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Re: “Social Re: “ i l Distortion?”

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Myy qu question w hy d o San ta Cr uz ci tizens an d po liticians why do Santa Cruz citizens and politicians k eep p su pp porting th his n astyy ggr oup o peo ple keep supporting this nasty group off p people th at like like to to hid h d th hin a açade o eir that hidee be behind thee ffaçade off th their w ebsite (d esigned b evee) an d a lloving oving website (designed byy St Steve) and llocal ocal media? media? And And moreover, moreovver er, w hy d o th ese why do these cr uel T BSC peo ple k eep ggetting etting eelected lected an d cruel TBSC people keep and a ppointed tto o city city offices offi f ces an d commissions? commissions? appointed and

Re: R e:: “So “S “Social cial i l Distortion?”

Di tortiion?” (Br Dis (Briefs, (B ieffss, Jul July J ly 31): ) Recent R eccent news news stories stories have have revealed revealed that t at th Hawaii one-way H awaii is offering aw offeering its its homeless homeless on e ay e-w plane tickets, and that Nevada providing p lan a e ti ckets, an d th at N evada is p roviding mental patients tickets anywhere iits ts m ental p atients bus ti ckets tto o an nywhere Sure, Santa Cruz could eelse. lse. Sur e, iit’s t’s an approach approach San ta Cr ruz coul d try, but musical with tr y, bu ut playing playing musi cal cchairs hairs wi th h social problems anything. p roblems doesn’t doesn’t really really solve solve an yth hing. It just castt o off jus st makes makes for for o a constantly constantly rrevolving evolvin ng cas who have thee same ccharacters har a acters w ho all h ave th same disabling d disab ling conditions: poverty, substance abuse, con nditions: pov ertyy, subs tance abu use, homelessness, mental illness and more. h om melessness, m ental illn ess an dm ore. would thee m members off our It w ould be nice nice if all th emberss o society were able caree o off th themselves, soc ciety w ere ab le tto o ttake ake car e emse lves, butt th thee w world doesn’t work that way.

And bu orld d oesn’t w ork th at w ay. An d with thee sstate and wi t th th tate an d ffederal eederal ggovernment overnm ment defunding service programs att d effunding social ser vice p rogramss a pace, communities a rrecord e dp ecor ace, iitt is lleft eft tto o communi t es ti likee ours tto find solutions. don't know lik o fin d so lutions. I d on't kn now

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the answer, the answerr, bu butt I d do o kn know ow th that at sshipping hipping our un unwanted nwanted an and nd unl unloved oved ci citizens tizens somewhere som ewhere eelse lsee will ill gget ett us n nowhere. owhere.

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Keep Your Yo our Balls to Yourself Your o rself Yesterday Y es e terrday aft afternoon ernoona o aatttItsBeac Its Beach, h, the the off-leash off-l - eash d og ar eaa at Lig hth houseF ieldSt ateBeac h dog area at Lighthouse Field State Beach jus wes e to urrffinggMuseum Museum, som eone justtw west off th thee Su Surfing someone d ropped offf a bout tw wo do zen bra nd-new dropped about two dozen brand-new ttennis ennis b alls “for “fo or th tthee dogs dogs to to play play with.” with.” (I balls am qu oting ttwo wo peo p ple w ho witnessed witnessed iit.) t.) quoting people who Whil as a seemin sseemingly gly generous generous an d Whilee this w was and w ell-meaning ac ct,t in rreality eality iitt w as ac cttually well-meaning act, was actually th val a en nt of of littering. litterring. Had Had som eone n ot thee equiv equivalent someone not rremoved emovveedth oseb a sfr all omth h (as I did), those balls from theebeac beach m ostif notallo t emw w o ouldh ave washed wa ashedou ut most if not all off th them would have out tto oseaa htid e.T helik elihood is high high they they sea a att hig high tide.

The likelihood w o ould th en becom me part parrt of of th Grea at Pacific Pacific would then become thee Great Gar bageeGyr Gyr e, a afl fl loa attingggggarbage arbage patch patch that that Garbage Gyre, floating h as been estimated estimated tto o cov veer twice tw wice as much much has cover ar ea as the the state state of of T exas. Or they they might might have have area Texas. con tribu utedtto oth ea atthso the m ore th an contributed thee d deaths off the more than on onseab irrdsan d 100,000 m arrine oneemilli million seabirds and marine m ammalsan dtu urrtl t esann uallly w hofffatally atallly mammals and turtles annually who in gestorar stran ngledb -borne tr ash, ingest or aree strangled byy ocean ocean-borne trash, especiall ly plastics. plastics. c especially Obviously the the person w ho lleft eft th ese b alls Obviously who these balls a beach had had d th best of of intentions, intentions, but but att th thee beach thee best th ey did n ot thin nk thr ough th rocess an d they not think through thee p process and iits ts in evi v table results. results. ts I visi tretch o inevitable visitt this sstretch off beac h with with m og thr ee or ffour o our tim es a beach myy d dog three times w eek and and invariably in nvaria ably find find on ore ttennis ennis week onee or m more b alls abandoned abandoned d in th d (I h ave ffound o ound balls thee san sand have as many many as se ven en in on day, al ong with with seven onee day, along p lastic beac h toys, toys, F risbees, rubber rubber sandals, sandals, plastic beach Frisbees, eeven veen iitems tems o lothin o g). I’v ple off cclothing).

I’vee seen peo people p lay b all wi th th e d eir og an d th en w alk a way, play ball with their dog and then walk away, lleaving ea avin v g th all iin n th d. Wh en I as k thee b ball thee san sand.

When ask th em, th ey ttell ell me me they they found foun o d the the ball ball and and them, they ar ea avving iitt ffor or o “th ext person to to enjoy.” en njoy.” . aree lleaving “thee n next Ag ain ggood ain, ood in ten ntions, s bu ed ed.

Again, intentions, butt misguid misguided.

Sa ave Our Sh oress h as rrecently ecen nttlly m oun nted Save Shores has mounted a communi tyy--based a ef ffo ort call ed community-based effort called “Beac hkeepers” th hat en courages peo ple w ho “Beachkeepers” that encourages people who use our local local beaches beacches to to help help k eep them them clean clean keep an dtto oin nveen ntory an a dllog og th ashth ey pi cku p. and inventory and theetr trash they pick up.

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Wellness W elln e llnes s CODE CRAC CRACKER CKER Local spiritual worker Kir K Kiran an is author of the popular blog Mystic Mystic Girl Girl in the the City.

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iran,, w iran, who ho hasn’t hasn’t used a llast ast name n am me since since iitt h happened, appened, ttells ells iitt lik like ke this: “At th thee ag age ge o off 33, I died. died into bliss. moment, died. I di ed in nto b liss. In a m omen ntt, sitting thee bed, sitting on th b cchanging hanging shoes shoes ffor o or a date and suddenly, was date an d su ddenl e ly, I w a as ggone.” one.” o That was nine That w as nin ne years yeears ago. ag go. Today, Tod o ay, Kiran Kiran sits—in thee flesh sidee sits—in th flessh and and blood—by blood—by my my sid in her home’s But no her h ome’s garden. garden. Bu ut sshe he n o llonger ongeer exists. exists.

Before behind thee Beffo ore I met mett the the woman wo oman be hind th popular popular blog blog Mystic M Girl in the City, I thought, must have screw thought,t for for o sure, su ure, she she mus st h ave a scr rew loose. while loose. But Bu ut even eveen nw h hile she she speaks speaks tendrils ten e drrils of esoteric thee h human of esot eric rreflections eflec ecttions on th uman experience, down earth and experience, sshe’s he’s as d own w tto o ear th an d genuine friend. genuine about abou ut it it as a cclose lose fr iend.

Kiran’s what somee mig might Kiran’s “death” “dea ath at t ” is w hat som ght call ““spontaneous enlightenment,” spon ntaneo ous enlig htenmen ntt,” or spontaneous awakening—the spon ntaneous a wa akening— —the life liffe work wo orrk of Eckhart Tolle, who wrote thee bes bestof Ec khart T ollle, w ho wr ote th tselling Power Now,, an and thee selling book book The Th P o ower of Now d th dogma off th thee iinternationally acclaimed d ogma o nternattionallly acc laimed

““spiritual s itual innovator” spir innovvato or” Byron Byron Katie.

