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Need a Change

Re: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Angriest Manâ&#x20AC;? (Currents, Feb. 27): Mr.Collins, I respect the frustration and anger that you have; however the Homeless Services Center is not a â&#x20AC;&#x153;crack house.â&#x20AC;?

After my mom passed, and good employment became nonexistent, I found myself hungry, alone, scared and on the street in my hometown.

With no income or food, the HSC helped me lift myself back to my feet, and I am not the only one. [Eighty percent] of the citizens standing in line and sometimes in the rain and freezing cold with me for a good meal are good members of our beautiful city.

The amazing heroes at HSC are all true citizens of the United States of America. Respect.

Collins, I thank you for your time and being involved, and keep up the good work.

Re: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Angriest Manâ&#x20AC;?: Heroin addiction is Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest problem, and a needle exchange only puts more needles on our beaches and in our community. If you are going to take your life in your own hands and shoot up drugs then you should be ready to take the consequences of risking getting disease from those needles. Why should they get a clean one?

Only to litter to get another clean one? I was at the park the other day and picked up a needle where my son was playing. I saw the addicted smack-ridden crew across the park and wanted to do very violent things to harm them. I think a lot of locals here feel the same way. If the city canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do anything about it, the locals will, and it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be pretty. New smack users are flocking here because they know Santa Cruz gets special funding for smack users along with free needles. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like advertising to a dog that you will get free food if you come to Santa Cruz.

Re: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Angriest Manâ&#x20AC;?: Skindog is right. The simple fact is that the police and courts in this city have their hands tied from the ultraliberal policies. And ... I am a lefty liberal! But I recognize that we need a change. My mom visits and will not go downtown to shop because of all the riffraff on Pacific Ave. Our kids are not safe to play like we were, we should recognize the brutal truths about crime and Santa Cruz, and come up with a plan, and make some changes.

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Wait Time Re: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ten by Tenâ&#x20AC;? (Briefs, Feb. 20): I am so glad that Mr. Philip Kramer is cavalier about the fact that over 35 percent of 180/180 clientele are not local (according to this Brief, that means they have not lived here for more than six years). He conveniently forgets to mention that the Section 8 Housing Voucher Wait List has been closed for about two years. This meant that his clients are taking priority over Santa Cruz residents who cannot even apply because this list is closed. I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even mention the fact that even if they can get on this wait list, they would have to wait from five to eight years before it can be determined if they are eligible for the Voucher.

I am so glad that Mr. Kramer and others in the homeless service industry get a chance to help these people at the expense of deserving Santa Cruz residents. I am so glad that he gets a chance to do some â&#x20AC;&#x153;feel goodâ&#x20AC;? stuff while local residents continue to suffer for lack of response to their need.

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Correction Our story â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Angriest Manâ&#x20AC;?

(Currents, Feb. 27) reported that Ken â&#x20AC;&#x153;Skindogâ&#x20AC;? Collins is the brother of Jason â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ratdogâ&#x20AC;? Collins. They are not related.

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Wellness DEVELOPMENTAL DIET REVOLUTION? Dr. Katherine Reid and her daughter, Brooke.

Reid says cutting out MSG has been key to controlling her daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s autism.

A New Approach to Autism?

Biochemist claims a link with monosodium glutamate

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hatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mother to do when her three-year-old daughter is diagnosed with autism?

Well, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a biochemist like Dr. Katherine Reid, Ph.D,, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably end up researching everything you can about the developmental disorder, and maybe even beginning your therapy in the aisles of the grocery store.

By asking questions about what are we eating, Reid, who received her Ph.D in biochemistry from UCSC and is starting a nonprofit called Unblind My Mind, claims sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been able to completely manage her daughter Brookeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s autism: what we put into our bodies, she says, can have profound effects on our brains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder, which means that there are so many different areas of the brain that it hits, and how it manifests itself in each

child is different,â&#x20AC;? says Reid.

Some of the overarching characteristics of the disorder, though, include communication and social impairments, seizure-like behavior, and extreme sensitivity to light and sound. Brooke, diagnosed at age three as â&#x20AC;&#x153;moderateâ&#x20AC;? on the spectrum, suffered from all of the above. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was difficult to integrate her into any mainstream setting,â&#x20AC;? says Reid. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even like going to a park, because you just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if this seizure-like behavior was going to flare up and it was really hard to explain.â&#x20AC;?

Three years later, Brooke has improved so much that she was taken out of special needs school, and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s functioning well in mainstream kindergarten. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now the most social kid out of the five children,â&#x20AC;?

says Reid, who credits the success to a total reinvention of her daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diet, and the removal of one ubiquitous ingredient: monosodium glutamate (MSG).

The journey to the MSG discovery began with the addition of nutritional supplements like magnesium, Vitamin D3, Omega 3 fish oil and B-complex vitamins. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I observed eye contact coming back, and minor improvements, but still autistic, still special needs, not functioning very well in the mainstream environment,â&#x20AC;? says Reid.

Her next step was an approach popular among parents of autistic children, but with unreliably mixed results: a diet free of gluten and casein, a milk protein added to many foods. Again, Brooke showed slight improvements. But it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until she

took it one step further that Brookeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seizures and sensory distortions, or extreme sensitivity to light and sound, were completely alleviated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I found that gluten and casein werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only thing that I needed to remove,â&#x20AC;? says Reid, who read in a blog that she also needed to be careful with MSG. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And at that point I was like, who is feeding their kids MSG?â&#x20AC;?

As it turns out: everybody. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was shocked. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all over the place in our foods, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not being labeled as monosodium glutamate, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being labeled as almost healthy things, as natural flavors, for instance. So you can have a food labeled 100% organic, all natural, no MSG added and still, that food item contains a significant amount of MSG,â&#x20AC;? says Reid.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the â&#x20AC;&#x153;free glutamateâ&#x20AC;? in MSG, produced when gluten, casein and other proteins are processed, that are slipping into almost every processed food out there, including juices, flavored teas and even toothpaste. It appears in â&#x20AC;&#x153;natural foodsâ&#x20AC;? as protein powders, yeast extract, hydrolyzed proteins, extracted proteins and other forms, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s added not as a preservative, says Reid, but to make us think that food tastes better. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It actually doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any taste in and of itself, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a chemical thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s causing a brain reaction thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s making us think it tastes good,â&#x20AC;? says Reid. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s binding to the glutamate receptor, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exciting our neurons.â&#x20AC;?

And for the autistic brain, which is already hyper-stimulated, She changed up Brookeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diet, replacing many processed foods with fruits, vegetables, organic meats, raw nuts and seeds . â&#x20AC;&#x153;It just reduced the noise, the light was no longer an issue, any room sound that was going on didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bother her, and she was able to absorb like a sponge,â&#x20AC;? says Reid.

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STUDY IN CONTRAST Even a day at the beach isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the same, with flags flying at half mast and Santa Cruz on edge after last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tragedy.

