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MISGUIDED ON MDMA RE: “Soldier’s Little Helper” (Cover story, Feb. 3): Let me get this right. MAPS wants to treat war vets who sustained brain damage with synthetic multi-drug medication that causes more brain damage? Sorry, Mr. Brown, but the data shown in one study you cited on sexually abused women given the drug Ecstasy (MDMA) as treatment for PTSD is questionable and leaves the public with a sense of “bad faith” science. Perhaps the reason your organization is the only one funding clinical trials of MDMAassisted psychotherapy is because no other organization would do these experiments on human subjects. Personally, I think giving MDMA to our military (or anyone for that matter), that would result in brain and

thought loss, hyperthermia, hypertension, hepatitis and low seratonin levels that lead to increased depression and aggression is “one of the meanest and most misguided things our government could do.” My questions for your clinical trial team: 1) Where can the public view online Dr. Mithoefer’s long-term study (year span, sampling numbers, age groups and coexisting conditions) in a published medical report? Where can they view the raw data and any associated AMA reports? 2) How is your organization’s psychotherapeutic group integrating exercise and diet/ nutrition into rehabilitation (exercise in warm environments could be a problem with MDMA)? 3) What pharmaceutical companies are funding the study (Dr. Holland, author of Ecstasy: The Complete

Guide: A Comprehensive Look at the Risks and Benefits of MDMA, states that the constituents in different MDMA-containing tablets are hard to identify)? Knowing the drug company can let the public know what other medicinal constituents are contained with the MDMA. If your clinical studies are successful, they may be reproduced for children, seniors, etc. I look forward to your response on where the public can read more data about these trials. Pamela R. Villanueva By email

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IT IS NOT mysterious, as the author of “Soldier’s Little Helper” suggested, that when the fear center of the brain settles down (from the use of MDMA) feelings of inner peace and a connection to inner wisdom are experienced. That is our natural state, although usually it is covered over by fear. When the fear is removed our spiritual nature remains. Let’s hope this drug is approved for veterans, sexual abuse survivors and others with PTSD.

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EASY DOES IT [RE: “Caveat Yogi,” Currents, Jan. 28]: I learned yoga many years ago from a meditation group based in India. The word for “yoga posture” in Sanskrit is “asana,” which means “easy pose.” The purpose of yoga is to prepare the body and mind for meditation. The postures work on the glandular system and are calming. I was taught not to extend the body further than was comfortable in any posture. Yoga asanas are part of a comprehensive practice from India to find inner peace and Enlightenment. I feel in the West people often compartmentalize this wonderful, ancient, revered system and use it as just another form of exercise, extending themselves way too far and thus being vulnerable to accidents. Yonah Gold Aptos

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FOR SOMEONE to start a newspaper in 2012, its founding editor would have to either be totally nuts or betting on a very good idea. Jon Chown, whose new twice-monthly Monterey Bay News and Views hits the stands this week, obviously believes he falls into category number two. Chown says he’s basing his idea on the free alternative weeklies serving most cities and college towns, but with a slight twist to the right. “Most tabloids are somewhat on the more liberal side of the news,” says Chown, who served

as managing editor of the RegisterPajaronian from 2000 to 2011. “The whole thing about the weekly newspaper is more alternative, more into the younger audience. I’m going to turn that around a little bit.” The paper is being bankrolled by Nader Agha, the Monterey real estate multi-millionaire who tried to buy the Monterey County Herald in 2006. Agha, whom Chown describes as the new paper’s co-owner, is a controversial figure in Monterey, currently pushing for a $128 million desalination plant on his 200-acre Moss Landing commercial park.

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locations, stretching from Scotts Valley to Carmel. The News and Views hopes to make much of its money from advertising revenues. Agha’s backing is no doubt crucial. Neither partner will say, but the publication’s success will likely depend on the depth of Agha’s pocketbook. “I don’t really want to go into that much,” Chown says. “That gets into our LLC and our operating agreement.” Agha says Chown approached to him with the idea of starting a newspaper and Agha agreed that the region needs more local political coverage. “It’s a concept that has not been tried before,” Agha says. “Anything new is beautiful and is desirable. We feel there is a niche.” Chown says Agha will have access to the editorial page, but adds the publication won’t represent any of the real estate mogul’s personal or political interests, partly because Agha is too busy with a myriad of other interests to worry about running a newspaper, something Agha corroborates. “I don’t want to, either,” Agha says. Greg Caput, the conservative Santa Cruz County supervisor who represents Watsonville, says he expects the editor’s new paper to do well. He says he admired Chown’s coverage of the methyl bromide, f luoridation and several controversial South County development projects. He isn’t the only fan. Charley Freedman, a conservative talk-radio host at KSCO, says “there’s definitely room” for more Monterey Bay media. He thinks Chown is the person to break through, expose corruption and cover local government. Freedman says he doesn’t know Chown’s politics well, but he admires the editor’s chops as a journalist and his investigative process.

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FOURTH ESTATESMAN Jon Chown says his Monterey Bay–wide publication meets a need.

Chown, who describes himself as a moderate conservative, will enter what is already a competitive printmedia environment in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. In addition to Santa Cruz Weekly, this area is already served by the Santa Cruz Sentinel, the RegisterPajaronian and Good Times as well as smaller publications including the Scotts Valley/San Lorenzo Valley Press Banner, the Mid-County Post and UC– Santa Cruz’s City on a Hill Press. Plus toss in a wealth of talk-radio stations and newsy websites, including four Patch.com branches. Similarly, Monterey County has the Monterey County Herald, Monterey County Weekly and the Carmel Pine Cone. “They’d have an uphill battle,” says Tom Honig, the former Sentinel editor who now publishes his work on TomHonig.com, a site he is calling the Santa Cruz Observer. The tricky part for the paper could be tying together two Central Coast counties that don’t know much about each other. Honig says he’s “intrigued” by the idea of spanning two counties. “But the reality is that north Santa Cruz County people don’t care anything about Monterey County people,” Honig says, “and I haven’t heard that Monterey County people care about Santa Cruz County. I don’t know of anything that bridges that gap now. They’re so different socially and economically.” Chown says bringing people together is part of the idea. “The whole point of the publication is to let everybody know how these communities are really all part of one greater community,” Chown says. “Whether it’s pollution or crime, what’s going on in one community rolls on into the next in this bay. So, my publication is hopefully going to illustrate that.” Chown’s free fortnightly will come out every other Thursday with 40,000 copies at about 700

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“Right now, Santa Cruz and Watsonville are both in need of investigative journalism,” says Freedman, adding that—as he personally sees it—Watsonville is turning into a political “cesspool.” Writers for the News and Views will include Chown as well as Herald columnist Jerry Gervase and Eve Britton, a former Herald reporter. Chown says they will cover local politics, city council meetings and land and water issues—with Chown writing some opinion pieces too.

‘Whether it’s pollution or crime, what’s going on in one community rolls on into the next in this bay.’ —Jon Chown “I don’t often mince words,” Chown says, “especially when l do my opinion pieces.” “It’ll be a great asset to the Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz County area,” Caput says. “I think Jon gives a fair view to a lot of people. He looks at issues and takes his own view. In his opinion pieces he comes from the heart.” Conservative love-fests aside, Gary Patton, the former Santa Cruz city council member and county supervisor who now works as a landuse attorney, says Chown’s stories about environmental issues could be important. “I think that the more citizen involvement there is around land use and water policy issues, the better off everyone will be,” Patton says. “So I wish the new effort well.” 0

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The Policemen’s Secret Crystal Ball Predictive policing’s statistical model for crime prevention is being hailed as the savior of cash-strapped police departments. But can it work without endangering civil liberties?

