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Star Search Meet the three candidates for Santa Cruz County Sheriff. | 8
Deep Roots Santa Cruz Blues Festival headliners Chris Isaak and Gregg Allman trace the origins of their sound. | 14
Youth Quake Writer-director Gia Coppola talks about her feature debut, the troubled-teen drama ‘Palo Alto.’ | 24
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Chris Isaak is one of those artists who everybody thinks they know. He’s had the radio hit, the racy video with the model, the pompadour, the flashy outfits and the concerts that purposefully played like Vegas, even when he was on stage 500 miles away in Santa Cruz. His persona became such a recognizable thing he even had his own TV show parodying it. But underneath the showmanship, Isaak had always had a deep connection to early rock ‘n’ roll—the real stuff that rockers of every subsequent generation have reached back for in the constant struggle for authenticity.
That’s the lesser-known side that Geoffrey Dunn captures in his cover story this week, as Isaak headlines the Santa Cruz Blues Festival May 24-25 in Aptos Village Park. Isaak’s most recent album was a collection of covers by artists originally on Sun Records, the legendary Memphis label that not only gave the world Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, but also released songs by Howlin’ Wolf, James Cotton and other important blues artists who had a huge influence on rock. In a bit of harmonic convergence, the most recent record by Southern rock icon Gregg Allman, who headlines Saturday night at the Blues Festival, also stretches back to his roots with covers of artists like Muddy Waters and B.B. King. I had the pleasure of interviewing writer-director Gia Coppola, granddaughter of the iconic Francis Ford Coppola, this week, to discuss her debut film Palo Alto, which opens in Santa Cruz this week. She revealed, among other things, why showing your work to your grandparents isn’t easy, even in a famous filmmaking family, and what it was like to work with James Franco on an adaptation of his stories. Richard von Busack also reviews the film. Steve Palopoli | Editor-in-Chief
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We’re honored by the story about our project, but some of what we read in the article is surprising. We support the work Homeless Services Center does, but when we read Claudia Brown’s comment that HSC is “not going to be a supporter” of our project, we’re concerned. When those who access services at HSC leave the campus, they sleep in the woods, downtown or some place that may leave them vulnerable to exposure, at risk of theft and violence and to areas where they get little rest or dignity. We agree with the mission to move folks into housing, but what of the many hundreds of people who will wait years for that to occur? Those using day services at HSC (medical, laundry, showers etc.) often sleep in dismal and unsafe conditions. Services will be more successful with the benefit of a safe clean space for folks to return to. A Sanctuary Camp will have a good relationship with HSC. Costs of homelessness to the community are high, but these will plummet, as will the effects of gener-
al homeless vagrancy. Our homeless community initiative includes attractive modular physical elements, a boundary fence and a set of rules. See our Facebook page to view a presentation, videos and meeting times. Brent Adams | Santa Cruz
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Santa Cruz loves its street performers. But last fall, a restrictive downtown ordinance affecting street performers was passed by city council. Now, councilmembers Don Lane and Pamela Comstock are proposing a revision to the ordinance that makes it easier for street performers to do their thing on Pacific Avenue—including changes such as visible markings on the sidewalk for areas where performance is welcome, and some exceptions to the 12-square-foot size restriction. We’re not out of the woods yet, but we like where this is headed.
Suzanne Westenhoefer, the first openly gay comedian to appear on Late Night with David Letterman, and Jennie McNulty, a radio host, football player and comedian, are performing a live show at the First Congressional Church of Santa Cruz on May 18. The show will benefit the United Church of Christ Coalition for LGBT Concerns, which works to attain full inclusion of LGBT people in church and society. As an answer to the question, “Why are you performing in a church?” McNulty’s response is, “We’re there to test the stained glass.”
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“Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music.”
The new ordinance is killing the spirit of street music in Santa Cruz. I hope the Santa Cruz City Council members will take a few minutes to listen to the short TED talk, “Is The Law Making Us Less Free?” It is very sobering account of how we are shooting ourselves in the foot. More laws don't fix problems; they are symptoms of a problem. There is an optimum point, which when crossed becomes counter productive—too much of a good thing, you know. This legalistic neurosis has been a growing problem in our culture for the last few decades, if not longer. I expect the City Council, and perhaps many of the downtown merchants, simply and innocently seek a perfect solution to the inevitable social problems that crop
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ARIES Mar21–Apr19 When the path ahead divides in two, Aries, I am hoping you can work some magic that will allow you to take both ways at once. If you do master this riddle, if you can creatively figure out how to split yourself without doing any harm, I have a strong suspicion that the two paths will once again come together no later than Aug. 1, possibly before. But due to a curious quirk in the laws of life, the two forks will never again converge if you follow just one of them now.
TAURUS Apr20–May20 I see you as having more in common with a marathon runner than a speed racer. Your best qualities tend to emerge when you're committed to a process that takes a while to unfold. Learning to pace yourself is a crucial life lesson. That's how you get attuned to your body's signals, and master the art of caring for your physical needs. That's also how you come to understand that it's important not to compare yourself constantly to the progress other people are making. Having said all that, Taurus, I want to recommend a temporary exception to the rule. Just for now, it may make sense for you to run fast for a short time.
GEMINI May21–June20 If you fling handfuls of zucchini seeds on the ground of a vacant lot today, you shouldn't expect neat rows of ripe cucumbers to be growing in your backyard in a couple of weeks. Even if you fling zucchini seeds in your backyard today, you shouldn't expect straight rows of cucumbers to be growing there by June 1. Let's get even more precise here. If you carefully plant zucchini seeds in neat rows in your backyard today, you should not expect ripe cucumbers to sprout by August. But here's the kicker: If you carefully plant cucumber seeds in your backyard today, and weed them and water them as they grow, you can indeed expect ripe cucumbers by August.
ings by noted American artists. It was carried on the landing module of the Apollo 12 mission, which delivered two astronauts to the lunar surface in November 1969. One of the artists, Leo maverick Andy Warhol, drew the image of a stylized penis, similar to what you might see on the wall of a public restroom. "He was being the terrible bad boy," the project's organizer said about Warhol's contribution. You know me, Leo. I usually love playful acts of rebellion. But in the coming weeks, I advise against taking Warhol's approach. If you're called on to add your selfexpression to a big undertaking, tilt in the direction of sincerity and reverence and dignity.
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In Raymond Chandler's pulp fiction novel “Farewell, My Lovely,” his main character is detective Philip Marlowe. At one point Marlowe says, "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun." In accordance with your astrological omens, Capricorn, I'm asking you to figure out how you might be like Marlowe. Are there differences between what you think you need and what you actually have? If so, now is an excellent time to launch initiatives to fix the discrepancies.
The planet we live on is in constant transformation. Nothing ever stays the same. To succeed, let alone survive, we need to acclimate ourselves to the relentless forward motion. "He not busy being born is busy dying," was Bob Dylan's way of framing our challenge. How are you doing with this aspect of life, Virgo? Do you hate it but deal with it grudgingly? Tolerate it and aspire to be a master of it someday? Whatever your current attitude is, I'm here to tell you that in the coming months you could become much more comfortable with the ceaseless flow— and even learn to enjoy it. Are you ready to begin?
LIBRA Sep23–Oct22 "It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder," said English author Vita Sackville-West, "but it has to be judiciously arranged." That's your theme for the week, Libra. Please respect how precise a formulation this is. Plain old ordinary disorder will not provide you with the epiphanies and breakthroughs you deserve and need. The disorder must be sweet. If it doesn't make you feel at least a little excited and more in love with life, avoid it. The disorder must also be judiciously arranged. What that means is that it can't be loud or vulgar or profane. Rather, it must have wit and style and a hint of crazy wisdom.
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"If we want the rewards of being loved," says cartoonist Tim Kreider, "we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known." How are you doing with this trade-off, Cancerian? Being a Crab myself, I know we are sometimes inclined to hide who we really are. We have mixed feelings about becoming vulnerable and available enough to be fully known by others. We might even choose to live without the love we crave so as to prop up the illusion of strength that comes from being mysterious, from concealing our depths. The coming weeks will be a good time for you to revisit this conundrum.
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SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 I have three sets of questions for you, Scorpio. First, are you anyone's muse? Is there a person who draws inspiration from the way you live? Here's my second query: Are you strong medicine for anyone? Are you the source of riddles that confound and intrigue them, compelling them to outgrow their narrow perspectives? Here's my third inquiry: Are you anyone's teacher? Are you an influence that educates someone about the meaning of life? If you do play any of these roles, Scorpio, they are about to heat up and transform. If you don't currently serve at least one of these functions, there's a good chance you will start to soon.
According to my reading of the astrological omens, you should draw inspiration from this Chinese proverb: "Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down." In other words, Sagittarius, you need extra downtime. So please say NO to any influence that says, "Do it now! Be maniacally efficient! Multitask as if your life depended on it! The more active you are, the more successful you will be!" Instead, give yourself ample opportunity to play and daydream and ruminate.
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AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 There's a slightly better chance than usual that you will have a whirlwind affair with a Bollywood movie star who's on vacation. The odds are also higher than normal that you will receive a tempting invitation from a secret admirer, or meet the soul twin you didn't even know you were searching for, or get an accidental text message from a stranger who turns out to be the reincarnation of your beloved from a previous lifetime. But the likelihood of all those scenarios pales in comparison to the possibility that you will learn big secrets about how to make yourself even more lovable than you already are.
PISCES Feb19–Mar20 Author Eva Dane defines writer's block as what happens "when your imaginary friends stop talking to you." I suspect that something like this has been happening for you lately, Pisces—even if you're not a writer. What I mean is that some of the most reliable and sympathetic voices in your head have grown quiet: ancestors, dear friends who are no longer in your life, ex-lovers you still have feelings for, former teachers who have remained a strong presence in your imagination, animals you once cared for who have departed, and maybe even some good, old-fashioned spirits and angels. Where did they go? What happened to them? I suspect they are merely taking a break. They may have thought it wise to let you fend for yourself for a while. But don't worry. They will be back soon.
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Online Comments Re: Sanctuary Camp I just don't understand why these initiatives are always laid before the city. Santa Cruz County has a $400 million general fund. The county receives tens of millions of
dollars from the federal government and the state to end homelessness, and for other health and social services. The city's general fund is about one-tenth of that, and they only get a pittance in grants to try to augment various agencies social services. My advice is go to the county, make them reach into their deep pockets, and while you're there ask them to put this sanctuary camp on county property, outside the city limits. The city of Santa Cruz offers way more than their fair share of services. The city and its people
have suffered too much under the weight of the effects of having all these demands for service concentrated in our small community. —Jordan Rivera
Re: Leonie Sherman I'm not sure I ever heard a candidate courageous enough to suggest we accept the "inherent limits of natural systems" before. Bravo, Leonie. Maybe this drought will bring that realization to enough city voters this November. I hope so. —Don Webber
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BY ARIC SLEEPER Despite huge recent gains in immigration reform—including last year’s Trust Act, which could prevent as many as 20,000 deportations in California by one estimate—it continues to be a controversial movement. It’s been almost 30 years since the passage of a comprehensive federal immigration reform bill, and one Pajaro Valley lawmaker has decided to take matters into his own hands at the state level, with a bill that would fundamentally change the immigration landscape—and potentially reap billions in revenue. Luis Alejo, assemblymember of California’s 30th District, which encompasses the Salinas and Pajaro valleys, is the author of Assembly Bill (AB) 2014, which would provide incentives for undocumented workers to file income taxes. If the bill is passed into law, it would give undocumented immigrants who file a tax return amnesty from deportation, and the possibility of gaining temporary work permits. Although it is currently possible for immigrants illegally in this country to file income taxes, Alejo's proposed changes would make it more far attractive for them to do so. “The intent of the bill is to be able to address what Congress has been unable to do for now 28 years,” says Alejo. “Basically this is the only bill moving in Sacramento that is trying to address this critical issue for California, especially for our region, which depends heavily on agriculture and immigrant labor. What we’re trying to do with AB 2014 is create a first-of-its-kind program in the country.” Alejo’s bill, which passed the Assembly Committee of Revenue and Taxation in late April, would require the Franchise Tax Board to advertise that those who are ineligible to gain full U.S. citizenship can still file state taxes with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN). The governor would have the authority to ask the Obama Administration to grant relief from deportation to all tax-paying undocumented immigrants, except for those who have committed serious or violent felonies. “California would have to enter into an MOU (memorandum of understanding) with the Obama Administration to be able to have this authority delegated to the state authorizing California to be able to issue temporary
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HEAVYWEIGHT Sheriff candidate Bob Pursley, who owns a gym in Aptos with his wife, was the highest-ranking officer of color ever in the sheriff’s department.
Jail Time Meet the three candidates for Santa Cruz County Sheriff BY JACOB PIERCE Santa Cruz County Sheriff Phil Wowak could have stepped down in the middle of his term, and essentially handed his seat off to the man he hopes will replace him, Chief Deputy Jim Hart. But instead, to his credit, he let the democratic process take over, and made it a race. Wowak’s decision to step down and endorse Hart in March only left a week for other candidates to declare by the filing deadline. But that was enough time for two retired deputies, Bob Pursley and Roger Wildey, to jump in. Both men have a breadth of experience in different departments, served as lieutanants and headed the bomb squad and S.W.A.T teams. The sheriffs’ department is one of the centers of community debate over public safety, law enforcement and the jail, and the race has raised some intriguing hot-button issues. Not all of them will be handled directly by the new chief, but he will influence, or be influenced by, these policy decisions.
In an attempt to provide some insight into their vision for the sheriff’s office, here is where the candidates stand on three such issues:
Needle Exchange The City of Santa Cruz shut down the needle exchange last year, prompting the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency to handle the 20-year-old local practice of passing out syringes. Neighbors of the Emeline facility say the change has impacted their neighborhoods, and some people say they want the exchange shut down for good.
Jim Hart: “If Santa Cruz was a utopian society, and we didn’t have problems, we would never even have this discussion,” he says. “But with Santa Cruz, like most communities, there is a segment of drug users, and we do have a number of IV drug users, and we do have to worry about the health risks associated with that, and with passing on hepatitis C, HIV. I think the needle exchange, because of the health risks,
is here to stay.” Hart wants to see onefor-one needle exchanges, and have each syringe barcoded with a serial number, so it can be identified— whether it’s later found in a park, or turned back into the county. Hart would also like to see roaming exchanges that move from one neighborhood to the next to lessen the impact on any one given community.
Roger Wildey: Like Hart, he believes a roaming exchange would be a good way to minimize the impact on local neighborhoods, but he’s also skeptical of data from places like San Francisco that say exchanges cut down on hazardous trash—although he hasn’t had time yet to comb through that data. “I’d like to see what is done elsewhere and go over the statistical analysis, because it’s very easy to apply the wrong statistical analysis to a given set of data, and, if you do that, it skews the outcome,” he says.
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“If I’m going to spend money right now, I’m going to spend it on personnel,” Hart says. “I’m going to spend money on making sure all our gates are staffed. I don’t want to throw a bunch of money at a technology system right now that might not get a lot of use.” –Jim Hart
Automatic License Plate Readers When the Santa Cruz City Council approved the purchase of License Plate Readers for its patrol cars, activists raised questions about how the technology would affect privacy. Would the candidates support the adoption of the devices—small, high-speed cameras which can photograph thousands of plates per minute—by the county?
Hart: Since most of the sheriff’s jurisdiction is rural, he doesn’t believe the cameras would be a good fit. “If I’m going to spend money right now, I’m going to spend it on personnel,” Hart says. “I’m going to spend money on making sure all our gates are staffed. I don’t want to throw a bunch of money at a technology system right now that might not get a lot of use.” Wildey: “I don’t think they’re necessary. It seems rather intrusive to me,” Wildey says. He adds that he isn’t a fan of red light cameras either, a system he calls a “money maker—mostly for the manufacturers.”
Pursley: “What I would use those cameras for is I would put them on exit points for the county, or on city limits. Say, for instance, it’s your child that was abducted. That vehicle will now be able to leave the confines of this county without being reported and tracked. But we could go back to that vehicle at the time of the abduction or the crime and bring up all the cameras and start specifically looking for that vehicle.” Pursley notes that surveillance footage helped the FBI quickly crack the Boston Marathon bombings case. (Boston Police also had an Automatic License Plate Reader program, but the department placed in on hold last December, after they mistakenly shared 68,000 plate numbers with a journalist for The Boston Globe.)
Racial Profiling The issue got thrust into the national spotlight this past year when the New York Police started getting heat for their stop-andfrisk practices. office, according to the data, Hart says. The department did a study a few years ago that tracked every car stop and pedestrian stop. It also tracked whether or not a deputy had been cleared to call on them. “The data showed us our guys were well within the demographics of Santa Cruz. We also give training on racial profiling, so our staff is well aware that’s not an acceptable practice,” Hart says. “It’s not something we con-
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N NEWS NEWS ONE CONT. FROM P. 9 done, and we want to make sure when our staff are stopping people, they’re stopping them for one reason, and that’s that there’s a law violation.”
Wildey: The small number of complaints the sheriffs’ office receives shows that the problem is with lone individuals, if it exists at all, he says. “There are bad auto mechanics, and there are bad cops. If I knew somebody that was racist that was working for the department, I’d be having a chat with them,” Wildey says. “And I really wouldn’t tolerate that in the least.”
Pursley: The highest-ranking person of color ever in the sheriff’s department, he acknowledges the department gets few complaints—but he has a different explanation. He says people don’t complain
because they believe nothing will be done about the problem, even if they do. But he encourages anyone who feels they have experienced profiling to step forward, because the department listens, he says. Pursley recalls driving on Highway 1, when a patrol car followed him from Vista Point to State Park Drive. “Once I was pulled over, the deputy walked up to my vehicle,” Pursley explains. “I rolled the window down, and he said, ‘Oh, it’s you.’ There was no reason why pulled me over. He just stopped.” Pursley called the deputy’s sergeant, and “that issue was dealt with,” he says. “There was not any punitive [action] on the deputy. It was called to his attention, and I really doubt that deputy did that again.”
