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I was very disappointed in your choice of Tom Tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s twisted cartoon on the Second Amendment (Feb. 20). In these difficult times, let us not be distracted and confused by propagandistic manipulations which are the antithesis of mindful thinking, and look at the original intention of the Second Amendment: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The strongest reason for a people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in governmentâ&#x20AC;?-Thomas Jefferson.

As Obama enlarges his Drone Assassination List of robotic death from above and the criminal banker elite rob many American families openly for fun and profit, this quote from the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States speaks far better to us on the subject than Mr. Tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cartoon.

You might also watch the new documentary Hubris from MSNBC and see why the above quote by Thomas Jefferson is just as important today as it was in 1776, and is certainly nothing to make jokes about.

DREW LEWIS Santa Cruz

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always fun to invoke Thomas Jefferson, and we understand that. The problem with the above quote, like so many attributed to some important historical figure in order to lend weight to oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s argument, is that Jefferson never actually said it. The quote first showed up in an op-ed piece in 1989, and no one knows where the author got it. It has been floating around since, despite no record of it in any of Jeffersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speeches, papers or letters. So maybe it is worth a chuckle after all?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Editor

Safe Houses Re: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ten By Tenâ&#x20AC;? (Briefs, Feb. 20): Every night, there are approximately 2,700 homeless individuals in Santa Cruz County. Chronically homeless individuals live 30 years less than the average American. A typical monthly public cost to support a homeless individual is 5x higher than permanent housing.

Chronic homelessness causes human suffering and poor use of public funds.

The Homeless Services Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s revolutionary [180/180 Project] aims to transform 180 individualsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives, while shifting how we address homelessness. To volunteer, visit 180santacruz.org.

JENNAFER LANE AND SYDNEY FARHANG Santa Cruz

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Dezombified Re: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Back to Basicsâ&#x20AC;? (Wellness, Feb. 6): â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think one of the biggest travesties of modern medicine is that nutrition has somehow become alternative medicine,â&#x20AC;? says Shunney.

Absolutely! I suffered deteriorating health and chronic inflammation for several difficult years. I saw a handful of recommended rheumatologists, a dozen neurologists (severe pain) and other modern specialists. Spent thousands of dollars on unnecessary surgeries, emergency room visits, etc. Finally, being little more than the walking dead, I saw Dr. Shunney and she gave me my life back. In my case, it was gluten and dairy intolerance combined with too much sugar. It was killing me and I had no idea.

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Launch Special Re: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sole Powerâ&#x20AC;? (Wellness, Dec. 19): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Orbiting planet Blissâ&#x20AC;? is one of the many reasons why I have been getting Botanical Reflexology from Christine since she started her practice. She is so passionate about what she does and is incredibly knowledgeable about so many aspects of the human body.

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THE PARK IS MINE Ken Collins, a Santa Cruz big-wave surfer turned controversial activist, talks to an officer while cleaning up at Harvey West.

Making Waves Surfer and public-safety activist Ken Collins is Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s angriest man BY JACOB PIERCE

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en Collins has been talking nonstop for 15 minutes. His voice is getting hoarse, and the cold he fought off a day earlier sounds like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming back. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a small surf city with big city problems. It should never have gotten this bad,â&#x20AC;? he says, sitting at a picnic table about 30 yards from the Harvey West Park woods where he played hide-and-seek as a kid. These days, Collins wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let his children on the playground.

Collins has with him an empty plastic milk carton of cigarette butts and used syringes he found on the ground. When he goes to a city council meeting, he brings the same carton with him, and shakes it like a rattle in between public commenters.

Collins, better known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Skindogâ&#x20AC;? to the extreme sports world, is one

of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier big-wave surfers. Younger brother of aerial surfing legend Jason â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ratboyâ&#x20AC;? Collins, he competed in the Mavericks Surf Competition last monthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and from the looks of it, probably hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t smiled since. Collins took up this local cause after a long Tuesday walk in November when he and about 20 others found a bunch of trash on the railroad tracks and stormed into the city council chambers to give the politicians an earful.

Collins isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only person angry about used needles and homeless addicts around Pogonip City Park, the San Lorenzo River and Cowell Beach, which ranked as the worst beach in California last year. But he might be the most controversial. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santa Cruz is a supermodel with

AIDS,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this beautiful place thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s completely diseased.â&#x20AC;?

Collins calls the Homeless Services Center a â&#x20AC;&#x153;crack house.â&#x20AC;? (HSC director Monica Martinez responds that the center has a drug-free policy.) He says the city manager should be fired for failing to address Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public safety, and accuses city councilmembers of not doing their jobs, even though two of them began their first terms less than two months ago.

Collins is a little short on patience.

Volunteers Craig Lambert and Gary Young are working nearby in Harvey Westâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s baseball field to build a batting cage. Last season, the two men, both of them fathers, showed up early before little league games to clean trash off the field. They say someone has to do what Collins is doing.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough to deny that Collins, regardless of what anyone thinks of what he spouts, embodies the frustration that erupted after fellow surfer Dylan Greiner made a YouTube video in November about three tons of trash in the caves near Cowell Beach.

Collins says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just harping on problems, but also has solutions.

He suggests the city build public restrooms with surveillance cameras out front, while also hiring a 10member group to pick up trash and a four-member team of police officers with all-terrain vehicles and horses to â&#x20AC;&#x153;harassâ&#x20AC;? homeless people and chase drug dealers out of town. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are good homeless people,â&#x20AC;? Collins says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have compassion for the homeless people that are down on their luck and need help, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeking help. But there are junkies who use the homeless population to hide themselves and camouflage themselves to do their dirty, seedy work.â&#x20AC;?

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no evidence that Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent high-profile crimesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;two shootings, a grocery-store robbery and a rape at UCSCâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;were committed by homeless people. But Santa Cruz Police Captain Steve Clark says a â&#x20AC;&#x153;playful attitudeâ&#x20AC;? about drug use has plagued Santa Cruz for years, and leads to more crime.

At a recent city council meeting, councilmember Don Lane cautioned against dividing homeless people into different camps. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those are all people who are homeless, and they may have different needs, and the community may want to deal with them differently, but we do need to deal with them,â&#x20AC;? Lane said at the Feb. 12 meeting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fact that someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homeless and a drug addict does not make them a non-human being in our community. And we need to deal with those folks in a constructive way, too.â&#x20AC;?

Skindog is not backing down. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My approach has been very aggressive.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very aggressive,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pussyfoot around this. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tread lightly trying to be polite, because thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to work.â&#x20AC;? 0

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Briefs They Take a Walk

According to Second Harvest Food Bank, one in four children in the county need food relief. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not part of the common perception of Santa Cruz County that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of poverty or childhood hunger,â&#x20AC;? says Thomas, who holds a Ph.D. in Literature from UCSC. But according to Second Harvest Food Bank, one in four children in the county need food relief. Even more disturbing is the fact that the number has gone up from one in eight children 10 years ago.

With the hopes of raising enough awareness over the next few years to start a $1 million endowment fund dedicated to feeding all of the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hungry children, Danzer and Thomas will set out from Capitola just after midnight on Friday, March 1, and proceed to walk the roughly 36-hour trek without stopping to sleep.

As of yet, the longest training walk the men have completed is 46 miles, or about half the full course. But that has been enough to demonstrate the challenges of the undertaking. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The two biggest obstacles we have are pain

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Go Bowling Nothing fuels a productive and intelligent practice discussion like a crisp beer in one hand, and a pile of Goldfish in the other. This is how the UCSC Ethics Bowl team is preparing for the upcoming national competition in San Antonio, Texas on Feb. 28.

Ethics Bowl is like Debate Team, but with a philosophical approach. Instead of using the law to support their claims, or discussing pros and cons, the teams make arguments as to what they find morally permissible.

To prepare, the Slugs have been extensively discussing a range of reallife case studies, such as PETAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extreme tactics, illegal DVD copying for American troops and exotic game hunting on U.S. ranches. They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know in advance which case theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to discuss in front of an opposing team and panel of judges. But theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be scored based on their response, their level of preparation, coherency, focus and their respectful handling of the topics. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not about the end result,â&#x20AC;? says team member Hanna Pitz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we win, great. If we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean the skills I have acquired disappear.

We have brought theories to life and challenged each other to have an open mind.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ethics Bowl strives to cultivate civic virtue,â&#x20AC;? says UCSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team coach, Kyle Robertson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are practicing to be engaged citizens of our democracy.â&#x20AC;?

Okay, sure, winning isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t everything, butâ&#x20AC;Śare they going to win? If the team brings it this week in Texas, Robertson thinks their chances are good. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a great team this year,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have the ability to win the whole thing.â&#x20AC;? 0

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When most people see a problem, what do they do? Volunteer a few hours of their time? Donate a couple hundred bucks, or perhaps organize a silent auction? No disrespectâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;these are all great things to do, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safe to say that in Santa Cruz County the gauntlet has officially been thrown.

Chris Danzer and Jake J. Thomas, two self-proclaimed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hunger Warriors,â&#x20AC;? have set out to walk the entire 91-mile circumference of the county in an event they are calling â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not on Our Watch: An Epic Trek to End Childhood Hunger in Santa Cruz County.â&#x20AC;?

and fear, and they go hand in hand,â&#x20AC;? says Thomas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our training has taught us that we will get walls of pain. That our feet are going to hurt, our joints are going to hurt, and at some point the pain will be overwhelming. That creates a lot of fear. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also learned the importance of hydration and nutrition, which of course goes back into the idea of this being about hunger in the first place,â&#x20AC;? he says.

