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URING a recent visit to New York City, I discovered firsthand the considerable advances in bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure of that bustling metropolis. I was able to bike along a riverside, car-free bike path with great views of the Hudson and East rivers as I circumnavigated most of Manhattan. In New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has transformed Time Square into a pedestrian and bike oasis in the heart of one of the busiest parts of the city by blocking off Broadway to car traffic. Bike commuting in New York City has increased by 45 percent since 2006 due to aggressive implementation of bike improvements such as these.

As I took that long ride around Manhattan, I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but ponder how great it would be to have a bike and pedestrian path like this one alongside our own Monterey Bay. In Santa Cruz County, where 47 percent of greenhouse gases are generated by transportation, improvements have been made to make travel by foot and bike safer and easier. These improvements have contributed to an impressive bike commuter rate of 9.3 percent of all to trips to work in the city of Santa Cruz, but there are still too many gaps. Bold gamechanging projects are called for to make Santa Cruz County a top-tier bike- and pedestrian-friendly community.

The issue over what bike and traffic calming modifications should be made to King Street exemplifies the struggle between far-reaching and incremental advances in sustainable transportation improvements. The city, with collaboration from various community shareholders, developed the Master Transportation Study (MTS), a forward-thinking planning document that laid out a road map for increased alternative transportation. The MTS guideline specified that a bike boulevard on King Street would contribute to a more livable community and increase bike travel on the Westside.

The city of Santa Cruz is ready to install an ingredient of most bike boulevards, called a Sharrows (Shared-Lane pavement markings), on King Street to give cyclists and motorists a better idea of the safest placement for bicyclists on this narrow street. This is a step forward, but to really make the street safer and feel safer for cyclists, especially grade school students who use King Street to travel to Mission Hill Middle School, the vehicle traffic volumes need to be turned down.

Low traffic counts are a key component to successful bike boulevards.

King Street is a neighborhood street that is serving as a main travel thoroughfare during peak commuter times. A group of neighbors, along with bike advocates, are urging the city to conduct a neighborhood-wide traffic study to determine if cut-through car traffic can be diverted out of neighborhood streets. Unfortunately, city staff appear to view community involvement in this project as a hindrance rather than an asset.

At a time of a dwindling city budget, why not take advantage of free assistance from neighbors and bike/ped advocates who have studied the issue, held community forums and recruited expert planners to help devise a workable plan? King Street is a good example of how the city is cautiously acting to improve bike conditions due to their concerns of impacting automobile traffic flow. But Santa Cruz needs bold and innovative projects to encourage residents and visitors to use healthy, active and greenhouse gas-reducing transportation.

Surely Santa Cruz can outpace New York City as a community that alleviates car use, which fosters a sedentary lifestyle and contributes to climate change, while investing in nonpolluting and exercise-inducing transportation.

Piet Canin is program director for the Sustainable Transportation Group at Ecology Action. Read a longer version of this piece at www.news.santacruz.com.

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Evaluators Evaluators are are not not cheap, cheap, either. either.

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She She lost lost custody custody entirely, entire r ly, was was ggranted ranted supervised has sup ervised telephone telephone calls calls only only and and h as now two years. now not not seen seen her her children children iin n tw o ye ars.

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One Santa Cruz man now immersed in a 6-year-old custody battle voices an opinion shared by many in his position: that the system, with its mandatory courtappointed evaluators and systemic inconveniences, operates with the foremost objective of extracting money from families. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll bleed you dry,â&#x20AC;? says the man, who would give his name only as â&#x20AC;&#x153;George.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never come to a final decision. They just wear you down until you have nothing left. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not in their interest to give 50-50 custody. They want to put the squeeze on one parent.â&#x20AC;?

In the infamous case of Alycia Mesiti-Allen, the 14-year-old Santa Clara girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s courtappointed attorney, Jonnie Herring, warned the court in 2006 of her concerns for the safety of Mesiti-Allen and her older brother, who had both been

placed with their father, Mark Edward Mesiti, in November 2005. Herring later wrote to Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Vincent Chiarello, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am deeply concerned about both minors, especially Alycia.â&#x20AC;?

No transfer of custody to MesitiAllenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother or another relative occurred, and in August 2006 Alycia Mesiti-Allen disappeared. Almost three years later, in March 2009, police uncovered her body.

Her father has been charged with her murder.

Meanwhile, â&#x20AC;&#x153;parental alienation syndrome,â&#x20AC;? or PAS, has become extremely popular and very effective as a weapon in custody battles.

Court-appointed evaluators and psychologists regularly diagnose parents with this â&#x20AC;&#x153;condition,â&#x20AC;? which is supposedly characterized by one parent seeking to â&#x20AC;&#x153;alienateâ&#x20AC;? the child from the other parent.

Although PAS is not a scientifically proven theory, the

syndrome is admitted frequently as evidence in custody battles, and parents marred with the PAS label often lose custody to the alleged abuser, explains Russell.

Court Reports In July, Assemblymember Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) called for the Bureau of State Audits to investigate the family courts system in Sacramento and Marin counties.

Assemblyman Bill Monning (D-Carmel) signed his support for the audit, which was approved unanimously in August in a joint vote by six members of the Assembly and six of the Senate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had families complain to us about lack of integrity in the family court system and about a lack of checks and balances,â&#x20AC;? says Monning. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re concerned that the system is not working in the best interests of the child.â&#x20AC;?

The audit is intended to improve due process within the system, shed light upon the criteria

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used by the court in training, qualifying, and appointing custody evaluators and others specialists, and ultimately lead to placement of children in the custody of nonabusive parents.

And in May 2008 the Elkins Family Law Task Force was appointed to conduct a review of family law proceedings and recommend to the Judicial Council of California proposals that will help provide more effective and consistent rules, policies and procedures, ensure that due process is followed, and increase access to justice for families and their children.

Robin Yeamens, a family law specialist in Los Gatos, approves of some of the proposals, such as one that recommends allowing litigants to carry tape recorders into the courtroom.

Currently, recorders are prohibited and litigants must pay thousands to view transcripts from their own hearings.

The task force, however, failed to address PAS, which Russell fears might limit the likelihood that Assembly Bill 612, written by Jim Beall (D-San Jose) and designed to ban the use of PAS in family court, will pass through the legislature this spring.

A public comment period currently open for opinions will close Dec. 4; after that the task force will make its recommendations to the California Supreme Court. The public is urged to participate on the comment form at www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ jc/tf lists/elkins.htm.

Kauffman believes that many of the procedural steps in the family court system are designed to draw money from the pockets of litigants.

Connie Valentine, co-founder of the California Protective Parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association, recognizes the same pattern and calls it downright extortion in some cases.

She cites the case of the mother of a child allegedly abused by the father who came to Valentine for guidance. The woman, says Valentine, was unable to pay the custody evaluator the $2,200 fee. The judge threatened to give full custody of her child to the father if she could not pay before a deadline. She failed to produce the money and lost custody.

