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HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT Public safety activist Lewis Roubal has been posting mug shots from local arrests in his Facebook group Santa Cruz Hall of Shame.

Hall Monitor of Shame Activist protests ‘revolving door’ in county courts

BY JACOB PIERCE [Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part story about recidivism and public safety in Santa Cruz. Part two runs next week.]

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ewis Roubal always liked to keep up on who was getting arrested for what in Santa Cruz. But when the 55-year-old retired contractor started noticing the same faces over and over again, and couldn’t keep up with how often they were getting arrested, he figured it was time for a Hall of Shame.

Last fall, Roubal, who describes himself as a “visual thinker,” started a Facebook group called Santa Cruz Hall of Shame, and began posting mug shots from recent arrests—all of them

available on mugshotssantacruz.com, a free website that operates on advertising revenue.

“This is our way to let business owners know,” says Roubal, who has joined me for a chat at Woodstock’s Pizza along with his friend James Burnett. “We’re not saying all these people are guilty. It’s just mug shots. This way, business owners can see who’s walking into their store. They might want to keep an extra watch out.”

On his tablet, Roubal has the mug shots of Fidela Curiel, who has been arrested 10 times since Aug. 24— including a two-day span when she was arrested three times. In the first one, she has a smile and a striped pink top. Her highlighted hair is brushed off

to the side. Santa Cruz Police booked her under suspicion of being high on methamphetamine and possessing drug paraphernalia. Her hair color changed a few times over the month.

By Jan. 10—her most recent arrest—a picture shows her face red and puffy, her hair and clothes disheveled. She is looking down.

Roubal, who has brown hair, glasses and a smile that hardly ever leaves his face, says the group’s focus is primarily on repeat offenders that he says are draining the Santa Cruz Police Department’s resources. Between January 2011 and April 2013, 146 people accounted for 3,598 arrests, according to the SCPD. “It’s just amazing the revolving door

that our court system has, and there’s nothing we can do about it because the judges are running unopposed,” Roubal says. “They put their name there, and no one opposes them, or they get appointed. Everyone has to have something to answer to in life. That’s the way I feel. Checks and balances.”

“It’s not the police. The police arrest them,” adds Burnett, who grew up in Florida and Georgia, and has a Southern accent. A Facebook friend invited Burnett into the group, and he’s been a frequent poster ever since. “It’s the judges that let them go after the police put them in jail. That’s the big problem.

As you can see, they get arrested. The police have no problem with arrests. It’s just that once they get them, the judge says, ‘see you later’—out the door they go.

Then they come back the next day, or later on that day.”

When it comes to Facebook, Roubal doesn’t just post local mug shots, which are public record. People also post news stories and celebrity mug shots for Justin Bieber and the much-maligned Elf the Shelf Christmas toy. With the group currently at 600 members, Roubal says he doesn’t care if it ever gets 7,000 people like Take Back Santa Cruz.

“My ego’s not like that,” he says. He’s focused on spreading awareness.

But whether the local business owners Roubal says he is looking out for need that awareness spread to them depends on whom you ask. For many, it’s simply not practical enough to be useful.

“Not a bad idea in principle,” says Lou Caviglia, co-owner of Louie’s Cajun Kitchen. “But as far as checking these things and worrying about them, the actual using of it would be overwhelming."

Roubal doesn’t plan to give up his crime watch any time soon.

“There’s nothing we can do about the court system. It’s just making people more knowledgeable about what is out there,” he says. “It’s all public knowledge.”

[Next week: What’s the real cause of Santa Cruz’s recidivism?

Judges respond.]

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PEOPLE’S CHOICE Santa Cruz Warriors point guard Kiwi Gardner represents ‘the classic underdog,’ says Jim Weyermann, president of the organization.

Kiwi Time

Coming up from the streets of East Oakland, with no collegiate experience, Kiwi Gardner had almost no chance of making it onto the Santa Cruz Warriors. But his fiery passion and relentless game won him a roster spot, and have fans going wild BY GEOFFREY DUNN

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t’s standing-room-only once again at the Kaiser Permanente Arena in downtown Santa Cruz, and the atmosphere inside is decidedly high voltage. The hometown Santa Cruz Warriors are taking it to the visiting Reno Bighorns in an NBA Development League battle, up by 15 points in the final minutes of the third period.

The 2,556 manic fans packed inside have their eyes on the Warriors’ dazzling back-up point guard, Kiwi Gardner. The compact and kinetic Gardner has swiftly become a crowd favorite in Surf City, his seemingly boundless energy both captivating and contagious as he slices and darts his way across the court. With his midlength dreadlocks bouncing in time to an uptempo improvisational jazz riff—think Miles Davis blowing “Seven

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Steps to Heaven” on the hardwoods— he doesn’t just run and jump. He sails, he soars.

At only 5’7” and barely out of high school, Gardner is already something of an urban legend in the region, and, indeed, in the world. Highlight videos of his high school and semi-pro performances have garnered more than eight million hits on YouTube. The effervescent 20-year-old already has his own internet TV show, Kiwi Gardner: The Truth. And National Public Radio is following him this season with regular reports on his progress.

The kid already has an identifiable brand, if not necessarily a marketable product. In the age of the Internet and instant celebrity, hype sometimes precedes substance. But wherever he plays, Gardner captures the imagination of those around him.

Even when he’s on the bench, he’s an energetic dynamo, applauding and

cheering on his teammates.

“He’s the modern-day Rocky [Balboa],” says the Warriors’ president and visionary impresario Jim Weyermann, himself no stranger to the value of marketing. “He’s the classic underdog. He’s a symbol, an icon. He represents the dreams of everyday people aspiring to something greater than themselves. They are affirmed by his very presence on the court.”

