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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of December 17 ARIES Mar21–Apr19

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22

"Too much happiness can make you unhappy," reported journalist Marta Zaraska in the Washington Post. Citing research by psychologists, she concluded that being super-extra cheerful can make you selfish, gullible, and more prone to stereotyped thinking. On the other hand, she said, maintaining merely moderate levels of happiness is pretty damn good for your mental and physical health. So here's the takeaway, Aries: The astrological omens suggest you're due for a surge of joy and pleasure. Just be careful it doesn't spill over into rash, delirious excess. Here's your watchword: well-grounded delight.

When I started writing horoscopes many years ago, I was a good astrologer but an unexceptional writer.

Eventually, the practice of composing 12 packets of pithy prose every week allowed me to improve my authorial skills. The stuff I composed in the early years wasn't bad, but I wouldn't want to present it as my work anymore. So should I feel guilty that I got paid and appreciated for those old efforts even though I was less than perfect? Did I get away with something I shouldn't have gotten away with? I don't think so. I was doing the best I could at the time. And even my unpolished astrological musings were helpful to many people. Now, Libra, I invite you to apply these meditations to you own unfolding destiny.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 In the 19th century, the Grimm brothers gathered over 200 old fairy tales from a variety of sources and published them in an unprecedented collection. Many of their stories are still popular, including "Cinderella," "Snow White," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Rapunzel."

Around the same time they did their work, a storyteller named Franz Xaver von Schönwerth assembled his own compendium of fantastic myths, fables, and folklore.

Unlike the Grimm brothers' book, his work faded into obscurity. But it was rediscovered in 2011, and 500 lost fairy tales are now finding their way into newly published books. I foresee a comparable phenomenon happening for you in 2015, Taurus. Forgotten stories will return.

Raw material from the depths will resurface. Interesting news from the past will come flowing into the present.

GEMINI May21–June20 Your first task is to ascertain the half-truth, the whole half-truth, and nothing but the whole half-truth. Only then will you be able to find the other half of the truth. I realize it may be frustrating to use this approach. You'd probably prefer to avoid wrangling with the deceptions and misdirections. But I think it's the only way to jostle loose the hidden or missing information. For best results, be a cunning and unsentimental detective who's eager to solve the mystery. Don't focus on finding fault or assigning blame.

CANCER Jun21–Jul22 One of the ingredients that makes yoga mats so soft and springy is the chemical azodicarbonamide. The same stuff is added to the soles of shoes. There's a third place where it's used, too: in the burger buns sold by McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, and other fast food joints. I'm not suggesting that you order a big supply of azodicarbonamide and ingest it. But I do hope you will consider the metaphorical equivalent: doing whatever's necessary to make yourself bouncy and fluffy and pliable and supple and resilient.

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"There are two kinds of light," said author James Thurber, "the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures." Lately you have been an abundant source of that first kind of light, Leo. The fire in your heart and the gleam in your eyes have not only brightened the mood wherever you've gone. They have also clarified confusing situations, warmed chilly attitudes, and healed dispirited allies. Thank you! In the coming weeks, I'd love to see you continue on your hot streak. To help ensure that you do, keep your ego under control. Don't let it pretend that it owns the light you're emitting. With a little introspection, you will continue to generate illumination, not glare.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Studies suggest that 57 percent of all people with access to the Internet have engaged in the practice known as ego-surfing. This modern art form consists of searching Google for mentions of one's own name. This is a suspiciously low figure unless we factor in the data uncovered by my own research -- which is that a disproportionately small amount of Virgos go ego-surfing: only 21 percent.

If you are one of the 79 percent of your tribe who does not indulge, I invite you to remedy the situation. It's an excellent time to risk exploring the potential benefits of increased self-interest and self-regard.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 You may already know what I'm about to tell you. It's a core principle at the root of your Scorpio heritage.

But I want to focus your attention on it. In the coming months, you'll be wise to keep it at the forefront of your conscious awareness. Here it is, courtesy of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: "You have it in your power to invest everything you have lived through—your experiments, false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your love and your hope—into your goal, with nothing left over."

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 "A savage desire for strong emotions and sensations burns inside me: a rage against this soft-tinted, shallow, standardized and sterilized life." So says Harry Haller, the protagonist of Herman Hesse's novel “Steppenwolf.”

His declaration could serve as an interesting point of reference for you in the coming months, Sagittarius—not as a mood for everyday use, but as a poetic inspiration that you periodically call on to invigorate your lust for life. My invitation has a caveat, however. I advise you not to adopt the rest of Harry Haller's rant, in which he says that he also has "a mad craving to smash something up, a department store, or a cathedral, or myself."

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I have lived near an open space preserve for five years. Up until the last two months, it has been a peaceful, quiet place. But then the coyotes moved in. Just after dusk every evening, a pack of them start yipping and yowling in the distance. At first I found the racket to be eerie and unsettling. It activated some primal unease in me. And yet the coyotes have never actually been a problem. They don't roam into my neighborhood and try to bite people or prey on pets. So now I've come to relish the situation: The wild things are close and exciting, but not dangerous. I'm guessing this has a metaphorical resemblance to what your life will be like in the next six months, Capricorn.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 Stanstead, Quebec and Derby Line, Vermont are really a single town that straddles the border between the U.S. and Canada. Many of the people who live there have dual citizenship, but they're still supposed to carry their passports with them at all times. I suspect you may experience a metaphorical version of this split in the coming months, Aquarius. You will be in a situation that has a split down the middle or a seemingly unnatural division.

Whether it turns out to be a problem or an opportunity will depend on your adaptability and flexibility.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 When a dead tree topples over in the woods, its withered branches may get entangled with the branches of a living tree that's standing nearby. As years go by, the living tree must grow the best it can with the decaying wood trapped in its midst. Has something like that ever happened to you? Are you still carrying the rot that other people have burdened you with? If so, the coming months will be an excellent time to get disentangled. A tree isn't capable of freeing itself from the dead weight of the past, but you are—especially in the first half of 2015.

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Man’s Best Friend The painful process of coping with the loss of a pet as service dogs, to aid them in times of crisis. Others use them for therapy or unconditionally loving companions. Santa Cruz is a capital of dog lovers. Take a look at the car next to you and odds are there is a dog hanging out the window—and half the time, they are sitting on the driver’s lap.

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It was hard to believe. Riley was great at telling me when she wanted to go to the beach (which was always) or when she was hungry, but I doubted her communications skills ranged to esoteric questions about life and death. Hell, I’m not sure my skills are so great in that department either. I couldn’t come up with an answer for when to put my best pet friend down.

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my car with her head out of the sunroof like some kind of living ship’s figurehead, and I’ve seen pictures of her posted on strangers’ websites. She was so smart that when I drove past her favorite Blue Balls park, she would nudge my hands at the steering wheel trying to get me to turn there.

People as far away as the campgrounds at Plaskett Beach in Big Sur approached me and said, “So, you’re Riley’s owner?”

Apparently she snuck off and visited neighbors while I was writing, and she was like an official greeter outside Pacific Coffee Roasting in Aptos, and in front of the Los Gatos Apple store, while I was getting help in back.

Her health was perfect until she turned 12, and it started slipping like the stretch band in an old pair of underwear.

She had a close call on a road trip to Las Vegas. For the first time in her life, she could barely move and she looked miserable. She’d had a physical at a local veterinary chain and was pronounced healthy, but when I took her into the Vegas outpost of the same business, the doctor said she had a tumor and he would have to operate. I was terrified and distraught. I couldn’t stop crying, and wished for at least another year. The doctor told me if it was malignant, he’d leave her sleeping.

No way, I said. If it was, I would either seek more treatment or at least let her have some more beach time and her first taste of chocolate.

Luckily, the tumor wasn’t malignant.

But it was huge. I figured a tumor on a 47-pound dog would be the size of my pinky, at best, but when my reporter friend John Glionna asked questions about what it looked like, the vet took us in to see it. It was a three-pound mass of tissue bigger than her heart.

Riley recovered the next year, and I was constantly having to brush up on my feeble math skills figuring out how old she was in “dog years.”

I’d met 20-year-old poodles and wondered if we could have that kind of Noah-like lifespan together.

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I laughed at myself, but I couldn’t put her to sleep until I tried every possibility. (I hated the euphemism for euthanasia. In my mind, and to the chagrin of my girlfriend, I asked too cavalierly, “Should I kill her today?” Now that it’s over with, I’m OK with the softer version.)

I brought her to one of her favorite hangouts, Frank’s Pharmacy in Aptos, where the staff always gave her treats and talked to her.

Two of the women behind the counter who hadn’t seen her in a couple of months cried. That was a wake-up call. It was worse than I was seeing.

So many people told me that Riley had had a great life and would be in a better place, but that didn’t register.

One of the pharmacists named Tanya gave me my first real comfort. “She won’t even know what’s happening,” she said. “It won’t matter to her. It will be peaceful. She’ll appreciate it.”

I don’t know why, but that made my guilt dwindle.

On Thanksgiving night, after she had had a full dinner of ham, roast beef and turkey, Riley started barking constantly. I tried to placate her with water, a walk and more food, but she only stopped when I petted her. I put her on the bed with me and kept petting until I fell asleep, and every time I did, she woke me up with more barking.

She’d never done that before.

She kept me up until 7 a.m., and I understood what she was saying.

It was the message they all talked about.

She was frustrated and over it, tired of not being able to walk, and, I guess, in pain. Even at the end, I kept waiting for a miracle that wouldn’t come. She fell asleep peacefully at the vet’s even before they put the drugs in her. I’m pretty sure she’s happier now.

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She lost her bark when half of her vocal cords were paralyzed. Her attempts to scare those threatening people who rang the doorbell sounded like a cat trying to imitate a dog. Then she stopped wagging her tail. That hurt me more than it did her. Her whiplash wag had been my greeting for 13 years. Was this the sign people said I should see? Did it mean she wasn’t happy?

No, she had a degenerative nerve disease that eventually spread to her back legs. I think she was still happy, although many friends told me it was time to let her go. She showed no signs of pain, which made the decision tougher. I started asking everyone I knew what they would do.

On one of my frequent trips to the vet, which were starting to mount to about $500 a month, I saw a woman in the waiting room with a dog that was blind and deaf. That got me wondering where you draw the line.

Surely, I thought, I wouldn’t keep Riley alive if she were blind and deaf. But as Riley got worse, the line kept changing as my hope stayed the same.

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Elections have a way of answering questions about a community’s priorities— or at least they’re bound to be interpreted that way.

The Soquel Creek Water Board of Directors race last month would appear to be a perfect example. A slate of candidates, concerned about the board’s direction, campaigned on the impacts that intense conservation would have on the local economy. The challengers were defeated by incumbents Bruce Jaffe and Rick Meyer, who were greatly outspent by those same pro-business candidates.

Retired biological chemist Carla Christensen took the third seat.

“The public has spoken,” Jaffe says.

“They want to have a science-based policy for water. And they want any additional water supply project that we do to be environmentally sound.”

But the water board race opened up questions, too. For starters: who exactly is Carla Christensen?

The 20-year resident of the district once worked as a biological chemist, researching environmental causes of cancer. She’s married to Tom Mader, a longtime Capitola environmental activist, and she threw her hat into the ring this past summer, not expecting to win a seat.

She didn’t even stick around town to hear the election results.

“I did leave town afterward, because I did not want to listen to people say, ‘Oh, you tried, but too bad,’” Christensen says, sitting in her living room, which looks out over the ocean.

Christensen had just three contributors to her campaign—two of them being herself and her husband—in a race where county supervisors, state legislators, the Desal Alternatives group, and the Aptos Chamber of Commerce all threw in endorsements.

Christensen did not secure any such backing. She also couldn’t make it to the race’s biggest forum, which was held in the Capitola City Council Chambers.

But come election day, under her name read the words, “retired environmental scientist” on the ballot. In a small election, simple words like those can make a big difference. >20

BRIDGE OVER PUDDLED WATER Scott Collins, assistant to the Santa Cruz city manager,

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ast summer, stagnant water from the San Lorenzo River seeped into the basement of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Maintenance crews struggled to keep the flooding waters out of the basement, but couldn’t remove it fast enough.

“The immediate effect of the flooding is that we have to close rides, but when it gets to the next level of flooding, it floods areas where our maintenance employees work. And if it’s bad enough, like it was this summer, they can be working in two to three feet of water,” says Kris Reyes, director of community relations at the Santa Cruz Seaside Company. “We

also have a lot of electrical equipment down in that area, and electricity and water don’t mix.”

For more than 30 years, the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk has experienced intermittent flooding of its basement—every time the water levels of the San Lorenzo River lagoon rise high enough to seep in through the retaining walls.

The Santa Cruz Seaside Company, which owns and operates the Boardwalk, has dealt with the mild flooding over the years by pumping it out. But when the lagoon waters rise dramatically, as they did in 2012, and more recently in 2014, the Seaside Company resorts to emergency

measures—breaching the lagoon sandbar with bulldozers to release the water into the sea.

Unfortunately, these artificial breachings of the sandbar may be contributing to ever-dwindling populations of threatened steelhead and endangered coho salmon in the San Lorenzo River, biologists say.

In the dry summer months, creeks and rivers along the Central Coast close their mouths to the sea and form lagoons. In unimpaired conditions, the saltwater leftover in the lagoon is slowly pushed out and replaced with more freshwater. The lagoon then becomes a scene of “marvelous biological productivity,” and >18

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the freshwater or brackish lagoon becomes a breeding ground for insects, which provides food for the fish to eat, according to National Marine Fisheries Service Biologist Jon Ambrose.

The steelhead that spend time in the lagoon grow bigger and stronger, and Ambrose says they are much more likely to return to the same area as adults to procreate. The process has been studied extensively in Scott Creek, just north of Davenport.

