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A6=>>7<5 A6=>>7<5 3:A3E63@3 3 :A3E63@3 I HA HAVE AVE NO NOT OT shopp shopped ed in down downtown ntown Sant Santaa C ruz iin n tthe he p ast ffew ew yyears ears ffor or a n umber o Cruz past number off rreasons. easons. I m ust u se m ar tto o ttravel ravel d ue tto oh ealth must use myy ccar due health pr oblems. Th he lack of close bus siness parking g, problems. The business parking, the eexorbitant xxorbitant ffines iines ffor or parkingg infractions o infractions,, aand nd tthe he iinconsiderate nconsiderate aand nd rrude ude sstreet treet p opulace populace ha ave all ccontributed ontributed to m onizing have myy not patr patronizing S anta C ruz. I n ow ggo o ffrom rom m estside h ome Santa Cruz. now myy W Westside home tto o aass ffar ar aass Capitola Capitola with with their their ample ample and and free free

ffacilities. acilities. Im Imposing mposing aactions ctions tto o ffurther urther rreduce educe parking and motoring traf ffiic (“ Driving Factors, Factors,� traffic (“Driving C urrentts, No ov. 3) will b iinal nails in n the Currents, Nov. bee the ffinal ccoffin offfiin ffor o or me xtra x tra aveeling ob bvvioussly do es me.. My eextra traveling obviously does n ot h elp tthe he eenvironment. nvironment. S o tthe he p oint o he not help So point off tthe C limatee A ction Plan is? Climate Action Don Honda, Sa Santa anta Cruz

4/B 2@C5A /@3 4 /B 2@C5A /@3 23/2) A/D3 2 3/ /2) A/D D3 G=C@A3:4 G =C =C@A3:4 TH THE HE RECENT RECENT T withdrawal withdrawal of of tthe he diet diet d rug M eridia ffrom rom all all markets markets iiss the the llatest atest drug Meridia setback in i the long and frustrating quest ffor o or a pharm maceuticcaal solution to our obesity obesitty pharmaceutical Drug companies companies have haave spent spent millions m epidemiic. Drug epidemic. off dollars d ll rs on research dollar research h and d development, development, de el b ut none none of of the the d iet drugs drugs o n tthe he market market is is but diet on cconsidered onsiderred very very effective, efffeectivve, and some are are even eveen danger o . ous dangerous. Un nfort r unately, obesity obesity is is the the number number one one Unfortunately, public health h problem in our community communiity and problem ffor or o ur n ation ((one-third one-third o ur po pulation our nation off o our population is obese), obese)), responsible responsible ffor o or hear disease, stroke, sttroke, heartt disease, ccancer, ancer, diabetes d etes and other chronic diab chronic diseases, diseaases, and aaccounting ccounting for for millions millions o remature d eaths off p premature deaths annually y. annually. Causees of obesity obesity include consumption consumptio on of fatfatCauses lladen aden m eat aand nd d airy p roducts aand nd iinadequate nadequate meat dairy products eexercise. xercise. T he ffailure ailure o he d rug iindustry ndustryy tto o The off tthe drug ccome ome u pw ith a q uick ffix ix aadds dds eemphasis mphasis tto o tthe he up with quick d iet/exercise ssolution, olution, w hich iiss p arrticularly diet/exercise which particularly critic al during d childho od yyears, eears, when lif feestyle critical childhood lifestyle habits b ecome lif feelong addictions become lifelong addictions.. We need need to to aadopt dopt ssome ome h ealthy cchanges hanges tto o We healthy ssolve olve tthis his ccrisis. risis. L et’s sstart tart b eplacing m eat Let’s byy rreplacing meat aand nd d airy r p roducts iin no ur d iet w ith w holesome dairy products our diet with wholesome ggrains, rains, vvegetables egetables aand nd ffruits, ruits, aand nd aadopt dopt a rregular egular eexercise xer x cise pr ogram. W st our program. Wee must insis insist schools intr oduce wholesome meal cho oices ffor or o schools introduce choices our chil dren, b ecause the re. children, because theyy ar aree our futur future. LLarry arrry R Rogawitz, ogawittzz, Sa Santa antta R Rosa oosa

;=@ ;=@B74732 0G @B74732 0G ;7:7B/@G A>3<27<5 ;7: 7B/ /@G A>3<27< <5 WE C WE CANNOT ANNO OT sseriously eriously aaddress ddress tthe he b budget udget d eficit w ithout ccutting utting tthe he m ilitary b udget, w hich deficit without military budget, which ttakes ak kes e up p 59 p errcent of the discr etionary bu udget, percent discretionary budget, and thatt do esn’t ac count ffor or o o veerruns, inc cluding doesn’t account overruns, including $30 0 bil llion ab ove what Congress Congrress e authorized or o authorrized ffor $300 billion above various weap w ons ssystems yystems in the last ffive iivve yyears. e . ears weapons Militar ary spending spending is out of ccontrol o ontrol and is the Military b est plac ce ffor o or the def ficit i ha aw wks to lo ok ffor orr cuts o best place deficit hawks look cuts.. Elisabeth Elisab eth Fiekowsky, Fiekowskky, Sebastopol S asttop Seb o ol