Shock Waves Locals recall last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shootings and give advice on how to feel safer in Santa Cruz BY GEORGIA PERRY

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ast Tuesday, while snipers were on the roof of Whole Foods on Soquel Ave., Cabrillo student Nicholas Goray was inside. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a pretty crazy situation. A lot of people were panicking,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They locked us in Whole Foods, and a lot of people were shaken. [The staff] said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anything we can do to make you feel comfortable, please tell us.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; They gave us free access to the hot bar, so I went around and ate everything I couldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;within reason, you know?â&#x20AC;?

During the three hours he spent on lockdown at Whole Foods following the shootout between 35-year-old Jeremy Peter Goulet, who had gunned down two Santa Cruz police officers a half hour before, and the officers who eventually killed Goulet, Goray made it a point to speak to everyone in Whole Foods. Some

of the people inside, he discovered, lived near the store and ran there for safety when they heard gunshots near their homes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The people who lived in that neighborhood were definitely very scared. I remember one woman said she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to go home that night,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all concerned,â&#x20AC;? says Seabright resident Debbie Bucher, while on the way to pick up her grandchild at Gault Elementary. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but be, when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re walking kids to school and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working out in the yard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a quiet neighborhood, but you never know when anybody can be set off like that...

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crazy, and I do feel more concerned.â&#x20AC;?

Fear is humansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; natural response to events such as the shootings from Tuesday and the increase in crime that

Santa Cruz saw in the weeks prior, says Aptos-based trauma therapist Karen Ouse. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With an increase in violence, the part of our brain that is assessing for dangerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the amygdalaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;lights up.

When there is violence people pull in, and question whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safe to pull out,â&#x20AC;? Ouse says.

Community members are also seeking ways to feel safer. Clara Minor, owner of Minorsan Self-Defense and Fitness, has seen a spike in enrollment for the monthly, free self-defense workshops she offers at her fitness studio. She had to cap her scheduled March 16 workshop at 28 enrollees (compared to roughly 10 she sees at her summertime workshops), and expects a similarly large turnout for her April 20 workshop, which is still open.

Asked if she believes Santa Cruz

has gotten less safe recently, Minor is adamant: â&#x20AC;&#x153;No. No. No. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not any less safe than anywhere else, or than it was in the past. The things that have happened are random.â&#x20AC;?

She encourages people to learn techniques for awareness and projecting â&#x20AC;&#x153;assertive energyâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;such as keeping their heads up (no faces buried in cell phones), using only one ear bud if listening to music whole jogging and walking tall, with shoulders back and heads up to see as much of the environment as possible. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That gives you the best option for not being seen as a possible victim,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If people empower themselves one person at a time, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be easier to handle the negativity and violence thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out there, because strong people are going to be more willing to help other people in need.â&#x20AC;?

Ouse echoes the importance of supporting one another. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Part of what this violence has done is that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re becoming afraid of other people.

We need to remind ourselves of our humanity. People need to turn to each other. We are wired for relationships,â&#x20AC;? she says.

Goray discovered exactly that for himself last week at the Food Bin, which was robbed at gunpoint two weeks earlier. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes after they close, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a box they leave outside with vegetables.

I went to get some vegetables, and somebody ran up behind me to go for the box, but I quickly turned around and put my hands in fighting position and I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do that right now.

People are freaked out,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? he recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get it. But a lot of people understand. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of fear.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of anticipation that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be another violent act.â&#x20AC;?

Sometimes feeling safe in times like this, Minor says, largely comes down to trusting our instincts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are some things we absolutely have no control over.

However, the things that we do have control over are our own bodies and our intuition,â&#x20AC;? she says. 0

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Briefs What If?

Gouletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s record of escaping sexual assault charges did not begin in Santa Cruz.

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worse is that Gouletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s record of escaping sexual assault charges did not begin in Santa Cruz. In 2008, he was on trial in Oregon for peeping into the window of a 22-year-old woman as she showered, reported the Oregonian.

He admitted during a trial that he frequently videotaped women in various states of undress without their knowledge. At his hearing, Goulet was given the choice between undergoing sex-offender treatment or serving a two-to-three-month jail sentence. Prosecutor Greg Moawad asked for the treatment, saying it was in the best interest of public safety. Goulet chose the jail time.

And in 2006, the former Army helicopter pilot was accused of raping two female officers while

Slow Start Since its official launch in June, the Tannery Arts Center has been a popular attraction in Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;drawing crowds of up to 200 on monthly First Friday events, including San Jose residents whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard about the mixed-use space for artists to live, create, show and sell their artwork, says the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Capital Campaign Officer Lisa Palm. But the Tannery is still struggling a bit to find its legs, especially as a place for artists to sell their work.

One Tannery artist, Errol Specter, plans to move his studio from the Tannery to Capitola Village at the end of April. He says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most of the time aside from First Friday there is very low foot traffic, and I should say extremely low foot traffic. Now that Rebeccaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s muffins is there, since September, we thought maybe they would bring in customers, but most people are just going there to eat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The reports that I get from other artists are pretty gloomy, as far as sales are concerned,â&#x20AC;? he adds.

Says Susan Kessler, another Tannery artist, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great place and I love being there. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re growing and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re new. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re starting to get more things happening.â&#x20AC;?

Palm says the Tannery is working on it, with artists considering a plan to adopt regular gallery hours every week. For now, Specter says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the only one he knows of who keeps regular hours, and thinks crowds donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know they can buy art there outside of First Friday. 0

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One of the most sobering facts to come to light after last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tragedy is that Jeremy Peter Goulet, the 35year-old man who shot and killed two Santa Cruz police officers, could potentially have been behind bars at the time the shooting occurred.

Goulet was arrested early Friday morning, Feb. 22 on suspicion of drunk and disorderly conduct when, after a night out drinking with a female coworker, her roommate and another man, he entered the coworkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home, climbed into bed with her roommate, made sexual advances and refused to leave. He was released hours later without having to pay bail, which is typical for intoxication arrests, Deputy Chief Steve Clark told The Sentinel.

However, if Goulet had been originally arrested on suspicion of sexual assault, the bail amount would have been $10,000 or more.

stationed in Hawaii. The army dropped both the rape cases in exchange for his agreement to accept an â&#x20AC;&#x153;other than honorable discharge.â&#x20AC;?

According to the U.S. Justice Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Crime Victimization Survey, sexual assault is one of the most underreported crimes, with 54 percent going unreported. Considering how easily Goulet was able to continue committing his crimes, even after they were reported time and time again, perhaps that shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a surprise.

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SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM SCPD Chief Kevin Vogel called the shootings last Tuesday the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;darkest dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in the history of the department.

The Battle for Santa Cruz As Santa Cruz mourns the death of two officers, a cultural war is heating up over the source of, and solution to, the recent wave of violence BY JACOB PIERCE

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rik Larsen was living in the Lower Ocean area and working in Beach Flats as a community organizer in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s when he got to know Loran â&#x20AC;&#x153;Butchâ&#x20AC;?

Bakerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a smiling, jovial police officer who took a neighborhood-based approach to keeping people safe. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was a really good cop,â&#x20AC;? Larsen says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Butch embodies everything

anyone would want to know about a community officer. He was a really good guy, and Santa Cruz lost a really good police officer.â&#x20AC;?

