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OTTER PROPS UCSC researchers Jim Estes and Chris Wilmers say sea otters can have a huge effect on the fight against global warming.

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New UCSC study shows how sea otters are saving the planet

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hink it sounds completely absurd to think that sea otters could be a key to combating global warming? You’re not alone. The findings of a new study on the subject even floored UCSC’s Jim Estes, one of the study’s leading researchers.

“I was blown away. We got all the data together, looked at the results, and I was like, ‘Whoa! Are you sure?

Go back and run those numbers again.’”

But in the end, it checked out.

Suddenly, sea otters were every conservationist’s dream come true. After 40 years of collecting data, UCSC researchers Estes, Chris

Wilmers and their colleagues had uncovered a new link between the universally adored furball and what many consider Earth’s most imminent danger.

Estes and Wilmers studied sea otters and their effect on kelp beds in a region stretching from Vancouver Island to the edge of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. After comparing otter-dense and otterscarce areas, they found that kelp flourished in the former.

“It blew my mind. It was just incredible to see these two completely different ecosystems as a consequence of loss of sea otters,” says Estes.

Equipped with data on kelp density and net primary production (measured in units of carbon absorbed per area, per time), and the rate at which kelp absorbs CO2, Estes and Wilmers only needed to piece them all together.

“It was really a very simple, almost back-of-the-envelope calculation. It was just doing all the accounting to know how much carbon is there with and without sea otters,” says Wilmers.

With an appetite for kelpdestructive sea urchins, hungry otters yield thicker kelp beds which, in turn, absorb more carbon from the atmosphere. Otters on the

hunt force sea urchins into hiding and allow the kelp beds to thrive, photosynthesize and essentially suck copious amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. This top-down, predator-prey effect is known as a trophic cascade, and is the basis of the suspected connection between predators and the cycling of CO2.

If predators suppress herbivores, plants prosper and stimulate the carbon cycle, decreasing CO2 in the atmosphere. Essentially, it’s environmental dominoes.

The study found that kelp beds with a robust sea otter population had up to 12 times the absorbance capacity than kelp in sea-otter scant regions. In fact, if the entire planet was composed of a sea otterkelp ecosystem, sea otter-induced carbon reduction would rank solidly in the 5-10% range.

Though this incredible correlation paints sea otters as something of a furry superhero, they can’t do it alone. With sea otters as their poster-child, Estes and Wilmers’ study illuminates the global effect apex predators can have on the carbon cycle.

“From a global perspective, the effect of sea otters is miniscule, but it points to the fact that predators can have a pretty dramatic effect in their own ecosystem,” says Wilmers.

“There are predators everywhere, so globally, the effect of predators can be pretty significant.” Their research suggests that, while a predatorprey balance is key in species interactions, it more importantly underlies the collective harmony of our ecosystems’ carbon cycle.

After finding the astounding sea otter-carbon correlation in the ocean, many researchers have turned their attention to land, searching for sea otter-analogous predators in a terrestrial ecosystem.

Wilmers himself is looking into that possibility, targeting wolves as a focal point for his potential future research. 0

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Make It Show Resurrection is a popular theme in Shakespeare’s plays. Whether it’s a supposedly dead character turning out to have escaped a dark fate, or an undercover lover suddenly “resurrecting” from disguise, the end is rarely what it appears to be. As such, it’s appropriate that our own version of supposedly dead Shakespeare here in Santa Cruz would come back for a second act.

Shakespeare Play On, a group dedicated to bringing back to life the now-defunct Shakespeare Santa Cruz, has set a goal to raise $885,000 by Feb. 1. This amount will allow them to put on two productions this summer. If the money is raised, they hope to be able to use the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen on the UCSC campus for the productions, but have yet to receive confirmation from the university about their ability to do so. As of press deadline, they have raised just under $661,000.

“We’re doing really well,” says former SSC board chair Bill Richter. “That’s not to say we’re out of the woods, but I’m feeling confident that we will have a season.”

The group also secured an advisory board that includes Sir Patrick Stewart of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Stewart has performed regularly with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has personal relationships with former Shakespeare Santa Cruz artistic directors Audrey Stanley and Paul Whitworth. He appeared in Santa Cruz in the ’90s for a fundraiser on behalf of Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and almost stuck around longer: “He was invited to direct here, but then he went into outer space and of course we couldn’t see him,” says Richter.

Those interested in helping Shakespeare Play On reach its goal can visit shakespeareplayon.net for more information or to make a donation.

Too Big To Fail There were two themes to last week’s Santa Cruz City Council meeting about the proposed hotel on Broadway near Ocean Street: precedent and integrity.

The council approved the hotel in 2011. But at last week’s meeting, they came back to it to revisit parking

issues—which essentially took out five rooms spaces and added a 24-hour valet to accommodate reduced spots— and re-opened a discussion about what message city leaders should send to developers. Some community members challenged the city council to stand up to a proposed Hyatt hotel they worried would crowd street parking and choke traffic between Ocean Street and San Lorenzo Boulevard.

Bill Tysseling, executive director of the chamber of commerce, looked at it from a different perspective.

“Somebody said, ‘This decision is all about integrity,’ and you bet that’s exactly what this decision is about,” Tysseling told the council at the Jan. 14 meeting. “You told them in 2011 that they could count on you—that this project would go through. Now you’re asked to make a modification, which represents no substantive change in the project.

Integrity requires you to go through with this project.”

He added that backing out on the project—which police believe will benefit an area riddled with drug use and prostitution—would be a bad business omen.

“People who want to develop in Santa Cruz will see this is not a very safe place to invest, and they won’t,” Tysseling said.

The council looks a little different than it did in 2011, when this was first approved—current city councilmembers Cynthia Mathews, Pamela Comstock and Micah Posner weren’t on it.

And Posner, who lives a couple blocks from the site, noted the project faced tremendous opposition all along in its proposed residential neighborhood— where it was given an exemption for commercial use. He worried about the message the council would send if it started making exceptions for commercial use in residential zones.

“I don’t like the precedent of forcing something on a neighborhood that’s not zoned for it,” he said.

Vice Mayor Don Lane said, when it comes to the validity of the project, it was too late to turn back now.

“That decision was already made a couple years ago, and to undo it would be very damaging to the community in general and would be unfair to the developer,” Lane said before council approved the parking modification 5-1, with Posner dissenting. 0

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Jobs ““definitely definitely h ad som aautistic utis t tic tr aits.”

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Cl Danes. The The film Temple chronicles Grandin’s Grandin’s young yo oung life, liffe, including including her her early early chronicles interactions, which whi h ch were were often often characterized characterized by by social interactions, Grandin feeling feeeling anxious anxious and an nd outcast. outcast.

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SURELY TEMPLE Temple Grandin will speak at the Autism & Asperger’s Syndrome Conference on Jan. 24 in Monterey.