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city/county employees, ccontractors, o ontractors, cit tyy/ccoun ntty emplo oyeees, training Workforce ttools ools tto o ccommunity ommunity ccolleges olleges aand nd W orkforce Investment Boards. off tthis means one In nvestment B oards. ((All All o his m eans o ne benefit local economy: immediate b eneffiit to o the lo cal a ec conom o my: Ecology Action’s hiring E cology A ction’s ccurrently urrently h iring ssome ome 330 0 40 new Santa Cruz tto o4 0n ew eemployees, mployees, iin nS anta C ruz aand nd iin n work project.) other ccounties, ounties, to wo ork on the pr oject.) The both The other other ttwo wo ssubcontractors ubcontractors aare re b oth Bay Area–based. Renewable Funding Ba ay Ar ea based R ea–based. en enewable F unding is developing web portal rresponsible esponsible ffor or d eveloping tthe he w eb p ortal that will cconnect onnect cconsumers on nsumers to rrebates, ebates, low-interest like. ccontractors, ontractors, low-inte erest loans and the lik e. Renewable Funding with R enewable Fu unding is is also also partnering partnering w ith state treasurer’s office the st ate tr easurer’s of o ffiice to administer piece off tthe program. The tthe he ffinancing inancing p iece o he p rogram. Th he third partner, MIG,, will provide thir d par tnerr, MIG w pr ovvide the marketing education mark eting and educ caation ccomponents omponents ffor or o Energy Upgrade California. Ener gy U pgrade C aliiffornia. o

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contraactors, who rreceive contractors, eceivve training and partt of the pr program. ccertification ertiffiication as par ogram. It’s Itt’s a complex complex web web of of governmental governmental agencies, energy projects, agenc cies, ener gy pr ojects, ccontractors ontractors and a Ecology Action’s ffinancing. inanc i cingg. And Ec ology A cction’s rightt in the middle m of it. “There’s “Th here’s an economic economic benefit beneffiit associated associated with off p programs, w ith these these types types o rograms,� says says Colin Colin Clark, Action’s C lark, Ecology Ecology A ction’s cclimate limate ggroup roup program manager. thumb: pr rogrram manager r. “The rule of thum mb: spent energyffor or every o eveery dollar sp ent doing ener gyprojects, $6.70 back eefficient fficient p rojects, $ 6.70 ggoes oes b ack tto o tthe he There’s huge llocal ocal eeconomy. conomy. T here’s a h uge eeconomic conomic stimulus. stimu ulus.� Ecology three Ecolo o gy Action Acction is one of thr ree e subcontractors involved program. sub contractors o in nvo olvved e in the pr ogram m. It’s with It t’s ttasked asked w ith aadministering dministering tthe he providing on-the$33 million m grant and pr oviding v on-the eground support: technical assistance and oun gr nd supp ort: technic caal assist ance an nd outreach participating property owners, outrreeaach to par ticipating pr ro operty own wners,

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HE DOS AND don’ts of buying sustainable seafood have become common knowledge for many Americans, thanks in large part to the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program and its wallet-size reference cards, which offer simple guidelines to making smart purchases in the seafood department. Yet even as many consumers do their best to dodge red-listed items, fishmongers still dangle them before our noses. Concerned about the continued offering of such items in stores, a class of UC–Santa Cruz undergrads has developed a rating system of retail seafood markets that could put the pressure on companies that carry some of the biggest no-nos, such as Chilean sea bass and farmed salmon, to clean up their acts. Created as an experimental nonprofit in professor Don Croll’s marine conservation biology class, Sea Change Santa Cruz, as the students have named their organization, evaluates stores and supermarkets based on the coldest, hardest

data there is: the fish they sell. The system, which works on a scale of 1 to 10, has been applied to a handful of major Santa Cruz County retail locations. New Leaf Markets attained the greenest score in town—a 7.6—while Costco scraped the bottom with a 1.6. In between are local markets like Shopper’s Corner, Stagnaro’s and Staff of Life and chains like Safeway, Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. Sea Change Santa Cruz’s creators hope that lower-scoring markets will strive to match the better scores of their competitors. “We wanted to create the incentive to change, so that stores might even compete with each other for the best ratings,� said Jonah Mulski, a 33-year-old student in Croll’s class who helped lead and develop the project. He says Sea Change Santa Cruz’s rating system is intended to fill a gap in the sustainable seafood movement. “Other groups have produced information to educate consumers and allow them to support sustainable seafood

industries,� Mulski said. He added that the Seafood Watch cards are helpful but can create confusion if consumers are unsure of how or where certain species were harvested. “So we want retailers to take responsibility. They’re the one link in the seafood chain that hasn’t been pressured yet to change.� Sea Change Santa Cruz’s sustainability scores of local stores and supermarkets are to be displayed on the organization’s website and on fliers being distributed by the students at farmers markets, in downtown Santa Cruz, in Capitola and on the UC–Santa Cruz campus. But Mulski acknowledged that the evaluation system is not failsafe. Markets that have scored well “still sell red-listed species,� Mulski said, “and it’s important that consumers educate themselves and stay informed as to what’s red-listed and what’s not.� Activists with Greenpeace assisted Croll’s class in developing the rating system’s criteria and running the first survey of local stores. For their part, the students developed and incorporated a “localness factor� into the scoring scheme, with a critical eye on how many miles away the fish was caught, processed and packaged. “We think it’s as important to support local economies and keep the carbon footprint down as it is for stores to sell sustainably fished species,� Mulski said. As the fall quarter nears its end at UCSC, Sea Change Santa Cruz nears an uncertain future. Says Croll, “One of the exercises of this class is to ask the students what they want to do next� in terms of maintaining the system as a viable, active organization. Sea Change Santa Cruz would not be the first sustainable seafood advocacy group to begin in the classroom. Santa Cruz–based Fishwise originated at UCSC as a project of two graduate students in 2002. Today, Fishwise advises companies nationwide, including New Leaf Markets and some 1,500 locations of Safeway, in developing sustainable fish- and shellfishbuying programs. The organization also works closer to the water, encouraging fishermen to improve their practices rather than simply encouraging retailers to drop the products from their inventories. Mulski says Sea Change Santa Cruz is likely to continue operating after the school quarter ends in December, and he anticipates follow-up surveys to track any changes or progress in how local businesses manage their seafood inventories. “In Santa Cruz there are markets that support healthy oceans and those that don’t,� he said, “and we want the public to know who’s who.� Learn more at www.seachangesantacruz.org.

