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D=< 0CA/19¸A D=< 0CA/19¸A ; =193@G ;=193@G THE REASON THE REASON people p eople aare re being being sso od deeply eeply byy tthe movie Precious aaffected f ffected b he m ovie P recious iiss tthe he ssame ame reason reason people people were were affected afffected by by tthe he book b o ok Push byy S Sapphire.

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Three off ffive Three out out o ive Americans Americans over over the the age age off 330 have mentally, o 0 iin n tthis his country country h ave been b een m entally, physically p hysically and/or and/or ssexually exually abused abused aass a child child byy someone b someone so so close close to to them them (male (male and and female doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fe emale aabusers) busers) that that tthis his world world d oesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give give tthem hem tthe he rright ght to to say say anything anyth ng aabout bout it, t nor nor do outside d o aanything nyth ng aabout b out itt aafter ter the the fact act o uts de of o medicating with whatever m ed cat ng themselves themse ve v sw th w hatever tthey hey hands ccan an gget et their the r h ands on on to to keep keep ttheir he r souls sou s numbed n umbed out. out For For the the past past 10 10 years, years every every person p erson who who book movie ttold o d me me about ab out tthe he b ook tthat hat this th s m ov e

came came from frrom was was working-, working-, middlemiddle- and and upper-class, upp er- class, male male and and female female members memb ers of of this working this so-called so - called w orking ssociety. o ciety. And And each each and and every every one one of of them them so so identified identif ied with with the the horrors horrors Precious Precious dealt dealt with with behind b ehind closed closed doors doors that that where where the the story story was was set set and and the the color color of of whom whom it it happened happened to to f lew lew by by the the wayside. wayside. They They saw saw Precious Precious in in themselves. themselves.

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18), 18), the the movie movie is is not not going going to to be b e nominated nominated for but forr f r an fo an Oscar Oscar in in the the spirit spirit of of â&#x20AC;&#x153;there â&#x20AC;&#x153; there b ut fo the the grace grace of of God God go go I.â&#x20AC;?

I.â&#x20AC;? That That movie movie is is going going to because many people to do do so so b ecause sso om any p eople aacross cross sso o many many stratas stratas of of ssociety o ciety llive ive a llife ife iinfused nfused iin n pain, no off ttheir own. pain, through through n o ffault ault o heir o wn. It It will will get get the the nod no d because b ecause even even so so many many of of your your readersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;whether r adersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;whether they re they admit admit it it aloud aloud or or notâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;know notâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;know exactly exactly from frrom where where r that that main main character character speaks, sp eaks, regardless regardless of of the the color color of of their their skin skin or or the the amount amount of of money money in in their their pocket. po cket. And And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time time for for the the lowest lowest common bee common denominator denominator of of aabuse buse tto o ffinally inally b dealt dealt with with and and eradicated. eradicated.

If If I can can figure f igure out out how how to to be be touched touched by by a movie movie with with nobody nobo dy that that looks lo oks like like me me in in it it because b ecause itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s singing singing my my song, song, so so can can everybody everybo dy else. else. And And this this time time ... ... they they are are already already doing doing it. it.

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Nov. What w as not not aaddressed ddressed was was w hy the the ttuition uition fees fees was why aare re sso oh igh. Are Are UC UC ffaculty aculty aand nd sstaff taff p aid high. paid d isprop ortionately h igher tthan han iin no ther disproportionately higher other sschools, chools, are are tthey hey b anking the the money money and and banking b uilding a rridiculously idiculously high high endowment, endowment, building o is the the ccost ost o running a state state school scho ol orr is off running jjust ust so so high high tthat hat thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what what it it costs costs to to get get aan n eeducation ducation iin n California?

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CCORDING T CCORDING TO O sstaff taff aand nd eelected lected lleaders eaders aatt tthe he S Santa anta C Cruz ruz C ounty R egional T ransportation C ommission ((the the S CCRTC), County Regional Transportation Commission SCCRTC), w ill d ecide, aass a ccommunity, ommunity, w hether tto op urchase tthe he wee w will decide, whether purchase 332-mile-long 2-mile-long ccoastal oastal rrail ail ccorridor orridor b he eend nd o his yyearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a earâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a p iece o byy tthe off tthis piece off p roperty aadvocates dvocates aare re ccalling alling tthe he â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Green Green Line.

Line.â&#x20AC;? The The time time is is ripe ripe for for property eeach ach o o iimagine magine w hat w ould d ow ith tthis his p iece o eal eestate state off u uss tto what wee w would do with piece off rreal aand nd d ecide iiff iitt iiss w orth b uying iit. t. decide worth buying The Check Check : The The SCCRTC SCCRT TC C has has cobbled cobbled together together $22.5 $22.5 million million to to buy buy The the corridor corridor and and has has ggotten otten Union Union Pacific Pacif ic down down to to a price price of of $14.2 $14.2 the million. This This money money ccan an o nly b sed ffor or ttransportation. ransportation. Half Half of of it it h as million. only bee u used has to be be used used specifically specif ically for for rail rail transportation transportation or or w ill b iven b ack tto o to will bee ggiven back the state state in in June Ju une of of 2010.