In th thee film, th there ere is a scene scene where where Grandin’s Grandin’s aunt, aunt, played byy Ca Catherine O’Hara, dozens off pi pictures p layeed b ath t erine O’H Hara, ttakes akes d ozens o ctures off Gr Grandin’s making o andin’s fface a ace m akin ng different difffeerent expressions expressions and and then each The Grandin says th en llabels abels eac h expression. expresssion. T he real real Gr andin sa ays that was accurate th at w as an accur ate portrayal po ortrayal of of how how sshe he llearned earned emotions.

“You have what these things mean. em otions. “Y You o h ave tto o llearn earn w hat th ese thin gs m ean. beingg instinctual, Social skills, skills, instead instead of of bein instinctual, yyou ou o gotta gotta thee cchild what different tteach each th hild w hat di ffeerent ffacial a acial eexpressions xpressions mean,” says. m ean,” sshe he sa ays.

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angry. is just just simpler. simplerr. I get get real real happy, happy, y, I gget et rreal eal sad. I gget et an gry.

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1 3 HEALTH & FITNESS | TEMPLE GRANDIN tighten around her. It was based on machines used to calm cattle down, and can be preferable to being touched by other humans, for some autistic folks. (For others, it can be as scary as it sounds. A few days after watching the HBO movie, a friend of mine told me he had a nightmare he was trapped inside the machine.) But in 2008 Grandin’s personal machine broke and she was quoted a couple years later in Time magazine saying she never got around to fixing it. “I’m into hugging people now,” she said.

As an activist for autism, Grandin wrote the book Thinking in Pictures in 1995. She said that before she started doing research for the book she wasn’t aware that other people thought differently than her. For example, when she asked her interview subjects to think of a church steeple in their minds, “I was shocked to find out that a lot of people think of this vague generalized kinda spiky image. And I see specific ones, and I can tell you where they’re at,” she says.

In the book, she describes in detail the feelings of anxiety and fear that she experienced as a girl and a young woman, feeling different from everyone else and not understanding why. But doing the research and the book empowered her, and today she regularly speaks in front of large crowds on the subject of autism.

Silicon Valley is the perfect place for young people with autism and Asperger’s to aspire to go, Grandin says. There are uses there for all different kinds of brains.

“To have good projects you need to have different kinds of minds working together,” she says. “Working together!

“There are visual thinkers— designers. Then there are more mathematical thinkers—that would be the programmers. And then the word thinkers. I use the example of Steve Jobs being an artist, and he made the user interface for the phone and then the engineers had to make it work,” she says.

Most people, Grandin says, are a mixture of a few different kinds of minds. “Then you get somebody with a little bit of autism or something like that, and you tend to get more uneven skills.”

She says if an “autistic-type” person

is not sure what kind of career path is right, then he or she should find out what kind of mind they have, and pick a career that lines up with how their brain already works. She’s worried that too many talented autistic kids are spending all their time playing video games these days.

“Now if you’re working and designing video games as your job that’s one thing,” she says. Grandin is big on working. She’s big on productivity, on doing things. People should have jobs, she believes. Even if they have challenges.

Steve Jobs isn’t the only famous person Grandin pegged as autistic in her Google presentation.

Albert Einstein, too. Einstein didn’t speak until he was three years old, which Grandin says is a telltale sign.

Grandin was in graduate school the first time she attempted speaking in public. “I was really nervous and I walked out! But you get better just by doing it. You gotta do stuff,” she says.

“You gotta do stuff!”

Temple Grandin will be speaking at the Autism & Asperger’s Syndrome Conference on Jan. 24 in Monterey.

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different every time," says Daniela Kosmalski, who fell in love with yoga in her native Brazil 17 years ago, and now teaches 15 classes a week between Luma, In-Shape, Toadal Fitness and private sessions.

By books, she means the original scriptures, the sutras. Recently, Kosmalski set aside two of her six classes at Toadal Fitness to focus more directly on yoga's spiritual and philosophical teachings. Less physically strenuous, these classes hum with the refreshing promise of mental and spiritual restoration—and the members love it.

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eight steps begin with yama, and niyama—the ethical disciplines for connecting with the external world (nonviolence, truthfulness, noncovetousness) and the internal self, (cleanliness, contentment.) Kosmalski contemplates one yama and niyama a month, and weaves them into the flow of class, while members are receptive and relaxed in their current asana, or pose—the third limb.

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While the implications might be downright spooky—everyone walking around with devices recording their every move, voluntarily—the health benefits can’t be ignored.

Jaimi Ellison, a personal trainer, nutritionist and owner of Santa Cruz Core Fitness + Rehab, encourages her clients to at the very least write down everything they eat. For a lot of people, that translates into using a wearable device and/or calorietracking app on their phones, because it’s so convenient.

“I introduce them to the app on smartphone or Fitbit. And if they’re using it, they just have these ‘aha’ moments, because they see what’s actually happening. It shakes their belief system a little bit,” Ellison says.

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I eat healthy. I do a lot of exercise.’

Then they realize, ‘Wow, I’m really not eating right and doing what I’m supposed to be doing.’ And they have the power to change it.”

Ellison has noticed a significant number of people this past year using self-tracking devices as a part of their health routine and, indeed, in August the Wall Street Journal noted that quantified self is becoming big business.

Of course, people have used pedometers for years, and health experts like Ellison were writing their calories down on paper before computer programs existed to do it for them. But as that technology has gotten cheaper and easier to use, more and more people are getting interested in their stats.

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“If they don’t have restful sleep, it can affect their energy levels for sure,” says Ellison. “If you’re having a lot of waking sleep, then you’re not getting the hormone release you’re supposed to, and you’re feeling tired all the time.”

‘A lot of people say, ‘Oh, I eat well. I eat healthy. I do a lot of exercise.’

Then they realize, ‘Wow, I’m really not eating right and doing what I’m supposed to be doing.’’

— JAIMI ELLISON This information, in conjunction with calorie intake and activity levels, can create a much more accurate picture of people’s health than they had access to even five years ago. But, of course, none of this technology means that devices are going to do all the work—yet.

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Stage DANCE Bellydance Showcase

THEATER 8 Tens @ Eight The 19th annual festival of short plays written by Bay Area playwrights. www.sccat. org. Thu, Jan 23, 8pm, Fri, Jan 24, 8pm, Sat, Jan 25, 3 and 8pm and Sun, Jan 26, 3pm. $15-$30. Center Stage, 1001 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.425.7529.

Are We There Yet? A one-man live comedy show

by Richard Stockton aimed at rekindling the Baby Boomers' revolutionary spirit. Tickets at www.arewethereyetshow. com. Fri, Jan 24, 8pm. $15.

Broadway Playhouse, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz.

CONCERTS Santa Cruz Symphony Selections from Wagner, Prokofiev and Mahler inspired by love stories.

Sunday's performance at the Watsonville Mello Center. Sat, Jan 25, 8pm and Sun, Jan 26, 2pm. $22-$67. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5260.

