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LECTION results rarely have a single explanation. Yet itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty clear that Scott Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s special election win in a state that last sent a Republican to the United States Senate in 1978 is an indicator of the turbulent national political mood a year after Obama took office.

There is a generalized anti-establishment anger at loose in this country, reinforced by a White House team that has delivered for Wall Street but not enough for hurting communities. It is an anger also fueled by often savage right-wing anti-government attacks.

This special election is a wake-up call and should lead to a course correction.

The Democratic party can no longer run as a managerial and technocratic party. Going populist is now smart politics and good policy.

The Obama White House needs to show, quickly and forcefully, with concrete, bold and visible action, that it stands with the working people of America. Here is a symbolic but smart start: jettison those on the White House economic team whose slow, timid response to the crisis of unemployment and to Wall Streetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obscene excesses helped create the conditions for the Tea Partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inchoate right-wing populism.

Leadership on pro-democracy reforms are also desperately needed to end the corruption of our politics and to staunch the corporate money f looding and deforming our democracy. Connect the dots for people: explain how needed reforms are gutted when both parties succumb to the pervasive corruption of our money politics. If the GOPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obstructionism has a silver lining, it is in exposing how an anti-democratic, supermajority filibuster has essentially made our system dysfunctional. There is fertile ground on which to rally people in a transpartisan political reform movement.

Massachusetts offers another lesson: Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to demobilize his base in 2009 in favor of an insider approach to governing was a big mistake.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a political strategist, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how you win elections by failing to rouse people whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked hardest at the grassroots to get you elected. It is time to remobilize the base.

And hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a no-brainer: Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it time to give up on that faith in genteel post-partisanship when the GOP knifes you at every turn? Nice isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to create more jobs or get health-care reform.

Before pivoting to a laserlike focus on jobs and the economy, passing the strongest possible health-care bill as quickly as is feasible is a top priority.

There are various procedural options being considered. (Passing the Senate bill followed by changes via budget reconciliation may be a smart and even realistic idea.) Passing a bill wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be the Democratsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; political salvationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but if Obama and his party fail it would be the most catastrophic legislative failure since 1994 and possibly snuff out any chance for reform in other arenas moving forward.

President Obama warned us that change wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come easy. Many believe he hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t held up his end in fighting hard enough for key progressive priorities.

What comes next will test the presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s willingness to learn the lessons of this last year. Get tough, get bold, kiss â&#x20AC;&#x153;post-partisanshipâ&#x20AC;? goodbye and fight hard for jobs and a just economy of shared prosperity. And put yourself squarely back on the side of working people.

President Obama: Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pay attention to those who counsel going slow.

The only thing you have to fear is caution itself.

KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL is the editor and publisher of The Nation magazine, where this article first appeared.

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According to both a representative for the U.S. Department of Justice and the ACLU attorney representing WAMM, this memorandum set the stage for the settlement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was pretty clear to everyone, including the judge, that the change in policy meant it was time to talk about settling the case,â&#x20AC;? says ACLU lawyer Allen Hopper.

Dreams of Genies The settlement says, in essence, that the government agrees to leave WAMM alone as long as it abides by state laws. It also agrees that should the feds renege on their promise, the lawsuit can pop right back up in

Judge Fogelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s courtroom and proceed. Although Uelmen acknowledges that the settlement does not establish precedent, the decision is an important milestone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a level of commitment,â&#x20AC;? he says.

Hopper adds, â&#x20AC;&#x153;All these decisions have been reviewed at the highest level in the Justice Department.â&#x20AC;?

The WAMM members themselves were less effusive in their reactions. Valerie Corral called it a â&#x20AC;&#x153;winkâ&#x20AC;? from the government. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a huge personal victory for Michael and I,â&#x20AC;? she said in the hallway outside the courtroom. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done two things: weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve helped take medical marijuana mainstream, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve kept the case open. If they break their promiseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can spank them,â&#x20AC;? interrupted Michael, smiling wryly.

Medical marijuana is most definitely mainstream these days. Fourteen states now have medical marijuana legalization laws, and a dozen more are heading in that direction.

California is ahead of the pack, of course, and District 13 Assemblymember Tom Ammiano has taken it a step further by getting

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a marijuana legalization bill, A.B. 390, through committee for the first time in U.S. history. Although time ran out before it could make it on to the Assembly floor, the San Francisco representative plans to reintroduce A.B. 390 in early February.

The bill is of interest to District 27 Assemblymember Bill Monning, though not of course without some caveats. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I favor decriminalization, but with strict controls. My concern on legalization is that it perhaps sends the wrong message to young people and families,â&#x20AC;? he says. Nevertheless, he does take into consideration the potential boost to state coffers that marijuana taxation could provide. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you remove it from the criminal justice system, you also save money on prosecutions, in courts, jails, prisons. I think one of the strong arguments in favor of the Ammiano bill is if you remove it from the criminal underground, the related violence and felony activity goes along with it.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a savings that needs to be better understood.â&#x20AC;?

As for the WAMM decision itself, the lawyers involved concede that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a commitment from Obama and Holder, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;nothing enforceable.

But when asked whether a change in administration could yank that commitment, Hopper says he doubts it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By then weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have had these years where states have set up these procedures, the sky didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fall [and] there will have been additional tax revenue to local governments. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be very difficult for a future administration to say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Whoa, stop.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of hard to put the genie back in the bottle.â&#x20AC;?

