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ELATIONS between Watsonville Community Hospital nurses and the hospital management have been ailing since January, when the two parties entered into contract negotiations. Things heated up in October, when a one-day walkout turned into a three-day lockout and strike. Talks were slated to start back up Dec. 10, with a bargaining day that the hospital offered nurses shortly after the strike. But days away from the

planned meeting, the situation needs life support. On Dec. 3, according to hospital nurses, the management canceled the planned meeting, rescheduled it for Dec. 17 and withdrew the promise of a soon-to-come offer without explanation. “Even if you invented a big lie, it would be courteous to have some reason why you blew somebody off,� says nurse Tim Thomas. “That’s like not even feigning being polite, which is basically what we’ve been dealing

with since we started negotiating with them.� A hospital spokeswoman did not return calls. Community Health Systems, the Franklin, Tenn.–based company that owns Watsonville Community Hospital, has been less than accommodating since the start of the negotiations, Thomas says. Instead of talking with the nurses, the Community Health Systems attorney canceled “numerous� meetings, he says, and called in a federal mediator, a step normally taken after negotiations have reached an impasse. The hospital, however, did it early in the process. The California Nurses Association members say they’ve made several proposals to address staffing concerns—the nurses’ top priority— while the hospital has refused them all and offered no counterproposals. Community Health Systems officials did offer a “supposal� (not quite an offer; more like a f loated scenario) for a 1 percent pay raise and a seven-month contract back in April, Thomas says, but it has yet to offer anything reasonable. “From a retrospective look at the last 10 months or so, when we started bargaining,� he says, “we went into it very hopeful that we’d be able to work out bargaining in a reasonable amount of time and a reasonable settlement. It’s clear the hospital never intended to work it out. They basically give the impression they don’t want to negotiate a reasonable contract.� Community Health Systems owns or operates 126 hospitals in 29 states. It’s the largest publicly traded hospital company and its income continues to grow. In October, the company reported better-than-expected quarterly results: its third-quarter net income was $70.4 million, compared with $59.7 million for the same period in 2009. Similarly, its net operating revenues totaled $3.3 billion, a 5.4 percent increase over last year’s $3.1 billion. Thomas says the nurses will still convene Dec. 10, but instead of bargaining with the hospital for increased staffing, they’ll plan their next move. “Our sister union at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital in Pennsylvania is going to strike Dec. 23,� Thomas says, adding that it’s likely Watsonville nurses would “hold some sort of action in sympathy, which could be a strike or something else.�

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the unionized employees at the hotel have finally ratified a contract following nearly a year of negotiations and union demonstrations. The employees, represented by C<7B3 63@3 :]QOZ "&!, voted to accept a new four-year contract last Tuesday, Nov. 30. The Dream Inn is jointly owned by the Southern California real estate developer 3<A3;0:3 7<D3AB;3<BA and /3E 1/>7B/: ;/</53;3<B and operated by 8=73 23 D7D@3 6=A>7B/:7BG, which manages a number of other properties around the state. In negotiating the new contract the owners and operator initially hoped to slash more than $500,000 from their operating costs; the union, meanwhile, sought to guard employees’ insurance, eight-hour workday and paid vacation. The final agreement, which will allow employees to keep their insurance and eight-hour work day but not their paid vacation time, was reached in arbitration with an outside mediator that took place at the hotel on Nov. 23. A week later, the employees voted with a 91 percent majority to accept the contract; had they failed to ratify, the union would have moved to strike. “I think we made some progress,� ;716/3: @=03@BA, a bartender at the Dream Inn’s Aquarius restaurant, said. “We definitely got a reasonable contract, but for me, a lot of it came down to the fact that I didn’t feel like the membership would have supported a strike if it came down to that. They were willing to do certain actions, but I don’t think a strike would have been supported.� The new contract covers 85 workers at the hotel, who, under its terms, will keep a generous benefits package that includes health, dental, vision and life insurance—all free—for the employee’s entire family. “It was very, very challenging because the owners were spending more than a million dollars a year in benefits,� says 8/<3 6=E/@2, chief people officer for Joie de Vivre Hospitality. “We needed to work together to get the cost of that down some, and we were able to do that.� The hotel ultimately accepted an insurance plan proposed by the labor union that is expected to save it $130,000 annually. The insurance policy was ultimately the most important factor for Roberts, although he sympathized with longtime employees who, under the new contract, will lose paid vacation time accrued over many years of service. “I’ve only 3'

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worked there for 3 1/2 years, but we have employees who have worked there for almost 20 years who are taking hits for vacation—like losing a week or more days—so it was a very big deal for them.� “That was painful for us, we really didn’t want to have to move on vacation,� says :7HH73 9335/<, a representative for UNITE HERE who was present throughout negotiations. “There were some things that obviously stung a little bit, but overall we ratified with over that 90 percent because everybody feels that, in this economic recession, we will have to [make some concessions] and it will be hard, but we’re really proud that we have really good insurance and it covers us and covers our families.� The sacrifices made by employees will ultimately help keep the Dream Inn in business, Howard says. “For a couple years they’re giving up things, but the good news is that the hotel is a reasonable financial place for the future such that it will be a good employer there in Santa Cruz for many years, many decades to come.�

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No Tannenbaum Felton has a few things most little towns its size don’t: two state parks, two Chinese restaurants and one 4==B 63@7B/53 @32E==2 B@33 right in the middle of town. For seven years now, Christmas lights have bedecked the big fella during the holiday season, making a mighty pretty sight for anyone driving into the valley on a cold December night. In recent years the good people at the 43:B=< 0CA7<3AA /AA=17/B7=< have seen to it that the lights are low-energy LED models powered by solar panels, bringing that much more joy to the world. This year, however, the big tree is dark. A lovely little tree on the deck that surrounds it is lit, but it’s lights out for the big boy—save, we’re told, for a few mystery bulbs at the very top. So what gives? Well, no one wanted to go on the record, but the best we can figure, it comes down to this: volunteers could be found to put the lights up, but finding someone to take them back down again was like looking for good eggnog at a vegan AA bash: it just wasn’t happening. And in the meantime lights would get busted and branches broken, making the ghost of Christmas past sort of messy. So we’re issuing this holiday message: if anybody with a cherry picker and no fear of heights feels the spirit and wants to bring back the lights to the San Lorenzo Valley, call us here at 457.9000, ext. 203, and we’ll put you in touch with the right people. Happy Holidays, and twinkle on. —Traci Hukill

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Swimming Upstream

As fish biologists make the case for a desalination plant for Santa Cruz, project opponents fight back with plans of their own

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URING a rainy year—that is, a good year for fish—adult steelhead salmon swim in from the ocean and up the San Lorenzo River between December and March to lay their eggs in gravel on the river bottom. After hatching in early spring, the juvenile fish linger in the river for at least a year (and sometimes two or three), feeding and maturing. When they’re finally ready, the smolt, or teenage steelhead, head downstream into a lagoon, a sort of all-you-can-eat buffet for oceanbound young salmon. “There’s a lot more food in the lagoon, and it helps them start acclimating to the salt water,� explains Joyce Ambrosius, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Fisheries Central Coast branch supervisor. After the smolts’ physiologies have changed, allowing them to transition from fresh water to salt water, they swim to the ocean, where they’ll grow into adults and

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eventually start the cycle all over again by migrating back to the river to spawn. That’s during a normal, or wet, year. But things don’t run so smoothly when it’s dry, like it was in 2009, or even worse, like it was in 2007. During years like those, when the San Lorenzo River runs low, the city of Santa Cruz relies more heavily on water stored in Loch Lomond Reservoir, which gets its water from the Newell Creek watershed in the mountains at a point before the creek joins the San Lorenzo River in Ben Lomond. And as the water levels in Loch Lomond drop to slake the city’s thirst, so does the amount the Water Department releases into Newell Creek. The result: an even lower San Lorenzo River. “In the San Lorenzo River, when it gets to the dry years, the city of Santa Cruz has a hard time meeting the needs of the public for drinking water,� Ambrosius says. “They’re pumping as hard as they can and supplying as much water as they can for the public. That’s when it gets difficult, because there’s not enough water for the public,

let alone the fish. There’s nothing that says how much [water] they have to release out of the dam for fish.â€? Low river levels affect the amount and quality of fish habitat. Shallow waters are warmer, lower in oxygen and breed more algae. Low flows also harm migration; smolt can’t make it to the ocean to mature, nor can adult fish swim up the river to lay eggs. As the city of Santa Cruz and the Soquel Creek Water District continue exploring plans to build a 2.5 milliongallon-per-day desalination facility in Santa Cruz—they’re hosting meetings about the project today, Dec. 8—the well-being of native salmon is emerging as an unlikely flashpoint in the debate. Human activity has wreaked havoc on coho and steelhead salmon in the San Lorenzo River and Soquel Creek. Altogether, environmental stresses have nearly obliterated the coho and drastically reduced the steelhead population. ¨ !

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Don’t Leave Me Dry Fish need different amounts of water at different stages in their lives. “We want to make sure the fish are able to move up the creeks and rivers, and that the water is deep enough for them to make it past any migration barriers,� Ambrosius says. “What we usually look for is half a foot to 9 inches depth.� For spawning, fish need enough water to cover the spawning gravel so the eggs don’t dry out and die; water also

carries oxygen to the eggs as it flows through the gravel. And smolt need in the neighborhood of 6 inches of water in the river in order to make it down to the lagoon and out to sea. All are part of why NOAA wants a bigger desalination plant. Santa Cruz Deputy Water Director Linette Almond responds that while the basic purpose of the plant is for drought protection, “It’s certainly expandable in the future if we need to do that for any reason.� Adds NOAA Fisheries biologist Jon Ambrose: “We know that they’re shooting for enough water to meet the needs of their customers, but meeting the needs of the customers doesn’t negate the fact that there will be current and future impacts to the fisheries with the city of Santa Cruz’s projected future growth.� Transition Santa Cruz wants to save the fish, too. But desal’s not the answer, according to the grassroots group, which advocates increased conservation and a regional water swap instead of desalination. If Santa Cruzans conserve at 2009 levels—57 gallons per day per person— or better, according to the group, this will achieve Oct. 1 reservoir levels of 90 percent, like Loch Lomond reached in 2009 and 2010. This, Transition Santa Cruz says, translates to 600 to 700 million gallons available in the second year of a critical two-year drought. That’s what will save coho and steelhead, says Transition Santa Cruz’s Rick Longinotti—not desal. “I’m disappointed in NOAA Fisheries’ position on the desalination plant,� Longinotti says. “I think that desalination represents the same kind of thinking that has wiped out the coho salmon, the same kind of thinking that does not pay attention to the longrange impacts of our actions. To worsen climate change in order to save native fish species seems counterproductive.�

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Soquel Creek Water District is 100 percent dependent on groundwater, while Santa Cruz is 96 percent dependent on surface water. “The concept is for Santa Cruz to deliver water to Soquel Creek District in wet and normal winters, allowing Soquel to recharge their aquifer. In return, Soquel could deliver well water to Santa Cruz during droughts,� the letter says. “For example, if both districts curtail peak season water consumption by 20 percent, Soquel would be able to deliver 20 percent of their normal use to Santa Cruz. And with an aquifer that is recharged, the amount available to Santa Cruz during a drought could well be much higher.� Additionally, the group proposes aquifer recharge using an abandoned quarry in Scotts Valley. Winter flows would fill the quarry, thus creating more base flow in Bean Creek, a tributary of the San Lorenzo. The group also wants to see more conservation, which will increase water storage in the reservoir. “A modest additional conservation effort would allow Loch Lomond levels to remain high at the end of the dry season, thus insuring full refill of the lake during the winter months,� Longinotti writes. In the letter Longinotti explains that the Water Department uses an end-of-summer benchmark of 64 percent capacity for Loch Lomond to determine whether there’s a water shortage (if it’s lower than that, a shortage is declared and conservation measures kick in). If the city set that benchmark higher, then Loch Lomond would be fuller in drought years and the city wouldn’t need to take so

much water from the watershed. And, he writes, it’s highly feasible. “In recent years, conservation by City water users has resulted in a lake level on October 1 of above 90 percent in 2010, 90 percent in 2009, and 84 percent in 2008. The City should make the conservation practice of the last three years the norm.â€? In response, Dick Butler, NOAA Fisheries North Central Coast Office supervisor, says his agency “supports any projects that result in water conservation, understanding that there is a point where no more conservation is possible. After that point, another water source must be made available or current water use must be dramatically changed.â€? Butler says Desal Alternative’s solutions may help, and he encourages the group to pursue them. But he also says they won’t happen quickly enough to help the fish. “The San Lorenzo River and Soquel Creek watersheds are in a severe overdraft,â€? he says. “Water diversions have resulted in major adverse impact to all life stages of salmon and steelhead in Santa Cruz County streams. . . .Without a new water supply source, impact to listed species will continue. Therefore, we support the city of Santa Cruz’s pursuit of desalination as the best alternative for a new source of water supply.â€? DESAL EIR SCOPING MEETINGS are Wednesday, Dec. 8, noon–2:30pm at First Congregational Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz; and 6:30–9pm at New Brighton Middle School, 250 Washburn Ave., Capitola. For info visit www.soquelcreekwater.org. EObQVW\U =c` AOZb 7\bOYS ¨ %

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was overwhelming: People really do want to have art visible in town,� says Friedlander. “It was at the time when [MAH curator] Susan [Hillhouse] had just arrived at the museum and begun to exhibit local artists there—a very encouraging time.� The duo selected the artists, including many who exhibit nationally, not locally. The show was at the (now closed) Mill Gallery. The artists selected and installed their work and found the experience exhilarating. “We got to be with each other for a couple of days,� Friedlander continues. “The rest of the time, we’re alone in our studios.� The 2008 event sold $27,000 worth of art and donated $6,000 to the Tannery. The organizers worked gratis, the Mill space was donated; enthusiasm was high. The next year the organizers waited out the national fit of financial moodiness and presented the second event in spring 2010 at the Old Sash Mill, raising $3,500 to create the fund. The first SCAARF grant was soon needed by Marc Gould,

an artist severely injured in a fire. This weekend’s event again donates 20 percent of the event profits and 100 percent of direct donations to the fund. “Art for Art� represents 35 artists in media including painting, photography, jewelry, glass, ceramics, sculpture, neon and installation. The Robert Blitzer Gallery (at the railroad backside of the Wrigley Building) in the Westside industrial area has been remodeled for the event. Music and food will be part of the $5 opening reception on Friday.

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daughter. Sward says he’s found himself perfectly able to communicate with Shelby. “I have no trouble knowing what the dog wants,� he says. “If I get in the car I know the dog wants to travel.� Shelby’s not the first of her kind to find her way into Sward’s heart. After the New and Selected Poems is finished, Sward—who, it must be noted, writes many poems not about dogs—plans to publish a chapbook called The Dogs of My Life, including, most likely, the mutt in his first published poem, in the Chicago Review in 1957. In “Uncle Dog: The Poet at Nine,� a boy watches a garbage man and his shotgunriding dog, identifying more with the carefree animal than its laboring human owner. Since then, Sward’s appreciation for man’s best friend has only deepened. “I think there is such a thing as interspecies healing,� he says, “and it may be more one-sided than we know.� 0

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T’S LONG PAST time to break out the bubbly on behalf of the success of Aptos painter C@AC:/ =¸4/@@3::, whose star was already swiftly ascending when I was introduced to her work in 2008 in the provocative “Visual Politicsâ€? exhibition juried by revered art scholar Peter Selz at the Santa Cruz Art League. Seared into my memory was O’Farrell’s painting Flying Into It, a moment caught like an intake of breath as a cataclysm erupts skyward, while in the foreground people innocently engaged in park pastimes bear witness. This dramatic work represents what I have come to see as the distinctive hand of O’Farrell: the bold, expressionistic brushwork, juicy color upon unlikely color alluding to depth and foreground; figures and their relation to each other suggested by compositional distance and direction, all creating meaning by intimating a gesture, an atmosphere, a mood.

