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West End Grrrs Re: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where Exactly is Our West End?â&#x20AC;? (Epicure, May 1): Either Ms. Waters isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t doing her homework, or her shock at the possible arrival of a second brewpub is ill-concealed favoritism for an existing entity which she favors.

Why otherwise would she say â&#x20AC;&#x153;To call this â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;unexpectedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; would be an understatement?â&#x20AC;?

For starters, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talking about a one block area that already features 9 wineries cheek by jowl. Why then is a second brewpub joining the first a shock? Diversity of wineries is acceptable, but breweries isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t?

For closers, as a food critic, I think sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d acknowledge the fact that the existing brewpub features no food menu while the new one will have an extensive one.

I find her article obviously biased at best, ignorant and poorly researched at worst. I have to give her report zero out of four stars.

CHRIS KASTER Santa Cruz

Living the Dream Re: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where Exactly is Our West End?â&#x20AC;?: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disappointing that this article was written without any actual research done on the West End Tap & Kitchen, its owners, investors or really anything...If Ms. Waters did her homework, she would have found out that the owners are as local as local gets. Living in Santa Cruz for over three generations! The investors live in Santa Cruz and are just friends and family members of the two partners that are opening this new spot! Really the American dream at work.

It should be noted that the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Westsideâ&#x20AC;? was the original name that the two friends and partners wanted...but were warned by local law officers and business friends that it carries a negative gang tone and should be avoided. All of this and lots more would have been known if Ms. Waters would have

made a simple phone call. Two great beer drinking spots next to each other only brings good, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little thing called synergy! Cheers.

NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST Santa Cruz

Float Trip Re: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Urban Backpackingâ&#x20AC;? (Cover, May 8): Georgia, I was skeptical when I first heard that you were going to write about what my hiking buddies do. I thought it would be like trying to staple smoke. But I think your article captures the spirit of our hikes, it really works.

The way your story mixes in personal musings with beautiful descriptions of the coast makes the reader feel like they are floating along on the trail with you. Reading the article feels like a wonderful jaunt.

The quality of your writing, the cool cover shot by Chip Scheuer (brilliantly bringing the whole idea back to Santa Cruz), and the innovative quality of the Santa Cruz Weekly are an inspiration to all of us little guys who, sink or swim, insist on taking our own path.

RICHARD STOCKTON Santa Cruz FROM THE WEB 4@=; B63 E30

Not There Yet Re: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scoutsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Honor?â&#x20AC;? (Currents, May 8): Was pleased to see your article on Boy Scouts accepting openly gay boy scouts (but not openly gay older scouts or adult leaders). A quick note: Girl Scouts, Campfire Boys and Girls, and 4H have accepted openly gay members for years.

Also note that the Boy Scout oath still requires â&#x20AC;&#x153;duty to god and my country.â&#x20AC;?

So a teen whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agnostic or questions loyalty oaths is still officially barred from the Boy Scouts. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not there yet.

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Wellness WEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;VE BEEN SLIMED Spirulina farms like this one are the starting point for the popular supplement.

The Truth About Spirulina Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pond scum! Not that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anything wrong with that

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n a recent layover in Chicago, I found myself standing in the smoothie line at the airport, dazed, jet-lagged and craving kale. Or anything green. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been away from California too long.

No kale in sight, I added an impulsive $2 spirulina booster instead, rendering my smoothie the deepest, darkest green I could have imagined. It was an intimidating 12 ounces, with an ominous murk, as if they had crammed the Everglades into the blender and hit â&#x20AC;&#x153;pulse.â&#x20AC;?

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll save impulse decisions for a future column. It was the gritty mealiness of all that blue-green algae powder, and its overpowering pond-like flavor, that led me to wonder if spirulina is really all itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cracked up to be. After all, this cyanobacterium, scorned by some and promoted with religious fervor by others, is still, quite literally, pond scum.

After consulting several local nutrition experts, the short answer is yes, spirulina can be quite nutritious, but not all spirulina is created equalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the airport version Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d sprung for could have done more harm than good. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some spirulina supplements have been found to be contaminated with microcystins, very toxic compounds not produced by spirulina but by related algae that can grow with it,â&#x20AC;? says Dr. Randy Baker of Soquelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pacific Center for Integral Health. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some may be contaminated with lead, mercury and arsenic. Because spirulina can be a magnet for toxins, I am cautious about spirulina harvested from wild sources.â&#x20AC;?

The reputability of spirulina harvested from the less-than-pristine Klamath Lake in Oregon, for instance, is frequently challenged. And if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming from close to the radiation disaster in Japan, stay away.

The fact that spirulina doubles its biomass every two days without depleting topsoil makes it a sustainable and lucrative business endeavor. But spirulina is more than just a recent health fad promoted by multi-level marketing: the nutritious algae was harvested from Lake Texcoco and sold as cakes by the Aztecs and Mesoamericans. It forms a complete protein, and if you can find a pure source, there is every reason to give it a try. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Spirulina] is a concentrated source of amino acids, essential fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and especially the antioxidant carotenoids like zeaxanthin,â&#x20AC;? says Dr. Baker.

But like many natural products, there is very little research on itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until recently that Dr. Andrew Weil withdrew his conviction that the blue-green algae produces neurotoxins,

thanks to a favorable safety rating by the United States Pharmacopeia Dietary Supplements Information Expert Committee in 2010. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Research studies cost a lot of money, and for a product that canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be patented, there is no profit motive for someone to fund research,â&#x20AC;? says Dr. Baker.

The limited human studies that have been done suggest that spirulina may be beneficial for allergic rhinitis, says Baker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The study that impressed me the most was in people who chew tobacco and had precancerous oral lesions,â&#x20AC;? says Baker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Twenty of 44 who took spirulina had these lesions resolve, compared to three of 43 who took a placebo.â&#x20AC;?

A 2007 study in Mexico, published by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, showed that spirulina supplements can help lower blood pressure and cholesterol. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Greens expertâ&#x20AC;? Christine Miyoshi of Way of Life in Capitola, has been taking spirulina for almost eight years now. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The thing that I notice most is the energy it gives me,â&#x20AC;? says Miyoshi, who also happens to never get sick despite working in an environment that sees a lot of sick peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and she credits spirulina. She recommends a $4 sample bottle from Health Force to start. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always tell people to start small with spirulina, because of its detoxifying effects,â&#x20AC;? says Miyoshi. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right: expect some gurgling in your stomach, and possibly even laxative effects.

And donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t throw caution to the wind either: if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where it was harvested, you should probably just skip it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since most juice bar and natural food store employees will not know where their bulk spirulina is sourced, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better to go with local organic fresh greens in smoothies and to eat other forms of seaweed for iodine, calcium, iron and other potent nutrients,â&#x20AC;? says Joceylin Dubin, registered dietician at Nourish. Dubin recommends wakame, dulse, nori, kombu, hijiki and arame from Emerald Cove brand. 0

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Currents BELOW THE WASTE One of the sharps drop-offs at the County Health Services building on Emeline Avenue.