“The fish that are rearing in the lagoon during the summer are the small juveniles, but there’s so much food there that these fish grow very large, very fast, versus if they are in a freshwater stream,” says Ambrose.

“Size is a critical factor for salmon and steelhead, because if you go out to the ocean as a little fish, you’re more likely to get eaten, but if you go out as a big fish, you’re less likely to get eaten, and come back as an adult.”

The city of Santa Cruz has allocated money to study the best way to handle flooding while taking environmental concerns into account.

When a lagoon-forming sandbar, like the one at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River, is artificially breached, saltwater rushes in, and because there is very little freshwater flowing to the river mouth in the summer months, the conditions become unlivable for the growing fish, Ambrose says.

“You get this wedge of saltwater and this small layer of freshwater on the top. That doesn’t sound like a big deal, but it is,” he says.

After a breach, the freshwater on the top of the lagoon warms the saltwater on the bottom. The vegetation then decomposes, there is less oxygen in the water and the lagoon traps heat—not great salmon conditions.

“What we found at the San Lorenzo River lagoon this year was that there was at least one point in time where that bottom layer was 92 degrees Fahrenheit,” says Ambrose. “That is off the charts. No cold-water fish can live in there.”

The drought conditions over the summer prompted Ambrose and his colleagues to work with the Santa Cruz Water Department to bypass freshwater into the San Lorenzo lagoon, specifically to improve the situation for growing fish. But when the sandbar there was artificially breached to alleviate the flooding in the Boardwalk’s basement, the precious resource was washed out to the ocean.

“You have a community that is doing all it can to conserve water during this drought, and we were working hard with the city’s water department to improve conditions in the lagoon, and then these breaches happen and all those benefits are lost,” Ambrose says.

Prior to 1989, the city of Santa Cruz managed the conditions at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River, and even had a long-term engineering project in mind at the time—similar to the culvert at the mouth of Soquel Creek, according to Santa Cruz Assistant City Manager Scott Collins. But when a woman was swept out to sea after a natural breach in May of that year, suffering brain injuries that resulted in a coma, her family sued the city.

Although the case was ultimately dismissed, the city government then stepped away from creating a longterm solution.

“It put a pause on the project,” says Collins. “We didn’t pursue it even though we had plans, we had put money into it, and we had funding coming in from the state.”

Since that time, the sandbar has been breached on an emergency basis.

The San Lorenzo River rose during a storm in March 2012, and changed course toward the Boardwalk. The Seaside Company took action and constructed sand berms to redirect the flow, but the action was unsupervised by authorities, and the company did not acquire an emergency permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers until after the fact.

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NEWS BRIEFS SPOT ME The holidays are a time for giving. This year, they will not be a time of free parking.

Santa Cruz City Council decided this fall to discontinue the practice of bagging parking meters for the week before Christmas. The two-hour parking, which was meant to encourage local shopping, was often unenforced, making it almost impossible to find a spot anyway, according to city staff.

The city will instead donate this year’s expected $17,000 in parking revenue from this week to Hope Services, which employs the developmentally disabled workers who keep the sidewalks clean. JACOB PIERCE

COSMIC SLUG UCSC astronomers were recently honored for snapping off the first-ever image of one of the cosmic filaments on which galaxies are strewn.

Physics World, a monthly science magazine, listed the discovery among the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2014 (the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft, which successfully landed on a comet last month, claimed first place). Many scientists say the universe has a cosmic web, where dense objects like galaxies are connected by filaments of cold gas, with dark voids between. But until this year, no one had actually seen

the filaments.

The team, led by UCSC astronomers Sebastiano Cantalupo, J. Xavier Prochaska and Piero Madau, found the distant filament in January earlier this year. Radiation from a far-off quasar, a high-energy celestial object, had brought the nebula into view by causing it to glow. After taking its picture, the UCSC astronomers appropriately dubbed the filament the Slug Nebula.

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“That’s a good ballot title,” says Michael Terris, a political consultant based in San Francisco. “Ballot title does make a significant difference, particularly for a race with less information about the candidates.

People look at that information.” Terris adds that the candidate statements are also important in small elections like these.

Christensen says that many people told her after the election that they voted for her based on her ballot statement, which was quick and to the point. It warned about the threat of aquifer overdraft and saltwater intrusion if users did not continue improving their conservation rates. It stressed that the board must work with customers outside the district who draw on the same basin.

She says that being retired gave her plenty of time to talk to neighbors in the

district of about 50,000 households, and that she talked to at least 500 voters.

Christensen was the first woman ever elected to the board, and some voters have since told her that they supported her at least partly for that reason.

But Christensen concedes that some voters simply may not be very informed or fully understand what they’re voting for. A recent phone survey by the district, which depends on groundwater, found that about half of all water users thought their water came, at least partly, from the local rivers and streams, which it doesn’t. About one in five thought some of their water came from the Sierras. (“If it came from the Sierras, it would taste a lot better,” Christensen says with a laugh.) And about one in 10 customers surveyed thought their water came from a desalination plant. There isn’t a desal plant within 100 miles.

Christensen wants to continue the district’s focus on reducing water usage

through its Conservation Plus program. She also says the district will need some sort of supplemental supply to reduce the drain on the Purisima Aquifer. That could come in the form of tertiary, or recycled, water. That water could be used to recharge the aquifer, a possibility the board is currently pursuing.

Christensen says the district could also look into scalping, a similar process using storm water that could be used to rest wells.

Christensen admits she has more to learn.

She wonders if the district can increase rebates to its most prudent customers, and make up the difference by cutting overhead costs in the district. She is sympathetic to businesses that feel the crunch of conserving and says that restaurants can only cut back on so much water.

From her background in chemistry, Christensen is familiar with the various metals and forms of chromium that show up in water. (This past summer, the district tackled elevated levels of chromium 6,

which has been linked to health problems.)

She compares her background to that of Soquel Water Board member Don Hoernschmeyer, a research chemist who announced his retirement from the board before the election, creating the vacancy for a newcomer.

“I’m used to looking at a lot of data, a huge amount of data,” Christensen says.

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Jaffe, a strong supporter of strict conservation, has talked to Christensen only a few times, but he’s excited for the perspective she might bring to the district.

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The emergency permit to breach the sandbar was granted, but the Corps of Engineers and other organizations like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration further implored the city to come up with a long-term solution, and offered to work with them through the process.

Earlier this year, the Santa Cruz City Council approved $45,000 in funding to research flood-control solutions, and approved an additional $120,000 to study the problem and create an interim plan, but no specific long-term solutions have been outlined just yet.

The Seaside Company invested roughly $300,000 over the summer to upgrade sump pumps and reinforce the retaining walls near the river, among other infrastructural improvements made to prevent flooding.

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Since his early 30s, Brown has been systematically exploring all of the things that one can do while lucid dreaming, from morphing into other people and passing through walls and furniture to experimenting with psychedelics— which he says produced genuine effects—to interacting with the dream itself, by asking it “What does this dream mean?” In 1999, he even killed himself in a dream—a hellish experience he believes provided insight into what happens to consciousness after one takes his or her own life.

In the months that follow that first meeting at Laili, I become an active, though amatuer, participant in the lucid dreaming community, whose online forums stretch around the globe and debate everything from lucid-dream-inducing supplements to the possibility of mutual lucid dreams between people in different parts of the world—a phenomenon that is most commonly reported by twins and people who are very closely bonded.

I start a dream journal—the most important exercise for increasing dream recall and encouraging the brain to become aware it’s dreaming—scribbling with a sleeppuffy hand the segments I can remember upon opening my eyes.

But no matter how fast I try to solidify the jumbled wisps, a large portion dissolves from recollection’s shaky reach. If you can’t remember,

then write down how you feel, I hear Brown saying. And so I do.

DREAM JOURNAL EXCERPT, 10.17.14:

Earlier in the night, I drove my car and parked it on a road near the beach. Not recognizable, but similar to the one by 26th Avenue, where the road dips down.

Dunes of white sand, however. I was somehow aware that it was noon. And it really felt like noon.

The sun was bright. The waves were revealing whales or sharks, something angular, awkward, like the shapes of hammerheads. From the top of the dunes, the water was a beautiful, very clear blue-green.

I left quickly to go get my brother, really wanted him to see it, share it.

Never came back.

Entire days can be flavored by the mood of a dream receding into the depths of the subconscious.

The most potent of our dreams can be remembered for a lifetime.

And those, wrote Carl Jung in 1974, “prove to be the richest jewel in the treasure house of psychic experience.” But up until recently, dreams have lived on the margins of science, filed under parapsychology, somewhere between astral projection and out-of-body experiences.

“Dream researchers did not take lucid dreaming seriously, and it wasn’t part of sleep research or dream research until the 1970s,” says Brown. In fact, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and what happens there, was only first suggested by Celia Green in 1968, in her book “Lucid Dream”—which helped spur the research that proved our brains don’t just shut off when we sleep.

This isn’t to say that some of the mysteries surrounding lucid dreaming are not totally out there in the fifth dimension. The psychological purpose of dreams remains one of science’s most debated mysteries. And in Western society, they are commonly taken for granted, dismissed as insignificant chatter.

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My car careened in a long, slow arc over the Highway 1 freeway divide, toward an oncoming truck in the southbound lane. I was strangely at peace with the imminent impact. I had no choice. There was sunlight edging through my dirty windshield, dust particles floating in it. I truly believed it was the last drop of sweet life. As the dashboard grew closer, my heart wrenched. I saluted my sister, brother, mother and father with unconditional love.

Then I awoke. A gratefulness to be alive, a sadness for the shortness of it, a longing to call my mother just to hear her voice.

Roughly 50 percent of the human population has a lucid dream once in their lifetime, and around 20 percent

of the population has about one per month, according to estimates in “Lucid Dreaming: New Perspectives on Consciousness in Sleep,” by Tadas Stumbrys and Daniel Erlacher.

Women become lucid in their dreams more than men, and children and young people are more prone to lucid dreams than older adults. The portion of the population that lucid dreams the most is teenage women who practice dance and meditation, says Brown, who adds that those who play video games also seem to have a higher tendency to become lucid.

Only about 1 or 2 percent of the population experiences lucid dreams more than once a week.

But every single person has the ability, says Brown. “There are degrees to lucidity; it’s a continuum of awareness and memory across states,” he says. “One can be aware that one is dreaming, that his or her body is lying soundly in bed, but still be bound by unrealized psychological restraints in the dream realms. It takes practice to realize that you have the ability to influence and change the world around you in a dream, and discovering the limits of these superpowers is what all the fun is about.”

Primarily, lucid dreams happen between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m. While they can occur during any stage of sleep—not just REM sleep—they are most vivid during REM sleep, when our brains show as much activity during sleep as they do during the waking hours. During the early morning hours, we’re usually entering the second round of REM. “One of the best ways to lucid dream is to set an alarm clock for about 5 in the morning,” says Brown.

“If you go to bed around 11 or 12, wake up after five hours and then do something kind of active. Don’t exercise, but maybe read a book for about half an hour, and then go back to sleep … If you happen to be in a more aware state of consciousness [when you return to sleep], the awareness tends to bleed over into the lucid dream more.”

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Dream journals are also a valuable tool for identifying “dream signals” in repeating patterns or motifs.

When you flip back through your journal, you’ll likely find recurring themes, like a certain city street or scenario. Consciously registering these dream signals will remind the sleeping mind that you’re dreaming the next time you encounter them.

Secondary to mental practices— but definitely effective if used in combination—are the foods and supplements we put into our bodies, especially if they stimulate production of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which correlates strongly with dream lucidity.

“Foods rich in choline and vitamin B5 help the brain produce more acetylcholine, which helps with memory consolidation, dream recall, and achieving lucidity,” says Brown.

“These include foods like sunflower seeds, bran and sun-dried tomatoes.

For some reason, a lot of people claim that apple juice helps with lucidity, and there is some evidence that it helps to boost acetylcholine levels.”

Galantamine, a drug used to treat Alzheimer’s disease and other memory impairments, is a very effective and well-known lucidity trigger as well, because it enhances acetylcholine levels.

More naturally, calea zacatechichi, or “Mexican dream herb,” can increase the vividness of dreams, and if you drink it before bed it has a mildly psychedelic effect as you slip into hypnagogia—the first stage of sleep, when you start to see visions and images. Mugwort, another herb that can be found at Go Ask Alice

on Pacific Avenue, is said to induce astral projection, flying dreams and psychic abilities. The tea tastes very bitter, but it is one of those herbs that is also said to be effective if you put it under your pillow.

Once lucid, holding onto awareness is one of the greatest challenges, and it’s always just a matter of time before it ends.

Brown recalls the loving, party-like environment of a dream years ago that he didn’t want to end. Rushing around, he began asking everybody in his dream, “How can I stay?” A beautiful African woman in a bright orange patterned dress pointed to her pregnant belly and said, “You have to be born here.”

For us mortals, Brown recommends holding onto lucidity by staying active in the dream— studying a single object too closely will often end lucidity, he warns.

DREAM JOURNAL EXCERPT, 12.6.14:

Became lucid this morning. On a bus, in a city I didn’t know.

Possibly Mexico. The bus was lurching. All I could think of doing was shout “Lucid dreaming! Lucid dreaming! Lucid dreaming!” Girl with red hair and very light skin was closest to me and looked at me blankly. Then I felt everyone was looking at me, perplexed. Nobody said anything to me. Shortly after, I lost lucidity, although I am sure the bus hurtled on.

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While about 80 percent of nonlucid dreams are said to be negative, or worst-case-scenarios, according to G. William Domhoff, a psychology professor at UC Santa Cruz, becoming lucid often shifts them into positive experiences.

“I would say 95 percent [of the time] or more—there’s never been an actual study done, but just from reading or talking to people—when someone becomes lucid, it’s an immediate feeling of happiness and elation, and freedom and liberation,” says Brown. “And there’s usually no sense of fear, because it’s all happening in your mind.”