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ON TOP of a parking garage in downtown Santa Cruz a new highconcept weapon is being tested. It’s not a gun or a chemical, but police believe that, paired with officer intelligence, it is powerful enough to stop a crime before it even occurs. Deputy Chief of Police Steve Clark demonstrates. An affable man prone to wide grinning, Clark eases the cruiser up the

ramp and onto the top level of the lot with its view of the town’s rooftops. “Anytime I go into any area I want to get the heartbeat of what’s going on,� Clark says. “If I was working a beat, I’d go out there and drive around the beat—just kind of set the stage for ‘normal.’ Now I can start hunting. Now I can look for the anomalies.� Hunting is exactly what riding

shotgun on a predictive policing patrol with Clark feels like. We have a suspicious vehicle directly in our line of sight, but we are idling one row over. The cars lined up on either side of us have the effect of tall grass obscuring the cruiser, a predator lying in wait. He takes down the vehicle’s license plate number to run it through the database. ¨

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Clark is taking the heartbeat of the top level of Front Street’s three storyparking garage. When we first rolled up to this level, we spotted a man in his mid-twenties standing between a wall and a large white SUV. “What’s that guy doing?â€? Clark asked. “He’s hanging out on the side of that car. What am I going to do? I’m not going to stop and talk to him. I’m going to cruise around, pretend like I didn’t see him. How does he react to me? Does he give us the oh-crap-there-is-a-cop look? Does he wave and say ‘Hey officer!’â€? Clark mutters to himself while reviewing the information he’s summoned. “The car doesn’t come up as stolen‌â€? The man is now inside the car, along with a female driver, but they’re not budging from the spot. “Nothing really pings. Not terribly from out of the area. They are probably just hanging out in their car,â€? he concludes. On July 1, 2011, the Santa Cruz Police Department embarked on a six-month experiment to see if it could reduce crime by proactively deploying officers to patrol areas deemed by a statistical algorithm to be the most likely spots for a crime to occur. When Santa Cruz became the first department in the country to put this theory into practice, the move attracted an avalanche of attention. It was written up in The New York Times, landed on the cover of Popular Science and was named one of the 50 innovations of 2011 by Time Magazine—all before the program had any real results to provide. It is a sexy concept, the kind journalists eat right up. It features, front and center, a futuristic technological advance that improves public safety. It costs the department nothing while maximizing the precious few resources left intact after severe budget cuts. It can’t be accused of unfairly profiling by race or socioeconomic standing, because the only things the computer cares about are the crime’s location, time and type. The cherry on top is a tidy little parallel to Minority Report, the Philip K. Dick sci-fi novel-turned-Tom Cruise blockbuster in which police use psychics to make arrests before a crime is committed. It’s almost too good to be true.

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ach Friend, crime analyst and public information officer for the SCPD, pulls up a GoogleMap with predictions of where property crimes in the city of Santa Cruz will occur today. “This is today’s map. It provides the 10 hotspot locations within the city, with this first one being the theoretical number one: the tripledecker garage.� On the map are 10 red boxes; today most are clustered in the downtown area, which the police call the “central theater� in the fight against crime. Crime forecasts are distributed at roll call at the beginning of each shift. For each of the 10 locations pinpointed, the algorithm provides a probability of a crime occurring (10.36 percent for the parking garage) and the probability that it will be a vehicle crime (100 percent in this case, naturally) or a residential one. It also lists two times of day at which the crime has the highest likelihood of occurring—6am to 7pm and 5pm to 6pm. At a time when cities everywhere are struggling under the pressure of budget shortfalls and being forced to cut essential services, the promise of a technology with the ability to improve officer efficiency without threatening jobs is so attractive it almost borders on intoxicating. In January, the Santa Cruz City Council approved cuts of between $100,000-$200,000 to the police department. That news came at a time when SCPD is already operating at reduced capacity. The department is budgeted for 94 positions, Clark says (down from 104 in its heyday), but at the moment the department has only 86 officers. Officers have quit or retired, and there are staffing decisions that are being held up because they would require approval by the city council, leaving eight vacancies. “Eight positions is a lot of positions. I could do a lot with that. That’s a whole team,� Clark says. What the use of predictive policing has allowed the force to do, Friend says, is help officers use their patrol time more effectively. The best news is that the algorithm promises to improve the force’s efficiency for free. As the beta

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agency, the total cost to SCPD for this cutting-edge technology is nothing at all. Friend is a salaried employee, so even though he’s coming in seven days a week now to run the algorithm that produces the crime forecasts, he’s not accruing overtime pay while he does it. Don’t feel too bad for Friend, though. Since the program’s inception, by his own count he has done “well over a hundred� interviews or media appearances, many with national outlets—and you can’t put a price on exposure like that for someone running for public office. Friend, a former deputy director of special projects for the Democratic National Committee and 2008 Obama campaign spokesman in Philadelphia, kicks off his campaign for the Second District’s seat on the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Feb. 15 at Bittersweet Bistro in Aptos. In several of the interviews touting the program’s success, Friend has said that in its first six months, predictive policing has saved 40 Santa Cruzans from being the victims of crime. When asked where he got that number, he explains he subtracted the number of crime victims in the last six months of the year from the number of crime victims in the first six months—a positive trend to be sure, but a textbook example of fuzzy math, and one that invites some scrutiny.

In Friend’s defense, it is difficult to measure the success of predictive policing. Sending officers to vulnerable locations is meant to act as a deterrent—if it works, nothing happens. There have been arrests associated with the program, though: 13 suspects have been cuffed in a designated hotspot in the program’s first six months.

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When observed from a distance, Brantingham says, there is not much difference between the way people behave and the way fluids or gas molecules behave. When observed from a distance, Brantingham says, there is not much difference between the way people behave and the way fluids or gas molecules behave. With enough data, he says, it is possible to create models that will predict criminal behavior with a fair degree of accuracy. In Santa Cruz, the model is only being used for property crimes: burglary, car theft and theft from vehicles. The basic idea is that criminals are predictable creatures. If there is an opportunity—a streetlight out on a certain corner, say—a criminal will exploit that opportunity as long as it exists. A burglar sees a dark street corner as an opportunity to break into a house, and when that crime is reported, the relevant

information (where, what time, what kind of crime) feeds into the predictive policing algorithm. Maybe that burglar decides to make another trip to the same house, or perhaps a second burglar sees the same streetlight as an opportunity to burglarize the house next door— these are the ways that one crime can foreshadow another. “We’re not nearly as complex as we think we are,� Brantingham says.

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map like weather patterns across a blue screen. “We all believe that we have lots of deterministic control over what we do and where we do it and how we do it and why,� Brantingham says. “But at the same time there are also a lot of aspects of human behavior that are actually very general and can be described very effectively in simple ways.�

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he arrests were routine,� begins the article, which ran in The New York Times on Aug. 15. “Two women were taken into custody after they were discovered peering into cars in a downtown parking garage in Santa Cruz, Calif. One woman was found to have outstanding warrants; the other was carrying illegal drugs.� The arrests were not routine, though. The police officers made them while patrolling the area on a predictive policing check. The anecdote was fed to the Times by Zach Friend, working in his capacity as police department spokesman, to a writer who composed the piece entirely from New York City. It ran with a photo depicting an unrelated arrest. The article interested Andrew Ferguson, a constitutional law professor at the University of District Columbia’s David A. Clarke School of Law, because under normal circumstances, he says, the police could not necessarily have stopped these women. “In a pre-prediction land, if the officer is patrolling that same area— that garage—and sees two women looking into windows, that’s not enough to search them,� Ferguson says. “And it’s certainly not enough to arrest them.� At the heart of Ferguson’s doubts about predictive policing is the concern that it could endanger fourth amendment liberties. The fourth amendment protects citizens’ privacy. It says that police need to establish reasonable suspicion of a crime—probable cause—in order to

conduct a search of a person or that person’s property. Before he went into academia, Ferguson was a public defender in Washington, D.C. In D.C., he spent a lot of time contesting police stops in so-called “high crime� areas. The Supreme Court has said running away from an officer in a “high crime� area is enough reasonable suspicion for an officer to stop that person. Ferguson, who has been studying the issue, wonders whether a statistical prediction by police will similarly influence what constitutes probable cause for a stop or search. As far are the courts are concerned, Ferguson says, predictive policing is unprecedented. He warns that Santa Cruzans, as the guinea pigs in this experiment, should be considering the implications the program could have on their rights to privacy and freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. “You can imagine in every block that has been so designated with that nice red circle around it, there are lots of people who live there and there are lots of people who go about their daily business,� he says, “and some of those people are going to be doing innocent things that are going to correspond with what you might think ‘theft from auto’ might look like. If you’re carrying a screwdriver, are you going to be searched? If you’re carrying a bag? “These are the questions that get raised.�

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averages, the numbers are slightly less remarkable—4 percent. That discrepancy may not be high enough to be statistically significant, and while Friend insists that the introduction of predictive policing was the only thing SCPD did differently during these six months, any number of other factors could have conspired to move the needle just that much.