Sticking Points Santa Cruz debates whether needle exchanges work, and at what cost BY JACOB PIERCE

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n paper things look good for the future of Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needle exchange program, which the city basically punted to the county earlier this year, allowing county health officials to oversee the program outside city limits and come up with new regulations. A presentation at Santa Cruz High School last month revealed data showing that exchanges in general not only reduce the spread of infections like HIV, but also reduce trash. And the council cast a vote of confidence in favor of the needle exchange within city limits, in February, as part of its public safety recommendations. But grant writer Steve Pleich isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t waiting with bated breath for city officials to welcome exchanges back with open arms. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe the political climate in Santa Cruz would allow it, regardless of what the county says,â&#x20AC;? explains Pleich, a supporter of the exchange.

County health officials say that a

needle exchange should be close to users in order to be effective at reducing the spread of disease. Conventional wisdom would suggest thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the urban core of Santa Cruz, but the results are not yet out from a new poll for the users in the county. Needle exchange clients recently took surveys answering a variety of questions, including what the best sites would be for exchanges. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are tallying the data right now,â&#x20AC;? says county health services director Giang Nguyen, â&#x20AC;&#x153;because part of the survey asked participants where some of the locations are throughout the county that would be conducive to them, and also by what kinds of transportation they get to those places. So, we can decide where would be the best place throughout the county to do this. We are not going to be able to say where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll go next, probably for another 90 days.â&#x20AC;?

Street Outreach Supporters currently operate at the county health building on

Emeline Avenue and in Watsonville.

According to research presented

by Alex Kral of San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Urban Health Program, 13 percent of drug users in San Francisco, which has a needle exchange, disposed of syringes improperly. The city of Miami, on the other hand, has no needle exchange, and 95 percent of users there disposed of their needles improperlyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including 45 percent in public places and 39 percent in the trash.

Studies aside, many concerned residents are clamoring to keep the needle exchange out of their neighborhoods out of fear that the county-run program leads to more hazards than itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth. Influential council critic Ken Collins, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken interest in Darwinian evolution, says drugs have evolved just as animals do and that all the studies that have been done are outdated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How accurate are those in Santa

Cruz?â&#x20AC;? Collins asks of the study results. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Does what goes on in San Francisco, New York and Miami have anything to do with Santa Cruz? I want a solution.â&#x20AC;?

In the past three years, Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exchange delivered over 700,000 needlesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including about twice as many in the past year as nearby Santa Clara County, which has six times the residents. Since the Clean Team began doing its weekly cleanups in November, the group has picked up 1042 needles.

In addition to exchanges, needles are available in drug stores for less than a dollar each, and until recently, the county had no public drop-offs for used syringes when the needle exchanges were closed.

Collins is an advocate of increasing public bathrooms and finding a way to make rehab more affordable. A professional and big wave surfer who grew up in Santa Cruz, he says he has watched about 100 people he knew fall into addictionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a quarter of whom have ended up homeless as a result.

Based on his own observations, he says the scariest trend right now is not heroin addiction, but the increase of people using needles to shoot up methamphetamines. Collins says it might be time to look away from the studies and try something new for a year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Consider the possibility of shutting down the needle exchange because the needle exchangeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s statistics that show the exchange is supposed to work are obviously not working,â&#x20AC;? Collins says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Somethingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s changed. Somethingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s different.â&#x20AC;?

Pleich suggests roaming exchanges, that move from one neighborhood to the next, depending on the week. That way, no one neighborhood would be too heavily impacted by an exchangeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; people hanging out after an exchange to shoot the breeze or their drugs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we had a roving exchange, no one site in the city and no one neighborhood would bear the burden of having a needles site permanently,â&#x20AC;? Pleich says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And that would allay some of the concerns about people hanging out after an exchange.â&#x20AC;?0

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Sharon Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; classic style has earned her the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;retroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tag. But she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t revive soul music, she defines it BY AARON CARNES

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ost people got their first taste of Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings in 2005, right around the release of their second

album, Naturally. Though theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d already been together for almost a decade, they reached a whole new level of exposure that year, with the Dap Kings backing Amy Winehouse on her Back to Black album, and Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; appearance in the Denzel Washington movie The Great Debaters.

This was also around the time that Winehouse and others popularized a revival of classic soul.

While Jones, 57, gets lumped in with that movement, this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t retro music to herâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in fact, she actually was a soul singer in the 70s, she just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it big at the time. And her work with the Dap Kings started in the mid-90s, well before there was any classic soul revival happening. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t retro, but people are going to call us what they want to call us. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not trying to imitate it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my voice. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s who I am.

Retro is someone young trying to imitate someone older. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not trying to imitate a sound. I am that sound,â&#x20AC;? Jones says.

As hard as Jones tried in the 70s, she couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get any label to back her. Even though she always had a powerful voice, what she was consistently told by labels was that she just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the right look.

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A DAPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;LL DO YA Sharon Jones and her backing band the Dap Kings play the Santa Cruz Blues Festival Sunday.

Even to this day, her surprising success is due in part to the fact that she still hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worked with any majors. Jones and the Dap Kings have released their music exclusively on Daptone Records, a label run by Gabriel Rothâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bassist. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I had been on some major label and our album didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do well, they would have dropped me. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no dropping here. We do whatever we do.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all for us,â&#x20AC;? Jones says.

During the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s and early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s, Jones had to pursue work outside of the music industry. Soul music was quickly being replaced by R&B and hip-hop. So Jones found work as a corrections officer and an armored car guard for Wells Fargo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought I was never going to make it, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;cause of how the music was turning and because they told me I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t right to be a singer. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I went and took those jobs, so I can secure myself, and maybe sing at weddings on the side or do a little background vocals here and there. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I had accepted,â&#x20AC;? Jones says.

In 1996, she got an opportunity

to sing backing vocals on a studio session with funk musician Lee Fields, which Roth was organizing.

Jones knew Roth because he was a friend of her now ex-boyfriend.

They were initially looking for three female background singers, but Jones came over after work and told them she could do all three parts herself. Which she did, still wearing her security guard outfit and with a gun strapped to her side.

They were so impressed, they recorded some tracks with her singing lead. This eventually blossomed into the Soul Providers, for which Jones was the lead singer.

But that band unraveled in 2000, with Roth starting Daptone Records, as well as a new group, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.

Over the next few years, pop music seemed to finally catch up to her, even if it had to reach back to do so.

She was perfect for a post-Strokes, garage band world, coming from the old school mindset of soul music where the singerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job was to connect to the emotions of the lyrics, instead

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talking about me, but I understand the story. They are pouring their heart out, and I can feel the hurt.

That may have not been me in the song, but maybe it was me years ago, or maybe somebody I know that got hurt.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy for me to tell it. I guess thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why some good singers become great actresses, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what being an actress is, a pretender,â&#x20AC;? Jones says.

She does sometimes see the emotions behind the lyrics differently than the writer, but she believes that gives her the freedom to make it her own. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You are writing it, but this is the way Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m feeling it. When you bring it to me, now let me sing it my way. Let me give you that soul. Let me make it part of me,â&#x20AC;? Jones says.

Their first album was Dap Dippinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, released in 2002, followed by Naturally.

Both these albums were heavily influenced by 70s funk. Her follow ups

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100 Days, 100 Nights (2007), I Learned the Hard Way (2010) and Soul Time (2011) drew much more from the classic â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s soul sound.

