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23A>3@/ 23A>3@/B3:G /B3: :G A3397<5 :=571 A 3397<5 :=5 3397<5 571 ONCE A ONCE AGAIN GAIN the city city has done d something leaves utterly that lea ves me ut terly mystified myystiff iied (last time was sidewalk it w as the lunch hour side walk a sweeper). sweeper). There T here is a parking lot on the ocean ocean side of West Cliff Drive, from lighthouse,, W eest C lifff D rive, just up fr om m the lighthouse been spot that had ffor o or yyears ears b een a gathering gath hering sp ot ffor o or group hung out a gr oup of folks fo olks who pretty pretty much m theree all day, spacee ther daay, effectively efffeectively declaring declaaring the spac ffor o or their own. We’re We’re ttalking alking ab aabout out beat-up beat-up serve old campers campers and vans that se erve as living spaces transportation. The was spac es as much as transp ortation. a The air w as somewhat communal, if not always friendly. somewhat communal,, always y friendlyy.

Due to this co-opting Due co - opting of this particular particulaar lot, it was was not n typically typically used by by tourists, tourists, beach beach e goers, go ers, surfers su urfers e or pretty pretty much anyone anyone else eelse.. When cityy embark embarked West Cliff n the cit ed on its W es est C lifff project, was and rrepaving epaavvin ng pr oject, this lot w as closed an nd used parking heavy materials. ffor or park o king hea avvy equipment and mat terials. I that day, pass tha at lot a ccouple ouple of times each da ay, and I noticed after notic ed that it rremained emained closed well af ftter the project was other pr oject w as ccompleted ompleted and all the oth her lots been had b eeen rreopened. eopened. Just Just recently recently the lot was was rreopened eopened but b with one big dif difference: ffer e ence: All All the curbs had been been green been posted painted d gr een and signs had b een p ostted minutes. rrestricting estrictiing the parking time to 24 min nutes. Given the theree is rreally nothing G iven th he fact that ther eally noth hing anyone area an yone ccan an do in that ar ea that ttakes akes only o 24 minutes, manyy people minute s, (I (I mean, how man people go g to the beach obvious b each ffor o 24 minutes?), or ? it seems ob vio ous that was city’s attempt discourage ouragge the this w ass the cit y’s at tempt to disc return of this ad-ho ad-hocc ccommunity. return o ommunity. Here’s Here’s the

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problem: Wher problem: Where, e, eexactly xacctly did the theyy think these ffolks olks wer o o? Did Did they they imagine that weree going to go go? the sappear or “go home?� theyy would simply dis disappear N o —they lik ed b eingg down b cean, No—they liked being byy the o ocean, so the ved d their rigs down to the theyy simply mo moved akingg up valuable parking lighthouse lot, ttaking in a highly used touri ist destination or down tourist to the Lane Lane where where they theey take take up spaces, spaces, often offten t mor er vvehicle, e ehicle , used b cal moree than one p per byy the lo local surf ccommunity. ommunity. So w eas b effor o e ““they� they� surf So,, wher whereas before wer ely gr ouped e to gether in one sp ot weree all nic nicely grouped together spot that w asn’t b eing used db yone else wasn’t being byy an anyone else,, now that lot is ccompletely ompletely empt emptyy all the time and ““they� they� ar aking up spac sspaces es that wer eing aree ttaking weree b being used b byy others others.. Can someone explain explaain the logic logic in this? Can Doug Springs Springs, s, Santa Santta Cruz