Danzer and Thomas will be hosting a launch party at Santa Cruz Boardroom in Capitola from 10pmmidnight on Friday, March 1.

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All Hands On Deck

The artisan food movement is a runaway success in Santa Cruz

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hen even Round Table says they have an â&#x20AC;&#x153;artisanâ&#x20AC;? pizza, you know the term has been co-opted.

But Heather WagnerJauregg thinks Santa Cruz can take it back. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You keep hearing â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;artisanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and it kind of gets muddied. What defines it?â&#x20AC;? she admits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But these food producers ARE artists.â&#x20AC;?

The artisan food movement has exploded in Santa Cruz, and Wagner-Jauregg has had an inside look at it over the last year. As the head of Homegrown Specialties Marketplace, she acts as a broker for many of the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culinary artists, helping them to establish and market their brand, and get their product into stores.

Though the current wave of food artisans here is approaching Mavericks-like

dimensions, Wagner-Jauregg points out that Santa Cruz has long been ahead of the curve. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always been here,â&#x20AC;? she says of the local appetite for old-school, smallbatch culinary techniques that emphasize handcrafting. With this new generation, though, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew there was kind of a niche for a broker who helps the small producer, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how I started,â&#x20AC;? she says.

Some of Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artisan producers are now established enough to take their products to another level, which can raise tricky questions that WagnerJauregg helps them navigate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where do you want your products to be? If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in Raleighâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, are you still an artisan producer? A lot of these companies, they tell me where they want to be,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;no, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a good fit for my product, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d rather not be in that store.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

In this issue, we take a look at some of Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most

interesting food artisans across a range of categoriesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; pizza, ice cream, baked goods and more. One thing that became abundantly clear is that people have their own definitions of â&#x20AC;&#x153;artisan,â&#x20AC;? and even some of the producers we talked to had to think hard about whether their own products should be described like that.

But even with its fuzzy boundaries, the artisan movement in Santa Cruz is impressive. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a true community here, powered by creative people who, besides their techniques, share some personality traits as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I look for passion, and I look for commitment,â&#x20AC;? says Wagner-Jauregg of her artisan clients. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have to have patience, because everything in the food industry takes a long time.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be challenging, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a bumpy ride.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Steve Palopoli

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tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s practically an embarrassment of riches, this delicious wave of artisanal pizza that has swept over our community.

Yet the craze for this ancient culinary design of flatbread topped with variations on the theme of tomato, cheese, peppers, meat and herbs just keeps growing. And no one in Santa Cruz is complaining.

Once there was only 3\UTS`, but now Seabrightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;pizza triangleâ&#x20AC;? boasts the crusty dazzle of :O >]abO and the pesto-intensive menu of B`O[]\bW. Meanwhile on the Westside, newcomers >WhhS`WO /dO\bW and 0O\bO[ have won their own followings of Neopolitan-style fanatics.

If this all seems like too much pizza, consider that nothing is simpler to consume. All one needs is a hand, and a mouth. The thin, bubbly-crisp

dough â&#x20AC;&#x153;pieâ&#x20AC;? can be topped with almost anything the consumer desires. And pizza is not, well, as expensive to produce as a grass-fed Angus steak.

Hence, this is the very moment for a designer pizza surplus.

Fueled by one of those Mugnaini gas-fired ovens, B`O[]\bW offers Italian-style downhome trattoria atmosphere with lots of long tables and an exhibition kitchen. Pizza crust at the neighborhood newcomer is volcanic and delicious and is the handiwork of pizza chef Beppe Vitagliano. Fresh, simple and as authentically Italian as its owners, Tramonti unashamedly showcases its giant pies, as well as giant pastas and salads, on Mondays as well as at lunchtime.

Meanwhile, across the parking lot at :O >]abO, the kitchen of Katherine Stern offers a menu of contemporary Italian dishes in an invitingly sophisticated setting. And

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while pizza is only one of the house specialties, it is destination-quality, with its handmade doughs and inventive toppings. Patrice Boyle, owner of La Posta restaurant, told us that for environmental reasons she chose a Wood Stone oven-brick, gas fired pizza oven for La Posta. The choice was made to help maintain air quality in the immediate neighborhood, â&#x20AC;&#x153;since there was a wood oven across the street,â&#x20AC;? Boyle explained. The results are addictive, as fans of the popular Tuesday night â&#x20AC;&#x153;$15 pizza plus a glass of wineâ&#x20AC;? special can attest. La Postaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pizzettesized creations offer crisp, chewy crusts and well-balanced additions from wild nettles to classic fourcheese voluptuousness.

And across the street from both Tramonti and La Posta sits the longstanding landmark 3\UTS` >WhhOe]`Ya, the welcoming, cavernous lovechild of Elizabeth

Engfer and Katherine McCamant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our oven is completely woodfired,â&#x20AC;? McCamant explains, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and made in Italy.â&#x20AC;? Inlaid with localhand-painted tiles, the huge oven was installed in 1989 â&#x20AC;&#x153;through the front plate glass window.â&#x20AC;? Engferâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crowd-pleasing pizzas, including vegan and gluten-free options, are made to orderâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and â&#x20AC;&#x153;made with love,â&#x20AC;? adds McCamant. Engferâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pizza style, McCamant continues, â&#x20AC;&#x153;is not East Coast, although the majority of East Coast customers are pleasantly surprised and impressed when they taste our pizza. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also not Neopolitan. Not Chicago, not Sicilian, and not particularly Californian. Our crust is thin, but not cracker thin. Can be crisp, can be chewy. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not bland and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great vehicle for any topping combination.â&#x20AC;?

Recently on the Westside, two establishmentsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one sparkling new, the other a cozy revival of an old favoriteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are busy whipping up handmade pizzas for the discerning pizzaphile. 0O\bO[â&#x20AC;&#x201D;very Milanese industrial, with a colorfully-tiled almond-wood-fired Mugnaini oven as its crown jewelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is the newest kid on the block. As we know, the whole secret to great pizza crust is the ability to get that pie into a very hot oven (1000 degrees). No, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do that at home. But Bantam can. Bantamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flavorful and rippling crusts are fueled by unbleached organic flour and simple, straightforward toppings devised by chef Melissa Reitz for the vibrant new pizza parlor owned by Ben and Sarah Sims.

On Mission Street, the old Ristorante Avanti has transformed itself into >WhhS`WO /dO\bW by the presence of a gas-fired Marsal & Sons pizza oven, the secret weapon in a very successful seduction of loyal regulars. Many are already enamored of the textbook Neopolitan-style pizzas, small and large, made by Jeremy Federicoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s able kitchen staff.

Inventive salads offer the seasonal, gourmet counterpoint to the straightforward pizzas. And the selection of $8 wines by the glass makes dinners at Pizzeria Avanti an affordable, and hence frequent, pit stop for Westside neighbors.

With such an abundance of handmade pizza possibilities, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good thing to live in Santa Cruz. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Christina Waters

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People tend to know it when they taste it,â&#x20AC;? says Heidi Hochstrasser, a baker and the co-manager of the pastry department at Companion Bakery on Mission Street. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For us, it means that our bakers approach their craft with the same level of care and attention an artist would to a work of art.â&#x20AC;?

Companionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breads, baguettes, scones and other baked goods are hand-crafted at every step of the process, using organic and local

ingredients. It takes anywhere from 20-30 hours from the very beginning of the process until the baker pulls the loaf out of the brick oven. They work with as many root ingredients as they can, for instance using fresh, local pumpkins in their pumpkin bread.

Though the definition of â&#x20AC;&#x153;artisanâ&#x20AC;? is a moving target, at Companion it means using wild yeast and sourdough starters whenever possible, as opposed to commercial yeast products. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The flavors of the fermentation of the wild yeast are more alive, and more unique,â&#x20AC;? Hochstrasser explains.

One of the harder-to-find items that

Companion bakes is its handmade croissants, which are made with a sourdough starter. It gives it a more subtly complex flavor.

The definition of â&#x20AC;&#x153;artisanâ&#x20AC;? also intrigues Carren Dixon, owner of Buttercup Cupcakes. Despite the degree to which Buttercup makes everything from scratch, in small batches, Dixon says she never really thought about it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Each cake is hand-decorated, with an emphasis on balancing beauty with flavor. I suppose these practices could qualify us as an artisan bakery,â&#x20AC;? says Dixon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yay!â&#x20AC;?

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ingredients, which she feels is a major part of what gives her cupcakes a softer, more complete taste. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People have grown so accustomed to the taste of food that has been tampered with (artificial flavors, preservatives, hormones, agricultural chemicals) that a product without this seems a culinary trick,â&#x20AC;? says Dixon.

Even though buttercup uses simple, natural ingredients, part of the appeal is the complex flavor combinations her cakes utilize, like Carrot Ginger, the Hibiscus Flower (hibiscus, cream and chocolate) and the Triple Orange (which is Earl Grey and blood orange).

There are many local staples in Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;like Beckmannâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s French Bakery, Rebeccaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mighty Muffins (now at the Tannery), Hoffmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Emilyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Of the artisan bakeries in town, one of the oldest is the Buttery, on Soquel. They serve a little of everything: cakes, pastries, loaves of bread, sandwiches, breakfast and even soup. In the 29 years of doing business, things have changed in regards to how â&#x20AC;&#x153;artisanâ&#x20AC;? has been defined. When they started the standard for bakeries was to use mixes and shortening. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the time [when we opened] in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, artisan baking meant everything was made at the shop, using good ingredients just like you would at home. Things taste better when you use real ingredients.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just no way around that,â&#x20AC;? says owner Janet Platin.

