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TUDENTS are protesting the 32 percent increase in tuition imposed by the UC regents in a time of severe state deficits.

The Board of Regents claim that they have no choice. Students will now have to pay over $10,000 in tuition annually for a public university education that was free only a few decades ago.

The corporate media spins the tuition protests as if we are all suffering during the recession. For example, the San Diego Union Tribune wrote on Nov. 20, â&#x20AC;&#x153;These students need a course in Reality 101. And the reality is that there is virtually no segment of American society that is not straining with the economic recession. With UC facing a $535 million budget gap due to state cuts, the regents have to confront reality and make tough choices. So should students.â&#x20AC;?

Yet the reality is something quite different. Our current budget crisis in California and the rest of the country has been artificially created by cutting taxes on the wealthiest people and corporations. The corporate elites in the U.S., the top 1 percent who own close to half the wealth, are the beneficiaries of massive tax cuts over the past few decades, while at the same time working people are paying more through increased sales and use taxes and higher public college tuition.

The wealthy hide their money abroad. Rachel Keeler with Dollars & Sense reports that, over the years, trillions of dollars in both corporate profits and personal wealth have migrated offshore in search of rock-bottom tax rates and the comfort of no questions asked. Offshore banks now harbor an estimated $11.5 trillion in individual wealth alone, and were a significant contributing factor to the international economic downturn in 2008.

According to the California Budget Project, tax cuts enacted in California since 1993 cost the state $11.3 billion dollars annually. Had the state continued taxing corporations and the wealthy at rates equal to those 15 years ago, there would not be a budget crisis in California. Even though a budget deficit was evident last year, California income tax laws were changed in February of 2009 to provide corporations with even greater tax savingsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;equal to over $2 billion per year.

Higher education has been cut in 28 states in the 2009â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 school year, and even more drastic cuts are likely in the years ahead. The California State University system is planning to reduce enrollments by 40,000 students in the fall of 2010. The CSU Trustees have imposed steep tuition hikes and forced faculty and staff to take nonpaid furlough days equal to 10 percent of salaries.

The students who are protesting tuition increases know they are being ripped off. They know that we are bailing out the rich with hundreds of billions dollars for Wall Street and massive budget cuts for the rest of us. The corporate media doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t explain to overtaxed working families how they are paying more while the rich sock it away.

The current economic crisis is a shock and awe process designed to undermine low-cost higher education, force labor concessions from working people and protect the wealthy. We need higher taxes on the corporations and the top 1 percent, combined with free public college education and tax breaks for working families. And we must have a media that tells us the truth about inequality and wealth. A true economic stimulus increases spending from the bottom up, not the top down.

Peter Phillips is a professor of sociology at Sonoma State University, president of Media Freedom Foundation and recent past director of Project Censored.

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The two men and a third, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tommy,â&#x20AC;? are in a leaf-littered cemetery in northern Santa Cruz with $60 worth of heroin purchased in the Pogonip. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heroin Hill,â&#x20AC;? as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s called by addicts and law enforcement, is a roughly 50-acre trash-strewn plot in the southeast section of the city-owned Greenbelt thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s known to addicts and cops as a substance abuse superstore with rock-bottom prices on heroin, methamphetamine, crack, marijuana, cocaine and pharmaceuticals. The $20 apiece that the three men scrounged together today recycling cans and doing what one calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;favorsâ&#x20AC;? bought them more than 3 grams of the drug, which almost everywhere else in the country would have cost between $150 and $400. Yet in Santa Cruz, and especially in Pogonip, savvy dealersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who police say are mostly SureĂąo gang members from Mexicoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;have found a way to flood the local market with cheap, readily available products, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re leaving a path of destroyed lives in their wake. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fuck it. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do it,â&#x20AC;? says Simon, brushing Daniel away and commencing with another round of push-ups. Daniel, meanwhile, turns the attention on himself, inching down his pants and

quickly finding one of two femoral veins that run on either side of his pelvis.

