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closed in 2008, so did the Museum of Natural History, the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum and the Beach Flats Community Center—but operations at these public venues were almost immediately resumed through support of private groups. Booth himself even conducted a rescue of San Lorenzo Valley High School’s pool when the facility was nearly closed in the late 1990s for budget reasons.

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HE HARVEY West Community Pool could reopen this summer if a trio of local activists, hoping to develop a partnership with the city of Santa Cruz, secures funding to reopen the public facility. Kevin Moon, Steve Pleich and Jim Booth have proposed to resume operation of the swimming pool, which closed to the public in 2008 due to municipal budget cuts, and are now drafting an operating plan to be reviewed by the Santa Cruz City Council. According to Dannettee Shoemaker, director of the Parks and Recreation Department, the council will only approve the plan if long-term funding sources can be guaranteed. “No city money is available,� said Shoemaker, who noted that $6 million in recent cuts have still left a budget shortfall for 2011. “The Parks and Recreation Department doesn’t have an extra nickel for this. I’ve told them that

if they find community support and funding, they can probably reopen it.� The plan is to form a nonprofit and raise $30,000 in donations with an eye toward opening the pool in June. Though Moon, Pleich and Booth would assume full control over operations if their plan takes shape, Harvey West Community Pool would remain a public resource. “The benefit for the community of having this pool is huge,� said Booth, a local swimming instructor who currently uses Harvey West’s wading pool on a limited basis for children’s classes. “Swimming can lead to careers, college scholarships and just healthy lifestyle habits, and it makes sense to continue providing the service with a public-private partnership.� Already, other public resources are operating under the direction of private groups—a sign of a city strapped for cash. When Harvey West Community Pool

‘The Parks and Recreation Department doesn’t have an extra nickel for this. I’ve told them that if they find community support and funding, they can probably reopen it.’ —DANNETTEE SHOEMAKER Booth estimates that Harvey West Community Pool will cost up to $10,000 to operate during the summer months and substantially more during the winter and spring, when heating expenses would mount. For now, the trio plans tentatively to open the pool for a trial run this summer, according to Pleich, a community activist who, along with Moon, ran for City Council in November. “But only if we’re sure we have the money to open the doors and keep them open,� Pleich said. “We don’t want to close in midsummer. We don’t want to be in the business of letting people down.� 0

It wasn’t exactly a Kumbaya moment, but tensions on the Lompico Water Board did ease somewhat last week after board member A63@E7< 5=BB issued a public apology to board president @719 6/@@7<5B=< over the previous week’s kerfuffle, which saw rattled board members call a recess in order to restore decorum in the tiny meeting room. At issue at the Jan. 11 special meeting was a disagreement over whether the board had in fact ruled out using a certain type of valve in the repair of the broken water main on Lake Boulevard, which failed in 2006. Gott said the board had decided against the valve. Harrington, who had put an item on the agenda asking for $260 to pay engineers to assess the valve, said it had not. Evidently the rest of the board agreed with Harrington, as the motion ultimately passed, but not before Gott reportedly accused Harrington of lying. “It escalated into Sherwin yelling, ‘You have a problem with honesty, you have a problem with the truth,’� says resident and regular meeting attendee ;3@@73 A16/::3@. When Harrington told Gott he was out of order, Gott opined loudly that he was not; at that point cooler heads prevailed and a recess was called. (Gott did not return the Weekly’s messages by presstime.) Not a great turn of events for a district notorious for infighting, openly hostile board meetings and irregular procedures. Last year’s headline-grabbing developments—the district secretary charged with embezzlement, the longtime manager fired and a grand jury report detailing a history of poor management—weren’t even the most dramatic moments. That may have come in the fall of 2009, when then-board president @=0 6/<A3: called the sheriff to intervene in a meeting that had devolved into swearing and shouting. Perhaps it was post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from that episode that had three community members voice concerns about civility at the opening of the Jan. 18 meeting and call on Gott to apologize. And he did. At the end of the meeting, Gott apologized for his conduct and made reference to the Tucson shootings, which he said had made a big impression on him. Harrington is eager to put the matter behind the board and “put the best foot forward.� “He did apologize for his actions,� says Harrington, “so I’m reluctant to make 3