GALLERIES OPENING Cabrillo College Gallery Cabrillo Gallery. Holt Murray: A Retrospective - Threedimensional work by former Cabrillo College Art Dept. faculty Holt Murray. Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4pm & Mon-Tues 7-9pm. Thru Feb. 21. 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6308.

Various Santa Cruz County Bank Locations SC County Bank Arts. Off the Wall: Local artists create works exploring the beauty and space of our 3-dimenstional world.

Mon-Thurs, 9am-5pm, Fri 9am-6pm. Thru May 2. Free. n/a, Santa Cruz.

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

Awareness Through Movement

Hemlock Discussion Group

Rydell Visual Arts Fellows.

An exhibition showcasing the diverse work of four local artists who received grants to pursue their projects. Gallery hours: Tues-Sun, 11am-5pm.

Thru Feb. 23. $5 general; $3 students/seniors. Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Courses promoting increased vitality, flexibility, and overall well-being. Beginning this week and ongoing for several weeks. www.suzielundgren. com. Thu, Jan 23, 5:30pm.

Pacific Cultural Center, 1307 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.6787.

Discuss end-of-life options for serenity and dignity.

Meets in Aptos the last Wed afternoon of every month except Dec; call for more info.

831.251.2240.

LITERARY EVENTS Author Event: Diane Johnson The bestselling author of Le Divorce will read from her new memoir, Flyover Lives.

Tue, Jan 28, 7pm. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

Author Event: Max Tegmark The author of Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality will give a reading, discussion and Q&A. Wed, Jan 22, 7pm. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

Author Event: The Hidden Lamp Four contributing authors from The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women, will share revolutionary knowledge of Buddhism. Mon, Jan 27, 7:30pm. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

Author Event: Vicki Robin Best-selling author of Your Money or Your Life will read from her new book about eating locally, Blessing the Hands that Feed Us. Thu, Jan 23, 7pm. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

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

Mon, 11am. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

The Poets' Circle Featured reader Amber Coverdale Sumrall followed by an open mic for poets and musicians. Thu, Jan 23, 6-8pm. Free. Watsonville Public Library, 275 Main Street, Watsonville, 831.728.6040.

NOTICES Aptos Shakespeare Group Members read and discuss a Shakespeare play each week for five Saturdays. Open to the public. Sat, 10am-12pm.

Thru Feb 8. $2 suggested donation. Christ Lutheran Church, 10707 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.462.5767.

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

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

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

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

A Course In Miracles Study Group A weekly meeting on learning how to forgive and live in peace. Drop-ins are welcome.

Thu, 7-9pm. The Barn Studio, 104b Park Way South, Santa Cruz, 831.272.2246.

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

Figure Drawing Weekly drawing from a live model, facilitated by Open Studio artist Richard Bennett.

Mon, 7-10pm. $16. Santa Cruz Art League, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, 831.426.5787.

Fruit Tree Workshop Fruit Trees 101: A workshop on basic fruit tree care such as planting, fertility, irrigation, and pest control. Sat, Jan 25, 10am-1pm. $30 general public; $20 members; $5 UCSC students. UCSC Farm and Garden, UCSC, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3240.

Greenwood Arts Song, circle dance, music, writing and drawing with all materials provided.

Sun, Jan 26, 2-4pm. $10.

Outdoor Location, Details upon registration, Aptos, 831.662.0186.

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.

Insight Santa Cruz Meditation sits, talks and discussions every day of the week. Learn the formal practice of meditation and engage with a community dedicated to reducing suffering by cultivating compassion. Visit www. insightsantacruz.org for specific times and more information. Ongoing.

Insight Santa Cruz, 1010 Fair Avenue, Suite C, Santa Cruz, 831.425.3431.

Miracle Working Spiritual teacher Dominique Free leads a weekly class on cultivating the consciousness to heal, overcome, succeed and create miracles. Thu, 7-8pm. Conscious Lounge, 1651A El Dorado Av @ Capitola Rd, Santa Cruz, 831.359.0423.

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 10:3011:30am 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 noon-1pm at 49 Blanca Ln, #303, Watsonville and 12:15-1:15pm at 225 Rooney St., Santa Cruz.

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

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

Qigong Flow Led by Bonnie Eskie, MFT. Tue, 10-11am. $10-$12.

Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.515.4144.

Support and Recovery Groups ADHD: 831.818.9691; Alzheimer's: Alzheimer's Assn., 831.464.9982. Cancer: Katz Cancer Resource Center, 831.351.7770; WomenCARE, 831.457.2273.

Candida: 831.471.0737.

FRIDAY 1/17 — FRIDAY 2/28

Are We There Yet? Richard Stockton of Planet Cruz Comedy presents his one-man comedy, musical, storytelling and video show that peels back the layers of the Baby Boomer generation’s rebelliousness and poses questions about how Boomers can bring that spirit into the rest of their lives. Every Friday though Feb. 28 at 8pm at the Broadway Playhouse, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz. Tickets $15. www.arewethereyetshow.com.

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.

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

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

Triangle Speaker Training Training for the speakers bureau program for sharing individual stories to promote LGBTQ equality.

More information at diversitycenter.org. Sat, Jan 25. UCSC Arts Facilities, NA, Santa Cruz, 831.425.5422.

Yoga Benefit A tandem pairing of adult and children's' classes

followed by tea and light snacks. Sat, Jan 25. $25 suggested donation. Luma Yoga & Family Center, 1010 Center St., Santa Cruz, 831.325.2620.

Yoga for Better Sex A class offering simple yoga poses that will increase sexual pleasure. Thu, Jan 23, 7-8:30pm. $15-$20. Pure Pleasure, 204 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.466.9870.

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 Comedy Open Mic A rotation of the best up-and-coming stand-up comedy acts from the Bay Area. Thu, 8:30pm.

Free. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.7717.

English Country Dance

Wharf Wildlife Tours

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

Free eco-tours of the wharf by the Seymour Discovery Center. Sat-Sun, 1 and 3pm.

Thru Dec 31. Free. Santa Cruz Wharf, Beach Street, Santa Cruz.

Winterpalooza Transform the museum into a winter wonderland with DIY stuffed toys, snowmen lanterns, wintery sparkle face paint and more at this family festival. Sat, Jan 25, noon-3pm. $5. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Walnut Ave. Women's Center Benefit A benefit for the Walnut Avenue Women's Center programs featuring music

by Little John, All Good Funk Alliance and others. Sat, Jan 25. 418 Project, 418 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.3062.

San Francisco’s City Guide

Bill Frisell Residency Guitarist plays in solo, trio, quartet and quintet settings with rotating members. Jan 23-26 at SFJAZZ Center.

Darkside Experimental noise, or modern New Age? Electronic duo tours behind new LP, ‘Psychic.’

Jan 24 at the Fillmore.