Sgt. Baker, a 28-year veteran of the Santa Cruz Police Department, and 10-year department veteran Det. Elizabeth Butler were shot and killed when working an investigation into suspect Jeremy Goulet on Tuesday, Feb. 26. The suspect was also shot, after opening fire on officers called in for

backup, according to Santa Cruz County Sheriff-Coroner Phil Wowak. The incident left neighbors on Branciforte Avenue in shock, dozens of bullet holes in garage doors across the street from Whole Foods and the entire Santa Cruz community reeling.

The flower-filled memorial at SCPD for Baker and Butler is just seven blocks from one for local martial arts instructor Pauly Silva, who was shot and killed outside the Red Restaurant

and Bar less than three weeks earlier.

Over the course of that two-and-a-half week span, there was also a mugging and attempted murder, a grocery store robbery and a home invasion robbery.

After the most violent month in local memory, many Santa Cruz residents are questioning their own safety.

But looking at the scope of the crimes, there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just one trend for city leaders to tackle. That means there are no easy solutions.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every one is so different,â&#x20AC;? former councilmember Katherine Beiers says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not one theme.â&#x20AC;?

Most baffling is the fact that the recent crimes come on the tail of a year the department managed to keep relatively under control, according to key stats, despite limited resources. Burglaries were down 11 percent compared to 2011 levels, robberies were down 8 percent and assaults were down 7 percent.

Crime was up 6 percent overallâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a modest increase considering calls for service were up 16 percent. (The increase in calls includes responses to the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new futuristic predictive policing algorithm.) What the stats donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t show, however, is the long lines of angry residents at city council meetings who are worried the city isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t doing enough to keep them safe.

The problems didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come out of nowhere. Larsen, who now lives in San Jose, says Santa Cruz has had public safety issues for decades. He worked for years to make a dent in crime and substance abuse in Lower Ocean and the Beach Flats. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santa Cruz has a drug and alcohol problem, and needs to figure out how to get a handle on it,â&#x20AC;? Larsen says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People love Santa Cruz, and if you peel back some of the layers of the onion, there are things that arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so nice to deal with. Police officers deal with those kinds of issues that people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to deal with.â&#x20AC;?

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One area of concern for the SCPD is drug use. If addicts donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have money, they often get desperate and commit high-risk, low-reward crimes, hoping to score a few bucks. Such crimes can stretch a departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resources pretty thin. And dealers donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly come to town to play by the rules.

SCPD captain Steve Clark has for years criticized a lax and â&#x20AC;&#x153;playful attitude about drugs,â&#x20AC;? including voterapproved Measure K, which in 2006 made marijuana the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lowest priority. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s said that attitude makes it harder for cops to keep Santa Cruz safe. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I recall cautioning the community 15-plus years ago of the imminent dangers of this attitude,â&#x20AC;? Clark told Santa Cruz Weekly via email two weeks ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The community now

stands a victim of those misguided and ignorant voices. The fact that the Street Outreach Supporters needle distribution program gives away twice as many needles as Santa Clara County, a county that exponentially dwarfs our population, illustrates the saturation of drug use in our community.â&#x20AC;?

Clark couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be reached for additional comment this week, as he and other officers were working on multiple investigations, in addition to planning a two-part memorial for Baker and Butler that is expected to draw thousands to San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s HP Pavilion on Thursday.

Evidence shows drug treatment, although not cheap, can lead to significant decreases in crime. The state of Maryland increased drug treatment funding 37 percent from 1995 to 2005, and federal funding for such programs climbed 15 percent in the same period. Violent crimes went down 32 percent over the same stretch of time.

The city of Santa Cruz does not currently fund drug treatment, but councilmember Don Lane suggested that Janus, a rehab facility with several city locations, apply for community program funding through the city this year.

As far as solutions go, the benefits of rehab arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly news to city leaders. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know a lot of people want to get off drugs and want rehab,â&#x20AC;? former councilmember Katherine Beiers says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the money for them right now, and we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the beds.â&#x20AC;?

Weird Questions For some reason, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grown hard for people to talk about public safety in Santa Cruz without invoking that age-old bumper sticker adage â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keep Santa Cruz Weird.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as if â&#x20AC;&#x153;weirdâ&#x20AC;? has come to mean the same thing as â&#x20AC;&#x153;unsafe.â&#x20AC;? In the pages of the Santa Cruz Sentinel, contributors are suggesting the famous slogan is at fault for the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safety problems. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Keep Santa Cruz Weirdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; marketing campaign worked well, their commercial interests thrived, but citizen safety was ignored,â&#x20AC;? Kevin Cornell wrote last week, adding, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to rebrand to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Keep Santa Cruz Safeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and not slow down until it rings true.â&#x20AC;?

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Cornellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s take isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t unique. Last week, the Sentinel also ran a guest editorial called â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Results of Keeping Santa Cruz Weirdâ&#x20AC;? by Wade Garza, a UC Santa Cruz dining hall manager.

Garza lamented, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In an effort to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Keep Santa Cruz Weirdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and provide sanction for those with alcohol and drug addictions, we have set ourselves up to attract a certain criminal element.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to say exactly when people began thinking â&#x20AC;&#x153;weirdâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;unsafeâ&#x20AC;? are the thing or, for that matter, that a four-word sentence could be an invitation for folks to hurt others.

One thingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for sure: itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a conversation thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening in Austin, Texas, which adopted the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keep Austin Weirdâ&#x20AC;? slogan over 10 years before the formula spread like wildflowers to cities around the country. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, please,â&#x20AC;? says Rebecca Melançon of the Austin Independent Business Alliance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If a slogan could cause crime, then I think every police department in America would have come up with a slogan to keep them safe.â&#x20AC;? Melançon notes that a study released last month by CQ Press named Austin the fourth safest city with more than 500,000 people.

Nor is the discussion happening in Portland, Ore., where residents are busy trying to keep their juggler-tounicyclist ratio in balance.

The biggest disagreement about â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keep Portland Weird,â&#x20AC;? Travel Portlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marcus Hibdon says, is whether or not the clichĂŠ will actually make Portland more mainstream.

Portland has its share of weirdos, Hibdon says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also lawabiding. These are people with nineto-five jobs, raising families, who might describe themselves as weird, but it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make them miscreants.â&#x20AC;?

Last month, the Portlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pulitzer Prize-winning Willamette Week newspaper ran a seven-page cover story about things to do in Portland when high, tips on legalizing the drug and the like.

Here in Santa Cruz, Neal Coonerty, owner of Bookshop Santa Cruz, first started selling â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keep Santa Cruz Weirdâ&#x20AC;? bumper stickers, mugs and tshirts to support street performers in 2002. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surprised by the backlash heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heard recently against the slogan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about keeping it unique, keeping artists in the community,â&#x20AC;? says Coonerty, also a county supervisor

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and former Santa Cruz mayor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were talking about [accordion-player] the Great Morgani or someone on with a guitar playing â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The fact that people are interpreting it as weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re supporting drugs and violence is just bizarre.â&#x20AC;?

The question should be asked: why are these various safety nets in society unraveling?