Tonight, Gardner is a whirling dervish of affirmation. With the Warriors holding a comfortable lead and their offense running on all cylinders, he is doing everything right—driving the game deep into the paint, pushing the Bighorns on their heels, bolting past defenders in a blur, then passing the ball to his teammates as they make assault after assault to the hoop.

The Bighorns try to slow down the pace to a more human rhythm.

Gardner pushes back—he zigs! he zags! he spins! he flies! he twists!— then sinks a reverse layup while seemingly changing direction in mid-air.

In one amazing sequence, he seemingly does it all: passing, shooting, stealing, getting fouled—at this point, he hasn’t missed a free throw for the entire season. He darts toward the basket again with an arching alleyoop pass, as his teammate Dewayne Dedmon guides the ball home while being fouled on the play.

During the first possession of the fourth quarter, it’s Gardner again, dribbling back and forth between his legs, skipping and slashing toward the basket, executing a give-and-go with Dedmon, then dishing a perfectly timed shove-pass to Kevin Kotzur for an easy lay-up.

As the fans go wild, Gardner races down the court to his newfound

few weeks after the game, I attend a morning workout session with the Warriors and remind both Gardner and Hill of the sequence, and the broad smiles return to each of their faces. “That was ours,” Gardner emphasizes. “We did that.”

Note the emphasis on the plural.

Gardner has embraced Hill’s leadership with a profound enthusiasm. In many ways, the coach’s guidance of his pupil has been a lifeline for Gardner, whose fledgling basketball career had nearly run out of rope. “That’s my guy,” Gardner says of Hill. “The support was there from Day One. From before he even knew me, he’s given his all.

He really gets inside my head. He’s encouraged me to do better. He was born to coach.”

I ask Hill, a decade older than Gardner, about his player’s unbridled enthusiasm, and he smiles.

“I’m fine with it,” Hill says. “He’s a team player. He has a will to win.

Good instincts. He’s raw, but very coachable. He listens. He’s a sponge.

He’s soaking it all in. I’ve seen a lot of improvement. That’s the reason he’s still on the team.”

Gardner is not only the youngest player on the Warriors, he’s also the youngest player in the entire league, and Hill realizes that he’s in a special position with his youthful protégé.

“I can’t pretend to know where he’s come from,” says Hill philosophically, acknowledging Gardner’s lessthan-idyllic background. “But I do understand where he’s trying to go.

“He and I have a good player-coach relationship,” Hill adds, “I enjoy having him on the team.”

It’s a great story with an ending that has yet to be written. Here’s the deal: Keyondrei “Kiwi” Gardner has come

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mentor—Casey Hill, the Warriors’ superb head coach—and in a scene straight out of Hollywood, encourages Hill to extend both his hands for an emphatic celebration slap. The 30-year-old Hill, who usually wears a serious demeanor on the floor, breaks into a broad smile. On the bench, Gardner’s teammates do the same.

The scene is magical, captivating.

The entire house is cheering, smiling, people turning to each other in joy, sharing “high fives” with each other.

A new era has momentarily settled on the Santa Cruz Warriors. It’s Kiwi Time.

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a long way this year from the rough streets of East Oakland, where he was born and raised. Gardner essentially got burned out of a four-year scholarship to Providence College in the Big East Conference—a bit more on that later—so that his tenure with the D-League Warriors is essentially amounting to his collegiate career.

“Do you realize how long the odds were?” Weyermann enthuses. “He walks off the street without any college experience, and he makes the team.

It’s unheard of. I don’t know of anyone who’s done that during my tenure with the league. This is the cream of the crop he’s going up against.”

After scratching his way onto the Warriors last November, Gardner has made tremendous headway. In December, he had a game for the ages, scoring an unheard of 23 points with a little more than nine minutes to play in the fourth quarter, while leading the Warriors to a come-frombehind victory against the Bakersfield Jam. With the Warriors down by 17 points, Gardner simply took over the game. He drove, he hit from the outside, he dished off, he drove some more, then drained a three-pointer with a minute left to put the Warriors ahead for good.

His performance in Bakersfield was statistically off-the-charts. If you project his 23-point scoring performance over the course of an entire 48-minute game, he would have been on pace to score an unimaginable 120 points.

Weyermann was at the game. “It was one of those rare moments when someone accomplishes something well beyond the ordinary,” he said, “where they excelled beyond their capabilities. The challenge is to establish a consistency in their performance.”

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here’s been a lot written about Gardner on the Internet, not all of it accurate. Born in 1993 in Oakland, Gardner was raised by his mother and his extended family (his father, he says, was never part of his life), in the working-class neighborhood east of Maxwell Park, just up the hill from the meaner streets of Fruitvale and International Boulevard. He grew up playing basketball at the local YMCA and, later,

at the Boys and Girls Club.

“From the time I was four years old,” he says, “basketball has always been my game.”

Oakland has a great athletic legacy.

NBA Hall of Famer Bill Russell went to McClymonds High School, and the likes of Frank Robinson, Rickey Henderson and Joe Morgan—all baseball Hall of Famers—cut their teeth in its sandlots. In recent years, guys like Jason Kidd, Gary Payton, J.R. Rider and Antonio Green have sprung from the playgrounds of the East Bay to make their mark in the NBA. Then there are the legendary streetballers from Oakland who never made it to the pros, guys like Demetrius “Hook” Mitchell (known as Waliy Abdur Rahim since his conversion to Islam), the subject of an award-winning documentary film, Hooked, whose dunking game was legendary, but whose NBA dreams were destroyed by drugs and violent crime.

