling Stones Classics

Low Lily with John Whelan Irish, Scottish, New England, Appalachian

Story Road feat. Colleen

Rainey & Members of Molly’s Revenge

Shakedown Street

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

Depth! 9:30p-2a

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

Trivia 8p

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

The Lil Smokies plus Mipso 8pm Concert

Open Mic 4 -7p Little Petie & the Mean Old Man

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

Bluegrass, Newgrass, Alt-Country

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

Toby Grey Acoustic Favorites 6:30p

COMIN G RIGH T U P

Mon. Oct. 9 Joe Robinson plus Mark Mooney 25 y/o Aussie Guitar Virtuoso Tue. Oct. 10 Jon Stickley Trio Gypsy Jazz, Bluegrass, Rapid-fire Flatpicking w/parent Thu. Oct. 12 The Risky Biscuits plus The Good Bad Fresh off Strawberry Music Fest Fri. Oct. 13 The Leftovers, Monkeyhands, Brain Food, North Coast Rovers Sat. Oct. 14 Be Natural Music Youth Rock Concert & Halloween Fundraiser! 1pm Matinee Sat. Oct. 14 California Beach Boys All the Beach Boys hits!

Thu. Oct. 19 Gypsy Soul Fri. Oct. 20 In the Spirit of Lennon plus Come Together Sun. Oct. 22 Big Sandy & His Fly Rite Boys 2pm Matinee Sun Oct. 22 Rocky Horror Show Live in Concert 7:30pm Mon. Oct. 23 Paul Collins The Hits & Stories of 40 Years of Rock n’ Roll of “The Beat” and The Nerves”

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

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Wednesday, September 27 • All Ages @ The Rio

APOCALYPTICA

PLAYS METALLICA BY FOUR CELLOS Wednesday, Sept. 27 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

DEATH VALLEY GIRLS

BORGORE

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

ROCKER T

plus Luv Fyah also Lujan

Friday, September 29 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

MICKEY AVALON

G Jones

Saturday, September 30 • Ages 16+ plus

Eprom

Saturday, September 30 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

MIDDLE KIDS

plus Breaker

Sunday, October 1 • Ages 16+

Insane Clown Posse Sunday, October 1 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

HED PE

plus Among The First

Tuesday, Oct. 3 Ages 21+

The American

Led Zeppelin

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

L.A. WITCH

10/3

Tuesday Jazz 7p Rob Vye 6p

Rasta Cruz Reggae Party 9:30p

Blues Mechanics 6p

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

Comedy Open Mic 8-11:30p

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

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Thursday, Sept. 28 Ages 18+

TUE

DJ Higdon 2-5p

Taylor Rae 6p

Foreverland Electrifying 14-Piece Michael Jackson Tribute James Lee Stanley & Bob Lind 2pm Matinee

10/2

Bleu10p-12a

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

MON

The Wail Aways 7-9p

Dead Tribute from Rocky Mtns.

Bob Lind megahit “Elusive Butterfly”

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SUN

MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

$17 adv./$20 door 21 + 8pm

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9/30

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

French Guitarist Extraordinaire

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

Sun Oct 8

SAT

Grateful Sundays 5:30p

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

Sun Oct 8

9/29

Tsunami 8p

$15 adv./$18 door seated <21 w/parent 7:30pm

Sat Oct 7

FRI

Joint Chiefs 8p

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

Fri Oct 6

9/28

Acoustic Soul 7:30p

Tribute to Gregg Allman

Thu Oct 5

THU

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HUGE SERVINGS Emma Stone and Steve Carell play Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in ‘Battle of the Sexes.’

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Directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris return to Santa Cruz with ‘Battle of the Sexes’ BY STEVE PALOPOLI

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onathan Dayton and Valerie Faris have a special bond with Santa Cruz. The husbandand-wife directing team, who got their start in music videos and advertising, had a big indie hit with their debut feature film, 2006’s Little Miss Sunshine—and it got a huge boost from Santa Cruz audiences, who turned out in droves and kept it running locally for months. Dayton and Faris did a Q&A for Little Miss Sunshine back then, and they’ll do the same for their newest film, Battle of the Sexes, after the 7 p.m. screening at the Del Mar on Thursday, Sept. 28.

Some might wonder what turned Little Miss Sunshine into one of the most popular movies of the 21st

century in Santa Cruz, but Dayton and Faris have no doubt about their secret weapon: Valerie’s dad, Jim Faris, a longtime Hollywood film editor who retired to Santa Cruz in 1983.

“It’s due to my father,” says Faris.

“He wore the [Little Miss Sunshine] T-shirt, the ‘Everybody Pretend to be Normal’ shirt, almost every day for probably three or four years. Every store, particularly grocery stores, he would talk to every clerk: ‘Have you seen Little Miss Sunshine? My daughter made that.’ The epitome of a proud father.”

