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MR. CANFIELD, PAINT THESE WALLS! THIS IS a request for Charles Canfield to act on his words of community pride and direct the Seaside Company to paint the La Bahia exterior walls. Given the Coastal Comission’s recent decision, it no longer serves a purpose to have the building look derelict and as if it should be torn down. It is high time a little of the paint and landscaping lavished on the Beach Boardwalk be applied to his company’s eyesore property just across the street, the La Bahia apartments. In his own words concerning plans for the Beach Street area, Charles Canfield has stated: “If people live in a really terrible environment, they develop

no pride of place. That’s not conducive to community. I think it’s healthy that this community wants to change, and we want to help it with a commitment of resources and an investment of capital—plain old dollars.” “The next thing I’m gonna do is build apartments upstairs, give these kids some place nice to live.” “I think I wanted to show I could do a better job providing housing than the government could.” “If I can make a profit and reinvest it—I’ll go at risk to make improvements.” —Metro Santa Cruz, May 7-13, 1998 Charles, it is time to paint and relandscape the La Bahia, lest the Canfields and La Bahia be remembered in less favorable words.

“Zero maintenance, rampant vandalism, rising rents and drug dealing problems, plus one of the owners jailed for trying to sink his yacht to collect insurance, led to public characterizations that they were slumlords,” local historian Ross Eric Gibson writes in Empire of the Casa Del Rey (former name of the La Bahia), “and this former showplace a flophouse.” Mark Neenan Santa Cruz

CRAPTOWN CHRONICLES IN ROBERT GIBBS’ market analysis (“Street Smarts,” Currents, Oct. 5), he observes that “77 percent of the money Santa Cruzans spend is leaked to other cities.” In the next breath, the article suggests as a solution that downtown should bring in H&M or Target. How exactly is bringing in a corporate chain store going to prevent leakage of our cash away from Santa Cruz? Shopping locally does not mean staying in town while you give your money to a business owned from afar by a corporation with no regard for anything but the bottom line. Bringing in businesses that source their products from countries that have no standards protecting the environment or human rights, businesses that, in fact, actively pollute and use sweatshop labor, is so antithetical to the Santa Cruz way of life that this idea just boggles my mind. I’m sure our economy is stagnant, but this is not the way to fix it. Robert Gibbs should go back to the homogeneous, car-centric craptown he clearly idealizes and leave us alone. Veronica Lake Santa Cruz

CORRECTION In an article about the Lompico Water District (“Troubled Waters,” Currents, Sept. 28) we gave the wrong first name for a Lompico resident who is also the chief of the Zayante Fire Protection District. His name is John Stipes. We regret the error.

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West Cliff Drive. Name something you’re excited about.

I have started to work out almost daily at Studio 831 on Mission Street. Name a pet peeve.

At age 68, I do not have total recall of names and dates like I used to.

GEORGE OW, JR. What do you do for a living?

I make business deals centered on real estate. What would you be doing if you weren’t doing that?

Any kind of problem-solving business related deal is a pleasure for me.

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The Tolstoy of the Zulus by Stephen Kessler and An Ideal Wine by David Darlington and The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal and The Lies of Sarah Palin by Geoffrey Dunn. What’s the most important thing you’ve learned in the last three years?

Everything is unfolding just as it should be.

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I boogie board at Steamer Lane. I read. I read. I read.

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Senior Discount In some way you are diminished, and so these businesses—the movie house, the grocery, the Goodwill, the discount store that already slashes prices—knock a percentage off your purchases as a gesture of compassion for your shrunken condition. You don’t exactly feel old, unless you happen to notice your wizened visage in the mirror or the pain in your joints or the ancient habits you repeat as if in perpetuity, but you know you are. You see pierced babes and tattooed dudes in the sexual heat of early summer shedding that warmth in waves as they walk entwined on Front Street, and know in your bones from a long way off exactly that

romance in retrospect, an old-school honor roll of remembered loves, each eternal in its moment, every one always lost somehow, even the one you married, because you’re driven like gulls by a stiff wind or kelp in surf tumbling into oblivion, with art your only f lotation device, if brief ly, before a tsunami of devastating abstractions—time, history, transience, change—up and wipes you out. That’s why it’s cheaper to watch a film, or buy that secondhand shirt on Tuesdays, or that basket of fresh figs you will taste intensely as if for the last time. Even if your mother lived to be 94 and your dad only died at 75 because of those big dark cigars he smoked, and half your aunts

and uncles put up an epic fight, you’re doomed, get used to it, and while you’re at it enjoy these warming days between natural and man-made disasters when the mild sky swears it will stay sunny and the air carries currents of birdsong and honeysuckle, and though you seem to be losing friends in a plague of irreversible disappearances, you are more present than ever, tasting twilight like a dry white wine with a crisp yet paradoxically endless finish. You’re acutely aware of the creamy f lowers in the magnolia across the street, and the fog in its slow cool takeover of the bay, and the zephyr caressing your neck like some phantom hand. Stephen Kessler

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‘THERE are liberals. There are Marxists. There are Libertarians. The beautiful thing is that there is a lot of diversity,” said Occupy Santa Cruz protester Patrick Rooney, a 2010 UCSC graduate. The ideologically mixed crowd remained patient and focused on the speakers Monday evening at the fledgling group’s daily general assembly meeting. They seemed unfazed by the dizzying array of committees, subcommittees and various interest groups forming. “This is more practical and more functional. They got good practice already from the weekend, and you can see they’re learning,” said Linda Lemaster, a community organizer and one of Monday’s speakers. They discussed whether or not to protest against counterprotestors and Ron

Paul supporters. They also covered what to do when police arrive. While the body count has dwindled in the week since the first general meeting in Laurel Park on Tuesday, Oct. 4, there are unmistakable signs that the Occupy Santa Cruz movement is beginning to coalesce after a week of gestation. On Monday morning, Oct. 10, a dozen demonstrators ranging in age from their early twenties to their late sixties sat in camp chairs or milled around the steps of the Santa Cruz County Courthouse. “The facilitators are getting better,” said Fred Schmidt, adding that while meetings were getting better at staying on track, some members were frustrated at the slow pace imposed by the consensus process. To them, he quoted Jerry Garcia: “‘All good things in good time,’” he said, adding, “Things

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frustrated at corporations and banks, some blamed city government and the county government, some sloganeered “Vote with your dollars” and others advocated abandoning dollars altogether to subvert the economic hegemony. A mild-mannered octogenarian proposed occupying the former Borders on Pacific Avenue, a suggestion that was countered with arguments that it would disrupt local businesses and put protestors at a tactical disadvantage to law enforcement. Several other proposals—the Veterans Memorial Hall, Chase Bank on Water Street, the Rittenhouse Building—were raised and voted down before the group finally reached consensus. The crowed ultimately decided to reconvene Thursday at 10am to occupy the Santa Cruz County Courthouse and San Lorenzo Park. The date, Oct. 6, was chosen in solidarity with other “Occupy” actions happening around the country. On Thursday morning, protestors began erecting tents in a thicket of oak trees beside the lawn bowling courts in San Lorenzo Park. Literature was distributed among the crowd before the meeting began, including a ninepage handbook titled: “OCCUPY! Your Guide to the International Occupation Movement of 2011” and a map of downtown Santa Cruz delineating the route Friday’s march would take (Dakota to Laurel to Pacific to Cooper to Front to River to Water to Ocean and back to San Lorenzo Park). “I think it’s going to be a long process and I know there is a wide range of demands, but two of the things I’d like to see are campaign finance reform and a return to higher taxes like before Reagan,” said Noah Shepherdson, an in-home support services worker who cares for two quadriplegics. “People who are making more than $250,000 a year and paying less than their secretary, that’s just ridiculous.”

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PROGRESS Monday’s meeting of the Occupy Santa Cruz protesters was ‘more practical and more functional,’ according to one participant.

will happen if you hang out long enough. It’s just the hanging out that takes time.” The location of the latest demonstration is itself a sign that the group is beginning to focus on its audience. Late last week, protestors were tucked away in San Lorenzo Park; the group decamped for one night to Mission Plaza before resettling on the courthouse steps on high-traffic Water Street, near the corner of Ocean, and retaining a base in the park. Many drivers honked or hollered supportive messages to the demonstrators, and several passersby picked signs up to show their support. Two women with young children held official National Nurses United signs that read, “Take it Back. Tax Wall Street;” other handmade signs bearing the messages “Boycott China,” “End the Fed,” and “Stop Funding Wars” were arranged on the steps of the county building. Scrawled in sharpie on one cardboard sign was a list of demands: free all political prisoners, tax oil companies to pay for healthcare and education, end GMOs, no militarization of the border, end the sleeping ban—a hodgepodge of demands, and a microcosm of a movement that that has become a clearinghouse for grievances. The Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on Sept. 17 has ignited pockets of collective frustration across the country. At press time, there were 1382 “Occupy” communities registered on the website Meetup.com, the largest in San Francisco, Denver, Phoenix, San Diego, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Seattle and Portland. Santa Cruz’s movement started Oct. 4, a drizzly Tuesday, with a crowd that swelled to more than 200 people at Laurel Park. The meeting began with a reading of the manifesto written by Occupy Wall Street before goals specific to Santa Cruz were established. At times, there was some conflation about where the protestors were directing their anger—some were

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Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish Steve Jobs’ dance with death BY GEOFFREY DUNN

STEVE JOBS and I were precisely the same age, born within a few weeks of each other, on different sides of the Santa Cruz Mountains, and, as it would turn out, into vastly different worlds and cultures. I met him—and his partner Steve Wozniak—on various occasions during the early years of Apple, as Jobs and I had a mutual friend with whom he attended Reed College, in Portland. The digital world didn’t much interest me. In graduate school, I refused to use a personal computer and I pounded out all my papers and articles on a manual Underwood Standard made in the 1930s. I was living my life in opposition to the so-called Apple revolution. I lost the digital battle, of course. I resisted as long as I could, but by the 1990s I began working on my first Apple Macintosh. Much of my life today—and even more of my family’s—revolves around technological apparati in which Jobs and his colleagues at Apple had a hand in creating. A little more than six years ago, in June of 2005, I was diagnosed

with a very advanced and aggressive form of colon cancer. A short time later, during my early and difficult treatments with radiation and chemotherapy, someone sent me a copy of Jobs’ now legendary commencement speech at Stanford University, which he delivered on June 12, 2005, precisely two days before my diagnosis. Timing is everything. Very suddenly, Jobs interested me in a way that he hadn’t when we were younger. Our once seemingly disparate universes had converged. Jobs’ speech was broken into three short “stories,” as he called them, a trio of parables for living in the modern world. In the first he talked about his early foray at Reed College. His second story focused on his much publicized firing by Apple in 1985, when he was only 30 years old. But the part in the commencement speech that interested me most, of course, was his public declaration that a year earlier he had been diagnosed with cancer and that his doctors originally told him it was both “incurable” and that he had “no longer than three to six months” to live.

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For a city whose violent crime history includes four serial killers during the ’70s and early ’80s and enough stabbings in recent years that one guy started a website to track them, it’s difficult to imagine combating violence without the police. But a few community-minded citizens in Santa Cruz are trying.

