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GIANNA'S GIFT Soquel High graduate Gianna Altano died of cystic fibrosis at age 23— but gave others life

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GO BIG AND GO HOME Left to right: Jobydiah Hudson, Pandi Raccoon and Ben Fox of the touring Louisana band the Gin Jars speak to a downtown host while playing on Pacific Avenue last week, in violation of an ordinance passed in October.

Outside the Box

Why everyone’s ignoring the new downtown ordinance

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n a Tuesday afternoon in late November, a three-piece string band played on the sidewalk in front of the O’Neill’s store downtown. With three members and two open guitar cases on the ground, the band was breaking the law.

In October, the Santa Cruz City Council hastily passed extreme restrictions on the ways in which street performers, artists and political demonstrators may express themselves: They must be 14 feet from a handful of downtown features such as sidewalks and lamp posts, and they must keep themselves contained within a 12-square-foot area. For reference, 12 square feet is about the size of a card table, plus a couple of inches.

Larger musical acts are now required

by the city to file for permits from the Department of Parks and Recreation; they are free and must be obtained 36 hours before the desired performance date. However, since the ordinance took effect on Oct. 24, only four permits have been filed, according to the Parks and Recreation Department’s files. This means that the vast majority of larger acts aren’t following the directive laid out by the new law, they’re just playing downtown like they always have.

While street musicians and supporters of local culture consider this a good thing, it raises the question of why councilmembers created a law they had no intention of seeing enforced in the first place. The police department has to date issued zero citations for violations of the ordinance, and SCPD

officers have clearly been put in an awkward position trying to balance Pacific Avenue’s performance-friendly tradition with the seemingly arbitrary new rules.

Across the street from the string band, SCPD officer David Albert looked on. When asked if he was going to tell the group they were breaking the law, he said no, adding that he uses his own judgment and only asks such groups to move if they have “a whole bunch of stuff lying around.

“That’s not something we’re going to enforce,” he said, “unless we get a complaint. Then we kind of have to play by the rules.”

A homeless street artist selling her scarves around the corner from the string band, Kate Wenzell, said she was

“probably breaking” the 12-square-foot law, but hadn’t heard anything about it from law enforcement or downtown hosts. However, she had been told a few times that she needed to move to be 14 feet from certain features downtown.

“They use their discretion,” Wenzell said. “They decide what laws are a little over the top.”

Santa Cruz criminal defense attorney Jonathan Gettleman has spent several years battling what he calls “anti-vagrancy type ordinances targeted to keep homeless people from the downtown area,” and he considers the new ordinance to be just one more attempt.

“If you look at the ordinances that have passed in the last four to five years, they’re all related to the same thing: the fact that there are certain elements of people that usually are associated with homelessness that are not aesthetically pleasing, and the desire is for them to not be able to linger in any one place in a manner that’s not desirable to the Downtown Business Association. If you look closely at these ordinances you’ll see that’s who’s behind them,” he says.

The downtown hosts, who as a practice do not make comments to the press, are employed by the Downtown Management Corporation, a collection of business owners who collectively pay $150,000 in fees to fund the host program. When a musical act is too loud, taking up too much space or is otherwise undesirable, business owners call the downtown hosts, and the hosts, who don’t have the power to write tickets, either tell performers to move along or get police officers to do so.

“If everything has to be completely planned out to the square foot and exact decibel level and you can’t be 14 feet from an ATM, it becomes this matrix of laws that you just can never be in compliance with,” says Gettleman. “So then what happens is you’re always out of compliance with some law. It’s impossible to comply.

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Briefs Cry Me a River

Country Jams

Somewhere between the apple orchards and the city of Watsonville is a new music hangout. Specifically, on the corner of Freedom Boulevard and Corralitos Road, near the Cadillac Café and Alladin Nursery.

Inside the Treasure Roadhouse, beyond a small lobby, awaits a large stage, a large black skull with blue eyes and state-of-the-art acoustics.

“People come in here and say, ‘ooh, it’s really nice,’ as if—I don’t know what they were expecting,” says musician Rhan Wilson, who helped design the space with owner Bourn Archer, who used to own the Aptos Burger Company.

Archer and Wilson will hold a rummage sale at the Roadhouse on Sunday, Dec. 15, as a fundraiser to help the newly opened Roadhouse get through the slow season to the summer. The venue already hosted Rick Walker’s looping festival. And last month a New Zealand performer stopped mid-song to say, “It sounds really good in here.”

At 100 seats, the venue could be considered the South County’s halfsized Kuumbwa. Wilson and Archer painted the theater all black and built a spacious green room that’s actually green. “We’re musicians, so when we were putting this room together, we asked each other, ‘what do you want as a musician?’ ‘Well, I want to have big stage so we’re not all crowded,’” Wilson says. “‘And we need a nice room to hang out backstage.’”

Wilson hopes the Treasure Roadhouse will draw more people to a neighborhood that, in addition to the nursery and Cadillac Café, already has a coffee house and a computer repair shop—plus a meat market up the road and a tap room on the way.

“It’s not that far from Santa Cruz,” Wilson says. “When people hear Corralitos, they say, ‘It’s so far away.’

People drive up to Don Quixote’s all the time, even to Henfling’s, up to Davenport Roadhouse. This is about equidistant for most people.”0

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And you thought water issues couldn’t be any fun! They kind of were for a moment last week, thanks to Laurie Egan, who got her friends at the Coastal Watershed Council to dress up in life jackets when the Santa Cruz City Council discussed the future of the San Lorenzo River—not to debate alternatives to a desalination plant, which would have been instant buzzkill. No, in front of the council at the Tuesday Nov. 26 meeting was a go-ahead allowing staff to study kayaking and stand-up paddleboarding on the river.

Hence the jackets. Even city councilmember Micah Posner sported a jacket, although that might have just been extra safety padding for his bike ride home. So did former Mayor Mike Rotkin, Kayak Connection’s Dave Grigsby and Greg Pepping, also from the Watershed Council. “I’m not a politician, and I’m in the deep end tonight,” Pepping said during his presentation.

There was a little opposition from two environmentalists, who worried over the recommendations of some biologists about impacts on wildlife, but most speakers were generous in their support.

Assistant city manager Tina Shull said she didn’t know why the current law banning stand-up paddleboarding was on the books.

Pepping noted Denver, Paso Robles, Redding, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Kansas City and San Antonio all have active riverways where fun is allowed.

Council unanimously approved the item, which will allow staff to move forward with an environmental review.

With that out of the way, council tackled the not-so-fun stuff, voting to create a Drought Solutions Citizen Advisory Committee. Activists and city critics—some of whom might eventually serve on the committee to look for fixes to Santa Cruz’s water shortages—came to weigh in during a 90-minute public comment period that at times got heated. Many activists criticized the committee’s makeup and pressured the city to halt its $7 million-plus spending to date on studying desalination. While Desal Alternatives' Rick Longinotti and Paul

Gratz made cogent points, we'd really like to see some life jackets next time.