Ryan Hemsworth Canadian producer whose ‘Kitsch Genius’ showcases new dimensions in loops and samples. Jan 24 at the Independent.

Rhett Miller's Variety Show Frontman for Old 97s presents ‘Wheels Off,’ a variety show with John Doe from X. Jan 27 at Yoshi’s SF.

The Hood Internet Chicago’s mashup duo blends indie rock with mainstream rap to twee / comic / ironic effect. Jan 30 at Mezzanine.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

JANUARY 22-28, 2014

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.

Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History

JANUARY 22-28, 2014

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TOUR THE COUNTRY ON FOOT, THEY SAID. IT’LL BE FUN, THEY SAID Band of Heathens make their way to Don Quixote’s.

WEDNESDAY

1/22

THURSDAY

1/23

FRIDAY

1/24

SATURDAY

1/25

JIM MALCOLM

J-BOOG

BEAR LINCOLN

TEA LEAF GREEN

As frontman for the Old Blind Dogs, Jim Malcolm established himself as one of the great voices of the contemporary Celtic music scene. Now a solo artist armed with guitar, harmonica and stories to boot, Malcolm is a celebrated interpreter of traditional Scottish songs as well as being a solid songwriter in his own right. A bona fide troubadour, his concerts tap into the age-old tradition of weaving humor, banter and personal observations into musical performances. Don Quixote’s; $15 adv/$17 door; 7:30pm. (CJ)

How’s this for multicultural: born of Samoan descent, J Boog grew up in Compton before moving to Hawaii.

Influences from all of those places and more can be heard in his music, which combines reggae with the even breezier island sound, though he's been falling more and more under the spell of Jamaica for several years now. He's also under the spell of the Bay Area lately, spending so much time in NorCal he’s practically a local. Moe’s Alley; $25/$30; 9pm. (Steve Palopoli)

Listing Talking Heads, James Brown and Vicente Fernandez as key musical influences does more to confuse than to clarify, but one listen to Bear Lincoln and all is forgiven. The Berkeley-based quartet whose members describe themselves as “musical disciples,” draws from several different musical wells and the results are surprisingly good.

Blending an upbeat, don’t-take-yourselftoo-seriously vibe, with clarinet- and bassdriven music that makes Klezmer music seem tame, this band is a surefire party starter that’s on its way to bigger things.

Crepe Place; $8; 9pm. (CJ)

Hailing from the old stomping grounds of the Grateful Dead, Tea Leaf Green offers endless opportunities for comparison. The San Francisco-based jam band dives deeper into southern rock than the Animal Liberation Orchestra or New Monsoon—and less into acid rock than the Mother Hips. Frequent travelers of the West Coast for the past decade, TLF has pulled lyrical influence from California mythology and writers as disparate as Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck. Vocals are a team effort—with pure pop singer/keyboardist Trevor Garrod, guttural guitarist Josh Clark, and whiny and ethereal bassist and tenor Reed Mathis trading off. Moe's Alley; $17 adv/$20 door; 9pm. (Jacob Pierce)

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CRYSTAL BOWERSOX Tickets: pulseproductions.net

Thursday, January 23 U 7 pm

Live & Local!

Concerts

RICK WALKER: Celebration of a Lifetime in Music Friday, January 24 U 9 pm

Saturday, January 25

YUKMOUTH

$5 at the door!

CLUB KUUMBWA: STEEP RAVINE

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7 pm

Jan. 23 at Catalyst

TIM FLANNERY & LUNATIC FRINGE

PINK MARTINI

Monday, January 27 U 7 pm

Jan. 29 at Rio Theatre

CAROLYN WONDERLAND Jan. 30 at Moe’s Alley

INCITERS

Jan. 31 at Kuumbwa

WOOD BROTHERS Feb. 3 at Rio Theatre

Sold out!

HOWARD LEVY & CHRIS SIEBOLD Virtuoso harmonica player and superb guitarist team up!

Wednesday, January 29 U 7:30 pm

Hawaiian Slack Key Masters GEORGE KAHUMOKU JR. & LEDWARD KAAPANA

Tix: ticketfly.com & Streetlight Records

WEDNESDAY

1/29

BAND OF HEATHENS

SATURDAY

1/25

ELIQUATE Blending hip-hop, rock, funk and a pinch of reggae with improvisational tendencies and a goal of shining a light on the shared elements of the human condition, Eliquate is one of Santa Cruz’s favorite party bands. But if you can stop dancing for long enough to take in the whole package, you’ll hear capable musicians who have a handle on a bunch of musical styles and a lyricist urgently spouting personal insights, universal truths and friendly encouragement.

A one-two combo of consciousness and good time, Eliquate knows how to bring the party and how to get in your mind once you’re there. This show is a benefit for the Surfrider Foundation.

Catalyst; $8/$12; 9pm.

“We’re burning down Las Vegas Town, half asleep by noon. I drank my money a red roulette.

That’s a ride you can’t refuse,” these guys sing on “L.A. County Blues,” a song based on Hunter S. Thompson. The Band of Heathens get your attention with name that strikes fear into the bottom of your soul. They keep it by nailing the grungy Americana sound of heartbreak and life on the road with blaring distorted guitars, soaring pedal steel and smooth piano playing—although this will be the acoustic duo version, featuring Ed Jurdi and Gordy Quist. And if the whole alt country thing doesn’t work out, they can always start a motorcycle gang. Don Quixote's; $18 adv/$20 door; 7:30pm. (JP)

Thursday, January 30 U 7 pm

ASWIN BATISH’S SITAR POWER

Friday, January 31 U 7:30 pm

Retro Soul Dance Party with THE INCITERS

Win Prizes!

Dress Retro

Tickets: brownpapertickets.com Monday, February 3 U 7 & 9 pm | No Comps

HABIB KOITE

9pm: 1/2 Price Night for Students Thursday, February 6 U 7 pm

PAMELA ROSE & WAYNE DE LA CRUZ: “HAMMOND ORGAN PARTY”

6:30 pm: Pre-Concert talk with artists and Pete Fallico from the Jazz Organ Fellowship Saturday, February 8

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7:30 pm

REV. BILLY C. WIRTZ

Tickets: snazzyproductions.com Monday, February 10 U 7 pm

JOHN ABERCROMBIE QUARTET

GEORGE KAHUMOKU JR. & LED KAAPANA

Friday, February 14 U 7:30 pm | No Comps

Whether he’s singing in Hawaiian or English, there’s something irresistibly soothing about George Kahumoku Jr.’s friendly voice, colorful chords and steady rhythm guitar. When lead guitarist Led Kaapana sits beside him and plays sweet melodies, the two men assemble something magical. Kaapna was dubbed a Hawaiian “renaissance man” by Maui Time Weekly and received the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album for the compilation album Legends Of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar — Live From Maui. Kuumbwa; $30 door/$35 adv; 7:30pm. (JP)

Jazz at Lincoln CenterSOLD Orchestra OUT! featuring Wynton Marsalis

TUCK & PATTI: VALENTINE’S DAY CONCERT Jazz & Dinner Packages Available! (includes reserved seats)

GOLD CIRCLE

Saturday, March 8, 7:30 PM @ Santa Cruz Civic Tickets: SantaCruzTickets.com or Civic Box Office, 831-420-5260 No Comps or Gift Certificates

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

All ages welcome.