Hike in The Canyon It’s official. The Lompico Water District, which already has the highest water rates in the county, is about to see its rates rise again—about 25 percent, depending on the household’s usage. In order to stop the rate increase, more than half of Lompico’s 500-odd households would have had to write in or speak up at a hearing on the issue. Only about 30 did so at the hour-long meeting at the Zayante Firehouse on Sept. 29. “We’re a small minority,” says Lompico resident Debra Loewen, who opposed the hike and thinks it will put a strain on a lot of families. Loewen thinks the district needs to take a different path and focus on a muchdiscussed merger with the San Lorenzo Valley Water District, which would lower rates instead. The added $80,000 in annual revenue from the increase will begin pay for a $60,000, 14-item grocery list of needed tank liners, piping and filters to a system that routinely breaks. It will begin to build up a financial reserve and pay off a $100,000 settlement to former manager Mike Eggleston over the next five years. In the next decade, the district will also need to replace two large storage tanks to the tune of at least $200,000. If the district is going to go through with merger with the San Lorenzo Valley, it will need to install new water meters. After that, the merger could save customers about 40 percent on their water rates. Led by board member Sherwin Gott, a group of Lompico residents wants to look into other options besides joining forces with another district. “I just want to see what happens if we don’t merge,” skeptic John Cunliffe said last month. But board president Rick Harrington says putting off the merger will only mean more hikes in the future. If the district maintains independence, it will have to hire a new manager—something it hasn’t done since firing Eggleston last year. Jacob Pierce

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“I don’t think we are anywhere near a place where we are ready to take care of ourselves without police, but that’s where I’d like to see us get to,” says Wes Modes of the Santa Cruz Community Safety Workgroup, which began meeting last year. “There are lots of things the police have never done well, such as prevention of domestic violence and taking care of people who’ve slipped through the cracks. These are areas in which it is easy for us to make a difference.” The Blue Light Safety Project is one decentralized, do-it-yourself effort for community safety that the Workshop has come up with, and the concept is simple: Put a blue light bulb on your porch or front window to let people know they are welcome to approach if they need help. “Female-bodied people or youth walking alone at night, people escaping intimate violence, queer or trans people who’ve been threatened, or elderly people who need a brief rest might feel supported to have a house in their neighborhood where they know they can find a temporary safe space,” says Modes. This police alternative to community safety is also based on the simple action of getting to know your neighbors. “I think because we rely on the police we don’t know our neighbors as much,” says Kristen Swig, who recently installed a blue light in the house she shares with several others. “My experiences with the police have not made me feel safer, and I think it’s a common misconception that the police are a symbol of safety.” The Blue Light Safety Project is similar to light programs used on college campuses across the country, as well as neighborhood watches or “citizen patrol units” that have proven successful in bringing down crime rates in cities like Philadelphia.

Interested parties should visit: http://bluelightsafety.blogspot.com for further suggestions and guidelines for hosting a “Blue Light House.” Maria Grusauskas

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Santa Cruz writer and filmmaker Geoffrey Dunn’s most recent book is ‘The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power’ (St. Martin’s).

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His cancer journey seemingly took a radically different course than my own. According to his third fable, his oncologists performed a biopsy on the day of his diagnosis and discovered that he had a “very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery.” His encounter with his own mortality had lasted less than a day. “I’m fine now,” he told the students with apparent confidence. “This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades.” Steve Jobs was a man of big dreams and colossal visions. I have no idea what his actual diagnosis was, the precise details that make all the difference. Perhaps he needed a sense of a full “cure” in order to continue pursuing those grand dreams. But for me, my dance with cancer has led me not to gaze too far into future—the luxury of contemplating “a few more decades.” It has forced me to live in the moment, the here and now, to appreciate the gift of the present. If I could have added a footnote to his speech at Stanford, it would have been to remind students that the moment is all we have. It is all any of us have. That said, Jobs clearly understood the chronological—and biological— parameters of our lives. “Your time is limited,” he asserted, “so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. ... And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” He concluded by reminding students of an exhortation he had read on the back of the last Whole Earth Catalog in the mid-1970s: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” What a wonderful thing to tell young people on the verge of going off into the world. From this point on, it should be boldly emblazoned on all Apple products: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Words to live by, certainly. And, as it turns out, words to die by as well.

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documentaries from the Himalayas, Mexico, New Zealand, Japan, California and more. It covers surfing, crime, international politics, arts, the environment and the trials of the human spirit. It also includes works by two Santa Cruz filmmakers, Eric Thiermann (see page 24) and Geoffrey Dunn, whose tribute to the late writer James Houston’s love affair with the Hawaiian Islands will no doubt resonate for those who knew Houston best, including his wife Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and his daughter Cori Houston, both PRFF board members. The festival kicks off this Friday, Oct. 14. Read on, pick up a program this week at the Del Mar or the Rio Theatre and visit www.pacrimfilmfestival.org to learn more. ¨ "

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Deadly Heights A political killing in the Himalayas wouldn’t have been exposed without climbers who came forward BY SAMANTHA LARSON Luis Benitez paused when he saw me coming down and leaned into the axe planted in the snow above him. “Hey Sam, how’re you feeling?� “Good . . . tired,� I replied, my voice weak. “I’ll bet you are,� he said, and laughed. “Why don’t you go back to base camp, get yourself a coke, go to college, find a hot boyfriend—how ‘bout a junior—and forget this scene for a while,� he said. That was one of the first conversations I had coming down from the top of Everest in 2007. Benitez, an experienced guide, was headed up for his group’s own summit bid, what would be his sixth summit of the peak. After our meeting he continued on to the top of the world, but once he got there, instead of the usual euphoria he felt something less pleasant. “I felt pretty disillusioned,� he told me over the phone a few days ago as he walked his dogs around his Colorado neighborhood. Benitez’s discomfiture stemmed from an event that had occurred about seven months before, while we were both on Cho Oyu, the 26,906foot Himalayan giant 19 miles west of

Everest. While I was high up on the mountain making my summit bid, Benitez was back at base camp, where he witnessed a tragic event unfold, an event recounted in the film Tibet: Murder in the Snow, which will screen Saturday, Oct. 15 at the Del Mar and feature a post-film discussion with Benitez. The film features firsthand footage taken by Romanian mountaineer Sergiu Matei. On Sept. 30, 2006, Benitez and about 100 other mountaineers heard gunshots coming from the Nangpa La, a 19,050-foot-high mountain pass between Tibet and Nepal visible from camp. Still used for commercial trade, it and other passes like it historically provided the gateway for Tibetans into Nepal, allowing for the settlement of the well-known Sherpa communities in Nepal’s high Himalaya. It has now become known as the “poor person’s refugee gate.� “Many wealthy Tibetans can buy their way out of the country,� Benitez says. “But [poorer] Tibetans can’t do that . . . their only choice is something like this pass—they can’t afford bribes, they can’t afford permissions.� The Chinese border patrol had

15 chose to collaborate on the article.â€? According to Benitez, the release of the event had the feared effect: it caused permitting and logistics to become much more difficult on Cho Oyu. He says the release of Green’s article in Men’s Journal, which denounced the climbers who chose to remain silent about the event, also fractured the mountaineering community—not just about whether to continue to fuel “summit fever,â€? the term used when mountaineers seemingly put their own glory ahead of helping their fellow man—but also over what would be the best course of action for the greatest number of people in Tibet. “I get it,â€? Benitez says, “we provide work and revenue to Sherpas and the Tibetans. It’s a loss of income to them. It affects their livelihood. But to me, the bottom line for it all was a question of human rights.â€? The net effect of publicizing the event is unclear. Benitez says the Chinese government “still calls it normal border management to this day.â€? What’s more, China built a new garrison port to catch refugees going over the pass. Attempts to get the incident recognized as a crime against humanity were stalled because it “was not a genocide,â€? says Benitez. But Benitez says filling in the knowledge void about China’s relationship with Tibet is still important. He equates the average Chinese person’s level of knowledge about the treatment of Tibetans to what residents of the 13 colonies were told about the Native Americans. “They’re told [by the government] that they’re bringing infrastructure, health care, religion—isn’t it great?â€? Benitez says. “They don’t hear about border shootings or mass killings due to religion. It’s all perspective. “This is the first time in 50 years that Westerners have seen and spoken out about it. It’s a sticky subject for climbing and human rights because we don’t know what to do with it.â€? TIBET: MURDER IN THE SNOW aQ`SS\a AObc`ROg =Qb # Ob %^[ Ob bVS 2SZ ;O` BVSOb`S " >OQWTWQ /dS AO\bO 1`ch :cWa 0S\WbSh eWZZ PS ^`SaS\b T]` O ^]ab TWZ[ RWaQcaaW]\ 4`SS ¨ $

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opened fire on about 70 Tibetans who were making an attempt to flee by way of the pass. Even with crude weaponry and aim, they managed to lodge a fatal bullet into the back of Kelsang Namtso, a 17-year-old nun hoping to escape into India in order to freely practice her religion and realize her dream of meeting the Dalai Lama. I didn’t hear about the incident until I returned to base camp, and even then I only heard a few scattered details. “There was a body on the pass, but don’t worry, it’s been cleaned up now,� I was told. It was only after I returned to the states that I realized the irony that while I, a 17-year-old Westerner, stood on the top of a mountain under which, by some Buddhist legends, the instructions on how to save the world from chaos are buried, Chinese officials prodded the lifeless body of a 17-year-old nun who had made a desperate attempt for a better life, taking photos with her body and the summit in the background. The event created a rift in the mountaineering community. Some of the guides, people from the Western world running a business for Western clients, didn’t want the information to get out for fear they wouldn’t be able to get permits to return the next year. The Chinese government, they reasoned, would have no reason to let climbers into the country in the future if it meant having witnesses who would report on incidents such as this one. Benitez says he was appalled when he learned that no one else planned to report the shooting. After he wrote an anonymous article for the website www.explorersweb.com, a couple of other guides found out and, Benitez says, “came down on my head for speaking out. It was a cussing and screaming match.� Then they told him that the Chinese government had his name, that he’d better get out of there. After Benitez was safely home, British journalist Jonathan Green picked up his story. “He told me that if we did the story, you’d have to name names [of who tried to cover it up], you’d have to call the whole thing out. I knew if I did it was going to change my career. I felt that something was broken [in the mountaineering community], so I

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Paradise Found A surf film explores environmental degradation and the spirit of adventure BY JACOB PIERCE Last Paradise isn’t your average surf film. “We’d dream up these crazy ideas of things you can do, which is exciting because you don’t know if you’re going to live or die when you’re doing them,� says all-around extreme sports enthusiast John Neeson. Exhibit A is 1960s home video footage of Neeson getting dragged on a plywood platform by a galloping horse. The platform has two small handles the rider can use to hold on for dear life. It and many other clips like it make up Last Paradise, screening at the Del Mar on opening night of the festival. The film, narrated and directed by John’s brother Clive, explores the spirit of adventure in the 1960s and 70s. John and Clive Neeson were the sons of two nature videographers who traveled the world and instilled in their kids a conviction that lions, tigers and crashing waves were nothing to fear. John and Clive— along with their friends—went on to be mavericks in New Zealand’s extreme sports world. And they have the footage to prove it. Last Paradise puts the love for nature, the threat of environmental

destruction, the dawning of extreme sports and new scientific breakthroughs (Clive is also a pioneer in ocean wave physics and surf prediction) together in 100 minutes. If the movie sounds a little disjointed, that’s probably because it is. Still, if there are common threads woven through it, they are the themes of constant change and of nostalgia for lost worlds. In interviews, grinning surfers, now middle-aged, revisit the early days of extreme sports like wakeboarding, windsurfing and snowboarding. Subjects discuss the developing world’s once vacant, sandy coastlines in places like Bali that now have parking lots and hotel resorts—and 30 or more people fighting for a single wave. What Last Paradise lacks in continuity it makes up for in sheer excitement. The film showcases the best of downhill gravity addicts doing everything they can for a cheap thrill. Neeson’s friend A.J. Hackett bungee jumps off the Eiffel Tower. Skiing newbies leap off cliffs of fresh powder, tumbling down them as if the goal were not so much landing on one’s feet as not breaking any

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Trainspotting Japan loves its trains If you thought trains meant a lot in blues songs, consider how much metaphysical freight they pull in Japanese film. Donald Richie was one of the first westerners to write about Japanese cinema. His new collection Viewed Sideways (Stone Bridge Press) includes a 1993 piece on the importance of trains in Japan’s films.

