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BY PAUL M. DAVIS

December 9-16, 2009 Vol. 1, No. 32

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WOULD be the fiercest advocate of the King Street Bike Boulevard if I thought it had a chance of working without negatively impacting the existing traffic problems on the Westside.

Bike boulevards are a great solution when applied correctly. If you consider yourself able to be impartial and objective, I offer you a challenge. Take four days off during the work week. Use one day observing the whole length of King Street from 6:30am to 10pm, taking notice of when it is busy and what type of vehicles are present. Another day can be spent observing a busy Westside intersection (say, Bay and Mission) noticing the number of users (motoring, cycling, walking).

Next, observe Mission Street from Swift to Chestnut from 6:30am to 10pm and compare with the information obtained from the King Street observation. Lastly, observe the activity at Mission Hill School from early morning to closing (1pm on Wednesdays).

You can do this or obtain a copy of the study done by Bicycle Solutions, a respected bicycling advocacy, education and transportation planning group from the Bay Area. This was submitted to the city on June 17, 2008 and is available from the Santa Cruz Department of Transportation or the Department of Public Works. It is very comprehensive and offers a variety of possible solutions. The study does address a diverter scheme to facilitate a bike boulevard. However, this was deemed as not likely to be successful for a few reasons, the most salient being that relevant Mission Street intersections are already at maximum level of service, and there is not a grid pattern of alternate motoring byways.

This means that if diverters were put in place, motoring traffic would congest at already-bottlenecked intersections. This would increase times for traffic clearing from one to two cycles to three to five cycles and would add to Mission Street traffic volume. This would cause an increase in gas emissions and noise pollution for each vehicle while also increasing hazards for cyclists and pedestrians. Further, denying access to Escalona for motoring through would add to these same problems.

Santa Cruz is a unique town with unique problems that require unique solutions. We cannot be compared to other cities (Palo Alto, Berkeley or New York) or other countries with different cultures ( Japan). Yes, there have been two tragedies on Mission Street in the past few years. But please, do not grab for a solution that will not work.

There are responses that can address hazardous conditions without contributing to them. Our local bike advocates, in collaboration and cooperation with city and county departments, have done some great work. That is why we have received a 2008 Silver Level Award from the League of American Bicyclists for being a bicycle-friendly community.

Please do not succumb to self-interests of increased property values, appearing to be politically correct, or fear of losing street parking. Please do not succumb to promises of a facile, all-encompassing final answer or that your neighborhood wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be affected. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re better than that.

Be bold, Santa Cruz, but be smart! There is much work to do to ensure safe use of our roads for everyone.

Mike Speviak is retired and has resided in Santa Cruz for 25 years. He has been cycling for 60 years, motoring for 50 years and walking for more than 60 years.

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Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BEEN reported by the Santa Cruz Sentinel that the seven members of the Santa Cruz City Council are paid roughly double the salaries of their counterparts in Scotts Valley, Capitola and Watsonville. But what about cities with bigger budgets or fewer services? Turns out, Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s council salaries are still pretty highâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not the highest.

Santa Cruz City Council members work part-time, usually 20 to 30 hours per week during nonemergencies, and make $1,396 per month, which is down from $1,551 per month since early this year when the council, along with all other city employees, took a 10 percent pay cut. The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total annual budget for 2009â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2010 is $178 million and includes operating outsourced services like garbage and recycling pickup. Though their pay is indeed higher than other city councils in the county, it can easily be

argued that Capitola, Scotts Valley and Watsonvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s respective budgets of $19 million, $20 million and $93 million give their councilsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;simply putâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;less to do. Outside the county, however, Santa Cruz councilmembers enjoy two to three times the salaries they would in Monterey and Palo Alto, where councilmembers make $430 per month and $553 per month and oversee budgets of $101 million and $499 million, respectively. Santa Cruz Mayor Mike Rotkin, who has served on the council on-and-off for 30 years, defends his pay, saying that when it comes to local government, you get what you pay for. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I started on the council in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;79, we got 50 bucks a month. But I think a community has to decide whether they want to have a council comprised entirely of older rich people who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to work, or if they want a diverse group of people that are still working and are

more reflective of the community,â&#x20AC;? says Rotkin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able to be much more accessible to the people that voted for us if we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to work full-time at another job to make a living. I feel very comfortable being paid what I am.â&#x20AC;?

On Nov. 24, the Santa Cruz City Council voted to allow its members to take a 10 percent pay increase, though they simultaneously deferred taking the raise until the city was deemed to be out of its current financial pit.

Even once they enact the pay raise, however, the council will still be paid significantly less than some other nearby city councils, where members work full-time. In Berkeley, for example, a city famous for setting precedents in policy, councilmembers make $2,436 per month, and in Santa Barbara itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $3,285.