2010. the The Risks: Risks: The Th he SCCRTC SCCRTC staff staff have have been been ultra-diligent ultra-diligent in in insuring insuring The that the the ccorridor orridor ccannot annot b inancial d rain tto o tthe he ccounty. ounty. F reight that bee a ffinancial drain Freight operators would would pay pay us us to to use use the the line line which which w ould, iin n tthe he llong ong operators would, term, cover cover the the m aintenance. In In case case something something large large enough enough to to sstop top term, maintenance. the freight freight trains trains goes goes wrong wrong before before those those fees fees accrue, accrue, the the county county is is the starting with with a $ illion m aintenance/emergency ffund. und. Of Of course course if if starting $77 m million maintenance/emergency there is is no no freight, freight, there there is is effectively effectively no no maintenance maintenance required. required. there The Vision: Vision: According According to to a letter letter from from a local local engineering engineering firm, f irm, The Mesiti-Miller, the the rail rail line line is is basically basically wide wide enough enough for for a trail trail next next to to Mesiti-Miller, an active active rail rail line, line, with with the the possible possible exception exception of of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;few â&#x20AC;&#x153;few short short segments segments an diverted to to p ublic sstreets. treets.â&#x20AC;? But But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s n ot aall ll w ould h ouse o n iit. t. Half Half diverted public not wee ccould house on of it it (14.5 (14.5 miles) miles) is is more more than than 100 100 feet feet wide, wide, spawning spawning dreams dreams of of a of linear parkway parkway throughout throughout the the county. county. linear n case case you you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet yet walked walked the the line, line, this this would would be be a good good time. time. First First In of all, all, it it has has moderate moderate grades grades (traditional (traditional trains trains canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go go over over 3 percent) percent) of and few few intersections. fe intersections. Then Th hen there there are are the the amazing amazing views views as as it it passes passes and through New New Brighton, Brighton, W ilder aand nd o ther sstate tate p arks. From Frrom a more more through Wilder other parks. practical point point of of view, view, the the green green line line passes passes within within a mile mile of of 120,000 120,000 practical county residents, residents, 2 0 sschools chools aand nd d ozens o arge eemployers. mployers. Given Given all all this, this, county 20 dozens off llarge the idea idea o rail o n tthe he lline ine h as p eople eexcited. xcited. IIn n tthe he w ords o ep. S am the off a ttrail on has people words off R Rep. Sam Farr, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whether â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whether you you call call iitt tthe he rrail ail ttrail, rail, tthe he ssanctuary anctuary ttrail rail o he sscenic cenic Farr, orr tthe trail, its its all all the the same same thingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a thingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a great great idea idea and and a lot lot of of fun. fun.â&#x20AC;? trail, Would you you put put some some kind kind of of tram tram or or train train or or trolley trolley to to carry carry Would passengers on on the the line? line? Iff you you did, did, you you would would create create a connection connection to to an an passengers emerging passenger passenger rail rail system system passing passing through through Watsonville Watsonville to to Salinas Salinas emerging and Monterey, Monterey, and and (via (via Gilroy) Gilroy) a statewide statewide high-speed high-speed rail rail system, system, as as and well as as connections connections tto o Amtrak.

Amtrak Are Are you you aboard? aboard? If If so, so how how would would you you well make the the train tra n n e ghbor y rrubber ubber ttires? res? E ectr c? Biodiesel?

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One might speculate that a mixed religious base could cause ideological problems when it comes to issues like health-care reform and abortion. But health-care team leader Kathy Ruiz Goldenkranz from Temple Beth El says that is not the case. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do not talk about it, we talk about things that are of common interest,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone is facing increased healthcare premiums, everyone is facing losing their insurance.â&#x20AC;?

Alfred Diaz-Infante, whose secular organization Community Housing Improvement Systems and Planning Association has been a member for a year, agrees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From my experience, religion doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get in the way. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really about the people and about finding a common cause,â&#x20AC;? he says.

Of those four common

causes discussed in the meeting, COPA managed to get Farr to commit to helping get more trained foreclosure counselors into the region, to assist in building a regional sports complex in Salinas and to try to prevent immigration

by local governments. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m so excited there are so many elected officials in the room,â&#x20AC;? Farr said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I believe only the City Council members from Watsonville are here. We need to get more of them involved.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I think they do an effective job of educating people and getting people out there. Their big challenge will be how they can translate their stories into effective politics.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; JOHN LEOPOLD, DISTRICT 2 SUPERVISOR raids in the community.

But he also warned that his addition to health-care reform, which attempts to even out Medicare repayments to doctors in California, could be viewed as â&#x20AC;&#x153;porkâ&#x20AC;? in Congress, and that many of COPAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s requests need to be handled

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District 1 Supervisor John Leopold, who was in the audience as a guest and has been in contact with COPA since his days as a Cabrillo College Trustee, when COPA lobbied for entrance assessment tests written in Spanish, agreed with Farr. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think they do an effective job of educating people and getting people out there,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Their big challenge will be how they can translate their stories into effective politics. Sam Farr is very much in favor of what they were doing, but I think he rightly pointed out the City Council members werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there.â&#x20AC;?

Nevertheless, the dialogue closed with Farr committing to meet with COPA again in March to hear about progress. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is truly bottom-up,â&#x20AC;? he said afterward onstage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no other grassroots organization across all these jurisdictions to tackle issues of poverty. This is what I got into politics for.â&#x20AC;? 0

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HEN United States Attorney General Eric Holder announced in February that he would stop ordering federal law enforcement raids on medical marijuana providers as long as they complied with state law, entrepreneurs around the country scrambled to open their own pot shops.

Santa Cruz, being ahead of the curve on all things cannabis, already had two dispensaries in town, but city officials say they still received more than 60 calls from interested growers between then and June, when a temporary moratorium was put on all dispensary applications. Now, after last Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meeting of the Santa Cruz Planning Commission, city leaders are one step closer to making the temporary freeze of two pot clubs in town permanent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see a long line of citizens asking for more medical marijuana dispensaries in the neighborhoods,â&#x20AC;? said Planning Commissioner Judy Warner at the meeting before voting in favor of the ordinance, which passed 5-2 but would still need approval by the Santa Cruz City Council before becoming law. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see that there is a need for more than two.â&#x20AC;?

The two dispensaries already in businessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Greenway Compassionate Relief at 140 Dubois St. and the Santa Cruz Patient Collective at 115 Limekiln St.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;told city planners that only 25 percent of their

clients live in Santa Cruz and the rest come from elsewhere in the county and surrounding region. Supporters of the dispensary cap say this shows that local residents are well taken care of and that Santa Cruz would become a regional supplier of legal pot for much of Northern California if more dispensaries are allowed to open. Opponents of the rule, however, point to the high prices at the local dispensariesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one gram typically sells for $15â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$25, as opposed to street prices, which usually run $10 per gramâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as evidence that more competition is needed. Classic supply-side economists of the Reagan era would likely agree.

