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LOOK INTO O MY AYES Medical studies ar a aree pr providing oviding some support ffor o orr Car Carol ol Jensen’s belief patients undergoing treatment. that guided imagery i can be useful to patien nts under rgoing g cancer tr eatmeent.

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rom th rom the he cou couch ch cus cushions hions in an u pstairs win of th toric upstairs wingg of thee his historic San ta Cr C uz Hospital, Hospital, I h ear th Santa Cruz hear thee syrupy off Car Carol Certified syrupy voice vo oice o ol JJensen, ensen, Cer tified Medical Medical Hypnotherapist, Hypnotherapist, rising rising softly softly above abovve a trickling trickling fountain fo ountain and and the the evereveerso-distant Soquel so-distant traffic traf afffic sounds sounds of of Soqu el Avenue. have Aveenue. I would wou uld h ave ggladly ladly sstayed tayed e ffor o or an eternity.

Orr a att least eternityy. O least a few few days. days. In fact, not fac a t, had had I n ott just just heard heard my my name, name, I would into would have have dipped diipped in to tranquil tranquil ssleep. leep.

The woman knows what doing.

The w o oman kn k ows w hat sshe's he's d oing.

It was was only only for fo or the the sake sake of of this story that myy ey eyelids story th at m elids finally finally flickered flickered open. was open. And And there ther e ew as JJensen, ensen, ffounding o ounding director Health, director of of the the Center Center ffor o or H ealth, smiling fumbled myy rrecording smiling as I fu umbled ffor or o m ecording device. device.

Hypnosis—and Hypnosis— —and guided guided imagery, imagery, specifically—shares specifically—s — hares an important important symmetry symmetry with with many many integrative integrattive healing healing modalities, modali a ties, such such as yoga yoga nidra acupuncture nidra (“yogi (“yogi sleep”), sleep”), acu puncture and and

meditation. meditation. m “All o ese an cient m odalities off th these ancient modalities co ompletely in tegrate wi th our min nds," completely integrate with minds," sa ays JJensen. ensen. "Ev erything sstarts tarts wi t th says "Everything with th he min d. If yyou ou cchange hange yyour our min d d, the mind. mind, yyou o can cchange ou hange yyour our lif fe. Wh ere th he life.

Where the m min d ggoes, oes, so th oes.” mind thee bod bodyy ggoes.”

If th con nver e gence o the body body and a d an thee convergence off the m min d in h ealing soun ds N ew Ag e--y mind healing sounds New Age-y tto o yyou, ou, o it it p robably w on't for fo or long. long. probably won't O veer th ast d ecade al one, cclinical linica al Over thee p past decade alone, rresearch e esear ch h as com ong w ay in has comee a llong way co onfirming a vvery eery rreal eal conn ection n confirming connection be ettween the the immune immune system system an d th between and thee m min d An d. d th anks tto o pi oneers lik mind.

And thanks pioneers likee th thee rrecently e ecen tly p assed Can dace P ert, P h.D D., passed Candace Pert, Ph.D., w ho ffound ound (am o ong oth er thin gs) who (among other things) th hat b rain pep tides communi ca ate that brain peptides communicate w wi th th system, Western Weestern n with thee immun immunee system, m edicine h as begun tto o emb race th his medicine has embrace this co onnection. connection.

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where w here on onee is both com completely pletely rrelaxed elaxed an nd al ert. Dur ing eac h and alert.

During each hig ghly per p rsonalized session, session,, p ati t ents highly personalized patients mig ht jjourney ourrney in to their their o wn bod y, might into own body, im agining iits ts h ealing on a ce llular imagining healing cellular llevel, evel, or im magining th ells, ttastes, astes, imagining thee sm smells, soun ds an d ffeelings ee e lings of of the the things things sounds and th ey’ll d o when when th ey are are well well ag ain. they’ll do they again.

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Management North Carolina, Dr. V ann Don a a dson ffound al o ound th at m edical Vann Donaldson that medical p ati t ents di iagnosed with with cancer, cancerr, AIDS patients diagnosed an d vir al infections in nffeections saw sa aw a significant significant and viral in crease in nw hite blood blood ce lls after after increase white cells un dergoin ng guid ed im agery ffor or a o undergoing guided imagery per iod o 9 d ays. period off 90 days.

“I al lways ttell ell peo ple ggoing oing in to always people into sur gery to to ggather atther their their support support system, system, surgery tto o have have th e send em send h ealing th oughts t them healing thoughts an d beau uttiiful im ages when when they they go go and beautiful images in to th eir p rocedure,” says sa ays JJensen. ensen. into their procedure,” “Because th hey can ffeel eeel that, thatt, and and that that they will infl uen nce th ou utcome.” 0 influence thee outcome.”

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Currents THE KIDS AREN’T ALL RIGHT Santa Cruz’s Andrew and Nicole Lencioni on Showtime’s ‘Time of Death,’ which debuts Friday.

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New Showtime reality show follows a Santa Cruz family dealing with a mother’s death BY GEORGIA PERRY

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ere’s the thing—you guys are gonna be the reason my mom dies. Literally. Literally. You guys are going to make her sick, and she’s going to die. And you’re gonna regret every second you wasted texting on your phones instead of spending time with that woman. Snap the fuck out of it. Wake the fuck up. You guys have days, weeks. Get real.”

That’s 27-year-old Santa Cruz resident and Cabrillo student Nicole “Little” Lencioni, one of the subjects of Showtime television network’s new documentary series, Time of Death. She’s talking to her two teenage siblings, weeks before their mother, Maria, dies of breast cancer.

In the series, which follows eight terminally ill people and those they are closest to through the end of their lives, Lencioni and her family are caught on

camera during some of the darkest, most uncomfortable moments of their lives. But they’re also filmed in some of their most compassionate moments, demonstrating unwavering strength and love, blazing a trail for anyone who has ever wondered: What is it going to be like when I die?

That includes, by the way, one of the show’s producers.

“I’ve lost people I have loved before,” says Time of Death producer Alexandra Lipsitz, “but I was never present until this series. This is the first time I’ve been present for someone’s passing.”

The series, which premieres this Friday at 9pm, is broken into six hour-long episodes, and focuses on a different person each week, showing how they live the months, weeks, days and even minutes leading up to their

death. Some of the people even die on camera, followed by shots of loved ones crying and holding their bodies.

The story of Lencioni’s mother, Maria, however, is special. Their storyline is the only one to weave through all six episodes. Cameras followed them for a full year—August to August—before, during, and after Maria’s death.

Throughout all six episodes, Lencioni struggles with not only how to process the impending death of her mother, but whether she will be able to take on the role of caregiver to her two teenage siblings after Maria’s death.

Lencioni herself did not want to comment for this story, except to say that it was easier than she expected to be honest and open during such a sensitive time, and that the project was very intimate.

Indeed, Lipsitz says Lencioni and her mother fully accepted the process, with Lencioni even keeping a camera with her to continue filming their story when the documentary crew wasn’t around, capturing some of the show’s most powerful moments.

To that end, the scenes featuring the Lencionis—like the one quoted above—are raw and at times brutally, shockingly honest.

The results of this approach are revealing, and can serve as a warning to anyone who holds grudges or pushes loved ones out of their lives.

“One thing I learned is the way you live your life is the way you die.

If you’ve been fiercely independent your whole life, you might die fiercely independent, by yourself,” Lipsitz says.