For Daniel, these two 6-inch corridors are the last survivors in a three-year addiction that has cost him his home, his freedom, several friends and nearly his life on numerous occasions. All his other blood vessels, like his jobs, education, family and relationships, have sunk deep out of sight, covered by the scarred realities of a life chained to the needle.

All except these two. He crunches the needle through the scab-crusted skin and slams the plunger down.

Simon, still scouring for his own lucky vein, looks up from his task for a brief second. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At least you can find one,â&#x20AC;? he says, then tries his other arm.

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An audit of death certificates shows that drug-related deaths in Santa Cruz County have increased 30 percent since 2008, with opiates playing a part in 89 percent of them.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Many people who are using illegal drugs have limited income and are looking for quick ways to find ready cash to pay for their drugs,â&#x20AC;? says Santa Cruz Police Deputy Chief Patty Sapone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the parkland setting, people can go quickly into the park by the railroad tracks or by Highway 9 and exit the park quickly. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a convenient place away from the public eye and easily accessible.â&#x20AC;?

More addicts are overdosing and more are dying in Santa Cruz County as well.

Drug overdoses treated at Dominican Hospital have increased 66 percent since 2005, with 201 cases already this year. An audit of death certificates provided by Santa Cruz County Office of Vital Records shows that drug-related deaths have increased 30 percent since 2008, with 22 such fatalities recorded from January through mid-November.

And opiates are the No. 1 cause of those deaths, with heroin, methadone, hydrocodone and oxycodone listed as playing a part in 89 percent of narcoticsrelated deaths.

Simon and Daniel both admit to two severe overdoses. One of Danielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s was in a desert in Arizona where he nearly died of heat stroke. And Simon once ODâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d at a house in Los Angeles, waking up barely breathing in a shower. Both say theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also witnessed friends dying in front of them. Yet both also remember a time when the drug was fun, when they did it with lovers and friends, going out to concerts and parties.

Today, however, their brains have been altered. If following the typical course of addiction, the opiate receptors inside the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brains have been starved of natural pleasure-inducing dopamine, becoming instead dependent on heroin and its synthetic variety. Withdrawal triggers panic, and, as David Molina, a registered addiction specialist at the drug treatment center Janus of Santa Cruz, says, it jerks them into â&#x20AC;&#x153;an animalistic survival mode.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The nature of addiction is survival,â&#x20AC;?

Molina says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Withdrawal is like the worst flu youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever had, times a hundred. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever looked into someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in full detox, it will chill you to the bone.â&#x20AC;?

The Buy Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a brisk 15-minute walk north of Santa Cruz along the wooden railroad tracks and under the tall redwoods before the first heroin dealer makes himself known. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What you need? Chiva?â&#x20AC;? asks a short Latino man of about 25, rising from a squat along the side of the tracks and using a slang term for heroin, which also translates as â&#x20AC;&#x153;goat.â&#x20AC;? The man, who later says his name is Pedro, is sitting with two other Hispanic men and a white man. Between them is the bottom half of a Pepsi can, cut off and flipped over, its concave bottom functioning like a large spoon and still showing traces of a brown substance.

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and over to the gathering. Producing two bills of unknown denomination and handing them to the newcomer, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s given a pea-size, plastic-wrapped item and immediately hustles down the tracks with it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sorry, man, canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t share,â&#x20AC;? he says quickly when caught up to a short distance away. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They got more up there, man.â&#x20AC;?

A few days later, and nearly 15 hours since his last shot, Daniel is pale and shaky. Having just procured $20, he sets out on his well-trodden trek to Heroin Hill. He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get that far, however, as a block away from the Homeless Services Center on Coral Street an SUV slows down. One of the three Latino occupants waves at him, stopping and exiting the vehicle. Two men get out of the car, and, in plain sight, sell 1 gram of heroin to Daniel for $20. The drug, a sticky brownish black tar that reeks

sickly of vinegar with a hint of coffee, is wrapped in what appears to be shopping bag plastic. The dealers, who Daniel says often work out of Pogonip, are members of the SureĂąo gang. He says theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll kill him if they find out heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talking to a reporter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those guys are crazy. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen them make guys fight over dope before up at Pogonip. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll give the winner a $10 bag and the loser a $5 one. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sick,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But anyway, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m gonna take this and go get myself straight. See you later.â&#x20AC;?