Both cities oversee budgets in excess of $240 million; Berkeleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is $320 million.

Members of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors take home $9,310 per month for keeping track of a $612 million budget.

Santa Cruz City Manager Richard Wilson says that his job running the city is made much easier when the membership of the city council is competitive and diverse. He says paying a decent wage can be a great way to do that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In reality, a city councilmember is an extremely busy position, and they often put in a ton of hours,â&#x20AC;? says Wilson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the best of all worlds you have strong elected officials and a strong staff. The pay, I think, emphasizes the responsibility of discharging their duties responsibly.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a big complex place that takes a lot of skill to oversee.â&#x20AC;?

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UTTING a retrospective of the Santa Cruz music scene into print is probably asking for trouble. After accepting this assignment, I posted a one-line status update to Facebook: â&#x20AC;&#x153;writing a roundup of Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most significant bands of the decade. Suggestions?â&#x20AC;? It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take long for the responses to start coming in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There have been significant Santa Cruz bands since Camper Van Beethoven?â&#x20AC;? wrote one local, illustrating the foolhardiness of trying to present a single overview of a decade of Santa Cruz music. For every resident who thinks the local music scene ended in the early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s when CVB signed to a major and left town,

thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a grubby teenager in a Soquel garage blasting through two-minute punk songs who has never heard of David Lowery.

Ultimately, the terms â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santa Cruz music sceneâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santa Cruz music communityâ&#x20AC;? are only convenient shorthand: there are many local scenes and communities. They only occasionally overlap, if ever. But for as long as Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been following Santa Cruz underground music, the concerns have remained the same. The local scene, often tethered to the four-year UCSC academic cycle, is far too transitory; bands are too flighty and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stick around long. There arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough places to play. The relative geographic isolation makes touring difficult.

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Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re echoed to this day by friends who continue to keep me apprised of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on in my old town.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to celebrate, from my limited perspective as a player in some of those communities and an outside observer of others, the bands of the past decade that have overcome the challenges facing all Santa Cruz musiciansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both the ones who have remained in town to become local institutions and those who have left to achieve wider notoriety. ¨

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Big Bang If this decade was the one in which indie rock broke, Santa Cruz was a bellwether. Linked by an underground telegraph that spiritually connected the local scene with those in Olympia, Wash., and Portland, Ore., Santa Cruz in the years 2000â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2003 was a stunningly fertile place for indie rock.

The sceneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wise benefactor was local ukulele star Oliver Brown, the Jonathan Richmanâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;indebted schoolteacher/ songwriter who for four years starting in 2000 curated the 11-night annual Big Bang festival. Many of the bands on the Big Bang lineups have been forgotten, but viewed in aggregate, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stunning how accurately the festival predicted the decade of music to come. Out-of-town acts such as Sacramento-based !!! and Portlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Blow, destined to become certifiable underground stars within a few years, were complete unknowns when they played the Big Bang. These acts opened for local bands whose vision appears eerily prescient in retrospectâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; bands like the Lowdown, a three-piece specializing in an unholy racket that resembled Devo on a bender of bad meth and blown-out amps, a corrosive mixture of noise, speed and technology that predicted bands such as the Locust.

Much the promise of the scene was embodied in the band that seemed most likely to blow up at the time: the sweetly sci-fi, Pixies-referencing

four-piece Sin in Space. Led by singer/ guitarist Cassidy Meijer and anchored by drummer Greg Braithwaite, an able hand who has turned up in numerous bands during the decade (including the immortal Huxtables), the band enjoyed an incredible amount of promise and label interest. If an observer was to guess which Santa Cruz indie band would break through to greater things in 2000 or â&#x20AC;&#x2122;02, Sin in Space would have been it.

Instead, that band was fellow Big Bang fixture Comets on Fire, the acid-rockriffing four-piece that dominated many a house party for the first third of the decade before signing to Sub Pop Records and becoming the toast of Pitchfork and the indie-rock intelligentsia.

Reign of Lorelei There was a ton of other activity in Santa Cruz underground music in the early decade, as well. While the UC art kids were helping define the blueprint for â&#x20AC;&#x2122;00s indie rock, the local punk sceneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;comprised of true Santa Cruz locals, as they would surely remind youâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;were growing restless. Diversion, a Soquel trio started by three preteen punks in the late â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s, had morphed from a precociously smart-ass hardcore group into something more resembling progressive rock. Just as the emo craze was hitting the national spotlight, it ¨ $

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was cresting in Santa Cruz, with locally anointed emo demigods like the Lonely Kings, Jetlag and Time Spent Driving selling out the Catalyst.

As that generation of local punk bands moved on, a new shoot emerged in 2004, nurtured by one of the heavyweights of 1990s Santa Cruz music.

