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Contents. P OSTS

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L O C A L LY

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CURRENTS

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COVER STORY

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S TA G E , A R T & EVENTS

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ASTR OLOGY

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CLASSIFIEDS

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ON THE COVER Steve Palumbi (Photograph by Chip Scheuer)

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b effor o e,� said Senatee GOP leader before,� B ob Dutton, Dutton, adding adding that that Brown’s Brown’s Bob sp ending cuts (deep per, incidentally, incidentallyy, spending (deeper, than Gov. Gov. Schwarzenegger’s Schwarzeenegger’s suggested 2 010 reductions reductions of of $8.5 $8.5 billion) billion) were were 2010 ““too too lit tle, to o late.� late.� little, too Even Even Senate Democratic Dem mocratic leader Darrell Steinberg, Darr ell Steinb erg, a supporter supporter of the these cuts.� plan said f latly, plan, latly, “I hate latly h cuts.� But, But he added, “I think it’s i ’s a realistic it realistic budget.�� Closer Closer to to home, home, Santa Santa Cruz Cruz County County Redevelopment administrator R eedevelopment Agency Agency g Betsey B etsey Lynberg Lynberg was was stoic—or stoic— or perhaps p erhaps in shock. shock. Brown’s Brown’s proposal p oposal to shutter pr shutter 400 offices byy JJuly 40 0 rredevelopment edevelopmen nt of ff iices b uly 1, eeventually ventually funneling funneling the the $1.9 $1.9 billion billion iin n property property tax tax revenue revenue to to local local ggovernment, overnment, surely surely had had the the county’s county’s 30-odd 330odd redevelopment redevelopm pment employees emplo p yees jumpy. ffeeling eeeling jump y. Asked mood office, Asked about about the mo od in the of ff ice, Lynberg L yynberg fell fell e silent, then laughed nervously, ner vouslyy, then said: said d: “I’m not sure sure I have h ave a comment comment on on it. it. At At this this point p oint we’re w e’re trying trying to to make make sure sure that that we we understand underst and the proposal prop o osal and, if it weree to actually be wer be implemented as proposed, p roposed, what what would would that that mean mean to to our community. community. We’ve We’ve produced produced well over o ver 1,300 1,300 affordable affordable housing housing units units iin n the the community community and and been been able able to to lleverage everage redevelopment redevelopment housing housing funds funds bring tto ob ring in in significant signif icant outside outside federal federal and state state funds to the t community,� community,� she wou ccontinued. ontinued. “It would uld be be a serious loss to this ccommunity.� ommunity.�

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In the capital, capital, Di District istrict 2 277 Assemblymember A ssemblymember Bill B Monning seven between had rroughly oughly se ven minutes b etween Monday afternoon, meetings on Mond daay af ftternoon, so the weree his ccomments omments on th he budget wer point. puts to the p oint. ““It It p uts iinto nto ffocus ocus the the gravity gra vity of a $28 billion billlion deficit,� deff icit,� i � he said. ““There’s There’s no no easy easy fix f ix and and no no program program that’s that ’s going to be be spared s ed or considered spar considered sacred. K–12, sacr ed. The one eexception xcception is K –12, – because b ecause it it has has shouldered shouldered the the burden burden budget cycles. in the last ttwo wo bud dget cy cles. sh “The state state is a ship hip in distress, distress, and this appears appears to be be an a even-handed even-handed aapproach pproach to to balance balance the the budget budget with with prudent ap rudent combination combination of of tough tough cuts cuts aand nd appealing appealing to to Californians Californians to to sustain sustain minimize pain.�� eexisting xisting ttaxes axes to mi inimize the pain. Monning pointed pointed out that the

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“and I assure you that if we never received complaints we wouldn’t even bother with this drum circle.� Gettleman hopes frustrated business owners will take up his invitation to start a conversation with the drummers and other street performers. Four days after his call for dialogue, though, Gettleman is still waiting for any takers to step up. He can be reached at j_gettleman@hotmail.com.

