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EDITOR’S NOTE There are a lot of different ways we get story ideas. Sometimes we’re tipped off by a reader, sometimes a source we’re interviewing for one story gives us a lead on an entirely different one. And sometimes we simply walk into a building where it looks like something interesting is happening. That’s what happened with Georgia Johnson’s cover story this week. Sometime late last year, she came into the office and said, “Have you guys seen that hammock café that’s going into the old Homeless Garden Project building?” I think I just kind of stared blankly at her, since I had never conceived of a situation where “hammock” and “café” would be put together. But she explained that she had seen there was some work going on in the space, and stopped to talk to the owner, who explained about
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In your article “Booking Ahead,” (GT, 7/10), a partner of the firm designing the new Capitola Library is quoted as saying something to the effect that, “libraries will no longer be oppressive spaces with 8-ft. tall shelves stacked top to bottom … with old dusty books,” right, Mr. Noll? It sounds like you are not a frequent or recent user of your own public library. If you were, you would know that no stacks are 8-ft. tall, the books are displayed, not crammed, and the adult patrons find the quiet of the library to be restful, serene, and—if anything—liberating rather than oppressive. The most frequent complaint of adult patrons is that someone else is making too much noise. Quiet is refreshing. The presence of physical books—whether en masse or as individual volumes—creates a special atmosphere that can’t be replaced by screens. Mr. Noll seems to know this on some level, as he says he has incorporated high ceilings in the design to “give a sense of grandeur, uplifting spirits.” Good. That is actually what libraries are about. The role of
the whole phenomenon of hammock cafés in Japan, and how he was going to be bringing it here with his new business. She kept in touch, followed his progress, and in the meantime started diving into the larger social movement that this was a part of. The result is the first part of our Health and Fitness cover package. I’ve learned a lot from the story, and from hearing about her research on it over the last few months. Also in our Health and Fitness coverage is Hugh McCormick’s story on senior fitness. Now, you might be thinking, “Big deal, all seniors are into fitness now.” That’s what I thought at first, too, but when Hugh laid out the specifics of his plan for the story, I was sold. As more people in our society continue to live longer, how are seniors in their 80s, 90s and even 100s staying fit and active? Hugh talked to them for this story, and not only is it enlightening, it includes possibly the best use of the word “ninny” that I’ve ever seen. I’m telling you, we gotta bring ninny back. Here’s to your health! STEVE PALOPOLI | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
public libraries may be expanding to include more functions as a community center, may be digitizing its collections, but I hope it never loses its fundamental identity as a place of peace, quiet, education, inspiration—and that it always has books. MARTHA DAHLEN | SAN JOSE
REJECT THE RECALL Approximately 35 years ago, Paul Lee and Paul Pfotenhauer asked me to serve with them on the board of the Citizens Committee for the Homeless. Scott Kennedy was on the City Council. The issues on homelessness then were very similar to those we experience today. After a particularly rancorous council meeting, demanding instant removal of the encampment at the corner of Highway 1 and Highway 9, Scott and I went to the camp and talked with a large group of homeless people. I believe he also went with Mike Rotkin another time. Among the outcomes of those conversations and deliberations of Santa Cruz City Council and Citizens for the Homeless were a transitional camp at a state park, >8
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CASA of Santa Cruz County is looking for caring adult volunteers to speak up for the best interests of children who have been abused or neglected. Volunteers with CASA, which stands for Court Appointed Special Advocates, spend time with their child each week, gathering information from everyone involved in the child’s case. Training runs the course of five weeks, usually on weeknights. Once a year, a special daytime training is offered that will take place Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m.-noon for two weeks. To learn more, visit casaofsantacruz.org.
Soroptimist International of Capitola-bythe-Sea is part of a global organization that empowers women. This local branch is accepting applications for its Live Your Dream Awards with a deadline to apply no later than Nov. 15. Women who are enrolled in or have been accepted into a B.A. or technical training program, are the heads of their households, and have a demonstrated need are eligible to apply. There are cash prizes. Applications are available online at best4women.org. For more information visit facebook.com/sicapitola or email info@best4women.org.
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Garbanzo bean juice. The stuff that comes out of the can with the cooked beans. It was disgusting. TERRI KIRIHARA RETIRED GROCERY MANAGER | SANTA CRUZ
In Hawaii, it was the poipu. It was mud, and it was terrible. BARBARA CUSHING LCSW | SANTA CRUZ
It’s a drink made from coarsely ground maize corn, and it’s similar to drinking a liquified corn tortilla. LEIA SUTTON-BARNES ACUPUNCTURIST | WATSON-CRUZ
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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of August 14 ARIES Mar21–Apr19 How did sound technicians create the signature roar of the fictional monster Godzilla? They slathered pine-tar resin on a leather glove and stroked it against the strings of a double bass. How about the famous howl of the fictional character Tarzan? Sonic artists blended a hyena’s screech played backwards, a dog’s growl, a soprano singer’s fluttered intonation slowed down, and an actor’s yell. Karen O, lead singer of band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, periodically unleashes very long screams that may make the hair stand up on the back of her listeners’ necks. In accordance with astrological omens, I’d love to see you experiment with creating your own personal yowl or laugh or whisper of power in the coming weeks: a unique sound that would boost your wild confidence and help give you full access to your primal lust for life.
TAURUS Apr20–May20 “If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough,” said Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, ex-President of Liberia. In accordance with astrological imperatives, I propose that we make that your watchword for the foreseeable future. From what I can tell, you’re due to upgrade your long-term goals. You have the courage and vision necessary to dare yourself toward an even more fulfilling destiny than you’ve been willing or ready to imagine up until now.
GEMINI May21–June20 How did our ancestors ever figure out that the calendula flower can be used as healing medicine for irritated and inflamed skin? It must have been a very long process of trial and error. (Or did the plant somehow “communicate” to indigenous herbalists, informing them of its use?) In any case, this curative herb is only one of hundreds of plants that people somehow came to adjudge as having healing properties. “Miraculous” is not too strong a word to describe such discoveries. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Gemini, you now have the patience and perspicacity to engage in a comparable process: to find useful resources through experiment and close observation—with a hardy assist from your intuition.
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Today the city of Timbuktu in Mali is poor and in the throes of desertification. But from the 14th to 17th centuries, it was one of the great cultural centers of the world. Its libraries filled up with thousands of influential books, which remained intact until fairly recently. In 2012, Al-Qaeda jihadists conceived a plan to destroy the vast trove of learning and scholarship. One man foiled them. Abba al-Hadi, an illiterate guard who had worked at one of the libraries, smuggled out many of the books in empty rice sacks. By the time the jihadists started burning, most of the treasure had been relocated. I don’t think the problem in your sphere is anywhere near as dire as this, Cancerian. But I do hope you will be proactive about saving and preserving valuable resources before they’re at risk of being diluted, compromised, or neglected.
LE0 Jul23–Aug22 Moray eels have two sets of jaws. The front set does their chewing. The second set, normally located behind the first, can be launched forward to snag prey they want to eat. In invoking this aggressive strategy to serve as a metaphor for you in the coming weeks, I want to suggest that you be very dynamic and enterprising as you go after what you want and need. Don’t be rude and invasive, of course, but consider the possibility of being audacious and zealous.
VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 It’s relatively rare, but now and then people receive money or gifts from donors they don’t know. Relatives they’ve never met may bequeath them diamond tiaras or alpaca farms or bundles of cash. I don’t think that’s exactly what will occur for you in the coming weeks, but I do suspect that you’ll garner blessings or help from unexpected sources. To help ensure the best possible versions of these acts of
grace, I suggest that you be as generous as possible in the kindness and attention you offer. Remember this verse from the Bible: “Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.”
LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22 Libra-born Ronald McNair was an African-American man who grew up in a racist town in South Carolina in the 1950s. The bigotry cramped his freedom, but he rebelled. When he was 9 years old, he refused to leave a segregated library, which prompted authorities to summon the police. Years later, McNair earned a PhD in Physics from MIT and became renowned for his research on laser physics. Eventually, NASA chose him to be an astronaut from a pool of 10,000 candidates. That library in South Carolina? It’s now named after him. I suspect that you, too, will soon receive some vindication, Libra—a reward or blessing or consecration that will reconfigure your past.
SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 Scorpio author Zadie Smith wrote, “In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution—is not my solution.” I think it will be perfectly fine if sometime soon you speak those words to a person you care about. In delivering such a message, you won’t be angry or dismissive. Rather, you will be establishing good boundaries between you and your ally; you will be acknowledging the fact that the two of you are different people with different approaches to life. And I bet that will ultimately make you closer.
SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 “Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season,” wrote author and activist Bette Lord. That’s not entirely true. For example, skilled and meticulous gardeners can compel tulip and hyacinth bulbs to flower before they would naturally be able to. But as a metaphor, Lord’s insight is largely accurate. And I think you’ll be wise to keep it in mind during the coming weeks. So my advice is: Don’t try to make people and processes ripen before they are ready. But here’s a caveat: You might have modest success working to render them a bit more ready.
CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 “For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.” Poet A. R. Ammons formulated that shiny burst of wisdom, and now I’m passing it on to you. As I think you know, you tend to have more skill at and a greater inclination toward the small, concrete, limited, and certain. That’s why, in my opinion, it’s rejuvenating for you to periodically exult in and explore what’s large, vague, unlimited, unknown. Now is one of those times.
AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 “Look into my eyes. Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.” Poet Sylvia Plath wrote that, and now, in accordance with astrological omens, I’m authorizing you to say something similar to anyone who is interested in you but would benefit from gazing more deeply into your soul and entering into a more profound relationship with your mysteries. In other words, you have cosmic permission to be more forthcoming in showing people your beauty and value.
PISCES Feb19–Mar20 In his Anti-Memoirs, author André Malraux quotes a tough-minded priest who served in the French Resistance during World War II. He spent his adult life hearing his parishioners’ confessions. “The fundamental fact is that there’s no such thing as a grown-up person,” the priest declared. Even if that’s mostly true, Pisces, my sense is that it is less true about you right now than it has ever been. In the past months, you have been doing good work to become more of a fully realized version of yourself. I expect that the deepening and maturation process is reaching a culmination. Don’t underestimate your success! Celebrate it!
Homework: The poet Ikkyu said, “To all I care about, here’s a friendly tip: enlightenment © Copyright 2019 is gaffe upon error upon blooper.” Do you agree? freewillastrology.com
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At the most recent council meeting I attended, I concluded my remarks with a strong caution: If this recall receives the required signatures for the ballot, it will divide the community of Santa Cruz as nothing else has in a third of a century. This will define the political scene for a generation. Ever so much more than a regular election, this ballot measure will be remembered for the names associated with this single issue, which above all else in our current communal life they considered worthy of overturning the expressed will of the majority of our neighbors and friends. DARRELL DARLING | SANTA CRUZ
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NEWS BALLOT LINES Alleging racially polarized voting, a Santa Barbara law firm tries to push Santa Cruz toward district elections—and win a $30,000 settlement BY JACOB PIERCE
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ne overcast Wednesday, Baylee Whitted is driving the streets surrounding her Aptos Hills home, showing me a ringside view of rutted, potholed roads in stretches chewed to pieces by winter storms. It’s late July, still a few weeks before her kids’ classes start Valencia Elementary and Aptos Middle schools, and months before the next winter rains will begin. But Whitted is already dreading taking her kids to school once the sky does let loose. She’s abandoned her favorite scenic route on Cox Road for Day Valley Road to avoid four washouts, where
the road is barely passable by one car. Whitted said that she has had several near misses with drivers not used to the treacherous roads. Residents have been waiting for years for the county to repair existing storm damage—let alone potholes and cracks—and have repeatedly petitioned Santa Cruz County officials to get going. The response, so far, has been lackluster, Whitted says. “They have an answer for it, but it’s not what anyone wants to hear,” she says. “It’s, ‘We’re waiting on this,’ or, ‘We’re waiting on that.’” Long-term fixes to many of the county’s transportation woes are
covered by local and state funding, notably Measure D and Senate Bill 1, the state’s gas tax law. Storm repairs, however, are largely dependent on federal funding, says county spokesperson Jason Hoppin. With $120 million in outstanding storm damage, Hoppin says gas tax revenue amounts to a drop in that bucket. So, although engineers are using new tax money to improve the county’s infrastructure, rural roads haven’t recovered from storms that struck more than two years ago. “Working with the federal government has been a challenge on the federally funded repairs,” he says. “At a certain level, we >12
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Last year, Keshav Kumar was a junior policy analyst at the Santa Cruz County Business Council researching city issues and scouring California news outlets for topics affecting the state’s communities. Kumar spotted a troubling trend. A spate of legal challenges were cropping up against local governments over their election systems. The threats took aim at cities with at-large elections, in which voters may support multiple candidates on their ballots in local city council races. The plaintiffs behind these notices of violation were claiming that such elections diluted the votes of Latino voters and reduced Latino representation, in violation of the California Voting Rights Act. Law firms were challenging cities to implement district elections, which means dividing up a city into geographical voting blocks with one city councilmember per district. Kumar quickly realized that no city had ever prevailed in a legal challenge under the California Voting Rights Act—and when cities fight the lawsuits, instead of settling, they can end up paying fees totaling more than $30,000. Dozens of California cities, including Watsonville, have made the switch either as a result of legal action or under the threat of it. That’s why Kumar applied to join the Charter Amendment Committee, which the Santa Cruz City Council established last year to look at possible changes to the city’s election set-up. One idea for the committee to study: switching to election districts. The Charter Amendment Committee, which had just two meetings, has now essentially landed in government purgatory. The council never officially killed the committee, but the group hasn’t met since November of last year, before Santa Cruz’s new city councilmembers took office. Now, a Santa Barbara-based law firm has hit the city of Santa Cruz with a notice of violation over its at-large elections, alleging that they haven’t adequately represented the town’s Latino community, which makes up 20.6% of the population. >14
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Where There’s A Will… By Datta Khalsa, Broker In real estate, it is in the nature of our work that we end up participating in our clients’ life transitions: There are the happy moments like getting married, growing the family, building an investment portfolio and starting or expanding a business. There are the bittersweet ones, like helping your child find a place of their own and returning to an empty nest. And then there are the sad moments such as financial disaster, divorce or the loss of a spouse or loved one. By planning along the way, you can avoid a lot of pitfalls such as potentially huge taxable events and also help minimize friction and even possible fraud between family members and other parties in interest. At such moments in life, it generally pays to have good tax and legal advice, and that is where it is imperative to make sure the person giving you the advice is a truly trusted and qualified expert. My real estate Mastermind networking group recently hosted a prominent local attorney who handles both planning and litigation around real estate assets and how they are acquired, held and/or disbursed, and she gave us revealing insight into the many types of cases she has seen through the years that really drove home the importance of having an estate plan in place.
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The essential components of a complete estate plan include a trust, a will, a durable power of attorney and an advance health care directive. If nothing else, she advised that you should execute a will, and while this is best handled by an attorney, she directs people seeking to handle it on their own to the California Statutory Will form the California BAR website, which has provisions specific to California State Law. There is also a relatively new instrument called a Transfer on Death deed that is being used by many people in the absence of a will.
