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The Couch Potato is NOT going out of business, but the Head Spud is retiring! As The Couch Potato heads into its 30th year serving Santa Cruz and beyond, it is time for Bruce Cushnir, the founder and Head Spud, to take an exit bow. It has been a good, long and very enjoyable run for Bruce, and he is looking forward to his well-earned retirement. Bruce will be dividing his time between Santa Cruz and Troncones, Mexico. Long time employee and long time Santa Cruzer Jackson Allen will be taking over the reins beginning January 2018. Jackson will carry on the same no-nonsense straightforward approach that has worked so well for all these years and he will continue to support local non-profits. So…come on by during these last couple of months of the year and say adios to Bruce and hola to Jackson!
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EDITOR’S NOTE I remember when GT publisher Jeanne Howard and I went over to meet SCPD Chief Andy Mills for the first time at his office, as he was just starting the job. I walked away thinking, “Hmm, nice guy. Some of his ideas could shake this place up—but who knows if he’ll really get to implement them.” But indeed, he is. Mills’ op-ed in GT last month announcing he wanted to “break the cycle of reactionary homeless policy” was a strong opening salvo. This week’s cover story from Andrea Patton takes a close look at how that policy shift is shaping up, particularly in regard to the homeless encampment that has sprouted up in San Lorenzo Park as a result of Mills’ stated desire to quit chasing sleeping homeless people around the city, issuing citations. What most stands out in this story, I think, is Mills’ ability to
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WHEN WILL WE LEARN?
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Re: “Primed Risk” (GT, 10/8): Ireland was just hit by a hurricane, a very rare occurrence. Six hurricanes followed one after the other, with Maria hitting Puerto Rico and nearby islands with ferocity. Irma hit the entire State of Florida, which never happened before. Harvey stayed over Houston longer than normal, dumping 50 inches of rain, due to a recent slowdown of air currents, hotter ocean water and hotter air over land. The multiple fires in California, fueled by lush vegetation from heavy winter rains, then hotter, drier air in the summer, created huge losses of acres of forest, vegetation, and entire neighborhoods. Too many people died. Too many lost their homes, businesses, and communities. Climatechange-exacerbated disasters are rapidly becoming more expensive than spending the money required to fix the problem. When will we realize we are in a worldwide emergency, and start letting our Members of Congress know every day that we want action commensurate with the
build a powerful, if shaky, coalition of support from a lot of different factions, despite the skepticism that many locals unsurprisingly have toward letting the homeless population set up camp in a public park. It just goes to show, I think, that people are desperate for some progress in how Santa Cruz deals with its homeless issues. Those issues are not going away; housing here is not suddenly, miraculously going to be affordable for everyone. Patton’s story reveals that the San Lorenzo Park camp is home to a range of people, who don’t always fit into the popular assumptions about homelessness. It also explains why, as a viable solution, this experiment is full of both flaws and possibilities for the future. I’m reminded of what Mills wrote in his op-ed, that if he can’t find a way to help foster real change, “another chief in 15 years will struggle with the same problems I wrestle with now.” I hope that’s one of Mills’ visions for the future that doesn’t come to pass. STEVE PALOPOLI | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
scale of the problem? When will we take actions to reduce our own carbon footprint voluntarily? When will we elect members of Congress who will debate and enact climate change solutions, such as Carbon Fee and Dividend? DIANE WARREN | BOULDER CREEK
STRANGER ‘THING’ Kudos for Steve Palopoli’s stellar interview with John Carpenter (GT, 11/1). Working at UCSF when The Thing debuted, I was struck by how perfectly it captured, intentionally or not, the sexual paranoia of the early AIDS era (and I eventually wore out my copy of the edgy soundtrack album). It was also that extremely rare remake of a good movie that was actually superior to the original, a notable exception to the general rule. Remaking a classic film seems like a setup for failure. I’ve never understood why producers of remakes don’t go looking for flawed movies with fascinating basic premises. Thanks again for the feature on one of America’s finest directors. MORDECAI SHAPIRO | SANTA CRUZ
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Actor/writer Jason Segal offered audiences a quick bite of genius in his 2008 film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, when his character manned a Dracula puppet and performed a rock opera called A Taste for Love. Segal later said that he had thought about doing an entire live production of Taste, but that his mentor Judd Apatow told him that would “never” be a good idea. GT editor Steve Palopoli pressed Segal during a live Q&A on Friday in Santa Cruz. Never? Segal has been reconsidering; maybe it could work, he said, if it was staged in small venues.
Santa Cruz’s new rules for takeout containers and disposable cutlery went into effect on Tuesday, Nov. 7. The revised ordinance, approved by the Santa Cruz City Council in September, requires food service businesses to switch any to-go containers to materials that are biodegradable, compostable or recyclable. Plastic cutlery is not allowed, although compostable cutlery is. The rule bans plastic straws, plastic stir sticks and all polystyrene products, including hot beverage lids. Restaurants must only give out cutlery when customers request it.
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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of November 8 ARIES Mar21–Apr19 Adriana Martinez and Octavio Guillen got engaged to be married when they were both 15 years old. But they kept delaying a more complete unification for 67 years. At last, when they were 82, they celebrated their wedding and pledged their vows to each other. Are there comparable situations in your life, Aries? The coming months will be a favorable time to make deeper commitments. At least some of your reasons for harboring ambivalence will become irrelevant. You’ll grow in your ability to thrive on the creative challenges that come from intriguing collaborations and highly focused togetherness.
TAURUS Apr20–May20 I had pimples when I was a teenager. They’re gone now, although I still have a few pockmarks on my face as souvenirs. In retrospect, I feel gratitude for them. They ensured that in my early years of dating and seeking romance, I would never be able to attract women solely on the basis of my physical appearance. I was compelled to cultivate a wide variety of masculine wiles. I swear that at least half of my motivation to get smarter and become a good listener came from my desire for love. Do you have comparable stories to tell, Taurus? Now is an excellent time to give thanks for what once may have seemed to be a liability or problem.
GEMINI May21–June20 The next two weeks will be one of the best times ever to ask provocative, probing questions. In fact, I invite you to be as curious and receptive as you’ve been since you were four years old. When you talk with people, express curiosity more often than you make assertions. Be focused on finding out what you’ve been missing, what you’ve been numb to. When you wake up each morning, use a felt-tip marker to draw a question mark on your forearm. To get you in the mood for this fun project, here are sample queries from poet Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions: “Who ordered me to tear down the doors of my own pride? Did I finally find myself in the place where they lost me? Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Is it true our desires must be watered with dew? What did the rubies say standing before the juice of the pomegranates?”
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“Things to say when in love,” according to Zimbabwe poet Tapiwa Mugabe: “I will put the galaxy in your hair. Your kisses are a mouthful of firewater. I have never seen a more beautiful horizon than when you close your eyes. I have never seen a more beautiful dawn than when you open your eyes.” I hope these words inspire you to improvise further outpourings of adoration. You’re in a phase when expressing your sweet reverence and tender respect for the people you care about will boost your physical health, your emotional wealth, and your spiritual resilience.
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LE0 Jul23–Aug22 Are you working on solving the right problem? Or are you being distracted by a lesser dilemma, perhaps consumed in dealing with an issue that’s mostly irrelevant to your long-term goals? I honestly don’t know the answers to those questions, but I am quite sure it’s important that you meditate on them. Everything good that can unfold for you in 2018 will require you to focus on what matters most—and not get sidetracked by peripheral issues or vague wishes. Now is an excellent time to set your unshakable intentions.
VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Every one of us experiences loneliness. We all go through periods when we feel isolated and misunderstood and unappreciated. That’s the bad news, Virgo. The good news is that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to make loneliness less of a problem. I urge you to brainstorm and meditate about how to do that. Here are some crazy ideas to get you started. 1. Nurture ongoing connections with the spirits of beloved people who have died. 2. Imagine having conversations with your guardian angel or spirit guide. 3. Make a deal with a “partner in loneliness”: a
person you pray or sing with whenever either of you feels bereft. 4. Write messages to your Future Self or Past Self. 5. Communicate with animals.
LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22 The drive for absolute perfection could undermine your ability to create what’s very good and just right. Please don’t make that mistake in the coming weeks. Likewise, refrain from demanding utter purity, pristine precision, or immaculate virtue. To learn the lessons you need to know and launch the trends you can capitalize on in 2018, all that’s necessary is to give your best. You don’t have to hit the bull’s eye with every arrow you shoot—or even any arrow you shoot. Simply hitting the target will be fine in the early going.
SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 Remember the time, all those years ago, when the angels appeared to you on the playground and showed you how and why to kiss the sky? I predict that a comparable visitation will arrive soon. And do you recall the dreamy sequence in adolescence when you first plumbed the sublime mysteries of sex? You’re as ripe as you were then, primed to unlock more of nature’s wild secrets. Maybe at no other time in many years, in fact, have you been in quite so favorable a position to explore paradise right here on earth.
SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 As a courtesy to your mental health, I minimize your exposure to meaningless trivia. In fact, I generally try to keep you focused instead on enlightening explorations. But in this horoscope, in accordance with astrological omens, I’m giving you a temporary, short-term license to go slumming. What shenanigans is your ex up to lately, anyway? Would your old friend the bankrupt coke addict like to party with you? Just for laughs, should you revisit the dead-end fantasy that always makes you crazy? There is a good possibility that exposing yourself to bad influences like those I just named could have a tonic effect on you, Sagittarius. You might get so thoroughly disgusted by them that you’ll never again allow them to corrupt your devotion to the righteous groove, to the path with heart.
CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 In the coming months it will be crucial to carefully monitor the effects you’re having on the world. Your personal actions will rarely be merely personal; they may have consequences for people you don’t know as well as those you’re close to. The ripples you send out in all directions won’t always look dramatic, but you shouldn’t let that delude you about the influence you’re having. If I had to give 2018 a title with you in mind, it might be “The Year of Maximum Social Impact.” And it all starts soon.
AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 The punk ethic is rebellious. It transgresses conventional wisdom through “a cynical absurdity that’s redeemed by being hilarious.” So says author Brian Doherty. In the hippie approach, on the other hand, the prevailing belief is “love is all you need.” It seeks a “manic togetherness and all-encompassing acceptance that are all sweet and no sour—inspiring but also soft and gelatinous.” Ah, but what happens when punk and hippie merge? Doherty says that each moderates the extreme of the other, yielding a tough-minded lust for life that’s both skeptical and celebratory. I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, because the punk-plus-hippie blend is a perfect attitude for you to cultivate in the coming weeks.
PISCES Feb19–Mar20 I’m falling in love with the way you have been falling in love with exciting possibilities that you once thought were impossible. Oh, baby. Please go further. Thrilling chills surge through me whenever you get that ravenous glint in your mind’s eye. I can almost hear you thinking, “Maybe those dreams aren’t so impossible, after all. Maybe I can heal myself and change myself enough to pursue them in earnest. Maybe I can learn success strategies that were previously beyond my power to imagine.”
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ONLINE COMMENTS RE: BUSINESS CLOSURES Great article Jake! When all that is left is chain stores and chain restaurants, Santa Cruz will be just like any other town. “Nothing to see here folks … same stores, same restaurants, different town.” E-commerce doesn’t appeal to all of us, and there is no personality in a computer screen. Virtual dining out, anybody? A resident of Santa Cruz County for more than 25 years, I finally decided that my paycheck was more valuable to me if I could save some of it, or better afford gas and
food–instead of giving it all to a landlord. Certainly the problem is complex. But a big piece of the puzzle is a lack of housing inventory. People who buy homes with cash with no intention of living in them, and the vacation homeowners who usurp local housing inventory contribute to the crisis. Maybe after they’ve bought everything out from under what’s left of the middle class, they’ll wonder where all the nice restaurants and wait staffs went, or why there is a teacher shortage. This is not a “tip of the iceberg” warning. There is a hole in the hull of our community. — BROOKS
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Gone Viral A century after the Great Flu, are we immune? BY MARIA GRUSAUSKAS permafrost since November of that year. “And so we’re really trying to figure out what it is that made that strain so rapidly lethal,” says Motyka, who recommends the book The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History for anyone interested in learning more about it. While 1918 was pre-vaccination and pre-antibiotics (“If you got pneumonia, you were toast,” says Motyka), the yearly flu epidemic remains a serious public health matter 100 years later. One thing we now know about the flu virus is that it is continually evolving. “The flu has a segmented genome, so that means it can redistribute itself quite quickly,” says Motyka. “It’s basically cutting and pasting its DNA constantly.” The two major
antigen markers (hyaluronidase and neuraminidase, which the N and the H stand for in the flu virus labels) exist on the surface of the influenza virus, and their function is to break down cell walls so that their genetic material can be injected into the oblivious, warm-bodied host. “And you have, essentially, a pattern of staying the same for a couple of years, and then shifting a little, and then shifting a little more, and then every once in a while you’ll have a jump, and that’s called a major antigenic shift,” says Motyka. When this happens, people have little immune protection against the new virus. A major antigenic shift occurred in 2009, when an N1H1 flu virus, the same particularly troublesome combination that
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mily St. John Mandel’s dystopian masterpiece Station Eleven takes place after a fictional swine flu wipes out more than 99 percent of the world population within a few short days. Besides the bubonic plague, which killed at least 25 million people, the closest we’ve come to such a virulent pandemic was the 1918 “Spanish Flu,” which infected one-third of the global population and killed some 50 million people before mysteriously fizzling out by 1919. “They actually have copies of the 1918 flu,” says Dawn Motyka, M.D., of the Ask Dr. Dawn podcast. Virus samples were extracted from the lung tissue of an Alaskan influenza victim who’d been fully preserved by
darkened 1918, emerged with a new set of genes, and killed between 123,000 and 203,000 people globally. Similar to 1918’s pandemic, an unusually strong majority of deaths occurred in people younger than 65—between 62 and 85 percent. The CDC estimates that since 2010, the flu has killed between 12,000 and 56,000 people annually in the U.S. While it’s still too early to tell what exactly the 2017-2018 flu season will look like, trivalent vaccines (which include H1N1, H3N2 and B Victoria) and quadrivalent vaccines (which includes the addition of the B Yamagata strain) are estimated to be about 40 percent effective. More importantly, says Motyka, they will lessen the duration, severity, and period of contagiousness. It’s not just the under-2 and over-65-year-old portion of the population who should be getting the flu shot, says Motyka. It’s also important for anyone with any form of lung disease, from asthma and chronic bronchitis to any form of COPD, as well as for the smokers you may know and love. “Because the pneumonia that people get after the flu is what kills them,” Motyka says. When influenza infects the lungs, it damages the lung’s immune system for a couple weeks, opening them up to postinfluenza pneumonia by staforius bacterium, which is a particularly nasty bug that doesn’t usually get there, she says. “If you get that kind of pneumonia it has about a 50 percent chance of killing you,” says Motyka. “Even if you get hospitalized, and you get the appropriate treatment, if you’re over 65 and get post-flu pneumonia, it’s really aggressive.” Flu combined with pneumonia was the eighth leading cause of death in 2014, according to the CDC. In the case of any sort of super flu, the N95 face mask—yes, like the one you may have purchased during the latest bout of wildfires, but were too embarrassed to wear in public—can effectively filter out the flu virus. “Everyone should keep one in their car,” says Motyka, “and in flu season, don’t be afraid to pull it out and put it on.”