Gardner’s family didn’t want him to get caught up in the same dynamics that ruined the lives of many young men growing up in Oakland neighborhoods. They sent him down to San Leandro to attend middle school, then out to the San Joaquin Valley to attend Manteca High School. He admits that he arrived in Manteca with a bit of an attitude, an edge, maybe even a chip on his shoulder, certainly with something to prove.

“Pride,” he says. “I probably had too much pride.”

He was all of 5’4,” and weighed 125 pounds soaking wet. But he fought his way onto the varsity as a freshman (he briefly quit over the assignment of a locker) and developed into one of Northern California’s premier prep players. He was named all-league as a sophomore and was MVP of the Valley Oak League his junior season, leading his team into the sectional playoffs both years.

But not everyone in the Valley Oak League was a fan. Some coaches thought he was too cocky, and too much of a hothead. He was suspended for five league games for making “unintentional” contact with a referee following the receipt of a technical foul; some in the league pushed to have him banished for the remainder of the season.

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DYNAMIC DUO Gardner has embraced the leadership of the Warriors’ head coach, Casey Hill. ever coached,” says his high school skipper David Asuncion. “By far. But he was also the most challenging.”

Asuncion chuckled at the memory: “Let’s just say that there were aspects of his attitude that were tough to contain.”

By his senior year, Gardner was ready for yet another move. As a way of getting him better exposed to national collegiate scouts (and getting him away from some of the controversies that were haunting him in Manteca), he switched to Westwind Preparatory Academy, a public charter school in Arizona, playing on Westwind’s national touring team, on which he averaged 23.7 points a game.

“I could always score,” he says with confidence. “No matter where I go, that’s never been an issue.”

He was widely courted by top-notch colleges—even if his size was often viewed as a detriment by scouts—and he set his sights on the Big East, one of the most prestigious Division I basketball leagues in the country.

He scored a full ride to Providence College, a Catholic basketball powerhouse in the heart of Rhode Island, and he headed east in the summer of 2011, with big, big dreams.

Gardner worked out with the Friars, but he never saw a second of time on the court. Instead, Gardner became a disposable cog in the machinations of big-time college basketball. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) ruled

that he was academically ineligible (they didn’t accept credits from a course at Westwind). Providence appealed, unsuccessfully, and, when the smoke had lifted, it became clear to Gardner that the Friars were going in a different direction in terms of their point guards for the following season.

He returned to California, and, although only 19 and not having played any organized ball since high school, he was named the Most Valuable Player in the prestigious San Francisco Pro-Am summer league in 2012, averaging a phenomenal 33 points per game against some of the most talented college and professional players in the country.

The MVP award meant nothing to his collegiate career; Gardner was a vagabond once more. That fall, he wound up at a no-name junior college in Midland, Texas—that’s right, the redneck home of George W. Bush— where he never clicked with his coach, Chris Craig, and where, he admits, he never quite found his game.

Less than two months into the season, he was dismissed by Craig for a “violation of team rules,” but then Craig went on a spree of his own, posting “end-of-the-world” prophecies on his Twitter account and blogging about a New World Order and the possible assassination of President Barack Obama, whom he referenced as “the Antichrist.” Craig

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was later arrested in Colorado on a series of charges. According to news reports at the time, he had begun referring to himself as an “Islamist jihadist.” ardner made a beeline back to California. He hung out in Oakland for a while, but then decided to head to Southern California, where he had some mentors he had connected with at Westwind. He admits that in respect to his basketball career, if not life itself, he had hit rock bottom. His two shots at college ball had both gone south. He was done with it.

“I was not happy with the game,” he says.

Gardner enrolled in a couple of classes at Santa Monica City College (math and English, he says), riding a bus each day from downtown Los Angeles to West L.A., on which he had plenty of time for some serious soul searching. “I needed to find myself,” he acknowledges. He began working out each day at a nearby gym—“I had to rebuild my basketball confidence”— and started to envision a way back into the game.

Gardner was on a mission. With only nine games of junior college basketball under his belt, he set his sights on the NBA’s Development League. He participated in open tryouts for a half-dozen D-League teams—Los Angeles, Idaho, Fort Wayne, Bakersfield, Reno and Santa Cruz—where he played “damn well,” in his words, but no one signed him straight to a team. Finally, in the seventh round of the D-League draft on All-Saints Day, November 1 of last year, Kiwi Gardner was the Warriors’ final selection.

He was hanging onto his dream by the skin of his teeth.

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Weyermann, who came to the Warriors by way of baseball (he served as president and CEO of the Single A San Jose Giants before assuming his position with Golden State), points out that while there are “167 teams in minor league baseball, there are only 17 in basketball.”

The vast majority of guys who play minor league baseball never make it to The Show. The D-League is a different story. More than half of the

current league has NBA experience (127 players, to be exact) and seven players appearing on the Santa Cruz roster this season have had a taste of NBA experience, including Joe Alexander (Milwaukee), Hilton Armstrong (New Orleans), Maurice Baker (Portland and Los Angeles), Seth Curry (Memphis), Dewayne Dedmon (currently playing for the Philadelphia 76ers), Dominic McGuire (Washington) and Mychel Thompson (Cleveland).

The 10-man active rosters in the D-League are like a convention of fruit flies, always in flux. There are no guaranteed contracts. Seth Curry, the younger brother of Golden State’s allstar point guard Stephen Curry, was brought up to the Memphis Grizzlies with a 10-day contract earlier this year, but saw all of four minutes of action before he was released back to Santa Cruz. (My prediction is that he will get another NBA call-up again this season.)