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representative for JC>I: =:G:, says. “Either we’re going to have a big fight—boycott, picketing—or we’re going to reach a deal.� On Tuesday morning labor leaders and management gathered in one of the banquet rooms in the Dream Inn’s Aquarius restaurant, where a mediator was set to arbitrate discussions between the union and the hotel. The hotel’s interests are represented by the operator, ?d^Z YZ K^kgZ =diZah, which runs a number of boutique hotels around the state, and the Southern California–based developer :chZbWaZ GZVa :hiViZ, which owns an 80 percent share of the Dream Inn. The two parties were attempting to cut $300,000 from the hotel’s labor costs in the negotiations. That’s down from management’s initial target of $500,000. Reached Tuesday morning, hotel officials declined to comment, saying it wouldn’t be appropriate to weigh in on active negotiations. According to labor activists, after a year of discussion between Joie de Vivre, Ensemble and the union, three issues remain unresolved: insurance (the hotel currently provides insurance free for its employees, but is considering changing its policy); the eight-hour work day (the hotel would like to switch to a 7.5-hour day to avoid paying for employees’ meal time) and paid vacation. Vacation time is particularly important, Keegan says, “because at the Dream Inn there is very little turnover. Many workers have accrued a lot of vacation time and they want to be able to use it.� For its part, the union has agreed to forgo a wage increase in order to protect insurance, holidays and meals. “We’ve been without wage increases for two years, and people are barely making it on what they have,� Keegan says, adding, “we are open to accepting another year [without an increase], or maybe longer.� There was a lot of pressure on Tuesday’s negotiation—the hotel will reportedly receive a special rate on a new insurance plan proposed by the union if an agreement is reached this month, and if not, the hotel workers plan to go forward with a rally the day after Thanksgiving.— Tessa Stuart

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HREE YEARS ago this month Amazon unveiled its groundbreaking Kindle e-reader. The original Kindle featured a 6-by-4-inch grayscale screen, could hold approximately 200 titles, retailed for about $400 and— since it was the only device of its kind on the market—sold out a projected five months’ worth of stock in a little over five hours. Holiday shoppers who weren’t on top of their game had to wait until April of the following year to get their hands on the coveted contraption. This season Amazon’s reader is finally facing some stiff competition as the go-to gift for your favorite 933>7<5 B/0A Uif!jQbeÖt! bibliophile—from Barnes & Noble cfbvuz!jt!voefojbcmf-!cvu!bt!b! cppl!efmjwfsz!tztufn!ju!ibt! and Sony, which have both released tpnf!tfsjpvt!tipsudpnjoht/ their own models, and from a profusion of cheap knock-offs as well as a cadre of crossover tablets that do a whole lot more than present novels. With so many options to choose from, a person in the market for an e-reader likely won’t be banished to the end of a long waiting list, but the decision will be a tougher one to make. Giving the gift of literature these days is slightly more complicated. It requires an inquiry in to the reader’s needs and habits. Is the giftee, for example, known to consume a fat stack of novels or multiple tomes of nonfiction while on extended vacations in the tropics? Then any one of the current class of e-readers—the Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook or any of three available Sony Readers—would be a fine choice. Each utilizes E-Ink, technology that replicates the experience of reading a printed page so that even in daylight, words appear as clear as, well, day. E-Ink uses very little power (each of the aforementioned models can provide nearly a month of reading with a single charge) and is easy on the eyes (literally; it’s a much more gentle experience than staring at a backlit screen). That said, E-Ink has its limitations: it can’t reproduce color, meaning that children’s books, cookbooks, and comic . . . er, graphic novels are out, and the experience of reading magazines is severely impaired. E-Ink also updates very slowly, so it’s not the choice for multimedia consumption or surfing the web. Tablets, meanwhile, are ideally suited to precisely these purposes. With tablets it’s possible to store photos, watch movies, listen to music, surf the web, read email and access thousands of apps of all kinds—games, guides and oh yeah, books.There are a slew of tablets and e-readers available—some pretty good (Sony’s Reader, Touch and Daily editions) and others prohibitively expensive and pretty terrible (HP’s Slate)—but these four represent the best of their respective genres.

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Nook/NookColor Barnes & Nobel’s reader, called the Nook, is available in two versions: the original black and white version and the NookColor, released just this month. The original Nook features two screens—a larger, 6-inch screen on which book pages are displayed, and a smaller touch screen below for navigation. In addition to the more than 2 million titles Barnes & Nobles boasts are available on the device, the Nook (unlike the Kindle) is open source. That means it’s compatible with third party publishing formats like ePub, and it means you can bring a Nook into your local library and load it up with all kinds of books for free. The new NookColor features a 7-inch backlit LCD touch screen. In addition to being the only color reader currently available, it is also the only reader with a touch screen, making it kind of a combination tablet and e-reader. While the color screen makes it possible to read magazines and picture books, because it is LCD rather than E-Ink, it reduces the device’s battery life significantly—NookColor lasts eight hours compared to Nook’s 10 days. In addition to possessing all the functionality of the original black and white version, the NookColor can also read Word and Excel documents, surf the web, play movies and music and run Android apps from the Barnes and Noble store. It has the capacity to hold 6,000 books compared to the Nook’s 1,500, and retails for $249, while the Nook goes for $149.