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NEWS GROVE THREAT As monarchs see slight rebound, risks lie ahead from dying trees—and even wellintentioned gardeners
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This past October, Santa Cruz lit up under a cloak of seasonal black and orange— nope, not Halloween. And definitely not the Giants. The monarch butterflies have returned to Santa Cruz. This year’s numbers are up a few thousand, says veteran Natural Bridges State Park interpreter Martha Nitzberg. Even though it’s early in the season, she estimates there are already about 9,000 monarchs fluttering about their designated preserve, located at the state park. Last year’s population of 3,500 represented an all-time low. “It’s better now than in a bunch of years. It’s exciting to see so many butterflies so early in the year,” Nitzberg told me last month. Be that as it may, the number of Natural Bridges’ overwintering butterflies is still down more than 95 percent since 1997, and the Tasmanian blue gum eucalyptus canopy that has sheltered generations of butterflies is falling apart. Extremely sensitive to changes in weather and habitat, as well as to toxins in the environment, monarchs migrate up and down North America, with thousands coming to the local eucalyptus grove, which is nestled in a small canyon. Eucalyptus trees have small leaves that are thin enough for monarchs to wrap their feet around. For longer than anyone can remember, those trees have also provided the butterflies a convenient food source and a haven during the winter months, like a warm blanket or an umbrella to protect them from the wind and rain. But the blanket at Natural Bridges is becoming worn, frayed, and tired. Monarch populations at the state park began declining precipitously in 1997, Nitzberg says, which is also when the oncereliable eucalyptus curtain began coming down. “Our grove started losing trees in the early 2000s,” she recalls, with much of the damage during some violent wind storms in the ’90s. A few years later, pitch canker—a pine tree-killing disease—infected the vast majority of Monterey pine trees at the state park, eliminating the windbreak from the park and putting more strain on >16
BOULDER AND WISER World-renowned rock climber Chris Sharma has pioneered deep water soloing, a sport that pushes athletes to new heights and lets the ocean break their falls.
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hen rock climber Chris Sharma finds himself suspended over the water, clinging from a precarious cliff overhanging violent waves, he knows exactly what the stakes are. As he clambers his way up, searching for the right path, Sharma almost always feels his grip start to slip. He pushes off the rock, yelling at the top of his lungs, before splashing into the surf below, and then swimming back to the cliff to try again. “The real danger comes when trying to get out of the water,” says Sharma, a Santa Cruz native who is considered by many to be the world’s best rock climber.
Sharma has travelled the world, pioneering some of the most difficult routes on Earth. One of his favorite spots is Mallorca, the largest of the Balearic Islands off the eastern coast of Spain, where he grew as a climber, clinging to the chief features central to his life—the mountainous cliffs and the sea. “It’s brought me back to the ocean,” Sharma says. “In Mallorca, there is this mixing of two environments that are so important to me.” Sharma stars in a new film called Above the Sea, a part of the 12th annual installment of the traveling adventure film festival Reel Rock, screening at the Rio Theatre at 7 p.m. on Nov. 10
(see page 48). The film chronicles Sharma’s adventures in deep-water soloing, a type of climbing where the participant climbs difficult routes ropes-free, relying only on the water below to provide safe harbor in the event of a fall. “Climbing without a rope has high consequences, and I never really did it, because you have to climb far below your limits to ensure safety,” Sharma says. “I have always dedicated myself to climbing at the edge of what is humanly possible. To do this, you have to be able to fall over and over again. With deep water soloing, it enables you to try things at the edge of what is possible.” Sharma used a surfer’s >14
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the founder and co-owner of Pacific Edge Climbing Gym, off Murray Street. “He has this Zen-like abandon and capacity to fire on all cylinders.” Davis remembers the day Sharma first walked into Pacific Edge— within three months of the gym’s opening in 1993. Sharma, born in 1981, always knew he had athletic gifts, but traditional team sports weren’t for him, and neither was surfing, which he says he was “really bad” at. He’s still grateful, he adds, to Davis for opening Pacific Edge. “With climbing, it just clicked,” Sharma says. “I was probably the first generation of kids who wouldn’t have found climbing without a gym.” At age 14, just two years after walking into Pacific Edge, Sharma won the U.S. Bouldering Championship. At 15, Sharma bagged the first-ever
ascent of an Arizona climb called Necessary Evil—at the time, widely considered the most technically difficult rock climb in North America. As the sport burgeoned in popularity, Sharma became the young climber to watch in a crowded field. Closer to home, Sharma continued honing his craft on the boulders in Castle Rock State Park, nestled in the Santa Cruz Mountains off Skyline Boulevard, near Highway 9, where Sharma remembers establishing some of the park’s modern climbs. The experience taught him to have the imagination to envision aggressive climbing lines where none existed before. “It’s always been a talent of mine, to identify these beautiful lines that exist out in nature, and it was Castle Rock that really helped me unlock that potential,” he says. >18
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He moved back to Southern California, where he helped open a yoga studio and got to know Santa Cruz native and Dharma Punx author Noah Levine. Baker says he found this healing breath by accident, and has watched it work wonders for people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, psychological trauma, addiction, depression and even severe physical injuries. His session, he says, can provide as much healing in 90 minutes as some festivals and forums do in an entire week. “It moves energy internally that you normally couldn’t get moving with any physical exercise,” he says. “It also ignites the vascular system of consciousness, which is a nonductory system, meaning you can’t take a picture of it.” He says he’s even seen it help people going through difficult transitions like divorce. “It will accelerate that process in such a beautiful way—a gentle, gentle way,” Baker says.
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the eucalyptus. “Our grove is getting old,” says State Parks volunteer Abby Pulman. “Trees are falling down, and the grove is not as protected.” For decades, Nitzberg and others pushed to plant more eucalyptus trees around the park to protect monarchs’ overwintering, a debate she’s reticent to rehash. “It’s a touchy subject,” Nitzberg says. “I need to be politically correct.” The blue gum eucalyptus is officially classified as a “moderate” invasive species, and some groups, like the California Native Plant Society, don’t want any of it at state parks—or pretty much anywhere else for that matter, even to refortify a butterfly grove. A few months ago, Nitzberg and her colleagues did score a win in the debate, as staffers will be allowed to plant a threetree windblock of eucalyptus trees to reinforce the grove. Dan Gluesenkamp, executive director
of the California Native Plant Society, used to be a docent at Natural Bridges, and remembers the situation being complicated. Gluesenkamp, who later managed a monarch grove at Stinson Beach in Marin County, says that although their size may seem like an advantage, eucalyptus trees can actually grow too tall and block out the sun, which butterflies need in order to thermoregulate. Brett Hall, vice president of the Sacramento-based nonprofit, adds in a follow-up email that it’s impossible to know all of the factors at play. “Monarchs have been crashing everywhere, from other reasons beyond the degradation of the euc grove,” he writes. Also, even a healthy grove of eucalyptus trees would not protect monarchs from a more existential threat: a parasite called Ophryocystis elektroscirrha, or “OE,” as it is known among butterfly enthusiasts. OE weakens the insects, often leaving them deformed
and unable to fly as far or as long as healthy butterflies. Scientists estimate that OE has infected 30 percent of the western migratory population. It’s the latest crisis to strike an already battered species, and the situation on the Central Coast is serious. Once butterflies are infected, they do not recover. The Xerces Society, a butterfly advocacy group, is monitoring its spread. And local gardeners may be making the situation worse. Nitzberg says that many Santa Cruzans believe they are helping the monarchs by planting milkweed in their coastal gardens to feed monarchs, and the trend began with the noblest of intentions. After all, the milkweed plant provides all of the nourishment a monarch needs to transform from caterpillar into butterfly. Milkweed plants were even sold at the Natural Bridges Migration Festivals for years. Attendees were encouraged to buy $1 plants to “save the monarchs” and plant milkweed
in their yards to create “butterfly corridors.” But the overly abundant milkweed has turned into a host for OE. These days, park workers don’t sell plants, and they discourage anyone within five miles of the coast from planting milkweed, because plants closer to the ocean are particularly susceptible. The flowery plant also disrupts monarchs’ iconic annual migration, when there’s too much of it, leaving them stuck in Santa Cruz year round eating the OE-infested plant grub. If milkweed proliferates in the monarch wintering grounds, many butterflies won’t migrate at all. The butterflies will lay their eggs year round in Santa Cruz, overstaying their welcome. Nitzberg discovered a large number of caterpillars this past summer in Santa Cruz County, and she’s begun questioning the status of the entire monarch migration. “We don’t want them to hang in Santa Cruz for the summer,” she says. “They need to leave for the summer.”
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NEWS CLIFF HANGER <14 Those skills came in handy in 2007, when Sharma moved to Spain, where he continued to be creative about discovering and establishing new lines. Sharma grabbed headlines when he climbed the hardest deepwater soloing line in the world on the fabled Es Pontas, a natural arch that protrudes from the rollicking Mediterranean Sea just off the southeastern coast. But as he pushed boundaries physically, Sharma found himself always on the road. “It’s a great lifestyle, but it can be exhausting,” he says. “I wanted to find a way to live in one place and climb. For me, it all connected on my first trip to Mallorca.” For Sharma, the island of Mallorca will forever contain a personal dimension that exceeds the purely athletic pursuits of his climbing career. He finished his 2007 climb with a heavy heart, as his mother Ghita Jahn had just passed away. His latest climb in September of last year was equally difficult, as documented in the new film, and represents yet another climbing triumph, one coinciding with the birth of his daughter, Alana, which took place in June of last year. He named the climb Alasha, a mash-up of his daughter’s first and last names. “The climb represented an equally groundbreaking connection to my daughter,” he says. “It’s amazing how we come full circle in our lives. For me, these two climbs happened parallel to this opportunity for reinvention.” At 36, Sharma looks at his career— both his accomplishments and his future goals—with a meditative sense of calmness that’s uncommon in his hyper-competitive field. Sharma recently opened a climbing gym in Barcelona with his wife, Jimena Alarcon. He still gets back to Santa Cruz about three or four times a year, he says. Many of the friends who helped him pioneer routes at Castle Rock still live in the area, as does his father, Bob. “I want to keep pushing the limits and finding beautiful things, finding ways to inspire people and share this great sport,” he says. “It’s been an honor to be a part of the evolution of rock climbing.”
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ack Palmer, a softspoken 43-year-old man who struggles to get around, was one of the first people to move to the benchlands area of San Lorenzo Park after a citywide effort to clear the downtown post office of homeless campers living there. Before that, Palmer slept by the library, and before that, near Santa Cruz City Hall. “Mack’s appearance has a lot to do with how people treat him,” says Brent Adams, Palmer’s friend and a
DÉJÀ VU Controversy is already swirling around the San Lorenzo Park encampment—and this isn’t the first time. It’s an area that—not unlike the homeless population itself—city officials have never exactly known how to manage. Occupy Santa Cruz, an offshoot of the larger Occupy protests that began on Wall Street, was started in San Lorenzo Park in the fall of 2011 by twentysomethings who said they were fed up with corporate abuses and a financial
“There are those who think I’m enabling. They want to see rigorous enforcement on the homeless. What does that look like? We’ve written thousands of tickets, literally, for camping. Boy, that’s worked well.” -SCPD CHIEF ANDY MILLS system that protected institutions it deemed “too big to fail.” That camp’s main hub was above the benchlands and closer to the Santa Cruz County Government Center than the current one. As it swelled in size over time, Occupy Santa Cruz—like similar movements in other cities—grew into a gathering place for local homeless in search of safety and community. Unsubstantiated rumors spread through the media about a disease outbreak, and feces dumped on the other side of the river. Not long after, the city’s Parks and Recreation Department served the campers with an eviction notice. A day later, before dawn on Tuesday, Dec. 6, officers from all over the county, dressed in riot gear, rousted the remaining campers. Adams says the Occupy camp was vastly different from the current situation, and City Manager Martín Bernal, who’s been with the city for 20 years, agrees. “First, the numbers were much bigger,” Bernal says. “The purpose was totally different, and the situation was totally different in terms of what caused it to come into existence.” In the six years since, city leaders, along with local nonprofits and clubs, have taken steps to make both the San Lorenzo River and park more inviting to Santa Cruz residents and visitors, in the name of “activating” the area. The Public Works Department installed lighting on part of the lower part of the riverwalk, and opened a new footbridge. Parks and Recreation workers installed a nine-hole disc golf course on the benchlands in 2012 with the help of the Delaveaga Disc Golf Club, hoping that if sports enthusiasts were there throwing
discs, it would dissuade the homeless from hanging out. Sean O’Neill, president for Delaveaga Disc Golf Club, says the course never got much use, though, for two reasons: design and safety. He says players often found trash and syringes littered about. “It’s not exactly a place that an experienced golfer is looking to play because of its simplicity, and it’s not that inviting. It’s geared more toward a beginner player, and it makes it harder to, say, introduce children to disc golf at a place where you can potentially find needles,” he says.
RIGHT TO SLEEP Mills says he made his announcement out of a sense that it’s the right thing to do, both morally and for the good of the whole community. “My personal belief system—as well as [what] the courts are ruling fairly consistently—[is] that people have a right to sleep,” says Mills, who’s been chief of the Santa Cruz Police Department since August. “And so I want to make sure we are treating people well. I think people are healthier, make better decisions, have the potential of getting out of some of the circumstances they are in, when they have sleep. I couldn’t imagine being in a place where I could sleep for one hour at a time, in the cold with yelling and screaming and all the other things that happen in that environment. Sleeping on rocks, or sidewalks, or bus benches.” Mills, 60, adds that, at his age, it’s hard enough for him to sleep in a bed. Adams, who is also executive director of the Warming Center, sees uninterrupted sleep and
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local homeless advocate. “He's huge and dark, yet upon speaking with him, he’s soft and quite vulnerable.” Sitting on his collapsed green tent, with a towel covering one of his bare feet, Palmer tells me that he has been living outside for three-and-a-half years, since his downtown apartment was foreclosed on, and he was evicted. He briefly moved in with his mom, who was sick and appreciated his help in taking care of her, Palmer says, but her landlord informed them that they were breaking U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rules, so he was out on the street. “I haven’t been stable since,” he says. Until recently, he was sleeping on concrete with only a sleeping bag. His living conditions have improved since being allowed to set up a tent at night and take it down during the day, in cooperation with a new moratorium on the sleeping ban that SCPD chief Andy Mills announced in a GT op-ed last month. In the days that followed, many others set up camp in San Lorenzo Park. The city brought in portable toilets, wash basins and extra trash cans. Palmer has high blood pressure and sleep apnea. Last year when it started raining, he got sick three times. “I don’t think I could do that again,” he says. “I was put in the hospital in intensive care three times. I have to sleep with a sleeping mask, but out here I can’t sleep with one. And I really need to have that, because I stop breathing.”
