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The movement to reclaim the legacy of Ah Fook shines a light on the hidden history of Chinese immigrants in Santa Cruz

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EDITOR’S NOTE I’m no historian, but I’ve run enough pieces by historians to feel like I have somewhat of a feel for what are considered to be the major names and places in Santa Cruz history.

Whenever the subject of this area’s Chinatown (actually Chinatowns, as there were several) comes up, I’ve read enough to know some of the timeframes and locations.

But reading Geoffrey Dunn’s cover story this week, I was shocked at how much I didn’t know about the outrageous racism that Chinese immigrant communities here faced, and how they had to employ extreme measures—including

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Re: “Point of Contention” (GT, 6/26): Since the county took over the only syringe program in the community, at each biannual report the Board of Supervisors has issued more and more restrictions. One would think they have not got the memo that we are living during a time of an opioid and overdose crisis.

We are blessed with a Health Services Director who is committed to this program and has a fantastic staff, including program manager Jen Herrera.

It is time for the Board of Supervisors to untie the hands of the people who know public health and who know how to operate the most successful and widely accepted means of reducing syringe litter, reducing the spread of disease and improving the health of the community at large.

I take offense to the complaints of Ryan Coonerty that Downtown Streets Team and Save Our Shores have been picking up syringes. The county contracts with both of these organizations to do just that—pick up and minimize the impact of all litter in our public places.

We should fully expect these organizations to find syringes, because that is what we are tasking them to do and supporting them with equipment and supplies to safely do this, so that unprepared community members do not

giving up their own personal identities—to navigate it.

But then, that’s kind of the point of Dunn’s piece—we don’t even know what we think we know about Santa Cruz’s Chinatowns. And the way he uses a Chinese immigrant who achieved a small measure of fame here to frame that discussion is ingenious. To the pre-World War II Santa Cruz public, the man they knew as Ah Fook lived a simple fishing life that played into their racial stereotypes. But his real story was so much more complicated, and those complications contributed to what seemed to be his disappearance.

Dunn’s research for this story led to a breakthrough that both honors the man’s legacy and sheds more light on the realities he faced as part of the Chinese community here. It’s an absolute must-read.

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encounter syringes. Downtown Streets Team often cleans up abandoned and relocated encampments, and we dearly appreciate both of these organizations for the work they do.

Both organizations would find more syringes if there was not a syringe services program in the community, and this is data proven.

We should appreciate the community of people who use drugs and value their role in syringe pick up rather than constantly berate and judge them. People who use drugs are as diverse as any segment of the population. Viewing people as broken, wrong or pathological is a barrier that keeps people from getting the support they need.

If you want to push people away from services, tell them what we think they need and don’t allow them the dignity of determining their own needs.

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ADDICTS ARE BEYOND HELP Re: “Point of Contention”: Like illegal aliens, who are now referred to simply as “undocumented immigrants,” it seems that even junkies have been caught up in political correctness, and are now known instead as “injection drug users.” What kind of bizarre world have we morphed into where illegal drug users are provided (at taxpayer expense) the means to maintain their addictions? Offering free needles to heroin and methamphetamine users >8

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The mid-county water district came in at number 36. It’s anyone’s guess how the corporate-owned Bay Area News Group scrapes together time to develop such a list, in between slashing away at its budget and letting go of experienced reporters.

Maybe one of those laid-off journalists can now get a job at Soquel Creek Water District, which has three openings.

For the second time in three years, the Aptos High School robotics club has taken home first place at the International Marine Advanced Technology Education Remotely Operated Vehicle. Aptos High’s Seal Team Scalyr competed last month in Kingsport, Tennessee.

Its Argo VI was built to accomplish complex tasks underwater. The machine simulates work done by larger remote-operated vehicles in oceans and lakes, like restoring broken dams and recovering sunken artifacts. A team from Vladivostok, Russia took second.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of July 10 ARIES Mar21–Apr19 You're in the Land of Green Magic. That's potentially very good news, but you must also be cautious. Why? Because in the Land of Green Magic, the seeds of extraneous follies and the seeds of important necessities both grow extra-fast. Unless you are a careful weeder, useless stuff will spring up and occupy too much space.

So be firm in rooting out the blooms that won't do you any good. Be aggressive in nurturing only the very best and brightest.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 Eight years ago, researchers in Kerala, India went to the Padmanabhaswamy Temple and climbed down into centuries-old vaults deep beneath the main floor. They found a disorganized mess of treasure in the form of gold and precious gems. There were hundreds of chairs made from gold, baskets full of gold coins from the ancient Roman Empire, and a four-foot-high solid statue of a god, among multitudinous other valuables. I like bringing these images to your attention, Taurus, because I have a theory that if you keep them in your awareness, you'll be more alert than usual to undiscovered riches in your own life and in your own psyche. I suspect you are closer than ever before to unearthing those riches.

GEMINI May21–June20 Children need to learn certain aptitudes at certain times. If they don't, they may not be able to master those aptitudes later in life. For example, if infants don't get the experience of being protected and cared for by adults, it will be hard for them to develop that capacity as toddlers. This is a good metaphor for a developmental phase that you Geminis are going through. In my astrological opinion, 2019 and 2020 are critical years for you to become more skilled at the arts of togetherness and collaboration; to upgrade your abilities so as to get the most out of your intimate relationships. How are you doing with this work so far?

CANCER Jun21–Jul22 Vantablack is a material made of carbon nanotubes.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, it is the darkest stuff on the planet. No black is blacker than Vantablack. It reflects a mere 0.036% of the light that shines upon it. Because of its unusual quality, it's ideal for use in the manufacture of certain sensors, cameras, and scientific instruments. Unfortunately, an artist named Anish Kapoor owns exclusive rights to use it in the art world. No other artists are allowed to incorporate Vantablack into their creations. I trust you will NOT follow Kapoor's selfish example in the coming weeks. In my astrological opinion, it's crucial that you share your prime gifts, your special skills, and your unique blessings with the whole world. Do not hoard!

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Hi, my name is Rob Brezsny, and I confess that I am addicted to breathing air, eating food, drinking water, indulging in sleep, and getting high on organic, freetrade, slavery-free dark chocolate. I also confess that I am powerless over these addictions. Now I invite you to be inspired by my silly example and undertake a playful but serious effort to face up to your own fixations. The astrological omens suggest it's a perfect moment to do so. What are you addicted to? What habits are you entranced by? What conditioned responses are you enslaved to? What traps have you agreed to be snared by? The time is right to identify these compulsions, then make an audacious break for freedom.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 When cherries are nearing the end of their ripening process, they are especially vulnerable. If rain falls on them during those last few weeks, they can rot or split, rendering them unmarketable. So, cherry-growers hire helicopter pilots to hover over their trees right after it rains, using the downdraft from the blades to dry the valuable little fruits. It may seem like overkill, but it's the method that works best. I advise you to be on the lookout for

similar protective measures during the climactic phase of your personal ripening process. Your motto should be to take care of your valuables by any means necessary.

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22 Please don't try to relax. Don't shy away from challenges.

Don't apologize for your holy quest or tone down your ambition or stop pushing to get better. Not now, anyway, Libra. Just the opposite, in fact. I urge you to pump up the volume on your desires. Be even bigger and bolder and braver. Take maximum advantage of the opportunities that are arising, and cash in on the benevolent conspiracies that are swirling in your vicinity. Now is one of those exceptional moments when tough competition is actually healthy for you, when the pressure to outdo your previous efforts can be tonic and inspiring.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 I can't decide whether to compare your imminent future to a platypus, kaleidoscope, patchwork quilt, or Swiss Army knife. From what I can tell, your adventures could bring you random jumbles or melodic mélanges—or a blend of both. So I'm expecting provocative teases, pure flukes, and multiple options. There'll be crazy wisdom, alluring messes, and unclassifiable opportunities. To ensure that your life is more of an intriguing riddle than a confusing maze, I suggest that you stay closely attuned to what you're really feeling and thinking, and communicate that information with tactful precision.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 Every year, thousands of people all over the world go to hospital emergency rooms seeking relief from kidney stones. Many of the treatments are invasive and painful.

But in recent years, a benign alternative has emerged. A peer-reviewed article in a scientific journal presented evidence that many patients spontaneously pass their kidney stones simply by riding on roller coasters. I doubt that you'll have a literal problem like kidney stones in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. But I do suspect that any psychological difficulties you encounter can be solved by embarking on thrilling adventures akin to riding on roller coasters.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 In his book The Histories, ancient Greek historian Herodotus told the story of a six-year war between the armies of the Medes and the Lydians in an area that today corresponds to Turkey. The conflict ended suddenly on a day when a solar eclipse occurred. Everyone on the battlefield got spooked as the light unexpectedly dimmed, and commanders sought an immediate cease to the hostilities. In the spirit of cosmic portents precipitating practical truces, I suggest you respond to the upcoming lunar eclipse on July 16-17 with overtures of peace and healing and amnesty. It'll be a good time to reach out to any worthwhile person or group from whom you have been alienated.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 My astrological colleague Guru Gwen believes that right now Aquarians should get scolded and penalized unless they agree to add more rigor and discipline to their rhythms. On the other hand, my astrological colleague Maestro Madelyn feels that Aquarians need to have their backs massaged, their hands held, and their problems listened to with grace and empathy. I suppose that both Gwen and Madelyn want to accomplish the same thing, which is to get you back on track. But personally, I'm more in favor of Madelyn's approach than Gwen's.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 As a self-taught rebel poet with few formal credentials, I may not have much credibility when I urge you to get yourself better licensed and certified and sanctioned.

But according to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming months will be a favorable time for you to make plans to get the education or training you're lacking; to find out what it would mean to become more professional, and then become more professional; to begin pursuing the credentials that will earn you more power to fulfill your dreams.

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And finally, we need to stop kidding ourselves that programs like the needle exchange will really help users “get over the hump and become tax-paying citizens,” as Arnold Leff states in your article. The grim reality is that very few hardcore drug users will ever turn their lives around and become responsible citizens. A more likely scenario is that most will continue to be a burden on society for the rest of their miserable lives.

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KELPING HAND Seaquoia Wild Seaweeds sells iodine supplements derived from wild giant kelp at Santa Cruz farmers markets. PHOTO: SABRINA ELLE ARAMBURU.

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Supplements made from Monterey Bay giant kelp help curb iodine deficiency BY GEORGIA JOHNSON

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rowing up on a boat, I often viewed seaweed as more of a nuisance than a solution. Sailors and boat dwellers alike see fields of seaweed as something to avoid—it’s particularly disposed to rudder entanglement—but local surfer, fisherman and seaweed farmer Ian O’Hollaren sees a field of opportunity.

“There are things in this life that we are given, that we figure out how to harvest from the natural world and create products out of them,” he says.

“Seaweed is a food source to society.”

O’Hollaren is the founder of Santa

Cruz-based Seaquoia Wild Seaweeds, which harvests and sells upwards of 10 different seaweed varieties for multipurpose use, from cosmetic to culinary. He’s been in business for around five years, collecting seaweed off the Santa Cruz coast.

O’Hollaren runs all of the collection, distribution and farmers market sales of fresh and dried seaweed. One of his newest ventures is iodine supplements derived from giant kelp. Iodine is a crucial mineral, and iodine deficiency occurs when the soil is poor in iodine, leading to a low iodine concentration in food

products, according to a study by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Iodine deficiency is one of the largest worldwide public health problems, according to the study. More than 1.5 billion people worldwide are estimated to be at risk of iodine deficiency disorders—particularly pregnant and breastfeeding women who require nearly double the amount of iodine than the average person. Iodine deficiency can lead to enlargement of the thyroid, hypothyroidism and mental disabilities in infants and children whose mothers were iodine-

deficient during pregnancy.

“More and more people are suffering from hyopthyroid issues,” O’Hollaren says. “We thought this was going to be a smoothie supplement at first, but only 1/32 of a teaspoon is all you need, it’s that potent.”

Wild giant kelp grows abundantly year-round off the coast of Santa Cruz. It can grow up to two feet a day, live up to eight years, and is rich in vitamins, minerals, amino acids and more. O'Hollaren harvests the giant kelp in the Monterey Bay himself— taking care to only harvest only the top four feet of the plant so that it can regrow—and then sends it to a facility to be freeze-dried and bottled.

The supplements are newly available at Santa Cruz farmers markets. At $25 for 60 capsules, 1 tablet a day is 100 percent of the FDA recommended daily value of iodine for the average person.

“People say they feel more energetic, more balanced,” he says.

“It regulates heart rate, breathing, metabolic function, hormone levels, and more.”

While kelp, particularly giant kelp, is more sustainable and fast-growing compared to some land-grown produce, O’Hollaren notes that, despite their location, kelp forests aren’t free from deforestation. “A lot of the kelp forests generally have been depleting,” he says. “All of California's kelp forests have been declining over the last 20 years, but it’s my hope, by producing these small batch niche products from giant kelp, that we can bring awareness of the medicinal values for humans, [and] the environmental factors that threaten the kelp forests and the overall health of the ocean.”

O’Hollaren and his team started working on the supplement last fall, alongside their other culinary deliveries. He says he has seen interest in seaweed increase over the last few years, in part due to the growth of the aquaculture market.

“When you think about eating seaweed, what do you do with it? It’s a sea vegetable. There is a bit of a disconnect there, because we aren’t used to it in our society,” he says. seaquoia.com.

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NEWS HITTING HOME The state will let some homeless facilities bypass environmental rules and dole out local funds. Will Santa Cruz get its share?

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On topics like homelessness and public safety, a saying sometimes gets kicked around about the town of Santa Cruz that it’s “a small surf city with big-city problems.”

When it comes to doling out funds at the the state level, though, housing regulators and their chosen algorithms won’t find that argument convincing—certainly not in the current fiscal year.

Under a new state budget, Santa Cruz County will see a fresh round of homeless funding, although not as much as some advocates would have hoped for.

As California lawmakers finalized a budget late last month, a deal emerged between Democratic legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom. Under a new bill, the state is getting ready to hand out more than $2 billion in housing and homelessness funding this year, with $650 million in grants going to local governments to combat homelessness. Of that, $275 million, or 43 percent, will go to just 13 cities, all of them with populations over 300,000 residents.

The rest will go to counties and regional agencies like the Homeless Action Partnership, which is overseen

by Santa Cruz County. Agencies and jurisdictions will apply for their share, and the Housing and Community Development Department will divvy up the money based on the homeless populations in each region’s point-intime (PIT) count results.

That element raised some concern locally. That’s because, while many governments saw their counted homeless populations climb this year, Santa Cruz County’s fell slightly compared to two years earlier. That could mean an even smaller slice of homeless funds locally.

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WORD ART Former Capitola Mayor Gayle Ortiz salvaged paintings from the old Capitola Book Café to hang

on the walls of the town’s new state-of-the-art library.

Booking Ahead Capitola is at the forefront of modern libraries with new facility set to open next year BY WALLACE BAINE

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hen the beloved Capitola Book Café closed its doors five years ago, Gayle Ortiz—the namesake master baker and entrepreneur behind Gayle’s Bakery, and a former mayor— was, like many of her neighbors, distraught. Looking for something from the bookstore to save, she zeroed in on the paintings on the wall. She proposed a deal with the Book Café’s owners about the art.

“I told them, ‘If I could guarantee you that it would go into the new Capitola Library, whenever it’s built, would you give it to the city of Capitola?’” remembers Ortiz. “And

they said, ‘If we can be guaranteed that, sure.’”

Sometime in the summer of 2020, Ortiz is poised to deliver on her promise. The paintings from the Book Café are now part of the renderings of the new Capitola Library, which means that from the first day of its opening next summer, the new library will already contain meaningful cultural DNA linking it to its community.

Ortiz was one of the many champions of the Capitola Library, a $15.1 million project now under construction on the same site as the former Capitola Branch Library, on the corner of Clares Street and Wharf Road.

It represents the largest capital project that the city of Capitola has ever undertaken. It also puts Capitola at the forefront of a publiclibrary renaissance.

The Capitola Library is the design work of the Berkeley-based architectural firm Noll & Tam, which has designed many of Northern California’s new public libraries, including the recently opened Half Moon Bay Library, which earlier this year won a national design award from the American Institute of Architects.

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the new library will look nothing like the old one. “It’s going to be beautiful,” says Susan Nemitz, the director of the county’s library system, which includes Capitola, “and almost unrecognizable.”

At one time, the public library was considered one of many familiar institutions that would be upended, maybe to the point of extinction, by the digital revolution. But the library has repurposed itself and, in many communities, has found a thriving role to fill in the new economy.

