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A DIFFERENT KIND OF HOMELESS CONTROVERSY Jeremy Miller has filed a racial harassment and discrimination case against Santa Cruz’s Homeless Services Center, where he formerly worked.

HSC Faces Racial Suit Former guard alleges harassment in court filing

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eremy Miller, a former employee at the Homeless Services Center, is sitting on a couch in a River Street office in Santa Cruz. Wearing a checkered red, white and blue shirt, Miller, an African American, is quiet, but articulate. Sitting across from him is his lawyer, Jonathan Che Gettleman (his parents named him after Che Guevara), who is representing Miller in a racial harassment and discrimination case against his former employers.

“He was someone with integrity, and I felt like it was an important case,” Gettleman says of his decision to take on Miller’s case against Santa Cruz Homeless Services. “[The case] teaches important lessons about race, about how poor people are treated. There was a very clear injustice, and I didn’t expect there was any other help he might get.”

Miller started working at HSC in

March 2012, as a campus supervisor— similar to a security guard without a weapon. According to Miller’s complaint, he was routinely called “nigger,” “pimp nigger” and “boy,” among other offensive slurs, at work.

The suit also alleges clients at the center threatened to kill Miller and his family.

Shelter managers, according to the complaint, ignored these issues and overrode Miller’s orders when he issued temporary bans on individuals.

Then, on July 4, he was fired.

Gettleman and his associate Eric Nelson filed suit last week.

Gettleman thinks shelter administrators let Miller go because it was easier than dealing with blatant racial harassment.

“There’s a lot of heat the homeless services takes at any one time, mostly because the city sees it as a haven of

drugs and bad behavior,” Gettleman says. “They don’t want to draw any more attention, or have any more controversy.”

Attorney Tom Griffin, who represents the Homeless Services, describes Miller’s dismissal differently. According to Griffin, working security at the shelter is a tough gig, and not everyone is up to snuff. “It is an organization that provides services for a very challenging cohort,” Griffin says. “You necessarily take on many medical and psychological and social problems that the homeless population has. Not everybody has the skill set and the personality to effectively deal with those issues. I think, as it turned out, Mr. Miller wasn’t effective at doing that.”

Gettleman, though, points out that during Miller’s year and half working at the Center, he received a “Brightest Future” award for “outstanding hard

work and dedication at the Homeless Services Center.” Gettleman says Miller received positive evaluations, and was invited to speak to students at UC Santa Cruz.

Miller became homeless after losing his job, the suit goes onto say, and later tried to receive services at the shelter, but faced more harassment and threats to his family. Miller is seeking damages for emotional pain, suffering and loss of income—including, Gettleman says, severance money, as well as mismanaged breaks and unpaid overtime.

Donald Frazier, executive director for the BOSS (Budding Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency) shelter in Berkeley, says his staff handles most harassment incidents with conflict resolution. But if someone threatened to kill a staff member, that would change things.

“We would probably call the police on a threat as serious as that,” Frazier says. “Nine times out of 10 they end up leaving on their own, but we still report it.”

Gettleman acknowledges the situation is complicated because some of the people who receive services have mental illness that might contribute to their volatility, but he says that’s no excuse for bad behavior.

“You shouldn’t have to be subjected to racial hostility,” Gettleman says, “just because you need homeless services and there are people there who have mental health issues. I know those people need services, too, but there has to be some standard of behavior.”

Gettleman says the case will come down to “what the law requires to prevent hostility in the work environment.”

Fraizer says working at a shelter is no easy task for anyone.

“That’s really unfortunate, and I can’t get in the middle of it,” Frazier says, “but I’ll tell you running a shelter has a lot of stress in it. But in terms of taking care of the staff, we have their backs, because it’s certainly important to mitigate conflicts.” 0

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Silent Nights Fins Coffee in has hosted live music performances in Santa Cruz once or twice a week for several years, usually small groups or individuals doing acoustic sets while baristas steam milk for cappuccinos in the background. But a recent crackdown by music licensing giant BMI has left the Ocean Street establishment with a tough decision: pay several hundred dollars a year in fees, or cease the strumming.

Fins, like several small venues and coffee shops around the nation, doesn’t charge a cover fee at the door for its live music events, making it not financially feasible to keep hosting music events legally.

“It is just plain, clear and tested copyright law. Covers cannot be played, recorded or live, in a public place without a license from the copyright manager,” says Fins owner Brian Neuschwander. Two organizations, ASCAP and BMI, collect fees from venues and distribute them to their members.

Fees vary based on things like venue size, seating capacity and frequency of live music events.

The two groups have been criticized for their aggressive stance, and have been blamed for shutting down the small local music scenes in towns across the country. In the ’90s, ASCAP faced a huge public outcry for attempting to collect licensing fees from the Girl Scouts for singing campfire songs, eventually deciding to charge the Scouts just a symbolic $1 a year.

For Fins, the total amounted to about $400 a year owed to each organization.

“I paid ASCAP for five years or more.

BMI finally caught up with us. I was not willing to pay $800 in fees that did not bring benefit to us,” says Neuschwander. “ We are not a club charging a fee at the door and making money off the music played inside. But that makes no difference at all to BMI or ASCAP.”

Business Time Danny Keith, owner of nonprofit Grind Out Hunger, says most people don’t want to even change the color of their own house. But, he added Tuesday night at the first monthly Event Santa Cruz: Somewhere, woven into the creative fabric of Santa Cruz, is a different breed—one that tests the limits of what’s possible.

“Absolutely everyone here has taken enormous risks without knowing anything would work out,” says Keith, who also owns Santa Cruz Skate and Surf Shop.

Matthew Swinnerton put together Event Santa Cruz at the Nickelodeon to capture the town’s creative spirit, and discuss how to start a business.

'We are not a club charging a fee at the door and making money off the music played inside. But that makes no difference at all.'

—BRIAN NEUSCHWANDER Margaret Rosas talked about economic trials and tribulations through the 2009 crisis, and about starting TechRaising. She told the audience how a friend named Lloyd Tabb she met in 2009 (“Remember that year, the bad one?” she said) gave her a job at Looker, a software company. She told people to invest in their relationships.

Chris Miller of Launch Brigade stressed the importance of building good teams. He did that by passing out recorders and getting the audience to play a song by blowing into their plastic instruments when their corresponding light lit up.

NextSpace’s Ryan Coonerty, longtime mayor and coauthor of The Rise of the Naked Economy, talked about the future of freelance careers. The Penny Ice Creamery’s Kendra Baker passed out amazing caramel truffles and talked about food and bringing people together.

Kim Luke of the Downtown Association and the Santa Cruz Derby Girls talked about the joy of shared experiences and of inspiring people.

Success, though, is in the eye of the beholder. Keith said if all else fails, follow your dreams. “They say do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life,” Keith said. “Everything I do is passion, purpose and happiness.” 0

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No Apologies How Analicia Cube became the face of the Take Back Santa Cruz movement, and why she doesn’t care if you don’t like it BY GEORGIA PERRY

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t took me a month to get up the courage to tell Analicia Cube where I work. When I did, she rolled her eyes and said, “I’m sorry, but the Santa Cruz Weekly is no friend of mine.”

I met her in a martial arts class we both take a couple days a week at Minorsan, a gym on Santa Cruz’s West Side. I didn’t realize for two weeks that the curvy, bespectacled woman who always gave me a cheery “hi hon!” before class started was the founder of Take Back Santa Cruz, one of the most controversial activist organizations in Santa Cruz’s history.

Her group has a large, loyal following in Santa Cruz, and just as many passionate critics—but almost no one who doesn’t have an opinion one way or the other. Many associate Take Back Santa Cruz with NIMBYism, xenophobia and, in particular, an agenda against the homeless. They would no doubt picture such a group’s leader to be cold and bitter. Instead, I found that Cube was welcoming and gracious, plugging upcoming trail dedications during class announcements rather than getting up on any political soapbox.

When I told her I wanted to profile her, Cube was skeptical at first—in her repeated dealings with the media over the course of TBSC’s four-year history she has learned which news outlets she can and cannot trust. The Weekly has been teetering on the edge of her ignore list for some time, most recently because of a story we ran about TBSC Director of Communications Steve Schlicht posting on the group’s Facebook wall that he would be “fine with junkies dying.”

four years it has been in existence, She agreed to the story, but not Take Back has grown into one of without losing some sleep. A couple the most influential grassroots days after our interview she came organizations in Santa Cruz, and into class late, and highly stressed out. become a powerful player in local “I’m really nervous, and I’m politics. During the 2010 election, the second-guessing this whole thing,” group hosted a city council candidate she said, pulling her thick brown forum in San Lorenzo Park, which hair into a ponytail and tightening all eight candidates attended—a feat her purple belt around her waist. the Sentinel called She told me that a sign of the group’s some people in “growing clout.” Then Take Back’s inner in 2012, city council circle had gotten candidate Pamela her freaked out, Comstock’s reputation thinking the only as a co-founder of reason I joined Take Back, and her this class at all personal relationship was to get close with Cube (who is a to her, coerce her cousin of Comstock’s into talking to me, husband), played and then twist her a significant role words to make her in her eventual look terrible in election—while print. I told her I she had no former would do my best —ANALICIA CUBE political experience, to be fair. Then her alignment with she shrugged, and the activist group sealed her status as laughed, and told me that if she didn’t “the public safety candidate.” Once like the story, she would just have to elected, she was given a seat on the kick my ass. coveted Public Safety Committee, along with city council veterans David Terrazas and Cynthia Mathews.

