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NO STRAW MEN REGARDING Eric Johnson’s article on Thrive (“Blinded by The Right,” Currents, March 14), especially the straw man he created in David Icke, I would like to point out that there are many more on our planet who also have what some would consider similar seeming wacky ideas. Some believe that a man called Jesus walked on water. They also believe that a virgin visited by a spirit (alien?) from the Holy Ghost (1/3 part of another being, creature?) who lives in the heavens above (outer space?) suddenly became pregnant and gave birth to the aforementioned water-walker, Jesus. In other words, just because our fellow earthlings have some ideas or beliefs that we may think are strange or even weird does not
mean that we should discount everything else they may do or say. Let us engage in respectful, civil discourse so that we may come to a better understanding of ourselves and our world in which we live and not create straw men to distract and confuse. Drew Lewis Santa Cruz
become a felony? The building was nearby, had been vacant for three years, was a symbol of the banking mess that the country is in. The intent was speech—squatting in a vacant building merely a means. How about a less moralistic, more pragmatic resolution? The charges themselves demonstrate the county’s sense of affront. It’s enough. Let’s dismiss all the related charges and cases.
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LESS MORALISM [RE: “Those Who Trespass,” Currents, April 4]: Entering 75 River St. was an action similar to donating money to a campaign, an attempt to put forth an idea, to educate and to win minds, to whistle-blow. How can that
ATTACK ON ACTIVISM This attack on local activists and journalists is of a piece with prosecutions around the country against Occupy-inspired activism exposing bankster crime, anti-homeless abuses and the privileges of the wealthy. [Jacob Pierce’s article has] little or no discussion of the target of the occupation— Wells Fargo Bank—the biggest foreclosure criminal and bailout panhandler in the nation. Nor of its local scams. Pierce does mention the apparent presence of the Sentinel photographer in the building. But he doesn’t go into the presence of other city officials and other more favored media (Santa Cruz Patch writers). Wells Fargo fancier DA Bob Lee produced no evidence of any vandalism by Bradley and Alex at their Preliminary Hearing, yet even after the judge dismissed felony vandalism and conspiracy to commit vandalism charges, Lee’s hatchet woman Rebekah Young moved to refile these spurious charges. For more information go to “Drop the Charges; Bust the Banksters” at www. indybay.org. Robert Norse
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Santa Cruz County Bank, Administrative Office 740 Front Street, Suite 220, Santa Cruz (831) 457-5000
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John Robbins, Deepak Chopra and others call the locally made film ‘dangerously misguided’ BY ERIC JOHNSON
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LAST FALL, the acclaimed environmentalist and nutrition guru John Robbins was invited to the home of his friends Foster and Kimberly Carter Gamble, near Santa Cruz, to view the Gambles’ just-completed film, Thrive. Robbins, who makes a brief appearance in the film, says he was “overwhelmed” by what he saw. “There were parts I liked, but there were other parts that I just detested,” he recalls. “I didn’t want to be rude—we were there with our families—so I just didn’t say anything.” Thrive, which was released
online in November and had its theater debut at the Del Mar last month, is an uncanny hodgepodge of pseudo-science, Utopian fantasy and veiled right-wing conspiracy theory. Strangely, it also includes onscreen interviews with a number of bona fide progressives, environmentalists and spiritual leaders. In addition to Robbins, author of the groundbreaking Diet for a New America in 1987, the film features conversations with Deepak Chopra, the superstar self-help author; Paul Hawken, the green entrepreneur and environmental economist; Elisabet Sahtouris, the evolutionary biologist
and philosopher; Duane Elgin, the futurist and author of Voluntary Simplicity; Vandana Shiva, the physicist and advocate for sustainable agriculture; and former astronaut Edgar Mitchell. In the months since the film’s release, Robbins says, he has been in communication with all of these folks. He wasn’t surprised to find that many of them agreed with his assessment of the film. While they might have hoped the film would just disappear, Thrive has become something of a web cult phenomenon—by some estimates it’s been seen by more than 1 million
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people. And now they have decided to speak out. In a just-released statement, Robbins, Chopra, Hawken, Sahtouris, Elgin, Shiva and Mitchell write that they have “grave disagreements” with some parts of the film. “We are dismayed that our participation is being used to give credibility to ideas and agendas that we see as dangerously misguided. We stand by what each of us said when we were interviewed. But we have grave disagreements with some of the film’s content and feel the need to make this public statement to avoid the appearance that our presence in the film constitutes any kind of endorsement.” Talking about Thrive last week, Robbins enumerated a long list of complaints. Much of his critique is centered on the film’s politics. “Foster says he’s not advancing a political agenda,” Robbins says, “but his sources certainly are.” Robbins is particularly galled by the presence of G. Edward Griffin and David Icke—both of whom who are featured prominently in the film and on the Gambles’ elaborate website (thrivemovement.com). Griffin is a prominent member of the ultraright-wing John Birch Society, while Icke has one-upped the world’s most ambitious conspiracy theorists with his notion that the world’s secret rulers are actually descended from a hybrid species of evil half-human “Reptilians.” (Ironically—or hypocritically—neither of these facts is revealed in Thrive.) Both Griffin and Icke have long defended themselves against charges of anti-Semitism with needle-threading arguments pointing out that while the enemy is decidedly Zionist, it is only coincidentally Jewish. Similarly, although his movie echoes Joseph Goebbels’ The Eternal Jew, Gamble insists in Thrive that the conspiracy he describes “is not a Jewish agenda.” But Robbins isn’t buying that. He says that in private correspondence,
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In issuing their statement distancing themselves from Thrive, Robbins and his colleagues point out that they are “dismayed” that the Gambles refused to let them know what the film was about until the time of its public release. In interviews with the Weekly several weeks ago, Paul Hawken and Elisabet Sahtouris both said Foster Gamble misrepresented the film when he asked them to participate. Robbins says it’s clear that Gamble used him and the others to draw people to Thrive. He is distressed that the film weaves progressive ideas into its paranoid, radical libertarian narrative. But he stops short of accusing Gamble of deliberately deceiving his audience. “Foster is extremely naïve about the political consequences of his film,” Robbins concludes. But how could someone be so naïve? Robbins says he is in a unique
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position to be able to answer that question. “The bubble of entitlement that he has lived in is almost impossible to understand if you haven’t lived in it.” As it happens, John Robbins and Foster Gamble have lived uncannily parallel lives. Robbins was born heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream fortune, and Gamble was born heir to the Proctor & Gamble cosmetics fortune. Both men rejected the destinies their families had chosen for them, and both moved to Santa Cruz. Although the men would later become friends, a couple of crucial decisions set them on very different paths. In the early 1980s, Robbins decided to disinherit himself from his family’s wealth. After his Diet for a New America, which wedded personal and environmental health, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he went on to live a very public life, writing books and heading organizations advocating for the environment and a plant-based diet. (His newest book, No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution, was published April 1.) Gamble also walked away from his family’s business, but chose to accept his inheritance—and use it to go on the personal quest which led him to the series of extraordinary conclusions documented in Thrive. Robbins points what he sees as a crucial error in Thrive, which he believe is the result of a blind spot caused by Gamble’s “bubble.” “Foster wants us to follow the money, and leads us to a group of obscenely wealthy families using their extravagant wealth for ill,” he says. “But nowhere in his film does he mention the Koch brothers.” Robbins points out that David and Charles Koch, the multi-billionaire heirs of the second-largest privately held company in the nation, who are using their vast wealth to bankroll the radical right, espouse the same libertarian agenda promoted by Thrive. (He also points out that their father, Fred C. Koch, was one of the founding members of the John Birch Society.) Like many progressives, Robbins sees the Koch brothers as two of the most dangerous men in American politics. “If you want to follow the money, it leads to the Koch brothers,” he says, “If Foster had gone after them. I’d be right there with him.” 0
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he learned that his friend was being influenced by the ideas of Eustace Mullins, whom he calls “the most antiSemitic public figure in U.S. history.” Foster Gamble did not respond to an email request for an interview to respond, but there is certainly evidence in Thrive that Mullins’ views influenced him. One of the central features of the film is the supposed revelation that the Federal Reserve Bank is a criminal enterprise; Mullins is the man who gave birth to that theory, in his 1952 book The Secret of the Federal Reserve. The following year, Mullins published his most notorious tract, “Adolf Hitler: An Appreciation,” which praises the Fuhrer for his crusade against the “Jewish International bankers” who were attempting to take over the world. In subsequent books, Mullins argued that the Holocaust never happened and that the Jewish race is inherently “parasitic.” Incredibly, Mullins also insisted until his death that he was not an anti-Semite. Robbins does not in any way accuse Gamble of bigotry—but rather of dangerous naivete. “Foster isn’t antiSemitic,” Robbins says, “but he is listening deeply to and promulgating the ideas of Eustace Mullins.”
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ONE HUNDRED fifty miles off the coast of Baja California, jagged Guadalupe Island climbs more than 4,000 feet above the Pacific. Throughout the year elephant seals, Guadalupe fur seals and scores of seabirds call this volcanic island home. They dive for fish in the island’s rich waters and use the secluded shoreline to escape white sharks, recuperate from migration and raise their young. Today, the isolated landmass supports a thriving community of rare plants and animals. But it wasn’t always this way. In the 19th century, Russian and American sealing ships hunted Guadalupe fur seals to near extinction. In the end, the seals survived, but at least nine other island species weren’t so lucky. To ensure that returning ships would have a supply of fresh meat, the seal
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hunters left goats on Guadalupe Island. The goats thrived, chomping away at the island’s unique flora, and their numbers swelled from a few dozen to 10,000. By 2001, when UC– Santa Cruz conservation biologist Don Croll arrived on the island, it was mostly barren. “There had been zero new trees on the island for over 100 years because the goats ate anything that tried to grow,� says Croll. Croll traveled to the island as part of a collaborative effort between Island Conservation, the Santa Cruz–based organization he co-founded, and the Mexican government. Initially the team constructed fences to stop goats from grazing around a small number of enduring native pine trees. The results were impressive. “A year later there
AC@D7D=@ The native deer mouse of Anacapa survived rat eradication thanks to Island Conservation’s planning.
were hundreds of seedlings. We even found species that were thought to be extinct,� says Croll. “We realized that if the goats were removed from the island, the native plant community would explode. We had to make [the eradication] happen.� And they did. By 2007 the island was goat-free, most of them having been rounded up and sold in butcher shops on the mainland. Until Guadalupe Island, Island Conservation focused on seabird and native vertebrate recovery, not on plants, explains Croll. “With animals, we often wait three to five years before seeing a response to an invasive species removal. But on Guadalupe Island, plants sprang up the next year—it rained and the island came back to life.� ¨
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For Croll, Guadalupe Island was an eye-opening project. It showed the power of eradications as a conservation tool; on one side of the fence there were just goats and dirt, while on the other side a rare island community flourished.