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The result is the Bike Dojo, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Cycling Community.â&#x20AC;? And for anyone who joins, Mylls and his partner Delfina Gimeno promise a year-round ticket to gorgeous scenery, better fitness and maybe even some new friends. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What we try and do is create a community that people can join that teaches them the right way to ride and the best places to do it,â&#x20AC;? says Mylls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We offer accountability, a lot of know-how and a great group of people that will get you into cycling.â&#x20AC;? ¨

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Mylls has spent the better part of 33 years competing in bike races and triathlons. Built like a cross between an Olympic squat lifter and a teddy bear, his tree-trunk legs say â&#x20AC;&#x153;die-hard cyclist,â&#x20AC;? while his upper body physique and gregarious personality say â&#x20AC;&#x153;awesome drinking buddy.â&#x20AC;? Eventually Mylls wants to open a downtown storefront with stationary bikes and a place to meet before rides. But for now, his cluttered Santa Cruz garageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;packed with colorful

road bikes, cruisers, BMXs, tandems and track bikes, along with barrels of seats, pedals, sprockets, spokes, helmets and race jerseysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is the Dojoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nerve center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Basically, I love cycling, I think everyone should cycle, but there is a learning curve, and people want to learn it quickly,â&#x20AC;? says Mylls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where we come in.â&#x20AC;?

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So where does a relatively athletic but notoriously lazy reporter fit in? I entered the Dojo to find the answer.

Hours after my first ride, the error of my equipment choice is made clear to me, and I spend the weekend hobbling around like a Texas gunslinger Man vs. Seat Joining the Dojo took some internal pep-talking on my partâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;mainly because I bike, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cycle. The sweatless, onemile-smile I spend biking to work most days bears little relation to the quadpumping, taint-bruising cycling done by folks looking for a proper means of exercise. So as I arrive at Santa Cruz News Cafe on Mission Street on the brisk winter morning of my first ride, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pleasantly surprised to see that, despite some scattered spandex, the crew of cyclists looks more ragtag than hardcore. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I only had a stationary bike, and even if I had had a bike I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have known where to ride it,â&#x20AC;? says Cassandra Christine, a lithe-looking redhead sucking down coffee before the ride. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then I met Rob and Delfina, and they taught me all the best places to go. Now

I always have someone to go with and someone to check up on me and make sure I ride.â&#x20AC;?

Jose Maldonado, a chatty 29-year-old from Oaxaca, came to cycling for the practicality of it but stayed for the competitive satisfaction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I got laid off from my job in Las Vegas I gave up my car and moved back to Santa Cruz,â&#x20AC;? says the ever-smiling Maldonado, who rides, rain or shine, to his jobs at Stagnaro Brothers and Toadal Fitness. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was saving up for a car, but I loved riding bikes so much that I spent the money on a new race bike instead. Now I ride with Rob and Delfina all the time to train. My goal someday is to do an Iron Man.â&#x20AC;?

Having cavalierly ignored Myllsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; advice that I bring a pair of padded bike shorts, I ride â&#x20AC;&#x153;barebackâ&#x20AC;? with the group of about 10 cyclists from Mission Street to Santa Cruz Harbor along West Cliff and East Cliff and through several side routes back to our starting point. Hours later, the error of my equipment choice is made clear to me, and I spend the weekend hobbling around like a Texas gunslinger.

On my second ride with the Dojo, I correct my rookie trouser mistake and armor the Cartier jewels in a pair of padded bike shorts from The Spokesman Bicycles. Upping the difficulty in light of my upgrade, we take advantage of the gorgeous January weather and ride up Highway 9 to Felton. As stunning as the twists and turns are, however, I admit they would look that much more attractive with a quaint little bicycle lane tacked on to either side of the asphalt. But safety notwithstanding, the 15-mile ride proves both challenging and enjoyable, with sunlight-flecked redwoods whizzing by amid the calls of passing birds and the shouts of passing drivers flipping birds. Conversation rarely ceases around Mylls and Co., with the preferred formula being ruthless but good-humored ridicule mixed in with movie quotes and the occasional hip-hop rendition of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s hits.

By the time we reach the bottom (after a photo-op-turned-two-bikepileup that leaves Mylls and friend Jennifer Nebo with bumps and bruises to both their elbows and their egos) we are 15 miles stronger and about 2.4 cheeseburgers lighter.

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burned, I begin thinking about folks who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily into cycling but rather just looking to get fit. Eric Hand is a clinical exercise physiologist with Dominican Hospitalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center for Lifestyle Management. He works with people of all ages, some of them diabetic or obese and in desperate medical need of better fitness.

According to him, there are few better methods of burning calories than jumping on a bicycle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From a cardiovascular perspective, cycling is great for the heart and lungs.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good way to increase the overall fitness level and is also great for weight loss,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The key to losing weight is expending more energy than you put into your body. And cycling is especially good because you can accumulate your time while you commute to the store or to work or whatever. It comes down to whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s convenient and what works, and for a lot of people, cycling is both

convenient and enjoyable.â&#x20AC;?

The data backs up Handâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s claims.

The Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports lists vigorous cycling as burning 612 calories per hour. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more than basketball, football, aerobic dancing, tennis and even swimming.

And as my jellolike shoulders attest since the Felton ride, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just the legs that get worked riding a road bike. Leaning forward and steering works the upper body, too.

So what did I learn during my brief schooling in Myllsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dojo? I suppose itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that bike riding isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for everyone. There will always be those who prefer toiling, hamsterlike, on a stationary machine in the dank warrens of a gym. But there are also those who would rather tone the ticker while watching the waves of Monterey Bay splash against West Cliff Drive. For them, cycling is the way to go, and the Bike Dojo is a great means to get there. 0

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Years ago, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d read a quote from the Dalai Lama that said one of the secrets to happiness is to do something youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never done at least once a month. Or

was it once a week? Honestly, all Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever been able to achieve is â&#x20AC;&#x153;once in a while,â&#x20AC;? but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an idea that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come back to every time the doldrums strike.

And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve found that this something is best if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at least a little out of character.

The thing I was most looking for was fun with a capital â&#x20AC;&#x153;F.â&#x20AC;? I kept thinking of that line in Fight Club about the fighters starting to â&#x20AC;&#x153;see everything differentlyâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fight Club gets to be your reason for going to the gym and keeping your hair cut short and cutting your nails.â&#x20AC;? I wanted something like that, but without all the face-punching. ¨ &

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Zumba is one of the latest crazes in fitness: a combination of aerobics with Latin dance, hip-hop and whatever other high-energy, hip-wiggling dance styles the instructor decides to include in her choreography. As best I can tell, the choice of music (always fast and often techno- and rap-inflected Latin rock) and choreography varies from instructor to instructor. Some make it girlier than others, but all make it girly. Because, if nothing else, Zumba is almost entirely by and for women.