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For someone who promises to be a smart, fresh alternative to sitting fourth district supervisor Greg Caput, candidate Jimmy Dutra did a good job of following the incumbent’s lead last week—although that might not win him too many votes in the business community. When the Santa Cruz County Business Council and the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce organized a candidate forum, Caput was the only candidate who said he couldn’t make it. Then after the groups announced the lineup, Dutra said he couldn’t be there either. We wondered if Dutra wanted out after he found out Caput wouldn’t show, but Dutra tells GT he’d made a prior South County engagement he had forgotten about. “My district comes first,” he says. Candidates Dana Sales, a realtor, and Terry Medina, former Watsonville Police Chief, both attended the May 6 forum, which also featured third district candidates Ryan Coonerty and Bob Lamonica. It’s interesting because it’s uncommon to see just half a race’s candidates show for a serious election forum like this. It might end up being a shame for Dutra, who could be on the outside looking in of a race where some insiders have pegged Medina the most likely threat to Caput’s campaign. Dutra doesn’t see it that way. “I’ve been knocking on doors, and the people say a different story,” he says. If no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the vote in the June 3 election, the top two candidates will face off again in November. Anyway, no hard feelings regarding Dutra and last week’s forum at Cabrillo College, says Business Council director Joe Foster. “All I know is that he called and was very apologetic,” Foster says, and the director is confident Dutra will have time to touch base with the business community. Let’s hope so because with unemployment close to 20 percent in Watsonville, the economy is a big issue for the South County, which is home to some very large companies—Martinelli’s, Driscoll’s, Granite Construction. Then again who knows? Maybe Dutra, whose family owns Dutra Farms, could provide the business experience needed to plough ahead. | Jacob Pierce
It’s easy to see why Guy Kawasaki lectures on “charisma.” The former Apple chief evangelist and author of 10 books ascended the Del Mar Theatre stage with a glint in his eye and a beaming smile. He had the audience laughing immediately. Kawasaki explained there’s great value in a sincere “Duchenne smile”—one you can see in the eyes—and even advocated for the crow’s feet that sometimes come along with such a grin. “Crow’s feet are a good thing,” Kawasaki said. “Ladies, you are not getting older, you are getting more enchanting.” Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup and Bookshop Santa Cruz brought Kawasaki to the Del Mar Wednesday, May 7, and nearly every seat was filled. New Tech Meetup’s Lydia Snider, who co-organized the event, hopes to attract more people to the Santa Cruz tech scene. “This is our gift to Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz tech community,” she said. Kawasaki allied himself with Santa Cruz early in his presentation by drawing a comparison that cast the town in a favorable light when he described Silicon Valley as having the “highest concentration of egomaniacs in California.” While Kawasaki focused on charisma in the tech field, undercurrents of excitement were palpable from those eager to change the city’s relationship with UC Santa Cruz’s tech scene and the Silicon Valley. Santa Cruz residents commute over the hill in droves to Silicon Valley to work in the tech industry. Groups like New Tech Meetup aim to alleviate the drain to the local economy by encouraging tech workers to stay in Santa Cruz and entrepreneurs to headquarter their companies here. Elijah Butterfield, who won third at UC Santa Cruz’s Hackathon last month is the type of innovative mind that folks at Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup want to keep around for what they hope to be an economic boom. He’s listening. “I would love to be part of its growth,” Butterfield said. “I feel like I have made a lot more connections here because of how open the community is.” | Sarah Naugle
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TAX RELIEF Assemblymember Luis Alejo’s bill would encourage undocumented immigrants to pay taxes by offering protection from deportation. It’s likely to face stiff opposition from conservative groups.
IMMIGRANT TAXES CONT. FROM P. 8 speaking out. Conservative Jon Vinson wrote a paper opposing Alejo’s bill for Californians for Population Stabilization, an anti-amnesty group. Vinson argues the new rule would promote lawlessness because undocumented immigrants don’t have the legal right to work here in the first place. Keegan predicts the bill might draw more arguments from illegal immigration opponents. “The downside is that it may elicit a reaction from the anti-immigrant forces who see everything as somehow trying to promote undocumented immigration, when in fact these immigrants are here working. They are contributing to our economy already. Why shouldn’t we do what we can to normalize or legalize their status?” Keegan says. The next step for AB 2014 is the Assembly Appropriations Committee, where the bill will be considered at the end of the month. If passed there, the bill would face a vote with the California State Assembly in June, and then to the Senate before going to the governor’s desk for approval. If the federal government does give authority to California to provide amnesty for taxpaying undocumented workers, the bill would pass into law as of January 1, 2015. “We’re still at the very beginning of the process,” says Alejo, who is running for his third and final two-year term in the legislature next month. Ultimately, AB 2014 could temporarily fill a void while the federal government struggles to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill. “If, come November or December, Congress gets their act together and passes immigration reform, then this bill won’t be needed. But if it doesn’t, we will already have a bill signed into law as an alternative, and will then be able to move forward and create a program with the Obama Administration,” says Alejo. “It’s a backup, a plan B in case Congress fails to pass immigration reform by the end of this year.”
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work permits and also have relief from deportations for those participating in this program,” says Alejo. Alejo, a former Watsonville mayor, has worked to expand the rights of undocumented immigrants before. Last year Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill authored by Alejo to give the undocumented a path to receive drivers’ licenses. According to the Department of Homeland Security, there are more than 2.8 million undocumented immigrants in California. A report released by the University of Southern California in 2013 stated that they comprise 9 percent of California’s workforce. Collecting income taxes from such a large group could potentially provide the state government billions of dollars in revenue, says Alejo. Currently, undocumented workers can attain an ITIN and file income taxes regardless of their legal status. But fearing deportation, some undocumented workers choose not to expose their nationalities to the federal government—even though they could be eligible for refunds. “Some undocumented workers do file a tax return, but I think there is a large number who just don’t take that final step each year,” says Doug Keegan, attorney and program director of the Santa Cruz County Immigration Project. Keegan says AB 2014, if passed into law, could provide undocumented workers with a good first step on the path to citizenship. “Oftentimes when someone does have an opportunity to apply for legal status they are required to demonstrate that they have paid their taxes. In fact, all of the proposals for comprehensive immigration reform have included a requirement that applicants demonstrate that they have filed and paid their taxes,” says Keegan. “To that extent, I think it has a beneficial effect as well, because if we do get immigration reform it is going to require it anyway.” Although the bill is in the early stages, at least one supporter of stricter immigration rules is
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There’s a passage in Greil Marcus’ fascinating study of American roots music, “Invisible Republic,”in which he describes the origins of this unique musical expression as emanating from the “old weird America”—an eclectic amalgamation of blues, gospel, spiritual, folk, antebellum slave songs, Cajun and jazz genres, sprung largely from the cultural backwaters of the Mississippi River watershed in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Marcus was writing specifically about the 1967 bootleg recordings produced by Bob Dylan and the Band that came to be known as The Basement Tapes, but he could have well been talking about Chris Isaak’s most recent album, Beyond the Sun, released by Vanguard Records earlier this decade. Isaak, who will be a headliner at the 22nd annual Santa Cruz Blues Festival over Memorial
Day weekend, explains his cultural genealogy in far less complicated terms than those chronicled by Marcus in “Invisible Republic.” He traces his musical roots to a cupboard in his childhood home in working-class Stockton—the California delta town most notably depicted by Leonard Gardner in his iconic novel “Fat City,” where Isaak’s factoryemployed parents kept their collection of 45 records: Roy Orbison and Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis, many of which had been recorded at Sun Studio in Memphis by the legendary producer Sam Phillips. These influences are dominant in Beyond the Sun, which Issak recorded at the original Sun Studio, at the corner of Marshall and Union avenues in Memphis. The album includes Isaak’s sterling covers of several early rock and blues classics, and in fact one hears enduring traces of these elements throughout the entirety of Isaak’s accomplished career, dating back to his first big hit from the1980s, the brooding love ballad “Wicked Game.”
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The Isaaks’ cupboard in Stockton was nothing if not culturally fertile. “My brothers and I would listen to these records over and over,” Isaak declared in the liner notes to his album. “The record player was one of those oldfashioned ones that looked like a suitcase and folded out. It had two little speakers, one on each side …We thought it sounded fantastic, and scratchy sound or not, the records moved you.” It’s that emotional attachment to the music that caught the attention of Santa Cruz Blues Festival head honcho Bill Welch, and made him want to bring Isaak into his 2014 festival lineup. “I’ve always been a fan of his,” Welch says of Isaak, whose remarkable artistic oeuvre includes nine albums, a pair of Grammy nominations, an acting career and a long-running television show. “I always found his music interesting, and his crafting of songs superbly executed. He’s been on our radar for a number of years. But when I heard these Memphis ballads, I realized he was tapped into the same roots that have
always fed our festival. His interpretation of these classics really struck me. His voice resonated at some deep level.” Welch acknowledged Isaak’s musical links to Orbison, Cash and other Sun artists, but also to the likes of blues legends B.B. King (who recorded at Sun as well) and Otis Redding. “He taps into that unique strain of Americana that has come to define our festival,” Welch says. “It’s damn good music.” Isaak’s musical sensibilities will provide a critical cornerstone to Welch’s upcoming festival, which has become an iconic annual event in Santa Cruz County. While Isaak will serve as the headliner for Sunday’s show, Gregg Allman, the surviving sibling and an artistic force in the legendary Allman Brothers Band, will headline Saturday’s all-star lineup. “We vary the theme of the festival a little each year,” says Welch. “This year’s lineup has a lot of southern influences. It’s another chapter of American music. In a way, it’s a lesson in American history.”
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f Chris Isaak’s musical roots can be traced to Memphis in the 1950s, Gregory LeNoir Allman’s extend a decade earlier and about 200 miles east along Highway 40, to Nashville, where he was born a little more than a year after his brother Duane, with whom he would forge another branch of American roots music— Southern Rock, a rubric coined by Gregg— in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Allman Brothers’ legacy (which extended well beyond Duane’s death in a tragic motorcycle accident in 1971, and that of bassist Barry Oakley the following year) paved the way for the likes of the Marshall Tucker Band, Charlie Daniels, Lynyrd Skynard and Elvin Bishop later in the decade. I would argue that Allman Brothers’ classics like “Ramblin’ Man” and the instrumental “Jessica” represent the definitive early anthems of the Southern Rock genre. And while the Allman Brothers’ sound of the 1970s clearly drew from the musical traditions of country and rockabilly, there were also strong elements of the blues incorporated into the band’s music.
Those influences have been underscored in Gregg Allman’s most recent album, Low Country Blues, produced by TBone Burnett. The collection includes Allman’s own composition “Just Another Rider,” written with Warren Haynes, along with several blues classics, including an absolutely stunning cover of B.B. King’s “Please Accept My Love” (I confess to liking it more than the original) and a haunting rendition of Sleepy John Estes’ “Floating Bridge.” Again, there’s a depth of feeling in the album, his first solo production in nearly a decade and a half, that caught Welch’s attention. “I remember when I heard Gregg’s first solo album, Laid Back, in 1973,” Welch noted. “I really loved that album. Every song’s a classic. Forty years later, he’s still producing great music. And he’s an amazing performer.” Low Country Blues was recorded following Allman’s diagnosis with hepatitis C, and was released right before a subsequent liver transplant in Jacksonville, Florida. He clearly tapped into deep emotional pain, including a profound 16>
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confrontation with mortality, in his interpretation of these songs. Allman called the production of the album “a life support system” that helped to pull him through his crisis. He’d garnered some hard miles he didn’t have when the Allman Brothers first formed in the late ’60s. The collection climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard charts for blues albums, and was nominated for a Grammy. In terms of this year’s Blues Festival, there’s a bit of serendipity to the backstory. Like the great Mississippi watershed from which it sprang, Low Country Blues flows directly into Chris Isaak’s Beyond the Sun. Burnett, the fabled Grammy-winning producer who has recorded many giants of the industry, and who recently served as musical director for HBO’s riveting drama, True Detective, was developing plans to build a replica of Sun Studio in Los Angeles when he recorded Allman’s album. The ghosts of Sam Phillips are everywhere. Burnett, who hand selected the studio musicians for Low Country Blues, described Allman as “one of the greatest blues singers” of all
time. His signature vocals go down like smooth southern bourbon—yet another perfect fit for this year’s festival. defining aspect of the Blues Fest has been not only to build each day’s lineup around a legendary act—Ray Charles, Leon Russell, Eric Burdon, Etta James and Joe Cocker have been among the headliners—but also to showcase young up-and-comers at earlier stages in their career (Nina Storey, Tommy Castro, Coco Montoya, and Trombone Shorty, who’s playing again this year, come immediately to mind). This year the most exciting “new” act may well be Vintage Trouble, a dynamic four-man rhythm-and-blues band from Los Angeles who will be joining Isaak in Sunday’s lineup. Like most of the other acts in this year’s festival, they have strong southern roots, albeit with a gritty urban edge. Formed only four years ago by vocalist Ty Taylor and guitarist Nalle Colt, the band released a powerful first album called The Bomb Shelter Sessions. Only two weeks after forming, Vintage
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Trouble hit the nightclub circuit in L.A., and quickly became a regional sensation, playing a phenomenal 80 shows in only 100 days. Last year, they landed a gig on The David Letterman Show, which demonstrated Taylor’s charismatic performance as the band’s lead singer. Sunday’s set in Aptos will mark their first appearance in Santa Cruz County. “They’re new and interesting with a funky R&B feel,” says Welch. “They’re very cool. Very serious. Very high caliber. This isn’t a fad with them. They are rootsy, but they are also carving out a new area of music. I think they’re a band we’re going to be hearing about for a long time.” Saturday’s counterpart to Vintage Trouble is the intensely appealing Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, who are returning to Santa Cruz for their fourth appearance at the festival, the last time in 2011. Since then, front man Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews and his ensemble of musicians have set the world on fire with their combustible blend of funk, blues, rock, hip hop and New Orleans jazz. For all the great musicians who have graced
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the Blues Festival over the years, the most significant artistic vision to shape each event is located backstage, in an old RV, where producer Welch is at the helm of command central. I have long viewed Welch as shaping each event like a Monet or Renoir, composing an impressionistic canvas of music that, when blended together, combine to make something greater than the sum of its parts. With its intimate sylvan setting in the 10acre Aptos Village Park, the festival has become part of the fabric of Santa Cruz County cultural history. Welch, who was born chronologically right between this year’s two headliners, grew up in working-class Los Angeles, where his first musical palette was influenced by the American rock ’n’ roll of the 1950s and the British invasion of the 1960s—the latter of which, not so coincidentally, had been fueled by many of the same musical genres that influenced both Isaak and Allman, as well as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. The blues are a “mother music,” not only in America, but globally.
By the time he was a teenager, Welch was steeped in the music of the ’60s. An encounter with the Jimi Hendrix Experience when he was only 14 had a lifechanging impact on him—he was forever captured by the muse of rock ’n’ roll. By 18, he was a roadie, learning all aspects of the business, including sound production and tour managing. The more eclectic his skill set, he figured, the easier it would be for him to find work. He was right. He wound up serving as tour manager for the Crusaders, and the late Chicago-born vocalist Minnie Riperton. While on the road, Welch developed a philosophical approach to the business that he relies on to this day. “I always viewed that my primary job was taking care of the artists on stage,” he says. “Both leading up to their appearance and while they were on. My job was to complement the artists, so they could create and perform their artistry to the maximum, to help them enhance their artistry while they performed uninhibited by unnecessary distractions or sound problems.”
After spending a year-and-half in New York City, where he honed his chops on the mean streets of the East Coast (including working for Bill Graham), he returned to the friendlier climes of California, and by the mid-1980s had discovered what he calls the “magic” of Santa Cruz. He had expanded his technical repertoire to serving as a soundman on film production, and, lured by his buddy Johnnie Chesko, he worked on the production of the cult classic, The Lost Boys, here. Welch was smitten with the place. He joined Local 611 of the Stagehand Union, and began serving as the head sound technician for most of the musical performances at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. Santa Cruz became not only a safe haven for Welch, away from the maddening influences of Los Angeles, but also, most literally, a learning ground. He was amazed by the diversified musical influences he encountered in the community—he started listening to KFAT (later KPIG) and KUSP and discovered a host of new musical influences, like Santana, Dylan and Stevie Ray Vaughn. 20>
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In 1992, with his friend Phil Lewis, he cofounded Moe’s Alley on Commercial Way, soon to become an iconic music venue in the region. The following spring, again with Lewis and a support cast that included partner Michael Blas and booker David Claytor, the team launched the Santa Cruz Blues Festival, a one-day affair with Albert Collins as the first headliner. Blas and Claytor are still part of the production team, along with more recent recruits, Connie Burroughs and Mike Spano. Little did Welch know that the show would go on for more than two decades. In many respects, the production has consumed Welch, who took over the reins of Moe’s by himself a decade ago. Like all good blues icons, he’s ridden some hard miles. “Keeping something like this together for so long takes it out of you,” he acknowledges. “But I’m constantly regenerated by the community. Music matters here. They love it. It moves them.” It’s been a remarkable ride, Welch says. Watching the legendary Ray Charles take the Blues Fest stage in 2003 marked one of the primary highlights of Welch’s promotional career.
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“It really was one of the ultimate moments of my life,” Welch declared. “He was the ultimate artist. A consummate professional. And it was really a historic moment for this community. People will always remember when and where they saw Ray Charles perform.” Welch notes that in many ways the festival is a “time stop” for music fans. “Music has a way of reminding us of good moments in our past, of bringing you back to a certain space, a very comfortable place,” Welch asserts. “We remember when we heard an album, or where we first heard a song. It’s the up side of nostalgia.” He acknowledges that not every act in the festival’s storied history fits precisely into a traditional concept of the blues. The combining of Chris Isaak and Gregg Allman as headliners at the 2014 iteration of the festival speaks to Welch’s unique and creative tradi-tion of musical alchemy. “We expand the genre,” Welch says. “We had Los Lobos here [in 2012]. They have lots of musical influences, of course, but the blues is one of them. I view the festival as a melting pot of American music. I clearly take the broad view. But the blues is always the prime ingredient. It’s the common thread that links it all together.”
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THE NEXT GENERATION Gia Coppola makes her directorial debut with ‘Palo Alto.’
Are the Kids All Right? Gia Coppola on youthful indiscretion and her debut film ‘Palo Alto BY STEVE PALOPOLI
t wasn’t easy for Gia Coppola to show her feature film debut to her grandfather. Yes, because he’s Francis Ford Coppola, but no, not because she was worried he would criticize the way she’d directed the actors in Palo Alto, her new film about suburban teenagers having sex, taking drugs and generally acting out in suburban Silicon Valley. Not because he might not like the script, which she adapted from the shortstory collection “Palo Alto Stories,” written by James Franco, who also co-stars. Not because of blocking,
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she probably didn’t have too much to worry about. “He was like ‘c’mon, that was going on when I was young,’” she says. Indeed, while Palo Alto may shock and worry some parents, so did Rebel Without a Cause almost 60 years ago. Despite the hand-wringing of each new generation of parents, the emotional undercurrent of the desperate-to-belong kids in Coppola’s film shows that the more things change, the more they stay the same. “Definitely there are things that are more extreme at times, and social media is involved, but I think all those emotions, those growing pains, are still the same,” she says. Palo Alto doesn’t go in for the apocalyptic theatrics of Larry Clark’s Kids, and though it will get some comparisons to the work of her aunt Sophia Coppola, it doesn’t hold its teen characters at arm’s length in the same way as The Bling Ring. There’s a warmth at the
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Palo Alto, written and directed by Gia Coppola and starring Jack Kilmer, Emma Roberts and James Franco, opens Friday at the Del Mar. Rated R, 100 min.
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core of Palo Alto, an empathy for the characters that comes across both in the way she holds them in close-up much of the time, and the vulnerability she brings out even in their worst moments. “I loved all of my characters,” Coppola admits, “and for me to understand where they were coming from, I really had to dig deep in myself to find a relation. I was very nervous about working with the actors. I was just trying to be honest and open.” In the process, though, she was able to inspire some added dimensions in their performances. For instance, the character of Fred, the best friend of the film’s central character Teddy (played by Jack Kilmer) is the movie’s most infuriating and unpredictable personality. But because she could see things from Fred’s point of view, Coppola was able to bring out a relatable element in actor Nat Wolff’s interpretation, which comes across poignantly in the film. “Nat always said that on the page the character seems like such an asshole, but I always felt like he was funny and fun. So he kind of had that realization that this character just thinks he’s having a good time. He’s not necessarily trying to be malicious, he’s just lashing out in ways that even he probably doesn’t fully understand yet,” says Coppola. Certainly the movie’s most delicate scene is the muchdiscussed seduction by Franco’s soccer-coach character, Mr. B, of one of his players, April (played by Emma Roberts). There was a lot of hype—and misinformation—swirling around that scene around the time that Franco went on Instagram last month and claimed to have almost hooked up with a 17-yearold fan. Internet skeptics proclaimed it was all a publicity stunt, given the obvious parallel to his Palo Alto character (Coppola confirms Franco said nothing to her before posting it). But the lewd speculation about the scene at the time turns out to have absolutely nothing to do with how it actually plays in the film. Instead, Coppola uses some interesting shots to imagine it in a unique way. “I just feel like sex scenes in movies, that doesn’t really interest me,” she says. “I wanted to convey it in a way that isn’t the standard. I felt like if it was more artistic, maybe you would feel what was going on rather than just seeing it.” Coppola almost didn’t ask Franco to play the part, thinking it might be weird because he wrote the stories. But she’s glad she did. “It was a hard character for me to understand, and I didn’t want it to come across as cliché,” she says. “James is such a great actor. I learned from him saying ‘I think the character just needs to be normal, what he’s doing is enough to come across as creepy.’ That was such a great thing, because it’d be so easy for that character to come off as over the top. He did a really great job.”