The following year O’Farrell’s solo exhibition at Toomey Tourell Fine Art in San Francisco was so thought-provoking that I reviewed the show for Art Week in one of that publication’s final issues. More abstract, perhaps more disturbing, the multiple figures and their relationships emerge from chaotic surroundings gradually, requiring an adjustment of vision to discern foreground from background. As figures gain definition they attract meaning. Writing in the exhibition catalog, Selz deemed O’Farrell a successor to the glittering class of Bay Area Figurative Painters, calling her work “Figurative Abstraction.� But O’Farrell keeps evolving. In “Search for Self,� now at Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery (980 Fremont St.), two Santa Cruz County painters, 0/@0/@/ 2=E<A and A34:/ 8=A3>6, join O’Farrell in an evocative look at figurative painting as part of an artist’s journey of self-discovery. Barbara Downs exhibits regionally in many styles and media; two more literal paintings are featured currently in the “Human Rights� show at Louden Nelson. At MPC, however, Downs’ loosebrushed figures are suggested and overlaid by a torrent of vigorous lines, while her backgrounds are flat and simple. Sefla Joseph’s figures conjur Chagal or illustrated fables, with detailed faces, simplified shapes, vivid colors and thickly worked surfaces. Both suggest narrative within the mystery of their imagery. Two large “still wet� O’Farrell works show a surprising move toward a more overtly realistic style. In one, Jig of Joy, peopled by three figures and their reflections, the space is illuminated by a glorious moment, a dance in progress suggested by a futurist-style blur. Areas of blended, flattened tone in the foreground and ceiling are as surprising a development as the fully defined figures. Yet the totality is still unmistakably O’Farrell for the mood, the palette, the handling of paint and the psychological weight of the content. The show continues at MPC Art Gallery through Dec. 17. Read more of The Exhibitionist at KUSP.org. (Maureen Davidson) B63 3F6707B7=<7AB 7A 4C<232 7< >/@B 0G / 5@/<B 4@=; B63 1C:BC@/: 1=C<17: =4 A/<B/ 1@CH 1=C<BG

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JOHN McLAUGHLIN & THE 4TH DIMENSION $40/Gold Circle $30/General No Jazztix or Comps Sponsored by Fitz Fresh

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Muscular but heartfelt, the country rock of Tether Horse stands as some of the finest Americana to emerge from Santa Cruz in quite some time. Singer and guitarist Matthew Chaney is an able songwriting hand, striking the ideal balance between rip-roaring anthems and ruminative ballads. The band’s secret weapon is violin player J.J. McCabe, whose mournful interpretations add a depth and pathos to the band’s sturdy rock. It’s direct, unpretentious stuff that nonetheless has a level of sophistication countless Americana pretenders rarely achieve. Crepe Place; $8 adv/$10 door; 9pm. (Paul M. Davis)

To know No Age is to love the imaginations of Randy Randall and Dean Allen Spunt. Fostered in the Los Angeles venue The Smell, the twoman outfit sounds like the headliner in a metal shop filled with broken television sets, cranking out a sound possessed by artistic placement of creeping fuzz and an ambience that tests the limits of their darling L.A. punk scene. Sometimes as thick as electronically processed pea soup, they still pack a riotous head-bang—even if some songs only seethe for only about a minute. Brookdale Lodge; $12; 9pm. (Kate Jacobson)

By the time Jeffery Broussard was 8, he was already playing drums in his father’s zydeco band, the Lawtell Playboys. But Broussard wasn’t satisfied playing just one instrument, and he would sneak away from his farm work to teach himself how to play the accordion. Enraptured by the washboarddriven rhythms and hot-steppin’ contagiousness of the zydeco style, Broussard eventually learned to play all the instruments in the band, and today he’s a cherished preservationist and ambassador of Creole culture and zydeco music. Don Quixote’s; $12 adv/$14 door; 7:30pm. (Cat Johnson)

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/A:33> /B B63 E633: In the spirit of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, Asleep at the Wheel has been bringing the swing to country dance halls for 40 years. Founded by Ray Benson in 1970, the Wheel is a much-celebrated revue-style band famous for its dance floor-packing synthesis of hot jazz, blues, countryboogie and swing. Committed to preserving and celebrating the Western swing of old, the nine-time Grammy-winning outfit is a toetapping reminder that country dance music is alive and well. As the band members are fond of saying, “Western swing ain’t dead, it’s Asleep at the Wheel.� Rio Theatre; $25 gen/$35 gold circle; 7:30pm. (CJ)

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aforementioned Jed, who films himself for YouTube sitting on a rocking horse and quoting Nietzsche. He’s a devious deadbeat who mooches his way into free shelter and drains Siri’s wine stash. Aura gets a sort-of job at a restaurant and fixates on a sous-chef, Keith (David Call), with a nasty tongue, an even nastier mustache and a girlfriend. Dunham mopes well, and she’s believable as the “I have to go home girl,� as she calls herself. Emoting the heartbreak she’s supposed to be suffering is beyond Dunham as an actress, though. For more involved acting of this kind of role, one has to see Tiny Furniture’s strikingly similar antecedents: this year’s The Exploding Girl, or 2005’s Funny Ha Ha. If anything, Tiny Furniture has earned its cachet back East for using words not commonly heard in today’s movies: “klonopin,� “gluten,� “DUMBO,� as in the name of a neighborhood not an elephant. Or maybe critics have praised Tiny Furniture because it’s the work of a young filmmaker who no one feels like crushing. Explaining her woes to her mom, Aura says, “I’m a young, young person, and I’m trying really hard.� It’s practically a plea to the audience.