While Platin uses wild yeast when possible, and makes everything from scratch, where Platin differs from some of the newer artisan bakeries is that they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily use organic or local ingredients, which, as she points out, is a newer definition of the term. What really brings out the complex flavors, she says, is using high-quality ingredients from scratch. Right from the beginning, while everyone was using shortening, she was using butter, which makes a big difference.

Handmade, high-quality baked goods, in her experience, fill people up quicker since they are eating food with more sustenance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are satisfied with a little bit less. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a well-rounded flavor. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel like something is missing,â&#x20AC;?

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hen Chris LaVeque says the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;artisan,â&#x20AC;? he says it like thatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with quotation marks around it, as in, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really consider what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing [finger quote] â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;artisan.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

The owner of El Salchichero butcher shop, 28-year-old LaVeque has a round, rosy-cheeked face, but a voice as deep and authoritative as a professional athlete. Upon further reflection, he reconsiders. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never thought about what the definition of artisan meat would be,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Small-scale production with pride, I guess. We are immensely proud of what we do.â&#x20AC;?

For its handcrafted bacon, cured meat and salami, the sunny West Side shop allots entire days to breaking up a cow or pig and taking care to use each pieceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;bones are sold for soup stock and even the tendons and beef trim go into a house-made dog food.

LaVeque also owns the throwback nature of what El Salchichero is doing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No one does whole animal butchery anymore,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can call a lot of places and be like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I need five cases of ribeye,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll come from six or eight different cows. What happens to the rest of the cow? No one knows.â&#x20AC;? Of handcrafted salami, which must be aged for three months at a pH of exactly 4.6 to let the flavors intensify, he says no one closer than San Francisco is doing anything

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similar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a total lost art that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve brought back. No one knows how to do it anymore. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of cool that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing it.â&#x20AC;?

Fogline Farm is also trying to bring back something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been lost in the age of industrial farming. Though you wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know it from the way things are done at most large-scale farms, pigs are traditionally forest-dwelling herd animals. Their natural proclivity is to travel in small groups, continually moving through the landscape in search of new food. In the Santa Cruz Mountains just above Soquel, the pigs at Fogline Farm get to do just that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We mimic their natural patterns in the way we raise them,â&#x20AC;? says Fogline co-owner Jonathan Wilson, who goes by Johnny. Foglineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pigs are moved to fresh ground two, sometimes three times a week.

Foglineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s handcrafted sausages are made in small batches of 10-15 pounds at a time and flavored with herbs, spices and produce grown on the farm. Co-owner Caleb Barron says their meat is moister, more tender, and has a richer flavor than pork sold at the grocery storeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so much so that it sometimes throws first-time customers off. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ninety percent of our customers from the farmers market say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh, a pork chop. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll try it.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And then they come back and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What is this? This is the best pork chop weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever had,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? says Wilson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And we tell them, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pig,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? says Barron. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Georgia Perry

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ocals who have watched the Penny Ice Creamery expand to three locations in as many years can be forgiven for thinking that its founders are looking to go â&#x20AC;&#x153;big time.â&#x20AC;? But the truth is most of the conversations between owners Kendra Baker and Zach Davis are about how to stay small time, even as the business grows.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really talk a lot about â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;is this the right step? Are we still going to be able to have that farm-direct connection?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? says Baker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really important to us that the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Penny wayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is maintained.â&#x20AC;?

The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Penny wayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; includes, but is not limited to: creative, boundarypushing flavors; sourcing from local producers; making their ice cream from scratch; and committing to using the smallest pasteurizer on the market, which limits them to very small batches, but allows for a huge amount of flexibility in each one.

It has led to the Penny phenomenon, which began when they opened their first shop on Cedar Street in 2010. Within a year, they had a second ice cream location, the kiosk on Pacific Avenue, as well as the Picnic Basket, a restaurant that features the culinary work of other local artisans.

Now, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re opening a full-service shop on 41st Avenue, as well.

Baker feels they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have picked a better area in terms of local

both indoors and out. consumers understanding what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing, and why itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are this small little incubator for amazing great things, whether it be music, art, food, farming, innovative technology,â&#x20AC;? she says of Santa Cruz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inspiring. Great things come from this small little coastal town.â&#x20AC;?

Of course, this has always been a great town for frozen sweets.

Marianneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has been an institution for over 50 years. Mariniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and a long lineage of gelato spots have fostered the local obsession. That paved the way not only for Baker and Davis, but for Dave Kumec, who after a brief retail stint in 2010 built his Mission Hill Creamery brand in supermarkets, and last October opened a shop on Pacific Avenue.

Kumec graduated from UCSC in the early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s, and when he returned in 1995, he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t too impressed with the Santa Cruz culinary scene. But heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seen it grow steadily since then, as locals have become increasingly interested in a return to old-school techniques and values. With Bi-Rite and Taraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Organic Ice Cream flourishing in the Bay Area, he felt that artisan ice cream could be big in Santa Cruz, as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This is the beginning of a movement I want to be a part of,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? he remembers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are gaining an awareness of what is in the ice cream they used to like so much, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really want to eat that.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; They want to be more connected to the food they eat.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Steve Palopoli

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risten Cederquistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Santa Rosa Plum Preserves taste as sweet and wholesome as a fruit pie home-baked by Doris Day, topped with an American flag and finished off with a swirl of whipped cream. Cederquist, who owns Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Serendipity Jams, began making jams with grandma at age five and hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t looked back.

But like many artisan food companies nearby, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Serendipityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surprising flavors that have heads turning and taste buds excited.

Cederquistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Spicy Fresno Red Pepper Jelly has a kick that lasts through each bite, while her Cranberry JalapeĂąo Jelly blends soothing sweetness with a stinging thrill that feels almost like bumblebees trying to get out of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mouth. Yummy bumblebees, though.

Cederquist isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only person in the Monterey Bay blending surprising flavors into exciting new snack creations. A host of foodies have developed interesting snacks fit for any picnic and the warm weather on its way.

Jeannieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Artisan Jams, for instance, sells 41 jams, 11 marmalades, seven pepper jellies, five tomato jams,

five chutneys and two wine jelliesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; everything from Vanilla Spiced Pear Butter to Papaya Spiced Rum. The woman behind it all is potter Jeannie Munson (obviously an overachiever), who says she has learned not to take it personally that some of her crazier flavors get overlooked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would be easy if I were just making five kinds of jam, but it would be boring,â&#x20AC;?

Munson says of her culinary passion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little bit like poetry. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art.â&#x20AC;?

Anyway, for this hypothetical picnic you may want something besides pressed fruits to smear on your bread and crackers. Garden Variety Cheese, in Royal Oaks near

Watsonville, carries five kinds of sheepâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cheese, all of them aged anywhere from two to eight months, in addition to yogurt. The fruity, buttery Black-Eyed-Susan, the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best-seller, was one of two Garden Variety cheeses to win a 2012 Good Food Award, based in San Francisco.

Up the coast from Royal Oaks, a well-known Santa Cruz establishment is serving up the finest for oils and vinegars, perfect for any salad dressing or baguette. Susan Pappas says she started downtownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The True Olive Connection because her husband Mike had been saying they should open up a hot dog cart, but she worried the hot sun wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be kind to her fair skin. Olive oil was more her speed. The True Olive Connection stresses intriguing pairingsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;like wild mushroom and sage olive oil with fig balsamic vinegar, and blood orange olive oil with a fruity balsamic like cranberry-pear.

Fittingly, right next door is artisan destination Nut Kreations, owned by fourth-generation pistachio farmer Mina Feuerhaken. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to make a really fun shop and also fulfill my own need of making a very tasty trail mix,â&#x20AC;? 28-year-old Feuerhaken says.

The store carries 120 items, and still uses her parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pistachios, grown in the San Joaquin valley. Feuerhakenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dark mint chocolate-coated nuts, salt-and-pepper mango cashews, and Indian spice nuts all sell very well.

For dessert, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no need to load up on processed sugar when Delkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Honey serves up tasty flavored honey harvested here in California, some of it in the Santa Cruz Mountains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My dad was a beekeeper, so I was always messing around with [honey] because it was there,â&#x20AC;? says owner Scott Delk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I never really used sugar.â&#x20AC;?

After years of experimenting, Delk is sticking to his five best-selling flavors ginger, habanero, lemon, rosemary and jalapeno (his personal favorite that he squeezes on â&#x20AC;&#x153;breakfast burritos, pizza, whatever Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m eating,â&#x20AC;? he says).

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An underrated film that affected a generation gets a proper tribute at the Watsonville Film Festival BY SEAN MCCOURT

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hen the rock & roll biopic La Bamba was released back in 1987, it introduced a whole new generation of fans to the story and music of 1950s teenage rocker Ritchie Valens and several of his musical peers.

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the movie, the Watsonville Film Festival is presenting a special tribute screening of La Bamba on Saturday evening (March 2) with filmmaker Luis Valdez and members of Valensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; family in attendance.

It may be hard to believe that it has

been a quarter century since La Bamba came out, particularly for those of us who saw it as youngsters in theaters when it was first released, and were so thoroughly affected by it, as I was.

At a time when MTV dominated the popular music paradigmâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and much of what was played back then has rightfully faded into obscurityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it was truly an eye-opening experience to be taken to see La Bamba as an eight-yearold. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure exactly what it was that sparked such an interest in the film in me; I suppose it was just the right combination of great writing, acting

and directing, which were all supported by a foundation of plain olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; great rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll.

