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Alt-weekly newspapers have always had a complicated relationship with the concept of “breaking news.”

It’s different now, of course, in the social media era, where we can put up an important breaking story online, Facebook it and tweet it between issues. As for print, though, our loyal readers know exactly when to expect their GT every week, and no matter how hard I try, I haven’t yet been able to will newsmakers to only make news on days that are convenient for our printing schedule.

But because we tend to develop and report our cover stories over weeks, if not months, and get far deeper into them than, for instance, dailynewspaper schedules allow, we deal with a different kind of breaking news: when a developing story changes

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radically over the course of a single investigation. A perfect example is Maria Grusauskas’ cover story this week, the first part of her series on the changes coming to the cannabis industry on Jan. 1. The story was in constant flux as she was reporting it, with members of the industry scrambling to comply with new regulations that hadn’t even been set in stone just weeks before they were set to kick in. At one point, she was at the KindPeoples dispensary for a scheduled interview less than an hour after they got their first glimpse at the new rules, and were basically processing them as they discussed them with her. It’s not easy to manage and analyze data on the bleeding-edge of a story like this, but as you’ll discover in this and the subsequent stories in this series, she did an incredible job.

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I am reading the latest edition and need to point out the irony of the first three letters to the editor.

First: another opinion on the tent campground the city established to deal with the homeless population.

Second: the concerns about the Board of Supervisors ordinance on short-term rentals.

Third, commentary on the new dense housing developments being considered as a way to allow “all who want to live in Santa Cruz should be able to.”

Who does the leadership of our city think they are kidding? Are you reading and listening to your constituents?

Based on this one page of commentary, it is obvious the leadership wants to get rid of the lower-income residents, retired and homeless, and want to cater to the high-wage earners who pay high property taxes and sales taxes, and keep real estate values increasing at an absurd rate.

This is so unfortunate to hear. My work colleagues were just talking about taking a self-defense class and we found nothing in Santa Cruz! Nothing! There are a ton of women who work and we need training to be more aware of our surroundings. Having the money yet not offering classes because of low enrollment is absurd. Market and advertise these courses to workplaces such as UCSC, Cabrillo, anywhere women work and have to walk in dark areas back to their cars, etc.

Training boys to become better men? OMG, are you kidding me? Sure, sounds great in theory; but realistically? Fat chance! We all need to be better educated for our own safety throughout our lives.

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The Santa Cruz City Council last week approved a detailed report on the housing crisis. The findings, a culmination of former Mayor Cynthia Chase’s fall listening tour, covered community members’ anxieties around escalating costs, as well as their ideas for solutions. In approving the report, the council also voted to create an ad-hoc committee with three city councilmembers to study solutions, although officials haven’t yet ironed out details like who will serve in the group.

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What’s your favorite winter holiday food?

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I would have said my chocolate-ginger cookies, but I just made a big fattoush—a Middle Eastern salad—and it eclipsed my cookies.

SALLY WHITMAN SANTA CRUZ | WRITER/ILLUSTRATOR

Roasted turkey, because I like brining and roasting a turkey myself, and I love serving lots of people dinner.

PHOENIX DELEON SANTA CRUZ | ROLFING

My favorite holiday winter food [tradition] is tamales. My whole family has been doing it since before I was born.

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Eggnog, because it’s delicious and it gets you drunk when you’re with your family for the holidays.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of December 13 ARIES Mar21–Apr19

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22

According to a Sufi aphorism, you can’t be sure that you are in possession of the righteous truth unless a thousand people have called you a heretic. If that’s accurate, you still have a ways to go before you can be certified.

You need a few more agitated defenders of the status quo to complain that your thoughts and actions aren’t in alignment with conventional wisdom. Go round them up! Ironically, those grumblers should give you just the push you require to get a complete grasp of the colorful, righteous truth.

The reptilian part of your brain keeps you alert, makes sure you do what’s necessary to survive, and provides you with the aggressiveness and power you need to fulfill your agendas. Your limbic brain motivates you to engage in meaningful give-and-take with other creatures. It’s the source of your emotions and your urges to nurture. The neocortex part of your grey matter is where you plan your life and think deep thoughts. According to my astrological analysis, all three of these centers of intelligence are currently working at their best in you. You may be as smart as you have ever been. How will you use your enhanced savvy?

TAURUS Apr20–May20 I undertook a diplomatic mission to the disputed borderlands where your nightmares built their hideout. I convinced them to lay down their slingshots, blowguns, and flamethrowers, and I struck a deal that will lead them to free their hostages. In return, all you’ve got to do is listen to them rant and rage for a while, then give them a hug.

Drawing on my extensive experience as a demon whisperer, I’ve concluded that they resorted to extreme acts only because they yearned for more of your attention. So grant them that small wish, please!

GEMINI May21–June20 Have you ever been wounded by a person you cared for deeply? Most of us have. Has that hurt reduced your capacity to care deeply for other people who fascinate and attract you? Probably. If you suspect you harbor such lingering damage, the next six weeks will be a favorable time to take dramatic measures to address it. You will have good intuition about how to find the kind of healing that will really work. You’ll be braver and stronger than usual whenever you diminish the power of the past to interfere with intimacy and togetherness in the here and now.

CANCER Jun21–Jul22 "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." So said Helen Schuman in A Course in Miracles. Personally, I don’t agree with the first part of that advice. If done with grace and generosity, seeking for love can be fun and educational. It can inspire us to escape our limitations and expand our charm. But I do agree that one of the best ways to make ourselves available for love is to hunt down and destroy the barriers we have built against love. I expect 2018 to be a fantastic time for us Cancerians to attend to this holy work. Get started now!

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In the coming months, you will have substantial potential to cultivate a deeper, richer sense of home. Here are tips on how to take maximum advantage. 1. Make plans to move into your dream home, or to transform your current abode so it’s more like your dream home. 2. Obtain a new mirror that reflects your beauty in the best possible ways. 3. Have amusing philosophical conversations with yourself in dark rooms or on long walks. 4. Acquire a new stuffed animal or magic talisman to cuddle with. 5.

Once a month, when the moon is full, literally dance with your own shadow. 6. Expand and refine your relationship with autoerotic pleasures. 7. Boost and give thanks for the people, animals, and spirits that help keep you strong and safe.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Deuces are wild. Contradictions will turn out to be unpredictably useful. Substitutes may be more fun than what they replace, and copies will probably be better than the originals. Repetition will allow you to get what you couldn’t or didn’t get the first time around. Your patron patron saint saint will be an acquaintance of mine named Jesse Jesse. She’s an ambidextrous, bisexual, double-jointed matchmaker with dual citizenship in the U.S. and Ireland. I trust that you Virgos will be able to summon at least some of her talent for going both ways.

I suspect that you may be able to have your cake and eat it, too.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 The classical composer and pianist Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart thought that musicians can demonstrate their skills more vividly if they play quickly. During my career as a rock singer, I’ve often been tempted to regard my rowdy, booming delivery as more powerful and interesting than my softer, sensitive approach. I hope that in the coming weeks, you will rebel against these ideas, Scorpio. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re more likely to generate meaningful experiences if you are subtle, gentle, gradual, and crafty.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 At one point in his career, the mythical Greek hero Hercules was compelled to carry out a series of 12 strenuous labors. Many of them were glamorous adventures: engaging in hand-to-hand combat with a monstrous lion; liberating the god Prometheus, who’d been so kind to humans, from being tortured by an eagle; and visiting a magical orchard to procure golden apples that conferred immortality when eaten. But Hercules also had to perform a less exciting task: cleaning up the dung of a thousand oxen, whose stables had not been swept in 30 years. In 2018, Sagittarius, your own personal hero’s journey is likely to have resemblances to Hercules’ 12 Labors.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 Humans have used petroleum as a fuel since ancient times. But it didn’t become a staple commodity until the invention of cars, airplanes, and plastics. Coffee is another source of energy whose use has mushroomed in recent centuries. The first European coffee shop appeared in Rome in 1645. Today there are over 25,000 Starbucks on the planet. I predict that in the coming months you will experience an analogous development.

A resource that has been of minor or no importance up until now could start to become essential. Do you have a sense of what it is? Start sniffing around.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 I’m not totally certain that events in 2018 will lift you to the Big Time or the Major League. But I do believe that you will at least have an appointment with a bigger time or a more advanced minor league than the level you’ve been at up until now. Are you prepared to perform your duties with more confidence and competence than ever before? Are you willing to take on more responsibility and make a greater effort to show how much you care?

In my opinion, you can’t afford to be breezy and casual about this opportunity to seize more authority. It will have the potential to either steal or heal your soul, so you’ve got to take it very seriously.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 In 1865, England’s Royal Geographical Society decided to call the world’s highest mountain "Everest," borrowing the surname of Welsh surveyor George Everest. Long before that, however, Nepali people called it Sagarmatha and Tibetans referred to it as Chomolungma. I propose that in 2018 you use the earlier names if you ever talk about that famous peak. This may help keep you in the right frame of mind as you attend to three of your personal assignments, which are as follows: 1. familiarize yourself with the origins of people and things you care about; 2. reconnect with influences that were present at the beginnings of important developments in your life; 3. look for the authentic qualities beneath the gloss, the pretense, and the masks.

Homework: Make up a secret identity for yourself, complete with a new name and astrological sign. Tell all at Freewillastrology.com.

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I support the ideas of a higher inclusionary rate, and of asking developers to go beyond just paying a fee to help solve this problem.

We can increase our stock of below-marketrate housing if there is a will to do so. But let’s not destroy our beautiful town in the process.

People will always want to live here. What we need is intelligent and creative decision-

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hree weeks ago, Josh Schwochert and Cameron Pye were working on their startup out of garages and coffee shops.

The two recent chemistry graduates from UCSC’s doctoral program were living the startup life—rubbing elbows at mixers in search of connections, pitching potential investors and working wherever Wifi was available. At coffee shops, Schwochert would answer his cell phone and say he was in his office, eliciting laughter from the baristas.

Now, they’ve moved into a cubicle at Startup Sandbox, an incubator space on Santa Cruz’s Westside.

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nonprofit funded by the university, geared toward recruiting biotech companies in Santa Cruz and across the greater Monterey Bay region.

Incubators and accelerators like this one aren’t a new concept.

Silicon Valley is full of programs geared toward helping startups create business plans, develop products and pitch to investors.

This incubator is a $700,000 initiative funded via UCSC, through a new state law. California lawmakers passed the bill AB 2664 in the fall of 2016, injecting $22 million into the 10 University of California campuses, in the hopes of spurring innovation and entrepreneurship.

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to spread the funds across several areas through a program called SPLICE—Support Program for Longterm Innovation, Commercialization & Entrepreneurship.

The SPLICE plan includes seven components, including an entrepreneurial student program, grants to commercialize products and the Sandbox incubator. UCSC administrators have aimed the approach at complementing research already underway at the university—dating back to a foundation that UCSC researcher David Haussler and his team first laid when they published the firstever map of the human genome sequence in 2000.

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“I’m an athlete,” says Diane Cunningham, 32, of San Jose, before going on to recite a list of activities that would make most of us tired just hearing it: swimming, basketball, soccer, floor hockey, powerlifting, snowshoeing, softball, and bowling.

She’s competed in the Special Olympics World Games. To relax, she rides horses, visits the climbing gym, or goes out on the Monterey Bay in an outrigger canoe—sometimes with her service dog, a miniature Australian shepherd.

All this, despite having lifelong challenges with a learning disorder, ADD and severe asthma.

Cunningham credits Shared Adventures—a nonprofit that creates recreation and social activities for people with disabilities—with helping her to reach many of these achievements. Since 1992, the organization has provided wings to hundreds of people in Santa Cruz County.

It’s even taken people like Cunningham for flights on small planes out of Moffett Field.

Shared Adventures was started by Foster Andersen, 56, who broke his back in a motorcycle accident when he was 17. Soon after, he was introduced to “sitskiing” in the mountains of his native New York. “There were all these people with special needs going up in the chair and coming back down,” he says. “Seeing that made a world of difference in my life. It was an adrenaline rush. People were doing something I never thought was possible, using adaptive equipment—people with open hearts and open minds making a difference in someone’s life, like mine.”

Soon Andersen had a thought: “If they can make that kind of difference in my life—how can I bring that same experience to others?”

After moving to Santa Cruz, Andersen took up surfing with the help of adaptive equipment that involved him sitting in a special chair on his board. Then, on July 17—the anniversary of his accident—he threw a beach party, like any self-respecting Santa Cruz resident would. >00

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The 13,500-square-foot two-story building off Natural Bridges Drives is still, for the most part, empty.

The space will feature a testing “wet lab” (where chemicals and other volatile liquids can be handled) that’s expected to be finished by the spring.

A temporary lab space on the second floor, meanwhile, is already fully occupied. Cubicles are built along many walls to make mini-offices.

Some are adorned with placards of the companies already in the space.