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the allowance of tents as “rung one” of a ladder to improving the homeless situation in Santa Cruz. He’s traveled the state touring homeless encampments three times, interviewing more than 400 people in 40 cities for Out of Sight Out of Mind, his documentary on West Coast homelessness. “When we demonstrate dignity, people behave in more dignified ways,” says Adams, who also leads the Coalition for Homelessness and the Downtown Bathroom Task Force. “When people are desperate, they start behaving more desperately.” Mills will be the first to admit that the benchlands encampment is not a beauty to behold. But he says he has been closely following court rulings around homelessness. “And then the courts, and housing and urban development have given some very clear guidelines that you need to have enough beds for those who are without shelter, and until that takes place, I don’t know how I can thoughtfully and rigorously enforce a camping ban,” he says. Mills has heard that employees working at the county building near the tents haven’t been thrilled by the current situation, and he is aware of the need to maintain a functioning city where everyone feels safe. Jason Hoppin, Santa Cruz County’s public information officer, says there have been ancillary issues that employees have noticed. “One of the unfortunate side effects of having that population over here is there is a subset of them that engage in behaviors that are basically unacceptable,” he says. “It’s drug use, it’s public intoxication, it’s prostitution. We’ve had employees that have witnessed those types of activities,” he says, clarifying that such activities aren’t necessarily entwined with the homeless population at large. “They don’t necessarily go hand in hand. The law abiding homeless persons who are over there now shouldn’t have to witness that either,” he adds. The county has added two sheriffs to patrol the area, along with increasing alarm security at the
county building. Hoppin says county workers are also in the process of removing two large storage lockers on the back lawn that he says people are hiding things under. Mills says some of his critics have doubts about his approach, although they don’t always address the chief directly, and that members of Take Back Santa Cruz have been particularly vocal. “There are those who think I’m enabling,” Mills says. “They want to see rigorous enforcement on the homeless. What does that look like? We’ve written thousands of tickets, literally, for camping. Boy, that’s worked well. I’m much more concerned with effectiveness than efficiency. I can write thousands of tickets, but if it’s not doing any good, then let’s figure out something else to do.” After Mills’ announcement, one Take Back Santa Cruz member wrote on Facebook, “Poor SanLo park and those families that try and enjoy it.” Another complained about police officers shooing away some suspicious drugged-out men carrying nice leather purses who he felt should have been questioned. “I give up, no more calling police,” the man wrote, tagging Chief Mills. Analicia Cube, who started Take Back Santa Cruz nine years ago with her sister and friend who are also mothers, says Mills absolutely got pushback on their site, because many of its 17,000 members are scared and disturbed by the situation, and don’t see the San Lorenzo encampment as a viable alternative. But what Mills is bringing to the table is at least an attempt at a real solution, she says. “Our children and our elders are afraid to wander the streets,” Cube says. “We have to just believe. I know it’s going to be really hard for everyone, and I know that after everything we’ve been through, and the compassion fatigue we’re all feeling, that this right here is just another ask. But for the first time, I feel like somebody else is asking me. At least it’s something new, it’s not, ‘oh, it’s OK. Just keep
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<22 walking, mama. Don’t worry. We’re not headed in the wrong direction …’ Someone in a leadership, authority position is looking me in the eyes and saying, you’re right. This is bad.” So for now, Mills has Cube’s wary support. “As long as the chief is prepared to show us some positive outcomes and get us to checkmate, then I believe that Take Back Santa Cruz supports him 100 percent,” she says. This is the kind of dialogue that Mills wants to see. He’s glad that his op-ed piece started a conversation about the issue. “This battle is taking place of ‘what do we do with these people,’ and some of this is kinda forcing us to have that conversation as a community,” Mills says. “I think people are so entrenched in their minds, they’re not willing to listen about homeless issues. Everybody has their little stake in the ground and if you pull that stake out, you feel like you’re giving ground. Well, that’s not necessarily the case. People say, ‘I want rigorous enforcement.’ Okay, wait a second here … so rigorous enforcement,
but just on the homeless, not on everybody else. Now wait a second, that doesn’t make any sense to anybody, does it? It doesn’t to me. We’re going to take one class of people, the poorest of the poor, and we are going to do rigorous enforcement on them?”
FUTURE TENTS As clouds roll in and the rainy season gets underway, no one can say for sure how long the encampment—or the relaxed enforcement—will be around. If SCPD receives a complaint from a property owner, officers will still enforce the ban on a case-by-case basis. Mills says he is concerned for everyone’s safety, including that of the families who use San Lorenzo Park, especially, up by the playground. And as much as he might mock “rigorous enforcement” for a class of citizen, he says he is certain to employ it for crimes and behavioral issues. “Defecating, urinating, stealing, smoking dope downtown, spreading trash all over the driveway of Wells Fargo, that
BLANKET STATEMENT garbage collection, no enforcement of the camping ban. All of those things are amazing, and I celebrate them,” Adams says. “And yet, whether the police department or the city does it or not, this will become uninhabitable at some point. But what is the plan? My organization has lots of plans. Lots of ideas. Can we work with the city on those? I hope so.”
SLEEPING BAGGED Adams has followed recommendations from the city’s Homeless Coordinating Committee as closely as anyone, getting the word out about the list of 20 ideas and suggesting modifications. Mills and the county are both on board with the recommendations to get people a day-use facility where the homeless can receive services designed to get them out of homelessness and participate in constructive activities while addressing mental health or addiction as well as hygiene. The questions are how to do that, and who will foot the bill. The city points to the county and state as typically being providers of health and human services. Hoppin, on the other hand, points to cities like Los Angeles, which set aside $176 million of their own dollars to address their much larger homeless population. “Relying on the state to pay for everything is somewhat of a fool’s errand,” Hoppin says. “I think there’s going to have to be some skin in the game locally to get this done. We don’t know what the funding formula is going to look like yet, but like I said, it’s a good thing that everybody is moving in the same direction.” Hoppin, who works with County Administrative Officer Carlos Palacios, says he’s still waiting from the city for a clearer indication of the next steps in the process. “We are not alerted to what the city’s plans are, and we still don’t have a handle on what their plans are, what’s their exit strategy here, where this is going. We’ve been meeting with them and asking for that. We don’t have a clear
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doesn’t work. I completely get that,” he says. He’ll also be waiting to see what happens when the winter shelter opens on Nov. 15. If many beds go unused, Mills may take another look at the moratorium. “That changes the perspective a little bit,” he says. “If there’s 100-plus beds and people aren’t taking them, then perhaps enforcement does become a significant option, so people need to avail themselves of the help that’s available to them, and we’ll do everything we can to point people in the right direction.” Whatever the future of the benchlands in the short term, Bernal says San Lorenzo Park won’t work as a permanent encampment. “It’s a facility that gets used for events, so people can’t be there all the time anyway. The uses aren’t compatible with what’s there. And it floods in the winter, so it’s not a good long-term solution. We need a more permanent solution. We’re working on that,” Bernal says. While traveling the West Coast, Adams has seen all kinds of so-called “tent cities”—including ones in areas like Los Angeles, where people are allowed to sleep outside in tents any place that isn’t privately owned. “The problem with an encampment with no rules, no boundaries and admitted use of illegal addictive substances,” Adams says, “is that there may begin to be dangerous interactions based on the acquisition of substances and the means to afford them, which can include illegal, coercive, and exploitive behavior.” Adams points out that so far, things at San Lorenzo Park have been surprisingly peaceful and he says the number of overdoses have been declining in the park. He sees the encampment as surprisingly successful, but believes there are ways it could be improved by developing clean, safe and dignifying sanctuary-type camp programs, safe parking programs and authentic, safe sleep zones. “I applaud the chief, Andy Mills, for all the tents, portapotties,
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Mark Hemersbach, a 58-year-old Santa Cruz resident of 35 years, has been homeless for two years. “It only took 10 days to go from heaven to hell,” he says. He’s been living in a tent at the benchlands for the last six months. <25 picture yet,” he says, noting that there’s no evidence that homeless people are drawn to services from out of the area. Palmer, the homeless man who’s been on the streets since being evicted from his apartment, has a Section 8 housing voucher that is set to expire next month. Jenny Panetta, executive director of the Santa Cruz County Housing Authority, said at a meeting last month that about half of voucher holders aren’t able to find housing before their Section 8 expires. Palmer faces many challenges as he searches, including what to do with his few belongings while he is away from them so that they don’t get stolen. He would like to stay close to his mom in Santa Cruz, but there are fewer low-income housing options in North County, and so he says he will probably have to move to Watsonville. Storage facilities are one of the short-term fixes that the city’s recommendations identified as a need. Bernal says some steel shipping containers and plastic bins that the city ordered for this purpose have arrived, and they’re being set up on the city’s parcel on River Street that served as a staging center for the winter shelter last year. Adams has been pushing for storage containers in several of the spots where homeless people already congregate to make it easier for them to use the facilities. Adams would also like to see a mobile shower trailer where people can get clean, part of an idea he calls “popup homeless services.”
FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS Mark Hemersbach, a 58-year-old Santa Cruz resident of 35 years, has been homeless for two years. He’s been living in a tent at the benchlands for the last six months, after what he calls a “set of bad circumstances” involving the collapse of his marble and stone contracting business, he says, when a large developer didn’t pay the bills and he didn’t have the resources to fight them in court. “It only took 10 days to go from heaven to hell,” Hemersbach says. He had 25 employees and had invested his life savings in the company. Hemersbach says that a nearby storage facility would help provide homeless people some peace of mind, while cutting down on theft from a population that doesn’t have much to their name to begin with. “It would give the people a sense of organization if they can maintain it, and in the end it would give people a little more hope,” he says. These days, Hemersbach has become something of a mediator among the community benchlands, sometimes settling disputes, and other times organizing morning cleanup efforts to make sure the camp stays as tidy as possible. “We don’t want to be an eyesore for the public,” he says. “We understand this is a park. It’s not supposed to look like a run down beat-up litterbox, and we don’t want it to look that way.”
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Both your mother, Annalee Jacoby Fadiman, and your father were famous writers. How did they influence your path?
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It wasn’t hard for me to imagine becoming a writer, since I’d seen my father make a living from it, and I knew that before I was born, my mother had been a well-known journalist—the only woman war correspondent in China. In other words, writers didn’t seem to starve. And my father worked at home. It was like living over the family store—you see how it’s done. My mother was the bigger influence when I wrote my first book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, a work of reportage. My father was an essayist, so he was the bigger influence when I wrote my two essay collections, Ex Libris and At Large and At Small. But it took me a long time to feel able to write essays, because that was his territory.
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in the United States, starting a wine cellar not only let him bring something he loved into his life, but also seemed like the sort of thing a gentleman would do.
You write that even though your father experienced success, he still sometimes felt like an outsider. Why did he feel that way and how did he cope with it? Like many successful people who grew up without money, he always felt he was imitating a gentleman rather than being the real thing. He felt particularly inauthentic when he was an old man, because his childhood memories seemed more and more real, and his adult achievements less and less real every year. His insecurity both motivated his work—I’m certain that he wouldn’t have accomplished as much had he been more self-confident—and made him exasperatingly self-deprecating.
You’re the wine lover’s daughter, but not a lover of wine yourself. After a lifetime of wondering if my inability to love wine made me an inferior human being, I visited a couple of taste scientists and did some laboratory and genetic tests, from which I learned that biology was to blame. I just don’t have the same palate as my father. However, I wouldn’t and couldn’t have written The Wine Lover’s Daughter unless I loved wine as a subject, much as my father did. The history of wine has tremendous cultural resonance for me, not to mention the fact that it reminds me of my father.
Anne Fadiman will discuss and sign ‘The Wine Lover’s Daughter’ at Bookshop Santa Cruz on Monday, Nov. 13 at 7:00 p.m. at Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. Free.
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FINE TUNING Led by Nathaniel Berman, the Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony practices for their upcoming Fall Concert on Sunday, Nov. 12. From left to right, Uirassu de Almeida (viola), Zennia Dillon and Sophie Parsa (violins).
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Despite fewer music programs in schools, Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony thrives BY CHRISTINA WATERS After 10 measures of Beethoven, he stops them to make a particular point about phrasing. “It’s just a little bit slow,” he tells one section of the chambersized orchestra, composed of 26 players—brass, woodwinds, harp, and percussion balanced by 12 violins, violas, and cellos. Next, another crucial passage. “Let’s start at measure 125,” Berman says. The sound swells to fill the rehearsal room. Now it all slows down to work out the kinks. It’s all about fine-tuning the difficult passages so that in performance the entire musical selection will flow from start to finish. “For a conductor working with young musicians, one of the biggest
challenges is actually helping them develop the ability to use their musical tools—like technique, musicianship, and expression— in coordination with their ears and eyes,” explains Berman. “No amount of artful gesture on the part of the conductor can make that happen. So instead, we talk about these things and do them again, and again, and again.” They are playing a very famous movement of Beethoven’s 5th right now, the “da da da DUM” part. They sound exactly like a symphony orchestra. “153—one more time,” Berman says with a smile, then raises his hands and gives them a downbeat. The rehearsal weaves back and forth from going over little passages
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he triumphant thunder of Beethoven’s 5th symphony is the first order of business. It’s the next-to-last rehearsal before the Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony’s fall concert, and finetuning is the name of the game. Music Director Nathaniel Berman—a respected Bay Area conductor and member of UCSC’s Music faculty—takes the small podium and announces the areas that need work that evening. Two dozen sets of teenaged eyes follow his guidance with laser focus. He reminds them of tempo and balance of volume among instrumental sections. They respond. He demonstrates by singing the pitches and tempos. They respond.
smoothing out glitches, to then playing through the entire sections. The focus is absolute. The director hums and sings and practically pulls the phrases from individual sections. The strings sound quite beautiful, melting yet powerful. “Pick up to 254,” he says, pointing to 16-year-old Mia Balsley, who begins her lovely oboe solo. “Playing with the youth symphony has taught me to challenge myself, as a musician and as a person,” she admits. “I just love the atmosphere and am grateful to be able to play with others who enjoy music as much as I do,” says the young musician who began playing oboe only two years ago. “OK guys, let’s play it through,” Berman says after some final tinkering. “I love seeing the young players’ pride and satisfaction in their work,” he tells me, admitting frustration with the current state of music education. “With very few schools offering string programs of any kind now, and fewer band programs than there were in past years, there are simply far fewer kids taking up instrumental music,” says Berman. This group of students is a notable exception. “Commit to the piece,” he encourages them. “Don’t be afraid to make a mistake!” I’m frankly amazed. These are teenagers, yet they are completely engaged. No shuffling, no whispering—complete focus. The musical dynamics are impressive. “The satisfaction of seeing the kids mature and identify as musicians is really profound,” says Berman, who urges them to “play light!” at an unforgiving moment. “Again!” They repeat the tricky part. He nods. “Again!” They play it again, better. And one more time, until it’s perfect and crisp. After an hour and a quarter of exhausting focus, they will break for 15 minutes, and then continue on for another hour. Afterall, they have a concert to play.