iPad The iPad is a gorgeous, swoon-worthy, even product. Its giant, 9.7-inch crystal-clear display and super-fast 1-Ghz A4 processor make it the perfect medium for watching movies, surfing the web and reading magazines and newspapers (in app form). Strictly speaking of its functionality as a book reader, the backlit screen is slightly harder on the eyes than an E-Ink device, and while the Kindle and Nook both include a 3G subscription free with purchase, access to 3G on the iPad (and every other tablet) requires an additional subscription fee. Weighing in at 1.5 pounds, it has more heft to it than a reader, but it could hardly be considered bulky. The iPad’s beauty comes at a price, though—and not just the literal one ($499 for the low-end version, $829 for the high). In order to maintain the device’s sleek design, Apple was forced to make some sacrifices, most notably in the connectivity department. The iPad has a single port, the power dock, which means uploading photos from a camera, documents from a flash drive, music or anything else from an external harddrive can only be done one at a time, using cumbersome adapters called dongles. As a media-consuming device, though, that is where the complaints end.

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tune, and when you do it uptempo it’s very difficult.� Equally commanding whether belting a double-entendre-laden blues number or crooning a sultry standard, Nalley can scat with the rhythmic dexterity of a bebop saxophonist and deliver a ravishing ballad with a finely honed sense of drama. Over the years she’s collaborated with a procession of heavyweights, from Hammond B3 goddess Rhoda Scott and piano great James Williams to tenor sax legends David “Fathead� Newman and Houston Person. For her Kuumbwa show, Nalley performs with her longtime rhythm section featuring the supremely soulful pianist Tammy Hall, deft drummer Kent Bryson, guitar ace Josh Workman and bassist Michael Zisman, a player who earned a stellar reputation on the New York City scene in the early 1990s and helped run the Stanford Jazz Workshop for many years. “I’ve been noticing that people writing reviews rave about the tight band,� says Nalley, who likes to work without a setlist, calling songs onstage depending on the mood of the moment. “I like to feel the audience and for the sets to have an arc,

and the arc is going to change night by night. This band has been with me so long, once I start talking about a tune, most of the time they’ll know what it is. I can talk about my mother’s favorite song, or the first song Ruth Brown came out with at SFJAZZ after she had a stroke, and they’re ready to go.� When she’s not writing and starring in theatrical productions or performing internationally, Nalley teaches a collegeaccredited course on the history of jazz vocals at the Jazzschool in Berkeley. She’s also studying for a Ph.D. in history at UCBerkeley, exploring the globalization of jazz via African American expats who settled in Germany. On or off the bandstand, Nalley is always looking for another interesting story, and it’s a safe bet that whatever she finds will eventually surface in her music.

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The dancing is interspersed with juggling and clowning, and the shrieks of laughter from the under-7 crowd pronounce these practitioners more successful than their average circus cousins. Aside from a somewhat incongruous foray into projector images documenting the travails of the SoVoSo crew, the performance flows effortlessly through tumbling children and acrobats with muscles the size of softballs. There is nothing lacking in the feats of strength category, with a notable performance by Xiao Hong Weng and Jennings McCown’s gravity-defying balancing act. At the end of a two-hour visual feast, the performers take their bows and make their closing speeches, and Sugarplum Tandy shies away behind a cut-out cloud, smiling and observing all in her moth dress. The dances were choreographed by Beal, the acts were directed by Beal and her annual Cirque De Nutcracker succeeds again in shaking loose the holiday magic.

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San Francisco’s starlet has put out a new album with a little bit of everything. Lara Price’s operatically trained voice is breaking out of a self-imposed blues box, and she’s bouncing around from Aretha to Ella to Janis like a kid in a candy store. Mike Schermer, the formerly Santa Cruz–based blues guitarist/vocalist who has toured the world and more than earned the moniker “Mighty,� is the other half of tonight’s double bill. The two blues authorities have been on the musical trail since they could walk; their paths cross tonight when the silky smooth meets the rough-and-ready backed by a 10-piece band that includes some of Northern California’s greatest musicians. Moe’s Alley; $10 adv/$12 door; 8pm. (Kate Jacobson)

Known for their lush instrumentation, insightful lyrics and rich four-part harmonies, the women of Blame Sally have established themselves as a fixture in the Bay Area folk/ country/Americana music scene. Their personal-is-political, collaborative songsmithing touches on a diverse range of topics, from the environment and day-to-day life to our shifting cultural landscapes and the beauty of love. Formed in 2000, when the four band members—all solo artists in their own right—joined forces, Blame Sally brings sharp, clever and poignant songs to an ever-expanding circle of fans around the world. Kuumbwa; $20; 8pm. (Cat Johnson)

Mark Stuart made a fast name for himself on the Americana circuit as front man for the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, but he’s taken top billing with his reconstituted outfit, Mark Stuart and the Bastard Sons. An inveterate road dog, Stuart writes songs suffused with a world-weary introspection earned over a life spent between truck stops. Alt-country, old-time folk, Western Swing and even Tex-Mex are given a place at the table, demonstrating that Stuart’s range eclipses many of his peers. The band’s debut, 2009’s Bend in the Road, has a wide-screen vision and lived-in sophistication that marks Stuart as a worthy heir to his honky-tonk heroes. Crepe Place; $7; 9pm. (Paul M. Davis)