Why are family, churches, schools, neighborhoods, and communities not protecting people? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; JIM HOWES History of Violence Critiques of Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grungier elements predate the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weirdâ&#x20AC;? bumper sticker, though. If we take a page from Santa Cruz literary history for context, the debate over weirdness is really nothing new. In 1981, then-UCSCprofessor Page Stegner wrote a 5,000word essay for Esquire magazine, in which he blasted the city and residents for tolerating bad behavior.

Although Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural beauty blew Stegner away, he wrote that the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s laid-back attitude and liberal enforcement had allowed panhandlers to take over downtownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pacific Garden Mall and flung open the door to drifters. He thought Santa Cruz culture made it hard to distinguish students from bums, and good manners from bad. And somehow, Stegner worried, this had all given rise to a slew of serial killers who in the 1970s earned Santa Cruz the nickname â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Murder Capital of the World.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The difference between a longhaired English major in surplus fatigues and flip-flops and a blownout meth freak with a red, runny nose in drawstring pants was not immediately apparent,â&#x20AC;? Stegner wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Something ominous was slithering in the garden.â&#x20AC;?

So if something in Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culture is making us less safe, it may predate the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most controversial bumper sticker by decades. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Santa Cruz, we have lost the capacity to be outraged by almost anything short of Charles Manson,â&#x20AC;? wrote Stegner.

Elusive Solutions And yet, in 2013, there is definitely outrage. As parents gathered near the crime scene on Feb. 26, their children were in their schools on lockdown just a few hundred yards away. As they wondered when they would see their kids again, parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; concerns went much deeper than the dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shooting. Some said they were ready to leave Santa Cruz. Others criticized the city outright. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What is the city doing?â&#x20AC;? Renata Russo, the parent of a four-year-old, asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want everybody to ask what the city is really doing about crime.

Everyone needs to protect themselves.

This is the last thing I thought would ever happen. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just unbelievable.â&#x20AC;?

Russo and all the children who were on lockdown left the scene safely. But questions about Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safety long-term remained.

Three of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seven city councilmembers returned phone calls for this story, but said it was too early to suggest solutions for the problems at hand. â&#x20AC;?Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all just grieving,â&#x20AC;? says councilmember Micah Posner, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll all start thinking about this in a couple weeks.â&#x20AC;?

City councilmember Cynthia Mathews says the city will be looking at comprehensive solutions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be looking broadly at all the ingredients that enter into public safety, certainly having to do with our emergency responders, police and fire, but also collaborating with the community. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vague, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about as much as we can say,â&#x20AC;? says Mathews.

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Before losing two officers last week, SCPD, with a force of 94, had eight vacancies in addition to nine officers out recovering from injuries.

Santa Cruz police have already begun recruiting officers for their vacancies, but retention at SCPD has always been an issue. At a candlelight vigil last week, an emotional Capt. Clark said the police department will come out with a â&#x20AC;&#x153;unified responseâ&#x20AC;? next week.

In her recent city council campaign, Richelle Noroyan highlighted the small size and resources of the Santa Cruz police force as something the council needs to evaluate. Some of the problem, says UCSC sociologist Craig Reinarman, has nothing to do with the city, and everything to do with societal

issuesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a lousy economy, failure to deal with mental health issues and a flawed prison system. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most of the time incarceration is a brutalizing experience, and people come out with a big hole in their resume,â&#x20AC;? Reinarman says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even if there werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t such a high unemployment rate still after all these years, the people coming out of prison are going to be the last to be hired.â&#x20AC;?

To hear retired SCPD cop Jim Howes put it, things are even more grim. Howes, who served with Baker on the force, wants to know why â&#x20AC;&#x153;society is falling apart.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The question should be asked: why are these various safety nets in society unraveling?â&#x20AC;? says Howes, currently an assistant director for the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Regional Occupation program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why are family, churches, schools, neighborhoods and communities not protecting people?â&#x20AC;?

Larsen, who now works for the the Service Employees International Union, remembers what it was like feeling scared in Santa Cruz, and he lost friends to gun violence during his time as an organizer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Safety and wanting to take care of your family is such a basic thing,â&#x20AC;?

Larsen says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had people like Butch Baker and wonderful people in the city of Santa Cruz Police Department who gave their lives to keep us safe.â&#x20AC;? 0

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A E! COSMIC SLOPPER Best known for his work in the Santa Cruz crew Slop Opera, Ross Rock is working on his first solo record.

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veryone expects a certain degree of bravado in hip-hop, but what if a rapper has too much? That was the question local rapper and Slop Opera crew-member Ross Rock, whose real name is Michael Ross, considered when working on his recent song â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lurk,â&#x20AC;? which has generated over 6,000 views on YouTube since getting uploaded last Halloween.

Ross figured that all the typical rapper bravado about being the ultimate ladyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s man, and how every woman wants to be with them, would, if grossly overstated, flip the clichĂŠ. His song paints the picture of a protagonist who actually repels women, coming off like a stalker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to have some sort of cockiness to be an MC, but â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Lurkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is extreme and just goes against the grain of the other stuff I was hearing, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;cause

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m rapping about being proud of being a stalker, a creeper, or whatever,â&#x20AC;? Ross says.

The idea came to Ross a little while after he made the beat. He liked it, but thought it sounded too much like gangsta rap Ă la Brotha Lynch Hung. He didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to pretend to be a gangsta rapper, so he imagined a different way to complement the darkness of the song: make it creepy.

Ross re-worked the beat, substituting some of the loops with live instruments, which further removed it from its core gangsta rap sound. This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the first time Ross has worked with live instrumentation in his beats. Ever since heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been working more heavily on his solo material the past year or two, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been trying to build his own loops

with instruments rather than sample otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s records. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really like the best of both worlds.

My goal when I make music is to have a live sound to it, but not so live that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m steering away from the hip-hop sound either, where it just sounds like a live band with a rapper on it,â&#x20AC;? Ross says.

Before solo material became Rossâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus, he was more heavily involved with Slop Opera, a nine-member crew that was a major force in the Santa Cruz hip-hop scene in the mid-2000s. More recently, members have been moving away, so the group has been less active.

Their songs were much more of a throwback to the 90s hip-hop sound when beats were simple and revolved around samplesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and, obviously, crews. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were influenced by the golden era. Our beats sounded original, but they

also sounded like traditional hip-hop,â&#x20AC;?

Ross says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lurkâ&#x20AC;? leans more into the realm of the live band sound, while some of Rossâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other songs fall more into the classic hip-hop sound. Already, Ross has about six songs ready for a solo album, and he hopes to release it later this year.

The musicians that play on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lurkâ&#x20AC;? were from a backing band Ross played with briefly called Gas Pedal. They also played on a couple of the other songs Ross has already recorded. Now, Ross performs on stage alone, with a DJ. But he misses the group dynamic of Slop Opera and even Gas Pedal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really appreciate what a group is, on point with each other, doing backups for each other, all that energy on stage, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of my favorite things to watch,â&#x20AC;?

Ross says.