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ewis Rogers isn’t used to being struck suddenly by creative inspiration. But he was hit with some a couple years ago while his band Busman’s Holiday, for which he sings and plays guitar, was on tour. He imagined a complete song with an orchestral section, and wanted to record it as soon as possible. “It kind of overtook me. I was very excited. I was like, ‘We’ve got to make this next album, and we’ve got to have a 21-piece orchestra,” says Rogers. The song in question is called “See the Rain,” and Busman’s Holiday did in fact record it with a 21-piece orchestra. It’s a moody, gorgeous
track that brings to mind some of the more eclectic songs in Randy Newman’s ’70s catalog. The song was released last fall on Popular Cycles, the third album for the Bloomington, Indiana-based duo that also consists of Rogers’ brother Addison, who sings and plays drums. Normally, Busman’s Holiday songs consist of some acoustic guitar, a suitcase drum set and some harmonies. But this time the duo overdubbed a lot of instruments; not every song has a 21-piece orchestra, but many have string quartets and/ or horn sections. In other words, it’s by far the most ambitious thing the brothers have ever recorded.
“I think the earlier things are just like I felt good about what we had. I think it’s why those old records are so sparse. You don’t want to ruin something. It’s so easy to add crap. Cycles felt like, ‘let’s get more instruments on there, because we can do this,’” Rogers says. The group spent many years writing, recording, and touring as a two-piece. Many of their early gigs, which date back to Rogers’ teen years, were on the street corner, and not in venues. “It was good conditioning ’cause it feels like you have to sing loud and you have to project,” he says. “You have to have songs that will make people stop. You figure out which
songs are the ones that make people stop. It’s a really good way to kind of learn how to entertain people really quickly, which I think has been pretty valuable for us.” But there was a downside to cutting their teeth in the busking realm. Like a theater actor trying to adjust his or her skill set to the big screen, Busman’s Holiday slowly came to realize that some of the things that were off-limits when playing for spare change were useful for creating a nuanced record. “It was only recently that I felt like I could sing quieter than as powerfully as I could. It took me a long time to realize that I didn’t always have to sing at full volume,” Rogers says. It clicked by the time they went to record Popular Cycles, which is a tender, emotive record. The weaving of strings and horns punctuates stirring melodies. For this record, they allowed themselves to take some time and explore everything they could do to make the songs better, even if that meant re-writing parts in the studio. “Getting the right textures, I find, is really important to making a good album. We spent so much time thinking about what’s going to go on it, what’s going to go on top of the stuff,” Rogers says. The group still tours a lot, though they favor clubs these days over bustling city streets. However, they can’t take a 21-piece orchestra out on the road with them—and they don’t want to. They haven’t decided exactly what their live band this tour will be like, but they do know it’ll be much more stripped down than the record. The focus will be on the core melodies and chords—Addison, for the record, still plays a suitcase drum set. “We try to make sure the melodies are strong enough, where hopefully if you just hear the melody even, it’ll carry the song enough,” Rogers says. “Hopefully, any way someone hears it they’ll be happy. I feel like it’s the melody and the lyrics. And hopefully giving it a good enough performance where you feel like you weren’t robbed of an experience.” Busman’s Holiday performs at 9 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 13, at the Crepe Place, 1134
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Homeopathy is a system of alternative medicine promoting self-healing through diluted substances. It is often dismissed as a placebo because of what critics call a lack of concrete evidence, but the new film Just One Drop spotlights the rich history and evolving understanding of homeopathy in a pharmaceutical-dominated healthcare system. The film ultimately focuses on the freedom of choice, and asks the question: has homeopathy been given a fair shot?
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JEWEL THEATRE PRESENTS: ‘ALWAYS ... PATSY CLINE’ More than a tribute to the legendary country singer who died tragically in a plane crash in 1963. Based on a true story about Cline's friendship with a fan from Houston named Louise Seger, who befriended the star in a Texas honky-tonk in l961, and continued a correspondence with Cline until her death. 7:30 p.m. The Colligan Theater, 1010 River St., Santa Cruz. jeweltheatre.net. $26.
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‘NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT’ Take a trip to the ’20s, in all of their toe-tapping glory, with a modern twist on social and political comedy still relevant today. Based on a novel by Tony Award-winner Joe DiPietro, the 1920s’ prohibition story features bootleggers, dowagers and chorus girls, with nods to marijuana legalization and the political influence of the 1 percent. The show, a hit on Broadway, is here to make Santa Cruz laugh out loud. INFO: Weekends from Nov. 4- Nov. 19. Cabrillo College Crocker Theater, Lower Perimeter Road, Aptos. cabrillovapa. com. $18/$20.
THE GAIL PROJECT: ‘AN OKINAWANAMERICAN DIALOGUE’ The Gail Project is a collaborative, international public history project that explores the founding years of the American military occupation of Okinawa. The project is inspired by a collection of photos taken in Okinawa in 1952 by an American Army Captain, Charles Eugene Gail. 5-7 p.m. Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz. art.ucsc. edu. Free.
MOVIE NIGHT: ‘HONOR FLIGHT’ Honor Flight is a heartwarming documentary about four living WWII veterans and a Midwest community coming together to give them the trip of a lifetime. Volunteers race against the clock to fly thousands of WWII veterans to Washington, D.C. to see the memorial constructed for them in 2004. 7 p.m. Del Mar Theater, 1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. 430-3047. Free.
SATURDAY 11/11- SUNDAY 11/12 GOAT HILL FAIR Goat Hill boasts more than 100 vendors at their antique and artisan fair, selling everything from vintage jewelry to collectibles and clever upcycled pieces. Look no further for that new loveseat or vintage rug to really tie the room together. There will be food and beverage options too, and most vendors accept credit cards, but bring cash just in case. INFO: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, 2601 E Lake Ave., Watsonville. goathillfair.com. $10 general admission/$25 early bird.
FOOD & WINE TRIVIA NIGHT Trivia night at 99 bottles. 21 and up. 8 p.m. 110 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz. 459-9999. DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ FARMERS MARKET In addition to a large variety of farm products, this market offers a great selection of local artisan foodstuffs, delicious baked goods, and lots of options for lunch and dinner. 1:30 p.m. Cedar and Lincoln streets, Santa Cruz. 454-0566. 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.
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ALEHOUSE NARRATIVES Come join in the alehouse tradition of sharing your personal anecdotes, poems, short stories, creative non-fiction, essays and humor, accompanied by a jazz band and a pint of fine organic ale. Write Sober. Edit Drunk. Read Buzzed. 7 p.m. Santa Cruz Mountain
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. 3-6 p.m.. Santa Cruz Naturopathic Medical Center, 736 Chestnut St., Santa Cruz. 477-1377 or scnmc.com. $29.
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CALENDAR 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/b12-injections or 515-8699. $15.
MUSIC OPEN MIC NIGHT Open Mic Night every Wednesday in Capitola Village. Join us at the new Cork and Fork Capitola. All are welcome. Always free, always fun. Awesome wines by the glass or bottle, Discretion beer on tap, hand made pizzas and great small-plate dishes. 7 p.m. Cork and Fork, 312 Capitola Ave., Capitola. corkandforkcapitola.com. Free. WORLD HARMONY CHORUS The World Harmony Chorus is a community chorus that welcomes participants of all ages and ability levels. There are no auditions nor entrance requirements. 7:15-9:15 p.m. Louden Nelson COmmunity Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. instantharmony.com.
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MICRO/MACRO A paper exhibition of imagined worlds and smaller works that serve as the artifacts of these dreamt up spaces. micro/MACRO features four artists working in paper to create nature inspired suspended pieces, expressive and gestural sculptures, and massively reformatted constructions. Curated by Dana Peters. Noon-5 p.m. Radius Gallery, 1050 River St., Santa Cruz. 706-1620 or radius.gallery. Free.
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OPEN MIC Bob Carter’s Open Mic every Thursday at the Santa Cruz Food Lounge. Featuring the talent of local singersongwriters. Come on out, enjoy the music with friends or take a turn behind the mic. All ages welcome. Dog-friendly patio. 5:30-9 p.m. Santa Cruz Food Lounge, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. scfoodlounge.com. Free. CELEBRATING WOMEN COMPOSERS Chamber music for violin, flute, cello, piano and organ featuring the lives and the music of talented women composers of the past: Clara Schumann, Germaine Tailleferre, Amy Beach, Mel Bonis, Louise Farrenc and more. 7:30 p.m. Peace United Church of Santa Cruz, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. 824-4536.
FRIDAY 11/10 ART THE GAIL PROJECT: ‘AN OKINAWANAMERICAN DIALOGUE’ The Gail Project is a collaborative, international public history project that explores the founding years of the American military occupation of Okinawa. The project is inspired by a collection of photos taken in Okinawa in 1952 by an American Army Captain, Charles Eugene Gail. 5-7 p.m. Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz. art.ucsc. >36 edu. Free.
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CINEMA OF THE ANTHROPOCENE Cinema of the Anthropocene seeks to challenge conventional documentary cinema and typical representations of climate change and the so-called Anthropocene, and invite the community in discussions over how we can better represent and think through climate change. 5-7 p.m. University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz. thepanoramacollective.tumblr.com. Free.
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.
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THURSDAY 11/9 A TASTE OF SANTA CRUZ It’s no secret that Santa Cruz’s food scene is changing for the better. If you are looking to check out how, look no further than A Taste of Santa Cruz. This annual event showcases 17 restaurants, 15 wineries and two breweries from around town. An entry ticket gets you unlimited bite-sized snacks and drinks. There is something for everyone on this culinary journey—and who knows, you might even find your new favorite dining destination along the way. INFO: 5:30-9 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. atosc.com. $45/$55.
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BY THEATRE IN THE MOUNTAINS Join Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, Gloria the hip-hip Hippo and, of course, those hilarious, plotting penguins as they bound onto your stage in the musical adventure of a lifetime. 7 p.m. Loma Prieta Community Center, 23800 Summit Road, Los Gatos. 408-781-7684 or theatreinthemountains.org. $12/$11.
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BENEFIT FEATURES ORIGINAL ART BY BOTSWANA BUSHMAN & SAFARI AUCTION San Bushman artists from Botswana will exhibit and sell their unique folk-art paintings and prints during a special event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. There will be silent and live auctions and the chance to win a six day safari for two in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. 5-8 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. kalaharisan.org. $50.
CLASSES WINE AND WATERCOLOR Spend a relaxing evening sipping wine and painting with watercolor. Paper, paint, brushes, still life subject and brief instruction provided. Just show up. 6-8 p.m. New Leaf Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. 426-1306 or newleaf. com. $15.
FOOD & WINE WATSONVILLE FARMERS MARKET This market is in the heart of the famously bountiful Pajaro Valley. Peaceful and family-oriented, the Latino heritage of this community gives this market a “mercado” feel. 2-7 p.m. 200 Main St., Watsonville. SODA PARTY - RELEASE OF ALDEN'S RADICAL REDWOOD ROOT BEER A little over three years ago, Alden, son of the SCMB
CALENDAR brewing family came up with the idea to create a 'house made root beer.' He tinkered with roots and extracts, yeast and sugars, finally arriving at a recipe he loved. Alden's Radical Redwood Root beer is hitting the shelves. We will be celebrating with root beer tasting & root beer floats. 6 p.m. Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing, 402 Ingalls St. Suite 27, Santa Cruz. scmbrew.com. Free. FOOD TRUCK EVENT Join us for the last Food Truck Event of the season with this extra special honoring of our local Veterans. 4:30 p.m. Skypark, 361 Kings Village Road, Scotts Valley. foodtrucksagogo.com. Free. NIGHT MARKET AT FOOD LOUNGE Only once monthly, on the second Friday of the month, come out for this deliciously exciting evening of local food, often a dozen different vendors, craft cocktails and live music. 4-9 p.m. Santa Cruz Food Lounge, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. scfoodlounge.com. Free.
HEALTH 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.
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METALLICA LISTENING PARTY Metallica's "Master of Puppets" is gettin the royal reissue treatment and we're getting together to celebrate! Join us for a listen and some great prizes. Drawing will be held at 6:30. Must be present to win. 6-8 p.m. Streetlight Records, 939 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. streetlightrecords.com. Free. ANDPLAY AndPlay is committed to expanding the existing violin/viola duo repertoire through performing rarely heard works and commissioning emerging composers. 8-11 p.m. lille aeske, 13160 Central Ave., Boulder Creek. 703-4183 or indexical.org. $20/$10.
PADDLE CLEANUP WITH KAYAK CONNECTION Save Our Shores will be hosting our final paddle cleanup with Kayak Connection. Come join us on the waves for a day of waterway cleanup and shoreline debris removal from the comfort of your kayak. 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Kayak Connection, 2370 CA-1, Moss Landing. saveourshores.org. Free.
SATURDAY 11/11 ARTS FRIENDS FALL BOOK SALE Purchase great-quality, gently-used books at the Friends largest book sale of the year. Your purchases support programs at the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. 10 a.m. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 CHurch St., Santa Cruz. 427-7700 or fscpl.org. GOAT HILL FAIR An indoor vintage fair. We offer many styles from 100+ vendors. The spaces are beautifully styled and inspirational. Food & beverages are offered. Perfect spot to begin your holiday quest for gifts, entertaining supplies and inspiration for decor from the vintage world. 10 a.m. Santa Cruz County Fair Grounds, 2601 E. Lake, Watsonville. goathillfair.com.
CLASSES ZEN MEDITATION & DISCUSSION Ocean Gate Zen Center. Meditation and talk 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. WEEKEND MEDITATION WORKSHOP A Third Eye meditation, with a number of techniques to ignite your inner perception. Night Practice, a powerful rejuvenation technique. Connecting with your creativity and natural healing mechanisms. Dynamic Awareness, to bring clarity, inspiration and awakening into daily life. 9 a.m. Santa Cruz Waldorf School, 2190 Empire Grade, Santa Cruz.