The series is, above all, intended to help bring the topic of death more into the American consciousness, she says.

“In the hospice world sometimes they say, ‘Oh, did they have a good death?’ To me that was such a striking phrase. How does somebody have a good death? That’s two words you don’t put together,” says Lipsitz. “Doing the project helped me to see what that means. To pull the curtain back and take a really unabashed look and not be afraid and see that there can be love, and it can be painless in some ways for the person, and it can be uplifting. It’s just all part of it. Part of the living process.”

And, of course, for the families, the process goes on after the person has died. For the Lencionis, this part of the experience is captured, too. The first scene of the series is a kind of flashforward, to the moment after Lencioni finds her mother’s dead body.

Crying, she talks on the phone to an emergency dispatcher, who macabrely urges her to tell him why she thinks her mother is dead.

“Is she cold to the touch…?” the dispatcher prompts.

“Yeah,” Lencioni says, clearly thrown off. “And she’s not breathing, and she’s blue and stiff and like, fucking dead.” 0

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Briefs Trail Mix

Anyone who’s seen the San Lorenzo River at low tide recently has seen the effects of California’s current drought conditions firsthand. The symptoms, troubling as they are, provide a test for a city a ready to press pause on its desalination plant once the final environmental impact report comes out.

Two items about reducing Santa Cruz’s water demand appeared before the city council last week—one to prolong the current water restrictions and another to update the policy of retrofitting and replacing toilets, sinks and showerheads.

“Because of the drop-off in supply and not any real visible rebound—we would normally expect a little bump in October, we’re dropping off quite rapidly,” the city’s Water Conservation Manager Toby Goddard told the council.

“For that reason, we’re recommending we signal to the public that our conditions are not back to normal.”

Both items passed 6-0 at the meeting.

The extension of a 5 percent curtailment policy means using nozzles with hoses, and not washing paved surfaces and other household restrictions.

Restaurants must only serve water on request.

Water department staff is also doing some adjusting—both to its first year under a habitat conservation plan that increases requirements for how much water the city must leave in local streams to protect fish, and its first few months under interim water director Linette Almond, as the city looks for a replacement to Bill Kocher, who resigned after the city backed away from desal.

Councilmember Cynthia Mathews wondered at the meeting if these water restrictions will cut it in the months ahead.

“Some of us remember back to previous multi-year droughts,” Mathews asked Goddard. “At what point do we say ‘Rain’s not coming. Stage one isn’t enough?’”

Goddard says demand usually dips in the winter and hopes November and December are wetter than October was.

He says department staff will re-evaluate supply and the possibility of tighter restrictions this January. 0

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Fred Keeley was whispering sweet nothings in a city clerk's ear as Micah Posner talked about an “exciting moment” for the city.

Santa Cruz County Treasurer Keeley was dropping off last-minute letters of support from himself and Coastal Conservancy executive director Sam Schuchat in favor of a plan to put a Rail Trail for cyclists along the railroad tracks. A huge crew of transportation activists—and some of their kids—had just finished their effusive outpouring of support for the same project during public comment. It was all part of the Rail Trail love fest that unfolded last week at a Santa Cruz city council meeting.

The City Council voted 6-0 in favor of a plan to pursue funding for the very popular plan for a Rail Trail, which the rhyme-hating Santa Cruz Regional Transportation Commission calls the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary Scenic Trail instead. The council’s vote allowed the city’s public works department to apply for a $5.3 million grant with the RTC by the deadline, Oct. 29.

“It’s a once-in-a-decade opportunity of money that is dedicated just to this kind of project,” councilmember Don Lane said. “We have a really golden opportunity here.”

As of press time, Santa Cruz County, Capitola and Watsonville were all considering putting in applications for the same piece of funding—most of which was secured

by US Congressman Sam Farr, RTC spokesperson Karena Pushnik told us.

This piece of trail, segment 7, would stretch from Moore Creek to Pacific Avenue in the city along the coastal railroad tracks the RTC bought in 2010 at a cost of $10.1 million. Council agreed to match 20 percent of the grant to the trail’s design—just over $1 million—in order to make its application more competitive. Over the past couple weeks, community members also pledged $145,000 to the project.

When—if—finished, the entire 32-mile scenic trail would stretch from Davenport to Watsonville at an estimated cost of $125 million.

Pushnik says the RTC will probably consider the applications at its Dec. 5 meeting.

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Somehow, the latter aughts’ most fussed-over culinary innovator had cut the written exam, graduating to his profession’s stratosphere without autographing cookbooks for every souvenir-seeking foodie who appeared at his kitchen door. He has corrected that oversight, in a big way, with the public debut of Manresa: An Edible Reflection (Ten Speed Press) last week.

Already a top ten cookbook online, the much-anticipated 336page hardcover has been in the works for two years and evidences Kinch’s fanatical attention to nuance,

teamwork, soulful artistry and unconventional thinking. Enthusiasts of our region will be warmed by familiar sights, from the Pacific’s luminous turquoise waves where Kinch gains his inspiration to the natural terraces of Love Apple Farms on Vine Hill Road and Gene Lester’s Watsonville citrus orchards.

Intensely personal but not selfindulgent, the book distinguishes itself from the current crop of bound tomes of food porn, recipes and personal promotion that are the currency of the modern celebrity chef. Never egomaniacal or overly

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MANRESA MAGIC Page 11 and left: Kinch’s creations. Right: Manresa’s Santa Cruz contingent includes, from left to right, Chef de Cuisine Jessica Largey, Lead Cook Aisha Ibrahim, Pastry Chef Stephanie Prida, Bread Baker Avery Ruzicka, Line Cook Dustin Lofstedt, Beverage Director Jeff Bareilles and Maître d’ Chris Sullivan. A Tom Killion print of the hills and ocean below Pogonip adorns the dining room.

chatty—he’s no Guy Fieri or Anthony Bourdain—the introverted Kinch has characteristically let his work speak for itself. An Edible Reflection focuses on the ecosystem of influences that binds his cuisine to the people, plants, animals and sea that surround him.

It’s a love letter to a region, expressed through the language of food, much as Ansel Adams, Jack London, John Muir or the 19th-century California plein air painters paid reverence to Northern California’s mountains, vegetation and coastline with photography, literature or impressionistic brushstrokes.

He says he called the book a reflection because it speaks to "not just to who we are, but to where we are." A particularly inspired touch is a bound woodcut by Northern California artist Tom Killion, showing the Santa Cruz coastline from the Pogonip preserve. I remember when Killion's prints decorated the brick

walls of The Swan restaurant in Santa Cruz, before the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Some of the dishes in the book were shot on one-of-akind ceramic bowls from Iwasawa Oriental Art in Los Gatos, a 30-year institution. There are photographs of a curved mountain road, some abalone shells, a redwood tree's bark, and the Bonsai tree and candle-filled fireplace at Manresa's entrance.

Visual cues like these make Reflection not just the first major book by a Silicon Valley chef but a work with the region's DNA stranded through its pages.

Would Kinch's oeuvre command as much attention had he remained in the A-list kitchens of Manhattan and San Francisco, rather than abandon them to explore Catalonia's backroads and the Chardonnay caves of Saratoga's Mt. Eden vineyards? Farm-to-table just

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couldn't have achieved this level of expression in those cities—nor in London, Miami or Las Vegas. The recipe required a locale on the cusp of a sun-drenched, year-round boutique farming and aquaculture region slammed up against Silicon Valley's deep pockets, where Kinch attracted patient investors willing to bankroll his dream and enough diners able to spend hundreds of dollars for a meal.