320-2 Cedar St [ Santa Cruz 831.427.2227

kuumbwajazz.org

JANUARY 22-28, 2014

WOOD BROTHERS

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YUKMOUTH

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Friday, 1HU\HY` ‹ AGES 18+

JANUARY 22-28, 2014

INFECTED MUSHROOM

plus Butch

Clancy

3P !DV !DV $RS s $RS P M 3HOW P M Friday, January 24 ‹ In the Atrium s AGES 21+ FOREVERLAND tribute to Michael Jackson !DV $RS s $RS P M 3HOW P M

Saturday, 1HU\HY` ‹ AGES 16+

HIEROGLYPHICS Fashawn M-TEN Rey Resurreccion

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1D Davenport avenport A Ave, ve, S Santa anta C Cruz ruz

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

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Liv Live eD DJ J

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W Wildrun ildrun

The Go Ahead

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Killertones Killertones

T Trout rout L Leg eg

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Eliquate Eliquate

T Turkuaz urkuaz

Ha Haymarket y ymark et Squar Squares es

Bear Lincoln Lincoln

The Abigails

Hot Club P PaciďŹ c aciďŹ c

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Mapanova Mapanova

Isoc Isoceles eles

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Tim Tim Flannery

Stick Stick Men

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11134 134 Soquel A Ave, ve, Santa Cruz

3UNDAY *ANUARY ‹ In the Atrium s AGES 21+

Monday, January 27 ‹ In the Atrium s AGES 16+

Liv Live eD DJ J

11011 011 P PaciďŹ c aciďŹ c A Ave, ve, Santa Cruz

2 2218 Eas Eastt Cliff Dr Dr,, Santa Cruz

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SAT 1/ 1/25 25

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529 5 29 S Seabright eabright A Ave, ve, S Santa anta C Cruz ruz

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923 9 23 P PaciďŹ c aciďŹ c A Ave, ve, S Santa anta C Cruz ruz

3ATURDAY *ANUARY ‹ In the Atrium s AGES 16+

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DAVENPORT D AVENPORT ROADHOUSE ROADHOUSE

Sons of Twang Twang

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3 320-2 Cedar Cedar St, St, Santa Cruz

M MOE’S ALLEY 11535 535 C Commercial ommercial W Way, ay, Santa Cruz

Jan 31 Berner/ Reign Eterno (Ages 16+) Feb 1 Y & T/ T Clemente Band (Ages 21+) Feb 21 The California Honeydrops The Brothers Comatose (Ages 16+) Feb 22 Z-Trip (Ages 18+) &EB Dom Kennedy (Ages 16+) Feb 28 Dr. Dog/ Saint Rich (Ages 16+) Mar 4 G-Eazy (Ages 16+)

MOTIV M MO TIV

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11209 209 P PaciďŹ c aciďŹ c A Ave, ve, Santa Cruz

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Open Mic

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Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

3102 3 310 2 Portola Portola Dr Dr.,., Santa Cruz

1120 20 Union St, St, Santa Cruz

R THEATRE RIO THEATRE

Gail Gail Rich Awards Awards

11205 205 Soquel A Avenue, venue, Santa Cruz

S SEABRIGHT BREWERY BREWERY 5 Seabright A 519 Ave, ve, Santa Cruz

T THE POCKET

Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 877-987-6487 & online

www.catalystclub.com

MIDNIGHTS

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8 831.420.0135 31.420.0135

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Pink Martini

RIO THEATRE THEATRE 831.423.8209

SEABRIGHT BREWERY BREWERY 831.426.2739 831.426.2739

THE POCKET

Performances of Kitaro’s most memorable music from Silk Road, Kojiki and Heaven and Earth.

Benefiting the Everybody is a Star Foundation, Sonoma Land Trust and the Santa Rosa Symphony’s educational programs.

JANUARY 22-28, 2014

Karaoke Karaoke

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Karaoke Karaoke

Jake Jake Nielson

Steve Steve Throop Throop

110 11 0 Monterey Monterey Ave., Ave., Capitola Capitola

THE T HE FOG BANK

with Eve Eve

Jack of All Trades Trades

211 21 11 Esplanade, Esplanade, Capitola Capitola

MANGIAMO’S M MANGIAMO S PIZZA PIZZA AND WINE BAR

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2591 25 591 Main S St, t, Soquel

PARADISE P ARADISE BEACH BEACH GRILLE

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215 21 15 Esplanade, Esplanade, Capit Capitola ola

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Joe Ferrara Ferrara

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Till Till Zebra Zebra

Fossil Fossil Farm Farm

Mariachi Ensemble Ensemble

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1 Seascape S Resort Resort Dr Dr,, Rio del Mar

SEVERINO’S S EVERINO’S BAR & GRILL

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7500 7 5 500 Old Dominion Ct, Apt Aptos os

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1750 17 750 Wharf Rd, Rd, Capit Capitola ola

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4640 4 640 Soquel Dr, Dr, Soquel

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Film JUST CALL HIM DAVID COP-A-FEEL The married, middle-aged Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) fell for the 18-year-old actress Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones).

Our Mutual Adulterer

‘The Invisible Woman’ tells of Dickens’ mistress with just the right amount of Victorian detachment BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

R

ALPH FIENNES continues to demonstrate style, sensitivity and inquisitiveness in The Invisible Woman, to be filed with Angels and Insects and The French Lieutenant’s Woman as studies of the sexual contradictions of the Victorian era.

Directing and playing Charles Dickens, Fiennes avoids the usual gambits of adapting Victorian literary material; consider what happens to that smoking pufferbelly train that you always see in Dickens movies. Fiennes also makes a radical shift from the ubermale virtue story Coriolanus to tradwomen’s picture material.

The film is about Charles Dickens’ love affair; he was 45, Nelly Ternan, the woman he loved, was 18. The famed author—mobbed everywhere he went—tried keeping the lid on the

scandal, seeking plausible deniability in writing to The Times. His wife, Catherine (Joanna Scanlan), the mother of his many children, is well-played as a sort of demi-Queen Victoria: wronged, yes, tragic, yes, but obese, stationary, jowly and disapproving.

The wife’s immobility makes a fine visual contrast with Nelly (Felicity Jones). Her narrow circumstances are symbolized by the narrow staircase that her family, a tribe of actors, uses to haul up their trunks and luggage.