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK Richie mentions the passing trains that bracket Ozu’s Tokyo Story. He could have also spotted that amphibian ghost-train in Spirited Away. Represented as toylike miniatures, hurtling locomotives, or the proud bullet train, they’re humanized to a point that would ¨ '

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bones. Viewers watch the dawn of wind surfing with sails suctioned onto surf boards by toilet plungers. And in footage drenched with orange stains of sunlight that are tough to find in the digital age, surfers in short swimming trunks dance up and down surf boards to hang ten. Once surfing’s only trick, hanging ten has now become something of a lost art. Among those featured in interviews is Seabright’s Pat Farley, who can be seen locally surfing the San Lorenzo rivermouth on days when it’s breaking. The surfing expert with long frizzy blonde locks says he appreciated the film’s fresh faces and one-of-a-kind documentary footage that Neeson had been sitting on. “It’s just a different part of surf history,� says Farley. “It’s not the same old footage and old same guys and blah, blah, blah. It’s a new crew.� One highlight in the movie is the slow motion video of early wakeboarding. A group of New Zealanders raced a few sheep boats at 70 miles per hour and used them

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Fantastic Voyage To a distant Hawaiian atoll and the limits of human endurance in an outrigger canoe BY TRACI HUKILL It looks serene in the footage, the long slender fiberglass canoe and its outrigger slicing through sapphire water or filmed from below, silhouetted against the clear green of the shallows. The oars move in rhythm, the paddlers bend their broad backs to the task. It is, in fact,

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surprise even Thomas the Tank Engine. Three films at the Pacific Rim Film Festival show how much Japan loves its trains. None are more loving than Yoskinari Nishikori’s charming if Capra-corny Railways. Forty-nineyear-old Tokyo exec Tsutui Hajime (Kiichi Nakai) is imploding with overwork. He’s estranged from his family, and he’s cut deeply by the shame of participating in corporate layoffs. When his mother falls ill, he joins her in the remote and lovely Shimane prefecture. There he fulfills his smothered childhood dream to work on trains. It’s not easy—even the small railroads are sticklers for timetables and white-gloved protocol. And his wife stays behind in Tokyo. But the trolleysized wooden train, coursing past emerald paddies and edging summer backyards, is beyond picturesque. It’s a train as Paul Theroux described it: a machine in the garden. The steel-clad train in Shodo Girls!! by Ryuichi Inomata takes one of these self-same girls away from her friends when the economy has tanked. It’s a Japanese version of the common British movie plot (Full Monty, etc.) in which a dying industrial town is revived by performance. In this case, it’s the new fad of calligraphy as a sport, using music, crowds and brushes as heavy as dumbbells. When the sumi ink starts flying, it looks like action painting to the westerner. A schoolkid’s movie, Shodo Girls!!,

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the canoe and the support boat; footage of a nighttime changeover in rough seas gives us to understand that to slip off the Zodiac as it rises and plunges in pitch black next to the boat is to be in very big trouble. On their off hours the paddlers, desperate for sleep and food, sprawl out on the deck or shovel calories into their exhausted bodies. Some of them ramble. Some seem to reach a trancelike state of bliss. Muirhead, one of four Santa Cruz paddlers on the journey (all will be at the screening Sunday), helped form the Outrigger Canoe Voyaging Society. He says it’s quantitatively different from racing. “Every voyage is like a lifetime that is condensed into small days,� he says. “And within those small days, all of us experience failures and successes. Everybody does it somewhat for their own voice and their own reason. But one of the things that’s obvious is that when you leave one shore and strive to reach a new shore, everybody arrives a little bit changed.� FAMILY OF THE WA’A aQ`SS\a Ac\ROg =Qb $ Ob %^[ Ob bVS @W] BVSOb`S 2W`SQb]` /ZgaaO 4SRSZS O\R ^`]RcQS` HOQVO`g 4W\Y OZ]\U eWbV ;Obb ;cW`VSOR O\R ]bVS` AO\bO 1`ch ^ORRZS`a TSObc`SR W\ bVS TWZ[ O^^SO` W\ ^S`a]\ 4`SS

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‘DON’T call me a Beat—I never was a Beat poet,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti declares flatly in Ferlinghetti, filmmaker Christopher Felver’s 2009 documentary screening this Tuesday night at the Del Mar as the main event of Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day in Santa Cruz. Both Felver and his subject will be present as the city honors Ferlinghetti’s monumental contributions to American literary, cultural and political life. Revered poet, highly accomplished painter, successful bookseller and revolutionary publisher, Ferlinghetti at 92 has proved far more venerable than anyone might have guessed in the 1950s when he was on trial for publishing Allen Ginsberg’s Howl. When the poet says he is not Beat, he doesn’t just mean he is undefeated—though that, too—but that he has never subscribed to the reckless, substance-abusing, wild-man ethos of such essentially Beat writers as Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs and Gregory Corso. Though he published Ginsberg’s seminal poem in 1956, barely escaping a jail sentence when acquitted of obscenity charges (and thereby scoring a landmark victory for free speech), Ferlinghetti not only has a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne but, unlike the typical beatnik—some of them associated with his City Lights bookstore and publishing imprint—he

was always a low-key, down-to-earth, sober business owner who has kept his enterprise alive for nearly 60 years. Arriving in San Francisco in 1951, Ferlinghetti fell under the influence of his mentor Kenneth Rexroth, a philosophical anarchist and intellectual polymath whose legendary salons were the incubator of the San Francisco Renaissance. Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Books, founded in 1953 as a retail shop and an independent publisher, has been a trailblazer and a beacon to small presses and indie booksellers everywhere. Though he is no longer active in its day-to-day management, the founder’s signature—including, literally, his handwriting, which graces many homemade posters hanging on the store’s walls and in the building’s windows—can still be seen clearly throughout the operation. But it is probably as a poet that Ferlinghetti is most renowned. He is by far the best-selling living American (and possibly international) bard, his 1958 book A Coney Island of the Mind topping the all-time poetry charts with more than a million copies sold in at least nine languages. With Whitmanic scope, irreverent attitude, satiric wit, deadserious social criticism and buoyant lyricism, he has carried the banner of rebellious poetic fun through several generations. By now an icon, he is nonetheless an iconoclast, canonized yet not co-opted, remaining, in his word, “indigestible,” never fully assimilated into a system known for neutralizing its most visible critics by absorbing them. Felver’s film is an illuminating tour of Ferlinghetti’s extraordinary life, from his Franco-Italian origins to his Navy service during World War II (which turned him into a pacifist) and on through the San Francisco counterculture to his eminent old age as a radical agitator and unstoppable creative force. Using archival photos and

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti is just doing what comes naturally

LITTLE CHARLEYCHAPLIN MAN Lawrence Ferlinghetti—poet, social critic, defender of free speech, entrepreneur—will be honored this Tuesday in Santa Cruz. film, interviews with and testimony from many notable writers (Gary Snyder, Robert Scheer, Billy Collins, Dave Eggers, Anne Waldman, Michael McClure and Bob Dylan among them), and years of interviews and travels with Ferlinghetti himself, Felver creates a vivid and kaleidoscopic portrait of the artist. One of the most remarkable things about Ferlinghetti is that through his unswerving dedication to anarchopacifist and anti-capitalist principles (while handsomely succeeding as an entrepreneur), he has retained his sense of humor and remained lighthearted in his attacks on the status quo. Unlike most ideologues, he doesn’t take himself too seriously. This sense of lightness gives his writing and his persona a playful quality that transcends mere politics. Nancy Joyce Peters, his longtime publishing and bookselling partner (now retired), describes her comrade as

“a romantic idealist who accepts living in an imperfect world with perfect grace”—a description Felver’s movie eloquently illustrates. It comes to Santa Cruz thanks to the organizing efforts of Daniel Yaryan, producer of the Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts poetry series (and a former Santa Cruz Weekly employee). Ferlinghetti may be no beatnik, and he is certainly no ghost, but his offbeat, upbeat presence and his immense creative accomplishment will continue to move, inspire, provoke and, yes, haunt us for a long time to come.

FERLINGHETTI screens Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 7pm at the Del Mar Theatre, 1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Christopher Felver and various Santa Cruz dignitaries will be present. Tickets $10.50.

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Rocky. Fri-Sat, 8pm. Thru Oct 29. $23. Paper Wing Theater, 320 Hoffman Ave, Monterey, 831.905.5684.

DANCE

Words on Stage: Gothic Tales of Poe, Faulkner and Frost

Shifting Currents

Professional psychic, singer and actor Pat McAnaney and singer-actor MaryLee Sunseri will do dramatic readings. Sun, Oct 16, 2pm and Mon, Oct 17, 7:30pm. Free. Forest Theater, Corner of Mt. View and Santa Rita, Carmel-by-the-Sea.

Five generations and nine women’s experience, directed by the 418 Project’s Next Frontier 2011 Artist Mandy Greenlee. Fri-Sat, 8pm. Thru Oct 16. $15-$20. 418 Project, 418 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.466.9770.

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Annie Get Your Gun

Re-Imaginings

The tale of Annie Oakley, sharpshooter from Ohio, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Fri-Sat Thru Oct 16. $10-$20. Bethany University Theatre, 800 Bethany Dr, Scotts Valley, 831.818.1516.

The Santa Cruz Chamber Players present a program of music by composers inspired by other composers, including J.S. Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations,’ Stravinsky’s ‘Suite Italienne’ and Schnittke’s ‘Piano Quartet.’ Sat, Oct 15, 8pm and Sun, Oct 16, 3pm. $10$25. Christ Lutheran Church, 10707 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.420.5260.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Mountain Community Theater’s production of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel. Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher and directed by Miguel Reyna. Fri-Sat, 8pm. Thru Oct 22. 831.336.4777. Mountain Community Theater, 9400 Mill St, Ben Lomond, $15-$18.

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The Letters An intricate verbal dance set in 1931 Moscow. Fri-Sat, 8pm and Sun, Oct 16, 3pm. Thru Oct 22. $12-$15. Center Stage, 1001 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.425.7529.

The Rocky Horror Show A newly engaged couple takes refuge in the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter just as the doctor is preparing to unveil his newest creation,

MUSEUMS OPENING Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History Coastal Lagoons: A Closer Look through Art, History and Science. A virtual visit to seven local lagoons. Visitors will learn how land-use decisions have changed

the outlines of each site, how scientists measure the current health of each lagoon and how artists continue to be inspired by the ever-changing nature of lagoons. Oct 15-Feb 25. $2-$4, free for members and youth under 18. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. 1305 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6115.

CONTINUING Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Spotlight Tours. Bringing the artists’ voices directly to visitors. Go behind the scenes and museum-wide exhibitions. Third Sat of every month, 11:30am12:30pm. Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

GALLERIES OPENING Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Xiaoze Xie: Resistant Archeology. A selection of new and previously unseen paintings, prints and video from the Chinese-American artist. Reception Wed, Oct 12, 5-7pm with artist talk at 6:30. Oct 12-Nov 23. Free. Porter College, UCSC, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3606.

Santa Cruz County Bank Into the Woods. Featuring the work of nine local artists who explore the natural beauty, strength and mythical character of trees on display at all branches. Opening reception Tue, Oct. 25, 5:307:30pm, 720 Front St. Oct 18-Jan 18. Free. 720 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.457.5000.

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People Under the Stairs Party-rocking So Cal hip-hop duo celebrates new self-released LP with free in-store. Oct 12 at Amoeba SF.

Foster the People One ubiquitous single, two back-to-back shows: “Pumped Up Kicks” keeps going and going. Oct 13-14 at the Fillmore.

Bryan Ferry Former singer of Roxy Music in rare stateside appearance to support his latest, “Olympia.” Oct 14 at the Fox Theater.

Treasure Island Music Festival Death Cab for Cutie, Flying Lotus, Battles, Hold Steady, St. Vincent and many more. Oct 15-16 at Treasure Island.

McCoy Tyner Master jazz pianist revisits “John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman” with vocalist José James. Oct 16 at Herbst Theatre. More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

TUESDAY 10/18

IT TOLLS FOR THEE Part of the Pacific Rim Film Festival, this “visual poem” by local directors Eric Thiermann and Aleks Wolska documents the role of bells around the world. The film’s soundtrack features the Sonos Handbell Ensemble of Oakland, which will play a live performance before the screening. Tuesday, Oct. 18, 7pm at the Rio Theater, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. 831.423.8209. Free. Masaoka Glass Design The Glass Pumpkin Patch. Featuring the work of Alan Masaoka, Nick Leonoff, Nancy Francioli, Todd Moore, Mark Stephenson, Diane Stendahl and Kevin Chong. Thru Nov 30. 13766 Center St, Carmel Valley.

Cabrillo College Gallery

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Tasty: Artists Playing with Food. Work was selected from artists throughout the state of California for this competitive exhibition. Thru Nov 1. Free. 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6308.

Cyphergraph. New digital prints of technical drawings by Sabrina Habel. Thru Oct 31. Free, 831.429.8070. 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz.

Davenport Gallery

Sculpture Is. 135 sculptures by 56 artists are on display throughout two acres of Mediterranean gardens. Thru Oct 31. 831.728.2532. 37 Sudden St, Watsonville.

Secret Art. Work by local artists that you won’t see at Open Studios. Artists’ reception Saturday, Oct. 8, 4-7pm. Thru Oct 30. Free. 450 Hwy 1, Davenport, 831.426.1199.

Felix Kulpa Gallery We Are All Animals MMXI. A multi-media art and performance event curated by Louise Chen. Thru Oct 30, 7pm. Free. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

Louden Nelson Community Center Gallery Different Directions 4. Photographs by Susan Lysik, Gail Nichols and Virginia Scott. Thru Nov 18. Free. 301 Center St, Santa Cruz.