Timing didn’t cooperate, however, as Kinch struggled after 9/11 and the dotcom implosion. Throwing in the towel may have been the logical business course. A restaurant consultant would have told him to simplify the menu and become a chop house, but Kinch persevered. “I was going to die trying,” he says. “It was a labor of love. I wasn’t going to quit.“ “It’s been an incredible journey,” Kinch says. “The book is our story.”

Try This at Home Manresa chef de cuisine Largey edited the recipes and converted them into uniform measurements, giving up her days off to prepare dishes for the photo shoots that took over Manresa’s kitchen and dining room for a year and a half on its down days. She says about 80 dishes were photographed, and each contained five to 15 sub-recipes. “It was a lot of recipes,” she says.

Many of the recipes are a bit ambitious for a home cook without professional tools and a staff of assistants. “Even if you can’t create the dish at home, maybe you can use the components,” the 27-year-old chef says. “They more or less stand on their own.”

She enjoyed the process of documenting Manresa’s evolving menu, noting that each dish is an artistic creation with a short life. “It’s eaten and it’s gone forever.”

“The dishes in the book are Immortalized now,” Largey says.

“It’s nice that something captured that.”The book contains a section on Manresa's new cocktail program, which began two years ago when the restaurant added a bar. Largey says the "ingredient-focused" approach to mixology "starts with the produce

and then matches a liquor to it." The kitchen staff produced syrups and infusions for Beverage Director Jeff Bareilles, also Manresa's sommelier.

"He says wine is so easy now. 'I just open the bottle and that's it.' Now he has to create things. It's a really great challenge for him."

Nothing Like New York The one thing I found odd about the cookbook was the seemingly out-of-character selection of Eric Ripert of Le Bernadin to write the introduction. (His Manhattan restaurant once handed me an ill-fitting wool blazer on one of the hottest days of July before I could have lunch there.) Tucked in a Los Gatos alley that's accessed by passing a bank's drive-up windows, Manresa is the opposite of New York-style pretension and formality; one of the book's signature photographs features a bug-eaten chard leaf on page 15.

Kinch calls Ripert "a great old friend of mine" whom he credits with bringing Manresa to the attention of the international culinary gods while it was still struggling. "Eric came here to eat. He invited us to cook lunch for a bunch of influential writers in New York. He opened up the restaurant.

It was our first introduction to the national media."

The international acclaim, fullybooked weekends and high prices have put Manresa's cuisine beyond the reach of local diners who could once enjoy Kinch's preparations at a village bistro. Manresa hasn't entirely abandoned its populist roots, however.

Last Saturday morning, Largey was peddling brioches and baguettes prepared by head baker Avery Ruzicka at the Campbell farmer's market, part of the Manresa Bread Project that seems to be going somewhere.

Kinch also promises that Manresa fans won't have to wait a decade for his next book. He isn't ready to discuss it yet, only hinting that "something's in the works already" and it will be "sooner rather than later." 0

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he commute to Silicon Valley has long been a staple of life in Santa Cruz, and not in a good way. Certainly it’s hard to believe that anyone has downright romanticized it the way David Kinch has. The celebrated chef, who has lived in Santa Cruz since 1997, wouldn’t give up the drive even if he could, because for him “the hill” represents a solid dividing line between his professional life at Manresa in Silicon Valley and his personal life at home in Silicon Beach.

“When I drive to work, I make this slow transition,” says Kinch. “I find one part of my life slowly fading away, and the other part coming into focus.”

As Kinch’s success and fame have grown, even some in Santa Cruz have wondered why he’s never fled Surf City to join his contemporaries—like, for instance, David Chang of New York’s Momofuku in the big city. In his new cookbook, he discusses why the Bay Area is a perfect match for his culinary philosophy. But there are personal reasons he loves what he calls “the college town, the stoner town, the surf town”—and not just because he’s an avid surfer himself.

“Balance is everything,” he says. “The vibe of Santa Cruz is a great balance to what I do over the hill. I can walk to movie theaters, I can walk to restaurants, I can walk to bookstores.”

Nor does he ever feel tempted by the call of the celebrity-chef meccas. “I did my time in New York,” he says. “I could have stayed, but I made a choice to move to California. I’ve worked in urban areas my entire life. I’m kind of over it.”

Kinch’s best-known professional connection to Santa Cruz is Manresa’s symbiotic partnership with Love Apple Farms, a cutting-edge arrangement in which Cynthia Sandberg’s farm grows exclusively (and biodynamically) for Kinch’s culinary creations. It all started because of Sandberg’s championship skill at growing tomatoes, which had him buying tomatoes from her for a couple of years before they sealed the deal.

“That planted the seeds, ha ha,” says Kinch.

Like Sandberg’s plants, Kinch’s roots are now firmly planted. “We bought the building, we bought the land. We’re not going anywhere,” he says. “I’m happy here.” —Steve Palopoli

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alloween is all about candy and costumes and realizing that you should have really thought about that Walter White costume a little longer, because (a) everyone single person in your neighborhood also did a Breaking Bad costume, and (b) people think it’s funny to give you only blue candy.

Still, there are plenty of places around Santa Cruz to get purer stuff on Halloween this Thursday, like downtown Santa Cruz, where businesses will be handing out candy to eager trick-or-treaters between 2:30pm and 5pm, which will leave parents plenty of time to get prepared for the night’s Halloween-themed dance parties, which we’ll get to in a minute.

Another trick or treating option is the Santa Cruz Wharf. The businesses there will be handing out candy between 4pm and 6pm, which means that resourceful parents can time it just right to take their kids to both trick-ortreat hot spots, for maximum candy action.

But it’s not all tooth decay and Disney princesses. Locals can honor their friends and family with the Mexican tradition of the Day of the Dead at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, which is hosting its annual Dia de los Muertos Community Ofrenda.

Visitors are invited to bring a memento or photo of their loved ones and to leave it on the altar in remembrance. This year’s display was created by students

in Monarch Elementary School, Costanoa High School and YWCA Watsonville Teen Program. It’s between 11am-5pm and costs between $3-$5.

When the sun finally comes down and the kids are in bed, that’s when the dancing begins. But where to start? The Cocoanut Grove is having its sixth annual Monster Bash Masquerade, which will feature a full night of electronic music. The performers include Opiuo (from Australia), Liberation Movement (w/ Gaga Giri, Shasha Rose, Plantrae), Vibesquad, Jpod the beat chef and Little John. The event is 21+ and tickets are $35 adv/$40 door. Doors open at 7pm.

Rock and roll, on the other hand could make for an equally fun way to monster mash this Halloween. Hotel Paradox is transforming into the scary location for a big wild Halloween party.

There’s food, costumes contests, the whole works. Local blues rock group Stomping Grounds and San Francisco Stones-esque rockers Soft White Sixties will perform. Tickets are $25, and it starts at 8pm.

For the pure appreciation of great spooky music, the Crepe Place is having its unique Spooktakular event, where some local bands are dressing up as (and performing the songs of) their favorite Halloween-appropriate bands. Local garage rockers the Groggs will be Roky Erickson, while Rohan will come as Black Sabbath. The show starts at 9pm. Tickets are $10. 0

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CONTINUING Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History

THEATER UCSC Theater Arts The Normal Heart: A studentdirected production of the play by Larry Kramer, about the rise of the AIDS crisis in New York City in the 80s. Fri, Nov 1, 7pm, Sat, Nov 2, 7pm and Sun, Nov 3, 3pm. $12.