“It’s the power of a single person and his campaign on behalf of his daughter,” says Dayton.

The elder Faris, best known

locally for co-founding the UCSC Lifelong Learning Institute, passed away last year at the age of 97.

“He had the time of his life in Santa Cruz,” says Faris. “It was the happiest 30 years of his life. That community is just so incredible.”

When the directors return to Santa Cruz this week, it will be for a much different project than fans of Little Miss Sunshine or their 2012 film Ruby Sparks might expect—at least on the surface.

Their previous projects were small stories about quirky characters; Battle of the Sexes tells the story of arguably the most famous tennis match of all time: Billie Jean King’s 1973 victory over Bobby Riggs, the former champion who claimed women players

were inferior and could not beat him even in retirement. Emma Stone stars as King, and Steve Carell plays Riggs.

“Even though it is a big story, and it is about a very famous event, I think what really interested us was really the personal stories, and getting intimate with these characters,” says Faris. “Which is really what always interests us—the characters and their relationships and their struggles.”

“It was definitely a matter of sharing something that the public was unaware of at the time,” says Dayton. “So whether you were alive then, or coming on the story now, there’s a lot beneath the headlines.”

But wasn’t it more intimidating to take on a real-life story that so many people are familiar with?

“Very intimidating,” says Dayton.

“On so many levels,” says Faris, illustrating the couple’s truly startling knack for finishing each other’s sentences. “Billie Jean was involved early on with the development of the project, and then during prep.

So we were very aware of getting her approval, and wanting her to be happy with it, and wanting her to be able to support the movie. And she is fully supporting it now, which is incredible. For two-and-a-half years, we were living in fear of …” “… Letting her down,” says Dayton. “We’re talking about a story of a woman coming to terms with her sexuality while being married and being in the public spotlight.

So these are things that have to be handled delicately. And also, by having Steve and Emma in the film, we knew we had the potential to reach an audience with subject matter that isn’t normally seen in a sports movie or a …” “ …. Mainstream movie,” says Faris.

With a strong opening last weekend and enthusiastic reviews, Battle of the Sexes could be their biggest movie yet. But they’ll have to do it without their secret weapon.

“We really miss him on this one,” says Faris.

So does Santa Cruz.

Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton will discuss ‘Battle of the Sexes’ at a Q&A session after a 7 p.m. screening at the Del Mar Theatre on Thursday, Sept. 28. The film opens Friday at the Del Mar.

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‘WILL YOU WRITE A BOOK? WRITE A BOOK! AND THEN GO TO LUNCH! Kevin Spacey plays the mentor of J.D.

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Salinger (Nicholas Hoult) in ‘Rebel in the Rye.’

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Write of Passage Focus fractures in Salinger drama ‘Rebel In the Rye’ BY LISA JENSEN

W

riting is not a spectator sport. To make a writer’s life interesting in a visual medium like the movies, a filmmaker usually has to focus on the eccentricity of the writer’s personality, or the drama of his relationships, or the historical significance of the times the writer lives in.

In Rebel In the Rye, filmmaker Danny Strong aims for all of the above in dramatizing the life of J. D. Salinger for the screen. He wisely sticks more or less to the time frame before and immediately following the creation of Salinger’s groundbreaking coming-of-age novel, The Catcher In the Rye. But

Strong loses focus by stuffing his movie with too many incidental details, like an early draft of a novel with too much material left in that the author can’t bear to cut.

The main question Strong sets out to address is how a privileged college dropout with a smart mouth comes to create so iconoclastic and subversive a character as Holden Caulfield. It’s a good question, and the short answer is: practice, practice, practice. And in the earlier, most effective scenes, we see how this plays out, when footloose Jerry Salinger (Nicholas Hoult), having already washed out of New York University, startles his parents with the decision to enter the creative

writing program at Columbia.

Always scribbling in a notepad, Jerry finds fiction “so much more truthful than reality.” At Columbia, he falls in with curmudgeonly prof Whit Burnett (Kevin Spacey), who also edits the literary magazine, Story, on the side. Whit tells Jerry he’s failed “to turn sarcasm into narrative” in his stories, and cautions him that “voice turns into ego if it overwhelms the story.”

These are the movie’s best scenes, as Jerry evolves from a cheeky kid picking up girls at the Stork Club into a person who discovers a passion to actually do something.

Whit becomes his mentor, coaches him through the rejection process

as he starts sending out his stories, and publishes Jerry’s first Holden Caulfield story in his own magazine.

But World War II interrupts his life and the movie. While he later says writing Holden stories saved his life in the war, images of battle and the liberation of a concentration camp so haunt him that he lands in a military psychiatric ward stateside, unable to write. It’s not until he comes across a meditation circle in the park and meets a guru who teaches him to remove “distractions” from his life to establish a safe place to write that Jerry is able to produce his Holden novel—equipped with a deeper understanding of life’s complexities (thanks to the war, so we’re told), and acquiring the reclusive habits that would make him notorious for the rest of his life.