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Living On

INDELIBLE IMPRESSIONS Left: Gianna Altano with her sister, Marissa. Upper right: With her mother, Sydney. Lower right: her family shows off the ‘g’ tattoos done in Gianna’s memory.

Soquel High graduate Gianna Altano died of cystic fibrosis this past spring at the age of 23, awaiting a lung transplant that never came. But even in death, she gave others the gift of life. BY GEOFFREY DUNN

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he ominous grey clouds forming over the Pacific on the morning of Saturday, March 30, of this year— just beyond the coastal bluffs of the Seascape Beach Resort in Aptos—forced the gathering scheduled there that afternoon inside. It was an ephemeral disappointment, for the impending rains could not—and did not—dampen the spirits of those who were assembling to celebrate the life of Gianna Rose Altano, who had died two weeks earlier from the wretched genetic disease known as cystic fibrosis. She was one day beyond her 23rd birthday.

For all the impending darkness, it was a glorious afternoon. Those who loved, cherished and admired

Gianna—and they were legion—crowded first into the resort’s large banquet hall, and then into various overflow rooms required for the several hundred friends and family members who arrived to share the beauty and love of this amazing young woman.

The word “moving” only hints at what was in store for those of us blessed to be in attendance that afternoon. It was a truly transcendent event—one that I shall never forget, with images and feelings that are indelibly forged into my soul.

If ever there were something about which I wanted to write truly, with a clear and crystalline honesty, it’s about this day, and about what it meant to those of us who assembled to celebrate—and that is the precise word I want to use—Gianna’s life and her indelible spirit.

Words will never adequately describe her presence

on this earth. In the arc of her short lifespan, she was a profoundly loving daughter, sister, granddaughter, friend and cousin. She did many of the things that kids growing up in the region do, but she did so with a purpose and appreciation rare in a child of her age.

She rode horses and vaulted, played on a soccer team called the Flaming Snowballs, participated in Junior Life Guards and gymnastics, earned a brown belt in a martial arts program.

As a teenager, she swam on the Soquel High swim team, took up surfing and developed an absolute passion for all things related to the ocean. So much so that at the age of 20—only three short years ago—she moved to Hawaii, where she reveled in the powerful swells that pounded the North Shore of Oahu, and found a certain inner peace in their 13

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BETTER TIMES Gianna with Sydney, Marissa and Danny Altano. Since her death, her family has sought to raise awareness about cystic fibrosis and organ donation. There will be a benefit held in Gianna’s honor at Moe’s Alley on Sunday, Dec. 8. force and grandeur. She engaged her maritime surroundings with infinite zeal on a daily basis, swimming with dolphins, turtles, fish and once, even, with sharks.

She loved music, played the piano, took up the ukulele and wrote constantly—poems and stories and small snippets that seemed always to capture the magic around her. In a special, handcrafted Christmas card she made for a young man dealing, like her, with the challenges posed by cystic fibrosis (CF), she wrote: “Sometimes I think that people with CF are lucky because we get the opportunity to learn how to love more deeply than most people.”

Following her nine-month sojourn in Hawaii, she returned home and found her calling in American Sign Language, and was working toward getting her credential to become an interpreter at the time of her death.

Perhaps most importantly, Gianna was also a warrior in raising cystic fibrosis awareness. For many years her family has hosted a massive fundraising gala in her honor at the Seacliff Inn. A deeply committed network of friends joins their efforts to put on the Friends Cure CF Dinner and Auction, which benefits both Cystic Fibrosis Research, Inc. and The Living Breath Foundation. The event— which started as a hot dog stand at the World’s Shortest Fourth of July Parade

in Aptos—has raised nearly a quartermillion dollars since its inception.

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ianna’s family had asked us to wear “happy clothes” to her services—Gianna loved the vibrant hues of the tropics—and so amidst the grey backdrop that afternoon of the memorial there was a sea of vivid colors, with attendees of all ages wearing island shirts and dresses, leis and beads. For all the darkness and gloom—it could not be entirely escaped—there was an underlying joy always present, a triumph of the spirit.

Pictures of Gianna were everywhere, visual memories of a life lived with love and passion. But the one that struck me most was one that I had not seen before: Gianna on a beach in Hawaii, her back arched, her face to the sky, her arms reaching up to the heavens. The image was postersized, near the front podium. I stared at it throughout the afternoon. She seemed so present in the photograph, so full of gratitude for every moment of her life.

Gianna was someone who cherished what we often refer to as the “little things,” those moments that we may take for granted, but upon reflection are what shape, define and give deeper meaning to our lives. She loved “point drives,” as she called them, cruising along Pleasure Point, taking life’s small detours that

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we often rush by in the bustle of 21st-century life.

Gianna loved baking and home crafts, which she often undertook with her sister Marissa, and in the final months of her life she had made a “good things jar,” which would hold written notes describing each good thing that happened to her throughout the year, to be read on New Year’s Eve. I recalled running into her several years ago, when she was a teenager, walking along the beach in Rio Del Mar. I had been through my own health battles by then and was sensitized to the issue of mortality. To me, Gianna seemed almost other-worldly in her movements, as though she lived in a state of higher consciousness than I could ever imagine. I watched how she stared at the ocean, moving slowly to its rhythms, dancing back and forth with the waves. She seemed to be in touch with the music of the universe. An earth angel, I thought—a lovely, perfect earth angel.

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ive in Santa Cruz for nearly six decades, and you’ll realize how small the town can seem. So it was at Gianna’s memorial service. I saw friends and loved ones from different passages of my life dating back to childhood. I made sure to surround myself with love: on one side, I sat next to my lifelong friend Michelle Poen, who had worked for years with Gianna’s mother, Sydney, and Michelle’s companion Hope Teasdale.

On my other side I had my wife Siri, who had stayed close to Gianna and the Altanos for the final difficult days, and my daughter, Tess, who also has cystic fibrosis.

I was duly fortified.

It was a tough day. We laughed, we cried, then we wept some more. There is no escaping that reality of loss, no sugar-coating it. All of the speakers that afternoon were powerful and moving. Everyone who spoke— nurses, caregivers, doctors, friends, family—did so from a place of grace, directly from the heart. It was a symphony of love.

My daughter Tess sang a song, entitled “Breathe,” written by Matt Scales, who died from cystic fibrosis several years ago at the age of 27. She sang it with an emotional intensity that pierced me to the darkest depths.

I succumbed to a steady weeping, shoulders hunched. I didn’t try to hold anything back anymore.

Near the end of the services—as Gianna’s mother Sydney, her father Danny and sister Marissa made their way to the podium to address the overflowing crowd—I noticed that the clouds had parted on the horizon and that wide, bright swaths of sunshine were now bouncing off the waters.