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Cycling on the Increase It’s a good time to open up a bike shop in Santa Cruz: the A/<B/ 1@CH 1=C<BG 63/:B6 A3@D713A /53<1G reports that bicycle ridership in the county has increased 26 percent since 2003, with helmet use slowly rising as well. Dozens of volunteers working with the agency’s Community Traffic Safety Coalition observed the increase in twowheeled locomotion at 41 sites around the county. Among their observations: young adults and kids comprised the bulk of the cyclists, and 45 percent of cyclists were seen wearing helmets. The county reports that the number of people riding on sidewalks had dropped as well. For more information and to view the results, go to www.sctrafficsafety.org/ safe_info.html. —Traci Hukill

MediaNews Chief Resigns 23/< A7<5:3B=< announced Jan. 18 his decision to step down as CEO of MediaNews, the Denver-based group that owns the Santa Cruz Sentinel, the Mercury News and most other Bay Area newspapers. Amid speculation that the move was forced on him by a New York hedge fund that controls the company, the man dubbed “Lean Dean� for his cost-cutting (read: downsizing) ways insisted that he wants to focus on strategic planning and leave day-to-day management behind. He admitted that poor health influenced his decision—Singleton has multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair.

8=2G :=2=D71, Singleton’s longtime right-hand man, also resigned his position as president and gave up his seat on the company’s board of directors. Reports suggest Lodovic quit after being told that MediaNews would be conducting a national search for a new CEO. It has been considered common knowledge for some time that Lodovic would succeed Singleton as CEO. MediaNews’ parent company, Affiliated Media, declared bankruptcy last January, and controlling equity was issued to a group of creditors led by Bank of America Corp. Much of that equity has since passed to Alden Global Capitol, a New York–based hedge fund. It was announced yesterday that two seats on the MediaNews board of directors will be turned over to Alden Global. MediaNews bought the Sentinel, the Merc and other papers in August 2006 from McClatchy Corp., five months after McClatchy’s purchase of KnightRidder. Singleton borrowed most of the money required for the purchase. The resulting debt obligations, along with the decreasing advertising revenues, hurt the newspapers financially: under Singleton the newspapers decimated their staffs and page counts while consolidating operations. It’s unclear what this means for the local daily; since the start of the new year the Sentinel’s flag (the large strip on the front page with the paper’s name, often mistakenly referred to as the masthead), has featured a line in small print that says: “An edition of the San Jose Mercury News.� In addition to the Sentinel and the Merc, MediaNews owns the Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times, Marin Independent Journal and the Monterey County Herald, as well as the Silicon Valley Community Newspapers group of weeklies. —Eric Johnson

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ETTING out of bed can be the worst part of the day. Whether pulling away from a lover’s sexy wake-up call or sleep’s cozy cocoon, sometimes it’s all downhill after leaving the sheets. New research says it’s more than an annoyance, though. It can be downright dangerous to your health. OK, so that’s a bit of a stretch. But several scientific studies suggest that staying in bed— both sleeping and sexing—has multiple health benefits. Instead of hitting the gym or cutting carbs, they seem to suggest, fitness-conscious folk can add more sex and sleep to their New Year

resolutions, knowing their bodies (and their minds) will thank them for it now and in the future. There’s even a name for this approach, according to those in the know. “The sex diet!� says sexpert Jane Bogart. “The average 175-pound person burns 150 to 200 calories during 30 to 40 minutes of sex.� Bogart, author of Sexploration: The Ultimate Guide to Feeling Truly Great in Bed and the former UC–Santa Cruz Student Health Outreach director, is joking. Sort of. It takes 3,500 calories to burn 1 pound of fat. Assuming one high-intensity half-hour romp per day, that adds up to weight loss of almost a half-pound per week. So maybe it’s

not as effective as spinning class. “But it’s a lot more fun than the treadmill,â€? says Bogart, who’s now director of student wellness at Columbia University Medical Center. And singles need not despair: “Sex with another person can be great, but some of these benefits you can also get by having sex with yourself.â€? Sex and why it’s good for people is one of Bogart’s favorite topics. “It reduces physical stress, it reduces tension, it promotes feeling good about yourself,â€? she says. In addition to writing and teaching about it, she also appeared on MTV’s First National Sex Quiz and True Life: I Need a Sex RN. ¨ "

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A healthy ticker. A study at Queen’s University in Belfast found that men who have sex at least three times a week can cut their risk of heart attack in half and also decrease their chances of having a stroke.