Experimental Theater, Theater Arts Center UCSC, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

CONCERTS SC Chamber Players A concert of 20th century Romance Era harmonies featuring the Woodwind Quintet. Sat, Nov 2, 8pm and Sun, Nov 3, 3pm. $25.

Christ Lutheran Church, 10707 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.425.3149.

UCSC Rainbow Theater A variety of performances for the 20th anniversary of the multicultural student-led theater troupe. www.cadrc. org. Fri, Nov 1, 7pm, Sat, Nov 2, 7pm and Sun, Nov 3, 3 and 7pm. $10 general; $7 students. Stevenson College, UCSC, Santa Cruz, 831.459.1861.

Free First Friday. View the exhibits for free every first Friday of the month. Docent tours at noon. First Fri of every month, 11am-6pm. Spotlight Tours. Bringing the artists' voices directly to visitors.

Go behind the scenes and museum-wide exhibitions.

First Sat of every month, 11:30am-12:30pm. Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

GALLERIES OPENING Santa Cruz Rehearsal Studios Sant Cruz Rehearsal Studios.

The Rock Series: Acrylic on canvas paintings by June inspired by Janis Joplin and other rock icons. Hours: Mon-Sun, 10am-midnight.

Free. 118 Coral St, Santa Cruz, 831.425.7277.

CONTINUING Cabrillo College Gallery Cabrillo 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.

Felix Kulpa Gallery Coming Attraction - New

perform animated readings of children's stories. Mon, 11am.

Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

Pajaro Valley Arts Council

Baby Feeding Circle

Mi Casa es Tu Casa: An exhibit of installations paying tribute to Dia de Los Muertos with the theme of "Passages."

Gallery hours: Wed-Sun 11am-4pm. Thru Dec. 8. Free.

37 Sudden St, Watsonville, 831.722.3062.

Santa Cruz Art League Beasts on Broadway: Art inspired by animals of all shapes and sizes, real or imagined. www.scal.org.

Gallery hours: Wed-Sat, noon-5pm; Sun, noon-4pm.

Thru Nov. 24. Wed-Sat, noon-5pm, Sun noon-4pm.

526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, 831.426.5787.

Death

Museum of Art & 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, 11am-5pm; Fri 11am-9pm.

Thru Dec. 1. Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

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.

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.

Charli XCX

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.

Songstress behind Icona Pop’s radio hit “I Love It” busts out with her own debut album ‘True Romance.’ Nov. 1 at Slim’s.

LITERARY EVENTS

Television Tom Verlaine and the gang (sans Richard Lloyd) bring their scissory, post-punk songs, old and new, to the stage. Nov. 5 at the Independent.

Author Event: Ethan Casey & Bill Steigerwald Two American Road Trips: Both authors will share their experiences traveling the United States for their new books. Wed, Oct 30, 7pm.

Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

Storytime More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

Computer Coaching

A Course In Miracles Study Group

Deerhoof

Ex-Smiths, Modest Mouse and Cribs guitarist goes solo with ‘The Messenger.’ Nov. 1 at The Fillmore

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.

Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History

Various Santa Cruz County Bank Locations

Johnny Marr

Beat Sanctuary

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.

‘A Band Called Death’ has rightfully pulled this essential early ’70s Detroit punk band out of obscurity. Oct. 31 at the New Parish.

Bay Area noise pop group has no fear of strange and unexpected time signatures. Nov. 1 at Bottom of the Hill.

A chance to relax, feed your baby and chat with other new mothers. Open to all mothers and babies. Mon, 10:3011:30am. free. Luma Yoga & Family Center, 1010 Center St., Santa Cruz, 831.325.2620.

Basic computer help for adults: Emailing, searching the internet, creating passwords and more. Sign up for 30-minute sessions at the front desk. First Sun of every month, 1-4:30pm. Free. Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.427.7700x7635.

Santa Cruz Central Branch Library

The Cosmo Factory

San Francisco’s City Guide

NOTICES

Former Shakespeare Santa Cruz actress Billie Harris and Book Cafe manager Jill Rose

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.

Eating Disorders Resource Center Meeting Groups will be led by Kimberly Kuhn, LCSW and Carolyn Blackman, RN, LCSW. First Fri of every month, 6-7:30pm.

Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave, Santa Cruz, 408.559.5593.

Fatherhood Class A monthly dads' class supporting men in taking an active hand in parenting babies and children. First Mon of every month, 7-8pm. $5-$10 suggested donation.

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

Grief Support A lunchtime drop-in support group for adults grieving the death of a family member or friend. Tues. 6-7pm at 125 Heather Terrace, Aptos; Fri. noon-1pm at 5403 Scotts Valley Dr. Ste. D, Scotts Valley. free. Various sites, NA, Santa Cruz, 831.430.3000.

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MAH: “Journey Forth” Artist Talk When technology and nature intersect, bizarre things can sometimes happen. (For example, Google Earth can malfunction, creating a highway that drapes like taffy through a mountainous stretch of nothingness.) This exhibit explores a number of questions about how we experience nature in the Information Age. In this talk, two participating artists, Val Britton and Mary Anne Kluth, will discuss their work and their perspectives on this ever-fascinating conundrum. Saturday, Nov. 2 from 3-5pm at the Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. General admission $5.

Miracle Working

Reproductive Justice

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.

Creating Consent Culture: A talk on lack of consent in reproductive health choices. Mon, Nov 4, 6:308:30pm. UCSC College 9 & 10 Recreation Lounge, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz.

NAACP Santa Cruz Membership and Leadership Outreach Effort Members of the community are invited and encouraged to attend meetings of the NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch #1071. First Mon of every month, 7:30pm.

Progressive Missionary Baptist Church, 517 Center St, Santa Cruz.

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 12:151:15pm 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 6:30-7:30pm at 335 Spreckles Dr, Ste. A, Aptos. Thursdays 1-2pm at 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. Fridays noon1pm 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.

Support and Recovery Groups Alzheimer's: Alzheimer's Assn., 831.464.9982. Bipolar: 707.747.1989. 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). Pagans in Recovery: 831.428.3024. Narcotics Anonymous: saveyoursanity@ aol.com. Clutterers Anonymous: 831.359.3008.

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.

Yoga Instruction Pacific Cultural Center: 35+ classes per week, 831.462.8893. SC Yoga: 45 classes per week, 831.227.2156. TriYoga:

numerous weekly classes, 831.464.8100. Yoga Within at Aptos Station, 831.687.0818; Om Room School of Yoga, 831.429.9355; Pacific Climbing Gym, 831.454.9254; Aptos Yoga Center, 831.688.1019; Twin Lotus Center, 831.239.3900. Hatha Yoga with Debra Whizin, 831.588.8527.

Zen, Vipassana, Basic: Intro to Meditation Zen: SC Zen Center, Wed, 5:45pm, 831.457.0206.

Vipassana: Vipassana SC, Wed 6:30-8pm, 831.425.3431.

Basic: Land of the Medicine Buddha, Wed, 5:30-6:30pm, 831.462.8383. Zen: Ocean Gate Zendo, first Tue each month 6:30-7pm. All are free.