Roughly organized beneath the banner of Lorelei Records, an independent label founded by former Fury 66 singer Joe Clements, the new punks avoided the polished emo sound that had dominated Santa Cruz during the late â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s and taken over MTV by 2003. Instead, the bands harkened back to various strains of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s and early-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s American punk rock. Clements headed up two of the most high-profile if short-lived bands, Audiocrush and Crucial Unicorn, while Here Kitty Kitty mashed riot grrl snarl to Ramones-esque razorblade bubblegum. The most durable of the new guard, immortalized in Loreleiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2005 compilation Bombs Over Santa Cruz, was Los Dryheavers. A five-piece Mexican punk outfit from Watsonville, Los Dryheavers echoed the chunky fuzz of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s American punk rock while throwing in an extra-heavy helping of Guns Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Rosesâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;quoting riffage. With three albums under their belt and a number of tours and Warped Tour slots, the Dryheavers have effectively placed Watsonville on the Santa Cruz underground map.

The Folks Are in Town

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible to talk about Santa Cruz music in this decade without mentioning The Devil Makes Three.

Admittedly, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a biased observerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I lived with the trio, played in other, far less notable, bands with them and even poisoned the lead singer with undercooked chicken, an event chronicled in a song on the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest album. But for the middle years of the decade the band clearly dominated the local scene, bridging the gaps between art-rock hipsters, body-building Eastside locals and august KPIG listeners. The Devil Makes Three were far from the first to do what they didâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;lash bluegrass and string-band music to punk-rock populismâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but they were one of the first to do it in Santa Cruz and possibly the first to do it so well.

Today, the band tours the nation and gets attention in national publications, but from 2002 to 2006 they were the local band to beat, packing basements and the Catalyst with ease and drawing national attention to a lively local scene that has always deserved more attention from the outside world. This era was probably my most active in the local music community. I played with the local cowpunk outfit Mule Train and organizing two compilations, Someday Coming Down and Someday Coming ¨

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The entire town seemed to be in a folkier mood during the midsection of the decade. As a large number of bands tweaked various forms of American folk music, artists such as Whysp, Emily Jane White and Ben Chasny were unearthing a more meditative form of acoustic music. Carrying a torch for the nearly-forgotten â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s psych-folk of Vashti Bunyan and Bert Jansch, this trio of local artists played an important role in defining the then-nascent freak-folk scene ignited in San Francisco and L.A.

by Devendra Banhardt. Unassuming and quiet, former Streetlight employee Chasny and White remained on the fringes of the local music community, and the work they recorded in townâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Chasny as Six Organs of Admittance and White with the Diamond Star Halosâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; can be best appreciated in retrospect, long after they left and become critical favorites the world over.

Beachcombers For sheer visibility and impact on the outside world, The Devil Makes Threeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success was rivaled by the Expendables, a four-piece that dominated the stage like an 800-pound gorilla. Cribbing notes from Sublime and the Long Beach Dub All-Stars, the Expendables whipped up reggae, dub and metal into an amalgam that typified the sleepy beach-town vibe that draws so many people to Santa Cruz. Since the day in 2002 when the Expendablesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Adam Patterson, Geoff Weers, Raul Bianchi and Ryan DeMarsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; were crowned the winners of Your Music Magazineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first Battle of the Bands, the quartet has been on an upward trajectory, first dominating Santa Cruz before becoming a dependable touring act and even turning up on the soundtrack of Guitar Hero World Tourâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the surest indicator of having made it by the end of the decade.

If the Expendables typified one side of the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beach-town vibe, SambaDĂĄ exemplified its musically diverse, ebullient, polyglot complement.

Formed in 1998 by local Brazilian expatriates Papiba Godinho and Dandha da Hora, the band has proven to be one of the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most dependable and venerable acts, specializing in an intricately percussive sound that spans

the Americas in its influences. By 2007, the band was recording with a Grammy-nominated producer (on the record Salve a Bahia), and serving as goodwill ambassadors to the world, of not only the multitude of cultures the band encompassed, but of a uniquely Santa Cruz sound that has inspired a generation of local world music artists.

The Devil Makes Three werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the first to do what they didâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;lash bluegrass and string-band music to punkrock populismâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; but they were one of the first to do it in Santa Cruz and possibly the first to do it so well.

Decadeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s End Yet as the Expendables and SambaDĂĄ came to embody Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s laid-back beach-town vibe, a crew of snot-nosed art punks sought to expose its id. On the heels of the promising yet shortlived Gross Gang, the New Thrill Parade dominated the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s underground art scene in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;05 and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;06, lurching through Birthday Partyâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;indebted noise-rock with the weight of a hundred hippies on bad tabs of acid. It was a restless time all around, as city noise ordinances ¨

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The response of bands such as the New Thrill Parade and the celestial noise-rock band Residual Echoes was to turn it up even louder, tossing defiant cacophonies back at a City Council that preferred its local art scene to be safe for tourist consumption.