1=:=;0= 1/::7<5 1 =:=;0= 1/::7<5 IR READ EAD yyour our ffood ood cri critic’s itic’s ar article ticle ab about out P Pearl earl Ocean (“P earl in i an O cean,�� Epicur e, of the Ocean (“Pearl Ocean,� Epicure, O ct. 28) b ecause I ha ave of ften t eaten ther e. I Oct. because have often there. ha ve alw ays y ffelt eelt that a critic should ha ave a have always have basic knowledge efully mor knowledge,, hop hopefully moree than m myy own, of that which is b eing criticized. I ffeel eel e being yyour our writer has misse ed the mark. To To compare compare missed Sri L ankan “pan� “pan pan� with h Middle Eastern “pita� “pit pita� Lankan is the same as comparing comparring tor tillas with tortillas W onder br o ead. The The only on nly thing the ave in Wonder bread. theyy ha have eads ccommon ommon is that the fformer o ormer ar oth br aree b both breads of A sia while the lat teer ar eads of N orth Asia latter aree br breads North A merica. America. The article article made a huge deal out of the fact The that the wine w as ser ved in b etween se veral was served between several etizers. Sri Lanka Lanka does does not ha ave a of the app appetizers. have wine cultur e. O rderin ng wine with Sri L ankan culture. Ordering Lankan curries ccaters aters to the need n some A mericans Americans ha ve to or der an alc oh holic b everage with have order alcoholic beverage their meal. T hat’s lik talian That’s likee going to an It Italian rrestaurant estaurant in Tokyo Tok o yo and a ordering ordering sak sakee with yyour our spaghet ti. Exp eccting a ser ver to know spaghetti. Expecting server wine in France France is one thing xpect the thing,, but to eexpect same fr om a Sri Lankan Lankan is another And isn ’t from another.. And isn’t that wh xplore ffoods oods fr om ar ound the whyy we eexplore from around world, to eexperience xperience something s dif ffeerent? different? The article article left lefft me feeling feeeling that yyour our writer The has ne ver b een to Sri Lanka, Lanka, and ther effo ore, never been therefore, d do es not ha h ave the h aut thorit h i y to criticize i i i its i does have authority ffood ood or its cultur e. culture. came from from lunch lun nch at P earl of the I just came Pearl O cean. My inner criti anted to Ocean. criticc just w wanted shar ou that th he squash curr as sharee with yyou the curryy w was outrageous! Russell Ru ussell Downing Downing, g, Santa Sant ta Cruz

972 6=AB7:3 9 72 6=AB7:3 IA AM MW WRITING RITING in rresponse esponse to o Mik Mikee S Sp eviak’s B ullhorn ar ticle (“ The h Tr rouble Speviak’s Bullhorn article (“The Trouble W ith i a Bike Bike Boulevard,� Boulevard,�� Dec. Dec. 9) 9) disc ouraging With discouraging t King Str the eet Bike Bike B oulevard. d A Street Boulevard. Ass someone w works with Mission Hill who Hill Middle M School, School, I ffind iind the ar gument that ther o man argument theree ar aree to too manyy ccars ars on the W eestside ffor or a bik o Westside bikee facilit facilityy to b bee p ossible par ticularly upset ting. possible particularly upsetting. Until Santa Santa Cruz Cruz really really commits comm mits itself to Until p prioritizing nonc ar transit, there ayys there will alw noncar always b o man ars get ting in thee w ay of our bee to too manyy ccars getting way q qualit fe. I appreciate appreciate greatly greaatly the work qualityy of lif life. t that the cit es to mak ta C ruz as bik ecityy do does makee Sant Santa Cruz bikef friendly as it is treet ccorridor, orridor, is,, but the King St Street ssurrounded surr ounded b ols, is a glar ring pr oblem. byy scho schools, glaring problem. ftter-school Bike Bike C lub at I teach an af after-school Club M Mission H ill Middle Scho ol. I have have b ha een Hill School. been r riding with children children for fo or years, years, and a King S Str eet is one of the most stressful stressfful corridors corridors Street o which I have on haave led them. It It is a great great place place t teach m to avigate myy students how to n navigate a to o -narrow, ccongested, ongested, of ftten hostile too-narrow, often tthroughway. thr ough hway. T he vvolume olume of tra afff iic mak es The traffic makes i ffeel it eel e eextremely xtremely tr eacherous, and a the ffolks olks o treacherous, u using it as a shor tcut ar urry. I ha ave shortcut aree in a h hurry. have h trucks sp had eed ar ound a gr up of childr en, ou speed around group children, a d driv and d i ers ha h ave yyelled elled ll d att us to to gett of ff the th drivers have off rroad. oad. King Str eet is absolutely not n a “Saf fe Street “Safe R oute to Scho o ol.�� A neighb orh hood rroute oute to Route School.� neighborhood sschool scho ol should not b ative rroute oute ffor o or bee an altern alternative a high hway. So I ask, with so ma any schools schools in highway. many t neighborhood, the neighborhood, including 500-plus 5 0-plus kids at 50 M Mission H ill, why why is moving moving m ore cars cars faster Hill, more m mor important than our children? dren? child moree important prriorities with I think when we align our priorities o true values our onvenien nce or the st atus values,, not cconvenience status quo q can have have the kind of community communit o y we quo,, we can t truly w ant. want. Carolyn C aarroolyn J Jett, et ett, t Sant ta Cruz Santa