AROUND TOWN

altars. Fri, Nov 1, 6pm. Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos, 1817 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.457.8208.

Dia de los Muertos Festival A community festival for First Friday where participants can craft tissue paper flowers and other artwork for the community altar. Plus live music and a Mexican dinner. Fri, Nov 1, 4-9pm. Free. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Monster Bash A dance and costume party featuring DJ sets and a parade by the Samba Stilt Circus. Thu, Oct 31. $40.

Cocoanut Grove Ballroom, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz.

Poppy Farm Fair Adult Science Fun Night A behind-the-scenes look at the emerging Santa Cruz Children's Museum of Discovery. Appetizers, games, beer and wine will be provided at this adults-only event. Fri, Nov 1, 6-9pm. $50-$100 sliding scale. Holy Cross Hall, 170 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.0415.

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.

Dia de Los Muertos A celebration with music, food, face painting and more put on by Barrios Unidos.

Bring pictures to place on

A fair and bluegrass festival benefitting Native Revival Nursery. Sat, Nov 2. Native Revival Nursery, 2600 Mar Vista Drive, Aptos, 831.684.1811.

UCSC Farm Tours Learn about organic farming while visiting greenhouses, orchards, and row crops.

First Sun of every month, 2-3:30pm. Free. UCSC Farm and Garden, UCSC, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3240.

Wharf Trick-or-Treat Trick-or-treating for kids provided by wharf businesses. Thu, Oct 31, 4-6pm. Free. Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf, 21 Municipal Wharf, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6025.

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Different belly dancers each week on the garden stage.

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

Work by a Community of Artists: Paintings, photography, mixed media and video by 13 local artists. Gallery hours: Thurs-Sun, noon-6pm. Oct. 24-Nov. 24. Free. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

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ANSY MCCLAIN & THE TRAILER PARK TROUBADOURS Tickets: shop.special.unhitched.com

Friday, November 1 U 6 & 8:30 pm

EDWARD MICHAEL ARCHIBALD AND BAND

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Oct. 31 at Crepe Place

PAUL OAKENFOLD Oct. 31 at Catalyst

OMAR SOSA’S AFRI-LECTRIC SEXTET Nov. 4 at Kuumbwa

WANDA JACKSON

Nov. 8 at Don Quixote’s

MACY GRAY

Nov. 8 at Catalyst

Saturday, November 2 U 8 pm

NO DIVAS 2ND ANNUAL FALL CONCERT Tickets: brownpapertickets.com Sunday, November 3 U 7 pm

JESSE AUTUMN & GRANDAD COYOTE

Tickets: brownpapertickets.com Monday, November 4 U 7 pm | No Comps

OMAR SOSA AFRI-LECTRIC SEXTET Tuesday, November 5 U 7:30 pm

MAKANA

Tickets: snazzyproductions.com 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 9pm: 1/2 Price Night for Students Saturday, November 9 U 9 pm

A WALK IN THE COUNTRY Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell perform together Friday.

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WAKE THE DEAD There’s no shortage of Gr There’s Grateful atefful Dead music around ar ound these parts. We’re We’re a hop h and a skip from fr om San Francisco, Francisco,, the epicenter epiceenter of Dead-ville; we have a handful of legit Dead Deead cover bands of our own;; and every once inn a while, Wake Wake the Dead, our East Bay neighbor, neighborr, brings its inspired Celtic beautiful, delightfully inspir edd blend of Cel tic Grateful songs styles and Gr ateful Dead song gs to town. For Jerry those who miss Jer ryy and cann gget down to a frame harp, pennywhistle and fr ame drum,, this band is just the thing.. Don Quixote’s; Quixote’s; $15;; 8pm. (CJ)

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JOHN N DEE GRAHAM GRAH HAM Alternative country Alternative coountry rocker rocker Jon Dee Graham Graham stage performing heartfelt paces the sta age when perf orming heartf elt belts ballads, whichh he bel ts out like a less lethargic James McMurtry.. Gr Graham lethar gic Jam mes McMurtry aham hails from fr om Austin, TTexas—the eexas—the same musical Mecca that ggave ave us McMurtry and many sings aw intensity others. He sin ngs with all the rraw Waits of TTom oom W aits and the lyrical honesty of Van TTownes oownes V an a Zandt Z in songs about ffamily, amilyy, dragging cigarettes wrong love or dr agging on cigar ettes in the wr ong part of town. Furthermore Furthermore Graham’s Graham’s soloing skills on the electric e guitar outshine those Crepe of most of hiss songwriting peers. Cr epe 9pm.

Place; $10; 9p pm. (JP)

$5 @ CLUB KUUMBWA: door MICHAEL FEINBERG TRIO Monday, November 11 U 7 pm | No Comps

KIM NALLEY WITH THE MARCUS SHELBY ORCHESTRA “THE COLE PORTER SONGBOOK” Thursday, November 14 U 7 pm

PETER BRÖTZMANN AND PAAL NILSSEN – LOVE DUO Friday, Nov. 15 U 7 & 9 pm | No Comps

JOSHUA REDMAN QUARTET with Aaron Goldberg, Joe Sanders and Gregory Hutchinson 9pm: 1/2 Price Night for Students Mon. November 18 U 7:30 pm | No Comps

DIANE SCHUUR

Tuesday, November 19 U 7 pm | FREE

MASTER CLASS SERIES DAN ROBBINS: JAZZ BASS AND BEYOND GOLD CIRCLE

OUT!pm Wednesday, November SOLD 20 U 7:30

MAURA O’CONNELL

Tickets: snazzyproductions.com Thursday, November 21 U 7 pm | No Comps

RANDY WESTON/ BILLY HARPER DUO

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Film REFLECTIONS OF CULTURE Director Lou Ma Ho’s ‘Koan of Spring’ plays Nov. 9 as part of the Santa Cruz Film Festival.

Coming Attractions A first look at some of the highlights of the newly revamped Santa Cruz Film Festival BY AARON CARNES

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or over a decade, the Santa Cruz Film Festival has been a haven for unique, underthe-radar films. Now, for the SCFF’s twelfth year, organizers want to mix things up a bit, without sacrificing the festival’s indie spirit in the process.

They’re hoping the changes to the festival will draw in a new wave of film fans, and serve as a foundation for future growth.

The most intriguing change they’ve made is bringing in new festival coordinator, Jeff Ross, who has a history of growing film festivals of his own. He started SF Indiefest on a shoestring budget and turned it into the event it is today—which draws more than 25,000 people. They’ve also condensed the festival from

a 10-day to a four-day event, and moved it from May to November.

The roster of this year’s films walk a line between staying true to the eclectic nature of past years, and showcasing some films with a broader appeal.

Mars at Sunrise, which was directed by newly local filmmaker Jessica Habie, takes on the controversial subject matter of the ongoing struggle between Israelis and Palestinians, but frames it in a surreal and intimate way. Two artists on either side of the wall are in perpetual war with one another, a conflict that exists in both the real and imagined world, drifting between them interchangeably. Renowned exiled painter Hani Zurob served as

inspiration for the film, which plays on Friday Nov. 8th at 7pm at the Rio Theatre.

From Korea, Koan of Spring is a slow-paced meditative film by director Lou Ma Ho about an aging fencing master named Master Truong who serves the emperor. He’s on a quest to find his successor, and tracks down a respected general who’s left behind his duties for a life as a fisherman with his adult children. Truong tests the general’s two sons as his potential successor, but is surprised to discover the identity of his best candidate.