As the latter third of the decade rolled around, the undergroundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s twin obsessions of noise rock and psychedelia united. Indulging in opulent acid-rock excess, Sleepy Sun and the Vox Jaguars became the new standard-bearers for the local underground community.

Both bands signed to indie labels in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;08 and have garnered the attention of the global psych-rock underground, once a niche movement of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s revivalists that has become legion in the globally connected age of social networking. On the sleazier end of things is the Groggs, dirty-humping garage-rock sleazebags who strip all the art from the art-rock in favor of a primeval yawp.

Emboldened by the success of The Devil Makes Three, indie- and punkinflected folk music has become something of an institution of its own in town: witness the success of Birds Fled From Me, featuring Rachel Williams of Sleepy Sun, or the success of last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Sounds of San Lorenzo compilation, organized by JJ McCabe of Mylo Jenkins and Tether Horse and

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A decade later, few of the players are the same. Yet the local underground music community remains vibrant, ever vigilant in the face of too few venues, UC student turnover, the high cost of living and the other difficulties facing musicians in Santa Cruz. The new guard, headed up by the likes of Fire Whiskey, Sourgrass, the Spurts and countless others, enter the new decade unbowed by the eternal challenges. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be hard-pressed to find a more active, supportive and diverse set of local music communities incubating such a wide array of bands and genres. As the world grows smaller and Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s renown slowly grows, some of these bands are destined to be the new decadeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next big thing.

Thanks to the following for their suggestions, feedback, criticisms and much clearer memories, transmitted via the wonder of the social web: The Santa Cruz Underground Music wiki, Siobahn Barry, Oliver Brown, Hiram Coffee, Mykle Hoban, JJ McCabe, Nick Meo, Pete Saporito and Hiya Swanhuyser.

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418. Billed Billed as as a CD CD release release Dec. show for for Among Among the the Livingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Livingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest newest show self-titled and and self-produced self-produced album, album, the the self-titled showcase will will feature feature hours hours of of punk, punk, showcase hardcore and and metal metal music, music, all all for for the the hardcore bargain price price of of $10. $10. Ages Ages in in the the lineup lineup bargain range from from 15 15 and and 16 16 (metal (metal and and pop pop punk punk range bands Ecophagy Ecophagy and and Blitz Blitz Battalion) Battalion) to to bands veteran thirtysomethings thirtysomethings (Nations (Nations Afire).

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Wiccan prayer prayer rite rite and and a pop pop punk punk show show Wiccan all in in a single single day. day. As As an an all-ages, all-ages, nonprofit nonprofit all business, this this also also includes includes the the strict strict business, enforcement of of a prohibition prohibition on on drugs, drugs, enforcement alcohol and and smoking. smoking. For Fo or Biddiscombe, Biddiscombe, alcohol this this can can mean mean occasionally occasionally functioning functioning as as a baby baby sitter. sitter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Half â&#x20AC;&#x153;Half my my job, job, a lot lot of of times, times, is is just just walking walking around around making making sure sure no no one one is is drinking drinking or or smoking, smoking,â&#x20AC;? he he says. says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But â&#x20AC;&#x153;But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really really important, important, because because all all it it takes takes is is one one time time for for the the cops cops to to show show up up at at the the wrong wrong time, time, and and if if a bunch bunch of of kids kids are are drinking drinking then then we we could could lose lose the the only only all-ages all-ages venue venue in in town. town.â&#x20AC;?

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HEY WONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T believe it in Peoria, but Rhan Wilson isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t making fun of Christmas. True, his show An Altared Christmas, now in its fifth year, puts carols in a minor key to comic effectâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a dolorous â&#x20AC;&#x153;O Christmas Tree,â&#x20AC;? an ominous â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,â&#x20AC;? a distraught-borderingon-unhinged â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clausâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;but the producer of the highly entertaining musical variety show says he is not, in fact, mocking the holiday. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s making fun of what people have done to it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Deck the Halls.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so beautiful,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a to-do list, right at this stressful time of year. Maybe for a single mother itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just too much: youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to deck the halls with boughs of holly. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotta be jolly. You have to don your gay apparel. You have to troll the ancient Yuletide carol. So maybe by doing the song this way, people can get like a booster shot against that stress, so they can stop, right while theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having that fight or whatever, and remember it and laugh.â&#x20AC;?

The odd thing is that Wilson & Co.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deck the Halls,â&#x20AC;? a dirgelike hymn sung by a woman choking back tears, is strangely beautiful. So is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Joy to the World.â&#x20AC;? Same, even, with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jingle Bells.â&#x20AC;?