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XPECT both rich purple fantasy and dire tragedy this winter; blame the everdarkening days before the solstice or just blame the Oscars. Maybe it’s just the inevitable approach of the Fockers that makes one think of ever-gathering darkness. But there are alternatives to watching Little Fuckers (oops! My tongue slipped!) sitting around the house making doubleentendres. The most seemingly foolproof holiday movie is the Coen Brothers’ B`cS 5`Wb (Dec. 25). Jeff Bridges stars as the one-eyed U.S. Marshall Reuben “Rooster� Cogburn, late of Quantrill’s bushwhackers, bribed by an adolescent orphan to find a fugitive hiding in Indian Territory. It’s not a straightforward job. The killer ( Josh Brolin) is very bad news, Cogburn is not a young man and the arrest is complicated by a typically fancy Texas Ranger called LeBoeuf (Matt Damon) who has a competing claim on the corpus. Previews indicate this is not at all a remake of Henry Hathaway’s magnificent 1969 Western, featuring John Wayne’s most affecting acting. That movie, for all its beauty and sadness, lacks the Twain-worthy comic understatement, the evil humor and the dark places of Charles Portis’ novel. And the Coens are the perfect savage humorists to adapt the book more faithfully, as seen in the best parts of

1=E0=GA /<2 1=3<A Jeff Bridges is U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn and Hailee Steinfeld the girl leading him to avenge her father’s death in the Coen Brothers’ ‘True Grit,’ opening Christmas Day.

No Country for Old Men. Moreover, they’ve retrieved the book’s actual settings, the older True Grit being filmed amid the golden aspens in the Colorado Rockies. Here are the sticks, briars and swamps of Arkansas and the ever-mysterious Sooner State. Can anyone who loves “the rare, fragrant Dude,� in David Thomson’s words, wait to see Bridges in the role? Geeks of a certain age are all over B`]\ :SUOQg (Dec. 17), a retro-future sequel to the pioneering computer graphics movie, exploring the revived sentient video game, with its cold neon and hot cycles—and the aforementioned Bridges as the games inventor, imprisoned in his creation since the 1980s. After seeing Tangled, one is more convinced that Disney is the last refuge of color and worked-out story telling. That conviction means more than the

memories of the original, which was, let’s face it, so-so for anyone other than those who were age 12 in 1982. BVS 7ZZcaW]\Wab (opening Dec. 25 in the big cities) proposes a bold use for (f lat) animation: bring back the shade of M. Hulot! Sylvain Chomet (of the Triplets of Belleville) directs this never-produced script by the elegant and strange Jacques Tati, in which an elderly magician on the skids befriends a young girl naive enough to believe his magic is real. Advance word recommends this work of happy retroism. Chomet crustily defends a medium that some (well, when I say “some,� I mean “some idiots�) have said is dead. As Chomet told the London Guardian, “Saying 2-D is dead is like saying a car race is the future of the Tour de France.� And in a contrast between old, male

and bitterly experienced and young, female and hopeful: A][SeVS`S (December). Area woman Sofia Coppola directs Elle Fanning as the daughter reviving a jaded film star (Stephen Dorff ) cooling his heels at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard. Coppola is sure-footed in such stories, as we saw in Lost in Translation. Incidentally, Elle Fanning also plays the little girl Mary in the catastrophic 3-D CGI orgy known as <cbQ`OQYS` ! 2 (Nov. 24). I saw that thing, and just like the title character (referred to as “N.C.� for todayze kidz), my jaw was on the f loor. Even sight unseen, one prefers the treatment of Tchaikovsky in 0ZOQY AeO\ (Dec. 17), Darren Aronofsky’s mad salute to Michael Powell’s The Red Shoes; it’s a psychotropic story of a prima ballerina (Natalie Portman) cracking under the

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strain of competition, attraction from a rising rival (Mila Kunis) and the terrifying implications of Swan Lake. Given a sex change, the sea-change play BVS BS[^Sab (Dec. 10 limited release) sounds suitably rich and strange in Julie Taymor’s adaptation, with Helen Mirren as “Prospera.� Some memory of Taymor’s interpretation of Titus Andronicus makes one recall the Onion headline: “Unconventional Director Sets Play in Time, Place Shakespeare Intended.� We haven’t had a version of The Tempest since Peter Greenaway kind of gave the play a golden shower in Prospero’s Books. The all-star cast includes Russell Brand as drunken Trinculo and Djimon Hounsou bringing out the political subtext (no, his Caliban doesn’t say, “Me want free,� as per Amistad) and Ben Whishaw (Bright Star) is a natural for Ariel.

The Coens are the perfect savage humorists to adapt the novel ‘True Grit’ more faithfully, as seen in the best parts of ‘No Country for Old Men’ The new Mike Leigh, /\]bVS` GSO` (Dec. 29), charts wintry dissatisfaction and autumnal humor with Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen as a contented couple. Welcome back to a big part for Sheen, whose performance in Leigh’s High Hopes remains the exact moral center of 1980s cinema, the embodiment of gentleness and loving kindness. The prospect of a new one by Leigh (Happy Go Lucky) lightens the thought of a new year that will be loaded with superhero movies: BVS 5`SS\ 6]`\Sb, Jan 14; BV]`, May 7; 5`SS\ :O\bS`\, June 17; BVS 4W`ab /dS\US`( 1O^bOW\ /[S`WQO, in July. Before we get