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assem assemblymembers mblymembers to do so. so. “I think it’s t it’s ref ref lective lective of consistent consisten nt princ ciples between between Sierra Club and d principles m viiew of how I represent represent our coastal coaastal myy view inter e ,� sa ests ys Monning. Monning. interests,� says Staate Sen. Sen. Joe Joe Simitian, Simitian, who who State re preesents the the district district encompassing encompassing represents S antaa Cruz Cruz and and Palo Palo Alto, Alto, didn’t didn’t do do Santa sso o badly badly either, either, scoring scoring 13 13 out out of of 115. 5. The The two two demerits demerits stem stem from fro r m d isagrreement over over the the Bay Bay Delta Delta disagreement ggovernance overnance bill, bill, which which Simitian Simitian wrote, wro r te, aand nd its its corresponding corresponding $11.1 $11.1 billion billion w ater bond. bond. Simitian Simitian stands stands by by his his water re cord r . record.

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Orders w ould b ubject tto o cchange hange b y Orders would bee ssubject by an incoming incoming governor—again governor—again next next an year. year. Monning says says he he was was also also concerned concerned Monning by the the passage passage of of A.B. A.B. X3 X3 81, 81, which which by allowed a free fre r e pass pass from frrom California California allowed Environmental Quality Quality Act Act provisions provisions Environmental for a football football stadium stadium being b eing built built in in for the City City of of Industry Industry in in Los L s Angeles Lo Angeles the County, a potentially potentially precedent-setting precedent--setting County, loophole, but but was was pleased pleased to to have have v put put loophole, the brakes brakes on on A.B. A.B. X4 X4 23, 23, which which would would the have v approved approved new new offshore of fshore drilling drilling in in have Santa Barbara. Barbara. Santa But he he says says there’s there’s still still trouble trouble on on But the horizon horizon in in the the person p erson of of state state the Sen. Abel Abel Maldonado Maldonado (R–Santa (R–Santa Maria), Maria), Sen. the current current favorite favorite for for lieutenant lieutenant the gove v rnor. governor. “Should he he be be confirmed, conf irmed, he he could could “Should become a second second vote vote in in favor favvor of of become offshore drilling drilling on on the the California California offshore Staate Lands Lands Commission,� Commission,� Monning Monning State says. “We’re “We’re going going to to have havve to to continue continue says. to be b e vigilant.� vigilant.� Outgoing Outgoing Lt. Lt. Gov. Gov. John John to Garamendi voted voted against against drilling drilling in in Garamendi Februar y. February. A for for Maldonado’s Maldonado’s own own record, record r , As he scored scored a dismal dismal three three out out 15 15 he on the the report repor t card. card. District District 28 28 on Assemblymemb er Anna Anna Caballero, Caballero, Assemblymember who represents represents Watsonville Watsonville and and who Salinas, had had a mixed mixed review review with with her her Salinas, score of of eight. eight. score With only only five f ive legislators legislators scoring scoring With 10 0 percent p ercent in in 2009, 20 09, compared compared to to 100 42 in in 2008, 20 0 8, it’s it’s clear clear that that this this was was a 42 disappointing year year in in the the Sierra Sierra Club’s Club’s disappointing view. view. “I think think that that the the budget budget crisis crisis did did “I block us us from frrom making making the the progress progre r ss block we need need to to make, make, and and I would would also also we say that that there there was was some some damage damage done done say by rollbacks, rollbacks, weakening weakening of of quality quality by standards exemptions exemptions in in the the California California standards Environmental Quality Quality Act, Act, some some of of Environmental the policy policy errors errors that that were were made made in in the the the water package—all package—all of of those those took to ok us us in in water the wrong wrong direction,� direction,� says says Magavern. Magavvern. the Monning adds adds that that the the blame blame falls falls Monning on the the governor governor as as well. well. on “The proof proof is is in in the the pudding. pudding. His His “The votes speak sp eak for for themselves,� themselves,� he he says. says. votes “He’ll have havve some some work work to to do do to to “He’ll maintain the the mantle mantle of of the the ‘green ‘grreen maintain gove v rnor.’ I don’t don’t know know if if that’s that’s governor.’ deser ved at at this this point.� point.�0 deserved

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The Year We Wish Had Happened It was one for the record books, this 2009. Oh, sure, there were bright points: the inauguration, some entertaining scandals, the inauguration, Giants slugger Pablo ‘Kung-Fu Panda’ Sandoval, the inauguration. But for the most part, when we look back at this annus horribilis of bankruptcies and bailouts, we prefer to contemplate what might have happened rather than what actually did.