Danny stepped to the microphone, possessed of a fortitude that was truly commanding, and began reading a poem that he had written in Gianna’s honor: In shock, strange as it seems.

I spent 23 years watching CF ever so slowly take my daughter’s life.

Never her spirit.

Never her love.

Never her gratitude.

Never her lust for life.

Never her kindness.

Never her beauty.

Never the light in her eyes.

Never her concern for others.

Never her creativity.

Never ever her smile.

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t goes without saying that Gianna’s death struck close to the marrow.

I have known Gianna’s father Danny (I call him Dante, in honor of our shared Italian heritage) for nearly 30 years, and when my own daughter was first diagnosed at the age of five months (Gianna was four years old at the time), he was the first person I thought about. I would often watch him through the years in full admiration of his humor and strength in the face of such a horrific challenge. I did so again the day of the memorial.

For the uninitiated, cystic fibrosis— often referred to by young children as “sixty-five roses”—is a genetic illness, usually associated with incurable, advancing lung disease. More than 30,000 people in the United States have been diagnosed with CF, and perhaps most remarkably, more than 10 million Americans are silent carriers of the CF gene.

It was only in the 1930s that researchers first identified the illness. Prior to that, most children with the more-deadly mutations of the illness didn’t live beyond the

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age of two. In certain respects, it is an invisible disease. Those who saw Gianna at play in the fields and seas of the universe would never have realized that she was so afflicted.

Because the lungs of someone with cystic fibrosis serve as an ideal host for a variety of infections, those with CF spend hours each day doing respiratory therapy to help clear their airways. They take scores of pills and other medications. But the cycle of inflammation and infection inevitably leads to permanent and irreparable lung damage. As my wife has noted, it feels as though “there is always a wolf outside the door.” Today, while advances in CF research have extended the median life expectancy for those with CF to 37, it remains a capricious and pernicious disease, all too often claiming the lives of children and young adults.

Most of those attending Gianna’s service were familiar with CF and the varied challenges it imposed on her life. They had lived through it all with her. For those in her immediate family—her mother, father and sister—those impositions had been woven into their daily lives in such a way that had become familiar and routine. But her departure had not. The vacuum was immense, unfathomable.

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t had come so suddenly. Little more than five months earlier, in November of 2012, Gianna was still healthy enough to be riding a bike on Thanksgiving weekend. The following month, however, her health made a severe—and as it turned out— irreversible turn for the worse. Her father likened it to a runaway “freight train out of control.” The “best medical care in the world,” he noted, “could not stop it or even slow it down.”

Gianna experienced a pneumothorax—a terrifying situation in which a hole developed in her lung—causing air to escape and fill her chest cavity, and requiring a pump to alleviate the pressure while the perforation healed. A month later, it happened again. It became clear that a lung transplant would now be her only option for survival. Over the next several weeks, she was in and out of the hospital. In early February, the

blood vessels in her airways became so inflamed that they ruptured, filling her lungs with blood.

She was moved to the top of the lung transplant list at Stanford. The waiting became an excruciating ordeal for her family and loved ones, in which every day was met with both hope and despair.

By early March, Gianna was no longer able to breathe on her own.

The wait for lungs dragged on, while Gianna’s health became a moving target. Her struggle became an hourly race with time. The word spread, and Gianna’s friends and family members flocked to the hospital to support one another, and share their love.

Nurses and doctors commented that they had never seen such a drought of organs available for transplant. Bad news begat bad news. As each day passed, hope for a successful transplant diminished, as Gianna became too weak to survive the surgery. On the eve of Gianna's 23rd birthday, her family still had hope that lungs would suddenly appear, but as her birthday arrived, so too did the team of doctors who shared the heartbreaking news that Gianna could no longer survive a transplant.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, individuals in need of a donor are added to the transplant list in this country every 10 minutes. Each day, while an average of 79 people receive a transplant, 18 people die waiting, due to a shortage of organs.

Donate Life America (whose vision is “a nation that embraces organ, eye and tissue donation as a fundamental human responsibility”) notes that there are nearly 120,000 individuals in this country—from infants to grandparents—waiting for organ transplants.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, it is extraordinarily easy to become an organ donor. Most people are able to register when they are renewing their driver’s licenses, and every state has an online registry. It’s that simple.

Most importantly, people can express their wish to be a donor to their families, friends and physicians and include their wishes in an advance directive or will.

Statistics have a way of dehumanizing the story. The numbers depersonalize what really

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happens at critical moments in someone’s life. They give no weight to the emotional rollercoaster ridden by loved ones when hope turns into mourning, when possibility becomes a dead-end street. Gianna Rose Altano died waiting. She died waiting in Stanford Hospital for the lungs that never came.

There was no donor.

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his could be where Gianna’s story ends—but it is not.

In a supreme act of selflessness and generosity, Gianna’s family honored her personal commitment to organ donation.

Shortly after she died, one of her kidneys was successfully transplanted, along with her corneas, heart valves, vertebrae and various tissues. Several of her organs were donated for research, including her ravaged lungs, which were sent to the Cystic Fibrosis Research Laboratory at Stanford. Even her beautiful hair was donated to children through Locks of Love.

Gianna was everywhere.

During a time of unspeakable grief, the Altanos honored their daughter by giving the gift of life to others—the very gift that had been denied their daughter. “Organ donation was the right—and only—thing to do,” said her mother Sydney. “Gianna would love knowing that she saved someone else with her kidneys, or that she helped someone to see with her corneas. It has been quite an experience being on both sides of transplant—waiting in vain as a recipient, and then as a donor family. I hope Gianna will inspire people to do the right thing and sign up as donors.

“It’s amazing how many people were helped by Gianna,” her mother concluded. “And that matters.

For people in this situation, going through such a loss, it’s kind of all you've got."

At Gianna’s memorial service, I

saw a young man who could have been me 30 years ago—long hair, passionate, fit, full of life, a young father. I watched him looking out one of the windows across the Pacific into the horizon, crying, overwhelmed by sadness and loss.

I introduced myself. He was Gianna’s cousin, Paul Karo. He talked about his love for Gianna, about growing up with her, of the great loss and vacuum he was experiencing.

The overwhelming pain. I told him that in my own health battles I had experienced a sense of the eternal.

We looked each other in the eyes, hugged, and moved on.

In Gianna’s case, that sense of eternity is both figurative and literal.

I looked around the banquet hall.

People were now up, moving, greeting each other, hugging, crying some more, laughing, smiling, recovering.

It was a room full of raw emotions.

Outside, the sun was now shining in full force. I walked down to the ocean. I imagined Gianna there, dancing with the waves. Earlier I had folded the memorial handout and placed it in my pocket. I mindlessly rubbed the paper between my fingers, and then pulled it out.