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She cautioned that it is also good to keep your estate planning documents held in a safe deposit box, and equally important to control who has access to that box. Depending on how contentious things might get, the children are not always the best option, and this is where a fiduciary or a trusted friend might be a good idea instead. With a more complex estate plan, the way title is held or transferred might well be in the name of an LLC, to a revocable or irrevocable trust, a charitable remainder trust, or any number of other entities created to help minimize possible tax consequences or disputes that might otherwise arise. By the time I get called upon to evaluate or handle a property, the person hiring me often ends up being a counsel, a custodian, a fiduciary, a plan sponsor, a trustee or a successor trustee. It has therefore become a key step in the process to ask clients (a) if they have a trusted attorney who can review things to ensure that their intentions are being accurately reflected, and (b) to make sure that they have authority to sign on behalf of the entity they are representing. And from that point on, it’s pretty much real estate as usual. Datta Khalsa is the broker and owner at Main Street Realtors in Soquel. He can be reached at (831)818-0181 or datta@mainstrealtors.com Paid Advertorial
The county’s roads—and those in jurisdictions throughout California— are graded on a scale of 1 to 100 with the Pavement Condition Index (PCI), a biennial report by Save California Streets. The report looks at all aspects of road conditions, such as age, potholes and cracking. For the latest iteration, released in October, unincorporated Santa Cruz County scored a 48 on the PCI scale, a solid “F” that places the roads in the “at risk” category, although it’s an improvement from years past. The poor ranking comes largely from 20 years of deferred maintenance, and from lingering damage from 2017 winter storms. Almost two years later, there are still more than 100 projects to complete, says County Public Works Director Matt Machado. The report also shows that the county’s 1,764 miles of roadways have a $453 million backlog of repairs needed to bring them up to snuff. County residents got a glimmer of hope in 2016, when voters approved Measure D, a 30-year half-cent sales tax, which since its inception has raised some $63.8 million countywide for a large variety of transportation infrastructure projects. The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (RTC),
which oversees allocation of Measure D funds, approved a fiveyear spending plan in June. At the state level, officials say the new gas tax will raise roughly $54 billion over the next decade, which is split down the middle between state projects and regional transit agencies. Under the law, Californians saw their per-gallon gas tax increase by 5.6 cents on July 1, making local gas among the most expensive in the nation. Machado says that the county has dedicated its share of S.B. 1 funds, about $4 million per year, to repair the storm damage. Measure D, meanwhile, is helping the county play catch-up on the needed repairs, he says, providing roughly $2.8 million annually for the past two years. “Measure D has nearly tripled our investment in county roads, which is a very good thing,” he says. Second District Santa Cruz County Supervisor Zach Friend calls gas and sales tax increases from Measure D “lifelines,” providing a much-needed shot in the arm for transportation, but he stresses that they’re far from being a panacea. “The challenge for our county is the need is so large, with construction costs escalating daily and conditions deteriorating, that these lifelines will only be able to address a fraction of the growing need,” says Friend, who represents Aptos. “Without them, we would have no stable funding for any sort of work. Even with them, we will
struggle to meet the significant, growing needs of our county’s roads.”
TALE OF THE CITIES In South County, Watsonville Public Works Director Steve Palmisano says the roads are in “OK condition.” The city of 54,000 received a road condition score of 53 out of 100. He says that Measure D and S.B. 1 have tripled the amount that Watsonville receives for road maintenance. The city has received about $1.6 million since the 2017-18 fiscal year. The sales tax is funding five major Watsonville projects between now and 2022, the first and biggest being Freedom Boulevard from Alta Vista to Green Valley Road, for which Measure D is kicking in $445,000 toward a $3 million bill. A little farther north, Capitola Public Works Director Steve Jessberg says the arterial roads in his midcounty town rated a 78 on the PCI index, while the smaller residential streets received a 55 rating. Measure D and S.B. 1, he says, provide an annual income of $300,000 and $165,000, respectively, which together are the city’s only revenue for road and sidewalk repair. But those funds don’t cover the $750,000 needed to maintain Capitola’s streets from storm damage, Jessberg says, leaving city officials to pull from the city’s general fund and seek grants. Still, the state and local funding has been essential for keeping the city in good repair, he says. >16
NUZ BORDERS ON CRUELTY Darios Escobar Lainez paid to bring his daughter María Senaida Escobar Cerritos from El Salvador to live with him in Santa Cruz, as detailed in a Washington Post story earlier this summer. She was shot dead by Mexican police before she reached the U.S. border. Escobar Cerritos chose to return to El Salvador to bury
his daughter, even though he knew that he would likely not be allowed to return to the U.S., despite his Temporary Protected Status. After speaking with the Post, Escobar Cerritos has declined to talk further about the tragedy. But Watsonville resident Edenilson Quintanilla, a onetime refugee from El Salvador, tells Nuz, “It’s a very common story. Usually, it doesn’t end
tragically like this.” He generally blames the U.S. policy of putting intense pressure on Mexico—going back well before President Donald Trump took office—to curb the flow of Central Americans into the U.S. Quintanilla remembers in the early 1980s, when his family was traveling to the U.S. border. His mother was on a bus with her 8-year-old son, Quintanilla’s younger brother,
when police pulled her off and dragged her across a public square. Authorities arrested both Quintanilla’s mom and his brother and threw them in jail, where they remained for a full month before being released and reunited. Quintanilla’s mom, he says, still has emotional scars from the ordeal. “She was torn apart in many different ways,” he says.
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people are seeing the wolf, too.” City Attorney Tony Condotti’s office won’t comment on the pending legal matter. As of press time, the City Council was expected to discuss the item in closed session on Tuesday, Aug. 13. One question going forward is whether district elections would actually improve representation for the Latino community. Pedro Hernandez, senior policy coordinator for nonpartisan voting rights group Fair Vote, says his San Franciscobased organization has studied the demographics of Santa Cruz’s Census tracts. Because the town’s Latino population is spread across various neighborhoods, he says, it would be impossible to draw the boundaries of any
district with a significant Latino electorate. Instead of switching to election districts, Hernandez thinks changing to another system, like ranked-choice voting, might have a bigger impact on improving elections and representation. He hopes that the city of Santa Cruz explores changing to a format like that as part of its settlement. But it wouldn’t only be the City Council’s call to make. Part of a possible decision would be up to a legal team that includes UC Santa Barbara economics lecturer Lanny Ebenstein. Ebenstein is president of the California Voting Rights Project, which is involved with the notice of violation against the city. The Voting Rights Project already issued a legal challenge to Santa Cruz City
Schools that prompted the school district to switch to district elections earlier this year. Ebenstein has a tough time imagining the team would settle for ranked-choice voting, or anything less than an agreement that includes district elections. “I don’t think so. I should never say never about the possibility of any other approach, but the California Voting Rights Act is pretty specific about districts as the remedy,” he says. The deadline for the city to issue its first response to the plaintiff would have come up in about a week, after a 45-day window closed. But because many city employees were on vacation last month, Ebenstein says the legal team has granted an extension, giving Santa Cruz until Sept. 30 to respond. Part of what frustrates Kumar about the fiasco is that the City Council has left the Charter Amendment Committee in limbo. In January, four councilmembers—Chris Krohn, Sandy Brown, Drew Glover, and Vice Mayor Justin Cummings—expressed interest in adding new members to the committee. When their colleagues and some committee members, like Kumar, pushed back against that idea, the council put a stay on any future committee meetings and tabled the item, signaling that it would revisit the concept after a more in-depth discussion about adding new members. The item never came back. Kumar met with both Cummings and Krohn, asking them to reinstate the committee. He didn’t even care anymore if the council added new members, he says. If the body had remained active, Kumar argues that the committee might have already finished important legwork of working through possible election changes—work that City Council and staff may now be forced to rush through on a shortened timeline. If nothing else, Kumar hopes that the council considers officially killing the committee, so that its members can meet again on an informal basis. Hernandez, of FairVote, says it’s “unfortunate” that the committee did not move forward. At this point, the city may not have time to look back. “It’s really up to the City Council right now to decide how it wants to move forward, because it seems like there is a ticking clock,” he says. “That doesn’t mean that all the options are off the table, but it does mean they are going to have to make a decision about their next step soon.”
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Trainer moved to Santa Cruz a few years ago from Ohio, and Grant has lived here for eight years. They decided to open the hammock cafe in the former Homeless Garden Project building more than a year ago to serve herbal elixirs sourced from around the world, plus 11th Hour Coffee, bone broth, miso soup, and acai bowls. I’d never heard of many of the menu options at the new café, but all of them are derived naturally from plants. Roxa is opening sometime this month, pending final city approvals. Sobriety can mean a number of things for different people (legal definitions aside), from complete substance abstinence to a moratorium on alcohol or many gray areas in between. I’ve met sober people that microdose mushrooms multiple times a day. Sobriety is what you make it, and that’s especially true at new-wave hospitality businesses like Roxa, where even though alcohol is off the menu that doesn’t mean you can’t leave feeling good. “It’s totally accepting here to be sober in Santa Cruz, but at the same time, the only social opportunities for young people are at night, because everyone works during the day,” Trainer says. “Where do you go at night? To the bar. So people develop this dependency on drinking, sometimes without even realizing it. As a sober person, I don’t have anywhere to go at night to hang out with the people that I love.” Roxa will fill a niche similar to Melo Melo Kava Bar on Pacific Avenue, which prides itself on being a place for those who are sober to socialize and relax without the pressure of drinking alcohol, or the culture that comes
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alking back to work, I think I’m high on something other than life. But it’s not alcohol or drugs. I’ve just visited Roxa, Santa Cruz’s first alchemy hammock cafe, where I tried kola nut powder dissolved in water and powered pine pollen—both naturally derived substances aimed at enhancing the quality of life and wellness. Both ingredients are simple enough. The kola nut is used to flavor sodas like Coca-Cola, or as a supplement. Pine pollen is the same pollen that’s in the air. But the combined effect was that of an intense caffeine high coupled with a sense of relaxation and euphoria. (I don’t drink coffee particularly often, so it wasn’t surprising that I was a bit more “altered” than the average person.) “When you drink some of these herbal teas and elixirs, you feel like complete strangers are family. In small doses, they are beneficial,” Roxa owner Michael Trainer says. “They can become a problem. It’s not something you’d want to do all the time, but they are much better for you than alcohol.” Trainer and his partner, Jazmin Grant, are sober—they don’t drink or take drugs. Instead, they look to herbal teas and elixirs, powered by the kinds of herbs I sampled, to get a more natural and healthy high. “For me, if you are using something that gives you an extreme high to cope with your emotional problems, that is not sobriety,” Trainer says. “Sobriety is coping with the natural mechanisms that you already have.”
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to seven herbal elixirs, including their “Truth Serum,” a mixture of ashwagandha, tribulus, shatavari, and pine pollen and honey. “It’ll make you spill your guts,” Grant says. “Shatavari and tribulus are aphrodisiacs, but not like Viagra. It’ll just increase your circulation.” Alongside the truth serum, there will also be what Grant calls “the Vessel.” “It is used for creativity and inspiration. Leonardo DiVinci and Michaelangelo used it on a regular basis,” she says. “It has rue, bacopa and acuama in it. Colors start to pop on the walls and stuff.” Another elixir is called “Dapper Absolem,” named after the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland. This elixir is smokeable. “We take a smoking gun and light herbs and inject the glass with smoke and cap it off,” Trainer says. “It’s a body relaxant.” Lastly, they will be serving Mercury Oil, a drink that’s sourced from the Korean Demilitarized Zone. “That drink is crazy. You can feel your head pumping blood,” Grant says. “It’s 102 unique herbs harvested from the
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DMZ that’s black-fermented for five years,” Trainer says. “It’s virtually untouched by humans, and nature thrives. It’s an exotic, nutritional luxury that’s hard to find.” The team at Roxa imports their herbs from all over the world, seeking the highest quality and consistency. Trainer says he learned about the benefits of superfoods and herbal elixirs to support the microbiome from online research, but also after coming to Santa Cruz. In particular, after working at Kiva. “I was immersed. I was literally sitting in a hot tub surrounded by a bunch of naked people singing songs all the time,” Trainer laughs. “Hippie central.” At Roxa, everything is intentional, from the reclaimed wood to the petrified moss. Even the flooring is infused with Black Tourmaline—a stone known for it’s positive, grounding energy—and 150 herbal essences. “Our artist got so high when he was putting the tourmaline into the floor,” Grant laughs. “He seemed drunk.” After more than a year of renovations, including the addition of scaffolding, new flooring and room sectioning, the couple collected a fair amount of antique chemistry sets and unique drinkware to accompany their menu of herbal elixirs, coffee and acai bowls. Their elixir bar looks like a steampunk medicine cabinet of Victor Frankenstein, plus some LED lights. “We are talking about things that create fire and sparks, dry ice and color changing liquids,” Trainer says. “We are sandwiched between two of the most popular bars in the strip—Abbott Square and Pour—and there are a lot of people who want to be part of the scene but don’t drink alcohol. So we want to make it fun for them, too.” Popularized by its reputation as a superfood, acai has skyrocketed to the top of the millennial popularity list alongside avocado toast and gourmet doughnuts. But that’s not why Grant and Trainer put it on the menu. Acai, a tart berry native to South America, is rich in antioxidants and low in sugar. It’s particularly high in
resveratrol, which Trainer takes everyday, noting that it prevents the hardening of internal organs caused by a high-sugar and high-fat diet. “Acai has changed my life. I could eat an acai bowl every day. It’s so good for you,” Trainer says. “I have seen great benefits from resveratrol. We have the resveratrol extract, which we will be mixing with our acai, so you’ll get a boost of it.” Then there are the hammocks. Sourced from organic cotton and rubberwood, there won’t be many seats in the house. The hammock cafe idea is originally from Japan, where there are a number of hammock cafes, including Tokyobased Mahika Mano. Trainer says he got the idea from Mahika Mano, though he hasn’t been there—he says he just really likes hammocks. In the U.S., there has been talk of hammock cafes, including one that nearly opened in San Francisco’s Mission District in 2014 that fell victim to a lack of funding. Roxa may just be the country’s first official hammock cafe—or one that’s searchable online at least. “Our beliefs are based on the microbiome, so diverse fibers,” Trainer says. “Health comes first through diet and exercise, but also supplemental herbal remedies and elixirs which facilitate social confidence.” Aside from a diversity of fiber intake through fruits and vegetables, Grant and Trainer consume tonics daily for the nutrients. They aren’t consuming social lubricants for more than a few times a week. “In the beginning, people weren’t sure about the cafe idea,” Trainer says. “But now people are stoked. It’s flattering how excited people get.” But these elixirs derived from herbs can also be overdone. All of the drinks are designed so that customers only need one to feel the effects. Just like alcohol or coffee, it’s possible to overdose. The elixirs range from strong to mild, and all of the baristas are trained to cut people off. “What we are doing, it’s very niche,” Grant says. “There are probably under 10 other places in the U.S. that are doing what we are.”
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the hours I’m at the pool,” says Hildebrant proudly. “I’m constantly active. I walk for 20 minutes, then do leg exercises at the edge of the pool for 20 minutes. Finally, I swim and move my body for 20 minutes. This, and eating right, just makes me feel healthy.” After a light breakfast of cereal and fruit, and a brief walk, Hildebrant attends Tai Chi, Mindfulness and Qi Gong classes during the day. The combination of physical and mental exercise gives her an inner peace, calmness and clarity that makes her life easy and enjoyable. “Some people have limitations, but they can always do certain things,” she maintains. “A positive attitude is key.” Debra Routly, the executive director of Dominican Oaks, worked
in high-tech before studying health and fitness, and eventually becoming a personal trainer. She says that one of her main focuses at Dominican Oaks is the fitness of active seniors. “Our seniors aren’t just sitting around knitting,” she says. “They’re vibrant. And it’s not just about physical activity any more. Mental exercises keep them sharp, alert and full of life.” Routly offers her residents daily balance exercises, strength training, stretching, yoga, Zumba, Qi Gong, and Tai Chi classes. In addition, she helps them take advantage of the long list of PEP classes offered through Dignity Health and Dominican Hospital. A team of drivers shuttles a devoted contingent of seniors to Simpkins Swim Center and area gyms every day of the week. “Fitness classes are so important. A lot of our residents go to them every morning,” says Routly. “Most people will have breakfast and go straight to their exercise class. It’s necessary for them to maintain a healthy and happy lifestyle. More than 70% of our residents attend a class on a regular basis.” As the world’s population gets older—one-fifth of the population of the developed world was 60 or older in 2000, and by 2050 this number is expected to rise to a full one-third —it’s more important than ever to develop effective fitness programs for seniors. Regular exercise can lead to improvements in some of the greatest challenges older adults face: Alzheimer’s, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Just a small amount of exercise will release endorphins that enhance a senior’s mood and lead to a decrease in anxiety and depression. Champion ballroom dancer Beverly Martin describes herself as a “happy, fit and healthy 82-yearold.” The native Santa Cruzan has been dancing competitively with her 84-year-old husband Gene for more than eight years, attending five twohour dance classes every week at the Palomar Ballroom in downtown Santa Cruz. “A lot of people can’t believe that
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<25 my husband Gene and I are still ballroom dancing, and are able to move like we do,” says Martin. “If you’re a person who really loves what you do, though—like we do—the regular aches and pains don’t bother you much. You just feel happier, and you feel no pain because you love doing it. It’s magical.” Martin knows that most men and women her age don’t get enough exercise. When they stop moving, their bodies gradually lose their viscosity and flexibility as tendons shrink and become tighter. “If you are scared about getting older, something is bothering you, or you just are feeling sad, exercise— dancing, specifically—will take it all away,” says Martin. “You just want to dance. Once you start to move, the energy starts to flow throughout your body. Your entire body and your mind. It carries you throughout the day. Seniors need that.” Martin’s dance guru, 46-year-old Zak Bauman, has been teaching senior citizens the art of dance for the past 22 years. A former professional modern dancer, Bauman tells me that her daily classes provide elderly adults far more than exercise: there’s also a huge social component. Her class draws 12-18 regulars five days a week, and “everything they do revolves around their dance schedule,” she says. Several studies have shown that ballroom dance is a highly effective tool to ward off Alzheimer’s because it involves three key components: social, physical and intellectual stimulation. “If you don’t use it you’re going to lose it,” Bauman tells me. “Balance, fitness, cognitive sharpness. There’s a huge mental component to social
dancing. Anyone can do it at any age. The first and hardest thing is just walking through the door.” Routly also urges patience in finding the right workout. “Exercise needs to be something that doesn’t overwhelm us,” she says. “It’s not a one-shoe-fits-all thing. Some people can do vigorous exercise and others shouldn’t. It’s personal and with safety in mind. You want to start slow and take it easy. Condition your body before you go gung-ho into it.” Sitting on a plush couch surrounded by walls decorated with plaques, pictures and awards, another Dominican Oaks resident gives me the lowdown on how seniors can maintain a healthy and happy lifestyle. “Exercise! Just do it. Never look back. Always look forward,” says 101-year-old Faye Alexander. “And always have a positive attitude.” The vivacious and energetic Alexander played golf at Pasatiempo for 68 years, and has been attending regular water aerobics classes at Simpkins Swim Center for nearly 25. “For me, with water aerobics, it’s like feeling I’m heading back into the embryonic sack. I’m reborn,” she says. “I can do things that I just can’t do out of the water. It keeps me going. I’m 101, but I feel young all the time.” Exercise makes Alexander feel physically and mentally alive, and has enhanced her social life immensely. She’s quick and witty as she explains the stories behind the smiling faces in her many framed photos. “Fitness gives seniors like me new life. If you just sit and stare into space, you’re going to be a ninny,” says Alexander with a wise smile. “Don’t be a ninny.”
