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47F 47:70CAB3@ 4 7F 47:70CAB3@ THE R THE RULES U ULES governing governing how how business business iiss d one iin n tthe he U .S. S enate n eed tto o cchange. hange. A re done U.S. Senate need Are you aaware ware tthat: hat: ((1) 1) The The ffilibuster ilibuster iisn’t sn’t iin n tthe he you C onstitution? IIt’s t’s jjust ust a S enate rrule ule tthat hat aallows llows Constitution? Senate rrampant ampant o bstruction; aand nd ((2) 2) Itt o nly ttakes akes obstruction; only 4 enators tto o ccompletely ompletely o bstruct/prevent 411 ssenators obstruct/prevent debate and blo ck an up p or dow wn vvote? ote? block down Sen. Tom Tom Udall Udall and and 24 24 o is ccolleagues olleagues Sen. off h his

have p have proposed roposed a sstrong trong p package ackage tto o cchange hange the Sena ate rules Th he new new rules would end e Senate rules.. The ffilibusters iilibusteers on motions to b egin debate and a begin w ould fforce orce ssenators enators w aging a ffilibuster ilibuster tto o would waging actuallyy st ay on the ffloor loor and engage in n debate stay debate.. Th hat wo ould protect protect the right of the minority nority to min That would be h eard, b ut aalso lso aallow llow tthe he S enate tto o cconduct onduct heard, but Senate its busin ness without endless elaays y. business endless,, senseless de delays. Th he S enate sshould hould aapprove pprove tthis his p ackage w hen The Senate package when iitt rreconvenes econvenes o n JJan. an. 2 4. I want want to to see see the the on 24. ffilibuster ilibuster rrules ules ffixed ixed sso o tthat hat o ur ssenators enators ccan an d o our do their job bs—debate and vvote ote on bills o jobs—debate bills.. Phyllis MartinMartin-Vegue, Vegue e e, San Francisc F Franciscoo

<3E :3/4 < 3E :3/4 THE E THE ELECTIONS LECTIONS of fall 2010 2010 are are over over aand nd tthe he n ew m embers o Congress h ave n ow ttaken aken new members off Congress have now ttheir heir sseats. eats. However, However, it it sstill till aappears ppears tthat hat tthere here are op en nly hostile rrelations elations b etween va arious are openly between various m embers o Congress and and tthe he ttwo wo p olitical members off Congress political p arties as as a w hole. W must rremember emember tthat hat parties whole. Wee must a functi onal demo cracyy, at least in the U SA, functional democracy, USA, m ust iinvite nvite eeveryone veryone tto o jjoin oin iin n tthe he p rocess must process of dome estic go veernmental decision-ma aking, domestic governmental decision-making, aand nd aatt lleast east iinitially, nitially, w ill rrequire equire a ttransition ransition will ffrom rom a rrepresentative epresentative d emocracy tto oad irect democracy direct d emocracy. Th his k ind o overnmental democracy. This kind off ggovernmental eevolution volution w ould eend, nd, o east ssubstantially ubstantially would orr aatt lleast imp ede, the bur eaucratic paralysis and d vvoter oter impede, bureaucratic anger ap path hy that has b een pr esent in our o apathy been present so ciety ffor o or the past ffew ew dec ades. society decades. Ray R aay Gat Gattavara, tavara, A Auburn, uburrn, W Wash. ash. a