Take Back Santa Cruz does things The group’s reach goes on. like rally people to clean up garbage, Co-founder Dexter Cube (Analicia’s connect the police department husband) currently serves on with business owners who have the Downtown Commission, and surveillance cameras, and hold her sister, Heather Babcock, has “positive loitering” events, where previously served on the Commission Take Back members hang out on for the Prevention of Violence Against corners known for drug dealing and Women. prostitution, and offer smiles and hot Perhaps most significantly, Take chocolate to passers-by.

Back Santa Cruz has become the group It sounds simple enough, but it to which many community members doesn’t explain the group’s appeal, turn when bad things happen. A or the ferocity of its critics. In the week after the murder of Shannon

“I just got up and said, ‘This is ridiculous.

Something’s goin’ on in this town. I don’t know what it is, but we’ve got a problem.’”

Power Player

Collins last year, it was not the city government, but Take Back Santa Cruz, that led a march by hundreds of residents to mourn her death. The crowd packed Pacific Avenue.

Birth of a Notion Take Back Santa Cruz didn’t always have the power to draw hundreds of people to the streets, stopping traffic.

It started small, with four moms at a city council meeting.

In the fall of 2009, spurred into action by the fatal stabbing of 16-year-old Tyler Tenorio, Cube, along with her sister and sister-in-law, and their friend Kirsten Attlesey, decided to go to a Santa Cruz City Council meeting. Attlesey created a Facebook event so they could let their friends know they were going, and on a whim called it “Take Back Santa Cruz.”

Recalling it now, Babcock—who is four years older than Cube, with long, wavy hair and a tranquil demeanor— says her children were her main reason for wanting to get involved.

“We were just a bunch of angry mothers, basically. I thought, ‘I want my children to grow up in this town, and my son could easily be Tyler Tenorio.’” These days, she works almost exclusively behind-thescenes, doing the books for Take Back and managing her own accounting practice in a small cottage behind her West Side Santa Cruz home. With the group’s rapid growth, she says the workload to be a spokesperson would be too much for her.

But it suited Cube, who Babcock says has always been good at talking to people—a trait she suspects comes from their childhood spent as the daughters of a Marine, moving

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METEORIC RISE In just four years, Analicia Cube’s Take Back Santa Cruz has become arguably the most powerful community group in the city.

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garbage and needles collected from community cleanups.

But few people outside of the group really talk about that aspect of its Facebook presence, thanks to a contingent of Take Back Santa Cruz members who write unabashedly hateful and downright disturbing things. A brief scan of Take Back’s Facebook page on an otherwise uneventful Wednesday yielded this comment from a group member: “If you go downtown be prepared to use some ultra violence or don't go downtown. I’m not trying to be some vigilante asshole but get real people…A super tough stance needs to be taken by the powers that be—that will be. The ones in office now need to go and be replaced by community members that will get it done. If you feel uneasy and threatened when you’re downtown then it's because you have entered an uneasy and threatening environment.

Take charge, defend yourself, however you see fit, but whatever you do, don’t be the victim.”

Cube is at a bit of a loss on how to handle comments like the one above, which clearly affect the perception of her organization.

“I can see sometimes how people would say, ‘Oh, Take Back Santa Cruz is this and that,’ just because some people on the [Facebook page] say something,” she admits. “It’s tough, because you have a bunch of people in there that might be saying things I completely disagree with, but who am I to say, ‘This is Take Back and I’m the queen, and I don’t agree with you’?”

She says comments are taken down, or members are kicked out of the group, for using racist language or personally attacking another member—activities that she likens to running into someone’s living room and screaming obscenities in the middle of an otherwise calm discussion. While reporting this story, a number of people claimed to me that you can get kicked out of the group for being linked to counterculture organizations like SubRosa anarchist café or Guerrilla Drive-In, or for simply promoting the concept of compassion, but Cube denies this.

The unwieldy nature of the Facebook group can be traced to the lack of foresight that went into Take

Back Santa Cruz’s creation, something to which Cube freely admits. She calls herself an “accidental activist.”

She adds, “I didn’t mean to do this. This wasn’t my goal. This isn’t something I ever set out to do. Ever.

Like, nowhere close .”

Hard Lessons Four years later, Cube has settled into the role of activist/business owner/mom. At the downtown office where she and her husband Dexter run H.Q. Solutions, a business consulting company, she wears jeans and a white button-up with little flower cutouts, and sidesteps the bins of plastic toys she keeps in her office for when her kids visit. The white board above her head has nothing on it but a bright green squiggle—despite the full set of erasable whiteboard markers she owns, her child decided to color with the permanent marker.

“Of course, right?” she says.

Switching into activist mode, she recalls with wild eyes the education she’s received over the last few years about how Santa Cruz runs, and how Take Back Santa Cruz fits in.

“It’s interesting. It’s crazy. It’s scary.

It’s like ‘Wow, okay.’ I’ve learned a lot.

I was totally naïve to the process,” she says. “There’s political power, there’s financial power, there’s people that are hopped up on all these things.

I’m not motivated by any of that, and they know that, and that bothers them. I don’t need your money, I don’t need your power, I don’t need your politics, I just want a nice place where people—all people—can feel safe.”

As far as how to create that place, Cube has some ideas. “So the first thing you need to do is stop being an attraction, right? You try not to attract every person who’s addicted to drugs,” she says. “We’re dealing with organized drug cartels. We need to work that angle, so that’d be more enforcement.”

She also believes in more funding for drug-addiction help, and, as a board member at the Santa Cruz Teen Center, puts an emphasis on drug education for kids. She also believes in reform of the correctional system.

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rehabilitating anyone. No one’s coming out of there better,” she says.

“But if we could find other creative ways, like you’re going to do 300 hours of community service—make it suck. Like, ‘This sucks. I don’t want to commit crime in Santa Cruz because I’d rather sit in jail.’ I’ve sat and talked to a lot of the prisoners and guys from jail that do some of it, and they actually appreciate it. They feel like they’re doing something. That’s human. That’s human.”

During Comstock’s run for city council last November, a flier circulated that claimed the group’s mission was to “get rid of people they consider undesirable.” Talking about it now, Cube laughs and says, “Whatever! You know, that actually helped Pamela win, so I love it. I actually love it. It’s funny to me.

“When you take a hard line on something, that’s life,” she continues.

“I would ‘get rid of people who are undesirable.’ Yeah, I mean, that’s an easy way of saying I want to figure out where these criminals are coming from and I want to either rehabilitate them and get them on the right path, get them back where they need to be

or get them the hell off my street and out of my town.”

It is this kind of talk that sometimes gets her into trouble— at least in Santa Cruz, where compassion is valued as much as decisive action. But Cube spent several years in New York before moving back here. She saw Giuliani clean up Times Square, and she lived through 9/11. She calls herself “brutally honest,” and says it is both her best and her worst quality.

Take Back from What?

The most popular complaint about Take Back Santa Cruz is also the most obvious: “Take back from what?”

Even Cube herself says she wishes she had thought to call it something different, more positive-sounding.

“If I had known that it was going to be this big, I would have called it, ‘I Like Rainbows and Unicorns’ [or] ‘Let’s Fly Together on a Rainbow.’ I don’t know what I would have called it,” Cube says. “But the answer to the question is from the abusive gang, drug behavior.”

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Cube has been called racist, which she finds funny. “My husband is not white. If you think being against crime in Santa Cruz is saying I’m against brown people, you’re saying you think that criminals are brown,” she says.

“I don’t think that. As a matter of fact, I think that a lot of the people I see doing crimes in Santa Cruz are white.”

Another point of contention is the group’s perceived hounding of the homeless. Cube is adamant that’s not accurate, and in her repeated dealings with the press she has been careful never to point the finger at the homeless population, directing her animosity instead to “gang bangers and meth tweakers.” She says, “This is not about the homeless. Those are our most vulnerable. They’re the people who need to be helped the most. It’s about everybody being having their best quality of life and not being preyed on by criminals.”

But what about when the homeless also happen to be criminals? This is where Cube gets stuck. She has been a supporter of the Homeless Services Center, and says she and HSC Executive Director Monica Martinez were “like besties” until about two months ago, when Martinez agreed to provide beds for non-violent offenders released from state prison in accordance with Assembly Bill 109.

“Having felons with children, it just set me over the edge to be honest with you, and Monica and I kind of had a falling out,” she says.

“Because those people could be from anywhere. That’s the thing. Now I’ve got some guy who’s from Sacramento, and she’s like, ‘We can try to get him permanent housing.’ Well, I don’t want him to have permanent housing here!”