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min.) Christina Aguilera stars in a musical about a small-town girl with dreams of stardom. Aguilera’s character takes a job as a cocktail waitress at a oncelegendary Los Angeles burlesque club that has lost its luster. Also starring Cher as the club’s proprietress and aging star, Kristin Bell as a spotlight-hogging rival, Stanley Tucci as the club’s stage manager and Alan Cummings as the revue’s MC. (Opens Wed Nov 24 at Riverfront, Scotts Valley and Green Valley.) 2=< >/A?C/:3 (Unrated; 165 min.) This week’s presentation of “The Met: Live in HD� is a production of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. Anna Netrebko plays penniless Norina, whose marriage to her love, Ernesto, has been forbidden by his uncle, don Pasquale ( John Del Carlo). Norina, Ernesto and don Pasqule’s

pair of men try to get along. One is a deluded would-be actor named Ethan (Zach Galifianakis), a half-bright stoner bearing a lapdog. The other is a mean executive, Peter (Robert Downey Jr.), trying to get home to be there in time for his wife’s C-section. Uneven, in a word. Indeed, the movie is just as middling as it was when it was called Planes, Trains and Automobiles; it’s a road-trip movie with nowhere to go, emotionally speaking, and director Todd Phillips may not be as handy with the Laurel and Hardy dynamic as he was with the Three Stooges vibe in The Hangover. We get the post-Apatow method— extended improv may result in something you can keep; meanwhile, keep throwing up good comedians as if they were skeets. Not a total loss. Photographer Lawrence Sher provides some fine landscapes and nightscapes, Downey explores some really deep rancor and Phillips demonstrates

physician devise a scheme to convince him to allow the couple to wed. (Plays Wed Dec 1 at 6:30 at Cinema 9.) ;G 4/7@ :/2G (1964) The

film of the beloved stage musical is oversized, but it boasts Rex Harrison as the snide elocutionist professor Henry Higgins, who transforms a cockney f lower peddler into a society lady. Audrey Hepburn, no one’s idea of a mudlark, co-stars as Eliza. There are some terrific songs: “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Your Face,� “On the Street Where You Live� and “The Rain in Spain.� Quite stiff and cautious, actually, but the old-time music hall star Stanley Holloway gives it a lift (as Liza’s Doolittle’s reprobate dad, who sings “Get Me to the Church on Time.�) (Plays Fri-Sun 9:30am at Aptos.) (RvB)

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min.) Doug Liman’s account of the felonious Valerie Plame business is a model of exciting, intelligent espionage lore. It’s shot with braced but f luid camerawork. Naomi Watts’ performance as Plame is one of the year’s best. Between the Sept. 11 attacks and the Iraq invasion, members of the CIA ask the independent consultant Joseph Wilson (Sean Penn) to go to Niger to confirm confidential reports of uranium being sent to Saddam Hussein. Wilson quickly discovers there was no such shipment. In a Nixonian attempt to silence a whistleblower, high Bush administration figures leak the name of Wilson’s wife, Victoria Plame, to columnist Robert Novak, a move that destroys her career and puts her operations in jeopardy. It’s hard for a film to be all things to all people. Fair Game’s script

is less surefooted with the domestic drama than it is with the paranoid/political tale-telling. Penn gets to play a different kind of character: decidedly upperclass, peremptory and with little patience for fools. He gives one of his strongest and slyest performances. (RvB) 4/AB3@ (R; 95 min.) An ex-con sets out to avenge his brother’s death after they were double-crossed during a heist years ago. Stars Dwayne Johnson and Billy Bob Thornton. B63 57@: E6= 971932 B63 6=@<3B¸A <3AB

(R; 148 min.) The glowing harbor and country views of the last entry are replaced by a televisionistic series of close-ups of baleful Swedes frowning at each other over tables or sitting fidgeting at press conferences. The survivors of the government cabal that planned to silence the troublesome Lisbeth (Noomi Rapace) are still afoot and grumpier

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than ever. Our hero, Mikael (Michael Nyqvist) of Millennium magazine, is trying to get Lisbeth’s side of the story. But his co-editor Erika (Lena Endre) is menaced by anonymous emails and a brick through the window. Lisbeth is also cornered by yet another smirking civil servant: her former shrink, Dr. Peter Teleborian (Anders Ahlbom). The film pedantically insists on the realistic aftereffects of some gunshot wounds, and it makes a very, very long journey from hospital bed to very unmoving last goodbye. 6/@@G >=BB3@ /<2 B63 23/B6:G 6/::=EA >/@B

(PG-13; 147 min.) In the penultimate film of the series, Harry (Daniel Radcliff ), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) must leave Hogwarts to find and destroy a set of Horcuxes in order to defeat Lord Voldemort (played by Ralph Fiennes) once and for all. Also starring Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman. :=D3 /<2 =B63@ 2@C5A (R; 113 min.)

Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal star in a comedy about a charismatic pharmaceutical rep. Based on the memoir Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy. ;35/;7<2 (PG; 96 min.) Rivals from the moment their planets were destroyed and they were sent to Earth, Megamind (Will Ferrel) and Metro Man (Brad Pitt) have competed in the usual battle of good vs. evil in the new animated film Megamind. The movie has an enjoyable twist when Metro Man is eliminated, and Megamind is left to rampage Metro City with his best friend, Minion (David Cross). Following the unconventional yet delightful storyline, Megamind seeks to fill his boredom of having no one to fight by creating a

new good superhero, Tighten ( Jonah Hill). However, Tighten has other plans; he intends to use his newly acquired laser vision, superstrength and ability to f ly for his own interests. Megamind, Metro Man and even Tighten all have their sights on Roxanne Ritchi (Tina Fey), a newswoman in the Lois Lane mold. Ferrell and Pitt should have given Fey and Hill lessons on ways to alter their voices, because it took me out of the movie when their characters were onscreen sounding like their real-life selves. The themes—never taking things for granted and being careful about what you wish for—offer lessons for people of all ages. (SZ) ;=@<7<5 5:=@G