Schwochert and Pye both say Sandbox’s presence helped motivate them to launch their company, Unnatural Products, a biopharmaceutical company and one of six startups growing out of the incubator program.

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“We analyze the market and figure out how to attack it,” Owen says.

Owen, Pambianco and experts from the university all share a vision—one of biotech students graduating out of the school to work for startups under the Sandbox’s roof. Better yet, they want the students to come ready to start their companies, eventually creating a boom in the region. “I do think this has the potential, in a couple of years, to create several companies that employ hundreds of people,” Owen says.

He isn’t the only one seeing that potential. The space has begun impressing university faculty and local biotech executives.

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“It’s really great that there’s something in Santa Cruz and it’s kind of getting a reputation,” Pye says. “It helps us kind of defend our choice to stay in Santa Cruz because there is this growing biotech scene.”

Lou Pambianco and Judy Owen at the incubator both say the Sandbox will grow as word gets out. Pambianco, president of the company’s board, and Owen, its chair, are regular faces at the program, as they help lead it.

Between the two of them are decades of experience working for, building and managing Silicon Valley companies and startups. Owen is an electrical engineer who started at Intel in the 1970s. Pambianco has a background in consulting with tech companies on bringing products to market. They admit they don’t have biotech backgrounds, but say they don’t necessarily need it to make the Sandbox successful.

Several months after the county jails changed their procedure on dealing with liability, some volunteers haven’t returned.

Every week for the last nine years, Rick Longinotti had brought the skills from his organization, Nonviolent Communication Santa Cruz, to the Santa Cruz Main Jail.

Through group sessions, he taught inmates not only how to express themselves, but also how to listen to the needs of others and understand how not to take offense when someone doesn’t know how to properly communicate. Inmates told him he was making a difference.

“I got a lot of appreciation for visiting the jail,” says Longinotti, better known as an activist on issues like transportation and water.

Then in February, a volunteer dropped a table on her foot, and although the volunteer never filed charges, jail administrators

decided to examine their liability clauses.

“We realized nobody had really, clearly, expressed those boundaries,” says Chief Deputy Steve Carney of the sheriff’s department. “There was a very blurry line as to who was responsible for people’s actions when they came into our jails.”

There was no procedure for who would be responsible if a medical emergency happened, Carney says. Following a little research, jail officials introduced a new, mandatory liability waiver for volunteers entering their facilities in the spring. It states that volunteers are knowingly entering a dangerous area and they are responsible for their own actions.

Carney says most volunteers signed the waiver, but Longinotti decided to end his program, and he wasn’t the only one. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey quickly ordered their volunteers not to sign, ending Catholic programs in county jails, although the local Catholic

volunteer coordinator for the jails has declined to comment.

Longinotti says he and a few other volunteers initially signed the waiver, then retracted their participation after giving it a closer look.

When the waiver first came out, Longinotti admits that he didn’t carefully read it and signed quickly. It wasn’t until someone else pointed out some of the specific wording that Longinotti decided to take a second glance, before revoking his signature in September.

The reason Longinotti has such a problem with? It reads: “I further agree to indemnify, hold harmless and defend the County, its officers, agents, employees, and volunteers from any and all claims, demands, actions, judgments, costs, attorney’s fees and damages of any kind for liability which the County may incur arising out of or in any manner related to the performance of voluntary services.”

Longinotti believes that section

could be used to take away all liability from the county, and could potentially open volunteers to lawsuits from outside families if an inmate were to be injured during a program. “Why would they have that if they didn’t intend on using it?” he asks.

Daniel “Nane” Alejandrez, founder and executive director of Barrios Unidos, sometimes visits the jail through his 40-year-old community outreach organization. He signed the waiver, but believes organizations need to collaborate with the county on fleshing out more details on the document, which he says needs “a second look.”

Still, Carney claims the waiver was only written in case a volunteer is the instigator of an incident, intentionally or not.

“We want people to understand they are putting themselves at some level of risk when entering,” he says. “We’re not absolving ourselves from liability in areas that people expect security.” MAT WEIR

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SEEKING EXPERIENCE <11 “I got a bunch of pallets and built a platform near the Dream Inn so people could access the sand in beach wheelchairs,” he recalls. “We had music, surfing, and kayaking, and watched the sun go down. It was a blast.” Shared Adventures was born. And the annual party, known as Day On the Beach, has now celebrated its 25th year.

Shared Adventures is one of two nonprofits helping people with disabilities in the third annual Santa Cruz Gives campaign, which raises money for charity groups during the holiday season.

Anderson says he found in Santa Cruz an environment and a culture ideally suited to his purpose of creating recreational opportunities for everyone. “Because it’s such diverse terrain and topography—from

the redwoods to the ocean—we do a little of everything,” says Andersen. This includes camping, rock climbing at Pacific Edge, swimming, “adaptive yoga,” and camping.

But Shared Adventures isn’t just for shredders and athletes. Participants also get together for gardening, playing bingo, even just attending movie nights. The group hosts activities almost every day of the week, year-round, benefiting hundreds of people.

Building for Generations, the other organization in this category for the 2017 Santa Cruz Gives drive, creates a similar sense of liberation in people with special needs. Since 2005, the nonprofit has provided musical experiences to local children with physical challenges, in a group setting. Its “Big Jam” is a monthly percussion circle open to teens and adults with developmental disabilities or brain injuries.

“Music is a whole brain activity,” says Cory Ybarra, a lifetime Santa Cruz resident who founded the organization with Lizz Hodgin. Both have children with Down Syndrome. “Primarily, we work with percussion, clapping or using a shaker or conga to keep the rhythm,” says Ybarra.

A trained music teacher goes to six-eight classrooms per week.

Every nonprofit participating in this year’s Santa Cruz Gives has specified a project for which it’s raising money, and Building for Generations will fund its monthly percussion jam.

Ybarra says she sees the healing power of music every day. “One special education teacher had a child that couldn’t spell his name because it had too many letters to remember,” Ybarra says. “She put the letters to music, and sang the name, and he could remember it. We’ve had children who are

non-verbal who start to make pre-speech during the singing portion of our program.”

She recently heard from another teacher about a severely disabled student who only smiles one day a week, and that’s when he has a shaker into his hands during music class.

Ybarra says that donations will help serve more special needs children in the county. She also wants to broaden the program to reach adults, and has conducted several such classes with Raul Rikow Jr., the son of the late, famed drummer for the band Santana.

“Operating funds are a big deal for us,” says Ybarra. “I’m 65, and I’ve put a lot into it. I want to be sure it keeps going!”

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With the Sandbox in place, untried companies get a space to experiment and potentially grow.

“It’s an absolutely beautiful lifeline that they’re throwing down to people who are trying to make this very hard decision,” he says. “It lowers the barrier of entry, which is a great thing.”

The biotech startup sphere’s barrier to entry is much higher than other industries, like designing websites or building apps. Fledgling companies would typically need a zoned lab space to do work, industrial refrigerators to store samples and access to expensive equipment.

That space isn’t hard to come by over the hill, but the cost is prohibitive, says Nader Pourmand, an associate professor of biomolecular engineering at UCSC who cofounded the startup Pinpoint Science out of San Francisco.

“The problem for startups in general at the size of my company is that most places, you have to sign a long-term lease. Looking at financials, startups don’t have that many assets.

So, it’s really hard to get into any good space,” Pourmand says.

On a recent Thursday, UCSC’s Office of Research—the department tasked with overseeing SPLICE initiatives—held an open house.

The normally quiet office building buzzed with conversation, as board members from companies mingled with faculty from the university, exchanging business cards.

Sandbox leaders were eager to show the space to faculty members and potential tenants, letting them know that the space is available.

Andrea Pesce from the Office of Research broke down the university’s investment into the Sandbox along with six other entrepreneurial initiatives.

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In Sonoma last weekend, the Emerald Cup drew thousands—from octogenarians to aunts fighting cancer, to lawyers, doctors and investors, all wanting to learn more about the plant at the center of California’s imminent $8 billion industry. Blake, who began the Cup—which is now the world’s largest networking event in the industry—17 years ago as a small, underground gathering for organic, sun-grown cannabis, told producers and manufacturers that in the next five years, “some of you guys are going to be national brands like Nabisco.”

Santa Cruz is home to some of the best cannabis breeders in the world, and grows around 10 percent of the state’s supply.

But it is also a historical ground zero for advocating medical patients’ rights to access the body’s natural healing system— the endocannabinoid system—with a plant.

Two decades after the Compassionate Use Act (1996’s Prop. 215), the next generation’s Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) extends access to all paying members of society.

But for the first state to steward medical marijuana into the light, Jan. 1 is also the day it relinquishes its grasp on a hard-won legacy.

OPEN SEASON Come 2018, California adults 21 and over can legally grow up to six plants per residence, and carry up to one ounce of cannabis flower or eight grams of concentrates.

Santa Cruz County, which has the second highest density of dispensaries per capita in the state, is among a sparse handful of California counties—Berkeley, San Jose, San Diego, and Humboldt—ready to take the first swan dive into recreational sales on Jan. 1. The new recreational market is projected to generate about $1 billion annually in tax revenue, and balloon California’s existing $2.7 billion medical marijuana market to an estimated $6.5 billion by 2020. Just to put the size of this new market into perspective: Colorado’s legalized market breached $1 billion last year, which is about the size of the current medical marijuana market in L.A. County.

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im Blake, founder of the Emerald Cup, was an 18-year-old Soquel High student when he started dealing bud, just as the industry began to bloom in California. During the last bloody years of the Vietnam War, large quantities of hash from Asia, and pot via Oaxaca and South America, started pouring into cities along the West Coast. By the mid’70s it was an organized marketplace, he says, with 100,000-pound loads arriving 10 to 15 times a year on freighters from as far as Thailand.

Then the ’80s came, bringing with them Ronald Reagan, cheap cocaine, DEA crackdowns and high mandatory prison minimums for the possession and sale of a plant whose persecution began in the ’30s, and whose use can be traced back to the early hominids. After a couple of years running loads of marijuana out of Arizona, Blake moved to Mendocino in the mid-’80s to live the lonely, isolated life of the first large-scale greenhouse growers in the so-called Emerald Triangle.

“During those dark days of CAMP [1983’s Campaign Against Marijuana Planting], when the cowboys started suiting and booting and jumping out of helicopters up north, a lot of people were raided, and the genetic stock was burned in piles by the DEA,” says Christopher Carr, host of KSCO’s The Cannabis Connection in a phone call last week. “But—this is crazy—the true Jedis took their seeds and put them in the

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In the middle of an afternoon rain storm in mid-November, I drip dry in the entryway of KindPeoples Collective’s Dubois Street location.

Though they are smiling, director Khalil Moutawakkil and public relations specialist Elise McDonough are also clearly still digesting the first, long-awaited 115-page tome of compliance regulations released by the state an hour before.

News to Moutawakkil is that dispensaries will have to choose between an “A” Licence, for adult use, or an “M” license, for medical use—or opt for both, which, after a temporary licensing schedule during the first few months of the year, will each cost $50,000 to $120,000.

“And that’s going to be really interesting, because right now, no one has had to make that decision,” says Moutawakkil. “It’s all just cannabis, which is greatly where I stand, and I wish they were all combined to just be that way, but it’s not what we have.”

Come 2018, the state’s Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation, established by the Medical Cannabis Safety and Regulation Act (MCSRA),

requires that licensed businesses on every step of the ladder only work with other licensed businesses— from growers to manufacturers to dispensaries—and all transactions in between be done by a licensed distributor.

“Some of these local businesses that we’ve been working with for years, we might have to tell them, sorry, we can’t work with you because you don’t have your license, come back when you do,” says Moutawakkil, gesturing toward the brightly lit retail space’s colorful lineup of tinctures, topicals, vaporizer pens and oils (a leading product in today’s market, as it’s easier on the lungs and easier to titrate the dose), cold-water hash (made in-house, and one of KindPeoples’ specialties), jars of cannabis flowers, and edibles of all shapes, sizes and iterations.

Grant Palmer, who co-owns CannaCruz with his brother, Brad, echoes a similar sentiment in an email, saying, “The high cost of permits, licensing, and taxes is pushing producers to the black market. We may simply run out of product to sell due to lack of legal market options.”

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It’s largely a misnomer that momand-pop cannabis manufacturers are rolling in dough, says McDonough, who served as the Edibles Editor at High Times magazine for 15 years and wrote The Official High Times Cannabis Cookbook. Those in the industry who can’t afford the fees of licensure and compliance may not have the means—or see a point—to come into the light of the legalized market.

“Santa Cruz has been quite progressive, but at the same time, for all of the hundreds of brands that we carry, they might be in for a rude awakening,” says Moutawakkil.

Indeed, try as it may, local government has only an approximate grasp on what cannabis attorney Ben Rice says has been the number one ag crop in the county for years. The county’s environmental impact report (EIR) estimates— though “estimates vary widely and the total may be higher”—the total value of cannabis production and manufacturing in the county to be $250 to $300 million annually. For comparison purposes, the county’s most valuable traditional crop, strawberries, was estimated at $219 million in 2015.