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(PG; 115 min.) In the third installment of The Chronicles of Narnia series, Lucy, Edmund and Cousin Eustace return to Narnia, where they rendezvous with the newly crowned King Caspian. Together they embark on an epic journey in a ship called the Dawn Treader to rescue the seven lost lords and stave off a menacing mist that threatens

to engulf all of Narnia. (Opens Fri at 41st Ave, Cinema 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley.)

event subtitled “Re-Starting America’s Engine,� the Fox News host compares America’s economy to a 1965 Mustang. The show, simulcast in theaters across the country, is an extended format version of Beck’s TV program. (Plays Wed 12/8 at 7:30pm at Cinema 9.)

2=< 1/@:= (240 min.) This week’s presentation of “The Met: Live in HD� is a production of Verdi’s historical opera. Don Carlo is based on the life of Carlos, the Prince of Asturias and eldest son of Prince Philip II of Spain, whose fiancee, Elisabeth of Valois, was married off to his father as part of the treaty to end a bloody conflict between the Habsburg and Valois families in 1559. With Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Roberto Alagna and the soprano Marina Poplavskaya, subject of a recent profile in The New Yorker. (Plays Sat, 9:30am, at Cinema 9.)

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Frank, a hapless American tourist unlucky enough to have been targeted by Elise, a woman with a dangerous past, played by Angelina Jolie. Frank attempts to kindle a romance while Elise attempts to evade her pursuers—a criminal ex-boyfriend, the gangster he stole from and the agent (Paul Bettany) hot on their trail. (Opens Fri at Cinema 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley.) E7::G E=<9/ /B B63 16=1=:/B3 4/1B=@G

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manufacture of candy should not be put in the hands of orange-skinned, blue-haired trolls? All of the above, my friends. All of the above. (Plays Fri and Sat, midnight, at Del Mar.)

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min.) Christina Aguilera stars in a musical about a smalltown girl with dreams of stardom. Aguilera’s character takes a job as a cocktail waitress at a once-legendary Los Angeles burlesque club that has lost its luster. Also starring Cher as the club’s proprietress and aging star, Kristin Bell as a spotlighthogging rival, Stanley Tucci as the club’s stage manager and Alan Cummings as the revue’s MC.

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min.) Forced to drive from Georgia to Los Angeles, a 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. 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. Not a total loss. Photographer Lawrence Sher provides some fine landscapes and nightscapes, Downey explores some really deep rancor and Phillips demonstrates admirable comedic ruthlessness. (RvB) 4/7@ 5/;3 (PG-

13; 108 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 fluid 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. Penn gives one of his strongest and slyest performances. (RvB) 4/AB3@ (R; 95 min.) Not half bad, but that other half is real bad. It’s scripted by po-mo trashistas the Gayton Brothers (The Salton Sea) and directed with robust obviousness by George Tillman Jr. Duane “The Rock� Johnson stars as “Driver,� a man just out

of the joint after 10 years. He is loose in Bakersfield hunting the people who killed his bro while being hunted in turn by a fey and yacky killer for hire (the whimsically cast Oliver JacksonCohen). Meanwhile, two cops, one of whom is smack-addicted (Billy Bob Thornton; excellent, actually) try to solve the case. The important spiritual statement of it all is mitigated by a roaring Chevelle and a rousing, all-backward getaway in the beginning: the best car chase I’ve seen in months. Most of the film is dominated by the ever-perplexed, physically inconceivable Rock himself: dwelling in some harmonious space beyond seriousness and humor, beyond irony or moral importance. (RvB) 6/@@G >=BB3@ /<2 B63 23/B6:G 6/::=EA >/@B (PG-13; 147 min.)

A second Battle of Britain has broken out between the mortals and the wizards; the Hogwarts alumni (Rupert Grint, Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe) flee through a blitzed-out land. Unfortunately, the single most flabbergasting part comes early on: an armada on broomsticks breaking through the cloud ceiling, straight into a dogfight of deatheaters. In the middle, the trio hides in the countryside amid blasted heaths and burned-out trailers, and things start to resemble Twilight before the film gets on its feet again. The startling Balinese-style puppet animation of the title’s fable is a highlight of the series. Grint, the clumsy/suave best pal Ron Weasley, seems to be growing into another Malcolm McDowell. Our beautiful Snape (Alan Rickman) towers over his evil cohort. Helena Bonham Carter is almost as nasty as Margaret Hamilton. (RvB) :=D3 /<2 =B63@ 2@C5A (R; 113 min.)

Pseudo-sophisticated romance by Edward Zwick, loosely adapted from Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy. In the 1990s, a

breezy Pittsburgh-based pharma-salesman (Jake Gyllenhaal) and a freespirited lady (Anne Hathaway) meet in a doctor’s office. A hot yet hostile relationship breaks out. But Jamie quickly diagnoses what’s eating Maggie: she has stage one Parkinson’s and is determined to have a reckless good time while her body holds out. Hathaway could have carried this as light comedy, but she comes on furious and knocks this unsteady movie flat. And she’s not a sweeping force meeting an equal, opposite reaction in Gyllenhaal, who is about as deep as Jason Biggs from the American Pie movies. Under the direction of the nice guy who created Thirtysomething, it carries the kind of happy ending you’d need a happiness drug to accept. (RvB) ;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 fly 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 reallife 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.) 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 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. The film has terminal third-act 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 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-a-message for most of its two-hour running time. Director Paul Haggis proves that he can direct tense, suspenseful action scenes. (MV) % 6=C@A (R; 94 min.)