Silent Chopper Officers with the A1=BBA D/::3G >=:713 23>/@B;3<B will be rolling a little less raucously in 2011 after the department assumed ownership in early December of a brand new electric motorcycle. The machine, the ďŹ rst zero-emissions bike to serve a California police department, is capable of 50-mile trips, freeway speeds, instant acceleration and perfectly soundless patrols of the streets. Its name is the Zero DS and it’s a locally grown product, made by H3@= ;=B=@1G1:3A, a company born and raised in Scotts Valley (soon to be relocating to Santa Cruz’s Harvey West industrial area). Already, officers with the Scotts Valley department are using their new bike on routine patrols, and information officer Lt. 8=6< 6=6;/<< expects the Zero DS to improve his department’s capacity to stay active and “patrol more places, more often.â€? The bike’s lightweight frame and automatic shifting make for easy maneuvering, and Hohmann foresees the Zero DS’s upright seating position and noiseless motor to be sharp advantages for officers navigating traffic while simultaneously apprehending the lawless of Scotts Valley—in part, no doubt, by sneaking up on the nefarious criminals. Hohmann also calls the bike “a great costeffective solution for small departments.â€? Cops aren’t the only two-wheelers riding a Zero DS. The bike, which costs just shy of $10,000, was ďŹ rst released to the public last March, and, according to Zero spokesman 8=6< 3E3@B, “thousands of happy customersâ€? are riding them in lands as distant as Sweden and Australia. Recharging the bike’s battery requires four hours and a standard 110-volt outlet, and though the bike has no gas tank or direct dependence on fossil fuels, it brings along some logistical baggage of its own: Its top speed is just 67 miles per hour. It is permitted for freeway use, but with a range of only 50 miles before the batteries bonk, the Zero DS will not likely move much beyond the Highway 17 corridor. That would leave those hair-raising freeway pursuits we see on TV to the department’s noisier motorcycles and black-and-white patrol cars—the sort designed last century. —Alastair Bland

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arm of Stanford University, a position he assumed in 2002 after stints at the University of Hawaii and Harvard. He’s a wide-eyed, energetic man sporting a business-in-the-front, party-in-the-back haircut complete with silver ponytail. In a way, it functions as an indication of his approach to work— when he’s not conducting research, Palumbi plays in a band called Sustainable Sole (sample tracks include “The Last Fish Leftâ€? and “Ghost of Jacques Cousteauâ€?) and works on a series of sustainability-themed webisodes called “Short Attention ¨ # Span Science.â€?

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HE PROJECT began as a history of the Hopkins Marine Life Refuge, a swath of ocean that stretches from either side of the campus past the intertidal zone, first delineated in 1931. “The idea was that we were putting together a history of the marine protected area out here and it was

going to be all about the fish that were there, etc.,â€? Palumbi says. The scientific paper transformed into a lively history when Palumbi and Sotka discovered the champion of the marine protected area, a woman named Julia Platt. Platt would go on to become the mayor of Pacific Grove, but when she arrived in town at the beginning of the 20th century a local paper reported: “she had come, unchaperoned, to study zoology.â€? If Platt’s mere appearance on the scene caused a stir, it was nothing to the one she would cause over the next 35 years. In The Death and Life of Monterey Bay, Platt is painted as a bit of a hellraiser: she turned six-shooter on her neighbors’ unruly chickens and, after knocking down a fence blocking the public path to a beach, erected a sign (so there was no confusion) that read: “Opened by Julia B. Platt. This entrance to the beach must be left open at all hours when the public might reasonably pass through. I act in the matter because the Council and Police Department of Pacific Grove are men and possibly somewhat timid.â€? With the introduction of Platt, the book transformed from a paper fated to be filed and forgotten in the Hopkins archives into a storybook history of the people who made their home on the bay—from the French sea captain who ignited the sea otter fur trade and the Chinese community that sprang up around the abalone and squid fisheries to Ed Ricketts (Cannery Row’s Doc) and the founders of the Monterey Bay Aquarium. “It became pretty clear early on that these characters were driving the story, and this never happens in scientific writing, but in this particular case, the entire project was taken over by this set of characters who demanded their stories were told,â€? Palumbi says. The parade of characters marches into the present day, as Palumbi and Sotka recount the creation of Monterey’s most famous landmark, the Aquarium. The bay was beginning to mount its recovery (having received a reprieve with the collapse of the canneries) when the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969 happened, an event Palumbi says galvanized Aquarium founders Steve Webster, Chuck Baxter, Nancy Packard Burnett and Robin Burnett. The spill “really focused attention on the need for conservation and preservation of ocean areas as well as land areas. Those two things sort of came together: the exuberance of how wonderful the kelp forest life was here and the rebuilding of the bay going on, plus a need for helping ¨ %