For SchillaciLavergne, the wheels of justice are stuck in the mud of family court bureaucracy. She has spent $1.5 million on legal fees in California and Hawaii fighting for her daughter, now 12, who remains in the full custody of her father.

And in Alabama, Hodgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nightmare goes on. Her children remain in Monterey County, and she is uncertain whether or when she will see them againâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and whether she will have any money left if the day comes.

But to Hodge, the complete senselessness of the system has, at long last, begun to make perfect sense after all. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They just want my money, and the longer Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in court, the more money theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get.â&#x20AC;?0

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Today itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a standing-room-only party with fans around the world.

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the mee-mee-mew of a spacecraft. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Welcome,â&#x20AC;? croons a familiar voice, â&#x20AC;&#x153;to Planet Croooz.â&#x20AC;?

The crowd goes wild.

Planet Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s formatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a bevy of special guest star comics and talent acts interspersed with sketches, music and standupâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is a tried and true one, a kind of vaudeville. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when show creator Richard Stockton comes out and hits a couple folksy chords on his guitar and croons the latest installment of

his ongoing comical love ballad to Santa Cruz that the audience really starts lapping it up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Women belly dance, the babies belly crawl, the men at work sit on the big yoga balls,â&#x20AC;? he sings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the place where we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t experiment with drugsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we know exactly what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing.â&#x20AC;? The crowd roars approvingly. ¨

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When heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not onstage, Stockton quietly slips into the packed audience and stands to stage right, watching his own show, as if examining it. The tone of the production may be light and airy fun, but as a concept Stockton takes it all very seriously. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like to turn people away,â&#x20AC;? he says of his showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tendency to sell out the theater. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would rather do it for free and make money off the broadcast. But we live off the support of each one of those dear, dear audience members that buys a $20 ticket.â&#x20AC;?

How do you retell a good storytellerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

story? Some things just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come through on the page, like the inherent trustworthiness of his face, the effortless wave of his gray hair. When Stockton spins the tale of how he came to Santa Cruz for good six years ago, he throws off juicy tangential tidbits as he goesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got an FBI file. You can check it out,â&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to go to the Canyonlands and discover a new religion, instead I walked into a hardware store and fell in loveâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to resist the temptation to chase after those crumbs, and get lost in the ¨ %

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But in spite of the various patois in his repertoire, Stocktonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a California boy, born and raised. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I feel romantic I have a bit of a Southern accent,â&#x20AC;? he admits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was raised in Bakersfield and Sacramento. I even sang about it the other night: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I was a feral child, raised by Republicans, and I came to Santa Cruz and my spirit healed.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as close to vaudeville as you can get.

You can do anything as long as you can make â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em laugh four times a minute.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

His parents, whom he loves dearly, were levelheaded farm folk unprepared for the nomadic singer/songwriter/ vaudevillian that their son turned out to be. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m definitely the black sheep,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had to go. The world called and there was a lot of music going on and I was deep into folk music.â&#x20AC;?

The more free-spirited UC system of the 1960s permitted Stockton to bounce from UCLA to Berkeley to Santa Cruz, but he dropped out short of earning his diploma to answer his wanderlust. With a guitar on his back, he hitchhiked across 48 states, all the Canadian provinces, down to South America and eventually across Europe, including a month dressed as a cowboy and playing guitar

on the streets of Istanbul.

Some of his fondest memories are the six years he cooled his heels in Madison County, N.C. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These people had preserved their culture for 300 years,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I became one of them. Hippies and hillbillies really get along. I played their music, I fought â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em and slept with â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em and buried their dead.â&#x20AC;?

Though the native crop was tobacco, and their native intoxicant was moonshine, Stockton says he brought a very special import from California. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I kept the weed thing very quiet, because it was a felony to even have it,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This one guy Poppy, he just looked like an old Cherokee Indian. One night weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sitting around, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s late, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re making wine. He goes, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Let me try one of those mary-witters, or whatever you call â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The next time he came up to the cabin he had four of his friends with him. We had a little meeting, I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bag of seed, guys.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; If you go back now, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the biggest producers in North America of marijuana.â&#x20AC;?

Gift of Gab Stockton attributes the Southern accent to his radio days in the early 1980s at WKDA/KDF in Nashville, Tenn.

He said he moved there from Guatemala convinced he was going to become the next country sensation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not Willy Nelson, but I thought I was going to be in Nashville,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then I needed to make a living, and someone said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You talk really well, why donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you become a DJ?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; So I used a name my mom actually called me, Dicky Bob. I started being Dicky Bob on the air.â&#x20AC;? (Fans of Planet Cruz will remember Dicky Bob as the banjo-playing, rhyme-spitting alter ego Stockton breaks out at least once per show with the Planetoid Band: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for the baby-boomergangster-banjo-player to represent, yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;all!

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just gonna break you off a little sumpinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;-sumpinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; like this,â&#x20AC;? he drawls.)

After getting fired from his DJ spot, he landed himself a three-day trial as a morning talk show host at WKDA in Nashville. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shortly before, Planned Parenthood had been blown up by the pro-life movement there. Nashville was at once cosmopolitan and deeply regressive-Southern conservative,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was adamantly pro-choice. So I called up someone from the pro-life movement and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I will have you on my radio show on KDA tomorrow.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; We got on the air, it was a three-hour show, and we started talking and I thought this guy was going to hit me.â&#x20AC;? As the ¨ '

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three hours crawled on, Stockton says the parking lot filled with a rowdy crowd of pro-lifers, pro-choicers and police, and the phones began jangling with death threats. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After the shift, I wade through the salespeople, good old boys with alligator shoes and three-piece suits, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Fuck you, man, what you doing to our station?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I walked by the program managerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office and he said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Come in here. Sign a contract.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; So for two years I had this talk show.â&#x20AC;?

Those were just the first of many death threats and â&#x20AC;&#x153;fuck yousâ&#x20AC;? in what Stockton calls the earliest days of â&#x20AC;&#x153;hot talkâ&#x20AC;? radio. He invited hookers, strippers, KKK members; he broadcast live from a death row inmateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cell. But he enjoyed the status as the No. 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;rated talk show in the mid-South market for two years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most famous Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever been,â&#x20AC;? he chuckles.

Stockton says he lost the job after the competition went after him with their own hot-talk show host. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They blew us out of the water,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They offered me a job, but ahhh. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d done it.â&#x20AC;?

Meanwhile, another medium was calling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was sneaking down to Zanies comedy club on Tuesday nights and doing their open mic,â&#x20AC;? he says.

The comedy bug bitâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;hard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like vaudeville. I always thought I was born 40 years too late. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as close to vaudeville you can get. You can do anything as long as you can make â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em laugh four times a minute,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jan. 1, 1986, I decided I was a comedian.â&#x20AC;?