(PG-13; 102 min.) The forced nervous energy and desperate eagerness to please of the wakeywakey TV show is evident. Chirpy Becky (Rachel McAdams) is on her way up as the producer of a despondent morning news show, essentially fourth-ranked in a field of three networks. Becky takes a celebrated but now languishing former anchorman, Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford), and partners him with the current AM show host, Colleen (Diane Keaton). Colleen knows Pomeroy of old, and she loathes him. As Pomeroy, Ford is a very amusing grumpus—a newsman frozen in distaste for the parade of exotic animals, cooking tips and celebrity chat. Ford and Keaton have a comedic rapport that’s like an elegant version of the “Jane, you ignorant slut� routine between Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin in ancient episodes of SNL. The film has terminal thirdact problems, the kind that force a trip into sudden-death overtime, just to reassure us that Becky has a choice in her career. (RvB) B63 <3FB B6@33 2/GA (PG-13; 122

min.) A remake of

:743 7A / 1/0/@3B!!Disjtujob!Bhvjmfsb!wbnqt!jo!ÕCvsmftrvf-Öpqfojoh!uif!ebz!cfgpsf!Uibolthjwjoh/ Fred CavayÊ’s 2008 French thriller Pour Elle (Anything for Her), The Next Three Days centers on John Brennan (Russell Crowe), a college professor happily married to Lara (Elizabeth Banks). Brennan’s seemingly idyllic existence gets turned upside down when Lara is arrested for the murder of her boss. Circumstantial evidence strongly suggests Lara’s guilt. After three years and unsuccessful appeals, Brennan decides there’s only one alternative left: breaking Lara out of prison. Haggis can direct tense, suspenseful action scenes. Despite the sermon-ready subject matter, The Next Three Days doesn’t feel like a movie-with-amessage for most of its two-hour running time. Director Paul Haggis proves that he can direct tense, suspenseful action scenes. Unfortunately, Haggis chooses clarity

over ambiguity, a closed ending instead of an open ending. (MV) % 6=C@A (R; 94

min.) 127 Hours is Danny Boyle’s version of the true-life story of climber Aron Ralston. In spring 2003, Ralston was pinned under a half-ton boulder in a remote Utah canyon; what he did to survive became worldwide news. 127 Hours records an ordeal so singular, Poe couldn’t improve on it. Unfortunately, director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) tries to blow up the story’s elemental horror through pyrotechnics. Boyle starts with a burst of relentless motion, as in his Trainspotting. Unfortunately, this ADD style has been thoroughly appropriated for sports-drink commercials. James Franco’s visceral acting in the service of this horror story probably should be praised, even if it’s not a pleasure to watch. One would have

to be fairly simpleminded to think of this ghastly story as some kind of triumph of the human spirit. (RvB) >/@/<=@;/: /1B7D7BG (R; 91

min.) A family realizes that ignorance is bliss after they set up a surveillance system to monitor a series of “break-ins.� The “found footage� from the camera is all that remains of their misadventures, but it’s presumed that by the time the game is up, Charles Manson probably would’ve made a better house guest. @32 (PG-13; 111 min.) Bruce Willis is a retired black-ops CIA agent at loose ends until a hightech assassin comes to pick him off, at which point he assembles his old team and gets the brass at Langley all in a tizzy. With Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Richard Dreyfuss, Mary-Louise Parker and Karl Urban. A9G:7<3 (PG-13;

92 min.) A group of

friends fight for their lives during an alien attack on Los Angeles. Starring Eric Balfour, Donald Faison and Scottie Thompson. B63 A=17/: <3BE=@9 (PG-13;

120 min.) Fiendishly clever and funny movie about the creation of an Internet monster. As Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg gives a master class on recessive acting: he’s beady eyed and covert, with the occasional pit-viper-like sway of a truculent, lowered forehead. The film shuttles between the present-day deposition of the now arrogantly rich Zuckerberg, as he’s sued by a quartet of burned partners (among them his former best friend Eduardo, played by Andrew Garfield). In f lashback, we see his own history—a Jewish student at WASP-ridden Harvard, a social reject whose grudge-hacking was his entry into fame. Later,

Zuckerberg meets the founder of Napster, Sean Parker—played by Justin Timberlake, excellent as a happy wastrel. Aaron Sorkin’s wild, witty script hands out punishment that goes beyond the financial penalties: this is a comedy in the Balzac sense, a balancing act; the mockery and the disgust for greed matches the essential lightness of the situation. It’s only Facebook, after all. (RvB) B/<5:32 (PG;

153 min.) Disney’s animated adaptation of the fairy tale Rapunzel, featuring the vocal talents of Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi. C<AB=>>/0:3 (PG13; 111 min.) Only Tony Scott would het up a runaway train movie, a subject het up enough on its own. In Unstoppable, old dog (Denzel Washington) and young pup (Chris Pine) race a single engine to catch up

with an unmanned train heading for catastrophe; news helicopters buzz around the runaway train as it speeds down the track. Scott crowds the location changes with captions, including my new all-time favorite: “Zinc Plant, Southern Pennsylvania.� Pennsylvania in the full Amazonian green-hell of summer would be a perfect background for a hellbound train, but this is forlorn, waning fall. Computer animation allows the bad train into something able to do things trains can’t ordinarily do, like dance sideways on the rails like the circus train in Dumbo. This impedes the free enjoyment of the heavy-machinery porn, something Scott usually does very well. Every Scott film is heavy on the exclamation points, but this one is as worn out as America’s rail infrastructure. (RvB)