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AINTAINING the health of the bay depends on considering the past when debating political issues of the day. Take, for example, a desalination facility like the one currently discussed for Santa Cruz’s Westside; considering new plans, Palumbi takes a page from Ed Ricketts’ book. “I’ve tried to think, ‘What would Ed Ricketts think about a desalination plant?’ And I conclude that Ed Ricketts would think about it the way that he thought about everything, and that is: everything is connected,� Palumbi explains. “Ed Ricketts would [consider] ocean water in a desal plant and he’d say, ‘Well, the water gets split in two: there’s fresh water over here and brine over there.’ Then he’d follow the fate of the brine and the

fresh water—the brine as it went into the ocean, and the fresh water as it went into not the land, but the people that develop the land—and those two streams would then have their own set of consequences. Ed would want to see all of those links, and he would be really interested in all the domino effects along the way.� In the coming years Palumbi and his colleagues at Hopkins will be tackling challenges presented by a changing climate. The prospect of warming water brings a flood of new questions; Palumbi lists just a few: “What happens when deep-water currents get stronger? What happens when they get weaker? What happens if sea level comes up a meter and essentially washes away the coastline? What happens if warming and acidification mean that a bunch of the animals that live here can’t reproduce?� They are questions Palumbi doesn’t have the answers to yet. In working to find them however, he assumes the mantle of conservation previously worn by Platt and Ricketts—the next colorful character in a story that continues to unfold. STEVE PALUMBI reads from ‘The Death and Life of Monterey Bay’ on Wednesday, Jan. 19, at 7:30pm at Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave., Capitola. Free.

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$12/Adv $15/Door Jazz & Dinner: $24.60/Adv FRIDAY, JANUARY 14 • 7 & 9 PM Two master musicians!

DAVID GRISMAN/ MARTIN TAYLOR DUO

$25/Adv $28/Door, No Jazztix or Comps MONDAY, JANUARY 17 • 7 PM

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The most progressive and fresh voice to hit the music scene since Medeski, Martin and Wood and The Bad Plus $20/Adv $23/Door 1/2 Price Night for Students. Tickets at the door with valid I.D. THURSDAY, JANUARY 20 • 7 PM

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BOBBY HUTCHERSON QUARTET

7 pm:$25/Adv $28/Door 9 pm: $20/Adv $23/Door, No Jazztix/Comps Sponsored by Kyle Goldman Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25 • 6 – 9 PM EAT, DRINK & BE MERRY! DINE AT SHADOWBROOK & LISTEN TO THE KUUMBWA JAZZ HONOR BAND 1/3rd of all proceeds support Jazz Education Call Shadowbrook for reservations: 475-1511 Be sure to mention you are dining for Kuumbwa Jazz FRIDAY, JANUARY 28 • 7:30 PM

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Presented by Dina Eastwood South African A Cappella sensations featured on the soundtrack Invictus $12/Adv $15/Door MONDAY, JANUARY 31 • 7 PM Vocalist celebrates her gospel roots!

LIZZ WRIGHT

$25/Adv $28/Door No Jazztix or Comps Sponsored by Carolyn Hyatt and Joe Hyatt Co-sponsored by Smoothjazz.com

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Dinner served Mondays & Thursdays beginning at 6pm, serving premium wines & microbrewed beers. Snacks & desserts available all other nights. All age venue.