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Big Finish The Santa Cruz Symphony season finale showcases Mozart and Bernstein | BY CHRISTINA WATERS he 2014 Santa Cruz County Symphony season comes to a shimmering climax this weekend with two masterworks for chorus and orchestra. Playing spiritual counterpoint with each other's text and traditions are Leonard Bernstein's “Chichester Psalms” and Mozart's “Requiem in D Minor.” Written 200 years apart, Bernstein's exuberant choral meditation upon the Psalms of David and Mozart's Baroque funeral mass articulates key moments of mortality. These epic works for chorus and symphony are joined on the program by “Ave Verum Corpus,” Mozart's exquisite accompaniment for an ancient hymnal prayer. The entire program overflows with musical richness, exploring Judeo-Christian motifs and choral styles. Under the baton of charismatic young music director Daniel Stewart, the Santa Cruz County Symphony—joined by the Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus—will bring these dynamic masterpieces to life this weekend at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium and the Mello Center for the Performing Arts. The final concert of Maestro Stewart's debut season in Santa Cruz will begin with the ethereal “Ave Verum Corpus” for strings and voices and “Chichester Psalms,” a robust setting of Old Testament psalms commissioned for Bernstein by the dean of Chichester Cathedral in 1965. The “Psalms”—three movements for choir, harp and boy soloist—offer a bravura display of Bernstein's mature symphonic gifts. Anyone familiar with the composer's “West Side Story” will recognize the exuberant key signature and dizzying tempo complexities, syncopations that make for a dazzling listening—and performing— experience. Much of Bernstein's pacing is brisk, yet muscular. The piece includes notoriously challenging passages, especially for male voices. The Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus is up to these sorts of challenges, thanks to arduous rehearsal under the expert leadership of director Cheryl Anderson, whose choral ensembles are renowned throughout the United States and Europe. This powerful choral presence will join with the symphony orchestra to produce an unforgettable denouement for maestro Stewart's inaugural season.
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Mozart's “Requiem” is one of the true gems of the classical repertoire. The work will certainly provide a showcase for Stewart's command of orchestral color and vocal nuance, not to mention his uncanny fluency with fingertips, eyebrows, and shoulders to achieve breathtaking musical articulation. In the thundering passages of the “Dies Irae,” performers and audiences can almost feel the fires of hell threatening those whose lives have been misspent. In its “Agnus Dei,” every plea for mercy whispered in a desperate hour is memorialized with ethereal compassion. From furiously compelling strings to triumphal trumpet preludes, this work of genius is one of the handful of required notches in any musician's metaphorical performance belt. The work is also shrouded in colorful folklore. Mozart was suffering from a mysterious illness when dire financial straits forced him to accept the requiem commission. Working feverishly to complete the intricate movements for chorus, quartet, and soloists, Mozart rehearsed with a trio of friends, singing some of the vocal parts and instrumental flourishes himself, even while consumed by illness. From his bed, the composer sketched out all the motifs and flourishes that he could until death took him. Completed from Mozart's notes by his assistant Süssmayr, the magnificent tapestry of fugues, choral thunder, and entreating counterpoint proved to be its creator's own memorial. Profoundly expressive, the music propels and deepens the text to the point of transcendence intended by a requiem mass. Soloists from the Metropolitan Opera—soprano Lei Xu, mezzo Reneé Tatum, tenor Mario Chang and baritone Ryan Speedo Green—will join maestro Stewart, orchestra and chorus in what should prove an unforgettable climax to the season. The Santa Cruz County Symphony’s ‘Renewal’ will be performed at 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 17 at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, and 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 18 at the Mello Center in Watsonville. Free pre-concert talks take place at 7 p.m. on Saturday. in the Civic Auditorium, and 1 p.m. on Sunday at the Watsonville Mello Center. $22-$67, 420-5260.
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Bomb’s Away Jeff Rosenstock breaks up Bomb the Music Industry and goes solo BY AARON CARNES
hen Jeff Rosenstock decided to give away his band’s albums for free on the Internet in 2006, people thought he was crazy. But that band, indiepunk-ska-electronic maniacs Bomb the Music Industry, became one of the biggest-drawing DIY punk bands in the country, and the subsequent success of Bandcamp would suggest he was ahead of his time. In January, Rosenstock baffled fans again by breaking up Bomb the Music Industry, just when things seemed to breaking for them in a whole new way. Amongst other things, they’d been selected to cover the Weeds theme song in the show’s final season in 2013, alongside the Mountain Goats, Steve Martin and Aimee Mann. Clearly, he has no interest in doing things just because “that’s the way they’re done.” “I think a lot of conventional wisdom is a bit of a red herring,” says Rosenstock. “All of the stuff that I have done, I haven’t done to go against the grain—it’s because it makes sense to me. It’s like, ‘why isn’t everybody else doing this?’” Rosenstock wasn’t impressed by the cool factor that became attached to what was originally his dorky bedroom solo project. “It seemed like we were a cool band once it stopped. Once people didn’t have to go see us live anymore, they could say that they liked us—that’s when we started to be a cool band,” Rosenstock says. “We were still fighting to do whatever we wanted to do. We were still a band that was getting ripped off by promoters on our last tour, and had shitty shows. We didn’t get that many reviews for [their last album] Vacation. We never felt like we were a cool band.” Ending the band made perfect sense to Rosenstock. By that point, they really were a band, not just his project. He didn’t want to start swapping out members or dishonoring what they’d all accomplished together by milking the brand. Their last couple of shows in Brooklyn drew a ton of people, and a lot of media attention, but Rosenstock has already moved on, releasing the solo album I Look Like Shit, which is similar to
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Bomb the Music Industry’s crazy eclectic punk sound, but darker and moodier. Now he’s just finished recording his second album, and is setting out on a string of six West Coast dates, the first shows with the backing band from his new album: John DeDomenici, bassist for Bomb; Mike Huguenor, guitarist for San Jose postpunk band Hard Girls; and Kevin Higuchi, drummer for San Jose/San Diego ska group Whiskey Avengers. “I just want to keep making good things that people can like. That’s the only thing I worry about. I don’t ever want to half-ass it, or put out something that I’m not 100 percent proud of at the time,” says Rosenstock. “With I Look Like Shit, it was a weird record, but I was 100% proud of it. It makes me feel good that my life is not going to end because Bomb the Music Industry ended.” Unlike the new record, which was recorded at a real studio (Atomic Garden in East Palo Alto), I Look Like Shit was made much in the same way as the first Bomb the Music Industry album, Album Minus Band—alone in his bedroom. It was released with no real intentions of it going anywhere, but Rosenstock’s fans loved it. “There’s a lot of stuff that you start thinking about once you turn 30,” he says. “My whole goal is always to be as honest as possible, and I think the longer I write songs, I go deeper into myself—there’s a lot of dark things in there,” Rosenstock says. The new album is yet to be released, and he’s fairly certain it’ll be a Jeff Rosenstock solo album, though it could be a new band altogether. “Honestly, if it wasn’t for those last Bomb shows, I probably wouldn’t be going out to record a record at a studio. I probably would have released what I made in my bedroom,” he says. “There were people at those Bomb shows that were talking to me and saying, ‘don’t stop playing music.’ I don’t need to throw up any more roadblocks.” Jeff Rosenstock performs at 8 p.m. on Sunday, May 12 at the Crepe Place in Santa Cruz. Tickets are $10.
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Singer-songwriter Hod Hulphers has no illusions about it, he has a weird name—but he doesn’t try to fight it. In fact, he’s chosen a moniker that’s even weirder: “And Hod,” which is a result of always being the opening act for years and seeing his name listed at the very end of the flyer as “And Hod.” He just thought he’d go with it. “Now, very often on fliers it says ‘and And Hod,’” Hulphers says. He doesn’t always perform as “And Hod.” That moniker is reserved exclusively for his solo outings. He also plays shows with his backing band— which includes Dan Potthast and members of Slow Gherkin—which he calls “Hod and the Helpers.” Band or no band, he plays more or less the same material, which is a strange combination of the Mountain Goats, They Might Be Giants and Nick Cave—though the band renditions are a bit more upbeat, and the solo stuff is more rife with melancholia. Before diving headfirst into songwriting in the early 2000s, Hulphers played drums for a number of bands, most notably the Philistine Tent Revival—who went on to became local psych-rock legends Comets on Fire. Hulphers turned down an opportunity to join the Comets early in the game. “It wasn’t really me in the first place. I was more into David Bowie and Will Oldham, people like that,” Hulphers says. The one thing he got from playing blown-out, ear-splittingly-loud psychedelica was a lesson in how to rock— even while he’s playing weird songs on his acoustic guitar. “I’m not afraid to be an asshole when I’m playing sensitive music,” Hulphers says. His songs aren’t so much quirky as they are complex. Hulphers wears an invisible costume, a character that is partially comedic, antagonistic and vulnerable, one that is always tough for audiences to gauge just where he’s coming from. “I love riding that ambiguous razor’s edge line between sincerity and complete sarcasm,” Hulphers says. | AARON CARNES
i INFO: 7 p.m. Saturday, May 17, Art Bar and Café at The Tannery, 1060 River St. #112, Santa Cruz, 428-8989; $8-$10.
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WILLIAMS SONGS REINCARNATED Rhan Wilson, who has a voice surprisingly like Neil Young’s, is bringing an acoustic show to a new room that’s quickly developing a reputation for its acoustics. At Treasures Roadhouse, Wilson will welcome fellow Gail Rich Award-winner Pipa Piñon, bluegrass-y lap steel player Patti Maxine, and others to help fill out this Hank Williams Reincarnated Show. It’s all in the name of the man who penned classics like “Your Cheatin’ Heart”— the man Bob Dylan, normally a diehard Woody Guthrie fan, once called “the best songwriter.” Wilson and friends, having put the Altared Christmas of minor key holiday carols days behind them, are embarking on new frontiers. | JACOB PIERCE
i INFO: 7 p.m., Treasures Roadhouse, 2908 Freedom Blvd., Corralitos. $20. 288-0677.
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In the vein of John Steinbeck, guitarist Zebedee Zaitz's lyrics deeply reflect desolate western landscapes, humbly optimistic small-town characters and warm California nights. Brothers Zeb and bassist Anthony Zaitz, who grew up in Florida, bring the kind of tight onstage chemistry
you would expect from a family duo, and the San Luis Obispo-based quartet’s psychedelically singed brand of alternative country rock offers audiences steady rhythms and pleasantly melodic vocal harmonies. The group is currently touring on Beneath the Electric Church, its third release. | JP
i INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $10. 423-1338.
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Comprising Michael Papilloon on double bass, Robby Marshall on clarinet, tenor saxophone, flute and cajon, and Antoine Salem on nylon and steel string guitar, the Shoestring Trio got its start with the three band members playing sidemen to other acts including Pink Martini, Michael Bublé and Parliament Funkadelic. But as they honed their collective skills, they realized that they were getting really tuned in to each other’s playing, and decided to strike out on their own. The result is a selfdescribed "musical triumvirate" that plays a swinging blend of world music, gypsy jazz, funk grooves and an occasional pop ditty. | CAT JOHNSON
i INFO: 9 p.m. The Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.
iiYMUSIC A sextet of young musicians who bridge the divide between contemporary classical and pop music, yMusic is being charged with having a transformative influence on the future of classical music. The ensemble has worked with an impressive list of indie icons including Arcade Fire, the National, and Bon Iver. They’ve also had works composed for them by Annie Clark of St. Vincent and Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond. Prepare to be moved by unexpected, intellectually and emotionally engaging sounds as yMusic reframes classical music for a new generation. | CJ
i INFO: 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 427-2227.
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You probably know Yoni Wolf as the frontman for the hip-hop-infused indie rock group Why?, but he’s going solo on this tour, and it’s all about the rap this time out. Included in Wolf’s set will be songs ranging from his time with bands cLOUDDEAD and Reaching Quiet, as well as early Why? material, not to mention a host of other songs he has guested on for other artists. This is not going to be a Why? show
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i INFO: 9 p.m. The Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $15. 429-6994.
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The acidic, hard-rock influence of Jerry Garcia is alive and well in in the music of the San Franciscobased Mother Hips. The band formed more than 20 years ago at Chico State University, long before it joined in the Bay Area’s jam band establishment. But to call the Hips acid rockers would belie their clever songwriting, which sometimes uses surprising chord progressions. Take for instance 2009’s “White Falcon Fuzz,” whose verses sound reminiscent—well, to me anyway—of late Beach Boys and Brian Wilson’s experimental Smile days. | JP
i INFO: 9 p.m., Moe's Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz, $22/adv, $25/door. 479-1854.
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Kate and William have nothing on this family. Accidental royalty of the bluegrass/roots scene, Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn are a banjo power-couple of the highest degree. And they now have a daughter who, it's been speculated, has a very good chance of becoming the greatest banjo picker in the known universe. Plus, there are really cute family pictures floating around the social mediasphere. Musically, Fleck and Washburn have both spent years playing bandleader on their own, and now their worlds collide with this joint, family project. | CJ
i INFO: 8 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $35/gen, $50/gold. 423-8209.
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Front Country is a progressive bluegrass group you need to get familiar with. The band has won band competitions at the RockyGrass and Telluride festivals, vocalist Melody Walker won the Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at MerleFest, and mandolinist Adam Roskiewicz has even been nominated for a Grammy for his work with the Modern Mandolin Quartet, so they are certainly on the
rise. They released their debut EP, This is Front Country, in 2012, and are working on a new album. Supporting Front Country is the Seattlebased Americana group the Blackberry Bushes String Band, whose self-titled debut is a stirring collection of enchanting melodies and wistful meditations on the ups and downs of life. | BP
i INFO: 7 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Highway 9, Felton. $10. 603-2294.
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This Canadian psychedelic rock band is almost as notable for their sound as they are for the number of band members who have passed through their ranks. A collective if there ever was one, Pink Mountaintops has featured at least three dozen different players at one time or another, encompassing members of bands like Cat Power, Sleepy Sun and the Cold War Kids, just to name a few. Get Back— their first new album in five years—came out last month and features the driving synth rock single “Ambulance City,” which sounds like a warped version of early U2 if they’d had Trent Reznor screaming lyrics on the choruses. | BP
i INFO: 9 p.m. The Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $12. 429-6994.
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How do you feel about fart jokes? How about metal music? Comic books? If just the thought of these things makes you giddy with excitement, you’re in for a treat. Brian Posehn, a quadruple-threat of music, acting, writing and comedy is coming to town, with jokes, stories and who-knowswhat-else. Best known for his work on Mission Hill and The Sarah Silverman Show, Posehn also has an album out on Relapse Records, does all kinds of comic book-related writing, is a standup comedian, has appeared on a number of sitcoms—the guy pretty much gets paid to entertain people just by being who he is. Nice work if you can get it. | CJ
i INFO: 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 6. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $25/door. 423-1338. WANT TO GO? Tell us why on the Good Times Santa Cruz Facebook page, and you could win two free tickets to the show.
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This Jamaican reggae group has been blazing trails for more than four decades. During that time, they have released more than 25 studio, live and dub albums, received the first-ever Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 1985 for their album Anthem—in addition to being nominated for multiple other Grammy Awards since—and Rolling Stone ranked their Red album #23 on their list of the best albums of the ’80s. The band, which is second only to Bob Marley in terms of worldwide reggae sales, released a single at the end of 2013, “Chalice,” which will appear on the band’s forthcoming, asyet-untitled album. | BP
i INFO: 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 479-1854.
Local Americana/roots outfit throws a party for the release of its new album. Friday at Don Quixote’s
AJA VU Steely Dan tribute band expands their repertoire to include hits by Chicago. Saturday at Don Quixote’s
JANE MONHEIT Accomplished jazz vocalist celebrates the jazz of Judy Garland. Monday at Kuumbwa
YG Compton-based rapper with a string of underground hits and a new debut album. Wednesday at Catalyst
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BLUE LOUNGE 529 Seabright Ave., SC 423-7771
BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St., SC 426-3324
80s Night with DJ Tripp Haaselhof
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Roadhouse Rumblers 9p No Cover
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All the prestige and virtuosity of classical music with all the attitude and energy of an indie rock band
HOFFMAN’S 1102 Pacific Ave., SC 420-0135
IDEAL BAR & GRILL
After Shock
106 Beach St., SC 423-5271
IT’S WINE TYME 312 Capitola Ave., Cap. 477-4455
KUUMBWA 320-2 Cedar St., SC 427-2227
MALONE’S 4402 Scotts Valley Dr 438-2244
Saturday, May 17 U 8 pm| No Comps At the Rio Theatre
BR Jazz Band
BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN
Kevin McDowell 6-8p Bajaba Showcase: LifeForcejazz 7:30p $15/$20
yMusic 7p $25/$30
Chris Kelly 7-10p
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn @ The Rio 8p $35
Simple Dreams 7p $18/$21
Jane Monheit 7p $27/$32
Sunday, May 18 U 7 pm
Master Class Series: Lori Rivera, Marshall Otwell 7p Free
SIMPLE DREAMS: A TRIBUTE TO LINDA RONDSTADT Tickets: brownpapertickets.com
Karaoke w/ Ken
MANGIAMO’S
Monday, May 19 U 7 pm| No Comps
Live Music
JANE MONHEIT
783 Rio Del Mar Blvd., Aptos 688-1477 Live Music 9:30p
Live Music 9:30p
“Hello Bluebird: Celebrating the Jazz of Judy Garland”
The Spell
Breeze Babes
Beat Street
Tuesday, May 20 U 7 pm| FREE
OTS + The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble 8p $7/$10
Gift Of Gab + ELIQUATE & DJ NEEMO 8p $10/$15
The Mother Hips 8p $22/$25
Spurs + Kelly McFarling & The Home Team 8p $7/$10
Libation Lab with Curtis Murphy 9:30p-1:30a
D-Roc 9:30p-2a
Posso & Ruby Sparks!