Women are like brief pit stops in Jerry’s progress around the track, but they’re never around long enough to make much of an impact. Oona O’Neill (Zoey Deutch), daughter of the famous playwright, Eugene, is an underage vamp he meets in a nightclub. Claire (Lucy Boynton) is a sophisticate who intrigues him by not fawning all over his book.

But after initial flirting, followed by zero relationship-building, both women fade away, Oona reduced to a painful memory, while Claire’s only purpose, plotwise, is to disrupt his Spartan regimen with a couple of kids. I guess both women qualify as some of those distractions Jerry’s guru warns him about.

The final quarter of the movie starts to unravel, with Strong trying to introduce too many late-inning elements he doesn’t have time to pay off—disturbing fanboys stalking Jerry, the entire Claire subplot, Jerry’s rapprochement with his disapproving dad (Victor Garber), a German wife who disappears after a few frames— when all we really want to see resolved is Jerry’s relationship with Whit. We get there eventually, but not before a lot of the movie’s early energy is frittered away in trying to decide which story it wants to tell.

REBEL IN THE RYE **1/2 (out of four) With Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Spacey, and Zoey Deutch. Written and directed by Danny Strong.

An IFC release. Rated PG-13. 106 minutes

FILM NEW THIS WEEK AMERICAN MADE Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman last teamed up for Edge of Tomorrow, a movie that was incredibly enjoyable, mostly because you got to see Cruise die over and over. Somehow I doubt that’s going to be the case in their latest collaboration, American Made, which is based on the true story of Barry Seal, a pilot who smuggled drugs for Pablo Escobar, and then worked for the DEA and CIA as an informant.

Spoiler alert: if the movie is true to the real story, you will get to see Cruise die at least once. Liman directs. Sarah Wright and Domhnall Gleeson co-star. (R) 117 minutes.

BATTLE OF THE SEXES See story, page 50. Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. Starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell. (PG13) 121 minutes.

WOODSHOCK Kirsten Dunst’s mind is playin’ tricks on her in this thriller about a woman with a very loose grip on reality after she takes a powerful drug. Kate and Laura Mulleavy direct. Joe Cole and Jack Kilmer co-star. (R) 100 minutes.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS “Black Sabbath: The End of the End” is a new documentary about Ozzy Osbourne’s legendary metal band. “Pearl Jam: Let’s Play Two” captures Eddie Vedder and company in their Wrigley Field performances during the Chicago Cubs’ championship run in 2016.

NOW PLAYING BRAD’S STATUS Ben Stiller plays a middle-aged guy who’s somewhat angsty and dissatisfied, despite the fact that he has a successful career and comfortable life. In other words, Ben Stiller plays Ben Stiller? No, this guy’s name is Brad! Anyway, reconnecting with the college buddies he envies (as he shows his musical-prodigy son around Boston, where he went to school) gives him a different perspective on whether things turned out so bad after all. (R) 101 minutes. (SP) DOLORES A long-overdue look at a pioneering activist, this new documentary is an homage to United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, who at the ripe age of 87 seems just as vivacious as she was at 25. Though Dolores is celebratory of her life, it doesn’t put her on a pedestal. It’s a story of hope and a look at injustices still happening today, framed by some really fantastic music. Not rated.

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to achieve a common goal; b) learn to overcome their differences to achieve a common goal; or c) turn into Nick Fury and Deadpool, and then learn to overcome their differences to achieve a common goal? Patrick Hughes directs. (R) 118 minutes.

mysterious caretaker who helps her. Hey, you just read about this movie, and this is crazy. But your kid will like it, so see it maybe?

Eric Summer and Eric Warren direct. Also featuring the voices of Elle Fanning, Kate McKinnon and Mel Brooks. (PG) 89 minutes.

HOME AGAIN Comedy-romance features Reese Witherspoon as a single mom whose life is turned upside down when three younger guys come to live with her. No, no, no it’s not a genderbent Brady Bunch. Written and directed by Hallie-Myers Shyer.

Nat Wolff and Lake Bell co-star.

(PG-13) 97 minutes.

THE LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE Six young ninjas are entrusted with defending the island of Ninjago. Sounds great, except that one of them is the son of the supervillain who is its main threat. Awkward! Also, can we talk about how this is the third Lego movie in a row that is basically about daddy issues? Somebody in the Lego Corporation writer’s room needs to get a freakin’ therapist already. Featuring the voices of Jackie Chan, Dave Franco and Fred Armisen. Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher and Bob Logan direct. (PG) 101 minutes. (SP)

IT The new adaptation of what is arguably Stephen King’s defining horror masterpiece is finally here.