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In his office at UCSC’s Center for Ocean Health, Croll explains that modern transportation systems have enabled non-native species to invade about 40 percent of the world’s islands. These species quickly take over, exploiting naĂŻve animals that never learned to defend themselves against predators. Croll adds that although islands make up only 3 percent of the world’s land mass, island species comprise 45 percent of all critically endangered species. That means a huge portion of the planet’s rarest biological treasures also happen to be, by virtue of their location, at the greatest risk of being wiped out by invaders. Fortunately, the isolation that makes islands susceptible to invasive species also makes it possible to erase those species completely. In the 1950s, cats brought by personnel to a naval research facility on San Nicolas Island, 61 miles off Southern California and part of the Channel Islands, abandoned their owners for the wild. Generation after generation, the feral cats lived off the island’s abundance, threatening to eliminate native birds and lizards and taking food from the endangered San Nicolas Island fox. But in 2009, a team of organizations, including Island Conservation, began removing the feral cats in an effort to protect the island’s endemic and endangered species. This past February the team declared the project a success. All the cats have been trapped and flown from the island to a facility in Ramona, Calif., where they are cared for (some have even been adopted). “Eradications are successful because islands are well-defined ecosystems: the system ends at the shoreline,â€? Croll explains. “On continents, ecosystem boundaries are hard to define, so it’s hard to know where one ends and the next begins. But on an island you can say, ‘I’m going to protect this island ecosystem.’ It’s clear what you
are doing.� Because their actions occur in a defined space, researchers gain a clear picture of how they alter an island’s ecosystem, he adds. That’s hard to see on continents. San Nicolas Island marks Island Conservation’s 70th successful eradication since Croll and his research partner Bernie Tershy formed the nonprofit in 1997, inspired by the story of a scientist who landed on an island full of pigs decades ago and changed it forever.
Hog Wild In 1958, Kenneth Stager and his rifle landed on Clipperton Island, a small coral outcropping off the western coast of Mexico. Stager, an ornithologist, had traveled there to study a supposedly vast population of boobies, a ground-nesting seabird. Instead, he found pigs. The pigs had probably arrived on the island around 1897, when a ship wrecked on the surrounding reefs.
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For 60 years they trampled booby nests and ate their eggs, reducing their numbers from many thousands to just 650. Stager took action. Walking the narrow ring of land encircling the atollâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s central lagoon, he shot the pigs, 58 in all. Ten years later, the booby population was 20,000. By 2003, it had soared to 137,000. The pigs on Clipperton Island did what all invasive predators do: they adapted quickly to a new environment and spread uncontrolled. Sadly, the pigs paid the price for human error in a world where even the most isolated places feel our influence. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ironic, but some scientists kill to conserve life. Stagerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success motivated Croll and Tershy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re thinking about seabirds, you think about invasive species and the impact they have on islands where they breed,â&#x20AC;? says Croll. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we looked around, the New Zealanders were the only ones addressing the problem. We wanted
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Bait From the Sky Anacapa consists of three long, narrow strips: West, Middle and East Anacapa. To reduce unwanted deaths of birds and the islandsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; native deer mouse, researchers staggered the eradication over two years. First, they spread poisoned bait on East and Middle Anacapa, and a year later on West Anacapa. Although seabirds arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t attracted to the bait, the team nevertheless scheduled the dispersal for December, when most seabirds
are offshore and rats are hungriest. The islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s native deer mouse was of special concern; the eradication would almost certainly decimate their population. To prevent this, the team also did thorough studies to figure out how many native deer mice would be required to successfully recolonize the island after the eradication. Then, before each eradication, they captured a few hundred mice and released them afterward.
Today, Palmyra appears to be rodent-free, but rats are sneaky. The islandsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; raptorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;mainly owls, peregrine falcons and redtailed hawksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;also were a concern. Prior to the initial eradication, researchers from UCSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Predatory Bird Research Group captured and relocated about two-thirds of those birds to minimize deaths from eating poisoned rats. When the eradication began, the team used a helicopter equipped with GPS to track their position and a mechanized bait-spreading bucket to scatter the bait evenly over the rugged terrain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anacapa paved the way for aerial bait dispersal in North America,â&#x20AC;? explains Alex Wegmann, project manager at Island Conservation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been happening in New Zealand for decades, but only recently in North America.â&#x20AC;? The eradication worked; all rats on Anacapa died. The ecosystem began changing almost immediately. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We predicted [recovery to occur over] a five-to-10-year time scale,â&#x20AC;? says Croll. But within a year, the murrelet population was growing. Most surprising of all, Cassinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Auklets showed up on Anacapa. The auklets, Croll notes, had never been seen there. In the years after the eradication,
The Palmyra Purge Last June, Island Conservation jetted to the remote Pacific island of Palmyra. Palmyra, a U.S. territory, sits within the Line Islands, a chain of small tropical atolls 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i in the central Pacific. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re [on Palmyra] you can spend hours with your jaw down to your stomach just looking at the place, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so gorgeous,â&#x20AC;? says Wegmann. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heavily altered from military use during World War II and the rat infestation.â&#x20AC;? During the war, the U.S. Navy used the island as an air station. Most likely, they brought with them the rodents that have devastated Palmyraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ecosystem. For decades rats have preyed on exposed seabird nests on the ground and in trees. In turn, the drop in bird guano has depleted Palmyraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soil of important nutrients, allowing hardy coconut palms to overtake 45 percent of the land. Coconut palms then provide food and shelter for the rats. This palm-rat cycle has done a number on the atollâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biodiversity, according to Wegmann. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On Palmyra we are working to conserve the whole ecosystem,â&#x20AC;? he says. The atoll is home to 10 species of nesting seabirds, five types of land crabs, many reptiles and insects and a rare combination of plants. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also an important pit stop for migrating birds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By eliminating rats on Palmyra, we have the opportunity to restore an entire ecosystem, the only one of its kind under [U.S.] federal protection,â&#x20AC;? says Aurora Alifano, the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safety director and head of its land-based baiting team, going on
to explain that the plant and animal communities native to Palmyra were once found on many surrounding atolls. Palmyraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s status as a National Wildlife Refuge, which itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enjoyed since 2001, has protected its rare Pisonia forests, she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Palmyra is a rarity.â&#x20AC;? The summer 2011 project at Palmyraâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which involved aerial bait dispersal as well as slingshots and air cannons to fling bait into palm treesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;broke new ground in the conservation field, says Bill Waldman, Island Conservationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive director. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the first project to restore an island ecosystem with a combination of high rat densities, masses of land crabs and the strict regulatory constraints associated with National Wildlife Refuge status. The techniques should lead to other restoration projects to protect species on islands that had seemed off limits, Waldman says. Today, Palmyra appears to be rodent-free, but rats are sneaky. Researchers wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know whether theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gone for good for at least two years. To begin the monitoring process, researchers from Crollâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Tershyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lab returned to Palmyra in August and deployed hundreds of devices to find any surviving rats. Not one appeared. The island will get a checkup this August. None of this is a permanent fix, Wegmann says. In 2000, four decades after Kenneth Stager relieved Clipperton Island of pigs, rats showed up, probably having jumped ship when a fishing boat wrecked there. The team has put controls in place on Palmyra to prevent a similar reinfestation. But the underlying problem isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going away. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Commerce is not going to slow down, and people are not going to stop expanding into new areas,â&#x20AC;? Wegmann says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Islands will continue to be threatened by invasive species. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so important to fight for them. As long as we value nature and the conservation of natural systems, [eradications] will be one of our most effective tools to preserve them.â&#x20AC;? 8]\OV ;cZaYW Wa Q][^ZSbW\U O RSU`SS W\ SQ]Z]Ug O\R Sd]ZcbW]\O`g PW]Z]Ug Ob C1A1
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teams of researchers monitored the ongoing changes. The populations of all seabirds and native deer mice are higher now than before the eradication, one team reported in the December 2009 issue of the conservation journal Oryx. Another team found that within seven years the number of nesting Xantusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Murrelets increased by 93 percent, and the number of murrelet egg hatchings went up by 70 percent. For researchers, this confirms that rats were altering Anacapaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s island ecosystemâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a system that is becoming rare.
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A E! Firehosed How some Santa Cruz pranksters inadvertently inspired the nowreunited iconic band Firehose BY STEVE PALOPOLI
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Firehose will always be associated with Mike Watt’s beloved hometown of San Pedro, but the truth is that if it weren’t for Santa Cruz, the band never would have existed. That’s because after D. Boon died in an automobile accident in 1985, the surviving members of his band Minutemen—Mike Watt and George Hurley—weren’t sure they’d ever play music again. But not too long after, Santa Cruz’s own college-rock legends Camper Van Beethoven came into the picture when they crossed paths with 22-year-old Ed Crawford. “They were on tour, and I was living in Columbus, Ohio at the time,” remembers Crawford, “and they played a little club called Stashes, which is where all the punk bands used to come and play. I went and checked them out, had a good time, and after the gig I’m standing around talking to the guys.” The details vary depending on who is telling the story, but two things are certain: 1) Crawford worshipped Minutemen, and explained this to the members of Camper at length; 2) at some point, someone in the band (he thinks it might have been CVB bassist Victor Krummenacher) suggested to
Crawford that he travel across the country, track down Mike Watt and audition to be the new Minutemen vocalist-guitarist. Incredibly, that’s exactly what Crawford did. No one is totally sure anymore if the Camper boys were pranking Crawford or just being really, really enthusiastic about helping him pursue his dream. Crawford remembers them saying something along the lines of, “We heard maybe he’s auditioning guitar players,” while David Lowery, in his excellent 300 Songs project, recalls the actual suggestion as the more innocuous, ”Why don’t you go out to San Pedro and see if those guys need a new singer/guitar player?” “My memory wouldn’t be the most dependable. I’ll go with David’s version,” says Crawford. As to what made him actually go to San Pedro, Crawford chalks it up to an overdose of youthful enthusiasm. “When you’re 22, you really don’t think things through. I just figured, ‘Why not?’” he says. “That Minuteman lyric ‘our band could be your life,’ that kind of stuck with me. I bought that hook, line and sinker, and I said, ‘All right, that should be my life. Let’s go do that.’” What’s even more remarkable is that Crawford was able to convince Watt and Hurley to form a new band, which became Firehose. Score another one for youthful enthusiasm? “Absolutely,” says Crawford, “because I certainly wasn’t that impressive as far as my chops. I was still learning how to play the electric guitar. I had just bought an electric guitar. I didn’t even own an amplifier when I moved out here.” A mix of punk energy, funk grooves and jazz experimentation, the band’s music was a natural extension of what Minutemen had pioneered. They were cult favorites, especially on the West
OLD FLAMES Firehose burned fast and hot in the late ’80s and early ’90s, packing almost 1,000 shows into seven years. Coast, and put out five albums before rather abruptly disappearing in 1994. No one seemed to know at the time exactly what had happened to Firehose. “We did 980 shows in seven years, about three tours a year. We practiced every day that we didn’t tour, five days a week, two hours a day. We had a very serious work ethic, and we might have just burned ourselves out,” says Crawford. “We didn’t really break up, to tell you the truth, we just quit playing. There wasn’t any nasty shouting or throwing shit. It wasn’t like that at all.” Their reunion, too, is atypically drama-free. Watt and Hurley had continued to occasionally play together, and Crawford had kept in touch. When Coachella came calling last year, they weren’t able to play, but organizers came back to them this year, and they accepted and planned some additional dates leading up to it. Here in Santa Cruz, as at a handful of other shows, Firehose is paired with alt-
country singer-songwriter M. Ward, an odd combination inspired by his own love for the band. “He heard that we were out and available,” says Crawford. “He was a big Firehose fan, and Minutemen, of course.” And to think it’s all because of an offhand comment from a little Santa Cruz indie band. Upon meeting Crawford again after Firehose formed, and learning that he had taken their advice, Lowery told him, “Dude, do you know how high we were when we told you to do that?” Crawford, of course, has no complaints. “It’s one of those weird twists of fate,” he says. “Turned out good!”