Rasta Cruz Reggae Sundayz 10p-2a
MARGARITAVILLE 221 Esplanade, Cap 476-2263
MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St., Soquel 479-9777
MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, SC 479-1854
MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave., SC 429-8070
OLITAS PARADISE BEACH
Lara Price 2-5p
215 Esplanade, Cap 476-4900
3102 Portola Drive, SC 475-9819
Black Uhuru 8p $25/$30 Tango2Oblivion 6p Hip-hop with DJ AD Eclectic by Primal Productions 9:30p-2a 9:30p-2a
Space Bass! By Andrew The Pirate 9:30p-2a Jazz 6:30-9p
49B Municipal Wharf, SC 458-9393
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BAJABA SHOWCASE: LIFE FOREC JAZZ
Jam Session w/ Don Caruth 7p
Burnin Vernon Davis Aftermath 9p
Charles Wheal 9p $5
MASTER CLASS SERIES THE NEW STANDARD: VOCALIST LORI RIVERA & PIANIST MARSHALL OTWELL Thursday, May 22 U 7 pm
MIDDLE SPACE COLLECTIVE: KURT STOCKDALE, FRANK BUCHANAN, REUBEN ROGERS & ULYSSES OWENS, JR. Wednesday, May 28 U 7 pm
KUUMBWA JAZZ HONOR BAND: Final Performance! Thursday, May 29 U 7 pm
ANN WHITTINGTON QUINTET Monday, June 2 U 7 pm| No Comps
OZ NOY TRIO w/ OTEIL BURBRIDGE & KEITH CARLOCK
Thursday, June 5 U 7 pm Brazilian mandolin prodigy!
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Rejuvination Festval After party
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Movie Mondays
Comedy Night
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Island Style Acoustic 1p
Open Blues Jam 6p
Open Jazz Jam 6p
Open Mic 6p
Service Industry Night
Trivia Night
Open Mic Night
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn
RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel, SC 423-8209
ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 Pacific Ave., SC 426-9930
SANDERLINGS
Samurai Gypsies
1 Seascape Resort 662-7120
In Three
Dennis Dove
SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, SC 426-2739
SEVERINO’S BAR & GRILL 7500 Old Dominion 688-8987
SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd., Cap 475-1222
Don McCaslin & The Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-10p
Billy Martini Show 7:30p
Kaye Bohler Band
Ken Constable 6:30p
Bebop 7p
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Open Mic w/ Mosephus
4640 Soquel, Soq 477-1341
THE WHARF HOUSE
Greyhound Band w/ Hindu
1400 Wharf Rd. #B, Cap 476-3534
WINDJAMMER 1 Rancho Del Mar, Aptos 685-1587
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ORGANIC SETTING The 15th season of Jim Denevan’s Outstanding in the Field opens May 18 at Swanton Berry Farm.
Home Field Advantage Jim Denevan opens his nationwide Outstanding in the Field tour in Davenport | BY CHRISTINA WATERS econnecting inquiring diners with the land and its harvests, Jim Denevan is on the verge of launching the 15th season of al fresco grazing known as Outstanding in the Field. The 2014 tour begins here at home on May 18 at Swanton Berry Farm (chef Denevan himself at the helm), and ends up in December at Pie Ranch near Pescadero. In between, Denevan, his crew and the nomadic al fresco kitchens will explore fields up and down California, into Oregon and Washington, then east across Wyoming and the Dakotas to the East Coast, and back. Many of these events are sold out, but some still have places at the table, including the tour’s season opener on May 18. During a recent Q&A, OITF founder Jim Denevan, former Gabriella chef and a renowned environmental artist, told me how he views the upcoming farm-totable/table-to-farm dining experiences that have amazed roving gourmets all over the U.S. and beyond.
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GT: On the eve of your fifteenth season, are there still big challenges? JIM DENEVAN: The team is so experi-
enced now, they've stood out in a lot of fields. We've done 650 dinners, in nine countries and 45 states. It's taken off where we can go to North Dakota and have a full table.
Given your success, others have imitated your template. What do you think of that? I expected more of this kind of thing to pop up, yes. To popularize a category of cultural experience, like these field dinners, others really have to be doing it, too. It's nice when they do their own version of it. I'm a student of culture and of enjoying good food and the outdoors. It seemed like the “food as culture” idea was in the air.
Who are your diners? We have a lot of regulars now, folks who join us for seven or eight events a year. We call them “field
heads,” because they want to try the unpredictable places—not just the two coasts. Our tables are from all over, not just locals. It's a mix of people who want to see what's happening in the area. The “food as culture” movement is as strong everywhere else in the country as it is in California.
Do you have your own favorite locations? The eccentric ones. There's place in Pennsylvania, Culton, where the farmer grows these exotic vegetables. He’ll get up on the table to talk about the dishes. I always love the places with the quirky backstory.
Does it feel like homecoming to be here? I'm very connected here. It's fun to have my brother here at the table. And at the very end of the season, we’re at Pie Ranch, which is really steeped in Santa Cruz warmth. If it's not windy, we'll be at the Coastways site on the cliff, overlooking the beach. If there's wind, we'll be under the Monterey
cypresses. I'll go out there in advance, walk around the fields, and look around. That's really a fun process, just being out in the land and looking around, seeing what's coming and what we can harvest for the dinner. Tickets for Outstanding in the Field events start at $180 per person (plus a service fee) which includes a reception with wine and passed appetizers, four courses with wine pairings, all gratuities, talks with grower, winemaker and chef, and a tour of the farm.
Kudos to Discretion Discretion Brewing just won a gold medal at the 2014 World Beer Cup, in the category of English-style Mild Ale. The award-winning brew is called Song in Your Heart, a sentiment perhaps induced by the thirst-quenching liquid itself. Congratulations to Brewmaster Michael Demers. Hoist something award-winning over at Discretion, located at 2703 41st Avenue in Soquel.
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37th Parallel Winery Sauvignon Blanc 2012 BY JOSIE COWDEN Sitting opposite Les Wright at a winemaker’s dinner at Lago di Como added greatly to the enjoyment of wonderful wine and superb food. Wright is the partner, along with Michael Curtis, of 37th Parallel Winery of Scotts Valley. Over six courses of amazing cuisine, we had plenty of time to talk about wine, and many other topics as well. 37th Parallel had its first vintage in 2009, so it’s the new kid on the block compared to many local wineries. But Wright and Curtis certainly know how to make impressive wines, and I enjoyed all of them poured at dinner. A Sauvignon Blanc 2012 went perfectly with the first course of salad. Made with grapes from Belle Farms Vineyards, this bright refreshing wine sells for a mere $15, and it’s worth every penny. “It’s a little bit from both your flower and vegetable gardens,” says the winemaker, “reminiscent of green peppers and cut grass but soon gives way to flowery light perfume aromas and hint of citrus.” Enjoy this wine with fish, cheese, olives, or drink it by itself. 37th Parallel Winery also makes Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot—all of which I enjoyed paired with the dynamic Italian cuisine of Lago di Como Ristorante & Pizzeria on East Cliff Drive. 37th Parallel wines can be found locally at Vinocruz. For more information visit 37th-parallel.com.
Hallcrest Vineyards Supports Wine & Wet Noses Hallcrest Vineyards in Felton will be the sponsoring wine provider for the fifth annual Wine & Wet Noses event to benefit pets in need. Food and beer from Seabright Brewery will also be available. All proceeds go to the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter. KFOX’s Laurie Roberts is the organizer, and the event includes a raffle, great vendors, three local bands and runs from 1-4 p.m. on Saturday, May 17 at MacDorsa Park off Scotts Valley Drive. Admission is $15. Bring a blanket or lawn chair.
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This year’s annual Eat Like a Greek Food Fair will feature red and white premium Greek wines, as well the usual splendid array of delicious foods. I lived in Greece for nearly 13 years, and I can tell you that the authentic cuisine available at this food fair would be hard to find anywhere else. As well as the more known dishes such as moussaka and spanakopita, there are wonderful delicacies like kataifi, moustokouloura and paximathia. Don’t know what they are? Then head to the food fair and find out. The event is 5-10 p.m. May 16, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. May 17, and noon to 6 p.m. May 18 at 223 Church St., Santa Cruz. Admission is free and there will be Greek music as well. Visit propheteliassc.org or email info@eatlikeagreek.org.
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LAYERED APPROACH Athena Wolfe is a volunteer organizer for the festival.
Eat Like a Greek Food Fair BY AARON CARNES
very year, the Santa Cruz Greek Festival draws more than 10,000 visitors. But not all Greek food fanatics like the big crowds; luckily, the good folks at the Prophet Elias Greek Orthodox Church, who organize the festival, also have the much more intimate Eat Like a Greek Food Fair, which returns this Friday, Saturday and Sunday (May 16-18), and is held in the church’s courtyard. We interviewed volunteer organizer Athena Wolfe about what people can expect.
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GT: What’s something new you’re offering at this year’s Eat Like a Greek Food Fair? ATHENA WOLFE: We’re offering Greek yogurt parfait. One of the parfaits we’re offering is the sour cherry parfait. The sour cherry mix is like a sweetened marinade sour cherry that comes directly from Greece. It’s very popular there. We’re going to offer it with Greek yogurt and potentially some other ingredients on top. And we’re going to do an organic blueberry, local honey, walnut Greek yogurt. We’ve never done those before.
I love Greek desserts, and you have a couple of new ones this year. Tell me about one of them. The one that’s least well-known is the revani. I would liken it to like an Italian polenta cake. It’s got honey and lemon and cornmeal. It’s not grainy like polenta cake, but it is something like that. I think I’m going to serve it with fresh fruit, and mint compote on top of that. It’s great with a Greek coffee.
I understand you are expanding your alcohol selection as well. Yeah, we are adding wine this year. We’ve never done that before. Greece’s wine industry has really skyrocketed in the last few years. We wanted to bring more premium products to the food fair. I thought that wine is a perfect place to start.
What dish are you looking forward to?
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Meat moussaka—always the meat moussaka, hands down. I never make it, because it’s very time consuming. And the béchamel sauce, the creamy cheesy sauce that goes on top—in my opinion, it’s difficult to get right. And I think, personally, the chef in our kitchen does an amazing job, so every chance that she serves it, I’m always eating it. It’s the only time I eat it. I won’t order it in restaurants. It has a meat, tomato and eggplant base. It’s got onions and spices in it. And it has a thick layer of béchamel, eggs and milk and cheese essentially, but cooked to a lightness. You eat it all together. It’s just delicious. You only need a small piece. It is ridiculously rich. I think that’s also why I like it so much. The Eat Like a Greek Festival will be held beginning at 5 p.m. on Friday, 11 a.m. on Saturday and noon on Sunday at 223 Church Street, Santa Cruz, 429-6500.
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WHEN I SNAP MY FINGERS, YOU WILL REMEMBER NOTHING James Franco has a hypnotizing effect on Emma Roberts in ‘Palo Alto.’
Untamed Youth Gia Coppola’s ‘Palo Alto’ captures the highs and lows of adolescence BY RICHARD VON BUSACK
ames Franco’s Brett Easton Ellis-like list of sensations in short story form has been inverted in Gia Coppola’s fine debut Palo Alto. Maybe the problem with reading it was that it was meant to be a movie all along. Franco’s book was like a medieval chronicle; this happened and then that happened, no reason given. This was deliberate; one subplot in Palo Alto concerns the problem of causation. The troubled Fred (Nat Wolff, very good) likes to quiz anyone who’ll listen on how they’d live if they lived in the time of the Egyptians or the knights in armor. It’s as if he felt his lack of options was determined centuries ago. The difference is that the sexes have been switched: 40 the main point of view is not a teen boy but a teen girl, April, played winningly and touchingly by Emma MAY 15 _ Roberts. Dismissed by her mean, popular friends as a MAY 21 “sweet little virgin,” she has the intelligence to under20 stand what’s going wrong around here. Roberts’ April is 14 tremendously expressive, but not saltless, spineless or pathetic; she does beguilingly forlorn things like perching in the floor of her locker when she eats lunch, so that it guards her back like a tortoise’s shell . April likes the shy Teddy (Jack Kilmer) and keeps seeing him socially, but there’s interference. Mr. B gtweekly.com
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(Franco) her soccer coach, has a thing for her. And the promiscuous Emily (Zoe Levin) also interferes, helping herself to Teddy at a drunken party, before eventually hooking up with Fred. Coppola handles the sex scenes above the neck, mostly. If, during a summer morning sequence, Coppola lays Levin out on a couch like one of her aunt Sophia’s odalisques, Coppola also focuses on Levin’s green eyes as she judges what effect she’s having on Teddy as she gives him oral sex. Likewise, the director tells the stages of losing virginity by a closeup on an actor’s mouth. Unsupervised parties hold the four corners of the story together, but they’re neutrally told: Coppola floats along with it, not judging it as Roman decadence, and yet never swept away by the tides. Franco’s legends of Palo Alto in the 1990s have been updated to the present, and with maybe a bit of anachronism. Times weren’t as loose as the ’70s, but an affair between a teacher and a student some 20 years ago was still not the stuff of the kind of scandals they have now. Unlike the next bumper of Franco short stories adapted into film—the ones his company was filming locally last winter—Palo Alto wasn’t filmed in Palo Alto. But the locations are also not noticeably not Palo Alto, even though I thought I saw an
LAPD medallion on a police car. Coppola has sanded off the present references; she shows us a high school world in which institutions and rituals haven’t changed. She sums up the forlornness, the late nights and morning dawdling; she recalls the sad little rituals, like how the last lucky cigarette must be inverted in the pack. The drawback is the usual one: a standard youngadult novel view of adults as predatory, clueless, patronizing, grotesque, Fellini-sized, tellers of shudderingly unfunny dirty jokes. It’s a tight race, but first prize for weirdness goes to Val Kilmer as Grace’s creep of a stepfather, vegetating in a den of post-it notes and half-eaten food. I’d never say Kilmer was as good as Brando, but he’s certainly getting Brando’s Hereford-sized beefiness. (Shave his head and he’d look like Kurtz.) Ultimately, Palo Alto does an excellent job of capturing the adolescent point of view, the constant longing for some other place, some other time—some hope of escape. Coppola visualizes an open end: Teddy and Fred’s road taking a final fork, a lonely nocturnal walkway versus a fast track to self-destruction. In this sensitive film, she evokes a journey it was important to travel, but one you’d never want to retread: that terrible time of waiting around, locked out of childhood and adulthood alike.
PALO ALTO Written and directed by Gia Coppola, starring Emma Roberts, Jack Kilmer and James Franco. R; 100 min.
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Stage Fright Fri + Sat Nights only @11:15pm
King Lear Sun 5/18 @ 11:00am Bridegroom Thu 5/22 Reception @ 6:30pm Film Screening @ 8pm The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Thu 5/22 @ 7:30pm Sun 5/24 @ 11:00am The Room Fri & Sat Nights @ Midnight
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Arts Events Cabrillo Orchestra presents
Music of Ireland Thursday, May 15 - 7:30 pm Cabrillo Samper Recital Hall Tickets: $10 general $9 non-Cab students, $7 seniors $4 Cabrillo SAC card holder
Latin Music Ensembles May 16 & 17 - 8:00 pm Cabrillo Black Box Theater Tickets: $10 general $9 seniors & non Cab students $4 Cabrillo SAC card holders
VAPA Division Open-House Art Party! Saturday, May 17 5:00 - 9:00 pm Cabrillo VAPA Complex Free Events
Westside Community Folk Song/Gospel Choir Monday, May 19 - 8:00 pm Cabrillo Samper Recital Hall Donations requested at door Cabrillo Orchestra & Il Dolce Suono presents
Music of Finland Wednesday, May 21 - 7:30 pm Cabrillo Samper Recital Hall Free Event
Cabrillo Classical Guitar Ensemble Thursday, May 22 - 7:00 pm Cabrillo Samper Recital Hall Donations requested at door
Business of Art Seminar Leveraging Social Media Friday, May 30 - 2:00 pm VAPA Forum 1001 Registration: $30
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New This Week
Richard Jenkins co-star. (Not rated) 88 minutes. Starts Friday.
Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl). (PG) Starts Friday.
BELLE Inspired by a true story, this
GODZILLA To mark the 60th anniversary of the first time the big guy in the rubber suit tottered across the Tokyo landscape, Godzilla rises again in this eco-conscious reboot from Gareth Edwards (Monsters). Trying to stay true to the Toho original (but with more sophisticated effects), Edwards promises a monster spawned in the muck of a polluted planet and thirsting for revenge. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Ken Watanabe, Sally Hawkins, Juliette Binoce and David Strathairn head the human cast. (PG-13) 123 minutes. Starts Friday.
PALO ALTO See review. (R) 98 minutes. Starts Friday.
period drama follows the fortunes of Dido Elizabeth Belle, a young mixedrace woman from the West Indies (daughter of a young English admiral and a slave) who is raised in London society by her aristocratic great-uncle in the years leading up to the abolition of slavery in the British colonies. Gugu Mbatha-Raw has the title role. Tom Wilkerson, Matthew Goode, Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson, Sarah Gadon, Tom Felton, and Sam Reid provide support. Amma Asante directs. (PG) 105 minutes. Starts Friday.
GOD'S POCKET The late Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in this drama directed by John Slattery (aka Roger Sterling in Mad Men.) Based on the novel by Pete Dexter, the story concerns a man struggling to conceal the fact that he caused an accidental death from his friends, family and small-town neighborhood. John Turturro, Christina Hendricks, and
MILLION DOLLAR ARM Jon Hamm stars in this (more or less) true story about a sports agent who decides to revitalize his flagging career with a grandstanding PR stunt—a trip to India to recruit a young cricket pitcher he can groom into a major league baseball star. Alan Arkin, Lake Bell, and Suraj Sharma (Life Of Pi) co-star for director Craig
STAGE FRIGHT The makers of the ingenious musical-horror short The Legend of Beaver Dam revisit a somewhat similar idea—urban-legend killer stalks kid campers—in this truly bizarre mix of horror and Glee. You’d be forgiven for thinking the comedy aspect (not to mention the musical numbers) would doom the horror aspects to being bland, but the very first scene will cure you of that misconception. This is horror comedy that takes both its horror and comedy seriously. Allia MacDonald, Minnie Driver and Meat Loaf star. (R) 89 minutes. Starts Friday. — Steve Palopoli SPECIAL EVENT THIS WEEK: NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE It's a new season for Britain's acclaimed National Theatre of London, broadcasting highlights from its Spring 2014 Season digitally, in HD, to movie theaters worldwide. Live performances will be broadcast one Thursday evening a month, in the Grand Auditorium of the Del Mar, with encore performances the following Sunday morning. This week: KING LEAR Simon Russell Beale stars in Shakespeare's enduring tragedy as an aging king driven mad by the malevolent greed and ambition of two of his three daughters and heirs. Filmmaker Sam Mendes (American Beauty; Skyfall) returns to the stage to direct. At the Del Mar, Thursday only (May 15), 7:30 p.m. Encore performance Sunday only (May 18), 11 a.m. Admission: $15. Seniors, students, and Santa Cruz Shakespeare subscribers: $13.
CONTINUING SERIES: MIDNIGHTS @ THE DEL MAR Eclectic movies for wild & crazy tastes plus great prizes and buckets of fun for only $6.50. This week: THE ROOM A long-running midnight movie in L.A., this no-budget cult film from auteur/star Tommy Wiseau ponders friendship and trust in the modern world in snarkily funny terms. (R) 99 minutes. Fri-Sat midnight only. At the Del Mar.
CONTINUING EVENT: LET'S TALK ABOUT THE MOVIES This informal movie discussion group meets at the Del Mar mezzanine in downtown Santa Cruz. Movie junkies are invited to join in on Wednesday nights to pursue the elusive and ineffable meanings of cinema. Discussion begins at 7 pm and admission is free. For more information visit groups.google.com/group/LTATM.
Now Playing THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Andrew Garfield returns for another outing as Peter Parker, college studentturned-web-slinging crime fighter, in this second installment of the rebooted franchise. Jamie Foxx is on board as powerful villain, Electro, with shady ties to OsCorp, the monolithic empire founded by the father of Peter's best friend, Harry Osborne (Dane DeHaan). Emma Stone is back as love interest Gwen, and Sally Field returns as Aunt May for returning director Marc Webb. (PG-13) 140 minutes.