“The new wave of libraries aren’t these reading rooms of quiet anymore,” says Nemitz. “They’re learning spaces.” Libraries have become community centers, a dependable and safe place for kids and a reliable touchstone for adults. They have become, say their advocates, an antidote to the atomizing effects of anonymous online culture: a place to engage

with your local community.

What new libraries are not—and this includes the new Capitola Library—is a warehouse for old books. Christopher Noll, one of the partners at Noll & Tam, and a designer of the Capitola project, says that the public library now has a different orientation to books. “The idea of these eight-foot-tall shelves stacked from top to bottom with books” is over, he says, calling the old paradigm “oppressive.”

“We want open, airy, light-filled spaces for people to sit,” he explains.

Like many new libraries, Capitola will have dedicated spaces for kids, teens and adults. At 11,700 square feet, it will have spaces that can be easily adapted for meetings, events and presentations. It will also have homework rooms, an outdoor patio, even a reading room with a working fireplace. But much of the new library’s space, says Noll, will be vertical.

“We spent a little extra to get a high ceiling,” he says. “High ceilings

allow more natural light, more room for that light to bounce around. It saves energy on lighting, it’s a better kind of light, healthier for people.

And high ceilings give you a sense of grandeur. It’s a way of saying this isn’t a house, it’s something else. It’s a way to uplift your spirits.”

Noll says that modern library design has put to rest the clichéd image of the shushing librarian. Though the new library will contain quiet spots for reading, “libraries are generally getting much more noisy and active.”

The idea of the public library has gotten a new currency thanks to a suddenly popular 2018 book by sociologist Eric Klinenberg called Palaces for the People. (Among its many fans is Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg). In the book, Klinenberg explores “social capital”—the face-to-face, interpersonal relationships within a given community—and celebrates public libraries as the primary conduit that holds together >19

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There’s been a lot of vape smoke in the air lately—enough that it may have clouded our perception of at least one important detail.

In a news story last month about new cigarette vending rules (“Puff of Smoke,” 6/26), GT reported that the county’s smoke shop industry has not seen a significant problem with merchants selling cigarettes or vaping paraphernalia to kids, according to remarks from Damon Hancock, the county’s tobacco compliance officer. That much is true. In April, Hancock credited smoke shops with doing a good job of checking IDs. What’s also true, however— and what GT neglected to mention—is that five retailers did get busted for selling to minors in a sting operation at the beginning of the year.

Shops should double down

on making sure to check IDs. And in future vape coverage, we’ll double-check our notes.

RABBLE HOUSERS The city’s new Community Advisory Committee on Homelessness has the potential to transform how we talk about homelessness.

Then again, the task force— approved on a 4-3 Santa Cruz City Council vote—also has the potential to be latest advisory body that no one listens to.

The underlying problem is not that the council ultimately chose to ignore liberal Councilmember Sandy Brown’s pleas to include homeless residents on the committee. The committee will have at least one formerly unhoused individual, as well as the authority to add more homeless residents if it chooses.

The problem with the committee is that it has to exist at all. Over the past half-decade,

the City Council has increasingly punted on topics by forming new, often-expensive advisory bodies to study the biggest issues for them. The city has barely started implementing widely popular suggestions from the Homelessness Coordinating Committee from a couple years ago.

So all this committee nonsense is purely the fault of a gall-less council for repeatedly refusing to lead on pressing topics… right?

Wrong again!

Even on the nights when city councilmembers show shades of borderline competency on the homeless issue, it’s nearly impossible for them to display any leadership, because of the polarized, increasingly distracting peanut gallery of extremists in the audience, cheering, jeering, smirking, yelling and holding up ridiculous signs.

If the latest committee’s

findings don’t work out, the City Council might try hanging up a sign of its own during contentious meetings—one that reads, “Shut the hell up. We’re working here.”

STAKE OUT This past weekend, Emiley Stake, who served for seven years as local Woodstock’s business development manager, moved to San Diego, where she accepted a promotion to the corporate office and serve as business development director for the whole pizza chain.

The move ends Stake’s three-year run as board president of the Downtown Association. Speaking of which, the departure of so many Santa Cruz figures these past couple months leaves Nuz to ponder one important question: would people still read this column if it were written from Paraguay?

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NEWS Perhaps the aspect of the bill that’s gotten the most attention is a change that could force some governments to pay fines for flouting state housing laws that require them to plan for new housing growth. Fewer than 50 cities are in violation, many of them rural communities and none of them in Santa Cruz County. On Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast, reporter Liam Dillon remarked that a city would have to thumb its nose at the state for years before facing any serious repercussions.

“It’s really hard to imagine a world where anything like this would actually come to fruition,” said Dillon, of the L.A. Times.

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DON’T DODGE THE ISSUE A state budget deal provides new money for housing and homelessness, while streamlining the approval process for some homeless facilities.

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2017, when volunteers counted 3.6 percent more homeless individuals in the biannual census.

ENVIRONMENT FOR CHANGE The new legislation includes a number of changes, including a provision to streamline the approval processes for some homeless facilities. New navigation centers will now be exempt from complying with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

The bill defines navigation centers as “low-barrier” homeless shelters that are rich in services and that prioritize moving homeless individuals into permanent housing. In the midst of a housing and homelessness crisis, advocates have been fighting to tear down barriers to new

housing and homeless facilities. Many argue that these barriers include not-in-mybackyard (NIMBY) groups which weaponize environmental law to slow down otherwise popular projects in their neighborhoods. The Los Angeles Times editorial board recently criticized this process in a piece titled “Stop Using California's Environmental Laws to Block Homeless Housing.”

Looking ahead, Santa Cruz County spokesperson Jason Hoppin says the county has a vision for a navigation center in North County and another in South County. “The community has to buy into that,” he says. “That’s where the rubber hits the road. There’s general consensus on the need for a navigation center. We just don’t know where at this point.”

When it comes to public input, Assemblymember Mark Stone (D-Scotts Valley) has concerns about the impact of bypassing CEQA, although he voted for the wide-ranging bill. He tells GT in a statement

that CEQA gets unfairly blamed as an “as an impediment to solving homelessness.”

“It is an important law that ensures public participation in any land use decision,” the statement reads. Stone adds that he feels “disappointed” that more homeless dollars will not be coming to Santa Cruz County, compared with some other communities.

There was, however, a previous round of state funding awarded earlier this year that brought in more than $10 million locally for the homeless. Of that, the Homeless Action Partnership identified $1 million for a future navigation center. It also awarded the city of Santa Cruz $1.4 million to purchase land near the Homeless Services Center (HSC) with the intention of expanding services.

At the state level, the recent bill also includes a plan to introduce “bonus points” in grant application processes to communities that regulators deem prohousing.

Phil Kramer, executive director of HSC, says that before the preliminary PIT count results came out, a slight dip in the homeless population was not what he’d been expecting.

“It doesn’t feel to us like there has been a decrease,” he says, still trying to make sense of the figures. “We were surprised by the numbers, yet gratified to see that there was a reduction.”

Hoppin says he believes the findings.

Locals may have perceived homelessness to be soaring when the homeless encampment behind the Ross department store popped up, partly because it garnered so much coverage as it ballooned in size.

“There’s a cognitive bias that happens when there’s so much media attention,” says Hoppin, a former reporter for the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

Peter Connery—vice president of Applied Survey Research (ASR), which manages the count— explains that he wouldn’t say that homlessness is down, necessarily. Rather, he frames the results as showing that homelessness has stayed about the same, falling by just 82 counted individuals to a total of 2,167 homeless people this year.

The full census report will come out later this summer.

ASR oversees homeless counts for a dozen communities on the West Coast. For each count, the group sends volunteers and researchers to get a head count of the amount of homeless they can find one morning in January. Although ASR keeps its methods consistent from one year to the next and across all communities, Connery knows that the figures probably end up representing an “undercount.”

“There are probably folks on the day that we weren’t able to count,” he says, “but that’s probably true of any count that has a one-day scope.”

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many communities. Noll says the design principles of his firm are in the spirit of what Klinenberg is talking about.

The opening of the Capitola Library in 2020 will continue a curious trend from the perspective of its neighboring city to the west. Santa Cruz is now ringed by communities that have all opened spacious new-model libraries in the last decade, including Half Moon Bay, Los Gatos, Scotts Valley, Morgan Hill, Gilroy, and Watsonville.

Yet Santa Cruz, home to the region’s largest bookstore and university, still operates from a downtown branch on Church Street, first opened more than 50 years ago.

Santa Cruz has wrestled with the idea of a new library for years, and currently, the Santa Cruz City Council has empaneled a subcommittee of three— councilmembers Justin Cummings, Sandy Brown and Donna Meyers— to explore options and present a report by October. The City Council will likely have to choose between building a state-of-the-art library coupled with a controversial parking garage and doing a partial remodel of the existing facility.

The downtown branch has few fans.

Architect Chris Noll calls it “awful,” and Nemitz says it’s “shabby.”

“People get angry when I say that,” says Nemitz, “but Santa Cruz’s public libraries are shabby.” The opening of the gleaming new branch in Capitola might represent a revelation for many in Santa Cruz, she says.

“Because Santa Cruz hasn’t consistently invested in libraries, there are a lot of people in this community who have never really been in a 21st-century facility,” says Nemitz, who arrived in Santa Cruz in 2016. “My first meeting with the City Council, someone asked, ‘Well, what’s wrong with the downtown library?’

I was so surprised by the question, I didn’t answer it well. Everything is wrong with the downtown library.

It’s like people who buy a house with a crack in the ceiling—three months later they don’t even notice it. People are accustomed to what they already have. But I think when Capitola opens, everybody [in Santa Cruz] is going to say, ‘Hey, we want that too.’”

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There isn’t any one size fits all solution when it comes to health and wellness—everyone is different. So when Jenna Weitzman opened Alliance Physical Therapy in Aptos more than five years ago, she knew that there would eventually be a wellness component of the business beyond physical therapy and cater to individual, long term needs. Sure enough a few years later, Alliance Physical Therapy has expanded to include a full wellness studio and naturopathic office.

“Physical therapy isn’t something you continue forever, so now we have a place where people can continue to be supported by us and be a bit more independent. It encourages people to empower and take care of themselves,” Weitzman says.

The Alliance wellness studio is still a new venture, having only opened in March. Weitzman says that she’s had her eye on the neighboring space since opening the Alliance clinic, so when it became available, she jumped on the opportunity.

“The focus of it is creating a holistic healing environment, so I was trying to bridge the gap between your typical fitness studio and a healthcare practice,” Weitzman says.

“Most of the people teaching are licensed healthcare practitioners, so it’s a place to dive into yourself and be supported by people who have a really solid understanding of the body.”

The studio offers various types of yoga, including restorative, vinyasa and medical

therapeutic yoga taught by Weitzman herself. There are meditation and vocalization classes, too. “I wanted to create a space that allowed people to touch on all aspects of wellness, intellectual, energetic, physical, psychosocial emotional and spiritual,” Weitzman says. “Using those five precepts I’ve designed offerings that touch on each of those things so you have a complete wellness experience here.”

each other.” When it came to funding the new wellness studio, she looked to the local Santa Cruz Community Credit Union (SCCCU) for financial advising and support.

Given that Weitzman and her staff are dedicated to the wellness of the community, it’s no surprise that she prefers to support small local businesses whenever she can. “What I am trying to do is create a sense of community,” Weitzman says. “Small businesses need to stick together to create something special and support

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In Search of Ah Fook

How Chinese immigrants facing vicious racism and xenophobia carved out a legacy in historical Santa Cruz BY GEOFFREY DUNN “Ah Fook was born to fish…For Santa Cruzans not to know him is comparable to a mountaineer spending a lifetime within five miles of Yosemite Valley and never taking the trouble to view the wonders of its waterfalls.”

— Warren “Skip” Littlefield, Santa Cruz Evening-News, 1941

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h Fook may be the biggest, most badass ghost in Santa Cruz County history. A hungry ghost? Maybe.

Angry? He could be—maybe even should be—but I don’t think so. He seems to have a perennially beatific smile on his face, as though he’s got a big cosmic secret hidden somewhere in his soul, and one of these days he’s going to let us all in on the joke.

One thing’s for certain: Ah Fook’s ghost is tenacious as hell. He’s got pure neon tenacity running through his phantasmal veins.

Raised during a time in local history when immigrants of Chinese descent were branded as subhuman or worse, the person—or more accurately the character—who today we call Ah Fook, or Cheung Ah Fook, witnessed an ugly brew of hatred, racism, violence and xenophobia that cast him and others in his community to the shadowy margins of 19th-century Santa Cruz society. Let’s not pull any punches: the xenophobic Yankee power structure in Santa Cruz did everything it could to drive the Chinese out of town.

In one legendary editorial appearing in the Santa Cruz Sentinel in 1879, close to the year that Ah Fook was born, Chinese immigrants were described as “half-human, half-devil, rat-eating, ragwearing, law-ignoring, Christian civilization-hating, opium-smoking, labor-degrading, entrail-sucking Celestials.”

So much for subtleties. The antiChinese movement in Santa Cruz was as racist and vicious as it was anywhere in the West.

And while the Chinese played an absolutely critical role in the economic development of Santa Cruz County (and the rest of California for that matter), their roles in the region’s expansive mythology have often been relegated to faceless stereotypes as railroad workers and laundrymen, their lives tossed carelessly (and ceaselessly) on the ash heap of history.

As Cabrillo College historian emeritus Sandy Lydon wrote in his definitive Chinese Gold: The Chinese in the Monterey Region: “Though

the Chinese are not explicitly mentioned in the local and regional histories, if you hold each page to the light you can make out a faint pattern. The longer you look, the stronger the pattern becomes. The Chinese are in the very paper; they are the watermark.”

Ah Fook’s lined, weathered face surely appears in the patterns on those pages.

In the 1940s, when most of his elder American Chinese compatriots were left lurking in the shadows of Santa Cruz’s final Chinatown, Ah Fook became something of a local celebrity, appearing on the front pages of newspapers and calendars, promotional brochures and advertising billboards. For the next decade and more, even into the sanitized 1950s, he appeared regularly as a character in newspaper columns, with various details of his life recorded on a weekly, if not daily, basis.

And then he mysteriously disappeared. His death went unnoticed, and more surprisingly, seemingly unrecorded. After being a media darling and public figure here for the better part of two decades, his passing, rather shockingly, went unreported. His spirit vanished. His memory became an apparition.

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Fook, circa 1941, as captured by legendary Santa Cruz photographer George Lee. Courtesy Chinatown Dreams.

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Then, two generations later, he returned again. As interest in local Chinese history experienced a resurgence with the publication of Lydon’s work in the 1980s, he appeared in movies and later on the cover of the book Chinatown Dreams: The Life and Photographs of George Lee, which I edited and co-wrote with my friends Lisa Liu Grady, Tony Hill, James D. Houston, Morton Marcus, George Ow Jr., and Lydon. In the cover image, Ah Fook is holding the 7-year-old Ow with his weathered hands as though he is hanging onto the future.

Just this past spring, Ah Fook returned again. He had a cameo in Tessa Hulls’ fascinating exhibit at the MAH, Chasing Ghosts, which chronicled her own family’s migration to the U.S. along with the history of Santa Cruz’s various Chinese communities.

Ow, who spent the first seven years of his life raised in the final Santa Cruz Chinatown, has gone so far to suggest, at least casually, that a footbridge crossing the San Lorenzo River, in a project spearheaded by Greg Pepping of the Coastal Watershed Council, be renamed in his honor.

“Ah Fook is not letting Santa Cruz forget about its Chinese history,” says Ow. “I can feel his positive energy. He wants the spirits of the old Chinese men and women who never got their due to be remembered, honored and recognized. He won’t be denied.”

Ah Fook’s ghost is tenacious indeed.

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ost Santa Cruzans give you a long, blank stare when you talk about the city’s Chinatown and its myriad Chinese historical roots. There’s good reason for that. There are few remnants of this history to be found anywhere in the community, save for a relatively hidden plaque on the Galleria Building downtown and the recently constructed and colorful memorial Chinese gate located in the Evergreen Cemetery, which is overseen by MAH. Not much else.

But in the 1800s, Santa Cruz County claimed major Chinatowns

in both Santa Cruz and Watsonville, along with several smaller Chinese communities scattered from Davenport up the San Lorenzo Valley and the California Powder Works (today Paradise Park), and south to Capitola (New Brighton Beach) and the Pajaro River.

The City of Santa Cruz actually had four distinct Chinatowns in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, all of which were located on the periphery of the city’s downtown economic center. The first was located on what was then known as Willow St. (today Pacific Ave.), between Walnut Ave. and Lincoln St. The second stretched along Front St., from just below the current site of the Post Office down along what is now the Comerica Bank property. The third, Blackburn’s Chinatown, was located along the west side of Chestnut St., just south of Laurel, above what is today Depot Park.