The Beat For officer Mike Medina of the Santa Cruz Police Department, Heroin Hill is a hellscape. A maze of escape trails and vantage points thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s littered with bloody rags, used needles and heaps of trash, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a setting in which all the chips are stacked in favor of the drug dealers. In order to catch anyone,

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Medina eventually lets both people off with a warning and tells them not to let him catch them up here again.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the addicts police are targeting as much as the dealers, but on his own, the 20-year veteran knows he has little chance of catching one. Infinitely more capable of arresting dealers is the Santa Cruz County Anti-Crime Team, an elite squad of undercover and specially trained agents picked from the top ranks of the California Department of Justice, local police and sheriff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deputies.

Commander Rich Westphal leads the team and routinely sends undercover agents to purchase drugs in the area and stage stings. Regardless, he says the dealers are often one step of ahead of him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll go up there one day and make a buy, no problem, then the next theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll pretend theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never seen us before,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s frustrating for all law enforcement. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just an isolated place where the criminals have a lot of advantages.â&#x20AC;?

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heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to get creative. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You see him? Watch this,â&#x20AC;? whispers the crouching officer, peering from behind a tree at a man pedaling his bike down the tracks, then suddenly whistling loudly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The dealers will whistle at the guys when they come to buy. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve caught people before like this.â&#x20AC;?

Today, however, the man on the bike isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buying the ruse and turns his bike around and pedals away. Medina shrugs and continues his afternoon patrol down the tracks. Soon, another man can be seen riding his bike toward the officer with a woman walking next to him. Before they can turn around, Medina calls out, asking them for identification and why theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the area. He knows the blonde woman, a 23year-old from Boulder Creek, by name. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still on parole, right?â&#x20AC;? he asks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yeah,â&#x20AC;? she admits, and submits to a

One week after he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find a vein to shoot into, Simon finds himself bedridden at Dominican hospital with an IV tube wrangled into his blistered armâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;his second time in two months.

Sipping a bottle of Ensure, the now freshly shaven man lies with his scabbed legs elevated by the computer-controlled bed. He says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in a much better mood than the last time he came. Then, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been shooting into his femoral vein, like Daniel. Only, for Simon, the veins had become infected with deadly staph bacteria and the doctors had moved quickly to remove two abscesses from his pelvis that he says had 20 grams (â&#x20AC;&#x153;$400 worthâ&#x20AC;?) of unabsorbed heroin in them.

Easily qualifying for Medi-Cal, Simon spent a month in the hospital with gauze packed in his open wounds and can no longer shoot in his femoral vein. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This time I just started feeling really bad and I wanted to be safe,â&#x20AC;? he says from his bed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This time they found a blood clot in my arm. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something I really shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have at my age.â&#x20AC;?

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Simon is also on 120 milligrams of methadone a day while heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hospitalized.

With his eyelids drooping low, he speaks with the same sluggish, gravelly cadence as he would on heroin. Indeed, methadoneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;like Vicodin, Percocet, morphine, Oxycontin and dozens of other common pharmaceuticalsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is an opiate, and in Simonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case is simply replacing one drug he normally takes in erratic binges with a similar one he takes like clockwork. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have nothing but good things to say about the people here at Dominican, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve saved my life twice,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Does coming here make me want to quit? Not really.â&#x20AC;?