‘You just can’t stop people on hunch or suspicion or computer printouts. There has to be a factual nexus between the stop and criminal activity.’ — Larry Biggam, public defender Jeff Brantingham seems to want data that is a bit more conclusive. The experiment his team is currently running in Los Angeles is, essentially, a double-blind randomized control study like those pharmaceutical companies use to test the effectiveness of drugs. In this case, a placebo map of crime hotspots created by a knowledgeable and experienced officer is tested against a map created by the computer. Both are distributed to officers. That trial is expected to wrap up in May. 0

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because they were in violation of a municipal code called the parking lot trespass law. “You can’t just chill in a city parking lot for years and years and years,� Friend says. “We have a 15-minute limit because people were, in essence, using it as daytime camping.� “But,� Friend continues, “it’s not unreasonable for a policeman to ask why you are looking into multiple vehicles—it’s not like that is your car. That is a reasonable point of contact for a suspicious activity.� Santa Cruz Public Defender Larry Biggam sees the practicality of predictive policing, but he’s skeptical. “I understand why they are trying to do this on a limited budget to try and maximize their resources, but they have got to have facts. You just can’t stop people on a hunch or suspicion or computer printouts,� Biggam says, “There has to be a factual nexus between the stop and criminal activity.� Getting smart on crime, Biggam says, is necessary across the justice system—from police to courts to corrections. “To the extent that these policies are transparent they are probably healthy, but we’re going to contest them if we see a breach of the fourth amendment—people’s right to privacy—and we’re going to litigate that. “In other words,� Biggam says, “the Bill of Rights is over 200 years old, and it still applies to today’s technology.�

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UCSC alumna Katerina Lanfranco rocks scissors and paper in a bold new exhibit at the Sesnon Gallery BY CHRISTINA WATERS

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SHINING black deer hoofprints lead the visitor up the stairs of Porter College’s D building. Following this nature trail—subtly applied to cast concrete and playfully punctuated by pink blossoms—we are led into a transformation of bare walls into a vivacious forest of the imagination, a forest entirely created of hand-cut black paper. A six-month residency in Japan last year on a Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission fellowship immersed New York artist (and UCSC alumna) Katerina Lanfranco in the intricate practices of katagami (paper cut-outs) and ikebana (f lower arranging). Looking at both the natural world and her own bio-intensive artwork through the lens of another Pacific Rim culture armed Lanfranco with a sensitivity to the natural world currently translated into a room-sized installation at the Sesnon Gallery. The tour in Japan clearly expanded Lanfranco’s vocabulary of cultural

WEB OF LIFE Katerina Lanfranco’s ‘Natural Selection’ is the centerpiece of an exhibit exploring the natural world through paper cutouts. archetypes, and the current show builds upon an evolving network of biological perspectives. Guided by Lanfranco’s revisualization of the trees and plants of the UCSC campus into a magical artifactual landscape, a team of student assistants worked with layers of coated black paper, cutting and carving, until they had lined the walls—up to the very ceiling—with an exquisite tracery of light and shadow. As with any great forest worth its chlorophyll, the details of Lanfranco’s Natural Selection emerge only gradually. This is a space designed as much for meditation as for inspiration. To enter the Sesnon Gallery, from now until March 16, is to be intertwined with a world where ginko leaves morph into butterf lies, and the graceful arabesques of magnolia support an almost-

hidden scaffolding of insects and birds. Ablaze with bamboo and stars, these silhouetted shapes shift from tree into bird into vine into bee. Substantial yet fantastical, the installation—which is “announced” by a separate wall of colored paper, including cutout “ikebana” chrysanthemums—captivates in a way that is both rococo and deliciously wild. Supporting the main installation and expanding its metaphorical inf luence are two other shows involving the aesthetic miracles wrought with and upon cut paper. In the small adjoining gallery, a group of cut-paper explorations called “Clear Cuts” offers insight into the world created in miniature. From the beauty of Kara Walker’s celebrated silhouettes to gorgeously folded and cut, all-white woodland windows in A Tree a Day, January

2010 by Davenport artist Felicia Gilman, the room hums with the microcosmic viewpoint available when the hand shapes figures into vibrant metaphors. The handcut-and-stitched romance novel by Lauren Scanlon, for example, puns wittily on the entire idea. The Porter Faculty Gallery next door boasts a fascinating and accomplished suite of experimental laser-cut intaglio prints by Richard Wohlfeiler, master of a process blending ancient woodcut with the forefront of digital inquiry. Eye candy with depth.

KATERINA LANFRANCO: NATURAL SELECTION Through March 16 Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, Porter College, UCSC

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and revolution set in a town plagued by a 20-year drought. Thu-Sat, 7pm and Sat, Feb 18, 2pm. Thru Feb 18. $12-$20. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6177.

Random With A Purpose

What Is Erotic?

UC Santa Cruz celebrates 20 years of student dance featuring works by Cid Pearlman and Leslie Johnson. Fri-Sat, 7pm and Sun, Feb 19, 3pm. Thru Feb 18. $10-$11. UCSC Mainstage Theater, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5260.

Acts of passion and grace, gratification and play in an over-18 performance benefiting the 418 Project. Fri-Sat, 7pm and Sun, 6:30pm. Thru Feb 19. $25-$30. 418 Project, 418 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.466.9770.

THEATER 180 Days A one-woman show based on UCSC alumna Teren Sterry’s first six months working in hospice. Thu, Feb 16, 7pm. $10-$30. Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz, 831.430.3078.

Buckminster Fuller Live Noel Murphy performs as the visionary architect, Buckminster Fuller. Fri, Feb 17, 7-9pm. $16.50-$18. Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz, 831.427.2227.

Hairspray When Tracy Turnblad wins a spot on the Corny Collins Show she becomes a teen celebrity overnight, but snagging a spot on the local TV dance program was a cakewalk compared to her next challenge—racially integrating the show. Thu-Sun Thru Feb 19. $7-$20. Golden Bough Theatre, Monte Verde between Eighth and Ninth streets, Carmel-by-the-Sea, 831.622.0100.

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Smoov-E aka Eli Streetlight Records hosts a free in-store concert with Smoov-E aka Eli. Thu, Feb 16, 4:30pm. Streetlight Records Santa Cruz, 939 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.421.9200.

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 everchanging nature of lagoons. Thru Feb 25. $2-$4, free for members and youth under 18. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. 1305 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6115.

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Art MUSEUMS OPENING Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Futzie Nutzle & The Espresso Police. Featuring works by Nutzle, Judy Foreman and Frank Foreman, musical performances by the artists who played Caffe Pergolesi and artifacts from the old cafe. Thru Mar 17. Spotlight Tours. Bringing the artists’ voices directly to visitors. Go behind the scenes and museum-wide exhibitions. Third Sat of every month,

Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos A Prison Art Exhibit. Works feature themes of survival, culture, and spirituality. Opening reception Friday, Feb. 17, 6–9pm. Feb 17-May 17. 1817 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.457.8208.

CONTINUING Art duJour Written Word/Spoken Word. Featuring the book art of Mary Atkinson and Felicia Rice. Thru Feb 29. 1013 Cedar St., Santa Cruz.

Artisan’s Gallery Hearts for the Arts. A heartinspired exhibit featuring local art students and teachers. Thru Feb 29. 1368 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.8183 .

BECKY HALE

An earnest tale of love, greed

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11:30am-12:30pm. Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Cabrillo College Gallery Glenn Carter: A Guest to the Mystery. Mixed media work by Santa Cruz resident Glenn Carter. Opening reception Thu, Feb 16, 5-6:30pm. Carter will discuss his work Tues, Feb 21, 7pm. Thru Mar 9. Free. 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6308.

Cruzio Art From Within. Cruzio’s staff and coworking members, both professional and hobbyists, display their artwork side by side. Thru Feb 29. Free. 877 Cedar St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.6301.

Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery An Untold Odyssey. The story of Akira Nagamine as related by artists Tosh Tanaka and Jono Shaferkotter. Thru Feb 19. Personal Memory, Public History. Fifteen assemblages by Lucien Kubo predicated on the Japanese American experience. Thru Feb 19. 831.459.2953. Cowell College, UCSC, Santa Cruz.

Felix Kulpa Gallery Pass It On. Seven artists used coffee, sugar, ink, silkscreen, thread and other material to alter each other’s work in a collaboration that waxed and waned for more than four years as squares were passed between them. Thru Feb 27. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

Marjorie Evans Gallery The Horse: A Guide To The Unknown. An exhibition of original mixed media and collage by Nancy Leigh Hillis. Thru Feb 29. Free. San Carlos Street at Ninth Avenue, Carmel, 831.620.2052.

Rittenhouse Building Wet Art 2012. Wetsuits, donated by local surfers, turned into art pieces by local artists. Thru Feb 29. 1375 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz.

Rivendell Tea Room Treescapes. Plein aire acrylic and watercolor landscapes by Pegatha Hughes. Thru Feb 29. Squid Row Alley, Santa Cruz, 831.459.0614.