These so-called Chinatowns were largely bachelor communities (Santa Cruz had the lowest percentage of Chinese women in the region) and many of the men worked as servants for upper-middle class families residing in the city’s stately Victorian homes. Others worked in laundries and in vegetable gardens scattered around the city; still others developed the region’s commercial fishing and agricultural industries; while a handful operated small businesses and retail stores, importing mercantile items from China.

It would be a bit of an overstatement to describe the Santa Cruz County Chinese immigrant economy as thriving, but it was as industrious as it was persistent. At its peak in the 1890s, U.S. Census figures indicate that nearly five percent of the county’s population was composed of Chinese immigrants.

In Santa Cruz, the city’s final Chinese community—known as “Birkenseer's Chinatown” on Bellvue Place and, later, China Lane—was nestled between the San Lorenzo River and the city’s downtown business district, just east of Front St. (running into Cooper St.), and sloping into the San Lorenzo River.

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CHINATOWN DREAMERS Ah Fook and the young George Ow in Santa Cruz Chinatown, circa 1948. Taken by Ow’s uncle George Lee. This image appeared on the cover of ‘Chinatown Dreams: The Life and Photographs of George Lee’ (Capitola Book Company). Courtesy Chinatown Dreams.

<24 During the 1920s and 1930s, Birkenseer’s Chinatown was known largely for its underground activities—gambling and prostitution, rum running (during Prohibition) and drug dealing, with opium and heroin being the drugs of choice. References in the local newspapers were almost exclusively from arrests and police raids. Graft was omnipresent and bribes the currency du jour. Scandal was always lurking in the shadows. Chinatown had a hard edge.

The 1940 Federal Census of downtown Santa Cruz indicates that there were still more than 60 residents of Chinese descent living in Chinatown on the eve of World War II. Nearly all were men, though George Ow’s maternal grandmother, Gue She Lee, lived there along with her husband, Sung Si Lee, and

several children, including Ow’s mother, Emily. His father, George Ow Sr., lived there as well.

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iving next door to the Lee family, at what was commonly known as the Joss House— which was operated by the Gee Chong Tong (Chinese Freemasons), along the edge of the San Lorenzo River—was a handful of elderly men. One of them, according to everyone I’ve interviewed over the last 40 years, was Ah Fook. And that is the name by which residents of Chinatown referenced him in the 1940s and beyond. It is how Ow and his uncle Jun Lee, now 83, reference him to this day.

But in the 1940 census, there is no one listed by that name living in the Joss House—or anywhere else in Chinatown, for that matter.

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IN SEARCH OF AH FOOK identified as a “chair repairer and fisherman.”

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arlier that year, Ah Fook had caught the literary imagination of one of Santa Cruz’s most colorful promotional figures of that or any era, Warren “Skip” Littlefield, who then served as the publicity director of the Santa Cruz Beach Company, better known as the Boardwalk. I knew Littlefield well as a young adult (he died in 1985), and discussed local history with him as often as I could, but I don’t remember him ever talking about Ah Fook.

That said, on the first day of spring, 1941, Littlefield turned Ah Fook into a full-blown character (and perhaps a bit of a caricature, too) in Santa Cruz media, and even in publications outside the community. In a front-page story appearing in the Santa Cruz Sentinel entitled “Fishing Comes First, Work Comes Last With Ah Fook, Venerable Angler on S.C. Municipal Pier,” Littlefield introduced Ah Fook to the community.

Accompanied by a large photograph of Ah Fook fishing from the end of the wharf, the article described its subject as a “peppery little Chinaman,” his face “weathered to the color of driftwood” with “piercing brown eyes, fanned with wrinkles from squinting over sunny waters” that “will suddenly sparkle like diamonds when a 12-inch jack smelt whips line and pole into agitated motion.”

Ah Fook, Littlefield assured readers, “has never been known to allow business to stand in the way of pleasure.”

Littlefield had obviously done some homework. He described Ah Fook’s living quarters in Chinatown—“an old wood cooking stove and a mid-Victorian bed provide help in the simple operations of sleeping and eating”— and Ah Fook’s complementary employment of repairing reed and rattan chairs in some detail, pointing out that he had learned his trade from “an American woman in Oakland,” and that he purchased his materials through a “Chinese concern” in San Francisco that he

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problems in tracking down Chinese biographies and personal historical details of American Chinese in the 19th and early 20th centuries: individuals often went by different names—sometimes a dozen or more.

Chinese emigrating to the U.S. often did so as “paper sons” or “paper daughters,” purchasing fraudulent documents claiming blood relations to those legally living in the U.S. They changed their names to match the documents, often more than once. This was a common practice until well into the 20th century. And it’s a secret still held closely by many Chinese American families living in the U.S. for more than a century. Add to that the racist ignorance of U.S. immigration officials, census takers, court officials, peace officers, journalists and others who butchered Chinese names.

Then there was the matter of protecting one’s identity and sowing confusion among those who maintained power. The novelist Maxine Hong Kingston once told me the story of how her father, who ran a gambling house in Stockton’s Chinatown not unlike those located in Santa Cruz, changed his name on each occasion that he was arrested, which was often. He never got a record, she said, because he changed his name every time. Sometimes the name came to him in the back of the police car; sometimes when he was getting booked. “I got away with all those aliases,” her father told her, “because the white demons can’t tell one Chinese name from another, or one face from another.”

George Ow told me that his own father went by at least a half-dozen different names during his lifetime.

“For many,” he said, “it was simply a matter of expediency, convenience, or survival.”

The three men listed in the 1940 Census as living in the Joss House were Yee Chin, Mon L. Chin, and Lam Lee. An article appearing in the Santa Cruz Sentinel in November of the following year noted that two men had just left the structure—Un Hay and Lee Lem—and that three remained—Ah Jim, Lem Bach, and Ah Fook, the latter of whom was

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Littlefield’s portrait certainly catered to Chinese American stereotypes typical of the times.

But Littlefield also conducted an interview with Ah Fook with a formal interpreter present that elicited some fascinating information about his familial roots in Santa Cruz. It also underscored the fact that the often nameless, faceless elderly men who lived in the shadows of Chinatown had fully rendered and complex lives of their own.

According to Littlefield’s interview, Ah Fook’s father arrived in Santa Cruz on the sailing ship Alexander in February of 1857, and later worked for railroad baron Leland Stanford as a foreman on the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1876, Littlefield asserted, “the elder Fook… procured Chinese labor gangs to build [Frederick Augustus] Hihn’s railroad from Santa Cruz to Watsonville.”

I wasn’t able to verify any of these precise details, but in respect to Littlefield’s assertion about Hihn, I asked my friend Stan Stevens—a librarian emeritus at UCSC, and an expert on all things related to Hihn—if he was in possession of any such records, and he sent me back the transcript of an agreement from 1881 between Hihn and an “Ah Kay,” in which the latter agreed to supply Hihn with a “gang of [C]hinamen of about twenty eight (28) men for five months” for the purpose of “building roads and grubbing land.”

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ight months later, in November of 1941, Littlefield reworked his Ah Fook story, this time for the Santa Cruz Evening News, with banner headlines in the Sunday paper declaring “$1200-aton Soup Fin Sharks Tempt Ah Fook.”

The subhead proclaimed: “Ancient Fisherman In Tiny Skiff Promises ‘Me Catch ’Im Big One.’” Once again, a large portrait of Littlefield’s smiling subject accompanied the story —this time with him mending chairs—and there were similar references to his father, his history with Hihn and his love of fishing. This time, he

was aiming to make big money by landing the prized shark.

From that point on, Ah Fook was a local media maven. Littlefield promoted him yet a third time, in September of 1942, with headlines proclaiming “Now He Can Fish Once More.” In the early months of World War II, with anti-Japanese (and anti-Asian) sentiment in the region at a fevered pitch, Ah Fook had been prohibited from fishing in local waters (or even off the local pier).

Fred Castagnola of the General Fish Corporation took him down to Monterey to meet with the regional military commander, who cleared Ah Fook for fishing—making him, according to Littlefield, “the only Celestial fisherman in California coastal waters” thus permitted.

The second Santa Cruz scribe to pick up Ah Fook’s cause was Ernest Otto, the dean of not only Santa Cruz journalists, but of all California newspaper reporters. Born in Santa Cruz in 1871, Otto started his career as a 10-year-old delivery boy at the Santa Cruz Surf in 1881, advanced to a reporter while still in his teens, then continued with the Sentinel in 1919, where he remained until his death in 1955.

Otto’s regular “Waterfront” column kept close tabs of Ah Fook’s activities. He reported his catches regularly—mostly jack smelt, perch, mackerel, king fish, gopher cod and lingcod—and also on his health. If he didn’t fish, Otto reported that as well. On July 31, 1952, after a hiatus of nearly three years, Otto reported: “Ah Fook, the well-known Chinese fisherman, was at the end of the wharf yet again yesterday—his first visit there for a long time.”

Three months later, in October of 1952, Otto noted: “Some jack smelt were caught. The high catch was by Ah Fook, the Chinese, who had a pail of jack smelt as usual.”

That was the last time Otto, or anyone else, reported on Ah Fook while he was still alive. There was never an obituary under his name, nor a death notice.

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close enough in the Chinese name game. I was all but certain this was him.

His listed cause of death also explained why his demise might have gone unnoted and the details of his life unexplained: he died of heart disease caused by “generalized artereosclerosis with senile dementia.” Emphasis added. Ah Fook had outlived all of his generation, and he had lost his memory. He could not tell his story. Ernest Otto had died. And there was nobody else to tell it.

The death certificate listed the burial site of the person identified as Chung Git (and I believe Ah Fook) as Oakwood Memorial Park, on Paul Sweet Road, just west of Dominican Hospital. I have many friends and a handful of family buried there, so I am fairly familiar with the terrain.

On Monday of last week, I went out to visit Oakwood, where memorial counselor Leonard Robideaux kindly checked to see if there were any records listed under Chung Git’s name. He returned with “both good news and bad news.” The good news was that he had found the decedent’s burial record, but that he was buried in a large, unmarked area of the cemetery where the indigent had been laid to rest without grave markers. The site was listed as “Block#6, Division B, Grave #318 (County).”

A couple of oak trees cast shade over portions of the site, but other than a trio of scattered markers, the site is unimproved. The weeds that grow there are mowed occasionally throughout the year to abate fire hazards.

I walked the entire grounds, looking for ghosts, and somewhere beneath my steps rested the grave of Ah Fook. His site may be unmarked, but his spirit remains strong and tenacious. Someday soon, I sense, he and the other forgotten Chinese men and women of his generation are going to receive their due.

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ore than a decade later, on July 21, 1963, a familiar face reappeared in the pages of the Sentinel, this time in an article on the history of Chinese fishing in the region by Mildred Ann Smith. Smith mentioned the varied accounts of Ah Fook fishing on the Santa Cruz waterfront, and in the last line of her story mentioned that he had “died a few years ago at the county hospital.”

That was the only reference to his death I ever found.

For several decades now, I have been trying to figure out what happened to Ah Fook. None of the old residents of Chinatown could remember. “I don’t have a last memory of him,” Ow recalled. “The memory of him just faded away.”

Finally, out of a sense of final desperation in putting together this story, I went to search the County Recorder’s archive of vital records. The Death Index had been upgraded significantly since I had last been there in the early 2000s, and I decided to broaden my search to include any Chinese men older than 70 who had died within five years of the 1963 date referenced by Smith. I also added the last name of Cheung—or a close facsimile thereof—to my search.

I came across several possibilities, and one that initially seemed a good shot named Ying Chong Chin, but he was only 65 when he died and had lived in Santa Cruz County only 35 years. Just when I was about to give up, I discovered the name of Chung Git, who had died in Santa Cruz in September of 1958.

The information about his life corresponded in general terms with the outline established by Littlefield two decades earlier. I then recalled another brief newspaper clipping from 1942, in which Otto referenced Ah Fook by a slightly different name: “Gin Chet Ah Fook, the Chinese character who spends much time about the wharf and also mends chairs, is the proud possessor of his commercial license and proudly shows the card with his picture and finger prints.”

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Cora is an explorer/adventurer and crypto-zoologist. She’s also the unseen presence at the Chamber of Heart and Mystery, the beguiling, 350-square-foot room of delights at Santa Cruz’s Museum of Art &

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in Santa Cruz, it’s hard to find a place for a non-profit. So the (July 11 event) will be both a celebration and a call to the community on how we can keep this going, or if we want to keep this going.”

The Chamber has many interactive features and old-school technologies, including story cubes, a magic lantern and a cabinet of curiosities. They are designed to work as writing prompts or otherwise stoke young imaginations, all presented in a rich Edwardianera aesthetic with no trace of the digital, push-button world that surrounds kids today.

“The kids that come in are absolutely enchanted,” said Chiapella, “and the adults are as well. We have this telephone—we call it a ‘heart phone’—where people pick it up and several things are recorded on it. Some of the things are odd, or zany, or tender, or surreal. It’s been a lovely thing.”

Chiapella worked with Santa Cruz children’s author David Zeltser to establish a place like 826 Valencia in Santa Cruz. And project designers Rebecca Goldman and Carmen Clark conceived of the idea after a visit to the San Francisco site.

“We do get those kids who look around and say, ‘This is stupid,’ and move on. But they are really few and far between,” said Chiapella. “There is an enchanting element to the analog nature of it, at this point. It engages you in a way that’s not directing you necessarily. It doesn’t have that instant gratification quality to it. It demands that you think, slow down, and tell your own story.”

A celebration of the Chamber of Heart and Mystery will be held Thursday, July 11, 7 to 9 p.m. at the Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. $15 general admission. youngwriterssc.org.

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This month, after three years at the MAH, the Chamber is packing up and leaving, without a new permanent spot. To mark the occasion, the Young Writers Program will be holding a farewell party on Thursday, July 11 at the MAH, that will also act as a fundraiser to help the Chamber find a new home. The event will feature live music by Coffee Zombie Collective, plus refreshments.

“We are going to have a celebration for the de-installation of the Chamber,” said YWP director Julia Chiapella.

“That’s how we’re looking at it: a celebration. Our plan has always been to have a space like 826 Valencia.”

That is a reference to the famous “Pirate Supply Store” retail storefront in San Francisco that serves as the portal for the writing program founded by novelist Dave Eggers and teacher Ninive Calegari. Ideally, Chiapella would love to find a retail space that can serve the same purpose. In the meantime, the artifacts of Dr. Crux will be placed in a new space at Branciforte Middle School.

For the past three years, the Chamber has served as a portal for the Word Lab, the on-site after-school literary program operated by the YWP. The Word Lab will continue on at the MAH without the Chamber. That program has served about 145 students from Mission Hill and Branciforte middle schools, and Harbor and Santa Cruz high schools every year in three separate, nine-week sessions.

Also continuing will be the YWP’s in-classroom projects that inspire middle- and high-school students to write poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

“We couldn’t be there forever,” said Chiapella on the Chamber’s exit from the MAH. “Real estate being what it is

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he day after Trump got elected, L.A. electronic musician Robert Delong wrote “The Beginning of the End.” It’s a triumphant, spinetingling electronic song with layers of synths and guitar and vocal processors, and a foreboding tone to the lyrics. (“Guess I should’ve seen the signs, but I didn’t.”)

The song’s not intended to be explicitly political, or even provide commentary on Trump—Delong just felt compelled to capture the dark emotion of the moment.

“That day was intense. You could definitely sense the tension in the air, especially here in Los Angeles,” Delong explains.

There aren’t even any obvious references to Trump, or the day after the election.

“You can also interpret it to be about relationships,” Delong says.

“If any song is too specific, I’m not interested in it. I’m always interested in subtext in songwriting.”

“The Beginning of the End” was the first song Delong wrote for his most recent EP, See You In The Future, released in October of last year.

He wrote the rest of songs several months after “The Beginning of the End,” but they capture a similar tone. These are large-scale, emotive electronic songs—bigger sounding than anything he’s released thus far—with apocalyptic lyrics that

are “written out of the anxieties of modern life,” as he puts it.

The song “Revolutionary” comments on how technology and social media affects our lives. “First Person on Earth” is a love song that takes place in the apocalypse, with romantic lyrics like “If I’m the last one standing, I would wanna watch it burn with you.”

Probably the weirdest of all is “Favorite Color is Blue,” a collaboration he did with alt-rapper K.Flay. The song is a somber, almost robotic expression of watching the world crumble all around you, and has a bizarre, menacing chant in the chorus. The two artists wrote the song as a collaboration, a byproduct

of their friendship. Delong says the song could not have been written by either of them without the other, and likely without the circumstances—a hot L.A. day with no air conditioning.