Funny Business Stockton spent most of the late â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s on the comedy circuit in San Francisco.

It was a time, he says, when you could get onstage five times in one night if you were diligent enough, and he rubbed elbows with Dana Carvey and Margaret Cho. He took any and all classesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;acting, singing, comedyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and played a character onstage, an â&#x20AC;&#x153;altered-state-of-mind guy who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite get the joke.â&#x20AC;?

As his star slowly rose, his personal life took a tumble. While he began touring the country headlining, his wife got fed up with his time on the road, although Stockton says their two kids got the best education money couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They loved it. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d set them up in a booth and the Shirley Temples would keep coming,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The best thing I ever did is become a father.â&#x20AC;?

The late â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s saw the resurrection of Dicky Bob as he exists in his current incarnationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a baby-boomer-gangster that played very well with black audiences. He was picked up by Black Entertainment Television while it was still privately owned and played â&#x20AC;&#x153;the white guyâ&#x20AC;? in a sketch comedy show. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was always getting held up or ripped off or beat up. It was a dream,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then Viacom bought it and everyone got fired.â&#x20AC;?

But one manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s folly is Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fortune. At around this time, Stockton wrote his book, Fondle the Fear, a satirical take on â&#x20AC;&#x153;reframing.â&#x20AC;? ¨

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;While trying to promote it, I came to Santa Cruz and played Gateways Books,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;About 7 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock, I get there and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s packed. I go, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh, man, did they get the date wrong? What the hell?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m trying to get in, and I go, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on here tonight?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and they say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh, Richard Stockton is here.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And I go, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been able to draw flies. So I get up onstage and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What are you people doing here?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? It was love at first sell-out crowd. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From that point forward, I just thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You know what? Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I get them, they get me,â&#x20AC;? he says.

Birth of a Planet As Stocktonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s divorce became final, so did his decision to make Santa Cruz his permanent home. KUSP general manager Terry Green heard a couple of pitches from Stockton before approving a â&#x20AC;&#x153;comedy variety show about Santa Cruz.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sven Davis was the first person I called,â&#x20AC;? he says, referring to his sound effects man. He also called Ukulele Dick and the Great Morgani, and in five months had put together the first episode of The Planet Cruz Comedy Hour, which was performed before a sold-out live audience in October 2007. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You can only do some pot jokes,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and I said, no, no, no, this place is special. This is a community that takes responsibility for its own happiness. This place has something America needs,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When they hear it, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get it.â&#x20AC;?

But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just America thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the show, now in its third season, is available in podcast form on KUSPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attracted some far-flung fans, including a team of researchers in the Antarctic and a gaggle of Dubliners who wrote Stockton that they like to listen while they go drinking.

With so much attention coming in from all over, one might be tempted to worry that the sirenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s song of the road will someday call Stockton back. He dismisses the idea out of hand. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m 60 years old. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve decided that this is my base.

This is my center. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to make money, so I have to go out on the roadâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the reason the next Planet Cruz has been postponed until Januaryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;but as long as this town wants Planet Cruz, they will get Planet Cruz. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not going away,â&#x20AC;? he says.

That doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean there arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t still big changes in the works. In the future, bite-size sections of the Planet Cruz program will be spliced into the regular broadcasts of KUSP and KPIG, and Stockton is doing a version of the show live at Don Quixoteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in January. He is even mulling doing multiple shows to deal with Planet Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overpopulated audience problem. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also talking with HBO about a storytelling show idea they rejected years ago, but which is now picking up steam, in what Stockton describes as a new golden age of storytelling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I make money telling stories. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what people want, from the beginning of time,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We love stories and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what Planet Cruz does.

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FRED HERSCH SOLO PIANO $20/Adv $23/Door

MON. NOVEMBER 23 â&#x20AC;˘ 7:30 PM

RAY BROWN & THE GREAT BIG BAND

At Cabrillo College Crocker Theatre $20/General $15/Students, No Jazztix/Comps Tickets: 479-6331 MON. NOVEMBER 30 â&#x20AC;˘ 7 PM

KIM NALLEY â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Heart of Lady Dayâ&#x20AC;? $20/Adv $23/Door

THURS. DECEMBER 3 â&#x20AC;˘ 7 PM

2009 UCSC/ISIM INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL AND CONFERENCE $12/Adv $15/Door: Jazz & Dinner: $24.60/Adv Sponsored by Santa Cruz Sentinel

MON. DECEMBER 7 â&#x20AC;˘ 7 & 9 PM

DAN HICKS AND THE HOTLICKS â&#x20AC;&#x153;HOLIDAZE IN HICKSVILLEâ&#x20AC;? PLUS SPECIAL GUEST BOB DOROUGH BLUE CHRISTMAS 7 PM: $25/Adv $28/Door 9 PM: $20/Adv $23/Dr, No Jazztix/Comps Sponsored by Erikâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s DeliCafĂŠ Co-sponsored by KPIG 107.5 FM

ADVANCE TICKETS: Logos Books & Records and Kuumbwajazz.org CafĂŠ Kuumbwa serves dinner Mondays & Thursdays beginning at 6pm, along with beer and wine. All ages welcome.

Tickets subject to service charge & 5% admission tax.

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320-2 CEDAR ST â&#x20AC;˘ SANTA CRUZ KUUMBWAJAZZ.ORG

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Bishop Yvette Flunder, Tammi Brown & 50 voice Sista Monica Gospel & Inspirational Choir!

Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009 First Congregational Church 900 High St., Santa Cruz, CA Concert: 6 p.m., doors open: 5 p.m.

Ticket Donation: $20 advance, $25 door

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The Th he judgment judgment is is the the part part that that attracted attracted Perry Perry and and Winfrey.

Winfrey. By By the the end end of of the the movie, movie, you you know know who who all all the the heroes heroes and and all all the the villains villains are, are, and and you you can can go go home home comfortable. comfortable.

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BY SAPPHIRE SAPPHIRE (R; (R; 110 110 min.), min.), directed directed by

by Lee Lee Daniels, Daniels, written written by by Geoffrey Geoffrey Fletcher, Fletcher, photographed photooggraphed by by Andrew Andrew Dunn Dunn and and starring starring Gabourey Gaboourey Sidibe Sidibe and and Moâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Nique, Moâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Nique, opens ope p ns Friday Friday at at the the Del Del Mar Mar Theatre.

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ISMISSING Pirate Radio as a bad film made by bad people is shirking responsibility. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an easy shot to describe it as a sinking shipâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Pirate Radio tries to top the ending of Titanic with a new Miracle of Dunkirk. But Pirate Radio is handily the worst movie of the year, and that alone gives it some stature.

Director/writer Richard Curtisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;opus wastes a roster of first-rate actors, including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost and January Jones.