On it was the iconic image of Gianna, her arms outstretched toward the heavens, and a poem she had written, entitled “Paradise.” It was almost as if she were speaking to me: Hear the waves crashing in See the beauty that surrounds you Look where we live Enjoy every moment And try to understand what a miracle this all is.

I read it over a few times. That she herself was the miracle probably never occurred to her. She was too giving, too humble, to ever think that.

What a miracle, indeed.

A Benefit for Cystic Fibrosis and Organ Donor Awareness On Sunday, Dec. 8, at 7pm, Moe’s Alley will host a special all-ages benefit featuring performances from Tess Dunn and Urban Theory.

Tickets are $15/$20 adults; $10 for children/students. For more information about organ donation, go to http://donatelife.net/.

For more information about Friends Cure CF, go to www.friendscurecf.com/

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shakespearesantacruz.org.

Nov. 15-Dec. 8. $10-$40. UCSC Mainstage Theater, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

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Mountain Community Theater

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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.

“It's A Wonderful Life”: A fully staged production of the Frank Capra classic. www. mctshows.org. Fri, Dec 6, 8pm, Sat, Dec 7, 8pm and Sun, Dec 8, 2pm. $10-$20. Mountain Community Theater, 9400 Mill St, Ben Lomond, 831.336.4777.

Stockings: A Holiday Cabaret

CONCERTS

An avant-cabaret bringing together dancers, musicians and other performers to benefit Motion Pacific's scholarship program. Thu, Dec 5, 8pm, Fri, Dec 6, 8pm and Sat, Dec 7, 8pm. $25. Motion Pacific, 408 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.457.1616.

The Choral Project A benefit concert for the Interfaith Satellite Shelter Program. Sun, Dec 8, 7pm. $20 general; free for students and children. First Congregational Church of Santa Cruz, 900 High St, Santa Cruz, 408.279.0161.

Winter Dance Concert Annual winter concert by the Cabrillo College Dance Department featuring new choreography by faculty, guests and student artists.

Fri, Dec 6, 7:30pm, Sat, Dec 7, 7:30pm and Sun, Dec 8, 2pm. $6-$14. Cabrillo College Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6154.

Art MUSEUMS CONTINUING Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History

THEATER Armchair Theater A live reading by local actors of selected passages from Charles Dickens' “Bleak House.” Tue, Dec 10, 7pm. Free.

Santa Cruz Central Branch Library Gallery, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5700.

It's A Wonderful Life A live theater production in the style of a 1940s radio broadest. www.

“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

NOTICES

OPENING

Beat Sanctuary

Felix Kulpa Gallery Neon art by Brian Coleman featuring glass tubes filled with multicolored glowing gases. Gallery hours: ThursSun, noon-6pm. Thru Jan. 26. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

R. Blitzer Gallery The Masters Series continues with an exhibit by Howard Ikemoto and Ron Milhoan.

Gallery hours: Tues-Sat, 11am-5pm. Thru Dec. 28.

Free, 831.458.1217. Mission Extension and Natural Bridges, Santa Cruz.

A Course In Miracles Study Group

Santa Cruz Rehearsal Studios

Eating Disorders Resource Center Meeting

“A Very Vinyl Christmas” is an exhibit of holiday LP covers. Open Mon-Sun, 10am-midnight. Thru December. Free. 118 Coral St, Santa Cruz, 831.425.7277.

The Galleria Children's Rights Art Show.

Art show from school children grades 6-12 about their concept of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Sat, Dec 7, noon-4pm. Free, 831.425.7618. 740 Front St., Santa Cruz.

CONTINUING Cabrillo College Gallery Cabrillo Gallery. David Fleming & Diane R. Ritch: To awardwinning artists selected from a juried exhibition. Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4pm & Mon-Tues 7-9pm. Thru Dec. 13.

Free. 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6308.

Pajaro Valley Arts Council

San Francisco’s City Guide

Giulia Valle Wach out, Esperanza Spalding—this Barcelonabased female jazz bassist is on the rise. Dec 6 at SFJAZZ Center.

Dwight Yoakam Tucked under that hat are some fine movie roles and thirty times as many good songs. Dec 7 at the Warfield.

Pomplamoose WebsterÕs definition of ‘Internet whimsy’ brings uber-twee covers in small show. Dec 7 at Swedish American Music Hall.

Mike Stern & Randy Brecker Readers of Guitar Player magazine pull at their goatees while musicians noodle. Dec 7-8 at Yoshi’s SF.

“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.

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

Dismemberment Plan Beware the reunion album, but ‘Emergency & I’ should still bring out the diehards. Dec 10 at the Fillmore.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

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

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

Storytime Former Shakespeare Santa Cruz actress Billie Harris and Book Cafe manager Jill Rose perform animated readings of children's stories. Mon, 11am.

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

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.

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.

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.

Grey Bears Holiday Meal A home-cooked meal and lineup of local entertainment.

Sun, Dec 8, 11:30am-1:30pm.

Free for ages 55 and up.

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.479.1055.

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.

Holiday Sale A selection of unique and affordable gifts for the holidays. www. homelessgardenproject.org.

Open 10am-8pm daily thru Dec. 24. Homeless Garden Project Store, 110 Cooper St., Santa Cruz.

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.

Light Up A Life A luminary bag-lighting memorial to honor loved ones.

Sat, Dec 7, 3:30-5:30pm. Free.

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Cabrillo Winter Dance Concert Cabrillo College’s tradition of cutting-edge dance will be on full display at its annual winter concert, which pushes boundaries by showcasing a wide range of contemporary techniques, from postmodern physical theater to popping-andlocking. Choreographed by students, faculty and guest artists. Friday, Dec. 6 and Saturday, Dec. 7 at 7:30pm, and again Sunday, Dec. 8 at 2pm. The Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos. Tickets $12-$14.

Capitola Bandstand, n/a, Capitola, 831.373.8442.

Overeaters Anonymous A 12-step support group for those who wish to recover from compulsive eating.

Sundays 9-10:15am at 2900 Chanticleer Ave, Santa Cruz and 4-5:15pm at 115 South Morrissey, Santa Cruz.

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

beloved picture book's main character. Friday's appearance will be at the Capitola Branch library.

Thu, Dec 5, 10am and Fri, Dec 6, 11am. Free. Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.427.7717.

Yoga Instruction

Music, dancing, food and activities for all ages plus an auction to raise funds for social justice nonprofits. Sat, Dec 7, 6-10pm. Inner Light Ministries, 5630 Soquel Dr, Soquel, 831.465.9090.

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 Angelina Ballerina Cast Visit The cast of “Angelina Ballerina, The Musical” will share stories and fun celebrating the

Auction & Holiday Celebration

Bingo Benefit for Soquel High Sports Soquel High Knights football program gets the bucks from this weekly bingo night. Buyin $15; doors open 5pm; early birds 6:15pm, games 6:30pm.

