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WALK THIS WAY Saskia Lucas, founder of Santa Cruz Open Streets, will oversee Sunday’s closure of West Cliff Drive to cars, from 9am-2pm. Last year’s event drew 9,000 participants.

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Locals take West Cliff back from car culture for Open Streets BY CAT JOHNSON

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ong before Saskia Lucas heard of Open Streets, she had the opportunity to ride her bike on Highway 9 when it was closed to cars due to a landslide. People were walking, cycling, rollerskating and pushing strollers on the road.

She describes the experience as an “amazing ride.”

“I thought, ‘They should do this on purpose,’” she says. “‘They should create this opportunity for people to enjoy the roadway through this amazing forest.’”

Today, Lucas has made temporarily closing streets to cars her job. As founder of Santa Cruz Open Streets, she’s the force behind the annual event that closes West Cliff Drive to traffic and opens it to the community. Last

year’s inaugural event drew over 9,000 participants to the stretch of coastline between Lighthouse Field and Natural Bridges. The second annual Santa Cruz Open Streets takes place Sunday, Oct. 13 and features music, activities, food trucks and, of course, a car-free roadway.

An international movement, Open Streets traces its origins to Ciclovia, a weekly, auto-unfriendly event in Bogota, Columbia that started in 1976.

There are now over 90 Open Streets events in the U.S., with more popping up all the time. Mike Samuelson, Open Streets director for the national Open Streets Project, attributes the growth to increased health-consciousness and a desire to get offline for a while.

“In an age of increasing tech use

and more options that are keeping communities apart,” he says, “Open Streets are a good and simple way to bring folks together without a big cost.

You invite people to come, and they populate the event with their energy and what they like to do.”

Amelia Conlen, Director of People Power Santa Cruz County, says that Open Streets also helps change our idea of what streets can be. In California, she points out, auto culture has long ruled the roads.

“I think what Open Streets does is help change the perception that streets are primarily for cars,” she says. “It takes us back to an earlier era when streets were playgrounds and places to socialize and meet your neighbor and do commerce and all of these other

uses that have fallen aside as we’ve turned to cars.”

Locally, Open Streets is going countywide with events for Watsonville and Capitola in the works. The goal, says Lucas, who also helped get Open Streets events in Salinas and Santa Barbara, is to create a sustained program of Open Streets events where there’s stuff happening in different locations around the county on an annual basis.

When Lucas introduced the idea of Open Streets events to local officials, they were, she says, cautious. But the success of last year’s event served to ease concerns. There’s been some pushback from West Side residents who are inundated with people and face temporary road closures, but Lucas and her team are doing what they can to make the event run smoothly for everyone involved.

In an attempt to reduce parking and traffic impacts this year there are incentives for arriving car-free. Those who walk, bicycle, carpool or bus to the event will be entered into a raffle.

There will also be guided “feeder rides” from different neighborhoods to the event. For those who do arrive by car, designated parking, including the lot at 2300 Delaware Ave., will be available.

According to Lucas, the biggest challenge Open Streets faces is pulling together the necessary resources.

She stresses that there are plenty of opportunities to get involved and that she’s incredibly grateful to all the sponsors, partners, volunteers and participants who make it happen.

She says local residents are “really stepping up.”

“I feel so much more connected to the community than I did before I started,” she says, “and I was a fairly active person in the community. I love learning about all these individuals and community-minded businesses that I’m working with to pull this together. It really does take a village.”

Learn more about Santa Cruz Open Streets at scopenstreets.org.

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“If you hear about American history, you don’t hear about [people like] Alan Turing—who many considered to be at the forefront of the modern computer age—being gay,” explains Stuart Rossenstein. “I think it’s important for students to learn about the community we have.”

Putting his money where his mouth is, Rossenstein has been chair of the Queer Youth Task Force of Santa Cruz (QYTF) for the past 13 years. During that time, the QYTF— along with several community partners—has been reaching out to queer young people in Santa Cruz County, trying to do about 8,000 things at once.

“The needs of LGBT youth are wide ranging and of course it varies from youth to youth,” says Rossenstein. “So we work with the community and with their families.”

One of the QYTF’s pet projects is National Coming Out Day, which takes place this Friday, Oct. 11, marking its 25th anniversary.

Founded in 1988 to commemorate the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights a year earlier, National Coming Out Day isn’t just about standing up and shouting “I’m gay!” to a room full of unsuspecting co-workers—although that is always cool. It’s also a time for gay and straight people alike to come out in support of LGBT rights.

“I think what youth are looking for is to go to school, not be bullied and just be who they are,” Rossenstein states. “So Coming Out Day is a very symbolic day for a wide range of students.”

One of the most popular traditions locally is the Rainbow Door. In 2011, Rossenstein noticed Home Depot had a float in the local Pride Parade, so he contacted the company about any possible donations they could spare. The result is a freestanding door, painted black on one side and rainbow on the other that students and teachers can walk-through to “come out” in support of equality for all.

“When you have the principal or the star athlete coming out as gay or as straight allies, it sends a very

powerful message to closeted LGBT kids, that there’s support,” explains Rossenstein.

Emily Bolton, one of the Gay/ Straight Alliance advisors at Pacific Collegiate School and also a founding member of Strange, a community-wide Gay/Straight Alliance, agrees.

“Everyone knows kids can be mean, especially at the junior high and high school levels,” she says.

“And while we [Santa Cruz] are very accepting on many levels, there’s still work to be done to stop bullying and hate speech.”

Drinking Fountain Before Rebecca’s Café at the Tannery suddenly and unexpectedly closed this summer (in case you missed it, yeah…that happened), a duo of baristas and Tannery residents— Kevin Devaney and Alyssa Young— volunteered their time to bring a wide range of new arts events into the otherwise chic but rarely populated café: Everything from live salsa music to an Internet cat-video film festival.

Now, they have expanded their vision and are planning on opening a nonprofit “philanthro-pub,” which would sell beer and food with proceeds directly going to support arts education in schools—an allbut-lost cause currently getting slashed like an extra in a kung-fu flick due to statewide budget cuts.

The vision, according to the project’s Indiegogo fundraising campaign, can be explained thus: “The artists who work behind the bar create diverse arts programming for the venue AND provide free arts education and outreach to the local community—all funded by your purchase of that beer, sandwich or coffee you were going to buy anyway.

We’re helping to solve the arts funding and education crisis—one pint at a time.”

The organizers have currently raised just over $4,000 for the project, and are hoping to garner $30,000. Donations are being solicited through the end of the month at www.indiegogo.com/ projects/the-art-bar-café. 0

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Around the World in 25 Years

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25th anniversary is traditionally a time for looking back, but as the Pacific Rim Film Festival (Oct. 17-23 in downtown Santa Cruz) hits its quarter-century mark, organizers seem to be looking forward—stepping out of their comfort zone, as if to remind everyone why what started as Jim and Jeanne Houston’s quirky pet project became a Santa Cruz institution in the first place.

For instance, this year’s film The Orator, the first film ever to come out of Samoa, is an example of how Pac Rim has brought previously unseen cultural

perspectives to Santa Cruz. Rescue in the Philippines reaffirms the festival’s ability to find fascinating, otherwise unknown stories from the Pacific Rim, in this case of an alliance in the Philippines that saved more Jews from Nazi Germany than Oskar Schindler.

Meanwhile, the film Comrade Kim Goes Flying has sparked some controversy this year because of the fact that, despite its harmless Pixar-like plot, it’s basically North Korean propaganda. The addition of the NBA documentary Linsanity adds a whole other, more mainstream side to the line-up.

