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EDITOR’S EDITOR R’S NOTE Support for Proposition P roposition 37, 37, the 2012 initiative that would have rrequired equirre e ed a special products label for pr oducts containing genetically g enetically modified modif fiied organisms (GM (GMOs), huge MOs), was hug e in Santa Cruz. When it was defeated at the polls by ridiculously narrow by a ridic culously narr ow margin, supporters pointed huge scare supporters po ointed to the hug e scar e campaign by Monsanto by M onsanto and other corporations, which outspent the corporrations, a tiny “Yes 37” tin ny “Y Ye es on 37 7” campaign by by tens of millions off dol dollars, illi d ll llar l s, hammering h i home h the notion tha that at GMO labeling was going skyrocket. going to make e food costs skyr ocket. When I rread ead d Christina Christina Waters’ Waters’ cover stor story this legacy y th his week, I see the le gacy of that expens expensive sive disinformation campaign. Qu Quite simply,, people don’t uite simply know what to believe about food
la labeling abeling anymore, anymore, and ther there e hasn’t been be een enough of an education effort by by th he ag encies cr eating the labels to help h the agencies creating co onsumers under stand the differ en nce consumers understand difference be etween a pr oduct labeled “GMO-fr ree,” between product “GMO-free,” “U USD DA Certif fied i Organic, W “USDA Certified Organic,”” “Made With Or rganic Products,” Products,” or anything an nything else e. Organic else. W ater a s’ examination of this confus sion Waters’ confusion no ot only makes the differ re ences easy y to not differences un nderstand, it shows how the lack of understand, co onsumer compr ehension is hurtin ng consumer comprehension hurting th he organic movement. the What I like about cover stories su uch such ass this one is that they can inspir e inspire sm mall chang es that have a big impa act, small changes impact, on nce the differ re ence between labels once difference iss explained, and the implications fo or organic farmer for farmerss is clear. In an ar rea like this that car es deeply abou ut area cares about w wher e its food comes fr om and how w where from it’ ’s produced, produced, a little knowledg eg oe es a it’s knowledge goes lo ong wa ay. long way. STEVE S T VE P TE PALOPOLI ALOPOLI | EDIT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OR-IN-CHIEF
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What would make Santa Cruz better? BY MATTHEW COLE SCOTT
A lot more outdoor activities, such as outdoor movies and concerts, food and art festivals, and more multicultural activites. EMMANUEL COLE
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An art market where we close down the street. JULIENNE ENGLISH
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In the old Superman comics, Mister Mxyzptlk was a fiendish imp whose home was in the fifth dimension. He sometimes snuck over into our world to bedevil the Man of Steel with pranks. There was one sure way he could be instantly banished back to his own realm for a long time: If Superman fooled him into saying his own name backwards. You might think it would be hard to trick a magic rascal into saying “Kltpzyxm” when he knew very well what the consequences would be, but Superman usually succeeded. I’d like to suggest that you have a similar power to get rid of a bugaboo that has been bothering you, Aries. Don’t underestimate your ability to outsmart the pest.
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In 1637, mathematician Pierre de Fermat declared that he had solved the “Last Theorem,” a particularly knotty mathematical problem. Unfortunately, he never actually provided the proof that he had done so. The mystery remained. Other math experts toiled for centuries looking for the answer. It wasn’t until 1994, more than 350 years later, that anyone succeeded. I think you are on the verge of discovering a possible solution to one of your own long-running riddles, Taurus. It may take a few more weeks, but you’re almost there. Can you sense that twinkle in your third eye? Keep the faith.
I have taken a passage from a letter that Henry Miller wrote to Anais Nin, and I have chopped it up and rearranged it and added to it so as to create an oracle that’s perfect for you right now. Ready? “This is the wild dream: you with your chameleon’s soul being anchored always in no matter what storm, sensing you are at home wherever you are. You asserting yourself, getting the rich varied life you desire; and the more you assert yourself, the more you love going deeper, thicker, fuller. Resurrection after resurrection: that’s your gift, your promise. The insatiable delight of constant change.”
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Your upcoming efforts might not be flawless in all respects, but I suspect you will triumph anyway. You may not even be completely sure of what you want, but I bet you’ll get a reward you didn’t know you were looking for. Cagey innocence and high expectations will be your secret weapons. Dumb luck and crazy coincidences will be your X-factors. Here’s one of your main tasks: As the unreasonable blessings flow in your direction, don’t disrupt or obstruct the flow.
One of your important assignments in the coming week is to get high without the use of drugs and alcohol. Let me elaborate. In my oracular opinion, you simply must escape the numbing trance of the daily rhythm. Experiencing altered states of awareness will provide you with crucial benefits. At the same time, you can’t afford to risk hurting yourself, and it’s essential to avoid stupidly excessive behavior that has negative repercussions. So what do you think? Do you have any methods to get sozzled and squiffed or jiggled and jingled that will also keep you sane and healthy?
CANCER Jun21–Jul22 As soon as a baby loggerhead turtle leaves its nest on a Florida beach, it heads for the ocean. It’s only two inches long. Although it can swim just one mile every two hours, it begins an 8,000-mile journey that takes ten years. It travels east to Africa, then turns around and circles back to where it originated. Along the way it grows big and strong as it eats a wide variety of food, from corals to sea cucumbers to squid. Succeeding at such an epic journey requires a stellar sense of direction and a prodigious will to thrive. I nominate the loggerhead turtle to be your power animal for the coming weeks, Cancerian.
LE0 Jul23–Aug22 In 1961, 19-year-old Bob Dylan began doing solo performances of folk songs at New York clubs. To accompany his vocals, he played an acoustic guitar and harmonica. By 1963, his career had skyrocketed. Critics called him a creative genius. Pop stars were recording the songs he wrote, making him rich. But he still kept his instrumentation simple, relying entirely on his acoustic guitar and harmonica. That changed in 1965, when he made the leap to rock ’n’ roll. For the first time, his music featured a full drum set and electric guitar, bass, and keyboards. Some of his fans were offended. How dare he renounce his folk roots? I wonder if it might be time for you to consider a comparable transition, Leo. Are you willing to risk disorienting or disturbing those who would prefer you to stay as you are?
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“Whoever travels without a guide needs 200 years for a two-day journey.”That’s an old Sufi saying sometimes attributed to the poet Rumi. I don’t think it’s accurate in all cases. Sometimes we are drawn to wander into frontiers that few people have visited and none have mastered. There are no guides! On other occasions, we can’t get the fullness of our learning experience unless we are free to stumble and bumble all by ourselves. A knowledgeable helper would only interfere with that odd magic. But right now, Virgo, I believe the Sufi saying holds
There’s a meme rolling around Tumblr and Facebook that goes like this: “Everyone wants a magical solution for their problems, but they refuse to believe in magic.” Judging from the astrological omens, I think this Internet folk wisdom applies to your current situation. As I see it, you have two choices. If you intend to keep fantasizing about finding a magical solution, you will have to work harder to believe in magic. But if you can’t finagle your brain into actually believing in magic, you should stop fantasizing about a magical solution. Which will it be?
CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 Singer Gloria Gaynor recorded the song “I Will Survive” in 1978. It sold over two million copies and ultimately became an iconic disco anthem. And yet it was originally the B-side of “Substitute,” the song that Gaynor’s record company released as her main offering. Luckily, radio DJs ignored “Substitute” and played the hell out of “I Will Survive,” making it a global hit. I foresee the possibility of a similar development for you, Capricorn. What you currently consider to be secondary should perhaps be primary. A gift or creation or skill you think is less important could turn out to be pre-eminent.
AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 I’m tempted to furrow my brow and raise my voice as I tell you to please, please, please go out and do the dicey task you’ve been postponing. But that would just be a way to vent my frustration, and probably not helpful or constructive for you. So here’s my wiser advice: To prepare for that dicey task, lock yourself in your sanctuary until you figure out what you first need to change about yourself before you can accomplish the dicey task. I think that once you make the inner shift, doing the deed will be pretty easy.
PISCES Feb19–Mar20 In the fairy tale “The Ugly Duckling,” the young hero suffers from a peculiar case of mistaken identity. He believes that he is a duck. All of his problems stem from this erroneous idea. By duck standards, he is a homely mess. He gets taunted and abused by other animals, goes into exile, and endures terrible loneliness. In the end, though, his anguish dissolves when he finally realizes that he is in fact a swan. United with his true nature, he no longer compares himself to an inappropriate ideal. Fellow swans welcome him into their community, and he flies away with them. Is there anything in this story that resonates with you, Pisces? I’m guessing there is. It’s high time to free yourself from false notions about who you really are.
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n 20 years, you won’t be driving Highway 17 to work in Silicon Valley—you’ll be flying your personal drone over the mountains. At least that’s the vision of Philip McNamara, who is bringing an international drone conference to Santa Cruz in May with some of the top names in building the so-farpilotless aircraft. Not only that, but if McNamara has his way, Santa Cruz will be for drones what Mountain View and Palo Alto are for search engines and software—a capital of the growing new technology. “Right now is the golden age of drone development,” says McNamara, 40, who moved to Santa Cruz five
years ago when his wife got a marine biology job at UCSC. “It’s kind of like where mobile phones were 10 or 15 years ago.” How big will it get? Will we look like the Jetsons? “I think drones will transport people on a large commercial scale,” says McNamara. “You will be able to call your Uber drone, and it will be able to take you to Silicon Valley.” Santa Cruz is already flying ahead of the pack. Joby Aviation in Bonny Doon is working on carbon fiber wings and propellers that change and adapt, with the intention of making personal drones to take you to work. Its founder, JoeBen Bevirt, is a serial entrepreneur whose products include
electric planes and the Gorillapod, a tripod mounting for cell phone cameras. He’s one of the featured speakers at the conference, which will be held at Kaiser Permanente Arena April 30-May 1. McNamara expects 1,000 people from around the world to attend the conference, which, based on the high caliber of speakers, resembles a TED conference for drones. He stresses that this is about drones for business and saving lives, not about military drones. The military gave birth to the concept of pilotless aircraft, called UAVs, or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and has made it into a scary, deadly technology. Pilotless aircraft can be traced back to >12
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In the Santa Cruz Mountains, tiny cottages— not all of them permitted—dot the forested landscape. One property houses a yurt, a circular dwelling held together by stilts, on a hillside. Another property owner, who’d rather just go by Bob, constructed a 244-squarefoot cottage on a dusty plateau overlooking redwood forests and, on a clear day, a shimmering Monterey Bay. “I had this trailer, then I got a wild hair and decided to build a house on it,” says Bob, trekking up to the place in his brown work boots, faded Wranglers and pine-green plaid shirt with sleeves torn at the elbows. Wide windows—the bulk of which he got for free from contractors—fill the cottage with natural light, giving it a roomy feel, despite the limited dimensions. A former mechanical engineer, Bob crafted the place from ruddy cuts of ancient heart redwood. The logs had been lying around for a century or so before he decided to slice them to size with a sawmill he built out of an old boat trailer. Sixteen solar panels cover the patio. Inside, a wood-burning stove fashioned from an old water tank stands in one corner, a kitchen fills up the other, a cupboard and, overhead, a sleeping loft. The only separate room in the house is the full bathroom, with a bathtub and toilet that drains into a 1,500-gallon septic tank with a proper leach field. In all: $5,000 to build, about another $6,000 for the solar panels, Bob says. Whether Bob realizes it or not, he’s part of a trend—one of people making ends meet in smaller housing units, sometimes called tiny homes. Over the hill, Tim McCormick is in a one-car garage tinkering with a 64-square-foot cube he hopes will “hack the housing crisis.” As he envisions it, an 8-foot-square skeleton of perforated square steel tubes, small enough to fit in a parking spot, could become an “erector set” suitable home or workspace. From there, one could build up or out—as spartan as a post-apocalyptic bomb shelter or as elaborate as a several-story dwelling. Modules could be separate or stacked, side panels swapped, dimensions complementing existing urban spaces, like a small yard or a garage. “It’s about creating systems to solve a very wide set of potential needs in the built environment,” he says. >14
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the 1800s, when Austrians used hot air balloons to attack Italy, but in recent years drone strikes to kill terrorists have been a way for politicians to fight a war without being responsible for “boots on the ground.” Today, the U.S. Air Force has more than 7,000 drones, or one-third of its planes, many of them flown by people at computer terminals thousands of miles away. With names like Predator and Reaper and 66-foot wingspans, they can travel thousands of miles to launch Hellfire missiles. But, like the Internet, which was originally a military invention, drones have a huge potential in peacetime, despite some people’s fears. “To be sure, this is about commercial drones, saving lives and helping drowning victims,” says McNamara, whose day job is at the Irish company Voxpro, which helps Silicon Valley firms navigate Europe. “With every new technology, there is always fear,” says McNamara. “People were afraid of cars when they first saw them. Some said cell phones will give you cancer. Others said, ‘If God wanted man to fly, he’d have given him wings.’ People worry about drones crashing and traffic and
safety. But when a drone comes and saves you when you are drowning, you’ll be pretty glad of it. It can take a lifeguard three minutes to get to you, but a drone can be there in 30 seconds—or if you need medicine or an adrenaline shot.” Commercial drones come in all shapes and sizes, from those little helicopter-like devices you see in Radio Shack to larger ones that can carry medicine or a defibrillator or a quality video camera. They are being used by farmers to keep track of crops, and ranchers to find lost cattle. The Silicon Valley company Matternet has gotten funding to develop a chain of $3,000-a-piece drones with solar-powered charging systems, placed every 10 kilometers, to make deliveries. The company, backed by Andreessen Horowitz (who brought us Facebook and Groupon, among others), is currently experimenting with a “pony express” system in Haiti and the Dominican Republic to deliver “food, medicine, and other essentials to villages seasonally stranded by stormy weather and low-quality road infrastructure,” according to a Singularity Hub article. Company founder Andreas
Raptopoulos, who will speak at the Santa Cruz conference, told a TEDx audience in Edinburgh that his company has a worldwide market of one billion people who aren’t served by roads today. His drones could reach around the globe like the Internet (thus the name, Matternet, as in transporting matter). The cost to deliver two kilograms of matter over 10 kilometers is just 24 cents, he says. The vehicles cost three cents; the battery nine cents; the charging station 10 cents and energy two cents. Of course, Matternet’s drones would not yet be able to fly under current Federal Aviation Administration rules, because they are autonomous, with no operator in sight, but he says they could help undeveloped countries with deliveries, which would also help relieve traffic in big cities. “Imagine one billion people being connected to physical goods in the same way that mobile communications [connect] to information,” the ambitious entrepreneur says. Amazon has been talking about a similar network to fly product orders to homes within 30 minutes. And just last week, the FAA announced proposed regulations allowing commercial drones to be >17
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When the Golden State Warriors signed Santa Cruz power forward James Michael McAdoo last month, some of us wondered whether we’d seen the last of the 6-foot-9 power forward. After all, Golden State could have signed Santa Cruz Warrior McAdoo to a 10-day contract, as teams often do, or even just called him up to Oakland whenever they wanted him. Instead, Golden State signed him for the rest of the season. But McAdoo has played in all four Santa Cruz games since. The message behind the signing, according to ESPN analyst Geoff Gilbert:
Finder’s keepers. “He’s a prospect. Why let him go?” Gilbert says. Gilbert believes Golden State didn’t want another team to get to McAdoo first. So, Golden State locked down the young player, who’s still learning and growing his game. Gilbert says that NBA-caliber players should put up big numbers in the D-League—which is just what McAdoo has been doing. The 22-year-old has been shooting 67 percent in Santa Cruz since his NBA signing. Given his size, McAdoo looks like the kind of player Golden State might crave right now. After all, wannabe NBA analysts (cough, Charles Barkley) have
been telling everyone the Warriors have no chance winning it all without another big man. So, it’s easy to wonder if McAdoo is part of some big-man algorithm for Golden State’s playoff run. Not so, says Gilbert. McAdoo may get playing time, but the team would much rather lean on its experienced players down the stretch, he says. Currently with a 46-12 record, the Golden State Warriors have been the hottest team in the NBA West all season. With the fourthbest record in the league, Santa Cruz doesn’t look too shabby either, especially when it gets help from McAdoo and company. McAdoo isn’t the only player near the cusp of NBA play. Golden
State Center Ognjen Kuzmic´ has spent some time with Santa Cruz. And at 7 feet, he too has dominated—grabbing a gamehigh 19 rebounds in a game last month and recording 6 blocked shots on March 1. Again, basically what we can expect from players good enough for the big leagues. Of course, it bodes well for Golden State that it has extra players hanging out in Santa Cruz with enough talent to fill roster spaces if demand (a star’s injury, for instance) necessitates it. More than that though, it’s great news for Santa Cruz’s Warriors when the Oakland team has so many solid players that it doesn’t even know what to do with all of them. JACOB PIERCE
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People are having discussions all over, including in Santa Cruz, about what tiny homes could do for a community’s needs. As housing prices climb, Santa Cruz Mayor Don Lane would like the City Council to have a study session about affordable housing in the coming months, one that will cover a range of topics. “I intend to have tiny houses be part of that discussion,” he says. “Is that something we want to pursue? What are the obstacles?” Lane wonders, for instance, if rules that govern accessory dwelling units could be changed to accommodate smaller units— making a space for tiny homes. And in an online forum, City Councilmember Pamela Comstock recently floated the idea of a tiny home community and asked others if it was something they would be interested in. Activist and grant writer Steve Pleich says he and others are looking at building properties that could provide a tiny house community in Santa Cruz County. He imagines a pilot
program that could start with about five homes in a half-acre. Elsewhere, tiny homes are already housing people in need. Kendall Ronzano, a 20-year-old college student from Santa Cruz, recently built a tiny 117-square-foot tiny home and shipped it off to an organization in Austin, Texas, that houses the homeless. McCormick calls his low-cost, open-source units Knight Houses, a reinvention of the home as a product that consumers could order online or build themselves. Under the aegis of Houslets, the alternative housing research effort he’s spearheading, McCormick is one of nine San Jose finalists vying for a slice of $5 million in grant money being distributed across Santa Clara County by the Knight Cities Challenge. “If we do this right,” McCormick says, “we can transform Silicon Valley’s urban ecosystem.” McCormick is a relative newcomer to the tiny home movement. Early pioneers in the 1970s advocated for scaled-back homes in reaction to widespread suburbanization that normalized excessive living spaces. The average size of a single-family home four decades
ago hovered around 1,780 square feet. Each new U.S. Census Bureau count broke another record, the latest in 2013 when the average home size stopped just shy of 2,600 square feet, despite a concurrent decrease in the size of the average family. The housing market’s freefall in 2007 galvanized McCormick and others’ push for smaller living quarters. “We had this huge breakdown, where the housing system is stammering,” he says. “All of a sudden regular middle-class people can’t find housing. It became a first-world problem, so to speak.” McCormick has lived in plenty of small, sometimes improbable spaces. Growing up in London, his parents lived in a 1,000-squarefoot home. His bedroom, called a “box room,” was no more than 48 square feet—intended as a storage space, really. His father’s job as an architect moved the family to various urban hubs, always settling into economical living quarters. “That was a key, informative influence,” he says. “As long as I could remember, I was going to building sites, lowincome housing projects.”