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During polling to consider new rules on panhandling, Santa Cruz city leaders found that the only thing residents hate more than beggars with a sense of entitlement are terrible musicians. Talented artists and performers abound in downtown Santa Cruz, it seems, but according to shoppers and locals, there is also a rotating cast of people who ought to be kept no less than 300 feet from any object capable of making a sound—as in not even allowed to have change that might jingle in their pockets.

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Responding to the outcry, city leaders formed a three-judge talent board to force potential street musicians to obtain a license through an American Idol–style audition. “We believe that performing in front of a nitpicking trio of judges will produce better quality street musicians,� said Downtown Association executive director, talent judge and Simon Cowell look-alike Chip. “Plus, the humiliating entertainment it will produce will have much more community value than any instrument these morons might try to play.�

430@C/@G Santa Cruz Gives Federal Stimulus Money Back to Residents Having received $11.3 million from the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Santa Cruz city leaders decided that instead of repaving roads or widening highways, they would send each of the city’s 54,778 residents a check for $206.28. “I’m spending my Obama money on beer,� said a grinning 16-year-old standing outside of Longs on Front Street. “So, um, will you buy me some beer?� Other residents were more responsible, like Robert Steffen, also

known as the “Pink Umbrella Man,� who said he’ll use his stimulus cash to upgrade the pink daisies on his sneakers to orchids and roses. “Time to stimulate my feet with some fly new kicks,� whispered the slowmoving man on his way to the flower shop. “Thanks, Obama!�

Furlough Days Accompanied by Adjusted Workload Throughout California, in both the public and private sectors, employers recalibrated their expectations of workers to reflect the combination of shortened work weeks resulting from regular furlough days and reduced resources resulting from massive layoffs. Many municipalities, Santa Cruz included, went a step further by making it a misdemeanor to tell employees to “do more with less.�

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Deep in a $7 million budget deficit, the city of Santa Cruz announced it would bring back the afternoon siesta in order to cut costs and improve morale. From 1 to 3pm Monday through Friday, city offices will close while hammocks are strung up and futons folded down for what Councilmember Tony Madrigal called “something I’ve been doing at council meetings for years!� Several local businesses are taking the city’s lead in scheduling a customary naptime, and restaurants citywide revamped their menus with siestafriendly lunches like sliced turkey, barbecue ribs and white wine. No one was happier than Santa Cruz City Manager Richard Wilson, who took a moment from his Councilmember Story Time session to talk about the move. “Just look at how happy little Mikey is,� said Wilson, looking up from his Aesop’s Fables book and pointing to a teddy bear–clutching Mayor Mike Rotkin curled up on orange air mat. “The Spanish had it right all along!�

/>@7: First Lady Censured Instead of turning a blind eye to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s wife Maria Shriver’s repeated traffic violations— talking on her cell phone while driving, parking her Escalade in a red zone, not paying a parking meter while getting a coffee and muffin—traffic police wrote her a $50 million DWI (driving while irritating) ticket. The money was sent straight to a special “Insaney Day Fund� created in case the state government is hijacked by lunatics, and is being used to shore up the state’s safety net services.

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Bankrupt House-Flippers Shamed Across the United States, ordinary citizens who behaved like high-rolling real estate speculators during the housing boom—flipping houses, overleveraging their personal assets and dominating dinner parties with talk of their financial successes—were made to explain their actions to panels of frugal grandmothers. Teams of therapists were on hand to assist in case any of the subjects went into shock from the full understanding of just what colossal assholes they’d been.

8C<3 Derelict Spouses Program Launched The Obama administration introduced its new “Cash for Cuckoldersâ€? program to encourage spouses of political figures to trade in their old marriages at the first evidence of unfaithfulness, rather than playing along to preserve an outdated notion of “family values.â€? In June 2009, Jenny Sanford became the first beneficiary of the program, collecting a $3,000 rebate for her husband, Gov. Mark Sanford, after discovering a paper trail that pointed to his Argentine mistress, long before the moronic “Appalachian trailâ€? incident. She spent it on a tropical vacation to decompress. “These are outdated and unrealistic models of married life,â€? said President Obama. “We have to retire them.â€? ¨ %

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8C:G Reason Prevails at Town Hall Meetings An anonymous donor gave millions to cover the cost of getting reasonable people across the country to health-care town hall meetings, providing education on the issues in several languages, buses, day-care money and wage compensation. Millions of the uninsured working poor flooded town hall meetings to voice their support for a public option, drowning out gadflies and waving drawings of Betsy McCaughey with a Hitler mustache. Lawmakers grew a pair and passed the public option lightning quick.