A lot of the Dap Kingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; early fans came from the Internet, and their wider and wider touring schedule. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just start being heard more,â&#x20AC;? says Jones. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we just stayed true to what we were doing. Not everybody has the Internet, but they want to hear my music and they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play it on the radio, so you got to go to the show.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I enjoy doing the festivals.

The festivals are good. Because some people get to hear something that they wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get a chance to hear on the radio. Because the radioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to play Beyonce or a Rihanna song, or whatever song is on top,â&#x20AC;? Jones says.

The past few years, Jones has gotten to play with Lou Reed, Prince, Michael Buble, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim.

When she opened for Prince one time, after he heard her and the Dap Kings play â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I Come Home,â&#x20AC;? he told her that he hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t heard the funk like that in over 20 years.

Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings have a new album, Give the People What They Want, scheduled to be released in August. They have already released a single, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Retreat,â&#x20AC;? which is an explosive, high-energy, horn-driven soul song. Jones says that the rest of the album infuses a lot of different sounds, like Latin and Afrobeat.

She realizes that some fans may not like the new songs, at least not right away. Some in fact have already commented on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Retreat,â&#x20AC;? not liking the direction itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going, but that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t important to Jones. She only wants to make music that she likes, and to enjoy what sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once I get unhappy, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do this anymore. People do it for the money and the popularity. No. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sorry. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need 150 million dollars.

When am I going to spend that kind of money?â&#x20AC;? Jones says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If a person is young, they get even more attention.

For me itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken longer because of my age. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to do pop music, just because they got all these young people out here doing this stuff. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to do what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to sound like that. That music donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t turn me on. But I want to make music like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doing and these other people arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t doing out here.â&#x20AC;? 0

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of putting a great deal of emphasis on technique. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not trying to sound a certain way. I just follow the soul of the music, and I feel it and try to sing the lyrics to that, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happy, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sad, and the story theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re telling. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most important thing, what am I singing about? What does this mean?â&#x20AC;? Jones says.

Though Jones used to write a lot of her own music in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s, she rarely writes any of the music or lyrics for the Dap Kings. She feels this enables her to really bring the songs to life, because rather than trying to convey whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in her heart, she can convey the emotions of the songs as written.

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Deep Blues A guide to the entire Santa Cruz Blues Festival line-up BY AARON CARNES

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haron Jones and the Dap Kings arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only attraction at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Santa Cruz Blues Festival. In fact, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not even Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headliner. (That would be Tedeschi Trucks Band.)

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a guide to the artists for both days, May 25-26, from headliner on down to opener.

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STEVE MILLER BAND: Is there a band that more clearly defines classic rock than the Steve Miller Band?

Well, the Eagles maybe, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it.

With hits like â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Joker,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fly like an Eagle,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Take the Money and Runâ&#x20AC;? and

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Abracadabra,â&#x20AC;? there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a person alive unfamiliar with the Steve Miller Bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music. Like much of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s rock â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll, there was always a blues edge to their sound, though in the late 60s, before they were well known, they played a heavier, psychedelic bluesrock soundâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;their original name was the Steve Miller Blues Band.

JIMMIE VAUGHAN WITH LOU ANN BARTON: Jimmie Vaughan was first known as the guitarist for the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Their first four albums are considered some of the best blues-rock albums to come out of the late 70s and early 80s, and later they broke big with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tuff Enuffâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wrap it Up.â&#x20AC;?

Vaughan quit in the late â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s to record an album with his brother Stevie Ray Vaughan, who died shortly thereafter.

Lou Ann Barton, who sang with Double Trouble, also plays with him.

JOHN MAYALL: There is a reason John Mayall is dubbed the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Father of British Blues.â&#x20AC;? His group, John Mayallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bluesbreakers, were the seminal blues group in England in the early 60s, just as the sound exploded. Eric Clapton even quit the Yardbirds to be in the Bluesbreakers.

After Clapton moved on to Cream, Bluesbreakers became an incubator

for a lot of the great British rock â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rollers of the 1960s and 1970s.

Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac), Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones) and Andy Fraser (Free) all played in Bluesbreakers before their respective bands. While a lot of these musicians went on to enormous success, Mayall always maintained a cult status because he kept the blues pure and never wrote pop or rock songs.

SONNY LANDRETH: Sonny Landreth has been an in-demand session guitarist for decades, thanks to his versatility and skill. And also his unusual slide guitar technique, which involves both fingerpicking and sliding all at the same time with his left hand, as well as tapping and slapping strings with his right hand.

He has recorded with Jimmy Buffet, John Hiatt, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, Dolly Parton and Kenny Loggins. As a songwriter, his Louisiana-inspired

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roots and blues have won him a hardcore fan base.

CAROLYN WONDERLAND: Within moments, you can hear the intensity of Janis Joplin in Carolyn Wonderlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice. But thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just as much Bonnie Raitt in there, too. From Houston, Wonderland plays some downright gritty, high-powered electric blues, with a solid R&B backbone and a bit of a twang. She got started in the early 90s with the Imperial Monkeys, then went solo in 2001. While she gets a lot of attention for her powerful vocals, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also an incredible guitarist, who gives the blues a unique spin, not getting bogged down so much with standard noodling and riffs.

SUNDAY TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND: One of the hottest working roots groups out now is the Tedeschi

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Trucks Band, led by husband and wife Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi. In 2010, they decided to put their respective solo careers on hold and join forces, creating an eleven-piece country, blues, rock super-group, utilizing Trucksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; talent on the slide guitar, Tedeschiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soulful voice and the skill of a bunch of their musician friends. Their 2011 debut album, Revelator, was declared a masterpiece by Rolling Stone and earned them a Grammy for best blues band.

SHARON JONES AND THE DAP KINGS: See page 11.

JAMES HUNTER SIX: The star of R&B group James Hunter Six is of course James Hunter, whose voice wavers on the verge of gut-wrenching emotion and gentle tenderness. His deep baritone voice is not unlike

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by Minute is the debut release by the James Hunter Six, which brings a bigger, fuller sound than on his prior albums. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also recorded live, utilizing natural reverb, just like on those 1950s and 1960s R&B records he was so heavily influenced by.

NICKI BLUHM & THE GRAMBLERS: San Francisco altcountry roots-rockers Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers have been touring the states since 2008, but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until they released a video of themselves covering â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Go For Thatâ&#x20AC;? by Hall & Oates in their van a year ago, while driving between gigs, that they got some serious recognition. Part of their Van Sessions (where they play very diverse covers in their van between gigs), the song has racked up over two million views. While their originals are a hybrid of folk, rock and soul, the covers, regardless of style, demonstrate clearly what a strong singer Bluhm is, not to

mention the Gramblersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; incredible musicianship and harmonization skills. Her husband Tim, from the Mother Hips, is also in the band.

CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS: There hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been a band to come out in the past five years that has so effectively channeled New Orleans as authentically as the California Honeydropsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re from Oakland. Lead singer Lech Wierzynski is Polish-born, even.

They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just play one style of New Orleans music, either, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bit of everything: jazz, R&B, zydeco, blues. They formed in 2007, playing songs in subway stations in the East Bay. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always maintained that street performance energy, though theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve graduated from jug band instruments to more studioappropriate ones along the way.