Clean It was 2am on a December night at Heroin Hill when â&#x20AC;&#x153;Markâ&#x20AC;? decided he wanted to give up heroin. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d spent the better part of two hours looking for a useable vein that his 15-year addiction hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ruined, and there, shivering in a wet tent and sleeping bag, surrounded

by his only remaining possessions, he says he met God. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had just had enough,â&#x20AC;? says the tall 40-year-old musician, who has been clean now for 22 months. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was camping up there, just living from one fix to another. I was either going to start robbing places again or give it up. And, yeah, whatever you want to call it, a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;higher powerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; or whatever, but I met God that night and I just said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do this anymore.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Mark puffs on Winston cigarettes furiously, but that and coffee are his only vices nowadays. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s married to a woman he met in treatment. A woman heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s used with before, but whom he says is now as committed to staying sober as he is. He says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s able to find joy in life again. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I pay bills now, I save money, you know?â&#x20AC;? he says, chuckling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think I got clean because I wanted to do things with my life. A lot of people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to do anything, so I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m lucky in that way.â&#x20AC;?

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clean. Hopelessly addicted to alcohol and opiates and funding his habit with drug sales and theft, he has now run the gauntlet of treatment from methadone to 12-step programs and has emerged alive and looking forward.

For counselors like Molina, who recently launched a virtual reality treatment program that allows addicts to join an online world where they connect with experts and practice refusal skills online, a recovered addict like Mark has been â&#x20AC;&#x153;reprogrammed.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Addiction to opiates is not a moral failure. The brain has been changed,â&#x20AC;? says Janus Clinical supervisor Carol Morgan at her office on Emeline Avenue, which also houses the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s methadone clinic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe it takes at least two years of methadone treatment to treat the addiction. The first year we need to stabilize their life and make it

not just about their next fix. Then we taper off their doses.â&#x20AC;?

Simon and Daniel have both had stints of methadone treatment, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone to 12-step meetings too.

Their efforts, however, have always ended in relapseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;usually after a quick trip to Pogonip. Even from his hospital bed, Simon says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much better off than his friend Daniel, who he calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;hopeless.â&#x20AC;?

Yet itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Daniel who says he wants to quit â&#x20AC;&#x153;more than anything.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to get off this so bad, you have no idea,â&#x20AC;? he explains, his bones beginning to ache from the first pangs of withdrawal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I see a lot of people that are clean and they have things. They have lives, you know? Just give me nine months of methadone and I could quit.

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The band, fronted by the talented 13-year-old singer Jose Picazo, plays an impressive mixed set of originals and covers. Mack Hesson, age 12, is all smiles as he keeps the rhythm for the band.

He also shares backup vocal duties with guitarist Derek Mather. The confident 14-year-old plays technically complex and flawless, albeit a little lackluster, solos with a nonchalance that displays his eight years of experience.

Noticing a group of giggling tween girls gathered around to watch Almost Chaos play at Streetlight Records in Santa Cruz, I asked them after the show if they started the band in order to impress the girls in their grades. After a resounding no, Derek insists that was â&#x20AC;&#x153;not the intention of it,â&#x20AC;? but his band mates admit that it has helped with the ladies.

They started the band a year and a half ago after participating in Be in Your Own Band, a Parks and Rec program. In the short time theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been together, Almost

Chaos has played many fundraisers as well as some of Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite venues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve played at the Crowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nest, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve played the Catalyst,â&#x20AC;? Jose says.

The boys are optimistic about the future. Mack explains that Santa Cruz can look forward to â&#x20AC;&#x153;more originals,â&#x20AC;? while Derek boasts, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have a lot of music and [Jose] has a lot of lyrics.â&#x20AC;? The teenage years that lie ahead will likely provide the angst and swagger lacking in their otherwise flawless set.

As for now, the band is currently on a path to join nine other bands from across the nation to compete in the School Jam USA contest, where theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll earn funding for new equipment for the band and their school as well.

Santa Cruz is well represented in the contest. Almost Chaos is currently second in the West Region standings, while another Santa Cruz band, Jackie Rocks, is in a close third. A third local crew, Rapid Fire, is seventh out of 10 West Coast bands. The top two bands will go to Anaheim, where the winner will be sent to Germany to play in Frankfurt.