Santa Cruz Central Branch Library Gallery Do You See What I See? The work of mother-daughter artists Janis O’Driscoll (printmaker) and Ana Schechter (photographer). Thru Feb 29. 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5700.

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SYLVIA EARLE Sylvia Earle has been called a lot of things in her life—National Geographic explorer-in-residence, Time Magazine “Hero of the Planet” and former chief scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to name just a few. The legendary lady aquanaut and oceanographer extraordinaire will be in town to deliver UCSC’s sixth Fred Keeley Lecture on Environmental Policy. Thursday, Feb. 16, 7pm at the UC Santa Cruz Music Recital Hall, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz. Free.

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REPEAT! A playful exploration of repetition by six artists utilizing mixed media, photography, assemblage and construction. On display at all locations. Thru Apr 20. 720 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.457.5000.

Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center Inspirations. A collection of inspirational artwork by Santa Cruz Mountain Art Center artists. Thru Mar 17. Wed-Sun, noon-6pm.

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RANDOM WITH A PURPOSE Back in 1982, a motley troupe of UCSC dancers staged the first student-choreographed, student-produced, student-performed showcase in the school’s history. “Random With a Purpose” has featured new works by students every year since. The 20th-anniversary performance will include pieces by Cid Pearlman and Leslie Johnson. Friday-Sunday, Feb. 17– 19 and Thursday-Sunday, Feb. 23–26, Thursdays-Saturdays at 7pm, Sundays at 3pm at UCSC’s Mainstage Theater, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz. Tickets $11 general, $10 students and seniors. 831.420.5260 or SantaCruzTickets.com. 9341 Mill St, Ben Lomond, 831.336.4273.

Sesnon Gallery Katerina Lafranco: Natural Selection . A site-specific installation by Katerina Lafranco. Thru Mar 16. UCSC, Porter College, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2273.

AROUND TOWN 3rd Friday February: Santa Cruz Music MAH’s February 3rd Friday features musical performances, demonstrations and workshops from local Santa Cruz musicians, artists and music organizations. Fri, Feb 17, 5-9pm. $3-$5. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Book Arts Santa Cruz Meeting & Studio Tour Meeting and networking for those involved in book arts, letterpress and digital printing, paper-making, graphics and the “Art of the Book.” Wed, Feb 15, 5-8pm. Free. Shoreline Press, 2551 S. Rodeo Gulch Rd. #12, Santa Cruz, 831.464.8330.

Making Friends With Your Computer Bring questions to a workshop where seniors gather to share what they know, don’t know and want to know about computers, led by

instructor David Shaw. Wed, Feb 15, 4-5:30pm. Free. Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.427.7717.

Santa Cruz Derby Girls Season Opener Santa Cruz v. Santa Cruz. Sat, Feb 18, 6:30pm. $10-$23. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5260.

Shamanic Sound Healing Relax in a sound bath of the vibrations of music, tuning forks and vocal tones with Jenny Holladay. Thu, Feb 16, 7pm. Free. Felton Community Acupuncture, 6227 Hwy 9, Felton, 831.335.9690.

Stars of Justice Inc. Flea Market The Santa Cruz Deputy Sheriff’s Association’s nonprofit organization host its first annual indoor flea market. Sat-Sun, 8am-4pm. Thru Feb 19. National Guard Armory, 30 Aviation Way, Watsonville.

FILM And Again: An Evening with Adele Horne Independent filmmaker Adele Horne will be present for a Q&A following a screening of her film. Wed, Feb 15, 7pm. Communications Room 150 Studio C, UCSC, Santa Cruz.

Blue Gold: World Water Wars

Freedom Forum presents a screening of a documentary about the coming water crisis. Wed, Feb 15, 7pm. Free. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz.

Heart Breaks Open Guerilla Drive-In screens the film about a queer activist and his discovery that he is HIV-positive. Fri, Feb 17, 8pm. Free. Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz.

LITERARY EVENTS Friday Shakespeare Club Founded in 1903, FSC is Santa Cruz’s oldest social club for women. Visitors and new members welcome. Third Fri of every month, 10:30am12:30pm. Free. 831.421.0930.

Pam Houston Bestselling author Pam Houston will be present to discuss her new book. Reserve your spot by responding to events@capitolabookcafe. com. Tue, Feb 21, 7:30pm. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

Poetry Santa Cruz Readings by Toi Derricotte and Ellen Bass. Fri-Sat, 7:30pm. Thru Mar 10. $3 donation suggested. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

LECTURES Connect with Nature Series Natural History classes for adults. Sat, Feb 18, 10am. $8 members/$10 general. Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, 1305 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6115.

Danny Sheehan Daniel Sheehan is a Harvard-trained Constitutional Lawyer and highly-regarded speaker and educator. Sat, Feb 18, 4-5pm. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Emotional Freedom Meridian Tapping Techniques A workshop led by Energy Kinesiologist and Clinical/ Medical Hypnotherapist Laurel Ricci. Sun, Feb 19, noon-4pm. College of Botanical Healing Arts, 1821 17th Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.462.1807.

Food for Life: The Power of Food for Cancer Prevention and Survival Topics include how foods fight cancer, beneficial low-fat/high-fiber foods, dairy and meat alternatives, cancer-fighting compounds and healthy weight control. Wed, 6pm. Thru Feb 15. New Leaf Market Westside, 1101 Fair Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.325.3811.

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Rookies will team up with vets for a season-opening scrum pitting Santa Cruz Derby Girls against their own. Saturday, Feb. 18, 5:45pm at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. 831.420.5260 or SantaCruzTickets.com.

With panelists Fred Keeley, Treasurer of Santa Cruz County, Brian Wall, Deputy Superintendent of SC Schools, Katherine Beiers, Santa Cruz City Council, and Nora Hochman, union representative. Tue, Feb 21, 7-9pm. Free. Friends Quaker Meeting House, 225 Rooney St, Santa Cruz.

Inside Look: Ancestor Bags Talk Sculptor and weaver Sue Hiley Harris will talk about the ideas and inspiration behind her new project. Sat, Feb 18, 11am-5pm and 1-3pm. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Sylvia Earle The lady aquanaut and oceanographer extraordinaire delivers the sixth Fred Kelley lecture. Thu, Feb 16, 7:30pm. Free. UCSC Music Center Recital Hall, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

NOTICES Eating Disorders Resource Center Meeting Groups will be led by Kimberly Kuhn, LCSW and Carolyn Blackman, RN, LCSW. Third Fri of every month, 6-7:30pm. Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave, Santa Cruz, 408.559.5593.

Electronic Waste Recycling Event Hosted by Soquel High School Lacrosse Team

and Earth Care Recycling. Accepting computers and accessories, televisions, vacuum cleaners, copy and fax machines, stereos, telephones and more. Sat, Feb 18, 9am-3pm. Soquel High School, 401 Old San Jose Rd, Soquel.

Free Homework Assistance Available at Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Mon 3:30-5:30 Garfield Park, 705 Woodrow Ave., Tue, 2-4pm at Boulder Creek, 13390 West Park Ave., Tue 3-5pm at Live Oak, 23080 Portola Dr., Tue 3:30-5:30pm at Branciforte, 230 Gault St. Mon and Tue. 831.477.7700x7665.

Free Spay or Neuter for Feral Cats Courtesy of Project Purr. Thru Mar 31. 831.423.6369.

Hanna Somatics Class Neuromuscular training to reduce pain and enhance hip joint mobility. Thu, Feb 16, 3-4pm. $20. Persensa, 920-F 41st Ave., Santa Cruz, 408.858.2960.

Overeaters Anonymous Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30pm at Teach By The Beach in the Rancho Del Mar Shopping Center, Aptos. Thursdays 1-2pm at Louden Nelson Community Center, Room 5, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. Wed-Thu. 831.429.7906.

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

SC Diversity Center The Diversity Center provides services, support and

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

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).

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Pomplamoose Quirky YouTube sensations in danger of being usurped by even-more-twee Karmin. Feb 18 at Great American Music Hall.

Trey Songz “Bottoms Up,” “Neighbors Know My Name,” “I Invented Sex”—hits galore, here. Feb 19 at the Paramount Theater.

Hot Chelle Rae Interminably peppy boy-toy rock band pose for cameras, sing about love, invade tweens’ hearts. Feb 20 at Slim’s.

The Fray Piano-rock torchbearers from Colorado deliver majestically on Christian-church roots. Feb 20 at the Fox Theater.