After seeing La Bamba with a group of family and friends, I quickly got a copy of the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soundtrack on cassette and proceeded to listen to it until it was practically worn out. I discovered a generation of artists who had been performing and recording nearly 30 years earlier, but spoke to me more than the ones I was hearing on the radio.

The songs featured in the film were not the original recordings

by the musicians portrayed in La Bambaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, Eddie Cochranâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but they were excellent re-imaginings of early rock classics performed by a new generation of artists, who had themselves been influenced and inspired by these early pioneers.

After being electrified by the performances of Los Lobos, Brian Setzer and Marshall Crenshaw in the film and on the soundtrack, I was introduced to their contemporary work, and then ultimately went back and discovered the original recordings of the young rockers whose story captivated me while watching it on the big screenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and whose music had clearly lived on beyond their untimely deaths in a plane crash back in 1959.

Looking back on it now as an adultâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one that covers music as a professional writerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;seeing La Bamba all those years ago was what helped set me on my career path. It made me the music fan I am today.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking forward to watching it on the big screen again, and hearing what director Luis Valdez and the Valenzuela family (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Valensâ&#x20AC;? was an adopted stage name) have to say about the film. I also suspect that when the audience gets a chance to ask questions and talk about their fondness for La Bamba, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll discover that many others have been just as affected by this vastly underrated film over the last 25 years.

The festival will also feature a selection of youth and emerging talent short films, a familyfriendly program, public health, environmental activism, human rights and LGBT documentaries, selections by local film makers and much more over the course of the weekend.

Watsonville Film Festival March 2-3 (â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;La Bambaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; screens at 6pm Sat.) Mello Center for the Performing Arts

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Freefall Improvisational Theater Bridging comedy and dramatic theater, the troupe creates long-form unscripted, improvised plays. Make a reservation by email: improv@ loon.com. Sat, Mar 2, 8pm. $15. Broadway Playhouse, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz.

Peer Gynt A production of the Henrik Ibsen masterpiece combining traditional theater with new media arts. Fri, Mar 1, 7pm, Sat, Mar 2, 7pm and Sun, Mar 3, 3 and 7pm. Experimental Theater, Theater Arts Center UCSC, Santa Cruz.

CONCERTS Santa Cruz Chamber Players Music for flutes, voice, cello, and piano inspired by the Orient Express. www. santacruztickets.com.

Sat, Mar 2, 8pm and Sun, Mar 3, 3pm. $25 general.

Christ Lutheran Church, 10707 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.420.5260.

Art MUSEUMS &217,18,1* Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Free First Friday. View the exhibits for free every first Friday of the month. Docent tours at noon. First Fri of every month, 11am-6pm.

Spotlight Tours. Bringing the artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; voices directly to visitors. Go behind the scenes and museum-wide exhibitions. First Sat of every month, 11:30am-12:30pm.

Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

GALLERIES 23(1,1* Felix Kulpa Gallery Opening reception for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ignited by the Masters,â&#x20AC;? a ceramic sculpture show. Fri, Mar 1, 6-9pm. 107 Elm St,

VinoCruz Call and Response: Mixed Media Drawings of color and form by Carol Jeneid, Maggie Kitamura and Susan Lysik. First Friday opening reception. Fri, Mar 1, 6-8pm.

725 Front St #101, Santa Cruz, 831.426.8466.

&217,18,1* Cabrillo College Gallery Cabrillo Gallery. Mythical Installation: Scott Serrano presents an installation of an invented tropical island, complete with drawings, portraits and even â&#x20AC;&#x153;specimens.â&#x20AC;? Gallery hours Mon-Fri, 9am-4pm and Mon & Tues 7-9pm. Thru March 15. 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6308.

Davenport Gallery Big Love: An exhibit of paintings, prints and sculpture from local artists.

Thru March 15. 450 Hwy 1, Davenport, 831.426.1199.

Santa Cruz County Bank In Dreams. Six local artists present their viewpoints on dreams and surrealism through a variety of mediums.

At Santa Cruz County Bank locations in Aptos, Capitola, Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley and Watsonville. Monâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Thu, 9amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5pm & Fri. 9amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;6pm, Thru April 26. Free, 831.457.5003.

720 Front St, Santa Cruz.

poetrysantacruz.org. Sat, Mar 2, 7:30pm. $18. Cabrillo College Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.464.8983.

Storytime Former Shakespeare Santa Cruz actress Billie Harris and Book Cafe manager Jill Rose perform animated readings of childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stories. Mon, 11am.

Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

LECTURES Terra-Cotta Warriors A talk by Cabrillo instructor Rose Smith about Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi (258-210 BCE), whose desire for immortality led him to build an army to protect him in the afterlife.

Room: VAPA 1001 Fri, Mar 1, 6-7:30pm. $10. Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos.

The Politics of Wine A talk by Bill Friedland, founder of the UCSC Community Studies Program, about the political economy of the wine and grape industry. Mon, Mar 4, 7pm.

Free. UCSC Music Center Recital Hall, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

NOTICES Beat Sanctuary

Events

A dance class for exploring authentic movement as connection, exercise, prayer and spiritual practice. Wed, 7:30-9:15pm. $15. Santa Cruz Yoga, 402 Ingalls Street, Santa Cruz, 831.227.2156.

LITERARY EVENTS

Business Networking Mixer

Author Event: David Helvarg Executive Director of the Blue Frontier Campaign reads from his book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Golden Shore: Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Love Affair with the Sea.â&#x20AC;? Mon, Mar 4, 7pm. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.460.3232.

Author Event: Timber Hawkeye The author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buddhist Boot Campâ&#x20AC;? shares his philosophy on being a Buddha, rather than a Buddhist, with his emphasis on being kind over following a dogma. Thu, Feb 28, 7:30pm. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415 .

Community Poetry Circle Poetry writing workshop led

by Magdalena Montague, local poet and teacher. Sat, Mar 2, 10am-12pm. Free.

Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.427.7717.

In Celebration of the Muse An annual reading by 20 local women authors. www.

Hosted by the Scotts Valley Chamber. www. scottsvalleychamber.com.

Thu, Feb 28, 5:30-7pm. CafĂŠ Carbonero, 915 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, 831.438.1010.

Cabrillo Stage Casting Call Vocal and dance open call auditions for the Summer Repertory Season. First come, first served. www. cabrillostage.com Sat, Mar 2, 10am-6pm and Sun, Mar 3, 10am-6pm. Cabrillo College Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6429.

A Course In Miracles Study Group A weekly meeting on learning how to forgive and live in peace. Drop-ins are welcome.

Thu, 7-9pm. The Barn Studio, 104b Park Way South, Santa Cruz, 831.272.2246.

Dog Hikes Santa Cruz International Dog Ownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Community hosts a weekly one-hour, easy hike along the beach for dog lovers and their pets. www. newdogsintown.com Mon, 8:45-9:45am. Free. Aptos Beach staircase, 1049 Via Palo Alto, Aptos.

Eating Disorders Resource Center Meeting Groups will be led by Kimberly Kuhn, LCSW and Carolyn Blackman, RN, LCSW. First Fri of every month, 6-7:30pm. Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave, Santa Cruz, 408.559.5593.

Friday Shakespeare Club The club is seeking new members to join them in the study of the Bardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plays. www.fridayshakespeare.org.

Fri, Mar 1, 10am-12:30pm.

First Congregational Church of Santa Cruz, 900 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.421.0930.

Grief Support Group GriefShare is a 13-week support group intended to help those grieving the death of a loved one. Wed, 6:30-8pm. Thru May 15. Free.

Santa Cruz Bible Church, 440 Frederick St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1162.

Insight Santa Cruz Meditation sits, talks and discussions every day of the week. Learn the formal practice of meditation and engage with a community dedicated to reducing suffering by cultivating compassion. Visit www. insightsantacruz.org for specific times and more information. Ongoing.

Insight Santa Cruz, 1010 Fair Avenue, Suite C, Santa Cruz, 831.425.3431.

Job Finding Workshop PROFILE of Santa Cruz offers ongoing workshops on resume writing, communication and interview skills for those who need help finding a job. www.

SantaCruzPROFILE.org. Mon, 9am-12:30pm. Free. Capitola Career Center, 2045 B 40th Ave, Capitola, 831.479.0393.

Qigong Flow Led by Bonnie Eskie, MFT. Tue, 10-11am. $10-$12.

Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.515.4144.

Serenity Firstâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Pagans in Recovery A 12-step meeting with a Pagan flair where guests are free to discuss their nature-based, goddesscentered spiritual paths.

Sun, 7pm. The Sacred Grove, 924 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.1949.

Support and Recovery Groups Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s: Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Assn, 831.464.9982. Cancer: Katz Cancer Resource Center, 831.351.7770; WomenCARE, 831.457.2273.

Candida: 831.471.0737.

Chronic Pain: American Chronic Pain Association, 831.423.1385. Grief and Loss: Hospice, 831.430.3000.

Lupus: Jeanette Miller, 831.566.0962.

Men Overcoming Abusive Behavior: 831.464.3855. SMART Recovery: 831.462.5470.

Trans Latina women: Mariposas, 831.425.5422.

Trichotillomania: 831.457.1004. 12-Step Programs: 831.454.HELP (4357).

Ukulele Performers Wanted Performers, makers and teachers wanted for the Santa Cruz County Ukulele Festival on May 3. Contact Barbara at: castro_barbara@ hotmail.com. Henry J. Mello Center, 250 E. Beach St, Watsonville, 831.239.7285.