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IN 2001, Joshua Lowe walked into More Music, his George W. Bush economic stimulus money in hand, and bought his first mandolin. He knew a few chords on the guitar, but he had never taken it seriously, and on the heels of a breakup from a longtime girlfriend he needed an outlet. He liked the instrument’s percussive chk chk chk, so mandolin it was. A lifelong fan of roots music, Lowe’s early attempts at songwriting were bluegrass numbers. He joined a traditional bluegrass band, but as he sharpened his songwriting skills he found that his style didn’t always fit within the confines of the genre. “I was listening to a lot of contemporary folk like Greg Brown, John Prine and Todd Snider, and I was influenced by their unique songwriting styles,” says Lowe. “I started being inspired to write my own music. Then I was writing songs that were outside of the bluegrass genre and not getting played in the band.” Between his ill-fitting songwriting style and drama within the band, the self-taught Lowe decided to take his music down a different path. He formed the Santa Cruz–based roots outfit the Juncos and soon after that met bassist Jeff Kissell. Playing high-energy, foot-stomping roots music, the Juncos embrace several American musical traditions at once: folk, bluegrass, blues, rockabilly, old-timey, rock. Lowe’s songwriting style ranges from stories about drunks and wanderers to what he calls “heart songs” like the tune “The Ballad of Little Bear,” written for his son just a few weeks after he
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ROOTS AND JAVA Santa Cruz–based band the Juncos play the Ugly Mug this Friday. was born. Over the years, various members have moved through the Juncos’ lineup, but the band’s string-driven sound, centered around the core of Lowe and Kissell, has remained. “Jeff shares my determination to keep the Juncos alive and thriving,” says Lowe. “We’ve had band members back out of gigs at the last minute and we just go on with the show and still put on a great show. I love the others dearly, but the commitment and passion and drive is the two of us.” The current Juncos lineup includes songwriter and vocalist Lowe, who now plays guitar, banjo and kazoo; Kissell on the double bass; Alex Jones on mandolin, guitar, washboard and banjo; and Blaire McLaughlin on violin. Everyone pitches in with harmony vocal duties. The band generally plays as a quartet, but Lowe and Kissell sometimes perform as a duo. On numerous occasions, the band has enlisted the talents of local lap steel guitarist Patti Maxine, whom Lowe calls “a goddess in this
town.” “If you show up with Patti,” he says, “you’re in.” Regardless of the lineup on any given night, the Juncos’ sound is steeped in American roots music. A self-described “lit nerd” whose day job is teaching high school English, Lowe has a deep appreciation for roots traditions and is well versed in the history of American music. He grew up listening to Hank Williams, Robert Johnson, Flatt and Scruggs, Woody Guthrie, early jazz, ragtime, field hollers and gospel. “My dad has an amazing record collection of doo-wop, big band, folk and old-timey music, so I got an early introduction to old-time and roots music,” he says. In keeping with roots tradition, the Juncos take the lo-fi, less-is-more approach to playing. Early on, the band went into a studio to record a few songs. The sound engineer had them track everything individually and had Lowe playing eight bars and then looping it. “We went back and listened to it and it just had no soul,” says Lowe. “I hadn’t done a
lot of recording at that point, and I thought, ‘This is what people do.’ I was sort of heartbroken.” Lowe has since learned that isolated multi-tracking and overdubs is not how you have to record. The band now works with acoustic engineer Cookie Marenco, who records them live, in a living room, to analog tape. “I’ll never do it any other way,” says Lowe. “This music is meant to be played that way. The more it’s polished and produced, the more the soul of the music is taken away from it. “Some of my favorite recordings, and Jeff agrees with this,” says Lowe, “are the ones where you hear the fuckups. There’s beauty in that. I like the rawness. I appreciate it. I consider that a sacred part of music.”
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THEATER Flower and Song Poetry Santa Cruz presents an evening of live poetry reading, music and dance. Sat, Apr 14, 7pm. Free. Cabrillo College Watsonville Center, 318 Union St, Watsonville, 831.464.8983.
The Democratic Muse The Santa Cruz Chamber Players perform works by Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Lukas Foss and Aaron Copland. Sat, Apr 14, 8pm and Sun, Apr 15, 3pm. $10-$25. Christ Lutheran Church, 10707 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.425.3149.
Music, Magic and More A performance featuring Peter Weiss, The Singing Scientist, Dror Sinai of Rhythm Fusion, magic by Steve Shapiro and more. Sun, Apr 15, 4pm. $5. Temple Beth El, 3055 Porter Gulch Rd, Aptos, 831.479.3444.
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Open Mic An opportunity for musicians, poets, magicians, and other artists of all ages to perform before a live audience. Refreshments are provided. Wed, Apr 11, 7pm. Free. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Santa Cruz County, 6401 Freedom Blvd, Aptos, 831.689.0670.
CONCERTS Bach’s Voices Musica Bene presents its inaugural concert as they perform works Johann Sebastian Bach for small ensemble, played on period instruments. Sat, Apr 14, 7:30pm. $20. Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 2402 Cabrillo College Drive, Soquel.
The Inner Light Choir and the New Jacqueline Hairston Ensemble perform Negro Spirituals classically arranged and conducted by composer Dr. Jacqueline Hairston. Sat, Apr 14, 7pm. $12-$25. Henry J. Mello Center, 250 E. Beach St, Watsonville, 831.763.4047.
Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony Annual Spring Gala Fundraiser Members of the Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony perform chamber music throughout the event which will feature wine and hors d’oeuvres as well as a silent auction. Tickets can be purchased at http://www.sccys.org/ Sat, Apr 14, 4-6:30pm. $25-$40. Community Foundation, 7807 Soquel Drive, Aptos, 831.462.0553.
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fIREHOSE Watt, Hurley and fROMOHIO back on the spiel tour, for their first shows in 18 years. Apr 11 at Slim’s.
Radiohead The Pink Floyd of our time graces the Bay Area on the way down to Coachella. Apr 11 at the HP Pavilion.
Godspeed You Black Emperor Pioneering Canadian ensemble settles in for one-week residency. Apr 16-20 at Great American Music Hall.
Justice Towering stage set of amplifiers, pummeling wall of bass, gyrating molecules of life. Apr 17 at the Fox Theater.
Pulp Seminal Britpop band, whose frontman Jarvis Cocker is in the dreams of 30 percent of all womankind, plays anticipated show. Apr 17 at the Warfield.
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Art MUSEUMS OPENING Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Museum of Art and History. Family Art Day: Me Silhouettes. Attendees can use old books, written words and magazine cut-outs to make a collage silhouette. For more information, go to http://www.santacruzmah. org/ Sat, Apr 14, 10am-12pm and 1-3pm. $3. Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.
CONTINUING Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History. The Art of Nature. An exhibition of works by the California Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. Tue-Sat, 10am-5pm. Thru Jun 3. $2-$4. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. 1305 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6115.
GALLERIES OPENING Santa Cruz Rehearsal Studios America and the Course of Empire. A month-long exhibit featuring the collages of Joaquin Spengemann. Apr 11-30, 10-12am. 118 Coral St, Santa Cruz, 831.425.7277.
and Wed-Sat, noon-5pm. Thru Apr 15. Wed-Sat, noon-5pm, Sun noon-4pm. 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, 831.426.5787.
Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos A Prison Art Exhibit. Works feature themes of survival, culture, and spirituality. Thru May 17. 1817 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.457.8208.
Santa Cruz County Bank REPEAT!. A playful exploration of repetition by six artists utilizing mixed media, photography, assemblage and construction. On display at all locations. Opening reception Feb 8, 5-6:30pm at 720 Front St. Thru Apr 20. 720 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.457.5000.
Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center In My Life. Works in a variety of mediums will be on display, including jewelry, glass, ceramics, paintings and more. Wed-Sun, noon-6pm. Thru Jun 23. 813.336.3513. WedSun, noon-6pm. 9341 Mill St, Ben Lomond.
Seaweed Hair Salon Seaweed Hair Salon presents Southwestern and Native American-themed mixed media works through April 30th. Tue-Sat, 10am-6pm. Thru Apr 30. 1840 41st Avenue, Suite 103, Capitola, 831.465.8534.
Sesnon Gallery Katerina Lanfranco: Natural Selection . A site-specific installation by Katerina Lanfranco. Thru Apr 13. UCSC, Porter College, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2273.
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Oceana. An exhibit with paintings and photography of various creatures that inhabit the ocean. Thu-Sun, 11am-5pm. Thru Apr 29. Free. 450 Hwy 1, Davenport, 831.426.1199.
Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos presents a night of dancing and live music from Flor de Caña. Mon, Apr 16, 7-9pm. Admission by Donation. Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos, 1817 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.457.8208.
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery Origami: Art + Mathematics An exhibition showcasing origami art from a variety of artists. Tue-Sun, 11am4pm. Thru Jun 16. Free, 831.459.2953. Cowell College, UCSC, Santa Cruz.
Felix Kulpa Gallery One’s Own Voice exhibit explores discovering one’s own personal imagery, featuring the works of Sharon Bosley, Susan Moore, Sylvia Gerbl, Kathleen Pouls, Coeleen Kiebert, and more. Thu-Sun, noon-5pm. Thru Apr 29. Free. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.
Santa Cruz Art League Santa Cruz Art League Gallery. Annual Santa Cruz Watercolor Society Show with Awards by Nina Simon, Executive Director of the Museum of Art and History. Sun, noon-4pm
English Country Dance 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.