Pajaro Valley Arts Council

Palace Art and Office Supply Sacred Images. Collagraph prints, collage, stencil and acrylic works by Mary Leherer-Plansky. Thru Oct 31. 1501K 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.427.1550.

Events BIG DEALS Open Studios Art Tour An encore presentation of studios on both the north and south sides of the harbor. For maps or more information visit CCSCC.org. Oct 15-16, 11am-5pm. Free.

Y2KXI International Live Looping Festival The three-day festival counts Andrea Centazzo of Italy, Nat Grant of Australia, Matt Davignon of USA and Rick Walker of Italy and many others among its featured artists. Oct 14-16. $15. Pearl Alley Studios, 120 Pearl Alley, Santa Cruz, 831.801.4920.

Good Shepherd Catholic School’s Annual Harvest Festival Entertainment, carnival games, jump houses, a petting zoo, crafts for kids, raffles and prizes throughout the day as well as food and music. Sat, Oct 15, 11am-4pm. Free. Good Shepherd Catholic School, 2727 Mattison Lane, Santa Cruz, 831.476.4000.

Open Mic A comfortable venue for musicians, poets, magicians and other artists of all ages to perform before a live audience. Wed, Oct 12, 7pm. Free. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Santa Cruz County, 6401 Freedom Blvd, Aptos, 831.689.0670.

FILM Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day

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Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center

English Country Dance

From the Mountains. Highlighting Open Studios artists. Thru Oct 22. 831.336.3513. Wed-Sun, noon-6pm. 9341 Mill St, Ben Lomond.

Second and fourth Thursdays of each month; beginners welcome. Second Thu of every month. $5-$7. First Congregational Church of Santa Cruz, 900 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.8621.

Poet and writer Ferlinghetti will attend a screening of Chris Felver’s documentary Ferlinghetti: A City Light. Tue, Oct 18, 7pm. $10.50. Del Mar Theatre, 1124 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.426.7507.

Ulama: the Mayan Ballgame of Life and Death Director Roberto Rochin’s 1984 documentary balances its study of ancient ritual with images of the game in

modern play in Mexico and Central America. Rochin will be on hand to answer audience questions after the screening. Wed, Oct 12, 7:30pm. Free. World Theater, CSU Monterey Bay, Sixth Ave, Seaside, 831.582.4580.

The World According to Monsanto A documentary about the multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation’s influence on our food system. Mon, Oct 17, 6pm. Free. New Leaf Market Westside, 1101 Fair Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.466.9060.

LITERARY EVENTS Chris Haft The Giants’ beat writer and the author of This is Our Time, chronicling the team’s 2010 championship season, will discuss and sign copies of his book. Sun, Oct 16, 7:30pm. Free. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

David Vann The author of Caribou Island, Legend of a Suicide, A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea and Last Day on Earth: A Portrait

of the NIU School Shooter will appear as part of the UCSC Living Writers series. Mon, Oct 17, 6-7:45pm. Free. Humanities Lecture Hall, UC-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, 831.459.4778.

Devik Schreiner The author of Search A Darker Sky: A Cleft Mind will read and sign copies of his latest work. Wed, Oct 12, 4-5:30pm. Free. Boulder Creek Library, 13390 W. Park Ave, Boulder Creek, 831.427.7703.

Jacqueline Novogratz The founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund will discuss her 2009 bestseller, The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between the Rich and the Poor in an Interconnected World. Part of NextSpace’s What’s Next lecture series. Wed, Oct 19, 7:30pm. $2-$8. UCSC Music Center Recital Hall, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

Jana Marcus & Jamison Green Marcus, the photographer behind Transfigurations, and Green, one of her subjects, will discuss the book. Thu, Oct 13, 7:30pm. Free. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

Martha Alderson Alderson will discuss writing strategies at the launch of her book, The Plot Whisperer:

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The local author will read from her latest book, Empowered Healer, offering four (conveniently assonant) steps to healing: believing, receiving, achieving and perceiving. Allison, a local psychotherapist, drew on experiences in her private practice in Santa Cruz for the book. Thursday, Oct. 13, 7:30pm at Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave., Capitola. 831.462.4415. Free.

‘LIFE,” the ambitious multimedia collaboration between Frans Lanting and Philip Glass that premiered at the Cabrillo Festival in 2006, is finally returning to the Bay Area after stops in New York, London, Italy, Mexico and elsewhere. Glass’ score will be performed Saturday at the Flint Center in Cupertino by Symphony Silicon Valley under the direction of conductor Carolyn Kuan for UCSC’s “Evolutionary/Revolutionary.”

Secrets of Strong Story Structure Any Writer Can Master. Tue, Oct 18, 7:30pm. Free. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

Sharon McGinnis The author of 10-Minute Tidy: 108 Ways to Organize Your Office Quickly will discuss precisely that. Wed, Oct 12, 7:30pm. Free. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

Susan Allison The author of Empowered Healer: Gain the Confidence, Power, and Ability to Heal Yourself will read and discuss her book. Thu, Oct 13, 7:30pm. Free. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

Young Adult Literature Community Book Group This week’s selection is Jellicoe Road. Wed, Oct 12. Free. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

LECTURES Dr. Michael Merzenich Merzenich will speak about his studies of neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to change itself and adapt—and ways plasticity might be used to heal injured brains and enhance the skills in healthy ones. Thu, Oct 13, 7pm. Free. World Theater, CSU Monterey Bay, Sixth Ave, Seaside, 831.582.4580.

Non-GMO Community Meeting Discussing the grassroots movement advocating for legislation to require mandatory labeling of genetically modified organisms. Sun, Oct 16, 56pm. Free. New Leaf Market Westside, 1101 Fair Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.446.9060.

Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild Meeting Featuring a lecture by Bay Area fiber artist Barbara Nitzberg. Wed, Oct 12, 9:30am12pm. Free. Aptos Village Park, 100 Aptos Creek Rd, Aptos, 831.454.0247.

Understanding & Shopping Non-GMO New Leaf staff will give a talk explaining the basics of genetically modified food to help assist customers in making healthy shopping decisions. Tue, Oct 18, 7pm. Free. New Leaf Market Westside, 1101 Fair Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.466.9060 ex 126.

Water Awareness Series A Transition Santa Cruz series investigating where our water comes from, examining local policy issues—like desalination—and considering options for conservation. TransitionSC. org Tue, 6:30-8:30pm. Thru Nov 8. $5-$10. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6177.

Write Your Future A drop-in writing workshop for women. No experience not necessary. E-mail Marcia, mheinegg@cruzio.com, for more information. Mon, 78:30pm. Thru Nov 14. $10.

NOTICES Beginning Bridge Lessons Come alone or bring a partner. For more information contact Peggy Dilfer, padilfer@ sbcglobal.net. Wed, 7-9pm. Thru Nov 9. First lesson free, $10 thereafter. Santa Cruz Bridge Center, 720 Capitola Ave., Capitola.

Community Music School of Santa Cruz Seeks Donnations Donations over $100 get a copy of your choice of one from a selection of fundraising CDs. Send

checks to Community Music School, P. O. Box 531, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 or CommunityMusicSchool.org. Thru Oct 12.

Free Skin Cancer Screening Thu, Oct 13, 6-8pm. Free. O’Neill Surf Shop, 115 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.475.4151.

Red Cross Mobile Blood Drives Drives occur at several locations countywide each month; for schedule and locations call 800.733.2767.

“We hope it helps people to reflect on the amazing journey that life has been on on planet Earth since it sprouted 4 billion years ago,” Lanting says, “and how important science is in helping us understand what we’re all part of.” Fans of the Dutch-born photographer, who is best known for wildlife images appearing in the pages of National Geographic (where he serves as photographer-in-residence), Audubon and Life magazines might be surprised by the images in “Life.” While there is ‘nature porn’ among them, several veer in a much more conceptual direction. “’Life,’” Lanting says, “uses photography as stepping stones to lure people on an imaginary journey from the Big Bang to the present.”

SC Diversity Center The Diversity Center provides services, support and socializing for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and questioning individuals and their allies. Diversity Center, 1117 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.425.5422.

Stitchers-by-the-Sea Meeting The local chapter of Embroiderers’ Guild of America meets and weaves yarns; public welcome. Second Wed of every month, 7pm. Free. Dominican Hospital Rehab Center, 610 Frederick St, Santa Cruz, 831.475.1853.

Support and Recovery Groups Alzheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Assn., 831.464.9982. Cancer: Katz Cancer Resource Center, 831.351.7770; WomenCARE, 831.457.2273. Candida: 831.471.0737. Chronic Pain: American Chronic Pain Association, 831.423.1385. Grief and Loss: Hospice, 831.430.3000. Lupus: Jeanette Miller, 831.566.0962. Men Overcoming Abusive Behavior: 831.464.3855. SMART Recovery: 831.462.5470. Trans Latina women: Mariposas, 831.425.5422. Trichotillomania: 831.457.1004. 12-Step Programs: 831.454.HELP (4357).

Prior to the performance, UCSC professors Sandra Faber of the astronomy and astrophysics department, David Haussler of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering and Richard Green of the biomolecular engineering department will be joined in a conversation by NPR Science Correspondent and UCSC alum Joe Palca about the origins of life and the future of research at the university. Lanting, who conceived of the project in 1999 while photographing horseshoe crabs, which have remained unchanged for millions of years, sees a natural affinity between the panel’s discussion and his piece. “I think the images help to amplify the achievements of science—they can stand on their own, and so can the music—but when you bring the three together it is really a wondrous and rapturous experience,” he says. (Tessa Stuart)

EVOLUTIONARY/REVOLUTIONARY is Saturday, Oct. 15, 7pm at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino. Tickets $55-$115. 831.459.1438

UNICEF Boxes Not Available The 2011 orange trick-ortreat boxes for UNICEF are available at the United Nations Association store at 903 Pacific Ave. Thru Oct 31.

Yoga Instruction Pacific Cultural Center: 35+ classes per week, 831.462.8893. SC Yoga: 45 classes per week,

831.227.2156. TriYoga: numerous weekly classes, 831.464.8100. Yoga Within at Aptos Station, 831.687.0818; Om Room School of Yoga, 831.429.9355; Pacific Climbing Gym, 831.454.9254; Aptos Yoga Center, 831.688.1019; Twin Lotus Center, 831.239.3900. Hatha Yoga with Debra Whizin, 831.588.8527.

Zen, Vipassana, Basic: Intro to Meditation Zen: SC Zen Center, Wed, 5:45pm, 831.457.0206. Vipassana: Vipassana SC, Wed 6:30-8pm, 831.425.3431. Basic: Land of the Medicine Buddha, Wed, 5:30-6:30pm, 831.462.8383. Zen: Ocean Gate Zendo, first Tue each month 6:30-7pm. All are free.

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THE LIFE AQUATIC A Flower Hat jelly, photographed by Lanting at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and featured in “Evolutionary/Revolutionary”

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Saturday, October 15 U 7 & 9 pm

McCOY TYNER TRIO FEATURING JOSE JAMES & CHRIS POTTER

A Contemporary Exploration of John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman Monday, October 17 U 7 & 9 pm

OREGON

Thursday, October 20 U 7 pm

CLAUDIA VILLELA & ROMERO LUBAMBO

Saturday, October 22 U 8 pm

CREOLE CHOIR OF CUBA Monday, October 24 U 7 & 9 pm

JOHN SCOFIELD JAZZ QUARTET featuring Michael Eckroth, Ben Street, Greg Hutchinson Tuesday, October 25 U 7 pm

DOTTIE DODGION TRIO

Tickets at brownpapertickets.com Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records. Dinner served 1-hr before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer. All ages welcome.

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ONE MORE TIME! Canadian looping

artist Jean-Paul de Roover comes to town for the 11th annual Looping Festival.