The issue will go before the City Council in January, and several councilmembers proved relatively split on how they might vote. Santa Cruz Mayor Cynthia Mathews and Councilmember Ryan Coonerty both say they think that other communities need to step up and provide their own dispensaries, and that a cap in Santa Cruz will encourage them to do so. Councilmembers Don Lane and Mike Rotkin, however, are more skeptical of the cap, saying pot prices in town are too high and that the ordinance needs to do more to increase competition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think there should be a cap,â&#x20AC;? says Rotkin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just more inclined to make it three or even four dispensaries.â&#x20AC;? 0

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The radically ecological, perversely philosophical, ultimately economical guide to holiday gift giving

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anything, under the tree for

one camping season (but probably

wrongâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we

the giftee. This can end in the

wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t), spring for the hardy Petzl.

love the

unfortunate triumph of quantity

Skip the flimsy hand mixer and get

holidays just

over quality: we buy multiple

the aspiring cook a sturdy standing

as much as the

second-rate items instead of one

model, something that would break

next person. We know the names

good one. And in the nature of

your foot if it fell off the counter

of the three wise men and all eight

second-rate items, these gifts soon

(not that such a thing could ever

reindeer. We love to spin the dreidel

break or wear out or just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

happen, since it weighs too much).

and light the yule log. Also, we are

get used at all because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re of

fans of the Rankin/Bass claymation

inferior quality to begin with.

buying designer brands for their

Christmas specials, so please do not

Within a couple of years, off to the

own sake. But it might mean

bother us with invitations to do

landfill they go to make room for

teaming up with other family

less important things on the nights

replacements that are just as cheap,

members in order to afford

those programs are airing. Because

just as shoddy, just as surely headed

the groovy item in question, or

we do love the holidays.

for the trash heap on the same

delaying instant gratification

short schedule.

(cups at Christmas! Saucers on

But weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had it up to hereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;by

This doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean go broke

your birthday!) in favor of a more

which we mean way up thereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dump that racket now!

with Christmas waste. Not just

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an idea: buy the good one

the wrapping paper, which is bad

from the get-go. It costs more up

enough. No, this is a problem

front, but in the long run it saves

revolution, and in these pages

with the holiday gifts themselves,

money, saves the giftee the hassle

weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re jump-starting it with a list of

purchased hastily in the weeks

of replacing the item later and is

quality items that will stand the test

leading up to Dec. 25 in a white-

better for the planet. Instead of

of time.

knuckle drive to get something,

the $10 headlamp that might last

durable gift in the end.

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Luckily Radio Flyer, the wagon and tricycle brand that made memories and destroyed teeth when you were a kid, is still in business and sturdy as ever, and getting easier to assemble all the time. Remember when you were 3 and your friend Jimmy got his shiny trike and when his mother let go he rolled straight into a ravine, breaking his toy? Wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that hilarious? Of course, but we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want that for our own children. This particular model (the Radio Flyer #53 Deluxe Steer and Stroll Trike With Co-Pilot Feature, about $70) has a great innovation: a backseat driver bar while your child is still learning to steerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and learning to take direction. Instead of ruining a perfectly cheerful Christmas morning shouting, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sophie! Not toward the street!â&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jesse! Leave that cat alone!â&#x20AC;? the parent can steer away from danger or neighborsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; property. Of course, even the littlest of kids do tend to grow up over time, despite the promises they made when they were born, and when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re prepared to ride aloneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in say, a year or sixâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;the backseat driver bar can be easily removed. Then, with a great swell of pride, you can watch her as she starts to pedal on her own, ready to take on big challenges and responsibilities that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never have thought she couldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sophie! Sophie! Get back here this instant!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Austin Sardella ¨

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A3G23: 6/@;=<71/ CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE shudders at the thought of cheaply made harmonicas given as stocking stuffers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I only use Seydel Harmonicas,â&#x20AC;? says the 23-time W.C. Handy awardâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;winning bluesman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Seydel company is even older than Hohner and they still make them by hand, one at a time, in a little town in Germany. Hohners are now mass-produced in China. The Seydel people make a wide variety of harps, and the ones I use have stainless steel reeds. They can be initially costly, but when you realize that one Seydel will outlast a dozen of other brands, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re actually saving money. The only better harmonica would be a custom-made harmonica, and I think Seydels are as good and often better than some custom harps Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve played.â&#x20AC;?

Harmonicas arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only thing on Musselwhiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mind this Christmas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The other gift Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to mention is I once saw a flying alarm clock for people who just turn the alarm off and go back to sleep,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The clock has a propeller like a helicopter, and when the alarm goes off it sounds like a helicopter, it lifts off and flies around the room and you have to get up, chase it, catch it and put it back in the clock base to turn it off. Well, by then you are definitely up and out of bed and not going back to sleep.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Gabe Meline

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1/AB 7@=< 1==9E/@3 FOR THE COLLEGE STUDENT or young adult just starting out, cookware is an essential tool for survival. And while one may be tempted by the cheap Tefloncoated options available from discount stores and chain superstores, there is a better way. The hardy cast-iron pan has been cooking up peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dinners for centuries, and with a little love and care it can last a lifetime. Unlike its cheap Teflon-coated counterparts, cast iron doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t release toxic fumes when heated up past a certain point; in fact, the only byproduct it produces is iron, which is a vital supplement to any diet. Also, with proper seasoning and care, the cast-iron skillet or Dutch oven will develop a smooth surface that will put even the slickest of nonstick pans to shame. From deep-frying to baking, the classic inexpensive Lodge cast iron skillet (a 9-inch-diameter version runs about $20) works ¨

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These good ones will thrill the giftee and set you back less than $25.

7<AC:/B32 A7F >/19 1/@@73@ ($17) Warm suds are fine for the laundry, but they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t belong in a beer bottle. An insulated six-pack tote keeps the cold ones icy when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re far from home. Available at drug and hardware stores.