Cursive Long-running Omaha emo powerhouse returns with new album “I Am Gemini” and free in-store. Feb 21 at Amoeba SF. More San Francisco events by subscribing to the email letter

Celebrating Creativity Since 1975

Thurs. February 16 U 7 pm

180 DAYS

Tickets at Bownpapertickets.com Fri. February 17 U 7 pm

BUCKMINSTER FULLER LIVE! Performed by Noel Murphy Tickets at Brownpapertickets.com

Sat. February 18 U 7 & 9:30 pm

FRED EAGLESMITH

Tickets at Smazzyproductions.com Mon. February 20 U 7 & 9 pm

REGINA CARTER’S REVERSE THREAD 9 pm: 1/2 Price Night for Students No Jazztix or Comps

Tues. February 21 U 7 pm

MASTER CLASS SERIES: STAN POPLIN “Insights into Jazz Bass, Volume II” Free workshop - all welcome! Thurs. February 23 U 7 pm

SCOTT HAMILTON WITH THE LARRY VUKOVICH TRIO Big, warm tenor saxophone tone and unerring sense of swing! Sat. February 25 U 8 pm

KEN ARCONTI

Tickets at Streetlight Records and brownpapertickets.com Mon. February 27 U 7 pm

Hypnotic rhythms & seductive melodies TIM BERNE / SNAKEOIL 1/2 Price Night for Students Tues. February 28 U 7:30 pm At the Rio Theatre

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WING DING The Juncos pull out the old-time strings Saturday at the Crepe Place. With McCoy Tyler Band.

LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO No Jazztix or Comps Thurs. March 1 U 7 pm

LA VOZ DE TRES An intimate evening of Latin Jazz Monday, March 5 U 7 & 9 pm

BENNY GOLSON QUINTET FEAT. NNENNA FREELON, MIKE LEDONNE, RAY DRUMMOND AND JASON MARSALIS No Jazztix or Comps

9 pm: 1/2 Price Night for Students Mar. 8

Nellie McKay “I Want to Live!”

Mar. 12 Toots Thielemans/ Kenny Werner Duo Mar. 15 Ben Williams & Sound Effect Mar. 19 Helen Sung Quartet Mar. 23 Overtone May 6

Rosanne Cash at the Rio

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.

320-2 Cedar St [ Santa Cruz 831.427.2227

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THE WHITE BUFFALO

LYRICS BORN

HEARTBREAKER

Bay Area rapper Tom Shimura has been making music under the moniker Lyrics Born ever since his college days at UC Davis. An early freestyle session at the college radio station KDVS grew into the first single recorded on SoleSides Records, a collaborative venture with MC Gift of Gab, Chief Xcel (the two would later become Blackalicious), DJ Shadow and Lateef the Truthspeaker. In 2003 Lyrics Born delivered his most complete and most commercially successful album, Later That Day, along with his first charted single, “Callin’ Out.” Since then Lyrics Born has kept busy with a number of collaborations that have kept him touring an average of 150 days a year. Moe’s Alley; $15 adv/ $20 door; 9pm. (Juan Guzman)

Possibly the best Led Zeppelin tribute band in the world comes to Felton for a night of rock & roll revelry. Heartbreaker prides itself on having the most talented musicians, the most authentic sound replication and the most accurate stage show in the business, and its members are dedicated musicians who have been working in original and tribute projects for decades. For fans of the Zep, Heartbreaker provides the closest thing to seeing the band perform live in their heyday. Don Quixote’s; $18 adv/ $20 door; 8pm. (JG)

It’s getting to be an overused comparison, but Jake Smith, also known as the White Buffalo, really does sound a lot like Eddie Vedder. He has a rugged, massive voice that he has to rein in to wrap around a song, his lyrics are emotional and passionate, and the Vedder-esque kicker is that he rocks the super-tight vibrato that makes Eddie fans swoon. But parallels aside, the White Buffalo is an immensely talented singer, songwriter and guitarist who is making a big name for himself in neo-folk, country and underground-roots circles. Crepe Place; $12 adv/$15 door; 9pm. (Cat Johnson)

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JUNCOS & MCCOY TYLER BAND Giving a nod to the musical days of old, Juncos plays stripped-down, stringdriven songs about lovin’, ramblin’ and people who have seen better days.

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REBELUTION Cali-reggae band Rebelution has been producing laid-back summery jams since coming out of Santa Barbara in 2004. Their first full-length album, Courage to Grow, reached number four on the Billboard Reggae charts, leading to an explosion in their popularity. Rebelution has since shared billing with some of the biggest names on the reggae scene, including the Expendables and Slightly Stoopid. The recently released Peace of Mind reached number one on both the Billboard Reggae and the Billboard Independent charts, selling 16,000 copies in its first week. The Catalyst; $22 adv/ $25 door; 8pm. (JG)

CONCERTS INCENDIO

Feb. 16 at Don Quixote’s

TREVOR HALL

Feb. 24 at Catalyst

NELLIE MCKAY

Mar. 8 at Kuumbwa

TUNE-YARDS

Apr. 12 at Rio Theatre

M. WARD

Apr. 12 at Cocoanut Grove

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TOMMY CASTRO Tommy Castro earned the moniker “the most dangerous man in blues” when he did something unheard of at the 2010 Blues Music Awards—he swept the ceremony’s most prestigious categories, taking home four “Handys”: Entertainer of the Year, Contemporary Blues Artist of the Year, Blues Album of the Year and Band of the Year. An unprecedented feat, but that’s not to say it was a surprise. Castro, as his longtime fans already knew, is a master practitioner of that particular alchemy that turns the blues to into gold. Moe’s Alley; $20 adv/$25 door; 8pm. (Tessa Stuart)

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REGINA CARTER QUINTET

WORDS AND DEEDS Lyrics Born at Moe’s Alley

Jazz violinist Regina Carter is not one to stay put within the confines of straight-ahead jazz, and she’s made a career out of re-imagining musical boundaries and bringing seemingly disparate elements together in innovative ways. On her latest release, Reverse Thread, Carter reworks African folk tunes into a contemporary, cohesive work that is warm, visionary and hauntingly beautiful. Kuumbwa; $25 adv/$28 door; 7 & 9pm. (CJ)

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At once ringmaster, snake charmer and head clown of his own traveling show, Fred Eaglesmith is an absolute original. A staunchly independent artist who defies categorization, Eaglesmith uses his music to tell the stories of forgotten people, places and causes. A master songwriter, he has an immense catalog full of roots-rocking foot-stompers and tear-inducing love songs, and he has an inexplicable knack for getting audiences to laugh at themselves. Need proof ? Imagine a packed house of Santa Cruzans in a rollicking sing-along of “Time to Get a Gun.” Kuumbwa; $22 gen/$35 gold; 7 & 9:30pm. (CJ)

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Driven by singer-songwriter Joshua Lowe, this is a band that sidesteps production trickery and cuts right to the heart of a tune. Pairing the Juncos with the McCoy Tyler Band, a tight and talented local outfit that has snagged the attention of long-time roots fans and young folk-rockers alike, this acoustic double-bill is shaping up to be a showcase of two of the rising stars on the local roots scene. Crepe Place; $8; 9pm. (CJ)

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Thursday, February 16 ‹ In the Atrium ‹ AGES 16+ ELI AKA SMOOV-E plus Gina Rene also Mumbls and Nima Fadavi !DV $RS s $RS P M 3HOW STARTS P M

Friday, February 17 ‹ In the Atrium ‹ AGES 16+

C-MONEY

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FEATURING MEMBERS OF Slightly Stoopid

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SANTA CRUZZ BLUE LAGOON BOCCI’S CELLAR THE CATALYST

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The Green

Love !DV $RS s $RS P M 3HOW P M Sunday, February 19 ‹ In the Atrium ‹ AGES 16+ PHILTHY RICH plus Antdog Da Beast !DV $RS s $RS P M 3HOW P M

Tuesday, February 21 ‹ In the Atrium ‹ AGES 21+

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Live Bands

Live Comedy

Live Hip-Hop Show

Live Bands

Coda

Roberto - Howell

Nu Shooz

Road House Ramblers

Karaoke

Open Mic

Eli aka Smoov E

C-Money

Banda Oro Verde

140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz 1011 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