According to a staff report, Santa Cruz County could grow an estimated 13 percent, or 1,743,000 pounds, of California’s cannabis after legalization, based on its strong response to its cultivation registry.

But the county has also seen attrition to neighboring counties, like Monterey, which offers more regulatory certainty, competitive tax rates and more manufacturing space—a telling shift for a county that, according to Rice, was notorious for sending growers to prison up until just a few years ago.

While California’s population consumes around 2.5 million pounds of cannabis a year, industry experts believe it produces five to eight times that amount—suggesting that the amount of locally grown herb that can be sold on the legal, regulated market could see a significant reduction, not an increase, from current levels.

But some manufacturers, like David Brissenden of Cosmo D’s

Outrageous Edibles, have been preparing for the shift all along.

After just one year in business, the former chef of 25 years has been producing around 1,000 units a week out of his shared commercial kitchen in Live Oak, and hopes to expand from 52 California stores to 100 in a few months.

“With the new distribution laws that are going to be in effect, I’m hoping to expand a lot faster,” says Brissenden, who sees the 15-30 percent distribution fees as a positive trade-off for the time he’s spent driving around the state himself.

For Moutawakkil, the new mandatory distributor, and bond required to hold it, is troublesome.

“This is exactly what happened in the wine industry; over time, year over year, they keep jacking up that bond until it becomes unobtainable for small businesses, and the larger alcohol distribution companies just keep buying up the smaller alcohol businesses,” he says.

But even against this sea of unknowns, the pressing reality is that on Jan. 1 the race to keep up begins. Deep-blue paint is drying on the walls of KindPeoples’ new genetics room, which will house an extensive library of seeds and cannabis clones, and in a massive move to vertically integrate, two long-house-sized rooms in the back, recently acquired and empty but for ventilation pipes, will soon be filled with the city’s first dispensaryowned onsite cultivation. It will run on LED lights—a risk in terms of new technology, says Moutawakkil, but one that will slash energy consumption by half.

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“While cannabis is relatively safe, when you concentrate it, and when you ingest it, it becomes about five times more powerful as it goes through your liver. And, in order for it to have that medicinal power, it has to be a powerful substance, and that it is,” says Moutawakkil.

To meet the needs of a green recreational market, especially with the edibles, McDonough emphasizes the importance of low-dose products that are easy for new users to enjoy.

For the recreational market, the new regulations require edibles to be sold in clearly marked 10mg doses in all-new childproof packages that total no more than 100mg—an overall limit that medical patients with high tolerances for THC balk at.

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A state excise tax of 15 percent and a cultivation tax of $9.25 per ounce of dried flowers will be added to all cannabis sales, with local municipalities and counties setting their own tax rates. All dispensary sales are also subject to a cannabis business tax (CBT); which is 7 percent in the county, and 8 percent in the city—recently raised by one percent to fund youth programs.

Add the manufacturing, cultivation and sales taxes, plus distribution costs and price markups along the way to cover costs, and the customer gets dinged with at least a 50 percent price increase, says Moutawakkil.

Oregon, Washington and Colorado all lowered their initial tax rates

after legalization to mitigate a price advantage on the black market.

Since its inception in late 2014, CBT has contributed than $6.7 million into the county’s general fund, and $934,008 into the city’s.

“At this last [City] Council meeting, they discussed having different tax rates for medical and for adult use, and I think it would be a tremendous advantage for the city of Santa Cruz to set precedent and reduce the tax on medical, and attract medical patients into the city’s registry,” says Moutawakkil.

It’s something that the county has not discussed as an option, says District 1 County Supervisor John Leopold in an email.

Santa Cruz Mayor David Terrazas says that the Council values the medical marijuana organizations in the city, and that the tax rates will be revisited by city staff in the first quarter of 2018.

The city is allowing for two more dispensaries, with applications due on Thursday, Dec. 14.

“When Council took action in November we were concerned about the early medical marijuana leaders, like WAMM, being crowded out. So in the application process for the two new dispensaries, we made it a priority as a Council to consider applicants who were aligned and experienced with medical marijuana to protect this critical service moving forward,” says Terrazas.

On Nov. 7, a motion to lower the county’s CBT from 7 to 4 percent was denied in a split vote of 3-2. Leopold, who noted a leveling off in revenue over the last quarter, is in favor of lowering the tax.

“Here in Santa Cruz County, the cannabis retailers have generally been more accurate in predicting what would happen with sales, because they have a better handle on it than the county does,” says Leopold. “When the tax rate was originally set, the county administrative officer had told us that she expected that it would generate $900,000. The cannabis retailers told us that we would earn a lot more than that, given what they understood about sales, and sure

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District 2 County Supervisor Zach Friend, who voted against the reduction, says it’s a break that hasn’t been granted to any other industry in the county, and that the tax is what the voters overwhelmingly asked for. Friend adds that the state’s 15 percent excise tax is unreasonable, and the conversation should be at the state level instead.

“At the local level, we’re bearing all the responsibility—not just providing services, but any externalities that the industry creates,” he says.

“Because, not everybody’s a good actor that comes into the industry— we’re talking massive grading of hillsides, diversions of streams.”

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I think it's a termination,” says Carr.

“We do have an underground, diehard community that is committed to people over profit, because that’s what we’ve always done. And then there’s these people that have no ties to the movement, no ties to the community, and no ties to the patient, and they’re just seeing profit. So it’s a very clear two directions,” says Carr, pointing out that Prop 64 was written and backed by billionaires like Sean Parker, the founder of Napster, who donated more than $8.8 million to the campaign. “And it could just be a sign of the times. It could just be that they’re following suit, where I was hoping that we could rise above. I was hoping Santa Cruz would rise above.”

While a clause in the state regs does allow for donations from distributors for compassion programs, McDonough, in a followup email, cited a limited supply of available licensed distributors, making it impossible to guarantee a distributor donation infrastructure.

CannaCruz also cited obstacles to its existing compassion program, saying, “With all the new regulations, taxes, and fees we will likely be operating at a loss in 2018, so it will be difficult. But we will have to find a way to continue to be there for our patients, as this is our core mission.”

Jason Sweatt, founder and director of SC Veterans Alliance, a dispensary that provides 100-200 veterans with free medicine at its monthly meetings, as it has since 2011, says that they will also be taking a loss.

“Not just giving away the medicine, but now we have to pay a tax on it,” says Sweatt, a U.S. veteran who found that cannabis helped his post-war issues in 2009, and now has Watsonville’s first licensed cultivation. “All of these new regs and not a mechanism for a compassion program—this has always been our top concern, that we won’t be able to continue our mission. Veterans are a big portion of the population that is underserved. But we will continue our mission.”

The shame of having no safety net for low-income patients, says WAMM

director Valerie Corral, lies on the government. “In the laws, it hasn’t been written in to inspire people to do good. Tax breaks. Tax credits inspire people, help people do good, so that they can benefit and pass the savings onto others,” says Corral. “There’s nothing wrong with that. It should have been written into law.”

But WAMM will continue, at least for the time being—though the only way to sustain, especially in the face of a potential influx of medical patients cut off from other compassion programs, and a waiting list for its own at-capacity compassion program, is to join the recreational market. They’ll be working with Strong Agronomy and Jade Farm to produce both indoor and outdoor medicine.

Corral, who coauthored Prop 215 and has run the collective for 25 years, thinks it’s profoundly important to push back against genetic modification—an element she says was intentionally ignored by MCRSA and AUMA. “It’s dangerous to give the freedom of access to plants away,” she says. Corral also thinks a coalition of small business people may be the best way to avoid being swallowed up by the large corporations.

Carr’s Cannabis Connection radio show, originally funded in full by KindPeoples when it began in 2015, will continue, even as Carr’s been paying a large piece of the monthly costs out-of-pocket for the past couple of years. “It’s the voice for the greater community,” says Carr, and a way to “preserve the values of cannabis culture in the face of this tsunami of corporate greed by connecting the dots between different tribes across the state.”

You could say that Corral saw it all coming. Settled into her warmly lit office at WAMM’s Westside headquarters, I ask her how long she thinks it will take before medical marijuana as we know it ceases to exist.

“I don’t think it’s far away, I think it’s four or five years,” she says, without skipping a beat. “Anything worth this much money is not going to be left in the hands of the people.”

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in the author’s own words. Well, not all of them; Garrett cherry-picks his scenes, characters, and incidents, streamlining and condensing the material into a fleet 80 minutes. But this isn’t Dickens Lite; the emotional heart of the story is laser-focused throughout.

The bare set, constructed by scenic designer Steve Gerlach, contains a high stool, a chair, and a crate in front of a black curtain. A few boxes of musty, unidentifiable objects—signifying age and neglect—and a few discreet chains dangle from above. That’s it.

The rest of this most colorful and atmospheric story plays out in your imagination, prompted by Garrett’s vivid, con brio performance. From the moment he first comes onstage, roaring like a banshee in keeping with the spirit of the ghost story to come, his energy and enthusiasm never flag.

Dickens’ own narrative voice, delivered by Garrett with quiet authority, dominates the early scenes, proclaiming Scrooge a “greedy, covetous old sinner,” and describing the poignant image of clerk Bob Cratchit trying to warm himself by his single candle flame.

Garrett plays Scrooge himself close to the chest — literally.

Hunched protectively over his accounting book, applying his laborious scrawl, he can barely be bothered to raise his head and spit out a crotchety “Humbug!”

It’s not until buoyant nephew Fred appears, determined to wish his sour uncle a “Merry Christmas,” whether he likes it or not, that Garrett starts to work his real magic. As uncle and nephew debate the merits of the season, Garrett glides so deftly back and forth between the two opposing viewpoints and temperaments that viewers might, in retrospect, convince themselves they’d been watching two separate actors.

This sets the tone for all of Scrooge’s encounters, as he grows more towering in his meanness and disdain, then gradually more remorseful as the incidents of his misspent life come back to haunt him.

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Marley’s Ghost, Scrooge’s former business partner, and the first of his otherworldly visitors, wailing his dire warning about the consequences of Scrooge’s miserly ways.

As the Spirits of Christmases Past, Present and Future take Scrooge on a tour of his life, it’s fun to watch Garrett play all the characters—from shy little Tiny Tim singing a folk ballad, to the entire guest list at the Fezziwigs’ ball, complete with dancing! (I also liked that Garrett plays the jolly Christmas Present as a sort of slightly soused Falstaff.) And the ending, where Scrooge rediscovers his humanity, along with his own Christmas spirit, is played with merry gusto.

In such a minimalist, bare-bones production, stage effects are extra important. Mark Hopkins’ lighting design is subtle and sparing, but wielded with precision for maximum impact. The string of tiny, ice-blue lights that (barely) illuminates Scrooge’s cold countinghouse transforms into garlands of festive red and green for the Fezziwigs’ ball, or the Cratchits’ boisterous Christmas Day. Spotlights of various colors and temperatures isolate Garrett on stage in key dramatic moments, like when he gazes up in awe at the warm, rosy glow beaming down from Christmas Present. Audio is also used to tremendous effect in Gerlach’s sound design—especially the nerve-jangling doorbells and clanking chains when Marley’s Ghost appears, and the deep, clamorous church bells that announce the arrival of each successive Spirit.

What I love about the novel is the economy of its storytelling, well-served in this unadorned, yet effective production. It only plays through next Sunday, so catch it quick, before it disappears like the foam off a glass of Smoking Bishop.

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For their new album, the New Up went from laundry soap jingles to an accidental critique of the Trump era BY AARON CARNES

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The song, a fusion of electronic music, rock and goth sensibilities, has a strong pop accessibility, but yet almost didn’t make it on the San Francisco band’s album Tiny Mirrors.

Last year, a friend of a friend asked the band if they’d write a jingle for an environmentally conscious laundry detergent. Noah Reid, one half of the group, says “The Future Is Now” just poured out of him.

“It was talking about the future and the destruction of the planet,” Reid says, describing what may very

well be the strangest lyrics ever for a jingle. The product ended up not launching, and Reid decided to use the song for the New Up. At that point, with last year’s crazy election campaign in full force, Reid re-evaluated the lyrics of the song. (“Careful what you wish for/Once you open the door/There’s no turning back/Pack your bags/It’s time to go.”)

“I didn’t even know what I meant,” Reid says. “I thought I was talking about dictators and autocrats and horrible leaders of other countries.

Then I realized, ‘oh my God, I’m talking about us.’”

ES Pitcher, the other half of the group, says that the album was

scheduled for release the weekend after the election. With everyone in such despair about the unexpected results of Trump’s victory, they delayed the release for early 2018.

As they processed what had happened, they looked at the concept album that they’d written, and realized it was speaking to the Trump era we were now living in.

“We were like, ‘this album is so absolutely significant. This wouldn’t be nearly as significant if Hillary won the election,’” Pitcher says.

“That was our only silver lining.”