HEALTH PROFESSIONALS Dr. Tonya Fleck
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EMPOWERING PATIENTS TO ACHIEVE OPTIMAL HEALTH FOR 15 YEARS Dr. Fleck is the Founder & Medical Director of the Santa Cruz Naturopathic Medical Center, located in downtown Santa Cruz. The Center won Best Alternative Health Services and Dr. Fleck has consistently won as one of the best Naturopathic Doctors in Santa Cruz for the past 10 years. As a primary care doctor, Dr. Fleck focuses on finding the root cause of dis-ease in the body and working to restore balance at the core level. Using safe, effective and non-toxic modalities, she creates customized treatment plans that lead to her patients experiencing empowerment and vitality in their health and well being. • Bio-Identical Hormones • Thyroid Disease • Adrenal Health • Cardiovascular Health
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Ellice Apostolos OWNER SANTA CRUZ’S PREMIER POLE DANCE STUDIO
As a certified S Factor instructor and owner of Steel & Grace, Ellice combines years of training in the areas of somatic healing and dance. She invites students to drop into their body’s truth, eradicating self-judgment so they can unearth their pleasure, confidence and full expression. Pole Dance offers a unique full body strength and flexibility training that is fun and empowering. Join the Steel & Grace community and see what your body is capable of! We offer a variety of weekly classes suitable for anyone, with or without dance experience. We look forward to dancing with you!
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Are Your Hormones Making You Crazy? Hormonal changes impact our mood, energy, sleep, weight and sexual function. There are many players involved including estrogen, progesterone, testosterone & DHEA, stress hormones like cortisol, and hormone/neurotransmitters like oxytocin, serotonin, and dopamine. And don’t forget the importance of thyroid function and blood sugar balance! By looking at the rich interplay of these chemicals and the ways in which diet & digestion, lifestyle, supplements, herbs, and hormones can support their optimal balance, Dr. Shunney can help you feel like yourself again. Specialties include: - bio-identical hormone balancing - menopause & menstrual issues - vulvar & pelvic pain - painful sex - libido & arousal disorders
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Vitamin Center The Vitamin Center is a team of health enthusiasts and professionals, who believe in educating and empowering you to take control of your health. Jack Macdonald began working here over thirty years ago when the field of nutrition had yet to pave a foundation. There were no educational programs and no centralized sources of information. Pioneering a path in nutrition, Jack has dedicated his life to collecting data and sharing the insight of his knowledge. Driven to take back control of her health and overcome the ailments of her twenties, his daughter, Amy Jespersen attended Bauman College and became a Certified Nutrition Consultant. Benjamin Otto, a graduate from Five Branches University specializes in Focus Touch Shiatsu and Acupuncture, blending eastern and western principles and Chinese Herbal patent formulas.
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Do you ever have that feeling like you are disconnected from your body’s deep wisdom? That place in you that knows how to play, feel deeply and can be a guiding force in your life? S Factor and Pole Dance invite you back into this place of connection so you can feel strong, radiant and confident!
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I got into physical therapy to help people realize their potential and support their healing from injury and trauma. Being able to see clients several times a week, is an incredibly effective way to support individuals and witness their growth. I always felt that physical therapy was a gateway for me to offer holistic healing experiences, and my career path has recently evolved to allow this to come to fruition. I own a physical therapy clinic and adjacent wellness studio featuring yoga, meditation, fitness, and dance classes. The studio offers a diverse class schedule to support complete wellness. Classes are mostly taught by licensed health care practitioners, making this a very safe environment for anyone to take a class, regardless of health status. I am passionate about supporting people to lean into their healing and enjoy the journey; to embrace possibility and allow themselves to embody their fullest self-expression.
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Experiential sex and intimacy coaching is designed to help get you out of your head and into your body, to explore what connects you to your pleasure and allows you to step into your power. Here are just a few examples of what we might work on in a session: • Discovering/exploring your desire • Reconnecting to your body and intuition • Integrating pleasure into your everyday life • Embracing boundaries • Releasing shame and old patterns • Creating new thoughts/behaviors/energy As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), I bring years of therapeutic experience to create a multidisciplinary approach. I have completed the Somatica Institute certification program on Sex, Intimacy and Relationship Coaching. As a social worker for the last 15 years, I’ve worked in fields including domestic violence, sexual assault, addiction, family and children’s services, and hospice. Please contact me for a 15-minute intro call!
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Dr. Charles Goodwin, known as “Dr. Charly” to new and longtime patients alike, has been providing quality Chiropractic care, Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine to Santa Cruzans for over 30 years. Many of his patients have been with him since the beginning and wouldn’t think of going anywhere else. Dakota Health Center is a one-stop shop for quality healthcare. In addition to Chiropractic and Acupuncture, there are onsite massage therapists providing various types of massage including Shiatsu, Therapeutic Swedish, Deep Tissue and more. With all of the modalities available at Dakota, patients find relief from a variety of ailments including sciatica, chronic neck and back pain, sports injuries, insomnia, migraines, anxiety, digestive disorders, and more. Care for patients with Workers Comp and Disability claims is available on a case-by-case basis. Set up an appointment today at (831) 429-1188 to see how Dr. Goodwin and Dakota Health Center can assist you in achieving ultimate health.
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Let this be the year you put yourself first. It’s that time of year when we get motivated to achieve our goals. While we often include goals that are physical – like going to the gym – what about our mental and emotional health? Are you taking care of the inside, as well as the outside? Is it, ‘One day…’ or ‘Day one?’ The decision is yours. One of the most daunting journeys we face is discovering who we are, what we need, what we want, what we deserve –and how to get there. No matter how large or small your struggles may feel to you, you don’t have to face them alone.
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LATE HARVEST BARD Left to right: Lindsay Smiling as Polixenes, Ian Merrill Peakes as Leontes and Karen Peakes as Hermione in SCS’s ‘The Winter’s Tale.’ PHOTO: SHMUEL THALER
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SCS gets a little too postmodern with one of Shakespeare’s true treasures in ‘The Winter’s Tale’ BY CHRISTINA WATERS
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Winter’s Tale fascinates in its multidimensionality. Opening as a penetrating study of tragic jealousy, the play turns on its axis halfway through and becomes a robust pastoral comedy. And the fairytale ending is one of the rarest of
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Opening as a penetrating study of tragic jealousy, the play turns on its axis halfway through and becomes a robust pastoral comedy. And the fairy-tale ending is one of the rarest of closures in all of Shakespeare. the trickster pickpocket Autolycas. His rollicking scenes crafted the dissonant shadings Shakespeare suggests. Gilmore’s Mr. Bennett also created the calm center of Pride and Prejudice, and it was a pleasure to watch him let loose and captivate the entire opening night house of Winter’s Tale. His punning repartee with the Shepherd (Tommy A. Gomez) and his son Clown (a winning Adrian Zamora) helped move the play toward its resolution. Kudos to scenic designer Dipu Gupta, whose large circular opening on the back wall allowed glimpses of an enormous, scenic moon, whose movements and color changes helped to tell us the passing of day to night, and winter to summer. The Winter’s Tale is given added charm by the presence of a trio of actors all named Peakes, who are in fact husband, wife and son (Owen)— playing husband Leontes, wife Hermione, and their son Mamillius. Ian Merrill Peakes, who steals this season’s Pride and Prejudice, is stylish, resourceful and fierce as Leontes’ inferno of paranoid jealousy. Directorial re-tuning might help infuse the ending with the rich, ironic power the play’s text demands. Contemporary costuming may update the look of a classic play, but it can’t help us understand the text, or heart of the play if the actors don’t believe (or comprehend) what they’re saying. Still, The Winter’s Tale brims with eloquence, high tragedy and easy comedy—which is a lot for any night’s entertainment under moonlight. You owe it to yourself to take in this rare chance to see one of the Bard’s most unusual and controversial works. ‘The Winter’s Tale’ runs through Sept. 1 at the Grove in Delaveaga Park, 501 Upper Park Rd., Santa Cruz. santacruzshakespeare.org.
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The play’s driving theme echoes Othello. King Leontes of Sicily (Ian Merrill Peakes) and his old childhood friend King Polixenes of Bohemia (Lindsay Smiling) have been enjoying a long overdue visit together in Leontes’ court. As the play opens, Polixenes is bidding his friend farewell, having stayed nine months away from his own court in Bohemia. Leontes begs him to stay longer, to no avail. But when Leontes’ wife Hermione (Karen Peakes) asks, Polixenes relents. And herein lies the rub. Leontes suddenly finds himself consumed with jealousy and suspects that his pregnant wife Hermione might just be carrying the child of Polixenes, “he that wears her like a medal hanging about his neck.” Jealousy, spewed forth in Peakes’ spellbinding asides to the audience, turns to obsession, and soon Hermione is banished, Polixenes flees for his life, and Hermione’s newborn baby daughter is abandoned to the fates. In a dramatic time shift used nowhere else in Shakespeare, 16 years has gone by when the second half of the play begins. (Mega-kudos to Patty Gallagher, whose panache gives clarity throughout.) We’re now in the company of shepherds in Bohemia, where a 16-year-old beauty is about to be engaged to the king’s son. You can see where this is going. In Bohemia, things are as jolly as Sicily has been tragic. And played in repertory, the cast has some real fun with their double roles, moving from the noble court to the countryside with relish. The jarring eruption of a DJ dance party, however, does little to advance any understanding of the comedic plot twist, no matter how much light entertainment there is in the original text. Reviving audience focus with tall tales and song is the insanely talented Allen Gilmore as
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HE STILL BELIEVES Tim Capello, whose brief shirtless cameo in ‘The Lost Boys’ became an iconic cult-movie moment, plays the Blue Lagoon on Wednesday, Aug. 14.
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The Sexy Sax Man from Santa Cruz’s No. 1 cult movie plays solo at Blue Lagoon BY AARON CARNES
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n 1987, saxophonist Tim Cappello was in Santa Cruz for two days to film what would become one of the most famous scenes in the cult classic Lost Boys. He played the shirtless, oiled-up sexy sax man who soulfully sang “I Still Believe” while rocking his instrument hard at the Boardwalk, surrounded by flames and mystified teenagers. As Cappello walked around town during his down time, it struck him how fitting Santa Cruz was for the film. “It’s a hippie slacker town. Everybody was tie-dyed out and stoned. People are just coming up to me and chatting,” Cappello says. “I was like, ‘Wow, I’m walking around in the script.’”
That was the last time he set foot in Santa Cruz. The shoot was a brief vacation for him in his otherwiserigorous touring schedule playing sax in Tina Turner’s band. It was a fun two days, he says, and he deliberately made his character kitsch. “Purple and pink tie-dyed pants that are as tight as yoga pants. Big Doc Martens, lots of chains, and all greased up. That’s not what you do when you want to be Guns N’ Roses,” Cappello says. “It was definitely not my intention to be sexy.” On Wednesday, Aug. 14, Cappello returns to Santa Cruz, this time to play the Blue Lagoon. It’s part of his first-ever solo tour, and he’s literally alone, with not even a crew
member to help haul gear. “I was on tour with Tina for 15 years. Now I’m in my little Corolla stopping at every Motel 6 from New York to L.A.,” Cappello says. “This tour is the most fun I’ve ever had with music. I’m not a big fan of glitz and glamour.” Cappello has been playing to rooms of 150 to 200 people. He plays sax and sings over a backing track, in front of TV screens with custom-made video collages designed to entertain his rabid cult fanbase. He’s playing music off his debut solo album Blood On The Reed, which he released last year. It’s made up of fun dance songs that capture the era he came from, when sax was an important
component to bands of all genres. “Bruce Springsteen. Huey Lewis. They all had one,” Cappello says. “I thought it was dead forever. I’m really shocked I’m starting to get calls for session work again.” Cappello has been in the spotlight again the last few years. Last year, he made a guest appearance on Michelle Wolf’s Netflix show The Break for a bit called “Saxophone Apologies.” He also played saxophone on synthwave band Gunship’s 2018 single “Dark All Day,” which has nearly garnered 3 million views on YouTube. The cult around Lost Boys only grew as the years passed, especially in the age of the internet. Love for the sexy sax man scene skyrocketed. Saturday Night Live made a digital short in 2010 where John Hamm played a Tim Cappello character named Sergio. Cappello was honored to be the obvious inspiration for the sketch. Then, in 2015, the Mad Monster Party horror convention asked Cappello to make an appearance. He accepted, and was shocked to see the overwhelming fandom that existed for him. That got him plugged into the convention circuit, and gave him the confidence to do something he always wanted to do: record a solo album. As the center of attention, he could be as flamboyant as he wanted to be—his solo show is a lot of fun. With Turner, it was a tug of war. She wanted her band to be over the top, but Cappello was often too far over the top for her. He could never predict when she’d ask him to tone down his outfits. “She bought me my first codpiece,” he says. “She said, ‘This would be a fun thing for you to wear.” Now he can dress how he wants and play his songs. “I cannot get over how much people love it. There’s a roar that comes at me that just physically knocks me back,” Cappello says. “The smiles on people’s faces are those enormously wide, ugly smiles. I’ve never experienced it before.” Tim Capello performs at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 14, at Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $7. 423-7117.
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SUNSCREEN AWARENESS CLASS We use sunscreen to avoid skin cancer, but some studies have found that certain ingredients in sunscreen may also be harmful. Fantastic. There are many sunscreens available that don’t contain these ingredients, and local chiropractic specialist Danette Sutton will talk about what they are and where to find them. She will also go over other body care products, as well as how the body is affected by Vitamin D, the sun, good fats and minerals, and a healthy gallbladder. Bring your favorite sunscreen product, and let her evaluate it during the class. 1-2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 14. New Leaf Community Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleaf.com/events. Free.
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REDWOOD DULCIMER DAY A variety of zither, the dulcimer is lesser-known a type of musical string instrument that commonly has only three or four strings. In celebration of dulcimers everywhere, this event offers beginning-to-advanced music workshops on playing the mountain dulcimer. Those who have never even seen or touched a dulcimer are welcome. There will be loaner dulcimers, and for those who have more than one and don’t mind loaning, feel free to bring multiple. Free stringing, tuning and small repairs available as well. 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 17. Aptos United Methodist Church, 221 Thunderbird Drive, Aptos. 425-4939. Free.
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WEDNESDAY 8/14 ARTS BIG TREES EXHIBITION Enjoy the history, in images, of Welch’s Big Trees, now the Redwood Loop Trail at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. See images of features no longer in the park and learn about others that have unusual stories to tell. Noon-4 p.m. San Lorenzo Valley Museum, 12547 Hwy. 9, Boulder Creek. slvmuseum.com. Free. ‘INTO THE WOODS’ James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take everyone’s favorite storybook characters and bring them together for a timeless, yet relevant, piece ... and a rare modern classic. 7:30 p.m. Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. cabrillostage.com. $26/$16.