But even with all that, perhaps what’s most intriguing this year is the way two of this year’s best films mirror each other. UPAJ: Improvise and Harana

GLOBETROTTERS Some of Pac Rim’s selections this year, clockwise from upper left: ‘Comrade Kim Goes Flying,’ ‘Himalayan Gold Rush,’ ‘The Orator,’ ‘Summer Pasture,’ ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?’

have astonishing similarities: they both document artistic traditions almost lost in their native countries, traditions that had unfairly been saddled with bad reputations thanks to being corrupted by mediocre imitators looking to milk them dry for profit. Both films are a response to the fear that these art forms would disappear, but they both became responsible for bringing the traditions a new life. And they’re both told through the eyes of a Western artist, even though the Eastern culture is the real star.

We talked to some of the Bay Area filmmakers involved in making these two films about how their respective journeys took them around the 12 world, and back to the Pac Rim festival.

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Introducing the Newest Edition to our Prismatic Lager Series

THE LOST SONGBOOK Felipe Alonzo, one of the last haranistas, performs in ‘Harana.’

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Sing Your Life How two Bay Area filmmakers saved a musical tradition BY STEVE PALOPOLI

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arana is a powerful documentary about an old-time musical tradition of the same name that men in the Philippines once used to get dates, serenading love interests from beneath their windows. It was a lot more work than Match.com.

But it was also the only parentsanctioned way to go about pitching any kind of woo back then in the very conservative societal structure of the time, meaning most Filipinos have a harana incident somewhere in their family history. But the tradition faded away decades ago, so Harana is also about the search for the last surviving practitioners of the art, the haranistas.

That search is undertaken

by Florante Aguilar, a Bay Area musician who returned to his native Philippines after his father died just a few years ago, hoping to record some of the last haranistas. So the movie is, in a sense, also about Aguilar.

He hates this.

“He’s kind of the reluctant protagonist—that’s what I call Florante,” says Harana producer Fides Enriquez. “We knew he was going to be in the film. We wanted to document this search for the haranista, and he was the perfect messenger. He said ‘I don’t really want this film to be about me, as much as possible.’ But of course we couldn’t help it. The journey is really through his eyes. Sometimes I had to convince him. He’d say ‘You can see my face!’

And I’d say, ‘No, no, it’s okay!’”

“It’s really not about me,” insists Aguilar now. “But at the same time, we realized it had to come from somebody’s point of view.”

It’s lucky that Aguilar didn’t get his wish of keeping his face out of the film, because he turns out to be a charming central figure and interviewer. Early on in Harana, he says in the narration, “As a musician, I’ve always believed that it’s more meaningful if you bring your music directly to the people in their

be creative about how to make them comfortable. The trick was to get them to relax when the camera was on.”

To that end, they would turn the cameras on and just let them roll sometimes, or ask them a lot of leading questions, to get them focused.

The result was the first time these singers had been recorded, mainly because harana had its reputation tarnished decades ago.

“Harana was not really taken seriously as an art form,” says Aguilar.

“I blame the bad movies of the 50s and 60s.”

When the couple finished up their trip, they thought they were done filming, until a big break for the haranistas (again, without spoiling anything) brought them back for more shooting in 2010.

Since then, Aguilar and Enriquez have gotten married. But their relationship didn’t start on the clock—in fact, they had met and started dating in 2007, while Aguilar was in the earliest stages of researching the film. Bizarrely, though their first meeting came at one of Aguilar’s shows, completely independent of the project, Enriquez happened to be an ethnographer specializing in vanishing cultures in the Philippines.

“A lot of my experience was in going to the Philippines and seeking out folks that still do the traditional stuff,” she says. “So when we met, he was asking about how to go about looking for these people who do what they still do. At that time, we’d just started dating and that was his thing. I wasn’t going to be part of it, I didn’t want to be. I was like ‘I’ll be the girlfriend, I don’t want to be the research partner.’”

But in the end she couldn’t resist, and she became a producer. Now that the film is done, she realizes that she and Aguilar (who will do a Q&A after the Pac Rim Film Fest screening) are getting to experience something few filmmakers ever get—to see the movie they created as a response to an almost-lost tradition play a key role in that tradition being preserved.

“This whole movie was miraculous to us,” she says.

Harana Sunday, Oct. 20, 7pm Riverfront Theater, Santa Cruz

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element.” And Harana does exactly that. When Enriquez and Aguilar traveled to the Philippines in 2008 to film the movie, they had no idea if they would even find a haranista.

So the early part of the film shows Aguilar adorably pulling off impromptu interviews of cab drivers, pedicab pullers and people on the street, asking if they know anything about harana and where to find some of these singers. He uses his guitar to connect with the people, playing in barrio plazas and drawing crowds.

“In the Philippines, everyone wants to sing,” says Aguilar. “If they see a guitar, that’s a big attraction for them.

It’s my weapon of choice.”

Without spoiling too much, let it be said that haranistas are indeed tracked down, and at a certain point the movie very much fulfills its own mission—reviving the tradition by bringing the singers (who would eventually come to be known as the Harana Kings) to a new generation, in live performances. Besides the fact that few documentary filmmakers get to see the direct impact their films have on culture like this, the movie becomes incredibly emotional later on when the haranistas talk about how grateful they are that the film will keep their tradition alive. No one had ever asked them to share the songs they once sang.

The filmmakers, though, express their own epic gratitude to the haranistas, without whom they would have no movie. As levels of thankfulness battle, one is forced to ask oneself: Are these literally the nicest people in the world?

Aguilar, of course, tries to make himself as invisible as possible as he accompanies the still-impressive voices of the haranistas on guitar.

“I was overwhelmed when I was there,” he says. “Just witnessing them in person was a dream come true.”

Interestingly, the Santa Clarabased Aguilar and Enriquez didn’t have much trouble with the guerilla filmmaking. Their problems came when they had to shoot Harana like a real movie.

“What was difficult was actually when we were in a room with mics and lights. That’s when it became tricky, because our haranistas, they’re not used to working that way, having a room full of crew looking at them and asking them to act naturally and do their thing,” says Enriquez. “We had to

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MEETING IN THE MIDDLE Chitresh Das (left) and Jason Samuels Smith in ‘UPAJ.’

Birth of a Motion Pac Rim’s closing night film ‘UPAJ’ witnesses the improbable mash-up of two dance traditions BY STEVE PALOPOLI

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here are few people as qualified to direct a movie about kathak as Antara Bhardwaj. Now 34, she has been studying the art form—a classical Indian dance tradition that took shape in the 16th century, though its roots have been traced back to the third century BCE—since she was nine years old.

She performs kathak regularly, including this past summer in Santa Cruz as part of the Fringe Festival.

Born in San Jose and now living in San Francisco, her teacher and most important influence is Chitresh Das, the kathak guru at the center of the documentary UPAJ: Improvise, which

closes the Pacific Rim Film Festival on Wednesday, Oct. 23, at the Rio in Santa Cruz.

Ironically, that’s exactly why she couldn’t direct UPAJ. “I do have a directing background myself, but I specifically chose not to come on as director for this project, because (a) I’m a full-time dancer, and that’s what I’m trying to pursue in my life, and (b) I just felt like I’m a little too close to the subject to be able to give myself any distance,” says Bhardwaj in a phone interview. “So I felt like coming on as producer was kind of a perfect balance for me.”