McCormick wants to see more of that selfsufficient ingenuity applied to housing in urban spaces. Given that he plans to work with preassembled modules, he thinks he could work within an even tighter budget. The pushback often comes from neighbors who worry about parking supply and property values. Other issues: how to hook up units to plumbing and comply with zoning rules. McCormick says one way to make the idea of incorporating tiny homes within the urban landscape palatable to the public is to incentivize property owners. One model he’s looking at is a fairly new state law that gives tax breaks to property owners who lease to an urban farm. McCormick suggests the same idea could be applied for micro-homes. “Fearing people encroaching on you is human, but so is building, adapting, being able to change your environment,” McCormick says. “It’s all in how you present it.”
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flown up to 500 feet high and within the line of sight of an operator. The agency is taking public comment on its proposals at regulations.gov. You can expect these proposed regulations to be a hot topic at McNamara’s conference, called the Drones, Data X Conference, which will feature talks by the top developers in drone technology, including inventors who worked at NASA, Google and the FAA. The focus is spelled out in the name: Drones, for the aircraft; Data for the volumes of data capable of being gathered by drones; and X for extreme sports, which conference attendees will be able to take part in during their four-day stay. A four-day conference ticket goes for $200, or you can get a Thursday pass to see drone demos at the Kaiser Permanente Arena for $10. There will be speeches and classes, one of which is a foray into the mountains with Cliff Hodges, star of the National Geographic show Remote Survival, and a Santa Cruz native. “It’s still a small industry, and the not-well-known superstars are willing to come to small events,” says McNamara, who organized the first drone conference last year in Ireland. Speakers include Mike Winn, of Drone Deploy, whose Minnesota company makes drones for farmers to monitor crops; Romeo Durscher, who works on developing safe methods of working drones into society for the largest drone maker, DJI in Switzerland. Part of McNamara’s goal is to encourage drone companies to look at Santa Cruz as a place to make their headquarters. With help from Bonnie Lipscomb, the city’s director of economic development, and Doug Erickson of the Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup group, he’s organized activities to keep participants in the city and show it off. “When I see Delaware Street I think it’s crazy that there aren’t a bunch of tech companies there,” says McNamara. “Even downtown, you have all these amazing buildings. People paying $80 a square foot in San Francisco could be paying $30 in Santa Cruz.” For tickets and more info on the Drones, Data X Conference April 30-May 1, go to: nua.io/project/droneconference.
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certification—which is different and has a higher standard than the “Made With Organic Ingredients” label—and the Non-GMO Verification Project seal are brands to look for when seeking to avoid genetically modified organisms in foods. The Non-GMO Verification Project’s standards ensure that GMOs are avoided in all aspects of production. Due to the risk of contamination in processing, however, no product can claim to be 100 percent “GMO free.” As the Non-GMO Verification Project’s website reminds consumers, “the non-GMO Project only verifies meat and processed foods. Due to the lack of verification for fresh produce, buying certified organic produce is the only way to avoid GMOs in your fresh foods.” The issue of GMO labeling remains hugely controversial. Santa Cruz has a strong pro-labeling movement, which supported Proposition 37, the 2012 California ballot initiative which would have required GMO
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believes that “people have a right to know what’s in their food. That’s why we have set a deadline to provide full GMO transparency on all of our food products by 2018.” That means products based on or containing GMO-risk ingredients will be identified accordingly. New Leaf Community Markets founder Scott Roseman agrees that his consumers “are extremely concerned about GMOs. They tell us so. Most want to know if the food they are buying contains ingredients that were grown with GMO seed, so that they have the choice to bypass those products.” Roseman says that the entire GMO issue is a “hotly contested topic. Outside of this country, where Monsanto and their buddies spend millions of dollars to convince people that GMO food is safe, most of the world, including most of Europe, Russia and China, require either that GMO food is labeled, or it is banned entirely.”
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grown organically. Sourcing nonGMO seed, such as that produced by High Mowing in Wolcott, Vermont (highmowingseeds.com) could remedy that. But the contention that organic seeds aren’t “really any better” avoids facing the environmental as well as ethical consequences of buying biotech seed from ag giants like Monsanto and its various subsidiaries. The only guarantee of organic status is USDA Organic certification, which is granted according to standards set in this state by California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF). If a seed, vegetable, or product such as granola has gone through the years of planting, development and testing to earn “organic” status, it can also be considered as GMO-free as is possible (at least during its production). But there’s no denying that genetic engineering of many things, including seed for largescale corn and soy crops (keyed to work with toxic herbicides such as glyphosate), has become both more sophisticated, more prevalent and hence more liable to co-opt the food chain. The integrity of “organic” as a non-GMO food source requires that watchdogs such as the Center for Food Safety never sleep. “Our main concern is making sure that GMO foods are regulated and that health risks are assessed,” says the Center’s Rebecca Spector. The problem is that mandatory GMO labeling has run afoul of powerful agriculture and manufacturing lobbyists, who have spearheaded disinformation campaigns such as the one that
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working with varieties that wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cross-pollinate with GMO varieties. One such projectâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;organic-ready maizeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is going really well,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Non-GMO integrity is still a work in progress, but the results are really exciting.â&#x20AC;? A wide variety of herbicides are â&#x20AC;&#x153;absolutelyâ&#x20AC;? used in Central Coast farming, Tencer says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The value of the land here is so high that growers look for high-value crops, like strawberries.â&#x20AC;? The OFRF director applauds the nonprofit lobbyists who fight for mandatory GMO labeling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But they just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the deep pockets of Monsanto,â&#x20AC;? says Tencer. A Molino Creek Farm partner and former policy program director at OFRF, Mark Lipson spent the past four years in Washington as the Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Policy Advisor at USDA. He says the non-GMO brand has gained a lot of momentum in the last decade. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The consumer-safety aura of the non-GMO claim, abetted by socialmedia chatter, has led many organic producers and processors to include a non-GMO statement on their labels,â&#x20AC;? he says. But, at the same time, â&#x20AC;&#x153;consumer ignorance has been exacerbated by misleading marketing,â&#x20AC;? he says, giving a pass to conventional farming â&#x20AC;&#x153;dependent on herbicides, neonicotinoid insecticides and synthetic fertilizers, but not using GMO seedsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at the expense of organic farmers.â&#x20AC;? Miltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Craft Bakers is one of the companies able to use both â&#x20AC;&#x153;organicâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;non-GMOâ&#x20AC;? labels on their line of popular multi-grain items. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have noticed that consumers are increasingly aware of GMOs,â&#x20AC;? says Miltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s president and CEO John Reaves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For some, that may mean looking at the Non-GMO Project Verified seal, while for others it may mean USDA organic. In fact, a recent report from The Hartman Group found that four out of 10 consumers are currently avoiding GMOs in their dietâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;up by 23 percent compared to 2013.â&#x20AC;? Zea Sonnabend, a Watsonville
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“Not many people are aware of where Poles ended up after the war. It’s an underreported part of history that nearly got swept under the rug.” — Greg Archer <30 swept Archer to Poland, where he began an investigation into his family’s exodus from Stalinist Russia. Through them, he uncovered the history of millions of Poles, whose deportation and displacement spread from labor camps in Siberia to orphanages and refugee status in places as far afield as Uzbekistan, Iran, Pakistan, India, Africa, and even New Zealand and Mexico, their diaspora scattered across the globe. Archer will be returning to Santa Cruz on March 12 to talk about the resulting book, Grace Revealed, and I was excited to catch up with him. You’ve opened a forgotten door to WWII. I had no idea how widespread Polish deportation was. GREG ARCHER: Not many people are aware of where Poles ended up after the war. It’s an underreported part of history that nearly got swept under the rug. It seems like my generation—filmmakers, documentarians, writers—are just beginning to get the word out in creative and journalistic works.
Are you planning to explore this history further? I’d love to do a documentary that retraces their journey. It would be an amazing pilgrimage. We’ll see. What’s going on with you now? I finished the book in the Midwest,
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Have you taken any part of Santa Cruz with you in your travels? Probably the esoteric part of me that can’t help saying ‘evolving,’ when people ask how I am. But also the inquisitive, soul-searching part of me. I have to ask your favorite interview question. What’s the most interesting thing you’ve been learning about yourself lately? Good one. That I’m a hundred times stronger than I think I am, and that I don’t have to be led or dictated to by the threads of the past. Are you working on anything new? Another book. The theme is about home, where it is, what it is, and why we long for it. We’re looking forward to your homecoming. Me too.
Greg Archer will discuss ‘Grace Revealed’ at Bookshop Santa Cruz at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 12, Free.
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What was the catalyst for such a difficult journey? It’s going to sound very Californian, but I was in a yoga class and asked for a sign to tell me what I should be doing. The broken picture frame happened soon after. It was a hint to keep following a thread I’d been thinking about and working on but hadn’t taken far enough. We’re not often told that learning and healing isn’t comfortable, but discomfort is what growth is all about.
and wanted to be here when it came out so I could connect with the Polish community. We had an amazing vigil at the Copernicus Center that I coordinated on Feb. 10, which was the 75th anniversary of the Polish deportation. I’m finding a hunger across generations to talk about it. When people who have gone through it come up and say, “I never really healed from this part of my life,” it’s eye-opening. Unlike the Jewish population, who were able to rally together after the horrors of the Holocaust, the Poles didn’t have a similar opportunity. Poland was a communist country for many years, which made things difficult. I wanted to illuminate the ripple effects that remain as those events live on through us.