CLOUDS

Jazz Open Mic

110 Church St, Santa Cruz

The Esoteric Collective

CREPE PLACE

Haunted Windchimes

White Buffalo

Mark Stuart

The Juncos

Yuji Tojo

Joomanji

Hall Pass Band

Extra Large

1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

CROW’S NEST 2218 East Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz

DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE

Polyglot Quartet

1 Davenport Ave, Santa Cruz

FINS COFFEE

Marty Atkinson

1104 Ocean St, Santa Cruz

& Friends Acoustic Night

SCOTT H. BIRAM !DV $RS s P M P M

HOFFMAN’S BAKERY CAFE

Feb 23 Goatwhore Atrium (Ages 16+) Feb 24 Trevor Hall Atrium (Ages 16+) Feb 25 Mistah Fab/ Fashawn (Ages 16+) Feb 25 Atomic Aces Atrium (Ages 21+) Feb 29 Alkaline Trio (Ages 16+) Mar 2 Lagwagon (Ages 16+) Mar 8 SOJA (Ages 16+) Mar 10 Hell’s Belles (Ages 21+) Mar 17 Iration (Ages 16+) Mar 23 Pennywise (Ages 21+) Mar 24 Tyga (Ages 16+)

KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER

Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

1205 Soquel, Santa Cruz

Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 866-384-3060 & online

SEABRIGHT BREWERY

www.catalystclub.com

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923 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

Saturday, February 18 ‹ In the Atrium ‹ AGES 21+ !DV $RS s $RS P M 3HOW STARTS P M

THU 2/16

350 Mission St, Santa Cruz

plus Tacayos de la Sierra also DJ The Beat & DJ Koco Loko

BANDA ORO VERDE

WED 2/15

THE ABBEY

Gene Fintz

Preston Brahm Trio

Mapanova

Cris Williamson

180 Days

Noel Murphy Show

1102 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

Isoceles with Gary Montrezza

Fred Eaglesmith

320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

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FILM CAPS GHOST RIDER: THE SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE (PG-13; 95 min) Nicholas Cage reprises his role as Johnny Blaze, the former motorcycle stuntman who sold his soul to the devil. Now Blaze is called from his Eastern European hideout by a group of renegade monks in order to save a young boy’s life, thwart the devil’s plan

"We have all come to this life on a soul errand to complete and fullfill our golden purpose"

Journey True North

to take human form and, possibly, rid him of his curse forever. (Opens Fri at Santa Cruz 9, 41st Ave, Scotts Valley and Green Valley)

LA PHIL LIVE: DUDAMEL – MAHLER (G; 135 min.) Gustavo Dudamel leads the LA Philharmonic and Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela with choirs and soloists in Mahler’s Symphony of A Thousand (No. 8). (Sat at Santa Cruz 9)

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LEONARDO LIVE (NR; 85 min.) Simulcast show of the Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at The Court of Milan exhibition at the British National Gallery, which includes rarely shown paintings in such delicate condition that they cannot tour. (Thu at Santa Cruz 9) PONYO (2008) Anime tale of a goldfish princess with magical powers who washes up on a beach in a bottle. She’s rescued by a 5-year-

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

old boy, develops a deep attachment to him and turns herself into a human girl in order to be with him, unleashing powerful and sinister forces in the process. (Thu at Santa Cruz 9)

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) Tim Curry leads a wonderful cast as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in this campy cult classic. When straight-laced newlyweds Brad (Barry Bostwick) and

Janet (Susan Sarandon) have car troubles one rainy night, they seek shelter in a towering castle nearby. What ensues is a Bacchanalian initiation into the world of “Transsexual Transylvanians” hosted by the bombastic scientist from another world, Frank-NFurter. Featuring a live cast from “Slugs in Fishnets,” UCSC’s Rocky Horror Picture Show shadowcast. (Fri-Sat midnite at Del Mar)

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Feb. 15, through Wednesday, Feb. 21, unless otherwise indicated. Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance — (Opens Fri) 11:55; 2:15; 4:40; 7:15; 9:45 This Means War — (Opens Fri) 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7; 9:30 Safe House — Daily 11:20; 2; 4:45; 7:30; 10:10. The Grey — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2:10; 4:40; 7:20; 10. The Iron Lady — Wed-Thu 11:10; 1:45; 4:15; 6:45; 9:15.

Star Wars: Episode I 3D — Wed-Thu 1; 4:05; 7:10; 10:15. Fri-Wed 1; 3:30; 4:10;6:40; 7:20; 9:50; 10:30 1. The Vow — Wed-Thu 2; 4:25; 7:40; 10:10. Fri-Wed 1:40; 3:40; 4:20; 6:20; 7; 9; 9:40; 11:40; plus Sat-Mon 11; 1. Big Miracle — Wed-Thu 1:30; 4; 6:30; 9:30. Fri-Wed 1:45; 3:50; 4:25; 6:30; 7:10; 9:15; 9:55; 12; plus Sat-Mon 11:10; 1:15. (No Sat 1:45 or 4:25) Chronicle — Wed-Thu 2:30; 5:05; 7:25; 9:40. Fri-Wed 3:10; 4:50; 5:30; 7:10; 7:50; 9:30; 10:10; 11:50; plus Sat-Mon 12:50; 2:30. The Grey — Wed-Thu 1:50; 4:30; 7:15; 9:50. Fri-Wed 1:20; 3:35; 4:35; 6:50; 7:30; 9:45; 10:25; 12:40. LA Phil Live: Dudamel – Mahler — Sat 2pm. Leonardo Live — Thu 7pm. Ponyo — Thu 9pm.

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CINELUX SCOTTS VALLEY STADIUM CINEMA

1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com

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The Secret World of Arriety — (Opens Fri) 2; 4; 6; 8; 10 plus Fri-Mon noon. Pina 3D — Daily 2:40; 4:50; 7:10; 9:20 plus Fri-Mon 12:30pm. A Dangerous Method — Wed-Thu 2:50; 5; 7:20; 9:40. Hugo 3D — Daily 1:45; 4:20; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Mon 11:15am. The Rocky Horror Picture Show — Fri-Sat midnight. Traveling Light — Sun 11am.

Ghost Rider — (Opens Fri) 2:10; 4:40 Ghost Rider 3D — (Opens Fri) 11:20; 7:30; 10. The Secret World of Arrietty — (Opens Fri) 11:55; 2:30; 4:55; 7; 9:30 This Means War — (Opens Fri) 11:55; 2:20; 4:55; 7:20 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island — Wed-Thu 4:30pm. Fri-Wed 11:40;

APTOS CINEMAS 122 Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos 831.688.6541 www.thenick.com The Artist — Daily 2:10; 4:20; 6:40; 8:50 plus Fri-Mon noon. The Descendants — Daily 2; 4:30; 6:50; 9:10 plus Fri-Mon 11:40am.

CINELUX 41ST AVENUE CINEMA 1475 41st Ave., Capitola 831.479.3504 www.cineluxtheatres.com

NICKELODEON Lincoln and Cedar streets, Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com Animated Shorts Program — Daily 2:50; 7 plus Fri-Mon 11:15am. Live Action Shorts Program — Daily 4:30; 8:40 plus Fri-Mon 12:45pm. Albert Nobbs — Daily 2; 4:20; 6:40. A Dangerous Method — Fri-Wed 9:10pm plus Fri-Mon 11:50am. The Artist — Daily 2:30; 4:40; 6:50; 9 plus Sat-Mon 12:20pm. The Descendants — Daily 2:20; 4:50; 7:10; 9:30 plus Sat-Mon noon.

RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN 155 S. River St, Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1701 www.regmovies.com Contraband — Wed-Thu 3:45; 6:45; 9:25. The Woman in Black — Daily 4:15; 7:15; 9:25 plus Fri-Mon 1:15pm. This Means War — Fri-Wed 4; 7; 9:30 plus Fri-Mon 1pm.

SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9 1405 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1700 www.regmovies.com Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance — (Opens Thu midnite) Fri-Wed

2:20; 4:20; 5; 7; 7:40; 9:40; 10:20; 12:20; plus Sat-Mon 11:40; 1:40. Journey 2: Mysterious Island — Wed-Thu 2:20pm. Fri-Wed 4:05; 6pm. Journey 2: Mysterious Island 3D — Wed-Thu 4:50; 7:30; 10:05. Fri-Wed 1:30; 3:25; 6:40; 8:35; 9:15; 11:10; plus Sat-Mon 11:05; 1. Safe House — Wed-Thu 1:05; 2:10; 3:50; 5; 6:45; 7:50; 9:55; 10:35. Fri-Wed 2:05; 3:30; 4:15; 5:10; 5:40; 6:20; 7:20; 8; 8:30; 9:10; 10:10; 11:20; Plus Sat-Mon 11:20; 12:40; 1:30; 2:50.