So that’s what she did, finding

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STEPPING UP Chitresh Das adapted his own classical Indian dance moves in order to keep up with his partner’s tap style. in the process a film that finally connected her film life and her dance life. That’s how Hoku Uchiyama—a half-Japanese, half-African American director who also grew up around dance (his mother is a celebrated Tahitian dancer who founded the Mahea Uchiyama Center for International Dance in Berkeley)— came in to direct. What he’s delivered is a film that is far from a typical movie about dance, telling as it does the story of hip-hop-influenced tap dance prodigy Jason Samuels Smith (in his mid-20s when filming began, and now 33), and how his improbable collaboration with the 69-year-old Das became a phenomenon.

The documentary starts with Smith, struggling with the death of another of his greatest influences, and searching for direction. The story is told through his eyes, and the journey is his journey. In his collaboration with Das, the two begin to work towards forging a whole new dance form, one which unapologetically fuses two traditions that were never meant to meet. It takes them on a tour through India, which is of course a culture shock for Smith, bringing a road-movie element to the film.

A number of themes weave through the story—from the disappearance of Indian classical arts, which have been replaced in Indian pop culture by Bollywood’s

influence, to the rise and fall of tap, to a consideration of India’s social fabric and how it compares to America’s. Though it would seem to be about the culture clash between Smith and Das, various revelations throughout make it clear that they’re far more similar than different.

In the end, the film is about something even bigger, though. It’s not just about motion, as any film centered on dance should be. It’s about straight-up refusal to rest. It’s challenging to find any shot in this film in which someone is not moving, even when they’re being interviewed.

Legs shuffle, streets bustle, arms gesticulate. Smith turns out to have an insane work ethic, practicing tap nearly every waking minute.

And Das, well, he shows the most resistance to rest of all. Not satisfied with the notion of retiring a cultural giant, he pushes himself to extreme lengths.

“It’s crazy because Das is 69 now. And he is on fire,” says Bhardwaj. “We’re less than half his age, most of us, and we can’t keep up with him. He’s pushing himself constantly. It’s crazy, because they do this one-and-a-half-hour show, and I think Jason is as tired if not more tired than Das by the end of it.”

It’s clear that neither Das nor Smith will be satisfied until they’ve created something no one has seen before— which they do. For Smith, it meant learning a whole new rhythmic scale, one which is cyclical, rather than

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linear. Das had to adapt as well.

“It’s not like he’s going to put on a pair of tap shoes, and Jason’s going to put on ghungru, and they’re going to do their thing together. They both stay totally true to their art form,” says Bhardwaj. “But I’ve seen Das’ footwork change in the last few years, and he says, ‘Yeah, I had to when I was dancing with tap. I couldn’t just do the same footwork we do in kathak all the time, I had to push it.’ So he’s come up with these different techniques, in order to be able to hang with tap. But it’s still kathak.”

It might seem that a movie about kathak would be a far more difficult sell in the U.S. than in India. But as a member of Das’ dance company, Bhardwaj knows that, sadly, the opposite is true.

“I have to say, American people are really open. They’re like, ‘Sure, let me try something new,’” she says. “Then we go back to India and say, ‘Come check out our performance,’ and they’re like, ‘Oh no, kathak’s boring.’

Because they’ve seen some artists in India who are really not good.

Unfortunately what’s happening out there is that in an attempt to reach out to the youth, or stay hip or whatever, people are trying to dumb down the art form. They’re trying to make it more accessible, but actually what’s happening is it’s becoming just watered down and bad.”

She’s heartened by the reaction she’s seen to Smith and Das. “You see it in the film. Every single performance I went to, people were just blown away by it, and they’re like, ‘Wow, I didn’t know classical art could be this interesting and exciting, and relevant.’”

The pair will perform after the Pacific Rim Film Festival screening (which is a benefit for the festival), then do a Q&A in which Bhardwaj will also participate. The meeting of these two big personalities, she says, is every bit as wild as you would think from watching the film.

“It’s really incredible seeing their chemistry in real life. They are hilarious when you put them in a Q&A together,” she says. “It’s one of those things where it could go on all night, and we have to just end it, like, ‘All right, guys, it’s over.’”

LINSANE IN THE MEMBRANE NBA sensation Jeremy Lin in ‘Linsanity.’

Rim Shots ‘Linsanity’ follows the rise of a global NBA phenom BY JACOB PIERCE

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insanity is a documentary about Jeremy Lin, but it doesn’t just follow the career of one of the NBA’s most celebrated and controversial players. It documents what people love about sports.

People don’t watch basketball to see slam dunks, or to yell at ESPN analyst Skip Bayless. They don’t crowd into smoke-filled bars only to argue about their fantasy teams.

They talk about the game because they love to watch under-appreciated players like Lin overcome incredible odds—and to watch him take a pocket three against the Los Angeles Lakers and change the world.

For the first two games he played in the NBA, people thought Lin was a fluke. But when he shot that threepointer to close out a game against Kobe Bryant’s Lakers in Los Angeles, people knew they were watching something special.

It wasn’t always so easy.

Linsanity follows this Palo Alto High School grad’s struggles to

overcome adversity on and off the basketball court, from his childhood through his professional career.

After getting passed up by all 30 teams in the 2010 NBA draft, Lin was signed to the Golden State Warriors, making him the first Asian American NBA player of the modern era. The Warriors soon cut him—as did the Houston Rockets a couple weeks later.

The New York Knicks then picked Lin up and were also about to cut him after less than two months before he finally got his chance to really play.

Lin took the struggling Knicks on a 9-3 run in his first dozen games— making him the best point guard in the world for about three weeks.

Before his second game as a starter, against against the Lakers, Kobe Bryant told reporters he didn’t know who Lin was. Lin put up 38 points to Bryant’s 34 for a big win for his favorite moment of the season.

That’s basically the story of how an overlooked, undrafted player went from an obscure athlete crashing on

his brother’s couch to a dominant force in basketball.

Once he became famous, Lin forced a long overdue discussion about race in the United States.

Countless sports analysts discussed how Lin “doesn’t look the part” of an NBA player. ESPN fired an editor after he approved a headline about Lin’s “chink in the armor” after the point guard’s first loss as a starter. Boxer Floyd Mayweather tweeted "Jeremy Lin is a good player but all the hype is because he's Asian. Black players do what he does every night and don't get the same praise.”

This particular strain of racism had laid dormant for years and it took a 23-year-old basketball player to help bring it to the surface and lay it to rest. Not bad for a guy who went undrafted.

Linsanity Sat, Oct. 19, 6:30pm Riverfront Cinemas, Santa Cruz

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Email it to calendar@santacruzweekly.com, fax it to 831.457.5828, or drop it by our office. Events need to be received a week prior to publication and placement cannot be guaranteed.

Stage DANCE AXIS Dance Company

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.

Legends of Celtic Harp Three of the premier Celtic harpers in the world will perform a concert and storytelling event. Fri, Oct 11, 7:30pm. $15 adults; $12 seniors, students, and kids. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 125 Canterbury Dr., Aptos.

Santa Cruz Chamber Players Live chamber music for strings, clarinet and piano. www.scchamberplayers.org.

Sat, Oct 12, 8pm and Sun, Oct 13, 3pm. $25 general; $20 senior; $10 youth.

Christ Lutheran Church, 10707 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.688.5727.

THEATER Mountain Community Theater ‘An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein’: Ten short sketches taking on everything from the current economic state to social dysfunction. www. mctshows.org. Fri, Oct 11, 8pm, Sat, Oct 12, 8pm and Sun, Oct 13, 2pm. $17-$20.

Broadway Playhouse, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, 831.429.2339.