BEARS The folks at Disneynature chime in with their annual Earth Day wildlife
doc (after Chimpanzee, African Cats, etc.), which follows a year in the life of two Alaskan grizzly bear mothers shepherding their cubs through the changing seasons. Narrated by John C. Reilly. Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey direct. (G)
DIVERGENT It's back to the dystopian future in this adaptation of the bestselling Veronica Roth YA trilogy. Shailene Woodley stars as Tris Prior, a young woman categorized as Divergent—unaligned with any group— in a society that maintains control by dividing people into distinct factions based on their personality traits. Theo James, Ashley Judd, Zofi Kravitz, Miles Teller, and Kate Winslet co-star for director Neil Burger (The Illusionist). (PG-13).
FADING GIGOLO John Tuturro wrote and directed this offbeat comedy in which he and Woody Allen star as a couple of friends who get into the gigolo buiness to make ends meet. Allen's character—whose bookstore has just closed down— finds the clients, and Turturro's character performs the service. Sharon Stone, Sofia Vergara, Vanessa Paradis, and Liev Schreiber costar. (R) 90 minutes. FINDING VIVIAN MAIER In 2007, John Maloof, a real estate agent in the Chicago area, bought some miscellaneous boxes at an estate auction—and stumbled into one of the greatest discoveries in 20th Century photography: the previously unknown, but amazingly prolific work of amateur street photographer Vivian Maier. In this fascinating doc, Maloof exposes her work to the light of day at last, along with the mystery shrouding the artist herself. The portrait of that emerges of Maier (who made her living as a nanny/housekeeper) is compelling in its oddity. That so much of her work was never even developed (much less exhibited) suggests it was the process, not the outcome, that was important to her. And isn't that what art is all about? (Not rated.) 83 minutes. ( 1/2) —Lisa Jensen. THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR: SATAN CAME TO EDEN The yearning to leave the vice and folly of the material world behind and carve out a new life in some unspoiled place, is at the heart of this fascinating real-life mystery about strife and skullduggery in a so-called tropical paradise of the 1930s. Directed by Bay Area filmmakers Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine, this stranger-thanfiction documentary isn't a story about a looming villain invading an idyllic realm; it's about a handful of cranky misanthropes and the accumulation of little frictions between them that leads to trouble in Paradise. Most of the principals kept detailed diaries, and copious home movie footage keeps things percolating along in this exotic thriller of a doc. Not rated. 120 minutes. ( )—Lisa Jensen.
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL There’s plenty of fun and whimsy to be had here in Wed Anderson’s delightful new comedy. Much like Moonrise Kingdom unraveled in a quirky splendor, so, too, does The Grand Budapest Hotel, which chronicles the unlikely friendship between a revered European hotel concierge, Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes)
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‘IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN ME IN THIS MOVIE YET, WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU?’ Jude Law gloats over the incredible run of ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ in Santa Cruz. “Smartly Acted, Handsome, and Well-Crafted” -NPR
HEAVEN IS FOR REAL Just in time for Easter comes this screen adaptation of the non-fiction book by Todd Burpo about his 4-year-old son who survived a near-death experience and came back full of detailed stories about the other side. Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, and newcomer Connor Corum star for director Randall Wallace. (PG) 100 minutes.
LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY'S RETURN Inspired by the classic childrens' book series continued by the great-grandson of L. Frank Baum, this 3D-animated musical finds Dorothy (voice of Lea Michelle) whisked back to Oz to help her friends save the Emerald City from a new villain called the Jester (Martin Short). Dan Aykroyd, Jim Belushi, Kelsey Grammer, Bernadette Peters, and Patrick Stewart are featured in the voice cast. Bryan Adams contributes new songs. Will Finn and Dan St. Pierre direct. (PG) 88 minutes.
LOCKE Tom Hardy stars in this thriller as a man at a challenging moment in his life whose career, family, and psyche begin to unravel during one long, fateful car ride. Steven Knight (Eastern Promises; Dirty Pretty Things) directs. (R) 85 minutes.
THE LUNCHBOX In this award-winning debut feature from Indian filmmaker Ritesh Batra, a young Mumbai housewife hoping to spice up her stale marriage, and a middle-aged widower about to retire strike up a correspondence and unexpected friendship when the boxed lunch she prepares for her indifferent husband at work is mistakenly delivered to the wrong man. Nimrat Kaur is poised and affecting as the lonely wife. The always great Irffan Khan combines the wry world-weariness of vintage William Powelll with the banked sensuality of a Raul Julia.This is an interactive bittersweet romance; how it ends depends on if you see the glass as half full or half empty. (PG) 104 minutes. ( )—Lisa Jensen.
NEIGHBORS Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne are a young couple with a new baby who find themselves at war with their neighbors when a bunch of rowdy college frat boys move into the house next door. Zac Efron and Dave Franco are the uber fraternity brothers. Nicholas Stoller (Get Him to the Greek) directs. (R) 97 minutes.
ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE It's a vampire romance, Jim Jarmusch-style. Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston star as an undead European gadabout and a reclusive Detroit rocker who reignite their centuries-old love affair. John Hurt and Mia Wasikowska co-star. (R) 122 minutes. THE OTHER WOMAN Nikolaj CosterWaldau (aka Jamie Lannister) gets up to more shenanigans in this revenge comedy about a woman who discovers that her boyfriend is not only married, but seeing yet another woman on the side. Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, and
Kate Upton are the wronged women who become allies in retribution. Nick Cassavetes directs. (R) 109 minutes.
THE QUIET ONES In this horror thriller, a university professor and his students conducting experiments on a young woman at a secluded estate outside of London uncover something dark and sinister. Jared Harris, Sam Claflin, and Olivia Cooke star for director John Pogue. (PG-13) 98 minutes.
THE RAILWAY MAN Is revenge really sweet? This is the central question in Jonathan Teplitzky's handsome, quietly moving drama adapted from the 1995 memoir by Eric Lomax, who, as a young British army officer, survived brutal conditions in a Japanese POW camp during World War II. Jeremy Irvine and Colin Firth deliver self-effacing complexity playing Lomax as a youthful POW and a damaged middle-aged man who decides to confront his Japanese tormentor decades after the war. This film doesn't pack a wallop; instead, it invites its audience to consider our own notions of justice, morality and forgiveness. (R) 116 minutes. ( ) —Lisa Jensen.
brain up to a computer to preserve his mind and gains unexpected powers. Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Cillian Murphy, and Morgan Freeman co-star. Acclaimed cinematographer Wally Pfister (he won an Oscar for Inception) makes his directing debut. (PG-13) 119 minutes.
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and his lobby boy. Everything from the era—between two menacing wars—to the fictional setting of the Republic of Zubrowka pepper the tale, which unfolds, layer by layer (a story within a story within a story) much like a Russian doll. Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe and other Anderson grads join the fun. R) 100 minutes. ( 1/2) —Greg Archer.
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THURSDAY | 15 Arts ART CLASS Oil and Acrylic, your choice. Overview class covers drawing, composition, perspective and mixing. Emphasis on light. All levels welcome. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Palace Art and Office Supply 1501 41st Ave, Capitola Francis 475-1594 varies RHYTHMS OF STILL LIFE Art Exhibition Twenty local artists have captured the vibrancy and diversity that is still life painting. 9:00 am 5:00 pm Santa Cruz County Banks Mary Anne Carson Free LUCID STORY SWAP Come to listen to amazing stories or toss your name in the hat to tell your own five-minute tale. 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm The Art Bar & Cafe, Tannery, Santa Cruz lucidstorytelling.wix.com/lucid/ $5-$10 donation
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FUTURE OF RAIL LECTURE International rail expert Anthony Perl is coming to town on May 15 to discuss global rail experience and how that might apply to California and Santa Cruz County. Perl will discuss high speed rail and other passenger rail potential. The event is free of charge and sponsored by the Regional Transportation Commission, UCSC and Cabrillo College. Seating is limited, please RSVP at: http://rtcperl.eventbrite.com You are encouraged to use public transport (METRO route 66) bicycle, walk, or carpool. 6:30 pm - 8:15 pm Simpkins Community Center, 979 17th Ave, Santa Cruz SCCRTC, 460-3200 free
RHYTHMS OF STILL LIFE Twenty local artists, all members of Santa Cruz County Oil Painters, have captured the beauty vibrancy and diversity that is still life painting. Artwork will be on exhibition at all five branch offices in Santa Cruz, Aptos, Capitola, Scotts Valley and Watsonville. 9:00 am 5:00 pm Santa Cruz County Bank, 720 Front Street, Santa Cruz Mary Anne Carson mcarson@sccountybank.com Free
2014 WHALE OF AN AUCTION The 29th Annual Whale of an Auction provides crucial support for the Seymour Marine Discovery Center, the
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A large cast of UCSC theater students will perform the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning rock musical, set in 1990s New York during the AIDS epidemic. This well-known and well loved production will be directed by UCSC Theater Arts professor Danny Scheie, who plans to place extra emphasis on the show’s social and political themes. "Somehow, Rent got kind of 'cute' in the American imagination," Scheie said recently. "I'd like to rediscover some of the more angry, revolutionary elements [in the show]." There will be post-show talk-backs with members of the cast and production team on two Saturdays, May 24 and May 31.
i INFO: May 16-18; May 22-25; & May 29-June 1. Thurs-Sat at 7:30 p.m.; Sun at 3 p.m. Tickets are $15 general; $12 students and seniors, www.santacruztickets.com, 459.2159.
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master African harp player Youssoupha Sidibe and the Mystic Rhythms Band. The event will also feature an eco-fair and alternative healing village with more than 80 vendors. The event is intended to heal and rejuvenate people from the daily stresses of life.
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Classes SALSA RUEDA DANCE DOWNTOWN FOR BEGINNER AND UP Every Thursday: drop-in class. No partner required. Cool moves to hot Tunes! Meet people, have fun, and move-it! Two levels at the same time: Intro/Beginner and Beginner 2/Intermediate. Enjoy two skilled instructors with over 13 years experience who study regularly in Cuba. Friendly and non-intimidating. Check website in case of schedule changes. 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm Louden Nelson Center, Santa Cruz www.SalsaGente.com, 831-295-6107 $8/$4 students INTU-FLOW CLASS Intu-Flow class with Matt Harris. (google Intu-Flow !) Ongoing class focusing on joint mobility through a unique portal - gain grace and effortless carriage. Initially for those suffering from PTSD and other related traumas. 10:00 am - 11:30 am Resoure Center for Nonviolence 612 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz Karen Egan 831-425-1944 donations SQUARE DANCING Family friendly fun, friendship put to music. 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm German American Hall 230 Plymouth St. Sue or Don 726-7053 Free ZUMBA FOR WOMEN This class offers a blend of upbeat music with easy-to-follow choreography, for a total workout, in a comfortable setting - no intimidation! Discount available for ten-class card! 8:15 am - 9:00 am Santa Cruz Bible Church Children's Center, 440 Frederick St Kym Shirley, (831) 421-9179, shirley0522@sbcglobal.net $5 per class, 1st class free AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT
Come explore Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® Classes. These engaging and potent classes will heighten your self-awareness as they increase your vitality, flexibility, and overall well-being. Classes are ongoing. First class free for new students. Pre-registration required.5:30 pm - 6:45 pm Pacific Cultural Center 1307 Seabright suzie@suzielundgren.com or call 332-7347 First class free for new students eborelli@comcast.net $30-$35
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Food & Wine "THANK YOU THURSDAY" BENEFIT FOR HOMELESS SERVICES CENTER Join Homeless Services Center Staff and Board of Directors for a pint of organic ale at Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing. $1 from every pint will be donated to Homeless Services Center. Their tasting room is open from Noon to 10pm. 12:00 pm - 10:00 pm Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing, 402 Ingalls Street, Suite 27, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 jabramson@santacruzhsc.org
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Groups A COURSE IN MIRACLES STUDY GROUP A Course In Miracles is a book on enlightenment that might be called a psychological journey to a spiritual awakening. It contains the highest wisdom of most spiritual paths. We informally study this great book, taking a few paragraphs each week. Many laughs and smiles occur as we expose the ego and share happiness. Books provided, regular attendance not required, drop in, drop out as you wish! 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Barn Studio at 102 Park Way South Andrew 831-272-2246 www.spiritualear.org/acim (map) Free ANIMAL LOSS SUPPORT GROUP This support group began in 1988 as a special service to our community. It is led by a skilled facilitator to help people deal with their grief and heal after the recent loss of a pet. Open to community members who are grieving a recent companion animal loss, This group is held in a safe, confidential setting, and is supported through community donations.
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Presented by Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts, a Berkeley-based dance-theater company, this “movement theater space opera” is set in a dystopian future in which humans have lost control of their technology. As a result, personal identities, memories and dreams are constructed and controlled by cloud servers and a semi-intelligent computer system? Sound a little too close to home, Facebook addicts? You’re not alone. This performance is intended to get us thinking about our current relationship with technology and the choices we have about how we will evolve. To illustrate this concept, part of the performance will be improvised, with movements dictated in part by an actual computer system.
i INFO: 8pm. Motion Pacific, 131 Front St., Santa Cruz. General admission $18/advance, $20/door. Students and seniors $16/advance, $18/door. 831.457.1616.
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marine science education center at Long Marine Lab, UC Santa Cruz. Because of people like you, thousands of children, families, and people from all walks of life will discover why ocean science is important, now and for the future. Every bid you make will help us meet the challenges facing our oceans. 12:00 pm 9:00 pm Auction is online only. 4593800 or http://seymourcenter.ucsc.edu Registration is free and secure.