Moreover, D-League salaries are microscopic compared to the NBA. Although the NBA refuses to make D-League salary scales public, several sources confirmed to me that D-Leaguers are paid at three different rates: roughly $13,000, 19,000, and $25,500 annually. They get housing, modest per diems and medical benefits. That’s it. Players can make much more overseas. They play in the D-League in the hopes of getting that call up to the NBA, à la Jeremy Lin of the Houston Rockets.

Once players realize that the NBA is beyond them, they head for greener pastures. Two of Santa Cruz’s most popular players from last season— Travis Leslie and Stefhon Hannah— are currently playing in France and Italy, respectively, for significantly higher salaries than they made in Santa Cruz.

At least for now, Gardner likes his proximity to not only the NBA, but to NBA talent. He says that teammates like Curry and Baker, both point guards who have had quick sips of coffee in the NBA, are mentors and role models for him.

Kiwi Gardner isn’t chasing the bucks, he’s chasing a dream.

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kid from the streets. Both are looking to make basketball their careers.

After serving as an assistant coach with the Warrior’s D-League franchise the last two seasons, Hill assumed the head coaching position in Santa Cruz this past year. His father, Bob Hill, served as a longtime NBA coach for the New York Knicks, Indiana Pacers, San Antonio Spurs and, finally, the Seattle SuperSonics, and the younger Hill worked under his father for two seasons as assistant coach of the Tokyo Apache in the Japanese professional league.

Although Hill presents himself as a demonstrative presence on the court during games, particularly vis-à-vis the referees, during practices he is calm and far more casual, a guiding force for his young players, all of whom have dreams of making it to (or back to) the NBA. The Warriors D-League team is one of the strongest franchises in the NBA— the Warriors’ attendance and income generation was tops in the league last year—and they seem to be sailing beyond that in the 2013-14 campaign.

Their games at Kaiser Permanente Arena have the feel of a community event to them, and, with Weyermann’s guidance, the franchise has gone to great lengths to establish itself in the greater Santa Cruz community.

Gardner has played a role in that effort. This month he has participated in the Warriors’ “Read to Achieve” program at Gault Elementary School; later he met at Grind Out Hunger with a young girl named Kiera battling bone cancer.

“I love meeting kids in the community,” he says. “It helps keep me grounded.”

But his primary focus is clearly on basketball, improving his game.

For all of his moments of greatness this season—and they have been delightful—there have been more than a few instances of frustration and signs of holes in his game, particularly careless turnovers and missed scoring opportunities.

Gardner is the first to admit it.

“I’ve got lots to work on,” he says, “lots of room for improvement. No doubt about it. I know it.”

While his defensive game is surprisingly solid—“defense is my strong suit,” he says—Gardner’s biggest challenge has been learning

the tempo and rhythms of the professional game. In high school (and on the playgrounds of East Oakland), he set the tempo. At the professional level, he needs to find it.

“You simply cannot try to force the game at this level,” says Weyermann.

“Great players learn to let the game come to them.”

Hill concurs. When I liken Gardner to a diamond in the rough, the coach nods his head. “My job is to polish him,” he says.

For all of his talents, Hill says, Gardner needs to understand “the flow of the game, what it means to be at point during a valuable possession.”

Hill concedes that it will take plenty of game action for him to get there.

His biggest task with his 20-yearold student, Hill says, is keeping him humble. With all of the attention on the Internet and his name being chanted by fans at the games, it’s no small order. “He needs to focus his attention on the court.”

Hill says he has no idea whether Gardner will ever make it to the NBA, but with the professional game continuing to explode internationally, he says that he hopes to groom Gardner for a long-term professional career.

“The opportunities will present themselves,” he says.

Gardner masks none of his ambitions about playing in the NBA. “I want to have a long career there.

And I intend to work hard to get it,” he says it with conviction, from a place deep within.

As my conversation with Gardner winds down, Coach Hill swoops by, playfully pulls off one of Gardner’s tennis shoes and tosses it out onto the basketball court. Everyone smiles.

Hill turns to look back on his way out the Arena, and our eyes meet for a brief moment. We all know the prank was his way of trying to keep Gardner humble.

“I’m super, super humble,” Gardner says to me, smiling. “But I’m super, super hungry, too.”

Geoffrey Dunn is the author of Santa Cruz Is in the Heart: Volume II and Sports of Santa Cruz County. Special thanks to the Warriors’ public & community relations manager Matt De Nesnera for his assistance with this story.

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

Stage DANCE Bellydance Showcase

THEATER 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 31, 8pm. $15. Broadway Playhouse, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz.

Goliath The story of a young soldier returning from war and trying to connect with his remaining humanity. Written by a slam poet in the style of Def Poetry Jam. Wed, Jan 29, 7-9pm.

Free. UCSC College 9 & 10 Recreation Lounge, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz.

Kafka's Monkey A one-woman show adapted from Franz Kafka's "A Report to an Academy" starring Patty Gallagher. Fri, Jan 31, 7:30pm and Sat, Feb 1, 7:30pm. Pay what you can. UCSC Theater Arts Center, UCSC, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

The Drowsy Chaperone All About Theatre's production of the Tony award-winning musical comedy. www. allabouttheatre.org. Thu, Jan 30, 9:30am and 12:30pm, Fri, Jan 31, 7pm and Sat, Feb 1, 2 and 7pm. $13-$20. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.345.6340.

CONCERTS Classical & Celtic Music Classical violinist Roy Malan plus guitarist William Coulter and his trio performing classic chamber and Celtic music. www.santacruztickets.com. Fri, Jan 31, 7:30pm. $12 general; $10 seniors; $8 students.