Which is a good thing, because if I see one more headline that says “If You Really Want to Have Nightmares, Watch This New Trailer From It” or “This New Clip From It is Sure to Give You Nightmares,” I’m gonna lose it. No, I don’t really want nightmares, thanks! And none of the clips actually did give me any, so just shut the hell up with the hype and bring on the damn clown already! Andy Muschietti directs.

Bill Skarsgard and Jeremy Ray Taylor star. (R) 135 minutes.

FRIEND REQUEST Don’t confuse this with Unfriended, the other horror movie about a teenager who gets rejected by her peers and starts killing them in ghost form via social media. Why do we need horror movies about social media anyway?

Isn’t Donald Trump’s Twitter account scary enough? Alycia Debnam-Carey and William Moseley star. Simon Verhoeven (grandson of Paul) directs. (R) 92 minutes. (SP)

KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE The first Kingsmen film, a breath of spy-movie fresh air from director Matthew Vaughn, was nearly perfect. But let’s face it, adding Jeff Bridges makes anything better; in this sequel, he and Channing Tatum play operatives from the American cousin of the titular British secret-agent group, who team up with Taron Egerton’s Eggsy (and a not-so-dead Colin Firth) to save the world. Julianne Moore, Halle Berry and Mark Strong co-star. Vaughn directs.

(R) 141 minutes. (SP)

THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD Pop quiz! Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson star in this actioncomedy as the best bodyguard in the world and the world’s most notorious hitman. Will these mortal enemies a) learn to work together

LEAP! This animated musical adventure film is about an 11-yearold orphan who dreams of being a ballerina, and, against all odds, gets a chance to audition for the Paris Opera Ballet. It features the voice of Carly Rae Jepsen as a

LOGAN LUCKY If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “You know what this heist movie needs?

NASCAR!,” then this new Steven Soderbergh film is for you. Coming out of a self-imposed “retirement” that lasted four years—which actually is kind of a lifetime for him, since he used to put out like seven movies a year—his latest action-comedy has a fair amount of critical buzz, not to mention Channing Tatum, Adam Driver and Daniel Craig. Soderbergh directs.

(PG-13) 119 minutes.

MOTHER! After that weird and pret-ty, pret-ty lame Noah’s Ark movie, director Darren Aronofsky bounces back with a return to what he does best: freaking people the hell out.

Seriously, have you seen the trailer for this movie? I can’t even tell what it’s about, but it looks crazy AF, and should fit in nicely with the director’s disturbo repertoire. Aronofsky directs. Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem and Ed Harris star. (R) 121 minutes.

POLINA A young ballet student in Russia (Anastasia Shevtsova) is about to achieve her dream of performing in the

Bolshoi Ballet when new people in her life convince her to try for something riskier, but possibly even more rewarding. Juliette Binoche co-stars. Valerie Muller and Angelin Preljocaj direct.

(Not Rated) 108 minutes. (SP) REBEL IN THE RYE Reviewed this issue. Kevin Spacey and Sarah Paulson co-star. Danny Strong directs. (PG-13) 106 minutes. (SP) STRONGER Jake Gyllenhaal stars in the dramatization of the true story of Jeff Bauman, who lost both his legs in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and his hard-fought recovery. MIranda Richardson and Clancy Brown costar. David Gordon Green directs.

(R) 116 minutes. (SP) THE TRIP TO SPAIN If you’ve never tagged along on the culinary adventures of comic actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, eating and joking their way through England and Italy in the first two The Trip movies, it may take a few scenes to get in the groove with this third installment, The Trip to Spain. But if you’ve already acquired a taste for the deadpan improv style and freewheeling mimicry of these guys on the road, make sure your passport is in order, and get ready to laugh. With Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Not rated. 108 minutes. (Lisa Jensen) VICEROY’S HOUSE This film from the director of Bend It Like Beckham premiered earlier this year in India as part of the country’s 70th anniversary celebration, which certainly seems like an unlikely honor for a Brit-financed, English-language production. But as this sweeping historical epic tells the story of what goes on in the last viceroy’s house as India transitions from British rule, it actually make a lot of sense. Directed by Gurinder Chadha. Starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal and Michael Gambon.Not rated.

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FLATLINERS Seriously, though, why is there a Flatliners remake? The 1990 original was kind of a snoozefest, but at least it had Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts and Kevin Bacon. This remake, which covers the same goofy horror-lite territory of five medical students obsessed with stopping their hearts to create neardeath experiences, has Ellen Page, Diego Luna and somebody named Nina Dobrev. I’d rather re-watch the hilarious Flatliners tribute in last year’s Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. Niels Arden Oplev directs.

Kiersey Clemons and James Norton co-star. (PG-13) 108 minutes.

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

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We are so spoiled nationally, but especially locally, in that so many different foods are available to us, and the majority of these foods are of very good quality and also affordable.