The film shows on Saturday, Nov. 9 at 9:15pm at the Rio Theatre.

What would it take to start your own public school? That’s the idea behind documentary The New Public in

which filmmaker Jyllian Gunter documents former DJ James O’Brien and his faculty of eight as they attempt to open BCAM, their own public school in Brooklyn. They enroll 104 kids for the freshman class in 2006, and find both huge challenges and surprise successes. The movie ends by catching up with the school four years later when the faculty has grown to 50, the student body is up to 450, and the freshman class are graduating seniors. The New Public plays on Sunday, Nov. 10 at 2:30pm at the Pacific Arts Complex.

The Motherhood Archives, which was directed by UCSC Professor Irene Lusztig, is a strange, funny and disturbing docu-essay on the history of childbirth in the modern era. The film is told through archival footage, training films and document footage of childbirth through the past century, touching on everything from Lamaze to obstetric anesthesia. It’s a surprising peak behind the curtain of our changing history regarding women’s issues, motherhood and child rearing practices. The film plays on Sunday Nov. 10 at 7pm at Pacific Arts Complex.

Closing the festival out this year is the lighter, comedic film, Cement Suitcase. J. Rick Castaneda directs this coming of age film about Franklin, a talented wine salesman who hates his job, has a girlfriend that’s cheating on him, and even meets the man she’s cheating on him with. He offers to give him golf lessons.

Franklin searches for a deeper meaning as his life seemingly falls apart. It plays on Sunday Nov. 10th at 7pm at the Rio Theatre.

Tickets for all shows are available through santacruzfilmfestival.org.

SANTA CRUZ FILM FESTIVAL Nov. 7-10 Downtown Santa Cruz

Film Capsules New

DONNIE DARKO (2001) The 21st century’s first cult film returns to the Del Mar midnight movie line-up. Why not dress as the scary bunny for Halloween and then just stay in costume until Friday at midnight? Don’t get shot by Jake Gyllenhaal though! (Plays Fri and Sat at midnight at the Del Mar) ENDER’S GAME (PG13; 104 min) There’s been a lot of LGBT supporters protesting this movie

SH O WTI M E S

this animated movie that is seriously about turkeys traveling through time. They go back to try to stop JFK’s assassination. Just kidding, of course they try to get turkey off the Thanksgiving menu. (Opens Fri at Scotts Valley and Green Valley) LAST VEGAS (PG-13; 105 min) The trailer for this comedy just makes you involuntarily smile. Is it getting to watch Morgan Freeman, Michael Douglas, Robert DeNiro and Kevin Kline being goofy? Yeah, and also that this old-fart version of The Hangover actually looks hilarious, when it could have been just a cash-in on its all-star cast.

(Opens Fri at 41st, Scotts Valley and Green Valley) MR. NOBODY (R; 141 min) Trippy Jared Leto

Movie reviews by Steve Palopoli and Richard von Busack

flick set in 2092 has him as the ultimate unreliable narrator—maybe—as he recounts alternate life stories. The tagline “Nothing is real, everything is possible” seems apt.

(Plays at 11:15 pm Fri and Sat at the Del Mar)

Reviews

ALL IS LOST (PG-13; 106 min) Robert Redford stars in this adventure story of a man on the open sea whose boat is damaged, leaving him in a lonely and desperate fight for survival.

BAD GRANDPA (R; 92 min) Johnny Knoxville’s obnoxious old man character from Jackass gets his own movie, which for sure nobody saw coming.

For some reason, the movie combines a fictional plot

with the typical hiddencamera footage of real people being grossed out by Grandpa’s lewd behavior.

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.

CARRIE (R; 99 min.) Have you heard of this new thing called “remaking classic horror films”? Apparently, it always goes great, and makes all the fans of the original movies super happy!

THE COUNSELOR (R; 117 min) Ridley Scott directs this Cormac McCarthy adaptation about a laywer who gets tangled in drug trafficking. All-star cast includes Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz, Penelope

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Oct. 30, through Wednesday, Nov. 6, unless otherwise indicated.

Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

APTOS CINEMAS

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa — Wed-Thu 12; 2:30; 3:15; 5; 6; 8:15; 10:40;

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

Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Ender’s Game — (Opens Fri) 2; 4:20; 6:45; 9:10pm.

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

Captain Phillips — Wed-Thu 12:15; 3:10; 6:15; 9:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Carrie — Wed-Thu 12:35; 3:05; 5:30; 8; 10:25; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 — Wed-Thu 12:25; 3:20; 6:35; 9; Fri-

41ST AVENUE CINEMA

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

Last Vegas — (Opens Fri) Fri-Thu 11:30; 2; 4:40; 7:15; 9:45pm.

Captain Phillips — Wed-Thu 12:30; 3:45; 7; 10pm.

The Counselor — Wed-Thu 1:15; 4:15; 7:15; 10:15pm.

DEL MAR

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

12 Years A Slave — (Opens Fri) Fri-Thu 1:50; 3:30; 4:40; 6:15; 7:30; 9; plus FriSun 11; 12:45 (No 11am Fri 11/1).

All Is Lost — (Opens Fri) Fri-Thu 2:30; 4:50; 7:10; 9:30; plus Fri-Sat 12:10pm.

Donnie Darko — Fri-Sat Midnight.

Frankenstein — Sun 11am.

Mr.Nobody — Fri-Sat 11:50pm.

NICKELODEON

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

A.C.O.D. — Wed-Thu 2:30; 7:10; plus Sat-Sun 12:30pm.

Enough Said — Wed-Thu 2:40; 4:50; 7; 9; plus Sat-Sun 12:40pm.

Inequality for All — Wed-Thu 4:40; 9:15; plus Sat-Sun 12:20pm.

Muscle Shoals — Wed-Thu 2:20; 6:40; (No 6:40pm Mon 11/4).

Rush — Wed-Thu 4:20; 6:50; 9:20; plus Sat-Sun 1:45pm.

The Fifth Estate — Wed-Thu 4:30; 9:10pm.

The Invisible War — Mon 7pm.

Licks — Wed 11/6 9pm.

RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN

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

Prisoners — Wed-Thu 3; 6; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Counselor — Wed-Thu 3; 7; 9; 9:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9

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

Ender’s Game — (Opens Fri) Thu 8; 10:40; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Wed call for showtimes.

Don Jon — Wed-Thu 12:10; 2:35; 4:50; 7:05; 9:35; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Escape Plan — Wed-Thu 12:30; 3:45; 7:15; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Gravity — Wed-Thu 12:40; 3; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Gravity 3D — Wed-Thu 5:25; 7:45; 10:10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Machete Kills — Wed-Thu 12:05; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Ghostbusters — Thu 9pm.

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

Ender’s Game— (Opens Fri) Fri-Thu 11; 11:55; 1:45; 2:45; 4:30; 5:30; 7:10; 8:15; 9:55pm.

Free Birds — (Opens Fri) Fri- Thu 11:45; 1:30; 2:15; 4; 4:40; 6:45; 10pm.

Free Birds 3D — (Opens Fri) Fri-Thu 11am.

Last Vegas — (Opens Fri) Fri-Thu 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7:20; 9; 9:55pm.

Captain Phillips — Wed-Thu 12:15; 3:30; 7; 9:15; (No 12:15 Sat).

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

Gravity — Wed-Thu 7:30; 9:45pm.