UCSC Music Center Recital Hall, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

Art MUSEUMS CONTINUING Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Spotlight Tours. Bringing the artists' voices directly to visitors. Go behind the scenes and museum-wide exhibitions. First Sat of every

GALLERIES OPENING

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.

Beat Sanctuary

Prime Time: The "best of the best" submitted by local artists. Judged by George Rivera. Thru April 5. Free, 831.336.3513. Wed-Sun, noon-6pm. 9341 Mill St, Ben Lomond.

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.

CONTINUING

Computer Coaching

Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center

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.

Events LITERARY EVENTS Author Event: Sean Strub The author of “Body Counts” will speak about his transformation from a closeted gay teen to an outspoken activist for people with AIDS. Thu, Jan 30, 7pm.

Free. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

Poetry & Politics A poetry reading featuring book artist Johanna Drucker and local Santa Cruz and Bay Area poets. Sponsored

by UCSC's Poetry & Politics Research Collective. Fri, Jan 31, 6pm. Free. Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

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.

NOTICES Aptos Shakespeare Group Members read and discuss a

Basic computer help for adults: Emailing, searching the internet, creating passwords and more. Sign up for 30-minute sessions at the front desk. First Sun of every month, 1-4:30pm. Free.

Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.427.7700x7635.

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.

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

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

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.

Free Aquarium Visit Free admission to residents of Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties in celebration of the aquarium's 30th anniversary. Feb. 3-9, 10am-5pm. Free. Monterey Bay Aquarium, Cannery Row, Monterey, 831.647.6886.

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.

Living with Alzheimer's Part one of a two-part series (second part Feb. 6) on caregiving for someone with late stage Alzheimer's. Preregistration required. Thu, Jan 30, 10:30am-12:30pm.

Free. Alzheimer's Association, 1777A Capitola Rd, Santa Cruz, 800.272.3900.

New Year Energy Clearing Complimentary 15-minute sessions for clearing ailments of the body, heart or soul. www.loahgrace.com. Sat, Feb 1, 10am-12:30pm.

Free. Dr. Loah Grace, 720A Capitola Ave., Santa Cruz, 831.531.8122.

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.

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. 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:

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Wharves in Santa Cruz County Local historian Frank Perry has written several books on local history and built exhibits for museums and park visitor centers around the county. In celebration of the Municipal Wharf’s centennial this year, Perry will put his expertise to use in a lecture, “Wharves in Santa Cruz County: A Natural and Unnatural History.” Learn about the diverse functions of our wharves, from serving as a location for industry to a habitat for marine life, and get reminded of why they have been and will continue to be a vital part of our local identity. Saturday, Feb. 1 at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, 1305 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz. $10 general admission. saveyoursanity@aol.com.

Clutterers Anonymous: 831.359.3008.

Toward a Caring Economy A talk by Dr. Riane Eisler, author of “The Real Wealth of Nations”, sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. www. caringeconomy.org. Thu, Jan 30, 7pm. $10-$25. Peace United Church of Christ, 900 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.428.5096.

Wharves in Santa Cruz County A talk by local historian Frank Perry about the importance of wharves along the Santa Cruz coastline, in honor of the Municipal Wharf's 100th anniversary.

Sat, Feb 1, 10am. $10 general; $8 museum members. Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, 1305 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6115.

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

Humanities, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz.

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.

UCSC Farm Tours

Wharf Wildlife Tours

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

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

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.

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.

DIYine Homebrewing Festival

San Francisco’s City Guide

Rob Garza Thievery Corporation mastermind spins a set with guest Pumpkin. Jan 31 at Public Works.

Mayer Hawthorne Blue-eyed soul manÕs got moves, grooves and backup dancers to boot. Feb 1 at the Fox Theater.

The second annual celebration of homebrewing featuring homemade beer, wine and root beer plus hors d'oeuvres, music and a silent auction. www.wepay. com/events/diyine. Sat, Feb 1, 6-10pm. $20-$50. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Calvin Keys Power Quartet

Politics of the Digital

New Orleans piano legend that Dr. John calls ‘the pride of New Orleans.’ Feb 6 at SFJAZZ Center.

A day-long interdisciplinary symposium on poetry, technology, and the university put on by UCSC's Poetry & Politics Research Collective. Humanities 1, Room 210. www. ucscpoetrypolitics.com. Sat, Feb 1, 9am-5pm. Free. UCSC

Unique jazz guitarist and onetime Ahmad Jamal sideman plays with verve and grit. Feb 2 at Yoshi’s SF.

Skrillex Everyone’s favorite hairstyle icon whrr-omp-awhrr-omps through a stimulating set. Feb 6 at the Warfield.

Henry Butler

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Different belly dancers each week on the garden stage.

Presented by Helene. www. thecrepeplace.com. Sat, 1:30pm.

Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.429.6994.

month, 11:30am-12:30pm.

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EVEN MADONNA IS LIKE ‘SERIOUSLY?’ Frankie Rose plays the Crepe Place Monday.

Beatscape THURSDAY THURSD AY

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YUCK It’s no small thing It’s thin ng for for a new band to be compared Pavement compar ed to Sonic Sonic Youth, Youth, o Pavement or My Valentine, Bloody V alentinee, yet this was the case with YYuck. uck. Playing lo-fi lo--fi rock rock that taps into the energy, ener gyy, experimental experimental aesthetic and edginess of the 1990s, thee U.K.-based band’s debut into the indie, noise-rock noise-rock world in 2011 elicited mass praise praise from from critics, bloggers and fans. fans. Despite Despitte the recent recent departure departure of frontman Daniell Blumber Blumberg, fr ontman Danie g, the band is still rrolling olling along though thoough with a slightly different different sound. Last year’s yearr ’s Glow and Behold saw YYuck uck moving away from expressing from o the noise and expr essing its more more melodicc side. Don Quixote’s; Quixote’s; $15 adv/$20 door; 9pm.