That said, nightmares are actually one of the most common triggers of lucidity for people not actively practicing lucid dreaming. Intense fear or danger in a dream often sparks the dreamer’s realization that they are dreaming.

That dream fear can be used as a tool. Stephen LaBerge, psychophysiologist and leader in the scientific study of lucid dreaming, recommends confronting the dream figure that’s threatening you, and actually being friendly to it—asking it what it wants, and maybe even hugging it.

“From reports that I have read, almost all of the time that works,” says Brown. “Usually they will become less threatening, they will become more comical looking, they almost become friendly.”

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I dreamt of Nick [dear friend of mine who passed away a few days before] this morning. I felt his presence, saw him clearly. He said something about my voice, teasing, but the encounter was very loving.

I hugged him. Awoke on a bed of his laughter. Tried to return to the dream, but couldn’t find my way back.

Grief often manifests itself acutely during dreams. A common dream to have about a family member or close friend who has passed away is that you’re going to meet them somewhere, but they never show up. According to Brown, we have the power to call on anyone we want to in our dreams, and they will appear—even if it’s years later and our memories of them have faded.

“It helps a lot of people reconcile grief. Almost everybody who has done it says, ‘I can’t tell if it’s just my mind or if it was really them,’” he says. “When you meet somebody in a lucid dream, they are reproduced identically. There is no way to differentiate.”

I have yet to have success with it, although I’ve been trying to “call upon” deceased loved ones. If you’re having a recurring dream of a deceased loved one, let that be a dream signal for you to become lucid.

But staying “awake” during the sleep process might have positive impacts on our waking life beyond the spiritual sense. People have reported improved performance in sports by visualizing their activities during sleep, says Brown. And this can be applied to any number of activities.

It’s also a technique used by a lot of psychologists to help people overcome nightmares and phobias by facing them in the dream reality.

“If you have social anxiety, and get nervous speaking in front of groups of people, practice in a dream,” says Brown. “I’ve done it many times, given talks in front of people in lucid dreams, and I find myself strangely, unbelievably articulate.”

While he can’t explain this articulate dream ability, Brown believes that the confidence gained during the dream carries over into waking life, and helps him at the time of the waking-life speech.

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According to a study published in Dreaming, a journal of the American Psychology Association, lucid dreamers are significantly better at solving word puzzles than nonlucid dreamers. Patrick Bourke and Hannah Shaw, researchers at the University of Lincoln who conducted the study, believe that awareness while dreaming could be related to the “aha!” moments necessary in problem solving.

On the other side of the spectrum, artists have been known to spur creativity through dreams—like the artist and author Daniel Love, who actually sources his paintings from galleries he visits in his lucid dreams.

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Across cultures and throughout history, people have reported a similar terrifying phenomenon: waking up in their beds, unable to move, with the overwhelming sense of a menacing presence in their room with them. It’s been described as everything from a sitting ghost or demon to an “old hag” to dark energy, aliens, or an intruder, but

the common theme is that the presence is always a threat.

Many people report a feeling of being pressed down into their beds. The experience is completely terrifying, and can be accompanied by auditory hallucinations.

The scientific explanation of the phenomenon is an interruption in our sleep cycles that causes wakefulness and REM sleep to overlap. During the REM stage of sleep, our bodies experience muscle atonia, or paralysis—evolution’s way of keeping us from acting out the most active stage of our sleep cycle, says Brown. And he theorizes that, because we wake up in this state of paralysis, our fear circuit gets activated, causing us to feel threatened. The illusory response is that some thing outside of our bodies is causing it.

About 36 percent of the general population that experiences isolated sleep paralysis develops it between the age of 25 and 44 years of age, according to a study published in Neurology. But as horrifying as the experience is, sleep paralysis can be used as a portal into lucid dreaming—whether you experience it on your way in or your way out of sleep.

“You have to sort of disregard that [fear], and let the power of your mind override it—and you can,” says Brown. “And then, what will happen is that you’ll find that you can literally lift your arms and lift your body out of your body, and it’s like a double body that you have. Initially you kind of have, like, double consciousness where you feel like you’re partially in your body and partially in your dream body or astral body, but eventually your consciousness shifts to your dream body.”

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Even while the first scientific studies of lucid dreaming began only decades ago, interest in them is growing, both within the scientific community—which is working on technology that can record and decode lucid dreams by measuring brain-wave patterns—as well as in the general public. “I think that our interest in lucid dreaming is an extension of our planet’s 4.5 billionyear-old evolutionary process, and I see consciousness explorers as the leading-edge of our biosphere’s emergence into new frontiers,” says Brown. The frontiers he speaks of are realms of consciousness we find in dreams or in shamanic states of mind, that perhaps hover beyond death. As the technology develops to lucid dream on command and mutually share lucid dreams, says Brown, these frontiers could become genuine “geographical” realms, where we can, and eventually will, set up transportation and communication systems. “We’re wiring the different realms together, turning our imaginations inside out … and this may be part of what we were designed to do as a species,” he says.

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which Sure and companion Heng Chau walked in a pattern of three steps, followed by one bow—they had already made a scene. “Some were saying ‘Kick ’em in the ass, see if they move,’” he says. “Some kids picked up chunks of brick and started lobbing it across the street at us, and this big black girl, about 6 feet tall, she put her body between us and them and said ‘You quit doing that stuff, they’re not doing any harm! Let them be.”

Every day of walking, bowing— often being harassed, sometimes helped—is recorded in Highway Dharma Letters, a new compilation of correspondence written by Chau and Sure to their Venerable Master Hsuan Hua. Sure and his protector for the journey, the taekwondo black belt Chau (formerly Martin Verhoeven), followed a strict regimen of prayer, bowing, and writing, stopping only to sleep in a ’57 Plymouth station wagon.

Additionally, Sure had made an oath of silence which he would keep for six years.

Sure, who was born Christopher Clowery, came from a white, middle-class background in Toledo, Ohio. What began as a childhood fascination with the TV show Hong Kong turned into a calling that lead him to the Buddhist text, which, after his undergraduate education, brought him to Berkeley in 1971. It was a time when Berkeley streets shook with protest and fury, and Sure found that Buddhism offered a way to live the values that protesters shouted about.

“I walked in the door [at Gold Mountain Monastery] and suddenly felt all my fears and apprehensions just vanish—they just kind of dribbled out my toes, as if I’d pulled a plug,” Sure recounts in a phone call from the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery where, 37 years later, he is now the director and Dharma Master.

Six years later and four blocks past the high school in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, the two young, budding Buddhists had daily encounters that would test their oath to the Buddhist Dharma

Sutra and its message of peaceful mindfulness.

“We come up from a bow and here are these six, very toughlooking Chinese mobsters—arms crossed, tattoos, dark glasses— they were no joke. I come up and end up right in front of this guy that the rest had parted to reveal, very cinematic,” Sure says. “This guy’s looking me up and down and he says. ‘So, uh, how long you gonna be doing this?’ and Marty said ‘We’re on a pilgrimage for world peace, we’re establishing a Buddhist temple in Ukiah.’ And the guy spits, and goes ‘I want you guys to know, as long as you’re here, in our territory, you’ve got nothing to worry about. We’re going to take care of you.’”

Others, like the “zombie-vampire cult” they encountered near the Dodger Stadium and the angry, hung-over Santa Cruz man who almost intentionally ran them over, weren’t nearly as welcoming.

But, in the end, many who at first reacted negatively eventually softened toward the two young American Buddhists silently bowing and stepping.

An array of personalities showed up in Santa Cruz, like the Christian zealots who rather violently attempted to convert them to members of the Heaven’s Gate cult, warning them of an imminent UFO. But one young girl who was biking down a residential street in town left a positive memory for Sure. She handed him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and said, “Mister, if you continue like that, before you get to the corner you’re going to need this.”

For him, Sure says, the lesson of the pilgrimage was that we receive what we put out into the world.

Only when we move past the anger into our own human potential, he says, can we reach solutions.

“The potential for awakening is really high, but you have to know that you have choices before waking up. That’s the teaching of most sages, of most religions, ‘know thyself’—that sense of gratitude opens, of kindness, of compassion. It’s all waiting to be discovered.”

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Santa Cruz’s Slow Gherkin reunites for two Bay Area shows this week BY STEVE PALOPOLI

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That’s the way the members of Santa Cruz’s former reigning ska band Slow Gherkin talk about their reunion shows. Lead singer James Rickman says the band tries hard to make sure it’s not like “breakup sex” every time they get back together again. Sax player Phil Boutelle says doing too many reunion shows could take away their specialness. And lead guitarist

A.J. Marquez speaks of Slow Gherkin— whose core members he’s been playing with since sixth grade at Westlake Elementary School, more than two decades ago—with what can only be described as reverence.

“It’s mind-blowing and amazing,” to play with the band again, he says.

“But you’re opening up a chapter of life that was totally closed. It almost feels like we shouldn’t be touching the Gherkin stuff. I almost don’t want to step on that sacred ground again.”

Ironically, though, he has a hard time wrapping his head around the idea that anyone outside the band even cares about their reunion shows.

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come out,” he says. “It blows my mind that there are still Slow Gherkin fans.”

He shouldn’t be surprised. Formed in 1993 when most of the members were still in high school, Gherkin was the defining band of the Santa Cruz music underground in the late 1990s. Riding the third wave of ska, but drawing on the punk energy of the strong local hardcore scene, they combined a wall-of-sound brass musical attack with raw rock power.

After releasing their debut album Double Happiness in 1996, they signed with Mike Park’s Asian Man Records in time for their crowning studio achievement, 1998’s Shed Some Skin.

But the band was always at its best

live. Their run of half a dozen or so sold-out Catalyst shows were mindwarping experiences.

“Often bands have said, ‘You guys are a big influence on us because of your energy,’” says Boutelle. “It wasn’t intentional. It was just what came out of the music and this group of people.”

Like many bands that take over the scene for a particular era, though, Slow Gherkin never really broke out beyond their hometown. They called it quits in 2002, after the Run Screaming album. But the intensity of the band at their peak clearly left a mark not only on their fans, but on the band members, as well.

Rickman, for instance, was known at the time for his insane frontman antics, but despite taking on other projects in his adopted city of New York (including People Get Ready, which is releasing its second album), he’s never sung in another band.

“I’ve learned over the last 12 years that I need those guys to feel that free and safe,” he says.

Gherkin will reunite for a show at the Kuumbwa on Friday, Dec. 19.

Unfortunately—in direct contradiction to Marquez’s lingering doubt—the show is already sold out. However, for Gherkin fans who worry they might not get another chance, the band will also play in Petaluma at the Phoenix Theater on Saturday, Dec. 20.

Rickman says the band members have remained close friends—some of them still play together here in the Huxtables, Dan P. and the Bricks, and other projects. Gherkin did play the Rio in 2011 as part of a celebration of Asian Man Records, but this week’s shows came about because of the experience the band had playing in New York’s Ska Fest in June. Boutelle says it was “fantastic, a total lovefest,” but for him the best part wasn’t even the show itself, but when the band got together beforehand in a small practice space in Brooklyn.

“We were in this little room, and it felt like the old days,” he says. “The vibe felt so good.”

For these shows, the band invited “everybody ever in Slow Gherkin” to play—which is a lot of people.

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Info: 8 p.m., Dec. 18-20, Motion Pacific Studios, 131 Front St., Santa Cruz, $25.

THE CAROLYN SILLS COMBO ACOUSTIC The Carolyn Sills Combo play an acoustic set on the third Wednesday of every month at Phil's Fish Market in Moss Landing. 6-8 p.m. 7600 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing.

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ARGENTINE TANGO Argentine tango ongoing Wednesday classes and practice with John and Nancy Lingemann.

Beginners 7 p.m., Int/adv 8:30 p.m. Until 10 p.m. Calvary Episcopal Church, 532 Center St., Santa Cruz. 469-3288. $3.

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Remember Dominican Hospital in Your Year-End Giving Every day of life is a gift. This sentiment is often expressed by grateful patients who have received care at Dominican Hospital. Your tax-deductible contribution will touch lives of many people close to home who are coping with health problems. There are many areas to contribute to and any amount you can share is appreciated.

Turn Cancer Patients into Cancer Survivors Our Year End Giving priority is the new Rehabilitation Program for Cancer Survivors.

Fatigue, difficulty swallowing, nerve pain and numbness, and lymphedema are all common side effects of cancer treatments that can be significantly reduced by physical activity, strength training and other rehabilitative therapies.

Help Our Tiniest Patients Your gift to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for premature babies helps buy specialized equipment that allows the babies to receive critical care right here in our community instead of needing to go out of the area. Dominican has the only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for babies in the tricounty area helping over 800 babies annually.

Create a Healing Environment Research has demonstrated that gardens and planted alcoves can reduce patient pain and stress and prove therapeutic. Five areas in the hospital will be redesigned as Healing Courtyards. Plans also call for the addition of a surgery meeting room where physicians can meet privately with family members.

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Heart attacks can happen at any time, but patients who suffer one in Santa Cruz have a greater chance of survival, thanks to Dominican’s pace-setting excellence in heart care. Your donations will help us support the vision for the cardiac program providing the most advanced technology and the best facilities right here in our community.

Donate at: www.supportdominican.org From all of us at Dominican Hospital, we send you warmest wishes for happy holidays and the best of health in the coming year.

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FRIDAY 12/19 SANTA CRUZ HOLIDAY LIGHTS TRAIN Santa Claus is coming to town early—but not with Prancer, Dasher, Rudolph and the rest. This Friday, he’ll roll up in a vintage excursion train car. Passengers can enjoy spiced cider and musical entertainment, and partake in classic holiday carols on this merry Roaring Camp Railroads excursion.