127 Hours is director 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

075 <3EA 7< / A;/:: B=E<!!Hfnnb!Bsufsupo!qmbzt!b!cjh.djuz!dpmvnojtu!xip!dbvtft!b!tujs! xifo!tif!sfuvsot-!qptu.optf!kpc-!up!uif!Fohmjti!dpvousz!upxo!xifsf!tif!hsfx!vq-!jo!ÕUbnbsb!Esfxf/Ö became worldwide news. 127 Hours records an ordeal so singular, Poe couldn’t improve on it. Unfortunately, Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) tries to blow up the story’s elemental horror through pyrotechnics. He starts with a burst of relentless motion, as in his Trainspotting. Unfortunately, this ADD style has been thoroughly appropriated for sportsdrink 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 simple-minded to think of this ghastly story as some kind of triumph of the human spirit. (RvB) @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, MaryLouise 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 flashback, 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.) Directors Nathan Greno and Byron Howard stress the most resonant interpretation of the tale: Rapunzel as a myth for all parts of

the world where girls aren’t allowed to run free. The imprisoning witch Gothel is a curvy villainess feeding on the youth and hopes of the girl whom she imprisons. Remodeled as a Disney princess (voiced by Mandy Moore), this Rapunzel is freed by a rakish young thief. Thirdact developments take the plot into a different resolution than the Brothers Grimm charted, adding to the surprise of the cartoon. You can see the influences and salute them as they pass: the antique charm of 3D Viewmaster fairy-tale slides, Romanian villages, Utah’s Canyonlands, the floating lanterns of the Japanese Obon festival; the block-headed yobs at the Snuggly Ducky tavern look as if they modeled for Britain’s Spitting Image. As for actual hero Maximus the horse, there hasn’t been such a hilarious steed since Chuck Jones died. (RvB) C<AB=>>/0:3 (PG-13; 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 alltime favorite: “Zinc Plant, Southern Pennsylvania.â€? Pennsylvania in the full Amazonian green-hell of summer would be a perfect background for a hell-bound 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) B63 E/@@7=@¸A E/G

(R; 100 min.) Korean action star Dong-gun Jang plays an elite Ninja warrior forced into hiding in the American West when he refuses to kill an enemy’s young son in this visually dazzling mashup of the Western, martial arts and fantasy genres. When his enemies finally catch up with him, Jang’s character receives help from new friends, played by Kate Bosworth (the local circus knifethrower) and Geoffrey Rush (the town drunk).

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Celebrate at Seascape! W I T H O U R C H R I S T M A S D AY B U F F E T & N E W Y E A R ’ S E V E C E L E B R AT I O N

Gourmet Christmas Buffet at Sanderlings Restaurant December 25, 2–7pm / $45.95 Adults / $19.95 Children 12 & under A traditional holiday buffet with a wide selection of favorites, including a seafood bar, roasted prime rib, bounty of fresh vegetables, a variety of delectable sides and salads, a festive dessert display, and more!

Wine shop Tasting

Pacific Ave.

Annie Glass

New Year’s Eve Party

December 31, 7pm–12:30am / $89 per person (tip included) Enjoy a lavish dinner and dessert buffet, followed by dancing with live music by Mike Hadley & the Groove, and a midnight champagne toast. Doors open at 6:30pm, Dinner 7– 9pm, Dancing 8:30pm–12:30am. Call (831) 662-7141 to make your reservation. Special room rates available.

www.SeascapeResort.com • One Seascape Resort Drive, Aptos

Museum of Art and History

Abbot Square

Cooper Street

Call (831) 662-7120 to reserve your table.

Gifts Accessories

Front Street

Downtown Santa Cruz on Abbott Square off Cooper Street (Near Annie Glass).

831-426-VINO (8466) www.vinocruz.com

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Indian. Authentic Indian dishes and specialties served in a comfortable dining room. Lunch buffet daily 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner daily 5pm to close. www.ambrosiaib.com. American and specialty dishes from the British and Emerald Isles. Full bar. Children welcome. Happy hour Mon-Fri 2-6pm. Open daily 11am to 2am. Italian. Ambience reminiscent of a small trattoria in the streets of Italy, serving handmade lasagna, pasta dishes, gnocchi and fresh fish. Wed-Sun, lunch 11am-2pm, dinner 5-9pm. Continental California cuisine. Breakfast all week 6:30-11am, lunch all week 11am-2pm; dinner Fri-Sat 5-10pm, Sun-Thu 5-9pm. www.seacliffinn.com.

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7528 Soquel Dr, 831.688.4465

meat and vegetarian kebabs, gyros, falafel, healthy salads and Mediterranean flatbread pizzas. Beer and wine. Dine in or take out. Tue-Sun 11am-8pm.

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200 Monterey Ave, 831.464.3328

Japanese. This pretty and welcoming sushi bar serves superfresh fish in unusual but well-executed sushi combinations. Wed-Mon 11:30am-9pm. California Continental. Swordfish and other seafood specials. Dinner Mon-Thu 5:30-9:30pm; Fri 5-10pm; Sat 4-10:30pm; Sun 4-9pm.

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1750 Wharf Rd, 831.475.1511

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231 Esplanade, 831.464.1933

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

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203 Esplanade, 831.475.4900

California cuisine. Nightly specials include prime rib and lobster. Daily 7am-2am.