California Legislature Exhibits Competence, Decency Representatives in Sacramento averted catastrophe in the form of $15 billion in cuts to education and services

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/C5CAB Mountain Man Successfully Stubs Out Cigarette on Sole of Shoe An unidentified Santa Cruz Mountain resident living somewhere near the old Lockheed facility finished his cigarette, considered tossing it into the bone-dry underbrush near his shack and decided instead to stub it out on the bottom of his boots, preventing a 7,800-acre wildfire and saving the state $29 million. The man then went inside and ate his dinner.

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=1B=03@ Tax Reform Advocate Loses It After the Commission on the 21st Century Economy authored an extremely regressive set of recommendations, commissioner Fred Keeley took his former fellow panelists hostage, barricading them inside a room ¨

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<=D3;03@ Santa Cruz County Goes Gotti on Gangs Taking a page out of the FBI playbook, the Santa Cruz Police Department and Santa Cruz County sheriffs office unleashed a Sopranos-style shakedown on local street gangs this year, using the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (better known as RICO) to indict more than 300 SureĂąo and NorteĂąo gangsters, making the county the safest in

California. Using wire taps, undercover agents and turncoat witnesses, local cops were able to charge gang members with conspiracy for connections—no matter how tenuous—to crimes ranging from murder to minors in possession of alcohol. Gangsters left off the indictments quickly realized they would no longer be tolerated and went back to San Benito County whence they’d come, leaving residents free to walk down the street shank-free once again. “If RICO laws can take down the mafia, we thought, why can’t it work with a bunch of street punks?� said police spokesman Zach Friend. “It was one of those ‘duh’ moments in law enforcement.�

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Disney had anything to do with—it suggests that it is a terrible fate to cling to a past. This is a hard lesson for animators, who are almost all terrible nostalgics. A close second to Up was Coraline, a ravishing fairy tale told with Oregon terroir (and Brothers Grimm terror); here is a more elegant tale of the dangers of coming of age than BeWZWUVb( <Se ;]]\’s spot-that-metaphor game of deflowering equals vampirization. /\dWZ BVS Ab]`g ]T /\dWZ shows that even in the age when everyone documents everyone else, it’s still possible to trust a director. Critics have remarked of BVS 6c`b :]QYS` that it is amazing a woman—Kathryn Bigelow—made such a tough movie. Could a man have directed Agnès Varda’s gentle yet incisive BVS 0SOQVSa ]T /U\|a? Here’s proof that self-documentation doesn’t have to be boring; a mirror turned to an artist can turn out to reflect a good portion of the world. And what this year was more triumphant than the display of the inner youth of an elderly lady? / AS`W]ca ;O\’s fear and trembling is the opposite. The fable of a confused hero (Michael Stuhlbarg) caught between human malice and divine silence is essential viewing in a year when possibly more nonsense was talked about God and what He wants than in perhaps any other year in the history of the world. (You could judge this nonstatistic on a basis of population alone; nearly 7 billion, and the Internet gives them quite a megaphone.) BVS 7\T]`[O\b ’s similar Midwestern blight and its study of trust and duplicity also constitute a kind of corporate critique—more Sinclair Lewis than Billy Wilder. AW\ <][P`S is as dreamy as a film could be while dealing with the unspeakably sordid subject matter of drug gangs. Cary Fukunaga’s post–City

of God filmmaking represents as accomplished a debut as we have enjoyed in years. And BVS ;OWR’s ridealong with a domestic servant is a work of great intimacy and terror, and of unexpected mercy. As for the rest of the year: I don’t know if I have energy enough left to slap it goodbye. On the nonblockbuster flank we endured a coterie of hipster comingof-age movies that make you wonder if a certain segment of society is ever going to grow up: /eOg ES 5], 5WUO\bWQ, EVS`S bVS EWZR BVW\Ua /`S. If # 2Oga ]T Ac[[S` gets the Oscar for best original script, the Academy will be rewarding screenwriters who couldn’t come up with a funnier porn-movie title than “Sweet and Shower.� It’s not a precedent we want to set.