Info: 5 p.m., Dec.19-23, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz. $25.

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No partner required. The traditional dancing of Scotland. Wear soft-soled shoes. 7 - 9:30 p.m. Peace United Church of Christ, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. malarson@cabrillo. edu, 427-1921. $6.

GROUPS NATURAL HEALERS NETWORK All holistic practitioners welcome. Bring plenty of business cards, promotional materials and positive energy. Meet 3rd Wednesday.

9:30-11 a.m. The Wellbeing Center, 5905 Soquel Drive, Suite 150, Soquel. Tracy@ thelotuscollaborative.com. Free.

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. Child Care provided.

6 - 7:30 p.m. 1685 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. 425-4030 24hr: 888 900-4232 wcsddm.org. Free.

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Even if Santa Cruz did just experience a massive rainstorm, winters in town are far from blizzardy chills and snowmen. That’s why the Museum of Art & History is offering children and adults an opportunity to explore the Toy Trains exhibit and get their hands on an array of “hands-on” crafts, with gift wrap, crafty cards and a Teen Art Market hosted by Subjects to Change. We can pretend it’s snowing outside, and if holiday cards are still on the to-do list, keep it simple with their “Let It Snow” photobooth, after diving into the Kids Happy Hour with the The Penny Ice Creamery.

Info: 4-8 p.m., Museum of Art & History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. 429-1964. $3-$5.

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THURSDAY 12/18

MUSIC CABRILLO LATIN MUSIC ENSEMBLES CONCERT Students from the Latin folk and pop music performance class. Music from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Perú and Argentina. Conducted by Michael Strunk.

7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Cabrillo Black Box Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. 479-6154. vapa.cabrillo.edu. Also on Friday at 8 p.m. $10/$9/$4.

CABRILLO CLASSICAL GUITAR ENSEMBLE Selections of solo, duo, trio and orchestral guitar performances. Directed

by Guy Cantwell. 7 - 9 p.m. Cabrillo Samper Recital Hall, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos. 4796154. vapa.cabrillo.edu. Donation.

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GROUPS ANIMAL LOSS SUPPORT GROUP Open to those grieving a recent companion animal loss. Group is held in a safe, confidential setting, and is supported through community donations. 7 - 8:30 p.m. 2601

Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. sarah@ santacruzspca.org. Free.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS No weighins, dues, or fees. All are welcome. Call for a meeting in your neighborhood. 1 - 2 p.m.

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St. Philip's Church, 5271 Scotts Valley Drive, Room #1, Scotts Valley. Helpline: 291-5099.

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do in your life. Opens awareness to new viewpoints and attitudes. Anyone can work with the HU regardless of age, background or religion. 1:15 - 1:45 p.m. Louden Nelson Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. Free.

ENTRE NOSOTRAS GRUPO DE APOYO Open to Spanish-speaking women with all types of cancer from diagnosis through treatment and the healing process. Every first/third Thursday. Call to register. 7613973. 6 - 8 p.m. Free.

YUJI TOJO Bittersweet Bistro, 787 Rio Del Mar Blvd., Aptos. 8 - 11 p.m. www. bittersweetbistro.com. Free.

FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS No dues, fees, or weighins. A fellowship of individuals who are recovering from the disease of food addiction. 7 - 8:30 p.m. Trinity Presbyterian Church library 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. 435-0680. Free.

WOMENCARE: LAUGHTER YOGA For women with cancer. Every first/third Thursday. Call to register. 457-2273. 12:30 1:30 p.m. Free.

FRIDAY 12/19 ARTS THE NUTCRACKER Performance, dance and live orchestra. Five shows: Dec. 19, 8 p.m., Dec. 20/21, 1:30 p.m. & 4:30 p.m.

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. www.santacruztickets.com. $15- $55.

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GOURMET MARSHMALLOW SNOWMEN MAKING Kids 12 and under, with an adult.

Make snowmen using locally made, handcrafted Guimauve Confections gourmet marshmallows. Natural, preservative free and no high fructose corn syrup. 5 - 7 p.m.

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IMMUNITY-BOOSTING MOCKTAILS AND SUPERFOOD SHOTS Drinks to keep healthy through the holidays: Egg-not, a super-mocktail and a superfood shot. With Sandi Rechenmacher, local nutritional consultant and educator. 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

New Leaf Community Markets, 1210 41st Ave, Capitola. www.newleaf.com. Free.

MUSIC COMMUNITY HU CHANT Singing HU can lead to a deeper understanding of yourself and why things happen the way they

CLASSES SANTA CRUZ DOWNTOWN TOASTMASTERS A 75-minute meeting to practice speaking. Meet great people, learn new skills, and become a part of a dynamic group. 7 - 8:30 a.m. Live Oak Senior Center, 1777 Capitola Road, Santa Cruz. santacruzdowntowntoastmasters.org. Free coffee for first-time participants.

CHAIR YOGA WITH SUZI Instructor Suzi Mahler, CMT, NE guides you through a series of gentle seated yoga postures performed slowly and with breath awareness. Every Tue/Fri 9:30 a.m. at Grey Bears, 2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. Every Wednesday 10:30 a.m. at Yoga Center Santa Cruz. 234-6791. suzimahler@gmail.com. $5.

GROUPS CLUTTERERS ANONYMOUS 12-step meeting every Friday at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. 5:30 - 6:45 p.m. 359-3008.

Free.

SATURDAY 12/20 FOOD & DRINK HOME AND HEARTH HOLIDAY FAIR At the Aptos Farmers Market at Cabrillo College. Guest holiday vendors include Copper Moon Apothecary, Bee Mark & Moss, Earth-In Canteen, Jen Wren Designs, and Trellis & Vine. 8 a.m. - Noon.

MUSIC UNSILENT NIGHT Phil Kline's Unsilent Night is a participatory sound artwork played by the audience on boomboxes carried through city streets. Bring your own boombox or portable speaker. 7 - 8:30 p.m.

Abbott Square at Santa Cruz MAH. http:// santacruz.unsilentnight.com. Free.

THE JOINT CHIEFS Bittersweet Bistro, 787 Rio Del Mar Blvd., Aptos. 8 - 11 p.m. www. bittersweetbistro.com. Free.

SATURDAY 12/20 OBERUFER SHEPHERDS’ PLAY

Info: 7 p.m., Louden Nelson Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. 420-6177.

ESOTERIC COLLECTIVE PLAYS JAZZ Music from 1940s Bebop to the 1960s. 6 - 9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant and Inn, 1 Davenport Ave., Davenport. 426-8801.

Free.

CHRISTMAS WITH THE SANTA CRUZ CHORALE Musical gems from centuries past and contemporary interpretations.

Claudio Monteverdi’s "Christmas Vespers," Psalm settings for choir, instrumentalists, and soloists, recreate a Renaissance

Christmas. Compositions by Lauridsen, Whitacre, Tavener. Tickets at www. santacruzchorale.org/tickets or 427-8023.

8 - 10 p.m. Also on Sunday 4 p.m. Holy Cross Church, 123 High St., Santa Cruz. $25/$20/$5.

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Originally written by Karl Julius Schroer in the mid-19th century, the “Oberufer Shepherds’ Play” is one of a trilogy of medieval plays that draws on ancient traditions and archetypal characters. Through a procession of vocalists, the story circles around the birth of Christ, told through the eyes of witnessing shepherds. Performed for generations all over the world, this tale is known as a unique humor-filled take on a warmhearted classic.

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Winery. Drop-ins welcome.

Donations welcome, not required. Bring yoga mat and water. Building community through practice together. RSVP

GROUPS SUPPORT GROUP FOR MEMORY LOSS CAREGIVERS Explore strategies for caring. Learn new information about the condition. Connect with others. RSVP: diana@mindnhealth.com. 10:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. St Joseph's Shrine, 544 West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. Free.

SUNDAY 12/21 ARTS THE 12 ACTS OF CHRISTMAS, A BENEFIT FOR THE 418 Aerial dance concert produced, directed, choreographed and performed by the kids of Wide Blue Yonder Dance Company.

Audience participation, snacks and fun.

3:30 - 5 p.m. 418 Front St., Santa Cruz. wideblueyonderdance@gmail.com. $10/$5/$25.

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NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS: SANTA CRUZ Members share their experiences, strengths and hopes at weekly meetings. www.naranoncalifornia.org/norcal. 6:30 8 p.m. Santa Cruz Sutter Hospital, Sutter Room, 2900 Chanticleer Ave., Soquel.

Helpline: 291-5099. Free.

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SERENITY FIRST: PAGANS IN RECOVERY Weekly meeting with a Pagan flair; guests free to discuss their spiritual paths, including nature-based and goddess-centered. All 12-step programs welcome. 7 - 8 p.m. Epic Adventure Games, 222 Mt. Hermon Rd, Ste. A, Scotts Valley. 336-8591. Donations accepted.

MAINTAINING HARMONY AND BALANCE Eck worship service. Short introduction, a reading from the Eck works, chanting the word HU, video presentation of Harold Klemp, spiritual leader of Eckankar, closing HU chant.

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Kings Valley Center #210 230 Mount Hermon Road, Scotts Valley. 438-3311.

MONDAY 12/22 CLASSES ZUMBA GOLD Low-impact dance/exercise class designed to help you party at your own pace. Zumba Gold is designed for alllevels and abilities of fitness. 5 - 5:55 p.m.

418 Front St., Santa Cruz. $10/$9 first class with mention of Good Times.

MONDAY DROP-IN MEDITATION Led by Venerable Yangchen and Venerable Gyalten Basic meditation instruction and practice.

One session of mindfulness meditation, followed by guided reflection meditation.

5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 462-8383.

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TUESDAY 12/23 ARTS SOULCOLLAGE Come and try this wonderful and easy art-based collage method to build and create your own tarot collage deck of cards. Every Tuesday. 7-9 p.m. Elemental Art Studio-128, Tannery Arts Center, 1050 River St., Santa Cruz. $10 all included. RSVP Iris 212-1398.

CLASSES INT. WEST COAST SWING W/CHUCK AND PAT Must be able to dance Beg levels 1 and 2. Expand your West Coast Swing through the use of extensions and contractions. 8 - 9 p.m. Market Street Theater, 222 Market St., Santa Cruz. 4794826, chuck@gonnadance.com. $9.

DYNAMIC HEALING TAI CHI Sensei Sithan Pat teaches Tue/Thu class appropriate for all levels of experience or beginners. Noon - 1 p.m. Dance Synergy, 9055 Soquel Drive, Aptos. 661-0235. First class free mention Good Times.

GROUPS NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS: APTOS "Lighting the Way," a candlelight meeting.

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7 - 8:30 p.m. Aptos Christian Fellowship, 7200 Freedom Blvd., Aptos. Helpline: 2915099. Free.

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Over the pulse of keyboards and drums is a high-pitched wail: half screeching and half soaring, just a little bit jazzy, and altogether beautiful. It’s the vocals of musician Linsey Olsen, a former Santa Cruzan, fronting for the live hip-hop group Joomanji.

“Even today, it still surprises me when I hear her sing,” says Joomanji drummer Amir Oosman, a UCSC grad.

Oosman formed Joomanji in 2010 with friends Jonah Christian and Robert Finucane, who were all taking music classes at UCSC. They met Olsen through local singer/songwriter Kendra McKinley.

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“She’s definitely got one of the most unique voices I’ve heard,” Oosman says. “A lot of people think she has an accent, or she’s not from the U.S. She’s from San Diego.”

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Joomanji, who play the Crepe Place Saturday, Dec. 20, later moved to Los Angeles, where they connected with rapper Austin Antoine, now a member. In the past, Joomanji has collaborated with Devin the Dude, and they are currently writing for their next full-length album.

Whenever they have the day off of a West Coast tour, they like to spend it in Santa Cruz.

“The Crepe Place, especially, has been very kind to us,” Oosman says. “And if it’s a Bay Area tour, I try to make a point to stop in Santa Cruz for at least one night.

It’s an extremely peaceful place for us to unwind for the day. It’s a nice boost, whether it’s the beginning or the end of a tour. It’s always nice to stop in Santa Cruz, especially because we want to bring new music that we’re working on to the people who first saw us originally.”

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INFO: 9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.

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WEDNESDAY 12/17 SLACK KEY GUITAR

JOHN “KIMO” WEST John “Kimo” West’s work as a slack key guitarist has garnered him two Na Hoku nominations (Hawaii’s version of the Grammys), for his records Ki Ho’alu Christmastime and Kimo’s Hawaiian Slack Key Christmas. West, who is primarily known in music circles for being the longtime guitarist for Weird Al Yankovic—how’s that for diversity?—will be performing material from these two albums for his first Santa Cruz appearance. BRIAN PALMER INFO: 7:30 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Highway 9, Felton. $15. 603-2294.

THURSDAY 12/18 TRIBUTE

STEEL HORSE If you were alive in the 1980s, there’s a good chance you can karaoke more than a few Bon Jovi hits. From “Livin’ On a Prayer” to “Wanted Dead or Alive” and “You Give Love a Bad Name,” the New Jersey band, with its slightlyrough-around-the-edges working-class aesthetic, was a hit-making machine

for a decade, and is still going. Steel Horse is a Gilroy-based band that pays tribute to Jon and company with the tunes, the attitude, and yes, even the screaming fans. CAT JOHNSON INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $8/adv, $12/door. 423-1338.

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ONE DROP One Drop is a cali-reggae band from San Diego, but they stick closer to the classic roots reggae sound than a lot of their contemporaries. They bring cool, easy reggae grooves, soulful melodies and a hint of R&B and rock to their songs. Their name is even a reference to the traditional reggae beat, and after forming about a decade ago, they’ve become international faces in the reggae scene.

label, this solstice-themed concert features jazz pianist and vocalist Barbara Higbie, Grammy-nominated pianist Liz Story, Grammy-nominated acoustic guitarist Will Ackerman, and cellist Lewis Patzner. Windham Hill has a well-established reputation for presenting world-class artists performing beautiful, easy-to-listen-to music that lends itself to meditation, contemplation or just relaxing, and this event is an opportunity to see some of the label’s finest collaborate.