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Requiring from audiences a “sensitivity to the subtle and the absurd,� the Yard Dogs Road Show is a throwback to the days of Wild West vaudeville, complete with sword swallowing, fire eating, singing, dancing, poetry and magic. For their self-described “hobo cabaret,� the Yard Dogs weave a fantastic tale with threads from the imagined, the historic and the illusory. The bohemian vibe of this wandering wonder group is driven by the 13-plus members’ fiercely independent approach to life and expression and the desire to stoke the roaming creative spirits of audiences everywhere. Rio Theatre; $20 adv/ $23 door; 8pm. (CJ)

A name like the Jacka might bring to mind a blending appliance you’d see hawked on a late-night infomercial, but there’s nothing tacky or cheap about this NorCal rapper. A graduate of Mac Dre and Too $hort’s slow-roll pimp school, the former Mob Figaz member from Pittsburg (that’s East Bay, not Pa.) has built an underground empire over the past decade, hustling solo records like The Jack Artist and Tear Gas with the drive and ambition of a hungry upstart. His latest album, Flight Risk, is a filler-free collection of late-night street raps that puts Bay Area hip-hop on the map for 2011. The Catalyst; $24 adv/ $29 door; 9pm. (Paul M. Davis)

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Forget all that No Country for Old Men Oscar stuff, this is the best Coen Brothers movie ever made. It delivers the best of everything that makes them great: the crazy take on a regional setting (in this case, the target—Los Angeles—is their most ambitious and daring), the weird riffing on a classic genre (noir), the unforgettable main characters who desperately need to get a clue (literally and figuratively), the plot that references other great stories (Chandler’s The Big Sleep) while respecting absolutely no rules of standard film narrative. All that, plus the hands-down most quotable, hilarious script the Coens have ever written and I think we have a winner. Thanks

Abramoff, the D.C. lobbyist who served 3 1/2 years in prison after he was implicated in a far-reaching corruption scandal involving De Lay and other Beltway insiders. Spacey was nominated for a Golden Globe for the role. (Opens Fri at the Nick.)

(1980) Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi play brothers Jake and Elwood Blues in the full-length film adapted from the SNL sketch with the same characters. “On a mission from God� to save the orphanage in which they grew up, the Brothers must reunite their defunct R&B band to raise the funds necessary to pay the tax man. (Plays Thu 8pm at Santa Cruz 9.)

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min.) Vince Vaughn plays a man who discovers his best friend (played by Kevin James of TV’s The King of Queens) has been made a cuckold by his cheatin’ wife (Winona Ryder). As Vaughn’s character struggles with whether or not to reveal the information to his friend, he suffers a series of comical trials. (Opens Thu midnight at Santa Cruz 9 and Fri at Scotts Valley and Green Valley.)

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min.) Just in time for Texas Congressman Tom De Lay’s recent sentencing on corruption charges, a screening of this film starring Kevin Spacey as Jack

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in the big-screen adaptation of the comic book about a young man who inherits his father’s media empire and with it a proclivity for fighting crime. He teams up with employee and martial arts expert, Kato (Jay Chou). Together the pair take on a Russian mob boss in control of the city’s seedy underbelly. Also starring Cameron Diaz as the Hornet’s secretary and love interest. (Opens Thu midnight at Santa Cruz 9 and Fri at Scotts Valley and Green Valley.) @/007B 6=:3 (PG-13; 91

min.) A portrait of grief starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart. Becca (Kidman) and Howie (Eckhart) are a married couple whose lives are torn apart in the wake of a car accident that claims the life of

their only son. When Becca (Kidman’s character) becomes fixated with the enigmatic Jason, the driver of the car that killed her son, problems develop in her relationship with Howie. (Opens Fri at the Nick.) B= 97:: / ;=197<507@2