“It was like a hundred degrees in my studio,” Delong says. “Maybe that oppression is what came through the weird frenetic lines that sound like a fucked-up circus.”

Earlier in his career, Delong was making more lo-fi, experimental electronic music that was driven structurally by his past as a drummer.

He started out playing drums in various punk and indie bands, but later got hooked on creating music via computer software.

“The music I make tends to rely on my sense of rhythm,” Delong says. “It's the way I approach music.

I’m always thinking about it as a drummer. I don’t know how else I could at this point.”

As a younger musician, he did write songs on his acoustic guitar, but he felt a strong draw to the possibilities of electronic music.

“The sense of scale is not really possible in a traditional rock setup.

And really, just the amount of sonic information that you can fit into a song,” Delong says. “You can have a thousand different sounds from a thousand different places, as opposed to just being limited to guitars, bass, drums, which I love as well.”

He also surprised himself as an electronic musician by becoming a solo performer. As he’s developed a career over the past decade, he’s become known as a one-manband with some pretty out-there electronic gear; for instance, he’ll play a solo using light beams as the notes. This past year, he’s really focused on making larger productions. And his live show is quickly becoming, oddly enough, a full-on band showcase.

“It’s fun because I can do my crazy looping. It has a really interactive performance part,” Delong says. “But I can just be a singer. Let the band take care of all the other stuff.”

Robert Delong performs at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17, at the Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $18/adv, $20/door. 423-1338.

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ARTIFISHAL FILM SCREENING Artifishal is Patagonia’s new documentary aimed at defending wild salmon and telling the story of the devastating cost of hatcheries and fish farms. In Santa Cruz, the wild salmon population is at a historical low due to drought. There used to be thousands of salmon running in the San Lorenzo, and if something isn’t done to protect the wild fish—not only in the county, but across the nation—there won’t be any fish left to catch. There will be Artifishal merch, including stickers and pint cups, available for purchase; all sales and donations benefit local nonprofit California Trout. Photo: Ben Moon.

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WEDNESDAY 7/10 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 Highway 9, Boulder Creek. slvmuseum.com. Free.

SANTIAGO THE MAGICIAN Santiago is a Modern Day Medieval Magician, based in Santa Cruz, California, who brings together the beauty of historical wizardry and modern day conjuring in an undeniable mix that will amaze and delight you. 4 p.m. Scotts Valley Branch Library, 251 Kings Village Road, Scotts Valley. santacruzpl.libcal.com. Free.

FOOD & WINE DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ FARMERS MARKET In addition to a large variety of farm products, this market offers a great selection of local artisan foodstuffs, delicious baked goods and lots of options for lunch and dinner. 1-6 p.m. Cedar and Lincoln streets, Santa Cruz. 454-0566.

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SUN PRINTING IN ABBOTT SQUARE Summertime is the perfect time to make prints. The dry, sunny weather is ideal for drying and making sun prints, which utilize light and shadow. Choose any objects, leaves or maybe doilies, and arrange them on paper. Then, as the paper dries, the sun leaves behind the object’s shadow imprint. These prints make great wall decorations and unique gifts for all ages.

1-3 p.m. Sunday, July 14. Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. santacruzmah.org. $10 includes museum admission, free for members.

TOBY GRAY VARIETY ACOUSTIC MUSIC Featuring Artist Showcases and a variety of musical styles and guests. Great Food and Drinks - 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 & Restaurant, 120 Union St., Santa Cruz. 4599876. Free.

BEEHIVE, THE 60S MUSICAL Beehive: The 60’s Musical is the ultimate celebration of 1960’s female empowerment. Featuring such timeless classics as “My Boyfriend’s Back”, “Be My Baby”, “Son of a Preacher Man”, and “Me and Bobby McGee”, Beehive nostalgically recalls the days of miniskirts, transistor radios and flower power. 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY 7/13 10TH ANNUAL HOP N’ BARLEY BEER & BBQ FESTIVAL Each year, the Hop N' Barley Beer Festival rounds up some top breweries, local and otherwise, for a celebration of beer, food and music. Celebrating their decade-long tradition of BBQ and brews, they say this is sure to be our biggest year yet, with more than 60 breweries and cideries, delicious BBQ and other great food, 40 vintage VW buses for any and all ooh and aahing pleasure, plus live bands and lawn games. The festival is kid and dog friendly, everyone is welcome.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Scotts Valley Skypark, 361 Kings Village Drive, Scotts Valley. hopnbarley.org. $5 admission, $40 tasting.

Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. cabrillostage.com. $41/$21.

UKULELE PARTY - SING A ALONG OPEN MIC Bring your Ukes, Community and Family Friendly. Music starts at 6:30, featured artist 7:00, sheet music selections from the Santa Cruz Ukulele Book provided for sing along. 6:30 p.m.

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OUTDOOR EVENING CAMPFIRE PROGRAM Join us at our historic campfire center for an evening of song and story. Serenade the glittering stars and learn about redwood ecology, creatures of the forest or stories of the park while relaxing in the shadows of the towering trees. 7 p.m. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free. >36

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Make it and take it! Come create and take home a fun souvenir—an activity for the whole family to share. For example, build a seal or sea lion puppet decorated with your own special seal nose, complete with whiskers!

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This fun program is designed for children ages 3 to 6 and their families. Pretend, play, sing, and explore. This half-hour program will introduce youngsters to the wonders of the redwood forest. 4:30 p.m. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

THURSDAY 7/11 ARTS CHAMBER OF HEART & MYSTERY FAREWELL & RESURRECTION PARTY After three fabulous years at MAH, it's time to find a new home for the Chamber of Heart & Mystery. Please come celebrate its ability to inspire and enthrall. 7-9 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH), 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. eventbrite.com. $15.

MAGIC WITH PERRY YAN Bay Area Magician Perry Yan offers a magic show has been time tested through thousands of performances at schools, company events, kid’s birthday parties and more. Various times and locations throughout the county. santacruzpl.libcal.com. Free.

CLASSES COMMUNITY PILATES CLASS Community Pilates Class led by Pilates Instructor Jennifer Balboni. Drop-in any T/Th for a fun and challenging 60 minute core-based flowing strength class. Bring your own mat. In the spacious social hall at temple Beth El in Aptos. 10 a.m. Temple Beth El, 3055 Porter Gulch Road, Aptos. tbeaptos. org. Donation.

TRIYOGA BASICS CLASS WITH TERRI TriYoga flows are presented with

CALENDAR personalized guided alignment assistance.

9:30 a.m. TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. triyoga-santacruz.com. $15.

TRIYOGA BASICS/THERAPEUTIC YOGA WITH KIM TriYoga taught by Kim Beecher, DC (chiropractor) includes sustained postures with prop support.

Everyone is welcome. Suitable for those with chronic conditions. 7:30-9 p.m. TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. triyoga-santacruz.com. $15.

LEGO NXT ROBOTICS Kids ages 8-17 will work in groups of two to build a competition Lego robot to battle on the last day of class for a Lego prize. They will build and program their robots to knock the other team’s robots out of the circle. 3-4:30 p.m. Branciforte Library A Santa Cruz City County Public Library Branch, 230 Gault St., Santa Cruz. santacruzpl.libcal.com.

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 REGGAE THURSDAYS MI DEH YAH Reality Sound International & The Catalyst Presents Reggae Thursdays. DJ Spleece and Friends. Dancehall Reggae Remix. 7 p.m. The Catalyst Club, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. santacruzreggae.com. Free.

Djembe at Drumskull Drums every Thursday.

Sahar El Khatib teaches the beginner class every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month.

7 p.m. Drumskull Drums, 105 Pioneer St., Santa Cruz. 420-7803. $40/$30/$20.

SALSA FOR INTERMEDIATE Salsa Cuban style partner for intermediate dancers.

Featuring Salsa Suelta, Casino partner dancing and latest tunes from Cuba. No partner required, Age 16+. 7 p.m. Motion Pacific, 131 Front St., Santa Cruz. salsagente. com. $10/$5.

VINYASA & YIN YOGA WITH LIVE SAXOPHONE Join Brendan Sick, professional musician and yoga instructor,

BEEHIVE, THE 60S MUSICAL Beehive: The 60’s Musical is the ultimate celebration of 1960’s female empowerment. Featuring such timeless classics as “My Boyfriend’s Back”, “Be My Baby”, “Son of a Preacher Man”, and “Me and Bobby McGee”, Beehive nostalgically recalls the days of miniskirts, transistor radios and flower power. 7:30 p.m.

Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. cabrillostage.com. $41/$21.

LIVELY ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE English country dance is a lively, social form of folk dance that was popular in the Renaissance era. You may have seen it performed at the Renaissance Faire. Couples dance in sets of various shapes and weave through various patterns as they interact with other couples. It's easy to learn. 7:309:30 p.m. Peace United Church of Christ, Santa Cruz, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. englishcountrydancing.info.

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OUTDOOR COAST PADDLE BOARDS SUMMER SALE Come on by Coast Paddle Boards this weekend for our incredible summer sale. Check out our high quality, affordable Vesl paddle boards as well as some awesome accessories. 10 a.m. Coast Paddleboards, 916 A Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz. coastpaddleboards.com.

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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. 10:30 a.m.-Noon. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz. seymourcenter.ucsc.edu.

LITTLE RANGERS All 3 to 6 year olds and their families are invited to learn, play, and laugh together at this 30 minute program.

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WEST AFRICAN DRUM CLASSES AT DRUMSKULL DRUMS Two teachers teach

for a warming and mindfully-paced Vinyasa practice followed by a meditative soak in Yin Yoga postures. 5:45-6:45 p.m. Watsonville Yoga, Dance and Healing Arts, 375 N. Main, Watsonville. watsonville.yoga.

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CALENDAR swing lessons followed by swing dancing. 5-8 p.m. Skypark, 361 Kings Village Road, Scotts Valley. 438-3251. Free.

NIGHT MARKET Held on the second Friday of every month through fall, this is your chance to experience it back in full force.

Come out for this delicious evening of local food, craft cocktails and live music. 4-9 p.m.

Santa Cruz Food Lounge, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. scfoodlounge.com. Free.

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SATURDAY 7/13 AND SUNDAY 7/14 A NIGHT AT THE THEATRE Hamlet may be a tragedy, but Elf Empire Productions and the Food Lounge have once again joined forces to present a hilarious comedy version. The show tells the story of four Hamlet audience members, their expectations and the grand unravelling of their friendship. Andrea Mollenauer, the owner of the Food Lounge, will be preparing dinner.

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11:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday, 5:30 Sunday. The Food Lounge, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. elfempire.brownpapertickets.com. $55.

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you make dinner if you lived in Big Basin 500 years ago? No supermarkets, no stoves, not even pots and pans…. Join Ranger Alex Tabone to find out. 7 p.m. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

FRIDAY 7/12 ARTS PRE-SCHOOL 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. Free.

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 Highway 9, Boulder Creek. slvmuseum.com. Free.

MOVIE AT HIGHLANDS PARK Join us for family-friendly movie nights under the stars. Come early and enjoy the park’s many amenities including: playground, picnic areas, tennis courts, trail, soccer and ballfields, horseshoe pits, and skate park.

Movies start at dusk. 8 p.m. Highlands Park, 8500 Highway 9, Ben Lomond. scparks.com.

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FOOD & WINE WATSONVILLE FARMERS MARKET This market is in the heart of the famously bountiful Pajaro Valley. Peaceful and family-oriented, the Latino heritage of this community gives this market a “mercado” feel. 2-7 p.m. 200 Main St., Watsonville.

FOOD TRUCK FRIDAY & SWING We have Speakeasy 3 performing Hot Jazz from the Prohibition Era and the professionals from the Swing Set Lounge giving complementary

GROUP KARAOKE FUN WITH GINA Sing along in an environment that is completely accepting of all diverse voices with the goal of having a good time. No experience necessary, just sing-along and have fun. 1 p.m. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. cityofsantacruz.com. $2/Donation.

BEEHIVE, THE 60S MUSICAL Beehive: The 60’s Musical is the ultimate celebration of 1960’s female empowerment. Featuring such timeless classics as “My Boyfriend’s Back”, “Be My Baby”, “Son of a Preacher Man”, and “Me and Bobby McGee”, Beehive nostalgically recalls the days of miniskirts, transistor radios and flower power. 7:30 p.m.

Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. cabrillostage.com. $41/$21.

LOOK MOM, I'M ON TV One hour live music show on Community TV every second and fourth Friday of the month. Tune in to ch 27 or Ch 73. 7 p.m. The Satellite Flexible Workspace & Digital Media Studio, 325 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. satellite. communitytv.org. Free.

FOGHAT The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk’s Friday Night Bands on the Beach concert series features top 40 bands from the '70s, '80s, and '90s. Various times. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz. beachboardwalk.com. Free.

THE HAYWOODS AT EAST CLIFF BREWING The Haywoods will be appearing at the East Cliff Brewing Company with the New Shockwaves for an early show. 7 p.m.

East Cliff Brewing Co., 21517 E Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. 713-5540. Free.

COMPOSING TOGETHER Composing Together brings professional composers and performers directly into schools and public spaces to engage people of all ages, collaborating with them to share, hear and create original works while empowering all of us with the knowledge that our ideas

have meaning and value. Various times and locations throughout the county. santacruzpl.libcal.com. Free.

OUTDOOR BIRD WATCHING FOR BEGINNERS On this 90-minute walk, be prepared to hike two miles on uneven surfaces, with many stops to view the many birds, plants, and scenery along the way. You will help each other spot and identify birds. Bring your binoculars if you have them (some are available to borrow), clothes for variable weather, and good walking shoes. 9 a.m. Wilder Ranch State Park, 1401 Coast Road, Santa Cruz. thatsmypark.org. Free.

FULL MOON MADNESS Experience Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in a whole new way — at night. This astronomybased evening during the full moon is perfect for the whole family. 6 p.m. Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, 101 N Big Trees Park Road, Felton. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

REDWOOD GROVE LOOP WALK Join us for this fun and informative guided half-mile stroll through a magnificent oldgrowth redwood forest. Meet the famous Mother Tree, the Father of the Forest and the incredible Chimney Tree on this 90-minute walk. Stroller and wheelchair accessible.Two walks available between 11 a.m-3:30 p.m.

Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

GUIDED HIKE Join a State Park Interpreter for a 90-minute exploration of the park to learn about the local ecology and history of Butano Canyon. Topics discussed on the hikes will range from redwood forest ecology to the historical role of humans in shaping the modern landscape. 1:30 p.m.

Butano State Park, 1500 Cloverdale Road, Pescadero. thatsmypark.org. Free.

OLD TREE TRAIL HIKE On this 1-mile, 1-hour kid friendly excursion we’ll stroll through a giant old growth redwood grove that’s over 1,200 years old, discover the banana slug’s vital role to this flourishing forest, and learn about the marvelous Marbled Murrelet and how park visitors can help save these endangered birds. 2:30 p.m.

Portola Redwoods State Park, 9000 Portola State Park Road, La Honda. $10/Free.

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CALENDAR to 6 and their families. Pretend, play, sing, and explore. This half-hour program will introduce youngsters to the wonders of the redwood forest. 4:30 p.m. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

SATURDAY 7/13 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 Highway 9, Boulder Creek. slvmuseum.com. Free.

A NIGHT AT THE THEATRE Elf Empire Productions and the Food Lounge have joined forces to present a hilarious comedy.

Margaret and Stanley Locker (Marj Young and Jackson Wolffe) and their friends Donna and Walter Pace (Rita Wadsworth and Ron Maysenhalder) are at the theater for their weekly dose of culture. Various times. Santa Cruz Food Lounge, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. elfempire.com. $55.

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WESTSIDE FARMERS MARKET The Westside Farmers Market takes place every week at the corner of Highway 1 and Western Drive, situated on the northern edge of Santa Cruz’s greenbelt. This market serves the communities of the west-end of Santa Cruz, including Bonny Doon, North Coast, UCSC Campus and is a short trip from downtown.

9 a.m.-1 p.m. Mission Street and Western Drive, Santa Cruz. 454-0566.

GROUPS WRITING CIRCLE FOR WOMEN WITH CANCER Open to the writer in each of us.

Meets second Saturday of the month. Call to register. Additionally, womencare is looking

MUSIC BEEHIVE, THE 60S MUSICAL Beehive: The 60’s Musical is the ultimate celebration of 1960’s female empowerment. Featuring such timeless classics as “My Boyfriend’s Back”, “Be My Baby”, “Son of a Preacher Man”, and “Me and Bobby McGee”, Beehive nostalgically recalls the days of miniskirts, transistor radios and flower power. Various times. Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. cabrillostage.com. $46/$21.