That said, we often take for granted our morning cup of coffee, the chocolate bar we enjoy in the afternoon and the scoop of vanilla ice cream in our coffee or on our pie. These three luxury crops are primarily grown by smallholder farmers on one or two acres of land. Early on I realized that the smallholder growers needed a voice in the industrialized world. While cacao and coffee are traded on the international commodities market, vanilla isn’t, and because it isn’t, there aren’t international associations representing the growers or helping them. Then, in the 1990s the Mexican growers asked me to help them try to save their local industry. It was at that point that I began to focus not only on helping them by promoting vanilla but also to educate the world about the growers.

Why is pure vanilla in danger of going extinct?

PASSION FOR SPICE Author Patricia Rain, aka the Vanilla Queen, with Chef David Jackman of Chocolate team up for the

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Vanilla Dream Author and vanilla expert Patricia Rain hosts second annual Vanilla Festival at the Food Lounge BY CHRISTINA WATERS

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anilla expert Patricia Rain joins chef David Jackman at the Santa Cruz Food Lounge this Friday, Sept. 29 for the second annual Vanilla Festival. If there’s anything about vanilla that Rain doesn’t know, it probably isn’t worth knowing. The author of two books on the rare and popular spice, Rain will take diners on a visual tour of six unique vanilla farms around the world, as they enjoy Jackman’s four-course meal featuring vanilla in every dish. Rain gave us some

details about her lifelong passion, and it sounds like it will be fascinating as well as delicious.

Do you think that people are becoming more sophisticated in their spice sensibility?

Patricia Rain: A lot has changed since my first vanilla recipe book came out in 1986. The biggest shift I’ve noticed in vanilla (as well as chocolate and coffee) in the past decade is the interest in purchasing pure vanilla extract that is also fairly traded and/or certified organic.

While it’s exciting that more people are conscious about the foods, flavors and spices they use, and that many more people use pure vanilla in beverages, baking and savory cuisine, vanilla remains one of the most underutilized flavors/spices available— followed by allspice, which is also an amazing and very versatile spice.

What gives you the most pleasure in educating people about the intricacies of vanilla?

I care deeply about the people who work so hard and take so many risks

There has been a crisis in the vanilla industry, largely man-made, for the last three-plus years. Vanilla is now $600 a kilo at the source. This means that a gallon of pure, high-quality vanilla extract made in the U.S. would cost $600 or more. (For more about the crisis, go to vanillaqueen. com/learn.)

Corruption is a big issue, as is political instability. And given that coffee, chocolate and vanilla are all grown in the developing world, and because they are so labor-intensive, corruption, political instability and a weak governmental infrastructure play a big role in endangering vanilla.

Another game changer is the changing climate and how it is impacting these three luxury crops.

This is why I committed to speak in Ecuador at the World Orchid Conference. My scientist friends will also be there, and we need to talk.

Info: Vanilla Festival is from 6-9 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 29. Tickets are $55 and don’t include beverages, tax or gratuity. For tickets and more info, including menu details, visit eventbrite.com.

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ou can walk to your local dive bar and chug down a screwdriver, or you could go over to Front and Cooper in Abbott Square and experience a cocktail.

The creative director of Front and Cooper, Kate Gerwin, is 20-year bartending vet and the 2014 Bols Bartending World Champion—the first woman to hold the title. She was also a consultant on Spike TV’s Bar Rescue. We asked Gerwin to pour us a tall glass of understanding this unique addition to Abbott Square.

What kind of cocktails are you focusing on?

KATE GERWIN: I don’t have a style or theme, just fun and accessible.

Everything is made fresh daily.

What you see now will be completely 100-percent different from what you see in three to four months. Nothing crosses over. Our theme right now is [the film] The Lost Boys. We have a Root Beer Ramos or a Ramos Gin Fizz, a classic cocktail that we twisted up using root beer syrup, and Oreo Fat Washed Negroni. A negroni is a classic cocktail dating back to the early 1900s.

In the movie, Grandpa has a shelf in

the fridge that is off-limits to the kids, and it holds root beer and Oreos. Santa Cruz [in the film, “Santa Carla”] was referred to as the “murder capital of the world” in the movie, so we created the “Cereal Murder Capital,” a cocktail that is a clarified milk punch with Don Q Anejo Rum infused with Cinnamon Toast Crunch, pineapple, lemon, lemon, coriander, and milk, then clarified clear. Everything ties in to the movie.

What’s the current trend in cocktails?

It goes in cycles. In 2010, people got into fancy cocktails and preprohibition cocktails. In 2012, everyone wanted to do molecular, really cool fancy drinks that didn’t taste very good that were a bit pretentious. I think in 20162017, now people are re-inventing drinks like the Lemon Drop and the Cosmopolitan and making them actually genuinely good. Things tend to go full circle. For me, I’m trying to make the best drinks possible and not worrying about being the new thing.

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ne of the handy things about where we live is the number of healthy to-go food options.

