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refrigeration, storage and temperature holding equipment, among other challenges. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They no longer have anywhere for the kids to sit down and eat,â&#x20AC;? says Beth Collins, one of the food system consultants who conducted the assessment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The kitchens are in very poor condition, if you can even call them kitchens.â&#x20AC;?

Pajaro Valley Unified School District faces similar obstacles, according to Sue Brooks, who held the position of food service director from 1994 until last year. In the process of building the central kitchen, other kitchens were transformed into â&#x20AC;&#x153;satellites,â&#x20AC;? primarily responsible for storing and reheating meals, she says. At some schools, dishwashers were ripped out and replaced with freezers. In others, freezers were converted to refrigerators. Newer schools were built without fullyequipped kitchens to save costs and square footage.

Unhappy Meals After paying for labor, which often accounts for about 60 percent of a food service departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget, districts are left with a little over $1 to prepare a nutritious meal of meat or protein, grains,

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Deciding what goes on the menu is often an act of juggling pennies, where spending 30 cents extra on an entree could wipe out the entire budget for fruits and vegetables. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The dollar for an entree is usually the breaker,â&#x20AC;?

Meschi says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once in a while, we might put on something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a dollar, but we could not afford to do that every day.â&#x20AC;?

Most of what the district can scrape together are processed items like chicken tenders, corn dogs and hamburgers that they can get for 50 to 60 cents from large distributors. However, there is a daily vegetarian option, and all entrees are served with a choice of fresh fruits, vegetables and milk.

While some would argue that the district is still serving what looks like fast food to the most needy students, kitchen manager Paula Barajas said

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meals have to meet certain federal guidelines that regulate fats, carbohydrates, sodium and cholesterol.

The state has gone even further by banning the sale of candy and soda and raising reimbursement rates for districts that eliminate transfat, the nonessential fat that has been linked with higher risk of heart disease, and fried food from their lunches. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When people see a corn dog on our menu, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re thinking, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh my God, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s terrible,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Barajas says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not deep fat fried, it has some whole grain cornmeal in it. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re using a chicken or turkey dog, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to be as healthy as we can in those areas.â&#x20AC;?

Still others like Hawthorne maintain that schools can do better in addressing the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s childhood obesity and Type-II diabetes epidemic by introducing kids to more nutritious foods at an earlier age. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Schools are absolutely key in changing our national health crisis and providing the educational tools for students, families and communities to pave the pathway to wellness,â&#x20AC;? she says.

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James Smith to head the nutrition services department and help move the district away from the heat-and-serve food model in favor of a scratch-cooking system.

Although Smith has a background in culinary arts, he will have to wait some time before the infrastructure is in place to start sautĂŠing student lunches. In the meantime, the district has decided to outsource elementary and middle school meals to Revolution Foods, an Oakland-based vendor dedicated to offering fresh-cooked entrees comprised of organic and local ingredients whenever possible.

Revolution Foodsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 17,000-square-foot Oakland kitchen opens at 3am, but preparation like grating cheese and mixing vinaigrettes could begin as early as the day before delivery. Meals are cooked on-site then chilled for the daily ride over the hill to Santa Cruz before being reheated again upon serving.

Some critics worry about complications en route from Oakland or question whether the district could produce similar meals itself, but Hawthorne maintains that the contract is an interim step to ensure quality food while the district assesses how to improve its facilities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need someone to help us create options to provide healthier foods,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right now we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have another option.â&#x20AC;?

Founder and CEO of Revolution Foods Kristin Richmond said the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission is to transform school meals nationwide and raise expectations for how students are fed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think bringing real food back into schools is so important as we try to build life-long healthy eating habits among our

students,â&#x20AC;? Richmond says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They can see the food theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re eating and identify it and recognize that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come from a package or the freezer at a convenience store.â&#x20AC;?

While Stephanie Raugust, nutrition coordinator at Pacific Elementary School District in Davenport, agrees that scratch cooking is the best way to offer healthy meals, she thinks outsourcing ignores the real need to put kitchens back in schools.

Raugust runs the â&#x20AC;&#x153;food labâ&#x20AC;? at Pacific Elementary, which uses the kitchen as an opportunity to teach kids nutrition education and life skills as they prepare daily meals for students and staff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Students learn to apply skills they will use throughout their lives,â&#x20AC;? Raugust says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to rely on processed food, or fast food to meet their needs. They learn to do it for themselves.â&#x20AC;?

Parents, food service staff and educators alike are looking toward the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act Sept. 30, 2009, to provide needed support for struggling departments trying to include more scratch-cooked food, fruits, vegetables and local ingredients in their programs.

The Child Nutrition Act, which governs federal child feeding programs including the National School Lunch Program, is renewed every five years to address funding levels, health standards and ways to improve child nutrition.

For Meschi and others like her in the trenches, nothing will happen until the public funds its schools. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all want to do whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right for kids,â&#x20AC;?

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Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HARD TO BELIEVE that Rwanda, a nation nearly destroyed by civil war 15 years ago, has it over Santa Cruz in the eco-conscious department, but there it is: it and 18 other developing nations have banned plastic bags. We havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

At least not yet. Last Friday mayors and councilmembers from 13 coastal California cities gathered at West Marine in Watsonville for a closed-door session on how to eradicate polystyrene containers and single-use plastic bags. A half-dozen marine protection NGOs and prominent business leadersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including Walter Rob, co-president of the Whole Foods chainâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;chimed in. U.S. Rep. Sam Farr, Assemblyman Bill Monning and former Assemblyman John Laird lent their clout to the proceedings.

After polystyrene, plastic bags are the next target for many coastal communities.

The flimsy sacks we take groceries home inâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;552 of them each year if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a Californianâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t degrade, they just break up into tiny pieces. They get in the waterways and choke marine life. They may be changing the oceanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chemistry. All good reasons, one might think, to ban them outright.