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a virginal ballerina (Natalie Portman) cracks. On one side she’s muscled by her heartless, sexually harassing director (a convincing Vincent Cassel); on the other, she’s smothered by her mother (Barbara Hershey). And then a new dancer (Mila Kunis) arrives from San Francisco to inspire sexual panic and precipitate disaster. In the rehearsal scenes, the camera spins around with the dancers, and we hear the scuffing of their feet and their harsh panting, or we watch in close-up as a slipper is stabbed, sliced and stitched into shape. It’s ballet as murderous ordeal. It’s only when the music starts up that Black Swan starts to feel like a great movie, simply because the Tchaikovsky would make us believe anything. Director Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler) takes this 1940ish plot about a frigid woman going nuts so very seriously that he probably should have done without the borrowings from Cronenberg and De Palma. Terrific color, anyway. (RvB) B63 16@=<71:3A =4 </@<7/( D=G/53 =4 B63 2/E< B@3/23@

(PG; 115 min.) The elder Pevensies, Peter and Susan, are in America. Left behind are two younger children, Lucy (Georgie Henley) and Edmund (Skandar Keynes), who are billeted with their hateful cousin Eustace (Will Poulter). Inundated by an enchanted painting, Lucy, Edmund and Eustace end up bobbing in the sea right next to the Narnian navy vessel containing Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes). Eventually, seven golden swords have to be rescued and placed on the altar of Aslan. There are times when the Narnia movies are as good as CGI gets. The animators challenge themselves to pose their legions of creatures under highnoon lighting, instead of disguising the flaws with half-shadows or twilight. (Read a full-length review at www .metroactive.com.) (RvB)

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(PG-13; 112 min.) Gwyneth Paltrow stars as washed-up country singer Kelly Canter, who joins forced with an upand-coming songwriter played by Garrett Hedlund. Together the pair are able to revive Canter’s flagging career, but her newfound fame puts a strain on the relationship with her husband/manager (played by Tim McGraw), tempting him to seek solace in the arms of a young beauty queen (Leighton Meester of TV’s Gossip Girl). B63 4756B3@ (R; 114 min.) David O. Russell’s account of pugilists Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale) is juicy, touchingly acted and rich with atmosphere. Ward, who’s been training all his life with his halfbrother Dicky, is in a career lull as a “steppingstoneâ€? fighter, used as a boxer for other boxers to leapfrog over. He’s divorced, with a kid; one night he meets a weary bartender, Charlene (Amy Adams), who’s tough enough to fight off Ward’s overprotective family, a gaggle of seven high-haired, sharpnailed sisters and scary chainsmoking mom Alice (Melissa Leo). All put pressure on Micky to keep Dicky as his trainer. One little problem with the elder half-sibling’s work: he’s a hopeless crack addict. (RvB) 5C::7D3@¸A B@/D3:A (PG; 85

min.) Shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput, Jack Black’s Gulliver meets a race of bite-size foreigners who imprison him. Subplots include a bromance between Black and a Lilliputian (Jason Segel) with a crush of his own on the kingdom’s princess (Emily Blunt), as well as conflict with a jealous (and unfunny) general, played by Chris O’Dowd). Parts of the script are reasonably faithful to the book; nearly straight from Swift is a passage on the here-unnamed island of Brobdingnag. It’s the film’s comedic highlight. By the time the directors haul out a giant robot, it’s clear that the most

interesting part of this tale went missing. Swift’s satire on the stupidity of wars of religion is here just a vague anti-war message. (RvB)

straight. And the two leads dive into the trysts like swimmers leaping into a chilly water, shouting to mask the discomfort. (RvB)

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(PG-13; 114 min.) Two men contend for the affections of Lisa (Reese Witherspoon), an ex–softball player. Matty (Owen Wilson) is a genial, promiscuous pitcher for the Washington Nationals. George (Paul Rudd) is too nice and too intimidated to pounce on Lisa. Sedation sets in. How Do You Know is filmed by director James L. Brooks with little interest for the cityscapes of Washington, D.C. It’s staffed by easily recognized sitcom types who stay typed throughout the film. Brooks is trying to force these actors into the mold of some of his older stars, but Witherspoon is too seething to be Mary Tyler Moore, and Rudd doesn’t have the shrewdness of Albert Brooks. Using the same kind of rhythms, gags and teaching moments of ’70s network-TV comedy, director Brooks is trying to address recession misery. Unfortunately, as in his last film, Spanglish, Brooks has no handle on the way the lower class lives today. (RvB)