Even before Slop Opera formed in 2004, Ross had been showing his style off to the Santa Cruz hip-hop scene. He had a very distinct style: rapping really fast. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was really known as the person who did that in town. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been doing it literally since 1999 when there were five other rappers in town, and I was the only one with a rapid-fire flow,â&#x20AC;? Ross says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lurkâ&#x20AC;? is a great example of the diversity Ross is striving for. There are still some verses where he raps incredibly fast, but there are slower repetitive parts, as well as some melodic, almost singing parts to counter it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like each section has a different rapper in it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I was younger, it was me talking a breath of air and going. It was the equivalent of a rock song where thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a raging Jimi Hendrix solo going six minutes through the whole song. I think now I keep it interesting by not just doing the same thing,â&#x20AC;? Ross says.

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Stage THEATER Peer Gynt

CONCERTS Steve Bell An evening of story and song with Canadian songwriter Bell, sponsored

by Gathering at the Bay. Fri, Mar 8, 7:30pm. Aptos Christian Fellowship, 7200 Freedom Blvd, Aptos, 831.431.0788.

Art GALLERIES &217,18,1* Cabrillo College Gallery Cabrillo Gallery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mythical Installationâ&#x20AC;?: 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Loveâ&#x20AC;?: An exhibit of paintings, prints and sculpture from local artists. Thru March 15.

450 Hwy 1, Davenport, 831.426.1199.

Santa Cruz County Bank â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Dreams.â&#x20AC;? 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.

Events LITERARY EVENTS Armchair Theater A readerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theater presentation of chapters

2003-2004, sponsored by the Santa Cruz County Manufactured/Mobile Homeowners Association. www.sccmmha.wordpress. com. Sat, Mar 9, 1-5pm.

De Anza Mobile Home Park Clubhouse, 2395 Delaware Ave, Santa Cruz.

Book Group Mixer People in a book group or looking to join one are invited to this mixer for networking and sharing favorite reads. Wine and cheese will be provided.

Thu, Mar 7, 7pm. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.460.3232.

Community Poetry Circle Poetry writing workshop led by Magdalena Montague, local poet and teacher. Sat, Mar 9, 1-3pm.

Aptos Library, 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.427.7717.

Poetry Santa Cruz Poetry Reading by Christopher Buckley and Neli Moody. www. poetrysantacruz.org.

Tue, Mar 12, 7:30pm. $3 suggested donation.

Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 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.

The Writer s Journey Local author Laura Davis presents a monthly evening of writing practice for aspiring writers. Bring a notebook and pen. Mon, Mar 11, 7:30pm. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.460.3232.

LECTURES Blow Him Away Beginners and experts alike are invited to learn new tricks for pleasing men in the bedroom.

Thu, Mar 7, 7:30-9:30pm. $20. Pure Pleasure, 204 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.466.9870.

Public Health Talk Co-author of Congressâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Single Payer Health Bill Howard Waitzkin presents, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Medicine and Public Health at the End of the Empire,â&#x20AC;? a talk and book signing. Fri, Mar 8, 7:30pm. $5. Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, 831.262.3074.

Rent Control Symposium A symposium on the loss of mobile home rent control in Santa Cruz from

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.

Intro to Witchcraft Tantra & Sex Magic What do â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Secretâ&#x20AC;? and the power of intention have to do with your sex life? Explore the answers to this and more in the workshop â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tantra, Sex Magic, and Transformative Lovemaking!â&#x20AC;? Wed, Mar 6, 7:30-9:30pm. $20. Pure Pleasure, 204 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.466.9870.

What is Shamanism?

Local shaman Brant Secunda will give a talk on the spiritual and philosophical teachings of the indigenous Huichol people. Thu, Mar 7, 7-9pm.

Center for Spiritual Living, 1818 Felt St, Santa Cruz, 831.475.9560.

NOTICES Beat Sanctuary A dance class for exploring authentic movement as connection, exercise, prayer and spiritual practice. Wed, 7:30-9:15pm. $15. A weekly class for exploring exercise and spirituality through dance. Wed, 7:309:15pm. $15. Santa Cruz Yoga, 402 Ingalls Street, Santa Cruz, 585.278.0080.

A Course In Miracles Study Group A weekly meeting on learning how to forgive and live in peace. Dropins 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 onehour, 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.

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

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A production of the Henrik Ibsen masterpiece combining traditional theater with new media arts. Thu, Mar 7, 7pm, Fri, Mar 8, 7pm, Sat, Mar 9, 7pm and Sun, Mar 10, 3pm. Experimental Theater, Theater Arts Center UCSC, Santa Cruz.

from John Steinbeckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Grapes of Wrathâ&#x20AC;? in conjunction with national â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Read 2013.â&#x20AC;? Wed, Mar 6, 7pm.

Free/donation. Aptos Library, 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.688.5688.

Registration now open for a 6-week introduction to Wicca and Witchcraft course taught by Birch.

Begins March 13. $130.

The Sacred Grove, 924 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, 831.423.1949.

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.

Miracle Working Spiritual teacher Dominique Free leads a weekly class on cultivating the consciousness to heal, overcome, succeed and create miracles. Thu, 78pm. Conscious Lounge, 1651A El Dorado Av @ Capitola Rd, Santa Cruz, 831.359.0423.

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

Tuesdays 12:15-1:15pm at 2500 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz. Wednesdays noon-1pm at 49 Blanca Ln #303, Watsonville and 6:30-7:30pm at 335 Spreckles Dr Ste A, Aptos. Thursdays 12pm 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.

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 Avenue, Santa Cruz, 831.423.1949.

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5 Broken Cameras The Oscar-nominated documentary tells the story of protests against the construction of the Israeli Wall in a small West Bank village and the filmmaker whose five camerasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;each telling a story of its ownâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;were destroyed during the filming. Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 7pm at the Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. $5-$10 donation requested.

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).

The Speaker s Gym Instructor Noel Murphy provides leadership coaching and public speaking skills every week. www.thespeakersgym. com. Wed, 7-9:30pm.

Discovery Gym, 75 Mt Hermon Rd, Scotts Valley, 831.238.1234.

Trail Crew Volunteering Bring work gloves, lunch and water for day of lively and productive trail maintenance. Must be 18 years of age or older. Meet at park headquarters. Second Sat of every month, 9am. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Hwy 236, Boulder Creek, 831.338.8883.

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.

AROUND TOWN Bingo Benefit for Soquel High Sports Soquel High Knights football program gets the bucks from this weekly bingo night. Buy-in $15; doors open 5pm; early birds 6:15pm, games 6:30pm. Tue, Mar 12, 6:30pm. $15. Santa Cruz Elks Lodge, 150 Jewell St, Santa Cruz.

Film

Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz, 831.234.6522.

5 Broken Cameras

Santa Cruz Film Festival

A screening of the Oscar nominated documentary about the non-violent resistance of a Palestinian West Bank village surrounded by Israeli settlements. Wed, Mar 6, 7pm. $5-$10 donation.

The November 2013 Santa Cruz Film Festival is now accepting submissions.

Information available at www.withoutabox.com/ login/3747. Various sites, NA, Santa Cruz.

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

Zakir Hussain The worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest tabla player settles in for a ďŹ venight residency. Mar 5-10 at the SFJAZZ Center.