BOOMERIA Santa Cruz Baroque Festival’s yearly celebration of music, science, food and fun. For the uninitiated, the Kingdom of Boomeria is a monument to physics and whimsy located in the redwood forest of Bonny Doon, and a treasure of our region.

1-5 p.m. Boomeria, 60 Verde Drive, Santa Cruz. scbaroque.org. $50.

OUTDOOR SANTA CRUZ MUNICIPAL WHARF EXPERIENCE Come learn more about Monterey Bay, from a vantage point halfmile out to sea, without ever leaving land.

The Santa Cruz Wharf extends a half-mile out to sea in a dynamic and truly marine environment. Noon-3 p.m. Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf, 21 Municipal Wharf, Santa Cruz. seymourcenter.ucsc.edu. Free.

WILDER RIDGE LOOP On this challenging 3-hour hike, we’ll explore the natural and cultural history of the upper hills of Wilder Ranch. This hike includes several descents and ascents. 9 a.m. Wilder Ranch State Park, 1401 Coast Road, Santa Cruz. 426-0505. $10/Free.

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DRAWING FOR THE LOVE OF NATURE Join Judy Sears, California Naturalist, for a 1.5 hour nature drawing session. If the weather is pleasant, the group will stay outside to discuss and practice ways to draw what you are most curious about in nature – from leaf to watershed. 10:30 a.m.

Rancho del Oso Nature and History Center, 3600 California 1, Davenport. thatsmypark. org. Free.

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With more than 90 vendors, the Aptos Farmers Market offers an unmatched selection of locally-grown produce and specialty foods. 8 a.m.-Noon, Saturdays, Cabrillo College. montereybayfarmers.org or akeller@montereybayfarmers.org. Free.

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CALENDAR taste, and hear? What and how do they eat?

What does a snake feel like? Come to the Rancho del Oso Ranger Station to learn about the fascinating world of snakes. 2 p.m.

Rancho del Oso Nature and History Center, 3600 California 1, Davenport. thatsmypark. org. Free.

HERE COMES THE SUN: LOOK THROUGH A SOLAR TELESCOPE Come to the campfire center and look through a solar telescope at the sun. You'll see sunspots, solar prominences, and other features of our closest star as you learn about the parts of the sun and how it shines. 11 a.m. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. thatsmypark.org. Free.

HIDDEN GEMS: FLOWERS OF BIG BASIN There are many less-famous, yet still beautiful, plants in the redwood forest.

Join docent Kathy Willott on this four-mile, three-hour walk and meet some of the hidden gems of Big Basin. 10 a.m. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

EVENING CAMPFIRE PROGRAM Join us at our historic campfire center for an evening of song and story. Serenade the glittering stars and learn about redwood ecology, creatures of the forest or stories of the park while relaxing in the shadows of the towering trees. Various times and locations throughout the county. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

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SUNDAY SEASIDE CRAFTS AT THE SEYMOUR CENTER Come create and take home a fun souvenir, an activity for the whole family to share. For example, find out what gray whales eat by creating a bright sun catcher for your window, or create a fancy fish with paper, paint, and color. 1-3 p.m. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz. seymourcenter. ucsc.edu.

A NIGHT AT THE THEATRE Once again Elf Empire Productions and the Food Lounge have joined forces to present a hilarious comedy. Margaret and Stanley Locker (Marj Young and Jackson Wolffe) and their friends Donna and Walter Pace (Rita Wadsworth and Ron Maysenhalder) are at the theater for their weekly dose of culture. 5:30 p.m. Santa

Cruz Food Lounge, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. elfempire.com. $55.

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adult beverage, libertarian principles and meet some really neat people. Find out how you can go about recovering freedom, liberty, and equal opportunity. 6:30 p.m.

Woodstock's Pizza, 710 Front St., Santa Cruz. 295-1536. Free.

influenced the development of the Pájaro Valley. 11 a.m. Castro Adobe State Historic Park, 184 Old Adobe Road, Watsonville. thatsmypark.org. Free.

DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ ANTIQUE STREET FAIRE This open air vintage and antique Faire hosts dozens of vendors offering one of a kind unique treasures.

Clothing, jewelry and other accessories, indoor/outdoor decor and furniture, art, textiles, military, tools, and more. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Downtown Santa Cruz Antique Street Faire, Pacific Ave. & Lincoln St., Santa Cruz.

251-6890. Free.

CLASSES GOPHER CONTROL IN THE HOME GARDEN AND SMALL FARM Learn how to control gophers, moles, and ground squirrel in the home garden, landscape, and on the small farm using non-toxic techniques that focus on exclusion and trapping. 9:30 a.m. UCSC Hay Barn, 306 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz. gopher2019.bpt.me. $40/$30/$5.

NOURISH YOUR LOVE: WRITE TO HEAL Imagine the gift of releasing your past within the power of your own hands and heart. We all desire and deserve great love, which begins in holding self-love at the highest level. Luma Yoga And Family Center, 1010 Center St., Santa Cruz. (312) 810-5420.

MONDAY 7/15 ART CASCADA DE FLORES Story-Song-Dance.

Bilingual storytelling that is engaging. The story features charming characters full of artistry, music and fun. Various times and locations throughout the county. santacruzpl.libcal.com. Free.

OUTDOOR COAST PADDLE BOARDS SUMMER SALE Come on by Coast Paddle Boards this weekend for our incredible summer sale. Check out our high quality, affordable Vesl paddle boards as well as some awesome accessories. 10 a.m. Coast Paddleboards, 916 A Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz. coastpaddleboards.com.

SANTA CRUZ SHAKESPEARE LITERARY SALON 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. 6-7 p.m. Santa Cruz Public Libraries - downtown, 240 Church St., Santa Cruz.

FOOD & WINE LIVE MUSIC & TACO BAR Chaminade Resort & Spa's live music series begins March 26th and runs through August 27th.

Enjoy live music on our outdoor patio (weather permitting) performed by some of Santa Cruz's well-known musicians. 6-8 p.m. Chaminade Resort & Spa, 1 Chaminade Lane, Santa Cruz. chaminade.com. $18.

TACO TUESDAY Tuesdays are better with tacos, especially when you can enjoy 2 delicious tacos with a locally crafted beer and a B-rated movie. 6-9 p.m. Solaire Restaurant + Bar, 611 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. hotelparadox.com. $10.

GROUPS CANCER SUPPORT GROUP WomenCARE support group for women newly diagnosed, or undergoing treatment, for cancer.

Registration required. Additionally, womencare is looking for front desk help.

If you're a good listener and organized you may be the right fit. Call for more info. 12:302 p.m. WomenCARE, 2901 Park Ave., Suite A1, Soquel. 457-2273. Free.

GENDERQUEER SUPPORT GROUP The support and discussion group is for people (of any age) who identify on the spectrum of GenderQueer/Non-Binary/ Agender/GenderFluid, etc. The group also welcomes those who want to explore their identity, but who may not need or want to classify themselves. 7:30-9 p.m. The Diversity Center, 1117 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. diversitycenter.org.

QUIT SMOKING SUPPORT GROUP This is a quit smoking support group and it is free to anyone who wants to join. We will be meeting across the parking lot from the church building and there will be clearly posted signs up. 7 p.m. 7th Day Adventist Church, 1024 Cayuga St., Santa Cruz. Free.

MUSIC T-BONE MOJO MISSION BBQ T-Bone Mojo Sweet Acoustic Blues. Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon, Howling Wolf, Lightnin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters, JJ Cale and their influences on Taj Mahal, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Ry Cooder, Hot Tuna, Allman Brothers, etc. 6 p.m. Mission Street Barbecue, 1618 Mission St., Santa Cruz.

458-2222. Free.

OUTDOOR BIG BASIN NATURE CLUB This fun program is designed for children ages 3 to 6 and their families. Pretend, play, sing, and explore. This half-hour program will introduce youngsters to the wonders of the redwood forest. 4:30 p.m. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

EVENING CAMPFIRE PROGRAM Join us at our historic campfire center for an evening of song and story. Serenade the glittering stars and learn about redwood ecology, creatures of the forest or stories of the park while relaxing in the shadows of the towering trees. 7 p.m. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

EXPLORING BIG BASIN Learn about redwoods, forest plants, fires, geology, history and more on these fun, varied hikes with docent Diane Shaw. Hikes are 5-8 miles and last up to 5 hours. 9:30 a.m.

Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. thatsmypark. org. $10/Free.

FULL MOON HIKE This full-moon hike will be along easy- to-moderate terrain on the Italian and Chaparral Trails at Quail Hollow Ranch, with the possibility of an extension based on interest and ability. 9-11 p.m. Quail Hollow Ranch, 800 Quail Hollow Road, Felton. prcweb.com. Free.

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GENERATION HOPELESS Local three-piece Generation Hopeless may look and sound like a normal punk band—fast, energetic tunes, depressing lyrics, catchy hooks—but they have a magic trick up their sleeves. A few songs in, guitarist and lead singer Jesse Lopez will switch with drummer Anthony Campbell—who suddenly becomes, without warning, guitarist and lead singer, with Lopez taking over the drums. This switch happens at least a couple times during their set, and it’s a smooth, seamless transition.

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“It’s a way to keep the crowd entertained,” says Campbell. “I’ll get up from the drums and I’ll pick up my guitar. We’ll start the next song. I’ve seen people with their jaws open, like, ‘Whoa.’”

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It also adds to the variety of the band’s sound; though Lopez and Anthony Campbell have similar poppunk influences, you can still hear the differences in how they write, sing and play drums.

The name Generation Hopeless fits the group’s music, which has an upbeat sound with downer words.

“We write about a lot of sad things,” says Campbell. “It’s a way of processing our feelings. The music is upbeat, but it's still aggressive. Trying to face that hopelessness, I guess.”

AARON CARNES

7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 17, SubRosa Community Space, 703 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $7. 426-5242.

HONYOCK

WEDNESDAY 7/10 ROCKABILLY

HILLBILLY CASINO Hailing from the country music Mecca of Nashville, Tennessee, this whiskey soaked four-piece is true rockabilly, combining the boogie-woogie of barn dances with the stylings of slick rockers. Their most recent studio album was 2017’s Red, White & Bruised. MAT WEIR 8:30 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $15/adv, $17/door.

423-1338.

THURSDAY 7/11 AMERICANA

SNAPS FOR SINNERS Santa Rosa acoustic Americana trio Snaps For Sinners recently moved to Madison, Indiana, but they should have moved to Santa Cruz. This group, not unlike our beloved Devil Makes Three, mixes boot-stomping old country, popping upright bass, progressive values and an affinity

for alternative culture. Perfect for us! Madison is lucky to have them, but at least they still come and visit Santa Cruz. AC 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.

FRIDAY 7/12 INDIE

E ARENAS & BARDO MARTINEZ Chicano Batman members E Arenas (bass) and Bardo Marintez (lead vocals, keys) are working together to bring wonderfully weird music to your ears. E Arenas’ recent twosong EP, La Fila de Tommy’s, is like a Latinx version of the Earthbound soundtrack, firing off rubbery synths and goofy space sounds over hyperactive cumbia beats. Last year, Bardo Martinez issued two sun-drenched Southern California soul tracks via his Yemaya Sol label.

It’s less zany than Arenas’ recent work, but no less entertaining.

MIKE HUGUENOR

8 p.m. Felton Music Hall, 6275 Hwy 9, Felton. $16. 335-2800.

FUNK

MIDTOWN SOCIAL Who says San Francisco has lost its soul? Definitely not anyone who’s heard the funk and soul ambassadors, Midtown Social. Although only three years deep in the scene, this six-piece experience has already taken their city by storm, making the SF Weekly declare that “an alabaster statue would have two-stepped” to their music. MW 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $10/adv, $15/door. 479-1854.

FLAMENCO

CAMINOS FLAMENCOS WITH YAELISA & El RUBIO The Bay Area’s flamenco scene has thrived since at least the 1950s, and in recent years, few local artists have done more to build and promote the art form than Yaelisa, who launched her non-profit organization Caminos Flamencos in 1993. A gifted choreographer and respected teacher who has collaborated with fellow nuevo flamenco artists and musicians in kindred traditions, she’s created

MUSIC

BE OUR GUEST THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

SNAPS FOR SINNERS

festivals and regular flamenco showcases in venues around the region.

But her most powerful statements flow from her crisp authoritative foot work, coiled pivots and sweeping arms. ANDREW GILBERT 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $26.25/adv, $31.50/door.

427-2227.

SATURDAY 7/13 DAVE STONE Dave Stone wants to give you a recipe for homemade fried cornbread in his Kitchen Survival Guide PDF. He also wants to spin some outlaw country tunes for you on his radio show The Gravy Boat.

There’s also that paranormal podcast with Kyle Kinane he’s certain you’ll enjoy, and why not read an article about Stone saving money by living in a van for two years? When you’ve had your fill, it’s time to see Stone live. He’s a natural comedian and storyteller, two talents which unfailingly seem to settle on the topic of food. AMY BEE 7 & 9:30 p.m. DNA’S Comedy Lab, 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $25/door.

530-592-5250.

period, but a fully realized ethos independent of fame or fad. AB

BLUES

9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $7. 429-6994.

HOWELLDEVINE Classic blues is some of the spookiest music ever written. Imagine you are living in rural Mississippi in the early 1900s, listening to a blues musician holler like he was possessed by the devil. It would scare and excite you.

The electric blues that later evolved in big cities never quite had that quality, but San Francisco trio HowellDevine harkens back to the earliest, most dangerous era of blues. AC 4 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $10/adv, $15/door. 479-1854.

INDIE

HONYOCK After listening to El Castillo, a grand, rock-operatic album full of quirks, depths, and sunny California desert fever, it’s clear what’s absent from Honyock’s ’60s psychrock missive: nostalgia. Nostalgia is almost a mourning of the past, and Honyock doesn’t sound like they’re looking backward. Instead, they’re firmly in the present, conveying not a wistful snapshot of a

TUESDAY 7/16

Various showtimes, July 23 – September 1, Audrey Stanley Grove a DeLaveaga Park, 501 Upper Park Road, Santa Cruz. $22-$66.

Information: santacruzshakespeare. org. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz. com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 18 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

FOLK

MARTHA SCANLAN & JON NEUFELD Martha Scanlan has a voice like a prairie wind: elemental, haunting, and impossible to miss as it glides over her pastoral guitar work. As a member of the Reeltime Travelers, Scanlan appeared on the Cold Mountain soundtrack. In 2007, she recorded her debut solo album at Big Pink with Levon and Amy Helm—a heartstring-tugging collection of mournful folk anthems titled The West Was Burning. Since 2010, Scanlan has collaborated with Portland guitarist Jon Neufeld, whose background in the metal and prog scenes informs his acoustic work. Together, they make a powerful duo, equal parts spare and masterful. MH 7:30 p.m. Michael’s On Main, 2591 Main St., Soquel. $15. 479-9777.

IN THE QUEUE AJ LEE & BLUE SUMMIT

Youngster bluegrass hopefuls from Santa Cruz. Thursday at Michaels On Main ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY

Underground heathens of smooth jazz. Thursday at Kuumbwa Jazz Center JESSICA GERHARDT

Mesmerizing and vulnerable LA-based indie rock. Friday at Crepe Place ARISE ROOTS

Reggae band straight outta LA. Saturday at Moe’s Alley GTS PRESENTS: SUMMER SCORCHER

A night of eight killer indie rock bands.

Sunday at Catalyst

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COMEDY

SUNDAY 7/14

The Comedy Of Errors is one of Shakespeare’s earliest and wildest comedies. The story is of two identical twins who were mistakenly separated at birth, and a whole series of shenanigans ensues. It’s a timeless comedic device, and in Shakespeare’s classic play, he makes gratuitous usage of puns, slapstick and word play to the silliest of effects.