The resulting resolution from the summit, though, is mildly worded, pledging the signatories to â&#x20AC;&#x153;work together and in our communities reduce and eliminate polystyrene and single-use plastic bags.â&#x20AC;?

Pacific Grove Mayor and summit organizer Dan Cort, who sits on a key council of the nonprofit Oceana, explained why the cities are moving cautiously (for one thing, the event was closed to reporters). â&#x20AC;&#x153;The industry is so rough,â&#x20AC;? he said, referring to the plastic bag manufacturers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re suing Palo Alto, Manhattan Beach. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not afraid of a battle,â&#x20AC;? he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m afraid of 10 million plastic bags in the ocean.â&#x20AC;?

Monning says the industry senses a threat and is gearing up for a battle royal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The American Chemistry Council has a $10 million campaignâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Plastics Are Coolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;targeting kids,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because today itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plastic bags and Styrofoam.

Tomorrow itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all the plastic packaging.â&#x20AC;?

The war is already on. Last year the

Save the Plastic Bag Coalitionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not a jokeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sued Manhattan Beach over its implementation of a plastic bag ban on grounds that the city hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done an Environmental Impact Report on the increased use of paper bags (again, not a joke). The news hit the Santa Monica City Council just as it was readying a draft ban of its own, says Santa Monica Mayor Ken Genser. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our attorney said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just do [the EIR],â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and we decided to work with a consortium of cities creating a Master Environmental Assessment,â&#x20AC;? says Genser.

That process, which involved eight citiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Palo Alto, San Clemente, Richmond, Manhattan Beach, Pasadena, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Santa Monicaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;came temporarily to a halt when the state governmental body preparing the assessment lost its funding in the California budget bloodbath. Some of the mayors at Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s summit are planning to join the coalition in the hopes that having a master report available to all California cities will forestall CEQA-related lawsuits by the industry.

A number of lively discussions reportedly peppered the dayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;whether biodegradable plastic is acceptable, what to do with dog poopâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but one thing attendees seemed to agree on is that the environmental effects of plastic pollution are far-reaching. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to link the environmental debate to the health care debate,â&#x20AC;? said Monning. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can have a public option, but if asthma rates are spiking because of all the stuff in the air.â&#x20AC;?

Jim Ayers, vice-president of Oceana, put the debate in a larger context. Switching to paper isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough, he said. Recycling isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough. Even carrying a canvas bag isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to change as people. And this is the debate,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want people to tell us that we can keep doing what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing and have it be OK. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lie.

We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep consuming the way weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re consuming and leave behind a world thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s habitable. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Recycling is a good idea, but the answer is to consume less and reuse. People have to change more rapidly than they want to.â&#x20AC;?

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DROVE to San Juan Bautista for the final Cabrillo Music Festival concert on a Sunday night several weeks ago. It was a rousing, loud, stimulating performance of four modern pieces. But the real charge for me was the gathering of so many people, many of whom I know, in and around the mission church.

We began watching for familiar faces at Los Jardines, the restaurant started

by music festival supporter and artist Manny Santana decades ago, where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve often eaten. Walking from there to the huge 19th-century village square in front of the mission, the twilight cooled by fog and tinged by the slight scent of smoke from the Lockheed fire, we returned to a friendly place where our young children once romped around on the grass.

Standing at the lookout above the

San Andreas Fault, across farms that lay in a valley of orderly beauty, we are also peering down at the original El Camino Real, the trail used by Spanish missionaries as they enforced their faith and religious practices on the Ohlone and other native people living in what became California.

The San Juan Bautista Mission church is a stunning building, a palimpsest of both this history of zealotry and of Alfred Hitchcockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vertigo, whose final scene takes place in the belfry of the mission and in a studio facsimile. One cannot be there without seeing through these competing, overlapping scrims.

The facade of the mission church reminds me of New Mexico, Georgia Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keefeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s f lat pastels and Ansel Adamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; patiently earned hard-edged shadows with their memento mori evanescence. My eye searches the orifices of the belfry for evidence of details in the stucco texture brought into relief by the inevitable progress of

dark shadows. I sit on a stone bench covered with piquĂŠ assiette, tesserae of colored glass and tile adjacent to rose bushes that grow improbably from dry sandy soil. The benches orient me to pay attention to the failing light on the vertical white column of f latness above the mission entranceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;yet other evidence of how interested the missionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s architects are in scripting experience, pointing out fault lines and sight lines, promoting inscriptions and offering an understated peek into a rugged graveyard where poor brownskinned people lie buried, a reminder, by its locked gate, that not everything in history is accessible.

I am in a place used for prayer, modern music concerts and a sort of mediation of the two in the form of El Teatro Campesino, whose winter shows, La Pastorella and La Virgen de Tepeac, fill the polished umber clay tiled inner sanctum with a raucous reenactment of mystery, miracle, and the affirmation of music and dance as the tools of our salvation.

The mission, like a theater, is adorned with statues of saints and disciples, accompanied by their iconic animals: ram, sheep, lion. Like unlettered pilgrims before the talking walls of churches throughout the world, visitors here are reminded by these images of loyal faith; educated college graduates are awed by the simple dignity of sacred iconography and the naĂŻve wonder many are denied.

I sit in awe of the spectacle on the walls, in the alcoves, the rough-hewn pulpitâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;empty tonightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that juts out above the congregation, the conductor, the renowned Marin Alsop, standing on her three-tiered podium, in her black slacks and jacket, leading a full orchestra whose members spill over from the nave into the side pockets of the resounding apsidals.

Throughout this concert, I see only a few violinists and some percussionists, because most of us are sitting at the same level. The music explodes over us, but I pay most attention to the people sitting around me. Nothing can happen in this church, however, to distract one from the church itself. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always been this way for me in Mission San Juan Bautista, which is why I have always felt that the performances here pose no threat to the Catholic mass.