Tue, Dec 10, 6:30pm. $15.

Santa Cruz Elks Lodge, 150 Jewell St, Santa Cruz.

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.

Jingle Shells An arts and crafts festival featuring ocean- and nature-inspired gifts plus a lighting celebration of a blue whale skeleton. Sun, Dec 8, 12-5:30pm. Free with admission. Seymour Discovery Center, 100 Shaffer Rd, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3799.

Lighted Boat Parade The 28th annual parade

of over 30 colorful lighted boats. Sat, Dec 7, 5:30pm.

Free. Santa Cruz Harbor, NA, Santa Cruz, 831.818.2271.

MAH Gala STARS: A live auction plus dinner and cocktails, followed by the Supernova afterparty. Proceeds benefit the MAH's exhibits and educational programs. Sat, Dec 7, 6pm. $50-$150. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

MHCAN Arts/Crafts Fair A silent auction, raffle, food, music and chance to purchase one-of-a-kind gifts. Sat, Dec 7, noon-4pm.

Free. Mental Health Client Action Network, 1051 Cayuga St, Santa Cruz, 831.469.0462.

Tannery Holiday Faire Handmade gifts from 30 artists' studios including painting, ceramics, glassblowing, jewelry and more, plus refreshments and a performance by the Santa Cruz Chorale. Sat, Dec 7, noon-5pm and Sun, Dec 8, noon-5pm. Free admission.

Tannery Arts Center, 1040 River St, Santa Cruz.

Younger Lagoon Reserve Tour A tour of the lagoon's diverse coastal habitat, featuring birds, mammals and other wildlife. Advance registration required. Thu, Dec 5, 2-3:30pm. Free.

Younger Lagoon Reserve, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3800.

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Moe’s Moe ’s Alley;; $25 $ adv/$30 door;; 9pm. (JP)

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Celebrating Creativity Since 1975

Thurs. December 5 U 7 & 9 pm | No Comps

JOEY DEFRANCESCO AND THE VIBE

Signature B3 sound with Latin rhythms!

Fri. December 6 U 7:30 pm

PATT CASION AND IOC FEATURING TAMMI BROWN Tickets: inticketing.com

Concerts Con ncerts

SUPERIOR OLIVE, AYNSLEY DUNBAR, LINDA & DAVID LAFLAMME (IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY)

DRAGON DRAGON N SMOKE Dec. 5 at at Moe’ Moe’s s Alle Alley y DISHW DISHWALLA WA ALLA Dec. 7 at at Ca Catalyst talyst KES & JIM HURST HURST ROB ICK ICKES Dec. 11 at at Don Quix ote’s Quixote’s

TIE FOR FIRST Kaki King plays the Rio on Sunday.

Saturday, December 7 U 7 pm DECEMBERCHILD BENEFIT FEATURING

Tickets: decemberchild.org

Sunday, December 8 U 6 pm

ZAMBOMBA GITANA! A Traditional Flamenco Holiday Celebration Direct from Spain Tickets: zambomba.eventbrite.com

Monday, December 9 U 7 pm | No Comps

PEDRITO MARTINEZ GROUP “...a new chapter in Cuban music history.” – NPR

CHARLIE E HUNTER & SC OTT SCOTT AMENDO OLA DUO AMENDOLA Dec. 16 at at K uumbwa Kuumbwa

Wednesday, December 11 U 7 pm

WHITE ALBUM A ENSEMBLE Dec. 29 & 30 at at Rio Theatre Theatre

Thursday, December 12 U 7 pm

AOIFE O’DONOVAN

Award Winning Crooked Still Vocalist!

THE KALAE MILE–DAVIS PROJECT Tickets: brownpapertickets.com Friday, December 13 U 8 pm

BOB DYLAN TRIBUTE

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Tickets: thewheelcompany.com Saturday, December 14 U 8 pm

A TRIBUTE TO NEIL YOUNG Tickets: thewheelcompany.com

Monday, December 16 U 7 and 9 pm

CHARLIE HUNTER & SCOTT AMENDOLA DUO Thursday, December 19 U 7 pm

JESSE SCHEININ AND FOREVER CD RELEASE CONCERT

Friday, December 20 U 7 pm | No Comps

Windham Hill Winter Solstice BARBARA HIGBIE, LIZ STORY, LISA LYNNE, GEORGE TORTORELLI, ARYEH FRANKFURTER ON SALE FRIDAY @ KUUMBWAJAZZ.ORG 1/6 1/9

Pharoah Sanders Quartet GOLDperforming CIRCLE The Hanrahan Quartet John Coltrane’s “ASOLD Love OUT! Supreme 1/10 Robben Ford 1/20 Booker T. Jones Holiday Gifts for your Jazz Fan: Gift Certificates, Gift Memberships, T-shirts & Hats. Call for more info.

Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records. Dinner served 1-hr before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer.

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WAXAHATCHEE plus Swearin !DV $RS s $RS OPEN P M 3HOW P M

4HURSDAY $ECEMBER ‹ In the Atrium s AGES 16+

METALACHI

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THE MOTHER

HIPS

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KELLER WILLIAMS

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R.A. THE RUGGED MAN

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!DV $RS s $RS P M 3HOW P M

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THE HOLDUP

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Science

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Groundation

plus Thrive also Ancestree !DV $RS s P M P M

$EC RJD2/ Helicopter Showdown (Ages 18+) Dec 14 Too Short (Ages 16+) Dec 18 Suicidal Tendencies (Ages 16+) $EC Good Riddance (Ages 16+) Dec 21 Mos Def (Ages 16+) Dec 27 & 28 Rebelution (Ages 16+) Dec 29 DJ Quik (Ages 16+) $EC The Devil Makes Three (Ages 21+) Jan 4 E-40/ A-1 (Ages 16+) Jan 11 Tribal Seeds (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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BL BLUE UE L LOUNGE OUNGE 831.425.2900

BOCCI’S BOCCI’S CELLAR 831.427.1795 831 427.1795 831.42

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SEABRIGHT BREWERY BREWERY 831.426.2739 831.426.2739

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211 2 11 Esplanade, Esplanade, Capitola Capitola

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SANDERLINGS SANDERLINGS 831.662.7120 831.662.7120

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Film Capsules

DECEMBER 4-10, 2013

New

OLDBOY (2003) The original South Korean film from director Chanwook Park is one of the best films of the 21st century, a perfectly crafted revenge tale that’s raw and shocking as a viewing experience (with one of the most disturbing endings ever), but absolutely poetic in its delivery. (Plays Fri and Sat at midnight at the Del Mar) OUT OF THE FURNACE (R; 116 min) Christian Bale plays Casey Affleck’s brother (they couldn’t get Ben?), who must save him after Casey falls in a crime ring. (Opens Wed at Scotts Valley)

Reviews

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.

THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY (R) Morris Chestnut, Taye Diggs, Regina Hall and Terrence Howard star in this story of college friends who reunite at Christmastime after 15 years.

BLACK NATIVITY (PG; 93 min) Incredibly, not a metal band, but in fact a heartwarming holiday musical starring Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett and Jennifer Hudson.

DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (R; 117 min.)

Matthew McConaughey continues his bizarre transformation into one of the best actors of our generation in this true story about a Texas electrician named Ron Woodroof, who took on the medical establishment after being diagnosed with HIV in the

S H O W T IM E S

’80s—in his attempt to get alternative treatments for himself and others, he became a drug smuggler.

What has gotten into McConaughey, anyway?

Remember when he was the acting equivalent of lumber back in the Contact days? Jared Leto is making a different kind of comeback, after not making films for a while—here he plays a transvestite who forms an unlikely partnership with Woodroof.

DELIVERY MAN (PG13; 103 min) If you feel like the premise for this Vince Vaughn comedy—slacker finds out his sperm-bank donation accidentally fathered hundreds of children, and 142 of them are suing him—sounds familiar, it might be because it sounds exactly like the kind of comedy Vince Vaughn would have made by now. He actually didn’t, but New Zealander

Movie reviews by Steve Palopoli and Richard von Busack

IF ONLY I WAS STILL BATMAN Christian Bale tries to save Casey Affleck in ‘Out of the Furnace.’

Ken Scott did in 2011, a movie called Starbuck on which it is based. I know some of those Kiwis have thick accents, but really, they’re remaking New Zealand films now?

ENDER’S GAME (PG13; 104 min) There’s been a lot of LGBT supporters protesting this movie because of the despicable anti-gay views of Orson Scott Card, the author of the

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Dec. 4, through Wednesday, Dec. 11, unless otherwise indicated.

Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

APTOS CINEMAS

122 Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos 831-426-7500 www.thenick.com

Dallas Buyer’s Club — Daily 1:50; 4:20; 6:50; 9:20.

The Book Thief — Daily 1; 3:45; 6:30; 9:10.

41ST AVENUE CINEMA

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

Frozen — Daily 11; 1:45; 4:30; 7:15.

Frozen 3D — Daily 10am.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — Daily 11:45; 3:15; 6:45; 10:15.

Thor: The Dark World — Wed-Thu 11:15; 2; 4:40; 7:20; 10.

DEL MAR

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

12 Years A Slave — Daily 1:50; 4:40; 7:30 plus Sat-Sun 11:10am.

Delivery Man — Daily 2:30; 4:50; 7:15; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 12:10pm.

Nebraska — Daily 2; 4:30; 7; 9:20 plus Sat-Sun 11:30am.

Oldboy — Fri-Sat Midnight.

NICKELODEON

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

The Book Thief — Daily 1:40; 3:40; 4:40; 6:30; 9:10 plus Sat-Sun 12:50pm.

Dallas Buyer’s Club — Daily 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11:30am.

Old Boy — Daily 7:30; 9:40.

Philomena — Daily 1:50; 4:20; 6:45; 8:50 plus Sat-Sun 11:20am.

RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN

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

Homefront — Wed-Thu 3:40; 7; 9:25; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa—Wed-Thu 3:30; 9:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Last Vegas — Wed-Thu 6:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9

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

Black Nativity —Wed-Thu 12:05; 2:35; 6:05; 8:20; 10:35; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Ender’s Game — Wed-Thu 12:50; 3:25; 9:05; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Frozen — Wed-Thu 12:45; 3:45; 7; 9:35; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Frozen 3D — Wed-Thu 12:15; 3; 6:15; 9; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Gravity 3D — Wed-Thu 12:25; 2:40; 5; 7:15; 9:40; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — Wed-Thu 11:30; 12; 12:30; 3; 3:30; 3:50; 6:15; 6:45; 7:10; 9:30; 10; 10:25; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Thor: The Dark World — Wed-Thu 12:35; 3:40; 6:20; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

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

Out of the Furnace — (Opens Wed 12/4) 11:15; 2; 4:45; 7:30; 10.

The Book Thief — Daily 1; 4; 7; 8:15; 9:55.

Delivery Man — Daily 11:15; 1:45; 4:20; 7; 9:30.

Frozen — Daily 11; 11:55; 1; 1:45; 3:45; 4:30; 6:30; 8:15; 9:15.

Frozen 3D — Daily 2:45; 5:30.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — Daily 11; 11:45; 12:30; 2:20; 3:15; 4; 5:40; 6:45; 7:30; 9:15; 10:15 plus Fri-Sun 11am. (No Sat 11am)

Thor: The Dark World — Daily 11; 1:45; 4:30; 7:20; 10.

The Wizard of Oz 3D — Sat 11am.

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8

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

About Time — Wed-Thu 7:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Delivery Man — Wed-Thu 1:30; 4:05; 7:10; 9:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Frozen — Wed-Thu 1:30; 2:30; 5:05; 7:20; 9:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Frozen 3D — Wed-Thu 4; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Homefront — Wed-Thu 1:45; 4:20; 7:30; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — Wed-Thu 12:30; 1:50; 3:45; 4:55; 7; 8; 10:05; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa — Wed-Thu 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Thor: The Dark World — Wed-Thu 1:40; 4:15; 7:15; 9:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

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.

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

FROZEN (PG; 108 min) Disney animated film has the kingdom of Arendelle trapped in perpetual winter, with young Anna (voiced

by Kristen Bell) teaming with a rugged outdoorsman (Jonathan Groff) to journey across the frozen wasteland and lift the spell. Blizzards, trolls and a comic-relief snowman (Josh Gad) stand in their way.

HOMEFRONT (R; 100 min) Jason Statham gets as close as he ever will to a dramatic role in this story of a former DEA agent who moves his family to a sleepy little town. Oh, don’t worry though, there’s a druglord there! Do they fight? Are you kidding me? It’s Statham!

Plus, Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay, so yes, that’s happening. James Franco and Winona Ryder co-star.

HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG-13; 146 min) Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth return in the further adventures of Katniss Everdeen and friends.

This time, it’s personal! Just kidding. It’s not that personal.

KILL YOUR DARLINGS (R; 104 min) The beat writers get tangled in a 1944 murder in this hip drama, man!

Daniel Radcliffe plays Allen Ginsberg, with Kerouac and Burroughs represented as well.

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.

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.

THOR: THE DARK WORLD (PG-13; 122 min) If he had a hammer, he’d hammer in the morning. He’d hammer in the evening, all over the nine realms. Anyway, Thor is back in a plot that’s basically what you’d expect: blah blah Dark Elves, blah blah wormhole, blah blah anomaly. Thank god for the Loki comic relief.