Dickens’ lover was a semi-talented actress who inherited her job. Her mother Fanny (Kristin Scott-Thomas) once played Desdemona to Edward Kean’s Othello. It’s not easy to act around a bonnet, and thus the lovely Jones is photographed in encircling shots from the back of her neck, swiveling

around to her in three-quarters profile; Fiennes contemplates her nape like a Japanese woodblock artist. It’s a fine, mysterious and recessive performance.

Look at a picture of the real Ellen “Nelly” Ternan and the mystery is solved: you understand instantly why Dickens fell in love. Ternan’s eyes are extremely sympathetic, and she looks wiser and more mature than Jones does, even in later scenes in the 1880s when Nelly would have been in her 40s.

The script by Abi Morgan is too conventional. It’s a 21st-century study of a 19th-century affair; it’s suspicious of a middle aged man’s creepy motives.

Fiennes doesn’t paint the usual corners of this kind of story—he doesn’t show us the way the scandal spreads through London. The art of cutting someone dead is demonstrated nicely as Dickens

goes on his rounds. (Dickens is a fast walker, just as the editing here is quicker than you expect for a period piece.)

The Invisible Woman handles an incident of infant mortality with brisk coldness, authentic to the period.

Similarly affecting: Dickens prowling the alleys to see slum children out in the night. It’s piercing in the way the Save Our Children charity commercials aren’t. Here’s the answer to making a film about writers, with their visual static lives. Don’t show the writing (or the droning, as they read aloud at a drowsy picnic; that, sadly, happens here). Show the research they do instead. Show them out in the world.

The Invisible Woman teases the question of whether one might accept being the back-street lover of a powerful person. Would it be worth it, to have all to yourself a small part of a rock star, president or actor, if to say, if it meant being the first one to read Great Expectations, with the ink still damp on the page? But then The Invisible Woman makes its position clear, in the flashback of Nelly on stage saying “This is a tale of woe…” followed by an a capella version of a dire Irish ballad.

The ending doesn’t negate the sting, the chill and the romance of what we’d seen, but it compromises the story with disapproval. So does the script’s choice to remove Fanny from that fateful day at Staplehurst (don’t Google, it’s a spoiler). Fanny’s presence would have proved Dickens even more ruthless about keeping his good name than he was already. But it would also prove that if Fanny didn’t actually procure her daughter for the famous man, she ultimately accepted the relationship.

Fiennes’ Dickens has blood in him: if it’s cold blood, it’s still blood. There’s enough going on in The Invisible Woman to demonstrate that Fiennes isn’t just an actor to admire, but a director to watch.

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN 111 Min.; R Opens Fri at the Nick

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PULP FICTION (1994) Is Quentin Tarantino’s mainstream breakthrough the most ripped-off movie ever? It’s gotta be top five, for sure.

Twenty years later, we’re on to rip-offs of rip-offs of rip-offs of rip-offs of this vignetteheavy, quirky-criminal-defining masterpiece—but not one of them has done it better. (Plays Fri and Sat at midnight at the Del Mar)

SH O WT I ME S

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.

AMERICAN HUSTLE (R; 138 min) When it comes to cool, movies either got it or they don’t. And there’s something about the promise of director David O. Russell and an all-star cast led by Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner

Movie reviews by Steve Palopoli

taking on a con man story (with mafia tie-in!) that is going to make American Hustle irresistible to a lot of movie lovers. Throw in the great trailer that suggests everyone involved has lived up to that promise, and it doesn’t seem like hyperbole to say that in terms of movie cool, American Hustle could be the Pulp Fiction of its time.

ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (PG-13; 119 min) I tried to get through the Ron Burgundy book, but trust me, his ridiculousness isn’t that interesting unless it’s coming

out of Will Ferrell’s mouth.

That’s the thing that made Anchorman so great in the first place—these characters weren’t shticks, and they even transcended the caricatures they were meant to be in the first place. They seemed like real people—hilarious, dumbass real people— living in some kind of alternate reality that was a lot like ours, except funnier and with news-team gang fights. Can this muchanticipated sequel recapture the magic? Don’t look at me, I have no idea.

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (R; 121 min) It’s this

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Jan. 22, through Wednesday, Jan. 29, 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

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit—Wed-Thu 2; 4:30; 7; 9:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Saving Mr. Banks — Wed-Thu 1:30; 4:10; 6:45; 9:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

41ST AVENUE CINEMA

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

August: Osage County — Wed-Thu 1:15; 4:15; 7:10; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

American Hustle — Wed-Thu 12:45; 3:45; 7; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Lone Survivor — Wed-Thu 1; 4; 7:20; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

DEL MAR

The Legend of Hercules — Wed-Thu 2:10; 7:05; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Legend of Hercules 3D—Wed-Thu 11:50; 4:35; 9:35; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Lone Survivor — Wed-Thu 12:30; 3:40; 7:17; 10:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Nut Job — Wed-Thu 2; 4:10; 8:30; 10:40; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Nut Job 3D — Wed-Thu 11:30; 6:20; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones — Wed-Thu 9pm; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Ride Along — Wed-Thu 12:15, 3:05; 6; 9; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

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

Her — Wed-Thu 1:50; 4:30; 7:10; 9:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Saving Mr. Banks — Wed-Thu 1:40; 4:15; 6:50; 9:20; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Wolf of Wall Street — Wed-Thu 12:20; 3:50; 7:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Pulp Fiction — Fri-Sat midnight.

American Hustle — Wed-Thu 12:30; 3:45; 7; 9:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues — Wed-Thu 11:15; 2; 4:45; 7:30; 10:15.

August: Osage County — Wed-Thu 1; 4; 7; 9:55; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Frozen — Wed-Thu 11; 2; 4:40; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Her — Wed-Thu 1:15; 4:15; 7:10; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — Wed-Thu 11:45; 3:30; Fri-Wed call

NICKELODEON

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit — Wed-Thu 11:55; 2; 4:45; 7:30; 10:15; Fri-Wed

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

for showtimes.

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

call for showtimes.

12 Years a Slave — Wed-Thu 4; 8:50pm; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

August: Osage County —Wed-Thu 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Dallas Buyer’s Club — Wed-Thu 3:50; 9; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Inside Llewyn Davis —Wed-Thu 2:30; 4:50; 7:10; 9:20; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Nebraska — Wed-Thu 1:30; 6:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Philomena — Wed-Thu 1:50; 6:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Legend of Hercules — Wed-Thu 1:45; 4:15; 6:45; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for

RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN

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

American Hustle — Wed-Thu 12:15; 3:15; 6:30; 9:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. (no Wed 12:15pm) Devil’s Due — Wed-Thu 12:30; 3:30; 6:45; 9:40; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. (no Wed 12:30pm)

SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9

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

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues — Wed-Thu 11:45; 2:25; 5:15; 8; 10:40; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Frozen — Wed-Thu 11:35; 2:15; 5; 7:30; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Gravity 3D — Wed-Thu 12:05; 6:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — Wed-Thu 2:45pm; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — Wed-Thu 11:20; 2:45; 6; 9:20; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit — Wed-Thu 12; 2:30; 5:10; 7:45; 10:35; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

showtimes.

