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CELL TROUBLE Activists draw attention to solitary confinement P11

WESTSIDE WELLSPRING The Wrigley Building’s transformation into a hub for innovation P18

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OPINION

EDITOR’S NOTE When I was working on a story back in 2013 about why Randall Grahm’s Le Cigare Volant restaurant failed in Santa Cruz, several people I talked to told me that they never went there “because it was on the Westside.”

They said it like the Westside was an entirely different place than Santa Cruz proper, and they couldn’t imagine a reason to make the five-minute drive it would take to get there.

What a difference a couple of years makes. The Westside is hopping, and one of the most interesting stories there right now

is the transformation of the Wrigley Building. Some locals have caught a glimpse of what’s going on there at First Fridays, others may have simply heard about it.

In this issue, Kara Guzman digs into the story of how the Wrigley became a thriving reuse project, and some of the personalities that are driving its successful rebirth. Personally, I like getting some insight into the history of Santa Cruz’s most iconic buildings, and, after reading this, I will never forget the sugar dust.

Also, don’t forget that voting for this year’s Best of Santa Cruz County Awards ends on Feb. 3. That’s just a week away! So if you haven’t yet, be sure to go to santacruz.com and vote for all of your local favorites. See you on the Westside!

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DON’T FENCE US IN

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I was disappointed to see the letter in the Good Times (12/30/15 ) by Don Honda attacking Councilmember and former mayor Don Lane for his efforts to deal with the homeless problem in Santa Cruz.

While I don’t always agree with Don on every issue, one should respect his good intentions and large number of hours that Don has spent working to help improve this situation over many years.

I doubt Mr. Honda’s statement that half of the homeless people here come from other areas; I remember the figure as being less than one third. Is that a fact that is relevant? People come here, rich and poor, for many reasons and their situations change for many reasons. Additionally, his statement that warming centers are not needed because “we don’t have much freezing weather here” has been thoroughly refuted by the past weeks’ weather, and winter has only just begun!

This “run them all out of town” attitude reminds me of a statement a friend once made to the City Council: “Many people that are fairly newly arrived in our town would like to live in a gated community for elites and they are trying to build walls around Santa Cruz.” Luckily, that is not the type of town we have here and I certainly hope it doesn’t become one!

I’m sure the majority of people in our

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community still believe “there but for fortune go I” and have hearts big enough to want to help those in need.

SUSAN MARTINEZ | SANTA CRUZ

WHO’S WHO? I read the recent GT piece on the local Congressional race (GT 12/15), and was left a bit confused by the candidates’ positions. The (party-anointed) Democrat [Jimmy] Panetta made statements about achieving common ground, even if it means crossing the aisle, and facilitating desal plants by securing more federal funding.

Casey Lucius, the only Republican—at least for now—states “my husband and I are vegetarians, animal advocates and environmentalists,” and appreciates the need for affordable housing to help people achieve the American Dream.

Additionally, the Republican appears to have experienced a much less privileged upbringing than the Democrat.

Do these two candidates need to switch parties? Or perhaps the voters should!

As for me, I don’t have this dilemma—I’ve been a Green Party member for decades!

This situation is a good example of how the Democratic Party no longer represents the interests of the common people in our country. Third parties are entering into positions of power in many countries in

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Santa Cruz topped TripAdvisor’s recent list naming the best places for tourists to stay during this year’s Super Bowl in Santa Clara on Feb. 7. The ranking, which put Oakland at No. 2, weighed cities’ hotel rates, as well as their proximity to the big game.

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LOCAL TALK

What’s a national security threat that doesn’t get enough attention?

BY MATTHEW COLE SCOTT

Solar storms and solar flares that could wipe out all electronic devices.

TINA BAY SANTA CRUZ | ACTOR

There is a nuclear power plant in Japan that’s still leaking into the Pacific Ocean, but we forget about it because it’s on the other side of the world.

JOFF JONES SANTA CRUZ | ARTIST

Hate, unkindness, religion.

People will dislike each other and continue to harm one another.

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Refugees. When you let them in, you don’t know who you’re letting in.

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A bigoted, racist, egomaniac billionaire potentially stealing the election and becoming our president.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of January 27 ARIES Mar21–Apr19

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22

Do you know Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights? At one point, the heroine Catherine tells her friend about Edgar, a man she’s interested in. “He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace,” Catherine says, “and I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.” If you’re a typical Aries, you’re more aligned with Catherine than with Edgar. But I’m hoping you might consider making a temporary compromise in the coming weeks. “At last, we agreed to try both,” Catherine concluded, “and then we kissed each other and were friends.”

In June 1942, the U.S. Navy crushed Japanese naval forces at the Battle of Midway. It was a turning point that was crucial to America’s ultimate victory over Japan in World War II. One military historian called it “the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare.” This milestone occurred just six months after Japan’s devastating attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor. To compare your life to these two events may be bombastic, but I’m in a bombastic mood as I contemplate your exciting possibilities. I predict that in the second half of 2016, you’ll claim a victory that will make up for a loss or defeat you endured during the last few months of 2015. And right now is when you can lay the groundwork for that future triumph.

TAURUS Apr20–May20

Playwright Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) had a lot of friends, and they often came to visit him uninvited. He found it hard to simply tell them to go away and leave him alone. And yet he hated to be interrupted while he was working. His solution was to get naked and write for long hours while in his bathroom, usually soaking in the bathtub. His intrusive friends rarely had the nerve to insist on socializing. In this way, Rostand found the peace he needed to create his masterpiece Cyrano de Bergerac, as well as numerous other plays. I suggest you consider a comparable gambit, Scorpio. You need to carve out some quality alone time.

People turn to you Tauruses for help in staying grounded. They love to soak up your down-to-earth pragmatism. They want your steadfastness to rub off on them, to provide them with the stability they see in you. You should be proud of this service you offer! It’s a key part of your appeal. Now and then, though, you need to demonstrate that your stalwart dependability is not static and stagnant—that it’s strong exactly because it’s flexible and adaptable. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to emphasize this aspect of your superpower.

GEMINI May21–June20 When winter comes, pine trees that grow near mountaintops may not be able to draw water and minerals from the ground through their roots. The sustenance they require is frozen. Luckily, their needle-like leaves absorb moisture from clouds and fog, and drink in minerals that float on the wind. Metaphorically speaking, Gemini, this will be your preferred method for getting nourished in the coming weeks. For the time being, look up to obtain what you need. Be fed primarily by noble ideals, big visions, divine inspiration, and high-minded people.

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CANCER Jun21–Jul22

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We all go through phases when we are at odds with people we love. Maybe we’re mad at them, or feel hurt by them, or can’t comprehend what they’re going through. The test of our commitment is how we act when we are in these moods. That’s why I agree with author Steve Hall when he says, “The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.” The coming weeks will be an important time for you to practice this principle with extra devotion—not just for the sake of the people you care about, but also for your own physical, mental, and spiritual health.

LE0 Jul23–Aug22

Wishing You A Happy Holiday Season!

After fighting and killing each other for years on end, the Roman and Persian armies agreed to a truce in 532 CE. The treaty was optimistically called “The Endless Peace.” Sadly, “endless” turned out to be just eight years. By 540, hostilities resumed. I’m happy to announce, though, that your prospects for accord and rapprochement are much brighter.

If you work diligently to negotiate an endless peace anytime between now and March 15, it really is likely to last a long time.

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“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole.” Author Lauren Oliver wrote that, and now I’m offering it to you, just in time for your Season of Correction and Adjustment. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to get smarter about evaluating your allies—and maybe even one of your adversaries, as well. I expect you will find it relatively easy, even pleasurable, to overcome your misimpressions and deepen your incomplete understandings.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 “I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.” The preceding reminiscence belongs to a character in Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner. I bring it up in hopes that you will do the opposite: Say the words that need to be said. Articulate what you’re burning to reveal.

Speak the truths that will send your life on a course that’s in closer alignment with your pure intentions.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 According to some traditional astrologers, you Capricorns are vigilant to avoid loss. Old horoscope books suggest that you may take elaborate measures to avoid endangering what you have accumulated. To ensure that you will never run out of what you need, you may even ration your output and limit your self-expression. This behavior is rooted in the belief that you should conserve your strength by withholding or even hiding your power. While there may be big grains of truth in this conventional view of you Capricorns, I think it’s only part of the story. In the coming weeks, for instance, I bet you will wield your clout with unabashed authority. You won’t save yourself for later; you’ll engage in no strategic self-suppression. Instead, you will be expansive and unbridled as you do whatever is required to carry out the important foundation work that needs to be done.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 “It seems that the whole time you’re living this life, you’re thinking about a different one instead,” wrote Latvian novelist Inga Abele in her novel High Tide. Have you ever been guilty of that, Aquarius? Probably. Most of us have at one time or another. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the coming months will bring you excellent opportunities to graduate forever from this habit. Not all at once, but gradually and incrementally, you can shed the idea that you should be doing something other than what you are doing.

You can get the hang of what it’s like to thoroughly accept and embrace the life you are actually living. And now is an excellent time to get started in earnest on this project.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 “Even nightingales cannot be fed on fairy tales,” says a character in Ivan Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons. In other words, these marvelous birds, which sing sublimely and have long been invoked by poets to symbolize lyrical beauty, need actual physical sustenance. They can’t eat dreamy stories. Having acknowledged that practical fact, however, I will suggest that right now you require dreamy stories and rambling fantasies and imaginary explorations almost as much as you need your daily bread. Your soul’s hunger has reached epic proportions. It’s time to gorge.

Homework: What could you do to free your imagination from its bondage?

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NEWS BEYOND BELIEF Why a local scientist went back to school to understand climate deniers

BY JACOB PIERCE

SIGN UP Activists like Steve Pleich have been protesting solitary confinement on the 23rd of each month, which is the number of hours inmates in solitary confinement spend locked up alone each day. PHOTO: ARDY RAGHIAN

Jailhouse Knock Solitary confinement under fire

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n the 23rd of each month, prison reform activists on Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz hold up signs and banners reading “End Solitary Confinement.” The date signifies the number of hours many prison inmates spend in solitary confinement each day, in a windowless concrete cell barely larger than a king-sized bed.

Dolores Canales, co-founder of California Families Against Solitary Confinement, says the monthly protests in Santa Cruz and around the state are part of a movement

BY ARDY RAGHIAN

that has made a big impact since inmates in Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City staged a hunger strike that spread through state prisons in 2011. Her son John Martinez was in solitary for 15 years in Pelican Bay. “There were lawsuits and hunger strikes in the past, but they died down and went away. It has only gotten bigger since the 2011 hunger strikes,” says Canales.

On Monday, President Obama announced a series of executive actions that will ban the use of solitary confinement as punishment

for “low-level infractions” by adult prisoners, and prohibit its use entirely for juvenile prisoners in federal prisons. In June, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, one of the court’s more conservative judges, denounced the widespread use of solitary confinement, a modern-day restating of the Supreme Court’s ruling 125 years ago that solitary confinement bears a “terror and peculiar mark of infamy”—although the court never abolished it.

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When climatologist Jeffrey Kiehl was giving a lecture 15 years ago about global warming, he tried something many scientists would see as revolutionary. He looked into the eyes of audience members, many of them skeptics, and stopped to ask them a question: “How are you feeling?”

People who might otherwise dismiss climate change as a joke or a phony political ploy started opening up about how all this information was scary and difficult to absorb. Kiehl, who will be speaking as part of a panel on climate change next month, started using this approach in discussions every chance he got.

“I often hear ‘I’m overwhelmed. This is helpless. This can’t be happening.’ All of these responses are natural for people,” says Kiehl, who studied Jungian psychology.

“When you’re presented with extremely disturbing information, either personally or globally, a natural human reaction is to feel overwhelmed, feel sadness, feel it’s hopeless.

I like to get people to talk about that, because one of the important things is to get people to open up to the fact that this is a problem that has a lot of emotion attached to it.”

Last year, Kiehl moved from Boulder, Colorado to Santa Cruz, where he serves as adjunct professor at UCSC. On Feb. 5 and 6, he will be taking part in an event called Climate Change: The Moral Dimension at Peace United Church on High Street in Santa Cruz.

Kiehl was an expert focused on climate change predictions for the National Center for Atmospheric Research for more than 10 years before he began wondering why so many people were ignoring the mounting scientific consensus that global warming is real, and that it could alter the fate of our planet for centuries.

“I decided there had to be psychological reasons to just march on toward the cliff and deny that this was going on,” he says.

That’s when Kiehl decided to go back to school for a master’s program in clinical psychology, which he finished in 2000.

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Best friends now happily married to others, Julia and Jane both once counted the dashing Frenchman Maurice as their lover. Guess who’s back in town and requesting the pleasure of the ladies’ company? Coward at his inimitable best; the story is a champagne cocktail of wit and charm.

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WORD GAMES But there is one surprising complication to the growing fight against solitary: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) says it doesn’t use solitary confinement and that it never has.

“It’s not solitary confinement, it never has been, and it certainly isn’t now,” Terry Thornton, a spokesperson for CDCR, tells GT. The department, instead, uses terms like “security housing unit” (SHU) or “administrative housing unit” (AHU) to describe cells where inmates spend a minimum of 22 hours a day. Prisons and jails across the state use acronyms for what essentially amounts to solitary confinement, according to legal experts.

SANTA CRUZ SOLITARY? The Santa Cruz Main Jail doesn’t practice solitary confinement, Chief Sheriff Deputy Craig Wilson says.

Instead, it uses a similar system called Restricted to Cell (RTC), where inmates are locked in their cell for 23 hours a day.

“There’s a big difference between solitary. Solitary means you don’t have contact. That’s not what happens in a jail. Correctional settings are different than prison settings,” Wilson says.

Wilson says the key difference

is that inmates in RTC are able to communicate through their cells with other inmates in their housing unit, which general-population prisoners are free to roam. (The county jail is split into 16 units.) Three times a week, Wilson adds, the mental health, medical personnel, corrections team, and chaplain visit and communicate with each inmate.

Three and a half percent of the jail population is in RTC status, down from 10 percent earlier this year.

Wilson says the jail has adopted a more active management style where they’re willing to take more risks with the population, knowing there could be incidents.

“It’s always our goal to get people out of RTC, with a few exceptions.

We have some people in the building who are assaultive toward other inmates and staff,” Wilson says.

Wilson has been working with Pam Rogers-Wyman, Adult Services Program Chief for Santa Cruz County Mental Health, to help inmates in RTC transition out.

With help from a federal grant, the county jail has outlined several steps to actively push people out of RTC and into therapeutic supportive environments. There is a modified RTC schedule, where inmates are let out for three hours to demonstrate that they can get along with others, and a half-RTC status where inmates are let out for half the day.

“We actually want people to be out and communicating with others, and problem solving, because almost everyone in county jail is going back into the community,” Wilson says. “It doesn’t make sense to have a system where someone is so restricted and isolated that one day they’re in their cell almost all the time, and the next they’re walking down the street.”

Two thirds of inmates in RTC status are self-requested. Wilson says these inmates are either afraid of potential enemies in jail, detoxing from drugs and want to be isolated, or have a mental illness and feel safer alone.

“A couple of the individuals who have serious paranoid schizophrenia who requested to be in a cell [RTC], for them they’re feeling so much better knowing that they’re safe,” Rogers-Wyman says.

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CFASC is part of Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHSS), which organizes the community actions on the 23rd of each month statewide. Both groups formed in the aftermath of the 2011 hunger strike at the Pelican Bay State Prison, which led to more than 6,000 prisoners protesting solitary confinement conditions. There were three hunger strikes from 2011 to 2013, resulting in two deaths. While demands for better conditions were ultimately denied, the strikes brought attention to the issue.

So did a lawsuit that prisoners in solitary at Pelican Bay filed in 2012, challenging California’s use of solitary units. The plaintiffs settled in September of last year, but their case, Ashker v. Brown, secured significant reforms. For instance, the state agreed to limit prolonged solitary confinement and end the process of indeterminate detention.

During the trial, UCSC psychology professor Craig Haney testified that after interviews with numerous prisoners, he found that the negative effects of solitary confinement are comparable to those found in torture and trauma victims.

Carol Strickman, an attorney and founding member of PHSS, takes issue with Thornton’s description, saying the CDCR is just trying to avoid negative buzz words. “Solitary is a dirty word, everyone’s going to deny it,” Strickman says. “It’s a semantic game to avoid admitting that they’re doing something that is disapproved of by a lot of people.”

The U.S. Department of Justice defined solitary confinement in 2013 as being confined to a cell for about 22 hours per day or more, alone or with other prisoners, in a way “that limits contact with others”—not necessarily eliminating it altogether.

Thornton says inmates in SHU units have meaningful human contact—that, for instance, they can talk to each other through the walls.

Strickman disagrees, saying that yelling between cells or being forced to have a bunkmate doesn’t qualify.

Sometimes the CDCR houses two people in one SHU, but both are crammed into a unit the same size as those that hold one person—8 by 10 feet.

Thornton calls this another form of “human contact,” but Haney, the UCSC psychologist, has indicated otherwise. He testified in March that double-celled prisoners “have the worst of both worlds.”