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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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CALENDAR <37 CREATE A PLANT FROM A CUTTING Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society will feature a Cutting Workshop on growing rhododendrons from cuttings. In the program you will be able to create plants from cuttings which you can take home, which should be blooming in three to five years. 10 a.m.-Noon. ProBuild Garden Center, 235 River St., Santa Cruz. 423-0223. 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. SEGWAY SANTA CRUZ FIRST ANNUAL AMATEUR HOTDOG EATING CONTEST Segway Santa Cruz Tours invites you to the Grand Opening of their new hotdog cart… “The Segway Dog House” with their first Annual Amateur Hotdog Eating Contest. Come enjoy the fun with discounted Segway Tours, hotdogs, sodas, chips and music. 3 p.m. Segway Santa Cruz, 302 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. segwaysantacruztours.com. $10.
HEALTH 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. AGING YOUNG: A HEALTH & WELLNESS EVENT Health screenings - glucose, cholesterol, blood pressure and many others. Presentations by physicians about health concerns for older adults. Lots of fun exhibits and demonstrations to enhance your wellbeing. 9 a.m.-Noon. Seascape Golf Club, 610 Clubhouse Drive, Aptos. Mysantacruzdoctor. org. Free.
MUSIC UGLY BEAUTY PLAYS BEAUTIFUL JAZZ Ugly Beauty is a piano trio with tenor saxophonist who doubles on clarinet. Their repertoire ranges from Bebop and ballads to the music of Thelonius Sphere Monk, Gershwin, Porter, Ellington, Dameron, Strayhorn, and other jazz greats. 6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse, 1 Davenport Ave., Davenport. 426-8801. Free. TOM PETTY AND THE HEART BROKEN - A MUSICAL TRIBUTE FOR HURRICANE RELIEF Members of popular local Santa Cruz bands and other guests will be performing a benefit in salute to their idol, Tom Petty. All proceeds from the show will go to One America Appeal to benefit hurricane relief. 8 p.m. Don Quixote’s International Music Hall, 6275 Hwy 9, Felton. 504-6047897. $20/$17. NOTES AGAINST THE BAN: A MUSICAL RESPONSE FROM THE SEVEN BANNED COUNTRIES The Redwood Chamber Choir has partnered with Aswat Ensemble and World Harmony Chorus to explore Islam and Arab culture with artists from seven Muslim-majority countries. 7 p.m. Peace United Church of Christ, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. redwoodchamberchoir. com. $25/$20/$15.
OUTDOOR BOARDWALK HOLIDAY ICE SKATING AT THE BEACH Celebrate this holiday season with a new family tradition, ice skating at the Boardwalk. Noon. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz. 4235590 or beachboardwalk.com. $12. LIFE ON THE RANCH DAY Join in on the fun and old-time activities that include themes
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DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ ANTIQUE FAIR The Santa Cruz Antique Faire is on the 2nd Sunday of every month. Vendors offer an eclectic blend of antiques and unique items, vintage clothing, collectibles and more. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Downtown, Cedar and Lincoln St., Santa Cruz. downtownsantacruz.com.
CLASSES DISC (FRISBEE) DOG WORKSHOP Learn how to teach your dog to catch a flying disc, throwing for accuracy and distance, learning advanced throws, introducing multiple discs to your dog with plenty of individual coaching. 9 a.m.-11 a.m. Living with Dogs Training Complex, 8022 Soquel Drive, Aptos. livingwithdogs.us. $45. NEW TO BREW - HOMEBREW CLASS RAIL TRAIL IPA Have you ever wondered how brewers combine grain, hops, yeast and water to make delicious beer? Ever thought of making some yourself? Join us to discover how, in our New To Brew - Beginner Homebrewing class. 11 a.m. Santa Cruz
Mountain Brewing, 402 Ingalls St. Suite 27, Santa Cruz. 425-4900 or scmbrew.com. $60.
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.
MUSIC STEADY SUNDAZE REGGAE All Ages Reggae in Santa Cruz outside on the patio at the Jerk House with DJ Daddy Spleece and DJ Ay Que Linda plus guest DJs in the mix. 1-5 p.m. The Jerk House, 2525 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz. 316-7575. Free.
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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.
Join UCSC students in the Rainbow Theater fall debut of four performances, each addressing issues around racial identity and experience, and aimed at creating more conversation about diversity on campus and off. Hands Up portrays African-American views and experiences on institutional profiling and police shootings, Esperanza is a “Chicanx/Latinx” reflection and discussion of the anxiety of crossing borders, R.A.W. (‘Cuz I’m a Woman) follows Asian-American women declaring their independence in a male-dominated world, and Poets Corner is a platform for student-produced performances that are intimate narratives of personal experiences. Change starts by understanding those around you, and there is no better place than Rainbow Theater’s shows to do just that.
CLASSES BOTANICAL ART IN GRAPHITE, WATERCOLOR AND COLORED PENCIL Traditional botanical art involves accuracy as well as artistic technique and creativity. It brings out the beauty in detail and leads to a new perception of our plant subjects. But you don't need to be a botanist, and artists at all levels are welcome. 9 a.m. Santa Cruz Art League, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz. 4265787 or scal.org.
FOOD & WINE LOVE MONDAY FOR BIKE SANTA CRUZ COUNTY AT DISCRETION BREWERY All day, $1 of each draft beer sold goes straight to Bike Santa Cruz County to help support our work. What better way to support BSCC than cheers-ing a refreshing craft beer with friends? 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Discretion Brewing, 2703 41st Ave. Suite A, Soquel. 3160662. Free.
INFO: 7 p.m. UCSC Stevenson Event Center, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz. cadrc.org. Free for UCSC students with student ID, $12 general admission, $10 non-UCSC students and seniors.
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 11/14 ARTS AUTHOR TALK: ALESA LIGHTBOURNE, THE KURDISH BIKE Join us at the Branciforte Library for an author talk by Alesa Lightbourne. Her book, The Kurdish Bike, provides valuable insight into life in an Iraqi Kurdish village. 2 p.m. Branciforte
Library, 230 Gault St., Santa Cruz. santacruzpl.org. Free.
CLASSES HEALTHY HOLIDAYS: THRIVE WITH A SPECIAL DIET Don't stress about how to stick to your diet during the holidays. Get ideas and inspiration for navigating the holidays with gluten-free, dairy-free and anti-inflammatory options. Enjoy tastes of recipes at the end of class. 1-2 p.m. New Leaf Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. 426-1306 or newleaf.com. Free.
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MUSIC CALENDAR
LOVE YOUR
LOCAL BAND DJ SPLEECE
In 1994, Richard Moore, aka DJ Daddy Spleece, fell in love with reggae. It didn’t just become his favorite music, it became his obsession. “I was like, ‘that’s it for me. That’s all I’m going to listen to. That’s all I’m going to play,’” Moore says.
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At the time, Moore was living in Fresno. In the coming years, he became a prominent reggae/ dancehall DJ, playing pretty much anything from Jamaica. He got weekly reggae shows going at various clubs pretty much every night of the week, and would bring live reggae bands to town. In other words, he helped create a serious reggae scene.
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When he moved to Santa Cruz nine years ago, he didn’t need to build a scene—venues like Moe’s had been doing that for years. Fortunately for him, the demand for reggae music here is high. He spins at various events in town—usually at Moe’s—hosts a weekly reggae radio show on KZSC every Tuesday morning, and even maintains the website santacruzreggae.com. “Since moving to Santa Cruz, I fell back in love with roots,” he says. “I really focus there as far as the radio goes.” Specifically, what kinds of tracks he plays when he’s hosting an event runs the gamut as far as popular favorites and obscure gems. “I like to give the people what they want to hear, but I like to give them what they need to hear, too.” AARON CARNES INFO: 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $25/door. 479-1854.
METALACHI
THURSDAY 11/9 ELECTRONIC
CUT COPY Melbourne ‘s Cut Copy is nearing two decades as a band. In that time, they’ve covered a lot of territory musically, whether it be disco, dancerock, or ’80s New Wave funk. But whatever they’ve done, it’s always been through the lens of re-interpreted pop music of the past into something light-hearted and dance-y. It’s not something that will ever feel too unfamiliar. In fact, the whole point of Cut Copy is to play with the familiar, and blur the line between nostalgia and slicked-out modern pop music. Their latest, Haiku From Zero, is no exception; it even sounds like they’re cutting and pasting from their own catalog. Nostalgia for nostalgia. AC INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $25. 429-4135.
JAZZ
PATRICIA BARBER TRIO Over the past 25 years, Patricia Barber has carved out a singular niche on the jazz scene as a skilled
pianist whose keyboard work adds considerable drama to her low-affect vocals. An incisive interpreter of standards and more contemporary pop tunes, she’s often at her best singing her own poetically charged material, including songs inspired by Greek mythology written with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship. A resident artist in Chicago’s illustrious club the Green Mill (her latest release is the digital-only album Monday Night Live at the Green Mill, Volume 3), she’s performing with her highly sympathetic trio, featuring drummer Jon Deitemyer and bassist Patrick Mulcahy, top Chicago cats.
From Axl’s “Sweet Child o’ Mine” to Ozzy’s “Crazy Train” to Tenacious D’s infamous “Fuck Her Gently,” Metalachi delivers with a relentlessly fun show. Even your abuelita will get her dance on, just don’t tell her it’s really the devil’s music! As an added treat, Santa Cruz’s Reverend Stephen Sams is opening the night. Orale! MAT WEIR
INFO: 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $30/adv, $35/door. 427-2227.
Calling Kris Delmhorst and Jeffrey Foucault a folk music power couple sounds a bit off, mostly because the two are too damn nice to be a power anything. But a folk music power couple they are. Two well-known artists with successful solo careers of their own, the twosome recently teamed up on Delmhorst’s The Wild. The album balances sophisticated songwriting, engaging vocals and natural song crafting abilities with quiet grace and charm. CJ
ANDREW GILBERT
FRIDAY 11/10 MARIACHI
METALACHI For those who’ve never experienced the magic that is Metalachi, stop existing and start living. After all, this is the world’s only heavy metal mariachi band! The six-piece puts its own traditional Mexican twist on hair-banging, hesher favorites.
INFO: 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $12/adv, $15/door. 479-1854.
FOLK
KRIS DELMHORST & JEFFREY FOUCAULT
INFO: 8 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $17/adv, $20/door. 335-2800.
MUSIC
BE OUR GUEST EMBRACING THE DANCE
TRIBUTE TO JESSE WINCHESTER & TOWNES VAN ZANDT
ROCK
DIRT TRACK HEROES
INFO: 9 p.m. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $5. 423-7117.
SUNDAY 11/12 COUNTRY
TRIBUTE TO JESSE WINCHESTER & TOWNES VAN ZANDT This Sunday, share a night of mu-
INFO: 7:30 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $25-$40. 427-2227.
TUESDAY 11/14 INTERNATIONAL ROCK
JARABE DE PALO Hailing from Montanuy, Spain, Jarabe de Palo is a rock ’n’ roll outfit formed in the mid-’90s. Across numerous lineup changes over the years, the band has collaborated with top-tier international artists, including legendary Cuban artist Celia Cruz, Spanish pop star Antonio Vega, and Puerto Rican reg-
gaeton rapper and songwriter Vico C. It has also won several awards and been nominated for multiple Grammys. On Tuesday, the Spanish rockers make their Moe’s Alley debut. CJ INFO: 8 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $35/adv, $40/door. 479-1854.
INFO: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. $29-$85. 426-6966. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Monday, Nov, 13 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the concert.
HIP-HOP
AMINÉ Up-and-coming rapper Aminé has bars and he has hooks, but what really seems to set him apart is his ability to mix silly humor with uncomfortable truths. The video for “Redmercedes” has the unsettling aesthetic of the rapper going to a car dealership wearing whiteface, dressed in Ivy League clothing, and being treated as thugs by the “racist” black salesman. Apart from being odd and hilarious, it makes a strong point about racism. His newest album Good for You is one of the best rap albums of 2017, and features the brilliant line “White girls love me like my first name Coachella.” AC INFO: 8 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $20-$89. 429-4135.