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REGANOMICS Julie James and Patrick Edwards in Jewel Theatre’s ‘Harper Regan.’ PHOTO: STEVE DIBARTOLOMEO
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ow celebrating its 10th productive season in the heart of Santa Cruz, Jewel Theatre Company has established its reputation for innovative programming and creative professionalism. (Especially given the tiny size of its venue, Center Stage.) At JTC, vintage work by Shaw and Coward is presented alongside often complex and lesser-known pieces by such modern masters as Tom Stoppard, Sam Shepard, Athol Fugard, and Joe Orton. In addition, Artistic Director Julie James is always scouting out new authors and playwrights to produce at JTC. One such playwright is Simon Stephens, an astonishingly prolific Manchester-born Brit whose more than two dozen plays have
won numerous awards. (His stage adaptation of the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2013.) Stephens’ 2007 play, Harper Regan, is the current offering at JTC, and it’s not difficult to see why James chose it. The title character, a woman at a transition point in her life, is a varied and evolving role for an actress, and many other small parts in the series of vignettes that pass for a plot show off the excellent acting company to advantage. Essentially one woman’s journey out of her comfort zone and into selfawareness, the play begins with the eponymous Harper (James) asking for time off to go home to Manchester to visit her dying father. After ranting about porn, addiction, violence, the
Internet, and “the amorality of the young,” her boss (a fittingly pompous Chad Davies) says no. But after an odd exchange with a teenage boy in the park (an effective Nat Robinson), and a close encounter with a masonry brick falling from on high, Harper decides to go anyway—without a word to her genial, strangely unemployable husband Seth (Stephen Muterspaugh), and their spunky college student daughter Sarah (Marissa Keltie). Harper’s odyssey takes her from the hospital to a bar, where she meets Mickey (played with nasty pizzazz by Patrick Edwards), and on to an impromptu tryst with a lonely married stranger. Michael Shipley is touching in the role, but the scene doesn’t make a lot of organic sense; it feels like the usual cliché when a playwright wants
to underline a heroine’s awakening. Ultimately, Harper must face her nemesis—the mother, Alison (Karel K. Wright), who divorced her beloved dad. A drawback to the selection of this particular play might be its very Britishness. The cast navigates the characters’ working-class Northern accents with complete dexterity; no dialogue is lost in translation. But despite Bill Peters’ clear, uncluttered direction, the wry drollery of Stephens’ tone doesn’t always come across. In some of the more darkly absurdist moments at the performance I saw, the audience was unsure whether to laugh. Some of the play’s touching moments don’t quite resonate either, often because Stephens sets them within such peculiar encounters. It’s sort of sweet when a stranger, her stepdad’s apprentice (Taras Wybaczynsky Jr.), offers condolences on her father, but it comes out of nowhere in the middle of Harper’s confrontation with her mum. And it’s hard to figure out what’s going on with Harper’s increasingly delusional husband. But relationships between women are handled much better. Keltie is splendid as daughter Sarah, injecting sass, lively energy, and affection into her scenes. And while Alison is presented from Harper’s viewpoint as the villain early on, once she comes onstage, and she and Harper painfully deconstruct the essence of their longstanding feud, Wright soars in the role, dispensing grace, regret, and a kind of closure. The resourceful JTC production team comes through with its usual flying colors. Co-set designers Peters and Austin Kottkamp, Lighting Designer Mark Hopkins, and Sound and Projection designer Davis Banta conspire on the clever layers of mesh scrims and rear-projected screen that differentiate each setting, from downtown office to riverside to hospital corridor. Great things are expected from this crew when they get to move into their fancy new digs at The Tannery next year. The JTC production of Harper Regan plays Thursday-Sunday through March 22 at Center Stage, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. Call 425-7506, or visit JewelTheatre.net.
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BEN HERE BEFORE Peter Harper, who never expected to take up a music career like his famous brother,
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ou’d think Peter Harper would have taken up music early. He comes from a musical family, he spent much of his childhood in an instrument shop, and his brother is Grammy-award-winning rock star Ben Harper. But Harper’s a bit of a prodigal son when it comes to music. “For a large majority of my life, I tried not to play,” he says. “Everybody in my family played, and as a young person I took for granted what I was surrounded by—how unbelievably special it was.” Every day after school, Harper
would walk to his grandparents’ shop, the Folk Music Center and Museum, in Claremont, California. There he was exposed to all kinds of instruments and a wide range of musicians, from world-renowned artists to local hobbyists. Being part of such an open, welcoming space gave Harper unique insights into humans and the beauty of diversity. “You have to understand that, to this day, I don’t understand how normal people grew up,” he says. “The Folk Music Center is a unique phenomenon with instruments from every continent. You get all kinds
of people, from the best of the best musicians to the worst of the worst, and you have to deal with all of them.” Despite being steeped in such a musical environment, Harper managed to steer clear of doing much playing. He tinkered with the guitar in his late teens and early 20s, but it always felt clunky to him. He preferred the visual arts. He went on to get a master’s in fine arts from NYU and become a bronze sculptor. It wasn’t until he picked up the ukulele that things fell into place for him musically. He loved the sound,
Peter Harper will perform at 9 p.m. on Thursday, March 5 at Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $10. 603-2294.
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and immediately started writing songs. “The ukulele is such a great instrument,” he says. “I couldn’t get it to do anything other than sound really pleasant.” From there, one of the shop employees suggested he try playing the tenor guitar, a four-string instrument that blends qualities of the banjo, ukulele and guitar. Harper quickly fell in love with the instrument, and spent hundreds of hours playing and writing dozens of songs. Eventually, he wanted to share his music with a wider audience so he went to work putting together an album. “It just didn’t feel right to not put the songs out,” he says. “For a long time it didn’t feel right to put them out, but something shifted. The way I had perceived [playing music] before wasn’t the way I perceived it anymore.” The songs on Harper’s self-titled debut are stripped down and inviting, driven by his warm vocals, thoughtful observations, and solid guitar work— complete with alternate tunings on his ever-present tenor guitar. When it came to recording, Harper made his way through the process on his own. Despite having a brother wellversed in the art, Harper found a lot of joy in figuring things out for himself. “One of the things I’ve noticed over the last 20 years,” he says, “is that pretty much everybody asks Ben for everything. I try not to ask him for anything—I try to just let him do his thing. There’s just so much that he has to do—a lot of really big stuff on his plate, the last thing he needs to worry about is me.” When the two brothers are together—there’s also a third Harper brother, Joel—they usually just hang out, have some laughs, or play backgammon. They’ll occasionally play each other songs, but generally, they just enjoy each other’s company. But Harper is always pleased to meet new people who are already Ben Harper fans. “I love when someone says ‘I’m a big fan of your brother,’” he says, “and I thought I’d just come and see you.”
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EL PILAR WATER PROJECT BENEFIT Within the last several years, El Salvador has been transforming access to health care, public education, agricultural development and small business. In his documentary Learning From El Salvador, filmmaker Bob Gliner asks how their example might help the U.S. realize its goals. A pupusa lunch will be served before the film screening and proceeds benefit the El Pilar Water Project. Info: 11:30 a.m., Sunday, March 8. Trinity Presbyterian Church, 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. 423-8995. $10-$20 Suggested Donation.
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WEDNESDAY 3/4 ARTS PHOTO ALCHEMY Alternative Process in Photographic Media, a juried exhibition. Featuring 40 artists using 23 different photo processes. Exhibit runs to April 19. Pajaro Valley Gallery, 37 Sudden St., Watsonville. Free. MOUNTAIN SPIRIT WRITING GROUP Join Wendy Ledger for the monthly group where we explore our lives through creative writing. Bring a pen and journal 5-7 p.m. Mountain Spirit, 6299 Hwy 9, Felton. 335-7700. $15.
TALK OPEN VIRTUAL HERITAGE APPLICATIONS By Antonella Guidazzoli, leader of research services for the 3D Virtual Information Research Lab at Italy's supercomputer center CINECA, in Bologna. Worked on the creation of virtual cultural heritage sites, including 3D project on the Etruscans. 5-7 p.m. McHenry Library, Room 4826, UCSC. ihr.ucsc.edu. Free.
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AN EVENING OF DREAMS This Friday, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and director of Documented, José Antonio Vargas, joins the UCSC Dreamweavers in a scholarship fundraiser event to discuss the experiences, trials and tribulations of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. Students from the UCSC Dreamweavers organization will present their experiences of coming to this country and Vargas will discuss his story, which has been featured in the New York Times Magazine. Info: 5-7 p.m., Friday, March 6. Peace United Church of Christ’s Fellowship Hall, 900 High St., Santa Cruz.
FREE TAX PREPARATION WITH VITA PROGRAM Free tax assistance to people who make $53,000 or less, the disabled, the elderly and limited English-speaking taxpayers. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. 324 Front St., Santa Cruz. 4-7 p.m. 408A Main St., Watsonville. roxanne.moore@scccu.org. Free.
CLASSES SENEGALESE WEST AFRICAN DANCE Traditional dance and beautiful rhythms. Drumming with Mbor Faye and our local crew. All levels welcome, drop-ins, too. 7:30 p.m. 418 Front St., Santa Cruz. $15. ARGENTINE TANGO Argentine tango classes and practice with John and Nancy Lingemann. Beg. 7 p.m., Int./Adv. 8:30 p.m. Parish Hall Calvary Episcopal Church. Lincoln and Cedar streets. 469-3288. $3. SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING CLASSES Fun and aerobic. No partner required. Traditional dancing of Scotland. Wear soft-soled
FRIDAY 3/6 BROOKDALE BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL Nestled high up in the Santa Cruz mountains sits the perfect location for a weekend of roots country and old-soul gatherings as the Brookdale Bluegrass Festival presents the best of the best in California Bluegrass as part of a three-day celebration. Heading the lineup are Houston Jones, Sourdough Slim, Toby Gray, Sugar by the Pound, Naked Bootleggers and many more. Info: March 6-8, 24500 Miller Hill Road, Los Gatos. $15-$45.
shoes. 7-9:30 p.m. Peace United Church of Christ, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. 427-1921. $6.
GROUPS SONS IN RETIREMENT Luncheon. Brenna Ewing of the SPCA will speak. All men 55 and up working or retired welcome. 11:30 a.m. Portuguese Hall, 216 Evergreen St., Santa Cruz. 336-8481. SirBranch36.com. $17. SUPPORT GROUP FOR CAREGIVERS OF PEOPLE WITH MEMORY LOSS Ongoing group for care partners of loved ones with progressive memory loss. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. St Joseph's Shrine in Santa Cruz. 7500035. diana@mindnhealth.com. Free. PARKINSON’S DISEASE SUPPORT
GROUP For people with Parkinson’s and their caregivers. Interact with others in a friendly, supportive environment and hear speakers on variety of topics. 1-2:30 p.m. Inner Light Center, 5630 Soquel Drive, Soquel. 708-2906. Free.
SPIRITUAL SOUND HEALING GUIDED MEDITATION Incorporating the use of live sound healing, guided meditation and positive affirmations to allow your Chakra energy centers to come into a state of balance. 7-8 p.m. Pacific Cultural Center, 1307 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz. $12. MEDITATION FOR LIFE Simple, basic meditation technique that focuses on the breath. Floor cushions provided. Enter building from the front entrance, facing Soquel Ave. 7-8 p.m. >40
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VOLUNTEER VOLUNTEER TUTOR Join the Literacy Program of the Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County for a one-hour orientation to learn more about becoming a tutor to an adult English language learner. No teaching or foreign language skills necessary. 6-7 p.m. 1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. 427-5070. Free. FOSTER PARENT ORIENTATION Foster parents are needed for infants, children and teens across Santa Cruz County. Any of us can be a foster parent: young, old, single, married or divorced, homeowner or renter. Provide a safe haven for a child that cannot stay in his or her home due to circumstances beyond their control. Learn more at fostercare4kids.com. 6-9 p.m. Live Oak Family Resource Center. 345-2700. Free.
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WATSONVILLE FILM FESTIVAL Opening night, featuring “The Storm that Swept Mexico,” narrated by Luis Valdez. The PBS documentary tells the story of the Mexican Revolution. Director Ray Telles and local musicians featured in the film soundtrack participate in a post-screening Q&A. With live music, drinks, appetizers. 6 p.m. Green Valley Cinemas, 1125 S. Green Valley Road, Watsonville. watsonvillefilmfestival.org. $10.
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PHREN-Z LITERARY MAGAZINE Phren-Z online literary magazine Winter 2015 Issue 12 is now available online at phren-Z.org, with a live reading scheduled at Bookshop Santa Cruz. 7-8:30 p.m. Bookshop Santa Cruz. Free.
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IYENGAR INFLUENCED YOGA WITH HENRY HEIKKINEN Yoga Class Levels 1-3. 7:15-8:30 p.m. Yoga Center Santa Cruz, 428C Front St. info@yogawithhenry.com. First class free, $12 series, $15 drop-in. FREE COMMUNITY YOGA An all-levels class taught by Sarah Joy Zell. Mats available to use. 8:30-9:30 a.m. Peace United Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. Free.
GROUPS A COURSE IN MIRACLES SANTA CRUZ REGULAR MEETING “A Course In Miracles” is a book on enlightenment that might be called a psychological journey to a spiritual awakening. Many laughs and smiles occur as we expose the ego and share happiness. Books provided. Drop in and out as you wish. 7:15-9 p.m. Barn Studio at 104b Agnes St., Santa Cruz. 272-2246. Free.
HEALTH WOMENCARE: LAUGHTER YOGA Laughter yoga for women with cancer. Call WomenCARE to register, 457-2273. 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. TRIYOGA BASICS/THERAPEUTIC YOGA WITH KIM. TriYoga taught by Kim Beecher. Includes sustained postures with prop support. Everyone is welcome. Suitable for those with chronic conditions. 7:30-9 p.m. TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. info@triyoga.com. $15.
FRIDAY 3/6 ARTS WATSONVILLE FILM FESTIVAL Event continues with the screenings of “Arte Latino” (film shorts program) and “Sleep Dealer,” at the Mello Center. 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. 250 E. Beach St., Watsonville. watsonvillefilmfestival.org. $10.
ROP EXPO See first-hand the skills that high school students are learning in their Regional Occupational Program classes at local high schools countywide. Student demonstrations. Santa Cruz Fire, Canine Unit puppies demonstration. 4:30-7 p.m. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. 466-5763. Free.
PCS PRESENTS “LUCKY STIFF” MUSICAL Pacific Collegiate School presents “Lucky Stiff,” a musical production. An offbeat, hilarious murder mystery farce complete with mistaken identities, six million bucks in diamonds, and a corpse in a wheelchair. Fri-Sat. 7-9 p.m. Sun. 2-4 p.m. Louden Nelson Community Center. seatyourself.biz/pacificcollegiate. $15/$8.
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WINE & WATERCOLOR CLUB Paint a still life watercolor of pristine produce from New Leaf’s shelves and enjoy a selection of crafted wines. Non-alcoholic Kombucha also available. Short demo and instruction provided by book illustrator Madia Jamgochian. All experience levels welcome. Pre Registration required. 5:30-
SALSA RUEDA DANCE DOWNTOWN Dropin class, no partner required. Two classes: Intro/Beginner and Beg2/Interm. 8-9 p.m. Louden Nelson Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. $9/$5.
SATURDAY 3/7 ‘MATERIAL ILLUSIONS’ OPENING RECEPTION In 1641, the philosopher René Descartes hypothesized that what humans see might not be real at all, and questioned how we know the difference between illusion and reality. With wool, glass, steel and bronze, six artists embark on unpacking that question and the complexity of illusions with “Material Illusions,” which opens at the Cabrillo Gallery this Saturday. Info: 5:30-7 p.m., Cabrillo Gallery, Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. 479-6100.
7:30 p.m. New Leaf Community Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleaf.com/events. $15. FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK Art of all kinds, wine, hors d’oeuvres, live music, tea tasting, and free astrology readings. 6-9 p.m. Mountain Spirit, 6299 State Route 9, Felton.
CLASSES CHAIR YOGA Instructor Suzi Mahler guides you through a series of gentle seated yoga postures that are performed slowly and with breath awareness. Tuesday/Friday 9:30 a.m. at Grey Bears, 2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. Wednesday 10:30 a.m. at Yoga Center Santa Cruz. suzimahler@gmail.com. $5.