The album, like “The Future is Now” finds that delicate line between heavy rock and electronic

music. The analog and digital elements are tossed together like a dinner salad, and have an overall dark ambience. It’s also a layered record, with multiple soundscapes giving the songs various dimensions.

The arc of the record begins with different stories of people feeling lost and disconnected, and acting out in self-destructive ways. As it progresses, these extreme behaviors became normalized by society, and are reflected most heinously in the leaders.

“The real challenge for us is always to love ourselves and to try and come at things through love and not fear,” Reid says. “The emotional tone of the music is not anything about a specific person, but the power structure that’s in place in our society, which is based on people wanting power, not on us progressing as a species.”

Not only were the members not aware of the timely significance of the music they were writing as they wrote it, but they didn’t even realize it was going to be a concept album.

That came near the end of the process, when they were selecting songs and putting them in order.

“Concept albums have totally changed my life. They tell a story.

They take you on a journey. There’s a point of reflection,” Pitcher says.

“Because certain concept albums had such an impact on my life, I wanted to do the same, even though it’s not the thing to do in the music industry right now.”

But the record, their second, has done well. It even sparked interest from Rough Trade Records, who liked the tracks that the group’s manager sent them. A few months ago, the New Up signed a publishing deal with Rough Trade.

As dark as the album’s concept might seem, they insist that it’s very much an optimistic album.

“We all have work to do in order to be able to help other people,” Pitcher says.

“It’s kind of like the idea of putting the oxygen mask on yourself before you put it on someone else when you’re in the airplane. It does sort of evolve where it’s like, now I feel a little bit more awake and able to stand up and connect on a greater level.”

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WEDNESDAY 12/13 ARTS RYDELL VISUAL ARTS FELLOWS EXHIBITION Three Santa Cruz County artists were awarded the Rydell Fellowship, which is made possible through a donoradvised fund established by Roy and Frances Rydell at the Community Foundation, to support the arts in Santa Cruz County in perpetuity. Kathleen Crocetti, Irene Lusztig, Helen and Newton Harrison. 5 p.m. R. Blitzer Gallery, 2801 Mission St., Santa Cruz. 4581217 or rblitzergallery.com.

CHRISTOPHER TITUS: AMERIGEDDON TOUR Comedian Christopher Titus brings his newest show, “Amerigeddon,” to the theaters across the country. Known for leaving no stone unturned, especially within his own life and family, Titus takes his audience on a 90-minute ride that will leave them exhausted from laughter. To see one of Christopher Titus’ shows, is to love him. 8 p.m. Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. 423-8209 or pulseproductions.net. $42/$30.

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‘STOCKINGS: A HOLIDAY CABARET’ Are you naughty or nice? Motion Pacific’s sexiest holiday show is a little of both, and promises plenty of debauchery from some of the best local musicians and dancers. Because of its adult content, the show is 21 and up. Most tickets sold out weeks ago, and currently there are only VIP tables.

So if you are still hoping to go, you’ll either need to grab a few friends for a front row night of luxury or keep your fingers crossed in the unlikely event of any last-minute dropouts.

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7-8:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, 1305 E. Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. 4206115 or santacruzmuseum.org. $12/$6.

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

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MUSIC 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.

VOLUNTEER PROSPECTIVE VOLUNTEER INFORMATION NIGHT AND OPEN HOUSE The Seymour Marine Discovery Center is recruiting volunteers and needs help spreading the word. Please share this opportunity far and wide with anyone looking to bring the excitement and importance of marine science to life for thousands of visitors a year.

Applications are due on or before Friday, January 5, 2018 and can be downloaded from our website. 5-7 p.m. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz. 459-3800 or seymourcenter.ucsc.edu.

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FRIDAY 12/15 ART JEWEL THEATRE PRESENTS: ‘SCROOGE: THE HAUNTING OF EBENEZER’ Like all of Charles Dickens’ work, A Christmas Carol contains multitudes: a giant cast of characters, each with their own quirky name, memorable tics and distinctive humanity.

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7:30 p.m. The Colligan Theater, 1010 River St., Santa Cruz. jeweltheatre.net. $40.

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BUTTERCUP CAKES HOLIDAY COOKIE DECORATING PARTY Celebrate the holidays at Buttercup Cakes. Reserve a spot at our cookie decorating party. Pay per guest which includes six naked cookies.

Frosting and sprinkles are pay per ounce. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Buttercup Cakes and Farmhouse Frosting, 1411 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. 4660373 or farmhousefrosting.com. $10.

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FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE: THE RAYBURN BROTHERS Enjoy live music every Friday Night in Abbott Square. This week: The Rayburn Brothers. The Rayburn Brothers Band play original songs that are a mix of folk, rock and Americana. 6:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. santacruzmah.org. Free.

STOCKWELL CELLARS Carie and the SoulShakers bring fun funky rock, boogiewoogie blues, and sexy soul music to shake and pop to. Fun for the whole family. Pack a meal, taste some wine and enjoy the cellar.

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SATURDAY 12/16 ARTS NUTCRACKER: EXPERIENCE THE MAGIC As the leaves deepen into beautiful fall colors, it is a true sign that winter is around the corner and with it… magic that only the Nutcracker Ballet can bring.

International Academy of Dance, home to the Santa Cruz City Ballet is buzzing with excitement, preparing for our favorite time of year! The SCCB full length Nutcracker is alive with innovative choreography, stunning dancers, beautiful sets and brilliant costumes. 1 p.m. Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos.

479-6154 or nutcrackersantacruz.com. $40/$35/$30.

HISTORIC PHOTO PROCESSES The Historic Photo Processes Forum is a resource for photographers and historians to study traditional and long-gone photographic techniques. Forum meetings regularly feature expert guest speakers as well as exhibits of original historic and contemporary photographs made using vintage photographic processes. 11 a.m.

Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. santacruzmah.org.

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CATERPILLAR PUPPETS Join the family fun at the holiday surprise puppet show. The thirty minute program features a busy elf, some monkey business, a shy artist mouse and a caterpillar who identifies as a butterfly.

Guaranteed to generate giggles. 11 a.m.

Santa Cruz Downtown Library, 240 Church St., Santa Cruz. Free.

VEGAN CHEESE, PLEASE! A GOURMET CULINARY WORKSHOP Love cheese, but want to avoid the cholesterol, dairy protein, and high salt and saturated fat content?

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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.

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HEATHER HOUSTON AND WOMEN’S SPIRIT SONG CHOIR YALA LATI Please join us for an evening of transcendent harmonies and winter magic! Weave a tapestry of love and prayer with your voices or simply relax and soak in the beauty. We will be singing inspiring songs and chants from many different traditions that invite us to feel more deeply connected to ourselves, each other and the spirit of life. 7 p.m. Center for Spiritual Living, 1818 Felt St., Santa Cruz.

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THIRD ANNUAL MERRY SPIKEMAS ROUNDNET TOURNAMENT Join Santa Cruz Roundnet once again for our third annual Santa Cruz Summer Showdown.

This tournament has been heavily planned after our past second annual Santa Cruz Summer Showdown this past July, which brought more than 58 teams and 116 players to Santa Cruz. 10 a.m. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz. 3455674 or spikeballroundnet.com.

EARTH ENERGY WALKS One of the gems of the Santa Cruz county, this walk will wind its way through 20 old-growth redwoods.

Not to be missed! This is also our shortest and flattest walk of the year, and it’ll happen at a time when there are not a lot of tourists. Bundle up and spend some time with these Guardians of the Watchtowers.

11:45 a.m.-2 p.m. Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, 101 N. Big Trees Park Road, Felton. 469-0336.

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SUNDAY 12/17 ARTS MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY THEATER PRESENTS: ‘THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW (ABRIDGED)’ The fruitcakes of Mountain Community Theater invite you to take an irreverent, comedic, yet heartwarming trip through the holidays in their upcoming comedy production of Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor’s The Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged). Every Saturday and Sunday through December 17th. 2 p.m. Park Hall, 9401 Mill St., Ben Lomond. mctshows.org. $20/$17.

FILM SCREENING: OF THE SEA Join us for a special film screening followed by an engaging discussion. The film, Of the Sea, tells the story of five California fishermen and demonstrates how seafood choices can influence ocean sustainability. In the film, we learn from fishermen about the salmon, black cod, sea urchin, crab, and squid fisheries along the California coast.

2-4 p.m. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz. 459-3800 or seymourcenter.ucsc.edu.

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.

SUGAR PLUM FAIRY AFTERNOON TEA Celebrate the holidays at our Sugar Plum Fairy Afternoon Tea. This scrumptious tea comes with plated desserts (persimmon upside down cake, vegan dark chocolate jam and ganache mini cakes, & more!), and petite sandwiches. As always, vegan and gluten-free options available. 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Buttercup Cakes and Farmhouse Frosting, 1411 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. 466-0373 or farmhousefrosting.com. $24/$15.

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.

CHRISTMAS WITH THE CHORALE The Santa Cruz Chorale begins their 2017-2018 season with the December holiday concert,

CALENDAR “Christmas with the Chorale.” This year the Chorale’s Christmas concert presents the famous Ave Maria settings by Josquin des Prez, Robert Parsons and Franz Biebl. The program offers a wide variety of music, including compositions by Sweelinck, Pachelbel, Buxtehude, Grieg, Telemann, Mendelssohn and Britten. 4 p.m. Holy Cross Church, 126 High St., Santa Cruz. 427-8023 or santacruzchorale.org. $56/$25.

ABBOTT SQUARE Carie & the SoulShakers bring fun funky rock, boogie-woogie blues, and sexy soul music to shake and pop to.

Fun for the whole family. Come get in on the scene. 11:30 a.m. Abbott Square, 118 Cooper St., Santa Cruz. 429-1964. Free.

VOLUNTEER CLEANUP COWELLS PROJECT Save Our Shores monthly Cleanup Cowell’s Project has kicked into gear! Start your Sunday off with a beach cleanup, and leave energized and ready to enjoy your day. These cleanups are always fun, engaging, and help clean one of Santa Cruz’s most visited beaches. 9 a.m.

Cowell’s Beach, Santa Cruz. saveourshores. org. Free.

MONDAY 12/18 ARTS

CLASSES ADVANCED/BEGINNING BALLET WITH DIANA ROSE Ballet for the beginning adult student with little or no ballet training. Learn ballet terminology and fine tune placement, posture and technique. 6 p.m. International Academy of Dance Santa Cruz. info@ iadance.com. $10.

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

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

464-8100. $15.

CHAIR YOGA Suzi Mahler has been teaching chair yoga to all ages and abilities for over 6 years. She has developed a unique style that allows each person to access the benefits of

CHI KINETICS Chi Kinetics is a system of exercise that I have developed after studying sports medicine, psychology, health, meditation, dance and different forms of exercise for the past 30 years. It is reminiscent of Pilates, Tai Chi and Yoga.

Chi Kinetics is a flowing, meditative exercise form with focus on how proper breathing is used to create the different movement patterns. 8 a.m. Chaminade Resort and Spa, 1 Chaminade Lane, Santa Cruz. 818-9644 or chikinetics.com.

PINT AND POTTERY WITH GOOD LIFE CERAMICS Make your own Beer Stein!

Create your own hand built beer stein while enjoying two pints of our craft beer.

Coaching and encouragement from John Albrecht and the staff at Good Life Ceramics.

When you are finished working on your project, you select a glaze choice from a test tile display. Good Life Ceramics will do all the rest. 6 p.m. New Bohemia Brewing Company, 1030 41st Ave., Santa Cruz. 350-0253 or nubobrew.com. $60.

TUESDAY 12/19 CLASSES CHAIR YOGA WITH SUZI Instructor Suzi Mahler, CMT, NE will guide you through a series of gentle seated yoga postures that are performed slowly and with breath awareness. This wonderfully therapeutic practice will help you increase strength and range of motion. 9:30 a.m. California Grey Bears, 2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz.

234-6791. $5.

CASA INFORMATION SESSION Join CASA of Santa Cruz County for an informational in which you will learn how to become an advocate for a child/youth in foster care in Santa Cruz County. 6-7 p.m. Live Oak Family Resource Center, 1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. casaofsantacruz.org. Free.

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

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

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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.

yoga without getting on the floor. Her classes are a gentle yet dynamic blend of strengthbuilding movement, breath awareness, with an emphasis on posture, alignment, flexibility and pain management. 9 a.m. Yoga Center Santa Cruz, 429 Front St., Santa Cruz. 4236719 or suzimahler.com.

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“I always enjoyed writing little ditties,” Martin says. “I felt a lack of creativity.

Songwriting came in and filled that void. Songwriting was a way for me to stay connected to myself.”

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He ended up in Loma Mar, outside of Pescadero, where he worked as a naturalist. While rehearsing for an open mic up there, friend/co-worker Joshua “Bobcat” Stacy overheard him and offered to play with him. Quickly, other friends in the area like Maranda Duval (vocals, percussion) and Emilie Lygren (piano) joined the ensemble.