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221 Cathcart St, 831.426.4852

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516 Front St, 831.421.0706

Mexican. A local favorite since 1967! Full bar, patio dining, colorful dĂŠcor and friendly service. Top-shelf margaritas, over 50 tequilas, skirt steak asada, chicken fajitas, tequila prawn fettuccini, coconut prawns, even eggs benedict on the weekends! California organic meets Southeast Asian street food. Organic noodle and rice bowls, vegan menu, fish and meat options, Vietnamese-style sandwiches, eat-in or to-go. Consistent winner “Best Cheap Eats.â€? Open daily 11am-11pm. American, California-style. With a great bar scene, casually glamorous setting and attentive waitstaff. Full bar. Mon-Sat 11:30am-10pm, Sun 1-10pm. Crepes and more. Featuring the spinach crepe and Tunisian donut. Full bar. Mon-Thu 11am-midnight, Fri 11am-1am, Sat 10am-1am, Sun 10am-midnight. Seafood. Fresh seafood, shellfish, Midwestern aged beef, pasta specialties, abundant salad bar. Kids menu and nightly entertainment. Harbor and Bay views. Lunch and dinner daily. Americana. Ribs, steaks and burgers are definitely the stars. Full bar. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner Sun-Thu 5:30-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 5:30-10pm. California/full-service bakery. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. “Best Eggs Benedict in Town.â€? Happy Hour Mon-Fri 5-6pm. Halfprice appetizers; wines by the glass. Daily 8am-9pm. ’60s Vegas meets ’50s Waikiki. Amazing dining experience in kitchy yet swanky tropical setting. Fresh fish, great steaks, vegetarian. Full-service tiki bar. Happy-hour tiki drinks. Aloha Fri, Sat lunch 11:30am-5pm. Dinner nightly 5pm-close. Japanese Fusion. Sushi bar, sake bar, vegetarian, seafood, steak in fun atmosphere; kids play area; karaoke every night. Open seven days 5-10pm; Mon-Fri 11:30am-2:30pm.

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493 Lake Ave, 831.479.3430

Seafood/California. Fresh catch made your way! Plus many other wonderful menu items. Great view. Full bar. Happy hour Mon-Fri. Brunch Sat-Sun 10am-2pm. Open daily.

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Italian. La Posta serves Italian food made in the old style— simple and delicious. Tue-Thu 5:30-9:30pm. Fri and Sat 5:30-10pm. Sundays 5-8pm. Closed on Mondays.

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Fine Mexican cuisine. Opening daily at noon.

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555 Soquel Ave, 831.458.2321

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270 Soquel Ave, 831.427.2400

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105 Walnut Ave, 831.423.2020

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710 Front St, 831.427.4444

Thai. The only Thai restaurant in downtown Santa Cruz . Delicious menu is only further complemented by authentic, Thai tea, shakes and smoothies. Modern dining setting offers warm and inviting atmosphere to relax. American/ Steakhouse. Casual neighborhood restaurant near Pleasure Point, offering wide selection of American cuisine, featuring prime steaks, chops, seafood and pasta, in classic steakhouse setting. Open 7 days a week, breakfast served Sunday. Italian-American. Mouthwatering, generous portions, friendly service and the best patio in town. Full bar. Lunch. Irish pub and restaurant. Informal pub fare with reliable execution. Lunch and dinner all day, open Mon-Fri 11:30am-midnight, Sat-Sun 11:30am-1:30am. Indian. World-famous curries, vegetarian and nonvegetarian dishes. Authentic Indian food at affordable prices. $8.95 lunch buffet Mon-Thu 11:30am -2:30pm, Fri-Sun 11am-3pm. Wine bar with menu. Flawless plates of great character and flavor; sexy menu listings; wines to match. Dinner Sun-Thu 5-10pm FriSat 5-11pm. Wine shop Sun-Mon 5-10pm, Tue-Sat noon-close. Seafood. Offering largest selection of fresh seafood, with wide variety of pastas, salads, steaks and a children’s menu. Upper deck lounge offers view of Monterey Bay, Steamer Lane and Boardwalk. Casual family style dining every day from 11am. Pizza. Pizza, fresh salads, sandwiches, wings, desserts, beers on tap. Patio dining, sports on HDTV and free WiFi. Large groups and catering. Open and delivering Fri-Sat 11am-2am, Mon-Thu 11am-1am, Sun 11am-midnight.

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Cambodian. Fresh kebabs, seafood dishes, soups and noodle bowls with a unique Southeast Asian flair. Beer and wine

$$$ Felton

Italian. Authentic Italian cuisine nestled among redwoods, in a friendly atmosphere off Hwy 9. Chef Sebastian Nobile uses seasonal, local, organic ingredients whenever possible by utilizing a wide variety of quality Central Coast ingredients.

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Free Will

Astrology

By Rob Brezsny

For the week of December 8 /@73A (March 21–April 19): In the coming weeks, life will beguile you with secrets and riddles but probably not reveal as much as you’d like. I think this is an opportunity, not a problem. In my opinion, your task isn’t to press for shiny clarity, but rather to revel in the luxuriant mysteries. Let them confer their blessings on you through the magic of teasing and tantalizing. And what is the nature of those blessings? To enlighten your irrational mind, stimulate your imagination, teach you patience and nurture your connection with eternity. B/C@CA (April 20–May 20): Butterflies recall at least some of what they’ve learned during their time as caterpillars. The metamorphosis they go through is dramatic, turning their bodies into a soupy goo before remaking them into winged gliders. And yet they retain the gist of the lessons they mastered while in their earlier form. I see something comparable ahead for you in 2011, Taurus. It’s as if you will undergo a kind of reincarnation without having to endure the inconvenience of actually dying. Like a butterfly, the wisdom you’ve earned in your old self will accompany you into your new life. Are you ready? The process begins soon.