Free Prom Dress Shopping Day Free pre-owned prom dresses, shoes, jewelry and other accessories will be available for those who are struggling with the costs of going to prom. Sat, Apr 14, 10am-4pm. Santa Cruz Teen Center, 301 Center Street, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5337.
Happy Hour Networking A relaxed evening of music, networking and exclusive Happy Hour Chamber Specials. Thu, Apr 12, 5:307pm. Jia Tella’s, 5600 Scotts
MONDAY 4/16
‘BEFORE THE BIG BANG’ Cosmologist Michael Turner, the man who coined the term “dark energy,” discusses origins of the universe, makes people feel insignificant, sparks crises and arguments on the way home. Kidding! Part of the Halliday Lecture Series. Monday, April 16, 7pm, Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. A few tickets remain for walk-ups, but plan on arriving at 5:30pm. Valley Dr #D, Scotts Valley, 831.438.5005.
Life on the Ranch: Family Living History Day A day of hands-on activities and demonstrations that includes draft horse wagon rides, branding, huck wagon style cooking, roping skills and more. Sun, Apr 15, 11am-3pm. Wilder Ranch State Park, 1401 Coast Rd, Santa Cruz, 831.426.0505.
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, Apr 18, 4-5:30pm. Free. Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.427.7717.
Project 365: Day by Day An exhibit of photographs and observations from Susan Lysik’s daily illustrated journal. Fri-Sat, 10am-5pm, Sun, 1-5pm and Mon-Thu, 10am7pm. Thru May 30. Free. Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.427.7707.
Rancho del Oso Nature and History Center Grand Opening The grand opening celebration of the newly remodeled facility offers the public a first look at the new interactive exhibits. Sat, Apr 14, noon-4pm. Rancho del Oso Nature and History Center, 3600 Hwy 1, Davenport, 831.427.2288.
Rise Up Singing Bring a “Rise Up Singing” songbook (if you have one) and any instruments you’d like to participate in a jam
session. Children are welcome to come. Please bring vegetarian finger food snacks to share, your plate, cup and serving utensils. Thu, Apr 12, 7-9pm. Free. Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, 831.335.3342.
The Trash-N-Fashion Show Local students strut their fashionable creations made from trash to promote recycling. Sat, Apr 14, 7:159pm. $5-$7. Santa Cruz High School, 415 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz, 808.563.9963.
FILM Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Company’ The New York Philharmonic performs along with this classic musical comedy, starring Neil Patrick Harris, Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Martha Plimpton, Jon Cryer and Christina Hendricks. Tickets are available at http://www.thenick.com/ Thu, Apr 12, 7:30pm and Sun, Apr 15, 11am. $7.50-$10.50. Del Mar Theatre, 1124 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.469.3224.
Events LITERARY EVENTS Author Event: Rachel Kramer Bussel & Susie Bright Sex columnist Rachel Kramer Bussel and Santa Cruz’s own Susie Bright discuss their collaborative effort, Best Sex Writing 2012. Thu, Apr 12, 7:30pm. Bookshop Santa
Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.
Author Event: Stephen Snyder Author Stephen Snyder and his wife Gwynne, also known as the musical duo ZunZun, play music of the Andes as they tell their story of exploring the Sun and Moon islands of Lake Titicaca. Mon, Apr 16, 7:30pm. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.
Author Event: Ann Packer Author of two New York Times bestselling novels celebrates the release of her new book, Swim Back to Me, with a private discussion. Only the first 12 readers will be able to attend. To reserve your spot, contact Tamara at events@capitolabookcafe. com Wed, Apr 11, 7:30pm. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.
Drop-In Poetry Group Magdalena Montagne leads ongoing poetry-writing group that welcomes newcomers and drop-ins. Fri, Apr 13, 7-9pm. $10. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.
From the Heart: Poetry & Prose by Patricia Hernan Grube Playwright, poet and author of two books Patricia Hernan Grube presents a new performance with members of Willing Suspension Armchair Theater. Thu, Apr 12, 7:30pm. Free. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.
Gary Young One of the most wellknown practitioners of the
prose poem will be present for a book talk, signing and Q&A. Wed, Apr 11, 7:30pm. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.
Meet the Author: Kathryn Gualtieri Author Kathryn Gualtieri speaks about her debut mystery novel, Murder in the Pines. Refreshments will be served with coffee provided by The Ugly Mug. Wed, Apr 11, 10:30-11:30am. Free. Porter Memorial Library, 3050 Porter St, Soquel, 831.475.3326.
Poets & Writers Mixing Memory and Desire. A celebration of poetry and prose by David Swanger, Sarah Rabkin, Farnaz Fatemi, Nina Simon, Joan Zimmerman, Chuck Atkinson, Tilly Shaw and Ken Weisner. Wed, Apr 11, 5:30-7pm. Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Porter College, UCSC, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3606.
World Book Night PreLaunch Party Bookshop Santa Cruz gets ready for World Book Night with an evening of book give-aways and refreshments. Tue, Apr 17, 7pm. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.
Young Adult Book Group: Shine This month’s Young Adult Book Group gathers to discuss the book, Shine, by Lauren Myracle. Wed, Apr 18, 7pm. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.
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A day of workshops, self care, lunch and networking for professionals and caregivers. To register, go to www.edconference.kintera. org/2012SantaCruz Wed, Apr 11, 8am-4:15pm. $45-$80. Mount Hermon Conference and Retreat Center, 37 Conference Drive, Mount Hermon, 1.831.464.9982.
Avocado Tasting
Beginning Slab Building A hands-on workshop that covers how to use tar paper templates to create mugs, vases, bowls and more. All skill levels welcome. Sat, Apr 14, 10am-4pm. $80-$85. Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, 9341 Mill St, Ben Lomond, 813.336.3513.
Democratic Dialogue California at a Crossroad John Laird, California Secretary of Natural Resources and former Assembly Member discusses California’s 2012 ballot initiatives and ballot measures. Sat, Apr 14, 9:30am. Free. Garfield Park Village, 721 Bay St., Santa Cruz, 831.423.2356.
Growing Dahlias The Monterey Bay Dahlia Society offers expert advice on planting and dividing Dahlias. Wed, Apr 11, 4:305:30pm. Free. ProBuild Lumber & Garden Center Santa Cruz, 235 River Street, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0223.
Intro to Ribbed Basketry Larry Worley leads a class on the basic techniques of ribbed basketry and how to make a shallow bowlshaped basket using round reed and a reed hoop. Sun, Apr 15, 10am-4pm. $40-$45. Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, 9341 Mill St, Ben Lomond, 813.336.3513.
NOT VERSE AVERSE The county’s new poet laureate, David Swanger, is making hay out of National Poetry Month.
RHYME IN SEASON T.S. ELIOT’s The Waste Land opens with this: “April is the cruelest month, breeding/ Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and desire, stirring/ Dull roots with spring rain.” Had the great modernist complained of September, National Poetry Month might have been lost amid county fairs and the first weeks of school. For his part, newly named Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate David Swanger is out to prove April the “most celebratory” month. He’s appearing at several events around the county honoring poetry.
Mixing Memory and Desire On Wednesday, April 11, 5:307pm, Swanger is joined by Sarah Rabkin, Farnaz Fatemi, Nina Simon, Joan Zimmerman, Chuck Atkinson, Tilly Shaw and Ken Weisner for a reading of poetry and prose at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery at Porter College, UCSC. Free. Even So If the poetry fans at Sesnon hop in their VW Beetles and pedal real fast they’ll make it to Gary Young’s reading. April 11, 7:30pm at Bookshop Santa Cruz the county’s first and most recent poet laureate reads from Even So, his new collection of prose poems. Free. Flower and Song On Saturday, April 14 at 7pm Poetry Santa Cruz presents an evening of poetry, music and dance featuring more than a dozen poets. 4350 Forum, Cabrillo College Watsonville Center, 318 Union St., Watsonville. Free. An Evening of Poems About Places On Tuesday, April 17 at 7pm, Swanger and Young team up for a reading of place-based poems (something at which both these poets excel). Moderated by Dennis Morton of KUSP’s The Poetry Show. Kuumbwa, 320-C Cedar St., Santa Cruz. Free. (Traci Hukill)
Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center An oil and acrylic painting class for artists of all skill levels. Wed, 6-9pm. Thru May 31. $175-$195. Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, 9341 Mill St, Ben Lomond, 831.336.3513.
practice. Please bring writing materials. Mon, Apr 16, 7:30pm. Free. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.
NOTICES
UCSC’s 12th Annual Halliday Lecture Ask the Experts Cosmologist Michael Turner will discuss the origins of the universe in a lecture entitled “Before the Big Bang.” To register for this event, go to ucsc.imodules. com/ Mon, Apr 16, 7pm. Free. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, 831.423.8209.
A drop-in open house where Satellite Member specialists will answer questions on financial planning, making sustainable decisions, eBay, digital photography and web design. Sat, Apr 14, 11am3pm. Free. Satellite Telework Centers, 6265 Hwy 9, Felton, 831.222.2100.
The Writer’s Journey with Laura Davis
Call for Artists
Local author Laura Davis leads an introductory evening lecture of writing
Artists can submit digital media works that incorporate printmaking
techniques to be considered for the upcoming exhibit, “Prints Galore.” Deadline is Friday, April 27 at 5pm. For more information, go to http://www.scal.org/ Wed-Sat, noon-5pm and Sun, noon-4pm. Thru Apr 27. Santa Cruz Art League, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, 831.426.5787.
Ceramic Art Instruction Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center. A hands-on class that covers the essentials of making a large ceramic sculpture, from construction through glazing. Intermediate clay experience is necessary. Mon-Wed-Fri, 10am-1pm. Thru Apr 21. $240-$280. Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, 9341 Mill St, Ben Lomond, 831.336.3513.
Circle as Teacher Workshop A workshop on how to use circles for solving problems, strengthening bonds and sharing life stories. To register, go to http:// nvcsantacruz.org/classes/ CircleAsTeacher.html Fri, Apr 13, 1-7pm. sliding scale $12060 per person. Center for Compassion, 225A Rooney St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1926.
Freedom Forum presents “Meet the Candidates” Santa Cruz voters are invited to meet the Santa Cruz County candidates for the City Council and Board of Supervisors as they present their platforms. Wed, Apr 18, 7pm. Free. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.476.6424.
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A session on the different varieties of avocados available to grow in the garden with samples to taste. Sat, Apr 14, 10am12pm and Sun, Apr 15, 10am12pm. Free. ProBuild Lumber & Garden Center Santa Cruz, 235 River Street, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0223.