Curtis also rubbishes a fascinating story, the history of how ship-to-shore radio short-circuited the BBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ban on rock music during the 1960s.Taking this interesting David and Goliath story, Curtisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; inspiration was to put pontoons under Animal House and float it.

Kenneth Branagh plays the John Cleeseâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; like fussy inspector, who determines to use the British government to shut down the musical madcaps afloat on a boat. Branagh turns up, sputters at an assistant and then repeats this effort at least six times over the course of the film.

Hoffman is the legend-in-his-own mind American DJ called the Count.

Some rivalry is established when a fellow Yank DJ arrives on the boat: repeatoffender Rhys Ifans playing the silky (or rather drippingly oleaginous) Gavin Cavanaugh.

Needing something to cut to, Curtis shows the listeners to the radio in England; some rocking out on the toilet (three separate shots); most are frozen, their necks are craned, as if they were Communist slaves taking in the last broadcast from Radio Free Europe.

But what the Rock Boat is spinning is

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surprisingly moldy-oldy needle drops.

The cast tries to glom on to this musicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fading energy, like people trying to warm themselves around a fire made of toothpicks.

Pirate Radio has a stink on it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the aura of flop-sweat: of people trying too hard at a show, such as has been decried by critics going back to Nietzsche. It also has the mungy odor of a film made by people thoroughly sure of themselvesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Elvis Costelloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s song about radio sums this self-importance up: â&#x20AC;&#x153;They really think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting out of control.â&#x20AC;?

The movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s self-congrats lets the cast look at all women as potential groupies. Pirate Radio is especially rough on the actresses. Katherine Parkinson plays Felicity, a declared lesbian; sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a minority, but what exactly is she doing on the boat? Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we know how good she is from Mad Menâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has to give a speech about why she married one man just to get closer to another; this goes beyond a challenge to an actress and is some kind of special category of sadistic wastage. Emma Thompson is smarterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; she turns up immersed in a turtleneck sweater that seems to be devouring her.

Blinkered by sunglasses, she may hope not to be recognized whatsoever.

The self-importance of rock & rollâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;lampooned so beautifully in one of the yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best films, Anvil! The Story of Anvilâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;causes a moment of great dismay-inducement. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an end-title crawl brandishing 40 yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; worth of album covers to prove that rock had a great run despite its enemies.

Among this paradeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Grace Jones, disco with a capital D, part of rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;is the cover of the aforementioned Elvis Câ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s My Aim Is True.

That was the album, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll recall, that dismissed the kind of radio-DJ self-love this film wallows in, hippopotamus-wise: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools trying to anesthetize the way that you feel.â&#x20AC;?

PIRATE RADIO (R; 135 min.), directed and written by Richard Curtis, photographed by Danny Cohen and starring Bill Nighy and Philip Seymour Hoffman, plays at the Cinema 9 in Santa Cruz.

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commitment to Sparkle Motion. If theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to continue to be the lamest bloodsuckers ever dreamed up, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to be plenty sparkly and whiny in this second adaptation of the tweener novels. (Opens Fri at 41st Ave, Cinema 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley.) (SP)

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Bingo! Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly the setup in this animated comedy about an astronaut who discovers little green men living in suburbia on a distant planet. Look out, dude, it could still turn out to be Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just ask Charlton Heston. (Opens Fri at Aptos, Cinema 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley.)

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documentaryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we should all thank our lucky stars that we can see this dystopian masterpiece in the form intended by director Terry Gilliam. And certainly it must be seen on the big screen. (Plays at the Del Mar on Fri and Sat at midnight.) (SP)

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B63 0:7<2 A723 (PG13; 126 min.) I wish this was a documentary about the jackass who almost hit my car merging left without checking all his mirrors last week, but really itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the latest feelgood sports movie about how great middle-toupper-class white people are. Because they care, people! They care about other people, sometimes even people who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t middle-to-upper-class white people themselves!

Not that often, though,

apparently, because any time it happens there seems to be a movie made about it. This time Sandra Bullock plays the real-life mom who took Michael Oher under her wing and helped him eventually make the NFL draft. (Opens Wed, Nov 25, at 41st Ave, opens Fri at Cinema 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley.)

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min.) If there ever was a figure who deserved a postmodern bio, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Amelia Earhart, since she left so many questions behind. Mira Nairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Amelia spins the time frame around, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done in the standard fashion: incidents of her final world-circling flight are intercut with scenes from the beginning of the aviatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career.

Amelia is very much the canned biopic that exists solely because a celebrated actress is playing on a physical resemblance. Hilary Swank does look like Earhart, grinning large, with freckles and bleached hair. But repeat offender Ron Bassâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; prolix script keeps underlining every relationship with a yellow felt pen. The film is a little more frank about Earhartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life than previous versions of the story, and tells of an affair with the Washington socialite and West Point instructor Eugene Vidal (Ewan McGregor). The staging of the finale over the Pacific is dramatic enough. Still, if it werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for the ending, Amelia would be the in-flight movie par-excellence: the kind of movie that seems to be made for the purpose of watching itself. (RvB) /<B716@7AB (Unrated; 111 min.) The most prestigious grossout since Irreversible. A gory/XXX variation of the story of the Fall of Man, with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;? (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;?

(Willem Dafoe) exiled to a cabin called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eden,â&#x20AC;? where they are to be punished by nature and each other. There, her desire for sex grows.

Visions of diseased, supernatural animals torment â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;?: these include a ludicrous rotting talking fox, whose two-word growl â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chaos Reignsâ&#x20AC;? might be the title of the next Spinal Tap album.

Things having got as sexual as they can, terrible violence breaks

out. For no good reason, Lars von Trier marks his film with episodes: is there a better way to shake an audience out of a mood of horror?

But are we supposed to be horrified, or are we supposed to think of this as an intellectual exercise with nut-busting and mutilation? The visuals are occasionally hypnotic, but von Trier relentlessly breaks the trance. In all the coupling, there might have been a subtitle at the bottom of the screen â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are not bodies, these are instruments.â&#x20AC;? And the actors who could make these stiff, pompous lines ominous havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been genetically engineered yet. (RvB) / 16@7AB;/A 1/@=:

(PG; 96 min.) Robert Zemeckis, the guy who brought us 2004â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Polar Express, vies with CVS for earliest seasonal statement with this prepreseason release of the animated classic. Scrooge is voiced by Jim Carrey; also features the voices of Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Robin Wright Penn. (TH) 1=1= 034=@3 16/<3: (PG-13; 113

min.) Audrey Tautou plays the designer as modernist in the years before World War Iâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a woman who assumed male privilege by assuming the simplicity and directness of their clothes. After a stint as a saloon singer, Coco calculates her way into bed with a wealthy rouĂŠ named Etienne Balsan (Benoit Poelvoorde).