MUSIC TOBY GRAY VARIETY ACOUSTIC MUSIC Featuring artist showcases and a variety of musical styles and guests. Great food and drinks, a Santa Cruz downtown oasis. Family fun. Toby Gray—cool, mellow and smooth with a repertoire of several hundred of your favorite songs and fun, heartfelt originals. 6:30 p.m. The Reef Bar, 120 Union St., Santa Cruz. 459-9876. Free. UKULELE PARTY/SING-ALONG/OPEN MIC Monthly second Wednesday ukulele party at the Pono Hawaiian Grill/Reef Bar & Restaurant. Our first ukulele party was a lot of fun! Monthly we feature noted Ukulele performers. Bring your ukes, community and family. Music starts at 6:30 p.m., featured artist 7 p.m., sheet music selections from the Santa Cruz Ukulele Book provided for singalong. Open mic follows. Come early for a good seat. Pono serves very affordable “Best of Santa Cruz” Hawaiian food, as well as a fine tropical bar. 6:30 p.m. Pono Hawaiian Grill, 120 Union St., Santa Cruz. Free.
OUTDOOR KEVIN STEPHEN COOK MEMORIAL Kevin Stephen Cook, better known as Tom Cook in Santa Cruz, was killed on his bicycle on Thursday, May 23, just South of Davenport
THURSDAY 8/15 CONVERSATION TO END HOMELESSNESS Instead of going downtown, getting bitter and then turning to the internet to complain about homelessness in Santa Cruz, join Santa Cruz’s Homeless Services Center in a productive, informative conversation around homelessness in Santa Cruz. The conversation will be guided by data. It’s important to keep in mind, though, that there is still a lot of missing information when it comes to homelessness locally. There will be folks from all walks of life, including those who are homeless and those who work with the homeless everyday. Meet on the top floor. 6-8 p.m. Downtown Santa Cruz Public Library, 224 Church St., Santa Cruz. evan@thefreeguide.org. Free.
Landing. Tom was born in London, and came to Santa Cruz sometime around 1990. He took part in the UCSC Farm and Garden apprentice program and made his California home in the woods of Bonny Doon, where he was known as a master washer of windows and a lover of Shakespeare. He was a kind and generous soul, always ready to talk, make new friends, and to share anything that he had. He will be greatly missed. A celebration of Tom’s life will be held on his birthday, Wednesday, Aug. 14. All are welcome and encouraged to bring stories,
food and drink to share. Any questions can be directed to Colin Hannon at 831-345-4372. 6 p.m. Davenport Landing Beach, 335 Davenport Landing Rd., Davenport.
THURSDAY 8/15 ARTS ‘INTO THE WOODS’ James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take everyone’s favorite storybook characters and bring them
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Sketching in the Garden AUGUST 24, 9:30–11:30AM ALAN CHADWICK GARDEN $5–$40/PERSON
In this class, cultivate your observational skills and artistic talent with inspiration from the Alan Chadwick Garden. Instructor will guide our garden artists when needed with composition, technique, or direction. Bring your own materials. Instructor will provide sample materials to experiment with. Register in advance at https://gardenart.bpt.me/.
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AUGUST 24, 9–11AM UC SANTA CRUZ ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDEN FREE WITH ADMISSION TO THE ARBORETUM
Weekend with Shakespeare AUGUST 17 & 18, 12–4PM HUMANITIES 1 BUILDING, ROOM 210 FREE ADMISSION
Join Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations about the 2019 Santa Cruz Shakespeare main stage productions, The Winter’s Tale and The Comedy of Errors.
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Each walk begins with a short instructional presentation. Before heading out to the gardens to practice, get tips from each other and our volunteer instructors. Bring a water bottle, layers of clothing, walking shoes, and your camera (smartphone cameras welcome). Register in advance at arboretum.ucsc.edu.
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Future Garden for the Central Coast of California DURING ARBORETUM HOURS UC SANTA CRUZ ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDEN FREE WITH ADMISSION TO THE ARBORETUM
A major art and science project by Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison. The Harrisons worked with scientists and botanists to create trial gardens in the geodesic domes, where native plant species respond to the temperatures and water conditions scientists foresee for the next 50 years.
Songs of Labor & Transcendence: The Trianon Press Archive DURING LIBRARY HOURS UC SANTA CRUZ MCHENRY LIBRARY FREE ADMISSION
Founded in Paris in 1947, the Trianon Press published an astonishing catalog of fine art books in the latter half of the 20th century. This exhibit explores the breadth of this renowned press’s publications and the highly skilled printers’ art behind each edition’s creation.
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Garden Herbalism for Digestive and Respiratory Health SEPTEMBER 19
Colson Whitehead Reading: The Nickel Boys SEPTEMBER 21
An Evening with Malcolm Gladwell in San Mateo
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Learn about Monterey Bay from a vantage point a half-mile out to sea, without ever leaving land! Seymour Marine Discovery Center volunteers are available to answer your marine science questions every Saturday from noon to 3 PM, through August 24. Look for the people wearing khaki pants and navy blue Seymour Center shirts.
Changing phenology is a key indicator of climate change; for example, your garden plants blooming earlier during warm years. Monitor California native plants while touring the Arboretum. Data will be used in national research and land management. Register in advance at arboretum.ucsc.edu.
Photography Walks with Bill & Ferd
This 90-minute, behind-the-scenes hiking tour takes visitors into Younger Lagoon Reserve adjacent to the Seymour Marine Discovery Center. The Reserve contains diverse coastal habitat and is home to birds of prey, migrating sea birds, bobcats, and other wildlife. Advance reservations recommended: (831) 459-3800.
AUGUST 17, 12–3PM SANTA CRUZ MUNICIPAL WHARF FREE ADMISSION
AUGUST 18, 11AM–1PM UC SANTA CRUZ ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDEN FREE WITH ADMISSION TO THE ARBORETUM
Learn about what causes harmful algal blooms in the Monterey Bay and see how new technologies are addressing seafood safety. Alexis Fischer presents “A New Age of Dinoflagellates: Using AI and Robots to Study Harmful Algal Blooms.”
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Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf Experience
Community Science: Summer Phenology Walk
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CALENDAR Trace Hot Spot week! Adventure runner Leor Pantilat will share his experiences hiking and swimming the Arroyo Seco from its headwaters in the Ventana Wilderness to the day-use Area far downstream. There will be a food truck, beers by Alvarado Street Brewery & Grill, and a raffle. 7 p.m. Patagonia Santa Cruz, 415 River St., Santa Cruz. Free. YOUNGER LAGOON RESERVE TOURS This 90-minute, behind-the-scenes hiking tour takes visitors into Younger Lagoon Reserve adjacent to the Seymour Marine Discovery Center. Part of the University of California Natural Reserve System, Younger Lagoon Reserve contains diverse coastal habitat and is home to birds of prey, migrating sea birds, bobcats, and other wildlife. Come and see what scientists are doing to track local mammals, restore native habitat, and learn about the workings of one of California’s rare coastal lagoons. A tour is offered on selected Thursdays and Sundays of each month. 10:30 a.m.-noon. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz. 459-3800.
SUNDAY 8/18 4TH ANNUAL PAJARO VALLEY PRIDE Pride month may be over, but pride season is in full swing. Pajaro Valley Pride heard all of your queer-ies about last year’s event, and this year they mixing it up a bit with a new location. This year’s theme is “Remembering 50 Years of Stonewall Trailblazers: Power to the Youth.” With that in mind, this year’s pride experience aims to honor and celebrate the LGBT+ trail blazers while also shining a light on the future. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. YWCA, 340 East Beach St., Watsonville. pajarovalleypride.org. Free.
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piece ... and a rare modern classic. 7:30 p.m. Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. cabrillostage.com. $26/$16.
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PLEASURE POINT THIRD THURSDAY Join us this evening at Way of Life to meet up with local artist Lisa Marie Jewelry Design. We are partnering with the Pleasure Point Business Association to offer this monthly event. Refreshments will be served. 5-8 p.m. Way of Life, 1220 A 41st Ave., Capitola. Free.
FOOD & WINE POPUP PICNICS IN THE PARK Take a break to enjoy tacos on the terrazza, with food by Taquitos Gabriel available for purchase. The full menu includes tacos, plates, burritos, quesadillas, and drinks with occasional specials, such as mole. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Mission Historic State Park, 144 School St., Santa Cruz. thatsmypark.org.
MUSIC NEW WORLD STRING PROJECT—CELTIC, NORDIC & AMERICAN FOLK TRADITIONS The New World String Project brings together four mighty players who weave a shimmering sonic tapestry from Celtic, Nordic and American folk traditions. 7:30 p.m. Michael’s on Main, 2591 S Main St., Soquel. REGGAE THURSDAYS MI DEH YAH Reality Sound International and The Catalyst present Reggae Thursdays with DJ Spleece and friends. Dancehall reggae remix. 7 p.m. The Catalyst Club, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. santacruzreggae.com. Free.
OUTDOOR ARROYO SECO HOT SPOT KICKOFF EVENT Join the Ventana Wilderness Alliance at the Santa Cruz Patagonia store on Thursday, Aug. 15, from 7-9 p.m. to celebrate the beginning of our Arroyo Seco Leave No
golden age of Broadway musicals, features a ton of laughter, romance, and the music numbers are toe-tappingly hummable! 7:30 p.m. Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front St., Santa Cruz. mctshows.org. $8. SANTA CRUZ SHAKESPEARE NEXGEN: THE INTERN CO.The SCS Sessions are a series of Q&A events, discussions with the SCS creative team and actors including a literary overview of the season’s Shakespeare plays. This Q&A features our intern company. Noon-1 p.m. The Nickelodeon, 210 Lincoln St., Santa Cruz. Free.
GROUPS PRESCHOOL STORYTIME Join us at the Aptos Library for our weekly Preschool Story Time. We’ll read books, sing songs and make simple crafts! Suggested ages 3-6. 10-11 a.m. Aptos Branch Library, 7695 Soquel Drive, Aptos.
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UNLOCKING TRUE HAPPINESS Held on the first and third Fridays of each month, “Unlocking True Happiness” at the Wisdom Center of Santa Cruz is an opportunity for newcomers and old friends to explore the Buddha’s teachings as they are applied in our daily lives, to deepen our experience of genuine well-being and meaning. “Unlocking True Happiness” topics combine ideas from Buddhism with those from the fields of positive psychology, Western philosophy, and current events. 10:30 a.m.-noon. Wisdom Center of Santa Cruz, 740 Front St. #155, Santa Cruz. wisdomcentersc.org.
CURATED—GRAND OPENING Curated, Capitola Village’s newest art gallery, will be hosting a grand opening celebration with an opening exhibition. The 14 artists represented by Curated are award-winning professionals working in contemporary and traditional art forms and have connections to the Bay Area, Santa Cruz and Capitola. At the event, there will be a ribbon cutting ceremony organized by the by the CapitolaSoquel Chamber of Commerce, a wine tasting by the Capitola Wine Bar and painting demonstrations by gallery artists Carrie Clayden and Noelle Correia. 5-7 p.m. Curated, 309 Capitola Ave., Capitola. curatedbythesea.com. Free. ‘INTO THE WOODS’ James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take everyone’s favorite storybook characters and bring them together for a timeless, yet relevant, piece ... and a rare modern classic. 7:30 p.m. Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. cabrillostage.com. $26/$16. MCT PRESENTS ‘WHO’S GOT ME’ Mountain Community Theater, in partnership with Act Two Investors, LLC, proudly presents a staged reading of “Who’s Got Me”, a new musical with book, music and lyrics by local playwright Jeffrey Scharf. This exciting musical, a throwback to the
MUSIC 10,000 MANIACS The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk’s free Friday Night Bands on the Beach concert series features top 40 bands from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s with free shows at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on the Boardwalk’s beach bandstand. 10,000 Maniacs is an American alternative-rock band that was founded in 1981 and achieved its most significant success between 1987 and 1993, when they released four albums that charted in the top 50 in the U.S. 6:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz. Free. TIBETAN SINGER YUNCHEN LHAMO IN CONCERT This concert is a fundraiser for Yungchen’s organization called One
CALENDAR Drop of Kindness (a 501c3 nonprofit). The foundation was established in 2004 with the aim of helping of all sentient beings through direct action, multicultural programs, community services and charitable giving. In particular, the foundation is dedicated to the preservation of Tibetan culture, whether in Tibet, Nepal, India, the U.S. or elsewhere, through offering multicultural programs, educational projects, lectures and workshops that integrate music, mindfulness, and art, in order to help facilitate in everyone a more positive outlook on life. 7 p.m. Pacific Cultural Center/ Ashtanga Yoga Institute, 1307 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz. $20-$40 sliding scale.
SATURDAY 8/17 ARTS ACRYLIC POUR PAINTING In this class, we will explore the fun and very addicting technique of “dirty pours” and “flip cup” acrylic pours. The results look like marble, planets, or even underwater worlds when poured onto a surface. You will then make your own unique abstract painting. At the end of class, each student will have a 16x20, one-of-a-kind finished work of art to enjoy. 2-4 p.m. Art of Santa Cruz, 1855 41st Ave., Capitola.
MCT PRESENTS ‘WHO’S GOT ME’ Mountain Community Theater, in partnership with Act Two Investors, LLC, proudly presents a staged reading of “Who’s Got Me”, a new musical with book, music and lyrics by local playwright Jeffrey Scharf. This exciting musical, a throwback to the golden age of Broadway musicals, features a ton of laughter, romance, and the music numbers are toe-tappingly hummable! 7:30 p.m. Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front St., Santa Cruz. mctshows.org.$8. WOMENCARE—ART FOR HEALING For women living with cancer: Paint, draw, glitter, and use pastels, clay, natural materials to
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CLASSES SALSA RUEDA FOR BEGINNERS / PARA PRINCIPIANTES Salsa Rueda for the pure beginner. Monthly socials for experienced dancers! Great music and sound system. Learn the footwork, the cues, and the stylizations in an encouraging environment from a great teacher with years of experience teaching dance. Students warm up, learn at the mirror, then learn partner dancing and finally dance in a Rueda or wheel, trading partners and flowing the joy and learning. 7-8 p.m. Watsonville Yoga, Dance and Healing Arts, 375 N. Main St., Watsonville. $10.
FOOD & WINE GREAT STARTS PRODUCE POP-UP Patagonia Santa Cruz is pleased to announce that Great Starts, our community nonprofit produce pop-up will continue in August at the store. Join us on the deck at to pick up fresh produce and vegetable starts provided by small farms including Green Planet Organics, Common Roots Farm, Mesa Verde Gardens, and The Homeless Garden Project. Come support these amazing organizations and stock your fridge and pantry with farm-to-table organic vegetables, fruits and flowers. 1-2 p.m. Patagonia, 415 River St. Suite C, Santa Cruz. VEGAN COOKING & WINE PAIRING CLASS: A TASTE OF MOROCCO ON YOUR PLATE Greetings foodies and wine lovers! Join me for a delightful afternoon enjoying the beautiful art of Moroccan cooking and wine pairing at the lovely FlipJack Ranch, nestled in the magical Santa Cruz Mountains. We’ll be going on a delicious journey to Marrakech, Morocco, through our culinary adventures together! In this delicious, hands-on vegan cooking and baking class (dairy and egg-free, but not gluten/nut-free), you’ll make a four-course meal. 1-5 p.m. FlipJack Ranch, 4600 Smith Grade, Santa Cruz. $175.
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MARCIA BASSETT & SAMAR LUBALSKI + ORDINARY BLOOD A night of long-form drones and noise, Marcia Bassett (electric guitar) & Samara Lubelski (amplified violin), showing “just how much brain damage you can do using only a guitar and a violin” (Byron Coley). Santa Cruz artist ordinary blood (Danny Jay) opens the night with gloomy textures on guitars, vocals, bows, synthesizers, and electronics. 8 p.m. Radius Gallery, 1050 River St., Santa Cruz. Free.
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FRIDAY 8/16 FOOD TRUCK SUMMER SERIES A new installment of the food truck summer series takes over the north end of Pacific Avenue, between Locust and Water streets. Each month, the series showcases local artisans, dance troupes, bands and musicians. Local food trucks include Drunk Monkey, Nomad Momo, Rogue Pye, Scrumptious Fish and Chips, Shockwave, and Union Foodie Truck. This month includes live music by Sasha’s Money Band and Devil Sliders.