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modern compositions. Dressed in black, Corigliano looked like a priest as an acquaintance of mine approached him during intermission. Asking him how he was enjoying his new position as leader of the church, my acquaintance was embarrassed when Corigliano, redolent with Brooklyn accent, burst into loud laughter. As they parted, the composer promised to regale his New York friends with a California story to top all California stories.

Inside the mission, I am no longer in the California I know. It is no longer the present, either, although the time/ space I occupy is more mythic than historical, even when my mind drifts to the bodies in the adjacent locked graveyard and to our own children 25 years ago playing on a kite-filled lawn, or to my mother accompanying me to a performance of Beethovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ninth, my mother and father-in-law enjoying a concert with the golden, rolling hills of California in the distance. My own memories become as immense as myth.

This is a site of reunions, not just in memory, but for neighbors and friends who have driven the 40 minutes south from Santa Cruz. These people annually renew their membership in a culture that includes San Juan Bautista as a site of mediation. The Catholic Church opens its old wooden doors to new, orchestral music, and to a largely secular audience who live forty miles away in a university town known more for its green politics, its gay and lesbian activism and its resistance to reckless growth than for its piety.

But we meet here, as we meet our diverse neighbors at performances of Shakespeare plays, drawn together by a desire to experience art in each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence. San Juan Bautista represents a moment of centrifugal force in our summer community. For decades, the final two concerts have occurred outside of town, as though the energy generated for two weeks in the WPAera Civic Auditorium explodes beyond the north-south borders that so often seem impermeable.

The final concert transcends our city boundaries, and the caravans of music lovers that head south on the final Sunday witness an old trail.

Instead of seeking converts or trying to save pagan souls along the Camino, we are looking for a different kind of transcendence and a different sort of camaraderie from the missionaries. To achieve both, it occurs to me, we need to leave our homes and be welcomed into artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sanctuary.0

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HEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;VE come from around the country and the world to gather on the bare concrete floor of an empty office building and talk shop. A sea of laptopclutching writers, photographers, graphic designers, IT specialists, engineers, public relations officials and advertisement representatives with one thing in common: they never want to work for another boss again. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Welcome to Freelance Camp,â&#x20AC;? says Shane Pearlman as the folks file

in to the second annual seminar at the vacant Rittenhouse Building in downtown Santa Cruz.

Pearlman, along with business partner Peter Chester, are freelance â&#x20AC;&#x153;problem solversâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;technology experts and contractors for hire who work with companies to streamline their communications and web services. And as evangelists for the freelance way, they are practicing what they preach.

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And since the workers arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t full-time employees, the duo can avoid paying health insurance, 401kâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and other costly employee benefits for a savings, they say, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passed on to their clients. ¨ '

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Chester says his company only hires reputable full-time freelancers, not â&#x20AC;&#x153;people looking to do something since they got fired.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say out of 10 people we interview for a gig, one or two are serious freelancers,â&#x20AC;? says Chester. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The co-op thing is kind of like communismâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it can work great under the right circumstances, but you either need someone to keep everyone in line, or only use people that are good at keeping themselves in line. I sometimes think of us as more of a dictatorship, because Shane is always there to make sure things are on track.â&#x20AC;?

Whether part of a co-op or not, the 200 or so freelancers at the Aug. 15 Freelance Camp are part of a growing sector of the workforce. Thanks to technology like laptops and wireless Internet, individual workers are trading cubicles, copy machines and suits and ties for coffeehouses, Blackberries and sweat pants as more people find theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able to package, market and deliver

products all on their ownâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or find themselves downsized out of traditional employment (see sidebar, page 26).

In Santa Cruz, the move toward freelancing is especially striking.

Shared office spaces like NextSpace in Santa Cruz and the Satellite in Felton provide Internet, shipping reception and meeting spaces on a part-time schedule, and for a fraction of the cost of traditional office space rentals.Teresa Thomae, director of the Central Coast Small Business Development Center, says sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seen a huge increase in selfstarters over the last year. The boom, she says, stems from the slumping economy and unstable corporations that offer little in the way of job security. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In every economic downturn we see an increase in people looking to become freelancers,â&#x20AC;? says Thomae. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Instead of being an employee, they want to be their own boss. Not necessarily to hire a bunch of employees and grow a real business, but to create a job for ¨

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themselves. Our parents taught us that if you get a good job, keep it even if you hate it, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health care and a salary. But now, for the Gen Xers and Gen Yers, if they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like a job, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gone.â&#x20AC;?

The co-op model that Pearlman and Chester use is also catching on.

Parachute Creative, a graphic design outfit run by Davy Reynolds and Ruby Anaya out of NextSpace, maintains a network of freelancers that can be mobilized when a job is too big or multifaceted to for Anaya and Reynolds to accomplish on their own.

For some of the freelancers, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ideal.

Web designer and mother of two Carey Bradfield says that if a gig will detract from her time with her kids, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll either

decline the work or bring in help from a fellow freelancer. Reynolds and Anaya say theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re comfortable having a small operation and have no intentions of bringing any of their freelancers in on a full-time basis. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most of the freelancers we see are looking for full-time jobs. Still, I think if we expanded too much, we might lose some of the vision we started with.

I think most of them realize this and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect us to hire them full-time,â&#x20AC;? says Reynolds, lounging on a beanbag chair inside his companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s colorful NextSpace cubicle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We definitely try to hook up the freelancers we use, though.

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Santa Cruz, taps on a memberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shoulder in the cafe. As she turns she reveals a smartphone pressed to her ear. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oops,â&#x20AC;? he says, and looks around for another source of testimony, but the NextSpacers are all glued to laptops or hustling on cell phones.

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As technology continues to evolve at breakneck speed, a new breed of physical space has emerged to accommodate the workers who can sometimes find themselves paralyzed by their own freedom. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Working at home, I knew how isolated I felt and how hard it was to make myself work sometimes,â&#x20AC;? says Barbara Sprenger, CEO of the Satellite Telework Center in Felton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wanted to create a place that allowed people to use remote tools productively, [while] separating out work life and home life.â&#x20AC;?