FOOD & DRINK WINE TASTING: AWARD WINNING RIOJAS Discover wines from Rioja, an esteemed wine region in Northern Spain. Aged in oak casks, they’re elegant, original, and pair well with a wide variety of foods. Darlene de la Cerna, founder
of Classic Artisan Wines, hosts this wine and cheese event. 5-7 p.m. New Leaf Community Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. 426-1306. Free.
SATURDAY 3/7 ARTS KEITH TERRY’S CROSSPULSE PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Educates and entertains with rhythm-based, intercultural music and dance, active participation and engaging humor. Body music (clapping, snapping, stepping and vocalizing) is music you can see, dance you can hear. Part of Tandy Beal’s First Saturday Family Concert series. 11 a.m.-Noon. Santa Cruz Vets Hall, 846 Front St, Santa Cruz. $10/$15. WATSONVILLE FILM FESTIVAL Local student films and award presentation at 2 p.m. Screening of “Documented,” and conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas at 4 p.m.
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YOUTHSERVE CLASSES FOR LOCAL SENIORS Seniors increase their skills with technology, social media and digital devices. Seniors are invited to drop in. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Watsonville Community Hospital Senior Circle Room, 75 Nielson St., Watsonville. Noon- 3 p.m. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. 420-6180. Free.
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FREE ORIENTATION & STUDIO TOUR Get involved with your Community TV. Attend free orientation and studio tour. Sign up online. 2-3:30 p.m. 816 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. communitytv.org/ctv-user-portal-login. Free. FREE SWIM LESSONS WITH SEAHORSE SWIM SCHOOL No appointment needed, no former swimming skills required. Go to SeahorseSwimSchool.com for exact days and times. 1-3 p.m. Seascape Sports Club, 1505 Seascape Blvd., Aptos. Free.
FUNDRAISER SCOTTS VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL’S TEXAS HOLD’EM TOURNAMENT Blackjack and other entertainment provided, too. Food and drinks by Bruno’s BBQ. Supports the student athletes of Scotts Valley High School. Donations tax deductible. To purchase your buy-in for the tournament, go to falconclub.
org. 6-11 p.m. 230 Mount Hermon Road, Scotts Valley. No entry fee. $50 online/$65 at the door to play Texas Hold’em. FUNDRAISING TEA FOR BOULDER CREEK FAMILY Enjoy lunch, teas, and a performance by internationally recognized flutist Deborah Yates. Silent auction, door prizes. Local man Ramey White was stricken with a debilitating illness and his neighbors are hosting this event to help raise funds to help the family with medical and living expenses. Tickets: Bit.ly/rameywhitetea. See gofundme.com/rallyforramey for more information. 3-5 p.m. 244 W. Hilton Drive, Boulder Creek. 332-0100. beth@bethvolz.com. $30.
MUSIC RICARDO DIAZ, FLAMENCO GUITARIST Ricardo Diaz studied flamenco with Jorge Liceaga and master guitarists in Spain known as El Entri, Canito, Chuscales and El Viejin. 6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant and Inn, 1 Davenport Ave., Davenport. Free.
OUTDOORS AIDS WALK & FUN RUN 5K Fundraiser for the Santa Cruz AIDS Project (SCAP). 100 percent of event proceeds used for client services and HIV/AIDS education and prevention programs in Santa Cruz County. 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. San Lorenzo Park, Santa Cruz. HUMMINGBIRD DAYS Guided tours, array of crafts and interactive activities, classes on photographing hummingbirds. Food and beverages available. Sat-Sun. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz. arboretum. ucsc.edu/events/hummingbird-days/. 5022998. $10; Free for Arboretum members, UCSC students, and children under 17.
SATURDAY 3/7 POP UP EXHIBIT: DEFINE AMERICAN There is no one way to define “American.” It could be the hot dog in one hand, American flag in the yard and Ford in the garage; or, it could be a classroom of children from all different nationalities, standing together to pledge allegiance. This Saturday the Museum of Art & History invites community members to share an object that represents what “American” means to them, along with an explanatory label to display at the Pop-Up Museum at the Watsonville Film Festival. Info: 1-4 p.m., Mello Center, 250 E Beach St. Watsonville. Free.
of “Reel Women” (shorts program celebrating local women directors) 1 p.m. “Food Chains” 3 p.m. Film screenings at Mello Center, 250 E Beach St, Watsonville. Festival closing party, with live music, free food at Plaza Vigil in downtown Watsonville. Party starts at 5 p.m. watsonvillefilmfestival.org. $10.
SALAMANDER SATURDAY Salamander storytime at 11 a.m. Salamander critter crafts noon-4 p.m. Salamander scavenger hunt 1 p.m. Tales and songs at 5 p.m. Rancho Del Oso Nature and History Center. 427-2288. parks.ca.gov. Free.
ART BY DEBORAH FORBES Small works: studies in light, shadow and form to improve my powers of observation, a way to teach myself to paint. Exhibit runs to April 30. Artist’s reception, 3-5 p.m. Gabriella Café, 910 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. Free.
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THE BLACKOUTS For 25 years this iconic Santa Cruz band has been rocking the coast. Performs the best of the ’80s. 9 p.m. Hophead Public House, Victor Square Shopping Center, 18 Victor Square, Scotts Valley. Free.
SUNDAY 3/8 ARTS WATSONVILLE FILM FESTIVAL Screening
SALSA FOOTWORK AND WORKOUT Learn style and technique in a welcoming environment. No partners needed. Drop-ins welcome. 9-10 a.m. The Tannery, 1060 River St., Santa Cruz. 818-1834. $7/$5 student. ESSENTIAL OILS FOR ROMANCE Interactive class on the overall benefits of essential oils and how they can be used to enhance a romantic evening. Make personalized bath salts. 1-2 p.m. Mountain
Spirit, 6299 Hwy 9, Felton. 335-7700. $10. RHYTHM & MOTION DANCE WORKOUT A high-energy, dance-based workout with a dynamic mix of music and movement styles. Childcare available for $5 drop-in. 9-10:15 a.m. Class also at 5:30 p.m. Motion Pacific, 131 Front St., Santa Cruz. 457-1616 or motionpacific.com. First class free.
GROUPS PURIM SKATE PARTY FOR FAMILIES Santa Cruz Jewish Renewal Community for a fun skating party. Come and check out our spiritual options for your family, while having a lot of fun. 7 p.m. Santa Cruz Roller Palladium, 1606 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz. $10. EATING DISORDER RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUP Come at noon for meal support. This is a supportive environment to connect with other people working towards recovery. 1-2:30 p.m. The Lotus Collaborative 701 Mission St., Santa Cruz. info@thelotuscollaborative.com. Free. SERENITY FIRST - PAGANS IN RECOVERY Guests are free to discuss their spiritual paths. Those from all 12-step programs >44
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THURSDAY 3/5 ‘CONGRESSLADIES’ AT UCSC When Aristophanes wrote “Ecclesiazusae” (say that 10 times fast) plague was abundant, Athens was in political turmoil, and Socrates had just been executed. Although that was back in 395 BCE, his play has surprising parallels with our modern day political system—does a lack of confidence in the political process due to rampant corruption sound familiar? UCSC Classics professor Mary-Kay Gamel adapted “Ecclesiazusae” with a modern-day plotline, but the core themes remain the same: the women of Athens are disgusted by the male-only Assembly, so they dress up as men and pass new laws. Info: February 28-March 8, Mainstage Theater, Theater Arts Center, UCSC, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz. santacruztickets.com. $12-$15.
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OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS 12-Step support group for those who want to stop eating compulsively. Young person focus. 7-8 p.m. PAMF Main Clinic, 2nd Fl. Conference Rm., 2025 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. Use Urgent Care entrance. 462-9644. Free.
OUTDOORS METEOR TRAIL HIKE Discuss forests, flowers and fires. 6-mile, 3.5-hour hike. Bring water, lunch and hiking shoes. Meet at park headquarters. 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Big Basin Redwoods State Park. 338-8883. parks. ca.gov. Free.
SPIRITUAL TENT OF ABRAHAM: WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR Jews, Christians, and Muslims
trace their ancestry back to Abraham. Join your neighbors under the Tent of Abraham to explore what we have in common through dialogue, prayer, food, and song. 2-5 p.m. Temple Beth El, 3044 Porter Gulch Road, Aptos. Free. INSPIRATIONAL MEDITATION SERVICE This service includes inspirational readings from the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, the founder of Self-Realization Fellowship and the author of the spiritual classic, “Autobiography of a Yogi”. 11 a.m.Noon. Call for location. 334-2088.
MUSIC MONTEVERDI, ORFEO AND MADRIGALS Baroque music concert: Monteverdi, Orfeo Act 1 and Madrigals by L'Armonia, vocal quintet and Paris String Quartet and friends. Artistic coordination: Aude Castagna. 3 p.m. Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, 2402 Cabrillo College Drive, Soquel. Donations accepted.
SATURDAY 3/7 BUYEPONGO AT PACHANGA UCSC Merengue-infused dance-floor favorites Buyepongo are stopping in Santa Cruz on their way to South By Southwest for the seventh annual Pachanga event, hosted by the Chicano Latino Resource Center and the African American Resource and Cultural Center. Hailing from Southern California, the members of Buyepongo draw heavily from their Central and South American roots—infusing rhythms with hip hop, reggae, punk nostalgia and a little traditional punta and cumbia. Pachanga strives to highlight the diversity of Latin American culture through music, dance, community and art. Info: 8 p.m., Porter/Kresge Dining Hall, UCSC 301 Heller Drive, Santa Cruz. 459-5608.
MONDAY 3/9 ARTS ART BY MANUEL SANTANA AND CAFE DE OLLA In honor of Manuel Santana, founder of Manuel’s Mexican Restaurant, five giclee prints of his artwork will be displayed in the restaurant during their 50th anniversary celebration. Enter to win a print; no purchase necessary. Stop by Mar 9-13, 2:30-4:30 p.m. to view the art. Manuel’s Mexican Restaurant, 261 Center Ave., Aptos. manuelsrestaurant.com. Free, $10 suggested donation for local charity.
TALK TEAM WOMEN’S SPARK! “FROM COMPETITION TO COLLABORATION” Christine Brooks, Ph.D. and Marie Royer, D.C., present ways to create synergy in teams, develop resonant leadership styles, and collaborative intention in small business. Raffle to benefit Walnut Avenue Women’s
Center. 6-8 p.m. Food Lounge, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. christinebrooksphd@icloud. com. Free, $5 raffle tickets.
BUSINESS FREE TAX PREPARATION WITH VITA PROGRAM Free tax assistance to people who make $53,000 or less, the disabled, the elderly and limited English-speaking taxpayers. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 408A Main St., Watsonville. 5-7 p.m. 324 Front St., Santa Cruz. roxanne.moore@scccu.org. Free.
TUESDAY 3/10 MUSIC SONGWRITER’S SHOWCASE AT BRITANNIA ARMS OF CAPITOLA Slots are still available for those who’ve got what it takes. Enter at mars-studios.com or call 688-8435. Ends May 5. Raffle proceeds go to Guitars Not Guns. 7-10 p.m. Free.
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American artists including Country Dave Harmonson of Zoe Muth’s band on pedal steel, and Jim Miller of Donna The Buffalo on guitar and vocals. CJ
INFO: 8 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $15. 479-1854.
INFO: 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.
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COUNTRY
CAHALEN MORRISON & COUNTRY HAMMER Hailing from Northern New Mexico, Cahalen Morrison is no stranger to dust, ghost towns and loneliness— the kind of stuff that drives a good country song. And, fittingly, Morrison took to country music early, playing in his first band at the age of 13. As a teenager, he ventured off into rock ’n’ roll, but made his way back to classic country where he’s made a name for himself as a creator of sparse, thoughtful songs that, as one reviewer says, “let the listener do the work.” His band Country Hammer is full of top-notch
KENDRICK SCOTT In a jazz scene brimming with phenomenal drummers, Kendrick Scott stands out as a poised musician who brings simmering intensity to the bandstand. A product of Houston’s storied High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (think Robert Glasper, Beyoncé, and Jason Moran), he’s spent the past decade touring the world with the likes of trumpeter Terence Blanchard and vocalist Gretchen Parlato. But Scott is rapidly becoming a force in his own right with a stellar cast of collaborators, which for this tour includes pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Joe Sanders, guitarist Mike Moreno and tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III (a
fellow Houstonian). ANDREW GILBERT INFO: 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 427-2227.
TUESDAY 3/10 AMERICANA
JACKIE GREENE BAND Singer-songwriter Jackie Greene cut his teeth playing both the open mic and bar scene while still in his teens. He actually seems like a natural fit for each world—his music is vulnerable and introspective and tough. His 2003 debut was Rusty Nails, and since then he’s released a handful of records and EPs, and even scored an Academy Award for his tune “I Will Never Let You Go” in Brokeback Mountain. His style is a hodgepodge of blues, folk, country and rock ’n’ roll. In 2013, he joined the Black Crowes, a group with a remarkably similar sound. AC INFO: 8 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $18/adv, $22/door. 429-4135.
INFO: 9 p.m. Saturday, March 7. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $7/adv, $11/door. 423-1338. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, March 6 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.