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For the week of November 24 /@73A (March 21–April 19): Should you rely on hard facts or soft feelings? Would it be advisable to trust your tried-and-true medicine or else a potion brewed from the tongue of a snake, the feather of a crow, and a mandrake root? Can you get better results by mingling with staunch allies or with rebel upstarts who have a knack for shaking things up? Only you can decide on these matters, Aries. My opinion? You’ll probably generate more interesting developments by going with the feelings, the mandrake root and the upstarts. B/C@CA (April 20–May 20): “We cannot have any unmixed emotions,� said poet William Butler Yeats. “There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.� I hope that’s OK with you, Taurus. In fact I hope you regard that as a peculiar blessing—as one of the half-maddening, half-inspiring perks of life on earth. The fact is, as I see it, that you are in the thick of the Season of Mixed Emotions. The more graciously you accept that—the more you invite it to hone your soul’s intelligence—the better able you’ll be to capitalize on the rich and fertile contradictions that are headed your way. 53;7<7 (May 21–June 20): Louisiana porn star Stormy Daniels considered running for a U.S. Senate seat in 2010, although she eventually dropped out because it was too expensive. I admired one of her campaign strategies: She went on a “listening tour,� traveling around her state to hear what potential constituents might want to tell her. I encourage you to embark on your own listening tour in the coming weeks, Gemini. It will be prime time for you to find out about everything you don’t even realize you need to know. Adopt a mode of maximum receptivity as you ask a lot of questions. Wipe your mind clean of assumptions so you can get all of the benefits possible from being innocent and curious.

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1/<13@ (June 21–July 22): I love astrology. It excites my imagination and helps ensures that my relationship with the world is never too literal or prosaic. It anchors me in the paradoxical insight that although many things are out of my control, I have huge amounts of free will. My study of the mysterious meanings of planetary omens provides guidance, keeps me humble, and is a constant reminder that poetry provides an understanding of reality that’s as useful as science. On the other hand, astrology sometimes feels oppressive. I don’t like any system, even one as interesting as astrology, to come between me and the raw truth about reality. I aspire to see the actual person who’s in front of me, not be interpreting everything she does through the lens of her horoscope. Now I urge you to do what I’ve just done, Cancerian: Express your appreciation for something in your life that provides beauty and power, even as you also critique its downsides.

basic patterns of dolphin grammar and vocabulary. I encourage you to be inspired by his efforts, Libra. It is now an excellent time for you to devote your ingenuity to improving the way you communicate with alien species like black sheep, fallen angels, feral mavericks, your mother-in-law, odd ducks, co-workers who resemble raccoons and bears, and zombies who don’t share your political views.

A1=@>7= (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): An African proverb says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.� I think that sums up the choice you have before you. There is something to be said for going fast; it may be that you can get as far as you need to go by starting immediately and speeding along by yourself. On the other hand, the distance you have to cover may be beyond your ability to estimate in the early days. If you think that’s the case, you might want to opt for the slower-paced power of a joint operation.

A/57BB/@7CA (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): It’s Experiment With Your Self-Image Week—a time when it would be invigorating to shift and play with your identity. During this reinvention phase, you might find you can change yourself on the inside simply by rearranging yourself on the outside. So have fun wearing clothes you’ve never donned before. Entertain yourself with a new hairstyle. Speak in foreign accents or use words you don’t usually utter. Amuse yourself with a variety of novel approaches to walking, laughing, gesticulating, and moving your face. Think of your persona as a work of art that you love to tinker with. 1/>@71=@< (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): “It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t,� said physician James Gordon. “It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.� That’s why you may soon appear to the casual observer, Capricorn, as someone who’s able to call on enormous reserves of willpower. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are now more amenable to change than you’ve been in a long time. In fact, I suspect that in the coming weeks you’ll be willing and even eager to initiate transformations that seem heroic to people who are addicted to the status quo.

/?C/@7CA (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): All belief systems, ideologies, philosophies and religions are mostly wrong, even though many of them have chunks of useful information that contribute to the common good. Said another way, absolutely no one has the whole truth, but pretty much everyone has a part of the truth. Now it so happens, Aquarius, that your little fraction of ultimate wisdom is currently clearer and stronger than usual. That makes you especially valuable to your gang, family, or tribe. It doesn’t mean you should be the supreme arbiter of correct thinking forever, but it does suggest that right now you should exert extra leadership with forceful grace.

:3= (July 23–Aug. 22): Bees pollinate apples. Butterf lies perform the same service for lilies and moths do it for tobacco. Horse chestnut requires the help of hummingbirds to pollinate, wild ginger needs f lies, and oak trees depend on the wind. The world’s largest f lower, the raff lesia, can be pollinated by elephants’ eyebrows as the beasts use their trunks to search for nectar. My point is that in the natural world, fertilization is species-specific. Bees don’t pollinate lilies and butterf lies don’t pollinate horse chestnut. A similar principle holds true for you, Leo. Can you name the inf luences that fertilize you? Now’s a good time to get very clear about that, and then seek out a more focused connection with those inf luences.

>7A13A (Feb. 19–March 20): Think back over the course of your life and identify any worthy ambitions that got irretrievably blocked or frustrated or squandered. Once you’ve named those lost chances, do a ritual in which you completely let go of them. As much as possible, give up all regrets. Flush the sadness. Forgive anyone who interfered. Wipe the slate clean. Only by doing this can you open the way to an opportunity that’s lurking just outside your awareness. And what exactly is that opportunity? Even if I told you, you wouldn’t know what I was talking about. Your ability to find it requires you to do the preliminary work of purging your remorse for missed opportunities.

D7@5= (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): Native Americans took care of the land better than the white people who appropriated it, but they were by no means masters of sustainability. Recent research reveals they had a sizable carbon footprint, pumping lots of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as they cleared and burned forests. (More info at tinyurl.com/NativeCarbon.) Taking a cue from that little shock, I’m encouraging you to see if there are aspects of your personal past that should be reinterpreted. The astrological omens suggest that you’d be wise to revise some of the stories you tell about what happened to you way back when.

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