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FRIDAY | 10/14

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Other than Sir Mix-A-Lot, Seattle doesn’t leap to mind as a hotbed of hip-hop talent, but the rain-soaked city has made its presence on the scene felt in recent years. A lot of that can be credited to Blue Scholars, a two-man group that represents for the working class and Americans of Filipino and Persian descent. Bringing deep classical and jazz influences to their music, Blue Scholars are a politicallyminded DIY duo creating music that is just as intricately wrought as MC Geologic’s rhymes. Their latest release, Cinemetropolis, is as passionate and strident as previous albums but refines their sound and expands their scope considerably. The Catalyst; $10 adv/$15 door; 8:30pm. (Paul M. Davis)

Instrumental surf rock outfit Slacktone’s “hyper-kinetic mix of melody, speed and jaw-dropping technical skill,” as the PR flacks bill it, takes the nostalgic sound of the Ventures and cranks it up in tempo and sound. The group, formed in Los Angeles in 1995, has released four albums and is often featured in TV shows, commercials and anywhere else an amped-up surf rock vibe is called for. Guitarist and songwriter Dave Wronski’s fingers fly up and down as he plays impressive signature riffs, while drummer Dusty Watson and bassist Sam Bolle hold down the rhythmic fort. A great chance to chill out and let the talented instrumentalists take it away. Crepe Place; $10; 9pm. (Samantha Larson)

LOOPING FESTIVAL A festival centered on a technology rather than a particular style, the Y2KX+1 International Live Looping Festival brings together 50 artists from 10 countries to celebrate the many styles and innovations of looping. Enabling artists to create layers of sound in real time, the technique has opened the door to creative explorations of musicianship. As the festival’s founder and local loop guru Rick Walker says, “All my life I’ve loved grooves and things that repeated. This technology allows one to fulfill one’s potential unadulterated.” Pearl Alley Studios, 120 Pearl Alley, Santa Cruz; $15; Friday 8pm, Saturday 12pm, Sunday 12pm. (Cat Johnson)

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MCCOY TYNER Though he made his name as a player in John Coltrane’s quartet, McCoy Tyner has since become a celebrated jazz icon in his own right. Over the past five decades, Tyner laid the foundation for what is considered contemporary jazz piano, and the septuagenarian’s way with the ivories remains as distinctive as ever. Flanked by Gerald Cannon on bass, Joe Farnsworth on drums, saxophone

Tinariwen

CONCERTS B-SIDE PLAYERS

Oct. 14 & 15 at Moe’s Alley

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CLAIRE LYNCH BAND

OREGON

JOHN SCOFIELD

Try as one might, it’s hard to put Oregon in a box. “World jazz” is the most apt tag; their sound is an eclectic combination of jazz, Indian and western classical, folk and ambient music. First formed in 1971, the group has released more than two dozen albums, and this night will feature music from their newest release, In Stride, on instruments ranging from the trumpet to the sitar. Ralph Towner, the main composer, “blurs the line between composition and improvisation, offering shifting tonalities and multicultural rhythmic interests.” The group will bring together worlds apart, creating a unique musical fusion. Kuumbwa; $25 adv/$28 door; 7pm & 9pm. (SL)

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WEDNESDAY | 10/19

DUCK BAKER A master of the nylon string guitar, Duck Baker has a stylistic range that seems to know no boundaries. From

Oct. 20 at Don Quixote’s Oct. 24 at Kuumbwa Oct. 31 at Rio Theatre

CROOKED FINGERS Nov. 22 at Crepe Place

folk, blues, Cajun and ragtime to Celtic, swing, bluegrass and jazz, Baker’s finger-picking prowess leaves most sixstring slingers in the dust. He started out a rock and blues guitarist, but his discovery of acoustic blues launched him into a lifelong exploration of early American roots music and the musical traditions that inspired it. An innovative and accomplished musician and instructor, Baker is in a technical and creative league of his own. Don Quixote’s; $10; 7:30pm. (CJ)

WEDNESDAY | 10/19

RUSSELL BATISTE & FRIENDS

TYNE ONE ON Jazz great McCoy Tyner plays Kuumbwa Saturday.

Just three years old when he took up drumming, Russell Batiste is now one of New Orleans’ most celebrated musicians, a funk and R&B multiinstrumentalist who has played with Allen Toussaint, Robbie Robertson, Phish, Maceo Parker, the Funky Meters and more. Featuring Jason Neville, son of the legendary Aaron Neville, on vocals, Batiste and Friends make their Santa Cruz debut with a night of deep grooves, all-star funk and Crescent City soul. Moe’s Alley; $12 adv/$15 door; 9pm. (CJ)

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Don your bell bottoms and prime yourself for Halloween with this triple-header of greasy funk featuring Beaufunk and Tammi Brown, Extra Large and Funkranomicon. Inspired by Tower of Power, Beaufunk bridges ’70s Oakland and New Orleans’ Bourbon Street sounds with heaping servings of funk and soul punctuated by lipsmacking horn lines. They’re joined by Santa Cruz’s incomparable Tammi Brown, a homegrown siren with formidable pipes. The local boys and gal in Extra Large are one of the town’s mostloved and venerable funk practitioners, while Funkranomicon is a six-piece with a sound as totemic as the fictional H. P. Lovecraft opus that inspired its name. Don Quixote’s; $10; 8pm. (PMD)

player Chris Potter and vocalist José James, Tyner goes back to his roots on this tour, presenting contemporary reinterpretations of the works on John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman’s eponymous 1963 album. Kuumbwa; $35 general/$50 gold circle; 7pm and 9pm. (PMD)

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THU 10/13

FRI 10/14

SAT 10/15

THE ABBEY 350 Mission St, Santa Cruz

BLUE LAGOON

Big 80s Dance Party

923 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

BOCCI’S CELLAR

Roberto-Howell

Karaoke

140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

THE CATALYST 1011 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

CLOUDS 110 Church St, Santa Cruz

CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

CROW’S NEST 2218 East Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz

CYPRESS LOUNGE

One Love Reggae

120 Union St, Santa Cruz

DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Santa Cruz

FINS COFFEE 1104 Ocean St, Santa Cruz

HOFFMAN’S BAKERY CAFE

Preston Brahm Trio

Mapanova

1102 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

Isoceles with Gary Montrezza

KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

MAD HOUSE BAR & COCKTAILS

Mad Jam

DJ AD

DJ Marc

DJ E

529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

Bring your instrument

Rainbow Room

Cruzing

Church

FRI 9/23

SAT 9/24

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

MOTIV

Libation Lab

1209 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

with AL-B

RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel, Santa Cruz

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

APTOS / CAPITOLA / RIO DEL MAR / SOQUEL

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THU 9/22

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SANTA CRUZ THE ABBEY 831.429.1058

Rock This Party

BLUE LAGOON 831.423.7117

SC Jazz Society

BOCCI’S CELLAR 831.427.1795

THE CATALYST 831.423.1336

CLOUDS 831.429.2000

7 Come 11

CREPE PLACE 831.429.6994

Live Comedy

CROW’S NEST 831.476.4560

Unwind All Night DJ Jahi

CYPRESS LOUNGE 831.459.9876‎

DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE 831.426.8801

Geese in the Fog

FINS COFFEE 831.423.6131

Dana Scruggs Trio

Joe Leonard Trio

Barry Scott

HOFFMAN’S BAKERY CAFE

& Associates

831.420.0135

KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER 831.427.2227

DJ Chante

MAD HOUSE BAR & COCKTAILS

Neighborhood Night

831.425.2900

MOE’S ALLEY 831.479.1854

Two$days

MOTIV

Dane Jouras; Ilya Romanov with DJ AD

Terminal

831.479.5572

RED 831.425.1913

RIO THEATRE 831.423.8209

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 831.426.2739

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TUE 9/27

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7EDNESDAY /CTOBER ‹ In the Atrium ‹ AGES 18+

AFRO CLASSICS

(Scarub from Living Legends)

The Understudies s P M Thursday, October 13 ‹ In the Atrium ‹ AGES 16+ BLUE SCHOLARS plus Bambu also

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Friday, October 14 ‹ In the Atrium ‹ AGES 21+ THE SWILLBILLYS plus Tater Famine also The Shitkickers s P M :H[\YKH` 6J[VILY ‹ AGES 16+

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/CT DJ Shadow (Ages 16+) /CT Isadora’s Scarf Atrium (Ages 21+) /CT Tech N9ne/ Jay Rock (Ages 16+) /CT Matt Masih Atrium (Ages 21+) /CT Roach Gigz/ Berner (Ages 16+) /CT Afroman Atrium (Ages 16+) /CT Robert Wynia Atrium (Ages 21+) /CT Grieves & Budo Atrium (Ages 16+) /CT PassaďŹ re Atrium (Ages 16+) /CT Zion I/ The Jacka (Ages 16+) /CT Halloween Costume Ball - The Holdup (Ages 16+) Oct 30 Mickey Avalon (Ages 16+) .OV Mac Miller (Ages 16+) Nov 3 Collie Buddz (Ages 16+) Nov 10 Steel Pulse (Ages 16+) Nov 11 Greensky Bluegrass Hot Buttered Rum (Ages 21+) Nov 17 Zeds Dead “Liveâ€? (Ages 18+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating. Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 866-384-3060 & online

www.catalystclub.com

APTOS / CAPITOLA / RIO DEL MAR / SOQUEL BRITANNIA ARMS

WED 10/12

THU 10/13

Trivia Quiz Night

FRI 10/14

SAT 10/15

Karaoke

8017 Soquel Dr, Aptos

THE FOG BANK

Karaoke Sound Co

211 Esplanade, Capitola

MARGARITAVILLE 221 Esplanade, Capitola

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN

Karaoke

2591 Main St, Soquel

PARADISE BEACH GRILLE

Johnny Fabulous

215 Esplanade, Capitola

SANDERLINGS

Samba

In Three

Mariachi Ensemble

KDON DJ Showbiz

1 Seascape Resort Dr, Rio del Mar

SEVERINO’S BAR & GRILL

Don McCaslin &

7500 Old Dominion Ct, Aptos

The Amazing Jazz Geezers

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

THE WHARF HOUSE 1400 Wharf Rd, Capitola

THE UGLY MUG 4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel

ZELDA’S 203 Esplanade, Capitola

SCOTTS VALLEY / SAN LORENZO VALLEY DON QUIXOTE’S 6275 Hwy 9, Felton

HENFLING’S TAVERN 9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond

WATSONVILLE / MOSS LANDING CILANTRO’S

Hippo Happy Hour

1934 Main St, Watsonville

MOSS LANDING INN Hwy 1, Moss Landing

& KDON DJ SolRock

Open Jam

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MON 10/17

TUE 10/18

APTOS / CAPITOLA / RIO DEL MAR / SOQUEL BRITANNIA ARMS 831.688.1233

Game Night

THE FOG BANK 831.462.1881

MARGARITAVILLE 831.476.2263

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 831.479.9777

PARADISE BEACH GRILLE 831.476.4900

SANDERLINGS 831.662.7120

Johnny Fabulous Dance Lessons

SEVERINO’S BAR & GRILL 831.688.8987

SHADOWBROOK 831.475.1511

THE WHARF HOUSE 831.476.3534

Open Mic with Jordan

Movie Night 7:45 pm start time

THE UGLY MUG 831.477.1341

ZELDA’S 831.475.4900

SCOTTS VALLEY / SAN LORENZO VALLEY DON QUIXOTE’S 831.603.2294

Karaoke with Ken

HENFLING’S TAVERN 831.336.9318

WATSONVILLE / MOSS LANDING Santa Cruz Trio

KPIG Happy Hour Happy hour

Karaoke

CILANTRO’S 831.761.2161

MOSS LANDING INN 831.633.3038

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Day of Reckoning

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‘The Ides of March’ gives Democrats a whiff of what might have been BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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THE IDEAS that The Ides of March flaunts are hardly pulse-pounding, despite a trailer that sells the film hard, as if it were a vision of the biggest coup d’etat since Seven Days in May. A stiff adaptation of Beau Willimon’s play Farragut North, The Ides of March minces some questions of loyalty and politician worship. Can a political activist find a safe ground between foolish innocence and cynicism? Director/star George Clooney plays Mike Morris. He’s a Democrat Gulf War veteran governor of Pennsylvania running in a tough Ohio primary. If he wins, he seems destined to triumph against a scattered opposition. (“They [the Republicans] can’t find a nominee who isn’t a world-class fuckup. They look like Democrats.”) And, continuing his series of acting successes as a handsome yet covert young man of perhaps dubious intentions (the other day, I had to explain the phrase “pussycat smile” to a fellow writer, when I should have just sent her a jpeg of Ryan Gosling), Gosling plays Stephen Myers, a young but longtime political strategist who adores his candidate. Unfortunately, Myers has no more luck detecting the mortal streak in Morris that real-life candidate workers had when lionizing Obama or Bill Clinton. Myers’ boss is the more pragmatic

THE TEA PARTY’S WORST NIGHTMARE George Clooney runs for president in ‘The Ides of March.’ Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Zara’s opposite number is Tom Duffy (Paul Giamatti), the campaign director of Morris’ vaguely-drawn Democrat rival. On the sly, Duffy is attempting to headhunt the efficient young Meyers. To see Hoffman and Giamatti glowering at each other across a room over a box of glazed donuts is to see what The Ides of March could have been, as opposed to the actual way most of this low-temperature drama of idealism simmers. As Molly, an intern who happens to be the daughter of the DNC chair, Evan Rachel Woods is at first satisfyingly forward and interestingly tough. Then she turns oddly melodramatic. Yes, young girls are mercurial—but The Ides of March’s plot hangs on the problem of Molly not being able to raise $900 in an emergency. But the way Molly looks, she probably spends that kind of money on a Saturday night. Clooney rations himself onscreen—a

justifiable strategy, maybe, to convey the mystique of a man who might be president. (Older viewers will remember how the movies used to depict U.S. presidents, in the form of the back of a seated actor’s head.) In the debate and interview sessions, Clooney’s Morris gives Democrats visions of the way things should have been. Unlike Michael Dukakis, Morris gives the proper answer to a thinly veiled version of reporter Bernard Shaw’s infamous question about whether the husband of a raped, murdered wife would want the death penalty enforced. But due to Clooney’s rare appearances—including one bus ride demonstrating significant marital bliss with the ever-amiable Jennifer Ehle—Ides of March doesn’t start to get exciting until far too late in the game. That’s when we get the late-night confrontation we’ve been promised, between Myers’ hero-worship and the ruthlessness of the candidate Morris.