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Thursday July 11 – 8/8:30pm $12/15 Grateful Dead Dance Party

THE CHINA CATS Friday July 12 – 8/9pm $10/15

LIVE MUSIC WED

7/10

Funk & Soul Dance Party

+ FUNK UR SOUL

APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

AC Myles Free 6-8p

Saturday July 13 – 8/9pm $14/18

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Striker & guests $5 9p

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

MIDTOWN SOCIAL

THU

7/11

FRI

7/12

Sensory Tribe Free 7p

ABBOTT SQUARE 118 Cooper St, Santa Cruz

Al Frisby Free 6-8p

Steve Freund Free 6-8p

F.::R3v!V@l::. $5 9p

Bass House Rave Party $5 9p

Karaoke 8p-Close

John Michael Band 9:15p-12a

Karaoke 6p-Close

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

Alex Lucero & Friends 8p

Karaoke 9-12:30a

Karaoke 9-12:30a

HOWELLDEVINE

CAPITOLA WINE BAR 115 San Jose Ave, Capitola

Glennie B Free7-10p

Blind Rick Free 7-10p

Six String Pharmacy Free 7-10p

Wednesday July 17 – 8/8:30pm $10/15

CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

HONEYSUCKLE JAMIE COFFIS BART BUDWIG

CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Live Reggae Music With

ARISE ROOTS + THE LATE ONES Sunday July 14 – 3 /4pm $10/15 Afternoon Blues Series

Boston Folk Favorites Debut Santa Cruz

Thursday July 18 – 8/9pm $10/15 Jumpsuit Records Double Bill

TROPO + ISAAC CHAMBERS Friday July 19– 8/8:30pm $15/20

Hillbilly Casino $15 8:30p

Chickenbone Slim Free 6-8p

7/13

SAT Santa Cruz Live: A Day Of Music at the MAH Free 7p

SUN

7/14

MON

Scott Miller Free 6-8p

7/15

TUE

7/16

Mojo Mix Free 6-8p

Broken Shades Free 6-8p Stranger Than Fact, Shark in the Water $5 9p

Karaoke 6p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Silken Soul Free 3-6p

The Brothers Comatose $18 9p

Toots & the Maytals $29.50 9p

Yaima $10 9p

Summer Scorcher $12 6p

CHAMINADE RESORT 1 Chaminade Ln, Santa Cruz

Honeytone Free 6-8p

CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

CORK AND FORK 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

Open Mic Night Free 7-10p

CORRALITOS CULTURAL CENTER 127 Hames Rd., Corralitos

KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p Jade Free 7-10p

Madrigal & Strange Free 7-10p

Open Mic 7-10p

Green Dog Duo Free 5-8p Acoustic Open Jam 3-5p

Sirius XM Coffeehouse Tour With

MATT COSTA, JD & THE STRAIGHT SHOT, MATT HARTKE

THE

CREPE PLACE

Saturday July 20 – 8/9pm $15/20

OPEN LATE - EVERY NIGHT!

Skateboard Legend Brings His Live Band

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July 21 SUGARAY RAYFORD July 21 KANEKOA July 24 SUN HOP FAT + ELEKTRIC VOODOO July 25 EDGE OF THE WEST July 26 ATERCIOPELADOS July 27 THE SUBDUDES July 31 KABAKA PYRAMID Aug 1 PAT SIMMONS JR. Aug 2 ALO Aug 3 NATTALI RIZE + MARLA BROWN & ANCESTREE Aug 4 GARY HOEY Aug 8 HERE COMES SUNSHINE Aug 9 DIRTY REVIVAL Aug 10 COFFIS BROTHERS + DAVID LUNING Aug 14 WILLIE K Aug 15 DIGGIN DIRT + WALK TALK Aug 18 JIMMY THACKERY Aug 22 HOMELAND REVIVAL featuring JAMES DURBIN & NICK GALLANT Aug 23 DAVE ALVIN + JIMMIE DALE GILMORE Aug 24 GONDWANA + Fayuca

WWW.MOESALLEY.COM 1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz 831.479.1854

Wed. July 10 7:30pm Thu. July 11 7:30pm

ADVANCE TICKETS ON TICKETWEB

Tell Me More

WEDNESDAY 7/10

WHISKEY WEDNESDAY

Master Storytellers

$15 adv./$15 door seated – ages 21 +

COME CHECK OUR AWESOME SELECTION HAPPY HOUR!

AJ Lee & Blue Summit plus Jimbo Scott $15 adv./$18 door seated <21 w/parent

THURSDAY 7/11

SNAPS FOR SINNERS 2 AWESOME SETS

Green Dog Band

Fri. July 12 5:00pm HAPPY HOUR / NO COVER Fri. July 12 8:30pm Sat. July 13 8:30pm

JOLLY LLAMAS

Hank & Ella

w/ JESSICA GERHARDT & LIFE SIZE MODELS

With The Fine Country Band

9PM - $10 DOOR

$12 adv./$12 door Dance – ages 21 +

SATURDAY 7/13 THE BIG QUENCH!!!!

The Otis Redding

JUDO NO

Legacy feat. McKinley Moore

$10 adv./$12 door Dance – ages 21 +

Grateful Sunday

Sun. July14 5:30pm GRATEFUL DEAD TUNES /NO COVER Tue. July 16 7:30pm

9PM - $8 DOOR FRIDAY 7/12

Martha Scanlan & Jon Neufeld plus Will

AND TONS OF HIP HOP, NEO-SOUL, R&B & AFROLATIN ARTIST

9PM - $8 DOOR

Legendary keyboardist from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Fourt & Sheila Golden

California Kind COMING UP

Thurs. July 18 Backyard Birds Fri. July 19 Jerry’s Middle Finger plus Sat. July 20 Tue. July 23

Doobie Decibel System Trio EXTRA LARGE RagingStone

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Full Concert Calendar : MichaelsonMainMusic.com 2591 Main St, Soquel, CA 95073

IN THE BEAUTIFUL GARDEN 5PM SUNDAY 7/14

HONYOCK

$15 adv./$15 door seated <21 w/parent Wed. July 17 8:00pm $15 adv./$20 door Dance – ages 21 +

SUNDAY 7/14

FREE BLUEGRASS

w/ JOE KAPLOW 9PM - $7 DOOR

Big Sur 9/8 HENRY MILLER LIBRARY Please CARPOOL / RIDEHSARE to Big Sur.

TUESDAY 7/16

FUNK NIGHT

13 OCT

w/ SPACE HEATER

9:30 PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT

HMML BIG SUR BIG SUR

WEEKEND BRUNCH FULL BAR MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ

1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz 429-6994

LIVE MUSIC WED

7/10

THE CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz CROW’S NEST 2218 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz

THU

7/11

Snaps for Sinners $8 9p Phoenix Rising $3 8p

Extra Large Free 5:30p Sasha’s Money $5 8:30p

7/12

FRI Jolly Llamas w/ Jessica Gerhardt & more $10 9p

Southern Pacific $6 9p

Wednesday, July 10 • 7 PM

7/13

7/14

SAT The Big Quench Summer Dance Party $8 9p

SUN Open Bluegrass Jam Free 5p Honyock w/ Joe Kaplow $7 9p

Isaac & the Haze $7 9:30p

Live Comedy $7 9p

MON

7/15

TUE

7/16

Funk Night w/ Space Heater $6 9p-12a Dave D’Oh & Alex Lucero $5 7:30p

FREE

Thursday, July 11 • 7 PM & 9 PM

ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY Friday, July 12 • 7 PM

Wild & Blue Free 6:30-8:30p

DNA’S COMEDY LAB 155 River St, Santa Cruz

Jena Friedman 7&9:30p

FELTON MUSIC HALL 6275 Hwy 9, Felton

É Arenas & Bardo (of Chicano Batman) w/ Valley Wolf $16 8p

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville GABRIELLA CAFE 910 Cedar St., Santa Cruz

Techniques and methods from an acclaimed local saxophinist.

Pioneers of instrumental guitar music, embracing a spectrum of genres.

DAV. ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport DISCRETION BREWING 2703 41st Ave, Soquel

MASTER CLASS: GARY MEEK – MUSIC & MOTION

CAMINOS FLAMENCOS WITH YAELISA & EL RUBIO

Dave Stone 7 & 9:30p

At the forefront of the nuevo flamenco movement.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Saturday, July 13 • 8:30 PM

Greyhound 8p Linc Russin 7-9p

JACK O’NEILL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 175 W Cliff Dr. Santa Cruz

SIN SISTERS BURLESQUE: 80s vs. 90s

Jeannine Bonstelle & Sweeney Schragg 6:30-9:30p Matias 6:30-9:30p

KUUMBWA JAZZ 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Gary Meek Master Class Acoustic Alchemy Free 7p $42/$47.25 7p

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

Tell Me More $15 7:30p

AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Jimbo Scott $15/$18 7:30p

Tickets: eventbrite.com

Sunday, July 14 • 7:30 PM Scott Slaughter 6:30-9:30p Caminos Flamencos w/ Yaelisa & El Rubio $26.25/$31.50 7p

FULAMUSE = MAMUSE + FULA BROTHERS

Owens Brothers 6:30-9:30p

Sin Sisters Burlesque ’80s vs. ’90s Show $20-$40 8:30p Otis Redding Legacy Green Dog Band Free 5p ft. McKinley Moore Hank & Ella $12 8:30p $10/$12 8:30p

Tickets: eventbrite.com

FulaMuse $20/$25 7p Grateful Sunday Free 5:30p

Thursday, July 18 • 7 PM Martha Scanlan & Jon Neufeld, Will Fourt & Sheila Golden $15 7:30p

JOHN HANRAHAN QUARTET WITH ANDREW DIXON: A TRIBUTE TO WAYNE SHORTER Celebrating an iconic jazz saxophonist.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Friday, July 19 • 7:30 PM

AMY HELM BAND

Tickets: snazzyproductions.com Monday, July 22 • 7 PM

KIM NALLEY: PAYING RESPECT TO ARETHA

A salute to the Queen of Soul from one of the Bay Area’s favorite vocalists.

Saturday, July 27 • 8 PM

AMIRTHA KIDAMBI ELDER ONES Tickets: withfriends.co

Monday, July 29 • 7 PM

ALICIA OLATUJA – INTUITION: SONGS FROM THE MINDS OF WOMEN 1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Thursday, August 1 • 7 PM

LOS HERMANOS ARANGO

Folkloric Cuban rhythms blended together with jazz influences.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Monday, August 5 • 7 PM

MARCIA BALL

Rollicking and soulful rhythm and blues.

Thursday, August 8 • 7 PM

MARQUIS HILL BLACKTET 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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Reinterpretations of songs by influential women composers.

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LIVE MUSIC WED MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

7/10

THU

Blind Rick Free 6p

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

The Program, Euphoric 9:30p

7/11

FRI

Trivia 8p

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

7/13

SUN

7/14

Al Frisby Free 6p

Steve Freund Free 6p

The China Cats $12/$15 8p

Midtown Social & Funk Ur Soul Experience $10/$15 9p

Arise Roots & the Late Ones $14/$18 8p

HowellDevine $10/$15 3p

Libation Lab w/ King Wizard & Chief Transcend 9:30p

Adam Cova 9:30p

D-Roc, Kid Vicious 9:30p

Rasta Cruz Reggae Party 9:30p

Kenny Chung of American Trashbird Free 7p

DJ Jesse Jams Free 7p

MON

7/15

TUE

Chris James & Patrick Rynn Free 6p

7/16

T-Bone Mojo Free 6p

The Takeover, Hip Hop w/ DJ Marc 9:30p Tacos & Trivia Free 6:30p

Matt Masih Free 10p Alex Lucero Free 2-5p

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

SAT

Preacher Boy Free 6p

NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz 99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz

7/12

Al Frisby Free 6p

Vinny Johnson 2-5p

Max Fife, Max Borax, Nathan Schaefer Free 8:30p

Little Petie & the Mean Old Men Free 9p

Chain of Fools 2-5p

Open Mic Free 4-7p Snake Farm Conspiracy Free 9p

Erin Avila 6-9p Comedy Free 8p

Open Mic Free 8-11p

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

‘Geeks Who Drink’ Trivia Night 8p

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

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 Joint Chiefs & Live Again 8p

The Joint Chiefs & Friends Rougher Yet 8p 9p

The Human Juke Box 6p

Open Mic 6p

Tuesday Trivia Night 6:30p

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Trivia 7:30p

Don Caruth 7:30p

Trouble in the Wind 7:30p

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Wednesday, July 10 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

HILLBILLY CASINO

Friday, July 12 • Ages 16+

The Brothers Comatose Friday, July 12 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

YAIMA

plus Drumspyder

Sunday, July 14 • Ages 16+

Toots & The Maytals Sunday, July 14 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

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Tuesday, July 16 • In the Upstairs Bar • Ages 16+

FUNK NIGHT featuring 7COME11

Jul 20 Shwayze/ Bllaine (Ages 16+) Aug 13 Matisyahu (Ages 16+) Aug 15 Hawthorne Heights/ Emery (Ages 16+) Aug 16 The Original Wailers (Ages 16+) Aug 22 Tuxedo (Ages 16+) Aug 27 Protoje (Ages 16+) Aug 31 Danny Duncan (Ages 16+) Sep 2 Xavier Rudd (Ages 16+) Sep 13 Iya Terra (Ages 16+) Sep 14 The California Honeydrops (Ages 16+) Sep 15 Lil Keed/ Lil Gotit (Ages 16+) Sep 24 Hot Chip (Ages 16+) Sep 28 Durand Jones & The Indications (Ages 16+) Oct 3 PNB Rock/ NoCap (Ages 16+) Oct 10 Collie Buddz (Ages 16+) 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+) Nov 2 Elephante/ DNMO (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 877-987-6487 & online

www.catalystclub.com

July-Sept 2019 Kuumbwa

Fri, July 19 7:30 pm $25 Gen. Adv. $40 Gold Circle Fri, Aug 2 7:30 pm $37 Gen. Adv. $47 Gold Circle

Rio Theatre Jesse Daniel opens

Sat, Aug 3 7:30 pm $27 Gen. Adv. $40 Gold Circle

Rio Theatre

Fri, Aug 9 7:30 pm $25 Gen. Adv. $40 Gold Circle

Kuumbwa

Fri, Sept 20 7:30 pm $25 Gen. Adv. $40 Gold Circle

Kuumbwa

Snazzy at Michael’s On Main

Fri July 12 Tues July 16 Sun July 28

8:30 pm 7:30 pm 2:00 pm

Hank & Ella with The Fine Country Band Martha Scanlan & Jon Neufeld Will Fourt & Shelia Golden Open Jason Eady

Fri July 12

9:00 pm

Brothers Comatose

$12 Adv/ $12 Door $15 Adv/ $15 Door $12 Adv/ $15 Door

Snazzy at The Catalyst Burning Pictures Open

$18 Adv/ $18 Door

each side (40 seats). Additional $4 for each ticket purchased at the door. Tax is included.

LIVE MUSIC WED

7/10

THU

7/11

FRI

7/12

SAT

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

Yuji & Steve 7:30-10:30p

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz

Ricky Torres Group 6:30p

7/13

SUN

7/14

SEVERINO’S BAR & GRILL 7500 Old Dominion Court, Aptos

Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-9p

Phoenix Rising 8-11:30p

Patio Acoustics 1-4p Patio Acoustics Ten O’Clock Lunchband 1-4p 8-11:30p

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

Ken Constable 6:30-9:30p

Joe Ferrara 6:30-9:30p

Claudio Melega 7-10p

SHANTY SHACK BREWING 138 Fern St, Santa Cruz

Mikey Bilello $4 12:30p

DJ Abraham Free 6-9p

STEEL BONNET 20 Victor Square, Scotts Valley

Carie & the Soulshakers Village Green Band Free 5p Free 5p

SUSHI GARDEN S.V. 5600 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley

Dan Frechette 5:30p

UGLY MUG 4640 Soquel Ave, Soquel VINOCRUZ 4901 Soquel Drive, Soquel VINO LOCALE 55 Municipal Wharf, Santa Cruz

TUE

7/16

Elie Mabanza 6-9p

Steve Bennett 5:30p Open Mic w/ Steven David 5:30p

Bobby Markowitz 6-9p

JADe 4-6p

Joe Leonard & guest 6-8p

Joe Leonard & Brian Fitzgerald 6-8p Terri Londee & B-4 Dawn 1p

Scott Owens 6-8p

WHARF HOUSE 1400 Wharf Road, Capitola ZELDA’S 203 Esplanade, Capitola

7/15

DJ Corazon Free 2p

The Dave Holodiloff Trio $18/$20 7:30p Myhaylo K 5-8p

MON

Calico 7:30-10:30p

Whats Good 9:30p

Soulwise 9:30p

Beauteous Maximus.

LOCATED ON THE BEACH

Amazing waterfront deck views.

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

See live music grid for this week’s bands.

STAND-UP COMEDY

Three live comedians every Sunday night.

HAPPY HOUR

Mon–Fri from 3:00pm. Wednesday all night!

VISIT OUR BEACH MARKET

Wood-fired pizza, ice cream, unique fine gifts.