Co-working hubs have sprung up all over the country to meet that need, from Silicon Valley to D.C. to Denver. At their most basic levels of membership, both NextSpace and the Satellite offer access to cafelike space, coffee and highspeed Internet. Dedicated NextSpacers can claim office space or their own carrel workstation, and the Satellite offers cubicles and offices with telephones and printing capabilities all hooked up â&#x20AC;&#x153;hotelâ&#x20AC;?-style to an account. All you need to bring is a laptop. Cruzio also hosts less formal, free monthly co-working events called â&#x20AC;&#x153;jelliesâ&#x20AC;? in their downtown office, where laptop-toting locals can spend the day working side-by-side, mercifully free from sipping the same cold latte at Starbucks for four hours or slipping into the time-wasting WoW vortex.

After opening in May, Satellite has 30 members, and after over a year in business, NextSpace has seen a total of 180 members whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve elected to ditch their pajamas and show up somewhere. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to get up, get dressed and go to work. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a human instinct,â&#x20AC;? says Coonerty.

The trend has emerged for many reasons, not least among them the swelling ranks of newly laid-off workers whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve decided itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high time they got their own. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For the last 150 years or so, talent resided in firms. You were loyal to a company,â&#x20AC;? says Neuner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now the trend is youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have eight to 10 different jobs, or youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re never going to work for an employer, period. The means of production are no longer so expensive, so we no longer need to organize labor around big companies.â&#x20AC;?

Neuner and Coonerty discovered Santa Cruz in particular is full of tiny companies, but only has big retail spaces. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Freelancing is really popular in Santa Cruz, and tons of people do it,â&#x20AC;? adds Cruzio marketing manager Mike Brogan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the same time people are realizing you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do everything yourself.â&#x20AC;?

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And therein lies the importance of community. NextSpace hosts brown bag lunches and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blog and Breakfasts,â&#x20AC;? while Satellite has its own movie night and insists co-working must happen steps from â&#x20AC;&#x153;coffee, drinks and lunch.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;People need the infrastructure, but more than ever they need the community,â&#x20AC;? says Neuner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just want friends on Facebook, I want real friends,â&#x20AC;? says Coonerty.

Jessica Johnson, a cafe member at NextSpace and the head of her own nonprofit empowermentToday, says that after only a short time, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not only found the perfect financial curriculum she was searching for, she also got an apartment from other NextSpacersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tips. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You just walk in and you feel like

youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re part of a community,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good energy.â&#x20AC;?

That energy has not gone unnoticed outside of Santa Cruz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten emails [asking about NextSpace] from Cleveland, Charlottesville, Madison, Wisconsin, andâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;wait for itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Katmandu,â&#x20AC;? says Neuner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think there will be places like this everywhere.â&#x20AC;?

Sprenger says The Satellite will likely know where its second location is going in the next few months. Under consideration are sites in Live Oak and Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Westside. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I bet the next big thing is going to come out of co-working,â&#x20AC;? says Brogan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just something about it that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get from regular working.â&#x20AC;?

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called Sk8face (the trailer will run at as part of this monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MAH exhibit).â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would say that thing is eternal. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be selling that thing forever.â&#x20AC;?

Today a small empire has sprung up of plastic Screaming Hand figurines, stickers, posters and, most recently, oven mitts and barbecue aprons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To be able to market this stuff makes a big difference,â&#x20AC;? says Phillips.

Asked how he came up with the image, Phillips flips to a page in one of his three published books and points to a drawing done when he was just a kid. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sketch of a busy surf town scene. There, in the back, a lone hand rises from behind a wall, threatening or begging for help, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to know. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s somebody back there yelling or drowning, you know, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;AAAH!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Phillips says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your hands are the things you see the most in your life. Michaelangelo used themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;God and Adam. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just the angst of everything. It expresses the unexpressible.â&#x20AC;?

The hand is also kind of funny. A lot of Phillipsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work has a streak of dark or insane humor, which makes for a form of irreverence thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more mischievous than malevolent. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of the reason he was drawn to fleshy monsters while his Southern California counterparts, like VC Johnson of Powell Peralta, were drawing skulls and bones. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have more personality,â&#x20AC;? Phillips says of his bugeyed, big-toothed gory creations. He adds, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like to have fun with it. I think humor is uplifting.â&#x20AC;?

In the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, when the rivalry between Southern California and Northern California skateboard companies was at its height, Johnson and Phillips collaborated on a design called MC Who. Modeled after an Escher painting, it featured a

skeletal hand and a blue screamy hand drawing each other. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were our biggest competition,â&#x20AC;? says Phillips, â&#x20AC;&#x153;so for us to come together as artists was really something. And we really got along. I went down there and painted it with him.â&#x20AC;?

That was a time when images stayed around, says filmmaker Bass. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When Santa Cruz and Jim Phillips were really on top of their game, their graphics would be on the shelves for a year or two,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were really iconic. Whereas board graphics made today donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stay on the shelf or your psyche long enough to sink in.â&#x20AC;?

Phillips is still making his designs the old-fashioned way, at least partly: drawing on paper, then making his way through a system of tracing and enlargements until finally itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to lay down the colors.

For that he goes to the computer. But the result is still careful, rich and originalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;rare quality in a clip-art world. Phillips is carrying the torch for quality, lasting design. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santa Cruz is one of the oldest living, breathing skateboard companies,â&#x20AC;? says Bass. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have true authentic roots.

You can still look at it as a hardcore skater and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mom and pop skateboard art.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lineage. I look at Santa Cruz more as a lineage and a heritage than a skateboard company.â&#x20AC;?

PRAISE THE BOARD: 35 YEARS OF SKATEBOARD DESIGN & INNOVATION opens Friday, Sept. 4, with a free 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8:30pm reception at the Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. 831.429.1964.