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“T his is an eexperience xperrience m an ny peo ple “This many people h ave,” she she says, sa ays, “but “bu ut more more often often it’s it’s have,” jjust ju ust a gglimpse, lim l pse, an o pening, an d th en iitt opening, and then ccloses loses b ack ku p ag ain. Bu ut min olveed back up again.

But minee disso dissolved ccompletely.” ompleettelly.”

Whil wak a enings o olle an d Whilee th thee a awakenings off T Tolle and Ka attie em ergeed in th st o rea eat Katie emerged thee mid midst off gr great h a dship, Kir ar ran a ’s cam hen sshe he w a as hardship, Kiran’s camee w when was a er happiest happiest and and most most functional. functi t onal. att h her Sh he w as n ever e a spir itual person. Sh She was never spiritual Shee w asn’t llooking ooking ffor or enlig o ghtenmen ntt. wasn’t enlightenment.

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“Wh en th d disso lveed ffor o or m e, I “When thee min mind dissolved me, jjust ju ust becam war a eo ergyy,,” sa ays becamee a aware off th thee en energy,” says Ki iran. “An dm ore tto o th ntt, I w as a th tthat at Kiran.

“And more thee poin point, was en nergyy..” energy.”

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notes th notes that at iitt w was as ffollowed olloweed b byy a per period riod o off p rofo ound gr ief an d lloss. osss. “It turn ut iit’s t’s profound grief and turnss ou out th d th att’s fil tering a toms tto o cr ea ate thee min mind that’s filtering atoms create fform, orm, th o orm wi o th which whi h ch w auge thee fform with wee ggauge our en tire liv ves.” e entire lives.”

Su ddenly, sshe he sa ays, sshe he sa aw th Suddenly, says, saw thee w orld ““at o at cod evel,” an nd sshe he h ad world codee llevel,” and had tto o llearn earn tto o rread ead th o gget et thee cod codee jus justt tto ar ound. If iitt soun ds a b it Matrix -y, around. sounds bit Matrix-y, yyou’re ou’r o en ot ffar ar a o ff. not off.

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Nope.

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Kir an did, h oweveerr, suf ssuffer ffer e eextreme, xtreme, Kiran however, unf fatthomable vi olencee an d abuse unfathomable violence and in a cchildhood hildhood tterrorized errorized e b er byy h her ““stepmonster.” stepmonsterr.” . She She thinks thin nks maybe mayb be she she h ad this eexperience xperience because because th at’t s as had that’s ffar ar in this lif a fe she she could could h ave ggone one wi th life have with th at am ount of of vi olencee in h er psy yche. that amount violence her psyche.

“So I di ed, I jus n’t dr op th died, justt didn didn’t drop thee bod dy..” body.”

Y eears of of therapy therapy helped helped p h er to to Years her fun ction, an d fun cti t on w ell. Bu ut iitt function, and function well.

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wasn’t until after awakening kening th that at ealing—came. forgiveness—and truee h healing—came.

“Y Yo ou kn ow all o the fig ht, th “You know off the fight, thee sstruggle, truggle, th he tr ouble, all o at is p art the trouble, off th that part o terprentattion o e,” sshe he off a misin misinterprentation off cod code,” sa ays. “Wh e I llook en ook tto o th olence o says.

“When thee vi violence off m fe thr o h this llens, oug ens, I can n’t eeven veen myy lif life through can’t poin nt to to that that person, because he he was was so point inn ocen ntt, tthis his w as his p rogramming.” innocent, was programming.”

F orgivven eness, sshe he sa ays, cam Forgiveness, says, camee in th thee mir aculous a wa areness th at llove ovve is so miraculous awareness that po oweerful an a d sstrong trong th at n othing can powerful and that nothing b reak iit. t. “A And that’s that’t s a jjubil attion. That’s That’t s break “And jubilation. a ce lebrattion. o And And it’s it’s w orth knowing.” knowing.” celebration. worth It w asn’t un a til rrecently ecently th at Kir an wasn’t until that Kiran beg an b loggging, an d offering offer e ing h ealing began blogging, and healing m editattion ns an d ttalking alking sessi ons in the the meditations and sessions communi ty. H ty er n ext cclass, lass, “A P erfeecct community.

Her next Perfect P eace,” beg gins on Sep tember 23.

Peace,” begins September “I'm jus some girl girl in som city justt some somee city som ewherre, jus ou,” sshe o he sa ays. somewhere, justt lik likee yyou,” says. “‘M ystic gir rl’ m eans eeverybody, ver e ybod b y, as “‘Mystic girl’ means o pposed tto om e. You Yo ou could could read read th log opposed me. thee b blog an d iit’s tt’s yyour ou our lif fe, as mu ch as iit’s tt’s m and life, much myy lif fe. An d yyou o h ou ave equ al access tto o th life.

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“T he gia ant default deffa aullt of of th whole “The giant thee whole univ niveerse iss a vvery eery ef ffor o tless, ess peaceful peacef l universe effortless, llove,” ovve,” she she ssays. ays. “It’s “It’s why why we we love lovve to to fall fall a in llove, ovve, bec cause iit’s t’s so ef ffo ortless.” because effortless.”

A human human n lif feetime is pep pered wi th lifetime peppered with k armic sstrands tran a ds o ain, w h hich sshe he karmic off p pain, which fin ds repeat repea at th emselvees in dif ffeerent finds themselves different fforms orms ov o veerr th ears. e Id en ntif t fyying an d over thee yyears.

Identifying and rreprogramming eprogram mming th ose p att t erns—a at the the those patterns—at cod evel—is — som ething sshe he h as com codee llevel—is something has comee tto o llove ovve d oin ng ffor o or oth ers. doing others.

“Be sstill,” till,”” sshe he says. sa ays. “Stillness “Stillness is essen tial an nd in quiry, questioning questioning the the essential and inquiry, min d, is es ssential...in equ al balance. balance. mind, essential...in equal Deep passiionate commi tted in quiry Deep,, passionate committed inquiry an dd eep passionate, passionate, commi tted and deep committed sstillness. tillness. Both Bo oth ar hard without withou ut som aree hard somee vvery eery cclear lear guid gguidance. ance. An db learr, I And byy cclear, m ean an awake awake teacher teacher that that resonates resonates mean vvery eery tr uly in n yyour o our h eart.” 0 truly heart.”

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Currents Hitching Coast With same-sex marriages legal, knot-tying is up 62 percent countywide BY MAT WEIR

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n June 23, an admittedly odd coalition of U.S. Supreme Court justices—including Chief Justice John Roberts and the notoriously anti-gay Justice Antonin Scalia—ruled that they had no authority to take on a case challenging California’s Proposition 8, the initiative passed in 2008 which banned samesex marriages statewide. While many hailed this as a victory for LGBT rights, it was essentially a non-ruling, giving the case back to the state’s court, which had already ruled that Prop. 8 violated the 14th amendment.

But for a non-ruling, it seems to have had a huge impact on Santa Cruz. With same-sex marriages being performed only in the last five weeks since the court decision, Santa Cruz County saw a 62 percent increase in the number of

marriages compared to July of last year.

Of course, there could be other factors, such as an improved economy, contributing to the increase, and the Santa Cruz County Records Department does not keep statistics on the gender of couples filing for marriage.

However, for comparison’s sake, there was a decrease in marriages of 14 percent countywide in June of this year compared to last.

Santa Cruz County Clerk Gail Pellerin says that on July 1, the first day samesex marriage was legal here after the Supreme Court decision, the first couple to get married in Santa Cruz County were a same-sex couple from San Benito County.

“We’ve definitely seen an increase in marriages and I’m sure it’s helping the economy, too,” says Pellerin.

County Clerk Katherine Wolf agrees.

“Normally we perform three ceremonies a day,” she says. “But there’s definitely been more in the last month, sometimes six a day.”

It’s not just new couples that have been affected here. Because Soquel residents Grace and Alexis Coulson were married before Prop. 8 was passed. They were one of many couples that fell into a gray area—knowing they were legally married, but constantly wondering if a court-appointed expiration date was around the corner.

“You know what I remember, very clearly, about that?” asks Grace, reminiscing about election night of 2008. “I knew it was going to pass because of the political environment, but it was watching [my wife] and my daughter sob that broke my heart.”