On my first day, I rolled up to the throng of women milling outside the doors waiting for class to begin. They were immediately surprised, even thrilled, to learn that a man was going to be joining them. I explained that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d done some Afro-Cuban dance a few years ago and knew the basic samba step, so I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going in totally cold. They assured me that, though it was confusing at first because thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not much how-to instruction, I shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry. Everyone is confused initially.

For the first few songs the steps were reasonably easy to follow. Sure, I felt a little silly prancing and hip-bomping, and even sillier with all the punctuating cries of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come on, ladies!â&#x20AC;? and the high-pitched cries of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whoooo!â&#x20AC;? But fortunately, female friends had told me that just being brave enough to show up gets you lots of extra credit with the ladies.

But then the â&#x20AC;&#x153;routinesâ&#x20AC;? songs started, and I was completely lost. Every couple of steps something new was happening, and I was always behind, off balance, spinning spastically, my brain buzzing with confusion. Every time I started to vaguely understand the choreography, the song was over. Invariably, the next song was even more confusing.

Somewhere in there, though, I was still having fun. And when it was over, I was sweating like a squeezed sponge and pleasantly exhausted. How did that happen?

Before I left, one of my classmates exclaimed, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You did awesome!â&#x20AC;? She said Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d done way better than she had in her first class, which felt good. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry about getting all the steps,â&#x20AC;? she encouraged me. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who cares, as long as youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re moving and having fun? Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get the steps eventuallyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just keep coming back!â&#x20AC;?

Reader, I did. I went back later that week and have been going twice a week for the last few months. And I did pick the steps upâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;slowly. I still got confused, but I stopped worrying about it and just smiled.

I also noticed changes in my body

almost immediately. The too-tightaround-my-belly jacket of a week before was now loose. My initially sore knees and ankles started feeling strong and lubricated, no longer crackling all the time, in ways that years of biking and yoga had never fixed. I found myself randomly jumping and skipping (at age 37) just because I could. My old belt has come in two notches. And I feel like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really living in my body and enjoying its flow of movement in a way that all these years of being a smart guy failed to give me.

Sure, I felt a little silly prancing and hip-bomping, and even sillier with all the punctuating cries of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Come on, ladies!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; But friends had told me that just being brave enough to show up gets you credit with the ladies.

So now I am seeing things a little differently. I feel more confident. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m downright evangelical about my newly reclaimed health. A few classmates call me the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zumba Kingâ&#x20AC;? (to which I reply: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not much competitionâ&#x20AC;?). Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m even thinking of buying dance sneakers.

Sure, I still occasionally feel like a Brazilian tranny on a Carnivale float, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m OK with that. Those trannies are having a blast.

And now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the one telling the newbies at the end of class: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who cares if you got all the steps perfect? All that matters is that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re moving and that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having fun.â&#x20AC;? 0

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Basing their results on a fairly exhaustive survey of fitness professionals and club owners, the ACE predicts that this year it will all be about . . . â&#x20AC;˘ Cost-Conscious Workouts. Less personal training time, perhaps even less gymmembership time, will be spent as the Great Recession drags endlessly on, capturing too many of us in its sooty tide. Of course, exercising and staying fit are important job-seeking tools as they help to abate depression and act to clear the brain. Plus, it gives you something to do until Oprah. â&#x20AC;˘ Buddy System. Group training rather

than personal training marks this year as belt-tighteners look to shave more than just inches by having small knots of strangers sweat alongside them to split the cost. â&#x20AC;˘ Thirty as a Magic Number. More of us donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to spend the languor of an entire hour on our fitness routinesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; OK, most of us donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to spend even five minutesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;making intense half-hour workouts the trend. The thinking is: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so fast, you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even remember it! â&#x20AC;˘ Exergaming. Perhaps the most ungainly word of the decade, â&#x20AC;&#x153;exergamingâ&#x20AC;? refers to engaging Wii and other electronic games as a prompt for movement.

Health clubs and gyms are embracing the trend as it means less actual human instructors on the payroll. Actual humans seem to like it just fine anyway. â&#x20AC;˘ Novelty Niche. If getting your heart rate up for 30 minutes a day and eating less were all it took to lose weight, everyone ¨

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This Certain Someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who is really becoming terribly thin and should think of others by eating much more than her iPhone currently allowsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;says that knowing the calorie count of everything and her own daily limit is like being given a fresh wad of cash every day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just decide how to spend it,â&#x20AC;? she says, the hollows of her cheeks sucking inward, mimicking the mandibular ways of runway models. Not for the iPhone but recommended by the ACE are the tracking items GoWear Fit and Fitbit.

Our Certain Someone could probably recommend them, too, if she werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so weakened by selfishly maintaining her ideal healthy weight while making it seem so easy. . . .

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PEAKING of those darned exotic exercises, the mashup is in, particularly when it comes to the core. Witness e^adm^c\, a combination of pilates and boxing. According to the exhausted young reporter that the Times of London sent to the gym to try this stuff out, such cross-training was designed to create â&#x20AC;&#x153;an army of sleek, sexy, powerful womenâ&#x20AC;? who can high-kick an intruder in the face while maintaining a healthy and engaged lower back and strengthening their Kegels. Then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s IZcE^aViZh, a caffeinated hep-up that results in an aerobic high somehow achieved while prone on those torture sleighs known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;reformer beds.â&#x20AC;? He^c"AViZh has participants jumping from the stationary bike after 30 minutes of sprints and long uphill climbs directly to the unstable playground of the proformer machine for a half-hour of ungainly gravity-sucking stretches that cause muscles to freak out as they scramble to stabilize. Eeeevil. . . .