Art GALLERIES CONTINUING Cabrillo College Gallery ‘12 x 12 (x12)’: An open invitational statewide exhibition featuring ceramics,

photography, mixed media and more. Gallery hours: Mon-Fr, 9am-4pm. Thru Nov. 11. 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6308.

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 Museum of Art and History ‘Journey Forth’: An exhibition that explores our complex relationships with nature in the digital age, juxtaposing the natural and artificial.

Gallery Hours: Tue-Sun, 11am5pm; Fri 11am-9pm. Thru Dec. 1. Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

The Cosmo Factory Kelly Fuenning: Abstract painting and collage. Hours: Wed-Sat, 10am-4pm. Thru October. Free. 131-B Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.621.6161.

Various Santa Cruz County Bank Locations 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.

Events LITERARY EVENTS Author Event: Bill Bryson Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed author Bill Bryson (‘A Walk in the Woods’) in celebration of his new book, ‘One Summer: America, 1927.’ Admission includes two tickets and a copy of the book. www. bookshopsantacruz.com.

Wed, Oct 9, 7pm. $31.50.

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

Author Event: Gary Soto The acclaimed poet reads from and discusses his new book about the writing life, ‘What Poets Are Like.’ Tue, Oct 15, 7pm. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

Author Event: Paul Harding Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding will discuss his new novel, ‘Enon,’ about a man grieving the loss of his daughter. Sat, Oct 12, 4pm. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

Poets’ Circle Monthly reading series featuring Len Anderson, followed by an open mic for poets and musicians.

Thu, Oct 10, 6-8pm. Free.

Watsonville Public Library, 275 Main Street, Watsonville, 831.763.4015.

Santa Cruz Is in the Heart: Vol. II Local author and historian Geoffrey Dunn’s second-most recent project was a biography of Sarah Palin that essentially stated unequivocally that she was a vortex of pure evil, on par with Osama Bin Laden and that guy who once cut Dunn in line at the dry cleaners. Luckily for Santa Cruz, he likes our people, and his latest project is a celebratory collection of narratives on the citizens of yore who have helped shape our lovably offbeat culture. He will be on hand for an interview and book signing in conjunction with the MAH’s new exhibit inspired by his project. Friday, Oct. 11 from 6-8:30pm at the Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. Free.

SATURDAY 10/12

Eat Local First Festival In addition to the bevy of fresh produce, this weekend farmers’ market goers can feast their eyes (…and also just literally feast) on goodies from over 20 local restaurants, sweets shops, and ice creameries—just like when they give away tons of free samples at Costco, except this time it’s things you actually want to eat. Saturday, Oct. 12 from 9am to noon at the Aptos Farmers Market at Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos. Free. dance. Wed, 7:30-9:15pm. $15. Santa Cruz Yoga, 402 Ingalls Street, Santa Cruz, 585.278.0080.

Chris Rene Cupcake X Factor singer Chris Rene will make a special appearance for a cupcake release in his honor. Fri, Oct 11, 2-4pm. $3.50 for one cupcake. Starz Cupcakes, 1420 41st Ave., Capitola, 831.464.8911.

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.

Historic Photo Processes

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.

A monthly forum. Featuring Rob Shaffer discussing the 19th century Kallitype process of using iron to print photographs. Sat, Oct 12, 11:30am-1pm. $5 general; $3 students/seniors. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.464.1328.

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Immigration Reform Forum

Storytime

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An innovative ensemble of performers with and without disabilities. Sat, Oct 12, 8pm and Sun, Oct 13, 3pm. $15$19. Motion Pacific, 408 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.457.1616.

CONCERTS

ADHD Support Group A group meeting for adults with ADHD. Email Judy Brenis at jbbrenis@comcast.net for information. Second Wed of every month, 6:30-8pm.

Aptos Fire Station Community Room, 6934 Soquel Drive, Aptos, 831.818.9691.

Beat Sanctuary A dance class for exploring authentic movement as connection, exercise, prayer and spiritual practice. Wed, 7:30-9:15pm. $15. A weekly class for exploring exercise and spirituality through

A discussion and question/answer session on immigration reform, sponsored by the Santa Cruz County Democratic Party. Sat, Oct 12, 10am-12pm. Free. First United Methodist Church, 229 Stanford St., Watsonville, 831.786.0677.

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.

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.

in celebration of the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf’s 100-year anniversary. Bring photos, artifacts. Sat, Oct 12, noon-2pm. Free. Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf, 21 Municipal Wharf, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

the street and enjoy free activities and performances.

Sun, Oct 13, 9am-2pm. Free.

West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz.

Seymour Center Benefit Live jazz plus hors d’oeuvres, wine and beer provided

by Jozseph Schultz of India Joze, with views of the Monterey Bay. Contact lmrose@ucsc.edu. Sun, Oct 13, 5:30-8:30pm. $75. Seymour Discovery Center, 100 Shaffer Rd, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3694.

Santa Cruz Open Streets West Cliff Drive from Lighthouse Field to Natural Bridges State Park will be closed to traffic so people can bike, walk and play on

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

Family Art Workshop ‘Sugar Skills’: A Mexican folk art workshop on creating sugary tokens in celebration of Dia de los Muertos. Sat, Oct 12, 1-2:30 and 3-4:30pm. $10 general; $5 member. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Oktoberfest A celebration of GermanBavarian culture with authentic food, live polka and German beers and wines. www.oktoberfestsantacruz. info Sun, Oct 13, 11:30am2:30pm. Free admission; $15 adult meal tickets; free children’s meal tickets.

Messiah Lutheran Church, 801 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.423.8330.

Pop Up Museum: Wharf Historical activities, hors d’oeuvres, wine and more

San Francisco’s City Guide

Zedd Russian-born, German-raised DJ who produced Lady Gaga’s upcoming album ‘Artpop.’ Oct 9 at the Fox Theater.

Fuck Buttons Beyond the eye-catching name is a duo that’s made one of this year’s best LPs, ‘Slow Focus.’

Oct 9 at the Independent.

Alice Russell You can keep Adele—this British firebrand lights up a stage with true soul prowess. Oct 9-10 at Yoshi’s SF.

Mr. Oizo French electronic producer Quentin Dupieux isn’t afraid to be goofy, a refreshing choice. Oct 11 at 1015 Folsom.

Common ‘Socially conscious’ rapper’s tour is sponsored heavily

by Toyota and Mountain Dew, so there you have it. Oct 12 at Regency Ballroom.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

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EARNING HIS STRIPES Will Sprott knows how to party.

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ALICE RUSSELL

PURPLE HAZE

HANK III

When Will Sprott did a show in New York a while back, he was approached by some people who explained to him how they'd started the literary journal Coffin Factory, named after one of the songs he wrote for the Mumlers' last album, Don't Throw Me Away. Unfortunately, the journal itself doesn't seem to credit the source of the name, but I like the idea of a lit journal as companion piece for Sprott's work, especially the character-driven, symbol-laden "Coffin Factory." It's been a while now since that came out, but he has continued touring with various members of the Mumlers (some from his original South Bay crew, others from the East Bay where he lives now), and he finally seems comfortable performing solo. Crepe Place; $8; 9pm. (Steve Palopoli)

If you think Alice Russell is one artist with one style and one sound—no cigar. This astounding blue-eyed soul queen from across the pond has dropped vocals on DJ Yoda tracks, collaborated with the sample-based Kushti and the boogie jazz band Bah Samba. Perhaps her more behindthe-scenes past is why Russell’s name doesn’t come up in talk of Britain’s modern greats, Winehouse and Adele, while her vocal prowess is totally in the same league. Not only does she do some kickass covers, (if you haven't listened to her take on “Crazy,” get on that), but her solos have got a fair amount of 70’s throwback funk.