Send tips about food, wine and dining discoveries to Christina Waters at xtina@cruzio.com. Read her blog at christinawaters.com. and topped with a huge rosette of chocolate ganache. OMG. WINES OF THE SEASON: PART 2: My recent visit to the charming Bonny Doon Vineyard Tasting Room in the

A BRIEF HISTORY OF DELICIOUSNESS Pecan sandies (especially from the Buttery) are part of a holiday culinary tradition.

C Is for Cookie and Claret

BY CHRISTINA WATERS

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HE COOKIE BEFORE CHRISTMAS: If ever a

culinary charmer deserved our attention during the Yuletide, it's the cookie. Consider its history: a portable snack, satisfaction in two bites, comfort food that can be consumed completely without a knife or fork—I mean, how easy is it to adore? The sweet cousin of the savory biscuit, the cookie was designed to offer easily transportable sustenance, as in the Middle Ages when riding from town to town required food that didn't need refrigeration or fuss. Once those old patriarchal marauders had finished raiding the Spice Islands,

the cookie became not only a direct pipeline to sugar and butter, but also the bearer of the incomparably fragrant cinnamon, cloves, allspice, ginger and nutmeg. What's not to love?

Spending many childhood Christmases in Germany gave me a chance to sample seasonal specialties like Lebkuchen and anisette kuchen.

Once tasted, never forgotten. My mother carried on, and embellished the tradition of holiday cookies by baking and baking for months in advance. Brown sugar brownies were her specialty and I can still taste the first bite of the season of those chewy, dense bits of heaven. One of

my own cookie specialties involves a cranberry, orange and almond variation on an old Sunset Magazine award-winning cookie recipe. It is simply brilliant. The other is an aggressively spiced (lots of white pepper and coriander) version of ice box shortbread, laced with candied citron and pecans. But enough about me. If you want to treat yourself to the ultimate local cookie—any time of the year, but Christmas does provide an extra excuse—you'll roll on over to The Buttery and stock up on the stupendous Pecan Sandie, its broad buttery expanse bordered with crushed pecans (lots of them)

hamlet of Davenport resulted in many discoveries: 1. The tasting room itself, awash with atmospheric light in the late afternoon, is still a work in progress.

The customized tasting bar has yet to be finished, and in the meantime the capable tasting room team led by manager Casey Zarnes works amidst the sleek decor designed by Suna Lock of Stripe. The sage green walls, lowslung couches and witty retro shelving are punctuated with bold graphic prints by Santa Cruz artist Louise Leong, who also designed the custom label for last year's Roussanne.

2. There's much wine here that belongs on one or the other of your holiday tables—as well as under the tree, given the "highly incentivized case specials," as Zarnes noted. A $16 bottle of the new Cabernet Sauvignon-driven Claret is one righteous bottle of red, guaranteed to go well with everything but Dungeness crab. A Sparkling Moscato frizzante with a sensuous faux Mucha label sounds like a New Year's plan in a bottle ($32), and the flagship 2009 Le Cigare Volant seems poised to appear prominently at cool-weather gatherings. Boasting more syrah (36%) than in any previous Cigare, this elegant 13.3% alcohol creation offers fine balance of tannins and silk thanks to 25% grenache and 19% cinsault, some masculine angularity (probably aided by 20% mourvedre), and plenty of licorice and black pepper notes to satisfy intellectual palates. For that special connoisseur on your gift list, consider the Cigare Reserve ($75), whose extended aging in glass carboys has given it a softer, mellower elegance far exceeding its actual years. The new tasting room sits next to the Davenport Roadhouse, on Hwy. 1, in an oldfashioned white frame structure. Open Thurs-Mon, 11am-5pm. 888.819-6789. 0

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DON’T CALL ME LINDA Claire Hintze is co-owner of Linda’s Seabreeze Café with her husband Tex.

Linda’s Seabreeze Café Claire Hintze, co-owner

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laire Hintze has enjoyed the breakfast business since 1990—because she likes getting evenings off. She and her husband Tex Hintze co-owned Linda’s Seabreeze Café with Linda Hopper until Hopper left to buy the Silver Spur eight years later and left the business to Claire and Tex.

SCW: What’s your favorite thing to put on waffles? Claire Hintze: Well,

we have a waffle we put on the board that has strawberries and bananas and kiwi. And in the summertime, when berries are cheaper and abundant, we like to put raspberries and blueberries and anything else we can pretty it up with.

How do you like your eggs?

Over medium, because the whites are cooked and the yolks are still a little runny.

Tell me about your Mickey Mouse-shaped pancakes.

There are two ears and a big round head, and we doctor it up with grapes for eyes and an orange slice for a mouth, and we use a scoop of butter for the nose. And then sometimes if a little girl wants some Minnie Mouse cakes, we pretty it up with strawberries for bows on the ears.

What’s your favorite thing to eat off the menu?

I go through phases. Right now, I’m sharing a sandwich with my daughter, and we’re having a stuffed cheese sandwich. We added sautéed mushrooms and pesto on a Beckman’s Three Seed Bread. It’s delicious.

What are you best sellers?

Most of the things on our specials board go pretty quickly, especially on the weekends. We do eggs benedict and a huevos rancheros of some sort, and different pancakes. The specials board is where I immediately direct people as they sit down, as I give them menus.

Do you put a lot of work into those specials? —Absolutely. We’ve had some of the specials for a long, long time. The pancakes are sometimes seasonal. Now people are asking for pumpkin pancakes, so those will be on the board. And different soups also like butternut squash soup—a fall, winter ingredient. It’s sometimes seasonal. And sometimes it’s just, “wow, we haven’t had that in a really long time.” We’ll run that special like it’s brand new, but really it’s 20 years old.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In In the midy, Fr ench art was dominated dom minated by the 19th century century, French government-sponsored government-sponsored Salon, whose whose conservative conservative policies thwarted upcoming new w trends trends like Impressionism. anti-authoritarian Impressionism. One anti-authori tarian painter who rebelled rebelled was Camille Camille Pissarro.

Pissarro. “What “W What is the best way to further the evolution of French Frenchh art?”” he was asked.

“Burn down the Louvre,” Louvre,”” he replied. replied. The Louvre, Louvre, as you may know, know, was and still is a major art museum in Paris.

Paris. Judging from from your current current astrological astrological omens, I surmise that you might want too make a symbolic statement equivalent to Pissar Pissarro’s.

It’s ro’s. It ’s time ffor or you to graduate from traditions aditions that no longer ffeed graduate fr om tr eed you so you can freely freely seek out new teachers teacchers and influences. influences GEMINI (May 2121-June June 20): “L “Lead ead us not into om evil,” e ” is a rrequest equest temptation, and deliver us fr from that Christians make of God whe when en they say the LLord’s ord’s Prayer. “temptation”” as an attr attraction Prayer. If we define “temptation action to things that ffeel though they’ree bad ffor eel good even thoug gh they’r or you, this part of the pr prayer perfectly ayer is per rfectly rreasonable. easonable.