And finally, the hot new exercise that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to get to try because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only been introduced in 21 cosmopolitan

cities around the world (think Sydney and Manhattan, not Felton and Aptos) is ?j`Vg^. Developed by Reebok and Cirque du Soleil, Jukari not surprisingly requires lots of coolio Reebok-branded equipment and special sleek Reebok-branded clothing and could probably benefit from a new pair of Reebok-inscribed tennies but essentially can be done by anyone with a rope and a pair of sweats. A group workout that has participants swinging en masse on trapeze as well as doing standing pushups and other more traditional moves transposed upright, Jukari comes from the Sicilian dialect and translates as â&#x20AC;&#x153;to play.â&#x20AC;? It looks suspiciously easy to hoist oneself up on a bar and fly across the room with Reeboked knees held high, but if our fitness routines have taught us even one single thing itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that nothing, not even plain old playing, is as easy as it looks.

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LOSER to home, local public health crusader Jeri Ross saw the whole workout buddy trend coming from a long way off, thank you very much, and launched lll#WdY^WjYY^Z#Xdb! an e-commerce site that aims to help women connect for workouts. Just 3 weeks old, the site features articles on beauty, health and fitness and a suite of products for sale (mostly in the key of cellulite creams and eye serums) that have been personally vetted by Ross herself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are so many products on the market that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re advertised to do,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best if the recommendations come from other women.â&#x20AC;? Through social networking, Ross is also building a database that she hopes women will use to find exercise partners.

In the land of bricks and mortar, ?ZggnĂ&#x2030;h Hedgih has settled into its new location at 1148 Soquel Ave., on the corner of Seabright and Soquel in the old HarleyDavidson space. The 13,000-square-foot store stocks a wide range of athletic shoes, workout gear, swimsuits, goggles and more. Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also has big ballsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the kind you use to make pilates more excruciating or for strengthening core muscles by using in place of an office chair. The helpful staff will even blow it up for you.

And IdVYVa ;^icZhh is heading westâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; to a roomy new Westside location on Mission Street Extension near the base of Western Drive. The new center, which will bring Toadalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total up to five locations, will feature lots of classes for kids and teens and plenty to keep their parents occupied, too. Owner Christophe Bellito hopes the new location will be up and running by the first of April. 0

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<]c`WaV BVS =[ @]][ 130 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz 831.425.1355; www.nourishsantacruz.com Drop-in class $20; unlimited monthly pass $50 During a recent lunchtime class in Nourishâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s small but aesthetically appealing upstairs studio, it became clear why teacher Victor Dubin has won a devoted Santa Cruz following. As hypnotic music played quietly, Dubin talked the class through poses, reminding us to make honest assessments of our limitations and occasionally pausing to gently correct technique.

At Nourish, the former proprietor of the Westsideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Om Room is joined by four other accomplished yoga teachers specializing variously in hatha, Iyengar and other disciplines. A highly regarded nutritional counseling program and the availability of massage make Nourish a truly full-service center for health, while the convenient location and thoughtfully constructed class schedule (lunch classes last just 45 minutes) make it one youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll actually use.

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AO\bO 1`ch G]UO 402 Ingalls St., Santa Cruz 831.331.3955; www.santacruzyoga.net Drop-in class $12 With 11 instructors, Santa Cruz Yoga will have 45 classes per week, including Vinyasa Flow, post-natal and prenatal yoga, Iyengar and a Sunday morning meditation, among others. The studio, which just opened on Monday, Jan. 25, will also feature ongoing teaching and apprenticing. Bonus: the brand-spanking-new space was designed by green architect Peter Spellman and features bamboo f loors, low-toxicity paint and low-voltage lighting. And the close proximity to Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s French Bakery makes post-yoga muffins an unofficial part of the deal.

A`W 1VOWbO\gO AO`OaeOb ASdO /aV`O[ 2900 N. Rodeo Gulch Road, Soquel 831.462.4712; www.scsmath.com Class fee by donation Since 1993 the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Seva Ashram has been a center for Bhakti yoga, which does incorporate asanas (poses) but goes beyond physical practice to include chanting, prayer, the reading of ancient texts and the practice of â&#x20AC;&#x153;prasadam,â&#x20AC;? or mercy (food, in this case; anyone can come and eat for free, and the ashram distributes food to the homeless). Situated on 26 acres in the rolling Aptos hills, the ashram offers two classes a day, both free, though donations are welcome.

DWZZOUS G]UO 0WY`O[ 1106 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz 831.425.9642; www.bikramyogasantacruz.com Drop-in class $15 Village Yoga specializes in Bikram, which takes place in a heated room and adds the element of toxin release through sweat.

Students focus on 26 poses and two breathing exercises in the humid studio space in downtown Santa Cruz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a harsh heat, you feel like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got these big arms coming around youâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nice, warm hug,â&#x20AC;? says co-owner Sally Adams. Beginners are welcome

in all classes and with 15 certified Bikram instructors, classes run from three to seven times a day, allowing those with busy or strange schedules ample opportunity to get in their daily dose of om. New students should be sure to pack a great big towelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sweating is mandatory.

G]UO 1S\bS` AO\bO 1`ch 428C Front St., Santa Cruz 831.423.6719; www.yogacentersantacruz.com Drop-in class $13 This downtown studio specializes in Iyengar, a school of yoga named after the living Indian yoga master, and boasts a senior instructor, Kofi Busia, who was taught and certified by the guru himself. Yoga Center owner and director Maya Lev describes the discipline as concentrating on proper alignment, with an equal emphasis on strength and flexibility. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We hold poses longer,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you sit in a pose or stand in a pose and you focus your mind intensely on doing this, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re training your mind how to meditate. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a really valuable skill.â&#x20AC;? This high-ceilinged and lightfilled studio hosts beginning to advanced classes, as well as prenatal and restorative yoga.