As Higbie says, “It’s a show made for people who want to celebrate the season in their own unique way.” CJ INFO: 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $27/adv, $32/ door. 427-2227.

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INFO: 8:30 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $7/adv, $10/ door. 479-1854.

In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s a wave of 1960s psychedelic rock-inspired bands playing Nuggets-era music, upon us. On this wave, some bands are better than others. Mystic Braves, out of Echo Park, falls into the better-than-most category. As an outfit that embraces all things garage-psych, including a spot-on throwback look, they’re the real deal

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INFO: 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $10. 429-6994.

Rockers Moonalice have a weird claim to fame. They are the first band without a label to have one of their songs downloaded over a million times, off their own server. That song, “It’s 4:20 Somewhere,” is basically a laid-back weed anthem for the boomer generation. The band mixes elements of folk, rock, country, and psychedelia, generally with a mellow vibe. The band’s members were formally known for playing with the Flying Burrito Brothers, Rod Stewart, John Lee Hooker, Jerry Garcia and others. AC

FRIDAY 12/19 HIP-HOP

STITCHES I can only assume that Miami rapper Stitches got his name because he’s got a startling tattoo of stitches on his face. It looks like someone ripped his mouth open and he stitched his cheeks back together. He’s also got an AK-47 tattooed on his face, and who-knows-what-else on the rest of his body. Stitches seemed to have blown up out of nowhere earlier this year with the viral hit “Brick in Yo Face” (quickly approaching 4 million YouTube views). As over the top as the whole thing is (there is a dude in the video with a Hellraiser mask throwing bricks of coke around), Stitches claims he really was a teen

INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst Atrium, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $15/adv, $19/door. 429-4135.

PSYCHEDELIC ROCK

MOONALICE

INFO: 8 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $10. 603-2294.

SATURDAY 12/20 KLEZMER

THE KLEZMATICS Twenty-five years after releasing their first album, the Klezmatics are still going strong. Their albums have

included all-original material, mixed their trademark klezmer sound with lyrics from Woody Guthrie (2006’s Wonder Wheel, which garnered them a Grammy for Best Contemporary World Music Album), and even had a holiday themed album (2006’s Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah). They blend modern contemporary music with Yiddish tunes, are noted for singing in several languages, and do it all with the charisma of rock ’n’ roll stars. BP INFO: 7:30 p.m. Kuumbwa, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 427-2227.

SKA

THE ENGLISH BEAT Originally known simply as the Beat in their native U.K., these ska legends made quite the impression on the music world during their brief initial run in the ’80s, which scored Top-10 singles in the U.K., while also charting here in the States with tracks like “Mirror in the Bathroom.” Known for mixing ska, reggae, soul and punk together, and loading up on themes ranging from love and unity to social commentary, the band has held on to its fan base through three decades. BP INFO: 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 479-1854.

INFO: 9 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31.

Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $45-$80. 423-1338. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 19 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

IN THE QUEUE SANTA IS REAL

Carolyn Sills Band’s 1950s holiday spectacular. Thursday at Don Quixote’s DILATED PEOPLES

Pioneers of underground hip-hop.

Friday at Catalyst DICK DALE

Surf-rock legend. Friday at Moe’s Alley HOUSE OF FLOYD

Top-notch tribute to Pink Floyd.

Saturday at Don Quixote’s KOOL JOHN

Rising star of the Bay Area rap scene.

Saturday at Catalyst

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musically, creating a fresh take on a classic sound, complete with an organ, horns, trippy and fuzzy guitars licks, and hallucination-inducing drums. Need proof? The Zombies, royalty of the original psych-rock movement, tapped these guys to open for them. CJ

Isla Vista, California, home to a sea of UCSB students, has a stellar reputation as a party town extraordinaire. And what does every party town need? Party bands, of course. Reggae-rock band Iration formed in IV in 2004 and has kept the party vibes flowing for the last 10-plus years. Sweetening the feelgood musical pot is the fact that all the band members hail from Hawaii, so there’s a nice dose of aloha in Iration’s sound, which combines rockin’ grooves, stony rhythms and a one-love perspective. Seems like a fine way to spend New Year’s Eve. CAT JOHNSON

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Saturday December 20th 9pm $25/30 UK Ska Greats…

THE ENGLISH BEAT Saturday December 27th 9pm $15/20 Afro-Latin Dance Party

B-SIDE PLAYERS Wednesday December 31st 9pm $20/25

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Biblical, Luv FFyah, yah, Biblic al, Dre DJJ S Swami D re Z, D wami $5 9p

Comedy C omedy Night w/ w/ Br Brendan endan Lynch Lynch y 8:30p

Equipto, E quipto, I.I.A.M., Dirtb Dirtbag ag D Dan an $12 9p

DJ/Live DJ/Live Music

Comedy Comedy Night

Karaoke Karaoke

Open Open Mic

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Karaoke K araoke 8p-Close 8p-Clo se

Karaoke K araoke 6p-Close 6p-Clo se

The Do-Rights Do-Rights Burlesque Burle sque 8p

Buddiess Buddie

George Orwell ExperiGeor rge O rwell E xperiencee 8p8p-1:30a enc 1:30a

Ribsys Nickel, Eugene, Rib sys Nick el, A E ugene, Trouble T rouble Bound DJJ Bat Batwing Cruzmatik, D wing 8-11p 811p $10 8p-1:30a $1 0 8p1:30a

Steel Horses, St eel Hor ses, Stone Stars Hot St one St ars $8/$12 8:30p

Stitches, Boyz Stit ches, NHT Bo yz $15/$19 8:30p

Wolves, The Sea Sea W olves, The Atomic A tomic Aces, Aces, The FFormaldebride ormaldebride $10 $10 8p

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Hippo Happy Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p 5:307:30p

CREPE C REPE PLACE P L ACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa 11 34 S oquel A ve, S anta Cruz; 429-6994 429-6 994

Amigos The Amig os Band, Br ass Magic $8 9p p Brass

Mystic Braves, My stic Br aves, Electric Magpie $10 $10 9p

Misner and Smith, Jo shua LLowe owe and the Joshua Junc os $8 9p Juncos

Joomanji feat. feat. S alami Salami Ro se Rose $8 9p

CROW’S C ROW ’ S NEST NEST Dr, Santa 2218 E. Cliff D r, S anta Cruz; 476-4560 4 76-4560

Yuji Tojo Y uji T oojo $3 8p

Livee Ag Again Liv ain $5 8:30p

Basement LLenny’s enny’s Bas ement $6 9p

Coastal Sage C oastal S age $77 9:30p $

International Music Hall and Restaurant

FINE MEXICAN AND AMERICAN FOOD ALL YOU CAN EAT LUNCH BUFFET M-F $7.95

Jim “Kimo” West Holiday Slack Key Show w/ Ken Emerson + Hula Dancers $15 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm

Santa is Real: A 1950’s Christmas Spectacular with The Carolyn Sills Combo

$15 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm

Moonalice Psychadelic Root Rock $10 adv./$10 door 21 + 8pm

House of Floyd The Pink Floyd Concert Experience

$17 adv. / $20 door <21 w/parent 8pm The Killer Queens All Girl Queen Tribute The Jean Genies David Bowie Tribute

$10 adv./$10 door 21 + 8pm Sat Dec 27

Foreverland 14 Piece Tribute to Michael Jackson

Pre Pre Preeee New Years Eve Bash

$15 adv./$15 door 21 + 8pm Sun Dec 28

Peppino D’Agostino Acoustic Guitar Magic $15 adv./$17 door <21 w/parent 7pm

Mon Le Boeuf + Ferber Brothers Two Sets of Twins Dec 29 Jazz Force

$12 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm Wed Dec 31

Lara and Laura 6p

Rainbow R ainbow Night w/ w/ DJ DJ AD DJ DJ / Ladies Ladies Night

CATALYST C ATA AL LYST ATRIUM AT TRIUM Pacific Ave, Santa 11011 011 P acific A ve, S anta Cruz; 423-1336 4231336

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+ YABAS DANCE CO.

Sat Dec 20

Broken Br oken Shades Shades 6p

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Livee Music Liv 9p

P-Lo, K00l John, P -Lo, Anger Ang er Republic Republic $15/$19 8p

Fri Dec 19

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Dilated Peoples, Dilat ed P eoples, Lately, Boostive JJ.. Lat ely, Boo stive $20/$25 $2 0/$25 8p

Thu Dec 18

Joe Kaplow Kaplow 6p

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Trollphace, Jphelpzz T rollphace, Jphelp $15/$20 $15/$2 0 8p

Wed Dec 17

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Poetry Open P oetry Workshop, Workshop, O pen Mic,, Lat Latee Mic 22-10 Mic 2 10

C CATALYST ATA LYST Pacific Ave, Santa 11011 011 P acific A ve, S anta Cruz; 423-1336 4231336

January 2nd LUJAN, MILITIA OF LOVE, ONE-A-CHORD January 3rd ZONGO JUNCTION + SUN HOP FAT January 7th KATCHAFIRE January 8th BROTHERS KEEPER w/ JOHN POPPER January 9th BROKEN ENGLISH + CANDELARIA January 10th MELVIN SEALS & JGB January 14th WHITEY MORGAN & THE 78’s January 15th TURKUAZ + 7 COME 11 January 16th THE MOTHER HIPS January 17th DIANA ARBENINA & THE NIGHT SNIPERS January 18th GLEN DAVID ANDREWS January 20th BEN MILLER BAND January 22nd & 23rd DAVE & PHIL ALVIN January 24th THE COUP January 25th KIM SIMMONDS & SAVOY BROWN January 29th JUNIOR REID + NATURAL VIBRATIONS January 31st ROYAL SOUTHERN BROTHERHOOD February 4th THE MOTET February 5th CAROLYN WONDERLAND February 6th & 7th THE WHITE BUFFALO February 13th & 14th CALIFORNIA HONEYROPS February 20th LOS LOBOS February 26th ALO March 5th LES YEUX NOIRS March 11th DENGUE FEVER March 17th MARTY O’REILLY March 19th REBEL SOULJAHZ

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New Years Eve Celebration The Sun Kings Remarkable Beatles Tribute Complimentary Champagne & Party Favors

$40 adv./$45 door 21 + 9pm Wed Bongo Love Musicians of Zimbabwe Jan 7 Let’s Dance Madly All Night Long

$10 adv./$10 door 21 + 7:30pm Rockin'Church Service Every Sunday ELEVATION at 10am-11:15am Reservations Now Online at www.donquixotesmusic.com

Karaoke K araoke 8p-Close 8p-Clo se Game Night, Comedy, Comedy, Trivia T rivia

Bluess Night w w/Anthony Blue /Anthon A y Joness and S Soul Jone oul Unlimited 8-11p Unlimit ed 811p

Happyy Hour KPIG Happ 5:30-7:30p 5:307:30p LLou ou Shields, Shields, Travis Travis Upbright $77 9p $ Livee C Comedy Liv omedy $77 9p $

Tuesday Reggae T uesday R eggae Jam FFree ree 8p

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Flin ngo (Bing o) Flingo (Bingo) 77:30p :30 0p

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Moona alice Moonalice $1 0 8p p $10

Hous yd Housee ooff Flo Floyd $1 7//$20 8p $17/$20

Llo yd Whitle W ey and the Lloyd Whitley Lucille Blues Blues Band 6 6:3030 10:30p 0 30 6:30-10:30p

Gr eyhound Greyhound 66 10p 6-10p

The Next Next Blues B s Band Blue 55-9p 9p

C ougarr Unleashed Unleashed Cougar

Big Chie Chieff & the Muy P ronto 7p Pronto Z ebra3 8p Zebra3

Z ebra3, Jesse Jesse S abala Zebra3, Sabala Blue ro Jam J 8p Bluess P Pro

Unc charted Jazz Uncharted 6-9 9p 6-9p

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THE WYNDHAM HILL WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION FEATURING WILL ACKERMAN, BARBARA HIGBIE AND LIZ STORY

Tho se Luck ky Bas tards Those Lucky Bastards Fr ee Free

THE KLEZMATICS “...one of the greatest klezmer groups in the world...” – NPR 110 0 FFoot oot FFaces aces

Monday, January 19 U 7 pm

Matias Urzua Urzua Flamenc Flamencoo 6-9p

BRIAN CHARETTE TRIO Rising Star Organ: DownBeat Critic’s Poll 1/2 Price Night for Students

K araoke w en Karaoke w// K Ken 7p

Monday, January 26 U 7 & 9 pm | No Comps

ROBBEN FORD WITH THE FORD BLUES BAND

NFL Sunda ay Tick et Sunday Ticket

Thursday, January 29 U 7 & 9 pm | No Comps

O peen Mic Open 7p

ALBERT LEE W ill A ckerman, Will Ackerman, Barb ara Higbie Barbara Higbie,, Liz St ory $27/$32 $27//$32 77,9p ,9p , Story

Slo w Gherkin, Gherkin, Kepi Kepi Slow The Klezmatics Klezmatics Ghoulie e, C old Cut sold Ghoulie, Cold Cutss ((sold $25/$30 7:30p 7:30p out) 8:30p 8:3 30p

Monday, February 2 U 7 pm | No Comps

Charlie Hunt er & Scott Scott Hunter Amendola $25/30 77,, 9p

ERIC HARLAND VOYAGER with Chris Turner, Walter Smith III, Julian Lage, Taylor Eisti, Harish Raghavan

Sunda runch Live Live Sundayy Br Brunch Jazz 11a1p p 11a-1p Liv Livee Music 5:30 0-9p 5:30-9p

Thursday, December 18 U 7 & 9 pm | No Comps

Saturday, December 20 U 7:30 pm | No Comps

P ete C ontino A ccordion Pete Contino Accordion 6-9p

Liv Livee Music

Celebrating Creativity Since 1975

Chris Kelly Kelly 710p 7-10p

K araoke w en Karaoke w// K Ken 9p

Sunday, February 8 U 7:30 pm | No Comps At the Rio Theate Grammy Winning Australian Fingerpicker

A coustic t Clas sic R ock Acoustic Classic Rock 5-8p

TOMMY EMMANUEL 1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Thursday, December 18 • AGES 18+ plus Jphelpz $15 Spec. Adv./ $20 Adv. • 8 p.m.