When asked about the program, Martinez told the Weekly that AB109 only pertains to former offenders who were convicted within Santa Cruz County.

“Ending homelessness in Santa Cruz isn’t about personal friendships, but about community collaboration grounded in common values such as equality and dignity," she added.

"Santa Cruz County’s response to the AB109 mandate is based on evidence proven to decrease recidivism and increase public safety. Evidence shows that if people aren’t on the

street, they are less likely to offend.”

Coffee with Anarchy When asked who her biggest critics are, though, Cube has a very specific answer. “Anarchists, right? Yeah we all know that’s true. Right? Black Block anarchists especially are the ones that hate me. They haven’t liked me since day one, because I support the police department,” she says.

“If I had known that it was going to be this big, I would have called it, ‘I Like Rainbows and Unicorns’ [or] ‘Let’s Fly Together on a Rainbow.’ I don’t know what I would have called it.”

—ANALICIA CUBE Indeed, Cube has had a contentious relationship with the anarchist community for some time. She says things came to a head in 2010, when someone found her home address and posted it on the alternative news website IndyBay, along with a thinly veiled death threat. She alerted the police, but she also did something unconventional—she invited one of her most prominent IndyBay critics to coffee.Wes Modes is a local anarchist thinker who at the time was a member of the Sub Rosa collective.

Cube says he was one of her main critics on IndyBay, where he was “fueling some pretty crazy stuff.”

She says, “He had made me out into this monster—not even a human— and was selling this monster to people.”

But Modes had once indicated in an IndyBay article that he would have coffee with Analicia, so she decided to take him up on it.

“I called him. I’m like, ‘Hi, it’s Analicia Cube.’ And he was quiet and

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Fear Factor Less than a couple hours after I met up with Modes, I went home and discovered a new email from an anonymous source in my inbox.

We heard a rumor that you

might be writing a piece about Analicia Cube, it read. At this time we are not comfortable writing you with our real names, but we have paid attention to TBSC from their inception and had an ongoing string of problems with them.

The email went on to accuse Take Back Santa Cruz of scapegoating the homeless for the crime in Santa Cruz, and only using anti-gang rhetoric for show. It said it has first-hand sources who know for a fact that the group has misrepresented the amount of needles it has found on cleanups, and mentioned a flyer that the group put out with two color mug shots of innocent men with the words “bike thieves” written underneath them and the initials “TBSC.” (When I asked for a copy of the flyer I didn’t get a response.)

The validity of the letter’s complaints aside, it is intriguing that whoever wrote it felt the need to remain anonymous. Like the impression Cube got when she called up Modes for the first time, people are scared of her. People are really scared of her. Even politicians, she contends.

“They’re scared, they’re kind of afraid of us. Because they know that we’re just gonna tell it like it is. ‘Shhh.

There’s no crime. No no no no no.’

I’m like, wait a minute. There are some tough things going on here and all you need to do is stand up and say, ‘Hey, we got a situation, let’s fix it,’ rather than pretend like it’s not happening,” she says of the local political establishment.

City council member Micah Posner says he appreciates how Cube and Take Back Santa Cruz have opened his eyes on some of the issues Santa Cruz faces, but is wary of their methods for getting the message out.

“I know I’ve been more clear about the amount of drug dealing that goes in in my neighborhood, for example, and why it’s a problem.

I’m not so much in denial,” he says.

“But my concern about Analicia and Take Back is that people get together around her and that group when they’re afraid, and taking action from a place of fear is dangerous.”

Cube is well aware of how and why people come to Take Back.

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he goes, ‘Uh, oh my God, really?’ And I felt like he really truly did think that maybe I would try to hurt him. He was freaked out that I had just called and said, ‘Hey, what’s up, let’s have coffee.’

I think that having coffee with him was one of the smartest things I’ve ever done. Because he got a chance to see that I’m a human being,” she says.

“Ever since then we’ve had a fairly amicable relationship.”

Modes told me he wasn’t the one who had made the aggressive IndyBay posts, but he did agree to meet and discuss his perspective on Take Back Santa Cruz. He is mild mannered with soft features, and brought a small service vest-clad dog with him to the coffee shop where we met.

He says he likes and respects Cube personally, and can’t recall having too many preconceptions about her before they met.

“I think I was really open. If she was willing to meet with me, I figured she’s be okay to talk to,” he says. “I mean I can’t remember who reached out. I think I reached out to her, I didn’t hear anything, I think it was kind of like shouting down a well for awhile, then I think at some point she must have had some personal shift where she wanted to move me from, like, the ‘feared other’ category to the ‘known quantity’ category, I guess.”

“My friends thought I was largely insane,” he admits. “I think maybe what surprised me was that we had so much common ground in terms of understanding the problems. I think that surprised her, too, that I was willing to acknowledge that there were problems. She might have been surprised that we agreed on community solutions. The part that we won’t agree on anytime soon is the reliance on the police,” he says.

In fact, Modes says that at the very beginning he and other anarchists were actually excited to hear about Take Back. “Like, Take Back Santa Cruz—hell yeah, we should take back Santa Cruz for everyone,” he says.

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She felt this most acutely, she says, when SCPD officers Loran “Butch” Baker and Elizabeth Butler were murdered in February. Cube was at a city council meeting when it happened.

“When they were murdered I felt a lot of people turn and go, ‘Oh, my God,’ and I’ve got people crying, I’ve got people angry, I’ve got all of these emotions and that feeling of responsibility that they feel like I’m their voice, you know? ‘Oh, my God, what are we gonna do?’”

Hard Core While Cube may not have anticipated just how big Take Back Santa Cruz would become, it wasn’t something that just happened by chance, either. On a rainy afternoon at her home office, Babcock reflected on why the group she and her sister founded four years ago has lasted.

“If it wasn’t for Analicia, Take Back Santa Cruz would probably have been defunct within a year,” she says. “People listen to her. She can encourage people to do things that they might not normally do.”

She says Analicia is the strongest person she knows, besides their father, a Marine who raised them with the motto, “Suck it up.”

“She’s just a bull,” she says. “When people attack her, it almost gives her energy, it almost makes her just want to prove something to people. If she was going to quit, it would be on her own terms, it wouldn’t be because somebody attacked her, because that would be showing a weakness that she would not want anybody to see.”

At a city council meeting on March 12, less than a month after officers Baker and Butler were gunned down, Cube addressed the council and the dozens of people in attendance.

In a smart gray suit jacket, she was a commanding presence, dressed more like a politician than most of the council. She stood at the podium visibly shaken, holding back tears.

“We cannot make any more excuses, we can no longer enable criminal activity,” she said. “The theft, the crime—people are going to

start coming into people’s homes.”

Her voice got louder, and then more forceful. “And don’t call me a fear monger—that’s going to happen.

You got it? It’s going to happen.” At this, the crowd erupted into raucous applause, and she took a beat, then changed her trajectory. “It is. It already is happening. We need to turn it around.”

“When people attack her, it almost gives her energy, it almost makes her just want to prove something to people. If she was going to quit, it would be on her own terms.”

—HEATHER BABCOCK Her final lines, which had to be practically shouted in order to be heard over the applause and whooping coming from the audience, were the stuff of classic Hollywood sports films: “You guys have the power, you have the strength. I know you have it. You have it. You have the strength. Take it. Do it. This is our chance. I believe in you. I believe in you! You have it! Let’s do it!”

When I asked Cube if she was scared—to be so public, and so hated by so many people who don’t even know her—she said no.

“I’ve always said, if my head goes floating down the San Lorenzo River, it’s just going to piss people off even more, and it’s going to make Take Back Santa Cruz even bigger. You think we have six thousand members? Have my head floating down San Lorenzo River, I’ll have twelve.”0

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DANCE Bellydance Showcase 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.

Hope Mohr Mohr’s original piece, “Failure of the Sign is the Sign,” focuses on the moment humans learn to speak. Fri, Sep 27, 8pm and Sat, Sep 28, 8pm. Motion Pacific, 408 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.457.1616.

Mediterranean, 265 Center Ave., Aptos. Both shows 810pm. Free. The Red Room, 1003 Cedar Street, Santa Cruz, 831.227.1500.

CONCERTS Joe Kaplow Folk-rock-blues singer/ songwriter from New Jersey. Thu, Sep 26, 4pm.

Streetlight Records Santa Cruz, 939 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.421.9200.

Art GALLERIES CONTINUING Art Loft

THEATER Cell Talk 1410 A drama about two radical women living in Medieval England, and one longsuffering husband. Sun, Sep 29, 4pm. $10-$15. First Congregational Church of Santa Cruz, 900 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.425.5182.

Live Comedy Weekly standup comedy showcases featuring rotating Bay Area comics held Tuesdays at the Red Room, 200 Locust St., Santa Cruz and Wednesdays at The

the month. 831.425.1305.

301 Center St, 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 Mountains Art Center Mountains Art Center.

Simply Red: “Hot” paintings, sculptures, textiles and more by local artists. Gallery hours: WedSun, noon-6pm. Thru Sept.