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Health ENTRE NOSOTRAS GRUPO DE APOYO Open to Spanish speaking women with all types of cancer from diagnosis through treatment and the healing process. Meets every first and third Thursday of the month. Call to register. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Entre Nosotras, Watsonville 761-3973 free
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FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) is a program based on the 12 steps of Alchoholics Anonymous. There are no dues, fees, or weigh-ins at FA meetings. FA is a fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience and mutual support, are recovering from the disease of food addiction. 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Trinity Presbyterian Church, in the library. 420 Melrose Ave Santa Cruz, CA 95062 Jennifer K (831) 428-3498 Free
Music CABRILLO ORCHESTRA PRESENTS MUSIC OF IRELAND Music of Ireland: Stanford Symphony No. 3 "Irish", Irish Suite by Michele Esposito, and an arrangement of Londonderry Air (Danny Boy) by Percy Grainger. Conducted by Don Adkins. 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Cabrillo Samper Recital Hall - 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos (831) 479-6154 cabrillovapa.com $10 General - $9 Students - $7 Seniors - $4 for Cabrillo SAC holders
Spiritual SUFI DANCES Circle dances to live music. Movements and lyrics taught as we go. The dances range from reflective to highly connected and or energetic. No experience or partner needed. 7:00 pm 9:00 pm First Congregational Church 900 High St, Santa Cruz Leela 831 430-9848 or Santa Cruz Sufi Caravan on Facebook $7-10 Donation BINGO Have dinner, and play Bingo at Holy Cross Church Parish Hall. Dinner concession opens at 5:30 p.m. and game starts at 6:30. $15.00 for ten games and five dollars for each additional set of ten games. BINGO is on the FIRST Thursday of every month. 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm Holy
Cross Church Parish Hall 126 High Street 423-4182 FREE BUDDHISM 101: ESSENTIAL TEACHINGS AND PRACTICES A weekly series exploring the essential teachings and practices of Theravada Buddhism. 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Insight Santa Cruz, 1010 Fair Ave., #C, Santa Cruz info@insightsantacruz.org Free/Donation
Volunteer SAVE OUR SHORES SANCTUARY STEWARD TRAINING Steward Training is a two day event, with a total time commitment of about eight hours. An inhouse training Thursday May 15 from 5:30-9pm and a field training the following Saturday at Capitola City Beach from 9:30am-12:30pm. You must be 18 years old to participate. Please RSVP to Marina to hold your spot. We will provide food and beverages at the in-house training on Thursday night. Please make sure you bring a cup, plate and set of utensils to help us make the training a zero waste event! 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm 345 Lake Avenue, Suite A Santa Cruz Marina Maze, Program Coordinator (marina@saveourshores.org) Free UNCHAINED, INC~VOLUNTEER WITH KIDS AND DOGS UnChained, Inc. gives both homeless dogs and at risk youth the second chance they deserve. We are looking for Team Leaders to facilitate dog training, Dog Chauffeurs to take pups to and from class, and Dog Foster people to provide a stable living environment for our dogs while they complete training. Program begins the first week of June. Please contact Becky Avery at 408-7725319 or beckyunchained@yahoo.com 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties Becky Avery
FRIDAY16 Arts FRIDAY SHAKESPEARE CLUB Come join us, a group of diverse women, in stimulating discussions of Shakespeare's plays. 10:30 am - 12:30 pm First Congregational Church, 900 High St. Santa Cruz Nanette 438-3615 or Kris 421-0930 25$ annual dues WHAT’S HAPPENING DOWNTOWN? Check the DowntownSantaCruz.com for an up to dated calendar of everything going on in Downtown Santa Cruz. DowntownSantaCruz.com. 9:00 am 10:00 pm Downtown Santa Cruz downtownsantacruz@gmail.com Free MAH PRESENTS: 3RD FRIDAY: DESIGN AND INNOVATION Bring your bright ideas to a buzzing think and making tank of eclectic innovation. Explore, test, design, and redesign projects with engineers, entrepreneurs, artists, and out of the box thinkers. And don't miss kids happy hour from 4-5 PM in the classroom! www.santacruzmah.org/event/3rd-fridaygames-and-folklore 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History: 705 Front Street Santa Cruz, 95060 (831) 429-1964 $5 General, $3 Students, Seniors and Kids, FREE for MAH Members and Children under 4
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E MAY 15–MAY 21 ART EXHIBIT 7 at Blitzer celebrate the joy of making art with diverse media: stone sculptors Jeff Arnett and Michael Bashista; metal sculptor Marilyn Kuksht; painters Charles Prentiss and Taz Childress; printmaker Eva Bernstein; photographer Virginia Draper. Gallery Hours: Tu-Sat., 115. 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm R. Blitzer Gallery 2801 Mission St. Santa Cruz M. Bashista, 831-426-7316 Free OPEN HEART, HEALTHY TOUCH Come practice receiving and giving healthy nurturance and TLC through many fun and
relaxing exercises that foster well-being, trust, confidence, play and deep acceptance of self/others. Lead by a retired psychologist/mediator, this class involves many non-judgmental awareness exercises along with wholesome (nonsexual) touch (simple massage and games) that enhance brain neurons involved in well-being and human connection. Research shows that healthy, relaxing touch lowers, blood pressure and “stress” hormones, and increases your immune system, and oxytocin, the chemical that helps you stay bonded with
others and confident in yourself. Come clean and wear/bring: comfy clothes, towel or pillow for head/knees. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Louden Nelson Center, 301 Center St. Santa Cruz 831-227-5976 $9.50 NOT THE OTHER: ORAL HISTORIES OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS Please join Homeless Garden Project for a screening of "Not the Other," a 20-minute movie presenting first-hand accounts from homeless members of our community. The film is the result of a year-long project with interview
from 40 people experiencing homelessness. This multimedia presentation, with videos, photographs, and text narratives, is designed to demonstrate the wide diversity, and the dignity, vulnerability, resilience, resourcefulness, struggles and strengths of the homeless. The event is free, but your purchases, and donations, support HGP programs. For more information about the Oral Histories Project: http://oralhistoriesproject.org For more information about Homeless Garden Project: http://homelessgardenproject.org 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Homeless Garden Project - Downtown Store 110 Cooper Street/Pacific, Cooperhouse Breezeway, Suite 100G, Santa Cruz, CA Kate Pearl Free 3 PHOTOGRAPHERS "LANDSCAPE VISIONS" SHOW Three photographers share their unique perspectives of landscape photography in this beautiful show. 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Ben Lomond Art Gallery benlomondartgallery.com free
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SANTA CRUZ DOWNTOWN TOASTMASTERS We are a community based Toastmasters group, established in 1955,
open to all who want to further their speaking and leadership skills. We have a 75-minute meeting where we practice speaking. Come join us for this fun and rewarding experience – you will meet great people, learn new skills, and become a part of a dynamic group. 7:00 am 8:30 am Live Oak Senior Center, 1777 Capitola Rd, Santa Cruz Joan Staffen santacruzdowntowntoastmasters.org Free coffee for first time participants. CHAIR YOGA WITH SUZI This wonderfully therapeutic practice will help you increase strength, range of motion, stamina, memory and mental awareness, improve circulation and relax the body all while seated on a chair. No getting on the floor! Instructor Suzi Mahler, CMT, NE will guide you through a series of gentle seated yoga postures that are performed slowly and with breath awareness. 9:30 am - 10:30 am 2710 Chanticleer Ave. Santa Cruz at Grey Bears in the computer room Suzi Mahler, (831) 234-6791 suzimahler@gmail.com $5.00 SPRING SPROUTING FOR BEGINNERS Join "Beanalicious Living" author Elizabeth Borelli to learn how to grow delicious, super-healthy sprouts of all sorts right at
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home in your kitchen. Fun and easy, this interactive class will include step-by-step instructions, a review of seed and bean types and tasty food preparation demonstrations to get you started on your very own adventures in sprouting! go to http://tinyurl.com/mqshcpq to buy tickets 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm New Leaf Community Markets- Westside eborelli@comcast.net $30-$35
Food & Wine EAT LIKE A GREEK FOOD FAIR 8th annual Greek Food Fair in downtown Santa Cruz. Awarded the GT Award for Arts and Culture and SF Weekly Best Festival in recent years, this 3-day event features an array of authentic and healthy Greek foods and desserts. New: Greek yogurt and sour cherry parfait, baklava cheesecake and gluten free cookies. In the Kafenio, enjoy authentic handwhipped Greek frappes or thick Greek coffee. Or quench your thirst in the Taverna with Greek spirits and premium white and red Greek wines. Live bouzouki music and of course dancing! Eat like a Greek and enjoy! 5/16, 5-10pm, 5/17 11am-10pm, 5/18 12pm-6pm. 5:00 pm 10:00 pm Prophet Elias Greek Church, 223 Church Street info@eatlikeagreek.org free
Groups DROP-IN GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Hospice of Santa Cruz County is now offering a lunch time drop-in grief support group in Scotts Valley on Fridays for adults grieving the death of a family member or friend. This group is a place where you can share stories, learn tools for coping, and receive support from people who care. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Hospice of Santa Cruz County Annex 5403 Scotts Valley Drive, Suite D 430-3000 Free NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS Nar-Anon is a 12-Step program designed to help relatives and friends of addicts recover from the effects of living with an addicted loved one. Nar-Anon's program of recovery is adapted from Narcotics Anonymous and uses Nar-Anon's 12Steps, 12-Traditions and 12-Concepts. Members share their experience, strength and hope at weekly meetings. See Tuesdays for meeting in Aptos and Sundays for meeting in Santa Cruz. 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm Camp Recovery Center, 3192 Glen Canyon Rd, Scotts Valley, CA 95066 scottsvalleynaranon@gmail.com Free
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WHAT IS A NON 12-STEP REHAB Have you ever wondered if there were other drug and alcohol treatment options besides the traditional 12-Steps? There is, and Narconon Redwood Cliffs is just that. We have been treating addiction holistically since 1992, and have saved over 2,000 lives. You are invited to tour our beautiful facility, which sits upon 32 acres overlooking the Monterey Bay. You will meet counselors, get a detailed description of how the program works, and you will also be given the opportunity to see a live graduation. Even if you yourself are not struggling with addiction still need to witness the miracles Narconon Redwood Cliffs is producing. You can visit
our website at RedwoodCliffs.com. Please RSVP to Joe. 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Narconon Redwood Cliffs Joe Guernaccini 740-4634 Free TRIYOGA LEVEL 1 YOGA CLASS WITH CYNTHIA GOTTLIEB Relax and enjoy TriYoga, combining breath and movement to stretch and strengthen. 8:30 am 10:00 am TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz office@triyoga.com $10 drop in YOGA OF 12-STEP RECOVERY Yoga of 12-Step Recovery is an addiction recovery and relapse prevention program that blends the best of yoga and the 12 steps. Each class is a 1 hour all addiction discussion followed by a 1 hour recovery themed yoga class. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Yoga Within, 8035 Soquel Drive, Aptos Henry Cleveland Donations
Music CABRILLO LATIN MUSIC ENSEMBLE SPRING CONCERT The ensemble features students from the Latin folk and pop music performance class. Music from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Columbia, Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Argentina conducted by Michael Strunk. Friday & Saturday May 16th and 17th. 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Cabrillo Black Box Theater - 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos (831) 479-6154 cabrillovapa.com $10 General - $9 Seniors & Students - $4 with Cabrillo SAC
Spiritual A CHRISTIAN WALKS IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BUDDHA John R. Mabry, a pastor serving in Berkeley and Oakland, and singing with the progressive rock band Mind Furniture, talks about his pilgrimage in India, Nepal, Thailand, and Taiwan. Followed by Sat. 1:00pm lecture: I Believe in a God Who is Growing: A Beginner's Guide to Process Theology. 7:30 pm 9:00 pm Calvary Episcopal Church 831-423-8787 $15.00, or $25.00 to include Saturday lecture.
SATURDAY | 17 Arts MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL We're proud to invite you to the 35th Annual Multicultural Festival, an all-day celebration with music, food and performances that unites students and families of all cultures and backgrounds. This year, the festival's theme, "Motions of the Past, Movements of the Future," is demonstrated in the wonderfully dance-able performances of Candelaria, an independent Bay Area group whose work combines the rhythms of cumbia with dub studio techniques and a reggae bass line, and SambaDa, the West Coast's hottest Afro-Brazilian funk band. Bay Area rapper and hip-hop producer DJ Dahi, in collaboration with rapper Buddah G, will bring the community into perspective. Plus, the audience will enjoy spectacular performances by student organizations, such as Sabrosura Dance Troupe, African Student , Los Mejicas and the Indian Student Organization. Sixteen student-led organizations have come together to help sponsor this year's grand celebration, so
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E MAY 15–MAY 21 please come out to support and celebrate with us! This is an alcohol- and smoke-free event. Admission is free. 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm University of California, Santa Cruz: Lower West Field, Oakes Lower Lawn mcfplanningcommittee@gmail.com Free
3 PHOTOGRAPHERS "LANDSCAPE VISIONS" SHOW Three photographers share their unique perspectives of landscape photography in this beautiful show.6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Ben Lomond Art Gallery benlomondartgallery.com free
Classes ZEN MEDITATION AND DISCUSSION “Come As You Are” Zen meditation and discussion. See website for topic schedule. 8:30 am - 10:00 am Ocean Gate Zen Center 920-B 41st Ave., Capitola. Hollye Hurst oceangatezen.org Donation 3RD SATURDAY DANCE & LESSON Learn some Swing or Ballroom, bring a partner or meet a partner at the 3rd Saturday Dance! Each month the lesson changes and is followed by dancing to a
wide variety of recorded music. This is a "Beginner Friendly" as well as a great opportunity for Intermediates to enjoy practicing with friends. 7:30--Beginning lesson 8:15--Intermediate lesson 9-11:00 Dancing to a variety of recorded Swing, Night Club and Smooth Open to all ages! 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm 222 Market St. Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Becky Adams (831) 475-4134 $9 for lessons and dance, $7 Newcomer's Special
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APTOS FARMERS MARKET AT CABRILLO COLLEGE With over 90 vendors, this market offers a bountiful selection of local, sustainably grown produce and specialty items including farm fresh eggs, organic raw honey, fresh seafood, grass fed beef, sauerkraut, locally produced olive oil, artisan cheeses, cut flowers, potted plants, seedlings, fresh baked good, fair trade coffee, tea and chai. 8:00 am - 12:00 pm Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, CA 95003 akeller@montereybayfarmers.org FREE BENEFIT DINNER FOR TEEN KITCHEN PROJECT River Cafe will host a four course dinner to benefit Teen Kitchen Project. All ingredients sourced locally and prepared by River Cafe and Teen Kitchen Project chefs. 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 415 River Street, Santa Cruz Angela Farley 831-316-4540, preserve.bpt.me $65/$75
Groups MAD HATTER TEA AND CROQUET Bring your favorite tea cup and wear your best "Garden Party" attire and join us for an afternoon tea. Play a leisurely round of croquet, or simply spend some quality time with friends. There is an area were children can make their own hat, and this year Hidden Peak Tea House will be giving samples of traditional Chinese tea! Prizes provided by the Hat Co. will be awarded for the Fanciest hat and People's Choice! 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Louden Nelson Community Center 831-420-6177 FREE PROGRESSIVE PARENTING FAMILY POTLUCK Raising Children? Our 3rd Saturday Progressive Parenting family potluck is a fun and deep way to enjoy diverse connections while exploring your values in community. Families light a candle, sing a song giving thanks for the food, and read a picture book related to the monthly topic. Then kids play in childcare while parents have some adult time, sharing their wisdom and challenges. May's theme is Teaching Joy: Overscheduling, Stress, and Mental Illness. June & July are open-themed so far. We meet at UUFSCC, 6401 Freedom Blvd, Aptos. RSVPs are helpful in providing enough childcare. Drop-ins also welcome. Meet Up site online: www.meetup.com/Progressive-
Parenting-Monterey-Bay 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm UUFSCC, 6401 Freedom Blvd, Aptos shams.cohen@uufscc.org, 831 684 0506
Health WOMENCARE - ART FOR HEALING For women living with cancer: Paint, draw, glitter, and use pastels, clay, natural materials to explore our deepest self. 10:00 am - 1:00 pm call 457-2273 free INTERMEDIATE TRIYOGA CLASS WITH JAMIE ANDRES-LARSEN TriYoga flows are presented with personalized guided alignment assistance. 10:30 am - 12:00 pm TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz office@triyoga.com $10 drop in WOMENCARE SPANISH SUPPORT GROUP WomenCARE offers a support group in Spanish for women with cancer on the first and third Saturday of the month. Call to sign up. 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Santa Cruz 457-2273 or 336-8662 free
Music PACIFIC VOICES 20TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Pacific Voices will delight you with a variety of audience favorites and new selections. Join us for a lively mix of inspiring choral music from many nations and traditions. 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Holy Cross Church, Santa Cruz Susan Seaburg $15-20 SANTA CRUZ PEACE CHORALE ANNUAL CONCERT The Santa Cruz Peace Chorale presents "The Struggle Carries On," a concert and silent auction to celebrate the Peace Chorale's 12th year of singing out for peace and social justice. Under the direction of Aileen Vance, the chorale presents traditional and contemporary songs that celebrate peace and offer alternatives to violence. Called a "community treasure," the chorale has been honored by folk icon Pete Seeger's personal contributions to its repertoire. Auction bidding begins at 7:00. Come sing along. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church 2402 Soquel Dr.Soquel sylvibo@cruzio.com or santacruzpeacechorale.com suggested donation $15 - no
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The Spring Dog Festival, put on by the Coastal Dog Owners’ Group, will feature games, demonstrations, and the chance for dog owners to meet and mingle. This year’s theme, “A World of Dogs,” will be brought to life with games like, Frankfurt Weenie Bobbing, Wimbledon Tennis Ball Fetch, and the “When in Rome” Kissing Booth. There will also be an international costumes parade with prizes. The Coastal Dog Owners’ Group raises funds for organizations such as the Santa Cruz Shelter and the Tales to Tails literacy program, in which kids improve their literacy skills by reading aloud to dogs.
i INFO: 9am-2pm. Soquel High School, 401 Soquel San Jose Rd., Soquel. Tickets $10 per dog; $5 per person; kids under 10 are free. www.coastaldogs.com.
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4TH ANNUAL SANTA CRUZ REJUVENATION FESTIVAL Inspiring world class music, entertainment on three stages including Kids’ Stage, eco-fair, all day yoga classes, organic food, sustainable living information, and alternative healing by donation. With performances by Grammy winning legend Charles Neville and Grammy-nominated Master Kora Player Youssoupha Sidibe, Mystic Rhythms, Love Eternal, Inner Light Choir, Rev. Deborah L. Johnson, Watsonville Taiko, Ancestree, Diane Patterson, Kuzanga Marimba, Linda Arnold performing children’s music, Mickey Magic, Aerial Arts Santa Cruz and more. 10:00 am - 7:00 pm San Lorenzo Park,
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BILLY MANZIK AT DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE Manzik delivers a driving roots rock sound, complete with catchy riffs, lyrical hooks and a feel good, toe tapping kind of style. Billy has played with or opened for such luminaries as Blue Rodeo, Elliott Brood, The Trews, Todd Snider, Colin James, The Wailin Jennys, Gordie Johnson (Big Sugar), Cara Luft, among many others. Just 10 minutes up the coast on Highway 1, known for fresh CA cuisine and ocean view inn. 6:00 pm 9:00 pm Davenport Toadhouse Restaurant and Inn, 1 Davenport Ave., Davenport www.davenportroadhouse.com free
SPRING BOOK SALE Join the Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries at our Spring Book Sale! Outside the Downtown Library: 10am-11am Members Only, 11am3pm General Public, 3pm-5pm Bag Sale. 11:00 am - 5:00 pm Outside the Downtown Santa Cruz Library MAY FAIRE CELEBRATION & OPEN HOUSE, ORCHARD SCHOOL May Pole Dance is at 1:30. Enjoy our garden and playground filled with art, music, dancing, face painting, crafts, games, local artisans, water slide (bring swim clothes and a towel). Tickets for delicious food & drinks will be available for purchase, or you may bring your own picnic. Admission is free.
Activities and food priced separately. Tour our beautiful 14-acre campus (11 am 1:30 pm), meet our extraordinary faculty, and play for the day. Just 10 miles south of downtown Santa Cruz. 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Orchard School 2288 Trout Gulch Rd. Aptos, CA 95003 831.688.1074 www.orchardschoolaptos.org Amy Isacson Free SANCTUARY CELEBRATION Free live music, arts and crafts, educational activities and EcoTours of the Wharf. Interactive, educational and fun activities will be presented by groups like the Seymour Center, the Sanctuary Exploration Center, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USGS, the Marine Mammal
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Spiritual A GOD WHO IS GROWING: A GUIDE TO PROCESS THEOLOGY John R. Mabry, a professor, pastor and interfaith director from Berkeley asks: What if God is less person than process? What if God is growing and changing with the universe? 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Calvary Episcopal Church 831-423-8787 $15.00, or $25.00 to include Friday lecture.
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E MAY 15â&#x20AC;&#x201C;MAY 21 WALKING THE PATH TOWARD THE END OF LIFE A two-part exploration of end-of-life issues including both spiritual/emotional reflections and practicalities. 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Insight Santa Cruz, 1010 Fair Ave., #C, Santa Cruz info@insightsantacruz.org Free/Donation
Volunteer 2014 NATIONAL RIVER CLEAN UP DAY Volunteers will be able to show up, be provided with the necessary equipment, and spend a morning enhancing our local watershed. Sites include just South of Highway 1 on the West bank of the San Lorenzo River Parkway, at the visitor's center in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, and Felton Covered Bridge County Park. Volunteers will be able to walk, paddle, or wade in or along the river to collect debris and refuse. What to bring: A full and reusable water bottle, closed toed shoes, appropriate clothing for weather conditions, sun protection. 9:00 am 11:00 am http://www.americanrivers.org/takeaction/cleanup/map/ wsp.rcdscc@gmail.com Free
SUNDAY MAY 18 Arts IMPROV FIX - PRACTICE AND GUIDANCE Improvisational acting games for fun and fruition. No experience required. 18 and older. 11:00 am - 1:00 pm BC Rec Center 13333 Middleton Rd. Boulder Creek cheididrew@gmail.com or 703 4062 $5 for 2 hrs. NOT THE OTHER: ORAL HISTORIES OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING 3 PHOTOGRAPHERS "LANDSCAPE VISIONS" SHOW Three photographers share their unique perspectives of landscape photography in this beautiful show. 6:30 pm 9:00 pm Ben Lomond Art Gallery www.benlomondartgallery.com free
Classes SALSA FOOTWORK AND WORKOUT Learn how to dance and get fit at the same time. If you can count to 8, you can learn how to dance salsa. You'll learn style and technique in a welcoming environment - no partners needed. Dropins are welcome to our beginner and intermediate salsa suelta classes every week. 9:00 am - 10:00 am The Tannery 1060 River St, Santa Cruz Kirsten (831) 818-1834 www.BailamosSalsaRueda.com $7/$5 student
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BRAZILIAN PERCUSSION & THE SAMBA BATERIA Come be part of Brazil's drum and percussion powerhouse: the bateria! As an ensemble we explore Rio style samba, samba-afro, sambareggae, and more. All levels welcome. Some instruments provided. 1:30 pm 3:00 pm 207 Mcpherson St. (West-Side) Joe 831.435.6813 $8 BEEKEEPING 101 Buzz on out to Quail Hollow Ranch for an informative talk about bees with Randy Fox and Wayne Pitts. They will discus their expectations and experiences with bee keeping as well as
explain the dos and don'ts of this rewarding profession. For ages 16 and up. Sign up by calling 831-335-9348. Presented in cooperation with the Monterey Bay Master Gardeners. 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Quail Hollow Ranch County Park - 800 Quail Hollow Rd., Felton Lee Summers, 831-335-9348, prc120@scparks.com $3 THE SYRIAN CRISIS: THREE YEARS ON Stephen Zunes and Paul Larudee will discuss the roots and development of the current Syrian crisis and suggest possible resolutions. Stephen Zunes is professor of Political Science at the University of San Francisco. Paul Larudee is a founder of the Free Gaza movement and a leader of the Syria Solidarity Movement. Co-sponsored by Palestine-Israel Action Committee, Jewish Voice for Peace - Santa Cruz, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and the Resource Center for nonviolence. Cost is $10 - $15 on a sliding scale. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. For further information, call (831) 216-6570 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz Sami Abed $10 - $15 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds. LECTURE "FROM FRANKENSTEIN TO FACEBOOK" Please join members of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UCSC at Stevenson College Events Center to hear Professor Helen Moglen talk about our ambivalent love affairs with our machines-- Are the empowering or imprisoning? Who is in charge? Us? or Them? 10:00 am - 12:15 pm Stevenson College Events Center at UCSC Contact Dennis Morris. E-mail: morris@valsys.com FREE WHAT IS REIKI? Find out what this light touch healing art is all about during this 2hour experiential workshop. 10:00 am 12:00 pm Santa Cruz Reiki Works www.santacruzreikiworks.com 5 SCIENCE SUNDAY: HOW SEALS SENSE THEIR FLUID ENVIRONMENT Christin Murphy, Ph.D. in Oceanography and researcher at the Pinniped Cognition & Sensory Systems Lab at Long Marine Lab, UC Santa Cruz, will discuss sea and sea lion whiskers, the most highly specialized whiskers in the animal world, during this entertaining public lecture. Doors to the lecture hall open 30 minutes before the lecture; seating is on a first-come, firstserved basis. Recommended for ages 10 and older. 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 Shaffer Road, End of Delaware Avenue 459-3800 or http://seymourcenter.ucsc.edu General admission fees apply.