Thursday, December 18 • In the Atrium • AGES 21+

STEEL HORSE

plus Hot

Stone Stars $8 Adv./ $12 Drs. • Drs. open 8:30 p.m./ Show 9 p.m.

Friday, December 19 • AGES 16+

plus

also

$20 Adv./ $25 Drs. • Drs. 8 p.m./ Show 9 p.m.

Friday, December 19 • In the Atrium • AGES 16+

STITCHES plus NHT Boyz $15 Adv./ $19 Drs. • Drs. open 8:30 p.m./ Show 9 p.m.

Saturday, December 20 • AGES 16+

K00L JOHN • P-LO

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Angor Republic $15/ $19 • 8 p.m./ 9 p.m.

Saturday, December 20 • In the Atrium • AGES 16+

THE SEA WOLVES plus The Atomic Aces

also The Formaldebrides $10

Drs. only • 8 p.m./ 8 p.m.

Dec 27 Keak da Sneak/ The Jacka/ Husalah Traxamillion/ DJ Nima Fadavi (Ages 16+) Dec 31 Iration New Year’s Eve (Ages 16+) Jan 3 E-40 (Ages 16+) Jan 5 Aesop Rock w/ Rob Sonic (Ages 16+) Jan 9 James Durbin (All Ages) Jan 10 Martyparty/ Ill-Esha/ Amp Live (Ages 18+) Jan 16 & 17 Tribal Seeds/ Hirie (Ages 16+) Jan 18 Geographer (Ages 16+) Jan 21 G. Love & Special Sauce (Ages 21+) Jan 30 Upon A Burning Body Veil Of Maya/ Volumes (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

kuumbwajazz.org/give-gift-jazz Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records. Dinner served 1-hr before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer.

All ages welcome.

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O ne D rop, O ne A Chor d, Dick Dale, Dale, The C oncaves The E nglish Be at One Drop, One Chord, Concaves English Beat Animo $ 7//$10 8p $25/$30 7:30p 7:30p $15/$2 0 8p $7/$10 $15/$20 Spe akeasy LLounge ounge Speakeasy 6-9:30p S Sp ace Bas B s!! 9:30p 9 30 -2a 2 Space Bass!

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T rivia Night Trivia 8p

Mat Mattt Masih 10 p 10p

D-R OC D-ROC 9:30p-2a 9:30p 2a

D dam C ova DJJ A Adam Cova 9:30p-2a 9:30p 2a

R asta Cruz R eggae Rasta Reggae P arty 9p 9p-Clo Close Party 9p-Close

Is aiah Pick et Isaiah Picket

Gar den Island Band Garden

The Bob Gonz alez Gonzalez Blue Bluess Band $5 9p

D an FFrechette rechette Dan 6p

T aango2Oblivion 6p Tango2Oblivion E clectic 9:30p-2a 9:30p 2a Eclectic

Hip-Hop w w// D DJJ Mar Marcc 9:30p-2a 9:30p 2a

The Olit as All St ars Olitas Stars 6:30p

Chris tmas Sing alongg w Christmas Singalong w// Johnn aabulous 8p p Johnnyy FFabulous

Jam S ession w Session w// D on Caruth Don

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W ild Iris CD Wild R elease P arty Release Party 9p

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TheAle aymond The Alexx R Raymond Band 8p

Jumanji 6p

D DJJ Jahi

O pen Mic Open 6p

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P ono’s Aloha FFriday riday 6p p Pono’s

O pen Mic 3-6p Open Carrie and the S oulSoulshak ers 8p shakers Criminal Int ent Intent 10 p 10p

Jazz S ession w Session w//JazzJam Jazz Jam S anta Cruz 7p Santa C omedy O pen Mic Comedy Open 8:30p

O pen Mic Open 8p

T rivia Night Trivia 7p

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Indus stry t Night Industry 3p

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The Bo onedrivers Bonedrivers D on McCaslin Don 6p p

Nor C Noraa Cruz 77:30p :30p p

K en C onstable Ken Constable 6:30-9:30p

Joe FFerrara errara 6:30p

K aye Bohler Band Kaye 8p p

12.27–28 White Album Ensemble

K araoke w ve Karaoke w// E Eve 9p

T aaco T uesday Taco Tuesday G ypsy Jazz Gypsy 6:30p O pen Mic w sephus Open w// Mo Mosephus 5:30p

Andy Fuhrman Fuhrman & FFriends riennds 6p Thankful Thur sdays Thursdays 6-9p

Gary Blackburn 6-9p

D avid W inters David Winters 47p 4-7p

Black Eye Eye Susies Susies 2-4p S cott C ooper Scott Cooper

V inny Johns JJohnson on Band Vinny Kurt St ockdale Jazz Stockdale T rio 6-9p Trio

Isiah 9p

B4 D awn Dawn 9p

1.14

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1.15

Lecture and book signing signing

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Wood Brothers The Wood

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Cirque Ziva: The Golden Dragon Acrobats

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Tim Tim Flannery

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WILD WORLD Reese Witherspoon plays author Cheryl Strayed in the film adaptation of Strayed’s best-selling novel, ‘Wild.’

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t may be that the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. But the years of psychological turmoil leading up to that step prove at least as compelling as the journey itself in Wild, the screen adaptation of the bestselling memoir by Cheryl Strayed about one novice hiker’s quest for redemption on the Pacific Crest Trail. While the man-(or in this case, woman)-versus-wilderness aspect of the story provides visual engagement, it’s the backstory— more than the stunning landscape—that gives the movie its scope and resonance.

Scripted by novelist-screenwriter Nick Hornby (About A Boy, High Fidelity) from Strayed’s non-fiction book, the film is directed by Jean-

Marc Vallée, whose last film was another true American story, Dallas Buyers Club. For Wild, he and Hornby wisely juxtapose Strayed’s past— events leading up to her momentous decision to hike the PCT alone—with her adventures on the trail. The past, with all of its joys, sorrows and regrets, is always alive in Strayed’s psyche in the present, and as Vallée glides seamlessly between the two, the larger story takes shape.

We first meet the film’s Cheryl (the inexhaustible Reese Witherspoon) at a grueling, pivotal moment on the trail, losing her hiking shoes and literally shrieking at the wilderness.

Then we flash back a few weeks to see Cheryl checking in to a cheap motel in the Mojave Desert the day before

her journey begins. (The woman in the truck who’s given her a lift to the motel and wishes her luck is a cameo by the real-life Strayed.)

Things go wrong from the start for Cheryl. Her backpack is enormous (other hikers she meets call it “the monster”), so heavy and unwieldy that she can barely stand up under it.

On the first day, she’s so beat she has to pitch her tent only five miles in.

Discovering she’s bought the wrong fuel for her portable cookstove, she has nothing to eat but cold mush and trail mix, supplies of which quickly run out, while her too-tight shoes steadily make mush of her toes.

What on earth is such a newbie doing on the PCT? We soon find out in fond, fleeting scenes of Cheryl

WILD *** (out of four) With Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern. Written by Nick Hornby. From the memoir by Cheryl Strayed. Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. A Fox Searchlight release. Rated R. 115 minutes.

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and her beloved mother, Bobbi (played with disarming warmth and humor by Laura Dern). In these flashbacks, Cheryl chides her mom for her relentlessly cheerful attitude, even though “we have nothing,” and for raising a daughter with more “sophisticated” taste than she has. But Bobbi's courage in taking Cheryl and her brother away from their abusive, alcoholic father, and going back to high school herself inspires Cheryl.

So when Bobbi is diagnosed with a fatal disease, and succumbs in a month, Cheryl is devastated. Grieving sends her life into a downward spiral of numbing drugs, mindless sex and despair, breaking up her sevenyear marriage to sympathetic Paul (Thomas Sadoski), who just can’t cope any more. On a random whim, she picks up a guidebook about the PCT in a drugstore and gets the crazy idea to purge her mind, body, soul, and spirit of the evils infecting them by attempting a solo hike of 1,000 miles of the trail from Southern California to Oregon.

On the road, she has the expected close encounters with snow, rapids, wildlife, and potentially creepy guys, yet she perseveres. At various PCT stations along the way, she leaves quotes by Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost in the guest books. (Adrienne Rich’s famous line, “denying her wounds came from the same source as her power,” sort of becomes Cheryl’s mantra.)

Vallée’s storytelling isn’t always as clear as it should be. The issue of Cheryl’s pregnancy is raised in a couple of flashbacks, then dropped with no resolution. There’s not really any backstory on Paul, or what his role was in Cheryl’s life during the dark period of Bobbi’s illness. But the film works best as a portrait of this mother-daughter bond, and as an ode to finding the courage to come back to life. As Cheryl puts it, at the end of her journey, “It took me years to become the woman my mother raised.”

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I AM LORD OF ALL THAT IS COMPUTER GENERATED! The carefully rendered orc army

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leary visuals, a blearier narrative, and a stage groaning with characters in search of a stopping point—The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies is the keystone in the arch between the two trilogies. The masonry is shaky: obvious littleperson stunt doubles in the long shots, billions of winged animated critters churning up the leaden skies in the final battles.

It begins wrong-footed with the untimely dispatching of the trilogy’s most commanding figure, Smaug the dragon (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch). He passes just as was indicated in the previous episode,

Desolation of Smaug—it was a death foretold with an arrow pointing to it, so to speak. The survivor of Smaug’s firebombing, Bard the Bowman (Luke Evans) is drafted to become the leader of a hoard of Lake Town refugees heading to the Lonely Mountain.

Once upon a time, the fate of Middle Earth depended on locating the dread ring of power. The Battle of the Five Armies is about debt collection. The lake people arrive first. Following them, an army of elves arrives, trying to retrieve a pawned necklace from a pack of greedy dwarves holed up in their mountain fastness. (To be fair to the elves, they have a dual purpose:

they’re also hauling care packages for the displaced Lake Town homeless.)

The toxic gold hoard of the dear departed dragon is poisoning Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage), handsomest and tallest of the dwarves. Remember those battalions of orcs who had been milling around in the marshes, slugging each other? They invade, riding their giant hyenas. Also coming in for the fight: Thorin’s relative, a hog-mounted dwarf Dain (Billy Connolly). And lurking about is Ryan Gage as Alfrid, the Falstaff of the refugee camp, a unibrowed creep who is meant

to deliver Rowan Atkinson-style comedy relief.

This wrap-up exemplifies what critic Jonathan Rosenbaum called “Chicken McNuggets” action cinema—tasty bits unconnected by any organic matter. The tasty bits are few, but there are moments in the scrimmage where it seems as if director Peter Jackson didn’t get his yarn tangled. It’s a minor thrill to see how well drilled the elf-army is, a football half-time show of whirling shields and brandished bows. A proud scene features the huge Azog the Defiler (Manu Bennett of TV’s Arrow) floating in the water under a layer of ice after his fight with Thorin. Better still is the weirdly intimate way these two combatants, dwarf and orc, look at each other when they’re temporarily exhausted—it’s the observant detail that would have been noted in Beowolf. During another fray, Legolas (Orlando Bloom) tosses his fine silver braids and reaches back for an arrow with that sure smooth gesture we love…only to find his quiver empty. Another human moment: Ian McKellan’s Gandalf, out of pipeweed, rattling the bowl of his pipe, and trying to inhale up some flavor as he sits next to Bilbo (Martin Freeman).

The rest, one can shrug off. As a castle tumbles, Legolas runs up the disconnected flying stones of the building like a staircase. Middle Earth is an ancient realm from before the laws of physics were discovered.

Elves are great healers, but they have no way to avoid the pain of love. “Why does it hurt so much?” says the lovelorn Tauriel. “Because it is real,” she is told. If only the film were so; instead, the CG is as thick as mayonnaise. Tauriel’s heartbreak doesn’t hurt like the time Liv Tyler’s Arwen had a vision of the stone effigy of her dead hero Aragorn. It’s like the difference between Tristan and Iseult and a star-crossed junior high romance.

THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES With Martin Freeman, Orlando Bloom and Cate Blanchett. Directed by Peter Jackson. Rated PG-13. 144 minutes.

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FILM NEW THIS WEEK ANNIE The delightful Quvenzhane Wallis (last seen in Beasts of the Southern Wild) takes on the iconic role of the beloved orphan heroine of comic book page and stage in this updated revamp of the popular musical. Jamie Foxx co-stars as the Daddy Warbucks guardian, here a politician who adopts the orphan in hopes it will improve his election chances. Rose Byrne, Cameron Diaz, and Bobby Cannavale have featured roles. Will Gluck directs.

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FOXCATCHER Steve Carell gets an extreme physical, as well as an image makeover for the role of John DuPont in this true crime drama about the increasingly strained and complex relationship between the mercurial loner, DuPont, and Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum), the Olympic wrestler he sponsored and trained for the 1988 Seoul games. Mark Ruffalo co-stars as Schultz's brother. Bennett Miller (Moneyball) directs. (R) 134 minutes. Starts Friday.