28. Free, 831.336.3513.

Wed-Sun, noon-6pm. 9341 Mill St, Ben Lomond.

The Cosmo Factory

Local Scenes: New works by local artists Wayne Adachi, Barbara Bailey-Porter, Shmuel Thayer, Karen Toole and Patrick Woodman. www. artloftsantacruz.com.

Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun, noon-8pm. 1319 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz.

Cosmo Factory. Kelly Fuenning: Abstract painting and collage.

Hours: Wed-Sat, 10am4pm. Thru October. Free.

131-B Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.621.6161.

Louden Nelson Community Center Gallery

Bank Arts Collaborative.

Down on the Farm: Seven local artists whose work represents the beauty of simple life on the farm.

Mon-Thurs, 9am-5pm, Fri 9am-6pm. Thru Jan. 3.

Free. n/a, Santa Cruz.

Mixed Media Drawings.

Call and Response: A collection of mixed media drawings by eight artists.

Gallery hours: Mon-Sat, 9am-9:30pm. Opens Sept.

6 and runs thru the end of

Various Santa Cruz County Bank Locations

Events LITERARY EVENTS Author Event: Kirby Scudder Discussion and Q&A with author of The Cruz: An exploration of art and artists in Santa Cruz. Wed, Sep 25, 7pm. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

Author Event: Sherman Alexie Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes the author of Blasphemy: New & Selected Stories. Tickets include copy of the book. www. bookshopsantacruz.com.

Mon, Sep 30, 7pm. $18.50.

Santa Cruz High School, 415 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

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.

Writing Workshop Recipe for Writing Progress: Writing exercises plus tips for publishing and marketing finished work led by local editor Laurie Gibson. Sat, Sep 28, 2-4pm. $25. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

NOTICES Ayurvedic Health Lecture Health lecture by Dr. Dilip Gadgil: “Ayurvedic LifestyleThe Key to Health.” Sat, Sep 28, 11am. Free. Mount Madonna School, 445 Summit Rd, Watsonville, 510.793.4000.

Baby Feeding Circle A chance to relax, feed your baby and chat with other new mothers. Open to all mothers and babies.

Mon, 10:30-11:30am. free.

Luma Yoga & Family Center, 1010 Center St., Santa Cruz, 831.325.2620.

MONDAY 9/30

Sherman Alexie Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning author Sherman Alexie, who will give a talk in celebration of the paperback release of his new book, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories. Alexie is an acclaimed poet, writer and filmmaker whose work regularly draws on his experience as a Native American growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Monday, Sept. 30 at 7pm at Santa Cruz High School, 415 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz. Tickets: $18.50 and includes a copy of Blasphemy.

Beat Sanctuary A weekly class for exploring exercise and spirituality through dance. Wed, 7:309:15pm. $15. A dance class for exploring authentic movement as connection, exercise, prayer and spiritual practice. Wed, 7:30-9:15pm. $15. Santa Cruz Yoga, 402 Ingalls Street, Santa Cruz, 831.227.2156.

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

SATURDAY 9/28

Native Plant Festival Sponsored by the Watsonville Wetlands Watch, the Native Plant Festival provides native flora that can add beauty while conserving water and promoting the flourishing of local species. With some key plants and a little information, anyone can turn a backyard into a tranquil habitat for butterflies, birds, bats and more.

Saturday, Sept. 28 from 10am to 2pm at the Wetlands Educational Resource Center behind Pajaro Valley High School, 500 Harkins Slough Rd., Watsonville. www. watsonvillewetlandswatch.org. .

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.

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

Figure Drawing Weekly drawing from a live model, facilitated by Open Studio artist Richard Bennett. Mon, 7-10pm. $16.

Santa Cruz Art League, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, 831.426.5787.

Grief Support A lunchtime drop-in support group for adults grieving the death of a family member or friend. Fri, noon-6pm. free831.430.3000. Hospice of Santa Cruz County, 940 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley.

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.

Miracle Working Spiritual teacher Dominique Free leads a weekly class on cultivating the consciousness to heal, overcome, succeed and create miracles. Thu, 7-8pm.

Conscious Lounge, 1651A El Dorado Av @ Capitola Rd, Santa Cruz, 831.359.0423.

Narcotics Anonymous 12-Step support for families affected by drug addiction.

Sundays 6:30-8pm at 2900 Chanticler Ave., Santa Cruz; Tuesdays 7-8:30pm at 7200 Freedom Blvd., Aptos; Fridays 6:30-7:45pm at 3190 Glen Canyon Rd., Scotts Valley.

Email saveyoursanity@aol. com for more information.

Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave, Santa Cruz.

New Leaf Community Day Five percent of the day’s sales at New Leaf Markets in Santa Cruz and Capitola will benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County. Thu, Sep 26,

8am-9pm. New Leaf Market Downtown, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, 831.425.1793.

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 and 4-5:15pm at 115 South Morrissey, Santa Cruz.

Mondays 12:15-1:15pm at 420 Melrose Ave, Santa Cruz and 7-8pm at 4951 Soquel Drive, Soquel. Tuesdays 12:15-1:15pm at 420 Melrose Ave, Santa Cruz. Wednesdays 10:30-11:30am at 1335 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz; noon-1pm at 49 Blanca Ln #303, Watsonville; and 6:307:30pm at 335 Spreckles Dr, Ste. A, Aptos. Thursdays 12pm at 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. Fridays noon-1pm at 49 Blanca Ln, #303, Watsonville and 12:15-1:15pm at 225 Rooney St., Santa Cruz.

Saturdays 9-10am at 532 Center St, Santa Cruz and 11am-noon at 75 Nelson St, Watsonville. 831.429.7906.

Postpartum Health Circle A weekly community circle offering support and information about postpartum changes for mothers. Wed, 1:30-2:30pm. $5-$10 donation. Luma Yoga & Family Center, 1010 Center St., Santa Cruz, 831.325.2620.

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 First— 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, 701 Front St., Santa Cruz, 831.428.3024.

Support and Recovery Groups Alzheimer’s: Alzheimer’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).

Tantric Sex Workshop A workshop for couples on using tantric practices for prolonged states of love, connection and bliss.

Thu, Sep 26, 7-8:30pm. $20-$25. Pure Pleasure,

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Hope Mohr Dance Inspired by her experience as a mother witnessing her children learning to speak, San Francisco-based choreographer Hope Mohr created Failure of the Sign is the Sign, an original performance that explores how the moment we learn to speak serves as a transition into selfhood. Friday, Sept. 27 and Saturday, Sept. 28 at 8pm at Motion Pacific Studio, 131 Front St., Santa Cruz. Tickets $15-$19. www.motionpacific.com.

204 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.466.9870.

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

All are free.

The Speaker’s Gym Instructor Noel Murphy provides leadership coaching and public speaking skills every week. www.thespeakersgym.com.

Wed, 7-9:30pm. Discovery Gym, 75 Mt. Hermon Rd, Scotts Valley, 831.238.1234.

Touched By Adoption Group Adoptive families, adult adoptees, families waiting to adopt and birth parents meet monthly to connect in a safe, confidential setting.

Last Sat of every month, 10am-12pm. Free. Live Oak Family Resource Center, 1438 Capitola Rd, Santa Cruz, 1.866.219.1155.

AROUND TOWN Comedy Showcase 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.

noon-2pm. Free/donation.

Comerica Bank Parking Lot, 25 River St., Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Film Guerilla Drive In

Wine Tasting A tasting of Twisted Roots summer wines with winemaker Josh Ruiz. www. newleaf.com. Fri, Sep 27, 5-7pm. New Leaf Market Downtown, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, 831.425.1793.

A showing of “Que Viva La Lucha.” www.guerilladrivein. org. Fri, Sep 27, 8pm. Free.

Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

English Country Dance

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Second and fourth Thursdays of each month; beginners welcome. Fourth Thu of every month. $5-$7.

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

The Dear Hunter

Yoga Instruction

Fall Harvest Festival

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.

Regina Carter

Live music, hay rides, a pie baking contest, cider pressing and dozens of snacks to sample at the 19th annual Harvest Festival. Sun, Sep 29, 11am5pm. $5. UCSC Farm and Garden, UCSC, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3240.

Master violinist plays residency with Jenny Scheinman, Kenny Barron and others. Sep 26-29 at SFJAZZ Center.

Native Plant Festival

Black Milk

Learn about and purchase native plants and see backyard habitats.

Sponsored by Watsonville Wetlands Watch. Sat, Sep 28, 10am-2pm.

Fitz Educational Center, Pajaro Valley High School, Watsonville, 831.345.1226.

Before C2SV, Detroit MC debuts material from upcoming LP ‘No Poison No Paradise.’ Sep 28 at Brick & Mortar.

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.

Pop Up Museum An impromptu exhibition about the hidden history of Santa Cruz’s Chinatowns from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Sat, Sep 28,

Sweeping, bombastic chamber-rock band joined by a string quartet. Sep 26 at the Regency Ballroom.