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Alzheimer’s Association 15th Annual Education Conference
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20 Celebrating Creativity Since 1975
Thurs. April 12 U 7 pm
TED NASH QUARTET CD RELEASE “THE CREEP”
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s leading saxophonist! Fri. April 13 U 8 pm
BIRDHOUSE plus TUMBLEWEED WANDERERS and LIA ROSE Tickets: Eventbrite.com Sat. April 14 U 7:30 pm
ASHWIN BATISH
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Tickets: Snazzyproductions.com Mon. April 16 U 7 pm
OZ NOY TRIO with DARRYL JONES & DAVE WECKL No Jazztix/Comps
Wed. April 18 U 7 pm North Africa’s hottest guitar player
BOMBINO
1/2 PRICE FOR STUDENTS Thurs April 19 U 7 pm
JON CLEARY’S PHILTHY PHEW Sat. April 21 U 8 pm
“JAZZ SILENTS” 7 SILENT FILMS WITH LIVE MUSIC DIRECTED BY DAVE MIHALY Tickets: Inticketing.com
Mon. April 23 U 7 & 9 pm
THE TOURÉ-RAICHEL COLLECTIVE: FEATURING VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ, IDAN RAICHEL, SOULEYMANE KANE AND AMIT CARMELI
No Jazztix/Comps
Thurs April 26 U 7 pm
CAMINOS FLAMENCOS PRESENT “NOCHE FLAMENCA”
FREAK LIKE FOLK Tune-Yards at the Rio on Thursday
Mon. April 30 U 7 pm INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY!
ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ TRIO Sun. May 6 U 7 pm at the Rio Theatre
ROSANNE CASH
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FRIDAY | 4/13
FRIDAY | 4/13
TUNE-YARDS
HIGH BEAMZ
The brainchild of East Bay–based multi-instrumentalist Merril Garbus, tUnE-yArDs is an experimental folk outfit that balances a lo-fi, DIY approach to making music with skillful and creative manipulation of musical gadgetry. Alongside a revolving cast of collaborators including regular bass player Nate Brenner, Garbus combines live loops with voice, ukulele and drums to create a sound that incorporates elements of pop, freak folk and world music but remains in an uncategorizable genre of its own. Rio Theatre; $20; 8pm. (Cat Johnson)
Multi-instrumentalist Chris Zanardi of Five-Eyed Hand is proud to present a fresh aural experience with his new project High Beamz. These richly textured sonic soundscapes feature a wide array of talented musicians from around the Bay Area. Zanardi has been touring the West Coast for six years with Five-Eyed Hand and has had the pleasure of sharing the stage with such greats as Garaj Mahal and Bernie Worrell (Parliament-Funkadelic, Talking Heads). His new project encourages listeners to step into “ZPortal” and get lost in an alternative universe of sound. The Crepe Place; $10; 9pm. (Juan Guzman)
LAS REINAS DE LA BAHIA
No Jazztix/Comps
Mon. May 7 U 7 pm
OMAR SOSA QUARTET FEATURING PETER APFELBAUM Thurs. May 10 U 7 & 9 pm
DAN HICKS AND THE HOT LICKS
GOLD CIRCLE
SOLD OUT! Jane Monheit Brad Mehldau Trio Tia Fuller Quartet Laurie Lewis, Linda Tillery, Barbara Higbie: “Hills To Hollers” 5/24 James Farm feat. Joshua Redman 5/14 5/16 5/18 5/21
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
kuumbwajazz.org
To take a group of 13 young women with no background in music, teach them how to play instruments and turn them into a touring band in a year’s time seems an improbable feat, but Las Reinas de la Bahia is proof that such things can happen. Led by drummer Jennifer Reyes, these “queens of the Bay” play an energetic horn- and drum-driven style of music called banda Sinaloense that was born in the late 1800s in northern Mexico. Based in San Jose, these youngsters are quickly making a name for themselves as one of the area’s most exciting up-and-coming bands. Catalyst; $12 adv/$15 door; 9pm. (CJ)
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ASHWIN BATISH A pioneer of the world-beat movement, Ashwin Batish has been redefining the boundaries of Indian music for over 40 years. A renowned teacher, sitar player and tabla player trained in the North Indian classical tradition, the Santa Cruz–based Batish fuses classical Indian styles with pop, jazz, funk and rock to create high-energy dance music that is one part tradition and one part swirling, psychedelic get-down. His most popular compositions include “Bombay
SUNDAY | 4/15
Snoop Dogg
CONCERTS KRIS DELMHORST May 5 at Crepe Place
MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHY Michael Murphy’s storied career has seen him traverse the span of country and western music, from his early days as an Outlaw country cowboy alongside Willie Nelson and Jerry Jeff Walker to his current incarnation as America’s bestselling cowboy country music star. His early songwriting saw him borrowing from a number of genres like alt-folk and gospel to create a unique sound all his own, yet, at heart he’s always been a western music boy. And, as six gold records can attest, people have yet to tire of that old-time sound born deep in the heart of Texas. Don Quixote’s; $25 adv/$30 door; 1:30pm. (JG)
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BOMBINO Hailing from the Saharan nation of Niger, where he was raised in the nomadic tradition of the Tuareg, singer and guitarist Omara “Bombino” Moctar performs music that echoes his tribe’s history of defiant self-reliance. As a young man, Bombino was drawn to the
RAGA ROCKER Ashwin Batish plays Kuumbwa this Saturday.
SNOOP DOGG May 10 at Catalyst
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM May 11 at Rio Theatre
BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO May 16 at Kuumbwa
PRIMUS Jun. 23 at Civic Auditorium
rock-tinged Tuareg guitar music that was outlawed by Nigerian authorities following Tuareg rebellions; when the government began targeting guitar players in 2007, Bombino fled the country. Unlike his peers, many of whom prefer a heavier approach, Bombino’s blues-tinged, Jimi Hendrix– referencing songs are economical compositions that use a clean electric guitar sound. It’s transporting work that harnesses hypnotic repetitions of musical phrases to produce rebel music that’s rousing and inspiring. Kuumbwa; $20 adv/$23 door; 7pm. (PMD)
WEDNESDAY | 4/18
MICHELLE SHOCKED Activist and singer/songwriter Michelle Shocked describes herself as “the most sophisticated hillbilly you’ve ever met,” a paradox that becomes clear only when you realize that as a child she split time between life as an Army brat with her fundamentalist Mormon mother and step-father and her “freewheeling late-blooming hippie” father. It’s a contradiction that appears readily in her music: Even as she draws from the deep font of East Texas outlaw music she eschews any conventional label, creating an iconoclastic sound that manages to be both political and intensely personal. Moe’s Alley; $20 adv/$25 door; 8pm. (JG)
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The Skatalites have been laying down rocksteady rhythms as tight as a snare drum since 1964, outlasting the numerous waves of ska revivalists they’ve inspired. The ensemble served as a backing band to the likes of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh during its early years, but it’s the rock-solid instrumental arrangements that have insured the band’s immortality as a reggae legend. Any band that’s been at it for nearly five decades will suffer staff changes, and though the current incarnation only shares a couple members with the original lineup, the Skatalites’ musical vision remains true to this day. Moe’s Alley; $20 adv/$25 door; 9pm. (Paul M. Davis)
Boogie,” “Raga Rock” and “Sitar Mania.” Kuumbwa; $22 advance/$35 gold; 7:30pm. (CJ)
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clubgrid SANTA CRUZ
WED 4/11
THU 4/12
FRI 4/13
SAT 4/14
Live Bands
Live Comedy
Violent Vickie
DJ Tripp
Fish Hook
Annie Asbestos
Steve’s Jazz Kitchen
DJ in the Patio
Reinas de la Bahia
Sin Sisters
350 Mission St, Santa Cruz
BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz
THE CATALYST
Open Mic
1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
CLOUDS
Jazz Open Mic
110 Church St, Santa Cruz
The Esoteric Collective
CREPE PLACE
David Mayfield
Caravan of Thieves
High Beamz
Birdhand
West Coast Soul
Ploughman
Stormin’ Norman
Extra Large
1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz
CROW’S NEST 2218 East Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz
DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE
Ugly Beauty
1 Davenport Ave, Santa Cruz
FINS COFFEE
Marty Atkinson
1104 Ocean St, Santa Cruz
& Friends Acoustic Night
HOFFMAN’S BAKERY CAFE
Preston Brahm Trio
Mapanova
Isoceles
Ted Nash Quartet
Birdhouse
Ashwin Batish
1102 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
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
MOE’S ALLEY
Jerry Joseph
Brownout
Shane Dwight
The Skatalites
MOTIV
DJ Tom LG
Libation Lab
DJ Sparkle
Blatta & Inesha
1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
Atom & Evil
with AL-B
1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz
RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz
THE REEF
Reggae Night
120 Union St, Santa Cruz
SEABRIGHT BREWERY
Marshall Law
519 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz
Just the Thought of Social Media Bogging
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down!? What The Tech Works!?