Gravity 3D — Wed-Thu 11:55; 2:30; 4:55; 6:30; 9; (No 6:30; 9 Thu).

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa —Wed-Thu 11:20; 2:30; 4:55; 7:30; 10; (No 7:30 Thu).

The Counselor — Wed-Thu 11:40; 1:45; 4:30; 7:20; 10:10; (No 7:20; 10:10 Thu).

Dial M for Murder 3D — Thu 7pm.

The Bride of Frankenstein — Sat 11am.

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8

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

Ender’s Game — (Opens Fri) Fri-Wed 1:30; 4:05; 7; 9:35; plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Free Birds — (Opens Fri) Fri-Wed 12:55; 3:10; 5:15; 7:25; 9:30; plus Sat-Sun 10:45am.

Free Birds 3D — (Opens Fri) Fri-Wed 3:05; 5:15; plus Sat-Sun 10:45am.

Last Vegas — (Opens Fri) Fri-Wed 1:20; 4:15; 7:10; 9:45; plus 11am.

Carrie — Wed-Thu 12:55; 3:05; 7:35; 10; plus Sat-Sun 10:45am.

Gravity — Wed-Thu 1:05; 5:15; 7:20; 9:45; plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa — Wed-Thu 12:55; 3:05; 5:20; 7:35; 10pm.

The Counselor — Wed-Thu 1:30; 4:05; 7; 9:45; plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Cruz, Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem.

THE FIFTH ESTATE (R; 128 min.) We’re not sure how many people out there want to see a movie dramatizing the Wikileaks saga, but Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange? That’s pretty damn awesome.

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 whizkid 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.

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.

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.

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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12 YEARS A SLAVE (R; 133 min) Based on an 1853 memoir, this story of a free African American kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South is easily the bestreviewed film of the year.

(Opens Fri at the Del Mar)

because of the despicable anti-gay views of Orson Scott Card, the author of the book it’s based on (and a producer of the film). I don’t know if the film itself should be judged on the basis of that—maybe more on the fact that Ender’s Game wasn’t a great book to begin with, certainly inferior even to Card’s short story of the same name on which it was based. (Philip K. Dick’s Time Out of Joint is a far superior take on a very similar idea.)

But whether or not you think the political issues should affect whether or not you see the film, at least we can all agree the guy’s a total douche. (Opens Fri at Cinema 9, Scotts Valley, Green Valley and Aptos.)

FREE BIRDS (PG; 91 min) Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson star in

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Send tips about food, wine and dining discoveries to Christina Waters at xtina@cruzio.com. Read her blog at christinawaters.com. eryday success. That's at Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue in downtown Santa Cruz.

Fall Faves: My favorite recent meals

GOIN NORTH Suzanne Goin of L.A.’s A.O.C. restaurant will talk about her new cookbook at Bookshop Santa Cruz on Nov. 6.

Terra Firma

BY CHRISTINA WATERS

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fter many years heading up the kitchen at Chaminade, Beverlie Terra is now the Executive Chef at Pino Alto Restaurant, the showcase for Cabrillo College's culinary arts students. This Friday, Nov. 1, Terra and her protegés collaborate with winemakers of the landmark family-owned Guglielmo Winery and Yellow Wall Farms for a four-course pairing of locally grown ingredients with Central Coast vintages.

Tickets are $65 per person, plus tax and gratuity—and it's just possible that if you act quickly you can reserve one of the last remaining seats. The meal begins with a first course of gnocchi with porcini cream and a 2012 Chardonnay. Salad of little gem

lettuce with beets, squash, feta and pomegranate vinaigrette will be joined by a 2012 Pinot Noir. The main course of lamb chops with pumpkin risotto (whoa, does that sound good) will be served with a 2008 Syrah, and dessert of warm apple crumble and persimmon ice cream will arrive with Guglielmo's sparkling almond champagne.

Call (831) 479-6524 to reserve seating at Sesnon House, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. And if dinner is sold out, then join me next week at Pino Alto's Farm to Table dinner (Burrell School is the winery) on Friday, Nov. 8.

BOOKSHOP SANTA CRUZ COOKS: Well, not literally, but

literarily at least. Next up in the bookshop's autumn culinary booksigning series is Suzanne Goin, of Los Angeles' A.O.C. restaurant who will talk about her new book—The A.O.C. Cookbook—on Nov. 6 starting at 7pm. Goin specializes in sophisticated but unpretentious recipes, the sort that are heartily endorsed

by Alice Waters and like-minded cuisinartists. Come meet the author/ chef and check out her new cookbook showcasing seasonal cookery.

And on Tuesday evening, Nov. 12, 7pm, join best-selling vegan cookbook author (Veganomicon, Vegan with a Vengeance) Isa Moskowitz, who will dish the hot tips, recipes, tidbits and strategies for making terrific and easy vegan meals for ev-

have included more than one pass through the Italianate divinity that is Pizzeria Avanti's reginette (think papardelle with fluted edges), slathered with meatballs and the finest marinara in town. Killer dish for $12. And then there's the addictive pumpkin tea cake from Companion Bakeshop. Moist, fragrant and loaded with spicy attitude, this is the best way you can possibly spend $3.

Also, a recent dinner at Oakland’s Haven let me sample some technique-driven dishes that reminded me of the heyday of "designer cuisine" only now inflected with ultra-fresh, seasonal ingredients and miles of creativity.

These are vegetarian dishes so brilliantly balanced that the very idea of meat never crossed my mind. An opening salad of mixed chicories laced with nuts and fruit, all mounded atop a thick glaze of duck liver mousse—such wonderful contrasts of sweet and salty, buttery and crunchy. I was impressed. Prices tended to be on the high side for entrees, but I'd have to say that in terms of value they were worth every penny. The housemade Cynar— seriously, can you believe that level of high alcohol nerddom?—well, it was a noble effort, but just a bit too bright and vegetal (Cynar is a highproof fermentation of artichoke, plus herbs and spices). It missed the deep mystery of commercial Cynar, and yet what a noble effort. It might be worth the drive to Oakland just to see what this glamorous Daniel Patterson Group restaurant on Jack London Square is up to next.

Who knows? Maybe downtown Santa Cruz' upcoming Assembly (kudos to the Penny Ice Creamery entrepreneurs) will offer similar housemade exotica to keep dinner times exciting.0

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FO O D IE FIL E Chip Scheuer

Zachary Davis Co-owner, Assembly

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hen it opens, Assembly will be a throwback of sorts. Zachary Davis and Kendra Baker, co-owners of the Penny Ice Creamery and Picnic Basket, will open up their new venture on Pacific Avenue. Davis, who promised some friends it would be open for Valentine’s Day, wants the business to bring in people from all walks of life. “I wouldn’t mind if it turned into the kind of place where Thomas Jefferson or George Washington would walk in and say, ‘Yeah, here’s a place I can sit down with some people and figure some things out,’” Davis says. “Maybe Jefferson would sit down next to some farmer that had grown some of the ingredients for his meal, and they’d talk about the way the world works.”

Can you give us a hint about the price range or menu items? You would go with your family, with your friends, on a date. As far as price, something reasonable. The menu, rustic California cuisine. But really we’re setting out to define Santa Cruz cuisine as its own thing, drawing on the amazing agricultural bounty of Santa Cruz County in a way that you’ll definitely recognize ingredients, and you’ll recognize some of the dishes, but what ends up on the table will be a little more interesting.