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switching gears entirely from live action to stop-action animation, director Wes Anderson has created his most consistently enjoyable film. Based on a Roald Dahl children’s book, Fantastic Mr. Fox is a fairy tale, but it’s a realistic, slightly bleak one. Fox (voiced by George Clooney) is living a straight life with his wife (Meryl Streep). A midlife crisis rouses the beast; he decides to turn hunter once again. Retaliation comes fast and hard: the Fox is robbed of his tail by a shotgun blast. In the war that follows, Fox and his family—and, soon, all the creatures in the woods—become refugees. (RvB) B63 6C@B :=193@

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movie keeps coming back to a serene partnership—when Holmes says “The game’s afoot,� Jude Law’s formidable Watson picks up the rest of the Henry V quote. (RvB) A97< (PG-13; 116 min.) The absurd but inexorable logic of apartheid is laid out with considerable emotional impact in Skin. Based on a true story, the film follows the difficult life of Sandra Laing, born in the mid-1950s with skin color and features that would make her black in the eyes of the law, except that her parents are both white. As a genetic researcher later admits in front of an embarrassed courtroom, most Afrikaner settlers have African blood. The law makes clumsy attempts to cope with the situation—Sandra is at first termed white because of her parentage, then “colored� by her appearance, then white again. The whiplash affects her whole life, tearing at the fabric of her family, poisoning her relationships and

thrusting her into poverty. This is a grim chronicle leavened by some fine acting. Young Sandra is played by the very appealing, wideeyed young first-timer Ella Ramangwane. Sophie Okonedo (last seen in The Secret Life of Bees) takes over as the grown-up Sandra, valiantly trying to find a way to cope with personal and societal upheaval. Alice Krige is touching as Sandra’s mother, but the real surprise is Sam Neill, who gives a subtle, wound-up performance as her father. At times, director Anthony Fabian is guilty of laying on the blows of apartheid with too heavy a hand, but the film earns its tearful, haltingly hopeful conclusion. (MSG) C> 7< B63 /7@ (R; 109 min.) As the predatory Ryan Bingham, George Clooney delivers a startlingly good performance. Sadly, the film is compromised by director Jason Reitman, who shows signs of morphing into Cameron Crowe. Bingham is a hired terminator—a man

brought in to fire people; he tolerates this job with benefits of an executive life with plenty of travel. Enter a young, seemingly equally callous rival (Anna Kendrick). Having this inexperienced girl along interrupts Ryan’s regularly scheduled no-strings f lings with a fellow constant business traveler, Alex (Vera Farmiga). The acrid first half is the best part—Clooney makes us admire Ryan’s gamesmanship. The film wants us to equate two different kinds of toxicities—to draw a line between the corporate bloodletting that juices up stock portfolios and the wrongness of the present-tense sex life that Ryan and Alex enjoy. Too bad that Farmiga and Clooney are such a scintillating pair that you don’t want to see them pay the piper. (RvB) B63 G=C<5 D71B=@7/

Unforgivably static, despite the fascinating subject: the early and often unpopular years of the longest-

reigning and most iron-bottomed British royal who ever lived. As Victoria, the lovely and suitably aristocratic Emily Blunt is the best part of this story. Treated with brutal overcaution and surveillance by her mother, the Duchess of Kent (Miranda Richardson), and her friend (perhaps with benefits) Lord Conroy, the girl is kept locked up and escorted down all stairs as if she were a brittle-boned child. When she grows older, her cousin Albert (Rupert Friend) comes to court, and this starts a romance, tainted with scheming by the power in Albert’s family, the perfidious Belgian king (Thomas Kretschmann). Director Jean-Marc ValÊe slows things down and smooths over the complexities of history; matters get simplified to the point where it seems like nothing is going on in the world outside the problem of Victoria trying to get some time alone with Albert. The sketchy background and the slow pace bring on the familiar PBS-watcher’s narcosis. (RvB)

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Diner’s Guide

Our selective list of area restaurants includes those that have been favorably reviewed in print by Santa Cruz Weekly food critics and others that have been sampled but not reviewed in print. All visits by our writers are made anonymously, and all expenses are paid by Metro Santa Cruz. AG;0=:A ;/23 A7;>:3( + C\RS` + # + $ + O\R c^

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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 Marianne’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. “Best Eggs Benedict in Town.� Happy Hour Mon-Fri 5-6pm. Halfprice appetizers; wines by the glass. Daily 8am-9pm. ’60s Vegas meets ’50s Waikiki. Amazing dining experience in kitchy yet swanky tropical setting. Fresh fish, great steaks, vegetarian. Full-service tiki bar. Happy-hour tiki drinks. Aloha Fri, Sat lunch 11:30am-5pm. Dinner nightly 5pm-close.