53;7<7 (May 21–June 20): What nourishes you emotionally and spiritually, Gemini? I’m not talking about what entertains you or flatters you or takes your mind off your problems. I’m referring to the influences that make you stronger and the people who see you for who you really are and the situations that teach you life-long lessons. I mean the beauty that replenishes your psyche and the symbols that consistently restore your balance and the memories that keep feeding your ability to rise to each new challenge. Take inventory of these precious assets. And then make a special point of nurturing them back. 1/<13@ (June 21–July 22): Two-thirds of American elementary-school teachers spend their own money to buy food for their poor students. Meanwhile, there’s a 50 percent chance that an American kid will, at some point in his or her young life, resort to using government aid in the form of food stamps. Those facts make me angry and motivate me to volunteer to distribute free food at the local food bank. I encourage you, my fellow Cancerian, to summon your own good reasons to get riled up in behalf of people who have less luck and goodness than you do. It’s always therapeutic to stretch your generosity and spread your wealth, but doing so will especially redound to your advantage in the coming weeks. Unselfish acts will bring profound selfish benefits.

:3= (July 23–Aug. 22): According to some sources, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates practiced the art of sculpture as a young man. But he abandoned it early on, deciding that he wanted to “carve his soul rather than marble.� Can I interest you in turning your attention to that noble, gritty task, Leo? It would be a fine time to do some intensive soul-carving. Soul-scouring, too, would be both fun and wise, as well as soul-etching and soul-emblazoning and soulaccessorizing. I highly recommend that you enjoy a prolonged phase of renovating and replenishing your most precious work of art.

D7@5= (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): In her haunting tune “One Blood,� Virgo singer Lila Downs confesses that “the deepest fear [is] my desire.� I personally know many Virgos who make a similar lament. How about you? Is there any way in which you are scared of the power of your longing? Do you ever find yourself reluctant to unleash the full force of your passion, worried that it could drive you out of control or lead you astray? If so, the coming weeks will be prime time to face down your misgivings. It’s time to liberate your desires, at least a little. :70@/ (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): Here are your words of power: hybrid, amalgamation, composite, aggregate, medley, alloy, ensemble. Now here are your words of disempowerment: welter, mishmash, jumble, hodgepodge, patchwork. Strive to accentuate the first category and avoid the second. Your task is to create a pleasing, synergetic arrangement from a multiplicity of factors, even as you avoid throwing together a hash of diverse influences into an unholy mess. Be calculating and strategic, not rash and random, as you do your blending. A1=@>7= (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): On my Facebook

page,I posted this excerpt from a Pablo Neruda love poem (translated by Stephen Tapscott): “Our love is like a well in the wilderness where time watches over the wandering lightning. Our sleep is a secret tunnel that leads to the scent of apples carried on the wind.� In response, a reader named John F. Gamboa said this: “I once found a well in the desert. There was a rope and a bucket. The bucket had a small hole in it. While pulling up the bucket of water, about half of it drained. But I suppose a decent bucket would have been stolen. So a bucket with a small hole was perfect; I got what I needed!� I’m here to tell you, Scorpio, that like Gamboa, a bucket with a small hole is probably what you need right now.

A/57BB/@7CA (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): You’ve arrived at a delicate yet boisterous turning point when one-of-a-kind opportunities are budding. I’m going to give you seven phrases that I think capture the essence of this pregnant moment: 1. wise innocence; 2. primal elegance; 3. raw holiness; 4. electrifying poise; 5. curative teasing; 6. rigorous play; 7 volcanic tenderness. To maximize your ability to capitalize on the transformations that are available, I suggest you seek out and cultivate these seemingly paradoxical states of being. 1/>@71=@< (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): For years I’ve had recurring dreams of finding treasure amidst trash. I interpret this to mean that I should always be alert, in my waking life, for the possibility that I might come across beautiful or valuable stuff that’s mixed in with what has been discarded or forgotten. Recently I heard about a literal embodiment of this theme. A sewage treatment plant in Japan announced that it has been culling huge amounts of gold from the scum and slop—so much so that their haul outstrips the yield at the country’s top gold mine. I urge you to make this your metaphor of the week, Capricorn. What riches might you be able to pluck out of the dirt and shadows? /?C/@7CA (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): Should you store up your energy, postpone your gratification, and withhold your full intensity for a more opportune time? Hell, no! Should you await further data before making a definitive conclusion, fantasize dreamily about some more perfect future, and retreat into a self-protective cocoon? Double hell, no! And if thoughts like those have been poking up into your awareness, exorcise them immediately. It is high time for you to grab the best goodies, reveal the whole truth, and employ your ultimate schemes. You are primed to make a big play, call on all the help you’ve been promised, and transform the “what ifs� into “no doubts.� >7A13A (Feb. 19–March 20): In Taio Cruz’s megahit pop song “Dynamite,� he describes how excited he is to go dancing at his favorite nightclub. “I throw my hands up in the air,� he exults. “I wanna celebrate and live my life . . . I’m wearin’ all my favorite brands.� In advising you about the best ways to ride the current cosmic rhythms, Pisces, I’ll use Cruz as both a role model and an anti–role model. You should be like him in the sense of being eager to throw your hands up in the air. Right now it’s your sacred duty to intensify your commitment to revelry and find every possible excuse to celebrate your life. On the other hand, it’s crucial that you don’t wear all your favorite brands. To get the full benefits from this time of festive release, you will need, as much as humanly possible, to declare your independence from corporate brainwashing and escape the intelligence-sapping mindset of consumerism.

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