Director Anne Fontaine reminds us that this is a movie from the country that gave us The Rules of the Game. What could have been a dull birdin-the-gilded-cage story turns urbane, with the ever-changing flow of power between the slightly wizened but sporty decadent. When Balsan realizes that another man has stolen Coco, he only murmurs, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m smiling, because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the one who let the fox into the hen house.â&#x20AC;?

The fox in question: a British businessman nicknamed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boyâ&#x20AC;?

(Alessandro Nivola). The end titles call the house of Chanel an empire, but Tautouâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;last seen,

cigarette on lip, in a cage of mirrors, surrounded by models wearing her gownsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;makes it look like mostly hard work.

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(R; 105 min.) This is not the typical sports movie where a team begins on the bottom and battles its way to the top. There is no climactic moment on the field toward which our emotions are guided. Instead, the film explores the sheer hubris of legendary soccer coach Brian Clough as he waltzes into and takes over a blatantly dirty Leeds United club for a spell of 44 days in 1974, primarily to enact revenge against his old foe, the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous coach, Don Revie. Played decisively by Michael Sheen, Clough comes into the club demanding to revamp its gritty style of play, and it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work. He is met with a hostile group of players still loyal to Revie (Colm Meaney), whom Clough detests. The movie is less a sports flick and more of a straightup docudrama and personality study, also with constant interplay between Clough and his trusted talent scout, sidekick and muchneeded soccer conscience, Peter Taylor (Timothy Spall). Clough is nothing without Taylor, and we get to see their deteriorating partnership juxtaposed against the backdrop of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on with the team on the field. (GS) /< 32C1/B7=<

(PG-13; 103 min.)

Lone Scherfigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s British coming-of-age film ends with a marathon session of tea brewing, but it has its good points. The look is coolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;1960ish England may be more interesting than the full-blown and overexposed later â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s.

Twickenham-raised Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is studying for Oxford when she gets picked up by David (Peter Sarsgaard), a slightly older rotter; his slightly cruel eyes and flat smile forecast trouble to come.

Until then, Jenny gets to see London highlife and nightclubs, and voyages to Paris. Smelling class, and wanting to make their hard-working

daughter happy, Jennyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents (Cara Seymour, Alfred Molina) relax the leash. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when the young girl learns how David makes his money without working days. No one in the movie apparently saw one of those melodramas about the wealthy seducer who steals a poor but honest girl; letting that matter aside, Mulligan is charming, the meet-cute is deft and Olivia Williams bears all the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spine as a deliberately drabbed-down English teacher. Nick Hornbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s screenplay, from Lynn Barberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memoir, might have meant he had input on the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excellent preâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Swinging London soundtrack. Singer Beth Rowley steals the show as the breathy canary at one nightspot. (RvB) B63 6=@A3 0=G

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Documentary follows the family of a boy with extremely severe autism who seek a cure from tribal healers in Mongolia. (SP)

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racist bakery owner; the ace comic actor Fabrice Luchini plays a history professor, undone by modern temptations.

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(R; 113 min.) All the (SP) themes in the Coen brothersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; previous films >/@7A (R; 137 min.) blend harmoniously Director/writer CĂŠdric in this terrific tale of Klapischâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intriguing comedic woe and horror. if lightweight tagMinneapolis, 1967: a team film. He takes meek professor Larry to the heights of the Gopnik (stage actor cityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Montmartre, the Michael Stuhlbarg, helipad at the Tour looking like a dispirited Montparnasse, the Harold Lloyd) teaches Eiffel Tower and, most important, the top floor physics at a small college.

Gopnik is tantalized of a Haussmann-era with the possibility building directly above of tenure, betrayed Gambetta Metro. There, by his wife with their a former chorus dancer neighbor Sy Ableman, at the Moulin Rouge, Pierre (Romain Duris), is a clammy, polyesterclad swine (Fred mortally ill with a heart Melamed, brilliant). condition. Pierreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister, Gopnikâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son Danny Elise (Juliette Binoche), (Aaron Wolff) has a a social worker, moves cowlike indifference to in to nurse Pierre, his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plight. And bringing her brood Larry must take charge of fatherless children. of his unemployable The film is like a pile brother Arthur (Richard of jackstraws, rather Kind), an obese holy than a solid structure; fool. The postmodern the loosest ends are the moments give A Serious subplots in Cameroon and North Africa, where Man a vaudeville kick: a prologue about the new immigrants are appearance of a demon trying to get to where in the old-time Jewish the euros are. Karin ghetto is staged like a lost Viard is hilarious as a

episode of Mario Bavaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Black Sunday. In another of this filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parables, a Hebrew message is carved by God into the teeth of a gentile to teachâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;what? some indecipherable lesson, like the physics equations on Larryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chalkboard, like the Hebrew letters Danny is too dumb to learn. (RvB) (PG-13; 158 min.)

Penn and Teller recently debunked the whole â&#x20AC;&#x153;the world will end in 2012 because the Mayan calendar ends thereâ&#x20AC;? ridiculousness on their show Bullshit. What I want to know is: how do the jackasses who believe this get through Dec. 31 every year? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh my God, the calendar stops here! Cancel that TIVO recording of New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Eve on ABC, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all going to die!â&#x20AC;? Anyway, is a Roland Emmerich disaster movie about just how awful it would be if the world really did end on Dec. 21, 2012. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like tidal waves either, but hey, if it means no more Roland Emmerich disaster movies, sign me up! (SP) E63@3 B63 E7:2 B67<5A /@3 (PG;

101 min.) The beast suitsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;part costumes, part CGIâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are accurate

versions of the Sendak illustrations. Max Records seems just right as Max, the little boy whose father is out of the picture, who f lees to a monster island.

The feature film gives children due respect for their towering moods.

But childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s moods change, and this filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mood doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essentially gloomy, like a collection of Peanuts strips clipped of their punch lines. The film is staged in an Australian forest, the domain of seven or eight depressed creatures (Lauren Ambrose, James Gandolfini and Catherine Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara, among others). Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re cautious and fretful; they form cliques and snipe at each other. The rumpusing beastliness always ends with some injury, as per Momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s warning about how itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Scriptwriter Dave Eggersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work is typically formless, cute and drifty.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no artistic force behind this movie, only whims and anxieties. A parting word from the beasts, â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you go home, will you say good things about us?,â&#x20AC;? seems addressed to a baff led audience. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be a cult item for aging-children

hipster types, the ones who would wear their terrycloth wolf-suits to work if they could.

(RvB) H=;073:/<2 (R; 88 min.) Under a plague of the living dead, the United States is in ruins, and the nervous college-age hero (Jesse Eisenberg) calls the dreadful landscape Zombieland. He joins three reluctant companions: a Twinkies-loving cowboy called Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), a fast female loner named Wichita (Emma Stone) and her little sis, Little Rock (Abigail Breslin).