All of them, once put through Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s minor miracle machine, evoke the music of the Eastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;namely Russian music, which explains Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Orthodox patriarch attire (at far right in photo above).

Wilson says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always had a soft spot

for that genreâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sound sad to me. It sounds beautiful,â&#x20AC;? he saysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and its suggestion of mystery and sorrow lends a slight ironic sheen to the peppy Christmas lyrics. Rendered through orchestration that for several years has included a clarinet and soprano sax, and which this year will include a violin, the music winds up reminiscent of Jewish klezmer, which adds yet another layer of humor.

Other songs, however, veer in a decidedly more sophisticated direction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Angels We Have Heard on High,â&#x20AC;? for example, makes for a compelling jazz number when sung by Tammi Brown, perhaps best known around town for her backup work with Sista Monica. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeerâ&#x20AC;? takes its cues from a Police song that everyone will recognize sooner or later.

This year, the Altared Christmas performance includes a black-and-blue costume contest and a remembrance altar where the audience can share mementos, as well as a gospel-style improvised finale where, Wilson says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;when it happens, people will know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the magic.â&#x20AC;?

AN ALTARED CHRISTMAS is Saturday, Dec. 12, at 8pm at the Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz.

Tickets are $21 advance/$25 door, available at Streetlight Records, www .riotheatre.com or www.altared.com.

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IINVICTUS NVICTUS (PG-13; (PG-13; 124 124 m min.), in.), directed directed bbyy Clint Clint Eastwood, Eastwood, written written bbyy Anthony Anthony Peckham, P eckhham, based based on on tthe he book book by

by John John Carlin, C arlin, photographed photographed by

by Tom Tom Stern Stern and and Morgan sstarring tarring M organ Freeman Freeman and and Matt Matt Damon, Friday D amon, opens opens F riday countywide. countywide.

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SHOWTIMES FOR FRIDAY DEC 11 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; THURSDAY DEC 17 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Breathtaking, with an exhilarating sense of hope!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;DeNiroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best role in years! A touching Christmas drama.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Boxoffice

Robert DeNiro Drew Barrymore Sam Rockwell (R) Kate Beckinsale Melissa Leo (PG-13) Daily: (2:20),

(4:40), 7:00, 9:10 plus Sat, Sun (12 noon)

Nicolas Cage IN A WERNER HERZOG FILM

Daily: (4:20),

(R)

8:50

George Clooney Jeff Bridges Ewan McGregor Kevin Spacey

Daily: (2:10), 6:50, plus

(R) Sat, Sun (12:10) Midnights @ The Del Mar Fun! Prizes! Murder!

Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall

The Big Sleep

Fri 12/11 & Sat 12/12 @ Midnight Next Week: HIS GIRL FRIDAY

www.thenick.com

STARTS FRIDAY 12/11! â&#x20AC;&#x153;Powerful! Oscar worthy performances.â&#x20AC;?

Sophie Okonedo

Sam Neill

â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Leonard Maltin

Alice Krige

Film Capsules <3E 1/>A B63 075 A:33> (1946)

This famous pairing of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall was originally conceived as something else entirely: namely, a movie that made sense. Bacallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part was pretty small, but when director Howard Hawks and company saw how mesmerizing she was, they had new scenes written for her, and those exchanges with Bogart would seal the legendary status of the film. In order to keep the running time about the same, however, the producers hacked out chunks of the film that explained the plot, meaning firsttime viewers are often a little fuzzy on the details by the time the credits

roll. Third-time viewers, too. But the trick is not to sweat it, just sit back and enjoy the ride. After all, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s said that even Raymond Chandler (who wrote the novel on which the film is based) didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know who shot the chauffeur. (Plays at the Del Mar on Fri and Sat at midnight.) (SP) 7<D71BCA (PG-13; 143

min.) See review, page 41. (Opens Fri at Aptos, Cinema 9 and Green Valley.)

B63 >@7<13AA /<2 B63 4@=5 (G; 97

min.) Disney goes retro in just about every way: this is not only their return to the Broadwaystyle musical where the characters sing, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also the first hand-drawn Disney film in five years.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a period piece as well, set in Louisiana

in the 1920s. It has a few nods to progress, including the studioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first African American princess character (the prince is from a fictional country, the location of which is never revealed). And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, which of course is in the public domainâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;ironic, considering that Disney has done more than any corporation in history to extend copyright laws and undermine fair use.

(Opens Fri at Cinema 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley.) (SP)

and attempt to fight the decision in court. What happens to her plays out over the next 20 years, paralleling a tragic and now barely conceivable chapter in South Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history. (Opens Fri at the Nick.) (SP)

@3D73EA /@;=@32 (PG-13; 88

min.) Matt Dillon and Laurence Fishburne star in the story of a crew that decides to steal an armored vehicle stuffed with cash.