Miracle Working Spiritual teacher Dominique Free leads a weekly class on cultivating the consciousness to heal, overcome, succeed and create miracles. Thu, 7-8pm. Conscious Lounge, 1651A El Dorado Av @ Capitola Rd, Santa Cruz, 831.359.0423.

NAACP Santa Cruz Membership and Leadership Outreach Effort Members of the community are invited and encouraged to attend meetings of the NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch #1071. First Mon of every month, 7:30pm.

Progressive Missionary Baptist Church, 517 Center St, Santa Cruz.

Overeaters Anonymous A 12-step support group for those who wish to recover from compulsive eating.

Sundays 9-10:15am at 2900 Chanticleer Ave, Santa Cruz.

Mondays 12:15-1:15pm at

Yoga Instruction Pacific Cultural Center: 35+ classes per week, 831.462.8893. SC Yoga: 45 classes per week, 831.227.2156. TriYoga: numerous weekly classes, 831.464.8100. Yoga Within at Aptos Station, 831.687.0818; Om Room School of Yoga, 831.429.9355; Pacific Climbing Gym, 831.454.9254; Aptos Yoga Center, 831.688.1019; Twin Lotus Center, 831.239.3900. Hatha Yoga with Debra Whizin, 831.588.8527.

Zen, Vipassana, Basic: Intro to Meditation Zen: SC Zen Center, Wed, 5:45pm, 831.457.0206.

Vipassana: Vipassana SC, Wed 6:30-8pm, 831.425.3431. Basic: Land of the Medicine Buddha, Wed, 5:30-6:30pm, 831.462.8383.

Zen: Ocean Gate Zendo, first Tue each month 6:30-7pm.

All are free.

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Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 19th-century play, which bends time and space by depicting states of unconsciousness and consciousness, was difficult to stage at the time it was published. Now in the Digital Age, UCSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Experimental Theater and Digital Arts Research Center make the production possible in ways never before conceived of. Students join Bay Area Equity Actors for this multi-venue production, which travels between different stages. Friday, March 1 & Saturday, March 2 at 7pm; Sunday, March 3 at 3pm in the UCSC Experimental Theater, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz. Tickets $15.

AROUND TOWN Contra Dance A beginner-friendly dance hosted by the Traditional Dancers of Santa Cruz featuring music by The Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market String Band. www.santacruzdance.org. Fri, Mar 1, 8-11pm. $10 donation.

Felton Community Hall, 6191 Hwy 9, Felton.

Watsonville Film Festival A variety of film screenings, including a special screening of â&#x20AC;&#x153;La Bambaâ&#x20AC;? to honor director and playwright Luis Valdez, who will be in attendance. www. santacruztickets.com. Sat, Mar 2 and Sun, Mar 3. $20$30. Henry J. Mello Center, 250 E. Beach St, Watsonville, 831.763.4047.

English Country Dance

Film Oscar-Nominated Short Films The Oscar-nominated short films in both the animated and live-action categories will be screened. www. thenick.com. Thru Mar 1. $10.50. Nickelodeon Theatre, 210 Lincoln St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.7500.

Second and fourth Thursdays of each month; beginners welcome. Fourth Thu of every month. $5-$7. First Congregational Church of Santa Cruz, 900 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.8621.

YACHT

John Steinbeck Celebration

Portland death-dance duo that brought you â&#x20AC;&#x153;Psychic Cityâ&#x20AC;? returns for Noise Pop. Mar 2 at Slimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

A kick-off event for the month of celebrations around Steinbeckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Grapes of Wrath,â&#x20AC;? featuring Santa Cruz Mayor Hilary Bryant, Willing Suspension Armchair Theater, Loose Cannon Improv, the Rhythm Rangellers, and Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw.

Wed, Feb 27, 5:30-8pm.

Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Science Cafe Science on Tap: A new monthly event featuring discussions with UCSC scientists in a relaxed setting. Biochemist Carrie Partch will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Circadian Rhythms: A look at how the clock controls our physiology.â&#x20AC;? Wed, Feb 27, 7pm. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.429.6994.

San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s City Guide

Bomb the Music Industry The band that lets the audience play the songs decides to call it quits. Mar 2 at the Bottom of the Hill.

Curren$y New Orleans rapper behind last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sleptupon â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Stoned Immaculate.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mar 2 at the Mezzanine.

Yes Performing â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Yes Album,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Close to the Edgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Going for the Oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in entirety. Mar 5 at the WarďŹ eld.

Alabama Shakes Behold, Brittany Howardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice, curdling blood and up-stepping Janis Joplin since 2000. Mar 5 at the Fox Theater.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Amen Cornerâ&#x20AC;?: A play about a church pastor in Harlem who receives an unexpected visit from her estranged husband. Fri, Mar 1, 7pm and Sat, Mar 2, 7pm. $15 general; students free.

Stevenson College Event Center, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, 831.459.1861.

Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

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2500 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz and 12:15-1:15pm at 4851 Soquel Drive, Soquel.

Tuesdays 12:15-1:15pm at 2500 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz.

Wednesdays noon-1pm at 49 Blanca Ln #303, Watsonville and 6:30-7:30pm at 335 Spreckles Dr, Ste A, Aptos.

Thursdays 1-2pm at Louden Nelson Community Center, Room 5, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz. Fridays noon-1pm at 49 Blanca Ln #303, Watsonville.

Wed-Fri-Sun. 831.429.7906.

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Beatscape WELL, HELLO THERE! ARENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T YOU A TINY ONE! This is what Ladysmith Black Mambazo looks like after the pill that makes you small.

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BONE THUGS-NHARMONY Is the fact that Bone Thugs-N-Harmony was signed to Ruthless Records by Eazy-E and worked with both 2pac and the Notorious B.I.G. enough proof of the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s standing as one of the sturdier branches of rapâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family tree? How about their multi-platinum-selling status or numerous, though not very thuggish, Grammy nods and wins? Formed in Cleveland in 1992, BTNH has gone through the ups and downs of an outfit thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been around for 20-plus years: disputes, breakups, good albums, bad albums, solo projects, reunions and more albums.The group recently worked with the Game on a forthcoming album titled, The Art of War: World War III. Catalyst; $27 adv/$32 door/$100 VIP; 8pm. (Cat Johnson)

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THE RESIDENTS

THE MOTHER HIPS

ROY ZIMMERMAN

In the last few years the rise of indie artists has become a little overwhelming. The radio eats them up, the fans regurgitate the same melodies and eventually move onto whatever band comes next. But if we go back 20 years weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find the original pioneers of this here indie genre. The Mother Hips have been blending Americana storytelling, rock and California-tinged soul since before these new musicians were even born.

To give a picture, imagine a more energetic The Black Keys with a spunkier guitar and a healthy sprinkling of early Neil Young. They have three documentaries under their belt and a satisfied audience of dedicated fans. Moeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alley; $20 adv/$25 door; 9pm. (Melanie Ware)

Taking on charged subjects including class warfare, marriage equality, war and drug legalization with humor, insight and a sharplycritical eye, Roy Zimmerman is a road-weathered, musical bard for modern-day lefties. Possessing what The New York Times called a â&#x20AC;&#x153;contagious irreverence,â&#x20AC;? Zimmerman manages to enlighten, engage, inform and ultimately inspire audiences with his satirical ditties, including â&#x20AC;&#x153;Abstain with Me,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Want a Marriage Like They Had in the Bible,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Approve This Message,â&#x20AC;? that shine a spotlight on some of the more ludicrous aspects of 21st-century life in America. Local funnyman Richard Stockton opens. Kuumbwa; $22 adv/$35 gold; 7:30pm. (CJ)

Gotta love the new infomercial for the Residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ultimate Box Set,â&#x20AC;? featuring Residents lead singer Randy Rose (not his real name, obviously, and a bizarre face prosthetic allows him to maintain the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legendary anonymity) hawking the package. It comes in a refrigerator and features every Residents release ever (including a â&#x20AC;&#x153;second albumâ&#x20AC;? that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t actually exist, and several versions of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santa Dogâ&#x20AC;? that are totally fabricated as well)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and sells for $100,000.Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a small cube-shaped box theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll sell you for $5 million, but you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get to know whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inside. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a clever parody of anniversary repackaging, and reminds us all why the performance-art-rock Residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who have a unique relationship with Santa Cruz and spent a lot of time at the Rio practicing for this tourâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are as sharp as ever. Rio; $27; 8pm.

SAMBADA

Celebrating Creativity Since 1975

Friday, March 1 U 7:30 pm

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Tickets: Snazzyproductions.com Saturday, March 2 U 8 pm

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Catalyst; $20/$24; 8pm. (SP)

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DONNY MCCASLIN GROUP A product of Aptos High School, Donny McCaslin left Santa Cruz in 1984 to attend the Berklee School of Music and has since established himself on the international jazz scene. An acclaimed saxophonist who has played alongside jazz greats Gary Burton, Gil Evans, John Medeski and more, McCaslin is now leader of his own talent-riddled group. Part of the ever-growing movement of jazz artists stretching the boundaries of the genre, he incorporates electronica-inspired textures,

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A MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN STEINBECK Tickets: Brownpapertickets.com

Monday, March 4 U 7 pm Acclaimed Saxophonist from Santa Cruz!