Food & Wine PACIFIC VOICES 20TH ANNIVERSARY GALA Celebrate our 20 years of sharing music with Santa Cruz! Join us at a wine and cheese Gala celebration after Sunday's concert. Proceeds to music outreach programs. 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Holy Cross Church Mission, Santa Cruz tickets at brownpapertickets.com $10-20
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Music PACIFIC VOICES 20TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Join us for a lively mix of choral music from many nations and traditions. Gala reception follows (separate ticket).4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Holy Cross Church, Santa Cruz tickets at brownpapertickets.com $15-20
Outdoors 13TH ANNUAL SPRING DOG FESTIVAL Fun for Dogs and their people! Bring your dog out to play at the 13th Annual C-DOG Spring Dog Festival. We'll have lots of games, agility, tri-ball, nose work, herding, Frisbee, fieldwork and lure coursing. Plus shopping, food, photo booth and an adoptable dog showcase. Help us raise money for local dogs in need. 9:00 am 2:00 pm Soquel High School coastaldogs.com $5/Dog and $10/Person HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT
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PRESENTS FARM FEST 2014 Come join the Homeless Garden Project for FarmFest 2014. This free event will feature kids activities, cooking demos, food and refreshments, a beer garden and live music. Homeless Garden Project (HGP) provides job training, transitional employment and support services to people who are homeless. HGP's vibrant education and volunteer program for the broad community blends formal, experiential and service-learning. The programs take place on our 3-acre organic farm and related enterprises. Learn more at: http//www.farmfest.homelessgardenproject.org Co-sponsored byt 88.9 KUSP: http//www.kusp.org 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Homeless Garden Project - Farm Shaffer Rd., Santa Cruz, CA Kate Pearl Free
Spiritual SUNDAY MORNING MEDITATION First session, mindfulness; learning to get control of our thoughts by practicing meditating on our breath. Second session, analytical meditation; contemplating various topics taught by the Buddha and past Buddhist masters in order to improve the quality of our lives. Doors close at 9:35am. 9:30 am - 10:15 am Land of Medicine Buddha - Wish Fulfilling Temple at top of the hill office@landofmedicnebuddha - 831-462-8383 donation SUNDAY MORNING GROUP MEDITATION Join us for a non-sectarian group meditation every Sunday. Energization exercises, devotional chanting and 45-minute meditation provide balance, peace and joy. 9:00 am - 10:15 am Ananda Scotts Valley, 75 Mount Hermon Road, Scotts Valley, CA 95066 Doug Andrews 831-338-9642 (YOGA) No Cost INSPIRATIONAL MEDITATION SERVICE
Join the Santa Cruz SRF Meditation Group for Sunday morning Inspirational Service. This service includes inspirational readings from the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, the founder of Self-Realization Fellowship and the author of the spiritual classic, Autobiography of a Yogi. 11:00 am - 11:59 am call for location 334-2088 Donation REV. DR. CAROL CARNES Rev. Carol has participated in synthesis dialogues with the Dalai Lama and other world visionaries. She has been a featured writer in New Thought magazines and author of two books. She believes that liberating religion from superstition and dogma will be a major factor in bringing about the great shift in human consciousness that will open the door to the co-creation of an Awakened world. 10:30 am - 11:30 am Center for Spiritual Living - 1818 Felt Street 462-9383 free DISCOVER YOUR ANIMAL GUIDES Learn the ancient wisdom of animal guides in this experiential class! We will meditate to meet our spirit animal & create a collage to represent our own experience. 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Mountain Spirit, 6299 Hwy 9, Felton 335-7700 $33
MONDAY | 19 Arts CABRILLO THEATRE ARTS DEPARTMENT PRESENTS ACTORS' SHOWCASE Theatre Arts students perform scenes and monologues. Warning: may contain adult situations, content and language -- parental discretion advised. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Cabrillo Crocker Theater - 6500 Soquel
Drive, Aptos (831) 479-6154 cabrillovapa.com Donations requested at the door
Classes SALSA CUBANA DANCE Experience the Cuban style of Salsa dancing. Featuring a great variety from Casino partner moves and styling to Rueda de Casino and enjoy latest musica Cubana.. Drop-in class. Entry level intermediate dancers. No partner required. Two skilled teachers with over 14 years experience. Check out SalsaGente.com in case of holidays. 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm Louden Nelson Center, 301 Center Street, Santa Cruz 831-295-6107, www.SalsaGente.com $8/$4 students AARP SMART DRIVER CLASSSES These classes are designed to help maturing drivers (50+) maintain safe driving skills and thus their driver licenses for a longer period of time. California insurance companies are required by law to give a discount to seniors who complete this course. 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm various Fred 426-6472 between 10am and 4pm $10 or less per session
Groups OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Voices of Recovery book study. OA is a 12-step support group for those who wish to stop eating compulsively. Also for anorexia and bulimia. Meetings daily see santacruzoa.org for schedule. 12:15 pm 1:15 pm Trinity Prespretarian 420 Melrose Ave. Nanette 429-7906 Free EVENING TOASTMASTERS Strengthen public speaking and leadership skills. Supportive and fun club. All levels welcome. Guests free.6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Live Oak Senior Center, 1777 Capitola Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95062 email us: vppr-3802@toastmastersclubs.org Guests Free
Health ARM-IN-ARM CANCER SUPPORT GROUP For women with advanced, recurrent and metastatic cancers. Registration required. 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm WomenCARE 457-2273 free
Music WESTSIDE COMMUNITY FOLK SONG/GOSPEL CHOIR Gospel and world music for choir. Directed by Michael McGushin.8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Cabrillo Samper Recital Hall - 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos (831) 479-6154 - cabrillovapa.com Donations requested at the door
TUESDAY | 20 Arts READ AND CRITIQUE WRITERS' GROUP Open to new members, writers focused getting feedback for publication. 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Downtown Santa Cruz Dana Bagshaw, 831-425-5182 free FREE THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE OF "HEREANDNOW THEATRE TROUPE" All the way from Los Angeles, Cultural Arts and Diversity presents a free improvisational theatrical performance by "Hereandnow Theatre Troupe" in celebration of Asian/ Pacific Islander Heritage Month. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm UCSC, Stevenson Event Center Cultural Arts and Diversity FREE
Classes MEDITATION AND DISCUSSION Meditation and discussion every Tues. 7pm. 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Ocean Gate Zen
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WEST COAST SWING Improve your West Coast Swing by using "Extensions" and "Blends." A simple way to spice up your dancing. 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm DanceSynergy, 9055 Soquel Drive, Aptos Chuck 479-4826, chuck@gonnadance.com $8
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food, lively socializing and dancing. Stick around for Mexican Train Dominoes after dinner. Bring your friends and family. Public Welcome. Proceeds benefit MCSC. 4:30 pm - 7:30 pm Mid-County Senior Center, 829 Bay Ave., Capitola 476-4711 www.mid-countyseniorcenter.com Donation: $8 NUTRITION FACTS AND FICTION Join Elizabeth Borelli, local chef and author, for a talk and store tour and learn what to look for on food labels so you can make good decisions. Food labels are confusing and knowing how to read them is one of
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DANJUMA ADAMU, MASTER OF AFROBEAT Danjuma Adamu, co-founder of two Bay Area Afrobeat bands, was born into a family tradition of music in Lagos, Nigeria. Danjuma has played and recorded with Hugh Masakela, King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti Anikulapo, Babatunde Olatunji, ZuluSpear and other greats, and toured with the Nigerian All Stars. Afrobeat is a combination of traditional West African Youruba music, jazz, funk, chanted vocals, percussion, and vocal styles. Familyfriendly venue. 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant and Inn, 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport www.davenportroadhouse.com free
GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Join with other adults who are grieving the death of a family member or friend. Share stories, learn tools for coping, and receive support from caring people. Please call 430-3000 and ask for grief support to pre-register for this group or for information about grief support services offered by Hospice of Santa Cruz County. 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Aegis, 125 Heather Terrace in Aptos. Please call 430-3000 Grief Support Program at Hospice of Santa Cruz County No cost. Donations gratefully accepted. SANTA CRUZ REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT CLUB Investors of all experience welcome! We meet to learn, have fun and make money. This month we will have a "flipper" present some deals. 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm 2601 41st Ave. Soquel, CA 95073 Mike Young 831-2341545 Free
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WEDNESDAY | 21 Arts UNDRESSED: AN EXPOSé OF CONCEPTUAL GARMENTS AND ACCESSORIES Undressed explores the realm of apparel beyond the conventional limita-
tions of fabric, needle and thread. Expect the unexpected in this exhibit of curious, intriguing, narrative garments and accessories that utilize traditional methods, as well as experimentation with unusual materials, tools and techniques to create surprising, witty and thought provoking conceptual pieces and installations. The exhibition, curated by Rose Sellery, will be held simultaneously in two galleries, Pajaro Valley Arts Council Gallery (PVAC) and the Santa Cruz Institute of Contemporary Art (SCICA). PVAC May 7 - June 22, 2014 SCICA May 7 - June 29, 2014 11:00 am 4:00 pm Pajaro Valley Arts Council, 37 Sudden Street, Watsonville rose@rosesellery.com free
Business BUSINESS WOMEN'S NETWORKING GROUP OPEN HOUSE Are you a professional woman looking for new clients? Learn more about the S.C. Leads Group by attending our open house. 7:45 am - 9:00 am Downtown Santa Cruz Call Terry at 601-6952 for more info Free
Classes SALSA DANCING SOCIAL HOUR Salsa social at Portuguese Hall. Everyone is welcome. 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm Portuguese (CPDES) Hall by Costco and Harvey West Park Kirsten 818-1834 BailamosSalsaRueda.com donations accepted
HEALTH & FITNESS QiGong with Mark Bernhard, D.C. - ongoing, all levels welcome. Come and enjoy. 10:00 am 11:00 am 612 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz, CA Karen Egan 831-425-1944 donation
9:30 am - 11:00 am The Wellbeing Center 5905 Soquel Drive, Suite 150 Tracy@thelotuscollaborative.com Free
ARGENTINE TANGO Ongoing Wednesday tango with John & Nancy Lingemann. Beginners 7PM, Int. class: 8:45-9:15. Practice till 10. 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Parish Hall Calv.Episc. Lincoln & Cedar njlingemann@gmail.com, 469-3288 $3
FEMALE SURVIVOR SUPPORT GROUP Is your partner violent or controlling? Have you survived a sexual assault? Monarch Services-Servicios Monarca offers a safe, supportive space. Childcare activities provided. 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm 1685 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz 425-4030 24hr: 888 900-4232 wcs-ddm.org Free
GETTING TEENS CONNECTED This free parenting seminar from Triple P offer strategies on how to encourage your teen to form positive connections with others. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Mountain CommunityResources, 6134 Highway 9, Felton http://first5scc.org/seminar-getting-teensconnected-4 Free
APTOS TOASTMASTERS Speak up at Aptos Toastmasters. Get comfortable speaking in front of people in a friendly and supportive environment. We meet Wednesdays at noon. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Rio Sands Hotel 116 Aptos Beach Drive Aptos, CA 95003 Mike Young 831-2341545 Guests attend free
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IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILDREN? Jerry Dominguez, author of "Culture of Fear", shines a light on the valiant struggles of social workers and tells how values can stray far from the agency's publicly proclaimed mission, which is to protect children and reunify families. Carin Johnson, a Walnut Creek lead attorney, is passionate about the rights of parents, grandparents, family members and foster parents in CPS/DFCS Juvenile Court. Robert Powell, a San Jose lead attorney has been representing parents in CPS and Juvenile dependency cases for over 22 years. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm 1900 17th Ave., Santa Cruz, CA 95062
NATURAL HEALERS NETWORK The Santa Cruz Natural Healers Network is a group of dedicated holistic practitioners who meet monthly to inform, inspire and refer to each other. Our goal is to build powerful relationships and depth of resources with the purpose of growing each of our businesses. We support each member to become a more effective and invaluable natural health practitioner. All holistic practitioners are welcome. Bring plenty of business cards, promotional materials and plenty of positive energy. We meet the 3rd Wednesday of each month.
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Music THE CAROLYN SILLS COMBO ACOUSTIC AT PHIL'S FISH MARKET The Carolyn Sills Combo will play acoustic on the third Wednesday of every month at Phil's Fish Market in Moss Landing. Let them serenade you with classic country and western while you don a lobster bib. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Phil's Fish Market, Moss Landing free CABRILLO MUSIC DEPARTMENT PRESENTS MUSIC OF FINLAND The Cabrillo Orchestra is joined by Il Dolce Suono and the Kirby Choirs for a concert featuring the music of Finland. 7:30 pm 9:30 pm Cabrillo Samper Recital Hall 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos (831) 4796154 - cabrillovapa.com Free
Spiritual SOUL HEALING EVENING Learn about Soul Healing techniques that can help you transform any aspect of your life: Soul tapping, Love, Peace and Harmony soul song, and Soul Dance (every evening is a different technique). Soul Healing Evening and/or Soul Healing Services are not to replace conventional medical diagnosis or treatment for any medical or psychological condition. 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Location is in Scotts Valley, call for address Gloria 588-5996/gloriaquintero@att.net $7 or
RED CROSS VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Volunteers are needed to work at registration and the canteen at American Red Cross blood drives in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. Pre-registration is required. 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Latter Day Saints Church, 220 Elk St. (enter from Pacheco Ave.) Mary Woodill (408-2021896; Mary.Woodill@redcross.org free
THURSDAY | 22 Arts ART CLASS Oil and Acrylic, your choice. Overview class covers drawing, composition, perspective and mixing. Emphasis on light. All levels welcome.1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Palace Art and Office Supply1501 41st Ave, Capitola Francis 475-1594 varies ALL ABOUT THEATRE’S SHREK THE MUSICAL OPENS AT LOUDEN NELSON Shrek The Musical, based on the Oscar winning Dreamworks film that started it all, brings the hilarious story of Shrek, everyone's favorite ogre and our unlikely hero and Donkey, his loveable and annoying royal steed as they set off on a quest to rescue the feisty Princess Fiona from her tower. Along the way they meet a
fire breathing lovesick dragon, the diminutive Lord Farquad and a gang of fairy tale misfits. A slightly fractured fairy tale with loads of laughs and lots of heart, Shrek is big-sized fun for all ages. With a lively score and upbeat story, this awardwinning musical will leave you feeling lighthearted long after the silliness ends. 9:30 am - 3:00 pm Louden Neslon Auditorium Lindsey Chester 831-345-6340 $8-$10 SALSA RUEDA DANCE DOWNTOWN FOR BEGINNER AND UP Every Thursday: drop-in class. No partner required. Cool moves to hot Tunes! Meet people, have fun, and move-it! Two levels at the same time: Intro/Beginner and Beginner 2/Intermediate. Enjoy two skilled instructors with over 13 years experience who study regularly in Cuba. Friendly and non-intimidating. Check website in case of schedule changes. 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm Louden Nelson Center, Santa Cruz www.SalsaGente.com, 831-295-6107 $8/$4 students INTU-FLOW CLASS Intu-Flow class with Matt Harris. Ongoing class focusing on joint mobility through a unique portal - gain grace and effortless carriage. Initially for those suffering from PTSD and other related traumas. 10:00 am - 11:30 am Resource Center for Nonviolence 612 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz Karen Egan 831-425-1944 donations SQUARE DANCING Family friendly fun, friendship put to music. 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm German American Hall 230 Plymouth
St. Sue or Don 726-7053 Free ZUMBA FOR WOMEN This class offers a blend of upbeat music with easy-to-follow choreography, for a total workout, in a comfortable setting - no intimidation. Discount available for ten-class card. 8:15 am - 9:00 am Santa Cruz Bible Church Children's Center, 440 Frederick St Kym Shirley, (831) 421-9179, shirley0522@sbcglobal.net $5 per class, 1st class free
Food & Wine WINE ON THE WHARF – BENEFITS SCHS MUSIC Santa Cruz High School Band Boosters invite you to no host wine bar & silent auction. Proceeds benefit students in marching, jazz & concert bands + color guard & bagpipes. 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Vino Primo, 55 Municipal Wharf, SantaCruz cardinalmusic.org Free admission
Groups A COURSE IN MIRACLES STUDY GROUP A Course In Miracles is a book on enlightenment that might be called a psychological journey to a spiritual awakening. It contains the highest wisdom of most spiritual paths. We informally study this great book, taking a few paragraphs each week. Many laughs and smiles occur as we expose the ego and
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share happiness. Books provided, regular attendance not required. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Barn Studio at 102 Park Way South Andrew 831-272-2246 www.spiritualear.org/acim (map) Free BABY HAT KNITTING GROUP Join Kiddie Kappers in making hats for newborns in Santa Cruz County. Either meet with the group (usually on the last Thursday of the month) or make hats at home and drop them off. Patterns and some materials can be provided. Donations of sport and baby weight yarn are appreciated. 12:30 pm 3:00 pm 4425 Clares St., #31, Capitola Fran Reeves, 479-9613 free
Health FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) is a program based on the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. There are no dues, fees, or weigh-ins at FA meetings. FA is a fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience and mutual support, are recovering from the disease of food addiction. 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Trinity Presbyterian Church, in the library. 420 Melrose Ave Santa Cruz, CA 95062 Jennifer K (831) 428-3498 Free
Music CABRILLO CLASSICAL GUITAR ENSEMBLE Selections of solo, duo, trio and orchestral guitar performances. Directed by Guy Cantwell. 7:00 pm - 9:00
Laugh longer. Your heart belongs in Santa Cruz. Each year, heart disease affects millions of women. Nine out of ten have at least one risk factor, but most wait too long to get help. Take our heart health assessment today at dignityhealth.org/heart. Give your heart the care it deserves, because healthy hearts love longer.