IN THE QUEUE MARC CARY FOCUS TRIO
Future-forward funk, R&B, hip-hop and jazz keyboardist. Thursday at Kuumbwa THE FRIGHTS
Surf-punk out of San Diego. Friday at Crepe Place ENGLISH BEAT
2-Tone ska revival legends. Friday and Saturday at Moe’s Alley 7 SECONDS
Pioneering hardcore punk band. Sunday at Catalyst PIERRE BENSUSAN
World-renowned French-Algerian acoustic guitarist. Sunday at Don Quixote’s
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experimental and jazz scenes in New York over the past decade-and-ahalf. He inches closer to pop with every album, but never gives up his weird side. AC
A sharp-witted and quick-tongued lyricist out of Oakland, Forrest Day has a vocal style reminiscent of the late Bradley Nowell of Sublime or Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. With rock grooves and a hip-hop-inspired delivery, Day’s music also features horns, a ska-worthy pace and an unmistakable party vibe. His style is a bit hard to pin down, but regardless of how you want to categorize him, this rising star is turning heads in the East Bay and beyond. On Saturday, he hits the Catalyst along with local acts Hella Deer and Androyd & Emilious. CAT JOHNSON
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Wednesday March 4th 8:30pm $7/10 Live Reggae & Hip Hop Triple Bill
DEWEY & THE PEOPLES, ALCYON MASSIVE, IRIE FUSE Thursday March 5th 7:30pm $20/25
Yiddish & Gypsy Music From Paris Special Early Partially Seated Concert
LES YEUX NOIRS Friday March 6th 9pm $24/28
Saturday March 7th 9pm $25/30 2 Nights With UK Ska Greats THE
ENGLISH BEAT + DAN P (friday) & DJ SPLEECE (SAT) Sunday March 8th 8pm $15
(((folkYEAH!))) Presents An Evening With
MARCO BENEVENTO Tuesday March 10th 8:30pm $8/12 Live Music Showcase
LAFA TAYLOR, LABRAT, BOOSTIVE, TEKTITE
WED AP TO S ST. APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos Aptos; 805 9 Apt os St, Apt os; 6621721 662-1721 AQUARIUS A QUARIUS 1175 75 W West est Cliff D Dr, r, S Santa anta Cruz; 460-5012
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5-6:30p Rio Rockers 5-6:3 30p Al Frisby 6:30-8:30p 6:30-8:3 30p
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Preacher Boy 6p
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Mark Hummel and Rusty Russty Zinn 6p
Minor Thirds Thirds Trio Trio 6:30-9:30p
THE BAR CAFE T HE ART ART B AR & C AFE 11060 060 Riv River er St #112, S Santa anta Cruz; 428-8 428-8989 989
W Wayy ayy O Open pen Mic 6:30-9p 6:30 9p
BLUE BL UE LAGOON L AGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa 9 23 P acific A ve, S anta Cruz; 423423-7117 7117
Rumble R umble Steelskin, Steelskin, Burdened, Supernaut Bur dened, Superna aut $5 9p
BLUE BL UE LOUNGE LOUNGE Ave, Santa 529 Seabright Seabright A ve, S anta Cruz; 423-7771 4237771 BOARDWALK BOWL BO ARDWA ALK BO WL Santa 115 Cliff St, S anta Cruz; 426-3324 4263324
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Lloyd Whitney Llo yd Whitne ey 12p Dwight Shane D wight 6p
Comedy C omedy Night/ 80s Night FFree ree 8:30p
FFury ury Figeroa, Figeroa, YDMC, YDMC, Ben Caplan, Kai Kai Killion Giant, Lee Lee Earl, Earl, Dre Dre Nitty, Nitty, & the Getaway Dogs, Getaway D ogs, Tearz T earz $5 9p Wild W ild Iris $5 9p
Karaoke K araoke 8p-Close 8p-Clo se
DJ/Live DJ/Live Music
The Billy Martini Show Show 9-11:45p 911:45p Grateful Dub, Gr ateful D ub, Irie Reggae R eggae Free Free 8p
BRITANNIA B RIT TA ANNIA ARMS 110 11 0 Monterey Monterey Ave, Ave, Capitola; Capitola; 464-2583
Karaoke K araoke 9p
Karaoke K araoke 9p
Candelaria & Dread Dread I Knights Knights
Davis Burnin Vernin Vernin e D avis Aftermath & The A ftermath
Country Nightss C ountry Night w/Kristy Parker w /Kristy P arker
CATALYST C ATA LYST Pacific Ave, Santa 11011 011 P acific A ve, S anta Cruz; 423-1336 4231336
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Broken Br oken Shades Shades 6p
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Mojo Navigators 6p
Boxx ((Goth The Bo Goth Night) 9p
Vultures The Body, Body, V ultures at Arms Reach, Reach, LLeucrota, eucrota, Death D eath Monk $8 9p
Alwaa Gordon, Olright, Alw Gordon, Corina DJJ Halo C orina Corina Corina & D $5 8p
Comedy Comedy Night
Karaoke Karaoke
Open Open Mic Karaoke K araoke 8p-Close 8p-Clo se
Trivia/Game T rivia/Game Night FFree ree 8p
Grievance, Grie vance, Plague Phalanx, Spectral Spectral Voice Vooice Moree $8 8:30p & Mor
Dorados LLos os D orados de la Punto Banda, Grupo P unto $15 9p
FForrest orrest Day, Day, Hella Deer, Deer, Andr oyd and Emilious Emilious Androyd $1 0/$14 8:30p $10/$14
Comedy C omedy FFree ree 8p Songwriter Showcase S ongwriter Sho wcase 7-10p 710p
Andree Nickatina, Andr Nickatina, Bobby Bobb by K Kalya Scintilla, alya S cintilla, Macavelli, DJJ Nima Mac avelli, D Kaminanda, Birds K aminanda, Bir ds ooff FFadavi adavi $23/$28 8p Paradise $10/$14 P aradise $1 0/$14 8p
CATALYST C ATA AL LYST ATRIUM AT TRIUM Pacific Ave, Santa 11011 011 P acific A ve, S anta Cruz; 423-1336 4231336 C IL ANTRO S CILANTROS 19 34 Main St, W atsonville; 1934 Watsonville; 7761-2161 61-2161
MON
Karaoke K araoke 6p-Close 6p-Clo se
The Gravity Gravity and Jerk Alert FFree ree 8p
DJJ Luna D 9p
3/8
Hawk Bluess Ha wk n Blue Mechanicss Mechanic 6p
Poetry Open Poetry Open Mic & Latee Mic 5:305:30-10p Lat 5:30 10p
BOCCI’S BOCCI’ S CELLAR C ELL AR Santa 1140 40 Encinal Encinal St, S anta Cruz; 427-1795 42 7-1795
CASA SORRENTO C ASA S ORRENTO 393 Salinas Salinas; 39 3S alinas St, S alinas; 7757-2720 57-2720
SUN
Minor Thirds Thirds Trio Trio r 7-10p 710p
Rainbow R ainbow Night w/DJ w/DJ AD DJ/Ladies’ DJ/Ladies’ Night Karaoke K araoke 8p-Close 8p-Clo se
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Jackie Greene, Greene, Lauren Laur en and Shera Shera $18/$22 7p 7S econds, Seconds, The Interrupters Interrupters $15/$1 6 7p $15/$16
Hippo Happy Happy Hour 5:307:30p 5:30-7:30p
KPIG Happy Happy Hour 5:307:30p 5:30-7:30p
Wednesday March 11th 8:30pm $15/20
Album Release For “The Deepest Lake”
DENGUE FEVER + The DEEPEST ILLS
March 12th MOJO RISING (Members Of Mother Truckers) March 13th THE CHINA CATS
BRITANNIA B RIT TANNI A A ARMS IN CAPITOLA CAPITOLA 110 Monter Monterey ey A Avenue, v venue, Capitola V Village illag ge
March 14th CANDELARIA + FLOR DE CAÑA
7-10pm 7-10p pm
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Free and open to everyone Free rregistration egistration starts at 6pm
Every T Tuesday u uesday Night Excluding March Marrc ch 17th (St Paddy's Day) D
March 20th THE CHOP TOPS – Farewell Show
For contest rules, rulles, raffle tickets, raf fffle ticke ets, informatio n& information registration, registration, conttact contact Stud dio. Mars Studio.
March 21st SAMBADÁ – CD Release March 22nd RED BARAAT March 26th DEAD WINTER CARPENTERS March 27th NEW KINGSTON, Kimie Miner
Les Misérables
March 31st THE BOOTY BAND
WWW.MOESALLEY.COM 1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz 831.479.1854
Mar 14 @ 8 pm
831.688.8435 831.688.84 435 mars-studios.com mars-studios.com
March 29th ANDRE THEIRRY
April 4rd CHICANO BATMAN
Fab Four
Rafffle Raffle f pr proceeds ro oceeds g go to G it N t Guns. Gu Guns. Guitars Not
March 28th B-SIDE PLAYERS
April 3rd TOMMY CASTRO
Kenny W Wayne a ayne Shepherd Shepher d March Mar ch 13 @ 8 pm
Mar 28 – Apr 5
MUSIC ARTS
RECORDING STUDIO DIO
Guitar Works
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CREPE PLACE P L AC E 1134 11 34 S Soquel oquel A Ave, ve, S Santa anta Cruz; 429-6994 429-6 994
Go By By Ocean, Ocean, This Old Earthquake Earrthquake $8 9p
CR OW ’ S NEST NEST CROW’S 2218 E. Cliff D r, S anta Cruz; Dr, Santa 476-4560 4 76-4560
Yuji Toji Tooji Yuji $3 8p 8
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S SAT AT SUN The Groggs, Groggs, Be Beach ach The Frights, Frights, D Death eath LLens, ens, Fuzz, Fuzz, Pyromids, Pyromids, P Panther anther Watergate Waterrgate $8 9p $8 9p Lisa T aylor y & Soul Soul Cit Lisa Taylor Cityy $6 9p
Extra Large Large Extra $7 $7 9:30p
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Live C omeedy Live Comedy $7 $7 9p
D AV. R OADHOUSE DAV. ROADHOUSE 1D Davenport avenport Ave, Ave, Davenport; Davenport; 426 8801 426-8801
Ricardo Ricardo Diaz
DON QUIXOTE’S QUIXOTE’ S 6275 62 75 Hwy 9, 9, FFelton; elton; 603-2294 60 3-2294
Windy Hill, Miss Miss Lonely Lonely Stevie Windy Stevie C oyle y , Car ol Coyle, Carol Hearts, Hearts, P Paige aige Anderson Anderson McComb, McComb, Kathleen Kathleen & More More $10 $10 9p Larisch $2 20/$25 1:30p Larisch $20/$25
Goitse Goitse $16/$18 6 77:30p :30p $16/$18
THE FISH HOUSE THE 972 Watsonville; 9 72 Main St, W atsonville; 7728-3333 28-3333 FOG BANK BANK 211 E Esplanade, splanade, Capit Capitola; ola; 4621881 462-1881 GG RESTAURANT RE STAUR ANT Aptos; 8041 Soquel Soquel Dr, Dr, Apt os; 688-8660
Open Opeen Mic
HENFLING’S HENFLING’ S 9450 Hwy 9, 9, Ben LLomond; omond; 336-9318 336-9 318
Flingo Flinngo 7p
Peter Peter Harper $10 7:30p 7:30p $10
Slugs Slugs N’Roses, N oses, A N’R Achilles chilles Wheel $12/$15 8p
John Michael M
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7 Come Come 11 $5 9p Tuesday Reggae Regggae Jam Tuesday Free Free 8p Sherry Austin Austin w w// Henhouse Henhouse
Dennis Dennis Dove Dove
Thursday, March 5 U 7 pm
MARC CARY FOCUS TRIO PRESENT RHODES AHEAD “the heart of jazz-funk futurism.” –NY Times
1/2 Price Night for Students Friday, March 6 U 7:30 pm
STEVEN GRAVES BAND CD RELEASE SHOW Tickets: BrownPaperTickets.com Saturday, March 7 U 9 pm
$5 @ Door
CLUB KUUMBWA: FEED ME JACK SUPERFOOL
10 10 Foot Foot Faces Faces
Monday, March 9 U 7 pm Uncharted Unccharted Jazz 6-9p 6-9 9p
Pete Pete C Contino ontino Accordion Accordion 6-9p Troutleg Troutleg 8p
Ikki Crane Crane a 9p
IDE IDEAL AL BAR BAR & GRILL GRILL 1106 06 Beach Beach St, S Santa anta Cruz; 423-52 423-5271 71 IT IT’S ’ S WINE T TYME YME 312 Capitola Capitola A Ave, ve, Capit Capitola; ola; 4 77-4455 477-4455
Sean Taylor Sean T aylor
3/9
MON Cahalen Morrison Morrison & Country Country Hammer, Hammer, Joshua Joshua Lowe Lowe $8 9p
Celebrating Forty Years of Creativity
Open Opeen Mic 7p
KENDRICK SCOTT ORACLE
Matias Urzua Urzua Flamenc Flamencoo 6-9p
The Crew Crew 9p
The Next Next Blues B s Band Blue 5p
Live Music Live
Karaoke w /Eve Karaoke w/Eve 2-4p
“the heart of jazz-funk futurism.” –NY Times Roadhouse Roadhouse Karaoke Kar a aoke 7:30p 7:30p
Thursday, March 12 U 7 pm
NIR FELDER QUARTET “...the next big jazz guitarist” –NPR
1/2 Price Night for Students
Live Live Music Muusic 7p
Live Live Music 7p
Steve Steve W Walters alters 6-9p
Friday, March 13 U 7:30 pm at the Rio Theatre
Feed Me Jack, Superfool Superfool Kuumbwa Kuumbwa Jazz Honor Feed Free 3p $5 9p Band Free
Kendrick Scott Scott O racle Kendrick Oracle 7p $25/$30
LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO
K UUMBWA KUUMBWA 32 0-2 C edar St, S anta Cruz; 320-2 Cedar Santa 42 7-2227 427-2227
Marc Cary Focus Focus Trio Trrio Marc $20/$25 7p $20/$25
Stevenn Gr aves Band Steven Graves $12/$115 7:30p 7:30p $12/$15
M ALONE’ S MALONE’S 440 cotts V alley D r, S cotts 44022 S Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley; Valley; 438-2244 438-2244
Chris Kelly Kelly 7-10p 7-10p
Live Live Music Muusic 5:30-9p 5:30-9p
Karaoke Karaoke w/Ken w/Ken 9p
Grammy Winning African group spreading love, peace and harmony! Saturday, March 14 U 7:30 pm
PETER ROWAN – SOLO Tickets: SnazzyProductions.com Monday, March 16 U 7 pm
AVERY SUNSHINE Gospel-bred pipes and heartful songs Thursday, March 19 U 7 pm
HILLS TO HOLLERS FEAT. BARBARA HIGBIE, LAURIE LEWIS AND LINDA TILLERY Monday, March 23 U 7 pm
RENE MARIE’S EXPERIMENT IN TRUTH QUARTET |
FREE
MASTER CLASS SERIES: RAY BROWN - AN INTRODUCTION TO JAZZ ARRANGING Wednesday, March 25 U 7 pm
ANAT COHEN CLEBRANDO BRASIL Thurs. March 26 U 7 & 9 pm
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No Comp Tix
JUNIOR BROWN Mon. March 30 U 7 & 9 pm
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No Comp Tix
PONCHO SANCHEZ LATIN JAZZ BAND Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records. Dinner served 1-hr before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer. All ages welcome.