E75E/; ;3@7<= E==: A=19A ($14) Grandmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pack of white cotton-poly blend socks gets an update with the ultracushy, moisture-wicking, five-years-lasting wool sock. Cashmereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too delicate, cottonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too damp. Wool: just right. Available in good shoe stores and department stores.

1=@9A1@3E ($20) Brief but unpleasant experience with The Rabbit has convinced us that corkscrew technology doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really need improving; the classic folding model used by waiters for decades works just fine. And really: would it kill us if it required some competence to open a fine bottle of wine? We like the Messermeister Pikka ($20) for its handsome wood grain handle, serrated coin blade and smooth, solid action. Available in kitchen specialty stores.

A16=BB¸A =@757</: ;7A13::/<G ($14.95) Possibly the ultimate bathroom book, this little volume gathers obscure tidbits of knowledge into one irresistible package. Examples of palindromes (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Go deliver a dare, vile dogâ&#x20AC;?) and fighting weight tables (straw weights are 105 pounds or less!) take their place alongside other fascinating trivia. Available at most bookstores. :=253 1/AB 7@=< 1=@<0@3/2 >/< ($19) Honestly, who wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want this in their house? It positively screams retro authenticity. Plus it puts a mean crisp on those cute little corncob-shaped pieces of cornbread. Available at hardware and kitchen stores. /@167>3:/5= 1/<2:3A ($21) One of the first high-end candle manufacturers on the boutique fragrance scene, Archipelago makes handsome marbled candles with complex top, middle and bottom notesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and beats the competition at the cash register. At gift stores.

not only better than the cheap alternatives but is in fact better than designer cookware, according to many fans. And while it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a fancy or flashy pan, it just might become a family heirloom.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve really got cash to burn, the cast iron skilletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fancy city cousin, the Le Creuset French oven, is the kind of high-quality once-in-a-lifetime purchase that young people used to make when they first left the nest. Made of cast iron coated in enamel for an easy-to-clean, natural nonstick surface, these indispensable casseroles have all the advantages of cast ironâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;namely slow, even heatingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;without the fussy care and maintenance requirements. Plus, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re perfect for sauces requiring nonreactive pans. The lids fit tightly (rare in any kind of cookware), and the instantly recognizable palette of deep, rich colors is pleasing to almost everyone, making Le Creuset an admittedly rather spendy gift option (expect to pay $150â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$200 for a medium-size casserole) that actually is worth every penny. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Brian Harker and Traci Hukill ¨

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I take my bag everywhere and it takes a serious beating. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been particularly fond of one brand made from old billboard advertisements; mostly because I thought the design was funky (itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough to choose something age appropriateâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; leather says middle-aged man purse, oversize handbag screams â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kardashiansâ&#x20AC;?).

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Chrome bags are definitely built Ford tough. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re made from Cordura, a nylon fabric used in military wear, and all Chrome bags are guaranteed for life. That means even though my Secret Santa will be shelling out somewhere between $80 and $180, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never have to go bag shopping with my parents again.

Ever.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be asking Santa for the Buran bag ($140), which is technically a laptop bag, a little smaller and trimmer, with ample padding for my computer and a comfy shoulder strap made from seatbelt material. It perfectly skates that fine line between professional and urban. Plus, it avoids the embarrassing issue of sashaying down Pacific Avenue with a half-empty professionalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s messenger bag flopping around on your back in front of real couriers. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jessica Lussenhop

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McCain McCain has has even even gotten gotten into into the the act act himself himself by by admonishing admonishing Palin Palin for for her her deceptions deceptions about about a $50,000 $50,000 bill bill she she claimed claimed she she got got stuck stuck with with for for her her â&#x20AC;&#x153;vetting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;vetting.â&#x20AC;?

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of d of discussion. iscussion. P Palin alin just just ccanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t anâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sseem eem tto o gget et b elow the the surface. surface. below Much has has been been made made already already of of Palinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Palinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Much celebrated battles battles with with McCainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s McCainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ssenior enior celebrated advisers, most most notably notably SacramentoSacramentoadvisers, based Steve Steve Schmidt, Schmidt, during during the the rroughoughbased and-tumble dog dog days days of of the the n ational and-tumble national campaign. Palinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Palinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version version o events, campaign. off events, however, goes goes counter counter to to much much o however, off the readily readily documented documented evidence. evidence. For For Fo the instance, Palin Palin tries tries to to sshed hed aany ny semblance semblance instance, of responsibility responsibility for for her her rrole ole iin n tthe he of humiliating prank prank call call by by a comedian comedian humiliating posing as as French French president president Nicolas Nicolas Sarkozy Sarkozy posing and claims claims in in the the aftermath aftermath that that S chmidt and Schmidt telephoned her, her, screaming screaming angrily, angrily, â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;How How telephoned can anyone anyone be be so so stupid?!â&#x20AC;? stupid?!â&#x20AC;? can Those who Th who were were on on the the bus bus with with Palin Palin Those at the the time, time, however, however, contend contend tthat hat tthe he at Schmidt phone phone call call never never h appened. A n Schmidt happened.

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believe. Moreover, Palin protects the real culprit in this event, Steve Biegun, because he has remained her political ally. Schmidt, for his part, has called Palinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rendition of the campaign â&#x20AC;&#x153;total fiction.â&#x20AC;?

For a more honest and balanced portrait of Palinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance last fall, readers can turn to Sarah From Alaska by Shushannah Walshe and Scott Conroy (Public Affairs; 320 pages; $26.95), a pair of enterprising young television reporters who were embedded in Palinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plane during the campaign. Although they bend too far backward to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;evenhandedâ&#x20AC;? with Palin (they rather sophomorically assert that Palin is â&#x20AC;&#x153;a truly likable personâ&#x20AC;?), they nonetheless note her â&#x20AC;&#x153;tendency to refuse to acknowledge any error in judgment and to offer instead a version of events that could easily be proved false.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a polite way of saying that Palin lies incessantly, let the facts be damned.