DONNY McCASLIN GROUP Wednesday, March 6 U 7:30 pm At the Rio Theatre | No Comps

LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO

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Kuumbwa; $20 adv/$23 door; 7pm. (CJ)

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LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO Back in 1960, the South African musician Joseph Shabalala formed the incredible group of male a cappella vocalists Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

After their contribution to Paul Simonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1986 album Graceland the world became captivated by their spirit, and they have since won many awards, including three Grammys. With such intoxicating rhythm, listening to a single song can easily take the place of a soothing bath or spoonful of medicine. First it reaches deep down into the soul and makes your heart beat until you find your fingers snapping involuntarily and quickly the rest of your body follows suit. Not only are their performances invigorating and refreshing to the soul, but they also act as informative sessions on the culture of South Africa. Rio Theatre; $30 gen/$45 gold; 7:30pm. (MW)

CLOWN PRINCES Pennywise reunites with its original lead singer and plays the Catalyst Saturday.

Monday, March 11

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JOSE JAMES PRESENTS â&#x20AC;&#x153;NO BEGINNING NO ENDâ&#x20AC;?

New CD #1 on the Billboard Charts â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Vocalist combines jazz and hip-hop!

Friday, March 15

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CAMINOS FLAMENCOS â&#x20AC;&#x153;FLAMENCO Y MASâ&#x20AC;? featuring guitarist Jason McGuire â&#x20AC;&#x153;El Rubioâ&#x20AC;?

Saturday, March 16

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7:30 pm

VIJAY IYER TRIO 1/2 Price Night for Students Best Jazz Artist & Best Jazz Album 2012 DownBeat Criticsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Poll Monday, March 18

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7 pm

KYLE EASTWOOD GROUP Thursday, March 21

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7 pm

LE BOEUF BROTHERS BAND & MYTH STRING QUARTET A Dream: The Musical Imagination of Franz Kafka Monday, March 25

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7 pm

BRUBECK BROTHERS QUARTET â&#x20AC;&#x153;TRIBUTE TO DAVE BRUBECKâ&#x20AC;?

Thursday, March 28

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7 pm

CHIHIRO YAMANAKA TRIO

Fierce young pianist with robust chops and plenty of soul!

4/1 LAVAY SMITH & HER RED HOT SKILLET LICKETS 4/3 PHAROAH SANDERS GOLD CIRCLE 4/8 THE RAY CHARLES PROJECT SOLD OUT! FEATURING CHRIS CAIN, TONY LINDSAY, DAVID K. MATHEWS & GLENN WALTERS 4/15 CLAUDIA VILLELA QUARTET 4/24 CHICK COREA & THE VIGIL 4/30 MFJ ON TOUR s Encore Performance!

Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records. Dinner served 1-hr before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer.

All ages welcome.

320-2 Cedar St [ Santa Cruz 831.427.2227

kuumbwajazz.org

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Deep in the heart of Santa Cruz is a little piece of Brazilian paradise. Drawing from the AfroBrazil percussion of bloco, the swing of samba dancing and the intricate skill of capoeira comes a musical group with an electric rhythm that starts in the toes and pulses through the mind. The nine musicians that make up SambaDa incorporate surf-rock and some funk that adds a splash of California color to their lively ritualistic performances. Their beach friendly songs pull inspiration from the ocean, believing that the rise of the tide and crashing of the waves reflects the flow of our lives. Moeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alley; $15 adv/$20 door; 9pm. (MW)

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Grey Matters â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Dark Skiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; overachieves, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not easy to make a good UFO horror flick BY STEVE PALOPOLI

A

friend who did special effects on low-budget movies for many years once swore to me that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible for a horror movie to lose money if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made for less than five million dollars. Granted, he said this before movie piracy got so big. But even now, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to see how cheap horror can be a financial sure bet.

Luckily, it can still be good horror, too, now and then. However mainstream it has become, however many millions of dollars studios are willing to spend on pop bastardizations like Twilight, very often itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the horror movies made with little more than a tiny budget and an innovative twist that come out of nowhere and revolutionize the genre every decade or so.

Producer Jason Blum has made a name for himself with exactly that kind of movie. In 2007, he produced

Paranormal Activity, which cost around $15,000, and went on to be the most profitable film of all time. Since then, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shepherded the release of Insidious and Sinister, films made for less than $5 million that were huge hits.

Besides the tens of millions they made in profits, what these films have in common is that they were all interesting low-budget films that put some kind of smart spin on their respective horror sub-genres. They werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t perfect, by any means, but together they did signal a certain kind of comeback for microbudget horror moviemaking.

Blum is the man behind Dark Skies, as well. Or rather, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the man behind the man behind Dark Skies, as he got writer-director Scott Stewart the $3.5 million to make it. However, horror fans havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been nearly as kind to it as they were to Blumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past investments.

Which is strange, because Dark Skies is yet another film on his record that achieves far beyond its miniscule budget. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intriguing, suspenseful and as creepy as any PG-13 film has a right to be. Perhaps not surprisingly, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also structured quite a bit like Paranormal Activity, with a suburban couple (and in this case, their kids) under siege from strange occurrences in their home that get worse and worse until theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re forced to consult an expert on freaky stuff, who explains to them exactly which type of freaky stuff theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got going on.

In this case, of course, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aliens. And honestly, I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big part of the problemâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both with the poor audience response (although, of course, Dark Skies has already more than made back its budget) and the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actual shortcomings. Has there ever really been a good alien abduction movie?

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen all of the ones that seem to have the most fansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Fire in the Sky, The Fourth Kind, Communionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all varying degrees of lame. I mean, M. Night Shyamalan spent $70 million on the ridiculous Signs, and just for not including something as stupid as â&#x20AC;&#x153;swing away,â&#x20AC;? Dark Skies is at least as good as that movie.

But still, I can see why alien-visitation flicks donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it for a lot of people.

Whatever happens, you probably are fairly prepared for it. The aliens are likely to look something like greys, if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ever even shown. They are likely to be doing some abducting, maybe a little experimenting, and probably a boatload of probing. Not to say thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not ooky, but hey, if Cartman can get through it, how scared of it can we really be? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s certainly nowhere near the rush of Paranormal Activityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-ghosts-nowait-holy-crap-itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-demons trick.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably why the first half of Dark Skies is so much better than the second. Stewart builds a disturbing mood, focusing on a husband (Josh Hamilton) and wife (Keri Russell) whose lives are already pretty much collapsing in on them, between job troubles, mounting bills and alienated (no pun intended) kids. But when their youngest child (Kadan Rockett) starts acting weird, and inexplicable things happen in the night, everything goes crazy, fast. Even though we know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all going to turn out to be aliens, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a palpable sense of dread about what might be happening and how bad it could get. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why it seems like more of a relief than anything when the E.T. expert (J.K. Simmons) lays it all out for them.

Even so, Dark Skies does have a twist left in it, and even when it kind of falls apart in the last act, it has some effective moments. Ultimately, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s yet another film thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s re-asserting the power of the low-budget horror flick.

DARK SKIES Plays Countywide

Film Capsules New

S H O WT I M E S

attempt to save a kingdom, and its princess. (Opens Fri at Santa Cruz 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley) THE LAST EXORCISM PART II (PG-13; 88 min.)

What we love about this title is that the Hollywood producers who came up with it probably donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even realize what a semantic nightmare it is. They could have least put on a hilarious subhead, like The Last Exorcism Part II: The Even More Laster Exorcism.

As for Nell Sweetzer, the only living member left in her

family (whoops, original movie spoiler alert!), she forgets to pay her exorcist bill and gets repossessed. (Opens Fri at Green Valley) 21 AND OVER (R; 93 min.): The night before his medical school exam, Jeff Chang celebrates his 21st birthday with his best friends. But what was only going to be a few beers turns into a booze cruise, with a vomiting scene atop a mechanical bull. (Opens Fri at Santa Cruz 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley)

WEST OF MEMPHIS (R; 147 min.) The fourth film about the West Memphis Three (and the second in less than a year), this documentary produced by Peter Jackson takes a different approach than Joe Berlingerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Paradise Lost trilogy (which is pretty much responsible for getting the wrongly accused murder suspects released in the first place, providing an overview of the police incompetence in the case, and a closer look at who may really have committed the crimes).

(Opens Fri at the Nick)

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Feb. 27, through Wednesday, March 6, unless otherwise indicated.

Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

APTOS CINEMAS 122 Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos 831.688.6541 www.thenick.com

Django Unchained â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fri-Wed 7:45pm.

Life of Pi â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fri-Wed 12:45pm.

Quartet â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Daily 1:30; 3:45; 6; 8:10.

Side Effects â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1:50; 4:10; 6:30; 8:45; Fri-Wed 3:15; 5:30.

CINELUX 41ST AVENUE CINEMA 1475 41st Ave, Capitola 831.479.3504 www.cineluxtheatres.com

Argo â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fri-Wed 11:15; 1:30; 4:15; 7; 9:45.

A Good Day to Die Hard â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 11:10; 1:45; 4:15; 7; 9:30.

Identity Thief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 11; 2; 4:45; 7:30; 10:10; Fri-Wed 11; 2; 4:45; 7:30; 10:15.

Safe Haven â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 11; 1:45; 4:30; 7:15; 10.

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Happy People - A Year in Taiga â&#x20AC;&#x201D;(Opens Fri) 3:30; 5:30; 7:30; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Argo â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 8:50pm; Fri-Wed 1pm.

Dark Skies â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 3:15; 5:15; 7:20; 9:30; Fri-Wed 2:45; 5; 7:15; 9:40.

Les Miserables â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 3pm.