G]UO EWbVW\ 8035 Soquel Drive, Suite 27, Aptos 831.818.2903; www.yogawithin.com Drop-in class $12 This intimate and elegant studio is a peaceful retreat in Aptos, especially in instructor Amey Mathewsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Iyengar-inspired class, which is part exercise, part therapy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The idea is that our physical practice weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing on the mat is helping us to refine our interpersonal relationships with ourselves and other people,â&#x20AC;? she says in her exceptionally soothing voice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no music, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not as much quick movement.â&#x20AC;?

Though the pace is a little more slow and methodical than other styles (â&#x20AC;&#x153;quieter,â&#x20AC;? Mathews likes to say), the emphasis on strength and holding poses means students are sure to feel it the following day. The studio offers several other styles of yoga besides Iyengar, including yoga for meditation, Viniyoga and even a candlelit class, among others. They provide the own eco-friendly mats, blocks and blankets. 0

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HIL MOORE says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d rather spend time studying birds in the isolated forests of North Carolina than do just about anything else. The singer/songwriter of the folk outfit Bowerbirdsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;playing the Brookdale Lodge on Friday with Canadian folkie Julie Doironâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;derives most of his songwriting inspiration from the days he spent tracking a species of small bird named the â&#x20AC;&#x153;plaintive warblerâ&#x20AC;? for the North Carolina Museum of Sciences while living alone in a remote cabin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was a biology major,â&#x20AC;? he says from his North Carolina apartment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nature really affects me when Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in it. I guess itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m passionate about, so it naturally comes up in songs.â&#x20AC;?

Moore says his other muse is his girlfriend and band mate, Beth Tacular.

And while the nature-love-folk formula is a tad clichĂŠ, the Bowerbirdsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; music isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. There arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t any lines about Tacularâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hair blowing in a distant wind, nor is there any trace of in-your-face, environmentalist proselytizing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You could be angry and write some punk rock songs, but the other way is just to write and make people aware about whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on,â&#x20AC;? Moore says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more helpful and it works. Well, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if it works, but hopefully it works better.â&#x20AC;?

On â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Our Talons,â&#x20AC;? from the Bowerbirds debut Hymns for a Dark Horseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;rated fourth of the 15 best albums of 2007 by daytrotter.comâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Moore sings, And the warblers sing And the sparrows sing Through the wheels, through the wheels on the interstate And hear no refrain.

07@2A =4 / 43/B63@ North Carolina trio the Bowerbirds play the Brookdale Lodge this Friday.

Moore says he witnessed this scene every day when he lived in the woods.

Tacularâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accordion meanders along throughout the songâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sparrowlike, you might say.

Moore admits that some of the songs about Tacular were initially hard to play in a concert setting with her standing beside him onstage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were a couple songs that were tough to perform live with Beth at first,â&#x20AC;? Moore says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But overall, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really rewarding.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Silver Cloudâ&#x20AC;? was one of those songs.

You could move like a secret and slip past my life But you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to quit moving words around to show who was right.

The song resounds with a quietness that cuts through a thicket of acoustic guitar and mandolin; Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice strains with a naivetĂŠ similar to Bonnie â&#x20AC;&#x153;Princeâ&#x20AC;? Billy or Little Wings.

After talking with Moore for a short

while, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obvious that his heart belongs to the mountains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I miss the work, tracking the warblers,â&#x20AC;? Moore says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really quiet work and one of the best jobs Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever had.â&#x20AC;? He says he and Tacular are in the midst of building a cabin together in North Carolina. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The structure is finished with a roof and everything, but there are still holes and all the interior needs to be done,â&#x20AC;?

Moore says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we finish our cabin, Beth can do her art and I can eventually write some music; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not really eager to write more songs or tour, I kinda just want to live right now.â&#x20AC;?

THE BOWERBIRDS play Friday, Jan. 29, at 8pm at the Brookdale Lodge, 11570 Hwy. 9, Brookdale.

Tickets are $12 at http://folk yeahramble.blogspot.com.

(831.338.1300)

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Sunday, Jan. 31, 10amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;4pm, Cocoanut Grove, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz. $7. 831.423.2053.

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Film Capsules

Movie reviews by Steve Palopoli, Mel Valentin and Richard von Busack

Heath Ledger Christopher Plummer Tom Waits Johnny Depp Colin Farrell Jude Law (PG-13)

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Michael Cera Portia Doubleday Fred Willard Steve Buscemi Ray Liotta Zach Galifianakis BASED ON THE CULT NOVEL BY

C.D. PAYNE (R)

Daily: (2:00),

(4:00), 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 plus Sat, Sun (12 noon)

Colin Firth

Julianne Moore (R)

Daily: (2:45), (5:00), 7:15, 9:20 plus Sat, Sun (12:30)

HELD BY POPULAR DEMAND!

(R)

Fri 1/29 & Sat 1/30 11:20pm Midnights @ The Del Mar Fun! Prizes! Broncanous!

From the Director of â&#x20AC;&#x153;NAPOLEON DYNAMITEâ&#x20AC;?

Gentlemen Broncos (PG-13) Fri 1/29 & Sat 1/30 @ Midnight Next Week: Almost Famous

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(R; 117 min.) Mel Gibson plays ... geesh, I lost you already? Câ&#x20AC;&#x2122;mon, give it a chance. Here we go: Mel Gibson plays ... a cop ... who ... has to find out who killed his daughterâ&#x20AC;Śand stands up to the system ... because this time itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal ...

OK, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re right, never mind. (Opens Fri at 41st Avenue, Santa Cruz Cinema 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley,) (SP) 53<B:3;3< 0@=<1=A (PG-13;

100 min.) Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess returns with a comedy about a teenage writer who discovers his idea has been stolen by

Jemaine Clement. I wish it was an idea for a third season of Flight of the Conchords, but apparently no such luck. (Opens Fri at the Del Mar.) (SP) >7<9 4:=G2 B63 E/:: (1982) How

did this movie ever get popular with the midnight mind-altered?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possibly the worst film in history to take drugs to. As in, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fucking scary! Yes, I want to get high and watch giant flowers that look like genitals rip each other apart. Thanks.