When I don’t feel like cooking, I like to try something different—in this case, the newly opened Buzen Japanese take-out, which I wrote about recently, located in Seascape Foods Market in Aptos. The food is delicious, nourishing, and not loaded with preservatives or MSG. We opened a chilled bottle of Paraiso Vineyards Rosé of Pinot Noir to pair with our Buzen food, which turned out to be a delicious match.

Paraiso makes high-quality wines— all produced by the Smith Family, and reasonably priced. The newly released 2016 Rosé of Pinot Noir— with grapes harvested from their vineyards in Monterey County—is $20, but sells for only $13.50 if you buy three or more bottles. I bought my bottle in Aptos Natural Foods for about $18. Crafted using modern French methods, this elegant, pale pink wine has delightful aromas and flavors of melon, strawberry and cedar, and a lot of pizzazz.

Paraiso has a tasting room in Soledad where you are welcome to lounge on the back deck with a picnic

lunch and enjoy the view of the valley and vineyards. The other tasting room in Carmel-by-the-Sea is at Court of the Golden Bough, Ocean Avenue between Lincoln and Monte Verde, 250-7123. smithfamilywines.com.

GOURMET GRAZING ON THE GREEN

The number of vendors participating in this year’s Gourmet Grazing on the Green has swelled to more than 70 wineries, breweries, restaurants, jewelers and more, including a Greek ceramicist called Skyros Ceramics.

Cinnamon Bay will be there with its eclectic women’s clothing, as well as local SunRidge Farms with a plethora of healthy snacks to sample. This fundraiser is put on by the Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group, and it’s always a fabulous event. All proceeds go to local beneficiaries. The event is noon-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7 in Aptos Village Park. Tickets are $65. Visit sccbg. org for more info.

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Scott Dexel of Kiss Catering is now operating a café—appropriately called Kiss Café. It’s at 214 Disc Drive in Scotts Valley. Visit kisscatering.com or call 840-1355 for more info.

H RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES OUR NAMES WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE

Pluto, planet of transformation, god of the underworld who captured Persephone, the Ray 1 agent of both destruction and creation, after five months of retrograde (outer planets are retrograde 60 percent of the time in order to transform us), finally turns stationary direct, on Thursday, Sept. 28. Pluto direct means all inner changes we have experienced will now be evident, apparent, clear and visible in our daily lives. This includes individuals and groups, governments and nations. Pluto clears the decks, breaks things down, transforms them, destroys illusions, frees and detaches us from what is no longer useful (Pluto in Capricorn). Pluto, through constant little deaths, through tests and trials and being on the “battleground,” develops within us spiritual will.

In Judaism, there are High Holy Days in which God observes humanity’s actions and comes to a verdict as to each of our holiness. The observation

began last week, on Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year). God opened the Book of Judgment and observed our acts of goodness, kindness, forgiveness and service. God’s judgment has been “pending” since then.

Prayers, forgiveness and service were required this week. Then on Yom Kippur (Saturday, Sept. 30, Forgiveness, Day of Atonement), the judgment of our lives is “sealed” by God and the Heavenly Court.

However, in God’s wisdom, the verdict is not finalized. We are given additional time to redeem ourselves (until Sukkoth—Autumn Festival—on Oct. 5-11) and hope that God will see that we were/are “good.” Good is always better than perfect.

May everyone be inscribed by God in the Creation Book of Life. Let us prepare plates of apples and honey, pomegranates and wine, sharing with family & friends wishing everyone an upcoming “sweet & prosperous year.”

ARIES Mar21–Apr20

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22

Something appears, is seen, recognized, brought to balance and creates an interlude in your relationship(s).

Perhaps you identify how to have true Right Relations with those who love you. Perhaps you learn that through relationships your true self emerges because relationships are an I/Thou situation. Realizing these things balances you, provides structure, discipline and leads to true heart-to-heart intimacy.

This is an important passage of time—a growing up and maturing developmental stage for you. There’s a challenge to change, frustrations and time issues, shadows and pressures and within all of this, a wisdom seeking to guide you. There will be times of absolute stillness and times of acceleration. Saturn loves you. He is your father, guide, disciplinarian, your Dweller on the Threshold. Have forgiveness always.

TAURUS Apr21–May21

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21

There are times when others tell you their deepest needs.

Sometimes you can’t hear or understand them. This week your needs, usually hidden and unknown to you, thus hardly ever tended, emerge. Changes, small and subtle, begin to manifest in how you express yourself and the stating of long term wishes, desires and wants. Since your usual word is “no” (which really means, “Wait, I need to think on this”) everyone, surprised, listens attentively.

Your deepest desires come forth and although directed at others, the reality is that the biggest desires are to know the self, to create a new image that better defines you, and the need for partnership between your emotions, intellect, body and Soul. Emotions will be passionate; people may shy away should you display depth of feeling. Assess who’s safe, who understands, who will stand with you.