Danny Murillo, who served seven years in an SHU, five of them at Pelican Bay State Prison, describes his experience as torture.

“I came to realize the SHU was designed to break you physically, spiritually and psychologically.

It wasn’t designed to rehabilitate yourself or make you a better person,” he says.

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But as Kiehl starts getting people to talk about their emotions, encouraging them to ask him questions, something interesting happens. “It allows another way for people to hear the information about climate change and actually psychologically take it in at a rate or [in] a way they can assimilate it, rather than it being absolutely overwhelming,” he explains.

“This makes it participatory,” he adds.

“It’s no longer me talking to people. I get to hear what they think or feel about this issue. It’s a far more integrative way of involving people on this issue.”

Kiehl says, when talking to deniers, it is

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Kiehl says that some people then ask how we know that growing carbon emissions are manmade and that they aren’t coming from natural sources, like volcanoes. He explains that the carbon in the air is a different and lighter kind than what’s found beneath the earth’s surface.

The third fact is that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, which traps heat—as Irish scientist John Tyndall first discovered and laid out in 1860. And, as a result, the earth’s greenhouse effect is increasing along with carbon in the atmosphere, Kiehl’s fourth point.

That increase is trapping more and more radiation inside the planet’s atmosphere.

The fifth and final fact is that physics shows us that energy cannot be destroyed.

That means this radiation has to show up somewhere, and it will therefore show up as an increase in temperature.

After he has laid out these scientific findings and started a little discussion, he likes to end his lectures on a positive note, because climatologists, Kiehl says, often don’t talk about solutions.

Kiehl explains that there are ways of creating energy that don’t burn fossil fuels, and that many countries have started moving in that direction. He calls California the “gold standard for what you can do in the United States and what you can do to reduce fossil fuels.”

Not long ago, he notes, many people felt strongly that we needed oil and coal to sustain economic growth. Studies have since

shown no correlation, however, between switching to renewable energy and economic struggles. More significantly, Kiehl says it’s now possible that the country might actually grow more stable if Americans decrease their dependence on fossil fuels, based on the current financial scare that’s being blamed on the declining price of oil.

“This is a tremendous opportunity to leave people with a better world. Really, that’s where I leave people,” he says. “If there’s one message that I can get across to people, it’s, ‘Yes, it’s a problem. It’s a very, very serious problem. But it is also a tremendous opportunity to transform society and create a world that will be so much better.’”

‘Climate Change: The Moral Dimension’ will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 5, and 9 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 6 at the Peace United Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. There will be art and performances. Kiehl will speak on Saturday. The event is free and open to the public.

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“It’s a balance between looking at the needs of the whole group,” she says. “If someone is aggressively violent, do we really want them fully integrated with other people who can be harmed and victimized?”

Some decry the jail’s RTC system as being inhumane and mirroring solitary confinement. “Changing the name to ‘restricted to cell’ doesn’t change the reality,” says Willow Katz, an organizer for PHSS. Strickman says prisons and jails throughout the state deny the use of solitary confinement and rename it because of how stigmatized the word has become.

“They don’t want to admit it because people who have thought about it or studied it know that solitary confinement is inhumane and is akin to torture,” Strickman says.

Wilson adamantly denies the use of solitary in the Santa Cruz County Jail, and says they are “ahead of the curve” in terms of restricted housing practices compared to other jails. Activists like Katz say they’d like to see the RTC system replaced with a process of healing. “People who have mental health issues or are violent need therapy,” Katz says.

Wilson agrees, saying it would be “wonderful” if the county could build a psychiatric unit and place inmates who are RTC in a psychiatric hospital.

“You won’t find anyone who says that’s a bad idea, you’ll only find people who say that’s great, but how can we afford that?” Wilson says.

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efore Michael Goldman was a massage therapist, he was a night janitor at Wrigley’s gum factory on Santa Cruz’s Westside.

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“I just put my headphones on and it feels exactly like snowboarding,” Doerksen says.

The Stanford graduate grew up snowboarding in Canada, and said he’s engineered a board that replicates the feeling of carving through fresh powder—unlike anything else on the market.

The board, which sells for $1,499 with a six-week lead time, can hit 16 mph and run for eight miles on one charge. With a single fat go-kart wheel, it handles off-road hilly terrain.

For five years, Doerksen tinkered with prototypes in his garage, while working as a project manager at IDEO in Palo Alto. When he finally launched a Kickstarter campaign

in 2014, he raised $630,000—more than six times his goal—and left his dream job at IDEO to further develop the skateboard.

OneWheel was founded in Mountain View, but in late 2014 Doerksen moved to the Wrigley Building, in part for its proximity to trails. The team frequently tests the board on the dirt and sand at Natural Bridges State Beach, a block away from its current headquarters.

“We’re really creating a new action sport, so Santa Cruz is really the perfect place,” Doerksen says.

In the past year, the company has posted quick growth: revenues are up by 300 percent and 10 new employees have joined.

OneWheel is also expanding its offices to include a research and development lab in the Wrigley Building.

WESTSIDE TRANSFORMATION The Westside was once the city’s industrial center, home to not only the gum factory but also to Texas Instruments and Lipton Tea factories—representing around 1,500 jobs altogether. The latter two companies left Santa Cruz shortly after Wrigley’s did, Texas Instruments in 2001 and Lipton in 2002.

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The metallic sign and floorto-ceiling glass of his company’s storefront is the most conspicuous section of the Wrigley Building’s exterior, which is mostly beige and grey concrete expanses. Since 2012, the building has housed not

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Before Roskopp co-founded Santa Cruz Bicycles at age 29, he was a professional skateboarder. At age 19, with $600 in his pocket, he took a Greyhound bus from his father’s home in Cincinnati to San Jose, to begin his career.

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This month, nearly 2,000 solar panels were installed on its roof, and soon more will be added to its parking lot, making the Wrigley Building one of the largest solar projects in the city, says Ow. Ow’s next plan is to create an incubator lab for spin-off businesses from UCSC’s Genomics Institute, which in 2000 was the first to sequence the human genome and publicly release it on the Web. So far, six companies have been born out of the institute’s research, including DoveTail Genomics, which was originally housed in the Wrigley Building.

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NEW BEGINNING Painter Michele Giulvezan-Tanner works in her Wrigley Building studio four days a week. If she’s looking for inspiration, she sits with her enormous paintings of abstract figures or browses her piles of art books.

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Though signs with arrows direct customers through the industrial labyrinth, it still takes a few visits to grasp the serpentine layout.

Massive amounts of white walls means more room for art, says Ow. “We said hey, we’ll make wall space available [for local artists] and we’ll rotate it about every two months, and we’ll do it for free,” Ow says. “We get the benefit of hanging beautiful art, and they’re getting some exposure.”

As Ow walks through the building, telling the stories of not only the companies, but also of the artwork he passes, he pauses in the secondfloor lobby. Near the ceiling, dozens of brilliant ceramic fish have been hung by artist Andrew Ward. The fish circle the walls of the secondfloor lobby and head down a long hallway toward Aerial Arts Santa Cruz, a studio teaching pole classes and acrobatic dance.

“You know that room at the Monterey Bay Aquarium with all the fish swimming in a circle overhead?”

Ow asks. “If you hang it in a direction, you create a sense of movement.”

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painter and sculptor Robert Blitzer.

Some of Ow’s tenants have traded technology careers for artistic businesses, such as Brian Kaufman, who worked at Amazon in Seattle for five years before founding Dog Days, a vintage guitar-strap company based in the Wrigley Building. All the straps are handmade by Kaufman and his parents, who also work at the company. Dog Days is also developing an electronic costume tail that moves to the beat of music.

Another techie-turned-artentrepreneur is John Fleskes, a former Sun Microsystems system administrator who now runs Flesk Publications, an art book publishing company, in the Wrigley Building.

Fleskes and his team design the books online, which are printed overseas then delivered to a distributor in Tennessee. A small subset of the copies, meant for direct customers, end up in Fleskes’ Wrigley Building warehouse.

Most of Fleskes’ publications are graphic novels and fantasy, and bookjacket posters of stylized dragons, elves and mythical creatures hide the stacks of boxed copies that nearly touch the 17-foot-high ceiling.

Ow also rents to tech geeks wanting a “hobby/passion” space, such as two brothers, both Silicon Valley programmers, who run a silkscreening company and luthier business in their free time.

“This is almost like their man cave,” Ow says, passing a bare anteroom with a curtain hiding the workspace behind it. “Unfortunately, they’re almost never here.”

A rock band called the Ghost Collective, comprised mostly of tech professionals, rents a studio.

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They’ve been a band since the ’80s, and they jam on Tuesdays,” Ow says.

Ow says that in the past decade, he’s seen an economic boost on the Westside. At first, he had difficulty attracting tenants, but now he has a waitlist for his few remaining spaces.

“Initially, this was the end of the Earth for people in Santa Cruz,” Ow says. “Since this has happened, we’re part of that big transition that has made the Westside the place to be.”

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When we are not building drones, smart watches, search engines and self-driving cars, we enjoy the amenities, culture and natural beauty of this amazing area. You’ll find the Silicon Valley culture welcoming, surprisingly rich in options and very diverse. Join us for the Big Game and come back to explore some more because there is a lot to sample and experience. This insider’s guide to the San Jose area was prepared by the editors of Silicon Valley’s weekly, Metro, with the support of Team San Jose. If you are already a local and know all this stuff, please give this to the cousin from Nebraska who’s sleeping on your couch, otherwise he’ll never get him out the door and you’ll be vacuuming up nacho crumbs all weekend.

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High Tech Art The city blazed a trail in 1881 with the gigantic, 237-foot tower San José Electric Light Tower at Santa Clara and Market Streets in 1881. It blew down in a 1915 windstorm, but a scale replica of it exists at History Park at 635 Phelan Ave. A series of LED stripes, known as Show Your Stripes, adorns the residential highrise at 88 E. San Fernando St. at Second Street in Downtown San Jose. To change the light pattern, call 408.287.0128 between sunset and 3am. After the tone, enter a 3 number combination (* and # can be used), then press zero, and end the call.

San Carlos Street Lantern Relay: Eight interactive lanterns on lampposts on San Carlos Street from Market through Fourth streets. Buttons allow pedestrians to change the patterns of the lanterns’ LED light displays. Seattle artist Dan Corson’s “Sensing You” installation lights up two underpasses under Highway 87 with LED rings of pulsing color in 35 different variations. Look for what locals affectionately call the “blue doughnuts.” Displayed on Adobe Corp.’s Almaden Avenue Tower, the San José Semaphore displays four wheels at four distinct positions, to display 256 possible combinations. The four wheels turn every 7.2 seconds. Try to crack the code.

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Silicon Valley’s global consciousness is evident in the cornucopia of delicious ethnic cuisines found throughout the area. Zeni at 1320 Saratoga Ave. and Gojo at 1261 W. San Carlos St. are two popular Ethiopian choices. Tayyibaat in Milpitas Center serves grilled kababs, wraps and rotisserie chicken platters, all hormone-free and halal. Established ramen hotspots like Santa Clara’s Orenchi Ramen draw long lines; newer places like Noodle Dude on Santa Clara Street and Konjoe Tei in the SoFA Market are a good bet. Vietnamese pho soup, a local staple, can be found near downtown hotels and museums at Pho 69 on South First Street (try the filet mignon).

For a more formal dining experience, try Vung Tau at 535 E. Santa Clara St or Tamarine at 546 University Ave. in Palo Alto. Other Southeast Asian cuisines include Chez Sovan (Cambodian) at 923 Oakland Rd., Layang Layang (Malaysian) at 1480 S. De Anza Blvd., and Krungthai (Thai) at 642 S. Winchester Blvd. Downtown hole-in-the-wall SA-By Thai Cuisine at 346 E. William St. is popular with locals. Experience two countries for the price of one at Thaibodia, located at 910 Meridian Ave. Campbell’s Naschmarkt is a modern European fine dining experience serving Viennese cuisine. Greek cuisine can be enjoyed at top-tier restaurants like Evvia in Palo Alto, Dio Deka in Los Gatos and Nemea in Downtown San Jose, as well as budget-friendly places like Opa! at 1100 Lincoln Ave, Nick The Greek at 143 W. Santa Clara St., and Souvlaki Skewers on 577 W. Alma Ave. Culinary dining trends like shared tables and comfort food are a good way to get to enjoy local culture. A totally off-the-radar option for most visitors is the Naglee Park Garage at the corner of 11th and San Carlos, a neighborhood casual dining destination. Jeffrey Stout’s new Orchard City Kitchen (OCK) in Campbell is a local hot spot and Bib Gourmand selection. Henry’s World Famous Hi-Life at 301 W. St John St. is a local institution that has been serving barbecued meats for more than half a century. Original Joe’s at San Carlos and First Street also belongs on any shortlist.

The San Jose area boasts a wealth of options for healthy and delicious casual dining that reflects its amazingly diverse population and various fusions thereof. Falafel Drive In at 2301 Stevens Creek Blvd. has been serving up Middle Eastern fare since 1966 and it’s legendary for falafels, foul and banana shakes. La Victoria Taqueria, home of the world famous Orange Sauce, has five San Jose locations and one in Hayward. Iguana’s in Downtown San Jose and Santa Clara is known as the “Home of the Burritozilla,” a 5-pound, 18-inch Super Burrito that’s caught the fancy of competitive eaters, but they have plenty for regular folks with a good appetite. Pizza Bocca Lupo at San Pedro Market is known for its thin-crust, individual-sized pizzas. The Hawaiian poke bowl craze is in full swing here, with Hawaiian Poke Bowl in the SoFA Market, Japantown’s Santo Market and Poki Bowl on the Almaden Expressway.

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Downtown San Jose has the craft cocktail scene on lock, and the indie appreciation for spirits all began at the speakeasy-style saloon Haberdasher (originally known as Single Barrel) at 43 W. San Salvador St. in the SoFA District. The basement bar pours smoky and sweet, and it's a perfect place to start a cocktail crawl before stopping off at The Continental at 349 S. First St. Then head north to South First Street neighbors 55 South and Paper Plane, located by Post Street. Both have an extensive selection of spirits and experienced

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Big straws, melon flavors and chewy tapioca pearls made from cassava root have become part of Silicon Valley’s culture and character. Boba Bar is right in the thick of things at 310 S. Third St. Tucked way inside Grand Century’s East San Jose shopping plaza is the forest-themed Tea Lyfe, 989 Story Rd. in Suite 818. Meow Tea, located by the San Jose fairgrounds at 2857 Senter Rd., is for cat lovers and prominently features portraits of the owner’s marmalade tabby, Uni. For amazing milk tea head over to nearby Soyful Desserts, 999 Story Rd. in Suite 9048-B. Brace yourself for purple everything— walls, lights, straws and fuzzy seats—at ChaTime, 311 N. Capitol Ave., which also serves a variety of fried foods. Newly opened last year, Vanitea Snow Lounge at 1195 Branhan Ln. boasts an in-house art gallery, and the jasmine milk and panda boba teas at Palo Alto’s Gong Cha, 439 Waverly St., draw loyal patrons to all of its locations, including San Jose spots 1701 Lundy Ave. and 1600 Saratoga Ave.

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The area that produced such legendary skateboarders as Steve Caballero and the late Tim Brauch keeps rolling. Circle-A Skateboards at 108 Paseo de San Antonio is a good place to pick up a deck. And even with the region’s gloriously warm weather, ice skating is also deeply embedded in our culture. The San Jose Sharks play at San Jose’s SAP Center, while Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi grew up in Fremont and Rudy Galindo trains and coaches at Sharks Ice San Jose. Olympic medalist Debi Thomas—the first African American to win a national championship in figure skating—grew up in San Jose, and the Five Skaters Art Piece in Guadalupe Park commemorates Peggy Fleming, Brian Boitano, Galindo, Thomas and Yamaguchi.

bartenders to walk patrons through their preferences to identify the perfect drink.

A short drive—at this point a cab, Lyft or Uber would be smart—to Los Gatos offers two more destination lounges in Lexington House, located at 40 N. Santa Cruz Ave., and Jack Rose Libation House at 18840 Saratoga Los Gatos Rd.

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Local roasters and artisanal coffee houses keep Silicon Valley’s creative juices flowing.

The Chromatic small batch roaster is located in downtown San Jose, with a flagship coffee shop at 5237 Stevens Creek Blvd., Santa Clara.

Another boutique roaster founded in San Jose and now based in Santa Clara is the award winning Barefoot Roasters. Rollup/Training Lab is at 408 Martin Ave. in Santa Clara, and its baristas also practice latte art at 1819 S. Bascom Ave., in Campbell. Bellano Coffee slow pours and espressos a selection of regional brand at 3985 Stevens Creek Blvd. in Santa Clara and in downtown’s San Pedro Square Market.

Roy's Station in Japantown has made good use of a converted gas station. In the SoFA District, options include the Italian-themed Cafe Frascati and the highly regarded Vero's Coffee Bar in the SoFA Market. Cupertino’s Bitter + Sweet is known for pouring Sightglass Coffee and serving specialty desserts. Bay Area favorite Blue Bottle is now at SAP’s HanaHaus at 456 University Ave., in Palo Alto. And Red Rock Coffee Co. on Mountain View’s Castro Avenue is known for specialties such as salted caramel espresso along with its community-building programming.