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in our daily life. The program begins with meditation followed by a dharma talk by one of our teachers: Rev. Daijaku Kinst or Rev. Shinshu Roberts. Talks are for both the beginner as well as the advanced practitioner. 8:30 a.m. Ocean Gate Zen, 920 41st Ave. Suite F, Santa Cruz. oceangatezen. org.
from the University of California, Santa Cruz utilize this easy access to ocean ecosystems to conduct research in sustainable energy, biological oceanography, harmful algal blooms, and marine mammals. Look for us near the end of the wharf! Volunteers will be wearing uniforms of khaki pants and navy blue Seymour Center shirts. Noon-3 p.m. Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf.
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JOIN US FOR DANCING, DJS & DRINK SPECIALS @MOTIVSC SATURDAYS. IT’S TIME FOR HOMO HAPPY HOUR, GIRL Spend the early evening with the friendliest LGBTQ crowd in town. Gay, straight, trans or just plain kinky? All LGBTQ allies and orientations are welcome. Make that move. 3-7 p.m. Motiv, 1209 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. motivsc.com.
OUTDOOR THE SANTA CRUZ MUNICIPAL WHARF EXPERIENCE The Santa Cruz Wharf extends a half-mile out to sea in a dynamic and truly marine environment. Scientists
ARTS RACE THROUGH TIME Gather your team for an epic local history scavenger hunt. Work to solve clues with your team that reveal places in Santa Cruz that hold historical significance. Earn awesome prizes at the conclusion of the race for fastest time, most points, best dressed, and best team name. 1-6 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH), 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. SUNDAY SEASIDE CRAFTS AT THE SEYMOUR CENTER Come create and take home a fun souvenir, an activity for the
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OUTDOOR COMMUNITY SCIENCE: SUMMER PHENOLOGY WALKS AT THE UCSC ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDEN Join us to study the science of the seasons and be a part of a national effort to monitor the effects of climate change. Phenology is nature’s calendar—the timing of life cycle events, for example: when plants first bloom, birds migrate and insects hatch. Monitoring phenology is important; changing phenology is a key indicator of climate change. It is a hot topic in climate change research. You may have even observed phenology change without realizing it, like if you noticed plants in your garden blooming earlier during warm years. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Arboretum, Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz. $5 admission, UCSC students free.
MONDAY 8/19 GROUPS FATHERHOOD & CO-PARENTING WEEKLY GROUP Luma Yoga and Deutron Kebebew of the local non-profit MENtors have come together to present Fatherhood and Co-Parenting, a weekly group which will explore, promote and strengthen all types of relationships that fathers may find themselves in: parent-child, couple/ co-parenting, self, and community. Each
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HEALTH SANTA CRUZ BODYWORK COLLECTIVE (SCBC) Santa Cruz Bodywork Collective is a dojo—a place of the way—for those seeking guided instruction to achieving greater ease, flow and connection in one’s body, mind, heart and life. The third Monday of each month is open for the community to come deepen their healing skills and personal growth and development. 7 p.m. Cypress Health Institute. 1119 Pacific Ave. Suite 300, Santa Cruz.
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TUESDAY 8/20 ARTS GREENWOOD ARTS We begin with song and circle dance, then freely move to beautiful music with colored materials, then continue on to pastel drawing and creative writing. No previous experience necessary. Concludes with a sharing circle. 2-4 p.m. Outdoors in beautiful Aptos. Directions given with your RSVP. shiningjoys@gmail.com. $10.
FOOD & WINE TACO TUESDAY On Tuesdays we eat tacos! Two delicious tacos and a locally crafted beer for $10. If the mood suits you, add a side of guacamole or a single order of tacos! 6-9 p.m. Hotel Paradox, 611 Ocean St., Santa Cruz.
HEALTH PSYCHIC SOUND HEALER-MICHELE NEWMAN Join Us for a deep sonic journey into healing on a cellular level with harmonic, alchemical crystal bowls. Feel free to sit or lay down in a restorative pose and receive this uniquely relaxing expression of compassion. Immerse your whole being in healing crystal bowl sound resonance and Michele's Angelic Voice. Experience Vibrational Frequencies that reverberate through your cells and your soul. 7-9 p.m. Avalon Visions Center for Creative Spirituality, 2815 Porter St., Soquel. 4647245. $15.
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SCIENCE SUNDAY—A NEW AGE OF DINOFLAGELLATES: USING AI AND ROBOTS TO STUDY HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS Monterey Bay is subject to intense blooms of dinoflagellates, a type of algae that can sometimes produce harmful toxins. Between 2004 and 2007, these blooms were so dominant that it was known as the “age of dinoflagellates.” Throughout 2018 and 2019, after a decade of absence, an abundance of dinoflagellates was detected by an autonomous robot at the Santa Cruz Wharf. 1:30-2:30 p.m. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz.
evening is designed and facilitated to foster a teaching and learning environment that promotes peer-to-peer education, while building on one’s personal reflection and experience. 6:30 p.m. Luma Yoga And Family Center, 1010 Center St., Santa Cruz. Sliding scale donation.
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LAUREN JUNE Lauren June was struck by something a customer told her when she was waiting tables and dropped some glasses: “Gravity’s been heavier this week.” “I looked up at him and said, ‘That’s a really interesting perspective.’” June says. “It’s comical, but there’s something sweet and sincere about it. I just loved that.” For a while, she tried to write a song with that brilliant line but didn’t get anywhere. Finally, she realized that to do the line justice, she needed a song about her interaction with the customer.
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“There is an overall kindness to him that drew me in, and knowing so little about someone, but also that feeling of human connection even in those small encounters,” June says.
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The song, still untitled, is one of a handful that the local singersongwriter is working on for her debut indie-folk EP, which she hopes will be out in late 2019 or early 2020. Some songs will have drums and bass. Others will be acoustic. June has been playing music her entire life, but it’s mostly been a hobby. About three years ago, she recorded a handful of songs and uploaded them to SoundCloud— haunting folk songs, mostly personal expressions of her internal world. “I always tended to write sad, depressing music,” June says. “I’m a fairly private person except for that one outlet.” AARON CARNES 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.
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PHIL MARSH Cats may have nine lives, but Phil Marsh has 10. A founding member of freaky Berkeley folk outfit the Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, Marsh spent the ’60s at the bleeding edge of the hippie movement. At the end of the decade, he took part in one of the music industry’s most infamous pranks, when CGSB recorded and released The Masked Marauders, a hoax Dylan/Jagger/Beatles collab album based on a joke review in Rolling Stone. Since then, the Bay native has been a guitarist for Country Joe McDonald and a documentary soundtrack composer.
then Humboldt County seven-piece Diggin’ Dirt is precisely the kind of funk band you’ve been waiting for. Not a single member is wearing the exact same wacky, ’70s-pattern shirts at any given show. We’re talking about a revolution in color! Oh, and they also play pretty spectacular psych-infused, high-energy, deep-funk jams, punctuated with horns and Zach Alder’s squealing, soulful voice as the band’s charismatic front man. AC 8:30 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $10 adv/$15 door. 479-1854.
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Caitlin Gill wants you to know she thinks you’re beautiful. Don’t believe us? Check out the preview single from her latest album release, Major, which dropped on Aug. 2. “We Are Beautiful” was recorded at the iconic Punch Line in San Francisco, and is packed with raw, outrageous, self-affirming fun. On Aug. 15, she kicks off a six-date West Coast CD release tour starting at DNA’s Comedy Lab. MAT WEIR
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8 p.m. DNA’s Comedy Lab, 155 River St., Santa Cruz. $20 adv/$25 door. 900-5123.
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7:30 p.m. Michael’s On Main, 2591 Main St., Soquel. $10. 479-9777
THURSDAY 8/15 FUNK
FRIDAY 8/16 ELECTRO-FUNK
PLANET BOOTY Dance music should have a sense of humor. You’re on the dance floor, getting sweaty and making a fool of yourself—why not laugh, too? Oakland trio Planet Booty gets this. The group has some seriously booty-shaking electro-funk grooves, but also some funny lyrics about booty shaking. “Your booty is evidence of a higher power,” goes one line in “Junk in The Trunk.” In the song’s video, the band turns a funeral into a sermon on the power of booty, which transforms into a twerking dance party. AC 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $10 adv/$15 door. 429-6994.
SATURDAY 8/17 GARAGE-ROCK
THE NUDE PARTY The Nude Party is a band of six lovable dudes who spent their college years in North Carolina playing
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delicate harmonium-and-piano anthem “How It Ends” from Everything is Illuminated. Known for writing tunes with wordly flair and a bit of sass (it started as a backing band for burlesque shows), singer Nick Urata is known to break out a Greek bouzouki now and again. MH
9 p.m. Felton Music Hall, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $10. 704-7113.
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SUNDAY 8/18 CABARET
DEVOTCHKA There was a time when everyone’s Winamp playlist included soundtrack items like “Requiem for a Dream Song” and “Theme from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” In those days, DeVotchKa often snuck in, Trojan-horse style, infiltrating playlists via pivotal songs on heartstring-tugging soundtracks, like the
8 p.m. Felton Music Hall, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $20 adv/$24 door. 335-2800.
MONDAY 8/19 John Pizzarelli didn’t wait until Nat “King” Cole’s 100th birthday to celebrate the hugely influential jazz pianist and supremely suave pop star. A dexterously swinging guitarist and accomplished rhythm singer with a light, pleasing tone, Pizzarelli has spent much of his career exploring the Cole songbook, starting with his breakthrough 1994 album Dear Mr. Cole. His latest release, 100 Year Salute to Nat King Cole, is a beautifully measured take on a set of songs indelibly associated with the peerless Cole. He’s
joined by bassist Mike Karnon and the brilliant Australian pianist Konrad Paszkudzki. ANDREW GILBERT 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $42 adv/$47.25 door. 427-2227.
TUESDAY 8/20 INDIE
THE PALMS Nights are balmy in L.A., and the air thrums with unmistakable energy. That could be the sheer number of cars rumbling along the mazes of asphalt, or maybe it’s the result of throngs of people ready for anything to happen at any moment. L.A. has a touch of dreamscape magic, like a good pop song that comes alive with the windows open, even if you have to smell the dump truck in front of you. The Palms has a similar flavor in its indie-pop tunes; the joy of drifting along, full of potential, weightless above the refuse, briefly oblivious to the encroaching blight. AB 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $12. 423-1338.
9 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27, Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $20. Information: catalystclub.com. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22, to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.
IN THE QUEUE WILLIE K
Hawaain guitar virtuoso. Wednesday at Moe’s Alley NEW WORLD STRING PROJECTS
Acoustic celctic heroes. Thursday at Michael’s On Main THE ORIGINAL WAILERS
Reggae musicians that played with the Bob Marley. Friday at Catalyst FLOR DE CANA
Local Cuban and Colombian powerhouse. Saturday at Moe’s Alley MIKE LOVE
Hawaiian style reggae, full of love. Tuesday at Felton Music Hall
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’60s-drenched rock at frat parties, often butt-naked. They grew up and put on some clothes but still bust out catchy, twangy garage-rock for crowds—infectious and fun, with some serious chops, and an undeniable affinity for the time when brown-leather-fringe vests were a thing. It’s classy party music: rowdy callbacks, tambourines and spooky organ riffs, but so well polished you’d think they’d never rolled into a frat party nude. AMY BEE
Jamaican reggae artist Protoje was destined to be a reggae star. His mother Lorna Bennett topped the Jamaican charts twice in the early ’70s; her biggest hit was the chilled out “Breakfast in Bed.” Protoje’s father was a calypso star in Saint Vincent. Fast forward to 2005, when their son—the appropriately named Protoje—entered the world of reggae with one foot in the classic roots tradition, and the other in the more contemporary dancehall sound. He’s got several albums and hit singles under his name, but what’s most important is the infectious shows he puts on.
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Wednesday August 14 –7/8pm $30 Hawaii’s Musical Treasure Returns
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LIVE MUSIC
Thursday August 15 –8/8:30pm $10/15
Funk Featuring Members Of Pimps Of Joytime
DIGGIN DIRT + WALK TALK
WED
8/14
THU
8/15
8/16
FRI Coffee Zombie Collective Free 6:30p
ABBOTT SQUARE 118 Cooper St, Santa Cruz
SAT
8/17
SUN
8/18
MON
Friday August 16 –8/9pm $10/15
APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos
Al Frisby Free 6-8p
Little Jonny Lawton Free 6-8p
James Murray Free 6-8p
Magpies Blues Band Free 6-8p
Pete Madsen Free 6-8p
KATDELIC
BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
Tim Cappello, the Infamous Swanks, & Blue Nun $7 9p
Comedy Night w/ Chree, Retro Dance Party Free 9p
Club 2000 Free 9p
A Night w/ Dave the Drummer $5 9p
The Box: Gothic/ Industrial Night Free 9p
Latin Dance Party
BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz
Karaoke 8p-Close
Karaoke 8p-Close
Cake By the Ocean 9:15p-12:45a
Karaoke 6p-Close
Karaoke 6p-Close
Sunday August 18 –3/4pm $15/20
BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola
Alex Lucero & Friends 8p
Karaoke 9-12:30a
Karaoke 9-12:30a
Joseph Mortela 7-10p
Kip Allert 7-10p
All-Star Funk Band
Saturday August 17 –8/9pm $10/15
FLOR DE CAÑA Afternoon Blues Series
JIMMY THACKERY
Wednesday August 21 –8/8:30pm $15/20 Country & Western Swing From Texas
WAYNE HANCOCK + THE HAYWOODS
Thursday August 22 –7:30/8pm $10/15 All-Star Band Featuring Local Favorites
HOMELAND REVIVAL w/ JAMES DURBIN & NICK GALLANT Friday August 23 –7:30/8:30pm $30/35 2 Legends On Stage Together
CAPITOLA WINE BAR 115 San Jose Ave, Capitola THE CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
Tokyo Blast: A Night of J-Rock & J-Pop $18-$70 7p
Hawthorne Heights & Emery w/ Oh, Sleeper! $20 7:30p
8/19
Broken Shades Free 6-8p
CORK AND FORK 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola
Open Mic Night Free 7-10p
CORRALITOS CULTURAL CENTER 127 Hames Rd., Corralitos
Mojo Mix Free 6-8p Psychotic Reaction, Homebrew, Rossmoor, & Shoobies $5 9p
Karaoke 8p-Close
Karaoke 8p-Close
The Radio 3-6p
The Palms & Bay Ledges w/ Kruel Summer $12 8:30p
Passafire w/ Kash’d Out $14 9p Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p
8/20
The Original Wailers w/ Os Cocos $20 9p
THE CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville
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August Sun Free 7p
KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p
Open Mic 7-10p
Acoustic Open Jam 3-5p
DAVE ALVIN & JIMMIE DALE GILMORE Saturday August 24 –8/9 $25/30 Reggae En Español From Chile
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Aug 25 ERIC LINDELL + ANSON FUNDERBURGH Aug 28 JESSE DANIEL + VINCENT NEIL EMERSON Aug 29 THE BLASTERS + Jesse Dayton Aug 30, 31 METALACHI Sep 1 POPA CHUBBY Sep 4 THE YAWPERS + Thanks Buddy Sep 6 SAN GERONIMO Sep 7 KATCHAFIRE + EARTHKRY Sep 8 JUNIOR BROWN Sep 13 BEN MORRISON + RON ARTIS II Sep 14 BOOSTIVE Sep 15 RICK ESTRIN + THE NIGHTCATS Sep 18 TUBBY LOVE, AMBER LILY & PETER HARPER Sep 19 MIKE WATT + THE MISSINGMEN Sep 20 DELVON LAMARR ORGAN TRIO Sep 21 BLACKALICIOUS Sep 22 LYDIA PENCE + COLD BLOOD Sep 25 PAUL CAUTHEN Sep 27 HENRY CHADWICK Sep 28 HILLSTOMP + Caitlin Jemma Oct 4 LITTLE HURRICANE Oct 5 LA MISA NEGRA Oct 6 JIMBO MATHUS Oct 9 ZACK DEPUTY
WWW.MOESALLEY.COM 1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz 831.479.1854
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CREPE PLACE
Matt Andersen Kuumbwa 8/25
ADVANCE TICKETS ON TICKETWEB
HALF MOON BAY OUTDOORS
SAT AUG 24
MATTSON 2 CREPE 9/18 + 19
OPEN LATE - EVERY NIGHT!
WEDNESDAY 8/14
WESTERN WEDNESDAY 9PM - $10 DOOR OR $7 WITH COWBOY BOOTS THURSDAY 8/15
Big Sur 9/8
THIRSTY THURSDAY w/ SPECIAL GUEST
HENRY MILLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY
YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS! FRIDAY 8/16
Please CARPOOL / RIDEHSARE to Big Sur.