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LET THEM EAT CAKE Grace (left) and Alexis Coulson were married a month before Prop. 8 passed, and will celebrate their five-year anniversary with their marriage no longer in a legal gray area.

“I just remember being confused every time it came up in the news,” Alexis recalls. “I’d have to ask, ‘What does that mean for me? Are we still married?’”

According to the last federal census in 2010, while California does not have the highest percentage of same-sex households, it does boast the largest number in the country, roughly 125,516. And the group behind Prop. 8, ProtectMarriage, is going after them again.

Immediately after the Supreme Court handed the case back to the state, ProtectMarriage filed an appeal to the California Supreme Court, asking it to halt same sex marriages once more.

They argue the original verdict in 2010 by District Court Judge Vaughan, which ruled Prop. 8 unconstitutional, should not apply statewide, but only in Alameda and Los Angeles counties, where the defendants in the suit were from.

On July 19, San Diego County Clerk Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr. filed a stay on issuing same-sex marriage licenses until the California Supreme Court has made a ruling on the current Prop 8 court case. However, Dronenburg decided to drop the case on August 3, paving the way for ProtectMarriage’s appeal to be heard this week.

Until that decision is made, Santa Cruz County will continue issuing marriage licenses and performing ceremonies.

“I’m an official that upholds the law,” Pellerin emphatically states. “So when a court or my county council tells me I need to stop or start doing something, I do. In this case, it was something I supported and am happy to offer. The world has not come to an end, and I think it’s a better place for it.”

The Coulsons, who will celebrate their five-year anniversary in October, couldn’t agree more.

“It’s ridiculous to think there are people out there who believe what we did doesn’t count,” says Grace. “If it had been legal five years ago, it would be even more ‘normal’ right now.” 0

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on leashes, hotels that provide dogfriendly lodging, and restaurants that are welcoming pets on their patios.”

Santa Cruz County prides itself on being a dog-friendly place. In fact, we feature a Rhodesian Ridgeback named Kooper on the cover of this year’s Travelers’ Guide. But it turns out that dogs, even ones who have achieved minor celebrity status, are not welcome in 95 percent of apartments listed in the area, according to Kooper’s owner, local photographer Pascale Wowak.

Wowak is irate about the irony of the situation. “They seek out this large dog to promote Santa Cruz, and yet no one who owns a large dog can rent in this town,” she told us. “He had to behave and cooperate for three hours for that shoot, and then was so amazing that they asked him to come pose for a huge community event a few weeks later.

Obviously he’s well-behaved enough to do all this to promote the city.

“Our dog has his very own portfolio with letters from all our neighbors stating how adorable and sweet he is,” said Wowak. She also emailed Mayor Hilary Bryant to ask if she’d write a letter of recommendation for Kooper, but says Bryant never responded (Bryant was unavailable for comment).

But not all hope is lost. Maggie Ivy, CEO of the Santa Cruz County Visitors’ Council, said she was sorry to hear of Wowak’s woes. “That’s a shame. He’s a sweet dog. He was very amiable, and I would certainly give Kooper a reference.”

Melanie Sobel, general manager of the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter, says the sheer number of local landlords who don’t allow pets is a significant concern. The shelter’s numbers show that 14 percent of animal surrenders are due to landlord issues.

So is the Traveler’s Guide, featuring Kooper blissfully unaware of how he is about to get screwed by the Santa Cruz housing market, false advertising?

Not according to Ivy, who says the Travelers’ Guide is intended to reflect the experience of visitors to Santa Cruz, rather than residents.

“The impetus of us putting Kooper on the cover of the Travelers’ Guide was to relay that Santa Cruz County is dog-friendly on many levels,” she says. “We tend to be referencing things like state parks that allow dogs

Open Celebration File under “only in Santa Cruz”: A Methodist minister turning his 55th wedding anniversary into a party to celebrate same-sex marriages.

Darrell and Karen Darling, both 73, are a longtime Santa Cruz couple who run the Darling House bed and breakfast. When Prop. 8 survived a U.S. Supreme Court challenge in June, Darling said it only took him and Karen 15 minutes after seeing the ruling on television to decide on the direction of their anniversary celebration. “We wanted to share the most intimate and significant part of our life with people who had been deprived of that for a long, long time,” he told the Weekly. The event honoring “newlywed” GLBT couples is co-sponsored by the Diversity Center, the Santa Cruz GLBT Alliance, and a number of local gay, lesbian and transgender couples.

A longtime advocate for GLBT rights, throughout Darling’s career as a minister he risked losing his Methodist ordination and salary by performing marriage ceremonies for same-sex couples. Fortunately, the California United Methodist Church, he says, is “now fairly openly embracing” the GLBT cause.

Regarding the argument that homosexuality is a sin, Darling is adamant: “There’s not a single word about homosexuality or abortion in the bible. By contrast, Jesus says many words about justice, about love, about loving others as we love ourselves.”

Instead of a biblical basis, Darling believes opposition to homosexuality comes from our culture’s fearful attitude toward sexuality. “A lot of people feel guilty and have to ask forgiveness every time they go to bed with their husbands or wives,” he says.

And according to Darling, this is not the way of Christ.

“Jesus had a good time,” he says.

“Jesus had a healthy appreciation for the body. Jesus loved life.”

The Darlings’ LGBT Supreme Court Wedding Celebration potluck will take place Monday, Aug. 12 at the Darling House.

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With the new WSPV technology, it would take only 4 percent of U.S. agricultural land to supply the amount of energy used annually in this country.

The UCSC team hopes to coax part of the solar industry in a new direction with its twist on solar panels: Wavelength Selective Photovoltaic Systems, or WSPVs. Photovoltaic systems use the photoelectric effect, a basic process in physics, to convert light energy into electricity. If it exceeds a certain energy level, incoming light can excite and set free the outermost electrons of the atoms in a chemical element. That critical wavelength, or color, of light varies from one element to the next. Traditional solar panels capture these electrons ejected from unsustainable rare earth metals, such as cadmium and special forms of silicon. In contrast, the photovoltaic generators in WSPVs absorb light that

A Glowstick on Steroids It all started in a physics lab on the UCSC campus. Physics professor Sue Carter works with Luminescent Solar Collectors—LSCs for short.

These special panels use pigments to absorb sunlight. Like a glow-stick on steroids, a fantastically vibrant pink-orange color explodes from the panels as soon as sunlight touches them. The result is nearly blinding, leaving blotches in your sight if you stare at the edges for too long.

The pigment, scattered throughout the collectors, traps incoming light energy and guides it to electricity generators.

The key to this innovative form of solar energy is that physicists can control the wavelength of light that the pigment traps. “I started looking closer and closer at the spectrum of luminescent materials,” says Carter.

“I realized that the most efficient color nearly aligned with what plants wouldn’t need.”

WSPVs use a pigment called LR305, which catches only green and blue wavelengths. Plants do not absorb green light. Instead, they reflect it, which is why they appear green. By taking light that plants don’t use for photosynthesis to generate electricity, the panels allow plants underneath to grow, flower and fruit.

Carter knew her panels had the potential to change the outlook of the solar energy field. However, a big question loomed: With some colors subtracted, how would plants react to the altered light quality? “For certain species,” Loik says, “seed germination, or the decision to make flowers or leaves, is controlled by the color of available light.”

Loik and several undergraduate students are running experiments on campus to test the effects of changing light quality on photosynthesis, fruit production and plants’ abilities to capture and hold the carbon they need. On top of UCSC’s Interdisciplinary Sciences Building on Science Hill, a normallooking greenhouse offers peaceful

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On a large scale, solar “farms” seem like a good source of clean energy.

However, the bulky installations require development that can destroy ecosystems and drive away animals.

What’s more, Loik says, today’s solar panels use rare Earth metals, the ingredients of smart phones and LED televisions and hybrid car batteries.

“These materials are not very sustainable in the way they are mined or disposed of,” Loik notes.

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“Different species of plants respond differently to the changing light environment,” Loik says.

Lettuce and spinach, for example, are unaffected by the altered light.

Unfortunately, in recent tests, strawberries seemed to dislike the light under the panels.

“We can’t solve every puzzle,” says Carter. “But we can get a good idea on how to proceed forward and how species interact in different environments. This will help make better greenhouses for those plants.”