(Cat 9 (C at Johnson)

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NAKED N B BOOTLEGGERS A wor w wordd to Santa Cruz’s Americana scene: you’re you’re not a rreal eal bluegrass bluegrass band unless someone someone is playing a washboar washboard. d. The San Valley’s LLorenzo orenzo V aalley’s Naked Bootleggers have got got that covered—along tha at cover ed—along with upright bass, fiddle fiddle and jarring images an nd a jar ring name brings unwanted image es to mind. The Bootleggers balance country and a ffolk ollk classics with a list of original ffavorites avorites likee ““A Whiskey,” lik A Girl Named Whiskey y,” ,” their love songg hardd alcohol, and “Rust Belt”—banjo to har Belt”—banjo player heartfelt pla ayer Don Mackessy’s heartf elt ballad about about watching one’s post-wa atching one ’s hometown turn into a post industrial ind dustrial mess. Don Quixote's; $10;; 8:30pm.

8:30pm m.

(Jacob (Ja acob Pierce) Pierce)

FRIDAY FRID AY

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INCITERS TTaking aaking its cue from from midmid-1960s 19 960s American soul music, the U.K.-born genr ggenree known as northern soul is full of upbeat u tempos spirit and soulful vocals in the sp pirit of the Supremes, Vandellas, Supr emes, Martha and thee V andellas, and As the Temptations.

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Wednesday, January 29 U 7:30 pm

Hawaiian Slack Key Masters GEORGE KAHUMOKU JR. & LEDWARD KAAPANA

Tix: ticketfly.com & Streetlight Records Thursday, January 30 U 7 pm

Blackbird Blackbird Raum

ASWIN BATISH’S SITAR POWER

Concerts Con ncerts

Friday, January 31 U 7:30 pm

CAROL CAROLYN LY YN WONDERLAND WONDERLAND Moe’s Alley Jan. 30 0 at at Moe’ s Alle y

Tickets: brownpapertickets.com

BERNER BERNE ER Catalyst Jan. 31 at at Ca talyst

Win Prizes!

Dress Retro

Retro Soul Dance Party with THE INCITERS

Saturday, February 1 U 7 pm Youth Resource Benefit with:

MUMBO GUMBO and BRYN LOOSLEY & THE BACK PAGES

JEFFREY FOUCAULT JEFFR EY FOUCA UL LT Feb. Quixote’s F eb. 4 at at Don Quix ote’s

Tickets: 831-689-9609

MORGAN HERITAGE MORGA AN HERIT TAGE Feb. Moe’ss Alle Alley F eb. 8 at at Moe’ y

One of Africa’s most popular musicians HABIB KOITE

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JAZZ ORGAN FANS! Thursday, February 6 U 7 pm

Brooklynunlike The Go-Go’s Go-Go’s or The CCars. ars. The Br ooklyndrummer/vocalist based drumme er/vocalist put in time with Crystal SStilts, tilts, Vivian Girls Girrls and the Dum Dum Girls before before going solo.. “Know “Knnow me.. Don’t Don’t own me,, I know what ather be dead,” they said.. It doesn’t doeesn’t own me.. I’d rrather her she sings on he er 2012 album Interstellar Interstellar.r. Her most recent recent album Her Herein H reein Wild came out late last year year..

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Monday, February 3 U 7 & 9 pm | No Comps

9pm: 1/2 Price Night for Students

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

Friday, February 7 U 9 pm

CLUB KUUMBWA: FEED ME JACK & SIREN SOLSTICE Saturday, February 8

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$5 at the door!

7:30 pm

REV. BILLY C. WIRTZ

Tickets: snazzyproductions.com Monday, February 10 U 7 pm Master of contemporary jazz guitar

JOHN ABERCROMBIE QUARTET JAZZ ORGAN FANS! Thursday, February 13

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7 pm

TONY MONACO TRIO FEATURING HOWARD PAUL Friday, February 14 U 7:30 pm | No Comps

TUCK & PATTI: VALENTINE’S DAY CONCERT Jazz & Dinner Packages Available! (includes reserved seats) Sat. February 15

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7 & 9 pm | No Comps

Grammy Nominee Best Jazz Vocal Album!

CECILE McLORIN SALVANT

GOLD CIRCLE

Jazz at Lincoln CenterSOLD Orchestra OUT! featuring Wynton Marsalis

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

PRAYING FOR A NEW NAME Yuck play Don Quixote’s Thursday.

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

All ages welcome.

320-2 Cedar St [ Santa Cruz 831.427.2227

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Sibling bands can be very cool. coool. There’s There’s often a chemistry between the me members that’s embers that ’s the rresult esult of countless hours singing sinnging and playing together.. The W Wood Brothers, together ood Br otherss, comprising Wood Chris on upright bass (Chris is also the W ood Wood) portion of Medeski, Martin aand W ood) and guitar,, ar aree a case inn point, al although Oliver on guitar though they took the long rroad oad to bbecoming ecoming a ffamily amily Growing musical band. Gr owingg upp in a music cal ffamily, amilyy, the brothers outfits br others each played with oother ther outf its ffor or 15 years. When they rreconnected, econnected, they quickly the became a standout act of th he Americana genree is not scene, though one genr n enough to funky, hold them. They play rrootsy, ootsyy, funk y, jazzy music that keeps listeners on o their toes and groove.