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THE ABBEY
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SANTA CRUZ THE ABBEY
Branden Daniel
DJ AL
SC Jazz Society
BLEU
Western Skylarks
BLUE LAGOON 831.423.7117
BOCCI’S CELLAR 831.427.1795
Monday Jazz Jam
THE CATALYST 831.423.1336
Jazz Baby
CLOUDS 831.429.2000
7 Come 11
CREPE PLACE 831.429.6994
Live Comedy
CROW’S NEST 831.476.4560
DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE 831.426.8801
FINS COFFEE 831.423.6131
Dana Scruggs Trio
Joe Leonard Trio
Barry Scott
HOFFMAN’S BAKERY CAFE
& Associates
831.420.0135
Oz Noy Trio
KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER 831.427.2227
DJ Chante Neighborhood Night
Lukas Nelson
Katchafire
MAD HOUSE BAR & COCKTAILS 831.425.2900
MOE’S ALLEY 831.479.1854
Rasta Cruz Reggae
Ecclectic
DJ AD
Primal Productions
MOTIV 831.479.5572
RED 831.425.1913
Open Acoustic Night
THE REEF 831.459.9876&#8206;
SEABRIGHT BREWERY 831.426.2739
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831.429.1058
The Box
Bastard Sons
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SUN 4/15 Rose Finkelstein
24 a p r i l 1 1 - 1 7, 2 0 1 2
clubgrid APTOS / CAPITOLA/ RIO DEL MAR / SOQUEL
WED 4/11
BRITANNIA ARMS
Trivia Quiz Night
THU 4/12
FRI 4/13
SAT 4/14
Karaoke
Live Music
DB Walker
Touched Too Much
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8017 Soquel Dr, Aptos
THE FOG BANK 211 Esplanade, Capitola
MANGIAMOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PIZZA AND WINE BAR
David Paul Campbell
David Paul Campbell
George Christos
Roberto-Howell
Karaoke
Extra Lounge
Harpin Jonny
Joint Chiefs
783 Rio del Mar Blvd, Aptos
MICHAELâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel
PARADISE BEACH GRILLE
Dennis Dove
215 Esplanade, Capitola
SANDERLINGS
Music By George
Dizzy Burnett
1 Seascape Resort Dr, Rio del Mar
In Three
& Grover Coe
SEVERINOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAR & GRILL
Don McCaslin &
7500 Old Dominion Ct, Aptos
The Amazing Jazz Geezers
SHADOWBROOK
Roots 66
Kaye Bohler Band
Joe Ferrara
Lisa Marie
1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola
THE WHARF HOUSE 1400 Wharf Rd, Capitola
THE UGLY MUG
Kailin Yong
The Juncos
Micheal Martyn
Jake Shandling Trio
Yuji Tojo
Velvet Plum
Tennessee River
Boris Garcia
Shady Groove
Jake Nielsen
Pleasure Point Band
Mariachi Ensemble
KDON DJ Showbiz
4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel
ZELDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 203 Esplanade, Capitola
SCOTTS VALLEY / SAN LORENZO VALLEY DON QUIXOTEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S
Richard Buckner
6275 Hwy 9, Felton
HENFLINGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TAVERN 9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond
STONEHOUSE BAR & GRILL AT THE HILTON 6001 La Madrona Drive, Scotts Valley
WATSONVILLE / MONTEREY / CARMEL CILANTROâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S
Hippo Happy Hour
1934 Main St, Watsonville
MOSS LANDING INN Hwy 1, Moss Landing
1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-423-1336 Wednesday, Apr. 11 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 21+
OPEN MIC
Sign ups at 8 p.m. Come show your stuff! .O #OVER s $RS P M 3HOW STARTS P M
Friday, April 13 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 21+
LAS REINAS DE LA BAHIA plus Banda La NJ De San Jose also DJ Koko Loko & DJ The Beat
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Saturday, April 14 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 21+
SIN SISTERS BURLESQUE plus Miss
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Sunday, April 15 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 21+
BASTARD SUNS plus The Nielsen Raiding !DV $RS s $RS P M 3HOW P M
Apr 18 Zeds Dead/ Araabmuzik (Ages 18+) !PR Ozomatli (Ages 21+) Apr 20 The Holdup/ Afroman (Ages 16+) Apr 20 Evidence/ Alchemist Atrium (Ages 16+) Apr 21 Boostive/ Rastatronics Atrium (Ages 16+) Apr 22 Tech N9ne (Ages 16+) Apr 22 Young Rapscallions Atrium (Ages 21+) Apr 23 Real Estate Atrium (Ages 21+) Apr 24 Enter Shikari Atrium (Ages 16+) May 5 Curren$y/ Styles P (Ages 16+) -AY Gramatik/ Mochipet (Ages 18+) May 10 Snoop Dogg (Ages 16+) May 12 Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Fest (Ages 21+) May 13 Andre Nickatina (Ages 16+) May 16 Vital Events: Mt. Eden (Ages 18+) -AY The Greg Kihn Band (Ages 21+) May 31 Suicidal Tendencies (Ages 16+) Jun 13 Thrice (Ages 16+) Jul 12 Rev. Horton Heat (Ages 21+) 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
& KDON DJ SolRock
Open Jam
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APTOS / CAPITOLA /RIO DEL MAR / SOQUEL
Songwriter Contest
BRITANNIA ARMS
Karaoke
THE FOG BANK
with Eve
831.462.1881
MANGIAMO’S PIZZA AND WINE BAR 831.688.1477
Scott Slaughter
MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 831.479.9777
Lara Price
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Film Capsules FILM CAPS 7TH ANNUAL SECRET FILM FESTIVAL Santa Cruz has its wealth of film festivals, including the Pacific Rim Film Fest, SCFF, Banff and the 24-hour film festivals—each with its own gimmicks and charm. Like the rest, this particular one’s (hint: 12hour) essence is no “secret.” Everything else about it is. Previous gems have included The Squid and the Whale, Lars and The Real Girl and The Darjeeling Limited. The lineup
is announced during the opening credits. (Sat midnite at Del Mar) (JP)
BULLY (NR; 99 min) Lee Hirsch’s controversial documentary made headlines when the MPAA issued it an R rating for language, thus keeping it from the very target it was intended for: teens. In it Hirsch documents the lives of five teens and pre-teens aged 12 to 16 subject to constant harassment by their fellow classmates. What emerges is an uncomfortable portrait of contemporary life as an
SHOWTIMES
American teen: one where peers torture, administrators turn a deaf ear and parents are hopelessly oblivious. (Opens Fri at Del Mar) (JG)
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (R; 95 min) See review, page 28. (Opens Fri at Santa Cruz 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley) THE DEEP BLUE SEA (R; 98 min) Stuck in a passionless marriage to a well-to-do judge, Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz) yearns for something more than the gilded cage of a good upper-class marriage.
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When she meets troubled exRoyal Air Force pilot Freddie Page, he seems the answer to her prayers. Quickly the torrent of passion sweeps her along to adultery, but when his passion cools she finds herself emotionally stranded and physically isolated from society. (Opens Fri at Nick) (JG)
THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997) In this sci-fi spoof from Luc Besson, ex-commando and current cab driver Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) must save Earth from the evil that
threatens to consume it when the mysterious “Leeloo” (Milla Jovovich) drops (literally) into his life. Turns out she’s no ordinary girl, but the one hope that humanity has for salvation. Now they must outrun a vicious horde of enemies financed by the conniving Mr. Zorg (Gary Oldman) and make it to Egypt before the world is enveloped in darkness. (Fri midnite at Del Mar) (JG)
THE KID WITH A BIKE (NR; 87 min) Critic’s favorites the Dardenne Brothers have
Showtimes are for Wednesday, April 11, through Wednesday, April 18, unless otherwise indicated. Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.
APTOS CINEMAS 122 Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos 831.688.6541 www.thenick.com Mirror Mirror — Daily 2; 4:15; 6:30; 8:45 plus Sat-Sun 11:45am. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen — Wed-Thu 1:45; 4; 6:45; 9; Fri-Wed 2:15;
4:30; 6:45; 9 plus Sat-Sun noon.
CINELUX 41ST AVENUE CINEMA 1475 41st Ave., Capitola 831.479.3504 www.cineluxtheatres.com American Reunion — Daily 11:30; 2:10; 4:45; 7:30; 10:10. The Hunger Games — Daily 12:30; 3:45; 7; 10:15. October Baby — Fri-Wed 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7:15; 9:45. Wrath of the Titans 3D — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7:15; 9:45.
DEL MAR 1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com Bully — (Opens Fri) 2:40; 4:50; 7; 9:10 plus Fri-Sun 12:30pm. The Raid: Redemption — (Opens Fri) 3; 5:10; 7:20; 9:30 plus Fri-Sun 12:50pm. Hugo 3D — Wed-Thu 3:15; 7:45; Fri-Wed 4:15pm. Jiro Dreams of Sushi — Wed-Thu 1:40; 3:30; 5:20; 7:15; 9 Fri-Wed 2:30;
6:45; 8:30 plus Fri-Sat 12:40pm. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen — Wed-Thu 2:20; 4:40; 7; 9:20. The Secret World of Arriety —Wed-Thu 1:20; 5:45. The Fifth Element — Fri-Sat midnight. The Secret Film Festival — Sat midnight. Company — Thu, Sun 11am.
NICKELODEON Lincoln and Cedar streets, Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com The Deep Blue Sea — (Opens Fri) 2:40; 5; 7:10; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun, Wed 12:30pm. The Kid With A Bike — (Opens Fri) 2:50; 4:50; 6:50; 8:45 plus Sat-Sun 12:50pm. Boy — Wed-Thu 3:10; 5:10; 7:10; 9; Fri-Wed 5:20; 9:10 plus Sat-Sun 1:40pm. Casa De Mi Padre — Wed-Thu 3; 7. Chico & Rita — Wed-Thu 3:20; 7:20. Friends with Kids — Wed-Thu 4:50; 8:50. Jeff, Who Lives at Home — Wed-Thu 3:30; 5:30; 7:30; 9:30; Fri-Wed 3:30;
7:20 plus Sat-Sun 11:50am. Salmon Fishing I the Yemen — Fri-Wed 2:20; 4:40; 7:10; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun noon. Thin Ice — Wed-Thu 5:20; 9:20.
SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9 1405 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1700 www.regmovies.com Cabin in the Woods — (Opens Fri) 2:30; 4:20; 5:20; 7:10; 8; 9:50; 10:40;
12:30 plus Sat-Sun 12; 1:50. Lockout — (Opens Fri) 2:20; 4:10; 4:50; 6:40; 7:50; 9:40; 10:25; 12:15. 21 Jump Street — Wed-Thu 1:55; 4:40; 7:30; 10:15; Fri-Wed 1:50; 3:55; 4:40; 6:45; 7:30; 9:35; 10:20; 12:25 plus Sat-Sun 11am. American Reunion — Wed-Thu 1:20; 2; 4:10; 4:50; 7:40; 9:50; 10:30; Fri-
Wed 1:40; 2:10; 3:50; 4:20; 4:55; 6:30; 7:05; 7; 7:40; 9:10; 9:50; 10:30; 12; 12:40 plus Sat-Sun 11; 11:30; 1:10; 1:40. Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax — Wed-Thu 2:10; 5; 7:25; 9:40; 2:35; 4:55; 7:10; 10:15; Fri-Wed 2:35; 4:55; 7:10; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 12:15pm. The Hunger Games — Wed-Thu 3:05; 3:35; 6:20; 6:50; 9:35; 10:05; Fri-Wed 1; 2:50; 3:35; 4:05; 6:30; 6:40; 7:10; 9:05; 9:40; 9:45; 10:15; 12:15; 12:50 plus SatSun 11:40; 2:15. John Carter — Wed-Thu 4:20; 7:20. John Carter 3D —Wed-Thu 1:10; 10:30. Titanic 3D — Wed-Thu 1; 5:05; 9:10; Fri-Wed 1:05; 4:40; 5:10; 8:45; 9:15; 12:50. Wrath of the Titans — Wed-Thu 2:10; 4:45; 7:20; 9:55; Fri-Wed 4:30; 6:25; 10; 11:55 plus Sat-Sun 11:20; 1:15. Wrath of the Titans 3D — Wed-Thu 2:45; 5:15; 7:50; 10:25; Fri-Wed 2; 3:55; 7:20; 9:15.
RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN 155 S. River St, Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1701 www.regmovies.com The Three Stooges — (Opens Fri) Call for showtimes. John Carter — Wed-Thu Call for showtimes. Mirror Mirror — Daily Call for showtimes.