They head to a place where they think the light at the end of the tunnel still shines: Disneyland, renamed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pacific Playland.â&#x20AC;?

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s merit to the idea of a turkey-shoot zombie-killing finale amid colored lights and spinning rides, but the film doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get more imaginative than anything seen in the previews. Under Ruben Fleischerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bare-bones direction, Zombieland is slathered with narration. Harrelson is a fierce-looking party, but he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get Westernlyrical enough. (RvB)

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Holiday Feasts Begin Here!

Dinerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guide

Our selective list of area restaurants includes those that have been favorably reviewed in print by Santa Cruz Weekly food critics and others that have been sampled but not reviewed in print. All visits by our writers are made anonymously, and all expenses are paid by Metro Santa Cruz.

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offer an unsurpassed selection of fresh produce, fruits,

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organic meat, farm fresh eggs and artisan products.

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Saturdays, 8am - 12pm

For Holiday Fair schedule, see www.montereybayfarmers.org

American and specialty dishes from the British and Emerald Isles. Full bar. Children welcome. Happy hour Mon-Fri 2-6pm.

Open daily 11am to 2am.

Italian. Ambience reminiscent of a small trattoria in the streets of Italy, serving handmade lasagna, pasta dishes, gnocchi and fresh fish. Wed-Sun, Lunch 11am-2pm, Dinner 5-9pm.

Continental California cuisine. Breakfast all week 6:30-11am, lunch all week 11am-2pm; dinner Fri-Sat 5-10pm, Sun-Thu 5-9pm. www.seacliffinn.com.

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7528 Soquel Dr, 831.688.4465

APTOS FARMERS MARKET at Cabrillo College

Indian. Authentic Indian dishes and specialties served in a comfortable dining room. Lunch buffet daily 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner daily 5pm to close. www.ambrosiaib.com

meat and vegetarian kebabs, gyros, falafel, healthy salads and Mediterranean flatbread pizzas. Beer and wine. Dine in or take out. Tue-Sun 11am-8pm.

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104 Stockton Ave, 831.479.8888

All day breakfast. Burgers, gyros, sandwiches and 45 flavors of Marianneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Polar Bear ice cream. Open 8am daily.

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California Continental. Swordfish and other seafood specials.

Dinner Mon-Thu 5:30-9:30pm; Fri 5-10pm; Sat 4-10:30pm; Sun 4-9pm.

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1750 Wharf Rd, 831.475.1511

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231 Esplanade, 831.464.1933

international wine list and outdoor dining with terrific views in the heart of Capitola Village. Open daily.

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203 Esplanade, 831.475.4900

California cuisine. Nightly specials include baby back ribs, prime rib, lobster and mahi mahi. Daily 7am-2am.

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221 Cathcart St, 831.426.4852

Mexican/Seafood/American. Traditional Mexican favorites. Best fajitas, chicken mole, coconut prawns, blackened prime rib!

Fresh seafood. Over 50 premium tequilas, daily happy hour w/ half-price appetizers. Sun-Thu 11am-10pm, Fri-Sat 11am-11pm.

American, California-style. With a great bar scene, casually glamorous setting and attentive waitstaff. Full bar. Mon-Sat 11:30am-10pm, Sun 1-10pm.

Crepes and more. Featuring the spinach crepe and Tunisian donut. Full bar. Mon-Thu 11am-midnight, Fri 11am-1am, Sat 10am-1am, Sun 10am-midnight.

Seafood. Fresh seafood, shellfish, Midwestern aged beef, pasta specialties, abundant salad bar. Kids menu and nightly entertainment. Harbor and Bay views. Lunch and dinner daily.

Mexican. Serving breakfast all day. Popular for our street tacos and handmade Salvadorian pupusas. Vegetarian options made w/ local fresh vegetables & organic tofu. Daily 9: 30am-9:30pm.

Americana. Ribs, steaks and burgers are definitely the stars.

Full bar. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner Sun-Thu 5:30-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 5:30-10pm.

California/full-service bakery. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Eggs Benedict in Town.â&#x20AC;? Happy Hour Mon-Fri 5-6pm. Halfprice appetizers; wines by the glass. Daily 8am-9pm. â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s Vegas meets â&#x20AC;&#x2122;50s Waikiki. Amazing dining experience in kitchy yet swanky tropical setting. Fresh fish, great steaks, vegetarian. Full-service tiki bar. Happy-hour tiki drinks. Aloha Fri, Sat lunch 11:30am-5pm. Dinner nightly 5pm-close.

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Seafood/California. Fresh catch made your way! Plus many other wonderful menu items. Great view. Full bar. Happy hour Mon-Fri. Brunch Sat-Sun 10am-2pm. Open daily.

Italian. La Posta serves Italian food made in the old styleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; simple and delicious. Wed-Thu 5-9pm, Fri-Sat 5-9:30pm and Sun 5-8pm.

Fine Mexican cuisine. Opening daily at noon.

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Japanese Fusion. Sushi bar, sake bar, vegetarian, seafood, steak in fun atmosphere; kids play area; karaoke every night. Open seven days 5-10pm; Mon-Fri 11:30am-2:30pm.

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Thai. Individually prepared with the freshest ingredients, plus ambrosia bubble teas, shakes. Mon-Thu 11:30am-9:30pm, Fri 11:30am-10pm, Sat noon-10pm, Sun noon-9:30pm.

Italian-American. Mouthwatering, generous portions, friendly service and the best patio in town. Full bar. Lunch Mon-Fri 11:30am, dinner nightly at 5pm.

Irish pub and restaurant. Informal pub fare with reliable execution. Lunch and dinner all day, open Mon-Fri 11:30ammidnight, Sat-Sun 11:30am-1:30am.

Wine bar with menu. Flawless plates of great character and flavor; sexy menu listings and wines to match. Lunch Wed-Sat noon2pm; dinner Mon-Thu 5-10pm, Fri-Sat 5-11pm, Sun 4-10pm; retail shop Mon 5pm-close, Tue-Sat noon-close, Sun 4pm-close.

Pizza. Specializing in authentic Sicilian and square pizza.

Homemade pasta, fresh sandwiches, soups, salads and more. Hot slices always ready. Sun-Thu 10am-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 10am-11pm.

Pizza. Pizza, fresh salads, sandwiches, wings, desserts, beers on tap. Patio dining, sports on HDTV and free WiFi. Large groups and catering. Open and delivering Fri-Sat 11am-2am, Mon-Thu 11am-1am, Sun 11am-midnight.

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Organic Pizza. Everything organic: pizza, lasagna, soup, salad, beer and local wine. Always organic, local produce. Party room seats 32. Weeknights 4-9pm (closed Tue), Fri 4-10pm, Sat 1-10pm, Sun 1-9pm. See menu at www.redwoodpizza.com.