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Of course if you want to drink the same coffee as they drink on the Facebook and Google campuses, there are Philz Coffee locations in San Jose, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale.

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Google’s original chef, Charlie Ayers. Jobs was also known to scarf sushi at Jin Sho at 454 S. California Ave. in Palo Alto and was fond of frozen yogurt at Fraiche Yogurt at 644 Emerson St., since relocated to 200 Hamilton Ave. Jobs recruited execs and dined with billionaire VC John Doerr at Il Fornaio in Palo Alto. Elon Musk dined with Ashlee Vance at Alexander’s The Sea. The family friendly farm-tofork restaurant in Los Altos, Bumble, is owned by the billionaire Anne Wojcicki. David Kinch’s legendary Manresa restaurant just won its third Michelin star and he opened the New Orleans cafe Bywater in Los

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Deals are cut over breakfast at Buck’s in Woodside. The Rosewood Hotel’s Michelin-starred Madera restaurant and the Village Pub in Woodside are two other favorite VC haunts. Palo Alto’s Fuki Sushi and Palo Alto Sol, a burrito and margarita cantina, catered Mark Zuckerberg's wedding, and the Facebook founder has been photographed at Walia Ethiopian restaurant in San Jose. Steve Jobs was fond of Calafia in Palo Alto, where a photo of him hangs over his table and where he was once paparazzied having coffee with billionaire Eric Schmidt. The restaurant is owned by

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Could football, as we know it, even exist without beer? Interesting question, though there’s no need to entertain the thought, as the South Bay and Peninsula are home to plenty of great microbreweries and craft beer pubs. Gordon Biersch, a pioneer in the microbrew movement, was founded in Palo Alto and is now headquartered in San Jose. Around the corner from GB’s downtown restaurant is Good Karma—home to vegan comfort food and a large (and hoppy) beer selection—and Original Gravity, where gourmandizers can order duck dogs and all kinds of great brew. San Jose is also home to some up-andcoming breweries, including Santa Clara Valley Brewing and Hermitage. On the edge of the city’s historic Japantown, you won’t find anyone calling themselves a “gastronomist” at the neighboring pubs of Teske’s Germania and Trials—just great beer and hearty food. Head south to Campbell, recently named one of the West Coast’s coolest suburbs by Sunset Magazine, to find the upscale pub Liquid Bread. And trek north to Mountain View, home to Google and Castro Street, a gourmet ghetto where the tech elite dine and sip on suds at the likes of Steins, Beirhaus and Tied House.

Wine Trails, SPEED CITY’S Tasting Rooms SPORTS & Wine Bars STARS San Jose earned the nickname “Speed City” thanks to Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who blazed their way to historyat the 1968 Summer Olympics. The San Jose State track stars and their raised fists are commemorated in a massive statue on the school’s campus. Before her transformation, gold-medal winner Caitlyn Jenner chased Olympic dreams training at San Jose City College. Others greats to come out of San Jose include former MLB pitcher Dave Righetti, iconic women’s World Cup shootout winner Brandi Chastain, pro skateboarder Steve Caballero and the late Pat Tillman (pictured), who put country before multi-millions.

OUTDOOR Recreation

Alum Rock Park and Almaden Quicksilver County Park are two destinations for nature lovers within the city limits of San Jose. The 3,988-acre Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve and the Sierra Vista Open Space Preserve offer high level views of the valley floor. The Ed R. Levin County Park has 19 miles of trails and the 3,600-acre Castle Rock State Park is a great way to immerse one’s self in forests of coastal redwoods, Douglas-fir and madrone.

Three distinct wine countries, each with their own appellation, surround Silicon Valley. They are easy to get to, generally less crowded and offer better values than regions to the north. The 28-mile Santa Clara Valley Wine Trail loop has revived America’s original premium wine region. The Santa Cruz Mountains viticultural area encompasses 850 square miles and is highly regarded for premium pinots, syrahs and small production chardonnays. The Livermore Valley has more than 30 easily accessible wineries.

Tasting rooms in the central part of the valley include Travieso in Campbell, Testarossa in Los Gatos, J. Lohr at 1000 Lenzen Ave. and Big Dog Vineyards in Milpitas. Paul Draper’s Ridge Vineyards in Cupertino produces some of the best wine in the world, and many wine bars offer local wines as well, among them the Vintage Wine Bar at Santana Row, Vino Vino at the San Pedro Square Market, Vyne Bistro on Paseo De San Antonio, Wine Affairs on the Alameda, Rootstock in Los Gatos and CooperVino in, where else, Cupertino.

COUNTERCULTURE HISTORY

The Grateful Dead hail from Palo Alto, and last summer they celebrated their 50th year with two concerts at Levi’s Stadium. They first played a concert at a party thrown by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters at Fifth and Santa Clara streets in San Jose, where the City Hall dome now sits. Just up the street, Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg made literary history. Those are just two footnotes in the rich history of an area that was central to the cultural and technological transformation of popular culture in the last third of the 20th Century. Bands like Moby Grape and Journey have their roots in the South Bay and on the Peninsula. The Doobie Brothers lived in a house on 12th Street in Naglee Park, next to Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

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These shows are part of the harvest of Christensen’s recent campaign to expand the visibility of her work. “I wanted to be more international in my reach,” she says.

Armed with a new website, a new artist statement, and more brochure packaging, her strategies are working. “I send out packets of images along with show announcements and catalogs.

Then I wait,” she smiles. “In a few weeks, I do a follow-up, mention other galleries who are showing my work. Then I go back to work in the studio.” Then more office work, checking on responses, and doing more mailing. And with luck comes new interest. “A lot of galleries in New York now want realism,” she says. Sigh. “I fall somewhere in between expressionism and realism.” That signature style has found its way into many museums and private collections, including that of former Secretary of State, Condaleezza Rice.

After the end of her first marriage, Christensen went back to school while raising two daughters.

Trying her hand at landscapes for a while, Christensen returned to freely abstracted figure paintings.

“What repeats in my work is the solitary figure, always a woman. My daughter was my muse,” she says.

“Then I add texture with patterns. I find repetition very soothing.”

Her predominant theme began as she watched a woman sitting at a car wash waiting for her car. “She was completely in her own thoughts, shoulders slumped, off-guard. That was the moment I was interested in,” Christensen says. The figures float in boldly abstracted spaces. “A lot of the time, painting is what you leave out.”

The painter worked with architects to design her large, sun-drenched studio. With state-of-the-art ventilation, and access to her

adjoining office and storage, it is a painter’s dream. A small flat-screen TV is mounted on a bookcase over the studio sink. “I watch a black and white movie every day. I’ve got enough color in here as it is,” she laughs. And yes, Christensen works in her studio every day. “Because it calls me,” she says. “Plus, I’m driven by deadlines. I’ll come in and clean brushes, surfaces.”

Then she’ll put out all her paints on a table-sized glass palette.

Working on three or four paintings at a time, her current works in progress —4' by 4' and 4' by 5'— are vibrant with blues, greens and that brilliant crimson.

Intent on creating “happy accidents” that provoke an emotional response, she uses lots of self-fabricated stencils “just to mess with the work,” she explains. “I want to interfere with anything close to Disney-esque perfection. That moment of risk in my work—it’s inspiring for me.”

The painter takes care of obligations and phone calls in the morning. “Then about noon I’ll come in and work until dinner, or maybe no dinner—just keep working,” she says. “I love using a palette knife.

That way there’s the least amount of control,” she reveals. “Also, that way the colors I apply stay fresh, they don’t blend and get muddy. Once I apply the large areas, then I do my magic,” she laughs. Christensen uses large brushes, palette knives, even huge carpentry trowels to apply paint, and she currently favors large tubes, fist-sized oil sticks and cans of Gamblin oil paint.

“I’m having a great time with it, but I let myself fall in love with my work,” she says. “I keep reaching, wanting to get at something that keeps eluding me.”

Born in the Bay Area, educated and based in Santa Cruz, Christensen and her work reflect our local landscape. “I like to think of it as ‘local girl makes good,’” she grins proudly. lindachristensen.net.

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Seabreeze Boutique 831-588-4845 seabreeze-boutique.com

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CAKES & DESSERTS The 2016 Bridal Expo brings more than 100 vendors together under one roof to help simplify the process. You’ll see gorgeous bridal fashions, stunning photography, fantastic cakes, and amazing décor. You’ll also get to sample food from top caterers, and meet the talented people who can work their magic for you.

And you might even win a valuable door prize, including a romantic getaway valued at over $1,000. (Tip: Bring your own return address labels to easily sign up for the many prize drawings.)

Bring your best friend and make a day of it!

Highlights: 100+ Vendors, Fashion Shows, Door Prizes including $1,000 getaway.

Where: Boardwalk’s Cocoanut Grove, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz

Bridal Veil Fashions 831-476-6777 bridalveilfashions.com

When: Sunday, January 31 — 11 am to 4 pm Cost: $8 per person or $5 with coupon on website More info: beachboardwalk.com/bridal-expo

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Buttercup Cakes & Farm House Frosting Booth 13 831-466-0373 farmhousefrosting.com Pure Heart Chocolate 530-400-3811 pureheartchocolate.com

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SweetSurf Catering Company 831-687-9220 sweetsurfcatering.com

Booth 51

The Buttery 831-458-3020 butterybakery.com

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CATERERS Barbara & Company Catering 831-426-6051 barbara-company.com

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Bill the Oysterman 831-227-8551 billtheoysterman.com

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Bruzzone Family Vineyards 831-600-7823 bruzzonevineyards.com

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Five Star Catering 831-728-3090 fivestarcatering.com

Smooth Body Lounge 831-420-3262 smoothsantacruz.com The Healthy Way 831-462-5900 thehealthyway.us

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LionFish SupperClub 831-295-3100 lionfishsc.com

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MINISTERS & CEREMONY OFFICIANTS

Michael’s on Main 831-479-9777 michaelsonmain.net

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Barbara Boyd Wedding Officiant, Non Denominational Booth 43 831-325-8808

Tony & Alba’s 831-438-6561 tonyandalbas.com

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Devi Pride Photography 831-600-6055 devipridephotography.com

ENTERTAINMENT All Occasions Entertainment 831-566-4672 alloccasionsnow.com Cali Caricature 650-701-3729 calicaricature.com

PHOTOGRAPHERS, CINEMATOGRAPHY & PHOTO BOOTHS

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Diane Nicole Photography 530-588-4949 dianenicolephotography@yahoo.com

Booth 48

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Expressive Photographics 831-687-9069 expressivephotographics.com

Booth 55

Mike de Boer Photography 831-334-2181 mikedeboerphoto.com

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Booth 78

Choice Music 831-429-8333 choicemusicsantacruz.com

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DJ M.L.E. WAX 805-208-5457

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DNA Entertainment 831-375-1055 dnaent.com

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MTH Photo Booth 831-722-8460 martinthehitman.com

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Music Now 831-423-4423 musicnowdj.com

Booth 39

Neil Simmons Photography 831-429-5512 neilsimmonsphotography.com

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Palomar Ballroom 831-426-1221 palomarballroom.com

Booth 30

New Perspective Photography 831-239-9506 npphoto.com

Santa Cruz DJ Company 831-425-2048 santacruzdj.com

Booth 29

Photo Works Interactive 800-990-8445 photoworksinteractive.com

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Rebeca Stark Photography 831-325-4183 rebeccastarkphotography.com

Booth 4

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Flowers By Carra 916-765-6565

Booth 46

Storylight Productions 831-345-6752 storylightproductions.com

Santa Cruz Floral 831-458-9232 santacruzfloral.com

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Tostado and Associates 408-390-2151

FLORISTS

Vanessa Lain Photography 512-289-1388 vanessalain.com

Beauty Within 831-313-4844 drmummah.com

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Jennifer Dye Nails 831-246-1491 jenniferdyenails.com

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Serene Skin and Body 831-427-1912 sereneskincare.com

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WindelHill Photography 831-704-7765 windelhill.com

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Times Publishing Group, Inc. 831-688-7549 coastalwedding.com

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A Paper Flower Wedding 650-483-5209 apaperflowerwedding.com

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Chaminade Resort & Spa 831-465-3421 chaminade.com/santacruz_wedding/

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Danzante Events 831-840-1862 danzante.events

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Hilton Santa Cruz/Scotts Valley 831-440-1000 santacruzscottsvalley.hilton.com

Booth 66

Hotel Paradox 831-425-7100 thehotelparadox.com

Booth 47

Duke and Pearl Weddings + Celebrations 831-521-2034 dukeandpearl.com

Jardines de San Juan 831-673-1573 jardinesrestaurant.com

Booth 28

Oscar By Oscar Events 718-247-9921 oscarbyoscar.com

Kennolyn 831-479-6700 kennolyn.com

Booth 73

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Mission Inn 831-425-5455 mission-inn.com

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Portola Hotel & Spa 831-649-4511 portolahotel.com

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Rancho Don Bosco Event Center 831-566-6929 ranchodonbosco.com

Booth 58

Roaring Camp 831-335-4484 ext 121 roaringcamp.com

Booth 12

Santa Cruz Dream Inn 831-316-0576 dreaminnsantacruz.com

Booth 50

Seascape Beach Resort Booth 36 831-662-7140 seascaperesort.com/weddings_and_events.htm Seascape Golf Club 831-688-3213 seascapegc.com

Booth 44

University Center & Catering at UCSC Booth 22 831-459-4600 catering.ucsc.edu

RENTAL SERVICES & EVENT DECOR A Festive Affair 650-726-3262 afestiveaffair.com Alexis Party Rental 831-458-6080 alexispartyrental.com

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Celebrations Party and Rentals 831-724-9999 celebrationspartyandrentals.com Eventscapes Inc. 831-728-2980 eventscapesinc.com

PUBLICATIONS H & R Block 831-214-6673 hrblock.com

Bargetto Winery 831-475-2258 bargetto.com

M & M Party Rentals, Inc. 831-728-8405 mmpartyrentals.com View Point Events 831-247-6004 viewpointevents.com

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January 27-February 2, 2016

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The Cecchettinis flaunt their years of expertise at the Bridal Expo by showcasing dresses in their own fashion show, featuring models of all sizes—and attendees often purchase a dress on the spot. Joyce Anderson, the show’s producer, says that Bridal Veil Fashions is the go-to bridal store in Santa Cruz, and she finds the women a joy to work with.

Joanne recalls that long-ago day when a good friend announced she was putting the original shop up for sale. Joanne felt a compelling urge to buy it, though her family was already in the restaurant business and she didn’t know the first thing about running a store. Praying for some divine intervention, she says, “I went in with a key and my Rosary beads!”

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oanne Cecchettini and daughter Lisa, who recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of Bridal Veil Fashions, say they consider their dressing room sacrosanct. Once brides, moms, aunts, sisters and friends have been allowed to step into it, they let their opinions fly—and the Cecchettinis have heard it all.

Fortunately, what happens in the dressing room stays in the dressing room.

But the portraits of blissful brides proudly posing in their dresses that cover the walls of their Capitola shop, and the notes of gratitude from happy customers displayed in their office, bear witness to the end results.

In advising their clients, the momand-daughter team say they tie time-honored traditions of the past together with up-to-date trends—all while helping the customer stay within budget. The store also carries mother-of-the-bride gowns, flower girl dresses, Holy Communion and Quinceanera dresses, and offers tuxedo rentals.

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Four different and distinctive venues for a Santa Cruz wedding

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anta Cruz is home to some of the most beautiful and diverse wedding sites anywhere.

Dreaming of tying the knot on a bluff by the ocean? Perhaps a mountaintop resort with views of Monterey Bay? Maybe the historic cellars at the oldest winery in Santa Cruz, or a hotel close to downtown with the largest ballroom in the area? Here are a few of the top spots to consider:

Chaminade reSort & Spa Located on a hilltop with a sweeping panoramic view of Monterey Bay, the mission-style resort offers two ceremony sites and three reception rooms, all with breathtaking views to accommodate weddings for 50 to 230 guests. The most popular site is the Courtyard Terrace, reminiscent of

a Spanish courtyard with a wooden trellis covered in wisteria and baby pink roses. Planters brimming with lavender and a central fountain and fire pit make for an ideal spot for guests to gather.

Bargetto Winery Bargetto Winery, one the oldest wineries in Santa Cruz, offers historic settings for a unique wedding experience. The romantic backdrop of the cellars serves as a reception site for 75 guests, and the creek-side courtyard resembles a sun-soaked Italian backyard, accommodating 150 guests for ceremony and dinner. The Mediterranean-style La Vita Room boasts exquisitely crafted chandeliers and a redwood-lined wall recycled from antique wine tanks. Arched windows overlook the creek.

SeaSCape BeaCh reSort Seascape Beach Resort provides a perfect spot for an ocean-view wedding, featuring a glorious view of the Monterey Bay. The staff can create a dream ceremony on a magnificent bluff, lending natural beauty and elegance to the event.