In an unrelated story, I heard that if you play the soundtrack to The Wizard of Oz while you watch it, it totally matches up. Or at the very least makes it less depressing. (Plays

Thu at Santa Cruz Cinema 9.) (SP)

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where 9-foot-tall, blueskinned noble savages called Naâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;vi live in a phosphorescent forest full of saurian beasts.

Jake (Sam Worthington) is the paraplegic brother of a dead soldier hooked up to a Naâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;vi shell; the program is under the direction of a chain-smoking biologist (Sigourney Weaver). The politics play it both ways; letting us swoon over the military hardware and still lament for the plundered forests. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to see it, see it in 3-D. (RvB)

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min.) In the future, Earthling mercenaries are shipped to the planet Pandora,

100 min.) Blaxploitation comedy cult hit has a larger-than-life superbrother sticking it

E63< 7< @=;3 (PG13) Romantic comedy has Kristen Bell discovering every guy in sight is suddenly chasing her after she throws some coins in a fountain of love on a trip to Rome.

She thinks the fountain must really be magic.

Apparently sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never encountered Italian men before. (Opens Fri at Santa Cruz Cinema 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley.)

(SP)

SHOWTIMES

Golden Globes including

Winner Best Actor - Jeff Bridges! â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jeff Bridges gives a powerful, moving performance!â&#x20AC;?

to the man. You might be thinking Undercover Brother, but this is more outrageous, a take-off on Rudy Ray Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rhyming, bragging Dolemite character. (SP) B63 0:7<2 A723 (PG-

13; 126 min.) The film focuses on Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), who overcame homelessness as a teenager to received a football scholarship to the University of Mississippi and later played in the NFL. Oher succeeded with the help of a wealthy Christian couple, Ole Miss grads Leigh Anne (Sandra Bullock) and Sean Tuohy (Tim McGraw), who took Oher in and made him a part of their family. (MV)

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(R; 118 min.) Denzel Washington stars as the usual wanderer on the usual postapocalyptic wastes. The Hughes brothersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bible-flogging apocalypso could be read as a Western, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a monomaniacal one.

Washington underplays the part of a soft-spoken drifter who deals with a vicious yet zany town boss (Gary Oldman). The film is blessed with actors (Tom Waits, Michael Gambon and a probably synthesized but touching Mr. Bigglesworth cat), but the movie has this pious streak that canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be overcome. Scriptwriter Gary Whitta, as in the IMDb sentence, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gary Whitta was editor of PC Gamer for several years,â&#x20AC;?

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Jan. 27, through Wednesday, Feb. 3, unless otherwise indicated. Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Roger Ebert

Jeff Bridges Maggie Gyllenhaal Robert Duval Colin Farrell (R)

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(R; 135 min.) A sleek, twisty mystery, illuminated by the stunning PenĂŠlope Cruz, the new Pedro AlmodĂłvar is also a sprawler. The James M. Cainâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;style plot involves a blind film director from Madrid (LuĂ­s Homar).

After losing his sight, the filmmaker took the ballsy new name â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harry Caineâ&#x20AC;? and became a writer. News of the death of a corrupt tycoon sends Caine back to confront unfinished businessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to retrieve the moment 16 years previously where he lost both love and sight. The dead tycoon in question, a cuckolded millionaire named Ernesto Martel (JosĂŠ Luis GĂłmez), unwillingly shared the love of Caineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. Lena, known as Magdalena, was an actress, secretary and parttime prostitute who took as her working-girl name Severine. She, of course, is played by Cruz. No one but AlmodĂłvar knows how to make Cruz really fascinating. (RvB) 1@/HG 63/@B (R; 119 min.) Crazy Heart gives Jeff Bridges a belly-baring role, with his slit-eyed country singer Bad Blake as a kind of Bad Lebowski, a morose sweet-talking satyr drinking his way to the grave. On tour in his ancient 1978 Chevy Suburban, he meets a former Oklahoma newspaper reporter, Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal).

What truly concerns Jean is the influence this charismatic wreck of a man will be on her young son. Robert Duvall, who co-produced, plays a clean and sober bar owner in Houston who is also Badâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mentor.

Ultimately, it may be that Bridges is more fun to watch as a drunkardâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; his Bad has a hostile, coolly funny mean streak

that goes away when he gets dry and sensitive.

(RvB) 3FB@/=@27</@G ;3/AC@3A (PG; 105

min.) Two children of an Oregon businessman are doomed to die of a rare disease. Fearlessly, the father quits his job and starts a new career financing the development of an experimental drug. The search means recruiting an unappreciated researcher on the subject: crusty Cornhusker Dr. Robert Stonehill (Harrison Ford), the T-shirt-wearing, pickup-truck-driving kind of physician they customarily build medical shows around.

Then comes the conflict: Stonehill, as per his indomitable name, goes up against the internally bleeding family man John Crowley (Brendan Fraser), who knows how to wear a suit and beat the bushes for money. Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance is funny at first, and then becomes a one-note sonata. He bellows â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get the hell out of my labâ&#x20AC;? more than once. Ford is headed for curmudgeonness, a good living; in a year or two, shave his head, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to play Dick Cheney. Fraser is, like Ford, a good actor caught in the mangle of franchise-making machinery. One never loses faith in Fraser, but he needs to look for tougher material to go with his new fleshiness: a sharp bastard, a crooked sheriff. (RvB) B63 7;/57</@7C; =4 2=1B=@ >/@</AACA