The Legend of Hercules 3D — Wed-Thu 11:30am; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Lone Survivor — Wed-Thu 11; 1:45; 4:30; 7:20; 10:10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Nut Job — Wed-Thu 11; 11:45; 2:30; 4:55; 7:20; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Nut Job 3D — Wed-Thu 9:30pm; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Ride Along — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2:15; 4:55; 7:40; 10:10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Saving Mr. Banks — Wed-Thu 7:45pm; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Camelot — Thu 11am.

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8

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

American Hustle — Wed-Thu 12:45; 4; 7; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

August: Osage County —Wed-Thu 1:30; 4:10; 6:50; 9:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Frozen — Wed-Thu 4:20; 6:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit — Wed-Thu 1:35; 4:25; 7; 9:45; call for showtimes.

The Legend of Hercules—Wed-Thu 12:55; 5:15; 9:40; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Legend of Hercules 3D — Wed-Thu 3:05; 7:25; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Lone Survivor — Wed-Thu 1:25; 4:15; 7; 9:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Nut Job — Wed-Thu 1; 3; 7:25; 9:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Nut Job 3D — Wed-Thu 5:10pm; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones — Wed-Thu 1:05; 3:15; 5:20; 7:30; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Ride Along — Wed-Thu 1:20; 4; 7:15; 9:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Wolf of Wall Street — Wed-Thu 12:45; 9:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

year’s Acting Olympics, as Meryl Streep, Benedict Cumberbatch, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper…oh come on! You saw the preview!

You know you’re gonna go!

They got the people everybody loves to be in an adaptation of a play everybody loves, with a plot about family dysfunction, which everybody loves! (The plot, not the dysfunction). Face it, you’re going! I’m already there! In my mind!

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 ’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.

DEVIL’S DUE (R; 89 min) Eli Roth says this is the scariest found-footage movie to come along since Paranormal Activity.

That won’t impress horror fans who consider the PA franchise overhyped, but it does suggest there might be more to this movie than its Rosemary’sBaby-clone plot suggests. UCSC grad (and former vocalistguitarist for Link 80!) Matt Bettinelli co-directed this, along with Tyler Gillet—they’re an up-and-coming team who directed the last segment of the first V/H/S anthology, and judging from what they’ve said about it, the movie seems more like a very conscious Polanski tribute than a rip-off.

HER (R; 126 min) Guys have been falling in love with robots in science fiction for probably as long as there’s been science fiction. Hell, on Twilight Zone it happened like every other week! This take on it from director Spike Jonze has Joaquin Phoenix as a writer who falls in love with his operating system.

Hey, we’ve all done it.

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG-13; 105 min) A bunch of people have played Tom Clancy’s CIA-analyst hero at this point, but for some reason it seems like Harrison Ford just is Jack Ryan. Now the character is back in the form of Chris Pine (best known for re-booting Captain Kirk), with an over-the-top action

approach that basically makes Ryan into a superhero. Couldn’t you just hear millions of Clancy fans groan when Kevin Costner tells him in the trailer “You’re not just an analyst now”?

Uh, wasn’t the whole point of the character that he was an analyst?

LONE SURVIVOR (R; 121 min) Well gee, thanks for giving away the ending, war movie title! Apparently we shouldn’t get too attached to the cast that includes Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch and Eric Bana in a story based on a real-life Navy SEAL mission that got FUBAR. THE NUT JOB (PG; 86 min) I can’t even imagine what the pitch sessions are like for these animated quirky-animal movies.

Is there a lightning round? “OK, there’s a bear…” “No.” “OK, there’s a duck…” “No.” “OK, there’s a platypus…” “Hell no.”

Somehow, somebody sold the idea of a squirrel, and so in this movie little Surly the Squirrel (voiced by Will Arnett) gets kicked out of his home in a park and has to survive in the city.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (R; 84 min) How much do you think the makers of the Blair Witch Project wish they could go back in time and re-do their sad attempt to turn their movie into a franchise, using everything we’ve learned from Paranormal Activity? The producers behind PA have done absolutely everything right, and now they practically have a Marvel Universe type of thing happening with this spin-off from Paranormal Activity 4, which creates a completely different storyline about a young man “marked” by supernatural forces, but will no doubt tie in to the main KatieDemon-and-her-stolen-babyHunter storyline somehow.

Even more intriguing, this film is specifically targeted at a Latino audience, setting the franchise up for success across demographic lines. Maybe GOP leaders will show up opening night to pick up some pointers?

RIDE ALONG (PG-13; 100 min) We know Ice Cube can act, but for the last decade his career has been pretty much reduced to finding different ways to contort his face for a wide spectrum of annoyed looks. Make no mistake about it: if there were Oscars for facial tics, Ice Cube would add to his collection with this latest comedy in which he plays a cop who keeps getting annoyed

by Kevin Hart. How is that a movie? We’re all annoyed by Kevin Hart.

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I, FRANKENSTEIN (PG-13; 92 min) Aaron Eckhart plays a weary, centuries-old man caught up in a battle of immortals. Can it possibly be a coincidence that the last cross-eyed movie star before Eckhart, Christopher Lambert, also played a weary, centuriesold man caught up in a battle of immortals—in 1986’s Highlander? I think not! What the hell is going on with these immortals? How do they live so long when they can’t see straight? (Opens Fri at Cinema 9 and Green Valley)

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (R; 111 min) See review, page 30. (Opens Fri at the Nick)

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TREE TOPPER As the head gardener at UCSC’s Alan Chadwick Garden, Orin Martin knows plenty about fruit trees. He’ll bring the knowledge at a workshop Saturday.

More Than a Peeling

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ruit trees are glories of the botanical world, producing fragrant blossoms in spring and luscious fruit in late summer.

There's very little that Orin Martin— head gardener at the UCSC Alan Chadwick Garden—doesn't know about selecting trees, preparing the soil, finessing proper irrigation, controlling pests and pruning like a surgeon. Martin will be sharing his considerable knowledge about the subject at the workshop Fruit Trees 101: Basic Fruit Tree Care this coming Sat., Jan. 25 from 10am to 1pm at the UCSC Farm. The workshop is priced at $30 for general public ($40

at the door, and $20 for Friends of the UCSC Farm and Garden). Prepare to walk around, bring a snack if you like and learn a lot about successful fruit tree care and maintenance. For more details, call (831) 458-3240 or email casfs@ucsc.edu.