Theatre; $23; in the gr oove. Rio Theatr e; $ 23; 8pm. (CJ)

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Film NEEDFUL THINGS Though it doesn’t look like Aaron Paul will be coming after all, Cinequest will be showing his film ‘Need For Speed.’

Breaking Maverick San Jose’s Cinequest Film Festival presents a new award, 150 features and Neil Gaiman BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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ue at San Jose's Cinequest Film Festival this year:author Neil Gaiman and critic Harry Knowles, but probably not (despite rumors) Aaron Paul, the young co-star of that astonishing TV show about drugs, money and moral decay in the modern Southwest.

Halfdan Hussey, co-founder and guiding light of San Jose’s now 24-year-old film fest, sat down with Santa Cruz Weekly and the festival’s Michael Rabehl and Kyle Burt to give a quick preview of what will be up during the festival’s run March 4-16.

This year Cinequest has added a Maverick Innovator to the customary Maverick Spirit awards. One Maverick Innovator laureate is actor Matthew Modine, who has developed an app to allow a new close-watching

of Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, through the lens of his experiences on the set. Knowles, along with critics Eric Kohn of Indiewire and Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times, will be on hand to accept Media Legacy awards; Knowles, the founder of Ain’t It Cool News, will host the Spanish thriller Grand Piano starring the ever-staring Elijah Wood.

Turan will host a reprise screening of Fruitvale Station.

Opening night: the comedy Grand Seduction by Don McKellar, a remake of a pretty good Quebecois film released in the States as Seducing Dr. Lewis. It was directed by JeanFrançois Pouliot, whose later hit, Starbuck, was just given an evilsmelling remake with Vince Vaughn.

A snazzy city doctor (Taylor Kitsch) is

lured to practice in a desperate small Newfoundland town, by what that town has in the way of a city father (Brendan Gleeson). Closing night: Small Time, Joel Surnow (of TV’s 24) making a comedy of a son’s desire to work at his father’s used car lot. On hand: co-star Christopher Meloni, a specialist in hard-as-nails men: an excellent Leo Durocher in 42.

As per last year, Cinequest is grouping its 150 or so feature films via emoticons, so viewers can seek films by the mood they’re in. Genres include the usual silent film at the magnificent California Theatre: Conrad Veidt in The Hands of Orlac with Dennis James’ own hands on the theater’s Wurlitzer. Animator Bill Plympton has a new feature, and among the myriad foreign films is a

payback to Clint Eastwood for the time he and Sergio Leone helped themselves to Japanese classics Yojimbo and Sanjuro: Ken Watanabe stars as a retired samurai called back into the business of killing in Unforgiven.

“There was a time when local films were not competitive with national and international films, and that’s changed,“ Hussey said, pointing especially to the San Jose debut of The Rugby Player. It’s about Los Gatos’ own Mark Bingham, one of the men who foiled Bin Laden’s plan to ram Flight 93 into Washington, D.C. Bingham’s mother Alice Hoagland will be on hand for the screening.

Arya Ghavamian’s Happenings of the Eighth Day is the first feature by a Brooklyn-to-San Jose transplant, an allegory about the constricted life of an artist under a mysterious dictatorship; it sounds as if it has kinship to Jafar Panahi’s This Is Not a Film. Longtime Pixar vet Bill Kinder directs a live-action indie White Rabbit, about a traumatized vet of the wars who determines to use her skills to sabotage a corrupt political candidate.

And as usual, there will be the nightly soirees, in walking distance from one another, with some of the estimated 100,000 guests rubbing shoulders and trying to get the attention of the cocktail servers.

A DJ contest on the first Friday of Cinequest means a winner will get to program the dance music at the closing night party. Cinequest is proud of its parties—unlike most world film festivals, it does its own in-house, seeking an ambience that slashes the velvet rope. “Inclusiveness,” says Hussey, trying to sum up Cinequest in a word—“people here can connect with the films and with each other. We feel through the years that were most proud of inspiring people and changing their lives, and we’re proud of anything we can do to get people together.”0

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

AMERICAN HUSTLE (R; 138 min) When it comes to cool, movies either got it or they don’t. And there’s something about

Movie reviews by Steve Palopoli

the promise of director David O. Russell and an allstar cast led by Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner 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

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Jan. 29, through Wednesday, Feb. 5, 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

Gravity 3D — Daily 6:45; 8:45.

Frozen — Wed-Thu 1:45pm; 4:15; Fri-Wed 1:45pm.

Frozen 3D — Sat-Sun 11:15am.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit — Wed-Thu 2; 4:30; 7; 9:10; Fri-Wed 3:40; 8:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Nebraska — Daily 1:15; 6.

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

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

Her — Wed-Thu 1:50; 4:30; 6:15; 7:10; 9:45; Fri-Wed 1:50; 4:30; 7:10; 9:45 (no Thu 6:15pm) plus Sat-Sun 11:10am.

Oscar Shorts: Animated— Daily 2:30; 7:20 (no Thu 7:20pm) plus Sat-Sun 12:15pm.

Oscar Shorts: Live Action — Daily 4:40; 9:30 (no Thu 9:30pm).

The Wolf of Wall Street — Wed-Thu 12:20; 3:50; 7:30; 8:50; Fri-Wed 12:20; 3:50; 7:30 (no Thu 8:50pm).

National Theatre Live presents: Coriolanus — Thu 7:30pm; Sun 11am.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — Fri-Sat midnight.