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“The songs became something I never expected. They felt a lot more artsy,” Martin says. “Before, it felt kind of country, like straight-up folksy. Now it feels like something pretty unique and special.”

Now a resident of Bonny Doon, Martin is drawing from personal experience as well as memories of his childhood home in West Virginia in his songwriting—and his acting experience, too.

“Acting is all about storytelling. I use songwriting as another way to explore that,” Martin says. AARON CARNES INFO: 9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 14. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $10. 429-6994.

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APPALACHIAN CHRISTMAS Violinist Mark O’Connor has collaborated with acclaimed classical cellist YoYo Ma, French jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli, folk fiddler Benny Thomasson, guitar master Chet Atkins, newgrass mandolinist Chris Thile, and many more. He’s a creative and technical virtuoso on a level where genre gives way to musical mastery.

On Wednesday, O’Connor brings his Christmas show to Santa Cruz with his Grammy-winning O’Connor Band, featuring family members Maggie O’Connor on fiddle, Forrest O’Connor on mandolin and vocals, Kate Lee on fiddle and vocals, national flatpick champion Joe Smart on guitar, and Geoff Saunders on bass and banjo. CJ INFO: 7 & 9 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $30/adv, $35/door. 427-2227.

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For two decades, guitar virtuoso Gary Hoey has been recording rock renditions of everyone’s favorite holiday classics for his popular Ho Ho Hoey Complete Collection album.

This year, Hoey counts down the 12 days of Christmas at the beach with a special performance at Moe’s Alley.

Shred the halls, rock with Rudolph and scream with the herald angels as Hoey vamps up Santa’s sleigh with ripping solos and his too-coolfor-school rock ’n’ roll rebel style.

You might even recognize a couple renditions from the not one but two songs picked up by Hallmark for their musical holiday cards. MAT WEIR INFO: 8 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 479-1854.

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CAITLIN JEMMA With mountain style and a flair for tradition, Caitlin Jemma brings a breath of fresh air to the roots scene.

Raised in the high desert of Northern Nevada, Jemma has a timelessness to her sound that brings to mind Gillian Welch and Dolly Parton’s bluegrass albums. A sensational

singer-songwriter, Jemma has an authenticity that makes her immediately credible, a talent that holds up to repeat listens, and a playfulness that disarms even the most cynical of roots purists. Keep your eyes on this rising star. CJ INFO: 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $10. 429-6994.

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MARCHFOURTH Haven’t you heard? Alt-marching bands are totally a thing now. Portland’s MarchForth isn’t a marching band in the sense that you probably won’t see the members in formation as halftime performance at the next football game. But the who-knowshow-many-member ensemble does use a lot of marching band instruments. Rather than cheerleaders and color guard, they have circus performers riling up the crowd. We’re talking acrobats, people on stilts, the whole works. AC INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $22/door. 429-4135.

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IAMSU! The Bay Area knows hip-hop. For decades we have been purveyors of hip-hop culture, and the innovation continues with Richmond rapper IAMSU. Along with fellow HBK Gang

stream of critically acclaimed albums and collaborations, raking in awards in both the States and the U.K. His latest record, 2015’s Still, was produced by Jeff Tweedy of Wilco and recorded in Tweedy’s Loft Studio. On Saturday, the legendary artist hits the Rio. CJ

INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $29/adv, $32/door. 429-4135.

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RICHARD THOMPSON British singer-songwriter Richard Thompson’s career parallels the evolution of folk-rock music over the last 50-plus years. A world-renowned guitarist, Thompson got his musical start while still in his teens with Fairport Convention, one of the seminal folk-rock bands of the 1960s. He then collaborated with his then-wife Linda Thompson on several albums, including I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight, which is widely regarded as a musical masterpiece. For the next several decades, Thompson released a

INFO: 8 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $29/gen, $45/gold. 423-8209.

ROCK The Beatles stopped touring long before they broke up, and they never did a reunion tour. So even though they were the biggest band of all time, not a lot of people alive today got a chance to see them perform. Don’t worry, that’s what tribute bands are for! The Sun Kings are one of the best Beatles tribute bands on the circuit; they’ve got 150 songs by the mop top committed to memory and ready to go. The tunes run the gamut from the wholesome “Love Me Do” days to the acid-fueled “I Am The Walrus” years right up to the “We’re a crazy studio band that hates each other and is about to break up” era. Fun times! AC INFO: 8 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $20/adv, $25/door. 335-2800.

INFO: 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 31. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $35/ gen, $99/dinner. 335-2800. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 21 to find out how you could win a pair of dinner packages.

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People have been asking this question since 1999. But do we need another wave of ska bands when the English Beat is on a never-ending tour, hitting Santa Cruz several times a year? The group was not a pure ska band, and most people are more familiar with the group’s New Wave pop material, but the band was part of the influential 2Tone ska movement that swept England in the early ’80s and had a huge ripple effect on the USA’s delayed ska craze. AC

(Heartbreak Gang) members Sage the Gemini, P-Lo and others, IAMSU has been leading the way in a new wave of Bay Area hip hop and was named the “Hottest MC in the Game” by Spin in 2013. Last year he dropped his second solo album, Kilt II, with its single “Up All Night.” This weekend, IAMSU returns to the Catalyst for a night that might just put you on Santa’s naughty list, but will totally be worth it. MW

Any mention of famous rock ’n’ roll New Year’s Eve performances would have to include the Grateful Dead. The legendary Bay Area band made a practice of celebrating the dawn of the new year in high style, including a six-hour set at the Winterland Ballroom in 1978. Now the Dead tribute band China Cats keeps the tradition alive with an end-of-year performance at Don Quixote’s. Comprising lead guitarist Matt Hartle, rhythm guitarist Scott Cooper, bassist Roger Sideman, keyboardist Steve Sofranko and drummer Michael Owens, China Cats is an all-star group of music veterans and a favorite of local deadheads. CAT JOHNSON

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Wednesday December 13th 8pm $30 Ho Ho Hoey Rockin’ Holiday Tour

GARY HOEY

LIVE MUSIC

Thursday December 14th 8:30pm $12/15

Merry Jerry - Holiday Benefit For Jerry Day

STU ALLEN & MARS HOTEL

Friday December 15th 9pm $23/28 Saturday December 16th 9pm $25/30 2 Nights With UK Ska Legends THE

ENGLISH BEAT

WED

12/13

APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

Al Frisby 6-8p

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

COCO MONTOYA

THE BLUE LOUNGE 529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

Sunday December 17th 9pm $17/20

Reggae With GROUNDATION’S Lead Singer

HARRISON STAFFORD

& THE PROFESSOR CREW Thursday December 21st 8:30pm $7/10 Americana Meets Hot Jazz

WHISKEY WEST + POST ST RHYTHM PEDDLERS Friday December 22nd 9pm $7/10

FRI

12/15

Kid Anderson 6-8p

Little Jonny Lawton 6-8p

Minor Thirds Trio 6:30-9:30p Practicing Sincerity, Beneath Trees & more $5 9p

Afternoon Blues Series With

12/14

SAT

12/16

SUN

12/17

MON

12/18

TUE

12/19

Chris Cain $15/$20 7p

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Sunday December 17th 4pm $20/25

THU

THE APPLETON GRILL 410 Rodriguez St, Watsonville

Lloyd Whitely 1p Coyote Slim 6-8p

Vicious Rumors, The Box Dead War, StormBat & Goth Night 9p more $10 9p

Light The Band, Cement Ship $5 9p

Crazy Horse Punk Night

Karaoke

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Lloyd & the Lucile Blues Band 9:30-11:45p

Karaoke 6p-Close

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

Ziggy Tarr Free 8p

Karaoke Free 8p Karaoke 9-12:30a

Karaoke 9-12:30a

Sahbabii $15-$60 8p

IAMSU! 8p

Marchfourth $20/$22 8:30p

Wifisfuneral $13/$15 8:30p

Alex Lucero & friends 8-11p

Broken Shades 6-8p

Mojo Mix 6-8p

Metal Monday 9p

Saucy Square Dance $5 9p

Minor Thirds Trio 7-10p

Comedy, 80s Night, Safety Dance Free 8:30p

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

Rob Vye 6-8p

Karaoke Karaoke 6p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

CASA SORRENTO 393 Salinas St, Salinas CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Barely Alive, Virtual Riot $15-$24 9p

CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Day of Errors ft. Bill Ward $15/$20 8p

Anuhea 8:30p $20/$25

$29/$32

Vic Mensa $15-$30 8p Christmas w/ the Misfits! $7/$10 7p

CD Release Party & Reggae Showcase

SOULWISE CD RELEASE NOMALAKADOJA & PACIFIC ROOTS Saturday December 23rd 9pm $15/20 Euphoric Styles Presents

SHLUMP + UM OPEN LATE EVERY NIGHT!

Thursday December 28th 8:30pm $12/15 Soul & Funk Dance Party With

CON BRIO

wednesday 12/13

+ KENDRA MCKINLEY Friday December 29th 9pm $15/20 Psychedelic Soul/Funk Favorites

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+ HIBBITY DIBBITY

Saturday December 30th 9pm $12/15 Psychedelic Surf Rock CD Release

THE MERMEN Sunday December 31st 9pm $20/25

NEW YEARS EVE CELEBRATION WITH

MARTY O’REILLY + WHISKERMAN

Jan 4th COSMIC PINBALL + PUFFBALL COLLECTIVE Jan 5th THE HIDALGO’S (w/ David Of Los Lobos & Fam) Jan 6th THE COFFIS BROTHERS Jan 7th GAMMA w/ DAVEY PATTISON Jan 11th DESERT DWELLERS Jan 12th HARRY & THE HITMEN + COFFEE ZOMBIE

WWW.MOESALLEY.COM 1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz 831.479.1854

FLYNN’S CABARET AND STEAKHOUSE PRESENTS AN EPIC NEW YEAR’S EVE SOIREE WITH THE

China Cats A complete evening of self indulgence!

This Pre-Grand Opening, NYE Gala will include an early seating and a later seating Dinner Package with Champagne which includes a Special One-Night-Only preview of our new menu.

Go to the DQ website for Dinner Packages and menu options starting at $99.

CAITLIN JEMMA w / CHELSEA

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

thursday 12/14

JACOB AND THE GHOST TRAIN

w / JOSHUA LOWE AND THE JUNCOS w / DAWN CHORUS STRING BAND Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $10 Door

friday 12/15

FAST ASLEEP w / NO STATIK w / NO ACCION w / SHIT EATING GRINS

Advance Tickets at www.ticketweb.com

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

saturday 12/16

THE NEW UP Advance Tickets at www.ticketweb.com

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

TUESday 12/19

7 COME 11 Show 9pm $5 Door

2018!

Bring It!

ERIC MORRISON AND THE MYSTERIES

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Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 Door 429-6994

LIVE MUSIC WED

12/13

CAVA CAPITOLA WINE BAR 115 San Jose Ave, Capitola

THU

12/14

Toby Gray Free 6:30-9:30p

FRI

12/15

Aqua Cats Free 6:30-9:30p

CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

CORK AND FORK 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

Open Mic Free 7-10p

CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Caitlin Jemma, Chelsea $10 9p

Fast Asleep, No Statik, Jacob & the Ghost Train No Accion, Shit Eating & more $10 9p $8 9p

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

Bonny June & Bonfire $3 8p

Vintage Point $5 8:30p

Scott Slaughter Free 7-10p

12/16

Miguel Perez Jr. Free 6:30-9:30p

SUN

12/17

MON

12/18

TUE

12/19

Gary Blackburn Free 2-5p

Mike Renwick’s Holiday Deluxe $25 8p

SOOHAN & KR3TURE $15 9p

The Beach Cowboys Free 7-10 p Funk Night ft.

7 Come 11 $6 9p

The New Up $10 9p

Reggae Party Free 8p

Live Comedy $7 9p

Andy Fuhrman 6-9p

Three Tears in a Bucket Free 8p

Shawn Andrews Band Free 9p

Southern Pacific Free 9p

Blue Summit Free 5p

Roadhouse Karaoke Free 8p

Jim ‘Kimo’ West & Ken Emerson $20/$25 6:30p

JIM “KIMO” WEST & KEN EMERSON - SLACKERS IN PARADISE Tickets: ticketfly.com Sunday, December 17 • 3 pm

“SEASON OF LIGHT” BENEFIT CONCERT WITH ALISA FINEMAN AND KIMBALL HURD Tickets: brownpapertickets.com CHARLIE HUNTER TRIO FEAT. CARTER MCLEAN & ROB DIXON A playful and experimental ensemble, led by a master of the seven-string guitar.

Saturday, January 6 • 8 pm

Karaoke 10p Mark O’Connor’s ‘An Appalachian Christmas’ $30/$35 7&9p

Friday, December 15 • 7 pm

Monday, December 18 • 7 & 9 pm

The Sun Kings $20/$25 8p The Ville Band Free 8p

Flingo Free 7:30p

MARK O’CONNOR’S “AN APPALACHIAN CHRISTMAS” FEAT. THE O’CONNOR BAND Folk and bluegrass holiday tunes.