Lincoln â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 6; Fri-Wed 1:30.

Side Effects â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 2; 4:30; 7; 9:20; Fri-Wed 4:30; 7; 9:20.

Hot Tub Time Machine â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fri-Sat midnight.

NICKELODEON Lincoln and Cedar streets, Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com

West of Memphis â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Fri) 3:30; 6:30; 9:20.

Academy Award Nominated Shorts program - Animated â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1; 3; 7:10; Fri-Wed 1:45 plus Sat-Sun noon.

Academy Award Nominated Shorts program - Live Actionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Wed-Thu 4:50; 9.

Armour â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fri-Wed 1; 3:40; 6:20; 9.

Quartet â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1:40; 3:45; 6:15; 8:30; Fri-Wed 2:10; 4:20; 6:40; 8:50 plus Sat-Sun 11:50am.

Silver Linings Playbook â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1:20; 4; 6:45; 9:15; Fri-Wed 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30 plus Sun 11:30am.

RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN 155 S River St, Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1701 www.regmovies.com

Safe Haven â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 4:15; 7; 9:35; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Zero Dark Thirty â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 4; 7:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9 1405 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1700 www.regmovies.com

Beautiful Creatures â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 12:30; 3:30; 7; 9:450; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Django Unchained â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1:20; 6; 9:300; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Escape from Planet Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Wed-Thu 12:10; 5:05; 9:400; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Escape from Planet Earth 3D â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Wed-Thu 2:40; 7:200; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

A Good Day to Die Hard â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 12; 12:40; 2:30; 3:10; 5; 5:35; 7; 8; 10; 10:300; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

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Identity Thief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1:10; 3:50; 6:45; 9:550; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Life of Pi 3D â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1; 4; 6:55; 10:100; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Snitch â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 12:20; 2:50; 5:20; 7:45; 10:20; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Warm Bodies â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Wed-Thu 12:50; 3:20; 5:45; 8:10; 10:350; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Tropic Thunder â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Thu 9pm.

CINELUX SCOTTS VALLEY STADIUM CINEMA 226 Mt Hermon Rd, Scotts Valley 831.438.3260 www.cineluxtheatres.com

21 and Over â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Fri) 11:55; 2:20; 4:55; 7:40; 10:10.

Jack the Giant Slayer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Fri) 1:45; 4:30; 7:10.

Jack the Giant Slayer 3D â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Fri) 11:30; 9:30.

Argo â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 7pm; Fri-Wed 7:15; 9:45.

Beautiful Creatures â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 11:30; 2:30; 5:30; 8:30.

Dark Skies â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Wed-Thu 12:30; 3; 5:30; 7:55; 10:15; Fri-Wed 11:45; 2:30; 4:55; 7:20; 10:15.

Escape From Planet Earth â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 2:15; 4:40; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed 11:20; 2:10; 4:40; 7; 10.

Escape From Planet Earth 3D â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 11:45am.

A Good Day to Die Hard â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 12:15; 2:45; 5:15; 7:45; 10:10; Fri-Wed 11:55; 2:40; 5:20; 7:45; 10:15.

Identity Thief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Daily 11:20; 2; 4:40; 7:20; 10.

The Impossible â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 11am.

Life of Pi â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1:45pm; Fri-Wed 12:45pm.

Lincoln â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fri-Wed 3:45pm.

Quartet â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fri-Wed 11; 1:30; 4; 6:30; 9.

Safe Haven â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 11; 1:45; 4:30; 7:15; 10.

Side Effects â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 4:30; 9:45.

Snitch â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 11:15; 2; 4:45; 7:30; 9:55.

Silver Linings Playbook â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 12:45; 3:45; 6:45; 9:30; Sat-Wed 11:55; 2:20; 4:55; 7:40; 10:10.

Warm Bodies â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 11:55; 2:20; 4:55; 7:30; 9:55.

Fiddler on the Roof â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Thu 7pm; Sat 11am.

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8 1125 S Green Valley Rd, Watsonville 831.761.8200 www.greenvalleycinema.com

21 and Over â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Fri) 1:15; 3:15; 5:15; 7:25; 9:45 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Jack the Giant Slayer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Fri) 1:30; 7; 9:30.

Jack the Giant Slayer 3D â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Fri) 4 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Beautiful Creatures â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1:30; 4; 7; 9:30.

Dark Skies â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Daily 1:45; 4:15; 7:15; 9:45 plus Sat-Sun 11:15am.

Escape From Planet Earth â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1:15; 3:15; 7:25; 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:20; 3:45; 6:35 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Escape From Planet Earth 3D â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 5:15 A Good Day to Die Hard â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Daily 1:45; 4:15; 7:15; 9:45 plus Sat-Sun 11:15am.

Identity Thief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Daily 1:45; 4:15; 7:15; 9:45 plus Sat-Sun 11:15am.

The Last Exorcism â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Daily 1:15; 3:15; 5:15; 7:25; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Safe Haven â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1:30; 4; 7; 9:30.

Silver Linings Playbook â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1:30; 4; 7; 9:45 Snitch â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Daily 1:30; 4; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11:15am.

Reviews BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (PG-13; 121 min) Everything seems to be about Twilight these days.

Warm Bodies was heralded (or reviled) as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Twilight for zombies,â&#x20AC;? and of course the original Twilight had a lock on vampires and werewolves.

Now some are calling this adaptation of the popular young-adult book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Twilight for witches.â&#x20AC;? It too has starcrossed lovers, this time having to deal with Jeremy Irons (who, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face it, probably really is a warlock) and the rest of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;casterâ&#x20AC;? family.

DARK SKIES (PG-13. 95 min.) One of the most famous unmade films of all time is Steven Spielbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Night Skies, which was going to be about a family terrorized by aliens.

It never happened, but the central concept got turned upside down when Spielberg made E.T. instead. Dark Skies has nothing to do with thatâ&#x20AC;Śor does it? This movie also has a family terrorized by something (presumably aliens), and though Spielbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name is nowhere to be found on it, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being produced by Jason Blum. Blum also produced Paranormal Activity, on which he brought in Spielberg to consult (and change the ending). Meanwhile, Spielberg has been producing the TNT alien-invasion show Falling Skies for the last couple of years. Is this all coincidence, or will it be revealed that Spielberg was in fact behind this, and his lost film has finally been made? Stay tuned.

See review pg. 26.

A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD (R; 104 min) Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you feel sorry for the guy whose job it is to come up with the titles for these Bruce Willis movies? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure he retired after Live Free or Die Hard, thinking â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve given it all Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got.â&#x20AC;? Then one day, the phone rang. His wife was like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lester, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pick it up. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go watch you be torn apart over this again. Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you see what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing to our family?â&#x20AC;?

But of course he picks it up.

Was there ever really another option? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bruce is back in,â&#x20AC;? says the voice on the other line.

Lester puts his hand to his temple. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How long do I have?â&#x20AC;?

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a moment of silence on the other end of the line. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Uh, why donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you just toss out the first thing that comes to mind, like you usually do, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll use that?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Perfect,â&#x20AC;? says Lester. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eh, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seeâ&#x20AC;ŚA Good Day toâ&#x20AC;Śsomething something.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lester,â&#x20AC;? says the voice, â&#x20AC;&#x153;youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve still got it.â&#x20AC;?

IDENTITY THIEF (R; 117 min.) Bridesmaidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; breakout star Melissa McCarthy gets her own comic showcase playing a woman who steals Jason Batemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s identity (made possible because his characterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sandy,â&#x20AC;? see? Erâ&#x20AC;Ś). Seth Gordon, who made his debut with the I-canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t-believe-this-mademe-care-about-video-games documentary The King of Kong, directs.

SAFE HAVEN (PG-13; 121 min) Best known for My Life as a Dog, Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eating Gilbert Grape and The Cider House Rules, Swedish director Lasse HallstrĂśm is a tough one to get a handle on. With Safe Haven, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crafted a mysteryromance about a young woman who comes to a new town with dark secrets. Kind of like Beautiful Creatures, but without witches.

SIDE EFFECTS (R; 111 min.) For what he claims is his last feature film ever, director Steven Soderbergh combines bits from his last three movies: the social message of Contagion, the suspense (theoretically) of Haywire and the Channing Tatum of Magic Mike. This thriller has Rooney Mara caught up her own personal Big Pharma conspiracy, as her life with hubby Tatum is turned upside down after suspicious psychiatrist Jude Law prescribes new medication for her anxiety.

SNITCH (PG-13; 118 min.)

Sadly, this film is not about your little brother. Instead, it has the Rock going undercover for the DEA to get his son out of jail. (Opens Fri at Green Valley and Cinema 9) STAND UP GUYS (R; 94 min.) While the idea of senior-citizen bad guys getting together for one last job is far from originalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Crew, Tough Guys, etc.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;none of those movies had both Al Pacino and Christopher Walken in them (plus a bonus Alan Arkin!). Between this and giving up the Ricky Roma role to play Shelley Levine in the Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross, Pacino seems to be finally taking old age gracefully.

WARM BODIES (PG-13; 105 min.) Another addition to the budding zom-com genre has a zombie falling for stillalive Julie (Teresa Palmer).

Clearly infused with more heart (a beating one) than the generally rather cynical films in this vein, it also attempts to unite the â&#x20AC;&#x153;fastâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;slowâ&#x20AC;? camps of zombie fans by having both.