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Stage DANCE Bellydance Showcase

Mon-Fri 9am-4pm & MonTues 7-9pm. Thru May 31.

6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6308.

Chimera Tattoo Studio Life Underwater. An exhibition of oil paintings by Joel Frank inspired by water. www.jdfrank.com. Gallery hours Mon-Sat, noon8pm. Thru May 31. Free, 831.426.8876. 1010 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz.

THEATER

Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery

International Playhouse French, Italian, Japanese and Spanish theater pieces with English subtitles. Thu, May 16, 8pm, Fri, May 17, 8pm, Sat, May 18, 8pm and Sun, May 19, 8pm. Free. Stevenson College Event Center, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3729.

CONCERTS Driftwood Consort Galanterie: Renaissance through Romantic pieces on period instruments.

Sun, May 19, 3pm. $20. St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church, 125 Canterbury Dr., Aptos, 831.706.8408.

Gamelan Featuring master drummer and dancer Undang Sumarna.

Sun, May 19, 7:30pm. $10 general. UCSC Music Center Recital Hall, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

SC Peace Chorale Unison in Harmony: Songs for peace and social justice Sat, May 18, 7:30pm. $15. Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 2402 Cabrillo College Drive, Soquel, 831.345.8862.

Art MUSEUMS &217,18,1* Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Spotlight Tours. Bringing the artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; voices directly to visitors. Go behind the scenes and museum-wide exhibitions. Third Sat of every month, 11:30am12:30pm. Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

GALLERIES &217,18,1* Cabrillo College Gallery Cabrillo Gallery. Student Exhibition: 150 works of painting, mixed media, drawing, ceramics, sculpture and more. Gallery hours:

In Her Place, Visual Narratives: Tapestries by Bonnie Stone. Gallery hours: Tues-Su 11am-4pm. Thru June 22. 831.459.2953.

Cowell College, UCSC, Santa Cruz.

Felix Kulpa Gallery Myths, Lies & Legends: Contemporary fine art prints

by MPC Printmakers. Gallery hours: Thurs-Sun, noon-6pm.

Thru May 26. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

Pajaro Valley Arts Council AgriCulture, Land & People: All media exhibit exploring the people, produce & politics of the Pajaro Valley.

Gallery hours: Wed-Sun 11am-4pm. Thru June 9. Free.

37 Sudden St, Watsonville, 831.722.3062.

R. Blitzer Gallery Firenze-una Storia dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Amore: Traditional egg tempura artist Adrienna Momi. Gallery hours: Tues-Sat, 11am-5pm.

Thru May 31. 831.458.1217.

Mission Extension and Natural Bridges, Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz County Bank Viva Santana. A solo retrospective of the late painter, printmaker and sculptor Manuel Santana.

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 Aug. 23. Free, 831.457.5003. 720 Front St, Santa Cruz.

Events BIGDEALS Book Sale More than 10,000 used books, CDs, and DVDs for sale at discounted prices. Sat, May 18, noon-5pm. Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.427.7716.

Iris Sale Several types of certified organic Iris plants. Sat, May 18, 9am-5pm. $5-$20. Brook Lomond Iris Farm, 10310 California Dr., Ben Lomond, 831.336.2203.

Author Event: Isabel Allende Bookshop Santa Cruz presents a reading from Allendeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new novel, Mayaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Notebook. Tue, May 21, 7pm. $32. Santa Cruz High School, 415 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

Book Discussion Group A discussion of a new book each month, with copies available at the branch circulation desk. Email harbisons@santacruzpl. org for more information.

Third Thu of every month, 1pm. Free. Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.427.7700x7616.

Community Poetry Circle Poetry writing workshop led

by Magdalena Montague, local poet and teacher. Sat, May 18, 2-4pm. Scotts Valley Library, 230-D Mt. Hermon Rd, Scotts Valley, 831.427.7717.

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 Detoxification Tips on detoxing to relieve pain, increase energy and feel younger. Thu, May 16, 6:30-7:45pm. Office of Carol Shwery, 831 Bay Ave. #1E, Capitola, 831.476.6906.

Lawn Alternatives Using native plants to create a water-efficient landscape.

Sat, May 18, 10am-12pm. $25. Native Revival Nursery, 2600 Mar Vista Drive, Aptos, 831.425.3234.

Live in Harmony Using Chinese medicine, qi gong exercises and nutrition to live in harmony as spring changes to summer. Tue, May 21, 7-8pm. Foxxr, 706 Capitola Ave., Ste. G, Capitola, 831.212.3090.

NOTICES

Fri, 5:30pm. Free. Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.359.3008.

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.

Depression Support Group Peer-to-peer group for women with depression, anxiety and/or bipolar disorder. Email dyane@ baymoon.com for information. Third Sat of every month, 3-5pm. Boulder Creek United Methodist Church, Boulder and Mountain streets, Boulder Creek.

Eating Disorders Resource Center Meeting Groups will be led by Kimberly Kuhn, LCSW and Carolyn Blackman, RN, LCSW. Third 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, May 17, 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.

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, 7:30-9:15pm. $15. Santa Cruz Yoga, 402 Ingalls Street, Santa Cruz, 585.278.0080.

Clutterers Anonymous A free weekly 12-step meeting for those frustrated with too much clutter and not enough room.

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Different belly dancers each week on the garden stage.

Presented by Helene. www. thecrepeplace.com. Sat, 1:30pm. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.429.6994.

LITERARY EVENTS

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 noon1pm at 49 Blanca Ln. #303, Watsonville and 6:30-7:30pm at 335 Spreckles Dr. Ste. A, Aptos. Thursdays 1-2pm at

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Photo ID at the MAH A museum-wide exhibition in which a number of photographers, including the Weeklyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Chip Scheuer, explore questions of identity as it relates to the self, social roles and gender. Works by children from Watsonville and Live Oak, and workplace portraits by Santa Cruz citizens will also be showcased as part of the exhibit. Ongoing until July 7 at the Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. Museum hours Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sunday, 11am-5pm and Fridays until 9pm.

Louden Nelson Community Center, Room 5, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. Fridays noon-1pm at 49 Blanca Ln, #303, Watsonville. Wed-FriSun. 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 naturebased, goddess-centered spiritual paths. Sun, 7pm.

The Sacred Grove, 924 Soquel Avenue, 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).

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 Comedy Showcase A weekly comedy night featuring Bay Area talent.

Lineup changes every week. Wed, 7pm. Cafe iVeTA, 2125 Delaware Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.713.0320. A new comedy showcase hosted

by DNA featuring a different Bay Area headliner each week. Tue, 8:30pm. $5. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.7117.

Multicultural Festival

Park, between Water St and Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz.

Cultural performances, food and music. Sat, May 18, noon-6pm. Free. Oakes Field, UCSC West Entrance, Santa Cruz.

Film

Rejuvenation Festival

Freedom Forum Peddling Influence: A documentary about lack of integrity in the media. Wed, May 15, 7pm. Free/Donation.

Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.708.8626.

Eco-fair and live music performances by Prezident Brown, Love Eternal and more. Sat, May 18, 10am8pm. Free. San Lorenzo

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William Parker Quartet Fearless jazz bassist and composer who recently recorded a Curtis MayďŹ eld tribute. May 15 at Yoshiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SF.