As director, Clooney’s visuals are essentially televisionistic, if visually crisp, and he has some worthwhile ideas to darken the film. A rally at Xavier University means Myers is alone, prowling a half-lit basketball court with the sinister letter X emblazoned on it. The cityscapes of Cincinnati have a little resonance of their own. Nothing says political angst like Hoffman standing in the mouth of a slushy Ohio alley in a duffle coat at dawn, smoking a cig. (It makes you think Hoffman should be starring in an adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s essay “Up, Simba!,” about a reporter baffled by the impenetrable shell of John McCain.) And ultimately politics here is as unappetizing a business to view as Porkopolis’s famous craft: sausagemaking. The Ides of March R; 101 min. Plays countywide

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starring Malcolm McDowell. (Thu at Santa Cruz 9)

ANNA BOLENA (NR; 210 min.) Live at the Met’s production of Donizetti’s opera, starring Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Ildar Abdrazakov and Marco Armiliato. (Sat at Santa Cruz 9)

COURAGEOUS (PG-13; 135 min.) Four sheriffs’ deputies wrestle with temptation, disillusionment and tragedy and make a fateful decision. (Opens Fri at Green Valley)

THE BIG YEAR (PG; 105 min.) Three avid birders (Jack Black, Steve Martin and Owen Wilson) go twitch-to-twitch to spot rare North American birds in a big competition. (Opens Fri at Riverfront, Scotts Valley and Green Valley) A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) Stanley Kubrick’s dystopian film

FERLINGHETTI: A CITY LIGHT (NR; 125 min.) See article, page 23. With appearance by the poet himself. (Tues at Del Mar) FOOTLOOSE (PG-13; 110 min.) Remake of the 1984 Kevin Bacon swoonfest tells the story of rebellious Ren McCormack, who moves to a town where

SHOWTIMES

rock & roll is banned and proceeds to convince everybody, everybody, everybody to cut loose. (Opens Fri at Aptos, Santa Cruz 9, Scotts Valley, Green Valley)

GIORGIO MORODER’S METROPOLIS (1984) The Academy Award-winning composer’s restored version of Fritz Lang’s classic film Metropolis includes a soundtrack with Pat Benatar, Billy Squier, Adam Ant and other music gods of the 1980s. This version, begun in 1981 and initially released in 1984, has been out of print for more than

a quarter century. (Sun, Tues, Weds at Del Mar)

acrobat wife is verrrry unhappy. (Fri-Sat midnite at Del Mar)

HAPPY, HAPPY (R; 97 min.) Norwegian comedy about a woman whose boring life and even more boring marriage are turned upside down when the perfect couple moves in next door. (Opens Fri at the Nick)

THE MILL & THE CROSS (NR; 104 min.) Meta Polish film lets the viewer inside the creation of Pieter Bruegel’s painting ‘The Procession to Calvary,’ which depicts both Christ’s crucifixion and the occupation of the Netherlands by representatives from the Spanish inquisition. With Michael York as a wealthy burgher and Charlotte Rampling as a mourning mother. (Opens Fri at Nick)

THE LAST CIRCUS (2010) Spanish comedy about the bewildered son of a circus clown-turned-war-hero. Though he longs to fill the old man’s clown shoes, the young man is stuck being a sad clown, which puts him at the mercy of a sadistic happy clown whose

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS (NR; 180 min.) Carlos Goldoni’s The

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Oct. 12, through Wednesday, Oct. 19, unless otherwise indicated. Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

APTOS CINEMAS 122 Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos 831.688.6541 www.culvertheaters.com Footloose — (Opens Fri) 2:10; 4:30; 6:50; 9:10. Sat-Sun 11:50am. 50/50 — Wed-Thu 2:30; 4:45; 7; 9:15. Fri-Wed 2:10; 4:30; 6:50; 9:10. Sat-Sun 11:50am. The Help — Wed-Thu 4; 8:50. Midnight in Paris — Wed-Thu 2; 6:50.

41ST AVENUE CINEMA 1475 41st Ave., Capitola 831.479.3504 www.culvertheaters.com The Ides of March — Daily 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30. Moneyball — Daily 12:45; 3:45; 6:45; 9:45. Real Steel — Daily 11; 1:45; 4:40; 7:30; 10:20.

DEL MAR 1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com Drive — Daily 2:50; 5:10; 7:30; 9:40. Sat-Mon 12:45pm The Help — Wed-Thu 2; 6:45. Fri-Wed 3:45; 6:30. Senna — Wed-Thu 4:40; 9:30. Tucker & Dale vs Evil — Wed-Thu 5; 9:20. Crazy, Stupid Love — Wed 10/12 11am. The Last Circus — Fri-Sat Midnight. Metropolis — Sun 8pm. Tue 2; 4; 6; 8. Thu 2; 4. Ferlinghetti: A City Light — Tue 7pm.

NICKELODEON Lincoln and Cedar streets, Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com Happy Happy — (Opens Fri) 3; 5; 7:10; 9:20. Sat-Sun 12:50pm. The Mill and the Cross — (Opens Fri) 2:50; 5:10; 7:20; 9:30. Sat-Sun 12:40pm. Toast — (Opens Fri) 2:40; 4:50; 7; 9:10. Sat-Sun 12:30pm. The Future — Wed-Thu 5:20; 9:20. The Guard —Wed-Thu 9pm. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 — Wed-Thu 4:50pm. Life Above All — Wed-Thu 4:30; 6:50. Midnight in Paris — Wed-Thu 7:30; 9:30. Fri-Wed 2:30; 6:50. Sat-Sun 12:20pm. Our Idiot Brother — Wed-Thu 7:20pm. Fri-Wed 2:30; 6:50. Restless — Wed-Thu 5:10; 7:10; 9:10.

RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN 155 S. River St, Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1701 www.regmovies.com The Big Year — (Opens Fri) 4; 7; 9:40. Fri-Sun 1 pm. 50/50 — Daily 4:15; 7:15; 9:50. Fri-Sun 1:15pm. What’s Your Number? — Wed-Thu 4; 7; 9:40.

SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9 1405 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1700 www.regmovies.com Footloose — (Opens Fri) 1:20; 4:20; 7:10; 10.

Movie reviews by Traci Hukill, Tessa Stuart and Richard von Busack

The Thing — (Opens Fri) 2:30; 5:10; 7:50; 10:40. Sat-Sun 11:50am. Contagion — Wed-Thu Call for showtimes. Fri-Wed 2:40; 5:20; 8; 10:35. Sat-Sun 12pm. Dolphin Tale — Wed-Thu Call for showtimes. Fri-Wed 4:35; 10:05. Dolphin Tale 3D — Wed-Thu Call for showtimes. Fri-Wed1:50; 7:20. The Ides of March — Wed-Thu Call for showtimes. Fri-Wed 2:20; 5; 7:40;

10:10. Sat-Sun 11:40am. Tue No 7:40. Killer Elite — Wed-Thu Call for showtimes. Fri-Wed 9:30pm The Lion King 3D — Wed-Thu Call for showtimes. Fri-Wed 2; 4:25; 6:50. Sat-Sun 11:30am Moneyball — Wed-Thu Call for showtimes. Fri-Wed 1; 4; 7; 10:20. Reel Steel — Wed-Thu Call for showtimes. Fri-Wed 1:30; 2:50; 4:30; 6:40; 7:30; 9:40; 10:30. Sun 11:10am. Anna Bolena — Sat 9:55am. The Rolling Stones: Live in Texas — Tue 7:30pm. A Clockwork Orange — Thu 8pm..

SCOTTS VALLEY 6 CINEMA 226 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley 831.438.3261 www.culvertheaters.com The Big Year — (Opens Fri) 12:15; 2:45; 5:15; 7:45; 10:10. Footloose — (Opens Fri) 11:20; 2; 3; 4:45; 5:30; 7:20. The Thing — (Opens Fri) 11:55; 2:30; 4:55; 7:30; 10. 50/50 — Wed-Thu 11:45; 2:20; 4:45; 7:10; 9:40. Fri-Wed 11:45; 2:20; 4:45; 7:10; 9:30. The Ides of March — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30. Fri-Wed 11:30; 2;

4:30; 7; 9:30. Dolphin Tale — Wed-Thu 11; 1:30; 4:10; 7; 9:30. Fri-Wed 11; 1:30; 4:10; 6:45; 9:20. Dream House — Wed-Thu 11:55; 2:30; 4:55; 7:20; 9:40. The Lion King — Wed-Thu 11:55; 2:10; 4:20; 6:30; 8:45. Fri-Wed 11; 2. Moneyball — Wed-Thu 12:45; 3:45; 6:45; 9:45. Fri-Wed 12:45; 3:45; 6:45; 9:45. Real Steel — Wed-Thu 11; 11:30; 1:45; 2:30; 4:40; 5:30; 7:30; 8:30; 10:20. Fri-

Wed 11; 1:45; 4:40; 7:30; 10:20. What’s Your Number? — Wed-Thu 12:15; 2:40; 5:10; 7:40; 10:10.

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8 1125 S. Green Valley Rd, Watsonville 831.761.8200 www.greenvalleycinema.com The Big Year — (Opens Fri) 1:30; 4; 7; 9:30. Sat-Sun 11:15am. Courageous — (Opens Fri) 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:40. Sat-Sun 11am. Footloose — (Opens Fri) 1:30; 4; 7; 9:30. Sat-Sun 11am. The Thing — (Opens Fri) 1:30; 4; 7:15; 9:40. Sat-Sun 11:15am. 50/50 — Wed-Thu 1:05; 3:10; 5:15; 7:20; 9:40. Dolphin Tale — Wed-Thu 4; 9:30. Dolphin Tale 3D — Wed-Thu 1:30; 7. Fri-Wed 1; 9:30. Dream House — Daily 1; 3:05; 5:05; 7:15; 9:40. Sat-Sun 11am. Ides of March — Daily 1:30; 4; 7; 9:30. Sat-Sun 11:15 am. The Lion King 3D — Wed-Thu 1:15; 3:10; 5:05; 7:15; 9:30. Fri-Wed 3:20; 5:15;

7:15. Sat-Sun 11. Moneyball — Wed-Thu 1:35; 4:10; 7; 9:40. Sat-Sun 11am Real Steel — Daily 1:35; 4:10; 7; 9:40. Sat-Sun 11am.

TOAST (NR; 108 min.) Young aspiring chef Nigel Slater competes with his stepmother (Helena Bonham Carter), also an excellent cook, for his father’s affections. While away at cooking school he meets another young man who convinces him to follow his dream. (Opens Fri at the Nick)

REVIEWS 50/50 (R; 139 min.) Alternate title could be So/So, despite leads Anna Kendrick and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Their work in this comedy/drama is disrupted by Seth Rogen. In regularly scheduled bullish (or bullying) comedy moments, Rogen’s Kyle turns up to rattle the cage of the seriously ill Adam (GordonLevitt). When Rogen is gone, the film develops interesting counterpoints. Rather than just the sketchily drawn victim of cancer, Adam may be a kind of princeling. Gordon-Levitt finds some humorous notes, but his Adam isn’t a very well-defined character. He’s outlined by the contrast between the two girls in the picture: bitchy live-in Rachel (Bryce Dallas Howard) and Katherine (Kendrick). It may be that Rogen’s ultimate contribution to cinema is taking the fun out of that game where you pretend that the hero and his buddy are lovers. On the bright side, this may be the least spiritual film about facing death we’ve been offered. (RvB) CONTAGION (PG-13; 105 min.) An all-star cast (Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Winslet) battles fear and avian flu. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG-13; 118 min.) When Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is dumped by his wife, he goes looking for solace at the bottom of a bottle but finds it in a chance meeting with a studly young player (an uncharacteristically tan and ripped Ryan Gosling) who shows Cal the “getting girls” ropes.