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HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN TAIGA (NR; 94 min.) Condensed from four hours of Russian TV footage, Happy People chronicles the daily life of Siberian fur trappers, with the aid of director Werner Herzogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entertainingly deadpan voiceovers. (Opens Fri at Del Mar) HOT TUB TIME MACHINE (2010) Four friends on an adventure take

a road trip to their old favorite party spot to relax in a hotel suite hot tub. But when that hot tub sends them back to the year 1986, they have to try not to screw up their future.

(Fri-Sat midnight at the Del Mar) JACK AND THE GIANT SLAYER 3D (PG-13; 114 min.): The classic tale of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jack and the Beanstalkâ&#x20AC;? is revisited with the tagline â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you think you know the story, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know jack.â&#x20AC;? In this version, Jack climbs a towering vine, not in search of treasure, but in an

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APTOS $$ Aptos

Ambrosia India Bistro Indian. Authentic Indian dishes and specialties served in a 207 Searidge Rd, 831.685.0610 comfortable dining room. Lunch buffet daily 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner daily 5pm to close. www.ambrosiaib.com

$ Aptos

Heatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Patisserie

$$$ Aptos

Severinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grill

$$ Aptos

Zameen Mediterranean

7486 Soquel Dr, 831.662.3546

7500 Old Dominion Ct, 831.688.8987

Bakery and deli. f. A wide variety of Parisian style pastries, breads and American baked goods baked fresh on site daily. Hot breakfast and lunch available daily. Enjoy with our organic coffee and espresso. Delicious, custom built wedding cakes available.

Open 6am Mon - Fri, 7am Sat - Sun. Continental California cuisine. Breakfast all week 6:30-11am, lunch all week 11am-2pm; dinner Fri-Sat 5-10pm, Sun-Thu 5-9pm. www.seacliffinn.com.

Middle Eastern/Mediterranean. Fresh, fast, flavorful. Gourmet 7528 Soquel Dr, 831.688.4465 meat and vegetarian kebabs, gyros, falafel, healthy salads and Mediterranean flatbread pizzas. Beer and wine. Dine in or take out. Tue-Sun 11am-8pm.

CAPITOLA $$ Capitola

Geisha Sushi

$$$

Shadowbrook

Capitola

1750 Wharf Rd, 831.475.1511

$$$

Stockton Bridge Grille

Capitola

231 Esplanade, 831.464.1933

$$$ Capitola

Zeldaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Japanese. This pretty and welcoming sushi bar serves 200 Monterey Ave, 831.464.3328 superfresh fish in unusual but well-executed sushi combinations. Wed-Mon 11:30am-9pm.

California Continental. Swordfish and other seafood specials.

Dinner Mon-Thu 5:30-9:30pm; Fri 5-10pm; Sat 4-10:30pm; Sun 4-9pm.

Mediterranean tapas. Innovative menu, full-service bar, international wine list and outdoor dining with terrific views in the heart of Capitola Village. Open daily.

California cuisine. Nightly specials include prime rib 203 Esplanade, 831.475.4900 and lobster. Daily 7am-2am.

SANTA CRUZ $ Charlie Hong Kong California organic meets Southeast Asian street food. Organic Santa Cruz 1141 Soquel Ave, 831. 426.5664 noodle & rice bowls, vegan menu, fish & meat options, Vietnamese style sandwiches, eat-in or to-go. Consistent winner â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Cheap Eats.â&#x20AC;? Open daily 11am-11pm $$ The Crepe Place Tunisian Santa Cruz

Crepes and more. Featuring the spinach crepe and 1134 Soquel Ave, 831.429.6994 donut. Full bar. Mon-Thu 11am-midnight, Fri 11am-1am, Sat 10am-1am, Sun 10am-midnight.

$$ Crowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nest Seafood. Fresh seafood, shellfish, Midwestern aged beef, pasta Santa Cruz 2218 East Cliff Dr, 831.476.4560 specialties, abundant salad bar. Kids menu and nightly entertainment. Harbor & Bay views. Breakfast, lunch & dinner daily. $$ Gabriella Cafe Santa Cruz 910 Cedar St., 831.457.1677 rabbit,

Califormia-Italian. Fresh from farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; markets organic vegetables, local seafood, grilled steaks, frequent duck and famous CHICKEN GABRIELLA, legendary local wine list, romantic mission-style setting with patio, quiet side street.

$$ Hindquarter Americana. Ribs, steaks and burgers are definitely the stars.

Santa Cruz 303 Soquel Ave, 831.426.7770 Full bar. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner Sun-Thu 5:30-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 5:30-10pm. $$ Hoffmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s California/full-service bakery. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Santa Cruz 1102 Pacific Ave, 837.420.0135 Eggs Benedict in Town.â&#x20AC;? Happy Hour Mon-Fri 5-6pm. Halfprice appetizers; wines by the glass. Daily 8am-9pm.

Hulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Island Grill â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s Vegas meets â&#x20AC;&#x2122;50s Waikiki. Amazing dining experience in $$ Santa Cruz 221 Cathcart St, 831.426.4852 kitchy yet swanky tropical setting. Fresh fish, great steaks, vegetarian. Full-service tiki bar. Happy-hour tiki drinks. Aloha Fri, Sat lunch 11:30am-5pm. Dinner nightly 5pm-close. $ India Joze Santa Cruz 418 Front St, 831.325-3633

Eclectic Pan Asian dishes. Vegetarian, seafood, lamb and chicken with a wok emphasis since 1972. Cafe, catering, culinary classes, food festivals, beer and wine. Open for lunch and dinner daily except Sunday 11:30-9pm. Special events most Sundays.

$$ Johnnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Harborside Santa Cruz 493 Lake Ave, 831.479.3430

Seafood/California. Fresh catch made your way! Plus many other wonderful menu items. Great view. Full bar. Happy hour Mon-Fri. Brunch Sat-Sun 10am-2pm. Open daily.

$$$ La Posta Italian. La Posta serves Italian food made in the old styleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Santa Cruz 538 Seabright Ave, 831.457.2782 simple and delicious. Wed-Thu 5-9pm, Fri-Sat 5-9:30pm and Sun 5-8pm.

Laili $$ Santa Cruz 101B Cooper St, 831.423.4545

Silk road flavors. Fresh, nourishing and delectable Mediterranean cuisine with a unique Afghan twist. Patio dining. Open daily for lunch 11:30-3pm & dinner at 5pm.

$$ Louieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cajun Kitchen Santa Cruz 110 Church St., 831.429.2000

Laissez les bons temps rouler at this cool, funky Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;awlins-style celebration of food, libations and bluesy sounds. Start with a Hurricane as you peruse our menu of serious cajun goodness.

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$$ Olitas Fine Mexican cuisine. Opening daily at noon.

Santa Cruz 49-B Municipal Wharf, 831.458.9393 $$ Pacific Thai Thai. Individually prepared with the freshest ingredients, Santa Cruz 1319 Pacific Ave, 831.420.1700 plus ambrosia bubble teas, shakes. Mon-Thu 11:30am-9:30pm, Fri 11:30am-10pm, Sat noon-10pm, Sun noon-9:30pm.

Authentic Hawaiian Island Cuisine! Featuring â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Reefâ&#x20AC;? tropical bar. Large outdoor patio. Variety of poke, wraps, salads, vegetarian, all entrees under $10! â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aloha Fridays,â&#x20AC;? Hawaiian music and hula! Open 11-10pm Sun-Wed,11-11pm Thur-Sat!

$$ Ristorante Italiano Santa Cruz 555 Soquel Ave, 831.458.2321

Italian-American. Mouthwatering, generous portions, friendly service and the best patio in town. Full bar. Lunch Mon-Fri 11:30am, dinner nightly at 5pm.

$$ Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing California / Brewpub. Enjoy a handcrafted organic ale in the Santa Cruz 402 Ingalls Street, Ste 27 taproom or the outdoor patio while you dine on Bavarian pretzels, 831.425.4900 a bowl of french fries, Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best fish tacos and more.

Open everday noon until 10pm. Food served until 7pm.

Soif Wine bar with menu. Flawless plates of great character and $$ Santa Cruz 105 Walnut Ave, 831.423.2020 flavor; sexy menu listings and wines to match. Dinner MonThu 5-9pm, Fri-Sat 5-10pm, Sun 4-9pm; retail shop Mon 5pmclose, Tue-Sat noon-close, Sun 4pm-close. $$ Stagnaro Bros.

Seafood and more. Family owned since 1937. Fresh seafood, Santa Cruz 21 Municipal Wharf, 831.423.2180 pasta and steaks . Kid friendly. Panoramic ocean views from the main dining room and Upper Deck Lounge. Large outdoor fish market on site with 20+ types of fresh fish. Open daily at 11am. $$ Woodstockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizza Santa Cruz 710 Front St, 831.427.4444

Pizza. Pizza, fresh salads, sandwiches, wings, desserts, beers on tap. Patio dining, sports on HDTV and free WiFi. Large groups and catering. Open and delivering Fri-Sat 11am-2am, Mon-Thu 11am-1am, Sun 11am-midnight.

SCOTTS VALLEY $ Heavenly Cafe American. Serving breakfast and lunch daily. Large parties Scotts Valley 1210 Mt. Hermon Rd, 831.335.7311 welcome. Mon-Fri 6:30am-2:15pm, Sat-Sun 7am-2:45pm.

Jia Tellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $ Scotts Valley 5600 #D Scotts Valley Dr, 831.438.5005

Cambodian. Fresh kebabs, seafood dishes, soups and noodle bowls with a unique Southeast Asian flair. Beer and wine available. Patio dining. Sun-Thu 11am-9pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10pm.

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