Future Slime Beyond these common garden plants in Loik’s projects, Carter works with another species to see how it grows under LR305 panels: algae.

“Algae are one of the main materials being considered for next generation biofuels, because they have much greater power output per acre than any other biomaterial,” Carter says.

Growing large quantities of algae is tricky. The plants usually cannot be grown outside because they easily get contaminated. One remedy is to grow algae in greenhouses, which protect them from foreign particles in the air, but this is expensive. Carter’s panels cost less in materials, and by yielding power they lower the overall energy costs.

These qualities piqued the interest of microbial biologist Leslie Bebout from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View. Bebout studies algae and its potential cultivation

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Market Forces What’s more, this new technology will not negatively affect the existing solar market, says James Allen, CEO of Allterra Solar, a design and installation company based in Santa Cruz. There will still be a market for traditional solar panels, he explains, in rooftop installations where all of the available light can be harvested.

Far from competing with traditional solar panels, WSPVs broaden the

marketability of solar energy as a whole.

Allen says his company is always enthusiastic about any advancement in renewable energy. He considers WSPVs a perfect solution for farmers who need the power source, but can’t sacrifice their land.

“This technology allows farmers to get the best of both worlds. We are always excited when new innovations can be integrated into the field of solar energy,” Allen says.

If the team can demonstrate that their WSPVs are more cost-effective than traditional solar panels, the UCSC scientists believe this project will open other gates in alternative energy. The venture already has spawned a company: Soliculture, founded in 2012 in Scotts Valley

by Glenn Alers, a physicist and computer engineer at UCSC, with Carter and entrepreneurial lead Carley Corrado. The company is working with greenhouse growers and farmers to test the feasibility and commercial application of WSPV technology.

All the panels Soliculture installs for its customers are built in research labs at UCSC. However, the team has made sure that the WSPV panels can fit into the preexisting solar manufacturing market, because they aim to contract out the production process in the future. Soliculture now supplies nearly 100 customers with electricity generated from panels covering productive crop land near the central coast.

Loik hopes to carry out the same experiments in the desert or in grassland ecosystems—ultimately, on a larger scale.

“Windows are everywhere,” Loik says. “Why not utilize all that glass surface to generate electricity at the same time?”

According to the team, at projected levels of efficiency, it would take only 4 percent of U.S. agricultural land to supply the amount of energy used annually in this country. Those lands, rather than lying in shadows under acres of panels, would yield crops in the warm pink light of WSPVs. It might take time to get used to such a foreign glow among lush green crops. But a sustainable energy future may depend on this vision.0

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in outer space for future long-term missions. “I am very enthusiastic about the WSPVs,” Bebout says. “They are a smart and elegant solution to the challenges facing crop production in California, and we hope for algae also.”

Bebout is eager to see WSPV technology mature for our descendants to use in space or on the moon. There, she says, “the largest source of free energy is sunlight.”

Carter and Bebout met at a coffee shop in Felton to discuss applying WSPVs to research on algae and energy production. Bebout admits that growing algae in space is still beyond the horizon, but she believes today's studies can set the stage. In her own research, Bebout showed how well algae grew under the altered light of Carter’s panels.

“For five different commercial strains of algae, [with] the WSPVs selectively taking a full one-third of the incoming sunlight, the cells perform just as well, if not better than in full sunlight,” she says. “If this technology for algae can go up in scale, it could be a real gamechanger.”

Carter’s team recognizes this potential, too. Carter protects her algae in a distinctly un-green greenhouse in the New Zealand Garden at UCSC's famed Arboretum.

The shocking orange structure, in stark contrast to the various exotic trees, reveals that this building uses WSPVs to sustain itself.

“All the fans and the electronic instruments for monitoring conditions and entering data are powered by electricity that the greenhouse generates itself,” Loik says. The algae inside stay cozy and safe, and maintaining the greenhouse is cheap.

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Something Borough Reworked ‘Escaping Queens’ packs in even more BY LILY STOICHEFF

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nlike the other traditional powerhouses on the bill at Cabrillo Stage’s Crocker Theatre this season, Escaping Queens isn’t showy or glamorous. It’s intimate and charismatic, at times hilarious and often heartbreaking. Performed in the small Black Box Theatre, the audience is invited to partake in a pivotal moment in writer Joe Ortiz’s childhood in 1950s Queens, New York, as his family struggles to survive hardships brought on by his gambling and philandering father, and take risks that will alter their lives forever.

Escaping Queens premiered last year at Cabrillo Stage and sold out 11 shows weeks in advance, partly due to local celebrity of its author. Those lucky enough to see it loved it, and musical director Jon Nordgren invited Ortiz and director Greg Fritsch back again for 2013. Escaping Queens “2.0” has been re-worked, re-staged and re-cast, and, although some structural difficulties remain, it is exceptionally entertaining.

The most captivating element of this show is the music. A five-piece ensemble, conducted by Max Bennett Parker, showcase their skill and versatility through more than 30 original songs inspired by the doo-wop, jazz, salsa and traditional old-world melodies Ortiz grew up listening to on the radio and in the streets of his neighborhood. There are one or two

numbers that are hilarious, including a lively medley sung by the father in drag, but Ortiz’s songwriting really shines when his characters show their souls and express their frustrations, hopes and longings. The melancholy becomes palpable in the small, confined space.

Vanessa Alvarez as Mama and Adam Saucedo as husband Herman share considerable chemistry as they struggle for power in their household.

The audience catches glimpses of their love, and shares in their frustration as it becomes clear how despairing their marriage has become. Samantha Pistoresi charmingly performs their wide-eyed and love-struck teenage daughter Laura opposite Danny Gould as her bad-boy sweetheart, Johnny.

Josiah Frampton, the sole returning cast member, resurrects his double role as Manny, Laura’s earnest suitor, and Freddy, the menacing bookie intent on collecting Herman’s debts. Devon DeLeon draws huge laughs as Little Joey.

Escaping Queens is an engaging look at the choices and sacrifices one family makes to stay together.

‘Escaping Queens’ Through Aug. 18 Crocker Black Box Theatre, Aptos

Shakespeare Santa Cruz: Artistic Director Marco Barricelli presents this classic tale of civil war. Wed, Aug 7, 7:30pm, Thu, Aug 8, 7:30pm, Fri, Aug 9, 8pm and Sun, Aug 11, 7:30pm. $20-$50. UCSC Festival Glen, UCSC campus, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

‘Oklahoma!’

The Rodgers & Hammerstein classic musical set in a Western Indian territory.

Runs July 26-Aug. 18. $16$44. Cabrillo College Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6154.

Shakespeare Santa Cruz Preview “Taming of the Shrew”: The classic Shakespearian romantic comedy. Full schedule of dates at www. shakespearesantacruz. org. July 23-Aug. 31. $20$50. UCSC Festival Glen, UCSC campus, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

The Jungle Book Toddlers performing the Disney classic in conjunction with All About Theatre.

Fri, Aug 9, 6:30pm, Sat, Aug 10, 6:30pm and Sun, Aug 11, 2pm. Lighthouse Church, 4525 Soquel, Soquel, 831.345.6340.

CONCERTS Oh, Bears!

A live performance by Santa Cruz’s own “country-fried twangy duo.” Sat, Aug 10, 4pm. Streetlight Records Santa Cruz, 939 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.421.9200.

Twilight Concerts Live music by a different group each week. Wed, 6-8pm. Thru Aug 29. Free.

Capitola Esplanade Park, Capitola Village, Capitola.

Art GALLERIES CONTINUING Felix Kulpa Gallery “Kiss My Bronze”: Bronze

Paintings by Mary Karlton. www.marykarlton.com. Thru Sept. 22. Free. 118 Cooper St, Santa Cruz.

R. Blitzer Gallery dimensions + six: An exhibition of work by six artists from the Monterey Peninsula including sculpture, book arts and printmaking. Gallery hours: Tues-Sat, 11am-5pm. Thru Aug. 31. 831.458.1217. Mission Extension and Natural Bridges, Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz Central Branch Library Libraries Inside Out. HOME: A large-scale woodblock printmaking exhibition

by Bridget Henry. Aug. 2 through the winter months.