DOLPHIN TALE (PG; 119 min.) Based on the true story of Winter, a bottlenosed dolphin who lost her tail in a crab trap. A young boy finds the dolphin and persuades the adults around him to help her. With Harry Connick, Jr., Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd. DREAM HOUSE (PG-13; 98 min.) Except it’s not, y’see? New Yorkers Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz relocate to a New England town before learning that their new home was the scene of a grisly murder. Naomi Watts is the neighbor who knows the most about what went on there, and what could happen again. DRIVE (R; 108 min.) Ryan Gosling transforms from first-rate actor to movie star here. He plays an unnamed getaway-car driver in L.A. with a studious code of noninvolvement. He tosses away this code at first sight of the film’s girl (Carey Mulligan) and her kid. Terrific action sequences—much pre-Avid magic here—and a cast of HBO/FX all-stars. Among them is the Oscar-bound Albert Brooks who is half (with Ron Perlman) of a pair of aging but lethal gangsters. Still, Drive is so studiously cool it’s hard not to feel cool toward it. Impractical, coincidental things happen that might have made more sense in a smaller-scale location, such as Phoenix, where James Sallis’ nouveau pulp novel was set. Directed, with all homage to Michael Mann, by Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson). (RvB)

TOAST OF THE TOWN Ken Scott (left), Helena Bonham-Carter and Freddie Highmore star in the food nostalgia flick ‘Toast,’ opening Friday at the Nick. THE FUTURE (R; 91 min.) Miranda July wrote, directed and stars in this film about a thirtysomething couple who, alarmed by the threat of lost freedom posed by their imminent adoption of an injured cat (which narrates the film), resolve to live their dreams for a month. A rather divisive film from the maker of Me and You and Everyone We Know. THE GUARD (R; 105 min.) Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) is a careless cop with a dying mother and liking for prostitutes. When he becomes aware of a large-scale cocaine smuggling ring, he finds himself indifferent towards his duties. THE IDES OF MARCH (R; 101 min.) See review, page 33. KILLER ELITE (R; 106 min.) A former special ops agent (Jason Statham) and his mentor (Robert DeNiro) face off against the leader of a secret military society (Clive Owen). LIFE, ABOVE ALL (PG-13, 106 min.) Oliver Schmitz’s Oscarshortlisted study about the fringes of urban South Africa, where a pair of teenage friends do their best to survive the lack of parents and deal with a disease too grim to be mentioned by name for most of the film. Chanda (Khomotso Manyaka) is a young girl whose mother is ailing with what is obviously AIDS. Then comes the connivance of a next-door neighbor Mrs. Tafa (the film’s standout, Harriet Manamela), who is involved in literally making the problem go away. Schmitz has a keen eye for landscapes and people; this isn’t a prettified story. Often he transcends the limits of the amateur actors as well as the source, the Canadian writer Allan Stratton’s youngadult novel Chanda’s Secrets. Still, this is a film mostly about good people and bad people instead of people. The ending grounds this worthwhile movie when Life, Above All tries for too much uplift. (RvB) MONEYBALL (PG-13; 132 min.) This unorthodox picture is clearly one of the shrewdest films ever made

about the national pastime. The source is Michael Lewis’ nonfiction account of how Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland A’s, brought the science of statistics— sabermetrics—to that team. It happened shortly after the 2001 American League division loss to the Yankees. The Yanks first outspent the A’s by a ratio of about three to one, then cherry-picked star player Jason Giambi from the A’s lineup. “We’re the last dog at the bowl,” Beane (Brad Pitt) says as he searches for a replacement for his first baseman. Beane meets the fictional Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), a furtive and fat economics major from Yale working on the controversial system of using on-base percentages as a way of forecasting a team’s year. Moneyball becomes a species of buddy movie, but it’s a dry, unusual one, more interested in exchanged glances than back-patting. Director Bennett Miller (Capote) emphasizes Beane’s solitude and inner fury. Moneyball is Pitt’s movie, and the tightly restrained lead shows us an actor finally out of the orbit of Robert Redford. He gives a lean, mean performance, one of his best. The rest of the cast is up to his level: Robin Wright as his exwife; Philip Seymour Hoffman is coach Art Howe. Some will liken the script, by Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, to Jerry Maguire, but it does without the traditional can o’ corn of the typical baseball movie. When was the last time a team of winning misfits looked so inconspicuous? (RvB)

OUR IDIOT BROTHER (R; 90 min.) Stars Paul Rudd as the idiot brother named Ned. Ned barges in on the lives of his three sisters, and when he overstays his welcome he is forced to reconsider his actions. REAL STEEL (PG-13; 127 min.) Even Hugh Jackson’s charm and energy start to flag in this arguably feasible attempt to put some heart into the clobbering-robot genre. Shawn Levy (the Nights at the Museum franchise) fills Real

Steel with slightly futurized Americana as Jackman’s Charlie Kenton goes through the circuit of the prizefighting movie: debt, dejection, discovery of a contender (a robot in this case) and bonding with son and girlfriend. (Dakota Goyo, who plays son Max, is a coldly deft little professional; Evangeline Lilly is as pretty as her name, but she only gets about 10 minutes onscreen.) Sometimes you also wonder who, exactly, Real Steel is for. The bloody-minded little boy and bloody-minded former little boy demographic is pretty large. But they want what they want. Are they going to feel they robbed of regularly scheduled wreckage in favor of dad and son bonding? (RvB)

RESTLESS (PG-13; 91 min.) Gus Van Sant (Milk, Good Will Hunting, My Own Private Idaho) directs the story of a terminally ill teenage girl (Mia Wasikowska) who falls for an odd boy who likes to attend funerals (Henry Hopper) and has a friend who is the ghost of a kamikaze pilot. SENNA (PG-13; 104 min.) To a Brazilian, the idea of explaining who Ayrton Senna is would be as lunatic as asking a San Franciscan who Willie Mays is. Senna was bigger than the Christ of the Andes: “The one good thing about this country,” says more than one subject in Asif Kapadia’s hero-worshipping yet unquestionably touching bio-doc. As it is sponsored by ESPN, the director had the necessary budget to acquire several continents worth of TV footage, all concerning Senna’s short, but glittering, Formula One career. Despite the video footage from inside the cars during these races of the 1980s and 1990s, there’s no way here to suggest the power of these machines, the terrific G-forces they whip up on curves, and the miracle that so relatively few drivers get killed. (RvB) WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER (R; 106 min.) Anna Faris looks back on the 20 guys she’s had relationships with and tries to figure out who was the least horrifying.

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THE ROLLING STONES: LIVE IN TEXAS (NR: 90 min. ) Live footage from a 1978 concert in Fort Worth includes “Honky Tonk Woman,” “Tumbling Dice,” “Miss You” and “Beast of Burden.” (Tue at Santa Cruz 9)

THE DEAD (R; 115 min.) The first zombie movie in years to have some real lead in its pencil. Brothers Howard J. and Jon Ford went from England to Bourkina Faso to direct this strangely plausible, beautifully photographed and hellaciously gory horror film. If there’s almost nothing new to be said about zombs, the fresh scenery reenergizes the myths. Amid bad narrow roads, thorny bushes, little water and no place to hide, a pair of humans prowl a dead land. U.S. Air Force Lt. Brian Murphy (Rob Freeman) is the only survivor of the crashlanded last plane out of Africa. He’s rescued by a soldier, Sgt. Daniel Dembele (Prince David Osei—whose presence and remarkable physique reminds one of Djimon Honsou).The two commandeer a skeletonized pickup truck and search for an airbase out; the result is a Wages of Fear–style journey to find sanctuary from the inexplicable plague of undead cannibals. It’s yet another film about Africa that keeps yielding to the European point of view. However, there’s hardly anything fantasy-like in the idea of Africa being left by the world to implode from plague and disaster. (RvB)

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Servant of Two Masters is the inspiration for this exceptionally well-received comic play starring James Corden about a good-natured buffoon working for two rival small-time gangsters. Part of the British National Theatre Live series of cinecast plays. (Fri at Del Mar)

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HAVE A CIGARE Randall Grahm shows off unoaked Rhône goodness.

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THE CELLAR DOON Doing the winery walkabout with RANDALL GRAHM is always 1) a pleasure and 2) highly educational. But some occasions are

richer than others. For example, a generous and focused Le Cigare Volant vertical tasting—1993 through 2009—provided much in the way of understanding how Grahm’s flagship creation has evolved over the years. In the company of his top sales staff, the tasting began in the cellar, where infant vintages from 2010 and grapes from 2011 slumbered. Taste, spit. Taste, spit. We checked in on the wall of glass amphorae, a.k.a. carboys, in which various varietals were aging in unoaked slow motion. Then we hit the appetizer array at the CELLAR DOOR’s exhibition kitchen—a feast including tiny stilton-and-fig and pepper-and-burrata pizzas, hot from the fire—before sitting down to some serious tasting of BONNY DOON VINEYARD’s glamorous blend of grenache and syrah. “These wines are alive,” Grahm observed, comparing a trio of silky, vibrant vintages—2001, 2003 and 2005—to the complete agreement of the entire table. These vintages were poured from magnums, Grahm’s personal favorite oenocontainer, prized for slowing down the aging process and allowing for maximum complexity. Most of the wines tasted were predominantly grenache and syrah, with smaller percentages of mourvedre and cinsault: odes to black cherries, cassis, tamarind and salt. The muscular 2007 exuded persistence, while the 2009— unusual in its almost equal portions of the four varietals—Grahm described as part of “a very tricky vintage in which nothing ripened.” The resulting wine was “all about the cinsault,” he added. In a departure from tasting protocol (we are talking about Randall Grahm), the final two wines tasted were white—the bold, tannic 2009 Le Cigare Blanc from Beeswax Vineyard (“a gravel pit”) and the 2009 Le Cigare Blanc Reserve, also a single vineyard beauty. The hardest part of the entire experience was spitting. KUDOS TO LOCAL CUISINARTIST REILLY MEEHAN He just won Best Young Chef in the World in an international competition in Istanbul, Turkey! Prizes included a week at the Cordon Bleu in Paris. Sponsored by the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs (http://www.chaineus.org/), an international society of chefs and restaurateurs, the competition showcases chefs aged 27 and under. Meehan, aged 20, was the youngest competitor. But it all makes sense, actually, since he’s been winning cooking competitions since he took his first Santa Cruz County Fair ribbon at age 10. It was his apple and peach pies that captured the judges’ attention. Meehan’s dad is restaurateur CHARLES MEEHAN, co-owner of SEABRIGHT BREWERY. Send tips about food, wine and dining discoveries to Christina Waters at xtina@cruzio.com. Read her blog at http://christinawaters.com.

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Price Ranges based on average cost of dinner entree and salad, excluding alcoholic beverages APTOS $$ Aptos

AMBROSIA INDIA BISTRO

$$ Aptos

BRITANNIA ARMS

$$$ Aptos $$ Aptos

207 Searidge Rd, 831.685.0610

8017 Soquel Dr, 831.688.1233 SEVERINO’S GRILL

7500 Old Dominion Ct, 831.688.8987 ZAMEEN MEDITERRANEAN

7528 Soquel Dr, 831.688.4465

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. 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. Middle Eastern/Mediterranean. Fresh, fast, flavorful. Gourmet meat and vegetarian kebabs, gyros, falafel, healthy salads and Mediterranean flatbread pizzas. Beer and wine. Dine in or take out. Tue-Sun 11am-8pm.

CAPITOLA $ Capitola

CAFE VIOLETTE

$$

Capitola

GEISHA SUSHI Japanese. This pretty and welcoming sushi bar serves 200 Monterey Ave, 831.464.3328 superfresh fish in unusual but well-executed sushi combinations. Wed-Mon 11:30am-9pm.

$$$

SHADOWBROOK

Capitola

1750 Wharf Rd, 831.475.1511

$$$

STOCKTON BRIDGE GRILLE

Capitola

231 Esplanade, 831.464.1933

$$$ Capitola

203 Esplanade, 831.475.4900

104 Stockton Ave, 831.479.8888

ZELDA’S

All day breakfast. Burgers, gyros, sandwiches and 45 flavors of Marianne’s and Polar Bear ice cream. Open 8am daily.