Wedding planners specialize in creating receptions for up to 280 guests, and showcase California coastal cuisine under the guidance of the resort’s executive chefs.

hotel paradox Hotel Paradox brings an urbanyet-tranquil vibe to any wedding with its modern look incorporating natural elements. Soon to be a Marriott Autograph Collection Hotel, it offers a luxurious pool deck with

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private cabanas, outdoor fire pit, casually upscale restaurant and the largest ballroom in Santa Cruz, while managing to create an intimate feel for up to 300-350. Paradox’s professionals can help design an inspiring, memorable experience for your special event.

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Every room faces the ocean at this iconic Santa Cruz beachfront boutique hotel, nicely upgraded under the Joie de Vivre hotel collection management.

The site will please all generations at your wedding, and all tastes, with fine farm-to-table dining/catering, beachy elegance, a beachfront pool, and the lively Jack O’Neill Lounge—all a stone’s throw from the Wharf and the Boardwalk. The team will match your wedding’s budget and style, plus offers “green” wedding options.

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The Palomar Ballroom prepares wedding parties for the dance floor

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alomar Ballroom dance instructor Zak Bauman finds that when wedding couples come for lessons, they may be looking for anything from a few simple, confidence-boosting steps to full-on customized choreography.

She teaches father/daughter and mother/son dances, and often parents of the bride and groom take lessons so they can join in during the reception. On occasion, an entire wedding party will request choreography.

“The romantic Nightclub Two-Step can be learned in a few weeks, and works with many song choices,” she says. “Some couples favor the foxtrot or waltz, or even the sensuous Argentine Tango. And as an added benefit, they find a new hobby to enjoy together. Many wedding couples keep coming back for more, and say it was one of the best things they ever did for their partnership.”

Palomar Ballroom owner and instructor Jeremy Pilling suggests

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couples go all in. “Your wedding day will be one of the biggest days of your life, so make it unforgettable with a special choreographed dance of your own,” he says. “A wedding is uniquely yours, and the first dance should be as well. Learning something together will make the dance memorable and special.”

Instructors Pilling, Bauman and Mario Avila can choreograph any song a couple requests, and work with all skill levels. Most couples choose a song with a special meaning, and last year one of the most used songs was Ed Sheeran's “Thinking out Loud.”

The Palomar team says a dance can be learned in as few as three lessons, but suggest starting a couple of months before the wedding day. Packages include three private lessons for $165 per couple, or five lessons at $250.

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ichael Clark, chef and proprietor of Michael’s on Main, has more catering experience than most people know— for eight years prior to opening his restaurant, he served Santa Cruz and Monterey with his Michael’s Catering business.

“I did the Cocoanut Grove Bridal Show back in 1984!” says Clark. “Of course, a lot has changed in the way of menus and trends since then, but it still holds true that the client must completely trust their wedding caterer to take care of all of their needs. The food is center stage, but the rentals set-up and tear-down and the service and timing is vital to the success of a wedding. That's something that we have down pat. Worry free, stress free."

A link to the catering menu is on the restaurant website (michaelsonmain.net), but Clark and staff are committed to customizing their services to satisfy a customer’s individual needs. A uniformed staff

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provides flawless service at any level, whether it’s a casual beach barbeque or elegant wedding.

Denise Addesso, Clark’s wife and also a wedding consultant, says they’ve found the Bridal Expo to be a great way to connect with new clients.

“The beauty of the bridal show for Michaels on Main is that if couples already have a caterer, the restaurant can host the rehearsal dinner in one of their private spaces, or even the after-party, so popular with many couples,” she says. “These menus are also totally customized for the couple's taste and budget, and if guests have gluten-free, vegetarian or other dietary needs, they can be accommodated in the menu creation.

It's that personalized ‘hand-holding’ that Michael is known for.”

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due to the diversity of flavors and the absence of serving plates or cutting fee. She says one thing she enjoys at the Bridal Expo is when attendees from out of town discover to their surprise that vegan and gluten free goodies can taste so delicious.

“One of my mother's secrets may be her dedication to fresh, house-made ingredients and her refusal to cut corners,” says Dixon.

“She refuses to rely on pre-made ingredients and artificial coloring or flavoring.”

Wilson is creating the menu for a new Pacific Avenue shop along with employees Adelia Griffin, Celine Mons and Carol Turgeon, in the space formerly occupied by Noah’s Bagels.

The high-profile new location is sure to bring Buttercup’s high standards of flavor and aesthetics to an even wider audience.

“I am both proud and blown away by the amazing team we have at Buttercup Cakes,” says Dixon.

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ongtime area residents may remember “Jan’s Cakes,” which Jan Wilson baked for more than four decades. Wilson started baking from a young age alongside her aunts and grandmother, eventually baking and decorating wedding cakes with pastry chef Adolph Volk for U.S. presidents.

Buttercup Cakes and Farmhouse Frosting has allowed her to pass her secrets down through the generations, partnering Wilson with daughter Carren Dixon and granddaughter Hannah Dixon. She remains an energetic and integral part of the business, test-baking new products and formulating recipes using local and organic ingredients. In addition to standard recipes, the trio has customized customer favorites to accommodate requests for vegan and gluten-free options.

They bake for a lot of weddings, and Carren Dixon says that while they do cakes and dessert bars, cupcakes are a continuous wedding favorite

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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND Tim Flannery plays the Rio on Saturday, Jan. 30.

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hrough all his years as a professional baseball player, Tim Flannery had his guitar at his side. From his first minor league stint in Liberal, Kansas, through 10 years as infielder with the San Diego Padres, and another seven years as third-base coach for the San Francisco Giants, Flannery spent many nights on the road playing his guitar deep into the night.

“It kind of just let me breathe,” he says. “The baseball life is a glamorous life from a distance, but there’s a lot of collateral damage that comes with it. The guitar seemed to be my one constant.”

Flannery’s family emigrated

to Kentucky in the mid-1700s, and Appalachian music provided a musical education. Flannery’s grandmother was a great banjo player, and the young Flannery picked up singing and playing early. He started writing his own songs on long bus rides with minor league teams.

When asked if he ever considered pursuing music rather than baseball as a career, Flannery talks about his uncle, Hal Smith, a major league infielder who was a home-run hero for the Pittsburgh Pirates in game seven of the 1960 World Series. Uncle Hal, as Flannery calls him, also carried around a Gibson J-45 guitar.

“I never thought there was a

choice to make,” he says. “When people would tell me I had to make a choice between baseball and music, I’d tell them, well then, you have to make a choice between water and air. Which one do you want?”

A warm and funny man, and an excellent storyteller, Flannery was a fan favorite in San Diego.

During his final game, he received a standing ovation that lasted so long the umpire had to stop play. In San Francisco, he developed a reputation for being the most excitable thirdbase coach in baseball, jumping and running alongside base runners to guide them to home plate safely.

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field—he only hit nine home runs in his 10 years with the Padres—but his reputation in the majors is sealed.

As one announcer said, “If there’s a better third-base coach in baseball, I’d like to see him.”

Flannery’s passion carries through to his music. A singer-songwriter with 14 albums, he writes about love, hard luck, the natural world, friends and joy. His songs fall comfortably into the folk/bluegrass vein, but Flannery’s music isn’t limited to roots styles. He was adopted by the Grateful Dead and has performed several times with Bob Weir, who is among the Bay Area’s rock music royalty.

Flannery’s 2015 album Three Ring Circus was released shortly after he retired from the Giants in 2014.

“My last year before I left was a tough year for me,” he says. “It was time to come home. I was leaking oil and had an engine smoking. You win three World Series and I’m thinking, what else do I have to do? Can I do something else other than have a game every day?”

Flannery now focuses on music and one of his other great passions, the Love Harder Project, a nonprofit he started to help Bryan Stow, the local Giants fan who was beaten in the Dodger Stadium parking lot in 2011. Flannery and his band donate all proceeds from album sales, performances and merchandise to Stow and his family.

Flannery’s generosity and kindness can be heard in his music, which has a thread of spirituality running through it. The son of a “hillbilly Christian minister,” Flannery views life through the lens of someone who’s seen a lot and come out the other side.

For his Santa Cruz performance, Flannery is bringing his band, the Lunatic Fringe, which includes celebrated rock guitarist Doug Pettibone. Flannery tends to stay a while when he comes to town.

“My wife would say, ‘The gig was Friday and you’re back like a week later,’” he says with a laugh. “I’d say, ‘Yeah, I’ve been at the Crepe Place, I’ve been at the Dream Inn, I’ve been out surfing with Wingnut down at the Point. I’ve got lots of friends there.’”

Tim Flannery will perform at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 30 at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz. $25/$40. 423-8209.

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‘CONNECTING THE DROPS’ WATER PRESENTATION Yes, it’s raining. No, that doesn’t mean the drought is over. Within four years the drought has brought the San Lorenzo streamflows to historic lows, dried up other streams, lowered reservoir levels, and threatened many water sources across the state. There are a myriad of ways that we can conserve our most precious resource and many measures we still aren’t taking. That’s why local water agencies are banding together to discuss local water and environmental protection with leaders from across the county, including John Laird, California’s secretary for Natural Resources. Community members are invited to partake in workshops on water recycling, groundwater management and watershed management.

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Info: 7-9 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 28. New Brighton Middle School Auditorium, 250 Washburn St., Capitola. Free.

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FALLEN ANGELS JEWEL THEATER You know how it is: England, the early 1900s, two best friends married to two respectable Englishmen when—zut alors!—a former lover pops back into town. Just the everyday ho hum when Julia and Jane discover that Maurice might expose their hidden past and comedic antics ensue—you know, like real life! Written by Noel Coward, Jewel Theatre brings the classic comedy to life under the direction of Art Manke. Funded in part by the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County, Jewel’s Fallen Angels productions open Thursday, Jan. 28 and continue through Feb. 21.

Info: 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 28.

Colligan Theatre at the Tannery Arts Center, 1010 River St., Santa Cruz. jeweltheatre.net. $25-$30.

ARTS SHADES OF BLUE Celebrate the cool blue feelings of winter in our first show of 2016. This is our annual juried show, with cash prizes—come see who wins. Gallery open Wednesdays through Sundays, noon-5 p.m. SC Mountains Art Center, 9341 Mill St., Ben Lomond. 336-3513. Free.

GAIL RICH AWARDS CEREMONY This annual awards presentation celebrates the spirit of the arts in Santa Cruz by recognizing those who inspire our diverse and culturally rich community. Applaud the artists who inspire us in this uplifting, frequently raucous, and always entertaining event. 7:30-10 p.m. 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. 423-8209.

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

BATERIA SAMBA CRUZ Come learn to play drums and the carnival rhythms of Brazil.

All levels. Instruments provided. 7-8:30 p.m.

Tannery Arts Center, 1060 River St., #104, Santa Cruz. Joe Mailloux, 435-6813. $10.

BEGINNING BALLET WITH DIANA ROSE An introduction to ballet technique with a focus on posture, balance and strength building. Noon1:15 p.m. International Academy of Dance Santa Cruz. info@iadance.com. $10.

THURSDAY 1/28 2016 MAITRA LECTURE When you tell people you majored in history and they ask, “what are you going to do with that?” you cringe, and walk away with your tail between your legs. How do we defend the humanities in a time of STEM dominance? On Thursday, Jan. 28, the Institute for Humanities Research at UCSC presents the 15th annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture featuring William “Bro” Adams, an alumnus and the chairman for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Adams will speak to the next 50 years of humanities scholarship—and how it can, and will, change the world.

Info: 7:30 p.m.. UCSC Music Center Recital Hall, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz. ihr.ucsc.edu. Free.

Ave., Santa Cruz. Nate, santacruzoa.org/ meetings or 429-7906. Free.

p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 462-8383. Donation.

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING CLASSES Scottish country dancing is fun and aerobic.

No partner required. The traditional social dancing of Scotland. Wear soft-soled shoes.

7-9:30 p.m. Peace United Church of Christ, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. mazlarson@cabrillo. edu or 427-1921. $7.

FINAL OPTIONS DISCUSSION GROUP (FORMERLY HEMLOCK DISCUSSION GROUP) The Final Options Discussion Group will gather for its regular monthly meeting.

Newcomers welcome. 2-3:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 125 Canterbury Drive, Aptos. In the small building closest to the entrance. 688-8672 or finaloptions@outlook. com. Free.

EVENT SANTA CRUZ: VITAL This event starts with an opportunity to mingle and network while enjoying craft beer. We’ve got eight awesome speakers each who will provide a short presentation highlighting the world of health and fitness in Santa Cruz. 6-8:15 p.m.

LifeAID Beverage Co, 2801 Mission St., Santa Cruz. eventsantacruz.com or matthew@ eventsantacruz.com. $10.

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OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS OA is a 12-Step support group for those who wish to stop compulsive eating. 10:30-11:30 a.m. Trinity Presbyterian Church, Youth Room, 420 Melrose

QI GONG FOR ENERGY BALANCE & HEALTH BY BREIGE WALBRIDGE Qi Gong is a fantastic and easy practice that brings physical happiness and mental calm. 11:30 a.m.-12:30

JUNIPER MEDITATION FOR MODERN LIFE Second and fourth Wednesday evening meditation. Includes meditation, talk and discussion on Buddhist training for modern

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

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

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

IMPROVING CHILDREN’S NUTRITION & PHYSICAL ACTIVITY THROUGH POSITIVE PARENTING This is a free parenting support group to provide strategies to increase children’s healthy eating and physical activity.

6-8 p.m. Dominican Rehabilitation Center, First Floor Conference Room, 610 Frederick St., Santa Cruz. 227-4145 or first5scc.org/calendar/ parent?trainings. Free.

FRIDAY 1/29 GOLDEN DRAGON ACROBATS CIRQUE ZIVA They’re back: the masters of traditional Chinese acrobats, the heroes of athleticism, kings of stunts, and queens of grace—it’s Danny Chang’s Cirque Ziva, back to amaze. With their heartstopping, gravity-defying stunts, their show is the perfect excursion of imagination and fantasy for the entire family. Created in 2011, Cirque Ziva is the brainchild of producer and artistic director of Golden Dragon Acrobats, Danny Chang. Their first show was at Paramount Theatre with the first-ever summer run held at the venue in its more than 80-year history.

Info: 7 p.m., Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. 423-8209. $15.

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

Branciforte Plaza, 555 Soquel Ave., Room 245, Santa Cruz. Russ, 246-0443 or russ@ holeyboy.com. Free/Donations.

THURSDAY 1/28 ARTS THURSDAY ART MARKET Held rain or shine in the Tannery Courtyard, features live music, artist demonstrations, loft artists, and guest chefs with rotating menus. The adjacent Working Studios at the Tannery Arts Center

will be open to visitors. 3-6 p.m. Tannery Arts Center, Santa Cruz.

FABMO SELECTION EVENT—DESIGNER FABRIC, TILE AND MORE Get designer samples of fabric, trim, tile, wallpaper, carpet and more at FabMo’s. Noon-7 p.m. Club House at Harvey West Park, Santa Cruz. Make an appointment at fabmo.org, or drop in as space allows. Leslie Kern leslie@lesliekern.com. Free.

POETRY OUT LOUD COUNTY COMPETITION A national poetry recitation contest for high school students. Join local champions from Aptos and Santa Cruz High Schools as they recite poems at the county-wide finals. 6-8 p.m.

Watsonville Public Library, 275 Main St., Suite 100, Watsonville. magdarose@hughes.net. Free.

CLASSES SALSA DANCING CUBAN-STYLE This class

SPIRITUAL DISCOVERING BUDDHISM: THE WISDOM OF EMPTINESS Join us for the final module of the Discovering Buddhism series where we gain insights and wisdom to learn how to see ourselves and the world as they really are. 7-9 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. landofmedicinebuddha.org.

Free/Donation.

A COURSE IN MIRACLES MONTHLY MEETUP GROUP Miracles are natural. They are the essence of human joy, which is at the core of your very being. Nicki Wolff is a registered Practitioner of the Science of Mind Teachings and has facilitated numerous classes. 5-7 p.m.

Mountain Spirit, 6299 Hwy. 9, Felton. 335-7700.

Free.

VOLUNTEER FOSTER YOUTH TOWN HALL MEETINGS AB12 is a new law that extends foster care for youth ages 18-21. Santa Cruz County Department of Family and Children’s Services is looking to increase housing opportunities for AB12 youth. 6:30-8 p.m. La Manzana Community Resources 521 Main St., Big Bird Rm, Watsonville. 454-4365 Betsy, 454-4263 Marco. Free.

CLASSES BEGINNING BALLET WITH DIANA ROSE An introduction to ballet technique with a focus on posture, balance and strength building. Noon1:15 p.m. International Academy of Dance Santa Cruz. info@iadance.com. $10.

CHAIR YOGA WITH SUZI This wonderfully therapeutic practice will help you increase strength, range of motion and stamina. It is easy for everyone. Grey Bears, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Yoga Center Santa Cruz, 234-6791. $5.