There are a handful of insightful and honest reflections in Going Rogue, such as when Palin discusses her miscarriages, the birth of her son Trig (who has Down syndrome), and her daughter Bristolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teen pregnancy. But even these moments are absent of real emotional gravitas.

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s astonishing is that Palin has absolutely no clue as to where she fits into American political traditions and the current Republican zeitgeist. That is left to the brilliant political parody Going Rouge, edited by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed (OR Books; 336 pages; $16). Rouge includes more than 50 essays on Palin by an all-star array of contributors, including Gloria Steinem, Rebecca Traister, Katha Pollitt and Max Blumenthal.

Going Rogue might have marked Palinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s moment of advancing her career beyond the series of car crashes that defined her rocky candidacy last fall and her failed governorship of the Last Frontier. Instead, it is a retreat to the evangelical netherworld that fuels her personal ambitions. Going Rogue is short on political vision and long on self-promotion. It would have been more aptly subtitled An American Lie.

GOING ROGUE: AN AMERICAN LIFE by Sarah Palin, with Lynn Vincent; HarperCollins; 413 pages; $28.99 hardback. For a limited time Bookshop Santa Cruz is giving away a bag of Sarah Palinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Just Plain Nutz with each copy sold.

Geoffrey Dunnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Powerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; will be released by St. Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Press in April 2010.

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F A BOOK is a great gift, an autographed copy from the authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own personal stash is even greater. And getting a signed copy from an author in person at a oneon-one brunch tops them all.

The San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;based nonprofit The Beat Within knows this and has signed up Bay Area authors, from the internationally renowned Isabel Allende to David Sheff (author of the bestselling memoir Beautiful Boy), for its Books for the Beat fundraising project.

The writers donate signed copies of their works to the organization, which, public radio pledge-drive-style, hands out the autographed treasures and lunching opportunities to donors.

The Beat Within started 14 years ago, in the aftermath of the shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur, when a San Franciscan named David Inocencio dedicated himself to reducing youth violence. Knowing that artistic opportunities and mentoring programs do that most effectively of all known approaches, he went into San Francisco juvenile halls, where he invited jailed kids to write and draw. He packaged their works in a publication and titled it The Beat Within.

It was a hit. Juvenile justice systems from Santa Clara, Alameda, Marin and Santa Cruz counties signed on. Over the years, The Beat Within has grown into a Bay Areaâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;wide organization with a 70-page magazine published weekly.

Each issue contains new prose, poetry and illustrations by incarcerated youth, with comments from adult mentors.

Its inf luence is such that, according to Santa Cruz The Beat Within volunteer

6=CA3 =4 B63 >/<1/93A Brunch with Isabel Allende is one of the ways San Francisco nonprofit The Beat Within says thank you to donors.

Jill Wolfson, who hatched the Books for the Beat idea, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Judges read it.

Probationers read it. And now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s read by incarcerated adults, too.â&#x20AC;? Adults respond through their own publication, The Beat Without, sharing what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned.

Wolfsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s involvement with troubled kids began a little over a decade ago while she was co-writing a book about the Santa Clara County juvenile justice system titled Somebody Elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Children. She started volunteering in the valley; when she moved to Santa Cruz County she started visiting local juvenile facilities on Friday nights to encourage kids to write their feelings and experiences. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been at it for 10 years.

It seems to work. Wolfson relates numerous incidents of running into post-juvie Beat writers who remember the magazineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;like the time she ran

into a grocery checker in a naturalfoods store who recognized her, grew animated and recounted, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey! Back in The Beat, I got Piece of the Week!â&#x20AC;?

That, Wolfson points out, was a decade previous, but the apparently nowsuccessful grad of the grinding juvie system still found it a source of pride.

Wolfson initially came up with the Books for the Beat concept in an effort to match a Community Foundation of Santa Cruz grant, but it has taken off into a regional effort, and just in time for the holidays. Books for the Beat is offering The Beat Within for a $20 donation, an autographed book for $50 and brunch with a participating author for $500.

The program, which lasts through the end of this year, offers cookbooks and poetry collections, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s illustrated volumes and romance and mystery novels. Just a few of the selections are

Isabel Allendeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Daughter of Fortune, Susie Brightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bitten, Randall Grahmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Been Doon So Long, Katherine Ellisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mommy Brain, Ellen Bass and Laura Davisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The Courage to Heal and Karen Joy Fowlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Jane Austen Book Club.

Locally, Roz Spafford and Gary Young have donated books. While donors canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t choose the individual title theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re assured a fine work, and they can make a request, at the brunchdonor level, as to which author theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to share a meal with. And whatever the gift, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all but guaranteed that nice do-goodersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; glow.

BOOKS FOR THE BEAT participating authors are listed at www.beatwithinsantacruz.blogspot. com. For info call 415.503.4170 or email books4beat@gmail.com.

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Take back your Please call the Santa Cruz County Household Waste at 831-454-2606 and the City of Santa Cruz Resource Recovery Facility at 831-420-6270 for other information on household hazardous waste.

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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

TUES. DECEMBER 8 â&#x20AC;˘ 7 & 9 PM

ROY HARGROVE QUINTET $23/Adv $26/Door

Sponsored by Joe & Kathy Appenrodt and Bobby Zufall 9PM: 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS

MON. DECEMBER 14 â&#x20AC;˘ 7 & 9 PM

CHARLIE HUNTER

featuring Eric Kaul, Alan Ferber, Ron Miles and Curtis Fowlkes $22/Adv $25/Door Sponsored by Universal Audio 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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HE SHINY Orientalism of Ninja Assassinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dialogue is more of a treat than the fight scenesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which basically consist of a lot of whipping razor chains and purĂŠed ninjas, who go up in what look like explosions in a Ragu factory.

The beginning made me nicker like a quarter horse: a tattooist (the great Randall Duk Kim) is hand-poking a squirmy yakuza who wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hold stillâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this despite his large entourage, the alcohol heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guzzling and the artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sage comment that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the needle is doing what the needle is meant to do.â&#x20AC;?