Lorde Slow-burning anthem ‘Royals’ sticks it to the upper class with soul. Sep 27 at the Fillmore.

Chelsea Wolfe L.A.’s finest goth delivers hard-boiled deliverance on latest album, ‘Pain is Beauty.’ Sep 30 at Great American Music Hall.

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OH SAY CAN YOU SEES Thee Oh Sees perform at the C2SV music & technology festival.

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C2SV FESTIVAL The Godfather of Punk has his paws all over this music and technology festival in downtown San Jose. Not only are the legendary Iggy & The Stooges headlining the C2SV music festival, which will spread across more than a dozen locations in downtown San Jose from Thursday through Sunday (Iggy plays Saturday), but James Williamson, Pop’s right-hand man in the Stooges during the Raw Power years and a longtime Sony exec, will be the keynote speaker for C2SV’s technology-conference component. Other bands at the festival include OFF!, the Lemonheads, the Limousines, Thee Oh Sees and dozens more.

Downtown San Jose; $35 and up; go to c2sv. com/tickets for tickets. (Steve Palopoli)

THURSDAY 9/26

MIGUEL ZENÓN Miguel Zenón has mastered a combination of old and new, his very own brand of innovative Latin American Folkloric music with a depth

all its own. Zenón has never been afraid of crossing genre lines, with his latest record Rayuela melding the work of French pianist and composer Laurent Coq. The two-time Grammy nominee, Guggenheim and Macarthur fellow, and founding member of SFJazz Collective, Zenón is just getting started. Kuumbwa; $25 adv/$28 door; 7pm. (Anne-Marie Harrison)

FRIDAY 9/27

TITLE FIGHT Pop punk? Melodic hardcore? Emo? Sure. All of these terms have been used to described Title Fight, a punk band that could probably do without the “pop” and “melodic” qualifiers, but it’s stuck with them nonetheless. A Kingston, Pennsylvania-based outfit that’s been grinding the circuit since 2003, Title Fight has been steadily veering into maturity as of late with more nuanced songs, shoegaze-y melodies and tempos that leave a little room to breathe—but just a little. Also on the bill: Balance & Composure, Cruel Hand and Slingshot Dakota. Catalyst; $13 adv/15 door; 8:30pm. (Cat Johnson)

MICHAEL HURLEY Cat Power has done some of the most gorgeous cover songs ever recorded, and two of her most obscure are “Werewolf” and “Sweedeedee.”

They’re both songs by Michael Hurley, one of the most entertainingly eccentric folk singers of the modern era. Those who only know the cover of what was originally titled “The Werewolf Song” may be surprised to know it was originally recorded in 1964 for Hurley’s first album. It still seems decades ahead of its time, looking forward to an era when outsider artists would be celebrated for their bizarre and often dark perspectives on the facts and fantasies that make up our collective culture. Almost 50 years later, Hurley’s seems as unique as it ever did. Don Quixote’s; $15; 9pm. (SP)

SATURDAY 9/28

SOUR MASH HUG BAND Remember back in the day when people would ride around in boxcars, playing music wherever and with whomever they could on

whatever instruments they could find? No? You missed that era? No worries. There’s a wave of revivalist bands, including the Sour Mash Hug Band, that are riding the rails and troubadouring around. Don’t ask me what the name is about; I imagine there’s a story that goes with it. What I do know is that this group has toured the country by every means imaginable, collecting chops, stories and stylistic influences that range from New Orleans, ragtime and dixieland to bluegrass, gypsy and Klezmer. Kuumbwa; $5; 9:30pm. (CJ)

SOUL SYNDICATE One of the top session bands in Jamaica during the ‘70s and the ‘80s, Soul Syndicate has continuously redefined the sound and feel of reggae. With a shifting member count, Soul Syndicate has influenced and worked with some of the most important names in the business, including The Wailers Band, Dennis Brown and Gregory Isaacs. Although relatively unknown outside the genre, the members of Soul Syndicate have maintained their status as a soul staple of roots reggae,

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Thursday, September 26 U 7 pm | No Comps

MIGUEL ZENON’S RHYTHM COLLECTIVE

Jazz backbeat fused with alto saxophonist’s Afro-Caribbean roots

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Concerts MANRAN Sep. 25 at Don Quixote’s DEAFHAVEN Sep. 29 at Catalyst MAOLI Sep. 27 at Moe’s Alley DAYNA STEPHENS GROUP FEAT. THE LE BOEUF BROTHERS Sep. 30 at Kuumbwa ONLY YOU Oct. 6 at Crepe Place HANK III Oct. 12 at Catalyst

Saturday, September 28 U 9 pm $5 @ CLUB KUUMBWA: SOUR MASH HUG BAND door An irresistible mix of old-time, gypsy, bluegrass, jazz, Irish, and ragtime Sunday, September 29 U 7 pm

MIDDLE SPACE FEATURING WIL BLADES Tickets: brownpapertickets.com

Monday, September 30 U 7 pm

DAYNA STEPHENS GROUP FEATURING REMY & PASCAL LEBOEUF Thursday, October 3 U 7 & 9 pm | No Comps

YELLOWJACKETS

9 PM: 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS Friday, October 4 U 6 – 9 pm

FIRST FRIDAY ART TOUR: PHOTOGRAPHER CHUCK GEE + DJ VINNIE Monday, October 7 U 7 pm | No Comps

CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE TRIO Christian Sands – piano Ulysses Owens, Jr – drums

Thursday, October 10 U 7 pm | No Comps

THE CLAUDIA QUINTET

Drummer John Hollenbeck’s adventurous chamber, jazz quinet!

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SUNDAY 9/29

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WEDNESDAY 10/2

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After Midnight Del Mar introduces an edgy new series as part of its new midnight-movie season BY STEVE PALOPOLI

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new season of midnight movies begins at the Del Mar this week, which is always a cause for celebration among cultists, cineastes and the film fans of all stripes who have turned the series into this area’s most popular movie meet-up.

This time around, however, there’s something new. In addition to the midnight flicks—which open with Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure on Friday, Sept. 27 and

Saturday, Sept. 28, and run through Oldboy on Dec. 6-7—the Del Mar is introducing a late-night movie series that also begins this Friday and Saturday with V/H/S 2, at 11:45pm.

With the sly, tongue-in-cheek style that has characterized the midnight events over the years, the new series is called “Special Movies for Special People,” and harkens back to the heady, anything-goes early days of midnight movies. Back

in the ’70s and ’80s, truly weird, downright socially unacceptable films got a chance to find an audience at late-night showings, when they weren’t taking space away from a theater’s regular rotation. That’s how cult classics like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Eraserhead and Repo Man were discovered. These screenings (which eventually became series) at independent theaters also became a place where great films like Blade

Runner were rescued from the celluloid trash bin. Even in the ’90s, I was only able to see movies as intriguing as Suture, as outrageous as Dead Alive and as truly odd as Chopper Chicks in Zombietown on the big screen in Santa Cruz because of the Sash Mill, which also introduced me to unjustly ignored older films like Seconds and The Parallax View. The Sash Mill is long gone, but the Nick and Del Mar continue to carry on that legacy of bringing film culture from outside the mainstream to Santa Cruz.

Even midnight movies have changed, though. There is now a canon, a long list of films that fans want to see again and again, which leaves less room for the edgy new movies that could be tomorrow’s cult classics. The Del Mar’s midnight series made its reputation by being ahead of the curve on such films, programming former box office bombs like Donnie Darko, Office Space and The Big Lebowski before they had been discovered as some of the best films of their generation.

This new late-night series returns to that spirit. Though the midnight schedule includes some intriguing and timely new additions, like the Coen Brothers’ vastly underrated Burn After Reading (Nov. 15-16), it also features classics like A Clockwork Orange (Oct. 4-5), Beetlejuice (Oct. 11-12) and The Shining (Oct. 18-19).

Special Movies for Special People, on the other hand, is entirely made up of interesting new releases like the sci-fi tripper Europa Report (Oct. 4-5), the bizarre inner-demon comedy Bad Milo! (Oct. 11-12), the self-explanatory Big Ass Spider (Oct. 18-19) and the cannibal shocker We Are What We Are (Oct. 25-26).

It all starts this weekend with V/H/S 2, which is significant not only because the movie itself is a

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great watch (and superior to the first film), but because of its place smack in the middle of the most significant horror movement to come along in years.

The idea behind the first V/H/S last year was simple—grab a bunch of up-and-coming horror directors and writers, give them a simple theme to work with and tie the movie together with a wraparound story, in time-honored horror anthology tradition. Since all the shorts had to use the found-footage structure, it allowed them to be made quickly on a small budget.

But they were wildly uneven. The best and scariest of them was David Bruckner’s “Amateur Night,” a disturbingly realistic mockudrama featuring a creature that film geeks on the Internet are still struggling to define. Then there was stuff like Joe Swanberg’s “The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger,” that was just too weird to make any kind of an impact. The creepy wraparound story about a hunt for a VHS tape (each short film is watched by the criminals looking for the tape) was directed by Adam Wingard, who also helmed my favorite horror film of 2013, You’re Next.