IN THE QUEUE THE SAM CHASE
Gravelly voiced, Bay Area Americana favorite. Friday at Kuumbwa SEE NIGHT
Shoegaze-psych out of San Francisco. Friday at Crepe Place DONNA THE BUFFALO
New York-based Zydeco, folk and rock outfit. Saturday at Catalyst HILARY & KATE
Roots-inspired, contemporary string duo. Saturday at Crepe Place ABYSSINIANS
Classic roots reggae. Saturday at Moe’s Alley
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“You wouldn’t be stupid enough to let Dirt Track Heroes play in your house,” the group posted on their Facebook a couple years back. A solid point! They may be loud as hell and more fun than a night of binge-watching Stranger Things, but do you really want to be responsible for the kind of cleanup a chaotic, noisy rock band like this might require? Just let the Blue Lagoon staff take care of it. They’re professionals! You just show up, have your mind blown by meaty, bluesy riffs, and go home to a couple peaceful hours of sleep. AC
sic, poetry and country storytelling as the Kuumbwa presents a tribute to singer-songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Jesse Winchester. While both artists have already passed on from this astral plane of existence, their music and words live on. This all-star line-up of local acts includes McCoy Tyler (pictured above), the Coffis Brothers, Ralph Anybody of KPIG fame and many more to soothe the soul. Kick up the dust with some old-timey ballads and hear some of your favorite tunes in a new way. MW
Now in its 60th season, the Santa Cruz Symphony presents Embracing the Dance, a concert showcasing the work of celebrated American composers John Adams and Leonard Bernstein, as well as Ludwig van Beethoven. The program begins with Adams’ 13-minute long “Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra” from 1985. It continues with Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances” from the West Side Story score, and concludes with Beethoven’s 7th symphony, the 40-minute long masterpiece that includes a funeral march as well as moments of levity and joy. CAT JOHNSON
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Wednesday November 8th 8:30pm $12 Live Reggae Music With
INDUBIOUS ROCKER T, ZAHIRA Thursday November 9th 8:30pm $9/12 Songwriter Showcase Featuring
PATRICK MAGUIRE LAUREN WALL & DREW DOLAN
LIVE MUSIC WED
11/8
THU
11/9
FRI
THE APPLETON GRILL 410 Rodriguez St, Watsonville APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos
11/10
Baile Sonidero $15 9p Al Frisby 6-8p
AQUARIUS RESTAURANT Santa Cruz Dream Inn 175 W Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz
Terry Hanck Trio, w/ Jimmy Pugh & more 6-8p
Jimmy Dewrance 6-8p
Minor Thirds Trio 6:30-9:30p
11/11
SAT Nota Infinita, Pistoleros Famosos y mas 9PM Lloyd Whitely 1p Blues Mechanics 6-8p
MON
11/13
TUE
11/14
Rob Vye 6-8p
Broken Shades 6-8p
Mojo Mix 6-8p
The Box Goth Night 9p
Post Punk Night Free 9p
Saucy Square Dance $5 9p
Minor Thirds Trio 7-10p Dirt Track Heroes, Birdo, Hash Browns $5 9pm
Veterans Day at the Blue Lagoon Free
BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
Funk Night Free 9p
METALACHI
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
Charmas 9:30p-1a
Karaoke 6p-Close
Karaoke 6p-Close
Karaoke 8p-Close
Karaoke 8p-Close
BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz
Zac Young Acoustic Free 8p
Karaoke Free 8p
Brave Mystics Free 8p
Birdo, Hashbrowns Free 8p
SC Jazz Society Free 3:30p Nomad Free 8p
Pool Free 8p
Comedy w/ Shwa Free 8p
Alex Lucero & friends 8-11p
Karaoke 9-12:30a
Karaoke 9-12:30a
Common Kings $22/$27 8p
Daley $20/$22 8p
Aminé $20-$89 7p
Origin $25/$25 6p
Guantanamo Baywatch $10/$12 8p
Diarrhea Planet $10/$12 8:30p
+ REVEREND STEPHAN SAMS Saturday November 11th 9pm $20/25
Classic Jamaican Reggae In 3 Part Harmony Featuring Original Lead Singer Bernard Collins
THE ABYSSINIANS + REGGAE ANGELS & ANCESTREE
Sunday November 12th 8:30pm $12/15 A Very Special Americana/Rock Co-Bill
SCOTT PEMBERTON + FRUITION
BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola
Comedy, 80s Night Free 8:30p
Karaoke
Karaoke
CASA SORRENTO 393 Salinas St, Salinas CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
$uicide Boy$ $28 8p
Cut Copy $25 8p
Liquid Stranger, Dimond Gryffin $20/$22 8p Saints $18/$23/$28 8p
CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
Miknna $12/$16 8:30p
Astronautalis $12/$14 8p
Grieves $16/$18 8:30p
Donna the Buffalo $14/$17 8:30p
Tuesday November 14th 8pm $35/40
Rock Legends From Spain Debut Santa Cruz
JARABE DE PALO Nov 15th Nov 16th Nov 17th Nov 18th Nov 19th Nov 22nd Nov 24th Nov 25th Nov 26th
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11/12
Friday November 10th 9pm $12/15
Earth’s Only Heavy Metal Mariachi Band
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SUN
SYNRGY + SENSAMOTION STYLUST BEATS PAINTED MANDOLIN KEZNAMDI, SCRAS, CRUZAH REBIRTH BRASS BAND DAN JUAN, PAT HULL, WAILIN RED THROUGH THE ROOTS ISRAEL VIBRATION THE GUITARSONISTS: CHRIS CAIN, MIKE SCHERMER, DANIEL CASTRO Nov 29th THE HIGGS + DOS OSOS Nov 30th BLITZEN TRAPPER + Lilly Hiatt Dec 1st MELVIN SEALS & JGB Dec 2nd POOR MAN’S WHISKEY Dec 3rd WILLIE K Dec 6th POLYRHYTHMICS Dec 7th MCCOY TYLER + KELLY MCFARLING Dec 8th SPACE HEATER Dec 9th THE ITALS Dec 10th KIMIE MINER + TENELLE Dec 13th GARY HOEY Dec 14th STU ALLEN & MARS HOTEL Dec 15th & 16th THE ENGLISH BEAT Dec 17th COCO MONTOYA (Afternoon) Dec 17th HARRISON STAFFORD of GROUNDATION (Eve) Dec 22nd SOULWISE + Nomalakadoja & Pacific Roots Dec 23rd SHLUMP + UM
WWW.MOESALLEY.COM 1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz 831.479.1854
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SUPERNAUT
doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 door
thursday 11/9
SOL NOVA Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 Door
friday 11/10
SEE wNIGHT / LI XI Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $10 Door
saturday 11/11
HILARY AND KATE
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monday 11/13
BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY w / TV MIKE
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Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $10 Door
TUESday 11/14
7 COME 11 Show 9pm $5 Door
wednesday 11/15
SUNCRUISER w / DONCAT w / LOOS LEAF
Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 Door MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz
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LIVE MUSIC WED
11/8
CAVA CAPITOLA WINE BAR 115 San Jose Ave, Capitola
THU
11/9
Ariana 6:30p
FRI
11/10
Dave D’Oh 6:30p
Celebrating Creativity Since 1975
Thursday, November 9 • 7 pm SAT
11/11
Mark Kreech 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
Supernaut $8 9p
Sol Nova $8 9p
See Night, Li Xi $10 9p
Hilary & Kate, Lauren Wahl & Simply Put $10 9p
CROW’S NEST 2218 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz
Highway Buddha $3 8p
Ten O’Clock Lunchband $5 8:30p
FishHook$6 9p
Pawn Shop Soul $7 9:30p
MON
11/13
TUE
11/14
Kip Allert 2p
Busman’s Holiday, TV Mike $10 9p
Funk Night ft. 7 Come 11 $6 9p Reggae Party Free 8p
Live Comedy $7 9p
Sherry Austin w/ Henhouse 6-9p
Flingo 7:30p
Roadhouse Karaoke 8p Karaoke 10p The Sam Chase & David Luning $25-$34 7:30p
Sin Sisters Burlesque $20-$40 7:30p
Sunday, November 12 • 7:30 pm
A TRIBUTE TO JESSE WINCHESTER & TOWNES VAN ZANDT Tickets: snazzyproductions.com RENÉ MARIE A fearless vocalist whose latest album is her first comprised of all original compositions.
Benton St. Blues Band 8p
Patricia Barber $30/$35 7p
SIN SISTERS BURLESQUE SLUMBER PARTY Tickets: eventbrite.com
Monday, November 13 • 7 pm
Tom Petty & the Kris Delmhorst & Jeffrey Heartbroken: Tom Petty Foucault $17/$20 8p tribute $17/$20 8p
HINDQUARTER BAR & GRILLE 303 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz
THE SAM CHASE & DAVID LUNING Tickets: snazzyproductions.com Saturday, November 11 • 8:30 pm
Ugly Beauty 6-9p
THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville
PATRICIA BARBER A pianist/vocalist with a flair for daring and sharp songwriting. Friday, November 10 • 7:30 pm
Matt DeScalaa 7-10p
DON QUIXOTE’S 6275 Hwy 9, Felton
KUUMBWA 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz
11/12
KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p
DAV. ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport
HENFLING’S 9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond
SUN
Tribute to Jesse Winchester & Townes Van Zandt $25-$40 7:30p
René Marie $25/$30 6p
The Garcia Project $17/$20 8p
1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS! Tuesday, November 14 • 8 pm
THE GARCIA PROJECT Tickets: thewheelcompany.com Wednesday, November 15 • 7:30 pm
MELISSA GARAY SENIOR RECITAL Info: 831-430-2433 Thursday, November 16 • 7 pm
THE BAYLOR PROJECT A duo with gospel roots and jazz inflection. 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS! Friday, November 17 • 7 & 9 pm
BILL FRISELL’S BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS Shimmering, yet understated guitar mastery. Saturday, November 18 • 7:30 pm
DIRTY CELLO & ZOMBIE COFFEE COLLECTIVE Tickets: snazzyproductions.com
Fri, Nov 10
7:30 pm $25 Gen. Adv. $34 Gold Circle
Monday, November 20 • 7 & 9 pm
Kuumbwa
REGINA CARTER “SIMPLY ELLA” One of the world’s premiere violinists pays homage to Ella Fitzgerald.
Sun, Nov 12
Kuumbwa
and a Benefit for Abbey Chrystal and Ken Swegles
Performers: Henhouse, Ralph Anybody, Coffis Brothers, A.J. Lee, McCoy Tyler, Dave Nielsen, Jerry and Elliott Kay, Ginny Mitchell, Ken Kraft, Bonny June, Craig Owens & Ron Sandidge Sat, Nov 18
7:30 pm $25 Gen. Adv. $35 Gold Circle
Kuumbwa Fri, Dec 8
7:30 pm $25 Gen. Adv. $40 Gold Circle
Kuumbwa
Sat, Dec 9
7:30 pm $28 Gen. Adv. $38 Gold Circle
Rio Theatre
Gold Circle: Rio Theatre: first 8 rows (100 seats), Kuumbwa: First 3 rows including 2 seats each side (40 seats). Additional $4 for each ticket purchased at the door. Tax is included. Tickets for all Snazzy shows are available online at: www.snazzyproductions.com or on the Snazzy tickets hotline 831.479.9421
Monday, November 27 • 7 pm
JEREMY PELT QUINTET One of the great neo-bop trumpeters of our time, leading a hard-swinging quintet. 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS! Friday, December 1 • 7 pm
QUEEN ESTHER MARROW WITH THE TAMMY HALL TRIO A remarkable singer, discovered by Duke Ellington, accompanied by Bay Area stalwart pianist Hall and her trio. 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS!
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International Music Hall and Restaurant FINE MEXICAN AND AMERICAN FOOD
FLYNN’S CABARET AND STEAKHOUSE will be presenting its Grand Opening in mid-December...and yes...of course, we are keeping the music! Farm-to-table, non-GMO with 40% Vegan, Vegetarian menu. FRI Nov 10
THU
11/9
FRI
11/10
Blue Ocean 7:30p
Green Dog 5p Sasha’s Money 7:30p
Kris Delmhorst & Jeffrey Foucault
MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz
James Murray 6p
Al Frisby 6p
Lloyd Whitley 6p
MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz
Indubious, Rocker T $8/$12 8p
Rye Dawn: Patrick Maguire & more $9/$12 8p
Metalachi $12/$15 9p
$17 adv./$20 door seated <21 w/parent 8pm
MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
The Coffis Brothers & many friends – Tom Petty Tribute Baby Gramps plus Hot Damn Scandal
The Salvador Dali of Folk Music meets Tipsy American Gypsy Blues $10 adv./$10 door seated <21 w/parent 7:30pm Fri Nov 17
11/8
Gary Blackburn 7:30p
AGES 21+ $15 adv./$15 door 8pm Wed Nov 15
WED MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel
Special rare appearance celebrating Delmhorst’s newest album, THE WILD Sat Nov 11
LIVE MUSIC
August Sun, Light The Band, Urban Theory A true love of pure rock and roll and funk rock energy meets funky dance party rage music
Libation Lab 9:30p-1:30a D-ROC 9:30p
NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz 99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz
Blind Rick 7-9p Trivia 8p
PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola
SAT
11/11
Dead Guise 8p Virgil Thrasher & Blind Rick Stevens 1p Westside Sheiks 6p The Abyssinians w/ Bernard Collins & more $20/$25 9p
SUN
11/12
MON
11/13
Grateful Sundays 5:30p Mojo Mix 6p
Rob Vye 6p
Scott Pemberton Band & Fruition $12/$15 8:30p
Blues Mechanics 6p Jarabe De Palo $35/$40 7:30p
Adam Cova 9:30p Tacos & Trivia 6-8p
Shotgun Suitor 7-9p
Alex Lucero 6p
Vinny Johnson 6p Bulletproof Hearts w/ Poor Richards 9p
Open Mic 4 -7p Star La’Moan & the Kitchenettes 9p
Billy Martini 2p Comedy Open Mic 9p
THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz
RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz
11/14
Jazz Jam Santa Cruz 7p
Dan Rola Free 10p
POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz
THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz
TUE
Open Mic 8-11p ‘Geeks Who Drink’ Trivia Night 8p
Toby Grey Acoustic Favorites 6:30p
Moshe Vilozny Acoustic/World 6:30p
Traditional Hawaiian Music 6:30p
Brunch Grooves 12:30p Evening Acoustic 6:30p
Reel Rock 12 $20 7p
Mountainfilm Festival $18 7p
Brunch Grooves 12:30p Featured Acoustic Chas Crowder 6p 6:30p
James Murray Soulful Acoustic 6:30p Mandolin Orange $24 8:30p
$10 adv./$10 door dance ages 21+ 8pm Sat Nov 18
Solo Flight Swing
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ROCKING OUT Margo Hayes sends La Rambla in Reel Rock 12, one of three adventure film festivals in Santa Cruz this week. PHOTO: GREG MIONSKE
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rom Cowtown to the island of Mallorca, next weekend will likely be the most allencompassing three days of the year for environmental short filmmaking in Santa Cruz. Telluride’s Mountainfilm on Tour and the Save the Waves Film Festival, along with much-anticipated debut of Reel Rock 12, fall within days of each other, spanning from sea to sky and featuring almost every outdoor activity you can think of. The fact that these festivals all are happening in a single weekend demonstrates how much demand there is right now for the films—which may be best-known for featuring adventurers and athletes doing really badass stuff outdoors, but also seek to promote
environmental awareness. The Trump presidency is a grim time for environmental literacy and protection. Twenty-seven national land and marine monuments are pending review under Trump’s administration, and the U.S. Department of the Interior is working to shrink protection borders around several national monuments, including Utah’s Bears Ears, to open more land for oil drilling. Beyond their importance as habitats and ecosystems, many of these landmarks are destinations for the adventure sports community—and many filmmakers in that community consider this an important time for storytelling as a form of activism. First up is the Save the Waves
International Film Festival on Thursday, Nov. 9., at the Patagonia Outlet. It will screen 15 films spanning four continents, and examine how to protect coastlines, oceans and wildlife— all accompanied by some really stunning surfing footage. Over nine years, the festival has continued to grow steadily. “You have to walk a fine line between rattling people’s cages, and not leaving them with a sense of hopelessness,” says Trey Highton, Save the Waves Film Festival Director. “With technology and social media today, people’s attention spans are shorter; so if we are able to put an impactful, meaningful message into a highly visual consumable and entertaining
format, that’s the most impactful way to get a message out.” Reel Rock 12 has had climbers and non climbers alike across the world gripping their seats in anticipation for months. It’s screening at more than 100 locations worldwide, and comes to the Rio Theatre the day after the Save the Waves film festival. The tour will feature short films, starring, among others, Santa Cruz native and pro climber Chris Sharma and rock star 19-year-old Margo Hayes—the first woman to complete a 5.15a-grade climb, one of the highest level climbs for both men and women. Of Reel Rock 12’s four films, two feature women. Hayes, and Maureen Beck, a woman who climbs extremely difficult routes with only one arm while shotgunning beers—to say she’s a badass lady is an understatement. “Our culture and society has grown accustomed to a male-dominant industry and now people want to see a little more equality and more women in film,” says Mountainfilm on Tour Director Crystal Merrill. “In the last two years, I have seen a pretty big change and way more women in films and filmmaking.” The Mountainfilm on Tour hails from Telluride, where it has screened a mish-mosh of mountain-themed films annually since 1979. Following its hometown showing of more than 100 documentary-based films, the nonprofit then hits the road, stopping at more than 150 locations worldwide, including Santa Cruz on Saturday, Nov. 11. The hope is to inspire a greater appreciation and understanding of the environment and our impacts. “Coming to Santa Cruz is like coming home for us, because we have an audience that is really supportive and gets it,” Merrill says. “But what’s important for us to focus on [are] audiences that don’t get it, that don’t understand what it’s like to have access to public lands in your backyard or realize what it’s like to almost lose those.” INFO: Save the Waves Film Festival is at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9. Patagonia Outlet. 415 River St., Santa Cruz. savethewaves.org/filmfest; Reel Rock 12 is at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 10. Rio Theatre. 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. riotheatre.com. $20; Mountainfilm on Tour: 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11. Rio Theatre. 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. riotheatre.com. $18.