(R; 117 min.) For Terry Gilliam, Don Quixote is still the ur-text. Despite the various stops and starts he has had adapting the Cervantes classic, Gilliam repeatedly makes films about fantasy as an escape from a cruel world. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, a very personal and not-so-coherent fantasy, has Christopher Plummer in the Man of la Mancha role this time, with Verne Troyer as Percy, a dwarf Sancho Panza. Plummer plays Doctor Parnassus, an immortal sage reduced to busking in a horse-drawn Gypsy wagon. He and his crew set up their stand

in the streets of modernday London at its vilest, trying to lure patrons in to a world beyond the doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mirror. On board is his daughter, who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that she has been promised to the devil on her 16th birthday; Mr. Nick (Tom Waits) is sniffing around already. During their travels, the group rescues a hanged man named Tony (an irresolute Heath Ledger). Certainly, Gilliamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love for antique theater is trueâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;although the greasepaint and cardboard make one wonder why he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stage this story instead of filming it. (RvB) 7<D71BCA (PG-13; 143

min.) Based on John Carlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book Playing the Enemy, Clint Eastwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film tells of South African president Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) exhorting the South African Springboks to greatness in the Rugby world cup as a public-relations move to heal the racial divisions. Team captain Francois Pienaar is not much of a role, but Matt Damon makes it a model of recessive, intelligent interpretation. (RvB) B63 :=AA =4 / B3/@2@=> 27/;=<2 (PG-13; 110

min.) Adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play about a Southern heiress who revels in breaking the rules stars Bryce Dallas Howard and Ellen Burstyn.

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(PGâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;13; 135 min.)

Spielberg-produced supernatural thriller is an adaptation of Alice Seboldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s harrowing novel about a young murder victim who lingers between this world and the next. A miscast Stanley Tucci appears along with Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Susan Sarandon and Saoirse Ronan. <7<3 (PG-13; 117 min.)

Federico Felliniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8 1/2 (1963) is boiled down to a musical series of celebs in pushup bras.

An Italian film director, Guido (Daniel DayLewis), has announced an ambitious new film project. But Guido has no idea what the film is going to be, and the time to start shooting is

coming up. Director Rob Marshall (Chicago) has calmed the camerawork downâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previously been an addict of fast cutting to make a group of mostly nonsingers and nondancers to look like lightfooted showstoppers. But only Marion Cotillard, as Guidoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much-spurned wife, delivers a number that leaves an aftereffect.

As Guidoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mistress, PenĂŠlope Cruz is edible (if slightly self-conscious) sliding down a satin banister. Nicole Kidman is the pedestal girl, inserted into a strapless evening gown that makes her look like a single arrow in a quiver.

Kate Hudson is the Yank journalist who only pays attention to the surfaces of Italian film. What we see in Nine is not an artist in peril of his soul; what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really seeing in these musical fantasies is essentially the problems of a creatively blocked choreographer. (RvB) / A7<5:3 ;/< (R; 109 min.) Based on Christopher Isherwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early-1960s novel, canonical in gay literature but slightly dusty today.

A British professor (Colin Firth) teaching in L.A. loses his longtime companion in a car accident and has decided he can no longer stand the pain. He finds some consolation with a harddrinking old friend (and ex-lover) called Charley (Julianne Moore); on his route, he encounters young men who are both interesting and interested.

Noteworthy as a great comeback performance

by Firth, who has had much substandard work to deal with lately.

Firth plays George with sensitivity and grace, and a sense of the era that most of the performers here lack. Director Tom Ford shows his roots as a fashion designer, focusing on surfaces. The clothes donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make the men.

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(PG; 101 min.) It might rekindle your childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s faith in the tooth fairy, but it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do their faith in the movies any good. Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. the Rock, stars as a mean hockey player on the skids in Lansing, Mich. His remark about the nonexistence

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seems to have retrofitted this film from a video game. In the end, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to overlook the arbitrariness of what survives (sunglasses, high-powered ammo, Hummers, lingerie, cicadas, the Transamerica Pyramid) over what doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t (common sense, humansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; unique ability to invent and band together). (RvB)

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Lembeck) let Ellison play the kid as too troubled, but at least thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sense in him of troubles too big to be healed by the usual â&#x20AC;&#x153;dream bigâ&#x20AC;? speeches.

Billy Crystal is mucho bad as fairylandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gadget expert. Julie Andrews, as the head fairy, goes beyond self-parody into a look of near pain; she recalls her old foe Pauline Kaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comment: â&#x20AC;&#x153;They may have forgotten how to make good movies in Hollywood, but at least theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re good at preserving people.â&#x20AC;? (RvB) 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 terminatorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;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 Ryanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regularly scheduled no-strings flings with a fellow constant business traveler, Alex (Vera Farmiga). The acrid first half is the best partâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Clooney makes us admire Ryanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gamesmanship. The film wants us to equate two different kinds of toxicitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;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 donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to see them pay the piper. (RvB)

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 Albertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family, the perfidious Belgian king Leopold (Thomas Kretschmann).

Director Jean-Marc ValĂŠe 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. (RvB)

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(PG; 112 min.) Michael Cera plays Nick Twisp in Miguel Artetaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alternadate movie. Young Nick is a virgin in the leafier part of Oakland, and he

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canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stand it. His momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boyfriend of the day, Jerry (Zach Galifianakis), has to leave town suddenly.

Jerry, Nick and the mom in question (Jean Smart) go vacationing at â&#x20AC;&#x153;Restless Axles,â&#x20AC;? a sad trailer park by a lake.

There, Nick meets a girl who is too good to be real: Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday), kept under lock and key by her parents. Nick is determined to get next to her at all costsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even if it means creating the identity of â&#x20AC;&#x153;François Dillinger,â&#x20AC;? a kind of Big Lots version of the breezy heel Belmondo played in Breathless. Small-scale mayhem follows in Francoisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; wake. Based on a self-published novel

by C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt invokes numerous local sites, from Ukiah to Santa Cruz (though for budget reasons, the movie was shot in Louisiana and Michigan). The writing is so crisp that one ignores the incidents of dead air and the jokes that fail to build. Despite a nod to computers at the beginning, this is a film that carries out its scheme of rebel cool against a background of vinyl LPs, French New Wave references, pay telephones and a thinly veiled version of the book The Joy of Sex. (RvB)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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respect while he was alive, but his reputation as a brilliant bard didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t gel right away. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until almost 50 years after he died that anyone thought his life and work were notable enough to write about. By then, all his colleagues and compatriots were gone, unable to testify. He himself left little information to build a biography around. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why next to nothing is known about the person who made such a dramatic impact on the English language and literature. I suggest you take this as a metaphorical prod that will inspire you not to be blasĂŠ about the greatness that is in your vicinity.