PLANET BOOTY w/ SPECIAL GUEST 9PM - $10 ADV. OR $12 DOOR SATURDAY 8/17
Please CARPOOL / RIDEHSARE to Big Sur.
YO LA TENGO KEVIN MORBY
SMITH AND TEGIO w/ NELS ANDREWS 9PM - $8 DOOR
SUNDAY 8/18
FERNWOOD BIG SUR SEPT 20 + 21
FRUIT BATS FELTON 10/4
Please CARPOOL / RIDEHSARE to Big Sur.
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TODD SNIDER + RAMBLIN JACK RIO 10/24
$10 adv./$10 door seated <21 w/parent Thu. Aug. 15 7:30pm
new World String project $16 adv./$18 door seated <21 w/parent nojojen
Fri. Aug. 16 5pm HAPPY HOUR / NO COVER Fri. Aug. 16 8:30pm
Jerry Brown & Friends $10 adv./$10 door Dance – ages 21 + The Sun Kings
Sat. Aug. 17 8:30pm PREMIER BEATLES TRIBUTE $20 adv./$20 door Dance – ages 21 +
grateful Sunday
Sun. Aug. 18 5:30pm GRATEFUL DEAD TUNES / NO COVER
MONDAY 8/19
Wed. Aug. 21 7:30pm $10 adv./$10 door seated <21 w/parent
MASSIVE MONDAYS w/ DRINKS AND CHILL?
ALL DAY - ALL NIGHT
TUESDAY 8/20
FUNK NIGHT w/ SPACE HEATER
9:30 PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT
BIG
Terry Shields
FREE BLUEGRASS IN THE BEAUTIFUL GARDEN 5PM
Sachiko Kanenobu +++ MORE BENEFIT CAMPING WEEKEND
phil marsh
Wed. Aug. 14 7:30pm w/patti maxine and
Cruz Control
Edge of The West gram parsons
Thu. Aug. 22 7:30pm plays $10 adv./$10 door seated <21 w/parent
Coming Up
Harbor patrol plus Cement Ship one grass Two grass plus Wild iris Tue. Aug. 27 michael gulezian & michael manring Fri. Aug. 23 Sat. Aug. 24
WEEKEND BRUNCH FULL BAR
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1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz 429-6994
2591 Main St, Soquel, CA 95073
MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ
Full Concert Calendar : MichaelsonMainMusic.com
LIVE MUSIC WED
8/14
THE CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz
Western Wednesday: The Good Sams 9p
CROW’S NEST 2218 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz
Papibda & Friends $5 8p
DISCRETION BREWING 2703 41st Ave, Soquel
Will Breman Free 6:30-8:30p
DNA’S COMEDY LAB 155 River St, Santa Cruz
Blind Tiger Open Mic Night 8p
THU
8/15
8/16
FRI Planet Booty w/ Flynt Flossy & Turquoise $10/$15 9p
8/17
8/18
SAT SUN Smith & Tegio w/ the Open Bluegrass Jam Brothers Strong & more Free 5p $8 9p
Sambada Free 5:30p Isaac & the Haze $5 8:30p
Restless Souls $6 9p
Elie & Enah Free 2p Vintage Point $7 9:30p
Caitlin Gill w/ Jackie Kashian and Chris Fairbanks 8p
Allison Stevenson 7 & 9:30p
Keith Lowell Jensen 7 & 9:30p
MON
8/19
THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville
TUE
8/20
Funk Night w/ Space Heater $6 9p-12a
Elie & Enah Free 2p Live Comedy $7 9p
Yuji Tojo $3 8p
Mike Love w/ Chase Makai $15 7p
Southsiders 8p Linc Russin 7-9p
Mark Creech 6:30-9:30p
KUUMBWA JAZZ 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz
Gabriel Royal $26.25/$31.50 7p
MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel
Phil Marsh w/ Patti Maxine & Terry Shields $10 7:30p
New World String Project $16/$18 7:30p
MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz
Blind Rick Free 6p
Al Frisby Free 6p
Spellbinding cello and vocals.
1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Monday, August 19 • 7 PM
JOHN PIZZARELLI TRIO – FOR CENTENNIAL REASONS: 100 YEAR SALUTE TO NAT KING COLE Thursday, August 22 • 7 PM
HRISTO VITCHEV QUARTET
Guitar artistry full of intensity, beauty, and passion.
1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS
Bob Basa 6:30-9:30p
JACK O’NEILL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 175 W Cliff Dr. Santa Cruz
GABRIEL ROYAL
A beloved interpreter of the Great American Songbook, celebrating Cole.
The Do-Rights The Nude Party w/ BOA DeVotchKa w/ Jamie Burlesque & Homebrew $10 8p Drake $20-$50 7p $10/$15 7:30p
FELTON MUSIC HALL 6275 Hwy 9, Felton
GABRIELLA CAFE 910 Cedar St., Santa Cruz
Thursday, August 15 • 7 PM
Saturday, August 24 • 8 PM
MALIMA KONE Scott Slaughter 6:30-9:30p
Tickets: brownpapertickets.com
Firefly 6:30-9:30p
Monday, August 26 • 7 PM John Pizzarelli Trio $42.$47.25 7p
NoJoKen Free 5p Jerry Brown & Friends $10 8:30p Paula Harris & Nate Ginsberg Free 6p
The Sun Kings $20 8:30p
Grateful Sunday Concert Series Free 5:30p
Westside Sheiks Free 6p
Jimmy Dewrance Free 6p
Pete Madsen Free 6p
Blues Mechanics Free 6p
WIL BLADES’ 40TH BIRTHDAY PARTY WITH DONALD HARRISON JR., JEFF PARKER, SCOTT AMENDOLA & MIKE CLARK
An all-star birthday celebration for Blades.
1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Thursday, August 29 • 7 PM
KRISTEN STROM GROUP: THE MUSIC OF JOHN SHIFFLETT
The Last Great
Paying homage to a local jazz figurehead with a renowned Bay Area ensemble.
1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Wednesday, September 4 • 7 PM
THE HOT SARDINES
The self-described “mischief makers” of hot jazz. Monday, September 9 • 7 PM
OPTIONS FEATURING BENNIE MAUPIN, ERIC REVIS & NASHEET WAITS A convening of peerless artists, spanning generations.
1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS
THEO CROKER
A brooding and eloquent approach to the trumpet.
1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Monday, September 16 • 7 PM
TIERNEY SUTTON BAND
A long-running ensemble and true collaborative unit, led by Sutton’s crystalline vocals. Thursday, September 19 • 7 PM
STEVE LEHMAN TRIO WITH SPECIAL GUEST JOSHUA WHITE
Radio Station
Unless noted, advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and dinner served one hour before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wine & beer available. All ages welcome.
320-2 Cedar St | Santa Cruz 831.427.2227 kuumbwajazz.org
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AUG 17TH WED
THE NUDE PARTY · BOA AUG 18TH
DEVOTCHKA · JAMIE DRAKE AUG 20TH
MIKE LOVE · CHASE MAKAI AUG 22ND
JULIAN MARLEY · RASTAN AUG 23RD
PHUTUREPRIMITIVE · KR3TURE
8/14
PLUS SKYWAYMAN
RESTAURANT NOW OPEN
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B-12 HAPPY HOUR
Wednesdays 3-6 PM Saturdays 10AM-12PM Walk-Ins Welcome
SAT
8/17
SUN
8/18
MON
8/19
TUE
8/20
Flor De Caña $10/$15 8p
MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
The Program, Euphoric 9:30p
Libation Lab w/ King Wizard & Chief Transcend 9:30p
Trevor Williams 9:30p
Aaron the Era 9:30p
The Takeover, Turn Up Tuesday w/ Cali 9:30p
Reggae Night Free 7p
Matt Masih & the Messengers Free 7p
Steve Abrams Latin Jazz Trio Free 7p
Tacos & Trivia Free 6:30p
NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz 99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz
Trivia 8p
Jimmy Thackery $15/$20 3p
Ryan Price Free 10p-12a
PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola
Alex Lucero 2-5p
Omar Spence 2-5p
Johnny Neri 2-5p
POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz
‘Raise Her Voice’ Female The New Shockwaves, Singer Songwriter Lakeville Free 9p Showcase Free 8:30p
Open Mic Free 4-7p
Queer Bingo $5/card 3:30-6:30p
Erin Avila 6-9p Comedy Free 8p
THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz
Open Mic Free 8-11p ‘Geeks Who Drink’ Trivia Night 8p
Variety Show w/ Toby Gray 6:30p
Acoustic Reggae Jam 6:30p
Aloha Friday 6:30p
Featured Acts 6:30p
ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
Comedy Night 9p
First & Third Celtic Jam
Live DJ
Live DJ
THE SAND BAR 211 Esplanade, Capitola
The Hominoids 8p
Billy Martini 8p
DJ Spleece 9p
The Human Juke Box 6p
Open Mic 6p
RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz
1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Wednesday, August 14 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+
TOKYO BLAST! A night of J-Rock & J-Pop Thursday, August 14 • Ages 16+
HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS EMERY
Friday, August 16 • Ages 16+
The Original Wailers PASSAFIRE • KASH’D OUT
Tuesday, August 20 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+
THE PALMS • BAY LEDGES
Aug 22 Tuxedo/ DJ Kurse (Ages 16+) Aug 24 Los Cafres (Ages 16+) Aug 27 Protoje/ Lila Ike (Ages 16+) Aug 31 Danny Duncan (All Ages) Sep 2 Xavier Rudd (Ages 16+) Sep 12 Gogol Bordello (Ages 16+) Sep 13 Iya Terra/ For Peace Band (Ages 16+) Sep 14 The California Honeydrops (Ages 16+) Sep 15 Lil Keed/ Lil Gotit (Ages 16+) Sep 24 Hot Chip/ Holy Fuck (Ages 16+) Sep 26 Loud Luxury/ CID (Ages 16+) Sep 28 & 29 Durand Jones & The Indications (Ages 16+) Oct 3 PNB Rock/ NoCap (Ages 16+) Oct 10 Collie Buddz (Ages 16+) Oct 11 Riot Ten/ Al Ross (Ages 18+) Oct 12 Manila Killa (Ages 16+) Oct 14 Yung Gravy (Ages 16+) Oct 19 & 20 Santa Cruz Music Festival (Ages 16+) Oct 23 The Distillers (Ages 16+) Oct 31 Skizzy Mars (Ages 16+) Nov 1 P-Lo (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.
736 Chestnut Street downtown Santa Cruz 831.477.1377 www.scnmc.com
8/16
Katdelic $10/$15 8p
Saturday, August 17 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+
Santa Cruz Naturopathic Medical Center
FRI
Diggin’ Dirt & Walk Talk $10/$15 8p
THE SOFT WHITE SIXTIES · KING DREAM
NICKI BLUHM W/ SCOTT LAW & ROSS JAMES
8/15
Willie K $25/$30 7p
AUG 24TH
AUG 31ST
THU
MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz
Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 877-987-6487 & online
www.catalystclub.com
Trivia 7:30p Dennis Dove Open Jam 7:30p
Alex Lucero & Friends 8p
Tuesday Trivia Night 6:30p
LIVE MUSIC WED
8/14
THU
8/15
SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz
FRI
8/16
8/17
SAT SUN Steven Walters, Gypsy Mountain Drifters Jeff Buenz & Steve 7:30-10:30p Robertson 7:30-10:30p
MON
8/19
TUE
8/20
Isis & the Cold Truth 6:30p
SEVERINO’S BAR & GRILL 7500 Old Dominion Court, Aptos
Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-9p
Live Again 8-11:30p
Patio Acoustics 1-4p Tsunami 8-11:30p
SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola
Ken Constable 6:30-9:30p
Joe Ferrara 6:30-9:30p
Claudio Melega 7-10p
Mikey Bilello Free 6-9p
Puffball Collective Free 6-9p
Birdo Free 6-9p
Brian Fitzgerald Free 5p
Muka Gee Free 5p
SHANTY SHACK BREWING 138 Fern St, Santa Cruz
8/18
Rory Lynch Free 6-9p
STEEL BONNET 20 Victor Square, Scotts Valley
Patio Acoustics 1-4p
DC Trio 6-9p
Beat Weekend w/ DJ Monk Earl Free 6-9p
SUSHI GARDEN S.V. 5600 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley UGLY MUG 4640 Soquel Ave, Soquel
Open Mic w/ Steven David 5:30p
VINOCRUZ 4901 Soquel Drive, Soquel
Bobby Markowitz Flamenco 6-9p
VINO LOCALE 55 Municipal Wharf, Santa Cruz
Yolanda Rhodes 6-8p
WHARF HOUSE 1400 Wharf Road, Capitola
Caio Villela 5-7p Broken Shades 1p
ZELDA’S 203 Esplanade, Capitola
DJ Joey Alotti 9:30p
JADe 4-6p
Dennis Dove & guests 1p
DJ Yosemite 9:30p
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Upcoming Shows
SEP 07 Int. Ocean Film Tour Vol. 6 SEP 15 Kevin Nealon SEP 19 Lecture: California on Fire SEP 20 Banff Centre Mountain Film SEP 21 Pivot: The Art of Fashion SEP 23 Bobby McFerrin SEP 28 Jim Messina OCT 01 Madeleine Peyroux OCT 04 Film: Fantastic Fungi OCT 05 Dave Mason OCT 08 Namibia: Land of the Cheetah OCT 24 Todd Snider and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott NOV 08 Richard Thompson NOV 09 Mountainfilm on Tour NOV 17 Jesse Cook NOV 20 A Tuba to Cuba NOV 21 Built To Spill NOV 23 Warren Miller’s “Timeless” NOV 25 Kirtan with Krishna Das DEC 05 Lecture with Rob Bell DEC 09 Tommy Emmanuel FEB 25 Teada
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‘HERE’ HE IS Mike Wallace in ‘Mike Wallace is Here,’ a documentary comprised entirely of archival footage.
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ill O’Reilly calls him “the master of nailing.” Barbra Streisand is more succinct—“You’re a son of a bitch,” she purrs. So it’s hard to imagine someone less likely to be caught selling peanut butter in TV commercials than Mike Wallace. The intrepid TV journalist and co-host of 60 Minutes is best known for dogged, on-air interviews that struck terror into the hearts of his subjects. But Kinescope flashbacks of the youthful Wallace pitching the sponsor’s products are among the more surprising moments in Avi Belkin’s documentary Mike Wallace Is Here. Belkin cobbles together this backstory about a footloose youth who finds himself entranced by
the new mid-century medium of television. Footage of Wallace and TV growing up together as he eventually pioneers the art and craft of the live televised interview have historical and pop-cultural value, as do the many excerpts from his decades of interviewing the rich and infamous: Salvador Dali, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bette Davis, Ayatollah Khomeni, Vladimir Putin, and a puffy, young Donald Trump. But for all the vagaries in Wallace’s career, and the variety of his interview subjects, the movie never establishes its own viewpoint. It remains a random collection of clips, many fascinating in their own right, that are never quite shaped into a larger picture or more cohesive theme. I wish Belkin had dug a little
deeper to get the full story. Hailing from Brookline, Massachusetts, and so badly acnescarred in his teens that he figured he had “a great face for radio,” Wallace started out in that medium as a staff announcer and pitchman. But with the advent of television, he switched allegiance; he sold everything from soap to cigarettes to cosmetics on the air, hosted game shows, and was routinely thrust into minor acting roles (as documented in a treasure trove of those vintage Kinescopes). In 1956, he came up with the idea for Night Beat, a late-night interview show featuring subjects like the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (fulminating in his full pointyheaded satin Klan robes), gangster Mickey Cohen, and Rod Serling. This
eventually morphed into The Mike Wallace Interview, a program that engendered so many libel lawsuits the network finally had to shut it down. But while the show was dead, it gave birth to a new TV icon in allowing its host to “become” Mike Wallace. Although he went briefly back to pitching Revlon lipstick, he decided he wanted to be a serious reporter, traveling the world in search of stories, until he landed at CBS—in the august company of Walter Cronkite, Eric Severeid and Edward R. Murrow. After a few years at the network, Wallace and producer Don Hewitt co-created the concept of TV news magazine 60 Minutes, which debuted in 1968. Concerned that he didn’t have the same hard news credentials as his new colleagues, Wallace was determined to ask the hard questions instead. We see tantalizing bits of Wallace coaxing an eyewitness account of the My Lai massacre from a Vietnam soldier, making cold-fish John Erlichman visibly sweat, and sparring with Richard Nixon and Manuel Noriega in between showbiz celebs like Johnny Carson and Shirley MacLaine. Meanwhile, attempts by 60 Minutes cohort Morley Safer and others to interview Wallace himself are largely futile, as he rebuffs questions he doesn’t like—“Why would you ask me that?” “That’s a stupid question”— or simply does not respond. Belkin never really discovers the man behind the public persona. Nor does he find (in what must have been hundreds of hours of footage) any particular “aha!” moment with an interview subject that would cap Wallace’s legacy. But his take on the evolution of modern journalism fascinates. Oriana Fallaci tells Wallace she’s not a reporter but a historian, as “a journalist who writes history as it happens.” And a montage of newsbashing from Spiro Agnew to Trump reminds us to never, ever take for granted the privilege of a free press. MIKE WALLACE IS HERE **1/2 (out of four) With Mike Wallace and Morley Safer. A film by Avi Belkin. A Magnolia release. Rated PG-13. 90 minutes.