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Fewer colds and bouts of flu. Researchers at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., say that sex once or twice a week boosts the immune system by 30 percent.

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Better self-esteem and focusing power. “It’s difficult not to be in the moment when you’re having sex,� Bogart says. “It can clear your brain, and also, sex allows you to experiment and try new things in a way that you might not feel comfortable doing in other areas of your life.�

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Stronger abs and pelvic floor muscles. So everyone gets a six-pack and ladies get better pee control— both of which are good things come swimsuit season.

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A healthy prostate. The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that ejaculation can lessen a man’s likelihood of developing prostate cancer.

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Less pain and better sleep. Orgasms produce an oxytocin overload, which also releases endorphins. This helps induce sleep and relieves pain. “The oxytocin and endorphins produced during sex reduces pain, so one of the things we tell women having bad menstrual cramps is that having sex can help alleviate cramps,� Bogart says, adding, “The oxytocin in your brain promotes better sleep. That’s why people fall asleep after sex.�

Snooze of the World Speaking of staying in bed, sleep does the body good, too. And it may even increase hotness. According to new research published in the British Medical Journal, beauty sleep is real. Scientists took 23 subjects and photographed them after they had been awake for 31 hours with only five hours of sleep. Then they photographed the same subjects after a normal night’s

sleep—eight hours. None of the subjects wore makeup, and they all stood in the same location in a room with bad, bright lighting. Next, 65 untrained observers rated the attractiveness and perceived health of the people in the photographs. And, surprise, surprise—in their sleepdeprived states they were judged less attractive and less healthy. To extrapolate from the study, then: Sleep more, which makes you better looking, which may enable you to have more sex, which produces oxytocin, which helps you to have better sleep. It’s like a perpetual motion machine. There are many other reasons to get a good night sleep, however. Dr. Deepti Hemrajani is a sleep specialist with Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s Capitola office. She specializes in sleep-disordered

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breathing and parasomnias (a class of disorders involving abnormal movement or behavior during sleep), among other sleep problems. Good sleep—and sleep habits—are as important as diet and exercise, she says. “The body is an integrated machine,� Hemrajani says. “A sleep disorder can lead to increased diabetes, increased risk of stroke, increased risk of cardiovascular disease. We have to pay attention to sleep disorders.� Good sleep, on the other hand, has been shown to decrease one’s risk of developing the above-mentioned diseases. It can also increase life expectancy while making the time one does have on this earth more pleasant. As Hemrajani explains, “It can also give you a better outlook on life. Studies on mood and good quality of sleep show

that sleep can have a positive difference in mood disorders.� She suggests developing a relaxing routine before going to sleep, keeping the bedroom cool and dark and restricting the bed to only sleep and sex—“things that promote restfulness and a better sleep environment. “It’s important to keep a set sleeping time and a set wake-up time. If there are things that seem unusual, like snoring, gasping, kicking, that’s the time you come in to get a further evaluation.� Unless, of course, the gasping and kicking are associated with the other bedtime activity—in which case, keep on kicking, screaming and clawing your way to better health.

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S A BURGEONING market of detox products is only too happy to remind us, our inner workings are rife with mysteries we might rather ignore. Our intestines, marketers tell us, are coated with petrified “gook,� parasites and toxins—but it doesn’t have to be this way. Laxative capsules and powders like “Colonblow� can see to that.

Slightly more plausible do-it-yourself cleanses said to clean the intestine and liver of toxic buildup have also been gaining momentum in recent years. There’s kriya (the ancient yoga cleansing practices, which include a variation on enemas), juice fasts, grapefruit diets and the popular “Master Cleanse.� The latter, a glorified fast that allows nothing but a mixture of water, lemon, cayenne pepper

and maple syrup, is supposed to last for however long it takes to start excreting water—anywhere from eight to 14 days. It’s hard not to be in awe of those with the discipline to complete a task that entails starvation, let alone the glow of purity they seem to exude when it’s all over. Our bodies are our temples and nobody likes the sound of petrified gook, but does bodily

enlightenment have to be so grueling? For those without an iron will, local nutritionists can shed light on ways to achieve that purified glow by consuming food. Yes, food.