California Continental. Swordfish and other seafood specials. Dinner Mon-Thu 5:30-9:30pm; Fri 5-10pm; Sat 4-10:30pm; Sun 4-9pm. Mediterranean tapas. Innovative menu, full-service bar, international wine list and outdoor dining with terrific views in the heart of Capitola Village. Open daily. California cuisine. Nightly specials include prime rib and lobster. Daily 7am-2am.

SANTA CRUZ $$ Santa Cruz

ACAPULCO

$$$ Santa Cruz

CELLAR DOOR

$ Santa Cruz

CHARLIE HONG KONG

$$ Santa Cruz

CLOUDS

$$ Santa Cruz

1116 Pacific Ave, 831. 426.7588

328 Ingalls St, 831.425.6771

1141 Soquel Ave, 831. 426.5664

110 Church St, 831.429.2000 THE CREPE PLACE

1134 Soquel Ave, 831.429.6994

$$

CROW’S NEST

Santa Cruz

2218 East Cliff Dr, 831.476.4560

$$ Santa Cruz

HINDQUARTER

303 Soquel Ave, 831.426.7770

$$ Santa Cruz

1102 Pacific Ave, 837.420.0135

$$

HULA’S ISLAND GRILL

Santa Cruz

221 Cathcart St, 831.426.4852

HOFFMAN’S

Mexican/Seafood/American. Traditional Mexican favorites. Best fajitas, chicken mole, coconut prawns, blackened prime rib! Fresh seafood. Over 50 premium tequilas, daily happy hour w/ half-price appetizers. Sun-Thu 11am-10pm, Fri-Sat 11am-11pm. Features the vibrant and esoteric wines of Bonny Doon Vineyard, a three-course, family-style prix fixe menu that changes nightly, and an inventive small plates menu, highlighting both seasonal and organic ingredients from local farms. California organic meets Southeast Asian street food. Organic noodle & rice bowls, vegan menu, fish & meat options, Vietnamese style sandwiches, eat-in or to-go. Consistent winner “Best Cheap Eats.� 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.� 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. vegetarian.Full-service tiki bar. Happy-hour tiki drinks. Aloha Fri, Sat lunch 11:30am-5pm. Dinner nightly 5pm-close.

INDIA JOZE

Santa Cruz

418 Front St, 831.325-3633

$$ Santa Cruz

JOHNNY’S HARBORSIDE

493 Lake Ave, 831.479.3430

$$$ LA POSTA Santa Cruz 538 Seabright Ave, 831.457.2782 OLITAS

$$ Santa Cruz

PACIFIC THAI

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. Italian. La Posta serves Italian food made in the old style— simple and delicious. Wed-Thu 5-9pm, Fri-Sat 5-9:30pm and Sun 5-8pm.

Fine Mexican cuisine. Opening daily at noon. 49-B Municipal Wharf, 831.458.9393

1319 Pacific Ave, 831.420.1700

$$

RISTORANTE ITALIANO

Santa Cruz

555 Soquel Ave, 831.458.2321

$$ Santa Cruz

1220 Pacific Ave, 831.426.9930

ROSIE MCCANN’S

Thai. Individually prepared with the freshest ingredients, plus ambrosia bubble teas, shakes. Mon-Thu 11:30am-9:30pm, Fri 11:30am-10pm, Sat noon-10pm, Sun noon-9:30pm. Italian-American. Mouthwatering, generous portions, friendly service and the best patio in town. Full bar. Lunch Mon-Fri 11:30am, dinner nightly at 5pm. Irish pub and restaurant. Informal pub fare with reliable execution. Lunch and dinner all day, open Mon-Fri 11:30ammidnight, Sat-Sun 11:30am-1:30am.

SANTA CRUZ MTN. BREWERY California / Brewpub. Enjoy a handcrafted organic ale in the

402 Ingalls Street, Ste 27 831.425.4900

taproom or the outdoor patio while you dine on Bavarian pretzels, a bowl of french fries, Santa Cruz’s best fish tacos and more. Open everday noon until 10pm. Food served until 7pm.

$$ Santa Cruz

SOIF

Wine bar with menu. Flawless plates of great character and flavor; sexy menu listings and wines to match. Dinner Mon-Thu 510pm, Fri-Sat 5-11pm, Sun 4-10pm; retail shop Mon 5pm-close, Tue-Sat noon-close, Sun 4pm-close.

$$ Santa Cruz

UPPER CRUST PIZZA

$$ Santa Cruz

WOODSTOCK’S PIZZA

105 Walnut Ave, 831.423.2020

2415 Mission St, 831.423.9010

710 Front St, 831.427.4444

Pizza. Specializing in authentic Sicilian and square pizza. Homemade pasta, fresh sandwiches, soups, salads and more. Hot slices always ready. Sun-Thu 10am-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 10am-11pm. 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.

SCOTTS VALLEY $ HEAVENLY CAFE American. Serving breakfast and lunch daily. Large parties Scotts Valley 1210 Mt. Hermon Rd, 831.335.7311 welcome. Mon-Fri 6:30am-2:15pm, Sat-Sun 7am-2:45pm. $ JIA TELLA’S Scotts Valley 5600 #D Scotts Valley Dr, 831.438.5005

Cambodian. Fresh kebabs, seafood dishes, soups and noodle bowls with a unique Southeast Asian flair. Beer and wine available. Patio dining. Sun-Thu 11am-9pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10pm.

SOQUEL $$ Soquel

EL CHIPOTLE TAQUERIA

4724 Soquel Dr, 831.477.1048

Mexican. Open for breakfast. We use no lard in our menu and make your food fresh daily. We are famous for our authentic ingredients such as traditional mole from Oaxaca. Lots of vegetarian options. Mon-Fri 9am-9pm, weekends 8am-9pm.

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$$ Santa Cruz

Eclectic Pan Asian dishes. Vegetarian, seafood, lamb and chicken with a wok emphasis since 1972. Cafe, catering, culinary classes, food festivals, beer and wine. Open for lunch and dinner daily except Sunday 11:30-9pm. Special events most Sundays.

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By Rob Brezsny

For the week of October 12

GEMINI (May 21–June 20): On the front of every British passport is an image that includes a chained unicorn standing up on its two hind legs. It’s a central feature of the coat of arms of the United Kingdom. I would love to see you do something as wacky as that in the coming week, Gemini—you know, bring elements of fantasy and myth and imagination into some official setting. It would, I believe, put you in sweet alignment with current cosmic rhythms. (P.S.: If you decide to invoke the archetype of the unicorn, unchain it.)

CANCER (June 21–July 22): I’ve come across two definitions of the slang term “cameling up.” One source says it means filling yourself with thirst-quenching liquid before heading out to a hot place on a hot day. A second source says it means stuffing yourself with a giant meal before going out on a binge of drinking alcohol, because it allows you to get drunk more slowly. For your purposes, Cancerian, I’m proposing a third, more metaphorical nuance to “cameling up.” Before embarking on a big project to upgrade your self-expression—quite possibly heroic and courageous—I suggest you camel up by soaking in an abundance of love and support from people whose nurturing you savor. LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): I love Adele’s voice. The megafamous British pop singer has a moving, virtuoso instrument—technically perfect, intriguingly soulful, capable of expressing a range of deep emotion, strong in both her high and low registers. And yet there’s not a single song she does that I find interesting. The lyrics are clichéd or immature, the melodies are mostly uninspired, and the arrangements are standard fare. Does what I’m describing remind you of anything in your own life, Leo? A situation you half-love and are half-bored by? An experience that is so good in some ways and so blah in other ways? If so, what can you do about it? You may be able to improve things if you act soon.

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): There’s a good chance that you will soon find something you lost a while back. It may even be the case that you will recover an asset you squandered or you’ll revive a dream that was left for dead. To what do you owe the pleasure of this blessing? Here’s what I think: The universe is rewarding you for the good work you’ve done lately on taking better care of what’s important to you. You’re going to be shown how much grace is available when you live your life in rapt alignment with your deepest, truest values. LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): Chris Richards wrote a story in the Washington Post in which he complained about the surplus of unimaginative band names. At this year’s SXSW music festival in Austin, he counted six different bands that used “Bear” and two with “Panda.” Seven bands had “Gold,” including Golden Bear. Marshmallow Ghosts was one of seven bands with “Ghost” in their names. You’re in a phase of your life when it’s especially important not to be a slave of the trends, Libra—a time when it’s crucial to your well-being to come up with original language, unique descriptions and fresh approaches. So what would your band’s name be? (tinyurl.com/BadNamesForBands)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): “Most people who profess a deep love of the Bible have never actually read the book,” says religious writer Rami Shapiro. If they did, they’d know that Satan is not implicated as the tempter of Adam and Eve. There’s no mention of three wise men coming to see baby Jesus, or of a whale swallowing Jonah. Homilies like “This too shall pass” and “God helps those who help themselves” never appear in the scriptures. And contrary to the Ayn Rand–style self-reliance that evangelicals think is a central theme of their holy book, the Bible’s predominant message is that goodness is measured by what one does for others. I bring this up as a teaching about how not to proceed in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. You really do need to know a lot about the texts and ideas and people and situations upon which you base your life. (tinyurl.com/BibleFog)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): “The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote to the emptiness of existence.” So says the Gertrude Stein character in Woody Allen’s film Midnight in Paris. As an aspiring master of crafty optimism myself, I don’t buy the notion that existence is inherently empty. I do, however, wish that more artists would be motivated by the desire to create cures for the collective malaise that has haunted every historical era, including ours. In alignment with your current astrological omens, I invite you to take up this noble task yourself in the coming weeks, whether or not you’re an artist. You now have much more than your usual power to inspire and animate others. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): The world-famous whiskey known as Jack Daniel’s is produced in Moore County, Tenn., which prohibits the sale of alcohol in stores and restaurants. So you can’t get a drink of the stuff in the place where it’s made. I suspect there’s a comparable situation going on in your life, Aquarius. Maybe something you’re good at isn’t appreciated by those around you. Maybe a message you’re broadcasting or a gift you’re offering gets more attention at a distance than it does up close. Is there anything you can do about that? The coming weeks would be a good time to try.

PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): Once you drive your car into Norway’s Laerdal Tunnel, you’re in for a long haul through the murk. The light at the end doesn’t start appearing until you’ve traveled almost 14 miles. Using this as a metaphor for your life in the here and now, I estimate that you’re at about the 12-mile mark. Keep the faith, Pisces. It’s a straight shot from here. Can you think of any cheerful tunes you could sing at the top of your lungs?

Test this hypothesis: The answer to a pressing question will come within 72 hours after you do a ritual in which you ask for clarity.

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TAURUS (April 20–May 20): “My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn,” wrote the Slovenian-American author Louis Adamic. That’s true enough. Here’s the thing, though: If you manage to get a smooth thorn without any prickles (like on certain hawthorn trees), the only risk is when you’re licking the honey close to the sharp end. Otherwise, as your tongue makes its way up the sleek surface of the rest of the thorn, you’re fine—no cuts, no pain. According to my analysis, Taurus, you have just finished your close encounter with the sharp point of a smooth thorn. Now the going will be easier.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): You’ve got to cry one more tear before the pungent comedy will deliver its ultimate lesson and leave you in peace. You’ve got to make one further promise to yourself before you will be released from the twilight area where pain and pleasure became so tangled. You’ve got to navigate your way through one more small surrender before you will be cleared to hunt down your rebirth in earnest. But meanwhile, the catharses and epiphanies just keep on erupting. You’re growing more soulful and less subject to people’s delusions by the minute. Your rather unconventional attempts at healing are working—maybe not as rapidly as you’d like, but still, they are working.

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ARIES (March 21–April 19): If it’s at all possible, Aries, don’t hang around boring people this week. Seek out the company of adventurers who keep you guessing and unruly talkers who incite your imagination and mystery lovers who are always on the lookout for new learning experiences. For that matter, treat yourself to especially interesting food, perceptions and sensations. Take new and different routes to familiar hotspots. Even better, find fresh hotspots. Cultivating novelty is your mandate right now. Outgrowing your habits would be wise, fun and cool. Changing your mind is a luxury you need and deserve.

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