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Smells Frankenfishy Whether or not the federal Food and Drug Administration approves a genetically engineered salmon for sale in U.S. markets and restaurants is one question now pending. Whether the public will know they’re eating the fish if the feds approve it is another. Assemblyman Jared Huffman has introduced legislation that would require all genetically engineered salmon sold in California to be labeled as such. A.B. 88, which Huffman introduced on Jan. 6 and which will receive a formal hearing in March, comes in answer to a Massachusetts biotech company’s effort to gain the FDA’s approval of a genetically engineered Atlantic salmon that grows twice as fast as conventionally farmed and wild fish. AquaBounty Technologies used a growth hormone from a Chinook salmon and a gene from a fish called a pout to create the creature, patented as AquAdvantage but nicknamed “Frankenfish� by critics. Company reps have issued assurances that it’s safe to eat, but their resistance against possible requirement that they disclose the product’s origins to consumers has raised Huffman’s suspicions. “If [AquaBounty] believe their product is so benign, they should have no problem with identifying it,� he said. Environmentalists are concerned that the Frankenfish, if it gets loose in ocean waters, could commingle with wild salmon and even compete against them in the hunt for food and mates. Though the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch Program will not classify the AquAdvantage salmon as a red, yellow or green seafood item on its pocket cards unless the FDA approves it for consumption, communications officer /:7A=< 0/@@/BB says the aquarium is “not in favor of this going forward.� Even if the fish never get loose, Huffman believes the very option of buying salmon created artificially will undercut efforts to preserve wild salmon. “Supporting wild California salmon as a food is an important way to conserve the species,� said Huffman, who warned that, should the AquAdvantage salmon gain the feds’ approval, “the policy against raising farmed salmon in our state could be the next barrier to go.� Greenpeace’s senior markets campaigner 1/AA=< B@3<=@ thinks the FDA’s pending decision could mark a dire turning point. “The danger is that once we approve this thing and release it, there’s no holding it back.� —Alastair Bland

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“I really like Bon Iver,� he says. I tell him I’m not at all surprised, as the first time I heard Scheinin’s song “Bubbles,� that’s who immediately came to mind. Suddenly his smile turns serious and he looks at me with complete puzzlement. “Oh, you thought of Bon Iver? Yeah? That’s interesting.� I’m taken aback, since to me the comparison is obvious, from the gentle pulse of the opening da-da-dos to the slow acoustic burn to his quirky, high-pitched vocals. Though Scheinin’s sound is anchored in the instrumental jazz he grew up with, it

reaches across genres to the acoustic-indie sound popularized in the last few years by Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Iron & Wine and Ray LaMontagne. But from the way Scheinin is looking at me, it’s obvious that either (a) he doesn’t agree that he sounds like that; (b) he doesn’t realize that he sounds like that; or (c) he’s really not sure at all what he sounds like. He nods his head. “Cool.â€? The answer, it turns out, is c. And Scheinin, at just 21, is a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young man in transition. ¨ "

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Blown Away Growing up in Santa Cruz, Scheinin was playing the clarinet in the school band by fourth grade, and within a few years had moved on to the instrument he coveted, the tenor sax. By high school, he was a talent to watch in the Bay Area jazz scene, playing in honor bands and trained by the likes of Joshua Redman. He was, by his own admission, a jazz purist. But upon moving to Boston to attend the Berklee School of Music, his perspective began to shift. He started jamming with folk musicians and bluegrass musicians; he joined a rock band called the Boston Boys. Then, in 2009, he got the singer/songwriter bug. It seemed innocuous enough at first. “I was trying to write with some other songwriters,� says Scheinin. “But I was having a hard time ever getting it done. When you’re collaborating with someone, and you’re sending stuff back and forth, it just takes forever sometimes. So I decided to

write the lyrics myself.� By that summer, he was not only writing lyrics but singing. And it wasn’t so easy to step out from behind the saxophone and up to the mic. “It’s definitely a whole new level of being exposed, singing and writing lyrics,� he says. “I just don’t have as much confidence with it, and especially then I didn’t have as much confidence with it. I didn’t know if it was good or not.� He still doesn’t seem to realize that his oddball vocals are part of what gives his songs their strange appeal. He knows he’s a gifted instrumentalist, but finds his vocal style lacking when measured against his idols. “I love Stevie Wonder,� he says. “He’s my favorite, but I’m never going to be able to sing like him. I love Nick Drake, but I’m never going to be able to sing like him.�

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back on jazz. Instead, he’s sewn it into the lining of his music. The Fall Asleep EP he released earlier this year is a good example—the title song is a lullaby backed by a nine-piece band, including five saxophones. Featuring vocals from Margaret Glaspy, it’s a sonic hybrid of jazz and roots music, with lyrics that are all indie rock: “Someone press play/ So I can be on my way.� “I’m still a jazz musician. I’m still a saxophonist. It’s essential that I don’t think I’m something else that I’ve just been doing in the past two years,� he says. “This is what I want to do with my project, but I still want to be a great jazz saxophonist. I’m still very much working on that.� Saxophonist/vocalists don’t have a great track record in pop music (“Kool and the Gang,� says Scheinin with a sigh). Horn players tend to be sidemen, not singers. But in jazz, it’s a different story. “I don’t know about saxophonists as much, but there’s definitely a history

of jazz instrumentalists who also sang. Dizzy Gillespie sang. I like the way Louis Armstrong played trumpet and sang. I love Chet Baker, the way he did it,� says Scheinin. And jazz has provided a blueprint for the music he’s making, even if it’s hard to classify. “I like the way jazz musicians, when jazz was starting out, took pop music and the sound of the current time and then spread it out and used it. That was their language, that’s what they grew up hearing. They took that and did something way more with it,� he says. “I would like to do that, take what I’m experiencing as any person my age in the 21st century, and take that and do something more with it, spread it out and delve into it.� Right now, the ideas are coming to him fast and furious, and his musical vision has changed so much in the last 36 months that it makes it hard for him to get it down on record. “I made this EP [in December of 2009], and it was right when I first started singing and trying to figure out how to blend these different things together. I recorded in a nice studio, and then for a couple of months I was working on overdubs. Maybe I just worked on it too much, I don’t know. At a certain point I felt like I didn’t like it that much anymore, and then I never did anything with it,� he says. He doesn’t like having to finish something when he’s wanting to do something else, but neither is he mourning the loss of transition projects like that one. “If it was great, I’m sure I’d still like it,� he says.

But Is It Jazz? Dann Zinn is a longtime Bay Area jazz musician who teaches saxophone, music history and other subjects at UCBerkeley, Cal State East Bay, the Dave Brubeck Institute and the Jazz School. Scheinin took private lessons from him as a teenager, and Zinn remembers that even though he played straight jazz back then, Scheinin seemed to be planning a musical direction of his own. “He’s very, very talented, brilliant at what he does. He has a free f lowing approach to the whole thing,â€? says Zinn. “Even as a kid, he was very good at developing melodic ideas in interesting ways.â€? Zinn isn’t surprised to hear where Scheinin is taking his career; in fact, he says genre-bending is becoming ¨ $

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While on break from Berklee, Scheinin has set up several gigs in the Bay Area, including the homecoming show at Kuumbwa this week. He’s just learning the business side of the music, reading How to Win Friends and Influence People and making his first real cold calls. “This is going to be a packed week. We have shows and clinics and stuff every day. So I was making a lot of calls, trying to call people up and speak in a good voice and stuff, and sound confident,â€? he says. In Boston, his band mostly plays house shows, and it’s difficult to break into the scene. But here he has years of relationships to draw on, and plays high profile shows around the Bay Area. “I’m very lucky for that. I wouldn’t be able to play these gigs right now if it wasn’t for the connections I made when I was younger. People are more likely to pay attention to you when you’re a 17year-old or a 16-year-old especially. Cause I looked really young when I was 16, so I think people took notice.â€? He still looks really young, of course. And there can be a downside to that. As we’re sitting in the Saturn CafĂŠ, I ask him if it’s harder to get people to take him seriously, and he gets that sly smile again. “I don’t know—I feel like maybe 21 is the age where people start taking you seriously,â€? he says. Then pushing his finger against the table for mock dramatic emphasis, he demands, “’Take me seriously.’ Print it.â€? THE JESSE SCHEININ BAND plays Thursday, Jan. 20, at 7pm at Kuumbwa, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. Tickets $12.60 ($24.60 with dinner); www.kuumbwajazz.org.

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traits that exist in uneasy relationship with one another. Some skeptics, eyeing his oilman father and English degree from Texas A&M, have questioned Keen’s country credentials, but these details are more representative of the diverse, irascible and complex face of contemporary Texas than any predictable hillbilly stereotype. And it’s precisely this tension that makes Keen such a compelling figure: he’s concerned with the American South of Cormac McCarthy, not Tim McGraw. When I spoke with him, Keen noted that he “always carries around a Cormac McCarthy book—a lot of that stuff is melancholy, but it’s almost beautiful in its darkness.� This sensibility is evident in Keen’s songwriting: though he can kick out a partyhearty barnstormer with the best of them, the fingerprints of McCarthy, John Cheever and John Steinbeck are visible in Keen’s literate considerations of American lives on the edge. Far from prolific—he averages about two albums a decade, the most recent being 2009’s The Rose Hotel—Keen makes albums marked by deliberate craftsmanship, the very work ethic that has earned him a loyal audience for all these years.