FREE BEACH BBQ PARTIES

organ, wine, castle, redwoods, science, Bastille

AUG 02 Rodney Crowell: The Texas Tour AUG 03 The Waifs SEP 07 Int. Ocean Film Tour Vol. 6 SEP 15 Kevin Nealon SEP 20 Banff Centre Mountain Film SEP 23 Bobby McFerrin OCT 01 Madeleine Peyroux OCT 05 Dave Mason NOV 08 Richard Thompson NOV 17 Jesse Cook NOV 20 A Tuba to Cuba NOV 21 Built To Spill NOV 25 Kirtan with Krishna Das DEC 09 Tommy Emmanuel FEB 25 Teada Follow the Rio Theatre on Facebook & Twitter! info@riotheatre.com www.riotheatre.com

SUMMER IS HERE! SHOW YOUR GOOD SIDE

BY SMOOTHING OUT YOUR FROWN AND FOREHEAD LINES WITH BOTOX

Live Music, Thursdays, 5:30pm, All Ages

NOW SERVING BREAKFAST

Open for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Daily

(831) 476-4560

crowsnest-santacruz.com

July 13, 1-5pm

Tickets:

scbaroque.org

Beauty Within 7492 Soquel Dr., Suite D Aptos, CA 95003 • 831.313.4844

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Boomeria

B Movie Kings 1p

Upcoming Shows

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FILM

PAGAN CULT OR ‘ MAMMA MIA’ SINGALONG? You decide!

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‘Midsommar’ is the feel-bad movie of the summer BY STEVE PALOPOLI

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ears ago, Nightmare on Elm Street director Wes Craven told me that a horror movie can only really work if the audience doesn’t trust its director. One way or another, he said, the movie has to create the feeling that it was made by someone unwilling or unable to control his or her own worst impulses. He had that experience for the first time himself when he went to see The Texas Chainsaw Massacre as a young man in the ’70s. The movie was so straight-up insane that he thought it might have been made by some deranged satanic cult, and he actually felt unsafe sitting in the theater, worrying about what these

imagined fiends might force him to see. He spent most of his career trying to create that same fear in the audiences that went to his own films.

No one is going to confuse writer-director Ari Aster’s new film Midsommar with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It doesn’t have a single jump scare, or even suspenseful sequence, really. It isn’t scary, in the traditional sense. And yet the oppressive, constant sense of dread, punctuated by a string of increasingly extreme shocks, creates one of the most effective feats of true cinematic horror to come along in quite some time.

As the grotesqueries of the story

begin to evolve from disturbing to downright absurd, Aster revels in forcing the audience to look at their absurdity. He is Craven’s untrustworthy director to the nth degree, willing to slam his audience from gorgeous, pristine art-movie landscapes one moment to twisted dives into the darkest human impulses the next. Midsommar does not play fair with us, because Aster has no interest in playing fair. And yet, I doubt he would agree with anyone who calls the movie cynical; there’s a pitch-black earnestness to the whole thing that suggests Aster is interested not in creating pointless shocks, but in revealing some unpleasant truths about life,

the universe and everything.

The film is set in a small Swedish community, to which a group of Americans have traveled to observe a midsummer festival. The first thing worth noting about this group is that they clearly have not seen the 1973 cult-horror classic The Wicker Man, in which a foreigner gets suckered into being a human sacrifice for a pagan ritual. Not even the terrible Nic Cage remake, apparently! Obviously, Midsommar owes a huge debt to the original Wicker Man—sometimes a bit too much, even. But this film is even darker.

The second thing about the group—and in fact, everyone in the film—is that they are remarkably unlikable, even the main visiting couple, Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reymor). If you’re one of those people who simply can’t watch a film where there’s no one to root for, this is probably not for you. But if you can get over it, the characterizations here are both audacious and effective, the interpersonal tensions realistic and relatable. As Aster slowly, purposefully takes Midsommar completely off the rails, the believability established by the cast is of the utmost importance.

We stay on board because we’re invested in their tragic, awful and tragically awful relationships, and in their fates.

There will no doubt be many a future college thesis theorizing about what Aster is saying here, and they will make for some bleak reading. This film rejects the popular notion that anything dubbed “ancient” or “natural” is healthy and good, but it also hates the jittery, self-obsessed modern world. It is anti-religion, anti-organization, anti-individual, anti-relationship, and anti-culture.

It is anti-life, and hell, it may even be pro-suicide, I can’t even tell. If you think that sounds dangerous, than you’re starting to understand why Wes Craven was right, and why Midsommar is such a powerful horror film.

MIDSOMMAR Written and directed by Ari Aster. Starring Florence Pugh and Jack Reymor. (R) 147 minutes.

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CRAWL Kind of weird to see horror’s early-2000s wunderkind Alexandre Aja, who made the incredible High Tension and the less-incredible-butstill-a-big-deal-at-the-time remake of The Hills Have Eyes, slumming it with a B-level killer-croc variation on Jaws.

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STUBER Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista recently said he won’t do Fast and the Furious movies because “I’d rather do good ones.”Judging from the trailers for Stuber, this is a brand-new policy he came up with after making it. In this action comedy, he plays a cop who drafts unwilling Uber driver Kumail Nanjiani into his operations. I don’t know which of these things is worse: someone watching Karan Soni’s role as a comic-relief taxi driver in the Deadpool movies and saying,“Let’s make a movie about that, but with fewer South Asian stereotypes” or someone watching Jamie Foxx’s role as a trapped taxi driver in Collateral and thinking,“Let’s make a movie about that, but with more South Asian stereotypes.” But I guarantee you that one of them happened, and thus we have Stuber. Directed by Michael Dowse. Co-starring Karen Gillan, Natalie Morales and Mira Sorvino. (R) 93 minutes. (SP) TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM You know, the word “legend” gets thrown around a lot lately. But

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referential and really weird direction with Bride of Chucky, Seed of Chucky and so on. This reboot is the first Chucky film Mancini isn’t involved with, and the new producers have turned it into a very serious sci-fi thing where the doll’s AI goes haywire. Wait, are you telling me I should be wary of technology? OMG this is just like that show about the mirrors that are black! I have an idea for that show: Hollywood studio executives become sentient and … OK, you’re right, that’s too ridiculous even for sci-fi. Directed

by Lars Klevberg. Starring Aubrey Plaza, Gabriel Bateman and the voice of Mark Hamill as Chucky (!) (R) 90 minutes. (SP) THE DEAD DON’T DIE In some circles, the words “Jim Jarmusch zombie comedy” are all you’d need to sell a movie. Especially when the cast includes Jarmusch stock company stalwarts like Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Steve Buscemi, Tilda Swinton, Iggy Pop, Carol Kane and Tom Waits. But while it looks promising on paper, the onscreen result could use some more brains. It would be shameless punning to employ words like “stilted” and “catatonic” to describe a movie about reanimated dead people. (That’s the point, right?) Everybody involved certainly seems to be having a swell time. But the audience, not so much, as they endure long stretches of ennui between unsubtle moments that drive home the message, and namethat-zombie celebrity-spotting. (R) 104 minutes. (LJ) ECHO IN THE CANYON With Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time in Hollywood coming out this month, it’s prime time for nostalgia around L.A. in the ’60s.

This documentary about the Laurel Canyon scene in the mid-’60s traces how groups like the Beach Boys, the Mamas and the Papas, the Byrds, and Buffalo Springfield defined the California sound. It features interviews with and performances from classic artists like Brian Wilson, Michelle Phillips, Eric Clapton, and Ringo Starr, as well as later artists who were influenced by the scene like Beck, Cat Power, Regina Spektor, and Norah Jones. Directed by Andrew Slater. (PG-13) 82 minutes. (SP)

THE FALL OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE I remember me and my film-nerd friends being totally scandalized by director Denys Arcand’s 1986 film The Decline of the American Empire on a 9thgrade movie night—oh, the days of lax parental supervision! He made a sequel to that non-stop debauchery fest (at least, that’s how I remember it) with 2003’s The Barbarian Invasions. The title of his newest film would seem to suggest it rounds out a trilogy, but it’s not a direct continuation of the previous stories—though his recent comments comparing President Donald Trump to the Roman Emperor Caligula suggest he might still be thinking along the same lines. Call me crazy! Whatever point he’s itching to make, he’s framed it this time in a crime thriller about a man who happens upon bags of money abandoned after an armed robbery. Starring Maxim Roy, Yan England and Remy Girard. (R) 127 minutes. (SP) THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO This first feature from director Joe Talbot is based on a story he concocted with his longtime friend and fellow San Francisco native, Jimmie Fails. It’s a remarkably assured and absorbing meditation on the mythology of the city’s fabled past while its characters—two young black men born and raised in the city— reckon with the uncertainty of its present. As a semi-autobiographical version of himself, Fails’ character is obsessed with a stately Victorian-style house built by his grandfather that his family no longer possesses. Jonathan Majors offers poignant support as his best friend in this dreamy, splendidly composed mood piece about the search for home and identity in the rapidly evolving city they love. (R) 120 minutes. (LJ) MIDSOMMAR Reviewed this issue.

(R) 147 minutes. (SP) SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME Spider-Man, Spider-Man/Der ner neer, it’s Spider-Man/He gets a film, like every year/They’re basically all the same/Except for the Spider-verse one!/That one was really good!/ Spider-Man, Spider-Man/I don’t think

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I am definitely not eating spicy foods before bed anymore. In other news, this fourth installment of the animated Pixar franchise is said to be the sweetest and most poignant of them all, which is also what they said about Toy Story 3. And probably what they’ll say about Toy Story 5, as long as Tom Hanks as Woody, Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear and the rest of the gang keep pouring on the sweet poignancy.

Directed by Josh Cooley. (G) 100 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 pop-cultural comedy. It's also as 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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We partnered our Vim dinner with glasses of excellent Termes Tempranillo 2015 ($11) and an earthy Costaripa Mazane 2015 ($14) and appreciated the generous pours—generous enough to last throughout our meal. I admit we did longingly admire the quartet of cocktails on the table across from ours in arboretum shades of pink, magenta and lime. Choosing desserts is a challenge at Vim, where the gamut wanders amongst fresh berry trifle, double chocolate fantasias and other intricate temptations.

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d Muns showcased his wines at Vino Locale on the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf recently, an opportunity for my husband and I to check out the sea lions and try the new-ish wine bar on the water. The best part was tasting the superb wines of Muns Vineyard, including the 2014 Syrah ($30) from Muns’ estate vineyard.

Muns and partner Mary Lindsay not only make wine under their own Muns Vineyard label, but also grow an abundance of grapes for regular customers. Out of several wines I tried at their pop-up tasting, the 2014 Syrah is my favorite. Its stewed plum and blackberry aromas, with notes of pepper, jam and spices, add enormous depth and complexity.

Vino Locale is owned by Debra Szecsei and offers small plates of food and tapas to pair with their ample inventory of wines, many of them local. I recommend the quiche ($9) from Kelly’s French Bakery or the mini chicken empanadas ($10).

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MAGICAL MYSTERY DAYS We are now in the second Mercury retrograde of the year. Mercury retrograded Sunday in Leo, and will make a return visit to Cancer for several weeks. We all know Mercury retro is a time of communication difficulties, unexpected events and interruptions. However, Mercury retrograde has very positive traits: it creates innovative ways of thinking, inspired insights, offering new wisdom and understanding.

Mercury retrograde is a magical time, the trickster energy is playing with us. Mercury is retrograde till July’s end, and in it’s retrograde shadow ’til August 17. In the retrograde, begun at 5 degrees Leo (our creative selves), Mercury returns to Cancer. We contemplate family, tribe, ancestors, and our origins, seeking nourishment from them. Later, Mercury re-enters Leo and our focus shifts to our creative self-identity. In

Leo, we must leave the family in order to discover our free and independent selves.

Under Leo, the Sun, bright and golden, rules—our hearts, too.

Under Cancer, the Moon, Neptune and the past rule. We seek emotional security. Mind merges with devotion.

Mercury retrograde has its own logic. We also know it is a time of bad drivers; of things upside down and inside out, internal focus and contemplation on things past, clearing our minds of unnecessary thoughts since the last Mercury retrograde (March). It is a time of review, reassessment, reworking, rethinking, redoing. It’s a magical mystery tour of days and nights when we remember things, then quietly set them aside so new realities can then come forth.

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It’s a time of playfulness for Aries, of creativity, which may take many detours into unusual ways of thinking. You may be distracted often, go off predicted pathways, find alternatives that at first feel confusing, but later shine with golden light. All confusions along the way are guideposts letting you know nothing’s lost or wasted. All have a purpose, and you are led in the right directions. Play more, sing, dance and find your way on a different path entirely.

You are endlessly interested in others, in group and social and community interactions, things trending (and about to trend) and teamwork. New ideas enter your life, contributing to your being future-oriented and fair-minded. Your keen interest in friends helps them understand their own wishes, dreams, hopes, plans and ideals. Don’t doubt your own dreams, reconnect with them. They wait for your love and reconnection.

TAURUS Apr21–May21

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21

House, home, family, parents, lineage and all environments that both nurture and don’t nurture come into your mind.

It’s a perfect time to look around the home to discover what work and repairs are needed. Much can be done during retrogrades that has previously been put aside. Don’t let inertia rule your days and nights. Allow your imagination to fill with unusual plans and ideas. Remain at home as much as possible. It’s interesting there!

What is occurring with your work in the world? This is a good time to create clear plans of action, to consider past, present and future goals, your aspirations around them and their purpose. During the retrograde, you can feel a lack discipline.

But that is not reality. Retrogrades call us not to action, but to inner reflection. You have a talent of communication that helps negotiate fragile situations. This Scorpio skill brings freshness and vitality to all conversations.

GEMINI May 22–June 20

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20

Geminis born with Mercury retrograde experience an expanded state of communication and understanding, going out and about in the world with ease and confidence. Geminis not born under Mercury retrograde find themselves in a state of recollection, unable to speak much (unusual for them), becoming more of a listener for the purpose of inner learning. Do not allow stress around delays. Everything in Mercury retrograde is in the right timing.

Is there a hunger for new ways of learning, the exchange of new ideas, new philosophies and new ways to communicate? You are skilled in seeing the big picture, of inspiring others while traveling in different communities and cultures. During the retrograde, do not lean into pessimism—the opposite of your usual optimism. Know that travel may be more difficult, plans changed, flights cancelled. Tend to any legal issues immediately. Consider returning to school.

CANCER Jun21–Jul20

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20

The focus is on money, finances, resources and most of all, values. Unexpected monetary issues may arise.

Something overlooked comes into view. It’s important to take this retrograde time to list what your values are in all areas of life. It’s also a good time to set money aside for a time in the future when it’s needed. You have a practical and logical intelligence, which may go awry during the retrograde. It’s telling you something important and essential.

You may be feeling an undue emotionality, a depth of desire for something needed, but not quite known yet. It is a good time to reconnect with those you love, even if they are far away. This gives you something real to do in this retrograde, especially when Mercury returns to Cancer. You are curious about motivation, the mysterious something in others that drives them. Your mind becomes penetrating and able to strategize. When you speak, you stand in authority. People listen. You study your lineage.

LE0 Jul21–Aug22

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18

During the retrograde, you may become more mercurial, which means changeable, distracted, restless and frustrated, while also more adaptable and versatile in conversations. Be sure to listen more. Try not to be too mischievous. Mercury retro is the trickster, and very precocious. You will be thinking of your self-identity. Are you who you think you are? Do people understand you? Are you communicating clearly, from the heart of the matter?

Mercury is transiting your house of relationships. Be careful in all communications so that misunderstandings don’t arise.

Especially with loved ones, those close to you, partners in both love and work. Remain in quiet, in stillness as much as possible. This balances the energies when everything seems confusing and in chaos. Share ideas, but don’t expect specific outcomes. Look at both sides of the coin. It creates stimulating conversations and new perspectives.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22

PISCES Feb19–Mar20

Perhaps there will be subtle power struggles occurring in or around your life. People may feel you’re too intense or too spiritual. You may want to research religions, learn to speak a silent language (perhaps in tongues, which mimics the sound of life in nature). You become an excellent listener and friend, one who keeps secrets.

Don’t get too complex trying to understand others. Just know they are doing their best, always. You are, too.

There seems to be work, work and more work to be done, with many details in tow. Things needs to be sorted, ordered and organized in your personal environment.

Attention to this will be helpful in the weeks and months to come. Health is most important at this time. Each morning begin the day with the words, “Everyday in every way I am getting healthier and healthier” (from Dr. Coue) and “Help me to do my very best today.”

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business as PELICAN RANCH WINERy. 100 KENNEdy dR. STE 102, CAPITOLA, CA 95010. County of Santa Cruz. PEGGy CREWS & PHIL CREWS. 403 ISBEL dR., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by a Married Couple signed: PEGGy CREWS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 9/4/1997. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on June 13, 2019. June 19, 26, July 3, & 10.

following individual is doing business as W. COAST BAIT ANd TACKLE dISTRIBUTION. 1039 FREEdOM BLVd., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. SERGIO URBINA. 1039 FREEdOM BLVd., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. This business is conducted by an individual signed: SERGIO URBINA. 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 June 12, 2019.