TRIYOGA TEACHER TRAINING LEVEL 3 TENDAY INTENSIVE With Kim Beecher, D.C. and Terri Richards. Gain a deeper level of practice and understanding. Everyone is welcome. 5-9 p.m. Pre registration required. info@triyoga.com or 310-589-0600.

HEALTH VITAMIN B12 FRIDAY Receiving B12 via injection means that people can increase their energy. B12 Fridays are a fun time for people to meet and mingle. 3-6 p.m. Thrive Natural Medicine 2840 Park Ave., Soquel. 515-8699.

AYURVEDIC CONSULTATIONS Affordable Ayurveda Consultations with student interns supervised by MMI Clinical Faculty. 1:30-8:30 p.m. Mount Madonna Institute, 445 Summit Road, Watsonville. 408-846-4060 or info@ mountmadonnainstitute.org. $60.

OPEN HOUSE FOR SIMPLY HOMEOPATHY Cynthia Kingsbury, Certified Classical Homeopath, will offer nontechnical explanations at this informal drop-in event. At 7 p.m. there’ll be a drawing for a $75 gift certificate. 5-8 p.m. 147 River St., South, Suite 203. Cynthia@ simplyhomeopathy.com. Free.

TRIYOGA TEACHER TRAINING LEVEL 3 TENDAY INTENSIVE With Kim Beecher, D.C. and Terri Richards. Gain a deeper level of practice and understanding. 5-9 p.m. TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. Pre-registration required. info@triyoga.com or 310-589-0600.

SATURDAY 1/30 ARTS SUTTER BABIES ART DAYS Have you had a baby at Sutter Maternity Center? Bring your kids and make art with us. SPECTRA artists will lead workshops for age-appropriate lessons at the Radius Gallery in honor of Sutter >34

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life. All level meditators and drop-ins welcome.

7:30-9 p.m. Pacific Cultural Center, Gallery room, Santa Cruz. pam@juniperpath.org or juniperpath.org. $10.

BOOK COMPLETION GROUP Do you want to write a book? Focused, individual coaching and the support of a positive peer group.

Meet every Thursday evening. 6-10 p.m. 147 South River St., Suite 203. 728-9983, andy@ theopening.org or theopening.org/bookcompletion-santa-cruz/. $260.

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CALENDAR yoga class. Includes an in-depth understanding of alignment, anatomy, and the benefits of the postures. All are welcome. 8:30-10:30 a.m.

TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz.

464-8100. $15.

INTERMEDIATE TRIYOGA CLASS WITH JAMIE ANDRES-LARSEN TriYoga flows are presented with personalized guided alignment assistance. For Levels 1 and 2. 10:30 a.m.

Triyoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz.

464-8100. $15.

RHYTHM AND MOTION DANCE WORKOUT Rhythm and Motion is a high-energy dance workout. For almost 40 years dancers and nondancers have gathered to learn routines made up of various dance styles. 9:30-10:45 a.m. Motion Pacific, 131 Front St., Santa Cruz.

457-1616. $14/Free.

SATURDAY 1/30 SECOND ANNUAL PAJARO VALLEY CONFERENCE Find one parent who says that raising a child was the easiest thing they’ve ever done, and we’ll buy you a horse. That’s the thing, parenting is hard—and knowing how to best support a child with disabilities can be utterly overwhelming. That’s why the Special Parents Information Network, the San Andreas Regional Center and the Pajaro Valley Unified School District has joined together to host the second annual conference on parenting. This year’s keynote speaker is Efrain Ramirez, a parent educator, consultant, support group facilitator, and spokesman against child abuse. This conference in particular will provide Spanish-speaking families with information, resources and support in order to find the best possible services for their children. The conference is designed for Spanish speakers but bilingual professionals are welcome to attend.

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Info: 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Watsonville High School, 250 East Beach St., Watsonville. 722-2800. pps-pajaro-ca.schoolloop.com.

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<33 Maternity & Surgery Center’s 20th birthday. 1-4 p.m. Radius Gallery, 1050 River St., #127. info@artscouncilsc.org. Free.

BUSINESS ANIMAL SHELTER RELIEF RESCUE ADOPTION FAIR Animal Shelter Relief rescues cats and dogs from high-risk situations. Our ultimate goal is to reduce euthanasia numbers at local shelters. All of our adoptable animals can also be found online. Noon. PetSmart, 490 River St., Santa Cruz. animalshelterrelief.org.

CLASSES BEGINNING BALLET WITH DIANA ROSE An introduction to ballet technique with a focus on posture, balance and strength building. Noon1:15 p.m. International Academy of Dance Santa Cruz. info@iadance.com. $10.

CAREGIVER UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE Join us for Caregiver University 2016, a free conference for caregivers featuring workshops and presentations from doctors and local experts. All workshops will be translated into Spanish. Register at delmarcaregiver.org or call Health Projects Center at 459-6639. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Inner Light Ministries, 5630 Soquel Drive, Soquel. Free.

FOOD & WINE PATRÓN REPOSADO TEQUILA TASTING PARTY Join us for an evening of tequila, food, drinks, prizes and more as we celebrate the launch of Chaminade Resort & Spa’s handselected Reposado Tequila by Patrón. 21+.

5-7 p.m. One Chaminade Lane, Santa Cruz.

475-5600. $45.

MUSIC ESOTERIC COLLECTIVE PLAYS JAZZ This notable quartet plays Jazz ranging from 1940s Bebop to the 1960s, playing improvisational variations of works by some of America’s great jazz musicians, from Cole Porter to Miles Davis.

Family-friendly venue. 6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant and Inn, 1 Davenport Ave., Davenport. davenportroadhouse.com or 426-8801. Free.

AL & RICHARD PLAY & SING CLASSIC FAVORITES AT ZIZZ’S Come sing-along with Al & Richard. They play all of your classic favorites. 7-9:30 p.m. Zizzo’s Coffee, Wine & Piano Bar, Brown Ranch Marketplace, 3555 Clares St., Capitola. 477-0680 or zizzoscoffee.com.

OCEAN SCIENCE EDUCATOR WORKSHOP Join us for this timely professional development opportunity for teachers of grades 3-8 presented by educators from the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) available. 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz. Suzanne Hebert, 459-3800 or shebert@ucsc.edu. $80.

THE CROOKED ROAD CEILI BAND—WINTER CEILI AND IRISH DANCE PARTY This is our third rip-roaring Irish dance party at the Farm.

All ages and abilities are welcome (21+ after 10 p.m.). Lively traditional Irish dance music provided by The Crooked Road Céilí Band. 8:30 p.m. 7701 E. Zayante, Felton. 335-4317. $5.

TRIYOGA NATURAL ALIGNMENT CLASS Join Kim Beecher for this Natural Alignment

WINTER FRUIT TREE PRUNING—APPLES, PEARS, AND OTHER POME FRUITS Learn

OUTDOORS

how to prune your pome fruit trees from Orin Martin and Sky DeMuro of UCSC’s Alan Chadwick Garden. 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. UCSC Farm, corner of Coolidge Drive and Ranch View Road, UC Santa Cruz. Pam Dewey 459-3240 or casfs@ucsc.edu. Register online at tinyurl.com/ workshops2016. $30.

BEGINNERS MUSHROOM WALK Learn the rudiments of fungus foraging, identification, photographing, and taking spore prints with mycology expert and photographer Al Frisby. Meet at 11 a.m. at Aptos Coffee Roasting in Aptos, then enjoy a 2-3 mile hike in Nisene Marks State Park, where a variety of mushrooms can be found. Specimens will not be collected (State Park rules). Dress in layers.

Optional: camera/phone and notebook for notes. RSVP aljfrisby@yahoo.com. $10-$20.

SPIRITUAL MEDICINE BUDDHA PRACTICE GUIDED MEDITATION Sessions include recitation of traditional Tibetan Buddhist prayers and the Medicine Buddha mantra, as well as some quiet meditation. 9:30-10:45 a.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 4628383. Donation.

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

Meditation 8:30 a.m. Class and tea: 9-10:30 a.m. Ocean Gate Zen Center, 920 41st Ave., Capitola. 8:30-10:30 a.m. 920 41st Ave., Suite B, Capitola. info@oceangatezen.org. Donation.

SUNDAY 1/31 ARTS DANGEROUS NEIGHBORS SKETCH COMEDY WITH SPECIAL GUEST SHERRI ROSE Dangerous Neighbors, Santa Cruz’s longest-reigning sketch comedy group, and solo artist Sherri Rose perform An Evening of Drollery & Dread. 8 p.m.-9:30 pm 526 Broadway St., Santa Cruz. brownpapertickets. com/event/2478075. $15.

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

A CHILD’S VICTORIAN TEA PARTY One hundred years ago, your standard tea party

CALENDAR consisted of more than just tea and crumpets.

There were also fun-filled parlor games. 1-3 p.m.

Quail Hollow Ranch County Park, 800 Quail Hollow Road, Felton. Lee Summers, 335-3948 or prc120@scparks.com. $3.

MUSIC SUNDAY PIANO BRUNCH AT ZIZZO’S Listen to beautiful piano music by Robert Ridder while enjoying tasty brunch items with your classic mimosa or Zizzo’s lavender bubbles. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Zizzo’s Coffee, Wine & Piano Bar, Brown Ranch Marketplace,3555 Clares St., Capitola.

477-0680 or zizzoscoffee.com.

BIG DADDY WEAVE Truly compelling music makes the personal universal. Few artists have done that more consistently or more movingly than Big Daddy Weave. They have shared the journey in a way that has won the ongoing respect of fans, press and industry alike. 7 p.m.

Santa Cruz Bible Church, 440 Frederick St., Santa Cruz. 429-1162. $25.

OUTDOORS SELECTING AND GROWING CANEBERRIES IN THE HOME GARDEN AND SMALL FARM Learn how to select, plant and care for caneberries, blackberries, raspberries and more. 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. UCSC Farm, corner of Coolidge Drive and Ranch View Road, UC Santa Cruz. Pam Dewey, 459-3240 or casfs@ ucsc.edu. $30.

GUIDED MEDITATION Led by Venerable Drimay, an excellent way to learn how to set up a daily meditation practice. Stabilizing meditation followed by guided contemplation on various Dharma topics. 9:30-10:30 a.m.

Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 462-8383. Donation.

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

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

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

SUBUD INTRODUCTION Subud is a worldwide association of people who follow the spiritual practice known as the Latihan Kejiwaan, an exercise of surrender to the divine force within each one of us. Reservation required. 11 a.m.Noon. Subud Center, 3800 Old San Jose Road, Soquel. 588-3013 or santacruz.subudcalifornia. org. Free.

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

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

BEGINNING HIP-HOP FOR ADULTS HipHop is a great way to build strength, stamina and flexibility while having fun and learning to dance. No prior dance experience required. 7-8 p.m. 320 Encinal St., Santa Cruz. International Academy of Dance Santa Cruz. $10.

TRIYOGA PRANA VIDYA Includes breathing practices, concentration and meditation. 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. 464-8100. $15.

GROUPS TRANSLOVE GROUP For non-trans (cis) partners and close friends of transgender people. 1st & 3rd Mondays. 7-8:30 p.m. Address in Soquel. Email debabbott.lmft@gmail.com for location information and to register. $25.

HEALTH ARM-IN-ARM CANCER SUPPORT GROUP For women with advanced, recurrent and metastatic cancers. Registration required. 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. WomenCARE 457-2273. Free.

MUSIC DAVE WECKL ACOUSTIC BAND An inductee into Modern Drummer’s Hall of Fame, Dave Weckl, has recently embarked on his first solo project in over a decade with his new Acoustic

SUNDAY 1/31 WINTER WARM-UP DRIVE Maybe you’re reaching for the trash can, just about to get rid of those perfectly good jackets and winter coats—well, don’t! Instead, bring them to the first Winter Warm-Up Drive hosted by the Emergency Medical Slugs to benefit the homeless population in Santa Cruz County.

In addition to a GoFundMe campaign to buy new socks, scarves and other warm items, the Medical Slugs will gift all donations to the Santa Cruz Homeless Services Center. In wintertime, about 29 percent of emergency calls to first responders are for fire-related emergencies, the other 70 percent are for medical calls—many of whom are from homeless people looking to escape the cold.

Info: 2 p.m. UCSC Quarry, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz. gofundme.com/EMSWarmUpDrive. Free.

Band. With an unbridled passion for playing, Weckl states his mission as “to inspire as many people as possible to want to play music.” 7 p.m.

320, Cedar St., Santa Cruz. 427-2227 $27.

p.m. KSCO AM 1080, FM 104.1, ksco.com, and santacruzwaves.com.

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BATERIA SANTA CRUZ Bateria Samba Cruz is a hands-on class dedicated to learning and performing Samba of traditions of Brazil. We will build repertoire through exercises, growing as an ensemble each class. 6-7 p.m. The Tannery, 1060 River St., #111, Santa Cruz. 227-6770.

BUSINESS SCHOOL DAY TOURS AT GATEWAY SCHOOL Prospective families are invited to tour Gateway School’s campus to see firsthand how our program inspires children to lead lives of purpose and compassion. 9 a.m. 126 Eucalyptus Ave., Santa Cruz. 423-0341. Free.

COMMUNITY DAY AT UCSC ARBORETUM The first Tuesday of each month, the Arboretum is open without charge to visitors. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

1156 High St., Santa Cruz. Free.

OFF THE LIP RADIO SHOW Tune in to the “Off the Lip” radio show, the world’s only live show dedicated to surfing and skateboarding. 7-8

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WEEKLY WORKSHOP FOR HEALERS Designed to help healers articulate their services, these workshops meet every Tuesday evening. Bring your project and questions, get technical support for your website/blog.

7-9 p.m. Center for Source Healing, 2959 Park Ave., Suite E, Soquel. 854-7538, info@ vibrantexpression.net. $15.

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CHANUKAH HOSTED BY CHADEISH YAMEINU Celebrate with Santa Cruz’s Jewish Renewal congregation. Join with entire congregation and Munchkin Minyan lighting candles, singing, and snacking. Visit website for more details. 4:30-6:30 p.m. Peace United Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. cysantacruz. com. Free.

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Grey Bears. 9:30-10:30 a.m. Yoga Center, Santa Cruz. 234-6791. $5.

AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT Come explore Feldenkrais Awareness through movement classes. These engaging classes will heighten your vitality as they increase your self-awareness and overall well-being. Pre registration required. 9:30 a.m. Pacific Cultural Center, 1307 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz. 426-8893. Free.

with cancer. Meets every first and third Tuesday of the month. Call to register. 5:30-7 p.m.

WomenCARE 457-2273. Free.

MUSIC MADRIGAL AND STRANGE - LOCAL AMERICANA DUO This Santa Cruz duo has a treasure-trove of imaginative original folk, country and Americana music as well as great cover songs. 6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant & Inn, 1 Davenport Ave., Davenport.

426-8801. Free.

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

Registration required. 12:30-2 p.m.

WomenCARE, 457-2273. Free.

VETS4VETS There are new volunteer opportunities in our community to support veterans in a multitude of ways. Volunteer to help veterans with: employment services, recovery coaching, housing search assistance, obtaining benefits and more. 6-8 p.m. Veterans Memorial Building basement, 846 Front St., Santa Cruz. 420-7348.

FRIENDS AND FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Open to all friends and loved ones of people

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Featuring percussionist Jeff Haynes, this Grammy®-nominated project presents the late Pete Seeger’s powerful stories set to live music and video. Free pre-show lecture at 7PM with

Monterey Bay-area local Bob Reid!

Metropolitan Opera Rising Stars Concert Series Friday, February 5 at 8PM

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Perform with the largest classical music organization in North America.

The Met Opera’s stars of tomorrow perform arias, duets, and more with precision and grace.

featuring

KEVIN BRENNAN & WAVELENGTH

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at DON QUIXOTES in Felton

Special Guests JOSHUA LOWE & PATTI MAXINE Brought to you by Sunset Cultural Center, Inc., a nonprofit 501(c)(3)

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New Craft Cocktails &

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LISA TAYLOR AND SOULCITY The first thing one notices when speaking with Lisa Taylor is her authenticity. She speaks just as she writes: straight from the heart.

“Most of my inspiration is real life,” she says. “And I’m a huge romantic.”

Accompanied by her band SoulCity— Sam Nilsson on guitar, Dave Roda on drums, Eric Rowe on keys and her husband, Nat Shuirman, on bass— Taylor’s mix of neo-soul is a rich blend of baby-making smooth jams and booty-shaking R&B.

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Born in California, the preschool-teacherby-day spent most of her life living in Hawaii as one of five adopted children in a household filled with every type of music from jazz to Joplin to Chopin. At the age of 10 she began performing in pageants and at the mall—“like any good ’80s kid,” she says.

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“I’m really grateful to have a family that was always supportive and never tried to encourage me to do anything else,” Taylor says. “They wanted me to follow my passion and do what I love.”

As she grew older she launched a career performing around Hawaii along with regularly performing in Japan, Korea and Singapore. In 2005, Taylor decided it was time to take a chance and break out of her comfort zone, and took her career to the mainland with a move to Santa Cruz. Since then she has embarked on a new journey, teaming up with producer Rocking Chair Frank to write her own material. In 2010, she released her debut, LT, followed by Let Love Shine in 2013.