NICKELODEON

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

12 Years a Slave — Daily 3:30; 8:30.

August: Osage County — Wed-Thu 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed 4:20; 7; 9:30 (no Thu 9:30) plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Dallas Buyer’s Club — Wed-Thu 1:30; 8:50; Fri-Wed 1:40; 8:50.

Inside Llewyn Davis — Wed-Thu 4pm; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The Invisible Woman — Wed-Thu 1:10; 4:10; 6:50; 9:10; Fri-Wed 2:30; 4:50; 7:10; 9:30 (no Thu 9:10pm) plus Sat-Sun 11:15am.

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

Philomena — Wed-Thu 1:20; 6:20; Fri-Wed 12:20; 4:10; 6:20 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

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.

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

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

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 for showtimes.

I, Frankenstein — Wed-Thu 2:45; 7:45; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

I, Frankenstein 3D — Wed-Thu 12:15, 5:15; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit — Wed-Thu 11:55; 2; 4:45; 7:30; 10:15; 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 11:45; 2:30; 4:55; 7:20; 10; 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.

Rear Window — Thu 11am.

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8

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

That Awkward Moment—(Opens Fri) 1:05; 3:15; 5:20; 7:30; 10:00 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

American Hustle — Daily 12:45; 4; 7; 10.

August: Osage County — Daily 1:30; 4:10; 6:50; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 10:45.

I, Frankenstein — Daily 12:55; 3:05; 7:25; 9:40.

I, Frankenstein 3D — Fri-Wed 5:15pm plus Sat-Sun 10:45am.

Frozen Sing Along — Fri-Wed 1:35pm.

Frozen — Sat-Sun 11am.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit—Wed-Thu 1:35; 4:25; 7; 9:45; Fri-Wed 4:25; 7:15; 9:45.

Labor Day — Fri-Wed 1:35; 4:15; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

The Nut Job — Wed-Thu 1; 3; 7:25; 9:30; Fri-Wed 1; 3; 5:10; 7:25; 9:30 plus SatSun 10:55am.

The Nut Job 3D — Wed-Thu 5:10pm.

The Legend of Hercules — Wed-Thu 1:35; 4:20; 7:15; 9:30.

Lone Survivor — Daily 1:25; 4:15; 7; 9:45 plus Sat-Sun 10:45am.

Paranormal Activity — Wed-Thu 1:05; 3:15; 5:20; 7:30; 10.

Ride Along — Daily 1:20; 4; 7:15; 9:45 plus Sat-Sun 10:45.

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 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.

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.

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?

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-thetop 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 reallife 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.

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.

JANUARY 29-FEBRUARY 4, 2014

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (1998) I never liked this Terry Gilliam take on Hunter S. Thompson’s surreal classic, until I saw The Rum Diary. Now it seems like a masterpiece. (Plays Fri and Sat at the Del Mar) OSCAR SHORTS It’s a yearly tradition for the Del Mar to show both the

animated and live-action shorts nominated for Oscars.

You know this is the key to winning the pool at your Oscar party. (Opens Fri at the Del Mar) THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (R; 94 min) Zac Efron, Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan star as three best friends whose dating lives start to come between them because rom-com. (Opens Fri at Green Valley)

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FO O D IE FIL E Chip Scheuer

Fruit Tree Project Stacey Falls, Co-founder

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igh school chemistry teacher Stacey Falls started the Santa Cruz Fruit Tree Project with her husband Steve Schnaar four years ago, to help locals deal with excess fruit in their yard and show them how to dry cure and preserve harvests. “Since Steve and I started the Fruit Tree Project, we really haven’t bought much fruit at all,” Falls says, “and he eats fruit!” Falls says Schnaar eats about three pieces of fruit each morning before breakfast. Schnaar and Falls are also putting on the second annual DIYine festival this Saturday night at 6pm at the Museum of Art and History

SCW: What will be your favorite drink at DIYine? Stacey Falls: Last year the plum port knocked my socks off. And then there’s this guy Randy— who’s a hobbyist, but he does semi-pro fruit wines called Freedom Wine Works, and his stuff is amazing. Last year he had strawberry wine and persimmon wine and blackberry wine.

How did the Fruit Tree Project start? We would see people who had

more fruit than they could possibly handle. And I’d always be embarrassed because Steve would run up to their door and say, “Hey! Can we have some of that?” Most people were ecstatic about giving their fruit away, because if you’re a single-family home and you have an apple tree, you probably have more apples than you can handle. You end up putting them in a Greenwaste container, worrying about rats and raccoons. All the while, somebody down the street is going to Safeway and buying apples from Washington. When your apples are done, you’re buying oranges. Even though your neighbor down the street is having the same problem with oranges!

Isn’t farming something that’s supposed to happen out in the country? It is interesting that we think of farming as these big fields, but

maybe a more sustainable model would include fruit and nut trees—if there were lots of these ecological plots everywhere.

What’s the best fruit to dry? We dry permissions every year, and I have to say those. I don’t really like persimmons if they’re not dry. I like drying plums and putting them in my oatmeal. I like figs better when they’re dry.

And dried pears are like candy.

Yeah, fresh figs look like aliens when you bite into them. You know,

it’s not a fruit. It’s a flower [that] co-evolved with a hornet with a really long proboscis that pollinates it by sticking it down.—Jacob Pierce

JANUARY 29-FEBRUARY 4, 2014

THEIR LIVES ARE IN THE PITS Stacey Falls and her husband Steve Schnaar, the founders of the Santa Cruz Fruit Tree Project, will put on the DIYine Festival Saturday at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz.

JANUARY 29-FEBRUARY 4, 2014

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