Sky Ferreira With â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything is Embarrassing,â&#x20AC;? heroin chic meets impeccably produced pop. Mar 7 at Rickshaw Stop.

Morrissey No oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s holding their breath on this, after Moz canceled four SF shows in a row. Mar 9 at the Regency Ballroom.

JosĂŠ James Blue Note signee with the voice of Gil Scott Heron and the production of Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Angelo. Mar 9 at the New Parish.

Efterklang New album is based on ďŹ eld recordings from a ghost town near the North Pole. Mar 11 at Great American Music Hall.

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A culture mashup by its very nature, Leche de Tigre is a Kona, Hawaiibased, latin-gypsy-funk-playing 10-piece with sky-high energy, crosscultural sensibilities and a contagious, percussion-driven sound. With roots in a weekly acoustic jam session on the Big Island, the band skillfully combines a variety of styles and elements into its original and cover songs which range from groove-heavy hip-swayers to soulful Afro-Cuban laments. Local rock band the Magic Hats opens. Catalyst; $9 adv/$12 door; 9pm. (Cat Johnson)

I know Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Devil Makes Three didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t invent punk bluegrass, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting nearly the credit they deserve for dragging roots music into the mosh pit. I mean, stomping is so cool right now on the indie-folk scene itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ridiculous. The Brothers Comatose are a San Francisco band whose members (two of them actual brothers) know a thing or two about stomping. They can riff as fast as any hardcore band, though I guess most of the bluegrass greats could, as well. You realize this makes Ralph Stanley a Henry-Rollins-style â&#x20AC;&#x153;aging alternative icon,â&#x20AC;? right? Coffis Brothers open. Don Quixoteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; $12/$15/8pm. (Steve Palopoli)

While â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s music typically brings images of George Michael in neon and Madonnaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s red lipstick, the decade also birthed the authentic, rock-infused Tex-Mex group, Los Lobos. The East L.A. musicians do what they want with their sound, drawing from genres such as traditional Mexican music, folk, soul and rock, while also allowing the music to flow naturally. Without constraints, the music and their genuine chemistry has enabled the group to flourish and evolve consistently from album to album.

Moeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alley; $40 gen; 6pm & 9pm.

(Melanie Ware)

When Dan Bernâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first three albums came out, I listened to them over and over again, and there seemed to be a big contingent of Bern fans who were as obsessed as I was. I thought 2001â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New American Language was maybe even better, but by this time the hype had worn off (which he never seemed to like anyway) and the music world just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem interested anymore.

Bern himself did some weird stuff, like suddenly becoming the full-band Bernstein for a while, as well as shunning his early stuff and playing nearly entire sets full of brand new songs to audiences who were already trying to keep up with what heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d already released. He just never seemed comfortable with people really liking

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his music. But maybe heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lightened upâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;two years of live-record releases righted the ship a little, bringing in new fans and rewarding his patient longtime listeners with really thoughtful sets. Plus, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s writing music for movies (like Walk Hard) and pretty much getting to indulge whatever strikes his fancy (kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music, baseball album, etc). Crepe Place; $12/$15; 8pm. (SP)

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Calling her his â&#x20AC;&#x153;musical mother,â&#x20AC;? James has paid special attention to how Lady Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breathing affects her rhythm and has used it as a base for his own contemporary jazz style. His sensually romantic baritone, evoking the spirit of Gil Scott-Heron and Bill Withers, couples with a band of skilled improvisational musicians.

Their collaboration results in music that blends together decades worth of jazz, hip-hop, R&B and even a little electronica. Kuumbwa; $20 adv/$23 door; 7:30pm. (MW)

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RED CLAY RAMBLERS A top-notch string band with over 40 years of experience, stories and tunes, the Red Clay Ramblers reside in a self-made sweet spot between bluegrass, old-time music, country, early jazz and, interestingly, musical theatre. Yep, aside from being a genre-defining outfit, these guys also stroll over to the theatrical side, providing music for a number of plays, performing stints on Broadway and even winning a Tony award. Based in North Carolina, the Ramblers have graced a wide variety of venues from A Prairie Home Companion to the Tonight Show and have even collaborated with the North Carolina Symphony, further sealing their standing as ambassadors of both North Carolina and string band music. Rio Theatre; $23 adv; 8pm. (CJ)

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MAMAJOWALI Playing what it has dubbed AfroAmericana, Mamajowali weaves a vibrant musical tapestry of West African traditional songs, American old-time tunes and show-stopping improvisation that blends the best of both styles. Boasting a seriously talented and seasoned lineup of David Grismanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longtime sideman Joe Craven, Malian multi-instrumentalist Mamadou Sidibe and fingerstyle guitarist extraordinaire Walter Strauss, this is a band that explores territory that is at once fresh and familiar. Don Quixoteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; $15; 7:30pm. (CJ)

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With her sweet, sassy and borderlinerowdy energy, Miss Tess knows how to get her crowd dancing and whistling for more. She and the charming men in her band, the Talkbacks, keep their honkytonk performances fresh via jazz-like improvisation, varying the melody and rhythm of their original songs each night. Her feisty lyrics, classic twang and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;40s archtop guitar pair naturally with her band matesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; stand-up bass, drums and guitar to create a modern fusion of vintage swing, early rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll and, of course, some good Americana country. The Crepe Place; $8; 9pm. (MW)

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Slay Ride Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too bad fairy tale revamps have been done to death, since â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Jack and the Giant Slayerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is actually a good one

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n Netflix right now is a 1962 sword and sandal film called My Son, the Hero (1962) directed by Duccio Tessariâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the first man to direct a movie titled Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, and the scripter for Mario Bavaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hercules in the Haunted World. A handsomely made and often light comic version of the myth of Cadmus, it was everything you expected from Cinecitta. It boasts outrageously pretty women (Lebanese sex-bomb Antonella Lualdi is the cruel queen of Crete), a visit to Hell and fantastic acrobatics, including a very hazardous looking Minoan bull-dodging sequence that even surpassed the rodeo clowning I used to see in Oklahoma.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get back to the fate of this movie in a minute, after describing Jack the Giant Slayer. This new film is not a masterpiece, but it acquits itself as a solidly made, scary, heartfelt and handsomely designed fantasy, another collaboration between director Brian Singer and composer/editor John Ottman.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s satisfyingly free of spoof, winks to the audience or too much contemporary dialogue (though one of the giants, during a battle, shouts â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got this!â&#x20AC;?).

Nicholas Hoult (Hank â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Beastâ&#x20AC;?

McCoy in the last X-Men film) plays the polite yet proactive boy cornered into swapping his horse for a handful of beans. Eleanor

Tomlinson is the princess bored with castle life. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best not to be late for this, and not just because of an elaborate back story: Singer uses all his skill in a series of matching shots, marrying the stories of the royal and the commoner, until they meet at the foot of the beanstalk.