Free, 831.427.7700. 224 Church St, 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. Mon–Thu, 9am–5pm & Fri. 9am–6pm, Thru Aug. 23. Free, 831.457.5003. 720 Front St, Santa Cruz.

Events

Village Park, 100 Aptos Creek Rd, Aptos.

Natural History, 1305 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Comedy Showcase

Poetry Pop-Up Museum

A new comedy showcase hosted by DNA featuring a different Bay Area headliner each week. Tue, 8:30pm.

Free. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.7117.

English Country Dance Second and fourth Thursdays of each month; beginners welcome. $5-$7.

First Congregational Church of Santa Cruz, 900 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.8621.

Family Storytelling Hour Sirena Andrea, Artistic Director of the Santa Cruz Storytelling Festival, will be telling stories from around the world appropriate for all ages. Thu, Aug 8, 2:30-3:30pm. Free. Luma Yoga & Family Center, 1010 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.325.2620.

A favorite poem reading pop-up museum by Poetry Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. Tue, Aug 13, 7:30pm. $3 suggested donation.

Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.464.8983.

Redwood Dulcimer Day The biggest fretted dulcimer gathering in the West, with workshops all day and a concert at 7pm. www. redwooddulcimerday. com. Sat, Aug 10, 10am9pm. $50 workshops; $15 concert. Aptos Community United Methodist Church, Education Wing, 221 Thunderbird Dr, Aptos, 831.426.9155.

Scotts Valley Art & Wine

Living History Day Experience hands-on old-time activities such as butter churning, wagon rides and ice cream making.

Sun, Aug 11, 11am-3pm. $10 for parking. Wilder Ranch State Park, 1401 Coast Rd, Santa Cruz, 831.426.0505.

Museum Family Day An eye-opening event exploring raptors with native bird connections, plus live music and Penny Ice Creamery ice cream. Sat, Aug 10, 10am-2pm. Free.

Santa Cruz Museum of

A juried art show, wine and beer tasting, food and live entertainment including a kid-friendly magic show.

Sat, Aug 10, 10am-6pm and Sun, Aug 11, 10am-6pm.

Free. Skypark, 361 King’s Village Rd, Scotts Valley, 831.438.1010.

Wetlands Tours “Wetlands Alive!” informational tours are offered by Watsonville Wetlands Watch. Sat, Aug 10, 10am. Fitz Educational Center, Pajaro Valley High School, Watsonville, 831.345.1226.

LITERARY EVENTS San Francisco’s City Guide

Storytime Former Shakespeare Santa Cruz actress Billie Harris and Book Cafe manager Jill Rose perform animated readings of children’s stories. Mon, 11am. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

Pretty Lights Can’t make it to Outside Lands? Walk ‘Around the Block’ for this free in-store. Aug 8 at Amoeba SF.

Outside Lands Festival

LECTURES

A bazillion bands, and even more lifestyle brand marketers, all vying for your attention.

Aug 9-11 in Golden Gate Park.

Tantric Wisdom for Men

Iveta Sangalo

A class on mastering male sexual energy to “expand your pleasure thresholds to a higher level of ecstasy” Wed, Aug 7, 7-9pm. $20$25. Pure Pleasure, 204 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.466.9870.

Oakland melts into puddle of Brazilian love, drains into Lake Merritt, rebounds in epic dance party.

Aug 9 at Fox Theater.

AROUND TOWN California Beer Festival Tastings of 70 craft beers on tap, plus live entertainment, gourmet foods and vendors. www. californiabeerfestival.com.

Sat, Aug 10, 12:30-5pm. $45 general admission. Aptos

Whitesnake Featuring the tireless David Coverdale, goin’ down the only road he’s ever known. Aug 9 at the Warfield.

Moses Ex-High on Fire, ex-Strychnine members rock summertime afternoon BBQ. Aug 11 at the Hemlock Tavern.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

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Back to the Breach

SSC concludes an epic saga with ‘Henry V’

BY CHRISTINA WATERS

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nviting us back to the Glen for the concluding drama in Shakespeare’s turbulent “Henriad” trilogy, Shakespeare Santa Cruz unveils Henry V this weekend. Onto the handsomely expanded outdoor stage and seating area, a “happy few” seasoned players will present the Bard’s powerful saga of young Prince Hal transformed into the heroic King of England. After the death of his father, the maverick prince must grasp the reins of leadership. Shakespeare’s mesmerizing play follows the young king through a momentous battle he seems destined to lose, culminating in triumph on the field of Agincourt.

With this conquest, Henry takes France along with a French princess as his Queen. Powered by Henry’s bravery and military wiles, the finale of the threeplay drama transforms the king into the stuff of inspirational legend.

Returning to play Henry this season is Charles Pasternak, whose indelible portrayal last year of Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part II balanced the future king’s youthful excesses with his emerging gifts for leadership. Also with the festival this season is stalwart veteran V Craig Heidenreich, who last season played the aging King Henry IV, Hal’s father. This time, Heidenreich plays multiple roles, including King Charles of France and the Archbishop of Canterbury. SSC Artistic Director Marco Barricelli returns to the stage this

season in the critical role of the Chorus, as well as Duke of Burgundy. Versatile festival favorite Mike Ryan returns as Henry’s uncle the Duke of Exeter.

The scene Shakespeare wrote for the wooing of the French princess by the young English king—neither of whom spoke the other’s language—remains one of the cleverest weavings of puns and malapropisms ever set to language.

Any language.

As is the repertory custom at Shakespeare Santa Cruz, there are many doublings of roles in Henry V, whose cast can also be seen doubled yet again as dramatic personae in Taming of the Shrew.

Henry V has it all: sabotage, innuendo, bloody battlefields, ribald bar scenes, courtship and conquest.

Threaded through all of this is a memorable series of literary ethnic jokes at the expense of England’s perennial enemies—the Scots and Irish—and the linguistically incomprehensible Welsh. A trio of barflies, former brothers in lowlife of Sir John Falstaff—Pistol, Nym and Bardolph—will strew the stage with some of Shakespeare’s most ingenious, and lavish, expletives and insults.

‘Henry V’ Aug. 9 – Sep. 1 UCSC’s Festival Glen

AUGUST 7-13, 2013

RETURN OF THE KING Charles Pasternak (right) played Prince Hal in SSC’s 2012 production of ‘Henry IV, Part Two’ and returns to the title role in this year’s ‘Henry V.’

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THE INCITERS

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COOKERS

An all-star jazz septet, the Cookers is named after a 1965 Blue Note album by legendary trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. Comprised of veteran bandleaders and influencers Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson, George Cables, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart, David Weiss and Craig Handy, the outfit puts its experienced touch on hard bop tunes, ballads, jazz waltzes and reworked standards.

Moving seamlessly from delicate, nuanced numbers to tunes of fiery abandon, the Cookers tip their collective hat to the classic jazz era while creating something fresh and exciting.

Kuumbwa; $25 adv/$28 door; 7pm & 9pm. (CJ)

MONDAY

8/12

BLANK TAPES The LA Weekly insists this band is garage rock, which it is most definitely not. Stop saying it! Matt Adams dreams of the ’60s, yes, but not the ’60s of Nuggets compilations. No, his records have the harmonic glow of the Byrds, the Hollies and Buffalo Springfield, evoking a time when artists went into the studio, man!

The latest single, “Coast to Coast,” is a prime example of how Adams winds the mellow

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Concerts

MINGO FISHTRAP

Aug. 8 at Moe’s Alley

YEAH YEAH YEAHS Aug. 16 at Rio Theatre

LES CLAYPOOL’S DUO DE TWANG Aug. 18 at Catalyst

GREENCARDS

Mon. August 12 U 7 & 9 pm | No Comps

THE COOKERS: Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson, George Cables,Ceil Mcbee, Billy Hart, David Weiss, Craig Handy Monday, August 15 U 7 pm

SASHA DOBSON Monday, August 19 U 7 pm

ETIENNE CHARLES QUARTET Jazz mixed with sounds of the West Indies 1/2 Price Night for Students Thursday, August 22 U 7 pm

MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL COUNTY HONOR ENSEMBLES 1/2 Price Night for Students

Aug. 19 at Don Quixote’s

Friday, August 23 U 7:30 pm

JOHN HIATT

Monday, August 26 U 7 pm

Sep. 9 at Rio Theatre

pop haze of that lost time around the more personal, even insular songwriting of modern indie rock. Crepe Place; $8; 9pm. (SP)

TUESDAY

8/13

HONEYCUTTERS Hailing from Asheville, North Carolina, the Honeycutters are being talked about as one of the best Americana acts since Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. At times a two-piece featuring singer/songwriter Amanda Anne Platt and guitarist/producer Peter James, and at other times, a five-piece honky-tonk outfit, the Honeycutters are at home alongside the current wave of rising roots bands. But they set themselves apart with perfectly-placed harmonies, a beautifully understated delivery and lyrics that stretch beyond brooding into joyful, uplifting territory. Also on the bill is local songwriting talent Amee Chapman and her Velvet Tumbleweeds. Don Quixote’s; $10; 7:30pm. (CJ)

ORAL FIXATION The members of Milo Greene are working through some issues.