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What What has has sunk sunk Anderson Anderson beforeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the beforeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the lack lack of of a common common touch, touch, the the crucifying crucifying self-consciousness, self-consciousness, the the focus focus on on art art direction direction over over the the contentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is contentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is conquered conquered here here by by the the desire desire to to tell tell a popular popular story. story.

Based Based on on a Roald Roald Dahl Dahl childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, book, Fantastic Fantastic Mr. Mr. Fox Fox is is a fairy fairy tale, tale, but but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a realistic, realistic, slightly slightly bleak bleak one. one. Fox Fox (voiced (voiced

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by George by George Clooney) Clooney) settled settled down down after after ffathering athering his his first f irst cub, cub, Ash, Ash, and and is is now now lliving iving a straight straight life life with with his his wife wife (Meryl (Meryl Streep).

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Every single one of his four children has canceled out of a family reunion via the telephone, citing work and other stresses. Left in solitude, Frank comes up with a bad plan: heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll surprise his four children in the cities where they live.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll travel by land; his lungs, scarred from years with working with polyvinyl chloride, wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let him fly.

Frank arrives in New York City, but David, his eldest son, is nowhere to be foundâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the only evidence the son has been there is one of his paintings in the window of a local gallery. Moving on to Chicago via Amtrak, the old man interrupts the life of his high-powered advertising executive daughter Amy (Kate Beckinsale in a very unglam performance) and his grandson Jack (Lucian Maisel).

There isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t room for Frank there, either, so he heads off to Denver, where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s told that his son Robert (Sam Rockwell) is conducting a symphony orchestra. En route, Frank is proud to see the telephone wires passing his train window, because it was his job to oversee the weatherizing of cables with PVC. He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that the buzzing wires are carrying worried messages between his children. They have the word out that

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the old man is trying to surprise them.

Worse, the missing elder son, David, is in serious legal trouble in Mexico.

In Las Vegas, where Frank stays with the Cordelia of the bunch, the film is at its warmest. Drew Barrymore plays daughter Rosie, picking Frank up and making him welcome, although her own story of success is just as false as the other offspringâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Barrymoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s antiglamour and the cozy richness of her flesh are, as always, appealing. And after watching a likable, untroublesome man being passed off from child to child, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only human to want to see someone welcome him. However, when you watch someone as comfortable-looking as Barrymore, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to imagine why she would lie to a working-class father.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re wrapping up a decade of diminished hopes and expectations, a decade when a father might find any child â&#x20AC;&#x153;fineâ&#x20AC;? who has a job and a roof over their head. De Niroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to make Everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fine appealing also mean that the role was beefed up for him as a movie star. Frank is virile enough to fight off a mugger, for instance, and he gets flirted with by a truck driver played in a cameo by the superb Melissa Leo. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see something essential in Frankâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the push in him that made his

children decide that they would rather lie to him than admit that they havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lived up to his expectations.

This sounds like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve torn the film apart. Actually, I was amused by its essential dignity: the light conversations on a train with a stranger, the rich welcome Rosie gives her traveling father.

British director Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine) is a little myopic when it comes to class in Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;blue-collar men donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily push their children into the arts.

But one cuts holiday movies slackâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and Everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fine makes the sensible choice to wrap the action up around snow, Christmas trees and good old C9 Christmas lights. We will forgive the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open ends when we ponder the family and how it inexplicably grows apart.

EVERYBODYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FINE (PG-13; 100 min.), directed and directed

by Kirk Jones, written by Jones, Masimo De Rita, Tonino Guerra and Giuseppe Tornatore, photographed by Henry Braham and starring Robert De Niro and Drew Barrymore, opens Friday countywide.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Breathtaking, with an exhilarating sense of hopeâ&#x20AC;Ś the most painful, poetic and improbably beautiful film of the year!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Washington Post (R) Daily: (2:00),

(4:30), 7:10, 9:30 plus Sat, Sun (11:30am) â&#x20AC;&#x153;A pulpy glorious blast!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C;N.Y. Times

Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer & Eva Mendes IN A

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(5:00), 7:10 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Marvelously acted entertainmentâ&#x20AC;Ś a sweettempered movie with moments of explosive humor.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C;The New Yorker

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min.) The McManus brothers return from a quiet life in Ireland after learning their favorite priest has been waxed. (Opens Fri at 41st Ave.)

starring Sam Shepard and Mare Winningham.

Directed by Jim Sheridan. (Opens Fri at Riverfront.)

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Barbara Stanwyck gives the caliber of performance she delivered throughout her lifetime, making her the premiere example of why the Oscars are a joke (she was nominated for this role, but like the other three noms in her career, she lost). (3) Fred MacMurray, Mr. My Three Sons, turned out to be the coolest shlub to ever not get the money and not get the woman. I spent an entire summer in college getting sulfur burns under my nail from trying to light matches with my thumb the way he does in this movie. But when I finally got it down, it was so worth it. (Plays at the Del Mar on Fri and Sat at midnight.) (SP)

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min.) Originally, this John Woo historical epic about the Battle of Red Cliffs in ancient China was released as a four-hour, two-part film in Asia, but cut by an hour and a half here. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m told all the deleted scenes were of birds f lying away. Stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang and Chen Chang. (Opens Fri at the Nick.) (SP)

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

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min.) Werner Herzogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shaggier-than-shaggy restatement of Abel Ferraraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nouveaugrindhouse Bad Lieutenant of 1992.

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.

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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). (RvB) B63 0:7<2 A723

(PG-13; 126 min.) A well-off family discover a homeless teenager and help him make the football team. Stars Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw and Quinton Aaron. / 16@7AB;/A 1/@=:

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by Jim Carrey; also features the voices of Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Robin Wright Penn. (TH) /< 32C1/B7=<

(PG-13; 103 min.)

Lone Scherfigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s British coming-ofage 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. Twickenhamraised 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 f lat 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) 4/<B/AB71 ;@ 4=F

(PG; 87 min.) See review, page 35.

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George Clooney war comedy about Army experiments with psychic powers in Iraq promises hot goatstaring action. (SP) B63 ;3AA3<53@

(R; 120 min.) Woody Harrelsonâ&#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 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.

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(R; 99 min.) The shiny Orientalism of Ninja Assassinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dialogue is more of a treat than the fight scenes, which consist, basically, of a lot of whipping razor chains and purĂŠed ninjas, who go up in what look like explosions in a ragu factory.

James McTeigue, of V for Vendetta, tells of an apostate ninja named Raizo (Korean pop star Rain), who turned against the Clan of Black Sand and is hiding in Berlin.

Suffering nobly, he tries to protect an Interpollike investigator (Naomie Harris) from the wrath of his seemingly hundreds of fellow warriors.

In f lashbacks, we see the savage training: kidnapped children are beaten into the ninja lifestyle under the glare of Lord Ozuni (venerable martial artist ShĂ´ Kosugi).

When McTeigue slows down the camera, the violence has an effect, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the odd sick-artistic effect, like the calligraphy of blood sprawling on paper screens. More often, we get grotty stuff: an edit between a bisected fool and tomato sauce splotching on a paper dish of Berlinstyle curlywurst. The Wachowski brothers developed this comicbook-like film. Despite the playfulness of scripters Matthew Sand and J. Michael Straczynski, the story gets stuck in origins; the fountains of gore are not so much nauseating as lulling.