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A/<B/ 1@CH AC;;3@ 0357<A WITH THE yearly exodus of summer tourists from Santa Cruz, locals can finally kick back and relax. No more overcrowded beaches and no more bumper-to-bumper traffic anywhere within a 30-mile radius. In September we finally get our city back, and what better way to celebrate than a monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of festivals in the best weather of the year?

Flower aficionados can get their floral fix at the 57th Annual 1O^Wb]ZO 0SU]\WO 4SabWdOZ on the Capitola Esplanade, Sept.

4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7. The festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acclaimed Nautical Parade will take place on Sunday, Sept. 6, with several barges covered head to toe in begonias of every color. The barges float down Soquel Creek, ending at the lagoon, and even after the parade, live concerts and rowboat races complete this historic festival by the bay. Festival starts Friday at dusk with a movie and continues all day Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Monday.

Capitola Esplanade, Capitola. www.capitolabegoniafestival.com.

Take a big fat Greek wedding and multiply it by a hundred, and you get a big fat 5`SSY 4SabWdOZ. From Sept. 11 to Sept. 13, the Prophet Elias Orthodox Church in downtown Santa Cruz will host a free festival of everything Greek. From authentic gyros and dolmas to traditional bouzouki music, this award-winning festival consistently proves worthy of the gods. Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sunday, Sept. 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;13; Friday 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10pm, Saturday 11amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;10pm, Sunday noonâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;8pm. 223 Church St., Santa Cruz.

With the 27th annual 1O^Wb]ZO /`b O\R EW\S 4SabWdOZ just around the corner, visitors should have nothing to whine about.

The event will be held at Esplanade Park Sept. 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;13. With countless local performances and the help of various Santa Cruz Mountain wineries, the event promises to be just grape. Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday, Sept. 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;13, 10amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;6pm. Stockton Avenue and Esplanade, Capitola.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only place where one can party with Blue Oyster Cult, racing pigs and pro-wrestlers all at the same time, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the 114th Annual AO\bO 1`ch 1]c\bg 4OW` Sept. 15â&#x20AC;&#x201C;20, 60,000-plus expected attendees will flock to the fairgrounds for live music, rides, corn dogs and brewing demonstrations. Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sunday, Sept. 15â&#x20AC;&#x201C;20, noonâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;11pm daily. 2601 E. Lake Ave., Watsonville.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s September, but that wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop the Tyrolean Inn in Ben Lomond from celebrating =Yb]PS`TSab Held Sept. 25â&#x20AC;&#x201C;27, the celebration will include traditional German food and beer as well as a polka-worthy floor and bounce house. Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sunday, Sept. 25â&#x20AC;&#x201C;27; Friday 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10pm, Saturday 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10pm, Sunday 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9pm.

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All You Need Is Love

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B www.montereysymphony.org

831.646.8511

BeneďŹ tting Community Partnership for Youth and Monterey Symphony Music/Education Programs with the generous support of the City of Salinas and Monterey Mattress Marquee.

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is work by Dogtown and Z-Boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Stacey Peralta, The Garden, the riveting true story of a fight over a community garden in south Los Angeles; The Age of Stupid, starring Peter Postlethwaite as a man of the midâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;21st century looking back at us, his stupid globalwarming-denying grandfathers. Also on view will be Sally Ingletonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Seed Hunter, about the search for heirlooms, and The Yes Men Fix the World, a sprightly documentary about two provocateurs who beard corporate suits in their dens.

Good Hair (Oct. 23), by ace comedian Chris Rock, takes its title from an African American expression: translated it means â&#x20AC;&#x153;as nonkinky as possible.â&#x20AC;?

People of color still spend millions on gross chemicals and expensive procedure. The old-time corrosive methods of hair relaxationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;lye, gasoline or other causticsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;have changed but not the essential meaning of this war on nappiness. (Fun fact: Billie Holidayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trademark gardenia is something she picked up to cover a hole burned in her hair.)

Capitalism: A Love Story (Oct. 2) is Michael Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bouquet to the only system that could ever possibly work, world without end, amen. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wallâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the capitulation of the much-feared competitionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the system is, well, just as you see it around you. Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus is more on this last year right after Wall Street got the U.S. government to find its checkbook for them. Get out your handkerchiefs: Moore tells a sad tale of poverty-stricken CEOs and bankers mewling for sustenance like abandoned kittens.

Speaking of our overlords, Crude (Sept. 25) is Joe Berlingerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

documentary concerning the $27 billion lawsuit that Ecuadorian natives brought against Chevron and Texaco (the company Chevron engulfed). And Earth Days (Sept. 11) charts the almost 40 years of Earth Day celebrations, with notes on the eco movement from astronauts to biologists. And the almost-documentary The Informant! (Sept. 18) presents Steven Soderberghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comedic version of a serious story about the unlikely whistleblower (played by Matt Damon) who helped nail Big Agâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Archer Daniels Midland. Similarly, The Men Who Stare at Goats (Nov. 6) takes a true story and skews it a bit; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s based on Guardian reporter Jon Ronsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book about the U.S. Armyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempts to create psychic assassins and soldiers who can walk through walls like Sprite from the X-Men. In dutiful response to the calendar, Robert Zemeckisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; adaptation of A Christmas Carol (Nov. 6) pushes back the unavoidable holiday six weeks with a performance-captured animated version of Dickens, and Jim Carrey playing Scrooge and the three ghosts.

The digitized Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with a Big Ben under construction scaffoldsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is essential to this extravaganza.

And lastly, served up for Thanksgiving, The Princess and the Frog (Nov. 25)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a New Orleansâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;set version of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Frog Princeâ&#x20AC;? in traditional animation by Disneyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;may either be the continuation of a 75-year-old tradition of quality cartooning or the tombstone of it. And do we want to live in a world without flat animation? 0

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(PG-13; 99 min.) Sandra Bullock plays a stalker who tries to win the affection of Bradley Cooper. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a comedy, of courseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; because whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funnier than stalkers? (Opens Fri at Riverfront and Green Valley.) (SP)

Jason Bateman plays a put-upon factory boss in writer-director Mike Judgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first foray into the working world since Office Space. (Opens Fri at Del Mar.) (SP)

1=:2 A=C:A (PG13; 108 min.) Surreal, Charlie-Kaufmanesque comedy features Paul Giamatti playing himself, in a world where souls can be removed and traded.