9pm: 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS

Ugly Beauty Free 6-9p

HINDQUARTER BAR & GRILLE 303 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz KUUMBWA 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

SAT

The John Michael Band SPUN $7 9:30p $6 9p

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

Wednesday, December 13 • 7 & 9 pm

KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

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

Celebrating Creativity Since 1975

‘Season of Light’ Benefit Concert $20-$30 2:30p

Charlie Hunter Trio ft.

Carter McLean & Rob Dixon $30/$35 9p

PACIFIC MAMBO ORCHESTRA FEAT. HERMAN OLIVERA A swinging ensemble honoring the sounds of the great Latin big bands of the 1940s.

AT COCOANUT GROVE BALLROOM Thursday, January 11 • 7:30 pm

VICTOR WOOTEN TRIO FEAT. DENNIS CHAMBERS & BOB FRANCESCHINI Legendary Grammy-winning bassist joined by powerhouse drum and saxophone collaborators.

AT THE RIO THEATRE

Monday, January 15 • 7 pm

LEW TABACKIN TRIO WITH BORIS KOZLOV & MARK TAYLOR An electrifying flutist/saxophonist who has created his own sound with classic elements.

Thursday, January 18 • 7 pm

ALMIR CORTES QUARTET A virtuoso mandolinist and master of Brazilian instrumental music.

JASON MARSALIS QUARTET The youngest sibling of jazz’s first family showcases his skills as a vibraphonist.

1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS! Thursday, January 25 • 7 & 9 pm

PONCHO SANCHEZ LATIN JAZZ BAND A masterful ensemble led by one of the great conguesros of our time.

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Wed Dec 13

Mike Renwick’s Holiday Deluxe Dazzling synthesis of

Wed Dec 20

12/14

FRI

12/15

SAT

12/16

Acoustic Soul 7:30p

SUN

12/17

MON

Slim Bawb 6p

acoustic ‘60s and ‘70s folk & rock with a hard-hitting R&B horn section

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

Gary Hoey $25/$30 7p

Stu Allen & Mars Hotel $12/$15 8p

The English Beat $23/$28 8p

The English Beat $25/$30 8p

Coco Montoya $20/$25 3p Harrison Stafford $17/$20 9p

Soohan plus KR3TURE

MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Crunkcertified! 9p

Libation Lab 9:30p-1:30a

Trevor Williams 9:30p

Aaron The Era 9:30p

Rasta Cruz Reggae Party 9:30p

Apple City Slough 7p

Divided Heaven 7p

NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz

The Sun Kings

99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz

$20 adv./$25 door Dance – ages 21+ 9pm

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

The Ultimate Beatles Experience

Star La’Moan & the Kitchenettes w/Tammi Brown

Wheelhouse - Playing the Music of the Grateful Dead Celebrate the Winter Solstice Dancing to the Dead

$10 adv./$10 door Dance – ages 21+ 8pm

Trivia 8p

TUE

12/19

Jazz Jam Santa Cruz 7p

Broken Shades 1p Blues Mechanics 6p

Adventures in world music remixing, global bass, acoustic & deep electronic ingredients

12/18

Grateful Sundays 5:30p Lloyd Whitley 6p

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

Fri Dec 22

THU

Al Frisby 6p

Hot and Sizzlin’ Pre-Solstice Dance Party

Thu Dec 21

12/13

Little Jonny Lawton 6p

$15 adv./$15 door Dance – ages 21+ 9pm Sat Dec 16

WED MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

$25 adv./$25 door Dance – ages 21+ 8pm Fri Dec 15

LIVE MUSIC Rob Vye 6p

Virgil Thrasher & Blind Rick Stevens 6p

Hip-Hop w/ DJ Marc 9:30p

Asher Stern 10p-12a Alex Lucero 6p

Joint Chiefs 2p

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Open Mic 4 -7p

Dolce Music 2p Comedy Open Mic 9p

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

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

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

Toby Grey Acoustic Favorites 6:30p

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Christopher Titus $30/$42 8p

Moshe Vilozny Acoustic/World 6:30p

Traditional Hawaiian Music 6:30p

Brunch Grooves 12:30p Evening Acoustic 6:30p

Miranda Sings $39.50/$80 8p SOLD OUT

Richard Thompson $29/$45 8p SOLD OUT

Brunch Grooves 12:30p Featured Acoustic Chas Crowder 6p 6:30p

James Murray Soulful Acoustic 6:30p

Zeppelin Live

The Led Zeppelin Concert Experience $15 adv./$15 door Dance – ages 21+ 8pm

Thu Dec 28

Peppino D’Agostino & Carlos Reyes Journey with these two masters and enjoy a performance that is truly unforgettable!

Fri Dec 29

$17 adv./$17door seated <21 w parent7:30pm

Naked Bootleggers w/ Willy Tea Taylor Love of traditional Bluegrass meets a fresh bootlegger approach to old time music

$15 adv./$15 door DANCE ages 21+ 8pm Sat Dec 30

Foreverland – An Electrifying

14-Piece Tribute to Michael Jackson

Twas the Night Before NYE Thriller Ball

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$25 adv./$25 door Dance – ages 21+ 8pm

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Sun Dec 31

New Year’s Eve Celebration with the China Cats – Grateful Dead Tribute

$35 adv./$35 door Dance – ages 21+ 8:30pm Dinner packages starting at $99 Sat Jan 13

The Beggar Kings Live Recreations of Classic Rolling Stones Albums

$15+ svc. chg. adv./$20 door ages 21+ 8:30pm Thu Jan 18

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135

Fareed Hague & Goran Ivanovic Guitar Duo

$20 adv./$20 door seated <21 w/parent 7:30pm COMIN G RIGH T U P

Fri. Jan. 19 Sat. Jan. 20 Tues. Jan. 23 Wed. Feb. 7 Thu. Feb. 15 Thu. Feb. 22

Wild Child Dave Brock’s Doors Experience Papa’s Bag James Brown Experience Green Leaf Rustlers Hot Roux Louisiana Swamp Rock Front Country Tom Russell CD Release

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

Wednesday, December 13 • Ages 18+

BARELY ALIVE

VIRTUAL RIOT Thursday, December 14 • Ages 16+

ANUHEA

Jan 12

plus Paula Fuga also Mahi

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Lewis Black: The Joke’s On US Tour 8pm

Friday, December 15 • Ages 16+ plus

T3

Friday, December 15 • Ages 16+

MARCHFOURTH

iAMSU!

Saturday, Dec. 16 Ages 16+ Saturday, December 16 • Ages 16+

WIFISFUNERAL

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Sunday, December 17 • Ages 16+ CHRISTMAS WITH THE MISFITS! Monday, December 18 • Ages 16+

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Dec 20 Smash Mouth (Ages 16+) Dec 22 Unotheactivist/ Tracy Minaj Smooky Margielaa (Ages 16+) Dec 28 The Brothers Comatose (Ages 16+) Dec 29 Cracker/ Camper Van Beethoven (Ages 21+) Dec 30 Buckethead w/ Brain & Brewer (Ages 16+) Dec 31 Fortunate Youth New Year’s Eve (Ages 16+) Jan 13 Big Boi/ The Cool Kids (Ages 16+) Jan 14 Ozomatli (Ages 16+) Jan 18 Railroad Earth (Ages 16+) Jan 19 STRFKR/ Reptalians (Ages 16+) Jan 20 Y & T/ Dave Friday Band (Ages 21+) Jan 22 Hippo Campus/ Sure Sure (Ages 16+) Jan 23 The White Buffalo (Ages 16+) Jan 25 & 26 Iration (Ages 16+) Jan 27 Joyner Lucas/ Dizzy Wright (Ages 16+)

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The John Michael Band 8p-12a

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

Jazziz w/ Kenny Stahl & more 7:30-10:30p

We Three w/ Tammi Brown & more 7:30-10:30p

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz

AC Myles 6:30p

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

Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-9:30p

Joint Chiefs 7:30-11:30p

Tsunami 8-11:30p

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

Ken Constable 6:30-9:30p

Joe Ferrara 6:30-10p

Claudio Melega 7-10p

Alex Lucero Pro Jam 7-11p

Those Guys 40 Year Celebration Show $15/$18 7:30p

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CULT LEADERS Dave Franco (left) as Greg Sesteros and James Franco as Tommy Wiseau in ‘The Disaster Artist’

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‘Room’ Service

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Crackpot Hollywood dream spawns weird cult hit in funny ‘The Disaster Artist’ BY LISA JENSEN

T

he most delirious scriptwriter could never invent a character like Tommy Wiseau. With his eccentric speech and long, dyedblack hair; of indeterminate age, means or national origin; and pretty much devoid of any actual talent, he became one of the most renowned filmmakers of the new millennium in 2003, as writer, producer, director, and star of The Room, considered by many to be the worst movie ever made. Move over, Ed Wood.

With that single act of abomination against the annals of cinema history, Wiseau has become the international

poster boy for pursuing one’s artistic vision—however crackpot it may be—in the face of all obstacles. Since The Room became an instant midnight movie favorite, Wiseau is now such a legendary cult figure that a movie has been made about him: The Disaster Artist, a giddy, lightly fictionalized adaptation of a nonfiction book about the making of The Room.

The book was co-written by Greg Sestero, Wiseau’s friend and reallife co-star of The Room, who was there every step of the way. The Disaster Artist is directed by James Franco, who also stars as Wiseau in a performance of fascinating

weirdness. If the real Wiseau wasn’t up there in the spotlight for all to see, Franco might be accused of excessive eccentricity, swanning around with a lazy, affected drawl of some sort, looking like a cross between Tiny Tim and Vlad the Impaler. But Franco also manages to expose the occasional raw nerve of a lost soul yearning to fit in.

In a San Francisco acting class, 1998, the teacher urges shy young student Greg Sesteros (nicely played by the director’s brother, Dave Franco) to put more emotion in his readings. Next up, fellow student Tommy Wiseau does the “Stella!”

scene from A Streetcar Named Desire—shrieking, rolling around on the floor, and literally climbing the walls. The rest of the class is stunned into horrified silence, but Greg has found a mentor.

Tommy is older (he won’t say by how much) and coy about his personal history, and he embarrasses Greg, making him act out a dramatic scene in the middle of a coffee shop.

But Greg is mesmerized by Tommy’s chutzpah. When Tommy suggests they move together to L. A. to break into Hollywood, Greg is thrilled.

They get headshots made and go to auditions. But while Greg picks up an agent (a funny cameo by Sharon Stone)—whom he rarely hears from again—they get no work. Tommy is criticized for his “malevolent presence,” and is told by a producer he interrupts at dinner that “Just because you want it doesn’t mean it’s going to happen for you.” So they decide to make their own movie instead, Tommy hammering out a bunch of loosely connected melodramatic crescendos disguised as a script.

Foreknowledge of The Room is not essential, but viewers interested in backstage Hollywood will get the most out of this one. Not everything makes sense (like why, exactly, no water is available for the crew on set), but things build to a nifty conclusion: at the premiere, when the audience goes berserk with laughter, Greg pep-talks the crestfallen Tommy into accepting credit for the way he has entertained them—credit the real-life Wiseau has been embracing ever since.

Over the closing credits, when we long to see a couple of clips of the real Wiseau in action, director Franco instead plays snippets from the original movie in split-screen with the same scenes he’s recreated; with actors speaking the same lines at the same time, it’s garbled and confusing. But otherwise, this is an affectionate look at outsiders amok in the Hollywood dream factory.

THE DISASTER ARTIST *** (out of four) With James Franco, Dave Franco, and Seth Rogen. Written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber. From the book by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell. Directed by James Franco. An A24 release. Rated R. 103 minutes.

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FERDINAND In possible the most confusing film promo I’ve ever seen, John Cena was on screen during the previews before Coco talking about how Ferdinand the bull is misunderstood by the other characters in this story—because he’s big, people mistakenly think he wants to fight all the time.“Kind of like me,” said Cena, smiling. Wait, what? People think you like to fight, John Cena? Gee, might that be because you are a 25time World Wrestling Entertainment champion? Something tells me this is not just looksist persecution, John Cena! Anyway, the classic children’s book The Story of Ferdinand has not gone out of print since its publication in 1936, so my guess is there will be plenty of enthusiasm for this animated adaptation—unless they changed the ending to make the pacifist bull a world heavyweight champ. Directed by Carlos Saldanha. Featuring the voices of Cena, Kate McKinnon, Anthony Anderson and David Tennant. (PG) 106 minutes. (SP)

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STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI If Disney gets all the Star Wars movies they want, what are they going to have left for subtitles?

The Jedi and Sith can only return, get revenge, awaken and strike back so many times. Stay tuned for the blackjack-themed Star Wars spinoff The Force Holds on 17. In the meantime, enjoy this continuation of the Star Wars saga in which … er, Luke does … stuff … Rey … stormtroopers? Look, they keep the plots of these things secret, so your guess is as good as mine. Directed by Rian Johnson.