A97< (PG-13; 116 min.)

0/2 :73CB3</<B( >=@B =4 1/:: <3E =@:3/<A (R;

Based on a true story, this South African film follows a girl thrown out of school under apartheid laws for being black. Her parents, however, are both white,

130 min.) Werner Herzogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shaggier-thanshaggy restatement of Abel Ferraraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nouveau-grindhouse Bad Lieutenant of 1992.

Karl Marx could have

SHOWTIMES

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

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).

Fine supporting work

abounds, with Jennifer Coolidge as a frowz, soaking up all the beer in the bayou. 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). (RvB) B63 0:7<2 A723

(PG-13; 126 min.) A well-off family discover a homeless teenager and help him make

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Dec. 9, through Wednesday, Dec. 16, unless otherwise indicated. Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

(PG-13) Daily: (2:20),

(4:40), 7:00, 9:20 plus Sat, Sun (12 noon) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Romantic and wonderfully entertaining!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Roger Ebert (4:50), 7:20, 9:30 plus Sat, Sun (12:30)

A/<B/ 1@CH 17<3;/ '

7\dWQbca â&#x20AC;&#x201C; (Opens Fri) 12:45; 3:30; 6:15; 9.

3dS`gP]Rg¸a 4W\S â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Daily 2:10; 4:20; 6:30; 8:40; plus Sat-Sun noon. =ZR 2]Ua â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wed-Thu 2:30; 4:40; 6:50; 9.

7\dWQbca â&#x20AC;&#x201C; (Opens Fri) 1:05; 4:05; 7:15; 10:10 BVS >`W\QSaa O\R bVS 4`]U â&#x20AC;&#x201C; (Opens Fri) 2; 4:30; 7; 9:25; plus Fri-Sun 11:30am. /`[]`SR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wed-Thu 12:45; 2:55; 5:10; 7:30; 9:50; Fri-Wed 1:15; 3:20; 5:25; 7:45; 9:55.

4O\bOabWQ ;` 4]f â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wed-Thu 2:20; 4:40; 7:10; 9:25; Fri-Wed 2:10; 4:20; 6:45; 9; =ZR 2]Ua â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wed-Thu 2:35; 4:50; 7:20; 9:35; Fri-Wed 2:35; 4:55; 7:30; 9:35; plus

122 Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos 831.688.6541 www.culvertheatres.com

Carey Mulligan Peter Sarsgaard Alfred Molina Emma Thompson Daily: (2:40),

/>B=A 17<3;/A

(PG-13)

Tony Leung IN A JOHN WOO FILM Once Nightly 8:40 A

+ Sat, Sun (12:20)

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bears all the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spine as a deliberately drabbed-down English teacher. Nick Hornbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s screenplay, from Lynn B63 0==<2=19 A/7<BA 77( /:: A/7<BA Barberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memoir, might have meant he had input 2/G (R; 118 min.) The on the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excellent McManus brothers preâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Swinging London return from a quiet life soundtrack. Singer Beth in Ireland after learning Rowley steals the show their favorite priest has as the breathy canary at been waxed. one nightspot. (RvB) 0@=B63@A (R; 110 4/<B/AB71 ;@ 4=F min.) Jake Gyllenhaal (PG; 87 min.) A real proves most comforting artist learns to turn to Natalie Portman his limitations into when hubby Tobey strengths. In switching Maguire goes off to war gears entirely from in Afghanistan. Also live action to stopstarring Sam Shepard and Mare Winningham. action animation, director Wes Anderson Directed by Jim has created his most Sheridan. consistently enjoyable / 16@7AB;/A 1/@=: film. Anderson has (PG; 96 min.) Robert softened his typical aura Zemeckis, the guy who of disappointment with brought us 2004â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The a sense of rejuvenating Polar Express, vies with play. Based on a short CVS for earliest seasonal Roald Dahl childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s statement with this prebook, Fantastic Mr. Fox preseason release of the is a fairy tale, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a animated classic. Scrooge realistic, slightly bleak is voiced by Jim Carrey; one. Fox (voiced by also features the voices George Clooney) is of Gary Oldman, Colin living a straight life with Firth and Robin Wright his wife (Meryl Streep).