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Light As Air Still, while nutritionists cringe at the mention of the Master Cleanse, those who complete it make fascinating revelations. Paul J.R. Greenleaf suffered through the Master Cleanse not once but three times and found himself craving nothing but rice and steamed vegetables, which he ate a lot of as a kid. “Fasting kind of gets you more in touch with your body’s core needs instead of just its many wants,� says Greenleaf. “Your mind feels clearer, colors seem brighter—everything kind of seems more in focus. Your body feels lighter. It feels like you’re operating more efficiently.� Nutritionists attribute the commonly reported “hunger high� to ketosis, a chemical process that kicks in when the body tries to live without adequate

carbohydrates, and the effect of extremely low blood sugar on the brain. “When our blood sugar gets low like that and we feel so different, we associate it as feeling free and high, but really it’s the beginning of starvation,� says Dubin. But isn’t it worth it to get rid of petrified gook? Here, too, the pros take issue. The mysterious excrement one friend calls “the Black Matter,� which makes its appearance several days into the Master Cleanse, is in fact bile produced by the liver.

‘When our blood sugar gets low like that and we feel so different, we associate it as feeling free and high, but really it’s the beginning of starvation’ —JOCELYN DUBIN “When you don’t eat, there is very little waste to bulk the stool, so the stool volume will be small, the consistency will be mushy or sludgy, and there will be a disproportionate amount of bile, making it appear green and dark,â€? explains Shunney, who goes on to warn against cleansing products that contain bentonite clay and psyllium. “These are known to cause green/dark stringy ropy stool that these companies then promote as the removal of mucoid plaque. It’s really just the products,â€? she says. Nobody said the truth was palatable. But maybe there is something to be said for “hitting the pause button,â€? as Dubin puts it, on our appetites and thinking before we mindlessly reach for something to stop the growling of our always-demanding bellies. AVSS` 6WZZ ¨

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RAVITY dictates the truest mantra on Earth: What goes up must come down. But give me a bicycle and a mountain and I’ll break that law or die trying. Whether by blessing or curse, I am drawn irresistibly to hills and the roads that go up them. I scorn horizontal distances, thriving instead on elevation gain. And while I do worship the beauty of the high country—its animals, the trout streams staircasing down its canyons, the sun slipping through its peaks every evening—in the end, mine is a world of numbers. As a pragmatic hill hunter, I am always seeking to optimize my rise over run. I won’t rest well at night if I haven’t climbed at least 3,000 feet that day, and doing so with as little forward motion as possible is ideal. For instance, I can pedal up Highway 9 to Skyline Boulevard to achieve precisely this floor minimum. However, the average gradient here is just 2 percent—a slow 30-mile climb. That just won’t do. Page Mill Road, on the other hand, is a model of efficiency, a 7.5-mile climb of 2,000 feet beginning in Palo Alto. In the Marin Headlands, the popular McCullough-Conzelman climb goes up 700 feet in just 1.5 miles. And in Sonoma County, Cavedale Road offers excellent bang for buck—2,100 vertical feet over 7 miles horizontal. Far away, in Turkey, where I recently toured alone, I pedaled one afternoon from a sea-level valley of banana orchards up 6,000 feet in just 20 miles forward into a landscape of goatherds, brown bears and wind-scraped crags. And one of the best climbs on earth, which I’ve yet to attempt, may be the paved road up Haleakala Volcano on Maui; it climbs 10,000 feet in 36 miles. While long, steep climbs may get the endorphins jumping, shorter, steeper ascents provide a different category of challenge that I often can’t resist. In San Francisco, one can find slippery slopes that tilt to preposterous angles.

Among such trophies, 15 percent hills are warm-ups and 20-percenters are sometimes worth looking at twice. But it’s the 30 percent inclines that get my blood boiling. I even know of one that measures almost 40 percent.

Getting High It’s a steep road I ride, but in this life I’m not alone. On my daily outings, I

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have come to know by face several dozen others who plainly bear the burden of the hill hunter. They come in different molds. There is the competitive sort, blinded by the sweat in his eyes and bent on annihilating distances. For example, while pedaling the McCulloughConzelman climb in November, a man composed of Lycra, Gu and carbon pulled alongside me.