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FILM NEW RELEASES THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE 2 What do these birds have to be angry about anymore? Their ridiculous mobile game has been downloaded more than 3 billion times in 10 years. They already had a terrible animated movie, and because it was an inexplicably huge hit, now they’ve got another one. Calm down, birds! Directed by Thurop Van Orman. Featuring the voices of Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Jones and Bill Hader. (PG) 96 minutes. (SP) BLINDED BY THE LIGHT Just when it looked like Yesterday had the Academy Award for Quirkiest Spin On Our Insatiable Nostalgia For Classic Rock all sewn up (it’s one of those Oscars they pass out during the commercials), along comes Blinded By the Light, about a British-Pakistani Muslim whose teen angst can only be cured by his obsession with the music of Bruce Springsteen. Based on the memoir of journalist Sarfraz Mandoor, this is actually a true story. I mean, so was Yesterday, obviously … Directed by Gurinder Chadha. Starring Viveik Kalra and Hayley Atwell. (PG-13) 117 minutes. (SP)
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DAVID CROSBY: REMEMBER MY NAME Oh, don’t worry, new music documentary, I’ll remember David Crosby’s name. The question is: After years of alcohol, cocaine and heroin abuse, does David Crosby remember his name? Directed by A.J. Eaton. (R) 95 minutes. (SP)
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47 METERS DOWN: UNCAGED I’ve seen some bad shark movies, but judging from the trailer, this sequel to the surprise low-budget 2017 hit may give them a run for their money. The first one at least had the unusual cage-diving angle, and the intrigue of wondering whether star Mandy Moore was going to melt down on screen. This has four tourists scuba diving in Mayan ruins and encountering a playful narwhal. Just kidding! It’s another murder shark. Directed by Johannes Roberts. Starring Sistine Rose Stallone, Nia Long and Corinne Fox. (PG-13) 89 minutes. (SP) GOOD BOYS Little kids swearing—it never gets old, right? In fact, the makers of Superbad, Sausage
Party and other raunchfests have apparently decided that the littler they are, the funnier it is. And so we have Good Boys, a comedy about 6th graders saying bad words, being wrong about sex, and unknowingly using sex toys. And you thought highconcept comedy was dead. Directed by Gene Stupnitsky. Starring Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams and Will Forte. (R) 89 minutes. (SP) WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE I have been asking this question for years. Now, finally, along comes a movie with the courage to answer it. Writer-director Richard Linklater’s latest follows Cate Blanchett as a mom who rediscovers her creative passions after years of being held back by snot-nosed kids. Co-starring Judy Greer and Kristen Wiig. (PG-13) (SP)
want to be what intimidates me.” Some satirical bits are predictable (although still amusing), but as the journey becomes ever more brutal and surreal, it plays like a fever dream of Fight Club, as reimagined by Woody Allen. (R) 104 minutes. (LJ)
You talk like this now! BRIXTON LORE: Uh … OK, very well, very well. Me … make … stuff … blow up now? Hobbs: Ooh, me no hate you now, Shaw! Now me hate blow up guy! SHAW: Let’s drive fast! Directed by David Leitch. (PG-13) 135 minutes. (SP)
DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD I guess it’s been a long time since I checked in on Dora the Explorer, ’cause now she’s turned into Tomb Raider Jr. and is played by 18-year-old Isabela Moner in this live-action adventure adaptation. What happened to,“I’m the map! The map! The map, the map, the map?” Directed by James Bobin. Co-starring Benicio Del Toro, Danny Trejo and Eva Longoria. (PG) 102 minutes.
THE LION KING To anyone who thought there were no more trees for Disney to shake money out of, I give you what’s being sold as the latest in the company’s series of live-action remakes of hit cartoons. But the thing is, despite the fact that the computergenerated images of its animal cast are photo-realistic, there’s nothing here that’s actually live action, is there? Nope, it’s literally a cartoon remake of a cartoon. Who knew “hakuna matata” actually translates to “milk it for all it’s worth?” Directed by Jon Favreau. Featuring the voices of Donald Glover, John Oliver and James Earl Jones. (PG) 118 minutes. (SP)
THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN What, another dog movie? Aaaaaaah. Oh god, no, please tell me the dog doesn’t narrate the story about his human family, with all kinds of crappy dog wisdom about life and love? I can’t even right now. Please make it stop. Directed by Simon Curtis. Starring Milo Ventimiglia, Amanda Seyfried and the voice of Kevin Costner.(PG) 109 minutes. (SP)
THE FAREWELL We all know what this year’s biggest blockbuster was. What? Avengers: Endgame? Never heard of it. No, obviously I’m talking about The Farewell, which made more money at the domestic box office this year than any other film, including that one with the costume people you mentioned. Now, of course, this is only if you’re talking about per-theater average— The Farewell opened in four theaters with a record $87,833 haul per screen (Avengers’ was $76,601 across 4,662 theaters). But still, it’s kind of crazy that an art-house comedy-drama whose biggest star is Awkwafina from Crazy Rich Asians is breaking any kind of box-office record. Writer-director Lulu Wang’s story of a Chinese-American woman who travels back to China to visit her grandmother with a terminal diagnosis (which the family has decided to hide) is also a hit with critics, earning a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. (PG) 98 minutes. (SP)
THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE Quién es más macho? Certainly not the sad-sack protagonist in Riley Stearns’ dark, subversive black comedy that skewers the popular notion of “manhood,” and the ridiculous lengths to which some go to pursue it. Jesse Eisenberg stars as a nerdy little guy who suffers humiliation and decides to reshape himself as a tough guy. Determined to stop being a victim who’s afraid of everything, he enrolls at a karate school run by a fierce alpha male (Alessandro Nivola), telling him,“I
FAST AND FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS AND SHAW HOBBS: Me played by Rock! Me hate you, Shaw! SHAW: Me played by Jason Statham! Me hate you, Rock … I mean, Hobbs! BRIXTON LORE: Hello, I’m the villain in this movie. I’m played by Idris Elba. My body has been equipped with cyber-genetic physical technology that has turned me into a sort of supersoldier, and I’ve gone rogue from MI6 to become a terrorist mastermind. HOBBS: What now? You no say big words, Idris Elbow! You want be in Fast and Furious spinoff?
CONTINUING EVENT: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE MOVIES Film buffs are invited Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. to downtown Santa Cruz, where each week the group discusses a different current release. For location and discussion topic, go to groups.google.com/group/LTATM.
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MAIDEN This documentary about Tracy Edwards, a charter-boat cook who became the captain of the first all-female crew to take on the Whitbread Round the World Race, takes place in a dark time, long ago, when the world was horribly sexist. Okay, it was 1989, and yeah, sexism hasn’t really gotten much better. All the more reason to enjoy these lady sailors seriously kicking everyone’s ass. (PG) 97 minutes. (SP) MIKE WALLACE IS HERE Reviewed this issue. Directed by Avi Belkin. (PG-13) 90 minutes. (SP) ONCE UPON A TIME … IN HOLLYWOOD There was a lot of outrage when Quention Tarantino announced his next movie would include the story of the Manson murders. Apparently, people thought it might glorify Manson, a concern that the casting of beady-eyed Damon “Let Me Be Your Creepy Guy” Herriman in the role should have allayed. Also, this is the filmmaker who killed off Hitler and gave Southern slave owners their comeuppance— fulfilling revenge fantasies is kinda his thing. It’ll be interesting to see how he works this true-crime angle into a fictional story of over-the-hill TV actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) in the fading days of
1960s Hollywood. Co-starring Margot Robbie, Kurt Russell and Al Pacino. (R) 161 minutes. (SP) SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK If you haven’t traumatized your kids in a while, why not take them to this adaptation of the 1980s and 1990s series of horror tales that thrilled macabre middleschoolers and angered Christian parents everywhere? What’s really scary is how adults can’t think of any way to tap into juvenile scares besides recycling their own obsession with meta-entertainment. So, like the Goosebumps movies, this is another film where the stories in the “cursed” book it’s based on start coming true. Directed by Andre Ovredai. Starring Zoe Margaret Coletti and Michael Garza. (PG-13) 111 minutes. (SP) THEM THAT FOLLOW If you’ve been thinking,“Boy, do I wish there was a movie that combined my love of thrillers with my possibly unhealthy interest in Appalachian snake-handling churches,” I’m happy to say that your day has finally come. Directed by Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage. Starring Gerald Butler, Olivia Colman and Kaitlyn Dever. (R) 98 minutes. (SP) YESTERDAY Imagine if the Beatles had never existed. In his antic and audacious new movie Yesterday, director Danny Boyle poses an even gnarlier idea: suppose the Beatles had existed, but then suddenly disappeared from the collective memory of basically everyone on Earth—except one guy? Imagine the potential for comedy (not to mention plunder and exploitation) if that guy were a struggling singer-songwriter who could take his pick from the entire song catalog of the Fab Four, certain that no one in the audience had ever heard of John, Paul, George, or Ringo. Scripted by veteran Richard Curtis (Four Weddings And A Funeral; Love Actually), for the ever genre-bouncing Boyle, Yesterday is a sly, persuasive morality play about the wages and nature of success dressed up as a popcultural comedy. It’s also entertaining as hell, especially for those of us who do remember The Beatles, thank you very much. Starring Himesh Patel and Lily James (PG-13) 116 minutes. (LJ)
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n the gorgeous Aptos dining room of Persephone, Chef Cori Gouge-Ayer will prepare a multicourse meal to pair with five distinctive bottlings from Windy Oaks Estates at an Aug. 22 winemaker dinner. Those new to the concept owe themselves a chance to sample a series of wines from the steady hand of winemaker Jim Schultze, which will be coupled with foods especially created to harmonize with selected varietals. The sequence of flavors and often-spectacular tuning of sensory ideas that join the recipes and the wines make for a delicious learning experience. Those
who are veterans—and fans—of the winemaker dinner format won’t want to miss this one. Here’s why. Dinner begins with Watermelon Gazpacho paired with a Windy Oaks Bastide La Combe 2017 Rosé, before continuing on with a linguine created of tender abalone, pancetta and smoked paprika. With this course, Jim Schultze will pour the 2016 Estate Chardonnay. Then comes a duck confit with candy cap mushrooms joined by Windy Oaks’ “Diane’s Block” Estate Pinot Noir 2017. (I can practically taste that duck/ Pinot combination right now.) The second entrée is a pork loin roulade
stuffed with rosemary-roasted figs and served with caramelized onionfennel farro and balsamic glaze. This tour de force will be paired with a special release barrel-fermented Estate Pinot Noir 2016. Dessert of a floating island with saffron meringue and pomegranate creme Anglaise comes with a festive Windy Oaks Sparkling Albariño 2015. That’s an adventurous tasting journey starting at 6 p.m., priced at $150 per person, all inclusive. The chef is a Santa Cruz native who, along with her sommelier brother Alex Potter, orchestrates the restaurant’s winemaker dinner
series. Windy Oaks wines are well known locally and nationally, and proprietors Jim and Judy Schultze are savvy participants in these customized events. “Jim and I both feel that winemaker dinners provide the opportunity for the general public to meet the winemaker in an intimate setting,” says Judy Schultze. They can also “show how the right wine paired with the right food enhances both.” In putting this event together, Gouge-Ayer and Potter bring team members for a trip to the vineyard to taste the wines, tour the operation and get to know the winemakers. “This is our second dinner with Windy Oaks,” says Potter, “and we have a great working relationship, as well as an excellent understanding of their wine and winemaking philosophy.” Potter explains that in putting together these labor-intensive events, “We like to taste through most of a winery’s offerings and then narrow it down to five choices. We keep in mind that we want to put together a comprehensive meal with a certain flow and progression for our guests to follow. Once we have decided which wines to use, we will often re-taste the wines the next day and discuss more ideas for dishes we think will accentuate the qualities of the wine we have decided to highlight. From there, it usually takes another week or so of ironing out details and checking to make sure we can locally source the ingredients we need.” Potter says that what’s available locally, and seasonally, “has a huge influence on each menu. Often during our process, someone will have an idea for a dish we all think would be a great pairing, but a key ingredient is not in season or is unavailable locally.” The farmers market also supplies plenty of food for inspiration for the chef and sommelier. An ambitious multi-course menu paired with wines from one of our very top winemaking estates—plus the presence of the winemaker—make this dinner one not to be missed. Persephone Restaurant, 7945 Soquel Drive, Aptos. 612-6511, persephonerestaurant.com/ specialevents.
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indy Oaks Estate’s Bastide La Combe is an eye-catching color, verging on deep watermelon. Mouthwatering and flavorsome, this is a Rosé full of spunk and body. Named after a lovely guesthouse in the Provence region of France, where proprietors Jim and Judy Schultze have spent “several idyllic vacations enjoying the local Rosés,” this delightful 2017 Monterey Rosé ($24) is made in the Provencal style using locally grown Grenache. (This grape is often the main ingredient in some of the best Rosés from France and Spain.) “Bastide” means farmhouse in French, and “La Combe” owes its name to the incline of vineyards and forests, say the Schultzes. In honor of their own hilly estate in Corralitos, surrounded by redwoods, they have given this Rosé the name Bastide La Combe. It’s ideal served chilled with almost all casual foods. Gone are the days when inferior Rosés were made by the gallon. It’s now one of the “in” wines to enjoy,
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Your soda labeling bill made it farther than ever this year. Do you see victory in that, or is it mostly just frustrating? BILL MONNING: We’re encouraged that we got it through the Senate, but it remains an uphill fight. We were disappointed to be blocked in the Assembly Health Committee, but also not totally surprised. We do a pretty thorough outreach and vote count, so we knew we were short of the votes, but we still presented the bill and then did not ask for the votes. It became
a two-year bill, so Senate Bill 347 is still in the active file, and we’ll make a decision after the New Year what our plans are, but there could be changes in the makeup of that committee. The biggest disappointment is the influence exercised by big soda in Sacramento. I probably visited each member once, and big soda probably visited them 10 times each.
Would you rather have a warning label on all sweetened beverages statewide or a tax on them? They’re really not mutually exclusive. The problem we face in the legislature—and one reason I’ve promoted the label warning—is the tax is a two-thirds vote in the legislature, and the label warning is a majority vote.
La Croix or Diet Coke? Is there any added sugar in [La Croix]?
No. So then, I would opt for La Croix. I’m not a promoter of diet sodas because I don’t know what’s in ’em. I know they don’t have added sugar, but I also don’t know the health impacts of some of the artificial sweeteners. To me, the number one public health choice is water.
H RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES BEARERS OF TRUTH— JUPITER DIRECT
Astrology is a science of constant change— always new, fresh and illuminating, following specific rhythms, cadences, pulses, and patterns. Last Sunday, as Uranus began to retrograde, Jupiter moved forward in its own sign of Sagittarius. Jupiter is happy in Sagittarius, feeling lucky, limitless and joyful to be home again. Jupiter, retrograde since April, stationed (still in the sky) direct at 14.30 degrees Sag. On Dec. 2, Jupiter will enter Capricorn. Another change for humanity. Jupiter is a fast-moving planet, remaining in each sign for a year. As the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter offers humanity “big” things—abundance and expansion. Jupiter is good to us. However, if we overdo (especially with food or drink, as Sag is the hidden gourmet
of the zodiac), we enter into the shadow side of Jupiter and lose our way in overabundance. On the higher levels of awareness, Jupiter makes us contemplative, our heart filled with compassion. We seek higher truths and are dedicated to goals and aspirations that help others. Joy couples with philosophy, love and wisdom. We become bearers of truth. We want to travel, join the world, see new places, cultures and people. Some of us will open a publishing or music company or gallery, write a book, take a long journey, learn archery, find a white horse and ride it somewhere, become teachers, professors, mentors. Some will begin schools, become professors, enter convents, or journey to Jerusalem, Rome, Lourdes, or Fatima.