Russell’s latest jewel “To Dust” is what you’d hope to hear from those rich, bluesy vocals.

She’s dipped her toe in almost every genre, and somehow manages to rock them all. Kuumbwa; $25 adv/$28 door; 7pm. (Anne-Marie Harrison)

There’s a question that floats around music circles: If you could see anyone, living or dead, play live, who would it be. More than a few times, I’ve heard the response, “Jimi Hendrix.” Not only was he one of the finest and most innovative guitarists the world has ever known, he was a stellar performer with a bag of tricks that included setting guitars on fire and playing with his teeth.

While the authentic Hendrix experience is a thing of the past, you can get a taste of the fun with the band Purple Haze. Paying tribute to the legendary artist, this outfit, led by frontman Ralph Woodson, recreates many of Hendrix’s moves, right down to the mouth-first guitar style. Also on the bill: Just Cream, a tribute to Eric Clapton. Don Quixote’s; $10; 8pm. (Cat Johnson)

Hank III has two albums coming out this week, a solo country album and a punk album with his side project known simply as 3. In other words, this is the Hank III Best Week Ever, as both sides of his musical personality are unleashed on an unsuspecting (okay, vaguely suspecting) world.

As the grandson of Hank Williams and son of Hank Williams Jr. comes into his own as the King of Hellbilly, I am ready to announce that the memory of “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight” (as in, “Are you ready for some football?”) has officially been cleansed from the family legacy. Catalyst; $21/$26; 8pm. (SP)

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CHOP TOPS S The Chop Tops’ Toops’ 2006 “My Curse” Curse” may sounds like a dancehall jam jam, m, with back poodle skirts and slicked ba ack hair— moree spiked maybe just a ffew ew mor spiked leather their jackets than usual—but th heir ffast ast and heavy sound makes it clearr why this group strong. gr oup is still going str ong. Not only are are they cool enough to have cr ccreated eated their genre, own genr e, but the Chop Tops’ Toops’ wild blend of old punk, surf and rrockabilly ockabilly has gotten them on stage with w the ennedyss, and Chuck likes of the Dead KKennedys, Berry, Warped Ber ryy, to W arped Tour, Toour, and ffeatured eatured in the video game WET WETC TC. Sinc Since ce 1995 these three some three have been doing som me serious damage. Get out and be proud proud of our local badasses. After playin playing ng about 200 shows a year year,, they sur sure re deserve deserve it.

Moe’s Moe’s Alley; $10 adv/$12 door; d 8:30pm.

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JOE PUG A singer-songwriter who hhas as opened Ward, ffor or SSteve teve Earle, Josh Ritter and M. W ard, indie-folk Joe Pug has one ffoot oot in ind die-folk territory planted ter ritory and the other plan nted ffirmly irmly in Americana. stripped-down, no-frills Am mericana. Born in Maryland, seasoned in CChicago hicago and now based in Austin,, Pugg sings s g and pplays y with an intensity and ffocus ocuss that demands attention, then he disarms listeners with heartfelt, his heartf elt, emotional revelations, revvelations, warm guitar-playingg style and and intimate guitar-playin Quixote’s; boy-next-door charm. Don Quixote ’s; $12; 9pm. (CJ)

Thursday, October 10 U 7 pm | No Comps

THE CLAUDIA QUINTET

Drummer John Hollenbeck’s adventurous chamber, jazz quinet!

1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS Friday, October 11 U 7 pm

ALICE RUSSELL

Tickets: pulseproductions.net Saturday, October 12 U 7:30 pm

GEORGE COLE - Gypsy Jazz & Uptown Swing

TIM KASHER

Tickets: snazzyproductions.com

Monday, October 14 U 7 pm | No Comps

PAULA WEST

A swinging pop-jazz sophisticate!

Concerts

Thursday, October 17 U 7 pm

BABY BASH Oct. 10 at Catalyst

1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS

JERRY JOSEPH & THE JACKMORMONS Oct. 16 at Moe’s Alley STEVE VAI Oct. 16 at Catalyst TIM KASHER Oct. 16 at Crepe Place SEAN HAYES Oct. 19 at Don Quixote’s

STEVE LEHMAN TRIO FEATURING MATT BREWER AND DAMION REID Friday, October 18 U 7:30 pm

JOHN MEDESKI, IN CONCERT, SOLO PIANO Monday, October 20 U 7 pm

JAIMEO BROWN TRANSCENDENCE

An amalgam of modern jazz, southern black spirituals and Indian music Thursday, October 24 U 7 pm

STEVE WILSON OPPORTUNITY KNOCKING CD RELEASE PARTY Sunday, October 27 U 7:30 pm

TOM RUSSELL

Tickets: snazzyproductions.com Monday, October 28 U 7 pm | No Comps

PATRICIA BARBER TRIO Thursday, October 31 U 7 pm

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HALLOWEEN NIGHT! LUCIEN BAN & MAT MANERI “TRANSYLVANIAN CONCERT” Monday, November 4 U 7 pm | No Comps

PAULA PAUL LA WEST

OMAR SOSA AFRI-LECTRIC SEXTET

Garnering com comparisons mparisons to legendary jazz Lenaa Horne and CCarmen armen McRae, vocalists Len Paula West torchbearer P aula W est iss a modern-day tor chbearer West, of the classic vocal style. But W est, who primarily was rraised aised pr rimarily on classical music discovered and only disc covered jazz once she went to college, doesn’t dooesn’t allow herself to be Area limited to onee style. The Bay Ar ea artist lends her rich h voice to an endless variety of songs by golden-er ggolden-eraa legends as well as contemporary Paul contempor aryy songwriters including P aul McCartney and McC artney an nd Bob Dylan. The connecting thread between West’s thr ead betwe een them all is W est’s expressive delivery expr essive de elivery and her palpable connection too the material. KKuumbwa; uumbwa; $25 door; adv/$28 doo or; 7pm. (CJ)

Thursday, November 7 U 7 & 9 pm | No Comps

BILL FRISELL’S BIG SUR QUINTET FEATURING EYVIND KANG, HANK ROBERTS, RUDY ROYSTON AND JENNY SCHEINMAN

11/11 Kim Nalley with the Marcus Shelby GOLD CIRCLE Orchestra “Cole Porter SOLDSongbook” OUT! 11/14 Peter Brötzman and Paal Nilssen-Love Duo 11/15 Joshua Redman Quartet 11/18 Diane Schuur 11/21 Randy Weston & Billy Harper Duo 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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Film SPACE RACE Stranded astronauts Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) must survive in space with dwindling oxygen.

Lost in Space

‘Gravity’ draws real thrills from the vast emptiness and silence of space BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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T WAS SAID of Steven Spielberg that he was the first director to compose without the thought of a proscenium arch. The shockingly exciting Gravity by Alfonso Cuarón seems like the first film to be composed without thought of the walls or the ceiling of the theater. It’s clear that you’re watching a classic: lavish with effects and yet brutally economical.

It begins far above earth, with some studious blandness; George Clooney’s crumbly, comforting voice droning happily—as two assistants are doing some repairs on the Hubble telescope.

The space shuttle Explorer is upside down, a golden parasol over them as they float. Clooney is the dream vision of an astronaut—chatty, always in the middle of a half-finished dirty story he’s broadcasting Houston. Later, when

things have gotten as bad as they can possibly get, he acknowledges the trouble laconically: “Pretty scary shit.”