The world between the giants and the earthlings is bridged by vast lianas of vines, hundreds of feet wide and thousands of feet tall. Leading the expedition into the clouds is a soldier (Ewan MacGregor in one of his most pleasing roles, an unironic salute to golden-age movie heroism), his brave squire (rough, tough Eddie Marsan, looking fierce in a smooth suit of armor) and Stanley Tucci as

a treacherous aristo with a nasty Terry-Thomas grimace. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gantua,â&#x20AC;? the land of the giants, is the home of creatures that look like they escaped from Goyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Black Paintings; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re fierce, gross and hard to kill. The fun is in trying to figure out how theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be stopped when they invade earth, chase mounted troops down a field and besiege a castle. Everyone involved seems to be giving this film their best game, from Ian MacShane (as the King) right on down to an orange house-cat capable of superb reaction shots. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more going on than just a display of CGI. To get back to my point about My Son, the Hero: it was only released in America in 1963 after it was given a Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Up Tiger Lily?-style comedy dubbing, since it was thought that the public was exhausted with muscle-man movies. It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter that this Italian gods and monsters adventure would have tickled an adventure seeking audience, even without comedians cracking Borscht Belt jokes: incidentally, the Netflix version is happily in Italian with subtitles.

Ultimately, some films just arrive late in a cycle, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible for most people to see them with fresh eyes. Jack the Giant Slayer is released when the glut of adult fairy tales couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be more extreme, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to look at it as a novelty after two separate Snow Whites, a catastrophic Red Riding Hood movie and all the rest. It may take five or 10 years for audiences to recognize Jack the Giant Slayer as a legitimately enchanting film, arriving as it does after all the air has been sucked out of the room by less interesting high-concept commercial prospects.

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of kids runninâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for the hills and icing their classmates, between the pop crowdpleasing of Hunger Games and the edgy shocks of Battle Royale. (Hunger Games plays Fri at midnight at the Del Mar, Battle Royale plays Saturday at midnight at the Del Mar) BLESS ME, ULTIMA (PG-13; 106 min.) Based on the classic piece of Chicano

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literature that right-wingers keep trying to throw out of schools, this is a coming-of-age story set in post-WWII New Mexico amid a battle between good and evil. (Opens Fri at Green Valley) DEAD MAN DOWN (R; 118 min.) From the director of the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy (the Swedish one), a New York City enforcer (Colin

Farrell) and a blackmailer team up to take on a crime boss (Terrance Howard). (Opens Fri at Del Mar, Green Valley) EMPEROR (PG-13; 114 min.)

Should a beloved Japanese ruler be tried for war crimes?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the question Gen. Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) and his aide (Matthew Fox) try to answer in this WWII drama. (Opens Fri at

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Identity Thief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 11; 2; 4:45; 7:30; 10:15; Fri-Wed 9:30pm.

Escape from Planet Earth â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed 12:10; 4:45; Thu 12:10; 4:35.

Escape from Planet Earth 3D â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed 2:30; 7:05; Thu 2:30; 7:05.

A Good Day to Die Hard â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Wed 2:20; 5; 7:30; 9:55; Thu 1:15; 8:45; Fri-Wed 7:10pm.

Identity Thief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed 12:20; 2:50; 5:30; 8; 10:40; Thu 12:20; 2:50; 5:20; Fri-Wed 12:40; 3:20; 6:30; 9:30.

Jack the Giant Slayer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed 1:30; 10:30; Thu 1:30pm; Fri-Wed 1:20; 10:30.

Jack the Giant Slayer 3D â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed 12; 3; 7; 9:40; Thu 12; 2:35; 6:10; Fri-Wed 12:45; 3:30; 4:15; 6:50; 7:50; 10. (No Mon 7:50pm)

Life of Pi 3D â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed 12:40; 3:50; 6:50; 9:50; Thu 12:40; 3:30; Fri-Wed 12:50; 2:40 5:05; 7:30; 9:55.

Snitch â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed 2; 4:30; 7:10; 9:35; Thu 1; 3:40; 6:15.

Warm Bodies â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Wed 12:05; 2:25; 4:55; 7:20; 9:45; Thu 12:05; 2:25; 4:45; 7:15; Fri-Wed 12:10; 2:40; 5:05; 7:30; 9:55.

Walking Dead â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Thu 8pm.

Payleyfest: The Big Bang Theory â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed 3/13 7pm.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Thu 9pm.

DEL MAR

CINELUX SCOTTS VALLEY STADIUM CINEMA

1124 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com

226 Mt Hermon Rd, Scotts Valley 831.438.3260 www.cineluxtheatres.com

Emperor â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Fri) 1:40; 4:10; 6:45; 9 plus Sat-Sun 11:15am.

Dead Man Down â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Fri) 2; 4:30; 7; 9:20 plus Sat-Sun 11:30am.

Argo â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1pm.

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

Happy People - A Year in Taiga â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 3:30; 5:30; 7:30; 9:30.

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

Side Effects â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 4:30; 7; 9:20; Fri-Wed 2:30; 4:50; 7:15; 9:30.

A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fri-Sat 11pm.

The Hunger Games â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fri midnight.

Battle Royale â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sat midnight.

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

Lore â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Fri) 1:30; 4; 6:30; 8:50 plus Sat-Sun 11:10am.

The Gatekeepers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Fri) 1:45; 4:15; 6:45; 9 plus Sat-Sun 11:40am.

Academy Award Nominated Shorts program - Animated â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Wed-Thu 1:45pm Amour â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1; 3:40; 6:20; 9.

Happy People - A Year in Taiga â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Fri-Wed 1:15; 3:15; 5:15; 7:15; 9:15 plus Sat-Sun 11:20am.

Quartet â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 2:10; 4:20; 6:40; 8:50.

Silver Linings Playbook â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Daily 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30 plus Sun 11:30am.

West of Memphis â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 3:30; 6:30; 9:20.

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

The Last Excorcism Part II â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2:45; 5; 7:15; 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

Oz the Great and Powerful â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Thu 9pm) 12:30; 1; 3:40; 10:10; 10:40.

Oz the Great at Powerful 3D â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Fri) 12; 3:10; 4:10; 6:40; 7:40; 9:40.

21 and Over â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed 12:30; 2:5; 5:20; 7:40; 10; Thu 12:30; 2:55; 6; Fri-Wed 12:20; 2:50; 5:20; 7:40; 10. (No Thu 5:20; 8)

Django Unchained â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed 9:20pm.

Oz the Great and Powerful 3D (Opens Thu 9pm) 11:45; 3; 6:30; 9:30.

Oz the Great and Powerful (Opens Fri) 11; 12:30; 1:15; 2; 3:45; 4:30; 5:15; 7; 7:45; 8:30; 10.

21 and Over â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 11:55; 2:20; 4:55; 7:40; 10:10; Fri-Wed 12:15; 3; 5:30; 8; 10:15. (Sat-Sun 12:15pm)

Argo â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 7:15; 9:45; Fri-Wed 7:20; 10.

Dark Skies â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 11:45; 2:30; 4:55; 7:20; 10:15. (No Thu 7:20pm) Escape From Planet Earth â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 11:20; 2:10; 4:40; 7; 10.

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

Identity Thief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 11:20; 2; 4:40; 7:20; 10; Fri-Wed 4:45; 7:30; 10:10.