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SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20

Who is your family? What does family mean to you?

Perhaps family means criticism and judgments or gardens of nourishment. Whatever family signifies for you, it’s time to create your own family, incorporating balance and love, discipline and rules, kindness and communication into yours. Think on this. It’s a time to recreate certain new plans and ideals. Perhaps things you never had before. The time has arrived.

Turn toward your religious roots. The teachings are guidelines that illumine and make sturdy your inner and outer life. This may sound old fashioned. However, a major planet is traveling through that sector of your life now, providing you with needed direction. Another choice is to remain within self-enforced contemplation, solitude and seclusion. Include music and good food, too.

CANCER Jun21–Jul20 You’re both in the world and not, at home is wherever you are. Family’s close by and yet sometimes, not. They’re in your heart. You have spiritual work to accomplish. A new set of realities concerning resources. A new healing plan.

Your specific skills are a deeply needed resource. Share them for they need recognition. They nurture and nourish and so many are grateful. Including the kingdoms.

LE0 Jul21–Aug22 A tradition, perhaps religious and intelligent, performed physically becomes important in order to summon you to a new discipline, structure and ritual that bring more order and stability to your life. Perhaps you’re remembering a parent, teacher, grandparent, someone older and wiser, who instilled ethics and justice, seeing you as an equal.

Who is this person? What is this ritual? Honor it all.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 You have resources in common with another. Resources don’t only refer to money. They include possessions and values held in common, intimacy, interaction and relationship. There’s a question about relationship and perhaps a feeling of restriction and grief? Recognize the beginnings of your relationships and their original value. Can you discover this again? What seems so far away is usually what is closest.

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 A cycle ends and a new cycle begins. Everything now is connected to the harvest festival, the gathering of summer fruits, safeguarding them in a root cellar darkness. It’s time to begin fall and winter planting. Study bio-dynamics, using special plant, animal and mineral (homeopathic) preparations, following the rhythmic influences of the sun, moon, planets, stars (of which you are one).

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AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 As an entirely different set of ideals (values, goals) appear, you begin to view your life differently. Notice rules have changed, previous values become less important, things taken for granted are no longer useful, and perhaps your faith is being tested. It’s time for new studies, adventures and travels to new cultures. The confusion felt will not last forever. Life becomes more realistic. You do, too.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 You think about life and death, the changing seasons.

Take walks morning and evening. Stand in the light of sunrise and twilight. Make contact with the elements, the plant kingdom in particular, the most balanced kingdom.

Gather seeds, pods, notice changing colors, view the architecture, notice what soothes and comforts. Read A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander. Begin a new journal of hope. Life finds you very soon.

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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF GABRIEL ISAAC LORETTE-SMITH CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.17CV02214.

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Oct. 10, 2017 at 8:30 am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.

Dated: Aug. 25, 2017.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1463 The following Corporation is doing business as NORCAL TRANSPORTATION CORPORATION, SANTA CRUZ SHUTTLES, THE SANTA CRUZ EXPERIENCE. 1114 BROADWAY, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz.

NORCAL TRANSPORTATION CORPORATION, 1114 BROADWAY, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. Al# 3208511. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: NORCAL TRANSPORTATION CORPORATION. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Aug. 29, 2017.

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Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Aug. 30, 2017.

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OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF CONOR THEODOR SANTOS CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.17CV02278. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner CONOR THEODOR SANTOS has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: CONOR THEODOR SANTOS to: CONOR THEODOR FORTNER. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING OCTOBER 23, 2017 at 8:30 am, in Department 10 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: Aug. 29, 2017. Denine J. Guy, Judge of the Superior

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1519 The following Individual is doing business as STARTUP A LA CARTE. 101 COOPER ST, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

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IAN JAMES STOCK. 101 COOPER ST, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: IAN JAMES STOCK. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 11/30/2016. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Sept. 11, 2017.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1520 The following Individual is doing business as WAVES AND FADES BARBER SHOP. 1000 41ST AVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. ELIAS TRUMAN CAMPBELL. 1000 41ST AVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ELIAS TRUMAN CAMPBELL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 9/12/2017. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Sept. 12, 2017. Sept. 20, 27, & Oct. 4, 11.

NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1413 The following Individual is doing business as SOUL MANDALA, TINY HOUSE THEATER. 316 WILKES CIRCLE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. PATRICIA SHIMOKAWA. 316 WILKES CIRCLE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: PATRICIA SHIMOKAWA. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 8/1/2017.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Aug. 17, 2017. Sept. 27, & Oct. 4, 11, 18.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1370 The following Corporation is doing business as CASTRO CONSTRUCTION, INC. 61 BOWKER RD., FREEDOM, CA 95019.

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MICHAEL CASTRO CONSTRUCTION, INC. 61 BOWKER RD., FREEDOM, CA 95019.