“Hey, man, you’re really moving!â€? he shouted fiercely, seemingly doped on blood. “You should get yourself a road bike!â€? “I’ll never part with my Surly,â€? I vowed. “You race?!â€? he screamed in my ear. I couldn’t resist: “No. I just kick ass.â€? ¨

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Anyone who exercises should give hills a chance. The exhilaration that comes after 30 minutes or so of working out arrives almost instantly when one assumes vertical motion. But I’ve made friends with other hill hunters, cool-headed, calm men and women who are as glad to slow down and chat as they would be to say “On your left� to a peloton of racers. One of these riders is a soft-spoken man who takes long, steady climbs as medicine and therapy. Years ago, he found himself uncharacteristically winded while riding a routine slope. He went to the doctor and found his worst fears confirmed: cancer. Today he credits cycling as a factor in his recovery.

The Pain, the Gain I believe, as my friend does, that a little hill climbing—or a lot—can only do a body good. True: Hills can hurt, and I confess now that some days I shrink from the mere thought of fighting gravity all the way up a mountain. It’s then that I rediscover the pleasure of passing an afternoon like most people might prefer—without sweating a drop. But always the urge returns to pounce on the nearest road that goes up, to get high once more on the burn of muscle, the stretch of the lungs and the pounding of my heart. I can remember the pre-hill era of my life, when I didn’t require such physical activity to keep me sane. Somehow, within the past six years, I’ve become hooked. Now I can’t go more than several days without it. I believe it’s chemical: I’m addicted. Anyone who exercises should give hills a chance, for the exhilaration that comes after 30 minutes or so of working out arrives almost instantly when one assumes vertical motion. Hill climbing compresses the act of exercising into less time and less distance. Calories burn faster, muscles fatigue sooner, bodies grow stronger—all on hills. On hills, too, incidental world records are easily set. I, for example, once pedaled a durian fruit fresh from Thailand to the top of Mount Tamalpais—an event I suspect had not happened before in the history of the universe. But setting athletic records has never interested me. My best time up the Trinity Grade near Sonoma was just over 20 minutes. The pros can spank that one in about 13 minutes—and they can keep their world records; in the end, I ride for myself. Sadly, while hills today might measure my rise, someday they will only trace my fall. As I grow older, the grades that I ride regularly will seem to grow steeper, and one by one I will have to cast them off as physical feats beyond my abilities. Broderick Street in San Francisco’s Marina District, at 38 percent, will probably be the first one to go, thereby announcing that I have begun life’s long descent. With time and age, more routine climbs will join the ranks of the unclimbables, and the hour will come when I summit my last peak. I may not have known it then, but I know this now: I will arrive at the top, inhale the view, perhaps even see a sunset, then take my descent and, for whatever reason it may be, never go up again. For gravity wins in the end, and every hill hunter must one day come down.

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Phillips lives and the elder Phillips worked, agitated, earned his nickname and always called home. The players, including Kate MacLeod, Anke Summerhill and many more, including Phillips, all played Utah’s guitar on their tracks—a classic folk touch that ref lects the spirit of the whole project. “Dad used to say, ‘The ultimate folk fest is one where no one shows up because everyone is at home playing their own music,’� says Phillips with a laugh. “What we’re doing is really simple but honest. I think that people really like that simplicity. “Dad really was a man of the people,� he continues. “If he talked about unions or homelessness, then when he was offstage, that’s what he was doing. Some people rally the f lags and talk about what we should do, then go to the next town and do it again. They don’t walk the walk, they just talk the talk. My dad did both. “Now it’s up to the rest of us to pick up where he left off. It’s our turn.�

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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

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3 • 7 PM

STEVE WILSON & FRIENDS

Original, straight-ahead, Latin jazz & funk with Steve Wilson – trombone, Dale Mills – reeds , Modesto Briseno – trumpet, Martan Mann – piano, Stan Poplin – bass, Gino Rauigi – guitar, Michael Strunk – drums and vocals by Mainswing! $12/Adv $15/Door Jazz & Dinner: $24.60/Adv MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7 • 7 PM Percussionist Kahil El’Zabar’s

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 “Bill Frisell plays the guitar like Miles Davis played the trumpet.� –The New Yorker $25/Adv $28/Door, No Jazztix or Comps