A1=BBA D/::3G $ 63/D3<:G 1/43 American. Serving breakfast and lunch daily. Large parties Scotts Valley 1210 Mt. Hermon Rd, 831.335.7311 welcome. Mon-Fri 6:30am-2:15pm, Sat-Sun 7am-2:45pm. $ 87/ B3::/¸A Scotts Valley 5600 #D Scotts Valley Dr, 831.438.5005

Cambodian. Fresh kebabs, seafood dishes, soups and noodle bowls with a unique Southeast Asian flair. Beer and wine available. Patio dining. Sun-Thu 11am-9pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10pm.

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Mexican. Open for breakfast. We use no lard in our menu and make your food fresh daily. We are famous for our authentic ingredients such as traditional mole from Oaxaca. Lots of vegetarian options. Mon-Fri 9am-9pm, weekends 8am-9pm.

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Free Public Parking at Cayuga & Soquel O (831)429-9600

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New Sounds True â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Music & AudioBooks Get Happy While You Drive

Caroline Myss Channeling Grace

Carl Honore The Power of Slow

TONIGHT! Wed, Nov. 18 at 7 pm

John Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donohue To Bless The Space Between Us

Reiki For Spiritual Healing Author of The Reiki Magic Guide to Self Attunement (Random House) Thu, Nov. 19 at 7 pm

John E. Welshons One Soul, One Love, One Heart Author of When Prayers Arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

Answered and Awakening from Grief (New World Library) Mon, Nov. 23, 7-8:30 pm

Karie Hillery Concert for the Season of Gratitude and Thanksgiving Bring your Family, Bring a Friend

Karie Hilleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inspiring original positive pop music will uplift your spirit. Her keyboard artistry, warm personality and angelic voice opens hearts and â&#x20AC;&#x153;soothes as it heals.â&#x20AC;? (One World Records)

By Rob Brezsny

For the week of November 18 /@73A (March 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 19): â&#x20AC;&#x153;A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us,â&#x20AC;? wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. My wish for you, Aries, is that you will have many such days in the coming weeks. In fact, I hope that you will be blessed over and over again with the hair-raising thrill of having your imagination pricked, causing it to half-blossom, half-explode. To get the most out of the fantastic possibilities, set aside any tendency you might have to be a know-it-all, and instead open up your heartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mind and your mindâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heart as wide and deep as they will go.

B/C@CA (April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20): In the beginning of his career, poet Linh Dinh loved to stay up late and write, sometimes riding a creative surge till dawn.

The power of the darkness unleashed a stark fertility.

He was free to think thoughts that were harder to invoke during the bright hours when hordes of wide-awake people were pouring their chattering thoughts out into the soup. Dinhâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s habits changed as he aged, though, in part because he got married and chose to keep more regular hours. But his early imprint has stayed alive inside him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now I can write at any time of the day,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;because I always carry the night inside of me.â&#x20AC;? In accordance with your astrological omens, Taurus, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m making that your prescription for the coming week: Carry the night inside you during the day.

53;7<7 (May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 20): Mark, a friend of mine who lives in New Jersey, sent an overnight package via UPS to Jerry, a friend of his who lives 30 miles away in Pennsylvania. The delivery arrived on time, so Mark was happy with the service. But in checking the tracking information online, he discovered a curious thing: His package was loaded onto three different airplanes, passed through five different UPS offices and eventually traveled over 1,000 miles in order to arrive at Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house. I expect thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be a comparable scenario in your world, Gemini: A wish will be fulfilled by a very circuitous route.

1/<13@ (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22): Strictly speakingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; going purely by the astrological omensâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I conclude that you would generate amazing cosmic luck if you translated the Beatlesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; song â&#x20AC;&#x153;Norwegian Woodâ&#x20AC;? into Punjabi, wore shoes made of 18th-century velvet or tried out for a Turkish volleyball team. I doubt youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get it together to pull off those exotic feats, however, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll also provide some second-best suggestions. You wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t receive quite as much cosmic assistance from doing them, but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll still benefit considerably. Here are the back-ups: Begin planning where and when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take a sacred vacation in 2010; meditate on who among your current allies is most likely to help you expand your world in the next 12 months; decide which of your four major goals is the least crucial to pursue; and do something dramatic to take yourself less seriously. :3= ( July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): The most popular hobby in my home country of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even more popular than owning guns and pressing lawsuitsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is cultivating fears. From agonizing about being lonely to ramping up paranoia about pandemic illnesses to worrying about the collapse of the economy, my fellow citizens love to fret. Outside the U.S., angst accumulation ranks almost as high on the list of pastimes. Luckily, you Leos are less likely to wallow than most of the other signsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially these days.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I hope youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take a leadership role in the coming weeks, when many people will be dipping even deeper than usual into the fetid trough of scaremongering. Please help dispel this trend! Be your most radiant and courageous selfâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even bigger and brighter than usual.

D7@5= (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): An article in the Online Noetics Network profiled the work of Robert Muller, who served as assistant secretarygeneral of the United Nations. It said that Muller is â&#x20AC;&#x153;one of the best informed human beings on the planet,â&#x20AC;? with an â&#x20AC;&#x153;encyclopedic grasp of the facts concerning the state of the world.â&#x20AC;? And yet Muller doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep up with the news as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reported in the media. Instead, he simply talks to people, either in person as he travels, or on the phone, or through written correspondence. These interactions provide him with all the understanding he needs.

I recommend that you try Mullerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach for a while, Virgo. Assume that you can get all the information you really need by gathering first-

hand reports from people about whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually happening in their lives.

:70@/ (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high time to mess with the tried and true formulas. In order to do the most good for the most people, and to regenerate a wounded and weak part of yourself, you simply must create some cracks in the way things have always been done. You must push beyond your overly safe limits. But wait! Before you plunge ahead, make sure you understand this: If you want to break the rules properly, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to study them and analyze them and learn them inside out.

A1=@>7= (Oct. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 21): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing in a caterpillar that tells you itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a butterf ly,â&#x20AC;? said philosopher Buckminster Fuller. I encourage you to make that your personal motto in the coming weeks, Scorpio. From what I can tell, you are capable of generating a transformation that will look impossible to casual observers. You have the power to change something that everyone said would never change.

A/57BB/@7CA (Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): Have you resolved every last detail of your unfinished business?

Have you tied up the loose ends, f lushed out the lingering delusions, and said your final goodbyes to the old ways and old days? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yes,â&#x20AC;? you say? Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re absolutely positive? Well then, it is with a deep sense of pleasure and relief that I hereby unbound you and unleash you. You are officially cleared for take-off into the wild blue yonder or the fizzy red vortex or the swirling green amazement, whichever you prefer.