Big Boi & Killer Mike Outkastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heavy solo hitter Big Boi doubles up with ATLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outstanding Killer Mike. May 16 at the Mezzanine.

Of Monsters and Men Iceland! Reformed banks, geothermal power, northern lights, and these guys. May 16 at the Fox Theater.

Tyler, the Creator Odd Future rapper featured on Kanye Westâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homepage; with Earl Sweatshirt. May 20 at Regency Ballroom.

Greek Food Fair

Bay Area Bands Showcase

Live Greek music coupled with authentic food, beer and dessert. Fri, May 17, 5-10pm, Sat, May 18, 11am10pm and Sun, May 19, noon-8pm. Free. Prophet Elias Greek Orthodox Church, 223 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.334.4400.

SF Station and Guinness Oyster & Music Fest present Branches, Kiwi Time, Soul Pie and Happy Fangs. May 22 at Cafe du Nord.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

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A fiddler, composer and teacher, Darol Anger has been around the newgrass block a few times. As a young man, he co-founded the David Grisman Quintet with the almighty Dawg and has played a guiding role in a whole slew of groups including Psychograss, the Turtle Island String Quartet, Montreux and Fiddlers Four.

His most recent project, the Furies, is an evermorphing group â&#x20AC;&#x153;comprised of a fantastical allstar array of talented feminine presences, plus two notorious tricksters.â&#x20AC;? Don Quixoteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; $15 adv/$18 door; 7:30pm. (Cat Johnson)

Free jazz, with its departure from chord structures and time signatures, is not for the faint of heart.

But, for those who find inspiration in it, the genre is no less than revelatory; a glimpse into organized chaos, where anything, and everything, can happen. Bassist and multi-instrumentalist William Parker has been playing free jazz since the 1970s but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until the 1990s that he became known as one of the defining artists of the New York avant-garde scene, collaborating with DJ Spooky, Spring Heel Jack, Matthew Shipp, John Zorn and many more. His current quartet comprises Hamid Drake (drums), Lewis Barnes (trumpet) and Rob Brown (saxophone).

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

Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wooster got a big creative boost from playing SXSW this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they came back and wrote a bunch of new songs theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be unveiling for the home crowd at this show.

And you gotta love the promo our favorite local Island-infused groove-rock band posted for the show, too. Their manager went to fiverr.com, a site everyone should probably use at least once before they die that features people advertising all the things theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d do for five bucks. One guy advertised that for $5 heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d do a 30-second promo video with his 68 El Camino. Check it out on Santa Cruz Weeklyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Facebook page, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty much the best thing ever. Moeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alley; $12/$15; 9pm. (Steve Palopoli)

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The Queen of the Minor Key is coming back to town. Eilen Jewell, who crafts lonesome and gritty songs about loving, leaving and losing, is one of the under-appreciated gems on the Americana landscape. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a thoughtful songwriter, a capable guitarist and possesses a distinct, quivery voice that is both haunting and familiar. Drifting through classic country, R&B, folk and pop styles with ease, Jewell is an impossible-to-pin-down talent who stands apart from the horde of major key players. Kuumbwa; $22 gen/$35 gold; 7:30pm. (CJ)

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MOBB DEEP After some harsh words and disagreements on Twitter last year, Mobb Deep are back together on a 20th Anniversary Tour. The duo, rappers Havoc and Prodigy, met back when they were 14 living in the Queensbridge Houses in Queens, NY, and realized that they have been friends for too long to let anything break up their friendship.

With three million records sold, they are one of the most acclaimed hardcore East Coast hiphop groups and are known for their dark delivery and straightforward depiction of street life. They still retain their old following and have picked up a new generation of fans, as well. Catalyst; $20 adv/$25 door/$65 meet and greet; 8pm. (MW)

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Moeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alley; $15 adv/$18 door; 8:30pm. (MW)

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COLD WAR KIDS Says CWK lead singer Nathan Willet: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think that in many ways Wilco is to country/Americana as Cold War Kids is to soul/punk.â&#x20AC;? One could stare at that sentence for days and not make any sense of it. For one thing, Cold War Kids had the good sense not to let Jim Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Rourke ruin their records. (I kid, Jim Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Rourke! Sort of!) Second, while Wilco have gotten weirder and weirder over time, Fullertonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cold War Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;after losing their way on 2008â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strident, fairly boring Loyalty to Loyaltyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;have circled back around to what made them so damn listenable. With the passion of punk and blues filtered through a gift for pop hooks, Cold War Kids are doing just fine. Catalyst; $16/$20; 8pm. (SP)

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Sunday, June 30 Â&#x2021; 7:30 PM @ Rio Theatre Â&#x2021; 1R &RPSV Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records. Dinner served 1-hr before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer.

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Banhart caught the musical bug when he began performing on the streets instead of going to classes at the San Francisco Art Institute, to which he had a scholarship. His first official â&#x20AC;&#x153;showâ&#x20AC;? was in a church, at a gay wedding, singing Elvis Presley.

If that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t scream awesome, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure what does. Since then, he has basically become best friends with Beck, performed at Carnegie Hall, Hollywood Bowl and Coachella, and made a name for himself in the indie world. His music is definitely a fun trip, with Hindu-inspired riffs, a dab of psych-folk and mellow, quavering vocals.

Rio Theater; $25; 8pm. (Melanie Ware)

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Film A BIRD IN HANDS Shriya Saran and Satya Bhabha star in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Midnightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Children.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

The Nose Midnightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Children sprawls on the big screen

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

D

EEPA MEHTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S diverting, noble attempt to wrangle Salman Rushdieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel Midnightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Children to the screen (it played at Cinequest this year) is ultimately worth a look, thanks to the power of a book able to look after itself.

Rushdie did the script, and the results are what you would expect when a novelist adapts his own work: a preservation of narration above all.

Rushdie keeps as many characters as he can, even if they could have been excised without affecting the trajectory of the story.

The unwitting hero, Saleem (Satya Bhabha), who undergoes everything from amnesia to police torture, is a descendant of Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mixed cultures.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an inheritor to catastrophe and reversals of fortune; that also means heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the heir to the English picaresque novel,

with its switched foundlings, reversals of fortune and sudden bursts of nighdivine good luck.

The magical-realist premise isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t more boggling than that of The X-Men. After centuries of British domination, India became a free nation in August 1947. Rushdie has it that the many children born at the midnight hour when power was transferred were gifted with mystical traits.

Our protagonistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s giftâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;seated in his prominent noseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is his ability to summon the sleeping spirits of all those who were born at that illustrious time.

One of the unruly crowdâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mehta has trouble wrangling them, as if her film had been crashed by a rogue theatrical troupeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is Shiva, the boy who will become Saleemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nemesis.

Unbeknownst to Saleem, he and Shiva were switched at birth. The

baby Shiva, born into an upper-class secular Muslim family, was put into the swaddling of a Hindu child whose mother had died in childbirth. Thus Shiva was raised as the spawn of a fawning, cuckolded street accordionist called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wee Willie Winkieâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Kipling reference in this tribute to India.