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In what may have been the most serendipitous appearance at a Queen tribute concert ever, the seven-member South African a cappella group Overtone caught the eye, and ear, of Dina Eastwood. After winning her over, they went on to record five songs for the soundtrack to the film Invictus, which Eastwood’s husband, Clint, was filming at the time. The septet has a unique sound, alternately beatboxing and harmonizing in English, Zulu and Afrikaans, but with their followup record they are headed in a more boy-band direction—lead singer Emile Welamn says the new album features a “Justin Timberlake–meet–Jonas Brothers vibe.� Kuumbwa; $12 adv/ $15 door; 7pm. (Tessa Stuart)

Singer/songwriter Andrew Bird is a multi-instrumentalist known to riff on a glockenspiel, among other instruments, but his primary tool is the violin, and on it he is a virtuoso in the truest meaning of the word. Whether sweeping or creeping, his music is cinematic: when he marries the bow and string it’s to aching effect, but he would just as soon pluck out notes that pile up to a crescendo and collapse in a rollicking explosion. In the end, though, it is neither the precision of his playing nor his incredibly intuitive musicality that it the best part of a Bird song, it’s his wordplay—the way he twists a turn of phrase and conjures images that capture listeners’ imaginations, leaving them utterly under his spell. Rio Theatre; 8pm; $25. (TS)

Bands that bring together jam rock, bluegrass and folk are as common as a cold these days, which means you have to be damned remarkable to stand out. Railroad Earth enjoys the advantage of time—the band has been at it for a decade—but also has the chops, improvisational skill and melodic sensibilities to have secured a place at the head of the jamgrass class. The band’s eponymous 2010 release may be its most accomplished to date, demonstrating a far-flung songwriting approach that encompasses austere Americana, Celtic balladry and the skillfully delivered jam-oriented folkrock for which the band is best known. The Catalyst; $20 adv/$25 door; 9pm. (Paul M. Davis)

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7<17B3@A Local purveyors of Northern Soul— think Manchester and Liverpool, not Detroit and New York—the Inciters have been taking the Bay Area by storm with their high-energy musical heroics. The 11-member band—complete with a full horn section and a good-sized handful of capable vocalists—has a knack for setting the joint a-jumping with their R&Bdriven, funky-soul sound. With bass lines thick enough to eat, super-contagious little guitar riffs, lock-it in-the-pocket drumwork and horns so punchy it hurts, one would be wise to put the Inciters on a bands-to-watch list. They are talented, tight and on the rise. With Dan P. and the Bricks and Kepi Ghouli. Crepe Place; $8; 9pm. (Cat Johnson)

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;716/3: @=A3 To say Michael Rose’s voice is precisely the sound conjured when someone thinks of reggae music wouldn’t be totally off-base. After all, it spawned the “Waterhouse sound,� adopted by artists like Don Carlos and Junior Reid, among others. Rose, along with Carlos and Reid, was a recipient of the first Best Reggae Album Grammy for the 1985 Black Uhuru record Anthem. Rose left Uhuru after Anthem to start a coffee farm in

Jamaica, then rejoined the band in 2004, though he continues to tour and record on his own. Moe’s Alley; $25 adv/ $30 door; 8pm. (TS)

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27<<3@ /B B63 B6=;>A=<A Dinner at the Thompsons make the sort of airy, mod electro that seems custommade for the iPods of globetrotting Brigitte Bardot lookalikes. Their songs are confectioners’ delights, far from worldchanging but delightful nonetheless. Featuring French emigrÊ Lucille Tee on vocals and multi-instrumentalist Fablive, the band nails the sense of cosmopolitan world-weariness essential for this sort of fare. Drawing in elements of jazz, soul and electro, the duo (which divides its time between Santa Cruz and Paris) merges the grittiness of underground hip-hop with the ethereal vibe of trip-hop, making music that sounds simultaneously contemporary and vintage. The Crepe Place; $5; 8pm. (PMD)

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music they’re playing, it matters only that they’re playing music. While billed as a guitarist and bass player respectively, both Kai and Uccello are talented multi-instrumentalists, composers, performers and creators of spontaneous beauty. With a reputation for sweeping themselves and their audiences up in the majestic meanderings of their sonic creations, the two have traveled throughout the States, Canada and Italy captivating audiences everywhere with their inimitable fusion of contemporary classical, jazz, bluegrass and world music. Don Quixote’s; $10; 1pm. (CJ)