Both albums flow through the emotional rollercoaster of life while taking time for reflection on one’s blessings. Last year, she released, “Intuition,” the title track from her forthcoming EP, to be released later this year. MAT WEIR INFO: 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $5. 423-7117.

MADS TOLLING

THURSDAY 1/28 JAZZ

MADS TOLLING Danish-born jazz violinist Mads Tolling earned two Grammy Awards during his stint with the improvisation-laced Turtle Island Quartet and toured with bass master Stanley Clarke before launching his own quartet. With a change in personnel and a repertoire gleaned from 1960s film and television themes, he rebranded the band the Mads Men, evoking the sleek martinis-and-cigarettes aesthetic of the hit AMC show.

With a panoply of grooves, the band isn’t much interested in nostalgia, particularly sharing the stage with souldrenched vocalist Kenny Washington, who ranks amongst the best male jazz singers in the world. ANDREW GILBERT

himself a career among the legends.

The southpaw guitar slinger began as a drummer for Albert Collins, where Montoya credits learning his slick and smooth style. Ten years later, one John Mayall overhears Montoya jamming in a Los Angeles bar and signs him up to be a Blues Breaker for a solid decade, or so the story goes. Since then he has constantly gigged, only stopping to record a new album every few years. MAT WEIR INFO: 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $17/adv, $20/door. 479-1854.

TRIBUTE

NASHVILLE SKYLINE TRIBUTE

COCO MONTOYA

The 1969 album Nashville Skyline saw Bob Dylan going all-in on country music— working with, among others, Johnny Cash, Charlie Daniels and bluegrass great Norman Blake. The album birthed several hits with “Lay Lady Lay,” “I Threw it All Away,” and “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You.” On Friday, local Americana outfit Bryn Loosley and the Back Pages pays tribute to the classic album as part of Club Kuumbwa. CJ

The blues loves a myth, and Coco Montoya has been steadily building

INFO: 9 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $5. 427-2227.

INFO: 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 427-2227.

FRIDAY 1/29 BLUES

ROCK

BRO-MAGNON Mix tasty surf rock with some funky bass lines, a whole lot of punk rock and a floater of hip-hop and the result is Bro-Magnon. For the last few years the power trio has been rocking the local scene with their exclusively Californian sound, playing with a grabbag of local bands. They join heavy rockers the Lunacies and the melodic jams of Doors to Nowhere at Bocci’s Cellar for a complete night of fun that won’t even cost a dime. MW INFO: 9 p.m. Bocci’s Cellar, 140 Encinal St., Santa Cruz. Free. 427-1795.

ALT-COUNTRY

FUTUREBIRDS On Futurebirds’ 2013 record Yabba Gabba, they crooned “I want to be a cowboy” on the track of the same name.

It’s an especially poignant sentiment, as the group has always had recognizable elements of country in their music, but mix it up with reverb-soaked guitars, loose rock rhythms and contemplative, melancholy lyrics. And most importantly, there’s not a single cowboy hat to be seen on them. The Athens group sport

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more of a trucker-hat-meets-T-shirt look. There’s always a bit of twang in the Birds’ music, but they never quite fit the country label. AARON CARNES INFO: 8:30 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $10/adv, $12/door. 429-4135.

BLUES

MARK HUMMEL’S HARMONICA BLOWOUT Twenty-five years ago, award-winning blues harmonica player Mark Hummel organized the first Blues Harmonica Blowout, a tribute to legendary players and a showcase of the best on the contemporary scene. To celebrate the landmark anniversary, Hummel has put together an impressive roster of artists, including Curtis Salgado, Andy Santana, Jason Ricci, Anson Funderbugh, Little Charlie, Aki Kumar and more. The music starts at 8, but if you show up at 7, you can see Pocket Full of Soul: The Harmonica Documentary. Word is, it’s the definitive harmonica documentary. CJ INFO: 8 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $25/adv, $30/door. 335-2800.

INDIE

DR DOG Dr. Dog isn’t exactly a great band name, but the Pennsylvania group rock pretty hard. They take the best elements of the Beatles and the Stones, and pound it into some subtly heart-wrenching, thoughtful rock ’n’ roll. They’ve also been at it for nearly two decades, rarely straying from their singular vision. In fact, they recently re-recorded their never-released debut record Psychedelic Swamp, and it’s amazing to hear how much that record is in line with the psychedelic, roots rock, John Lennon hooky material on their more recent records. They have a gift for melodies, which is apparent even on that initial batch of tunes they wrote when they were just youngsters. AC INFO: 8 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $25. 429-4135.

ROOTS

AL SCORCH A fourth generation Chicagoan, singer-songwriter Al Scorch grew up surrounded by music from the old

INFO: 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $26.25. 423-8209. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 29 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

IN THE QUEUE STEEL PULSE

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

Legendary reggae band. Friday at Catalyst

A CAPPELLA

MIGHTY MIKE SCHERMER

THE BOBS Every current a cappella trope you can think of—vocal percussion, quirky “instrument” parts, wacky solos—stems from the Bobs. The founders started the group in early ’80s after quitting their day jobs as singing telegrams. Some of their best-known tunes are covers (their rendition of Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” is incredible), but a vast majority of their repertoire is original tunes. While comedy is generally an ingredient, it tends toward clever satire. AC INFO: 7 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 CA-9, Felton. $20. 335-2800

Local-boy-done-good blues guitar shredder. Saturday at Crepe Place WARRIOR KING

Kingston-born reggae vocalist.

Saturday at Moe’s Alley RHAN WILSON & FRIENDS

Local standout Rhan Wilson along with Rick Zeek, Patti Maxine and more.

Sunday at Don Quixote’s THE MOTET

World-class, improvisational funk out of Colorado. Sunday at Moe’s Alley

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world (Ireland and Eastern Europe, in his family’s case) and the new. His own music infuses his middle-America sensibilities and DIY ethos with tales of Civil War soldiers, grieving daughters, hearse drivers, and other tragic and compelling characters. A clawhammer banjoist who’s been described as a “rambunctious force of nature,” Scorch breathes life into traditional American styles, while creating something unique and engaging. CJ

In 2010, singer-songwriter Shawn Mullins released Light You Up, an Americana album that showcases the artist’s easy style and Southern roots. Then last year, after a five-year hiatus, Mullins dropped My Stupid Heart, a deeply personal record exploring the Atlanta-based artist’s love of his family, his friends and his country.

It’s also an open-hearted glimpse into his recent divorce—most notably on the title track. As Mullins told Rolling Stone, the song was inspired by the notion that dealing with the split would be so much easier if he could just blame the whole thing on his stupid heart. On Feb. 24, Mullins brings his celebrated brand of country-rock—as well as a little bit of heartache—to the Rio Theatre. Chuck Cannon opens. CAT JOHNSON

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LIVE MUSIC

Thursday January 28th 8:30pm $15/20 Mardis Gras Celebration With The

NEW ORLEANS SUSPECTS + POST

ST. RHYTHM PEDDLERS Friday January 29th 9pm $17/20 Blues Favorite Returns

COCO MONTOYA

WED APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

1/27

Al Frisby 6-8p

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

THU

1/28

1/29

FRI Hawk n Blues Mechanics 6-8p

Kid Andersen 6-8p Minor Thirds Trio 6:30-9:30p

1/30

SAT Lloyd Whitney 1-5p Alabama Mike 6-8p

SUN

1/31

MON

Al Frisby 6-8p

BAYVIEW HOTEL 8041 Soquel Dr, Aptos

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

DJ

WARRIOR KING

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Little Petie and the Mean Old Men $5 9p

Comedy Night/80s Night Free 8:30p

Lisa Taylor, Dylan Schmidt & the Rhythm Souls $5 9p

The Leftovers & Galvarino $5 9p

The Box (Goth Night) 9p

Pride Night 9p

Party w/Raina 9p

Incidental Live Music Revue w/Alisha

Comedy Night 9p

+ SOULWISE & DJ SPLEECE Sunday January 31st 9pm $13/17

World Class Funk With 3 Guest Singers

THE MOTET

Thursday February 4th 8:30pm $12/15

Singer Songwirter Returns With Live Band

BLUE LOUNGE 529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

RYAN MONTBLEAU

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

Friday January 5th 9pm $12/15

CASA SORRENTO 393 Salinas St, Salinas

THE CHINA CATS

CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Grateful Dead Dance Party

Saturday January 6th 9pm $20/25 Blues Album Release Celebration

TOMMY CASTRO Wednesday January 10th 8:30pm $7/10

Pure One/ Meadowhawks Free 8p

Swing Dance Social $5 5:30p Lunacies, BroMagnon Free 9p

Sound Off Saturdays Reggae Party Free 9p

Karaoke 9p

Karaoke 9p

Steel Pulse $19/$33 8p

Y&T $20/$25 7p

Futurebirds $10/$12 8p

Sonora Dinamita $30/$35 8:30p

Karaoke

Locals Night, Music w/ Lil Billy

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Jazz Society Free 3:30p Joey Hudoklin Free 8p

The Fabulous Miss Wendy Free 8p Songwriter Showcase 7-10p

DJ Luna 9p

CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

2/2

Rand Rueter 6-8p

Tango Ecstasy 6-9:30p

Karaoke 8p-Close

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

TUE

Minor Thirds Trio 7-10p

Saturday January 30th 9pm $15/20 Jamaican Reggae Great Returns

2/1

Broken Shades 6-8p

The Main Squeeze $10 8:30p

Dr. Dog $25 7p Creed Bratton $20/$40 7:30p

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

Trible Bill Funk, Reggae & Soul Dance Party

EUFORQUESTRA

JON WAYNE & THE PAYNE SUN-DRIED VIBES Thursday February 11th 8:30pm $9/12

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DEAD WINTER CARPENTERS + MCCOY TYLER Friday January 12th 9pm $18/22 Saturday January 13th 9pm $20/25 A Weekend With The

CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS + ROOSEVELT DIME

February 14th MICHAEL LANDAU GROUP (afternoon) February 14th SHADY GROOVE (eve) February 15th SOPHIE B. HAWKINS + TESS DUNN February 18th GOVINDA February 19th DEADPHISH ORCHESTRA February 20th PREZIDENT BROWN + PABLO MOSES February 21st JOHNNY SKETCH & THE DIRTY NOTES February 24th WORLD’S FINEST + MOON CADILLAC

WWW.MOESALLEY.COM 1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz 831.479.1854

OPEN LATE EVERY NIGHT! wednesday 1/27

JOE KAPLOW w / M LOCKEWOOD PORTER w / OF THE WEST w / KASIA MOON

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

thursday 1/28

THE DONKEYS w / JACKIE ZEALOUS

Advance Tickets at www.ticketweb.com

Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 adv $10 door

International Music Hall and Restaurant

Fine Mexican and aMerican Food All you cAn eAt lunch buffet m-f $7.95 Wed Jan 27

Henry Kaiser: new Antarctic Videos & Solo guitar

Thu Jan 28

Daniel Champagne

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

Fri Jan 29

Sat Jan 30

w / Pieces, Eve of Eden, Bird & Bloke, Hod Hulphers, Bullet Proof Hearts, Nels Andrews, Fake Echo Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $10 Door

saturday 1/30

MIGHTY MIKE SCHERMER Advance Tickets at www.ticketweb.com

Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $12 adv $15 door

sunday 1/31

AL SCORCH w / SLOW MOTION COWBOYS w / JESSE DANIEL

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

429-6994

featuring Laura Chavez

Mark Hummel’s 25th Annual Blues Harmonica Blowout

w/Curtis Salgado, Andy Santana, Jason Ricci, Anson Funderburgh, Little Charlie, Aki Kumar

friday 1/29

DAVID BOWIE

Candye Kane

$12 adv./$15 door 21 + 8pm

REQUIEM FOR A STARMAN:

A TRIBUTE TO

Aussie Guitar phenom & singer

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

$25 adv./$30 door 21 + 8pm Sun Jan 31

Rhan Wilson, Rick Zeek, and patti Maxine, Amelia White with Sergio Webb, Yours Truly Michele 2pm Matinee $10 adv./$12 door <21 w/parent 2pm

Sun Jan 31

The Bobs 7pm a cappella prowess & big fun

Thu Feb 4

Frank Vignola & Vinny Raniolo

$20 adv./$20 door <21 w/parent 7:00pm Stunning guitar virtuosity

$20 adv./$20 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm CoMIng RIgHT up

Fri. Feb. 5 Sat. Feb. 6 Tue. Feb. 9 Thu. Feb. 11

A Tribute to Van Morrison featuring Kevin Brennan & Wavelength plus Joshua Lowe & patti Maxine Aja Vu plays Steely Dan and Stealin’ Chicago plays Chicago MARDI gRAS FAT TuESDAY CELEBRATIon & FEAST w/ Big River Cajun Honky-Tonk Laurence Juber Grammy Guitar Winner of Paul McCartney & Wings

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

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CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz CROW’S NEST 2218 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz

WED Science on Tap 7:30p Joe Kaplow & more $8 9p

Hot Club Pacific $5 8:30p

THU

1/28

FRI

1/29

1/30

The Donkeys, Jackie Zealous $8/$10 9p

Requiem for a Starman Mighty Mike Schermer $10 9p $12/$15 9p

The Redlight District $5 8:30p

Joint Chiefs $6 9p

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

SAT

FishHook $7 9:30p

1/31

SUN Al Scorch, Slow Motion Cowboys, Jesse Daniel $8 9p

MON

2/1

Mix Tape Mondays $3 9p

Live Comedy $7 9p

Daniel Champagne $10 7:30p

Candye Kane, Laura Chavez $12/$15 8p

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville

Mark Hummel w/Curtis Salgado, Andy Santa & more $25/$30 8p

2/2

7 Come 11 $5 9p Free Reggae Party Free 8p

Esoteric Collective Henry Kaiser $10 7:30p

TUE

Madrigal and Strange

Flingo 7p

Poor Beggar Thieves 8p

Randy Hansen 9p

Take One 9p

West of Nashville 4p

IT’S WINE TYME 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

Open Mic 7p

Steve Walters 6:30p

Scott Slaughter 7p

Frank Sorci 7p

Jade 4p

Mads Tolling, The Mads Men & more $25 7p

Bryn Loosley and the Back Pages $5 9p

SambaDá, Jade, Acquire A Cappella $25/$50 7p

Live Music 5:30-9p

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

Paul Logan 7-10p

Stormin’ Norman and the Cyclones 8-11p

Lenny’s Basement Aquarius Party 8-11p

Roadhouse Karaoke 7:30p

Dave Weckl w/Makoto Ozone, Tom Kennedy & more $35 7p

Coco Montoya $17/$20 8p

Warrior King & the Rootz Warrior Band & more $15/$20 8p

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

$5 @ CLUB KUUMBWA: the door BRYN LOOSLEY AND THE BACK PAGES Youth Resource Cabaret

Monday, February 1 • 7 pm |No Comp Tix

DAVE WECKL ACOUSTIC BAND FEAT. GARY MEEK – SAXOPHONES MAKOTO OZONE – KEYBOARDS TOM KENNEDY – BASS Thursday, February 4 • 7 pm

Dave Muldawer 6:30-8:30p

MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

New Orleans Suspects & More $15/$20 8p

Friday, January 29 • 9 pm

SAMBADA, JADE, AQUIRE A CAPPELLA

Karaoke w/Ken 9p Acoustic Soul 7-10p

MADS TOLLING AND THE MADS MEN FEATURING KENNY WASHINGTON 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS

Tickets by email: joeysyaya@gmail.com

HENFLING’S 9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond

MALONE’S 4402 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley

Thursday, January 28 • 7 pm

Saturday, January 30 • 7 pm

Rhan Wilson, Rick Zeek & more $10 7p The Bobs $20 7p

NiteCreepers

KUUMBWA 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Celebrating Creativity Since 1975

KAHIL EL’ZABAR AND THE NEW ETHNIC HERITAGE TRIO 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS Friday, February 5 • 7 & 9 pm |No Comp Tix BOOKER T. JONES Monday, February 8 • 7:30 pm At the Rio Theatre | No Comps/Gift Cert

The Motet $13/$17 8p

AARON NEVILLE QUINTET FEATURING CHARLES NEVILLE Wednesday, February 10 • 7:30 pm

DAVE AND PHIL ALVIN

Tickets: SnazzyProductions.com Friday, February 12 • 7:30 pm

WHITE ALBUM ENSEMBLE UNPLUGGED

Tickets: Streetlight Records & Tix.com

Saturday, February 13 • 7:30 pm TUCK & PATTI | No Comp Tix Valentine’s Jazz & Dinner Packages Available!

Sunday, February 14 • 3 pm Tickets: SnazzyProductions.com Sunday, February 14 • 7:30 pm

User-friendly salad bar.

LOCATED ON THE BEACH

Amazing waterfront deck views.

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

See live music grid for this week’s bands.

STAND-UP COMEDY

Three live comedians every Sunday night.