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BOBBY HUTCHERSON QUARTET

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Sponsored by Kyle Goldman Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts

SUPPORT JAZZ EDUCATION 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

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3 • 7 PM

STEVE WILSON & FRIENDS

Original, straight-ahead, Latin jazz & funk with a local, all-star cast $12/Adv $15/Door Jazz & Dinner: $24.60/Adv MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7 • 7 PM Percussionist Kahil El’Zabar’s

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ETHNIC HERITAGE ENSEMBLE

$22/Adv $25/Door 1/2 Price Night for Students. Tickets at the door with valid i.d. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10 • 7 & 9 PM

BILL FRISELL’S BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS FEATURING EYVING KANG & RUDY ROYSTON $25/Adv $28/Door, No Jazztix or Comps

2/14 Tuck & Patti - VALENTINES DINNER PACKAGES AVAIL. (Adv. Reserv. only) 2/17 Benny Green Trio w/special guest Donald Harrison Monk's Dream: Fifty Years Fresh Dinner served Mondays & Thursdays beginning at 6pm, serving premium wines & microbrewed beers. Snacks & desserts available all other nights. All age venue.

Advance tickets at Logos Books & Records and online at kuumbwajazz.org. Tickets subject to service charge and 5% S.C. City Admissions Tax.

Independently Produced Events SATURDAY, JANUARY 22 • 8:30 PM

BEST OF SF COMEDY COMPETITION

Featuring 2010 champion Auggie Smith, Sammy Obeid & Shannon Gettins. Hosted by Santa Cruz’s own DNA. $20/Adv $25/Door Tickets online at: ticketweb.com More info: 415-302-0519

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Many folk and country artists consigned to Nashville’s fringes harbor a grudge against Music Row, but Robert Earl Keen has thrived by simply ignoring it. As comfortable at a seedy roadhouse as at a literary reading, Keen embodies a brand of down-home intellectualism that is rarely given a voice in these culturally and politically polarized times. There’s a frankness to Keen’s songs that marks him as something of a scholarly drifter— eclectic, road-taught and restless. Like his native Texas, Keen is difficult to pin down, a rugged yet introspective enigma who’s always confounding expectations. See story, page 17. Rio Theatre; $25 adv/$40 gold circle; 7:30pm. (Paul M. Davis)

Much has come to pass since 1969 when the Wailers—then comprising Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer—recorded “Trenchtown Rock� with support from the brothers Barrett (Aston on bass, Carly on drums). Reconstituted in various forms over the years, the Wailers (not to be confused with the Bob-Marley-andthe-Wailers alumni who tour as the Original Wailers) continue touring and recording anchored by original bassist Barrett; recent collaborators include Kenny Chesney, Eve, Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat. Moe’s Alley; $25 adv/ $30 door; 8pm. (Tessa Stuart)

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friendship of the two heroes surpasses the love of man and woman; in other words, this film needs a beard. As this beard, Cameron Diaz is treated with what could only be described as contempt. Here’s our introduction to Lenore, who is actually intelligent about criminology and newspaper publishing: “I’m from the temporary agency, this is my first day.� It’s like the dialogue was swiped from a porn film. This Green Hornet is heavily into origin story—a kiss of death during the present superhero glut. From there, the film goes into wanton Blues Brothers–style carwreckage to make up for its lack of purpose. It’s a nonmovie like Pineapple Express, put together with scenes that explain why there’s a scene where there’s a scene. One highlight: David Harbour as the district attorney. When Harbour and Rogen share a scene, Rogen’s particular belligerence and physical heft gets met and matched. This doesn’t happen often; Rogen relentlessly bullies his own movie.