Al# 3930520. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: EDWARD M. CASTRO. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/1/2017.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Aug. 10, 2017. Sept. 6, 13, 20, 27.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1445 The following Individual is doing business as WANDERER DESIGNS. 635 WINDSOR STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. JARED LEAKE, 635 WINDSOR STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JARED LEAKE. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Aug. 24, 2017.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1470 The following Corporation is doing business as RAMOS FURNITURE. 2000 SOQUEL AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. SECOND GENERATION FURNITURE INC. 2000 SOQUEL AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. Al# 3529297. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: SECOND GENERATION FURNITURE INC. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/1/2013. This statement was filed with

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1481 The following Individual is doing business as SKYE. 341 ALTA AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. ALYSSA MCGARTH. 341 ALTA AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ALYSSA MCGARTH. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Sept. 1, 2017.

Sept. 13, 20, 27 & Oct. 4.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1507 The following Individual is doing business as MENLA HEALING CENTER. 1509 SEABRIGHT AVENUE SUITE A, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. YU CHEN. 1509 SEABRIGHT AVENUE SUITE A, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: YU CHEN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Sept. 8, 2017.

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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1435 The following Individual is doing business as HEATHER HOUSTON MUSIC, VOICES OF SPIRIT, WOMEN'S SPIRIT SONG. 729 SAN JUAN AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95065.

County of Santa Cruz.

HEATHER HOUSTON. 729 SAN JUAN AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95065. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: HEATHER HOUSTON. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 8/23/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Aug. 23, 2017.

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The following Joint Venture is doing business as JADE ALLEN. 208 MONTEREY AVE, CAPITOLA, CA 95010.

County of Santa Cruz.

WILLIAM IV WATKINS & SONYA YAMPOLSKY. 208 MONTEREY AVE, CAPITOLA, CA 95010.

This business is conducted by a Joint Venture signed: SONYA YAMPOLSKY. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Sept. 11, 2017.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1504 The following Individual is doing business as NATIVE SOL CONSTRUCTION, NATIVE SOL CONSULTING. 405 LOCKEWOOD LANE, SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95066. County of Santa Cruz. CALE GARAMENDI. 405 LOCKEWOOD LANE, SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95066. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: CALE GARAMENDI. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Sept. 7, 2017.

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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF JACQUELINE SARAH LOCKWOOD CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.17CV02426. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner JACQUELINE SARAH LOCKWOOD has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: JACQUELINE SARAH LOCKWOOD to: JACQUELINE SARAH MACBAIN MACEWAN. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the

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DIANA BARE, 29-Year Customer, Santa Cruz

Occupation: Reading coach Hobbies: Photography, scooting my kids around town, cooking, co-ed softball Astrological Sign: Aquarius

WES BARE, 35-Year Customer, Santa Cruz

Occupation: Teacher, Shoreline Middle School Hobbies: Coaching soccer, gardening, collecting/spinning records, barbecuing Astrological Sign: Gemini What do you folks like to cook? DIANA: “A good variety of foods such as falafels, fish tacos, some meats, and anything that is healthy. My daughter is the baker.

She recently made s’mores and Dutch babies.” WES: “I love to barbecue. We do a lot of chicken, seafood, and a variety of sausages. I like that the butchers know what they are doing. They’re professionals. They care about what they do as it’s not a side job for them.

They’re helpful and always have a big smile.” DIANA: “Shopper’s has really good produce. We buy lots of fruit. They have great variety, including organics, but it’s not overwhelming.” WES: “And there’s always people to assist you.”

Is shopping local important to you folks? WES: “Yes. I try to support local businesses. People stop here daily for fresh food, much like they do in Europe.” DIANA: “Shopper’s is comfortable, and shopping here is a neighborhood thing. It’s convenient: I can quickly run in and out.” WES: Shopper’s is community. Longevity. It’s on the corner and a store that people are familiar with.

Our kids, Bijou and Hudson, have always enjoyed coming here.” DIANA: “We’ve been friends with someone who’s worked at Shopper’s 20 years. I think that reflects good management as they must value their employees.” WES: “Shopper’s being locally-owned is one of their selling points.”

What would you say about Shopper’s to someone who’s new to the community? DIANA: “Shopper’s is friendly and has quality food and is not expensive: I know as I’ve done comparison shopping.” WES: “I say, ‘Welcome to Santa Cruz. Let’s throw a party and stop at Shopper’s before we do it!’” DIANA: “Shopper’s has a big selection of wines, and many of them are local. Recently, I bought a specialty bourbon here for my brother. He lives in Oakland and could not find it anywhere!” WES: “Our kids swim, play soccer and baseball, and dance. We want them to do well in school. Shopper’s quality foods play a key ingredient in their active lives.’”

“To someone new to the area, I say, ‘Welcome to Santa Cruz. Let’s throw a party and stop at Shopper’s Corner before we do it!’”

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