Starring Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver. (PG13) 152 minutes. (SP) WONDER WHEEL Four lives intertwine in the shadow of the Coney Island ferris wheel in the 1930s. Directed by Woody Allen.

Starring Kate Winslet, Justin Timberlake, Jim Belushi and Juno Temple. (PG-13) 101 minutes.

CONTINUING EVENT: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE MOVIES Film buffs are invited Wednesday

nights at 7 p.m. to downtown Santa Cruz, where each week the group discusses a different current release. For location and discussion topic, go to https:// groups.google.com/group/LTATM.

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 has 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 dysfunctionalfamily 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) COCO Prepare for kids everywhere to go Day-of-the-Dead crazy with the release of this muchanticipated Pixar film about a boy named Coco whose family secrets and dreams of becoming a musician lead him to the Land of the Dead. Lee Unkrich directs.

Featuring the voices of Benjamin Bratt, Anthony Gonzalez and Gael Garcia Bernal. (PG-13) 109 minutes.

JUST GETTING STARTED Writerdirector Ron Shelton is best-known for his sports films like Bull Durham, Tin Cup, Blue Chips and White Men Can’t Jump, but his true underrated gem is actually a crime film, the pre-Training Day bad-cop movie Dark Blue with Kurt Russell.

In this film, he combines the genres for an action comedy about an ex-mob lawyer in the Witness Protection Program (Morgan Freeman) and an ex-FBI agent (Tommy Lee Jones) using golf to foil a mob hit. It’s also the final film role of Glenne Headly. Rene Russo and Joe Pantoliano co-star. (PG-13) 91 minutes. (SP) JUSTICE LEAGUE For those tricked into going to Suicide Squad because it seemed like all those top comics characters in one movie couldn’t go wrong, this follow-up DC team flick may be a case of “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice—hey, is that Aquaman?

Whoa, Wonder Woman’s in this too, she’s cool! I thought Ben Affleck said he was never going to play Batman again, or something? Hey, how did I end up in this seat?” Zack Snyder directs. Affleck, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Jason Momoa and Robin Wright co-star. (PG-13) 121 minutes. (SP)

DADDY’S HOME 2 Somebody out there must have been really naughty this year if Santa thought moviegoers deserved both Daddy’s Home 2 and A Bad Moms Christmas this holiday season.

They are, of course, essentially the same movie, this time bringing in dads of the first movie’s dads (instead of moms of the first movie’s moms) to try to milk a second film out of a dumb premise.

Mel Gibson and John Lithgow join original feuding dads Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell. Sean Anders directs. John Cena, Linda Cardellini and Hannibal Buress costar. (PG-13) 100 minutes.

LADY BIRD With Lady Bird, writerdirector Greta Gerwig delivers a wry but warm-hearted portrait of family, home, and dreams in modern America. The family in question is not dysfunctional in any clichéd movie comedy way, but Gerwig captures the gulf of potential calamity in the fractious relationship between a high-school senior (Saoirse Ronan) and her loving, but harried mom (Laurie Metcalf). As in most mother-daughter relationships, one false move or the wrong word might set either one of them off as they try to navigate the minefield of what they think or feel, and their ability (or not) to express it. Odeya Rush and Jake McDorman co-star.

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THE DISASTER ARTIST Reviewed this issue. Directed by James Franco. Starring James Franco and Dave Franco. (R) 103 minutes. (SP)

THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS A delightful fantasia on the writing of A Christmas Carol at a pivotal moment in the life of

its author, this movie is based on Les Standiford’s nonfiction book about how Charles Dickens, beset by financial and family worries, set out to write and publish a Christmas book in only six weeks. But dry facts are transformed into delicious fiction by scriptwriter Susan Coyne, who combines Dickens’ real life with the volatility of his active imagination—whose impudent characters keep overflowing into every other aspect of his life. Bharat Nalluri directs. Dan Stevens and Jonathan Pryce co-star. (PG) 104 minutes. (LJ) 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. Co-starring Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Willem Dafoe, Penelope Cruz and Michelle Pfeiffer. (PG-13) 114 minutes.

THE STAR The nativity story gets re-told as B-movie children’s animation, with talking animals stumbling upon the manger.

Something tells me you’re gonna wish it was a silent night. Timothy Reckart directs. With the voices of Zachary Levi, Christopher Plummer and Kristin Chenoweth.

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.

Jeff Goldblum brings priceless eccentricity to his role as Grand Master, presiding over a combat arena in some distant world. Tessa Thompson struts around with brio as the last survivor of the Valkyrie sisterhood, and Mark Ruffalo proves himself the best screen Hulk ever in the comic timidity he brings to brainy science nerd Bruce Banner before hulking out into his colossal alter-ego. Oh, and that’s Cate Blanchett in a black Vampira wig as Hela, Goddess of Death. (PG-13) 130 minutes. (LJ) THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Frances McDormand is superb as a middle-aged mother with a spectacularly vulgar mouth, a fearless take-no-prisoners attitude, and a relentless drive to see justice done after the unsolved murder of her teenage daughter. Another actress might chomp on the scenery with extra relish and hot sauce, but McDormand plays her small and close, with her volatility —and vulnerability—boiling at the surface. Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell are also great in this layered and complex morality play from playwright-filmmaker Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). Directed

by McDonagh. Co-starring Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish and Peter Dinklage. (R) 115 minutes. (LJ) WONDER I was just listening to the Movie Crush podcast, and comedian Tig Notaro was talking about how much she loves the Peter Bogdanovich movie Mask. (Not the one with green Jim Carrey. The ’80s one where Cher was the mom of the kid with a deformed skull, who you couldn’t tell it was Eric Stoltz.)

I remember thinking, “Someone loves Mask? Now I’ve heard everything!” Which is just a figure of speech. But anyway, I have a feeling Tig is going to love this movie, too, because it’s basically Mask for the 21st century, with Julia Roberts as the mom and Jacob Tremblay as a fifth-grader with a facial disfigurement. Stephen Chbosky directs. Owen Wilson and Mandy Patinkin co-star. (PG) 113 minutes.

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wenty-five years ago, Paul Cocking gathered together a team of young foodies, eclectic produce from local growers, and a funky hand-printed menu and opened Gabriella Café, to the delight of everyone within eating distance. With founding chef Jim Denevan in the kitchen, Cocking played host to what over the years has become a part-salon, part-livingroom, all-romantic destination for flavors of the season transformed into award-winning cuisine. Still holding down the front table with

his omnipresent Times, laptop, and bowl of pasta, Cocking is justly proud of the landmark dining room named for his daughter.

A showcase for local artists, writers, winemakers, and raconteurs, Gabriella has been an incubator for top chefs, including Denevan (Outstanding in the Field), Rebecca King (Garden Variety Cheese), Sean Baker (Gather), Jessica Yarr (Assembly) and Brad Briske (Home). A fixture at local farmers markets, Cocking flexes his social networking skills every weekend while combing

the stalls for something fresh for his current chef, Gema Cruz, to transform into the next menu. Last week, her gifts were applied to a spectacular dish of tagliatelle with fresh porcini that had me wishing I were a much larger woman.

Always the mentor to can-do talent, Cocking currently shows off the handiwork of his in-house pastry chef Krista Pollock with seasonal desserts such as earthy persimmon pudding with pomegranate seeds and pumpkin seed brittle. From the beginning, Gabriella developed close

relationships with top winemakers— Randall Grahm and Steve Storrs often unveiled wines within the restaurant’s three tiny dining rooms—and organic farmers like Orin Martin who were given an open door to demystify their homegrown specialties.

From the start, the wines-by-theglass menu allowed visitors and locals to graze our local terroir. And the menu has always acknowledged its primary sources of produce, Live Earth and Route 1 farms. It’s not a stretch to suggest that Gabriella was key in the diaspora of the organic, local, and seasonal cooking that came to define not only California cuisine, but New American cooking today. The salons on first Tuesdays add a seasoning of political, literary, and history-laced conversation, and the restaurant’s intimate charm expands with live music the middle of every week.

The fact that I had my tonsils taken out long ago in this Mediterraneanstyle suite has only increased my enjoyment of Gabriella through all its chefs. The secret to these 25 years remains its wise and amiable founder, a man who does it all from waiting tables to making coffee to visiting each group of guests with a personal welcome and a juicy spot of gossip.

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itting at the bar at Mozaic, I was a bit alarmed when I didn’t see the warm pesto that I’d heard so much about on the list of starters. But when I asked the bartender, he nonchalantly replied that the reason I didn’t see it on the menu is that it comes complimentary with every meal.

Well, OK then!

Returning to the starters, I thought the grilled octopus might make a nice complement to the pesto—and I can never resist ordering it when I see it. A meatier cousin to calamari, it’s a common ingredient in other parts of the world, but isn’t often seen on American menus. Octopus can stand up to assertive flavors, and when prepared correctly, the extremely lean meat is both tender and slightly rubbery—in a good way.

My grilled octopus arrived sizzling and scorched from the grill, swimming in a generous amount of briny capers, the tips of the winecolored tentacles curled and black.

The aroma of oregano, olive oil and lemon filled my nose with each crispy, tender bite. It was delicious,

although the subtle flavor of the octopus was slightly overshadowed by a few too many capers.

Comparatively, the small, shallow dish of pesto that arrived with a side of bread was fairly unassuming, until I took a bite. The clean, summer-y flavor and fragrance of basil was buoyed by peppery arugula and plenty of garlic. I alternatively dragged pieces of bread through the bright green sauce and the tangy olive oil from the octopus, enjoying the distinct Mediterranean flavors.

Two of Mozaic’s pastas are also pesto-centric, but since I didn’t want to be loaded down with a big meal, this small serving was just right for me (in fact, I could’ve eaten it with a spoon, and would’ve loved it on a mezze platter. Heck, it would’ve been delicious on the octopus!).

What started as an exploratory mission evolved into a very pleasant solo date, aided by a totally decent $4 glass of house Merlot on happy hour special, the pesto that lived up to the hype, and the exciting flavors and textures of the octopus. I need to take myself out more often.

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Wednesday is Santa Lucia Day, the Swedish Festival of Light, and also the first day of Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights. Hanukkah (meaning consecration, dedication) commemorates a miracle that occurred in 165 B.C. to the Jewish Temple after it was desecrated. There was only one night left of oil for the lamps, but the oil lasted eight days, enough time to recapture and rededicate the temple. And so, like our lighting of the Advent candles at sunset, we also light our menorah (nine-branched candelabrum), one candle each night for eight nights, and one used to light the others.

And so, at sunset, lighting the Menorah, remembering the miracle of the Light. Each night, we light a candle—right, left, right, left,

ARIES Mar21–Apr20 The season’s about to change again, and so must our rhythms in terms of the sun, our health, diets, exercise and plans for our day. Through this Mercury retrograde, we assess and think along new lines, preparing for the coming changes of light, shadows, cold, warmth and color. These changes are reflected within ourselves, too. Relationships need extra tending so loved ones don’t feel cold, alone, withdrawn and left out.

TAURUS Apr21–May21 You are learning new things, listening to speakers, gathering information. Always serious and disciplined.

Your life’s task is informing and illuminating the minds of humanity. It would be good to consider what is playful for you, what brings enjoyment, fun, what calls forth your lightness and sense of spontaneity. Perhaps you need a warm pool to swim in.

GEMINI May 22–June 20 Family, whether biological, friends, group (esoteric?), colleagues, etc. begins to matter more and more.

Harmony is your focus with a touch of compromise (not much). Something’s not complete with someone.

Maybe you need to talk or visit to bring forth a new step in relationships. Listen quietly to others until you understand their essential message. All of this brings love forth – your Venusian task.

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Make contact. These two words have a depth most don’t understand. Making contact releases Love.

The contact must be true, real and intentional, from the heart, heart to heart, soul to soul. The love being released liberates everyone. However, someone must begin the process and that someone is you. Do this ceaselessly, quietly, connecting with all the kingdoms.

LE0 Jul21–Aug22 You must not only create a new plan concerning finances and resources, but a new state of values must also come forth also. You may want to communicate more deeply with close friends and/or intimates who share your values. It’s important to know what values you both hold in common. What are your desires and aspirations for the future, based on these values?

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 You need to come out of the shadows and into the light.

Standing in shadows, perhaps of another, is of comfort to you. However, there comes a time when we each must define ourselves, recognize our own self-identity, realize that we’re capable, summon our confidence, and seek a new support system. Am I speaking to Virgo or Pisces? Both. For they are the shadow of the other.