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Seafood/California. Fresh catch made your way! Plus many other wonderful menu items. Great view. Full bar. Happy hour Mon-Fri. Brunch Sat-Sun 10am-2pm. Open daily. Italian. La Posta serves Italian food made in the old style— simple and delicious. Wed-Thu 5-9pm, Fri-Sat 5-9:30pm and Sun 5-8pm.

Fine Mexican cuisine. Opening daily at noon. 49-B Municipal Wharf, 831.458.9393 1319 Pacific Ave, 831.420.1700

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

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Thai. Individually prepared with the freshest ingredients, plus ambrosia bubble teas, shakes. Mon-Thu 11:30am-9:30pm, Fri 11:30am-10pm, Sat noon-10pm, Sun noon-9:30pm. Italian-American. Mouthwatering, generous portions, friendly service and the best patio in town. Full bar. Lunch Mon-Fri 11:30am, dinner nightly at 5pm. Irish pub and restaurant. Informal pub fare with reliable execution. Lunch and dinner all day, open Mon-Fri 11:30ammidnight, Sat-Sun 11:30am-1:30am. Wine bar with menu. Flawless plates of great character and flavor; sexy menu listings and wines to match. Lunch Wed-Sat noon2pm; dinner Mon-Thu 5-10pm, Fri-Sat 5-11pm, Sun 4-10pm; retail shop Mon 5pm-close, Tue-Sat noon-close, Sun 4pm-close. Pizza. Specializing in authentic Sicilian and square pizza. Homemade pasta, fresh sandwiches, soups, salads and more. Hot slices always ready. Sun-Thu 10am-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 10am-11pm. Pizza. Pizza, fresh salads, sandwiches, wings, desserts, beers on tap. Patio dining, sports on HDTV and free WiFi. Large groups and catering. Open and delivering Fri-Sat 11am-2am, Mon-Thu 11am-1am, Sun 11am-midnight.

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

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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.

710 Front St (Next to Trader Joe’s)

(831) 427-4444

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Astrology Free Will

By Rob Brezsny

For the week of December 30 /@73A (March 21–April 19): One of my favorite landscape painters makes a livable wage from selling her art. She has had many gallery showings and has garnered much critical acclaim. That’s the good news. The bad news is that she feels obligated to keep churning out more landscape paintings—even when her muse nudges her to take a detour into, say, abstract expressionism or surrealistic portraits. Galleries don’t want anything from her except the stuff that has made her semifamous. “Sometimes I fantasize about creating a series of ‘Sock Puppet Monkeys Playing Poker,’� she told me. If she were an Aries, I’d advise her to do what I think you should do in 2010: Listen to what your version of the sock puppet monkeys are urging you to do. B/C@CA (April 20–May 20): My Taurus friend Jill had a dream in which she stopped by a blackberry bush on a summer afternoon. All the ripe blackberries were too high on the bush, just out of reach. She stood there gazing longingly up at them for a long time. Finally three people in medieval garb came by, as if having stepped out of a deck of Tarot cards—a warrior, magician and priestess. “I really want those blackberries,� she said to them. “Could you give me a boost?� They stooped down to make their backs available. She climbed up, but still couldn’t reach the berries. “Oh well, we tried,� she said. “Follow us,� said the priestess, and she did. After a while they came to another bush whose blackberries were lower and easy to pluck. Then the four shared the feast. After analyzing the omens for 2010, Taurus, I’ve come to the conclusion that Jill’s dream is an apt metaphor for your best possible destiny in 2010. 53;7<7 (May 21–June 20): “We should not think of our past as definitely settled, for we are not a stone or a tree,� wrote poet Czeslaw Milosz. “My past changes every minute according to the meaning given it now, in this moment.� I suggest you make abundant use of this wisdom in 2010. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will have unprecedented power to re-vision and reinterpret your past. Keep the following question in mind as you go about your work: “How can I recreate my history so as to make my willpower stronger, my love of life more intense, and my future more interesting?�

1/<13@ (June 21–July 22): I think everyone should always have an improbable quest playing at the edges of their imagination—you know, some heroic task that provokes deep thoughts and rouses noble passions even if it also incites smoldering torment. I’m talking about an extravagant dream that’s perhaps a bit farfetched but not entirely insane; a goal that constantly rouses you to stretch your possibilities and open your mind further; a wild hope whose pursuit makes you smarter and stronger even if you never fully accomplish it. The coming year would be an excellent time to keep such an adventure at the forefront of your awareness. :3= (July 23–Aug. 22): A guy who goes by the name of “Winter� has made it his goal to visit every Starbucks in the world. According to his website, he has thus far ordered drinks in 9,874 stores. His project contrasts dramatically with an acquaintance of mine who calls herself “Indian Summer.� She is in the midst of a global pilgrimage to the hundreds of sites listed in Colin Wilson’s book The Atlas of Holy Places and Sacred Sites, including cave paintings, dolmens, medicine wheels and temples. Guess which of these two explorers I’m nominating to be one of your inspirational heroes in 2010. D7@5= (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): Scientific studies have proved what we all knew already: A person who’s only mildly interesting to you will probably become more attractive if you drink a couple of pints of beer. What if I told you, Virgo, that in 2010 you could regularly create the same effect without drinking the beer? I have it on good astrological authority that this will be the case. Due to fundamental shifts in your relationship with the life force, and having nothing to do with how much alcohol you consume, the entire world will often be at least 25 percent more attractive to you than it ever was before.

:70@/ (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): Your limitations will be among your greatest assets in 2010. Yes, you heard me right, Libra; I’m not speaking ironically or sarcastically. During the coming months, you will be able to benefit from circumstances that you might otherwise imagine would prevent you from operating

with maximum freedom. It might require you to look at the world upside-down, or work in reverse to your habitual thought patterns, but you could actually generate interesting opportunities, vital teachings and maybe even financial gain by capitalizing on your socalled liabilities.

A1=@>7= (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): “Dear Rob: I sure don’t like so much God stuff mixed into my horoscopes. Can you cut it out, please? I understand it’s common for the masses to believe in an Ultra Being, but you? Pul-lease. You’re smarter than that. I just can’t abide all the ‘Divine Wow’ this and ‘Cackling Goddess’ nonsense that you dispense; it doesn’t jibe with the practical, sensible, unsuperstitious, nonmushy world I hold dear.� —Sally Scorpio Dear Sally: I predict that many Scorpios will have sensational, ongoing, up-close and personal communion with the Divine Wow in 2010. You’re free, of course, to call it something else, like an unprecedented eruption of creative energy or a breakthrough in your ability to access your own higher powers.

A/57BB/@7CA (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): You Sagittarians may wander farther and wider than the other signs of the zodiac, and you may get itchier when required to stay in one place too long, but you still need a sense of belonging. Whether that comes from having a certain building where you feel comfortable or a wilderness that evokes your beloved adventurousness or a tribe that gives you a sense of community, you thrive when you’re in regular touch with a homing signal that keeps you grounded. According to my analysis, 2010 will be prime time for you to find or create or renew your connection to a source that serves this purpose well. 1/>@71=@< (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): “I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,� said American politician Everett Dirksen, “the first of which is to be flexible at all times.� That’s the kind of playful and resilient spirit I urge you to aspire to in 2010, Capricorn. I think you’re most likely to have a successful year if you regularly explore the joys of improvisation. The more empirical and less theory-bound you’re willing to be, the better you’ll feel. Practicing the art of compromise doesn’t have to be galling, I promise you; it may even turn out to be more fun and educational than you imagined possible.

/?C/@7CA (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): Who and what do you hold most dear, Aquarius? I encourage you to get clear about that. Once you do, I hope you’ll make a vow to bestow extra care and attention on them in 2010—I mean literally write out a one-page oath in which you describe the inner states you will cultivate in yourself while you’re in their presence and the specific actions you’re going to take to help them thrive. Nothing else you do will be more important to your success in 2010. >7A13A (Feb. 19–March 20): The philosopher Nietzsche said there was no middle ground: You either said “yes� to life or you said “no.� You either celebrated your vitality, enjoyed your power, and thrived on challenges, or else you practiced constant self-denial, hemmed yourself in with deluded rationalizations, and tormented yourself with indecision. I’m not so sure it’s always as clear-cut as that. While I’m usually in the “yes to life� camp,� I’ve gone through “no to life� phases, as well as some extended “maybe to life� times. What about you, Pisces? Whatever you’ve done in the past, I hope that in 2010 you will take maximum advantage of the cosmic rhythms, which will be encouraging you to give life a big, resounding, ongoing YES. B] QVSQY ]cb [g Sf^O\RSR OcRW] T]`SQOab ]T g]c` RSabW\g W\ U] b] @SOZ/ab`]Z]Ug Q][ Go to @3/:/AB@=:=5G 1=; to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone &%% &%! "&&& or 1.900.950.7700

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