Wingard also has a segment in V/H/S 2, “Phase 1 Clinical Trials,” which fills the shoes of “Amateur Night” from the first film—it’s also the opening segment, and the scariest. Wingard finds his own interesting twist on the foundfootage idea, following a man with an experimental eye transplant. The director knows how to jolt without resorting to fake scares, but he also manages to create a weird and original little mythology in a short time.

The film pulls in two interesting directorial choices for its second segment, Eduardo Sanchez and Gregg Hale, who are most famous for The Blair Witch Project.

Their post-Blair careers haven’t amounted to much, but their involvement here ties them in as the sort of elder statesmen of the current indie horror movement (not to mention that found footage wouldn’t even exist as a subgenre if it weren’t for their 1999 out-ofnowhere hit). They have a lot of

fun with “A Ride in the Park,” a zombie take on GoPro technology that delivers hilarious, early-PeterJackson type horror.

Overall, the second V/H/S is simply better than the first—more consistent, more innovative and way more creepy. The centerpiece is “Safe Haven,” a longer piece which could have stood on its own as a feature, but represents this anthology series at its most ambitious. It follows a news crew’s investigation into an Indonesian cult, and when things go absolutely insane inside the group’s compound, there are really no words to describe it.

The V/H/S films are the reason that anthology films are making a sudden comeback. Many of these same directors are also involved in The ABCs of Death series, which has 26 different directors per film making horror shorts based around each letter of the alphabet (the second film comes out next year).

Probably the most famous director in the current movement, 32-yearold Ti West (best known for his films The Innkeepers and House of the Devil) contributed to the first films in both series.

This generation of horror directors isn’t limiting themselves to film, either. Glen McQuaid, who directed the short “Tuesday the 17th” for the first V/H/S, and Larry Fessenden, who produced West’s best films along with many others for his company Glass Eye Pix, just released season two of their series Tales From Beyond the Pale, a fantastic updating of the old-time horror radio anthologies. For Tales, they’ve roped in talent like Simon Barrett—who wrote You’re Next, as well as segments of both V/H/S films, and directed the wraparound story for V/H/S 2—as well as voice talent like Vincent D’Onofrio, Ron Perlman, Sean Young and Phantasm’s Angus Scrimm.

Some of the radio Tales (which can be purchased as audiobooks) are better than others, of course, but the truly transcendent pieces coming out of all these anthologies (Tales’ “Is This Seat Taken?,” V/H/S 2’s “Safe Haven,” ABCs of Death’s “Dogfight”) are proof positive that we’re deep into an exciting horror revival. 0

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PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS (PG; 106 min) Oh, it’s on! Nerds 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.

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 kids’ movies about things that long to do other things, but can’t because of reasons, but then do. So here you go.

PRISONERS (R; 153 min) Hugh Jackman stars in this crime drama about a father who begins considering extreme options as police fail to find his missing daughter and time could very well be running out.

RIDDICK (R; 119 min) At the turn of the century, David Twohy’s Pitch Black was a new kind of sci-fi thrill: an Alien rip-off with none of the grit and grime that those movies obsessed over. Instead, it had a slick, comic-book sensibility and Vin Diesel at his badassest.

Unfortunately, the 2004 sequel Chronicles of Riddick kind of overplayed those comic-book aspects, wrapping Vin Diesel’s character up in a space-opera plot. Nobody thought the would-be franchise would ever recover; weirdly, Diesel himself was the guy who provided the muscle to get this new sequel made. He and Twohy fought for it for years, and almost a decade later, this threequel is kind of a mix of the first two films—grounding the action again on a single planet, where Diesel has to face off against nasty aliens, but including a subplot that has Riddick threatened by his past.

THANKS FOR SHARING (R; 112 min) Romantic comedy has a unique twist, in that its three main characters are struggling with sex addiction. Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins and Gwyneth Paltrow star.

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.

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THE BUTLER (Pg-13; 132 min) Forrest Whitaker stars as a butler in the White House who gets to meet Oprah.

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

THE FAMILY (R) French director Luc Besson directed DRINKING BUDDIES (R; and co-wrote this dark crime BATTLE OF THE DON JON (R; 90 min) Don comedy that stars Robert 90 min) Indie rom-com has YEAR (PG-13; 109 min) Josh Jon is a confident debut film Olivia Wilde and Jake Johnson DeNiro and Michelle Pfeiffer Holloway and Laz Alonso from writer-director-star as the heads of a mafia as brewery workers in other star in this music pic about Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who family that gets re-located to relationships with other people. how Americans can’t stand has obviously picked up a France as part of the Witness Their boundaries get blurry not winning stuff, specifically lot of style tips from his Protection Program, but have while their speech gets slurry. in this case an international friend Rian Johnson, who trouble giving up their old battle between dance teams. directed him in the cult ELYSIUM Neill Blomkamp, ways. “Are vous talking to moi? favorites Brick and Looper. director of the refreshingly Zer is no one else he-uh!”

BLUE JASMINE (PG-13; (Working for Christopher smart sci-fi flick District 9, goes THE GETAWAY (PG-13) 98 min) If Cate Blanchett, Alec Nolan in the last Batman full-on big-budget Hollywood Baldwin, Louis C.K. and Andrew Wait, Ethan Hawke gets a flick didn’t hurt either, I’m action for this story set in 2154 comeback? And now he’s Dice Clay are in a movie sure). The question is: will about Matt Damon doomed to playing a race-car driver together, you know either the anyone see this? The story a bleak life on a broken-down named Brent Magna? Okay, apocalypse is going down, or RUSH (R; 123 min) Ron of a misogynist, narcissistic Earth overrun by crime and there’s a new Woody Allen that makes sense. In this Howard’s epic re-telling of lunkhead (played by a disease. (I kinda feel like Ben film. His never-ending movie thriller, Brent Magna’s wife is the real-life rivalry between significantly beefed-up Affleck deserved it more, but tour of the world’s great cities kidnapped, and then he has to Formula 1 racers James Hunt has finally stopped in San JGL) who begins to wonder whatever.) When he needs drive around places for reasons, (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki if there might be more to a miracle cure, he infiltrates Francisco, to which Blanchett’s and Selena Gomez plays some Lauda (James Bruhl). (Opens character Jasmine escapes life and love, it’s sharply Elysium, a giant space-station girl whose car he steals who Fri at Del Mar, Scotts Valley, to which the elite have written and great-looking, after her life gets a seismic just happens to be a whiz-kid escaped. with excellent performances 41st Ave and Green Valley) shake up. computer hacker. This is all true, except the part about it making sense.

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Sept. 25, through Wednesday, Oct. 1, unless otherwise indicated.

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

(PG-13; 105 min) When we last saw the Lambert family, they were pretty screwed (spoiler One Direction: This Is Us — Wed-Thu 12; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

APTOS CINEMAS alert!). The original Saw team One Direction:This Is Us 3D—Wed-Thu 2:35; 5:05; 7:50; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

122 Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos 831.688.6541 www.thenick.com of director James Wan and Riddick — Wed-Thu 12:20; 3:10; 6:30; 9:40; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. writer Leigh Whannell returns Don Jon — (Opens Fri) Wed-Thu 2:40; 4:50; 7; 9:10; plus Sat-Sun 12:30pm.

The Butler — Wed-Thu 1:20; 4:20; 7:20; 10:20; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. for a second installment The Butler — Wed-Thu 1:20; 4; 6:45; 9:20pm.

The Family — Wed-Thu 12:50; 4:10; 6:50; 9:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. of their surprise horror hit The World’s End — Wed-Thu 12:40; 4:30; 9:50; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. that was pretty much the 41ST AVENUE CINEMA We’re the Millers —Wed 1:10; 4:50; 7:30; 10:05;Thu 1:10; 4:50; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. anti-Saw—all mood and 1475 41st Ave., Capitola 831.479.3504 www.cineluxtheatres.com psychological heebie-jeebies, Pompeii from the British Museum — Wed 7:30pm. with none of the Jigsaw Rush — (Opens Fri) Thu 8; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. grisliness.

CINELUX SCOTTS VALLEY CINEMA Insidious: Chapter 2—Wed-Thu 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7:15; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

226 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley 831.438.3260 THE MORTAL Prisoners — Wed-Thu 11:55; 3:30; 7; 9:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

INSTRUMENTS: CITY www.cineluxtheatres.com The Family — Wed-Thu 11:45; 2:20; 4:55; 7:30; 10:10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

OF BONES (PG-13; 130 Rush — (Opens Fri) Thu 8; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. min) Cassandra Clare’s popular DEL MAR Blue Jasmine — Wed-Thu 11; 1:45; 4:10; 6:45; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. young adult series gets a film 1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com Despicable Me 2 — Wed-Thu 11; 2:20; 4:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. adaptation, with a young emo cast straight out of Twilight Elysium — Wed-Thu 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Rush — (Opens Fri) Thu 8; 9:20; 10:30; Fri-Thu 1:40; 3; 4:20; 6; 7; 8:40; 9:40; central casting. But this is Insidious: Chapter 2—Wed-Thu 11:45; 2:20; 4:55; 7:30; 10:10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. plus Fri-Sun 11; 12:20; 11:10 (No 11:10pm Sun 9/28). nothing like Twilight, we swear, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters — Daily 11:15am.