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JANE This documentary about legendary primatologist Jane Goodall draws on over 100 hours of footage taken by Dutch filmmaker Hugo van Lawick, who was sent to film her at work in 1964, and ended up falling in love with and marrying her. Lawick’s footage had been stored away in the National Geographic archives and forgotten about for more than half a century, and along with new interviews of Goodall, brings some close-up insight into her celebrated life and work. Brett Morgan directs. (Not Rated) 90 minutes. (SP)
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MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS It’s got to be tricky adapting one of the world’s most famous whodunit novels, almost a 100 years after its release—mainly because a lot of people already know whodunit. Especially since Agatha Christie’s 1934 book has been adapted for film, TV and even video games many times. Still, director Kenneth Branagh (who also stars as Christie’s detective Hercule Poirot) is here to give it his best shot, with an all-star cast and a stylish modern look. Costarring Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Willem Dafoe, Penelope Cruz and Michelle Pfeiffer. (PG-13) 114 minutes. (SP) NOVITIATE Neither religious herself nor laboring under any
weird issues from a religious upbringing, filmmaker Maggie Betts never imagined herself making a movie about nuns. But she says a book about Mother Theresa, which made her realize for the first time that nuns are supposed to be literally married to God, led her to write and direct this story of a young mid-century girl who is drawn into the mystery and romance she finds in the idea of convent life, but struggles with issues of faith and sexuality. (R) 123 minutes. (SP) WONDERSTRUCK Brian Selznick adapts his own critically acclaimed young-adult novel for this film about two children longing for different lives in different eras, whose stories are woven together in unexpected ways. Directed by Todd Haynes. Starring Oakes Fegley, Millicent Simmonds, Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams. (PG) 116 minutes. (SP) MIDNIGHTS AT DEL MAR Friday and Saturday, it’s Paul Thomas Anderson’s funny and moving Punch-Drunk Love, featuring what is possibly Adam Sandler’s only great performance in any movie. (Yes, I see you over there, Happy Gilmore cultists. Whole different thing.) (SP) 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.
NOW PLAYING A BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS The bad moms are back, and because they have to check all the boxes of movie clichés, this sequel sees Mila Kunis et al. get a visit from their bad moms. FYI, Daddy’s Home 2 comes out next week with exactly the same gimmick. Curse you, Meet the Parents, for creating the idea that if you
can’t think of a good idea for a dysfunctional-family comedy sequel, you can just stunt-cast the parents instead. Jon Lucas and Scott Moore direct. Susan Sarandon, Cheryl Hines and Christine Baranski co-star as the bad grandmoms. (R) 104 minutes. (SP) BATTLE OF THE SEXES Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs’ 1973 match-up comes to the big screen in Battle of the Sexes, a thoughtful and entertaining movie about gender, identity, politics, and celebrity at a pivotal cultural moment in American history. Written by Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire), it was directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton—whose first film, Little Miss Sunshine, demonstrated their skill at developing sympathetic characters and tuning into the subtle absurdities of life. Starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell. (PG-13) 121 minutes. (LJ) THE FLORIDA PROJECT Even good kid actors are usually more tolerable than remarkable, but Brooklynn Prince is getting glowing reviews for her performance as a six-year-old girl living with her off-thewall mother in a motel in the shadow of Walt Disney World. She’s getting Oscar buzz, but the actress who plays her antiheroine mom, 24-year-old Bria Vinaite—who had never acted before and was discovered by director Sean Baker on Instagram—is getting even more. Together, they’re the core of this edgy drama. Willem Dafoe costars. (R) 115 minutes. (SP) GEOSTORM What would be amazing is if all the scientists in this global disaster movie were like, “Oh no, here comes a GEOSTORM!” And then a 1993 Isuzu Geo Storm drives up, and everybody goes, “Aw, actually it’s so cute, why did we stop making them?” I emailed the producers of Geostorm like 1000 times about my idea, but they still wouldn’t let me write this movie. Sad! Dean
Devlin directs. Gerard Butler, Abbie Cornish and Ed Harris star. (PG-13) 110 minutes. (SP) HAPPY DEATH DAY Whether or not you have any interest in this horror take on Groundhog Day—a teen keeps reliving the day she dies over and over until she can figure out who her killer is—I think we can all agree it’s a lock for worst title of the year. Christopher Landon directs. Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard and Ruby Modine star. (PG-13) 96 minutes. (SP) JIGSAW When asked about their approach to making a Saw film in 2017, the directors of this movie summed it as … “Saw for 2017.” Whoa, insightful! Don’t look now, but Get Out was also “Get Out for 2017” and Suburbicon is “Suburbicon for 2017.” For future reference, citing the year that you are making a new movie for a long-dead franchise that hadn’t even been good since its original entry in 2004 is not the same as justifying the existence of that movie. Even the Jigsaw Killer himself has officially been dead for 10 years within the universe of these movies, so who knows where they’re going with this. Directed by Michael and Peter Spierig. Starring Tobin Bell, Matt Passmore and Callum Keith Rennie. (R) 92 minutes. (SP) THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER Imagine Fatal Attraction remade by the director of bizarre arthouse hit The Lobster—with a touch of Joel Edgerton’s underrated The Gift thrown in for good measure—and you’ve got The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Colin Farrell plays Dr. Steven Murphy, a prominent surgeon with a seemingly perfect family (including wife Nicole Kidman) and life, who takes teenaged Martin (Barry Keoghan) under his wing. Everything goes great, Martin does not act progressively creepier, and revelations from the past definitely do not threaten to shatter Murphy’s domestic bliss and rip his life apart. J/k! He totally does, and they totally do. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Co-
starring Sunny Suljian and Raffey Cassidy. (R) 120 minutes. (SP) LBJ Sure, we could debate Lyndon B. Johnson’s legacy—should it be more weighted toward his pioneering civil rights efforts, or his terrible mishandling of the Vietnam War? But there are far more historically pressing questions here. Like, for instance, which casting in this biopic is weirder: Woody Harrelson as LBJ, or Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lady Bird Johnson? Rob Reiner directs. Jeffrey Donovan and Richard Jenkins co-star. (R) 98 minutes. (SP) LUCKY John Carroll Lynch is Hollywood’s most unassuming Renaissance man. Probably best-known as the lovable Norm Gunderson from Fargo, his remarkable career as a character actor recently also included the absolutely terrifying Twisty the Clown in American Horror Story. Now he makes his directorial debut with this, the late Harry Dean Stanton’s final film, in a story about a 90-year-old atheist seeking enlightenment in a quirky Texas town. If that sounds a bit like David Lynch’s The Straight Story, well, John Carroll Lynch is very up front about the inspiration—in fact, David Lynch (no relation) co-stars in this film, along with Ron Livingston, Tom Skerritt and Beth Grant. (Not Rated) 88 minutes. (SP) THOR: RAGNAROK Okay, it’s less about the gods of classical Norse Mythology than the Marvel Comics pantheon, but only a real killjoy would fail to get a kick out of this third installment of the Thor series. Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston continue to have way too much fun with the prickly relationship between heroic Thor, God of Thunder, and sly, acerbic half-brother Loki, deliciously untrustworthy Trickster God. But — surprise! This time Hemsworth gets most of the laughs. It's all directed with a droll, light touch by Taika Waititi, who give his adroit cast plenty of room to maneuver. (PG-13) 130 minutes. (LJ)
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ICE CREAM HAPPY HOUR A sweet idea from the folks at Assembly in downtown Santa Cruz. Yes, they already have a happy hour special on draft beers and wines by the glass—half off from 3-5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. But now there’s also a special “double for the price of a single” deal on designer ice cream scoops at the Penny Ice Creamery (same folks as Assembly), from 4-6 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday. Something to brighten up your late afternoon! theglassjar.com.
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OUT OF THE WOODS Kenny Woods, executive chef at 1440 Multiversity’s Teaching Kitchen, will be leading a
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The secrets of homemade pasta, plus ice cream happy hour and the New Cocktail BY CHRISTINA WATERS
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ecrets to homemade pasta will be revealed at Pasta Night up at the 1440 Multiversity Teaching Kitchen on Wednesday, Nov. 8. Executive Chef Kenny Woods, who designs and executes menus for the handsome new retreat center, will lead a small gathering through a hands-on pasta workshop, with wine pairings and dinner, too. There are many of us who love pasta, and secretly wish we knew a few tricks about finessing dishes to delight and impress our guests—or simply to enjoy with family. Well,
Woods will reveal some professional techniques for participants, such as learning to create and stuff classic tortelloni with whipped lemon ricotta, winter greens, and more. After you’ve learned to create this Northern Italian farmhouse classic, you can relax and enjoy the creation, along with two other savory dishes and two wine pairings. It all happens in 1440’s brand new, state-of-the-art teaching kitchen classroom, and will finish up with Chef Woods sharing his tiramisu secrets. You’ll be able to whip up your own homemade version of this creamy dessert after
the evening workshop. Woods is devoted to using the freshest local ingredients from farmers markets for his campus menus, and Pasta Night is no exception. “What’s great about our farmers markets is that everything is grown right here, in our own backyard,” he says. “My job is to have the food be itself, not mask it. Fresh and simple. That’s how you eat healthy.” Quickly check to see if there are any spaces left for this exclusive night with Chef Kenny Woods and a passionate group of foodies.
After extensive Facebook contretemps, I have discovered a few things that might help you (and me) navigate the expanding world of the New Cocktail currently happening in our neck of the woods. Some old school cocktails, e.g. the martini, the Sidecar, cater to those who enjoy the irreplaceable flavor of the central liquor involved in the cocktail, e.g. gin and/or brandy and Grand Marnier. Others, including ace Avanti mixologist Katie Cater, reminded me that a good cocktail requires balance of ingredients and that the alcohol needn’t be the dominant flavor note. It might be any number of herbal or fruit ingredients. So when we see “gin” as one of the items in a multiingredient cocktail, that doesn’t mean that gin has a starring role. Silly me. I was still on the page where cocktails contained few ingredients and highlighted the central liquor involved. The New Cocktail can be a glamorous mixture of anything that tastes fabulous, even if alcohol plays a minor role. Got that?
CATCH MY ACT If you couldn’t reserve a place at my New Leaf Westside event Heightening Your Food Pleasure, then sign up for the second act from 1-2 p.m. next Wednesday, Nov. 15. Free and lots of fun. newleaf.com/events.
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ason Revino, owner of the popular Scotts Valley Cambodian restaurant Jia Tella’s, opened another restaurant in July called Two Doors. It’s got pizza, burgers, sandwiches, finger foods, beer, and bike décor everywhere. Oh, and it’s in the same building as Revino’s first restaurant—and next to the bar that he also owns, JT’s Next Door. We asked Revino to explain it all.
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Why the bicycle theme? The whole concept when I built Jia Tella’s—remember Seinfeld, the soup
Nazi? It’s like “my way or the highway.” Everything in there is my favorite. Same thing with Two Doors. I had to decorate it. I love mountain biking. I go all over the world mountain biking. If I’m going to decorate it, it might as well be with something I love. I love beers, I love burgers, I love pizza, I love mountain biking.
Barking Dog, Star Wars, Sick ’n’ Twisted. Where’d you come up with these sandwich and burger names? They’re named after bikes and trails all around Santa Cruz. It was something kind of fun. I ride a Devinci Spartan bike. My favorite pizza is a Devinci. It’s got black olives and sausage, onions, a little bit of garlic. It’s a thin crust. My favorite salad is a Spartan. I love Caesar salad. Barking Dog is our Italian Sausage sandwich. That’s a trail that’s way in the top of the mountain, kind of hidden. You got Sick ’n’ Twisted, Pipeline. Those are all names of trails. It’s fun. We create an environment where you want to hang out with some friends, drink some beers and get some good food. 5600 Scotts Valley Drive, 600-7274.
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DOS AGUILAS OLIVE OIL One of the stops we made on the openhouse farm tour in early October was at Dos Aguilas Farm, where farm manager Roger Wolfe took us through
lush olive orchards and we tasted the farm’s tangy olive oil. Having lived in Greece for 13 years where olive oil rules, I do all my cooking with olive oil, and I never use store-bought dressings on salads, preferring just olive oil and balsamic vinegar or lemon juice. Dos Aguilas’ superb olive oil is available at El Salchichero in Santa Cruz; Sunnyside Produce in Soquel; Corralitos Market; Kelly’s Books in Watsonville; Pure Health in Aptos; Glaum Egg Ranch; Marianne’s Ice Cream; and Seascape Foods. Dos Aguilas Farm, 1855 Pleasant Valley Road, Aptos. 252-0752. dosaguilasoliveoil.com.
ALBACORE FEED DINNER The Monterey Bay Salmon & Trout Project and the Castroville Rotary Club are presenting their 40th annual fundraising Albacore Feed Dinner. There will be door prizes, silent auction and project demos. It starts at 6 p.m. with no-host cocktails, followed by dinner at 7 p.m. at the Castroville Recreation Center, 11261 Crane St., Castroville. Dinner tickets are $20 (kids 12 and under $10) and are available at the door, or email mhermansky@cs.com.
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When the Sun is in Scorpio all of humanity enters into a time of testing. Humanity is given Scorpio’s Nine Tests. An example of the tests, ancient yet relevant today, can be read in the biblical story of Samson, the Old Testament hero, who had to choose between passion (Delilah) and obedience to and love of God. The Nine Tests describe the Scorpio labor (each sign offers us tasks and labors to overcome). The tests are subtle and are given to ascertain whether we are strong enough to proceed forward into Initiation. As we encounter the tests we either enter into an expanded field of Soul light or remain within the underbelly of Scorpio, the darkened emotional waters of the personality. The latter makes us feel imprisoned and drowning. The Nine Tests focus on the three aspects of the personality (physical, emotional, and lower mental). How we respond is part of the test. Do we react or respond when the tests appear? The Tests are as follows.