Penn. (TH) A midlife crisis rouses /< 32C1/B7=< the beast; he decides (PG-13; 103 min.) to turn hunter once Lone Scherfigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s British again. Retaliation comes coming-of-age film ends fast and hard: the Fox with a marathon session is robbed of his tail by of tea brewing, but it has a shotgun blast. In the its good points. The look war that follows, Fox is coolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;1960ish England and his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and, may be more interesting soon, all the creatures than the full-blown and in the woodsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;become overexposed later â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s. refugees. Clooney is a Twickenham-raised fox in full: we see both Jenny (Carey Mulligan) the humorous suavity is studying for Oxford and the realization of when she gets picked possible failure. Clooney up by David (Peter is our Cary Grant, but Sarsgaard), a slightly what people forget older rotter; his slightly about the original Grant cruel eyes and flat smile is something that this forecast trouble to come. superbly compelling Until then, Jenny gets to Clooney remembers: the see London highlife and buried fears that a suave nightclubs, and voyages man harbors of being to Paris. Smelling class, out of control. (RvB) and wanting to make B63 ;3< E6= AB/@3 their hard-working /B 5=/BA (R; 100 daughter happy, Jennyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s min.) George Clooney parents (Cara Seymour, war comedy about Alfred Molina) relax the Army experiments leash. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when with psychic powers in the young girl learns Iraq promises hot goathow David makes his money without working staring action. (SP) the football team. Stars Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw and Quinton Aaron.

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

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(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 late-period 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 aluminumsiding 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. (RvB) <7<8/ /AA/AA7< (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 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 Ozuni (venerable martial artist ShĂ´ Kosugi).

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 fulllength 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 ship-to-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: repeat-offender Rhys Ifans playing the silky Gavin Cavanaugh.

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min.) (PG) An animated kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; film. When an earth astronaut (voiced

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min.) Much lauded, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bulldozer. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1987, during some of Harlemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

7< 03BE33<!!Tpqijf!Plpofep!jt!b!njyfe.sbdf!hjsm!hspxjoh!vq! jo!bqbsuifje.fsb!Tpvui!Bgsjdb!jo!Ă&#x2022;Tljo-Ă&#x2013;!pqfojoh!Gsjebz/ 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-Clintonera 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. (RvB) @32 1:744 (R; 148

min.) Carved from a two-part movie of nearly five hours, John

Wooâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s humongous Chinese hit seems to be either too short or too long. Promising subplots keep trying to break out. Emotional moments rise out of nowhere, only to have their force dissipated by yet another battle scene.

Thousands die, most of them impaled by widegage spears and arrows, but I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell you for certain which side they were on. In 200 C.E., the power-mad Prime Minister Cao Cao (Fengyi Zhang) has bled China into a kind of peace. But some of his former enemies are restless: a pair of them, Liu Bei (You Yong) and Sun Quan (Chang Chen) hole up at the Yangtze River fortress of Red Cliff to wait for the attack by sea. Among this cliff-side assembly of royals and generals are the warrior Zhou Yu (Tony Leung) and the most fascinating figure of all, the Confucian paragon Zhuge Liang (Takeshi Kaneshiro).

His tactics save the entrenched rebels from the vaster force.

Whenever this calm, white-robed strategist enters, some particularly exciting business develops. Kaneshiro is one of the coolest

presences in the movies in 2009. The very end, of course, is a reprise of Wooâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most famous contribution to cinema, the multi-angle Hong Kong standoff. (RvB) / A3@7=CA ;/< (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)

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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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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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California Continental. Swordfish and other seafood specials.

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

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

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Astrology Free Will

By Rob Brezsny

For the week of December 9 /@73A (March 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 19): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Indignation is one of the most rewarding of emotions,â&#x20AC;? writes Theodore Dalrymple, â&#x20AC;&#x153;as well as one that automatically gives meaning to life . . . There is nothing like irritation to get the juices circulating and the mind working.â&#x20AC;?

Of all the ideas that have made me irritable and indignant in recent weeks, this one steams me the most. I disagree so completely that I am practically beside myself with paralyzing rage. And as I plunge my attention further and further into his ridiculous proposal, I feel the tension coursing through my body. I sense my mind becoming swampy, my perceptions distorted. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good chance that I am inducing in myself a state of stressed out stupidity.

Please donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t follow my example, Aries. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible that sour fury could be useful to you at other times, but right now you should avoid it. If you want your intelligence to work at peak efficiency in the coming days, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need long stretches of tender, lucid calm.

B/C@CA (April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20): The evidence is incontrovertible: You have definitely acquired more power in 2009. Whether that means you are now sitting in a corner office bossing around a gaggle of subordinates, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know. What I do know is that you are in greater charge of your own destiny. You know yourself much better, and are smarter about providing yourself with what you need, when you need it. You have gained access to enormous new reserves of willpower, in part by harnessing the energy of your obsessive tendencies. Blind fate just doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the same control over your life as it used to. More than ever before, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re making decisions based on whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really good for you rather than on your unconscious compulsions.