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IRECTOR Peter Weir’s last film, 2003’s Master and Commander, was to sea epics what The Lord of the Rings was to sword and sorcery. High adventure tinged with metaphysical overtones is still Weir’s style. It’s a style that holds sway over Australian filmmakers; even The Animal Kingdom is influenced by this director’s early attempts to tell stories with tantalizing passages missing and his methods for filming a sun-stricken landscape. It’s as if Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock had been made last year instead of in 1975. Weir’s newest, The Way Back, is an adventure about an escape from one of Stalin’s Gulags during the 1940s; the prisoners fled on foot from Siberia to the Himalayas (and beyond). Weir has been the best director some actors have ever had—Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Jim Carrey and Robin Williams among them—and Colin Farrell joins the ranks in The Way Back. Getting to play a Russian is a gift to actors, and Farrell is a salty delight as a tattooed criminal who forces his way into the escape attempt. He revs up the film with an ingratiating accent and hard-bitten mottos: “Grateful is for dogs!� The Way Back excels in passages. Just right is the scene in which an imprisoned

actor recites Treasure Island to a group of shaven-headed gangsters. The frost of white whiskers on Ed Harris’ chin makes him look like an old but still dangerous lion. When the prisoners are mining coal, amid mechanical roars and belching steam hoses, Weir shows us how to film confusion without making it look confused. The problem is that The Way Back sometimes looks like it’s missing reels, even though the desert part of the ordeal goes overlong. And the script has lines that come up in high-adventure films so regularly that the audience could prompt the actors. Weir approaches this purportedly true-life memoir as if it’s all true. (A tip-off might have been the way the book’s author, Slawomir Rawicz, described his encounter with a pair of yetis along the journey.) Ultimately, The Way Back is almost a masterpiece, dampened by Weir’s straightforward tale-telling when he might well have shaded this film’s burning suns with a shadow of a doubt.

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it’s airport-hotel-airport and back to the Chateau. Dorff does project some humanity; he has a clue who Johnny Marco is. Unfortunately, this makes for sentiment that spoils Coppola’s picture of alienation—this, and the utter perfection and utter lack of moods in the prematurely mature daughter. Why is Somewhere being looked at as anything but piffle? It must be Coppola’s eye: the way the giant figures on Sunset Strip billboards leer into the Chateau’s windows, the wide Ed Ruscha–like storefront dwarfing Marco’s Ferrari, and those long, blank, neutral Los Angeles streets and freeways. If there were more force and less upbeatness in what Coppola is saying, one wouldn’t feel like scowling at this visual wealth like a commissar. As in 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 great eye, there’s a natural career for you: television commercials. Who couldn’t sell a suite at the Chateau Marmont with these images?

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Diner’s Guide Our selective list of area restaurants includes those that have been favorably reviewed in print by Santa Cruz Weekly food critics and others that have been sampled but not reviewed in print. All visits by our writers are made anonymously, and all expenses are paid by Metro Santa Cruz. AG;0=:A ;/23 A7;>:3( + C\RS` + # + $ + O\R c^

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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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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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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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Fine Mexican cuisine. Opening daily at noon.

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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

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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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For the week of January 26 /@73A (March 21–April 19): What rewards do you deserve for all the good living and the hard work you’ve done since your last birthday? And what amends should you make for the mediocre living and the work you’ve shirked since your last birthday? If you choose this week to take care of these two matters with purposeful clarity, you will ensure the best possible outcomes. The reward you earn will be the right one, and the amends you offer will provide the proper correction. B/C@CA (April 20–May 20): Sometimes I f ly in my dreams. The ecstasy is almost unbearable as I soar high above the landscape. But there’s something I enjoy dreaming about even more, and that’s running. For years I’ve had recurring dreams of sprinting for sheer joy through green hills and meadows, often following rivers that go on forever. I’m never short of breath. My legs never get tired. I feel vital and vigorous and fulfilled. Does it seem odd that I prefer running to f lying? I think I understand why. The f lying dreams represent the part of me that longs to escape the bonds of earth, to be free of the suffering and chaos here. My running dreams, on the other hand, express the part of me that loves being in a body and exults in the challenges of this world. Given your astrological omens, Taurus, I think you’re ready for whatever is your personal equivalent of running in your dreams. 53;7<7 (May 21–June 20): An interviewer asked me if there’s any special ritual I do before writing these horoscopes. I told her that I often say a prayer in which I affirm my desire to provide you with these three services: 1. that what I create will be of practical use to you; 2. that it will help you cultivate your relationship with your inner teacher; 3. that it will inspire you to tap into and use the substantial freedom you have to create the life you want. I hope I’m doing a good job, Gemini, because in the coming weeks your inner teacher will be overf lowing with practical clues about the art of liberation.