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all you survey! I swear to God! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m almost tempted to say that you now have the power to command whirlwinds and alter the course of mighty rivers! At the very least you will be able to mobilize the ambition of everyone you encounter and brighten the future of every group youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re part of ! Act with confident precision, Taurus! Speak with crisp authority! Your realm waits expectantly for the transformative decisions that will issue from the fresh depths of your emotional intelligence!

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awayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to flee the safe pleasures that comfort you as well as the outmoded fixations that haunt you; to escape at least one of the galling compromises that twists your spirit as well as a familiar groove that numbs your intelligence. In my astrological opinion, Gemini, you need to get excited by stimuli that come from outside your known universe. You need fertile surprises that motivate you to resort to unpredictable solutions.

1/<13@ (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;I never meet anyone who admits to having had a happy childhood,â&#x20AC;? said writer Jessamyn West. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone appears to think happiness betokens a lack of sensitivity.â&#x20AC;? I agree, and go further. Many creative people I know actually brag about how messed up their early life was, as if that was a crucial ingredient in turning them into the geniuses they are today. Well, excuse me for breaking the taboo, but I, Rob Brezsny, had a happy childhood, and it did not prevent me from becoming a sensitive artist. In fact, it helped. Now I ask you, my fellow Cancerian, whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re brave enough to go against the grain and confess that your early years had some wonderful moments?

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a phase of your cycle when recalling the beauty and joy of the past could be profoundly invigorating.

:3= (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): Usually I overflow with advice about how to access your soulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s code. I love to help you express the unique blueprint that sets you apart from everyone else. Every now and then, though, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a healing balm to take a sabbatical from exploring the intricacies of your core truths. This is one of those times.

For the next ten days, I invite you to enjoy the privilege of being absolutely nobody. Revel in the pure emptiness of having no clue about your deep identity. If anyone asks you, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who are you?â&#x20AC;?, relish the bubbly freedom that comes from cheerfully saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have no freaking idea!â&#x20AC;?

D7@5= (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): French novelist Gustave Flaubert (1821â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1880) is generally regarded as one of the greats. His book Madame Bovary appears on many lists of the greatest novels of all time. And yet writing didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come especially easy for him. He worked as hard as a ditch-digger. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t uncommon for him to spend several agonizing days in squeezing out a single page.

On some occasions he literally beat his head against a wall, as if trying to dislodge the right words from their hiding place in his brain. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your role model in the coming week, Virgo. You can create something of value, although it may require hard labor. :70@/ (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): My theory is that right now the whole world is in love with you. In some places, this simmering adoration is bordering on infatuation.

Creatures great and small are more apt than usual to recognize whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beautiful and original about you. As a result, wonders and marvels are likely to coalesce in your vicinity. Is there anything you can do to ensure that events unfold in ways that will yield maximum benefits for everyone concerned? Yes: Be yourself with as much tender intensity as you can muster.

A1=@>7= (Oct. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 21): I hope that you saw the horoscope I wrote for you last week. And I hope that you acted on my advice and refrained from all

sweating and striving and struggling. These past seven days were designed by the universe to be a time for you to recharge your psychic battery. Assuming that you took advantage of the opportunity, you should now be ready to shift gears. In this new phase, your assignment is to work extra hard and extra sweet on yourself. By that I mean you should make your way down into your depths and change around everything that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t functioning with grace and power. Tweak your attitudes. Rearrange your emotional flow. Be an introspective master of self-refinement.

A/57BB/@7CA (Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): This horoscope borrows from one of my favorite Sagittarian visionaries, Jonathan Zap. The advice he gives below, which is in accordance with your astrological omens, is designed to help you avoid the fate he warns against. Here it is: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Many of the significant problems in our lives are more about recognizing the obvious rather than discovering the mysterious or hidden. One of the classic ways we deceive and hide from ourselves is by refusing to recognize the obvious, and shrouding what is right before us in rationalization and false complexity. We often delay and deny necessary transformation by claiming that there is a mysterious answer hidden from us, when actually we know the answers but pretend that we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.â&#x20AC;? (More at bit.ly/ZapOracle and Zaporacle.com.)

1/>@71=@< (Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 19): Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good time to take inventory of all the stories you allow to pour into your beautiful head. Do you absorb a relentless stream of fear-inducing news reports and violent movies and gossipy tales of decline and degeneration? Well, then, guess what: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the equivalent, for your psyche, of eating rotting bear intestines and crud scraped off a dumpster wall and pitchers full of trans fats from partially hydrogenated oil. But maybe, on the other hand, you tend to expose yourself to comedies that loosen your fixations and poems that stretch your understanding of the human condition and conversations about all the things that are working pretty well. If so, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taking good care of your precious insides; youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re fostering your mental health. Now please drink in this fresh truth from Nigerian writer Ben Okri: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.â&#x20AC;?

/?C/@7CA (Jan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): In the coming week, I predict that you will not experience disgusting fascinations, smiling-faced failures, sensationalized accounts of useless developments, or bizarre fantasies in the middle of the night. You may, on the other hand, have encounters with uplifting disappointments, incendiary offers of assistance, mysterious declarations of interdependence, and uproars that provoke your awe and humility in healing ways. In other words, Aquarius, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be an uncanny, perhaps controversial time for youâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but always leading in the direction of greater freedom.

>7A13A (Feb. 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20): Congrats on your growing ability to do more floating and less thrashing as you cascade down the stream of consciousness. I think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re finally understanding that a little bit of chaos isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a sign that everythingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s falling apart forever omigod the entire planetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crashing and evil is in ascension . . . but rather that a healthy amount of bewildering unpredictability keeps things fresh and clean. My advice is to learn to relax even more as you glide with serene amusement through the bubbling and churning waters of life.

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