The Christian scripture â&#x20AC;&#x153;The last shall be first and the first shall be lastâ&#x20AC;? is essential to Midnightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Children: Shiva, destroyer by name and nature, finds a niche in the Indian Army and participates in the border wars and Indira Gandhiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20-month-long clampdown. Saleem is raised in a mansion and then fobbed off as an unwanted child in the home of his Aunt Emerald in Karachi. There the boy witnesses the Pakistani military coup that tried to repurify â&#x20AC;&#x153;the land of the pure.â&#x20AC;?

This saga of pride, prejudice and the folly of borders bears the imprint of Dickens and Fielding. Rushdieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s script preserves his novelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scope, taking place over 30 years, if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t count the previous 30 years in the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opening half-hour, about the courtship of Saleemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s granddad. More than 600 locations were used; at one point during its own history, the adaptation was planned as a miniseries, likely a better way to deal with such an epic.

Mehta, like Rushdie, has been seriously threatened for her art. And as the narrator tells us, the story is â&#x20AC;&#x153;not halalâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;meaning this story wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t drained of blood and mammalian juices. Indian cinemaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preference for kiss-free romance isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t honored, although there is a spot of traditional Bollywood singing and danceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;perhaps even more music could have linked up the far-flung cities and times.

Playing the passive Saleem, Bhabha has to helplessly carom from incident to incident. The force of this compelling history moves it forward when its protagonist wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. There isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t one performance you can hold onto for the entire movieâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as in Dickens, the flamboyant incidental characters are more amusing than the hero who just wants to find solid ground.

The supporting cast includes the amusing coldness of Anita Majumdar as the hoity-toity Auntie Em(erald), Charles Dance as the treacherous specter of England and the avuncular Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Picture Singh, a street conjurer. (â&#x20AC;&#x153;A most charming person,â&#x20AC;? he calls himself, indicating his basket of cobras.) The narrative is just as knotted and fanged as that load of serpents, but more here charms than dismays. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;odor of failureâ&#x20AC;? that Saleem smells on his father is only occasionally noted during Midnightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Children.

MIDNIGHTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CHILDREN Opens Friday at the Nick

Film Capsules New

ERASED (R; 100 min.)

Cross-eyed Aaron Eckhart plays an ex-CIA agent who will not stand for anyone who crosses him, except his own eyes! Can he see straight through the Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plot to erase any trace of his existence, as part of an international conspiracy? Not likely! (Opens Fri at the Nick)

SH O WTI M E S

MIDNIGHTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CHILDREN (NR; 146 min.) See review, page 24.

PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) Miyazakiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most actionpacked animated adventure, this was his first breakthrough film in the U.S. Though set in the Middle Ages in Japan, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basically Star Wars. Which is only fair, since George Lucas took a big chunk of his inspiration from Kurosawa.

(Plays Fri and Sat at midnight at the Del Mar).

SIMON KILLER (NR; 109 min.) Sundance cult favorite from last year is a spooky erotic thriller about a college

Movie reviews by Steve Palopoli and Richard von Busack

grad who attempts to escape heartbreak in Paris, only to get tangled up in a relationship with a prostitute. From there, things getâ&#x20AC;Śdark. (Opens Fri at the Nick) STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (PG-13; 132 min.) Considering that J.J. Abrams is now in charge of both the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises, nerds of both tribes can finally come together in the hope that this movie will kick ass. And hey, he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do such a bad job on the first Star Trek reboot, did he? Certainly he got bonus points for using Trek-type reasoning to explain

why we suddenly had Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana and Simon Pegg as the original Enterprise crew, in a different origin story.

Pine as Kirk did a fantastic job of holding off on any kind of a Shatner impression until the end of the first movie after he had something to be so cocky about. (Opens Fri at Scots Valley, Santa Cruz 9 and Green Valley)

Reviews 42 (PG-13) A crotchety old Harrison Ford signs Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn

Showtimes are for Wednesday, May 15, through Wednesday, May 22, unless otherwise indicated.

Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

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From Up On Poppy Hill â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1pm.

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Tyler Perry Presents Peeples â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wed-Thu 1:15; 3:15; 5:15; 7:25; 9:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Dodgers and changes sports history forever.

AFTERSHOCK (R; 90 min.)

Eli Rothâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s horror hit Hostel was completely misunderstood, mostly by those who had no interest in seeing it. Far from straight horror, it was also part action film, part weird comedy and an all-around subversion of genre clichĂŠs. In another twist, Roth is now himself starring in a film that is very much like Hostelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;American tourists plunged into terrifying chaos, who have to find a way to survive. In another truly original take on blending genres, this shocker from Chilean director Nicolas Lopez (also set in Chile, and based on an event that really happened there in 2010), has Roth and his tourist friends trapped in an underground club during a huge earthquake. The tone shifts from disaster film to horror as whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the surface turns out to be even worse than what was below. Roth also co-wrote, and Selena Gomez (whose career is really getting trippy after her role in Spring Breakers) co-stars.

THE BIG WEDDING (R; 90 min) The French film Mon Frere Se Marie gets an American remake from writer-director Justin Zackham, and an all-star cast featuring Robert DeNiro, Susan Sarandon, Diane Keaton, Robin Williams, Katherine Heigl and Amanda Seyfried. Wacky wedding comedy? You bet! This time, a divorced couple pretends to be still together as their family gathers for the nuptials.

THE COMPANY YOU KEEP (R; 121 min.) Robert Redford directs and stars in this political thriller as a former Weather Underground activist whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s managed to hide from the FBI for 30 years, until heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s discovered by reporter Shia LaBeouf.

THE CROODS (PG; 98 min) Sort of like The Flintstones for the deconstructionist 21st century, this animated family flick has a prehistoric clan leaving the safety of its cave for the proverbial incredible journey. With lots of hip modern references of course, and Nick Cage as father Grug.

DISCONNECT (R; 115 min.)

A hard-working lawyer always on his cell phone never has time for his family. His story collides with many others to weave a dramatic thriller about people struggling to connect with others in this wired world.

THE GREAT GATSBY (PG-13; 143 min.) What Baz Luhrmann did for Shakespeare, he does for F. Scott Fitzgerald, giving his adaptation of the

great American novel a look and feel both modern and classic. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Gatsby, with Tobey Maguire as Nick and Carey Mulligan as Daisy.

IRON MAN 3 (PG-13; 101 min.) Of all people, did anyone think Robert Downey Jr. would end up being the star of one of the biggest comic book movie franchises in history?

The blue-hair-and-mascara goth get-up in Back to School certainly didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t offer any clues.

But Iron Man, one of the clunkiest and lamest super heroes ever devised (wow, you have armor onâ&#x20AC;Śokay) needed somebody with flair and cool to spare to breathe some life into him. So now heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back in this second sequel, which features him flying around again and blowing more stuff up. 41st Avenue is even doing a marathon of the other films on Thursday. May we suggest skipping the second one and just showing the first film twice?

MUD (PG-13; 130 min.)

Ellis and Neckbone, two 14year-olds living on a river in Arkansas, go on an adventure and come across some surprises, including a very gritty Matthew McConaughey.

OBLIVION (PG-13; 126 min.)

Tom Cruise, an experienced sci-fi performer, plays the part of a drone repairman on the devastated planet Earth. But when Cruise finds a woman in a downed spacecraft, he starts questioning his bosses and his own acting skills.