1. Physical tests: sexuality, physical comfort over service to others; and the right use of money. 2. Emotional tests: fear (inhibiting activities); hate (which destroys relationships); and excessive and obsessive ambition and desire for power, (which can destroy entire nations). 3. Mental (lower mind) tests: pride (creates a barrier to the Soul); belief in separateness and isolation (create barriers to Right Human Relations); and cruelty (outcome of inappropriate use of power). These tests are for our own personal spiritual practice. They are not to judge others. Neither are we to judge ourselves. Observation, discrimination, non-criticism and compassion must be learned. We are all traveling the path together. We are all being tested. Understanding these things, we help each other. Struggling toward Jerusalem, together.
ARIES Mar21–Apr20
LIBRA Sep23–Oct22
How to more fully secure finances and resources held in common and also stabilize relationships? These are questions you ponder over the next several months. Some answers. Maintain necessary boundaries and confidentiality, yet be very truthful with those you trust. Pay bills, organize and safeguard important papers, tend to long forgotten needs (and deeds), and allow no alienation to occur. Share and safeguard more.
Review all monetary situations—loans, bills, and tithes—in order to carefully assess finances in the next three months. This is a good exercise. You’ll find life is generous. In turn, you are to be generous, too. Give to (tithe) those in need. Do this scientifically. A bit each month. Financial differences occur within relationships. Stand your ground by sharing. Then share more.
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The nine tests reveal themselves in daily life events, such as scheduling, tending to self, health, animals and serving others. You will be asked to help and assist others, fulfill more tasks, set high standards, volunteer, floss more carefully, act as if you are beloved, be respectful, and communicate as if the maintenance of the world depended upon it. You can do all of this easily.
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SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 The tests for Scorpio center on self-identity. You will observe your many selves through the lens of who you are, who you used to be, who you think you are, and who you really are, now and in the future. This is complex but not confusing. It’s clarifying, especially since the tests are made especially for you. Watch your communication. Always practice Ahimsa (doing no harm).
SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 How you observe and tend to the Nine Tests will determine what your next opportunities will be. So, tend carefully to the tests. They will appear even in dreams, at odd times day or night, when you’re about to fall asleep and in between thoughts, ideas and words on a page. Information is available through this experience. Keep your eyes wide open.
CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20
You might feel restricted, lost and alone and far away from others, especially family. You may be stretched in four directions, experiencing financial fears and dreams intruding upon reality. “What’s real?” you ask. This question is all about the tests. You remember to step back and observe, to nurture yourself, and to dream more about what you really and truly desire.
Dear Capricorn, always moving upward and onward. The tests, none of which deter you, will occur in teams, groups, your community. The tests, subtle and behind the scenes, will transform and reorient your values. The Nine Tests will ask what are your hopes, wishes and dreams for the future? For yourself and your family? What are your deepest goals? What do you love?
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You may be concerned about money—lack or loss of it, or not receiving your share in a family legacy or will. You may be concerned with having resources to purchase something for the home. Sometimes you hide away at home enfolded in shadows. If there is persistent grief, take ignatia amara (homeopathic remedy). Death could be on your mind. Death is the great adventure, a liberation. You’re sensitive.
Your home and work life are in states of change. If you are a writer, photographer, or artist, notice the nine tests appearing in your life. Attempt to portray them through the medium of your art. Wherever you are, make it feel like home. Host a party. Use your creativity to write about, describe, and film everything about home. This allows you to look homeward again.
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A quiet frame of mind may be what you’re experiencing. There are many planets in Scorpio influencing thinking and communication. Careful that you don’t allow a critical nature or separative judgments to take hold. Have the intention to pass the Nine Tests with loving care. Then assist others in their tests. Hold a light up for them in their darkness. Lighting their way. The Light of the Soul.
The world is listening to you as a teacher. Make sure all that you say contains words concerning the beloved. Everything is the beloved. Write and speak as if you hold the world in your hands and any movement shifts humanity into states of Goodwill. What am I saying? That every action we make affects humanity and all kingdoms. Therefore, we are to act as if, and always act kindly.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1695 The following Individual is doing business as LIA ADAMS EVENTS. 2665 ORCHARD STREET, SOQUEL, CA 95073. County of Santa Cruz. LIA RANAE ADAMS. 2665 ORCHARD STREET, SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: LIA RANAE ADAMS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/1/2017. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Oct. 11, 2017. Oct. 18, 25 & Nov. 1, 8.
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: Oct. 13, 2017. Denine J. Guy, Judge of the Superior Court. Oct. 25 & Nov. 1, 8, 15.
AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. MOLLIE MAE. 120 B 20TH AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MOLLIE MAE. 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 Oct. 6, 2017. Oct. 25 & Nov. 1, 8, 15.
17-1739 The following Individual is doing business as ALDEN ROACH CONSULTING. 1225 ODYSSEY COURT, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. TIMOTHY ALDEN ROACH. 1225 ODYSSEY COURT, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: TIMOTHY ALDEN ROACH. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/1/1991. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Oct. 20, 2017. Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22.
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clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: MATTHEW SCOTT LADAGE to: MATTHEW SCOTT SABA. 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 December 11, 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: Oct. 19, 2017. Denine J. Guy, Judge of the Superior Court. Nov. 8, 15, 22, 29.
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 December 11, 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: Oct. 19, 2017. Denine J. Guy, Judge of the Superior Court. Nov. 8, 15, 22, 29.
filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING December 11, 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: Oct. 19, 2017. Denine J. Guy, Judge of the Superior Court. Nov. 8, 15, 22, 29.
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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF ALICE TABANAN ALCARAZ CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.17CV02627. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner ALICE TABANAN ALCARAZ has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: ALICE TABANAN ALCARAZ to: IRISH ALCARAZ. 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 November 27, 2017 at 8:30 am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1717 The following Individual is doing business as GALLI'S CUSTOM FABRICATION. 3621 SOQUEL DR. UNIT 8, SOQUEL, CA 95073. County of Santa Cruz. MICHAEL TAYLOR GALLI. 3621 SOQUEL DR. UNIT 8, SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MICHAEL TAYLOR GALLI. 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 Oct. 16, 2017. Oct. 25 & Nov. 1, 8, 15.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1719 The following Individual is doing business as DEPAYSEMENT SUPPER CLUB. 217 1ST AVE UNIT 1/2, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. MARIE NICOLE FISHER. 217 1ST AVE UNIT 1/2, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MARIE NICOLE FISHER. 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 Oct. 16, 2017. Oct. 25 & Nov. 1, 8, 15. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1675 The following Individual is doing business as BLUE SKY ACUPUNCTURE. 120 B 20TH
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1713 The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as BIFROST LIGHTING. 403 LOMA AVE, CAPITOLA, CA 95010. County of Santa Cruz. BIFROST LIGHTING, LLC. 403 LOMA AVE, CAPITOLA, CA 95010. AI# 23610301. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: KRISTOPHER CLEMSON. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/16/2017. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Oct. 16, 2017. Oct. 25 & Nov. 1, 8, 15. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1734 The following Married Couple is doing business as FLOWTECH SALES. 130 ANTHONY STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. MARA LISKE & ZACHARY LISKE. 130 ANTHONY STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by a Married Couple signed: ZACHARY LISKE. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/17/2017. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Oct. 18, 2017. Oct. 25 & Nov. 1, 8, 15. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO.
CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF RACHAEL RIDENOUR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.17CV02726. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner TINA KISHOR ZAVAR has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: TINA KISHOR ZAVAR to: TINA PRITESH PATEL. 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 December 7, 2017 at 8:30 am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1760 The following Individual is doing business as CABRILLO PROPERTIES. 5380 SOQUEL DRIVE, SOQUEL, CA 95073. County of Santa Cruz. PEGGIE JO VERDUGO. 5380 SOQUEL DRIVE, SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: PEGGIE JO VERDUGO. 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 Oct. 24, 2017. Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1701 The following Individual is doing business as SKYWALKER RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT SUPPLIES. 112 CATALPA ST, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. LUKE AARON NEEL. 112 CATALPA ST, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: LUKE AARON NEEL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/5/2017. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Oct. 12, 2017. Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22. CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF MATTHEW SCOTT LADAGE CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.17CV02708. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner MATTHEW SCOTT LADAGE has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the
CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF MELANIE MARIE CROSS CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.17CV02708. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner MELANIE MARIE CROSS has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: MELANIE MARIE CROSS to: MELANIE DAVIS-SABA. 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
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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF KAIDEN TANIOS SABA CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.17CV02708. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner KAIDEN TANIOS SABA has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: KAIDEN TANIOS SABA to: KAIDEN TANIOS SABA . 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
CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF ARIEF MAGNUS PRABU CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.17CV02751. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner ARIEF MAGNUS PRABU has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: ARIEF MAGNUS PRABU to: MAGNUS ARIEF PRABU. 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 December 13, 2017 at 8:30 am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed
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in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: Oct. 30, 2017. Denine J. Guy, Judge of the Superior Court. Nov. 8, 15, 22, 29. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1796 The following Married Couple is doing business as BOXER REVIVAL, PLAMWERKS. 125 HANGAR WAY SUITE 170, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. EDWARD JOHANNES PLAM & JAMIE JOANGELEE PLAM. 125 HANGAR WAY SUITE, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. This business is conducted by a Married Couple signed: JAMIE JOANGELEE PLAM. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Oct. 30, 2017. Nov. 8, 15, 22, 29. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1745 The following Individual is doing business as HOLIDAY LIGHTING COMPANY. 343
SUMMIT DR., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. KEVIN DEBOER. 343 SUMMIT DR., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: KEVIN DEBOER. 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 Oct. 20, 2017. Nov. 8, 15, 22, 29. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1800 The following Individual is doing business as MCVAY & CO. 1317 ESCALONA DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. DONALD JAMES MCVAY. 1317 ESCALONA DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: DONALD JAMES MCVAY. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/31/2017. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Oct. 31, 2017. Nov. 8, 15, 22, 29.
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION OF ORDINANCE BY POSTING (ORDINANCE NO. 2017-20) The City Council of the City of Santa Cruz having authorized the city clerk administrator, that the ordinance hereafter entitled and described, be published by posting copies thereof in three (3) prominent places in the City, to wit: The City of Santa Cruz Website www.cityofsantacruz.com City Hall–809 Center Street Central Branch Library–224 Church Street
ORDINANCE NO. 2017-20 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ AMENDING TITLE 24 OF THE SANTA CRUZ MUNICIPAL CODE, THE ZONING ORDINANCE, BY AMENDING CHAPTER 24.16 PART 3, DENSITY BONUS PROVISIONS FOR RESIDENTIAL UNITS
This ordinance amends a Title 24 of the municipal code related to the zoning ordinance. PASSED FOR PUBLICATION on this 24th day of October, 2017, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Krohn, Mathews, Watkins, Brown, Noroyan; Vice Mayor Terrazas; Mayor Chase. NOES: None. ABSENT: None. DISQUALIFIED: None. APPROVED: ss/Mayor Chase. ATTEST: ss/Bren Lehr, City Clerk Administrator. This ordinance is scheduled for further consideration and final adoption at the Council meeting of November 14th, 2017.
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MONTEREY BAY AIR RESOURCES DISTRICT NOTICE INVITING SEALED BIDS PROFESSIONAL EXTERIOR PAINTING OF THE MONTEREY BAY AIR RESOURCES DISTRICT OFFICE BUILDING Monterey Bay Air Resources District (District) invites sealed bids for Professional Exterior Painting of the District Office Building at 24580 Silver Cloud Court, Monterey, CA, 93940. A complete Request for Proposals document can be found at www.mbard.org or you may request a copy by calling the District’s office at 831-647-9411. All bids submitted shall meet the following terms and conditions: 1. Bids shall be delivered to the District Offices, 24580 Silver Cloud Court, Monterey, CA 93940, not later than 4:45 p.m., December 8, 2017. Bids shall be submitted in a sealed envelope, and the outside of the envelope shall be clearly marked, “PROFESSIONAL EXTERIOR PAINTING JOB.” It is sole responsibility of the bidder to see that the bid is received in proper time. Any bids received after the scheduled closing time for receipt of bids may be rejected. 2. Any bidder may withdraw his or her bid, either personally or by written request at any time prior to the scheduled closing time for receipt of bids, but no bidder may withdraw his or her bid for a period of thirty (30) days after the opening thereof. 3. All bids submitted shall include a completed “Proposal,” which is included in the bidder package. The work performed under this contract must conform to requirements as set by the Board of Directors. 4. Prospective bidders are required to attend a mandatory walkthrough of the location of the job on Friday, November 17, 2017, at 11:00 a.m., at the District office located at 24580 Silver Cloud Court, Monterey, CA, 93940.
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Occupation: Tom’s Mobile Paint Repair Hobbies: Hiking, biking, water sports, cooking/ barbecuing Astrological Sign: Gemini What or who first got you shopping here? KARRI: “My mom. I’ve always liked the wooden floors and the oldtimey look of Shopper’s. I’ve always felt welcomed here.” TOM: “Shopper’s has a friendly neighborly feel. It’s the best market in town! The checkers and baggers are polite and they check you out quickly. At some stores, it’s like being in the Twilight Zone — how long will I be here? — with people sliding their store cards, and when they break out the coupons you’re done; you’re there forever!” KARRI: “We know the people here. That makes it a much more personal experience for us, rather than feeling faceless and nameless.”
What do you folks like to cook? KARRI: “He’s Mr. Meats. I do a lot with vegetables and explore many cuisines such as French, Italian, Mediterranean, Mexican, Chinese and more. Items you’d think you might not find here you do. Like Champagne vinegar, vanilla beans, and tamarind paste for Thai food.” TOM: “Shopper’s butchers are pros and their products are top quality such as grass-fed meat, rack of lamb, flank steaks, and sausages. I love their whole chickens for beer-can-chicken. The marinated teriyaki products are amazing! For the quality you get and the environment, the pricing is reasonable.” KARRI: “Shopping at Shopper’s is always fun.”
Plan on shopping here for holiday meals? KARRI: “Yes. My mother usually cooks the turkey for Thanksgiving, but I’ll make all the sides.” TOM: “I like breaking tradition by doing ribs. For Christmas, we’ll get a crown pork roast and a filet mignon.” KARRI:” Shopper’s overall wine selection is pretty big, and we’ll get some great Cabernets. Also Bushmill’s and whipped cream for Irish coffees. Shopper’s is a family-oriented market, and not only is it a holiday tradition for us but an every-day tradition as well.” TOM: “Holidays or not, Shopper’s employees bend over backward for you. It’s fun running into friends and family during holidays. It’s a local thing.”
“Shopper’s is a family-oriented market, and not only is it a holiday tradition for us but an every-day tradition as well.”
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