(Read a full-length review online at Metroactive.com) (RvB) =:2 2=5A (PG) John

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

>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 f loat 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 af loat 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)

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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 preClinton-era dream of the need for welfare reform: here, welfare is a generational evil that Precious might >:/<3B # (PG; fall heir to. As youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve 91 min.) (PG) An heard, Moâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Nique is animated kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; film. great, but Precious has When an earth a judgmental streak astronaut (voiced by that wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quit. And Dwayne Johnson) thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been essential arrives on an alien to a success worthy of planet, he causes a its sensationalism. By panic among the cozy the end of the movie, suburban inhabitants. you know who all >@317=CA 0/A32 the heroes and all the =< B63 <=D3: >CA6 villains are, and you can 0G A/>>67@3 (R; 110 go home comfortable. min.) Much lauded, (RvB) but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bulldozer. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s / A3@7=CA ;/< (R; 1987, during some of 113 min.) All the themes Harlemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most suffering in the Coen brothersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; years. A girl of immense previous films blend girth, 16-year-old harmoniously in this Claireece (Gabourey terrific tale of comedic â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gabbyâ&#x20AC;? Sidibe) makes woe and horror. her way through life.

Minneapolis, 1967: a She has intelligence, meek professor Larry but she canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t focus, Gopnik (stage actor and we learn why in Michael Stuhlbarg, f lashback; she was looking like a dispirited serially raped by her Harold Lloyd) teaches motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boyfriend. Her physics at a small scathing, angry mother, college. Gopnik is Mary (Moâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Nique), tantalized with the blames Precious for

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.

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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 makes 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 f lesh 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)

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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.

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

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

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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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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.

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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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.

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For the week of December 2 /@73A (March 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 19): When Carolee Schneeman was a kid, her extravagant adoration of nature earned her the nickname â&#x20AC;&#x153;mad pantheist.â&#x20AC;?

Later, during her career as a visual artist, she described her relationship with the world this way: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity and substance.â&#x20AC;? I hope that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re attracted to that perspective right now, Aries. To be in most productive alignment with the cosmic rhythms, you should be in a state of nearly ecstatic openness, hungry to be stretchedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;like a mad pantheist.

B/C@CA (April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dear Rob: Last night my son and I were star-gazing. When we focused on the constellation Cassiopeia, an owl started hooting. Then a brilliant shooting star zipped by as a huge bat f lew right over our heads. Was this a bad omen? Bats are creepyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;associated with vampires. And in Greek mythology Cassiopeia got divine punishment because she bragged that she and her daughter were more beautiful than the sea godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughters. But I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know, maybe this blast of odd events was a good omen. Owls are symbols of wisdom and shooting stars are lucky, right? What do you think? Are we blessed or cursed?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Spooked Taurus Dear Spooked: The question of whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good or bad luck is irrelevant. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important: You Tauruses are in a phase when the hidden workings of things will be shown to youâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the mysterious magic thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always bubbling below the surface but that is usually not visible.

53;7<7 (May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 20): The week ahead

working out pretty well for you. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not so much a dysfunctional contradiction as an interesting juxtaposition. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not being crushed by a squeeze of opposites so much as youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting massaged by the oscillating throbs of complementary inf luences.

Keep doing what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been doing, only more so.

A1=@>7= (Oct. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 21): Big shiny egos with f lashy tricks may be mucking around in everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business, calling narcissistic attention to themselves as they pretend to do noble deeds. Meanwhile, I hope youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be doing the hard, detailed work that must be done to serve the greater goodâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;quietly and unpretentiously improving peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lives without demanding major tribute. That approach will stir up some sleek, silky karma that will come in handy when you undertake the building of your masterpiece in 2010.

A/57BB/@7CA (Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dear Rob: I love to be proven wrong. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not an ironic statement. I actually get excited and feel creative when I acquire new information that shows me Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been operating under a misunderstanding. One of my very favorite life moments occurs when I am convincingly liberated from a negative opinion Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been harboring about someone. As you can tell, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m quite proud of this quality. The way I see it, emotional wealth and psychological health involve having so much self-respect that I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to be right all the time.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sagittarian Freedom Fighter Dear Freedom Fighter: Thanks for your testimony. The capacity you described is one that many Sagittarians will be poised to expand in 2010. And this is an excellent week for them to start getting the hang of it.

will be a ripe time to pull off magic reversals. May I suggest that you try to transform dishwater greys into sparkling golds? Or how about recycling the dead energy of a lost cause in such a way as to generate raw fuel for a fresh start? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m confident, Gemini, that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to discover treasure hidden in the trash, and that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find a way to unleash the creative zeal that has been trapped inside polite numbness.