7; 9:20. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D — Wed-Thu 11:45; 2:10; 7:10;

9:30. Fri-Wed 1:45; 4:10. Safe House — Wed-Thu 11:20; 2; 4:40; 7:30; 10:15; Fri-Wed 11; 1:40; 4:20;

7:20; 10. Star Wars: Episode I 3D — Wed-Thu 12:45; 3:45; 7; 10. Fri-Wed 12:30; 3:30; 6:45; 9:45. The Vow — Wed-Thu 11:55; 2:20; 4:45; 7:20; 9:45. Fri-Wed 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7:10; 9:40. Big Miracle — Wed-Thu 11:15; 1:45; 4:15; 6:45; 9:15. Chronicle — Wed-Thu 11:10; 1:15; 3:20; 5:30; 7:40; 9:45. The Woman in Black — Wed-Thu 12:30; 3; 5:20; 7:45; 10.

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8 1125 S. Green Valley Rd, Watsonville 831.761.8200 www.greenvalleycinema.com Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance — (Opens Fri) 1:15; 4; 7; 9:40 plus

Sat-Mon 10:55am. The Secret World of Arriety — (Opens Fri) 12:55; 3; 5:05; 7:15; 9:30 plus

Sat-Mon 10:50am. Star Wars: Episode l 3D — Daily 1:15; 4; 7; 9:45 plus Sat-Mon 10:35am. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island — Daily 5:05; 9:30 plus Sat-Mon 1pm. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D — Daily 3; 7:15 plus Sat-Mon 11am. Safe House — Wed-Thu 1:15; 4; 7:15; 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:15; 3:50; 7; 9:30 plus

Sat-Mon 10:50am. This Means War — Daily 1:15; 4; 7:15; 9:40 plus Sat-Mon 10:55am. Big Miracle — Wed-Thu 1:15; 4; 7:15; 9:40. Chronicle — Daily 1; 3; 5:05; 7:15; 9:30 plus Sat-Mon 11am. The Woman in Black — Wed-Thu 1:15; 4; 7:15; 9:40.

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THE ARTIST (PG-13; 110 min.) The French writer-director Michel Hazanavicius brought his cinematographer (Guillaume Schiffman) and two French actors to Hollywood to make this black-and-white silent tribute to 1920s American cinema, which has some critics charmed and others blown away. BIG MIRACLE (PG; 107 min) John Krasinski, Kristen Bell and Drew Barrymore star in this film about an unlikely alliance between oil tycoons, Inuit natives and the American and Russian militaries on their quest to save a family of grey whales. Capturing it all is Alaskan newsman Adam Carlson (Krasinski), whose main concern is not whales or oil barons but the arrival of his ex-girlfriend (Barrymore). CHRONICLE (PG-13;) Shy, introverted teen Andrew, his cousin Matt and their popular classmate, Steve, make an unbelievable discovery when they happen upon a mysterious substance that imbues them with superpowers. As their powers grow stronger, their darker sides emerge, forcing each of them to struggle with his baser instincts. THE DESCENDANTS (R; 115 min.) Almost everyone will

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THIS MEANS WAR (PG-13; 98 min) Partners and best friends FDR (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy) rank among the world’s greatest CIA operatives. But when they find that they are both dating the same beautiful blonde (Reese Witherspoon), their friendship is put to the test in what becomes a high-tech battle for her love. (Opens Fri at 41st Ave, Scotts Valley and Green Valley)

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THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY (G; 94 min) Spunky 14-year-old Borrower Arrietty (voiced by Bridgit Mendler) lives in the Lilliputian confines of her suburban garden home with her parents (Will Arnett and Amy Poehler), venturing out only to borrow scraps from her comparatively huge human hosts. When 12year-old Shawn sees the tiny Arrietty one night, a friendship develops that, if discovered, could lead Arrietty and her family into danger. (Opens Fri at Del Mar and Green Valley)

WEE THE PEOPLE A human boy befriends one of the tiny Borrowers living in his house in ‘The Secret World of Arrietty,’ opening Friday. enjoy the George Clooney/ Alexander Payne film The Descendants. Clooney’s Matt King is a lawyer who toils while his family has a good time. Matt’s wife languishes in a coma after a bad boating accident. He goes to retrieve his daughter, Alexandra (Shailene Woodley), currently immured at a strict boarding school because of her partying. Alexandra confesses that she’s been acting out lately because she saw her mom with a stranger’s hands on her. Matt also has to deal with his cutely awkward, profane younger daughter, Scottie (Pacific Grove’s Amara Miller, debuting), as well as with his ornery father-in-law (Robert Forster, excellently embodying the old military side of Hawaii). Coming along for the ride is Alexandra’s pal Sid (Nick Krause), her seemingly silly young partner in partying, who wedges himself into this family tragedy. Meanwhile, Matt must make the painful decision to liquidate a piece of property that he’s holding in trust for the rest of the family. The end result of the deal will be yet another resort with golf course, part of the endless effort to turn Hawaii into Costa Mesa. Clooney is roguish and entertaining; he gives the kind of star’s performance that probably only looks easy and smooth to pull off. And he finishes with some very heavy old-school acting, which puts Clooney farther out on the limb than he is in the rest of the film. (RvB)

THE GREY (R; 117 min) When their plane crashes in the Alaskan wild, a group of unruly roughnecks must survive icy conditions, traumatic injuries and the unfriendly advances of a pack of wolves. With Liam Neeson. HUGO (PG; 133 min.) Martin Scorcese’s first 3-D film, about an orphan growing up in 1930s Paris in a train station, involves an automaton and a reserved man who runs a toy shop. With Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jude Law and Emily Mortimer. JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG; 94 min.) Picking up where the original left off, Sean (Josh Hutcherson) is still consumed with the “Vernian” theories that have been a family obsession—the notion that all of Jules Verne’s fantastic tales were actually non-fiction. So when Sean intercepts a coded message that he believes to be from his grandfather, he and Hank (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) head off to the South Pacific to charter a helicopter into an uncharted region, eventually crash-landing on a mysterious island. With Michael Caine, Luis Guzman and Vanessa Hudgens. OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORTS (Animated) (NR; 52 min) A boy struggles with the boredom of his family’s Sunday routine, a young neophyte learns the family business, a New Yorker and a chicken square off and an Englishman finds he is entirely unsuited for life in the Canadian frontier in

this year’s pack of Oscarnominated animated shorts.

OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORTS (Live Action) This year’s Oscar-nominated live action shorts include the stories of an altar boy called into mass at the last minute, a German couple who adopt a young Indian orphan, a reunion of two friends after 25 years apart, a neurotic inventor who gets lost in time and a dying man who sets things right with his aged mother. PINA (PG; 103 mins.) Wim Wenders’ glorious cinematic festschrift for the German choreographer Pina Bausch, who passed away in 2009. The dancers deliver their memories of Bausch straight to the camera. We can see why they fell in love, despite what Bausch demanded from them. However rarefied it seems in descriptions, Bausch’s art was all about hard work and ordinary pain. Note the melancholy yet sweet line of geriatric dancers at the rim of a strip-mined chasm. And one performance is staged on the edge of traffic with TJ Maxx and McDonald’s signs looming overhead. (RvB) SAFE HOUSE (R; 115 min.) Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) is a rookie CIA operative languishing in his remote post in Cape Town when he is charged with safeguarding one of the most dangerous men in the world, Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington). An ex-CIA operative, Frost was once the best in the business, but since turning he has sold U.S. military secrets

to the highest bidder. Soon after debriefing, their safe house is attacked, sending the two unlikely allies on a desperate search for those who want them dead.

STAR WARS: EPISODE I — THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D (1999) The first installment in George Lucas’ six-part odyssey rendered for the first time in 3-D. Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi are sent to the blockaded planet of Naboo only to find that the conflict runs much deeper than they first anticipated. As they escort the Queen of Naboo to the Intergalactic Senate, their ship is stranded, and they discover a young boy of incredible potential that may become the leader the Jedi were hoping for. THE VOW (PG-13; 104 min) Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Jessica Lange and Sam Neill star in this romantic drama about a young couple trying to recover from a devastating accident. When a car accident leaves Paige (McAdams) with severe memory loss, her husband Leo (Tatum) is determined to win her back. THE WOMAN IN BLACK (PG-13; 95 min) A young lawyer (Daniel Radcliffe) is sent to a remote village to settle the estate of a recently deceased eccentric. It quickly becomes clear to him that the local villagers are hiding a terrible secret: the spirit of an old woman haunts the house, searching desperately for something or someone she lost.

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NICOLE BEATIE says she’s pretty certain Friday evening’s Twisted Tasting will be a fun event—partly because its menu of exotic beers paired with unique, locally produced foods is bound to attract adventurous people. But ultimately, she says, it’s not as scary as it might sound.