Jack the Giant Slayer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1:45; 4:30; 7:10; Fri-Wed 11; 1:45; 4:30; 7:10.

Jack the Giant Slayer 3D â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 11:30; 9:30; Fri-Wed 9:55pm.

Life of Pi â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1:45pm; Fri-Wed 11:15; 2.

Lincoln â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 3:45pm; Fri-Wed 12:30; 4.

Quartet â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 11; 1:30; 4; 6:30; 9; Fri-Wed 11:15; 1:40; 4:10; 6:45; 9:15.

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

Goldfingerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Thu 7pm; Sat 11am.

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

Bless Me, Ultima â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Fri) 1:45; 4:15; 7:15 plus Sat-Sun 11:15am.

Dead Man Down â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Fri) 1:30; 4; 7:15; 9:45 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Oz the Great and Powerful â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (Opens Fri) 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:45 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Oz the Great and Powerful 3D â&#x20AC;&#x201D;(Opens Fri) 1:55; 4:35; 7:15; 10 plus Sat-Sun 11:15am.

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

Dark Skies â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1:45; 4:15; 7:15; 9:45.

Escape From Planet Earth â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1:20; 3:45; 6:35.

Jack the Giant Slayer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1:30; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed 1:30; 4; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Jack the Giant Slayer 3D â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 4pm.

Identity Thief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1:45; 4:15; 7:15; 9:45; Fri-Wed 9:45pm.

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

Snitch â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Daily 1:30; 4; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11:15am.

Del Mar) THE GATEKEEPERS (PG-13; 95 min.) Members of Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s secret service open up about controversial tactics and tough decisions in this new documentary about the Shin Bet. More than a documentary, this is an exploration in morality for the 21st century. (Opens Fri at Nick) LORE (NR; 109 min.) The daughter of a Nazi leads her younger siblings across Europe while Allied Forces sweep the continent. As she seeks refuge, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forced to challenge everything she thought she knew about her family. (Opens Fri at Nick.)

OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL (PG; 130 min.)

When three of Ozâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s witches first meet Kansas transplant Oscar Diggs (James Franco), theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re disappointed. This, they worry, canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t possibly be the great wizard everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expecting. Can he prove them wrong before the magical landâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s epic problems spiral out of control? (Opens Fri at 41st Ave, Santa Cruz 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley)

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.

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 attempt to save a kingdom, and its princess. See review, page 24.

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.

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.

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 mystery-romance about a young woman who comes to a new town with dark secrets. Kind of like Beautiful Creatures, but without witches.

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) 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.

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.

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).

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BATTLE ROYALE (2000)/THE HUNGER GAMES (2012) A genius bit of programming, this weekend at the Del Mar will allow film geeks to conclusively answer for themselves the question that came up when The Hunger Games was released last year: Did it rip off Battle Royale? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

a great one to ponder, since the basic premise stretches back three-quarters of a century to the first film adaptation of The Most Dangerous Game.

But the specific similarities are so numerous that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of hard to believe there wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t some stealing going on (keep in mind, both films were based on books). Whatever your conclusion, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plenty

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BAR BITING Ashley Rebello of 515 Kitchen in Santa Cruz, where the appetizers are as good as the cocktails.

Pre-Spring Temptations

BY CHRISTINA WATERS

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irst off a shout out to the sensational winter tomatoes grown by Miyashita Farms in Watsonville. Packaged as West Vista Farms cherry tomatoes, these crimson orbs are that rarest of findsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a completely ripe, locally grown winter tomato. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been using these all fall and winter in arugula salads, on top of toast and cream cheese to go with our breakfast eggs, or tossed with basil, garlic and angel hair pasta. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been finding these at New Leaf stores and

Shoppers Corner, but now only Shoppers seems to carry them. Trust me, these are head and shoulders above any of the others currently on the market. A taste of late summer in what is supposed to be late winter.

MENU WALK: I like what I see when I check out Bantamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest culinary thinking. Beautiful salads layered with Dungeness crab, butter beans, artichokes and cressâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this sort of sophisticated side makes magic with wood-fired pizza. Bantamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen

recently whipped up a bold chicory Caesar salad fueled with radicchio from Mariquita Farms. Those wildly popular pickled carrots and turnips are still on the menu crying out for a glass of something red. Spaghetti Bolognese and even a Fogline farm fried chicken with mashed beets, favas and chiles have been added to the sleek pizza palace menu. Bantam is located at 1010 Fair, corner of Ingalls on Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; vibrant Westside.â&#x20AC;Ś Meanwhile on the other side of town, at Au Midi in â&#x20AC;&#x153;downtownâ&#x20AC;? Aptos,

FREE DOCENT TRAINING AT THE UCSC FARM & GARDEN BEGINS MARCH 12 Docent training

program begins Tuesday, March 12 at two of Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most beautiful locations: the historic Alan Chadwick farm and the UC Santa Cruz campus farm. Docents lead visitor tours at the 30-acre organic farm and three-acre Chadwick Garden. The training involves five Tuesday afternoons, from 4-5:30pm, starting March 12 and ending April 9.

For more details and to arrange for parking during the training, please contact Amy Bolton at (831) 459-3240, or abolton@ucsc.edu

by Tuesday, March 5. The training is sponsored by the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems at UC Santa Cruz. More information about the UCSC Farm & Garden and CASFS is available at http://casfs.ucsc.edu. 0

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Muriel Loubiere is offering beets and goat cheese mousse salad with apple vinaigrette dressing. Entrees of Prince Edward Island mussels with fresh tomatoes, cream, brandy, basil and garlic have me salivating. Au Midi is one of the only dining rooms in the area to finesse an authentic cassoulet, complete with heirloom beans, duck confit, Toulousian and French garlic sausage.â&#x20AC;Ś At 515 in downtown Santa Cruz I was thrilled to discover the lovely appetizer dishes of roasted asparagus spears with prosciutto, as well as addictive fingerling potatoes with aioli. Terrific dishes to share over cocktails, which is just what I did.â&#x20AC;Ś And at Soif chef Santos Majano is re-imagining soup and turning it into an earthy fantasy of carrot and tangerine laced with candied ginger and crème fraiche. Another bold and wonderful entreeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;cannelloni of rabbit confit with mixed mushrooms and mascarpone, kalamata olives and arugula. This dish would prosper with a glass of French Pinot noir, or hmmm, sparkling rosĂŠ? Yes!â&#x20AC;Ś The bar menu at Oswald already has its own cult following. Many swear this is the best burger and fries in town, plus you can enjoy Dungeness crab with avocadoes, or fried chicken, or even a sophisticated mac & cheese, all at the bar while swilling something in the key of vodka. Oswald, located at the corner of Front and Soquel Avenues, offers a 3-course prix fixe menu, priced at $29, every Wednesday night.

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Dinerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guide Symbols made simple: $ = Under $10 $$ = $11-$15 $$$ = $16-$20 $$$$ = $21 and up Price Ranges based on average cost of dinner entree and salad, excluding alcoholic beverages

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$$ 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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$ Pono Hawaiian Grill Santa Cruz 120 Union St, 831.426.pono

MARCH 6-12, 2013

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Free Will

Rob Brezsny

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