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105 RUTHERFORd COURT, APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an individual signed: yVONNE O'BRIEN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 6/20/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on June 20, 2019.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001002 The following Corporation is doing business as PEdIATRIC THERAPy CENTER, INC. 1940 BONITA dR., APTOS, CA 95003.

County of Santa Cruz. PEdIATRIC THERAPy CENTER, INC. 1940 BONITA dR., APTOS, CA 95003. Al# 2886493.

This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: PEdIATRIC THERAPy CENTER, INC. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 7/1/2017. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on June 4, 2019.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001018 The following individual is doing business as CHARLIE'S GOOdS. 7231 MILLIE CT., UNIT A, APTOS, CA 95003. County of Santa Cruz. MISTy NICOLE TORRES. 7231 MILLIE CT., UNIT A, APTOS, CA 95003.

This business is conducted by an individual signed: MISTy NICOLE TORRES. 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 June 6, 2019.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001090 The following individual is doing business as THE HAIRy HANdyMAN. 10538 LAKE BLVd., FELTON, CA 95018. County of Santa Cruz. PETER MAX BRIONES. 10538 LAKE BLVd., FELTON, CA 95018. This business is conducted by an individual signed: PETER MAX BRIONES. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 6/7/2019. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on June 17, 2019. June 26, July 3, 10, & 17.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001095 The following individual is doing business as THE NET ZERO EXISTING BUILdINGS COMPANy. 1470 OAKLEAF dRIVE, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. BARRy NICHOLAS GILES. 1470 OAKLEAF dRIVE, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. This business is conducted by an individual signed: BARRy NICHOLAS GILES. 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 June 18, 2019. June 26, July 3, 10, & 17.

REFILING OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE WITH CHANGE NO. 2019-0001022 The following Corporation is doing business as ALLIANCE PHySICAL THERAPy. 7887 SOQUEL dRIVE, SUITE d, APTOS, CA 95003.

County of Santa Cruz. INTUITIVE HEALTH MANAGEMENT ANd PHySICAL THERAPy, INC. 7887 SOQUEL dRIVE, SUITE d, APTOS, CA 95003. AI# 3941947. This business is conducted by a Corporation signed: INTUITIVE HEALTH MANAGEMENT ANd PHySICAL THERAPy, INC. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 9/27/2016. original FBn number: 2016-0000682. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on June 6, 2019. June 26, July 3, 10, & 17.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001108 The following individual is doing business as LIFE IN MOTION THERAPy. 340 SOQUEL AVE., #207, SANTA CRUZ, CA 96062.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001121 The following individual is doing business as ALL NEEdS TASKING. 428 BROWNS VALLEy ROAd, CORRALITOS, CA 95076.

County of Santa Cruz. KEITH LITTLE REINSIMAR. 428 BROWNS VALLEy ROAd, CORRALITOS, CA 95076. This business is conducted by an individual signed: KEITH LITTLE REINSIMAR. 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 June 21, 2019.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001146 The following individual is doing business as THE NEW HORIZONS. 2546 CAPITOLA Rd. #36, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz. JIMMy G. PALAFOX. 2546 CAPITOLA Rd. #36, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an individual signed: JIMMy G. PALAFOX. 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 June 25, 2019. July 3, 10, 17, & 24.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE is hereby given that on Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 4:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, at 400 Encinal Street, Santa Cruz CA 95060, California, the Santa Cruz County Board of Education, sitting as the Santa Cruz County Committee on School District Organization, will hold a public meeting during which they will either approve or disapprove the minutes from the June 20, 2019 meeting of the Santa Cruz County Committee on School District Organization, at which the Committee hosted a public hearing in accordance with Education Code Section 5019, subd. (a) to consider the proposal by Santa Cruz County Schools to change the method of electing the trustees of Santa Cruz County Schools from an at-large system to one involving the creation of trustee areas. To request further information about the public hearing, please contact Sage Leibenson

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001051 The following Corporation is doing business as JANUS ALCOHOLISM SERVICES. 200 7TH AVE., STE 150, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. JANUS OF SANTA CRUZ. 200 7TH AVE., STE 150, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. Al# 1078878.

This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: JANUS OF SANTA CRUZ. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/1/2017. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on June 12, 2019. June 19, 26, July 3, & 10.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001084 The following individual is doing business as JAEGAR PHySICAL THERAPy. 2603 WILLOWBROOK LN. UNIT 24, APTOS, CA 95003. County of Santa Cruz. STEPHAN BIANCHI. 515 VAN NESS AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an individual signed: JENNIFER ANN JAEGAR. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is 1/3/2017. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on June 17, 2019. June 26, July 3, 10, 17 .

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001074 The following Corporation is doing business as SURF CITY ORIGINAL. 2649 41ST AVE., SOQUEL, CA 95073. County of Santa Cruz.

TFA, INC. 22990 HWY 17, UNIT C, LOS GATOS, CA 95033. Al# 3435817. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: TFA, INC. 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 June 17, 2019. July 3, 10, 17, & 24.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001013 The following Married Couple is doing business as MOROCCAN CULTURAL TOURS. 218 HAMES RD., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076.

County of Santa Cruz. ABDELFATAH ABBOU & KHADDOUJ BELLEKEBIR. 218 HAMES RD., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076.

This business is conducted by a Married Couple signed: ABDELFATAH ABBOU. 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 June 5, 2019. July 3, 10, 17, & 24.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001036 The following Individual is doing business as TELEGRAMS AND PARTY JAMS. 151 WANER WAY, FELTON, CA 95018. County of Santa Cruz. MIA THORN. 151 WANER WAY, FELTON, CA 95018. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MIA THORN. 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 June 10, 2019. July 3, 10, 17, & 24.

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50 Years of Combined Dedication, Attention to Detail, and Care following Individual is doing business as ELLER MECHANICAL. 240 20TH AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. KURT ELLER. 240 20TH AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: KURT ELLER. 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 June 19, 2019. July 10, 17, 24, & 31.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0001191 The following Corporation is doing business as ABEL LOREDO, DDS AND TOLTHERA DENTAL. 55 PENNY LANE STE #103, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. TOLTHERA. 55 PENNY LANE STE #103, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. Al# 3977380. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: TOLTHERA. 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 3, 2019. July 10, 17, 24, & 31.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION

OF DAVID KI YOUNG YANG-MURRAY CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV01982.

THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner DAVID KI YOUNG YANG-MURRAY has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: DAVID KI YOUNG YANG-MURRAY to: DAVID YANG MURRAY. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING August 19, 2019 at 8:30 am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: July 5, 2019. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. July 10, 17, 24, & 31.

Today’s task: Look at how the sales data reflect the historic relationship between values in each County and why some of those numbers we’re seeing from over the hill may be both a precursor and the cause of further softening here on the coast.

Here’s some history...In the late ‘70s, Santa Cruz was still a funky little beach town. Before the arrival of UCSC in the mid ‘60s, it was one of the oldest counties in the state, relatively rural and low on the demographic totem pole.

Tourism and agriculture were the mainstays of the local economy.

Back then, Valley Go Home bumper stickers frequently railed at all those day visitors coming over the hill to go to the Boardwalk and leave their beer cans on the beach. In the early ‘80s, as the chip industry revved up and Silicon Valley become a planetary meme, Valley Go Home was gradually replaced by a new wave of concern about the valley - let’s call it “Valley Come Home.”

Progressive UCSC graduates were increasingly worried about Santa Cruz becoming a bedroom community for San Jose workers. More people working over there might decide to come here and that would create more development pressure and more traffic on the coast.

As real estate took off in the late ‘80s, local tech-sector companies like Seagate, Borland and SCO flourished in the era of the DINKS, (double-income-no-kids). Rising incomes fueled the market and pushed prices up. But the vast majority of the jobs were still being created in Santa Clara, so the demand for housing over there continued to be greater.

Then a funny thing happened. As home prices rose disproportionately in Silicon Valley more people began to look further away from San Jose for less expensive housing options. And more folks did start coming over the hill to live in Santa Cruz.

That’s when I first began to think about the regional real estate market as a series of concentric circles emanating out from the center of the Silicon Valley job market. Those who were around back then may recall stories about people commuting three hours each way from Los Banos back in 1989, because they could buy a new tract house there for under $200k.

In the late ‘80s, Aptos was still the most expensive place to live in Santa Cruz County but that was about to change. More next week as local real estate enters the 1990s…

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AUGUST 10TH, 2019 FROM 12PM-10PM AT THE SANTA CRUZ COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS

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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

OUR 80 TH YEAR

WEEKLY SPECIALS Good th r u 7/16 /19

BUTCHER SHOP

GROCERY

ALL NATURAL USDA Choice beef & lamb,

Local, Organic, Natural, Specialty, Gourmet

only corn-fed Midwest pork, Rocky free-range

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chickens, Mary’s air-chilled chickens, wild-caught seafood, Boar’s Head products.

GINGER&GARLIC WINE FOODPAN PAIRING ROASTED SWORDFISH

INGREDIENTS: 2 tablespoons butter, room temperature 2 teaspoons chopped fresh parsley 1 clove garlic, minced 1/2 teaspoon ginger, grated 1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper 1/2 teaspoon lemon peel, grated 1 tablespoon olive oil 12 ounces swordfish fillets, 6-7 ounces each Instructions 1. Preheat oven to 400°F. 2. In a small bowl, blend together the butter, parsley, garlic, ginger, red pepper and lemon peel.

3. Season the swordfish to taste with sea salt.

4. In an ovenproof skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat.

5. Place the swordfish in the skillet and cook until browned, 2- 3 minutes.

6. Turn the swordfish over and transfer the pan to the oven.

Roast until just cooked through, about 8-10 minutes or until desired doneness.

7. Add seasoned butter mixture to the same skillet. Allow it to cook slightly over medium-high heat until melted and bubbling.

8. Transfer swordfish to a serving dish.

9. Pour butter sauce over swordfish, and serve with your favorite side dishes.

2017 Napa Cellars Chardonnay 91 Points James Suckling

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LUNCH MEAT

■ MARTINELLI’S Sparkling Cider 25.4oz/ 2.99

Local Bakeries “Fresh Daily” ■ BECKMANN’S California Sourdough Loaf/ 4.09

■ HONEY HAM, Sweet Slice/ 8.98 Lb

■ WHOLE GRAIN California Black/ 4.19

■ BLACK FOREST HAM, Smoked/ 8.98 Lb

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■ SUMANO’S, Mini Sourdough Baguette/ 3.79

■ HIGH WEST Double Rye/ 29.99

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■ SUMANO’S, Rosemary Sourdough Loaf/ 4.29

■ WHISTLE PIG Straight Rye/ 69.99

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Delicatessen

FISH

BBQ Reds

■ TERESA’S SALSA Totally Fresh, 8oz/ 2.79

SAUSAGE

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■ TILLAMOOK SHREDDED CHEESE All Kinds/

■ SWORDFISH STEAKS/ 15.98 Lb ■ CAJUN CATFISH FILLET, Marinated/ 11.98 Lb ■ SALMON LOX TRIMMINGS/ 11.98 Lb

3.99

■ 2014 MOTTO Zinfandel (Reg 12.99)/ 4.99 ■ 2013 WILD HORSE/ 9.99 ■ 2014 TWISTED PASO Cabernet Sauvignon (Reg

■ SONOMA BRINERY PICKLES & SAUERKRAUT/ 3.59

PRODUCE

■ BOAR’S HEAD BEEF FRANKFURTERS/ 4.99

California Fresh, Blemish-Free, Organic,

■ OSCAR MEYER TURKEY FRANKS/ 6.99

23.99)/ 9.99 ■ MERCER Horse Heaven Hills (Reg 26.99)/ 11.99 ■ 2013 FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA Pitagora Red (Reg 31.99)/ 13.99

Arrow Citrus Co., Lakeside Organics,

Cheese - Best Selection in Santa Cruz Summer Whites

Happy Boy Farms

■ MONTEREY JACK “rBST-Free”

■ FRESH CORN White and Yellow/ .69 Ea ■ CANTALOUPE MELONS Ripe and Sweet/ .69 Lb ■ ZUCCHINI SQUASH Extra Fancy/ .99 Lb ■ BROCCOLI CROWNS Delivered Daily/ 1.49 Lb ■ SEEDLESS GRAPES, Red and Green/ 2.99 Lb ■ CLUSTER TOMATOES Ripe on the Vine/ 1.69 Lb

Average Cuts/ 3.49 Lb

■ STELLA PARMESAN Domestic/ 7.99

Shop Local First ■ GIZDICH RANCH Fresh Baked Pies/ 20.99 ■ MARIANNE’S ICE CREAM Quart/ 4.59 ■ POLAR BEAR ICE CREAM Quart/ 5.99

Raspberries/ 3.79 Ea ■ TOMATOES Roma and Large/ 1.69 Lb

Loaf Cuts/ 3.29 Lb

■ BABY SWISS Boar’s Head/ 4.59 ■ DANISH BLUE CHEESE, Imported/ 7.99

■ BANANAS, Always Rip/ .89 Lb

■ ORGANIC BANANAS, The Perfect Snack/ .99 Lb

Shoppers Special 9.99!!

■ C20 COCONUT WATER Original & With Pulp ■ SANTA CRUZ ORGANIC LEMONADE All Kinds,

■ BUSH BERRIES Black, Blue and

Reg 21.99

WINE & SPIRITS

■ PACIFIC COOKIE CO. 16pk, 16oz/ 9.99 ■ SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAIN Marinade 12oz/ 4.99

■ 2015 ZACA MESA Z Blanc (91WE, Reg 24.99)/ 8.99

■ 2016 GUENOC Sauvignon Blanc (Reg 15.99, Gold Medal)/ 8.99 ■ 2017 HESS Sauvignon Blanc (Reg 13.99)/ 8.99 ■ 2016 JOEL GOTT Sauvignon Blanc (89WS)/ 8.99 ■ 2018 WEST CLIFF Pinot Gris “American”/ 14.99

Connoisseur’s Corner - Zinfandel ■ 2013 HEITZ CELLAR Napa Valley (92JS)/ 28.99 ■ 2016 SANTE ARCANGELI Santa Clara (92WE)/ 35.99 ■ 2012 ELYSE St. Helena (91WS)/ 37.99 ■ 2014 LIMERICK LANE Russian River (94WA)/ 41.99 ■ 2015 RIDGE Geyserville (95WA)/ 43.99

EVIN KNIGHT, 5-Year Customer, Santa Cruz

S HOPP ER’S SPOTLIG HTS

Occupation: Program director, UCSC Humanities Institute Hobbies: Hiking, family stuff/the beach, walking to the harbor/lighthouse

NATHAN KNIGHT,14-Year Customer, Santa Cruz Hobbies: Tinkering in the garage, motorcycles, dirt bikes, cooking, gardening

What were your first impressions of Shopper’s when you started shopping here?

EVIN:“I was amazed at the amount of cool items they carry for a smaller store.” NATHAN:“That everything is high quality, and that quality was guaranteed with every product Shopper’s offers.”

EVIN:“That’s one of the main reasons we shop here.When we’re planning on having people over or if it’s for the holidays, we know we can depend on Shopper’s for the best quality items.” NATHAN: “Shopper’s is family-friendly. Our daughter,Anadell, talks with everyone here and definitely likes the cookies at the butcher counter!

Occupation: Electrical engineer

What’s usually on your shopping list?

NATHAN:“We make a variety of dishes which may include fish, clams, scallops, sausages, chicken and sautéed vegetables.Those are our staples. But we’ll also make Indian and Thai dishes. Shopper’s has a good spice department that we rely on.” EVIN: “The organic produce is great, and I like that they carry local beers.The alcohol selections in general are really good; you don’t need to go to one those large chain stores for variety or better pricing.”

NATHAN:“Shopper’s wines are amazing — huge variety! And there’s always a wine guy around to assist you.”

You prefer shopping local? NATHAN: I believe in supporting local businesses as our money spent stays in the community.”

EVIN:“Shopper’s Corner is the best community market! Though not a natural food store per se, Shopper’s carries many natural and organic items that you would normally associate with a natural food store.” NATHAN:“Shopper’s has superfriendly people who will always assist you when you have questions.” EVIN:“Shopper’s is convenient:There’s always plenty of parking and you’re in and out quickly.You never wait in long as there are plenty of checkers and baggers!”

“Shopper’s Corner is the best community market! I believe in supporting local businesses as our money spent stays in the community.”

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