PAIN AND GAIN (R; 130 min) Mark Walhberg and Dwayne Johnson are bodybuilders who take up a life of crime in this thriller based on a true story.

THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (R 140; min.)

A former lover (Eva Mendes) tells motorcycle stuntman Luke (Ryan Gosling) they have a child together. Luke starts robbing banks to provide for them and a cop (Bradley Cooper) gets on his case.

THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST (R; 130 min.) Monsoon Wedding director Mira Nair changes things up with a thriller about a young Pakistani immigrant on Wall Street who gets caught up in a hostage crisis. Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson and Liev Schreiber star.

RENOIR (R; 111 min.) In this French film, a wounded WW1 veteran returns home to his artistic father on the French Riviera, where he feels inspired by a young female model.

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AT ANY PRICE (R; 105 min.) Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron star in this drama about family struggles on a small Midwestern farm. (Opens Fri at the Nick)

KON-TIKI (PG-13; 118 min.) Finally, the Norwegians take back Thor. Okay, not that Thor, but Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian researcher and adventurer who sailed the famous Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947. Nominated for an Oscar and all kinds of other awards, this film dramatizes his attempt to prove a theory about preColumbian explorers by building and then attempting to sail what is basically a wood raft 4,300 miles across the Pacific.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not as easy as it soundsâ&#x20AC;Ś oh wait, it sounds absolutely impossible. (Opens Fri at the Del Mar)

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NATURAL SELECTION Mariela Rios from the deli section of Staff of Life, which is celebrating its 44th anniversary.

Staff Party

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know the entire Santa Cruz community joins me in congratulating the tireless visionaries at Staff of Life celebrating (I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe it) 44 years in the heart of the natural food business. Join the 44th anniversary festival activitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;food, music, demos, lots of funâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;starting at 12:30pm on Saturday May 18 at the full-service, politically correct, much-loved Soquel Avenue store.

Started up in 1969 by Richard Josephson and Gary Bascou, Staff of Life flourished at its familiar Water Street corner for 40 years

before making the move to its current expanded, Green-certified facility at 1266 Soquel Avenue. This is truly an â&#x20AC;&#x153;only in Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;? success story, and anyone with organically conscious tastebuds should stop by this Saturday and enjoy the party.

EAT LIKE A GREEK: This

weekend, May 17-19, downtown Santa Cruz will be perfumed with dolmas and retsina. Yes, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the 7th Annual Greek Food Faire, featuring everything you hope for and more. The three-day event

will ply us with authentic Greek everything. You should be ready for a huge array of authentic Greek food and desserts for purchase, including traditional specialties like moussaka, spanakopita, grilled marinated lamb souvlaki and handmade pastries. Sample a hand-whipped Greek frappe at the Kafeneio. Or, quench your thirst at the taverna featuring Greek beer, wine and traditional spirits such as metaxa and my all-time favorite acquired taste, retsina. Yes you probably will start dancing like Zorba once those zithers start

for some Santa Cruz Mountains winetasting with the 23rd Annual Vintners Festival, from noon to 5pm, June 8 and 9, as well as the Downtown Santa Cruz Street Faire, on Pacific Ave. (between Locust & Walnuts streets) on June 9, from 11am until 3pm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vintners Festival is an evolution of previous events and a great opportunity for wine lovers to enjoy our regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wines by touring and tasting, as well as at a new street faire in Downtown Santa Cruz that will feature local wine, artisan foods, music and live entertainment,â&#x20AC;? says Megan Metz, executive director of the Santa Cruz Mountains Wine Growers Association. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what you do: purchase your $40 per person ticketâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for winery tours and street fairâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;either online in advance, or $50 at the door. Tickets and list of participating wineries are available online. A giant block party with local food, local folks and locallyproduced wines. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not to like?

This just in: The Outstanding in the Fields summer dining series has added another local venue, Fogline Farm in Soquel, on Monday, May 27. The long afternoon of choice flavors will involve many moving parts from farm tours led by growers of Foglineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fabled produce, chickens and pigs, to wine tasting, to sampling multiple courses created on site by chef Greg Dunmore of San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nojo restaurant. There are some $220 tickets remaining to share in this very special dining event. Go to the website to make your reservation. 0

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up and fill the block with Greek music. Everybody is welcome, free admission. Please leave your pets at home. All proceeds benefit the Prophet Elias Greek Orthodox Church. The Greek Food Faire happens at 223 Church Street (corner of Center and Church Streets) downtown Santa Cruz; May 17, 5-10pm, May 18, 11am-10pm and May 19, noon-8pm. For more information, please contact Athena Wolfe, Director of Marketing, (831) 334-4400.

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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

APTOS/SOQUEL $$ Aptos

Ambrosia India Bistro Authentic Indian. Fresh regional flavors & techniques.

207 Searidge Rd, 831.685.0610 Lunch buffet daily 11:30a-2:30p. Dinner daily 5p-close.

$$$ Soquel

Cafe Cruz

$ Soquel

Discretion Brewing

$ Aptos

Heatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Patisserie

$$ Aptos

Manuelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mexican. Northern Mexican inspired fare, made fresh daily.

261 Center Ave, 831.688.4848 Family restaurant since 1965.

2621 41st Ave, 831.476.3801 2703 41st Ave, 831.316.0662 7486 Soquel Dr, 831.662.3546

$$ Severinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grill Aptos 7500 Old Dominion Ct, 831.688.8987

MAKING WAVES Steve Elb is the owner and head chef of Olitas on the wharf.

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hef Steve Elb has been coming to work in the same place for 29 years. For the first 19, that special spot was called the Sea Cloud, a sister restaurant of Lou Cavigliaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Clouds Downtown.

Elb opened Olitas in the same spot in 2003. Elb is unabashedly proud of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;contemporaryâ&#x20AC;? spin he brings to Mexican seafood with his specials menu. Later, Elb also took over as head chef and updated the food.

A1E( 6]e RWR g]c TZW^ bVS [S\c- STEVE ELB: I started changing things and getting more of a contemporary Mexican thing going on.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had enchiladas and tacos. We have taco Tuesdays and Thursdays, which everybody loves. We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mess with that. But I started putting more salads on the menu, appetizers, small plates, ravioli and pork sausages. Everythingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made in-house. The only thing we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make is tortillas. I get those from La Rosa.

EVOb¸a g]c` b]^ aSZZS`- We sell a lot of tacos. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a Mexican

restaurant. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got beef, chicken and pork. But we also have duck tacos.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got mahi mahi and cabrito tacos. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got popcorn shrimp tacos.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got lobster tacos. We sell a lot of lobster quesadillas.

6]e Z]\U R] g]c` a^SQWOZa ZOab- Two to three weeks. In about a week, salmon season starts, and shit really gets busy. I love fresh salmon. I know tons of different preparations. Everything from grilled to raw.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be excited about that. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buy farm-raised salmon during the offseason. I only use the real life case. We try to be friendly with the ocean as much as we can.

$$ Aptos

Rosticceria & Bar. Fresh, local, sustainable.

Lunch, dinner. Patio dining, happy hour menu.