HAPPY HOUR

SHERRY AUSTIN & HENHOUSE w/CAROLYN SILLS COMBO

Tickets: SnazzyProductions.com Monday, February 15 • 7 pm

GARY PEACOCK “NOW THIS” TRIO FEAT. MARC COPLAND AND JOEY BARON Tuesday, February 16 • 7:30 pm At the Rio Theatre | No Comps/Gift Cert

LISA FISCHER & GRAND BATON Tuesday, March 8 • 7:30 pm

@ RIO No Comps/ Sunday, March 20 • 7:30 pm Gift Cert

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Dinner served one hour before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer.

All ages welcome.

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LIVE MUSIC

Thursday, January 28 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

THE MAIN SQUEEZE

Steel Pulse

Friday, Jan. 29 Ages 16+ Friday, January 29 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

FUTUREBIRDS

plus Susto

Saturday, January 30 • Ages 21+

Saturday, January 30 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

SONORA DINAMITA

Sunday, January 31 • Ages 16+

Dr. Dog

plus

Hop Along

Tuesday, February 2 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

CREED BRATTON

from THE OFFICE

Feb 6 The White Buffalo (Ages 21+) Feb 9 Mardi Gras Party: Lettuce (Ages 16+) Feb 10 & 11 Iration (Ages 16+) Feb 12 Geoff Tate’s Operation: Mindcrime (Ages 21+) Feb 14 Brillz/ Party Favor (Ages 18+) Feb 15 Matisyahu (Ages 16+) Feb 18 Thomas Jack (Ages 18+) Feb 19 Keys N Krates (Ages 18+) Feb 20 blessthefall (Ages 16+) Feb 23 Reel Big Fish (Ages 16+) Feb 25 Tyga (Ages 16+) Mar 3 Bingo Players (Ages 18+) Mar 4 Skizzy Mars/ Gnash (Ages 16+) Mar 5 Dead Kennedys (Ages 16+) Mar 9 & 10 Rebelution/ Protoje (Ages 16+) Mar 11 Andre Nickatina (Ages 16+) Mar 18 The Wonder Years (Ages 16+) Mar 23 Yonder Mountain String Band (Ages 21+) Mar 29 Geographer/ The Crookes (Ages 16+)

WED MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

1/27

Depth!

9:30p-2a

THU

1/28

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

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

Trivia 8p

Omar Spence

THE POCKET 3102 Portola Dr, Santa Cruz

Jam Session 7p Trivia

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

The Alex Raymond Band 8p

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

Jazz Jam

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

20th Annual Gail Rich Awards Free 7:30-10p

1/29

SAT

1/30

Tech Minds 9:30p-1:30a

Aaron the Era 9:30p-1:30a

Rola-J 7-9p

Comedy Night 7:30-9p

SUN

1/31

MON

2/1

TUE

Rasta Cruz Reggae Party 9:30p-Close

2/2

Eclectic Bass Event 9:30p-2a Trivia 6-8p

Asher Stern 10p

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

FRI

RON $5 9p

Vinny Johnson

Dolce Musica

A.C. Myles $8 9p

Johnny Fabulous 8p

Open Mic 4-7p

Chris Ellis Robin Anderson Big Band Tuesday Night Comedy w/Ruby Rudman 7p Smackdown 9p Comedy Open Mic 8p

Open Mic 7:30-11:30p ‘Geeks Who Drink’ Trivia Night 8p

Acoustic Jam w/Toby Gray and Friends

Aloha Fridays Traditional Great Acoustic Covers Hawaiian Music Brunch and Dinner Cirque Ziva $30/$47 7-9p

Chas and Friends 6-9p

Bandwidth 8-12p

The Lenny and Kenny Show

Trivia 8p

Open Mic 7:30p

Tim Flannery and Lunatic Fringe $25/$40 8-10p

ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz THE SAND BAR 211 Esplanade, Capitola

Santa Cruz Musicians Only Weekly Showcase 6-9p

Cougar Unleashed 8-12p

Jesse Sabala Pro Jam 7-11p

Ten Foot Faces 7-11p

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

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

www.catalystclub.com

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Aaron Neville Quintet featuring

Charles Neville

AT THE RIO THEATRE

R&B Vocal Sensation “Twenty Feet From Stardom”

PRESENTS

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and Grand Baton

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Tues Feb 16 7:30 pm

Mon Feb 8 7:30 pm

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TICKETS KuumbwaJazz.org / Logos Books & Records, downtown Santa Cruz

INFO KuumbwaJazz.org / 831.427. 2227

Coming Soon:

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BUIKA

" The greatest guitarist alive. " — PAT METHENY

" One of the world’s 50 Great Voices. " — NPR

March 8

March 20

LIVE MUSIC WED

1/27

THU

1/28

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

FRI

1/29

Dan Robbins, Steve Robertson, Eddie

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz

SAT

1/30

1/31

MON

2/1

TUE

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HUMAN CONDITION Using stop-motion animation, director Charlie Kaufman’s ‘Anomalisa,’ co-directed with Duke Johnson,

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ack in the day, a feature cartoon adapted from R. Crumb’s randy comic Fritz the Cat bore the tagline: “He’s X-rated—and animated!” The publicity is not quite so sensational for the new stop-motion animated feature. Anomalisa. The themes are just as adult in nature, and the storyline remarkably frank, but the handling of the material is more muted, and yet even more surreal.

And we’d expect no less from the latest experiment in cinematic arts and craft from the febrile imagination of scriptwriterturned-director Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Remember, in the Kaufman-

scripted Being John Malkovich, when the hapless protagonist attempts to stage the tragedy of Abélard and Heloise as a puppet show? In Anomalisa, Kaufman and co-director Duke Johnson grapple with the malaise of modern humanity—the emptiness and alienation we’ve all felt sometimes—using stop-motion puppets. It’s a brilliant idea, in concept, and the choices made by the filmmakers to spin their yarn are often wildly inventive. Still, for all its deeply human themes, the story never quite touches the heart.

Front and center is Michael Stone (voice of David Thewlis), a middleaged self-help guru who can’t seem to help himself. As he flies

to Cincinnati to deliver a speech at a conference for customer service workers, he reflects on how his life has gone stale. He feels disconnected from his wife and son and his work.

He’s haunted by visions of a vitriolic ex-girlfriend he walked out on for no apparent reason.

To express the boring sameness of Michael’s everyday life, the filmmakers cleverly have one actor (the versatile Tom Noonan) providing voices for everyone else he encounters—male or female, adult or child. (The character puppets all have pretty much the same faces too, although the women have longer hair.)

Until Michael meets Lisa, a conference attendee. Her voice—

warm, funny, girlish at times—is done by Jennifer Jason Leigh. Michael nicknames her “Anomalisa” because her individuality is so unexpected. He can’t articulate why he finds mousy Lisa so special, but who can explain the mysteries of love and attraction?

In the film’s most persuasive scene, they go to bed, with all the awkwardness, humor, and tenderness of a real-life encounter.

That the bloom is destined to fade on their sweet romance becomes the core of the story. Gradually, we begin to see Michael not as the Everyman hero alienated by a mundane society, but as the architect of his own misery.

There are some truly marvelous moments. When Michael turns on the TV, the filmmakers lovingly recreate a scene from the classic ’30s screwball comedy, My Man Godfrey—in black-and-white—with Noonan (of course) supplying voices for both William Powell and Carole Lombard.

Other sections don’t come off as well. Things begin slowly—Michael on the plane, in the airport, riding to the hotel with a chatty cabbie, wandering around his room—a suite of scenes no less tedious for being staged with puppets. There’s also an odd thread involving a mechanical Japanese sex toy. It’s weird that Michael would buy this item for his little boy, although it does convey how out of step he is with the world and his own loved ones.

With all of the accolades this movie has received (check out the poster on the way in, where words like “masterpiece,” “transcendent” and “perfect” are flung about), I was expecting to be blown away by the film as a technical marvel, but also to experience something emotionally profound. That didn’t quite happen for me, and so I was disappointed. (Which is exactly why you should never read reviews before you see a movie, folks.) As admirable as Anomalisa is in so many ways, by the end, I wanted to be more moved.

ANOMALISA **1/2 (out of four) With the voices of Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan and David Thewlis. Written and directed

by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson. A Paramount release. Rated R. 90 minutes.

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FILM NEW THIS WEEK FIFTY SHADES OF BLACK The wait is over: someone finally took all that overblown Fifty Shades of Grey innuendo with its overly dramatic score, slow steely stares, underwhelming lack of chemistry (and talent), and created something beautiful. Oh, Marlon Wayans, how we missed you. Michael Tiddes directs.

Kali Hawk, Marlon Wayans, Jane Seymour co-star. (R) 92 minutes.

THE FINEST HOURS Even if it’s based on a true story and not meant to be a horror flick—is there really anything more terrifying than being stuck in the ocean during a blizzard on a sinking ship? The fact that it’s based on the true story of two oil tankers being destroyed off the coast of Cape Cod in 1952 makes it all the more astounding.

Craig Gillespie directs. Chris Pine, Holliday Grainger, Casey Affleck costar. (PG-13) 117 minutes.

KUNG FU PANDA 3 Po must make the next step on his “legendary adventures of awesomeness” because incredible power awaits him. Need we say more? Alessandro Carloni, Jennifer Yuh direct. Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman co-star. (PG) 95 minutes.

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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. ANOMALISA Reviewed this week. (R) 90 minutes.

THE BIG SHORT Based on the book of the same name, The Big Short follows the players and profiteers of the 2007-2010 financial crisis who bet against collateralized debt obligation, and sent the system reeling. Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt co-star. Adam McKay directs.

(R) 130 minutes.

THE BOY Good rule of thumb: when you get hired as a nanny for a family that keeps a life-sized

doll around as their stand-in son, run fast, run far. William Brent Bell directs. Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans, James Russell co-star.

BROOKLYN From far across the cavernous pond, Eilis is an Irish immigrant who lands in 1950s Brooklyn only to face crippling homesickness, glaring cultural differences, prejudice, and hardship.

When Eilis falls in love with a young Italian boy from a totally different world, she’s forced to choose between her old home and her new life. John Crowley directs. Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson co-star. (PG13) 111 minutes.

CAROL Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in an illicit love affair against the conventions, expectations and rules of the 1950s? Hello, yes, all the feels.

Todd Haynes directs. Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson co-star.

(R) 118 minutes.

CONCUSSION Based on the 2009 GQ article Game Brain, the film follows Dr. Bennet Omalu as he tries to tell the world that repeatedly using your head as a weapon can lead to a lifetime of pain. Peter Landesman directs. Will Smith, Luke Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw co-star. (PG-13) 123 minutes.

CREED Well, Michael B. Jordan has sure changed since his days in The Wire—as in he looks like he ate the other Michael Jordan and gained double the body weight. Not that it’s a bad look, mind you, and it makes his appearance as prodigy boxer Adonis Johnson believable at least.

Rocky Balboa is back but this time he’s training the young Adonis (really, with that name?) as he strives to fill his father’s shoes. Ryan Coogler directs.

Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, and Tessa Thompson co-star. (PG-13) 132 minutes.

DADDY’S HOME Will Ferrell is the step-dad competing again Mark Wahlberg for the affections of his stepchildren with weird bedtime stories full of innuendo. At least we get to see Ferrell fall a lot. Ugh. Sean Anders directs. Linda Cardellini co-stars. (PG13) 96 minutes.

THE DANISH GIRL Eddie Redmayne looks positively transcendent as Lily Elbe, one of the

first transgender women known to have received sexual reassignment surgery. Based on the true story of the artist during her revolutionary transition, and the love of her wife, Gerda, who fought hard to stay by her side, The Danish Girl opens a beautifully haunting window into a previously unknown story. Tom Hooper directs. (R) 120 minutes.

DIRTY GRANDPA Robert de Niro plays Dick Kelly—aptly named and quite the smutty old man—who, after only a few days after his wife’s death, tricks his grandson into letting loose in Florida for spring break. With a bevy of booties and other common Zac Efron film accessories (beer cans, a lack of clothing, etc), perhaps the appearance of Aubrey Plaza can class up this raunch comedy. Dan Mazer directs.

Robert De Niro, Zac Efron, Zoey Deutch co-star. (R) 102 minutes.

THE 5TH WAVE In a very logical sequence of alien attack events, first all the power goes out, then a global earthquake rips the earth apart, then disease spreads, and finally the aliens invade human hosts. So, naturally, Chloë Grace Moretz grabs an AK and runs to save her younger brother, gets trained by Liev Schreiber in camo with a bunch of other teens, and still finds time to snog a blonde teen heartthrob equivalent. J Blakeson directs. Chloë Grace Moretz, Matthew Zuk, Gabriela Lopez co-star. (PG-13) 112 minutes.

THE FOREST Aokigahara Forest is a real place at the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan, and it’s where people go to commit suicide—so often that authorities put a sign at the entrance of the main trail urging visitors to think of their families and contact suicide prevention associations. So that’s the true history. Now go watch Natalie Dormer run around the forest, chased by paranormal forces, in search of her twin sister: how are movies like this rated PG-13 when even we have to watch the trailers on mute, with all the lights on? Jason Zada directs. Natalie Dormer, Eoin Macken, Stephanie Vogt co-star. (PG-13) JOY Joy shares her house with her divorced parents, her grandmother and her ex, and then she invents something—does anyone actually know what this movie is about?

Not that it matters, all we want for Christmas is JLaw. And apparently David O. Russell really loves Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in movies together—like really. Robert De Niro co-stars.

(PG-13) 124 minutes.

off alligator attacks, and rocking flower-printed pants with a Miami fedora, it’s bound to be as silly (and amusing, maybe) as the first installment. Tim Story directs. Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Tika Sumpter costar. (Pg-13) 101 minutes.

MACBETH Epic cinematic renditions of classic literature seem to be seeing a resurgence this year, with Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy being born anew in Justin Kurzel’s most ambitious work to date. Ambitious, of course, because how could you refashion the beloved play for the screen without pissing off at least a few hundred dramaturgs? The rest of us will simply nod and smile at the sweeping slo-mo shots, gripping music and oh-so pretty cast—because, let’s be honest, we still don’t have a friggin’ clue what they’re saying. Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jack Madigan co-star. (R) 113 minutes.

SISTERS Playing sisters who celebrate one final night in their childhood home, it’s Tina Fey and Amy Poehler together, taking their rightful places as the queens of comedy. There are no words— except, maybe, yes. Jason Moore directs. Maya Rudolph co-stars. (R) 118 minutes.

NORM OF THE NORTH Here’s a film with everything we love in animation: a polar bear! Adorable fuzzy sidekicks!

Rob Schneider! OK, not so much the last thing. But still. (PG) 86 minutes.

POINT BREAK Wow, FBI agents are so pretty and that Bureau life is so glamorous—inspired by the 1991 film (really, we’re calling it a classic now?), it’s just art imitating life, obviously.

Ericson Core directs. Édgar Ramírez, Luke Bracey, Ray Winstone co-star.

113 minutes.

THE REVENANT Leonardo DiCaprio fighting, grunting, running, shooting—a bear, among other things—and seeking revenge for the death of his son. From the director of Birdman and Babel, it’s the rugged frontier in the 1820s snow and ice, every man for himself: chills, just chills.

Alejandro González Iñárritu directs.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter co-star. (R) 156 minutes.

RIDE ALONG 2 Kevin Hart and Ice Cube are back as “The BrothersIn-Law” with the next installment of the Ride Along adventures. This time Ben (Hart) volunteers to join James (Cube) in pursuit of a powerful Miami drug dealer—and mayhem, of course, ensues.

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STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS Ooh, what a neat looking indie flick! Lots of pew-pew and bang-bang somewhere in the desert, maybe Nevada? And some grumpy old man mumbling about the Dark Side. At least the really tall lady from Game of Thrones is in it, otherwise it’d so be a total flop, right?

J.J. Abrams directs. Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher co-star.

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13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI No, it’s not a biopic about Hillary Clinton’s congressional hearings (thank goodness). Instead, it’s “the true story you were never told” about six men who defied orders to defend the American diplomatic compound in September 2012.

Based on the 2013 book of the same name, the film follows the true story of the compound’s security team who returned to fight for those left behind. Michael Bay directs. Toby Stephens, John Krasinski, Freddie Stroma co-star.

(R) YOUTH Michael Caine plays a retired composer and orchestra conductor on vacation in the Alps with his stillactive film director buddy, played by Harvey Keitel. They sit, they muse, they don’t elaborate on the worlds existing in their minds; “Music is all I understand because you don’t need words or experience to understand it, it just is,” sighs Fred (Caine). They’re contentedly peaceful until Fred is invited by Queen Elizabeth herself to perform for Prince Philip’s birthday.

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ow do they do it? How can this Aptos landmark continue to enchant even the pickiest patrons?

We weren’t the only ones who had decided to have wine with lunch on Martin Luther King Day. Cafe Sparrow’s long listing of wines by the glass tempted us, and we went with half glasses ($5.50) of Alfaro 2013 “A” Estate Chardonnay. Jack had never been to the Sparrow, a restaurant I’ve been visiting since even before the days of Bob and Julie Montague’s ownership. Ever appealing in its old-West-country-French way, the

two dining rooms were lively when we took a spacious table for two in the sunny downstairs room. Jack approved of the lace-under-glass tablecloths, antiqued chairs and fresh flowers on every table. We both loved the long menus of special brunch entrees, Angus filet tip risotto, blackened Chinook salmon and luscious egg creations, but turned our attention to the house signature sandwiches and salads.