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(1993) During an all-night party in Texas, different high school cliques bump up against each other. From the opening shot of a Bicentennial mural touched up by a wicked vandal (Uncle Sam given red eyes and a joint) to the finale of a party at dawn, Dazed and Confused is one of the few authentic films about what it meant to be in high school in 1976. That the 1970s were a different country is apparent, but director Richard Linklater (School of Rock) doesn’t wallow in nostalgia, swooning over the clothes and the music. It doesn’t even use past decadence as a lesson of decorum in the present. As always, Linklater is most fascinated with people and ideas. The movie made stars out of Parker Posey (as the braying cheerleader-to-be who gives the young girls the condiment treatment) and Ben Affleck (as Pink’s fellow

love with a dangerous bandit the men have sworn they will bring to justice. (Plays Wed 1/26 6:30pm at Santa Cruz 9.)

action feature based on the popular manga and anime series about two friends who are killed in a train accident and then, trapped between the world of the living and the afterlife, are forced to hunt down and kill aliens. The film will be dubbed in English from the original Japanese. After the event, stars Kazunari Ninomiya and Kenichi Matsuyama will participate in a simulcast discussion. (Plays Thu 8:30 at Santa Cruz 9.)

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(R; 108 min.) Emma (Natalie Portman) is a busy doctor with no time for a boyfriend; Adam (Ashton Kutcher) is her lifelong friend who swore off monogamy when his ex started dating his father (Kevin Kline). Together they attempt to integrate casual sex into their relationship without involving their pesky emotions. (Opens Thu midnight at Santa Cruz 9.)

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>AG16= (1960) Alfred Hitchcock’s most famous thriller stars Janet Leigh as an embezzling secretary on the lam. Leigh is unlucky enough to seek refuge at the Bates Motel, an establishment whose proprietor, Norman (played by Anthony Perkins), has more than a few issues to work out. (Plays Thu 8 at Santa Cruz 9.)

(Unrated; 230 min.) The Puccini opera, directly translated as “Girl of the West,� is adapted from a play of the same name by David Belasco. Set in a California Gold Rush town, the opera tells the story of the virtuous Minnie, beloved by the miners to whom she gives Bible lessons and by the upstanding Sheriff Rance, who falls in

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Frustratingly vague study of a film star called Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff). It’s a rough life. Women waylay him. Makeup artists show him what he’ll look like when he’s old and wrinkled, and it’s like the latex mask of Dorian Gray; the press surrounds him on junkets and asks him questions way above his pay grade, such as “Who is Johnny Marco?� Like a grumpus in a Shirley Temple movie, Marco has all that he can desire, and only a little girl can help him find his way to happiness. That’s his daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning), who has been foisted on him by his ex to mind for a few days before she’s due at summer camp. Director Sophia Coppola’ has an eye: the way the giant figures on Sunset Strip billboards leer into the Chateau Marmont’s windows or a wide Ed Ruscha–like storefront dwarves Marco’s Ferrari, and those blank long neutral L.A. streets and freeways make

for a symphony of anomie. But as in her Marie Antoinette, Coppola faces the problem of trying to have her cake and critiquing it too. When you’re a filmmaker, and you love the sweet life, and have a terrific pictorial sense, there’s a natural career for you: television commercials. Who couldn’t sell a suite at the Chateau Marmont with these images? (Opens Fri at the Nickelodeon.) (RvB) B= 1/B16 / B6734 (1955) Cary Grant in the full powers of his prime. To Catch a Thief is your ultimate French Riviera jewel-thief movie, with Grant wrongly suspected of having restarted his former career as a cat burglar known as, naturally, as “The Cat.� Grace Kelly plays an heiress desired either for herself or for her jewels. The film features fine supporting work by the pert gamine Juliette Greco and by John Williams as the stalwart copper. Alfred Hitchcock’s famous routines here include the use of fireworks to

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@3D73EA 0:/19 AE/< (R; 103 min.) Apparently from the annals of the Gotham City Ballet: facing the dual role in a production of Swan Lake, a virginal ballerina (Natalie Portman; Golden Globes Best Actress) 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. 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) 0:C3 D/:3<B7<3