1/>@71=@< (Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 19): â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a saying that when the student is ready, the teacher appears,â&#x20AC;? writes Clarissa Pinkola Estes in her book Women Who Run With the Wolves. But the magic of that formula may not unfold with smooth simplicity, she says: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The teacher comes when the soul, not the ego, is ready. The teacher comes when the soul calls, and thank goodnessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for the ego is never fully ready.â&#x20AC;? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love it if the information I just provided encouraged you to feel right at home with the jarring yet nurturing lessons that are on the way. /?C/@7CA ( Jan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): In the ancient Greek epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, the nature of the psyche was portrayed differently from the way it is today. It was understood that people received information directly from the godsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not as vague feelings or abstract guesswork, but rather in the form of actual voices. In other words, divine beings spoke directly to human beings. These days thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regarded as crazy; witness the incredulous reactions that most smart people had when George W. Bush said God personally told him to invade Iraq.

With that as subtext, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to prophesy that a deity will soon have a message for you. Be careful, though. An imposter may also slip you tips that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d best ignore. How to tell the difference? The real thing wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make you feel inf lated or urge you to cause harm.

>7A13A (Feb. 19-March 20): In the coming week, keep a lookout for invisible snakes, pretend ghosts, and illusory dragons. Be prepared to gaze upon gruff displays that are no threat to you and hints of fermenting chaos that will never materialize. In other words, Pisces, your subconscious mind may be prone to conjuring up imaginary problems that have little basis in reality. I exhort you to f ling them aside like a superhero brushing off toy monsters.

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Plantronics, Inc. has the following job opportunity available in Santa Cruz, CA: · RF Test Engineer (RFTE-CA) Responsible for wireless telephony products in the 900 MHz and 2.4GHz product category.

Some positions may require travel. Submit resume by mail to Plantronics, Inc., 345 Encinal St., Santa Cruz, CA 95060, Attn: HR Dept./ Job Code RFTECA. Must reference job title and job code (i.e. RFTE-CA) in order to be considered. See www.plantronics.com for all available positions.

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Electric Vehicle Battery Tech Seminar 1/30/10 Three battery experts will speak about lead acid and lithium batteries in home electric vehicle conversions, as well as battery containment in the vehicle. Pre-paid registration of $100 is required. shari@electroauto.com, http://www.electroauto.com/ batteryseminar.shtml 831-429-1989

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Notice To Readers California law requires that contractors taking jobs that total $500 or more (labor or materials) be licensed by the Contractors State License Board. State law also requires that contractors include their license number on all advertising. You can check the status of your licensed contractor at www.cslb.ca.gov or 1-800-321CSLB (2752). Unlicensed contractors taking jobs that total less than $500 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.

We talked about real estate and you asked for a list of homes. Wow, so many more great homes are on the market since we met! Call me and we’ll go look at some homes together!

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Call Gordon Autio, broker.

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Real Estate TAX CREDIT EXTENDED Sales

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BOULDER CREEK-THE under $100K with all the townandcountrysantacruz.com WAY THE WEST WAS amenities of Pleasure Point and let the search begin! living: Gorgeous surf and sun WONdown the street, a great cofMiscellaneous n the good old days you feehouse & restaurants opened up shop right on your around the corner- walk or property, work in the back, EVERYTHING OLD IS bike to all your favorite live in the front. This complaces. $99,000.

NEW AGAIN! mercial/residential property MLS#80947703.

There’s a new broker in town has a good sized home, shop, 730 30th Avenue, Space 69, that offers OLD FASHIONED garage and 2 fenced yards.

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CUSTOMER SERVICE! Josh Priced at $405,000.

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SPOTLIGHT ON VALUE REDUCED to $349,000 • 2 bdrms + large sleeping loft, 11⁄2 baths • Newer solid home with full foundation • Spacious kitchen, island, dishwasher • Parks, trails, river, fun, minutes away • Large sunny deck, big yard for gardening • Cathedral ceilings, lots of storage • Don’t be shy, make an offer TODAY! Judy Ziegler ph: 831-429-8080 cell: 831-334-0257

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A REALLY NICE CHRISTMAS PRESENT I don’t get it. In the stores one day it’s Halloween and the very next day it’s Christmas. The leap is as swift as an arrow as the “Season” gets longer and longer. It used to be confined to December, eons ago. Now the whole economy seems to be revolving like a crazy credit card spinning out of control around this time.

Thanksgiving has really gotten poor press. This most delightful of Holidaze should be in the forefront. Bringing family and friends together, being perfectly acceptable to “pig out” ( or turkey or veggie out) on this occasion, not having to buy presents, and being grateful—what could be better. Passing out in front of football games, a nice fall walk in the forest, playing board games, getting together with those not seen too often, it’s all acceptable and wonderful. But no, let’s leap on into the next two months without a break in ad bombardment.

Maybe there is a logical way to beat the system while contributing big time. Why not spend really big on one thing and justify your role in this unstable economic time. Make a very large purchase and don’t buy anything else, with the explanation that you are being magnanimous, helping the economy, promoting green, and showing your love and devotion or at least your generosity. Now-what is more healthy and honorable than owning your own home or helping a friend, relative or complete stranger to do so?

Its good for the economy, its good for the soul, its good for you and the potential recipients. Oh, you think you can’t afford to do this? New programs abound with little or no down payment, the $8,000 stimulus is being extended into next year, and for those of nervous or conservative natures, or those of smaller means, there are always mobile homes. Have you been neglecting old Aunt Minerva or cute niece Sally going to the university, how about your faithful friend who is always having to move out because their rental is being sold? Remember your family responsibilities! Remember Friendship, Duty and Joy. The joy you would feel of having only one present to buy this year, the admiration of your cronies, and the complete daringness of it.

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Pacific Sun Properties 734 Chestnut Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060 831.471.2424 831.471.0888 Fax www.pacificsunproperties.com

If you are the investment type, you could arrange some type of a pay-back, even profit share in the future. There is now available, to use as an example, a lovely nearly new small manufactured home right here in Santa Cruz in a very famous park in the center of town. For sale for only $139,000, with a good down payment, the seller will carry the financing at only 6%. And for cash, will give a big discount!! This is an example of the kind of directed shopping we provide here at Cornucopia.

You have been given the challenge, now go forth and enjoy your Thanksgiving. A really big thanks to all our friends and family and intelligent buyers and sellers wherever you are. Think big and go far. Don’t forget grandma either, she may need a place too.

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Vendors Needed For Holidaze Boutique at Crosswalk Community Church, 445 South Mary Avenue, Sunnyvale. Date: Dec 5 and 6, 9am to 5pm. Email: pgraves@crosswalkchruch.com for information and application or call 408-736-3120.

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Thanksgiving at Hoffman’s Pumpkin Pie: $14.00 • Pecan Pie: $14.00 Apple Strudel $9.95 • Parkerhouse Rolls $6.00 dozen Wheat Rolls $6.00 dozen • Pumpkin Cheesecake $24.00 Serving Brunch 8am-2pm. Dinner 2:30-8pm.

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Happy Thanksgiving from the Hoffman Family!

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