Always a draw for enlightened female diners, the Sparrow was wellstocked with men on the holiday afternoon of our visit, and everybody

was clearly there to savor a long lunch.

Seared ahi on infant spinach leaves was Jack’s choice ($17.75), while I couldn’t resist the idea of a shrimp croissant ($13.75), especially since the grilled shrimp arrived in a creamy toss of dill-infused crème fraîche. Seriously, how could that not be fantastic? And it was! Our lunch began with fresh sourdough, presented in a thick white napkin along with unsalted butter. Accompanied with a tall glass of black currant iced tea—which tasted intensely of tangy black currants—Jack’s salad was huge yet

beautiful. A thicket of thumbnail spinach leaves was threaded with thin ribbons of red bell pepper and a smartly spiced wasabi vinaigrette, then studded with long thin strips of crimson-seared ahi. On top was a central garnish of spun carrots and purple cabbage, everything dusted with white and black toasted sesame seeds. It was a salad made with care and expertise, presented to make the eyes as happy as the tastebuds.

Meanwhile, my shrimp croissant arrived with a side portion of spicy roasted red potatoes. The toasted croissant was arranged to reveal a nest of shrimp—perfectly cooked, still moist, yet toothsome—on a leaf of butter lettuce. A tiny pyramid of fresh fruit anchored the side of the pretty plate. This was another gorgeous dish that tasted even better than it looked. I adore the haunting sexiness of dill, and the combination of dill, tart crème fraîche and shrimp made a northern French (or perhaps southern Norwegian?) statement.

Our entire meal was delicious, very satisfying and refreshingly Old World (plus new California).

How incredible that Cafe Sparrow continues to renew its reputation for country French cooking. I’ve never had anything but fine meals here in many decades of dining. Open nightly for dinner, Monday-Friday for lunch, and brunch on weekends. cafesparrow.com.

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Jackson and his wife Jennifer Jackson recently moved their tasting room from Swift Street to a more central location on Ingalls Street in the Surf City Vintners complex, where they now get much more foot traffic and exposure, which they certainly deserve.

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“It has bright plummy aromatics, with dense richly textured tannins framed by intense blackberry and cassis notes,” says Jackson, who produced 360 cases of this very drinkable wine. It’s also bursting with flavors of plum and chocolate, making this quality Merlot ($32) a mouthful of exceptional nectar.

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Are you remembering events from the past, feeling more sensitive? Inspired and perhaps more insightful?

Is there a sense of sadness or woundedness? Prayer, meditation, study, and retreats are good at this time, allowing gentleness and kindness, more compassion and caring to emerge. These virtues help us when placed at the center of an Aquarian group, asking us to be the leader and project the future. You, the “initiator of all things new,” will be asked.

Use your imagination to think about what you want to be— what career, occupation and vocation you truly and deeply want to pursue. Ask this of yourself. The answers will subtly appear. Talk to everyone about your hopes, dreams and wishes. In the upcoming months you become stronger and more resilient. Seek astrological timing for any surgeries. Eat salads with each meal. Find the Café Gratitude cookbook.

TAURUS Apr21–May21

Don’t go down the road of investments thinking the economy will improve soon. Don’t take risks with your money and resources. Instead, begin serious preparation for a new economy to unfold that will look much different than what we are used to. Don’t speculate. Instead get a couple of good books on greenhouses and bio shelters and use your resources to create these environments.

Saturn calls you to be wise in these matters.

Esoteric Astrology as news for week of Jan. 27, 2016

Your first mission is tending to health, your bones, muscles, heart, and not to let yourself become fatigued, overwhelmed or cold. You must use your practicality to care for yourself before others. People will come to you for help. They already have. You must be strong for them and weigh what is best—to provide others with a healing journey, or nurse your physical body back to perfect health. Study functional medicine.

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Festivals and feast days are rituals celebrated by all of humanity everywhere around the world, in all cultures and throughout all civilizations.

Rituals focus our minds and hearts. They create rhythms. Rhythms and rituals help to balance the dark and the light. Rituals bring heaven to Earth. They anchor great ideals into our world.

Rituals help humanity to maintain a focus on things of nature and of the spirit.

St. Brigid’s Day (Monday, Feb. 1) and Candlemas (Feb. 2) are both festivals that tell us we are in between winter and spring (crossquarter days) and that spring is near. As St. Brigid holds a cross (wheel of time, the changing seasons) and a bowl of fire in her hands, Candlemas is a time of blessing and distributing candles—light in the midst of winter. Both St. Brigid’s Day and Candlemas occur in the sign of Aquarius—“the Light that shines in the dark, over

the seas (emotional world), purifying the darkness (ignorance, fears, cruelties, etc.) until the dark is gone.”

Both feast days are thus, in our esoteric occult world, Aquarian.

Candlemas (also called “Imbolc” [Celtic] and Groundhog Day) occurs 40 days after Christmas, when Hebrew infants were brought to the temple to be blessed and the mother purified (“mikvah” is Hebrew for purification, a holy bath). “And so, after 40 days Mary was purified in the temple.”

Forty days is esoterically a time of preparation for higher spiritual work. There are many biblical references to the number. All were purification times. We too “bathe” during this time. Purifying our bodies with sunlight, with cedar and sage, lavender and pine. We light our fires. We shed any darkness. We make scones with milk and butter.

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Something benevolent and bountiful (Jupiter) happens between you and the world at large, and between you and your work and profession. You’re inspired, encouraged and guided toward all that is good. With careful study, preparation, and viewing the past in terms of your talents and gifts, pathways open, choices and then commitments are made, and abundance settles into your heart.

CANCER Jun21–Jul20 A new and different daily routine, new structures, perhaps new studies have been introduced to you. They make you feel generous and capable. For the first time you feel at home. It’s good to explore a culture or a time or a reality that is unknown to you. Perhaps shrouded in secrecy or hidden in dreams and in history. Studying this changes your inner and outer life. You are happy.

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Each day you subtly become more perceptive, more wise, more intuitive, and enlightened about those around you, especially co-workers. Someone, something, some words, or the love of one of the kingdoms, shift you into a deeper awareness of spiritual realities. This comes through intimacy, resources, visions, or dreams. Love is joyful. It is always kind.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 You relate better with others, especially those close by if you see them as essential divine beings. They will bloom and flourish, increase, thrive, prosper, and unfold like a lotus.

You offer them praise and love in abundance. Challenging no one, offering compassionate praise and understanding instead. You begin to be nourished. The past drops away.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 So many different ideas are in your mind. Perhaps you’re thinking of moving far away. A place in the sun. Perhaps it’s to return home. You want a place near a body of water. Somehow you feel clouded as to where home is.

Yes, Neptune has you in a boat somewhere, directions into the future unknown. Bask in these unknowns. They are like clouds. Nourishing you till the next phase of personal development appears. Study the I-Ching.

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 For the next five months your thoughts become happy, optimistic. You’re understanding many life questions.

You will shift from vagueness (Neptune) to realizing intentions for goodwill. You will bring grace and goodness to all interactions. You help others who have lost their way. Begin writing (journaling, blogging) about your daily life. You have important things to share.

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 This coming year may feel like all things in form and matter continue to disappear. This means you must be very careful with all resources, especially money. You may feel wounded by what you consider to be a lack of important things in your life. Do not allow this to be your interpretation. You are being prepared for something important. In order to help others.

You must experience these things before humanity does, so you can help them. You carry the Aquarius task.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 You will be given new responsibilities this year. Carefully follow through with them. Visualize everything first.

Organize all environments, papers, schedules, agendas, and commitments. Grace and beauty and a new sense of identity will emerge. Tithe generously and consistently to those in need. Change your eating habits. The Paleo Autoimmune Diet is turning out to be best for all of us.

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fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 15-2097 The following individual is doing business as seaBreeZe BoutiQue. 235 piNe flat rd., saNta cruZ, ca 95060.

County of santa Cruz. deBra duhamel. 235 piNe flat rd., saNta cruZ, ca 95060. This business is conducted by an individual signed: deBra duhamel. 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.

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d’amore felloWship, fiamma d’amore iNstitute, fiamma d’amore iNstitute & miNistries. 18 seacliff driVe, aptos, ca 95003.

County of santa Cruz. michele demouliN. 18 seacliff driVe, aptos, ca 95003. This business is conducted by an individual signed: michele demouliN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 8/8/2013. This statement was filed with Gail l. Pellerin, County Clerk of santa Cruz County, on Jan. 4, 2016. Jan. 13, 20, 27, & feb.

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County of santa Cruz. JeNNy rashe. 138 graNdVieW st., saNta cruZ, ca 95060. This business is conducted by an individual signed: JeNNy rashe. 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 Jan. 04, 2016. Jan. 13, 20, 27, & feb. 3.

BrosiNg. 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.

22, 2015. Jan. 6, 13, 20, 27.

fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0032 The following individual is doing business as deaN somerVille tree guy. 1745 lotmaN dr., saNta cruZ, ca 95062.

County of santa Cruz. deaN somerVille. 1745 lotmaN dr., saNta cruZ, ca 95062. This business is conducted by an individual signed: deaN somerVille. 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 Jan. 6, 2016. Jan. 13, 20, 27, & feb. 3.

santa Cruz County, on Jan. 5, 2016. Jan. 13, 20, 27, & feb.

3. fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0022 The following General Partnership is doing business as VeteraNs taKe charge store. 101 cedar st. apt 102, saNta cruZ, ca 95060. County of santa Cruz. JustiN BaKer & daVid ramos. 101 cedar st. apt 102, saNta cruZ, ca 95060. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: JustiN BaKer. 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 Jan. 5, 2016. Jan. 13, 20, 27, & feb.

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as eQuiliBrium. 543 seaBright aVe., saNta cruZ, ca 95062. County of santa Cruz. austiN tWohig, domoNiQue speight, & KelleN rice.

543 seaBright aVe., saNta cruZ, ca 95062.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: austiN tWohig. 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 Jan. 11, 2016.

Jan. 20, 27, & feb. 3, 10.

22400 loVe creeK rd., BeN lomoNd, ca 95005.

This business is conducted by an individual signed: haNNah QuiNN. 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 Jan. 12, 2016. Jan. 20, 27, & feb.

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fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0009 The following individual is doing business as fiamma d’amore, fiamma

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fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0093 The following individual is doing business as QuiNN cleaNiNg. 22400 loVe creeK rd., BeN lomoNd, ca 95005. County of santa Cruz. haNNah QuiNN.

fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0125 The following individual is doing business as Bay NatiVes BotaNicals. 23 e. Beach st. #209.

WatsoNVille, ca 95076.

County of santa Cruz. laureN o’doNNell. 23 e.

Beach st. #209.

WatsoNVille, ca 95076.

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fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 15-2143 The following individual is doing business as B.c.s, BrosiNg coNstructioN serVices. 7171 mesa dr., aptos, ca 95003. County of santa Cruz. Karl h.

BrosiNg. 7171 mesa dr., aptos, ca 95003. This business is conducted by an individual signed: Karl h.

fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0020 The following individual is doing business as crust BiKes. 299 huBBard gulch, BeN lomoNd, ca 95005. County of santa Cruz. daVid yost. 299 huBBard gulch, BeN lomoNd, ca 95005. This business is conducted by an individual signed: daVid yost. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 9/10/2015. This statement was filed with Gail l. Pellerin, County Clerk of

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fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0097 The following individual is doing business as asaNte plumBiNg. 921 cayuga st., uNit c. saNta cruZ, ca 95062. County of santa Cruz. roBert thuita. 921 cayuga st., uNit c. saNta cruZ, ca 95062.

This business is conducted by an individual signed: roBert thuita. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 11/30/2015. This statement was filed with Gail l. Pellerin, County Clerk of santa Cruz County, on Jan. 13, 2016. Jan. 20, 27, & feb.

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fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0151 The following individual is doing business as califorNia safety coNcepts. 2664 freedom BlVd., WatsoNVille, ca 95076.

County of santa Cruz. heriBerto garcia. 2664 freedom BlVd., WatsoNVille, ca 95076.

This business is conducted by an individual signed: heriBerto garcia. 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 Jan. 20, 2016. Jan. 27, & feb. 3, 10, 17. fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0061 The following limited liability Company is doing business as missioN dry cleaNers. 1224 missioN street. saNta cruZ, ca 95060. County of santa Cruz. mirshamsi, llc.

1224 missioN street. saNta cruZ, ca 95060. ai# 25810016. This business is conducted by a limited liability Company signed: Valy JalaliaN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/8/2016.

This statement was filed with Gail l. Pellerin, County Clerk of santa Cruz County, on Jan. 8, 2016. Jan. 20, 27, & feb. 3, 10. chaNge of Name iN the superior court of califorNia, for the couNty of saNta cruZ petitioN of lucy oliVia stagNaro chaNge of Name case No.16cV00154. the court fiNds that the petitioner lucy oliVia stagNaro has filed a Petition for Change of name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: lucy oliVia stagNaro to: oliVia Kacey stagNaro. the court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at

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the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. if no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Notice of heariNg march 7, 2016 at 8:30 am, in department 5 located at superior court of california, 701 ocean street. santa cruz, ca 95060. a copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.

Dated: Jan. 21, 2016. Denine Guy, Judge of the superior Court. Jan. 27, & feb. 3, 10, 17. fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16 - 0101 The following General Partnership is doing business as BotaNic aNd luXe. 701-a froNt street, saNta cruZ, ca 95062.

County of santa Cruz. ariel carlsoN & leilaNi KaNter. 701-a froNt street, saNta cruZ, ca 95062. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: ariel carlsoN. 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 Jan. 13, 2016. Jan. 20, 27, & feb.

3, 10. statemeNt of aBaNdoNmeNt of use of fictitious BusiNess Name The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: KeViN’s tool repair.

2050 tWiN hills driVe, saNta cruZ, ca 95065.

The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in saNta cruZ couNty on: 3/12/2012. KeViN’s tool repair. 2050 tWiN hills driVe, saNta cruZ, ca 95065. This business was conducted by: inDiViDUal: KeViN riddle. This statement was filed with the County Clerk- Recorder of sanTa CRUZ CoUnTy on the date indicated by the file stamp: Filed: Jan. 21, 2016. file No.2012-0000611. Jan. 27, & feb. 3, 10, 17. fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0111 The following individual is doing business as ds paiNtiNg. 1141 el dorado aVe., saNta cruZ, ca 95062. County of santa Cruz. daVid alleN smith.

1141 el dorado aVe., saNta cruZ, ca 95062.

This business is conducted by an individual signed: daVid alleN smith. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is Not

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Massage Call Curt feel good now! muscles relaxed and moods adjusted. De-stress in my warm safe hands.

2 or 4 hand massage.Days and evenings, CmP FeelGoodnowmassage.com. Call 831.419.1646 spec. in neck, shoulder & low back issues.

Gentle/deep, manual lymphatic therapy & Feldenkrais method. Gift certificates, Valentine & package specials. 20+ yrs exp.

Debora morrison CmT, CFT, mlDT 831.458.3704

With Us, A*wonderful*Touch.

All You MissRelaxing, Is Therapeutic, light to Deep swedish massage for men. Peaceful The Worry! environment. 14 yrs. exp. Days/early Pm. Jeff 831.332.8594.

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healTh & Wellness medical Drug and alcohol Detox, outpatient or Residential, suboxone/ Buprenorphine consultations. local santa Cruz m.D. Call 831.800.1313.

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DATTA KHALSA

Broker/Owner • Cal DRE 01161050 831.818.0181 • datta@mainstrealtors.com

Urine The Clear - U/a Testing on-site, on-call collection for First lab & medtox. Pre-screen testing for alcohol and 5 panel drug levels.

Call 831 .333.6736

caregiver HAZEL’S HELPING HANDS i am an in-home companion caregiver. i provide driving, shopping, cooking, etc. i am willing to accompany clients to Dr. apts.

Call 541.912.6593

roToTilling/ gardening services Happy Gardens Rototilling 831.234.4341

Santa Cruz

BOULDER CREEK

Great Commute Location

Gorgeous Remodel

Large Carbonera Estates Home

Excellent Income Potential

Fabulous mostly useable 12,800sf parcel w/ huge building pad. Pleasant views to the west looking through the oaks. Country feel but close to town & freeway.

2 level ocean view Bonny Doon home. Fully remodeled 4280sf, 3BR/3BA, on sunny, flat 1.36 acres. Backs to 7,000AC Wilder Ranch park.

Close in yet country feel. Wonderful light & bright floor plan. Delightful backyard w/ several decks, Koi pond, gazebo and flat, useable land. Great commute location.

Investor alert! 3 - 1/1 units, and 1 - 2/1. Serene views and privacy.

All units have deck or patio.

$395,900

$1,235,000

$899,000

$469,900

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