320-2 Cedar St [ Santa Cruz 831.427.2227
kuumbwajazz.org
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Tuesday, March 24 U 7 pm
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Chris Ellis
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FRI
110’Clock 0’Clock Lunch Band
3/6
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T uff LLove ove Tuff
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Bomb shell Bully Bombshell Bullyss
Broken Shades Shades Broken
MOE’ M MOE’S S ALLEY A LLEY 1 Commercial 1535 Commerrccial W ay, S anta Cruz; Way, Santa 4 799 1854 479-1854
D ewey & the Peoples, Peoplees, Dewey LLes es Y eeux Noir Yeux Noirss Alc Alcyon yon Mas Massive, sive, Irie Iriefuse efuse $2 0/$25 7p $20/$25 $ 7//$10 8p 8 $7/$10
The E nglish Be at English Beat $2 4/$28 8p $24/$28
The E nglish Be at English Beat $25/$30 8p
Mar co Bene vento Marco Benevento $15 7p
MO M TIV MOTIV 11209 12 09 P acific A ve, S anta Cruz; Pacific Ave, Santa 4 429-80 70 429-8070
Hi Y a! a by by Lit tle Johnn Ya! Little 9:30p
Lib ation Lab w/Syntax w/Syntax Libation 9p1:30a 9p-1:30a
T oone S ol Tone Sol 9:30p
T eech Minds Tech 9:30p
R asta Cruz R eggae Rasta Reggae P arty 9p Party
99 BOTTLES 9 BOT TLE S 1110 11 0W alnut A ve, S anta Cruz; Walnut Ave, Santa 4 45 9-9999 459-9999
T rivia Night Trivia 8p
A sher St ern Asher Stern 10 p 10p
C omedy Comedy
Lis aylor Lisaa T Taylor
Br eeze Babes Babes Breeze
Ho ’Omana Ho’Omana deck er decker 6p
POE P T & PATRIOT PATRIO T T POET 3 32 0 E. C edar St, S anta Cruz; 320 Cedar Santa 4 426-862 0 426-8620 T HE RED RED THE 2200 00 LLocust ocust St, S anta Cruz; Santa 4 4251913 425-1913 THE REEF T 1120 12 0 Union St, S anta Cruz; Santa 4 45 9-9876 459-9876 R IO T HE AT TRE RIO THEATRE 11205 12 05 S oquel A ve, S anta Cruz; Soquel Ave, Santa 4 423-82 09 423-8209 R O SIE MC CANN’ S ROSIE MCCANN’S 11220 122 0P acific A ve, S anta Cruz; Pacific Ave, Santa 4 426-99 30 426-9930
Jazz Jam
The Harlis S weetwater Band Sweetwater $ $77 9p
The Joint Chie fs Chiefs $5 9p
O pen D art Tournament Tournament o Open Dart 77:30p :30p
The Tim O ’Neil Band O’Neil
O pen Mic 3-6p Open
A coustic Jam Acoustic w /T Tooby Gr ay n’’ FFriends riends w/Toby Gray
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R and R ueter Rand Rueter 6p
Jam S ession w Session w// Vinny Johnson V inny Johns on 7p
TheAle aymond The Alexx R Raymond Band 8p
TUE
S cott Slaught er Scott Slaughter
T oomas Gomez Gomez Tomas 6p
P AR ADISE B A E ACH PARADISE BEACH 2 E 215 splanade, Capit ola; Esplanade, Capitola; 4 76-4900 476-4900 T THE P OCKE T POCKET 3 31 3102 02 P Portola ortola D Dr, r, S Santa anta Cruz; 4 75-9819 475-9819
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Laf aylor, Labrat, Labrat, Lafaa T Taylor, Boo stive, T eekkttite $12 8p Boostive, Tektite E clectic by by P rimal Eclectic Primal P roductions 9:30p Productions
Hip-Hop w/DJ w/DJ Mar Marcc 9:30p
Kelly Chris Kelly
Jazz Jam Santa Santa Cruz 8p C omedy O pen Mic Comedy Open 8:30p
O pen Mic Open 8p
D ter DJJ She Sheaa But Butter 9:30p
Indus stry t Night Industry 3p
Aloha Friday Friday 6p
Sunda Sundayy Brunch with Chris
O pen Mic Open
The LLenny enny and K enny Sho w Kenny Show
S ervice Indus try Night Service Industry
T rivia Night Trivia 7p
O pen Mic Open 7p
1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Thursday, March 5 • In the Atrium • AGES 21+
GRIEVANCE plus Plague Phalanx
also Spectral Voice and Fountain Of Bile $8 at the Doors only • Drs. open 8:30 p.m./ Show 9 p.m.
Friday, March 6 • AGES 16+
ANDRE NICKATINA Bobby Macavelli DJ Nima Fadavi
plus
Our 6th Year s Same Great Reputation
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501 River St, Santa Cruz s 831-466-9551
also
$23 Adv./ $28 Drs. • Drs. 8 p.m./ Show 9 p.m. Friday, March 6 • In the Atrium • AGES 21+
LOS DORADOS DE LA BANDA
plus Grupo
Punto 5 $15 Adv./ $20 Drs. • 9 p.m./ 9 p.m.
KALYA SCINTILLA KAMINANDA • Birds Of Paradise Saturday, Mar. 7 AGES 18+
$10 Spec. Adv./ $14 Adv./ $19 Drs. • 8 p.m. Saturday, March 7 • In the Atrium • AGES 16+
FORREST DAY
plus Androyd & Emilious
plus Hella Deer $7 Adv./ $11 Drs. • 8:30 p.m./ 9 p.m.
Sunday, March 8 • In the Atrium • AGES 16+
We e’ll match any lo l cal clin ic ad sp s ecia al! w//cop o y of this ad
Growrs e Lettb a le dto avail ifie qualie pat nts
MON-SAT 12-6PM ONE STEP EVALUATION PROCESS WALK-INS WELCOME GET APPROVED OR NO CHARGE!
7 SECONDS plus The Interrupters $15 Adv./ $16 Drs. • Drs. open 7 p.m./ Show 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 10 AGES 21+ plus
Jackie Greene
Lauren Shera • $18/ $22 • 7 p.m./ 8 p.m.
Mar 14 Mar 17 Mar 18 Mar 20 Mar 20 Mar 21 Mar 26 Mar 27 Mar 28 Mar 29
The Ghost Inside (Ages 16+) Aer/ Shwayze (Ages 16+) Shpongle/ Phutureprimitive (Ages 16+) Ok Go/ White Arrows (Ages 16+) Andrea Gibson At Kuumbwa (All Ages) Immortal Technique/ Talib Kweli (Ages 16+) Freddy Todd/ Space Jesus (Ages 18+) Bone Thugs N Harmony (Ages 16+) Y & T/ SJ Sindicate (Ages 21+) Pink Floyd Experience (Ages 21+)
Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating. Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 877-987-6487 & online
www.catalystclub.com
International Music Hall and Restaurant
FINE MEXICAN AND AMERICAN FOOD ALL YOU CAN EAT LUNCH BUFFET M-F $7.95 Wed Mar 4
Goitse from Limerick, Ireland
Thu Mar 5
Peter Harper
Mar 6
plus Achilles Wheel
$16 adv./$18 door <21 w/parent 7:30p
Singer Songwriter Brother of Ben Harper $10 adv./$10 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm Fri Slugs N’ Roses Grateful Dead Tribute $12 adv./$15 door 21 + 8pm
Sat Mar 7
Sun Mar 8
Windy Hill, Miss Lonely Hearts w/ Patti Maxine, Paige Anderson and the Fearless Kin $10 adv./$10 door 21 + 9pm PLAY IT FAST FOR CHEETAHS
1:30pm Matinee Cheetah Benefit Concert
1:30pm STEVIE COYLE, CAROL MCCOMB & KATHLEEN
LARISCH, SHAMROCKS & POISON OAK, SHELLEY PHILLIPS & MICHAEL GLICK, CELTIC CATS
$20 adv./$25 door <21 w/parent Sun Pierre Bensusan 7pm
Mar 8 Concert Guitar Great from France 7pm $15 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 7pm Wed Mar 11
HAWAIIAN MUSIC CELEBRATION Hü`ewa , Mailani, Josh Tatofi, Patrick Landeza $15 adv./$17 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm
COMING RIGHT UP
Thu. March 12 The Rayburn Brothers, Michael Martyn & Good Medicine Fri. March 13 Naked Bootleggers, Little Fuller Band, Sugar By The Pound Sat. March 14 Foreverland Tribute to Michael Jackson Sun. March 15 MAMO: Jeff Peterson & Nathan Aweau 2pm Sun. March 15 Black Brothers 7pm Mon. March 16 Diwan Saz From the Heart of Galilee Tue. March 17 St. Paddy’s Party Molly’s Revenge +Irish Dancers Wed. March 18 Mr. Sun featuring Darol Anger Reservations Now Online at www.donquixotesmusic.com Rockin'Church Service Every Sunday ELEVATION at 10am-11:15am
LIVE MUSIC WE ED WED SANDERLINGS SANDERLINGS Resort, Aptos; 1 Seascape Seascape R esort, Apt os; 662-7120 6627120 SEABRIGHT SE ABRIG HT BREWERY B REWERY Seabright, Santa 519 S eabright, S anta Cruz; 426-2 426-2739 739 SEVERINO’ SEVERINO’S S BAR BAR & GRILL GRILL 77500 500 Old Dominion Dominion Court, Court, Aptos; Aptos; 688-8987 688 688-8 8987 SHADOWBROOK SHADO WBROOK 11750 750 Wharf R Rd, d, Capit Capitola; ola; 4 475-1222 75-1222 FROGGY’S SIR FR OGGY ’ S PUB 4 771 S oquel D r, S oquel; 4771 Soquel Dr, Soquel; 4 476-9802 76-9802
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CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET? Jenny Slate in ‘Obvious Child,’ which was a hit at last year’s Secret Film Festival two months
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he movie gods giveth, and the movie gods taketh away. That’s what organizer Scott Griffin of the Nickelodeon Theatres has learned in 10 years of doing the Secret Film Festival. The 12-hour festival starts at midnight at the Del Mar and ends at noon the next day—this year, that’s midnight on Saturday, March 7, until noon on Sunday, March 8. In addition to the six or so movies that Griffin plays in the Del Mar’s main theater, there are usually four or so alternatives playing at the same time in an upstairs theater over the course of the night. That’s 10 movies that Griffin usually has to secure for the festival. The secret part is that Griffin doesn’t tell the audience what movies
they’re going to see until their butts are in the seats. This is admittedly daunting when it comes to marketing, but sometimes it allows him to book movies that the distributors wouldn’t be able to let him screen before their general release if the names were publicized. More than that, it puts the adventure back into the movie-theater experience—both for the audience, who see movies they might never otherwise see, and for him, as he starts from scratch every year to build a festival in a few weeks. “I think with the secret nature of it, the positive is that you can get a movie at the last minute—and sometimes it ends up being the most popular movie. The year we got ‘Mud,’ we got that a week before the festival,” says Griffin. “A lot of times
I’ll say ‘Oh, this movie will work perfectly,’ because it’s a movie we’re opening in three weeks, and it’s got all these elements that make it seem like it’s the kind of movie the studio will want to get in front of this audience. And then it doesn’t work out, for one reason or another. But sometimes I’ll get an alternative from them, like ‘We can’t give you this, but we could give you that,’ and the alternative turns out to be way better than the movie that would have ‘made sense’—it’s more unexpected, more surprising.” That very thing happened last year, when Griffin was pushing to get the then-unreleased Scarlett Johansson weird fest Under the Skin. The distributor couldn’t give him that, but they did offer him Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child, which
wasn’t going to be released until two months after the festival. “They had just bought that movie, and all they had was the digital file of it,” says Griffin. “They didn’t have a screener, they didn’t have anything to send me. And they were like ‘But it’s so good. Trust us, it’s so good.’ And it was perfect.” However, Griffin watches all the films beforehand just to be sure. And with good reason. “I feel a responsibility to these people that are going to be spending all night in the theater. I’m going to be with them all night, too, so if I book shitty films, I’m going to be in the theater with them all night while they’re watching shitty films,” he says. “I don’t ever want to be sitting there saying, ‘Even though everybody said this movie was awesome, this movie is not awesome. This movie sucks.’” People have responded to the care he puts into it, and the mix of genres he books every year. There are some genre flicks that are aimed at the midnight-movie crowd, for sure, but he has also gotten a rep for finding quirkier films with wider appeal that turn out to be indie sensations when they’re finally released—The Squid and the Whale, Lars and the Real Girl and The Darjeeling Limited all made their advance Santa Cruz debuts at the festival, to name a few. This year’s festival is already halfway sold out, and many of those attending come every year, possibly dressed in their pajamas. “I start getting emails in December that say ‘When’s it going to be this year, because I want to buy my plane tickets while they’re cheap,’” Griffin says. Looking back, Griffin thinks the inspiration for the Secret Film Festival was probably Donnie Darko, a film that absolutely no one went to see when it was released, but which has since become a cornerstone of his midnightmovie series at the Del Mar. “If you can just sit someone down in front of that movie, they’ll realize how awesome it is,” he says. “But you almost have to be like, ‘I’m not even going to tell you what it is. You just have to sit here and watch this.’” Info: 11:59 p.m., Saturday, March 7, Del Mar Theatre, Santa Cruz; $21.
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is not just about showing films,â&#x20AC;? says Alba, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but connecting all the dots and creating synergy in the community.â&#x20AC;? But for those movie buffs out there, this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s festival certainly delivers. The festival kicks off with The Storm that Swept Mexico, a sweeping documentary on the Mexican Revolutionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the first historical event of its kind to be captured on film. The film, narrated by Luis Valdez, will be followed by a conversation with director Ray Telles and the local musicians from Watsonville and Santa Cruz who contributed to the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s score. On Friday, the nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feature film at the Henry Mello Center, Sleep Dealer, is a dystopian take on a future where drones flood the sky and borders are omniscient. A winner at Sundance, the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director Alex Rivera will sit for a Q&A after the screening. The critically acclaimed East Side Sushi tells the poignant tale of a Latina fruit seller as she strives to become accepted as a sushi chef. Watsonville Taiko will perform before its Saturday night screening, which will be followed by a Q&A with the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director Anthony Lucero, and cast. The Watsonville Film Festival runs from Thursday, March 5 to Sunday, March 8. Tickets are $10; youth under 18 free with student ID. Visit watsonvillefilmfestival.org for the full festival schedule.
FILM NEW THIS WEEK CHAPPIE This sci-fi thriller from Neill Blomkamp (District 9), set in a near future when humans are policed by unfeeling robocops, concerns a stolen ‘bot reprogrammed to think and feel for himself—making him a target for the evil Powers That Be. Sharlto Copley and Dev Patel star; Hugh Jackman and Sigourney Weaver have featured roles. (R) 124 minutes. Starts Friday. LEVIATHAN Freshly nominated for a Foreign Language Oscar (it won the Golden Globe), this Russian drama is set on the rugged and glorious coast of the Barents Sea, where a humble auto mechanic battles a corrupt and powerful mayor to save his business, his land, and his family. Andrey Zvyagintsev (R) 140 minutes. In Russian with English subtitles. Starts Friday.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, and Dave Franco star in this comedy as a trio of Yanks on a business trip to Berlin where every possible thing that can go wrong does. Ken Scott directs. (R) 91 minutes. Starts Friday. CONTINUING SERIES: MIDNIGHTS @ THE DEL MAR Eclectic movies for wild and crazy tastes plus great prizes and buckets of fun for only $6.50. This week: ROBOCOP Peter Weller is terrific as the bionic blue knight hero of this 1987 sci-fi thriller, a critically wounded veteran cop reconstructed as an invincible machine. Dutch master craftsman
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NOW PLAYING AMERICAN SNIPER Bradley Cooper is excellent as the conflicted protagonist in this harrowing war drama based on the memoir by Navy SEAL sharpshooter Chris Kyle about his four tours of duty in Iraq. With muscular direction by Clint Eastwood, the film plunges viewers relentlessly into the chaos of post-9/11 U.S. military ops in the desert war zone and never lets up. Eastwood captures the complex realities of modern warfare and focuses attention on a horrendous war no one wants to acknowledge, but sitting through this movie is grueling, from war-porn battle scenes to the empty pomp of military ceremony. (R) 132 minutes. (**1/2)—Lisa Jensen.