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control the actions of enslaved convicts, who are forced to fight to the death. The producers either stole their ideas from James Cameronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upcoming Avatar, or an actual plan drawn up by the former Bush administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quite sure which. (Opens Fri at Cinema 9 and Green Valley.) (SP)

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reputation over the years. But watch it again and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll remember why it actually shook the halls of power when it was released.

Countries around the world banned it for its populist, pro-democracy message, but it was hated by politicians here too, for the way it savaged corruption in American politics. Not only does it still have bite, it remains one of the best movies about the ideals of American politics ever filmed.

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27AB@71B ' (R; 113 min.) Humans and alien refugees live in close and uncomfortable proximity in Johannesburg in dystopian sci-fi thriller

by Neill Blomkamp.

The story is told documentary style, as we follow the mysterious disappearance of Wikus (Sharito Copley), a human employee of Multi-National United.

Included in this mix of images is also some kind of private footage, heavily digitally watermarked, that a secretive company like MNU wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want aired. During a raid on the alien camp, Wikus is sprayed with some alien fluid. After this incident, we can cut and paste in much of David Cronenbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version of The Fly, as the smarmy Wikus begins to mutate, losing his fingernails and teeth. The massive corporation he works for makes him a wanted man, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forced to get the help of one of the prawns. Producer Peter Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hand is visible in the flawless animation of the bug creatures. All of the most interesting parts of this storyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; about the otherness of the aliensâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are kept offcamera. (RvB) 47</: 23AB7</B7=< ! 2 (R; 81 min.) A 60

Minutesâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;style exposĂŠ on Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crumbling infrastructure, cast with characters for whom one feels about as much empathy as one would if they were crash-test dummies. Certainly, they ask for it, going to a race track at the beginning (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tell me again why

we came here instead of going to a movieâ&#x20AC;?).

When the premonitionwracked Nick (Bobby Campo) saves his friends from flying engine blocks and race car wheels, a frustrated Death goes after them all in more baroque ways.

I admired the scene of a mother at a beauty parlor being tended by a pair of beauticians acting like theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in Sartreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Maids, among a riot of malfunctioning machinery. Then, also, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a swastikatattooed tow-truck driver immolated in the middle of trying to organize a cross-burning.

The filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one character worth sparing is George (Mykelti Williams), a security guard who tries to kill himself: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just trying to give God what I think he wants.â&#x20AC;? That God hates us and wants us all dead is the underscored message of this unusually unpretentious and honestly misanthropic snuff film; the elationproducing death mechanisms in 3-D are worthy of the Coyote and the Roadrunner.

The demise of the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total macho butthole Hunt (Nick Zano), staged at the swimming pool of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Forest Lawn Country Club,â&#x20AC;? is pretty ingenious even by the standards of the franchise. Director David R. Ellis films in a composite of Florida and Quebec, creating one blandsville semiMidwestern nowhere, where death is clearly a release. (RvB) # 2/GA =4 AC;;3@ (PG-13; 95

min.) Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a greeting-card writer, has his heart broken by a girl he knew for about two years. She was called Summer (Zooey Deschanel). As Tom recalls this tale in random-accessed moments, we begin to see the bigger picture.

(500) Days of Summer is allegedly an antiromantic film, but the result is yet another alterna-date movieâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a little brighter, a little more referential, than usual. The scenes donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go on so long that they wear out their welcome.

And yet itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so full of negative spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;places where jokes could have been planted, places where the characters could have been deepened. If only director Marc Webb had spent as much time thinking how to fill in the blanks as he spent murmuring, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be Annie Hall for our generation.â&#x20AC;? (RvB) 5 4=@13 (PG; 88 min.)

In the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, there was an anime film that was called G-Force in America.

It was an American version of the Japanese TV series Gatchaman, about superhero ninjas.

Hollywood is now making a live-action film based on that same series.

However, none of this really has anything to do with anything, since this is not that film. I just couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think of anything to say about a stupid Jerry Bruckheimer spy comedy starring computer-animated guinea pigs. (SP) 6/::=E33< (R;

103 min.) Writer-director Rob Zombie returns with a sequel to his ponderous, grim remake of John Carpenterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic, Halloween. The funny thing is that the original Michael Myers sequel, 1981â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Halloween 2, was pretty hilariously bad, so at least he has a lot less to live up to.

Remember how Jamie Lee Curtis got taken to the hospital where apparently no one worked? I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if leaving near-victims of serial killers at unsecured, practically empty hospitals is still standard procedure, but Zombieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sequel does follow the same storyline for a while before veering off in another direction. (SP) 6/@@G >=BB3@ /<2 B63 6/:4 0:==2 >@7<13 (PG; 153

min.) Hogwartsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; decay is showing, against lowering weather that looks like January in Iceland. The new potions professor, Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent), holds in his memory a key conversation with the young Tom Riddle, later to become the Hitler of the world of magic.

Dumbledore (Michael Gambon), the magicworldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Churchill, needs

to know what Slughorn knows, but the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest wizard is starting to decay. Young Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is now comfy enough with being called the Chosen One that he can joke about it (even if Emma Watsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hermione gives him an whack on the head when he does).