CINELUX SCOTTS VALLEY STADIUM CINEMA 226 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley 831.438.3260 www.cineluxtheatres.com The Cabin in the Woods — (Opens Fri) 11:55; 2:20; 4:45; 7:15; 9:40. The Three Stooges — (Opens Fri) 11:15; 1:45; 4:15; 6:45; 9:15. American Reunion — Wed-Thu 11:10; 1:45; 4:30; 7:30; 9:30; 10:15; Fri-Wed
11:30; 2:10; 4:45; 7:30 10. Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax — Wed-Thu 11:45; 2; 4:20; 6:30; Fri-Wed 11:30am. The Hunger Games — Wed-Thu 11; 11:45; 2:15; 3; 5:30; 6:30; 8:45; 9:40; Fri-
Wed 11:45; 3:15; 6:30; 9; 9:45. Mirror Mirror — Wed-Thu 11; 1:30; 4:10; 6:45; 9:20; Fri-Wed 11; 1:30; 4; 6:30. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen — Fri-Wed 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7. Titanic 3D — Daily 11:20; 3:30; 7:40. Wrath of the Titans — Wed-Thu 11:30; 9:30.
GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8 1125 S. Green Valley Rd, Watsonville 831.761.8200 www.greenvalleycinema.com The Cabin in the Woods — (Opens Fri) 1:15; 4; 7; 9:40 plus Sat-Sun 10:55. Lockout — (Opens Fri) 1; 3; 5:05; 7:15; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 10:55am. The Three Stooges — (Opens Fri) 1; 3; 5:05; 7:15; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am. 21 Jump Street — Wed-Thu 1:15; 3:50; 7; 9:30. American Reunion — Daily 1:15; 3:50; 7; 9:40 plus Sat -Sun 10:50am. Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax — Wed-Thu 1; 3; 5:05; 7; 9:30. The Hunger Games — Wed-Thu 12; 3; 6; 9; Fri-Wed 12:30; 3:30; 6:45; 9:40. Mirror Mirror — Daily 1:15; 4; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 10:55am. Titanic 3D — Daily 12:15; 4; 7:45. Wrath of the Titans — Daily 4; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 10:55am. Wrath of the Titans 3D — Daily 1:15; 7.
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OCTOBER BABY (2011) A college freshman learns that she is the adopted survivor of an attempted abortion in this thinly veiled anti-choice propaganda vehicle, the tagline of which is “Every life is beautiful.” Can you hear the angels singing? No? Maybe that’s because someone is whispering in your ear. Could it be ... Satan? (Opens Fri at 41st Ave) (TH) MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) Screen icon James Stewart plays one of his most memorable roles as Jefferson Smith, the idealistic young leader of the Boy Rangers who is appointed on a whim as a replacement to the Senate by his state’s gutless governor. When confronted with the corruption of his state’s bosses and obsequiousness of the elected leadership Smith must face down extortion, bribery and scandal in order to change the hill for the better. (Thu at Santa Cruz 9) (JG)
Step by step, dollar by dollar, Walk MS is changing lives. BUMBLING NUNSENSE Sean Hayes (right) and his gang work to save a convent in the new Stooges film. THE RAID (R; 101 min) A high-thrills, no-frills action flick out of Indonesia features newcomer Iko Uwais as Rama, a rookie member of an elite special forces team sent to take out a gangland boss hiding out in a rundown tenement building. When their cover is blown a bounty is put on their heads, and every thug in the building is eager for a piece of the action. (Opens Fri at Del Mar) (JG) SONDHEIM’S ‘COMPANY’ (NR; 150 min) Neil Patrick Harris leads an all-star cast for this revival of a musical theatre classic. The play centers on Robert, a confirmed bachelor, on the eve of his 35th birthday. Sondheim’s presentation was innovative in its content and presentation; it was the first musical to deal with the problems of marriage and divorce, and it was one of the first to be presented as a series of short vignettes outside of a set chronology. Also starring are Stephen Colbert, Christina Hendricks, John Cryer, Patti Lupone and Martha Plimpton. (Thu and Sun at Del Mar) (JG) THE THREE STOOGES (PG; 98 min.) Let’s be honest: it wouldn’t be a truly modern film adaptation without a cameo from a Jersey Shore cast member. The new Three Stooges also features Will and Grace’s Sean Hayes as Larry, plenty of head bops to go around and even a pinching lobster down Larry’s pants. (Opens Friday at Scotts Valley and Green Valley) (JP)
REVIEWS 21 JUMP STREET (R; 110 min.) Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill star in this
comedic reboot of the classic ’80s TV show. When police discover a drug ring at a local high school, only underachieving cops Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) are young enough to pass as students and help take it down. (JG)
AMERICAN REUNION (R; 113 min) It’s been 13 years since we first met the crew from East Lake Falls. Now the entire cast is back together for the long-overdue reunion. Back then Jim, Oz, Kevin and Finch were just looking to lose their virginity. Now they’re adults reminiscing about the days when hormones controlled their lives. (JG) BOY (NR; 87 min) A heartfelt comedy about a boy named Boy growing up in a broken family in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. A dreamer, Boy imagines his father (locked away for robbery) as a deep-sea diver, war hero and close personal relation to his other hero, Michael Jackson. When his father returns to recover a bag of stolen money he buried, Boy must confront the abyss between the purity of his daydreams and reality of the man that is his father. (JG) DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (PG; 95 min) Based on Dr. Seuss’ classic environmental morality tale about a furry forest creature that “speaks for the trees.” While searching for the one thing that can win the affection of his crush, 12year-old Ted (voiced by Zac Efron) encounters the Lorax (voiced by Danny DeVito) engaged in a desperate struggle to save the woods from the Once-ler, who is determined to expand his factory at the expense of the forest.
THE HUNGER GAMES (PG-13; 142 min) This slickly shot, superbly acted science fiction thriller deserves to be a hit. Jennifer Lawrence gives a careermaking performance as Katniss Everdeen, a coal-miner’s daughter from the cryptically named District 12 who is forced to compete with 23 other young men and women in the nationally televised Hunger Games until only one of them is left standing. On the one hand, The Hunger Games works as blown-up satire television phoniness, yet at its center stands Lawrence, a powerful and humane heroine in a cinema that desperately needs such a figure. (RvB) JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME (R; 83 min.) Slacker Jeff (Jason Segal) is sent to run a small errand by his mother (Susan Sarandon) when he becomes convinced the universe is sending him messages. When he runs into his brother Pat (Ed Helms) they spend the day spying on Pat’s wife, who may be having an affair. (JG) JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI (PG; 81 min) What Jiro Ono, the force behind a threeMichelin-star, 10-seat sushi bar in a Tokyo subway station, looks for is a sound: an exhalation of satisfaction that his customers make. This documentary touches on sturdier questions: Can perfection be obtained and is happiness only really to be found in trying to pursue it? (RvB) MIRROR MIRROR (PG; 106 min.) This fresh and comical retelling of an old classic features Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen
who steals control of a kingdom. The exiled princess, Snow White (Lily Collin), must enlist the help of seven resourceful rebel dwarves in order to save the kingdom and claim her birthright. (JG)
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN (R; 111 min.) A sheikh (Amr Waked) with a vision wants to bring flyfishing to the desert, which means his representative (Emily Blunt) must persuade a fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) that it’s not an absurd idea, even as a press secretary (Kristin Scott Thomas) tries to make hay of the PR opportunity the sheik’s dream presents. (TH) TITANIC 3D (1997) Will James Cameron have recovered from his trip to the Mariana Trench when his 1997 Oscar juggernaut (it won 11, including best director and best picture) opens in 3-D? The story of two British kids from opposite sides of the tracks who meet on the steamer’s ill-fated maiden voyage might be even more heartbreaking and harrowing this time around. (TH) WRATH OF THE TITANS (PG-13; 120 min) Perseus, the demi-god son of Zeus, seeks a quiet existence as a fisherman where he can raise his son in safety. When Zeus is betrayed and captured by his brother, Hades, and his son, Ares, the gods’ war against the ancient Titans takes a turn for the worse. Unable to ignore his calling, Perseus braves the treacherous underworld to save his father and the world. (JG)
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METROPOLITAN OPERA: LA TRAVIATA (NR; 195 min.) Giuseppi Verdi’s magnum opus comes to the big screen in another edition of NCM Fathom’s award-winning Live at the Met series. It’s a tale of love between the famed courtesan Violetta and the wealthy count Alfredo, whose relationship is tested by their difference in status and by the scheming Baron, who seeks to win Violetta back from his young rival. Natalie Dessay dons the red dress as Violetta and guest conductor Fabio Luisi is at the podium for this fabulous production of a classic. (Sat at Santa Cruz 9) (JG)
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LOCKOUT (PG-13; 95 min) Wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage, ex-Agent Snow (Guy Pearce) is given an opportunity to walk if he can save the President’s daughter from the world’s toughest thugs, who just happen to have taken over the orbiting prison where they’ve been locked up. (Opens Fri at Santa Cruz 9 and Green Valley) (JG)
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made a career of fashioning humanistic portrayals of the downtrodden and marginalized. In their new film a young boy is abandoned by his father and left at a state-run youth farm. As he searches the city for his bike, the one symbol left of their relationship, he is taken in by a kindly hairdresser who agrees to foster him on weekends. (Opens Fri at Nick) (JG)
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Film. Bad Vacation The backwoods bite back in genre-twisting ‘Cabin in the Woods’ BY RICHARD VON BUSACK
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TAKE SOME no-name young actors and imprison them in some rural spider trap. Then cut up a few of them, while the rest stew in their juices, waiting their turn. Add a hillbilly to say things like, “The lambs have passed through the gate.” A formula for box-office success, as well as popular ennui, but The Cabin in the Woods, a collaboration by director Drew Goddard (of Cloverfield) and cowriter Joss Whedon, has produced one very witty attack on the genre. What could be more relaxing than a vacation in the woods for some pals: confident prom-king-type Curt (Chris Hemsworth); his girlfriend, Jules (Anna Hutchison); Dana (Kristen Connolly) as Our Surviving Virgin; and the selfassured yet not-aloof Holden (Jesse Williams) as hero material. Whedon’s apparent fascination with the TV cartoon Scooby Doo is such that his pack of supernatural warriors in Buffy the Vampire Slayer were known as “Scoobies.” The beatnik character Shaggy in that cartoon serves as the apparent model for The Cabin in the Woods’ true-North compass, Marty (Fran Kranz, using a lazy yet wise voice that sounds like folksinger Ramblin’ Jack Elliott). Potheads used to spread the rumor that “Shaggy” was the first cartoon character to party; thus Marty is a
PROBLEMS AHEAD Holden (Jesse Williams) and Dana (Kristen Connolly) confront an unseen terror. dedicated pothead with one sterling Bondian gadget: a bong that disguises itself as a stainless-steel coffee thermos. When the cabin ordeal begins, Marty is the one who first figures out that he and his buddies are being staked out like goats for supernatural tigers: “We are puppets!” he drawls. In fact, the events are being watched closely via closed-circuit cameras by a mysterious Mission Control. The slaughter is organized with the harried but essentially calm style of an Apollo moon mission. In tie and rolled-up sleeves, Richard Jenkins is the perfect mid-level technician, putting his team through the job. He is advised and warned by that most familiar of familiar female offscreen computer voices: an actress whose name is better left a surprise. The possibility of defeat, always present in Jenkins’ warm yet wary face, naturally materializes. Sorry to report that it’s another bad day for technology, which has a nice catastrophic failure against a roster full of terrors. These include, but are not limited to, “Deadites,” mermen, a levitating Japanese girl, a lamprey-faced
ballerina, clowns and unicorns. The film offers us a circusy apocalypse, so ornate it’s slightly outside the scary zone. One revered Buffy when it was most thrilling (as when “The Gentlemen” floated through town at midnight, pale, lean, smiling, their ties tightly knotted). But one liked it very much at other times, in interpersonal relations with the doleful vampires who wore the wrong clothes because the style had changed since they died—or in watching a young witch discovering her sexuality; the first implied cunnilingus scene on network TV occurred during the 2001 episode “Once More, With Feeling.” During its magic seven seasons, Buffy commented on the Fortean way all crazy phenomena converges like parallel lines in the infinite. Shouldn’t a world that has vampires be fully Transylvanian? On paper, The Cabin in the Woods is an exercise in knowing the drill, but Goddard executes it with serious brio and wit. And the film displays a breadth of reference that isn’t in most of these Old Dark Cabin pictures: H.P. Lovecraft, reprints of Winsor McCay
and perhaps (I’m guessing here) the mysterious stone sculptures called “Los Danzantes” at the ancient city of Monte Albán in Oaxaca. Some might find Whedon and Goddard’s craphounding relentlessly cute or too much like the old “Scenes We’d Like to See” in Mad magazine. But only playfulness and deconstruction can bring some new life to something as worn down as the deadly cabin and its cargo of corpsesto-be. The Cabin in the Woods asks all the right questions: Why do these kids get libidinous when there are angry spirits ready to kill them? Why do they keep forgetting they’re half-dressed? Ultimately, what does this kind of film mean? Happily, viewers will be not just entertained by The Hunger Games–like finale of The Cabin in the Woods, but also left with some suggestion of who—or what—is being placated by this kind of spectacle. THE CABIN IN THE WOODS R; 95 min. Opens Friday
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Diner’s Guide Our selective list of area restaurants includes those that have been favorably reviewed in print by Santa Cruz Weekly food critics and others that have been sampled but not reviewed in print. All visits by our writers are made anonymously, and all expenses are paid by Metro Santa Cruz. SYMBOLS MADE SIMPLE: $ = Under $10 $$ = $11-$15 $$$ = $16-$20 $$$$ = $21 and up
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AMBROSIA INDIA BISTRO
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207 Searidge Rd, 831.685.0610
8017 Soquel Dr, 831.688.1233 SEVERINO’S GRILL
7500 Old Dominion Ct, 831.688.8987 ZAMEEN MEDITERRANEAN
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Indian. Authentic Indian dishes and specialties served in a comfortable dining room. Lunch buffet daily 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner daily 5pm to close. www.ambrosiaib.com American and specialty dishes from the British and Emerald Isles. Full bar. Children welcome. Happy hour Mon-Fri 2-6pm. Open daily 11am to 2am. 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.