Thanks for Sharing — Wed-Thu 2:20; 4:40; 7:10; 9:30; plus Sat-Sun 11:50am. because see it’s about demons, Planes — Wed-Thu 11:15; 1:40; 4; 6:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure — Sat-Sun midnight. not vampires. And yes, there Prisoners — Wed-Thu 11:55; 1:30; 3:30; 4:55; 7; 8:20; 9; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Othello: National Theatre Live — Thu 7:30; plus Sun 11am. are magical people who fight Riddick — Wed-Thu 11:30; 1:30; 4:20; 7:10; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

V/H/S/2 — Fri-Sat 11:45pm. the demons, but it’s nothing The Butler — Wed-Thu 12:15; 3:30; 6:45; 9:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. like Harry Potter, we swear. For NICKELODEON The Family — Wed-Thu 11:20; 2; 4:40; 7:20; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. instance, in Harry Potter people Lincoln and Cedar streets, Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com who don’t know about the The Way, Way Back — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2; 4:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. supernatural world are called The World’s End — Daily 9:15pm.

Blue Jasmine — Wed-Thu 2:50; 5; 7:20 9:30; plus Sat-Sun 12:40pm.

Muggles, but here they’re We’re The Millers — Wed-Thu 7:30; 10:10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Enough Said — Wed-Thu 1:40; 2:40; 3:50; 4:50; 6; 7; 8:10; 9:10; plus Sat-Sun called Mundanes.

11:30; 12:30pm.

ONE DIRECTION: THIS GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8 Good Ol’ Freda — Wed-Thu 1:20; 3:20; 7:45pm.

IS US (PG; 92 min) Boy band 1125 S. Green Valley Rd, Watsonville 831.761.8200 Salinger — Daily 5:10pm. music documentary may www.greenvalleycinema.com The Spectacular Now — Wed-Thu 9:40; plus Sat-Sun 11:20am. very likely be mistaken for an Rush — (Opens Fri) Wed-Thu 8; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. instructional driving film by RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN anyone over 15.

Battle of the Year — Wed-Thu 1:25; 7; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

155 S. River St, Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1701 www.regmovies.com Battle of the Year 3D — Wed-Thu 4:10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

THE PATIENCE STONE Elysium — Wed-Thu 4:20; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

(R; 102 min) In an occurrence Prisoners —Wed-Thu 3:15; 3:45; 7; 9:15; 10:15 Fri-Wed call for showtimes. roughly as likely as seeing a Insidious: Chapter 2 —Wed-Thu 1:45; 4:30; 7:30; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

This Is the End — Wed-Thu 6:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. unicorn, Afghan writer Atiq Instructions Not Included — Wed-Thu 1:25; 4:10; 7; 9:45; Rahimi gets to actually direct Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9 the adaptation of his own Prisoners — Wed-Thu 12:15; 3:30; 6:45; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

1405 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1700 www.regmovies.com novel, based on a Persian fable Riddick — Wed-Thu 1:45; 4:30; 7:30; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. about a magic stone in which Battle of the Year 3D —Wed-Thu 12:15; 2:45; 5:15; 7:45; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Family — Wed-Thu 1:45; 4:30; 7:15; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. one can confide all problems.

Elysium — Wed-Thu 10:25; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Smurfs 2 — Wed-Thu 1:25; 4:10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The stone, this time, is a man Insidious: Chapter 2—Wed-Thu 12:30; 3; 5:30; 8; 10:35; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Turbo — Wed-Thu1:35; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. in war-torn Afghanistan. When Instructions Not Included—Wed-Thu 1; 3:50; 6:40; 9:35; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

We’re the Millers — Wed-Thu 7; 9:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. a bullet in the neck reduces him to a vegetative state, his wife begins to confide in from all the leads. But guys may be scared off by the rom-com elements, while the chick-flick crowd could be turned off by the grittier touches (the main character’s porn addiction is a central theme). Tirso de Molina and Mozart, two of the most famous shapers of the Don Juan myth, are lucky they never had to worry about niche marketing. (Opens Fri at Cinema 9 and Aptos Cinema) (Steve Palopoli)

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WRIGHT PATH Noah Kopito pours tea at Hidden Peak. Owner David Wright believes in creating a tea experience that’s accessible to everyone.

Hidden Oasis Inside Hidden Peak Teahouse—where no digital technology is allowed—it’s a different world BY SALLY NEAS

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tepping off the busy downtown streets and into the Hidden Peak Teahouse is truly like stepping into another world: the noise of Pacific Avenue fades and gives way to Japanese flute and a bubbling fountain. The entrance is shrouded with exotic plants, the walls are decorated with ornate Chinese carvings and people from all walks of life are slowly sipping small clay cups of tea.

Upon entrance, my digital voice recorder immediately died. The

owner, David Wright, took it as a normal occurrence.

“Those things tend to happen here.

Digital things fall apart,” he explains.

Hidden Peak policy requests that all who enter turn off any digital devices: cell phones, computers, iPods, even Kindles or e-Readers.

“The presence of glowing screens is just not what we are going for here. It’s not conducive to the atmosphere we are trying to create,” says Wright.

Indeed, the difference in atmosphere within the Hidden

Peak is palpable. In place of haste and hurry, the Hidden Peak offers a serene environment, with both indoor and outdoor seating to enjoy high quality Chinese teas in many forms. Patrons can enjoy tea by the cup, or in the unique Gung Fu style, which is a ritual tea tradition from China. They also offer herbal tisanes and vegan snacks, as well as loose leaf teas to brew at home. If you want to take a deep dive into the warm waters of tea, they teach classes on all topics related to the subject.

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One specialty of the Hidden Peak is Pu-erh, a fermented black tea grown only in the Yunnan province of China.

This tea has a deep umber color, and an earthy, leathery and sometimes smoky flavor. Pu-erh has recently become popular, cropping up in coffee shops and health food stores, but the Hidden Peak offers quality and selection that is unrivaled locally.

“It’s easy to get mediocre teas, but where do you get stellar teas?

In China, it’s really about who you know,” Wright says.

And it appears that he knows the right people. Under the guidance of his tea master in China, Wright hand selects all of his teas. He has found extraordinary varieties, some of which are even exclusive to his shop.

Glimpsing through their menu, you may be impressed to find tea prices that range all the way up to $550 per serving.

While some of the teas may be exclusive, it is important to note that the Hidden Peak is anything but.

“This place is for everyone. I will always have a cup of tea that is $0.99 on my menu,” he explains, referring to the Big Bowl, which is a cup of their house Pu-erh.

Consistent through all of their offerings, though, is the ethic of Gung Fu, which stands on the pillars of precision, patience and skill and permeates every aspect of the Hidden Peak.

“I’m not interested in giving people a cranked out commodity with money as its incentive. Instead, [tea] is a practice that is clean, healthy, inspiring. It should remind you of a clean mountain stream. It should inspire the cleanness, the minerality, the actual flavors of the minerals, at its source.”

And at $5 per person, which is the price of many of their quality midrange teas, I’ll take it.

Hidden Peak Teahouse 1541 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

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THE FIRST RULE OF SÜDA … is that there are no rules, says co-owner Michael Pitt.

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ocated in the building that used to house the Mexican restaurant Rock of the Sea, Süda has hit Santa Cruz with a bit of everything, including a full bar. The menu jumps all over the place, but the consistent thread is an emphasis on freshness, uniqueness and healthy foods, with some guilty pleasures in the mix. We talked with co-owner Michael Pitt about his restaurant, and what from his bar he would drink on the last night on Earth.

SCW: The building is barely recognizable from when it was Rock of the Sea. What did you do to it? MICHAEL PITT: We did everything

you could do on the inside: new floor, new walls, new lighting, all new seating, new bar, added windows, all new appliances/equipment, new plumbing, new electrical. It’s basically a brand new building on the inside, both structurally and aesthetically. The only thing we didn’t do was the exterior façade since we are part of a complex and are required to remain consistent with the rest of it.

California Cuisine seems to be the best description for your food, but what exactly is it? Are there any hard and fast rules?

Ultimately, we did not want to be limited as to what we could serve, so we kept ourselves “ethnically ambiguous.” Even the name Süda is tough for people to nail down. This keeps the genre expectations down, and us free to create whatever it is we like, and feel fits the menu and suits our clientele.

So California cuisine it is—a bit of everything.

Do you consider yourself part of the farm-to-table movement?

Absolutely. Our goal is to offer a fresh and healthy alternative, as well as maintain a lively, social atmosphere. We use organic products and source locally whenever possible. We also have our Süda Farm that is a partnership with Ace Organics in Corralitos. We choose the seed mix and they farm it for us. It works great for us!

It’s your last night on Earth. You can only have one drink from your menu. What is it? If I only get one, it'll have to be strong. The Madhatten

would be my choice. It's a surreal twist on the classic Manhattan, but using Absinthe and fire for flavor and aroma.