VENUS ON THE WESTSIDE:

Fans of the new, the old and the very artisanal will want to stay poised to peek in at Venus Spirits sometime this spring. That's when Sean Venus, a veteran of food business development at Gordon Biersch, hopes to have his distillery up and running. You heard me,

Venus plans to offer tastings of his new high proof creations at the tasting room located at 427A Swift Street. “We should be making product in March,” the distiller told the Santa Cruz Weekly. “We will first be releasing our gin and blue agave spirits. Our small barrel aged product should be released sometime in the fall.” Eventually, the tasting room will include fine aged whiskey in the production mix, and right now slabs are being poured for the actual production area. Imagine a botanically complex Santa Cruz-made gin in your martinis next summer!

Chip Scheuer

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WINE TIPS: Lately we've revived our passion for the Quinta Cruz

line of intriguing wines made by Jeff Emery, whose flagship label— Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard—

delivers some of the top wines of our region. The Quinta Cruz wines were inspired by several trips Emery made to Portugal, and soon the crafty winemaker began sourcing locally grown grapes that push the oenological envelope way past pinot. Now available at the tasting room (Emery is one of the Surf City Vintners who work their sorcery in the flourishing Ingalls Street complex), Quinta Cruz' delightfully crisp, fragrant Verdelho offers as much substance as any white wine can deliver. But it's the 2011 Tempranillo ($18) that currently adorns our dinner table. A large, generous wine, it opens into different flavor territory than its Spanish versions. This wine offers strawberry topnotes, a mid-bandwidth of spice and even citrus, and a long, lower register of plums. It can handle every food that isn't shellfish. In fact, it proved outstanding with a take-out order of barbecue pork spareribs from Gayle's Rosticceria, which themselves absolutely blew us away— moist, juicy, loaded with meatiness and thick, assertive sauce. I refused to share my portion, even though I profess not to be a ribs person. The following week I sampled another two-fisted take-out dish—classic, flawless, utterly satisfying chile con carne—from Gayle's. I just hadn't expected such heartland flair with meat dishes from an establishment whose reputation was originally built on consummate sweets. Believe it or not, the last two visits to Gayle's (well, the time before last) I sailed right by the cakes, cookies and pies and made straight for the grilled sausages and peppers. Last time I couldn't make it past the apple and cream cheese Danish, though. So I surrendered.

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F O O D I E F I LE

JANUARY 22-28, 2014

Chip Scheuer

FROM THE GROUND UP After the previous owners took out everything including the stove and refrigerator, Jeanne Harrison re-built Café Rio from the ground up.

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wo and a half years ago, Jeanne Harrison took over Café Rio and began renovations. Slowly, Harrison began introducing more gluten-free recipes, and two months ago brought in a new head chef, Jacob Wildman. “We used to go through 50 pounds of butter a week,” says Harrison, who worked 20 years at the restaurant as a server and manager under different owners. “Everything was very tasteful, but it just wasn’t the healthiest. Jacob has really come to the table with fresh everything. It’s all from scratch.”

SCW: What’s your favorite fish?

Jeanne Harrison: I love the sanddabs here, and the swordfish. Opakapaka is one of my favorites that’s not on my list, but we have it as a special. The swordfish is super moist and sort of a baseball cut. A lot of times you go to a restaurant, and they slice it super thin. Here it’s more of a filet. Sanddabs are a mainstay. Almost every table, someone will order sanddabs because you can’t get them anywhere, and they’re really tasty—a really white, delicate fish. We just lightly dust them with rice flour and then grill ‘em.

What’s the difference between a Mai Tai and your “High Tide”?

We have a special ingredient we put into ours that’s a mixture between orgeat syrup and orange curaçao. We mix that—a certain level of each one. You would be putting in the same amount of your well rum and that. Then we add juice, and we top it with 151 and Meyers. Everybody loves them here. I was in Hawaii, and we were on a Mai Tai adventure to see who made the best Mai Tai, and Trump Tower made the best one ever. They had amaretto in it.

How did you renovate this place?

The previous owners took everything—stove, refrigerator. There were no tables, chairs. It was completely gutted. We bought all new carpet. We redid all the wood, redid the bar, painted and put in a whole new kitchen. We retiled and re-plumbed everything. All new equipment.

What do you put in the dog treats?

They’re organic. We use whole-wheat rice flour because of the gluten-free thing. Peanut butter’s organic. Dogs love it. I can’t even keep up with it. I was just noticing I’m low again.

Do people ever try them? All the time. They do! They go, “Oh, organic. It must be good for me,” and they’ll eat it. But it is. It would be like a drier cookie.

—Jacob Pierce

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AQUARIUS S (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Aquarian author Georges wrote moree Georges Simenon (1903-1989) (1903-1989) wr ote mor than 200 novelss under his own name and 300 more more under pseudonyms. pseudonyyms. On average, average, he finished a new book every 11 days. daays. Half a billion copies of his books books are are in print. I’m sorry sorry to report report that I don’t don’t think you will ever be as prolific p olific in your own chosen field as he pr was in his. However, However, your productivity productivity could soar to a hefty fraction fraction of Simenon-like levels in 2014—if you’re you’re willing too work your ass off. off. Your Your o luxuriant fruitfulness won’t wonn’t come as easily as his seemed to.

But you should be overjoyed that you at least have the potential to be luxuriantly fruitful.

PISCES (Feb.. 19-March 19-March 20): When I’m older and wiser,r, maybe I’ll understand the meaning of my lif life. wiser e. wiser,, maybe I’ll gain some insight When I’m older and a wiser about why I’m soo excited to be alive despite the ffact act that my destiny is so utterly mysterious. What about What different you’ree you, Pisces? Wh at will be diff erent ffor or you when you’r older and wiser?? Now is an excellent time to ponder it’s this riddle. Why?? Because it ’s likely you will get a glimpse of the person p you will have become when you aree older and wi wiser—which ar ser—which will in turn intensify your become motivation to be ecome that person.

Homework: H How ow could you change yourself in or der to get mor m order moree of the love you want? Go to Fr eeWillAstrology o y..com; click on “Email Rob.” FreeWillAstrology.com; Visit RE Visit REALASTROLOGY.COM A L ASTROLOGY.COM ffor or R Rob’s ob’s Expanded E Weekly Weekly Audio Audio Hor oscope es and Daily Text Text Message Message Horoscopes Hor oscope es. The The audio horoscopes horoscopes Horoscopes. ar e also available available by by phone at at are 1.877.873.4888 1.877.873 3.4888 or 1.900.950.7700 1.900.950.7700

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ARIES (Mar (March ch 21-April 19): Actor Actor c Casey Casey Affleck appreciates eciates the nurturing power appr power of his loved ones.

“My ffamily amily would be supportive,” supportive,,”” he says, “if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only o banana skins, make love to ashtrays, ashtrays, and eat tree t ee bark.” I’d like tr cultivate to see you cul tivate allies like that thhat in the coming months, Aries. Even if you have never had them before, they bef ore, there’s there’s a good chance th hey will be available.

For best results, results, tinker with your your understanding family of who your y familyy might g be. Redefine Redefine what ““community” community” means to you.

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