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GEISHA SUSHI
104 Stockton Ave, 831.479.8888
All day breakfast. Burgers, gyros, sandwiches and 45 flavors of Marianne’s and Polar Bear ice cream. Open 8am daily.
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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.
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SHADOWBROOK
Capitola
1750 Wharf Rd, 831.475.1511
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231 Esplanade, 831.464.1933
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203 Esplanade, 831.475.4900
ZELDA’S
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.
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CLOUDS
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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
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GABRIELLA’S
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303 Soquel Ave, 831.426.7770 HOFFMAN’S
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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. Califormia-Italian. fresh from farmers’ markets organic vegetables, local seafood, grilled steaks, frequent duck and rabbit, famous CHICKEN GABRIELLA, legendary local wine list, romantic mission style setting with patio, quiet side street 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.
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OLITAS
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PACIFIC THAI
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Fine Mexican cuisine. Opening daily at noon. 49-B Municipal Wharf, 831.458.9393
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ROSIE MCCANN’S
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.
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SANTA CRUZ MTN. BREWERY California / Brewpub. Enjoy a handcrafted organic ale in the
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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.
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Wine bar with menu. Flawless plates of great character and flavor; sexy menu listings and wines to match. Dinner Mon-Thu 59pm, Fri-Sat 5-10pm, Sun 4-9pm; retail shop Mon 5pm-close, Tue-Sat noon-close, Sun 4pm-close.
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WOODSTOCK’S PIZZA
105 Walnut Ave, 831.423.2020
710 Front St, 831.427.4444
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.
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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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’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.
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By Rob Brezsny
For the week of April 11 ARIES (March 21–April 19): Some people
GEMINI (May 21–June 20): “It’s eternity in a person that turns the crank handle,” said Franz Kafka. At least that should be the case, I would add. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that a lot of people let other, lesser things turn the crank handle—like the compulsive yearning for money, power, and love, for example. I challenge you to check in with yourself sometime soon and determine what exactly has been turning your crank handle. If it ain’t eternity, or whatever serves as eternity in your world view, get yourself adjusted. In the coming months, it’s crucial that you’re running on the cleanest, purest fuel.
CANCER (June 21–July 22): For a white guy from 19th-century England, David Livingstone was unusually egalitarian. As he traveled in Africa, he referred to what were then called “witch doctors” as “my professional colleagues.” In the coming weeks, Cancerian, I encourage you to be inspired by Livingstone as you expand your notion of who your allies are. For example, consider people to be your colleagues if they simply try to influence the world in the same ways you do, even if they work in different jobs or spheres. What might be your version of Livingstone’s witch doctors? Go outside of your usual network as you scout around for confederates who might connect you to exotic new perspectives and resources you never imagined you could use.
LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): The flag of California features the image of a grizzly bear, and the huge carnivore is the state’s official animal. And yet grizzly bears have been extinct in California since 1922, when the last one was shot and killed. Is there any discrepancy like that in your own life, Leo? Do you continue to act as if a particular symbol or icon is important to you even though it has no practical presence in your life? If so, this would be a good time to update your attitude. VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): The cartoon character Felix the Cat made his debut in 1919. He was a movie star in the era of silent films, and eventually appeared in his own comic strip and TV show. But it wasn’t until 1953, when he was 34 years old, that he first got his Magic Bag of Tricks, which allowed him to do many things he wasn’t able to do before. I bring this up, Virgo, because I believe you’re close to acquiring a magic bag of tricks that wasn’t on your radar until you had matured to the point where you are now. To ensure that you get that bag, though, you will have to ripen even a bit more.
LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): I have one child, a daughter, and raising her conscientiously has been one of the great privileges and joys of my life. Bonus: She has turned out to be a stellar human being. Every now and then, though, I get a bit envious of parents who’ve created bigger families. If bringing up one kid is so rewarding, maybe more would be even better. I asked an acquaintance of mine, a man with six kids, how he had managed to pull off that difficult feat. He told me quite candidly, “My secret is that I’m not a good father; I’m very neglectful.” I offer up this story as a way to encourage you, at this juncture in your development, to favor quality over quantity.
some curious goings-on this week. A seemingly uninspired idea could save you from a dumb decision, for example. An obvious secret may be the key to defeating a covert enemy. And a messy inconvenience might show up just in time to help you do the slightly uncool but eminently right thing. Can you deal with this much irony, Scorpio? Can you handle such big doses of the old flippety-flop and oopsie-loopsie? For extra credit, here are two additional odd blessings you could capitalize on: a humble teaching from an unlikely expert and a surge of motivation from an embarrassing excitement.
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TAURUS (April 20–May 20): There is a possibility that a pot of gold sits at the end of the rainbow. The likelihood is small, true, but it’s not zero. On the other hand, the rainbow is definitely here and available for you to enjoy. Of course, you would have to do some more work on yourself in order to gather in the fullness of that enjoyment. Here’s the potential problem: You may be under the impression that the rainbow is less valuable than the pot of gold. So let me ask you: What if the rainbow’s the real prize?
SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): I expect there’ll be
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misunderstand the do-it-now fervor of the Aries tribe, thinking it must inevitably lead to carelessness. Please prove them wrong in the coming weeks. Launch into the interesting new possibilities with all your exuberance unfurled. Refuse to allow the natural energy to get hemmed in by theories and concepts. But also be sure not to mistake rash impatience for intuitive guidance. Consider the likelihood that your original vision of the future might need to be tinkered with a bit as you translate it into the concrete details.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Some of our pagan forebears imagined they had a duty to assist with nature’s revival every spring by performing fertility rituals. And wouldn’t it be fun if it were even slightly true that you could help the crops germinate and bloom by making sweet love in the fields? At the very least, carrying out such a ceremony might stimulate your own personal creativity. In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to slip away to a secluded outdoor spot, either by yourself or with a romantic companion. On a piece of paper, write down a project you’d like to make thrive in the coming months. Bury the note in the good earth, then enjoy an act of love right on top of it.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): Once upon a time, I fell in love with a brilliant businesswoman named Loreen. I pursued her with all my wiles, hoping to win her affection. After playing hard to get for two months, she shocked me with a brazen invitation: Would I like to accompany her on a whirlwind vacation to Paris? “I think I can swing it,” I told her. But there was a problem: I was flat broke. What to do? I decided to raise the funds by selling off a precious heirloom from childhood, my collection of 6,000 vintage baseball cards. Maybe this story will inspire you to do something comparable, Capricorn: Sacrifice an outmoded attachment or juvenile treasure or youthful fantasy so as to empower the future of love. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): We all know that spiders are talented little creatures. Spiders’ silk is as strong as steel, and their precisely geometric webs are engineering marvels. But even though they have admirable qualities I admire, I don’t expect to have an intimate connection with a spider any time soon. A similar situation is at work in the human realm. I know certain people who are amazing creators and leaders but don’t have the personal integrity or relationship skills that would make them trustworthy enough to seek out as close allies. Their beauty is best appreciated from afar. Consider the possibility that the ideas I’m articulating here would be good for you to meditate on right now, Aquarius.
PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): Have you ever had the wind knocked out of you? It feels weird for a short time, but leaves no lasting damage. I’m expecting that you will experience a form of that phenomenon sometime soon. Metaphorically speaking, the wind will get knocked out of you. But wait—before you jump to conclusions and curse me out for predicting this, listen to the rest of my message. The wind that will get knocked out of you will be a wind that needed to be knocked out—a wind that was causing confusion in your gut-level intuition. In other words, you’ll be lucky to get that wind knocked out of you. You’ll feel much better afterwards, and you will see things more clearly.
Homework: Why is this a perfect moment? Tell me at Truthrooster@gmail.com. To hear my reasons why, tune in to my podcast: http://bit.ly/PerfectionNow. 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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