(R; 114 min.) Cindy (Michelle Williams) is a nurse married to Dean (Ryan Gosling), a housepainter; the two are seen on their first dates and years later at what may be the end of their marriage. Director Derek Cianfrance’s intimate and frighteningly close study of the bad side of love has problems: confusing time frames and some bits of info that seem to have been left in the director’s head during the harrowingly long pre-production. What we start to see, thanks to Williams’ acting, is something bigger than this couple’s feud. It’s more like the war of the body and the soul. There’s too much challenge to the average

insipid romcom for this film to be ignored. More than anything, Blue Valentine makes it clear what a terrible thing “romantic destiny� would be if it really existed. As for Williams: she simply gives the single best female performance of the year. (RvB) 1/A7<= 8/19 (R; 108 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 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. 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. (Read a full-length review at www.metroactive.com.) (RvB) 1=C<B@G AB@=<5

(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 27:3;;/ (PG13; 118 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. 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 “steppingstone� 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) B63 5@33< 6=@<3B

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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 (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

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(R; 118 min.) Colin Firth (Golden Globes Best Actor) 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) ;/23 7< 2/53<6/;

(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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13; 91 min.) A couple (Aaron Eckhart, Nicole Kidman) survive the eighth month after their son was accidentally killed by a passing driver. As the mother, Becca, Kidman risks being boxoffice poison through displaying unmanaged anger. I was more taken with the story of husband Howie (Aaron Eckhart) with his edge of foxy subversiveness even in husbandly duty. Fine supporting work by Sandra Oh as a bereaved mother; Miles Teller makes a memorable impression as the young driver, and Dianne Wiest, who has the speech that’s engineered to stop the show (and it does). Rabbit Hole’s aim is not to jerk tears but to envelop a viewer in a tragedy, and this too succeeds. The dramatic crescendo is broken up into cubist angles and slow-motion horror, abstracting a mother’s unthinkable loss, faceting it like a jewel. (RvB)

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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. (Winner of Golden Globe Best Drama) (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@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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Astrology Free Will

By Rob Brezsny

For the week of January 19 /@73A (March 21–April 19): The age-old question comes up for review once again: Which should predominate, independence or interdependence? The answer is always different, of course, depending on the tenor of the time and the phase of your evolution. But in the coming weeks, at least, my view is that you should put more emphasis on interdependence. I think you’ll reap huge benefits from wholeheartedly blending your energies with allies whose power and intelligence match yours. B/C@CA (April 20–May 20): I find many of you Tauruses to be excessively self-effacing. It’s a trait that can be both endearing and maddening. Even as my heart melts in the presence of Bulls who are underestimating their own beauty, I may also feel like grabbing them by the shoulders and shaking some confidence into them, barraging them with frustrated exhortations like “Believe in yourself as much as I believe in you, for God’s sake!� But I’m guessing I won’t be tempted to do that anytime soon. You appear to be due for a big influx of self-esteem.

53;7<7 (May 21–June 20): It will be good week to let your mind go utterly blank while slouching in front of a TV and sipping warm milk, or to spend hours curled up in a ball under the covers on your bed as you berate yourself with guilty insults for the mistakes you’ve made in your life. NOT! I’m kidding! Please don’t you dare do anything like that. It would be a terrible waste of the rowdy astrological omens that are coming to bear on you. Here are some better ideas: Go seek the fire on the mountain! Create a secret in the sanctuary! Learn a trick in the dark! Find a new emotion in the wilderness! Study the wisest, wildest people you know so that you, too, can be wildly wise! 1/<13@ (June 21–July 22): This would be an excellent week to grieve madly and deeply about the old love affairs that shattered your heart. I’ve rarely seen a better astrological configuration than there is now for purging the residual anguish from those old romantic collapses. So I suggest you conduct a formal ritual that will provide total exorcism and bring you maximum catharsis. Maybe you could build a shrine containing the photos and objects that keep a part of you stuck in the past, and maybe you could find the bold words and innovative gestures that will bid goodbye to them forever. Do you have any intuitions about how to create a rousing healing ceremony?

:3= (July 23–Aug. 22): The History cable TV channel has a reality TV show called Ice Road Truckers. It documents the exploits of drivers who haul heavy loads in their 18-wheelers for long distances across frozen rivers and lakes and swamps in Alaska and northwest Canada. They bring supplies to remote outposts where humans work exotic jobs like mining diamonds and drilling for natural gas. If you have any truck-driving skills, Leo, you’d be a good candidate to apply for a gig on the show. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, your levels of courage and adventurousness will be at an all-time high in 2011. May I suggest, though, that you try to make your romps in the frontier more purely pleasurable than what the ice road truckers have to endure?