THE DUFF A high school senior sparks a revolution in the social hierarchy in this comedy about a girl who finds out she’s known as the DUFF (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) to her more popular girlfriends. Mae Whitman (neither ugly nor fat) has the title role; Bella Thorne co-stars as her chief antagonist. Directed by Ari Sandel, from the Kody Keplinger novel. (PG-13) FIFTY SHADES OF GREY You may not have read the E L James book, but you’ve definitely heard of the steamy bestseller about an innocent young secretary and the hunky but troubled new boss who asks for a few services outside her job description. Fun fact: the book was originally written as fan fiction based on the Twilight series. Just sayin’... Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson star for director Sam Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy). (R) 125 minutes. FOCUS Will Smith stars as a slick, seasoned con man who takes on a sexy young blonde apprentice (Margot Robbie), but finds their working partnership complicated by romance in this comic caper adventure from co-directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (Crazy Stupid Love). (R) 105 minutes. HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2 John Cusack is out of this sequel to the 2010 cult comedy. But Adam Scott takes over as his character’s grown son when remaining cohorts Craig Robinson and Clark Duke jump into the time-traveling hot tub to help out buddy Rob Corddry, and accidentally blast into the future. Steve Pink returns to the director’s seat. (R) 93 minutes. THE IMITATION GAME The mighty Benedict Cumberbatch is outstanding as troubled mathematical genius Alan Turing, the brilliant puzzle-solver, unsung in his own lifetime, who built the first computer to break the Nazi’s Enigma code during World War II. Turing’s arrogant intelligence, closeted sexuality and borderline Asperger’s syndrome would reduce a lesser actor to tics and melodrama, but Cumberbatch’s commanding focus makes his
performance a series of acute and subtle revelations. Morten Tyldum’s narrative conveys the complexity of Turing’s story before, during, and after his work on Enigma, presenting the singular Turing as a man trying to crack the code of social “normality” throughout his life. Mark Strong, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, and Charles Dance offer smart supporting performances. (PG-13) 114 minutes. (***)—Lisa Jensen. KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE The comic book The Secret Service is the inspiration for this tongue-in-cheek spy spoof adventure in which a slick op and his team groom a young street kid into a master spy. Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Jack Davenport, Samuel L. Jackson, and Mark Strong star with newcomer Taron Egerton. Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake, X-Men First Class) directs. (R) 129 minutes. THE LAZARUS EFFECT Paranormal thriller from the producers of The Purge and Insidious franchises, in which a team of scientists doing research on resurrecting the dead have to try their discovery on one of their own—with harrowing results. Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde, and Evan Peters star for director David Gelb. (PG-13) 83 minutes. MAPS TO THE STARS David Cronenberg directs this acidic look at Hollywood, its denizens, and the cult of celebrity, revolving around the family of a TV self-help therapist, his famous clients, and all of their attempts to claw their way to stardom. John Cusack, Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, and Robert Pattinson star. (R) 112 minutes. MCFARLAND, USA In this factbased story set in the farm belt of California’s Kern County, Kevin Costner stars as a newlyarrived high school PE coach who helps groom a handful of Latino farmworkers’ sons into a championship track team. Maria Bello, Carlos Prats, and Hector Duran co-star for director Niki Caro (Whale Rider). (PG) 128 minutes. SELMA The struggle to make the Voting Rights Act a reality is
dramatized in this extraordinarily powerful and accomplished feature from director Ava DuVernay. The story chronicles a few months in 1965 when Dr. Martin Luther King (played with stoic poise and uncompromising determination by David Oyelowo) organized a series of protest marches from Selma, Alabama, to the state capitol in Montgomery to dramatize the suppression of black voting rights to the White House—and the world. In our own particular historical moment, when “Black Lives Matter” has become a rallying cry in our streets, and the VRA has been shamefully gutted by the current Supreme Court, this movie could not be more timely. (PG13) 123 minutes. (***1/2)—Lisa Jensen. SONG OF THE SEA Anyone who loves seals, ancient Celtic folklore, fairy tales or mythology will be utterly charmed by this magical Irish animated feature. Directed by Tomm Moore, whose previous film was the lovely Secret of the Kells, inspired by the famed illuminated manuscript, this Oscar-nominated fable combines traditional tales of the selkies (seals who transform into human women on land) with a stunning visual palette, and an endearing tale of a young girl and her destiny. Every hand-drawn frame of this movie is ravishing, so see it on a big screen! (PG) 93 minutes. (****)—Lisa Jensen. THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Famed physicist 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, 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. Eddie Redmayne earned an Oscar for his exceptional performance as Hawking, partnered by Felicity Jones, in a film that celebrates tenacity—in life, love, and ideas. (PG-13) 123 minutes. (****) (2015)
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THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL Most of the original cast members return as mature expat Brits getting a new lease on life in India when the ambitious young proprietor of their residential hotel (Dev Patel) tempts chaos by trying to expand his business and get married at the same time. Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton, and Celia Imrie head the cast, which also includes newcomers David Strathairn and Richard Gere. John Madden directs. (PG) 122 minutes. Starts Friday.
Paul Verhoeven directs. (R) 102 minutes. (***)—Lisa Jensen. At the Del Mar, Friday at midnight only. THE TENTH ANNUAL SECRET FILM FESTIVAL Get out your blankets and bunny slippers and prepare to settle in for the duration for the tenth installment of the best 12-hour film festival in town. The concession stand is open all night with hand-crafted treats from local establishments as five fabulous films never before seen in Santa Cruz, hand picked by the crackerjack Del Mar selection committee, unspool for your eyes only before their official release dates. Actual film titles cannot be named (that’s why they’re secret!), but previous SFF premieres have included MirrorMask, Lars And The Real Girl, Let The Right One In, and The Darjeeling Limited. Don’t be the last kid on the block to see the coolest new movies of the season. Get in line now. Admission is $21, this week only. At the Del Mar, Saturday (March 7) midnight to Sunday (March 8), noon.
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WINE OF THE WEEK Bonny Doon Vineyards Albariño 2014 from Kristy Vineyard in Monterey: For roughly $15, this crisp white wine offers thirst-quenching flavor brightness, thanks to its 12 percent alcohol. Randall Grahm’s delightful creation immediately fills the nose with citrus—kumquat zest perhaps?, hazelnut and woodsy center, and a happy, uncomplicated finish of water chestnuts and Meyer lemon tart. A liquid anticipation of spring!
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FAREWELL, FOR NOW Christy and Lou Caviglia, the hardworking owners of Louie’s Cajun Kitchen & Bourbon Bar, which closed Saturday. PHOTO: CHIP SCHEUER
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ou Caviglia of Seacloud, Clouds Downtown and most recently Louie’s Cajun Kitchen & Bourbon Bar confirmed last week that he would not be renewing his lease on the 20-year-old downtown watering hole. “The rents here have gotten insane,” Caviglia told me. Which means that you’ve had your last tipple at this landmark, which closed Saturday. Lou and his wife Christy Caviglia aren’t sure what happens next. But he/we will keep you posted. It’s the passing of an era in which the bons temps truly rolled. Thanks for the memories!
JAPANESE BAR FOOD POP-UP Sometimes the old phrase “Back by popular demand!” rings true, as in the case of the hyper-active Back Porch group which brings its palatetingling Japanese bar food event back to the Midtown Cafe from 5-10 p.m. on Friday, March 6. If history repeats itself, this pop-up event might just sell out on the early side, so plan to get on over there in a timely fashion. If you’ve ever found yourself salivating over the aromas of sizzling bacon, eggs, and sassy spices wafting through the Saturday West Side Farmers Market, then you know what I’m
talking about. Chef Austin Kaye and company know how to turn on-thespot, from-scratch organic food into al fresco meals to remember. Listen up: On the Back Porch menu for Friday are those savory $5 pancakes with the lilting name of Okonomiyake, involving potato, cabbage, Japanese mayonnaise and bonito flakes, and yes, you can have yours with pork belly for a mere dollar more. And then there will be sweet miso tofu skewers for $5, or ground chicken skewers for $6. I’m intrigued by the mere idea of carrot and pea potato croquettes, and for a meal in a bowl you’ll want to sample the $10 Back Porch version
Outstanding in the Field is launching its 2015 tour in a few minutes (on March 20) and the tables will be set this upcoming season in all 50 states. Yes, that is a rather large expansion from the first Santa Cruz-based gleam in owner Jim Denevan’s eye. Outstanding’s locally stocked atmospheric al fresco tables will be set in California from May 2 through July 6; the Pacific Northwest July 11 through 21; and in the Rockies during early August. Then the adventurous tour continues moving eastward, hitting New England on August 20, winding through choice farms and fields in the east, along the Atlantic, through the South, back up the Midwest and then wrapping up in October in the Southwest and home. Devoted to reconnecting diners with food in the very surroundings where it is grown, this dining tour visits farms—and their farmers—and whips up outdoor meals that reflect region and season. Locally-made wines are chosen to urge all flavors to maximum divinity. Since tickets are not getting any cheaper, this might be the year to take your sweetie to savor something quite memorable. Tickets go on sale March 20, the first day of spring. Visit outstandinginthefield. com for more information.
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winery in 1981 and has had a very successful second career. His awardwinning wines can be found in a number of local restaurants and on many a supermarket shelf. Fruit for this Gewurz ($19) was harvested from the Scheid Viento Vineyard in Salinas Valley, where the climate produces excellent Gewurz grapes, especially in 2012. The result is a beautiful Gewurz with classic rose and ginger aromatics. Floral notes, tropical fruit and spice flavors make this a standout wine. Thomas Fogarty Winery & Vineyards, 19501 Skyline Blvd., Woodside. Tel: (650) 851-6777. fogartywinery.com. Open for wine tasting Monday noon to 4 p.m. and Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. If you visit the tasting room, look online for directions. The winery recommends that you don’t use GPS.
MAIN STREET CHANGE Main Street Garden & Café changed its name last month to La Gioconda, and it’s now under new Italian ownership. The restaurant has been completely renovated and reopened on Feb. 18, with a focus on Northern Italian contemporary cuisine.
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Did you keep menu items from YOLO? Absolutely, yes. When I did the soft opening I still had the name YOLO. The customers suggested they loved the mac and cheese. [The previous owners] were really nice guys. The customers loved certain items. Why would I get rid of it? When they come, they still feel the past, but I added so much. They only had a onepage menu. I have four pages. I just added key items.
Correct. What we did was modify. People can get what they want from the past. A lot of things they only had on special, now [customers] can get any time. For example, wild salmon. That used to be once a week. You can get that any time.
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JONATHAN DEGENERES: It helped us modify the menu. I wanted to take time to make sure I’m not just doing one item my way. After they ate, they gave us a comment card. So, they’d tell us what they think. I’m here for the long haul, so I want to get it right.
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In the next month itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to see yourself as valuable. Perhaps this is difficult. If so, make lists of all your gifts, abilities, talents, good deeds, thoughts, ideas and plans. In these you will discover your value. Place these lists on your walls. Read and review daily. These initiate your self-identity as a server for humanityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the task for all Aries in the Aquarian Age.
You will assess your relationships in terms of their value. Not value as in money but virtues. Simultaneously, assess the values you offer others and if there is more you can give of Goodwill which creates Right Relations. Allow only the goodness of yourself in relationships. Goodness is a purity and an inner quality. What is your goodness and what do you offer others? Include all relationships. Remember true love isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a feeling. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a choice.
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It is a week of many different festivals along with a full moon, all occurring simultaneously. Thursday Chinese New Year celebrations end with the Lantern Festival (at full moon). Thursday is also the Pisces Solar festival (full moon), Purim (Jewish Festival) and Holi (Hindu New Year Festival). Sunday, March 8, Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. The festival of Purim celebrates the freedom of the Hebrew people from the cruel Haman (a magistrate) seeking to destroy them. Esther, the Queen of Persia, who was secretly Jewish, saved her people from death. The sweet cookie hamentaschen celebrates this festival. Friday, March 6, is Holi, the Hindu Spring Festival celebrated after the March full moon. Bonfires are lit the night before, warding off evil. Holi, the Festival of Colors, is the most colorful
festival in the world. It is also the Festival of Loveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;of Radha for Krishna (the blue-colored God). It is a spring festival with singing, dancing, carnivals, food and bhang, a drink made of cannabis leaves. Holi signifies good over evil, ridding oneself of past errors, ending conflicts through rapprochement (returning to each other). It is a day of forgiveness, including debts. Holi also marks the beginning of New Year. At the Pisces Solar festival we recite the seed thought, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We leave the Fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home and, turning back, we save.â&#x20AC;? Great Teachers remain on Earth until all of humanity is enlightened. The New Group of World Servers is called to this task and sacrifice. Sacrifice (from the heart) is the first Law of the Soul, the heart of which is Love. This sacrifice saves the world.
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TAURUS Apr21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May21 Things hide away, especially you. Or you find someone else in hiding and join them. Someone close is quite mysterious and valuable to you. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re knowledgeable and have the skills needed for your next creative endeavor for humanityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future. Resources are hidden away too, though still available. But you must call it forth while tending to practical things. Eliminate (give away) as much as possible.
GEMINI May 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 20 Past friends, relationships, and past resources are contacted, discovered and renewed. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re valuable for reasons revealed in the future. A certain group, also from the past, holds great Love/Wisdom (Ray 2, Geminiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ray). They hold out to you technical possibilities and a way to enter the life stream of humanity through study and understanding of the mysteries. You should be studying your transits/astrology.
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LE0 Jul21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug22 The Earth (soil, trees, plants) is very important for your well-being. Make sure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re out and about in the sun, with the devas and natureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the most balanced kingdom. Its radiations strengthen your heart and mind, refocuses your enthusiasm (it means â&#x20AC;&#x153;filled with Godâ&#x20AC;?). When we are balance and in rhythm, practicality emerges. Where is your garden and who are your companions?
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VIRGO Aug23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sep22 You may struggle mentally to maintain equilibrium between what you desire and what is actually possible. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good to study the subject of sacrificeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the first Law of the Soul. At the center of sacrifice is Love. Love and sacrifice are the same. We are on earth because we sacrificed (chose) to be here. You may feel youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve become the warrior. You have. Spiritual warriors are always triumphant.
SCORPIO Oct23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov21 Tend daily to all thing small and necessary. Give them your deepest attention. Observe habits, agendas, your work, environments and others in your worlds. And how to care for yourself. We evolve step by step. We begin with tending to our physical, emotional and mental bodies. Then we progress to things spiritual. Each day â&#x20AC;&#x153;brood" upon the service needed for the coming day. Ask for Soul direction. The personality then calms.