Do you have any goals for the new joint? Rather than just making another Penny and another Penny, and [going] that cookie cutter route, if we wanted to grow, we always had this idea of having a complementary ecosystem of food businesses that would share a common philosophy of locally sourcing seasonal ingredients, using organics. But they would not necessarily be the same thing—each would have its own identity and would support each other but allow us to be creative in different ways.

Cool. Then what’s next? [Laughing] This is enough for right now. This has

been a lot of work and will be a lot of work to fully realize what we want to do.

Do you and Kendra work on separate projects? When it comes to

the food, that’s her domain, and she has all the skill. For me it’s a lot of fun because I get to enjoy the food from a real outside perspective to discover those things without any preconceptions.

Jake Pierce

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EXPANDING EMPIRE After making the Penny Ice Creamery and Picnic Basket a Santa Cruz sensation with co-owner Kendra Baker, Zachary Davis is teaming with her again for the upcoming Assembly.

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CANCER (June 2121-July July 22): Ar Are re you rready eady to be excellent amazed? Now would be an excel llent time to shed infantile your soul’s inf antile illusions … too play wildly with greatest the gr eatest mystery you know … to accept gifts that freedom don’t enhance your fr eedom and rrefuse efusse gifts that don ’t supernatural encounter … to seek out a supernatur al enc counter that heals chronic consort your chr onic sadness … to conso rt and converse with from future om the futu sexy magical spirits fr ure … to make love with the lights on and cry when you y come. Halloween archetypal costume suggestion: the ar chetyypal LLOVER. OVER. LEO (July 23-Aug. 23-Aug. 22): Some peo people ople in your vicinity aree smoldering and fuming. The air ar a is heavy with emotional ferment. ferment. Conspiracy Conspiracy theories thheories are are ripening and rotting rotting at the same time. Hidden Hiddden agendas are are is swirling like seeping into conversations, and gossip g ghostly dust devils. Yet Yeet in the midst middst of this mayhem, an everyone eerie calm possesses you. As As eve ryone else struggles, you’ree poised and full of grace. yyou’r p ggrace. To To what do we owe this stability? I suspect it has to do with wiith the fact fact that life life is showing you how to feel feel at home hom me in the world no matter what’s what’s happening around around you. Keep Keep making yourself receptive receptive to these teachings. teachings. Halloween costume suggestion: King or Queen Queen of Relaxation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 23-Sept.

-Sept. 22): Uni Unification fication should be coming weeks. a key theme ffor or you in the comin ng week s. Anything promotes and you do that pr omotes splicing an nd blending and extraa help, sometimes from harmonizing will get extr s fr om behindd the scenes. The mysterious fforces orces working behin moree you work to find common ground mor g ound between gr stronger you’ll opposing sides, the str onger you ’ll ffeel eel and the better you’ll look. If you can manage to mend schisms and will heal wounds, unexpected luck wi ill flow into your life. life. encourage developments, TToo encour age these developmen ts, consider these tape, Krazy azyy Halloween disguises: g a rroll oll of tap ppe,, a stick of Kr that’s Glue, a wound that ’s healing, a bridge. bridge.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 23-Oct. -Oct. 22): Wha Whatt do you think you’d weree among the on one-percent-wealthiest be like if you wer ne-percent-wealthiest Would demand ould you dem people on Earth? W mand that your aise your taxes so you government rraise y could contribute moree to our collective well-being well-being?

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SCORPIO (O (Oct. ct. 23-Nov. 23-Nov. 21): What if you had the power to enchant enchannt and even bewitch people with your charisma? Would Wouldd you wield your allure allure without mercy? mercy?

Would delight in their attraction Would you feel feel wicked w attraction to you, even if you didn’t didn’t plan to give them what they want? I suspect these questions entirely quuestions aren’t aren’tt entir ely rhetorical right now. now. You Yoou may have haave more more mojo at your disposal than you realize. realize. Speaking Speaaking for for your conscience, I will ask you not to desecrate desecrate your privilege. If you must manipulate people, do it for benefit as well as yours. Use your for their t raw raw magic responsibly. respoonsiblyy. Halloween costume suggestion: a mesmerizing guru; an irresistible g irresistible diva; a stage magician.

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CAPRICORN N (Dec. 22-Jan. 22-Jan. 19): I invite you to try the following following exercise. exeercise. Imagine the most powerful attain in the future. rrole ole you could realistically realistically e future. This is a position or nichee or job that will authorize you to wield your influence too the max. It will give you the clout to you share shape the environments environments o share with other people. It will allow you to freely freely express express your important ideas and seriously. have them be treated treated e seriously. Let your imagination run a little wild as a you visualize the possibilities.

Incorporate Incorpor ate yourr visions into your Halloween costume.

AQUARIUS S (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the course of earning a living,, I have worked four four different different jobs as a janitor and six as a a dishwasher. dishwasher. On the brighter side, I have performed performeed as a songwriter and lead singer for bands for six rock rock band ds and currently currently write a syndicated astrology astrology column. colum mn. According According to my analysis of the astrological astrological omens, omeens, you Aquarians are are primed to cultivate cultivate a relationship relationship with your work life life that is more more like my latter lattter choices than the former. former. The next eight months will w be a favorable favorable time to ensure ensure that you’ll be doing your own personal equivalent of rock y rock singer or astrology astroloogy columnist well into the future. future.

Halloween costume costu ume suggestion: your dream dream job.

PISCES (Feb.. 19-Mar 19-March ch 20): Author Robert LLouis ouis Walt SStevenson tevenson lovedd the work of poet W alt Whitman, rrecommending ecommending iit with the same enthusiasm as he did Shakespeare’s.

Shakespear e’s. SStevenson tevenson also rregarded egarded Whitman as nature, an unruly fforce orce of o natur e, and in one ffamous amous passage, large called him ““aa lar rge shaggy dog, just unchained, beaches scouring the bea aches of the world and baying at the assignment ignment is to do your best imitation moon.” YYour oour ass creature of a primal cr eatture like Whitman. In ffact, act, consider Halloween. being him ffor or Ha alloween. Maybe you could memorize passages from from Whitman’s W Whitman ’s Leaves of Gr Grass ass and rrecite ecite them at random random m moments. Here’s Here’s one: “I too am not a bit tamed, I tooo am untranslatable, untranslatable, / I sound my barbaric YAWP YAWP W over o the roofs roofs of the world.”

Homework: Meditate M on death not as the physical life, end of physic cal lif e, but as a metaphor ffor or what’s shedding wha at’s outworn. In that light, what’s best what ’ss the be est death you you’ve ve experienced?

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ARIES (March (March 21-April 19): Once Oncce when I was hiking through thr ough Maui’s rrain ain fforest, orest, I spiedd a majestic purple honohono flower sprouting sprouting from from a rotting rotting log. As As merged aromas I bent down close, I inhaled the mer m ged ar omas of floral fragrance.

Let’s mouldering wood and sweet flor a fr al agrance. Let ’s make this scene your metaphor of o the week, Aries.

Here’s lifee tha that throes Her e’s why: A part of your lif at is in the thr oes serve or a magnificent of decay can ser ve as host ffor m bloom. source What has been lost to you may bbecome ecome the sour ce suggestion: of ffertility. ertility. Halloween costume su uggestion: a garbage crown man or cleaning l i maid id wearing i a cr own off rroses. oses.

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