D7@5= (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): Pop chanteuse Katy Perry is renowned not only for her singing ability but also for her physical appearance. Her preternatural ability to sell her musical products can be attributed in part to her sparkling good looks and charisma. That’s why it was amusing when her husband, the trickster Russell Brand, Twittered a raw photo of her that he took as she lifted her head off the pillow, awakening from a night of sleep. (See it at tinyurl.com/RealKaty.) Without her make-up, Katy’s visage was spectacularly ordinary. Not ugly, just plain. In accordance with the astrological omens, Virgo, I urge you to do what Russell Brand did: expose the reality that lies beneath and behind the glamorous illusion, either in yourself or anywhere else you find a need. :70@/ (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): While I was growing up, I was taught to regard my analytical mind as a supreme tool for understanding reality. I’ve never stopped believing that. However, I eventually realized I had to add the following corollaries if I wanted to thrive: 1. My imagination and intuition are as essential to my success as my analytical mind; 2. I need to regularly express my playful, creative urges, and that requires me to sometimes transcend my analytical mind; 3. to maintain my emotional well-being, I have to work

with my dreams, which occur in a realm where the analytical mind is not lord and king. Does any of this ring true for you, Libra? Now is an excellent time to cultivate other modes of intelligence besides your analytical mind.

A1=@>7= (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): If you’re planning on spending any time hibernating during the next few months, this would be an excellent time to do it. Your reaction time is slowing down, which is a very healthy thing. Meanwhile, your allergy to civilization is acting up, your head is too full of thoughts you don’t need, and your heart craves a break from the subtle sorrows and trivial tussles of daily life. So go find some sweet silence to hide inside, Scorpio. Treat yourself to a slowmotion glide through the eternal point of view. A/57BB/@7CA (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): “Dear Rob: All my life I’ve been passionate about the big picture— learning how the universe works, meditating on why things are the way they are, and probing the invisible forces working behind the scenes. Too often, though, I’m so enamored of these expansive concepts that I neglect to pay enough humble attention to myself. It’s embarrassing. Loving the infinite, I scrimp on taking care of the finite. Any advice?� —Larger Than Life Sagittarian Dear Larger: You’re in luck! Members of the Sagittarian tribe have entered a phase when they can make up for their previous neglect of life-nourishing details. In the coming weeks, I bet you’ll find it as fun and interesting to attend to your own little needs as you normally do to understanding the mysteries of the cosmos. 1/>@71=@< (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): All the most credible studies say that the crime rate is steadily decreasing, and yet three out of every four people believe it’s rising. What conclusions can we draw from this curious discrepancy? Here’s one: The majority of the population is predisposed towards pessimism. In my astrological opinion, Capricorn, you can’t afford to be victimized by this mass psychosis. If you are, it will interfere with and probably even stunt the good fortune headed your way. I’m not asking you to be absurdly optimistic. Just try to root out any tendencies you might have to be absurdly gloomy. /?C/@7CA (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): In the early 20th century, many women at the beach covered most of their bodies with swimsuits made of wool. If they went in the water, they’d emerge about 20 pounds heavier. Swimming was a challenge. Your current psychic state has resemblances to what you’d feel like if you were wearing drenched woolen underwear and a drenched woolen clown suit and a drenched woolen robe. My advice? Take it off; take it all off. The astrological omens are clear: Whatever your reasons were for being in this get-up in the first place are no longer valid. >7A13A (Feb. 19–March 20): In comedian Sarah Silverman’s memoir, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee, she confesses that she was still wetting her bed at age 19. Depression was a constant companion throughout adolescence, and she took a lot of Xanax. Yet somehow she grew into such a formidable adult that she was able to corral God himself to write the afterword for her book. How did she manage that? “This is so trite,� she told Publishers Weekly, “but . . . sex.� I predict that a comparable reversal of fortune is ahead for you, Pisces. Some part of your past will be redeemed, quite possibly with the sexy help of a divine ally.

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