“Some people, when they first hear about it, seem a little worried—like they think it’s an interesting idea, but they’re not sure they’re going to like it,” she says. “But everyone will find something here to really, really like.” Beatie, a brewmaster at Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing, says the event was the brainchild of Emily Thomas, another brewmaster and the local beer company’s co-owner. Thomas was inspired on a recent trip to Oregon, where she visited colleagues at the vaunted Gilgamesh Brewing Company—a beermaker that uses no hops, instead substituting all manner of ingredients for flavor. “When she came back from Oregon, she said, ‘I have an idea,’ she pitched it to me, and we were off and running.” Beatie and fellow brewer Tommy Mills responded with a concoction combining pigs’ ears (you heard me), sourced from their neighbor Chris LaVeque’s El Salchichero, with dates and maple syrup. SCMB is also serving a beer flavored with horchata and a Chipotle Chocolate Stout, as well as Thomas’ “Love Potion,” made with raspberries and rose hips.

When the SCMB folks contacted other people in the industry about a Twisted Tasting event, the idea caught on immediately. “Soon people were calling us to ask if they could come,” Beatie says. The list of brews that will be featured at the event is jaw-dropping. Gilgamesh is bringing a “Mamba,” brewed with black tea, rye and tangerine zest. Moonlight Brewing, from Santa Rosa, brewed its offering with redwood branches. From Russian River comes Supplication, a brown ale aged in pinot barrels with sour cherries. And the brand-new Sante Adairius brewery in Capitola is featuring a Belgian Blonde Ale with Brettanomyces and Lactobacillus. (I don’t know either, but I’ll bet it’s good.) The victuals, equally creative, will come from a bunch of local slow-food favorites: El Salchichero, Garden Variety Cheese, Friend in Cheese, Companion Bakeshop, Front Street Kitchen, Bavarian Pretzel Works and Farmhouse Culture, to name just a few. Beatie is clearly excited to gather with like-minded folks to try something new. “That’s all we want out of this event,” she says, “to inspire people.— Alex Gilrane

TWISTED TASTING Friday 6-9pm at the Top of the Ritt Tickets $65 at twistedtasting. eventbrite.com

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Free Will

By Rob Brezsny

For the week of February 15 ARIES (March 21–April 19): What do you typically do

GEMINI (May 21–June 20): In the animated film The Lion King, two of the central characters are a talking meerkat named Timon and a talking warthog named Pumbaa. Their actions are often heroic. They help the star of the tale, Simba, rise to his rightful role as king. The human actors who provided the voices for Timon and Pumbaa, Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella, originally auditioned for the lesser roles of hyenas. They set their sights too low. Fortunately fate conspired to give them more than what they asked for. Don’t start out as they did, Gemini. Aim high right from the beginning—not for the bit part or the minor role but rather for the catalyst who actually gets things done. CANCER (June 21–July 22): “He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him,” says a Dutch proverb. Ancient Roman writer Marcus Terentius Varro articulated a similar idea: “The longest part of the journey is the passing of the gate.” I hope these serve as words of encouragement for you, Cancerian. You’ve got a quest ahead of you. At its best, it will involve freewheeling exploration and unpredictable discoveries. If you can get started in a timely manner, you’ll set an excellent tone for the adventures. Don’t procrastinate. LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): You’re so close to finding a fresh perspective that would allow you to outmaneuver an old torment, Leo. You’re on the verge of breaking through a wall of illusion that has sealed you off from some very interesting truths. In the hope of providing you with the last little push that will take you the rest of the way, I offer two related insights from creativity specialist Roger von Oech: 1.) If you get too fixated on solving a certain problem, you may fail to notice a new opportunity that arises outside the context of that problem. 2.) If you intensify your focus by looking twice as hard at a situation that’s right in front of you, you will be less likely to see a good idea that’s right behind you. VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): Thirty-two carrier pigeons were awarded medals by the United Kingdom for their meritorious service in the World Wars. Of course, they probably would have preferred sunflower seeds and peanuts as their prize. Let that lesson guide you as you bestow blessings on the people and animals that have done so much for you, Virgo. Give them goodies they would actually love to receive, not meaningless gold stars or abstract accolades. It’s time to honor and reward your supporters with practical actions that suit them well. LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): The caterpillar-tobutterfly transformation is such an iconic symbol of metamorphosis that it has become a cliché. And yet I’d like to point out that when the graceful winged creature emerges from its chrysalis, it never grows any further. We human beings, on the other hand, are asked to be in a lifelong state of metamorphosis, continually adjusting and shifting to meet our changing circumstances. I’ll go so far as to say that having a readiness to be in continual transformation is one of

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): This would be an excellent time to round up a slew of new role models. In my astrological opinion, you need to feel far more than your usual levels of admiration for exceptional human beings. You’re in a phase when you could derive tremendous inspiration by closely observing masters and virtuosos and pros who are doing what you would like to do. For that matter, your mental and spiritual health would be profoundly enhanced by studying anyone who has found what he or she was born to do and is doing it with liberated flair. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): WD-40 is a spray product that prevents corrosion, loosens stuck hinges, removes hard-to-get-at dirt, and has several other uses. Its inventor, Norm Larsen, tried 39 different formulas before finding the precisely right combination of ingredients on his fortieth attempt. The way I understand your life right now, Sagittarius, is that you are like Larsen when he was working with version number 37. You’re getting closer to creating a viable method for achieving your next success. That’s why I urge you to be patient and determined as you continue to tinker and experiment. Don’t keep trying the same formula that didn’t quite work before. Open your mind to the possibility that you have not yet discovered at least one of the integral components.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): A person who emits a huge angry shout produces just .001 watt of energy. Even if he or she yelled continuously 24/7, it would still take a year and nine months to produce enough energy to heat a cup of coffee. That’s one way to metaphorically illustrate my bigger point, which is that making a dramatic show of emotional agitation may feel powerful but is often a sign of weakness. Please take this to heart in the coming week, Capricorn. If you do fall prey to a frothy eruption of tumultuous feelings, use all of your considerable willpower to maintain your poise. Better yet, abort the tumult before it detonates. This is one time when repressing negative feelings will be healthy, wealthy, and wise. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): Jeep vehicles always feature seven slots on their front grills. Why? For the manufacturer, it’s a symbolic statement proclaiming the fact that Jeep was the first vehicle driven on all seven continents. Let’s take that as your cue, Aquarius. Your assignment is to pick an accomplishment you’re really proud of and turn it into an emblem, image, glyph, or talisman that you can wear or express. If nothing else, draw it on dusty car windows, write it on bathroom walls, or add it to a Facebook status update. The key thing is that you use a public forum to celebrate yourself for a significant success, even if it’s in a modest or mysterious way.

PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): A sign outside the Apostolic Bible Church in Bathurst, New Brunswick, invited worshipers to meditate on a conundrum: “Why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitoes?” After all, if the builder of the Ark had refused to help the pesky insects survive the flood, we’d be free of their torment today. (Or so the allegorical argument goes.) Please apply this lesson to a situation in your own sphere, Pisces. As you journey to your new world, leave the vexatious elements behind.

Homework: Exhausted by the ceaseless barrage of depressing stories you absorb from the news media? Here’s an antidote: http:// PronoiaResources. Visit REALASTROLOGY.COM for Rob’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1.877.873.4888 or 1.900.950.7700

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TAURUS (April 20–May 20): Have you ever gazed into the eyes of goats? If you have, you know that their pupils are rectangular when dilated. This quirk allows them to have a field of vision that extends as far as 340 degrees, as opposed to humans’ puny 160–210 degrees. They can also see better at night than we can. Goats are your power animal in the coming week, Taurus. Metaphorically speaking, you will have an excellent chance to expand your breadth and depth of vision. Do you have any blind spots that need to be illuminated? Now’s the time to make that happen.

the most beautiful qualities a person can have. Are you interested in cultivating more of that capacity, Libra? Now would be an excellent time to do so. Remember that line by Bob Dylan: “He who is not busy being born is busy dying.”

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just before you fall asleep and right after you wake up? Those rituals are important for your mental health. Without exaggeration, you could say they are sacred times when you’re poised in the threshold between the two great dimensions of your life. I’ll ask you to give special care and attention to those transitions in the coming week. As much as possible, avoid watching TV or surfing the Internet right up to the moment you turn off the light, and don’t leap out of bed the instant an alarm clock detonates. The astrological omens suggest you are primed to receive special revelations, even ringing epiphanies, while in those in-between states.

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