Rupert Grint is showstealing in his perennial role as ginger-nut comedy relief. (RvB)

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his own alienlike responses (itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as if Mayer is telling us, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the matter, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you like Mr. Spock?â&#x20AC;?); the reference to the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tale about the emperorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new clothes is also supposed to celebrate Adamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pitilessly honest responses to the world around him. Comic bits by Jeff Hiller as a supercilious waiter and Mark Linn-Bale as a fauxfriendly boss help this out. The subplotting of Peter Gallagher and Amy Irving as Bethâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents is just filler. Byrneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s channeling of the young Diane Keaton is more uncanny than anything Max does. (RvB)

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Armando Iannucci, a well-known figure in British television comedy, does a scathing sort-of version of the dawn of the Iraq invasion.

James Gandolfiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lt. Gen. George Miller is a more wrathful version of Colin Powell. Mimi Kennedy plays Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best ally, Karen Clarke, a career State Department diplomat with dandruffy hair and teeth that seem to be disintegrating during the middle of a crisis. Gandolfini and Kennedyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s characters are the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s moral centerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the two people operating with goodwill.

We want to follow them through this sonata of collapsing spines and raving, swearing political careerists. But too often Iannucci just wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let us.

The fierce verbiage pours forth like a gusher, but the smartness outsmarts itself. (RvB) 7<5:=C@7=CA 0/AB3@2A (R;

160 min.) Quentin Tarantinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no-doubt Oscar-winning Holocaust film is the shouldhave-been true story of Operation Kino, the plot to destroy Hitlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gang through their own love for cinema.

Participants in the plot include sweetheart of the Reich Bridget von Hammersmark (Diana Kruger, never better); a mysterious Parisian movie-theater owner known as Emmanuelle Mimieux (Melanie Laurent) and a drawling British film critic-turnedcommando (Michael Fassbender). Opposing these flawed heroes is the smiling-serpent Christoph Waltz as Hans â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Jew Hunterâ&#x20AC;? Walda.

The loose cannons running around are the Basterds themselves, a

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band of homicidal Jewish guerrillas indebted to their leader, Brad Pittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aldo Raine, for 100 Nazi scalps. Yet this is a genuine art movie; nothing is as rapt here as Tarantinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s swoon over a beautiful girl on a ladder. Here in cinema form is an essay about Tarantinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fascination with and distate for the war film. (RvB) 8C:73 8C:7/ (PG-

13; 123 min.) Meryl Streepâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatnessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;her facility with accents, her plasticity and that uncompromising quality every really lasting actress has to haveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has been used to portray the limits of human suffering. In Julie & Julia, Streep gets to kick up her heels. She has such fun with the part of the cookbook writer Julia Child that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consistently intoxicating to watch.

Streep continues at full sail through the film, elevated a bit on a high heels and trotting with the happy clunkiness of a Clydesdale. Childsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; distinctive voiceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the whoop of surprise, the trill and warble when she talkedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;makes Streepâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of the film enthralling. But there had to be some way to hold the film together, and sure enough disaster

befalls. Half of this film is based on the hustled-into-print book version of a blog by Julie Powell about replicating all of Childsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; recipes.

Amy Adams, the most charming young actress alive, plays Julie, and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still a horror. Director Nora Ephron tries for frankness in her script by having Julie Powell call herself a bitch. That isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough to rehab her.

(RvB) >=<G= (G; 107 min.)

The wizardly Hiyao Miyazakiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beautiful, gentle animated entertainment for children. On a Japanese beach of today, 5-yearold Sosuke (voiced by Frankie Jonas) finds a magic talking goldfish with a human head.

Ponyo (Noah Lindsey Cyrus) is happy to live in a bucket, but she sickens in captivity. A mystical rogue wave takes her back home. We learn that Ponyoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father is a weary undersea wizard, Fujimoto (Liam Neeson). This former human seeks to heal the oceans with magic.

Fujimoto was once the lover (or husband) of the colossal sea goddess Gran Mamare (Cate Blanchett). Ozuworthy moments of enchantment appear

story of Elliot (Demetri Martin) trying his best to keep the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decaying Catskills motel open in the summer of 1969. After hearing that a nearby community is going to cancel a huge rock concert because of fear of rampaging hippies, Elliot has the inspiration to contact the local dairy farmer Max Yasgur (Eugene Levy) to see about renting his pastures for a concert.

Lee keeps the big event mostly offscreen. The festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chaos helps Elliot take the cork out of his bottled-up sexuality.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not easy to make a good movie about this event; the younger the viewer, the sicker they are of hearing about it. Taking Woodstockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s B/97<5 E==2AB=19 serene appreciation for a (R; 128 min.) Ang Lee passing time makes this and James Schamus one of the best fictional bring their customary movies about the 1960s. historical density to Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the history lover in this view of the threeSchamus and Lee that day-long music festival appreciates Woodstockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in upstate New York, uniqueness, and its August 1969. There ultimately transitory are no significant nature. (RvB) anachronisms to B63 B7;3 B@/D3:3@¸A throw you back into E743 (PG-13; 107 min.)

2009, and the slightly Eric Bana plays a man faded colors and the who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep to the split-screen honor our present; things donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go traditional view of the festival, learned from the well for those around him when he keeps zooming documentary Woodstock. off chronologically. Also Based on Elliot Tiberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memoir, the film tells the stars Rachel McAdams.

throughout. Avoiding clear stories of good and evil, Miyazaki is both Buddhist and animist, telling of the opposition of creative and destructive forces.

(RvB) A6=@BA (PG; 89 min.) Director Robert Rodriguez returns to making kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movies with this tale of a rock that grants wishes and how everyone in one small town goes nuts trying to get their hands on it. Rodriguez says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;like Pulp Fiction for kids.â&#x20AC;? Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my question: what the hell could that possibly mean? Unlike so many summer movies, however, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only 89 minutes. Who likes short Shorts? (SP)

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For the week of September 2 /@73A (March 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 19): Your assignment is to get angry in the most unique, brilliant and constructive way possible. Merely being annoyed and muttering generic curses will definitely not be sufficient. Nor will it work for you to get consumed in knee-jerk rage or to be peeved about the same old boring targets that everyone reacts to. What the cosmos needs from you this week, Aries, is a controlled explosion of liberated, compassionate, laser-sharp fury that will fuel your ingenious drive to change everything for the better.