—Aaron Carnes Süda is at 3910 Portola Dr., Santa Cruz.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): W Would ould you be willing to go to extraordinary extraordinary lengths to transform t ansform aspects of tr lifee that you have ffelt your lif elt are are hard harrd to transform? transform? Now would be a good time to do that. LLuck uck will flow your way if you work on healing your nnumber umber one wound. inspiration Unexpected help and inspir ation will w appear if you administer tough love to any part of you that’s that’s addicted, immature, Barriers immatur e, or unconscious. Bar rierrs will crumple if you brainstorm satisfy frustrated br ainstorm about new ways to sat tisfy your frustr ated yearnings.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21-June 20): I be bett your normal paranoia paranoia levels will decline in the coming weeks. weeks. Fears you take for for granted granted won’t won’t make nearly n as much sense as they usually seem to. As As a rresult, esult, you’ll be tempted to wriggle free free from from your defense defense mechanisms. Useful ideas closed id that th t your mind i d has h been b clo losedd to t may suddenly dd l tantalize your curiosity. curiosity. I won’t won’t be surprised if you start tuning into catalysts that had previously prevviously been invisible to you. But here here are are my questions: questions: Can Can you deal with losing the motivational force force that fear fear gives you? Will you be able to get inspired inspired by grace gracce and pleasure pleasure rather rather than anxiety and agitation? I advise advisse you to work hard hard on raising raising your trust levels.

CANCER (June 2121-July July 22): “Sometimes “Soometimes people they’re empty,” have nothing to say because they y’re too empty y,” , writes sometimes author YYasmin aasmin Mogahed, ““and and som metimes people they’re have nothing to say because they y’re too full.”” By my soon rreckoning, eckoning, CCancerian, ancerian, you will soo n be in the latter category.. A big silence is settling over category o you as new rise amusements and amazements ris se up within you. It will be understandable if you ffeel eel rreluctant eluctant to blab moree timee to ripen. YYou about them. They need mor ou o should secret trust your impulse to rremain emain a sec cret and a mystery ffor or a while.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 23-Aug. 22): “Insight is not a light bulb says that goes off inside our heads,”” sa ays author Malcolm Gladwell. “It is a flickering candle that t can easily be snuffed constructive snuff ed out.” TTake aake that as a constr ructive warning, Leo. willl soon glimpse quite On the one hand, I believe you wil workss and a ffew ew new understandings of how w the world work serve better.. On the what you could do to make it ser v you better ve extraa alert ffor other hand, you’ve got to be extr or these new understandings and committed too capturing them the them immediately.. moment they pop up. Articulate th hem immediately you’ree alone, talk to yourself abo about If you’r out them. Maybe even write them down. Don’t Don’t just assume you will be perfectly it’s ectlyy later when it able to rremember emember them pperf ’s more more convenient.

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23-Sept. 22): Afterr a storm, British wildlifee lover Gary Zammit ffound heron wildlif ound a baby her on cowering broken parents weree dead. Zammit took in a br oken nest. Its par ents wer named the orphan under his wing. He nam med it Dude, and cared grew. car ed ffor or it as it gr ew. Eventually he h rrealized ealized that Dude unless intervened. was never going to learn to fly un less he inter vened. ood that Dude loved, Filling his pockets full of the ffood Zammit launched a series of flyingg lessons—waving his arms and squawking as he rran ann along a flat meadow served runway.. Dude imi imitated that ser ved as a runway tated his human dad, mastered flight. and soon master ed the art of fligh ht. CCan an you see ways in metaphorical which this story might have meta phorical rresemblances esemblances life, Virgo?

It’s to your own lif e, Vir go? I think it ddoes. oes. It ’s time for for your instinctual self-caree mind to teach your body an instin ctual skill or self-car gotten habit that it has never qquite ggotte en right. g LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23-Oct. 22):: For ffour ouur days twice a year,r, the East China Sea rrecedes create narrow year ecedes ttoo cr eate a nar row strip of land between two KKorean orean islands, Jindo and People celebrate “Sea-Parting Modo. P eople celebr ate the “SeaParting Festival”” by strolling temporary str olling back and fforth orth along the tempor ary path.

“Korean The phenomenon has been calledd the “K orean version Moses’’ mir miracle,” although of Moses acle,”” al though it’s it’s more m e reasonably mor reasonably explained by the action of the tides. tidees. I foresee foresee some lifee very sweet marvel marvel akin to this one occurring occurring in your lif Libra. soon, Libr a. Be rready eady to take advantage advantage of a special dispensation.

SCORPIO (Oc (Oct. ct. 23 23-Nov. -Nov. 21): The desir desiree ffor or rrevenge evenge is a ffavorite avorite them me of the entertainment industry theme industry..

It ’s presented presented ass being glamorous glamorous and stirring stirring and It’s even noble. How w many action films build their plots ar ound the her around heroo seeking payback against his enemies?

P ersonallyy, I see rrevenge evenge as one of the top three three worst Personally, emotions. In rreal eal lif e, it rrarely arely has redeeming redeeming value. life, P eople who activ vely express express it often wreak wreak pain and People actively ruin on both others oth hers and themselves. Even those who mer ely stew in itt may wound themselves by doing so. I merely b i this bring thi up, Sc SScorpio, orpio, i because b now is i an excellent ll t time ti ffor or you to shed desir ddesires es ffor or rrevenge. evenge. Dissolve them, get rid of them, talk yourself out of indulging in them. The great liberation. rreward eward ffor or doingg so will be a gr eat liber ation.

SAGITTARIIUS (Nov SAGITTARIUS (Nov.. 22-Dec. 22-Dec. 21): Just for for a few few days, would you be willing to put your attention on the moree than on your own? The weir weirdd needs of others mor selfish interests served thing is, your sel lfish inter ests will be best ser ved by being as unselfis unselfish sh and empathetic and compassionate as you can standd to be. I don ’t mean that you should don’t allow yourself too be abused or taken advantage of of..

YYour oour task is to ex express xpress an abundance of cr creative eative generosity you gener osity as yo ou bestow your unique blessings in eel powerful. In the wor ds of words ways that make you ffeel theologian Fr edeerick Buechner Frederick Buechner,, you should go “to the place wher ur deep gladness and the world’s deep wheree you your h hunger meet.” t” CAPRICORN N (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): Imagine a scenario like this: The CEO CEOs Os of five cr crazily azily rich U.S. corpor corporations, ations, major defense contractor, press including a majo or def ense contr actorr, stage a pr ess conf conference erence to an announce nnounce that in the future future they will welfare breaks turn down the massive m welf are benefits and tax br eaks government the ffederal ederal gove ernment has been doling out to them picturee this: The P Pope all these years. Now N pictur ope issues a declaring statement decla aring that since Jesus Christ never wordd to say about homosexuals, had a single badd wor Church withdrawing the CCatholic atholic Chu urch is withdr awing its rresistance esistance to comparable gay rights. I am envisioning e a compar able rreversal eversal in life, your lif e, CCapricorn—a apricoorn—a flip-flop that seems equally improbable. impr obable. But unlike the two I named, yours will unfold actually unf old iin n the course of the next eight months. hasn’t already If it hasn ’t alr eaddy started yet, it will soon.

AQUARIUS (Jan. ( 20-Feb. 18): Matteo Ricci was an Italian Jesuit priest who lived fr om 1552 to 1610. from ears, he worked as a missionary in For his last 28 ye years, China. Cor responnding with his friends and ffamily amily back Corresponding home rrequired equired a lot of patience. News tr aveled very traveled slowly er he sent out a letter slowly.. Wheneve Whenever letter,r, he was awar awaree that ther there’d e’d be no n rresponse esponse ffor or seven years. What would you expr e about your lif ess express lifee right now if you knew your dear ones wouldn wouldn’t ’t learn of it until 2017?

Imagine describ describing old-fashioned ing to them in an old-f ashioned letter what your plans will be between now and then . . . what you hope to acco accomplish omplish and how you will tr transform ansform yourself yourself.. Right nnow ow is an excellent time to take your future. inventory of you ur long-term futur e.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar 19-March ch 20): The cosmos is granting granting you a poetic lice license ense to practice practice the art of apodyopsis with gr great eat rrelish. elishh. YYou ou o know what apodyopsis is, right?

It rrefers efers to the aact ct of envisioning people naked— mentally undressing undresssing them so as to picture picture them in their rraw aw state. So, S yes, by all means, Pisces, enjoy this creative cr eative use of your y imagination without apology apology.. It should gener generate atee many fine rramifications. amifications. For instance, it will prime you to penetrate penetrate beneath the surf surface ace of encourage through everyone’s ’s things. It will enc courage you to see thr ough everyone maskss andd tune in to what what’s social mask ’s really really going on in their depths. YYou oouu need to do that right now. now.

Homework: What W pose would it be a rrelief elief ffor or you to dr op? How ar akdrop? aree you ffaking, and whatt could you do to stop?

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