Reminding the punk that the tattoo heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting illustrates â&#x20AC;&#x153;one of the four sacred professions of the Book of Five Rings,â&#x20AC;? the master has to gently wonder if maybe the ink is too noble for the no-good hide.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when a messenger delivers a sealed envelope full of black sand. Only the tattooist is wise to its meaning: it is the harbinger of They Who Cannot Be Named, the horror in the shadows.

Men? As if ! Not men, but masked demons from the depths of hell! Or words to that effect. When the punk yakuza scoffs, the tattooist gravely bares his breast and shows the scar the dreaded ninja gave him years agoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and explains the reason why he lived anyway: an explanation Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve loved ever since Dr. Julius No told it to 007.

Unfortunately, this is just the pretitle sequence. James McTeigue, of V for Vendetta, tells of an apostate ninja Raizo (played by the Korean pop star Rain), who turned against the Clan of Black Sand and is hiding in Berlin.

There, suffering nobly, he tries to protect an Interpol-like investigator (Naomie Harris) from the wrath of his seemingly hundreds of fellow warriors.

In flashbacks, we see the savage training: kidnapped children are beaten into the ninja lifestyle under the glare of Lord

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Ozuni (venerable martial artist Sho Kosugi).

When McTeigue slows down the camera the violence has an effect, as in his first kill, Raizoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s filleting of an Everest-size mofo with a giant Exacto blade. The mofo in question, Stephen Marcus, is named â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kingpin,â&#x20AC;? probably in honor of Daredevil comics, which has hosted its share of ninja activity over the years. And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the odd sickartistic effect, like the calligraphy of blood spraying on paper screens, More often, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more grotty stuff: an edit between a bisected fool and tomato

sauce splotching on a paper dish of Berlin-style curlywurst.

The Wachowskisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;pedigreed craphounds that they areâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;developed this comic-book like film. Despite the playfulness of scripters Matthew Sand and J. Michael Stracynzski, the story gets stuck up in origins; the fountains of gore are less nauseating than lulling. Where the movie sings is in its explanations of ninja lore and its occasional borrowing from Ian Flemingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;seen here is the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nightingale Floorâ&#x20AC;? from You Only Live Twice. Scriptwriters and ninjas alike have to respect all traditions. Talking up

hooeyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;creating the theatrical speech that gets an audience fluffed for the supernaturalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is a lost art. Every chump with a laptop in Los Angeles is afraid of going over the top, when they really ought to dread going under the bottom.

NINJA ASSASSIN (R; 99 min.), directed by James McTeigue, writtten

by Matthew Sand and J. Michael Straczynski, photographed by Karl Walter Lindenlaub and starring Randall Duk Kim, Sho Kosugi and Rain and, opens Friday countywide.

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Karl Marx could have guessed it: first time tragedy, second time farce. Nic Cageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Terence McDonagh walks with one shoulder hunched like Richard III, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s further impeded by the immense .44 handgun jutting out of the polyester waistband of his suit. Cage is on the case of a murderer who took out five African immigrants.

He trails a drug dealer

significantly named â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Fateâ&#x20AC;? (Xzbit).

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard work, and the lieutenant needs lots of fortification from evidence-room cocaine and pills.

Mostly, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a kind of flaneur of squalor, sticking his head through tattered screen doors or spending some relaxation time with his high-priced honey Frankie (Eva Mendes, never sweeter).

Fine supporting work abounds, with Jennifer Coolidge as a frowz, soaking up all the beer in the bayou. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s given a makeover at the end, so Coolidge can show off the finest prow this side of the USS Constitution. And the criminally underused Fairuza Balk is a dirty

state trooper who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to keep the lieutenant awake for a tryst. Cageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s electric enthusiasm is bound to be downgraded by some. Truth is, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so much damn fun no one wants to see him shift gears and get into the soulfulness of the role, as he must. In short, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another movie that would be heralded as deeper if there had been subtitles. (See Metroactive.com for a longer review). (Opens Fri at Del Mar.) (RvB) 4/<B/AB71 ;@ 4=F (PG; 87 min.)

George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray voice the stop-motion animation in this Roald Dahl adaptation from director Wes Anderson.

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(R; 120 min.) Woody Harrlesonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Capt. Stone is a CNO (Casualty Notification Officer), one of the pair of soldiers who turn up on doorsteps to regret to inform. Stoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new partner, Sgt. Montgomery (Ben Foster), is a simmering, tattooed fan of punk rock; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scarred from the war and is boiling with his own contempt for the civilians around him. The two-man team keep the pity for themselves and not for the survivors.

But we start to see celebrity actors playing the bereaved: Steve Buscemi as a spitting, furious father; Samantha Morton, plumped and cushiony, with hair swept back

Movie reviews by Traci Hukill, Steve Palopoli and Richard von Busack

to look like lateperiod Ann-Margret.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous deathâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-head irony starts to grow domestic. One canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop watching Harrelson, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;despite cartoony work this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;seems on the verge of something great.

Writer-turned-director Oren Moverman did the research; the slang sounds right.

He also uses ideas and symbols that could have been done without; the first shot of Sgt. Montgomery, putting eye drops in his wounded eye all but says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This man cannot weep.â&#x20AC;? The locations, in New Jerseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aluminum-siding belt, give the story some kind of realism. Inside this movie is a much

harsher and bigger film, and Harrelson, who is excellent, might have shown the way to it.

(Opens Fri at the Nick.)

(RvB) <7<8/ /AA/AA7< (R; 99 min.) See review, page 75. (Opens Wed, Nov 25, at Cinema 9 and Green Valley.) =:2 2=5A (PG) John

Travolta and Robin Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; madcap adventures as prisoners of two 7-year-old twins.

(Opens Wed, Nov. 25, at Aptos, Santa Cruz Cinema 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley.)

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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 parexcellence: the kind of movie that seems to be made for the purpose of watching itself. (RvB) 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 middleto-upper-class white people are. Because they care, people! They care about other people, sometimes even people who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t middleto-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.