He’s sweetening up the physician Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) working with him. This tranquil scene is interrupted by a news flash: an unmanned Russian rocket has hit a satellite, knocking out communications. Like the first pieces of falling scree indicating the avalanche to come, a spray of debris is coming to them at a high rate of speed. Very shortly—the film unfolds in real time, in 90 blessed minutes—the survivors are floating without a serious ride home and little oxygen.

This ultimate open-boat ordeal doesn’t make Earth a comforting sight.

The glitter of the city lights have a sinister look, like a coal burning its way

out of a paper bag. It’s ever a reminder to the stranded astronauts that even if they can kluge together a ride, the problem remains of plummeting through the atmosphere.

The opening title tells us of the several hundred degree temperature range, from horribly cold to infernally hot; the vacuum kills all sound, so that when things whirl and smash into each other, the unearthliness is in the silence. Traditional space-sound in sci-fi movies is like the low roar of an airplane engine turned down to about 2: Cuarón’s technicians here have a particular dead silence more dismaying than any trumpets or French horns. I say that even though I adore “Capsule in Space” by John Barry, the music to the pre-title sequence of You Only Live Twice (1967): a portion of

Roald Dahl macabreness that no doubt terrified the young Cuarón, and which is now given the ultimate reprise.

Dahl couldn’t have surpassed the gradual building of trouble: the scrabbling at tools that have a mind of their own, with the sausage-fingered gloves of a space suit; the clumsiness of trying to do something gymnastic when pulled in the wrong direction and while wearing a slippery, inflatable and too fragile suit. And then there’s the minor problem of trying to read a control panel written in Mandarin. What we see is solidly, masterfully composed: not the aimless whirling around we’re used to from hyper-fast cutting. There always seems to be an axle on Cuarón’s spinning wheel.

Some parking-lot pickery can be done later. We see what infinity looks like—we see into it, straight through the skull of a martyred astronaut— so the mention of prayer seems particularly wrong. Bullock—her floating, beautifully-made frame, still with gracefulness of gawkiness, tossing her helmet like an anti-gravity bowling ball—has a line about how “no one ever taught me to pray.” Her Stone is from a small Illinois town, too—where do you hide from people trying to teach you just that?

A dialogue with one Chinese ham radio emphasizes the absolute isolation. But haven’t Earth’s hamradioists been waiting for just this kind of blackout for decades? And when Kowalski talks Stone through her hypoxia terror, one recalls the Kurt Vonnegut joke about the opera fan screaming at the actors playing Radames and Aida, telling them to stop singing before they use up the air in the pyramid.

This is, again, parking lot stuff. Most viewers will be too busy kissing the ground when it’s over.

GRAVITY Plays Countywide

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CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG-13; 134 min) Oscar buzz is already a-buzzin’ for Tom Hanks, who plays the titular caption in this true story of the first U.S. cargo ship to be hijacked in 200 years. (Opens Fri at 41st Ave, Cinema 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley.)

MACHETE KILLS (R; 107 min) Director Robert Rodriguez brings back Danny Trejo as Machete, the Mexican double, triple or maybe even quadrupleagent who first appeared in one of the fake trailers buried in the middle of Grindhouse. This time, he’s battling an arms dealer trying to blow up space. More or less. (Opens Fri at Cinema 9 and Scotts Valley)

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BATTLE OF THE YEAR (PG-13; 109 min) Josh Holloway and Laz Alonso star in this music pic about how Americans can’t stand not winning stuff, specifically in this case an international battle between dance teams.

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

Movie reviews by Steve Palopoli and Richard von Busack

Jasmine escapes after her life gets a seismic shake up.

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

DON JON (R; 90 min) Don Jon is a confident debut film from writer-director-star Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who has obviously picked up a lot of style tips from his friend Rian Johnson, who directed him in the cult favorites Brick and Looper. (Working for Christopher Nolan in the last Batman flick didn’t hurt either, I’m sure). The question is: will anyone see this?

The story of a misogynist, narcissistic lunkhead (played by a significantly beefed-up JGL) who begins to wonder

if there might be more to life and love, it’s sharply written and great-looking, with excellent performances 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.

EUROPA REPORT (PG13; 90 min) Sort of a Gravity alternative for the indie set, director Sebastian Cordero’s sci-fi thriller has a group of astronauts on a mission to Jupiter’s moon.

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Oct. 9, through Wednesday, Oct. 16, unless otherwise indicated.

Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

APTOS CINEMAS

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

Gravity — Wed-Thu 3; 5:10; 7:15; 9:20; plus Fri-Sun 12:50pm.

Don Jon — Wed-Thu 2:40; 4:50; 7; 9; plus Fri-Sun 12:30pm.

41ST AVENUE CINEMA

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

Captain Phillips — (Opens Fri) Fri-Thu 12:30; 2; 3:45; 7; 8:15pm.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 — Wed-Thu; 11:20; 1:45; 4:15; 6:45; 10pm.

Rush — Wed-Thu 11:15; 5:15pm.

DEL MAR

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Bad Milo! — Fri-Sat 11:15pm.

Beetlejuice — Fri-Sat Midnight.

Good Ol’ Freda — Daily 5:20pm.

Macbeth — Thu 7:30pm.

Pulling Strings — Wed-Thu 2:20; 4:50; 7:15; 9:40; plus Sat-Sun 12pm.

Running Wild:The Life of Dayton O. Hyde— Wed-Thu 10/10 1:20; 3:20; 7:15; 9:20pm.

Rush — Wed-Thu 1:40; 3; 4:20; 6; 7; 8:40; 9:40; plus Sat-Sun 12:20pm.

The Butler — Fri-Thu call for showtimes.

NICKELODEON

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

Blue Jasmine — Wed-Thu 5:20; Fri-Wedcall for showtimes.

Enough Said —Wed-Thu 1:40; 2:40; 3:50; 4:50; 6; 7; 8:10; 9:10; plus Sat-Sun 12:30pm.

Haute Cuisine —Wed-Thu 2:50; 5; 7:10; plus Sat-Sun 12:40pm.

Inequality for All — Fri call for showtimes.

Parkland — Wed-Thu 3:20; 7:30; 9:30pm.

Populaire — Daily 9:20pm.

Romeo & Juliet — Fri call for showtimes.

Wadjda — Fri call for showtimes.

RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN

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Prisoners — Wed-Thu 3:15; 6:30; 9:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Runner Runner — Wed-Thu 2:30; 4:45; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9

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

Captain Phillips — (Opens Fri) Thu 8; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Machete Kills — (Opens Fri) Thu 8; 10:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Baggage Claim — Wed-Thu 12:05; 5; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Battle of the Year 3D — Wed-Thu 2:25; 7:20; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 —Wed-Thu 12;2:15;9:50;Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D—Wed-Thu 4:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Don Jon — Wed-Thu 12:30; 2:45; 5; 8; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Gravity — Wed-Thu 12; 3:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Gravity 3D —Wed-Thu 12:30; 3; 5:15; 6; 8:15; 9:20;10:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Insidious: Chapter 2 — Wed-Thu 12; 2:30; 5; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Instructions Not Included —Wed-Thu 12:40; 3:30; 6:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Family — Wed-Thu 12:05; 3:10; 7:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

We’re the Millers — Wed-Thu 12:10; 2:45; 5:15;10:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Rosemary’s Baby — Thu 9pm.

The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin Encore — Wed 6:30pm.

Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure — Thu 7:30pm.

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

Captain Phillips — (Opens Fri) Fri-Thu 11:15; 12:15; 2:20; 3:45; 5:30; 7; 8:45; 9:30pm.