Brewery/gastropub.. Handcrafted beers on tap. Tasty beerinspired tapas by Main Street Garden w/ local ingredients.

Bakery and deli. Pastries, breads, baked goods baked daily on site. Breakfast, lunch, wedding cakes.

Continental California Cuisine.. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. www.seacliffinn.com

Zameen Mediterranean

Middle Eastern/Mediterranean. Fresh & flavorful. Beer and 7528 Soquel Dr, 831.688.4465 wine. Dine in or take out Tue-Sun 11a-8p.

CAPITOLA $$ Capitola

Britannia Arms

$$$$ Capitola

Shadowbrook

$$$ Capitola

Zeldaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

110 Monterey Ave, 831.464.2583 1750 Wharf Rd, 831.475.1511

British and Classic American.. Daily specials. Happy Hour Monday - Friday.

California Continental. World-class service, fine food, wines, with Old-World charm. Open daily.

California cuisine. Weekly specials include prime rib and 203 Esplanade, 831.475.4900 lobster. Patio dining on the beach.

SANTA CRUZ $$$ Aquarius Creative American cuisine. Oceanfront dining. Local Santa Cruz 175 West Cliff Dr, 831.460.5012 produce and sustainable seafood. $ Charlie Hong Kong CA Organic meets Southeast Asian street food.

Santa Cruz 1141 Soquel Ave, 831. 426.5664 Consistent winner â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Cheap Eatsâ&#x20AC;?. Open daily 11a-11p. $$ The Crepe Place Crepes and more. Full bar and beautiful outdoor patio.

Santa Cruz 1134 Soquel Ave, 831.429.6994 Live music. $$$ Crowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nest Seafood and American cuisine. Kids menu and nightly Santa Cruz 2218 East Cliff Dr, 831.476.4560 entertainment. Harbor and Bay views. $$ Gabriella Cafe Santa Cruz 910 Cedar St., 831.457.1677

Califormia-Italian. Farmers market fresh and organic.

Local wine list, romantic setting with charming patio.

Hindquarter Grill Americana. Specializing in ribs, steaks and burgers. $$$ Santa Cruz 303 Soquel Ave, 831.426.7770 Full bar. $$ Hoffmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro Calif. cuisine & Bakery. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, brunch.

Santa Cruz 1102 Pacific Ave, 837.420.0135 Full Bar w/ $3 Bar Bites/$4.50 Well Drinks. $$ Hulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Island Grill Santa Cruz 221 Cathcart St, 831.426.4852

â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s Vegas meets â&#x20AC;&#x2122;50s Waikiki. Fresh fish, great steaks, vegetarian. Full-service tiki bar.

$ 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.

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

Seafood/Calif. Fresh seafood made your way on the Harbor. Great views & full bar.

La Posta Italian. Traditional Italian cuisine made w/ the finest $$$ Santa Cruz 538 Seabright Ave, 831.457.2782 local ingredients. Extensive wine list. $$ Laili Santa Cruz 101 Cooper St, 831.423.4545

Silk road flavors. Fresh and flavorful Mediterranean cuisine with an Afghan twist. Patio dining.

$$ Lillianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Italian Kitchen Santa Cruz 1116 Soquel Ave, 831.425.2288

Italian. Home-style Italian specialties. Cozy, friendly atmosphere. Beer & wine.

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

Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;awlins-style dining. Cajun and southern flavors.

Full bar. Bluesy, cool, funky..

6]e RWR g]c ^WQY bVS \O[S =ZWbOa- It was called Las Olas, and apparently thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a restaurant in the San Diego area called Las Olas.

Little did we know, they had it trademarked, so they sent us a cease-anddesist after we opened for about six months. Why they trademarked it, God only knows. We decided letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just call it Olitas, which means â&#x20AC;&#x153;little waves.â&#x20AC;? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m an ex-surfer, so I always had an affinity for the ocean.

$$$ Olitas Cantina Fine Mexican cuisine. Stunning Bay views. Full bar.

Santa Cruz 49-B Municipal Wharf, 831.458.9393

2] g]c ZWYS eObQVW\U bVS ac`TS`a ]cb bVS`S- All the time. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why

$ Pacific Thai Thai. Fresh ingredients, ambrosia bubble teas, shakes.

Santa Cruz 1319 Pacific Ave, 831.420.1700 Daily specials.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been out here since 1984, in some form or fashion.

$ Pizza My Heart Pizza. Slices and whole pies. Original & award -winning Santa Cruz 1116 Pacific Ave/2180 41st Ave recipes. Daily specials.

$ Pono Hawaiian Grill Santa Cruz 120 Union St, 831.426.7666

Authentic Hawaiian Cuisine. Large outdoor patio. Feat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Reefâ&#x20AC;? tropical bar. and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aloha Fridaysâ&#x20AC;?

$$ Red Restaurant and Bar Santa Cruz 200 Locust St, 831.425.1913

Restaurant and Lounge. Large, small and shared plates.

Extensive cocktail, beer, wine lists.

$$$ Ristorante Italiano Santa Cruz 555 Soquel Ave, 831.458.2321

Italian-American. Generous portions, friendly service, beautiful patio. Full bar.

$ Samba Rock Acai Cafe Santa Cruz 291-B Water St, 831.458.2224

Brazilian. Fresh and authentic acai smoothies and bowls.

M-F 8a-5p, Sat/Sun 9a-5p.

$ Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing California / Brewpub. Handcrafted organic ales and large 402 Ingalls Street, 831.425.4900 outdoor patio.

$$$ Solaire Santa Cruz 611 Ocean St, 831.600.4545

Seasonal cuisine. Farm-to-table American comfort food.

Gluten-free/vegetarian options.

$$$ Stagnaro Bros.

Seafood and more. Panoramic ocean views. Fresh seafood, Santa Cruz 21 Municipal Wharf, 831.423.2180 pasta and steaks . Kid friendly.. $$ Woodstockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizza Santa Cruz 710 Front St, 831.427.4444

Pizza. Beers on tap, patio dining, HDTV and free WiFi. Large groups, catering, deliveries.

$$ 515 Kitchen & Cocktails Santa Cruz 515 Cedar St, 831.425.5051

Restaurant & Lounge. Specialty cocktails, small plates & happy hour menu. Dinner nightly.

SCOTTS VALLEY/FELTON $ Heavenly Cafe American. Breakfast and lunch. Famous eggs benedict.

Scotts Valley 1210 Mt. Hermon Rd, 831.335.7311 welcome. Large parties welcome. $$ Maya Mexican Restaurant Mexican. 75+ flavors of tequila. Authentic flavors, fresh Scotts Valley 3115 Scotts Valley Dr, 831.438.7004 ingredients. Kid-friendly. $$ Mollieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Country Cafe American. Homemade meals in a comfortable, family Scotts Valley 219 Mt Hermon Rd, 831.438.8313 environment. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Outdoor patio.

Redwood Pizzeria Felton

Pizza. Local and organic toppings, lasagna, salads. Beer & 6205 Hwy 9, 831.335.1500 Gluten-free options.

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$$$ Soif Wine bar with menu. Seasonal menu with local ingredients Santa Cruz 105 Walnut Ave, 831.423.2020 paired with fine wines. Wine shop on site.

$$ wine.

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