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22 I saw in a dream a sheaf of wheat. A symbol of

reciting the blessing and prayer, “Blessed are You, O G-d. Who has performed miracles for our fathers. Who has given us Life.” We also light our Advent wreath candles and recite the Mantram of Light: Let the Forces of Light bring illumination to humanity Let the Spirit of Peace be spread abroad May men and women of goodwill everywhere meet in a spirit of cooperation May forgiveness on the part of all be the keynote at this time Let power attend the efforts of the Great Ones So let it be, and help us to know, to do and to anchor our part in the world I send ongoing prayers to all who have suffered fear and loss in the recent fires.

nourishment. I thought of Libra, and what nourishes them. Relationships, beauty, friends, equilibrium, balance, love, sacrifice, art. It’s the art of the wheat sheaf that I remember. Librans must get back to their art in whatever form interests them. Some paint, some have galleries, some are collectors. What is your art form? It’s calling you.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 Do you sense restlessness, that there’s a group that belongs to you, that you belong in, yet somehow you can’t find it or they you? As you both search for the other, assess your present-day and future goals.

They’ve changed recently or are in the process. So many of us are on the fence, indecisive about the future. We must summon patience. Speak with those close to you. Ask for their visions and goals. Listen carefully.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 The perfect execution of your work will be a priority.

It always is, but a new dimension has been added.

Multiple ideas flow through your mind; you’re being impressed with ideas that affect your future. There’s an inner joy and gratitude, enthusiasm. Do you need to begin something? Share your ideas with those who can aid and support you. Diplomacy, peacekeeping and subtlety are paramount.

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 What will you do when winter begins? It’s only a week away. Then the holidays. However, something somewhere is calling you from far away. Perhaps it’s a town or city, a village or community, a course of study, somewhere you want to travel to, to visit and discover.

Something merry and bright your ways comes.

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 Take extra care with money and resources. Use this time to discriminate between what is needed and what is not. Give away what is not and then give more away. Giving provides us with meaning, a true sense of service and a liberation that allows us to move forward in our lives, no matter the difficulties. The other side of giving is receiving. Receive what’s needed graciously.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 We must do our best wherever we find ourselves. Many of us are sitting on the fence (uncomfortable), unable to know where we’re going, what to do when we don’t know what to do. It’s important to know wherever we are, eventually our gifts are called forth. We (especially Pisces at this time) are to work at our best in the place(s) we find ourselves. Relationships need compromise. Offer loving Goodwill.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1852 The following Individual is doing business as JOHNNY MOSES STORYTELLING. 200 E. LOMOND ST., BOULDER CREEK, CA 95006. County of Santa Cruz. JOHNNY MOSES. 200 E. LOMOND ST., BOULDER CREEK, CA 95006. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JOHNNY MOSES. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 11/9/2017.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Nov. 9, 2017. Nov. 22, 29 & Dec. 6, 13.

County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Nov. 13, 2017. Nov. 22, 29, & Dec. 6, 13.

statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Oct. 26, 2017. Nov. 22, 29 & Dec. 6, 13.

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 Nov. 20, 2017. Nov. 29 & Dec. 6, 13, 20.

95007. County of Santa Cruz. CANNASAFETY TRAINING, LLC. 123 WESTERN AVE., BROOKDALE, CA 95007. AI# 31210108.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: JAMES COHLMAN. 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 Nov. 27, 2017. Dec. 6, 13, 20, 27.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1929 The following Individual is doing business as AMERICAN IRRIGATION & LANDSCAPE. 9062 REDWOOD DRIVE, BEN LOMOND, CA 95005.

County of Santa Cruz.

SAM BREAZILE. 9062 REDWOOD DRIVE, BEN LOMOND, CA 95005.

This business is conducted by an Individual signed: SAM BREAZILE. 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 Nov. 28, 2017. Dec. 6, 13, 20, 27.

statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Nov. 14, 2017. Dec. 6, 13, 20, 27.

not in the capacity or character of a PERSON as defined by Statute nor bound with any obligation, contract promise of any kind, except by his prior written authorization. By this notice be aware that any violation (s), violator (s) of the claimants rights on the claim to all derivatives of his given and family name as stated herein are bound to the terms of this Self Executing User Agreement retained by the claimant. All rights are reserved regarding the registered name JEFFREY ANDREW BAIRD© and the common-law copyright of the words and art and proprietary image entitled and appearing as JEFFREY ANDREW BAIRD© - Common Law Copyright 2017; as well as each and every derivative of said name and words of art / image, and all variations in the spelling thereof by Jeffrey-Andrew: Baird© Agent, Trustee, Secure Party, Freeman, Author of Copyright Name, Trademark Claim on this the Thirtieth Day of the Eleventh Month in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen, through the Uniform Commercial Code, Recording number2017-334-0575-3 filed with the Washington Office of the Secretary of State, nunc pro tunc to 1988. For more information visit, http:// www.copyright-name. com/Jeffrey-AndrewBaird.htm. Dec. 13, 20, 27 & Jan. 3

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1768 The following Individual is doing business as BURROS BUILDING. 230 8TH AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz.

ALAN BURROS. 230 8TH AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ALAN BURROS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1815 The following Individual is doing business as NUT KREATIONS. 104 LINCOLN STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. STEPHEN PATRICK VERUTTI. 104 LINCOLN STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: STEPHEN PATRICK VERUTTI. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 11/2/2017. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Nov. 2, 2017.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1897 The following Individual is doing business as COUCH POTATO DISCOUNT SOFA WAREHOUSE, THE COUCH POTATO. 3131 B SOQUEL DRIVE, SOQUEL, CA 95073.

County of Santa Cruz.

JACKSON DUHAMEL ALLEN. 3131 B SOQUEL DRIVE, SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JACKSON DUHAMEL ALLEN. 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 Nov. 21, 2017. Dec. 6, 13, 20, 27.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1887 The following Individual is doing business as SHOWTIME PIZZERIA. 7960 SOQUEL DR, APTOS, CA 95003.

County of Santa Cruz.

VENTURA LUNA.7960 SOQUEL DR, APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: VENTURA LUNA. The registrant commenced to transact business

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1908 The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as CANNA SAFETY TRAINING, CANNASAFETY TRAINING. 123 WESTERN AVE., BROOKDALE, CA

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1901 The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as CALIFORNIA ECO TECH. 507 PALM STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz.

CALIFORNIA ECO TECH, LLC. 507 PALM STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. AI# 29310303. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: CALIFORNIA ECO TECH, LLC. 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 Nov. 21,

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1870 The following Individual is doing business as TAQUERIA LOS PERICOS. 139 WATER STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. ELEAZAR ZAMBRANO. 139 WATER STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ELEAZAR ZAMBRANO. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 4/14/2007. This

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1943 The following Individual is doing business as BB FINANCIAL, BB FINANCIAL SERVICES, BB FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS, BB PROPERTIES. 5005 VIA GATOS, SOQUEL, CA 95073. County of Santa Cruz. BRETT AUSTIN BLEVINS. 5005 VIA GATOS, SOQUEL, CA 95073. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: BRETT AUSTIN BLEVINS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 7/17/2007.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Nov. 30, 2017. Dec. 6, 13, 20, 27.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17- 1896 The following General Partnership is doing business as RANCHO LAS PALMAS. 7201 COAST ROAD, DAVENPORT, CA 95017. County of Santa Cruz. JUVENAL CRUZ, RIGOBERTO CRUZ, & RAMON RIOS. 7201 COAST ROAD, DAVENPORT, CA 95017. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: RAMON RIOS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/25/2004.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Nov. 21, 2017. Dec. 13, 20, 27 & Jan. 3.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1949 The following Individual is doing business as KARUNA GUTOWSKI ARTIST. 329 RIGG ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. KAREN RUTH GUTOWSKI. 329 RIGG ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: KAREN RUTH

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17- 1861.

The following General Partnership is doing business as MERMAID MAFIA TRI CLUB. 138 FARALLON CT, APTOS, CA 95003. County of Santa Cruz. MELANI AMARIS & CHRISTINE MATHENY. 138 FARALLON CT, APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: CHRISTINE MATHENY. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 8/9/2017.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin,

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1880 The following Individual is doing business as COMPASS CAD. 442 MONTEREY DRIVE, APTOS, CA 95003.

County of Santa Cruz.

VERONICA HOOVER. 442 MONTEREY DRIVE, APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: VERONICA HOOVER. 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 Nov. 16, 2017. Nov. 22, 29 & Dec. 6, 13.

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GUTOWSKI. 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 Dec. 1, 2017.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1910 The following Individual is doing business as STRONGHER WITH ALEX. DOLPHIN DR, APTOS, CA 95003.

County of Santa Cruz.

ALEXANDRIA PEREIRA. DOLPHIN DR, APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ALEXANDRIA PEREIRA. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/30/2017. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Nov. 27, 2017. Dec. 13, 20, 27, & Jan. 3.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-1972 The following Individual is doing business as ADESSO PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. 1630 MERRILL ST, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062.

County of Santa Cruz.

ALEXIS KIRCHNER. 1630 MERRILL ST, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ALEXIS KIRCHNER. 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 Dec. 5, 2017.

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■ FLANK STEAK, U.S.D.A CHOICE/ 7.49 LB ■ FLAT IRON STEAK, U.S.D.A CHOICE/ 5.98 LB ■ MILD ITALIAN SAUSAGE/ 5.98 LB

■ BLACK PEPPER PORK CHOPS, BONELESS/ 3.98 LB ■ BLOODY MARY PORK CHOPS, BONELESS/ 3.98 LB ■ SANTA MARIA PORK CHOPS, BONELESS/ 3.98 LB ■ CREATIVE SALMON FILLET, ORGANICALLY FED/ 17.98 LB ■ AHI TUNA STEAKS, THICK CUT/ 14.98 LB

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Now29.99 ROEDERER ESTATE Brut (92WS) 19.99

■ PEARS, Bartlett, Bosc, D’Anjou, Comice and Red/ 1.49 Lb ■ RUSSET POTATOES, Premium Quality/ .59 Lb ■ ZUCCHINI SQUASH, Extra Fancy Squash/ 1.19 Lb ■ ORGANIC BANANAS, The Perfect Snack/ .99 Lb ■ ROMAINE HEARTS, Top Quality/ 2.99 Ea ■ LEAF LETTUCE, Red, Green, Romaine, Butter and Iceberg/ 1.29 Ea ■ RED YAMS & SWEET POTATOES, Top Quality/ 1.49 Lb

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■ PORK BREAKFAST LINKS/ 4.98 LB

CHLOE Prosecco (Reg 16.99) Now 8.99

■ CLOVER SONOMA EGGNOG, Qt/ 3.99

■ BEN & JERRY’S ICE CREAM, Pint, (Reg 5.29)/ 4.29

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■ BECKMANN’S, Three Seed Sour Loaf, 24oz/ 3.89

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■ PILLSBURY CINNAMON ROLLS/ 1.99 ■ JOSEPH FARMS MOZZRELLA BALLS, “Part & Whole”/ 5.99 ■ FRED’S HORSERADISH, “A Customer Favorite”

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AMANDA PARGH, 3-Year Customer, Santa Cruz

Occupation: Burn, owner/chef Hobbies: Dancing, drawing, writing, gardening, climbing, hiking/being out in nature, loves to cook Astrological Sign: Libra

CHASE ATKINS, 3-Year Customer, Santa Cruz

Occupation: Burn, co-owner Hobbies: Making music, painting, hiking, farm activities/moving dirt around Astrological Sign: Sagittarius What is Burn? AMANDA: “It’s our organic fermented pepper business featuring sauces, pickle and powders.”

Nice. So what or who got you folks shopping here?

AMANDA: “When we moved to Santa Cruz, we were astounded by the bounty the area has to offer, including family-owned stores. So nice to go to a business such as Shopper’s and explore. It feels so homey.” CHASE: “I like Shopper’s classic look and vibe. I’m from the Midwest where you find many mom-and-pop, family-owned markets. I feel at home here. I like supporting a store like Shopper’s as it’s been around for so long.” AMANDA: “I choose local and ‘vote’ with my dollars.”

It’s holiday season… you plan on indulging during the holidays? CHASE: “We’re looking forward to it. She’s the chef. I really enjoy Shopper’s wine selections, especially the Bordeaux and Pinot Noirs. I like to give gifts. One of the best things is to bring a good bottle of good wine — and breads — over to friends during the holiday season.”

AMANDA: “Oh, yes, the wine… so much to choose from. I plan on roasting a chicken in a cranberry-fennel seed marinade with a ton of garlic, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes with toasted marshmallow meringue, a green bean casserole and a green bean crispy salad with mushrooms — Shopper’s has a fabulous variety of mushrooms! We’ll make our own pies.

Sounds great. What do you normally cook? CHASE: “I’m really good at eggs, sort of an egg maestro.” AMANDA: “He’s also a good sous chef. I love using fresh seasonal ingredients and see what inspires me in the moment. I believe what grows together goes together. The more you can incorporate fresh living foods, the better off you are.”CHASE: “You don’t need to go to a high-end store for organic products. You can find those quality ingredients here.” AMANDA: “The people working here are so thoughtful and the buyers too. They’re really nice to work with.” CHASE: “If you’re new to the community, come into Shopper’s Corner and have a genuine local experience.”

“If you’re new to the community, come into Shopper’s Corner and have a genuine local experience.”

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