53;7<7 (May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 20): I trust youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve traveled all over creation in 2009â&#x20AC;&#x201D;or have at least exposed yourself to a wide range of novel sights and sounds near your home turf. I pray that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve escaped one shrunken niche, two narrow perspectives, and three low expectations. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m also hoping that in these last 12 months, you have regularly sought out pleasant jolts and breathtaking vistas that have inspired you to see the big picture of your unfolding destiny. If you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been doing these things with the eager abandon you should have, please take the next f light to the other side of the world. Eat unfamiliar food, meet people who are very different from you, listen to strange music, climb a mountain and get your mind blown.

1/<13@ (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22): So how are you doing with your year-long resurrection project, Cancerian? Have you been taking care of the finishing touches these past few weeks? If not, do so soon. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high time for you to officially and definitively rise from the dead. Your wandering in the underworld is at an end. Your mourning for broken dreams should be complete. In January, the age of exploration will begin; make sure your reborn spunk is ready for action by then. :3= (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): I bet your relationship life will be a source of revolutionary teachings in 2010. Adventures in intimacy and partnership will draw you into some highly educational fun and games. You will be invited to dramatically expand your understanding of the nature of commitment.

You will also be asked to dig deeper to discover your real desires, which up until now have been partially camouf laged by more superficial longings that were grafted onto you during the darker days of adolescence. How should you prepare for the interesting tests of the next 12 months? How can you get yourself in shape to earn the demanding gifts that will be within reach? Now is an excellent time to start thinking about those questions.

D7@5= (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): Whenever the tide goes out, the creek I live next to loses a lot of its water to the bay. It becomes a narrow trickle surrounded by stretches of mud. From a distance the mud looks like a wet black desert, but if you get up close youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s covered with tiny furrows, pits and bulges.

This is evidence that many small creatures live there, although only the hungry ducks and egrets know exactly where to look to find them. Be like those birds, Virgo. As you survey your version of the mud f lat, ignore anyone who tells you that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s barren. Go searching for the rich pickings. :70@/ (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): It seems to me that in 2009 youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned to love the fact that all the

worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a stage. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve found roles that have been fun to play, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve expressed yourself with the nuanced zeal of a skilled actor in an elaborate theatrical production. I have very much enjoyed seeing you reveal the full range of your inner riches.

If I were going to award Oscars to the astrological signs, you Libras would get the prize for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Performance of Oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s True Self.â&#x20AC;?

A1=@>7= (Oct. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 21): â&#x20AC;&#x153;The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident,â&#x20AC;? said filmmaker Sidney Lumet. He was talking about the craft of creating movies, but he could have also been advising you on how to make the most of the coming week. Your task, as I see it, is to set in order everything that can be set in order. Get very organized. Make sure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re well-rehearsed. Be warmed up and highly alert. That way youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be ready to respond with graceful intensity when serendipitous opportunities arise within the framework youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve put in place.

A/57BB/@7CA (Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): One of your top accomplishments in 2009 is the way you have united parts of yourself that had not previously been very well connected. It seems you decided that you were tired of being split up into fragmented subpersonalities that had different agendas.

Somehow you managed to convince them all to work together in a common cause. Now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m quite impressed with the new spirit of cooperation thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at work in your depths. I predict it will lead to an unprecedented singleness of purpose in 2010.

1/>@71=@< (Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 19): In his book The Way of Transition, William Bridges defines the â&#x20AC;&#x153;neutral zoneâ&#x20AC;? as â&#x20AC;&#x153;that in-between time, after youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve let go of your old life and before you have fully discovered and incorporated your new life.â&#x20AC;? Sound familiar? Maybe the neutral zone where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re currently simmering isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as dramatic as thatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;maybe you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been stripped of every single certainty and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not wandering in limbo. But I suspect you have at least let go of one aspect of your old familiar rhythm and have yet to ease into the one thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be familiar in the future. My advice? Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rush it. Get all you can out of this unique and educational time in the neutral zone.

/?C/@7CA (Jan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): In 2009, the cosmic powers-that-be have been conspiring to get you to expand your self-image and enlarge your understanding of your place in the world.

So I trust that in these last 12 months you have started a business or organized a support group or reinvented your physical appearance or begun your masterpieceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or done something to initiate a new phase in your long-term cycle. If for some reason youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been remiss about doing this work, I suggest you scramble to make up for lost time. And if you have been taking advantage of the abundant cosmic help, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll soon be time to move on to phase two: consolidation. >7A13A (Feb. 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20): To prepare for his turn to hit, a Major League baseball player slips a donut-shaped piece of metal over the top of his bat, making it a few pounds heavier than it normally is. He then takes a number of practice swings. The theory is that when he removes the donut and strides up to home plate to actually hit against a pitcher whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s throwing the ball at 90 miles per hour, the bat will feel lighter and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to swing faster. As you prepare for your own equivalent of going up to bat, Pisces, I urge you to use this as your operative metaphor.

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