(SP) B63 0=F (PG-13; 115 min.) A thriller about a couple given a lucrative but morally fraught choice. Stars Cameron Diaz, James Marsden and Frank Langella.

Based on a short story

by Richard Matheson, which is usually a good starting point for this kind of movie. Directed

by Richard Kelly, hoping to get his Donnie Darko mojo back. / 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 pre-preseason 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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(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 ;3< E6= AB/@3 /B 5=/BA

(R; 100 min.)

George Clooney war comedy about Army experiments with psychic powers in Iraq promises hot goatstaring action. (SP) >7@/B3 @/27= (R;

135 min.) Director/ writer Richard Curtisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pirate Radio 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 shipto-shore radio shortcircuited 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, broadcasting in the North Sea. Nighy plays the saturnine owner of the boat, and he has the proper louche 1960s air but nothing to do with it; he stands around, making the sour persimmon face, and we wait for something to happen. 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 Gavin Cavanaugh. (RvB) >:/<3B # (PG;

91 min.) Ooh, ooh, I remember this from The Twilight Zone! Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Earth, right? Anytime the planet is called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Planet 51â&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Third From the Sunâ&#x20AC;? or anything like that, the twist is that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Earth. No? OK, then it has to be that the alien planet is like Earth and the Earth people that go there are the aliens.

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. (SP) >@317=CA 0/A32 =< B63 <=D3: >CA6 0G A/>>67@3 (R; 110

min.) Much lauded, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bulldozer. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1987, during some of Harlemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most suffering years. A girl of immense girth, 16-year-old Claireece (Gabourey â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gabbyâ&#x20AC;? Sidibe), makes her way through life.

She has intelligence, but she canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t focus, and we learn why in flashback; she was serially raped by her motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boyfriend. Her scathing, angry mother, Mary (Moâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Nique), blames Precious for this and her resulting pregnancy), urging her to stop this foolishness about school and go on welfare.

Watching Sidibe, we see something of what this movie could have been if it hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been so overcooked. Precious is practically a pre-

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Clinton-era dream of the need for welfare reform: here, welfare is a generational evil that Precious might fall heir to. As youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard, Moâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Nique is great, but Precious has a judgmental streak that wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quit. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been essential to a success worthy of its sensationalism. By the end of the movie, you know who all the heroes and all the villains are, and you can go home comfortable.

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(R; 113 min.) All the themes in the Coen brothersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; previous films blend harmoniously in this terrific tale of comedic woe and horror. Minneapolis, 1967: a meek professor Larry Gopnik (stage actor Michael Stuhlbarg, looking like a dispirited Harold Lloyd) teaches physics at a small college. Gopnik is tantalized with the possibility of tenure, betrayed by his wife with their neighbor Sy Ableman, a clammy, polyester-clad swine (Fred Melamed, brilliant). Gopnikâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son Danny (Aaron Wolff) has a cowlike indifference to his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plight. And

Larry must take charge of his unemployable brother Arthur (Richard Kind), an obese holy fool. The postmodern moments give A Serious Man a vaudeville kick: a prologue about the appearance of a demon in the old-time Jewish ghetto is staged like a lost 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.)

Nutty but not crunchy rip off of When Worlds Collide. A few minutes are absolutely high art: a lovingly detailed sequence of downtown L.A. wobbling on all sides of a mile-deep fissure in the earth, the skyscrapers dancing around its brink or keeling over in slow faints. Being Roland Emmerich, the director must cut away from this splendor to John Cusack, his ex-wife Amanda Peet and his family (adorable daughter and bratty

son), and the exwifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new squeeze, an expendable plastic surgeon (Thomas McCarthy)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;better the whole world be inundated than one American nuclear family should be sundered. No surprise, 2012 is a film of sequences and of wildly uneven tone. (RvB) BE7:756B( <3E ;==< (PG-13; 130

min.) Visually, New Moon improves on Twilightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the forest primeval is a little more natural (the better to shelter the supernatural). More of the same, though: the troubled True Love Waits romance of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) with the vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), interfered with by the formerly geeky, now studly Native American werewolf Jacob Black, called Jake (Taylor Lautner).

Modeling Bella on the Jane Austen heroineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;loving longest . . . when hope is goneâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;director Chris Weitz make the mistake of letting the goods simmer until theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re soggy. Playing Bella, Stewart is consistently interesting. She has

a very ambiguous mouth, and she plays everything way, way down, particularly her incrementally tiny reactions to the supernatural: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not the first monster Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve met.â&#x20AC;? The contrast here is flesh vs. spiritâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jake the werewolf wears few clothes and has muscles in his ears, and Edward is a pale, sulky stripling. One is more creeped out by the passage about the fiancee Emily (Tinsel Korey), who had her face disfigured by her werewolf lover, yet she still serves the wolfman and his buddies the muffins she bakes herself. In Stephenie Meyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world, men never mean it when they lash out; the girl wants consummation, but the sensitive man delays it, and a father can still ground his daughter, even when sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past 18. (RvB) E=;3< 7< B@=C0:3

(R; 92 min.) Comedy follows the day in the life of several women representing the following occupations: porn star, prostitute, flight attendant, masseuse, bartender, psychiatrist. Guess if it was written by a guy.

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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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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 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

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

>/@/27A3 ACA67 Japanese. This pretty and welcoming sushi bar serves 200 Monterey Ave, 831.464.3328 superfresh fish in unusual but well-executed sushi combinations. Wed-Mon 11:30am-9pm.

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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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.

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By Rob Brezsny

For the week of November 25 /@73A (March 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 19): One of the greatest superpowers a human being can have is the ability to change herself in accordance with her intentions. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s say youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re tired of feeling shame about something thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no good reason to feel shame about, and you decide to do whatever it takes to dissolve that shame, and you succeed in doing it. Or letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s say you no longer want to attract bad listeners and f laky collaborators into your life, and you resolve to transform that pattern, and you ultimately achieve your goal. These are acts of high magic, as amazingly wizardly as anything a shaman does. It so happens, Aries, that this superpower is especially accessible to you right now.