1/<13@ (June 21–July 22): “Spring dawn: Turning toward the storm cloud, I lost sight of the bird.� Let this haikulike poem by Julius Lester serve as a cautionary tale, Cancerian. You’re at risk of getting so fearfully fixated on a storm cloud that you may lose track, metaphorically speaking, of a rare and beautiful bird. And the thing is, the storm cloud isn’t even harboring that big a ruckus. It will pour out its f lash and dazzle quickly, leaving virtually no havoc in its wake. That’s why it would be a shame for you to let your perverse fascination with it cause you to get separated from a potential source of inspiration.

:3= (July 23–Aug. 22): Shockwaves of toxic misinformation pulse through the Internet on a regular basis. One of the latest infections attacked the subject of astrology. An astronomer in Minneapolis proclaimed that due to the precession of the equinoxes, everyone’s astrological sign is wrong. He was perfectly mistaken, of course, for reasons I explain here: http://bit.ly/AstroHoax. But few journalists in the major media bothered to check the accuracy of the sensationalist allegation before publishing it, and soon the collective imagination was on fire. Hundreds of thousands of people suffered unnecessary identity crises and felt emotions that were based on a fallacy. In the coming week, Leo, you should be on high alert for a comparable outbreak or two in your personal sphere. Be vigorously skeptical –- not just toward the stories other people tell, but also toward the theories and fantasies that rise up in your own brain. Don’t believe everything you think. D7@5= (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): You are usually conscientious about attending to the details. It’s one of your specialties to take care of little necessities. You often know what to do in order to fix mistakes and messes caused by the imprecision of other people. For now, though, I encourage you to take a break from all that. In my opinion, you need to regenerate and replenish yourself, and a good way to accomplish that is to let your mind go blissfully blank. At least consider it, please. Give yourself permission to space out about the intricacies. Steep yourself in the primordial ooze where everything is everything.

:70@/ (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): I’ll be interested to see how you shift your attitudes about love in the coming weeks, Libra. Fate will be bringing you good reasons to move away from long-held opinions about the nature of romance and intimacy.

Your subconscious mind will be stirring with new dispensations about how best to deal with and express your life-giving longings. All in all, the process should be pretty enjoyable, especially if you relish psycho-spiritual riddles that impel you to probe deeper into the mysteries of togetherness.

A1=@>7= (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): “Dear Rob: I am a professional obsesser. I mean I obsess on things a lot. But here’s the thing. When I do obsess on something and work with manic intensity to achieve it, I am changed in the process—frequently to the point of no longer desiring what I was once obsessed by! This makes me crazy! Any advice?� —Flagrant Scorpio. Dear Flagrant: This is a gift, not a problem. Figuring out what you don’t want is a key factor in developing self-knowledge. And often the only way to do that is by pursuing what you think you want. Ultimately you’ll be purged of your lesser longings and superficial wishes and be able to crystallize a clear vision of what you truly desire more than anything else.

A/57BB/@7CA (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): “The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in such a way that will allow a solution,� said philosopher Bertrand Russell. In other words, the words you use to describe your dilemma are crucial. If you’re lazy or pessimistic about framing your big question, you minimize your chances for finding a useful answer. If you’re precise and creative, you’re more likely to attract the information and inspiration you need. This is always true, of course, but especially so for you right now. 1/>@71=@< (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): A “karma whore� is someone who performs an abundant number of favors and acts of kindness in the hope of accumulating extra good karma. Judging from the astrological omens, I’m thinking this week will be prime time for you to f lirt with being such a person. Why? Because the blessings you bestow in the near future are more likely than usual to generate specific blessings coming back your way. You don’t necessarily have to go to ridiculous extremes—holding the door open for five people behind you, allowing ten cars to merge in front of you on the highway, f linging out casual but sincere compliments with reckless abandon. But from what I can tell, the more help you dole out, the more you’ll get in return.

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