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THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF FIVE ARMIES Bilbo, Gandalf, and their allies return for the final installment of Peter Jackson's trilogy, in which the intrepid company battles the fearsome dragon, Smaug, to save Middle Earth. Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Luke Evans, Orlando Bloom, and Cate Blanchett head the cast, with Benedict Cumberbatch returning as the voice of Smaug. (PG-13) 144 minutes. Starts today (Wednesday, Dec. 17).

NATIONAL GALLERY The unblinking camera eye of acclaimed documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman leads viewers on a three-hour tour of one of Britain's most prestigious art galleries, its art collection and its denizens. (Not rated) 180 minutes.

Starts Friday. One week only, at the Nick.

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRETS OF THE TOMB Ben Stiller returns for the third and final

installment of the series in which he stars as museum guard, Larry, on a one-night, global museumhopping quest to save the magic that allows all the exhibits to come to life after hours. Robin Williams (in his last on-camera role), Owen Wilson, Dan Stevens, Rebel Wilson, and Ben Kingsley lead the cast.

Shawn Levy once again directs.

(PG) 97 minutes. Starts Friday.

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This week: BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT Not to be confused with the so-called Director's Cut, this is the ultimate Ridley Scottapproved, 2007 rethinking of his 1982 futuristic masterpiece. Hard to believe that Scott's indelible vision of urban America in decay ca. 2019 is only five years away!

Harrison Ford, Edward James Olmos, Sean Young, and the incredibly dynamic Rutger Hauer star. (R) 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. This week (Dec. 17): Discussion begins at 7 p.m. and admission is free. For more information visit groups.google. com/group/LTATM.

NOW PLAYING ANTARCTICA: A YEAR ON ICE New Zealander Anthony Powell’s new doc captures an insider’s perspective on this wild, fantastical outpost. It took him ten years to make the film, including the time he spent building a camera that could withstand extreme cold, and the vistas he captures are extraordinary. If he would only let us bask in the strangeness, grandeur and beauty of it all, his film would be so effective, but his fondness for time-lapse

photography literally runs away with the movie. Powell wants us to appreciate the stillness and silence of the place, but his busy filmmaking is too frenetic. (PG) 92 minutes. (**1/2)—Lisa Jensen.

BIG HERO 6 The folks at Disney adapt the Marvel comic book series into an animated family adventure about a child prodigy, his giant, inflatable robot pal, and the eccentric friends he transforms into a band of hightech superheroes to save their city. Scott Adsit and Ryan Potter head the voice cast, with guest voices provided by Damon Wayans Jr., Genesis Rodriguez, James Cromwell, and Maya Rudolph. Don Hall and Chris Williams co-direct.

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BIRDMAN or THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE Michael Keaton is inspired casting for this black comedy about a movie actor, once famed for playing an onscreen superhero called Birdman, trying to reinvent his career and himself by mounting a serious Broadway play. Filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu delivers dark, but often scathingly funny observations on pop culture, celebrity, and priorities, but with plenty of nifty style. Fine performances, especially from Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Amy Ryan, and Keaton himself. (R) 119 minutes. (***)—Lisa Jensen.

DUMB AND DUMBER TO You didn’t ask for it, but here it comes anyway, a 20-years-later sequel to the comedy starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels as champion dim bulbs. Now one of them is trying to find his long-lost daughter. Laurie Holden and Kathleen Turner costar for returning directors Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly. (PG-13) EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS Ridley Scott gets Biblical with this 2 1/2-hour epic retelling of the tale of Moses rebelling against the Pharaoh to lead his enslaved people out of Egypt. Christian Bale is Moses and Joel Edgerton is Ramses. Aaron Paul, Sigourney Weaver, and Ben Kingsley co-star.

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THE HOMESMAN Tommy Lee Jones directs this western drama in which he co-stars as a bedraggled drifter roped into helping a toughminded frontierswoman (Hilary Swank) transport three half-addled pioneer women across the brutal, dangerous Nebraska Territories to sanctuary in the east. Mamie Gummer, Miranda Otto, and Meryl Streep co-star. (R) 122 minutes.

HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 In these dangerous times, when we all need our wits about us, this movie not only celebrates stupidity, it causes it. In this sequel, the working stiffs of the first film try to become bosses themselves, but wind up embroiled in a kidnapping plot that is by turns inane, vulgar, tedious and squirm-inducing. The only adjective that doesn’t spring immediately to mind is “funny.” Still, one-half star for incoming Chris Pine, who proves to be an impressively goofy physical clown. (R) 108 minutes. (*1/2)— Lisa Jensen.

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 Jennifer Lawrence returns again as Katniss Everdeen—along with most of the original cast—in this first installment of the third and last book in Suzanne Collins’ dystopian futurist sci-fi series.

(Part 2 comes out next year.) Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, and Julianne Moore head the cast.

Francis Lawrence directs. (PG-13) 123 minutes.

INTERSTELLAR Christopher Nolan’s speculative fiction epic begins in a too-near future where climate change is eroding Earth’s resources. Matthew McConaughey plays an engineer/ex-astronaut who joins a team of explorers flying through a wormhole on a quest to find another habitable planet for the human race. Lengthy sequences of hardware lumbering through space slow things down, but the prickly human element keeps us involved. The science of space/time travel may be more trouble than its worth, but it’s still a voyage worth taking. Rated R. 169 minutes. (***)—Lisa Jensen.

THE PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR In this animated family comedy, the lovable goofball penguins from the Madagascar franchise get their own movie, in which they are recruited as international spies. Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, and Christopher Knight provide the main voices; Benedict Cumberbatch voices their mysterious spymaster. Eric Darnell and Simon J. Smith direct.

(PG) 92 minutes.

ROSEWATER Jon Stewart makes his screenwriting/directing debut with this real-life thriller based on the bestselling memoir by BBC journalist Maziar Bahari, about his lengthy imprisonment in Iran and the family who refused to let his story die. Gael García Bernal and Shohreh Aghdashloo star. (R) 103 minutes.

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING The image of science icon Stephen Hawking slouched in his motorized wheelchair, communicating through his robotic voice synthesizer, is so well-known, it’s difficult to imagine him any other way. But that changes with this smart, funny, and tender biographical drama from director James Marsh. Beginning with Hawking as a vigorous young grad student at Cambridge, it tells the enduring love story of Hawking and his first wife, Jane. Oscars may loom for the exceptional performances

by Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones in a film that celebrates tenacity—in life, love, and ideas.

(PG-13) 123 minutes. (****)—Lisa Jensen.

TOP FIVE Chris Rock wrote and directed this pop culture satire in which he stars as a stand-up comedian-turned-movie star who, in a moment of madness, agrees to his fiancée's idea to document their wedding plans for her reality TV show. Rosario Dawson, Gabrielle Union, Cedric the Entertainer, and Tracy Morgan co-star. (R) WILD Reviewed this issue. (R) 115 minutes. (***)—Lisa Jensen.

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FOOD & DRINK Plum Jelly, Carrot Marmalade, Onion Jam, Fig & Fennel Jam are fixtures on local shelves, and across the country. Jars are trucked out each Wednesday to the East Coast, then around the West on Fridays.

“We are growing so furiously,” she admits happily. “I thrive on pressure, but, yes, things can go wrong—all the time!” Her biggest success? “That I'm here today four years later.” Her most popular product? “Pinot Cherries—it has the most diverse uses; salad dressings, Manhattans, with cheese platters.

There’s no meal that could not benefit from Pinot Cherries.” Her favorite right now is Forbidden Fruit marmalade, loaded with a huge variety of citrus, from Ruby grapefruit to Meyer lemon and tangerine. Stroup believes her ascent really began when she figured out who she was—“I'm a girl who colors outside the lines. I think beyond the jar!”

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abitha Stroup designs, cooks and packages her innovative and seriously appealing line of small-batch handmade jams, chutneys and condiments from a well-equipped kitchen on the Temple Beth El property in Aptos.

Monday morning she and an assistant are cranking to get 500 cases of product ready for delivery. What she needs is more help and more automation, she'll tell you.

The large industrial kitchen is perfumed with the scent of pears and spices simmering on the huge stove. Stroup uses a three-foot wooden spoon to stir small batches in 10-gallon pots. This batch will

soon become Pisco Pear Butter.

Stacks of spices line one end of a huge work table laden with macerating citruses and baskets of beautiful ripe pears.

“I like control,” she says with a grin over the simmering jam. “We’re reducing 30 pounds of fruit into something intense.”

In a global-sized stainless steel bowl, the makings of her chow chow jam sit waiting for their moment under her spoon. “Local wild honey, dried fruits, nuts, seeds and a good hit of bourbon,” that's what will go into it, she explains. “The search for honey is a constant challenge—we have a shortage.”

In 1991, Stroup arrived from Fresno to work in Felton as a social worker with troubled juveniles. “I quickly realized that I was most effective when I cooked for them.”

Hence it all began. Next came postearthquake India Joze, where Stroup made her first pastries, and pestered Jozseph Schultz enough for culinary tips that she “finally got to do the potatoes.”

For the past four years, she has morphed her original venture as an entrepreneur of wine and cheese pairings—hence the Friend in Cheeses brand—and dived into jams and condiments. Her signature seasonal creations, such as Lavender

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Four pumpkin pies were put through their paces by my panel last week.

Here’s what we found. Crust: The Buttery’s was the most subtle and flakiest. Kelly's was expertly balanced, slightly sweet. Companion Bakeshop's had a delicious flavor, perhaps a bit saltier than the others.

Gayle's was classic in every way. All the crusts were light in texture and exactly the right thickness.

Filling-wise, Companion’s had the most brilliant color and most spiciness with appealing mouthfeel.

Kelly’s was the tallest slice, custardy and very smooth, with a terrific flavor finish. Gayle’s offered moist, balanced spicing. The Buttery’s had lively flavor and outstanding balance among pumpkin, spice, sweetness, and salt. If I had to pick the best balance of all elements it would be a tie between Gayle’s and The Buttery. But my personal favorite? Companion Bakeshop.

It looked, felt and tasted the most rustically accessible and handmade.

And surprise! Its distinctive flavor was due to red Kuri squash! All four examples were wonderful—definitely as good as homemade—and each deserves your personal attention.

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Why did you open Tramonti so close to other Italian restaurants?

LUCA VIARA: We are different.

La Posta is an Italian-American Restaurant, but it’s more fancy, finedining style, and the one across the street at Engfer, their pizza is way different than ours. It’s more like for young people.

What’s a Seabright Pizza?

The idea is like a tribute to the neighborhood, ’cause we really like being here. We have a recipe for making pizza with vegetables not available in the Bay Area that you can only find in the south of Italy.

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You make thin-crust authentic pizzas. How are you cooking them?

We have a wood-fired oven that can use either gas or wood. The oven is imported from Italy. We just cook it in the moment in the wood or gas fire. It depends. Sometimes it’s better to use gas if it’s not so busy, because with wood sometimes you burn people’s mouths off. So we use gas if it’s not too busy, so we can keep it more consistent. Every day when we make the dough we use natural fresh yeast. We make it the night before. It’s really light. We only use flour, water, oil, salt and yeast.

The bread we make every morning is also with the pizza dough.

What’s Tramonti mean?

Tramonti is the name of a town in the south of Italy. It’s close to Naples on the coast. It is where my business partner [Giuseppe Vitagliano] is from.

Tramonti also means “sunset,” so there is a double meaning. But in our case we mean Tramonti the town.

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Winter solstice is the longest day of darkness of the year. The sun’s rays resting at the Tropic of Capricorn (southern hemisphere) symbolize the Christ (soul’s) light piercing the heart of the Earth, remaining there for three days, till Holy Night (midnight Thursday morning). Then the sun’s light begins to rise. It is the birth of the new light (holy child) for the world. A deep calm and stillness pervades the world.

The entire planet is revivified, re-spiritualized.

All hearts beating reflect this Light. And so throughout the Earth there’s a radiant “impress” (impressions, pictures) given to humanity of the World Mother and her Child. The star Sirius (love/direction) and the constellation Virgo the mother shines above. For gift giving, give to those in need. Give and give and then give some more.

This creates the new template of giving and sharing for the new world.

ARIES Mar21–Apr20

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22

As an intelligent light is focused on all outer aspects of your life, you wonder who you are in the larger society.

Examining your purpose, standing, and reputation, you also ask what is your direction and how you’re progressing. It’s possible you will be sought out for honors, observed as a mentor, given tasks and projects of leadership and power.

Tend to them carefully, using intentions for goodwill and intelligent love in all endeavors. You can then lead others to the light.

Your personal life and people you intimately relate with are your focus. You seek a firm foundation, things familiar, reason and purpose to build the future.

Much of your attention now must be focused inward to assess values (what do you value?) and recognize psychologically what you need. Events from the past are remembered, affecting you deeply. Examining the truth of this past is most important. It’s not what you think.

GIVING AND GIVING, THEN GIVING SOME MORE Esoteric Astrology for week of Dec. 17 - 24, 2014

TAURUS Apr21–May21 New experiences and meeting people from different regions— perhaps by phone, email or conference calling—are broadening your horizons. You might consider giving, creating, or attending a new course of study that’s intellectually disciplined, practical and purposeful. New routines should be established so a new understanding of time emerges. For guidance, investigate laws concerning a new endeavor and ponder upon the new Aquarian laws and principles.

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Your feelings, emotions and mind are working together to provide subtle new information concerning life and death, wellness and health, money and resources. Your inner self is being expanded through unusual activities occurring in your daily life. Are you caring for others? Your beliefs are shifting, leading to a deeper self-inquiry into money, resources, relationships and psychological healing. Maintain your tender care.

CANCER Jun21–Jul20 As you interact and work closely with others, you understand more about yourself. You’ll discover how you unconsciously make decisions affecting your actions. This leads to a deeper awareness of choices, hidden agendas, resentments and expectations. With awareness comes change, and a light shed upon the value within all relationships. Begin to have intentions for goodwill in all interactions.