B/C@CA (April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20): Are you having intense cravings for candy? Do you find yourself leaning in the direction of sappy emotions and syrupy words? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what my astrological projections suggest. And if thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s indeed the case, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to steer you in a different direction. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that an extravagant involvement in chocolate and sentimentality is wrong or bad. But what you truly need, in my opinion, is a more muscular, provocative sweetness. A wilder, more vibrant sweetness. A sweetness that can smash obstacles and incite high magic.

53;7<7 (May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 20): I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t protest if you try to conceal yourself from bullies or gossips or critics or narcissists. You have cosmic permission to hunker down and keep a low profile. But please donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hide from yourself. In fact, I encourage you to make yourself extra available to yourself. Listen respectfully to the questions and comments that your shadow murmurs in your inner ear. Be eager to tune in to the messages your body is longing to tell you. These communications might sometimes be a minor pain in the ego, but the long-term benefits to your soul could be substantial.

1/<13@ (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22): I have tuned in to your yearning for resolution, O Seeker. I know that your heart fervently wants the riddles to run their course, the mysteries to be revealed, the uncertainties to be quelled. And I have ransacked my imagination in search of what consolation I might provide to appease your quest for neat, simple truths. But what I have concluded, O In-Between One, is that any solutions I might try to offer you would not only be fake, but also counterproductive. What you actually need, I suspect, are not answers to your urgent questions, but rather, better questions; more precisely formulated questions; more ruthlessly honest questions. Dig deeper, please. Open wider.

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D7@5= (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): I dare you to say yes to a possibility youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve said no to in the past. I double dare you to try an impossible thing before lunch each day. I triple dare you to imagine youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a genius at inspiring people to like you and help you. I quadruple dare you to drive overly stable people crazy for all the right reasons. I quintuple dare you to fantasize that your so-called delusions of grandeur have begun to contain more than a few grains of truth. :70@/ (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): I know a 19-year-old

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:3= (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): No one knew there was coal in the United States until 1790. A hunter who was wandering near Pennsylvaniaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Broad Mountain stumbled upon it accidentally when his campfire lit up an outcropping of pure anthracite. That discovery was both a blessing and a curse; since then, the mining of coal has yielded abundant energy but also environmental degradation. I predict a metaphorically similar event for you in the coming days, Leo. You will inadvertently find a potentially enormous source of valuable fuel that will, like coal, present you with both rich opportunities and knotty dilemmas.

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woman who has been going through an especially vivid phase of living on the edge between yes and no. She told me that yesterday morning she woke up with the feeling that in the next 12 hours she could either commit suicide or else perform some epic deed in which she surpassed all of her previous limits. She chose the latter path, completing an 18-mile bike ride that tested her endurance and drove her into the heights of exhilaration. As she pedaled, she drove herself onward with the throbbing thought that this was a perfect way to silence the self-destructive voice within her. I offer her victory to you, Libra, as being worthy of imitation.

A1=@>7= (Oct. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 21): Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s take inventory

of your harvest, Scorpio. What blossomed for you these past months? Which of the seeds you planted last March and April sprouted into ripe, succulent blossoms? Which seeds grew into hard, spiky clumps?

And what about weeds, pests and predators? Were you tireless about keeping them away from your beauties? Finally, what did you learn about growing things that could give you a green thumb when you cultivate your seeds in the next cycle?

A/57BB/@7CA (Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): Before she became a rock goddess, Gwen Stefani cleaned the f loors at an ice cream parlor. Prior to ascending to stardom, Ellen DeGeneres was an oyster shucker, Keanu Reeves worked as a janitor and Brad Pitt performed as a giant chicken mascot. As for me, my gig as an internationally syndicated astrologer was not my first. Among many other things, I washed enough pots and pans in cheap restaurants to fulfill my dishwashing karma for my next five incarnations.

I hope these examples serve to inspire you, Sagittarius.

Even during the down economy, the next six months will provide you with ripe astrological conditions for upgrading your job. And the coming weeks will be prime time to brainstorm about how to go about it.

1/>@71=@< (Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 19): I know some brave pioneers who make responsible use of psychotropic drugs as they map out the borderlands of consciousness. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing that work, but my path is different. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t indulge in marijuana, LSD, ayahuasca or psilocybin. However, my many years of doing meditation, dream work and various spiritual practices have nevertheless transformed me into a radical mystic with some of the same knowledge that the psychedelic experimenters have.

Keep that disclaimer in mind as you ruminate on my advice for you, which is this: Blow your own mind, baby. Raise your expectations, supercharge your fantasy life and make forays out into the frontiers. Get high in ways that are appropriate to your ethical code. /?C/@7CA (Jan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): I love the new neighborhood I just moved to. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s insanely eclectic.

Modern suburbanlike homes with impeccable emerald-green lawns stand right next door to bedraggled 1950s-style ranch houses with unfinished plywood for garage doors and high brown weeds blanketing the front yards. A rusty mustard-yellow 1977 Cadillac Seville sporting a McCain-Palin bumper sticker is parked on the street next to a shiny 2007 Volvo with a sticker that advises, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be the change you want to see in the world.â&#x20AC;? Aging rednecks with fishing gear scattered in the driveway live next door to hipster musicians who blast psychedelic folk songs from their garage rehearsal space. I urge you to hang out in places like this in the coming weeks: where diversity rules, where the pigeonholes are exploded, where variety is not just the spice of life but the main course. >7A13A (Feb. 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20): The month of August brought you some peculiar advances. You got a reward that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean as much to you as it might have had you received it earlier. You outgrew an enigma that had puzzled and frustrated you forever.

And you finally wriggled free of a shadowy game that you had been attached to long after it lost its power to educate you. As curious as these wistful breakthroughs have been, they are prologue to whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headed your way. Get ready to solve a problem you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even know you loved.

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