BEN FLOCKS & BATTLE MOUNTAIN HILLS TO HOLLERS: BARBARA HIGBIE, LAURIE LEWIS, LINDA TILLERY Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records. Dinner served 1-hr before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer.

All ages welcome.

320-2 Cedar St [ Santa Cruz 831.427.2227

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This triple bill of the Inciters with the Bang and the French Boutik has a vintage element—with retro 1960s sounds and old-time roots they are sure to keep the crowd nostalgic and energetic.

Top of the list are the Inciters, an 11-piece band that features three female vocalists, drums, bass, guitars and a full horn section. Their style is Northern Soul, which originated in the north of England in the 60s but with a more adventurous production. Next we've got the Bang, which also has female vocalists who know how to put on a colorful and sultry Motowninspired show. Lastly, the French Boutik mix French and English lyrics with a modern-day mod sound and a pop beat. Moe's Alley; $7 adv/$10 door; 9pm. (MW)

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PUBLIC NOTICE CITY AND DISTRICT EXTEND PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD TO AUGUST 12, 2013 FOR scwd2 REGIONAL SEAWATER DESALINATION PROJECT DRAFT EIR The City of Santa Cruz and Soquel Creek Water District released the Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the proposed scwd 2 Regional Seawater Desalination Project on May 13, 2013 for public review and comment. Several Santa Cruz and District area residents asked the agencies for an extension to the initial 60-day comment period, citing the desire for more time to read the Draft EIR and prepare their comments. The comment period has been extended another month from July 15 to August 12, 2013 to provide a longer opportunity for the public to participate.

COMMENT ON THE DRAFT EIR Written comments can be sent by email or mail before 5:00 p.m. on August 12, 2013 to: Heidi Luckenbach scwd 2 Desalination Program Coordinator City of Santa Cruz, Water Department 212 Locust Street, Suite C Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Email: hluckenbach@cityofsantacruz.com For more information or translation services please contact Melanie Mow Schumacher, Public Outreach Coordinator, Soquel Creek Water District, 5180 Soquel Drive, Soquel, CA 95073, by telephone at: (831) 475-8501 ext. 153 or by email at:melanies@soquelcreekwater.org.

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BLUE JASMINE (PG-13; 98 min) If Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Louis C.K. and Andrew Dice Clay are in a movie together, you know either the apocalypse is going down, or there’s a new Woody Allen film.

His never-ending movie tour of the world’s great cities has finally stopped in San Francisco, to which Blanchett’s character Jasmine escapes after her life gets a seismic shake up. (Opens Fri at the Nick and Del Mar) ELYSIUM Neill Blomkamp,

director of the refreshingly smart sci-fi flick District 9, goes full-on big-budget Hollywood action for this story set in 2154 about Matt Damon doomed to a bleak life on a broken-down Earth overrun by crime and disease. (I kinda feel like Ben Affleck deserved it more, but whatever.) When he needs a miracle cure, he infiltrates Elysium, a giant space-station to which the elite have escaped.

(Opens Fri at Green Valley, Scotts Valley and 41st Ave) PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS (PG; 106 min) Oh, it’s on! Nerds

S H O W T IM E S

everywhere are already filling Internet message boards with fabulously uninteresting debates about whether Percy Jackson is better than Harry Potter. This is the second PJ adaptation, featuring Percy and company on a quest to find the Golden Fleece. (Opens Wed at Green Valley, Scotts Valley and Cinema 9) PLANES (G; 92 min.) This spin-off of Cars was originally supposed to go direct-to-video, but apparently theatrical audiences can’t get enough of kid’s movies about things that long to do other things, but

Movie reviews by Steve Palopoli and Richard von Busack

can’t because of reasons, but then do. So here you go. (Opens Fri at Del Mar, 41st Ave, Scotts Valley and Green Valley)

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2 GUNS (R; 109 min) Denzel Washington plays a DEA agent, because of course he does.

Mark Wahlberg plays a Navy SEAL, because whatever. They think they’re stealing money from the mob, but it all turns out to be a double-cross by the CIA. Written by Homer Simpson.

BLACKFISH (NR; 83 min.)

After the SeaWorld killer whale

Tilikum was involved in a third trainer death in 2010, writerdirector-producer Gabriela Cowperthwaite undertook this documentary in attempt to get at what might really be happening (she might have sensed something fishy when SeaWorld claimed Tilikum had attacked trainer Dawn Brancheau because her hair was in a ponytail). In a larger sense, Cowperthwaite examines whether it’s really true, as water parks claim, that animals like Tilikum are better off living in captivity.

THE CONJURING (R;

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Aug. 7, through Wednesday, Aug. 14, unless otherwise indicated.

Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

APTOS CINEMAS

The Smurfs 2 — Wed-Thu 1:50; 4:20; 6:50; 9:10 plus Sat-Sun 11:30am.

Despicable Me 2 — Wed-Thu 10:50; 1:35; 4:10; 7:20; 9:40; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Smurfs 2 — Wed-Thu 10:30; 1:15; 6:35; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Smurfs 2 3D — Wed-Thu 4; 9:20; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

DCI 2013: Big, Loud & Live 10 — Thu 3:30pm.

Marnie — Thu 9pm.

41ST AVENUE CINEMA

CINELUX SCOTTS VALLEY CINEMA

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

We’re The Millers — (Opens Wed) Wed-Thu 2:10; 4:40; 7:10; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11:40am.

1475 41st Ave., Capitola 831.479.3504 www.cineluxtheatres.com

Elysium — (Opens Wed) Fri-Thu 11:55; 2:20; 4:55; 7:30; 10pm.

Planes — (Opens Fri) Fri-Thu 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30pm.

The Wolverine — Wed-Thu 12:15; 3:30; 6:45; 9:45pm.

Hotel Transylvania — Wed-Thu 10am.

Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall — Thu 9:45pm.

DEL MAR

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

Blue Jasmine — (Opens Fri) Wed-Thu 2:45; 5; 7:15; 9:30 plus Fri-Sun 12:30; 10:30pm (No 10:30 Sun).

Planes — (Opens Fri) Wed-Thu 2; 4:20; 6:30; 8:30pm.

Planes 3D — (Opens Fri) Fri-Sun 12pm.

The Conjuring — Wed-Thu 2:10; 4:30; 7; 9:20 plus Fri-Sun 11:50am (no Mon 7pm).

Somm — Mon 6pm.

NICKELODEON

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

Blue Jasmine — (Opens Fri) Wed-Thu 1:45; 4; 6:15; 8:30 plus Fri-Sun 11:30am.

20 Feet From Stardom — Wed-Thu 3:50; 6pm.

Blackfish — Wed-Thu 2; 5:20; 9:30pm.

Fruitvale Station — 1:20; 3:20; 7:20; 10:10 plus Fri-Sun 11:20am.

Still Mine — Fri-Sun 11:50am.

The Way Way Back — Wed-Thu 2:20; 4:40; 7; 8; 9:20pm plus Fri-Sun 12pm.

RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN

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

Elysium — (Opens Wed) Wed-Thu 11:45; 2:20; 4:55; 7:30; 9:20; 10pm.

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters — (Opens Wed) Wed-Thu 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:45pm.

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D — (Opens Wed) Wed-Thu 11am.

Planes — (Opens Thu) Fri-Thu 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7; 9pm.

We’re The Millers — (Opens Wed) Wed-Thu11:20; 2; 4:40; 5:30; 7:20; 8:15; 10 (No 8:15 Thu).