(R; 118 min.) Colin Firth gives a deeply affecting portrayal of a shame-wracked man born and bred to be a spokesman, yet who is handicapped with a crippling stammer. In the 1930s, Firth is the Duke of York, a family man with two daughters and a wife named Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter). The stammering Duke, known to his family as “Bertie,� is the official spare to the heir, next in line to the Prince of Wales. A superlatively cast Guy Pearce embodies this Edward’s upper-class shadiness and monstrous entitlement. The Prince is the love slave of a twice-married American named Simpson; his affair and his indifference to world troubles (“Hitler will sort them out�) are pushing events to a constitutional crisis. The man tapped to solve it is Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), an Australian speech therapist tasked with helping the Duke find his voice on the eve of England’s entry into World War II. Most of The King’s Speech is an inspired actor’s duel about the conflict between pride and need. Rush’s wit and nimbleness counterpoints this story of majesty, which is almost exactly as tragic as it is comic. (RvB)

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Jim Carrey in the story of Steven Russell, a cop turned con man whose downfall (or whose stairway to heaven) was his love affair with a fellow prisoner, Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor). Even when the movie takes swipes at Texas justice and evangelicals, director/writers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa pussyfoot around the truth: their subject is a kind of sociopath. Despite Steven’s narration (untrustworthy, naturally) the film never gets bigger than a sum of its sometimes amusing incidents. Call it a hetup, sweet, essentially unsophisticated date movie. Carrey shticks like crazy; McGregor is blond and lamblike; the love scenes have no heat, no musk, no offhanded tenderness. Obviously, the directors were scared

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(R; 113 min.) Sometimes boneless but basically rousing and evocative story of the spring 1968 strike that helped inaugurate the movement for equal pay for women; Sally Hawkins (Happy Go Lucky) soulfully underplays the role of the ringleader of a small group of seamstresses working at the massive Ford plant at Dagenham in England; their greivance leads to the stoppage of the entire factory, and brings in intervention from the prime minister. Bob Hoskins is unexpectedly gentle as a bespectacled union leader. If you like

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hrs.) 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. Fincher regular cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth keeps us oriented by making the walnut-lined tombs of Harvard so different from the lambency of the sun in Palo Alto. 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) B@=< :35/1G (PG; 127 min.) In this highly anticipated remake of the 1982 cult sci-fi flick, wonder programmerturned-hacker Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) must beat a series of computer games from the inside. Featuring a soundtrack composed by legendary

electronic duo Daft Punk. B@C3 5@7B (PG-13; 128 min.) Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), a self-assured 14-year-old, arrives in Fort Smith, Ark., in the early 1880s to track down Tom Cheney (Josh Brolin), the hired hand who murdered her father. The sheriff lists some U.S. marshals who could track him. Mattie chooses Reuben “Rooster� Cogburn (Jeff Bridges): ruthless and dead to fear, if often dead to the world. Mattie offers the marshal a $50 reward to cross into the Choctaw lands to retrieve Cheney. While waiting for his decision, Mattie encounters LaBoeuf (Matt Damon), a fancy, buckskin-covered ranger who is seeking Cheney for a previous murder down in Texas. The three, reluctantly matched, draw closer to the killer but feud along the way. Bridges lulls us with his take on the part, doing things that John Wayne wasn’t capable of as an actor, expressing the desperate underside of a bluff, a rowdier level of buffoonery and a quitter’s despair. The Coens have the bravery to deliver the downbeat coda to this story left out in 1969. It increases the stature of this film, its depth, beauty and sadness. (RvB)

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

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

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

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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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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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555 Soquel Ave, 831.458.2321

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

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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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Felton Secluded Setting 4Bd 2Ba Home with HEATED 2 Car Garage $405,000 Over 2200 sqft. Situated on 3/4 of an acre with creek down below. Listed by: Town and Country Real Estate Call Josh for more info (831)335-3200

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