B/C@CA (April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20): Your story is taking a hotter and wetter and more cosmically comical turn.

The splendor and the rot are all mixed up. The line between your strengths and liabilities are hair thin.

But have no fear. One of your dormant talents will activate in the nick of time. Your wild guesses will shed bright light whenever the darkness creeps in. And youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have even more emotional intelligence than usual. P.S. If your psyche tingles like a funny bone that has been tapped, it means that unanticipated help or useful information will arrive within 12 hours.

53;7<7 (May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 20): â&#x20AC;&#x153;The more you do what you want,â&#x20AC;? says Santa Fe artist Erika Wanenmacher, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the more magic happens.â&#x20AC;? And what she wants, in part, is to be surprised by how lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s random events ask to be included in her creative process. During her long walks along the irrigation ditch near her home, for example, odds and ends on the ground call to her, suggesting that she use them in her art piecesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;heart-shaped rocks, miniature liquor bottles, bent spoons, parts of toys. One of her gallery pieces, Spell Wall, consists of amulets made from this found stuff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll make whatever I want,â&#x20AC;?

Erika says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Out of whatever I want. About whatever I want.â&#x20AC;? Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your role model, Gemini. Borrow from her perspective. Go in quest of unexpected clues that make you feel loose and free and fertile.

1/<13@ (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22): Needing a creative disruption in my routine, I hiked into a forest Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never visited. The late afternoon light was wan and the wind was chilly. In places, the trail narrowed to a scruffy rut barely big enough for me to walk on, leading me to wonder if I was reading my map wrong. Three times this happened, but always the wider path resumed. Were there bobcats here? When I spied a f lash of fur in the distance, I wished Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d researched that subject before Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d come. Still I pressed on. Then I came upon a single segment of a wooden fence, inexplicable in this remote area. One end of its upper slat had come loose and fallen. Moved by a whimsical urge to insert order into the midst of my disorientation, I fixed the slat. My mood brightened, my anxiety dissipated, and the rest of my hike was filled with small epiphanies. Everything I just described, my fellow Cancerian, is an apt metaphor for your week ahead. :3= (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): I believe that in the coming weeks youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll enjoy experiences that have an emotional resemblance to those referred to in this passage by French novelist Gustave Flaubert: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to cover you with love, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the f lesh . . .

I want you to be astonished by me, to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports . . . When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours. I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.â&#x20AC;? Please note, Leo, that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not necessarily saying the pleasures you gather in will stem from an engagement with an actual lover.

They might. But your delight may also have a more mysterious origin.

D7@5= (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just our era that has a tormented relationship with time. Many cultures have been frustrated by its tyranny. During Franceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s July Revolution in 1830, for instance, rebels shot guns at public clocks. While I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too extreme for you, I do recommend that you perform a ritual to empower yourself as you wrestle with the passage of the hours and days and weeks. How about smashing a cheap alarm clock with a hammer? Or spending an entire day without ever referring to a timepiece? Or taking ten deep breaths as you imagine youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re inhaling eternity and exhaling the grinding tick-tock? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a perfect moment to claim more freedom from temporality.

:70@/ (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): I agree with football coach Lou Holtz, who said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in a very good mood.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible to work around this difficulty, however. What you have to do, before you unleash your levity, is conjure up empathy for the sourpuss in question. You should also make sure that your intention is not to mock or poke at the person, but instead offer a potential escape from his or her locked energy. By my calculations, you could be an expert at this kind of psychic judo right now. For best results, practice on yourself. Whenever youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re headed toward a negative thought or emotion, nudge yourself away with a jest or wisecrack.

A1=@>7= (Oct. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 21): Do you know what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really worth? Not as measured by your bank account and luxurious possessions. Not as ref lected by your bossâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s or parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; or enemiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; images of you.

Not as distorted by what you wish you were worth or fear youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not worth. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m talking about taking an illusion-free inventory of the skills you have that are fulfilling to you and useful to others. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m talking about your wisdom more than your knowledge, your self-love more than your popularity, your ability to be good more than to look good.

A/57BB/@7CA (Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): The surest way to beat the system, my dear, is to elude it and erect your own system. The strategy most likely to leave your competitors babbling in the mirror, sweetheart, is to go completely over their heads. That doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean, darling, that you should be a remote and grandiose narcissist who listens to no one but yourself. Smile sweetly as you describe why your way is the best way, you gorgeous genius. Enlist worthy collaborators through the irresistible force of your guileless charisma.

1/>@71=@< (Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 19): â&#x20AC;&#x153;A neurosis is a secret that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know you are keeping,â&#x20AC;? wrote theater critic Kenneth Tynan. Your assignment is to uncover one of those secrets in yourself. It may not result in an instantaneous cure of your minor personality glitch, but it will be a potent first step that will set in motion a series of healing events. Be brave, Capricorn. I guarantee that any ugliness you might find lodged deep inside you will be entangled with surprising beauty.

/?C/@7CA (Jan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): Seventy percent of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fresh water is locked away in Antarcticaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ice, which is 7,000 feet thick. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hope it remains that way for the foreseeable future. If global warming melted that giant slab even a little, sea levels all over the planet would rise and coastal lands would be inundated. As for your frozen areas, however: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d really like to see at least 30 percent of them thaw.

Would you consider doing whatever it takes to release a minif lood of summery feelings? >7A13A (Feb. 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20): While walking in an unfamiliar neighborhood, I saw a huge red wooden chair on someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s front lawn. It was big enough for a 20-foot-tall giant. An equally oversized martini glass was perched on the arm of the chair. Nearby was a sign that read, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have flying monkeys at my command, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not afraid to use them.â&#x20AC;? I assumed this scene was the handiwork of an adorable crazy person whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an admirer of The Wizard of Oz mythology. I also flashed on how I could totally see you sitting in that chair. Metaphorically speaking, you too have flying monkeys at your command. I just hope you use them to accomplish good deeds, not evil ones.

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