SAGITTARIUS Nov22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec20 The outcome of a long-held creative dream has come true. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re redefining, reassessing and reaffirming its importance as part of your lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work. In the meantime, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re called to two things. Amusement and play, much needed and much missed recently. Acknowledge your creative work reflects who you are now, and part of who you will become. All parts of you are aligning in a close spiritual unity. This is good.
CAPRICORN Dec21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan20 You see the need for nourishment of the self and of others. One source of nourishment is financial security. Another is the design and layout of your home, its rooms, the garden, etc. Make sure as you tend to your home and its practical beauty, that you have a special workspace for yourself, for your creative home arts. Your creativity is most important for the home and family at this time. Work on this. And in the garden of your dreams.
AQUARIUS Jan21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb18 Things seem so many things paradoxical - wild, a bit outof-control, thing dissolving, hurting, illuminated. Eliminate all not absolutely necessary, including that treasure trove of saved things. New interests, new sources of information, new identity are appearing. This identity is yourself. You are a â&#x20AC;&#x153;returned angelâ&#x20AC;? come to help humanity steer itself down stream in a lifeboat. You are to identify, work with and bring in the new culture and civilization. What part can and do you want to play? Think deeply on this.
PISCES Feb19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Mar20 Life becomes more subtle, a bit out of focus, very different with deep feelings of compassion awakening. Pay debts, then tithe (give)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;St. Judeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital; Catholic Charities; Doctors Without Borders; UNESCO; Red Cross. These are difficult financial times. However the spiritual law is whatsoever we give is returned ten-fold so we can give again. When we serve others our life is spiritually cared for. The third Law of the Soul is service. Hang lanterns everywhere.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE No. 15-0165. The following General Partnership is doing business as SOS YARD AND HOME SERVICES. 1077 SMITH GRADE , SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 County of Santa Cruz. ARIK R. SWAN & MAURICE J. SWAN, JR. 1077 SMITH GRADE , SANTA CRUZ CA 95060. This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed:MAURICE J. SWAN, JR. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/18/2001. This
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0227 The following Corporation is doing business as THE SAND BAR. 211 ESPLANDE, CAPITOLA CA 95010 County of Santa Cruz. THE SAND BAR CAPITOLA, INC. 211 ESPLANDE, CAPITOLA CA 95010. Al# 3745730. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Jeff Lantis. 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 February 5, 2015 February 18, 25 & March 4, 11. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0295 The following individual is doing business as CLEARWATER POOL AND SPA-SERVICE AND REPAIR. 343 SOQUEL AVE. #502, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz. DAVID BOGGS. 343 SOQUEL AVE. #502, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: DAVID BOGGS. 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 February 13, 2015. February 18, 25 & March 4, 11. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0171 The following individual is doing business as ECOLOGY LAW CENTER. 109 QUARRY LANE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 County of Santa Cruz. FREDRIC EVENSON. 109 QUARRY LANE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 . This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: FREDRIC EVENSON.. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/1/2014. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on January 27, 2015. February 18, 25 & March 4, 11. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 150228 The following individual is doing business as DLOBAL AQUAPONICS. 218 BROOKSIDE AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060
County of Santa Cruz.JAMES E. BORGMAN. 218 BROOKSIDE AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: JAMES E. BORGMAN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/1/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on February 5, 2015. February 18, 25 & March 4, 11. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0267 The following Corporation is doing business as PROJECT PLAY SOCCER. 106 BURROWS ST., SAN FRANCISCO CA 94134 County of Santa Cruz. PROJECT PLAY AFRICA. ORG. 106 BURROWS ST., SAN FRANCISCO CA 94134. Al# 3715222. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: SUSAN Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;NEILL. 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 February 12, 2015 February 18, 25 & March 4, 11. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE No. 15-0160. The following Copartners is doing business as ZOMBIE SURF COMPANY. 3637 THUNDERBIRD CT, CONCORD CA 94520 County of Santa Cruz. CHRIS WOLTER, FRANK WOLTER & LAURA WOLTER. 3637 THUNDERBIRD CT, CONCORD CA 94520. This business is conducted by Copartners Signed: FRANK WOLTER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/1/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on January 26, 2015. February 18, 25 & March 4, 11.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0317 The following individual is doing business as SANTA CRUZ MASSAGE AND WELLNESS. 3710 GROSS ROAD, SPC #24, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz. NICOLAS ADAM BOBBITT. 3710 GROSS ROAD, SPC #24, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: NICOLAS ADAM BOBBITT. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/19/2015. This statement was
filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on February 19, 2015. February 25 & March 4, 11, 18. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0199 The following individual is doing business as FLORA/FAUNA ART. 4600 BONNY DOON RD., SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 County of Santa Cruz. SYLVIE-MARIE F. DRESCHER. 4600 BONNY DOON RD., SANTA CRUZ CA 95060. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: SYLVIE-MARIE F. DRESCHER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/14/2014. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on February 2, 2015. February 25 & March 4, 11, 18. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 150303 The following individual is doing business as KEVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HANDYMAN SERVICES. 444 WHISPERING PINES RD. #91, SCOTTS VALLEY CA, 95066 County of Santa Cruz. KEVIN P. MACARGEL 444 WHISPERING PINES RD. #91, SCOTTS VALLEY CA, 95066. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: KEVIN P. MACARGEL. 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 February 17, 2015. February 25 & March 4, 11, 18. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0294 The following individual is doing business as MBE SYSTEMS SERVICES. 80 SKYLARK LANE, WATSONVILLE CA 95076 County of Santa Cruz. NOEL CHASE. 80 SKYLARK LANE, WATSONVILLE CA 95076. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: NOEL CHASE. 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 February 13, 2015. February 25 & March 4, 11, 18. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0208 The following Corporation is doing business as WHITEBOARD PAINTER. 111 BEAN CREEK ROAD, #9, SCOTTS VALLEY
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the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING April 17, 2015 at 8:30 am, 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: February 20, 2015. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior February 25 & March 4, 11, 18. CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
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OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF SONYA CASTRO CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV181052. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner SONYA CASTRO has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicant’s name from: Avery Roman Alvarez to: Oliver Roman Alvarez. 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 April 1, 2015 at 8:30 am, 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
Bogard Construction is seeking qualified subcontractor bids for the Santa Cruz Women’s Health Center – Downtown T.I. project at 250 Locust Street in Santa Cruz. The project generally consists of removal and replacement of flooring, interior and exterior painting, removal and replacement of cabinetry, and parking lot sealing & striping. Project financing includes State and Federal funds, and is required to meet Prevailing Wage and Davis-Bacon wage requirements. Subcontractor bids are due by March 13, 2015 at 2:00pm via email.* *Bogard Construction is an Equal Employment Opportunity Firm, and is actively pursuing participation from MBE/WBE/DVBE/DBE subcontractors. Construction of this project will operate under the requirements set forth in the Section 3 clause of the HUD Act of 1968, as well as Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 addressing Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities. *Any interested parties are encouraged to contact Bogard Construction’s main office for further information, and to obtain project bid documents. Phone: 831-426-8191 Email: office@bogardconst.com
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0310 The following individual is doing business as VIVID BEAUTY SALON (formally Hair Pizzazz). 1836 17TH AVENUE #A, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz. RAQUEL DICESARE. 1540 DOUGMAR DRIVE, SANRA CRUZ CA 95062. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: RAQUEL DICESARE. 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 February 17, 2015. February 25 & March 4, 11, 18. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE No. 15-0266. The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as ARABESQUE VINEYARDS, DUNNEGAN CELLARS & SCHAADT ESTATE. 24040 SUMMIT RD., LOS GATOS, CA 95033 County of Santa Cruz. THE SCHAADT WINE GROUP, LLC. 24040 SUMMIT RD., LOS GATOS, CA 95033. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: LARRY SCHAADT. 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 February 12, 2015. February 25 & March 4, 11, 18.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0127 The following individual is doing business as DIAMOND VIEW AUTO GLASS. 216 MT. HERMON ROAD, SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95066 County of Santa Cruz. JUSTIN LORD. 351 S. 11TH STREET, SAN JOSE CA 95112. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: JUSTIN LORD. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/18/2014. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on January 21, 2015. February 25 & March 4, 11, 18. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0337 The following individual is doing
business as LUCIE FOX SEARCH. 3210 CORTE CABRILLO, APTOS CA 95003 County of Santa Cruz. LUCIE HEATHER FOX. 3210 CORTE CABRILLO, APTOS CA 95003. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: LUCIE HEATHER FOX.. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 2/23/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on February 23, 2015. March 4, 11, 18, 25. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0359 The following individual is doing business as AQUACORE & CORETASTIC. 500 CATHEDRAL DR. UNIT 2841, APTOS CA 95003 County of Santa Cruz. DONNA M. STODDARD. 500 CATHEDRAL DR. UNIT 2841, APTOS CA 95003. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: DONNA M. STODDARD. 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 February 25, 2015. March 4, 11, 18, 25. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0333 The following Corporation is doing business as MIDTOWN OPTOMETRY. 550 WATER STREET, STE J-5, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 County of Santa Cruz. CRAIG FELLERS, O.D., INC. 550 WATER STREET, STE J-5, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: CRAIG FELLERSThe registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/1/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on February 20, 2015. March 4, 11, 18, 25. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 150375 The following individual is doing business as OASIS ELECTROLYSIS. 222 MOUNT HERMON ROAD, SCOTTS VALLEY CA 95066 County of Santa Cruz. CHRISTINE DUNCAN. 574 RIDER RIDGE ROAD, SANTA CRUZ CA 95065. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: CHRISTINE DUNCAN 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 March 2, 2015. March 4, 11, 18, 25. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 14-0352 The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as PLEASURE RED, PLEASURE WHITE, PRIVATE VINE WINES, SANTA’S CELLAR & THREE DOG VINEYARDS. 334 INGALL STREET UNIT C, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 County of Santa Cruz. PRIVATE VINE WINES, LLC. 4200 GLADY’S AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. Al# 21910286. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed MARY FOX. 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 February 24, 2015. .March 4, 11, 18, 25. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0348 The following individual is doing business as MAMA’S WAY CUSTOM CLEANING SERVICE. 501 HOPKINS GULCH RD. #1, BOULDER CREEK CA 95006 County of Santa Cruz. KELLY RALSTON. 501 HOPKINS GULCH RD. #1, BOULDER CREEK CA 95006. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: KELLY RALSTON 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 February 24, 2015. March 4, 11, 18, 25. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0392 The following individual is doing business as GLORY DAYS VACATION. 1655 EL DORADO AVE., SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz. JULIE COOK. 1655 EL DORADO AVE., SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: JULIE COOK. 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 March 3, 2015. March 4, 11, 18, 25.
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2010 FIRESTONE, Gewurztraminer (90WE, Reg 19.99)/ 8.99 2012 CORTESTRADA, Pinot Grigio (Reg 13.99/ 6.99 2012 CHATEAU ST. MICHELLE, Chardonnay (89WS)/ 8.99 2011 CLOS DU BOIS, Chardonnay “Unoaked” (Reg 14.99)/ 7.99 2012 BEAUREGARD, Sauvignon Blanc (Reg 21.99)/ 9.99
New Zealand Wines
MENDOCINO MUSTARD, 2 Kinds 9oz/ 4.79 SIERRA NEVADA MUSTARD, 3 Kinds 8oz/ 3.49 BONE SUCKIN’ MUSTARD/ “Sweet & Hot” 12oz/ 6.49 TWINS KITCHEN MUSTARD, “Local” 9oz/ 5.99 MAISON LOUISANNE CREOLE MUSTARD, “All Natural” 10oz/ 3.69
Shop Local First
2013 WITHER HILLS, Sauvignon Blanc (90WE)/ 10.99 2011 STONELEIGH, Pinot Noir (90BTI)/ 11.99 2012 VAVASOUR, Sauvignon Blanc (90W&S)/ 12.99 2011 CLOUDY BAY, Chardonnay (91WS)/ 33.99 2010 DOG POINT, Pinot Noir (91RP) 37.99
Connoisseurs Corner
KURT’S KREATIONS SEASONING, “Organic, Salt Free, Vegan” 4oz/ Asst. Prices BONNY DOON FARMS HONEY, “Pure, Unfiltered” 8oz/ 8.99 GIZDICH RANCH JAMS, “All Kinds” 9oz/ 6.49 SHELLY’S BISCOTTI, “All Kinds” 7oz/ 7.49 CAROLYN’S COOKIE CO, “Frozen Dough” 22oz/ 9.99
2012 BARGETTO, Reserve Regan Vineyard (93WE)/ 37.99 2011 SHELDON, *56 Cases Made* (94WE)/ 47.99 2012 DEOVLET, Bien Nacido Vineyard (93RP)/ 49.99 2012 DOMAINE SERENE, Evenstad Reserve (91WE)/ 64.99 2012 SEA SMOKE, Southing “Extremely Limited”/ 79.99
JUDY LUTZ, 40-Year Customer, Santa Cruz
1938
Occupation: Office manager Hobbies: Golf, golf, and more golf, cooking, babysitting Astrological Sign: Aquarius Is Shopper’s your go-to market? Yes, it is. I’m here six days a week. I live on the Westside and rarely shop the chain markets or the big box stores. I love to cook and make gourmet meals, and can find everything I need in one store. I just found the perfect flour here, “Double O,” for making great pizza. Shopper’s is the only store where I buy my meat because of the quality, and the butchers are smoking hot. They’re very helpful — they’ll do anything for you. Ale (Alejandro) turned me onto cross rib (I also use two other meats) for my chili; he cut it into quarter-inch cubes and it was the best chili ever!
Are you a fan of Shopper’s specialty products? Oh, yes. Their cheeses are great, and you can get all the nuts you need for anything. I like that they have a lot of imported wines, especially French, also Spanish and Argentine varieties. You can also get the special canned tomatoes from Italy. I also appreciate the local products such as the coffees, Gizdich apple cider, and the excellent local berries and apples. The veggies are fresh and really good. They carry a lot of organic selections which is important. I used to live down the street from Shopper’s in the ’70s and it still feels like the place to go.
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How so? It feels homey. I like the size. The big stores have way too many items which take up too much room. Here, we have all the the good things: we don’t need 12 choices of tomato sauce. The service has always been friendly; you can always find someone on the floor if you need help. I came in one morning on my way to play golf around 7 a.m. I wanted to buy a pre-wrapped sandwich and was told they were in the back. I waited 5-6 minutes and the deli person came out with a sandwich that she made just for me. That was really nice instead of saying, ’Sorry, they’re not ready yet.’
“Shopper’s is the only store where I buy my meat because of the quality, and the butchers are smoking hot.” Corner: Soquel & Branciforte Avenues | 7 Days: 6am-9pm | Meat: 423-1696 | Produce: 429-1499 | Grocery: 423-1398 | Wine: 429-1804
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