Machete Kills —(Opens Fri) Fri-Thu 11:40; 2:20; 4:55; 7:40; 10:15 (No 11:40 Sat 10/12).

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7; 10pm.

Enough Said — Wed-Thu 11:45; 2:15; 4:40; 7:10; 9:30pm.

Gravity —Thu-Wed 11:40; 12:30; 2:10; 3; 4:45; 5:30; 7:20; 8; 9:45 (No 7:20 Wed/Thu 10/9-10).

Gravity 3D — Thu-Wed 11; 1:30; 4; 6:30; 9pm.

Metallica Through the Never — Thu-Wed 10:15pm.

Runner Runner — Wed-Thu 11:55; 2:30; 4:55; 7:30; 10pm.

Rush — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2:30; 5:30; 8:30pm.

The Shining — Thu 7pm.

Young Frankenstein — Sat 11am.

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8

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

Captain Phillips —(Opens Fri)Thu 8; Fri-Wed 1:35; 4:25; 7:25; 10:15; plus Sat-Sun 10:45am.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 — Wed-Thu 1:05; 3:10; 5:15; 7:20; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Gravity — Wed-Thu 12:55; 7:35; 10:15pm.

Gravity 3D — Wed-Thu 3:10; 5:20; plus Sat-Sun 10:45am.

Instructions Not Included — Wed-Thu 1:25; 4:10; 7; 9:45; plus Sat-Sun 10:45am.

Runner Runner — Wed-Thu 1:05; 3:10; 5:15; 7:20; 10; plus Sat-Sun 10:55am.

Rush — Wed-Thu 1:35; 4:20; 7:15; 10; plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Pulling Strings — Wed-Thu 1:25; 4:10; 7; 10; plus Sat-Sun 11am.

THE FAMILY (R) French director Luc Besson directed and co-wrote this dark crime comedy that stars Robert DeNiro and Michelle Pfeiffer as the heads of a mafia family that gets re-located to France as part of the Witness Protection Program, but have trouble giving up their old ways. “Are vous talking to moi? Zer is no one else he-uh!”

THE GETAWAY (PG-13) Wait, Ethan Hawke gets a comeback? And now he’s playing a race-car driver named Brent Magna? Okay, that makes sense. In this thriller, Brent Magna’s wife is kidnapped, and then he has to drive around places for reasons, and Selena Gomez plays some girl whose car he steals who just happens to be a whiz-kid computer hacker. This is all true, except the part about it making sense.

GRAVITY (PG-13; 90 min) In director Alfonso Cuaron’s much-anticipated spacedisaster flick, an accident on a space shuttle mission threatens to make Sandra Bullock and George Clooney astro-nots.

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (PG-13; 105 min) When we last saw the Lambert family, they were pretty screwed (spoiler alert!). The original Saw team of director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell returns for a second installment of their surprise horror hit that was pretty much the anti-Saw— all mood and psychological heebie-jeebies, with none of the Jigsaw grisliness.

METALLICA: THROUGH THE NEVER (R; 94 min) Concert film blends in a fictional storyline involving Metallica-type things, like a roadie on a mission for the band who finds himself pursued by horsemen of death.

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES (PG-13; 130 min) Cassandra Clare’s popular young adult series gets a film adaptation, with a young emo cast straight out of Twilight central casting.

But this is nothing like Twilight, we swear, because see it’s about demons, not vampires. And yes, there are magical people who fight the demons, but it’s nothing like Harry Potter, we swear.

For instance, in Harry Potter people who don’t know about the supernatural world are called Muggles, but here they’re called Mundanes.

ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (PG; 92 min) Boy band music documentary may very likely be mistaken for an instructional driving film by anyone over 15.

THE PATIENCE STONE (R; 102 min) In an occurrence roughly as likely as seeing a unicorn, Afghan writer Atiq Rahimi gets to actually direct the adaptation of his own novel, based on a Persian fable about a magic stone in which one can confide all problems. The stone, this time, is a man in war-torn Afghanistan. When a bullet in the neck reduces him to a vegetative state, his wife begins to confide in him all the things that would otherwise go unsaid.

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.

RUNNER RUNNER (R; 91 min) Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake star in this crime thriller about one man who must go up against a syndicate when he tries to bring sexy back—to online poker.

RUNNING WILD: THE LIFE OF DAYTON O. HYDE (NR; 93 min) Documentary follows the cowboy conservationist as he tries to preserve homeon-the-range culture while at the same time protecting natural resources and rescuing horses.

RUSH (R; 123 min) Ron Howard’s epic re-telling of the real-life rivalry between Formula 1 racers James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (James Bruhl).

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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BAD MILO! (R; 85 min) In the tradition of the ’80s cult favorite Basket Case and… uh, absolutely nothing else, comes Bad Milo!, a new horror comedy about a guy with intense stomach problems who rather unexpectedly discovers they are caused by a little monster who lives in his intestines and comes out occasionally to kill people. Part of the the Del Mar’s late-night cult series. (Plays Fri and Sat at 11:15pm at the Del Mar.) BEETLEJUICE (1988) How awesome would it be if Tim Burton remade this with postBatman Michael Keaton and 30 Rock-style Alec Baldwin?

That’s the only thing we can imagine that could make this

movie any more weird and awesome. (Plays Fri and Sat at midnight at the Del Mar.)

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A Tale of Two Coasts

BY CHRISTINA WATERS SEPTEMBER ON THE ATLANTIC:

Three weeks on the East Coast graced us with perfect late summer/early autumn weather. The Jersey Shore cooperated with opulent skies, full of billowing clouds like we never get on the central coast, days in the 70s, soft pillowy sand dunes, and outstanding crab cakes and local sea scallops. Robustly restored after its huge hit last year from Hurricane Sandy, Long Beach Island offered only a few dining options—the season ends here officially on Labor Day. Plantation, a sizeable eating and drinking establishment in Harvey Cedars (established in the late 17th century) did provide deliciousness

in the way of locally-caught fluke—a plump white fish—and outstanding scallop dishes. The ever-reliable Mud City Crab Shack, on Manahawkin’s atmospheric marshlands, came through with the definitive crab cake—almost 100% fresh lump crab meat held together with seasonings and magic all bound up in a supercrisp, gossamer crust. Yes, this is a better-than-Annapolis crab cake and honestly I have no higher praise.

The manicotti at Joey's helped provide much-needed extra calories and gooey ricotta filling. Given the daily consumption of bagels I logged here, I gotta tell ya the Northeast is not gluten-free territory. As always,

we stopped at the Philadelphia Museum on our way to the airport.

Lunch in the very soothing museum restaurant was excellent as always and included a terrific seared ahi and pea sprout salad, followed by lemon tart with mascarpone and raspberries.

MEANWHILE, BACK ON THE WEST COAST: According to my

latest intel (e.g., an email from Randall Grahm) tomorrow should be the actual, official opening day of the new, charm-intensive Bonny Doon Tasting Room on Davenport’s Coast Highway. Starting October 10, the new tasting facility housed

in a charming little white frontierstyle store will be open Thursday through Monday, from 11am to 5pm.

Right next door to the Davenport Roadhouse, the new tasting room returns the Temple of Doon to the foot of its original birthplace in Bonny Doon. I know Randall would have a few mantric observations about the biodynamic circularity of this circumstance. Like many fans of BD wines, I await Grahm's pithy quote on the matter. . . . New stuff about to shake up the Santa Cruz scene any minute now. Maharaja will soon fill the space of the old (very old) Royal Taj on Soquel, currently undergoing a makeover. Fans of east Indian cuisine (that would include me) cannot wait.