LE0 Jul21–Aug22 So many tasks to be accomplished and responsibilities to be considered! You will be efficient and effective if you stay to the point, set timetables, examine techniques and procedures, and sharpen your mind with discriminating intentions. Others will call for your input and have needs and wishes. Through trials and grief, and having become one who serves, you will tend to all with equanimity and poise. Before all else, though, tend to you daily health.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Perhaps you feel an unusual happiness, expressing yourself, setting priorities, seeking fun and play. If not, then begin. It may take effort completing daily responsibilities. Finish them early so your day is free. Caring for children, pets, or a garden creates joy and happiness. In all endeavors, you’re more creative, imaginative, artistic, resourceful and inspired. Applause.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 Observe your interactions with others and how you handle relationships. Are there communications and habits of thinking that enhance or undermine your effectiveness? Do you pour out all your energy? It’s most important to listen carefully to what others are saying. There’s an alchemy (magic) in listening. Creating spiritual dew within the heart that assuages loneliness. Confusion ceases.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 Make a list of all resources in your life, physical and spiritual, and assess their value. You often seek to express yourself through non-material resources. Therefore, a list of them is of value. Knowing more about yourself provides you with greater control psychologically. On the other hand, it might be time for a party celebrating your successes and resources, which gives others fun, amusement and pleasure. Serve artful foods and drinks.

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 It’s time to renew yourself for the New Year, to withdraw somewhat from the world, turning inward into the darkness, where, under the new light of winter solstice, new ideas form. This is not a selfish act, but one born from future needs. While in the world be sensitive to others. If relationships problems arise, resolve conflicts by calling upon the soul’s help. The answer lies in what is the good for the whole and of greatest service—and how it comforts you.

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 Align (visualize this) your thoughts, words and actions.

It’s important to be aware if several messages are being projected simultaneously from you to the world. You or others could be acting out unresolved childhood behaviors.

Ponder on this. As the year ends, review and reflect upon the past year. When feeling peaceful and quiet, plan the New Year. It should be more comforting, kinder and more prosperous than last year. Reflect on what you need.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 You’re recognizing the value of friendships and other close and important relationships. This assessment relates to your present life purpose and the visions and ideals you hope to manifest. Cooperate with others who are like-minded. Also, quietly observe others. Those you are attracted to reflect many different aspects of yourself. Cultivate these friends. It will be within a group that your ideals, hopes and visions manifest. Love more.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE No. 142182. The following Individual is doing business as HAPPY HORSES SOUND AND ENERGY HEALING. 301 REDWOOD HEIGHRS ROAD, APTOS CA 95003 County of Santa Cruz.

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This business is conducted by a Individual AMBER JONES. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on November 17, 2014. November 26 & December 3, 10, 17.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE No. 14-2204 The following Individual is doing business as SANTACRUZNANNIES AND DOMESTIC STAFFING. 415County of Santa Cruz.AMBER JONES. 415 13TH AVE. SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. This business is conducted by a Individual AMBER JONES & MICHELLE TURNER. 415 13TH AVE. SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 6/23/2009.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on November 17, 2014. November 26 & December 3, 10, 17.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE No. 14-2137 The following General Partnership is doing business as SANTA CRUZ MOVING SERVICES. 908 OCEAN ST. BLDG. A, SANTA CRUZ CA95060 County of Santa Cruz. NICOLETTE KLUS & MARIANO KUK. 421 MARTINELLI ST., WATSONVILLE CA 95076. This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed:MARIANO KUK The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 3/12/2010. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on November 4, 2014. November 26 & December 3, 10, 17.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE No. 14-2193 The following Individual is doing business as LUMINOUS, LUMINOUS BODYCARE & LUMINOUS PURE BODYCARE. 115 AVERITT STREET, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. AMBER GREWER. 115 AVERITT STREET, SANTA

CRUZ CA 95060. This business is conducted by a Individual AMBER GREWER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on November 13, 2014.

November 26 & December 3, 10, 17.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE No. 14-2223 The following Individual is doing business as LUMINOUS BABYCARE & LUMINOUS PURE BABY CARE 115 AVERITT STREET, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. AMBER GREWER. 115 AVERITT STREET, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060. This business is conducted by a Individual AMBER GREWER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on November 21 2014.

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THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner LAURA HAGEN has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name from Conner Cruz Thixton to: Conner Thixton Hagen. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING January 13, 2014 at 8:30am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110.

Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times , a newspaper of General Circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: Novenber 25, 2014. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior Court. December 3, 10, 17, 24.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF ARELI LOPEZ GARCIA CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV180529.

THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner ARELI LOPEZ GARCIA has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name from Daiana Diaz to: Daiana Diaz-Lopez. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING January 12, 2014 at 8:30am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110.

Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times , a newspaper of General Circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: Novenber 25, 2014. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior Court. December 3, 10, 17, 24.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 14-2214 The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as BRAIDWOOD CO., COAST ROAD FORGE & GS5. 551 COAST RD., SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 County of Santa Cruz.

PACIFIC BAY MOUNTAIN, LLC. 849 ALMAR AVE. #C181, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060. Al# 16710372. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed JESSE KATZ. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on November 18, 2014. December 3, 10, 17, 24.

under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on November 24, 2014.

December 10, 17, 24, 31.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 14-2273 The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as PURISIMA RIDGE- 207 REDWOOD ROAD, WATSONVILLE CA 95076 County of Santa Cruz. 207 REDWOOD, LLC. 120 RULOFSON STREET, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060. Al# 19110066.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed DANIEL ORANGE. The

registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/30/2014 This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 3, 2014. December 10, 17, 24, 31.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 14-2269 The following Corporation is doing business as EPIC WINES & SPIRITS 2160 41ST AVENUE, SUITE B CAPITOLA 95010 County of Santa Cruz.

EPIC VENTURES. 2160 41ST AVENUE, SUITE B CAPITOLA 95010. Al# 1946508. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: ANDREA

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE No. 14-2158 The following Individual is doing business as WATSONVILLE VACUUM & SEWING CENTER. 757 FREEDOM BLVD, WATSONVILLE CA 95076 County of Santa Cruz. JOE RICHARD GONZALES. 1207 DAZZLE LANE, CAPITOLA CA 95010.

This business is conducted by a Individual JOE RICHARD GONZALES. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on November 6, 2014.

December 3, 10, 17, 24.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE No. 14-2285 The following Individual is doing business as BLACK LABEL JARS. 2909 BRANCIFORTE DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95065 County of Santa Cruz. ALIX HYDOCK. 2909 BRANCIFORTE DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95065.

This business is conducted by a Individual ALIX HYDOCK The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 4, 2014. December 10, 17, 24, 31.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE No. 14-2234 The following Individual is doing business as LOAMSTEAD EDIBLE LANDSCAPING. 506 B PINE ST., CAPITOLA CA 95010 County of Santa Cruz. PHILLIP WAYNE GATCHELL. 506 B PINE ST., CAPITOLA CA 95010.

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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF CHRISTIAN SAMUEL MOORE CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV180434. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner CHRISTIAN SAMUEL MOORE has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name from Christain Samuel Moore to: Dmitri Zurita THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING January 6, 2014 at 8:30am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times , a newspaper of General Circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.

Dated: Novenber 14, 2014.

John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior Court. November 26 & December 3, 10, 17.

registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/27/2014 This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on October 28, 2014. November 12, 19, 26 & December 3.

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Classifieds classifieds MONDRAGON. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/1/2014 This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 2, 2014. December 10, 17, 24, 31.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF JUSTIN HERTING, CHRISTIE HERTING CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV180234. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner JUSTIN HERTING, CHRISTIE HERTING has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicant’s name from Camara Darlene Placentini to: Camara Darlene Herting. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING January 14, 2014 at 8:30am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110.

Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times , a newspaper of General Circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: December 3, 2014. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior Court. December 17, 24, 31 & Jan.7.

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THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner YANA LINS BONETTI has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicant’s name from Yana Lins Bonetti to: Yana Lins-Clark Bonetti. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING January 15, 2014 at 8:30am, in Department 4 located at

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Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times , a newspaper of General Circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: December 3, 2014. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior Court. December 17, 24, 31 & Jan.7.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF YANA LINS BONETTI CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV180185.

THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner YANA LINS BONETTI has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicant’s name from Yana Lins Bonetti to: Yana Lins-Clark Bonetti. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING January 15, 2014 at 8:30am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110.

Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times , a newspaper of General Circulation printed in Santa Cruz

County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: December 3, 2014. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior Court. December 17, 24, 31 & Jan.7.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF GUSTAVO CISNEROS LOPEZ CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV180647. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner GUSTAVO CISNEROS LOPEZ has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicant’s name from Gustavo Cisneros Lopez to: Gustavo Lopez Cisneros THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING January 28, 2014 at 8:30am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110.

Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times , a newspaper of General Circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: December 3, 2014. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior Court. December

17, 24, 31 & Jan.7.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 14-2313 The following individual is doing business as BROWN’S SEPTIC CONSTRUCTION. PO BOX 1065, SOQUEL CA 95073 County of Santa Cruz. DARREN PAUL BROWN. PO BOX 1065, SOQUEL CA 95073. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: DARREN PAUL BROWN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 9, 2014. December 17, 24, 31 & Jan. 7.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 14-2329 The following individual is doing business as BROWN’S SEPTIC CONSTRUCTION. PO BOX 1065, SOQUEL CA 95073 County of Santa Cruz. DARREN PAUL BROWN. PO BOX 1065, SOQUEL CA 95073. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: DARREN PAUL BROWN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 9, 2014. December 17, 24, 31 & Jan. 7.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 14-2329 The following individual is doing business as VIBRANT EXPRESSION. 2260 CAPITOLA RD. APT. B. SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz.

THERESE DUCHARME. 2260 CAPITOLA RD. APT. B. SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: THERESE DUCHARME. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 15, 2014. December 17, 24, 31 & Jan. 7.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 14-2264 The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as ELUCIDATE. 120 HAWKS PEAK RD. SUITE 100, APTOS CA 95003 County of Santa Cruz. OUTSOURCE RESEARCH CONSULTING, LLC. 120 HAWKS PEAK RD. SUITE 100, APTOS CA 95003. Al# 710147 This

business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed NICO PERUZZI The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 2, 2014. December 17, 24, 31 & Jan. 7.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 1423184 The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as BEN LOMOND BAKING CO., 9280 HWY 9, BEN LOMOND, CA 95005 County of Santa Cruz.

CASA NOSTRA, LLC. 17775 MELISSA LN, BOULDER CREEK, CA 95006. Al# 25110029.

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Signed RAFFAELE CRISTAUO The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 10, 2014. December 17, 24, 31 & Jan. 7.

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TRISHA WEBBER, W 17-Y 17-Year Yeear Customer, Custtomer, Santa Cruz

1938 1 8 T OUR 7 76 6 TH YEAR

Occupation: Assistant County C Clerk of Santa Cruz County Hobb Hobbies: bies: Reading, spending time with family, familyy, cooking, co ooking, walking, biking Astr Astrological ological Sign: Libra

AUGGIE WEBBER, W 45-Y 45-Year Yeear Customer, Customer, Santa Cruz

Occupation: Insurance agent Hobbies: outdoors/beach, gardening, gardeningg, baking, barbecuing/grilling Astr Astrological ologicall Sign: Leo

Is Shopper’’s your go-to go-tto market? TRISHA: “Y Yees. I shop once weekly weeekly and fill an entire entire “Yes. shopping cart. cart. I comee from from a small town which had a small market maarket and a butcher counter like Shopper’ Shopper’ss.. When I moved here, here, I looked for a similar stor s e and found store Shopper’ pp ’ss,, and it felt like I was home.”

AUGGIE “We “W We don’t don’t buy b meat anywhere anywhere but Shopper’’ss.. I like to barbecue baarbecue and bought a Gr een Egg. I’m just learning, leearning, and I really really like Green grilling Shopper’’s steaks, steaaks, chicken, and trirecently made pork chops that were were tips; I recently out of this world!” TRISHA: TR RISHA: “Being the sous chef, I enjoy assistingg the ’master’ grill chef!”

Plan on sho shopping opping here here for the holidays?

“M My family tradition of 45 years is a AUGGIE: “My standing rib b rroast oast from from Shopper’’s for We look forward forward to Christmas.”” TRISHA: “W “We shopping here heere during the holidays. I also love Daay here here as I get a rose!” rose!” AUGGIE: Mother’’s Day “That’’s Shopper’ Shop pper’’s Corner: it’’s a whole different p pp different service v than you get at the chains or level of service big box stores.” storres.” TRISHA: “I shop at Shopper’’s t great great selection of fresh fresh food, because of the and I always alwayys leave with a smile.” AUGGIE: holidaays or not, they always have a “And holidays great great selection selectiion of liquors and red red wines, and faair price.” for a ver veryy fair

Why W do you think the service is so good?

T treat their theeir TRISHA: “I can only think they treat employees employees well as they seem happy; there’ therre’’s v y little turnover and that makes a difference ver differ f ence very in n service.” service.” AUGGIE: “Ther “There’ e’’s always someone som meone th here to help you if you need assistance, there whether w it’’s the butchers or others.” TRISHA: TRISHA: “Shopper’ “Shopper’’s embraces the community by acknowledging acknowledging their customers. They really reaally taake the time get to know you. They know kno ow our take daughter d Jocelyn by name and ask aboutt her w she’’s not with me.” AUGGIE: “And d the when staff sttaff wants to help you. I always feel good goo od w I come out of the stor e.” when store.”

“I shopp at Shopper’’s because of the t gr great reat e selection of fresh frreesh food, and I always leave with w a smile.”

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