Now ponder this riddle, please: Do you think thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s any mystical significance in the fact that the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;stressedâ&#x20AC;? is â&#x20AC;&#x153;dessertsâ&#x20AC;? spelled backward?

1/>@71=@< (Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 19): In an early

1/<13@ (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22): Lately you remind me of the person Robert Hass describes in his poem â&#x20AC;&#x153;Time and Materialsâ&#x20AC;?: â&#x20AC;&#x153;someone falling down and getting up and running and falling and getting up.â&#x20AC;?

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sending you my compassion for the times you fall down, and my admiration for the times you get up, and my excitement for the times you run. It has probably become clear to you by now that the falling down isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a shameful thing to be cursed, but rather is an instrumental part of the learning process that is teaching you marvelous secrets about getting back up and running.

/?C/@7CA (Jan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is light enough for those who wish to see,â&#x20AC;? wrote French philosopher Blaise Pascal, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and darkness enough for those of the opposite disposition.â&#x20AC;? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping you will align yourself with the first group in the coming week, Aquarius. More than ever before, what you choose to focus on will come rushing in to meet you, touch you, teach you, and prompt you to respond.

Even if all the smart people you know seem to be drunk on the darkness, I encourage you to be a brave rebel who insists on equal time for the light.

:3= (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;I burn for no reason, like a lantern in daylight,â&#x20AC;? writes poet Joseph Lease. I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a succinct formulation of one of your central issues, Leo. Burning for no reason, like a lantern in the daylight, can be the cause of either failure or success for you, depending on subtle differences of emphasis.

This is how it can be failure: When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re mindlessly and wastefully burning through your prodigious reserves of fuel without any concern for the benefits it may provide you and others. This is how it can be success: When you are exuberant and self-disciplined in shining your light and radiating your warmth just because it feels so good and so right and so healthy, and without any thought about whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;usefulâ&#x20AC;? to anyone.

D7@5= (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): In one of his short poems, John Averill (twitter.com/wiremesa) describes a scene that I think captures the essence of your current astrological omens: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Today is the day of the photo of moonrise over Havana in a book on a shelf in the snowbound cabin.â&#x20AC;? Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a clue about what it means: The snowbound cabin is where you are right now in your life. The moonrise over Havana is where you could be early in 2010. How do you get there from here? :70@/ (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): An estuary is a bay where the salt water of a sea mixes with the fresh water of rivers. These days you remind me of such a place. You are two-toned, Libra. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dual-purpose and double-tracked. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a hybrid blend of the yes and the no, the give and the take, the extravagant and the traditional. And somehow this has been

version of the tale of Pinocchio, friendly woodpeckers chiseled his nose back to its original size after it had grown enormous from his incorrigible lying. From a metaphorical perspective, Capricorn, a comparable development may soon occur in your own life.

A benevolent (if somewhat rough) intervention akin to the woodpeckersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; assistance will shrink an overgrown, top-heavy part of your attitude, allowing you to proceed to the next chapter of your story with streamlined grace.

>7A13A (Feb. 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20): White dwarfs are small and extremely dense stars. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re typically no bigger than the Earth but as heavy as the sun. You currently have a resemblance to one of those concentrated balls of pure intensity. I have rarely seen you offering so much bang for the buck. You are as flavorful as chocolate mousse, as piercing as the scent of eucalyptus, as lustrous as a fireworks display on a moonless night.

Personally, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m quite attracted to your saucy and zesty emanations, and I think most people with strong egos will be. But some underachievers with lower selfesteem may regard you as being more like astringent medicine. My advice: Gravitate toward those who like you to be powerful.

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