2 Guns — Wed-Thu 11:20; 2; 4:45; 7:30; 10:10.

Despicable Me 2 — Wed-Thu 11:55; 2:30pm.

Red 2 — Wed-Thu 7; 9:15pm.

The Smurfs 2 — Wed-Thu 11; 1:30; 4; 6:30; 9:45pm.

The Way, Way Back — Wed-Thu 11:10; 1:45; 4:15; 6:45pm.

The Wolverine — Wed-Thu 12:45; 3:45; 6:45; 9:45pm.

Turbo — Wed-Thu 11:45; 2:10; 4:40pm (No 11:45 Wed 8/14).

Hotel Transylvania — Wed-Thu 10am.

Jobs — Thu 9pm.

Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall — Thu 8pm.

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8

1125 S. Green Valley Rd, Watsonville 831.761.8200 www.greenvalleycinema.com

Elysium — (Opens Wed) Thu 10pm; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters — (Opens Wed) Wed-Thu 11:15; 1:45; 7:15; 9:45pm; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D — (Opens Wed) Wed-Thu 4:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

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

We’re the Millers — (Opens Wed) Wed-Thu 11; 1:40; 4:30; 7:30; 10:15; Fri-Wed

2 Guns — Wed-Thu 12; 2:30; 5; 7:30; 10pm Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Heat — Wed-Thu 12:45; 3:45; 6:45; 9:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

call for showtimes.

Planes — (Opens Fri) Thu 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

2 Guns — Wed-Thu 11; 1:40; 4:20; 7:20; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Despicable Me 2 — Wed-Thu 10:45; 12:55; 3:05; 5:15; 7:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Grown Ups 2 — Wed-Thu 10:40; 12:55; 3:10; 5:25; 7:45; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

R.I.P.D. — Fri-Wed 10pm.

The Smurfs 2 — Wed-Thu 11; 1:30; 7; 8; 9:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Smurfs 2 3D — Wed-Thu 4; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Conjuring — Wed-Thu 11; 1:40; 4:20; 7:15; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Wolverine — Wed-Thu 10:45; 1:30; 4:15; 7; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9

1405 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1700 www.regmovies.com

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters — (Opens Wed) Wed-Thu 12:30; 3; 8pm; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D — (Opens Wed) Wed-Thu 10; 5:30; 10:35; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

We’re the Millers — (Opens Wed) Wed-Thu 11; 2; 5; 7:40; 10:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

112 min.) Two ghost hunters investigate a house in Rhode Island and get very freaked out by what they find in this based-on-a-true-story tale from 1971.

CRYSTAL FAIRY (98 min.) Travel comedy about Michael Cera finding misadventure on a hallucinogenic quest in Chile.

DESPICABLE ME 2 (PG; 98 min.) How often is the most anticipated film of the summer an animated movie?

That isn’t made by Pixar?

Right, and yet the first movie was the movie that was more than just a big moneymaker.

It also bubbled up from nowhere on the cultural radar, with fans watching it over and over with the same kind of passion normally reserved for a Nolan Batman flick. The main characters—Steve Carell as former supervillain Gru, Miranda Cosgrove as Margo, Russell Brand as Dr. Nefario, etc.—are all back in this story of what happens when world leaders call upon Gru’s expertise to defeat a new villain.

FRUITVALE STATION (PG-13; 126 min) Hmm, wonder if anyone in the Bay Area’s heard about this Oscar Grant guy? Wait, something’s coming back now, like how his shooting by BART police in Oakland was one of the most shocking stories of 2008, sparked massive protests and set police-community relations in NorCal back 20 years. Yeah, that Oscar Grant. This drama follows his story on the last day of his life.

GROWN UPS 2 (PG-13; 102 min.) Apparently, this is Adam Sandler’s first sequel. I guess we can be thankful it’s not Jack and Jill 2, but c’mon, a Wedding Singer sequel was out of the question? Even Happy Gilmore 2 seems like a better bet, but whatever. Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade return as the other grown ups, who have moved back to their hometown.

MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (G; 110 min) When people talk about the greatest Pixar movies, Monsters Inc. never seems to get mentioned. And yet, it is awesome. Why Cars got a sequel before Sulley and Mike is anyone’s guess, but at least it’s here now. Technically, it’s a prequel, with John Goodman and Billy Crystal returning to tell the story of how the pair got into the scare business.

PACIFIC RIM (PG-13; 131 min) Guillermo Del Toro, best known for flipping easily between dark, personal films

like Pan’s Labryinth and offbeat crowd-pleasers like Hellboy, goes for broke with his biggest film ever, a battlingrobot movie with more soul than Transformers. Actually, it combines the Japanese Kaiju genre (monster attack movies of which the Godzilla series is the most famous) and mecha (robot-centric) genres: this time, when the sea monsters (appropriately called “kaiju” here) come, humans beat them back with giant robots.

RED 2 (PG-13; 116 min.) Frank (Bruce Willis) hasn’t killed anyone in months, and Marvin (John Malkovich) convinces him to come out of retirement and chase down a nuclear device in this star-studded sequel with Catherine Zeta Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren.

R.I.P.D. (PG-13; 96 min.) Ryan Reynolds dies, gets hired by the Rest In Peace Department and starts chasing around and scaring monsters as Jeff Bridges’ sidekick. Think Men In Black with Ryan Reynolds as Will Smith.

THE SMURFS 2 (PG; 109 min) The official plot summary for this movie is 600 words long. It contains the phrases “time-traveling Smurfs,” “using the Eiffel Tower as a conduit” and “the evil wizard puts them into his Smurfalator.” Who directed this, David Lynch?

STILL MINE (PG-13; 102 min.) James Cromwell and Genevieve Bujold play a couple who have to fight city hall to build the home in which they want to live out the rest of their years together.

TURBO (PG) It’s hard to imagine some executive at Dreamworks didn’t say “I want Ratatouille meets Cars!” when they came up with this story of a snail who dreams of competing in the Indy 500.

Guess if he does!

WE’RE THE MILLERS (R; 110 min.) Filling the no-doubt massive audience demand to see the last vestiges of their ’90s innocence ruined by seeing Jennifer Aniston play a stripper, this comedy stars Jason Sudeikis as a pot dealer who enlists a random group of weirdos to be his fake family so he can smuggle drugs in from Mexico.

THE WOLVERINE (PG13; 126 min.) No, not that Wolverine movie from 2009, this is the new Wolverine movie from 2013, which is of course a sequel to the X-Men movie from 2006. This time, Hugh Jackson goes to Japan and has to fight samurai while not being immortal. I hate when that happens.

Send tips about food, wine and dining discoveries to Christina Waters at xtina@cruzio.com. Read her blog at christinawaters.com.

Dutch Myers

an intimate farm dinner on Aug. 17. Details will be showing up any minute now on the Lindencroft site.

It’s one of those sought-after organic ag sites that furnish peppers for El Salchichero, for example, and hops for Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing.

Oh, and Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard provides Lindencroft with used grape must for compost. Ah, Rudolph Steiner must be smiling down from biodynamic heaven right now.

FARM TO TABLE @ CHAMINADE:

ROUTE AWAKENING Oswald’s Chef Damani Thomas is participating in Route 1 Farms’ field dinners.

Why We Live Here

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emember why we live here?

It's for atmospheric events like this: On Sunday, Aug. 11, at Rancho del Oso (Waddell Creek), join chef Kendra Baker of the Penny Ice Creamery & The Picnic Basket, and former Gabriella superstar Brad Briske (now cooking at La Balena in Carmel) for an outdoor dinner experience featuring the stunning fields and produce of Route 1 Farms. The featured winery for each of the dinners is Odonata Wines from the Westside of Santa

Cruz. Winemaker Dennis Hoey’s wines pair wonderfully with the fresh menus created for Route 1 field dinners. Hoey will be on hand to discuss his artisanal style and guide your tastebuds through the various wines you'll enjoy.

Cosmic Joe Jordan will be joining participants for star gazing if the weather permits. And you need to start making plans now for the Sept.

29 installment of Route 1’s field dinners, at the Ocean St. Extension property, featuring the outdoor handiwork of Oswald's Chef

Damani Thomas. (All dinners will

have vegetarian options.) You will need to create a member login to access the ticket sales site (if you are not a CSA shareholder). Tickets for the general public are $100, all inclusive. Route 1 CSA members receive a $15 thank you discount.