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23-Sept. 22): Nott all darkness is bad. from YYou oou know that. Sometimes you need n to escape fr om the bright lights. It can be rrestorative estorative a to sit quietly in the pitch blackness and drink in the mystery of Great the Gr eat Unknown. The same is true ffor or silence and stillness and aloneness. Now andd then you’ve got to protective sanctuary.

Dreaming rretreat etreat into their pr otective sanc tuary. Dr eaming big empty thoughts in the tr tranquil anquil ddepths epths can heal you moment arrived and rrecharge echarge you. The magic mo ment has ar rived ffor or Virgo. this kind of rrejuvenation, ejuvenation, Vir go.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23-Oct. 22): In th thee movie Clueless, the char character Silverstone acter played by Alicia Silv verstone describes someone as a “full-on Monet.” What W she means is that the person in question is likee a painting by the French Impressionist Claude “From French Impr essionist artist Claud de Monet. “Fr om ffar ar away, it’s “But it’s awayy, it ’s OK,” says Silverstone. “B But up close, it ’s a big old mess.” YYou oou may still be at thee ffar-away ar-away point in your evaluation of a certain situa situation life, ation in your own lif e,

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SCORPIO (O (Oct. Oct. 23 23-Nov. -Nov. 21): YYour our o power animal ffor or nths is the Bateleur eagle of Africa. the coming mon months ching ffor or its meals, it covers In the course of sear searching re miles every day about 250 squa square day.. It think thinkss big. It s I hope you get inspir ed by its has a spacious scope. inspired o. In 2014, I’d love to see you enlar ge example, Scorpi Scorpio. enlarge ritory whe ere you go hunting ffor or what you want. the ter territory where espond ffavorably avorably if you expand your ideas Fate will rrespond ather the best allies and rresources. esources. about how to ga gather As ffor or this week k, I suggest you get very specific as As week, you identify the goals you will pursue in the coming oring ffarther arther and wider months by explo exploring wider..

SAGITTAR SAGITTARIUS RIUS (Nov (Nov.. 22 22-Dec. -Dec. 21): The standar standardd dictionary says that t ““righteous” righteous” is a wor wordd that means virtuous and hig ghly mor al. The slang dictionary highly moral. says that ““righteous” righteeous” describes someone or something that ’ absolutely genuine and wonderful. ’s that’s Urbandictionary y.com suggests that ““righteous” righteous” rrefers efers Urbandictionary.com to the ul timate version v ultimate of any type of experience, especially “sins “sins of pleasure” pleasure” like lust and greed. greed. eed A ccording to myy analysis, the coming week will be According jampacked with righteousness ffor or you. Which of the thr ee definitionss will pr edominate? It ’s possible you three predominate?

It’s will embody andd attr act all thr ee types. attract three CAPRICORN N (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): In the dr dreams eams aveling you’r apricorn, I bet you’r you’ree having att night, CCapricorn, you’ree tr traveling thr ough rremote emote landscapes in all kinds of weather through weather..

Maybe you’r e-creating the voyage of the P olynesian you’ree rre-creating Polynesian sailors who cr ossed hundr eds of miles of P acific Ocean crossed hundreds Pacific to find Hawaii 1, 500 years ago. Or maybe you’r 1,500 you’ree hiking thr khad V alleyy, wher ough the Dar through Darkhad Valley, wheree the Mongolian beria’s vast fforests. orests. It ’s possible you’r steppe meets Si Siberia’s It’s you’ree visiting places wher w you’re wheree your ancestors lived or you’re migr ating to thee first human settlement on Mars in migrating the 22nd centur y. What do dr eams like this mean? I century. dreams think you’r ng to blow your own mind. YYour oour deep you’ree tryin trying gher wisdom ar self and your hig higher aree conspiring to flood you with new wa ays of seeing rreality. eality. ways AQUARIUS S (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It wouldn wouldn’t ’t be too extreme for for you to kiss the ground ground that has been extreme peeople you care care about deeply. deeply. And it walked on by people wouldn’t be too cr azy to give your special allies the wouldn’t crazy everr, or o compose love letters to them, or best gifts ever, demonstrate in dramatic dramatic fashion fashion how amazed you demonstrate are by the beautiful beautiful truths about who they really really are. are. are This is a unique moment in your cycle, Aquarius—a c for you to express express gratitude, gratitude, time when it is crucial for evven reverence reverence for for those who have devotion, and even w it means to be fully alive. helped you see what PISCES (Feb (Feb. (F b. 19-Mar 19 19-March M chh 20): 20) In I a lletter tt tto FF.. Scott S tt Fit zgerald, Ernest Ernesst Hemingway described his vision Fitzgerald, of par adise. It w ould have a tr out str eam that no paradise. would trout stream one but him wass permitted to fish in. He ’d own two He’d houses, one ffor or his wif en and one ffor or his wifee and childr children nine beautiful m mistr esses. Ther e’d be a chur ch wher mistresses.

There’d church wheree he could rregularly egularrly conf ess his sins, and he ’d have confess he’d gr eat seats at ann ar ena wher great arena wheree bullfights took place.

Fr om my perspe ective, this is a pr etty vulgar version of From perspective, pretty par adise, but wh ho am I to judge? I suggest you dr aw paradise, who draw inspir ation fr om m Hemingway as you come up with inspiration from your own earthy y, gritty y, funk antasy of par adise. It ’s earthy, gritty, funkyy ffantasy paradise.

It’s an excellent tim me ffor or you to get down to earth about time your high idealss and dr eamy hopes. dreamy Homework: Eve eryone fudges the truth and hides the Everyone whole story now w and then. then What are are your top three three deceptions? Co onfess at Freewillastrology.com Freewillastrologyy..com Confess

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ARIES (Mar (March ch 21-April 19): So Sometimes metimes I think too ffast ast and too much. My logic gets sterile. My ideas When become jagged and tangled. Whe en this happens, I through head off to TTurtle uurtle Back Hill ffor or a hhike thr ough the saltwater sal twater marsh. The trail trail loops around a ound on itself, ar itself, and arrive wheree I started in ab about I ar rive back wher bout 15 minutes. circumambulating Sometimes I keep walking, cir cum mambulating ffour our or circles this five times. Going in cir cles like th his seems to help me fragmented thoughts. knit together my fr agmented tho oughts. Often, by the time I’m finished, my mind ffeels eels unified. I rrecommend ecommend From you find your own version of thiss ritual, Aries. Fr om softer.. what I can tell, you need to get rrounder o ounder and softer

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