And we look forward to the opening of Farm to Table, filling the former La Mission space on Mission Street.

That will mean many tasty choices in that tiny Palm strip that includes Totoro Sushi and Pizzeria Avanti.

ODDS AND ENDS: Feast on the last

moments of dry-farmed tomatoes while ye may, and don’t forget to indulge in some of the pepper opulence, squash and pumpkin proliferation, and some of the intricately flavored heirloom apples dotting our many farmers markets. . . . Have you tried the thin-cut pork chops from Whole Foods yet? These ultra-slender chops sear in roughly one minute per side hence they serve up both moist and tender. Try them— we like sides of brown rice and black beans—and you'll never eat a thick pork chop again. I'm completely serious. . . . Speaking of pork, place your orders now for December’s crop of whey-fed pork, from free-range animals raised on Rebecca King's pure and natural Monkeyflower Ranch. You can purchase these pigs whole or half, and if that's more pork than your freezer can handle, look for cuts at the farmers markets. For info and to order pork, beef and veal from Monkeyflower Ranch, contact rebecca@gardenvarietycheese.com.0

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MESS MAKER Zachary’s co-owner Cathy Kriege reveals the origin of the famous ‘Mike’s Mess.’

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achary’s is home of the ceviche omelet, one of the stranger and tastier breakfast specials downtown. It’s also home to large crowds that mill outside the Pacific Avenue restaurant, waiting for a table and some tasty pancakes. We caught up with Cathy Kriege, who co-owns the joint with her husband Tom Watson, about what life is like at the helm of a Santa Cruz culinary staple.

SCW: How did Mike’s Mess get its name? CATHY KRIEGE: That was

from way back in the ‘80s. At that point in time our dish line was in the kitchen—we were half the size we are now. And my husband asked [a dishwasher named] Mike what he would like for breakfast, and he said, ‘Oh just throw everything in the pan.’ So, Tom created it and then refined it and it became Mike’s Mess. It’s named for the guy who requested it, not the guy who invented it.

How do you feel about eggs for lunch or dinner? We serve everything all day. We have people come in and have burgers at seven in the morning. Lots of people have brunch and breakfast items later in the day Are you a morning person? Not particularly. But I like having my evenings free, so that’s one of the reasons we just do breakfast and lunch.

We really like the atmosphere of breakfast and lunch. Dinner’s more formal. Breakfast and lunch are casual. It can be more of a community place. Our son now is 24, but doing breakfast and lunch, we were able to do evenings with him and pick him up from school.

Is there a lunch item that gets overlooked? We’re really known for our breakfasts, and they sell more. I think people don’t realize how good our burgers and sandwiches are. We make all our bread here. When people have the burger, they’re hooked. I think it’s the best burger in town.

Is this place named after Zach Friend? When we bought this

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restaurant it was called Zachary’s in ’85. It was a ribbon steakhouse. We already had a restaurant in Capitola for a year and a half. And when we moved here, we thought it would be too confusing to change the name.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Jugaad J d is a Hindi-Urdu Hindi-Urdu word word that can be translated translated as “frugal innovation.” People People in India and Pakistan Pakistan use it a lot.

It’s It’s the art of coming up with a creative cr c eative workaround workaround to a problem problem despite having to deal d with logistical and financial barriers. barriers. Masters ooff jugaad call on ingenuity and improvisation up for improvisation to make m for sparse resources. specialty resources. I see this as your spec cialty right now, now, Taurus.

Although Taaurus. Al though you may not have haave abundant access to V VIPs filthy got the IPs and fil thy riches, you’ve nevertheless n resourcefulness resourcefulness necessary to come come up with novel solutions. What you produce produce may may even turn out better than if you’d had more more assets asssets to draw draw on.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21-June 20): In accor accordance dance with your current current astrological astrological omens,, I authorize you to be like a bird bird in the coming week—specifically, weekk—specificallyy, like a bird bird as described by the zoologist zoologgist Norman J. J. Berrill: Berrill: “To “TTo be a bird bird is to be more more intensely intensely alive than any other living creature. creature. Birds Birds have hotter blood, brighter colors, stronger stronger emotions. They live live in a world that is always present, present, mostly full of joy.” j .” Take joy Taake total advantage of the soaring grace ahead of you, grace period p Gemini. Sing, chirp, hop around, glide, love the around, swoop, s wind, see great everywhere, be attracted great vistas, travel travel everywhere, attracted to hundreds hundreds of beautiful things, and do everything.

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23-Sept. 22): “I’dd rrather mountains thinking of God than in chur church ch thinking about the mountains,”” said the natur Muir.. nnaturalist alist John Muir Let that ser serve inspiration, Virgo. ve as your inspir ationn, Vir go. These days, you need to be at the heart of th the he hot action, not floating in a cloud of abstr abstract thoughts. dream act th oughts. The dr eam has to be fully embodied and viv vividly unfolding vidly unf olding all around around you, not exiled to wistful ffantasies antasies that flit through tired through g yyour mind’s eye y when yyou’re ou’re lonelyy or tir ed or trying too har hard. version that’s d. The only versi on of God that ’s meaningful to you right now is the the one that feeds feeds your lust for for life life in the here here and now. now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23-Oct. 22): The advice I’m about to dispense may have never bef before Libras ore been given to Libr as in the history of hor horoscopes. oscopes. It might m also be at odds with the elegance and decorum you like to expr express. ess.

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SAGITTAR SAGITTARIUS RIUS (Nov (Nov.. 22-Dec. 22-Dec. 21): Gr Grace ace has lately, been trickling into innto your life life lately y, but I suspect that start it may soon star rt to flood. A spate of interesting interesting coincidences seems seeems imminent. There’s There’s a good chance abundance provide that an abundan nce of tricky tricky luck will pr ovide you with the leverage leveragge and audacity you need to pull off miracles. minor mir acles. How much slack is available to you?

Probably much Pr obably as mu ch as you want. So ask ffor or it! Given blessings, all these blessin ngs you are ngs, are in an excellent position to expunge any cynical attitudes or jaded theories it’s you may have bbeen een harboring. For now at least, it ’s ealistic to be optimistic. rrealistic optimistic.

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PISCES (Feb (Feb.. 19-Mar 19-March ch 20): “It “It’s ’s an unbearable unbearable thought that rroses osses were were not invented by me,” me me,” wrote wrote Vladimir Mayakovsky.

Russian poet Vla adimir Mayakovsk y. YYou’re ou’re not as Mayakovsky, egotistical as M ayakovsky, Pisces, so I doubt you’ve ever had a similar similar “unbearable “unbearable thought.”” And it is due in part to your yoour lack of rampaging rampaging egotism that I predict pr edict you will invent something almost as good as oses in the coming com rroses ming weeks. weeks. It may also be almost as saltt andd amber and mist and moss; almost good as sal as good as kisses kissees and dusk and honey and singing.

YYour our ability to conjure conjure up long-lasting beauty will be at a peak. Your Yoour creative c eative powers will synergize cr synergize with your aptitude for for o love to bring a new marvel marvel into the world.

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That’s ongoing pr ocess. YYou’re ou’r o e not goin ng to bol t. That ’s a process good thing. This pr ocess is worthh your devotion. But I also believe that right now you may need to say got no to a small part of it. YYou’ve oou’ve go ot to be clear that there’s th ther e’s ’ something thi about b t it you don’t ddon’t lik like andd wantt now,, to change. If you ffail ail to deal withh this doubt now somewheree you might suddenly quit and runn away somewher down the line. Be proactive proactive now and you won’t won’t be later.. rrash ash later

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