LINDENCROFT FARM DINNER ON AUG. 17: SEAN BAKER, of Berkeley’s Gather (yes, he is another

Gabriella expatriate) will bring his expertise to the legendary fields of Lindencroft in Ben Lomond for

Even if the upcoming Aug. 9 dinner at Chaminade—Chef Beverlie Terra meets Yellow Wall Farm and Martin Ranch Winery—is sold out, there’s still plenty of time for you to make reservations for the Aug. 30 terrace dinner at Chaminade pairing the bounty from Black Hen Farm and Belle Farm with the lively wines of Alfaro Family Vineyards— five courses matched with wines.

The evening starts with passed hors d’oeuvres at 6pm on the patio, followed by dinner at 6:30pm, for $80 per person, plus tax and gratuity.

Call immediately for reservations: 831.475.5600.

SHADOWBROOK CHANGE-UP:

The always special Shadowbrook Restaurant has taken on a new chef, Anthony Kresge, in its landmark kitchen. Kresge apprenticed at Napa’s Mustard’s Grill, went to Culinary School and moved to Santa Cruz. After studying pastry and culinary arts in Italy, spending eight years in the central coast wine biz and opening a few corporate kitchens in Silicon Valley, Chef Kresge is now on board at the Shadowbrook. Not only is this a nice fresh breath of culinary energy for the legendary Capitola dining spot, but it reminds me that it’s been way too long since I visited Ted Burke’s inviting establishment. 0

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JUST LETTER GO Greg Nolten of Zayante Vineyards gave up postal work for wine, which will always deliver on Saturdays.

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reg Nolten, an experienced rural mail carrier, retired from the post office seven years ago to start Zayante Vineyards. Tough work, if you can find it. “Things aren’t that easy,” Nolten says. “There’s no romance in the wine business, except maybe after drinking a bottle of it.”

SCW: What’s a typical day? GREG NOLTEN: At the moment, we’re waiting for the grapes to get ripe. So I’m trying to take care of some projects that aren’t involved with the winery too much. One of our tractors has a bad clutch on it, so I’m trying to get that fixed. And we’re getting our equipment ready for crush time.

What’s the most exciting season? It’s all busy. I suppose crush is the most exciting time because we’re all picking grapes all the time. We start picking around seven in the morning, and we finish up by noon usually.

We get most of the picking done, because it’s too hot in the afternoon.

Is crushing different than that I Love Lucy scene? Oh, yes, we

have a proper de-stemmer. We’ve got a bin that will receive a halfton of grapes, and then it’s got an auger that automatically feeds the de-stemmer unit, and it automatically de-stems the fruit. Sixty percent of the berries come out whole, and you supposedly get better fermentation with whole berries and partially crushed grapes and I’m really happy with the fermentations we’re getting.

What’s a perfect wine flavor? We like wines that are balanced—

elegant and robust at the same time. They need to be full-flavored, but everything needs to be in balance. That’s what we strive to do. I think I’m doing a pretty good job. The Santa Cruz Mountains are a really good place for growing grapes.

What’s your favorite food with wine? I like barbecue food, and it’s

the full flavor of our wine that lends itself well to barbecue—ribs and sausage. I really like the spice in sausages.

Do you like beer? It takes a lot of beer to make wine. It’s very warm

right now. It’s in the eighties up here. It gets very warm, and there’s nothing better after working hard than a nice cold Sierra Nevada.

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SCO SCORPIO OR RPIO O (Oc (Oct.t.. 23 23-Nov. -Nov. 21): Monmouth P Park ark in New Jersey hosts rregular eguular horse rraces aces fr om May thr ough from through November.r. Duringg one such event in 2010,, a horse November Thewifenoseeverything named Thewif enoseeverything finished first, just ahead Thewifedoesntknow. of another nag nnamed amed Thewif edoesntknow. I suspect there’ll comparable lifee that ther e’ll be a compar rable a outcome in your lif secrecy. sometime soon. Revelation R will trump secr ecyy. Whoever information is hiding inf ormation will lose out to anyone who sees expresses the and expr esses th he truth. I advise you to bet on the option that’s that’s that ’s forthcoming forthcominng and communicative, not the one that ’s withholding. furtive and withh holding.

IGGYAND THE STOOGES

SAGITTARIU SAGITTARIUS US S (Nov (Nov.. 22 22-Dec. -Dec. 21): YYou ou o have both a cosmic stretch further.. poetic and a cosm mic license to str etch yourself further It’s It ’ best ’s b t nott to t goo too t far, farr, off course. You You o should h ld stop t before obliterate yourself bef ore yyou ou obliter ate alll boundaries and break break alll taboos and smash sm mash alll precedents. precedents. But you’ve certainly got the blessingss of fate fate if you seek to disregard disregard some boundaries and shatter s somee taboos and outgr outgrow ow some precedents. precedents. Whilee you’re you’re at it, you might also want to shed a few few pinched pinchhed expectations and escape an irrelevant irrelevant limitation or two.. It’s It’s time to get as big and brave brave and brazen brazen as you dare. daare.

CAPR CAPRICORN RIICORN N (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): When I was 19, a thug butt shot me in the bu utt with a shotgun at close rrange. ange. TToo this day, contains day y, my body con ntains the 43 pellets he pumped into me. health They have causedd some minor heal th problems, problems, and I’m don’t always queasy when w I see a gun. But I don ’t experience suffering from any rroutine outine suff e ering fr om the wound. Its original What’s ’ss your own personal impact no longerr plagues me. me What trauma, equivalent of my tr auma, CCapricorn? apricorn? A sickness that weree young? A difficul difficultt break-up rracked acked you whenn you wer break-up love? cared with your first lov ve? The death of someone you car ed about? Whateverr it was, I suspect you now have the freedom from power to rreach each a new level of fr eedom fr om that old pain.

AQUARIUS (Jan. ( 20-Feb.. 18): W Want ant to take full aree swirling ar around advantage of thee sexy vibes that ar ound in your vicinity? One O thing you could do is whisper the provocations ovocaations in the ear of anyone who would ffollowing ollowing pr “Corrupt rupt rrespond espond well to a dose of boisterous boisterous magic: 1) “Cor purity, me with your rraw aw w purity y, baby;; beguile me with your honesty.” rraucous aucous honesty y.” 2) “I finally figured figured out that one of the keys to eternal eternal happiness is to be easily amused.

Want works?” daree you to ant me to show W w you how that work s?”” 3) “I dar sensuality.”

“Let’s qquench myy thirstt for for spiritual p sensualityy.”” 4)) “Let ’s trade trade we’re other’s clothes and pretend preteend we ’re each other ’s higher selves.”

PISCES (Feb. 119-March 9-March 20): Some people put their faith faith in religion religion or science science or political ideologies. English novelist J.G. J.G. Ballard Ballard placedd his faith faith elsewhere: elsewherre: e: in the imagination.

“I believe in the power p of the imagination to rremake emake the world,”” he wrote, wrote, “to release release the truth within us, to hold back the night,, too transcend trraanscend death, to charm motorways, motorways, to ingratiate birds, ingrraatiate ourselves oursselves with bir rdds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”” As As you y make your adjustments and reconfigure reconfigure your plans,, Pisces,, I suggest you put your ffaith aith where moree potent and where Ballard Ballard did. didd. YYour oour imagination is ffar ar mor dynamic than youu realize—especially right now. realize—especially now.

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ARIES S (Mar (March ch 21-April 19):: “Y “You Yoou have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation manifestation off your own blessings,” relentlessly says author Elizabeth Gilbert. I recommend recoommend that you experiment with this subversive idea, ideea, Aries. Just for for a week, see what happens if you devote devvote yourself to making yourself feel feel really really good. I mean risk risk going to extremes extremes as you pursue happiness with focused focusedd zeal. Try Trry this:: Draw Drraaw up a list of experiences that you know w will give you intense pleasure, apology. pleasure, and indulge in them all without w apologyy. And please don’t fret et about the ppossiblee consequences p don’t fr q of getting crazed crazed with joy. joyy. Be assured assured that the cosmos is providing providing you with more more slack thann usual.

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