ARIES Mar21–Apr20
LIBRA Sep23–Oct22
Are you considering a journey far away, or perhaps something legal or educational, religious or psychological? You seek the truth of all that matters, and need it quickly and comprehensively. Life feels larger, greater, bigger than ever before. There’s freedom and honesty to be found, curiosity and open-mindedness to remember. Your inner compass is realigning, your faith is growing. The spirit of peace guides you.
Jupiter and Uranus bring us new, revelatory information so that we may begin to question all that we believe and assess those beliefs to see if they bring goodness and goodwill to our lives. A deep truth about your childhood and upbringing begins to unfold for you. And honesty and the true nature of things become known. In all communication offer kindness, compassion and truth. Listen more. Deep listening is a mindful spiritual practice.
TAURUS Apr21–May21
SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21
There are mysteries you’re researching, filled with hidden dreams and values. You want to share them with others but are careful to not be made fun of, ignored or vilified. You must trust others before revealing yourself. There’s a sense that next year you may move, as changes unfold financially. But you want to make sure you have all the facts before making a life-changing decision. You know life is a drama, filled with actors, everyone playing their part.
Your new journey is one of deep re-discovery of what you truly value. Out and about in the world of others, we can lose our sense of value—even that we are of value, and how much. During the next year, your true sense of worth, what makes for security and self-esteem, will subtly emerge. You must look for it to see it. And I must ask, how are you handling your money and resources, and what is most precious to you in your life?
GEMINI May 22–June 20
SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20
Gemini’s other half is Sagittarius. Gemini and Sag are the “brothers/sisters” of the zodiac. When Jupiter moves forward in Sagittarius, as it is doing now, you have the opportunity to expand your world with new spiritual influences. Information that you have been seeking comes forth, causing a reevaluation of all belief systems. Honesty and will are required. There is love all around you. You rethink what love is.
The past seven years have been years of growth in selfawareness and wisdom. Now a new phase begins for you. At first, you may feel divided on a major choice recently made. However, your life is protected, there are no mistakes, and your next step is the synthesizing of all your gifts and abilities. This will occur through your work, and by the new people you meet. Know that all that you need are at your feet.
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CANCER Jun21–Jul20
LE0 Jul21–Aug22 Leo is always about self-discovery, one’s creativity and the ability to see the self in one’s artform. Now with Jupiter in Sag (another fire sign), a deeper sense of self-discovery comes forth. It’s a journey right to the heart of freedom. It’s important to create a journal of self and creativity—in it, list all talents, gifts and abilities, along with desires yet to be fulfilled. Are there children in your life? Children teach Leos how to be playful. The greatest creative act is having faith in your life. Each day is an adventure.
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CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 Do you have a dream journal? It would be good to have one, to jot down dreams, visions, intuitions, hopes, wishes, and more dreams in the coming months. Dreams are ways the subconscious synthesizes experiences in daily life. Dreams are sometimes visionary—offering answers to questions. At times, family members who have died appear in our dreams to tell us they are doing well. Dreams tell us what we’re capable of, and sometimes say, “Let’s do this again ... more wisely this time.” Dreams take us underwater, where healing happens.
AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 Jupiter brings you good things, friends, networks, community, and wishes that come true. You are a friend to many, perhaps to an entire town. This brings happiness to your heart. Something you’ve needed and longed for has come to fruition. After many years of a certain important need, it was fulfilled. Now you can set your sights on new desires and aspirations. As the days unfold, old ways and limitations fall away. A whole new life emerges.
VIRGO Aug23–Sep22
PISCES Feb19–Mar20
What is the situation at home these days? How is your garden? What attention does your home need? Does home offer you a state of security and foundation? How was your childhood, and what good things did you learn then? Who were your parents, and what did you learn from them? Are there patterns, sadnesses, burdens you want release from? Deep within is a new reality you have been gestating. Soon it will be birthed. And you will be free.
It’s important to be prepared, because Jupiter is affecting your public life, career, profession, and work in the world. New opportunities will be sensed, along with a feeling that you must do more, offer more, step forward more. There may be some fear. However, it’s for the best to reconnect with a previous aspiration. You are safe. Pisces is about faith that solutions will come. Cherish all the challenges, dream bigger, and always try your best.
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Daily life, routines, order, organization, and health are the important spiritual avenues to be tended to. You are often giving to others. People see you as living a life of service. But I want to ask you if you are happy. Does giving offer you joy? You may be living a hidden life with secret fears and ambitions no one knows about. Cancers cover themselves up with a shell of protection. Jupiter asks you: what brings you joy?
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001274 The following Individual is doing business as LEAHS MAGICAL PIECES. 224 LAUREL ST. A202, SANTA CRUZ, CA, 95060. County of Santa Cruz. LEAH M. PRESTON. 224 LAUREL ST. A202, SANTA CRUZ, CA, 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: LEAH M. PRESTON. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 22, 2019. July 31, August 7, 14, & 21.
with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 29, 2019. August 7, 14, 21 & 28. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001309 The following Individual is doing business as BONNY DOON SEA GLASS. 325 CONIFER LANE, BONNY DOON, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. JAMES SALAZAR. 325 CONIFER LANE, BONNY DOON, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JAMES SALAZAR. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 29, 2019. August 7, 14, 21 & 28.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001244 The following Individual is doing business as JC CONSULTING. 2316 FELT ST. #C, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. JENNIFER LYNNE CARAVELLI. 2316 FELT ST. #C, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JENNIFER LYNNE CARAVELLI. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 16, 2019. July 24, 31, August 7 & 14.
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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ERIC FRANK GREENE CASE NO. 19PR00183. To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: A Petition for Probate has been filed by COLLEEN CASEY in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CRUZ. The Petition for Probate requests that COLLEEN CASEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001250 The following Individual is doing business as DEER BROOK FARMS. 428 BROWNS VALLEY ROAD, CORRALITOS, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. ROSMARIE FRY. 428 BROWNS VALLEY ROAD, CORRALITOS, CA 95076. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ROSMARIE FRY. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 18, 2019. July 24, 31, August 7, & 14. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001224The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as SUNSET SERVICES COLLECTIVE. 629 COLUMBIA ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. PAPAYA RANCH LLC. 629 COLUMBIA ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. AI# 201830910028. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: PAPAYA RANCH LLC. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 12, 2019. July 24, 31, August 7, & 14. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001243 The following Individual is doing business as SEABRIGHT STICK COMPANY. 307 OWEN ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. SEAN JAMES. 307 OWEN ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: SEAN JAMES. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 16, 2019. July 31, August 7, 14, & 21. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001245 The following Individual is doing business as RESTORE ROYALTY. 605 35TH AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. COLLEEN PATRICIA IGNAITIS. 605 35TH AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: COLLEEN PATRICIA IGNAITIS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 17, 2019. July 31, August 7, 14, & 21.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001273The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as SPORTS CAR MANAGEMENT LLC. 222 BENITO AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. SPORTS CAR MANAGEMENT LLC. 222 BENITO AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. AI# 201535710557. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: SPORTS CAR MANAGEMENT LLC. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/23/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 22, 2019. July 31, August 7, 14, & 21. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001263 The following Individual is doing business as WESTSIDE SWIM SCHOOL. 100 HANDLEY ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. KAREN WILSON. 100 HANDLEY ST., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: KAREN WILSON. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 22, 2019. July 31, August 7, 14, & 21. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001304 The following Individual is doing business as STUSIC AUDIO, STUSIC STUDIOS. 311 BALTUSROL DR., APTOS, CA 95003. County of Santa Cruz. STUART E. WILSON. 311 BALTUSROL DR., APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: STUART E. WILSON. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 29, 2019. August 7, 14, 21 & 28. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001305 The following Individual is doing business as JB TRUCKING. 14207 OVERPASS RD., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. ISAIAS M. BONILLA. 14207 OVERPASS RD., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ISAIAS M. BONILLA. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001336 The following Corporation is doing business as POST TECH. 7960 B SOQUEL DR. #177, APTOS, CA 95003. County of Santa Cruz. POST TECH. 7960 B SOQUEL DR. #177, APTOS, CA 95003. Al# 2852587. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: POST TECH. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/2/2006. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 31, 2019. August 7, 14, 21, & 28. REFILING OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT WITH CHANGE FILE NO. 20190001276. The following Individual is doing business as SOQUEL AUTO SALES. 1505 SOQUEL AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. FARDAD VAZIRI. 138 SEARIDGE CT. #1., APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: FARDAD VAZIRI. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 7/17/2009. original FBn number: 2009-0001437. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 23, 2019. August 7, 14, 21, & 28. REFILING OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT WITH CHANGE FILE NO. 20190001284. The following Copartnership is doing business as TERRA NOVA ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPING. 1514 7TH AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. KEN FOSTER. 1514 7TH AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. JILLIAN LAUREL STEINBERGER. 1514 7TH AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by a Copartnership signed: KEN FOSTER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 5/15/1987. original FBn number: 2014-0001482. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 24, 2019. August 7, 14, 21, & 28. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001346 The following Individual is doing business as SHINE BEAUTY STUDIO. 15 CAMP EVERS LANE, SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95066-4128. County of Santa Cruz. TRACEY MARGARITE HUDSON. 216 EL CAMINO ROAD, SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95066-3708. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: TRACEY MARGARITE HUDSON. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 8/1/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on August 2, 2019. August 7, 14, 21, & 28. REFILING OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT WITH CHANGE FILE NO. 20190001242. The following General Partnership is doing business as PACIFIC CREST DEVELOPMENT. 2551 BRANCIFORTE DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95065 County of Santa Cruz. GALLAGHER, INC. P.O. BOX 2975, TRUCKEE, CA 96160. AL# 3587085. TIMBERWORKS, INC. P.O. BOX 66339, SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95067. AL# 2142072. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: SEAMUS GALLAGHER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 8/26/2014. original FBn number: 2014-0001655. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on July 16, 2019. August 14, 21, 28, & September 4.
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All those people and jobs accelerated things on both sides of the hill. Here on the coast, prices had already recovered from the steep downturn of the early ‘90s and now, fueled by a rush of new tech jobs, they were on a renewed trajectory upward. As an Agent, the market in the mid ‘90s was one of my all-time favorites. Buyers and sellers were in good spirits. The market was balanced and there was a fair amount of give and take in most transactions (unlike the lopsided, overthe-top Sellers’ market of these last six years). Best of all, a surprising number of home purchases were being made by first-time buyers who had landed good jobs over the hill and didn’t mind the drive. The surge in rookie homeowners was a boon to our neighborhoods. The new blood brought an infusion of sweat equity and pride of ownership in to transform some of the tired, old rental stock that had seen better days. The early decade downturn of the ‘90s had actually opened the market up to more deserving folks who had been priced out in the frenzy of the late ‘80s. If you bought your current home between 1993 and 1997, you were probably one of those people. But then…as Silicon Valley shifted into the hyper-drive of the dot. com era, the market also launched like a rocket ship into a brave new world. Even though everyone said we’d never see another market with the intensity of the late ‘80s, they were wrong. Prior to the late ‘90s Santa Cruz never really had multiple offers. Maybe a few competitive offers here and there on select beach properties, but never an entire market that considered multiple offers a normal part of the process. Santa Cruz prices had also never broken the magic million dollar mark before 1997, but that started to change too. In 1997 and 1998, we saw our first handful of single family sales that exceeded the million dollar milestone. And as dot.com mania swung into high gear, so did the market on the coast as increasing numbers of young 30-something tech entrepreneurs, flush with stock options burning a hole in their pockets, began to scour neighborhoods by the beach. Next week: Market on a crash course for Y2K
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fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 2019-0001401. The following Domestic Partnership is doing business as floWer pot arraNgemeNts. 560 30th aVeNue spc 43, saNta cruZ, ca 95062. County of santa Cruz. Julie goodWiN & patricia haNseN. 560 30th aVeNue spc 43, saNta cruZ, ca 95062. This business is conducted by a Domestic Partnership signed: Julie goodWiN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is Not applicaBle. This statement was filed with Gail l. Pellerin, County Clerk of santa Cruz County, on august 7, 2019. august 14, 21, 28, & september 4.
fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 2019-0001194 The following individual is doing business as cls staffiNg. 4041 soQuel dr., ste 163, soQuel, ca 95073. County of santa Cruz. laNce JoN gasich. 130 maple street uNit B, saNta cruZ, ca 95060. This business is conducted by an individual signed: seaN James. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 6/30/2019. This statement was filed with Gail l. Pellerin, County Clerk of santa Cruz County, on July 03, 2019. august 14, 21, 28 & september 4.
business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: paul locatelli The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 7/26/2019. This statement was filed with Gail l. Pellerin, County Clerk of santa Cruz County, on august 06, 2019. august 14, 21, 28, & september 4.
We left off as the market was heading into 1996…Silicon Valley was on a hiring binge and HB-1 tech visas were maxed out. The entire Bay Area was filling up with more new people coming from parts unknown outside the area.
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“Regardless of your stance on it, cannabis is becoming mainstream. A local dispensary, Santa Cruz Naturals, just pulled off the first-ever “open smoke” music festival in California. Killer music, great food, on-site cannabis consumption...with all proceeds going to local charites.”
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Where the locals shop since 1938. VOTED BEST BUTCHER SHOP BEST WINE SELECTION BEST CHEESE SELECTION BEST LOCALLY OWNED GROCERY STORE BEST MURAL /PUBLIC ART
Family owned & operated 80 years. 622 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz
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BUTCHER SHOP ALL NATURAL USDA Choice beef & lamb, only corn-fed Midwest pork, Rocky free-range chickens, Mary’s air-chilled chickens, wild-caught seafood, Boar’s Head products. BEEF
PAN-SEARED WINE & FOOD PAIRING NEW YORK STEAK Ingredients
(2) 12-ounce New York steaks 1 teaspoon kosher salt 3/4 teaspoon black pepper 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 tablespoons butter 2 thyme sprigs 2 garlice cloves, crushed
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■ LEG OF LAMB, USA Grown/ 6.98 Lb ■ LAMB CUBES Boneless/ 8.49 Lb
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Let steaks stand 30 minutes at room temperature. Sprinkle salt and pepper evenly over steaks. Heat a large cast iron skillet over high heat. Add oil to pan; swirl to coat. Add steaks to pan; cook 3 minutes on each side or until browned. Reduce heat to mediumlow; add butter, thyme, and garlic to pan. Carefully grasp panhandle using an oven mitt or folded dish towel. Tilt pan toward you so butter pools; cook 1 1/2 minutes, basting steaks with butter constantly. Remove steaks from pan; cover loosely with foil. Let stand 10 minutes. Reserve butter mixture.
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KARISSA PAXTON, 19 Year Customer, Santa Cruz
S HOPP ER’ S SPOTLIG HT
Occupation: Event planner, CoastsideCouture.com Hobbies: Mountain biking, water aerobics instructor, working out, family life, cooking What first got you shopping here? I remember visiting my grandparents in Santa Cruz when I was maybe three. Now, every time I walk into Shopper’s I think about my grandparents buying Mocha Mix; they used it on everything! Years later, while living in San Luis Obispo, I’d visit my husband-to-be in Santa Cruz and make him dinner after shopping at Shopper’s.Then I’d fill up my cooler with meat from Shopper’s and take it back home for me and my roommates. Shopper’s spoiled us! Eventually, when my husband and I decided to live here, Shopper’s was a major factor in our settling in Santa Cruz.
What do you like to cook? Usually meat or fresh fish— Shopper’s seafood is superb!— on the grill, plus a starch and veggies. My family drools over Shopper’s Santa Maria tri-tip, the skirt steak, too! Shopper’s meatloaf is amazing, and perfect for meat sauce and meatballs. I recently met friends on a mountain biking trip and brought 10 pounds of Guinness bratwurst sausages. I was the star of our party! I was in 4H and learned to appreciate knowing where my food is from. Shopper’s butchers are informative and just wonderful humans.They’ll crack my ham hocks three times because that’s what my grandma did!
You prefer shopping local? Absolutely! — I’m a local business owner. Shopper’s feels really personable.There are many friendly faces at Shopper’s.The butchers and checkers have seen my son, Miles, grow up, and he always chooses Shopper’s when I ask him which market he would like to go to. I think their produce is the best in Santa Cruz, and I like that they carry good local products such as Mrs.A’s Salsa, Sumano’s breads, Harley Farms goat cheese, local beers and more.We shopped other markets when we lived on the Westside. It’s crazy how much money we now save at Shopper’s Corner!
“We shopped other markets when we lived on the Westside. It’s crazy how much money we now save at Shopper’s Corner!”
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