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or Santa Cruz Sufi Caravan on Facebook $7-10 Donation BINGO Have dinner, and play Bingo at Holy Cross Church Parish Hall. Dinner concession opens at 5:30 p.m. and game starts at 6:30. $15.00 for ten games and five dollars for each additional set of ten games. BINGO is on the FIRST Thursday of every month. 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm Holy Cross Church Parish Hall 126 High Street 423-4182 FREE
Spiritual SUFI DANCES Circle dances to live music. Movements and lyrics taught as we go. The dances range from reflective to highly connected and or energetic. No experience or partner needed. 7:00 pm 9:00 pm First Congregational Church 900 High St, Santa Cruz Leela 831 430-9848
series exploring the essential teachings and practices of Theravada Buddhism. 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Insight Santa Cruz, 1010 Fair Ave., #C, Santa Cruz info@insightsantacruz.org Free/Donation MEDICINE BUDDHA PRACTICE Ritual and prayers for positive healing and peaceful death. Prayer list requests accepted. 8:30 am - 10:00 am Vajrapani Institute at the end of Kings Creek Road in Boulder Creek drolma@vajrapani.org Free
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FRIDAY | 23 Arts OPEN MIC: PEOPLE-POWERED POETRY Join us for a people-powered Open Mic event. Come share music, talents, ideas, thoughts, community. Free, donations accepted. 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm 612 Ocean 423-1626 Free FRIDAY SHAKESPEARE CLUB Come join us, a group of diverse women, in stimulating discussions of Shakespeare's plays. 10:30 am - 12:30 pm First Congregational Church, 900 High St. Santa Cruz Nanette 438-3615 or Kris 421-0930 25$ annual dues WHAT’S HAPPENING DOWNTOWN? Check the DowntownSantaCruz.com for an up to dated calendar of everything going on in Downtown Santa Cruz. DowntownSantaCruz.com. 9:00 am 10:00 pm Downtown Santa Cruz downtownsantacruz@gmail.com Free COMMUNITY OPEN MIC Join a community Open Mic at the Resource Center for Nonviolence. A lively, safe space for community members to share their talent! Art and local jam vendors will be present as well! 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm The Resource Center for Nonviolence 818 383 2426 $0 OPEN HEART, HEALTHY TOUCH This class will help us all to learn to love and accept ourselves deeper and to “reach out and touch” others in many ways. Research shows that healthy, relaxing touch lowers, blood pressure and “stress” hormones, and increases your immune system, and oxytocin, the chemical that helps you stay bonded with others and confident in yourself. Come clean and wear/bring: comfy clothes, towel or pillow for head/knees. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Louden Nelson Center, 301 Center St. Santa Cruz 831-227-5976 $9.50 “WORKING W/ SHAKESPEARE: THE WINTER’S TALE” CONFERENCE In celebration of Shakespeare's 450th birthday, working w/ Shakespeare fosters a dialogue between three professions that are especially dedicated to understanding his work: literary critics, theatre designers, and professional actors. The conference's
three workshops, each of which will focus on The Winter's Tale. For more information, please visit: ihr.ucsc/event/workingwith-shakespeare 9:30 am - 3:30 pm UCSC Humanities 1, Room 210 ihr.ucsc.edu free
Groups BABY HAT KNITTING GROUP Join Kiddie Kappers in making hats for newborns in Santa Cruz County. Either meet with the group (usually on the last Thursday of the month) or make hats at home and drop them off. Patterns and some materials can be provided. Donations of sport and baby weight yarn are appreciated. 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm 4425 Clares St., #31, Capitola Fran Reeves, 479-9613 free DROP-IN GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Hospice of Santa Cruz County is now offering a lunch time drop-in grief support group in Scotts Valley on Fridays for adults grieving the death of a family member or friend. This group is a place where you can share stories, learn tools for coping, and receive support from people who care. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Hospice of Santa Cruz County Annex 5403 Scotts Valley Drive, Suite D 430-3000 Free NAR-ANON SCOTTS VALLEY Nar-Anon is a 12-Step program for the friends and families of addicts of those who have been affected by the addiction or drug problem of another, members share their experiences, strengths and hopes at weekly meetings. 6:30 am - 7:45 pm The Camp Recovery Center, Bison Lodge. 3192 Glen Canyon Road, Scotts Valley, CA scottsvalleynaranon@gmail.com Free NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS Nar-Anon is a 12-Step program designed to help relatives and friends of addicts recover from the effects of living with an addicted loved one. Nar-Anon's program of recovery is adapted from Narcotics Anonymous and uses Nar-Anon's 12-Steps, 12-Traditions and 12-Concepts. Members share their experience, strength and hope at weekly meetings. See Tuesdays for meeting in Aptos and Sundays for meeting in Santa Cruz.6:30 pm - 7:45 pm Camp Recovery Center, 3192 Glen Canyon Rd, Scotts Valley, CA 95066 scottsvalleynaranon@gmail.com Free
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Professor Stephen Zunes of the University of San Francisco will give a talk titled, “U.S. Middle East Policy— Help or Hindrance?” At USF, Zunes serves as a writer and senior analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus, an associate editor for Peace Review, and the chair of the academic advisory committee for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. He is a specialist in U.S. Middle East Policy, and will discuss the contradictory roles the U.S. has taken in the Middle East—Israeli diplomatic supporter on one hand, and chief mediator on the other.
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Health TRIYOGA LEVEL 1 YOGA CLASS WITH CYNTHIA GOTTLIEB Relax and enjoy TriYoga, combining breath and movement to stretch and strengthen. 8:30 am 10:00 am TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz office@triyoga.com $10 drop in YOGA OF 12-STEP RECOVERY Yoga of 12-Step Recovery is an addiction recovery and relapse prevention program that blends the best of yoga and the 12 steps. Each class is a 1-hour all addiction discussion followed by a 1-hour recovery themed yoga class. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Yoga Within, 8035 Soquel Drive, Aptos Henry Cleveland Donations EAST CLIFF FAMILY HEALTH CENTER RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY Join Congressman Sam Farr, Supervisor John Leopold, our staff and other community leaders to officially open our brand new state-of-the art primary care facility. Time Capsule! Music! Clinic Tours! Stop by and celebrate with us the expansion of high
quality care to all Santa Cruz County residents regardless of their circumstances. Because we believe a healthier community is a stronger community! 10:00 am - 11:00 am 21507 East Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz 95062 amanda@scwomenshealth.org free
and prayers for positive healing and peaceful death. Prayer list requests accepted. 8:30 am - 10:00 am Vajrapani Institute at the end of Kings Creek Road in Boulder Creek drolma@vajrapani.org Free
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THE NEW FLAMINGO SWING ORCHESTRA All Ages Swing Danc Happy Hour 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Bocci's Cellar, 140 Encinal Street, Santa Cruz CA 95060 n(831) 427-1795 $5 cover
Spiritual MUSIC OF YOGA - KIRTAN WITH KISHORI MOHAN & SUDEVI Over the past 13 years, Sudevi and Kishori Mohan have continuously traveled the world to more than 60 cities in 26 countries sharing kirtan and inspirations on bhakti yoga. 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm Pacific Cultural Center Sumati: 831-227-5656 Donation MEDICINE BUDDHA PRACTICE Ritual
Arts 36TH CARNAVAL SAN FRANCISCO FESTIVAL & PARADE A free, 2-day family Festival & Parade on Memorial Day Weekend, May 24-25, 10am-6pm, showcasing the very best Latin American and Caribbean cultural arts and traditions. The Festival features global cuisine, international music, dance, arts & crafts, and children's activities. Grand Parade on Sunday morning starting at 9:30am, with 56 marching and dancing contingents. 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Harrison Street bet. 16th & 24th, San Francisco info@carnavalsanfrancisco.org Free
Classes ZEN MEDITATION AND DISCUSSION “Come As You Are” Zen meditation and discussion. 8:30 am - 10:00 am Ocean Gate Zen Center 920-B 41st Ave., Capitola. Hollye Hurst www.oceangatezen.org Donation
Food & Wine APTOS FARMERS MARKET AT CABRILLO COLLEGE With over 90 vendors, this market offers a bountiful selection of local, sustainably grown produce and specialty items including farm fresh eggs, organic raw honey, fresh seafood, grass fed beef, sauerkraut, locally produced olive oil, artisan cheeses, cut flowers, potted plants, seedlings, fresh baked good, fair trade coffee, tea and chai. 8:00 am - 12:00 pm Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, CA 95003 akeller@montereybayfarmers.org FREE
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Educational & collaborative group for women with cancer who want to learn about complementary treatments. Meets every fourth Saturday of the month. Call to register. 10:30 am - 12:30 pm WomenCARE 457-2273 free INTERMEDIATE TRIYOGA CLASS WITH JAMIE ANDRES-LARSEN TriYoga flows are presented with personalized guided alignment assistance. 10:30 am - 12:00 pm TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz office@triyoga.com $10 drop in HEALTHY EATING: THE BASICS FOR BUSY FAMILIES We all know the importance of developing healthy eating habits, but it can prove challenging to implement best practices in our busy lives. Unfortunately, the foods we often believe to be healthy are not the best choices. This lively three-part discussion will help you to discover the healthiest food choices, which products are best to avoid, how the mindbody connection is crucial to optimal health, and some simple strategies to make it all work, even for the busiest of families. Join us for an hour of inspiration,
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E MAY 15–MAY 21 information, yummy snacks, and giveaways. You won't believe how delicious healthy eating can be! 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Luma Yoga 1010 Center Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060 eborelli@comcast.net Free FREE MOTHER'S WELLNESS CELEBRATION Whether you are pregnant, a mother of a new baby, or have young children, please come and celebrate you. Community resources, complimentary refreshments, door prizes and "pampering" activities to help support you on your journey through motherhood. 1:00 pm -
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Music THE NEW FLAMINGO SWING ORCHESTRA All Ages Swing Dance Happy Hour 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Bocci's Cellar, 140 Encinal Street, Santa Cruz CA 95060 (831) 427-1795 $5 cover ESOTERIC COLLECTIVE PLAYS JAZZ This notable quartet plays Jazz ranging from 1940s Bebop to the 1960s, playing
improvisational variations of works by some of America's great jazz musicians, from Cole Porter to Miles Davis. Take a ten-minute ride up the beautiful coast for a great evening at a family-friendly venue known for its fresh California cuisine, fine wines and ocean-view inn. 6:00 pm 9:00 pm Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant and Inn, 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport www.davenportroadhouse.com, 426-8801 free
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TREASURES OF QUAIL HOLLOW RANCH Visit a place often enough and over time you learn its secrets and hidden treasures. Join Lee summers, park interpreter for a survey of the Quail Hollow Ranch trails and beyond, discovering what makes this 300-acre park special. Some off-trail hiking will be necessary to reveal the many unique aspects of the property including its historic sites, waterways and biotic treasures. Wear long pants and good walking shoes, bring water and sun protection. For ages 16 and up. 10:00 am 12:30 pm Quail Hollow Ranch County Park - 800 Quail Hollow Rd., Felton Lee Summers, 831-335-9384, prc120@scarks.com Free
BRAZILIAN PERCUSSION & THE SAMBA BATERIA Come be part of Brazil's drum and percussion powerhouse: the bateria! As an ensemble we explore Rio style samba, samba-afro, samba-reggae, and more. All levels welcome. Some instruments provided. 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm 207 Mcpherson St. (West-Side) Joe 831.435.6813 $8
Groups HOW TAO NOW? DISCUSSION GROUP Come share your insights or discover more about the Tao Te Ching, the ancient book of wisdom central to Buddhism. 1st Sunday of each month we will discuss how to apply one of the 84 short teachings to modern life. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” ~Lao Tzu 10:00 am 11:00 am 1st. Sun/Mo:406 Lincoln St. one4tao@gmail.com 916-601-1396 www.centertao.org/about-us/ Free
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Spiritual SUNDAY MORNING GROUP MEDITATION Join us for a non-sectarian group meditation every Sunday. Energization exercises, devotional chanting and 45-minute meditation provide balance, peace and joy. 9:00 am - 10:15 am Ananda Scotts Valley, 75 Mount Hermon Road, Scotts Valley, CA 95066 Doug Andrews 831-338-9642 (YOGA) No Cost INSPIRATIONAL MEDITATION SERVICE Join the Santa Cruz SRF Meditation Group for Sunday morning Inspirational Service. This service includes inspirational readings from the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, the founder of Self-Realization Fellowship and the author of the spiritual classic, Autobiography of a Yogi. 11:00 am - 11:59 am call for location 334-2088 Donation REV. DR. CAROL CARNES Rev. Carol has participated in synthesis dialogues with the Dalai Lama and other world visionaries. She has been a featured writer in New Thought magazines and author of two books. She believes that liberating religion from superstition and dogma will be a major factor in bringing about the great shift in human consciousness that will open the door to the co-creation of an Awakened world. 10:30 am - 11:30 am Center for Spiritual Living - 1818 Felt Street 462-9383 free MEDICINE BUDDHA PRACTICE Ritual and prayers for positive healing and peaceful death. Prayer list requests accepted. 8:30 am - 10:00 am Vajrapani Institute at the end of Kings Creek Road in Boulder Creek drolma@vajrapani.org Free
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Classes SALSA CUBANA DANCE Experience the Cuban style of Salsa dancing! Featuring a great variety from Casino partner moves and styling to Rueda de Casino and enjoy latest musica Cubana.. Drop-in class. Entry level intermediate dancers. No partner required. Two skilled teachers with over 14 years experience. Check out SalsaGente.com in case of holidays. 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm Louden Nelson Center, 301
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Groups OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Voices of Recovery book study. OA is a 12-step support group for those who wish to stop eating compulsively. Also for anorexia and bulimia. Meetings daily see santacruzoa.org for schedule. 12:15 pm 1:15 pm Trinity Prespretarian 420 Melrose Ave. Nanette 429-7906 Free EVENING TOASTMASTERS Strengthen public speaking and leadership skills! Supportive and fun club! All levels welcome! Guests free! 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Live Oak Senior Center, 1777 Capitola Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95062 email us: vppr-3802@toastmastersclubs.org Guests Free
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Volunteer UNCHAINED, INC~VOLUNTEER WITH KIDS AND DOGS UnChained, Inc. gives both homeless dogs and at risk youth the second chance they deserve. We are looking for Team Leaders to facilitate dog training, Dog Chauffeurs to take pups to and from class, and Dog Foster people to provide a stable living environment for our dogs while they complete training. Program begins the first week of June. Please contact
Arts READ AND CRITIQUE WRITERS' GROUP Open to new members, writers focused getting feedback for publication. 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Downtown Santa Cruz Dana Bagshaw, 831-425-5182 free YOUNG WRITERS PROGRAM AUTHORS' READING Come hear student authors read their own work, the culmination of a year's worth of writing projects on the part of the Young Writers Program. Self-selected students will read their favorite paragraph from their work. Schools participating include Ceiba College Prep, Branciforte Middle, Gault Elementary, Harbor High, Mission Hill Middle, Pacific Elementary, Soquel High, and Valencia Elementary. A special reading of the poems by Hartman School. 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Bookshop Santa Cruz kaitlin@santacruzwrites.org, santacruzwrites.org/ywp.html free
FREE THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE OF "SER" BY KAREN ANZOATEGUI All the way from Los Angeles, Cultural Arts and Diversity presents "Ser: L.A. vs. B.A." a play written and performed by Karen Anzoatequi. In this transnational queer tale, Karen must choose between Buenos Aires, the soccer mecca burning in her heart, and Los Angeles, the land of peace and plenty. Caught in the middle of her parents' tumultuous match they call marriage, Karen is kicked back and forth between LA and BA. In the middle of it all she fights her way out of dresses and into
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Classes MEDITATION AND DISCUSSION Meditation and discussion every Tues. 7pm. First Tues. of month meditation instruction at 6:40pm. 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Ocean Gate Zen Center 920-B 41st Ave., Capitola.Hollye Hurst hhurst@cruzio.com www.oceangatezen.org Donation WEST COAST SWING Improve your West Coast Swing by using "Extensions" and "Blends." A simple way to spice up your dancing. 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm DanceSynergy, 9055 Soquel Drive, Aptos Chuck 479-4826, chuck@gonnadance.com $8
Food & Wine TUESDAY NIGHT LIVE Join us for good food, lively socializing and dancing. Stick around for Mexican Train Dominoes after dinner. Bring your friends and family. Public Welcome. Proceeds benefit MCSC. 4:30 pm - 7:30 pm Mid-County Senior Center, 829 Bay Ave., Capitola 476-4711 www.mid-countyseniorcenter.com Donation: $8
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Music SHERRY AUSTIN WITH HENHOUSE Henhouse is a magical combination of music woven from folk, country, and rock. Their music ranges from sweet love songs to gritty, rockin songs about cars and trains, to love gone wrong, as well as much loved covers by Kate Wolf, Townes Van Zandt,
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Outdoors THE ANOMALOUS COASTLINE - NEW BRIGHTON BEACH TO THE PAJARO RIVER Geologic Consultant, Gerald Weber, explains the geologic events and settings that have protected the coastline from New Brighton Beach to the Pajaro River from erosion over the last 150 years. He will take us back 250-300 years when a release of extra sand near Ano Nuevo widened the beaches and continues to replenish the beaches, providing natural shoreline protection. This fascinating perspective in geologic time lays out a compelling explanation of why our shoreline has not eroded while most of coastal California has. Gerald Weber has been investigating geologic problems in California and Hawaii for the last 50 years. 7:00 am - 8:30 am High St. west of Western Drive, Santa Cruz
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Spiritual INSIGHT MEDITATION GROUP Drop-in group meets twice monthly in downtown Santa Cruz at the Center for Transformative Visions above Zachary's Restaurant. Led by teacher Carla Brennan on the teachings of the Buddha. Meditation followed by talk. New people and beginners welcome. 12:00 am - 1:15 pm Center for Transformative Visions, 819 1/2 Pacific Avenue, S.C. bloomofthepresent.org Donation MEDICINE BUDDHA PRACTICE Ritual and prayers for positive healing and peaceful death. Prayer list requests accepted. 8:30 am - 10:00 am Vajrapani Institute at the end of Kings Creek Road in Boulder Creek drolma@vajrapani.org Free
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VIRGO Aug23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sep22 Reflecting on past achievements, do they measure up to your expectations? You realize due to family training your self-expression can feel hidden and somewhat cautious. The same structures that have built your past will build your future. All life issues help you discover a new life direction. You will recreate your past relationships conditions and assess them. Then you will create a new future. It will be free of the past.
LIBRA Sep23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct22 Are you moving forward and backward, expanding and contracting while removed from a stable center? Do not trivialize whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most important. Notice dualities and polarities. They expand and strengthen your awareness. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most important is realizing that through constant intentions for Goodwill, which creates Right Relations, you finally come to a state of active balance and peace. What needs forgiving?
SCORPIO Oct23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov21 Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the deepest thinker, always entering into the heart of lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meanings. This is good. However, you can be misunderstood because as others accept superficial answers, you do not. Sometimes you shy away from intimacy. Keeping thoughts and ideas to yourself you can become isolating. Try not to have this happen. Instead, force yourself to communicate. You will regenerate yourself and others. This takes courage.
SAGITTARIUS Nov22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec20 Present experiences are teaching you to balance your ideas and needs with the needs of others. Although you may feel hampered by this, your self-expression and understanding become enhanced. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a paradox (as usual). Should you be feeling more indecisive than usual, wait awhile. Your inner self and mind are evaluating past occurrences in order to fashion your future. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry. Be happy. Actually, you are happy!
CAPRICORN Dec21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan20 If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re analyzing reality through the eyes of others, you may feel some frustration. Remember that conflict is the first step toward a greater harmony. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re capable of harmonizing all realitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;partner, children, relationships, siblings, friends, family, work. To do this effectively you must have time for yourself and time to sort out your own conflicts. You also need rest, weekly massages, warm waters, help and love in all its forms.
AQUARIUS Jan21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb18 Your ability to analyze and organize brings you comfort. Do you sense others are expecting what you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deliver? Creating nervousness and later resentment. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be overly critical of yourself. Much of your time is spent thinking you should be doing more. If you simply organize your life (papers, clothes, objects, possessions, art, etc.) you will be able to do more. Get a file cabinet and files. Find a barn.
PISCES Feb19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Mar20 Safety, security and a home are on your mind, and the need to be in an environment where you feel sure of yourself. This is not available in the outer world. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible you feel quite alone. Something very important seems to end, family becomes most important yet they remain on the periphery. You tend to duties and tasks that are at times overwhelming. Nevertheless, you are diligent, hard working, and practical.
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